Ramirez on Obamacare

So any changes Republicans make to Obamacare will make it "Trumpcare"? 
By that same standard, Mr. Obama prematurely surrendering the war in Iraq to ISIS will make "Bush's war" become Obama's war will it not? The Tunnel Dweller

GOP rallies behind idiotic bill, says Ms. Coulter

Ann Coulter  "Republicans are about to do something very stupid. Using bribery, threats and cajolery, they intend to pass a catastrophically unpopular bill on a party-line vote. 

"GOP: Obamacare is unpopular, so let's pass a new health care bill that's even MORE unpopular. 
"Normal Person: Why would you do that? 
GOP: No, you don't understand. Obamacare is totally imploding, so if we pass this bill now, all its problems will be blamed on us! 

"Republicans would be better off doing nothing. They can survive the ridicule for running against Obamacare through four election cycles and then not repealing it. They cannot survive a bill that does nothing to fix the actual problems with Obamacare. 

"The only explanation for the GOP doing something so stupid and unpopular is that it's all about tax cuts. 

"Why can't we get it through their heads that we didn't elect Trump to cut taxes? Forty-five percent of people don't pay any federal income tax -- and they voted for Trump! Taxes on high earners (or "Hillary voters") are at a historic low. 

"Here's a somewhat more important issue I'd like to submit for Republicans' consideration: PEOPLE CAN'T BUY HEALTH INSURANCE THEY WANT, CAN'T SEE THE DOCTORS THEY WANT AND CAN'T AFFORD THEIR PREMIUMS AND DEDUCTIBLES. 

"How about allowing people the option of buying insurance that doesn't cover sex change operations, gambling addictions, psychotherapy, liver transplants for illegal aliens and so on? 

"Instead of squandering this moment, Trump the businessman should seize it to trumpet the free market. This is a golden opportunity to give a speech explaining why, contrary to everything your professors told you, communism doesn't work. To paraphrase Talleyrand, what Republicans are doing with Obamacare is worse than a crime; it's a mistake." . . .

New York cops turn their backs on De Blasio during funeral for slain officer

Rick Moran  "The massive disrespect shown by New York city Mayor Bill De Blasio for the city policemen and women came back to bite hizzoner during the funeral for assassinated officer Miosotis Familia.

Familia was gunned down while sitting in her police car last week. Instead of attending the officer's wake, De Blasio jetted off to Hamburg where he was the keynote speaker at an anti-Capitalist, anti-American protest. 

"Yesterday, while thousands of police officers paid their final respects to Familia, Mayor De Blasio delivered a eulogy. During his speech, hundreds of cops turned their back on the mayor to protest his lack of respect for the police department.

"It wasn't the first time New York city's finest made such a protest. Two years ago, at the funeral of slain officer  Wenjian Liu, hundreds of police also made their feelings known." . . .

This is a mayor who has taken away some critical law enforcement tools that kept the violent crime rate down in the city and helped protect the lives of officers. He has shown by his words and actions that he doesn't value the work of city police as most of his predecessors have.

To Be Completely Transparent, Trump, Jr. Releases Email Chain Related To Meeting With Russian Lawyer

Weasel Zippers

See the documents here.

Solid counsel for conservatives: "The Right's Image Problem"

"I have a few suggestions most of which have been and continue to be applied. I only state them again because even reaching one or two more people can help change the course of the trajectory:"

Elizabeth Nahas  . . . "As much as I am grateful for my evolution toward truth, the Left’s sound bites have increased exponentially. Consequently, many of us on the Right remain in the underground for fear of retribution. With a Republican President and Congress, why does this continue? The answer is simple: The Right’s image and messaging continues to be abysmal, and without those in power changing the narrative, decay of the Grand Old Party and conservatism for that matter will ensue. Like many on this site, I regularly hear the distortions about the Right without reprieve as evidenced here:

"Recently, I attended a conference which drew people from all over the world with the majority coming from the United States. This particular event was not about mental or behavioral health and was bringing together peers from another profession. Being from the Northeast, I was aware of those colleagues who tilted Left. I was taken aback, however, that Leftist thinking was so pervasive throughout the industry in general. Even at a convention which frowns on any political discussion, I could not escape direct comments or insinuations about conservative principles and, of course, President Trump. Let me stress these people were some of the friendliest people whom I have met as a group coming together, and I have no doubt there are quite a few who are Right in their thinking. Like me, however, they remained in the shadows. Allow me now to provide you with some of highlights:" . . .

. . . "Finally, a third said “now it is time to heal.” In my fantasy world, I wanted to stand up and ask, “Heal from what? Heal from the last eight years of deception, demagoguery and divisiveness with the country brought to a point of almost no return?” . . .

Trump Trolls the Pearl-Clutchers

There's already been plenty written on the pearl-clutching going on, so I'm not going to comment except to say "show me on this doll where the bad video hurt you." Instead, let's just ask what Trump is up to. Yeah, he's not being "presidential." Did anyone really expect him to be? Certainly, I thought his behavior might lose the election, but it didn't: he won. Why should he change? 

PJ Media  . . . Of course, this is all about the famous tweeted GIF of Trump clotheslining a CNN-headed man in a WWE event, which, if I understand the people reacting to it, is the worst thing EVAH and proves Trump is Literally Hitler. And someone remind me that I need a meme that says "No, that's isn't what 'literally' means." 

"Of course, anyone who has been paying attention and isn't suffering from the Trump Trance recalls doing bad Shakespeare in order to indulge Trump-assassination fantasies, or the number of celebrities who have threatened Trump or fantasized about his death, or running stories on how many would have to be killed to get a Democrat in the White House . . .

. . . 

"Instead, let's just ask what Trump is up to. Yeah, he's not being "presidential." Did anyone really expect him to be? Certainly, I thought his behavior might lose the election, but it didn't: he won. Why should he change? 

"In the meantime, though, right now about three-quarters of Americans think the press is biased against Trump. Given the dozens of stories that have been pushed by major media and then proven false, including the recent one that was so false CNN fired three senior people over them and added VP-level vetting for any further Trump/Russia stories, it doesn't seem like an unreasonable conclusion. 

"So, Trump trolls the press with something like the CNN takedown video, in an environment where three-quarters of the populace think the press is treating Trump unfairly. He trolls the press very successfully, causing immense butthurt all through the legacy press. The pearl-clutching hyperbole strikes, and we find out that Trump is as bad as Erdögan and Putin -- who murder and imprison the press. This follows a week of complaints that after CNN got their noses rubbed in yet another false story, CNN is being disrespected by Sean Spicer, and worse, the Trump administration is violating the First Amendment by not putting Jim Acosta of CNN on TV while he berates Sean Spicer. 

"Then those three-quarters of the population said, "Yawn." 

"The press's credibility degraded further. 

"And Trump laughed." . . . 

Captain Kirk meets CNN Liberal Bias - CNN defeated by Trump Wrestling Meme

Marine makes statues of fallen soldiers for families

Fox13 News

"More than a decade after her son died while serving in Iraq a Bradenton mother got a gift that brought her to tears.

"A statue of him - created by a stranger - who's on a mission to honor the memories of Florida’s fallen Marines.

"It's been 13 years since Sheila Cobb has gotten to hug her son.

"Private first class Christopher Cobb was just 19 when he was killed in a gun battle in Iraq. He was a Marine, following in his stepfather's footsteps.  

"A couple months ago, Sheila got an unexpected call - a man, asking if he could sculpt a statue of Christopher.

“ 'He told me to send him some pictures of Christopher and I did,” she told FOX 13 News.

"That man is Cliff Leonard - a Marine, himself. About 7 years ago, he sculpted a statue of a fallen Marine from Jacksonville, where he lives.

"Then, he sculpted all the Marines and corpsmen in the city." . . .

CNN threatened to dox some poor shlub unless he groveled and silenced himself for joking about it. Brandon Morse shows how to apologize to CNN.

"Inducing some random meme-making troll to grovel and apologize for his wrongthink isn't journalism."

Bookworm Room Video at the link. TheBlaze 

✔@theblaze
.@TheBrandonMorse would like to make an apology that is not forced in any way.

More on this as well as the meaning of "Dox". It means much, much more than just giving the name of the person being threatened:

"Dox, or being doxed, in terms of online forum sites, is the physical equivalent of being butt-raped irl. Just as all the greats have, when a person is "doxed", all their personal information is made available for all users to see. Names, addresses, phone numbers and school/work are not spared, and this usually leads to the person ceasing all ties with said websites, if not the interwebs as a whole." Urban Dictionary

What CNN’s Threat To Dox A Redditor Tells Us About The State Of Journalism

"No, this isn’t a First Amendment issue. Just because one of the nation’s most powerful journalistic institutions has the power to track down and ruin the lives of random Reddit users doesn’t mean it should. Just because it can coerce apologies, implicitly or explicitly, doesn’t mean it should, either. At the very least, it’s an abuse of its power and a waste of its resources."

Have You Heard? All Republican Presidents Are Stupid

Steve Feinstein  "The media are famously accused of being liberally biased. Whether it’s the traditional network TV nightly newscasts on ABC-CBS-NBC, the few surviving major newspapers like the New York Times and Washington Post, popular TV “infotainment” shows like Good Morning America, Today and The View, tax-funded NPR and PBS, cable shows like Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, late night venues like Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel, and cable outlets like CNN and MSNBC, the media tilt left.  (Yes, Fox News tilts right. They’re outnumbered, oh, 15 or 20-1.) Even social media powerhouses like Facebook and Instagram have been shown to be liberal-leaning, as has the supposedly neutral “fact checking” site Snopes.

"The bias these media outlets display in favor of liberal/Democratic causes and politicians is long-standing and well-documented. Among others, the media watchdog group Media Research Center provides an on-going and accurate accounting of all the specific incidents, times and percentages of liberal reporting in the news and popular culture.

"That the “mainstream media” is liberally-biased in matters of daily news reporting and the wildly uneven manner in which they handle parallel Republican-Democrat personal/political circumstances is not in question. When Republicans commit what the liberal media deem a nation-threatening transgression, it’s treated as a “Stop the Presses!” moment. Conversely, a mirror-imaged action by Democrats is dismissed as a temporary minor misstep, when it’s even reported at all. Even the liberal media seem to acknowledge that this is the case, complete with a “That’s just how it is -- get over it” attitude." . . .

 . . ."Let’s look at the media-generated popular, general impressions of each president, by party, in ascending chronological order, then compare them and see if there are any common themes.

Here's our own theme:

Two presidents and their Marine attendants

Russ Vaughn   "On Saturday. as the commander-in-chief was boarding Marine One, rotor turbulence blew off the headgear of an attending Marine.  President Trump stooped, grabbed the hat, and replaced it on the stunned young Marine's head, patting the embarrassed, young serviceman on the arm.  The hat immediately blew off again, and Trump went after it a second time, while the Marine correctly maintained his post, standing rigidly at attention.  Trump this time handed off the hat to the Air Force colonel attending him and boarded the helicopter.

"Contrast that with this:"

"Nuff said..."

So you miss the foreign policy of Barack Obama, eh?

BBC Mocks Admin's James Taylor Outreach to France: 'No Better Definition of Soft Power'