Category: Politics

. . . for good reason whatever you think of Trump's motive.

Leftist scum made Trump. Details here.

How does he do it? Explanation here.

. . . is probably not in the offing, the wave not the dream, but we of the Coalition of the Sane must not become complacent.

Here is good advice from Hugh Hewitt.

You might think that the fate of the Dems will be sealed by the appeal to morons of chuckleheads like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.  But take no chances. Charles Cooke comments on the Ocasionalist  here.

If the blue wave should materialize, then Trump has only been buying us time, and the U.S. will continue its death spiral.

And yet another from the pen of the prolific Victor Davis Hanson.

It is amazing how much better conservative commentary is to the stuff churned out by the febrile Left.

And cocky to boot. George Neumayr on Peter Strzok:

The cockiness of Strzok at Thursday’s hearing is a reflection of the immunity that ruling-class mandarins enjoy in liberal Washington. He was testifying from the safety of the deep state and thus knew that he could lie his head off without consequence. How else to explain his unrepentant opening statement, with its blatant anti-Trump special pleading? The statement sounded like it had been written by Rachel Maddow, resting on the lamest and hackiest of MSNBC-style talking points, that “today’s hearing is just another victory notch in Putin’s belt and another milestone in our enemies’ campaign to tear American apart.”

Hats off to Trey Gowdy & Co. for their services to the Republic.

Amazing the patience Dershowitz displays toward the know-nothing ideologue interviewing him.

I trust you all know what 'bootless' means in this context. If my trust is misplaced, 'bootless'  has not to do with footwear or the lack thereof. It means useless, ineffectual. 

Boot's column ends on a spiteful note:

That is why I join Will and other principled conservatives, both current and former Republicans, in rooting for a Democratic takeover of both houses in November. Like postwar Germany and Japan, the Republican Party must be destroyed before it can be rebuilt.

This is childish rage at not getting one's way. It is like biting off one's nose to spite one's face. 

No principled conservative could want Democrats in power, especially now when it has been made abundantly clear what they have been aiming at all along.

One conservative principle here is that no nation can exist without enforceable and enforced borders.

Either Boot rejects this principle or he does not. If he does, then he is no conservative. If he does not, then we ought to conclude that he thinks that the principle is something to talk about and write about, but not act upon.  For when a man comes along with the will to act on the principle, Boot and the Beltway Boys get their bow-ties in a knot and shrink back in horror at the man's boorishness and lack of class.

Suppose that the Republican Party is destroyed like postwar German and Japan. Who will rebuild it? Jeb! Bush?  Boot, like George Will, has lost his mental balance.  

Early in the piece, Boot characterizes the party under Trump as "white-nationalist."

What is the reasoning here? 

Perhaps it goes like this. Trump stands for the rule of law and therefore a secure border. He opposes illegal immigration. Now most of the illegal immigrants are Hispanic. Therefore Trump is a racist.  He has no Constitutionally-grounded reason to secure the border.  He just hates Hispanics and considers them all to be criminals: rapists, drug smugglers, human traffickers, etc.  Not only does he hate Hispanics; he hates all  'people of color.'

And so he is a "white-nationalist!"

The truth, however, is that Trump is an America-Firster. This has nothing to do with "white nationalism" or 'white supremacism' as I explain here. 

Finally, there is the business of the Supreme Court. The bootless Boot presumably would have preferred Hillary nominations to the high bench.

 Chris Cathcart writes,

“I won’t let the Democrats steal my party from me. I want to regain the center,” Dershowitz told WABC Radio’s “Curtis and Cosby” show, noting that he will remain a Democrat as “as long as there’s some chance the Democratic Party can return to normalcy.”

 

“I want to make sure that the radical Left, the woman who got elected in the Bronx and Queens to Congress on the Democratic ticket, that they and Sanders and others don’t represent the Democratic Party,” he continued, referring to socialist Ocasio-Cortez who pulled off a shock victory last week against incumbent Democratic Rep. Joseph Crowley.

Steve Cortes provides four reasons.

I offer a fifth: Barrett is of the female persuasion. Justice Bork was easy to bork: he was stern of visage and appeared mean to many. The borking of the sweet and amiable Barrett will make the Dems look bad and expose them for what they are: bent upon power by any means, and especially vicious toward blacks and females who will not toe the party line but dare to stray from the p.c. reservation.

"The GOP has an effective campaign ad using Democrats' own words and actions against them."  A bit longer than a minute.  

My hope is that the Dems, now a full-tilt hard-Left party, will get clobbered in the mid-terms.  If they don't, then we are on the way to civil war.

Never underestimate the value of civil order. We take it for granted, but it is very fragile, and the skills necessary for survival in a war zone are not quickly acquired.  The prospect of a 'new normal' in which every couple of weeks there is an assassination or bombing is not a cheerful one.

He who sows the wind may reap the whirlwind. (Hosea 8:7) Somebody ought to get that message to Maxine Waters, the black woman in the video.  Conservative patience with leftist tantrums can be expected eventually to run out. The backlash will not be pretty.

Among Hillary's 'deplorables' are a lot of 'hard boys,' bikers, ex-military and ex- law enforcement who are prepared to break heads should push come to shove, and shove come to shoot.  They may prove hard to control if all hell breaks loose.

So be careful, 'liberals.' You may trigger the very fascism that you falsely accuse conservatives of espousing.

For when civil order collapses the people will demand its replacement.

The wise hope for the best but prepare for the worst.

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UPDATE: I just listened to the ad again. Was that "feckless cunts" I heard at .38? Being black or female won't save you from the wrath of the Left if you stray from the politically correct reservation.

UPDATE (2 July). Chris Cathcart writes,

Maybe you were unplugged at the time so you're now just hearing about this one.  Here's the fuller quote from Samantha Bee; somehow the furor was only over the c-word and not also what she said after that:

“Ivanka Trump, who works at the White House, chose to post the second most oblivious tweet we’ve seen this week,” Bee said. “You know, Ivanka, that’s a beautiful photo of you and your child, but let me just say, one mother to another, do something about your dad’s immigration practices you feckless cunt!” 

 

“He listens to you,” she continued. “Put on something tight and low-cut and tell your father to fucking stop it. Tell him it was an Obama thing and see how it goes, OK?”