I TOLD THE INSTAWIFE I’D DO SOMETHING ROMANTIC FOR VALENTINE’S DAY, and what’s more romantic than being scattered, smothered, and covered in love?
Archive for 2019
February 10, 2019
IF THEY TAKE MAIL OR INTERNET ORDERS, THEY’LL GET A LOT OF BUSINESS: Heaven has a wall: Grocery store ad mailer stirs controversy. “A family-owned Christian grocery store with several locations in Southeast Arkansas is dealing with backlash as customers argue a weekly ad mailer included a controversial political message.”
The SJW backlash doesn’t seem to bother them: “The company says it stands by the messages and plans to keep including them in the weekly mailers.”
IT’S COME TO THIS: Democrats Have Proven That Trump Is The Adult In The Room.
HOW BAD IS IT FOR VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS? THIS BAD: CNN’s Nina Turner stomps on a Democratic Congresswoman’s effort to blame Trump for the problems with the Democratic Party leadership in Virginia.
AT LEAST THERE’S A HAPPY ENDING: Nashville man tries robbing woman before her husband shoots him, police say.
OPEN THREAD: Make this one special.
VIRGINIA CLOWN SHOW UPDATE: Virginia Lawmakers Weigh Impeachment of Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax Over Sexual Assault Allegations.
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: Saturday Night Live’s Blatant Hypocrisy on Blackface.
CANCER HAS BEEN AROUND FOR A LONG TIME: Paleontologists diagnose 240-million-year-old proto-turtle with bone cancer.
WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP THINKING THAT LEFTISM IS A CULT? DC bakery offering Ruth Bader Ginsburg-themed treats for Valentine’s Day.
Oh, the fun the couple who enjoys these must be having. “Are you down with RBG? Yeah, know me!”
BRAVE FIREFIGHTER KATY TUR CHEERLEADS FOR AOC’S GREEN NEW DEAL:
CHUCK TODD:
David, obviously the president’s team sees a reelection opening.
DAVID BRODY:
Oh yeah. I mean, it’s wide and it’s huge. And it’s a real big pothole, I think, Chuck, for the Democrats. Look, we know the polls. We’ve seen them. 35 percent of this country is conservative. 35 percent or so is moderate. 26 percent or so liberal. But this is going in a far different direction. Even some of the polling shows that only I think it’s 19 percent– it’s an NBC poll actually, 19 percent think socialism is okay. These are Americans in this country. So the point is that Donald Trump sees this. He’s a master brander. And I believe this is a major, major pothole for Democrats coming, coming in 2020. Big time. Iceberg right ahead.
KATY TUR:
I’m not so sure about that. I mean, I think you have some, some real reporting out there from experts, not just analysts on television, but from actual experts, the U.N., from the, from Donald Trump’s own administration saying how dire this is. The U.N. said we have 12 years before complete disaster. You talk to the representative of the Marshall Islands, and he’s calling it what could amount to genocide if we allow things to go as they are. The reports aren’t just, “Hey, it’s going to get bad.” The reports are, “People will die. Millions and million, and millions of people will die.” And I think that there is an appetite among voters out there, especially Democratic voters and potentially swing voters, to say, “Hey, let’s do something about this now because it’s, it’s going to affect our future.”
Interesting, Tur’s use of the G-word. As Virginia Postrel once told C-Span’s Brian Lamb:
The Khmer Rouge sought to start over at year zero, and to sort of create the kind of society that very civilized, humane greens write about as though it were an ideal. I mean, people who would never consider genocide. But I argue that if you want to know what that would take, look at Cambodia–to empty the cities and turn everyone into peasants again. Even in a less developed country, let alone in someplace like the United States, that these sort of static utopian fantasies are just that.
Particularly when, as Kevin Williamson wrote today, “Field Marshal Sandy needs a great cause to which to attach herself, lest she return to being only Sandy, obscure and unhappy and of no consequence — or at least no consequence obvious enough for someone with her crippled understanding of what life is for.”
But if Tur actually believes that “The U.N. said we have 12 years before complete disaster,” will she help slow things down, even a little bit, by insisting that NBC drop its contracts with NASCAR and the NFL, and perhaps Hollywood itself to dramatically shrink its own massive carbon footprint? And if we really do only “have 12 years before complete disaster,” which decade is she referring to?
WOW, I HOPE HE CAN FIND SOMEONE TO DRIVE HIM PLACES SOMEHOW: At 97, Prince Philip gives up driving license.
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WELL, TWISTING YOUR WORDS TO FIT THEIR WORST FANTASIES IS A HALLMARK OF THE LEFT, BECAUSE THEY’RE AWFUL PEOPLE:
I’m seeing Trump getting trashed — “Twitter Lampoons Trump for Apparent Trail of Tears Joke Aimed at Elizabeth Warren” (Mediaite).
“The joke here is that the Trail of Tears was a genocide. Get it? Get it?”
I’ll just say 4 things:
1. Trump only wrote (yelled) “TRAIL.” He didn’t say “Trail of Tears.” His haters are zeroing in on the Trail of Tears and insisting that’s what he meant to refer to and that’s what he thought was funny to say. It seems to me that “trail” is a more general term and a term that relates to Native Americans. It’s that more general meaning that makes the specification “of Tears” understandable. It’s as if these anti-Trumpsters have never heard of the Great Trail or the Natchez Trace.
2. If Trump’s opponents really do feel empathy toward those who suffered in the Trail of Tears, why are they bringing it up to score political points? They’re taking something weighty and somber and throwing it around gleefully, because they think they got Trump. Is that a smirk I see on their face?
3. Trump got his opponents to repeat his tweet. They are making it viral, because they think they are hurting him, but they are spotlighting Elizabeth Warren’s worst problem and helping to insure that when we think about Elizabeth Warren, we think about her problematic use of the claim that she’s Native American.
4. The Trump antagonists are giving us another example of the harshness of the left’s demands. Whatever you say may be presented in the worst possible light. It seems that if anything can be portrayed as racist/sexist/homophobic, it will be, and you can be ruined in an instant in the America they have created and want to control. It’s scary.
And that, more than anything, is why you should vote for Trump.
But if we’re going to talk Trail-of-Tears genocide, note that it was perpetrated by a Democratic president, as was the internment of Japanese Americans behind barbed wire in World War Two. So if you want to avoid genocide, you should probably avoid Democratic presidents by . . . voting for Trump. Just sayin’ . . .
WHERE DO WE DRAW THE LINE? But Is It Human?
Surely there’s some time between conception and being eligible to vote where we can draw a line.
MICHAEL WALSH: In Virginia, Democrats Are Hoist with Their ‘Intersectionality’ Petard.
It’s gonna turn out that the whole “intersectionality” craze was a long-term plot created by Roger Stone in 1974.
NEWS FROM AMERICA’S THIRD WORLD: ‘Absolutely terrifying’: Deputy city attorney says she contracted typhus at City Hall. “Greenwood’s experience — and her willingness to speak publicly about it — was a driving factor in this week’s admission by city officials that Los Angeles’ iconic seat of government is infested with vermin.”
GABRIEL MALOR: “This week we learned that blackface isn’t disqualifying for Democratic politicians, and plagiarism isn’t disqualifying for elite journalists.”
To be fair, we actually learned the latter in 2002:
The historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, under fire for inappropriately copying several passages in a book she wrote in 1987, yesterday disclosed that her borrowings were far more extensive. In all, she said that in the same book she failed to acknowledge scores of quotations or close paraphrases from other authors.
Ms. Goodwin, one of the nation’s best-known historians and a frequent television commentator, admitted last month that she borrowed some passages in her book, ”The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys,” from three previous works. She also said that in 1987 her publisher, Simon & Schuster, paid to settle a legal claim by one author under a confidentiality agreement. Yesterday Ms. Goodwin said that since those revelations, her research assistants had found passages copied from several other books as well.
At her behest, she said, Simon & Schuster is taking the extraordinary step of destroying its inventory of paperback copies of the book to publish a thoroughly corrected edition this spring.
Goodwin remains a regular, and reliably establishment leftist fixture, on MSNBC.
Additionally, we also learned a lot about non-sweeps weeks reruns as well this week. Or as Jim Treacher wrote on Thursday, It’s Time for a NEW Green New Deal.
VIRGINIA CLOWN SHOW UPDATE: CBS’s Gayle King corrects Northam for referring to slaves as ‘indentured servants.’
The comment came in Northam’s first televised interview since he began facing calls to resign over a blackface scandal, in which he urged healing.
“We are now at the 400-year anniversary — just 90 miles from here in 1619. The first indentured servants from Africa landed on our shores in Old Point Comfort, what we call now Fort Monroe, and while—,” Northam said, before King cut him off.
“Also known as slavery,” King said.
“Yes,” Northam responded.
And note this moment in the transcript:
GOV. RALPH NORTHAM: –right now, Virginia needs someone that can heal. There’s no better person to do that than a doctor. Virginia also needs someone who is strong, who has empathy, who has courage and who has a moral compass. And that’s why I’m not going anywhere. I have learned from this. I have a lot more to learn. But we’re in a unique opportunity now. Again the 400 year anniversary of the history whether it be good or bad in Virginia to really make some impactful changes–
GAYLE KING: Of slavery in this country?
GOV. RALPH NORTHAM: Yes.
As CNN’s Jeff Yang tweets, “‘The 400 year anniversary of the history [of slavery] whether it be good or bad.’ It be bad, Ralph.”
When you’re a Democrat who’s lost CBS, CNN, and the Washington Post, your career barely has a pulse. Speaking of which, Twitchy notes that “to top it all, [during his interview with King, Northam] touted his being in ‘life and death’ situations with children.” And/or life followed by death for newborn children.
To coin an Instaphrase, they told me that if Donald Trump were elected president, we’d see open racism becoming acceptable in polite society. And they were right!
Earlier: WHAT IS IT ABOUT VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS? Virginia AG says he wore blackface at college party.
EAT ‘EM TO BEAT ‘EM: The Lionfish Have Invaded, But a Ragtag Army of Divers and Chefs Are Fighting Back.
Hey, I was on this story back in 2011.
VIRGINIA CLOWN SHOW UPDATE: Fairfax asks for due process; accusers say they’re willing to testify at impeachment hearings. Due process? That’s more than college men get.
Related: Duke Investigating Rape Allegation Made By Meredith Watson. Will they use a Title IX kangaroo court?
“IT’S NOT EASY BEING A DEMOCRAT THESE DAYS:” In Virginia, Democrats Are Hoist with Their ‘Intersectionality’ Petard.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Should White Boys Still Be Allowed to Talk? Proper response: Fuck off, bigot.
But this more nuanced response from the comments is good: “It’s not often that racist and sexist thoughts are married so well on the page, so kudos to the writer for creating this perfect storm of hate. Who will get space next on the editorial pages of The Dickinsonian? A Klansman? A gleeful misogynist?” And I’m happy to say that that’s the general tenor.
Meanwhile, a friend on Facebook observes: “Ever notice that in every discussion of girls vs boys it is: How we can encourage girls. vs How we can correct boys. Or Girls ‘kick ass’ and boys are ‘toxic.’ Notably even in cases where Genderists claim to care about boys it is about fixing their problematic nature. If boys fare poorly it is because their failings, not because of the failings of those to whom their care was entrusted. At this point it is fairly obvious. But the post-mortem analysis of the effects of Genderism will astound in the coming decades. It will make the Catholic Priest child abuse scandals pale in comparison.”
Related: Tell The Social Justice Warrior Mobs To Go Pound Sand.