You got it: Limousine Liberals never have to experience the consequences of their counterproductive policies. Otherwise, Barry, Moochie and friends wouldn’t be living the life of the .01% on David Geffen’s yacht; rather they’d be solving Chicago’s intractable problem of gun violence their policies largely created and fosteredon site…up close and personal!
We’re left to assume Black lives matter only when you’re in the White House…sowing racial discord and division.
Yeah,…and next, Raul Castro’s gonna nuke Miami. Seriously, folks: there are enough clear and present dangers in the world to worry about before believing Kim’s gonna lob a nuke…
…onto Waikiki!
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, courtesy of NRO, David French echoes a warning we’ve sounded repeatedly in the past:
The Battle of Berkeley
The leftist mob has sown the wind. Now, the whirlwind looms.
If the media accurately and comprehensively reported on leftist mob violence, it would see that a pattern has emerged: On campus and in the streets, a violent or menacing core seizes the ground it wants, blocks access to buildings, and shuts down the speech or events it seeks to suppress. This violent core is often surrounded and protected by a larger group of ostensibly “peaceful” protesters who sometimes cheer aggression wildly and then provide cover for the rioters, who melt back into the crowd. After the riot, the polite progressives condemn the violence, urge that it not distract from the alleged rightness of the underlying cause, and then do virtually nothing to enforce the law and punish the offenders.
We’ve seen this play out time and again as mobs shut down campus speech, occupy campus buildings, and even assault innocent people — all without facing any real fear of arrest or meaningful punishment. In the aftermath of the Middlebury College incident, where protesters blocked Charles Murray from speaking, surrounded his car as he tried to leave, and sent a professor to the hospital, academics from across the political spectrum said all the right things. But the authorities have so far done nothing. Conservative Princeton professor Robert George has taken to tweeting a daily reminder that the mob is still winning:
45 DAYS, still no one has been expelled or prosecuted for the mob violence and attack on academic freedom at Middlebury.
At Berkeley, a mob blocked Milo Yiannopolous from speaking, before going on a violent rampage that included arson, smashed windows, and assault on innocent bystanders. Americans were pepper-sprayed and beaten for the “crime” of supporting Donald Trump while the police stood idly by, letting the riot play out before arresting a grand total of one person.
Urban and academic progressive leaders can respond to violence with all the scolding tweets, sternly worded statements, and calls for calm they want.But until those who break the law and violate university policies are aggressively brought to justice, it won’t matter.As long as those who preside over our most prominent academic institutions continue to heed leftist threats and attacks rather than stand up for peaceful conservative speech, the rule of law will remain abandoned in favor of the mob’s agenda. And history proves that once a government abandons the rule of law, it has a hard time controlling the consequences.
Case in point: this weekend’s battle in Berkeley.
Saturday, we saw more clashes in what now threatens to become an increasingly vicious, violent war for control of America’s streets. Leftist “antifa” or “black bloc” rioters met pro-Trump “Oath Keepers,” bikers, and alt-right goons in a barely contained battle royale, with assaults and beatings streamed live and posted to YouTube. Police struggled to control the violence and often appeared completely absent as brawls broke out across entire city blocks.By the end of the fighting, Mother Jones reporter Shane Bauer said, “Militias, alt-right, nazis etc. won today in Berkeley. They outnumbered the opposition, pushed it back, and held downtown.”
We are now teetering on the edge of a truly terrifying incident, one trigger-pull away from a slaughter.Campus and urban progressives have a choice to make. Is this a nation of laws?If it is, then it’s time to grow a backbone, protect free speech, punish rioters, and expel those who disrupt the educational environment regardless of ideology. There should be no more sympathy or leniency for the lawless social-justice warrior than there is for the lawless neo-Nazi.
Every single time the progressive establishment ignores, minimizes, or whitewashes leftist violence, it sows the wind. Americans have watched mobs attack police and burn buildings in Baltimore, Ferguson, Charlotte, and Minneapolis. They have watched mobs riot over politics and free speech in Middlebury, Berkeley, Portland, Chicago, and Los Angeles.Is anyone at all shocked that when the police hang back, others will step into the void?Leftists are fond of saying “violence begets violence.”If we don’t restore the rule of law, we’ll all find out just how right they are.
And just when you thought the unintelligible inanity emanating from our college campuses couldn’t get any more wacky, consider this snippet from a letter penned by students at Pomona College in Claremont, CA:
“Historically, white supremacy has venerated the idea of objectivity, and wielded a dichotomy of ‘subjectivity vs. objectivity’ as a means of silencing oppressed peoples. The idea that there is a single truth–’the Truth’–is a construct of the Euro-West that is deeply rooted in the Enlightenment, which was a movement that also described Black and Brown people as both subhuman and impervious to pain.This construction is a myth and white supremacy, imperialism, colonization, capitalism, and the United States of America are all of its progeny. The idea that the truth is an entity for which we must search, in matters that endanger our abilities to exist in open spaces, is an attempt to silence oppressed peoples.“
We’d normally assign these ignorant iceholes the appellation “educated idiots”; but in this case, we’ll forego the “educated”.
Meanwhile, rather than effectively addressing the lawless behavior which will inevitably cause further destruction, and eventually death(s), the Dimocrat Party doubles-down on disorder, continuing its lurch even further Left:
When a card-carrying Clintonista/Obamaite like Tom Perez, as rankly partisan a Progressive as has ever cursed our country, is booed while Socialist Bernie Sanders is cheered, Donald Trump is the least of The Left’s problems.
More importantly, what these delicate little anarchists seem to have overlooked is whose hands hold the vast majority of the guns in this country…Progressives’ repeated attempts at unconstitutional disarmament notwithstanding. They should remember, the police aren’t there to protect us from them…but rather them from us!
As Rohrshach noted in Watchmen…
And if the balloon does go up, and these ungrateful miscreants actually achieve the anarchy and complete disorder they claim to crave, they’ll find themselves begging and pleading for the very forces they now disdain to save their bacon. Only by then…
Because Liberals will have become a food source.
Next up, writing at Townhall.com, Bruce Bialosky details how, when it comes to deliberate dishonesty, The Donald doesn’t hold a candle to the Prince of Prevarication:
Trump’s Lies
And one of the few truths he ever uttered.
The furor over Trump’s tweet regarding being wiretapped lives on. His detractors characterize everything that comes out of his mouth as either annoying, destructive or an outright lie. Since these people cannot be used as a gauge of his veracity, I decided it was important to do my own analysis.
My interest started after I wrote a column about factors surrounding the issue of his tweet stating he was wiretapped. I took the position that you had to analyze his statement and not take it literally. He really meant he and his people were having their activities and communications surveilled and the word “wiretapping” was a catchall.A friend queried me, asking “since when should we not take what a president says literally?”The simple reply: “Obama.”
This is not a disguised attack on Obama, simply because he was not the first president to lie to the American people.When I say a “lie,” I mean a misstatement of fact that was intentionally designed to mislead the American people. That would rule out the misstatement by George W. Bush regarding WMDs in Iraq. That is because there was legitimate worldwide intelligence that Hussein had WMDs. Also, he had used WMDs many times on his own people. Additionally, there was clear evidence – way after the fact — of WMDs found buried in Iraq.
Lies by a president need to be of a significant nature.Little lies are told all the time to mislead us. We should focus only on the big ones which really impact our lives or cost lives.A perfect example was the lie President Lyndon Johnson told about the action in the Gulf of Tonkin which was used to escalate our involvement in the Vietnam War.Another that comes to mind is “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.”That one is not nearly as important as LBJ’s, but came at the wrong time and caused a constitutional crisis.
President Obama had two humongous lies which were of great significance.First, there was Benghazi. This lie came at a critical time in 2012, just two short months before the presidential election. The incumbent did not want his Middle East policy described day after day in the press as a failure nor did he want four American deaths hung around his neck. That is when he sent out Susan Rice to execute the myth of the internet documentary causing an uproar across the Muslim world. This was an outright lie and was a centerpiece of a PR campaign to engineer his reelection.
The second major lie, which is far more reaching, is the lie about the crimes done by Lois Lerner and her crew of crooks at the IRS.Mr. Obama told Bill O’Reilly there wasn’t a “smidgen” of evidence that there was corruption at the IRS. Obama’s Justice Department buried the prosecution which was dictated by the Treasury Department’s Inspector General’s report.The after effects have been massive as the agency has been largely neutered by Congress. The budget for next year will be a 21% reduction in real terms and a 30% reduction in cost-adjusted terms from six years ago. The agency is a mess and everyone is baffled why the current Commissioner of the IRS has not been fired because he perpetuated the crimes and has not cleaned house. The recent report that the IRS has stolen money from innocent citizens because of the nature of their legal cash deposits just expedites the nosedive in terms of creditability for the IRS, all engineered under Obama.
We are now facing another Obama lie that has cost lives, has endangered Americans and could endanger American military members in the near future. In 2014, Secretary of State John Kerry said the State Department “got 100 percent of the chemical weapons out” of Syria. Susan Rice was still furthering that statement even this January.
We now know that was also a lie. There are only three scenarios here that could have happened, and two make the Obama administration statement a lie. First, they did not get all the chemical weapons. Second, they did not destroy all the chemical weapons manufacturing capability. Third, the only possible salvation for the Obama administration on this issue is that the chemicals were provided to Assad by the Russians or the Iranians. Personally, I am picking one of the first two scenarios and that makes it another major lie.
And we have not even confronted the lies by Obama about our health care that helped to catapult the ACA into law and control over our national health care system.
I may be wrong, but I cannot think of one lie from Trump that has had any major consequences.There is no question that, at times, Trump paints pictures that are different than reality. Trump haters think everything he says is a lie.Until he says something that seriously affects our public policy or actually costs Americans lives, his “lies” are pedestrian political pabulum.
On the other hand, as NRO‘s Kevin Williamson points out, the frequency of Trump’s pedestrian political pabulums is rather high…along with the percentage of his broken promises:
“During the campaign, Donald Trump published a “Contract with the American Voter,” and he may even have read it. He described the document as “my pledge to you.” If anybody had been listening, they might have learned from his former business partners what a Trump contract is worth and from his ex-wives what value he puts on a solemn pledge.
I have some bad news, Sunshine: Ya got took.
…No fighting China on currency, no wall, no NATO reform.Add a few more items to the list: Janet Yellen was definitely out before she wasn’t; our relationship with Russia was “great” during the campaign but today is a “horrible relationship” that is “at an all-time low” (he may not know about the Cuban missile crisis); the president could not make war on Syria without congressional approval (“big mistake if he does not!”) until he could. The Affordable Care Act remains the law of the land. Steve Bannon of Goldman Sachs, Gary Cohn of Goldman Sachs, Steven Mnuchin of Goldman Sachs, and Dina Powell of Goldman Sachs are firmly ensconced in their various roles throughout the Trump administration. The alt-right basement-dwellers and sundry knuckleheads beamed that Trump was going to be a “nationalist,” and that he would give the boot to coastal elitists, moderates, and Ivy League snoots. In reality, Trump is a New York Democrat who is being advised by other New York Democrats — Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner prominent among them — who are more or less the sort of people who brought you the Obama and Clinton administrations: business-friendly corporate Democrats, people who think of themselves as post-ideological pragmatists, consensus progressives who are much more interested in opening up backdoor channels to Planned Parenthood than they are in the priorities of people they consider nothing more than a bunch of snake-handling rustics and talk-radio listeners stockpiling gold coins and freeze-dried ice cream in their basements.Trump was a Clinton donor and a Chuck Schumer donor, and he is acting like one.
Surprise.
Rush Limbaugh was right in his way: What Trump said during the campaign was, in fact, a load of nonsense deployed for the purposes of steamrolling the other side in difficult and delicate negotiations.What Limbaugh and the rest of Trump’s admirers missed is that it wasn’t NATO and the Chi-Coms and Enrique Peña Nieto on the other side of the negotiating table getting hornswoggled.
It was them.“
Need we add Obamacare is still the law of the land, John Koskinen remains running the IRS, and women are still being integrated into combat roles in our Military?!?
At least we can take comfort in the fact Neil Gorsuch is firmly ensconced on the SCOTUS…and we dropped a MOAB on Assad!
Turning now to the Follow-Up segment, courtesy today of Balls Cotton and Vox, Matt Yglesias explains…
“…Most of us fondly remember a time in the not-so-distant past when the United States had many more airlines and much more vigorous competition between them. This was a true blessing for consumers, but it was genuinely unworkable economically — the consumer bounty was based on investors, bondholders, and unionized workers losing money.
So we’re now shifting into an uncomfortable era of consolidation, diminished competition, higher prices, more profits, and fewer choices. And even if choice were revived by future policymakers, experience suggests that travelers will choose lower prices over higher quality, leaving air travel a perennially frustrating experience…”
And you know what? He’s RIGHT!!! Though they’ll continue to bitch about it ’til the cows come home…
…or Hillary occupies the Oval Office.
Since we’re on the subject of things that suck…a lot…also courtesy of NRO, Alexandra Desanctis details…
“…There is no doubt that Clinton richly deserves this award, as she has long been a public champion for Planned Parenthood, sanctioning the murder of thousands of children and forcing unwilling Americans to pay for it. But as information continues to surface about the abortion group’s illegal activity and public deceptions, it becomes increasingly evident that neither Clinton nor Planned Parenthood is a true champion of women and children.One can only hope that, in the fullness of time, Planned Parenthood’s disgracefully propped-up fortunes take the same disastrous turn as did Hillary Clinton’s presidential ambitions.“
As much as we despise Hillary, we cannot wish her ill…outside of praying she never ascends to the highest office in the land. In the meantime, enjoy this quick compilation of Clinton comics:
And last but not least…
Which is where she’s likely headed.
And which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side…
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