Stormy Daniels Loses Libel Lawsuit Over Trump’s ‘Con Job’ Tweet

Bloomberg  "Stormy Daniels’s libel lawsuit over a tweet by Donald Trump accusing her of “a total con job” was thrown out by a judge who said the president was engaging in free speech.
"The adult film star, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, claimed she was threatened by an unknown man in a Las Vegas parking lot in 2011 for agreeing to cooperate with a magazine article about a tryst she says she had with Trump in 2006. After her lawyer released a composite sketch of the man, Trump accused Clifford in an April tweet of “a total con job" concerning a “nonexistent man.”
“ 'The court agrees with Mr. Trump’s argument because the tweet in question constitutes ‘rhetorical hyperbole’ normally associated with politics and public discourse in the U.S.,” U.S. District Judge S. James Otero in Los Angeles said in a ruling Monday. “The First Amendment protects this type of rhetorical statement.”
"Trump’s lawyers had argued that Clifford -- far from being harmed -- has benefited financially from her public dispute with the president." . . .

Save the Democrats: Crush Them at the Polls; Help them reverse their unicorn ride into hell.

Deroy Murdock

Screaming agitators repeatedly interrupted Kavanaugh’s confirmation proceedings and had to be dragged from the Senate Judiciary Committee’s (SJC) hearing room. Rather than beg these unhinged hooligans to cease and desist, Democratic leaders encouraged their eruptions.

. . . It now is the solemn duty of every voter, volunteer, activist, advocate, donor, operative, and candidate on the center-right to assure that the Democrats experience this desperately needed, self-cleansing, paradigm-shifting wipeout.  . . .

. . . "To these leftist words, Antifa will add the music of mob rule: riots, property destruction, physical intimidation, street violence, death threats, and possibly even more severe mayhem — all in the name of Resistance. 
"If Democrats barely lose (say, the GOP keeps a three-seat House majority), they will blame Russia, voter suppression, patriarchy, white-nationalist lead poisoning, global warming, sexism, Islamophobia, homophobia, high gas prices, income inequality, and racism, racism, racism. 
"However, if Republicans romp, boost their Senate majority by three to eight seats (ideally securing a filibuster-proof, 60-seat majority) and score an additional dozen-plus House districts, vanquished Democrats might cry together on November 7 and conclude: 
" 'We blew it.
" 'It’s not Trump. It’s not Russia. It’s not collusion. It’s not whitey. It’s not toxic masculinity. It’s us. 
“ 'We blew it in 2016, too. 
“ 'Our flawed nominee campaigned on an elitist platform against millions of ‘deplorables’ and offered no positive vision. Lazily, Hillary skipped Wisconsin entirely and spent too little time in Michigan. As NBC News concluded a week after the election: ‘Trump Out-Campaigned Clinton by 50 Percent in Key Battleground States in Final Stretch.’ Trump beat her, fair and square." . . .

Related: Rep. Jim Jordan’s Vision If Republicans Maintain the Majority And He’s The Next Speaker of the House  . . . "He pointed to the passage of the massive omnibus spending bill earlier this year and how the House Republican leadership did not stand against the Democrat agenda and fight for conservative priorities. He said that the Republicans’ tendency to cave to Democrats without fighting for the priorities that people elected Republicans for would change if he secures the Speakership." . . .

One union guy who's fired up for Trump

If people like Westbrook and Vogel coalesce around the GOP, the Democrats could be in trouble. And if the Democrats keep supporting people who claw at the doors of the Supreme Court in protest, or harass Republicans and their families at dinners, or talk nonstop about impeachment or echo Hillary Clinton’s sentiment that: “You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for,” then they may do what I thought unlikely: stop their own blue wave mid-flow

NY Post  "Jason Vogel is fired up to vote. He says his passion crystallized two weeks ago when he saw just how chaotic Washington would be if the Democrats seized power in Congress. When Democratic senators smeared Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh as an attempted rapist without proof, and angry protestors stormed the Capitol, he says he grew increasingly concerned.

“ 'Hard to imagine that occurring every day, but you begin to realize that is exactly what would happen if I didn’t turn out to vote,” he said.

"Vogel is with his family at the Erie Insurance Arena to rally for Trump and local GOP Congressman Mike Kelly, who is running for re-election. The Vogels are seated far away from the stage, but that doesn’t seem to dampen their enthusiasm.

"The 40-year-old union steward for the local Teamsters 397 says he became motivated to vote for Kelly when he realized everything important to him is being championed by President Trump and is on Kelly’s ballot: “The Second Amendment, trade, job creation and keeping a good economy going, that comes to a daily fight if the Republicans lose the midterms,” he said.

“ 'A lot of my friends feel the same way. We ask ourselves, ‘Why would you vote Democrat?’ Our lives certainly weren’t better under their way of doing business.' ” . . .

The Misandrist Editorial the Washington Post Should Be Ashamed Of...(Updated)

By the female Sarah Hoyt at PJ Media

I had to look this word up: Examples of misandry in a Sentence; Matriarchy Now’ was encouraging misandry and oppressing men. — Sebastian Matthew, Billboard, "Meet The 17-Year-Old Activist Behind New Line 'Matriarchy Now'," 24 Aug. 2017

"Why can’t women stop buying the Marxist narrative?

"If you’ve read this and you’re going “uh, what?” because you’re a woman and not Marxist, don’t worry. I’m not out of my ever loving mind. Well, not more than usual, at any rate.

What I’m doing is echoing an editorial by Victoria Bissell Brown published in The Washington Post who starts her insanely stupid article by asking:

Bissell Brown

Why can’t men organize to change themselves?

"Why, Vicky, (yeah, I’m fairly sure you don’t want me to call you Vicky, but since you’re functioning at about a six-year-old level, that’s the best you deserve) that’s an amazing question, that probably made the Post editors drool at your amazingness. It’s almost as good as “why can’t you take a valium like a normal human being, and stop being crazy?” which is what your editorial made me ask.

"Her article starts with a confession of spousal abuse:

I yelled at my husband last night. Not pick-up-your-socks yell. Not how-could-you-ignore-that-red-light yell. This was real yelling. This was 30 minutes of from-the-gut yelling. Triggered by a small, thoughtless, dismissive, annoyed, patronizing comment. Really small. A micro-wave that triggered a hurricane. I blew. Hard and fast.

"Okay, first, if you’re in the habit of yelling at your husband for not picking up his socks, Vicky, no wonder that he blows through red lights. You probably don’t let him own a gun and the poor man has no other way to escape your tyrannical, insane blow ups.

"What you’re doing is straight up spousal abuse, because you’re “triggered”. No? How would you feel if your husband yelled at you for no reason because he was “triggered”? "Would you think that was okay?" . . .

Update: This May Be The Looniest Anti-Male Op-Ed Ever Written. And The Washington Post Just Published It.

. . . screaming at her husband is well-founded. Why? Because he’s a male. Even a male who will sit there letting her scream at him.

Boston Globe Update and Correction: Elizabeth Warren Is 1/1,024 Native American… NOT 1/512

The Gateway Pundit

. . . "Elizabeth Warren released a DNA study today that claims she is 1/512th Native American.
"The AP reported:

Responding to years of derision by President Donald Trump and other critics, Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday released a report on a DNA analysis that provides strong evidence she does, in fact, have Native American heritage.The analysis on the Massachusetts Democrat was done by Stanford University professor Carlos D. Bustamante. He concluded Warren’s ancestry is mostly European but says “the results strongly support the existence of an unadmixed Native American ancestor.”Bustamante, a prominent expert in the field of DNA analysis, determined Warren’s pure Native American ancestor appears “in the range of six to 10 generations ago.”……But if her ancestor is 10 generations back, that could mean she’s just 1/512th Native American,according to the report . That could further excite her critics instead of placating them.

"UPDATE— The AP issued a correction — The DNA test revealed that Elizabeth Warren is not 1/512 Native American, she’s 1/1,024. That’s 0.0009765625." . . .

That the best you can do for Native American DNA, Elizabeth Warren?

Nice try, Liz.  But you're still a fake Indian whose real problem is that you used a drop of ancestry to game an entire system.

. . . "Warren was touted in recruitment literature for her Native American heritage by Harvard and Penn, while Fordham Law Review hailed her as Harvard Law's "first woman of color," something she never tried to disabuse the university of at the time as the former house-flipper bit and clawed her way to the top.

"She liked the leg up on other white applicants, and never mind that she displaced a genuine Native American from the affirmative action slot.  Can a white guy with 1/512 African-American blood now be able to claim that black affirmative action law professor slot now, Liz?" . . .

Remember Warren's Pow Wow Chow?

Reuters covers the story as well

Rage when you disagree: How ‘safe spaces’ led to today’s political mobs

Karol Markowicz

"What’s behind the recent spread of outraged mobs on US streets, wild-eyed and throwing violent fits because their favored political outcome didn’t happen? How did so many Americans give up on resolving disagreements through discussion and turn the fact that a disagreement exists into an excuse for a tantrum?

"Campuses started setting up “safe spaces” well before 2015, when the news hit our media in earnest: College students were literally taking shelter from the possibility of hearing opinions they might disagree with.

"For all the mockery the idea received, we’re seeing that principle extended to the real world. The recent outbursts on our streets have their root in the idea that only one opinion is the correct one and all others must be shut down.

"And politicians are encouraging the idea that disagreement is a personal attack: “You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about,” Hillary Clinton said last week." . . .

Boy, nine, ruins Supreme Court prospects

The accused little boy will be OK as long as he's chosen for the Supreme Court by Democrats. But if someday he is chosen by a Republican President, well, Kamala Harris and Corey Booker will be coming with the torches and pitchforks. TD

Apolo Villalobos

"Admit it. You knew this was bound to happen.

"Teresa Sue Klein of Flatbush, Brooklyn, was in a convenience store when a mother and her two children went in and went past her. Klein then got highly upset, claiming that the nine-year-old boy had sexually assaulted her by grabbing her posterior. She immediately made a scene and called 911 for the police, demanding that the little boy be arrested for sexually assaulting her. They all went outside the store, where bystanders got verbally involved, with Klein defiant. Multiple cellphone videos show the little boy and his younger sister wailing at the top of their lungs, obviously scared. The store videos show that the boy went past Klein with both hands in plain view, but his oversized backpack may have brushed against her. Fortunately, no arrests were made.

"But, borrowing a page from the Kavanaugh hearing, shouldn’t the FBI be involved, maybe do a background check on him? Maybe he got drunk in kindergarten on too much root beer and tickled, or even may have kissed a girl (I have it on good authority that his class picture shows him wearing a cap backwards and he’s brandishing a toy gun). The FBI should definitely do a background check. Or two. Or three. Or seven.

"On a related note, a six-year-old boy was suspended from kindergarten for sexual harassment, namely, he kissed a girl, a classmate. Kindergarten kids kissing each otheroccasionally happens, mostly due to imitating parents (incidentally, when a kindergarten girl kisses a boy, no one gets suspended). A lot depends on whether there is a feminist around." . . .

There's Trump-Russia collusion here somewhere

Terrible Terrell

The Left to the Clintons: Please Go Away!

Bill and Hillary: good at being bad With no sign of guilt whatever.

. . . "So this ostensibly sacrificial act by Hillary is no more than a way to head off the negative implications of an announcement by the DoJ of her top-level clearance’s revocation, possibly ahead of a future criminal indictment."

Power Line Blog  "Yet another missive from Robert Kuttner of the lefty American Prospect that will warm the cockles, and many other things beside:

Depart, I Say, and Let Us Have Done with You. That’s what Oliver Cromwell said to the Long Parliament in 1653. In May 1940, the British Conservative M.P. Leo Amery flung the same words at Neville Chamberlain, demanding that Hitler’s appeaser step down as British prime minister.
The words came back to me as I read about the paid speaking tour just announced by Bill and Hillary Clinton. The 13-city tour, billed as “An Evening with the Clintons,” begins two weeks after the midterm elections.
And billed is right. Ticket prices range from $120.50 to $370.50.
They are not selling a book on this tour, just having a good time and bringing in the bucks. Isn’t that grand?
Since the cities include Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Boston, New York and Washington, D.C., it doesn’t exactly seem to be a political tour on behalf of Democratic candidates, either. Nor is it clear that such a mission would be a plus.
In the Age of Trump, it’s all about celebrity. Jesus wept.
So get your seats, and we can all relive the great Clinton moments:
The Blue Dress! How Bill spoiled it for Al Gore because he couldn’t resist sex with an intern.
NAFTA! How Bill set the Democrats up for one of the worst midterm blowouts ever, in 1994.
Bankers going bonkers! How he turned over the deregulation of Wall Street to Bob Rubin, setting up the financial collapse of 2008.
And, of course, how Hillary bungled her way into giving the nation Donald Trump.
I seldom agree with Orrin Hatch, but the Republican senator from Utah put it well. “The Clintons don’t know when to shut up.”
Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. ~ ROBERT KUTTNER

And please take these women with you! 

Ann Althouse: "I watched all 3 parts of ABC's "20/20" show with Melania Trump."

Althouse  "Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.

"I'm not going to embed anything or point you to any specific clips. I'll just give you a list of thoughts that are nothing more than what I remember, in the order I remember them:" Here.