Archive for 2020
February 6, 2020
WELL, I GUESS NOW THAT MICHAEL AVENATTI IS UNAVAILABLE: Chris Matthews Floats Adam Schiff as Possible 2020 Dem Nominee.
NO. NEXT QUESTION?
A Romney win in 2012 would have spared us the extremely destructive corruption, partisanship, and race-baiting of Obama’s second term — along with its truly dreadful foreign policy efforts. But at most it would have merely slowed the decline that Trump is actually reversing.
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: Jen Rubin Takes a Dumpster Dive, Compares Rush Limbaugh to David Duke (But Guess What She Said in 2011).
JILL LAWRENCE: Forget Iowa in 2024, don’t nominate a socialist in 2020, and time for 5 Democrats to go.
They might ditch Iowa in 2024, but they’ll never ditch the socialists because they’re an important part of the Democrat constituency.
GOOD AND HARD: Seattle’s Liberal Reckoning.
In his searing documentary of last year, “Seattle is Dying,” KOMO-TV’s Eric Johnson painted a dire picture by citing police officers who say the city’s lax enforcement regimen has tied their hands, quoting citizens saying they’re fed up with growing theft, and showing the frustrations of local business owners whose livelihoods are threatened by what they consider official inertia in the face of these problems.
Writing on KOMO’s website, Johnson said his documentary was “about citizens who don’t feel safe taking their families into downtown Seattle….about parents who won’t take their children into public parks they pay for. It’s about filth and degradation all around us. And theft and crime. It’s about people who don’t feel protected anymore, who don’t feel like their voices are being heard.”
Johnson’s documentary was aired in March of last year, some seven months before the Seattle City Council elections. It touched a nerve among many Seattleites and kicked up gale-force winds of controversy throughout the city and beyond. In the end, though, it didn’t have much impact. It will take a lot more civic chaos, dysfunction, and violence for this city to make the connection between that decay and the kind of leadership it so avidly favors. Seattle may or may not be dying, but it is in a far more ominous state of civic health than most of its citizens realize.
Read the whole thing.
ARE YOU TIRED YET? Private payrolls soar in January, the best monthly gain in nearly 5 years. (Bumped, in case you missed it. It sure didn’t get heavy press play.)
YES IT DOES: Seeing This New Trump Video of SOTU Guests Makes It Tough to Watch Pelosi Tearing Up Their Stories.
Related: Nancy Pelosi ‘pre-ripped’ pages of Trump’s SOTU speech, video shows.
The video still is courtesy of the New York Post, but the video at the link shows Pelosi in action.
RICHARD SAMUELSON: These Truths weren’t made for you and me. “Presumably, Lepore’s hope was to help us bridge our divisions. If that was her goal, she has failed. Unfortunately, she does not seem to be capable of understanding the arguments across the aisle, preferring instead the Progressive conceit according to which one side represents reason and the other, well, something else.”
HE’S RIGHT TO: CNN’s Van Jones Worries Trump’s Overtures Will Win Over Black Voters.
What have the Democrats actually done for black voters in the last 50+ years?
AMERICA’S PAPER OF RECORD: Democrats In Chaos After Being Forced To Do Math For First Time.
WHILE LIVING IN TIMES THAT DRIVE WRITERS OF PARODY INSANE, THE BEE SAILS THROUGH IN GLORY: Pelosi Defends Ripping Up Trump’s Speech, Saying It Was Just A ‘Clump Of Cells’.
I GUESS THERE IS NO REAL CRIME IN HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, FLORIDA: Undercover cops hired 118 handymen, then arrested them all for not having licenses. If an elected official approved this, he would lose my vote for sure.
I’VE TALKED ABOUT THIS, TOO. WE BELIEVE WHAT WE SEE, EVEN WHEN WE KNOW IT’S MADE UP: McAllister: Hollywood’s Cultural Brainwashing, Explained.
I THINK THE DEMOCRATS IN RED STATES WILL FIND OUR MEMORY IS LONGER THAN THAT: The Senate votes against removal.
THEY’RE NOT STUPID. NOT REALLY. THEY JUST CAN’T GET OVER: How Things Have Always Been.
AND SINCE PUBLISHING HAS BEEN MENTIONED: Books That I Cannot Wait Not to Read.
AN ACCURATE AND DISTURBING PORTRAIT: SOTU: Another reminder, if one was needed, about the Left’s juvenile narcissism.
AND THE WORST PART IS THEY REALLY HAVE NO IDEA HOW BAD THOSE OPTICS ARE: State of the Union . . . and the 2020 Race.
WHAT WE HAVE IN FACT IS A KAKISTOCRACY WHO, PROTECTED BY A SIMILARLY INCLINED PRESS WHEN NO ONE ELSE HAD A PODIUM, CONVINCED ITSELF THEY WERE VIRTUOUS AND ALSO SMARTER THAN EVERYONE ELSE. THIS WHILE HIRING NOT FOR COMPETENCY BUT FOR COMPLIANCE. THEREBY ACHIEVING IN FOUR GENERATIONS WHAT TOOK EUROPEAN ARISTOCRACIES A CENTURY: SCIONS SO DUMB THEY COULDN’T TELL WHICH END TO PLACE THE CROWN ON WITHOUT HELP: Going, Going. Gone.
SPEAKING OF PUERILE, EVEN ON THE MEND FROM THE FLU, I COULD NEVER RIVAL NANCY GREY GOOSE PELOSI: Starring Nancy Pelosi.