Why is it whenever an illegal immigrant, an individual who should not have been afforded the opportunity in the first place, kills in the United States we never hear Progressives pushing meaningful border control behind their tried and tired mantra, “If it would save justone life…”?
Further proof, when it comes to Liberals, Orwell had it right:
Though in this case some lives are more equal, i.e., more valuable, than others. And those purely depending upon whether they promote Progressive policies…at the moment.
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, from FOX News, we learn how the hopelessly inept pot is attempting to call the volatile kettle black:
“With his tough talk and hardline stances on Iran and North Korea, President Donald Trump is damaging America’s credibility abroad – and could provoke a nuclear-arms race in East Asia, Hillary Clinton says.
Trump’s recent threat to decertify the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, “makes us look foolish and small and plays right into Iranian hands,” Clinton said last week.“That is bad not just on the merits for this particular situation, but it sends a message across the globe that America’s word is not good,” said Clinton, who spoke in advance of Trump’s announcement Friday that he wants Congress and the other nations that negotiated the deal to toughen the requirements for Iran…”
No, Hillary; it makes Barack Hussein Obama, John Kerry, Ben Cardin, Bob Corker and you look foolish, as the only message it sends across the globe is NO American President, not even The Obamao, possesses the power to bind his successors with any agreement which hasn’t been ratified by the Senate.
Particularly given her husband and former boss were primarily responsible for enabling both the NoKos and Iranians to pursue the development of nuclear weapons…
…not to mention she herself having personally reenergized the once-enfeebled former Evil Empire…
…we’d suggest Hillary’s in as much a position to critique Trump’s conduct of foreign policy as Bill is The Donald’s marital indiscretions.
In a related item, courtesy of Balls Cotton, recently…
“Hollywood director Woody Allen spoke to the BBC about producer Harvey Weinstein, who has been recently accused of sexual harassment and rape.
…“You also don’t want it to lead to a witch hunt atmosphere, a Salem atmosphere, where every guy in an office who winks at a woman is suddenly having to call a lawyer to defend himself,” the filmmaker said.“That’s not right either….No one ever came to me or told me horror stories with any real seriousness,” Allen, who has long denied molesting his daughter Dylan Farrow, told the BBC.
Yeah,…like Slick Willy never had…
…and the 13-year-old Roman Polanski raped showed him an ID proving she was 18!
“Donald Trump isn’t exactly on a winning streak, but he is beating the NFL in a rout.
The league’s commissioner, Roger Goodell, signaled the beginning of a messy, divisive retreat with a memo stating, “Like many of our fans, we believe that everyone should stand for the National Anthem.”Now he tells us.
The climbdown comes only weeks after a clueless bout of self-congratulation by the NFL and the media over widespread anthem protests. Donald Trump doesn’t play three-dimensional chess, as his supporters insist. But he does have an instinctive cunning and a grasp of a nationalistic cultural politics that shouldn’t be underestimated by his opponents, even though it almost always is.
It’d obviously be better if a president of the United States weren’t waging war on a major sports league.Trump’s intervention has been inflammatory from the beginning. He shouldn’t have called protesting players “sons of bitches” and mused about firing them like the loudest guy down at the end of the bar.
The very outrageousness of Trump’s initial riff, though, served his purposes. Trump’s lurid overstatement acted as a neon advertisement for his commonsensical underlying point, namely that players should stand during the national anthem. And it baited the NFL into fighting him on indefensible ground.
There were all sorts of unobjectionable means available for players to defy Trump, but they allowed themselves to, in effect, get double-dared into disrespecting the flag.
It was, in part, a classic bubble phenomenon. Sports journalists are, if anything, more left than political journalists.They were excited about being at the center of a national political debate and sticking it to Trump.Much of the media piled right behind them.On CNN and MSNBC it was rare to hear a commentator say a discouraging word about the protests, let alone warn that the NFL was stumbling into Trump’s political kill box.
It is true that, after Trump got involved, the polling on the protests showed the public more evenly divided. This doesn’t have equal significance: If you’re Donald Trump and at 40 percent or below in the polls, a 50/50 issue works for you; if you are the NFL and trying to appeal to a broad audience, a 50/50 issue is a disaster for you…
…It is much too early to know what the 2020 landscape will look like, but if Trump wins again, it will surely have something to do with a dynamic like the one that played out with the NFL. Trump will cause an unthinking overreaction by Democrats on a culture issue or issues, and the party will be wrong-footed by the insularity of its own political and media ecosystem.
…The NFL’s agony is the Democrats’ peril.“
Hey, even The Donald is, on occasion, correct; and this…
…is one of those occasions.
Besides, as this video from Heather Mac Donald and Prager U demonstrates, the issue behind the kneeling has no basis in reality:
But when does reality have any bearing of feeling-based Liberalism? In any event, neither we nor 68% of our regular readers will ever again view an NFL contest. And that, dear readers, speaks volumes.
For more on the subject of feeling-based Liberalism, aka, Trump Derangement Syndrome, again courtesy of NRO, Andy McCarthy reports how, even when…
“Why don’t the stories say: “President Trump Faithfully Executes Affordable Care Act”?
In report after sky-is-falling report, the journalism wing of the media-Democrat complex castigates the president over his decision to — as the New York Times put it — “scrap subsidies to health insurance companies that help pay out of pocket costs of low-income people.”These subsidy payments are “critical” to sustaining the “Affordable Care Act.” Without them, the Grey Lady frets, “President Barack Obama’s signature domestic achievement” could “unravel.” To add insult to injury, the paper implies that Trump’s “determination to dismantle [Obamacare] on his own” is a malign attack on the rule of law, coming only after Republicans reneged on their vow to repeal it by legislation.
It’s ironic. Notwithstanding the many outrageous, mendacious things the president says and tweets, the press is aghast that his “fake news” tropes against mainstream-media stalwarts resonate with much of the country. Well, if you want to know why, this latest Obamacare coverage is why. What Trump has actually done is end the illegal payoffs without which insurance companies have no rational choice but to jack up premiums or flee the Obamacare exchanges. The culprits here are the charlatans who gave us Obamacare. To portray Trump as the bad guy is not merely fake news. It’s an out-and-out lie.
Which is to say: It’s about as honest as the Democrats’ labeling of Obamacare as the Affordable Care Act…”
Remember: there’s lies, damned lies…and then there are the promises promoting Progressive policies.
Which brings us to our next item, as the WSJ‘s Kim Strassel suggests The Donald’s greatest success to date has been largely muffled by the cacophony over his misuse of Twitter:
None of which are true; though if any were, it would certainly not disqualify her from the federal bench.
“Ask most Republicans to identify Donald Trump’s biggest triumph to date, and the answer comes quick: Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch. That’s the cramped view.
The media remains so caught up with the president’s tweets that it has missed Mr. Trump’s project to transform the rest of the federal judiciary. The president is stocking the courts with a class of brilliant young textualists bearing little relation to even their Reagan or Bush predecessors. Mr. Trump’s nastygrams to Bob Corker will be a distant memory next week. Notre Dame law professor Amy Coney Barrett’s influence on the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals could still be going strong 40 years from now.
Mr. Trump has now nominated nearly 60 judges, filling more vacancies than Barack Obama did in his entire first year. There are another 160 court openings, allowing Mr. Trump to flip or further consolidate conservative majorities on the circuit courts that have the final say on 99% of federal legal disputes.
This project is the work of Mr. Trump, White House Counsel Don McGahn and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Every new president cares about the judiciary, but no administration in memory has approached appointments with more purpose than this team.
Mr. Trump makes the decisions, though he’s taking cues from Mr. McGahn and his team. The Bushies preferred a committee approach: Dozens of advisers hunted for the least controversial nominee with the smallest paper trail. That helped get picks past a Senate filibuster, but it led to bland choices, or to ideological surprises like retired Justice David Souter.
Harry Reid’s 2013 decision to blow up the filibuster for judicial nominees has freed the Trump White House from having to worry about a Democratic veto during confirmation. Mr. McGahn’s team (loaded with former Clarence Thomas clerks) has carte blanche to work with outside groups like the Federalist Society to tap the most conservative judges…”
While a Conservative takeover of the federal judiciary would allow us to beat The Left at their own game, the federal judiciary was never intended to present a platform for personal politics; rather the Founders meant it to to establish Constitutional limits on over-aggressive politicians.
And though we’re tempted to thank one of the greatest plagues ever to curse the Republic…
…for his unintentional empowerment of Republicans, when he invoked the nuclear option, Reid was clearly operating under the assumption Hillary would be the next President to profit from his poltroonery. So here’s to you, Harry…
And in the Environmental Moment, courtesy today of Bill Meisen and FOX News, we learn anthropogenic global warming, that constantly morphing genie responsible for anything untoward which happens on our planet, has just claimed thousands of more victims:
“A colony of about 40,000 Adélie penguins in Antarctica suffered a “catastrophic breeding event” after French scientists discovered only two chicks survived at the start of the year — the second time in the past four years the population has been ravaged by starvation, reported The Guardian.
…Recently, Antarctica has had low numbers of summer sea ice, but the area around the colony was an exception. The Mertz glacier tongue cracking off in 2010 also played a significant role in the region, reported The Guardian.
“The Mertz glacier impact on the region sets the scene in 2010 and when unusual meteorological events, driven by large climatic variations, hit in some years this leads to massive failures,” Ropert-Coudert told the Guardian. “In other words, there may still be years when the breeding will be OK, or even good for this colony, but the scene is set for massive impacts to hit on a more or less regular basis.”
Ropert-Coudert added that the increase in sea ice is negatively impacting the species, and noted that “optimum sea-ice cover” is needed to “thrive.”
Climate change as well as fishing and tourism has also had an impact on the Adélie penguins, resulting in decreased populations and the fear of possible extinction according to some researchers, reported The Guardian…”
With all due respect to Monsieur Ropert-Coudert, would not Darwinism dictate a species which cannot thrive absent optimal conditions should be targeted for extinction?!?
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