Swalwell’s Sudden Collapse Isn’t About ‘Sexual Misconduct’

 Crash And Burn – Issues & Insights

"Keep in mind that the normal way for Democrats to handle accusations of sexual misconduct – including rape allegations – among one of their own is to circle the wagons and count on the press to smear the accusers. (Just ask Paula Jones or Tara Reade."    Issues & Insights

Issues & Insights   . . . "Start[ing] in 2012, the state’s primary system lets anyone vote for any candidate, and the top two finishers – regardless of party – go on to the general election. It was advertised as a way to open the door to more qualified candidates, but it was really a way to impose one-party rule on the state by keeping Republicans off as many ballots as possible.

"When Kamala Harris won her 2016 Senate race, for example, it was against another Democrat. In the state’s last midterm election, there were 26 races in which voters could choose only between two Democrats (there was just one race that year where Republicans had that advantage). This has been the general pattern in the past several elections.

"But this year, the jungle primary threatened to backfire on Democrats because there were, until this weekend, nine undistinguished Democrats running for governor.

"As PBS put it, “Democrats are openly fretting that the party’s numerous candidates will undercut each other and allow two Republicans to advance to the November election. Even in the heavily Democratic state, an all-GOP general election is possible.”

"The chance of that happening is admittedly remote, but there’s still a chance, unless the Democrats thin out their herd.

"Fewer Democrats running in the primary increases the chances that at least one of them will end up on the November ballot. And given California’s voting history, that means Democrats would almost certainly keep control of the governorship.

"Someone in the party decided that one of these candidates had to go, and fast. And Swalwell’s alleged sexual peccadillos – which were almost certainly widely known to party leaders long before last week – made him an easy target.

"Swalwell just learned that the most dangerous place for a Democrat to be is between another Democrat and a seat of power.

"But don’t mistake Swalwell’s lightning-fast fall from grace as a sign that Democrats suddenly care about sexual misconduct, or misconduct of any kind. Swalwell was the first sacrificial lamb in the party’s determination to keep control of California. He probably won’t be the last."

Pope Leo XIV, the lamentably political pontiff

 Eric Utter - American Thinker

But maybe Leo isn’t a fan of Exodus or Deuteronomy. Or the Bible. Maybe he is a cafeteria Catholic. Or maybe he is a closet Muslim. Or maybe he really doesn’t believe there’s a difference. 

 "There is a great wall protecting Vatican City. The wall is two miles long and 39 feet tall. It is made of thick, solid brick.

"Pope Leo IV ordered the construction of the massive barrier around the year 850 A.D. to shield the city-state from invaders. It was deemed crucial to keeping invaders out.

"But the fortification, stout as it is, isn’t stout enough to keep the staggering and repulsive hypocrisy emanating from Pope Leo XIV in.

"Ten Leos later, the current pope, an American, has largely shunned Biblical teaching on morality, truth -- and other Biblical concerns — to verbally harass an American president by weighing in on political matters and clearly picking sides.

"Against that president.

"He is effectively opposed to a wall on America’s Southern border and does not believe the U.S. has a right to control immigration. (There’s your staggering hypocrisy.) Like the pontiff before him, this leftist Leo clearly has a political agenda, one he thinks trumps any religious obligation he might have.

"The Holy See refused to join President Donald Trump’s proposed peace initiative in the Middle East, and has continued Vatican cooperation with communist China, where state-approved bishops are now enforcing restrictions against unregistered Catholics. And state-approved surgeons are removing the organs of undead Uyghurs.

"Moreover, Leo XIV has approved sainthood for a bishop who admittedly slept with young men and engaged in disturbing acts with indigenous boys.

"And he has seen to the opening of a Muslim prayer room in the Vatican’s Apostolic Library. Which is apostasy, something that used to be frowned upon in the Christian religion, perhaps because the Biblical God stated “You shall have no other gods before me,“ and “Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you.” . . .

. . . "And, mind-bogglingly, he had nothing really to say about the ongoing genocide of Christians in Nigeria by Islamists. Even about the dozens upon dozens of men, women, and children who were slaughtered over Easter weekend while celebrating the Resurrection. Men, women, and children who were slaughtered by Mohammedans in various Christian communities and churches on the holiest weekend of the year. He is now touring the African continent, and has left Nigeria off his agenda. How is this possible?! Lord God, please help me to understand." . . . Full article...

Carville tells Democrats to keep it quiet on their plan to seize permanent power

 Monica Showalter - American Thinker  

"How did such repulsive, unfit, morally depraved people rise to high and in such copious numbers? It's the one-party state which rewards crapulence, which favors the unfit."

"There's a reason why Democrats have been so persistently enflamed by Fidel Castro and his failed communist regime in Cuba.

"It's a one-party state. And its rule is permanent. The island has been ruled continuously on this model for 66 years.

"Wittingly or not, they are now advocating for the same model to be imposed on the United States of America.

"Top political operative James Carville, who has organized many successful elections, is saying the quiet part out loud, according to legal affairs commentator Jonathan Turley:

Various Democrats have been openly discussing their plans after retaking power to change the system so they never lose power again.

 

Democratic strategist James Carville has been one of the most vocal and returned to the subject this week in laying out how they will make D.C. and Puerto Rico states and pack the Supreme Court with a liberal majority.

 

On his podcast with Al Hunt, Carville explained, “If the Democrats win the presidency and both houses of Congress, I think on day one, they should make Puerto Rico [and] D.C. a state, and they should expand the Supreme Court to 13. F— it. Eat our dust.”

 

Notably, this week, New Jersey just elected a radical new member, Analilia Mejia, who ran on packing the Court and other radical agenda items.

 

While some of us have written about the expansion of the Court, these politicians and pundits are pushing for the packing, not just gradual expanding, of the Court. However, Carville (curiously on a national podcast) seriously suggested that Democrats should keep the plan quiet: “Don’t run on it. Don’t talk about it. Just do it.”

"What they want is to deceive Americans into voting for them on the Abigail Spanberger model, and then let them have it, good and hard, once they ensconce themselves into power, securing their power and ending any consideration of free market ideas." . . . More...