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Skip Versus what WE care about. You know, “What the MSM WANTS us to pay attention to” + “Democrats with bylines” = Propaganda. The problem for the media is that:
What WE care about:
So WHERE did the mainstream media spent its broadcast time? Hint – it doesn’t look like the above:
Yeah….er no, the Democrats aren’t going into the pizza business. But can Papa Johns’s go after them for “re-purposing” their corporate tagline: ?Better Ingredients, Better Pizza”? I remember when that came out – after a slump in their business, they went back to basics, back to the beginning, to improve their product.
So what did the Democrats come up with? Well, like the socialists they are, they “borrowed” the form (if not the substance) of Papa Johns:
“A Better Deal: Better Skills, Better Jobs, Better Wages”
I guess it was a tad touch better than what the DCCC came up with (really!): “Democrats 2018: Have you seen the other guys?”. Well, seeing that the Dems lost the House, lost the Senate, lost the Presidency, lost most of the governorships, and the vast majority of the State legislative seats, it seems that We The People looked – and saw Zombies coming at them and reacted.
“When a huge set wave nearly trapped the safety boat in the impact zone at Jeffreys Bay, they skillfully skirted disaster by ripping their way across the big green wall. #WSL #jbay” This boat just “drifted” across that wave face! (H/T: LIKECOOL)
Sorry, trick question; they are all the same. (H/T: Powerline)
“When a culture is invaded and occupied, the first thing the occupiers do is take over the education of children (sometimes by force), the means of disseminating news (there is a reason we joke about invaders taking radio and TV stations first), the cultural life of the country including entertainment. All of these mechanisms are … Read more
Jeh Johnson (former Obama Secretary of DHS) (emphasis mine, reformatted):
Johnson argued on CNN’s “New Day” that Trump’s tone toward illegal immigrants has made those in Central America and Mexico afraid to enter the U.S., and the people would rather stay in their home countries instead of risking an illegal entrance. “Through his rhetoric, he scared off a lot of women and children in Central America who’d rather stay in their desperate circumstances or just migrate to Mexico and stop there,” Johnson said. “But these are really desperate women and children, women with babies in their arms, who are trying to flee the poverty and violence in the countries they left.”
Oh, the horror! And the lie. The Obama Administration basically said “Olly olly in come free” to just about anyone coming across our southern border (e.g., Alinsky’s taking for the Have-nots). What else can you say that they’d take unaccompanied children and ship them off to relatives / friends / predators somewhere in the US? Or bring others in front of an immigration judge, get issued a date to appear in court – and then scamper off never to be seen again?
Yessir – that word got around real quick – the carpet is rolled out, the door bell is working, and the door is wide open. No, sir, they DIDN’T just stop in Mexico as we saw a tide of illegal immigration rivaling that invading Europe.
I also dryly note the old hackneyed Democrat propaganda of using
Famously said by then US Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. I guess this is fair – if the Democrats did it, then so can the Republicans (said no one – EVER!), so US Senator John Cornyn decided to go there. Seriously – no sense of history? The Texas Republican said that members should vote … Read more
You have to hand it to the Democrats – when somebody says “Speak”, they do. Just like their followers that send in the exact same email or letter when urged. I know this because I get the Democrat emails that say to send an email. And Guess Who has fallen right into line?
US Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY): Uncertainty
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer said Tuesday that President Trump’s threat to let Obamacare collapse was actually an attempt to sabotage the country’s health care system and use Americans as political pawns. “The president would not be ‘letting Obamacare collapse,’” said the New York Democrat. “He is actively trying to undermine the heath care system in the county, using millions of Americans as political pawns in cynical game.”
He said the president was creating uncertainty that was undermining the health care system.
US Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH): Uncertainty
U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-NH, accuses President Donald Trump of deliberately sowing uncertainty in the health insurance market, which prompted a sharp rebuttal from the Senate Majority Whip. Shaheen took to the Senate floor today to request unanimous consent in an uphill bid for consideration of her “Marketplace Certainty Act,” legislation for cost-sharing reduction payments under the Affordable Care Act. The GOP leadership in the Senate has blocked two previous efforts to move the bill forward.
…“We can address the uncertainty by being clear that we’re not going to replace the Affordable Care Act,” she said.
Translation: throw crap against the wall to see what sticks politically. Yep, top-down talking points to the point that they sound like parrots
Any institution that is not explicitly right wing will become left wing over time.
Well, the GOP isn’t explicitly right wing and too often we are seeing it isn’t even right of center. Again, my favorite worst hobbyhorse is that Republicans instituted Medicaid Expansion – a major part of the Democrat process of turning us Socialist. And now from California we see a similar action in which the Republicans are not only aiding the Dems but giving them “bipartisan cover” in a massive take over CA’s energy sector that is doomed to fail and kill lots of industry along the way (reformatted, emphasis mine):
Stockholm Syndromed CA GOP Partners With Jerry Brown To Continue Funding High Speed Rail
Goodbye, California GOP. At the conclusion of the 2016 GOP Presidential primary crapfest, I decided I was done with the party on a national level. And while not a fan of the state party for numerous reasons, I stayed a member, hoping I could help effect change here. After all, I’m one of the few Californians whose elected officials – from city council to congress – are almost exclusively Republican.
Then last night I watched in disbelief as party leaders joined forces with the Democrats to extend the state’s cap and trade program, which has a lot of partially-related items contained within, and that was the last straw.
“We know we are violating numerous constitutional rights here, but if you do not comply, we will remove the boy from your home,” the judge said.
This comes home to me – it’s very personal as I am living this same story. I can’t go into detail (at least right now) for fear of being charged with a misdemeanor (yeah, a gag order), but I know EXACTLY how and what this prior Marine, who simply is continuing to be a Marine in trying to do the right thing, is going through right now. But imagine that – a JUDGE, for God’s sake, an officer of the Court, knowingly stating that he doesn’t care about Constitutional Rights. Blatantly, as the story goes, the State is all too willing to use a young child as a political battering ram simply for an anti-gun animus. As I have said over the years, I generally never just repost someone’s entire post but this one mirrors my life the last two years (and it takes that long) but here it is (reformatted, emphasis mine):
On Monday, the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) filed a lawsuit against Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) for impeding on foster and adoptive parents’ Second Amendment rights. SAF filed the lawsuit on behalf of two couples: William and Jill Johnson and Brian and Naomi Mason.
The Johnsons were going to take custody of their grandson to keep him from going into foster care. When they went to pick up their grandson, William, a retired, disabled Marine with a Concealed Pistol License (CPL), was searched for a firearm. He was not carrying a firearm at the time. At that point, agency officials told the Johnsons that they would be required to provide all firearms’ serial numbers to the agency as part of a registry. When Johnson questioned agency workers, he was given a surprising response.
“If you want to care for your grandson you will have to give up some of your constitutional rights,” a MDHHS worker retorted.
(H/T: Business Insider)
Alternate title: John Thune: Health care debacle makes Republicans look ‘dysfunctional’
Look? Really, you had the stones to say “look“, Senator? Are you freakin’ serious? Is there ANY doubt left? You must be delusional to think that we are SO delusional to even think of accepting that lame spin. But given what Congress has done lately, that could be considered a serious attempt at PR.
This post’s actual title is from a piece in Townhall by Lt. Col. Allen West (ret.), a favorite of the ‘Grok because of one enduring quality (OK, a few): steadfastness. He knows his principles and never sways from them – and doesn’t hide from them. And has no problem in pointing out others that TALK the WALK but refuse to actually move their legs. He asks a couple of questions (bullet pointed, emphasis mine):
And since Government has no money of its own, it must first take from some before it gives it to others. And there is never enough to go around – it must be rationed one way or another (as we here in NH are now seeing with the Single Payer system of the Federal Government … Read more
What I seek to rule out here, or at least for a sufficient number of interacting persons in the social order, is the ‘arrogance of ignorance’ as exercised through ill-advised collective actions. The perfectibility [of human understanding] threshold for the viability of classical liberalism requires that persons eschew romantic ideals about the potential perfectibility of … Read more
“Doomed to repeat” and all that, it seems. Back then, I just couldn’t understand why people were not just using their houses as ATMs but as slot machines in always betting that the housing market prices would continue to just climb out of proportion that was normal – the NEW Normal, they called it. I knew what some of these people were making for income – my eyes just bugged out at the mortgage amounts (and rates) they were carrying! They just knowingly nodded their heads at me when I refused to follow along as if I was just a doddering financial moron.
I’m still in my house – they ain’t. Who was the fool (ok, I can be a fool for OTHER reasons, just not this one). But a new twist on this has come up that really has my head wanting to be scratched – what, you all want to lose a ton of money AGAIN??? Emphasis mine, reformatted:
Subprime car loans have been around for ages, and no one is suggesting they’ll unleash the next crisis. But since the Great Recession, business has exploded. In 2009, $2.5 billion of new subprime auto bonds were sold. In 2016, $26 billion were, topping average pre-crisis levels, according to Wells Fargo & Co. Few things capture this phenomenon like the partnership between Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV and Banco Santander SA. Since 2013, as U.S. car sales soared, the two have built one of the industry’s most powerful subprime machines.
“I didn’t expect Donald Trump to win. I think most of my colleagues didn’t. So we didn’t expect to be in this situation.”
That was US Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) a couple of weeks ago at a town hall committing a gaffe – inadvertently admitting to a truth that none in the GOP elite (and make no mistake, Congress is an elite place) wanted to say concerning repealing Obamacare. I could be kind as leave it as the dog caught the car. No, that’s too good for them; they just exposed themselves as to who they really are – no better than the old scraggly bewhiskered guy at the bus station in an old stained trenchcoat with a leer on his face. Yup, the old “you can trust us – we’re not like the others” schtick has lost its appeal and dignity. They conned us all – Please, may we have the House? Please, the Senate would make all things better? We’re just DYING to have the Oval Office – and THEN think of what we can do for you!
Well, at least Trump kept his promise when he ante’d up Gorsuch and at this point, Gorsuch is filling the role. And take away the bluster, the illogical verbiage, the Tweets, and a few missteps here and there and ONLY concentrate on his achieved results (that is, what a President can do on his own), Trump is delivering (and no, I’m not agreeing on everything but for the stuff *I’M* counting on), he’s delivered quite a bit of good conservative policy.
Congress?
The Republican agenda is stuck in neutral in part because of the tendency by Beltway Republicans and some conservatives to play by the rules established by the media and progressives, the flouting of which were a contributing factor in Donald Trump’s electoral victories. The health-care fiasco, though not foreordained, was eminently predictable once Republicans essentially … Read more
That is, only tolerance for itself and not for others. Especially, it seems, when seeking asylum in a foreign land.
Dogwalker Hospitalised After Attack By Somalian Migrant Who Said ‘Dogs are Unclean’
A middle aged woman had to be hospitalised in Vienna following a brutal beating in broad daylight by a veiled Somali asylum seeker offended by her pet dogs. The victim, named only as Ingrid T., described how she was talking with neighbours at the gate of her garden, accompanied by dogs — her deaf, almost-blind, three-legged Collie mix “sitting peacefully” alongside while 10-month-old ‘Poco’ meandered along an alleyway towards her parents’ house — when she “saw a pretty, veiled woman approaching slowly. “I knew some people from these countries do not like dogs, so I went to Poco and wanted to pull him back,” the 54-year-old told Krone from her hospital bed in the Austrian capital.
The 18-year-old Somali asserted, “The animals are unclean,” Ingrid recalled, stating that her attacker then “grabbed me, spun me around and scratched me” until both women fell to the floor. It took the efforts of three men to manage to pull the asylum seeker away from the Austrian dog owner, who told Krone the assault left her unable to feel her legs.
And summed up perfectly by this:
If you want to know what smug liberal superiority and self-righteousness is all about, this is the piece for you.
That would be a piece in Pravda on the Merrimac by Rep. Mary Jane Wallner and Sen. Dan Feltes – both Progressive Democrats – which basically tells the rest of us that we do NOT have any rights to our wealth as long as they have better things to spend it on (especially when the theme is about “it’s for the children!!!” so SHUT UP). And it comes “right in your FACE” in the third paragraph where they make it absolutely clear that they have first claim on your money (emphasis mine):
Gov. Sununu’s partisan budget spends much more on additional tax breaks for business owners and big corporations than it does on child safety and child protection. In doing so, it blatantly ignores “foundational” (basic) recommendations on child protection coming from a recent independent audit of DCYF.
Those that wish to grab power over others have been with us forever – and never stop. They only change their spots and their language but the intent is the same. (H/T: Powerline)