Saturday, June 30, 2018

A View From the Left

In a major electoral upset in the primary election in New York's 14th district, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez upset 10 term Congressman Joe Crowley, a man who many expected might be the next Speaker of the House should the Dems take the House back. New York's 14th district, heavily Democratic, is made up of parts of the Bronx and Queens, with the primary winner being the likely winner in the general election. Ocasio-Cortez is an open socialist, and is allied with the Democratic Socialists of America, a group that supports the BDS (Boycott, Divest and Sanction) movement against Israel.

Following the recent violent efforts by Gazans to breach Israel's border, resulting in the deaths of at least 60 people - 50 of whom were Hamas members - Ocasio-Cortez called it a massacre. "This is a massacre. I hope my peers have the moral courage to call it such...Democrats can't be silent about this anymore." Yes, the Democrats need to rise up against Israel. And I have no reason to believe that the liberal/leftist Jews won't follow right along.

Ocasio-Cortez's platform includes abolishing ICE, universal Medicare, a jobs guarantee for all, free college, housing (presumably free) as a human right, and, of course, the impeachment of President Trump. I wonder if anyone has to pay for all this "free" stuff. Meanwhile, in Minnesota, Ilhan Omar is the likely successor to Rep. Keith Ellison (one of the two Muslim members of Congress), as Ellison is running for Attorney General of Minnesota. Omar has referred to Israel as an "apartheid" state. In case that does not make it sufficiently clear what he thinks of Israel, here is a now deleted Tweet of his: "Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel." Again, the outright hostility towards Israel will be no deterrent to left-wing Jews supporting these people and their party.

Proving that they will stop at nothing to defeat Trump, a group of states - blue states - have proposed legislation for their respective states that would bar anyone from being on the ballot for President unless they release their tax returns. Clearly, these measures are aimed at Trump, who has not released his tax returns. As the Constitution only requires that someone be a natural born citizen, be at least 35 years old, and been 14 years a resident within the United States, this underhanded effort to prevent Trump from being on the ballot will clearly fail on Constitutional grounds. Just another example of the Left's "the ends justify the means" approach to life.

With Justice Kennedy resigning from the Supreme Court, the Left has been apoplectic (a common emotion for the Left) over Trump having the opportunity to appoint another Justice. The Dems/Left (they are one and the same) say they are concerned about a shift in the ideological balance of the Court. Of course, that is a blatant lie. If President Trump were to appoint another Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Dems/Left would be in a state of jubilation. The LA Times basically said as much in their 6/28/18 editorial regarding Kennedy's replacement: "Since that person is unlikely to be a liberal - Trump's politics won't lead him to a new Ruth Bader Ginsburg or a Thurgood Marshall - let us make another suggestion." Clearly, there would be zero outcry were Trump to tilt the ideological direction of the Court to the left. The politicians and mainstream media are a group of hypocrites.

The New York Times was...well, the New York Times. Their 6/28/18 editorial, as might be expected, essentially told us that the sky is falling. "It is a dark moment in the history of the court and the nation, and it's about to get a lot darker." It does not get any clearer than that. Any conservative Republican President would appoint a conservative Justice. But the Dems/Left are now so extreme that any conservative appointment will be a "dark moment in the history of the...nation." Is it any wonder that they call us deplorables, haters, bigots and so on. They truly hate us. After all, conservatives make the country dark and getting darker.

Michelle Goldberg is a regular opinion writer for the New York Times. In her 6/26/18 Op-Ed in the Times, and after calling Trump a "racist," she said this: "I'm agnostic on the question of whether publicly rebuking Trump collaborators is tactically smart." Trump collaborators? That's what it is when you work in the White House now? You are a collaborator. As I said, they hate us. And they believe that we are evil. As for the way some Administration officials have been publicly mistreated, Ms. Goldberg tells us it was just "the sort of public opprobrium due members of any other white nationalist organization." That's how it works for the Left. There is no need to debate the issues when all they have to do (actually, all they have) is hatred and demagoguery.

The Los Angeles Times has the answer for dealing with those who cross our border illegally. Don't charge them with the crime of crossing illegally into the country. In fact, just don't detain them. Who says the Left does not want open borders?

So, there you have it. The Dems/Left are the party of open borders, hatred toward conservatives, "free" stuff for everybody, using whatever means necessary (harassment, unconstitutional laws, and so on) to accomplish their ends, and, of course, are virulently anti-Israel. My left-wing friends, even the Jewish ones, can hardly wait to vote for all that in November.

Monday, June 25, 2018

The Mob

No, this is not a post about the Italian Mafia. Although, there are definite similarities with the threats and intimidation. A friend who is a retired police officer likens them to a criminal gang. However, having grown up in New Jersey, I believe "The Mob" is a more accurate description. We are already well past De Niro's "Fuck Trump" on live TV at the Tony Awards. We are past Samantha Bee and the "C" word. We are well past Hillary's "basket of deplorables."

We are past the name calling and cursing. Now, we are at incitement. Peter Fonda expressed that he would like to see "Barron Trump ripped from his mother's arms and put in a cage with pedophiles." Maxine Waters, Dem. Rep. from California, said this at a weekend rally in Los Angeles: "If you see anybody from that (Trump's) Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them and you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere." Not welcome anywhere? What does that mean? They need to leave the country? Maybe, they need to be dead?

Waters continued on MSNBC: "the people are going to turn on them, they're going to protest, they're going to absolutely harass them." Waters is not the only one to think this way. When DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielson was dining out last week, a Mob accosted her, yelling "shame," and "if kids don't eat in peace, you don't eat in peace." On Friday, the Mob was outside her home yelling "no justice, no sleep." And: "Secretary Nielson and everyone else who has carried out these brutal and cold-blooded orders (at the border), to rip apart families should never be allowed to eat and drink in public again."

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders was asked to leave, with her family, from the Red Hen restaurant in Virginia, because the restaurant has "certain standards." Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi had to leave a movie theater after a Mob shouted at her about immigration and health care. And, in case you have any doubt about what the Mob thinks of you, here's MSNBC commentator Donny Deutsch: "We can no longer say Trump's the bad guy. If you vote for Trump, you're the bad guy. If you vote for Trump, you are ripping children from parents' arms." Don't we lock up bad guys? Is that what they want for 63 million Trump voters?

The Mob has been upset for quite some time, most often when they have been unable to get their policies enacted through the democratic process. Like all Mobs, they really do not believe in democracy. So, when democracy did not work for them, they litigated. They sued, and tried to shut down businesses that did not adhere to their agenda. Now, we are past that. Now, we are at outright harassment and intimidation. I am inclined to say that ultimately these tactics will result in violence. When you get in someone's face, sooner or later they will push back.

However, we are even past the possibility of violence. Recall last year a Trump hater shot up a Congressional Republican baseball practice, nearly fatally wounding Rep. Steve Scalise, and also wounding two Capitol Police officers and other staffers. Here are some comments from the shooter's Facebook page. "Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy." "It's Time to Destroy Trump & Co."

And let's not forget, like the other Mob, this Mob hates the police also. Obama and his AG Eric Holder, had a war on cops. (By way of comparison, Trump has a war on criminal gangs.) Wikileaks has published the names of over 9000 former and current employees of ICE. I cannot see any legitimate reason for doing so. Do they want harm to come to the people who protect us? Democratic Congress members now want to eliminate one entire police force - ICE. They want to eliminate the agency that protects our borders, our safety and our sovereignty. (As an aside, "sovereignty" is a word you will never hear from democrats nor read in the mainstream media. They do not believe in national sovereignty.) The measure to eliminate ICE either has been or will be introduced by Representatives Mark Pocan (D-WI), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and Pramila Jayapal (D-WA). So what if drugs, criminal gang members and terrorists get in to our country? It is the police who are the bad guys, as far as The Mob is concerned.

By now, I am sure you have figured out who The Mob is - it is the Democratic Party. They may not have hired hit men, but in every other way they resemble The Mob. The harassment. The intimidation. The threats. And the very real possibility of violence by both their actions and their war on police. I don't belong to The Mob. Do you?