Bring It Holder! You’re Gonna Get Slimed!

Bill Murray starred in the role of Dr. Peter Venkman, PhD in the 1984 Ghostbusters and 1989 Ghostbusters II movies─the story of four scientists who answered the call to save New York.

In Ghostbusters II, the crew meet up with Vigo the Carpathian, a real nasty repeating phantasm who comes to life in a painting.

Obama’s Attorney General, Eric Holder AKA Vigo, has repeatedly said in recent months he is considering a run for president in 2020.

“In 2020, you could do something to do be a part of the solution of the things you’ve been talking about,” the Washington Post’s Jonathan Capeheart said during a sit-down interview with the former AG. “Why do you feel at least a flicker in the belly to even think about running for president?”

Holder responded, “Well, because I care a great deal about this country. I’ve spent the vast majority of my professional life in public service. I think I’ve got ideas that I hope would resonate with the American people. I think I’ve got the guts to potentially do the things that I think the next president would have to do.”

“This is not a time to be half-stepping; this is a time to deal with a changing America. An America that will be wounded by the experience that we are presently going through. So, it is all of those things. It doesn’t mean that ultimately, I’m going to do it. I’m certainly going to be involved in what happens in 2020. But I care about this country. I care about the way in which people in this nation are treated. I care about the notion of fairness, of equality,” he added.

House Republicans are irresponsibly more concerned with Strzok, Rosenstein and Clinton than they are with Putin/Russian actions. Smoke screen. Trying to delegitimize expected results of Mueller inquiry and protect people in Trump campaign and a very likely complicit President

— Eric Holder (@EricHolder) July 12, 2018

The Trump Presidency will thankfully end, the damage repaired. The United States must then reassume its role as world leader. What we witnessed today was shameful-siding with Putin and not our Intell community/FBI. Then also blaming America. Unbelievable. Collusion in plain sight

— Eric Holder (@EricHolder) July 16, 2018

See this for what it is. An attempt by complicit Republicans led by Meadows and Jordan to delegitimize a probe being conducted by DOJ. These Trump lackeys have to decide what they value: the rule of law or doing everything to protect Trump. Be strong DOJ. https://t.co/gbuTWEUVdt

— Eric Holder (@EricHolder) July 26, 2018

Today, this arrogant sumbitch tweeted:

Return ALL of the separated children. pic.twitter.com/BCy0NJSNdE

— Eric Holder (@EricHolder) July 29, 2018

Good grief, man.  Don’t you realize you quoted the president who signed Executive Order 9066 which authorized the mass forced removal of 110,000 Japanese Americans on the West Coast to inland internment camps?

This was the same president who directed the German oceanliner St. Louis carrying 937 passengers, all of whom were Jews fleeing the Nazi Third Reich, to turn away from the port of Miami and return to Europe to face the Holocaust.

According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “Sailing so close to Florida that they could see the lights of Miami, some passengers on the St. Louis cabled President Franklin D. Roosevelt asking for refuge. Roosevelt never responded. The State Department and the White House had decided not to take extraordinary measures to permit the refugees to enter the United States. A State Department telegram sent to a passenger stated that the passengers must ‘await their turns on the waiting list and qualify for and obtain immigration visas before they may be admissible into the United States.’"

When Holder resigned, Darrell Issa (R-CA) Chairman of the House Oversight Committee at the time, called him “the most divisive U.S. Attorney General in modern history. Time and again, Eric Holder administered justice as the political activist he describes himself as instead of an unbiased law enforcement official.  By needlessly injecting politics into law enforcement, Attorney General Holder’s legacy has eroded more confidence in our legal system than an attorney general before him.”

Holder unilaterally decided to try 9/11 terrorists in New York City, he allowed thousands of weapons to “walk” into the hands of Mexican drug cartels, he failed to enforce the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), he was held in contempt of Congress for withholding Fast and Furious documents, he targeted Fox News reporter James Rosen as a co-conspirator seizing his phone and computer records, he unfairly targeted business owners in Operation Choke Point, he failed to investigate the IRS for targeting conservative and Tea Party groups, he aggressively intervened in the Ferguson debacle before there was any evidence of mishandling by the Ferguson Police Department touching off days and days of rioting.

Particularly galling about Holder’s most recent tweet is the dripping hypocrisy of April 22, 2000 when Immigration and Naturalization Services began to mace, kick, stomp and gun-butt their way into the home of Elian Gonzalez’s legal custodians to wrench a bawling 6-year-old boy from the arms of his family at gunpoint and bundle him off to Fidel Castro’s terror-sponsoring shithole fiefdom leaving 102 people injured, some seriously.

So, if Holder is seriously contemplating a run for President in 2020, he should know straight up he’s gonna get slimed by the Holderbuster; something he richly deserves.

All The News That Fits...Our Agenda

Are you old enough to remember when the news and reporting was impartial? Okay, me neither. But are you old enough to remember when at least you thought the press was impartial? I point you to a story from the venerable AP:

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — About 800 “criminals” avoided immigration arrests because Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf alerted the public to the surprise operation, an extraordinarily high number of missed targets, according to a federal official.

Notice the "scare quotes" around "criminals"? University of Sussex has this to say about that:

Quotation marks used in this way are informally called scare quotes. Scare quotes are quotation marks placed around a word or phrase from which you, the writer, wish to distance yourself because you consider that word or phrase to be odd or inappropriate for some reason.

According to the feds, via the AP, half the people they've arrested in the Bay Area, in addition to immigrations violations, had criminal convictions for "assault, weapons offenses and driving under the influence." In personalizing the story for my local dead tree paper, there was this:

ICE said agents detained at least one Stockton man, from Mexico, who had been convicted for lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14 years old.

Let's recap... the AP puts "scare quotes" around the word criminal, in describing illegal aliens, who are prima facie criminals, but in addition have been, not accused, but convicted of various criminal acts, including assault, weapons offenses, DUI and lewd lascivious acts with a minor, and yet the AP doesn't want to call them criminals without some sort of wiggle room?

The use of scare quotes in describing illegal aliens as criminals is editorializing, which belongs on the editorial page, not the lede of what in the olden days, was envisioned to be impartial reporting. This is what you get when you have students at journalism schools telling you they want to change the world.

You Have Chosen Poorly

Emmanuel Macron, the former banker long known as the Establishment’s candidate in France’s presidential election, may have just torpedoed his chances of defeating his opponent Marine Le Pen.

Despite being supported by The World’s Most Dangerous Community and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Macron stepped in shit when he hailed Le Pen’s Front National Party as the “anti-France” party.

“They’re here. It’s they. It’s they who are our true enemies,” declared Macron.

“Powerful, organized, skillful, determined.  You pass them in the streets, in the countryside or on the web, most often well hidden.  As hateful as they are cowardly. You know them.  The party of the agents of the disaster, the fearmongerers. The French far-right. It’s here”.

Wait. Just. A. Minute.

I hear a voice from the past…

“You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic—you name it.  And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.”  [Hillary, circa September 2016]

Le Pen is narrowing the gap ahead of Sunday’s election.  She has attacked her opponent as soft on terror.  (See the timeline of terror attacks in France here.)

She has the will to take France in hand, restore her borders and give priority back to the people of France.

Élection présidentielle française - les électeurs sauveront-ils une nation agonisant du conflit culturel d'une immigration effrénée? pic.twitter.com/kvT64bxVV7

— PoliticalClownParade (@PoliticalClownP) April 23, 2017