The Cognitive Dissonance of the left

[DougMacG]

It's funny how quickly the Roseanne deal is old news.  I had one more observation I didn't see mentioned anywhere else.

She tweeted a bad joke about Valerie Jarrett who is not obviously black and not Muslim being the result if ‘Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby’.

The world and the Left went nuts over "racism".  The Left thinks black people look too much like apes to get anywhere near that comparison? 

Apes don't have race, but fine.  Apes are humanity's closest living relatives. In fact, people are apes. 
https://www.livescience.com/51017-ape-facts.html

My problem is this:

Isn't comparison to Terror Group Muslim Brotherhood far more offensive than anything to do with God's natural creatures living in limited habitat of a planet dominated by humans?

The Obama administration, perhaps led by Valerie Jarrett, behind the scenes, were partners in crime with the Muslim Brotherhood:

http://www1.cbn.com/ibrahim-64

MB is a Terror Group:  S.68 - Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2017
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/68/text?format=txt

Every Brotherhood chapter wants their local governments to implement Islamic law
(Anti-constitutional in America, anti-gay, etc.)
The Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood, represented by Hamas, routinely uses terror tactics against Israel, which is why it is designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. Department of State. The Egyptian Brotherhood conducted terror attacks against the Egyptian government in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/markaz/2017/01/30/should-the-muslim-brotherhood-be-designated-a-terrorist-organization/

The intent of the Brotherhood is stated within its Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Brotherhood in North America; “The process of settlement is a Civilization-Jihad process…The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers…”
https://www.cruz.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=2953

But to VJ, the media and the Left, the problem with the nonsensical tweet never went past the peace-seeking primates.  The jihad supporting terror group is their ally in the fight to tear down western civilization as we once knew it.

[G M]

The left is just fine with the MB and the destruction of western civilization. It’s a shared interest.

[Crafty_Dog]

I take a harder line on the Roseanne tweet. 

Blacks achieve less than whites by certain criteria. 

Why?

Possible answers include:

a) Racism, bigotry, etc;

b) the are dumber-- are halfway between gorillas and humans, just look at the physical similarities!

Roseanne's tweet calls to the latter. 

As such it is nasty.

It is not the first time she has gone down this road, a prior tweet referenced AG Lynch's "monkey balls" or something like that.

Opprobrium was and is appropriate.

[DougMacG]

quote author=Crafty_Dog
I take a harder line on the Roseanne tweet...
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Agreed on all with the ape part, fair enough.  Just saying the silence on the second part was telling.  Wasn't the tweet offensive on both counts?

FWIW, my name translated means something like 'son of a [lesser ape]'.  I offer some self deprecating humor when called out on it, most intelligent of the primates etc.  I don't report them for a hate speech crime - but I'm not black. Or white.  One sister calls me a knuckle dragging neanderthal, but that is another matter...

In the case of VJ, her intelligence is not suspect - to anyone. 
[Nor are her looks.  She is a fine looking and articulate 61 year old woman.]
Education   Stanford University (BA)
University of Michigan (JD)

The right to fire is what went right in this whole, bizarre ordeal.  If the employer wants her out and this is plenty of cause, out she goes.

[Crafty_Dog]

VJ's intelligence may not be in doubt, but her American loyalty may be.  Refresh my memory someone about her parents and how she came to be born in Iran?

Regarding Roseanne's firing, somehow her racism got pinned on Trump even though she ran for the Green Party for President (do I have this right?) and supported Occupy Wall Street.

[DougMacG]

"Regarding Roseanne's firing, somehow her racism got pinned on Trump even though she ran for the Green Party for President (do I have this right?) and supported Occupy Wall Street."

Right!

"...her American loyalty may be [in doubt].  Refresh my memory someone about her parents and how she came to be born in Iran?"

My understanding is that her parents were in Iran temporarily as teachers for at least ostensibly good reasons, neither of them Muslim and Iran was a US ally at the time, pre 1979.  In other information below it seems that nearly all her male relatives at least were allegedly radicalized communists.  The response to that: unfair to hold against her what others do or believe.

Essentially she was Barack Obama's brain or else his ideological clone if they are equals.  Her loyalty would be exactly the same as whatever one thinks of Obama's, apologize for America, hold others' interests above ours and wants the US to be fundamentally changed from the inside out.  It's wrong that we have the biggest military, and most wealth here is wrong.  The first two hundred years or so we were a force of evil.  Tony Rezko is mentioned but think of her as tied to all the radical connections from his past and still his closest adviser.

https://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2015/06/communism-in-jarretts-family/
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) files obtained by Judicial Watch reveal that the dad, maternal grandpa and father-in-law of President Obama’s trusted senior advisor, Valerie Jarrett, were hardcore Communists under investigation by the U.S. government.

Jarrett’s dad, pathologist and geneticist Dr. James Bowman, had extensive ties to Communist associations and individuals, his lengthy FBI file shows. In 1950 Bowman was in communication with a paid Soviet agent named Alfred Stern, who fled to Prague after getting charged with espionage. Bowman was also a member of a Communist-sympathizing group called the Association of Internes and Medical Students. After his discharge from the Army Medical Corps in 1955, Bowman moved to Iran to work, the FBI records show.

According to Bowman’s government file the Association of Internes and Medical Students is an organization that “has long been a faithful follower of the Communist Party line” and engages in un-American activities. Bowman was born in Washington D.C. and had deep ties to Chicago, where he often collaborated with fellow Communists. JW also obtained documents on Bowman from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) showing that the FBI was brought into investigate him for his membership in a group that “follows the communist party line.” The Jarrett family Communist ties also include a business partnership between Jarrett’s maternal grandpa, Robert Rochon Taylor, and Stern, the Soviet agent associated with her dad.

Jarrett’s father-in-law, Vernon Jarrett, was also another big-time Chicago Communist, according to separate FBI files obtained by JW as part of a probe into the Jarrett family’s Communist ties. For a period of time Vernon Jarrett appeared on the FBI’s Security Index and was considered a potential Communist saboteur who was to be arrested in the event of a conflict with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). His FBI file reveals that he was assigned to write propaganda for a Communist Party front group in Chicago that would “disseminate the Communist Party line among…the middle class.”

It’s been well documented that Valerie Jarrett, a Chicago lawyer and longtime Obama confidant, is a liberal extremist who wields tremendous power in the White House. Faithful to her roots, she still has connections to many Communist and extremist groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood. Jarrett and her family also had strong ties to Frank Marshal Davis, a big Obama mentor and Communist Party member with an extensive FBI file.

JW has exposed Valerie Jarrett’s many transgressions over the years, including her role in covering up a scandalous gun-running operation carried out by the Department of Justice (DOJ). Last fall JW obtained public records that show Jarrett was a key player in the effort to cover up that Attorney General Eric Holder lied to Congress about the Fast and Furious, a disastrous experiment in which the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives (ATF) allowed guns from the U.S. to be smuggled into Mexico so they could eventually be traced to drug cartels. Instead, federal law enforcement officers lost track of hundreds of weapons which have been used in an unknown number of crimes, including the murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Arizona.

In 2008 JW got documents linking Valerie Jarrett, who also served as co-chairman of Obama’s presidential transition team, to a series of real estate scandals, including several housing projects operated by convicted felon and Obama fundraiser/friend Antoin “Tony” Rezko. According to the documents obtained from the Illinois Secretary of State, Valerie Jarrett served as a board member for several organizations that provided funding and support for Chicago slum projects operated by Rezko.

[Crafty_Dog]

That is the intel on her parents that I was thinking of.  Thank you.

[G M]

https://quillette.com/2018/06/04/prison-house-political-language/

The Prison-House of Political Language

Read it all.

[DougMacG]

https://quillette.com/2018/06/04/prison-house-political-language/

The Prison-House of Political Language

Read it all.

What a great documentation of what I have been calling Leftists stealing our language.  He admits his own great list is but a teaser:
"This table might go on for pages, but just the few terms I’ve included do enough to demonstrate the subtle reframing of everyday terms to obscure radical ends"

There are SO many more:

Affordable means anything unaffordable, needing subsidy.
Clean energy means requires subsidy.
Universal access means requires subsidy.
Scandal projection, anything they say we are doing, they are doing.
Unemployment, not a measure of people not working.
Poverty, not a measure of the income of low income people.
Fairness, anything not fair.
Net neutrality means take the greatest private innovation ever and make it a government utility.
Choice = kill.
Consensus means can't be argued on the evidence.
Keep your doctor means lose your doctor, keep your plan meant lose your plan AND EVERYBODY KNEW IT.
Market will never recover means hang on to your seat, we're heading to new heights.
The new normal like slow growth means Leftist policies can't fix this.
First black President had a white mother from Kansas.
Muslim Brotherhood is a secular group.
A fundamental constitutional right should be safe, legal, and rare.
Roll back voting rights means to require ID.
Right to Marry means change the definition of the most successful human institution ever.
Parent One, Parent Two, Parent Three, Parent Four, we used to have just a couple of words for that, mom and dad.

[ccp]

https://www.acponline.org/advocacy/acp-advocate/issue/article/734633

" "Women's health is linked to population health and policies that adversely affect women will adversely affect the population," said ACP President Ana María López, MD, MPH, FACP. "Women are not just men with breasts and ovaries, and we are still trying to advance science and learn more about women's health."

Well wait a second.  I thought they were men who happen to have larger breasts and ovaries and no penis and testicles.

I am confused , which is it?

Answer : it is which ever is convenient for the LEFT at that moment in time or that particular cause.

[G M]

https://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/opinion-columns/wayne-allyn-root/commentary-on-democrats-walls-and-voter-id/

COMMENTARY: On Democrats, walls and voter ID
By Wayne Allyn Root Review-Journal
April 21, 2018 - 9:00 pm
 

Please ignore the advertising slogan “What happens here, stays here.” It’s not true. Las Vegas is the crossroads of America. What happens here is happening everywhere. And I’ve uncovered the biggest liberal scam in America going on right here in Las Vegas.

It revolves around my home community in Henderson. I live in Anthem Country Club. There are about 1,500 beautiful homes behind the gates of Anthem.

What’s the appeal of Anthem Country Club? It’s got a big, beautiful wall around it. And thick iron gates in front, protected by armed guards. There is virtually no crime inside walled, gated, armed Anthem.

I’ve lived here for almost 17 years. My kids grew up here. They played outside every day from morning till night, and I never worried for one moment. Because of the wall, the gates and the armed guards, my kids were as safe as if they lived in “Mayberry R.F.D.” Life is good behind the gates of Anthem.

In the rest of Las Vegas … not so much. In the rest of Vegas … lots of crime and fear. This proves walls, gates and armed guards are good if you want your family to be safe.

But wait. Anthem recently added a new feature to keep our residents safe. Drivers entering our gates must show a government-issued photo ID. Anyone entering our community — guests, gardeners, maids, nannies, pool cleaners, handymen, plumbers, electricians, delivery persons — must provide state or federal government-issued photo ID or they will be denied entry. Every single one of them.

There are many lessons we can learn from studying Anthem.

■ If you want your family and children to be safe, build a wall. Preferably a wall that is also surrounded by armed guards. The Vatican understands this lesson. Mexico understands — it has a wall on its southern border. Many rich liberals in America who live in gated communities — or gated private estates or buildings with doormen — understand this lesson, too. They just don’t want you to have a wall. They clearly think their children are more important than yours. They clearly think you’re stupid, as they argue walls and guns are unnecessary.

■ Liberal Democrats are hypocrites. Guess who lives inside the protected walls of Anthem Country Club? Harry Reid. You know, your former U.S. senator. The former chief water carrier for President Barack Obama, who spent his entire Senate career fighting viciously against a wall. Harry argued walls were terrible and unnecessary.

Harry could have retired anywhere in Vegas — or anywhere in America, for that matter. But he chose to live behind the walls … and gates … and armed guards of Anthem Country Club. Harry is my neighbor. Welcome to the neighborhood.

But, Harry, don’t liberals hate walls and gates and armed guards and photo ID? Don’t liberals call those things “racist”? Yet here sits Harry Reid and the entire Reid clan. Interesting.

■ The argument against Voter ID is a total scam.

How do all those gardeners and maids and pool cleaners and handymen drive through the gates of Anthem every day? The answer: They all already have government-issued photo IDs. So I guess it’s a lie when liberal politicians claim minorities don’t have photo IDs, or they’re too difficult for them to get or it’s “racist” to ask them for it.

I guess we just proved the liberal argument is a scam. Voter ID is an issue because liberals want election fraud. They can’t win without it. They want illegals to be able to vote by the millions for Democrats.

Folks, we’re being scammed. Anthem Country Club is the proof. What happens here is happening everywhere.

Contact Wayne Allyn Root at Wayne@ROOTforAmerica.com. Hear or watch the nationally syndicated “WAR Now: The Wayne Allyn Root Show” from 3 to 6 p.m. daily at 790 Talk Now and at 5 p.m. on Newsmax TV.

[DougMacG]

Liberals and hypocrisy:  Busted.  Again and again and again.
Nice post.  I remembered the part of Harry Reid living behind the same neighborhood wall as Wayne Allen Root.  The part about how the rich liberals all know that their maids and yard care workers will have no trouble presenting ID to enter the gate adds a nice touch to the story.  Of course they need iD to enter; that is the point of the wall and the attended gate.  They need ID for gun sales, a constitutional right, and they need ID to enter any DNC event.  They need ID to get near their homes to work, no problem, but it is "racist" to require iD to vote.

[ccp]

But you shouldn't need a valid ID if you are delivering pizza to a military base and when you don't have one and are found to illegal with a warrant out for not abiding by immigration laws and leaving the country as you were ordered to do - the libs show him with photos of his kids and tell as what a darling of the community he is .

And NY governor cuomo ( the lib as his old man) does not condemn the breaking of the law but those who enforce it.

[G M]

But you shouldn't need a valid ID if you are delivering pizza to a military base and when you don't have one and are found to illegal with a warrant out for not abiding by immigration laws and leaving the country as you were ordered to do - the libs show him with photos of his kids and tell as what a darling of the community he is .

And NY governor cuomo ( the lib as his old man) does not condemn the breaking of the law but those who enforce it.

Not only are Dem politicians exempt from the laws, so are their illegal alien supporters.

[DougMacG]

On the Left, they try to tell the story that Trump is taking credit for a recovery that Obama started.  Partly true but Obama couldn't get 2% average growth and Trump is approaching 3%, a 50-100% increase.

Ask the largest economic research firm in the world, The Federal Reserve Bank.

For more than 7 years out of Obama's 8, the Fed believed the Obama "recovery" was too nascent and fragile to risk raising interest rates above roughly zero, nominally 0.25%.  As the Trump economic plan takes hold, the Fed is fearless with raises intending to restore interest rates back to 'normal'.

In other words, the Obama recovery was weak and the Trump recovery is strong,
 according to the Fed and judged by their actions.
https://www.thebalance.com/current-federal-reserve-interest-rates-3305694

Update:  NYT agrees with me?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/us/politics/federal-reserve-raises-interest-rates.html

[ccp]

no longer the NFL but now the Democrat Football League

yea go ahead with your protests and of course lawsuits from Dem lawyers but we don't have to waste our money for these prima donnas which is surely what they are:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/14/fox-news-poll-political-correctness-has-gone-too-far-nfl-fumbling.html

[G M]

no longer the NFL but now the Democrat Football League

yea go ahead with your protests and of course lawsuits from Dem lawyers but we don't have to waste our money for these prima donnas which is surely what they are:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/14/fox-news-poll-political-correctness-has-gone-too-far-nfl-fumbling.html

Alienating your core audience is usually not good for business.

[DougMacG]

"Alienating your core audience is usually not good for business."

Not smart but networks and newspapers do it all the time, lose half their audience and half their revenues to pursue an agenda.

DFL.org already registered as a Dem site:  https://www.dfl.org/

I would call it Leftists Football League, separate out the well meaning, nation-loving Democrats who don't really hate their country - and might someday side with us.

"You Didn't Build That."  Colin Kaepernick and the rest can use their fame gained through NFL to hold their own rallies, conferences, demonstrations, townhalls, buy billboards, etc..  Jack Kemp ran for office after football and made a difference.

The act of disrespect and contract violation is to do that while at work on their employer's dime.  People didn't start paying big money to see football because of Colin K or politics, but they may keep patronizing the sport if people of great talent continue to play great football in ways that bring entire communities together as many teams have.  What the anthem protesters are doing does not bring communities together nor add to the entertainment value.  It measurably lost customers and business.

[ccp]

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/shakira-shocker-singer-stops-selling-necklace-bears-unintentional-resemblance-neo-nazi-imagery-192259002.html

I always knew that deep down in her heart Shakira was a viscous bigoted anti semite  . 
(heavy on sarcastic tone   )

Unusual looking skin head though
probably has swastika tattooed on her rear end
and that is why she shakes it all around

(more sarcasm)

Let me go and ask some grammar school mates of hers and find out how craven she really is.........

Probably good thing I don't twitter..........   

[ccp]

I know of this term since probably 6 yrs old and from old TV shows and maybe movies.
I admit I had absolutely NO IDEA it had anything to do with racism.
Never thought about it or knew anything about it.

Obviously the commentator who used it didn't either. 
But the LEFT will use this to their advantage like they do anything that can be blown WAY out of proportion:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/365ac04a-0dab-3f72-9749-3cdde3af2b7e/ss_ex-trump-campaign-aide-hurls.html

[G M]

I know of this term since probably 6 yrs old and from old TV shows and maybe movies.
I admit I had absolutely NO IDEA it had anything to do with racism.
Never thought about it or knew anything about it.

Obviously the commentator who used it didn't either. 
But the LEFT will use this to their advantage like they do anything that can be blown WAY out of proportion:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/365ac04a-0dab-3f72-9749-3cdde3af2b7e/ss_ex-trump-campaign-aide-hurls.html

I'm sorry, your race card is maxxed out.

[DougMacG]

G M:  "I'm sorry, your race card is maxxed out. "

Very Funny!  And true.

[ccp]

http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2018/06/26/nba-legend-oscar-robertson-asks-where-are-white-athletes-when-injustices-are-happening.html

Well I played some sports and am white.

I stand up now and speak out about the injustice of a Dominican gang stabbing to death a young man who simply went to the grocery store in the Bronx a few days ago!!

But no I don't need to take a knee during the anthem to do this.

Feel better Oscar?

[DougMacG]

Give credit to the very few journalists and opinion writers who link the economics of Bernie and the American Left to the socialism in Venezuela and it's horrible, inhumane results.  Nearly all of the media has been silent, in denial of the connection.

James Freeman, WSJ
Bernie Sanders and the Misery of Socialism
Will Democrats in the U.S. embrace ideas just as they fail again overseas?
"American media consideration of Mr. Sanders largely occurs without reference to the real-time failures of socialism in other countries."  ...
"Meanwhile Venezuela’s tragic experiment in socialism is ending the way such experiments always do: with crushing poverty and violence."  ...
"As for Democrats, even if this horrific history doesn’t give them pause, they ought to wonder who can get elected by promising to bring a sad socialist story to America."
https://www.wsj.com/articles/bernie-sanders-and-the-misery-of-socialism-1529959476

Richard patterson, Boston Globe:
Mr. Sanders “has sharp skeptics on the nonhallucinatory left.”
https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2018/06/25/the-trouble-with-bernie-sanders/Na8UviG6x4P9lwKjk0eszI/story.html?mod=article_inline

Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ
"If anything was more predictable than the mess created by Hugo Chávez’s Marxist Bolivarian Revolution, it is the pathetic effort by socialists to deny responsibility."  ...
"Chávez was inaugurated in February 1999, in the midst of a recovery in oil prices and with the bolivar at 576 to the dollar. He tripled down on socialism, exacerbating a long history of destroying capital that would lead to today’s disaster."
https://www.wsj.com/articles/venezuelas-long-road-to-hell-1528652625?mod=article_inline

[DougMacG]

It’s interesting to think about how impossible it would be to abolish profit without a level of police state authoritarianism that would make even their caricature of ICE seem like mall cops.
    - Jonah Goldberg via tweet

[G M]

It’s interesting to think about how impossible it would be to abolish profit without a level of police state authoritarianism that would make even their caricature of ICE seem like mall cops.
    - Jonah Goldberg via tweet

The left loves authority, just as long as it is theirs.

[DougMacG]

"The left loves authority, just as long as it is theirs."

  - Yes, trying to point out in as many ways as possible, they are pro-authority, their system requires authority, oppression.  It's a feature not a bug.  Stalin, Mao, Chavez, now AMLO, the people in political prisons in the hiermit kingdom, their proposals  require state force to move things away from their natural human state of freedom and individualism.  If you are pro-"equality" you are pro-totalitarianism.  There isn't some kind, friendly, fair version of socialism anywhere in the world or in history except in their imagination.

[DougMacG]

In Nov 2006, Dems took the House and Senate and control of Washington away from a lame duck Republican.  They destroyed the economy but were able to blame it on Bush.  By the time of the election of Barack Obama they had consolidated control of everything including complete political control of all growing demographic groups - and two Supreme Court picks.  This political advantage was believed to be permanent.  And then what?

They abused power and screwed up everything.  They lost the House in 2010, never yet to get it back.  They passed Obamacare with a cheated 60th vote and by deeming it passed, got the unconstitutional part upheld by calling a penalty a tax.  Except for the delay of a couple of cycles in losing the Senate, the only election they really have won since then was Obama's cheated re-election.

They changed the rules of the Senate only to have it backfire in their face and now they are already protesting the Supreme Court nominee for being out of the mainstream - BEFORE HE OR SHE IS EVEN NOMINATED!

Assuming one thinks as all Dems do that Donald Trump is not the greatest man ever to be President, the underlying reason he won is because of weak opponents.  Democrats didn't groom a leader to follow their two term President and they didn't even try to pick a western state or purple state governor to try to split the difference between Republicans and the rest of the country.  They screwed up the Senate for minority opposition before they took the minority and they nominated a crook who has never succeeded at anything for the highest office to pick the next Supreme Court nominee if elected and lead the free world.  Among other gaffes like not even going to Wisconsin, Hillary turned Trump into the moderate on illegal immigration, his most controversial issue.

And now they moan, scream, shriek and occupy what is not theirs.

In the Supreme Court confirmation process, they may pick off one or two republicans based on a mother's right to slaughter her young, but they also have to hold the vote against Trump and against upholding the constitution of 10 Democratic Senators running for reelection in red states where Trump won and is more popular now.  
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/susan-collins-supreme-court-abortion_us_5b3b5ff7e4b09e4a8b275b59
http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/hawley-launches-website-on-mccaskills-supreme-court-votes

Good luck with that.  They should've thought of that when they rammed O'care down our throats, ended the filibuster, let the world go to hell, and narrowed the Democratic Presidential choices down to a lunatic and a crook.

[DougMacG]

Vox:  "the American Revolution was a mistake"

I'd like to see this issue brought forward in 10 red states where Dem Senators are running for reelection.

1. Bad for blacks, we would have gotten rid of slavery sooner under the Brits.  Wouldn't have needed a Civil War.  Really?
2. The American revolution was bad for native Americans.  Maybe we should still go back to Britain.
3.  Brits have a better form of government.  Parliamentary governments spend more.

It is rare that you see Leftists tell their real view.  They would rather be governed from far away if it means that spending would be higher.  I kid you not.
https://www.vox.com/2015/7/2/8884885/american-revolution-mistake

[G M]

They may have US citizenship, but they aren’t Americans.

Vox:  "the American Revolution was a mistake"

I'd like to see this issue brought forward in 10 red states where Dem Senators are running for reelection.

1. Bad for blacks, we would have gotten rid of slavery sooner under the Brits.  Wouldn't have needed a Civil War.  Really?
2. The American revolution was bad for native Americans.  Maybe we should still go back to Britain.
3.  Brits have a better form of government.  Parliamentary governments spend more.

It is rare that you see Leftists tell their real view.  They would rather be governed from far away if it means that spending would be higher.  I kid you not.
https://www.vox.com/2015/7/2/8884885/american-revolution-mistake

[G M]

Let us know how that works out for you.

[DougMacG]

They are also building a wall around the Obama Compound in Washington DC.
Do as I say, not as I do.
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/obama-home-renovations
Surprisingly, twitter took down the picture of it.

"the Obamas' $5.3 million new home is getting some last-minute mandated security upgrades.
According to PopSugar, a brick wall is being built in front of the house—a development that seems a bit ironic given Donald Trump's promise to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. "


"Improvements" to a 3.5 million dollar home?  I remember they had success in the private sector before going into 'public service' in the _______ industry.  Oh, skip it. 

[DougMacG]

Dick Durbin on Meet the Press today
I will update this with an exact quote and a link when the transcript comes out. Will be interesting to see who else picks up on this.

Talking about the Supreme Court nomination expected, Roe v Wade and the pro-choice argument in terms like it is just families deciding what color to paint their living room ,Dick Durbin said, these are life and death issues, hesitating a little bit on the word death is he may have realized what he was saying that abortion is.

These are life and death issues. Yes they are!

Leftist gaffe is when they accidentally tell the truth. This was a doozy.

[G M]

"Child murder, oops, I meant to say women's healthcare!"

Dick Durbin on Meet the Press today
I will update this with an exact quote and a link when the transcript comes out. Will be interesting to see who else picks up on this.

Talking about the Supreme Court nomination expected, Roe v Wade and the pro-choice argument in terms like it is just families deciding what color to paint their living room ,Dick Durbin said, these are life and death issues, hesitating a little bit on the word death is he may have realized what he was saying that abortion is.

These are life and death issues. Yes they are!

Leftist gaffe is when they accidentally tell the truth. This was a doozy.

[DougMacG]

Previously:  Leftist gaffe is when they accidentally tell the truth. This was a doozy.

quote author=G M
"Child murder, oops, I meant to say women's healthcare!"
---------------------------------

Here is the quote and the link:

https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-july-8-2018-n889676

"This court will decide the future of women's health care and the freedom of women to make choices about the future of their families. That is a critical decision this court will face. So beyond the procedure, beyond the gamesmanship, it is a life and death important decision to be made by this court"

   - Yes, that's exactly what it is, a life and death decision, not the freedom of women to make choices about the future of their families. 

If it was a decision about the future of their family, why would the power rest only in the women?  Imagine if that power were granted only to the man.

[DougMacG]

This unfortunately is his predictable starting point as the protest signs were all pre-printed for all of the short list candidates before a nominee was selected.  But it begs a couple of questions:
1) Chuck Schumer, where is your mainstream?  Justices who join a team instead of call balls and strikes?
2) What are you saying about your 5-10 Dem colleagues who are actively considering supporting him?  Far right lunatics?

[ccp]

agree with Doug.

It was sad to see the Trump announcement and the heartwarming speech he gave for the Judge and then Judge Kevanuagh give his impressive speech
and the high five to his youngest extrovert daughter and proud mention of the more quiet one THEB TURN to MSLSD and watch Mad cow trying to demolish him with he only is where he is because he took Garland's spot.  That is their new attack mode - the seat was stolen. 

Savage had a good point Ruth Ginsberg was the main lawyer for the communist ACLU and was nominated for Supreme Court in 1993 and the Repbulican held Senate still approved 97 to 3 (or something like that)

The Dems have turned everything about the nominations into a political slugfest. 

[ccp]

secret service needs to shut down this "exhibit" as a threat to a sitting President.
Yeah I know , free speech etc yadda yadda

Thousands were slaughtered this way by those Jihadist sadists with Isis .  This is not artwork .

https://www.infowars.com/fck-trump-art-gallery-under-fire-for-isis-style-trump-beheading/

Can you imagine what would happen if this were Brock?  The MSM outrage we would be seeing .  Don Lemon and the rest of the gang.

[DougMacG]

In what kind of world is it that Whoopi Goldberg is the respected host of a long-running, mainstream show and Judge Jeanine is a crazy guest from a fringe network?
https://pagesix.com/2018/07/19/whoopi-goldberg-and-jeanine-pirro-get-into-explosive-argument-at-the-view/

The strange thing about a Leftist in any argument is that their first sentence of their first argument contains a lie.  Isn't Trump a bad enough guy that you could disparage him with the truth?

[ccp]

"  In what kind of world is it that Whoopi Goldberg is the respected host of a long-running, mainstream show and Judge Jeanine is a crazy guest from a fringe network? '

In the make believe delusional world of leftism.

I would love to see them in a bikini mud wrestling match over a few beers
My money is Justice J.
For her age she is hot.   

[Crafty_Dog]

Her voice irritates the hell out of me and mentally I find her to be a mediocrity, even when I agree with her.

[ccp]

Her voice irritates the hell out of me and mentally I find her to be a mediocrity, even when I agree with her.

CD,
sometimes I know what you mean .  Sometimes I feel that way about Hannity.  I usually agree with both but they sometimes go a bit far .

In any case this is as close as we will get to mud wrestling so the rest is up to on's imagination:

https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2018/07/20/exclusive-jeanine-pirro-whoopi-goldberg-got-in-my-face-yelling-get-the-fk-out-of-here/

[G M]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/god-bless-the-deep-state/2018/07/19/de36bd00-8b8a-11e8-85ae-511bc1146b0b_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.a94c81dadfe2

[ccp]

Eugene Robinson no less

he is always objective and nonpartisan   

he is of the  reparations crowd.    Everything race from time he gets up till time he goes to sleep.

[Crafty_Dog]

I don't feel like giving money to Pravda on the Potomac.  Would it be possible to paste the article here?

[G M]

I don't feel like giving money to Pravda on the Potomac.  Would it be possible to paste the article here?

God bless the ‘deep state’
 
President Trump. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

By Eugene Robinson
Columnist
July 19

Before this harebrained and reckless administration is history, the nation will have cause to celebrate the public servants derided by Trumpists as the supposed “deep state.”

The term itself is propaganda, intended to cast a sinister light upon men and women whom Trump and his minions find annoyingly knowledgeable and experienced. They are not participants in any kind of dark conspiracy. Rather, they are feared and loathed by the president and his wrecking crew of know-nothings because they have spent years — often decades — mastering the details of foreign and domestic policy.

God bless them. With a supine Congress unwilling to play the role it is assigned by the Constitution, the deep state stands between us and the abyss.

Witness, with horror and shame, Trump’s disgraceful performance on the world stage during the past week. The lowest of several low points was his joint appearance Monday in Helsinki with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who smirked with obvious glee as the president of the United States soiled himself. Metaphorically, I mean.

Trump said that Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats and other officials had told him “they think” Russia meddled with the 2016 election. But Putin issued an “extremely strong and powerful” denial when the two leaders met privately, and Trump concluded that “I don’t see any reason why it would be” Russia. Coats fired back within hours, issuing a statement that reiterated the intelligence community’s consensus view, which is not “we think” but “we know.” Trump’s ridiculous claim Tuesday that he meant to say “wouldn’t” instead of “would” amounted to nothing more than a moment of comic relief.

Thanks to a New York Times article published Wednesday night, we now know that the nation’s top intelligence officials briefed Trump in detail about the Russian meddling on Jan. 6, 2017 — two weeks before his inauguration. According to the Times, the officials shared with Trump powerful evidence that the interference, meant to boost Trump’s chances of winning, was ordered by Putin himself.

Watch Coats learn that Putin is invited to visit the White House
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats reacted to breaking news that Russian President Vladimir Putin could be visiting the White House in the fall. (Aspen Security Forum)

So we know that when Trump casts doubt on Russia’s culpability, he’s not speaking from a position of ignorance. It’s not that intelligence officials have asked him to take their conclusion on faith. They’ve shown him the goods. He’s just lying.

Who were the anonymous sources for the Times story? I have no idea. But if I had spent a career fighting for my country in the secrets world, and I heard my president give more credence to the former KGB officer who rules an undemocratic Russia than to his own intelligence chief, I would be angry.

And if I had also heard my president welcome what he called an “incredible” offer from Putin — that he would allow special counsel Robert S. Mueller III to observe questioning of the 12 Russian spies he indicted last week if Russian authorities were also allowed to interrogate Americans they speciously accuse of crimes, including a former ambassador to Moscow, Michael McFaul — I would be furious and alarmed. I would have to wonder about the loyalty of my commander in chief. And I would have to think about my duty to the nation.

Russian officials have said publicly that they are ready to begin implementing agreements reached by Trump and Putin during their two-hour private meeting, which only one Russian and one American translator were allowed to attend. But according to The Post, in an article also published Wednesday night, high-ranking U.S. diplomatic and military officials did not know what those agreements were.

Did they reach some sort of understanding about nuclear arms? About Syria? About Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea? If you worry, as I do, that Trump may have intentionally or unintentionally given away the store, you have to root for the deep state to find out what transpired in that room — and find ways to reverse, or at least mitigate, the damage.

FBI chief: Russia 'continues to engage in malign influence operations'
FBI Director Christopher Wray on July 18 said Russia "continues to engage in malign influence operations," and pledged to continue pursuing the perpetrators. (Reuters)

Is Trump so obsequious to Putin because his ego will not allow him to acknowledge that the Russian strongman helped him beat Hillary Clinton? Or does Putin have something on him? We will get answers at some point, but we can’t ignore what we appear to be seeing right now: ongoing collusion, between Trump and Putin, to impede and denigrate the Mueller investigation. It’s happening before our eyes.

Democrats in Congress are powerless; the Republican leadership, spineless. Experienced government officials know that their job is to serve the president. But what if the president does not serve the best interests of the nation?

In this emergency, the loyal and honorable deep state has a higher duty. It’s called patriotism.

[ccp]

but this moron is being held up as some sort new leader of the party:

https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/07/20/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-compares-electing-democrats-to-ending-slavery/

and with a major news channel comparing female slavery and subjugation to Trump because he says America first

It is happening here in America.

And what is the rinos and Bushes of the party's answer to this:

"compromise and having conversations"

[ccp]

Obama has same philosophy but was less outspoken. 

If we needed a candidate to operate for total destruction of the United States , Maxine polluted thinking  Waters aside, this is it :

https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/07/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-carbon-tax-trillions-renewable-energy-economy/

[ccp]

http://michellemalkin.com/2018/07/18/ms-diversity-conartista-boston-universitys-fake-o-nomics-darling/

[DougMacG]

They have asked the mayor not to endorse the protest because if the mayor endorses it, it just becomes a parade, not a protest.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/399613-activists-call-on-chicago-mayor-to-resign-ahead-of-massive-anti

Protesters also call for the racist Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson to resign. Oops, he's black.

To me it all just says, cognitive dissonance of the Left. Their policies caused it and they have no idea what's wrong or how to fix it. If it's like Minneapolis, you have far Left and you have farther Left, there are no other voices or opinions.