The #Walkaway campaign

It is past time to #Walkaway from the obscene Obamaphilic TV hosts, the scowling Democrats in Congress, the black-clad vandals with their bicycle chain weapons spewing their hatred for America and all we have been, even considering our failings.
I do wish President Trump had more grace and class in his pronouncements, but see that he has the courage no liberal has shown me: eliminating the ISIS caliphate, opposing the evil North Korean dictator, standing up to the United Nations by defending our faithful ally Israel and standing strong on many other world fronts with no apologies or bows.
Mr. Trump can be abrasive, but as Lincoln said in defense of the much-criticized General Grant, "I can't spare this man, he fights!"  The Tunnel Dweller

The Unsilent Minority  

"www.walkawaycampaign.com - The #WalkAway Campaign is a true grassroots movement. It is a video campaign movement, dedicated to sharing the stories of people who can no longer accept the current ideology of liberalism and what the Democratic Party has become. Some left long ago. Many of us have recently been “red-pilled”. Some here have wanted to leave for some time, but have feared the consequences they might suffer from friends or family if they walk away.
"This group is here to encourage and support those on the left to walk away from the divisive tenets by allowing people to share their stories, or watch the video testimonies and read the posts of others who have walked away. "But this campaign also serves another very important purpose. For far too long, the left has controlled the narrative in this country in news and media while the “silent majority” on the right have done what they always do- remained silent. The left has been allowed for so long to reinforce the narrative that everybody on the right is a bigot, a racist, a homophobe, a misogynist, etc. But the left has become so extreme, it’s now time to fight back." . . .

Growing #Walkaway movement may threaten Dems

"We have more than four months left before the election. That is time for this movement to become well known among habitual Democratic voters taken aback at the descent into madness of their former political party."

Hat tip to Bob Patrick at  Guardian Eagles:   "WE NEED to focus on our people power in order to protect POTUS as he is protecting us by doing everything in his power to have the entire wall built. This can only be done with a historic RED TUNANMI with use creating the same and bigger earthquake that we made happen in 2016. 

So, Let 's focus on what we can and have the power to stop this from continuing to happen. Starting now as ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS:
1. Be part of the WALK AWAY campaign, https://www.facebook.com/groups/OFFICIALWalkAwayCampaign/.
2. Encourage others to do the same
3. Become active in your GOP election and provide support by making phone calls, knocking on doors, making a financial donation if you can.

Salon claims #Walkaway maybe, possibly is a trick by Russian bots. What else can they say?  PJ Media  thinks this point of view would fertilize your flower beds:

No, the #WalkAway Movement Isn't Run by Russian Bots. But It Is a Major Threat to the Democrat Party
. . . Straka's WalkAway Facebook group now has over 106,000 members -- and anyone who takes the time to read their stories will quickly be disabused of the notion that bots could produce them.
"The #WalkAway stories are compelling and often quite moving. People from every imaginable background -- black, white, Hispanic, rich, poor, straight, gay, trans, and even celebrity -- explain why they left the party. Most of these people voted Democrat their whole lives; most have lost friends for supporting President Donald Trump. Most have also found solace in the #WalkAway community." . . .

The value of Trump to the Trump voter is that he stands between them and #TheResistance

We have seen the type of people who hate this President with their demagoguery, their bicycle chain locks and bloody assaults and their scowling faces in Congress. I fear these people ruling over us. TD

Legal Insurrection

My variation on Selena Zito: Right now the value of Trump to the Trump voter is he is all that stands between them and the people who hate them every bit as much as they hate Trump.

"The Manhattan (NY County) District Attorney’s office is investigating the Trump Organization for possible criminal violations.

"The current NY Attorney General Barbara Underwood, holding the spot temporarily after her anti-Trump predecessor Eric Schneiderman resigned in disgrace, is going after the Trump Foundation.

"Democrat candidates for Attorney General are trying to outdo each other with promises that they will be the most aggressive in going after all things Trump if elected.

"Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, to whom Robert Mueller outsourced investigations so far removed from supposed Russia collusion that even Mueller couldn’t justify keeping them, have taken down the hapless Michael Cohen and clearly have their sights set more broadly on the Trump organization.

"Those same prosecutors are digging in the safes of the owner of the National Enquirer for more dirt on Trump or the Trump organizations.

"The sharks clearly are circling all things Trump looking for a crime which, even if it can’t remove Trump from the presidency, will put a price tag on anyone associated with Trump.

"The media, which is cheering all this, has announced that this was Trump’s worst week, the beginning of the end if not the end. There is a giddiness on anti-Trump media and social media that hasn’t been seen since the Access Hollywood tape.

"What’s the likelihood this will make a difference?

"Selena Zito in the NY Post doesn’t think it’s going to shake support for Trump, Why Trump’s supporters won’t care about Cohen and Manafort’s convictions:" . . .

Who will succeed McCain?

Monica Showalter  "With the passing of Senator John McCain, all eyes are going  to be on Arizona's Republican governor, Doug Ducey, who was a friend of McCain's, to appoint a successor.

"McCain's death comes three days before a primary in Arizona, but that's not a big deal, because Ducey himself is expected to win the GOP nomination for the gubernatorial election handily, Arizona Republic reports. Farther out, the House looks more in danger than the Senate of falling into Democrat hands, according to political strategists, so again, another bullet is dodged.

"But there is intense interest in a new appointee, particularly in light of McCain's tendency to declare conservative principles, yet disappoint, at voting time. It was the idiosyncracy of his being a maverick. Will it be a reliable conservative that voters expect when they pull the lever next time? Or will it be someone just as chancy as McCain?

"The Wall Street Journal has this list of possibilities:

Among the names that have been mentioned recently are Barbara Barrett, a former U.S. ambassador to Finland and the wife of retired Intel Corp. Chief Executive Craig Barrett, as well as Kirk Adams, chief of staff to Mr. Ducey. A name that has been floated as a long shot is former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods, who was close to Mr. McCain.

Three other names have circulated: Michael Bidwill, president of the Arizona Cardinals and son of the team’s principal owner; Karrin Taylor Robson, who runs a land-use firm in Arizona and was appointed to the Arizona Board of Regents in 2017 by the governor; and Mr. McCain’s wife, Cindy. Her name is often mentioned, though conservatives have bristled at the prospect—a factor that could weigh on Mr. Ducey.

. . . "It's not a certainty that she would be an awful Senator if she is appointed, but on the other hand, she has made many liberal statements, so there's a significant chance she would swing to the left on critical votes, as well as fight with Trump. Ducey himself seems to be a solid conservative and will in turn be pressed by conservatives to appoint a more reliable conservative. The press will beat back with the emotional factor, and that will be the kind of pressure he is under." . . .

CNN versus Fox News on John McCain’s death

Peter Barry Chowka  "John McCain died at home in Arizona at 7:28 PM EDT on Saturday, August 25, and it took less than an hour for the news to be made known to the world. The media had been prepared for this day on Friday by the McCain family announcement that the 81-year-old Senator had discontinued medical treatment for his aggressive glioblastoma brain tumor and was preparing for the inevitable.

"I had the Fox News Channel on when the news of McCain’s passing broke, after 8 PM ET. Within seconds of each other, all three major cable news channels went to non-stop coverage of McCain’s life and death, most of it commercial free for the first several hours.

. . . 

"This news release suggested that the story of McCain’s passing had legs and would dominate FNC’s, and presumably the other news channels’, coverage into the overnight hours and beyond.

"After Jeanine Pirro went off the air at 10 PM ET, I became frustrated with Fox News’s coverage – it seemed to settle into an endless repetitive loop of a small number of still photos and short video clips from McCain’s life with audio of reporting by in-studio anchor  Jon Scott and commentary by several guests – all of it and them almost entirely off-camera." . . . 

Obviously not a fan of CNN these days, I did appreciate this production, especially coming so soon as it did after McCain’s passing. It was, after all, a serious attempt to review his life’s high, and a few low, points and to place him into (CNN’s) perspective with new interviews conducted by Bash with people like Hillary Clinton. The use of archival film, video clips, and still photos also added a lot to its value.

With mainstream media biographical programs like this one, I tend to take the narration and predictable hagiographic point of view with a grain of salt, while I pay closer attention to the soundbites and historic archival material documenting the past that helps me to form or expand my own opinions. The interviews confirmed that, in death as during his long life in national politics, John McCain was the Democrats’, and the media’s, favorite Republican.

Showtime's New 'Anti-Republican Hit-Job' Show Kicks Off With Rape Joke

"Showtime's new Sacha Baron Cohen-starring prank show series kicked off with a marital rape joke that has many already condemning the series as tasteless and, worse, unfunny.

"Cohen teased his new series with a politically-charged promo featuring a slightly amused former Vice President Dick Cheney signing his "waterboad kit." Soon after the promo dropped, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin revealed online that Cohen posed as an injured U.S. war veteran to "dupe" her into a fake interview (which she ultimately walked out of), then dropped her and her teenage daughter off at the wrong airport so they'd miss their flight. Amid reports that the whole show was "nothing more than a Hollywood hit job on Trump supporters and the Republican Party," Cohen's "Who Is America?" finally premiered Sunday night — and promptly disappointed viewers." . . .

Company Pulls Sponsorship Of NASCAR Driver Conor Daly For Something For His Father Said 30 Years Ago

Weasel Zippers

"PC gone truly wild, not to mention across generations.

Via Indy Channel:

ELKHART LAKE, Wis. (AP) — Lilly Diabetes has pulled its sponsorship of Conor Daly’s No. 6 car in the NASCAR Xfinity race at Road America, citing a racially insensitive remark made by the driver’s father in the 1980s that surfaced this week.Lilly said in a statement Friday that its sponsorship was intended to raise awareness for treatment options and resources for people living with diabetes." . . .“Unfortunately, the comments that surfaced this week by Derek Daly distract from this focus, so we have made the decision that Lilly Diabetes will no longer run the No. 6 at Road America this weekend,” Lilly said.Primarily an IndyCar driver, Conor Daly is making his NASCAR debut at the rural Wisconsin road course Saturday with Roush Fenway Racing. Messages left for a team spokesman seeking comment were not immediately returned on Friday night.

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John McCain's prison in Hanoi for years

40 years after release, POWs at Hanoi Hilton reflect on experience

HANOI — Little remains downtown of the prison known as Hoa Lo, a name loosely translated as “hell hole.” 

"Most of the French colonial-era complex was razed to make way for a luxury apartment high rise. The Vietnamese government turned what was left into a museum exhibiting a few of the dank cells where Vietnamese revolutionaries were held and sometimes executed by the French in the mid-20th century. 

"There is one small room near the back devoted to a different group of inmates who languished for years: American prisoners of the Vietnam War. 

"To those POWs this was the Hanoi Hilton, a nickname that oozed irony and defiance, the kind of petty “thumb in your eye” that provided some small pride in a place designed to strip dignity away. 

"Forty years ago on Feb. 12, the first of those long-held POWs were released as part of the Paris Peace Accords that ended America’s decadelong war with Vietnam. 

"They boarded a waiting plane and landed free men at Clark Air Base in the Philippines. They flew on to Hawaii, then to their families at home. 

" 'Forty years later as I look back on that experience, believe it or not, I have somewhat mixed emotions in that it was a very difficult period,” said Sen. John McCain, shot down and captured in 1967. “But at the same time the bonds of friendship and love for my fellow prisoners will be the most enduring memory of my five and half years of incarceration.” 

"The POW experience at Hoa Lo — and in the archipelago of other prison camps in North Vietnam — was unlike anything American prisoners had encountered before or since." . . .

On the less honorable side of McCain, back in May:

John McCain tells close friends he doesn’t want Trump at his funeral, report says

But heaven help any of these cute creatures if they support President Trump!

GREEN WEENIE OF THE WEEK: PETA. AGAIN  . . . Really, sometimes I think PETA (People Eating Tasty Animals, er, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) exists mainly to make fools of themselves and offend as many normal people as possible. We reported back in June how Friends of the Earth (with PETA along for the ride) had come out against the new “meatless” burgers that actually taste like burgers. Can’t have that! Veggie-burgers have to taste like. . . well, like veggie-burgers, because what’s the fun of being an environmental scold if you can’t make life miserable.

PETA’s latest stunt is this billboard in Baltimore—the capital of crab cake country:

 . . . "Well, at least PETA has liberated animals from the cruelty of Animal Crackers packaging:

Animal crackers’ animals “freed” as boxes get new look

After more than a century behind bars, the beasts on boxes of animal crackers are roaming free. Mondelez International, the parent company of Nabisco, has redesigned the packaging of its Barnum’s Animals crackers after relenting to pressure from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

PETA, which has been protesting the use of animals in circuses for more than 30 years, wrote a letter to Mondelez in the spring of 2016 calling for a redesign.

Which all brings to mind these golden oldies from PETA:

PETA Wants Giant Tombstone Erected In Memory Of Chickens Killed In Truck Wreck

PETA Attempts To Make Fish More Adorable

" 'PETA thought that by renaming fish sea kittens, compassionate people who would never dream of hurting a dog or a cat might extend that sympathy to fish, or sea kittens," PETA campaign coordinator Ashley Byrne says.
"Byrne says that rebranding fish as sea kittens was obvious."

And these people vote.

Silliness destroys the greatness of a nation

Let’s All Tell More “White People” Jokes!  . . . "Not used to being made fun of? White people would probably have to go back to sometime in the mid-1960s to recall a time when they weren’t constantly being mocked. Young white people, especially, were born into a world where whites were the ONLY people it was OK to mock. Not only can one’s career be ruined by mocking nonwhites, one risks eternal social pariah status merely for pointing out the double standard. For those in media, mocking white people is a form of career advancement, as we all learned when The New York Times hired Sarah Jeong despite—or maybe because of—her history of saying virulently anti-white things." . . .

No, you dimwit, unlike you, we haven’t all swallowed that line of obviously fraudulent sophistry. If the word “racism” is to have any meaning at all, and if we even want to pretend we’re going to avoid a cultural civil war, we should keep the word confined to meaning what I was taught it meant when I was a kid—negative feelings or thoughts toward other races. From memory, there was no double standard for about, oh, eighteen months sometime in the mid-1970s, and since then, you can’t say a good word about white people or a bad word about anyone else without being socially and financially destroyed.  . . . 

Prepare yourselves. The ignorant and stupid, and those who control them, are telling us they are coming, what they think of us, and what they hope to do to us.  . . . "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."  So said Martin Luther King, Jr.  The danger lies, in part, in the fact that these characteristics are both intellectual and moral defects, which render the possessor of these flaws vulnerable to manipulation by those who use the illusion of morality to accomplish utterly immoral ends.  Never in our lifetimes have these two flaws been more proudly demonstrated and celebrated than now, in reaction to the presidency of Donald Trump.  Because of his effect, the incoherent emotionalism of the left, coupled with leftists' carefully taught inability to think rationally or critically, has been revealed to us on a disturbingly grand scale.  The extent had been largely hidden from us for decades as liberals and progressives felt safe and thus had no need to openly fight for the overthrow that was coming incrementally, without violent conflict." . . .

The Washington scandal volcano is rumbling

American Thinker  "In D.C., when the gods are angered, the P.R. volcano needs human sacrifices, but it will not get President Trump. 

"As the Drudge Report featured, it could have been considered a "Hell Day" for the president when Paul Manafort got his split decision while blaring headlines concurrently reported that a now proven  doofus lawyer had pleaded out to legitimate crimes and one count of a non-crime.  The P.R. timing of the criminal plea, on the day the Manafort verdict was reached, was a tactical and strategic move designed to really hurt the president.

"However, as the singer Peggy Lee smoothly crooned, is that all there is? 

"It is commendable that the president doesn't drink, but his opponents do, perhaps now early and often.

"I am old enough to recognize an inoperable "modified limited hangout" from the Nixon presidency:

[Bruce] Ohr is scheduled to give testimony to the Oversight and Judiciary Committees behind closed doors on Tuesday.  In previewing what GOP investigators are poised to ask, Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, told Fox News on Sunday that he and his colleagues would ask Ohr about whether there was a bias campaign against Trump that led even further up the power chain in the Obama administration, particularly by ex-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates.

"The real question that we need to find out from Mr. Ohr: Was he just a rogue employee acting improperly on his own or did he have some authority from within the Department of Justice and was Sally Yates aware of what he was doing?" Ratcliffe said.

"Sources told ABC News that Yates's and Ohr's other superiors were kept in the dark about his actions." . . .

Democrats: Be careful what you ask for   "We are watching the political equivalent of a blitz against President Trump.  In other words, they are throwing everything that they have at him.

"My guess is that they are trying to make it difficult for many Republicans to continue their support.  They may also be hoping a committee of wise GOP men walks over to the Oval Office to tell the President that it's over – i.e., Nixon 1974!

"A good example of this thinking may be Thursday's editorial in the Dallas Morning News:

At some point, we won't be alone in pointing out that the chaos Trump seems to relish creating is actually swamping his presidency.

"Time will tell where all of this goes, but I think Democrats are the ones who may end up losing big time." . . .

Mueller the blackmailer  . . . "This is an old FBI trick that was used to bring down crime lords.
"But Donald John Trump is not a crime lord.
"He is the president of the United States of America. Bring him down and you bring down the nation.
"Mueller does not care. He has convinced himself that President Trump and his supporters are so deplorable that they are not worthy of fairness." . . .

Netflix Star Apologizes After Being Outed For Liking Shapiro, Rubio, Trump (Updated)

Daily Wire

"After being outed for "problematic" tweets and likes — including liking tweets from Daily Wire editor-in-chief Ben Shapiro, Donald Trump, and Senator Marco Rubio — actor Israel Broussard of Netflix's "To All The Boys I've Loved Before" has officially apologized for his "inappropriate and insensitive words and likes on social media."

" 'I am deeply sorry for my inappropriate and insensitive words and likes on social media," Broussard, who plays Josh Sanderson in the series, tweeted Tuesday after backlash over his past social media activity. "I take full responsibility for my actions and I sincerely apologize. This has been a pivotal life lesson for me. I am dedicated to becoming a more informed and educated version of myself." . . .

HOW A COMMUNIST BRAINWASHING METHOD WAS EXPORTED TO THE UNITED STATES  . . . "The technique of “criticism and self-criticism” (kritika i samokritika) was developed during the early days of the Soviet Union. This got results. When the early Soviet show trials and purges took place, the targets would confess to committing treason—the details stretching credulity—and beg for execution. The Maoists (Chinese Communists) used it too, typically during “struggle sessions.” Also, forced confessions were required in Vietnam for prisoners in reeducation camps.

"What happened wasn’t much different from a medieval inquisition. Those targeted would be badgered until they confessed to whatever it was they supposedly did. Of course, physical forms of coercion were also an option. These weren’t actual trials; their fates were already decided." . . .

Update: #CancelWhitePeople.   . . . "The tweets that Mohney sidesteps entirely are the ones where Jeong repeatedly says white people have “no culture,” that they invented nothing, that it was her “plan all along” for them to go extinct, and that she posted the hashtag #CancelWhitePeople.

Marie Harf Wonders When America Was Ever Great. [VIDEO]

One has to keep in mind that Harf was once Hillary's State Department spokeswoman.

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American Thinker cartoon added by TD

"Fox News’s Marie Harf is the embodiment of a Dumb Blonde joke. Now I apologize to any blondes out there who are sick of hearing those gags.

"But when you go on national television and can’t think of when America was great because of. . . credit card restrictions?

"Yes, Marie Harf went there.

"She appeared on Fox News “America’s Newsroom” on Tuesday morning while the panel was discussing NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s comment that America “was never that great.”

"Marie Harf said that Cuomo certainly “flubbed what he was trying to do.” And then she went Full Stupid with this:

“But I keep asking President Trump supporters, when is he referring to when America was great? When I couldn’t vote? When I couldn’t get a credit card without my husband?”

"So America wasn’t great when women “couldn’t vote” or “get a credit card” without their husbands. Let that sink in.

"Dear readers, here we have on full display the progressive mindset: America is great only when she makes life ideal, especially for designated victims. And if she doesn’t, then America is not great." . . .