The Most Memorable Leftist Hypocrisies of 2017-8

Robert Oscar Lopez  "The left is composed of horrible people.  Most sane people realize this, even if they have friends on the dark side.  I have friends on the left, so I can say, "Some of my best friends are horrible people."  The right wing has its own problems, but for now, let's talk about the first two years of Trump's presidency.  It should stun even the most cynical among us.

"From the "99%" to "Crush the Little Guy"

"Jason Wilson published a column at the reliably left-wing Guardian called "How the world has fought back against the far-right and started winning."

"It celebrates Gestapo tactics against inconsequential bad guys the left labels as racists, Nazis, or whatever.  Wilson glorifies "doxing," "counter-surveillance," and "no-platforming."  He likes pressuring governments to classify internet commenters as terrorists and deny them visas.  It exhilarates him to foment betrayals within conservative camps and devastate people like Milo Yiannopoulos."
"You get the feeling that Jason Wilson hates people." . . .

Taylor Swift: . . . "In sum, the Taylorizing of the left gives rich white women total unchecked power.  They can accuse underlings, helpless scapegoats, and human obstacles of anything from whenever and bring hellfire and destruction without having to apologize or compensate for it.  In fact, they become heroes lionized by Time." . . .
. . . I remember the party line: we should stay out of Central America's affairs.  We should not take sides or make judgments about things down there!  When I went to a model U.N. at Georgetown in 1987, the liberal consensus back then was: "asylum-seekers" are bad!  The U.S. government used refugees from communist countries like Cuba, Vietnam, and Nicaragua to make those countries look bad and justify more U.S. "imperialist" intervention.  Why, what did it matter to us what Noriega did to his people?  Why should we tell El Salvador how to run itself?" . . .

. . . "Lefties forgot their antiwar and anti-xenophobia views on the Middle East and Russia, too.  I nearly fainted when I saw so many lefty writers slamming Trump for withdrawing troops from Syria and Afghanistan, plus lathering Mattis in praise post-resignation.  And I never thought I'd see leftists say any Russian who talks to political people in the U.S. or stirs up debate on social media is colluding with treasonous Americans to interfere with our elections.

"Such inconsistency.  Yet no matter how much they contradict themselves, they are always horrible." 

Liberal (dare we hope?) Silliness

A nation gets the government it deserves and these are the voters deserving it. Weasel Zippers is always a great repository of challenged-liberal data.

Image by Oleg Atbashian of The People's Cube

CNN Runs Ridiculous Segment About Witches Offended By Trump’s Use Of Term “Witch Hunt”  Maybe they should just go back to the anti-Trump panels after all.

Pat Sajak had something to say on this as well:  Pat Sajak Has An “Easy Fix” For CNN’s FAKE NEWS Problem  . . . So what do they do? Can they really pretend to be “news” anymore? No one’s buying the “News” part of CNN….So Pat Sajak came up with a quick and easy fix!

Easy fix for CNN: change name to Current Narrative Network. My work here is done.— Pat Sajak (@patsajak) . . . 

Left Eats Left: Leftist Jewish Cafe Owner In SF Told To Get Out For Supporting Israel
. . . "You can be gay, intern in the Obama White House, work on Barack Obama’s reelection campaign, and serve as the Silicon Valley fundraising director for the Clinton presidential campaign in 2016, but if you also happen to be Jewish and support the existence of Israel, hard leftists want you gone, as 29-year-old Manny Yekutiel found out the hard way when he opened a café/bookstore in San Francisco’s Mission District" . . .

Bill de Blasio's 'Job Creation' Means Hiring People to Pick Up Junkies' Needles From NYC Parks for $350,000  Rudy, we all miss you! De Blasio is the reincarnation of the Dinkins administration.

Here's the icing on the cake: The city is spending another $450,000 a year for "specially trained mental-health workers" to go around and clean out the bins that weren't being used. Those workers will also be responsible for “providing life-saving services and connections to treatment and other care” to druggies they meet.

Not in the US, but you can be sure this is on the way: Counter-terror police brought in to help tackle militant VEGANS as threats to farms, abattoirs and factories soar

"You ain't bringin' home no bacon from here!"

Chicken memorials : pay your tribute to a much-loved hen or roo.

California: Land of 1,000 new laws  "California's Jerry Brown's crowning achievement for his 16th and final year as state governor was signing a new record of over 1,000 laws."

1. Women on Corporate Boards – S.B. 826 forces publicly traded companies headquartered in California to appoint at least one female director by Dec. 31, 2019 and requires corporations with five directors to have at least two female directors by 2021.

. . . "CALmatters reported that California governor-elect Gavin Newsom promised early this month that he, after his inauguration on January 7, 2019 and with the huge Democrat majorities elected in both houses of the state Legislature, will pass a much broader social justice agenda.  Newsom's top agenda goals include "Guaranteed Health Care for All," an affordable housing "Marshall Plan," a "Master Plan for Aging with Dignity," free college tuition, ending child poverty, and middle-class workforce strategy." . . .

Read the full Tunnel Wall blog here

Staffers of Bernie Sanders' 2016 campaign allege 'sexual violence and harassment'

Donkey Hotey

NY Daily News  "The #MeToo movement is catching up with staffers on Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign.
"Two dozen ex-Sanders staffers sent a letter Sunday seeking a meeting with the former candidate — who might run again in 2020 — to “discuss the issue of sexual violence and harassment” in the Vermont senator’s 2016 run.
" 'We — the people who worked on Bernie 2016 — know that much of the success of our campaign was due to the intense commitment, passion and sacrifice of women, people of color and LGBT staffers,” says the letter, acquired by Politico.
" 'In recent weeks there has been an ongoing conversation on social media, in texts, and in person, about the untenable and dangerous dynamic that developed during our campaign.”
"The letter did not make any specific allegations of misconduct. But one unidentified organizer told Politico that the letter “is just a start.”
" 'We are addressing what happened on the Bernie campaign but as people that work in this space we see that all campaigns are extremely dangerous to women and marginalized people and we are attempting to fix that,” the staffer said." . . .