Month: November 2018

 
From Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post:

He is feeling an ungodly amount of pressure from all sides, and is proving what I have maintained for years: that he is unfit for the presidency and is in waaaayyyyy over his head. For perhaps the only time in his life, Donald Trump has met something he cannot firmly dominate or even control. Ever-paranoid, truth and reality are settling in on him and he can no longer retreat into his mythical world of delusion and dishonesty.

Aside from being irrational, his behavior – especially on the world stage – has been not only erratic, but dangerous as well. He has snapped angrily (and needlessly) at allies like Britain’s Theresa May and France’s Emmanuel Macron. He has alleged, with no proof at all, that there was voter fraud in the midterms. He has impulsively and recklessly sent thousands of U.S. troops to our southern border to confront a nonexistently hostile, supposed “invasion” by thousands of innocent, desperate refugees who are fleeing hopelessness, hunger, and abject poverty in Latin America and wish to come here to live in peace and relative prosperity, claiming there are “terrorists” lurking among them.

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From Frances Langum:

This morning’s press gaggle with future House Intel Committee Chair Adam Schiff is worth a listen. In addition to expressing his concerns that “the Russians possess financial leverage over the (so-called) President of the United States,” Schiff noted that since Michael Cohen has now entered a guilty plea to lying to Congress, it’s time to ask Robert Mueller to check all the other TrumpWorld testimony for, ahem, falsehoods.

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From Infidel753:

As it happens, the 40th anniversary of Milk’s assassination was just two days ago. Milk was a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the first openly-gay elected official in California, at a time when the position of gay people even in San Francisco was precarious at best — this was the time of Anita Bryant, the Briggs initiative, and the rise of the Moral Majority. Though a latecomer to political activism and sometimes at odds with the city’s more established gay political figures, Milk made use of his office to pass a gay civil rights ordinance and to rally and organize people for the long struggle against bigotry that lay ahead.

He was assassinated by Dan White, a former fellow Supervisor who was (by San Francisco standards) relatively religious and conservative, and had clashed with Milk several times. After a failed business venture, White entered City Hall with a gun and begged Mayor George Moscone to reinstate him as a Supervisor. When Moscone refused, White shot him, then went to his old adversary’s office and murdered him as well.

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From Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit:

Trump: You’re under arrest for multiple homicides

Crook: I didn’t do it, see? I’m as innocent as a new-born babe, see?

Trump: Good enough for me. You’re free to go.

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From The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser:

The fact that it takes so much work to defend Christianity is a strong indicator, all by itself, that the Christian God does not exist, or he doesn’t care if we believe.

If God had done a better job of revealing his will, there wouldn’t be much of anything for Christian defenders, or apologists, to do but share the gospel message like evangelists do. But since the God of the Bible was in fact incompetent, Christian apologists are forced to defend their faith against the multitude of objections raised against it. It’s as if God gave Christian defenders permanent job security, while forgetting that there are eternal destinies stake, people who, on some accounts, will suffer conscious torment forever because of it.

When dealing with the problem of divine miscommunication, Christian defense lawyers seek only to get their divine client acquitted no matter what the intellectual or moral cost. Rather than face this evidence that shows their God to be nothing more than the product of ancient people, who didn’t have a clue about civilized matters, these apologists use convoluted legalese to obfuscate and confuse the jury.

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From Max’s Dad:

“If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door in the country.”

That was a quote from a tape made by Harvey Milk, to be released just in case he was murdered. If you dont know who Harvey Milk was you oughta learn.

40 years ago today a conservative San Francisco supervisor, that’s city councilman to us rubes,named Dan White walked into City Hall and murdered Mayor Willie Moscone and Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay elected officials in the entire nation. Oh yeah, he used a gun, like all chickenshit assassins do, and he did it because he saw a conspiracy against conservative white men like himself.

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From driftglass:

So now Frank Luntz is not exactly a Republican anymore. Maybe even an “independent”. And he blames both sides.

Yes, by now all the GOP plague rats who brought this country to ruin know the all the magic words that will get them a seat on the lifeboat.

I presume the next step will be a book which will have the same theme as every other Never Trumper book —

— and will be launched with boosts and blurbs and free air time by all the usual credulous Beltway Liberals and cynical Beltway Both Siderists.

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From Dorian de Wind at The Moderate Voice:

Remember the 17 young students and teachers who would never come home again?

Remember, one month later, the March for Our Lives, where hundreds of thousands of high school students from all over the country organized, marched and spoke up demanding that they be allowed to attend school without the fear of being gunned down?

Remember how the young people who organized, led and participated in those demonstrations and in other gun reform movements – many of them survivors of the Parkland shooting – were called trouble makers, immature, that they didn’t “fully grasp the issues at hand because their brains have not fully developed yet”?

Remember the names David Hogg, Emma González, Jaclyn Corin and Matt Deitsch?

Well, even if some of us have forgotten the names of these Parkland school shooting survivors, the world community has not

A week ago, at a special ceremony in Cape Town, South Africa, Archbishop Desmond Tutu presented the 2018 International Children’s Peace Prize 2018 to David, Emma, Jaclyn and Matt.

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From libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara:

Like a lot of conservatives, [U.S. Senate candidate Jeff] Bell argues that the effort to remove historical artifacts has its roots in the Stalin methodology that George Orwell highlighted in “1984.”

“Orwell satirized the idea of a ‘memory hole’ and now the left is starting to have a memory hole for anything they don’t believe in,” he said. “They don’t want Americans to be proud of their country. They want to change the story into a triumph of evil.”

True enough. But Mulshine goes on to include Confederate monuments in the category of historic American artifacts that deserve to be preserved. That’s where we differ.

First of all, there is no “alt-Left”. The Left has always been anti-American, at least since the rise of the New Left half a century ago. It stands to reason that they’d want to remove true American heroes, and morally equate a Washington with a Lee. Under cover of the white nationalist, alt-Right controversy, the New Left is making a direct assault on reason, individual rights, limited rights-protecting government, and free market capitalism.

Having said that, count me among those who would remove statues that hold up Confederate leaders among America’s heros. They are no such thing. True, history is messy. Most historical figures were mixed bags, morally. Plus, context is everything. We should be very careful about where we draw the moral lines. It should not be taken lightly. Many factors must be balanced. But we can and should draw moral lines.

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From the Borowitz Report:

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Robert Mueller’s announcement that he would be offering Cyber Monday plea deals touched off hysteria among disgraced Trump associates desperate for the chance to score a drastically reduced sentence.

Moments after the office of the special counsel went live with its Cyber Monday Web site, Sing4Bob.com, thousands of Trump cronies flooded it with traffic, causing the site to briefly crash.

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