The Only Remarkable Thing About [Robert Frances]O'Rourke Is How Much the Media Love Him

David Harsanyi  . . . "Democrat O'Rourke, who is also in a race against an incumbent, Ted Cruz, is down 7 points and falling. It wouldn't be completely surprising if Cruz ended up winning Texas by the same margin he did in 2012. Yet you might not discern this reality by merely paying attention to Betomania. 

Donkey Hotey

"As with Hawley, I didn't know much about Arizona's GOP Senate nominee, Martha McSally, either. I'm probably not alone. She didn't get to kibitz with Stephen Colbert or Ellen DeGeneres. Maybe she'd have better luck getting attention from the national media if she used a nickname given to her as a teen. Anyway, what could one of the highest-ranking female pilots in the history of the Air Force and the first female pilot to go on a combat mission possibly have to offer Colbert's audience? Beto once skateboarded through a Whataburger parking lot. 

"Also, McSally has a chance to win her Senate race. 

"So I'm sorry, Associated Press and LeBron James, but Beto O'Rourke isn't "shaking up" the Senate race in Texas any more than Hawley and McSally are shaking up the Missouri and Arizona races. You're just far more interested.

" Then again, Hawley and McSally are not inventions of the media. O'Rourke has raised $38 million thus far. It's an immense amount for any politician but an absurd one for a man who relies on  fawning coverage provided to him and the advocacy that has very little to do with his political race. 

"It's difficult to quantify these things, but it may be true that all the money being poured into a losing O'Rourke campaign in Texas might have been better utilized in closer races in other red states -- namely, North Dakota and Tennessee. Democrats seem more interested in subsidizing celebrity than winning back the Senate." . . .

This is what we call "entertainment"?

Idiot Model Who Portrayed The First Lady as a Cheating Slut in the Oval Office Doubles Down "Why do I call her an idiot?

"Because she said she meant no harm and “didn’t disrespect her.” Then she gives Inside Edition a glimpse of her new project where she mocks the First Lady’s accent."  

‘Law & Order: SVU’ is making an episode inspired by Donald Trump  "The spinoff series that focuses on sex crimes will feature a Donald Trump-themed episode titled Unstoppable, according to The Hollywood Reporter."

Law & Order SVU Episode Depicts Ann Coulter-Like Character Getting Violently Raped At Right-Wing Rally  . . . " A conservative "extreme commentator" is violently raped at a right-wing rally by Antfia members during the episode, titled "Info Wars."
"Many online speculated that the character was depicting conservative author and commentator Ann Coulter.
"After a female pundit is assaulted during a protest, Benson and Barba struggle to put their political beliefs aside in order to help bring the attacker to justice," reads the NBC description of the episode.". . .  Meaning the "good guys" are virulently liberal and anti-conservative.

Report: Rihanna Turned Down Super Bowl LIII Halftime Show to Support Kaepernick
. . . “The NFL and CBS really wanted Rihanna to be next year’s performer in Atlanta,” the source explained to Us Weekly. “They offered it to her, but she said no because of the kneeling controversy. She doesn’t agree with the NFL’s stance.” . . .

Let America continue to see only Democrats as the party of violence and oppression

Rich Terrell

Sen. Tim Kaine Calls for Democrats to ‘Fight in the Streets’ — Then Gets Loomered at DC Bar  "Back in March 2017 Senator Tim Kaine’s youngest son Linwood ‘Woody” Kaine was arrested at the Minnesota State Capitol after disrupting a pro-Trump rally.

"Woody joined an Antifa mob that was hurling punches and spraying Trump supporters with pepper spray inside the capitol. Kaine was arrested during the mob violence."

Linwood “Woody” Kaine, of Minneapolis, was later charged with one gross misdemeanor count of obstructing the legal process and misdemeanor counts of fleeing on foot and concealing his identity in public.

"On Tuesday of this week Tim Kaine, father of Woody, called on his fellow Democrats to “fight in the streets.”

"On Thursday investigative reporter Laura Loomer confronted Senator Kaine on his violent rhetoric and violent Antifa son.

"Laura Loomer got up in Tim Kaine’s face and asked him how it felt to be confronted out in public like what he is promoting." . . .

Antifa professor attacks Trump supporter with bike lock. Gets slap on wrist: Three years probation!

Here’s how to hit the Saudis — and still serve US interests

NY Post  "President Trump’s in a tough spot. Saudi Arabia is crucial to his economic and foreign-policy platforms. So, he’s trying to hold the US-Saudi alliance together while Riyadh takes a lashing from Congress. And it’s getting harder now that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin just pulled out of a high-profile investment conference in Saudi Arabia, signaling possible trade turbulence ahead.
"The importance of Saudi-US economic ties cannot be ignored. Riyadh is America’s main weapons buyer. Between 2013-2017, Saudi Arabia made up 18 percent of total US arms sales — about $9 billion worth — and then spent $5.5 billion last year alone.
"There’s more at stake now, even if it’s less than the $110 billion figure Trump touts. The Saudis inked a memorandum of intent to purchase about $100 billion in US arms over the next decade. So far, $14.5 billion has come through, according to the Pentagon. But these are sales American businesses don’t want to lose.
"Then there’s oil. The US imports 800,000 barrels a day of Saudi crude. Admittedly, this is 600,000 barrels below what we imported a decade ago — thanks to increased domestic production.
"But Saudi Arabia still sits on massive oil reserves, which means that in today’s global economy, the Saudis are key to keeping the prices steady and affordable worldwide.
"Oil therefore makes Saudi Arabia a key to Trump’s foreign policy. Trump re-imposed sanctions on Iran after exiting the controversial Iran nuclear deal last May.
"One round of sanctions has already been imposed, with another coming Nov. 4. The second round will include blocking Iranian oil from being sold worldwide, causing a shortfall in global supply. And Saudi Arabia, a bitter foe of Iran, has agreed to Trump’s request to boost production to keep oil prices stable." . . .

Pelosi unveils just how bad a Democrat House would look

Monica Showalter  "Like a witch lifting the lid from the pot of her bubbling brew, House minority leader Nancy Pelosi has unveiled her picture of what her Congress would look like if the Democrats retake the House in November.

"Axios has the chart in this tweet here.  The larger chart, complete with green faces for the Latinos, purple faces for the blacks, and orange faces for the Asians, is here:

"Comically, Axios makes the claim that the racial diversity of the group is the story, as if no one might ever notice the lockstep left-wing monolithic extremism of every last one of these probable nominees.  And even more comically, Axios writes that the diversity of skin color translates into diversity of thinking.

"Apparently, they don't know these guys.

Axios has photos and names of these Democrats

"Fact is, this is a real menagerie of the worst elements of left-wingery, people famous for their lockstep adherence to Pelosi's flying monkey commands, and famous only for the diversity of their idiocies.  These are people famous for making stupid and malevolent statements such as Maxine Waters, dolts who make specious, fact-free arguments such as Adam Schiff, lunatic machine pols such as Jerry Nadler, Benghazi liars such as Elijah Cummings, FARC terrorist-coddlers such as Jim McGovern, open borders advocates such as Raul Grijalva, and just garden variety left-wing irritants such as Nita Lowey, Carolyn Maloney, and Nydia Velasquez.  The rest are almost all just as awful.  Only Eliot Engel stands out as a non-extremist.  The rest are really out there.

"What we see here is Pelosi picking out old-line dinosaurs just like herself, people we have heard about for years and know very well, with claims to "diversity" being her smokescreen for concealing the lack of diversity of thought or ideas in this bunch.  Every last one of these people is a crummy little pawn for the Pelosi agenda who will vote in lockstep to it, and no newcomers, such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, are going to be allowed in.  (Not that she'd be an improvement, but she'd be a new face.)

"This is not a group that will work well with Republicans, either – their long records already tell that.

"It's just the recrudescence of the same-old, same-old, repackaged as "diversity" to draw attention from the real lack of diversity of faces and ideas.

"If these Pelosi names and faces back in the news don't scare the public to vote Republican in November, one can only fear for the republic."

Whatever happens, Pelosi will be in the news:

Pelosi promises to get Trump’s tax returns if Democrats win the House

Democratic candidates vow to dump Pelosi

Americans Now MORE Skeptical Of Women Claiming Sexual Harassment After Year Of #MeToo

We can now add Snow White to the list of victims.

Daily Wire

"The #MeToo movement was supposed to increase awareness of the supposed danger and oppression American women face constantly. Instead, the movement, which demands men be ruined on mere allegations alone and suggests no allegation is false or exaggerated, seems to have made Americans more skeptical of accusations."A survey from YouGov and the Economist shows after a year of the hashtag, Americans are shifting toward those accused without due process.“ 'When it came to questions about the consequences of sexual assault and misconduct, there was a small but clear shift against victims,” the Economist wrote."As always, “victims” stands in for “accusers.”"The numbers are still clearly in accusers’ favor, but have shifted over the past year." . . .

Boy Has Message For Woman Who Falsely Accused Him Of Sexual Assault

The 9-year-old boy who was falsely accused of sexually assaulting a New York woman last week has a message for her: "I don't forgive this woman at all, and she needs help."
Teresa Klein sparked outrage when she claimed that Jeremiah Harvey grabbed her "ass" at a Sahara Deli Market in Brooklyn and proceeded to call the police, or so she claims, and made a huge scene outside the store.
"I want the cops here right now," Klein yelled on witness cell phone video. "I was sexually assaulted by a child!" . . .

Nancy Pelosi shouted out of a restaurant - by Cuban Americans in Miami

Unfortunately named source 
 "NANCY PELOSI TOLD TO GET OUT BY CUBAN AMERICANS IN MIAMI " 

We must NOT give the left the high ground! Condemn what was done to Pelosi and let America see that conservatives condemn actions that have been taken by the left. The tide will NOT have turned when we on the right begin to do these things; the tide turns when leftist media gets sick of Democrats doing this sort of thing.

Do not give Democrats images to use in their election ads!

This is what the left must be defined by, not Republicans:

Professor calls for harassing Republicans at restaurants, sticking 'fingers in their salads'  "The University of Mississippi has condemned a tweet by a faculty member that called on activists to abandon civility and harass Republican senators in public.

“ 'Don’t just interrupt a Senator’s meal, y’all,” James Thomas, an assistant professor of sociology, tweeted from his @Insurgent_Prof account on Oct. 6, the day Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh was sworn into the Supreme Court.

“ 'Put your whole damn fingers in their salads,” he wrote. “Take their apps and distribute them to the other diners. Bring boxes and take their food home with you on the way out. They don’t deserve your civility.”

"Without specifically naming Mr. Thomas, Ole Miss Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter issued a statement Sunday condemning a “recent social media post by a UM faculty member,” Campus Reform reported.

“ 'A recent social media post by a UM faculty member did not reflect the values articulated by the university, such as respect for the dignity of each individual and civility and fairness,” Mr. Vitter wrote. “While I passionately support free speech, I condemn statements that encourage acts of aggression. I urge all members of the Ole Miss community to demonstrate civility and respect for others and to honor the ideal of diversity of thought that is a foundational element of the academy.' ” . . .

We're Not Battling Craziness. We're Battling Evil.

Update:  Conservatives, we must condemn what was done to Pelosi. Evil will metastasize into us from the left if we do not stop it. We called this evil when it was done to us and we must not create a backlash against conservatives, The Tunnel Dweller.

. . . What else would you call a cause that deliberately seeks to ruin Christian business-owners because they refuse to bow to the perverse LGBT agenda?  What else would you call a cause that refuses to acknowledge who is a male and who is a female – and makes expensive and oppressive public policy based on such absurdities?

Trevor Thomas  "Ever since the election of Donald Trump as 
president of the United States, the American left has been – as my mother likes to put it – in "rare form."  Such "form" these last two years has resulted in obscene fits by individual leftists and, yes, liberal mobs.  Someone should ask these petulant, angry leftists – as did my mother when she encountered a tantrum (usually from a child): do you get a fever with those fits?

"The answer is no, because – in spite of what many have implied as they've witnessed the rage, violence, and vulgarities so often employed by today's liberals – we're not dealing with sickness or mere lunacy, craziness, stupidity, or even the deranged.  These characterizations are tempting – I've used them myself– and often accurate, but they fail to describe best what we are dealing with.

"As Selwyn Duke alluded to recently, and others noted more directly years ago, modern liberalism – aided and abetted by the Democratic Party – is a dastardly tool of the enemy of all mankind.  It's like a modern-day Mephistopheles luring hordes of Faustian fools with promises of worldly pleasure – especially sex – and perpetual provision from a paternalistic, godless nanny state.  Such dark pursuits consume their personal lives and thus their politics as well.  This is what results when one makes a god of government.

"Speaking of "dark pursuits," it seems that witches now outnumber Presbyterians in the U.S.  Speaking of witches, it seems the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation brought them even more into the mainstream of modern liberalism – so much so that, now that we've entered the Kavanaugh era of the Supreme Court, Vox saw fit to report on how modern-day witches are helping the "faithful" to cope.

"Part of this coping involves placing hexes on Justice Kavanaugh.  New York City witches have an event scheduled this coming Saturday for devoted occultists.  A $10 donation is suggested for those attending.  Half of the proceeds will be split between Planned Parenthood and an LGBT organization.  Justice Kavanaugh is just the latest target of those invoking witchcraft to "magically bind" President Trump and his administration." . . . Full article.

Obama's Operation Choke Point finally unmasked

Ken Blackwell  "James Madison once wrote that “the rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which government was instituted.” While in recent years our political leaders have not always lived up to Madison’s vision of government, rarely have they engaged in such blatant disregard for our constitutional rights as they did during Operation Choke Point — a secret program launched under the Obama administration to punish political adversaries.

"Operation Choke Point was a plot by President Obama’s Department of Justice, the Federal Deposit Insurance Commission, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and other government agencies to cut off banking and financial services for small businesses and industries that they deemed to be political enemies or otherwise undesirable.

"Some of these businesses included gun stores, ammunition shops, fireworks stores, small dollar lenders, and home-based charities.

"Some government officials tried to deny the existence of the program. That includes former CFPB director, Richard Cordray, who dodged questions from Sen. Mike Crapo in 2014 as to the CFPB’s participation in Operation Choke Point. Yet in that same year, Cordray warned banks against doing business with “… unscrupulous lenders and their payment processors.”

"Cordray was not alone in trying to hide the truth about this operation. Officials from the DOJ and FDIC all worked to keep the program’s existence from the public and to bury the truth. Finally, however, the truth is now being unmasked.

"Government documents were just unsealed providing evidence of just how far reaching and destructive Operation Choke Point really was to small businesses." . . .

Just a plain old white guy

The Daily Gouge
. . . "For those interested in further analysis of Warren’s latest effort to convince America she’s a bonafide Indian, we’d recommend the following memes forwarded from George Lawlor…"

The Beatification of [Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke];

But what’s fascinating is how the media looked at O’Rourke’s fairly mundane life and standard-issue national Democratic positions and convinced themselves they had found a transformational political talent…

National Review   "The coverage of the Texas Senate race has been driven by what the media yearned to see."

Between Cruz and O'Rourke, which would you say is the Hispanic?

"The media’s treatment of Texas Democratic candidate Beto O’Rourke wasn’t the most egregiously unfair coverage of the past year — that would be the treatment of Brett Kavanaugh — but it ranks among 2018’s most annoying. The endless glowing profiles of O’Rourke in every publication from Vanity Fair to Spin to Rolling Stone to Town & Country represent the national media’s worsening challenge in differentiating between what it wants to see happen and what is actually happening.

"The national media desperately want a Democrat who can win statewide races in the South and someday end up on a presidential ticket. That yearning drove the brief and otherwise unremarkable career of disgraced former senator John Edwards of North Carolina. Democratic statewide winners exist here and there, such as North Carolina governor Roy Cooper and Louisiana governor Jon Bel Edwards. Doug Jones won his Senate race in Alabama, though it helps to run against Roy Moore. 

. . . He genuinely doesn’t consult with pollsters when shaping his positions, which is how you end up with a Texas statewide candidate who is running on banning AR-15s, abolishing ICE, and impeaching President Trump." . . .

The World Keeps Not Ending

Kevin D. Williamson:  National Review

The angry partisan cannot believe that life is good, because he must then ask himself: If life is good, then why am I not enjoying it?

"We were not supposed to have made it this far. 

"George Orwell saw night descending on us in 1984. Orwell was, on paper, a radical, but in his heart he was an old-fashioned English liberal. He dreamed of socialism but feared socialists. He feared them because he knew them. I was in the sixth grade in 1984, but I remember the magazine covers and pundit panels, and the insistence that though we had not arrived at dystopia on "Orwell’s schedule, that eternal jackboot was sure to find our face soon enough. Tom Wolfe joked that “the dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe,” which wasn’t quite right: There’s Saudi Arabia, and China, and Burma . . . 

"But not here. And, increasingly, not there, either. As our friends at HumanProgress.Org remind us (to little thanks — nobody is less popular than an optimist) the world has in fact become more democratic and more liberal since 1984, rather than more autocratic and more illiberal. Orwell was the better writer and the more profound thinker, but Aldous Huxley was the better prophet. 

"On the other side of the political spectrum, Willi Schlamm offered a useful proverb: “The problem with socialism is socialism. " . . .

Via The Daily Gouge