It’s Wednesday, August 31st, 2016…but before we begin, submitted for your perusal, a slightly paraphrased, instantaneously-classic quote from Kevin Williamson writing at NRO:
“A milquetoast Manhattan progressive reinvents himself as an angry nationalist, surrounds himself with a Star Wars cantina cast of exotic and sundry cretins and oddities, and then, after securing the GOP nomination, refuses to run an actual presidential campaign, spending more on payments to his own hotels than on actual politicking: According to the WaPo, he spent more on Mar-a-Lago expenses in the past month alone than on his first campaign-ad buy…On Planet Trump, truth is stranger than fiction.“
You can say…
…that again!
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, three pictures worth far more than all the ignorant words uttered or written in defense of the indefensible:
FOX Sports‘ Jay Glazer echoes one of our thoughts on the true nature of Kaepernick’s plight:
“Regardless of politics or not, he has a very, very big uphill battle to make this team,” Glazer said on FOX Sunday. “I’d be shocked if he’s on the 49ers by the time this season ends. It has nothing to do with political views whatsoever. He lost a ton of weight this offseason, had three surgeries, couldn’t work out, lost that double threat, that size-speed ratio. No political views, he just hasn’t been effective. He’s regressing as a player. I’d be shocked if he’s on this roster by the end of this year. He may not be on it in the next two weeks.”
Here’s the juice: what you’re truly witnessing is a spoiled, underperforming has-been looking for an excuse to explain his almost-certain release. In other words, the substance of Kaepernick’s purported stance is about as real as the myth of the Gentle Giant that birthed…
…Black Lives Matter.
Since we’re on the subject of purposeful Progressive misperception versus reality, writing at Best of the Web, James Taranto offers the unvarnished truth behind…
“…Trump has been attempting to appeal to black voters, who since 1964 have supported Democrats by overwhelming margins. (Fat lot of good it’s done them!) As noted here, it started two weeks ago in a speech at West Bend, Wis. His campaign took criticism for delivering the message in a mostly white Milwaukee suburb, and it appears to have taken the critique to heart: The Hill reports that over the weekend, Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway told radio host John Catsimatidis: “We’re planning on additional events in communities of color.”
Last week, as CBS’s Sopan Deb reported, Trump made his appeal again, in blunt and hyperbolic terms:
You can go to war zones in countries that we’re fighting and it’s safer than living in some of our inner cities…I ask you this. Crime. All of the problems. To the African Americans who I employ so many—so many people. To the Hispanics, tremendous people—what the hell do you have to lose? Give me a chance. I’ll straighten it out…You’ll be able to walk down the street without getting shot. Right now, you walk down the street. You get shot.
…“Donald Trump’s new message to African American voters isn’t just inaccurate, it’s outrageous,” proclaimed Mrs. Clinton’s campaign on its website. But neither that page nor the Marshall statement offered a single fact in support of the claim that Trump’s assertion about the conditions of inner cities was inaccurate. (Incredibly inarticulate, yes; inaccurate…hardly!) The rejoinder was pure ad hominem—an enumeration of objectionable things Trump had (actually or allegedly) said or done before.
To be sure, the ultimate question in an election campaign is which candidate voters should prefer, so that in the big picture ad hominem arguments are relevant. But they are not relevant to the particular claim Trump was making here.
The openly and notoriously anti-Trump New York Times offered a more sophisticated rebuttal. “The unrelievedly dire picture [Trump] has painted of black America has left many black voters angry, dumbfounded or both,” reported Richard Fausset, Alan Blinder and John Eligon in Thursday’s paper. “Interviews with roughly a dozen blacks here [in Atlanta] turned up no one who found any appeal in Mr. Trump’s remarks.”
This passage caught our attention:
Marc Morial, the president of the National Urban League, said that black Americans faced challenges, but that Mr. Trump’s depiction of a hopeless, violent black America did not match reality.
“It’s an inaccurate portrayal of the community that seeks to define the community by only its biggest challenges,” Mr. Morial said. “Black America has deep problems—deep economic problems—but black America also has a large community of striving, successful, hard-working people: college educated, in the work force.”
That gave us a hunch, which we confirmed in seconds using the great hunch-verifying machine Google. This is from a New Orleans Times-Picayune story dated May 17, 2016:
For 40 years the National Urban League has documented the great divide between the social and economic prosperity of white and black Americans. And for 40 years the story has remained much the same, said Marc Morial, the league’s president and CEO.
Black people continue to trail white residents in every category the league tracks, presenting “a persistent racial disparity in American life,” that might as well equate to a reversal of fortune for strides toward equality made after the Civil Rights era of the 1960s, he said.
“The similarities of the United States of 1976 and the United States of 2016 are profoundly striking,” Morial said. “We are now, as we were then, a nation struggling to overcome the greatest economic downturn since the Great Depression. All gears have been thrown into reverse.”
That’s quite a change in three months!
But what changed, exactly? Surely not the underlying facts. Probably some annual statistics were updated between May and August, but we are unaware of any that showed a sudden and dramatic improvement. In any case, social change is a slow process. A sudden change could be the start of a long-term trend, or it could be a mere anomaly.
It’s possible that Morial’s knowledge of the facts has expanded in the past three months. But it seems unlikely. He is an expert on the condition of black America, and as such he undoubtedly knew almost as much about the subject in May as he knows today.
The likeliest explanation is the obvious one: Trump’s challenging words prompted Morial to change the way he thinks about the same set of facts. Now he accentuates the positive, and he frames the problems of black America as “challenges” rather than grievances.
That can make a big difference. To see why, think about your own life. Remember a time when you had a problem that began as a justified grievance. Perhaps the passage of time wore down your anger, or maybe somebody said something startling that led you to an epiphany. Either way, you solved the problem by changing the way you thought about it.
The facts mattered far less than your attitude toward them. That’s often true in politics as well.“
Put more succinctly, Marc Morial can race-hustle…
…with the best of ’em…with nary a care for the people he purportedly represents!
Turning from the unpalatable to the utterly indigestible, Commentary Magazine‘s Noah Rothman details how Hillary…
…In a bizarre appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation” in March of 2011, when just 20 of the 500,000 who would die in this conflict had been killed, Clinton insisted that the situation in Syria was nothing like what had occurred in Libya. There, the civil conflict was so dire that it necessitated American intervention. Again, the administration’s objective was to do nothing that would upset negotiations with Iran aimed at normalizing Tehran’s relations with the West. When Barack Obama walked away from his red line for action, which was drawn in the wake of one of many chemical attacks on civilians, Clinton did nothing. She continues to dodge questions regarding her refusal to react forcefully to such a reckless waste of American diplomatic and political capital.
Today, nearly one year after the U.S. Senate reluctantly ratified the president’s accord with Iran, American soldiers are subject to harassment and capture by Iranian forces. American civilians are kept hostage by the mullahs, who are rewarded for their efforts by the administration. U.S. Navy assets in the Persian Gulf are routinely harassed, occasionally necessitating literal shots across the bow of Iranian vessels. These are the fruits of the Obama administration’s singular obsession with Iran.
Clinton has tried to have it both ways when it comes to Barack Obama’s foreign policy. She is at once critical of some of its most glaring failures while also presenting herself as vaguely supportive of most of it. She should not be allowed to get away with it.“
Speaking of the fruits of hopelessly misguided Progressive policies…
“An out-of-control bus driven by an illegal immigrant carrying flood recovery volunteers hit a fire truck and firefighters who had responded to an earlier crash Sunday morning on a Louisiana interstate, killing two people and injuring 36, according to state police.
The ladder truck from St. John the Baptist Parish, located west of New Orleans, had parked across the right lane of Interstate 10 to block traffic while police investigated an earlier crash involving a pickup truck that had skidded on the wet road, crashing into both guardrails about 6:40 a.m., Trooper Melissa Matey told local media. The bus hit the fire truck, then hit a car, and then veered behind the fire truck and into the pickup truck, knocking three firefighters who were standing near the guard rail into the water below, Matey said.
Matey said the driver, identified as Denis Yasmir Amaya Rodriguez, 37, of Honduras, was an employee of that company. “He is in this country illegally from Honduras. He has no driver’s license. He had minor injuries,” she said.
Rodriguez will be booked in the St. John the Baptist jail and will be charged with two counts of negligent homicide, reckless operation, and no driver’s license, Fox 8 reported. Police told the television station that additional charges are forthcoming.
…Matey said the bus was taking flood recovery workers from New Orleans to Baton Rouge and belonged to a company with two names: AM Party Bus and Kristina’s Transportation LLC, both at the same address in Jefferson, about 30 miles from New Orleans in Jefferson Parish, Matey said. No listing in Jefferson was available. A call by the Associated Press to Kristina’s Transportation in Destrehan, 12 miles from Jefferson in St. Charles Parish, was not answered Sunday. A woman who answered the phone at AM Party Bus of New Orleans told the AP was only authorized to take booking calls…”
First, thank you Barry, Hillary and every other Progressive who continues to visit harm upon innocent Americans through their refusal to enforce existing U.S. immigration laws and secure our borders…and this includes certain spineless…
…Republicans.
Second, what we’d like to see, and what Louisianans should be demanding, is the arrest and prosecution of the owners of the bus company along with Senor Rodriguez!
All of which circles us back to the subject of Kurt Schlichter’s latest offering at Townhall.com:
har·ri·dan /’herəd(ə)n/ noun 1. a strict, bossy, or belligerent old woman.
“…Hillary’s racism lie, in which she linked Republicans to the kreepy klown kar her party created and in which her senatorial mentor Robert Byrd served as a Grand Imperial Cyborg Wizard Dragon or something, was not just your typical leftist slander against normal Americans. It was an attempt to marginalize fully 40% of the electorate desperate enough to avoid her no-doubt catastrophic reign by voting for Donald Trump. She and the left want to write this entire chunk of the electorate out of any voice in their own governance by authorizing her progressive supporters to disregard any duty to consider, represent or respect those alleged troglodytes. When these aspiring fascists babble about “crushing Trumpism,” what they are really saying is that they wish to permanently disenfranchise anyone on board the Trump Train instead of the Clinton Express to Venezuela.
But there is no such thing as “Trumpism” – to credit The Donald with an ideology is ridiculous. Instead, there is simply raw opposition to progressivism, which right now has coalesced around a billionaire adolescent, and that opposition is what they truly seek to crush.
We have already seen a preview of how she will rule for the benefit of the connected and favored – just look at Hillary visiting Louisiana. Oh wait, she’s didn’t – she was fundraising in Hollywood. She cares nothing for those waterlogged Louisianans because Louisianans, wet or dry, will never vote for her. And so they must be punished – this is her clumsy object lesson on the price of opposition to her rule. And there will be more of it. There will be two Americas under Hillary, the connected one and the enemy. Guess which America you and I will be part of?…”
And she doesn’t care how many innocent Americans have to die in the future to ensure her rightful place in history…not to mention her personal power and fortune.
For more on the subject of ugly, bitter, overweight lesbians, in today’s installment of Your Tax Dollars at Work, we learn the…
Feds spent $911,056 studying the drinking habits of lesbian couples
The National Institutes of Health is spending nearly $1 million on a study of lesbian couples to see if stress makes them drink too much. The grant awarded to Old Dominion University will involve lesbians filling out daily diaries about their romantic relationships to determine what causes them to drink.
“Sexual minority women (i.e., women who self-identify as lesbian and bisexual) report more heavy drinking, more alcohol-related problems, and higher rates of alcohol use disorders as compared to heterosexual women,” according to the grant for the study. “Young sexual minority women are particularly vulnerable.”
The researchers contend that no one has ever studied the relationships of lesbian couples and their drinking habits. “Despite this awareness, no studies have examined how relationship factors and partners’ alcohol use contribute to hazardous drinking among female sexual minority couples,” the grant said.
Which of course cannot be interpreted as a reason NOT to piss away almost $1M of our hard-earned tax dollars on a demonstrably dimwitted study, but rather as irrefutable proof of the need to waste it!
We’re gonna go out on a limb here and say lesbians drink because…
…and thus retroactively save the American taxpayer $911,056!!!
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:
And seriously, who on earth would ever wear, let alone pay thousands of dollars for…
…such a clown suit?!?
Finally, we’ll call it a day with yet another sordid story straight from the pages of The Crime Blotter…
“One Ithaca College student was fatally stabbed and a second was injured during a fight on Cornell University’s campus, officials said Sunday. Police say several hundred college-age people had attended a student-organized event in Willard Straight Hall Saturday night and that several fights took place outside after the event ended. Police discovered both men lying wounded on the ground after they responded to the scene shortly before 2 a.m.
Anthony Nazaire, 19, of Brooklyn, N.Y., was pronounced dead at Cayuga Medical Center. He was a sophomore at Ithaca’s School of Business Administration. Police said Nazaire was Ithaca’s first homicide victim since December 2011.
…Police said a weapon was recovered from the scene, though they did not specify what type. No arrests have been made in the case. Local news website 14850.com reported that Saturday night’s party was an orientation week gathering hosted by Cornell’s chapter of Omega Psi Phi, a predominently African-American fraternity. Investigators said that a number of partygoers were recording the fight on their phones and appealed for anyone with footage to come forward.
We won’t hold our breath waiting for one of these dusky party-goers to help The Man locate the killer of one of their own.
In other news of murderous minority mayhem…
Then there’s this from the hopelessly misnomered City of Brotherly Love:
Yeah, Philly’s the City of Brotherly Love like Baltimore’s Charm City!
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