Sunday, December 31, 2017
Saturday, December 30, 2017
CNN’s White Box Truck Blames Trump For Iranian Protests
The three days of protests
that have found their way to Tehran have gone largely unnoticed by press
poodles of the incurious mainstream media. The New York Times simply described
the protests as economic grievances mirroring Iranian state-run television’s description
of the unrest.
CNN ignored the
protests entirely until a firestorm on social media forced a change in their front-page
story reporting on not uprisings against the regime, but a pro-government rally
and President Trump’s tweet in support of the protestors.
Via
The Daily Caller─During
CNN’s coverage of protests in Iran Saturday, a correspondent read a statement
from the Iranian government, adding that many countries are “frustrated” with
the United States and that many think America doesn’t have a “moral leg to
stand on.”
CNN correspondent Arwa
Damon said, “This coming out from the [Iranian] foreign ministry, not only
talking about the fact that they view the government of President Trump as the
greatest bearer of ill will towards Iran but going on to say that, ‘The people of
Iran give no value or credibility to such opportunistic expressions by the
Government or the person, Mr. Trump. American officials, through their conduct
have not earned a place from which they can express masked sentiments as
sympathies, for the aware[ness] of the people of Iran.'”
Damon then added her
own thoughts, saying, “Now this, not just necessarily a rebuke of what the U.S.
president tweeted, but also perhaps a reflection of just how frustrated, not
just Iran but other countries frankly are, with the United States.”
She continued, “A lot
of nations and their populations, no matter how they feel about their
governments in particular, do perceive the United States as not really having a
moral leg to stand on.”
Just look at what Iran Deal did to Dems. They've become so invested in Iran regime's survival - because regime is guarantor of the deal - can't even offer full-throated support to protesters demanding freedom and facing down govt thugs. Make up excuses about not getting involved.— Omri Ceren (@omriceren) December 30, 2017
Omri Ceren,
whose tweet I embedded above, is a communications strategist. He is a managing
director at The Israel Project─a
DC-based organization working with journalists on Middle East issues─as well as
a fellow of the Claremont Institute and a PhD candidate at the University of Southern
California's Annenberg School. Ceren has been involved in the politics, policy
and press of international affairs for almost two decades and has been
described by the Associated Press as
"well-known in Washington" for his expertise on the Iran nuclear
deal.
A clue as to why CNN
had to be shamed into covering this pivotal story resides in what this loon cat lady tweeted:
It's foreign news. It's not a big conspiracy to hide the news from Iran because it doesn't fit the narrative. The US public does not care about foreign news, period. It doesn't sell.— Claire Berlinski (@ClaireBerlinski) December 30, 2017
Oh honey, has no one
ever told you cat hair is glitter for lonely people?
UPDATE: Welcome Pirate’s
Cove readers. The Admiral was
kind enough to link to this post and we thank him.
CNN: Covering Up For Ben Rhodes Is Exhausting
This screencap shows how CNN initially reported the protests in Iran and later was forced to change it. |
Throughout the day on
Friday, reports from a host of sources were reporting on protests that were
taking place in Iran.
At 6:31 AM this morning, someone I
follow on Twitter noted, “Here’s how it’s being covered.”
Here’s how it’s being covered. pic.twitter.com/h6c2AT2PLq— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) December 30, 2017
Sohrab Ahmari, Senior
Writer at Commentary
Magazine, had been following the protests from the moment they broke out.
Tens of thousands of Iranians took to the streets to register their anger, not at Trump or the House of Saud, but at the mullahs and their security apparatus. https://t.co/oVIq2fQozs— Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) December 30, 2017
This week, tens of
thousands of Iranians took to the streets to register their anger, not at Donald Trump [emphasis mine] or
the House of Saud, but at the mullahs and their security apparatus. It was
economic grievances that initially ignited the protests in the northeastern
city of Mashhad. But soon the uprising grew and spread to at least 18 cities
nationwide. And the slogans shifted from joblessness and corruption to
opposition to the Islamic Republic in toto. These included:
The outcome of the
protests is hard to predict. So far, the movement is leaderless and appears to
lack serious organization. The protesters face a regime that spends much of its
energy and resources on ensuring its own survival and won’t hesitate to crack
down viciously, as it did in 1999 and 2009. But whatever comes next, Iranians
have already shattered one liberal myth: namely, that Donald Trump has revived
the regime’s popularity at home.
#Update43- The moment when security forces tried to arrest a young man. They couldn’t arrest him because of public pressure. #BreakingNews: Numbers in #Tehran growing chanting Saed Ali(Khamenei) be ashamed, step down and leave the country. pic.twitter.com/phChaq5nMw— Raman Ghavami (@Raman_Ghavami) December 30, 2017
.@cnni did not tweet about #Iranprotests once today. Here’s what they tweeted out instead pic.twitter.com/pswE49GWTa— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) December 30, 2017
Who cares about a bunch
of Iranians?
The last widespread and
sustained protests in Iran occurred in 2009, after fraudulent elections. At the time, President Obama and Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton shamefully sat on their hands, saying and doing nothing
to support the protesters. They later justified their silence by claiming that
protesters wouldn’t want U.S. support, which would enable the Iranian regime to
paint the protests as a foreign plot.
Tens of
thousands of Iranians defied a ban to take to the streets to protest the
declaring of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the winner of the election over
the more moderate Mir Hosein Mousavi.
Neda Agha-Soltan was an
unlikely viral icon. On June 20, 2009, the 26-year-old stepped out of her
car on a Tehran street near where Iranians were massing in protest of what was
seen as the farcical re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The Islamic
Republic was experiencing its worst unrest since the 1979 revolution.
The state made it
illegal to join the demonstrations and barred most foreign media, which meant
the burden of bearing witness to the tyranny of the mullahs was largely left to
the citizens who waded in, cell phones in hand.
It was around 6:30 p.m.
when Agha-Soltan was struck in
the chest by a single bullet, said to originate from a pro-government
sniper, though no one was ever charged. Men struggled to save her as others
focused their cameras on the unfolding tragedy. One frame from the footage
freezes her final gaze as streaks of deep red formed a web on her face. The
image, among the earliest and easily the most significant to ever go viral,
commanded the world’s attention. Within hours, footage uploaded anonymously to
YouTube had been viewed by the President of the United States—proof that our
new digital age could not only connect people; it could pry open even the
staunchest of regimes.
A few
weeks ago, Iran’s foreign minister and the Ben Rhodes echo chamber began
pushing the line that Trump’s threats to walk away from the nuke deal had
united the people behind their regime.
The Iran Nuclear Deal
and Obama Administration foreign policies in general dropped a chaos bomb on
the Sunni powers, wrecking many of Israel's enemies. Now his nuclear deal
appears to have thrown the apple of discord into Iran. These actions may be
unintentional. But deliberate or accidental, they are consequential.
.@POTUS says "world is watching," but where is Europe? #Iranprotests in 3rd day, spread to Tehran, regime starts cracking down, but utter silence so far from #EU. What can possibly explain this hesitation to back peaceful Iranians who want to throw off this theocracy? https://t.co/q3gTN779S9— Daniel Schwammenthal (@DSchwammenthal) December 30, 2017
Friday, December 29, 2017
Fox Does A Disservice To Its Viewers
Brian Stelter, CNN’s
host of Reliable Sources, decided he would dispute the findings in the
Rasmussen Daily
Presidential Tracking Poll.
The poll shows that 45%
of likely U.S. voters approve of President Trump’s job performance; 53%
disapprove. According to the poll for
December 29, 2017 the President has virtually the same job approval ratings
that The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer earned at the end of his
first year as president. On that date,
46% of voters approved and 53% disapproved.
When
President Trump tweeted
about the polling this morning he noted, “While the Fake News loves to talk
about my so-called low approval rating, @foxandfriends just showed that my
rating on Dec. 28, 2017 was approximately the same as President Obama on Dec.
28, 2009 which was 47%...and this despite massive negative Trump coverage &
Russia hoax!”
Lumpy “The
Hairless Hall Monitor” Stelter fired back at Trump directly with:
This is a prime example of how “Fox & Friends” does a disservice to viewers: https://t.co/ErJBOTAHbo— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) December 29, 2017
For context the
President’s tweet came at 7:46 AM.
Stelter responded to the President’s tweet at 8:25 AM. Then Jennifer Agiesta, CNN’s Polling
Director, hastily published a response online at 11:27 AM.
“President
Donald Trump claimed Friday that his approval ratings at this point in his
presidency rival those of Barack Obama, citing a report from ‘Fox &
Friends.’ But the truth, across almost
every reputable poll, is that Trump's approval ratings have lagged behind those
of nearly all of his predecessors, including Obama, since day one of his
presidency.”
Agiesta
assailed Rasmussen’s methodology arguing, “They claim to interview likely
voters, without specifying in what election those people are likely to cast
ballots, nor how they are identified. Polls conducted this way do not meet
CNN's standards for reporting, because they can under-represent certain
segments of the population.”
She continues, “Rasmussen's
polling received a C+ rating in FiveThirtyEight's most recent pollster
rankings, and it has been found to lean toward the GOP when compared with other
pollsters, which means it typically understated support for Obama and has a
tendency to overstate support for Trump when compared with other polls.”
On June 16, 2015, Nate
Silver of FiveThirtyEight infamy said,
“Trump has a better chance of caneoing in another “Home Alone” movie with
Macaulay Culkin—or playing in the NBA Finals—than winning the Republican
nomination.”
On August 11, 2015
Silver said, “Our emphatic prediction is simply that Trump will not win the
nomination. It’s not even clear that he’s trying to do so.”
Then came this pip on
November 23, 2015. “So, could Trump win?
Nobody remotely like Trump has won a major-party nomination in the
modern era. For my money, that adds up
to Trump’s chances being higher than 0 but (considerably) less than 20 percent.
Your mileage may vary.”
Hillary Clinton has an
81% chance of winning the election to Donald Trump’s 19%, polling
analyst Nate Silver said on July 29, 2016 in his first model of the 2016
presidential election. Silver got it
wrong. His methodology is as rigorous as
that of a strip mall physician in The Simpsons.
Perhaps Stelter and the
crew at the Most Busted Name In News should stick to hourly
box truck updates and how
many Diet Cokes® the President consumes.
Thursday, December 28, 2017
CNN Has Yet Another Meltdown
ABC reported,
“Bitter cold temperatures are sweeping through the Midwest and Northeast as New
York City braces for its coldest New Year's Eve since the 1960s.”
CNN
declared, “Forget the tux and the little black dress for New Year's Eve. This
year you may want to bust out your parka and a hat with earflaps.”
AccuWeather insisted, “While a powerful nor'easter is not anticipated, a storm
will bring enough snow to make roads slippery and coat the landscape in parts
of the Northeast with fresh snow before New Year's Eve. A storm from Montana producing feet of snow will race
eastward in the frigid air now entrenched in the northeastern United States.”
I’m not really trying
to replace your local meteorological man/woman/sisgender/inter-sexed person. These gender-pronouned beings are the professionals and President Trump has sent them into a tizzy.
In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year’s Eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against. Bundle up!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 29, 2017
Every time the
President says “squirrel” every news outlet with thin-skinned Trumpaphobic
reporters scurries up the nearest tree in hot pursuit. They have a zero sense of humor.
Climate change is about the long-term changing of our climate -- and increasing unpredictability in it. Not about a cold spell. https://t.co/mbqtOpp0xS— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) December 29, 2017
A reminder that President Trump’s tweets are to be treated as official White House statements... so the official White House position is that global warming could be a good thing. https://t.co/HPkt8kQmXY— Dan Merica (@danmericaCNN) December 29, 2017
When the alien archaeologists study the ruins of human civilization, this will take a prominent place in their notebooks https://t.co/6eutLWiVcn— David Frum (@davidfrum) December 29, 2017
UPDATE: I noticed Ace over at Ace of Spades HQ opined, “CNN
is immune to the freezing cold because only their hate keeps them warm. Well, just two things: their hate, their permanent, quivering
outrage. Just three things then: their hate, their permanent, quivering
outrage and their pink pussy hats. Okay,
just four things keep them warm: their hate,
their permanent, quivering outrage, their pink pussy hates and rousing
recitations of poetry by #SassyJimAcosta.
Someone who goes by the handle
“JackStraw” commented, “On a happy note, Anderson Cooper will be freezing his
nut sack off on New Year’s Eve doing a show nobody will watch.”
CNN Reports: There’s A Big, Scary, Mysterious White Truck Over There
CNN
suddenly finds it imperative for them to document every stroke President Trump
takes on the golf course as part of a functioning democracy.
A
mysterious truck blocked CNN's view of President Trump's golf course in West
Palm Beach, FL one day after the network peddled "exclusive" footage
of the President hitting the links.
The owner of the truck
or the motive, if there is any, for why it parked where it did, has yet to be
revealed.
Dan Merica, political
producer for the Crybaby News Network said on-air, “Today, a big white box
truck parked in front trying to obscure our shot of President Trump golfing.
Now it may seem trivial, but it is important to give video as the President
does these things on a daily basis. And goes to something that is larger, the
President and the White House have tried to obscure the fact that President
Trump golfs on a regular basis.”
The notion “the White
House has tried to obscure the fact that President Trump golf on a regular
basis" was fried, dyed and laid to the side by this statement from
the Secret Service: "The USSS is in the
business of protection and investigations not in commissioning vehicles to
block the media's view of the President's golf swing."
If this
story seems like much ado about nothing, you’d be right. Then along came Mollie Hemingway, Senior
Editor at The Federalist, with a tweet
that won the Internet:
BOOM!Have we considered whether a truck is somehow blocking the Obama/Hezbollah story? https://t.co/L9KuiJIuYI— Mollie (@MZHemingway) December 28, 2017
Luke, You’re Certainly Nothing Like Your Father
NBC hired Luke Russert
just a month after his father Tim’s fatal heart attack in 2008 to cover youth
issues as part of the network’s 2008 presidential election coverage. He knew critics had accused him of riding his
father’s coattails on a wave of sympathy.
Luke made headlines in
2010 when he aggressively questioned Charlie Rangel (D-NY) when an ethics
report uncovered fiscal indiscretions and illegal donation solicitations. Rangel
later apologized to little Luke.
Just five days before
the 2016 Republican National Convention was to start, Luke Russert, the young
congressional correspondent for NBC announced he was leaving the network to “think
about his future”. Two days later, he was gone.
He suggested in a statement
that the combination of his father’s sudden death and the opportunity of a plum
job may have been “too much, too fast.”
Over the following
year-and-a-half, Russert has remained fairly quiet. His official
website has remained unchanged. His
Twitter account reflects his interest in sports and his work as a member of the
Buffalo Fan Alliance Board. He has not
forgotten about politics.
Little Luke should
stick to whatever he’s doing these days and stick to subjects that are in his
wheelhouse. As an example, today he
tweeted:
Reading about this bogus Roy Moore challenge, my biggest fear is that in 2020 a losing Trump actively attacks & delegitimizes the peaceful transfer of power, the most positive and fragile enduring aspect of our democracy.— Luke Russert (@LukeRussert) December 28, 2017
Like
screaming for an entire year that the Russians stole the election?
Your dad must be doing a massive #FacePalm from the great beyond right now.— Christy Waters (@ThatChristyChic) December 28, 2017
Wednesday, December 27, 2017
President Jeffry Lane Flake? Don’t Make Me Laugh.
Get a load of this drivel from Niall Stanage White House
Correspondent for The
Hill:
Will President Trump face a challenge from within his own
party in 2020?
Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake (R) seems to think so. On
Sunday, Flake told ABC’s “This Week” that if the president did not change his
approach, he “is going to leave a huge swath of voters looking for someone
else.”
Flake, a frequent Trump critic, added that the president is
“probably inviting a Republican challenge.”
Any challenger to Trump would face enormous hurdles.
The president remains popular among Republican voters, even
as he endures historically low approval numbers at large. In most polls, around
80 percent of GOP voters give Trump the thumbs-up.
Still, Trump would become much more vulnerable if
Republicans suffered major losses in the midterm elections set for November
2018.
And it’s easy to see why some of his most strident GOP
critics might think it’s worthwhile to run against him, even if victory is a
long-odds bet.
But who is most likely to do it?
Stanage thinks Ted
Cruz, John Kasich, Ben Sasse, Jeff Flake and Susana Martinez might entertain
such a challenge.
I like Sasse and New
Mexico Governor Martinez, but Trump mopped the floor with Cruz and the mailman’s
son. Flake is a miserable RINO. Not a chance in hell of leaving the ring
without a broken and bloodied nose.
Riddle me this: Why
is Stanage pushing this bilge?
Out Of Scientific Ideas, Hawking Desperate For Attention
Seems every year there’s
a host of folks who like seeing into the future, or at least the future of the
coming year. Newsweek
posted an article the day after Christmas highlighting the predictions of
Stephen Hawking. Hawking has done
groundbreaking work in physics and cosmology.
In
September 2010, Hawking spoke against the idea that God could have created the
universe in his book The Grand
Design. Hawking previously
argued that belief in a Creator could be compatible with modern scientific
theories. His new work, however, concluded that the Big Bang was the inevitable
consequence of the laws of physics and nothing more. "Because there is a
law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous
creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe
exists, why we exist."
If you’re hopeful 2018
will be better than 2017 Hawking has come to piss on your parade. In May he predicted humans have 100 years
left on Earth. Climate change, overdue
asteroid strikes, epidemics and population growth, he says, are to blame for the
doomsday clock.
To avoid extinction,
Hawking insists humans must become a multi-planetary species.
In July he told the BBC
that humanity is at a tipping point where global warming will convert Earth
into a Venus-like planet with temperatures of 250ยบ Celsius and sulfuric
rain. Just last month the wheelchair-bound
egghead declared, "By the year 2600, the world’s population would be
standing shoulder to shoulder, and the electricity consumption would make the
Earth glow red-hot.” He’s also
frightened of robots apparently. “If people design computer viruses, someone
will design AI that improves and replicates itself,” Hawking told Wired.
If you ask me, Hawking
is impatient for a kind of disaster which hasn't happened yet. He has absolutely no idea how the universe
was created. He can't. He wasn't there.
His claim God did not
create the universe is galling. There’s
no sign he’s been punished for his irreligion.
Nope, no sign at all.
I have decided to learn how to swim. It is not going well.— Lego Stephen Hawking (@legohawking) September 30, 2013
I am Lego Stephen Hawking. I am drowning. pic.twitter.com/IQ2Vz2RoRP
2018 Midterms: The Senate’s Most Vulnerable Democrat
Republicans are seeking
to unseat an incumbent Democrat in a state Donald Trump won by 19 points.
Joe Donnelly opposed
confirmation of Trump Cabinet nominees Betsy DeVos (Education Secretary), Tom
Price (Health & Human Services Secretary), Rex Tillerson (Secretary of
State), Jeff Sessions (Attorney General) and Steve Mnuchin (Treasury Secretary)
and Scott Pruitt (EPA Administrator).
The week before
Christmas Donnelly voted against the GOP tax reform bill calling it a “partisan
tax hike on Indiana’s middle class” that “does nothing to prevent outsourcing
of U.S. jobs to foreign countries, and it’s a giveaway to Wall Street and other
big money interests.”
The Tax Cuts and Jobs
Act significantly lowers the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%, doubles the
standard deduction and doubles the per child tax credit. When Donnelly cast his “No” vote he put his
Party before the people of the Hoosier State.
Data-driven analyses
from three separate nonpartisan organizations: The Joint Committee on Taxation
(JCT), which is an official Congressional scorekeeper, the Tax Foundation (which leans to the
right), and the Tax Policy Center or TPC, (which leans
to the left) all agreed the GOP proposal would, on average, reduce the tax
burdens of every income group in
America.
In September when
President Trump flew to the Indiana State Fairgrounds to rollout his tax reform
bill he had Donnelly onboard Air Force One.
President Trump promised in front of the audience that unless Joe voted
for tax reform, “We will come here, we will campaign against him like you
wouldn’t believe.”
In October 2017, the
nonpartisan Center for Effective
Lawmaking,
run by the University of Virginia and Vanderbilt, tagged Donnelly as the least
effective Democrat in the U.S. Senate. Based on 15 different measures, from
number of bills sponsored to number of bills becoming law, the center found
that Donnelly was ineffectual at getting his bills through committee, let alone to
floor votes.
Instead of acknowledging
Obamacare has never worked, that Americans were lied to by Pelosi, Schumer, Sanders
and The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer about costs and options and
results, Senator Donnelly continues to insist Obamacare can be
"fixed."
Donnelly earned the
nickname “Mexico Joe” when a business linked to his family, Stewart Superior Corporation,
profited from outsourcing jobs to Mexico.
According to a May 2017 financial disclosure form, he owned $50,000 in
stocks which he sold shortly after The Associated Press
published the story.
Primary elections in Indiana will be held on May 8, 2018 to determine which Democratic
candidate and which Republican candidate will advance to the November 6 general election. Before the May primary however, the Indiana
Republican Party will host their first election year appearance of GOP senate
candidates and conduct a grassroots Straw Poll on January 13, 2018 at the
Congress of Counties in downtown Indianapolis.
“Our U.S. Senate straw
poll will provide political watchers with the first grassroots barometer to
measure early support in this high-profile, statewide race that has national
implications. While our Republican candidates are supporting solutions to our
nation’s biggest challenges, such as taxes and health care, Democrat Joe
Donnelly stands as a roadblock alongside Chuck Schumer and his Democrat party
bosses. I am confident that our eventual Republican Party nominee will defeat
Democrat Donnelly next November─and events like this will help Hoosiers
determine who that candidate will be,” said Chairman Kyle Hupfer.
Confirmed candidates
for this special joint appearance are former State Rep. Mike Braun (R-Jasper),
Mark Hurt (R-Kokomo), Congressman Luke Messer (R-Greensburg) and Andrew Takami
(R-New Albany). Congressman Todd Rokita (R-Brownsburg) is also invited to
attend and participate.
Register to participate
in the straw poll and attend Congress of Counties here: http://www.indiana.gop/congressofcounties
If you're going to fight, fight like you're the third monkey on the ramp to Noah's Ark.— Schadenfreudelish (@aggierican) November 28, 2016
And brother, it's starting to rain.
Tuesday, December 26, 2017
Buckle Up America: The 2018 Midterm Elections Opening Round
Buckle up for a vicious,
multibillion-dollar fight for control of the Senate in 2018. Up for re-election are 33 senators; 23
Democrats, 2 independents who caucus with Democrats and 8 Republicans.
Only two GOP senators (Flake of Arizona and Heller of Nevada)
are considered truly vulnerable while 10 Senate Democrats up for re-election
in states that Trump won in 2016 can be unseated if we organize to replace them
with a candidate who will work for us─We The People.
Election history has shown the party that controls the White
House almost always loses seats in Congress during midterm elections. It’s
up to us to rewrite that history.
Democrats will need to
pick up three seats to retake control of the Senate. Republicans will need a net gain of eight seats to hit the coveted 60-vote threshold to
break a filibuster. Political experts
are cocksure such an outcome is far-fetched.
I believe we can force those experts to eat their words like when Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight gave Hillary a 79% chance of winning the
2016 presidential election compared to Donald Trump’s 20%.
The Toss-Up races are
Flake (R-AZ), Donnelly (D-IN), McCaskill (D-MO), Heitkamp (D-ND), Heller (R-NV)
and Manchin (D-WV).
The Tilt Democrat
races are Nelson (D-FL), Tester (D-MT) and Baldwin (D-WI). The Lean
Democrat races are Brown (D-OH) and Casey (D-PA). The Likely
Democrat races are Smith who was appointed to replace disgraced Al Franken
(D-MN) and Kaine who was Hillary’s running mate (D-VA).
DEMFAX will be an ongoing feature here at Political Clown Parade
in an effort to keep everyone informed in the run-up to the primaries and the general election.
Republicans have been apathetic for far too long. Perhaps with the passage of the tax reform bill
they’ve finally learned how to fight. The
long knives will be out in 2018. Need
proof?
A feminista touted as a legal analyst and CNN commentator noted
on December 22, 2016:
While the year saw the rise of Trump, this is not the
beginning of his term, it is the end. As painful as it has been to watch him
and his supporters rally, theirs is merely a last gasp of a dying world view.
That's what 2017 represents for me: a last gasp by Trump
and the bigoted, sexist, nationalist and greedy forces that propelled him to
power.
[snip]
2017 is the last gasp. Trump's world will
come to an end. In fact, just remove Trump and much of this madness disappears.
And he will be removed. He'll cross too many lines. Hell, he might even be
removed from office. There will be another president. The damage will get reversed─and
Americans, proud of who we really are, will be the ones left standing.
[snip]
The best thing for us to do, as he seems to
lose his grip on reality, is to hold tight to ours. Continue to show up to the
polls, ask questions, demand answers, speak up and step up, run for office.
All the
Democrats have is their deep-seated hatred.
They will say “if you hate Donald Trump vote for me.” They have nothing to offer. Nothing.
As I
mentioned above, this will be an ongoing effort here on this blog. We must mobilize and fight back.
The primaries critical to gaining the 60-vote
threshold in the Senate are: Indiana,
Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Montana, North Dakota, Virginia, Missouri, Wisconsin
and Florida.
Flowing Curves Of Beauty After Christmas Edition
Can't understand why women love cats? Cats
are independent. They don't listen. They don't come in when you call. They like
to stay out all night and when they're home they like to be left alone and
sleep. In other words, every quality that women hate in a man, they love in a
cat.
Monday, December 25, 2017
Sunday, December 24, 2017
Saturday, December 23, 2017
Friday, December 22, 2017
It’s A Monster!
As the death grip the
Democrat Party has held on America begins to fade into nothingness, House
Minority Leader Nancy Palsi, er, Pelosi denounced the GOP tax reform bill in hair-on-fire
theatrics comparing it to Armageddon in early December.
When the bill was
passed on Wednesday, she escalated her bombast by insisting the bill would hurt
children like Tiny Tim in the Charles Dickens Christmas classic A Christmas Carol.
As the sun rose in the
eastern sky the following day, the disoriented shrew doubled down on her
scaremongering fearing the image she had cast of little Timmy was too benign. Yes. Yes, Nancy. Whip out the scary things that go bump in the
night.
"It's
a monster–a Frankenstein–and anybody who's familiar with Frankenstein knows it
was a creation, a monster that was created. Do you know the ending of Mary
Shelley's story? The monster comes back to destroy," she added.
It is clear to this
writer that Nancy doesn’t like to read.
Not even Cliffs Notes. Not even
the Affordable Care Act. Remember the
infamous line, “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.”
Dr. Victor Frankenstein
was the mad doctor who created a grotesque creature not unlike Nancy. She screwed up the climactic end. Poor thing.
Thursday, December 21, 2017
Our Cartoon Democrats
Showtime will premiere “Our
Cartoon President” after President Trump’s first State of the Union address. The new 10-episode animated parody is the
brainchild of late-night host Stephen Colbert and his Late Show producer.
CBS Television Studios,
the producer of the series, claims the show will “examine the quintessentially
Trumpian details of the presidency and his most important relationships, and no
one is safe─from his close family and confidants to key political figures from
both parties and members of the media.”
The smarmy Colbert is
counting on ruffling the feathers of folks on the right. That’s fine.
We’ve had our own animated TV series for years about Trump and the
cartoon Democrats─it’s called The
Roadrunner. BEEP! BEEP!
Will Rosie O’Donnell Finally Fulfill Her Promise To Move To Canada To Avoid A Federal Bribery Conviction?
Rosie O’Donnell lives
in a unique world, a private world different from the one inhabited and
experienced by the rest of humanity. Her
life is submersed in despair and teenaged angst.
On Wednesday as the
Senate took up the vote on the tax reform bill approved by the House the day
before, the has-been hag and unfunny comedienne took to Twitter to offer what
many categorized as a bribe to senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Jeff Flake
(R-AZ) to change their vote.
so how about this— ROSIE (@Rosie) December 20, 2017
i promise to give
2 million dollars to senator susan collins
and 2 million to senator jeff flake
if they vote NO
NO I WILL NOT KILL AMERICANS
FOR THE SUOER RICH
DM me susan
DM me jeff
no shit
2 million
cash
each
Dozens of
celebrities, including O’Donnell, vowed to flee America when Donald Trump won
the 2016 Presidential Election. It’s a
hackneyed line─an easy threat to make in a divisive political climate. We’re still waiting for them to make good on
their promise.
Michelle Fabio at Forbes
provides some clarity on bribing a member of Congress:
Under 18 U.S.
Code § 201, bribing a member of Congress is, indeed, a crime. The
statute prohibits anyone from "corruptly" offering "anything of
value to any public official" with the intent to influence the official or
an official act.
The word
"corruptly" is key, because in this context it means the accused
must have the "intent to influence" a public official. In a
hypothetical bribery case against O'Donnell over her tweets, the prosecution
would have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that O'Donnell acted
"corruptly," with "intent to influence" the senators.
This would be a tough
standard to meet, especially because of O'Donnell's status as a comedian and
frequent—and quite vocal—political commentator. She could and would likely
assert that her tweets were not seriously publicly offering money to senators
but were intended to be hyperbole, political commentary and/or performance art
illustrating that "there
is a price," in reference to her claims that "THEY
BRIBED [Tennessee Senator Bob] CORKER AND COLLINS" and that "they
have been paid obviously."
In other words,
O'Donnell could argue she didn't tweet "corruptly" but rather tweeted
to point out what she perceived to be corruption involved with GOP tax
bill votes.
O'Donnell is well
known for tweeting controversial, arguably hyperbolic statements in the
current political atmosphere, including declaring President Donald Trump
"MENTALLY UNSTABLE," "MENTALLY
ILL" and "A
CRIMINAL," which would further make convincing a jury that O'Donnell
actually had the intent to influence senators through cash offers via tweets
extremely difficult.
And then there are the
optics. Despite direct pleas to Attorney General Jeff Sessions to
intervene, the concept of "felony by tweet" probably isn't a fight
this administration would be interested in pursuing—at least not in a courtroom.
The public forum of
Twitter, however, is always open.
First they ignore you,— ROSIE (@Rosie) December 20, 2017
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
There is no evidence that Gandhi is the author of that quote. ๐ค— DL ✝️๐บ๐ธ๐ฝ๐พ๐ถ๐ ๐๐ (@Debsie53) December 20, 2017
Or, in your case:— TokenKafir (@TokenKafir) December 20, 2017
First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they ignore you,
then they pity you,
then they forget you.
UPDATE: Welcome readers of The
Briefing Room. We thank Pookie
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