Posts on Sunday, August 25, 2019
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has unveiled a stretch of new wall on the southern border, saying it has completed at least 60 miles of new border wall in total.
The new section of wall near San Luis, Arizona consists of an 18-foot steel bollard barrier.
CBP says that a new triple-layered enforcement zone is more effective at deterring illegal entry than the former single 10-foot barrier.
The agency says that it plans to build at least 450 miles of new border wall by the end of 2020, and has projects underway in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.
US President Donald Trump on Sunday said he's "not happy" about North Korea's persistent testing of short-range missiles but again denied that the launches violate any agreement, The Hill reports.
The president was asked about the tests during a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the sidelines of the Group of Seven (G-7) summit.
"I’m not happy about it. But again, he’s not in violation of an agreement," Trump was quoted as having told reporters.
The president asserted that the short-ranged missile launches North Korea has repeatedly conducted in recent weeks were similar to other countries' tests.
Donald Trump has reportedly suggested on more than one occasion that the US military should bomb hurricanes in order to disrupt them before they make landfall.
According to US news website Axios, the US president said in a meeting with top national security and homeland security officials about the threat of hurricanes: “I got it. I got it. Why don’t we nuke them?”
“They start forming off the coast of Africa, as they’re moving across the Atlantic, we drop a bomb inside the eye of the hurricane and it disrupts it. Why can’t we do that?”
Quoting unnamed sources who were present at the meeting, Axios report that
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., stunned the political world last year when she pulled off an upset victory against a 10-term incumbent who held a leadership position in the Democratic caucus. Now candidates are looking to replicate some of her tactics to take on Democratic incumbents across the country. According to the group the Justice Democrats, which backed Ocasio-Cortez in her race, the first-time candidate succeeded in part because of her unique social media strategy, a refusal to take money from large corporations and her recognition of issues that resonate with millennials. “Everything that the world knows her for — especially
On Sunday's AM Joy on MSNBC, Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin renewed a previous attack on former Donald Trump administration members as she declared that they should be "shunned" for the rest of the lives, and that the Republican Party should figuratively be "burned down" so that there are no "survivors," punishing Trump's "enablers."Her comments came as the group discussed former White House press secretaries Sean Spicer and Sarah Huckabee Sanders moving on to ABC's Dancing with the Stars and the Fox News Channel, respectively, after leaving office. (Video)
Andy Vila's mother remembers her son as a bright, rebellious child who enjoyed Harry Potter books and dressing up as the U.S. president. But when he began to embrace the same ideology his family had fled in socialist Cuba, she pleaded in vain for him to stop his political activism.His socialism made Vila an outlier in his Miami community and opened deep rifts with relatives. He was briefly exiled from home, and his mother entered therapy to bridge their differences. To mention socialism at family dinners, "that's a no-go," Vila said. Relatives would "look at me funny and say, 'We've escaped that.'"At 21, Vila is part of
A North Carolina family is seeking a full refund from Alaska Airlines after it claims the carrier “abandoned” their unaccompanied 13-year old daughter, who was traveling alone from Raleigh, N.C. to Spokane, Wash. Douglas Davila says he received a frantic call from his teenager during a layover at San Francisco International Airport, saying she was left alone. The teen borrowed a cellphone from a sympathetic fellow passenger. (Snip) “Our investigation, which includes specific records that tracked the movement of our young guest, indicates employees did meet her when her flight arrived and escorted her to our Service Center at San
The left is doing its level best to blame Brazil's bush fires on Brazil's conservative, Trump-like president, Jair Bolsonaro, and get him thrown out of office.
Things are bad for him - the fires are affecting air quality in states that are his political base, and they're concentrated not in the actual rainforest, but in areas of developed farmland, something Bolsonaro's encouraged to bring some kind of prosperity to Brazil's flyover.
It's drawn tremendous negative press on him, and set European Union's eurochickens clucking, vowing at the G-7 to cut off trade with Brazil to pin those fires on Bolsonaro instead of the weather.
The Trump campaign dismissed the campaign to primary the president by former Republican congressman Joe Walsh with just one single word. Walsh has confirmed to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that he plans to mount a primary challenge, with the support of Never Trumpers like Bill Kristol. .“I’m gonna run for president,” Walsh said. “We’ve got a guy in the White House who is unfit, completely unfit to be president and it stuns me that nobody stepped up.” When asked about the challenge, Trump’s campaign responded to ABC’s Jon Karl with one single, perfect, word. “Whatever,” the campaign said.
Donald Trump launched another attack Sunday on his favorite television network, claiming that Fox News is 'not what it used to be.' 'Rasmussen at 50%. @MediaBuzzFNC & @FoxNews are only getting worse!' he lamented in a tweet sent from the Group of Seven summit in Biarritz, France on Sunday. 'Now @donnabrazile & others on Fox. Not what it used to be!' While issuing the attack on the two networks, Trump touted his most recent presidential approval rating from Rasmussen Reports from Friday, which had him at 50 per cent approval. His approval rating has hovered in the mid-40s to 50 per cent this summer.
President Trump gave quite the greeting to the ladies of the G7 summit Sunday. On the second day of the summit, world leaders and their spouses headed to dinner at Hotel du Palais in Biarritz, France. President Trump puckered up for what appeared to be an awkward greeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. But Emmanuel Macron's wife Brigitte reciprocated, reaching up to give Trump a tradition European smooch. Meanwhile, First Lady Melania Trump looked ravishing in red as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave her a welcoming kiss
Seeking to put a lid on a scandal showing little sign of abating, the Duke of York coyly referred yesterday to his ‘former association or friendship’ with Jeffrey Epstein.Those who attended a glittering party in the Duke’s honour on December 2, 2010, in New York might be surprised at his choice of words. Not least because it was thrown by convicted paedophile Epstein himself at his Upper East Side mansion, variously dubbed the House of Horror and the House of Depravity by the banker’s young victims.
When you are talking about Donald Trump, you’re talking about a billionaire playboy whose name has been synonymous with wealth and success in America since the eighties, a motivational book author, a reality TV star, and the world’s most prominent tweeter. In other words, he is a unique figure and if Republicans like Mitch McConnell, Marco Rubio, and Rand Paul tried to copy everything Trump is doing, they would fail miserably because they’re not Trump and they can’t do what he does and get away with it. (Photo)
New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger issued a lengthy statement on Sunday afternoon to newsroom staff, a statement published in a release by the Times and quoted in a longer article by the newspaper on efforts by allies of President Donald Trump to combat the media through exposing racism and antisemitism inside the establishment media, including the Times.Sulzberger’s quote in an article by reporters Jeremy Peters and Ken Vogel stated specifically that the Times will not be “intimidated or silenced” by allies of Trump who expose embarrassing past comments
Ending ‘Catch and Release’
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As Congress persists in serially ignoring anything having to do with the border crisis, the Trump Administration continues to release regulations aimed at fixing the problem of illegal immigration.
The administration on Friday released its latest rule to address a longstanding “pull” factor: that illegal migrants who arrive with children immediately are released into the interior of the country.(Snip)
The new rule removes the 20-day limit on detaining children, thereby allowing the Trump administration to hold families together until their asylum claims can be processed. It is similar logic to what the Obama Administration used in its 2014 “no-release” policy,
A Republican New York state assemblyman retweeted a video that depicts four New York Police Department officers struggling to arrest a man resisting to get into a police car. Mike Reilly disseminated the video, which shows the officers calling for assistance as onlookers demand the cops call an ambulance for the man, who is under arrest. (Tweet/Video) According to the New York Post, the recorded incident surfaced hours after NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill claimed that a police slowdown when performing routine work would not occur
They did it! Louisiana caps off
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River Ridge's Eastbank All Stars capped off its historic run in the Little League World Series with a dominant win over Curacao to claim the 2019 championship on Sunday in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
Eastbank knocked in 8 runs on 10 hits to secure the 8-0 shutout win. Pitcher Egan Prather threw a complete game with 6 strikeouts, 2 hits and no runs earned in 6 innings. Just like the team's win in the U.S. Final against Hawaii on Saturday, a strong fifth inning powered Eastbank to victory as the team raked in four runs on four hits and two walks
Editor’s note: The Washington Post and other news outlets on Friday reported that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been treated again for pancreatic cancer. “It was the second treatment for cancer in nine months for the court’s oldest member and leader of its liberal wing,” the Post story notes. (Snip)On April 14, we published the article by George Bardmesser, which argues President Trump could make a deal to name a “100 percent confirmable anti-Ginsburg” justice not named Amy Coney Barrett in exchange for the liberal jurist’s retirement. In light of Friday’s news, we’re reposting Bardmesser’s prescient commentary for further consideration. I am a lowly lawyer who has never argued before
Andrew McCabe’s Unjust Deserts
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I was going to pass by in silent contempt the news that CNN—the network that patrons of airport lounges cordially dislike and that no one else watches—just decided to hire disgraced former FBI honcho Andrew McCabe as a commentator.(Snip) the case of McCabe is important (Snip)
As I have noticed before in this space, Andrew McCabe was a central player in the pseudo-investigation of Hillary Clinton’s misuse of classified information and self-enrichment schemes while secretary of state. He was one of the people who made sure that the probe went nowhere.
McCabe was also a central figure in the get-Mike-Flynn operation and, later, the Great Trump Hunt
In case you missed it, or are exclusively a reader of the New York Times, late last week Bernie Sanders tweeted this nugget: "Fossil fuel executives should be criminally prosecuted for the destruction they have knowingly caused."
No, that wasn't The Onion or The Babylon Bee. It was the real deal. The always-furious Vermont senator wants to incarcerate the very people who are responsible for keeping the lights on and the air conditioners running in the operating rooms of almost every hospital, not only in America but across the globe. And that's just the beginning of the myriad necessities of human life provided for
A pro-Trump network of conservative operatives has been compiling dossiers of potentially damaging public comments and social media posts by journalists who have produced unfavorable coverage of the administration, the New York Times' Ken Vogel and Jeremy Peters report.
The big picture: The group has already released information on journalists at CNN, the Times and the Washington Post, but sources say the operation has only disclosed a fraction of its dirt. More is set to be disseminated as the 2020 election campaign ramps up, including potentially "fireable" information on "several hundred" journalists, according to one source. The research is also said to include information on journalists'
“Angel has Fallen” put up some impressive numbers this weekend during its debut.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the latest film about Secret Service agent Mike Banning starring Gerard Butler made $21.3 million this weekend, which was above initial projections. I’m not surprised at all that it put up big numbers at the box office. These movies are awesome. “Olympus has Fallen” and “London has Fallen” were both incredible.
There’s tons of shooting, action and all-around general badass stuff happening from start to finish. It’s the perfect kind of film for guys who love action movies. The fact that “Angel has Fallen” is doing well must mean people like it.
FFormer Duke Chair of Psychiatry Dr. Allen Frances admitted Sunday that President Donald Trump was not mentally ill, but suggested that if using that argument would get Trump removed from office, he would do it.
Frances appeared on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” with Brian Stelter to discuss what he felt were the dangers of declaring Trump mentally unfit — namely, he said, calling Trump “crazy” was an insult to people who do have mental illnesses. “There is absolutely no doubt that Trump is dangerous,” Frances claimed, arguing that Trump was “dangerous because he’s a bad, evil con man” rather than because he was mentally ill
Cindy McCain said recently that she thought her late husband, Sen. John McCain, would be greatly troubled by the state of American politics.
"I think he'd be very disappointed, in fact, I know he would be," McCain told CNN's Brianna Keilar in an interview that aired on "State of the Union" Sunday, the one-year anniversary of the Arizona Republican senator's death.
"He would be saddened by the digression that these conversations and these debates have taken, and also saddened that we're so disoriented within the world right now," she added. "As you know, he concentrated on helping the little guy and helping the people that were desperate and
controversial CNN segment Sunday morning featured the former head of Duke University's Psychiatry Department demanding professionals stop discussing President Donald Trump's mental health in terms of "psychological name-calling."
Dr. Allen Frances, author of Twilight of American Sanity, appeared on Brian Stelter's CNN program Sunday to push back against a Yale School of Medicine psychiatry professor and several other mental health professionals who continue to appear on cable news networks to "diagnose" Trump from afar based on his frequently erratic behavior and public comments. Stelter was later ridiculed on social media for allowing Dr. Frances to claim "Trump is as destructive a person in
The former chairman of the Psychiatry Department at Duke University said some absolutely shocking things about President Donald Trump while appearing on Brian Stelter’s CNN show ‘Reliable Sources‘ this week, including saying that he “may be responsible for many more million deaths” than Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong. The wild segment was supposed to be about the trend of having psychiatrists who have never met the president making psychological evaluations on him, but it went way off
The Stakes are High – Macron Emphasizes
Maximum G7 Control – Even Spouses
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The stakes are high at this G7 Summit in Biarritz France. Against the rising tide of populist nationalism -pushing against the globalist/corporatist world order- perhaps these stakes are the highest in the modern political era. Italian President Giuseppe Conte’ is a lame duck summit participant having just quit his job due to economic and immigration backlash from his Italian population. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has steered her export dependent economy into a recession; and has announced she won’t seek reelection while simultaneously putting the EU central bank into a 28 nation economic quagmire filled with unsustainable IOU’s….French President Emmanuel Macron, the host for this year’s summit
Mark Harmon has scored on the football field and in life, playing QB at UCLA, hanging out with Ozzie and Harriet, starring in a record 17 seasons of NCIS and raising a family in Hollywood. Football was a star in Mark Harmon’s life from the very beginning. One of his earliest memories is watching a film highlight reel of his dad, Heisman-winner Tom Harmon, scoring 33 touchdowns playing college football for the University of Michigan.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan announced the terms of a new U.S-Japan trade agreement have been reached. This part of the trade agreement was visible for some time; confirmed today. U.S Ambassador Lighthizer and Japanese Minister Motegi have worked this for a while.(Snip)[Transcript] – PRESIDENT TRUMP: So, thank you very much. We’ve been working on a deal with Japan for a long time. It involves agricultural and it involves e-commerce and many other things.(Snip)
they’re going to be buying all of that corn. And that’s a very big transaction. They’re going to be buying it from our farmers.
An announcement from China on Saturday, pledging a full economic war against the United States, will likely not come as a surprise for most CTH readers. However, it does serve as emphasis for our 2017 statement: “prepare your affairs accordingly“…When we followed up a few months later with the warning:
“There is no upper limit to the level of economic pain Team U.S.A. (America First) is willing to inflict upon China. There is no ending perimeter of action too far for President Trump to travel. Trump will battle his adversary far beyond traditional horizons and will follow them in retreat if that’s what it takes to ensure the safety
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has the Left all anxious because pancreatic cancer threatens to take her out. That would give right-of-center judges an advantage, or at least a fighting chance, in putting America back on the path where judges interpret the law rather than make the law. Were their ideas fully explained to and understood by the public, leftists would be overwhelmingly defeated and never win much of anything. Knowing they cannot win a fair fight, they concentrate on putting judges in office to do their bidding via judicial fiat. The mild right let this process get established, and now much
If you want to win an election, yelling about global warming and blaming air conditioners, cars, plastic straws, and jets -- while jetting in to do it -- is probably not the best way to sell it to voters. So to the surprise of no one except the far leftists hollering about it, the Democratic Party's leadership has decided to cancel a proposed presidential nomination debate on climate change, enraging the party's extremists: "This decision is as baffling as it is alarming. Our planet is burning— the least we can do as a party is debate what to do about it," [candidate Beto] O'Rourke said on Twitter
A homeless man smiled during his arraignment Sunday morning on a series of “hate crime” attacks this month on random Manhattan pedestrians. Todd Lyons, 33, had been free on two previous assaults in The Bronx and Manhattan when cops suspect he committed as many as seven new attacks; all the victims in the new attacks are white. He appeared happy as he learned he’d been charged with felony and misdemeanor assault for three of those latest attacks. Law enforcement sources have told The Post that Lyons used his fists, or random found objects—including a brick and wood from a broken chair
Construction begins on border wall funded by $2.8
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President Trump has received a lot of derision for supposedly not building a single mile of new border barrier, despite his campaign promises. But the real story is a bit more complicated, and as of last Friday, crews began construction on 247 miles of 30-foot-high wall in Arizona and New Mexico. Last month, the Supreme Court decided that use of parts of the military budget to protect our sovereignty was oaky, and this added $2.8 billion to the $1.7 billion that Congress appropriated for wall construction. That permitted President Trump to start to fulfill his promises.
From the vast deserts of Saudi Arabia to the crowded neighborhoods of Beirut, a drone war has taken flight across the wider Middle East, raising the stakes in the ongoing tensions between the U.S. and Iran.
In the year since President Donald Trump withdrew America from Iran’s nuclear deal, there’s been an increasing tempo of attacks and alleged threats from unmanned aircraft flown by Tehran’s and Washington’s allies in the region.
The appeal of the aircraft — they risk no pilots and can be small enough to evade air-defense systems — fueled their rapid use amid the maximum pressure campaigns of Iran and the U.S.
When Liz O’Sullivan was hired at the New York City-based artificial intelligence company Clarifai in 2017, she felt lucky to find work at the intersection of two of her main interests: technology and ethics. Two years later, she found herself facing a moral dilemma.
Clarifai was developing aerial photography and object detection tools as one of several companies working on Project Maven, a Pentagon drone surveillance program. After several conversations with friends and colleagues, O’Sullivan realized this type of technology eventually could be used for autonomous weapons. In January, she wrote to Clarifai CEO Matt Zeiler on behalf of a group of employees, seeking clarification on whether the
Some of Hollywood’s most vile left-wing figures wasted no time on Friday to mock and even cheer the death of billionaire philanthropist David Koch, with some hoping that his brother, Charles, also meets his demise.
Actress Alyssa Milano saw her left-wing peers cheering Koch’s death as a bad look for Democrats, saying “Celebrating a man’s death while fighting to abolish the death penalty is a bad look for democrats/humans.” Nevertheless, the Hollywood hate came rushing in mere minutes after news of the Republican mega-donor’s death.
Actor Ron Perlman’s pithy insult went thus, “Wishing the Koch brothers a speedy reunion.”
Amazon announced this week that it will end an exploitative tipping practice that counts customer tips towards a driver’s base pay. The e-commerce giant says that drivers will now receive 100 percent of all tips as opposed to those tips going at least partially to Jeff Bezos’ bottom line.
According to a report from The Verge, Amazon announced that it will stop counting tip towards Amazon Flex delivery drivers’ base pay. Breitbart News reported on Amazon’s controversial tipping policy in February, highlighting the concept of a “tipped wage.” By counting a driver’s tips towards their base pay, companies like Amazon Flex and DoorDash were getting away with paying their employees less.
The Times of Israel reports: Israeli defense leaders held a high-level middle of the night meeting early Sunday as the military girded for a possible response to its strikes in Syria against Iran-backed fighters plotting to attack the Jewish state with armed drones.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is also defense minister, made a midnight trip to the Israel Defense Forces’ headquarters in Tel Aviv, where he met with IDF chief Aviv Kohavi and Mossad head Yossi Cohen, as well as other senior defense officials.
President Donald Trump said Sunday at this year's G-7 summit in France that a trade deal with Japan "is done in principle."
"We have been working on a deal with Japan for a long time," he said alongside Japanese PM Shinzo Abe. "It involves agriculture, it involves e-commerce. It involves many things. We’ve agreed in principle."
"We have excess corn in various parts of our country," the president noted. "And Prime Minister Abe on behalf of Japan they’re going to be buying all of that corn."
It’s hardly the first time European royalty have displayed laughably elitist and clueless condescension. It’s not even the worst current scandal involving a British royal and a private jet. But the spectacle of a prince and a princess jetting around the globe in private jets (including a visit to Sir Elton John’s estate in Nice, France) while scolding the rest of us about carbon emissions is a telling one about the West’s elites and the climate change fight, and more beyond.
Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, living on inherited wealth, don’t have jobs in the same way most of us do. Instead, they are full-time do-gooders.
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg told NBC's "Meet The Press" on Sunday that defeating President Trump in 2020 "is not enough."
"The president is certainly a problem, a big one, but he’s not the only problem. Ask yourself how a guy like this ever got within cheating distance of the Oval Office in the first place. I would argue that doesn't happen unless the country is already in a kind of crisis," Buttigieg said.
"For pretty much as long as I've been alive, even when the economy has been growing, and quickly, most Americans haven’t been getting ahead, one of many reasons why in places like the industrial
Bill Kristol Wants Rick Santorum
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Bill Kristol took a backhand to President Donald Trump, suggesting that former Republican Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum should primary him and calling the senator “a much better version of President Trump.”
Kristol made the comments during a panel discussion on Sunday morning’s “State of the Union” on CNN with guest host Brianna Keilar. Responding to the president’s claims that he would like to see Russia return to the G7 Summit — making it once again the G8 — members of the panel argued that the Kremlin had done little to reassure other nations that it would act in good faith.
Santorum, who has defended the president on occasion, was not a fan
Recent breathless headlines of impending recession exposed the “experts” more than the economy. In attempting to see over the economic horizon, they appeared more to be seeking to see past this administration. The economy remains sound, even as attempts to discredit become less so.
On August 19, the Washington Post’s first sentence summed up their one-dimensional angle on the National Association for Business Economics’ August survey: “Most economists believe the United States will tip into recession by 2021, a new survey shows, despite White House insistence the economy is sound.” So it went, with most establishment news outlets bent on finding the gray cloud around today’s current sterling economy.
Negative news sells.
The importance of patriotism, faith in God, and having children is significantly lower among millennials and Generation Z, compared to previous generations.
In a new poll conducted by the Wall Street Journal and NBC News, nearly 80% of people aged 55-91 said being patriotic is important to them, while only 42% of millennials and Generation Z, or those aged 18-38, said the same. Thirty percent of millennials and Generation Z said religion was important, compared to the over 75% of baby boomers, with just over 30% of millennials and Generation Z saying it was important to have children.
Areas where the younger generations had placed higher importance
Seven people were injured in Maryland when a shooter opened fire at a 2-year-old’s birthday party, authorities said. The shooting broke out Saturday night near Camp Springs where a dozen people were gathered for the toddler’s birthday celebration, according to Prince George’s County Police. Three people were critically injured and four others suffered “less serious” injuries in the gunfire, police said. The seven victims — who are between the ages 18 and 20 — were transported to the hospital and are all expected to survive.
Professor Michael Mann — the litigious climatologist who invented the discredited “Hockey Stick” chart and was implicated heavily in the Climategate scandal — has lost a long-running lawsuit against Canadian climate sceptic Dr Tim Ball.
Mann, director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University, had taken exception to a joke made by Ball in a 2011 interview, that he “should be in the State Pen, not Penn State.”
He sued Ball for defamation in the British Columbia courts. The case has dragged on for eight years and, together with a separate legal action launched by Professor Andrew Weaver, leader of the British Columbia Green Party, exhausted Ball’s savings
While reading the transcript of a New York Times staff meeting, a Lily Tomlin line came to mind: “No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.”
In this case, it is also impossible not to be disheartened and furious. The transcript shows that the rot of bias at the Times is far beyond the pale and there is no hope of recovery. Yet not a single person there declared the obvious — that the paper is betraying its principles.
Rigor in reporting and restraint in judgment once made the Gray Lady noble. Now she is dead, her homicide an inside job.
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” former Rep. Joe Walsh said he was mounting a 2020 Republican primary challenge to President Donald Trump.
Walsh said, “I’m running because he’s unfit, somebody needs to step up, and there needs to be an alternative. The country is sick of this guy’s tantrum. He’s a child.”
He continued, “We’ve got a guy in the White House who is unfit, completely unfit to be president and it stuns me that nobody stepped up, nobody in the Republican party stepped up, because I’ll tell you what George, everybody believes in the Republican party, everybody believes he’s unfit,”
He added, “You can’t believe a word he says. Again,
Reviewing a Corey Robin book in these pages is an interesting task, for these pages have been a frequent subject of inquiry for the professor of political science at Brooklyn College. Robin’s previous book, The Reactionary Mind, argued that the conservative political tendency has since Burke been used to justify the advantage of the stronger. Many arguments made in National Review and later adopted by conservative political figures, including arguments about personal liberty, skepticism toward change, and the preservation of virtue, are in Robin’s telling camouflage for a reactionary project whose major motivation is the rejection of an “emancipatory” politics that advocates the interest of the downtrodden.
Robin’s latest offering,
Denver’s goose is cooked, and now the needy need more.
According to Denver officials, “Geese poop in our parks is one of the biggest complaints we have. It had gotten to the point where the parks were being almost unenjoyable for a lot of people — that is why we moved forward with this plan.”
OK so far, but I’m curious. Why just “almost”? And “a lot of people” suggests a number less than “all.” Are there some people who don’t find goose poop unenjoyable?
Respected journalist Paul Sperry took to Twitter with a report that I see nowhere else, about the sort of violence that police in Charlotte, NC expect when the GOP holds its convention there exactly one year from now (snip) I am so old – far older than most of those planning to disrupt the convention – that I remember vividly the riots that took place at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The antiwar fanatics, including Yippies who later were dubbed the “Chicago 7” when put on trial, did not want Vice President Hubert Humphrey to receive the nomination
When I walked into his South Los Angeles barbershop Thursday morning, Lawrence Tolliver had a question. Did I think Donald Trump would be reelected. Yes, I said. His supporters are rabid, no matter what he says or does. We’re looking at a trillion-dollar deficit, and the GOP — the party of fiscal conservatism— just shrugs. Consumer prices are rising because of tariffs and a recession is feared, but Trump’s populist supporters don’t mind. (Snip) The Dems, meanwhile, don’t have a single candidate who’s caught fire. It’s early, and maybe it’ll still happen. But if the nominee is on the left
Exploding cigar: Biden invites Americans
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History is well-littered with the political corpses of leaders who imagine that the invitations they throw out are certain to be turned down by the public.
Which brings us to Joe Biden, Democratic presidential frontrunner, whose advanced age (78 now) is giving voters the willies.
Here's Biden's invitation to the voters, according to LifeZette:
Former Vice President Joe Biden appeared to dismiss voters concerned about his age, telling them not to vote for him in the 2020 Democratic primary race.
“I say if they’re concerned, don’t vote for me,” Biden said while speaking to reporters in Keene, New Hampshire.
Joe Biden has a millennial problem. The former vice president is holding onto his perch atop the polls, but strategists and political observers say he needs to do better with younger voters if he wants to win the Democratic nomination next year. A Pew Research Center poll out this past week shows that while Biden is doing well with voters age 50 and up, he is struggling to win over adults under the age of 30. The survey showed that 7 percent of young voters support him. In that same demographic, 24 percent of voters backed Sen. Bernie Sanders
Like the Cargo Cult in the Pacific, which builds model planes in the hope that, they will bring in cargo planes full of spam and other goodies as they did in WWII, the Democrats keep hoping for airships full of votes that will never come in. All who can read discard the Russian collusion claims. What remains of them is the long-delayed Horowitz report and anticipated prosecutions for the coup plotters. For those still wanting to be deluded there’s CNN, which has hired a major plotter, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, as a contributor to continue the Let’s Pretend narrative.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) continued her verbal assault on the Electoral College, this time smearing the Constitutional system that guarantees big states don’t have undue influence in electing the president as an “electoral affirmative action” scheme for rural Americans.
On Friday, Ocasio-Cortez posted the following 5-point missive on Twitter:
I see Fox News is big mad about abolishing the electoral college.
So let’s talk about it.
1) If the GOP were the “silent majority” they claim, they wouldn’t be so scared of a popular vote.
They *know* they aren’t the majority. They rely on establishing minority rule for power.
Donald Trump has admitted to having second thoughts about the worsening trade war with China, amid criticism from the US’s allies at the G7 summit in Biarritz.
At a breakfast meeting with the UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, Trump was asked if he was rethinking his decision to escalate tariffs against China, and replied: “Yeah, sure. Why not?” Asked again, he repeated: “Might as well. Might as well … I have second thoughts about everything.”
However, the US president insisted China’s approach to trade had been “outrageous”.
A Facebook prank landed an East Texas man in county jail after he allegedly opened a gallon of Blue Bell ice cream, licked it, and returned it to the shelf. While he accomplished his goal of a viral video, the prank has cost him criminal charges and his job.
A Facebook video earlier this week shows a man opening a gallon of Blue Bell ice cream, licking the ice cream, closing it up, and placing it back on the shelf. Police began investigating and identified the Walmart store in Port Arthur, Texas, as the incident location.
A Dover, New Hampshire, art gallery will feature an exhibit titled, “Normalizing Abortion: Self-Portraits and Stories,” the aim of which is to showcase the abortion experiences of local women.
The exhibit will open at the Art Center in the Washington Street Mills on October 11 and continue until November 1. Phoenix Mayet, an artist and social justice activist, is curating the show, the proceeds of which will go to Planned Parenthood.
Mayet, who once worked for Planned Parenthood, said the exhibit is “decidedly pro-Roe v. Wade,” referring to the 1973 Supreme Court decision in which the Court invented a right to abortion, though none ever existed in the Constitution.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who has been noticeably absent from Twitter for the majority of the week, returned on Friday in a Twitter thread, ranting about the Electoral College and accusing the GOP of being “scared” of a popular vote because “they *know* they aren’t the majority.”
While Ocasio-Cortez has been relatively silent on social media over the past week, she made waves after posting a video on Instagram Monday, mocking the Electoral College, and by consequence, Middle America’s voice.
“Alright everyone it’s been a minute. We’re coming to you live from the Electoral College,” she said as her video panned to empty plainlands.
Israeli aircraft on Saturday struck Iranian forces near Damascus that had been planning to launch "killer drones" at targets in Israel, an Israeli military spokesman said.
"The strike targeted Iranian Quds Force operatives and Shiite militias which were preparing to advance attack plans targeting sites in Israel from within Syria over the last number of days," the military said in a statement.
The elite Quds Force is the overseas arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guards (IRGC). Israeli military spokesman Jonathan Conricus told reporters the forces on Thursday had been preparing to launch "killer drones" armed with explosives at northern Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the military had thwarted the planned Iranian attack