THE VIGILANTE FROM SOUTH BEND
The Mayor of South Bend
Pete Buttigieg is the latest star to emerge from Democrats’ 2020 pack, which is no surprise since he exhibits all the tropes we have come to associate with this party in the era of its Trump derangement.
On the evidence just of his attacks on Vice President Mike Pence, Buttigieg is a shameless liar, a calculating character assassin and an anti-religious/anti-free speech bigot, motivated by a virulent hatred of his political opponents, especially those who have been good to him like Pence.
Buttigieg’s chosen target is one of the most decent human beings in politics, who was supportive of Buttegieg both before he revealed he was gay and after.
Using a gracious and decent opponent as a prop in a hate campaign against Christians for political gain, tells you how low Democrats have sunk this electoral season.
SOUTH BEND IS A BLOODY MESS
The media’s bias has never been subtle, but its disinterest in a presidential candidate’s track record has never been this blatant.
Mayor Buttigieg’s candidacy is being covered as if he weren’t the mayor of an actual city with actual problems. Instead his prospects have been covered purely in terms of his identity, a gay millennial, his past career before taking office, and his current witticisms and applause lines.
At no point in time does the media stop to tell the viewers and readers it is regaling with stories of Mayor Buttigieg’s charm that he runs “one of the most dangerous cities in the United States,” according to USA Today.
South Bend is a crime-infested bloody mess, for which its mayor for the last eight years bears responsibility. And he has the gall to run for president?
ALL OF AFRICA
We’ve seen maps of Africa all our lives – but most people have little if any grasp of just how large Africa is. It’s gargantuan – and with a bewildering number of countries. 50 in all. I’ve had the good fortune to have been to every one.
As I have learned, often the hard way, traveling in Africa is daunting – and often outright dangerous, extremely so. It is Africa’s misfortune that out of its vast size and over four dozen countries, there is a surprisingly small number of places that are both safe and worth going to.
Political instability, ethnic strife, humongous corruption and street crime are so widespread across the continent, you have to search hard for exceptions.
Plus, even if those were absent, where are there places that are really cool, bucket-list cool worth all the expense, time, and effort to get to and experience?
CARPE DONKTUM’S “THIS IS CNN!”
HALF-FULL REPORT 04/12/19
What’s that deafening sound? Wow it’s loud, like squeals from an entire sounder of stuck pigs. Oh, look! It’s the Democrats and their media lap poodles squealing in terror over Bill Barr about to slit their throats.
The AG’s Senate testimony on Wednesday (4/10) did it. TTP attached the video of his words to Kim Strassel’s Barr Brings Accountability this morning (4/12).
Yes, Roger Simon is right, that POTUS’ replacement of testicularly-atrophied Jeff Sessions is The Democrats’ Worst Nightmare.
When you watch the video in Strassel’s, note carefully Barr’s words after he says “I think spying on a political campaign is a big deal.” He then says, “I’m not talking about the FBI necessarily but intelligence agencies more broadly.”
You can bet all three of Obama’s intelligence directors – not just FBI’s Comey, but CIA’s Brennan and National Intelligence Director Clapper – hearing those words suddenly noticed the red laser light dot over their hearts and said to themselves, “OMG, he’s targeting me!” You betcha.
BARR BRINGS ACCOUNTABILITY
Indeed. Here's what Trump’s foes have to be scared about.
No doubt a lot of former Obama administration and Hillary Clinton campaign officials, opposition guns for hire, and media members are stunned and scared that the Justice Department finally has a leader willing to address the FBI’s behavior in 2016
They all worked very hard to make sure such an accounting never happened. Only in that context can we understand the frantic new Democrat-media campaign to tar the attorney general.
THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT WING IN ISRAEL
Thousands of young Jewish boys celebrate Jerusalem Day
Like lots of millennials who have catapulted to fame, May Golan got her start on the internet, blogging about life in her South Tel Aviv neighborhood. From there she gained a platform as a social activist, with 25,000 followers on Facebook and 16,300 on Twitter.
On Tuesday (4/09), hours before she won a seat in Israel’s Knesset, she reached out to voters in one last Facebook video, wearing a T-shirt with the words “Netanyahu. Right-wing. Strong. Successful.” emblazoned in blue and white block letters. She is 32.
In other words, Golan is staunchly right wing. She’s also a lot like many Israeli Jews of her generation.
While American millennials have a reputation for liberal politics, young Israeli Jews have gone the opposite direction over time. For at least the past 10 years, these voters have identified as right wing at much higher levels than their parents.
THERE IS NO LEFT LEFT IN ISRAEL
Bibi!
[Note by JW – Damon Linker is on the Left, but has the integrity to report real news even if it disappoints him]
Don't be fooled by misleading stories about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's disappointing showing in Tuesday's (4/09) election in Israel.
Even if the centrist Blue and White alliance of former military chief Benny Gantz had eked out a very narrow victory over Netanyahu's right-wing Likud Party, the story of this election is not at all about the retreat of the right. (Gantz conceded yesterday 4/10.)
On the contrary, the most far-reaching consequence of the 2019 Israeli election may well be that it verified, beyond any reasonable doubt, that there is functionally no Left left in Israel. It has become a country with a center, a right, and a far right, but no electorally viable Left to speak of.
An astonishing example. The Labor Party – viewed as the equivalent of the US Democrat Party – performed so badly it may be on te verge of extinction.
THE DEMOCRATS’ WORST NIGHTMARE
Attorney General William Barr
Though they were excruciatingly obnoxious to William Barr at Tuesday's (4/09) House Appropriations subcommittee hearing, Democrats would be well-advised to lay off the attorney general, maybe even treat him with kid gloves, because he holds a good deal of the future of their party in his hands.
In fact, he is positioned to make that party bleed as perhaps no one in history. And it only makes it worse that he is clearly such a straight shooter.
The big story from Barr's testimony then before the subcommittee was not that the AG plans to release a redacted version of the Mueller report within a week or even that those redactions will be color-coded four ways and annotated to explain the reasons for the edits.
Here's the real big story, and it’s really big.
CANDACE OWENS – THE ANTIDOTE TO OCASIO-CORTEZ
Owens has at least a hundred IQ points on the supremely ignorant Ocasio-Cortez. Owens's grace and class are the antithesis of Ocasio-Cortez's empty-headed, ditzy meanderings.
Owens's videos are all worth watching, and her performance yesterday (4/09) in front of the House Oversight Committee was spectacular as you can see above. She put the Democrats on that committee to shame, especially Jerrold Nadler and Ted Lieu.
Both of them tried their best to humiliate her, to use her as a prop in their latest narrative that Trump is responsible for a make-believe rise of white nationalism and white supremacy. Yet it was she who humiliated them.
She indeed spoke truth to the Democrats in front of her, when she told them in her opening statement:
"The hearing today is not about white nationalism or hate-crimes, it’s about fear-mongering, power and control."