Lesser of two evils, 2016 episode

This post by Mr. Canto is a follow-up to the Charles Krauthammer article the TW linked to previously: "My Vote, Explained" by Charles Krauthammer:

Silvio Canto, Jr.: Lesser of two evils, 2016 episode   "In the interest of full disclosure, I did not support Mr. Trump.  I was hoping we'd nominate one of our extremely successful governors, from Bush to Kasich to Walker to Perry.  I eventually voted for Rubio in Texas because all of those others were out and had not much of a chance.

"Since early summer, I have been struggling with a real dilemma. 

" However, we must think of the larger picture, and voting for Donald Trump makes a lot more sense than electing Hillary Clinton by supporting another option.  In other words, someone will nominate justices to the Supreme Court, and I'd rather have Mr. Trump do that.

"No one has dissected Mrs. Clinton better than Dr. Charles Krauthammer this week:

The soullessness of this campaign — all ambition and entitlement — emerges almost poignantly in the emails, especially when aides keep asking what the campaign is about. . . . More at the link above.

"A Trump presidency, with V.P. Pence and a GOP Senate and House, could actually produce some important domestic results.  They could repeal Obamacare and actually replace it with something that puts the patient and doctor in control.  They could finally tackle tax reform, something most of us have been calling for.  Last, but not least, a President Trump could be persuaded by Speaker Ryan to take a serious look at entitlements.

"On free trade, I am not expecting much, because tearing up trade agreements is a lot more complicated than everyone realizes.  I just hope Trump's supporters understand that.

"On immigration, I do not really believe that a President Trump will get Mexico to pay for the wall or deport millions.   However, they may do something about sanctuary cities and respecting our immigration laws.

"On foreign policy, it will be hell no matter who walks into the Oval Office.  President Obama is leaving such a mess in the Middle East that it won't be pretty, from Syria to Iran.

"My point is that there is hope with a Trump presidency to get some things done.

"On the other side, there is no hope for governing if Mrs. Clinton wins.  There are also going to be some huge battles in the Democrat aisle because the left and Mrs. Clinton are not going to enjoy each other at all.  The left is not a happy bunch these days, as Politico wrote.

"Yes I am voting for Mr. Trump, the lesser of the two evils this time around."

WikiLeaks: Donna Brazile Shreds Obama Economy

Lifezette

"Acting DNC chair says 'people are more in despair about how things are' "

"In an email to Hillary Clinton campaign Chair John Podesta from February 2016, released Friday by WikiLeaks, now-acting chair of the Democratic National Committee Donna Brazile gave a frank and honest assessment of the Obama economy — and it wasn’t good.

“ 'I think people are more in despair about how things are — yes new jobs but they are low wage jobs,” she admits. “HOUSING is a huge issue. Most people pay half of what they make to rent,” she continued.

 "Such honesty from such a vocal and public cheerleader for the Obama administration is sure to embarrass the White House, and contradicts the official Democratic Party line that Obama is some sort of economy-saving superhero."

Has liberalism ruined entertainment for you yet?

Hot Air  "The new season of television shows is fully in gear at this point and, as usual, most of them were disappointing to me. But this year there were at least a few options I decided to give a shot. Same thing for the movies. I’m not one who goes out to see a film in the theater very often but I made a point of getting out to a few of them this year. While entertainment quality is in the eye of the beholder, for conservatives looking at such options these days there seems to be a continued sense that the people controlling the television, movie, theater and music industries are hopelessly liberal and they not only allow those tendencies to bleed over into their work, but actively seek to use their art form as a vehicle to bolster liberal orthodoxy. That’s the conclusion which Peggy Ryan seems to have reached at The American Thinker this week. After reflecting on the same points I just made she describes how Hollywood is draining the joy out of the movies for her."
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". . .the new President is immediately set to dealing with a state governor (a Republican of course) who has unleashed the police in his state to begin rounding up Muslims completely at random and locking them in detention facilities. The cops are shown at great length beating and kicking a seventeen year old Muslim boy in the streets to the point where he later dies. When the new POTUS tries to call the Governor to discuss the matter he is insulted and hung up on. He then has to find a clever and forceful way to shut the Governor down and make him abandon his hateful, xenophobic, Islamophobic policy and release the incarcerated suspects. And all this time there is little to no progress being made in finding out who actually blew up the Capitol building, but our hero certainly isn’t going to go blaming an Islamic terror group until he has absolute 100% proof it was them, no matter how strongly he’s being urged to act by the mean, warmongering general on his staff."

"Law & Order" became even more radical as the 2000's progressed
Richard Belzer in "Law & Order SVU" spoke the line "...conservative bigot" once that I myself heard.

Leftist astroturf incidents

Project Veritas: Paid Activist Goes From “Trump Hitting Me” To “May Have” After Video Release!  . . . "Was this company paying these ignorant souls huge amounts of money to create this false narrative? How did they sleep at night knowing they were lying about what was happening at these rallies?"   Wayne Dupree        

Liberal's history at this sort of thing:  Imagine this headline: "Trump Storm Troopers Mob Sanders Rally: Force Cancellation"

. . . Bill Ayers tweeted proudly: 

We shut Trump down! Beautiful gathering of anti racist youth. pic.twitter.com/uYOFXMvKhX
Bill Ayers (@WilliamAyers) March 12, 2016  

No Fact-Checkers Can Cover For Hillary Clinton’s Ghastly Abortion Views

The Federalist

"The most salient and effective tools in the pro-life arsenal are the cold, hard facts about abortion: it is a medical procedure that kills innocent human beings. That’s why the Left avoids the truth."

"How do you “beat” abortion—how do you ultimately convince enough people it is an indefensible practice that should not, in any civilized society, be legal? You do so by exposing it to the light of day, in the same way that was done with, say, slavery, or civil rights abuses. The great liberation movements of the past knew how to use effective exposure to get their messages across.

"The pro-life movement need not necessarily use photographs to transmit its worldview (although I think there are times when it’s appropriate). Rather, the most salient and effective tools in the pro-life arsenal are the cold, hard facts about abortion: it is a medical procedure that kills innocent human beings.

"No serious person can deny this in any meaningful way. The only response that the pro-abortion movement can muster is to lapse into confused quack philosophy regarding the matter of “personhood.” For all practical legal purposes, pro-choicers generally put forth the same legal argument as did the majority in Dred Scott v. Sandford. Quite a legacy." . . .

How does [Dr. Jennifer Gunter] characterize this “unicorn?” Simply put: “[T]erminations for birth defects isn’t ripping ‘the baby out of the womb in the ninth month.’ At 38 or 39 weeks, it’s always an induction and is simply called a delivery.” Got that? Killing an unborn human isn’t an “abortion” if you don’t call it an abortion. Rather, it’s a “delivery.” That makes it better.

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"My Vote, Explained" by Charles Krauthammer

"Because she’s a dishonest, soulless, big-state progressive"

By Charles Krauthammer at National Review  "The case against Hillary Clinton could have been written before the recent WikiLeaks and FBI disclosures. But these documents do provide hard textual backup. 

"The most sensational disclosure was the proposed deal between the State Department and the FBI in which the FBI would declassify a Hillary Clinton e-mail and State would give the FBI more slots in overseas stations. What made it sensational was the rare appearance in an official account of the phrase “quid pro quo,” which is the currently agreed-upon dividing line between acceptable and unacceptable corruption." . . . 
. . .  
"I didn’t need the Wiki files to oppose Hillary Clinton. As a conservative, I have long disagreed with her worldview and the policies that flow from it. As for character, I have watched her long enough to find her deeply flawed, to the point of unfitness. But for those heretofore unpersuaded, the recent disclosures should close the case."

"I will not vote for Hillary Clinton. But, as I’ve explained in these columns, I could never vote for Donald Trump."

 More on this subject below the cartoon. 

 

Hillary Clinton’s Dishonesty Was on Display in Final Debate  . . . "And since we know Trump’s performance will be comprehensively fact-checked by the entire media, let’s talk about three of Clinton’s biggest whoppers."

Hillary Clinton Relentlessly Exploits Voter Ignorance . . . "If last night’s debate was a preview of a likely Clinton presidency, get ready for the Great Exploitation."

. . . "But Hillary has been steadfast in her belief that a woman should be able to hire a doctor to kill her child at any moment before the child is entirely delivered. Yes, even when it’s halfway out, the doctor should be able to lawfully jam scissors into the back of the child’s skull. That’s Hillary’s belief. She cannot, however, own it honestly to the American people. Defending her vote against banning partial-birth abortion, she said this:" . . .

Wikileaks Reveals Obama’s Personal Email Address in Latest Dump

Legal Insurrection

"The emails come from October and November 2008."

"Wikileaks has dumped a few emails with President Barack Obama’s personal email address that he used in 2008 when it published more emails from Hillary Clinton campaign chair John Podesta. At the time of these emails, Podesta served as co-chair of Obama’s transition team.

WikiLeaks reveals first batch of US president Barack Obama emails sent via secret address bobama@ameritech.com https://t.co/Ni95WAl8a6

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) October 20, 2016

"Obama used the email address bobama@ameritech.net when he had a Blackberry.

"The seven emails mainly discuss Obama’s future staff, but one exchange urged the president elect not to take an invitation to the G20 summit:" . . .

"Obama’s team said attending with President Bush could “create an extremely awkward situation.” For instance, if Obama wanted to show himself as different from Bush, that could create “criticism for projecting a divided United States to the rest of the world.” But yet if Obama does not show himself as different from Bush, his advisors warned him people could associated him with Bush’s policies."

"Lawyer and Citibank executive Michael Froman, also a member of Obama’s transition team, sent Obama an email with the subject line Diversity. He attached a list of possible minority candidates for Obama’s staff and cabinet:" . . .

New ISIS Video Shows Statue Of Liberty Wearing Face Veil, Holding A Koran…

Weasel Zippers

Screenshots from this video.

WikiLeaks poisons Hillary’s relationship with left

More on Hillary and Wikileaks after this article.

Politico via Drudge:

"After learning how Clinton feels about them, liberals vow to push back against her agenda and appointments."

"Donald Trump is pointing to a stream of hacked emails as proof that Hillary Clinton would be a compromised president, but a surprising number of progressives are drawing similar conclusions — albeit for totally different reasons.

"Some of the left’s most influential voices and groups are taking offense at the way they and their causes were discussed behind their backs by Clinton and some of her closest advisers in the emails, which swipe liberal heroes and causes as “puritanical,” “pompous”, “naive”, “radical” and “dumb,” calling some “freaks,” who need to “get a life.”

"There are more than personal feelings and relationships at stake, though.

"If polls hold and Clinton wins the presidency, she will need the support of the professional left to offset what’s expected to be vociferous Republican opposition to her legislative proposals and appointments.

"But among progressive operatives, goodwill for Clinton — and confidence in key advisers featured in the emails including John Podesta, Neera Tanden and Jake Sullivan — is eroding as WikiLeaks continues to release a daily stream of thousands of emailshacked from Podesta’s Gmail account that is expected to continue until Election Day." . . .

Julian Assange on the murdered Seth Rich, Democrat whistleblower.

TD: We welcome any refutations of the claims in this article:

Viral Liberty  "When Seth Rich was found shot in the back in the early morning hours on a Washington street it was reported to be a result of a robbery.  The problem with that story was Rich’s money, his wallet and his watch and phone were still on his body.

"The 27 year-old Rich was a DNC staffer who had joined the Democratic Party because he had believed that the Democrats actually want to use government to help people.  As he learned that the party he admired was actually nothing more than a crime syndicate masquerading as political party that cares about the people, he decided to go to the FBI with what he had learned while he worked at the DNC.

"He was murdered on his way to that meeting.  Assange felt threatened enough by Rich’s assassination to allow himself to be interviewed about it:"

. . . "The recent avalanche of emails, obtained legitimately or not, has made it obvious to everyone except Hillary’s true sycophants that the Clinton Democratic machine (aka the Clinton crime syndicate) will stop at nothing to gain control of the United States treasury."

Obama, the transformational, transparent president and his legacy in pictures.

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Chris Wallace's 5 Best Questions Of The Third Debate

Daily Wire

"On Wednesday night, Chris Wallace showed other moderators how to be even-handed in conducting a presidential debate, and in the process asked at least five questions that elicited telling answers from Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Here are five of his best:

"1. Wallace asked both candidates about their perspective of the proper role of the Supreme Court:

First of all, where do you want to see the court take the country? And secondly, what's your view on how the Constitution should be interpreted? Do the founders' words mean what they say or is it a living document to be applied flexibly according to changing circumstances?

"Clinton’s answer conspicuously omitted the most critical term regarding the court; the Constitution. Instead, she began by reading a laundry list of the constituencies that support her:

I feel strongly that the Supreme Court needs to stand on the side of the American people, not on the side of the powerful corporations and the wealthy. For me, that means that we need a Supreme Court that will stand up on behalf of women's rights, on behalf of the rights of the LGBT community, that will stand up and say no to Citizens United, a decision that has undermined the election system in our country because of the way it permits dark, unaccountable money to come into our electoral system.

Bonus cartoon from Breitbart's Army: