Never Trump quandary: When you want Trump to lose but can't bear his Democratic opponents

. . . Only a few Never Trumpers would be able to support a Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, or Kamala Harris. Some would probably be happy with Joe Biden, but perhaps more the Biden of their memories than the man who will have to move far enough left to capture the Democratic nomination. So, with no hope of stopping Trump inside the GOP, and with Democrats moving in an unacceptable direction, what to do? . . .

Byron York  "The Democratic debates have been hard on Never Trumpers. The small but vocal group of Republicans and former Republicans who oppose President Trump has watched in horror as Democrats veered leftward, embracing "Medicare-for-all," virtually open borders, sky-high taxes, and other positions no conservative could ever accept. The Never Trumpers see disaster coming in the form of the president winning reelection over a Democrat who moved too far left for the American voter.

"So they issue warnings. The Democrats' performance in the most recent debate was "worse than farcical," the New York Times' Bret Stephens wrote. "It's tragic. It will make the Trump campaign's job of selling the president as the non-insane option in next year's election shamefully easy."

"Bill Kristol, the former Dan Quayle aide who founded the now-shuttered Weekly Standard, tweeted, "Best moment in this debate: 'It's time for closing statements.'"

"After the first debate — a widely watched event that gave voters across the nation their initial impression of the Democratic field — some Never Trumpers were deeply alarmed.

" 'Trump wants to portray Democrats as open-border socialists," wrote the Washington Post's Max Boot. "And in their eagerness to court progressive primary voters, the candidates are playing into his hands."

"The alarm sometimes felt personal, as when the Times' David Brooks issued a plea: "Dems, Please Don't Drive Me Away." The columnist announced that he could "never in a million years vote for Donald Trump" and plaintively asked Democrats: "Will there be a candidate I can vote for?"

"Maybe not. The fretting and complaining, coming from people who had been Republicans until Trump came along, set some liberals on edge." . . .

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It's an Invasion!...of Moronic Arguments

Ian Macfarlane

"A few months before shooting up a GOP baseball game, Hodgkinson wrote on his Facebook page: "Trump is a Traitor. Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy. It's Time to Destroy Trump & Co.”  Based on the new El Paso standard for branding beliefs “hateful,” “toxic" and “material support” for terrorism, every Democratic presidential candidate should be on a terrorist watch list right now." 

 Ann Coulter  "BREAKING NEWS: MASS SHOOTING IN DAYTON, OHIO, LAST SATURDAY NIGHT. (This may not be news to you, but I watch MSNBC, so I didn’t find out about the Dayton massacre until yesterday.) 

"There were two horrifying mass shootings recently, but our media are fixated on only one -- the one in El Paso, Texas -- because the shooter, Patrick Crusius, issued a “manifesto” that contained some of the same arguments made by Trump about illegal immigration.
"Crusius began: “This attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas. They are the instigators, not me. I am simply defending my country from cultural and ethnic replacement brought on by an invasion.”
"Wait a second! Didn’t Trump use the word “invasion” to describe our wide-open border? Why, that makes him a co-conspirator in the white supremacist’s slaughter!
"Of course, if we believe the part of Crusius’ manifesto that talks about an “invasion,” I don’t know why we’re required to disbelieve the part where he says his ideas have nothing to do with Trump -- or the part where he denies being a “white supremacist.”
"But those are the rules. A white supremacist, who committed mass murder in El Paso, made arguments that “echoed” those made by President Trump -- and pay no attention to the avowed socialist and Elizabeth Warren-supporter who committed a mass shooting in Dayton later that day.
"The hunt is on to find anyone who has ever used the I-word about illegal immigration." . . .

Just two years ago, a gung-ho Bernie Sanders supporter, James Hodgkinson, drove to the nation’s capital and gunned down Republicans on a Virginia baseball field . . .Hodgkinson was inspired to commit attempted mass murder by his passionate desire for universal health care and his hatred of Republicans (especially Trump). These toxic beliefs were regularly reinforced by his favorite TV programs, "The Rachel Maddow Show,” "Real Time With Bill Maher” and "Democracy Now!” 

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El Paso shooting survivor tells CNN's Pro-Antifa, Chris Cuomo, he wishes his "gun-toting" mother brought her .38 special revolver with her during their trip to Walmart.

Sister Of Slain El Paso Couple Calls Democrats ‘Pure Evil’ For Not Welcoming Trump

“It’s such a shame that two of our local politicians (I refuse to say their names as they don’t deserve it) are saying that our President is not welcome on Wednesday,” Anchondo wrote on Facebook. “I cannot believe how these monsters are using the tragic event to push their political agenda.”

"Democratic Rep. Veronica Escobar . . . told CNN* Tuesday that she refused an invitation from the White House to stand with the president in El Paso."  *CNN of course.

Pictured, right; Trump gives Nazi salute to celebrate the shootings. Oops, no? Oh, sorry... this is an anti-Trump Democrat,  Bobby Beto, O'Rourke. It's all OK then; he's one of the MSNBCNN friends. TD

Mass Shootings in Gun-Free Zones  "For good reason these self-congratulatory zones have become a way of death."
"So, while our politicians contemplate possible measures to reduce mass casualty attacks, they should consider passing laws that would impose criminal and civil penalties on any and all private persons and government officials who create and maintain gun-free zones without simultaneously providing effective armed security for all individuals while they are inside such hazardous man-made potential killing fields.

Murder, it’s a Democrat thing. MSNBC, CNN, are you listening?

Rob's Right

Selwyn Duke  "With leftists seeking to blame the El Paso shooting on President Trump, guns, white people and whatever other boogieman will help score political points, a simple fact should be understood:
Murder is a Democrat thing.
"We can start with the striking statistic that 68 percent of all homicides occur in just certain parts of 5 percent of America's counties — and all, or virtually all, of these are Democrat areas.
"Also striking is Democrats' devolution on prenatal infanticide. The line always was, though the savvy never believed it, "We want abortion to be safe, legal and rare." Leftists also insisted that "we don't really know when life begins" or when "an unviable tissue mass becomes a baby." To echo Barack Obama's debate disclaimer from some years ago, that's above their "pay grade."
"But all that has been aborted. Now leftists support prenatal infanticide up until birth, and sometimes beyond, though this is subject to change without notice. (Coming, perhaps, is the day leftists will absolutely know when an “unviable tissue mass” becomes human: when it can vote Democrat.)
"In other words, yes, he’s a baby; yes, he’s human.
"And, yes, you can murder him because you feel like it. How sociopathic can you get?

"This devolution is no surprise. Leftists are, almost one and all, de facto atheists; as such, they essentially believe man is just a material being, a chemicals-and-water organic robot. To quote barrel-of-laughs botanist Lawrence Trevanion, people are “objects that perceive.' ” . . .

"The Democratic Party has descended into a maelstrom of hate."

. . . "A woman is on Facebook Live, outside of Senator McConnell’s home in Louisville, saying she hopes someone “just stabs the mother f*cker in the heart, please.” #KYSen pic.twitter.com/sHaPWqn32J" . . .

One of the most ridiculous statements you may hear today

https://www.facebook.com/groups/ConservativePoliticalCartoons/

Twitchy via Weasel Zippers: "OK, here’s the truth: At first we were going to do this post, and then we weren’t going to do it, because wading through all of the responses to this tweet was absolutely soul-crushing. This nation is utterly broken if the number of people who believe this guy’s theory can be extrapolated to the general population.

"We get that CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times (after it was shamed into line) are all going full-blast with the news that President Trump is a white supremacist. Beto O’Rourke can’t shut up about it. And Saturday’s mass shooting in El Paso can be laid at Trump’s feet for inciting violence against people of color.

"But in the absence of Alex Jones, NBC News has turned to its national security contributor to explain exactly why the president has ordered the American flag flown at half-staff until August 8. 8/8? And the eighth letter of the alphabet is H, which stands for Hitler. 88 = Heil Hitler."   Watch this repulsive incident here,

. . . 

"Again, here’s where we’d embed some tweets of people who buy this theory, but the numbers are frightening. Even ordering flags flown at half-staff in honor of the mass shooting victims is a white supremacist act now.

"And InfoWars was the one banned from all social media while this guy collects a paycheck from NBCUniversal for floating theories the 4chan guys would be embarrassed to use for a prank. And The Babylon Bee gets fact-checked and flagged as fake news?"

Remember this from 2016? Did Laura Ingraham Give A Nazi Salute At Republican Convention?

No opinion is too ridiculous for the left to publish.

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Monica Lewinsky to produce American Crime Story drama about Clinton scandal

UK Guardian

Latest series of the US hit show will recount the former White House intern’s affair with the then president that led to his impeachment in 1998

"Monica Lewinsky is among the producers on a new series of American Crime Story focusing on the Bill Clinton sex scandal.

"Titled Impeachment: American Crime Story, the Ryan Murphy-helmed anthology drama will recount the notorious affair between the then US president Clinton and former White House intern Lewinsky, and the subsequent impeachment proceedings called against him by the US House of Representatives.

"Booksmart star Beanie Feldstein will star as Lewinsky, with Sarah Paulson playing Linda Tripp, the civil servant who secretly recorded phone calls the 22-year-old made about her affair with Clinton, who was 27 years her senior.

"The series will premiere in September 2020 in the US, and is expected to air in the UK soon after. The previous two series of American Crime Story have been shown on BBC Two in the UK, as part of the broadcaster’s syndication deal with the US.

"Impeachment has been adapted by Murphy from Jeffrey Toobin’s book A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President. Murphy originally optioned the book in 2017, but shelved plans to bring it to TV last year as he felt that such a project would be “gross” without the contribution of Lewinsky.

"However, with Lewinsky’s involvement, Impeachment is now going ahead. In a statement to Vanity Fair, she said that she had been hesitant to sign on to the series, but was swayed by the opportunity to “reclaim my narrative”." . . .

Because of all that happened, Clinton will forever be known by this cartoon meme:

Joaquin Castro Shares Names and Employers of Trump Donors in His San Antonio District

Breitbart

"Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX), twin brother of Democrat presidential candidate Julián Castro, took to Twitter Monday and posted the names and employers of dozens of individuals – residing in his own San Antonio district – who contributed the maximum amount to President Trump’s re-election campaign.

"Castro, who serves as the chair of his brother’s presidential campaign, allegedly posted the names of 44 San Antonio residents who donated the maximum amount to Trump’s re-election campaign in what appears to be an attempt to shame them.

“ 'Sad to see so many San Antonians as 2019 maximum donors to Donald Trump,” Castro wrote in a tweet posted to his unverified campaign account, before listing the names of some of the specific donors and accusing them of “fueling a campaign of hate that labels Hispanic immigrants as ‘invaders.'”

"Breitbart News reached out to Joaquin Castro’s team to confirm that the unverified campaign account is, in fact, operated by the congressman but did not receive a comment. However, Breitbart News can conclude that it is his campaign’s account, as it was listed in an archived version of his congressional campaign page.

"Additionally, Julián Castro’s national press secretary, Sawyer Hackett, responded to criticism of the tweet and defended its sentiments, reaffirming that the account is indeed connected to Rep. Castro:" . . .

Todd Starnes: DESPICABLE! Democrat Congressman Names & Shames Texas Trump Donors

“Naming private citizens & their employers, targeting them for political views and exercising 1st Amendment rights,” Murtaugh wrote on Twitter. “At the very least (Castro) is inviting harassment of these private citizens. At worst, he’s encouraging violence. Will media concerned about “rhetoric” care about this? He’s listing people and their employers.”I have a message for Congressman Castro and his twin brother – gun-toting, Bible-clinging Deplorables will not be bullied.

The question on many minds is just how low will Democrats go?

. . . Not ones to leave anything to chance, the agenda-driven media has also gone after Trump's allies to send the message that it's not worth the risk to openly support this president.

The latest mass shootings: a gift to the Democrats

http://www.terrellaftermath.com/

VIDEO: Conway Goes Off on Dems for Politicizing Shootings  "Counselor to President Trump, Kellyanne Conway, went off on Democrats for politicizing the shootings last weekend in Texas and Ohio.
"To say that the propaganda from Democrats and the leftist media is over the top is an understatement! From Democrats like Beto O’Rourke to CNN and MSNBC, it’s been nonstop hate from the left towards President Trump and his supporters.
"Conway has had it with the politicization of these mass shootings and spoke out this morning on Fox & Friends:" . . .

. . . "MSNBC’s Mika Brezinski openly said on-air that this is something that Democrats could capitalize on: “It seems to me that this political issue could be something that the Democrats could get some traction on.”
"The president has done nothing “racist” and has denounced hate of ANY kind. What else should he do?
"The fear-mongering from Democrats:
"The left wasted no time in making the shooting in El Paso into a chance to grandstand.
"Democratic candidate Beto O’Rourke rushed to his hometown of El Paso but didn’t keep a low profile. It’s obvious that O’Rourke is making this into an opportunity to campaign.
"He boldly went in front of any camera he could find to make this horrible and very tragic shooting into a political statement against President Trump. He called the president a “racist” and said he “stokes racism”: . . ."
"This is more of the same from the Democrats who went from Russia, Russia, Russia to Racist, Racist, Racist…"
So typical:

MSNBC

✔@MSNBC

Asked if Trump shares any blame for the El Paso shooting Beto O'Rourke says "yes." "He is a racist and he stokes racism in this country." Full video:

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Current Sr. Google Engineer Goes Public on Camera: Tech is “dangerous,” “taking sides”

Project Veritas  (New York City) "Project Veritas has published an on-the-record interview with an insider who works at Google named Greg Coppola. This video interview follows a series of insider Google reports, including internal Google documents, recently published by Project Veritas which exposed political bias, “algorithmic unfairness,” and the use of “blacklists” at YouTube.
"Coppola is a senior software engineer at Google who works on artificial intelligence and the Google Assistant:

COPPOLA: I’ve been coding since I was ten [years old.] I have a PhD, I have five years’ experience at Google and I just know how algorithms are. They don’t write themselves. We write them to do what want them to do.”

(Other brave individuals who feel compelled to expose wrongdoing they witness can contact Project Veritas by sending an encrypted email to VeritasTips@protonmail.com.)

“that can be dangerous…” 
The insider spoke with Project Veritas because he wants people to be aware of his concerns about technology companies’ ability to influence politics:

COPPOLA: “Well I think we’re just at a really important point in human history. I think for a while we had tech that was politically neutral. Now we have tech that really, first of all is taking sides in a political contest, which I think, you know, anytime you have big corporate power merging with political parties can be dangerous. And I think more generally we have to just decide now that we kind of are seeing tech use its power to manipulate people. It’s a time to decide, you know, do we run the technology, does the technology run us?”

"Coppola believes that Google’s political motivations have compromised the integrity of the company’s Search and News products:. . . "

Today in hate: Aug 6th, 2019

We must take every threat from Democrats seriously because as we discovered once again this weekend they too have guns and are willing to shoot.

Don Surber  "After denouncing hate on Sunday, Democrats went back on Monday to calling for violence against conservatives.

"In Kentucky, Mitch McConnell is convalescing at home after breaking a shoulder.

"Nancy's Army went to his house to harass him. He's 77.

"The New York Post reported, "Gun control supporters stood outside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s home in Kentucky on Sunday night — protesting and hurling death threats at him — while broadcasting on Facebook Live.

"' 'Murder Turtle!' the demonstrators can be heard shouting on video, in reference to McConnell’s infamous nickname.

"'Come out, come out, wherever you are,' a person says at one point, while the others continue to yell.

"'The bitch home — we keep seeing the lights go on and off,' another says. 'This hoe really thought he was going to get ready to be at home after he hurt his little punk ass shoulder. Bitch, don’t nobody give a f–k! F–k your thoughts and prayers, Mitch. F–k you, f–k your wife, f–k everything you stand for.'"

Love trumps hate; that's what Antifa says

Democrats’ Debate Cowardice, Hypocrisy, and Nuttiness

Victor Davis Hanson

Rarely has America seen a more unhinged group of candidates.

Can't say for sure, but this may have been a CNN thing.

"Half of the Democratic 20-person primary field in the debates appeared unhappy, shrill, and self-righteous, and determined that no candidate should out-left any other.

"So far, they certainly sound clueless about how they sound to those in western Pennsylvania or southern Michigan.

"Their timidity also only accentuated rampant hypocrisy. It manifested itself a number of ways, from fear of defending their own past records to cowardice in calling out the rank socialist absurdities of the demagogues on stage.

"Does any candidate believe in one’s prior convictions?

"In debate one, Joe Biden could have barked back at the attack-dog Kamala Harris that federally mandated school busing was always a bad and unpopular idea. He could have asked her whether the young Harris was aware of the chaos of the 1970s that surrounded forced busing, the dislocations that caused more problems than any problem that busing solved. He might have mentioned that forced busing would find zero support today.

Could someone have apprised Spartacus Booker that the Russians did not hand the election to Donald Trump by preventing African Americans from voting in Michigan in 2016 — a yarn that ranks with his “T-Bone” fantasies? When Booker whined that the erstwhile policies of a Senator Joe Biden had helped to ruin his “community,” which community was he referring to? The hometown where he grew up as the child of two IBM executives — tony Harrington Park, N.J., which is less than 1 percent black and one of the most affluent bedroom and commuter communities outside Manhattan?

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AOC Sics Her Social Media Mob On High School Kids, Then Deletes Post

Weasel Zippers  "AOC got disturbed that kids at a Mitch McConnell event posted a picture, fooling around and hugging a cardboard cut-out of her.\
"So she posted the above pic so her mob could track them down.
"She later deleted it, but it’s clear she was pointing at her followers to identify the kids.
"That was then followed up by people doxxing the kids, naming their school and trying to get them.
"Good job, there, AOC, siccing a mob on kids! Talk about abuse of power…"

One response to the Valley Girl, AOC:

(((AG)))@AG_Conservative

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1) These are HS kids at an event that have no affiliation with McConnell. I assume you are now responsible for anyone who wears AOC gear?

2) These kids are acting dumb, but they are kids. Do you really think it's responsible for you to aim a mob of your followers at them for it? https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1158546217007222789 …

Had you hoped to cause something like this, AOC?