About those bombs sent to Democrats and CNN: None detonated, which is a ‘huge clue’

Update:  Bomb Expert Labels Today’s ‘Pipe Bomb’ Scare A Dumb Hoax

National Sentinel  "Election 2018: As you likely are aware, several “crude” explosive devices were sent by someone to a number of prominent Democrats and at least one news channel, CNN, on Wednesday.

"As you are also likely aware, none of the bombs went off.

Make of that what you will, but there are investigative reporters — no, real ones — who have been looking into this without peering through a partisan lens.

"Some of them are also talking to authorities like the FBI and other police agencies. And they’re being told some things that you’re not likely going to hear from the “establishment” media because they are too busy blaming the incidents on POTUS Donald Trump because they are unhinged Leftists who are using this opportunity to bash him and Republicans.

"And that in and of itself is a huge tell (clue).

"First of all, let’s examine what we know:" . . .

Investigative reporter Paul Sperry also offered this: “6 bombs sent to Democrats. 0 go off. All crudely made pipe bombs and conspicuously obvious explosives, and all easily screened and discovered. Stunt seems designed for maximum political/media optics, not maximum damage.”[Actually, the count is up to nine now, including one sent to Trump critic and actor Robert DeNiro, but the other facts remain the same.

Paul Sperry‏ @paulsperry_

The pipe bombs might as well have had "ACME" stamped on them. Totally telegraphed by packaging (excessive postage, taping), amateur packing of gun powder (bad end caps, etc)

 

Via Whatfinger News

The Emperor’s Woke Clothes: "How did an elite, repressive minority policing speech and culture through political correctness come to browbeat the American democratic majority?"

"The overwhelming will of the majority can be continually frustrated by wildly unrepresentative, power-seeking elite factions."

The Tablet The overwhelming majority of Americans oppose political correctness. A recent survey of 8,000 Americans reveals that people of all ages, races, and educational levels oppose it by lopsided margins. None of the demographic categories presumed to be aligned with it, or to fall within its protective embrace, actually support it. Three out of 4 black people, 2 out of 3 people with postgraduate degrees, and 78 percent of people under the age of 24 all regard political correctness as a problem. While 79 percent of white people oppose political correctness, it is Asians (82 percent), Hispanics (87 percent), and American Indians (88 percent) who are most likely to be resistant to it.

"The findings are as encouraging as they are distressing. They are encouraging because they affirm something that no one with a glancing familiarity with the character of the American public has had any cause to doubt. People long habituated to freedom of conscience and speech instinctively dislike attempts to place restrictions on them. A regime of policing speech and thought for adherence to an unprincipled, logically incoherent, and ever-changing array of progressive nostrums will always be unpopular everywhere, but especially so here.

"The study demonstrates that the opponents of political correctness are not primarily the followers of Donald Trump. Nor are they in any significant sense the alt-right, a ragbag of at most a few thousand malcontents in a country of 350 million, who have been falsely magnified into a ludicrous simulacrum of a real social force. They are not predominantly the remnants of a dying white America brainwashed by Fox News. They are not a pitiable collection of angry white males—ruddy, be-Dockered, pale, stale, males left behind by the times—clinging to their dwindling privileges in an ever more vibrant and diverse America.

"PC’s opponents are a portrait of rainbow-coalition America itself—people of all ages and all colors protective of their liberties, who sense instinctively who is really at the core of the politically correct movement and oppose the ideas and motives that animate it. This diverse America is of course fundamentally at odds with the Fox News crowd and the Trumpists. But they have no more love for their would-be saviors among the politically correct, who rule through fear inspired by legalistic threats and social media mobs." . . .

Maxine's Raving 'Motivated by Same EVIL Purposes' as BROWN SHIRTS

'Unless these radical voices are called to heel, there will be blood'

Socio-Political-Journal.  "Country music superstar Charlie Daniels warns that unless “radical voices” such as Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., who has urged Democrats to harass Trump administration officials in public, are “called to heel,” there “will be blood.”

"Daniels, who comments regularly on American issues in his Soap Box column, recalled a frightening lesson from history.

“ 'Maxine Waters’ maniac raving, encouraging the harassment of those who disagree with her and her party’s politics, is motivated by the same evil purposes as the creation of the Brown Shirts and could give birth to a very nasty movement, a ‘law’ unto itself and totally out of anybody’s control,” he said.

Pictured: Maxine Waters voters in her LA district.

GIF added by TD

"At age 82, he remembers World War II.

"The aim of such terrorizing and harassment he said is “complete political dominance by one party.”

“ 'But this is not 1930s Germany and the Democrat Party is not the Nazi Party and the citizens of America are not a helpless ethnic minority and are awakening to the fact that they are under attack and the manifestation of their anger will soon surface, and unless these radical voices and financed mobs are called to heel, there will be blood,” he wrote.

"Daniels said “part of that blood will be on the hands of Maxine Waters and her ilk who carelessly and viciously call for the persecution of all who disagree with their political beliefs.”

“ 'I have been on this earth for 82 years, I have seen America in all kinds of political, fiscal and societal situations, wars, recessions, racial upheaval and reactionary violence, but I have never seen an elected public official claim that America can be civil only if their party is in control or encourage the public to target and harass members of the opposing party.' ” . . .

From YouTube:

Midterm Optics Are Bad for Progressives

Victor Davis Hanson

"Hordes of immigrants and screaming protesters won’t win many moderate votes. "

Central-American migrants walk along a highway near Tapachula, Mexico, October 21, 2018.

The new caravan appears strangely well organized. The marchers, many of them young men, do not appear destitute. They do not seem to fit the profile of desperate refugees whose lives were in immediate danger in their homeland.

. . . The media are fixated on another caravan of foreign nationals flowing toward the United States from Central America. More than 5,000 mostly Honduran migrants say they will cross through Mexico. Then they plan to crash the American border, enter the U.S. illegally, claim refugee status, and demand asylum. Once inside the United States, the newcomers will count on a variety of ways to avoid deportation. 

"This gambit appears mysteriously timed to arrive right before the U.S. midterms — apparently to create empathy and sway voters toward progressive candidates supporting a more relaxed immigration policy. 

"Open-borders advocates and progressives assume that if border-security officials are forced to detain the intruders and separate parents who broke the law from their children, it will make President Trump and Republican candidates appear cold-hearted and callous. Earlier this year, a similar border melodrama became sensationalized in the media and almost certainly dropped Trump’s approval ratings. But this time around, the optics may be different." . . .

. . . The furious demonstrations that followed Kavanaugh’s confirmation only made the optics worse. 
"Republican senators were confronted at their offices and on elevators. Protesters broke through police cordons and beat and scratched at the Supreme Court doors, apparently in vain efforts to break in and disrupt the swearing-in ceremonies. Liberal icons such as Hillary Clinton, former attorney general Eric Holder, and Senator Cory Booker seemed to encourage the incivility and disruptions. 
"Did the ongoing chaos work to change public opinion in their direction? Perhaps not. 
"Most Americans do not want frenzied shriekers scratching at doors on Capitol Hill. They are turned off by shouters popping up in Senate galleries. Few are comfortable with efforts to bully or intimidate senators rather than to persuade them.  . . .

New York Times condemns Trump for ‘toxic environment’ right after publishing a fantasy of assassinating him. Cartoon update

Leftists threats to kill Donald Trump

Update from Townhall

Thomas Lifson  "If there were a Pulitzer Prize for hypocrisy, the New York Times would be a lock on winning it this year.  The discovery of pipe bombs sent to prominent critics of President Trump was irresistible to op-ed columnist Charles Blow:

There is no way to consider the explosive devices sent to prominent Democrats and the CNN offices and not recall that Donald Trump himself has created a toxic environment by openly targeting many of these very people and entities in his overheated, overwrought rhetoric.

“ 'Targeting” here is being used a synonym for “criticizing” – but connoting the identification of objects for bombs. If President Trump has ever called for violence against his critics, Blow shoud present evidence of his scoop and win a second Pulitzer.  

"Apparently Blow doesn’t bother reading his own paper, because only the day before, the Times published a fantasy about assassinating the president. In anarticle titled, “Five Novelists Imagine Trump’s Next Chapter,”  Zoe Sharp wrote:

The president didn’t seem to notice. He waved, in his desultory fashion. The Secret Service agents clustered around him, ushered him toward the armored limo idling outside at the curb.The Russian waited until they were a few steps past before he drew the gun. He sighted on the center of the president’s back, and squeezed the trigger.The Makarov misfired.The Secret Service agent at the president’s shoulder heard the click, spun into a crouch. He registered the scene instantly, drawing his own weapon with razor-edge reflexes.The Russian tasted failure. He closed his eyes and waited to pay the cost.It did not come.He opened his eyes. The Secret Service agent stood before him, presenting his Glock, butt first."Here," the agent said politely. "Use mine. …"

"Does Blow believe that this is not “toxic”? Is this a plea for a Deep State operative – the federal employees that are working against the policies of their boss – to provide a firearm to an 

"Readers of American Thinker

"Sometimes, it seems as though the Times is trying to make itself look ridiculous."

Some intelligent commentary on the Democrat pipe-bomb scare

Andrew C. McCarthy: The Pipe-Bombs Story: Another Example of Why No One Trusts the Media  "The political Left has been known to orchestrate frame-up attacks designed to make it appear that right-leaning opponents are responsible for violent acts and plots.

"If I wrote the paragraph above in the context of reporting or commenting on the pipe bombs that were reportedly sent by an unidentified person or persons to prominent Democrats, many people would react angrily, and rightly so. After all, there is no evidence that the atrocious but thankfully unsuccessful targeting of the Obamas, the Clintons, CNN, George Soros, and Eric Holder (as well as Debbie Wasserman Shultz, whose Florida office was given as the return address on some of the packages) was carried out by political leftists. There is no proof that any Democrat was hoping to cast suspicion on Republican supporters, to suggest to voters, less than two weeks before the midterms, that Trump and GOP rhetoric incites violence. To intimate, in the absence of any proof, that left-wing agitators may be responsible would be a condemnable smear.

"That’s why this paragraph, by the usually sensible Will Rashbaum in the New York Times’s report on the apparent attempted bombings, is so infuriating:

Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Obama, Mr. Soros and CNN have all figured prominently in conservative political attacks — many of which have been led by President Trump. He has often referred to major news organizations as “the enemy of the people,” and has had a particular animus for CNN.

"The report goes on to say that the CNN bomb package was addressed to former Obama CIA director John Brennan (who is actually a commentator at MSNBC, not CNN). The Times then adds, gratuitously, that Brennan “is a harsh critic of Mr. Trump,” who revoked Brennan’s security clearance “in what was seen as an act of retribution.”  . . .

Schumer, Pelosi: Trump Bomb Condemnation 'Hollow' Until 'He Reverses Statements That Condone Violence'

Pence condemns 'attempted attacks' on Clinton, Obama as 'cowardly,' Trump agrees

"President Donald Trump is echoing his vice president's condemnation of explosives sent to the homes of Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama.

"Trump retweeted a message from Vice President Mike Pence Wednesday, adding "I agree wholeheartedly!" In his tweet, Pence condemned "attempted attacks against fmr Pres Obama, the Clintons, @CNN & others.' " . . .

Personal Liberty

Experts: Bomber Likely Left Behind Trove of Forensic Clues  'Johnson said it is highly likely that the person or people who built the bombs have been previously flagged by law enforcement. The Secret Service maintains an extensive database of individuals and groups who have made past threats against presidents or other top political leaders, either through letters, emails or on social media.
" 'A good percentage of the time, this is not the first time whoever is responsible for this will have stuck their neck out," Johnson said. "Those looking to do revenge or harm to someone, it doesn't just come to them one day.' " . . .
. . . " 'It's not an insurmountable task," Oxley said. "There's a ton of evidence out there. Unless this is a really, really smart person, they will find out who did this."' 

Schumer And Pelosi Reject Trump’s Call For Unity, Blame Him For Suspicious Devices

Weasel Zippers

"No evidence who is behind the suspicious devices. Lots of evidence of Democratic violence and threats including Pelosi herself saying if Americans who didn’t agree with her became “collateral damage,” “so be it.”  Via Daily Caller:" . . .

This is even more suspect to me, and too convenient, just as Dr. Blasey-Ford's letter to Feinstein was. Democrats may have their reasons to dislike President Trump, but he has simply revealed their character for what it is and has been...and will always be. TD

Crazed zealot Jeff Sessions attempts to enforce law!

Speaking of Jeff Sessions: Texas Restaurant Draws Fire for Serving Sessions

. . . One local resident, Gilma Aguirre, expressed to ABC affiliate KTRK-TV that she viewed El Tiempo Cantina's decision to serve Sessions as an insult to the "community" that "supports" and is employed by the restaurant. . . .  

Support Richmond - El Tiempo Cantina. 

Now, today's column:  

Ann Coulter  "The New York Times recently published a snippy attack on Attorney General Jeff Sessions, portraying him as a single-minded zealot pursuing crackpot ideas that were putting the Trump administration "on track to lose in court and prompting high-level departures."

"The Times' sources were "current and former career department lawyers." In other words, Trump-hating Democratic zealots weeks away from their book contracts.

"One attorney who left the Department of Justice during its descent into madness under Sessions was Stephen J. Buckingham. (Why not "Astor" or "Carnegie"?)

"As at any federal agency, 99 percent of "career" attorneys at DOJ are left-wing. Social activists move effortlessly from the ACLU, the Democratic Socialists of America and the Lesbian and Gay Immigration Rights Task Force to government jobs. Thus, one entry on Buckingham's resume is that he "created a program to amend the immigration status of unaccompanied Sudanese refugee minors."

"During Democratic administrations, these selfless career employees sell guns to Mexican drug cartels and run around the country making sure local police forces can't do their jobs. During Republican administrations, they spend their time quietly, relentlessly sabotaging the administration they allegedly serve.

"In addition to being a nonstop source of critical remarks about the Trump administration, "career" DOJ employees also lead mob assaults on Cabinet members, as Allison Hrabar did to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in June.

"Along with a dozen of her friends from the Democratic Socialists of America, DOJ paralegal Hrabar surrounded Nielsen's table at a Washington, D.C., restaurant, shouting: "Kirstjen Nielsen, you're a villain!" "If kids don't eat in peace, you don't eat in peace!" "The f---ing gall!" "Shame on you!" "Shame! Shame! Shame!" "Fascist pig!" -- which Nielsen eventually realized was not the evening's special.

"(And it still didn't occur to Gen. John Kelly's special friend Nielsen why voters wanted a wall.) 

"It took months of complaints about the DOJ not firing Hrabar -- and her own arrogant claim that she couldn't be fired -- for her to finally lose her job. " . . .

The bomb mailers and the anti-Republican forces in our nation

From Breitbart:

• Authorities in New York safely detonated a bomb sent to the home of progressive billionaire activist George Soros on Monday.
• A suspicious package addressed to the Chappaqua home of Bill and Hillary Clinton was intercepted. The Associated Press says that, contrary to early reports, the package was singled out at a nearby facility, not at the Clintons’ home.
• The Secret Service intercepted a suspicious package addressed to Barack Obama’s residence in Washington, DC.
• A mail bomb addressed to former CIA Director John Brennan was opened in the offices of CNN at the Time Warner Center in New York City. The building has been evacuated.
• The return address on the CNN parcel is the Florida office of Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL). One package has reportedly gone to this address after it was sent to former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.
• Reports suspected similar packages were sent to Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) but were false alarms.
• Unconfirmed reports say that a package addressed to Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) was intercepted at a Maryland sorting facility.
• The White House has denounced the attempted bombings, with Press Secretary Sarah Sanders calling them “cowardly” and “despicable.” President Donald Trump said, “acts and threats of political violence have no place in the United States of America.”
• A CNN report claimed that a pipe bomb was intercepted on its way to the White House, but the story turned out to be false.

The DWS return address shown here is a bit too obvious to be believed, wouldn't you say?

Piers Morgan: In the Toxic States of America it was only a matter of time before some nutcase turned violent rhetoric into actual violence so now is the time to rediscover civility, starting with you, Mr President  . . . "But let’s not pretend this couldn’t just as easily have been a left wing home grown nutcase targeting right-wing political figures.

"As I have regularly said, many liberals have been sent completely bonkers by Trump winning the White House and their behaviour has grown increasingly erratic and threatening.

"Only last week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was attacked in a restaurant as he ate dinner with his wife. His shrieking assailant grabbed McConnell’s to-go box from the table and dumped it outside on the sidewalk as other diners cheered." . . .

Blame it all on Mr. Trump as you will, but recall the Democrats say they will next go after the soft-spoken, classy Vice President Mike Pence next. Recall it was the Democrat constituents of Maxine Waters who tried to beat Reginald Denny to death during the LA riots in the streets of Water's district. 
Kamala Harris supports the BLM movement that assassinated numerous police officers in the streets of Dallas; I do not recall any protest from her against the "pigs in a blanket" chants by these same Harris voters.
Democrats as well who did all they could to destroy the reputation and family of Judge Kavanaugh in front of millions of Americans. Their goddess Hillary drug the reputations of women that Bill Clinton assaulted into the mud, giving them veiled threats to ward off publicity. 
Oh, there is so much more to recall on these Democrats...TD

Meet the man behind the migrant caravan headed to US

NY Post  "Meet Bartolo Fuentes, the Honduran ex-lawmaker who helped launch the 7,000-strong caravan marching toward the United States — on a promise he says he never made.

"In September, Fuentes began ­coordinating with groups dispersed throughout Honduras seeking to make the trek north.

"The initial number of people involved was about 200.
“ 'No one expected this human avalanche,” Fuentes told the Daily Beast in an interview published Tuesday.
"What changed everything was a TV report on HCH — a Honduran news channel.
"A woman reportedly part of the caravan told TV anchors of Fuentes’ efforts, and she mentioned “assistance.” The anchors then supposedly said Fuentes would pay migrants’ food and transportation costs — which he denied in an interview.
"Still, thousands took a chance, since a human-smuggling “coyote” charges upwards of $7,000 to take someone across the US border.
“ 'After that news program, I started to get hundreds of calls, then it took on a life of its own,” Fuentes said.
“ 'In Honduras, the government wants to minimize why people are leaving — they know they are going to leave and they want to say they are doing so because of lies and the opposition, not the conditions that they created,” he said.
“ 'This is in line with what the United States is saying — that there are false promises being made. And this pro-government news program played into that messaging, trying to say that there is financing when really people just need to get out.”
"President Trump has claimed that Democratic politicians are behind the caravan — calling it an “assault” on the United States." . . .

Honduras? What about Venezuela? So Venezuela was behind the great Honduras migrant caravan all along?  . . . "The one clue we have starts with the two governments of Guatemala and Honduras, both of which have conservative, anti-Chavista governments.  They also have disgustingly rabid left-wing oppositions, the kind of people who openly admire Hugo Chávez and his utterly failed socialist revolution.  They like Cuba's government, too.  They are rabid left-wingers, and they seek above all to destabilize and topple the countries of their origin in order to see those countries join their heroes.  They can't get elected anymore, so this is what they do." . . .

The Liberal Mob Must Be Stopped in November

Derek Hunter 

"Something has happened to the Democratic Party, something dramatic and awful. It wasn’t that long ago that the Democratic Party liked the United States, and its members weren’t afraid to say it. Now saying positive things about the country will get you run out of the party and possibly attacked by a mob. Their media minions will cheer it all. And, if things go as expected next month, these people could retake the House of Representatives. These people in power should scare everyone.

"There is nothing they won’t do to win, no lie they won’t tell, and no norm they won’t obliterate. The last few days alone provided us with many examples to demonstrate this very thing. 

"This week saw liberals obsessed with the disappearance, and now we know murder, of Jamal Khashoggi. The obsession was not over how he was killed, despotic governments kill their citizens all the time and no one bats an eye, it was a combination of two things – his job and the opportunity to attack President Trump. 

"Khashoggi was billed as a journalist, but he was more of a columnist. Either way, if he had any other job you never would have heard his name. But journalists love stories about journalism the way Hollywood loves movies about the movie business. Add in the ability to blame his murder on the President’s criticism and you’ve got the perfect media storm. And Democrats were more than happy to jump on board. 

"First, let me just say that I don’t care. I know you’re not supposed to say this, but I’m not interested in lying to you. It’s sad that a man was murdered, but it happens all the time. No one’s profession makes them special. He wasn’t an American and it wasn’t in this country, so I don’t care. 

"More importantly, I’m not interested in destroying or even damaging our relationship with Saudi Arabia over this. Our relationship as a nation is much more important than one of their citizens, even if he wrote for the Washington Post.

"Democrats know this, yet they’re out calling for sanctions and worse. Why? Because they see a political advantage in it.

" President Trump has been rightly critical of the media in this country because they’re terrible, biased in every way and have gotten so many stories wrong or simply lied about his administration. His words, however, had nothing to do with what happened to Khashoggi in Turkey. You’d never know that from watching our media." . . .

Liberal Silliness; let us count the ways...

Judge Kavanaugh and his family ran afoul of this culture and was nearly destroyed by it. TD

Sen. Warren: Defining Gender At Birth Makes ‘Discrimination More Available’
. . . “ 'The Trump administration is trying to make discrimination more available all across the country,” Warren told MassLive,  “This is just fundamentally wrong. This is not who we are as a country, it does not reflect our best values, I will fight them on this, I will fight for anti-discrimination provisions.' " . . .

Eden Political Cartoons

College scraps homecoming king, queen for gender-neutral titles . . . "It's a dream come true," Stony Brook "nonbinary" student and homecoming finalist, Allilsa Fernandez told NEWS12.
"It doesn't take away any opportunities from students who would like to be either king or queen," Stony Brook student RJ Samodal told WABC-TV. "You can still apply. It's just the title is different."  ("The scrapping of the homecoming queen and king titles is nothing new on college campuses.") . . . 

School cancels production of 'Aladdin, Jr.' for complaints of stereotyping Arab culture

Drag Queen 'Jessica L'Whor' Visits Middle School; After Backlash, School Issues Partial Apology  . . . "After backlash from the community, a school district in Colorado has apologized to parents for not notifying them in advance that a drag queen, who goes by the name of "Jessica L'Whor," visited the school for career day. The district said it would not apologize, however, for inviting the drag queen to talk to the middle schoolers, a decision the school made in the name of "inclusiveness" and "diversity.' "

Gillum Thinks Hillary Clinton Is a Conservative Democrat . . . "The Republican Governors Association castigated Gillum for thinking that Clinton is a "conservative Democrat," calling him "out-of-touch."
" 'Andrew Gillum is so far to the left, he thinks Hillary Clinton – one of the most liberal Presidential nominees in U.S. history – is a conservative Democrat," said Jon Thompson, RGA communications director. "This out-of-touch admission once again proves that Gillum is too extreme for Florida."
I'd say Gillum is to politics as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is to economics:

"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez majored in economics, but she doesn’t seem to have learned much."  "It costs a pretty penny to earn a diploma in stupid."

U.S. Ambassador To Germany Responds To Democrat Socialist Ocasio-Cortez Comparing Nazis To Global Warming

The 28-year-old socialist, who is the Democratic nominee for New York's 14th Congressional District, made national headlines in July after she referred to Israel as the "occupiers" of Palestine in an embarrassing PBS interview that went viral; she later admitted: "I am not the expert on geo-politics on this issue"

Hillary Smiles, Nods When Introduced as “The Real President”