Victor Davis Hanson
IMPEACHMENT COUP ANALYTICS
Aside from the emotional issue that Democrats, NeverTrumpers, and celebrities loathe Donald Trump, recently Representative Al Green (D-Texas) reminded us why the Democrats are trying to impeach the president rather than just defeat him in the 2020 general election.
“To defeat him at the polls would do history a disservice, would do our nation a disservice,” Green said. “I’m concerned that if we don’t impeach the president, he will get re-elected.”
Translated, that means Green accepts either that Trump’s record is too formidable or that the agendas of his own party’s presidential candidates are too frightening for the American people to elect one of them. And that possibility is simply not permissible.
Thus, impeachment is the only mechanism left to abort an eight-year Trump presidency—on a purely partisan vote to preclude an election, and thus contrary to the outlines of impeachment as set out by the Constitution.
Consider it another way...
DONALD TRUMP AT HIGH NOON
The classic Western film High Noon, released in 1952, offers a compelling analogy to the Trump presidency.
Set in New Mexico territory sometime in the late 1800s, it starred Gary Cooper as Marshal Will Kane and Grace Kelly as Amy. Her character is a Quaker. She had seen her brothers and father die by gunfire, so she is a pacifist. The two of them marry in the first moments of the film but then learn that a man the marshal had sentenced to hang, but was released by an early version of an Obama-appointed judge, is coming to their town with three henchmen to kill Kane.
But not one of the townsmen will agree to help. They are all cowards (Republicans) in fear of their lives, or they are friends and admirers of the outlaw Frank Miller and want to welcome him back to the town (Democrats). Bottom line?
GOD GUNS AND GRIT – AMERICA NEEDS THE RELIANT
The Reliant, an action film coming to select theaters on October 24, is not a typical faith-based film and the secular community is taking notice.
It was made apparent when the Motion Picture Association of America gave it an R rating. Although it had no foul language or sex scenes, and less violence than Disney movies given a PG-13 rating, the screenwriter and producer of the film, Dr. J. P. Johnston, had to appeal to the MPAA to get it changed.
The hate mail the producers have received and the trash articles written by those opposed to the film’s nod to the right-to-keep-and-bear-arms is a hint of the size of the stronghold The Reliant is trying to tackle. The entertainment site, AV Club, wrote a review with the title, Watch Kevin Sorbo Fight Antifa in This Bat@#$% Trailer.
When the mainstream “powers that be” come out in full force against a faith-based film, that’s when you know this movie is going to have real impact.
THERE’S HOPE FOR FREEDOM – EVEN IN CHINA
Hong Kong demonstrators waving the flag of freedom
Hong Kong. Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the People’s Republic of China from a podium overlooking Tiananmen Square 70 years ago today, October 1, 1949. This year’s celebrations, including in Hong Kong, were meant to pay tribute to Mao’s successor Xi Jinping.
But the people of Hong Kong have stood up. Millions have marched in protest of Beijing’s undemocratic control. China is not as strong as it pretends. What the Communist Party calls its “socialist market economy with Chinese characteristics” has run its course.
On this 70th anniversary of communism’s ascendance in China, the irony is that the only legitimacy the Party has left comes from a growing economy. If China’s economy implodes, so does the regime’s legitimacy.
The China-U.S. trade war is an epochal event that can push China to the brink of collapse, especially if the U.S. links its values and human rights to its dealings with China.
JOHN DURHAM’S UKRAINIAN LEADS
U.S. Federal Prosecutor John Durham
Little notice has been given to a Justice Department press release issued the day the Trump-Zelensky conversation transcript became public.
That Justice Department statement makes explicit that the president never spoke with Attorney General William Barr “about having Ukraine investigate anything relating to former Vice President Biden or his son” or asked him to contact Ukraine “on this or any other matter,” and that the attorney general has not communicated at all with Ukraine.
It also contains the following morsel:
“A Department of Justice team led by U.S. Attorney John Durham is separately exploring the extent to which a number of countries, including Ukraine, played a role in the counterintelligence investigation directed at the Trump campaign during the 2016 election.”
HALF-FULL REPORT 09/27/19
The left changed tactics this week and let loose with a coordinated effort to overwhelm President Trump with a whistleblower’s stories of strong-arming the President of Ukraine.
It was a pincer move and little Greta Thunberg attempted to lead international outrage at the same time. The usual suspects, those public relations firms that write the weekly media narratives expected so much success that they failed to create backup narratives.
Both efforts fell with a thud as even more Americans now feel that Trump is getting a raw deal from the press.
Who knew this week would now be known as National Boomerang Week always and forever?
How do we defeat the new left? First, we understand them, and that means understanding how they think and make decisions. They see patterns, not truths.
We are winning.
MINI AOC IS BACK!
“Looks like politics are no longer off limits for children thanks to Greta. Wish someone would’ve made that clear a few months back. Comedy is much better than scare tactics and fear-mongering anyway.”
“Like, I want to tell you about the most amazing science book I just finished reading on climate change. It’s called Chicken Little,” Martinez continued.
The hilarious youngster continued on to claim that “when the sky is falling, our sea levels are rising… then the oceans will spill over the sides of the Earth and we’ll all drown in Outer Space. Did you know that?” Mini AOC asks.
THE SPEECH THEY’RE TRYING TO HIDE
On Tuesday (9/24), Trump articulated to the UN General Assembly of world leaders the vision of the voters who elected him, speaking of nationalism, globalism, and socialism, along with an added rundown of problem nations to condemn and props for others.
Above is the full video, and here is the full White House transcript. Watching and/or reading it entire is a very good use of your time.
For starters, it was a Zero Apologies for America speech, which was a breath of fresh air, given the previous administration. There were plenty of Wow! moments – here are some examples.
HOW TO PUNK THE PRESS
Here’s a quick history quiz: Regarding which investigation did former FBI attorney Lisa Page write the following text message: “[X] might be our next president. The last thing you need is us going in there loaded for bear”?
Was it, (a) a text warning an FBI agent to be careful about investigating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server to hide evidence she used her position to take special care of people who gave cash to her family foundation; or (b) a text warning an FBI agent to be careful about investigating Vice President Joe Biden for using his influence to end investigation into his son’s work in Ukraine?
If you guessed (b)...
“RAMBO” REVEALS BRUTAL TRUTH ABOUT MEXICO
It remains to be seen if the latest incarnation of Rambo will attract audiences. Most of those who go to movie theaters these days are likely unfamiliar with all the earlier incarnations of Stallone's Rambo films. The first was in 1982, First Blood. It dealt, in exaggerated form, with the anger and resentment toward the returning vets from Vietnam.
The Left's intolerance for our military was as egregious then as it is now. For inexplicable reasons, leftists loathe our first line of defense against our enemies, whom they always seem to revere or defend. "It was ever thus," to quote Una Merkel in the original Parent Trap.
So for those of us who revere those who served, who gave their lives to defeat communism, First Blood was welcome revenge porn. The young man being hunted by law enforcement was the good guy, trained by our own government. Without cause, he was deemed an enemy of the people, which, of course he was not, in any way, shape, or form. But he did know how to defend himself. He had a particular set of skills.
WHY LIBPROGS LIE TO BLACKS
In a Slate article -- "Democrat Candidates Are Misrepresenting Michael Brown's Death"-- the reliably-liberal William Saletan exposes their lies.
Let’s examine why the candidates are promulgating such a well-proven lie (Saletan does a good job demonstrating its extent), not even correcting it when confronted by the press, in Warren's case most egregiously so.
The obvious is that they are fishing for votes. But beneath this are more disturbing beliefs, one of which is on the edge of disgusting and actually racist. It is that African Americans prefer to be lied to than told the truth. The corollary to this is that they are easily lied to if you stir them up. The level of disrespect in this is off the charts.
EATING CHICKEN SPITEFULLY
A Canadian publication, The Star, has printed an unintentionally hilarious editorial, “Chick-fil-A Is Ideologically Opposed to My Existence,” by a very disgruntled LGBTQWTF writer, Andrew Wheeler (no relation whatever to Jack Wheeler!).
Mr. Wheeler is very upset. His outrage and dismay have been caused by your love of delicious chicken from Chick-fil-A. How dare you??? In his rant, Wheeler rails against the insensitivity of people who love chicken and waffle fries because it hurts his feelings, or something.
But his rant is more than laughable. It contains the whole reason why the LGBTQWTF mafia is never going to win over rational people.
TRUMP’S NON-STOP CULTURE WAR ON THE LEFT
President Trump is waging a nonstop, all-encompassing war against progressive culture, in magnitude analogous to what 19th-century Germans once called a Kulturkampf (“culture struggle”).
As a result, not even former President George W. Bush has incurred the degree of hatred from the left that is now directed at President Trump. For most of his time in office, Mr. Trump, his family, his friends and his businesses have been investigated, probed, dissected and constantly attacked.
Certainly, Mr. Trump’s agenda of closing the border, using tariffs to overturn a half-century of Chinese mercantilism and pulling back from optional overseas military interventions variously offends both Democrats and establishment Republicans, aka RINOs.
Yet, the real source of Trump Derangement Syndrome – TDS – is his desire to wage a multifront pushback — politically, socially, economically and culturally — against what might be called the elite postmodern progressive world. Let’s count the ways.
KAVANAUGH BREAKS THE DEMOCRATS
Do Democrats not see what’s happening?
Rarely does a story implode as spectacularly as the New York Times’ latest effort to resurrect the claim that Justice Brett Kavanaugh was a teenage sexual predator.
By now, you know the facts: The Times published an excerpt from a forthcoming book alleging that another woman suffered the same form of abuse and objectification from Kavanaugh that was alleged by another accuser, Deborah Ramirez.
No sooner had the universe of liberal political observers and politicians worked themselves up into a frenzy than the story fell apart.
Ms. Ramirez herself doesn’t even remember the experience that was supposedly so traumatizing—a revelation that was inexplicably omitted from the Times’ original draft. Inexplicably – yeah, right.
TRUMPED OUT – REALLY??
Google the phrase “Trump weariness” or “Trump exhaustion” and dozens of progressive articles pop up suggesting that Trump’s base is worn out by Trump’s antics. Are Trump supporters then weary? Are they tired of winning?
The August jobs report “unexpectedly” reminds us that never have so many Americans been at work. The 3.7 percent unemployment rate continues to be the lowest peacetime unemployment figure in 50 years. Black and Hispanic unemployment remain at record lows.
Workers’ wages continue to rise. Talk of recession is belied by low interest, low inflation, low unemployment, and a strong stock market. The result is that millions of Americans enjoy far better lives than they had in 2016.
Yes, that’s really exhausting, isn’t it?
CRACKERS AND FRACKERS – THE KEYS TO 2020?
Marcellus shale gas-drilling site, Lycoming County PA
Monaca, Pennsylvania -- All Darrin Kelly wanted for the energy workers in Western Pennsylvania was that the Democrat presidential hopefuls would talk to them before going to war against shale.
That opportunity slipped away when Elizabeth Warren joined Bernie Sanders in calling for a total fracking ban.
"On my first day as president, I will sign an executive order that puts a total moratorium on all new fossil fuel leases for drilling offshore and on public lands. And I will ban fracking -- everywhere," Warren tweeted on Sept. 6.
"The natural gas industry employs well over 40,000 people just in this region alone," Kelly said. "Countless more indirectly, providing economic opportunity for generations of families and communities that had been hollowed out by the demise of manufacturing and coal in this area."
Donald Trump won Pennsylvania with just over 40,000 votes in 2016.
FIVE TAKEAWAYS FROM NORTH CAROLINA
In the swing state of North Carolina, it was happy-dance time for the beleaguered Republicans. Two hotly contested congressional races both went solidly into the GOP camp, helping the Republicans in the crazies-run House.
State senator Dan Bishop won in the 9th District, and Greg Murphy won in the 3rd District, and both will now get the opportunity to tell Reps. Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that they are out to lunch. It was a conservative blowout.
Five things stick out about it now. You’ll like them all.
THE ACID OF DEMOCRAT ANGER
"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."
―Mark Twain
The Democrat candidates for president exude nothing but bilious anger and hatred for the president and his supporters. Not one of them ever utters a positive word, an optimistic word, or a hopeful word.
One thing they’ve made clear: these are the most hate-filled and, at the same time, the most ignorant group of people ever to grace a stage. If they actually think their relentless fear-mongering on issues only the socialists and communists pretend to care about will work, they need to be put in a straitjacket.
EIGHTEEN YEARS AFTER 9/11 AND WE HAVE ISLAM TERRORISTS IN CONGRESS??
18 years later, are we safer? Have we defeated Radical Islamic terrorism and those who sympathize with them, encourage them, fund them and cover up for them?
The short answer is NO.
Not only no, but we now have two terror sympathizers serving in the U.S. Congress as elected officials, using their position to normalize and even stand up for terror-linked people and organizations.
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, as recently as few weeks ago, August 25th, tweeted her support for a chief financier of Al-Shabaab, the U.S.-designated Somali terror group is responsible for carrying out the deadliest terror attack in Somalia's history where almost 600 people were killed just 2 years ago.
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, the Hamas sympathizer, doesn’t even try to hide or camouflage her loyalty to the terror group and their supporters.
How is this possible?
THE FOREVER WAR
Four years after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the Japanese empire and its Nazi partner had been relegated to the dustbin of history, and America was rebuilding from the ravages of warfare.
Eighteen years after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the United States was in the middle of a long period of peace and prosperity, and was looking confidently into a future that promised to be even better. The contrast with today, the eighteenth anniversary of the jihad bombings of New York and Washington, couldn’t be more stark.
Bernie Sanders and other Democrat presidential candidates have decried America’s “forever wars” and vowed to end them so that more American resources can be devoted to the chimera of climate change, the vastly overestimated “white supremacist” threat, and the deception of “Islamophobia.”
CLIMATE CHANGE IS A HOAX
I hate science, evidently, because I’m woke to the manifest truth about what the leftist elite currently calls “climate change."
Like some suckers still do, I once believed that “science” was a rigorous process where you tested theories and revised those theories in response to objective evidence. But in today’s shabby practice, “science” is just a package of self-serving lies buttressing the transnational liberal elite’s preferred narrative.
Our alleged betters hope that labeling their propaganda “science” will science-shame you into silence about what everyone knows is a scam.
Nah. “Climate change” is a hoax. Come arrest me for felony denial.
IT’S TIME TO PUT AN END TO THE CLIMATE CULT
The climate cult has gotten out of hand. It now threatens to prevail in politics by convincing the ignorant that the science is settled.
Anybody who has a basic understanding of the science knows that it is not settled. A number of inconvenient facts seriously undermine the idea that catastrophic global warming caused by humans is about to overwhelm us. Here are three of them:
- Emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere are causing far less heating than the climate models have been predicting.
- There is no scientifically reputable method for measuring the human contribution to carbon dioxide emissions relative to emissions from natural sources.
- Measured sea level rise in recent decades is insufficient to account for the alarmist forecasts about the amount of rise by the end of the century.
MAD DOG MATTIS’ BLISTERING CRITICISM OF OBAMA
Mad Dog is mum on Trump but skewers Obama for taking a wrecking ball to American prestige and power.
Most of the coverage of James Mattis’s new book, Call Sign Chaos, co-authored with Bing West, deals with the former defense secretary’s relationship with President Trump.
The Atlantic‘s pre-publication interview with Mattis was headlined, “The Man Who Couldn’t Take It Anymore.” The New York Times editorial page ran a column about Mattis called “The Man Trump Wishes He Were.”
Fake News Alert. Both articles establish that Mattis doesn’t have much to say right now, in either the book or in interviews, about President Trump. Neither article, though, mentions another president about whom Mattis is more than willing to dish.
CONSERVATIVES NEED TO BUILD THEIR OWN HOLLYWOOD
Did anyone believe Will & Grace stars Debra Messing and Eric McCormack when they backtracked on their demand Hollywood supporters of Donald Trump attending the president's coming Beverly Hills fundraiser be outed and consequently blacklisted from The Industry?
Of course not. Truth is, there is no reforming these people. They are what they are.
It's time for conservatives and what Kurt Schlicter calls the "Normals" to have an entertainment industry of their own. Hollywood has effectively divorced conservatives (and the Normals). And after a divorce, as they say, "living well is the best revenge."
The question is how.
WHY DO SO MANY YOUNG PEOPLE CALL THEMSELVES SOCIALIST?
“Socialist!” is no longer a McCarthyite slur.
Rather, the fresh celebrity “Squad” of newly elected identity-politics congresswomen – Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib – often either claim to be socialists or embrace socialist ideas.
A recent Harris poll showed that about half of so-called millennials would like to live in a socialist country.
Here are the ingredients for a culture that emphasizes the self, blames others for a sense of personal failure, and wants instant social justice and for money to grow on trees.
2020’S TWO TICKING TIME BOMBS FOR DEMS
A disgraceful end for “deep state” actors and an implosion of the Democrat Party’s 2020 nominee are both very real possibilities.
It is now clearer than ever that the whole Trump-Russia collusion argument is such a monstrous hoax that it has been hard for the public to take it on board.
Of course, the assimilation of what has happened has been made more complicated by the extremely agitated political ambiance of the Trump era.
But the stark contrast in policy and personality terms between the president and the Democrats, and the bellicosity of the president himself, which has been essential for him to get through the unprecedented effort to undermine him illegally, do not in themselves explain the very long fuse that is burning with excruciating slowness toward the powder keg of explicit revelation of Democrat law-breaking.
THE TRUMP HATERS ARE EXHAUSTED
He’s looking good, those who hate him don’t
There is a small slice of the American populace who, by their own admission, are exhausted.
No, I do not refer to new moms caring for cranky infants or emergency room nurses working the night shift or tactical officers patrolling the ’hood or farmers plowing their soybean crops.
Our bone-weary countrymen populate opinion magazines, newsrooms, editorial boards, and cable networks up and down the Acela corridor. Cognitive fatigue has set in. Makeup artists in the MSNBC green room desperately try to conceal dark circles sagging under the eyes of barely-functioning hosts and guests.
Hatred is exhausting, mentally and physically. Meanwhile, the object of their hatred hasn’t aged a day since taking office.
TRUMP IN A LANDSLIDE: HERE’S WHY
Once upon a time, long, long ago, public opinion polls may have reflected, however faintly, some generalization of public opinion. For a multitude of reasons, that is no longer true.
Take the Quinnipiac poll results that whatever is left of Joe Biden would beat Trump 54 percent to 38 percent in a general election, and the Economist’s poll number asserting that 55 percent of the public thinks the country is headed in the wrong direction. It is a certainty that none of those numbers reflects reality.
So, discarding the meaningless political polls, I went to the most accurate opinion poll I am aware of for my pre-quadrennial presidential forecast: the Washington County Agricultural Fair in Pennsylvania (the county is southwest of Pittsburgh bordering Ohio and the northern tip of West Virginia).
Here you can see with your own eyes the Trump landslide coming in 2020.
HALF-FULL REPORT 08/30/19
The World is Lining Up in Trump’s Direction
The recent G7 summit went well for President Trump and the United States. There is a growing acceptance among allies that Trump means business and China is a problem.
They are no longer just China, but Fentanyl China, the destroyer of corporate brands that fail to disengage from the Middle Kingdom’s culpability with 60,000 opioid overdoses per year.
We have a hurricane inbound and it might cause some economic damage. It certainly can cause political damage.
Mass media is having some problems and James Comey is off the hook. For now.
The Great Awakening continues to grow as more Americans come to understand that there are two justice systems in America. One for the elite and one for the plebes.
And let’s talk about leadership. The left doubles down on a single strategy. They employ it everywhere. Conservatives use a palate of styles and we have been known to reject talent because we prefer a different style. TTPers are uniquely brilliant leaders, so let's talk leadership on the Forum. How should Conservatives lead?
BERNIE AND THE ANGRY DEMS: AS DUMB AS IT GETS
In case you missed it, or are exclusively a reader of the New York Times, late last week Bernie Sanders tweeted this nugget: "Fossil fuel executives should be criminally prosecuted for the destruction they have knowingly caused."
No, that wasn't The Onion or The Babylon Bee. It was the real deal. The always-furious Vermont senator wants to incarcerate the very people who are responsible for keeping the lights on and the air conditioners running in the operating rooms of almost every hospital, not only in America but across the globe. And that's just the beginning of the myriad necessities of human life provided for at this point in human history by these supposed criminals in the eyes of the self-described democratic socialist of the multiple houses and private jets.
Crazy, no? Crazy, yes. Crazier than the proverbial hoot owl. And mighty angry.
Was Bernie always this way? More or less.
JOE NEEDS RESCUING DR. JILL
Most of us who have reached the age range that Joe Biden has have already watched our own parents age, decline, and suffer the indignities that invariably come with advancing age. We know we too will endure certain ailments or infirmities and hope we will be able to face them with courage and grace.
Now, for reasons no one outside the Democratic Party understands, Joe Biden is being put through the ringer as a presidential candidate, an undertaking for which he clearly is not prepared, mentally or physically.
Biden has always had problems with honesty and the truth. He plagiarized part of a speech by Neil Kinnock during his run for president in 1987–88. He lied often during the Obama/Biden campaign and about his academic career.
Google "Biden gaffes," and you will get a long list of outright lies and countless injudicious remarks, many of them quite racist. Those who never stop claiming they are not racists usually are exactly that.
THE MCCABE–CNN HOOKUP
The ongoing affair between the nation’s top law enforcement agency and the news media resulted in another hookup last week when CNN announced the hiring of Andrew McCabe, the former deputy director of the FBI.
McCabe, a vocal Trump foe who opened a criminal investigation into the sitting president of the United States in May 2017 during his short stint as acting director, was fired by the FBI last year for lying to federal investigators.
He played a key role in concocting the Trump-Russia collusion hoax; wrote a book filled with animus toward the president; and remains under a grand jury investigation. Last week, McCabe’s lawyers met with federal prosecutors who are deciding whether to indict him for perjury.
So, of course, CNN hired him last week.
PROGRESSIVE DEMS HATE THEIR FORMER SELVES
Not long ago, the current presidential contenders opposed open borders, sanctuary cities, and federal funding for abortion. Now they can’t move left far and fast enough.
All politicians are “flexible.” If they are in politics long enough, many reinvent themselves ideologically several times over — given the perceived volatile mood of 51 percent of their constituency.
But rarely have we seen an entire primary field of candidates scrambling to renounce all their past identities and agendas — and to do so unapologetically, abruptly, and vehemently.
Apparently, they believe, at least in the primary, that the electorate will either identify as nonwhite, or far left, or both — and thus resent deeply any who are not.
To win the nomination, almost all the leading candidates on the Democratic debate stage now believe that they must renounce almost everything they once stood for — at least for a while. Given that most are white or affluent or children of privilege, or all three, sometimes the metamorphosis becomes low comedy.
HALF-FULL REPORT 08/23/19
Today’s HFR is the story of an honorable man and his stolen dream.
David Koch was a brilliant engineer with a fleet of magnificent factories. He made great wealth and generously donated to causes such as the fine arts, cancer, especially prostate cancer, research, and the preservation of dinosaur skeletons.
He applied his engineering mind to social problems but learned some hard lessons. Political science is not a science at all.
Koch’s application of probability theory to technology made him the 11th richest man in the world.
However, his methods known as stochastic analysis, were coopted by the fake news media and are now used to gain and control power. Instead of controlling the production of commodities, the methods control the production of terrorists.
Stochastic terrorism means using search engine results, social media, and the fake news industry to excite individuals to commit terrorist acts. The idea moves most of the news these days.
Sadly, the man that introduced stochastic methods passed away today. David Koch’s vision was liberty for all. He put his money, where his passion was.
He failed to account for the evil people that will use any tool, any idea, to acquire power.
WARREN IS THE WORST OF THE WORST
"Hi, I’m Elizabeth Warren. Even though I’m as white as library paste, I pretended to be an American Indian to get preferment. My research on medical bankruptcies was as fraudulent as the way I gamed the racial spoils system. So you should totally trust me when I say I’m “capitalist to my bones”!
The above quotation is from Armed & Dangerous...how each of the candidates would introduce themselves if they were honest.
There is an imaginary intro for each of them and they are all spot on, but because Warren is allegedly "surging," and because she is the panderer-in-chief, her gross dishonesty must be exposed.
THE (NOT SO) GREAT PRETENDER OF REAL CLEAR POLITICS
Once upon a time in a universe far far away, the New York Times was known as "the newspaper of record." They purported to report "All the News That's Fit to Print."
That was never true — like all such outlets it was written by humans, ergo biased — but it was a tiny bit more accurate than today, even with notorious contributors like Stalin-apologist Walter Duranty and Castro-apologist Herbert Matthews. The late Abe Rosenthal at least made an effort.
Now the paper is little more than a left-wing propaganda sheet — and not a very good one, notwithstanding its seemingly unbreakable and unremitting influence on the mainstream media who still check the Times before they check themselves.
These days the paper almost feels run by idiots.
PELOSI HANDS OVER THE DEM PARTY TO JEW-HATERS
A historic transition of the American political landscape is underway, as the older of our two parties is embracing antisemitism and moving away from support of Israel, driven by the personal ambition of a craven politician clinging to power.
Nancy Pelosi's desire to remain speaker of the House is why she is surrendering the Democrats' party to the Jew-haters, with the highly visible, openly antisemitic Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib becoming the real face of her party.
No fewer than seven of Pelosi's key political allies are facing primary challenges, just as did her close, long-serving ally Joe Crowley in 2018, birthing the political career of a comely former bartender, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. All of these senior Democrats realize that in low-turnout primaries, a highly motivated faction can deliver the nomination to a challenger.
THE NEW YORK TIMES, TRUMP-HATE DRUG LORD
If Russian collusion has been the opiate of the Trump-hating masses for more than two years, the New York Times was one of its biggest suppliers.
Since late 2016, desperate to drown their sorrows over Donald Trump’s shocking win, political junkies on the Left and NeverTrump Right eased their inner pain with a daily collusion fix injected courtesy of the Gray Lady. With one click on the front page or opinion section, Times’ readers could satisfy their anti-Trump addiction while making them feel, if only for a few fleeting moments, powerful and in control.
Pain would give way to rage, then a false sense of hope. Surely the man installed by Vladimir Putin would never serve out his term, they would say to themselves while feeding their insatiable craving. And just as the high wore off, the Times would offer another hit, provoking hallucinations about Trump and his corrupt family being hauled out of the White House in handcuffs by Robert Mueller.
So, in a way, you can’t blame the Times for obsessively covering the fabricated Trump-Russia collusion storyline. It’s what successful drug dealers do—keep their customers hooked on a steady drip of dope and desperate for more.
COSMIC INJUSTICE
The Massive Vatican Walls – symbol of the Pope’s Cosmic Hypocrisy
One of the weirdest characteristics of our global politicians and moral censors is their preference to voice cosmic justice rather than to address less abstract sin within their own purview or authority.
These progressive virtue mongers see themselves as citizens of the world rather than of the United States and thus can impotently theorize about problems elsewhere when they cannot solve those in their own midst.
Big-city mayors are especially culpable when it comes to ignoring felonies in their midst, preferring to hector the misdemeanors of the universe. Notice how New York Mayor Bill De Blasio lords over the insidious deterioration of his city while he lectures on cosmic white supremacy. He’s one example of a great many.
TRUMP IS RIGHT ON GOOGLE
On Monday morning (8/19), President Donald Trump shared the results of a study showing that Hillary Clinton's margin of victory in the popular vote in the 2016 election could be explained by Google bias.
The study's author, Ph.D. psychologist Robert Epstein, was himself a Clinton supporter in 2016, but he is concerned about Google's power to manipulate elections.
Trump's tweet likely referred to a 2017 white paper published by the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology (AIBRT) suggesting that Clinton's popular vote margin was almost entirely attributable to pro-Clinton bias at Google.
I myself became aware of Epstein's study last September at a screening of the film The Creepy Line, which heavily features Epstein's research. Watch the trailer below.
In an interview with Epstein, he commented, “Google is not a problem for conservatives, it is a problem for humanity. Who gave a handful of executives in Silicon Valley the right to decide what billions of people around the world can see and cannot see? Who gave them that power?"