On November 17, 2016,
in Uncategorized,
by magoo1310
It’s Wednesday, November 16th, 2016…but before we begin, as regards the reality of the election results, John Berry forwarded another of those pictures worth far more than a mere thousand words:
Good thing there’s…
Meanwhile, Progressives continue to posture like so many preening peacocks in the face of the demon Donald:
Yeah, right up until the minute those federal dollars dry up…assuming The Donald stays the course!
Now, here’s The Gouge!
Leading off the mid-week edition, President-elect Trump continues to differ from Candidate Donald:
Trump repeats vow to build border wall, but admits ‘there could be some fencing‘
“President-elect Donald Trump, in his first television interview since his surprise election victory, repeated his vows to build a wall across America’s southern border, deport criminal illegal aliens, and repeal and replace ObamaCare.
But Trump also appeared to back off from committing to build a solid wall, telling CBS’ “60 Minutes” the barrier might look more like a fence in spots.“Certain areas, a wall is more appropriate,” Trump told interviewer Lesley Stahl. “I’m very good at this, it’s called construction.”
…Trump also appeared to back away from his promise to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, over her use of a private email server. Trump made such a promise during the second presidential debate against Clinton during a rhetorical duel that ended with Trump saying if he was president, “you’d be in jail.”
“She did some bad things, I mean she did some bad things,” Trump said, to which Stahl responded, “I know, but a special prosecutor?” “I don’t want to hurt them, I don’t want to hurt them,” Trump said. “They’re, they’re good people.I don’t want to hurt them.”
As regards The Wall, we understand; eventually, reality must intrude on fantasy.
But as concerns the Clintons, NO, Donald, they’re not good people; they’re bad people…very bad people. In fact, the worst kind of people: politicians who pervert the public trust in pursuit of personal profit and power. Besides, Americans citizens aren’t charged and prosecuted for criminal acts based on whether they’re “good” or “bad”, but because they’re believed to have broken the law!
And if Hillary isn’t pursued for her numerous, undeniable breaches of long-standing, well-known national security statutes, crimes for which other Americans have been tried, convicted and in some cases incarcerated, it will confirm two standards of justice truly do exist in America, and thus equality under the law is just a nice-sounding term utterly devoid of any real meaning.
Then again, maybe what Trump’s telling us is the Clintons truly are…
…his kind of people!
By the way, a truly Conservative Trump would not be naming a Secretary of Education…
…rather he’d be eliminating the entire Department of Education!
Next up, writing at NRO, Victor Davis Hanson relates how we’re on the cusp of a…
Braver New World — for Now
Better than a President who needs to serve time!
Given the status of the post-election state legislatures and executive offices, the Republican-controlled House and Senate, a Republican president, and a Supreme Court that will not go leftward for a generation, it is hard to see how conservatives could be anything other than relieved by Tuesday’s result. Even Trump’s critics must concede, one, that he incurred the right enemies, whose post-election teeth-gnashing was not unwelcome to them; two, that Phoenix-like (or to his enemies vampire-like) he was insidiously resilient, overcoming enormous odds and electioneering disasters, some self-inflicted, that would have sent most other candidates with lesser energy or purpose into therapy; and, three, that his cabinet and Supreme Court picks will likely slow the leftist trajectory of the country.
Donald Trump also did what neither Barack Obama, the Bushes, nor Mitt Romney could accomplish: He at last put the Clintons into permanent political retirement.He showed that identity politics and tribalism do not doom Republicans, that there really were “missing Romney voters,” that being politically incorrect was still a lesser sin than the censorship and restricted speech of political correctness — a fact which will have a liberating ripple effect on free expression throughout the country.
He eroded the idea of a blue wall, restored the electoral importance of fly-over America, and left the mainstream media discredited and, for a while, impotent. And odder still, he reminded us that billion-dollar campaigns that demand huge investments in ground games, polling, costly consultants, opposition research, cash bundlers, official endorsements, and celebrity entertainers — the stuff now of the Podesta WikiLeaks archive and elite liberalism — can still fail if opposed by an enthused candidate and a committed movement.
If one collates Trump’s positions on military spending, illegal immigration, taxes, regulations, the Second Amendment, the debt, abortion, fossil fuels, or Obamacare and compares them with his spats with Republicans over entitlements, trade, and foreign policy, the bridge is far greater than the abyss.
The “divider” Trump for now also leads a far more united Republican party (if indeed 90 percent of Republicans “came home” in the final days) than does the “uniter” Obama who leaves as his legacy a vastly reduced, out-of-power and soon to be strife-ridden Democratic party reduced to the municipal level that could duplicate only Obama policy failures but never his personal electoral successes. And whereas the Bushes, McCain, and Romney soberly and judiciously fended off left-wing hits, Trump, for better or worse, has created a sort of deterrence, in the sense that although he may be baited, he may also reply with megatonnage inordinate to the provocation. And that is a not necessarily a bad thing.
The worry is not Republican fratricide, but the unenviable task of applying medicine that in the short term will be more painful that the disease Trump inherits of a wrecked Middle East, a no-growth economy, huge debts, scandal-ridden agencies, racial animosity, half-a-trillion-dollar budget deficits, and near record labor-force non-participation, along with a ruined health-care system and a lunatic university system under $1 trillion in student debt — in addition to likely crises incurred by a lame-duck and recessionist president in the next 90 days.
Which is the brilliant Hanson’s way of saying…
Then there’s this forward from Bill Meisen, as the New York Post presents:
Scenes from the Liberal Meltdown
Stop the insanity! Days after Donald Trump stunned the world by winning the presidency, liberal America remains in the throes of a massive mental and emotional meltdown. Anti-Trump protests have spread to more cities and continue to turn violent. In Portland Thursday night, rioters stoned police and vandalized businesses and cars.
Anyone expressing support for Trump has become the target of unrestrained venom: There are calls to boycott New Balance — its sneakers have been publicly burned — because an official said Trump would be better on trade issues. Meanwhile, the CEO of Grubhub, the online food-delivery service, demanded that employees who agree with Trump resign, because “you have no place here.” (He had to retreat: His lawyers read him the First Amendment and noted that political discrimination also violates California law.)
This is just vicious stuff. But for pure pathos crossing into the absurd, we turn (as usual) to the college campus. Consider:
The University of Michigan offered its traumatized students coloring books and Play-Doh to calm them. (Are its students in college or kindergarten?)
The University of Kansas reminded its stressed-out kids that therapy dogs, a regular campus feature, were available.
Cornell University, an Ivy League school, held a campus-wide “cry-in,” with officials handing out tissues and hot chocolate.
Tufts University offered its devastated students arts and crafts sessions. (OK, not kindergarten — more like summer camp.)
At campuses from elite Yale to Connecticut to Iowa and beyond, professors canceled classes and/or exams — either because students asked or because instructors were too distraught to teach.
Anarchist-fueled violence and destruction can’t be tolerated. Nor should corporate (or anti-corporate) temper tantrums that blatantly violate free-speech rights.
Collegiate sobbing and wailing, on the other hand, shouldn’t be tolerated — especially not by the parents who are shelling out tens of thousands of dollars to pay for it. And they all should consider that their reaction to Trump’s win goes a long way towards explaining precisely why he did.
“The security firm PacketSled announced on Sunday that it has put its CEO on administrative leave after he threatened to take out President-elect Donald Trump with a sniper rifle. PacketSled defines itself as “a disruptive security company focused on detection, response, and continuous monitoring of advanced threats.”
Ironically, some Trump supporters on Reddit caught PacketSled CEO Matt Harrigan making some fairly disturbing “advanced threats” of his own on the night of the election: “I’m going to kill the president. Elect,” Harrigan declared on Facebook.When someone cautioned him about making comments that could attract the attention of the FBI or Secret Service, Harrigan said, “Bring it secret service.”
When one of his buddies said “you just need to get high,” he went into disturbing detail about his plans. “Nope, getting a sniper rifle and perching myself where it counts. Find a bedroom in the White House that suits you, motherf*cker. I’ll find you.” Later on that night, he wrote in all caps, “IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS F*CK YOU AMERICA. SERIOUSLY. F*CK OFF.”
…Note that it took Trump supporters on Reddit and social media to blow the whistle on this goon. So far, the MSM has been mum on this story.
After his comments were exposed, Harrigan walked them back at the PacketSled website, saying he was merely “joking” even though there was nothing even remotely funny about his what he said.“
UPDATE: This psychotic douche nozzle has since resigned. Any question had he made similar threats against The Obamao he’d already be in federal custody?!?
Meanwhile, courtesy of Speed Mach, an astute Okie weatherman provides Progressives directions to their purported Promised Land:
Don’t let the gate hit you in your worthless Liberal ass as you pass into The Great White North!
“Well, that didn’t take long. Just hours after Hillary Clinton lost the presidency to Donald Trump — and hours after she left her disconsolate supporters at New York City’s Javits Center, hightailing it to the confines of Manhattan’s Peninsula Hotel—cries of “sexism” erupted across America’s fruited plain.
…There are many reasons for Hillary Clinton’s loss: Obvious corruption, lockstep leftism, disastrous health-care prescriptions, abortion fanaticism, and basic incompetence are just a few. But her loss might best be summed up in a September 22 video address she gave to the Laborers’ International Union of North America. After bashing right-to-work measures allowing freedom from unions, Clinton stared at the camera, suddenly irate. “Now, having said all this,” she bellowed, head bobbing, appearing as though she wanted to throttle the entire world, and maybe a few stuffed animals, too, “why aren’t I 50 points ahead, you might ask?”
Oh dear. Why indeed? It was a question that answered itself, and a moment that, for obvious reasons, went viral. You recognized that it eerily resembled a famous scene, if you’ve seen the movie Office Space, where a terrified worker wildly shouts at downsizing consultants about how good he is with people.
Not unlike millions of government bureaucrats sucking off the public teat!
Sexism certainly exists, but to attribute Clinton’s loss — the failed candidacy of an ossified political fixture with enough toxic baggage to crush 17 glass ceilings — to it is absurd.But in the Rorschach test of life, some people will always see sexism lurking around every corner, hysterically labeling each slight as a sign of eternal misogyny.It must be an exhausting way to live.Some would argue that it helped fuel the backlash that brought us Donald Trump.“
Combined with the overt racism of an anti-cop crusade masquerading as a civil rights movement…
…you’re damned straight it helped give rise to Donald Trump! Given the results from last Tuesday, anyone outside of Georgetown, the Beltway, a college campus or urban ghetto has had enough!
Which brings us to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s this series of election-themed memes courtesy of Balls Cotton:
Finally, we’ll call it a day with Your Tax Dollars at Work:, courtesy of the AP:
New York school district pays 11-year-old $6,500 for keynote speech
A New York school district paid an 11-year-old child advocate $6,500 plus expenses for serving as keynote speaker for staff and hosting a student workshop last week. The Poughkeepsie Journal reports the Poughkeepsie City School District hired Marley Dias to speak during the superintendent’s conference day last Tuesday. The board voted 3-1 to retroactively approve Dias’ consultant agreement at its Nov. 9 meeting.
The girl from West Orange, New Jersey, created the popular #1000BlackGirlBooks campaign to draw attention to the lack of racial diversity in children’s literature. She gave an hour-long speech to staff before leading an hour and a half-long workshop for 50 students.
Superintendent Nicole Williams said at Wednesday’s meeting that Dias’ resume is “tremendous” and the district shouldn’t discriminate because she’s 11 years old.
And here’s the kicker:
Dias was paid through funding from a federal education program.
No fat to cut from the federal budget here; please move along!
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