Leftist Rag Daily Kos: “Be Happy” If Coal Miners Lose Health Insurance, Getting What They Deserve For Voting Trump

Weasel Zippers

"These are sick people. Despite the claims that they care about ‘working people’, it’s really only about “will they get us into power”. And if not, then screw you. “How dare you abandon us, you yokels”.

"The Daily Kos writer seems to forget there’s a very good reason that coal miners went with Trump and not Clinton. That little thing about Hillary promising to put them out of work kind of made them believe that the Democrats didn’t really care very much about their jobs and coal. That and the constant efforts against the coal industry in general.

"But yes, insult them. That’ll surely work for 2018…

"Via Daily Kos:

. . . Yes, this will be a terrible outcome for a group of people who have really drawn a shitty lot in life. But how sorry should we be for this crowd? Coal country swung hard for Donald Trump, winning 70 to 80 percent of the vote in some of these counties.
Don’t weep for these coal miners, now abandoned by their GOP patrons. They are getting exactly the government that they voted for. Democrats can no longer offer unrequited love and cover for them. And isn’t this what democracy is all about? They won the election! This is what they wanted! . . .

Top 10 MSM #FakeNews Stories

I'd have to say that #6 has done the most damage to American society when coupled with Obama's incitement:  "6. U.S. Epidemic of Police Shooting Unarmed Black Men"

PJ Media

"You gotta love our liberal media. Their entire modus operandi for at least the past two decades has been to shamelessly disseminate false left-wing narratives to the masses in their ongoing effort to discredit conservatism and further a progressive agenda. It's what they do.

"But since the election of Donald Trump, they have been obsessed with a new pet narrative: that a so-called "fake news" epidemic is occurring on the right.

"This is partly because, I'm convinced, they resent the fact that some people on the alt-right are making inroads on their turf. But the "fake news" excuse also functions as a soothing balm for their wounded egos after their devastating 2016 election losses. It helps them deal with the uncomfortable fact that the electorate just rejected the hell out of the candidates for whom they blatantly shilled.

"This happens every time the mainstream media's favored party suffes a massive defeat at the polls, by the way. In 1994, they blamed their losses on the "angry white male." After the 2010 "shellacking," they attributed it to a menacing "climate of hate," as personified by Sarah Palin and the Tea Party." . . .

"Here is a list of ten memorable fake news stories from the mainstream media." . . .

The one thing you must understand about the unfolding media-Democrat Electoral College coup attempt

Legal Insurrection

"Operation Flip The Electors, Part 2, is thoroughly dishonest"

"We are witnessing nothing short of an attempt to steal the election by some Democrats and a very supportive mainstream and leftwing media, by causing Electors in the Electoral College to go rogue and vote for Hillary, or at least not vote for Trump.

"The first excuse for this tactic after the election was made by people like Prof. Lawrence Lessig. At least he was honest in his call to have the Electors stop Trump because he didn’t like the result and thought Trump would be a horrible president on a host of issues.

"Honest, but severely misguided.

"Call that Operation Flip the Electors, Part One.

"As it became obvious that the recounts demanded by Jill Stein and supported by Hillary would fail to change the outcome, a new and thoroughly dishonest media narrative developed — that Trump could not be allowed to take office because Russia “hacked the election.”

"By hacked the election, they don’t mean that the vote count was corrupted, but that alleged Russian hacking of the DNC and John Podesta influenced the outcome. A variation on that theme is that Trump has some potential Russian connection that makes him potentially disloyal to the United States.

"The claim is that this new information is so serious post-election, that the Electors must fulfill some alleged duty to protect the country from Trump. Call that Operation Flip the Electors, Part Two.

"None of these allegations, however, are new. They were all aired to and considered by the voters. Here are just a tiny fraction of the major media headlines BEFORE the election:

• Investigating Donald Trump, F.B.I. Sees No Clear Link to Russia (NYT)
• How Russia Pulled Off the Biggest Election Hack in U.S. History (Esquire)
• Private Security Group Says Russia Was Behind John Podesta’s Email Hack (NYT Times)
• Reasonable doubt in Russian hack: Column (USA Today)

Trump, Hillary, Jill Strein, and Fake News

Rick Brasche posited that greenie Stein must be added to the post title as well. Obviously.

Lloyd Marcus:  Hillary’s done it now  "Hillary's post-election speech about fake news was beyond the pale, the height of arrogance and deceit.  Her wickedness makes my skin crawl.

"Blaming fake news for her loss, this deplorable woman had the chutzpah to say:

... it’s now clear that so-called fake news can have real-world consequences. Lives are at risk, lives of ordinary people just trying to go about their days to do their jobs. Its a danger that must be addressed.

"So we are supposed to believe that Hillary cares about ordinary people.  Remember the leaked emails exposing Hillary's team’s disdain for Catholics, Southerners, needy Latinos, and common folks?

"Knowing how the Democrats roll, Hillary saying fake news is “a danger that must be addressed” is yet another attack on free speech, justifying government censorship and regulations.  Why are leftists called liberals when they are power-obsessed control freaks?

Indystar

"Meanwhile, Hillary and her leftist minions planted, watered, and nurtured fake news that continues to reap them a bountiful harvest of racial hate and division.  Hillary and Company's fake news has painted a bright red bulls-eye on the backs of America's police, our brave men and women in blue." . . .

John Dietrich : The Big Lie: Russia Stole the Election

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” - Joseph Goebbels

. . . "Naturally Donald Trump does not believe the Russians interfered in his favor.  He criticized the CIA, saying, “These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.”  He pointed out that the hacking, ‘‘could be Russia. And it could be China. And it could be some guy in his home in New Jersey.’’  The guy from New Jersey is a real possibility." . . .

Has Trump ever been overheard saying this?

Trying to overturn a free and fair election  "The world has turned itself upside down. Only yesterday the liberals and the left (the “progressives,” as they want to be called) regarded the CIA as the locus of evil, the gang that couldn’t shoot straight, forever poisoning gentle minds with a diet of conspiracy and tall tale.

"In those gloomy days of the Cold War, where every day was seasoned with a sharp wind and a cold rain, it was the Democratic intellectuals who were forever chiding the rest of us that the Soviet Union was not so bad, the Russians just wanted to be understood and maybe deserved an occasional cuddle. It was the Republicans and other conservatives who were mindless rubes who imagined there was a mad Russian under everybody’s bed.

"Now the CIA, in the liberal/left’s fevered dreams, is the last bulwark of the republic, the last remaining hope to turn the 2016 election result on its head and deprive Donald Trump of the victory he won. The Russians, it now turns out, are just as bad as the conservatives said they were." . . .

ACLU: Sight of cross on public tree inflicts 'irreparable harm'

Robert Knight  "Joseph Tompkins is an "irreparable harm" survivor.  He's the guy who got the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to force a small Indiana town to remove a cross from atop its municipal Christmas tree on Monday. 

"Mr. Tompkins, who must be blessed with remarkably selective eyesight, was "forced to come into direct and unwelcome contact" with the cross on top of the tree in the public square as he drove through Knightstown, causing him "irreparable harm," said the ACLU lawsuit filed on Dec. 8 on his behalf.

"While Mr. Tompkins may have won his legal battle, he's lost the culture war, as local residents have responded by displaying hundreds of crosses on everything from buildings to car antennas.  

"Now, instead of one cross on a stationary tree, an army of crosses is crisscrossing the city on public streets paid for with Mr. Tompkins's very own tax dollars.  Plus, the town Christmas tree is still there, awash with lights and ornaments.  City officials can "Christianize" it with a star on top or an angel if they're so inclined. " . . .