Free Beacon"PHILADELPHIA—A Democratic member of the House Armed Services Committee compared Jewish Israeli settlers to termites on Monday while speaking at an event sponsored by an anti-Israel organization that supports boycotts of the Jewish state.
"Rep. Hank Johnson (D., Ga.) launched into a tirade against Israel and its policies toward the Palestinians, comparing Jewish people who live in disputed territories to "termites" that destroy homes. Johnson also compared Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, a remark that drew vocal agreement from those in the room.
" 'There has been a steady [stream], almost like termites can get into a residence and eat before you know that you’ve been eaten up and you fall in on yourself, there has been settlement activity that has marched forward with impunity and at an ever increasing rate to the point where it has become alarming," Johnson said during an event sponsored by the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, an anti-Israel organization that galvanizes supporters of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, or BDS." . . .
Rep Johnson is one of those great minds in Washington who oversees our Armed Services. He takes part in discussing our Marines being garrisoned on Guam:
Washington Post "Everyone’s favorite soccer star Megan Rapinoe is quickly becoming a favorite pick in Fantasy Political Football — despite her own thoughts on the matter. "Presidential candidate Gov. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) made a whopper of a campaign promise on Saturday: If he makes it to the White House, he will ask the U.S. women’s national team co-captain to serve as the country’s secretary of state. “ 'My first act will be to ask Megan Rapinoe to be my secretary of state. I haven’t asked her yet so this could be a surprise to her,”Inslee said at the progressive Netroots Nation conference in Philadelphia. The governor explained that he wanted a secretary of state that leads with “love rather than hate*.” . . . Like this?
. . . “ 'I actually believe this, because what I think what she has said that has inspired us so much is such an antithesis of the president’s foreign policies,” said Inslee, who isn’t the first politician to throw Rapinoe’s jersey in the political ring. When Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) dropped out of the 2020 presidential race last week, he joked that Rapinoe would have his support if she chose to run for the White House.“I think she turns 35 next July,” Swalwell quipped. "Rapinoe certainly fits that bill for some. She has publicly clashed with President Trump, who she has said “excludes people who look like me and are me.” During her much-discussed speech at last week’s FIFA Women’s World Cup ticker-tape parade in New York, Rapinoe challenged the assembled crowd to “be better.' ” . . . *Emphasis mine, TD: "Love rather than hate"? Jay Inslee ranked as the absolute worst governor on taxing, spending"As Governor Jay Inslee embarks on his inevitable unsuccessful presidential campaign, seeming to spend more time out of Washington than in it, a new report rates him as the worst Governor in the country when it comes to fiscal policy. Literally the worst." . . . And his Secretary of State who will interact with world leaders?Megan Rapinoe’s antics and foul language"Reading about Megan Rapinoe’s antics and foul language directed at President Trump and the disrespect that she showed during the playing of the national anthem, proves that she is a bitter recalcitrant toddler. "She missed an opportunity to meet the president and state her concerns face to face. Instead, she chose to spew obscenities and show bad behavior and the leftist media was only too happy to coddle her. She cannot be taken seriously and I am saddened that her team members did not call her out for her childish behavior that tainted their accomplishments." Sports columnists and left-wing pundits have also speculated that Rapinoe’s potential political endorsements could move the needle on the left while Trump is in the White House if she decides to get involved in politics.
“I’m not going to the f**king White House,” Rapinoe told Eight By Eight. “No, I’m not going to the White House. We’re not going to be invited. I doubt it.”
"For the first time in my life, I did not root for an American team. Whatever the sport, I have always rooted American. And if those who called in to my radio show were representative of my audience, many millions of Americans made the same sad choice. "It takes a lot for people like me not to root for an American team. But Megan Rapinoe, the foul-mouthed star of the team, and her fellow players made it possible. "The U.S. women’s team disgraced itself. Either its members were cowed into submission by Rapinoe or they agreed (or, at least, never disagreed) with her attacks on the president, her reference to the White House as the “f—ing White House,” her refusal since 2016 to participate in the national anthem, and her repeatedly shouting during the team’s parade in New York City, “New York, you’re the motherf—ing best!” "For example, Rapinoe said, “Every member of the team that I have talked to would not go” to the White House. "Rapinoe is a great soccer player. Other than that, she is unimpressive. She comes across as arrogant, a fool, and a lowlife." . . . . . . . . . "With their politicization of their victory, their expletive-filled speech, and their publicly expressed contempt for half their fellow citizens, the women of the U.S. women’s soccer team succeeded in endearing themselves to America’s Left. But they earned the rest of the country’s disdain, which is sad. We really wanted to love the team. "What we have here is yet another example of perhaps the most important fact in the contemporary world: Everything the Left touches it ruins."
Are this current generation and its millennials not capable of seeing the evil infecting our culture?
Police as targets"Recently, three extremely disturbing events involving police as targets show that American society is rapidly approaching a state of anarchy.
"The events, all captured on video, took place in various New York neighborhood: on Monday, July 22, 2019, in Brooklyn and Harlem, and on Wednesday, July 24, 2019, in the Bronx.
"The incident in Brooklyn, captured in a 19-second video, shows bucketsfull of water hurled towards cops, and a cop hit with a bucket while making an arrest, as onlookers watch, laugh and prance in glee.
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“ 'This looks like it’s becoming a disgusting trend,” said one police source after the Bronx incident.
"Back in those years, Republican Mayor (1994-2001) Rudolph Giuliani was successfully applying the broken windows theory, according to which targeting minor crimes prevents more serious crimes. Broken windows policing has become associated with the use of “stop-and-frisk” police practice, which caused significant drops in crime rate in New York City.
"But those days are long gone. The current Democrat Mayor (since 2014), Bill de Blasio, has been consistently applying a hands-off approach to perpetrators. He ended the stop-and-frisk practice, while in public speeches he vilifies the police and victimizes the thugs for political expediency.
"Anti-police rhetoric characterizes also many Democrat presidential contenders, like Kamala Harris and Julian Castro, who don’t blame “the few bad apples” but advocate instead for the whole system to be reformed." . . . Much of this was begun during the Obama administration but the soil was nurtured during the Vietnam protests. Rudy Guiliani discusses Obama's role in this at the 2016 Democrat convention. TD
"Logically, this anti-police approach has immediate effects and longer-term effects. Immediate effects include non-intervention of police in violent protests and drops in police recruitment rate.
"On June 29, 2019, a clash with the left-leaning militant group of Antifa in Portland, Oregon, left conservative writer Andy Ngo with a brain hemorrhage, while police didn’t intervene. Instead, officers told him they wouldn’t approach the aggressors because it could incite the crowd. Portland police and city Mayor (since 2017) Ted Wheeler (another Democrat) have received national criticism of how the demonstrations were handled after videos and photos of Ngo being attacked went viral.
"Also, studies show a decrease in the number of police officers by 11 percent, and that, nationally, 66 percent of police departments report seeing declining numberof applications.
"Long-term effects will show erosion of public authority in society and a spiral down toward anarchy." . . .
Former MSNBC host admits the network got deep into Russia conspiracy theories and damaged the Dems"In the wake of the Robert Mueller testimony debacle, a few leftists are starting to honestly assess the damage the abortive effort to swing a presidential election and then enact a coup is doing to the Democrats. And to reckon with the role that the Trump-hating media played in pushing an effort whose backlash is only beginning to unfold, as the investigation of the investigators is using grand juries in secret to identify the laws that were broken by those who mobilized the intelligence and law enforcement apparatus of the federal government to spy on a presidential campaign and oust the victor from office.
"Naturally, nobody still earning a paycheck from a guilty media organization is willing to fess up yet, but an ex-host on MSNBC, Krystal Ball, now employed by Hill TV is. In a six-minute segment on Hill TV yesterday, Ms. Ball unburdened herself:"
Time for Democrats to give up on the impeachment thing"Maybe Speaker Pelosi is the happiest woman in Washington. She can remind the "impeach Democrats" that impeachment won't get to first base. Maybe she can, but the "squad" will be hard to discipline.
To be sure, since the Democrats now control the House they had to do something to force Mueller to testify. The Squad and the Justice Democrats wing of the party forced that course of action. Now, they essentially must press forward on impeachment since the Mueller Report punted to Congress. If they don’t press forward on impeachment, they’re essentially admitting they know that everything they’ve said for the past two and a half years is b-------. With a number of Dems in swing districts unable to vote for impeachment, even that will likely fail, and will only make the shriekers look even more unhinged. . . .
"We can’t let the Mueller fiasco be forgotten. This was really dangerous, almost beyond imagination."
"But emotion is not the way to assess what we saw. It’s not an overstatement to say that the Hillary-DNC-Fusion GPS-Steele operation, as embraced by influential members of the FBI and possibly intelligence services, compounded by leaks to and collusion of a willing media, came close to undermining a presidential election before and after Election Day.
"In many ways the Mueller testimony confirmed our worst fears that the Mueller Investigation was the Mueller Investigation in name only, that it was run the way the pre-Mueller investigation of Trump was run — by people with a political agenda to override the 2016 election result, or at least to make sure it didn’t happen again in 2020. It’s a theme we’ve covered here pretty much since the Inauguration.
Whether Robert Mueller was a mere figurehead or in control, he was a participant. So while he was a sorry figure in the congressional hearings, and his appearance did substantial damage to Democrat and media plans, the gravity of what happened should not be lessened. It almost worked.
"The media, of course, was a full participant in what happened. Just when you thought the major organizations who control almost all of popular and social media couldn’t get any worse, they do. This all takes place while high tech companies put the thumb on the scale by penalizing non-liberal content.
"After Mueller had testified for several hours, and it was clear that it was a disaster for Democrats and the media, I was asked by someone who works in the neighborhood, knows about this website, and is a big Trump supporter, how it was going. We talked about the hearings for a little while, since he was unable to watch, then he asked me: “Do you still have hope?”
"That simple question somewhat set me aback." . . .
We’re doing construction at the house. The contractors we’re using told me they’ve never seen the economy this strong, that they can’t hire enough people for all the work they could get. Some of the workers blasted Rush Limbaugh on the radio. I smiled.
We saw how these democrats and their allies laughed over "destroying Justice Kavanaugh's life". What compassion would they possibly feel toward their tool, Robert Mueller? Perhaps in their last days, they will feel deep sorrow and regret over what they have become, but what good does that do for our nation now? TD Mueller was Weissmann's Sock Puppet "Robert Mueller was revealed to be an empty suit during his feeble performance before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees on Wednesday, unable to answer questions on a report that it became painfully clear he could not defend because he did not write it. The true author is likely longtime associate Andrew Weissmann, often called Mueller’s “pit bull,” who perhaps should also have the title of Mueller’s “Rasputin.” As Rep. Louis Gohmert, one of Mueller’s questioners, told Tucker Carlson Wednesday night:" . . . Robert S. Mueller: An epitaph"The Robert Mueller hearing delivered two shockwaves. First, the extent of Mueller's mental deterioration was revealed — highlighting so many pressing issues for the I.G. and Durham teams to explore. Second, it exposed the Left's role in conducting this grand, sweeping deception — this two-year-long ventriloquism act — known as the Mueller Investigation or Mueller Report. They broadly conspired to prop up this enfeebled man so that his reputation — deserved or not — would lend legitimacy to their witch hunt." . . .
Fox News"Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Wednesday night defended Associate Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch as "very decent" and "very smart" individuals after one of her former law clerks suggested that new nominees lack personal decency. "Ginsburg's comments turned heads on social media, given thecontentious and bitterly personal confirmation hearings last year that Kavanaugh said "destroyed" his family. "At an hourlong question-and-answer session, Duke Law professor Neil Siegel lamented that "nominees for the Supreme Court are not chosen primarily anymore for independence, legal ability, personal decency, and I wonder if that’s a loss for all of us." "Ginsburg shot back, "My two newest colleagues are very decent, very smart individuals." The exchange was first reported byThe National Review." . . . "It wasn't the first time that the court's liberal lion defended Kavanaugh. Earlier this month, at a series of events, Ginsburg, 86, praised him for being the first justice to hire an all-female team of law clerks. ‘Notorious RBG’ just earned her nickname in the eyes of fanatic leftists"Justice Ginsburg has rebuked the Democrat presidential candidates like Pete Buttigieg who have spoken about packing the Supreme Court by expanding its membership to 15, should Democrats win the presidency and Senate in 2020. She’s an old-style ACLU liberal, and understands a few things about political legitimacy that escape lesser minds like Buttigieg and Kamala Harris.
"Speaking to NPR’s leftist court correspondent Nina Totenberg, Justice Ginsburg said a number of interesting things.
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"By all reports, she is a graceful colleague to all of her fellow justices and was famously close to the late Justice Scalia. That collegiality helps reinforce the notion of wise Olympians dispensing just verdicts, even as they preclude voters’ power over those issues.
"Alas, they aren’t making leftists like her anymore. The new crop are fanatics who see no limits on their quest for power and no legitimacy in anyone who disagrees with them."
