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Biden Gets in Some Important Last Minute Campaigning

Joe Celebrates Black History Month by Leading Supporters at a South Carolina
Campaign Stop in a Rousing Chorus of "Movin' On Up"

Biden also related to his audience his harrowing experience in 2009, while on his way to Oslo for his good friend and African-American Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony, of getting lost in the wilderness and being arrested by the Norwegian Police for illegally fighting off a Bengal Tiger above the Arctic Circle.

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Yes Virginia, They Really Are Pathetic And Have No Shame

If there’s one thing we know about the left, it they love nothing more than to exploit real-world horror and tragedy in pursuit of their goals. If they can dance on a few graves and bend tragedy to their extant agenda, they will.

With the coronavirus, we’re seeing them do it pre-emptively. Everywhere you look, the media is almost giddy over the idea that we could be witnessing a pandemic, the stock market will collapse, public opinion will turn against Trump, and they’ll have something to weaponize against a so-far bulletproof president. They seem to think that, where conspiracies about Russia, Putin, Ukraine, pee-tapes, racism and anti-Semitism have failed, a pile of American corpses might work. It’s a grotesque way to think, but it’s neither surprising nor new. It’s simply how they’ve always been.

Here’s CNN's Tater Stetler on the Tweeter, “lamenting” that his “fears” may be coming true.

Since the dawn of the Trump era, countless experts have warned that the president's lack of credibility would imperil the country in the event of an emergency. As the coronavirus outbreak worsens, those fears may be coming true... http://www.cnn.com/2020/02/26/media/trump-attacks-media-coronavirus/index.html … 

"Trump's disdain for science and his cuts to science and public health programs have subverted preparedness for emergencies like the coronavirus" –@michikokakutani

Read between the lines, and you can practically hear him slobber over the anti-Trump stories that could result if his “fears” are realized. The same goes for virtually every anchor at CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, and ABC.

Never mind that – knock on wood – the coronavirus is sofar less dangerous and widespread than an average flu season. Forget the fact that, despite Democrats’ best efforts, we have the most robust health care system on the face of the Earth. You’re supposed to panic, because panic might hurt Donald Trump at the polls.

And of course you know who is out front. Chuck Schumer.

"President Trump and his administration have no plan to deal with the coronavirus. 

NO. 

PLAN. 

And seemingly no urgency to develop one."

To be clear, I’m not arguing that we shouldn’t take this seriously. We should, and we are. However, it’s patently obvious that the Dems and their media allies are embarking on a fear campaign designed to damage the president, and the economy they’re incapable of running against.

If Hillary was in office, and she was taking the exact same steps Trump is taking, every last one of these rats would stand up and cheer. The left will never admit that, but it’s true.

You know it and I know it.

H/T Robert Laurie

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If Bernie Fails, He Can Always Run For Mayor of Havana

Democrats are not only mad about Sanders praise of Castro's little island utopia, but they are also terrified at his ascension to the top of their party.  That's their own fault. He has never claimed to ever identify as a dem. You lay down with dogs, you will get fleas. They know that those who remember Castro and his oppressive communism will take their anger out on Democrats from the top of the ballot to the bottom if Bernie is the nominee.

But one place that had glowing praise for comrade Sanders' kind words about the mass murderers who ran the Cuban Revolution was the official voice of the Cuban Communist Party, the newspaper Granma, who thought Bernie's comments were just top shelf.

Granma wrote, “his comments sparked the anger of the most extremist sector of Cuban-Americans in South Florida, who oppose any rapprochement with the Caribbean island.”  Cuban exiles and Cuban Americans took to the tweeter and pointed out that the literacy program carried out by Castro after coming to power was highly politicized and were actually just a communist reeducation propaganda program to control the masses.

Bernie could have given a mea culpa. He might have taken the opportunity on 60 Minutes to apologize for his past praise of commie dictatorships and thugs like Fidel Castro. Instead, he went full bore commie and dared people to vote against him for it. This they are going to do with relish. If Bernie really thinks his views on communism don't matter, then he's a fool and deserves to lose.

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Jim Acosta Travels to India to Have Foot Inserted In his A$$

In the past we have documented the very entertaining ongoing animosity between Donald Trump and CNN's Soft Skull Chief WH Reporter, Jim Acosta, who has a history of arrogant disrupting of press conferences. I'm beginning to believe DJT is starting to enjoying kicking Acosta around like a soccer ball.

The President and First Lady have been in India this week to talk trade deals and tariffs and to tour the country. During a presser in New Delhi this morning, he called on Acosta. The exchange came after Acosta again embarrasses his network by asking if the President would pledge to reject any foreign interference in the upcoming presidential campaign. (boot insertion begins).

.@realDonaldTrump smacked @Acosta around on Russian interference & #CNN's reputation

But importantly said
"I want no help from any country'

The Left has been whingeing that Trump doesn't disavow Russia

Well that's pretty crystal clear pic.twitter.com/ArTTjlYHSx

— Jim Hanson (@JimHansonDC) February 25, 2020

Trump’s right on the money about the big New York Times story on supposed 2020 “Russian interference” that CNN had to walk back. I’d say to CNN that maybe they should stick to “reporting” about simpler things like the President's eating habits. But considering they can’t even get that right, either, I’m at a loss to advise as to what type of reporting they should fall back on. And since all the circuses have closed down, Acosta has to work have work too. 

H/T Sister Toldjah

Infamous Carnivorous Leader Visits Land of Sacred Cows

The President and First Lady are on a state visit to India this week, where they were greeted like rock stars at a massive rally.  But for the media there must be something negative to say about it, right?  There must be some sort of #Resistance angle to please the soft skulls. We can't let him victoriously visit another country without nitpicking every single little thing that happens, or could happen. So Fear not America. The "Most Trusted Name In News' is on the case! The Queen of Smirk, Kaitlan Collins, and her cohorts Kevin Liptak, and Vivian Salama of CNN dug deep for the story:

What's a beef-lover to do in India? The President, whose diet is often a rotation of steaks, burgers and meatloaf, faces a potential shock as he prepares to travel to three Indian cities this week. His trip includes stops in Gujarat state, Agra and Delhi, where Hindus are the majority and cows are revered as sacred. 

A person close to the President who has dined with him on several occasions said Trump has salad with a meal every now and then -- but other than that, "I have never seen him eat a vegetable...." 

So DJT faces a "potential shock." Not an actual shock, but a potential one. Hey, it could happen. It only took three reporters to bring you the important information that Trump likes to eat beef and most Indians don't.  News Flash Kaitlan: Hindus and Muslims eat meat Sweetheart. Obama loved wagyu beef and hamburgers and other delicious meat products, when he wasn't eating dogs. I didn't know or care what he ate when he visited India, and neither did CNN or anybody else.

It makes sense that CNN considers this a story, since most of their audience is made up of late-night comedians. They went nuts over Trump getting more ice cream than his guests, so I'm sure they'll have fun with this too. Potential shock brings potential humor. Hey, it could happen.  Trump also mispronounced a bunch of Indian names, in case you needed to know that. So, I dunno. Impeach him again, I guess?

[CNN]
[PJMedia]
[Allah's Buttboy]

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Bernie Scores the Coveted Marianne Sparkleshine Stardust Williamson Endorsement

Congrats to Bernie Sanders for picking up 3 whole votes courtesy of the highly sought after Marianne Williamson endorsement

— Thomas J. Michie VII (@BDeconstructed) February 24, 2020

Imagine bragging about being endorsed by Bill de Blasio and Marianne Williamson https://t.co/Vzus8fweMW

— Policy Wonk for Beto (@wonk4beto) February 24, 2020

If Marianne Williamson endorsed you, why would you tell anyone? That's the kind of thing you take to the grave.

— Love, Lola (@LoveLolaHeart) February 24, 2020

Super pumped Marianne Williamson just endorsed @berniesanders now we know she will protect him from the negative and dark energy of the 9th dimensional aliens.

— Austin Iuliano #Yanggang #math (@AustinIuliano) February 24, 2020

So Few Words Can Be So Telling

In a sea of Cajun Cuisine and World Class restaurants of New Orleans sits a little eatery that has become one of my favorite off the beaten path places.  Decorated in blue and white of the Greek Isles with a delightful Paris style sidewalk cafe out front for when weather permits.  Run by an amazing little man who, like myself, has never completely lost all his accent, and when I visit makes a point to come to my table and respectfully kiss my hand in the camaraderie of the old country. And always the flirt tells me "Oh, if I was only 30 years younger."

I had dinner with an old acquaintance there yesterday.  While we dined, a couple came in and were seated just behind and slightly to the side of my dinner partner. They had Mardi Gras tourist written all over them.  From what little I overheard of their conversation while we ate, they sounded somewhat like I hear when I have occasion to speak to someone at NPR, New Englander sounding.  The woman's mannerism didn't suggest to me at all any Class and Distinction, more like Liberal Elitist Snobbery. You know the type. The ones who do things like order water with three ice cubes and shit like that?  

During our after dinner coffee we spent a pleasant few minutes with the owner at our table and he then turned to the tourist and greeted them for some small talk.  As we prepared to leave, I heard the woman tourist asked the owner if he was a Greek?  He said as he slowly picked up the dinner bill from their table, "I'm an American." And as he folded their bill and stuck it into his shirt pocket, he added, "A Proud American".  He then thanked them and said he hoped to see them again and turned and walked away.  I watched the woman's reaction to his words.......it confirmed my intial impression of her.

It was as if he had plunged a dagger into her chest. Every bit of expression disappeared from her face, not in shock of his comping what was not an inexpensive meal, but that he was so adamant about being a 'Proud American' in this day and age. She silently mouthed "proud?" to her partner who's back was to me but looked as if he slightly nodded in approval of her disgust. 

I so wanted to say something to them both. I have an enormus backlog of cuss words built up. But my Better Angels had one hand over my mouth, and another was tugging at my arm in the direction of the exit.  But believe me, My Heart Was Singing.......

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The Leftist Twitter Mob and MSNBC are not The Real America

The Democrats are on the precipice of nominating an avowed, unapologetic socialist. It scares the hell out of some Democrats and it should scare the hell out of the remainder of America, especially those living in the suburbs. The support for socialism is not as great as one would think. Leaving aside the Leftist Twitter mob and MSNBC, the American electorate is not exactly enamored with socialism as they would want you to believe.

It would be a horrendous case for the GOP to lose suburban voters to a party led by a socialist like Bernie Sanders and partly supported by the largesse of people like George Soros and Tom Steyer. In reality, suburban voters are tired and leery of both parties. The question then becomes, given the reality there are two choices, do they vote for the socialist?  Do they allow their communities to become dumping grounds for illegal immigrants? In Virginia, against the backdrop of the 2019 election results, we can see in microcosm what Democrats have in store.

Did all those suburban voters who turned Virginia blue really bargain for a trampling of their Second Amendment rights? Did they really want violent criminals released from their prisons? Did they really want the wonders of being transgender taught in their nice suburban schools? Perhaps the suburban voters were wary of Trump’s personality, but did they really bargain for this?

The GOP must first scare the living daylights out of suburban voters when it comes to the Democrats, especially if it is Bloomberg or Sanders, although they all have socialist visions dancing in their heads. It starts with a “We the People” argument, not a “government does all” argument. A return of power to the people, not the Courts, would be a great first step.

What do suburban voters want? If you talk to them, from various polls, they want what most everyone wants- safe streets devoid of crime is one thing. Does it make sense, then, for a city to harbor criminals? Another concern is health care. If the GOP could ever create a coherent message in this area, the Democrats would be DOA. But, they haven’t.  Imagine the accomplishments Trump would have under his belt if fellow Republicans assisted instead of becoming commentators at The Bulwark.

If Democrats themselves do not want a socialist, why would suburban voters? Why would they even even support socialism-lite and woke political correctness in the form of Buttigieg or Bloomberg? The country, including suburban voters, needs to be saved from the Democrat Party who will think not one iota about running over Constitutional rights to remake this country in their image. They will trot out the “Scandinavian model” and look to places like Denmark, but if Virginia is any indication, their lust for power will be undeterred.

Suburbia needs to get out of bed, smell the coffee and do the right thing. Their ignorance is no excuse to destroy the Republic.

[Excerpts from RedState Diaries]

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Just For You, Diogenes' Most Excellent Democrat Debate Summary

Maison de Diogène 11:00 PM

I knew it was going to be serious, Bernie combed his hair.

But let me first say, I spent 3 hours trying to get a simple warranty return done on my phone, and after that, I just wanted to see blood. So my mood may color my analysis a tiny bit. I also missed a short segment about midway in the debate to go outside for some air after feeling like I was about to stab myself in the thigh with my pen.

Really, I do wish the dems would stop pretending that we don't know they're all talkin' crazy! It's a widely-documented phenomenon that most of us have personally observed!

Some pundits tomorrow may say that it was unsporting for Lizzy Warren to kick off this debate by ripping Mike Bloomberg’s arm off and using it to punch him in the face, but I respectfully disagree. Like a ninja dancing across the tops of the bamboo forest all crouching tiger-like, she personally ripping Bloomberg's face off his skull like an angry bear, then fed Mini Mike into a wood chipper feet first.  Lizzy pandered a lot, we need more Mexcans, and Black people are wonderful. She could have been a lot less shrill, smiled more and wore something else besides THAT FREAKIN' PURPLE JACKET! At least she wasn't dancing. 

Mayor Mini Mike: Move over bitches, I'm the bestest.  Two minutes in, Bloomberg's mouth is saying words but his eyes scream "MAYDAY".  An hour in, after his fellow debaters barrages of left jabs, MSNBC cut to commercial so nobody could see Bloomberg’s cut man rushing out with a bucket and an ice pack.  I'm just assuming everyone in the Bloomberg campaign is cashing those checks and that's literally it. Because this performance is exactly as expected.  He did manage to get one of the best lines of the night in on Bernie, "Best known socialist in the country is a millionaire who owns three homes". 

Then there's Joe Biden: God help me, I'm starting to feel a little sorry for the bastard.  Joe says I've done everything, with everybody, and I was Obama's VP, have you forgotten?  Just how quickly would you be blind, stinking drunk if you only drank when Biden mentioned Obama?  Joe seems to avoid completing sentences like there's a land mine waiting at the end of them.....now Joe’s gettin’ all pissy about trying to get a word in edgewise........ Quit YELLING AT ME Joe........... Now Joe is ranting incoherently about Chinese coal.....

Senator Amy Kolbe..uh...the Lady from Minnesota: Amy is opposed to Mexican drug cartels. That's Edgy! There's something about Amy Klobu... that just pisses me off.  Maybe it's that she reminds me so much of one of the Sisters in my Catholic Girls School.  She was a Bitch......Someone should tell Amy not to tell jokes, humor isn't her thing. She says we need more mexcans and she has a vagina so she gets things done....... Uh Oh, I left the room and now Senator Amy looks like she wants to take Mayor Pete over her knee. Don't make her grab a switch, young man.......Pete just compared Amy to Walter Mondale. OH, IT ON NOW!!  Amy strikes back. "Get your fact straight, PocketProtector!" She's about to stab him in the neck with that pen. Her mouth is smiling, her eyes speak murder....... I think maybe Amy's gonna jump him in the alley after this and shiv him with her comb fork. A woman's righteous fire is terrifying to the weak.

Mayor Pete: Thought it was kinda cute of him to not shave for a week to get that 5 o'clock shadow to make him look older. Pete kindly reminded both Mayor Mini Mike and Senator Bernie that at least he was a real democrat. Pete pointed out to Bernie that he and his brown shirt Bernie Bros. are extremely polarizing.......Bernie inturn totally denied his supporters are assholes. After listening to the curmudgeon Bernie,  Pete sounded like he is about 15.  Pete tells us we need more mexcans.......It is thoroughly hilarious watching Buttigieg go after US Senators for not doing enough, then puff up the importance of small-time mayors. Pete's Mom must be proud. I bet she still beams about that essay contest he won and that the ribbon's still on the fridge.

Bernie: Off with their heads!! Bernie gets red in the face every time he speaks. I mean yells.   Bernie flushed as he screamed at that meddling kid, Pete, from down the street. Bernie denies being a commie, then proceeds to lay out his authoritarian revolution. Bernie tells us if we don't deal with climate change, Nevada will become mostly a desert!.....Either I'm stoned or Bernie just answered a question about what he would say to millions of the proletariat who are about to lose their jobs as he destroys whole industries in the name of climate change, and his answer had a subtext of "They should be happy with being sacrifices for the future!" But Bernie will never become president because he's f**king crazy, and WHO WANTS TO BE YELLED AT FOR FOUR YEARS.

In the final analysis, what this debate did was again illustrate just how appallingly bankrupt and philosophically broken the democrat party really is. 

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It's Rude to Point and Laugh. But Some People Just Ask For It.

In the pages of Salon, where our progressive betters ruminate, Nicole Karlis ponders the latest fashionable anxiety.  She relates personal experiences of heartache, tears, stress and dehydration that people experienced after a forced separation from...........their water bottles.  Says Ms. Karlis:

"I have an irrational fear of the water bottle going missing, resulting in suddenly being thirsty and unable to access water. For the record, I did not start using a reusable water bottle until I moved to the Bay Area in 2013."

Perhaps this is one of those moments when the significance of a statement may not be fully appreciated by the person making it.

"Carrying a water bottle with me everywhere I go has turned into… a form of security, one that I’ve become strangely attached to... I am not alone. Plenty of people in my orbit have expressed a similar concern — an unease, really — at the prospect of misplacing their reusable water bottle."

Now, now. We mustn’t rush to judgement.
I’m trying.......I really am.

"For many, losing one’s water bottle will wreak havoc on their day, even their week. I sent out a query to the public to see if others felt what I am now calling "water-bottle separation anxiety." I received dozens of responses, suggesting that I may have tapped into a cultural phenomenon."

What follows is a catalog of unobvious woe and amateur dramatics worthy of a local amateur theatre group. "Activist Manuela Barón" (whose area of activism is left fashionably unspecified) explains how her ancient, battered water bottle had become a “part of ” her, and how the loss of it, at airport security, resulted in a swell of emotional activity:

"I cried as I went through the scanner and ran off to my gate; I didn’t realize it would be like saying goodbye to an old friend."

At which point, it occurs to me I may be misusing the word explain. Sorry.

Lynell Ross, "a founder and editor who lives in California," shares another tearful saga, in which the temporary misplacement of her water bottle left her "devastated."  And reduced to using a mug.  "It honestly threw off my entire day," Ross said in an email.

Theresa Leskowat, "a therapist in North Carolina" is, it seems, similarly afflicted and tells us how she spends her days "reaching for my phantom water bottle." Other accounts are more intense and aspire to the realm of opera:

"Mary Kate Celini… told me via email that her water bottle is her "sidekick in daily activities."  She’s been carrying a 32-ounce reusable water bottle every day for six years."

And then tragedy struck.

"Recently, my partner took it when we were at the gym and he left it behind;  My world felt like it was falling into chaos."

"Falling into chaos"

Ms Karlis goes on to mull "our" attachment to the plastic water bottle as "an object that provides a sense of comfort". (The word our, needless to say, is bearing quite a load there.)  I'm not sure ascribing human characteristics to nonhuman things is healthy, like seeing a water bottle as an "adult binky."  I can’t help but think the attachment is emblematic of something much much deeper. Like the tragic mental consequences of a poor Liberal Arts education.

Or maybe it’s more to do with a particular demographic being prone to neurotic behavior, say....soy latte infused, self-loathing privileged liberals within the orbit of Salon's soft skulled columnists, and all-purpose "activists" who respond to humdrum non-events by bursting into tears.

Al Sharpton Signals It's Time to Start Cutting The Shakedown Endorsement Checks

As the dem presidential candidate field begins to take shape, everyone still standing is going to have a target on their back no matter how pure they are.  The most Right Reverend Al Sharpton is chiming in on how Mike Bloomberg is not the only person that has some racial baggage in their lilly white closet. When Al starts with this routine you know the shakedown is on and some hefty checks to Sharpton's National Action Network are gonna be written to make amends and ensure Sharpton's fire is pointed in other directions.

Sharpton said on MSNBC’s 'Squinty & Meatpuppet in the Morning' Monday the top Democrats in the 2020 presidential field all have “racial baggage,” urging them not to attack Mini Mike Bloomberg as a way to distract from facing questions about their own records.

"Mika, don’t want to see him as a leaf that the other candidates dump some of their racial baggage. … I want to know what Bernie’s gonna say about the vote he did for the 1994 crime bill, where people went to jail."

As a leaf....???
Now, what Sharpton is doing here is making it clearly known that  Bernie and Joe and the lady from Minnesota all have racial issues and they must ask for forgiveness. From the Reverend Al himself.  FYI, Bloomberg is a longtime cash contributor to Sharpton's National Action Network.  

Al also knows Mike can pay the ransom so he is not worried about Bloomberg coming through with a truck full of cash.  However, those other lily-white Dems running better also be put on notice that Al needs to forgive you if you want to be accepted as truly repented to the black community.

The great American shakedown via the Rev. Al continues and if you are ever running with a ‘D’ after your name and have ever been caught repeating a Dave Chappelle joke, you better be willing to pay up to be seen as righteous once again.

[RedState]
[NLPC]
 

The Crowd Laughs. The Dems Feign Admiration. Trump Rubs His Hands in Anticipation.

Mini-Mike Bloomberg has gone basically unchallenged, allowing him to define himself without interference or any debate. This has made him a top-tier candidate and the only one with the certain cash to run to the end.  It's crazy that Bloomberg has achieved such status in the race without exposing his candidate skills to the people and no idea what impression he will make on a debate stage. Bloomberg has stood back and watched so many of the Democratic candidates drop out, many who had no business running and had to try to stand out in the silly media sponsored job interviews the dems called debates, and couldn't make it in a heavy crowd. Now, the herd has thinned out, and everyone left is running out of money. And here's Mike, with endless money and still waiting to go on stage.

"All my bags are packed I'm ready to go. I'm standin' here outside your door....."

insanely ominous footage pic.twitter.com/58Ao9XxVpM

— jack allison (@jackallisonLOL) February 15, 2020

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Poll: Americans Say They Will Vote For Bloomberg If That Makes Him Stop Airing Ads

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MFNS - In a positive sign for the former New York mayor, a new Middle Finger News Service poll indicates that an increasing number of Americans would vote for Michael Bloomberg if that would make him stop airing campaign ads.

The poll found that sixteen percent of those surveyed were “somewhat likely” to vote for Bloomberg if that would convince him to stop airing ads, twenty-one percent were “very likely” to do so for that reason, and a whopping thirty-three percent “strongly agreed” with the statement “Seriously, I’ll do whatever he wants—please, just make them stop right now.”

By contrast, only eight percent said that they would vote for Bloomberg’s fellow-billionaire Tom Steyer if that would make Steyer stop airing his ads.

At Bloomberg campaign headquarters, in New York, the campaign’s chief strategist, Harland Dorrinson, told us that the poll numbers made it clear that “Mike’s ads are having exactly their desired effect.  If these many people are willing to vote for Mike to make him stop airing ads after he’s spent only two hundred million, imagine how many will vote to stop him after he spends another eight hundred million,” Dorrinson crowed.

In a new Bloomberg ad airing this week, the candidate addresses the viewer directly, stating, “Hi, I’m Mike Bloomberg. Do you want to see more of these ads? The choice is yours,” before the screen abruptly goes black.

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AOC Goes Drag Racing

The ever-blurring lines between politics and pop culture grow fuzzier, but so much more fabulous as AOC takes time out from being a living, breathing meme to join the extravagant world of bad wigs, flamboyant Bette Midler imitations and clownish makeup drag queen contest to show her solidarity with the LGBTQ community because Donald Trump be all hating on gay people and stuff.

A 10-second clip was posted on the Tweeter by the verified account for RuPaul's Drag Race. "Join the Ruvolution! I am Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and I pledge allegiance to the drag." 

"I am Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and I pledge allegiance to the drag."@AOC will join @RuPaul for an episode of @RuPaulsDragRace https://t.co/vdUW64U5Z0

— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) February 13, 2020

Last December Ocasio-Cortez tweeted out that she wanted to make a predictions bracket for the upcoming season. "If Obama released NCAA tournament predictions, does that mean I can do the same for RuPaul's Drag Race #AllStars4?"  In November, the 30-year-old congresswoman had also met with Sasha Velour, a star from the show. "The revolutionary of our time," Velour said about the congresswoman.

Tonight THE most honored special guest came to see “Smoke & Mirrors” in Washington D.C. @AOC 💖 The audience gave her a standing ovation too! pic.twitter.com/XzHYGTuDb0

— Sasha Velour (@sasha_velour) November 12, 2019

Maybe AOC just believes she is following in the statesman footsteps of her House Nanny, San Fran Nan, who said when she too appeared on the freak show just before the mid-term election that she believes politicians could learn authenticity from drag queens. "This idea of people believing in themselves, being themselves, taking pride in themselves, is not just a lesson for politicians but for everyone in the country."

I guess the crazy moonbat had one of her famous brain farts and just didn't realize that authenticity she was talking about is MEN PRETENDING TO BE WOMEN.

Over to you Anderson......

[Washington Examiner]
H/T COTR

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I Must Apologize To Bernie Sanders

I must humble myself and apologize to Senator Bernie Sanders and the 'Bernie Bros of America' for my spreading of misinformation. I have stated here in previous post that Bernie Sanders, in his long career in Congress dating back to 1990 has never distinguished himself as a member and has only two pieces of legislation he personally sponsored to ever be signed into law. One being a cost of living raise for veterans in 2013, and the other renaming of a Post Office building. I was wrong. It turns out he got a second Post Office renamed.  

Feeling Their Irrelevance, Squinty & Meat Puppet Claim DJT Wants To Jail Them

Becoming increasingly butthurt that even after all this time, DJT will not take a shot at Squinty Joe Scarborough and his peroxide overdosed makeup test dummy Mika and their little morning MSBNC Trump-bashing show, Joe gave his viewer Wednesday morning a dish of hyperbole smothered in self-importance.

In denial they are really just network time-filler and believing they are of any relevance in today's media, Joe claimed that if he could, Trump would arrest Mika and him, along with every other journalist he didn't like, and throw them in jail to silence them. Scarborough began his delusional assertion with, "our constitutional republic and the institutions in it, literally, are being challenged every day."

The media tried this tactic before the election. None of this has ever happened, but they just keep predicting it. They have to pretend pulling Jim Acosta's "news" credentials for a week is somehow like wasting away in the Gulag somewhere. The reality is that all presidents have had an adversarial relationship with the press. You need look no further than President Trump's predecessor. Then New York Times reporter James Risen called Barack Obama's administration "the greatest enemy of press freedom in a generation.”  

Two things Joe. (in Joe Biden's voice) No.1 - You have no viewers and ain't that important.   No.2 - Why would DJT throw in jail the thing he, with just one tweet, can make an entire profession wet their pants with rage and expose as the false monolith of truth you really are??  

Squinty Speaks:


[NewsBusters]

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Move Over Don Lemon. Katy Tur Has Taken Over the Mantle of the AOC of the Broadcast Media

Broadcast Journalist Anchor of MSNBC Live, Katy Tur

MSNBC’s Katy Tur is most notably known for three things. Not being very bright.  Being one of the few women in the universe to date Keith Olbermann.  And perhaps most famous for proclaiming journalists are like firefighters, because after all, reading from a teleprompter and writing articles is totally like risking one’s life to go into a burning building and saving people. It was at that moment that the media’s inflated sense of self-importance became undeniably clear and it’s been a basis for parody ever since.

Like AOC, Tur has lots to say but pretty much all of it is stupid. But in her defense, her only degree is a BA Philosophy and her father is a transgender named Zoey, so who knows what crazy things are going on behind those eyes.

Recently, she bemoaned “gerrymandering” in Senate races, which happens to not be a thing since state lines can not be gerrymandered.  Not to be outdone by herself, Tur simply moved her beer to the other hand as she illustrates the bubble more media types live in these days by making another ridiculous comment. In case you missed this bit of broadcast brilliance from a few days ago, here is another one of Tur's AOC moments:    

Katy Tur: "When I ask people if they’re voting for [POTUS], I hear about their 401(k)s a lot … but there are those out that who don't have a 401(k) [and] this economy is not really working for them."

"They can get a car, but it's a loan that will take 30 years.”
Thirty years? pic.twitter.com/2ufxePTP1E

— 𝚒'𝚖 𝚊 𝚑𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚠𝚊𝚢 𝚝𝚜𝚊𝚛 (@BecketAdams) February 11, 2020

I'm not sure if Sununu caught the error in real-time and was being a gentleman or not. But it would have been so cool if he had stopped and said lady what the hell are you talking about.

I’m sorry, did Katy Tur really just say “they can get a car, but the loan will last then 30 years?”. Huh?

— Brittany (@bccover) February 11, 2020

Coupled with the gerrymandering comments, it paints a picture of a “journalist” who seems to have less common sense than the very people she routinely preens at. Tur also happens to be one of the more biased “journalists” out there, using her platform to drone and routinely spin Democratic talking points nicely arranged for her on the teleprompter, and that are way over her comprehension level.  

But fear not, Don Lemon. We all know it won't be long before we see another video clip of your famous AOC moments. Few are in your league.

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WAPO: It's a Lie That the Democrat Race is Between Moderates and Socialists. Let's Face It, They're All a Bunch of Radical Socialists.

The Washington Post editorial board is fed up with all of you deplorables talking about the Democrat primary as some sort of civil war between the far left and centrists and point out that the entire field is chock full of socialists. They say "centrists" and "the left."  But "the left" is just a polite euphemism for radical socialists. IT HAS become an unchecked assumption about the Democratic presidential race:

"The candidates are fighting an ideological war between "left" and "center." This narrative is false, and it is hardly benign. It minimizes the bold policy ambitions of those in the mislabeled "centrist" lane and falsely characterizes those on the left flank as braver or more committed to reform.

Then there are the policy moves that practically all Democrats agree on: giving legal safe harbor to the young immigrants known as "dreamers"; reviving and expanding President Barack Obama's climate regulations; reengaging with Iran; raising the minimum wage; keeping abortion legal; cracking down on guns. They want maximum government control in achieving their goals...

In fact, every major Democratic candidate is running on an agenda to the left of Mr. Obama's."

The Washington Post will renounce this op-ed and claim it didn't mean what it plainly means when it becomes inconvenient in the general election, and they pivot to claiming the candidate they've admitted is a radical socialist is now a "centrist moderate." But for now, they've admitted it.

This morning, James Carville once again offered his own warnings about Bernie Sanders.  On today's 'Covfefe with Squinty & Meat Puppet', Carville spoke in literally apocalyptic terms, warning that the Democrat Party is that if Democrats nominate another Jeremy Corbyn [i.e., Bernie Sanders], it's going to be the "end of days."

 

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A Good Monday Morning

Dancing Madly Backwards and Other Unnecessary Observations

Your average American is a busy, low-information voter. They follow the big developments, but not much else. What most Americans know is: Uberprosekutor Mueller came up with a donut. The president beat the impeachment like a rented mule. Mitt Romney and his Holier-Than-Thou Honor Guard are sad and indignant. The House Nanny threw a public, speech-ripping hissy and Adam Schiff looks ten years older than he did last week.

The average Americans tuned out the first impeachment nonsense toward the beginning. Extending the franchise and throwing another installment of “Impeach the M***erf*****!” at the country might genuinely annoy a lot of Americans who remember when Congress used to do government things and stuff. To be sure, politics and government still have deadly serious consequences for some individuals and for the country. But for average Americans, politics is now reality TV, filled with endless turnabout and gotchas, lunatic MSNBC conspiracy theories, CNN and Fox News confessionals, and mucho schadenfreude.

Democrats already dropped their A-bomb. Impeachment was the apex of their grudge quest. Everything else is a letdown. Absent some huge plot development outside their control–like a war–there’s nothing more dramatic they can throw at the president now. The best the dems can hope for now is to continue to dance madly backwards and keep hitting the same high note in the faint hope that something grabs the public’s attention.

As for drama offerings: the president has nowhere to go but up. He’s been playing defense for three years, the cowboy who gets beat nearly to death by the outlaw gang at the beginning of the film. Everyone, including low-info voters, know that the president stands to mete out some epic payback. Payback makes for riveting entertainment. The president has already begun, with the sacking of the weasel Vindman kids and Gordon Sondland.  Critics will sit on the edge of their seats waiting for the poundings to commence, then discuss said poundings in their usual verbose exhausting detail.

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And a view of things 2020 from a stompy foot progressive........ 

"Democrats have systematically rat-fuck every group in their tent: labor, the poor, minorities, criminal defendants, students, homeowners, media consumers, environmentalists, civil libertarians, pensioners — everyone but donors. 

After a vote in Iowa that reeked of third-world treachery — from monolithic TV propaganda against the challenger to rumors of foreign intrusion to, finally, a “botched” vote count that felt as legitimate as a Supreme Soviet election — the Democrats have become the reactionaries they once replaced. 

Coinciding with the flatulent end of the party’s impeachment gambit, and the related news that Donald Trump is enjoying climbing approval ratings, the Blue Party was exposed as an incompetent lobby for doomed elites, dumb crooks with nothing left to offer but their exit. 

To paraphrase the Joker: What do you get when you cross a political party that’s sold out for decades, with an electorate that’s been abandoned and treated like trash." 

Answer: What you fucking deserve!" - Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone

Quite an indictment of the Clinton/Obama years wouldn't you say??

I Almost Forgot My Black History Month Post

In 1972, a somewhat effeminate young Barry Soetoro was prophetically named by his classmates
"Most Likely to Swallow"

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It's Now Racist to Blame Bad Chinese Food Practices for the Coronavirus virus.

I know not the source of the next extinction-level pandemic. I know only this: White people will not be allowed to discuss it because when the truly apocalyptic plague hits, it’ll be because someone in the nonwhite world ate a civet dick or an exotic pustule marinade. And the disease will be seen as the lesser of two evils compared with the racist white folks trying to contain it. There’ll be no way to fight the epidemic without passing judgment on the behavior or customs of nonwhites, and there’ll be no way to contain it without quarantining at least a few people of color. So we’ll all just die.

POC immunity from criticism increases everyone else’s susceptibility to death. To be sure, the Wuhan coronavirus isn’t going to end the world, but some of the response to it anticipates what eventually might. Take a look at this condescending, lisping queen.

That’s Greg Brown, host of the ASAP Science YouTube channel (with 9 million subscribers). Brown, an openly gay (as if this mincing alpha diaperman could be anything but) science blogger who, based on this video, has a woman standing behind him playing the “helping hands” improv game, cautions us not to talk about the coronavirus in a way that might “stigmatize” the Chinese. 

He tells us to ignore the history of similar viruses that have emanated from Chinese “fyood” practices, and he lectures us about how Western “fyood” culture is just as bad.  When the next extinction-level pandemic occurs, it’ll be the Greg Browns of the world who kill us. There’s never been a virus or bacillus that can’t be avoided; even contagions that can’t be cured can still be dodged. The soft skulled Greg Browns of the world will weaken and subvert that last line of defense.

And then there’s James Palmer at Foreign Affairs. Palmer blames “macho” toxic masculinity for the coronavirus outbreak while defending dog eating because whites eat pigs. He ends by admitting that yes, Chinese uncleanliness and dangerous food practices are to blame for the coronavirus, but so what because American food production was unclean in 1910, so we have no right to criticize China in 2020.

The belief that people need to be protected from “bad ideas” that they can “catch” through books, websites, posts, and tweets; the notion that a “dangerous” idea is essentially a contagious brain disease. A few days ago, NPR literally said that “racist ideas” are the “real contagion,” not the virus, and what’s important is not so much to track the disease, but to “track the reaction to it.”

Don’t close the Chinese “wet markets.” Instead, shut down the Twitter accounts that criticize them.

As I said, this is what’ll kill us when the “big one” hits. We’ll know where the disease comes from, and even if we don’t know how to cure it, we’ll know how to quarantine it. And genocidal leftist lunatics like Greg Brown and James Palmer will see to it that we can’t.

Eat the snail, bigot.https://t.co/7GVDeVUWLb

— Mama (@MamasMovies) January 31, 2020

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Zuckerville's Angry, Depressed and Deeply Psychologically Distressed Media Analyst Lash Out

No news organization is more guilty of helping stoke division and discord in America than CNN. And when they weren’t pushing that debunked conspiracy theory, they were lying to viewers, put targets on the backs of anyone who dares to support or defend him, absolve the violent behavior of their Resistance audience, and generally create massive division and distrust all across our nation. Here are media hyperbole and amateur psychology at it's best. You can't spell Analyst without Anal.
  

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A Bitter Nancy's Bad Week Continues.......

And The Award For Tweeter Burn Of The Day Goes To......

Another race-obsessed liberal's snotty tweet backfires again.....

One of these things is not like the others. Hint: they made him squat in the aisle so he was visible. pic.twitter.com/aFxrRRjbPi

— Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) February 4, 2020

So here we go again. The unseated loser gasbag, former Missouri  Senator Claire McCaskill, posted this probably thinking she's being all righteous and sh*t and score a broadside against Team Trump.


WRONG!

Hi Claire,

Two problems with your tweet:

1. Dr. Ben Carson did not have a seat in this pic because he was sitting in First Class with my family

2. Dr. Carson is not a "thing," he is a world renowned, life-saving neurosurgeon

Anyway, how's unemployment? https://t.co/icZKsu9YFn

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) February 4, 2020

Claire, are you ok?

H/T  We ♥ Trump

No Soup For You, Tater!

WH Excludes CNN From Traditional Luncheon

 Before State of the Union

CNN's media hall monitor Brian Stelter announced today that he's shocked, SHOCKED that his network appeared to have been left off the guest list of the traditional White House pre-State of the Union luncheon. The luncheon is an intimate off-the-record confab in which the president usually gives an insight into what he'll talk about in his annual congressional address.

Like presidents before him, DJT typically invites anchors from all the major networks to dine with him at the White House. The lunch conversation is considered off the record, but it gives the anchors a sense of the president's state of mind before they anchor SOTU coverage.

Tater was upset no news organization boycotted the event to show support for the flailing network who still calls themselves news. And although journalists who accept the invitation agree not to report on what is said there, details of the meeting inevitably slip out.  Former CBS News anchor disgraced teleprompter reader, Dan Rather said that he was disappointed that other networks didn't take a stand in favor of CNN.  But hey Dan, no one really gives a shit what you think.

Democracy.exe Has Stopped Working.

#IowaCaucuses #Iowa #iowacaucus2020 @GOP @DNC @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/Gqrqu3UdZo

— Pinchi Güero (@pinchiguero) February 4, 2020

Ok I’m sick of waiting. Just decide this whole thing through an elaborate series of coin flips #IowaCaucuses

— Nathanael Geers (@geersn) February 4, 2020

We have to have a Congressional investigation to figure out why the Democratic party is interfering in our elections   #IowaCaucuses

— Michael Malice (@michaelmalice) February 4, 2020

Iowa caucus feelin like an Iowa carcass

— GQ’s Woman of The Year (@milkgapes) February 4, 2020

NO WONDER WHY THE IOWA DEMOCRAT CAUCUS IS F.U.B.A.R when people of Iowa have to vote for either:

A Communist

An Indian

A Christian Homosexual

A Hair Sniffer

And Amy Klobuchar https://t.co/beN56vMrrR

— Luv USA (@Luv__USA) February 4, 2020

#IowaCaucuses pic.twitter.com/TmpsgkCL42

— Bud The Trump Supporting Shepherd (@TDS_hunter) February 4, 2020

This is the BEST FUNNIEST results for the 3 talking head cable “news” networks

They hyped this #IowaCaucuses #IACaucus for WEEKS and got Nothing! 😂🤣

— Uncle Bill 🌎 (@UBtalkin) February 4, 2020

I am getting word that the #IowaCaucuses tonight will be decided by the Publisher's Clearing House online slot machines and scratch cards. @Cernovich

— Scott Isbell (@scottisbell_) February 4, 2020

#IACaucus - Breaking News - Stacey Abrams has declared victory in the Iowa caucus.

— Pete Peters (@forpetessakeny) February 4, 2020

And we thought the debates were a clown fest.

It's now the primary season! 

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