It’s Monday, August 15th, 2016…but before we begin, allow us to offer a few brief comments on the latest excuse for inner-city ethnics to riot, burn, loot and pillage, as Kyle Olson relates at The American Mirror:
“Race agitators in Milwaukee used the police shooting of anunarmedarmedblack man to burn down their city and attack white people. Several videos show white drivers being stopped in the middle of the street and the “protesters” attempting to pull them out of their vehicles.
…Milwaukee police say “the victim, 23, was armed with a handgun and shot dead by an officer after fleeing a traffic stop on Milwaukee’s north side Saturday afternoon,” NBC News reports. The man allegedly had a “lengthy arrest record” and was carrying a semiautomatic handgun that was reported stolen in a burglary in nearby Waukesha earlier this year.“
It’s worth viewing the following as well, if for no other reason than to hear a wholly-inaccurate account of the facts as they’re currently known:
While we’ll wait for the results of the formal inquest to establish the truth, according to a preliminary police report courtesy of FOX News, one Sylville K. Smith, 23, already possessed of an extensive criminal record…
“…was identified Sunday as the subject of a Saturday afternoon traffic stop that turned deadly when Smith allegedly ran from officers and then turned toward one with a gun in his hand.Both Smith and the unidentified officer who shot him are black, (since Blacks can’t be racist, we guess THAT slant on the story is out!) Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn said…”
Sorry, Sylville; running from a cop is one thing. But running from a cop with a weapon in your hand, then, not only failing to hit the deck with your hands behind your head, but rather turning towards the officer while raising your gun…seriously?!?
Or to put it more colloquially…
We’re sorry Mr. Smith died, particularly if he didn’t have a saving faith in Jesus Christ as Savior. But the comments of recent graduates of the Milwaukee branch of the Barack Hussein Obama School of Racial Pandering and Division notwithstanding…
“This is a warning cry,” Milwaukee Alderman Khalif Rainey said. “Black people of Milwaukee are tired. They are tired of living under this oppression.”
“We understand the frustration people feel with the police community nationally.We have to go through the process of finding justice, but we have to be able to restore order to these neighborhoods,” [Milwaukee Common Council president Ashanti] Hamilton said.
…until the facts prove different, we’re concluding the unfortunate death of Mr. Smith had nothing whatsoever to do with either some mythical oppression of Milwaukee Blacks or a fabled frustration with the police community nationally, and rather everything to do with the choices Sylville…
If Obama had a son, he’d look like…
…Sylville, Trayvon and every otha would-be gangsta in the ‘hood!
…made, both in his formative years and the afternoon he met his fate. Then again,…
Regardless, rioting, arson, looting and race-based assault will never constitute a reasonable reaction to anything…let alone a reasoned rejoinder to the justifiable shooting of an armed assailant by a law enforcement officer in the proper performance of his duties. And the fact it is even incidentally intimated by supposed government “leaders” is further proof the Progressive fish…
…is rotting from the head down. Can anyone really believe a third Obamao term…
…would prove any different?!?
Though, as The Dear Misleader’s policies of purposeful race-based divisiveness ever since his “The police acted stupidly” statement prove, when it comes to Progressives and anything remotely resembling patriotism…
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, Charles Krauthammer opines on why this election, like any other contest, ain’t over ’til it’s over:
Hence, the real question may end up being who Putin wants in the White House!
In a related item, writing at NRO, Jonah Goldberg highlights…
“…As has been confirmed for the umpteen-billionth time this week, Clinton is corrupt and deceitful.She and her husband operate as if they are some medieval royal family, above the petty rules and customs that govern the little people. It’s why I’ve been calling them the Medicis of the Ozarks for so long.
If you don’t think the Clintons are aloof, entitled graspers and grifters, it’s probably because you haven’t been paying attention. And that’s the problem. Their grafting and grifting is so well established, so well known, it never really surprises anyone. Her corruption is priced into politics. In a normal, healthy political system, the Clintons would be shunned like pimps in an Amish colony. But we don’t live there, so the Clintons bore rather than shock.
This is Hillary Clinton’s greatest advantage.The devil we know is a boring, paper-pushing bureaucrat.
Meanwhile, the one thing no one can deny: Trump is not boring. It’s possible to love him or hate him, but no one can be indifferent to him. When you drive past a part of town that has been blighted and run-down all your life, you don’t slow down to look at it. But if an 18-wheeler loaded with bovine manure jackknifes on the highway, sending its cargo in all directions, whether you’re horrified or amused, you’ve just gotta slow down and take a gander.
This rubber-necking magnetism largely explains Trump’s primary victories, but it also explains his probable general election defeat. Enough primary voters loved the spectacle, but general election voters are apt to recoil at such a spectacle in the Oval Office.“
Look, our admiration and respect for Jonah Goldberg is second to none. But while we’re in agreement with the thrust of his last paragraph, we strenuously disagree with his assessment of Hillary as simply a “boring, paper-pushing bureaucrat”; like The Great Prevaricator before her, she’s an evil, conniving, covetous, serial liar…and she most decidedly does not have the interests of either the United States or its average citizens remotely in the forefront of her thinking.
Most importantly, as Dan Henninger recently noted:
“The decision to default one’s vote to Hillary Clinton comes in many forms. She is the lesser of two evils. She is the devil we know. By all accounts, hell is still hell. Before volunteering to spend four years in it, voters about to commit the sin of despair might consider the consequences of a default vote…”
All of which is why, had Bernie actually written the note below…
…for once he’d have been right!
Meanwhile, back at the ranch with the worst marksman ever to seek leadership of The Gang Who Still Can’t Shoot Straight, courtesy of NRO‘s Morning Jolt, Jim Geraghty relates the harsh reality behind…
The ‘Never Mind, I Was Being Sarcastic’ Candidacy
This man has all the communication skills of Peter Boyle in Young Frankenstein!
There are a ton of strong arguments against President Obama’s policy on handling ISIS. You can justifiably mock his “jayvee team” comments. You can point to the complaints from Central Command that the White House didn’t want to hear the truth about the rise of ISIS. You can ask whether the military that could do enormous numbers of sorties a day in the Iraq War is really doing everything it can against ISIS now. You can ask whether this president chooses not talk talk about ISIS often so that the public will not worry about the threat. You can point out that ISIS is inspiring “lone wolf” attacks on American soil more than al-Qaeda did, and ask why this administration doesn’t act like this country is at war. You can point out that there’s no point to containment against a state that…
rejects peace as a matter of principle; that it hungers for genocide; that its religious views make it constitutionally incapable of certain types of change, even if that change might ensure its survival; and that it considers itself a harbinger of — and headline player in — the imminent end of the world.
You can mock Obama’s declaration that ISIS can’t win because they “can’t produce anything” when they obviously produce American-born mass killers.A Republican candidatereally ought to be tearing into the revelationthat “Obama believes that the clash is taking place within a single civilization, and that Americans are sometimes collateral damage in this fight between Muslim modernizers and Muslim fundamentalists” because the American president shouldn’t think of the citizens as “collateral damage.”The Republican candidate needs to emphasize that there’s no reason to think Hillary Clinton’s approach to the threat will be any different than Obama’s.
But the Republican candidate shouldn’t be insisting that President Obama is the founder of ISIS, because it’s not literally true, it only works as an exaggerated metaphor and it allows his opponents to paint him as unhinged and uninformed.
Hugh Hewitt, interviewing Donald Trump Thursday:
HH: I’ve got two more questions. Last night, you said the President was the founder of ISIS. I know what you meant. You meant that he created the vacuum, he lost the peace.
DT: No, I meant he’s the founder of ISIS. I do. He was the most valuable player. I give him the most valuable player award. I give her, too, by the way, Hillary Clinton.
HH: But he’s not sympathetic to them. He hates them. He’s trying to kill them.
DT: I don’t care. He was the founder. His, the way he got out of Iraq was that that was the founding of ISIS, okay?
Hewitt and Trump go back and forth about the word “founder”, and it concludes:
DT: I mean, with his bad policies, that’s why ISIS came about.
HH: That’s…
DT: If he would have done things properly, you wouldn’t have had ISIS.
HH: That’s true.
DT: Therefore, he was the founder of ISIS.
Duane Patterson, Hugh Hewitt’s producer, writing at Hot Air:
Donald not only did not board the life raft Hugh threw him, he deflated it out of spite.He went on several other media outlets throughout the day and held firm on his assertion.
This morning, the world was greeting [sic] with the following tweet from Donald Trump: “Ratings challenged @CNN reports so seriously that I call President Obama (and Clinton) “the founder” of ISIS, & MVP. THEY DON’T GET SARCASM?”
Donald Trump is like Minnesota weather – if you don’t like it the way it is, just wait an hour and it’ll change completely. As for the sarcasm, sarcasm means saying the opposite thing. So if Mr. Trump was being sarcastic, does that mean he actually is praising Obama and Hillary’s role regarding ISIS?
If Trump had a split personality, it would explain a lot.
Think about it: out of 330,000,000 million Americans…and 15 other candidates…this boob is the best the Republican Party could come up with. Which is why, as the WSJ‘s editorial board notes, time is not on the side of the Trumpeteers and their incredibly flawed “miss”-iah:
“Donald Trump lashed out at the media on Sunday after more stories describing dysfunction inside his presidential campaign. “If the disgusting and corrupt media covered me honestly and didn’t put false meaning into the words I say, I would be beating Hillary by 20%,” Mr. Trump averred on Twitter.
Mr. Trump is right that most of the media want him to lose, but then that was also true ofGeorge W. Bush, George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan. It’s true of every Republican presidential nominee. The difference is that Mr. Trump has made it so easy for the media and his opponents.
…Mr. Trump has alienated his party and he isn’t running a competent campaign. Mrs. Clinton is the second most unpopular presidential nominee in history—after Mr. Trump.But rather than reassure voters and try to repair his image, the New Yorker has spent the last three weeks giving his critics more ammunition.
“Do not put your trust in princes, in human beings, who cannot save.” – Psalm 146:3
Even with more than 80 days left, Mr. Trump’s window for a turnaround is closing. The “Trump pivot” always seemed implausible given his lifelong instincts and habits, but Mr. Trump promised Republicans.“At some point I’ll be so presidential that you people will be so bored, and I’ll come back as a presidential person, and instead of 10,000 people I’ll have about 150 people and they’ll say, boy, he really looks presidential,” he said in April.
Those who sold Mr. Trump to GOP voters as the man who could defeat Hillary Clinton now face a moment of truth. Chris Christie, Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani, Paul Manafortand the talk-radio right told Republicans their man could rise to the occasion.
If they can’t get Mr. Trump to change his act by Labor Day, the GOP will have no choice but to write off the nominee as hopeless and focus on salvaging the Senate and House and other down-ballot races.As for Mr. Trump, he needs to stop blaming everyone else and decide if he wants to behave like someone who wants to be President—or turn the nomination over to Mike Pence.“
Here’s the bottom line: we believe The Donald is…
But again, any way you slice, or in Trump’s case, cut the cheese, he’ll always be preferable to…
…if only for his likely SCOTUS appointments and economic policies. As for foreign policy and national defense, in all seriousness, could he do any worse than the Islamofascist-in-Chief?!?
Since we’re on the subject of the biggest traitor to the concept of America and freedom since Benedict Arnold, in today’s installment of the Who Didn’t See THIS Coming segment, the WSJ reports on yet another ailment inflicted upon the nation by contemporary Progressivism and its proponents:
Yeah…everyone but him; along with, to borrow a phrase from Peggy Noonan, his cabinet, government and the media/cultural apparatus who that lauded Obamacare’s launch!
“Hillary Clinton admits she’s running to extend the Obama legacy, and so far she’s had a free ride in defending it. She hasn’t even had to explain the increasingly obvious failures of ObamaCare to deliver the affordable insurance that Democrats promised.
The Affordable Care Act is now rolling into its fourth year, and even liberals are starting to concede that the insurance exchanges are in distress and Congress may have to reopen the law. Premiums are high and soaring; insurers have booked multimillion-dollar losses and are terminating plans; and the customer pool is smaller, older and less healthy than the official projections.
The natural result is another round of rate shock for 2017. Insurers in 49 states have submitted their premium requests to regulators, and the average “enrollment-weighted” rate increase, which accounts for market share, is in the range of 18% to 23%. The Congressional Budget Office projected 8%.
…A major problem is that more people are abusing the law’s lack of verification and undefined “special enrollment” periods. They wait to sign up until they need costly medical care like knee surgeries and then dump coverage again.
Another problem is that some providers (such as dialysis services) are using coupons and cash subsidies to promote poor people out of Medicaid and into ObamaCare. The standard of care is little better but reimbursements are higher, and providers pocket the difference.
ObamaCare’s designers said the law would stabilize by its third year as insurers learned to price the exchange population. But turbulence is increasing, not decreasing, and the same dysfunctions can’t be found in other government-managed markets like Medicare Advantage or the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program.
Some liberals say these double-digit spikes are nothing to worry about, since any increase will be offset by subsidies that grow at the same rate as premiums. In other words: Drop dead, U.S. taxpayer…”
With the inevitable result being…
Next up, on The Lighter Side…
Finally, submitted for your perusal, five keepers from our old buddy Tom Bakke, RIO extraordinaire!
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