CHANGE: Court ruling against Venezuela in Crystallex case puts Citgo at risk. “A U.S. federal appeals court on Monday rejected an appeal by Venezuela’s state-owned oil company to set aside an order allowing a Canadian gold mining company to seize shares in its U.S. refining unit, Citgo Petroleum Corp.”
Maduro might be this close to losing another major source of other people’s money.
RACISM, STRAIGHT UP: Bernie Sanders blasted Baltimore as ‘Third World country’ and ‘disgrace’ in past comments.
GOLDIE TAYLOR: Trump’s Racist Attack Puts U.S. in ‘Dangerous, Filthy Place.’
It’s different when Trump says it because reasons.
LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Trump Forces Democrats, Media to Defend Al Sharpton. “I’m not surprised because the media and the Democrats have normalized antisemitism with their celebration and defense of anti-Semites like congressfolk Omar, Tlaib, and AOC. So why not Sharpton? It’s the next logical step.”
KAROL MARKOWICZ: Dems refuse to help fix border crisis because bashing Trump is more fun.
There isn’t a good solution, and the continual ratcheting up of the rhetoric by the left only ends up actively harming these kids. Democrats are telegraphing the message that as soon as they win the White House, people who cross the border illegally can stay.
Sen. Bernie Sanders referred to “racist child prisons,” because the Trump administration is housing children at an army base that served as a World War II internment camp for Japanese-Americans. He was silent when the Obama administration did the same thing. Will a President Sanders detain any migrants?
Sen. Liz Warren says, “We should not be criminalizing mamas and babies trying to flee violence at home or trying to build a better future.” Sounds like her administration would let everyone in, too.
But we simply can’t admit every mama and baby (and presumably a daddy or two). Such unrealistic rhetoric will only exacerbate the misery of the migrants and serve as a boon to the smugglers who profit off their misery.
If it unseats just one Republican president, isn’t it worth it?
IF SO, TRUMP SHOULD HAVE DONE THIS ON JANUARY 20, 2017: Donald Trump’s spy chief pick John Ratcliffe is attempt to ‘neutralise’ US intelligence agencies, ex-officials warn.
“GUN-FREE” IS SEMANTICALLY EQUIVALENT TO “EASY PICKINGS”: The Gilroy shooting is horrible reminder that gun-free zones are a dangerous illusion.
NO. AND NO. Tired of desserts made with empty calories? Try these chocolate pistachio brownie cookies.
This is from Salon, where judging by the photo, they must hate their readers.
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update for July 29, 2019. “The next debates loom, Gabbard sues Google, Moulton shoots people in a graveyard, billionaire Steyer begs for pennies, a lot of polls, and your periodic reminder that polls are useless.”
ILHAN OMAR: The ‘Blame Is on Us’ for ‘Acceleration’ of Suffering in Iran, Venezuela.
Don’t you dare question her patriotism.
WHAT WOULD WE DO WITHOUT STUDIES? Study: Olympic Guidelines Give Transgender Women an ‘Intolerable’ Advantage in Women’s Sports.
CHRISTIAN TOTO: Tarantino’s ‘Hollywood’ – A Glorious Return to Form.
WITH THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA HELPING KEEP THE BLADES SHARP: On the Eve of the Debates, the Long Knives Come Out for Joe Biden.
CONRAD BLACK: Why the Left So Despises Donald Trump.
The Democrats are almost leaderless. The Clinton faction is discounted by the election result, the appalling fraud of the Steele Dossier, and many unsavory financial questions; President Obama remains somewhat popular but is a rather withdrawn figure. In these circumstances, the frolicsome Democratic Left has made the running, and as usually happens, the more strenuous factions of the party out of the White House have the most energy, which in these times means that the Democrats have made a seismic shift to the left.
This has been magnified by the fact that the further to the economic and foreign-policy left one is, the more repulsive Donald Trump appears. The far-left faction of the Democrats, led by congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib, have with this big, very white, rigorously politically incorrect billionaire, what they believe, tactically and by uncontainable impulse, is the target of their political dreams.
Mr. Trump is the personification of every policy they hate and every human trait they despise; to them, he is a monster of ignorance, greed, bombast, bellicosity, and racist bigotry. They are like World War II movie submarine captains seeing a thousand feet ahead of their periscopes a giant enemy oil tanker, inching through still waters.
Their hate is real, but their impression of the target is a chimerical mirage.
The Two Minute Hate was always ginned up, and the Left is now in its third year of never-ending two-minute hate cycles.
IF YOU STRIKE ME DOWN… Dethroned Miss Michigan Kathy Zhu joins President Trump’s reelection campaign.
PLEASE DON’T THROW ME INTO THAT BRIAR PATCH: With Sunday surge, nearly half of House Democrats back impeachment inquiry. “The four who issued their support on Sunday, all from Washington state, bring the total number of House Democrats who have publicly said they’d vote for an impeachment inquiry to 104 — 14 shy of a majority of the Democratic Caucus — with backers of an inquiry promising there are more waiting in the wings.”
All they have to do is not act crazy…
INDEED: Trump’s Attack on Baltimore Doesn’t Go Far Enough.
Take a look at the eight other cities that beat Baltimore on Orkin’s rattiest cities list. What do they all have in common? We’ll, let’s see:
Chicago hasn’t had a Republican mayor since 1931. Philadelphia last saw a Republican mayor in 1952, Detroit in 1962. San Francisco has been Democrat-controlled since 1964. Washington, D.C., has never had a Republican mayor.
In Los Angeles, Democrats have run the city in all but eight of the past 58 years, in New York, it’s eight in the past 74 (not counting John Lindsay, who switched parties while in office). Cleveland’s been run by Democrats in all but 16 of the past 78 years.
Indeed, if you want to see what liberal Democratic policies tend to produce, go to any one of those cities, or other Democratic strongholds. Democrats promise to help the poor and downtrodden, grow the middle class, make life more fair. But their policies consistently produce the opposite.
These cities are rife with crime. Baltimore ranks No. 1 for robberies and No. 2 for murders. Many of the other rat-infested cities also rank high for violent crimes. Their infrastructure is crumbling. The middle class has largely abandoned them.
Much more at the link.
ROD DREHER’S MAILBAG: Wokeness Drives Latino Student To Trump.
This summer, I received a grant to research monetary policy. The only catch is that one can only get the money if he (she/zhe/whatever) is multicultural (I’m part Mexican), so there was bound to be some issues with that if it came up. But money grants to multicultural students are a lot bigger and easier to get than standard research grants for undergraduates, so naturally I went with that. Sure, there’s a bit of gaming the system if I’m only part Mexican and culturally assimilated, but wouldn’t you rather have me get that money than some quack?
(The other people who got money really are quacks–one girl is doing research on how we should replace writing classes with learning how to tell stories through knitting because apparently indigenous people can’t express themselves through writing. No joke. In other words, the research is a propaganda program.)
One of the conditions for receiving the money is I have to occasionally meet with the other people who received funding and go to seminars on ridiculous crap. I usually don’t pay attention. But a couple of weeks ago we had to have a discussion circle about how students deal with mental health and what that might be like in graduate school. Sounds fairly innocuous and perhaps even useful, right? Wrong.
It never is. And do read the whole thing.
LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: It’s the Trump Card vs. the Race Card, Who Will Win? “Cummings is black and you aren’t allowed to say anything to certain people who are protected. The protected crowd are designated minorities who are Democrats. Women, Hispanic Americans, African Americans, LGBTQ etc. who are NOT leftists are allowed and encouraged to be attacked.”
DON’T GET COCKY: Trump’s economy is on fire, but Democrats aren’t so hot (and that’s why he’ll win in 2020).
Bill Clinton ran in 1992 claiming the brief ’90-’91 recession (which had ended before the election) was the worst economy since the Great Depression. And the media helped him sell that fake news. So it doesn’t really matter to the media what the economy does between now and November, 2020 — they’ll tell whatever story they think will help put a Democrat in the White House.
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