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:


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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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