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Archive for 2019
December 4, 2019
MOST OF OUR POLITICAL/ACADEMIC CLASS NO LONGER POSSESSES THE REQUISITE SELF DISCIPLINE: I thought the law professors would give a very somber, neutral-seeming presentation of what they would characterize as law.
I am surprised that they spoke so severely and stridently and launched right into stating conclusions, applying the law to the facts, and expressing these conclusions in a tone I’m used to seeing in the movies, where hammy actors argue to a jury.
I thought — as I said 2 posts down — the idea would be for the 3 law professors called by the Democrats to provide cover for the Democrats by performing the theater of making everything sound like law and not politics and by speaking in a tone that would feel academic and sadly, grimly inevitable.
But they came on so strong, righteously angry and in an exaggerated tone, making assertions that the things Trump did are impeachable. They did not work to establish our confidence that they were operating in a scholarly zone that was truly their expertise. They did not give us reason to believe we should listen to them as expert witnesses.
What an awful display! . . . It was not at all the “constitutional law seminar” that White House Counsel Pat Cipollone decried. It was an unwatchable harangue. The GOP witness Jonathan Turley stepped back and made an important argument: You need to be careful that whatever you do is going to set a precedent that will be used against future Presidents. Also (and this was quite apt after listening to Feldman and, particularly, Karlan): Everyone is too angry and this isn’t the sort of thing we should be doing in a state of high hysteria. Turley bolstered his testimony by assuring us that he didn’t like Trump and didn’t vote for him. That, ironically, made him the least political of the set of 4 professors, but it isn’t quite fair that there’s no one on the panel to balance Feldman and Karlan and simply make a scenery-chewing pro-Trump argument.
It looks like what it is, a political show trial by a bunch of frustrated, angry apparatchiks who don’t have much of anything solid to work with.
Plus, from the comments: “This charade is being conducted for many reasons. One reason seems to be that we cannot allow the deplorables to elect a POTUS.”
And, seen on Facebook: “It’s like Watergate, but with morons.”
Plus: Rep. Al Green blasts Judiciary Committee for lack of diversity in impeachment witnesses. Racism, straight up!
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Turley: Under Democrats’ ‘Abuse of Power’ Standard, Obama Could Have Been Impeached. Except, of course, that if the GOP had impeached Obama, they would have been called racist. Though today’s panel of law professors for impeachment was no more diverse than the Democrats’ all-white top candidates tier. White supremacy is everywhere.
UPDATE: Another law professor weighs in.
PELOTON RESPONDS TO AD CRITICISM, SAYS IT’S ‘DISAPPOINTED IN HOW SOME HAVE MISINTERPRETED’ THE SPOT.
C’mon — national ad buys are focus-grouped to death. Peloton had to know they’d get this response, and released the ad to generate buzz by tweaking the hair-trigger response of the social media outrage mobs. See also: Nike, Disney, and the rest of Hollywood.
REP. MATT GAETZ (R-FL) JUST BROUGHT A BLOW TORCH TO THE IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS AND SET A GLORIOUS BONFIRE: “‘To all of the witnesses: if you have personal knowledge of a single material fact in the Schiff report, please raise your hand.’ *silence*”
Related: Impeachment Witness Pamela Karlan Insults Barron Trump for Some Reason: “There’s an unwritten rule in politics that the children of politicians are off-limits. You don’t attack the president’s kids, no matter how much you hate the president. Of course, as with most rules of politics, this only applies when the target is a Democrat. You could bash George W. Bush’s daughters all day long for eight years, but you couldn’t dare say anything about Sasha or Malia Obama. Back when Bill Clinton was president, Rush Limbaugh caused a national scandal by insulting the then-teenage Chelsea Clinton. But it’s okay to insult the teenage child of a president who ran and won as a Republican. That’s different.”
And Karlan issues a classic non-apology apology afterwards: “I want to apologize for what I said earlier about the president’s son. It was wrong of me to do that. I wish the president would apologize, obviously, for the things that he’s done that’s wrong, but I do regret having said that.”
Related: Nothing’s more convincing than liberal professors yelling at you.
WATCH: LAW PROF. DESTROYS DEMOCRAT CLAIM THAT TRUMP’S UKRAINE CALL WAS ‘BRIBERY.’
Related: George Washington University Law School Prof. Jonathan Turley “flips the Dem argument on impeachment on its head: ‘If you impeach a president, if you make a high crime and misdemeanor out of going to the courts, it is an abuse of power. It’s your abuse of power. You’re doing exactly what you’re criticizing the president of doing.’”
More: Turley Rips Fast-Track Trump Impeachment, Warns Of The Future.
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PROF. JONATHAN TURLEY ON IMPEACHMENT: ‘This is wrong,’ being mad is no basis for impeachment. “This is a facially incomplete and inadequate record with which to impeach a president. . . . This case is not a case of the unknowable, it is a case of the peripheral.”
THE PURPOSE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT IS NOT TO CLEAN UP THE PLANET: China DGAF, the left oblivious.
The wages of identity politics – “white man bad” and all that – is the obsessive focus on own society’s failings, the real, the exaggerated, the imaginary, while everyone else gets a free pass. Who are we, the privileged oppressors, to critics other people in other parts of the world?
And so, while the virtue signalers are banning plastic straws and single-use supermarket plastic bags to “save the planet”, “The amount of plastic polluting China‘s coastal waters has soared following a government drive to stop rubbish being dumped in the country’s rivers. More than 200 million cubic metres of waste was found floating off Chinese shores last year, up 27 per cent on 2017, according to the environment ministry.”
Huo Chuanlin, deputy director of the ecology and environment ministry’s marine environment department told journalists that “China is the biggest producer and exporter of plastic products, accounting for about 30 per cent of the world’s total, but that doesn’t mean China is a major marine plastic polluting country.” But even Independent newspaper is not buying it: “scientists say China is the world’s leading generator of plastic waste.” Indeed.
While the cheerleaders of Greta Thunberg and the Extinction Rebellion are thinking up ever new ways of shutting down the Western economies, dreaming up mad multi-multi-trillion dollar “renewable energy” schemes, and even the mainstream politicians are demonising fossil fuels and nuclear in favour of green energy, which is nowhere near sufficient to power our societies, China just keeps on pumping that CO2 into our sweet air.
Like I said the environmental movement isn’t about cleaning up the planet.
AN ELOQUENT, CONCISE DESCRIPTION OF TODAY’S IMPEACHMENT HEARING: It’s not merely a fraud, according to Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.).
THE CLINTONS DENY A LOT OF STUFF: Clintons Deny Ever Staying at Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Wild West’ Property in New Mexico.
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HARVARD LAW PROF TELLS A BIG FAT ONE: House Judiciary Committee Democrats led their hearing this morning with Harvard’s Noah Feldman. Later in the day under intense questioning by Rep. Matthew Gaetz (R-Flor.), Feldman claimed he “was an impeachment skeptic before July 25.”
That’s a flat-out misrepresentation by Feldman of his views because he was among the early advocates of impeachment, beginning March 7, 2017, barely six weeks after President Donald Trump’s inauguration. See three more examples in 2017 and 2018 of Feldman clearly pushing impeachment of Trump: here, here and here.
CHRISTIAN TOTO: What ‘Bombshell’ Stars Really Think of Fox News, Conservatives.
I’m reminded of a favorite bit of dialog from Serenity.
The Operative: It’s worse than you know.
Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: It usually is.
Indeed.
YET ANOTHER DEMOCRAT IS ASKING WHY THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS SUCH A CESSPIT OF RACISM: ‘Not one person of color:’ Rep. Al Green (D-TX) scolds Congress over lack of diversity of impeachment witnesses.
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MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Joe Biden: Just Stupid Enough to Get Away with Being a Thief. “Joe Biden has always been just smart enough to see what he could get away with, and just dumb enough that few believed he could actually be that corrupt — like finding out your favorite Bond supervillain had the IQ of an ashtray.”
The best part? Biden just accused someone else of plagiarism.
COME SEE THE RACISM INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: Julián Castro Said Kamala Harris’s Campaign Suffered Because The Media Holds Candidates Of Color To Different Standards.