Good bye, Baltimore

Indeed, if you want to see what liberal Democratic policies tend to produce, go to any one of those cities, or other Democratic strongholds. Democrats promise to help the poor and downtrodden, grow the middle class, make life more fair. But their policies consistently produce the opposite.  John Merline, I&I

I&I: Trump’s Attack on Baltimore Doesn’t Go Far Enough  . . . "On Friday, Trump attacked Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings, who had been complaining about conditions at the border, by saying “his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous.” Trump called it “a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess.”
. . . 

"Naturally, Trump’s tweets are being labeled as racist. Never mind that Democratic Sen. Bernie Sanders was saying far worse things about the city a few years ago, when he said that when you go to west Baltimore you “would think you were in a Third World country.” 
"Trump, meanwhile, extended his attack to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home town of San Francisco. 
"He should widen his lens even further. " . . .

Tlaib on Trump’s Cummings Attacks: ‘Our President Has a Hate Agenda’
Guess which channel: "Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) reacted to President Donald Trump’s attacks on Rep Elijah Cummings (D-MD) and Baltimore."

Don Surber: Trump makes Baltimore the symbol of Democrats  . . . "Democrats took the death of one man and turned it into the deaths of hundreds. Police officer retirements went up. Recruitment went down. The poorest neighborhoods became war zones and dumps.
"Now President Trump has shined the spotlight on Baltimore. Instead of ignoring his tweets, the liberal crowd pounced, which only underscored his message.
"Baltimore Sun quickly exuded an editorial, "Better to have a few rats than to be one." A couple of its white columnists came in on a sunny Saturday to denounce as racist the president telling the truth." . . .

Baltimore Rat Infestation Is So Bad They Made A Documentary About It 2 Years Ago

PBS Aired ‘Rat Film’ Documentary About Baltimore’s Rodent Problem in 2018

Baltimore Ambush: Trump forces Democrats to defend the indefensible, again  . . . Just as he forced Democrats to defend the far-left 'Squad' in his unexpected ambush on Rep. Ilhan Omar and her pals, he's now forcing Democrats to own the urban shambles and filth that characterize one-party blue-city rule, putting all Democrats on their backfoot. That's what's behind his surprise Twitter assault that began with Rep. Elijah Cummings and his rat-infested Baltimore district, which pretty much came out of the blue.

"Here's his unusually long string of street-fighting tweets, all of them calculated to hit Democrats where it hurts: " . . .

Documentary on rats in Baltimore

Donald J. Trump

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@realDonaldTrump

Rep, Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men & women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous. His district is considered the Worst in the USA......

. . . "How are Democrats going to defend themselves from this one? In one-party blue cities, states and districts, there's no one to blame but themselves. Trump's tactic is particularly ripe for propagation in solid-blue, shambling expensive California and already Trump is moving his attack onto Pelosi with his latest tweets."

Just ask the people who live in Baltimore  "Back in the 1970s, I attended school in Maryland and spent a lot of time in Baltimore.  I was there during a charmed Renaissance headed by mayor and then Governor William Schaeffer.  He oversaw the investment and development of the Inner Harbor and all those residential areas that went up downtown.  It was wonderful, and going downtown was great.

"Lately, it's not so pretty.  The city is a disaster and the one-party rule does not help.

"President Trump is challenging Representative Elijah Cummings to do something about his district for a change.  As expected, President Trump is being called a racist for holding "sacred cows" like Representative Cummings accountable." . . .

Todd Starnes: Trump is right – Baltimore mistreated by elected Dems, residents deserve better  . . . "For decades the Democrats have promised them jobs, good schools and safe communities.
"Residents waited patiently for the Promised Land, only to discover the Democrats’ policies had turned their congressional district into a dystopian wasteland.  Video.

Proud of yourselves, lefties? Leftists turn 'deplorable' beauty queen into Trump magnet

She's young. She's beautiful. She's smart and academically accomplished. And she's been treated like dirt, solely for the 'crime' of liking President Trump. She's also quite famous now, in a way that all the other beauty queens can only envy.

Could the US Women's soccer team forfeit their trophy because of their obscene, foul behavior on the field and afterward?

Monica Showalter  "Simply for liking President Trump, the left was going to make an example of that deplorable 20-year-old. They were going to make her pay.

"And for awhile there, they got away with it. Young Kathy Zhu, the newly crowned Miss Michigan, lost her title on account of her "offensive" tweets. The press went through every last one of the crown winner's tweets over the years and found a couple they decided were 'offensive,' 'racist,' and 'insensitive,' broadcasting those. After that, the Miss World pageant organization de-throned her.

"Justice. The left triumphs. That'll teach those Trump-supporting deplorables their lesson.

"Except that now in place of a mere beauty queen, the left has got a Frankenstein's monster on their hands.

"Zhu has been offered a prominent place on the Trump 2020 campaign. She's going to be out there, winning votes for Trump, padding his total further.     Here's CBS's sneering report:

. . . 

Some media creep, who follows beauty contests very, very, very closely (and most of us don't - cripes, these contests have the depth of whirled peas!) searched her tweets one by one, going through years of them, and then doxxed her to come up with the perfect years-old bad tweets to virtue signal with. The tweets were weak tea, but they decided that they were enough to pin her for a Bull Connor racist and they did. 

USA Today has this:

. . . The first was an incident that dates  to 2018, in which Zhu went up to a Muslim Student Association booth celebrating World Hijab Day and declined to wear a hijab when prompted. She then tweeted:

 "There is a 'try a hijab on' booth at my college campus.
So you're telling me that it's now just a fashion accessory and not a religious thing? Or are you just trying to get women used to being oppressed under Islam?"

Feminism Is Working Overtime to Destroy Film

"Besides, Logan James cutting men out of movies in the name of feminism is hilarious. If he really wanted to commit to this role, he’d have to shut up and erase himself from the conversation entirely. New wave feminism, by definition, requires all men to sit tight and keep their mouths shut. Jena Greene

American Thinker  "In a recent op-ed disguised as a movie review at the New York Post, film critic Sara Stewart proclaims that "Quentin Tarantino's exploitation has no place in Hollywood anymore."

"Why did she pen this obituary about Tarantino's relevance in Hollywood today?  Well, the eccentric (but arguably brilliant) director is just not woke enough for 2019, she posits.

. . .  "Her problem?  Tarantino once palled around with Harvey Weinstein (as did a veritable who's who of prominent Democrats and other Hollywood elites, it should be known), and he committed the unforgivable sin of not giving enough lines to Margot Robbie in her role as Sharon Tate in the new film.  Stewart concludes:" . . .

. . . "The Star Wars franchise is the most glaring example, particularly 2017's installment, The Last Jedi.  Some feminists celebrated it as the "first properly feminist Star Wars" film, while others lamented the same observation.  Regarding the film's "aggressive feminist ideology," Bishop Robert Barron correctly observes:

Every male character in The Last Jedi is either bumbling, incompetent, arrogant, or morally compromised; and every female character is wise, good, prudent, and courageous.  Even Luke has become embittered and afraid, bearing the stigma of a profound moral failure.  The female figures in The Last Jedi typically correct, demote, control, and roll their eyes at the males, who stumble about when not provided with feminine instruction.

"Feminists loved all of that, but audiences didn't respond well.  . . ."

Male Feminist Tries To Edit Men From 'Saving Private Ryan' And Fails Embarrassingly

All sexist male predators must go!

. . . "For some random reason, Logan James went on to make a cut of "The Shawshank Redemption" with no men. That clocked in at just about 90 seconds.

If you liked Saving Private Ryan with all the men edited out, then you'll LOVE the man-free edition of the Shawshank Redemption! Only a minute and a half long! pic.twitter.com/XzwZMb60dx  — Juche Box Hero (@LoganJames) January 18, 2018

 Dunkirk: Triggered Feminist Wants More Women Fighting in WW2 Films  “ 'My main issue with Dunkirk is that it’s so clearly designed for men to man-out over,” Mehantara Boner, who writes in some woman’s magazine whines, adding, “The packaging of the film, the general vibe, and the tenor of the people applauding it just screams “men-only”.
"In her staunch feminist article, Boner has called for all World War II films to import women fighting in the front lines to show equality.
"Although this would not be historically accurate, the writer says that having “female platoons in Iwo Jima, Guadalcanal and Dunkirk, would make the films more accessible to women, instead of just showing men fighting and being male-like”.
"Even though millions of men sacrificed their lives in both world wars, this is not enough for modern feminists who become triggered by images of men fighting on boats and beaches."  

“Like look at Saving Private Ryan. Spielberg should have put Scarlett Johannsen somersaulting out of the landing craft on D-Day, dodging bullets whilst shooting thousands of Germans in their parapets, then helping male soldiers with their wounds simultaneously laying down suppressing fire all the while applying another pristine lacquer polish to her nails as she brings out the bangalores.”

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How Mueller’s Lawyers Spun the OLC Guidance on Indicting a Sitting President

Andrew C. McCarthy

After Mueller, it is worth another look at its role in the report and its fallout.

Part One: The Mueller Report’s Fundamental Dodge  

Democrats Push Mueller to Contradict Report. That, however, is not how the OLC guidance was construed by Mueller — or, I should say in light of Mueller’s patent unfamiliarity with the Mueller probe, by whoever on the special counsel staff was actually running the investigation.

Part Two:  "This is Part Two of a two-part series. In Part One, we took a look at the OLC guidance that bars the indictment of a sitting president. (The OLC is the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel.) In particular, we looked at (a) how, in investigating President Trump for purported obstruction, special counsel Robert Mueller’s staff distorted the guidance into a prohibition against even considering whether an offense occurred; and (b) the futile hope of congressional Democrats, during Wednesday’s hearings, that Mueller would contradict his final report on this point. 

"In Part Two, we explore why Mueller’s staff of very able lawyers, many of them activist Democrats, twisted the OLC guidance. (Spoiler: Their priority was to get their evidence to Congress, intact and as quickly as possible, in hopes of fueling an impeachment drive, or at least damaging Trump politically.) We also analyze how attorney general Bill Barr deftly dealt with the Mueller staff’s gamesmanship." . . .

Toon added by TD

"As we observed at the end of Part One, Mueller’s report makes the whopper of the claim that prosecutors construed to OLC guidance to forbid them to make a charging decision on obstruction because they were trying to protect President Trump.

"How’s that?

"Well, Justice Department protocols prohibit prosecutors from prejudicing suspects by publicizing the evidence against them unless and until they are formally charged. The idea is that the government must refrain from speaking until it files an indictment. For at that point, the person becomes an “accused” under the Constitution, vested with all the due process guarantees our law provides: assistance of counsel, confrontation of witnesses, subpoena power — the full array of rights to challenge the government’s indictment." . . .

Rand Paul offers to help pay for a ticket so Ilhan Omar can see Somalia and understand how lucky she is to be in the USA

Thomas Lifson

No, it’s not, “Send her back!” It’s “Let her go back on my dime.”

"After talking about the refugees in his home town that he knows, who love America and are grateful to be here, Senator Rand Paul made an offer Rep. Omar should not refuse: A free trip to Somalia – the nation she still calls her homeland– to see...

“… the disaster that is Somalia, that has no capitalism, that has no God-given rights guaranteed in a constitution, and that has about 7 different tribes that have been fighting each other for the last 40 years, and then maybe after she’s visited Somalia for a while, she might come back and appreciate America.”

Trump campaign produces brutal video highlighting The Squad’s crazy statements

Thomas Lifson "For decades, the Democrats have expertly demonized Republicans and conservatives, making the case that we are too mean, too stupid, too racist, too homophobic, and now too transphobic (among many other failings) to be trusted with power.  Meanwhile, the Republican establishment, including presidential candidates John McCain and Mitt Romney, preferred being gentlemen losers to winning by using the same tactics as the Democrats.

"I will remember to my dying day the time when John McCain rebuked the use of Barack Obama’s actual name. From the Feb 28, 2008 New York Times:

 A conservative radio talk show host who helped introduce Senator John McCain before a rally here Tuesday used Senator Barack Obama’s middle name, Hussein, three times, while disparaging him, prompting Mr. McCain to apologize and repudiate the comments afterward.

Bill Cunningham, who hosts “The Big Show” with Bill Cunningham, a local program here that is also syndicated nationally, was part of a line of people lauding Mr. McCain and revving up the crowd before his appearance here before several hundred people at a theater here.)

"In contrast, President Trump likes winning, and is not bothered by the fear that someone might consider him vulgar or mean. And as the most successful reality television producer in the history of the medium, he understands how compelling the appearance of craziness can be. It’s not coincidental that he had celebrities like Gary Busey and Meat Loaf as cast members of Celebrity Apprentice." . . .

MSNBC Host: “We Are at War,” We’re Not Going to “Play Fair” to Put Trump in Jail

Ever recall episodes of "Law & Order" from the 2000's when they promoted MSNBC in actor's dialog? I recall one suspect's alibi being they were at home watching Tom Brokaw.

Legal Insurrection

Deutsch: “We may not have won the battle of impeachment, but we’re going to win the war of putting him in jail, whatever we have to do, and we’re not going to necessarily play fair”

"MSNBC host Donny Deutsch went on an astounding rant in which he shattered whatever remaining mirage of unbiased, nonpartisan objectivity the leftstream media clung to in hopes of winning over skeptical viewers.

"Deutsch said that “we” (presumably Democrats and their media lapdogs) are “at war” and should do “whatever we have to do” to put “him [Trump] in jail.”

"The Hill reports:

MSNBC host Donny Deutsch said Democrats should do “whatever we have to do” to remove President Trump from office because the party is “at war” with Trump.  . . .

. . . "Watching this raised ten kinds of red flags and alarms for me. Here we have a host on a major network declaring “war” on a duly-elected sitting president and effectively stating that there are no rules, no laws, no nothing too extreme in removing him from office and/or sending him to prison.  Anything goes in trying to take down President Trump.

Professor Jacobson’s insightful “the investigators need to be investigated” post included the following:

Whether Robert Mueller was a mere figurehead or in control, he was a participant. So while he was a sorry figure in the congressional hearings, and his appearance did substantial damage to Democrat and media plans, the gravity of what happened should not be lessened. It almost worked.

The media, of course, was a full participant in what happened. " . . .

 Democrats Beginning ‘Impeachment Investigation,’ Asking for Grand Jury 
Information  . . . "The Democrats also decided to move forward as the left turned against Mueller after his testimony. He did not provide any new information, came off as lethargic and forgetful, and told Congress over 200 times to refer to his report instead of answering questions.

"Dan Balz wrote in The Washington Post that the Democrats can only beat Trump by winning the 2020 election. The New York Times had a podcast that discussed how the lawmakers wanted a political showdown, but Mueller “resisted.” . . ."

All emphases in the original.

Rep. Henry Cuellar: Democratic Caucus As A Whole Has Not Decided To Move Forward On Impeachment
"They are such a mess, they can’t get their act together. And this guy has more sense than most. That’s why the Justice Dems want to primary him."

Beauty queen speaks the truth: ‘Coming out as conservative is harder than coming out as gay’

Lifesite News 

 "July 23, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — When a beauty queen was stripped of her Miss Michigan title because her old social media postings were deemed “offensive, insensitive and inappropriate,” she declared, “Coming out as a conservative is way harder than coming out as gay in today's society.”

"Kathy Zhu tweeted a screenshot last Friday of an email she had received from the pageant’s governing organization, explaining that her title had been revoked after tweets had been discovered concerning her “refusal to try on a hijab.”

“ 'The Miss World America Organization strips conservative activist Kathy Zhu of her Miss Michigan title for refusing to wear a hijab and ‘insensitive’ social media posts,” read a tweet by Fox & Friends First." . . .

. . . "“It is honestly sad that the left refers to statistics and facts as racist and insensitive,” Zhu said in a statement to The Independent, UK. 

“I am very glad that I now have the opportunity to speak out about the unjust treatment of conservatives,” continued the University of Michigan student.  

"Zhu, who was just old enough to vote in the 2016 Presidential election, also appeared in a YouTube video titled “Why this 18-year-old is voting for Donald Trump.”

"Zhu is 100 percent correct. I should know; I’ve done both.  

"I agree with Zhu: Coming out as conservative is far harder than coming out as gay. I should know; I’ve done both.  

"I “came out” as gay after my wife and I divorced in the late 1990s. I was amazed at the acceptance I experienced. No one condemned me or my predilections.  

"My experience “coming out as a conservative” to other gays, lesbians, and my liberal neighbors and colleagues, on the other hand, was often exceedingly unpleasant. 

"As I began forming friendships with other gay men in the Washington, D.C. area, one thing quickly became very clear to me: I had better keep my political and social opinions to myself. Or else.

"When I began dating a man who was related to a powerful Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives, he felt obligated to disclose the fact up front as if it might be a deal-breaker. I felt sorry for him: The look on his face was pained, as if he were confessing some unforgivable crime. He was astounded when I congratulated him and told him I thought his cousin was one of the best men in Congress. " . . . 

Pin The Male And The Honky

"I have a better idea. Let’s reject the ideas of incompetent Marxist feminists who distort history in an effort to advance failed visions."

Mike Adams   "Dr. Kimberly Cook, a Sociology and Criminology professor at UNC Wilmington, has written an op-ed piece that ostensibly seeks to explain the high rates of “violence in low-income communities” in our hometown of Wilmington, North Carolina. 
Under normal circumstances, I ignore political screeds written by my Marxist colleagues. However, this recent op-ed is so mired in intellectual incompetence and academic dishonestly as to require a column-length response.

"Cook begins her op-ed by saying that “As a criminologist, (she) can offer some insights into this persistent problem (of violence in low-income communities).” By reminding people she is a criminologist she seeks to establish credibility. But she destroys her credibility in the next sentence by adding that, “arrest and incarceration exacerbate the problems” she is addressing.

"When Cook eschews incarceration, she draws no distinction between petty offenses such as drug possession and more serious crimes of violence such as murder, which have been on the upswing in Wilmington’s low-income neighborhoods. Hence, her suggestion that arresting people and incarcerating them would be detrimental raises some serious red flags. Were I the editor of our local Wilmington McTimes, I probably would have passed on Cook’s request to publish her “expert” commentary." . . .

. . . "While the nation is experiencing rapid economic growth, we are also seeing the lowest black unemployment rates in decades. There has been no downward shift in economic opportunity, which would explain the sudden uptick in crime in lower-income Wilmington neighborhoods.

"Fortunately, Cook does recognize - at least at some level - how the crimes of her fellow Democrats have affected our community. She states that “Still, our community remains wounded by historical harms of racialized violence (the violence of slavery; the 1898 coup and massacre).” For those not from Wilmington, the 1898 massacre was a political coup perpetrated by white supremacist Democrats against black Republicans. But it has absolutely nothing to do with current rates of violence in poor black communities." . . .

Not On A Roll: The Left Is Coming For Our Toilet Paper

MRC  "Toilet paper is “worsening climate change” according to the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Especially if it’s “the pillowy soft kind.”

"The organization recently tweeted out this information, which caught the attention of American Thinker and other websites." . . .

. . . "So, they want you to avoid Charmin (maybe because it was recently ranked the #1 toilet paper?) because time is running out.

I guess they haven’t visited the Canadian Natural Resources website which claims:

Less than 0.3% of Canada’s forests are harvested annually.Less than 0.02% of Canada’s forests are deforested each year.100% of forests harvested on Canada’s public land must be successfully regenerated.

. . . "3 rolls a week for EACH American? Seems, uh, a little high. This may be a factor in their calculations.

"If you desire to make your own calculations based on your personal toilet paper use, you can. Thankfully, the NRDC website provides a link to a paper calculator by the Environmental Paper Network." . . .

Did they get this info from CNN?

Jerry Seinfeld, Ricky Gervais 'Fight for the Right to Joke About Anything' vs. PC Police

MRC  "In the latest season of Netflix's Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, released July 19, Ricky Gervais joined Jerry Seinfeld for two episodes. During this time, they reflected on the nature of comedy in today's easily offended culture that isn't so convinced about free speech. Ironically enough, they also told a joke that is making headlines for, you guessed it, being offensive. 

"First, the "controversy." Early in the third episode, "China Maybe? Part 1," Ricky shared with Jerry that he loves New York, and Jerry makes a joke. It's two comedians in a car together with a camera on them, so that seems fairly predictable, right? What was interesting was that they're immediately aware that, although the joke was meant in fun, they would be excoriated for it on the internet and even discussed editing it out of the episode."  . . .

. . . They knew people would comment and take the joke out of context, but they went for it.

Ricky Gervais doesn't really care much what the mob thinks, anyway. Over the past few days, he's been taken to task for standing up for women who refuse to wax the testicles of trans women. Seriously. Actually, he very much enjoyed NewsBusters' own coverage of the story. 

"Pretty funny how life is aligning perfectly with the show, isn't it?"

Pelosi on AOC: ‘We Don’t Have That Many Differences’

Ian Macfarlane

National Review  "House speaker Nancy Pelosi downplayed her differences with progressive freshman congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after a private meeting Friday.
“It went very well,” Pelosi said. “I don’t think we have that many differences.”
"Pelosi said they did not discuss Ocasio-Cortez’s recent remark suggesting the speaker was singling out female colleagues of color for criticism.
"“I have meetings with members all the time,” Pelosi told reporters. “We covered a range of issues in our conversation particular to the congresswoman’s committees.”
"The apparently amicable meeting comes after a tiff earlier this month between Pelosi and Representatives Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Ayanna Pressley, the four progressive first-term congresswomen of color nicknamed “the Squad.” The dispute started after the four voted against an emergency border-aid bill brought to the floor by leadership, saying they wanted to see more protections for migrants in the measure.
“ 'All these people have their public whatever and their Twitter world,” Pelosi said after the bill passed. “But they didn’t have any following. They’re four people, and that’s how many votes they got.” . . .