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If you're part of the Clinton machine, a corrupt DOJ bureaucrat, or just an insane political wonk who hopes to see Hillary Clinton's "legacy" protected, you've had a rough couple of years.
I don't have much to say about this, except that D.C. councilman Trayon White Sr. is either insane or so warped by anti-Semitism that he actually believes the Rothschilds are controlling Washington's weather. I'm not sure which is worse. I suppose insanity would give him a pass on the anti-Semitism, but then I'm not sure D.C. wants an openly insane councilman.
Last week, Hillary Clinton decided to shoot her mouth off. During an appearance in India, she levelled both barrels at middle America, and trashed anyone who didn't vote for her. Clearly, the only reason anyone would reject her brilliance is that they're a backwards racist, bigot, misogynist, or a combination of the three. She's made similar claims before, but never has it been so crystalized into one damning sound bite.
Maybe you saw it in a creepy episode of Black Mirror called "Nosedive." Perhaps you remember it from a hilarious episode of Community called "App Development and Condiments." It's also appeared in various novel and comic book plots. It's the idea that everyone can (or must) use an app to rate anything and everyone - then those rating scores are used to limit your access to real-word privileges.
Over the course of the last few months, it's become clear that Democrats are sick and tired of dealing with two prominent progressives. The first is Nancy Pelosi, who's increasingly become a drag on ever Dems seeking re-election. The second is Hillary Clinton.
In the wake of 5-time illegal immigrant Jose Ines Garcia Zarate's acquittal in the murder Kate Steinle, the country was split into two camps. The first, correctly, saw the verdict as yet another grotesque, unconscionable miscarriage of justice in America's worst state. The second looked the other way so it could keep banging the pro-sanctuary city drum.
Yesterday, high school kids across the country decided to take some time off. The event was billed as a "march against violence," because who could argue against that, but really it was a bit of well-planned gun-control theater. It was also a chance for the "leaders" of the Democratic Party to get a little TV time.
I get it. Things change. Companies rise and fall. Institutions are not guaranteed. Toys R Us is just a corporation and, as capitalists like to say, none of them should be "too big to fail." Still...the demise of "the world's biggest toy store" stings.
Over the years, we've seen a lot of "stars" make a lot of promises about leaving the country if certain politicians are elected. We saw it when Bush ran, when Romney ran, and most glaringly, during the months leading to Trump's 2016 victory. What we haven't seen is a whole lot of follow through.
Yesterday, we discussed comments made by Hillary Clinton while she was speaking in India. According to the 2016 loser, America's heartland is a "backwards" place, full of hate, bigotry, misogyny, and various other retrograde instincts. Trump didn't win because his opponent was horrible, he won because the country is horrible. According to Mrs. Clinton, places that look to the future with hope, optimism, and enlightened mindsets (basically the left-wing coasts) wisely voted for her
If you're a supporter of so-called sanctuary cities, you were just handed a big defeat by the 5th Circuit Court of appeals. Last summer, when the Texas legislature passed Senate Bill 4 (SB-4) it was signed by Governor Greg Abbott and was immediately challenged by the ACLU, immigration activists, and Democrat-controlled cities.
Hillary Clinton has never been a graceful woman. Time and time again, she's proven herself to be a spoiled, entitled, tactless opportunist - a woman who feels that she is, unquestionably, superior to the country she hoped to run. If there is one guiding principal in Hillary's life, it's an unwavering belief that she is better than you, and you're too stupid to understand that.
Unless you've been living in the Unabomber's shack, you know there's been a longstanding tension between President Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. No one is exactly sure what constituted the "last straw" but we do know that, whatever it was, it's triggered a major shakeup in the Trump administration. Tillerson is out, CIA Director Mike Pompeo is going to be nominated as his replacement, and CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel will be moving up into Pompeo's position.
For a long time, Elizabeth Warren loved to tell people that she was part Cherokee. The only evidence she had to support this claim was an old family story and a pair of majestic cheekbones, but that didn't matter.
The Democratic Party is - despite the enthusiasm of its rabid base - in deep trouble right now. It has no money, no message, and a paper-thin bench of elderly white candidates which has already been largely rejected.
You will, no doubt, remember the story of Kristian Saucier. He was the young Navy sailor who admitted taking a few photos of his submarine so he could show his family what he did in the military.
If CNN hadn't spent decades digging themselves into their current hole, we might feel sorry for them. Their ratings have dropped to new all-time lows, they're the laughing stock of the TV News world, and no one pays much attention to anything they say unless one of their hosts takes a picture of herself beheading the President.
People vote their pocketbooks. That's the old saw. The more money they have, and the better the economy appears, the better it will be for the party in power.
By all accounts, the February jobs numbers were fantastic. 313,000 new jobs were added, the civilian workforce jumped by 806,000, December and January numbers were revised upward, and black unemployment dropped to near-historic levels. All in all, pretty much everyone agrees it was a spectacular report.
In the aftermath of the Parkland school shooting, one thing became clear. In the months leading up to the attack, there was a steady stream of failures - at almost every imaginable level - that allowed the killer to set the stage for his grotesque crime. Then, once the shooter triggered his plan, law enforcement seems to have decided that "doing nothing" was the best course of action.