Well whaddya know? Year and a half in and now the FBI folks are asking for Immunity? That’s asbolutely hilarious. breitbart.com/big-government… So, Trump did NOT collude, which we already knew, and now the FBI folks are ready to run each other over. Can’t make this crap up
Rule Number One of business, keep your customers happy. Two, make new customers. Lesson for Starbucks, caving to the inane demands of social justice warriors by converting your former coffee shops into homeless shelters and shooting galleries violates both rules, from Washington Times:
Starbucks may have appeased progressives with its social-justice workshops and open-bathroom policy, but such moves have failed to caffeinate the company’s bottom line.
The coffee giant’s stock took a tumble Wednesday after CEO Kevin Johnsonannounced that Starbucks would close 150 company-owned stores next year instead of the expected 50, with an emphasis on underperforming shops in densely populated urban areas, and lowered growth projections.
The social justice movement may be wearing Starbucks pelts, but the size of the herd is getting significantly smaller.
Sarah Hoyt says…
FBI CORRUPTION IS WHAT ALL THE WAILING ABOUT MYTHICAL “CHILDREN IN CAGES” IS SUPPOSED TO DISTRACT YOU FROM: Strzok escorted from FBI building.
I think she’s right.
At the end of the day the argument that the Democrats are engaging in is a moral one. Personally, I refuse to be lectured about morality by the party of kleptocrats Bill and Hillary Clinton, Chuckles the Clown Schumer and Pelosifer… You know, the ones that until last month were singing the Praises of a pornstar and who have forever been promoting the killing of The Unborn. Family Values, you know.
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Eric Florack on June 19th, 2018
Let’s remember that just a couple short years ago the Democrats were all for coming down hard on it illegal immigrants at least, that’s what they said. Thing is of course they never did it… Apparently being unwilling to sacrifice a number of illegal voters who will do jobs Americans won’t do, that being specifically to vote Democrat.. And they get mad when somebody else, in this case, Trump, actually follows through on those promises.
So now we see Chuckles the Clown Schumer…
.Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer(N.Y.) on Tuesday dismissed a legislative proposal backed by Republican leaders to keep immigrant families together at the border, arguing that President Trump could fix the problem more easily with a flick of his pen.
“There are so many obstacles to legislation and when the president can do it with his own pen, it makes no sense,” Schumer told reporters. “Legislation is not the way to go here when it’s so easy for the president to sign it.”
Asked if that meant Democrats would not support a bill backed by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to keep immigrant families together while seeking asylum on the U.S. border, Schumer said they want to keep the focus on Trump.
So what we have here is the Democrats using these kids as hostages to their own political power grab.
I’ve been saying it for years now and longtime readers know this well…
The worst thing in the world you can do to a Democrat is provide an actual solution to a problem because the moment you do that, you’ve removed their ability to demagogue.
Remember something else also that I’ve been saying about all of this for years now…. This is not about Trump. For all of their screaming and bitching that they want to keep the focus on Trump, the Democrats wouldn’t be reacting any differently to anybody else in the White House, who was not Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The realization is just starting to sink into the American public that… Oh, God help us…. Dennis Rodman is a better Diplomat than John Kerry.
Common Sense, which is far from common, would tell a entity not to pontificate on subject on which they are incompetent. So evidently the American Medical Association lacks common sense, from Washington Free Beacon:
American Medical Association announced on Wednesday it would back strict new gun-control measures including banning and confiscating certain firearms.
The measures, which the group called “common-sense,” include outlawing not only the sale of what the group referred to as “assault-type” weapons but also their possession, outlawing the possession of any firearms by adults under 21 years old, a national gun registry, requiring a license to own any firearms, and gun buyback programs among a number of other proposals. The group also called for a ban on the possession of bump-fire stocks, stated its opposition to teachers being allowed to carry firearms in schools, and stated its opposition to national concealed-carry reciprocity. The group also called for the passage of a law which would bar those convicted of domestic violence offenses from owning guns even though federal law already includes such a provision.
“People are dying of gun violence in our homes, churches, schools, on street corners and at public gatherings,
What the media, and the AMA, call Assault Weapons, are more aptly called modern sporting rifles, guns are affordable, customizable, easy to use and effective. So, before the AMA starts telling the American citizen to curb their God given constitution rights to keep and bear arms, the AMA needs to get their own house in order, from Right Diagnosis:
Deaths from Medical misadventure: 98,000 preventable deaths from medical errors annually in America (Patient Safety in American Hospitals, Health Grades 2004)
More Americans, and that counting only those lucky enough to be born, die from medical maladventure than do to gun fire. So physician, heal thyself.
You guys have all seen the comments of Robert De Niro both at the awards ceremony and in Toronto the following day, so I won’t bother repeating it here.
But perhaps it’s worthwhile to examine just how it is we got here.
You see, Raging Bullcrap is still under the impression that we actually care what he has to say politically, or for that matter what anybody else in Hollywood has to say, past the “I can’t take my eyes off this Trainwreck” fascination.
They completely fail to understand that the vast majority of the American people have watched for Generations as the Hollywood left pushed California into the ocean, and particularly over the last 8 years as they tried to do the same thing to the country, and very nearly totally succeeded.
Actually I suspect the reality is slightly different. What we’re seeing out of these people now is desperation as I’ve said previously.
In the midst of all of this going on, and particularly after the last couple of outbursts from DiNero himself, along with, of course, the Bill Maher quote that came up the last couple of days about wanting the economy to crash so Trump would be hurt, (never mind that the American people would also be hurt by it…) A marvelous Epiphany has begun to occur.
People have begun to realize that the only fat person in North Korea is remarkably easier to get along with than are the Democrats, the Hollywood left and those on the George Soros payroll. Given the depth of contempt that most Americans hold for the little gargoyle, where do you suppose that places the Democrat Party and its followers?
And I’ll bet the Democrats still think they’re going to take the midterm elections.
Billy Beck asks what is the difference between depravity and evil. I answer him this way…
Like it or not, the judeo-christian ethic is at the root of most of Western philosophy. It seems reasonable to draw from that then to answer your question…
“The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who can understand it?” (Jeremiah 17:9).
Rather than get into the religious aspects of the quote, I point out by using this quote two things;
1: the evil that every human heart contains has been known for many millennia. The quote in fact is at least five thousand years before Christ…. Who, himself, defines the answer this way;
, “It is what comes out of a person that defiles. For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come… and they defile a person” (Mark 7:20-23).
2; Depravity, then, is giving into that evil.
Which by the way is the core concept behind the idea of limited government… Limiting the investment of governmental power in individual men, thereby Limiting evil.
President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un met for a summit in Singapore, hilarity ensued, from Washington Times:
SINGAPORE — Former NBA player Dennis Rodman, a longtime proponent of people-to-people contact with North Korea, was overcome with emotion Tuesday about the historic summit between President Trump and North Korea leader Kim Jong-un.
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Mr. Rodman, who wore a red “Make America Great Again” cap for the interview, was visiting Singapore for the summit but was not involved in the diplomacy between the U.S. and North Korea.
PDT has changed the conversation. Instead talking about giving Midget Leader fuel oil, the short fat one is talking of giving up his nukes.
Usually, these G7… G8… G20… (whatever) meetings are about as exciting as watching paint dry.
This time however, there was a bit more fun attached to it. It can be best described in this fashion…
“What do you mean you’re not going to pay our bills?”
The the collectivist screeching coming from the Neo socialist Europeans could be directly compared to cats being boiled alive.
John Bolton in noting this, responded:
Just another #G7 where other countries expect America will always be their bank. The President made it clear today. No more.
https://t.co/emAVNqRqhc
Look, of course we’re not very popular with the European crowd just now. When you tell somebody that the Free Ride is over, you’re not going to be very popular with them. That’s simply The Way of the World.
Canadian Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau who is far more used to being a celebrity than a world leader got so angry and out of control he lost an eyebrow over it. Thing is, he waited until after Trump is gone to do that. A gutless maneuver to say the very least, and probably the largest political miscalculation in Canadian history… The support of Chuckles the Clown Schumer notwithstanding.
As an aside… hey, Canada? Isn’t it about time you lose that embarrassment?
British prime minister Theresa May, who is an equal embarrassment to what is left of Great Britain told reporters that the G7 Summit was a “difficult occasion”. Well I suppose it probably was. You actually had to come to grips with reality (something which by the way you failed to do)… as opposed to sitting around sucking down champagne and eating lobster and caviar, and staying in 5-star hotels at taxpayer expense. With Theresa May in charge of things I get the distinct impression that you and I are going to see the English sunset in our lifetime. (A nod of acknowledgement to Justin Hayward.)
All in all I’d say things were handled rather well at the G7 by our people… and are going precisely the way they should… Proving once again that just about anybody could do a better job then Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton at representing the interest of the United States of America.
Yeah, I can relate:
.So now, after 18 months or so, we’re in a situation where the conservative wing of the coastal clerisy — people like Bill Kristol, my erstwhile PJ Media colleague Jennifer Rubin, and Ron Radosh — are all pushing the notion that to “punish Trump,” to “get Trump’s attention,” and to “save the Republican Party,” conservatives need to campaign for and vote for Democrat candidates in the midterms. What is even harder to understand is that they claim to be doing it based on their “principles.”
Well, yeah.
I mean, I object to describing such folk as “conservative” of any stripe, but, yeah.
All three he mentions and more, establishment types all, are stamping their feet and screaming like spoiled brats because said establishment GOP was so soundly rejected. (Rather like their newfound freinds, the Democrat party, can’t get over Clinton losing.)… Keeping in mind of course that they also were feverishly working against an actual conservative in favor of Jeb Bush, in the most recent cycle, and prior to that gave us Mitt Romney, John McCain and so on… All of which lost for the very same reason Trump won.
And yes, I know.. I fought against Trump as well, but recall, please, I fought against him because as Charlie Martin says, he’s FDR in an elephant suit… Whereas the people listed above continue to fight against him because he’s not establishment GOP… Not a member of the club. And as most of the GOP rank and file understands, the GOP establishment.. that club, is anything but conservative.
Ponder: If FDR in an elephant suit won the nomination of a party rank and file hungry for a real conservative, what does this say of the conservative creds of the candidates the GOP establishment types worked so hard to slip by us? For that matter, what does it say of the conservative creds of George Will, Bill Kristol, et al?
What such people fail to recognize is that’s precisely why the GOP rank and file went for Trump. Bad as he is, they (correctly) saw him as more conservative and thereby more worthy than anything the GOP establishment has puked up in generations, now…. Itself not being much of a hurdle. Better, in fact than anyone since Reagan.,. Who, as George Will’s column of the day demonstrates, they weren’t too happy about, either.
But Reagan is 63, and looks it. His hair is still remarkably free of gray, but around the mouth and neck he looks like an old man. He’s never demonstrated substantial national appeal. His hardcore support today consists primarily of the kamikaze conservatives who thought the 1964 Goldwater campaign was jolly fun. And there’s a reason to doubt that Reagan is well suited to appeal to the electorate that just produced a democratic landslide. If a Reagan third party would just lead the “Nixon was lynched” crowd away from the Republican party, and into outer darkness where there is a wailing and gnashing of teeth, it might be at worst a mixed course for the Republican party. It would cost the party some support, but it would make the party seem cleansed.”
The biggest sin of Ronald Reagan of course was that he wasn’t part of the Washington establishment. And perhaps I’m the only one but I noticed a pattern here… The people who are most wildly successful at pursuing and implementing actual conservative agendae are not members of the Washington establishment.
Martin continues…
.And there’s the problem. When you say you want to vote for Democrats to “send a message to Trump” in the name of “your principles,” what you are saying is you’re willing to vote for a party that has expressly promised to reverse the tax cuts, reimpose the regulations Trump’s administration is canceling, further nationalize healthcare and legalize open borders now and forever. Not to mention at least tacitly endorsing the use of the IRS to suppress political speech, the use of the Intelligence Community to spy on political opponents, and the use of the Justice Department to criminalize the opposition. Whats more, it’s the party that has promised to impeach Trump, leading to a political crisis the outcome of which no one can predict.
Well, look, that last one wont hurt the feelings or alter the myopic mindset of the establishment types at all.
The rest of it? Well, ya gotta break some eggs once in a while, huh? It’s a small price to pay for making the GOP a firm number two.
The problem for Dumbo’s, b/k/a Barack Obama, Pen and Phone playbook is that two can play the same game. When the Clinton era Defense of Marriage Act was challenged in court, the Dumbo regime refused to defend the law of the land. The same regime, used every trick, legal or otherwise, to enact his eponymous healthcare bill. Now the constitutionally of Dumbo’s healthcare bill, a/k/a Obamacare, b/k/a the Affordable Care Act, has been challenged in court. According the the WaPo(no link), President Trump, like his predecessor is defend this evil law:
The Trump administration said Thursday night that it will not defend the Affordable Care Act against the latest legal challenge to its constitutionality — a dramatic break from the executive branch’s tradition of arguing to uphold existing statutes and a land mine for health insurance changes the ACA brought about. In a brief filed in a Texas federal court and an accompanying letter to the House and Senate leaders of both parties, the Justice Department agrees in large part with the 20 Republican-led states that brought the suit.
Do two wrongs make one right? I say no. That said the Affordable Care Act is the illegitimate step child of a gang rape.
Jun
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Eric Florack on June 8th, 2018
Oh, no…
Two words:
Elian Gonsolez.
Don’t you dare whine to me about the government of separating children from their parents, given the standards the Democrats set in that case. Such separation was OK back then when it suited the political goals of the Democrats, and made Fidel Castro look the victim.
Let America stand up for itself in any way, shape or form, and the Democrat Partyand the inappropriately named ACLU will challenge the act.
Okay, forgive me the Star Trek original series reference. But it does seem to fit here.
Gretchen Carlson, the new head of the organization’s board of directors, revealed that Miss America will no longer judge women based on their physical appearance.
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There will no longer be a swimsuit competition in Miss America, it has been revealed.
Another piece of who we are falls to political correctness.
First of all let’s state flatly that Gretchen Carlson is an abject idiot and deserving of absolutely no recognition whatsoever, particularly where her brain power is the question.
Secondly, let’s aver that there are few things quite so stupid as a beauty pageant. I suppose In fairness it should be said that Carlson has the position she has now simply because she was a looker back in the day. But now it appears that since she got hers, nobody else should, by her lights.
Thirdly, let’s admit that one of the few things that’s actually dumber than a beauty pageant, is a beauty pageant that doesn’t judge beauty.
On what basis are we to judge these women? What is the goal here? How well they speak to such as shoes as global warming, veganism, immigrant status and so on? Once you get past the physical attraction, there isn’t anything there to draw viewers. Certainly the value signaling we’ve seen coming off contestants over the last couple of decades isn’t going to make Dime One. It’s not going to draw anybody’s attention. And guess what, gang? That was probably the intent of removing the only attraction in these events.
So, there’s this:
So, the truth of the matter is what we’ve been suggesting all along.
This is my shocked face.
More on what Eric wrote on Masterpiece Cake
Nancy Pelosi on Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commissionvia Breitbart:
The Masterpiece Cakeshop case is about the most fundamental right of all Americans: to be free from persecution and discrimination because of who they are or whom they love. While narrowly framed to apply to the decision-making process undertaken by the state commission, today’s wrongheaded decision fails to uphold equality in this case.
Masterpiece Cakeshop is a commercial bakery open to the public, and such services clearly must be made available to the public on equal terms as determined by an independent review by the Colorado Court of Appeals which should have been upheld. No business or organization open to the public should hide their discriminatory practices behind the guise of religious liberty.
Unlike former Speaker Tablecloth, I would view the most fundamental right as the right to life, a right which Pelosi through blind support for such killers as Planned Parenthood and MS-13 refuses to support. Moreover, the case wasn’t so much about a baker as it was about the so-called Colorado Civil Rights Commission, from Wikipedia:
In June 2018, the Supreme Court ruled 7 to 2 that state anti-discrimination laws must evaluate cases with religious neutrality and respect the individual’s rights to free exercise, and that in the case before it the Commission had shown hostility towards the bakery owner’s religious beliefs.
Does the Supreme Court’s invented right of same-sex marriage trump the First Amendment? We don’t know yet.
