CAN STILL BE TAKEN OUT BY AN AVERAGE-FIT HIGH SCHOOL BOY: “Super-Strong” Women?
Women shouldn’t be trying to compete with men in physical strength. Women have strength and qualities of their own. Pushing women towards being (bad) imitation men is not good for women, men or civilization.
MOSTLY BECAUSE OBAMA SHOULD NEVER HAVE TAKEN IT OUT: Why the census citizenship question is so important .
AND IF WE HAD A HONEST PRESS, PEOPLE WOULD BE LINING UP TO BUY HER A ONE-WAY TICKET TO SOMALIA: Ilhan Omar: well, she’s honest about her drive for power, anyway.
I WANT TO SEE SCENES FROM THE DEMOCRATS SANITY ROOM. DOES IT EXIST? Scenes from the Democratic Panic Room.
ACE OF SPADES HQ, IN THE INTRODUCTION TO THIS POST HAS ONE OF THE MOST HAUNTING AND ACCURATE METAPHORS FOR OUR PRESENT SITUATION:
Good morning, kids. I’ve got an image stuck in my head this morning and I can’t seem to shake it. It’s from the final scene of Alfred Hitchcock’s wartime thriller Saboteur where the heavy, played by Norman Lloyd is dangling from Lady Liberty’s torch as the hero, Bob Cummings, strains to hold on to his sleeve, desperately trying to save the guy he’s chased for the entire picture who framed him for treasonous sabotage. And then Hitch cuts to a close up of Lloyd’s shoulder where, one by one, the stitches on his jacket sleeve start popping loose…
Everything about that entire scene combines into a metaphor that perfectly encapsulates where the Democrat Party and even more frighteningly the nation as a whole is at this moment in time. We’re coming apart at the seams. The better angels of our nature are desperate to cling to something, anything in our political enemies that will pull them back from the brink, knowing full well that if the situation were reversed, they’d be doing what Martin Landau did to Cary Grant as he dangled from a precipice atop Mount Rushmore in North By Northwest: grind his heel into Grant’s hand.
Beyond any shadow of a doubt (no pun), the Democrat Party has gone from being merely a political enemy and morphed into a mortal enemy not just of the GOP and conservatives, but of the nation as founded, its distinct culture, traditions, heritage and its people.
AS SOMEONE WHO HAS EXPERIENCED SOCIALIZED MEDICINE? YES, YES WE WILL: Private Health Insurance? You Won’t Miss It, Says AOC.
LIKE AN ANTIBIOTIC-RESISTANT STD: Michael Avenatti Tries To Climb Back Into Spotlight.
GIVEN THE BABYLON BEE OBVIOUSLY HAS A TIME MACHINE (AND AN UNSWERVING DEVOTION TO NEWS REPORTING) THIS ONE WORRIES ME A LITTLE: Facebook Event Proposes Storming Space Force Base To Obtain Trump’s Death Star Plans.
THE BABYLON BEE — AMERICA’S PAPER OF RECORD — DENIES IT’S NOW IN POSSESSION OF TIME MACHINE, TO PUBLISH NEWS BEFORE IT HAPPENS, BUT WE’RE ONTO THEM. TAKE THIS: Trump 2020 Campaign To Simply Air Unedited Footage Of Democrats Talking.
NOTE HOW FAST IT OVERTOOK MY POLITICALLY ASTUTE FRIEND:
#JOURNALISM: 50 years ago today, The New York Times withdrew its 1920 article “A Severe Strain on Credulity,” which mocked Robert Goddard for believing that a rocket could land on the moon. “The Times is being cute, but there’s no apology to Goddard.”
The NYT was arrogant trash a century ago, and it’s arrogant trash today. The same unaccomplished mockers reveling in their cultural authority all along.
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FLASHBACK: Trump Is FDR With Fireside Tweets.
WELL, YES: “I’m tired of hearing conservative friends apologize for President Trump’s ‘go back to where you came from’ tweets about the likes of Ilhan Omar. The president has the moral high ground, and the weasel war dance of the mainstream media shouldn’t distract us from this fact.”
Judging by the polls, I think we may start seeing these again.
TRADE WARS ARE FUN AND EASY TO WIN: Europe Joins U.S. Companies Moving Out Of China.
DEMOCRAT-CONTROLLED HOUSE votes not to impeach Donald Trump.
TRUMP WAVES HIS LASER POINTER AGAIN: President Trump On Ilhan Omar: I Hear She Was Married To Her Brother!
Flashback: Make DC A Swamp Again. Nice to think someone might be listening.
OPEN THREAD: Because you like open threads, and I like you.
DEMOCRATS ARE FINDING THE GOP’S NEW SPIRIT OF, DARE I SAY IT, RESISTANCE DISTURBING: Elizabeth Warren Melts Down After Defense Secretary Nominee Rejects Her Insults.
NEO ON ILHAN OMAR: Well, She’s Honest About Her Drive For Power, Anyway.
It’s often instructive to hear what people say when talking among themselves rather than to the public at large.
Thus, note what what Ilhan Omar said when addressing a leftist group known as Netroots Nation:
“There’s a constant struggle oftentimes with people who have power about sharing that power. We are not really in the business of asking for the share of that power. We’re in the business of trying to grab that power,” she said.
That’s just a statement of a truth any observer can already see quite clearly. But at least it’s honest. It’s also a statement that isn’t limited to their plans for the Democratic Party, not by a longshot.
Squad Goals: Anarchy, to coin a phrase.
THE RAGE OF A PRIVILEGED CLASS: Fewer than half of USDA workers will follow agency to Kansas City.
Related: Make DC A Swamp Again.
DISPATCHES FROM THE NEWSPEAK DICTIONARY: Planned Parenthood President Leana Wen: Not Woke Enough.
The complaints about Wen in that recent BuzzFeed article were mundane, with one glaring exception. Fundraising was down, but that shouldn’t be surprising when an organization changes from Cecile Richards – the longtime political activist, former deputy chief of staff to Nancy Pelosi, daughter of former Texas governor Ann Richards, who had run Planned Parenthood for twelve years – to a much less well-known medical doctor. Anonymous sources complained to BuzzFeed that Wen and her new hires had a lot of friction with the old staff, but that’s pretty common when leadership changes in any organization.
But then there’s this: “Two sources told BuzzFeed News that Wen also refused to use ‘trans-inclusive’ language, for example saying ‘people’ instead of ‘women’ and telling staff that she believed talking about transgender issues would ‘isolate people in the Midwest.’”
Was the straw that broke the camel’s back for Wen: her refusal to use “trans-inclusive language”? If so, that would be a remarkable illustration of how powerful the forces of political correctness and wokeness have become. If enough people in leadership of an organization either subscribe to the philosophy or fear standing against it, then no one is progressive enough to earn an exception or indulgence under the New Woke Order. No one’s deviation from the linguistic requirements can be ignored, overlooked, accepted, or forgiven. Not even the president of Planned Parenthood!
You may not be interested in the Gleichschaltung, but the Gleichschaltung is interested in you. Even if you’re the president of the organization founded by Margaret Sanger.
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