The eerie capitulation of South Park

Don Surber  "A dozen years after turning him into ManBearPig, "South Park" formally apologized for mocking Al Gore's obsession with global warming. I sense something larger at play here.
"Two years ago, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg scoffed at the idea that posts on his platform gave Donald John Trump the presidency, describing it as a “pretty crazy idea,” according to The Guardian.
"He said, “Voters make decisions based on their lived experience. There is a profound lack of empathy in asserting that the only reason someone could have voted the way they did is because they saw fake news.”
"A day later, he began walking that statement back. Within 10 days, he set up a Facebook censor board dominated by liberals.
"Twitter already is in lock-step. YouTube (owned by Google, a subsidiary of a conglomerate based in Red China) started de-monetizing conservatives. Private enterprise in American media is looking more communist by the hour.
"In May, ABC canceled its most popular sitcom over a tweet mocking Valerie Jarrett's looks.
"In June, TBS broadcast a taped and scripted monologue in which its hostess called Ivanka Trump the C-word.
"In July, Jimmy Fallon apologized for having President Trump on and humanizing him. Fallon said, “I’m sorry. I don’t want to make anyone angry — I never do and I never will. It’s all in the fun of the show. I made a mistake. I’m sorry if I made anyone mad. And, looking back, I would do it differently.”
"Now "South Park" capitulates." 
"Someone has gotten to these people. Perhaps after the election, Democrats reminded Zuckerberg and others that someday when Democrats return to power they will not be in a forgiving mood.
"Businesses and executives who try to work with the president are placed on notice. Kanye West's sudden change of heart did not surprise me. Working with the president of the United States is high treason.
"Democrats have sentenced us to live in a cold, humorless world in which you conform or die. And you must conform to an ever-changing normal. Feminists must accept men in drag as women. The proper term for vagina now is front hole.
"So in calling Ivanka the C-word, Samantha Bee may yet be punished because she failed to call her a Front Hole.
"No one is safe from this mob."

Home Security Cameras Are Now Solving Crimes In Baltimore

Hot Air

"Well, it’s happening in more places than just Baltimore, but they probably need the help more than most cities. The subject at hand is the trend of police departments solving crimes in greater numbers because of the increasing number of home and business owners who have external security cameras monitoring their property… and the street beyond. As this report from CBS Baltimore indicates, some cases which might otherwise have gone cold wound up being solved in short order.

. . . 

"Well… how about this? Is this okay? Are cameras installed by private citizens on their own property who then turn over video footage to the police something you can finally be comfortable with and give us a better chance of solving crimes? Or was this just unfair to the killer of Timothy Moriconi? Perhaps the cops should have been denied the video and left to sniff around the curb hoping the shooter left a trail of breadcrumbs.

"If we get to the point where external home security cameras are so ubiquitous entire cities and towns are almost completely covered, criminals will eventually get the message. It’s certainly a cheaper solution than trying to afford a cop on every street corner in the country."

GOP to Dems: Here, Take Our Wallet, Too!

We called the Brennan Center for Justice, and they assured us that voter fraud doesn't exist. I can prove I called -- I'll show you my phone records! We're not going to send our reporters on a snipe hunt. Oh, and we also got an interesting brochure on voter suppression, such as the Nazi-inspired idea that voters should know how to spell their own names. That's what we get from our crackerjack media. Journalists' phones should be taken away, so they'd be forced to do actual reporting. 

Townhall

 Ann Coulter  "Election recounts would be more plausible if Democrats occasionally let the Republican win. But they don’t. Ballots miraculously discovered days and weeks after the election — in the back seat of a car, after helpful “corrections” to the ballots by election supervisors, etc. — invariably result in a surprise win for the Democrat.
"Voters are just supposed to accept that, unless Republicans win an election by an insuperable margin, the Democrats will steal it.

"And the thieving is cheered on by our media. Whenever President Trump has the effrontery to mention that GOP victories are being stolen by corrupt Democratic officials, the media snippily note that his claim is “UNSUBSTANTIATED.”

"Thus, for example, in the first 60 seconds of CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront” on Monday, Burnett said:

— “(The email from Trump headquarters) without providing any evidence … warns that, quote, corrupt Democrats are trying to, quote, steal election victories in Florida. …— “It’s a baseless claim that President Trump has been pushing for days. …— “(Gov. Rick) Scott (is) talking about rampant fraud without providing any evidence. …— “Now, ‘steal an election,’ ‘committing fraud’ are big claims to make without having evidence.”Hey! I have an idea! Why doesn’t CNN rustle up some reporters to go and investigate the biggest story of the year?

"No, the burden is on random Republicans — who have jobs other than “reporting the news” — to produce bulletproof evidence of voter fraud. Otherwise, it’s just a wacky coincidence that these “recounts” always result in mysterious new votes for Democrats.
"If a freelance investigative reporter like James O’Keefe actually does produce the evidence that our media are too lazy and biased to get for themselves, they sneer that O’Keefe can’t be trusted. He’s not a real reporter!
"What a real reporter does is call up some left-wing outfit, get a quote, and peremptorily announce that there has never been an illegal ballot cast in any election, ever." . . .

CNN's Jim Acosta would be the darling of Hollywood

Picture Acosta hosting a celebrity awards night.

American Thinker

Jim Acosta’s misbehavior didn’t start last week  "Even Bob Woodward – in many ways the dean of DC journalists -- is appalled at the lawsuit filed by CNN to regain the White House hard pass of Jim Acosta, revoked in the wake of his outrageous behavior at a presidential press conference a week ago. Joe Concha in The Hill:

Watergate reporting icon Bob Woodward argued that the remedy to President Trump’s decision to revoke Jim Acosta’s White House press credentials isn’t a lawsuit, “it’s more serious reporting about what he’s doing.” . . .

. . . "If the media unite to defend Acosta and implicitly endorse this kind of behavior, they are opening Pandora’a Box. Their own credibility will decline, and precedents are being set for dealing with future Democrat office holders."

Do Democrats have no shame?

Election fraud and mobs...

Gerard Butler Lost His House In California Wildfires But Some Leftists Say They Don’t Feel Sorry For Him  It's the Hollywood Blacklist again.

. . . "But his tweet, which thanked first responders for doing the best they could to save his home and for evacuating his neighborhood, wasn’t met with the typical outpouring of support seen for celebrity victims of national tragedies. Instead, leftists and anti-Semites responded to Butler’s tweet with a barrage of hate, all because the actor has given money to support the Israeli Defense Forces.

"Many called Butler’s misfortune “karma,” and mocked the actor with claims that he was merely experiencing what Palestinians experience every day.

Keep reading…"You Won't BELIEVE Why Leftists Say They Don't Feel Sorry For Him.

Here's Fox News' Tucker Carlson's full statement about the incident where a man called Carlson's daughter a "whore".

• After the celebrity attorney Michael Avenatti accused Fox News host Tucker Carlson of assaulting a "gay Latino immigrant," Carlson told Business Insider he never assaulted the man.
• Carlson said the man stopped his daughter when she was on her way back from the restroom and asked her if she was sitting with the Fox News host.
• When his daughter responded, "That's my dad," Carlson said the man asked her, "Are you Tucker's whore?" He also allegedly called her a "f---ing c---."
• "I did not assault this man, and neither did my son," Carlson said.
• In a video Avenatti included in his tweet claiming Carlson "assaulted" the man, Carlson appears to be telling another man to "get the f--- out of here" while others seem to be trying to get Carlson and others in the room to calm down.
• The video does not appear to show Carlson physically assaulting anyone.

However, Carlson's son could be said to have assaulted the man in much the same way 

that fast food worker did when he stole a customer's MAGA cap.

"My daughter returned to the table in tears. She soon left the table and the club. My son, who is also a student, went into the bar to confront the man. I followed. My son asked the man if he'd called his sister a 'whore' and a 'cunt.' The man admitted he had, and again become profane. My son threw a glass of red wine in the man's face and told him to leave the bar, which he soon did.

Man who obscenely harassed Tucker Carlson’s teen daughter was a board member at ‘Women’s Initiative’ health group  . . . "I have seen enough corruption and hypocrisy to make me suspicious of the motives of every male, especially a showboater who proclaims his love of women’s causes.

"So, it comes as only a slight surprise to learn that the man who allegedly publicly harangued Ticker Carlson’s teen-aged daughter as a “whore” and a “f**king c**t” at the Farmington Country Club in Charlottesville, Virginia served on the Board of Directors of a group that calls itself “The Women’s Initiative.” The group proclaims its mission as “empowering women in times of challenge and change,” which is vaguely feminist, but which could encompass almost anything. A look at its current offerings reveals a lot new agey stuff like yoga classes, including some pandering to progressive identity politics.

"His lawyer, Michael Avenatti, may want to break his promise to see Tucker in Court."

Brenda Snipes: Florida’s Shame, and Ours

National Review

It’s time to hold Broward County elections supervisor Brenda Snipes accountable

Conspiracy theories are bad for civic life. So are conspiracies

"I wonder if there is one mentally normal adult walking these fruited plains — even the most craven, abject, brain-dead partisan Democrat — who believes that what has been going on in Broward County, Fla., is anything other than a brazen attempt to reverse the Republican victories in the state’s Senate, gubernatorial, and (not to be overlooked) agriculture commissioner’s races. I cannot imagine that there is, but it is really quite something to see partisan Democrats — the same people who pretend to believe that the 2016 presidential election was invalid because Boris and Natasha posted something on Facebook — watch not only utterly contented but with joy in their hearts as the rolling crime wave that is Broward County elections supervisor Brenda Snipes and her co-conspirators try to actually steal an election or three.

"Boxes of ballots magically showing up in the trunks of rental cars in the Fort Lauderdale airport — cars last rented by Democratic operatives? What is this, a Coen Brothers movie? At least Saddam Hussein had the good taste to be amusing when he was stuffing the ballot boxes. That voting fraud that our Democratic friends insist never happens happens quite a lot under Snipes’s watch." . . .




Broward Election Supervisor Will Likely Be Forced Out of Office
. . . "Snipes, who has twice been found guilty of violating election law in the past two years alone, has come under scrutiny in the wake of the midterm elections for refusing to disclose the number of absentee ballots received by her office and for contaminating some 200 valid provisional ballots by mixing in 22 rejected ballots.

“ 'This is not just the most troubled elections office in the state, it’s the most troubled elections office in the nation,” said Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, who has argued Snipes should be removed from office immediately after the ongoing recounts in the Senate and gubernatorial races are complete.

“ 'She has shown she’s incapable of conducting a large and important election in a way that inspires public confidence and trust,” Rubio said. “She’s been found to have destroyed ballots, in violation of the law. Opened absentee ballots early, in violation of the law. Misprinted ballots that have gone out.”'  . . .

Fear The Voting Dead – End Stolen Elections Like Florida Through Voter ID

"Enough is enough. Election after election boxes of Democrat ballots show up in counties run by Democrat election supervisors to benefit Democrat candidates who, once they steal their opponent’s election night victory, will join the chorus warning of Russian interference in our elections. Last time I checked, there were no Russian election officials in Palm Beach or Broward counties in Florida.

"Democrats have long pushed for voting ease at the expense of voting integrity, pushing measures from voting by mail, to Motor Voter laws, to same-day registration while opposing voter ID laws which requires people to show up on election day with proof they are who they say they are. They claim Voter ID laws are designed to disenfranchise voters. So does the sudden appearance of mystery ballots days, even weeks, after elections without a documented chain of custody or certainty that other ballots weren’t destroyed or that the ballots found were cast by real, live American citizens.

Why is the White House wasting its time with Jim Acosta?

Silvio Canto, Jr.  "CNN is considering suing the Trump administration over Jim Acosta.

I’ll leave this legal issue to our AT friends who understand the law.  

"My larger point is simple:  Why get into a fight with a network that few people watch?  

Honestly, I only hear about Jim Acosta when he does something stupid and Fox News tells us about.  

It reminds me of the story about then candidate Governor Howard Dean.  He used to attack Rush Limbaugh all of the time hoping for the counterpunch and the audience that came with it.  

"Don't get me wrong.  I am not a fan of Jim Acosta.  

"My friend Orlando Avendaño, a columnist from Venezuela, got it right this week:   

What I have criticized Trump most are his authoritarian gestures before the press: his constant attacks on the media, even though they may be biased and partial. It is the most dangerous thing about the Republican president because, as CNN rightly says, the free press is vital for the healthy functioning of societies. 

This is essential. And every time it is necessary to quote Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, or Thomas Jefferson himself, who said: “Our freedom depends on the free press, and that can not be limited without losing it.” 

But I cannot defend Jim Acosta. Wednesday’s attacks by Trump were not against “freedom,” the greatest value, but against the crude and discourteous gestures of the CNN journalist.

It was not appropriate behavior for a presidential press conference. He stood up and tried to take the floor, even without the microphone. 

"He did not hand it over, he roughly removed it from the woman doing her job. 

Press conferences are for questions, not for contrasting opinions. It was not a debate. " . . .  

The Great War’s Great Price

Rich Terrell

National Review

Revisiting the wreckage, on the centenary of the armistice

"There is no monument to the First World War on the National Mall. Along the two-mile carpet of memory we have created between the Capitol and the Lincoln Memorial, we honor the Civil War, the Vietnam War, the Second World War, and the Korean War. But nothing there memorializes the other great American war of the 20th century, which we entered in April 1917 and saw to its conclusion the following November. This is peculiar, since no other modern war was waged by Americans with such outstandingly pristine expectations. It was, as President Woodrow Wilson intoned, to be “the war to end all wars,” the war to “make the world safe for democracy,” the war to establish a world order of “open covenants of peace, openly arrived at.” Measured against those slogans, no other 20th-century war produced such meager results, either, which is the principal reason Americans have chosen to forget World War I so completely.

"And not just on the National Mall. No American combatants produced memoirs of wartime as powerful as Robert Graves’s Goodbye to All That (1929) or Ernst Jünger’s Storm of Steel (1920). Not even the most heralded of American fiction about the Great War, Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms (1929), is a serious match for Erich Maria Remarque’s  (1928) All Quiet on the Western Front. The one anniversary the war acquired on the public calendar, Armistice Day, was homogenized into Veterans’ Day in 1954. And no wonder: Fully half of the 4.7 million American soldiers mobilized for the war never even made it to the scenes of combat in France before the armistice was declared." . . .

Florida's chronic electile dysfunction

How ironic that both cartoons added by TD are from Florida 2000.

President Trump warning that he will be "watching closely."

Newt Gingrich: As Democrats try to steal elections, their dishonesty threatens the very fabric of our country "The Democratic supervisor of elections for Broward County, Florida, Brenda Snipes, has a consistent record of breaking the law and trying to steal elections." . . .

Broward Elections Supervisor Mixed Good and Bad Provisional Ballots . . . "Snipes, who has previously been found guilty of violating Florida election law on two separate occasions, initially refused to disclose the number of mail-in absentee ballots that her office received but was ordered to do so on Friday night by a Florida judge. 

"As the polls closed on Tuesday night, Scott was leading incumbent Democratic Senator Bill Nelson by more than 50,000 votes, but that margin has since narrowed to roughly 10,000 votes as Broward and Palm Beach County have continued to report absentee ballots.

"The lack of transparency has invited allegations of corruption by prominent Republicans, including Senator Marco Rubio of Florida and President Trump." . . .

Here we go: Rick Scott files third lawsuit to ‘IMPOUND’ Broward, Palm Beach voting equipment

The media can’t stop making ridiculous accusation of racism against Trump

Nakamura’s piece suffers from the same defects as Farhi’s. He ignores the fact that Trump told Ryan to sit down only after she persisted in interrupting his attempt to take a question from another reporter.

Power Line  "Members of the Washington Post’s large stable of Trump haters keep making fools of themselves in the attempt to paint President Trump as a racist. The latest effort, typical of the others but probably even sillier, comes from the Post’s media critic Paul Farhi.

"Farhi notes that Trump has “singled out three African American women who are journalists” for abuse ” just for asking him questions.” He then accuses Trump of “reserving special nastiness” for African-American women.

Ryan

"But, as anyone who has been paying the slightest bit of attention knows, Trump is an equal opportunity abuser of journalists (and anyone else) he believes are unfair to him. He’s indiscriminate. Indeed, at the same media event in which Trump allegedly “singled out African-American women” he went even harder after Jim Acosta, a non-black male.

"Let’s look at what went down between Trump and the three black journalists Farhi cites. One is Abby Phillip, formerly of the Post and now with CNN. She asked Trump whether he hoped Matt Whitaker, the newly appointed acting attorney general, would “rein in” the Mueller investigation.

"Trump responded, “What a stupid question.” He also noted what he considers Phillip’s propensity to ask stupid questions.

"Phillip’s question about Whitaker is, indeed, stupid. If Trump answered it affirmatively, he would be opening himself up to new accusations of obstructing justice.

"There’s no basis for concluding that Trump answered as he did because Phillip is black. Trump frequently denounces questions and questioners who ask questions that are stupid or that he doesn’t like. Phillip’s question fit both categories. And Trump didn’t attack her for “just asking a question.” Farhi is dishonest to make this claim." . . .

The second reporter Farhi cites is April Ryan. Ryan is an embarrassment. She runs a close second to Acosta in the anti-Trump obnoxiousness sweepstakes and seems eager to close the slight gap between the two.

Florida: another instance of Democrats making America a banana republic

American Thinker

The shame of south Florida rigging elections is now evident.  . . . "Note the phrase “lawyers and party activists raced to Broward and Palm Beach Counties” as the NYT and many in both the MSM and cable news shows breathlessly report ad nauseam the linear trajectory of a recount process. In other words the famous quote about “generals fighting the last war” will play out. But is 2000 truly “a last war” moment?

"The Republicans should not give enhanced credibility to a corrupt process because this time the judiciary has already given President Trump due process and 4th Amendment top cover." . . .

. . . Rule 3: Start immediately arresting people in Florida-TODAY.
Immediately, arresting identified criminals will totally change the linear narrative established by those currently engaged in or reporting on those fighting “the last war.” . . .

Confronting Broward County Election Official Brenda Snipes "Jeff Weinsier from Florida station WPLG confronted Brenda Snipes, the Broward County Board of Elections Supervisor."
Florida Democrat Lawyers Wanted Non-Citizen Votes Counted

Election Time in the Banana Republic of Florida"Considering what's going on for the umpteenth time in the República Bananera de Florida, the caravans of how many thousands making their way from Central America to our Southern border should be going in reverse.

"We're Honduras now.

"No Banana Republic -- past or present -- could really outdo Florida when it comes to electoral corruption.  After all, the population of the Sunshine State is roughly the same as the populations of Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua combined.  It's also larger than the population of Guatemala by itself." . . .

Where have these GOP pols been for the last several decades?  This is nothing new.  Voter irregularities are as common in Florida as hurricanes -- and probably more toxic in the long run. Why, for godsakes, does the woman in Broward still have that job?

 FL Election Worker Chelsey Smith Signs Sworn Legal Statement Alleging Broward County Elections Staff Were Filling in Ballots

. . . "When the Florida Broward County Elections staff member reported that she saw elections staff committing crimes by filling out of blank ballots, she was fired and told not to come back!" . . .
Earlier today the attorneys for Chelsey Marie Smith released her sworn statement today alleging voter fraud.

Florida Vote Scandal Coverage Shows Media-Democrat Complicity. Again.

. . . "To make sure that votes aren’t being invented or destroyed to effect an outcome, one of the first priorities of any election supervisor is to announce how many ballots are in the possession and how many remain to be counted. To fail to do this, as the Broward County and Palm Beach County Supervisors had, is to open themselves up to the accusation of massive vote fraud.

"Citizens can not have confidence that ballots are not being destroyed, or created, when supervisors fail to immediately announce how many ballots are on hand." . . .

Via Doug Ross Journal

Visit by Adolf Hitler, June 1940 to his old battlefields of WW1

Dixmude Trenches of Death

WW2 Gravestone  "A local man from Wytschaete, south of Ypres, who was a young boy at the time, recalled the impression it made on him suddenly to see a convoy of big black cars and lots of German officers in their grey uniforms driving near his family’s farmhouse. He hid in the wood owned by his family and watched Adolf Hitler walking nearby with his entourage of officers. In the First World War Hitler had served with the Bavarian Reserve-Infantry-Regiment 16. "

 WW2 in color: "Hitler visiting the old WW1 front line trenches of his Bavarian 16th Reserve Regiment near Fromelles, France. He was wounded around this area during the Battle of the Somme (November 7 or 8, 1916). Photo taken in 1940, after the armistice."

Archaeologists find the bodies of 21 tragic World War One German soldiers in perfectly preserved trenches where they were buried alive by an Allied shell  Fascinating photos in here:  . . . "Many of the skeletal remains were found in the same positions the men had been in at the time of the collapse, prompting experts to liken the scene to Pompeii.

"A number of the soldiers were discovered sitting upright on a bench, one was lying in his bed and another was in the foetal position having been thrown down a flight of stairs." . . . 

. . . Archaeologists also uncovered the wooden sides, floors and stairways of the shelter.

"The dead soldiers were part of the 6th Company, 94th Reserve Infantry Regiment.

"Their names are all known - they include Musketeer Martin Heidrich, 20, Private Harry Bierkamp, 22, and Lieutenant August Hutten, 37, whose names are inscribed on a memorial in the nearby German war cemetery of Illfurth."

More on the trenches of WW1

WW1: Aerial Trench Ghosts Part 1 - Invisible Works

In Flanders Fields: PASSCHENDAELE AERIAL GHOST – LATE 1917

"It didn’t exist…"

"Nor did any trench lines, at most men stood in shellholes up to their waists in mud. Again the only vaguely recognisable elements in this flyblown muddy graveyard are the church, a scar of powdered stone and the remnants of roads." . . .

More here.