Archive for 2019

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO FACILITATE RAPE: How a Ring of Women Allegedly Recruited Girls for Jeffrey Epstein. “Jeffrey is no longer here, and the women that helped him are. . . . They definitely need to be held accountable for helping him, helping themselves, helping one another carry on this huge — almost like — system.”

THE MEDIA HAS MADE ITS CHOICE AND IT’S NOT HIM: #YANGMEDIABLACKOUT.

WELL, NOW IF THERE’S A RECESSION, TRUMP WILL BE ABLE TO CLAIM THAT THE FED ENGINEERED IT: ‘Grossly irresponsible’ – Larry Summers blasts ex-Fed president’s call to thwart Trump in 2020.

“For a former trusted official of the Fed, whose thinking is inevitably going to be tied to the Fed, to recommend that they … [use] rates so as to subvert the economy and influence a presidential election is grossly irresponsible, and is an abuse of the privilege of being a former Fed official,” said Summers, who formerly was Treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton and as an economic advisor to President Barack Obama.

A major impact of the Trump presidency is the revelation that many allegedly trusted and impartial organizations are staffed by hacks with a crude political agenda.

WHO DARES, CONQUERS, BORIS JOHNSON EDITION: Tories take double digit poll lead. “You can see why Corbyn, 12 points behind in yesterday’s YouGov poll, isn’t keen on triggering a vote of no confidence that might lead to an early general election. Boris would crush him.”

OPEN THREAD: There can only be one.

NEW CIVILITY WATCH: If You Want Civility You Just Might Be a Neo-Confederate and Because of That the Left Really Does Want You Dead.

The opinion pages of the nation’s major newspapers never cease to disappoint. Just a couple of weeks ago, the New York Times announced that it has suddenly discovered that everything to do with everything in American history was a direct result of slavery. Now some twit writing at the Washington Post reveals that the whole call for civility by people on the right triggers her because it is exactly like the rhetoric of defenders of slavery in the antebellum South.

In January of 2011, the New York Times reported, “In Tucson, Obama Urges Americans to New Era of Civility.” Yes, Obama’s a Democrat. But I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt that’s he’s not a closet neo-Confederate.

More at Commentary, where under the headline, “Truth? That’s What the Slaveholders Say!”, Jonathan Marks writes:

In fairness to the Washington Post, it has been more than twenty-four hours since it had to correct an op-ed falsely claiming that J.D. Vance, the author of Hillbilly Elegy, had lamented a decline in white births. Perhaps its editors regret the error. But what’s truly regrettable is the impulse to publish any and every article, no matter how wrong or foul, postulating that anyone who crosses the left is a racist.

“Vote for us, you bigots,” is quite an interesting argument for Democratic Party operatives with bylines to be making during in the early innings of a presidential election cycle.

ROBERT SPENCER: Everybody Must Get Stoned – Except Ilhan Omar.

Omar has joined the Clintons and their cronies in the new protected class in America, made up of people who are above the law, any law, because their importance, power and influence overrides all other considerations. Will she reward this development with her gratitude? Will she become kinder in her appraisal of her adopted country, which unlike the country of her birth, will not require her death for this offense? Don’t bet on it.

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