Some bits of the debate:

‘Rigged’: Critics Cry Foul as CNN Debate Slants Against Bernie Sanders  "Supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) are infuriated by the results of the seventh Democrat presidential debate in Iowa because it appears that moderators favored Sen. Elizabeth Warren in the debate hosted by CNN on Tuesday.
"The clearest example of bias cited by debate watchers was when CNN moderator Abby Phillips had the following exchange with Sanders and Warren:" . . .
. . . "After the debate, Warren pointedly refused to shake Sen. Sanders’s hand, a puzzling move, as Warren tried to paint her relationship with the Vermont Senator as respectful and collegial." . . .

Fact Check: Pete Buttigieg Claims Climate Change Caused Australia Fires
“In Australia, there are literally tornados made of fire taking place,” Pete Buttigieg said when asked about climate change. “This is no longer theoretical.”
"But the direct cause of the Australia fires is a result of arson, not climate change, as Breitbart News has chronicled." . . .

Five little-noted doozies from last night's Democratic debate

"Before I drifted off out of boredom, I caught the first part of Democratic debate seven, on foreign policy, health care, identity politics and other topics, and oh, what a revelation about these last six characters from the clown car still standing. These are the people who would occupy the White House and you wouldn't want to be there if it happened. 

"Five things stick out as doozies of contradictions, hypocrisy and full-blown whoppers:" . . .

Democrats are getting nervous as they realize their base is tuning them out
. . . "Trump knew in 2015 that the media outlets were not only the enemy, but also dinosaurs, partisan, ill informed, and mindless.  (Or as Ben Rhodes said, "The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns...  They literally know nothing.")  Americans have figured this out, too, and the smart ones are listening to Trump as he tweets right past the media."

Latest Democratic debate the dullest political event in years  . . . "Combat troops aren’t the answer, they said. They were prepared to be commander in chief because they care about health care for veterans or education for veterans, which is lovely but ­really doesn’t address the question of how they would confront threats to the United States of the sort posed by the Tehran regime." . . . Democrat debate: Who were the winners and losers?

Jeanne Zaino: Iowa Democratic debate – Winners and losers

Bret Baier Gives a Journalism 101 Lesson After CNN’s Atrocious Handling of Bernie/Warren Sexism Questions

Hollywood Least Trusted Thing In America, While Some of the Most Trusted Things Aren’t Much Better

RedState

. . . "The polling company, Morning Consult, attempted to gauge American’s trust in various things and found some interesting results. For one, finishing last is Hollywood at only 4 percent.
"We have every reason to feel that level of mistrust. Not only has Hollywood proven themselves to be less than moral while holding themselves as more moral than the average American, but they’ve also continuously pushed bad science and stupid nonsense on us with the confidence of a king.
"I mean, Gwyenth Paltrow is selling a candle called “smells like my vagina” and has an accompanying scent that smells exactly as advertised. This was after she told women to put a rock in their vagina for health reasons.
"Just after those is the U.S. Government at 7 percent and the news media at 8 percent.
"No surprise there.
"So what do Americans trust?
"According to the poll, the two things at the top are pretty common sense stuff. People trust their primary doctor at 50 percent while coming in at second is 44 percent. From there, things get weird.
"Amazon and Google come in next at 39 and 28 percent respectively.
"That’s right. Apparently, over a quarter of Americans believe that Google and Amazon are telling them the truth whenever they give them information of any kind. That’s…slightly disturbing, especially given the fact that Google has been caught up in so many information scandals that I’ve lost track." . . .

Joe Biden's streak of being wrong on foreign policy continues, uninterrupted

Political scientist Ian Bremmer, certainly no fan of Trump, was unequivocal in describing what a coup this was for Trump. “Literally, the United States has killed the head of Iran's military in the Cabinet, and the response has been, you know, virtually nothing.”

Washington Examiner  "In Tuesday night's Democratic debate, Joe Biden claimed a vast array of foreign policy accomplishments in an attempt to make the case that his foreign policy experience made him the best prepared candidate to be commander in chief. But all he did was remind viewers that he has an extensive history of getting it wrong.
"Don't just take it from us. In his 2014 memoir, Duty, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates famously shared his view that Joe Biden, then the vice president and previously chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, had been wrong about “nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”
"This amusing fact reared its head again last week as President Trump celebrated what may prove to be the greatest foreign policy triumph of his administration.
"Early on Jan. 7, Biden was savaging Trump as “dangerously incompetent” for the strike that had killed Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps terrorist leader Gen. Qassem Soleimani a few days earlier. Biden claimed that Trump was close to starting an “endless war in the Middle East” and that “this outcome of strategic setbacks, heightened threats, chants of ‘death to America’ once more echoing across the Middle East, [and] Iran and its allies vowing revenge — this was avoidable.”
"Of course, literally every part of Biden’s statement was wrong. Iranians loyal to the current regime have been chanting “death to America” for decades and were, in fact, doing so the very day Iran signed the nuclear agreement with Biden and his old boss, President Barack Obama. Much more importantly, as Biden spoke, the Iranians were just hours away from launching a toothless, face-saving retaliatory attack that demonstrated their lack of resolve and their aversion to conflict. For the sake of domestic political theater, the ayatollah and his minions launched 17 missiles that exploded harmlessly at and around a base that had been cleared two hours earlier." . . .

Campaign Staffer Reveals Life Under President Bernie: Riots, Gulags, Reeducation

Barbie and Ken's life under socialism

The People's Cube

Issues & Insights  "An Iowa field organizer for Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign believes he knows what the Vermont socialist is thinking and has been willing to share it. The staffer’s taste for violence, and his eagerness to punish those who’d rather not be forced into the commune, are almost exactly as we would have expected.

     "Apparently believing that he was speaking to a friendly journalist from the mainstream media over the course of several months, Kyle Jurek, described by Sanders’ Iowa field director as a “top-tier organizer,” went off on a tirade that sounded like Politburo talking points. When asked if “MAGA people could be reeducated,” for instance, Jurek chuckled and said, “we got to try.”
     "Jurek was actually talking to a Project Veritas operative, who was secretly recording their conversations.
     "Project Veritas’ hidden camera caught Jurek saying that “after the fall of the Nazi party         " 'Germany had to spend billions of dollars reeducating their f**king people to not be Nazis.”
     “ 'We’re probably going to have to do the same thing here.”
     "The reeducation won’t be held in concentration camps, though. It will be done through our universities.
     “ 'That’s kind of what all Bernie’s whole f**king like, ‘hey, free education for everybody’ because we’re going to have to teach you not to be a f**king Nazi.”
     "And those Soviet labor camps? They weren’t so bad.    
     “ 'There’s a reason Josef Stalin had gulags,” Jurek said. “Gulags were actually meant for, like, reeducation,” and were quite efficient at stripping the wealthy’s “privilege,” because the rich were going to learn what it meant to be working class. Exercising free speech might also be rewarded by a trip to the gulag in Jurek’s world. Anyone who says things the ruling class doesn’t like should expect a “violent reaction,” and deserves to be beaten.
     "And then there’s the showcase of the inherent violence of the political left when it doesn’t get its way." . . .

James O'Keefe is back, with a truly chilling look at a Bernie-supporter

" 'Bernie's a bad judge of character..."  There's a ready-to-win bumper sticker for you."

Andrea Widburg  "Investigative journalist James O'Keefe sent his undercover agents to check out what's going on with the Bernie Sanders campaign.  On Tuesday, he dropped the first of what promises to be a series of videos focusing on the people working for Bernie."

Jurek

"The video, which is embedded below, is pretty shocking.  Kyle Jurek, a field organizer for Bernie in Iowa, is a foul-mouthed man with a limited vocabulary.  He revels in thoughts of riots, explosions, burnings, beatings, and gulags.

"Jurek's imagination doesn't limit itself to what will happen in America if Bernie wins.  Instead, he predicts the ultimate dystopia should Trump win re-election.  For him, the 1968 Chicago Riots at the Democratic National Convention will serve as a small introduction to what Bernie-supporters will unleash should their man lose.

"It's not just conservatives who earn Jurek's wrath.  In true Leftist fashion, he imagines a world in which Bernie's political rivals on the same side of the Leftist aisle get their comeuppance.  He's no fan of the Clintons, for example, and makes the usual joke about the Clintons and suicides.  He then adds, "We don't gotta kill the Clintons.  We'll make them kill themselves. ... Reign of Terror."  How very Soviet." . . .

. . . Jurek is just one man, and he seems to be a very disturbed, violent, angry man.  Unless the Bernie campaign has affirmatively known about his views and done nothing, it's not Bernie's fault that a scary person has attached himself to Bernie's candidacy.  In a two-party system, the crazy people have to go somewhere.  . . .

. . . Again, that's not saying Bernie has espoused violence, for he has not.  It's just an observation about the history of the ideology Bernie holds so dear.  . . .

Trump Supporters OWN Protesters, Blocking USSR Flag With Trump Flag at Rally

PJ Media

"At the Trump rally on Tuesday night in Milwaukee, a small group of protesters accosted Trump supporters in the overflow section. In a symbolic moment, the protesters displayed the red hammer-and-sickle flag of the Soviet Union. Trump supporters "photobombed" that flag by placing a blue Trump flag in front of it.

"There's anti-Trump protesters with the Soviet Union flag and so Trump supporters photo bombed them with a Trump flag," Townhall Senior Writer Julio Rosas tweeted. His message included a photo of the red flag, held by a protester who wore a bandana to hide his face. His next photo showed the blue Trump flag in front of it." . . .

Expect images like this when your supporters fly the Soviet or Cuban flags:

The People's Cube

REALITY CHECK: Iranians Are Protesting, But They Aren't Protesting Trump - and the Media Can't Stand It

MRC  "The liberal media found enough time to peddle Iranian state propaganda claiming 30 American soldiers had been killed in Iran’s missile strike on U.S. bases in Iraq. The same media that ran photos of Soleimani’s funeral claiming to show thousands of attendees – attendees who, it later turned out, were forced by the government to attend. The same media that described Soleimani as a “war hero,” a “revered figure” and “an inspirational military leader.” 

"But apparently, the media were too busy sucking up to a dictatorial regime in the name of flipping off Trump to give much airtime to the pro-America, anti-government protests by Iranians who’re giving an awful lot of credit to Trump for taking down one of their most rancid, cancerous scumbags."

Bernie, who are the fascists now?

Hitler’s Bullyboys: The Role of the SA in Nazi Germany  . . . "The SA was instrumental in the Nazi’s rise to power and played a diminished role during the Second World War. The Brownshirts are infamous for their operation outside of the law and their violent intimidation of Germany’s leftists and Jewish population. It was the SA’s thuggish vigilantism, independence from the regular army, and anti-capitalist sentiments of its leader, Ernst Röhm, that were ultimately its undoing." . . .

Wait! Isn't this what Antifa does?

Bernie Bro on Everyone Who Is Against Sanders: 'You’re Going to Die for It, Motherf*cker  . . . "Ok, so it’s not as earth-shattering as PV’s excellent series on CNN, but it shows who we’re dealing with in the trenches of the 2020 election. There will probably be more videos like this, but at the same time, you can see why the Democratic establishment doesn’t want these folks gaining more prominence within the ranks of the party. Again, we shouldn’t be shocked that a) there are nutty people out there; and b) the Sanders operations hire such people. In terms of sexual harassment, Sanders’ 2016 campaign was totally infested with such a problem. It was a den of sexism and harassment that was not really addressed, and Sanders’ excuse was that he was too busy losing to Hillary Clinton to tackle it. I doubt Jurek will be purged, but it’s always good to keep tabs on people like this. they do the same against us and our totally radical ideas about…the Constitution, lower taxes, freedom, more jobs, and a strong economy. But we’re the extreme ones, right?" . . .

Project Veritas Drops Video On Bernie Sanders Staffer Talking Re-Education, Nazis And ‘Milwaukee Will Burn’

Flashback: Bernie Says JFK’s Opposition To Castro Regime Made Him Want To ‘Puke’ Video.  "Comrade Bernie in 1986:"

Project Veritas Highlights Violent Wing Inside Bernie Sanders Campaign….
"Project Veritas spent some time in Iowa with the revolutionary communists at the heart of Bernie Sanders campaign. In a video expose’ (see here) the Veritas group showcase Bernie Sanders campaign workers who are prominent Antifa activists. The calls to violence are quite disturbing but familiar for those who followed the “Occupy Wall Street” movement, RevCom, or the Democrat Socialists of America; all factions of the same far-left ideology."

So Far 168 Responses to Project Veritas Highlights Violent Wing Inside Bernie Sanders Campaign…

Would any reporter at CNN or MSNBC have the integrity to do this?

Jake Tapper? I recall you being respected as a journalist; why have you molded yourself into the image of CNN? TD  

Iran state TV sees at least 2 news anchors quit: 'Forgive me for the 13 years I told you lies'
"At least two Iranian journalists at a state-owned media outlet reportedly resigned from their jobs, with one of them apologizing to viewers for "the 13 years I told you lies."
"As Tehran continues to grapple with the fallout from protests stemming from a cover-up of its accidental downing of a Ukrainian airliner, TV anchor Gelare Jabbari addressed her viewers on an Instagram post that appears to have been deleted.
“It was very hard for me to believe that our people have been killed," the post read, according to The Guardian. "Forgive me that I got to know this late. And forgive me for the 13 years I told you lies.”
"Two other news anchors at the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) thanked their supporters in separate statements." . . .

BARR SAYS DOJ WAS CONSULTED BEFORE SOLEIMANI STRIKE AS TRUMP GOES ON DEFENSIVE

Whoa! GOP does not have 51 votes to dismiss?

The Democrat Party of today is truly traitorous.  These people mean to destroy America as founded and remake it into their perverted version of an authoritarian, statist nightmare.

Patricia McCarthy  "How imbecilic are those Republicans trying to make a name for themselves by supporting the unconstitutional Schiff/Pelosi articles of impeachment?

"Beyond polite description.

"Susan Collins, Rob Portman, probably the self-serving Mitt Romney, are all trying to be the biggest monkey wrenches in an already ridiculous endeavor to remove President Trump from office.  Each of them should just admit he is a Democrat at heart and switch parties.  How else to explain their betrayal of their own party?  Poor judgment is one thing, like Matt Gaetz voting for Pelosi's meaningless resolution to limit Trump's ability to counteract Iran.  That was just dumb, a hopefully momentary lapse.  As for the rest of them, they are idiotic, masters of their own demise.  If they fail to realize that Donald Trump is the most successful, most popular president in decades, perhaps ever, they do not have the requisite brains to hold public office. 

"If they do not realize by now that the impeachment over a boring phone conversation with the president of Ukraine is as big a hoax as the Russia-collusion story from the outset, they are too dim to have any political power in the Republican Party.  Send them over to the Democrats where they belong.  While Republicans are often the stupid party, Democrats are the evil party; they support terrorists like Qassem Soleimani and brutal tyrannies like those in Iran and Venezuela.  Trump has trolled them into defending the indefensible." . . .

Who Will Betray Trump?

'Australia is on fire' because of 'climate change,' said the left. Turns out it was two dozen arsonists.

Michael Ramirez

The Blaze  "More than 180 people have been arrested in Australia for bushfire-related offenses — including 24 for arson — since November, the New South Wales Police Force announced in a news release Monday. 
"Of note, 24 people have been charged over alleged deliberately-lit bushfires, 53 people have had legal actions for allegedly failing to comply with a total fire ban, and 47 people have had legal actions for allegedly discarding a lighted cigarette or match on land," the release stated.
"Australia has been engulfed with flames since late July as part of the worst wildfire season in decades. The state of New South Wales has experienced the deaths of at least 18 people, the destruction of millions of animals, and the scorching of 4.9 million hectares of land.
"The fires prompted two Australian states — New South Wales and Queensland — to declare states of emergency last November. Since then, the fires have continued to worsen, eventually garnering international attention.
"Climate change? Not so fastThe news may come as a surprise to viewers of Sunday's Golden Globe Awards or followers of several candidates in the Democratic presidential field, as many on the left have insisted that man-made climate change was most certainly the cause of the Australian bushfire crisis. read more
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Trump shows Democrats what a real "red line" is like

Via Michael Ramirez

The Right Red Line  "President Trump stated today that “Iran appears to be standing down” after its ineffective response attack to the United States’ killing of General Soleimani. Trump’s statement at the White House, so different from the inanities of social media, was restrained and confident.
"It’s almost enough to lead me to think that Donald Trump has picked an intelligent red line with Iran and defended it ably. He has repeatedly said that those who would harm Americans would be punished severely. After a series of escalations, Iran crossed that red line by firing on and killing a U.S. contractor and injuring personnel. Trump took the dramatic move of killing the author of so much harassment: General Soleimani. It was a limited and proportionate response. By targeting not just a general, but one who was himself a policymaker and military entrepreneur of sorts, Trump targeted a man responsible for Iran’s decisions to escalate, not just some random recruit. Doing so reestablished American escalation dominance.
"And now Trump is using Iran’s ineffective response to his action to confirm the reality of deescalation and invite more of it.
"This is a nice change-up from Obama’s approach to his Syrian red line. Obama announced that the use of chemical weapons would invite the end of the Syrian regime. He then publicized that they had done so, and never followed through directly on his grave threats. And yet, Obama still managed to get American forces and American honor ensnared in Syria’s long civil war." . . .