Biden a "walking time-bomb"

Don Surber  "Brit Hume has lived in Washington all his life.
"He has seen them come and he has seen them go.
"For 46 years, Hume has watched Joe Biden in action.

"Hume's assessment is Biden is a walking time-bomb.
"Hume said, "I like Biden on a personal basis, but I think he 
is a walking time-bomb. I think his age is an issue, I’m the same age as he is, my age is an issue, I think his is too... the filters don’t work as well, the memory isn’t as sharp.
" 'You might blurt out things as he did the other day when he said China is no competitor of ours. Now, I can kind of get where he was coming from on that, meaning you know we are the best and nobody can beat us. But that’s not how it came out and that is not how he said it.
" 'He is gaffe-prone and always has been and I don’t think that he’s less-so now. He’s got a lot of strengths, he’s got a huge body of sympathetic support in the party, and he’ll be able to raise money. He’ll be in this, but it’s a high-wire act and I’m not sure he can make it.' "

Ian Macfarlane

Johnny Carson on Joe Biden in 1987

The Winnowing of the Democratic Candidates

Tony Branco

George Will at National Review
"Markets are information-generating mechanisms, and the political market is working."
 “We’re cutting out some of this ear hair that you get when you get older,” said the 46-year-old man-child who is auditioning to be Skateboarder-in-Chief. Live-streaming his visit to an El Paso barbershop, Beto O’Rourke continued: “It grows out of your ears, and if you don’t get it cut, it can be nasty.” 

"You might respond to this, as you perhaps did to O’Rourke’s prior livestreaming of his dental-cleaning appointment, by thinking: TMI. This is, however, not too much information. It is exactly the sort of information we need about the Democrats seeking their party’s presidential nomination. Markets are information-generating mechanisms, and the political market is working. 

"Before she is winnowed out, perhaps before Iowa’s first frost, note New York senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s campaign slogan: “Brave Wins.” It pats her on the back for unspecified acts of bravery, but this strange conjunction of words is the most vacuous advertising noise this side of Miller Lite’s current slogan: “Hold True.” The first substantive sentence — this counts as substance nowadays — in New York mayor Bill de Blasio’s video announcing his candidacy is: “There’s plenty of money in this world, there’s plenty of money in this country, it’s just in the wrong hands.” . . .

Silvio Canto thinks Beto is over with for now.  Beto without Ted Cruz is like Costello without Abbott. Better yet, Chamberlain without Churchill.

Trump's fear about impeachment

Don Surber  "President Donald John Trump had Nancy Pelosi and company at the White House to discuss fixing the nation's infrastructure. The meeting lasted three minutes because he asked her to back off on impeachment proceedings.
"She cannot. He knows this. He staged this. She is trapped by the resistance she and Obama and others allowed to fester for two years. This helped propel her back into the speakership after Obama lost the House in 2010.
"But now the new members want to impeach the president. After all, he is Hitler, right?
"That was what they meant by resistance.
"Failure to impeach makes one complicit in the Orange Man's war crimes. After he is gone, Nuremberg trials await those who fail to impeach.
"Never mind that there [are] no grounds for impeachment, Never mind that the Mueller Report found nothing even after an exhaustive investigation. Never mind that there is no groundswell of public support for this.
"Democrats want to impeach." . . .

Editorial: Right out of the gate, Beto goes low

Boston Herald

"The guy with the skateboard was not at all above board at CNN’s town hall appearance on Tuesday night. The very first question dealt with restoring “global leadership” post-Trump and Beto O’Rourke swung away at the current president, unhindered by facts or the toxicity of his words.
. . . 
"Cynical, misleading, divisive attacks, all in the first three minutes of the town hall.  Scare tactics are a tool of the trade, but if any of us thought skateboarding Beto was different, we were wrong." . . .

Coulter: U.S. Isn’t Becoming Europe. We’re Becoming Rome

Whatever the causes of the fall of the Roman Empire, one thing is for damn sure: There were not vast bands of powerful Romans prattling about “Roman privilege,” demanding that the Huns be given preference over Romans and writing articles with titles like “Abolish the Romans!” That is the driving impulse of one of our two major political parties.  . . .

Ann Coulter  "Can we have a quick reality check and acknowledge that what is happening to America is a million times worse than what’s happening in Europe and is of much greater consequence?

"Conservatives regularly point to the mass migration afflicting Europe as if it’s the Ghost of Christmas Future for America. Since waves of Third World migrants began sweeping into the European Union, we’ve seen terrorism, knifings, rape gangs and riots popping up all over the birthplace of Western civilization. Sweden has gone from a country where rape was essentially nonexistent to the Rape Capital of the World. 

"It’s sweet of Americans to be so concerned about Europe, but maybe they should look at their own country. On account of a mass immigration policy imposed on us by our government, the United States has undergone a transformation unprecedented in all of world history. 

"From 1620 to 1970, the U.S. was demographically stable — not to be confused with “a nation of immigrants.” The country was about 85% to 90% white, almost entirely British, German, French and Dutch, and 10% to 15% African American. (The American Indian population, technically in their own nations, steadily plummeted — an example of how vast numbers of new people can displace the old, both accidentally and on purpose.) 

"In a generation, the white majority has nearly disappeared, while the black percentage has remained about the same, with more than 90% of African Americans still native-born. White Americans are one border surge away from becoming a minority in their own country."  . . .

What could we find objectionable about these media commentaries that Ms Coulter cites:

"The Unbearable Whiteness of Congress" -- The Daily Beast 
"Whiteness is terrorism" -- Trinity College professor Johnny Eric Williams on Twitter
"The Problem of Whiteness" -- course at University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Abolish the White Race" -- Harvard Magazine ("The goal of abolishing the white race is on its face so desirable that some may find it hard to believe that it could incur any opposition other than from committed white supremacists.") 
. . . 

Rich Terrell

Washington Becomes Sanctuary State  . . . "Under the new measure, state and local authorities will be barred from questioning individuals about their immigration status except in limited cases.

" 'Our state agencies are not immigration enforcement agencies," said Inslee, who’s running for president. "We will not be complicit in the Trump administration's depraved efforts to break up hard-working immigrant and refugee families." . . .

Johnny Carson on Joe Biden; 1987

The media tries to change your language to manipulate you

The Post Millennial

"Yesterday on Twitter, Julia Carrie Wong, The Guardian’s senior technology editor announced that they would be making some changes to their style guide. “Climate change” will become “climate emergency, crisis or breakdown.” “Global warming” will become “global heating.” “Climate skeptic” will become “climate science denier.' ”
. . . 
"Today we are constantly facing demands that we speak and write in a politically correct way. They demand that we all use preferred pronouns so that theys, thems, xims, and xirs don’t feel left out. They insist that the terminology surrounding womanhood and motherhood be changed: woman is wrong; menstruator or pregnant person is correct; breastfeeding is wrong; chestfeeding is correct. The language surrounding the concept of racial and ethnic discrimination has been broadened. Teens in MAGA hats and evolutionary biologists are now racists and sexists respectively. Even with regard to suicide, there is an argument being made that people should stop saying “committed suicide,” because it legitimizes the idea that it is a crime.
"Major media outlets like The Guardian are in lockstep with governments and social media companies in attempts to monitor your speech and censor what you say. The well-intentioned but Orwellian Christchurch Call is just the latest manifestation of this." . . .
Read the full article.

Angry Trump slams Democrats' investigations after cutting infrastructure meeting short

CNN  "President Donald Trump took his deepening rage with Democrats to the White House Rose Garden on Wednesday, orchestrating a public display of fury at persistent oversight requests he says have forestalled any bipartisan cooperation.
"The episode, meant to shame his political rivals, also placed into clear relief how Democrats' recent subpoenas and information requests have rattled the President. And it raised the stakes on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is facing calls from members of her party to begin impeachment proceedings.
"Speaking minutes after abruptly cutting short a meeting at the White House with Pelosi and her Senate counterpart Sen. Chuck Schumer, Trump announced he wouldn't attempt any further efforts at bipartisanship until the congressional investigations conclude.

"I've said from the beginning -- right from the beginning -- you probably can't go down two tracks. You can go down the investigation track or you can go down the investment track," Trump said." . . . 

Trump Blasts Pelosi In Fiery Presser — Cuts Infrastructure Meeting Short After ‘Cover Up’ Allegations

"They want to play games, they get nothing back. Too busy trying to impeach him to actually do anything real."

The Epidemic of Electronic Deletions

Victor Davis Hanson  

Many Democratic government officials, not just Hillary, have gotten away with destroying evidence. here are lots of ways to adjudicate the present political divide over the collusion hoax.

"There are lots of ways to adjudicate the present political divide over the collusion hoax."

"One method might be to see whether those targeted by Robert Mueller had ever begun accusing each other of “collusion” to save their own skins. That did not happen. 

"Even the perjurer Michael Cohen, who accused Trump of all sorts of improper business practices in an effort to negotiate a lighter sentence, never claimed that the president had colluded with the Russians — the Holy Grail search of the Mueller “all-stars.” 

"Yet John Brennan, James Clapper, James Comey, and Andrew McCabe are suddenly alleging that someone other than themselves is the guilty instigator in seeding the dossier into a presidential intelligence report, is the guilty party that deceived a FISA court, and is the guilty culprit who was leaking to the media. So apparently the new climate is now no longer “There was no crime committed” but rather “He did it, not me.” 

"Yet another calibration might be who exactly is deleting documents and who is not." . . .

CNN’s Moral Insanity! Babylon Bee update.

Religio-Political Talk  "A CNN panel falsely claimed that abortion is moral and human life doesn’t begin at conception. Dennis Prager explains why this argument directly violates science and reason. MOONBATTERY notes:

…In the video below, a moonbat proclaims with a straight face that an unborn baby is not a human being. That is conventional insanity, of the type treated at psychiatric hospitals.

Meanwhile, the supremely odious Chris Cuomo desperately clings to the argument that it doesn’t matter if babies are human beings so long as they are not legally regarded as persons. If only they had realized this during the Nuremberg Trials, some Nazis might have escaped the rope.

Craziest of all is the underlying liberal belief that abortion is moral….

The Babylon Bee reports: Caravan Of Unborn Babies Heads Toward Alabama To Apply For Asylum  

"The unborn humans, mostly residing in the wombs of pro-choice mothers, learned of the new law as their moms watched CNN and listened to NPR. Each of them would then sneak out of their mom's womb in the middle of the night, slip into a state-of-the-art artificial womb they ordered on Amazon, steal their mother's car, and make a break for the Alabama border."All we want is a chance to live the American Dream---or really, just live, to be honest," a spokesfetus said. "Since the rest of the nation is one of the deadliest places to be in the whole world when you're an unborn child, we were forced to come here for the future of our children, so we might live.""Honestly, as unborn children, it's safer in a third-world country like Venezuela than here."LIberals quickly criticized the caravan, claiming they were "not people" but "animals."

 

‘OMAR MUST GO’: Hundreds Of Jews Gather To Protest Ilhan Omar In NYC

Daily Wire  Video 

 . . . "Hundreds of Jews gathered in Times Square in New York City on Monday evening to protest anti-Semitic Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and chanted, “Omar must go!” “ 'Following the highly-publicized allegations of the Minnesotan congresswoman’s antisemitism and her statement downplaying the 9/11 terrorist attacks, New York native and activist Joe Diamond organized a rally and billboard launch calling for her removal,” The Jerusalem Post reported. “Speakers at the event included former Democratic New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind and award-winning advocate of Christian Zionism Laurie Cardoza-Moore.”
“ 'In my lifetime, I cannot think of any other politician who presents a bigger threat to the alliance between the U.S. and Israel and to America’s Jews,” Diamond told JPost. “This woman is an ardent antisemite, and she doesn’t even try to hide it.”
“ 'Ilhan and her clique are well aware of what we are doing,” Diamond added. “And we’re not done. Everyone left really energized – ready to do whatever must be done next.”

US-Iran Standoff Is No Cause for Alarm

Daily Signal via Heritage

"Iran says it’s not interested in a war with the United States. The U.S. says it’s not interested in a war with Iran. The only parties who are making war talk are the press and pundits who just can’t help fretting about all things Trump.
"Still, there’s plenty to unpack and learn from the latest round of unsettling news from the Middle East.
"One reason for the war talk is that Iran is threatening to stop complying with the Iran nuclear deal, the agreement negotiated by the Obama administration in 2015 to curtail Tehran’s nuclear program.
"Critics were apoplectic when President Donald Trump withdrew from that deal. Iran’s announcement last week got them worked up all over again. They had convinced themselves that it was either the Iran deal or war. Now, they just assume there will be war.
"But in their anger, they forgot that their support for the Iran deal was largely based on myths. Iran never stopped its destabilizing activity in the region after signing the agreement. The deal never improved prospects for better relations between Washington and Tehran.
"Still, some expressed concern over new reports of a muscular U.S. military deployment to the region, which was provoked by intelligence of an impending Iranian covert action. Those concerns made no sense. The U.S. move was intended to pre-empt escalation, not prompt it. 
"Finally, this week we saw reports of attacks or sabotage against Saudi tankers and pipelines in the Persian Gulf. The facts on this latest provocation are still in short supply. Some claim that Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen may be behind these malicious acts.
"Still, there are many rungs in the ladder of escalation between what’s happening now and war—and there are no signs either side is really interested in climbing much higher.
"From the U.S. perspective, the campaign to isolate and pressure the Iranian regime seems by and large to be working. Tehran is increasingly short on cash, faces serious internal dissent, and has little international support." . . .