The Democratic Party is moving further to the political left, and adjectives like Socialist are no longer being avoided.
Some of the candidates who are being enthusiastically promoted by the party are indistinguishable from communists. For years, the
Democratic Party platform has been completely out of sync with the American mainstream, even though it has the reliable support of the
national news media. But some of the newcomers have ideas that are really odious.
Previously-unknown candidates appearing from nowhere
How
Does a Straight White Male Democrat Run for President? Of the nine candidates officially running in the
Democratic presidential primary, only one is a heterosexual white man. And that guy, former Rep. John Delaney,
generally polls somewhere between zero and 1 percent. But of the 17 Democrats reportedly still pondering a presidential
bid, all but one is a straight white man. It's hard to chalk that up to coincidence. Clearly, the women and
minority candidates sensed that the water is warm for them, and the straight white men appear to be worried that this is just
not their year.
The
Democrats' Nomination Contest Promises Great Fun for Conservatives. This may be the election cycle where we
watch identity politics destroy itself live on stage. It'll be the greatest show on earth. With multiple declared
candidates, the 2020 election season is now underway. And there couldn't be more hype for the forthcoming Democratic
primaries, which will feature candidates with plenty of flaws trying desperately to prove their woke credentials.
Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update for
January 21, 2019. This week in the clown car update: Lots climbing in, one getting out. New York
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and California Senator Kamala Harris are both In and Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey. Jr.
is Out. Plus a few more no-hope longshots considering a run.
2020
Candidate Tulsi Gabbard Once Worked For Anti-LGBT Group, Railed Against 'Homosexual Extremists'. According to a
new report by CNN's Andrew Kaczynski, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard — who just announced her intentions to run for
president in 2020 — once touted her work for an anti-LGBT organization and railed against "homosexual extremists."
Gabbard's prior comments are in sharp contrast to her more recent record in support of LGBT rights and seem to stem to work she
did with her father. Gabbard's father, Mike, was an anti-LGBT activist in Hawaii and ran a political action group that
promoted traditional marriage.
Two
Obscure Dems Enter Presidential Race. Technically, Elizabeth Warren is "exploring" whether to run for president.
For all intents and purposes, she's running. Now, she's been joined by Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii and former HUD
Secretary Julian Castro. Gabbard announced her candidacy yesterday; Castro entered the race today [1/12/2019].
The
Limits of the Invisible Primary. Elizabeth Warren launched the 2020 cycle on New Year's Eve when she announced
the formation of her presidential exploratory committee. She'll be traveling to Iowa this coming weekend.
Meanwhile, Kamala Harris is about to embark on a national book tour. Julian Castro is set to announce his candidacy
January 12. The Atlantic says Washington governor Jay Inslee will run on climate change. (He's
against it.) John Delaney, Richard Ojeda, and Andrew Yang are already in the mix. Bernie, Biden, Bloomberg, Beto,
Booker, Bennett, Bullock, Gillibrand, Hickenlooper, Schultz, and Klobuchar may soon join them.
The Democratic Party's Alt-Left.
The Democratic Party has an alt-left problem, and no one at CNN seems to care. The DSA has been aggressively pushing
its members to run as Democrats, and they're winning. Here are three that embody what's going on: Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez, Summer Lee, and Sara Innamorato. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is, of course, the poster-girl for the new
zeitgeist. That unclean spirit is the wind of "democratic socialism," which is the rage among the Trump "resistance."
But Ocasio-Cortez isn't the only young woman scoring big in the Democratic Party for the DSA. Two others are here in my backyard
of Western Pennsylvania, Summer Lee and Sara Innamorato, who defeated longtime state reps Paul and Dom Costa. The Costas
(they are cousins) were classic Western Pennsylvania Democrats, expected to hold their seats for life, until they were beat
soundly in May in the primary by Lee and Innamorato, both of which now run unopposed in the general election and will glide
into the state house as elected socialists. Well, actually, as "democratic socialists" who ran as Democrats.
Democrat
Candidate for Governor Is Dead Broke, Owes $77,522 in Credit Card Debt, and Wants to Run Georgia Economy.
Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams became the first black female candidate to win a major party primary for governor in
May. Stacey Abrams was the guest of honor at the Democrat "Way to Win: 2022 Victory Party" at the party's annual spring
conference. Abrams and fellow Democrats want reparations for blacks and free college for all kids. It's a
socialist's dream. Stacey wants to run the Georgia economy. But she is deeply in debt. Stacey owes $96,512
in student loan debt and $77,522 in credit card debt.
November
Is Coming. If you don't show up in November, these will be your new leaders in Congress: [Illustration]
Impeachment proceedings? Non-stop subpoenas? More appeasement of China and Iran? Marxists in Congress?
Start mobilizing your family, your friends, your colleagues now. It is our mission to send these Communists
packing in November.
Note: Keith Ellison is running for Attorney General of Minnesota, not for re-election to Congress.
Cory Booker
Cory
Booker ends 2020 presidential campaign. Sen. Cory Booker announced Monday that he will end his campaign
after failing to qualify for the Democratic debate planned for Tuesday in Iowa. "It was a difficult decision to make,
but I got in this race to win, and I've always said I wouldn't continue if there was no longer a path to victory," Booker
said in an email to supporters Monday [1/13/2020].
Booker
Downplays Trump Economy — Americans Don't Measure Their 'Well-Being' Based on GDP, Stock Market.
During Friday's "New Day" on CNN, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) discussed a new CNN
poll that shows the United States economy's highest rating in almost 20 years. Booker said the economy is "overall
good" but Americans are "not measuring their well-being" based on the GDP or stock market.
Booker
leads whining about debate qualifications. The last round of Democratic presidential debates is scheduled for
next week and Senator Cory Booker isn't happy about it. More specifically, he's upset that he won't be invited to
attend under the current DNC rules. Of course, he's hardly alone in that boat. We still have well over a dozen
contenders but only seven of them have qualified. As a result, Booker is circulating a petition asking the DNC to relax
the rules, and surprisingly, some of his leading competitors have already signed on.
Cory
Booker's statement on Jersey City slaughter doesn't mention Jews or antisemitism. New Jersey Senator Cory
Booker delivered a slap in the face of Jews everywhere with his statement on the horrific attack on his constituents in
Jersey City targeted because they were Jews. Not a word about Jews or Jew-hatred, or the spread of violence directed
against Jews. Nothing! Booker is traveling the same road as his buddy Barack Obama, who could only bring himself
to condemn "zealots who behead people or randomly shoot a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris," on the parallel targeted
slaughter of Jews in Paris at a kosher supermarket. They were not "randomly" targeted, and to pretend that Jew-hatred
was not the motive is dishonest and dangerous. Booker is equally irresponsible, using only the word "residents" to
describe the victims. At least he didn't call the slaughter random, but he gave no reason behind it, calling it merely
"senseless," as if there were no motive behind it.
What's the difference between this and bigotry? Cory
Booker laments potentially all-white Democratic debate stage. Sen. Cory A. Booker of New Jersey on Tuesday [12/3/2019]
said he's "a little angry" that a supposedly diverse Democratic presidential field will now be without Sen. Kamala D. Harris of
California and that the next debate stage could feature no minority candidates. "Today, I'm a little angry, I have to say, that
we started with one of the most diverse fields in our history, giving people pride," Mr. Booker said on MSNBC Tuesday evening.
"And it's a [...] shame now that the only African-American woman in this race ... is now no longer in it, and we're spiraling
towards a debate stage ... that could have six people with no diversity whatsoever."
Democrats
Disturbed by the White 2020 Candidates Left in Field. Sen. Kamala Harris's (D-CA) dramatic exit from the
2020 Democrat presidential primary race has many on the left lamenting the current lineup for the upcoming debate, which
currently has six candidates qualifying, all of whom are white. Harris exited the race on Tuesday as one of the seven
Democrat candidates who met the fundraising and polling thresholds required to qualify for the December 19 debate in Los
Angeles at Loyola Marymount University.
Cory's complaint.
Cory Booker moans that the Democrats are "spiraling towards a debate stage that could have six people with no diversity
whatsoever." This statement is flatly false. The six Dems who have locked up places on the debate stage are Elizabeth
Warren, Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, and Tom Steyer. On this list are two women, a gay
male, and a Jew. Clearly, it is a diverse group. [...] What Booker means is that there may be no black and Latino candidates
on the debate stage. Kamala Harris would have been, but she dropped out of the race. Whose fault is that?
Cory
Booker Bets $100 Billion on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey on
Tuesday proposed investing $100 billion in historically black colleges and universities and other minority-serving
institutions, a broad proposal in a Democratic field that has offered varying plans to prop up this longstanding yet
struggling arm of the educational system.
Super
PAC backing Cory Booker's presidential bid shuts down. A super PAC formed to support Cory Booker's Democratic
presidential campaign is shutting down. The group's founder, San Francisco lawyer Steve Phillips, indicated in a news
release Wednesday that Dream United had struggled to raise money. Booker, a New Jersey senator, has publicly disavowed
support from super PACs, which aren't required to disclose their donors publicly.
2020
Democrat Hopeful Elizabeth Warren Speaks to Nearly Empty Hall at Environmental Justice Forum. The Democrat
Senator from Massachusetts last week claimed she will give 'Medicare for all' — including illegal aliens...
without raising taxes. Sure. Warren was also just endorsed by a radical black liberation feminist group.
Pocahontas is out of touch with the average American. Democrat Cory Booker was also at the forum and spoke to an empty
hall. Awkward.
The Editor says...
I've heard some alarmist claims about global warming in the last 20 years, but "the existential crisis of our lifetime" is a bit much.
Cory
Booker has missed more votes than any of the Democratic presidential candidates. U.S. Sen. Cory Booker has
missed more congressional votes than any other lawmaker running for president in 2020. The New Jersey Democrat missed
45 percent of the votes brought before the Senate in the 116th Congress, which began Jan. 3, according to an analysis
by NJ Advance Media of data from govtrack.us. Fellow Sen. Kamala Harris of California was second with an absentee rate
of 44 percent, missing one fewer vote than Booker.
Cory
Booker Thinks Trump Won Because Russia Suppressed the Black Vote in Michigan. Senator Cory Booker provided one
of the more irrational conspiracy theories about the 2016 election, claiming Trump won because Russians suppressed the black
vote in Michigan. Booker (D-Sparta) made the bizarre comments during the Democratic debate Wednesday night in
Detroit. "Look this is one of those times when we are not staring at the truth and calling it out. And this is a
case for the Democratic Party: The truth will set us free," Booker said as he launched into a provable lie. "We
lost the state of Michigan because everybody from Republicans to Russians were targeting the suppression of African American
voters," Booker spouted.
Four Pinocchios
for Cory Booker. The claim in dispute had to do yet again with the 2016 elections. As I'm sure you all
recall, Donald Trump managed to pull off what most considered a rather shocking win by carrying the state of Michigan by
roughly ten thousand votes. Booker had an explanation for that. It was the Republicans suppressing voter turnout
and the Russians doing whatever the Russians supposedly do to help Donald Trump. Generally, when a Democrat tosses out
something dodgy, most of the media fact-checkers tend to give them a pass because they're too busy vetting the President's
Twitter feed. But this time the WaPo actually stepped up to the plate and put that claim to the test. It didn't
go well for Booker.
Why the
Left So Despises Donald Trump. Cory Booker, struggling to get to one percent in the polls, began his campaign
by telling Iowans that fighting climate change was like the D-Day landings to liberate western Europe, and has moved on to
the assertion that Mr. Trump is worse than George Wallace. Wallace, some of us remember, said "segregation today,
segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever!"
Cory
Booker's brother opened a school so bad it got shut down. N.J. just gave him a $150K education job. After
working as a policy consultant on [New Jersey Gov. Phil] Murphy's campaign in 2017, Cary Booker became the
administration's senior education adviser in 2018, earning $120,000. This June, six days before Murphy stumped for Cory
Booker's presidential campaign in Iowa, the Democratic governor's administration awarded Cary Booker a new $150,000 position
leading the state's Division of Early Childhood Education, which focuses on birth to third grade. Yet Cary Booker has
never worked in preschools in any capacity, and his primary experience with young elementary school students was at Omni
Prep, according to a resume obtained through an open records request. His tenure as an administrator at the small
charter school should raise questions about how qualified he is to lead a department shaping pre-K and early elementary
education for an entire state, former employees said.
Booker
Moves Further Left On Gun Control But Forgets This Important Tidbit. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) decided to
move further left on gun control than his debate stage colleagues. Most of his colleagues focused on the typical gun
control pushes: an assault weapons ban and a call for universal background checks. "This is something that I'm tired of
and I'm tired of hearing people all they have to offer is 'thoughts and prayers.' In my faith, people say, 'faith without
works' is dead," Booker said. "So we will find a way. The reason we have a problem is we've let the corporate gun
lobby frame this debate. It is time that we have bold actions and a bold agenda. I will get that done as President
of the United States because this not about policy. This is personal."
Cory
Booker: We Need to Talk More About Transgender Americans. Sen. Cory Booker argued during the
Democrat presidential debate on Wednesday [6/26/2019] that Americans need to talk more about transgender people. "We do
not talk enough about trans-Americans, especially African American trans-Americans, and even incredibly high rates of murder
right now," he said. He compared the transgender rights struggles to the civil rights of black Americans, recalling a
time when they were lynched in America.
Cory
Booker Will Establish White House Office Dedicated to Promoting Abortions. Democratic presidential candidate
Cory Booker tried to win votes from abortion activists Tuesday by proposing a new White House office dedicated to promoting
aborting unborn babies. Booker, a U.S. senator from New Jersey, is one of more than two dozen Democrats hoping to
defeat President Donald Trump in 2020. Banking on abortion activists' outrage about new pro-life laws in Georgia and
Alabama, Booker introduced his plan for defending abortion if elected president. [...]
Booker
Receives Three Pinocchios for Claiming Toy Guns are More Regulated Than Firearms. The Washington Post's
fact-checker awarded Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker (D., N.J.) three Pinocchios for his false claim
that in the United States there is "more federal regulation over toy guns than real ones." Polling in the low single
digits in the Democrat presidential primary, Booker last week rolled out a 14 point policy proposal to combat gun violence
which the New York Times described as one of the "the most progressive gun-control measures suggested by a candidate seeking
the Democratic nomination for president."
Cory Booker Proposes National Gun-Licensing Program.
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), who recently promised to "bring a fight to the NRA like they have never ever seen before," on
Monday morning introduced a sweeping gun-violence prevention plan that centers around a national gun-licensing program, the
most comprehensive and far-reaching of any candidate in the Democratic presidential field. "My plan to address gun
violence is simple — we will make it harder for people who should not have a gun to get one," Booker said in a
statement, pledging to take executive action on the first day of his desired presidency.
Democratic
Candidates Say Obama is the Reason the Economy is So Good. Democratic Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Cory Booker both
argued during Sunday [5/5/2019] interviews that former President Barack Obama deserves the credit for a good economy under
President Donald Trump. The U.S. Labor Department announced Wednesday that the unemployment rate had hit 3.6%, the
lowest rate since 1969. The report did note that 490,000 people left the workforce, but the gain was due in part to an
increase in hiring in professional and business services, along with construction and healthcare jobs.
The Editor says...
In a roundabout way, they're right: The economy looks so good in comparison to the
economy under the thumb of Barack H. Obama. Remember,
Barack H. Obama gave George W. Bush all the blame and none of the credit for all the economic news during
all eight of the Obama years. Now he wants all the credit and none of the blame.
Larry
Kudlow fires back at Cory Booker's claim Obama deserves credit for economic recovery. National Economic Council
Director Larry Kudlow denounced Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., Sunday [5/5/2019] after the 2020 White House candidate said
President Trump was "taking credit for a recovery that started under [former President Barack] Obama." "What Mr. Booker
and some others are saying is simply not true factually," Kudlow told Fox News' "America's News HQ". Kudlow spoke two days
after the publication of the April jobs report, which showed that the American economy added 263,000 jobs last month while the
unemployment rate fell to 3.6 percent, the lowest since 1969. Despite the rosy numbers, Booker insisted that the
boom's effects were not being felt across all economic levels.
The Editor says...
If the effects of good economic news are not realized in every neighborhood, that doesn't prove unfairness, and it certainly
doesn't prove that Obama deserves the credit. The only reason the economy is booming is Obama is no longer the
President!
Data Undermine
Booker Claim of Newark Rebound. Presidential contender Cory Booker (D.) claimed in a Tuesday [4/23/2019]
interview with the Carroll Times Herald that he can bring the same revitalization to rural America that he did to
Newark, N.J. But if Booker wants to do to rural America what he did to Newark, then rural America needs to watch
out. Data show that the New Jersey metropolis where Booker was a city council member (1998-2002) and mayor (2006-2013)
continued to struggle during and after his time in government.
Should Cory
Booker Pay Slavery Reparations to Himself? Senator Cory Booker has promised to introduce a bill to study a
proposal for slavery reparations. The bill will be a companion to a bill by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee who had once
declared on the House floor, "I stand here as a freed slave." Since Sheila also believed that there are two Vietnams, that
the Constitution is 400 years old, and that Neil Armstrong planted a flag on Mars, that may have been metaphor or the addled
understanding of a woman who confused Wikileaks and Wikipedia. Booker, who claims to care about the victims of sexual
violence, might have been dissuaded from backing a bill introduced by a politician who was recently forced to resign from
chairing the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation after firing a woman who was raped by one of her subordinates. But
Senator Booker has never found a principle that he wouldn't passionately embrace and betray.
Booker
announces legislation to pave path for slavery reparations. Sen. Cory Booker announced a bill Monday
[4/8/2019] to form a commission to recommend reparations for slavery, taking the reins of one of the most intriguing and
controversial agenda items from the 2020 campaign. Mr. Booker becomes the highest-profile lawmaker to sign onto
reparations legislation, saying it could solve persistent racism and discrimination that have been built into the system for
decades, leading to disparate outcomes for all black Americans. "This bill is a way of addressing head-on the
persistence of racism, white supremacy, and implicit racial bias in our country," he said.
Cory Booker goes nuclear.
In a break with his Democratic opponents and the leftists dominating the debate in the House, Sen. Cory Booker of New
Jersey is an unapologetic supporter of using nuclear energy to displace carbon fuels. [...] His pro-nuclear power stance runs
contrary to other 2020 Democratic presidential candidates who are skeptical of nuclear energy.
Cory
Booker blames flooding in the Midwest on lack of empathy. Senator Cory Booker got his sanctimonious platitudes
mixed up yesterday [3/18/2019] in an on-air interview with Chris Matthews on MSNBC. The topic was "hate" and the unspoken
target beyond obvious, so perhaps secure in the knowledge that there would no probing challenges coming his way from MSDNC, he put
his brain on auto-pilot as he activated the synapses, leading to his store of vaguely profound-sounding empty banalities.
Sen.
Cory Booker Plans for Government to Give $46,215 to All 18-Year-Olds in 'Lowest Income Bracket'. Sen. Cory
Booker (D.-N.J.) is proposing a plan — the American Opportunity Accounts Act — that he calculates will
provide $46,215 to every 18-year-old in the lowest income bracket by giving them annual subsidies in a federally managed
savings account. Booker cited his plan in a Tweet he sent out this morning [2/20/2019]. "We must close the wealth
gap that's undermining equal opportunity in our country," Booker said in his Tweet. "My baby bonds will help level the
playing field by creating a savings account for every U.S. child — to invest in themselves through things like
paying for higher education."
Cory
Booker Says The Earth 'Can't Sustain' People Eating Meat. On Tuesday, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) had a pointed
response to Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), who is a vegetarian and was quoted saying that the earth "can't sustain" people
eating meat. [...] Booker co-introduced the Green New Deal, which had its own problems with cows. He stated:
["]Climate change is a pressing and serious environmental and economic crisis that threatens the way of life for our
kids and grandkids. This challenge must be met with a commitment from the federal government that is commensurate with
the level of commitment we saw in this country during the original New Deal. And that's exactly the type of
determination this proposal brings. Communities of color, low income communities, indigenous communities and our family
farmers are on the front lines of climate change, and I'm particularly encouraged that this blueprint addresses climate
change in a way that promotes both economic and environmental justice."
Spartacus
Compares Bovine Flatulence Regulation to Defeat of Nazis and Moon Landing. Cory "Spartacus" Booker rallies his
presidential coalition to advocate for the Green New Deal by comparing bovine flatulence regulation to the U.S. moon landing
and defeat of World War II Nazism. The over-their-head irony is that "Nazism" is technically national
socialism; which is exactly the current point of political advocacy within the Spartacus coalition.
Cory Booker
makes himself look the fool, again. Sen. Cory Booker made himself look the fool yet again this week while
questioning judicial nominee Neomi Rao. At Tuesday's [2/5/2019] confirmation hearing, the Jersey Democrat senator went
after Rao with the clear suspicion that she's some kind of religious bigot, asking first: "Have you ever had an LGBTQ
law clerk?" Her reply exposed Booker's total lack of preparation: "I have not been a judge, so I don't have any law
clerks." He fell back to asking if anyone now working for her is LGBTQ — and she humiliated him again:
"To be honest, I don't know the sexual orientation of my staff. I take people as they come, irrespective of their race,
ethnicity, sexual orientation."
Vacuous Gasbag Joins
the 2020 Clown Car. Just what we need. Yesterday Spartacus Booker declared that he is a candidate for
President. Unlike vapid lightweights Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, and Kirsten Gillibrand, this preening, vacuous
gasbag actually has executive experience. He served as the Mayor of the Murder Capital of New Jersey.
Democratic
Senator Cory Booker declares bid for presidency. New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, the former mayor of Newark, on
Friday [2/1/2019] said he will seek the Democratic nomination for president with a sweeping call to unite the nation around a "common
purpose." The 49-year-old Democrat, the second black candidate in a primary field that's already historically diverse, made his
announcement in an email and video on the first day of Black History Month.
Booker
calls for legalizing marijuana as he launches 2020 bid. Democratic Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.) is calling for
the legalization of marijuana as part of his 2020 presidential campaign. Booker discussed criminal justice reform and
the need for "changing our drug laws," including "ending [the] prohibition against marijuana" on the radio-syndicated "Tom
Joyner Morning Show" on Friday [2/1/2019].
Kamala Harris
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Kirsten Gillibrand
NY
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand drops out of 2020 presidential race. New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is
dropping out of the 2020 presidential race. The 52-year-old Democrat announced her decision in a tweet Wednesday as her
campaign, which once looked to ride strong #MeToo credentials, was plagued by low polling and fundraising struggles.
Kirsten
Gillibrand Unveils $10 Trillion Climate Change Plan. Democrat presidential hopeful Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
(D-NY) announced Friday [sic] a climate change plan that would cost taxpayers an estimated $10 trillion if she is
elected. As part of her proposal, named the "Climate Change Moonshot Plan," Kirsten Gillibrand aims to achieve net-zero
carbon and greenhouse emissions by the year 2050, phase out fossil fuels, and "hold polluters accountable."
Kirsten
Gillibrand Wants Ten Trillion of Your Dollars to Fight Climate Change Or Whatever. Such a bargain!
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) is going to save the world, and it's only going to cost $10 trillion dollars.
That's a one followed by 13 zeros, if you're keeping score at home. Politico reports that Gillibrand's plan "relies
on on several policy levers: government procurement, stronger regulations, pollution fees and research and development
spending." I'm sure this is just a coincidence, but that much additional government intrusion into [almost] everything
also creates new avenues for corruption and graft. And as we've seen in similar efforts in Europe, not always the
promised reductions in carbon emissions.
Gillibrand
releases $10 trillion climate change plan. Presidential hopeful Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) on
Thursday released a $10 trillion climate change plan. The wide-ranging "Climate Change Moonshot Plan" plan aims to
achieve net-zero carbon emissions, "hold polluters accountable" and phase out fossil fuels, among other goals.
Gillibrand said in a Medium post that she intended to mobilize $10 trillion in public and private funds over the next decade
to achieve her goals.
The Editor says...
Any time you hear a politician talk about "net-zero carbon emissions," you are listening to deception in the making. First of all,
carbon dioxide is not carbon. Second, carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. Third, the "net zero" part means you will have to
pay a "carbon [dioxide!] tax" for the privilege of using an internal combustion engine. The $10 trillion required by her plan will
come from your pocket and go to the federal government, where it will be redistributed to those who are unwilling to work, so they will forever
vote for the Socialist Democrats.
Gillibrand's
run is going nowhere fast. Kirsten Gillibrand should give up the chase. Her presidential bid is going
nowhere. Put it this way: If I had told you in January, when Gillibrand officially announced she was running for
the Democratic nomination, that polls in June would show her trailing someone named Andrew Yang, I imagine you'd have been
flabbergasted. [...] In a Quinnipiac poll released last week, Yang had one percent of the vote while Gillibrand had ...
zero percent.
Why Gillibrand
Is the Most Vapid Clown in the Car. Gillibrand was a Clinton neophyte and sycophant. She traveled with
them, campaigned for them, and they for her. They raised money for her. Despite everyone knowing about Bill
Clinton's history with Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey, Juanita Broaddrick, and Monica Lewinsky — among
others — Gillibrand was only too eager to associate closely with Bill. And it paid off. When Hillary
was named by Obama as Secretary of State, she had to give up her Senate seat. Gillibrand, an Utter Unknown in a field
of possibilities that included Andrew Cuomo and Caroline Kennedy, nevertheless was named by New York Governor David Paterson
to that vacated Clinton seat. She has been running for President ever since.
Gillibrand
Works Gay Bar to Celebrate Pride. New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is making sure everyone knows how
seriously she takes LGBT pride month and did so by working a gay bar in Des Moines, Iowa to show her support. The
Democrat presidential hopeful worked The Blazing Saddle Friday [6/7/2019], mixing and serving drinks and wearing a rainbow
shirt reading, "Love Is Brave."
Shameless
Kirsten Gillibrand embarrasses herself pandering at an Iowa gay bar. Unfortunately for the junior senator from
New York, it takes more brains than she possesses to pull off unprincipled political pandering. Over the course of her
political career, Kirsten Gillibrand has demonstrated a willingness to embrace any policy or group that she thinks will work
to her advantage.
Kirsten
Gillibrand Trashed The NRA, Then They Produced A Letter From Her And Things Got Awkward. Kirsten Gillibrand has
currently earned the votes of her immediate family (we think) and sits at 0% in all the latest polling. It doesn't
appear she's even going to make the cutoff for the first Democrat primary debate. To say her campaign has fallen flat
is a bit of an understatement but that hasn't stopped her from continuing to fight the good fight. After relentlessly
trashing Fox News previously, she decided to do a town hall on the network and let's just say that it didn't go well.
She's basically Hillary Clinton but even more inauthentic. Figure that one out.
Gillibrand
Rips Fox News' Abortion Coverage During Network's Town Hall. Democratic New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
ripped Fox News for its abortion coverage, while appearing on the network for a town hall Sunday night [6/2/2019]. The
2020 presidential candidate pointed to Fox News' coverage of the issue leading up to President Donald Trump's State of the
Union speech in which he chided Gillibrand's home state of New York for passing a bill that effectively legalizes abortion up
until birth. He also criticized Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam for comments he made that appeared to
justify abortion right up until the point of birth.
Hypocrite
Alert: Gillibrand Admits She Never Truly Believed In The 2A. Sen Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) recently came
out with a proposal to "end gun violence." In her plan, she called for the typical points ant-gunners love to cling to.
She wants to establish universal background checks; create a federal law against trafficking guns; reestablish an assault
weapons ban; ban bump stocks (hello, that's already been done) and "large-capacity" magazines.
Gillibrand
wrote her thesis on Chinese oppression in Tibet but has been silent about it in Congress. U.S. Ambassador to
China Terry Branstad is scheduled to make a rare visit to Tibet this week to raise concerns about Chinese restrictions on
Buddhist practices and to advocate for the preservation of Tibetan culture. If he wanted, he could seek knowledge and
advice from a surprising source: Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who wrote her college
thesis on Tibet, but has been strangely quiet about the issue while in Congress. Gillibrand is proficient in Mandarin
and interviewed the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, as part of her 1988 senior thesis at Dartmouth College on
the history of Tibetan resistance to Chinese occupation. The New York senator was an Asian Studies major at Dartmouth
and studied abroad in China and Taiwan.
Gillibrand
says Roe faces doom with Kavanaugh on SCOTUS. Presidential hopeful Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., warned
Wednesday that "radical" Supreme Court Justices like Brett Kavanaugh put abortion rights in grave danger. "We used to
believe in precedent in this country," Gillibrand said during an appearance on MSNBC. "But under President Trump, he's trying
to upend the entire court system." Gillibrand was reacting to news that broke late Tuesday [5/14/2019] that the Alabama Senate
had passed a measure virtually outlawing all abortions within state lines — including in instances of rape or incest.
Kirsten
Gillibrand on being underestimated for 2020 Democratic nod: 'I think it's just gender bias'. Sen. Kirsten
Gillibrand, D-N.Y., said Saturday she feels like she's being underestimated in the race for the Democratic nomination for
president, who will likely go up against President Trump in 2020. Gillibrand is one of nearly two dozen major candidates
who have declared their intention to run for president. She spoke about her campaign during her trip to New Hampshire.
"I think it's just gender bias. I think people are generally biased against women. I think also biased against young
women," she said in an interview, according to CNN. "There's just bias and it's real and it exists, but you have to overcome it."
A
Reckoning Is in Store for Democrats. Kirsten Gillibrand, who has done and said absolutely nothing to merit
consideration as president, has launched and sunk down the slipways and beneath the waves — her candidacy has attracted
zero support. Most of the other candidates are equally unprepossessing.
Being 'Not-Trump' is not enough.
[Scroll down] Gillibrand, meanwhile, has stirred herself up into a warlike anti-Trumpism. 'Will you be brave,' she
shouted in a recent speech, 'Will you do what it takes to defeat President Trump... Will you fight like your life depends on
it, because the truth is it does.' By the end you're is unsure if she is asking people to vote for her or to stockpile
ammunition.
Gillibrand:
'I Support Getting Rid of the Electoral College'. Friday, 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Kirsten
Gillibrand (D-NY) voiced her support of eliminating the Electoral College, something many Democrats have supported since
President Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in 2016.
What
If You Launch a Presidential Campaign and No One Shows Up? Starting your rally in a place where Hillary Clinton
won 80% of the vote isn't brave. It's cowardly. Gillibrand would have shown more courage by going back to her old
district where Hillary only won 54% of the vote. But instead her campaign threw up a giant American flag and then
brought out two illegal aliens. "Our next president will lead with bravery. Our next president with be Kirsten
Gillibrand," declared Monica Sibri, an illegal alien who won't be able to vote for Gillibrand. It was a balmy spring
day in the Big Apple with sunshine and a high of 60. The NYPD, out in force, had roped off blocks to accommodate the crowds
of the brave expected to turn out on Trump's doorstep. The actual audience barely filled half a block according to
photojournalist Pamela Hall. The Washington Times estimated that the turnout amounted to 1,000 people.
A
Brief Survey of 2020's Psychotic Democratic Roster. [Scroll down] Then there is the thoroughly
insubstantial Kirsten Gillibrand, who has never held a position longer than politically convenient. Now she is so
pro-illegal immigration that she even wants to reward illegal aliens' law-breaking with Social Security. This woman's
character is as ephemeral as a puff of smoke. She also sounds like a little girl who never developed an adult voice,
rather like Ocasio-Cortez.
Gillibrand's
laughable 'be brave' talk exposes the hollowness of her entire candidacy. Most successful politicians, like
most lizards, are masters of camouflage — adjusting their, ahem, principles to fit new opportunities, all the
while hoping nobody's paying attention. But here's where Gillibrand is different: She's rubbing America's nose in
her hypocrisy, and doesn't seem to care who notices.
Whatta Bunch of Phony Baloneys.
[Scroll down] In many ways, Kirsten Gillibrand is the worst power-hungry phony of them all. She changes her
beliefs every ten minutes, as soon as the Left adopts a new position antithetical to hers. As Women's March arose in
2017, she muscled in to be photographed with Jew-haters Linda Sarsour and Tamika Mallory, praising them to the heavens.
As #MeToo arose, she emerged to play a lead role in shaming Al Franken into resigning from the Senate, Gillibrand
self-righteously also attacked the Clintons, saying that Bill should have resigned during the Monica Lewinsky mess.
Yet, for two decades after Lewinsky Gillibrand continued allying tightly with the Clintons. She boasted
that Bill had campaigned for her in 2006, and she got Bill to keynote a fundraiser for her in 2009. Only after Hillary
lost in 2016 did Gillibrand suddenly step on them to stand higher. Meanwhile, amid her #MeToo posturing and moralizing,
Gillibrand protected a male staffer in her own office, her personal chauffeur and Guy Friday, even as women in her office
complained bitterly that he engaged in ongoing misogyny, rape jokes, and sexual innuendos. Only after the full extended
story broke in Politico did this phony finally fire the creep.
2020
contender Kirsten Gillibrand backs third gender classification at federal level. New York Democratic Senator Kirsten
Gillibrand, a 2020 candidate, endorsed federal implementation of a third gender listing for Americans who identify as non-binary.
Speaking at an LGBTQ-focused meet and greet in New Hampshire on Friday [2/15/2019], Gillibrand emphatically said "yes" about recognizing
"X" as a third gender marker. Palana Belken, a transgender woman and organizer for the American Civil Liberties Union of New
Hampshire, asked Gillibrand the question and applauded her quick answer. According to the Human Rights Campaign, the largest
LGBTQ civil rights organization in the U.S., non-binary is an "adjective describing a person who does not identify exclusively as a
man or a woman."
The Editor says...
"Insane" is not a gender. If you "identify" as the opposite sex, that doesn't change your chromosomes.
Kirsten
Gillibrand Gets Awkward While Preaching At Church. Presidential hopeful Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) got
awkward last week while preaching at Al Sharpton's National Action Network's King Day Public Policy Forum on Martin Luther
King Jr. Day. "We will wear the belt of truth because we know the truth," Gillibrand yelled to the crowd while
making awkward gestures. "We speak truth to power. We will put on the bright breastplate of righteousness because
we know right from wrong." "And we will not forget it," Gillibrand continued. "We will hold that shield of faith,
as Dr. King said, faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase. So hold on to that
faith tightly."
The Editor says...
Ordinarily the separation of church and state people get very upset when
Republicans deliver campaign speeches in churches, but when Democrats do it, that's okay.
Amy Klobuchar
Amy
Klobuchar Says Its 'Offensive' for Republicans to Criticize Biden's SCOTUS Pick as 'Far-Left'. Democratic
Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota said Sunday that she finds it "offensive" for Republicans to call President Joe Biden's
Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson "far-left." After "Fox News Sunday" guest host Harris Faulkner pointed out
that some Republicans have taken issue with the Supreme Court pick for being "far-left," noting attorney Jonathan Turley
saying recently that "this is a political deliverable, a good one for President Biden" because the other potential nominees
were not as far-left, Klobuchar said the ideological term is "offensive" to her.
Amy Klobuchar
Bails Out. Senator Amy Klobuchar has suspended her campaign for President ahead of tomorrows big
super-[T]uesday vote. The timing tells a story here. Quitting the race today means Klobuchar's internal polling
showed she was going to lose her home state of Minnesota tomorrow to Bernie Sanders. It's likely Bernie Sanders is
going to crush Klobuchar and the rest of the field in Minnesota. Quitting today allows Klobuchar to avoid the
embarrassment of a big defeat.
Amy
Klobuchar Ends Presidential Campaign, Will Support Biden. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) announced Monday
[3/2/2020] that she will suspend her presidential campaign and fly to Dallas to endorse former Vice President Joe
Biden. Klobuchar is set to appear at Biden's rally Monday night, just hours before voters in 14 different states head
to the polls on Super Tuesday.
Klobuchar
dropping out of 2020 race and endorsing Biden. Senator Amy Klobuchar is suspending her presidential campaign
and plans to endorse former Vice President Joe Biden at a rally in Dallas on Monday night [3/2/2020], a campaign spokesman said,
just hours before voters in 14 states go to the polls on Super Tuesday. While the Minnesota Democrat often boasted about
kicking off her campaign in the middle of a blizzard, the end of her run was marked by a storm of frustrations and stalled
momentum. Aides and allies told CBS News they took solace in the fact that her campaign performed better and lasted
longer than many had initially expected.
Amy
Klobuchar quits presidential race and endorses Joe Biden, and so does Pete Buttigieg. Amy Klobuchar will
suspend her campaign and endorse Joe Biden Monday night in Dallas, Texas, her campaign confirmed to DailyMail.com. Pete
Buttigieg, who dropped out of the race Sunday night [3/1/2020], will also endorse Biden, Reuters reported minutes after
Klobuchar pulled the plug on her campaign. Klobuchar, a senator from Minnesota, had momentum coming out of the New
Hampshire primary, but couldn't repeat the result in the more diverse states of Nevada and South Carolina who held contests
the last two Saturdays.
Klobuchar
congratulates herself for 'exceeding expectations' as early Nevada results show her in distant 5th.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar's (D-Minn.) 2020 momentum may be sputtering, but she doesn't seem to notice. While the
Democratic presidential candidate turned out a surprising third place finish in New Hampshire's Democratic primary earlier
this month, that luck hasn't seemed to extend to Nevada's caucuses. Still, Klobuchar delivered a self-congratulatory
speech on Saturday where she praised her team for having "exceeded expectations," despite early results showing her in a
distant fifth place.
NBC's
Chuck Todd Was Amy Klobuchar's Landlord In Arlington. NBC's Chuck Todd, who moderated Wednesday night's Las
Vegas debate, was Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar's landlord in Arlington, Virginia, according to six sources who spoke to
Page Six. Klobuchar, with her husband attorney John Bessler, rented a three-bedroom house owned by Todd. Page Six
reports Klobuchar and her husband began renting the Virginia real estate in 2008 but are no longer living there as a second
residence. It is unknown when the couple relocated.
Union
workers once opposed Klobuchar endorsement over 'hostile' treatment of staff. When then-Hennepin County
Attorney Amy Klobuchar was running for the U.S. Senate in Minnesota in 2006, members of the local public employees' union
that represented the lawyers on her staff wrote to their state union headquarters asking it to withhold its endorsement from
the Democrat. On behalf of AFSCME Local 2938, chapter President James Appleby penned a letter to the AFSCME state
headquarters in South St. Paul, Minn. making the case that Klobuchar was "wholly undeserving of AFSCME's endorsement."
The document, obtained by Fox News but previously reported by HuffPost, takes on new relevance as Klobuchar seeks the Democratic
nomination for president and the primary campaign moves to union-heavy Nevada.
'Order
at the border': Klobuchar demands illegal immigrants learn English in 2006 clip. 2020 presidential candidate
Amy Klobuchar once called for the United States to restore "order at the border" by building a fence and cracking down on
companies who hire illegal immigrants, according to a recently unearthed 2006 video. "I do believe that we need more
resources at the border, and that includes a fence," Klobuchar said during a 2006 debate. "We have people waiting to
come in legally, thousands of people waiting to come in legally to this country, and we have people coming in illegally —
that's not right."
Sen.
Klobuchar says English should not be US national language; reverses 2007 stand. Sen. Amy Klobuchar has
reversed her position on English being the official language of the U.S. The Minnesota Democrat and Democratic presidential
hopeful announced that she now holds a "strong position against" the English-language amendment which she voted in favor of
back in 2007. [...] Her remarks come a week ahead of the nation's third nominating contest in the 2020 Democratic Party
presidential primaries set to take place in a state with a large Latino population.
Amy
Klobuchar, Tom Steyer couldn't name Mexican president in interview. Democratic presidential candidates Amy
Klobuchar and Tom Steyer couldn't name the Mexican president when asked for it during a televised interview in Nevada
Thursday [2/13/2020]. The two, along with Pete Buttigieg, were separately interviewed by Spanish-language station
Telemundo after a candidate forum hosted by the League of United Latin American Citizens.
Democratic
Party presidential candidate are unqualified... and weird. [Scroll down] The candidates are just plain
weird. For example, Senator Amy Klobuchar, in discussing the need for rehabilitation of drug addicts, said her father,
now age 91 in a nursing home, was an alcoholic who had three DUIs and was told after his third DUI that he could go to rehab
or to jail. This is nice. The poor guy is in a nursing home, and his daughter used his story to get some
applause. Even the audience, composed of the rabid Democratic base, was silent. Klobuchar has no shame.
This was elder abuse.
Democrat
Candidates Use Creative Accounting to Boost Financial Reports. Democrats running for the 2020 presidential
nomination are using some creative bookkeeping to appear more lucrative on paper than may really be the case.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar's (D-MN) Federal Election Commission filings, for example, showed she spent an average of about
$55,000 a day on her campaign through June but spent $624,000 on the first day of April, including $300,000 to one vendor.
Keywords: Shell game, subterfuge, cooking the books. 2020
Candidates Delayed Paying Staff to Look Richer on Paper. For months, Sen. Amy Klobuchar's (D-MN) presidential campaign
made regular payments to its staff and vendors, with varying daily expenditures that never exceeded $335,000. But on April 1,
2019, the campaign's spending exploded. Whereas Klobuchar's campaign spent an average of about $55,000 per day through the end of
June, according to FEC filings, it dropped a whopping $624,000 on the first day of April, including a $300,000 payment to the campaign's
digital vendor. That massive uptick in expenses was likely due to the fact that April 1 marked the beginning of the new fundraising
quarter. By putting off the payments until then, Klobuchar was able to put the best possible spin on her presidential campaign's
financial position during the previous three months.
Dem
Candidates Crave Catastrophic Carter. Democrats seeking the White House are turning to Georgia Democrat Jimmy
Carter, who occupied the residence from 1976 to 1980. Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg was born two years after Carter
lost to Ronald Reagan, but pronounced the one-term Democrat "an extraordinary person." For Cory Booker, 50, Jimmy Carter was
a "guiding light and inspiration" but the most outspoken candidate was Minnesota Democrat Amy Klobuchar. "Jimmy Carter
is a decent, well-meaning person, someone who people are talking about again given the time that we are in," explained
Klobuchar, who was 16 when Carter was elected.
Comey And
Wife Donate To Klobuchar's Campaign. Former FBI Director James Comey and his wife separately donated $2,700 to
Democratic Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar's presidential campaign, according to Rolling Stone. The contributions
near the $2,800 maximum donation permitted during the primary.
Being 'Not-Trump' is not enough.
Klobuchar has been presenting herself as a kind, motherly figure who has transcended her humble, troubled origins, uploading
a quirky campaign video made by her daughter and talking about her father's history of alcoholism. The image of a good
woman who rose from nothing is clearly intended to be set against the image of the boorish son of privilege now in the White
House. But since Klobuchar has been dogged by charges of workplace bullying it is hard to imagine this homely act
taking off.
Amy
Klobuchar joins Kamala Harris, desperately trying to 'victim up'. Like her rival Democratic presidential
candidate, Sen. Kamala Harris, Sen. Amy Klobuchar is out poor-mouthing herself as a identity-politics pioneer who
rose up through inconquerable barriers and impossible discouragement as a woman, and for that now deserves the right to rule
us. Here she is speaking to Chuck Todd, telling us all how tough she had it: [...] It doesn't get more fake than that,
given that Klobuchar grew up in the 1970s, back when little girls were being told rather loudly by Gloria Steinem and the
entire establishment that they could be anything they wanted to be.
Amy
Klobuchar calls on Trump to publicly defend Muslims after mosque attack. Sen. Amy Klobuchar said Sunday
that President Trump should be defending Muslims publicly after the white nationalist terror attack last week that killed
roughly 50 people at two mosques. "At the very least, he is dividing people," the 2020 Democratic presidential
candidate told CNN of the president.
Whatta Bunch of Phony Baloneys.
[Scroll down] Then Sen. Amy Klobuchar, representing "Minnesota Nice." Remember how nice she was during
the Kavanaugh hearings? So nice! We were told that is why she is running for President: Not because
she is another power-hungry egomaniac, but because she is nice — and this is a time that America, riven by
political partisanship, needs a leader who is just-plain nice. And then we find out that she actually is an
insane sociopath. She throws solid items around her office in fits of temper, and her staffers need to duck for
dear life. She demeans her underlings and forces them to recite their failings to other people. She sabotages the
efforts of staffers who depart when they seek to get new jobs. And she will eat her salads with a comb and then make
her staffers clean the comb. Nice? Baloney!
The
Anger of Amy Klobuchar. Amy Klobuchar has a problem. Apparently it's been an open secret in Washington
and Minnesota, but because she didn't have much of a national reputation, the press lacked occasion to expose it. But
when she made a name for herself during the Kavanaugh hearings, suggesting that a presidential campaign was likely, the press
had the necessary occasion, and now we all know about it. Her problem is rage, easily uncorked, and directed not at the
various forces that might thwart the needs of her constituents, but at the people — many of them young —
who work for her. During Klobuchar's first senatorial campaign, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal
Employees decried her "shameful treatment of her employees" in the Hennepin County Attorney's Office; in March of 2018,
Politico reported that she had the highest staff turnover in the Senate. But it has been the recent reporting
of BuzzFeed News, HuffPost, The New York Times, and others that has provided the vivid and ugly details
of what apparently lies behind those facts.
Hillary Clinton Is Not a Candidate. She Looms Over 2020 Anyway.
Senator Amy Klobuchar seemed quite clear when she revealed the first state she would visit as a presidential candidate:
Wisconsin. "Because, as you remember, there wasn't a lot of campaigning in Wisconsin in 2016," she said. "With
me, that changes." Many Democrats took it as an unmistakable swipe at Hillary Clinton, who lost that battleground state
after never appearing there during the 2016 general election campaign. The jab ricocheted across the internet, enraging
Clinton admirers and earning Ms. Klobuchar attention as a Midwesterner willing to speak hard truths. But behind
the scenes, Ms. Klobuchar of Minnesota sprang into damage control mode, firing off an email to Mrs. Clinton.
In a phone call that soon followed, she apologized and said her off-the-cuff remark had been misinterpreted, according to
people familiar with the episode.
The
Amy Klobucahr Experience. In today's [2/23/2019] New York Times Matt Flegenheimer and Sydney Ember perform the
proverbial deep dive on the experience of working for Minnesota's own presidential candidate, Amy Klobuchar. The The
[sic] Amy Klobucahr Experience is not pleasant. Klobucahr's Minnesota nice thing is a facade. You probably
wouldn't want to work as a direct report for Klobuchar. The story does not come as a great shock. It has been out
there for a while. The Times adds depth and specificity to previous reports.
NYT:
Amy Klobuchar Ate with Her Comb, Then Made Staff Clean It. The New York Times provided a new
exposé Friday about allegations that Democratic presidential contender Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) is cruel to her
staff — and it includes a somewhat groteqsue episode involving a comb.
The
NRA Wrecks Klobuchar After She Uses Aurora Shooting To Push Gun Control. Three things are certain. Death,
taxes, and Democrats using a tragic shooting to push for "sensible" or "common sense" gun control laws that are really just
slow plays to confiscation. The latest up to bat is 2020 presidential candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), who
played the same tired tune during a campaign stop in Eau Clair, Wisconsin. The Minnesota Dem decided to use the recent
shooting in Aurora, Illinois, as a soapbox to stand on.
Amy
Klobuchar shoots herself in the foot with comments on the Aurora shooting. Only a week after launching her
presidential campaign decrying global warming during a snowstorm in Minneapolis, the woman who wants to claim the mantle of a
"moderate" Democrat has beclowned herself with a nonsensical statement. Even worse, as a veteran prosecutor —
county attorney (D.A.) in the most populous county in Minnesota, responsible for all criminal prosecution — she
missed a point squarely within her area of purported professional competence.
Klobuchar
Says She Can Be 'Tough' on Staff in Response to Mistreatment Reports. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.)
responded to reports that she has mistreated her staff for years following the announcement that she would be entering the
Democratic field for president by saying she can be "tough" on employees because she has "high expectations." "Yes, I
can be tough, and yes I can push people," Klobuchar said Sunday afternoon at Boom Island Park just outside downtown
Minneapolis. "I have high expectations for myself, I have high expectations for the people that work for me, but I have
high expectations for this country."
Prospective
Dem candidate Amy Klobuchar's treatment of staff led to rebuke from Harry Reid: report. Sen. Amy
Klobuchar, D-Minn., is expected to launch her 2020 presidential campaign on Sunday, but is facing an early crisis over a wave
of accusations that she has mistreated staff — with her conduct reportedly getting so bad that then-Senate
Minority Leader Harry Reid told her to change her behavior. Klobuchar is expected to announce her 2020 run in
Minneapolis on Sunday. But that announcement was overshadowed this week when HuffPost reported this week that Klobuchar
has such a bad reputation over her treatment of staff that a number of potential staffers have withdrawn from consideration
to manage her campaign because of it.
Klobuchar's
opening pitch sidetracked by staff horror stories. Sen. Amy Klobuchar is pitching herself for the White
House as the commonsense Midwestern answer to President Donald Trump — while former staffers portray her as a
brutal boss who mistreated them. The run-up to Klobuchar's expected presidential campaign launch on Sunday was sidetracked
by former aides, speaking anonymously for fear of retribution, who described a toxic office environment including demeaning
emails, thrown office supplies and requests for staff to perform personal chores for the senator.
'Klobuchar's
Wrath': Minnesota Senator Once Hit Aide After Throwing Binder. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.) regularly
left employees in tears and at one point hit an aide with a binder after throwing it in anger, according to former staffers
who spoke to BuzzFeed News. The Minnesota senator's former staffers suggest she ran an office "controlled by
fear, anger, and shame," BuzzFeed reports. Based on interviews and emails reviewed by BuzzFeed, Klobuchar
"demeaned and berated her staff almost daily, subjecting them to bouts of explosive rage and regular humiliation within the
office." Several staffers said employees were frequently left crying due to Klobuchar's anger, which involved yelling,
throwing papers, and, in one case, accidentally hitting an employee with a binder.
Amy
Klobuchar Reportedly Can't Get a 2020 Campaign Chief Because of Reputation For Mistreating Staff. Sen. Amy
Klobuchar (D-MN) will announce this Sunday whether she is running for president. But one new report asserts that the
Minnesota senator has had quite a bit of trouble getting someone to run her 2020 camapign — thanks to a reputation
for mistreating her staff. According to HuffPost, at least three people have pulled out of consideration from running
Klobuchar's presidential campaign. Klobuchar, according to the database Legistorm (via The New York Times), has
the third most staff turnover of anyone in Congress. From 2001-2016, she was ranked No. 1 in that dubious category.
Howard Schultz
Whatever
Happened To Howard Schultz? Maybe Joe Biden's footprint in the 2020 campaign is bigger than we predicted.
Ever since the former veep jumped into the race, another candidate has become very, very silent. The Daily Beast
wonders why we've heard more about a Starbucks cup on the Game of Thrones set than we have about former Starbucks CEO
Howard Schultz, who spent a lot of time raising his political profile before mid-April.
Being 'Not-Trump' is not enough.
The saddest example of a not-Trumper is Howard Schultz, the blissfully blinkered overpriced coffee baron who has surrounded
himself with so many yes men that he thinks America craves a shambling technocrat. He claims that a 'silent majority'
of Americans are socially and economically liberal and dislike Republican and Democrat extremism. Sometimes a silent
majority is nothing more than a figment of the imagination. Pressed on what he will do, and how, Schultz has cheerful
buzzwords such as 'civility', 'honesty' and 'results' which are as effective in political rhetoric as they would be as
chat-up lines. The most charitable explanation for his campaign is that he has confused the feelings of his advisers
for the feelings of the nation.
Run,
Howard Schultz, Run — Don't Give In To Democrat Bullies. Starbucks tycoon Howard Schultz had
barely gotten the words out of his mouth about a possible independent bid for president before an angry Democratic mob
descended on him. He should ignore them. [...] Advisors said that the ferocity of these attacks took Schultz by
surprise. They shouldn't have. This is standard operating procedure for today's Democrats. So far at least,
the attempt to bully him from the stage hasn't deterred him. He's even showing some Trump-esque spine when it comes to
responding to attacks.
The
bad news for Democrats about a Howard Schultz run for president keeps getting worse. As I mentioned yesterday,
a poll showed that Democrats have good reason to be very, very afraid of a Howard Schultz candidacy. [...] Their screeching
isn't confined to just words. They've wheeled out their big slime machine, a PAC led by the founder of the George
Soros-bankrolled Media Matters, to dig up and "reveal" dirt on Schultz in a bid to destroy his campaign.
Thus far, they're failing miserably.
A republic, not
a giant H.R. department. Democrats are vexed over Schultz. Spoiler alert: They consider him a
spoiler candidate akin to Ralph Nader in 2000 or Jill Stein in 2016. In a close race, he would siphon votes from the
Democratic Party's nominee and hand the election to President Trump. Schultz offered a rationale for his candidacy in
USA Today on Tuesday: People seemingly want choice untainted by the Republican or Democratic Party brands. He
noted that 66 percent of likely voters in a recent No Labels/HarrisX poll say "neither party is really representing my
needs or interests." Moreover, a Gallup poll found that 57 percent of Americans believe the country could use a
viable third-party.
How many people do what Michael Moore demands? Michael
Moore Says To Boycott Starbucks Until Howard Schultz Drops Out. The prospect of Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz running for
president as an independent against candidates like Kamala Harris has scared the living daylights out of leftists, who fear he may
split the vote in President Trump's favor.
The Democrats Lose Their
Minds. I'm not a Democrat — in case you haven't noticed — but Howard Schultz is. [...] He's from Seattle, holds
liberal positions on, as far as I can tell, every issue, and has donated gobs of money to the Democratic Party and to the
last two Democratic presidents. But Schultz is also a democratic capitalist who attributes his phenomenal success —
his fortune from Starbucks is around $3 billion — at least in part to America's culture of entrepreneurial risk-taking,
minimal government interference in commerce, individual responsibility, and rule of law. He worries that the Democratic Party,
radicalized by the presidency of Donald Trump, is in the process of abandoning support for the very aspects of American life that
made his life possible.
Howard
Schultz 'freaked out' by Democratic backlash to independent presidential run, rethinks effort. Howard Schultz
is getting burned, like a bad cup of Starbucks coffee and it may force him to rethink his presidential aspirations. [...]
Schultz has been the recipient in recent days of an angry backlash by leading Democrats after he announced he was exploring
running as an independent last Sunday [1/27/2019] during a 60 Minutes interview. Schultz once described himself
as a lifelong Democrat but said he now may break with his old party because he feels it has moved too far to the left on
spending and taxes, while promoting programs that will saddle future generations with enormous debt.
Obama
appointee claims Howard Schultz owes his success to ... government housing projects. Like him or not, Howard
Schultz is a perfect 10. On the famous Forbes billionaire's list (Full disclosure: I once helped compile it),
Schultz got a ranking of '10' in terms of how he acquired his Starbucks wealth. A ranking of '1' reserved for someone who
completely inherited his pile and isn't doing a thing to increase it. A '10' is reserved for someone who started at the
absolute bottom with significant disadvantages, broke the shackles, and soared to the top. Schultz is in that tiny club
with a '10,' and in America, that's the highest status one can get, the biggest kind of American success story. Only in
America... and yes, he did revolutionize business.
If
Democrats Hadn't Embraced Crazy, Howard Schultz Wouldn't Be A Threat To Them. He's just a man, one who happens
to be very wealthy. A very wealthy man who is considering using a slice of his substantial fortune to run for president
of the United States. [...] Skipping the party process will allow Schultz to make his case more directly and won't require
him to try to shift back to the middle like Democrats will after having spent their primary process veering to the
left. But it also means no infrastructure in the states to get his name on all 50 ballots. The parties didn't
construct this to make it easy for people working outside it to win. The hurdles Schultz faces can be overcome with
money, which he has. Democrats know this and they're scrambling to try to convince him not to do it.
Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez's misplaced criticisms of billionaire Howard Schultz. Note to Rep. Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez: Americans, by and large, don't care if billionaires have billions of bucks. Americans, by and
large, aspire to become billionaires themselves — or millionaires, or otherwise financially independent —
and therefore don't have a problem with a country that gives the freedom to meet those economic goals. Hating wealth,
hating the wealthy — those are socialist things.
Howard
Schultz: Democrats Are Too Far Left. Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, who is considering an
independent presidential bid, said today's Democratic Party has moved too far to the left, a position hardly likely to win
over leading Democrats who already fear that a Schultz candidacy could throw the election to President Donald Trump. In
a spate of interviews Tuesday [1/29/2019], Schultz, a lifelong Democrat, took shots at several policies promoted by
Democrats' leading lights. "I respect the Democratic Party. I no longer feel affiliated because I don't know
their views represent the majority of Americans. I don't think we want a 70-percent income tax in America," the
billionaire told CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin, referencing Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's (D-N.Y.) proposed marginal
tax rate on incomes over $10 million.
Former
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz hires ex-Obama aide as communications advisor as he mulls running for president in
2020. Howard Schultz has hired ex-Obama aide Bill Burton as a communications advisor as the former Starbucks
CEO mulls running for president in 2020, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the matter. Schultz's team
has been speaking with potential staffers as the former Starbucks chairman debates whether to run for president as an
independent, the sources added.
At least Mr. Schultz has run a successful business, unlike the last Democrat president. Trump:
Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz 'doesn't have the guts' to run for president. In an interview that aired
Sunday night on the CBS show, Schultz said he was considering mounting an independent bid for president. The
businessman, a Democrat, blasted his party and the GOP for what he called a "reckless failure" of constitutional
responsibility. And he targeted the president's social media habits. "I think, like most people, I've
become bored with President Trump and his tweets," Schultz told CBS.
Democrats
take aim at Starbucks to 'school' Howie Schultz. It's pretty obvious that's what's going on, a huge plan of
personal and professional destruction just one day out the gate of Schultz's 60 Minutes interview, where he said he
was merely considering running for president in 2020. The Democrats' motive is fear — Schultz is a liberal but
not the kind of rigid, lockstep, groupthink far leftist seen in their stable of candidates, and worse still, he's likeable
and charming, even to Republicans, so he must be irresistible to a lot of the Democrats they expect votes from. But
Schultz says he'd go as an independent, which raises the specter of a Ross Perot-style candidacy that could split the
national vote three ways. For whoever the Democrats' way-too-far-left candidate is, that means going down in flames
against President Trump. So now they've started their pushback, and already it's an ugly spectacle.
Why
Starbucks' Howard Schultz Couldn't Run As A Democrat. Democrats are worrying about former Starbucks CEO Howard
Schultz running as an independent for president in 2020. They say it will only help President Trump. But the only
reason this lifelong Democrat is thinking about an independent bid is because the Democratic party has moved so far to the left.
Starbucks'
Howard Schultz: America Exists for Immigrants, Not Americans. Starbucks investor Howard Schultz wants to
get elected president and to amnesty at least 11 million illegal migrants in the United States. But his justification
for the amnesty includes no rules or principles that would prevent his huge amnesty from expanding into an open-borders
policy which would benefit investors at the expense of white-collar and blue-collar Americans, said Jessica Vaughan, policy
director at the Center for Immigraiton Studies.
Top
Democrats fear Howard Schultz is a Perot or Nader who could help re-elect Trump. Top Democrats were apoplectic
Monday about what they fear will be a spoiler campaign by Howard Schultz, the former Starbucks CEO, after he said he is
"seriously considering" running for president as an independent. Many Democrats on Capitol Hill said Schultz's campaign
would only split the anti-Trump vote and deliver Trump another victory in 2020. "It would be hurtful. History shows
it would be hurtful," said House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., in an interview Monday [1/28/2019]. Hoyer likened
Schultz to Ross Perot, who helped spoil a second term in the White House for then-President George H.W. Bush in 1992.
Democrats
uneasy about potential Howard Schultz bid. or a businessman who grew a small coffee roaster into an inescapable
global chain, who ensured that even his part-time workers had benefits and who has given about $150,000 to Democratic
campaigns, former Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz is generating tepid — or even hostile — responses
within the party as he weighs a presidential bid in 2020.
The Editor says...
The candidate who gets the most votes in the Electoral College is the one who's qualified to be president.
Ex-Starbucks
CEO Could Get Trump Re-elected. Before there was Jill Stein, there was Ralph Nader. Before there was
Nader, there was Ross Perot. None won. All argued that the Republican Party and the Democratic Party were
basically the same, and the only way to make real change was to ditch them both. Each was blamed for siphoning off
enough votes to throw the presidential elections. These days, the difference between the parties is starker than it's
ever been in modern times. Yet here comes Howard Schultz, a billionaire who feels that he might be the answer to
American politics, and that he'd run for president as an independent.
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Robert F. "Beto" O'Rourke
Gun Control
in Canada. We're coming after your AR-15s, said Beto O'Rourke when running for POTUS
in 2019. But in February, O'Rourke moderated that warning with: "I'm not interested in taking
anything from anyone. What I want to make sure that what we do is defend the Second Amendment.
I want to make sure that we protect our fellow Texans far better than we're doing right now." Why
did O'Rourke back down? Because in Texas, no gun-hating political aspirant has much chance of ever
winning political office. More importantly, the Second Amendment says Americans have a right to own
guns. So, unless O'Rourke can somehow arrange to have the Second Amendment removed from the
Constitution, Americans may own, buy, sell, or transfer a gun.
Thank
God For These Horrible Democrats. Beto is a poor man's Butthead impersonator and is beloved by the left,
probably because he makes them feel smart (which isn't hard). Born wealthy, he married even wealthier and set
about to find meaning in his life externally rather than in himself. Inheriting wealth, he decided that imbued him
with powers to know how best to spend everyone else's money across the board. He doesn't do it with his money, but
he's ready to be generous with yours. Sweet gig, if you can get it. Beto can't get it.
Beto
O'Rourke Is Making His Last Stand in Texas. In a cavernous, modern sanctuary at Greater Mt. Zion
Church, the Rev. Gaylon Clark introduced Beto O'Rourke to his congregation one recent Sunday as "the next governor
of the state of Texas." Then he raised his hand and, over the strains of a keyboard, prayed for "victory in the name of
Jesus." In the sanctuary, the churchgoers said, "Amen." In the lobby, they lined up for pictures with the one-time
Democratic sensation now lagging in the polls. "With God and faith and him being here today," one of the congregants
told me, "you should see a change in his numbers by next week."
Reaction to the article above: Beto
O'Rourke profiles just get sadder and sadder. Politico Magazine published a Beto O'Rourke profile this
morning. The headline sort of hints at the possibility that this particular cottage industry for the media could
be coming to an end soon: "Beto O'Rourke Is Making His Last Stand in Texas." The story itself doesn't offer much hope
that Beto is heading for anything but another disappointment. He's literally praying for a miracle.
Beto
O'Rourke Goes Full Terry McAuliffe and Demolishes His Own Campaign. Remember when Virginia Democratic
gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe tanked his campaign when he argued that parents should not have a say in what is
taught to their children in K-12 classrooms? Well, it appears Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke, who is running for Texas
governor, made the same blunder. His chances of winning were slim before. But now, it appears he will have more
in common with McAuliffe than the belief that kids should belong to the state, not their parents. On Wednesday
[8/3/2022], footage of O'Rourke, an Irishman who pretends to be Hispanic to get votes, surfaced on social media in which he
lashed out at those who oppose ideas inspired by critical race theory (CRT) being taught in K-12 schools. He argued
that teachers should essentially be allowed to teach what they want to teach.
George
Soros contributes $1 million to Beto O'Rourke's Texas gubernatorial campaign. Progressive mega-donor George
Soros contributed $1 million to Texas Democratic gubernatorial nominee Beto O'Rourke's staggering fundraising haul last
month. O'Rourke, who's challenging two-term Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in November's election, last week announced
that he hauled in $27.6 million in fundraising from late February through June, topping Abbott by $2.7 million and
shattering the existing record for fundraising in Texas. O'Rourke's campaign finance report was posted online on
Tuesday and indicates that Soros contributed $1 million — issued on June 23 — to the Democratic
gubernatorial nominee's campaign.
The
Liberal Media's 'Rising Stars' Always Seem to Crash and Burn. Robert Francis O'Rourke, who's main
accomplishment is being a one-time Vanity Fair cover model, has run for and lost almost every office he's sought since
leaving the U.S. House of Representatives. Senate? Loser. President? Loser. Yet, he's
continually pumped up by the liberal media as some sort of hero rising to vanquish whichever Republican he runs against and
subsequently loses to. He's running out of offices to run for, but it didn't stop him from trying again this cycle
against incumbent Governor Greg Abbott. The Associated Press has called the serial loser "Democrats' breakout star,"
but it's a mystery how anyone — Democrats included — can support someone who doesn't even know their
own position on critical issues. "Beto" has flip-flopped on gun confiscation and illegal immigration, explaining in
part why Texans won't vote for him.
Beto
O'Rourke: AR-15 Owners Should Not Be Able to Keep Them. During a campaign event on May 21, Texas Democrat
gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke expressed his belief that Americans who own AR-15s should not be able to keep them. On
May 31, FOX News highlighted the comments as part O'Rourke's ongoing effort against the guns. In the comments, O'Rourke
stressed his position that no one should be able "to purchase an AR-15 or AK-47," and added, "I don't think that the people who have
them right now in civilian use should be able to keep them."
The Editor says...
What about my gas-guzzling SUV? Can I keep that? What about a swimming pool? What about an air conditioner? Where does it stop?
Beto
O'Rourke Wilts When Pressed on His Gross Political Stunt in Uvalde. Beto O'Rourke might be the most
unimpressive politician currently on the circuit, if it weren't for Kamala Harris. The man who has failed at running
for the Senate and the Presidency is back for another go at it, this time running to be the Governor of Texas. That
stark lack of ability was on full display again, as he attempted to jumpstart his failing gubernatorial bid in Texas by
heckling Greg Abbott during a press conference covering the tragic shooting in Uvalde. In a completely staged stunt,
Beto slipped into the theater after two individuals who were in on the plan got up and left. He then attempted to shout
down those on the stage, much to the glee of his ActBlue supporters and MSNBC hosts everywhere.
Beto
Blows It: Exposes Democrats' True Agenda. The key to being an effective politician in today's Democratic
Party is to be able to put up a façade while simultaneously implementing and advancing your actual agenda. [...] But the
stunt Beto O'Rourke pulled this week exposed what Democrats really care about. Power. Less than 24 hours after
the murder of 19 schoolchildren and 2 teachers in Uvalde, Texas, O'Rourke implemented a scheme to attempt to take advantage
of the carnage. According to CBS News, two people saved seats for O'Rourke in an auditorium prior to a press briefing
by Texas Governor Greg Abbott that included various members of law enforcement and elected officials, including the mayor of
Uvalde and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). Just prior to the briefing's commencement, O'Rourke quietly entered and took one of the
seats. Shortly after the proceedings were underway, O'Rourke stood up and approached the dais from where Abbott and the
others were speaking. Among other things, O'Rourke asserted, "This is totally predictable" and "This is on you."
Comments that were directed at Abbott.
CBS
reporter on scene describes O'Rourke's shameless stunt at Abbott presser: 'Very clearly staged'. Remember Beto
O'Rourke's "I'm just born to be in it" Vanity Fair magazine cover? Well, the current Democratic candidate for Texas
governor probably hopes you've forgotten it. After all, he eventually admitted that the pretentious cover and
accompanying interview did much to torpedo his absurd dreams of occupying the Oval Office. But it suggests a pattern of
ostentatious political stunts, and O'Rourke apparently hasn't learned his lesson. On Wednesday afternoon [5/24/2022],
he interrupted Texas Governor Greg Abbott's press conference on the Uvalde school shooting to shout and rave at those
assembled. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who was present, told him he was "out of line and an embarrassment," and
Sen. Ted Cruz told him to "sit down."
CBS
News Reveals Beto's Interruption of Uvalde Press Conference Was [an] Orchestrated Stunt. I think it's safe to
say that the pathetic stunt Beto O'Rourke pulled Wednesday at the press conference that was held by Texas Gov. Greg
Abbott to discuss the horrifying Robb Elementary School mass shooting tragedy has not gone over as well as he would have
liked it to have. For those who missed it, watch the moment below where O'Rourke — who is running against
Abbott in the 2022 gubernatorial race — made a disgraceful scene at the somber event as he walked up to stand in
front of the stage and heckled Abbott and the other Republicans present. He accused them of "doing nothing" to stop gun
violence, and claimed the mass shooting in Uvalde that killed 19 children and two teachers who tried to protect them was
"totally predictable": [Tweet with video clip]
Bedtime for Beto.
Democratic Texas gubernatorial candidate Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke disrupted Governor Greg Abbott's press conference
called to update the public on yesterday's school shooting. O'Rourke is one of the breed of politicians —
politicians without a conscience and with no thought other than themselves — that finds the moment of unspeakable
tragedy fit to undertake histrionic displays and hysterical lectures promoting their favored causes. I can't believe
this is even good politics, but it is what it is, somewhere south of disgusting.
Beto
O'Rourke interrupts Texas governor's news conference on school shooting. Beto O'Rourke, a Democratic candidate
for Texas governor, approached the stage during Gov. Greg Abbott's news conference Wednesday, confronting him over the
Robb Elementary School shooting that left 19 children and two teachers dead. O'Rourke told Abbott the shooting was
"totally predictable" and that he was "doing nothing." "This is on you until you choose to do something different,"
O'Rourke continued.
Beto
O'Rourke Flip Flops on Critical Race Theory. While the Democratic Party has gone all-in endorsing critical race
theory (CRT) being taught in school — and claiming opposition to it is racist — Robert "Beto" O'Rourke
has opportunistically flip-flopped on the issue as he wages his futile campaign for governor of Texas. "I think you and
I are probably both on the same page as well. We don't see CRT being taught in our schools right now," O'Rourke told an
attendee at a townhall event in Victoria, Texas Friday night. "It is a course that is taught in law school."
[Tweet] Make no mistake about it: Beto O'Rourke supports CRT. He just knows — especially after the
Virginia gubernatorial election — that embracing it while running for statewide office in Texas is a fool's
errand. But that doesn't change the fact that Beto publicly condemned Governor Abbott for signing a law banning the
teaching of CRT last year.
I've never bought a gun from you, Beta. So you can't "buy it back." Now
Beto O'Rourke Says He Will Buy Back Texans' AR-15s. The shifting sands of Democrat gubernatorial candidate Beto
O'Rourke's gun control plans have solidified, for now, into a pledge to buy back AR-15s and AK-47s from Texans if the state
legislature will support doing it. O'Rourke spoke with Texas Tribune CEO Evan Smith on Saturday and KVUE reported
O'Rourke's comments. Smith asked O'Rourke to clarify his position on confiscatory gun control. O'Rourke stressed
his belief that citizens should not be able to buy a AR-15s, then said: "And if I can find the consensus within the
Legislature to have a law in the state of Texas that allows us to buy those AK-47s and AR-15s back, we will." He has been
down this road many times before.
Beto
O'Rourke Calls Governor Abbott a 'Thug' and 'Authoritarian'. What is it about the former congressman, former
losing candidate for Senator, and former presidential candidate who dropped out of the race before the first primary that
excites Democrats? Sure, he's handsome, in a rough-hewn sort of way. He speaks fairly well. And he's got a
nice, toothy smile. Remind you of anyone? If you guessed "John F. Kennedy," you win a cookie. In their
never-ending quest to find "the next JFK," Democrats have tapped O'Rourke as the successor to the playboy Massachusetts
senator who wowed Americans in the early 1960s. But that's a tough act to follow. Where Kennedy was urbane,
sophisticated, and witty, O'Rourke is an angry former folk singer who desperately wants to be one of the cool kids.
Texas
Energy Tycoon Sues Beto O'Rourke for Defamation. Texas energy businessman Kelcy Warren, a major donor to
Gov. Greg Abbott, sued former Rep. Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke for claiming that he paid the governor to profit
from last year's power crisis, resulting in several hundred deaths. O'Rourke said in social media posts that Warren's
donations to Abbott, including a $1 million donation during the Republican gubernatorial primary, were efforts to
"buy off" the governor, according to HotAir. Warren, the chairman and CEO of Energy Transfer, filed the defamation
lawsuit in San Saba County on Feb. 22. "O'Rourke intentionally, repeatedly, and widely disseminated his
deliberate and defamatory falsehoods through publicly released messages on Twitter, Facebook, and other social media
sites and during speaking engagements and interviews," the defamation lawsuit states.
Robert
Francis O'Rourke does an about face on guns. After Robert Francis O'Rourke challenged Ted Cruz, he became a
media darling whom voters ignored. Still, despite losing to Cruz, O'Rourke was so buoyed up by press adoration that he
parlayed that failed Senate run into a presidential run, which he also lost. Now, Robert Francis O'Rourke is back
again, this time seeking to unseat Texas governor Gregg Abbott. O'Rourke, however, has learned something along the way,
which is that you pay lip service to leaving Texans' guns alone.
Beto
O'Rourke Does A Complete 180 [on Gun Confiscation]. Former Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O'Rourke has
apparently done a complete 180-degree turn from at least one of his key stances on the 2020 campaign trail. During the
Democratic primary, O'Rourke famously shouted from the debate stage, "[...] yes, I'm going to take your AR-15, your AK-47."
And his passion on that specific issue was the reason that — at the rally where O'Rourke dropped out of the primary
and endorsed President Joe Biden's campaign — then-candidate Biden said that he'd be bringing O'Rourke along to help
his administration with a gun control strategy. O'Rourke doubled down, saying that he still stood by that comment as
recently as November of 2021.
Fool's
Errand: Beto O'Rourke chasing down the Texas Latino vote. Does anything say "out of touch" better than
the Democrats running Beto O'Rourke as its prime candidate for governor of Texas? The hopeless stunt is supposedly all
about O'Rourke's appeal to Latino voters. He has a Spanish nickname. He speaks Spanish. What Latino could
refuse? It's incredibly cynical and insulting to Latino voters, whom Texas Democrats consider key to winning back the
governorship. That cynicism was obvious enough in this statement by a Texas Latino GOP observer: "He uses Beto
like he's our Mexican tío, but you're not," he said. "Just because you put the name out there doesn't mean I'm
going to invite you to my house like you're my tío."
Beto
O'Rourke's Mysterious Woman. Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke recently announced his candidacy for governor of
Texas against incumbent Greg Abbott after the former's failed campaigns for U.S. Senate in 2018 and president in 2020.
One issue that has followed him was his arrest report of a DUI hit-and-run in 1998, released in August 2018 by the Houston
Chronicle and San Antonio Express. Up until that time, he had admitted to the DUI without mentioning the accident and
fleeing the scene. During a debate in September with eventual victor Ted Cruz, a moderator brought it up, and O'Rourke
said, "I did not try to leave the scene of the accident." [...] Days later in the Washington Post, fact-checker Glenn Kessler
gave O'Rourke "Four Pinocchios," which qualifies as a "whopper." Just four days later, during friendly questioning by the
Texas Tribune, O'Rourke was asked again whether he had fled the scene of the accident. "I did not flee," he replied,
and the "police report is wrong." O'Rourke then added that he had recently "reached out to a passenger who was in the car,"
and "she" said that "we did not try to flee." O'Rourke was not asked and did not volunteer who "she" was.
Beto O'Rourke
Doubles Down on Obsession with Getting Rid of AR-15. Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-TX) who is also a failed
senatorial and presidential candidate, and who just recently announced his run for governor of Texas, so as to likely lose a
third race, made an appearance on CNN's "State of the Union" for Sunday morning. He was predictably asked about the
"not guilty" verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, where he once more addressed his preoccupation with wanting AR-15s
banned. Host Dana Bash asked O'Rourke for his reaction, to which he suggested "this entire tragedy makes the case that
we should not allow our fellow Americans to own and use weapons that were originally designed for battlefield use."
The Editor says...
In a way, a BLM riot is a battlefield.
Beto's
Back and the Dems Are All Out of Fresh Faces and Ideas. The reemergence of Beto O'Rourke, this time as a
candidate for Texas governor, is further proof that we're scraping the bottom of the barrel for saviors to rise from these
streets. Once a rising star, O'Rourke is likely to end his bid to replace Texas Gov. Greg Abbott as a three-time
loser. Despite this, he will soak up plenty of buzz and money along the way — which is good for O'Rourke and
bad for Democrats. Once a charismatic young Texas congressman from El Paso who shared a bromance with then-Republican
Rep. Will Hurd, O'Rourke ran a surprisingly strong race against Sen. Ted Cruz in 2018 back when Trump was
president. O'Rourke parlayed the Cruz loss into a failed bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020. [...]
Aside from losing elections, he also lost his way. Between 2018 and today, O'Rourke transitioned multiple times from
affable "nice guy" to "cool" Gen-Xer to angry woke progressive. "On issues like universal health care, an assault
weapons ban, abortion rights and a higher minimum wage," wrote NPR's Wade Goodwyn in 2018, "O'Rourke has staked out
progressive positions."
Is
Texas ready for Governor Beto O'Rourke? Prediction: The nays of Texas will likely be upon
him. The obvious electoral disaster ahead hasn't stopped Democrats in the Lone Star State from attempting to draft
Robert "Beto" O'Rourke for a gubernatorial bid, though. The Associated Press reports this morning that O'Rourke is
giving it serious consideration, despite running to the hard Left in the presidential primary in 2019.
It's hard to swallow this nonsense, as it comes from a former representative of the Abortion Party. Beto
O'Rourke: Republican Party Is a 'Cult of Death' — They 'Literally Want to Sacrifice' Lives.
Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D) said Wednesday [3/3/2021] on MSNBC's "Deadline" the Republican Party is a "cult of death."
Discussing Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) lifting the COVID-19 mask mandate, anchor Nicolle Wallace said, "It sounds like
it isn't going to work on the science side. There's a lot of skepticism in Texas that it's not going to work on the
economic side as well. Why is he doing it?" O'Rourke said, "They literally want to sacrifice the lives of our
fellow Texans, for I don't know, for political gain? To satisfy certain powerful interests within the state? This
isn't hyperbole. [...]"
The Editor says...
Yes it is hyperbole. It's also a pack of lies. Tyranny is worse than disease, and mask mandates are tyranny.
Beto
O'Rourke Exploring Another Likely Failure. His campaign for the senate against Ted Cruz in 2018 ended in
failure. His campaign for the Democrat Party's presidential nomination in 2019 ended in epic, buffonish failure.
His campaign to turn Texas blue in 2020 ended in abject, hilarious failure. So, naturally, Irish Bob "Beto" O'Rourke,
the undeservedly-famous deletant offspring of a fabulously wealthy family married to an even more-fabulously wealthy wife in
El Paso, Texas, is now considering mounting yet another destined-to-fail campaign in 2022. This time, Irish Bob is
exploring the possibility of running for the Texas governor's mansion, against either incumbent Gregg Abbott — who
is likely to run for re-election — or against another GOP candidate should Abbott decide to bow out after two
terms in office.
Beto
O'Rourke says he's thinking about running for Texas governor. Democrat Beto O'Rourke has left no doubt that
he's weighing a run for governor next year. "You know what, it's something I'm going to think about," O'Rourke said in
an exclusive interview on an El Paso radio station earlier this week.
The Editor says...
Governor Abbott, in preparation for a presidential run in 2024, is gradually turning into a RINO, with his protracted mask mandates and Covid-related
restrictions, but unless he gets "primaried," I still have to vote for him for Governor, if the only alternative is a loose-cannon leftist like Robert F. O'Rourke.
Beto
O'Rourke considering run for Texas governor, cites Abbott's failed virus efforts. Former El Paso Democratic
congressman Beto O'Rourke said in a radio interview that he is contemplating a run for governor of Texas next year against
Republican incumbent Greg Abbott. Abbott will be seeking his third term in office and O'Rourke told ABC-7's media
partners at KLAQ radio that he's considering a bid to oust the governor. "It's something I'm going to think about,"
O'Rourke said. "This state has suffered perhaps more than any other in the midst of this pandemic."
The Editor says...
[#1] Exactly the opposite is true. Texas has been affected far less by Covid than most other states. [#2] If the
state has "suffered" at all, it's because of endless lockdowns and mask mandates inflicted by ledftist politicians like
Robert F. "Beto" O'Rourke.
Beto
O'Rourke to teach politics course at Texas State next spring. Former Democratic presidential and Senate
candidate Beto O'Rourke will teach a class on Texas politics at Texas State University in spring 2021, pending finalization
of his hire. As an adjunct lecturer, the former Congressman will teach PS 4325 (Texas Politics), a synchronous online
class that will feature remote lectures with up to 15% of instruction delivered in-person, COVID-19 permitting, says the university.
Beto
O'Rourke blames GOP 'death cult mentality' for rise in US violence. As violent crime spikes in some U.S.
cities, former U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke claims a Republican Party "death cult mentality" is to blame. Speaking on
MSNBC, O'Rourke, a Texas Democrat, was asked to comment on Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott
both recently calling for schools to reopen for the fall semester, despite the continuing coronavirus pandemic. The
former lawmaker quickly pivoted from talking about the virus to talking about gun violence. "These are the same people
who want us to accept that more people, including children, will die of gun violence this year in America than in any other
developed country, bar none," O'Rourke said, referring to Republican leaders.
The Editor says...
When you ask a question, and a Democrat immediately changes the subject, that means you've won the argument.
Joe
Biden Declares Beto O'Rourke To Lead Biden's Anti-Gun Agenda. Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden
embraced far-left anti-gun extremist Robert Francis O'Rourke during a rally on Monday night in Texas, declaring that the
failed Senate and presidential candidate was going to lead Biden's anti-Second Amendment efforts. "I wanna make
something clear, I'm going to guarantee you this is not the last you've seen of [O'Rourke]," Biden told the audience.
"You're going to take care of the gun problem with me. You're going to be the one who leads this effort."
O'Rourke
endorses Biden at Dallas rally on eve of Super Tuesday, as ex-VP appears to offer gun-control role. In a
surprise moment at the end of his Dallas rally on the eve of Super Tuesday, former Vice President Joe Biden called former
Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke up to the stage — and vowed to put O'Rourke, who has said the government should
forcibly seize assault rifles from Americans, in charge of gun-control efforts. [...] O'Rourke called President Trump an
"existential threat" to "free and fair elections," and urged rallygoers to view Biden as the "antithesis of Donald Trump,"
someone who is "decent, kind, caring, and empathetic."
Beto O'Rourke Decides Not to Run for Senate.
Beto O'Rourke isn't running for Senate again, and Democrats who have unusually high hopes for Texas in 2020 are facing an
unsettled landscape. There's no clear frontrunner among a dozen Democrats challenging Republican incumbent John Cornyn.
Texas
Democrats: Let's get Beto O'Rourke to run against Cornyn. There are some die-hard Beto O'Rourke supporters in
Texas who want him to run against Senator John Cornyn in 2020. I thought we were all past this conversation, but apparently
we are not.
Beto O'Rourke backers cite poll showing he'd sail through
Senate primary; Cornyn wary he'll heed the call. With just a week remaining before the deadline to run for
office in Texas next year, some Democrats are still hoping to see Beto O'Rourke jump into the race to unseat Sen. John
Cornyn. Poll after poll shows Cornyn would trounce the dozen or so contenders for the Democratic nomination at this
point. None can touch the near-universal name recognition O'Rourke enjoys among Texas Democrats after his near-miss
against Sen. Ted Cruz last year. And a new poll commissioned by backers worried that the current crop of
candidates would fall short shows that O'Rourke is by far the top choice of Democratic voters in Texas at 58%, with the
runner-up, state Sen. Royce West of Dallas at 13%.
The Editor says...
I like Royce West. He represents me in the Texas State Senate, despite all my efforts. But he seems like a nice guy.
He's a South Dallas superstar. I saw him in the hardware store one day and he was quickly surrounded by fans. Too bad
he's a Democrat.
The End of Betomania.
The Right has had great fun mocking the O'Rourke campaign, but it is to Beto's credit that he took the Left's premises to
their logical conclusions. He was the most honest person in their primary field, saying things that Democrats have long
said in private or on Vox. "Hell yes," he wanted to take your AR-15 and your church's tax-exempt status.
"There can be no reward, no benefit, no tax break for anyone, any institution, any organization in America that denies the
full human rights and the full civil rights of every single one of us," said a man hell-bent on stripping the constitutional
rights of millions of law-abiding citizens.
Bye-Bye Beto.
Beto O'Rourke announced today [11/1/2019] that he is ending his presidential campaign and will not be a candidate for any
office in 2020. Given O'Rourke's inability to make headway in the polls, it is not surprising that he is dropping
out. What is noteworthy, perhaps, is the fact that he was ever taken seriously as a presidential candidate. Beto
was largely a creation of the media, which rooted unabashedly for him to defeat the despised Ted Cruz in the 2018 Senate
race. That contest made O'Rourke a celebrity on the left. But evidence that he was in any way ready for prime
time was entirely lacking, and once his usefulness as a Cruz opponent was over, interest waned.
'So
sad!': Beto O'Rourke campaign 'cheer guides' uncovered in Des Moines arena. A reporter disseminated a picture
of fliers that gave crowd instructions for Beto O'Rourke supporters at an Iowa conference center. New York Times
politics reporter Katie Glueck noticed the papers abandoned on a table at the Des Moines, Iowa, conference center where
O'Rourke had been scheduled to speak before abruptly dropping out of the race Friday [11/1/2019]. "A stack of these Beto
cheer guides were in a box on an abandoned table at the arena here in DSM [Des Moines]," she tweeted.
Beto O'Rourke Calls
It Quits. We gather today to say a hearty RIP to the Beto O'Rourke political project, helmed by one Beto
O'Rourke, who ran one of the most remarkable Senate campaigns and one of the most underwhelming presidential campaigns in
modern American history — all in the space of about 31 months.
Skateboarding
hacker poet pervert with drunk driving and burglary raps drops out of presidential race. Beto O'Rourke, the
smarmy, smug, monied Texas junior who got rich on his wife's inherited fortune, is out of the Democratic presidential race.
[...] Beto certainly was part of the problem, having gone unusually crazy in his last miserable days of campaigning with
toxic proposals. The wannabe Latino candidate from El Paso vowed to tax churches, expropriate guns, jail all sorts of
people but amnesty illegals, which didn't wash even with many Democrats. No wonder his polling numbers went to around
1% or maybe zero.
Beto
O'Rourke Spent $14 Million on Failed Presidential Campaign. The latest campaign finance report issued on
September 30 showed [Former Congressman Beto] O'Rourke spent $13,965,478, according to Open Secrets. The former Texas
congressman ended up with only about $3 million cash on hand. Final numbers for his campaign have yet to be
released, but he likely surpassed $14 million in money spent the 30 days since his last report.
Beto O'Rourke's
Moment of Truth. The dashing of Beto O'Rourke's presidential hopes can be traced, in our estimation, to one
moment of truth. It wasn't his tendency to flap his arms, say, or his radical green agenda or his claim that he was
born to be in the political fray, unconvincing as all those might be. It was his vow after the mass shooting at
El Paso. "Hell yes," he shouted during the Democratic debate in Houston, "we're going to take your AR-15."
Beto
O'Rourke's dashed White House dreams trolled by NRA: 'Hell yes'. The National Rifle Association wasted no time
on Friday trolling Beto O'Rourke's failed presidential dreams by referencing his "Hell yes!" response on the idea of AR-15
confiscations. "Beto O'Rourke has dropped out of the 2020 presidential race. That makes it two failed campaigns
in one year!" the NRA tweeted after Mr. O'Rourke ended his campaign. "Let this be a lesson: Running on
destroying the Second Amendment and stripping Americans of their firearms is never a good idea.
Beto
O'Rourke Quits 2020 Race. Former Rep. Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke (D-TX) announced Friday evening that
he is dropping out of the 2020 presidential race. "Though it is difficult to accept, it is clear to me now that this
campaign does not have the means to move forward successfully. My service to the country will not be as a candidate or
as the nominee," O'Rourke said in a statement posted to Medium.
Beto O'Rourke
drops out of race to be Democratic 2020 presidential candidate. Beto O'Rourke has dropped out of the 2020
democratic presidential primary race, after a months-long campaign in which he struggled to recapture the excitement of his
failed 2018 Senate run. The former US congressman had struggled to stand out in a crowded Democratic field, which
includes several other big political personalities who managed to capture much of the race's attention as the Texan's
campaign struggled.
O'Rourke:
'Very Compelling' Case That Baghdadi Raid Succeeded 'Despite' Trump. During an interview aired on Monday's
broadcast of Comedy Central's "Daily Show," 2020 presidential candidate former Representative Beto O'Rourke (D-TX) stated
that there is a "very compelling" case that the raid that killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi succeeded "despite"
President Trump.
Beto
O'Rourke releases plan to overhaul 'racist' criminal justice system. Democratic presidential hopeful Beto
O'Rourke on Monday released a plan to reform a "racist" U.S. criminal justice system that includes a goal of reducing
incarceration by at least 25,000 inmates during his first term. Mr. O'Rourke said it's unacceptable that America
locks up "more of our own" than any other country on the planet. "We will not only reform this racist system, but we
will work to end mass incarceration by ensuring fewer Americans enter the system in the first place while prioritizing
rehabilitation and successful re-entry for those who have been locked out of it — or locked up in it," said
Mr. O'Rourke, a former congressman from Texas.
Beto
O'Rourke: We will use 'criminal code' against people who refuse to turn in AR-15s. Beto O'Rourke said he
would use the criminal code to back up his proposal to confiscate AR-15s and other "weapons of war" from Americans. "If
we're able to pass mandatory buybacks and I'm able to sign that into law, then I fully expect our fellow Americans to turn in
their AR-15s and their AK-47s," the former Texas congressman said in a Thursday CBS News interview when asked if his policy
was "too retroactive." O'Rourke continued his answer by saying there would be criminal consequences if people were to
"persist" in holding onto their weapons.
Democratic
Debate: 10 Questions Left on the Cutting Room Floor. [#9] Rep. Beto O'Rourke, you say you've benefited
from "white privilege" and that America is built on "endemic" and "foundational" racism. On the stage with you are
Sen. Cory Booker, of African descent; Andrew Yang, of Chinese descent; Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who is Samoan American;
and Sen. Kamala Harris, whose background is Jamaican and Indian. Why didn't "endemic" and "foundational" racism
prevent these candidates of color from being on the same stage with you, on the same night, competing for the same job?
Beto
O'Rourke the America Hating, Gun Grabbing, Wannabe Tyrant Compares Donald Trump to Hitler. During an interview
with MSNBC propagandist Al Sharpton, Democrat Beto O'Rourke, the dirt-eating, America-hating, wannabe tyrant who said he
would make gun owners sell their weapons to the government, falsely claimed that Donald Trump is inspired by Hitler and Nazi
propagandist Josef Goebbels.
Beto's
15 minutes of fame are up. The former Texas Democratic congressman's 15 minutes of fame were up last November
after he lost a U.S. Senate race to Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, but apparently, no one thought to tell him. Mr. O'Rourke
didn't need to find a real job after losing the Senate contest (in which he became a liberal media darling for nearly upsetting
Mr. Cruz, whom they loathe) because he's married to the daughter of a billionaire, so this "1 percenter" by marriage instead
opted to fail upward. Despite serving three terms in the House that were at best undistinguished, Mr. O'Rourke surveyed a
weak Democratic presidential field for 2020 and concluded that his closer-than-expected Senate contest entitled him to serious
consideration for the party's nomination for president. Despite his Kennedy-esque (as in "Robert F.") looks,
Mr. O'Rourke's presidential bid has thus far failed to generate much traction.
Beto
O'Rourke Announces Support for Menstrual Equity Act on National Period Day. Not to be outdone by Cory Booker's
"women are people" moment in the last debate, Beto O'Rourke decided to virtue signal his pro-woman accolades on Saturday by
tweeting that "women across America don't have access to the period products they need," and since it is #NationalPeriodDay
(who knew that was a thing?), that "men need to join women in demanding real change." Beto wants "real change" and identifies
as a man for the moment (at least until he needs a Hail Mary for his campaign) and he's announced his support for the
Menstrual Equity Act.
Police
Groups Slam Beto's Plan to Send Cops to Collect Americans' Guns. National law enforcement organizations harshly
criticized Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke's plan to send police officers to collect AR-15s and AK-47s from
those who refuse to turn them in under his mandatory buyback scheme. In interviews with the Washington Free
Beacon, leaders from groups representing hundreds of thousands of law enforcement officers described Beto's gun
confiscation plan as "ridiculous," "asinine," and likely unconstitutional.
The Editor says...
LIKELY unconstitutional? Please explain the loopholes and legal contortions that would be needed to
justify a decree that the Second Amendment permits door-to-door gun confiscation.
Sheriffs
Send Beto to the Burn Ward Over His Threat to Send Law Enforcement to Gun Owner's Homes. While on MSNBC's
Morning Joe, Democratic 2020 candidate and wannabe tyrant Robert "Beto" O'Rourke made it clear that in an America where he's
president, he will send law enforcement to the homes of people who choose not to participate in the mandatory buyback program
and take their gun by force. O'Rourke told "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough that in the instance of a gun owner
keeping his AR-15 to himself, then he can count on a visit by someone with a badge and a gun. [...] It would appear that law
enforcement has some things to say about that, and O'Rourke may not like what they have to say.
Beto's
2020 Legacy: Offering Frightening Glimpses Into the Authoritarian Left's Ultimate Goals. Beto O'Rourke,
who is still running for president, has been in 'say anything' mode for months. Desperate to gain traction in a race in
which he's been an overhyped bit player, the former Texas Congressman continues to pander to the hard Left on various social
issues, telling them what they want to hear, and framing his radicalism as 'bravery' that rival candidates don't
possess. The more potent effect he's having, it seems, is on the Right. He's steadily confirming the worst fears
of conservatives by publicly and enthusiastically sliding to the bottom of several slippery slopes — and he's
attracting loud applause from progressive audiences, further entrenching center-right Americans' fears.
Beto
Would Risk Another Waco. In an interview with "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough on MSNBC on Wednesday
[10/16/2019], presidential candidate Peter Francis O'Rourke admitted that, yes, he was willing to pry your AR-15 from your
cold dead hands. [...] Which part of "the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed" in the Second Amendment do you
not understand? [...] Of course, Beto expects the law-abiding citizen, perhaps a veteran, protecting his family will simply
answer the door and respond to the demand that he surrender his legally owned firearm along with his constitutional rights by
saying, "Excuse me, officer, I know I fought for my country and have threatened no one, but since some politician who is
protected by armed security thinks I'm a danger to my community, well, here they are.
O'Rourke's America.
[Scroll down] O'Rourke is a cretin, and an ambitious cretin at that. And what are his ambitions? Turning
America into the airport. O'Rourke proposes to gut the Bill of Rights — beginning with the First Amendment
and the Second Amendment — to stick the federal snout into Americans' bedrooms and churches, and anywhere else he
detects the scent of nonconformity. [...] O'Rourke has announced plans to dispatch armed federal agents to conduct
door-to-door raids to seize such firearms, because they offend his personal sensibilities. It is not as though this is
part of some greater "tough on crime" posture. O'Rourke isn't exactly a law-and-order man: He has no interest in
enforcing our immigration laws, for instance. And he has proposed to enfranchise felons, too — not after
they've served their time and completed their sentences, but while they are incarcerated.
Beto
Admits Non-Compliant AR-15 Owners Would Receive a 'Visit from a Law-Enforcement Officer' under His Plan.
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke admitted on Wednesday [10/16/2019] that under his federal gun "buyback"
plan, police officers would go to the homes of those gun owners who refused to sell their weapons to the government in order
to "recover" the banned semi-automatic rifles. "What's the next step for the federal government there?" Joe Scarborough
asked O'Rourke on MSNBC, giving the example of a "rancher in Texas" who refuses to give up his AR-15. "I think just as
in any law that is not followed or flagrantly abused there have to be consequences or else there is no respect for the law,"
O'Rourke responded. "So in that case I think there would be a visit by law enforcement to recover that firearm and make
sure that it is purchased, bought back, so that it cannot be potentially used against somebody else."
Beto's Gospel of Despair.
[Scroll down] Behold the words of flaky far-left presidential wannabe Robert Francis O'Rourke. He goes by "Beto,"
a culturally appropriated nickname that his politically savvy father gave him so he eventually could bamboozle El Paso's
overwhelmingly Hispanic voters into believing that the tube-sock-white Robert is actually Roberto and, thus, Hispanic.
This poser told the New Hampshire Democratic party convention last Saturday that America in 2019 is defined by its original
sin: slavery. "This is a country that has been defined by foundational, systemic, endemic racism since the very
founding of this country," O'Rourke shouted, his arms typically flapping about, like the late Leonard Bernstein conducting
the New York Philharmonic.
Meghan
McCain predicts Beto O'Rourke will land MSNBC show after 2020 race. The View co-host Meghan McCain
suggested that 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke is tailoring his campaign in order to get a show on MSNBC
after he drops out of the race. McCain, 34, made the claim on Wednesday morning, the day after the fourth presidential
primary debate. In one viral moment, O'Rourke tangled with South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg over his proposed
gun confiscation plan.
Here are five
questions that need to be asked. [#2] Second, do the other Democratic presidential candidates support Beto O'Rourke's
proposal to cut off tax deductibility for any church or other religious institution that does not recognize gay marriage?
This is a boldly radical idea comparable to O'Rourke's call for compulsory gun confiscation. How do the other candidates
handle their slavish devotion to identity politics when faced with this bold but politically deadly proposal?
Michael
Bloomberg: O'Rourke's Confiscation Talk Just Strengthens Opposition. Gun control proponent Michael
Bloomberg [...] gave an interview to the Firing Line with Margaret Hoover, where he intimated O'Rourke's approach is a,
"rallying cry for people that say they are overstepping their bounds." Town Hall quoted Bloomberg describing O'Rourke's
confiscatory plan as "so impractical." Bloomberg made clear his opposition to civilian ownership of many commonly-owned
semiautomatic rifles, but added that O'Rourke's approach, "is not the way to win this issue."
What
We Can Learn from the Candidacy of 'Beto' O'Rourke. What happened to Beto? One short year ago, Robert
Francis "Beto" O'Rourke was riding high, primed to upset Sen. Ted Cruz in in the 2018 Senate election. [...] And then
came the fall — well, maybe less a fall and more a steady deflation. It was nothing O'Rourke did
specifically that set his fortunes downward; it was general fizzing. After a phenomenal first month, he couldn't raise
as much money for his campaign. Members of the media seemed to notice that there was nothing noteworthy about
him. While Biden offered to continue Obama's legacy, Warren and Sanders offered soft socialism, and Harris, Booker, and
Buttigieg offered diversity, O'Rourke offered... a culturally appropriated nickname. He was a blank slate ready to say
whatever the crowd wanted him to say.
Beto O'Rourke Just Learned His Son's Email
Address. Failed Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke, who has been criticized in the past for joking about being an
absentee dad who "sometimes" helps his wife raise their three children, said Thursday [9/19/2019] that he only recently
learned his 12-year-old son's email address. "We emailed each other," O'Rourke told podcast host Bill Simmons during a
conversation about the Democrat's eldest son, Ulysses. "It was the first kind of independent contact I'd had with him,
where it wasn't his mom saying, 'Hey, write your dad a letter, he'd love that.' I found his email address —
I didn't know that kids emailed — found his email address and just shot him a note yesterday."
NRA
crowns Beto O'Rourke AR-15 salesman of the month: 'Possibly even of the year'. The National Rifle Association
labeled presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke the "AR-15 salesman of the month" after he called for the confiscation of AR-15s
and AK-47s. The gun rights group suggested the former Texas congressman could even be the AR-15 salesman of the year.
They're not alarmed, they're embarrassed. O'Rourke
gun confiscation talk alarms Democrats. Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke's (D-Texas) full-throated endorsement of
a mandatory gun buyback proposal has raised alarms among Democrats. They see the presidential candidate's proposal as
playing into Republican hands and putting Democratic candidates on the back foot. They also say it could be used by the
National Rifle Association (NRA) to raise money and members, and to fight efforts to impose tougher background checks and
other measures that might reduce gun violence. "I think we should be focused on the stuff that we can get across the
finish line and I think that was a bit of a gift to the NRA," Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) told The Hill.
Beto
O'Rourke: Fines will 'compel' AR-15 owners to turn their guns. Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke provided
insight into how police would enforce his proposal for a government confiscation of AR-15s and AK-47s. The Democratic
presidential candidate told reporters he would impose a fine on AR-15 owners to "compel" them to follow the law and turn in
their banned firearms. Owners who turn in the guns will then be compensated. "We expect our fellow Americans to
follow the law. If they do not, there would be a fine imposed to compel them to follow the law," O'Rourke said. "We've
seen this implemented successfully in Australia, where you've seen a near 50% reduction in gun violence deaths in that country."
Beto
O'Rourke Thinks that Fines Will 'Compel' AR-15 Owners to Give Up their Guns. To claim that there was a 50
percent decline in gun violence because of a government gun confiscation program is an outright lie. There were about a
dozen other gun control laws passed at the same time that made it damn near impossible to buy or own a gun of any kind.
O'Rourke knows this — or at least he should.
In
Aurora, Beto O'Rourke says he's open to broadening gun buyback proposal. Democratic presidential candidate Beto
O'Rourke says he's open to broadening his proposal to require owners of AK-47s and AR-15s to sell them to the
government. During an emotional town hall Thursday in Aurora, a man who identified himself as a survivor of the 1999
Columbine massacre noted that the shooters there didn't use the military-style weapons O'Rourke wants to take. They
instead used regular semi-automatic weapons. He challenged O'Rourke to confiscate those arms as well. O'Rourke
told reporters afterward: "If there's a way to improve what we proposed, I want to make sure we're reflecting that."
Fact-check: Would Beto O'Rourke's criminal history prevent
him from purchasing a gun? O'Rourke was arrested for two misdemeanors in the 1990s — for burglary
and DWI. Both cases were dismissed and he was not convicted of either charge. O'Rourke could have passed a gun-purchase
background check and obtained a license to carry once the charges were dismissed. Even if he had been convicted of
these charges, he still could purchase a gun today.
The price just went up. Colt
suspends production of AR-15 for civilian market. Colt's chief executive officer, Dennis Veilleux, says it is
not permanently ending production but believes there is already an adequate supply of sporting rifles on the market. He
said in a statement Thursday [9/19/2019] the company will concentrate on fulfilling military and law enforcement contracts with
its rifle manufacturing.
The
Alternative History of the United States. In the early going of the presidential race, Beto was figured to be a
prime contender: An April poll showed him in a solid third place. But he's faded dramatically; now the once-media
darling is polling below 3 percent. So O'Rourke has refashioned himself into a woke warrior. He's declared that
he wants to forcibly remove guns from law-abiding Americans, that President Trump is a "white supremacist" posing a "mortal
threat to people of color" and that the time has come for race reparations. Most dramatically, O'Rourke has refashioned
his vision of American history.
Arizona
Gun Store Offers 'Beto Special' On AR15s And AK47s — Sells Out In One Day. When Obama was president,
people called him America's greatest gun salesman because every time he talked about gun control, sales would go through the
roof. Now Beto O'Rourke is getting in on that action. After Beto declared his intentions to confiscate guns at
the last Democrat debate, one Arizona gun store decided to do a sale in his name. It worked out pretty well for them.
Beto's
Gun Grab And Constitution Day. September 17 is Constitution Day and Peter Francis O'Rourke plans on celebrating
it by gutting the document's Second Amendment, infringing on the right to bear arms that the Constitution says shall not be
infringed. Of course, O'Rourke also shares the Democrat belief that the Constitution's "penumbras and emanations"
confers a right to privacy allowing unborn children to be aborted until the moment of birth. There he was on Sunday's
[9/15/2019] "Meet the Press," his dental work complete and ear hair properly trimmed, to claim his plan to confiscate from
law-abiding citizens by force and under penalty of law their AR-15s was in fact constitutional under the Constitution's
Commerce clause.
Beto's Racist City Upon a Hill.
"We can mark the creation of this country not at the Fourth of July, 1776, but August 20, 1619, when the first kidnapped
African was brought to this country against his will and in bondage and as a slave built the greatness, and the success, and
the wealth that neither he nor his descendants would ever be able to participate in or enjoy." So says Beto O'Rourke,
Boy Beto, here in the form of Professor Beto, lecturing the Democrat faithful at the party debate in Houston last week, the
day after America mourned the anniversary of 9/11. But it wasn't the evil of 9/11 that was in Beto's crosshairs; it was
America, at its very core. Beto explained that racism was not merely "endemic" to America but "foundational." It's
a line that works fabulously for Beto among fellow progressives, who stomp and applaud enthusiastically.
Why
Beto O' Rourke's Embrace Of The 1619 Project Is Dangerous. In Thursday night's Democratic primary debate,
candidate Beto O' Rourke claimed that Americans should "mark the creation of this country not at the Fourth of July, 1776,
but August 20, 1619, when the first kidnapped African was brought to this country against his will." O'Rourke's
comments were inspired by The New York Times' 1619 Project, which "aims to reframe the country's history" by placing 1619 as
our true founding. The project is a collection of essays, literary works, and curriculum all aimed at this new
understanding of American history. This project is dangerous enough as a misguided intellectual exercise, but its
danger to our republic increases exponentially once put in the hands of a radical politician who could one day be president.
'Through
the Commerce Clause': Beto O'Rourke insists his gun confiscation plan is 'constitutionally sound'. Presidential
candidate Beto O'Rourke defended his plan to confiscate AR-15s and AK-47s and said it would not run counter to the Second
Amendment to the Constitution. "This is something that we're able to do through the Commerce Clause and this is
something that is not prevented from — wouldn't prevent the United States from doing by the Second
Amendment. So this is constitutionally sound," O'Rourke told NBC's Meet the Press. "This is absolutely necessary
if we care about the lives of our fellow Americans." O'Rourke claimed he has had owners of AR-15s come up to him and
say, "I own one of these guns, don't need it to hunt, don't need it for self-defense. This is the right thing to do, I
would gladly give it up.'"
The Editor says...
I find it difficult to fully express my skepticism of Beto's dubious anecdote about AR-15 owners telling him they'd be glad to forfeit
their guns. If they don't need such a weapon for hunting or for self-defense, why did they purchase them? Did they not
deliberate their (plural) purchases? If they had buyer's remorse, why didn't they just sell the guns and forego the political
grandstanding? Guns aren't cheap, and as the likelihood increases that we will see a gun-grabbing commie in the White House,
the more expensive guns and ammo will become.
Beto
O'Rourke's record on El Paso real estate deal has some Latinos troubled. Romelia Mendoza remembers seeing a
young, amicable Beto O'Rourke ambling through her neighborhood, heading to meetings downtown or his nearby office.
That's why she's baffled — and more than a little miffed — that the Democratic presidential candidate
has been so muted on saving her neighborhood from the wrecking ball. "The way he would come through here, it was like
he was a resident," said Mendoza, 66. "But he's turned his back on us. There's been no support from him at all."
Democrats
adopt swearing as a campaign strategy. A number of low-polling 2020 Democrats are adopting the use of bad
language in a bid to gain media attention and propel themselves to relevancy. Beto O'Rourke began dropping a number of
F-bombs when speaking about issues like gun violence around the time his campaign began a relaunch after he failed to gain
any traction in polls.
'Beto'
O'Rourke Confirms: 'Yes' I Want to Tear Down Border Walls. Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke (D) confirmed in an
interview with Latino USA's Maria Hinojosa Friday [9/13/2019] that he is in favor of physically tearing down existing
sections of the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. "So Beto I just want to be clear. Have you said you want to tear
down the wall?" Hinojosa asked. "If I'm elected, I will tear down that wall. Then suddenly the Democrat is
quoting the Republican Ronald Reagan — tear down that wall."
Peculiar placement of quotation marks in original.
Democratic
senator warns O'Rourke AR-15 pledge could haunt party for years. Sen. Christopher Coons (D-Del.) on Friday
warned that Beto O'Rourke's pledge that the government will confiscate semiautomatic AR-15 rifles will become a rallying cry
for gun rights groups for years to come and haunt the Democratic Party far into the future. "I frankly think that that
clip will be played for years at Second Amendment rallies with organizations that try to scare people by saying that
Democrats are coming for your guns," Coons, an ally of former Vice President Joe Biden in the Democratic race, told CNN's
Poppy Harlow in an interview.
Beto
Blows Lid Off 'No One Wants to Take Your Guns'. Democrats and media members have pledged for years some version
of "nobody wants to take your guns away" when gun control laws come up for debate. Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D.,
Texas), in a reversal of a position he held last year, has called for mandatory buybacks of semi-automatic rifles like the
AR-15 and AK-47. [...] Going back to 2012, the Free Beacon found clips of numerous left-leaning figures who promised that
such a position wasn't part of any gun control platform.
Beto
Is a Disaster for the Gun-Control Movement. He almost certainly doesn't realize it, but Beto O'Rourke is likely
to be the worst thing to happen to the gun-control movement in decades — and, if he continues in this mode, he may
turn out to be the worst thing to happen to the Democratic party in a long time, too. In Houston last night, O'Rourke
abandoned his cloying euphemisms ("mandatory buybacks") and delivered a deliberate, carefully scripted endorsement of gun
confiscation, which, within minutes, his campaign began to sell on t-shirts. "Hell yes," Beto said, "we're going to
take your AR-15." Thus, upon the instant, did two decades' worth of Democratic rhetoric go up in a puff of smoke.
Fact
Check: Beto O'Rourke 'Absolutely Wrong' on Ambulance Shortage After Texas Shootings. Former
Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-TX) received praised from his rivals onstage at the third Democrat debate at Texas Southern
University in Houston, Texas, on Thursday evening. But he is being criticized by local West Texas CBS affiliate KOSA-7,
which says that his claim that there were not enough ambulances available is "absolutely wrong."
Yes, They
Are Coming for Your Guns. Prohibition has never been well received in America, and guns have proven no
exception to that rule. In New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey, attempts at the confiscation of "high capacity"
magazines and the registration of "assault weapons" have both fallen embarrassingly flat — to the point that the
police have simply refused to aid enforcement or to prosecute the dissenters. Does Beto, who must know this, expect the
result to be different in Texas, Wyoming, or Florida? Earlier this week, the Democratic-controlled House of
Representatives was unable to marshal enough votes to pass a ban on the sale of "assault weapons" — let alone to
mount a confiscation drive. Sorry, Robert Francis. That dog ain't gonna hunt.
What Do You Mean, 'We'?
Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke, the former congressman from Texas who couldn't beat Ted Cruz in a U.S. Senate race but who
nevertheless believes he can win the presidency, said a curious thing at the Democrats' third primary debate in Houston on
Thursday night. "Hell yes," he said, "we'll take your AR-15 and your AK-47 ..." As I say, curious. Who
exactly, I wonder, does Beto mean by "we"? A legion of overgrown adolescent 6-foot-4 rich-kids like him, collecting rifles
on skateboards? Or does he mean the United States government, under his command? If he intended the latter, then a
little history lesson might be in order.
Cruz
Criticizes PolitiFact for Claiming O'Rourke Doesn't Plan to 'Take Our Guns'. Texas senator Ted Cruz took aim at
fact-checking website PolitiFact on Friday, criticizing the site for having previously claimed that Democratic presidential
candidate Beto O'Rourke does not plan to "take our guns" after O'Rourke explicitly suggested otherwise at Thursday night's
Democratic debate. [...] "Just a reminder, when I said it, PolitiFact (a wholly-owned subsidiary of the DNC) rated 'Beto
wants to take our guns' as FALSE," Cruz wrote in a tweet. "Maybe they should buy one of his new t-shirts," he added,
along with a picture of a shirt being sold by the O'Rourke campaign which reads, "Hell yes, we're going to take your AR-15."
O'Rourke:
USA Should Date Its Creation to 1619 When First Slaves Came, Not to 1776. Asked why he is the most qualified
candidate to address the nation's racial "divide," Beto O'Rourke slammed President Trump as a white supremacist and said the
United States should mark its founding, not on July 4, 1776, but on August 20, 1619, "When the first kidnapped African
was brought to this country against his will."
The Editor says...
Slaves were not "kidnapped Africans." They were sold into slavery by other Africans, after losing inter-tribal wars.
Beto
Asks Banks to Boycott Gun Industry. Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke on Thursday called on big
banks and other financial institutions to cut off business with gun companies in an effort to bankrupt them. "Credit
cards have enabled many of America's mass shootings in the last decade — and with Washington unwilling to act,
they need to cut off the sales of weapons of war today," O'Rourke tweeted.
This man is a buffoon. Beto
O'Rourke declares 'right' to live close to work; rich should 'be forced' to live among poor. Presidential
hopeful Beto O'Rourke says it is a fundamental "right" for individuals to live near their place of employment and that
wealthy Americans should "be forced" to live among the poor. "Living close to work shouldn't be a luxury for the
rich. It's a right for everyone," the former Texas congressman tweeted Monday evening [9/9/2019].
O'Rourke:
El Paso Shooting Came 'At the Invitation of Our President'. Beto O'Rourke (D.) accused President Donald Trump
of inviting mass shootings during an appearance Saturday [9/7/2019] at the New Hampshire Democratic Party State Convention.
The former Texas congressman said the El Paso shooter, who killed 22 people, was a product of America's racist culture and
Trump's racist rhetoric. "This person drove 600 miles with that hatred, really at the invitation of our president, and
opened fire with that AK-47 on innocent people in a Walmart, killing 22 of them and grievously wounding many dozens more,"
O'Rourke said.
Beto
is sticking to the 'Stacey Abrams was robbed' conspiracy theory. Beto O'Rourke this week claimed, without
evidence (because there is none), that failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams was robbed of the governor's
mansion in 2018. This is a lie, of course, and a contemptible one that undermines our democracy. But at least
it is a step up from the former congressman's campaign attempts to make his response to mass shootings go viral.
Beto
Claims Warnings Against His Anti-Gun Platform Are 'Not Helpful' Because They're 'Self-Fulfilling'. Democratic
presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke criticized opponents of his recent proposal for the federal government to seize firearms
from American citizens, arguing that the warning that it could lead to violence is unhelpful. "I just, I think that kind of
language and rhetoric is not helpful," O'Rourke told The Daily Beast on Wednesday. "It becomes self-fulfilling —
you have people on TV, who are almost giving you permission to be violent and saying 'you know, this is, this is going to happen.'"
A Perfect
Distillation of Beto O'Rourke. O'Rourke's campaign has wandered about the political wilderness in pursuit of
some transcendent "moment," one that might elevate it above that which it most plainly is: an ego trip for Robert Francis
O'Rourke, who will not be the Democratic nominee, and never, in truth, was anything more than an heir to the Jon Ossoff mania
that so exercised a certain sort of MSNBC viewer. The Blue Wave has come and gone, but Beto O'Rourke has not.
Beto
O'Rourke reaffirms dark gun control plan — and says it won't be voluntary. Democratic presidential
contender Beto O'Rourke reaffirmed his vision for gun control Sunday in the wake of another shooting tragedy in Texas that
left seven people murdered and nearly two dozen others injured. "What we've been saying, the rhetoric we've been using,
the policies and practices and politics of this country has not been as urgent enough as needed. Doesn't meet this
crisis," O'Rourke said on MSNBC. "So let's speak clearly and bluntly and then take decisive action: Universal
background checks, red flag laws, ending the sales of weapons of war, but also importantly, and politically difficult to say,
buy those weapons of war back. Mandate that. Not voluntarily," O'Rourke continued
Desperate
for Attention, Beto Drops 'F-Bombs' All Over the Place. It's hard to know what constituency Democratic
presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke is targeting by dropping F-bombs all over the media landscape. Normally, I'd guess
high school hipsters but they can't vote. Maybe Beto is trying to sound "working class" — power to the
effin' worker and all that. But let's face it, Beto doesn't look or sound "working class." He looks and sounds
like a nerdy folk singer — which is exactly what he was.
Crowd
Cheers When Beto O'Rourke Voices Support For Day-Before-Birth Abortion. The Far-left Democrats continue to
reveal their true sick and twisted selves every day. This time, Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke told a man during a
campaign event that he supports a woman's right to kill her baby even just one day before birth. [Video clip]
Beto
O'Rourke Campaign: Breitbart Won't Be Banned from More Events. Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke's 2020
campaign, under heavy fire for ejecting Breitbart News senior editor-at-large Joel Pollak from an event on Tuesday
[8/27/2019], has confirmed it will not remove Breitbart News reporters from the candidate's future events, according to a
report. Earlier Wednesday, the O'Rourke campaign claimed a staff member booted Breitbart News senior editor-at-large
Joel Pollak from a speech at Benedict College, a historically black college in Columbia, South Carolina, in an attempt to
protect black students.
Beto
O'Rourke Campaign Claims [a] Breitbart Reporter [was] Ejected to Protect Black Students. The
flailing 2020 presidential campaign of former Rep. Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke (D-TX) claimed Wednesday [8/28/2019]
that a staffer ejected Breitbart News senior editor-at-large Joel Pollak from a speech at Benedict College, a historically
black college, to protect black students. In a statement Wednesday, O'Rourke's press secretary, Aleigha Cavalier,
attempted to defend against the growing controversy stemming from Pollak's removal, claiming that while the candidate
"believes in the right to a free press," Breitbart News "walks the line between being news and a perpetrator of hate speech."
The Editor says...
You attend an all-black school, and then you accuse others of racism?
Beto
O'Rourke Supporters Boo [a] Man for Urging America to Return to God. Supporters of Beto O'Rourke heckled a man
at a campaign event who urged the former congressman to lead America back to more Christian values to reduce violence.
The man stood up and addressed O'Rourke at a town hall event at Seminar Brewing Company in Florence, South Carolina.
Trump
Campaign, GOP, Media Respond to Beto Ejecting Breitbart News Reporter. Members of the Trump campaign, media,
and GOP reacted to Beto O'Rourke (D) ejecting a Breitbart News reporter from his speech at Benedict College in Columbia,
South Carolina, Tuesday, calling O'Rourke a "fraud" and adding that his action is an "attack on a free press."
O'Rourke, who has lauded himself as a champion of a free press, had Breitbart News's Senior Editor-at-Large Joel Pollak
removed from his event at Benedict College Tuesday, with a member of his campaign claiming that Pollak had been "disruptive"
at past events — an assertion that is patently false.
Beto
Says U.S. to Blame for Guatemala Drought, Not God or 'Mother Nature'. Beto O'Rourke, a former congressman from
El Paso, Texas, knows for certain that Guatemala's drought is the result of carbon emissions more than one thousand miles
away. He knows for certain that neither God nor Mother Nature is responsible for the drought because ... science!
"And Guatemala suffering one of the greatest droughts in their recorded history, caused not by God nor by Mother Nature, but
by you and me and all of us and our emissions and our excesses and our inaction in the face of the facts and the science and
the truth," O'Rourke told the crowd at the College of Charleston in South Carolina Monday evening [8/26/2019].
The Editor says...
If you're wearing a MAGA hat outside a Portland bar at 1:00 a.m., it would be news if you didn't come under attack.
Beto
O'Rourke says abortion on day before a full-term birth is 'a decision for the woman to make'. Presidential
contender Beto O'Rourke said he believes the decision to have a third-trimester abortion should be up to women, and not men
or the government. The 46-year-old Texas Democrat was speaking at the College of Charleston as part of the school's
"Bully Pulpit" series, and was asked a question by a man in the audience about third-trimester abortions.
Move
over, Beto O'Rourke. Elizabeth Warren is the new plush profile queen. Sorry, Beto O'Rourke. The
press has found another. Like a speed-dater, newsrooms have moved on already. They have shifted the focus of
their plush, overly friendly media profiles away from the former Texas congressman to a hopefully more suitable match:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
Beto:
Trump Leading a 'Concerted, Organized Attack Against' People of Color. Sunday [8/18/2019] on NBC's "Meet the
Press," 2020 presidential hopeful former Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-TX) said President Donald Trump was engaged in a
"concerted, organized attack against immigrants, against people of color."
Is Beto O'Rourke
actually running for office? Is Robert Francis O'Rourke actually running for president? Don't misunderstand
me. I am fully aware that he remains, nominally, one of the 400 different generic white guy moderates currently seeking
the Democratic nomination. What I am asking is whether he actually wants to win. I am wondering because Beto recently
announced that he will not be campaigning in Iowa or New Hampshire, the states in which the earliest of these things called
"primary contests" are held.
Don't
Be Fooled, Omar and Tlaib Maliciously Set Up Israel Ban. On July 17, 2019, Democrat Congresswoman Ilhan Omar
introduced a pro-BDS movement resolution on Capitol Hill. Her colleague, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, co-sponsored the
resolution and compared the Israeli treatment of Palestinians to how the Nazis treated European Jews during World War II. She
made the horrific and false accusation during a speech on the House floor. One day later, Omar and Tlaib announced they
were planning a trip to Israel. Coincidence? Hardly. The order and timing of events here is crucial and
proves their goading of Israeli officials was a set up from the beginning.
O'Rourke
gun plan calls for mandatory buybacks, universal sale checks. Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke,
having resumed his campaign, detailed a plan Friday to curb gun violence by imposing a national gun licensing system and
registry, and a mandatory buyback program for assault weapons.
After
Spending $79 Million on Senate Run, Beto Says Senate Seat Not 'Good Enough'. Less than a year after he spent
$79 million in his attempt to get elected to the U.S. Senate, former Democratic congressman Robert "Beto" O'Rourke now
says a Senate seat isn't "good enough." O'Rourke, who came out on the losing side of the most expensive Senate election
in U.S. history last cycle, is being urged by many on his side of the aisle to abandon his presidential bid in favor of another
shot at a Senate seat, this time against incumbent Republican senator John Cornyn. He told supporters in his hometown
of El Paso on Thursday [8/15/2019] he wasn't interested.
The Editor says...
If you voted for Robert F. O'Rourke rather than Ted Cruz, you should be deeply disillusioned, now that he admits
that a mere Senate seat isn't prestigious enough for someone like him.
Beto
Is Asked If Trump Voters Are Racist. He Refuses To Answer. Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-TX) avoided
opining on whether or not he believes that the Americans who decide to vote for President Donald Trump in the 2020 election
are themselves racist. "I think it's really hard," O'Rourke responded to CNN's Jake Tapper on Sunday when confronted
with the question. The presidential hopeful quickly pivoted to argue why he believes President Trump is racist, an
assertion that he has repeatedly made since launching his bid for the presidency, but ramped up in the wake of back-to-back
mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio.
Beto O'Rourke goes all-in against the "deplorables".
Because Beto ran as an outspoken lefty in Texas last year and nearly pulled off the upset of the decade, he "learned" that
you can't go wrong being your outspoken left-wing self. That was ... not the right lesson for a national primary in
which the left side of the field is crowded with an avowed socialist and several socialist-adjacents, all of whom are better
known than O'Rourke.
Beto O'Rourke: Nazi-Obsessed
Goofball. One week the Democratic presidential candidate compares a Trump rally to the infamous Nazi rally in
Nuremberg. In another he compares America itself to the Third Reich, saying, ["]The only modern Western
democracy that I can think of that said anything close to this is the Nazi Germany.["] [...] (News flash:
Nazi Germany was a dictatorship, not a "Western democracy.")
Trump
Goes After O'Rourke: Beto Is 'a Phony Name to Indicate Hispanic Heritage'. The opportunism and sheer evil
of Democrats is quite a sight to behold. Nobody in their right minds truly believes that Trump "inspired" this attack,
just like nobody believes that Elizabeth Warren inspired the equally horrific mass murder in Dayton, Ohio, which was —
after all — carried out by a radical leftist. But do we see and hear any conservative pointing a blaming finger
at her, arguing that this act of domestic terrorism was caused by her political views?
Beto
O'Rourke on Texas shooting: Trump 'has no place' in El Paso. 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Beto
O'Rourke, who is from El Paso, Texas — the location of a mass shooting where more than 20 people were killed in an
apparent racist attack — said Monday that President Donald Trump is not welcome there. O'Rourke, who has
repeatedly labeled Trump a "racist," said that Trump helped create the tragedy in El Paso.
Beto
O'Rourke proposes $500 billion fund in plan to address 'structural inequity' in education. Democratic presidential hopeful
Beto O'Rourke on Wednesday [7/24/2019] released a plan intended to close socioeconomic gaps in schools across the country, including a
$500 billion fund to address what his campaign called a "structural inequity" in the country's education system. [O'Rourke
quote omitted for brevity, among other things.] Mr. O'Rourke's campaign said there is an annual $23 billion funding gap
between "predominantly white and predominantly non-white" school districts. The plan also entails a federal ban on corporal punishment
in schools, money for schools to implement "restorative justice" programs, and a requirement for teacher prep programs "to address racial
bias and cultural competency."
Your Sunday
schadenfreude. Senator Ted Cruz faced down and won re-election in a heated campaign against not just a fake
Hispanic pretty boy named Robert Francis O'Rourke, he defeated an intense propaganda offensive undertaken by Texas and
national media. That propaganda was not enough to convince Texas voters to hand a majority to O'Rourke, the
already-wealthy populist who married an heiress to an estimated half billion-dollar fortune.
How Beto
Made Himself into White-Privilege Guy. Robert Francis O'Rourke is white. If it's any consolation, he's
very sorry about that. "Beto" has been running from his Irish ancestry for some time now. Long before the Left
fell headlong into the logical termini of its triune fascination with race, power, and privilege, O'Rourke sensed that there
was a currency to be had in becoming "Beto" rather than "Robert Francis."
Beto
O'Rourke reveals that both he and his wife Amy are descendants of slave owners. Democratic presidential
candidate Beto O'Rourke said he was recently given documents showing that both he and his wife are descendants of people who
owned slaves. In a post Sunday night for the website Medium, the former Texas congressman wrote that the documents
showed that one of his paternal great-great-great grandfathers owned two women, named Rose and Eliza, in the 1850s. He
said records also showed that one ancestor of his wife, Amy, owned slaves while another was part of the Confederate Army.
A
desperate Beto O'Rourke goes for broke, claims America was founded on white supremacy. A failing campaign makes
a man desperate, and Beto O'Rourke surely is a desperate man. The former Texas congressman was asked this week at
roundtable event featuring immigrant and refugee participants to explain how President O'Rourke would fight white supremacy
in the United States. "I know this from my home state, Texas, places that formed the Confederacy, that this country was
founded on white supremacy," the poorly polling 2020 Democratic primary candidate responded. He added, "And every
single institution and structure that we have in this country still reflects the legacy of slavery and segregation and Jim
Crow and suppression, even in our democracy." Remember: O'Rourke was addressing immigrants and refugees.
Welcome to America, you idiots.
'This
country was founded on white supremacy': Beto O'Rourke speaks with Tennessee immigrants. On his second day of
events in Nashville, Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke met with immigrants and refugees living in Tennessee on
Monday [7/8/2019] for a roundtable discussion. O'Rourke, a former Texas congressman, first held a rally at Marathon
Music Works on Sunday, drawing hundreds of supporters to the campaign event where he largely focused on immigration and
decried President Donald Trump's policies on detaining migrants at the southern border.
O'Rourke
to visit Mexico, meet turned away US asylum-seekers. In his first international trip as a White House hopeful,
the former congressman will visit Ciudad Juarez, across the Rio Grande from his native El Paso, Texas, on Sunday to view what
he calls "the desperate circumstances" some are fleeing.
The Editor says...
Anyone who runs for President of the United States should be primarily concerned with the citizens of the United States, including such matters
as providing for the common defense against the very people to whom Beto is pandering. To put it another way, whose side
is he on? He is attempting to campaign, or at least generate photo ops, on the Mexican side of the border.
Beto
Has Flash, Lots of Trust Fund Cash, and Little Else. Why was Robert O'Rourke — "The Beto," as I like
to call him — even on Wednesday night's "debate" stage in Miami? How was it a debate when everyone
there — including the moderators! — peddles almost identical anti-American and anti-nationalist
policies? Answer: because The Beto is a creation of the Democrat Media Industrial Complex (DMIC). He
is a kind of political Chia Pet: water him, nurture, cultivate, and voila, you have a liberal "icon."
The Democrat
debate farce. During the first night's debates on NBC among ten of the Democratic presidential contenders,
Robert "Beto" O'Rourke answered a straightforward question in Spanish, without even translating his answer. This was a
startling and amateurish moment considering that no one knew what he was talking about, and he did not even bother to
explain. Cory Booker looked at him sidewise as did an obviously surprised Elizabeth Warren, though neither laughed
although his sudden excursion into a foreign language was excruciatingly funny. Putting forward an idea you consider
vastly important in a language that only a few understand is the height of hilarity.
The
Myth and Fraud That There Ever Was an Arab Country or People Called 'Palestine'. [Scroll down] Others on
the same bandwagon: Robert O'Rourke, a Scottish-Irish skateboarder best known for break-ins, drunk driving, computer
hacking, faking Hispanic heritage, and having his ear hairs cut. Bernie Sanders, an American Communist. What
these and their ilk all have in common is that they each see nothing anti-Semitic in anything that Ilhan Abdullahi Omar or
Rashida Tlaib has written or spoken, but they are unable to tolerate Jewish life in Judea and Samaria.
Democrat O'Rourke
proposes 'war tax' on affluent U.S. families without military members. Democratic presidential candidate Beto
O'Rourke on Monday [6/24/2019] proposed taxing affluent American families who do not have members in the U.S. military as a
way to fund healthcare for veterans. The former congressman from Texas unveiled a plan for military veterans that
includes a "war tax," in which taxpayers who earn over $200,000 a year would pay $1,000 in a new tax for each war embarked on
by the United States.
Beto:
U.S. Must Help Minor Illegal Immigrants Get Abortions. On Saturday [6/22/2019], former Rep. Robert Francis
"Beto" O'Rourke, a candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, harped on the old liberal canard that President
Donald Trump is somehow turning America into the dystopia in The Handmaid's Tale. This time, he compared the Trump
administration's policy of refusing to facilitate abortions for illegal immigrant minors to oppressive systematic rape to
produce children. Speaking at the Planned Parenthood Action Fund forum "We Decide," O'Rourke made the ridiculous
comparison while pandering to abortion activists in a desperate attempt to revive his faltering presidential ambitions.
O'Rourke:
'I Don't Know That Anybody Deserves to Have a Billion Dollars'. Former Texas congressman Robert Francis "Beto"
O'Rourke suggested no one deserves to have a billion dollars during an interview with the New York Times. "I don't know
that anyone deserves to have a billion dollars," O'Rourke told the Times when asked if anyone deserves to have that much money.
It is unclear if O'Rourke thinks his father-in-law, who is estimated to be worth $500 million, deserves his money.
Double Standards?
HBO is planning to enhance Beto O'Rourke's chances of garnering the presidential nomination in 2020 by airing a documentary
about his Senate race against Ted Cruz. I'm not exactly sure how showing a skateboarding, middle-aged, dunce lose an
election in which he out-spent his opponent by millions of dollars is supposed to burnish his image, but I guess HBO figures
it can't hurt to get on the good side of Democrats. Democrats, after all, have a long record of doing favors for their
friends in Hollywood, in the teacher's union, in Silicon Valley, in the solar panel industry and in the hood.
Beto
O'Rourke says white Americans don't know the full story of slavery, continues to support reparations.
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke took an unconventional approach to reaching out to African-American voters
Friday, meeting with a small group representing a community of slave descendants in South Carolina and saying white Americans
do not know the full story of slavery. O'Rourke spent Friday [6/14/20919] at a Baptist church in Beaufort, S.C., where
the former Texas congressman met with leaders of the Gullah/Geechee Nation, a culture of coastal slave descendants whose
separation from the mainland allowed them to retain much of their African heritage, including a unique dialect and skills
such as cast-net fishing and basket weaving.
Two-thirds
of Texas Democrats want Beto O'Rourke to quit 2020 race. A majority of Democrats in Texas believe it would be
best if Beto O'Rourke stepped down from the 2020 presidential race to run for Senate, with many claiming they are skeptical
that the former Texas congressman could beat President Trump. By a margin of 60% — almost two-thirds — to 27%, those
polled expressed a desire that "O'Rourke should challenge Republican incumbent U.S. Sen. John Cornyn in the 2020 U.S. Senate
race, rather than continue his campaign for president," according to a Quinnipiac University poll published Wednesday [6/5/2019].
Report: Beto Is a Bad Friend.
Roll Call reports that O'Rourke is "very likely" to support the Democratic candidate who wins the nomination to
challenge his friend and former colleague, Rep. Will Hurd (R., Texas). The move would represent a capitulation to
partisan critics who challenged O'Rourke's decision to remain neutral during the 2018 midterms, in which Hurd won re-election
by a narrow margin.
Beto O'Rourke
Announces "Voting Rights" Plan. O'Rourke's plan is built around three parts. One would focus on
increasing voter turnout. The plan would allow same-day voter registration. Twenty states and Washington DC allow
same-day registration now. Sixteen and 17 year olds would be automatically pre-registered. The second part would
"remove barriers within our democracy." O'Rourke would ask Congress to make voting day a national holiday, extend early
voting and expand vote-by mail. O'Rourke says he would also try to circumvent state voter ID laws, asking the
Department of Justice to end "draconian" laws.
The Editor says...
Beto is full of meaningless rhetoric like "barriers within our democracy." There are no barriers within our democracy.
Anyone who considers Beto's insipid claptrap to be at all plausible is a malleable dupe who should not vote at all.
Beto
O'Rourke clings to life in crowded Democratic presidential field. By all accounts, Democratic presidential
candidate Beto O'Rourke has lost his mojo. He has slipped in the polls, is dismissed as a lightweight by much of the
news media, and now serves as a punchline for late-night talk show hosts who used to fawn over him. And yet he is
clinging to a handhold in the race that could give him a path to the nomination if he can hang on into 2020.
In
need of cash, Democratic presidential hopefuls turn to wealthy donors. Last month in Manhattan, Beto O'Rourke
held a private reception for supporters who had paid the maximum amount to his campaign or brought in as much as $25,000 by
persuading others to do the same. It was the first such fundraiser of O'Rourke's presidential bid — and a
contrast from the early days of his campaign, when he emphasized that he had "no large-dollar fundraisers planned, and I
don't plan to do them."
Let's
Count The Times Beto Has Flip-Flopped On Impeachment. Beto O'Rourke is nothing if not consistent. By
consistent, I mean he can change his position on any issue on a moment's notice, and he usually does. Thursday Beto
cashed in on a renewed enthusiasm from his party to impeach President Trump. In order to provide cover for himself,
O'Rourke told supporters in a fundraising appeal via email that he was openly in favor of the impeachment of President Trump
last year. He was for taking a stand before he was against it. Now that he has lots of company in support of
beginning impeachment hearings, he is all for it again.
Beto's two-headed
climate change fallacy. Rising star presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke has put out his own version of the
Green New Deal. It is milder than AOC's monstrosity but it is still a multi-trillion dollar monstrosity. Unlike
the GND, and perhaps wisely, Beto's fantastical blueprint has no name. In the interest of simplicity, let's just call
it his Climate Change Plan. Warning: on my computer it is printed in white letters on a black background, like an
obituary, which it sort of is. Rather than deal with the impossible details, it is important to look at the fundamentals,
which for a change are clearly stated. They reveal a two-headed fallacy. This fallacy drives the entire new wave
of desperate green measures presently being called for, by Beto, AOC, and a host of other world-changers in waiting.
Beto O'Rourke's
sweeping immigration plan will make border crisis 'much, much worse': Texas attorney general. Democratic
presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke has introduced a sweeping new immigration plan as a centerpiece of his campaign, but his
home state's attorney general said the proposals would make the situation at the border "much, much worse." O'Rourke's
plan, introduced on Wednesday [5/29/2019], outlines three main areas in which immigration can be improved: by abolishing family
separation policies, working with Congress to reform the system, and investing money in Central America to stem the number of
migrants coming from those countries.
MSNBC's
Nicolle Wallace to Beto O'Rourke: What Can We Do to Better Cover Your Candidacy? While interviewing
Democratic presidential candidate Robert O'Rourke, MSNBC's Nicole Wallace let their mask of impartiality slip as she asked
him how the network can better serve him. "Play media critic, what can we do better, those of us trying to cover your
candidacies, from very far away from where the first votes will be cast in Iowa and New Hampshire," Wallace asked, getting a
chuckle out of the failed senate candidate.
Ratings for that
CNN town hall with Beto were busto. It was supposed to be part of the relaunch of Beto O'Rourke's fading
Democratic primary campaign to recapture the empty charisma he showed while live-streaming his dental cleaning. The
hour-long town hall on CNN was more of a re-fizzle. The abysmal overnight audience ratings proved the ancient show biz
adage about customers: If they don't want to come, you can't stop 'em.
Right out
of the gate, Beto goes low. The guy with the skateboard was not at all above board at CNN's town hall
appearance on Tuesday night. The very first question dealt with restoring "global leadership" post-Trump and Beto
O'Rourke swung away at the current president, unhindered by facts or the toxicity of his words. He claimed Trump
described immigrants who come to the United States as "rapists and criminals." At no point has President Trump made such a
blanket declaration of all immigrants. He has rightly noted that there are rapists and criminals coming over the borders.
Beto
O'Rourke peddles false claim that Trump called asylum-seekers 'animals'. Former U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, a
candidate for the Democratic Party's 2020 presidential nomination, used a televised town hall event Tuesday night to spread
the debunked claim that President Trump called asylum-seekers "animals." The remarks from the former congressman from
El Paso, Texas, came in response to the first question during the CNN event, which took place in Des Moines, Iowa, capital
of the state where the first caucuses of next year's election season will be held.
From
Beto to Zero in Six Months. So how did Beto O'Rourke go from being the golden boy of the media to a goat in
just six months? [...] So why were there no skeptical or critical pieces about O'Rourke when he was running for the Senate in
Texas last year? Couldn't be media bias could it? Back then he was running against the hated Ted Cruz, but now he
doesn't check off enough correct identity boxes and is running against a field of much more entitled Democrats, so media
liberals have decided to trash him.
Beto
O'Rourke: 'I don't have complete confidence' Trump was elected fairly. Democratic presidential hopeful Beto
O'Rourke pointed to Russian hacking of Florida voter registration information as support for his suspicions about the 2016
presidential election. When asked in an MSNBC interview Saturday [5/18/2019] if he was confident President Trump had
been elected fairly, the former Texas congressman agreed the use of propaganda on voters and electoral system breaches gave
him doubts.
The Editor says...
[#1] Nobody has used misleading propaganda to try to get elected more than Robert F. O'Rourke. [#2] Nobody
has taken advantage of "electoral system breaches," i.e., dead voters, than the Democratic Party.
Beto O'Rourke
Claims Stacey Abrams Lost 'Rigged' Election. Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke joined his fellow 2018 loser Stacey
Abrams in claiming Republicans succeeded in rigging her election. In an appearance with the ladies of 'The View,'
O'Rourke made a claim previously described by Democrats as "a direct threat to our democracy." He accuses Brian Kemp,
who defeated Abrams to become Georgia governor, of suppressing votes and fixing the process to benefit himself.
Beto
O'Rourke's dumber-than-dumb cult of personality branding. Pollster Frank Luntz went on Fox News and said that
basically, looking at the numbers, Beto O'Rourke was running the dumbest presidential campaign, well, ever. There's an
understatement, if there ever was one. "All of Beto was about him," Luntz said on Fox. "It wasn't about policy,
it wasn't about politics. It was cult of personality."
Beto
O'Rourke claims border crisis caused by climate change. Former Texas congressman and 2020 Democratic primary
candidate Robert "Beto" O'Rourke is in a tough spot. There is no real, animating principle behind his White House
bid — nothing deeper than "Hey, why not me?" — and the people who billed him last year as the latest,
greatest, most exciting political prodigy since former President Barack Obama have taken notice. Never mind that
O'Rourke's vacuity was obvious when he ran against Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. How major newsrooms managed to miss
this even as they built up the Democratic candidate as God's gift to the electorate is anyone's guess.
Beto
O'Rourke blames climate change for the crisis at the Mexican border. Democratic presidential candidate Beto
O'Rourke said climate change is a reason so many Central American migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border. "These
storms, these floods, the historic wildfires that we saw in California, the droughts through which our farmers in Texas
attempt to persist to grow the food and the fiber that feeds and clothes not just this country but the world, are going to be
exponentially worse going forward," O'Rourke, a former Texas congressman who represented El Paso, said at a campaign stop
Thursday [5/9/2019] in Salem, N.H.
Rashida
Tlaib criticized over 'twisted' comments on Palestine, the Holocaust. Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib was
criticized over the weekend by House Republicans for comments she made about Jews moving into Palestine after the
Holocaust. Speaking on the Yahoo News podcast "Skullduggery" on Friday, the Michigan lawmaker, a Palestinian American,
said, "It was my ancestors — Palestinians — who lost their land and some lost their lives, their
livelihood, their human dignity. Their existence, in many ways, had been wiped out. "I mean, just all of it was
in the name of trying to create a safe haven for Jews, post-the Holocaust, post-the tragedy and the horrific persecution of
Jews across the world at that time."
Impeachment is the last resort of losing Democratic campaigns.
Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke's campaign for the Democratic nomination is not getting the traction his team likely hoped it
would. As a result, they are searching out shiny objects to spark interest in the Democratic base for his 2020 White
House bid. This week, they dusted off a talking point from his failed 2018 Senate campaign in Texas, and they are using
special counsel Robert Mueller's two-year Russia investigation as the hook. As a presidential candidate, O'Rourke is
now officially calling for the impeachment of President Trump. Of course, he is not the first of the Democratic 2020
candidates to do this — Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., took that distinction — but better late
than never, right?
Oh,
Beto, we hardly knew ye. The once wunderkind from El Paso has lost his shine of late, and is now being eclipsed
polling-wise by a Midwestern mayor whose sexual predilection scratches off one of the Democrats' diversity boxes.
Perhaps O'Rourke's gringoish nickname is no longer fooling liberal voters; after all, his baptismal name of "Robert Francis"
is the kind of icky Anglo-Irish stuff that is de trop in the diversity party. Or, in a crowd of divas and inflated egos
with legs, maybe Beto O'Rourke's assumed qualities no longer stand out.
Beto
O'Rourke says he'd put Stacey Abrams in charge of combating voter suppression. Former Texas congressman Beto
O'Rourke says he'd put former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams in charge of combating voter suppression if elected
president. Speaking to supporters in Fort Worth on Friday [5/3/2019], O'Rourke said he had a conversation on the subject
with the rising star in the Democratic Party. "I called her to thank her for all the work that she's doing on voting
rights. And making sure that every person in this country can vote. And that every vote counts in this country,"
O'Rourke said. "We talked about how in our states of the former Confederacy, really ever since the end of reconstruction,
we have drawn people out of their ability to participate in this Democracy."
The
Mainstream Media Has Broken Up with Beto O'Rourke. One of the more epic romances of the past couple of years
seems to have come to an end. No official statement has been released, but the signs are everywhere. The
mainstream media seems to have moved on from its 2018 heartthrob, one Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke. O'Rourke himself
doesn't seem to be aware of it yet, but the signs that the MSM have found another are everywhere.
Beto O'Rourke Blew It.
Beto O'Rourke has flamed out. It's not just me saying it. Polls have shown him slipping for weeks and on
Wednesday Quinnipiac confirmed the worst. The one-time wonder Beto O'Rourke is at 5 percent, behind every other
first-tier candidate. You can thank, or blame, women who make up almost 58 percent of the primary electorate for Beto's
decline. Disproportionately, they don't like him. According to my unscientific poll asking every woman I see,
Beto reminds them of the worst boyfriend they ever had: self-involved, convinced of his own charm, chronically late
if he shows up at all, worth a meal or two but definitely not marriage material.
Appealing to his base: Beto
O'Rourke Ran Targeted Facebook Ads in Mexico. The presidential campaign for Beto O'Rourke targeted social media
advertisements at individuals in Mexico, according to Facebook transparency tools. Facebook has for the past year
allowed users to see, using the "info and ads" tab, where a group is targeting its sponsored posts. A screenshot of
O'Rourke's page captured by the Washington Free Beacon last Friday revealed he was paying to have certain posts viewed by
Facebook users in Mexico. Among the posts O'Rourke paid to blast out to Mexican users was an invitation to his Tuesday
campaign stop at the Jacobs Center in San Diego, Calif.
Beto
O'Rourke on Wildfires, Flooding, Drought: 'This Is Not Caused by God'. Robert "Beto" O'Rourke, one of 20 people
running for the Democrat presidential nomination, went to Yosemite Valley on Monday [4/29/2019] to announce what he calls
"the most ambitious climate plan in the history of the United States." [...] O'Rourke said his goal is to make sure that
"every sector of the economy," not just the energy sector, contributes to his net-zero greenhouse gas emissions plan.
And he promised to lift up poor and minority communities in California's Central Valley, "which is bearing the brunt of
climate change consequences."
The Editor says...
Mr. O'Rourke's vague assertions about the alleged impact of "climate change" don't change the facts. The climate isn't
changing enough for anyone to notice, and even if it did, it would affect everybody. No specific state or county would "bear
the brunt" of world-wide changes. But a "climate change" of one degree per century is practically nothing, and
most of the change is due to natural causes anyway.
Why
Activists Are Blasting Beto O'Rourke's Climate Change Plan. Presidential hopeful Beto O'Rourke unveiled his
environmental agenda in California's Yosemite Valley Monday [4/29/2019], declaring it "the most ambitious climate plan in the
history of the United States" — only to have the proposal immediately assailed by environmentalists who said it
does not go far enough. Under the plan — which would includes $1.5 trillion investment intended to
"mobilize" an additional $5 trillion over 10 years — O'Rourke says the United States can achieve
net zero emissions by 2050.
The Editor says...
Apparently the goal is "zero emissions" of carbon dioxide, which is a pointless goal, and impossible anyway. You're
exhaling carbon dioxide right now!
Beto
O'Rourke's 'Ambitious Climate Plan' Is Even Worse Than the Green New Deal. On Monday [4/29/2019], former
Rep. Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke (D-Texas) released a climate change plan rooted in big government, based on utterly
unrealistic expectations, and stuffed with intersectional pablum. In fact, O'Rourke's plan is arguably worse than the
Green New Deal sponsored by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). O'Rourke's Alt-GND suggests a complete revamp
of the economy is easy, comparatively cheap, and will bring more prosperity without any trade-offs. Ocasio-Cortez's
Green New Deal is a resolution, a first step toward pushing climate change legislation geared toward rebuilding every
building in America (who said anything about property rights?), making energy production net-zero by 2050 (cave men lived
without electricity, after all), and leveling out America's many inequalities.
Could
A Woman Candidate Have Gotten Away With Taking A "Road Trip" Like Beto O'Rourke Did? [Scroll down] Beto
sold his barnstorming tour as a "road trip" because he knows that he has a cultish core fan base that's elevated him to icon
status. They'd be interested in his emotional journey! Trump and Obama also benefited from cultish followings.
Bernie's cult may exceed even Trump's in terms of their passion for their candidate. Which women in American politics have
enjoyed a genuine cult of personality, though? The only one I can think of is Sarah Palin. (Hillary is an icon of a
sort but lacks the populist appeal of which true personality cults are made.)
After
flailing around in Yosemite, Beto O'Rourke tells Chris Hayes we have 10 years left. As Twitchy reported
earlier, Beto O'Rourke announced his plan to deal with climate change and immediately took a lot of heat from devotees of
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez' Green New Deal, which proceeds from the idea that we have only 12 years (well, 11-and-a-half now)
to reverse climate change before human extinction. O'Rourke was shooting for a zero-emissions future by 2050, long after
we'd all be dead. Since it was climate change day, O'Rourke then released a video of himself at Yosemite National Park,
flailing his arms around and spouting some nonsense. [Video clip]
Beto
O'Rourke calls for ethical farm-to-table restaurants in every community. Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke called
for the establishment of farm-to-table restaurants in every community to combat poor nutrition. Farm-to-table
restaurants are part of a socially-conscious movement favored by wealthy urbanites that often feature small, elaborately
designed fare from local farms and are typically very expensive. The Democratic presidential candidate made the gaffe
at a Friday [4/26/2019] event hosted at a brewery by the Nevada State Democratic Party in Henderson, a Las Vegas suburb.
The Editor says...
There would already be "ethical farm-to-table restaurants in every community" if such an idea were commercially feasible.
Obviously they are not, so Beto's proposal is to have the government set up and maintain unprofitable restaurants everywhere.
Brilliant!
Beto
O'Rourke Might Halt New Oil and Gas Drilling on Federal Land. Former Texas Congressman Beto O'Rourke said
Thursday [4/25/2019] he's willing to consider a moratorium on new leases to drill for oil and gas on federal lands as a way
to help combat climate change.
Beto
O'Rourke describes illegal immigration as 'modern-day bondage'. Former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke suggested
illegal immigrants were akin to slaves during his Saturday afternoon remarks to the Service Employees International
Union. "[With] Immigration. Millions [are] living in the shadows, working some of the toughest jobs, lucky to
make a minimum wage. Some not even making that," O'Rourke told the audience of roughly 200 labor union members,
organizers, and activists at Las Vegas' Enclave venue. "Kept in modern-day bondage, their immigration status used as
leverage to keep them down from fully participating in this country's success."
Beto
Looks Done As He Draws Hilariously Small Crowd At UNLV. Has Beto experienced failure to launch? It sure
looks that way. He had a rally setup for Friday [4/26/2019] on the campus of UNLV. The advertisements featured
him stomping on cars like a revival preacher. Whoever owns that SUV isn't going to be happy about the big dents he put
in the roof.
A Couple Dozen People
Go To Beto Campaign Event. Former Texas Rep. and current presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke had a small crowd
for a campaign event at the University of Nevada Las Vegas on Friday [4/26/2019]. "Around 35 people here to see Beto
O'Rourke at UNLV," Emma Kinery, a Bloomberg reporter tweeted. "The rally was supposed to be held in the courtyard outside,
but students told me no one is on campus on Fridays bc it's mainly a commuter school."
The Editor says...
The show's over, Beto. Get off the table!
Robert
'Beto' O'Rourke Pledges ICE Will Not Deport Like Trump and Obama. Democrat presidential hopeful Robert "Beto"
O'Rourke pledged Wednesday [4/24/2019] that under his presidency U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will not
deport people like the Trump and Obama administrations have.
Beto's
Top Advisor Quits Campaign. Poor little Bobby Francis O'Rourke. His 2020 presidential campaign's top
advisor just quit and took her deputy with her today [4/20/2019]. BuzzFeed News reports that Becky Bond, a progressive
activist who has been with "Beto" since his 2019 senate race, has left his presidential campaign.
Beto
O'Rourke says he's returning campaign contribution from Chevron lobbyist. Beto O'Rourke was confronted by an angry
voter in New Hampshire Friday morning [4/19/2019] over a contribution he accepted from a fossil fuel lobbyist. The exchange
between O'Rourke and the woman unfolded during a town hall at a tea cafe in Somersworth, N.H., after it came out that the 2020
Democratic presidential hopeful received a $250 donation from a Chevron lobbyist based in New Mexico on Mar. 29. The
Texas Democrat has repeatedly fundraised on the basis that he has no ties to special interest groups.
Why
the Media Dumped Beto for Mayor Pete. The Buttigieg boom has also benefited from the stumbles of our previous
political shooting star, Beto O'Rourke. Was it only weeks ago that the press began swooning for O'Rourke like a drunken
conventioneer, writing about him with the same frequency it does for Buttigieg today? The things that once seemed so
appealing about O'Rourke to the press — the generalities, the platitudes, the offhanded charisma, the rolled-up
sleeves — seem off-putting now. The clearest sign of the press corps' O'Rourke infatuation was its routine
reference to him by his first name in its stories — something it has moved on to doing with Buttigieg. Such
shameful and transparent familiarity.
O'Rourke
Compares Service in Congress to Charitable Giving. Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke likened his
service in Congress to contributions to charity on Tuesday [4/16/2019] when responding to a critic of his low charitable giving.
The former Texas congressman has taken heat over his 2017 tax return showing he and his wife Amy gave $1,166 out of their $366,455
adjusted gross income that year to charity, a giving rate of just 0.3 percent. A town hall questioner at the University
of Virgina asked O'Rourke why her sister, a recent college graduate, made far less than he did but gave more to charity. "I've
served in public office since 2005," he said. "I do my best to contribute to the success of my community, my state and now, of
my country. There are ways that I do this that are measurable. And there are ways that I do this that are immeasurable."
Beto
O'Rourke Says His Campaign Sacrifices Make Up for Miserly Charitable Donations. Fake Hispanic Beto O'Rourke was
confronted at a town hall about his miserly campaign donations and responded in such a narcissistic fashion, I suffered a
Barry Obama flashback. According to his tax returns, since 2008, the Irishman O'Rourke has donated less than one
percent of his considerable income to charity. In 2017, he earned a healthy $366,455, but his reported charitable
donations totaled just $1,166. In other words, he donated less than one-third of one-percent to charity. Over the
last ten years, the Irishman O'Rourke reported an average annual income of $340,613 but "donated an average of just $2,430 to
charity per year during that time, or 0.7 percent," reports The Washington Free Beacon.
Beto O'Rourke
was asked why he doesn't donate much to charity. He responds that his 'sacrifice' is running for office.
Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke and his wife don't give that much of their income to charity, but he says that's OK since he's
spent so much of his life running for and holding public office. Here's the background: Recent analysis of tax
documents from 2020 Democratic presidential candidates puts O'Rourke at the bottom of the list of Democratic donors to
charity. In fact, the O'Rourkes reported donating only $1,166 out of $370,412 in 2017. That's 0.3 percent.
When asked about the paltry percentage at a recent campaign event in Virginia, the Texas Democrat countered by saying that he
gives in ways that can't be quantified on a tax return, like running for president.
Beto O'Rourke Donated
Just 0.7% of His Income to Charity Since 2008. When it comes to raising money, former congressman and failed
Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke is a force to be reckoned with. However, when it comes to charitable giving, O'Rourke's
personal contributions are far from generous — typically less than 1 percent of his total income. O'Rourke
earned $366,455 in 2017, according to his tax returns, which he posted on his campaign website on Monday [4/15/2019]. That
same year, he reported charitable donation of just $1,166, or 0.3 percent of his total income. That's even less than
rival Democratic candidate Kirsten Gillibrand reported giving to charity on her 2018 tax return. Gillibrand, who earned
$217,634 last year, donated just $3,750 to charity, or 1.7 percent of her total income.
A few kind words from National Review: 'Beto'
and Other Names in Politics and Life. Beto O'Rourke, the ex-congressman from El Paso, has decided to run for
president. He is being teased for jumping on counters, to talk to voters in diners. He is also being teased about
his name: "Beto." What's he trying to get away with? He's no Hispanic. He's Robert Francis O'Rourke. [...]
As a rule, people have a right to the name of their choice, I believe. They also have a right to the pronunciation of
their choice. Again, this is a rule: We could think of exceptions, as to almost any rule. Incidentally,
O'Rourke pronounces his name "Bet-o" rather than "Bait-o."
Beto
O'Rourke accuses Trump of 'incitement to violence' against Ilhan Omar with 9/11 tweet. Democratic White House
hopeful Beto O'Rourke accused President Trump of inciting "violence against Congresswomen Omar." The former Texas
congressman's comments came at a campaign event in South Carolina on Saturday [4/13/2019] after Trump tweeted a video of remarks
by Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. O'Rourke said that the video tweeted by Trump on
Friday [4/12/2019] is another example of the administration targeting women and minorities.
The Editor says...
The Trump administration has criticized a loudmouth Muslim Congresswoman who appears to be disloyal to the United States. Islam has declared
war on the U.S. long ago, and the Congresswoman has chosen to stand with Islam. The attack on New York City and other sites on 9/11/2001 was
an act of war. Nothing that Mr. Trump said could be construed as incitement to violence, except by a poorly-educated simpleton. As
another U.S. President
once said, "You are either with us, or with the terrorists."
Beto
O'Rourke's 3 Lies That Will Cost Him the Election. [#3] Trump Put Kids in Cages: This is the biggest lie
of the bunch. Before we destroy it, we'll acknowledge that under President Trump, immigrant children have been
separated from their families. That's the closest thing to a tinge of truth in Beto's statement. Here's the real
breakdown. The separation of families at the border is a law that was written by Democrats, signed into law by
President Clinton and then upheld by Democratic judges in the 9th Circuit. It isn't President Trump's policy
at all, and anyone who paid any attention would know that this practice happened under Obama's 8 year reign.
The change that President Trump introduced was to get rid of the actual cages. Maybe you've seen a picture circulating
of children in chain-link cages? That was under Obama's Administration. It was Donald Trump who ended that
practice. Beto isn't stretching the truth on this one. He's telling as big a lie as there is.
Inside
Beto O'Rourke's Million-Dollar Apartment Deal With A Campaign Donor. The month before he launched his Senate
campaign against Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke offloaded an El Paso,
Texas, apartment complex that he valued in financial disclosures at between one and five million dollars. The buyers
were Patricia "Isha" Rogers and her husband, Steve Santamaria, public records show. Rogers is an old family friend and
campaign donor for both Beto's and his father's political campaigns.
Being 'Not-Trump' is not enough.
While Trump has been cold and boorish, O'Rourke has tried to seem warm-hearted and sensitive. Trump shouts. He
listens. Beto's arms windmill, his eyes are doleful and his mouth is overflowing with right-on sentimentality.
Asked if he would back attempts to mandate that when babies survive abortions they should be kept alive, for example, he said
Americans should trust women to make decisions for their own bodies, as if this was a profound answer to the question and not
just blather. Hearing clichés spout from him like water from a broken dam makes you wish that he had never left
his youthful edgelord days, when his poems about godlike cows and genitals did at least express some kind of personality.
If you had a slim chance of securing the nomination you would think you would do something to stand out a little: draw
attention to neglected issues, for example, or offer original policies.
The Editor says...
The farmer's fair share of his crops is 100 percent. The farmer owns all of his crops, his animals, his
tractors, and his buildings. Socialists either misunderstand, or they abhor, the concept of private property.
Don't
Worry, Israelis: Beto Knows What You Want Better Than You Do. Nearly a month after Beto O'Rourke
announced his candidacy for president, the Texas Democrat has yet to articulate any meaningful views on policy. His
campaign is a series of empty platitudes, lacking any substance. To the extent that O'Rourke discusses actual issues,
he just calls for debates or national conversations to determine what to do, no matter the subject. Interested in
concrete solutions to the problems facing the American people? Do not look to O'Rourke, who, during six years in the
House of Representatives, sponsored no major legislation and only passed three bills. Even liberal and leftist
publications have castigated O'Rourke for his lack of specifics, arguing he has no clear agenda or ideology. As the
Atlantic reported last month, while the candidate wants to offer hope that America can rise above its partisanship and
hateful politics, "he hasn't landed on how he'll propose to actually make that happen."
WaPo
Gives O'Rourke 'Three Pinocchios' for Claim U.S. Has Spent '27 Years' in Iraq. The Washington Post's
fact checker gave Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke a "Three Pinocchios" rating for claiming the United States
been involved in Iraq for "27-years." O'Rourke has repeatedly denounced America's "endless wars" since announcing his
campaign for president last month. The "political math" utilized by the Texas Democrat to measure the length of those
wars, however, caught the Post's attention as inaccurate.
O'Rourke:
Netanyahu A 'Racist' Prime Minister, Defies Prospects Of Peace. Democrat presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke
had harsh words for Israel's prime minister at a recent rally. While speaking in Iowa City Sunday, O'Rourke slammed
Benjamin Netanyahu's policies in Israel by saying the prime minister defies the prospects of peace in the region.
Netanyahu is up for reelection and Israeli voters are set to head to the polls Tuesday [4/9/2019]. O'Rourke called
America's relationship with Israel "one of the most important on the planet," which must transcend a "racist" prime minister.
Beto
O'Rourke's Israel Comments Are Astoundingly Bad And Only Help Antisemitic Radicals. Former Texas Congressman Robert "Beto"
O'Rourke has proven he's willing to jump in radical camps when it comes to various issues, but the latest one falls in line with a
problem of antisemitism that the Democratic party has been having lately. To be clear, I'm not accusing O'Rourke of being an
antisemite himself, but he seems to be playing right into their hands. According to O'Rourke Israel is too in league with
Republicans and following Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu down a bad path because, as O'Rourke claimed, Netanyahu is racist.
Reality
bites Beto after high-flying kickoff. Between the prom proposal from a young admirer, the long lines for
photographs and the conservative tracker recording his every word, Beto O'Rourke had all the hallmarks of a top-tier
candidate during his latest swing through Iowa. Yet by the time he left the state on Sunday, it was also clear that the
euphoria that greeted O'Rourke's entry into the race three weeks earlier has started to subside. The inevitable slog of
competing in a packed Democratic primary is underway, and O'Rourke has not yet drawn the wave of national adulation from the
left that his Senate run against Ted Cruz last year received.
Beto
O'Rourke compares Trump administration rhetoric to Nazi Germany. Democratic 2020 contender Beto O'Rourke on
Thursday [4/4/2019] compared President Trump's rhetoric regarding immigration to that of Nazi Germany. Speaking to
reporters in Iowa, the former congressman — in response to a question about how he would address attacks from
Republicans — called out "the rhetoric of a president who not only describes immigrants as rapists and criminals
but as animals and an infestation."
Democrat
Beto O'Rourke Calls Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu a 'Racist'. Democrat presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke
called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a "racist" on Sunday, telling an audience in Iowa that the U.S.-Israel
relationship must "transcend a prime minister who is racist."
Beto O'Rourke Is Fauxbama.
"Let us be clear: we will not be defined by our fears or the smallness of our differences; we will instead be known by our
ambitions, our aspirations and the resolve, the creativity, the service and sacrifice by which we will have achieved them,"
O'Rourke says on Twitter, delivering the kind of pre-chewed pablum Obama could have delivered, and probably did. It's
possible to get excited about this kind of thing, but it takes some doing. "Whatever our differences — where
you live, who you love, to whom you pray, for whom you voted in the last election, let those differences not define us or
divide us at this moment," O'Rourke said at his El Paso campaign kickoff. "Let's agree going forward, before we are
anything else, we are Americans first." As if anyone was saying we were Hungarians first.
FEC:
Beto O'Rourke Funneled $110,000 in Campaign Funds to His Web Development Company. Democrat 2020 presidential
candidate Beto O'Rourke funneled roughly $110,000 in campaign money to a private web development company he and his wife
owned at one time while he served as a congressman, according to FEC rules. O'Rourke's campaign, Beto for Texas,
donated money to Stanton Street Technology Group in several different election cycles.
Why
Beto and Buttigieg Pretend to Be Kennedys. The generation of politicians that immediately followed John F.
Kennedy — John Kerry, John Tunney and even Republicans like John Lindsay — tried so hard to emulate JFK
that they enacted impersonations: fastening the top button of their suit jackets to flap in precisely the same patterns
as his, chopping the air with their hands like he did, extending their necks to mimic his chin-in-the-air stance at the
lectern. In more recent years, such candidates felt freer to adopt their own mannerisms but their political posture
remained pure JFK: that of the young and earnest outsider, alone on the stage, a prince suffused in a golden aura of
charisma. Now, as the 2020 contenders emerge from the wings, the Kennedy ghost is alive again, mostly in the person of
former Texas Rep. Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke. [...] He even shares Bobby Kennedy's first two names.
Beto
O'Rourke: Amnesty for Illegal Aliens Will Make Angel Families 'Demonstrably Safer' in U.S.. Former
Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-TX), a 2020 Democrat presidential candidate, says giving amnesty to all 11 to 22 million illegal
aliens will make American citizens — and specifically, the Angel Families who have lost loved ones to illegal alien
crime — "demonstrably safer" in the United States. During a town hall in Iowa this week, O'Rourke was
asked about the thousands of Angel Families who have lost children, parents, grandparents, relatives, and friends to crimes
committed by illegal aliens living in the U.S.
Beto
O'Rourke: As President I Would 'Absolutely' Sign Slavery Reparations Bill into Law. Wednesday [4/3/2019]
MSNBC played a clip of 2020 Democratic presidential primary candidate Beto O'Rourke at the Nation Action Network's
convention. O'Rourke was asked if he would sign Sheila Jackson Lee's bill which would consider reparations proposals
for Africans-Americans.
Amateur
Hour in the Democrat Primaries. Former Texas Congressman Robert O'Rourke, known as "Beto" did diddlysquat in
Congress and lost his recent senatorial race to Senator Ted Cruz. O'Rourke was arrested for burglary and leaving the
scene of an accident in the 1990s. He is known for writing erotic verses about cows, and eating dirt after his loss to
Ted Cruz. (I would have eaten crow or humble pie, but not dirt.) Beto fed his wife feces telling her it was avocado.
That says much about him and his wife. Evidently, Beto thinks of himself as a wit and he may be half right. He
supports abolishing the Electoral College, packing the Supreme Court, and will consider reparations. He has apologized
for many zany and dumb statements, even for being born.
AP
offers correction after reporting Beto O'Rourke spoke 'in his native Spanish'. The Associated Press faced
backlash on social media Monday [4/1/2019] after writing that Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke spoke "in his
native Spanish" at a rally in El Paso, Texas. Although O'Rourke speaks Spanish, he a fourth-generation Irish-American
whose full name is Robert Francis O'Rouke. The AP report originally wrote: "O'Rourke also spoke at length in his
native Spanish, eliciting loud and sustained cheers."
Beto
Goes Full Leftist In Campaign Launch Tour. Back when he was running to unseat Ted Cruz, O'Rourke appeared to
walk a fairly careful line, sticking to a more moderate approach on some issues so as not to scare off the independents and
right-leaning centrists he would need to win a statewide bid the Lone[ S]tar State. Now that he's running for
national office, all bets are off. Beto is free to be Beto and he was out there pounding away at some of the hottest
liberal takes in the 2020 race.
Beto
O'Rourke confronted by black voter on opposition to reparations. Democratic candidate Beto O'Rourke was
confronted by a black voter for his opposition to "traditional reparations" for slavery. "Why should I, as a black man,
vote for you when you oppose reparations?" O'Rourke was asked at a campaign event at USC on Friday, which was posted online
Wednesday [3/27/2019], according to Mediaite. A day after O'Rourke announced he was running in the Democratic primaries
earlier this month, the Associated Press reported he was not in favor of compensatory payment to descendents of slaves.
Loser
grievance culture grips the left - and empowers the losers in the Democratic Party. [Scroll down] Well,
then there is our third loser, Beto O'Rourke. Now he's treated like the crown prince of Texas, despite suffering a
significant defeat at the hands of Ted Cruz in the Texas Senate race. Remember, he had the whole landscape of the media
behind him and spent all this money. But Beto has issues grasping reality. "You have a president, who, in my
opinion, beyond the shadow of a doubt, sought to however ham-handedly collude with the Russian government, a foreign power to
undermine and influence our elections," he said to supporters.
Still Dreaming of Watergate
II. [Scroll down] Naturally, the grand prize goes to the vapidest person ever touted as a presidential candidate
in my 63 years as an observer of American politics, Beto O'Rourke. Just before the revelation that there would be no
further indictments, Beto asserted his knowledge "beyond the slightest doubt" that the president was guilty, in effect, of high
treason — that he would only escape the death penalty because the United States and Russia were not at war. (But neither
were they when Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed in 1953.) And the day Trump was completely cleared of the collusion
suspicion, O'Rourke declared that the investigation of Trump must continue.
It's already clear who the
Democratic presidential nominee will be in 2020. If you read or watch political news these days, you've
probably already realized the Democrats' presidential nominee next year will be Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke. So
great was the media's adulation over that campaign launch this month that his selection seems preordained. So, you have
to wonder why Democrats are going through the painfully divisive and expensive process of staging primaries to determine who
will actually face President Donald Trump in 84 weeks.
Hunt
for Blue November: Democrats would sooner destroy America than lose to Trump in 2020. Perhaps in other
less delusional periods of American history, Beto the marionette, who gesticulates as if his strings were being yanked by an
epileptic after a tasing, would be seen for what he is. Exactly what that might be is hard to nail down, but it is
certainly not presidential material. Yet the fact that so many Democrats and media have worked themselves into
collective hysteria over this guy, whose most notable career moves to date are marrying an heiress, writing exceptionally bad
poetry and losing to Ted Cruz in the Texas Senate race, speaks volumes as to how shallow the Democratic bench is, where a
host of other unlikely players include Elizabeth 'Pocohantas' Warren and Bernie 'the multi-millionaire Socialist' Sanders.
Delusional: Beto
O'Rourke: Beyond A Shadow Of A Doubt, Trump Sought To Collude With Russia. Is this really from today, not
from the campaign trail in Texas last year? I can't believe any Democrat would have the stones to double down on
collusion the morning after we find out that not only won't Trump be indicted for conspiring with Russia, none of his inner
circle will either.
The man certainly has a propensity for emotional outbursts. Beto
O'Rourke: If Mueller Report Is Held, America May Not See 244th Year. Democrat 2020 candidate Robert
"Beto" O'Rourke warned from the campaign trail in South Carolina Friday night there may not be another year of America if the
Mueller report is not made public. "Republicans and Democrats should do whatever they can to make sure their
constituents, the American people, can read that report, form their own judgement, make their own decisions, and that the
truth comes out," O'Rourke said at a campaign stop in South Carolina Friday [3/22/2019].
And a Bronx Bartender Shall
Lead Them? [Scroll down] The vaporous Beto, who appears to be totally free of any policy positions beyond
all-we-need-is-love, is a current favorite among Democrats for reasons known only to themselves. After decades of
covering politicians, I thought I would never encounter an emptier suit than Florida's Charlie Crist. But Beto is about
as light as Charlie.
Why are 2020 Democrats
so weird? [Scroll down] Meanwhile, there is Beto. I don't particularly care that in 1988 the young
Robert Francis O'Rourke posted some erotic verses about cows [...] online. I didn't even know until yesterday that
there was such a thing as "online" in 1988. Nor am I going to get all worked up about his weird murder spree fantasy story,
which is the kind of thing stupid teenagers write every day. But what I do want to know is whether he actually took a
handful of green feces, put it in a bowl, and served it to his wife once, telling her that it was avocado. Asked by a
journalist recently to confirm the anecdote, which had been reported by a supposed friend of the candidate, he responded that
while he didn't remember this happening it "sounds like the kind of thing I would do." Come again? If you fed
excrement to the mother of your children, I feel like you would recall. I almost certainly think she would.
If there was ever something to lie about as a politician, this is it.
Who
anointed Beto O'Rourke to be our political saviour? He did. One of Beto's favorite books is The Hero's
Journey, an overview by the literary theorist Joseph Campbell of Campbell's theory of heroic myth. [...] A lot of Beto
O'Rourke's more puzzling decisions, like his choice to run for president, make sense once you learn that he is a fan of
Campbell's work. He sees himself as a hero, anointed for greatness as if by divine or supernatural forces, and he feels
a deep conviction that he is destined for bigger things. This is why, in the fawning Vanity Fair profile that heralded
his presidential announcement, Beto made numerous references to film and literary epics. Famously, of his run for
president, Beto said, "Man, I'm just born to be in it," a statement of his own sense of anointedness that sounds less like a
serious assertion of political purpose and more like the kind of faux profundity that a teenager would say after a gurgling
bong rip.
Beto
O'Rourke grilled by Penn State student: 'When am I going to get an actual policy from you?'. A student at
Pennsylvania State University confronted Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke this week for giving potential
voters "platitudes and nice stories" instead of solid policy proposals. [...] "When am I going to get an actual policy from
you instead of just platitudes and nice stories?" the student asked. Mr. O'Rourke responded by saying he's running
his campaign on issues such as criminal justice reform, marijuana legalization and universal health care.
'He's Apologized
For Being Born': Bloomberg Takes On Beto's Unusual Campaign Approach. Former New York City Mayor Michael
Bloomberg poked fun at Democrats running for office Thursday night [3/21/2019] while explaining his reason for not jumping
into a crowded presidential race. One of the prerequisites for running in 2020 is the need to go on an apology tour,
Bloomberg said during a Bermuda Executive Forum in New York. The billionaire businessman gave former Vice President Joe
Biden and former Texas Democratic Rep. Beto O'Rourke as examples of politicians willing to prostrate themselves.
Major
Obama Fundraisers and a Former Obama Aide Embrace Beto for 2020. What Beto O'Rourke lacks in policy chops, he
seems to make up for in fundraising abilities. During the 2018 midterms he amassed a war chest of $80 million dollars.
After officially launching his 2020 presidential bid, he raked in over $6 million in 24 hours. Now Beto
has attracted some of Obama's top funders and a former Obama aide.
A
Brief Survey of 2020's Psychotic Democratic Roster. [Robert F.] O'Rourke, who has zero accomplishments as a
Texas congressman, has captured the hearts of some mindless citizens and millions of Hollywood dollars, to which effect he
got close to beating Ted Cruz in 2016. But he has a creepy history of weird behavior: he was part of a hacking conclave,
he eats dirt, he plays vicious pranks even on his wife, and he wrote about running down happy children when he was a teen.
He was arrested for burglary, for a DUI, and for leaving the scene of an accident. The Democrats don't care about such
things, since the Kennedys were guilty of all that and much more. But clearly, this man is not presidential material.
His only stated policy is to legalize marijuana and invalidate all arrests for crimes related to use or sale of it.
More Commentary on O'Rourke.
[Scroll down] He's NOT a strong supporter of gun rights but believes in relaxed restrictions on immigration, marijuana,
LGBTQ rights, protecting DREAMers, impeaching and indicting Trump, and taking a knee by pro athletes during the anthem.
He also supports single-payer universal health care, abortion, and gay marriage.
Beto
Just Can't Stop Leaping On Countertops To Deliver Speeches. For some reason, Robert "Beto" O'Rourke just can't
stop leaping onto counters and tables in restaurants and coffee houses to deliver speeches as he tours the country on his
2020 presidential campaign. The 46-year-old Texas Democrat does it so often, it's become a thing, as in a memey thing
on the interwebs.
The 4 Contradictions
of Beto O'Rourke. [#3] Debt = bad, domestic spending = good. O'Rourke last night [3/19/2019] not only
doubled down on his previous criticisms about the size of federal deficits and debt, he did so while denouncing overseas
wars, occupations, and nation-building: [...] Does the once and future New Democrat blame anything else besides war for the
size of deficits and debt? Yep: Tax cuts. That was it, last night at least. Meanwhile, he's out there
touting a Medicare expansion program that in his own words would be "measured in the trillions of dollars."
Robert Francis O'Rourke, Reloaded. Like Mr.
Obama, who said he could "probably do every job on the campaign better than the people I'll hire to do it," Mr. O'Rourke
seems to suspect he's the smartest man around. In his Senate race, he made a point of not hiring consultants or
pollsters. He could pull that off in Texas — though he lost the election — but running for president is a
bigger enterprise by orders of magnitude. To win, Mr. O'Rourke must build a team of smart people and listen to
them. That requires leadership and management skills that may be beyond the reach of a punk-rock musician turned
web-services small-business founder turned politician — unless he changes tack.
Disturbing
Details Emerge On Bizarre Behavior From Beto O'Rourke, Report Says. A new profile piece from The Washington
Post on Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke documented multiple instances of highly disturbing behavior from the
failed Senate candidate, including eating dirt and taking poop from his kid's diaper and putting it into a bowl and telling
his wife that it was an avocado. The piece specifically focused on Beto's marriage to his wife Amy, who indicated that
she was not exactly thrilled to be in a marriage that was so heavily involved in politics. Buried deep in the article
was a paragraph that documented his "'Psycho'-style scares in the shower," and another bizarre incident from their marriage.
Stick
a Fork in O'Rourke. No one has ever heard or seen anything like this candidate: a hyperactive limb-flailing
imbecile, babbling compulsively in a torrent of extremist nonsense barely couched in comprehensible syntax. No idea is
too stupid to be endorsed in terms of absolute finality: "If we do not abolish all fossil fuels within twelve years,
everything on the planet will be dead. The scientists are 100 percent united on this. Just as Americans of
the past had to fight at Normandy, we have to fight this now, and save our planet." It does not require an immensely
sophisticated political scientist to see that there are a few problems with that sequence, as there are with all Beto's
sentences, and with his much more numerous and even more idiotic non-sentences. [...] The media of America will not allow
this asinine mockery of a presidential campaign to go another week before it picks up this wild, scrawny, noisy,
incoherent nincompoop and shreds him.
Keywords: oaf, lout, boor. Baristas
to Beto O'Rourke: Come On Man, Get Off Our Counters. When Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke
arrived for a campaign stop at Beancounter Coffeehouse in Burlington, Iowa, he hopped right up on the shop's counter and
addressed the masses below. During a visit to Narrow Way Cafe in Detroit, Michigan, O'Rourke grabbed a microphone and
scrambled up onto the counter. At Sing-A-Long Bar and Grill in Mount Vernon, Iowa? You bet he got up on that
counter. Critics have accused O'Rourke of running on a vague political platform. But there's one platform the
Democratic hopeful openly stands on: the sturdy countertops of Midwest cafes. After a week of stump speeches from a
perch next to the cash register, Beto's countertop habit has become a meme. And some of the nation's baristas are
asking him to please get down from there.
'Beto'
O'Rourke Not Sure if He's 'Bi-Cultural'. Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke said this weekend that he is not sure
if he is "bi-cultural." "I live in a bi-cultural community. My folks and their parents and generation that preceded
them were from all over Europe so I don't know if I would consider myself bi-cultural if you're asking US and Mexico, but I'm
very proud to live in a bicultural community," O'Rourke reportedly told reporters days after formally entering the 2020
presidential race.
Beto's jaw-dropping
windfall quiets critics. One great question surrounding Beto O'Rourke has been whether he could replicate the
massive fundraising totals he mustered in the Texas Senate race last year. On Monday [3/18/2019], O'Rourke put any
doubt to rest, announcing that in the first 24 hours of his campaign, he had raised a staggering $6.1 million.
Keywords: weird-o, pagan, fruitcake. Report:
Beto O'Rourke Ate Dirt with Fabled 'Regenerative Powers' After Losing to Ted Cruz. A new report on 2020
Democrat presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke's marriage to real estate heiress Amy Sanders O'Rourke reveals the former Texas
congressman indulged in some bizarre cuisine following his failed U.S. Senate bid in Texas. O'Rourke, who in January
launched a five-state road trip across the Southwest, found himself eating dirt told to possess "regenerative powers" during
one stop in New Mexico, according to the Washington Post. The newspaper said he also brought some of the dirt
back home to Texas for the family to eat, as well.
Beto chows down.
Breitbart reports that, after being defeated by Ted Cruz, Beto made his way to New Mexico, where he ate a portion of some
kind of magic dirt supposedly possessing "regenerative powers." It appears that he also took some home for the family.
AP
debunks Beto O'Rourke claim that world has just 12 years to combat climate change. The Associated Press has
thrown cold water on an increasingly popular Democratic talking point: That the earth has just 12 years to stave off
climate doomsday. "There is no scientific consensus, much less unanimity, that the planet only has 12 years to fix the
problem," said the AP in a Monday fact-check. The wire service weighed in after former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke
made the 12-year claim as he kicked off his run for the Democratic presidential nomination last week in Keokuk, Iowa.
O'Rourke
faces sharp backlash from left. Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas) has faced sharp backlash from
progressives in the days since his presidential campaign launched to great fanfare last week. Left-leaning Democrats
have criticized O'Rourke for a string of comments made in a Vanity Fair story preceding the opening of his campaign and in
his subsequent days on the trail. Some of the remarks — such as O'Rourke's statement to Vanity Fair,
referring to the presidential race, that he was "just born to be in it" — have fanned complaints that the Texan is
blinded by "white privilege." Others have brought charges of sexism or male privilege. O'Rourke's nonchalant quip
that his wife cares for the couple's three children "sometimes with my help" irked a number of the former Texas congressman's
critics, who saw it as belittling.
The
unbearable lightness of Beto. Beto O'Rourke is the Democratic front-runner today because he stands for
nothing. In the first 24 hours of his presidential race, the former congressman from El Paso raised
$6.1 million. That's a record haul, and to date, it is the most meaningful objective measure of support in
the crowded Democratic primary field. Polls this early measure only name recognition. Beto is the
front-runner. The question is why. The answer is bleak.
Whatta Bunch of Phony Baloneys.
Let's start with Beto the Skate-o. [...] Turns out that this guy is the Most White Privileged Male in the whole country!
How many Americans know this about "El Beto"? [#1] Mom was stepdaughter of President John F. Kennedy's
Secretary of the Navy. [#2] Mom was a business owner. [#3] Dad was a county commissioner, county
judge, tight with the Texas Governor, and was Texas state chairman of two Presidential campaigns: Jesse Jackson 1984 and Jesse
Jackson 1988. (Run, Jesse, Run!) [#4] Once Dad got to know Jesse Jackson and all his backers really well, Dad
switched parties and became a Republican. [...] [#5] After two years at a public high school in El Paso, "Beto"
was moved to The Woodberry Forest School, a foo-foo, high-falutin' private all-male boarding school in Virginia whose alumni include,
oh, the brother of George W. and Jeb Bush, the actor Randolph Scott, a former National Security Advisor, a boatload of Congressmen,
a bunch of powerhouse corporate CEOs, and a New York Times film critic. [#6] Then he went to my alma mater,
Columbia University, where he co-captained the crew team. [#7] He graduated college in May 1995 and was arrested
in May 1995 for burglary back in Texas. Was locked up. Seven months later the charges were dropped. [...]
[#8] Three years later the "Kennedyesque" Beto was arrested for driving while intoxicated, fortunately not on a
bridge. He crashed into a truck so hard that the impact sent his car careening across the center median and into oncoming
traffic — and he then tried racing to get away without being caught by the cops.
Why Beto is a Beta. Beto O'Rourke is
about to launch a presidential campaign off the back of a failed Senate bid. He's not the first to do so —
Abraham Lincoln famously followed exactly that path to the White House. But nobody else is Lincoln, and Beto is hardly
anyone at all: as a contender for the 2020 Democratic nomination, he's the 'not' candidate. He's not the most
electable. He's not the most left-wing. He's not a woman or a minority. He's not the most wonkish
candidate. [...] But he's not particularly experienced either, of course, after just three terms as a congressman and another
six years before that as an El Paso city councilman. O'Rourke's advantage lies mostly in the fact that he's the most
photogenic male on the Democratic side. That and a bit of self-delusion is all it takes for some voters and many
pundits to convince themselves that he's the next Bill Clinton, the center-left's Goldilocks: left-wing but not too
left-wing, appealing beyond the blue base, and a youthful star on the rise.
Beto
O'Rourke, The Ultimate Limousine Liberal Gen Xer, Announces For Prez. [Scroll down] In other words, 2020
contender Beto is getting a heavy lift from the media. Expect this to continue throughout the election, unfortunately.
Of course, perhaps his candor and coolness is a double-edged sword — a selling point that makes profiles of him
oh-so-colorful that media ilk just can't resist churning them out, and a cringey furtherance of limousine liberal stereotypes
that make him far too mockable on Twitter.
For
Latinos, 'Beto' O'Rourke is just another privileged white guy trying to manipulate them. I've distilled it
down. And that's basically the refrain I've heard from dozens of Latinos who — unlike the news media, run by
white liberals who are fascinated by other white liberals — refuse to go loco for Beto. They're concerned
that Robert Francis O'Rourke, 46, who on Thursday joined an already-crowded field of 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls,
is trying to put one over on Latinos by tricking them into thinking he's one of them. Or, at the very least, they think
that his strategy, or that of his handlers, is to come across to Latinos as a simpatico who connects with them the way that
Bill Clinton — whom writer Toni Morrison mischievously dubbed "our first black president" — connected
with African-Americans. At least until Barack Obama came along, and the Clinton machine tried, and failed, to
destroy him. So is that the deal? Is O'Rourke aiming to become America's first Latino president?
Beto O'Rourke says nothing in
his past will hinder 2020 run. Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke told supporters Sunday that he's
never taken LSD and there's "nothing" he hasn't already revealed about his past that could come back to hurt his run for
office. The former Texas congressman — who has become known for his propensity for using the
"f-word" — also promised again to clean up his language, despite breaking such past vows.
Beto
O'Rourke: Ban AR-15 Sales in America. During a weekend interview presidential hopeful Robert Francis
"Beto" O'Rourke said AR-15 sales should be banned in America. This is a continuation of the anti-Second Amendment
campaign O'Rourke conducted in his failed 2018 Senate bid. For example, in February 2018 interview with CBS News
O'Rourke supported banning bump stocks and made clear his belief that AR-15s ought not be sold in America.
Reuters
Journalist Withheld Damaging Info About Beto O'Rourke Until After Senate Race. Reuters bragged Friday
[3/15/2019] about its scoop that Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke was once involved in a notorious hacker
group, but revealed in the process that one of its reporters willingly sat on the story until after O'Rourke lost his Texas
Senate race to incumbent Ted Cruz. Reuters' Joseph Menn reported exclusively Friday morning that O'Rourke, a former
member of Congress and the latest Democrat to join the 2020 presidential race, had a secret membership in an infamous hacking group.
Beto: Sorry About
All That Kid Murdering Stuff. Yesterday [3/15/2019], Ed looked at recent revelations about newly minted
presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke's early history as a "hacktivist" with the Cult of the Dead Cow. Since any crimes
he committed with the group are long since past the statute of limitations, he has little to fear there. But some of
his published writings from that period are also coming to light and leading to questions. Most notable thus far is a
short piece of fiction that involves the narrator murdering a large number of people, including children that he runs down
with a car. The political press reluctantly asked him about it during one of his many campaign stops in Iowa and
O'Rourke at least owned up to it.
Weirdo O'Rourke.
The former El Paso congressman's spastic "Hey, I'm still figuring out these new hands" presidential-kickoff video, in which
his upper limbs appeared to be subject to mad random yanks by an angry puppeteer, was merely the latest odd detail in the
saga of Weirdo O'Rourke. It was even weirder than Elizabeth Warren's "Greetings fellow earthlings, I too enjoy
fermented malt beverages!" video. Robert/Beto is a man so apart from other human beings that he recently thought
nothing of ditching his wife and three kids so he could drive around the country, alone, accosting unsuspecting dentists to
help him apply Novocaine to his aching soul. He might be the first person ever to run for the White House on a platform
of asking the nation to help him figure out who he is. The source of the angst is evident: Beto is a brainless
rich kid who yearned to be cool and wasn't very good at it. He flunked out of punk. He failed as a fiction
writer. He belly-flopped as an alternative-newspaper publisher. And he's so clueless that his apartment was once
robbed while he was sitting in it.
Beto the Buffoon.
During his online announcement speech, O'Rourke warned that the United States faces "maximum peril," but the nation remains
the "the last great hope of Earth." At a speech in Iowa, O'Rourke warned that "not to be dramatic, but literally, the future
of the world depends on us right now." In other words, if Americans do not elect Beto as their next President, the world
may self-destruct. Clearly, this candidate is a total clown.
Beto O'Rourke
apologizes for jokes about wife, says he has benefited from 'white privilege'. Beto O'Rourke said Friday night
that he had been wrong for joking at several events in his first two days campaigning in Iowa that his wife has been raising
their three children "sometimes with my help." The former congressman from Texas, who launched his bid for the 2020
Democratic presidential nomination Thursday, addressed the remarks during a recording of the podcast Political Party LIVE! in
Cedar Rapids. The comments triggered complaints from Democratic operatives and activists, many of them women, that
female candidates could never similarly joke about their roles raising their children.
Beto
is the poor man's Obama — Dems can do better. [Scroll down] Surprisingly, the personification
of coming from a privileged family hasn't hurt the candidate. To an astonishing degree, Beto taps into the inner
workings of the Democratic base even more than intersectional candidates like Kamala Harris and Cory Booker. He is an
aimless product of privilege with a short resume and the added benefit of his wife's millions. He can skateboard, he
can play guitar, he can make being unemployed look like an adventure. He can call in favors to get away with Aggravated
DWI and fleeing the scene. For aspiring white trust funders just dropping off the keys at the Austin U-haul station,
Beto speaks to them — for them — in a profound and shallow way.
Dr.
Drew says 'something's not right' with Beto O'Rourke. Beto O'Rourke's announcement he's running for president
may have captured the hearts and minds of many Democrats who believe he can beat President Trump in 2020, but as far as TV's
Dr. Drew Pinsky is concerned, "something's not right" with the former congressman. "I thought that was Tony
Robbins," Pinsky, a board-certified internist and addiction medicine specialist, said on the "Brian Kilmeade Show" in
response to audio of O'Rourke's presidential announcement video. "I'm just saying, there's something gonna go down
there. I can feel it coming. I don't know what it is... There's something not right," Pinsky said.
America
Deserves Much Beto than O'Rourke. Funded with mega-millions from outsiders, O'Rourke's entire U.S. Senate
campaign was built upon deceiving voters. For example: While claiming to be pro-Second Amendment, great deceiver
O'Rourke voted against every piece of pro-gun legislation that came to his desk. To deceive voters into believing he is
a regular guy, millionaire O'Rourke posted video of himself in a laundromat doing laundry. O'Rourke came disturbingly
close to scamming Texans into electing him over Ted Cruz. In his elect-me-or-we're-all-gonna-die presidential campaign
announcement, O'Rourke claimed there are crises in our economy, democracy, and climate. O'Rourke urgently warned
Americans that we are in a "moment of peril." What on Earth is O'Rourke talking about?
Watch
Beto O'Rourke destroy Joe Biden's presidential run. Beto is the new rock star on the left. He cannot
stake a moderate position, as he has already supported the usual extreme positions that most of his opponents have previously
enumerated. But his most ardent followers are younger and highly motivated to change the world. Already pundits
are arguing that he is moderate. If that is so, which it is not unless his opponent is Bernie Sanders, he is likely to
take votes and polling numbers from Biden. So far, Uncle Joe presents the most reasonable option to fend off Trump's
attack on socialism. But at 76 and clearly without any energy in his last few speeches, he lacks the support of the
media, which have chosen Beto.
Betomania:
Media in a lovesick swoon over Dems' 2020 contender. Betomania is a lot like Beatlemania — except
instead of teenage girls in the 1960s, journalists are now the ones swooning for their star. If the Beatles were around
today to sing about media infatuation with newly announced Democratic presidential hopeful Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke,
their song would be titled "They love him, yeah, yeah, yeah." O'Rourke is a skateboarding mix of rock 'n' roll
(he was in a punk band named Foss), lefty politics, dictatorial ambition and media adoration. Wrap it up in a hip social
media package with a logo ripped off from Whataburger Spicy Ketchup (I'm not joking) and, voila, you have the perfect creation.
Beto Says He'll
End Federal Death Penalty. [Robert] O'Rourke's announcement of his views on the death penalty came just hours
after he first announced his bid for the White House, Fox News reported. En route to another appearance, O'Rourke
called in to Radio Iowa, where he was asked about California Gov. Gavin Newsom's (D.) recent decision to issue a
moratorium on the death penalty in his own state. "As president, would you suspend capital punishment at the federal
level?" O'Rourke's interviewer asked. "I would. It's not an equitable, fair, just system right now —
the guarantees and safeguards against wrongful prosecution, the disproportionate number of people of color who comprise our
criminal justice system," O'Rourke said in response.
O'Rourke
calls America's capitalist economy 'racist'. Beto O'Rourke said Friday [3/15/2019] that America's capitalist
economy is "racist," while he praised a proposal to give infants so-called baby bonds to address systemic inequalities.
Responding to a question at a meet-and-greet in Iowa about whether he is a socialist, O'Rourke reiterated that "I consider
myself a capitalist" and said capitalism is necessary to meet myriad "historic challenges" facing the country.
O'Rourke:
'Beyond the Shadow of a Doubt' That Trump Attempted to Collude and Obstruct. During an interview broadcast on
Friday's "CBS This Morning," 2020 presidential candidate former Representative Beto O'Rourke (D-TX) stated that it is "beyond
the shadow of a doubt" that President Trump at least attempted to collude and to obstruct justice, but that the election is
"perhaps... the best way for us to resolve these outstanding questions."
Number
Eleven: Robert Francis O'Rourke Announces Presidential Bid. Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke has reversed
his prior position and has announced his intent to run for the 2020 Presidential Race. His entrance narrows the lane
currently occupied Bernie Sanders and is likely to fracture the college crowd. O'Rourke has no experience as an executive;
failed in an election run against Senator Ted Cruz; and is generally goofy, lacking any seriousness in disposition.
Go Beto!. The
Democrats have a remarkable number of bad presidential candidates, but I think my favorite might be Beto O'Rourke. His
campaign is off to, shall we say, a rocky start.
Special
Report: Beto O'Rourke's secret membership in a legendary hacking group. One thing you didn't know:
While a teenager, O'Rourke acknowledged in an exclusive interview, he belonged to the oldest group of computer hackers in
U.S. history. Members of the hugely influential Cult of the Dead Cow, jokingly named after an abandoned Texas slaughterhouse,
have protected his secret for decades, reluctant to compromise his political viability. Now, in a series of interviews,
CDC members have acknowledged O'Rourke as one of their own.
Beto
Admits Membership In Notorious "Hacktivist" Programming Group. "An ex-hacker running for national office would
have been unimaginable just a few years ago," Reuters' Joseph Menn writes this morning. Thanks to Robert "Beto" O'Rourke
and his shadowy past in "hactivist" circles, that moment has been thrust upon us. In an interview with Menn, O'Rourke
admits to his membership in a notorious hacking collective known as the Cult of the Dead Cow, which created hacking tools
targeting Microsoft Windows as well as engaged in political activism through their hacking. At least for now, everyone
seems interested in downplaying O'Rourke's contributions to the CDC collective.
Reporter
Asks Pelosi What Beto O'Rourke Has Accomplished. She Can't Answer. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi struggled
to name a single accomplishment that former Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-TX) had while he was in the House of Representatives
when she was asked by a reporter on Thursday [3/14/2019] during a press conference. "Beto O'Rourke announced today that
he is running for president," NBC News' Kasie Hunt said. "What in your view was Beto O'Rourke's signature accomplishment
as a member of the House?" "Beto brought vitality to Congress... when he came, he came as a real champion for the
environment," Pelosi responded. "He got a great deal of support from the environmental community in his district,
he won a primary on that subject."
Senate
Loser Beto O'Rourke Now Claims He Was Born to Be President. When rich kid, legend-in-his-own mind Beto O'Rourke
swiped Hillary Clinton's born-to-be-president mantra, using the concept as his own, he cut voting masses an unintended break,
by, in effect, setting off soon to be Democrat Cannibalism. The roomful of Democrat presidential hopefuls will soon be
voraciously eating their own. While he may have tried to go for a collegial look in his sweater when announcing his run
for the 2020 presidency, Senators Liz Warren, Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand and others will be bound to see him as a
silver-spoon, "WHITE MAN OF PRIVILEGE"!
Beto
O'Rourke is no moderate Democrat — he's now part of the extreme left. After failed Democratic Senate candidate
Robert "Beto" O'Rourke joined the presidential fracas this week, many in the media began parroting the talking point that he is a
moderate, citing his Texas roots and reasonable-sounding persona. [...] But sensing how far left the Democratic base has moved, Beto
is now embracing the Green New Deal. In January he declared he is "supportive of the concept" of Rep. Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez's, D-N.Y., plan. By February, he doubled down and called the Green New Deal the "best proposal" he has seen,
adding he is "really excited" by the plan to socialize our economy and decimate our energy industry.
Flashback:
That Time Beto Said He Wouldn't Run in 2020 Because His Family 'Could Not Survive' It. Democrats seem to enjoy
"falling in love" with politicians, and Beto will make a strong play for many liberals' hearts. [...] He's much more progressive
than he may seem at first blush, masking his ideology with aspirational, unity-themed rhetoric, which may sound familiar.
On the other hand, his "cool" persona is marred by comical try-hardism, his background as a privileged white male may hurt him
among identity-obsessed partisans (many people are likely willing to overlook his DWI arrest and attempt to flee the scene),
and it's not as if he's amassed a stellar list of legislative accomplishments.
Former
Hillary Aide Not Happy That Beto Is Getting the Media Treatment Her Boss Deserved. Former Hillary Clinton
campaign aide Jess McIntosh is happy for Beto O'Rourke and his 2020 plans. She just wishes her former boss would have
received the same positive media treatment that he's now enjoying. She sounded off on the "double standard" during an
interview with CNN's Poppy Harlow on Thursday [3/14/2019]. In Thursday's glowing Vanity Fair cover story about
O'Rourke, the former Texas state senator said he was "born" to run and that he had to follow his calling, despite how it
might affect his kids.
'Not one
woman got that kind of coverage': Beto backlash begins. The breathless, sweeps-like cable television coverage
that greeted the former Texas congressman's first campaign events stunned and frustrated many Democratic operatives —
particularly women — who viewed it as an example of the double standard at work in the historically diverse presidential
field. To them, O'Rourke, a white, male candidate had already been ordained the next sensation, his entry into the race
greased by live television shots and O'Rourke-centric panels. And that was after the national press swarmed him in El Paso
during a recent Donald Trump appearance there, after O'Rourke graced the latest Vanity Fair cover, and after Oprah Winfrey, who had
her choice of accomplished women candidates to feature on her program, instead zeroed in on the white guy from Texas.
Has Phony
Betomania Already Bitten the Dust? In retrospect, the biggest surprise was that Beto O'Rourke did not announce
his long-expected (though recently denied) presidential candidacy last week in his native habitat of South by Southwest,
while he was promoting an HBO documentary about his stirring failure to unseat one of the most reviled incumbents in American
politics. But then, the former El Paso congressman, whose occasionally moody Gen X uplift has almost completely
overshadowed his unusual political path and heterodox policy beliefs, probably knew he was about to get the full Vanity Fair
Annie Leibovitz cover treatment: [Photo]
Beto
O'Rourke Confirms He's Running For President. Beto O'Rourke says he's running for president. The former
Texas congressman confirmed to El Paso NBC affiliate KTSM that he's tossing his hat in the ring for 2020. "I'm really
proud of what El Paso did and what El Paso represents," O'Rourke said in a text to the NBC affiliate. "It's a big part
of why I'm running. This city is the best example of this country at its best."
Left
Mocks Beto's 'Messiah-Esque' 'Born' to Run Remarks: 'Peak White Male Privilege'. Left-wing activists and
liberal journalists were quick to mock former Rep. Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke (D-TX) on Wednesday evening [3/13/2019]
after he told Vanity Fair that he was "born" to run for president. O'Rourke told Vanity Fair, "You can
probably tell that I want to run... I do. I think I'd be good at it."
Donald
Trump Mocks Beto O'Rourke Hand Movement: 'Is He Crazy?'. President Donald Trump mocked Beto O'Rourke's presidential run
announcement Thursday, suggesting that the 2020 candidate might be crazy. The president appeared to be commenting on O'Rourke's
video released Thursday morning announcing his decision to run for president in 2020.
Beto
2020 Has No Reason to Exist. Beto O'Rourke is finally ready to end the suspense. The former Texas congressman
is expected to formally kick off his presidential campaign Thursday, one day after tipping his hand to a local TV station in
Texas. "I'm really proud of what El Paso did and what El Paso represents," O'Rourke told KTSM El Paso via
text. "It's a big part of why I'm running." His apparent confirmation came on the heels of a new Vanity Fair cover
story — complete with glossy photo shoot — in which he told the magazine that he wanted to run.
"I want to be in it," he said, after describing our current political moment as an existential fight. "Man, I'm just
born to be in it, and want to do everything I humanly can for this country at this moment."
Beto
O'Rourke's 'privilege' may be hurting candidate with women, column says. [Robert F.] O'Rourke is already facing
criticism over the way he tried to raise his profile across the country, which included less talk about policies and more about
publishing odd diary entries, visiting college campuses and listening to Metallica. "Imagine, they say, if Beto were Betsy,"
Lisa Lerer, a reporter, wrote in The New York Times. "What would the reception have been if a female candidate left her three
small children home and spent several weeks traveling the country, posting stream-of-consciousness diary entries? Or if she
chose to forgo a Senate race that would provide a greater opportunity for victory?"
Beto
O'Rourke drops f-bombs, snaps at staff, stresses out in revealing new documentary. After a period of self-imposed exile,
the former Democratic congressman returned to center stage Saturday as he ramps up for a potential 2020 presidential bid, appearing at
South by Southwest for the premiere of a new documentary about his failed Senate campaign against Ted Cruz. It's been 10 days
since O'Rourke said publicly that he's made a decision about his political future, but he told reporters on Saturday [3/9/2019] that he
wanted to reveal "it the right way and tell everyone at the same time."
Blacks
and the Democrats. The ongoing battle between Democrats and Republicans regarding the southern border is another clear example of
how Democrats protect their power at the expense of the black community. Republicans are in favor of strong border security, which in
addition to saving lives protects the economic stability of minorities. Democrats not only object to guarding against an increase in
the flow of low-wage illegal workers which would economically destroy minority communities in the U.S. by bringing down wages, but have even
suggested dismantling already existing boundaries, as was proposed by Beto O'Rourke, a rising star in the Democratic party./p>
Beto's
Sky-High Expectations. If, as expected, Beto O'Rourke enters the presidential race in the coming weeks, the
former three-term Texas congressman will arguably face the highest expectations of any Democratic candidate in the 2020
lot. His fate will likely be determined if he can meet the sky-high bar quickly and sufficiently. "Beto's a real
wild card," says Charles Chamberlain, the executive director of Democracy for America. "He has the potential to be a
dark horse that surprises everybody. He also has the potential to be a flash in the pan."
Beto
O'Rourke heads to a Metallica concert after making 2020 decision. Beto O'Rourke is running ... to Metallica's
El Paso concert, apparently. O'Rourke was spotted at the Texas show on Thursday night [2/28/2019], according to
journalist Ivan Pierre Aguirre, who posted pictures of the former congressman looking extremely out of place drowned in a sea
of Metallica T-shirts.
Four
reasons Beto shouldn't run for president, and four reasons he should. Beto O'Rourke is closing in on making a
decision about whether he'll run for president. For weeks, O'Rourke has said he could make his decision as soon as the
end of the month. With just days left in February and at least 10 Democratic contenders having already jumped into the
race, the El Paso Democrat has told reporters that a decision is near. "I'm trying to figure out how I can best serve
this country, where I can do the greatest good for the United States of America, so yeah, I'm thinking through that, and it,
you know, may involve running for the presidency, it may involve something else," O'Rourke said in El Paso last week.
Beto
O'Rourke Is a Democrat Media Chia Pet. As Robert O'Rourke, whom I refer to as The Beto, tests the 2020
presidential waters, an obvious question has been glaringly absent in the DMIC (Democrat Media Industrial Complex)'s fawning
coverage of The Beto: if the majority of Texans didn't want his policies, as evidenced by his loss to Sen. Ted Cruz in
the 2018 Senate election, why does he think the majority of Americans in the majority of states would? After he
announced his candidacy against Cruz, The Beto channeled his inner Ramones, eliciting a gaggle of groupie journalists.
Recall when ABC News reporter Paula Faris oglingly called The Beto a "rock star" — not once, but twice!
Faris, of course, didn't call the incumbent senator whom The Beto was challenging a rock star.
Trump
builds, Beto destroys. President Donald Trump said yes to the budget bill to keep open government, but then
bypassed Congress and declared a national emergency to free up funding to build his long-promised border wall. And on
the other side of town, Beto O'Rourke — Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke — says let's go ahead and rip
'em all down. The campaign lines for 2020 and beyond couldn't be any clearer.
Beto:
'Racism' and 'Hatred' Define Trump Presidency. Former Rep. Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke (D-TX) said on
Friday evening in Wisconsin that "hatred" and "racism" have defined Donald Trump's presidency. Speaking to political
science students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, O'Rourke told the Badgers that President Trump came to the border in
El Paso, Texas, this week to "stoke the anxiety and the paranoia and the fear and the hatred and the racism that has defined
his campaigns and his presidency."
Beto
O'Rourke is being a hypocrite about the border wall. Donald Trump has a lot of things going for him, a sense of
humor, a willingness to say whatever is on his mind, but his best asset is his ability to turn his opponents into absolute
idiots. There used to be something called the Monster Raving Loony Party in Britain, and that's what the Democrats are
beginning to sound like. No, this isn't about AOC and the Green New Deal. It's about Beto. Robert Francis
O'Rourke, the great Democratic hope who lost the Texas Senate race in 2018, but somehow didn't descend into oblivion.
Right now, he thinks he has the wind at his back with Trump's campaign for a border wall. If Trump wants to erect a new
wall, Beto wants to tear down the existing one.
In
El Paso, Beto O'Rourke Makes It Easy For Trump To Target 'Extreme' Democrats. It was altogether fitting that
President Trump's rally Monday night in El Paso was something of a circus. After all, it was the first official
campaign event of his 2020 reelection bid. The rally had all the trappings of any other Trump rally: itinerant Trump
vendors hawking their wares outside the venue, supporters decked out in MAGA gear who traveled from several states away, a
handful of angry protesters who managed to sneak signs into the stadium and disrupt things for a minute or two.
Beto
O'Rourke says he 'absolutely' supports destroying existing walls on southern border. Former Texas Democratic
Rep. Beto O'Rourke said Thursday that he would "absolutely" support tearing down existing barriers along the southern
border with Mexico, in a full-throated embrace of open-borders rhetoric that has left conservatives wondering where other
potential 2020 Democratic White House hopefuls stand on the issue. O'Rourke's comments came as the House and Senate
passed a compromise spending bill that would partially fund President Trump's proposed border wall, to the tune of
$1.4 billion. Trump, who had been pressing for billions more, has vowed to declare a national state of
emergency to fund the remainder of the project.
Beto's Chances.
One purported top contender for the Democrats' presidential nomination so far has stayed on the sidelines: former
Representative Robert Francis O'Rourke of Texas, better known as "Beto" O'Rourke. A rising star in the Democratic
Party, even after his unsuccessful attempt to win Ted Cruz's Senate seat last year, he has been the subject of numerous media
puff pieces, and liberals are going gaga over him the same way they did over Barack Obama in 2008. O'Rourke is a
polarizing figure. To some, he is an optimistic, clean-cut, inspirational politician at a dark and foreboding
time. To others, he is a living embodiment of the "how do you do, fellow kids?" meme; a 46-year old man trying a bit
too hard to seem cool and appeal to youngsters, skateboarding onto stage and live-streaming his dental appointment on
Instagram. Though they laugh and roll their eyes as him, Republicans should not underestimate O'Rourke.
Beto
O'Rourke Holds Protest Against Barrier for Our Southern Border — While Being Protected by a Fence.
Robert "Beto" O'Rourke held a protest on Monday against protecting America with a barrier at our southern border —
while being protected himself by really tall fences. O'Rourke, the former congressman from El Paso who had unsuccessfully
attempted to unseat Senator Ted Cruz, held the protest in response to President Donald Trump holding a campaign rally nearby
in support of a border wall.
Beto
Was 'Robert O'Rourke' in High School, Won Award for 'Imaginative Poetry'. The high school yearbooks of former
Texas congressman Robert Francis O'Rourke make no mention of him as "Beto," the nickname he says "just stuck" with him ever
since he was growing up. The yearbooks from his time at the Woodberry Forest School, an all-boys Virginia boarding
school O'Rourke attended after leaving his local high school in El Paso, Texas, refer to O'Rourke as either "Rob" or
"Robert," the names he also went by while in college and while trying to find himself in New York City after graduating.
Beto
O'Rourke tells Oprah he will make 2020 announcement by 'end of this month'. Beto O'Rourke told Oprah on Tuesday
that he will make his decision about whether he will run for president in 2020 "by the end of this month." During an
interview with Winfrey in New York City, the Texas politician, whose grassroots Senate campaign against Ted Cruz in the 2018
midterm election attracted national coverage due to his success in a predominantly red state, said that he has "been thinking
about running for president," but remained vague on specifics. When Winfrey asked "When are you going to know the
answer?" O'Rourke answered: "The serious answer is really soon. Before the end of this month."
Democrats
who say there is no threat of terrorists crossing our border are delusional. [Scroll down] Rising
Democratic superstar Beto O'Rourke, for example, slammed the president's "rhetoric" on illegal immigration last year, arguing
that there is simply no connection between terrorism and the southern border. "[Z]ero, precisely zero, terrorists,
terrorist groups, or terror plots have ever been connected with the U.S.-Mexico border to do harm to people within the United
States," Beto said during a campaign event. Sadly, O'Rourke is not alone in his delusions.
There's
No Way Beto O'Rourke Can Duplicate Obama's Success. A new Washington Post interview of Beto O'Rourke, whom many
Democrats would like to see run for president, leaves the impression that he is an empty shirt. He is probably counting
on it. On issue after issue, O'Rourke — who just lost a Senate campaign — seems determined to
avoid being pinned down. Regarding immigration, he has been very critical of President Trump's proposed border wall,
but when asked what America should do about visa overstays, his answer is, "I don't know." According to former Democratic
representative Luis Gutierrez, immigration was not a big issue for O'Rourke, even though he hails from El Paso and
represented a majority-Hispanic district along the Texas-Mexico border.
Beto
O'Rourke Is Our Postmodern Nostradamus. Nostradamus, too, was ridiculed in his day, as Beto is mocked in
his. Both men's writings appear abstruse to the unenlightened eyes who cannot (or is it will not?) dare to
glean the world-redeeming prognostications which are so patently evident to we, the enlightened. Yet there is a
difference. Nostradamus' crystalline quatrains predict what will happen; Beto's rambunctious prose prognosticates what
will come to pass — if we allow it. Together.
As
Beto O'Rourke Weighs 2020 Run, Democrats Chafe at His Go-It-Alone Style. Mr. O'Rourke's very presence as a
would-be presidential contender for 2020 is an issue of heated debate within the party. He is a prolific fund-raiser
who proved he can energize younger voters, and some early polls place him third behind Joseph R. Biden Jr. and
Senator Bernie Sanders, well ahead of many more decorated politicians. But he is also a relatively inexperienced
lawmaker who lost his Senate race against Ted Cruz.
Preseason
is over for Beto O'Rourke. Beto O'Rourke: Welcome to the National Football League. As a potential
top-tier presidential candidate, O'Rourke has arrived at a much tougher level of competition, and he had better raise his
game quickly. To continue the metaphor, he is like a No. 1 draft pick, and everyone is looking to see if he's worth
it. The nation's best and toughest reporters have his number and want nothing more than to take his measure and knock
him down. Now that he is under a whole new burden of proof, he is going to have a more thoughtful positions on national
issues than the one O'Rourke gave The Post's Jenna Johnson, published in an article on Tuesday.
O'Rourke's
Close with Guy Who Says Police Are Terrorists, US Is Nazi Germany. The Daily Caller [DCNF] revealed that Beto
O'Rourke has a very close relationship to a nut job radio host and author. The man is far more fringe than the
much-vilified Alex Jones. But YouTube keeps him on their platform. He's okay because he's a left-wing fringe
guy. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, Sen. Ted Cruz's opponent in the Texas senatorial race, has long been an ally of an
off-the-charts radical radio host advocating for drug legalization. He frequently compares the U.S. to Nazi Germany.
Beto's
excellent adventure drips with white male privilege. O'Rourke, 46, we are told, is "Obama, but white," because
of his fundraising prowess — he raised nearly $80 million in his loss to Sen. Ted Cruz. He skateboards!
He listens! He connects on the internet! And Jack Kerouac-style, he roams around, jobless (does he not need a job?)
to find himself and figure out if he wants to lead the free world. This is a luxury no woman or even minority in politics
could ever have. But O'Rourke, tall, handsome, white and male, has this latitude, to be and do anything. His
privilege even allows him to turn a loss to the most despised candidate of the cycle into a launching pad for a White House run.
Beto
bombs bigly in long interview with the Washington Post. When a CNN anchor warns that "it's a fine line to walk
between being a blank canvas and an empty vessel," a pretty-boy, Kennedyesque empty-suit progressive candidate, already
recognizable by his first name alone, is in trouble. Beto looks like a beta, if we are to judge by the Washington
Post's account of his "lengthy" interview with Post writer Jenna Johnson. The title gives away the verdict:
"Beto O'Rourke's immigration plan: No wall but no specifics." The lead paragraphs are no kinder.
Beto's Constitutional
Folly. This is a variation on a theme I've heard countless times on the left — often in response to
arguments over originalism and (more recently) in response to anger at the very structure of our government itself. Why
shackle ourselves to the wisdom of the distant past? How could the Founders have foreseen the challenges of the
present? It's worth taking these questions seriously. After all, the Constitution isn't the Bible. It's not
the holy and inspired Word of God, and if its terms and structure are hurting our Republic, they can and should be
amended. But I'd submit that, when one examines the United States and considers the failings that render our politics
so dysfunctional, we in fact do have 18th-century answers to our 21st-century challenges and that many of our dysfunctions
are the result of abandoning the Constitution, not of embracing it. We've failed because we've refused to
be managed by the "principles that were set down 230-plus years ago."
Beto
O'Rourke Questions 'Principles' of Constitution: 'Does This Still Work?'. Former Congressman and potential 2020
Democratic nominee Beto O'Rourke questioned the "principles" of the U.S. Constitution on Wednesday, arguing that its
usefulness is the "question of the moment. In an interview with The Washington Post, O'Rourke was asked if he
believes the U.S. is capable of "dramatically [changing] its approach to a whole host of issues" or whether he holds a
"dismal suspicion that the country is now incapable of implementing sweeping change."
Beto
O'Rourke questions relevance of Constitution, principles 'set down 230-plus years ago'. Former Rep. Beto
O'Rourke recently questioned the modern-day relevance of the U.S. Constitution and whether the country should still be
governed by "the same principles that were set down 230-plus years ago." [...] "Can an empire like ours with military
presence in over 170 countries around the globe, with trading relationships ... and security agreements in every continent,
can it still be managed by the same principles that were set down 230-plus years ago?" Mr. O'Rourke reportedly asked.
Beto
O'Rourke mocked after offering few answers in wide-ranging policy interview. Former Texas Senate candidate Beto
O'Rourke faced across-the-board criticism on Tuesday [1/15/2019] after an unflattering interview in The Washington Post
portrayed him as equivocal and unsure on a variety of substantive policy issues. O'Rourke, 46, is widely considered a
possible 2020 presidential contender, after falling only a few percentage points shy of dethroning incumbent Texas GOP
Sen. Ted Cruz in the 2018 midterm elections. But his relative lack of experience and expertise has emerged as a
central objection to his prospective candidacy.
Oprah,
who gave Obama the nod in 2008, to interview Beto O'Rourke ahead of his 2020 decision. Oprah Winfrey might give
former Rep. Beto O'Rourke a familiar boost. The entrepreneur and media personality is set to interview the
potential 2020 candidate one-on-one next month live as part of her "Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations from Times Square."
Winfrey's support once kickstarted the presidential ambitions of another junior Democratic legislator: Barack Obama.
Beto
O'Rourke Mocked for Instagramming Trip to Dentist. Texas Democrat Beto O'Rourke disgusted and confused
commentators on both sides of the aisle by posting video to social media of his trip to the dentist. The move from
O'Rourke, often floated as a potential 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, comes on the heels of other Democratic stars
using social media to speak about politics in a relaxed setting. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D., N.Y.)
live-streamed herself making macaroni and cheese in November, while Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) filmed herself
drinking a beer at home on New Year's Eve to mixed reviews. But the consensus on Twitter was that O'Rourke went too far
in filming an Instagram Live video during his dental cleaning Thursday [1/10/2019], complete with a view of his gaping maw.
Beto
O'Rourke and his magic border beans. Beto O'Rourke — or, as he was born, Robert Francis
O'Rourke — tweeted out a video response to President Donald Trump's border wall speech that in essence said
this: There's nothing to see here, folks. Go home to your families, eat and be merry. The borders are safe,
safe, safe. And then he clapped his hands, spun three times and threw down some magic beans and voila, the borders were
indeed safe. Just like that. Seriously, this is the guy the Democrats are mulling over for the White House in 2020?
Eyes
roll and heads slam to desks when 'Beto' posts his dental cleaning. What's next, colonoscopy?! Democrats
have apparently discovered the joys of reality TV with yet another live video feed documenting their oh-so-exciting lives.
Former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke took his Instagram followers along for a trip to his dentist for a cleaning on Thursday [1/10/2019],
following the awkward trend of Democrats live-streaming their lives.
'Draft
Beto' effort builds momentum. Beto O'Rourke is getting a significant lift in the early nominating states of
South Carolina and Nevada, with operatives in both states joining an effort to draft O'Rourke into the presidential
campaign. Boyd Brown, a former South Carolina lawmaker and former Democratic National Committee member, told POLITICO
on Monday that he will become national senior adviser to a Draft Beto campaign.
Beto's
Latest Attempt at Staying Relevant: Reviving the Confederacy Conundrum. Texas Congressman Beto O'Rourke
is calling for the removal of a controversial Confederate plaque that hangs in the Texas state capital. [...] Lawmakers in
Texas have continually debated whether or not the plaque should stay up. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said the
state legislature, the State Preservation Board, the Texas Historical Commission or the Capitol curator all have the
authority to remove the plaque, Dallas News reported.
Beto
O'Rourke seeks help after ICE leaves 200 migrants at El Paso bus station. U.S. Rep. Beto
O'Rourke — a potential candidate in the 2020 presidential election — is calling for donations and help
after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement dropped off at least 200 migrants at the El Paso, Texas, bus station.
The Editor says...
Congressman O'Rourke was elected to represent American citizens. His efforts on behalf of intrusive disease-laden
freeloaders are misguided, at best. In other words, every minute he spends working on the behalf of illegal aliens is
another minute he's neglecting his job. Worse than that, he may be unwittingly un-doing the work of other government
officials if he is helping previously-deported aliens re-enter this country.
Inside
Bernie-world's war on Beto O'Rourke. Forces loyal to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders are waging an
increasingly public war against Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke, the new darling of Democratic activists, as the two men weigh
whether to seek the party's presidential nomination in 2020. The main line of attack against O'Rourke is that he isn't
progressive enough — that he's been too close to Republicans in Congress, too close to corporate donors and not
willing enough to use his star power to help fellow Democrats — and it is being pushed almost exclusively by
Sanders supporters online and in print.
Bernie
Sanders Supporters Wage War on Beto O'Rourke. Neither Sanders nor O'Rourke has officially declared presidential
candidacy, but the games are already afoot. According to a report by NBC, Sanders supporters are already putting the
heat O'Rourke, attempting to paint him as a less than committed ideologue. Sanders, a self-described socialist, was the
clear left-winger in the 2016 election, but in the two years since Trump was elected, Democrats have wholly abandoned any
guise of centrism in a race to prove who is the truest, most leftist progressive.
Why
are Democrats trying to annihilate an O'Rourke campaign before it has even started? If you blinked, you might
have missed it. Somewhere between Election Day and your 500th gulp of holiday-party red wine, Texas congressman Beto
O'Rourke went from being the new darling of the left to its leading bête noire. Not much of substance
actually changed in that time, of course. O'Rourke inspired many, but still lost his Senate race, and he's now winding
down his time in the House. What has changed is that O'Rourke, having built an $80 million grassroots political
movement from scratch, is now seen as one of the top contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination. The polls
bear this out: A recent Des Moines Register survey of Iowa placed him third among possible Democratic
candidates, behind known commodities Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders.
Beto Busted for Fossil
Fuel Hypocrisy. It turns out that Democratic heartthrob Robert Francis O'Rourke, in addition to deceptively
insinuating that he is of Hispanic descent, has been less than honest about his commitment to saving the Earth from the
menace of fossil fuels. He signed a "No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge" produced by a coalition of environmental activists
promising to refuse "any contributions over $200 from the PACs, executives, or front groups of fossil fuel companies —
companies whose primary business is the extraction, processing, distribution, or sale of oil, gas, or coal." As it
happens, however, O'Rourke accepted $492K in such contributions during 2018.
O'Rourke
Removed From 'No Fossil Fuel Money' Pledge Following Report of Donations From Oil, Gas Execs. Rep. Robert
Francis "Beto" O'Rourke (D., Texas) has been removed from a list of candidates who pledged to reject fossil fuel donations
over $200 after it was revealed he took multiple contributions from oil and gas executives. Oil Change USA, a nonprofit
organization based in Washington, D.C., removed O'Rourke's name from a list of those who signed the pledge, according to
Sludge. The pledge dictates a politician and their campaign "adopt a policy to not knowingly accept any
contributions over $200 from the PACs, executives, or front groups of fossil fuel companies — companies whose
primary business is the extraction, processing, distribution, or sale of oil, gas, or coal." Sludge reported
earlier this month that O'Rourke received $430,000 from individuals in the oil and gas industries. The report was later
updated to note that "the O'Rourke campaign had not returned 29 'large donations' of over $200 from oil and gas executives,"
according to the most recent campaign finance report.
When
it comes to the border, 'Beto' doubles down on dumb. Just when you think politics cannot get any stupider in
this country, in skateboards Robert Francis O'Rourke. That would be the same Robert Francis O'Rourke of privileged
upbringing and expensive boarding school pedigree who today goes by "Beto" because it sounds Hispanic now that he has
decided to get into electoral politics. Whatever happened to all the outrage over "cultural appropriation"?
Team
Biden Wonders: Should We Make Beto His Running Mate? No, this is an age thing. Biden is older than
time, O'Rourke looks even younger than his 46 years. The thinking goes that pairing Uncle Joe with a next-gen VP who's
in his prime will lend some vitality to the ticket and blunt any perception among younger voters that Biden is "old news."
I dunno, though. [...] Who wants to roll the dice on President Beto if 78-year-old Joe Biden doesn't survive his term?
Activist
Democrats question whether Beto O'Rourke is one of them. The left is where the energy is in today's Democratic
Party. Nearly half of Democratic voters describe themselves as liberal, up 17 percentage points from a decade ago,
according to Pew Research Center. [...] The problem with O'Rourke, various Democratic activists say, is that he didn't
support bills they consider to be crucial to the progressive platform and he was a member of the centrist, fiscally
conservative New Democrat Coalition.
Who is
Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke? Robert Francis O'Rourke was born into an Irish Catholic family on September 26,
1972, in El Paso, Texas. From an early age, he was called "Beto," a common nickname for Mexicans named Roberto.
His father, Pat Francis O'Rourke (d. 2001), served as both a County Commissioner and County Judge in El Paso, a political
associate of former Texas Governor Mark White, and the state chairman of Jesse Jackson's 1984 and 1988 presidential
campaigns. In May 1995, Beto O'Rourke was arrested for attempted burglary on the University of Texas-El Paso campus,
but the charges were dropped nine months later. After graduating from Columbia University in 1995 with a BA in English
Literature, O'Rourke worked for several Internet Service Providers and then returned to El Paso, where in 1998 he founded the
Stanton Street Technology Group (SSTG), a web and software company which he headed for the next 14 years. His mother,
Melissa O'Rourke, who once served as a Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas board member, was a shareholder in SSTG.
Stop
comparing Beto O'Rourke's potential 2020 presidential bid to Barack Obama's in 2008. As outgoing Rep. Beto
O'Rourke flirts with a 2020 Democratic presidential bid, his already soaring stock among the media has been surging even
higher, and he is even drawing comparisons to former President Barack Obama, who was a relatively inexperienced national
politician before he captured the presidency in 2008. But such comparisons are unwarranted. O'Rourke, D-Texas,
who was the most profiled candidate of the 2018 election cycle, quickly drew media buzz about a 2020 presidential run after
losing his Senate race to Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. A poll of the race from the liberal MoveOn showed O'Rourke
narrowly edging out progressive icon Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., in a field with lots of possible candidates but no
clear front-runner. It's "Betomania," declares ABC News. CNN, meanwhile, has already declared him the
second-ranking Democratic presidential hopeful, behind only Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif.
The Real
Beto O'Rourke. As a child living in El Paso, O'Rourke was given the nickname "Beto," which is a common Hispanic
moniker for Roberto, in order to delineate between him and his maternal grandfather, Robert Williams. When O'Rourke attended
Columbia in New York he used "Rob," but his father, then El Paso County Judge Pat O'Rourke, suggested that he once again use
"Beto" to increase his chance of winning political office in the heavily Hispanic city of El Paso, which Robert readily agreed
to do. He graduated from Columbia in 1995, and later that month was arrested for burglary at UTEP (the University of
Texas El Paso) along with two others.
So much for all that "grass roots" support... Mysterious Anti-Ted
Cruz Super PAC Revealed To Be Funded By National Democratic Group. A super PAC that spent millions attacking
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz during the midterm election was revealed Thursday [12/6/2018] to be funded almost entirely by
Washington, D.C., Democrats. The Texas Forever PAC, which spent $2.3 million on last-minute anti-Cruz attack ads,
was funded by the Senate Majority PAC except for $10,000, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings in December.
The Senate Majority PAC has strong ties to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and fundraises to help Democrats win control
of the Senate. Texas Forever was created less than a month before the November election and after the last deadline to
report donors prior to Election Day. Because it launched so close to the election, Texas Forever was able to sidestep
revealing where the funds came from until a month after voting concluded, a strategy that has been more frequently utilized
with super PACs this election cycle, reported Politico.
If
the Dems want to lose in 2020, Beto O'Rourke is the perfect candidate. Beto O'Rourke, with widespread backing,
is considering running for president in 2020. If Democrats want to lose, he absolutely should. Nothing has been learned
from Hillary Clinton, the two-time heiress apparent who, in 2016, had the support of nearly every mainstream media outlet, who
entered the final stretch of her last race with a $449 million war chest (compared with Trump's $163 million), who led in
nearly every national poll, and who was roundly depicted as the rational adult tolerating a villainous bozo. Just as Hillary
has taken that humiliating defeat as a sign to mull yet a third run, O'Rourke has taken his loss to Ted Cruz — the most
loathed senator in modern American history, once called "Lucifer in the flesh" by then-House Speaker John Boehner — as
a sign that he, a 46-year-old three-term congressman with a thin record, is the one to defeat Trump.
When Beto Met
Barry. The Washington Post reports that Beto O'Rourke, who is weighing whether to mount a 2020 presidential
bid, met recently with Barack Obama in Washington, D.C. The meeting reportedly took place on November 16. According to
the Post, some former Obama aides have encouraged O'Rourke to run for president. They see him as capable of the kind of
campaign that caught fire in the 2008 presidential election. Some Republicans are, or pretend to be, dismissive of
O'Rourke as a credible challenger to President Trump. They cite his recent defeat at the hands of Ted Cruz in the Texas
Senate race. But O'Rourke ran a strong race against Cruz, losing by less than 3 points in strongly Republican
state. It's true that O'Rourke was buoyed by an enormous influx of money. But it's also true that he likely would
be similarly buoyed if he runs for president.
Beto
O'Rourke seen as a top contender in 2020: poll. Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas) is considered one of the top
Democratic contenders for the White House in 2020 even among more well-known potential hopefuls, according to a Harvard
CAPS/Harris poll released exclusively to The Hill. Former Vice President Joe Biden is the most popular Democrat in the
potential 2020 primary, with 28 percent of Democratic and independent voters saying they'd most likely vote for him,
according to the poll released on Monday [12/3/2018].
Calling O'Rourke. One of the more
mystifying outcomes of the recent midterms, particularly as the nation reflects on the full life and multifarious
accomplishments of George H.W. Bush, has been the elevation of Robert Francis O'Rourke to the top tier of potential
presidential contenders. In response to a recent Morning Consult poll, registered Democrats ranked the losing Senate
candidate among their top three preferences for the party's 2020 nomination. They favored "Beto" over Elizabeth Warren,
Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, Sherrod Brown, et al. The only two potential candidates who ranked higher than the
Texas congressman were septuagenarians Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders.
Beto
O'Rourke would have a chance against Trump in 2020. Unsurprisingly, the curiosity and clamor surrounding
O'Rourke have little to do with his limited track record and much to do with his Obama-like qualities. There are few
truly viable candidates who would pose a legitimate threat to the man who beat Hillary Clinton. If Democrats learned
anything before and during former President Barack Obama's eight years in office, it's that election success on a national
scale is more about personality than policy.
Just
like Obama, Democrats are falling for the idea of Beto 2020. If you thought Betomania was over when the
Democratic congressman lost his Senate bid to incumbent Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, you'd better think again. Beto has
gone nationwide. With praise coming in from everyone from Beyoncé to former President Barack Obama and the Texas
representative hinting at a possible run at the White House in 2020, Beto O'Rourke has become the cause célèbre
among Democratic donors and activists around the country — and looks to shake up what already promises to be a
crowded field of Democrats challenging President Trump.
Beto O'Rourke
changes his mind: He's not ruling out 2020 anymore. Beto O'Rourke said Monday that he is no longer ruling
out a run for president in 2020, a reversal that thrilled his legion of loyal supporters while clouding an already-crowded
Democratic primary field. "Running for Senate, I was 100 percent focused on our campaign, winning that race and then
serving the next six years in the United States Senate," the Texas congressman told reporters after a town hall forum here.
"Now that that is no longer possible, you know, we're thinking through a number of things."
The
Snob Party. [Scroll down] The people to whom Democrats condescend express similar feelings about Sarah
Palin and Donald Trump, who are lionized for standing up to that condescension. Which brings us back to Señor
O'Rourke, the most oleaginous, condescending, and sanctimonious man in American politics at the moment. He talks a good
man-of-the-people game, as most progressives do, but who he is, is who progressives are and who they want to be: a rich white
liberal with political power, from a family of rich white liberals with political power. He has the prep-school diploma
and the Ivy League imprimatur, too. As one does.
Liberals' infantile
Beto fantasy. I have offended some liberals in the past by referring to Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke as a
"failson." I understand now why this might have come across as dismissive of his totally awesome campaign to skateboard
his way into a Senate seat. So in the future I will be more measured in my language. Beto is not a "failson."
He is, in fact, the successful son-in-law of a billionaire real estate developer whose low-key contempt for barrio grandmas
puts him squarely within the mainstream of the Democratic Party. His seemingly inevitable attempt to secure his party's
presidential nomination in 2020 will be only slightly more embarrassing to himself and his delusional followers than his
recent loss to the most loathed senator in the United States.
Here's
what you might not know about Beto O'Rourke — but should. Glenn [Beck] briefly introduced Beto's
rise through the ranks of legislature, from El Paso City Council member in 2004 to the U.S. Representative for Texas's 16th
Congressional District in 2013. "During Beto's five years in Congress, he's been the primary sponsor of countess
bills — assuming you can't count to two, cause it was only two," joked Glenn.
Beto
O'Rourke's National Celebrity Was His Undoing. In the past year, the Texas Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke has
been compared endlessly to the great charismatic stars of the Democratic Party. He was Kennedyesque! He was the
next Obama! With his boyish grin, rhythmic speech, and unabashedly left-leaning platform, the Democratic former
representative was not just the state's best hope for going blue: According to political strategists across the
country, he is among the party's most promising presidential contenders in 2020.
Trevor
Loudon Releases Mini-Doc on Senate Candidate Beto O'Rourke. This week, Trevor Loudon exposes the radical ties
of Texas Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke. While Beto presents himself as a candidate willing to work with all Texans,
his hard-left policies reflect his many socialist allies.
Why did nobody mention that Beto
O'Rourke's wife is a billionaire heiress? Young Beto O'Rourke casts himself as the 'anti-Trump'. But his
father-in-law, it turns out, is a billionaire property developer with a contentious relationship with non-white
residents — not unlike the President. Beto's more the proto-Jared Kushner. The New York Times
today [10/29/2018] revealed the highly interesting news that friend-of-the-little-guy Beto married well. Very
well. His wife is not only the daughter of William D. Sanders, aka the Warren Buffet of real estate, Cockburn
can reveal she is the only daughter. Sanders's portfolio is valued at about $20 billion.
Nearly
a dozen Beto O'Rourke profiles, and almost none mention his crony capitalist background. Rep. Beto O'Rourke's,
D-Texas, 1998 drunken driving accident isn't the only thing his media profilers have ignored. The New York Times did a fine
job this week detailing the Democratic Senate candidate's shady history of political backscratching, including a real-estate deal
he championed when he served on the El Paso City Council that would've benefited his billionaire father-in-law, developer
William D. Sanders.
O'Rourke
Campaign Exposed in Undercover Video for Assisting Honduran Migrants: 'Nobody Needs to Know'. A Project Veritas
video released Thursday night [11/1/2018] shows Beto O'Rourke campaign staffers discussing how they can illegally use campaign resources
to purchase supplies and assist in the transportation of Honduran migrants. [Video clip] Dominic Chacon, a Field
Manager for the O'Rourke campaign in El Paso, Texas, expressed his concern in getting supplies to the caravan migrants.
Poll:
Texas women won't propel Beto O'Rourke to victory. The speculation about how women will vote has been prominent
in Texas, especially now that Rep. Beto O'Rourke's challenge to Sen. Ted Cruz's re-election has shaken assumptions
about the security of the Republican Party's monopoly. Much of this discussion has focused on potential unrest among
suburban women and whether the moderate Republicans among them will question their partisan leanings. Don't count on
it. The most recent University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll offers little evidence to support expectations of significant
partisan shifts among women. A well-documented partisan gender gap is already a political fact of life: More women
identify as Democrats compared with men. But beyond that, O'Rourke does not look to benefit from a new tidal wave of
female support.
Ted
Cruz Calls for Journalists to Ask Beto O'Rourke Two Questions. Sen. Cruz appeared to be referencing a
video, released Thursday [11/1/2018] by James O'Keefe's guerrilla journalism organization, Project Veritas. In that video,
an undercover operative obtained footage appearing to show members of O'Rourke's campaign staff alluding to campaign resources
that were being used to assist migrants as they approach the Texas border.
Google
Employees Second Largest Donors to Beto O'Rourke Campaign. Big Tech company employees are pouring money into
Democratic candidate Rep. Beto O'Rourke's senate campaign in an attempt to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), with
employees from Google parent company Alphabet listed as the second largest donating force. According to CNBC, employees
at Google parent company Alphabet were the second largest contributor to O'Rourke's campaign overall, and came first on the
list of Big Tech contributors, with Alphabet employees donating $157,189. Overall, Alphabet was only beaten in donations
to O'Rourke's campaign by employees of the University of Texas, who donated $296,123.
Can
Beto O'Rourke Name One Thing He's Done For Hispanic Voters? What on earth made anyone thing Beto could
win? What could possibly have changed between the ill-fated Wendy Davis gubernatorial run and this one?
Apparently, Donald Trump and the Hispanic vote were going to make all the difference. At least, that's apparently what
national Democrats thought. So, a ton of money has poured into the race, and Beto currently has nothing to show for it,
other than maybe a 2020 or 2024 national platform.
As Jed Clampett would say, "There's somethin' wrong with that boy." The Real Beto
O'Rourke. I recently attended an indoor Beto O'Rourke rally in Corpus Christi, Texas in the Richardson Auditorium on the
Del Mar College campus. Arriving 45 minutes late (after meeting for 15 minutes with fawning press backstage), he
was introduced by Congressman Joe Kennedy. O'Rourke bizarrely rolled onto the stage on a skateboard (he had done this in an earlier
rally in Brownsville) and spoke for 30 minutes. O'Rourke called for essentially open borders and free health care. He
attacked Trump along with his senatorial election opponent, incumbent Texas Senator Ted Cruz, but there was no mention of his previous
statement approving of disrespect for the flag, which Cruz and others had pounced on. O'Rourke appeared awkward and thin and was
constantly flailing his hands and arms. I noticed something rather unsettling. I was only sitting ten feet away from
O'Rourke. The temperature outside was a near perfect 78 degrees, and the hall itself, which is kept at 72 degrees,
seemed chilly. The stage lights are 20 feet above the stage. But just minutes into O'Rourke's speech, sweat began
to pour down his face and spread across the front of his shirt.
Unhappy
about getting texts from O'Rourke's campaign? There's a lawsuit for that. At least one Texan is not happy
about receiving text messages about Beto O'Rourke's run for U.S. Senate. A class action lawsuit filed against the Beto for
Texas campaign claims the organization sent text messages to Texans without obtaining their permission, violating the Telephone
Consumer Protection Act. The suit, filed Friday [10/19/2018] in the Northern District of Texas Court, names Collin County
resident Sameer Syeed as a plaintiff on behalf of all Texans that the O'Rourke campaign sent texts to Texans without obtaining permission.
The
Embarrassing Spectacle of Betomania. Attention, journalists of America: Time is running out! You
have under three weeks left to publish your last batch of over-the-top pre-election puff pieces on Texas Democrat/cross-country
liberal sensation/wing-and-a-prayer Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke! It is here that we must face the difficult truth:
Barring a GOP-related disaster of some sort, O'Rourke — he of that ineffable "cool factor" and "special sauce," at least
according to easily impressed columnists at the Washington Post — is likely to lose big. According to the latest
polls, Senator Ted Cruz leads him by anywhere between seven and nine points. Tuesday's [10/16/2018] debate between the two,
meanwhile, was so mismatched that O'Rourke's best moment might have involved a random deer-in-the-headlights story in which he
described how he "got to meet this blind squirrel who is slowly regaining its sight."
Beto
O'Rourke's Mother, Who He Says Is A 'Lifelong Republican,' Donated To Obama, Voted In 15 Of 17 Democratic Primaries.
Rep. Robert "Beto" O'Rourke, a Texas Democrat running against Sen. Texas Cruz in this November's election, has a curious
relationship with the truth. Take what the congressman said in a September debate with Cruz about a drunk driving accident he
had in 1998. "I did not try to leave the scene of the accident, though driving drunk, which I did, is a terrible mistake for
which there is no excuse or justification or defense, and I will not try to provide one," O'Rourke said. O'Rourke, then 26,
reportedly hit a truck traveling the same direction, jumped over a median strip — then did, indeed, try to flee,
according to a witness who saw the whole thing.
Beto
is as Phony as Barack. In 2008, the national news media swooned over the prospect of an African American
President of the United States. The Democratic Party's presidential nominee was freshman U.S. Senator Barack Obama
(D-IL). He was treated to kid glove treatment by the media. There were no hard questions and no real examination of his
background. He vaulted into the Oval Office on the shoulders of an adoring press. He spouted the slogan "Hope and
Change" and the media, Hollywood and millions of poorly informed American voters swooned. After ten long years, the
Democratic Party has found a new Barack Obama. He is not one of the 20+ potential presidential candidates in 2020
race. Instead, he is Robert "Beto" O'Rourke, a three-term U.S. congressman from El Paso, who happens to be a U.S.
Senate candidate in the second most populous state in the nation, Texas.
Beto
O'Rourke's Marxist Support Network Exposed. Texas Democratic Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke doesn't like to be
called a socialist. Why then, does he employ several Marxists on his campaign? Why does Beto hang around with
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) supporters and other radicals? DSA, despite its name, is a Marxist/communist
organization.
The
Media's Love Affair With Beto O'Rourke Is Irresponsible. Despite my best efforts, I know exactly what Texas
Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke's post-punk indie band from the mid-'90s sounds like (not as bad as you'd think!). At the same
time, I don't know much about Senate candidate Josh Hawley, who is 38 years old (meaning, around eight years younger than
"rising star" Beto), the attorney general of Missouri, and the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate. In fact, Hawley's
name recognition outside of his state is probably negligible.
Beto
O'Rourke Just Showed Everyone How To Lose An Election In Texas. There are two ways to guarantee you'll lose a
statewide election in Texas: campaign for abortion or campaign against guns. Texas Democrats accomplished the first in
2014, when Wendy Davis lost the governor's race to Greg Abbott by 20 points. Now they're determined to do the second.
Beto O'Rourke, the photogenic Democratic congressman from El Paso hoping to unseat Republican Sen. Ted Cruz in November,
declared at a SXSW event Monday that there's no reason an AR-15 should be sold to a civilian. According to Politico's Michael
Calderone, O'Rourke, who's not shy about swearing on the campaign trail, added, "I have no idea how that polls and I [don't care]
what the NRA thinks about it."
Beto
O'Rourke's Campaign Requests VFW Hall Take Down American Flags Before His Rally There. Ted Cruz's Challenger,
Beto O'Rourke has made a name for himself by saying that he can think of "nothing more American" than kneeling during the
National Anthem. We can now add stripping American flags from a VFW hall to things he thinks are good. According to
the Examiner, O'Rourke's campaign had rented out a Veteran of Foreign Affairs Hall for a campaign rally in Navasota, TX, and
requested that the VFW Post 4006 Commander Carl Dry take down the American flags in his building ahead of the event.
Beto
O'Rourke says 'nothing more American' than NFL anthem protests. Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke has jumped into the NFL
national-anthem fray by defending players taking a knee during the ceremony, saying he could think of "nothing more American."
In a response going viral on social media, the Democrat seeking to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, compared the NFL
kneelers to civil-rights icons like Rosa Parks and the Freedom Riders during a campaign appearance last week in Houston.
Ted
Cruz slaps down Beto O'Rourke over his support of national anthem protests! The TedNado took aim at Beto
O'Rourke like he was shooting at liberal fish in a barrel after Robert Francis (his real name) supported the national anthem
protesters. [...] I just don't understand why Robert Francis O'Rourke thinks that being for the protest will help him in
Texas. Either way, liberals are pouring money into this race because they hate the TedNado so much. I can't wait
to enjoy their disappointment when he trounces Robert Francis.
The cult of Beto. There is
no way Robert Francis O'Rourke, alias "Beto," a.k.a. the no-doubt gleaming future of the Democratic Party is as delusional
about his prospects for success as his followers. That would be impossible. The Texas congressman is your average
46-year-old liberal failson politico, the grandson of a secretary of the Navy, the son of a judge, a hanger-on in his party
who graduated from playing in an amazingly bad hardcore punk band to a seat on the El Paso City Council. After that,
he challenged Rep. Silvestre Reyes, an eight-term Democratic incumbent and chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus,
with the help of outside cash and despite endorsements from both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. The two issues of crucial
importance to reviving the fortunes of the working class on which O'Rourke fought his campaign were support for same-sex
marriage and drug legalization, both of which Reyes, a Catholic, opposed.
Julia Salazar
Democratic
socialist Julia Salazar dipped into massive trust fund during campaign. Julia Salazar — the Brooklyn
state senator who has been called out for falsely painting herself as a working-class immigrant — was living off a
trust fund while mounting her socialist-themed campaign, new campaign finance disclosures reveal. The fact-challenged
freshman lawmaker filed papers saying the trust was worth an eye-popping $10 million — although she now
claims the figure was an error and the family trust she dipped into actually holds around $400,000.
Controversial
Socialist Julia Salazar wins Brooklyn state Senate primary. Despite a mountain of political baggage, an upstart
Brooklyn Socialist toppled an entrenched incumbent in a closely-watched state Senate race dominated by headlines about truth
and integrity. Julia Salazar, 27, rode the progressive wave, toppling long-term state Sen. Martin Malavé
Dilan in a district that includes swaths of Williamsburg, Bushwick, and Cypress Hills.
Forget
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Julia Salazar is the hero that the socialist moment deserves. Just when you thought
the story of Julia Salazar, a DSA Socialist candidate who was already enmeshed in a dozen scandals can't get any crazier, it
gets much crazier. To recap, Salazar lied about being Jewish, she lied about being an immigrant, and she lied about
growing up poor. The media billed her as the "Next Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez". Cortez and Cynthia Nixon backed
her. Oh boy did they mess up. The anti-Israel activist with hate groups such as If Not Now, was not Jewish.
She was born in Miami, despite claiming to be an immigrant. And lived in a mansion, despite claiming to be poor.
The
Democratic Socialists of America Have an Anti-Semitism Problem. [Julia] Salazar's rant had appeared on a racist
site whose creator had complained that his publication had been banned from DailyKos because of "my repeated insistence on
talking about the large Jewish presence in the American establishment and the importance of Jewish money in the political
process" and one of whose editors had declared, "I do not consider myself an anti-Semite, but I can understand why some are."
In reality, Salazar had been baptized as a Catholic, her uncle was a Jesuit priest, and her brother made it clear that no one
in the family was Jewish. The Jewish part of her past was as fake as the rest. And it was this biography that the
Democratic Socialists of America candidate was running on. The DSA had been hoping to turn Salazar into the next Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez, with the support of radical lefties like Cortez, Cynthia Nixon and Zephyr Teachout by playing up her imaginary
biography.
Dem
Socialist Candidate's Brother and Mother Say She's Lied About Her Upbringing. The brother and mother of a New
York City democratic socialist candidate went on the record to dispute many of the biographical claims she has made
throughout the campaign. A Tablet profile last week first revealed that state Senate candidate Julia Salazar, a
progressive darling depicting herself as a Jewish immigrant, was actually born in the United States and ran several Christian
organizations in college. One of the sources negating Salazar's claims was her own brother Alex Salazar, who told
Tablet that they were both born in Miami and their father was not Jewish.
Pete Buttigieg
Who
is Pete Buttigieg? Transportation Secretary is a potential Harris running mate.
When Vice President Kamala Harris became the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination
following President Joe Biden's dramatic exit from the race on Sunday, the next question was:
Who will she select as her running mate? [...] Buttigieg, often called "Mayor Pete," could be a
possible front runner in that race. The former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, ran for the
Democratic nomination for president in 2020 and nearly tied with Sen. Bernie Sanders in the
Iowa Caucus before Buttigieg dropped out and endorsed Biden. Though he works in Washington,
D.C., Buttigieg now calls Traverse City, Michigan, home. He lives there with his husband,
Chasten, a Traverse City native, and their two adopted children.
The Editor says...
Mr. Buttigieg has one qualification for political office, and that is his participation in sodomy.
His entire identity revolves around perverse homosexual activity. He wants everyone to know he
has a husband. He celebrity is a celebration of the abnormal. A hundred years from now,
I would not want to be in his shoes.
Libs
and Cons Live in Different Worlds, Buttigieg Edition. Most of the time, when a lefty
says something so obviously ridiculous that you have to cringe, I assume that they are
gaslighting. But there are times when I have to recognize that they live in a totally
different universe — one where black is white and up is down. [Advertisement] This appears
to be the case when it comes to evaluating the performance of Pete Buttigieg. Liberals really
do believe he is something special and that he really should be president someday. [Tweet]
For the most part Mayor Pete's attraction is his resume and identity category; while it would be
more appealing to them if he were not pure whitebread, but they do like the look of a gay, married,
adoptive father, and — bonus round — veteran. He checks lots of boxes
that they like.
Summer
Surprise: The Looming Biden Replacement. [Scroll down] Pete
Buttigieg was once another name sometimes mentioned as a possible replacement for Biden in 2024,
hilariously. After being the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, he ran for president in 2020 on
the strength of his being an articulate gay man. While he saw some early success in 2020, he
now holds the distinction of being the only Secretary of the Department of Transportation to have
taken several months of paternity leave without his spouse having actually endured birthing a child
amid a massive supply-chain interruption, a toxic train derailment in Ohio, and a wayward ship
destroying a vital bridge in Baltimore, all while overseeing a $7.5 billion initiative which,
after 3 years, has yielded exactly seven electric vehicle charging stations. Oh, and if
you think black voters are defecting to Trump at a quick pace now, try putting Buttigieg at the top
of the ticket and see how that shakes out.
The Editor says...
If Buttigieg is the socialist Democrat nominee, just imagine the bumper stickers — for and against.
Buttigieg
Built 4 Charging Stations a Year Instead of 50,000. The Biden administration's
$7.5 billion investment in electric vehicle (EV) charging stations is progressing a tad
slowly. Only seven or eight stations have been built since 2021. They promised 50,000 a year,
but we got four instead. The administration's 100% failure rate continues. Secretary
Buttigieg was known as Pothole Peter when he was a mayor for a reason. He couldn't fix
potholes so why did anyone think he could get charging stations built? The government wants
60% of the vehicles on the road to be EVs by 2030 as they destroy gasoline cars. They can't
transition without adequate infrastructure. Meanwhile, they are doing all they can to
obliterate gasoline and the auto industry.
The
Merchan Scale. [Scroll down] It's the same with climate change that was
recently held responsible for in-air turbulence by Pete Buttigieg, the transportation secretary in
charge of things like the barge running into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, the chemical spill in
East Palestine, Ohio, Boeing literally having plane's wheels fall off on take off or landing with a
shrug of the shoulders and mimicking the words: "climate change." Because everyone knows that
everything that happens in America, today, is climate change, [...]
Watch:
Biden Trans Secretary Pete Buttigieg blames airplane 'turbulence' on 'the effects of climate
change'. [Tweet with video clip] According to a report from the
International Civil Aviation Organization, there has been no increase in the accidents or injuries
due to turbulence that one would expect if air conditions were worsening. [Chart] What the
data shows, in fact, is that although air traffic and the number of passengers has increased
dramatically, there has been no upward trend in increasing turbulence related accidents over the
past 30 years. While the WEF claim's "clear air turbulence" is already increasing, the
link provided by the WEF to support this claim provides no evidence to support it.
Buttigieg
Downplays D.C. Crime Rate, Says He Can 'Safely Walk' His Dog. Secretary of
Transportation Pete Buttigieg dismissed the idea that Washington, DC, is experiencing a rise in
crime, pointing out that a "lot of energy" was going into painting the narrative. During an
interview with MSNBC host Jen Psaki on Sunday, Buttigieg highlighted how he was able to "safely
walk" his dog in the nation's capital without any problems. Buttigieg, like many other
elected officials, is provided with a security detail.
Buttigieg's
'Equity' Team Seeks to End 'Racist' Private Car Ownership: 'All Cars Are Bad'.
Democrat President Joe Biden's "woke" Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has formed a team of
"equity experts" that seeks to end private car ownership. Buttigieg has been busy allocating
tax dollars to appoint a group of "leading experts" to advise him on "transportation equity."
Several members of Buttigieg's Marxist "equity" team argue that cars cause "climate change" and
"promote racism" and therefore should be phased out. The target is not just traditional
gas-powered vehicles, however, as the "experts" insist that "all cars are bad," including
EVs. Earlier this month, Buttigieg appointed 24 new members to his Advisory Committee on
Transportation Equity.
The Editor says...
If "all cars are bad," how do Washington bureaucrats get to work?
As a cabinet-level official, doesn't he have some other work to do? Pete
Buttigieg 'takes over' the White House social media feed — what could go
wrong? To start with, the plan looks suspiciously close to being part of Biden's
presidential campaign re-election strategy, given that Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom are out
touring the country to do the exact same thing. For Pete, that would violate the Hatch Act,
which prohibits political campaigning while on the job. But let's put that aside. The
front screen shot of the ad is so bad, what with that closeup of Pete with his mouth wide open it
looks like a political enemy created it. Look for that one to turn up in Republican
campaign ads urging voters to vote for the other guy.
Buttigieg
Attacks Christian In SCOTUS Case: Only Went Into Business To 'Provoke A Case Like This'.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg attacked the Christian web designer who the Supreme Court
sided with last week in striking down a Colorado law that would have required her to design a website
for a same-sex wedding. In a 6-3 decision in the case of 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis,
the Court cited the First Amendment in ruling that Lorie Smith could not be forced by state civil
rights law to design websites that run counter to her sincerely-held religious beliefs.
The Editor says...
Mayor Pete's ridiculous assertion is easy enough to disprove. How many years has 303 Creative LLC
been in business? How many customers have been served? Does the business make a profit?
Socialist Democrats blurt out rash pronouncements and then hope you won't analyze what they're saying.
Transportation
Secretary Pete Buttigieg proposes spending $20 million taxpayer dollars on female crash test
dummies. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has proposed that the Department of
Transportation include $20 million for female crash-test dummies in its 2024 fiscal
budget. That Buttigieg — famous for his love of females though he may
be — wants to spend vast sums of taxpayer dollars on feminine crash dummies seems
odd in the current cultural climate in which we salute all things non-binary. Nonetheless,
Mayor Pete's proposal has already garnered support from several House Democrats. For example,
Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut praised Buttigieg's plan during a recent House Appropriations
Subcommittee meeting. DeLauro stated that the use of female crash dummies would be a major
step forward in the fight against "gender inequity". Say what? Unlike humans, who are
either one sex or another, crash dummies can't be gendered[,] as they are not living
beings. But, in today's world, nothing can stand in the way of insanity.
The Editor says...
The clamor for female crash test dummies is clearly promoting violence against women. Or maybe it's a
sexist commentary on the way women drive. Either way, where are the great feminist leaders now?
Transportation
secretary Buttigieg blames transportation problems on climate change. It's hard not
to laugh at the deadly earnest, self-righteous inanities spouted by former South Bend, Indiana
Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who, primarily because of his sexual orientation, was chosen to lead the
Department of transportation. Despite having never fixed the potholes of his home town.
Name a bugaboo the progressives claim bedevils our society and Pete will tell you that it is at the
root of transportation problems. Let's see. Racism? Check. Next: climate
"change." Yep, it's to blame for our transportation problems (because?) as he just testified
yesterday: "On one hand, our transportation systems are still grappling with the consequences
of the pandemic, climate change, and decades of disinvestment." [Video clip]
Sexism? That's coming up, with an assist from Rosa DeLauro: [Video clip]
Progressives
[are] Not Interested in the Good of the Country. The recent train derailment and
subsequent release of toxic gases in East Palestine, Ohio was a truly disastrous event.
Innocent people had their health impacted and their lives upended. But progressives stayed
away from this event like the plague. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg avoided
visiting for as long as he could. When the enormity of the disaster couldn't be denied any
longer, the entire progressive machine — politicians and legacy media alike —
did their best to blame the accident on Republicans' dismantling of Obama-era safety
regulations. That was an outright lie, of course, but it succeeded in making an impact on
some of the casually attentive public. Progressives weren't interested in helping the
residents of East Palestine. Progressives were only interested in leveraging the accident to
gain political advantage over Republicans.
Pete
Buttigieg Tries to School Americans on Political Agendas that 'Might Be a Problem'.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Saturday tried to instruct Americans regarding political
agendas as he faces backlash for his handling of recent train derailments. "If your political
agenda repeatedly puts you in various scenarios that involve overthrowing electoral outcomes, there
might be a problem with your political agenda," he wrote in a social media post: [Tweet] One
of Buttigieg's followers claimed he was "doing an outstanding job," before adding, "I cannot wait
until you are President!" However, another blasted the Transportation secretary's comments,
writing, "If a former president can make it to a disaster zone caused by a derailment in Ohio
before anyone in your administration, there might be a problem with your transportation secretary."
The
Democrats botched the Ohio disaster response — and handed Trump a victory.
"Where's Pete Buttigieg?" someone shouted at a February 15 town hall meeting in East Palestine,
Ohio. "I don't know," Mayor Trent Conaway replied. Twelve days earlier, a Norfolk
Southern train carrying hazardous chemicals had derailed near the town. Three days later, the
company announced it was going to carry out a controlled burn of vinyl chloride that would send
dangerous gasses into the air, forcing many of East Palestine's 4,700 residents to evacuate.
They returned after receiving assurances that the air and water were safe, but a strong chemical
odor clung to the town, and many continued to complain of headaches, nausea, and burning
throats. And so several hundred residents had crowded into a local school to demand
answers. Conaway said that two weeks had passed before anyone at the White House had
contacted him, and the US secretary of transportation still hadn't materialized. In
Washington, Republicans made hay. "Secretary Buttigieg laughing about Chinese spy balloons,
while ignoring the Ohio train derailment, shows you how out of touch Democrats are," Ohio
congressman Jim Jordan tweeted. Senator Marco Rubio called Buttigieg "an incompetent who is
focused solely on his fantasies about his political future & needs to be fired".
The
Peter (Buttigieg) Principle. In the 1960s, there was a professor and business analyst
named Laurence J. Peter. He became famous for coming up with something called the Peter
Principle. [...] "In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence," Peter
wrote. "In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out
its duties. Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of
incompetence." It was bitterly funny and true. And now, we are seeing the Peter
Principle in action, fittingly in a person named Peter, at the Biden administration Department of
Transportation. Secretary Pete Buttigieg has mishandled several crises that have come into
his area of responsibility. One was the supply-chain crisis. The other was the
Southwest Airlines meltdown. And most recently has been the disastrous train derailment and
chemical spill in East Palestine, Ohio. In response, Buttigieg has received the most intense
criticism of his career. He is not reacting well.
The
Pete Buttigieg 'Reclamation Project' is Off to a Rocky Start. Is Pete Buttigieg
salvageable? More than any other cabinet member in recent memory, Joe Biden's transportation
secretary has been outed as someone out of his depth and entirely clueless when it comes to the
weighty responsibilities of his office. "He's not ready for the responsibility he has.
He was a fine mayor, from what I understand, but the position he's got really would be better
served by a person who's managed a large enterprise, a state, or something of the scale he's now
dealing with," said Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah).
Biden
administration watchdog to investigate Pete Buttigieg's 18 taxpayer-funded government jet
flights. A U.S. government watchdog will audit Transportation Secretary Pete
Buttigieg's use of taxpayer-funded government airplanes for trips, his office said on Monday.
The Transportation Department Office of Inspector General will review 18 flights Buttigieg made on
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) planes over seven trips. The audit will also include a
travel review by the previous Transportation Secretary under former President Donald Trump, Elaine
Chao. The costs of the flights for Buttigieg and staff was $41,905.20 and in six of seven
trips, the department confirmed that flying on FAA planes was less expensive than flying commercial.
Ohio
Train Disaster Exposes Hollowness, Incompetence of Identity-Obsessed Ruling Class.
The massive train derailment near East Palestine, Ohio, created one of the worst ecological
disasters on U.S. soil in decades. On top of that, it exposed the looming, pervasive
incompetence and callousness of the woke ruling class. A 50-car train operated by Norfolk
Southern derailed Feb. 3 near the small town of East Palestine. It was no ordinary
derailment, since the train was carrying a variety of chemicals, some of which are quite dangerous.
[...] One would think all this would elicit some kind of response from President Joe Biden and his
fellow Democrats, who are always so concerned by various environmental causes. But this
disaster elicited crickets. Biden didn't show up in East Palestine, nor did his
administration or the media seem to pay much attention.
NTSB
Chair Shuts Down Pete Buttigieg's Pathetic Blaming of Donald Trump for Train Derailment. Pete
Buttigieg finally went to East Palestine on Thursday, and as expected, he thoroughly embarrassed himself.
While reporters were asking valid questions about the performance of the Biden administration, the failed
transportation secretary used them to launch ridiculous partisan attacks on people who haven't been in power
for years. Here's one such example, but there have been others over the weeks, with Buttigieg repeatedly
citing supposed deregulation as a cause of the devastating derailment. [Tweet] I don't know about
you, but watching this absolute mediocrity of a public official smugly make his way through a press conference,
appearing to be holding back laughter at times, was frustrating at best. Buttigieg managed to blame Donald
Trump for supposed deregulation when Donald Trump hasn't been in office for over two years. Besides, if
deregulation was a problem, why did Buttigieg never mention it until now?
NTSB
Chair Shuts Down Pete Buttigieg's Pathetic Blaming of Donald Trump for Train Derailment. Pete Buttigieg
finally went to East Palestine on Thursday, and as expected, he thoroughly embarrassed himself. While reporters
were asking valid questions about the performance of the Biden administration, the failed transportation secretary used
them to launch ridiculous partisan attacks on people who haven't been in power for years. Here's one such example,
but there have been others over the weeks, with Buttigieg repeatedly citing supposed deregulation as a cause of the
devastating derailment. [Tweet] I don't know about you, but watching this absolute mediocrity of a public
official smugly make his way through a press conference, appearing to be holding back laughter at times, was frustrating
at best. Buttigieg managed to blame Donald Trump for supposed deregulation when Donald Trump hasn't been in office
for over two years. Besides, if deregulation was a problem, why did Buttigieg never mention it until now?
Pete Buttigieg
Is Not Ready for Primetime. Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg went to East Palestine, Ohio, on
Feb. 23 in a major concession to the Make America Great Again movement. Buttigieg's trip came three weeks
after a Norfolk Southern freight train derailed in the town of fewer than 5,000 residents, releasing hazardous materials
and forcing a brief evacuation on both sides of the Ohio-Pennsylvania border. No one died, people are back
home, the Environmental Protection Agency says the air and water are safe, and it's unusual for a transportation
secretary to visit the site of a trainwreck. Yet a savvy MAGA pressure campaign, including an onsite inspection by
former president Donald Trump earlier in the week, left Buttigieg no choice. Reluctantly, he traveled to
Columbiana County, Ohio, where Trump won in 2020 by 45 points. He donned a hard hat and goggles. And he
tried to convey sympathy toward the East Palestinians.
Buttigieg
Finally Visited East Palestine. It Didn't Go Well. Nearly three weeks after a Norfolk Southern train
carrying toxic chemicals derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, former failed mayor and current Biden Transportation
Secretary Pete Buttigieg finally visited the town today and took a tour of potentially contaminated areas. It
didn't go well. [Tweets] Buttigieg, in typical fashion, attempted to blame shift with a false narrative
about deregulation under President Donald Trump.
The
White House Finally Decides Who to Blame for the East Palestine Disaster. After weeks of inaction, the
White House has finally decided who to blame for the ecological disaster currently unfolding in East Palestine,
OH. In a shocking, completely unexpected turn of events, it's not US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg who
is at fault. He's too busy taking "personal time" anyway. Rather, those dastardly Republicans have struck
again. Apparently, somehow, they are singularly responsible for an axle breaking on a train despite Democrats
having total government control for the last two years.
Pete
Buttigieg: The archetype of the Biden regime. If there is one thing all Americans now know about
transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg, it is that he is massively, moronically incompetent but thinks he is the
smartest, most impressive person on the planet. As Victor Davis Hanson has noted, he is "the epitome of the empty
résumé class." He had no qualifications for the job beyond the fact that he ticks a couple of
identity politics boxes, he's gay and proud of it, and he's a mind-numbed leftist. He is therefore, the perfect
book cover for the Biden Cabinet catalogue. Like Biden and the rest of his Cabinet, Buttigieg was hired for all
the wrong reasons and is thoroughly incompetent for the job he holds. Chosen for reasons other than expertise or
competence, it explains the utter failure of the Biden regime on every issue that matters: national and border
security, health and safety, military readiness, food and energy security, inflation, economic management, and dangerous
involvement in a foreign war that may well lead to WWIII.
Buttigieg
will visit East Palestine, Ohio when the time is right. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg confirmed
today that he will pay a visit to East Palestine, Ohio almost three weeks after a Norfolk Southern freight train
derailed. Large amounts of toxic chemicals were spilled or burned off. Residents were forced to evacuate out
of fear for their health. Since that night on February 3, Buttigieg and President Biden have received intense
backlash for not visiting East Palestine, a small town of 4,700. The criticism increased when Biden chose to travel
to Ukraine and show support for Zelensky instead of going to Ohio at any point since the derailment occurred.
Buttigieg has written a letter to the CEO of Norfolk Southern demanding that the railroad company make the residents
whole after the disaster. I'm sure that will do the trick. Why bother to go to the community and speak with
the residents in person, finding out firsthand what their needs are? He can just write a letter. Buttigieg
is someone who fails up. He's inept in his job and unwilling to step aside.
America
has its secretary of silly walks, Pete Buttigieg. Often described as "the smartest person in the room,"
Mayor Pete to his friends, Pothole Pete to his growing list of detractors, the former McKinsey and Company consultant
and mayor of South Bend, Indiana mayor has shown a great talent for cunningness in regard to his career
advancement. He wasn't an effective mayor and he's been a disastrous secretary of transportation. In his
24 months at that job, he has faced three crises. Buttigieg was AWOL during the supply chain crisis of
2021 — he was on previously unannounced paternity leave — the holiday season flight disruptions of
2022, and now, there has been a recent increase in train derailments, including the one that led to a toxic mushroom
cloud in East Palestine, Ohio.
Why
Is Pete Buttigieg Allowed To Keep Failing Upward? The average person can't describe the daily
responsibilities of the secretary of transportation or even name the figure who holds that position — until
our transportation infrastructure fails, that is. As far as cushy political appointments go, it's on the thankless
end of the spectrum. At least that was the case before Pete Buttigieg ascended to the role in 2021. Now the
secretary of transportation is both a political celebrity and someone immune to meaningful criticism over our country's
transportation failures — and there have been many. Though the left rarely misses an opportunity to
announce that "the adults are back in charge," Buttigieg's failures suggest otherwise. His highlight reel at the
Department of Transportation includes a supply-chain crisis punctuated with a personal leave, flight system disruptions
that stranded millions of travelers and temporarily grounded all U.S. flights, rail strikes, and a series of horrific
train derailments. On Main Street, people get fired for far less. Plucked from obscurity as mayor of a
struggling Rust Belt city, Buttigieg found himself among the leading Democratic presidential candidates in 2020; he even
won the Iowa caucuses. Biden, who considers the former mayor a future party star, awarded him a cabinet post.
It defies logic.
NTSB
Chair Wallops Buttigieg for 'Spreading Misinformation' About Derailment. After the woefully inadequate
Transportation secretary found a way to blame Trump for the catastrophic train derailment, he got pushback from an
unexpected quarter: National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chair Jennifer Homendy, who branded Buttigieg's
politically opportunistic claims "misinformation." Misinformation! That's something that only "MAGA
Republicans" are supposed to be spreading, not good team players such as our Pete! Homendy's word choice made her
rebuke all the more blistering. The Biden regime has repeatedly sought to deplatform and silence those who
questioned their propaganda line, on the spurious grounds that the dissidents were spreading "misinformation." Will
Biden's handlers now silence Buttigieg? Don't bet on it, but the onetime front-runner for becoming America's first
(openly!) gay president has seen his star dim considerably during his stormy demonstration of his own incompetence as
Transportation secretary.
Joe
Rogan Rips Buttigieg For Fretting Over Too Many White People Working At Construction Sites. Podcast host
Joe Rogan blasted Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg over his remarks about the race of construction workers in
lower income communities. Buttigieg said too many construction crews have workers who "don't look like" the
communities they work in at a Monday panel at the National Association of Counties Conference. Rogan said the
secretary displayed a lack of awareness on the effective work of construction workers during a discussion about the
Feb. 3 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. "Do you know that he gave a speech the other day about how
there's too many white people working in construction sites, where these construction sites are set up in these
communities, where the people in the community could benefit from it, which shows a profound lack of understanding of
skilled labor," Rogan said.
The Editor says...
A man who claims to be married to another man "shows a profound lack of understanding" about a lot of things.
Real and Fake
Worlds: Why the Trains are Failing. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg worked in the fake world of
Harvard and consulting. Consultants do not improve business outcomes. They exist as a way to give cover to
an executive team by saying that the executive team's strategy is the correct one. This also means you can't fire
the executives for failure because the consultants agreed it was the right move. Where do you suppose "Mayor
Pete's" priorities are? [Video clip] Roads and train tracks can't get more real. Polluted water
is as real as it gets. Racial identity politics are part of the fake world. We only get to fight over
nonsense when infrastructure is strong enough to support our bloated selves. The country has decided that the fake
world matters more than the real world.
Buttigieg
Flew in Private Jets 18 Times, Costing Approx. $180K. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg has flown
on the taxpayer's dime on private jets 18 times since taking office in January 2021, according to a report by The
New York Post. The report found Buttigieg flew to Nevada, Florida, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Ohio, New Hampshire, and
Montreal on various trips using two Cessna 560XL jets managed by the Federal Aviation Administration, according to
flight tracking data obtained by watchdog group Americans for Public Trust.
Records
Show Buttigieg Missed Important Meetings While on Parental Leave. Despite claiming that he continued his
work while on parental leave, documents reveal that Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg took advantage of his time
off and skipped several important meetings. According to the Daily Caller, the watchdog group Protect the
Public's Trust (PPT) managed to acquire the records in question after a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
After he and his partner adopted twins in August of 2021, Buttigieg used parental leave as an excuse to miss a planned
phone call with Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), who wanted to discuss a "Buy American" waiver request for the I-74
bridge that connects Iowa and Illinois. Buttigieg also delegated away responsibilities for other meetings,
including a speaking engagement with the Indiana Chamber of Commerce. "It appears as though, during his paternity
leave, he was not always available when called upon and did not have some necessary contingencies in place to ensure the
continuity of operations at DOT," said PPT Director Michael Chamberlain.
Things
sure are great with Pete Buttigieg as the U.S. Secretary of Transportation! Peter Paul Buttigieg doesn't
really have anything in his resumé that would indicate he knew how to run an entire nation's worth of critical
transportation infrastructure. But he was hand-picked by Joe Biden to by the Secretary of Transportation, so it
felt like, I dunno, maybe we should give him the benefit of the doubt. After two years, though, I think we're all
out of benefits and the only thing we have left is doubts.
Do
We Need a Department of Transportation? Following yet another failure of government control of
transportation — the FAA system debacle — Pete Buttigieg has been soundly thrashed again for his
incompetence. The FAA failure is only one of many fiascos over the past year laid at the feet of the erstwhile
secretary of Transportation. Recall when he and his "husband" were on paternity leave for nearly two months while
the maritime shipping supply chain crisis was going on last fall. Next, he was AWOL during the railroad strike
negotiations and really played no role in brokering a deal. As a matter of fact, he was on vacation in Portugal at
the time. However, he did have time to point out that a railroad strike would force Americans to boil water.
We could have hardly survived without him. Next up, the holiday air travel crisis, during which massive
cancellations occurred under his watch. Further, Southwest Airlines basically shut down for a week.
Buttigieg criticized the airline for the failure, but not much else. He did nothing to prevent the problem, even
as he was aware of the possibility of a meltdown. Even prominent Democrats complained of his handling of the
fiasco. Should we call for the firing of Mayor Pete? On the contrary, the secretary of Transportation in
reality has little sway over transportation system performance. Government regulators have no real track record at
improving anything, let alone system performance. Regulators typically make things worse.
Pete
Buttigieg called out after FAA system failure grounds all flights. Rep. Andy Biggs: ["]I'm
not surprised. It's unpleasant that I have to say that. But I'm not surprised that he doesn't know anything
because that's consistent with how he's handled any kind of question or issue that we've had in our transportation
sector since he became secretary. But what's chilling about this today is the fact that this is happening.
We've known about apparently overnight, and he has no idea what happened or how they're going to fix it and how long
it's going to last. That has an enormous impact on our economy and travelers today.["]
Buttigieg
Gives the Most Ridiculous Excuse Ever for Using Private Jets. Embattled Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg,
who has come under fire recently for basically being terrible at his job, has also been criticized for his regular use of
private government jets, a practice he tried to defend during an appearance on Fox News. It did not go well.
Buttigieg
and his husband caught chartering military jet to international sports event. How is this for a
scandal? Fox Digital reports that Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has chartered a military jet for his
trip to an international sports event: [...] Which is indeed a scandal, as well as a hypocrisy-fest, for multiple
reasons. He couldn't take commercial for a project like that if for nothing else to demonstrate that commercial
flights are operating smoothly? Sure, he's going as an official, but he should have waited for a government jet
for his undoubtedly huge delegation, not snap his fingers at the military for quick service to him and his husband, or
get the roundheels Bidenite White House to sign off on his many trips on private jets. Fox noted that
President Trump's former Health and Human Services Secretary, Tom Price, was forced out of his job for the exact same
kind of travel, jumping on military jets, taking the spouse along, as well as taking private planes around the country,
for which he billed the government.
Pete
Buttigieg brought husband Chasten on military aircraft to attend sporting event in Netherlands.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg traveled to Europe on a military aircraft to attend the Fifth Invictus Games
with his husband Chasten Buttigieg last spring, according to an internal calendar reviewed by Fox News Digital. On
April 15, Buttigieg traveled from Joint Base Andrews to Rotterdam, Netherlands, via "MilAir Flight" before
returning two days later on military aircraft, the calendar obtained by Americans for Public Trust (APT) and shared with
Fox News Digital showed. According to photos from the event and media reports, the transportation secretary
traveled to the Netherlands with his husband.
The
Baleful Cargo of Woke Diversity Worship. Ditto Pete Buttigieg, who, in his dismal record as a rather
inconsequential small city mayor and failed presidential candidate, had never evidenced aptitude for transportation
issues — other than occasionally and ostentatiously riding a bike. He was never expected to seriously
address problems like spiraling auto fuel prices, the bottlenecks at our harbors, the wild-west train robbing at the
port of Los Angeles, the Southwest Airlines implosion, or our clogged freeways. Instead, he was appointed
Transportation Secretary because of the diversity of his sexual orientation and his woke rhetoric that almost
immediately surfaced in wildly out-of-pocket lectures about "racist" freeways.
Democrats
Sour on Pete Buttigieg over Airlines Fiasco. Left-leaning Democrats have soured on Transportation
Secretary Pete Buttigieg in response to the mass flight cancelations during the holiday season despite his promise to
fix the problem back in September of this year. In a tweet on Thursday, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), one of the few
Democrats who criticized Twitter's decision to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story, publicly scolded Buttigieg for not
sticking to his pledge to hold airlines accountable.
Pete
Buttigieg was 'on vacation in Portugal' during critical talks when nation was on brink of crippling rail
strike. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was on vacation in Portugal for a week and posted a video
that suggested he was still in the U.S., amid tense negotiations to avert a national rail strike earlier this
year. The trip spanned August 29 through the following Monday, Labor Day, a statement by the Department of
Transportation to DailyMail.com confirms. A spokesperson for the department said he was 'traveling on personal
time' but remained 'engaged on urgent issues.' They said the trip had been 'long planned' in advance.
The Editor says...
That's your excuse? How many overseas excursions are not planned in advance?
Criticizing
Pete Buttigieg's private jet usage is apparently off limits. Many people were probably surprised when Joe
Biden appointed "Mayor Pete" Buttigieg as the Secretary of Transportation, given his total lack of experience in such
matters. At this point, I'm not entirely sure that he understood the meaning of his role. The Transportation
Department deals with travel, obviously, so perhaps Buttigieg thought that meant he should spend his time
traveling. He's certainly done quite a bit of that, and as Fox News is reporting this week, many of his trips have
been taken using taxpayer-funded private jets managed by the FAA. Given the history of expensive travel by officials
on the taxpayers' dime, this should have produced some outrage in the press, particularly at a time when so many
Americans can't even afford an economy-class ticket once they finish paying for their groceries, filling up their gas
tanks, and watching the value of their remaining dollars plummet. And yet, this story is barely making a ripple in
the media pond.
Biden's
Cabinet: Let us Count the Ways. [#1] Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg: This appointment
could be the most egregious of a truly notable group of incompetents. Mayor Pete was loved by the rank-and-file
Democratic primary crowd not because of any worthwhile talent or accomplishment, but because of his choice of his life
partner's gender. He is the ultimate box-checker, the quintessential example of valueless progressive
virtue-signaling. Buttigieg has never had the slightest experience in matters of complex international logistics, yet
here he is, occupying a high-profile cabinet post and drawing inordinate negative attention to a normally invisible position
by his having messed things up so badly. Empty store shelves, container ships backed up, airlines canceling flights,
inane statements like, "Just buy an electric car," and more mark his totally deficient stewardship over what should be a
relatively easy, straightforward post. No one can even name a past Secretary of Transportation, but everyone knows
Mayor Pete because things are so screwed up. And for no good reason.
What's
the REAL Reason Pete Buttigieg Just Moved to Michigan? Despite the media fawning and attempting to bill
Buttigieg as the next big thing, it just isn't taking. Forget that he looks about 14 years old, rarely speaks in any
language other than his native corporate consultant, and was absent on paternity leave during a supply-chain crisis. As
the city's mayor, he has only demonstrated that he couldn't fix the potholes in South Bend, Indiana. [Paywall]
Transportation
Secretary Pete Buttigieg thinks his job is customer service. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, the son
of a hardcore Marxist academic, was a good student who managed to get himself into Harvard and, from there, win a Rhodes
Scholarship. He is glib and, with his sonorous voice, makes nonsense and banality sound profound. When it comes
to actual skills, though, he comes up short. He was an utterly average mayor of South Bend but is proving to be, not
just an ineffective Transportation Secretary but an anti-effective one. It's becoming obvious to all that he was an
affirmative action appointee.
Buttigieg
faces criticism from Democrats over flight cancellations, delays. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is
under fire from fellow Democrats for flight delays and cancellations that have paralyzed the nation's airports, wrecked
holiday travel plans and caused Americans undue financial stress. Progressive lawmakers, in particular, say
Mr. Buttigieg needs to do more to rein in airline companies that have taken billions in public subsidies since the start
of the coronavirus pandemic. "It's time for the Transportation Department to impose massive fines on poor-performing
airlines," said Sen. Bernard Sanders, a self-described socialist from Vermont.
Is
the world's air travel industry deliberately being driven to collapse? In America, Pete Buttigieg is proving to
be the most incompetent Secretary of Transportation in American history. Confronted with thousands of canceled flights,
he offers tips about how to value cash refunds compared to refunds in the form of miles. That's bad. What's worse
is that a writer for a trend site claims to have talked with European insiders and learned that the problem with flights is
not limited to America; it's worldwide and deliberate.
Biden
and Mayor Pete have found the solution to flight delays and cancellations. Flight delays are happening all
over, but fear not: Joe Biden and his transportation secretary, former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, have found a
solution: To destroy the fossil fuel industry as fast as they can. That will solve the problem of cancelled and
delayed flights. Once that agenda is finished, we will not have cancellations or delays. We won't have a shortage
of pilots or flight attendants. We will not have to worry about TSA workers or air traffic controllers. We won't
have flights at all.
Team
of Fools: Biden's Cabinet Picks Prove He is Unfit to Lead. I have written extensively about Biden's
shortcomings. Nothing exceeds his capacity for choosing the wrong people. [...] And now we come to little Pete
Buttigieg, our stalwart Secretary of Transportation. His qualification for the job? Buttigieg was mayor of a
small town in Indiana. Joe Concha, writing in The Hill, calls this "amateur hour." We have what Concha refers to as
"a massive supply-chain breakdown exploding across the country that will impact every American, particularly the lower and
middle classes. Restaurants, stores, and small businesses that provide products and services to people will all be
negatively affected as the cost to the consumer goes up." What did Buttigieg do about it? "He took a months-long
parental leave," said Liz Peek, "after adopting twins with his husband." Buttigieg attempted to defend his performance by
saying, "We're doing a lot." He should have stayed out on paternity leave. The country would be better off.
Pete
Buttigieg's tour de force of fatuousness, dishonesty, and backdoor socialism. Pete Buttigieg took questions on
Sunday [6/5/2022] from George Stephanopoulos. This little man with the carefully tweezed eyebrows, sleazy 5:00 shadow,
Alfred E. Neuman mien, and orator's voice hid behind fatuous, hackneyed political babble even as he discretely revealed the
hardcore totalitarianism that drives him and, indeed, drives the entire Biden administration. In many ways, Buttigieg
is like a Stepford politician. There's something eerily unreal about the man as, no matter the question, he responds
with administration talking points rather than substantive information. Stephanopoulos opened by speaking about Jamie
Dimon's warning that America is facing an economic "hurricane" (a word Stephanopoulos carefully avoided using), as well as
Larry Summers's concerns about a recession, and then asked if Americans need to brace for an economic storm. Buttigieg
answered with blather.
Elitist
Mayor Pete Called Out For Bailing On Black Americans, And His Response Couldn't Be More Tone Deaf. Mayor Pete
is a walking meme at this point. He was not only in over his head as a small-town mayor, where critics like to point
out he couldn't manage basic issues like potholes, but he was also sorely indifferent to the plight of black residents.
Under his watch, violent crime spiked to record highs, and his response was to fire a black police chief, a move not
unnoticed by the woke, identity politicking left. As a failed presidential candidate who only got to the national stage
because of his publicized — and wholly unimportant — sexual attraction to men, he neverthelss agined
enougns team to parlay his empty resume into a sweet cabinet position. He proceeded to disappear for the next year
while Demorat-created supply chain issues rocked his supposed kingdom. He also called inanimate roads and bridges racist.
Mayor
Pete's Partner Leads Pledge To Pride. On Wednesday, video emerged of Chasten leading a camp of gay teenagers in
a faux pledge of allegiance, with the object of their loyalty being the Pride Flag. [Video clip] First and
foremost, we should note that any patriotic American should consider the real Pledge of Allegiance as sacrosanct, and
Chasten's mockery of it is downright offensive. But we must also consider the overriding concept. He's leading
kids in pledging to a lifestyle. "I pledge my heart to the rainbow of the Not So Typical Gay Camp. One camp, full
of pride, indivisible..." Was he just trying to make it fun for kids? Did he mean well? Perhaps, but it was
idiotic, nonetheless. There's nothing wrong with trying to instill self-esteem in kids, but there are certainly more
constructive ways of doing it, particularly when your spouse is a member of the President's Cabinet.
Pete
Buttigieg's Husband Instructs Kids on Pledging Allegiance to Gay-Pride Flag. A disturbing clip from a
documentary about United States Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has caused outrage on social media. In the
video, Pete Buttigieg's husband, Chasten Buttigieg, is addressing a group of children. The children were looking toward
the front of the room at what appeared to be a gay-pride flag.
Biden's
Handlers Want Skyrocketing Gas Prices. The EPA Just Revealed Why. The Democrats are well aware of the old
adage, "Never let a good crisis go to waste," and are busy applying it as gas prices spiral out of all control. As
PJM's Chris Queen discussed Monday, Transportation Secretary Pete "Mr. Mom" Buttigieg appeared to be fantastically out
of touch when he responded to skyrocketing prices at the pump. "Clean transportation can bring significant cost savings
for the American people as well," asserted Buttigieg. "Last month, we announced a $5 billion investment to build out a
nationwide electric vehicle charging network so that people from rural to suburban to urban communities can all benefit from
the gas savings of driving an EV." It was a real "Let Them Eat Cake" moment for Secretary Pete, but there is a method to
his madness: the administration isn't just out of touch, it is actively trying to use this crisis to impose its green agenda.
Pete
Buttigieg accepted $250,000 and gifts from mayoral campaign donors who were later awarded $33 million in city
contracts. Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg's top political donors received millions of dollars in city
contracts after giving thousands to his campaigns while he was mayor of South Bend, Indiana. Buttigieg's political
action committees took money from 23 companies who then got jobs from South Bend's Board of Public Works on which he was
seated, documents obtained by DailyMail.com reveal. On two occasions, the former presidential candidate received
donations the same day the companies were awarded contracts. Other city contractors [gave] the mayor cigars, alcohol
and golf trips worth hundreds of dollars.
Biden's
transport secretary Pete Buttigieg claims Florida Republicans' 'Don't Say Gay' bill will drive up suicide rates.
US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg claimed on Wednesday [2/9/2022] that Florida Republicans' controversial Parental Rights
in Education bill could drive up LGBTQ youth suicide rates if it's implemented. It's part of an all-out offensive the White
House seems to have mounted against the legislation, which President Joe Biden denounced as 'hateful' on Tuesday evening.
Republican lawmakers in the Sunshine State are working to pass a bill that bans discussion of sexual orientation or gender identity
in state public schools from kindergarten through fifth grade. It also encourages parents to sue school districts that
promote talking about such issues.
After
a Visit by Pete Buttigieg, Oakland California Joins Operation Hide the Ships. Transportation Secretary Pete
Buttigieg visited the Port of Los Angeles (POLA) and Port of Long Beach (POLB) to announce the Biden administration
officially saved Christmas. Yes, that actually happened. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti took it one step further
and proclaimed Secretary Buttigieg as the official "man who saved Christmas".
The
Democrats' Mayor Pete problem. It should be far too early to be talking about the next presidential election,
but between President Biden's advanced age, his sagging fortunes, and widespread worries about Vice President Kamala Harris's
political competence, the parlor games are already beginning. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who ran an
impressive campaign for president as a political underdog, has emerged in the hearts and minds of some Democratic strategists
as the favored successor. [...] Buttigieg's own presidential campaign was an illustration of the limitations of relying on
affluent professionals as a voting base. Even when he surged during the presidential primary, he always struggled to
muster support among the nonwhite and blue-collar voters that typically decide the party nomination.
Buttigieg
Tries to Make Families Feel Better About Gas Prices By Offering an Unaffordable Alternative. As the Biden
Administration continues to push American families into alternative energy sources by maintaining pain at the pump,
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is attempting to explain away high gas prices. During an interview with MSNBC
over the weekend, Buttigieg reassured Americans they won't have to worry about an increase in gas prices ever again, so long
as they buy an electric vehicle. "Families who own that vehicle will never have to worry about gas prices again,"
Buttigieg said. "The people who stand to benefit most from owning an EV are often rural residents who have the most
distances to drive, who burn the most gas, and underserved urban residents in areas where there are higher gas prices and
lower income." [...] Rural residents who need to drive long distances are the worst candidates for electric vehicles, which
only charge for a certain number of miles. Outside of major cities, electric charging stations don't exist.
According to Cox Automotive, the average electric vehicle costs at least $55,000.
Buttigieg
Blasted for Urging Americans to Buy Electric Cars to Save on Fuel Costs. Transportation Secretary Pete
Buttigieg raised eyebrows across the country this week when he urged Americans struggling to cope with higher fuel prices to
simply buy electric vehicles. [Tweet] "The people who stand to benefit most from owning an EV [electric vehicle] are
often rural residents who have the most distances to drive, who burn the most gas, and underserved urban residents in areas
where there are higher gas prices and lower income," Buttigieg said. "They would gain the most by having that vehicle,"
he added. "These are the very residents who have not always been connected to electric vehicles that are viewed as kind
of a luxury item." "Everyone can probably afford electric cars in the world that Pete Buttigieg lives in," tweeted
Trump White House communications official Mercedes Schlapp. "Average Americans struggling with record high gas
prices? Not so much."
Is
Pete Buttigieg doing anything other than running for office? A culprit is emerging from the supply chain crisis
in the minds of voters and it's not good news for Democrats. [...] Every party now agrees that the Biden administration is
incompetent. Democrats, who have no understanding of inflation as a strictly monetary phenomenon (read this) are just
astute enough to recognize that inflation has some kind of tie with supply chain failures, though, and those supply chain
failures are things that people can see in front of them as factories shut down and workers get laid off for lack of spare
parts. More specifically, they recognize that the supply chain mess is damaging their electoral prospects.
This guy has one solution for everything: Buttigieg
says once families own electric cars, they will 'never have to worry about gas prices again'. Secretary of
Transportation Pete Buttigieg said that once families embrace electric cars, they will "never have to worry about gas prices
again." Buttigieg explained to MSNBC's Jonathan Capehart Sunday that the Biden administration's Build Back Better
legislation includes incentives for families to switch to electric vehicles. "Most of the physical infrastructure work
was contemplated in the bill that was just signed, but there is more envisioned in the Build Back Better law," Buttigieg
explained. "I'll give you one example: It contains incentives to make it more affordable to buy an electric
vehicle, up to a $12,500 discount in effect for families thinking about getting an EV."
The
Buttigieg presidential buzz has hit the White House. Pete Buttigieg has long been a man in a hurry. Since
2010, he has run for treasurer of Indiana, mayor of South Bend, chair of the Democratic National Committee, and president of
the United States. At 39, he is one of the most omnipresent and newly-powerful members of President Joe Biden's
Cabinet. But he says he's not thinking about what comes next, even as he's buzzed about as a potential Biden heir.
The Editor says...
Mayor Peetie isn't in much of a hurry to return from "paternity leave," is he? He has proven himself to be
incompetent in his two latest jobs (at least), and is lucky he hasn't been fired for his non-response to the logjam at
the California ports. There is simply no way this doofus will ever be elected President. He has only one
qualification: he is a homosexual. That's not enough.
The
media has decided it is time to start campaigning for Mayor Pete. As Biden's and Harris's poll ratings drop
like a rock, the media decided the time for a puff piece on Mayor Pete was now. [...] It appears that they have given up on
trying to make Kamala a viable candidate in 2024 and anyone with a brain can see that Biden will be lucky if he makes it
through four years, let alone runs again. If Biden and Mayor Pete cared about the supply chain, they might divert some
ships to the right-to-work, red state Florida, but politics is clearly more important than the people. Mayor Pete will
probably crash and burn like Harris but there are many more in the Democrat bullpen whom the media can substitute and write
puff pieces on.
Idiot
Democrat Of The Month: Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. The competition was fierce and has been
since January but he idiot of the month for the democrats is Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. In a recent
interview he claims that bridges in New York were intentionally created to keep blacks and Puerto Ricans from going to the
beach. The brazen stupidity of this comment has earned him the "Idiot Democrat of The Month" for Citizens
Journal. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg claims that there is racism ingrained in the U.S. transportation
infrastructure. An unfounded claim but because he used the "R" word and he is in a position of power, all the news
medias have jumped on this [eagerly]. The Daily Caller News Foundation reported "Some people were surprised when I
pointed to the fact that if a highway was built for the purpose of dividing a white and a Black neighborhood, or if an
underpass was constructed such that a bus carrying mostly Black and Puerto Rican kids ... was designed too low for it to pass
by, then that obviously reflect the racism that went into those design choices," Buttigieg said Monday [11/8/2021].
But if the Blacks or Puerto Ricans had cars, they seemingly had no problems getting to where they were going.
Transportation
Secretary — Forget Gas Prices and Supply Chain Chaos, Bridges and Roads are Racist. Last week in an
event to promote 'environmental justice', Kamala Harris emphasized the priorities of the Biden administration when she held
an event to highlight how trees are racist. This week Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg wanted to promote
'construction and logistic equity' while emphasizing the priorities of the Biden administration, so Buttigieg declared that
roads and bridges are racist. [Video clip]
Joe
Biden Mocks The American People — "They Don't Understand Supply Chains" — The People are Rubes to Be
Ruled, Not Listened To. I'm not sure what is more blood boiling: that Joe Biden thinks it is okay to mock the
American electorate, or that he actually believes the [stuff] that comes out of his twisted, stupid brain. The question
was a perfectly well presented inquiry about the Biden administration's incompetence to put policies in place to streamline
the supply chain chaos that he has created. His response is disconnected, absent of anything even remotely accurate,
and entirely disconnected from factual substance. This guy is a complete and utter failure of staggering and stunning
incompetence. [Video clip] [...] COVID didn't do squat to disrupt supply chains, impact prices or create massive
shortages and inflation — people did. Specifically, the people in the background of this administration who
intentionally trashed the U.S. economy, because they are ideologically aligned with that destruction. The current
economic team is devoid of any real world experience that would shape their outlooks on how to solve problems.
Example: Transportation Secretary, Pete Buttigieg.
In
Discussing Massive Infrastructure Bill, Pete Buttigieg Shows Off How Little He Knows. As the United States
careens off the economic tracks towards stagflation, the Biden administration and Democrats in Congress continue to posit
that their proposed massive spending bill will counterintuitively decrease rates of inflation. This was the
argument recently articulated by Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg during his conversation [10/31/2021] with Chris
Wallace on the most recent "Fox News Sunday." After Buttigieg praised the "historic" plan's focus on providing "action
on climate before its too late" and massive increased spending on "finally [getting] preschool for every child in this
country" and "making childcare affordable for every family," Wallace pressed Buttigieg on "the issues Americans care about
the most," including inflation. Gas prices have jumped from an average of $2.14 a year ago to $3.41 today. The
price of natural gas, essential to heating U.S. homes, has doubled since June to more than $6. Coal will subsequently
generate nearly a quarter of U.S. electricity this year. Use of the much dirtier, higher carbon-emitting fuel has
already grown by 22 percent in 2021. This latter issue was not brought up when Buttigieg referenced the
"transformational" bill's focus on climate challenges.
Non sequitur of the week: Sunday
Talks, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg Says West Coast Port Backlog Unlikely to Be Resolved Until Every American is
Vaccinated. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg appeared on the DC narrative shaping program hosted by
swamp gatekeeper Chris Wallace. Within the interview Buttigieg was questioned about why West Coast port backups are
worse now than before the White House announced their solution to operate ports 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Buttigieg proclaimed the ports are being impacted by the pandemic, and ships stuck in China are the reason why ships are
sitting off the coast of California. Yeah, try to square that circular logic. LOL. The scale of
incompetence, even in common sense politispeak, is off the charts. The illogical statements by this guy are legendary;
however, he outdid himself today. Eventually Pete weaves his way through fourteen nonsensical catch phrases to get to a
point where he proclaims nothing in the supply chain will start being more efficient until everyone is vaccinated. And
yes, it appears that he is so stuck in pretzel-speak, Buttigieg actually believes that. [Video clip]
'Any
man who takes six months of leave for a newborn is a loser': Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur slams Pete Buttigieg. A
Silicon Valley venture capitalist says that men who take six months of paternity leave are 'losers' and that 'in the old days men had
babies and worked harder to provide for their future' which was 'the correct masculine response.' Joe Lonsdale weighed into the
raging debate sparked by Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's decision to take paternity leave after he and his husband, Chasten,
welcomed adopted twins into their family. Buttigieg was criticized for taking paid time off while the country continues to suffer
from the effects of a major logjam at ports that has exacerbated the supply chain crisis.
Shouldn't
Pete's husband be changing the diapers? We live in interesting times. Enter our Secretary of Transportation. He's
been missing in action during the supply chain crisis on the grounds that he is on paternity leave. Two months on paternity leave when
ships are lining up at the ports because they can't unload? Where we can find work like that? Where is the outrage? [...] What
amazes me about this whole episode is that no one took note that the Secretary of Transportation was absent during this crisis.
To my knowledge, no one in the media was looking for the Secretary. Isn't he responsible for this department?
The
incredible, disappearing — incompetent — Team Biden. Last week was another bad one for
the continually disappearing Biden administration. As Americans took to social media to post pictures of bare Dunkin'
Donuts shelves, sold-out milk at big-box stores and other signs of an America in trouble, we learned that Transportation
Secretary Pete Buttigieg has been on paternity leave since August. Buttigieg was always going to be a lightweight
transportation chief. He got the job as a reward for dropping out of the presidential race and throwing his support to
Joe Biden — and also because he said he likes trains, having gotten engaged at a train station. My
5-year-old likes trains, too. Yet just because he can say "Choo choo!" with enthusiasm doesn't mean he can oversee the
country's transportation system.
Transportation
Secretary Pete Buttigieg Highlights Important Challenges. When Barack Obama and James Clyburn were organizing
the pathway for Joe Biden in the 2020 election, they reached out in March to the remaining candidates and told each of them
they were going to withdraw. Each candidate was given an offer they could not refuse along with a question of what
terms it would take to get them out of the race and support the avatar that was/is Joe Biden. Having watched the
Buttigieg snap-n-pop candidacy, it was obvious his terms involved getting an innocuous job that would provide him and his
husband enough graft to facilitate their lifestyle. Obama and Clyburn offered Alfred E. Newman the job of Secretary of
Transportation. Pete Buttigieg's curriculum vitae included that he held a drivers license, so he gleefully exclaimed
his qualifications and accepted the job. The guy is an absolute doofus; a soy version of Greta Thunberg, who is
incapable of speaking about anything that makes any sense. He is a caricature of the person who thinks they know
something, so they speak in weird sentences that amount to total gibberish.
Why
is Pete Buttigieg still the Secretary of Transportation? Pete Buttigieg has been away from his desk at the
Department of Transportation for two months and no one noticed until this week. He's been home on paternity leave since
the birth of his twins. Normally, we might just shrug our shoulders and say who cares? These are not normal
times, though, and there is a transportation crisis going on that has to be handled. The supply chain is facing severe
disruption and cargo ships are backed up trying to get their goods unloaded in American ports, especially in California.
Where's Pete?
Buttigieg:
Supply Chain Problems Exist Because Biden Guided U.S. Out of Recession. Secretary of Transportation Pete
Buttigieg said Sunday [10/17/2021] on CNN's "State of the Union" that the supply chain backups at America's ports were a
product of President Joe Biden guiding the economy "out of the teeth of a terrifying recession," which caused incomes and
demand to rise.
Buttigieg:
The Weak Link In The Supply Chain. The only thing more laughable than Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's
claim that spending two months on paternity leave counts as "work" is that the massive infrastructure bill in Congress would
do anything to fix the supply chain crisis. When asked on CNBC why the administration waited so long to take action,
Buttigieg responded that "we've been working this issue from day one". Well, not exactly. As Politico reported,
Buttigieg was "mostly offline" starting in mid-August, and only went on a media blitz after Politico disclosed the fact that
he'd been on an unannounced leave. [...] So Buttigieg's absence during this was inexcusable. And other than
acknowledging that the supply chain crisis existed, it's hard to see what "work" anyone in the Biden administration was
actually doing. It's possible, in fact, that Biden's vague executive order contributed to supply chain problems.
White
House: Pete Buttigieg a 'Role Model' for Taking Two Months Paid Paternity Leave During Crisis. The White
House defended Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Friday for taking off two months of paid paternity leave —
even as the national supply chain crisis worsened. White House press secretary Jen Psaki called Buttigieg a role model for
taking so much time off after he and Chasten got baby twins. "[P]roud to work in an Administration that is fighting to
make paid leave a reality for everyone, and with people like Sec. Pete Buttigieg who are role models on the importance
of paid leave for new parents," she wrote.
Transportation
Secretary Pete Buttigieg [has been] on Paid Leave Since Mid-August amid Supply Crisis. As cargo ships congested at U.S.
ports, creating an unprecedented supply-chain crisis, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was on paid leave to spend time
with his husband, Chasten, and their two newborn babies. After weeks of people questioning Buttigieg's whereabouts as
crisis after crisis mounted, Politico's West Wing Playbook confirmed on Thursday [10/14/2021] that the transportation
secretary was "lying low."
Pete
Buttigieg Returns to D.C. From Playing House, and Is About as Useful as When He Wasn't Here. Secretary of
Transportation Pete Buttigieg has been on family leave since August, and no one in the Biden administration seemed to
care. According to White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain, the meltdown at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are
problems caused by the previous administration, and they are "tackling" it. [...] I would be curious to hear the responses
from the peanut gallery if Buttigieg were a female Secretary of Transportation who was also part of a Republican
administration. [...] In the midst of what is a true transportation infrastructure crisis, when the head of the
transportation arms of our nation should be giving insight and working on solutions, Howdy Doody Buttigieg is deer in the
headlights, talking about everything but the supply-chain issues.
The Editor says...
[#1] Barack H. Obama is using the same playbook he used in his first two terms, and one of his best plays is to blame
everything on his predecessor. Years ago, it was George W. Bush who got the blame for nearly everything —
years after Obama took over, and now it's Donald Trump. [#2] Two months of paid paternity leave is a lot,
especially when same-sex marriage is still a controversial idea, as is paternity leave, and nobody in this household gave birth
to the children. The idea behind maternity leave, and later paternity leave, is that Mom needs to recover from childbirth
and can't return to her routine right away. That doesn't apply here, and even if it did, two months is highly excessive.
Republicans
demand Pete Buttigieg testify in Congress over supply chain crisis. Senator Rick Scott is calling on
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo to testify before the Senate Committee on
Commerce, Science, and Transportation, according to a Thursday [10/14/2021] report. 'There is more that the Department
of Transportation can and should be doing to help address ongoing supply chain issues related to the pandemic,' Senator
Cynthia Lummis told the Washington Examiner. 'We're well over a year into this, and I'm concerned that the Biden
administration seems more focused on pushing Congress to massively expand the federal bureaucracy rather than using their
existing authorities to help American businesses and consumers get back to normal,' the Senate Transportation Committee
member added.
Marsha
Blackburn Blasts Buttigieg on Supply Chain Crisis: 'Get Back to Work or Leave the Department'. Sen. Marsha
Blackburn (R-TN) on Thursday criticized U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg for being missing in action as
thousands of flights get canceled and United States ports face record-breaking delays. [...] Blackburn's comments come after
Politico reported that Buttigieg has been on paid leave since mid-August, electing to spend time with his husband,
Chasten, and their two newborn babies rather than doing his job as transportation secretary.
Amateur
hour: Pete Buttigieg's inexperience exposed as supply chain breaks down. After a quiet first nine months
in office, the former mayor has his first crisis on his hands: a massive supply-chain breakdown exploding across the country
that will impact every American, particularly the lower and middle classes. Restaurants, stores and small businesses
that provide products and services to people will all be negatively affected as the cost to the consumer goes up. Per a
recent CBS News report: "A growing number of shipments are stuck at sea because of supply chain issues, leading to
growing concern that holiday shipments may not arrive in time. Container ships are crowding ports from New York to Los
Angeles, where 250,000 containers are floating off the coast waiting to be unloaded," the report reads. [...] [A]lmost all
[news] outlets are focusing on Buttigieg's foray into fatherhood and not on the one major issue he's in charge of fixing, or
at least getting under some semblance of control, as cargo ships continue to pile up off the coast of America's port cities.
Have
We Ever Witnessed a More Incompetent and Out of Touch Bunch Than Biden's Appointees? Chapter 5. Not to
overlook we seem to have another corrupt democrat asshole as Attorney General, but if you ever wondered what would happen
when a president appoints people based on their sex, color, or persuasion, look no further than the disaster that is Joe
Biden's administration. We all know he didn't pick Pete Buttigieg because of his experience with transportation issues.
[Tweets] Guess it's a little different than managing the bus schedule in South Bend. Besides, he has a really
cool bicycle.
Scandals
from top to bottom in Joe Biden's cabinet of horrors. One of the many cabinet members with no experience for
the post to which he was appointed. [Pete] Buttigieg is learning on the job, to the point that he's caused PR headaches
from his spitballing. When he mused that a mileage tax could be a good idea, he had to backpedal quickly that Biden
wasn't considering it, after it was pointed out that the tax tends to hit low-income workers hardest. Now, with supply
issues impacting the economy and cargo ships waiting offshore, Buttigieg's answer is a task force.
Buttigieg's
Babies. The national news media gushed with worshipful joy over the fact that Peter Buttigieg has acquired twin
babies. Other babies may have been born to members of this administration, but the national media carried no stories
about them. [...] Buttigieg attempts to control the new-parent narrative by releasing an already infamous, staged photo of
the two "fathers." But this black and white photo does the opposite. It captures the narcissism and self-centeredness
of all sexuality-based consciousness — hetero, homo, pano, transo. Sexuality based consciousness is the
opposite of the unique chance of selfless love granted to a mother. The two men appear absorbed in each other and
relate to the supposed babies as props, which is what they may well be in this photo. This is a very different
psychological dynamic from a new mother and child. These two healthy men stagecraft themselves as hospital patients,
pretending to be birth parents and canceling the existence of the birth mother. They are already claiming total control
over the identities of these babies. The babies are widely reported to be fraternal twins, which is more common in
artificial procreation.
Kamala
Harris Facing White House Sabotage as Establishment Media Lay Out Pete Buttigieg's Path to Presidency. Vice
President Kamala Harris is facing White House sabotage as the establishment media lay out Secretary of Transportation Pete
Buttigieg's path to the presidency. With Harris's history of "mistreatment of employees and dissent" before entering
the White House, the establishment media have begun reporting on the infighting and "sabotage" impacting the office of the
vice president. [...] Enter stage right Transportation Secretary Buttigieg, who, as previous mayor of South Bend, was unable
to fix the city's potholes; a pizza company in 2019 had to repair them for Mayor Pete. But while the establishment
media largely ignored that story, they published a profile piece June 8 about Buttigieg that plotted his path to the
presidency that would involve him replacing incumbent President Joe Biden.
Climate Change Is
Now Infrastructure Too. Pete Buttigieg continues to refer to everything as "infrastructure." The
transportation secretary, who has already redefined the word to include "broadband," "eldercare," "childcare," and whatever
else is on President Biden's progressive wish list, is now classifying climate-related policy as "infrastructure." "The
truth is that every infrastructure decision is, already inevitably, a climate decision as well," Buttigieg said during last
week's Climate Summit in front of more than 40 world leaders. [...] The president's "big, bold, but achievable commitment" on
climate issues will help the country "resume that position of U.S. leadership and then challenge the other nations of the
world to be part of the solution as well," he said. Evidently causing thousands of Keystone XL Pipeline workers to lose
their jobs is just the type of bold commitment that Buttigieg admires.
Pete
Buttigieg: Racism is 'physically built into' country's highways. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg
suggested in a recent interview that racism is built into the country's highway system. "There is racism physically
built into some of our highways, and that's why the jobs plan has specifically committed to reconnect some of the communities
that were divided by these dollars," the former South Bend, Indiana, mayor told reporter April Ryan this week in an interview
discussing President Joe Biden's proposed $2 trillion infrastructure plan. Buttigieg explained that several major
highways in the United States negatively affect minority communities.
'Environmentalist'
Buttigieg unloads bike from SUV before riding the short distance to his destination. The United States
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg was caught on video Thursday unloading a bike from an SUV just moments before
riding the bike a short distance to his destination, to make it look like the 'environmentalist' was saving energy, in an
epic virtue signal fail. A person off camera can even be heard questioning why the Biden administration official would
be wearing a suit while bike riding. Buttigieg has been at the forefront of advocating for President Joe Biden to
implement new taxes on transportation, including taxing individual's based on the amount of distance they have driven as well
as increasing taxes on gas.
Pete
Buttigieg's little bicycle theater is ridiculous. Little Petey Buttigieg is now playing in the big leagues,
having made the tremendous leap from ineffectual mayor of a crime-ridden city to Transportation Secretary of the United
States of America. To make a point about alternative transportation, he rode a bicycle to his first White House cabinet
meeting — after first having several burly men drive him near the White House and then escort him and his
bike. This kind of theater is typical for leftists, who often seem incapable of distinguishing fantasy from
reality. Last week, Little Petey (who always reminds me of a cross between Alfred "What, Me Worry?" Newman and Beaver
Cleaver) let Americans know that being transportation secretary is more than focusing on roads and cars. Therefore, he
tweeted out, "You should not have to own a car to prosper in this country, no matter what kind of community you're living
in." On Thursday, he decided to use his first White House cabinet meeting to make that point.
Buttigieg:
Hey, never mind about my proposed mileage tax. Does this count as "something of a backtrack," as Jake Tapper
noted in his interview with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg? You bet it does. After floating both a
mileage tax and a gas tax as possible fundraisers for Joe Biden's upcoming $3 trillion infrastructure boondoggle, Buttigieg
hit reverse last night. After getting earfuls on the regressive nature of such taxes, not to mention oppressive
in the former case, Buttigieg backtracked and insisted that no tax increases would hit anyone below the $400K income level.
Pete
Buttigieg says plan to tax motorists by the mile is 'not part of the conversation' in $3 trillion infrastructure
bill. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg walked back an idea he was touting just days ago to tax drivers
by the mile as a way to ensure drivers of electric cars pay kick in more for wear and tear on roads. 'No, that's not
part of the conversation about this infrastructure bill,' he said Monday [3/29/2021] when asked about the idea on CNN's 'The
Lead' by host Jake Tapper, as President Joe Biden prepares to roll out his $3 trillion plan.
Pete
Buttigieg backpedals from his tax-the-poor mileage plan as fast as he can. If Pete Buttigieg thinks he has a
political future after his latest gaffe as Joe Biden's transportation secretary, he's in for a surprise. [...] People, see,
living on the outskirts of overpriced blue cities because they can't afford its skyrocketing housing costs, make those long,
horrible, traffic-plagued commutes on Third World-looking highways by choice. They do it because they like it, and
according to Buttigieg, he's there to put a stop to it. Punchbowl's gone, polluters. Truckers carrying heavy
medical equipment to distant hospitals save COVID patients? Take the bus, [...]. Uber drivers transporting someone
to the emergency room or keeping a drunk off the road? Pay up, miscreant. Farmers driving tractors to provide Pete
with his gourmet meals? You pay the tax, enough about me. In the world of Rev. Pete, surveilling and taxing
these wicked sinners against the god of global warming is all it will take to get them to change their wayward ways.
Greenie carrot. Greenie stick.
Buttigieg
backs Biden on saying goodbye to oil industry: 'We've got a few short years'. Democratic presidential nominee
Joseph R. Biden unleashed a gusher of criticism for his debate comment about making a "transition" from the oil industry, but
former Democratic primary rival Pete Buttigieg was solidly in Mr. Biden's corner. "Remember, there's no do-over on
climate," Mr. Buttigieg said Friday on CNN. "We're literally entering the event horizon. We've got a matter of
just a few short years before some of these things become irreversible." Mr. Biden sought to clarify his comments
after saying at Thursday night's debate that "I would transition from the oil industry, yes," his response to a question from
President Trump over whether the Democrat would "close down the oil industry."
The Editor says...
There are those who claim that doomsday is always "only a few years away"; however, it has been a few years away since about 1968.
Pete
Buttigieg blames Trump for violent rioting in Democrat-controlled cities, states. Democrat Pete Buttigieg,
former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, on Wednesday held President Trump responsible for the violent unrest that has beset U.S.
cities controlled by Democrats. "The simple reality is that we are seeing more and more chaos and violence under the
Trump presidency, and there's no reason to expect that it would get any different or any better if he were reelected,"
Mr. Buttigieg told Fox News anchor Bret Baier. National Democrats have largely avoided commenting on the arson,
looting, window-breaking and assaults plaguing major U.S. cities, including Chicago, Minneapolis, Seattle and Portland,
Oregon, all of which are controlled by Democratic mayors in states led by Democratic governors.
Pete
Buttigieg dropping out smells a lot like quid pro quo. Despite being arguably third or fourth most likely to
get the nomination, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg dropped out ahead of Super Tuesday. Clearly, somebody got to him
with an offer.
Confirmed:
Pete Buttigieg Dropping Out of Presidential Race. Democrat presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is dropping
out of the race according to a report by California-based Politico reporter Carla Marinucci. The 38-year-old former
mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who was mocked by President Trump for reminding him of the Mad Magazine mascot Alfred E.
Neuman, eked out a victory in the Iowa caucus but has failed to win a primary race since, however he is in third place in the
delegate race with 26 compared to 50 for former Vice President Joe Biden and the 58 for Sen. Bernie Sanders (VT) going
in to Super Tuesday this week.
Pete
Buttigieg is suspending his 2020 presidential campaign. Democrat Pete Buttigieg exited the 2020 presidential
primary race on Sunday, ending an unlikely campaign that saw a little-known mayor overpower governors and U.S. senators in
the race for the party nomination. "Today is a moment of truth," Buttigieg said from South Bend, Indiana, where he
served as mayor for two terms. "The truth is the path has narrowed to a close, for our candidacy, if not for our
cause." Buttigieg said he had a responsibility for considering "the effect of remaining in this race any further."
Buttigieg Drops
Out. Pete Buttigieg, aka Alfred E. Newman, has suspended his bid for the Presidency. [...] The move to drop out
makes sense within the most likely Club pattern to support Joe Biden. Buttigieg drops out now ahead of Super-Tuesday
allowing less fragmentation of the vote. It will be interesting to see if he follows a Club plan to endorse Joe Biden
because Buttigieg previously wrote high praise for Bernie Sanders.
For
Buttigieg, a Search for Black Support That Never Arrived. In October, Pete Buttigieg said he would do better
with South Carolina's black voters once they got to know him better. When he came back in December, he was still
working on introducing himself to the black electorate. And in late January he admitted he was scared that at his
rallies in South Carolina, where 60 percent of the Democratic electorate is black, most attendees were white.
Those fears were borne out on Saturday, when Mr. Buttigieg was trounced in South Carolina's primary and earned just
two percent of the vote from African-Americans, according to early exit polling.
More Commie Than Bernie.
Mayor Pete Buttigieg is even more thoroughly a Communist than Bernie Sanders. That this strikes the reader as nonsense
testifies to the media's laziness, and, yes, illiteracy. More likely than not, Pete's politics follow the script of
Antonio Gramsci, the centerpiece of whose teaching is how to exercise Communist hegemony more firmly than Lenin and
Stalin. In fact, young Pete assisted his father, Notre Dame English professor Joseph Buttigieg, president of the
International Gramsci Society, in editing the English translation of Gramsci's works — writings about which it is
impossible to be neutral. Far from neutral, the elder Buttigieg was among the world's biggest fans of that most
totalitarian of totalitarian theorists. If his son and assistant is anything but a follower of Gramsci, he has neither
said nor shown it. On the contrary, his politics follow Gramsci's advice about how to take power.
Criticism of Mayor Peetie, apparently from another homosexual: Pete Buttigieg is a slightly less gay version of Obama.
[Scroll down] And if you deign to wince at one of their many on-stage prolonged smooches, you're a bigot. This is
the behavior of teenagers. The Buttigii are extremely childlike and appear to have some form of arrested development.
And Pete's relationship to his sexuality took a demented turn last week when, at a campaign event in Colorado, he discussed sexuality
with a nine-year-old. The pre-pubescent child asked the former mayor advice on coming out as gay. Pete indulged the child
and the mother who put him up to it, telling him 'I'm rooting for you'. As a friend pointed out, if Pete had done that on a
playground wearing a trench coat, he'd be in jail. Even though there is no such thing as a gay child, the fact that Pete only came
out of the closet less than five years ago, probably means this child would have better advice for him, and not the other way around.
Buttigieg
joined protest with McDonald's workers — it didn't end well. Pete Buttigieg barged in on a protest
led by McDonald's workers in Charleston, South Carolina Monday. While some of the protesters appeared to be supporters,
others were not at all pleased to see him, especially when he took the microphone and began to speak.
Sorry,
Democrats: Party's Over. Mayor Pete is going nowhere. He has only two rather tenuous claims to
fame: he's a homosexual and he doesn't rattle easily in front of a camera. His record in South Bend is not that
stellar. If one wanted a Democrat mayor, one could at least pick one that's ruined a bigger city. There are
certainly plenty of those to choose from. Cory Booker and Bill DeBlasio ooze to mind. White homosexuals are now
passé — the antiquated victim group of yesteryear. Queerness has now become merely the icing on some
less optional minority cake, unless you push it to some repulsive transgendering extreme. Being gay alone has fallen so
far down the progressive stack that Mayor Pete is still obliged to apologize to the Democrat base for being no more than
another wicked white man.
Incoming
Univision CEO Wade Davis Gave $1,000 to Buttigieg Campaign. The liberal Spanish-media giant Univision has been
sold. Media executive Wade Davis is heading up a private group to buy a majority stake in the company and will be its
new CEO. Davis has given $8,300 to Democrat politicians since 2007 and is a contributor to former South Bend mayor and
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg's campaign. He's been a contributor to major Democratic candidates for
years, raising major concerns about potential conflicts of interest. Federal Election Commission records revealed that
Davis gave $1,000 to Buttigieg's campaign Nov. 3, 2019, while he was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of
Viacom, Inc., which would merge with CBS Corporation in Dec. 2019 to form the new parent company (ViacomCBS) of CBS News.
Buttigieg
Gets Taunted at Union Event in South Carolina. The Palmetto State was never going to be a strong suit for Pete
Buttigieg, who has been criticized for his record on race as mayor of South Bend, Indiana, making the Democratic primary
tougher in a state where the Democratic electorate is 60% African American. And appealing to union members here has its
challenges, as well, since several of his competitors have long-standing relationships with unions.
Buttigieg
to Illegal Immigrants: You Have Just as Much Right to This Country as Any American. Presidential
candidate Pete Buttigieg, speaking at a campaign rally in Utah, told so-called 'dreamers' that America is every bit their
country as it is the average citizen's. The former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, speaking both English and Spanish,
sent a message to illegals that this is their country too.
Pete
Buttigieg touts African American endorsements that do not exist. Former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete
Buttigieg has an endorsement problem. More specifically, the 2020 Democratic primary candidate keeps padding the list
of black people who supposedly support his candidacy to include anyone who so much as comes within striking distance of his
campaign. On Saturday, a South Carolina newspaper published an opinion article by Buttigieg wherein he claimed his
"campaign has proudly partnered with" black-owned businesses in the Palmetto State, including Diane's Kitchen in the town of
Chester and Atlantis Restaurant in Moncks Corner. As it turns out, though, the proprietors of those establishments have
no idea what the former mayor is talking about.
Buttigieg's
Pastor Brother-In-Law: 'Everything That Pete Is Pushing Is, It's Anti-God'. Speaking on Fox News, Pastor Rhyan
Glezman, the brother-in-law of Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, ripped Buttigieg, asserting, "everything
that Pete is pushing is, it's anti-God." Glezman also accused Buttigieg of "intellectual dishonesty" for saying there was no
"compatibility" between being a Trump supporter and believing in the Bible. Buttigieg was prompted in a CNN townhall on
Tuesday by CNN host Erin Burnett, who asked, "Do you think that it's impossible to be a Christian and support Trump?"
Buttigieg responded, "I'm not going to tell other Christians how to be Christian, but I will say I cannot find any compatibility
between the way this president conducts himself and anything that I find in Scripture."
Democrat
Pete Buttigieg overstated pledges of support from black leaders, public figures. When Democratic presidential
candidate Pete Buttigieg touted support from African American comedian and actor Keegan-Michael Key last week, his campaign
was forced just hours later to clarify that the actor had not officially endorsed the former South Bend mayor, telling reporters
he only sought to "encourage early voting and voter registration." Key appeared with Buttigieg on Saturday to drum up
voter support at his Henderson, Nevada field office. The gaffe did not attract much attention. However, it was not the
first time the Buttigieg campaign overstated having a tie with a prominent African American figure, or black business.
Buttigieg
Touts Less Government, but only when it's about Abortion and Infanticide. The View's Meghan McCain recently
sought a clearer answer from Mayor Pete Buttigieg about his position on late-term abortion. She asked him where he drew
the line and whether his position included a baby actually being born: Buttigieg: We live in a country where it
is extremely important that no one person should have to be subject to some other person's interpretation of their own religion."
I wondered whether Mayor Pete thought religious freedom equally applied to say, Jack Phillips' right not to be forced to create a
custom cake for a gay wedding. Sure enough I found a piece in the Washington Free Beacon, entitled, "Mayor Pete Will Make
you Bake the Cake."
Why
South Bend residents are warning America about Pete Buttigieg. When residents of this city's impoverished West
Side reflect on Pete Buttigieg's two terms as mayor, a few things come to mind: A spike in violent crime, development
that largely ignored the African American community and how their only well-lit street is the one that leads to the
University of Notre Dame. So how, they wonder, can Buttigieg possibly be trusted to run the country? "If he's the
next president, I fear for our country. He couldn't run our city. How can he run the United States?" said
Michelle Burger, 42, a stay-at-home mom who lives in South Bend's impoverished and predominantly black West Side.
Buttigieg
reportedly touted 'partnerships' with black-owned South Carolina businesses they denied having. A new report
alleges that former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg touted "partnerships" with black-owned businesses in South
Carolina that the business owners denied making. Last week, Buttigieg penned an op-ed in a South Carolina newspaper
"The State" promoting his "Frederick Douglass Plan," which he describes is "a comprehensive investment in the empowerment of
Black America" that was developed with the help of black activists and business leaders.
Sorry,
Pete Buttigieg, but South Bend hasn't prepared you to be president. We have nothing against South Bend,
Indiana. In fact, two members of our opinion staff were born and raised in that city. But we all know that it's
no proving ground for the presidency. More generally speaking, service as a small-town mayor is not in itself
sufficient training for the Oval Office.
Buttigieg:
'I'm not going to take lectures on family values from the likes of Rush Limbaugh'. Pete Buttigieg, the openly
gay former mayor of South Bend, Ind., a small town of just over 100,000 people, was asked during an appearance Sunday [2/16/2020]
on CNN to respond to a remark from Rush Limbaugh about how Americans may view his homosexuality. Taking the high road, the
38-year-old 2020 Democratic candidate avoided any focus on him kissing his husband on stage at campaign events to say he will
not take family values lectures from Limbaugh.
Pete
Buttigieg releases plan for 'Housing justice' and combating homelessness. Former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete
Buttigieg released his plan Monday [2/17/2020] for "housing justice in America," promising to correct the wrongs that followed the
2008 financial crisis and curb homelessness across the country. The 2020 Democratic front-runner, who has been running
neck and neck with Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont, promised to implement consumer protections for American families who
have been locked out of homeownership. His plan includes constructing 2 million rental units to help house
7 million families and to improve consumer protections for mortgage lending, as well as expand housing assistance for
more than 5 million families with children.
The Editor says...
What does "housing justice" mean? If you are a politician who lives in a world where sodomy is normal and natural, you might think
that "housing justice" means everyone is entitled to a house, and someone else will pay for it. Otherwise, "housing justice" means
that if you have enough money, good credit, and a steady job, you can buy a house or rent an apartment, and when you stop paying for that
residence, you'll be evicted.
Buttigieg
plans to flood small American towns with immigrants. On the same day we learn that an al-Qaeda operative is
living in our midst, some reassuring news comes from the campaign of Democrat Pete Buttigieg. Appearing at a campaign
stop in New Hampshire, Mayor Pete touted his "Community Renewal Visas," which will effectively flood American towns with
immigrants. "I'm proposing ... that when a community that is very much in need of growing its population, recognizes
that, and makes a choice to welcome more than its share of new Americans," Buttigieg said, "that we create a fast-track, if
they apply for an allotment of visas."
Queer
protesters booted from Pete Buttigieg's San Francisco fundraiser. Two queer activists unhappy with Pete
Buttigieg's "middle of the road" politics were kicked out of his San Francisco fundraiser Friday [2/14/2020] after
interrupting him on stage with shouted questions, a report said. The protesters peppered Buttigieg with questions at
San Francisco's National LGBTQ Center for the Arts, immediately drawing boos from supporters of the former South Bend,
Indiana mayor, according to The Guardian. "I respect your activism, but this is a gathering for supporters of our
campaign and I just got a question about my husband and I'm really excited to answer it," Buttigieg said in response to the
activists, the report said.
Mayor Pete: Red Diaper Baby.
"So mayor Pete is a Red Diaper baby! This explains a lot ..." So writes Charlie, a longtime reader of mine and
of The American Spectator. Please note that Charlie didn't call Pete a red, but a red-diaper baby. There's
a difference. And either way, it's a point that isn't irrelevant and should be dealt with and laid out carefully. [...]
As for that red-diaper background, Charlie is referring to the work of Pete Buttigieg's father, Joseph Buttigieg, who was the
world's foremost expert (certainly the English-speaking world) on the famous Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci. Joseph,
who died in January 2019, was no less than the founder of the International Gramsci Society, a fact hardly a secret and
acknowledged warmly on the website of the International Gramsci Society. It's so unmissable that the first thing that
displays when you open the website is Joseph's photo with a memorial tribute. In fact, as someone who regularly checks
that website, I can tell you that Joseph's photo has been the lead on the screen for a full year and counting. He was
very important to them.
Media darling Pete
Buttigieg was in unit that worked with the CIA in Afghanistan. After The Grayzone published an article about
Pete Buttigieg's roster of endorsements from CIA veterans and coup plotters, and another about his mysterious trip to
Somaliland alongside a friend who now works for a US government regime-change agency, Pete Buttigieg's presidential campaign
issued a public statement denying that he ever worked for the CIA. "We hate to break the news to Twitter, but no, Pete
was not in the CIA," Buttigieg's national press secretary Chris Meagher derisively told The Daily Beast, which directly
referenced both Grayzone reports. "As for the Somaliland trip, it was not related to his work anywhere." The Daily
Beast article appeared in response not only to factual reporting by The Grayzone, but to a wave of allegations spread online
through hashtags like #CIAPete which accused Buttigieg of being a CIA asset.
Lindsey
Graham, other Republicans blast Rush Limbaugh over Buttigieg 'kissing his husband' remarks. Conservative talk
show host Rush Limbaugh drew bipartisan condemnation Thursday [2/13/2020] for saying the country won't elect Pete Buttigieg
president because he's been "kissing his husband" on stage after debates. [...] "They're saying, 'OK, how's this going to
look?'" Limbaugh said Wednesday, imagining Democrats' thinking. "Thirty-seven-year-old gay guy kissing his husband on
stage, next to Mr. Man, Donald Trump.'" Buttigieg, 38, is the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and has been
married to his husband, Chasten, since 2018.
Mayor
Buttigieg Runs for President While His City Bleeds. On March 31, a South Bend grandma brought her grandson to
the hospital. The 11-month-old baby boy had been shot. His grandmother's car had also taken fire. It was
another early morning in South Bend. Around the same time, Mayor Buttigieg, was toting up the $7 million in donations
from his charm offensive as his bid for the 2020 Democrat nomination got underway. The national media never bothered
reporting the shooting of an 11-month-old boy in the city he was supposed to be running, but instead confined its coverage of
South Bend matters to a publicity stunt wedding officiated by Buttigieg.
Video:
Pete Buttigieg's Biggest Lie. He uses moral relativism, not objective truth, to shore up an extremely gruesome
policy position. [Video clip]
Pete
Buttigieg Recently Said The Same Things Bloomberg Did About Crime. On the eve of the New Hampshire primary,
Democrat presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg took a hit when audio surfaced of him celebrating his police department's
targeting of minority neighborhoods. The media pounced, quickly forcing the former New York City mayor to apologize for
his dated comments. Yet, for all the outrage, the press ignored the nearly identical sentiments South Bend, Indiana
Mayor Pete Buttigieg voiced mere days earlier, during the New Hampshire Democrat debate.
Progressive
journalists say they were 'harassed' by Buttigieg campaign staff at rally. A pair of progressive journalists
alleged that they were repeatedly harassed by staffers for the Buttigieg campaign at an event in New Hampshire, including an
attempt to physically take away their preapproved press credentials. Status Coup co-founder/reporter Jordan Chariton
and video journalist Jamal Jones attended the campaign event on Sunday in Nashua, New Hampshire, where former South Bend,
Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg was set to appear. Ahead of the event, Chariton and Jones were interviewing attendees in
line outside, but Chariton said he noticed they were being followed by Buttigieg field staffer Julia Fiedler, who went on
to "eavesdrop" on interviews, which went on for roughly a half an hour.
Pete
Buttigieg High School Essay Praised 'Profile In Courage' Bernie Sanders. South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete
Buttigieg took issue with Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' "my way or the highway" politics at Friday's
debate — but a 20-year-old essay written by Buttigieg had nothing but praise for the self-described
socialist. In the early moments of the ABC-hosted debate in New Hampshire, Buttigieg warned against "my way or the
highway politics" and when moderator George Stephanopoulos asked whether he was referring to Sanders, he said that he was.
Mayor Pete Busted Editing "Artificial
Crowd Cheering and Applause" Into His Videos. Mayor Pete isn't called "Mayor Cheat" for nothing. Turns
out that failed mayor is trying to artificially boost himself up with phony cheering and applause lines edited into his
soundbite clips. The discovery was made by the Twitter account "CPD Action," a group that supports Bernie Sanders for
President. CPD posted side-by-side clips of a CNN town hall event featuring Mayor Pete.
Buttigieg Box Watch: Mayor Pete
Has a Height Problem. [Scroll down] Like Bloomberg, however, Mayor Pete's true height remains clouded in
mystery, raising questions about his own propensity to deploy boxes, lifts, and other stature-boosting items in an effort to
deceive the American people. Bloomberg has often claimed to be 5'10". That's a blatant lie. Google lists his
height at 5'8", but even that seems like an exaggeration, based on the available evidence. A fair and balanced
assessment suggests the former New York City mayor is actually no taller than 5'6". Buttigieg's true height is similarly
hard to pin down. A Google search, for example, does not return a reliable result. Given Buttigieg's extensive
network of Silicon Valley donors, one cannot help but wonder if this omission is the result of illicit collusion between the
candidate and the search engine giant.
Pete Buttigieg isn't going
to win. Mayor Peter is the openly gay son of the editor and translator of Antonio Gramsci's Prison
Notebooks. Gramsci's important contribution to the literature of totalitarian tyranny was his idea that Communist
dictatorship could only come to free countries by means of a 'long march through the institutions', cultural as well as
political. The left has pretty well accomplished this with respect to the universities and the elite cultural
institutions of the media and the so-called 'arts community'. Mayor Pete wants to finish the job through such
expedients as packing the Supreme Court with six more seats, abolishing the electoral college (it's 'undemocratic', he says),
disarming the populace (a precaution tyrants always take), providing a 'glide path' for the government takeover of
healthcare, opening up the borders, and forcing taxpayers to foot the bill for college, even for illegal immigrants, whom he
also wants to offer amnesty. It's a start, Comrade. The truth is, Buttigieg is about as moderate as Bernie Sanders.
Pete
Buttigieg's father was a Marxist professor who lauded the Communist Manifesto. The father of Democratic
presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg was a Marxist professor who spoke fondly of the Communist Manifesto and dedicated a
significant portion of his academic career to the work of Italian Communist Party founder Antonio Gramsci, an associate of
Vladimir Lenin. Joseph Buttigieg, who died in January at the age of 71, immigrated to the U.S. in the 1970s from Malta
and in 1980 joined the University of Notre Dame faculty, where he taught modern European literature and literary
theory. He supported an updated version of Marxism that jettisoned some of Marx and Engel's more doctrinaire theories,
though he was undoubtedly Marxist.
Creepy Pete.
[Scroll down] The stagecraft was weird. If the demographic polling we've all read is correct, then the line of
seven or eight African-American supporters behind him during his Iowa victory speech represents, by my math, 180 percent of
his African-American support nationwide. In fact, those in that line seemed to constitute most of the African Americans
in the room, which made you wonder how it was they were placed so directly in the sight lines of the television
cameras. I bet that was a very delicate mission for the person tasked with it. The surreal and eerie quality of
the speech was enhanced by the fact that he declared himself the winner in prose that was so fundamentally empty.
The Editor says...
Yes, minorities are often rounded up and placed directly behind a candidate when he or she is making a televised speech, to give
the not-so-subtle impression that it's safe for minorities to vote for the candidate. This practice has been going on for many years.
Buttigieg
blames Trayvon death on 'white supremacy'. Hoping to fan racial flames in his direction before the South
Carolina primary, Pete Buttigieg tweeted out his support for Trayvon Martin on the occasion of what would have been Martin's
25th birthday, February 5. "Trayvon Martin would have been 25 today," Mayor Pete tweeted. "How many 25th
birthdays have been stolen from us by white supremacy, gun violence, prejudice, and fear?" Buttigieg threw in a Black Lives
Matter hashtag just to make sure black voters knew he was down for the struggle. This tweet would have been unfortunate
six months ago. Today, it is unforgivable.
Pete
Buttigieg Is No Friend Of Religious Liberty. After taking a surprising lead in the faith-focused Iowa caucuses,
presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg is now being discussed as a Democratic Party presidential frontrunner. But despite
being a self-proclaimed Christian, Buttigieg's rhetoric and policies undermine rather than support religious liberty.
Buttigieg has unabashedly embraced House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) Equality Act legislation that would strike a massive
blow to our nation's religious institutions. Specifically, the Equality Act would create a federally protected status
for gender identity, defined as the "gender-related identity, appearance, mannerisms or other gender-related characteristics
of an individual, regardless of the individual's designated sex at birth." Any faith-based establishment —
including churches, schools, and hospitals — with theological beliefs in conflict with this definition would
likely face expensive legal battles, lawsuits, and public scrutiny.
It's
not just Iowa: Entire Democratic race looking like giant dumpster fire. [Scroll down] Pete
Buttigieg, the former mayor of Whoville, claimed a premature victory but apparently did do very well, despite polling
nationally at around 6 percent. But leaders in the party have a lot of reasons to be nervous about the media momentum
Buttigieg is riding following the caucuses: His support among black Democratic voters remains firm at less than 2
percent, a number that looks good on milk and really bad in a general election for a party that relies heavily on that bloc
for victory.
#MayorCheat
Trends as Pete Buttigieg's Iowa Machinations Come to Light. There's just something about Pete Buttigieg that's
so inauthentic and underhanded. Maybe it's the whole "moderate nose on/moderate nose off" routine he's constantly
playing, or perhaps it's his bashing of Christians who don't subscribe to his views. Whatever it is, it's palpable and
a lot of people are starting to see it. That aspect of the South Bend mayor has Bernie Sanders fans none to happy, as
Buttigieg made a series of moves yesterday evening during the chaotic and disastrous Iowa caucus last night. For starters,
he declared himself victorious before the first vote came in (as of this writing there are still no totals released).
Buttigieg
Voter in Iowa Asks for Do Over After Realizing Mayor Pete Has a Husband. The caucus attendee from Cresco was
shocked after she learned that Buttigieg was married to a man and immediately wanted to take her vote back when she learned
the shocking news. A Buttigieg precinct captain, Nikki Heever told the caucus goer that her vote was likely final
before the two had a discussion. Heever attempted to lecture regarding why Buttigieg's homosexuality shouldn't matter
when casting a vote, but the Christian Democratic caucuser was not having any of it. She refused to budge from her
Biblical beliefs regarding marriage only being between a man and a woman.
Iowa
Voter Freaks Out on Buttigieg Precinct Capt. After Finding Out Mayor Pete is Gay. Nikki van den Heever, a
caucus precinct captain for former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, tried to talk down an Iowa woman who was incensed to find
out — in real-time during a caucus after she'd signed a card supporting him — that the candidate is
openly gay. "Are you saying that he has the same-sex partner? Pete?" the woman says in the clip, which was posted
to both Twitter and Reddit early Tuesday morning. "Yes," van den Heever responds. "Are you kidding?" the woman
says, and upon being told Mayor Pete is married, says "Then I don't want anybody like that in the White House. So can I
have my card back?"
The Editor says...
I thought Mayor Peetie's homosexuality was well known; in fact, I thought that was his primary qualification. And I still
think so. He's the novelty act for this presidential election cycle. In 2008 it was the novelty of a (half) black
man running for POTUS. In 2016 it was the novelty of a woman running for POTUS. Identity politics is far more
important than even their socialist, godless, baby-killing platform.
The Myth Of
Pete Buttigieg, 'Moderate'. What are Pete Buttigieg's politics? If you read CBS, The Atlantic, The New
York Times, The Guardian, and a host of their friends, the former mayor is decidedly a moderate. [...] But just what is so
"traditional centrist" or "moderate" about Mayor Pete? From health care and abortion to guns and immigration, and from
the Supreme Court to the Electoral College, the man is decidedly a radical. Behind all his carefully selected scripture
quotes that so easily confound coastal reporters is a politician whose justifications are difficult to recognize through the
eyes of any of the world's major Christian religions.
Buttigieg:
I Know 63 Million People Voted for Trump But They're Still Racist. Former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete
Buttigieg has repeatedly said those who support President Donald Trump are racist. CNN's Jake Tapper on Sunday
[2/2/2020] asked Buttigieg if he regretted making those comments. "Republicans have been seizing, including in a new
Trump ad, a statement you made that 'Anyone who supported this president is, at best, looking the other way on racism.'
You've also said that on my show," Tapper explained. "That's almost 63 million Americans who you're painting with a
pretty broad brush. Do you regret saying that at all?" Buttigieg didn't hesitate before he responded.
"No. I'm very concerned about the racial division that this president has fostered," the 2020 Democratic candidate explained.
The Editor says...
For an example of a president who fostered racial division, look no further
than Barack H. Obama.
Pete
Buttigieg again addresses concerns from minority campaign staffers. Democratic presidential candidate Pete
Buttigieg addressed again on Sunday concerns from minority staffers about key decisions made in the campaign and its overall
culture of inclusion, saying his campaign has taken corrective steps to respond to the issues. "More than 40% of the
staff on our campaign are people of color doing a phenomenal job and need to be supported and deserve to be supported.
So, we've taken steps that maybe, in history and in historical campaigns, haven't been done — creating
conversations and spaces for workers who are facing the challenges that I think any person of color in the workplace today is
dealing with and making sure we're responsive to this," Buttigieg told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union."
Pete Buttigieg
mocked over 'staged' walking photo. Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg was mocked on Twitter this
weekend after staging a bizarre photo of himself walking. The former South Bend mayor sent out a picture on Saturday
seemingly intended to showcase his intention to head to Iowa.
Buttigieg
receives cold reception from minority Iowans. The Iowa electorate may be overwhelmingly white, but the tough
questioning Pete Buttigieg received at a minority voter forum is indicative of the former South Bend, Indiana, mayor's
struggles with expanding his narrow voter base. Buttigieg's issues began during Monday afternoon's question-and-answer
session, when two moderators from Vice News grilled him for 15 minutes over his brief governing record. Of specific
interest was his role in overseeing South Bend's police force, which has been the target of activists over perceived racial bias.
As
Violent Crime Surged, Buttigieg Admin Lectured Cops on 'Sizeism'. As Mayor Pete Buttigieg contended with
skyrocketing crime rates in South Bend, Ind., the city's police department trained officers to combat "sizeism" and
"languageism," according to newly revealed documents. South Bend's police department instituted a series of diversity
and anti-discrimination training sessions in 2017. The training sessions took place as violent crime surged in the city,
reaching the highest level in 20 years in 2018. The training extended far beyond the immediate issues facing the city
and instead lectured cops on policing their own language to be sensitive to "isms."
The Editor says...
I'll be very surprised if Mayor Pete keeps his current job much longer. Surely the voters in South Bend are deeply embarrassed by now.
Why
Is the Gay Presidential Candidate Silent about Iran Hanging Gays? Mayor Pete, as he likes to be called, who has
led the cry that Iran's shooting down of a Ukrainian airliner using a Russian missile is somehow the fault of an American
president, Donald J. Trump, is among those who say it was "collateral damage" resulting from Trump trashing the flawed and
unworkable Iran nuclear deal and his zapping of terrorist Quds Force commander Gen. Qassem Soleimani. [...] Buttigieg
may not have noticed, but there was no tit-for-tat that fateful night. Iran was shooting ballistic missiles at an
American base in Iraq. President Trump withheld returning fire. Soleimani was already dead, and if Buttigieg
thinks the death of the terrorist responsible for the killing and maiming of thousands of American soldiers and other
personnel was unwanted and unnecessary, then add that to the list of reasons he is not quailed to be president.
Pete
Buttigieg's Comments on Slavery Show the Failure of Our Educational System. Video surfaced on Saturday of
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg saying in 2014: "It's an embarrassing thing to admit, the people who wrote
the Constitution did not understand that slavery was a bad thing." In saying this, Buttigieg demonstrated both his abject
ignorance of the history of America's founding and the utter failure of the American educational system to teach that history.
No wonder this place is crawling with young socialists and America-haters. Buttigieg, the Mayor of South Bend, Indiana,
is 37 years old; he reportedly attended Catholic schools, not public schools, in his youth. At this point, however,
that is a distinction with barely a difference: both Catholic and public schools generally teach the spirit of the age,
and that spirit dictates that the Founding Fathers, when not ignored altogether, should be presented as white male slave owners
without any redeeming qualities.
Ted
Cruz educates Pete Buttigieg. Pete Buttigieg is not nearly as smart as he thinks he is. Yesterday,
Senator Ted Cruz devastatingly humiliated him for shooting his mouth off when he doesn't know what he's talking about.
In case you missed it, Buttigieg recently instructed a group of youngsters, "The people who wrote the Constitution did not
understand that slavery was a bad thing." That sort of criticism and condescension is part of the larger progressive
project to disparage and eventually reject the United States Constitution — because it limits the power of
government and affirm that our rights come from God. Here is Buttigieg pretending that he is morally and intellectually
superior to the Founders before an audience of youngsters that does not know better [...]
Mayor
Pete's 'promise'. South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who is seeking the presidency, wants to facilitate
"choice" when it comes to killing an unborn child but not when it comes to educating a born one. In his America, the
government would pay for abortions and the child care of millions — from birth onward. [...] The Hyde Amendment
prohibits federal funding of abortion except in cases of rape, incest or when the life of the mother is endangered. By
contrast, Buttigieg opposes using federal funds to give parents vouchers they could use to liberate their children from
public schools. His campaign has published a policy paper — "Keeping the Promise for America's
Children" — that states his position on this. "And because public dollars should fund public schools, Pete
will continue to oppose the implementation of any federal school voucher program," it says.
Mayor
Pete Wants to Decriminalize 'Meth, Coke, Ecstasy,' Not Just Pot. In an interview on Friday [12/27/2019], Mayor
Pete Buttigieg (D-Church of Social Justice) clarified his drug policy, calling for decriminalization of all drugs including
methamphetamine, cocaine, and ecstasy. "Incarceration should not even be a response to drug possession," Buttigieg told
editors at the Des Moines Register.
Buttigieg:
No Jail Time for Meth, Cocaine, Ecstasy Possession. In an interview with the Des Moines Register on Dec.
23, Democratic presidential contender Pete Buttigieg, the may of South Bend, Ind., said that he does not support placing
people in jail if they are caught in possession of any illegal drug, including cocaine, ecstasy, or even methamphetamine.
After Buttigieg explained his views on drug possession and prison, an editor asked him, "Is that across the board? So,
if it's meth or coke or ecstasy, any drug if it's possession incarceration isn't —." "That's right," said
Buttigieg, who earned degrees from Harvard University and Oxford University.
The Editor says...
Imagine what a wonderful country this will be with half the population stoned all the time. And then when hundreds
of drug addicts litter the streets, who's going to be the first to demand more spending for drug rehab? Mayor Pete,
of course.
Mayor
Pete Buttigieg Lies About Jesus to Politicize Christmas. On Christmas Day, Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D-Church of
Social Justice) continued his campaign strategy of attacking the religious right as insincere Christians. He took the
opportunity to repeat the tired old canard that Jesus Christ was a "refugee" — an argument liberals use to
weaponize Christmas against the Trump administration. [...] This message drew many angry responses, with some attacking
Buttigieg for refusing to mention Jesus Christ by name. Many Christians pushed back against Mayor Pete's claims that
Jesus was both poor and a non-citizen refugee.
Pete
Buttigieg Calls Jesus Christ an Impoverished 'Refugee' in Christmas Message. On Christmas Day, South Bend,
Indiana, Mayor and 2020 Democrat Pete Buttigieg declared Jesus Christ an impoverished "refugee" without ever explicitly
mentioning his name. [...] Buttigieg's calling Jesus Christ "a refugee" came days after he released his national immigration
plan, in which he vows to import at least 125,000 refugees in his first year in office. Likewise, Buttigieg said he
will push Congress to pass a law that bans the United States from admitting any less than 95,000 refugees a year.
Fake
religion from Pete Buttigieg. Pete Buttigieg has tried to carve out a niche among Democratic presidential
hopefuls as the candidate who is comfortable talking about religion. Unfortunately, he's only comfortable trying to use
religion as a means of beating conservatives, especially religious ones, over the head. [...] I'm not an expert on these
matters, so tonight on our Power Line VIP program, I checked with John, a devout Christian and student of religion.
John confirmed that Joseph, a carpenter, was a working man and not impoverished. Joseph was also not a refugee,
whatever that might mean in the context of the Roman Empire. Joseph and his family were traveling back to Joseph's
native town because the Roman's were requiring people to do so for purposes of a census. They weren't fleeing anyone,
nor were they homeless. They were travelers, not refugees. To me, the interesting question is: What purpose
does Buttigieg think his fake history/religion serves?
Pastor
Darrell Scott Shoots Down Pete Buttigieg's Politicized Christmas Greeting. Pastor Darrell Scott ridiculed Mayor
Pete Buttigieg's Christmas greeting as a "load of crap" on Wednesday [12/25/2019] after the South Bend mayor claimed Jesus
came to earth as a refugee. [Tweet] Buttigieg's greeting was instantly ridiculed on Twitter for trying to load up
his Christmas message with heavy handed political messaging and for curiously omitting the use of the name Jesus Christ.
Feted or fetid? Inside
Mayor Pete's $2,800-a-head wine cave fundraiser that prompted debate fury. The now-famous wine cave in Napa
Valley where billionaires hosted a fundraiser for Pete Buttigieg features a chandelier with 1,500 Swarovski crystals, an onyx
banquet table to reflect its luminescence, and bottles of cabernet sauvignon that sell for as much as $900. The event
was attended by between 150 and 200 supporters of the South Bend, Indiana, mayor, who is looking to make history as the first
openly gay candidate to win the presidential nomination of a major political party. Guests at the fundraiser paid
$2,800 to attend. For an additional $1,000, they got to take a photo with the candidate.
Pete Ain't It.
A funny debate has been roiling the online left: Do young liberals hate Pete Buttigieg too little, or too much? [...]
Ultimately, I worry Buttigieg will easily lose to Trump because he is ill suited to make the simplest and most powerful
argument against the current administration's apparent economic successes. That argument goes like this: Though
the economic stats look pretty good, the Trump boom is a mirage and a moral disgrace.
The Editor says...
A reasonable voter cannot call Trump or his success "a moral disgrace" and then use that as the basis to vote for a homosexual.
How
Crazed Is The Left? Its New Villain Is Pete Buttigieg. You just can't make these things up. The new
enemy within for the Democratic Party's radicalized base, worthy of all the venom it can muster, isn't House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi for her caution on giving the green light to impeach President Donald Trump. It isn't Joe Biden for attacking
Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders as so far left they're unelectable. It isn't even Rep. Jeff Van
Drew of New Jersey, who's announced he will vote against impeaching Trump and will probably switch parties —
spurring six of his staff members to quit. Instead, the populist left's heavy artillery is now aimed at, of all people,
South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who, as an unapologetic homosexual with husband in tow on the campaign trail, is,
in social terms, the most radical presidential candidate ever.
Barack
Obama's 'Body Man' Reggie Love Endorses Pete Buttigieg. Former President Barack Obama's "body man" Reggie Love
endorsed Mayor Pete Buttigieg for president on Thursday [12/5/2019]. "A lot of what is said about Pete echoes what
critics said about presidential candidate Barack Obama — too young, too different, maybe another time —
but I believe there is never a better time to fight for change than right now," Love said in a statement reported by CNN.
WaPo
Gives Buttigieg Three Pinocchios for Black Poverty Rate Claim. A Washington Post fact check gave
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg three Pinocchios on Thursday [12/5/2019] for cherry-picking data to
suggest he "cut the black poverty rate by more than half" in South Bend, Ind., during his tenure as mayor.
Gay
activists turn on Pete Buttigieg over Salvation Army ties. Pete Buttigieg has been outed — as
someone who has worked with the Salvation Army. According to a report Tuesday [12/3/2019] in Out magazine, the South
Bend mayor has several times participated in Red Kettle Ring Off for the Christmas season in the Indiana city. Out
linked to reports of the annual charity in local South Bend media from 2015 and 2017, and at least one other photo from 2016
surfaced on Twitter. In 2018, he held the annual Mayor's Night Out — an open-listening event to let
residents quiz city officials — at a Salvation Army community center.
Peter
Buttigieg nods in agreement as crackpot reverend claims illegals are recovering stolen land. This position that
the United States illegitimately exercises sovereignty over the western United States is popular on the radical fringe, by
deeply unpopular among ordinary Americans. Mayor Peter is going to have answer for this if he stays in the top tier of
Democrat candidates, and it will place him in the uncomfortable position of wither jettisoning the far Left or the mainstream
American voting bloc.
Buttigieg
2020 campaign took money from top Kavanaugh lawyers. Pete Buttigieg's 2020 campaign is returning thousands of
dollars in donations from two top Washington lawyers who represented Brett Kavanaugh in his controversial confirmation
hearing, saying it will not accept funds from people who helped secure the justice's seat on the supreme court.
Buttigieg's campaign received $7,200 from Alexandra Walsh — $3,150 of which had already been returned because it
exceeded limits — and attended a fundraiser in July that was co-hosted by the Washington lawyer. Buttigieg
also received $2,800 from Beth Wilkinson, Walsh's law partner, who also represented Kavanaugh.
Mayor Pete's Rainbow Army.
[Scroll down] Why anyone would think that Pete Buttigieg is qualified to be president is a mystery. An even
greater mystery would be why a conservative evangelical girl would spend her college break knocking on doors for a cultural
radical to be president of the United States. Actually, it's no mystery. The answer is right in front of you:
she's in college. This promising young lady went to an elite university in the northeast. End of story. In
no time, Hillary-like, she was fundamentally transformed — fully converted from Bible-believing evangelical to
LGBTQ-crusading leftist. It took only two or three semesters. That's no surprise. That's the job of these
colleges, after all. That's what they do. From day one, orientation day, when your son or daughter is asked
which gender pronoun he or she prefers, young Americans are overwhelmed with obsessive, unrestrained, unhinged identity
ideology. They are force-fed a nonstop toxic diet of race, gender, and sexual identity.
Pete Buttigieg, Failure.
Pete Buttigieg's polling strength is, as far as I can tell, based on one factor only: He's a smooth talker. [...] Alas
for him, he can't talk much about the wonderful improvements he made as two-term mayor of South Bend, Indiana, because they
aren't there. James Freeman of the Wall Street Journal, notes that South Bend has an extremely high crime rate
for a city its size and that a recent program to provide housing for addicts has just ended in complete failure.
"Literally Zero Support": The Giant Problem With Mayor Pete's
Momentum. Pete-mentum is real. Two polls within four days certified the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, as
the new front-runner in Iowa. Which is good news for the Buttigieg campaign, coming less than three months before the
caucuses, even if the pool of undecideds remains large. "There's a ton of folks who haven't made up their minds," says
Charlie Wishman, an Iowa labor union official. [...] Mayor Pete's rise also comes with a more immediate downside. He's
now a fresh target for his rivals in Wednesday's debate. Kamala Harris, languishing in single digits, has signaled a
willingness to challenge Buttigieg, laughing acidly when asked about his campaign's use of a stock photo of a Kenyan woman
and child on its website. Elizabeth Warren has climbed into the top tier of candidates, in part by refraining from
direct attacks on her rivals.
Pete Buttigieg vs Jesus.
It makes me wonder if Buttigieg has actually opened the Bible and read it. [...] I realize Buttigieg is an Episcopalian and
not a Christian, but we have 2000 years of pretty consistent interpretation on what the parables mean. We have the
writings of men who studied under the Apostle John. We have people like Augustine. We have the Holy Spirit
working through us. There really is not a lot of deviation in interpretation. The problem here is that Buttigieg
has decided to cherrypick scripture because it is the only way to get around the parts of marriage and homosexuality.
Unfortunately, he is only latching on to verses that are conveniently weaponized against his opponents and feigning ignorance
on the rest.
Democratic
debate: All eyes are on Pete Buttigieg, especially from skeptical black voters. Presidential hopeful Pete
Buttigieg's success in recent polls suggests he has a big target on his back — one that, if not skillfully
negotiated, could cost him the Democratic nomination. Buttigieg's campaign is surging, just in time for Wednesday's
Democratic presidential primary debate in Atlanta. Once an obscure long shot, Buttigieg has wedged his way to the top
of a field featuring Democratic candidates Vice President Joe Biden and Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie
Sanders (I-Vt.). Buttigieg is leading in the Iowa polls, with 25% of voters in one survey saying he's their first
choice for president.
Why
Pete Buttigieg Is The Most Destructive Candidate For Christianity. In the crowded field of Democratic
contenders for the White House in 2020, [Pete] Buttigieg is near the top, polling behind only Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren,
and Bernie Sanders. According to RealClearPolitics' latest aggregate of polls, in the early primary state of Iowa,
Buttigieg trails only Warren, holding 17.5 percent support — and for good reason. [...] Never mind that the mayor
completely contradicts the Christian doctrine of total human depravity — a foundational tenet of the
gospel — to support his secular sexual ethic, but it is imperative to note that Buttigieg's threat is not
primarily due to being immoral versus moral. Comparing Buttigieg with an angry or scandalous politician — or
even with the man occupying the White House — makes the mayor radiate what looks like goodness. His
real problem is that he calls good things evil and evil things good, justifying sin with isolated Bible verses and
Machiavellian rhetoric.
Pete
Buttigieg proposes free public college for people making less than $100K. Democratic presidential hopeful Pete
Buttigieg on Friday released a set of economic proposals that includes free public college for people living in households
that make less than $100,000 per year. Under Mr. Buttigieg's plan, families of college students that earn up to
$100,000 wouldn't pay any public college tuition. Those making between $100,000 and $150,000 would receive reduced
tuition benefits. That's a contrast to proposals from 2020 candidates such as Sens. Bernard Sanders of Vermont and
Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who want to make public colleges and universities tuition-free for everyone.
The Editor says...
The Socialists are eager to provide free college education because it is replete with
socialist indoctrination.
James
Clyburn: 'No Question' Buttigieg's Gayness Is 'An Issue' For Older Black Voters. House Majority Whip James
Clyburn said there is "no question" that South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg's sexual orientation is "an issue" for older black
voters in South Carolina. During a Sunday morning [11/3/2019] appearance on CNN's "State of the Union," the South
Carolina Democratic congressman was asked by guest host Dana Bash about whether Buttigieg's failure to gain traction in the
state, despite polling well in other places, has anything to do with the fact that he is gay. "Well, that's a
generational issue," Clyburn responded. "I know of a lot of people my age who feel that way."
Buttigieg
Floats Baseless Conspiracy Theory On Stacey Abrams And 2018 Georgia Gubernatorial Race. South Bend Mayor Pete
Buttigieg theorized that former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams lost her Georgia race in 2018 because of
"racially motivated patterns of voter suppression." [...] "If one party has decided that in order for them to succeed that
fewer people vote I would think that's a sign that maybe your policies need a look," he said. "But, there's a kind of
cynical decision, and it's happening across the country, whether it's the racially motivated patterns of voter suppression
are responsible for Stacey Abrams not being governor of Georgia right now [applause] or whether it's the effort to suppress
the student vote that we saw in New Hampshire." Author James Hasson called Buttigieg's claim "provably false."
Buttigieg's
Internal Focus Groups Find 'Being Gay Was A Barrier' For Black Southern Voters, Particularly Black Men. Focus
groups South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg's campaign conducted found that black voters in South Carolina see the
mayor's sexuality as a "barrier." A 21-page report the Benenson Strategy Group conducted examined black Democratic
South Carolina voters in mid-July and found that "being gay was a barrier for these voters, particularly for the men who
seemed deeply uncomfortable even discussing it. ... [T]heir preference is for his sexuality to not be front and center."
The Editor says...
The entire point of Mayor Pete's political career is that he is a homosexual, and if you don't vote for him, you must be a homophobe.
Homosexuals are defined by their sexual activity. Of course his sexuality is front and center.
Pete
Buttigieg: America's Unelected High School Class President. Mayor of America's 306th largest city,
Buttigieg brings the hauteur of Harvard to the heartland. He brings his passive-aggressive style to South Bend and
French Lick, misrepresenting the goodness of Indiana by attacking the state of mind of his fellow Hoosier, Vice President
Mike Pence. He brings this attitude to the campaign trail, where he looks like a fired contestant from "The Apprentice"
and sounds like a book on tape.
Poll:
Iowa caucuses are 'up for grabs' as Pete Buttigieg surges into top tier. It's a new three-way race in
Iowa. Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who was initially seen as a long-shot presidential contender,
has surged within striking distance of former vice president Joe Biden and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren in the
first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses, a Suffolk University/USA TODAY Poll finds. Biden, long viewed as the Democratic
frontrunner, is faltering in the wake of a debate performance last week that those surveyed saw as disappointing.
Pete
Buttigieg Plays 'Uniter' After Months of Christian Bashing. Did you get a chance to check out Mean Little Mayor
Pete Buttigieg suddenly morphing into Mayor Uniter during Tuesday night's debate — you know, after he spent months
trashing anyone who doesn't agree with him as a terrible Christian? [...] Buttigieg's brand-spanking-new idea of bringing
people together, of uniting the country after President Trump's defeat, wasn't some offhand comment, either. It was his
theme for the night.
Why
Mayor Pete's 2020 Presidential Campaign is Already Finished. Pete Buttigieg has long had a problem with black
voters. It's a problem that grew visible in his leadership as mayor of South Bend, Indiana over black-police
conflict. In an effort to save his flailing presidential campaign, he has released his "Douglass Plan" to pander to the
black electorate. In this plan, he promises to reform credit scoring (currently consisting of five simple scoring
metrics, none of which is the least bit racist), a "reduction in "racist policies" preventing some people from voting," (like
requiring a photo ID to vote, I guess?) and a "25% increase in government contracts with minority-owned businesses."
Who
Shredded Buttigieg's Campaign Records, And Why? Late Thursday [9/19/2019], the St. Joseph County, Indiana
clerk's office confirmed that South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg's campaign disclosure reports from 2011 were shredded.
Indiana state law allows for the disposal of campaign filings after four years, and personnel with the clerk's office told
The Federalist that Buttigieg's records were destroyed because of the "retention schedule." Yet, earlier last week, The
Federalist was able to obtain from the clerk's office the 2008, 2009, and 2010 campaign reports filed by Buttigieg's
predecessor, former mayor Steve Luecke.
Buttigieg
Doesn't Want His Ties To Horrifying Abortion Doctor Politicized. [Democrat presidential candidate Pete] Buttigieg "spoke to
reporters about the 2,246 medically preserved fetal remains family members found on former Dr. Ulrich Klopfer's property in Illinois
after he died on Sept. 3," The Daily Caller reported. "I find that news out of Illinois extremely disturbing and I think it's
important that that be fully investigated," Buttigieg said. "I also hope that it doesn't get caught up in politics at a time
when women need access to health care. There's no question that what happened is disturbing. It's unacceptable."
The Editor says...
Ghoulishly preserving the bodies of thousands of dead babies has no connection at all to women's "access to health care."
Marianne
Williamson And Pete Buttigieg Are The New Proselytizers Of Politicized Religion. As an Episcopalian who can
quote scripture for his purposes, [Pete] Buttigieg made a point of commenting that God would not be a Republican. Of
course, claiming the moral high ground is standard fare for politicians of all stripes. But Buttigieg and [Marianne]
Williamson are especially unique for their open and persistent evangelizing. Sadly, they seem to enjoy browbeating
Americans into conformity with their personal interpretations of Scripture. Buttigieg's brand of Christianity basically
states that if you don't agree with him on public policy, then you are not a Christian. [...] This means you cannot call
yourself a Christian if you do not get on board with raising the minimum wage, embracing the LGBT agenda, opening the
borders, and all the rest of Buttigieg's policy prescriptions.
Buttigieg
Distorts Logic and Scripture on Abortion. Perhaps Mayor Pete Buttigieg would have a better shot at appealing to
Christian voters if he would not go to such extreme lengths to contort Scripture to rationalize his party's abominable stance
on abortion. The Democratic presidential candidate openly expresses his Christian faith and was the first candidate to
hire a national faith outreach director. He believes political conservatism is less compatible with Christianity than
political liberalism.
Pete
Buttigieg's twisted Bible teaching on abortion. It is a curiosity how a self-declaring Christian can still
stand strong on the side of abortion rights. This is what Buttigieg said a few days ago on a "Breakfast Club" radio
interview: "Right now, [conservatives] hold everybody in line with this one piece of doctrine about abortion, which is
obviously a tough issue for a lot of people to think through morally. Then again, there's a lot of parts of the Bible
that talk about how life begins with breath. So even that is something we can interpret differently." OK.
But not Christians. Christians don't interpret the Bible to believe life begins at "breath."
South
Bend Faced Another Violent Weekend on Buttigieg's Watch. A 16-year-old high school student was fatally shot and
others were injured during another violent weekend in South Bend, Ind., continuing an upward trend of violent crime during
the tenure of Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who is campaigning for the Democratic nomination for president. Between Friday
evening at 5 p.m. and Sunday night [9/8/2019], approximately 130 gunshots were either reported or detected in South Bend,
according to the South Bend Tribune.
Mayor
Pete Uses The Bible To Redefine When Life Begins And Now His Family Wants Him To Repent. South Bend, Indiana
Mayor turned 2020 presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg used the Bible to explain why he believes life doesn't begin until a
baby takes his or her first breath. "Right now they hold everyone in line to this kind of piece of doctrine about
abortion, which is obviously a tough issue for a lot of people to think through. Then again, you know, there's a lot of
parts of the Bible which talk about how life begins with breath," Buttiegeg explained during an interview with The Breakfast
Club. "And even so, that's something that we can interpret differently."
The Editor says...
Is a pearl diver temporarily dead while holding his breath? No. If you're not breathing, that doesn't mean you're
dead. If a full-term baby isn't really alive prior to taking his first breath, why does he have his very own beating heart?
Progressive
'Christian' Pete Buttigieg Doesn't Seem to Understand His Own 'Faith'. In the spirit of generosity and charity,
when I clicked on the YouTube video of Pete Buttigieg's interview on MSNBC, I set aside the fact that the 2020 Democrat
presidential hopeful is violating God's law concerning sexual ethics to hear what South Bend, Indiana's mayor believes about
Christianity. Maybe, just maybe, I thought, he'll express an understanding of his faith that aligns with the
Bible. Turns out, my hope was misplaced. Pete Buttigieg either doesn't understand Christianity or is afraid to
talk about it on national TV. During an appearance on MSNBC's Morning Joe, after Joe Scarborough talked about
how President Obama claims to have accepted Jesus Christ as his personal savior, the host turned it into a question and asked
Buttigieg if he identified with that. Buttigieg responded with an answer that has "dodge" written all over it, [...]
Playing
God. You can get a good sense of the intellectual vacuity (and religious sterility, if you're interested in
that) of this mode of politics from, e.g., Kirsten Powers's banal and illiterate conversation with Buttigieg, written up for
general amusement in USA Today. [...] Powers writes this as though Christianity had been planted in a cultural vacuum
and as though "feed my sheep" were synonymous with "vote for the party of the welfare state no matter what other horrifying
business may be on their agenda" — and as though these kinds of issues had not been the subject of centuries
of Christian inquiry. The New Testament is silent on the questions of, among other things, child pornography and
cannibalism, but Christians are not expected to maintain a morally indifferent attitude toward these.
The Editor says...
Homosexuality is sin. Releasing carbon dioxide into the air is not. Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant.
Pete
Buttigieg Admits No Combat Ribbon from Deployment to Afghanistan. Mayor Pete Buttigieg does not appear to have
engaged in combat during his six months deployed in Afghanistan, despite months of ignoring multiple media requests about the
issue, including from Breitbart News. The South Bend mayor spoke about his deployment during an interview with military
news website Task and Purpose.
Pete
Buttigieg: Climate Change Fight Maybe Worse than World War II. Mayor Pete Buttigieg on Wednesday called
the fight against climate change possibly worse than the global struggle against the Nazis in World War II. "This is
the hardest thing we will have done certainly in my lifetime as a country, this on par with winning World War II," he
said. "Perhaps even more challenging than that." Buttigieg lamented during the CNN town hall on climate change
that it would be impossible to confront the threat if Americans were still disagreeing about climate change.
Pete
Buttigieg Was Rising. Then Came South Bend's Policing Crisis. On a Tuesday in March, just after Pete
Buttigieg began to catch fire with Democrats nationally, he flew home for his final State of the City address.
Mr. Buttigieg, the two-term mayor, drew more than 40 rounds of applause as he described the "comeback decade" in South
Bend, pointing to new businesses and apartments downtown and the demolition of hundreds of blighted houses. He had far
less to say about his city's police department: He devoted nearly as much time to it as he did to South Bend's "smart sewers."
Buttigieg
Denounces 'Hypocrisy' of Pence, Other Christian Politicians. Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg
blasted Vice President Mike Pence and other Christian politicians this week for adopting what he charged were un-Christian
political stances. [...] "It's not just that we might have a different interpretation of faith, it's that these arguments no
longer stack up even on their own merits, right?" the openly gay Buttigieg continued.
In
Mayor Pete's South Bend, Indiana, 'Morale Is at an All-Time Low' Among Police Officers. Fox News contributor
Raymond Arroyo went on the road for "The Ingraham Angle" on Tuesday night [8/27/2019] — and shared some horrifying
insights about South Bend, Indiana. Viewers of the new "Raymond on the Road" segment were treated to scenes of
boarded-up homes and filthy encampments populated by homeless people. South Bend right now is "a place where the local
population here — 25 percent of them — live beneath the poverty line. And crime has risen to
20-year highs, with violent assaults exceeding by 173 percent the national average.
Buttigieg:
Voting for Trump Is 'Looking the Other Way on Racism'. Sunday [8/18/2019] on CNN's "State of the Union," 2020
Democratic presidential hopeful South Bend, IN Mayor Pete Buttigieg said Americans who voted for President Donald Trump were
"looking the other way on racism." Tapper asked, "You told me on this show two weeks ago that you believe President Trump
is a white nationalist. Given that, do you think that it's a racist act to cast a vote for President Trump in 2020?"
Pete
Buttigieg on El Paso Shooting: America 'Under Attack' from 'White Nationalist Terrorism'. Pete Buttigieg,
2020 White House hopeful and South Bend, Indiana, mayor on Saturday [8/3/2019] reacted to the deadly shooting at an El Paso, Texas
Walmart, claiming the United States is "under attack" from "homegrown, white nationalist terrorism." "America is under
attack from homegrown, white nationalist terrorism," Buttigieg said in his opening statement before the AFSCME 2020 Public
Service Forum in Las Vegas. "We have to talk and act about two things in this country: first of all, we are the only
country in the world with more guns than people. It has not made us safer. We can respect the Second Amendment
and not allow it to be a death sentence for thousands of Americans."
The Editor says...
No, America is not under attack by white nationalists. Mayor Pete is delusional if he thinks that guns don't make America safer. The
American mainland has never been invaded, because everybody in the world knows that most of us are heavily armed. In addition, there are
numerous defensive uses of firearms in this country every week.
Buttigieg
Drops Insane Amount Of Money On Private Jet Travel. The Irony Is, He's A Fan Of Green New Deal.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would no doubt be livid with Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg if she saw the
insanely massive amount of cash that the South Bend mayor was dropping on private airplane travel, what with him being a big
supporter of the Green New Deal and all. The Green New Deal, AOC's pet project, calls for ending the use of airplane
travel in exchange for super fast trains. Is it any surprise to see AOC is living in some sort of crazy fantasy
world? Seems like that's where she spends the majority of her time.
Buttigieg
Handling of South Bend Shooting Could Lead to Police Exodus. South Bend police officers are warning of a mass
exodus amid Mayor Pete Buttigieg's handling of the shooting of Erik Logan, saying that morale is at an all-time low. "I
think you're going to see a mass exodus, our administration is a joke," one officer told Fox News. Other officers
described morale as being at an all-time low and saying the officers do "nothing" now. "We call ourselves firemen, we
sit around in parking lots until we're called and then we go to the call, because if you say or do something wrong, then you
get hung," one officer said.
Buttigieg's
Scheme To Spend Billions & Billions To End Racial Division. Democratic presidential candidate and South Bend,
Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg earlier this month floated his boundlessly audacious "Douglass Plan" — that's
Frederick Douglass — "comparable in scale to the Marshall Plan that rebuilt Europe after World War II." [...] You
also won't find the words "socialist" or "socialism" anywhere on Mayor Pete's campaign website. "The big lesson for us
is literally anything we do, they're going to call socialist," he told ABC last month, referring to himself a "democratic
capitalist." But Pete the democratic capitalist's Douglass Plan is a massive wealth redistribution on top of black
reparations for slavery.
Buttigieg
Draws Larger Crowd in New Hampshire than Frontrunner Biden. Both men hosted rallies in Dover, New Hampshire to
discuss their presidential ambitions and court supporters ahead of the state's first in the nation primary. Although
Biden supposedly leads the mayor among New Hampshire voters in the polls, Buttigieg was the one who pulled exponentially more
attendees to his event in the state.
Buttigieg's
pander: a Marshall Plan for black America. Even at its peak, the Buttigieg campaign faced a huge problem —
lack of support from African-Americans. One poll I saw had him at zero percent among this cohort. You can't make a credible
run at the Democratic nomination for president with zero percent black support. Things got even worse when an African-American in
South Bend, Indiana, of which Buttigieg is mayor, was shot and killed by a white police officer. As far as I can tell, the
officer acted prudently and lawfully. Reportedly, the deceased was armed and engaging in criminal behavior. But such details
seldom matter either to the black community or to Democratic politicians.
South
Bend's Violent Crime Rate Continues to Spike Under Pete Buttigieg. Violent crime has spiked to 20 year highs
since Mean Little Mayor Pete Buttitgieg became South Bend, Indiana's mayor in 2012, reports the Washington Free Beacon. [...]
The establishment media's favorite presidential candidate, this so-called "genius," has been nothing less than a five-alarm
disaster for his city and its 100,000 residents. Data from the South Bend police and "figures on 2018 and the first
four months of 2019 [that] were released in the public minutes," shows violent crime is unlike anything the city has seen
prior to 2000.
MSNBC's
Jason Johnson: Trump 'More Popular with Black Voters than Mayor Pete'. MSNBC contributor Jason Johnson
said this week that presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg (D) has a huge problem because even President Donald Trump is more
popular than Buttigieg with the party's most important voters — black Democrats. Johnson, The Root's
politics editor and one of the most prominent pundits on racial politics and issues, made his remarks after two national
polls (CNN, Quinnipiac) this week found that the South Bend, Indiana, Mayor has 0% support from black Democrats.
Buttigieg Says
Democrats Must Swing Further Left To Beat Trump In 2020. The large Democratic field showed off an array of
far-left positions in the first Democratic primary debates in Miami last week. A majority of the candidates expressed
support for decriminalizing border crossings, providing taxpayer-funded healthcare to illegal immigrants, unlimited access to
abortion and drastic economic changes for the sake of preventing climate change.
Pete
Buttigieg Warns Black Americans of Another Civil War. Mayor Pete Buttigieg on Tuesday [7/2/2019] warned Black
Americans of a new civil war if the federal government failed to end racist institutions and pay reparations for slavery.
"If we do not tackle the problem of racial inequality in my lifetime, I am convinced that it will upend the American project
in my lifetime," he warned. "It brought our country to its knees once and if we do not act, it could again."
The Editor says...
Was that a warning of an impending civil war, or an incitement of civil war?
Pete
Buttigieg is a bad mayor, so how could he be a good president? At first glance, South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete
Buttigieg seems like the perfect presidential candidate: articulate, intelligent, and charismatic. Too bad he's
also awful at his job. Buttigieg is polling at 7% according to RealClearPolitics polling average, fourth place in the
Democratic primary race. Yet it's a shame that so many Democrats are falling for his ruse. Not all residents of
South Bend are as fond of their mayor as the liberal media is. Hosting a town hall in his community over the weekend,
Mayor Pete tried to calm his constituents down in the aftermath of a local shooting of an African American man by a police
officer. They weren't buying it.
The Editor says...
Mr. Buttigieg has only one qualification in the Democratic Party primary: he's a homosexual. That's the
novelty. He's married to a man. He is defined by his perverse sexual activity. That is not a reason to vote
for him in the general election. Being a homosexual might have been enough of a novelty to win the mayor's race, but now
even the people of South Bend apparently have buyer's remorse. Next!
The
Myth and Fraud That There Ever Was an Arab Country or People Called 'Palestine'. New to the fray, South Bend
Mayor Buttigieg — an expert on world affairs though still unable to maintain civil equanimity in his own city
where African Americans are furious over a recent police shooting — has announced that, if Israel ever extends
sovereignty into any part of Judea or Samaria, he will cut off aid to Israel accordingly if he is elected President.
Pete
Buttigieg Endorses Federal ID for Illegal Immigrants. Mayor Pete Buttigieg endorsed a federal identification
card for illegal immigrants on Friday, allowing them to access government services. "I do believe that it is the
responsibility for the federal government to make sure anyone who lives here regardless of their immigration status has the
means to demonstrate that they are who they say they are," he said at the National Association of Latino Elected and
Appointed Officials presidential forum on Friday morning [6/21/2019].
Mayor
Pete's Anti-Violence Commission Fails To Reduce Shootings. Composed of a group of community leaders and
overseen by Police Chief Ron Teachman, the South Bend Group Violence Intervention sought to use both community and law
enforcement methods to reduce gang violence and provide offenders — especially young people — a "moral"
alternative to a life of crime. Buttigieg also said the city would double the number of mentors reaching out to at-risk
youth through the SBGVI in the next three years. [...] It was a rocky road in the beginning, but the SBGVI has continued its
push to end violence in South Bend. While crime overall is down this year, injuries or death from shootings has held
steady: 78 people, the same number as 2012.
'I
don't see why not': Pete Buttigieg on having kids with husband in White House. The Democratic presidential
candidate Pete Buttigieg wants to start a family with his husband, Chasten, and says that could happen if he makes it to the
White House. "I don't see why not," the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, said in a Father's Day television interview that
also marked his first wedding anniversary.
Buttigieg:
It's 'Almost Certain' America Has Had a Gay President. South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg said it's "almost
certain" he would not be the first gay man to serve as president of the United States if elected in 2020. Buttigieg
made the comment on Sunday [6/16/2019]during an interview with Axios on HBO when asked how he would respond to someone saying
he was "too young, too liberal, [or] too gay to be commander-in-chief."
The Editor says...
It's very unlikely that any past U.S. President was a homosexual, simply because the homosexual candidate's opponent (unless
he was John McCain) would almost certainly use that information against the candidate (unless he was black).
Pete
Buttigieg's high college debt draws attention to the issue. Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg
knows firsthand the burden of six-figure student loan debt. He and his husband, Chasten, are far from alone, though,
and their personal college indebtedness is helping to keep the issue on the national stage.
The
Democrats don't want to fix the Supreme Court, they want to break America. Mayor Peter Buttigieg took a break
from running the worst city in Indiana to call for raising the number of Supreme Court justices to fifteen. The plan
comes from the same Rhodes Scholar who claimed that we should move to a popular vote system "if we're going to call ourselves
a democracy." Buttigieg has a degree in history from Harvard, but knows less than a third grader did in 1925.
Court packing schemes have been endorsed by Senator Elizabeth Warren, Senator Kamala Harris, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand,
Robert Francis O'Rourke, Mayor Buttigieg and a bunch of other candidates you never heard of. Other 2020 candidates,
including Senator Bernie Sanders and Senator Cory Booker, have proposed rigging the Supreme Court in another way by
introducing term limits for the justices. These proposals are invariably described with euphemistic verbs like "reform"
or "fix". But the only reason that they suddenly decided SCOTUS needs reforming is because they're no longer in control
of it.
Pete
Buttigieg Tells Kid Donald Trump Is 'Really Mean'. Mayor Pete Buttigieg met with children in Palo Alto,
California, on Sunday, telling them during a family brunch event for his campaign that President Trump is "really
mean." One of the children asked Buttigieg how he was going to defeat President Donald Trump in 2020. "We can't
play his game. You know how he's really mean? He likes to call people names." he said. "If we do it
his way, I think we're going to lose, so we have to change the whole game."
Inside
Pete Buttigieg's plan to overhaul the Supreme Court. As Democrats agonize over a spate of state laws restricting abortion
rights and even a potential reversal of Roe v. Wade, one 2020 presidential candidate is putting an ambitious, long-shot plan
to reform the Supreme Court front-and-center of his campaign. Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has talked about
his plan to overhaul the high court since his first days as a candidate. In short, it calls for expanding the number of justices from
nine to 15, with five affiliated with Democrats, five affiliated with Republicans, and five apolitical justices chosen by the first 10.
Mayor
Pete's Super Tuesday Advantage: Gay Money. There aren't a lot of Ivy League professors willing and
able to "max out" (donate $2,800) to Elizabeth Warren, or democratic socialists willing to max out for Bernie Sanders, or
blue-collar workers willing to max out for Joe Biden — or urban blacks willing to max out for Cory Booker
or Kamala Harris. But in an identity-politics-driven Democrat party, there is one group that has already shown a
willingness to be very generous to a candidate who shares their background: gays and lesbians. Though many gay
activist organizations have disputed as "myth" the idea that gays have more disposable income, the numbers are clear:
gays earn more and save more than other Americans.
Buttigieg
campaign, brimming with cash, staffs up. South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg's campaign has come a long way from
its humble roots. Over the past few weeks, Buttigieg has brought on a host of new staffers to bolster his rapidly
growing operation. The campaign recently snagged Hillary for America alum George Hornedo as national delegate director.
Buttigieg
Doesn't Respect A Single Living Republican. Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg on Monday couldn't
name any living Republican public figures he respects during a MSNBC town hall. Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend,
participated in a MSNBC town hall, where he was asked by host Chris Matthews to name some living Republican public figures he
respects. "Name some of your public figures — Republicans — who you respect. Living
Republicans," said Matthews, prompting the audience to laugh. Buttigieg smirked and acted like he was stumped.
Buttigieg
brother-in-law accuses 2020 candidate of lying about his family for political gain. Pete Buttigieg's
brother-in-law is accusing the gay Democratic presidential hopeful of hijacking his family's history for political advantage
by crafting a bogus backstory of poverty, homelessness, and homophobia. Rhyan Glezman, 34, a pastor in small-town
Michigan, said he was inundated by death threats and hate mail when stories surfaced this month claiming he was a bigot who
had fallen out with his younger brother Chasten when Chasten came out of the closet.
The Death of the Democratic
Party. In a recent speech in Las Vegas, Pete Buttigieg, the Democratic presidential candidate from South Bend,
Indiana, spoke about the dangers posed by "so-called identity politics." [...] Must everything revolve around the trans
community? Seriously? Trans people make up about of 0.6% of the American population, yet they make up almost 100%
of the conversation. One assumes that a large number of Americans are fed up with constantly being told to "embrace"
transgender and gender nonconforming people, to "empathize" with their collective struggle. This does not mean that the
exasperated are transphobic. The vast majority wish no harm on people who are uncomfortable with their identities.
They just happen to have more personal, more pressing issues that need addressing, like trying to pay their bills, keep their
jobs, or send their children to a decent college.
The
Democrat Puff Piece Challenge. [Scroll down] When it comes to newcomer Pete Buttigieg, the trivia is
already encyclopedic. Favorite food/book/music is way too shallow — how about his favorite socks, whisky,
wristwatch, multi-tool, and beef jerky? New York Magazine went all out for their guy with a The Things They
Carried-style vanity piece. The picture his possessions paint is a man who is practical (learned it in the
military), tasteful (somehow relates to his military service), and wise. Oh, and he served his country. We know
he speaks eight languages, loves his husband, and will never contend without the black vote. Hmm... Mayor Pete's
Hot Sauce, anyone? How is it that we come to learn so much about Democrat candidates running for president, and so
little about Republicans?
Pete
Buttigieg: 'Unknowable' When Human Life Begins. Mayor Pete Buttigieg claimed Thursday [5/23/2019] that it was
unknowable when human life begins, making the issue of abortion too complicated to regulate. "For those who have a
strong view about some of these almost unknowable questions around life, the best answer I can give, is that because we will
never be able to settle those questions, in a consensus fashion," he said in response to a question about abortion limits.
Buttigieg commented on the issue of abortion during a conversation with Washington Post reporter Robert Costa.
The Editor says...
Mayor Peetie may not know when life begins, but that doesn't mean it's unknowable. It just means he doesn't know the truth.
Pete
Buttigieg Equates Radical Shia and Wahabi Islam With Christianity. Democratic presidential candidate Pete
Buttigieg equated radical Shia Islam and the Islamic ideology behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks with Christianity's capacity
for extremism Friday. Buttigieg made the comparison during a Friday radio interview with Hugh Hewitt, arguing that
radical Islam, like Christian-motivated extremism,"can have a thousand different flavors." His comments came in response to
the question of whether he believed that radical Iranian Shia Islam was more dangerous than Wahhabi Islam — a
variant of Islam that originated in Saudi Arabia and serves as the impetus for much of radical Islamic terrorism.
Buttigieg
Calls for Slavery Reparations, Green New Deal, Abolishing Electoral College. If anyone deserves reparations,
it's South Bend voters. All 8,500 or so who voted for Mayor Buttigieg. There was a time when Buttigieg appeared
to have outmanuevered the rest of the clown car by taking a somewhat more moderate approach. But then his numbers began
to fade and he's adopting the same radical leftist positions as the rest of the radical clown car.
The Editor says...
Oh, by the way, South Bend Indiana, where "Mayor Pete" is in charge, is home to ZIP Code 46601,
the poorest part of the whole state.
Pete
Buttigieg Now Taking Cues from Campus Leftists, Wants to Erase Thomas Jefferson. For the last few years campus
progressives, most notably at Hofstra University, have been trying to erase Thomas Jefferson from the public square.
Now 2020 Democratic hopeful Pete Buttigieg has joined the effort. Anyone who's familiar with the concept of Year Zero
knows what this is really about. Still, it's surprising to hear it coming from a presidential candidate.
Pete
Buttigieg polling at 0% among black voters in South Carolina. South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg is polling
at 0% among black voters in the key early primary state of South Carolina. After coming out of nowhere to emerge as a
contender for the 2020 Democratic nomination, Buttigieg has hit a bit of a wall, and one big reason is his failure to appeal
to black voters, who make up a substantial portion of the Democratic electorate. This was highlighted in a poll
released Sunday by the Post and Courier, which, like many other polls, showed former Vice President Joe Biden well ahead,
with 46%, to 15% for Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., the nearest competitor.
We've already had one America-hating president. We don't need another one. Pete
Buttigieg in South Carolina: America 'Was Never as Great as Advertised'. Democratic presidential hopeful
Pete Buttigieg took a jab at President Trump on Monday while delivering a speech in South Carolina, saying America's past
"was never as great as advertised." "So many of the solutions, I believe, are gonna come from our communities.
Communities like the one where I grew up, which is an industrial mid-western city," the former South Bend, Indiana mayor
stated. "That is exactly the kind of place that our current president targeted with a message saying that we could find
greatness by just stopping the clock and turning it back."
Mayor
Pete says God would NEVER be a Republican like Trump as he reveals he and his husband want children. Pete
Buttigieg said in an interview broadcast Tuesday that he and his husband Chasten want to be fathers one day — but
'maybe' he'll have to finish his historic run for president first. And he told a 'Today' show audience that he plans to
keep emphasizing his religious faith in the face of hecklers who berate him for being a gay Christian. The 37-year-old
Democrat takes the almighty seriously, and claimed that while God isn't likely a partisan, he would never be a Republican in
the mold of Donald Trump.
Franklin
Graham Schools Mayor Pete on Homosexuality. Graham responded on Facebook to Buttigieg's claim that God doesn't
favor one political party or another. "Presidential candidate and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg is right —
God doesn't have a political party. But God does have commandments, laws, and standards He gives us to live by.
God is God. He doesn't change. His Word is the same yesterday, today, and forever," Graham wrote. "Mayor
Buttigieg says he is a gay Christian and he wants to unite people behind him. I'm sure there will be many people who
will want to follow. But as a Christian I believe what the Bible says. God's Word defines homosexuality as sin,
something to be repentant of, not something to be flaunted, praised, or politicized. The Bible defines marriage as
between a man and a woman — not two men, not two women.
Vanilla with a Touch
of Gay. Democratic elites, it seems, have found a candidate who embodies their kind of diversity, which, to
quote Darel Paul, involves "creativity, cosmopolitanism, authenticity, toleration, and the reward of merit." Buttigieg is
a white professor's kid, happily partnered to a man, a speaker of seven languages, a Rhodes scholar, and a faithful attendee
of a premier Wasp-ocratic institution: the Episcopalian Church. The Buttigieg recipe, as it goes, satisfies both
upper middle-class suburbanites and the "woke" identity base of Democratic coalition minorities. Being an open homosexual
let's all minorities know that Pete is with them. Vanilla liberals know that he is just like them too —
educated, safe, and upper-middle class.
The Editor says...
The Bible makes it abundantly clear — to those outside the Episcopal Church who actually
read it
for themselves — that homosexuals, thieves, extortioners, and drunkards will not inherit the kingdom of God.
There's only one other place to go for all eternity, and it's very bad.
The
Attacks on Christians and America's First Freedom. Is it merely coincidental that the most rapidly rising candidate for the
Democratic presidential nomination, Pete Buttigieg launched his campaign with an unfounded and unprovoked attack on America's vice president
because he is a Christian? In fact, as Buttigieg's governor in Indiana, Pence had been particularly generous to Buttigieg when he
publicly revealed his sexual orientation. But Buttigieg would not be dissuaded by Pence's gesture of tolerance. Buttigieg's hatred
was inspired by Pence's Christian beliefs not any anti-gay behavior on his part. In other words, it was an assault on Americans' most
basic freedom — religious liberty. Buttigieg's attack took place without so much as a demurral from any national Democratic figure, and
in fact led directly to Buttigieg's ascension to third place in the Democratic primary race. That alone speaks volumes about the
anti-Christian prejudices manifested by the left in this country.
The
media's endless fawning over Pete Buttigieg won't end well. So long, Beto O'Rourke. It was fun while it
lasted. The mainstream media has a new presidential crush now, one just as cloyingly nicknamed, vague on policy and
whose biggest success is also failing upward: Mayor Pete. This 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, we are
giddily informed, is checking all the right boxes: He served in the Navy and deployed to Afghanistan as an intelligence
officer; he speaks seven languages; his father is an immigrant; he's a Harvard grad and a Rhodes scholar; he plays piano; he
has two rescue dogs; and — the piece de resistance — he's a Christian gay man! And just like
that, celebrity elites swing Pete-ward too: According to The Hollywood Reporter, mega-producer Ryan Murphy and other
prominent gay A-listers are planning a fundraiser to be held June 19.
Pete
Buttigieg faces backlash for saying people in prison should not be allowed to vote. Democratic frontrunners are
facing scrutiny for their stance on voting rights for incarcerated felons, after Bernie Sanders said he supports voting rights
'even for terrible people'. [...] "This is a democracy and we have got to expand that democracy," the Vermont senator said, "and
I believe every single person does have the right to vote." Vermont is one of two states, the other being Maine, where
incarcerated felons have always retained their right to vote.
The Editor says...
This isn't a direct democracy, it does not need expansion, and not everyone should vote.
Pete
Buttigieg: 'God doesn't have a political party'. Pete Buttigieg opened up about his faith Monday night [4/22/2019],
expressing confidence that he will be able to unite many different groups of people because "God does not have a political party."
During a CNN town hall in New Hampshire Monday, the South Bend, Indiana, mayor was asked how he planned to unite conservatives,
moderates and liberal Christians. "It can be challenging to be a person of faith who's also part of the LGBTQ community and
yet, to me, the core of faith is regard for one another," Buttigieg said.
Pete
Buttigieg Sets L.A. Fundraiser Hosted by Gay Hollywood A-List. The prospect of the first openly gay commander-in-chief
is creating an unprecedented coalition of some of Hollywood's most powerful gay producers, writers, agents and executives who are
ready to open their home — and their checkbooks — to support the candidacy of 37-year-old Pete Buttigieg.
The Hollywood Reporter has learned that plans are underway for what will most certainly be Buttigieg's most high-profile
industry fundraiser to date.
As Liberalism
Sinks, Socialism Rises. South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg catapulted himself from the obscurity of a
crowded field of unknown Democrat presidential candidates into third place, right behind Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, not
with some captivating idea on how to fix a big national problem but by cleverly playing the holier-than-thou card: picking
a fight with the evangelical Vice President Mike Pence.
Pete
Buttigieg is neck-and-neck with Joe Biden in New Hampshire poll. South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg and former
Vice President Joe Biden are essentially tied in a new 2020 New Hampshire poll. A survey released by the University of
New Hampshire on Monday has Buttigieg in third place behind Biden, earning 15 percent of the vote to Biden's 18 percent.
That's a smaller gap than the poll's margin of error. In first place is Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who earned
30 percent of the vote. Buttigieg has jumped up 13 percentage points since February, at which point he had launched
a 2020 exploratory committee fairly recently.
Prompted by a question from an obvious astroturf audience plant: Pete
Buttigieg: Gun Control 'Compatible with the Second Amendment'. Democrat presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg used
a question and answer session during an Iowa speech to claim numerous gun controls he supports are "completely compatible with the
Second Amendment." [...] He also used the Obama-era moniker of "weapons of war" to describe certain commonly owned semiautomatic
rifles and said, "There are some weapons that don't belong in our neighborhoods in peacetime in America."
The Editor says...
Well, Pete, that's the funny thing about "peacetime in America." It's hard to tell exactly when peacetime will end,
and when it does, it won't be easy to go retrieve your guns from outside "our neighborhoods." There has never been an armed
invasion of this country largely because there are guns in almost every house! It's called preparedness.
Mayor Pete
and the Crackup of Christianity. "Mayor Pete" is proudly gay and living happily with his husband. He says
God made him the way he is, and he is living the life God intended for him. [...] [W]hat Buttigieg is saying is that either
God changes his moral law to conform to the changing behavior of mankind or that, for 2,000 years, Christian preaching and
practice toward homosexuals has been bigoted, injurious and morally indefensible. If Pete is right, since the time of
Christ, Christians have ostracized and persecuted gays simply for being and behaving as God intended. And if that is
true, what is the defense of Christianity?
Pete
Buttigieg Is Wrong about Homosexuality. Mayor Pete Buttigieg, the media, and academia are all fouled up about
what perversion is! Since the mayor is an admitted homosexual, with a "husband," no less, he obviously feels he must
justify his choice of walking in the dark world of perversion. And make no mistake: homosexuality is perversion.
If not, then all religions and denominations down through the ages have been wrong. A serious person will not try to
overturn civilization's morals, manners, and mores of thousands of years without much thoughtful consideration. Evidently,
Pete cannot be trusted to make decisions since he chose a degrading, dangerous, even deadly lifestyle.
Pete
Buttigieg: Just another climate alarmist extraordinaire. Mayor Pete — as Pete Buttigieg, the
Democratic presidential hopeful from the city of South Bend, Indiana, has been affectionately dubbed by his fawning following
in the media — called out climate change as the "greatest security issue of our time" during his recent announcement
speech. And if we don't fix it, we'll all die. He's yet the latest from the left to use climate change for political
advantage by claiming the same.
Buttigieg-run
South Bend features poverty and workers trekking down the road for good jobs. At just 37, Pete Buttigieg
doesn't have much of a record to run on. He's never held a federal office or won a statewide election, nor is it likely
that he could in a conservative state like Indiana. Outside of his inspirational rhetoric, there's one thing Buttigieg
is proud of: his record as mayor of South Bend. Yet for a presidential candidate who touted how he "cut the
unemployment in half" and helped revitalize a Midwestern city, not all residents are feeling the results of the city's
supposed revitalization.
Mayor Pete Will
Make You Bake the Cake. Democratic presidential contender Pete Buttigieg's public calls for pluralism do not
apply to religious small business owners. South Bend Mayor Buttigieg has made his Episcopalian faith and tolerance a
centerpiece of his campaign, but the policies he champions would force religious small business owners to participate in
ceremonies they find objectionable under penalty of law. Buttigieg, who is married to a man, will keynote the Human
Rights Campaign's annual dinner. The nation's largest LGBT lobbying group credited his support for the Equality Act for
the invitation. "Buttigieg is an outspoken advocate of the Equality Act — critically important, bipartisan
legislation that would finally provide clear protections against discrimination for LGBTQ people across the country," HRC
said in a Tuesday [4/16/2019] release.
Secret
tapes linger over Buttigieg's meteoric rise. Pete Buttigieg's meteoric rise as a presidential candidate is
putting a spotlight on his years as mayor of South Bend, Ind., including his demotion of an African-American police
chief. An Indiana judge will rule soon on whether to release five cassette tapes of secretly recorded conversations
between South Bend police officers that led to the 2012 demotion of Police Chief Darryl Boykins, the city's first ever black
police chief.
Mayor
Pete and the Crackup of Christianity. "Mayor Pete" is proudly gay and living happily with his husband. He
says God made him the way he is, and he is living the life God intended for him. Raising the same-sex marriage issue
himself, the mayor defiantly taunted Mike Pence: [...] Yet, Mayor Pete's assertion — that God made him gay, and
God intended that he live his life this way, and that this life is moral and good — is another milestone on the
road to a new America. For what Buttigieg is saying is that either God changes his moral law to conform to the changing
behavior of mankind or that, for 2,000 years, Christian preaching and practice toward homosexuals has been bigoted, injurious
and morally indefensible.
The
Left's New Teflon Candidate. Pete Buttigieg is gay. The Democrats can't help themselves at this point
when it comes to leveraging novelty, glass ceiling benchmarks in politics. First women, first black, first
whatever. It's like drug addiction. Once you go down that road, you need more. It never stops. Pretty
soon it's like Tourette's Syndrome. The Democrats can only run now with First Candidates. Perhaps we should now
call them the Party of Firsters. The ironic beauty here is that these are all superficial reasons to vote for anyone
and have zero to do with any actual policies or any real fiber. Democrats don't care. It's all they have left.
The Vigilante
From 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. Indeed, when Buttigieg made his public
announcement, Pence, then governor of Indiana went out of his way to praise his achievements as mayor — a bit of
political hyperbole since Buttigieg's city, South Bend, is a violence-ridden mess. Yet, even after Buttigieg's
outrageous attacks, Pence has not had an unkind word to say about him.
Pete
Buttigieg Officially Launches White House Campaign. Pete Buttigieg, the little-known Indiana mayor who has
risen to prominence in the early stages of the 2020 Democratic presidential race, made his official campaign entrance Sunday
by claiming the mantle of youthful generation ready to reshape the country.
Bias alert:
Most Americans don't want the country to be reshaped. They want the country to return to normal,
and then they want the federal government to leave them alone. Normal is the state we were in at some point in the past,
depending on your perspective, probably either 1950, 1960, or 1980. But certainly long before Barack H. Obama's
caustic and corrosive influence on the economy and the culture. Before hanging chads, transvestites in women's restrooms,
open borders, activist judges, crazy people roaming the streets, legalized pot, strip searches at the airport, 1.6-gallon toilets,
gun-free zones, red light cameras, etc.
Progressive 'Christian'
Hypocrites. Mayor Pete Buttigieg, one of the many Democrats running for President, keeps trying to play a
Christian on television, and it's been going badly for him. [...] As much as Buttigieg makes a valid critique on the
President's behavior and some evangelicals excusing that behavior, Buttigieg wants to reject the inconvenient parts of faith
he does not like. He is a gay man who got married; he does not think homosexuality is a sin despite express statements
in scripture. And he thinks abortion is a moral issue. He would, he says, avoid governing using his morality.
Buttigieg is trying to have it both ways and, in reality, is showing he is no better a Christian than Trump.
Truly
Awful People. [Scroll down] Then there's "Mayor Pete," Democratic 2020 hopeful and South Bend, Indiana,
mayor Pete Buttigieg. The least interesting and least important part of who he is as a candidate is that he's gay, but
it's the only thing that differentiates him from the rest of the Democratic field. [...] But Buttigieg is using his sexual
orientation to paint himself as a victim of the VP's "bigotry," because Pence is a devout Christian. The only problem
is Mike Pence has never said a negative word about the man. But facts don't matter when you're desperate for attention.
Buttigieg, while claiming to be a Christian himself, spent the week criticizing the faith of the vice president.
Why is Buttigieg
a Democrat then? Mike Pence was governor of Indiana in 2015 when Democrat Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend
came out of the closet as gay amid a controversy over Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which allows Christian
businesses to act on their beliefs even if the subject is homosexuality. Buttigieg attacked Pence. The governor
turned the other cheek when asked about the attack. Pence said, "I hold Mayor Buttigieg in the highest personal
regard. We have a great working relationship. I see him as a dedicated public servant, and a patriot." Four
years later, though, the gay mayor still attacks Pence and his religion. Buttigieg's holier-than-thou act is silly.
It
Turns Out Erick Erickson Was Right About Buttigieg and Bestiality. Buttigieg is foolishly suggesting that
"since Jesus didn't say anything about 21st century dilation and extraction baby killing, we should be more silent about it
too." That's flatly absurd and he deserves to be intellectually embarrassed and spiritually ashamed to utter such a
justification. And it seems apparent to any thinking person that is precisely why Erickson exposed him as he did.
Erickson's premise was simple: replace the issue of abortion with another morally questionable practice. "Since Jesus
didn't say anything about men having sex with animals, He must have been cool with it." It's a ridiculous proposition and
completely untenable logic. But it's exactly the illogic that Buttigieg had voiced to justify his cowardly
capitulation to the abortion cult.
Buttigieg
to Pence: If you have a problem with who I am, your quarrel is with my creator. Pete Buttigieg got a
hero's welcome as he took the stage Sunday [4/7/2019] at a fundraising brunch for a group that supports LGBTQ candidates. The
improbable presidential campaign of the previously little-known, openly-gay mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has been generating
significant buzz, positive headlines, and large crowds in important primary states like New Hampshire.
Can't
Any Democrat Here Play This Game? [Scroll down] Some of us, apparently, are much more interested in the
37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Ind. Pete Buttigieg is winning the coveted media primary, as journalists gush over his
youth, his Harvard credentials, his husband, and his language abilities. He answers questions in Norwegian. Elect
this man! The other day an acquaintance of mine, a reporter for a major newspaper, got caught up in a reverie about the
mayor's dogs. They are, I'm told, SO cute. The geniuses narrating our lives can't figure out where Buttigieg came
from. Do they read bylines other than their own? The press has been chirping about this boy wonder since a 2016
Frank Bruni column. Now Buttigieg has risen in the polls. He had a solid first quarter for someone without a
national profile. The media reputation machine — it builds them up and tears them down — is
humming along nicely.
Mayor
Buttigieg Runs for President While His City Bleeds. In the last few days, even as the media was gushing over
Buttigieg's presidential ambitions, two Indiana University South Bend players were injured in a shooting on Notre Dame
Avenue, a blind date ended in a shooting, and yet another shooting added to the bloody toll in the real South Bend.
Those are quite a few shootings for a city of barely 100,000 people. But South Bend is a violent place. While
Chicago is notorious for its murder rate, in 2015, Buttigieg's South Bend actually topped Chicago's 16.4 homicides per
100,000 people with a homicide rate of 16.79 per 100,000 people.
Buttigieg
questions Trump's belief in God. White House hopeful Pete Buttigieg raised doubts about President Trump's
belief in God during an interview published Wednesday [4/3/2019]. The South Bend, Indiana, mayor discussed
Mr. Trump's faith during a recent conversation with USA Today. "I'm reluctant to comment on another person's
faith, but I would say it is hard to look at this president's actions and believe that they're the actions of somebody who
believes in God," Mr. Buttigieg told the newspaper. "I just don't understand how you can be as worshipful of your
own self as he is and be prepared to humble yourself before God.
Democrat
Pete Buttigieg May Be Too White And Not Gay Enough But He Still Likes Killing Babies. In case you missed it,
the mayor of South Bend, IN, is running for president. What would make any mayor of a third-tier Mid-West city think he
can be president? Well, in the age of identity politics, Buttigieg is a veteran (reserve Naval Intelligence) and he's
gay. This is supposed to mean that veterans and gays or gay veterans will reflexively vote for him. That is
supposed to be a good thing. However, some have raised questions.
Pete
Buttigieg's father was a Marxist professor who lauded the Communist Manifesto. The father of Democratic
presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg was a Marxist professor who spoke fondly of the Communist Manifesto and dedicated a
significant portion of his academic career to the work of Italian Communist Party founder Antonio Gramsci, an associate of
Vladimir Lenin. Joseph Buttigieg, who died in January at the age of 71, immigrated to the U.S. in the 1970s from Malta
and in 1980 joined the University of Notre Dame faculty, where he taught modern European literature and literary theory.
He supported an updated version of Marxism that jettisoned some of Marx and Engel's more doctrinaire theories, though he was
undoubtedly Marxist.
Buttigieg
surges to third place in new Iowa poll. South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D) surged into third place in a
poll of the Iowa caucus released Sunday [3/24/2019]. Eleven percent of likely Democratic Iowa caucusgoers surveyed by
Emerson Polling said they would pick Buttigieg to be their 2020 presidential nominee. Overall, Buttigieg placed third
behind Former Vice President Joe Biden, at 25 percent, and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), at 24 percent.
Brzezinski:
Republicans Are Telling Me They Will Support Buttigieg. During Thursday's [3/21/2019] MSNBC broadcast of
"Morning Joe," co-host Mika Brzezinski discussed 2020 Democrat presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg's chances.
Brzezinski said after having Buttigieg on the show, a handful of Republicans told her he had their support.
Twenty
Things You Probably Didn't Know About Pete Buttigieg. [#12] In the mayoral race, Buttigieg faced a state
representative, a county councilman, and two lesser-known competitors; the local party deemed him too young and discouraged
his interest in the race. Buttigieg saw his name as an advantage: "An unpronounceable, ethnically ambiguous name
is practically an asset in northern Indiana politics. Depending upon their own background, people could assume it was
Hungarian, Polish, Serbian, Czech, or Belgian — all of which carried their own tribal loyalties in the area."
Buttigieg won a majority in the five-way race.
Scarborough
compares Buttigieg to Obama. MSNBC host Joe Scarborough on Wednesday [3/20/2019] compared likely 2020
Democratic candidate Pete Buttigieg to former President Barack Obama. Scarborough tweeted that he and his co-host and
wife, Mika Brzezinski, have been "overwhelmed" by the response from viewers to Buttigieg's appearance on "Morning Joe."
2020
Democrat Pete Buttigieg: 'My Face Is the Message'. "What's the message of your campaign?" MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski
asked Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old Mayor of South Bend, Indiana on Wednesday morning [3/20/2019]. Buttigieg, like many
other Democrats running for president, wants to change the Supreme Court and abolish the Electoral College, among other liberal
policy positions. But Buttigieg's answer had nothing to do with policy, it had to do with his physiognomy.
Pete
Buttigieg, longshot 2020 Dem, calls for packing SCOTUS, scrapping Electoral College. Democratic presidential
contender Pete Buttigieg on Friday highlighted his push to add justices to the Supreme Court and scrap the Electoral College
in presidential elections, as he campaigned in the state that holds the first primary in the race for the White House.
The South Bend, Indiana mayor, who launched a presidential exploratory committee in January, said the 2020 election should
not be about President Trump, [...]
The
Mayors of the Worst Cities in America are Running for President. Newark is the most dangerous city in New Jersey,
Tallahassee is the most dangerous city in Florida, and South Bend is the most dangerous city in Indiana. But instead
of fixing their failed cities, the current mayor of South Bend, and the former mayors of Newark and Tallahassee want to run
for president. Mayor Peter Buttigieg has announced that he's forming an exploratory committee for a 2020 run. Media
reports have focused on the possibility that he might become America's first gay millennial president, instead of on the fact that
he's headed a city since 2011 which has double the national and statewide violent crime rates. And a city where Hispanic
poverty rates are 10% higher than the national average, African-American households have double the poverty rate, and Asian-American
incomes are halved. South Bend was recently rated one of the "worst cities" to live in. The unemployment rates are
higher than average, the property values are lower, and even the water quality is below average. Gushing media reports about
the gay millennial mayor, a Harvard grad and a Rhodes scholar, overlook South Bend's poverty rate of 24.7% and that 45% of
households are living near the poverty level.
First
Openly Gay 'Married' Man Announces 2020 Democratic Presidential Exploratory Cmte. Pete Buttigieg, the
37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Ind., who is openly gay and "married" to another man, announced on Jan. 23 that he has
launched a presidential exploratory committee to determine whether he will run for the 2020 Democratic presidential
nomination. Buttigieg, pronounced "boot-a-judge," is an Afghan war veteran (Naval intelligence officer), a
magna cum laude graduate of Harvard and a Rhodes Scholar. He was first elected mayor of South Bend
in 2011 and was reelected in 2015.
Gay is the
New Black: The Buttigieg Candidacy. We need to talk about Pete Buttigieg and why his candidacy for
president in the age of identity politics is negatively disruptive — though this certainly doesn't mean he
shouldn't run. He's the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and the first openly gay candidate to run for president.
It's not a comfortable discussion. I'll be called a homophobe for having it. But it's necessary, so let's dive
right in. The politics of the Democratic Party is driven by an ideology that pits one group against another.
Blacks against whites. Gays against straights. Women against men. Political agendas and views are often put
in that frame. We saw the consequences of this during Barack Obama's reign as the first black president. If you
criticized him, you were called a racist. Almost all statements and judgments regarding his policies and performance
were filtered through the lens of identity politics.
First
Openly Gay 'Married' Man Announces 2020 Democratic Presidential Exploratory Cmte. Pete Buttigieg, the
37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Ind., who is openly gay and "married" to another man, announced on Jan. 23 that he has
launched a presidential exploratory committee to determine whether he will run for the 2020 Democratic presidential
nomination. Buttigieg, pronounced "boot-a-judge," is an Afghan war veteran (Naval intelligence officer), a
magna cum laude graduate of Harvard and a Rhodes Scholar. He was first elected mayor of South Bend
in 2011 and was reelected in 2015.
Michael Avenatti
Michael
Avenatti sentenced to 14 years in prison for cheating clients out of millions. Michael Avenatti was
sentenced to 14 years in prison on Monday for cheating four former clients out of millions of dollars and trying to
obstruct the IRS from collecting payroll taxes from a coffee shop that he owned. It caps off a stunning fall from
grace for the former attorney, who is already serving five years in prison for stealing book proceeds from porn actress
Stormy Daniels and trying to extort Nike out of $25 million. The 14-year sentence handed down on Monday will run
consecutively to the five years that he is already serving in previous cases, U.S. District Judge James V. Selna ruled.
Disgraced
Lawyer Michael Avenatti Loses In Court, Again. In the world of politics and the justice system, we seldom find
ourselves with absolutes. Even the best politicians and lawyers have their flaws, and even the most disgraceful
officials occasionally reveal some redeeming quality. [...] Then we have characters such as Michael Avenatti: a man so
despicable it's impossible to identify a single positive attribute and someone who likely doesn't know a single person who
likes or trusts him. After establishing himself as wholly unethical by pushing unsubstantiated accusations against then
SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh, followed by equally outrageous allegations on behalf of a porn star against President Donald
Trump, Avenatti has had a series of legal setbacks. He has been indicted for, convicted of, or pleaded guilty to
charges of tax evasion, fraud, extortion, identity theft, and embezzlement. And that's not to mention domestic violence
accusations against him. Avenatti is currently in prison, and depending on multiple factors, he could remain there for
several more years. Now, Mr. Avenatti has been dealt another major legal blow.
The
Liberal Media's 'Rising Stars' Always Seem to Crash and Burn. [Michael] Avenatti, dubbed "Creepy Porn Lawyer"
by Tucker Carlson, was a media darling. On The View, Ana Navarro compared him to the Holy Spirit. His
presidential aspirations were inflated and pushed along by CNN and MSNBC. Brian Stelter gushed that he was taking Avenatti
"seriously as a contender" for president in 2020 "because of [his] presence" on TV. MSNBC said Avenatti was "in a justice
league... to save our democracy." He was billed as "Donald Trump's worst nightmare" by Bill Maher. And then he was
convicted in multiple trials for defrauding clients — including Stormy Daniels — and trying to extort
Nike. Now the man so beloved by the mainstream media as a hero for truth and justices is... headed to prison because
he's not actually Democrats' savior or particularly concerned with justice and upholding the law — he's just
another failed flash in the pan that capitalized on the mainstream media's desperate ineptitude.
Michael
Avenatti to plead guilty in remaining criminal cases. Michael Avenatti, the former lawyer for porn star Stormy
Daniels, has reportedly decided to plead guilty in the remaining criminal cases against him. Avenatti is charged with
36 counts of fraud, embezzlement, perjury, failure to pay taxes, and other financial-related crimes. In a filing before
a federal judge in Southern California on Sunday [6/12/2022], Avenatti said he wanted to change his plea guilty, setting in
motion the end of his criminal litigation.
Creepy
Porn Lawyer Michael Avenatti Sentenced to Four Years in Prison. Michael Avenatti, a man of exceptionally low
moral character and failed integrity, who was also the mainstream media's one-time all-star favorite liar, was convicted of
fraud and theft from his former Client Stormy Daniels. Today he was sentenced. Avenatti is currently serving a
30-month prison sentence for corporate extortion of Nike and was just sentenced to an additional four years in prison for
wire fraud and identity theft in the Stormy Daniel Case.
Michael
Avenatti Gets 4 Years for Scamming Stormy Daniels. Disgraced fraudster Michael Avenatti was sentenced to 4
years in prison on Thursday [6/2/2022] for scamming his former client adult film star Stormy Daniels out of $300,000; he was
convicted of aggravated identity fraud and wire fraud. According to Fox News, "of the four years, 30 months will be
served concurrently with the 2 1/2-year sentence he was previously given in a separate case for trying to extort Nike out of
$25 million." Avenatti was given a chance to speak at the sentencing, rambling on for 12 minutes about the
"series of mistakes" he has made to end up in his current situation.
"Creepy
Porn Lawyer" Found Guilt of Stealing Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars. Tucker Carlson famously labeled Michael
Avenatti, the lawyer of Stormy Daniels, as the "creepy porn lawyer." He was the one that helped her slander President Trump
in the media, acted horribly the whole time, and generally made a fool of himself. Plus, he became known as the "creepy
porn lawyer," so that probably wasn't ideal for him. Well, now he's not even that. Why? Because a court
just found him guilty of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the book proceeds of Stormy Daniels, his former
client. The two crimes he was charged with in connection with the money he stole were wire fraud and aggravated
identity theft. The wire fraud charge carries a maximum sentence of 20 years and the aggravated identity theft charge
carries a minimum two year sentence.
Avenatti
and the Media Swindlers. If you want to feed on fake news, be bombarded by endless praise-filled coverage of
scoundrels whose fame is undeserved, and listen to just plain idiocy, keep watching television news. With the latest
conviction of former media star Michael Avenatti, I've made my case. Not only does the story of his rise and fall
illustrate my point, but the failure of the media that gave him so much praise and coverage is not the end of it. Their
lack of curiosity about his funding, even to this day, further condemns them as mere propagandists for the Left. At
present, he's facing a number of charges for extortion and fraud. He's charged with shaking down Nike, stealing
$1.6 million from a California client, and defrauding a bank in Mississippi by using fake tax returns to secure a
loan. And he still owes the IRS almost a million dollars in unpaid taxes, penalties, and interest. This week he
was convicted of stealing $300,000 in book proceeds from his client Stormy Daniels, the woman who claimed she had had an
affair with Donald Trump and received hush money from his lawyer.
Michael
Avenatti convicted of stealing $300K from Stormy Daniels. Attorney-turned-criminal Michael Avenatti was
convicted Friday of swiping nearly $300,000 in book-advance money from his then-client Stormy Daniels. The
now-twice-convicted felon — and one-time rising star — now faces a maximum of 22 years in prison for
his conviction on wire fraud and aggravated identity theft charges. The jury started deliberating Wednesday. He's
scheduled to be sentenced on May 24. After the verdict, Avenatti made a brief statement to reporters outside of the
courthouse in lower Manhattan as rain poured down. "I'm very disappointed in the jury's verdict. I am looking
forward to a full adjudication of all of the issues on appeal," he said.
Was
Hillary Clinton Paying Michael Avenatti? Did Hillary Clinton or the Democratic National Committee ever pay
Michael Avenatti? The question isn't exactly new. It was at least hinted at as early as May 10, 2018.
That day, Mark Penn, a former advisor to President Bill Clinton, published an op-ed in The Hill newspaper. At the time,
the news was filled with the rantings of Avenatti, who gained his fame and notoriety representing former porn star Stormy Daniels.
Daniels was claiming she was paid to cover up an affair with Donald Trump before he was elected president. Penn's column raised
several good questions. They have become even more relevant now that Avenatti, on trial for allegedly stealing money from
Daniels, is back in the news.
Disgraced
attorney Michael Avenatti heads to trial, accused of swindling Stormy Daniels. Michael Avenatti, the disgraced
celebrity lawyer and fierce Donald Trump critic, is scheduled to go on trial Monday in Manhattan for allegedly swindling
ex-porn star Stormy Daniels out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Avenatti is accused of fleecing
Daniels — his former client — of about $300,000 in money she stood to collect for a 2018 advance on a
book about her alleged affair with Trump. He faces one count of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft,
according to a federal indictment. In August of 2018, the loudmouth lawyer forged Daniels' signature on a letter that
instructed her literary agent to forward advance money into a bank account he controlled, federal prosecutors allege.
The
Week In Review. Disgraced attorney, former Donald Trump nemesis, and leftwing media darling Michael Avenatti
was sentenced to 30 months in prison by a federal judge on Thursday from his conviction of attempting to extort millions of
dollars from the shoe company Nike. I know it's wrong to delight in someone else's misfortune. We shouldn't take
pleasure when something bad happens to someone else, no matter how despicable that person may be. But Michael Avenatti
is extra-despicable, and the fact that he reacted by crying like a toddler in the courtroom makes it virtually impossible not
so smile at this news. After all those years of Catholic school, there are more than a few nuns in heaven tut-tutting
me right now for taking satisfaction from this story, but I just can't help it. For those who share my joy, there is
more on the way. "And the hits just keep on coming." Avenatti still faces charges from two more indictments, one in New
York where he was alleged to have defrauded porn actress and former client Stormy Daniels, and another in California for
defrauding other, less infamous clients. Michael Avenatti is likely to be spending many years behind bars, and when he
is released will never be allowed to practice law again. Justice in action. As you might expect, coverage of the
news by the mainstream media was sparse.
Democrats
Creepy Porn Lawyer, Media Favorite and Former Presidential Candidate, Michael Avenatti, Sentenced To 30 Months
Prison. Creepy Porn Lawyer Michael Avenatti was a hero leftist media and a held in high regard as a political
savior of the Democrat party. Avenatti was even promoted as a presidential candidate by the far-left who adored
him. Unfortunately for Democrats, CPL was also a scumbag, freak, an egotistical weirdo, and severely sketchy.
Today Avenatti was sentenced to 2.5 years in federal prison for extortion and fraud. In other words, he just crossed
the hurdle of qualification needed to become the next Mayor of DC, Philadelphia or Baltimore.
The
Man They Helped Build: CBS, NBC Ignore Avenatti's Prison Sentence. The justice system worked on Thursday
[7/8/2021] as "creepy porn lawyer" Michael Avenatti was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for trying to extort over
$20 million from Nike. And reports from the courtroom say he cried like a little baby. He's the man the liberal
media built to be their sleazy fighter against then-President Trump, but the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly
News wanted nothing to do with this latest chapter for their chosen champion. Of the broadcast networks, only ABC's
World News Tonight gave the story any airtime at all, though it was fleeting. In his rushed news brief, ABC
anchor David Muir gave Avenatti's sentencing only 17 seconds between two commercial breaks.
Michael
Avenatti is sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for extortion. Disgraced lawyer Michael Avenatti had a tearful day
in court on Monday as he was sentenced to 30 months in prison for attempting to extort footwear giant Nike to the tune of
possibly as much as $25 million. [...] Avenatti had previously been in the public light as a lawyer for representing porn
star Stormy Daniels in her failed lawsuit against former president Donald Trump. Ironically, Daniels herself is now
also claiming that Avenatti defrauded her, and has also had charges brought against him to wit, according to CNBC.
U.S. urges 'very
substantial' prison term for Michael Avenatti over Nike extortion. The once high-flying California lawyer
Michael Avenatti deserves a "very substantial" prison sentence for trying to extort millions of dollars from Nike Inc, U.S.
prosecutors told a judge. The Wednesday night [6/16/2021] recommendation came one week after Avenatti's lawyers said
their client should spend no more than six months behind bars plus one year of home confinement.
The
'Insurrection Hallucination' and How We Got There. Remember Michael Avenatti? When he was making wild
charges against President Trump he was a media darling. From March 7 through May 10, 2018 news bookers pumped
more gas in him than the Hindenburg. Every rolodex of every media booker must have worn thin the page with Avenatti's contact
information. He's now facing substantial jail time on a variety of felony charges. But until he was criminally
charged viewers were led to believe even his most implausible accounts against the President were to be credited.
Largest
Civil Verdict Won by Michael Avenatti Tossed out by Court of Appeals — Avenatti's Tin Cup Now Out.
Today [7/23/2020], the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion reversing a jury verdict and ordering dismissal of a
case that was the biggest of Michael Avenatti's career in his prior profession as an attorney in Southern California.
The case was a class-action lawsuit brought by Avenatti on behalf of Plaintiff Bahamas Surgery Center and against defendant
multinational health care company Kimberly-Clark Corp. (KCC). The allegations of the case were that KCC had sold
hundreds of millions of dollars worth of surgical gowns through co-defendant distributor Halyard Co, which were labeled as
being compliant with a certain industry-recognized standard for being a liquid bio-hazard barrier, when those gowns did not,
in fact, meet the industry-standard as represented.
One-time Trump foil, 2020 hopeful Michael Avenatti now stars
in three-ring legal circus. As Michael Avenatti saw it, he would be battling President Trump for the White
House this summer. Instead he's battling to stay out of jail yet again, having won a coronavirus release as long as he
stays locked in an apartment in Venice, California, while he awaits sentencing on one extortion conviction and trials in two
other fraud cases. Based on court proceedings Wednesday [6/17/2020], he may not be free for long.
Why the media wants you to forget about Michael Avenatti.
Attorney and former media darling Michael Avenatti was convicted on two charges of extortion against Nike last Friday
[2/14/2020]. His fate caused a deathly silence among some of the anti-Trump, cable news anchors who not so long ago were
venerating him as a president-in-waiting. [...] CNN handed Michael Avenatti a whopping 107 live interviews in 2018, while
MSNBC gave him 81. Avenatti totaled 214 appearances across every network. At one point, MSNBC and CNN carried
dueling 'live' interviews with Avenatti. But Avenatti's cable news appearances alone aren't why the media wants you
to forget him — it's because he was a part of their special anti-Trump club.
CNN
panel manages to blame Trump for media infatuation with Avenatti. Now that creepy porn lawyer Michael Avenatti
has been convicted of trying to extort Nike, those who gave him a national platform in the hopes he could somehow bring down
President Donald Trump are engaged in a little revisionist history. It was because networks like CNN and MSNBC are so
obsessed with destroying the president that Avenatti became such a darling for the left in the first place, but leave it to
CNN to now try to spin that reality and come out of this mess blaming Trump.
Humiliating
Video Montage of Slobbering Media Love Affair with Michael Avenatti. Why was Avenatti so popular?
Avenatti was representing porn star Stormy Daniels as she famously pursued legal action against Donald Trump over an affair
and subsequent hush-money and cover-up scandals. But in truth, his clients were really #TheResistance at large, and
there are no bigger fans of that movement to be found on cable and network news. And the montage, of course, proves
that. [Video clip]
Michael
Avenatti convicted of trying to extort Nike. Michael Avenatti, the lawyer who once represented adult film star
Stormy Daniels in a lawsuit against President Trump, was found guilty Friday of trying to extort sportswear giant Nike.
A Manhattan federal jury convicted Avenatti on three counts: extortion, wire fraud and transmission of interstate
communications with intent to extort. He faces up to 42 years in prison.
The
media elevated Michael Avenatti to stardom; his felony conviction reflects on them. Anyone could have told you
in 2017 that convicted felon Michael Avenatti was bad news. But the media just cannot help themselves. [...] On Friday
[2/14/2020], Avenatti was found guilty of trying to extort Nike. This is obviously not great for the celebrity lawyer,
who faces additional charges of tax, wire, and bank fraud in California and fraud and aggravated identity theft charges in
New York. You know who else stands to lose a great deal from Friday's ruling? Every idiot journalist, news
anchor, and commentator who ignored the red flags surrounding Avenatti to elevate him to the point where there was
semi-serious chatter about him launching a 2020 presidential bid.
Michael
Avenatti gives up control of firm after being accused of hiding millions: report. Michael Avenatti agreed
Wednesday [2/13/2019] to give up financial control of his law firm to settle a dispute with a former partner who claimed the
celebrity lawyer hid millions in order to fund his lavish lifestyle and avoid having to pay a $10 million judgment.
Jason Frank, a former partner at Eagan Avenatti, accused Avenatti in a court filing of spending extravagantly: $13,000 in
rent for his Los Angeles apartment; a $3,640 payment on his Ferrari; $150,000 for his coffee company; $53,600 on his ex-wife;
and $232,875 for his auto racing team, The Los Angeles Times reported.
Michael
Avenatti Lived the High Life While Owing Millions to IRS. On the Fourth of July, Michael Avenatti suited up for
a CNN interview and floated his name as a contender against President Trump in 2020. Asked why he'd be qualified, Avenatti
told anchor Jim Sciutto, "Because I have three things that this president lacks, Jim — brains, heart and courage.
And I think I have those in spades compared to this president." Scuitto then told Avenatti he'd face scrutiny over his
finances, including his former law firm's then-unpaid $2.4 million bill to the IRS.
Michael
Avenatti is the new Beto O'Rourke. Democratic Senate candidate Rep. Beto O'Rourke is going to lose his bid
this November to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, taking with him the recent avalanche of glowing media profiles that have
cluttered the pages of so many newspapers and magazines. But luckily for those who are thirsting hard for puff-pieces
profiling supposed anti-President Trump saviors, another character is stepping up to fill the void that will undoubtedly
be left behind when O'Rourke loses to Cruz. Enter celebrity porn lawyer Michael Avenatti, the latest target of the press'
urge to write overly long, overly friendly profiles on supposed political stars. "Michael Avenatti's Past Won't Stop
Him From Running in 2020," reads the headline to a Time magazine profile slated for its November issue.
Andrew Gillum
Andrew
Gillum Using Private Nonprofit to 'Flip Florida Blue' by Registering 1 Million Voters. In an effort to register
1 million new voters in Florida ahead of the 2020 presidential election, failed Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum
has shifted tactics from using a political committee required to report every expenditure to a private nonprofit that can
disclose much less financial data, including the sources of donations. Gillum's use of the nonprofit, calling itself
Forward Florida Action, is notable given the Florida politician's warning last February about the influence of "dark money"
in his own race for governor, referring to entities that obscure their donors. Gillum is deploying his nonprofit for
the voter registration drive instead of utilizing his political committee, Forward Florida.
Andrew
Gillum shifts campaign cash to a new nonprofit, blocking it from public view. Andrew Gillum has insisted that
fundraising for his new voter registration project wasn't affected by news that federal authorities are looking into his
campaign for governor. In fact, he said, he raised $250,000 in the days after the story first appeared in the Tampa
Bay Times. Whether that's true is no longer public knowledge. A new nonprofit created by Gillum is taking over
his effort to register and re-engage 1 million Democratic voters by the 2020 election. Donations to his cause will now
go to the nonprofit, Forward Florida Action, instead of his political committee, Forward Florida.
Andrew
Gillum [is] Heavily Bankrolled by 'Black Political Power' Group Complaining Too Many 'White Men' Hold Office.
One of the primary donors central to funding Andrew Gillum's recent meteoric rise is The Collective, a little-known but
increasingly influential political organization seeking to build a "black political power" movement while complaining that
there are too many "white men" holding public office. The organization runs a "Black Campaign School" where The
Collective's co-founder says they train people on how to build a political movement in America's "heightened, almost racist
environment." He charged that this environment has spiraled into "white supremacy" under the tenure of President Trump.
Who Is Andrew
Gillum? The two leading individual donors to Gillum's 2018 campaign have been George Soros and another
left-wing billionaire, Tom Steyer. Scarcely two weeks ago, Soros, who already had contributed $1 million to Gillum's
Forward Florida political committee, announced that he was giving $250,000 more. And Steyer, who had previously funneled
$500,000 to Forward Florida, pledged another $300,000. "I'm obviously deeply appreciative of Mr. Soros, as well as
Mr. Steyer, both men who I've known them for some time," said Gillum. The most recent Soros/Steyer donations
coincided with a $3.5 million get-out-the-vote effort by a coalition of pro-Gillum leftist organizations. In addition
to his political activities, Gillum also serves as a Board of Directors member with the New World Foundation, a far-left
entity that was once chaired by none other than Hillary Clinton.
Corruption
probe looms over Democrat's historic campaign for Florida governor. Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum's surprise
victory in the race to become the Democratic nominee for governor of Florida was fueled in part by a compelling personal
biography: The son of a school bus driver and construction worker, he was the first of his parents' seven children to
graduate from high school and go to college. At age 23, he became the youngest city commissioner the Florida capital
had ever seen. "Between my mother and father, they are the best examples of hard work that I know to this day," Gillum
said Tuesday night, after support from progressives vaulted him over older and better funded primary opponents. A less
savory narrative threatens to collide with that heartening origin tale.
Florida Democratic
Gov. Candidate Does Gymnastics Trying To Avoid Admitting He Plans To Raise Taxes. Florida gubernatorial
candidate Andrew Gillum shot onto the national stage when he achieved an upset victory in the Democratic primary last
Tuesday. On CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday, he talked policy with guest host Dana Bash — and appeared to
have a difficult time admitting that his healthcare plan would involve a tax hike for at least some Florida residents.
I'll bet he is. Andrew
Gillum 'deeply appreciative' of billionaires Soros, Steyer in race for Florida governor. Tallahassee Mayor
Andrew Gillum on Sunday thanked billionaires George Soros and Tom Steyer for helping him score his upset win in last week's
Florida Democratic gubernatorial primary. "I'll tell you, I'm obviously deeply appreciative of Mr. Soros, as well
as Mr. Steyer, both men whom I've known for some time," Mr. Gillum said on NBC's "Meet the Press." The
Democratic megadonors and their associated groups directed millions to the campaign of Mr. Gillum, who edged out former
Rep. Gwen Graham in the crowded Democratic primary. He faces Republican Rep. Ron DeSantis in the November election.
FL
Dem gov nominee Gillum: Abolish ICE, create government-run healthcare. Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum
won the Democratic nomination in the state's gubernatorial race Tuesday [8/28/2018], putting him one step closer to achieving
his dreams of abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement and installing a government-run healthcare program. Gillum
appeared on CNN Wednesday morning to talk about his upset victory over former Democratic congresswoman and party favorite
Gwen Graham, and his plans for the general election in November, when he squares off against Trump-backed Republican
Rep. Ron DeSantis.
Tallahassee
Mayor Andrew Gillum shocks Democratic rivals, wins nomination for governor. Democrat Andrew Gillum rode a surge
of liberal support from young people and African Americans to a stunning primary victory Tuesday [8/28/2018] and the historic
opportunity to be the first black governor in Florida's history. With 94 percent of the votes counted, Gillum had an
unofficial 3 percentage point lead over his closest rival, former U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham. Gillum overwhelmed Graham
in Miami-Dade and Broward, the state's two largest Democratic counties, by more than a 2-to-1 margin, in the highest turnout
for a midterm primary election in Florida history.
Flashback
to 2006: Biden said about Delaware, "My state was a slave state". Ron DeSantis, the Republican nominee for
governor in Florida, is being attacked by the left and their allies in the media about a comment he made about his liberal
Democrat opponent, Tallahassee mayor Andrew Gilliam, whose political stances include abolishing ICE and "Medicare for all,"
which is a euphemism for socialized medicine. Today DeSantis said that Florida voters shouldn't "monkey this up."
Because Gillum is an African American libs are claiming that his remark is racist.
Andrew Gillum's
Comments On Law Enforcement Are 'Disgusting' And A 'Disgrace,' Says Florida County Sheriff. Brevard County
Sheriff Wayne Ivey called out Florida's Democratic nominee for governor, Andrew Gillum, on "Fox & Friends Saturday" for his
"disgusting" comments about law enforcement. "Andrew Gillum has no idea what it takes to serve as a law enforcement
officer," Ivey said. "As such his comments about law enforcement officers and those that wear our badge, they're a
disgrace. They're disgusting." Gillum appeared on the "Pod Save America" podcast Wednesday" and said "At the time
that a law enforcement official has to go to a weapon, to a gun, to a baton, to a taser, they have already had to go too far."
Democrat
Andrew Gillum Billed FBI Undercover Agent $4,386 For Fundraiser, Never Disclosed In Finance Reports. The Andrew
Gillum campaign continues to implode, now with reports that he failed to disclose $4,386 of an "in kind contribution" made by
an undercover FBI agent who had been investigating the campaign. Campaign finance laws require all candidates to report
all campaign contributions and expenditures to be listed with the state disclosure portal. While there's usually a 30 day
window to file these reports, the FBI agent's contribution is from 2016.
Andrew
Gillum: When police reach for a weapon, they've already had to go too far. I don't like him, particularly
his habit of using race to deflect from legitimate questions about his ethical behavior, but this smells to me more like a
banal point that came out awkwardly than some batty suggestion that any use of a weapon by a cop is illegitimate. Not
even progressives believe that. I think? Ideological orthodoxy changes quickly in politics nowadays, and they're
pretty far gone on some subjects. One night a few months ago I went to sleep and when I woke up "abolish ICE" was their
talking point du jour.
Andrew
Gillum and the Mystery of 311 East Jennings Street. The building was bought with funding from the Northwest
Florida Black Business Investment Corporation, a tax-exempt group that provides investment funding. Two of the
investment corporation directors, Harold Knowles and Keith Bowers, are part of a group that in July received $281,000 in
community development money for exclusive rights to a development project in the city. All told, it's a morass of
addresses, interconnections, swaps and deals raising questions about Gillum's alliances — questions that will not
be answered before Tuesday's vote.
Andrew
Gillum Fought U.S. 'Genocide,' 'Colonialism' Through 2017 as Youth Director of Extremist Org. Florida
gubernatorial candidate and Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum served as the director of a radical youth training organization
whose mission was to challenge U.S. "predatory capitalism," abolish the prison system, fight a "spiritual resistance" battle
against "Christian hegemony," redefine the meaning of "borders" while aiding "undocumented" aliens, and enact the "collective
liberation" of "communities of color" amid what it described as the scourge of "white supremacy." Gillum's group
accused the U.S. of being a "colonialist" power perpetrating "structural violence" and "continued genocide." It
claimed conservatives in the U.S. judicial system were "justifying white supremacist policing practices."
Julián Castro
Democrats
are going to nominate a white person, and there's nothing wrong with that. No one will miss Julian Castro, the
latest candidate to drop out. But his exit from the race, like that of Kamala Harris, is already occasioning a new
round of baseless assertions that the deck is stacked against nonwhite candidates in the presidential primaries. In
November, Castro was already complaining that Iowa and New Hampshire are just too white to play their first-in-the-nation
role in choosing the nominee. He even released an ad in Iowa to that effect later on, arguing that the Hawkeye State,
long host to the first-in-the-nation caucuses, has a population too white to be fair to candidates of color.
Julian Castro
drops out of 2020 presidential race. Julian Castro, the former Obama housing secretary and San Antonio mayor,
has dropped out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. The only Latino in the field, Castro
established himself as one of the more progressive members in the primary race but had been struggling to raise money and
fight his way back onto the debate stage.
Ukraine 'Bombshell'
Will Explode in Democratic Faces. Julián Castro, another unemployed Obama administration official pursuing
the Democratic presidential nomination, tweeted the following: "Donald Trump is a criminal. He must be impeached
immediately." Saturday [9/21/2019], Castro began a speech with another demand that the House take immediate action to
remove the president: "Let me begin with a message for our House Democratic friends — it is time for you to
do your job and impeach Donald Trump." This was a big applause line for his audience, but it contained no constitutional
justification for such action by the House.
Julian
Castro's debate act cost him a third of his voters. According to Nate Silver's outfit, Five Thirty Eight,
Castro was the big loser of the third Democratic debate, based on his sneakily age-ist and downright dishonest attack on Joe
Biden. [...] He lost nearly a third of his support, if you look at Five Thirty Eight's fourth chart, with Castro at the
bottom, the only one highlighted with red line, based on how badly he lost support compared to the others. He went from
an already miserable 19.7% favorable rating to an even more pathetic 13% favorable rating in just one night. None of
the others saw that kind of tumble. Castro really turned off a lot of voters.
Dems Enrich
Drug Cartels And Hurt Latinos. The Democratic National Committee (DNC) made a calculated decision to elevate
the low-tier campaign of former Obama administration Housing Secretary Julian Castro at the fiasco that opened the first of
the party's presidential primary debates on June 26. Castro received far more attention than expected in Miami,
no doubt in a DNC move to appeal to Latino voters. But in putting this staunch leftist on a pedestal, if only
for one night, Dems shone a nationally televised spotlight on their insane propensity to cheerlead for open borders despite
the ongoing dire national emergency on our southern porch.
Julian
Castro praises Nike, compares Betsy Ross flag to Confederate flag. Democratic presidential hopeful Julián
Castro on Wednesday praised Nike's controversial decision to pull shoes featuring the Betsy Ross flag, saying the early flag
design that represents the Thirteen Colonies evokes pain among some Americans, much like Confederate symbols.
Julián
Castro: 'Oppression' is why I do not speak Spanish. Julián Castro, the former head of Housing and Urban
Development, explained he does not speak Spanish fluently because his parents felt internalized oppression to make sure he
could speak English. "People, I think, internalized this oppression about it, and basically wanted their kids to first
be able to speak English," Castro said Sunday [6/30/2019] in an interview aired on MSNBC. "And I think that in my
family, like a lot of other families, that the residue of that, the impact of that is that there are many folks whose
Spanish is not that great."
After
taking a gutsy stand for open borders, Julián Castro loses his nerve. Just when I was giving credit to
Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro for having the guts to admit he's in favor of erasing America's borders,
he got cold feet. As of today [6/27/2019], he has reverted back to his party's pretext that "no one has called for open
borders." At the first primary debate of the campaign on Wednesday, Castro pressed every one of his rivals to pledge
that as president, they would nullify the law that makes it illegal to cross in to the U.S. without authorization. But
less than 24 hours later, he lost his nerve. In an interview Thursday on CNN, he walked it back and did what
Democrats always do when asked about our borders, which is to spew a bunch of nonsense and claim that we already have plenty
of border security.
Julian
Castro Pounds the Table, Demanding Abortion for Men, Too. [Scroll down] In this case, I guess
Julián Castro's support for transgender abortion contains some semblance of warped logic. Not that this highly
implausible and as yet scientifically impossible scenario is worth mentioning in a presidential debate when you are already
limited by time and must choose your words wisely. And not that there are other more practical, more pressing issues to
be dealt with. But that's what you get from a political party that wants to fund the kinds of procedures that could put
babies inside men's bodies, while simultaneously fighting for laws that would allow these same babies to get ripped out again.
Democrats
Lurch Left on Abortion, Immigration, and Health Care in First Debate. [Scroll down] Julian Castro, a
former San Antonio mayor and Obama housing-and-urban-development secretary, contributed to the abortion debate by saying he
supports taxpayer-funded abortions for transgender women: "I don't believe only in reproductive freedom, I believe in
reproductive justice. And what that means is just because a woman, or let's also not forget someone in the trans
community — a trans female — is poor, doesn't mean they shouldn't exercise that right to choose." It
was not immediately clear whether Castro simply misspoke and made an unwoke gaffe by supporting abortion for a "trans
female" — that is, a biological man who identifies as a woman — or had reached some transcendent level
of wokeness by supporting tax-funded abortions in biologically impossible circumstances.
Democratic
Proposal: Hey, Let's Eliminate Criminal Penalties for Illegal Immigration — and End Most Detentions.
Democrats used to tell us that of course they were against illegal immigration; the relevant policy question, they said, was
how to humanely and fairly treat the millions of otherwise law-abiding illegal immigrants who have been living inside the United States
for years. They at least made a show out of getting tough on border security, in exchange for other 'reforms' — and
they recoiled with indignation when Republicans accused them of supporting "open borders." Which brings us to today's rollout
of an immigration plan from Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro, a former Obama cabinet secretary who's widely considered
to be a Vice Presidential short-lister, and whose brother is likely to challenge John Cornyn in next year's Texas Senate race.
Castro
says he supports financial reparations for African-Americans — separating himself from other Dems.
The issue of reparations for African-Americans has come front and center among the nascent Democratic presidential field,
with candidates supporting ideas on everything from free college tuitions to handing out checks for the family members of
former slaves. Julián Castro, the former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Barack Obama,
said on Sunday that he was not ruling out direct payments to African-Americans for the legacy of slavery — in a
move that separates him from his fellow Democratic challengers.
Dem
Presidential Candidate Julián Castro Favors 'Reparations' For Slavery, Though He's Unsure How To Go About It. On
Sunday, democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro appeared on CNN's "State of the Union" with Jake Tapper. During
the segment, Tapper spoke with Castro about the issue of reparations for descendants of slavery: "This is also dividing
Democrats on the trail. You've said that there needs to be some kind of reparations to descendants of slaves to compensate
for years of slavery and discrimination against African Americans in this country."
Why
is the Hispanic Caucus ignoring Julián Castro? Julián Castro is the lone Latino candidate in the
crowded 2020 Democratic primary field. He's uniquely positioned to capture the support of the Congressional Hispanic
Caucus, which has more members than ever and more clout. Yet so far, he's come up dry. Just one of the 38-member
group has publicly endorsed Castro's bid since his campaign announcement last month — his twin brother, Rep. Joaquin
Castro (D-Texas), who chairs the CHC and also serves as chairman of Julián's campaign.
Julian
Castro: I'm running for president. Julian Castro, the former Obama administration housing secretary and
ex-mayor of San Antonio, Texas, is officially running for president. Castro, 44, the grandson of a Mexican immigrant
and son of an outspoken Chicana activist, made his announcement on Saturday [1/12/2019] at San Antonio's Plaza Guadalupe, a
historic outdoor amphitheater close to his childhood haunts.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Cynthia Nixon
Game over. Cuomo
cruises past Nixon in NY gubernatorial primary. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo easily beat back a primary
challenge from activist and actress Cynthia Nixon on Thursday [9/13/2018], thwarting her attempt to become the latest insurgent
liberal to knock off an establishment Democrat.
Cynthia
Nixon self-identifies as 'queer,' not lesbian. Actress Cynthia Nixon has been routinely described as trying to
become the state's first lesbian governor. But Nixon actually doesn't self-identify as a lesbian. She considers
herself queer, campaign spokeswoman Lauren Hitt said.
Cynthia
Nixon might have one trick left up her sleeve. In three weeks more, Cynthia Nixon will be put out of her misery.
[...] Or maybe she's about to get a shot in the arm that will reshape the race. I believe there is a good chance the New
York Times will endorse Nixon. If so, she would get instant credibility among city and state liberals, many of whom still
regard the Gray Lady as a secular Bible. That could give Nixon a chance to seize the momentum before the Sept. 13 vote.
Cynthia
Nixon sounds confused by her own 'universal rent control' plan. Cynthia Nixon may be an accomplished actress,
but she apparently has a big problem handling material that's not included in her script. In Brooklyn on Thursday
[8/16/2018], the gubernatorial candidate and her running-mate, City Councilman Jumaane Williams, tried to tout "universal
rent control," a pet proposal of their party's rising socialist wing. But when reporters asked just what that policy
means and how it would be enacted, the pair found themselves in over their heads trying to explain.
Cynthia
Nixon Thinks You're Totally Underestimating Her 40 Points In The Hole Campaign. There are precisely 45 days
left until the exciting conclusion to the New York State Democratic Party primary race for governor. Going by the
adoring coverage being offered in local media around the state, you'd think that Governor Andrew Cuomo was in the fight of
his political life, attempting to stave off the populist challenge of newly minted Democratic Socialist and former Sex and
the City star Cynthia Nixon. Of course, as we've covered here on multiple occasions, the polls don't really portray any
sort of tight race at all. But who are you going to believe... a bunch of bean counters at Real Clear Politics or your
own lying eyes? Nixon was out on the stump again this weekend warning everyone that they are underestimating her and
this campaign could catch fire in the public imagination any day now.
Cynthia
Nixon announces she's a 'democratic socialist'. Cynthia Nixon on Tuesday proudly proclaimed herself a
democratic socialist. The actress-turned-candidate for governor explicitly embraced the democratic socialist label for
the first time in a statement provided to Politico. "Yes. Some more establishment, corporate Democrats get very
scared by this term but if democratic socialism means that you believe health care, housing, education and the things we need
to thrive should be a basic right not a privilege then count me in," Nixon said in the statement.
Liberals:
Radical, Crazy, and Getting Worse. Liberal candidate for New York Governor Cynthia Nixon (former star of "Sex
and the City") just went a step further into crazy land. She said, "I can think of no better description than to call
ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) a terrorist organization." Well at least it's all now out into the open.
Liberals support illegal alien criminals and think ICE agents who protect our border, protect us from terrorism, and save
women and children from kidnappers, rapists and murderers are "terrorists." Good luck in the midterms with radical,
insane views like this.
7
Examples from the Last Two Weeks That Show How Dangerous and Insane Liberals Have Become. [#7] New York
Mayoral Candidate Cynthia Nixon Calls for Us to Get Rid of ICE. A woman running for mayor of New York City called for
ICE to be disbanded. In other words, Nixon believes our borders should be wide open to drug dealers, illegal aliens,
terrorists, pedophiles, murderers and anybody else who wanders across our border. The idea that our borders should be
completely unguarded is now a SERIOUS IDEA on the Left. It may not be THE position of the Democratic Party YET, but
it's worth noting Nixon is not alone.
Cynthia
Nixon ignites outrage for saying marijuana could be 'form of reparations' in black neighborhoods. Cynthia Nixon
took heat Monday from black leaders over her comments that creating a legalized pot industry in New York could serve as a
form of reparations in black communities. Nixon on Saturday told Forbes magazine "now that cannabis is exploding as an
industry, we have to make sure that those communities that have been harmed and devastated by marijuana arrests get the first
shot at this industry."
Jay Inslee
Washington
Governor Jay Inslee drops out of 2020 presidential race. Washington Governor Jay Inslee, who made fighting
climate change the central theme of his presidential campaign, announced Wednesday night that he is ending his bid for the
2020 Democratic nomination. Inslee announced his decision on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show," admitting it's become
clear that he won't win.
The Editor says...
If only the rest of the Democratic candidates (other than the top three or four) were able
to see that the obviously won't win, there would be a lot less noise in the news media.
Jay
Inslee drops out of the 2020 presidential race. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is dropping out of the 2020
Democratic presidential race, he announced Wednesday night [8/21/2019] on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show." Inslee plans to send
an email to supporters on Thursday announcing that he will run for a third term as governor, two sources close to Inslee told
NBC News on condition of anonymity. "It's become clear that I'm not going to be carrying the ball. I'm not going
to be the president, so I'm withdrawing tonight from the race," he told Maddow, vowing he'd help keep the other 2020 candidates
focused on issue of climate change, the centerpiece of his campaign.
The Editor says...
Global warming was the centerpiece of his campaign. Apparently everybody else has figured out that there is no climate
emergency. The rest of the Democrats should take a hint.
Inslee
says he'll ask soccer player Megan Rapinoe to be secretary of State. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) said
Saturday that if he is elected president, he will ask soccer player Megan Rapinoe to be his secretary of state. He said
at the progressive Netroots Nation conference that one of his first acts as president would be to get a secretary of State
who embraces world unity and "love rather than hate" as he rebuked President Trump's foreign policy. "My first act will
be to ask Megan Rapinoe to be my secretary of State," he said. "I haven't asked her yet, so this could be a surprise to her."
Jay
Inslee: Trump's Opinion on Global Warming Is 'Treason'. In a Wednesday [6/5/2019] interview at the
Council on Foreign Relations, Washington governor and longshot 2020 Democrat candidate Jay Inslee told NBC News correspondent
Cynthia McFadden that President Trump's stance on global warming is "treason."
The Democrats refuse to talk about Global Warming, even though they say it will be too late to fix it in another 12 years. Jay
Inslee threatened with expulsion from DNC debates over climate change. Washington governor Jay Inslee claims
the Democratic National Committee has threatened to ban him from future primary debates if he participates in a discussion on
climate change he has urged the organisation to host. Mr Inslee, in a series of tweets, said that the DNC had contacted
his campaign to tell them that it would not host a debate focused on climate change. And, he wrote that his campaign
had been informed he "will not be invited to future debates" if "we participated in anyone else's climate debate".
Sheriff Says
Democratic Presidential Candidate Should Be Arrested for Signing Sanctuary Bill. A local sheriff wants
Democratic Washington Gov. Jay Inslee to be held in contempt of Congress, or even arrested, for signing a sanctuary bill
into law. "There is no way that this law is going to be followed because I have a responsibility to make sure that
criminals are taken off the streets of my county, regardless of immigration status. I will be helping my federal
partners do that," Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich said Friday [5/31/2019] on Fox News.
2020
Democrat: We have to de-carbonize our economy for Climate Change!. Democrats running for president have
never been as radical as they are now with the Green New Deal and Medicare-for-all. The latest radical comments come
from Washington State's governor who is running for president. He claims we have to de-carbonize our economy in the
next several decades, which he says amounts to a MASSIVE re-industrialization of America.
Inslee:
Humanity Down to 'One Chance at Survival' Because of Climate Change. Democratic presidential candidate Jay
Inslee said humanity is down to one last "chance at survival" because of climate change. Campaigning in New Hampshire,
the single-issue Democrat called for a "full-scale, full-throated" response to combating the weather. "We have exactly
one chance left to defeat climate change — and that's during the next administration," Inslee said during a living
room stop in Bedford, N.H., over the weekend, the Guardian reported.
Washington
Gov. Jay Inslee announces 2020 presidential bid. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announced his Democratic
presidential bid on Friday [3/1/2019], making him the first governor to enter an already-crowded field of senators and other hopefuls
battling to challenge President Trump in 2020. Inslee, 68, a former congressman representing the Seattle district,
officially announced his decision in a video and at an event in Seattle. "It is time for our nation to set a new
priority," he told supporters at a solar panel business Friday afternoon [3/1/2019]. "This is truly our moment. It
is our moment to solve America's most daunting challenge and make it the first, foremost and paramount duty of the United
States... to defeat climate change."
The Editor says...
Vote for Inslee, because only he can stop the weather from changing!
Promising
To Tackle Climate Change, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee Joins 2020 Race. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is
joining the growing Democratic primary field, making climate change a top issue as he vies to challenge President Trump next
year. "We're the first generation to feel the sting of climate change. And we're the last who can do something
about it," Inslee says in his announcement video. "We went to the moon and created technologies that have changed the
world. Our country's next mission must be to rise up to the most urgent challenge of our time — defeating
climate change."
John Hickenlooper
Hickenlooper
ends White House bid, hints at possible Senate run in Colorado. Coping with a struggling campaign and facing
the reality that he wouldn't make the stage at next month's third round of Democratic presidential debates, former two-term
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper ended his long-shot bid for the White House on Thursday [8/15/2019]. "Today, I'm
ending my campaign for president. But I will never stop believing that America can only move forward when we work
together," Hickenlooper said in a video released on social media and through email.
Hickenlooper
refuses to condemn protesters who hoisted Mexican flag at ICE facility. 2020 long-shot John Hickenlooper refused to
condemn the protesters who removed an American flag and replaced it with a Mexican one during a protest outside an Immigration
Customs Enforcement facility in Colorado. Protesters assembled at the Aurora facility Friday [7/12/2019] to protest the
widespread ICE raids that were scheduled to begin Sunday. Raising the Mexican flag after taking down the American flag,
they also hoisted a Blue Lives Matter flag they had vandalized. The flag, which is meant to honor law enforcement, was
spray-painted with the phrase "Abolish I.C.E."
Hickenlooper
campaign 'bleeding' as calls for dropping out intensify. Former Gov. John Hickenlooper's staff shakeup has
not gone over well. Multiple reports suggest Hickenlooper senior aides have been in turmoil in recent weeks, with
Politico reporting Hickenlooper's aides have called for him to drop out. Monday night [7/1/2019], FOX31 confirmed
Hickenlooper's campaign manager Brad Komar, his finance director Dan Sorenson and his spokeswoman Lauren Hitt are all out.
Hickenlooper:
Give Illegal Immigrants 10-year Visas 'Immediately'. Former Colorado governor and Democratic presidential candidate John
Hickenlooper said Friday [6/21/2019] the 11 million illegal immigrants currently living in the United States should be given
10-year visas "immediately." Hickenlooper was speaking at Telemundo's presidential candidate forum in Miami when he made the
comment about illegal immigrants in the United States, adding the visa would allow a path to American citizenship.
Excerpt from Daily Caller Podcast.
[Scroll down] Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper is not exactly setting the Democratic field on fired in his quest to
win his party's nomination. In an attempt to appeal to moderates, Hickenlooper proclaimed socialism to be the path to
defeat for Democrats at the California state convention and quickly discovered how that view is not really welcome
anymore. Long, sustained boos greeted the governor for stating something that the party would have cheered just a few
years ago.
How do
Democrats beat Trump? Hickenlooper says Biden's backward-looking message isn't the way. Former Colorado
Gov. John Hickenlooper on Monday questioned whether a backwards-looking message of returning America to a time before
President Trump was in the White House is a winning message for Democrats trying to succeed in 2020. The comments by
Hickenlooper, who is running for the White House, come as Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden has focused his
candidacy on a promise to "restore the soul of the nation" and "rebuild the backbone of the nation" in the wake of Trump's presidency.
Hickenlooper
Ducked Responsibility Regarding Police Beating, Says Victim's Father. The father of a victim in a police
brutality case from Denver 10 years ago is again calling out John Hickenlooper, alleging that while mayor, Hickenlooper
dodged requests for meetings from the family and provided no leadership on the matter, but briefly used it toward his own
political ends during his first run for governor in 2010.
Why are 2020 Democrats
so weird? I wish I could say that the worst thing about John Hickenlooper's CNN town hall on Wednesday night
[3/20/2019] was the part where he talked about watching Deep Throat with his mom. [...] Possibly even more cringe-inducing,
though, was Hickenlooper's response to a question about whether he would consider selecting a woman as his running mate.
"Of course," he told Dana Bash. Fair enough. What else is there to say? But for some reason he felt compelled
to go on. "I'll ask you another question. How come we're not asking, more often, the women, 'Would you be
willing to put a man on the ticket?'" Did you hear that, Governor? That was the sound of a hundred thousand
American woman groaning simultaneously.
John
Hickenlooper: Call Me Anything, Just Don't Call Me A Capitalist. Former Colorado Governor and current
2020 Democratic presidential nomination candidate John Hickenlooper wants you to know he's NOT a capitalist. Democrats
have now pointed their guns at capitalists. They regard capitalism as shameful and consider the pursuit of profit as
somehow crass. We saw AOC characterize capitalism as 'irredeemable' in her remarks at the SXSW festival. You can
call a Democrat almost anything else, just don't call them a capitalist.
John
Hickenlooper, former Colorado governor, jumps into 2020 race. Touting that he's proven he can bring people
together "to produce the progressive change Washington has failed to deliver," former two-term Colorado Gov. John
Hickenlooper on Monday morning launched his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. "I'm running for president
because we need dreamers in Washington but we also need to get things done," Hickenlooper said in a video announcing his
White House campaign[.]
Andrew Yang
Report:
Former Republicans, Democrats Team Up with Andrew Yang to Launch New 'Forward' Third Party. Dozens of former
Republican and Democrat officials have teamed up with Andrew Yang to join a third party, the Forward Party, which will launch
on Thursday, according to a Reuters report. The Forward Party announcement comes nearly one year after Yang announced
his departure from the Democrat Party to develop a third party. Yang rose to prominence with his failed 2020 presidential
run as a Democrat, where he promoted Universal Basic Income. The Forward Party will be co-chaired by Yang and former
Republican New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman.
Andrew Yang: All Sizzle,
Little Steak. Andrew Yang, the erstwhile presidential and NYC mayoral candidate, made big news this week.
First, he announced Monday that he was leaving the Democratic Party. Second, he stated that he was starting his own:
the Forward Party. He even has what sounds like his slogan, telling Tucker Carlson Today on Thursday [10/7/2021]
that his party's philosophy can be epitomized thus: "not left or right, but forward." This terminology is interesting,
especially since Yang is billed as a "moderate" and a breath of fresh air. Note that Forward! was the name of
the Italian Socialist Party's newspaper — of which fascist leader Benito Mussolini was once chief editor. It
also quite prominently became one of Barack Obama's slogans. None of this is to imply Yang is a fascist or doctrinaire
socialist or that he's not as sincere as his dewy-eyed supporters fancy (or that he is). It is to say that most of his
ideas are about as new as fascism or socialism and that, as commentator Andrea Widburg put it Thursday, there's "nothing
moderate about Andrew Yang."
There's
nothing moderate about Andrew Yang. Andrew Yang, a complete unknown who threw himself into the presidential
race in 2019, where he quickly flamed out, and who then lost in the Democrat primary for New York mayor, is back again.
Since the Democrat party is not fulfilling his political ambitions, he abandoned it and announced, instead, that he's
starting his own party: The Forward Party.
Andrew
Yang [is] no longer a Democrat, will launch third party. Andrew Yang, who unsuccessfully sought the presidency
and the New York City mayoralty as a Democrat, will launch a third party next month — an announcement tied to the
publication of his new book, a source close to Yang confirmed to The [New York] Post. The move by Yang, best known for
his advocacy of a monthly universal basic income of $1,000 for every American adult, was first reported by Politico Thursday
[9/9/2021].
Andrew
Yang Lays Into 'Defund The Police' After Times Square Shooting. Saturday's [5/8/2021] Times Square shooting
shows that the city can't afford to "defund the police," mayoral hopeful Andrew Yang said during a Sunday morning appearance
at the Crossroads of the World. "The truth is that New York City cannot afford to defund the police," Yang said near
the site of Saturday's wild shooting, which injured three innocent bystanders including a 4-year-old girl in the hot spot to
shop for toys. "When I talk to New Yorkers I get a very different message every single day," he said. "New
Yorkers are concerned about rising rates of violent crime, petty crime, street homelessness. This is what we are
seeing, and we need our city's leaders to step up right now."
NYC
Mayoral Hopeful Andrew Yang Blames NYPD For Spike In Crime. A politician vying to become New York City's next
mayor said the city's defunded and understaffed police force is responsible for skyrocketing crime rates and needs to be held
responsible for not solving more cases. Andrew Yang, a staunch Democrat and Universal Basic Income (UBI) supporter,
said he decided to run for mayor after his failed presidential campaign last year, according to Newsweek. Recent polls
indicate the entrepreneur-turned-politician may already be a frontrunner.
Another
bad idea from Democrat Andrew Yang. Andrew Yang is what passes for 'innovative' among Democrats, and he's
brimming with bad ideas. The loopy tech entrepreneur is all in for industrial processes and one-size fits all
technology, not applied to tech, but applied to people. He favors a guaranteed income for all Americans whether they
work or not, not exactly a Capt. John Smith, convinced such a concept could be administered by an all-reaching
government, both efficiently and without corruption. Now he has another doozy among his proposals: Bar
codes. Kid you not. Bar codes to prove you've been vaccinated. [...] Which is an unusually repugnant idea,
redolent of stamping USDA Choice onto such grades of meat.
Rumors
of Bloomberg considering a far-far-left former candidate for VP. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg
wants Andrew Yang's endorsement and is reportedly discussing the prospects of Yang becoming his running mate. Yang
dropped out of the Democratic race for president earlier this month and became a political commentator for CNN. He is a
businessman with little knowledge of politics. [...] He's a loon and should stay with CNN. It's a good match.
Andrew
Yang drops out of 2020 presidential race. Andrew Yang is dropping out of the 2020 Democratic race for the White
House on the same day primary voters in New Hampshire are casting their ballots. The 45-year-old entrepreneur and first
time presidential candidate had hoped his signature idea of giving every American adult a universal basic income of $1,000 a
month would help lift him to the White House. However, while campaigning in the second state to vote in the
presidential contest, Yang decided it was time to officially call it quits.
Andrew
Yang Drops Out of 2020 Presidential Race. Tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang is dropping out of the 2020 race.
Per PBS, Yang's campaign manager Zach Graumann confirmed the news and said, "By the numbers, the decision was pretty
clear. It doesn't feel honest to keep taking money and enthusiasm from our supporters, but also from the Democratic
Party. It's obviously a difficult decision, but we believe the right one." The announcement dropped as New Hampshire
results started coming in tonight [2/11/2020].
Andrew
Yang staffers are furious over sudden layoffs and a campaign near collapse. Andrew Yang built his long-shot
candidacy into a grassroots movement by advocating for a humane capitalism that leaves no worker behind, but some of his
employees now say that behind the scenes that's exactly what his campaign just did. Last week his campaign began
layoffs after his disastrous showing at the Iowa caucuses, moves that the campaign characterized to Insider at the time as
planned. Still, Yang's staff said they were blindsided by the sudden staff cuts.
Here's
what happens when you enter Yang[']s unprecedented debate give-away sweepstakes. It's not just that Democrat
presidential candidate Andrew Yang likes to tell jokes — it's that his entire candidacy may itself very well be
nothing but a joke. While this may sound harsh, it's how a large number of people appeared to react after the 2020
contender transformed his presidential campaign into a veritable sweepstakes competition. [...] The fact that the 2020
contender would pull such an astonishing stunt was nevertheless not well received but rather widely mocked and criticized by
liberals and conservatives alike for a variety of reasons. For one, Yang's move may have been illegal in more ways than
just one.
Study:
Andrew Yang, Tulsi Gabbard Receive Disproportionately Small Media Coverage. A new Axios study shows that Andrew
Yang and Tulsi Gabbard are receiving minimal media coverage for their relatively successful presidential campaigns.
According to the study, Yang is currently polling at 2.5 percent as the sixth-highest-polling Democratic presidential
nominee, and Gabbard is polling at 1.4 percent as the ninth highest. During the Democratic debates, Yang was tweeted
about 295,200,000 times. He was the fourth most tweeted about candidate. He even surpassed Joe Biden and Pete
Buttigieg, who are polling higher than he.
Of
course Andrew Yang is beating Beto; he's a vastly superior candidate. CNN editor-at-large Chris Cillizza might
be the last person in America to see it. He's shocked that the failed senatorial candidate with nothing but a dopey
grin and a DWI has tanked in the polls. Yes, really. Andrew Yang has triple the support of Beto O'Rourke in this poll.
The perennial appeal
of kook candidates. One of the most interesting things about kooks is the fact that they tend to attract the
same voters regardless of the election cycle in which they appear. Nothing demonstrates the truth of the so-called
horseshoe theory of politics than the willingness of the same people to support far-right Don Quixotes like Ron Paul, hippie
UFO theorists like [Dennis] Kucinich, and populists of the center like [Ross] Perot. Everyone knows at least someone
who liked ole Ross, then at least considered voting for Ralph Nader in 2000, got very much into Ron Paul for eight or so
years, and is now considering supporting either [Andrew] Yang or, only half-jokingly, [Marianne] Williamson.
Democrats,
Beware of Andrew Yang's Insane Vision for America. After a surprising surge to make his way to the debate
stage, Andrew Yang didn't make much of an impression there in just three minutes of speaking time as leading Democrats with a
lot in common tried to make the most of their distinctions. But Yang was only there at all because he raised money and
registered in the polls by packing the policies of elite technocrats in a coating of Clintonesque pain-feeling paternalism.
He's already made the list for the next Democratic debate, and his rise is an early warning about how, no matter how bad our
politics may see right now, they could be far worse if parties and voters don't police themselves and defend their values.
The Editor says...
Are the recipients of the $1,000 monthly checks exempt from the VAT? If not, what's the point? Money
would be taken out of one pocket and (after subtraction of a nominal handling fee) put into the other pocket.
The
Free-Stuff Primary: What Democrats' Promises Will Cost. While some candidates shy away from specifics on
environmental reform and subsequent economic redistribution, Andrew Yang is more than happy to discuss his plans to give away
money. The Silicon Valley progressive wants the federal government to cut a $1,000 check each month to every citizen
over 18. Yang calls it a Freedom Dividend, his brand name for what economists describe as Universal Basic Income.
On its face, the annual cost would be around $3 trillion, though Yang insists the spending would be offset by stimulated growth.
Andrew Yang and the Normies.
Given that there are approximately 11 million candidates for the Democratic nomination, you could be forgiven for not having
heard of Yang. He is currently polling at one percent; 59 percent of those polled have never heard of him. He has
never held high office, his only claim to political fame being brief recognition by the Obama White House. But Yang's
quixotic run has attracted attention, and a few supporters, for its far-out message. He believes that 21st-century
automation is going to lead to mass technological unemployment, which will bring social disaster. That is, unless, we
implement Yang's proposed "freedom dividend": a $1,000-per-month payout to every American ages 18 to 64, which will
provide a "universal basic income" to all.
Telling
the Truth About Andrew Yang is Hate Speech on Facebook. It is hard to say why Facebook said my recent video
about Andrew Yang was "hate speech." It could have been the fact that Yang, a dark-horse contender for the Democrat
presidential nomination, gave a speech at Harvard where he predicted that within ten years, roving gangs of Caucasian youths
would be roaming the streets of America, attacking Asian people because white people were jealous of their professional success.
Why are 2020 Democrats
so weird? Why are Democrats so weird? Only a few days after his long-shot candidacy had begun to attract
some interest from the mainstream press, Andrew Yang came out strongly against circumcision, surely one of the most pressing
political and social issues of our time. He even doubled down on this by agreeing on Thursday [3/21/2019] to debate
right-wing Wunderkind Ben Shapiro on the subject.
The
5 Big Problems with Andrew Yang's $1000-a-Month Universal Basic Income Proposal. [#1] We can't afford it.
The federal government took in $3.4 trillion in taxes last year and ran a $985 billion deficit on top of that, which is in
addition to the nearly $22 trillion debt. Now consider that Andrew Yang's proposal would probably cost more than
$2.8 trillion. Yes, a value-added tax (VAT) along with cutting social programs would pay for some of that, but all?
Highly unlikely. In fact, by some estimates, Yang's proposal is coming up $1.2 trillion PER YEAR short of paying for
the whole thing. It's sort of like someone who can't pay for a mansion on his current income who decides that the solution to
that problem is adding a second mansion.
Democratic
Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang's 8 Most Bizarre Policy Proposals. The backbone of Yang's platform is a
Universal Basic Income, or what he calls the "Freedom Dividend." Yang says he wants the government to give $1,000 every
month to every American over the age of 18. He outlines the policy in his book, "The War on Normal People," arguing UBI
is the most "direct and concrete way" for the government to improve American lives. UBI is hardly a new policy idea,
but Yang believes giving people money is especially needed now to combat the growing number of jobs lost to robots and automation.
SF
meets Andrew Yang, a presidential candidate who's attracting support from Millennials. The unlikely
presidential run of Andrew Yang, who is proposing a $1,000-a-month "freedom dividend" to every adult in America, rolled
Friday into San Francisco, where some 3,000 supporters listened to the New York tech entrepreneur warn about how artificial
intelligence and robotics are taking jobs. The 44-year-old son of Taiwanese immigrants who met each other at UC
Berkeley has already surpassed expectations — virtually nonexistent when he got into the race — by
inspiring enough donations to qualify for the Democratic primary debate in June.
Eric Swalwell
Presidency Inc.. Eric Swalwell, we
hardly knew ye. And we might add that what we did know did not leave us pining for more. Swalwell, a fourth-term
congressman from California, became the first candidate to drop out of the Democratic primary last month, citing his poll
numbers, which were hovering around zero percent.
Eric
Swalwell Becomes First Democrat to Drop Out of Presidential Race. Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), whose White
House candidacy has polled at an embarrassing 0% in multiple national public surveys, became the first Democrat presidential
hopeful to pull the plug on his 2020 campaign [7/8/2019].
Eric
Swalwell Encourages Hispanics to Take Fight Against Trump to the 'Streets'. Hispanic voters should take their
fight against President Trump to the "streets," Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) suggested in a tweet Saturday [6/22/2019].
The Democrat presidential candidate spouted a series of falsehoods in a tweet posted Saturday, accusing Trump of breaking up
Hispanic families and caging children just for kicks. He also accused Trump of seeking to "erase" the Hispanic
population's existence by way of a basic census citizenship question.
Eric
Swalwell Can Take His Gun Policy and Head Home. Since before he announced his run for the presidential
nomination, Swalwell has been grabbing for guns. He was met with resistance and got his feelings hurt. In typical
fashion, he made comments that the government has "legit" nukes. I am sure he did not mean that the government should
blow up the Southeast and Midwest with nuclear bombs to eliminate the majority of gun owners. However, why would he say
this? My prediction is that Swalwell has serious plans to take away guns and impose more in-depth control over citizens.
He knows the Second Amendment stands between a progressive agenda and a bigger government imposed on the people.
Delving
Into Rep. Eric Swalwell's Gun Control Proposal. Rep. Eric "Nuke 'em All" Swalwell has campaigned
primarily on one issue, and that's gun control. Despite the supposedly broad support for restrictions on firearms
within the Democratic base, Swallwell is polling only slightly better than my cat. He's being beaten on the
issue. That means Swalwell had to up his game, which he did when he rolled out his gun control plan. Let's
take a look at this point by point. [...]
Eric
Swalwell's Pathetic Presidential Campaign Just Got Even More Pathetic. You'd be forgiven for not knowing who
the heck Eric Swalwell is. He's fancied himself a #resistance leader over the last few years, showing up on various
cable networks trying to promote his brand. Swalwell's biggest contribution to the public debate has been to threaten
to use nuclear weapons against gun owners. So there's that. Despite the fact that he has no support base, he
decided it'd be a good idea to join the 2020 Democrat primary race. It's gone about as well as you'd expect. He's
currently polling at 0% and is gyrating about trying to gain attention.
Eric
Swalwell's shocking financial disclosure. After having been exposed as a liar about the "evidence" he claimed
to have seen that President Trump is a traitor in league with Russia, [Rep. Eric] Swalwell declared himself a candidate
for president. Clearly, he has no chance, but at least one could justify it as a fundraising ploy appealing to the
nutso faction of the Democrats, a significant constituency among the Donkeys. But there is no good reason for a man who
has earned as much as Swalwell for his financial status. Brent Scher of the Free Beacon checked out Swalwell's
mandatory financial disclosure forms and discovered that the man has been utterly irresponsible financially, despite earning
a hefty income and getting a big raise when he entered Congress.
Swalwell:
You'll Sell Me Your Gun, or You'll Go to Jail. Representative Eric Swalwell, a hard-leftist from California,
has about as much chance of winning the Democratic nomination for president as Bill Weld has of winning the GOP nomination.
Be that it as it may, Swalwell's proposal to jail Americans who refuse to surrender legally purchased and owned firearms to a
federal gun Gestapo not only demonstrates how the Left has moved the Overton Window in the gun-control debate, but also how
Democrats have given in to the totalitarian impulse. Outright gun confiscation is something only the craziest Democrat
would have suggested 30 years ago, and the suggestion certainly would not have come from one who wished to be considered
a serious contender for the presidency.
Eric
Swalwell Doesn't Like It When You Criticize His Impossible Gun Control Scheme. This week, Rep. Eric
Swalwell (D-CA), the latest Democrat to jump into their already-jammed clown car of presidential candidates, launched his
campaign with a proposal to "ban and buy back every single assault weapon in this nation," bragging he was the "only
candidate" who was "bold" enough to suggest it.
Rep.
Eric Swalwell, Who Threatened to Nuke Gun Owners, Is Running for President, on Gun Control. On Monday
[4/8/2019], Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) announced he's running for president — on The Late Show With
Stephen Colbert. Swalwell is a former prosecutor born in Iowa and best known for his obsession with the Trump-Russia
collusion narrative and his threat to use nuclear weapons against Americans who refuse to turn over their "assault weapons."
Swalwell seems to be focusing his campaign on the issue of gun confiscation. In his campaign launch video, the 38-year-old
Swalwell speaks with a gun shop owner, and then he utters this statement: "Most Americans believe that to be free of gun
violence, we should take the most dangerous weapons out of the hands of the most dangerous people." Yet Swalwell himself
has endorsed using the most dangerous weapons — nuclear weapons.
The Editor says...
There is no such thing as gun violence. Guns themselves are not violent, any more than a rope,
a knife, a candlestick or a lead pipe is violent.
Eric Swalwell's New Campaign Slogan
Ruthlessly Mocked On Twitter. Less than an hour after tweeting his presidential bid announcement Monday evening [4/8/2019],
Democratic California Rep. Eric Swalwell used another tweet to share with America what appeared to be his new campaign slogan.
"Are you ready America?" Swalwell tweeted. "Let's go big, be bold, and do good!"
The
Man Who Said the Government Can Nuke Gun Owners is Running for President. Congressman Eric Swalwell, a Democrat
from California, will reportedly announce next week he is entering the 2020 race for the presidency. [...] Swalwell plans to
run on a platform of gun control, which based on his previous comments, means confiscation.
Swalwell
running for White House on gun control: report. Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) will reportedly announce
next week that he is running for president in 2020 and will center his campaign around gun control. The Atlantic
reported Thursday [4/4/2019] that Swalwell will announce his plans during an appearance on CBS's "The Late Show With Stephen
Colbert," where he will be joined by Cameron Kasky, a survivor of the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
in Parkland, Fla. Swalwell, who is hosting a town hall on gun control next week in Florida, did not confirm his plans
to The Atlantic, but said he thinks gun control should be a top issue in 2020.
Stacey Abrams
Stacey
Abrams Calls Electoral College a 'Classist, Racist System'. Failed politician Stacey Abrams wants to do away
with the electoral college. Her reasoning? The electoral college is a "classist, racist system whose time has
passed and we need to get rid of it," so it's the same argument the left makes to get rid of everything they don't
like. Naturally, Abrams attacked the centuries old constitutional system with the cast of ABC's "The View" on Monday
morning. Abrams claims the founding founders created the electoral system as a racist system designed somehow to
prevent blacks from voting. To make her point, Abrams repeated the historically illiterate lie about the three-fifths
compromise being the iniquitous idea of racist Southerners. Of course, it was Southerners who wanted slaves to be fully
counted for purposes of representation in Congress and Northerners who opposed it.
Georgia
Democrat Stacey Abrams says she is considering White House run. Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams, a rising party
star who narrowly fell short of becoming the first female African American governor last year, said on Thursday [5/9/2019]
she is still considering running for president.
Stacey Abrams
Under Investigation By State Ethics Commission. The Georgia state ethics commission will subpoena bank records
from Stacey Abrams' 2018 gubernatorial campaign and several other groups that raised money to help her candidacy. David
Emadi, a former Douglas County prosecutor who became director of the state ethics commission Monday, announced on Thursday
[4/11/2019] that he will soon subpoena Abrams' gubernatorial campaign, various political action committees and special
interest groups that supported her failed campaign, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
New
Georgia ethics chief says he will subpoena Abrams campaign records. The new director of the state ethics
commission plans to subpoena bank records from the campaign of 2018 Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams and groups
that raised money to help her in last year's nationally watched race. Former Douglas County prosecutor David Emadi, who
started his new job Monday [4/8/2019], also said his office will soon decide whether to prosecute the campaigns of Atlanta
mayoral candidates.
Preparing
for 2020 in Our So-called 'Democracy'. With the ongoing invasion by Central American caravans, the problem of
illegals being on voter rolls can only get worse. But Stacey Abrams thinks that illegals should be allowed to vote.
Maybe it's appropriate that we have banana republic election systems since we're being invaded by banana republics
As
Democrats struggle to find 'who can sell this slop' to voters, here comes Stacey Abrams. Rather amazingly,
Democrats are promoting the addition of yet another candidate to their crowded subway car of potential presidential
candidates — this time, failed gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams. [...] It's weird stuff, given that Abrams
holds views identical to those of the rest of the Democrats — socialism of an extreme sort. She's not being
put there on the strength of her ideas. Based on her Georgia campaign website and other sources, Abrams favors gun
control, Medicaid expansion, post-birth abortion, environmental "justice," the green agenda, open borders, letting criminals
out of jail, redefining marriage, raising the minimum wage, tax hikes, etc. — the whole cookie-cutter agenda of
the radical left that has taken over the Democratic Party. In this regard, Abrams offers nothing new — just
the same stale stuff the rest of them are selling as Venezuela fries away in the background from those very ideas put into action.
Georgia
Democrat Stacey Abrams Claims She Won Her Election. She Lost By Nearly 55,000 Votes. Failed Georgia
Democrat gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams falsely claimed on Wednesday that she won the race for governor last year
against Republican Brian Kemp. "We had this little election back in 2018," Abrams said while speaking at the National
Action Network. "And despite the final tally and the inauguration and the situation we find ourselves in, I do have
very affirmative statement to make: We won." Kemp beat Abrams by 54,723 votes.
Bill de Blasio
Far-Left
New York Mayor Bill De Blasio Endorses Socialist Bernie Sanders. The far-left, borderline socialist Mayor of
New York City, Bill de Blasio, has endorsed the openly socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for the 2020 Democratic
Party presidential nomination. According to CNN, the New York mayor will be campaigning with Sanders in Nevada prior to
the state's caucuses next week, joining the socialist at a rally in Carson City on Sunday.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio drops
2020 presidential bid. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio ended his campaign for the 2020 Democratic
presidential nomination on Friday after struggling to gain traction in a sprawling field of candidates.
Bill
de Blasio: A candidate not even his wife would vote for? New York's absentee mayor turned presidential
candidate isn't a popular guy over in the city he supposedly runs. [...] Socialism, incompetence, an angry police force on an
undeclared strike with a rising crime rate, the turning of public schools into garbage dumps by getting rid of gifted and
talented programs, and businesses and talent fleeing the city due to a hostile business environment all amount to de Blasio's
sorry entire record. How does he look at himself in the morning?
Bill
de Blasio insists he's no Don Quixote as he presses on with 0% White House bid. Despite an endless stream of
bad news, de Blasio refuses to pull the plug on a laughingstock campaign that rarely cracks 0% in polls and is dogged by
unfavorability numbers that are actually rising as he introduces himself to the nation. Stronger candidates such as
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) have already accepted reality and dropped out. But Hizzoner was back in South
Carolina on Saturday schmoozing with black voters at a soul food restaurant and a church service in hopes of gaining traction
in the third-in-the-nation primary state. The mayor is set to appear alongside other Democrats at a town hall event
Sunday at the University of South Carolina.
De
Blasio logged a 7-hour work month at City Hall. Mayor Bill de Blasio spent a mere seven hours — less
than one full workday — at City Hall during the month he launched his bid for the White House, records reviewed by
The [New York] Post show. Hizzoner showed up at his office on just six occasions in May, taking part in two meetings,
four events and five phone calls, one of which was his weekly appearance on WNYC radio, according to entries on his official
calendar. The 11 appointments amounted to a meager one-fifth of the 50 meetings, calls and other events at City Hall on
de Blasio's calendar for May 2018. He had a total 152 city events scheduled for the month.
De
Blasio campaign event in Iowa draws roughly 15 attendees. Mayor Bill de Blasio pitched his presidential dreams
to a crowd of about 15 likely Democratic voters at an event Sunday morning in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. With more than enough
empty space to accommodate his 6-foot-5 frame, the quixotic candidate took the floor at Parlor City Pub to a smattering of
applause from the sleepy brunch set. "Everything should be about our families, our lives, what everyday people are
going through, what working people are going through," de Blasio told the crowd, which numbered around 15 — not
counting the press corps, campaign staff and Iowa State Sen. Rob Hogg, the event organizer.
Bill
De Blasio Assists Illegals: 'We Will Do Everything We Can to Protect You'. In a series of tweets published
Saturday [7/13/2019], Democrat presidential hopeful and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio insisted that those residing
illegally in the Big Apple stand their ground against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
De Blasio's
whitewashing on anti-Semitism. Here's what's been happening in New York City over the past year: Jews who
are visibly Jewish have been getting assaulted in record numbers. We've seen numerous videos of these assaults, in
which a bearded man in a yarmulke is smashed in the head or knocked down or otherwise physically set upon by one or two
African-American men. [...] Don't worry, says our mayor — the real danger Jews face is from the right wing.
The same could be asked of a dozen other candidates. How
long will de Blasio drag out his presidential farce? Just a week after entering the presidential race, Mayor
Bill de Blasio is already neck-and-neck with such household names as ... Seth Moulton and Wayne Messam. How long before
he puts an end to this farce? The mayor is struggling to crack the top 20 (out of 23) so he can qualify for the first
Democratic debate next month and admits, "I'm not setting the expectation that I'll be in it." Among other tests, he
needs to hit 1% in three serious polls (as judged by the Democratic National Committee), plus meet fundraising targets, such
as getting 200 donors from at least 20 different states.
When
are we going to stop getting lectures on morality from Pete Buttigieg? If you're sick and tired of hearing
Democrats repeat the lie that "Christianity is just as bad as Islam," join the club. I can't think of a single
act of terrorism since 9/11 involving Christian fundamentalists. Meanwhile, there have literally been thousands
of them committed by Islamic extremists. Millions of people — millions — have been killed
over the past two decades alone because of radical Islamic fundamentalism.
Delusional
de Blasio actually thinks he should be president. It's been astonishing to watch Bill de Blasio still prancing
on the national stage, to hear his delusional musings on a 2020 presidential run and of his announced trip this Friday to the
key primary state of New Hampshire, all while he remains unwilling to acknowledge this truth: For most of us, New York
City under his mayoralty has become aggressively unlivable. It's the same defiance we're treated to on his weekly WNYC
"Ask the Mayor" segments, exchanges that even the smart, affable host Brian Lehrer can't always salvage. Callers who
dare to challenge de Blasio are almost always told the same thing: They are surely well-meaning, just woefully
misinformed. De Blasio is painfully verbose and always right. Even if you are living the very dreaded experience
you are calling about — you're wrong.
Why Bill de Blasio is running for president.
Bill de Blasio is the only candidate running for president whose entry into the race is perhaps a tad surprising. With
the others, even those with miniscule odds of actually securing the Democratic nomination, there is some modicum of sense:
get your name out there, promote your pet issues, accrue some political capital to burnish a future bid for another elected
office, and if worst comes to worst you'll still have 'former presidential candidate' in your title — which is
sure to bring forth generous speaking fees and book deals. MSNBC might even give you a TV show. But with de
Blasio, at least at first blush, the logic gets much hazier. His liabilities are so manifestly obvious that even his
own staff reportedly begged him not to run. A combination of bewilderment, irritation, and laughter seems to be the
primary reaction to the fact that he's actually going through with it.
De Blasio
Is the Ferris Bueller of Democratic Presidential Candidates. One of the more charming things about de Blasio is
his amiable lack of self-awareness. He seems to have no idea that he doesn't impress anybody. The obliviousness
is somewhat understandable. He did get elected — twice. But his victories have more to do with the
dysfunction of New York City politics than with any strength on his part. In 2013 he won the Democratic primary —
which assured victory in the fall — in the lowest election turnout in decades. After 3 percent of New
Yorkers voted for him, he saw a landslide.
Another
Socialist Enters 2020 Democratic Race. New York City mayor Bill de Blasio entered the 2020 presidential race on
Thursday [5/16/2019], further growing a bloated field of Democratic candidates. [...] "Brothers and sisters, there's plenty
of money in the world. There's plenty of money in this city. It's just in the wrong hands," de Blasio said in
January. The New York Post notes that de Blasio owns two homes and receives a salary of over a quarter of a
million dollars every year. The mayor's presidential campaign launch video touted his pursuit of an increased minimum
wage, guaranteed paid sick leave, and free pre-K in New York City.
Mayor Ocasio-Cortez?
News that Mayor de Blasio is running for president ignited a lively conversation at a dinner in Manhattan where we found
ourselves last evening. The excitement was not so much in respect of Hizzoner's prospects on the hustings but over who
might succeed him to run what's left of America's greatest city. The almost unanimous bet turned out to be
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. We say "almost unanimous" because we stood pat. It seems to us that
Ms. Ocasio-Cortez is having too much fun upstaging her fellow Democrats on the Hill. Why give that up for the
chance to feud with Governor Andrew Cuomo and try to run the wreck of the subway system? Any mayor of New York, after
all, would have a hard time upending the national news cycle with but a tweet.
Marianne
Williamson's dead campaign [is] still spending cash, but stiffing vendors. Marianne Williamson is facing a
powerful new dark psychic force — campaign debt. The New Age author's presidential campaign committee still
owes $238,180 to various election vendors, some of whom now say she is trying to renege on the payments. Williamson
suspended her campaign in January 2020. "She's not paying us," Jennifer Marshall, co-founder of Next Digital
Connection, told The Post. "We are a very small business, and we will be totally and utterly bankrupted if she doesn't
pay her bill."
Wellness
Queen Marianne Williamson Officially Drops Out Of 2020 Race. The cosmic goddess that is Marianne Williamson,
the former "Oprah" staple who pledged to defeat President Donald Trump on the battlefield of love, has now officially dropped
her bid for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination after several no-shows at the debates. In an announcement
on her website Friday [1/10/2020], Williams said that she hoped her candidacy would lead the country in a new
direction — a dream that she will have to rest aside due to lack of support.
Marianne
Williamson drops out of presidential race. Marianne Williamson, who ran a nontraditional campaign focused on
the power of love and positivity, has officially ended her White House bid. "I stayed in the race to take advantage of
every possible opportunity to share our message. With caucuses and primaries now about to begin, however, we will not
be able to garner enough votes in the election to elevate our conversation any more than it is now," she wrote in an
announcement on her website. "The primaries might be tightly contested among the top contenders, and I don't want to
get in the way of a progressive candidate winning any of them. As of today, therefore, I'm suspending my campaign."
Williamson
Fires Entire Staff, Vows to Remain in Race Anyway. The 2020 Democratic primary is certainly full of characters,
from business heads practically bribing their way support, to old-guard statesmen just trying to get through their lines
without flubbing. While this may not be what the nation truly needs, it has been undeniably entertaining.
Marianne
Williamson falls for fake news story claiming Trump pardoned Charles Manson. Kooky fringe Democratic presidential
candidate Marianne Williamson apparently got duped by a fake news article Monday [12/9/2019] when she claimed that President
Trump had pardoned dead cult leader Charles Manson. "There is something deeply sinister about Trump pardoning Charles
Manson, even posthumously. Dog whistles of the very worst possible kind," the also-ran tweeted at 12:53 a.m.
Except that didn't actually happen — and netizens were quick to point out Williamson's blunder.
Keywords: fairy dust, moonbeams, snowflakes. Marianne
Williamson On Nuclear Energy: Don't Use 'Hard Data,' Think 'With Your Hearts'. Democrat presidential
candidate Marianne Williamson came out against using nuclear energy, which experts say should be used to combat climate
change, on Thursday during a climate change town hall on MSNBC, urging students to not use "hard data" when thinking about
nuclear energy. Williamson made the remarks while answering a question from a college student who wanted to know why
she thought that nuclear energy was problematic.
Marianne
Williamson vents that 'conservatives are nicer' to her than those on the Left. Presidential candidate and
spiritual guru Marianne Williamson was caught on tape saying conservatives and Fox News are nicer to her than some on the
Left. Appearing on Sinclair's America This Week, Williamson was played a clip where she had previously appeared
on the same show and was caught in a hot-mic moment.
Marianne
Williamson Would Like to Clarify. Marianne Williamson, the self-help author associated with the New Age
movement, has never held political office. But the race for the Presidency, she thinks, is less a battle of politics
than a battle of souls. In her appearance in the July Democratic debates, she said that President Donald Trump is
bringing up a "dark psychic force."
Old Hickory v. New Quackery.
Marianne Williamson is easily the most entertaining candidate the Democrats have belched up this go-round, so let us gather
to celebrate her campaign before it likely [fizzles] out on Wednesday [8/28/2019] and she gets disqualified from the third
debate because she couldn't even scratch together a measly 2% support in each of four prominent polls. But Miss
Marianne's little flame flickered as brightly as it could for one brief and hilarious moment on the national stage, and
despite the fact that even enough Democrats are sane enough never to vote for her, it cannot be denied that no one
ever went further in politics by saying less than Marianne Williamson says.
Nutball
Dem Candidate Marianne Williamson Takes Aim At ... Andrew Jackson? Marianne Williamson isn't bothering herself
with targeting the other 22 candidates running for the Democratic presidential nomination. No, she's got her eye on one
guy — Andrew Jackson. Forget the fact that the seventh president of the United States has been dead
174 years. Williamson thinks Jackson is a key issue in the 2020 race.
Marianne
Williamson details plan to pay up to $500 billion in reparations for slavery. Democratic presidential hopeful Marianne Williamson on
Wednesday [8/7/2019] laid out more details in her plan to pay out financial reparations for slavery in the U.S., saying a council made up
of black leaders should oversee a payout of between $200 billion and $500 billion. "When it comes to paying reparations for slavery,
on an emotional, psychological and spiritual level, we cannot afford not to," said Ms. Williamson, an author and self-help expert. [...]
Ms. Williamson called for setting up a council made up of between 30 and 50 members who are descents of slaves who have a scholarly,
cultural or political connection to the issue of reparations.
The Editor says...
In other words, Ms. Williamson, in an effort to buy votes with someone else's money, is setting up a slush fund that will
distribute taxpayers' funds, based on the recommendations of a committee in which even Ms. Williamson would not qualify to
participate. And the need for this half-trillion-dollar handout is based entirely on her psycho-babble assessment about how
this issue "will continue to haunt our psyche" if it isn't addressed. It is all nonsense, to put it politely. If you
can prove that you were a slave prior to the Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, then you, not your heirs and
descendants, should be compensated. Otherwise, get over it and move on. Or, you could return to Africa and
live with the descendants of the people who sold your ancestors into slavery. Be sure to tell us how that works out.
Presidency Inc.. Marianne Williamson
might have a weirdly aphoristic Twitter account, but her background is in self-help spirituality, not governance.
Marianne Williamson's
path. Williamson is the closest to sane and the closest to Donald Trump that the party ever will be
again. She passed the test by touching all the major points of the revolutionary, anti-imperialist party. Her
advantage is she is new and not old news like Warren or Sanders. Her best selling point to Democrats is
irrelevancy. If President Trump's re-election appears to be in the bag, she can be sacrificed on the altar of the
ballot box at little cost. She would normalize reparations, which would be the biggest ripoff of black people since
slavery ended. That would set Harris up for victory in 2024 with the idea that she could have defeated President
Trump. As president, Harris will raise taxes, give away the store on trade policy, load up the regulations, and give
all our enemies nuclear weaponry.
'Witches'
for Marianne Williamson Launch 'Occult Task Force'. A group of supporters of 2020 White House hopeful and
Marianne Williamson has put together an "occult task force" in support of the spiritual guru; however, her campaign is none
too pleased about the move. In an interview with the Washington Post, the anonymous individual heading up the
"task force" told the Jeff-Bezos owned newspaper that 13 witches, chaos magicians, and energy workers performed "gestures" in
an effort to get Williamson more speaking time during Tuesday's Democrat presidential primary debate in Detriot, Michigan.
Marianne
Williamson Wants To Win the Presidency With the Power of Love and Miracles. At 67, Williamson is one of
America's most famous spokespeople for a therapeutic, self-actualizing sort of spirituality, the kind that's light on
doctrinal dogma and heavy on techniques for living a better life. Stores are more likely to file her books in the
self-help or New Age sections than in politics or current affairs, and she has logged many more appearances on Oprah
Winfrey's SuperSoul Sunday than on C-Span. Yet here she is, running for the Democratic presidential nomination.
The perennial appeal
of kook candidates. One of the most interesting things about kooks is the fact that they tend to attract the
same voters regardless of the election cycle in which they appear. Nothing demonstrates the truth of the so-called
horseshoe theory of politics than the willingness of the same people to support far-right Don Quixotes like Ron Paul, hippie
UFO theorists like [Dennis] Kucinich, and populists of the center like [Ross] Perot. Everyone knows at least someone
who liked ole Ross, then at least considered voting for Ralph Nader in 2000, got very much into Ron Paul for eight or so
years, and is now considering supporting either [Andrew] Yang or, only half-jokingly, [Marianne] Williamson.
Marianne
Williamson Calls Trump's July 4th Event 'Heartbreaking,' Will Host 'True Celebration' Livestream. Self-help
author Marianne Williamson, one of more than 20 Democrats running in the 2020 presidential election, called President Trump's
July 4th tribute to the military "heartbreaking" and "repugnant" in a tweet on Wednesday [7/3/2019]. "Watching army
tanks being hauled thru DC for Trump's July 4 celebration is heartbreaking & repugnant," she tweeted.
Republicans
are donating to Marianne Williamson's campaign. Republicans are urging people to donate to Marianne
Williamson's presidential campaign because they believe she made a mockery of this week's Democratic debate and hope she will
make a mockery of future Democratic debates.
Donate
a buck, keep Marianne Williamson on the Democrats' debate stage. There's no telling what New Age goofball
Marianne Williamson will say next... if she meets the cut for the next Democrat presidential debate in Detroit at the end of
July. Whatever words escape her lips, they are unlikely to persuade the swing voters that Democrats need to win the
presidency to support the Donkeys taking over the reins of government. But Marianne needs to qualify for the debate.
[...] That's why I just donated the princely sum of $1 to her campaign. You can, too.
The Editor says...
I was about to donate a dollar, as suggested by the article above, because I would love to see the Democrats embarrassed by the
lunatics in their leadership, not to mention the rank and file. But I just couldn't do it, because it turns out that
Ms. Williamson is such a fruitcake that if she were to accidentally get elected, it would be like removing the rudder
from the Ship of State. I would sooner vote for Jimmy Carter or Al Gore than Ms. Williamson, if I were to
vote for the Abortion Party, which I would never do.
Twenty
Things You Probably Didn't Know about Marianne Williamson. [#11] Her proposal for addressing the oil spill from
the Deepwater Horizon platform disaster was unorthodox: "Visualize the oil spill plugged. Close your eyes for
five minutes and see angels coming over it, filling it with sane and sacred thoughts." [#12] On March 11, 2011, a
massive earthquake and tsunami damaged the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan. Two days later, Williamson tweeted, "Let's
see angels surrounding the nuclear reactors, pouring cold water over them, keeping radiation from escaping into the atmosphere."
Marianne
Williamson Is Full of it. [Scroll down] Offering religion without rules, salvation without sacrifice, the
former cabaret singer has remade herself into the perfect priestess for a culture steeped in pop. "Love conquers all"
is no cliché to Williamson and her readers. Focus on feelings, she reiterates in book after book, and the rest
will follow — from a good man to a great salary to a God-fearing nation. Forget the fuss and muss associated
with actual effort.
Summertime
2019: The Top 30 Hottest Political Women. [#2] Marianne Williamson: In a sane world, she would be a self-help guru, a fancy
term for wealthy dilettantes. The Democrat Party is such a mess that she actually made the presidential debate stage. Nobody seems
to know or care what she stands for.
For Such a Time as This.
Marianne Williamson was in the pulpit at Bethel A.M.E. Church Sunday morning [3/24/2019], [...] However, the woman in the
pulpit, who has been called Oprah Winfrey's "spiritual guru," had not come to the South Carolina lowlands as an author
promoting her books, but rather as a candidate for the Democratic Party's 2020 presidential nomination.
Marianne
Williamson echoes Andrew Yang, says her mic was 'not on' during NBC debate. Marianne Williamson has echoed her
fellow 2020 candidate Andrew Yang, complaining that her mic was not on during Thursday night's Democratic primary debate.
Williamson was interacting with fans on Twitter late Friday night and was asked about the "rumors" that mics weren't working for
certain candidates. She confirmed that she was one of them.
Democratic
'spiritual' candidate stands out for quirky remarks at debate. Marianne Williamson, a self-help guru and friend
of Oprah Winfrey, set herself apart from her Democratic rivals during the second half of the debate on Thursday night, with
her remarks going viral on social media. Williamson, a fringe contender for the White House, drew quizzical looks for
her policy proposals, particularly her plans for her first act as president.
Michael Bloomberg
'Joe
Biden has no ground game in Florida': Will Mike Bloomberg's money change that? Progressive activists backing
Joe Biden in Florida say they've made millions of phone calls, sent hundreds of thousands of text messages and even written
thousands of letters to persuade voters to support the Democratic presidential nominee. But one thing they're largely
not doing — and growing increasingly worried about — is talking to voters face to face. Now, with
the number of coronavirus cases down from their July peak in Florida and Election Day less than six weeks away, the state's
largest left-leaning grassroots organizations and political field operations are making a last-minute push to get back in
front of voters in a crucial battleground state where President Donald Trump's campaign has been on the ground since June.
Florida
AG Looking Into Bloomberg Felon Fine Payoff. Florida's attorney general Ashley Moody is requesting that the FBI
and state law enforcement investigate billionaire Michael Bloomberg for paying the outstanding fines and fees of convicted
felons in Florida so they could regain their right to vote ahead of the November election, The Hill reports.
"Today, I sent a letter to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Federal Bureau of Investigation into potential
violations of election laws," The Republican attorney Moody said in a statement provided to Fox News. "I have
instructed the statewide prosecutor to work with law enforcement and any statewide grand jury that the governor may call,"
she said.
Did
Bloomberg Commit A Crime In Paying Off The Debts Of Black and Hispanic Former Felons To Allow Them To Vote?
Billionaire Mike Bloomberg has pledged to pour $100 million dollars in Florida alone to elect Joe Biden as part of his
earlier pledge to pump hundreds of millions into the election. The role of billionaires like Bloomberg and Sheldon
Adelson in pouring hundreds of millions into the election for each side remains controversial, though many past critics of
such windfall campaign financing are now demanding more support. Bloomberg however is now under fire for pledging to
pay off the debts of Black and Hispanic former felons to allow them to vote. The Washington Post reported that the
funding of only Black and Hispanic former felons was due in part to the fact that they are more likely to vote for Biden.
Florida
attorney general calls for investigation into Michael Bloomberg. Florida's attorney general asked state and
federal law enforcement on Wednesday to investigate possible election law violations after billionaire and former Democratic
presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg helped raise more than $16 million for Florida felons to pay their debts so they can
vote in the presidential election. Attorney General Ashley Moody sent letters to the Florida Department of Law
Enforcement and the FBI saying that further investigation is warranted. Governor Ron DeSantis and House Rep. Matt
Gaetz had asked Moody to review allegations that Bloomberg and the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition had violated the law
by offering incentives for voting.
Rep.
Matt Gaetz Calls for Election Bribery Probe Against Mike Bloomberg for Paying Florida Felons' Fines for Biden
Votes. As reported earlier former New York City Mayor and billionaire Mike Bloomberg raised $16 million to
pay off the fines for 32,000 black and Hispanic Florida voters so they can vote for Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
Basketball icon Lebron James is also looking to pay convicted felons' fines so they can vote for Joe Biden. Legal
analyst J. Christian Adams argued that Michael Bloomberg is breaking federal and likely Florida state law by buying votes
from felons.
Michael Bloomberg,
felon? The Democrats' Daddy Warbucks is back and once again using his money to try to buy an election.
Michael Bloomberg is among a group of rich people hanging around Florida and offering free fine payoffs to released felons in
a more-than-implied exchange for their votes for Democrats. Bloomberg isn't playing non-partisan in this, a frequent
dodge of leftists, he's shoveling $100 million of his own cash to make sure Florida votes for Democrats, and this is
part of his game. That would be the same Michael Bloomberg who was last seen blowing a billion on his own presidential
campaign and then stiffing his campaign workers, by promising to employ through the election, and then dumping them and
leaving them out on their ears when he left the race. Money for cons, see, but not the help. It's otherwise known
as bribery, the exchange of votes for something of value, and it's explicitly forbidden under Florida law.
Democrats fume
over having to clean up Bloomberg's mess. Mike Bloomberg's decision to dump hundreds of former campaign
staffers from his payroll — after promising them paychecks through the election — has left a trail of
ill will within the Democratic Party that's now roiling a key part of its general election operation.
Bloomberg
sued by aides for stiffing them on yearlong pay promise. Former campaign workers for Mike Bloomberg are suing
the billionaire former presidential candidate for fraud, alleging in a nationwide class action lawsuit that as many as 2,000
employees were promised to be paid through the general election before he laid them off. Plaintiffs in the class action
include two organizers who halted the interview process for other jobs to join the Bloomberg campaign, and another former
organizer who postponed law school to work on Bloomberg's 2020 effort.
Dumped
amid coronavirus, former Bloomberg campaign aides sue for pay and benefits. Former organizers for Michael
Bloomberg's unsuccessful presidential bid sued the billionaire's campaign on Monday [3/23/2020], saying he laid them off
amid the global coronavirus pandemic after promising pay and benefits through the November election.
Bloomberg's
Campaign Transfers $18 Million to DNC. Yesterday [3/19/2020] I blogged that Wuhan coronavirus has hampered
former Vice President Joe Biden's fundraising and the Democratic National Committee (DNC). It's hard for both to compete
against President Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee since both are swimming are cash. The DNC received
a decent boost from billionaire former candidate Michael Bloomberg. Bloomberg can transfer $18 million to the DNC since
it will come from his campaign. As a citizen, Bloomberg could only donate hundreds of thousands of dollars. Quite
a difference!
Bloomberg
Spent $935 Million to Lose, Trump Spent $66 Million to Win. According to the New York Post Michael Bloomberg
spent $935,360,675 in his failed attempt to win/buy the democrat presidential nomination. [...] For comparison, Donald Trump
spent $66 million on his 2016 campaign and won the presidency.
10
Ways the Left Has Politicized the Coronavirus Pandemic. [#8] Rampant lying about Trump's response: A
pandemic is no time for politics. We didn't see Republicans politicize the H1N1 outbreak, but sadly, Democrats have
different priorities than the greater good. Democrats are in the middle of a coordinated effort to blame the pandemic
on Trump, even though it was congressional Democrats who were distracted by their own efforts to impeach him while the Trump
administration was actually doing something about the outbreak. [...] Mike Bloomberg bought three minutes of airtime to
address the public and blame Trump for the outbreak. Both Bloomberg and Joe Biden claimed that the Trump administration
cut all budget increases to the CDC and NIH made by the Obama administration, an allegation the Associated Press determined
to be false. What good can come from falsely accusing Trump of hampering our country's coronavirus
readiness? None, unless you're trying to oust Trump.
Bloomberg
aides [have been] cut loose despite year-long employment promise. Mike Bloomberg's shuttered presidential
campaign is dismissing staffers across the country and inviting them to reapply for jobs on his new independent
committee — despite extending guarantees of being paid through the November election when they were hired.
The consolation prize: They get to keep their Bloomberg-issued iPhones and MacBooks.
Fool
& His Money, Part II: Bernie bros snicker about infiltrating Bloomberg's campaign and ripping him off. A dinner
triangle was rung, word got out that the livin' was easy, and the worst of the worst came running to Bloomberg, who had no
idea what hit him. Sound like a guy who can take on dictators as president? These were the most dishonest people
out there. Instead of quit the campaign when they decided it was over, they decided to steal from it instead, viewing
Bloomie's money as free stuff and knowing an easy mark when they see one. They decided to politically cuckold Bloomberg
by campaigning for Bernie on the side, effectively having Bloomberg subsidize Bernie's campaign. He ought to sue the
bastards, but he's made zero noises in this direction. Bloomberg, after all, was paying massive salaries to his
campaign machinery — so much, in fact, that word got out, and other Democrats complained that he was hiring away
all the best of the staff talent. Yet the most rapacious and greedy of them all were the leftists who hated Bloomberg
most — the notorious Bernie bros.
Who
Influences Elections Most, Billionaires, Bolsheviks — or Black Voters? Michael Bloomberg, The Ego
That Ate New York, spent the past weeks burning an amount of cash most members of the top 1% could only fantasize about
possessing as he set out to buy the U.S. presidency — and ended up purchasing for himself nothing beyond American
Samoa. The American Indians who got $24 for the island the former mayor spent 12 years running as if it were his
personal fiefdom must be having a good laugh in their Happy Hunting Ground.
Hemingway:
If Bloomberg Couldn't Buy 2020, How Could Russia Buy 2016? Senior Editor Mollie Hemingway joined Fox News'
"Special Report" to discuss New York billionaire Mike Bloomberg's historic level of campaign spending, and what it reveals
about the power of media and establishment consensus. Hemingway pointed out how Bloomberg's failed campaign, despite
unlimited resources, pokes holes in the popular narrative that Russia helped Donald Trump "steal" the 2016 election.
"We had years where people were saying a couple hundred thousand dollars in barely literate Facebook ads from Russians caused
Donald Trump to win. Here you had a guy spend nearly $1 billion and he went nowhere. It's a humiliating defeat
for Michael Bloomberg," she said.
Democratic Fools
And Their Money. After being trounced on Super Tuesday, Michael Bloomberg announced that he was "suspending"
his campaign. He joins fellow billionaire Tom Steyer in the quitters' camp. It makes you wonder how these two
succeeded in business when they are so utterly incompetent at selling themselves or their ideas. It also underscores
how shrewd billionaire Donald Trump was in 2016. Bloomberg built his entire strategy on winning big on Super Tuesday.
His pitch to voters — in a series of endlessly repeated ads — was his competency. He was a self-made
billionaire, he got things done, he was a proven leader, he was best suited to beat Trump. Yet all Bloomberg had to show
for his hundreds of millions was a win in American Samoa.
Bloomberg's
money train wreck shows you can't buy elections. Democrats and even some Republicans have long pushed the idea that money
buys elections, especially since the Supreme Court's Citizens United v. FEC decision. The boogeyman of campaign spending
has been invoked to justify proposals to limit freedom of speech and restrict the public's ability to participate in its nation's political
process. But, as the failure of Michael Bloomberg demonstrates, as if it had to be demonstrated yet again, money doesn't buy elections.
Why
Bloomberg's White House bid failed so completely. Money helps in politics — it helps a
lot — but only if a candidate has a compelling message for voters. Consider that Bloomberg was a pretty good
mayor, all in all. He took firm, competent control of the city's post-9/11 recovery; he was a solid steward of the
Giuliani safe-streets agenda; he made progress in public education, given the troglodyte opposition he faced; and he did as
much as any mayor can to bolster and support the municipal economy. All of that might have been cobbled into a
positive, coherent platform and — greased with the Bloomberg billions — presented in a way that
attracted Democrats looking for an alternative to a clutch of frighteningly ideological primary candidates. This
probably still wouldn't have worked, given the timing and circumstances, but Bloomberg began by apologizing for past
successes — for helping to keep New York City safe — and then he embraced the ideology. Soon, all
that set him apart from the others was the money, and in the end, that wasn't nearly enough.
Mike
Bloomberg Quits 2020 race after disastrous Super Tuesday and blowing $1 billion on just 44 delegates. Mike
Bloomberg dramatically quit the presidential race Wednesday morning after a disastrous Super Tuesday and immediately backed
Joe Biden. The billionaire gained just 44 delegates by 10.11 am, the time he announced his departure, but
ran up a bill of $1 billion. He immediately and whole-heartedly backed Biden, the night's big winner, hinting
that his vast fortune is now at the former vice-president's disposal.
Mike
Bloomberg Drops Out, Endorses Biden. Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg on Wednesday dropped out of the
Democrat presidential primary and endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden. Bloomberg, who spent over $600 million of
his own money on his failed bid, conceded that he no longer envisioned a path to his party's nomination following a poor
showing on Super Tuesday.
Mike
Bloomberg suspends presidential campaign after Super Tuesday show. Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg
suspended his presidential campaign Wednesday after spending record amounts from his own fortune on an ad-blitz strategy that
failed to yield any wins on Super Tuesday beyond a single victory in the American Samoa caucuses. He immediately
announced he would be endorsing Joe Biden, following in the footsteps of other moderate-leaning Democratic presidential
candidates who have consolidated support behind the former vice president in his primary brawl against Vermont
Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Mike
Bloomberg to 'Reassess' Campaign After Super Tuesday Flop. Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg (D) will
"reassess" whether his campaign for the presidency should continue following a poor showing in Super Tuesday primaries.
NBC News reporter Josh Lederman said the Bloomberg campaign will take "another look tomorrow, once the data comes in" at
whether the billionaire still has a path to the nomination.
Mike Bloomberg wins
American Samoa — after spending $500 million on ads. Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg came
away the big winner Tuesday night — in the American Samoa caucuses. Bloomberg was awarded five of the six
delegates from American Samoa, with Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, claiming just one. It amounted to his first
victory from the Super Tuesday contests, after dropping $500 million on ads. Former Vice President Joe Biden and
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders were faring much better in the early voting, raising questions about the future of
Bloomberg's campaign.
A
Fantastic Night ... If You Don't Like Bloomberg, Warren, or Sanders. For the past few months, Americans have been
living in a fascinating political-science experiment: how far could a campaign carry an uninspiring candidate with
essentially unlimited spending and TV ads? Tonight, we got the answer: not very far at all! Bloomberg
spent a half-billion dollars to win American Samoa and a handful of delegates here and there across 15 states. It is
the most expensive failure in American political history. The 2020 Bloomberg campaign makes the past efforts of H. Ross
Perot, Steve Forbes, Michael Huffington, and Jon Corzine look tightfisted. [...] He's a Rolls-Royce advertising campaign with a
Yugo candidate.
Media
Tear Into Mike Bloomberg, Pressure Him To Drop Out. Anchors and reporters across numerous networks made one
thing clear as Super Tuesday got underway — almost none of them want former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg to
remain in the Democratic presidential race. Bloomberg, who has spent about half a billion dollars on his 2020
presidential campaign, only won American Samoa Tuesday evening. While he claimed to have garnered success in the race
Tuesday evening during a speech to supporters, others did not seem to agree.
Democrats
Are Learning The Wrong Lesson From 2016 GOP Primary. Megabillionaire Mike Bloomberg, who had entered the fray
to save the party from Sanders and Biden, revealed himself to be a teensie tiny statue with clay feet after a humiliating
debate performance. And the field remained very crowded, with most of the half-dozen or so non-Sanders candidates
dividing up the very-liberal-but-not-socialist portion of the pie. If the establishment really wanted to defeat
Sanders, they had to figure out something big and figure it out quickly. It wasn't that he would go to the convention
with the most delegates, necessarily. But if he marched in there with a strong plurality, it would be difficult to
wrest the nomination from him. The establishment did their best.
Mike
Bloomberg: "I Was Never Prouder" than When I Argued Muslims Have Every Right to Build a Mosque "Near the World Trade
Center". Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg spoke today [3/2/2020] at the annual AIPAC Conference in
Washington DC. During his comments Mayor Bloomberg bragged about his greatest achievement while mayor: "I was never
prouder than when I stood in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty and argued that Muslims had every right to build a Mosque
anywhere in our city, including near the World Trade Center." So that's his greatest achievement?
Wow! What courage! Bloomberg
vows to eat at a Chinese restaurant to push back against coronavirus fears. During a Fox News Town Hall in
Manassas, Va., on Monday evening [3/2/2020], former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg said he plans to eat at a Chinese
restaurant very soon to show solidarity against overblown domestic fears of a coronavirus pandemic.
Bloomberg
Tries to Defend Using Armed Guards While Pushing Gun Control. An attendee at the March 2, 2020, Fox News town
hall asked Mike Bloomberg why he pushes gun control for the common man but surrounds himself with armed security. The
attendee said, "You have an armed security detail that is likely equipped with the same firearms and magazines you seek to
ban the common citizen from owning. Does your life matter more than mine or my family's?" Bloomberg responded by
admitting to having an armed detail, and suggesting he needs armed protection because he gets more threats than the common man.
The Editor says...
How does Mr. Bloomberg know how many threats the "common man" encounters?
Bloomberg
Spent Average of $37.4M a Week on TV, Radio & Digital Media. In liberal billionaire presidential candidate
Michael Bloomberg's attempt to buy the White House, recent data show that he's averaging tens of millions of dollars spent
plastering the airwaves and the internet with ads. Advertising Analytics' latest report revealed that the liberal
billionaire 2020 candidate has been spending an average of $37.4 million on TV, radio and digital media per week since he
announced his candidacy in November 2019. There was one qualifier: "[H]e [Bloomberg] was only off air the week of Christmas."
[Emphasis added.] The report noted that Bloomberg "has nearly doubled the cumulative total" spending of the Democratic field, "even
including fellow billionaire Tom Steyer." To date, Bloomberg has spent a jaw-dropping $539 million on ads, "$201M more
than President Obama's 2012 campaign for president[,] which spent $338M."
Scott
Pelley Corrects Shameless Bloomberg's Lie. Michael Bloomberg blatantly lied on '60 Minutes' and said the
President called coronavirus a hoax. CBS is trying to sound a bit more legit these days and that is possibly why Scott
Pelley called him on it. Pelley explained that the President was calling the Democrats' politicization of it a
hoax. The shameless liar Bloomberg just kept talking without apology as if Pelley never said a word.
Bloomberg
Implies Voters In 2016 Were Wrong To Rebel Against 'Intelligentsia'. Former New York City Mayor Michael
Bloomberg explained in an interview with "60 Minutes" why he believes America will choose him over President Donald Trump
this fall by characterizing those who swept Trump into office as mounting a "revolution" against the educated elite. "A
few years ago there was a revolution against the intelligentsia," Bloomberg told CBS' Scott Pelley. "People said, 'you
know, those people, particularly on the coasts, are trying to tell us what to do.' They wanted a change. That explains
Donald Trump. Now, people seem to have changed. This cycle, people want stability."
Campaigning in an all-black church: Black
church snubs Bloomberg as congregants stand, turn their backs. Former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg was snubbed
Sunday by numerous congregants at a historically black church in Selma, Alabama. According to a report in the New York
Daily News, several members of Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church stood up and turned their back on
Mr. Bloomberg as he was was speaking. Images of the protests posted to social media showed at least eight
congregants in several clusters standing with their backs facing Mr. Bloomberg.
Bloomberg
tumbles heading into Super Tuesday. The Mike Bloomberg bubble has burst. After a steady, weekslong climb
in national polls, fueled by extravagant spending on ads, staff and events, Bloomberg's presidential campaign has
plateaued. The abrupt reversal of fortune, triggered by his disastrous debate performance in Las Vegas, has tarnished
the former New York mayor's sheen and injected uncertainty about whether he will rack up enough delegates on Super Tuesday to
keep his campaign alive.
Bloomberg
takes credit for leading NYC through 9/11 — when Giuliani was mayor. Presidential hopeful Mike
Bloomberg takes credit for leading New York "through" the 9/11 attacks in a campaign ad. But there's one problem:
He didn't become mayor until four months later. Touting his leadership chops, the billionaire released a 30-second
video including the claim. "I led a complex, diverse city through 9/11 and I have common-sense plans to move America
away from the chaos to progress," Bloomberg, 78, is seen saying at a campaign rally. But Rudy Giuliani was mayor during
the attacks, and he didn't hand Bloomberg the keys to Gracie Mansion until Jan. 1, 2002.
Mike
Bloomberg: Having a Gun in Your Home Puts You at Risk. Democrat presidential hopeful Mike Bloomberg
suggested average Americans are placed at higher risk of death or injury by having a gun in their home, during a CNN town
hall on Wednesday [2/26/2020]. Bloomberg said, "You don't want to have guns. If you have a gun in your house
you're something like 22 times as likely to get killed with a gun." He added, "There's domestic violence, there's children
playing, there's accidents." Bloomberg did not provide any substantiation of his claim that owning a gun makes someone
"22 times as likely to get killed with a gun."
Twenty
Things You Probably Didn't Know about Michael Bloomberg. [Scroll down] In 2008, [Wayne] Barrett wrote
that Bloomberg had been simultaneously the best and worst mayor he had ever covered. "The Bloomberg who came into
office as the anti-politician, promising to transform city government, has been transformed himself. Some of us liked
him precisely because his wealth insulated him from the kind of horse-trading that diminished his predecessors. But
seven years later, Bloomberg has not only proved himself to be a master politician, as hungry for power as anyone we've ever
seen, but he's also ended up putting nearly everyone who deals with the city deep into his political debt."
Democratic
debate: CBS, Bloomberg draw jeers for ad buy, 'stacked' audience. Mike Bloomberg had a different plan for
his second debate: Buy it. A 60-second ad for the billionaire media mogul's campaign played during the first and
second commercial breaks of the CBS Democratic presidential debate Tuesday night [2/25/2020] — drawing the ire of
pundits on Twitter. Viewers lashed into CBS for allowing Bloomberg to buy advertising slots during the first two debate
commercial breaks, calling it "incompetence at best, corruption at worst." "What kind of rule allows the candidates to
advertise *during* the debate? Or did Bloomberg just buy CBS?" asked New Yorker writer Tad Friend.
Has
any candidate ever imploded like Michael Bloomberg? Mr. Bloomberg spent more than $463 million in the
first two months of his campaign, according to a report filed to the Federal Election Commission. In January alone,
Mr. Bloomberg dumped $220 million of his own money into his campaign — an average of more than $7 million
per day. Those expenditures included $126 million on TV ads and $45 million in online advertising. [...] Mr. Bloomberg
has an estimated net worth of $64 billion. That means his expenditures so far amount to just 0.7% of his fortune.
Mike Bloomberg,
mini-tyrant. Mike Bloomberg's not a big fan of everybody having guns. Gee, Mike, neither is anybody
else. Felons, the insane, the blind, and little kids ought never have guns. And nobody I know of has ever
advocated that they should. That's not whom Mike has in mind. He means people such as myself, a retired teacher,
or my erstwhile neighbor, who owns a cartage service, or the owner of the quick stop store on the corner. Mike thinks
we're dangerous and ought not to have guns for defense against the predators in our midst. That's as opposed to
important peeps like Mike. He perhaps doesn't carry or even own a gun, but then he can pay others to keep him safe with
their guns. Why he trusts them but doesn't trust me remains a mystery.
'Gray Matter'-Deficient
Americans. [Scroll down] For all his later denials and efforts to contextualize those remarks, Bloomberg
seems to see both ancient and modern agriculture, and farmers, as either unskilled or not very smart, as if the genetically
inferior gravitate to muscular labor far from the "skill sets" of those like Mike Bloomberg. He certainly has no idea
about either the sophistication of ancient agriculture or the high-tech savvy of contemporary farmers — much less
just how difficult it is, and always was, to produce food, much less that history is so often the story of mass famine rather
than bounty and plenty.
Michael
Bloomberg: 'I'm Not a Big Fan of Everybody Having Guns. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a 2020
Democratic Party presidential hopeful, said Sunday [2/23/2020] on MSNBC's "PoliticsNation" that he was not a fan of everyone
having a gun. Bloomberg said, "The whole issue of getting guns off the streets, I've fought the NRA tooth and nail, and
I continue to do that, and we have this organization of 6 million people, Every Town it's called or Mom's Demand Action
around the country to get good laws, background checks, so you don't sell guns to minors, people with psychiatric problems or
people with criminal records. They shouldn't be able to buy a gun. I'm not a big fan of everybody having
guns. But The Second Amendment gives you the right. I can't do anything about that."
A
Bloomberg-Clinton Conspiracy To Shaft Bernie? Is there a conspiracy between former New York Mayor Michael
Bloomberg and Hillary Clinton to stop Bernie Sanders? I'm beginning to smell a rat! Here's how it would
work: After Bloomberg's disastrous debate performance on Wednesday, he has no realistic chance at winning the
nomination by amassing primary victories. Nor does Joe Biden after his shellackings in Iowa and New Hampshire. But
they do have a good shot of denying Sanders a first ballot majority if they both stay in the race and Bloomberg's checks continue
to flow. And, if Warren, Buttigieg, and Klobuchar stay in the race, winning smaller vote shares, so much the better.
The
Coming Bloomberg-Sanders Train Wreck. While Michael Bloomberg's Nevada debate performance was justly and widely
panned, he attacked Bernie Sanders effectively, demonstrating he's probably the only candidate who can derail the Vermont
senator's nomination. By the same token, Sanders can wreck Bloomberg's hopes by mobilizing his own base against the
billionaire at the convention or even running as an independent candidate. Each man has the ability to take the other
one down, and that dynamic is the key to who eventually wins the nomination. The sudden ascent of Bloomberg to the top
ranks of Democrat contenders is generating plenty of speculation about machinations within the party to derail Sanders, quash
the Democrat far left, or sacrifice the presidency in return for down-ticket success. Such conspiratorial speculation
is natural, but it requires assumptions about backroom plotting for which there is little or no evidence. Better to go
with what we can see with our own eyes, which suggests that, whether by design or accident, Bloomberg has the capacity to
severely damage Sanders and vice versa.
Can
Bloomberg ever recover from his disastrous debate debut? Michael Bloomberg is at the crux of a battle of
clichés. America may be the land of second chances, but you never get a second chance to make a first
impression. The level of saturation of Bloomberg's television advertising actually is working against him now.
Few are potential voters who have not been bombarded with the theme that "Mike can get it done," featuring a candidate who
appears strong yet accessible, powerful but caring. However in Las Vegas, Bloomberg pulled back his own curtain, having
bribed the DNC to change its rules and allow him onstage, and Americans saw an uncertain-yet-imperious, cold, little man
being bullied and out-talked by Elizabeth Warren, mumbling excuses for non-disclosure agreements that lasted just a few days
until the mighty oligarch capitulated to the fake Native American. The stark contrast between what the ads promised and
what the reality delivered will take roughly forever to fade from memory.
Ex-Bill
Clinton adviser: Bloomberg and Hillary cooking up 'scheme' for her to become Democratic nominee. A former
adviser to President Bill Clinton speculated that Michael Bloomberg and Hillary Clinton are plotting a way for her to become
the 2020 Democratic nominee even though she's not in the race. "Here's the deal that I think is going down. I
think Hillary and Bloomberg have gotten together and cooked up a scheme," Dick Morris told John Catsimatidis on The Cats
Roundtable radio show on Sunday [2/23/2020]. He said Bloomberg would stay in the race, even if he has no chance of winning,
in an effort to get at least enough support to keep Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders from running away with the nomination.
Not
good enough,' Warren says of Bloomberg's non-disclosure agreement pledge. Democratic U.S. presidential
candidate Michael Bloomberg said on Friday that his company has identified three women bound by non-disclosure agreements
regarding his past conduct and that they would be released from their accords if they choose.
TV Networks, Led
By CNN And MSNBC, Have Aired Misleading Bloomberg Ad More Than 70 Times. TV networks, led by CNN and MSNBC, have
aired a Michael Bloomberg ad more than 70 times in recent days in which the 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful falsely
said he led New York City through 9/11. "I led a complex, diverse city through 9/11, and I have common sense plans to
move America away from chaos to progress," Bloomberg said in a 30-second campaign ad called "It Won't Work." The
problem with the claim is that Bloomberg did not take over as mayor of the Big Apple until Jan. 1, 2002, several months
after terrorists flew airplanes into the World Trade Center towers in Manhattan. Rudolph Giuliani served as mayor when
the attacks occurred.
Bloomberg's
China Apologetics Should Disqualify Him from the Presidency. Michael Bloomberg has a China problem, and his
Democratic opponents, the media, and President Trump should harp on it relentlessly: Bloomberg's accommodating stance
toward China contradicts the emerging foreign-policy consensus on China, as well as the plain evidence before our eyes.
For decades, the conventional wisdom in Washington was that China's economic liberalization would lead to political
liberalization. It was always odd that this theory caught on. The same theory had been au courant in Central and
Eastern Europe in the 1980s, and in the end political revolution proceeded economic liberalization there. Nevertheless,
Western policymakers clung to the notion that rising fortunes would create a Chinese middle class with the clout to
successfully demand basic freedoms.
Report:
Bloomberg accusers too scared to speak out on alleged harassment due to legal backlash. A number of women
accusing Democrat presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg of sexism and sexual harassment have said they want to speak out, but
are afraid of possible repercussions. According to recent reports, non-disclosure agreements (NDA) restrict the women
from saying anything bad about their former employer. The NDA's are tied to about 17 lawsuits which have claimed
Bloomberg made crude and sexist comments about women as well as fueled that culture within his company.
Bloomberg's
other campaign in Texas. On Super Tuesday, Michael Bloomberg will probably come in third in the Texas primary.
He will lose to Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden. Bloomberg is doing something else in Texas: spending money on gun
control. [...] Texas is not the super-red state of yesterday, but I don't see any evidence that Democrats in Texas want to
give up their guns.
Bloomberg:
The Democrat Man behind the Curtain. Why is former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg running for
president? It's not to win. Bloomberg is in this to affect down-ballot races. Vermont senator and stretch
limousine liberal Bread Line Bernard Sanders would likely be disastrous for the Democrats down-ballot, and they know
that. With Bloomberg, the Democrats are hoping for a 2014-type scenario, where they win the House and Senate, while the
other party has the presidency — the way the GOP won both the House and Senate in 2014. Bloomberg is enough
of a hodgepodge candidate to flip some seats blue; he's ideal for many Democrat voters, as he stands for nothing and stands
for everything — the most dangerous type of politician. Bloomberg won't win the general election versus
President Trump, but he's not in it to win it — he's in it to drive Democrat voters to the purple U.S. House
district elections (there are dozens of purple House seats up for grabs, including in Texas) and U.S. Senate races in several
states Trump won in 2016.
Michael
Bloomberg, Arrogant Elitist. There is a YouTube video featuring Michael Bloomberg speaking at the University of
Oxford on the verge of Trump's inauguration in December 2016. The video reveals much about Bloomberg's beliefs and
thinking: He is dismissive of the working class, seeing them as ignorant and insufficiently intelligent to be able to
find useful work in this advanced technological age. He sees himself as a member of an intellectual elite. And
the voters will quickly grasp his real opinion of them. They are unlikely to vote for someone who sees them as serfs in
need of guidance and patronage from nobility such as himself. In three years, Donald Trump has blown apart Bloomberg's
theory that the working class is composed of useless oafs. Under Trump's policies, the workers that Bloomberg wrote off
have found jobs and it wasn't necessary for the government to hire them with make-work programs.
Bet
on Mike Bloomberg to spend even more to recover from debate disaster. It's been said that once a man makes
bishop in the church or general in the army he never again eats a bad meal — nor will he ever be contradicted to
his face. This probably goes for billionaires, too — because if there was one crystal-clear takeaway from
Wednesday's debate, it's that nobody's been giving Mike Bloomberg any guff for a very long time. He got a face-full in
Vegas; he was startled by it, he was irritated by it, he didn't handle it well — and now the questions are:
Can he recover a credible debate form? Did he ever have one? Either way, America is still likely to find out
whether the Democratic Party is for sale — and perhaps the presidency, too.
Bloomberg
Has Poured Nearly $500 Million Into Campaign [and now] Stands At 12% In Latest Poll. Michael Bloomberg has a
lot of money; by most estimates his net worth tops $60 billion. But he's burning through cash fast as the upstart
candidate running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. The former New York City mayor has spent more than
$463 million in the first two months of his campaign, according to a report filed to the Federal Election Commission.
In January alone, Bloomberg dumped $220 million of his own money into his campaign — an average of more than
$7 million per day. Those expenditures including $126 million on TV ads and $45 million in online advertising.
Bloomberg
openly plans to win the Dems' nomination by a brokered convention in Milwaukee. The pieces are falling in place
for a complete debacle for the Democrats, up to and including a convention walkout and riots if Michael Bloomberg's plans to
gain the nomination succeed. Under that scenario, an embittered radical wing of the party convinced that they have been
betrayed in favor of a greedy plutocrat would not provide the necessary votes to defeat President Trump's ambitions for a
second term. More likely, they would back a third-party radical candidate, or stay home. But not before rioting
in protest on a scale that would make the riots at the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention that torpedoed the campaign of
Hubert Humphrey look like a garden party.
Bloomberg
[is] quietly plotting [a] brokered convention strategy. Mike Bloomberg is privately lobbying Democratic Party
officials and donors allied with his moderate opponents to flip their allegiance to him — and block Bernie
Sanders — in the event of a brokered national convention. The effort, largely executed by Bloomberg's senior
state-level advisers in recent weeks, attempts to prime Bloomberg for a second-ballot contest at the Democratic National
Convention in July by poaching supporters of Joe Biden and other moderate Democrats, according to two Democratic strategists
familiar with the talks and unaffiliated with Bloomberg.
Michael
Bloomberg spent over $200M on campaign in January. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is spending
money at breakneck speed as he seeks the Democratic presidential nomination. The billionaire spent $220 million in
January, the same dollar amount he spent from November, when Bloomberg announced his campaign, through December, according to
a Federal Election Commission filing.
Debate shrank Mini
Mike. Every wanted to see Mini Mike faceplant in last night's debate. He did not disappoint. He
went splat. He was boring and looked like Bela Lugosi. Mini Mike hoped to capitalize on this one big line:
"What a wonderful country we have. The best known socialist in the country happens to be a millionaire with three
houses. What did I miss?" This ticked off Breadline Bernie. Some reporters scored it for Mini Mike, but Bernie
getting red-faced angry at a billionaire should please the socialist majority in the party, should it not? And that is
the audience for this campaign. The press and conservatives overlook that. What amuses reporters or conservatives
does not matter. How this plays to Democrat primary voters is all that counts.
List:
32 Bloomberg Bans as Mayor of NYC. On New Year's Eve 2013, Gizmodo published a list if compiled of 32 Bloomberg
bans, some of which were overturned or merely promoted by Mayor Bloomberg. The majority of bans fell into one of three
categories: smoking, transportation and food/beverage — but, music, grass clippings and heating oils were also
targeted, the list reveals.
Bloomberg
Bombs in Vegas Debut. Bloomberg, who decided to skip the early voting primary and caucus states in favor of
delegate-rich Super Tuesday, wasn't ready for prime time. He seemed detached, unprepared, and out of touch with
working-class voters. The media and financial mogul was surging before Wednesday night, but limped away from the stage
having accomplished the opposite of what he set out to do. The much-ballyhooed billionaire, touted as the savior who
could rescue the Democratic Party from itself — or rather, from its insurgent socialist wing — and take
the fight to Donald Trump with an endless supply of cash, took a beating from the other candidates and the debate
moderators. And the end of the night it must have seemed apparent to him that he'd brought a wallet to a knife fight.
The
Democrat Left is cruel and sadistic. Now joining our immature and cruel left is mini-Mike Bloomberg, perhaps
the most tone-deaf Democrat candidate yet. He's an elitist snob if there ever were one. The thirty-year history
of his utterances, his intolerance of nearly all of us for one reason or another, is appalling. He too is not only
unkind, but ruthless, and he thinks so little of the American people that he believes he can literally purchase the
presidency. The Democrats are indeed a cold-blooded bunch of wannabe tyrants; Bloomberg is just less circumspect about
his sadism. [...] All Republicans, all conservatives, had better vote this November like their lives and freedom depend on it
because they do. Bloomberg got away with limiting the size of sodas and NY City's salt intake. Imagine what
lengths he would go to in order to control our lives if president.
Michael
Bloomberg's campaign implodes onstage in Nevada Democratic debate. Mike Bloomberg's millions in campaign
spending flew right out the window Wednesday night [2/19/2020]. The billionaire's self-bankrolled presidential bid was
torn to shreds in the opening minutes of Wednesday's Democratic debate as his opponents skewered him for his checkered past
on sexual harassment and his record on stop-and-frisk. Each candidate on the Las Vegas stage attacked Bloomberg right
out the gate, and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren made the former Big Apple mayor visibly squirm and roll his eyes
in frustration. "I'd like to talk about who we're running against, a billionaire who calls women 'fat broads' and
'horse-faced lesbians,'" she said from the Paris Theater.
CNN
Calls It: 'Bloomberg Was Awful,' 'Titanic, Meet Iceberg,' Fist to His Face. The first three words of CNN's
analysis after Wednesday's Nevada Democratic presidential debate, provided by chief political analyst Gloria Borger, summed
up the panel's consensus: "Bloomberg was awful." Whether it was comparisons to the Titanic or getting punched in the
face, the criticism only got worse as the liberal panel began to mock former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg for being
grossly unprepared to field the obvious questions about his record.
The
Billionaire And The 'Moderates' Are Socialists Too. Socialism vs. centrism is a charade. The only choice
among all these candidates is between Bernie and Bernie Lite. [...] Bloomberg, with his strong authoritarian tendencies,
seeking to dictate what size soda New Yorkers are allowed to drink and imposing aggressive police tactics — two
policies that were both knocked down by the courts — may actually be the most frightening Democrat of all.
Because if he could do the harm he's done with tens of billions of dollars of his own money, imagine if he were allowed to
spend trillions of dollars of other people's money.
Mike Bloomberg: The Incredible Shrinking Candidate.
[Scroll down] The whole debate offers an astonishing indictment of the current Democrat party that a guy like
Mr. Bloomberg can rocket to the top of the heap without a single day of actual campaigning and in spite of his political
record. Just a few elections back, he endorsed former President George W. Bush, a Republican, for re-election.
[Indeed], Mr. Bloomberg himself was a Republican more recently than that. And in 2012, Mr. Bloomberg only
begrudgingly endorsed former President Barack Obama — a Democrat — for re-election just days before the
election. Today, of course, Mr. Bloomberg is running tens of millions of dollars worth of ads claiming that he was
a crucial right-hand man of Mr. Obama's during his presidency.
Bloomberg
campaign paying workers $2,500 per month to promote Bloomberg through texts, social media. Former New York City
Mayor Mike Bloomberg is ramping up his spending in California, paying staffers to promote him through social media posts and
text messages to friends and family. Bloomberg's campaign is hiring more than 500 "deputy digital organizers" in
California for this purpose. The Wall Street Journal first reported that these "deputy digital organizers" will work
between 20 and 30 hours a week, making $2,500 a month.
The Bloom Is Off. The attacks
on Michael Bloomberg came early and often at Wednesday's debate in Las Vegas, but none of them, of course, touched on his
infamous "kill it" comment to a pregnant subordinate. No, the party of abortion at all stages wasn't going to touch
that one. Instead, Elizabeth Warren focused on Bloomberg's thoughts about "horse-faced lesbians" and "fat broads."
Bloomberg has paid advisers millions of dollars to prepare him for just such moments, but he still acted like he was
answering the challenges for the first time. He came off as cold and flat-footed — the unlikeable technocrat
trying woodenly to make himself palatable to a left-wing audience with half-hearted answers.
How
The Ruling Class Might Elect Bloomberg and Realign American Politics. The Democratic Party's establishment
might well succeed in making Michael Bloomberg president of the United States — not on Election Night 2020,
however. But it could happen if a third party were to win some electoral votes and, with no candidate receiving a
majority of them, the House of Representatives was called upon to choose between the top-two electoral vote-getters.
Today's civil war within the Democratic Party makes it possible that two candidates will come from it: Bernie Sanders
for the Woke Left, and Bloomberg for the establishment. In that case, enough establishment Republicans in the House
might join their establishment Democratic colleagues to defeat Trump. This would realign U.S. politics: a consolidated,
single, left-trending establishment party would rule, opposed by the extreme Left as well as by the Right.
Bloomberg
Recommended Confronting Native American Tribes with Cowboy Hat, Shotgun. Democratic presidential hopeful Mike
Bloomberg suggested the governor of New York don a cowboy hat and stare down Native American tribes with a shotgun over a
disagreement on cigarette taxes. Bloomberg, who had then just been elected to a third term as mayor of New York City,
made the insensitive comments during his weekly segment on WOR 710-AM with John Gambling in August 2010. At the time,
then-New York governor David Patterson was proposing to tax cigarettes sold on Native American reservations in hopes of
raising revenue to fill the state's budget deficit.
Bloomberg
in debate: Billions of dollars, zero vision. Michael Bloomberg had a lot of bad moments in his first
debate as a Democratic candidate for president. He had little to say when Elizabeth Warren slammed him for having
called some women, at various times in the past, "fat broads" and "horse-faced lesbians." He seemed conflicted about
stop-and-frisk. He was weak when confronted with his practice of making some women who worked for him sign
non-disclosure agreements. But even with all that, Bloomberg saved the worst for last.
Imagine
That — Mini Mike Bloomberg Qualifies for Nevada DNC Debate With Lift From NBC Poll. On the eve of
the Nevada Democrat presidential primary debate, the financier of the 2020 DNC Club magically happens to qualify thanks to an
NBC poll. You couldn't write a more transparently obvious DNC Club road-map, and get people to believe it. [...] To be
fair, this needs to happen. Bloomberg needs to finally stand in front of his peers and take the heat. However,
the transparency of the road-map being deployed by the Club is stunning in its brazen deployment. Bernie Sanders
supporters have to see how transparent this manipulative scheme from the professional DNC class really has become.
Panicked
Democrat Establishment Turns To Bloomberg. This wasn't how the 2020 race was supposed to be. The
establishment had a plan to take back control of Washington, D.C. Donald Trump had seized control and they needed to get it
back. After surveying the options, the plan was to give Joe Biden, President Obama's vice president, the
nomination. The media did their part, suppressing negative messaging about the 77-year-old who has never won a
presidential primary or caucus. They pushed an impeachment designed to suppress President Trump's numbers heading into
the election year. Instead, it helped Trump and hurt Democrats.
Bloomberg
Is Now 'Highest Spending Presidential Candidate of All Time'. Liberal billionaire 2020 presidential candidate
Michael Bloomberg is willing to spend $2 billion to defeat President Donald Trump, and he continues to put his money where
his mouth is. Advertising Analytics, which provides information on advertising spending, said in a tweet that
"@MikeBloomberg is the highest spending presidential candidate of all time." Bloomberg has apparently spent a jaw-dropping
"$338.7M on traditional media, surpassing @BarackObama's 2012 record of $338.3M," Advertising Analytics said Feb. 18.
The billionaire has poured an unheard of $401 million into his personal campaign within just the first three months of his
bid. All of it came from his own wallet. He spent over $180 million in the first month alone.
Mike
Bloomberg's supremely materialistic, anti-human ideology. Bloomberg's odd apology for China's authoritarian
communist regime is not some weird blind spot. His embrace of stop-and-frisk policing was not just some New York City
thing. And his nanny-statism on sodas, cigarettes, and trans fats is not merely an over-enthusiasm for clean
living. Nor is Bloomberg an inconsistent thinker or some nonideological independent. He has a very clear view of
the world that underlies his economic policies, his social policies, his personal life, and his behavior. Bloomberg's
ideology is neither left nor right. Instead, his worldview is supremely materialistic, and ultimately inhuman. In
Bloomberg's eyes, any talk of the dignity of the human person is mawkish sentimentality. Mike Bloomberg doesn't see
people as ends in themselves, but instead as means to ends.
Michael
Bloomberg Proposed Ban on Baby Formula as NYC Mayor. As New York City mayor, Michael Bloomberg demanded that
mothers breastfeed their babies and insisted hospitals keep baby formula under lock and key. In 2012, the current
Democrat presidential candidate created the "Latch On" initiative, which exerted control over a mother's decision on how to
feed her baby.
No,
Michael Bloomberg will not 'Get It Done'. One of Wall Street's biggest complaints is congressional binge
spending. Bloomberg and his Democrats would only make matters worse and tank the market. They'd first make sure
they were out of the market and then pick up the pieces for a song. Bloomberg is an internationalist in the Soros mold,
as are Sanders/Ocasio-Cortez socialists. That's a combination this country can't afford. The Federal Reserve
wouldn't be able to print money fast enough to cover the astronomical costs. Hyperinflation is death. Donald
Trump's total wealth is a small fraction of Bloomberg's. I bring this up because asset divestiture will certainly be a
requirement should Bloomberg get the nod in Milwaukee this summer. They don't make mattresses that big, however.
Bloomberg
Accused of Helping Communist China Suppress Embarrassing News Stories. Writing at the Intercept on Tuesday,
Leta Hong Fincher described herself as "one of the many women Mike Bloomberg's company tried to silence through nondisclosure
agreements," even though she never actually worked for Bloomberg's companies. Her husband did, however, and according
to Fincher, Bloomberg brought enormous pressure to bear against the couple to suppress news reports that were embarrassing to
Communist China.
Bloomberg
Once Called Excessive Spending on Campaign Ads 'Obscene'. Billionaire Michael Bloomberg has already poured
hundreds of millions of dollars into his last-minute presidential bid, but the 2020 Democratic hopeful once described
multimillion-dollar ad campaigns as "obscene" spending that would "annoy people." Bloomberg dismissed 2001 reports that he
would spend upward of $30 million on his initial run for mayor in New York City. "At some point, you start to look
obscene," Bloomberg told New York magazine. "There's a limited amount of ad time you can buy. It becomes
dysfunctional; you annoy people with ads." Bloomberg went on to spend $73 million on his mayoral campaign, outspending
his Democratic challenger Mark Green five-to-one.
'Isn't
that called a payoff?': Trump accuses Bloomberg of 'illegal campaign' contributions. President Trump accused
former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg of trying to buy the presidency and claimed the billionaire was guilty of
illegal campaign spending. "What Mini Mike is doing is nothing less than a large scale illegal campaign contribution,"
Trump tweeted Tuesday. "He is 'spreading' money all over the place, only to have recipients of his cash payments, many
former opponents, happily joining or supporting his campaign. Isn't that called a payoff?"
Bloomberg
prepared to sell media empire for billions on 2020 win. Billionaire businessman and former New York City Mayor
Michael Bloomberg — who is among the 2020 contenders — is prepared to divest his company if he wins the
White House in November. "If elected President, Mike will sell the company," a spokeswoman confirmed to FOX Business on
Tuesday. The plans were first reported by The Wall Street Journal. In January 2019, before Bloomberg officially
entered the race the following November, FOX Business reported that employees at the organization had been raising
conflict-of-interest questions in regards to what Bloomberg will do with the media empire if he did run.
The
Rise of Democratic Idiocracy. [Scroll down] Conveniently disavowing the conservative governing principles
he embraced to great advantage while serving as mayor of New York, Bloomberg has tried to fall right in line with current
Democratic talking points. But an unexpected audio clip of him enthusiastically defending effective 'stop-and frisk'
practice some years ago has given lie to his credibility as a minority-loving candidate in the Democratic mold. His
advertising theme is emblematic of the difficulties the Democrats face: "Mike will get it done." Get what
done? Reduce unemployment, especially in the minority community? Increase wages? Reduce minority poverty
and their need for food stamps? Make us energy independent, immune from worldwide oil shocks? To "Get it done,"
Mike will have to create a new Bizarro world, a world where everything is different. In the real world — the
one where we all live — President Trump has already gotten it done.
Mike
Bloomberg said 'many black and Latino males' don't 'know how to behave in the workplace'. Michael Bloomberg is
again under fire for his problematic comments on race, with a resurfaced video showing the 2020 Presidential hopeful claiming
that many young black and Latino men 'don't know how to behave in the workforce'. The billionaire, 78, made the assertion
during a 2011 interview with PBS, which is now going viral amidst outrage over Bloomberg's other controversial remarks.
Bloomberg's 'mercenaries':
Billionaire Dem funding network of climate lawyers inside state AG offices. A program funded by 2020
presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg is paying the salaries of lawyers who are farmed out to liberal state attorney
general offices to pursue climate-based litigation — a compact critics say amounts to Bloomberg buying state law
enforcement employees to advance his preferred political agenda. The arrangement, which currently pays the salaries of
Special Assistant Attorneys General (SAAGs) in 10 Democratic AG offices, is drawing new scrutiny now that Bloomberg is
running for president. The New York University School of Law's State Energy & Environmental Impact Center, which was
started in 2017 with $5.6 million from Bloomberg's nonprofit, hires mid-career lawyers as "research fellows" before providing
them to state AGs where they assist in pursuing "progressive" policy goals through the courts.
Victor
Davis Hanson destroys Bloomberg for his ignorant remarks denigrating the skills and intelligence of farmers.
Victor Davis Hanson is the perfect person to refute the arrogance of former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who denigrated
the "grey matter" needed by farmers in now-infamous remarks to a group of elitists at Aspen. Hanson is not only a
brilliant historian of ancient Greece and a political commentator with few if any peers, he is also a fifth-generation
farmer. He understands the skills and brainpower needed to be an academic or other elite member of the analytical
class, and he understands the skill sets and brainpower needed to be a successful farmer today. And in his mind, there
is no contest. This is absolutely must-see TV. [Video clip]
Bloomberg's
spending binge cannot hide that he's a nasty bit of work. Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg is
currently trying to buy the Democrat nomination. His spending doesn't just buy recognition; it keeps him from having to
appear in person, revealing how nasty he is.
Bloomberg's
China Conflict of Interest. The inevitable cratering of Joe Biden's campaign, accelerated by the impeachment
fiasco orchestrated by Nancy Pelosi and the inexorable rise of Bernie Sanders, has caused the Ruling Class to turn their
lonely eyes to a hoped-for savior, Michael Bloomberg. But along with Bloomberg comes his de facto business partner and
long-time close ally: China, a nation determined to destabilize American security, prosperity and freedom while growing
more tyrannical and secretive internally and more dangerous than ever externally as it faces a potential economic and
societal cataclysm.
Michael
Bloomberg comes under fire for dig at farming suggesting it's easy. Former New York City Mayor Michael
Bloomberg appeared dismissive of America's farmers, claiming he could teach 'anybody' to be a farmer. The Boston area
native made the comments at the University of Oxford while discussing how an ancient agrarian society transformed into an
information-driven economy — of the kind that helped him become the billionaire head of a media technology empire.
'The agrarian society lasted 3,000 years and we could teach processes. I could teach anybody, even people in this room, no
offense intended, to be a farmer,' Bloomberg said during his 2016 remarks.
Video
of Bloomberg belittling farming, factory work as jobs requiring less 'gray matter'. It's beginning to look as
though the Trump campaign won't have to work that hard to defeat Michael Bloomberg, should he become the Democratic
nominee. Bloomberg has already done the work for them. Each day a new video or story springs up that casts the
former New York City mayor in a negative light.
Bloomberg
campaign downplays report he is considering Hillary Clinton as running mate. Billionaire Mike Bloomberg's
presidential campaign on Saturday downplayed a report that he is considering 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton as his
pick for vice president. The Drudge Report, citing a source close to Bloomberg's campaign, reported that Clinton was
under consideration after internal polling found that a Bloomberg-Clinton ticket would be a "formidable force."
Go
Ahead Bloomberg, Name Hillary As Your Running Mate. We Dare You! [Scroll down] Drudge went so far
as to claim sources placed so close to the former NYC mayor he stated Bloomberg was admitting he was willing to move his
residence to Florida or Colorado to escape the electoral college dilemma of the president and veep being from the same
state. The New York Post reporting breathlessly on the same story literally broke the internet with the amount of
celebrity retweet/reactions it garnered. Actor James Woods parroting a well-timed (if not grossly overused) meme of
"Death Wish..." (A not so subtle reminder that people die mysteriously around the Clintons — especially when
standing between them and the ascension to power).
Despite
What You've Heard, Bloomberg Is No Centrist. On issue after issue, Bloomberg is as radical, or slightly less
so, than socialist Bernie Sanders. In fact, on taxes, health care, the environment, gun control, there is little light
between the two. Here's a rundown. Taxing the "rich": Bloomberg wants to raise the top rate back to 39.6%,
impose a 5% surtax on incomes above $5 million, and tax capital gains as ordinary income for those making more than
$1 million. He'd also sharply raise taxes on inherited wealth, and hike corporate taxes. All of which is nearly
identical to what Sanders proposes. Environmental extremism: Bloomberg is as radical as Sanders when it comes to
fighting "climate change." He promises to cut carbon dioxide emissions in half in a decade, and — ditto
Sanders — completely decarbonize the nation by 2050. It's a goal that, if attempted, would destroy the
economy. Minimum wage hikes: Bloomberg, like Sanders, wants to impose a job-killing $15 federal minimum [w]age.
The Editor says...
Carbon dioxide is not carbon. Nobody will ever "completely decarbonize the nation."
Presidential
Hopeful Michael Bloomberg Turns 78 as Top Democrat Candidates Near 80. Former New York City Mayor and
presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg (D) celebrated his 78th birthday on Friday, emphasizing the increasing reality that
the top tier of Democrat candidates is inching toward 80 years of age. Bloomberg, born February 14, 1942, turned 78 on
Friday. Now that recent national polls — as reflected in the RealClearPolitics average — show the
billionaire in the top tier of Democrat candidates, one can officially say that three septuagenarians are the front-runners
in the Democrat primary race.
Bloomberg/Clinton
Would Be The Most Anti-Gun Ticket In History. Are you ready for Bloomberg/Clinton 2020? I'm not sure the
nation's firearms industry could handle the surge in demand such a pairing would cause, but according to Matt Drudge, the
anti-gun billionaire is considering the possibility after internal polling by the Bloomberg campaign showed the pair would be
"a formidable force." Bloomberg's been getting a lot of attention in the wake of Joe Biden's face plant in Iowa and New
Hampshire, and has closed the gap in polling over the last few weeks, aided by his massive spending.
The Editor says...
One could easily surmise that Mr. Bloomberg will insist on the finest medical care for himself, should the need arise, even though he's nearly 80 already.
Mike
Bloomberg belittles farming, factory jobs as having less 'gray matter' in video. Former New York Mayor Michael
Bloomberg once said that farming and factory jobs don't require much gray matter, as opposed to information-era jobs.
In a 2016 talk at Oxford University in England, a clip of which went viral over the weekend, the 2020 Democratic presidential
contender belittled both agricultural and industrial jobs as simple and simplistic. "I could teach anybody, even the
people in this room" to be a farmer, he said, calling agriculture "a process."
Michael
Bloomberg's employees created a book purportedly full of his offensive quotes. Michael Bloomberg's presidential
campaign has struggled to fully address the nominee's well-documented history with women and people of color. One key
aspect of that struggle is Bloomberg's own company, Bloomberg LP. Indeed, some of the candidate's purportedly most outrageous
remarks were originally memorialized by his own employees in an actual booklet that has been passed around, samizdat-style,
for decades by his former staffers, journalists, and political operatives. The booklet — "The Portable
Bloomberg: The Wit and Wisdom of Michael Bloomberg" — was crafted by Bloomberg LP employees looking to roast
their boss by compiling his allegedly most crude, sexist, and seemingly off-color quips over the years. It was presented
to him as a gift for his 48th birthday, on Valentine's Day 1990.
The
Revolution Will Be Subsidized By Bloomberg. The apparent disagreements among the "centrist" and "radical"
Democratic presidential candidates are not significant or substantial. In the end, they will unite and depend on Mike
Bloomberg's billions of dollars to take down President Trump. Mr. "Stop-and-Frisk" has already pledged $2 billion
or more to do so. This makes Trump beatable. If you don't think money matters, look at Bloomberg's rise in
the polls based on millions of dollars of commercials alone. Bloomberg is not a socialist but a technocrat prepared to
usher in a socialist state. He wants to bring "Stop-and-Frisk" to all of us, on a nationwide basis. This means
getting shoved up against a wall and losing our economic, political, and personal freedoms.
Mike
Bloomberg 'wants Hillary Clinton as his running mate', sources close to his campaign tell Drudge. Mike
Bloomberg is considering making Hillary Clinton his running mate, a source close to his campaign has told Drudge
Report. Polling found the Bloomberg-Clinton combination would be a formidable force to take on Trump in the race for
the White House, the source said. Former New York City Mayor and Democratic candidate Bloomberg is said to be
considering even changing his official residence from New York to Colorado or Florida, where he also has homes, because
the electoral college makes it difficult for US president and vice-president to reside in the same state.
Another
Reason Why Bloomberg Will Never Be President. Michael Bloomberg's campaign has leaked to the Drudge Report that
Bloomberg is considering asking Hillary Clinton to be his running mate. This story doesn't have much significance, on
its face; the fact that a candidate is "considering" something isn't exactly news. But it does reflect a few things:
[#1] I take it that Bloomberg is trying to beef up his bona fides as a "real" Democrat. [...] [#2] The Democrats
still don't seem to understand what a terrible candidate Clinton was in 2016. She was unlikable, she had nothing new to
offer on the issues, and she was not physically up to the rigors of a campaign. And now she is four years older.
The Editor says...
It would take a brave man to run for President and invite Hillary Clinton to be Vice-President, considering all
the bad things that seem to happen to those who get in Hillary's way.
Michael
Bloomberg's nonmarriage is not a great example. Michael Bloomberg can live his life however he wants.
(I wish he would extend that same liberty to the rest of us.) But we in the media ought not celebrate his 20-year
relationship with his lady-friend whom he won't marry.
Bloomberg
Adviser Gets Short With NYT Reporter About Candidate's Height. A Michael Bloomberg adviser was cut down to size
by a New York Times reporter Thursday after trying to claim the Democratic presidential candidate was not
self-conscious about his height. Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman disputed one reporter's claim
that the Bloomberg campaign was secretly happy about President Donald Trump calling the former New York City mayor a "5'4"
mass of dead energy." "The height thing is one of the few things that actually bothers the candidate," Haberman said
in a tweet.
Why Is Bloomberg's Long History of Egregious
Sexism Getting a Pass? In December 2015, employees at Everytown for Gun Safety, the gun control organization
funded by Mike Bloomberg, arrived at work to find a holiday gift on their desks from their employer: the former mayor's 1997
autobiography, Bloomberg by Bloomberg. Flipping through the book, staffers found themselves uncomfortably reading
their billionaire founder's boasts about keeping "a girlfriend in every city" and other womanizing exploits as a Wall Street
up-and-comer. "A few people started immediately going through it and sending the cringe-iest parts around on email
chains," one former Everytown employee told me. "Hardly the most controversial things he's said, but it's still a bad
look." Indeed, Bloomberg's casual boasts about his sex life in his own autobiography are now some of the least problematic
parts of the his candidacy for president.
NYT's
Thomas Friedman Begs Dems to Nominate 'Moderate Progressive' Bloomberg. You know politics have gotten weird
when a liberal New York Times columnist begs Democrat voters to abandon Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in favor of
nominating Michael Bloomberg to lead the Democratic ticket. Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman wrote a wacky
February 11, op-ed headlined "Paging Michael Bloomberg." In the piece, Friedman suggested Bloomberg, owner of Bloomberg News,
was more capable of appealing "to independents, moderate Republicans and suburban women" than self-proclaimed democratic socialist
Sanders. Friedman was determined to get Democrats not to nominate Sanders: "Please, Democrats, don't tell me you need
Sanders's big, ill-thought-through, revolutionary grand schemes to get inspired and mobilized for this election."
Leaked
Audio of Bloomberg Stop and Frisk Support Goes Viral. Five years ago, while speaking at the Aspen Institute,
Michael Bloomberg defended his stance on "stop and frisk" which his mayoral administration strongly supported. The
audio was unearthed by Progressive podcast host Benjamin Dixon, and it quickly went viral. While some may support the
policy of "stop and frisk," many on the left see it as a highly racist policy, and others even go as far as to call it racial
terrorism.
The
Democrats: A Corrupt, Insane Posse Masquerading as a Political Party. Some viewing the weak field of
Democratic contenders are placing their bets on another old White Male Hope — the latecomer, billionaire Michael
Bloomberg. He spent $20 million in Iowa to garner 20 votes. If he seriously campaigns from now to the
election, and maintains that spending pattern, I think he'd still lose but it would be a bigger boon for the economy, especially
Democrat coders, consultants, pilots of private planes, and ad agencies, than any other stimulus package I can imagine.
If
You Think It's Bad for Mainstream Democrats Now, Just Wait. [Scroll down] To be sure, if Bloomberg is the
last Democrat standing against Sanders, he may well attract substantial support from Democratic elected officials and put up
a strong fight. Still, he would face enormous opposition from the left. This is, after all, a billionaire who endorsed
George W. Bush in 2004. And while the left has previously whipped itself into an angry frenzy against, successively,
O'Rourke, Biden, Harris, and Buttigieg, the rage against Bloomberg would reach a new level. At that point, the victory
scenario would involve a long, bloody struggle all the way to the convention, with the Sanders movement claiming at every
step of the way that the party is rigging the race against them, culminating in a convention where his enraged supporters
will again try to shout down the proceedings.
Mike
Bloomberg: Those Uneducated Midwest Rubes Are Just Too Stupid for Trans Bathrooms. Back in 2016, former
New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg made elitist and demeaning comments about Midwestern rubes who are too uneducated to
support transgender bathroom access. The remarks, which resurfaced on Friday, illustrate the patronizing attitude many
pro-transgender activists have toward those who dare to disagree with the view that gender identity overrides biological
sex. Ironically, transgender activists were triggered by how the former mayor insulted the Midwesterners who disagree
with them. Speaking to an audience at Oxford University and addressing the Brexit vote, Bloomberg said, "We, the
intelligentsia, the people who could make it into this room, we believe a lot of things in terms of equality and protecting
individual rights that make no sense to the vast bulk of people."
Anti-billionaire
Bernie has billionaire Bloomberg to worry about. Bernie Sanders has been agitating against billionaires for
years. From the Senate floor to the presidential campaign trail, Sanders targets the billionaire class and the outsized
influence of moneyed interests. Now, the anti-billionaire candidate may face an extraordinary showdown with a real
billionaire.
Bloomberg's
naked bid to buy the White House is an assault on democracy. Former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg has elbowed
himself into the Democratic nomination race solely on the basis of his fortune. His campaign is high-handed as only a
billionaire many times over could even contemplate. He entered late, is skipping the early contests and hasn't
participated in any of the debates to date (although that will change soon, thanks to the Democratic National Committee
retrofitting its rules for Bloomberg). Without more than $50 billion to his name, Bloomberg would almost certainly be
running a campaign like another late entrant, former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, who hasn't been heard from.
Bloomberg's political strategy has always been built on the belief that nothing succeeds like excess. If he wants it,
he can buy it; money is no object.
Bloomberg
spent $10 million on a Super Bowl ad that was a complete fabrication. Far-left Democratic presidential
candidate Mike Bloomberg is an anti-gun radical. So, naturally, he ran a $10 million anti-gun Super Bowl commercial
Sunday. The only problem is he gave misleading information about the subject of the ad and he cited incorrect data on
gun-related deaths for children that included adults and suicides. Furthermore, he didn't bother to mention the
problems are suicides and gangs, not guns.
Bloomberg's
Super Bowl anti-gun ad blows up on him — white billionaire disarming minorities not a good look.
Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg's $10 million gun control advertisement may not have the impact he was
hoping for. Bloomberg's 60-second commercial touting gun control aired during the 2020 Super Bowl and quickly sparked
negative reactions from defenders of the Second Amendment, members of the National Rifle Association and even top Democrat
strategists. The ad focused on the shooting death of a young football player, George Kemp, in 2013. [...] Across the
bottom of the screen, the caption read: "2,900 children die from gun violence every year." Kemp was not a child, but
was 20 years old at the time of his death in an incident reportedly gang-related.
Michael
Bloomberg's Campaign Spent Over $180,000,000 in First Month of Presidential Bid. Liberal billionaire Democratic
presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg is whipping out ridiculous amounts of cash to beat President Donald Trump in
November. Recent Federal Election Commission records revealed that the campaign for the billionaire owner of Bloomberg
News had spent over a whopping $180 million just in the first month of his candidacy, CNBC reported Jan. 31.
"Bloomberg spent more during that month than any of his individual Democratic rivals have raised in total during the cycle,"
CNBC said. Bloomberg had also personally contributed over $200 million to his own campaign.
Elizabeth
Warren: DNC 'Shouldn't Change Rules to Let a Billionaire On'. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) expressed
frustration on Friday that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) removed the donor requirements for upcoming
debates — a move that opens the door for Michael Bloomberg (D) to participate. The DNC is adjusting the
requirements to qualify for upcoming debates, raising the polling threshold but ditching the donor requirements
altogether. The move effectively opens the door for Bloomberg, who has been rising in the polls but has been unable to
participate in Democrat debates due to the donor requirements and his decision to self-fund his campaign.
Bernie
Supporter Michael Moore is Furious at DNC For Supporting Billionaire Mike Bloomberg. Billionaire Michael
Bloomberg spent tens-of-millions in 2017 and 2018 to help elect House democrat candidates. Additionally, Bloomberg
funds various political activist organizations for issue specifics like gun restrictions. The DNC and Bloomberg are
like peas and carrots. Remember, the DNC are RNC are private clubs. They can do anything they want, support
anyone they want, and disavow anyone they want. Nothing matters more to the Club boardroom than dollars; and
specifically how they can translate those dollars into power.
The
Democrat Primary Nomination is Bernie's to Lose — DNC Club Positions Bloomberg. Democrat
presidential candidate Bernie Sanders now leads most polls in the key states where the democrat primary battle will
begin. With the grassroots Bernie-AOC wing carrying all the enthusiasm and momentum time is running out for the DNC
club. Factually I would argue that Bernie has always led in the polls, but party operatives in alignment with the
apparatus of media have manipulated the media poll outcomes in an effort to steer the chosen narrative from the DNC
boardroom. It's just how they roll. CTH uses alternate matrices to gauge support, including monitoring social
media and looking for the club's traditional Astroturf fingerprints. That said, the dynamic within the factional
Democrat party is now quite remarkable. Despite the transparent hit-jobs by DNC operatives against him, Bernie is in
position to win every early state and he has a clear and visible path to the nomination. But the club has made some
conspicuous counter moves.
Michael
Bloomberg Isn't Really Running For President, And That Should Worry You. There is very good reason to believe
Michael Bloomberg isn't actually running for president. Of course, there is plenty of evidence to the contrary.
For one, he declared he is. He's also hired more than 1,000 staff and is still expanding, offering salaries far above
campaign averages. This week, he became the first of the declared candidates to have campaigned in all 14 states of
March 3's Super Tuesday primary battle, and he's spent a quarter billion on political advertising so far. All would
point toward Bloomberg indeed running for president. But here's the snag: He wanted to do all of this anyway.
Everything, that is, but the declaration bit.
Why
is serial sexist Mike Bloomberg getting away with using NDAs to silence women? The same woke Left that canceled
a scientist for an edgy t-shirt and jumped to smear teenage Trump supporters from Covington Catholic as racists has yet to
cancel 2020 Democratic candidate Michael Bloomberg, who actually deserves it. Apparently, there are different standards
for left-wing billionaires who pour their money into anti-Second Amendment advocacy and other liberal causes.
Michael
Bloomberg Does Not Rule Out Spending a Whopping $1,000,000,000 to Beat Trump. The New York Times reported Jan.
11 that Bloomberg "did not rule out spending a billion dollars of his own money on the 2020 presidential race, even if he
does not win the Democratic nomination". The Times noted that Bloomberg would mobilize his "well-financed political
operation" to help rivals Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), "despite their sharp policy
differences." Is this attempt to buy the election a showcase of political expediency or just downright obsession?
Bloomberg has already spent a massive $200 million on advertising for his campaign, The Times noted. He is also
spending $10 million on an anti-Trump ad spot for the Super Bowl Feb. 2.
Bloomberg
not so popular as presidential candidate. Over the weekend, I saw a ton of "Bloomberg for president" TV
ads. They were good and probably very expensive. On the ground in Texas, Mr. Bloomberg got off to an
unimpressive start.
Bloomberg
is rich, aloof and imperious — is this really what Dems want for president? The curious campaign of
Michael Bloomberg raises a question: Can a billionaire buy the Democratic nomination? In his late bid for the
nomination that skips the first four contests, which historically launch the nominee, Bloomberg has placed a big bet that big
bucks can overcome all. Bloomberg has a history of short-circuiting the traditional political process and
winning. The hallmarks of his victorious mayoral races in New York City were an overwhelming financial advantage, a
blizzard of ads that saturated the airwaves, piecing together a disparate coalition, and little personal contact with voters.
Michael
Bloomberg Is Spending All His Money to 'Get Rid of Donald Trump'. Every cent he has is going toward ousting
President Trump, billionaire Michael Bloomberg (D) said Saturday [1/12/2020] in Texas. "Number one priority is to get
rid of Donald Trump. I'm spending all my money to get rid of Trump. Do you want me to spend more or less?
End of story," the 2020 presidential hopeful told Reuters during an interview on his campaign bus.
Small
showing for Bloomberg rally with Judge Judy despite campaign's big spending. Former New York Mayor Michael
Bloomberg claims he is ready to spend more than $1 billion in an effort to oust President Trump, but money may not be
bringing supporters to his campaign. Just 45 people showed up to Bloomberg's latest rally with TV star Judge Judy
Sheindlin in Texas on Saturday, according to the New York Post. "Unlike everyone else in this race, I think what's
important is beating Donald Trump," Bloomberg told the sparse crowd of fewer than 50 people in San Antonio.
Michael
Bloomberg Spending $10,000,000 for 60-Sec. Super Bowl Ad. Liberal billionaire presidential candidate
Michael Bloomberg has been putting his money where his mouth is by spending millions on campaign ads attacking President
Donald Trump. Now, he's taking his left-wing campaign message to the Super Bowl. NBC News reported Jan. 7 that
both Bloomberg and Trump "each plan to spend $10 million for advertisements during the telecast of next month's Super Bowl."
How
Bloomberg just tanked any possible support from teachers unions. New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg is
playing catchup in terms of getting all of his policy proposals fleshed out and published for public inspection. But
his team has been hard at work trying to get all of their bases covered and this week they're preparing to release his
education plan. A lot of it is fairly standard material by Democratic Party standards, with plenty of free stuff and
more taxpayer funding going into the public school system. But there's one portion of the summary that will definitely
set Bloomberg apart from the rest of the field, and probably not in a good way. Similar to how he ran things as Mayor
of New York City, Mike will be throwing his support to charter schools.
Bloomberg
sees California as model for U.S.. The Democratic presidential candidate and former New York City mayor likes a
lot of what he sees in the Golden State and thinks its efforts on climate change, gun control and criminal justice reform
sets a benchmark for other states to emulate. "I think that California can serve as a great example for the rest of
this country," Bloomberg told supporters at the opening of his Angeles headquarters.
Mike
Bloomberg has spent nearly $15 million to be in your Google search results. The 77-year-old former New York
City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is running for president, on a centrist-friendly platform that's mainly premised on beating
incumbent Donald Trump. What makes Bloomberg's campaign stand out, however, isn't his positions: it's how much he's
spending to get his message out. Google "impeachment," for example, and you'll probably get an ad at the top of the
page that promotes Bloomberg's campaign. Same goes for "climate change" and "gun safety." It's all over the place, but
it does guarantee the eyeballs of people who are searching for answers related to ongoing political conversations brought up
in the race. And those ads aren't cheap.
Bloomberg:
We can't just let 'average' Americans have guns. Democrats have long wanted to take away guns from Americans,
and two candidates for president are making no bones about their plans. Billionaire Michael Bloomberg, who has a
mini-army of bodyguards around him whenever he moves, says guns aren't for "average" people.
Bloomberg
[is] Just Another Also-Ran with [a] Fat Wallet and Bad Ideas. Here we go again: another billionaire
iconoclast kickstarts a presidential campaign, saturating major markets with advertising. Known for funding campaigns
for higher energy costs and costly climate crusades, contestant #293291 (approximately) for the Democratic nomination is
former New York mayor and anti-harm reduction crusader Michael Bloomberg. And like the vast majority of mega-rich
candidates of elections past, he will almost certainly lose by a landslide. But, if Bloomberg manages to beat the odds
and win the Democratic primary, it will not be because of the hundreds of millions of dollars he's spending on
advertisements. Billionaires win elections just as the other candidates do, by convincing voters that the government
will work for Americans instead of driving up their cost of living.
Bloomberg's
sexist remarks fostered company culture that degraded women, lawsuits allege. Mike Bloomberg has on repeated
occasions faced and fought allegations that he directed crude and sexist comments to women in his office, including a claim
in the 1990s that he told an employee who had just announced she was pregnant to "kill it." "He told me to
'kill it' in a serious monotone voice," the woman alleged in a lawsuit. "I asked 'What? What did you just
say?' He looked at me and repeated in a deliberate manner 'kill it.'" Bloomberg has repeatedly denied that specific
allegation — which arose in a discrimination lawsuit that was settled out of court. But over the years a number
of women have alleged in legal filings that Bloomberg's use of lewd comments around co-workers fostered a frat-like culture at
the company he founded and still owns.
Bloomberg
calls for closing all coal-fired power plants to combat climate change. Democratic presidential candidate Mike
Bloomberg is calling for a 50 percent reduction in carbon emissions over the next 10 years to battle climate change. To
achieve that goal, the former New York City mayor and multi-billionaire business and media mogul on Friday [12/13/2019] unveiled a plan
that would shutter all 251 remaining coal plants across the country by 2030 and replace them all with clean energy. He would also
phase out gas-fired power plants.
The Editor says...
Follow-up question: Mr. Bloomberg wants to "replace them all with clean energy" — from what source?
Is Mr. Bloomberg promoting nuclear energy?
Bloomberg:
When I'm President I'll Pack the Supreme Court With Anti-Gun Justices. Former New York City Mayor Michael
Bloomberg has made a name for himself as a leader in the gun control movement. After all, he funds Everytown for Gun
Safety and Moms Demand Action. Naturally, Bloomberg has decided to use his anti-Second Amendment stance to make himself
a top tier in the 2020 Democratic field. In an opinion piece in the Chicago Tribune, Bloomberg rehashed his stance on
the Supreme Court case known as New York Rifle and Pistol Association v. New York City. At the time, NYC
prohibited gun owners from transporting firearms outside of city limits, even if the resident was taking them to a gun
range. Once the New York Rifle and Pistol Association, along with the National Rifle Association (NRA) and Second
Amendment Foundation (SAF )challenged the city's ordinance in a court of law, NYC decided to rescind the law. The city
tried to get the lawsuit thrown out, saying the point is now moot because the ordinance no longer exists. Gun rights
advocates, however, are worried the city will reimplement the law if the Supreme Court decides to throw out the case.
The
Endlessly Insufferable Mike Bloomberg. Everyone will have their least favorite figure in the Democratic
presidential primary. Mine might be Michael Bloomberg, for sheer self-regard, narcissism, condescension, and arrogance.
Bloomberg
is confused as to which president works for the people and which party wants a powerful government. Michael
Bloomberg used to be against impeachment, but now he says he is for it because Trump is working for himself instead of for
the public. It appears that Bloomberg is confused because it is Trump who is working as fast as he can to transfer the
power, purse, and freedom to the public. He is the opposite of a dictator. Every Democrat running, on the other
hand, is seeking to transfer as much power and money to the government as fast as they can and make as many people as they
can dependent on government.
The
Elephant in the Spin Room. The fact that two sober-minded businessmen/politicians, Deval Patrick and Michael
Bloomberg, believe that the 2020 Democratic candidate field is so weak that they could, at this late date, pick up momentum
for Super Tuesday, and then pick up the pieces at a brokered convention, tells you how bleak the Left's presidential
prospects have become.
Keywords: extramarital, fornication, shacking up. Michael
Bloomberg says his live-in girlfriend would be 'de facto first lady' if he wins election. Democratic presidential hopeful
Michael Bloomberg is thinking ahead. Should he win the election, his longtime live-in girlfriend would accompany him to the
White House and become "de facto first lady." Mr. Bloomberg revealed his thoughts during a wide-ranging interview
Friday [12/6/2019] with "CBS Good Morning" co-host Gayle King.
Michael
Bloomberg's got this amazing talent for insulting voters. With millions to shell out for ads, Michael Bloomberg
sure has an amazing way of motivating voters to not want to vote for him. [...] Not exactly the guy you want running things,
given his micromanager obsessions — no Big Gulps, no trans-fats, count every calorie and his serious absence of
priorities.
Michael
Bloomberg's media company announces it will no longer investigate him, or any other Democratic candidates. With
Michael Bloomberg now running for president, the news service that bears his name has said it will not 'investigate' him or
any of his Democratic rivals but will continue investigative coverage of President Donald Trump's administration.
Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait announced the new guidelines for presidential campaign coverage in a note to the
$22.5 billion news organization's 2,700 journalists and analysts on Sunday [11/24/2019], shortly after the former
New York City mayor announced his candidacy.
Michael
Bloomberg Loves China, Will Ban Guns and Big Gulps. [Scroll down] Anyway, I'm not joking about wanting to
see Bloomberg run. Who doesn't love a good show, and watching Trump take on a fellow Manhattan billionaire who loves
him some China, and hates guns and Big Gulps... Well, that would be glorious. In fact, Bloomberg loves China so
much he claims the communist country is really a democracy, and he defends its environmental record, which, by any reasonable
standard, is abysmal, especially compared to the United States. Bloomberg has spent years attacking American industry,
spreading the gospel of Climate Change, demanding Americans sacrifice their standard of living to Gaia, and here he is
defending a brutal dictator and a country that pours more carbon into the air than any other country in history.
Michael
Bloomberg: O'Rourke's Confiscation Talk Just Strengthens Opposition. Gun control proponent Michael
Bloomberg [...] gave an interview to the Firing Line with Margaret Hoover, where he intimated O'Rourke's approach is a,
"rallying cry for people that say they are overstepping their bounds." Town Hall quoted Bloomberg describing O'Rourke's
confiscatory plan as "so impractical." Bloomberg made clear his opposition to civilian ownership of many commonly-owned
semiautomatic rifles, but added that O'Rourke's approach, "is not the way to win this issue."
'He's Apologized
For Being Born': Bloomberg Takes On Beto's Unusual Campaign Approach. Former New York City Mayor Michael
Bloomberg poked fun at Democrats running for office Thursday night [3/21/2019] while explaining his reason for not jumping
into a crowded presidential race. One of the prerequisites for running in 2020 is the need to go on an apology tour,
Bloomberg said during a Bermuda Executive Forum in New York. The billionaire businessman gave former Vice President Joe
Biden and former Texas Democratic Rep. Beto O'Rourke as examples of politicians willing to prostrate themselves.
Tom Steyer
Former Campaign
Staffers Sue Tom Steyer. Billionaire, Democratic megadonor, and failed presidential candidate Tom Steyer
(D-Calif.) is facing a lawsuit from former staffers of his campaign, alleging that Steyer violated certain labor laws in the
treatment of his employees, as reported by the Washington Free Beacon. The suit was filed in a California court
in late July by two former staffers who claim that the campaign's treatment of some employees violated the Private Attorneys
General Act (PAGA), a law passed in California in 2004 that allows employees to sue employers on behalf of the state for a
variety of workplace-related reasons.
Fool
and his money: Good riddance, Tom Steyer. A couple of years and $250 million later, Tom Steyer's
presidential run has left him exactly where he started in the presidential race, at zero. The poor wretched monomaniac
of greenie virtue now goes the way of Jay Inslee, the qualified, but leftist, governor of Washington state who, like Steyer,
was also global warming bore and washed out because of it. You'd think maybe Steyer would have noticed how unimportant
this 'sky is falling' greenie cause was with voters by that point, but nope, Steyer continued to sell that snake oil to
voters, thinking a barrage of television ads would make them catch on. He never had a clue.
Billionaire
Tom Steyer quits Democratic primary race. Tom Steyer, the California activist billionaire who has largely been
a nonfactor in the Democratic primary campaign, dropped out of the race on Saturday night [2/29/2020]. Steyer's departure
came after a disappointing finish in the South Carolina Democratic primary. With 70 percent of the vote in, Steyer had
just 11.5 percent of the vote — despite spending millions of dollars on campaigning there.
Billionaire
activist Tom Steyer is ending his presidential bid after poor finish in South Carolina. Billionaire activist
Tom Steyer, who poured millions of dollars into his Democratic presidential campaign, ended his bid tonight after a
disappointing finish in the South Carolina primary. After spending nearly $24 million on television advertising in
the state, Steyer finished behind Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, landing him in third place on Saturday night. The final
stretch of Steyer's presidential campaign was focused on South Carolina, where he sought to appeal to black voters by
decrying inequalities in American life that he said were caused by racism.
Billionaire
Steyer shakes up primary with slavery reparations plan. For centuries, South Carolina's Charleston was the
largest port of entry for the transatlantic slave trade. Now, a billionaire activist named Tom Steyer is shaking up the
state's Democratic primary by advocating slavery reparations for African Americans. A California financier turned
philanthropist and environmental campaigner, Steyer has poured tens of millions of dollars into the state ahead of Saturday's
vote — with a single-minded focus on the black voters who make up 60 percent of its Democratic electorate.
The Editor says...
This was an act of political desperation, apparently, because he dropped out of the race the next day.
Tom
Steyer Reportedly Spent $23.6M on South Carolina Campaign Ads. Despite Michael Bloomberg's unprecedented
spending, his billionaire rival Tom Steyer has "nearly tripled the rest of the field combined in TV and digital ad spending
in South Carolina through mid-February," according to The Dallas Morning News Feb. 28. Steyer has reportedly
spent a whopping $23.6 million on campaign advertising just in South Carolina alone, according to NPR Politics deputy editor
Ben Swasey's summary of Advertising Analytics data Feb. 27. Swasey's tweet indicates that Steyer's spending currently
trounced the number two spender in the state, Mayor Pete Buttigieg (who spent $2.8 million), nearly ten times over. And
yet, RealClearPolitics polling averages currently show Steyer in distant third place in the state.
Okay, that's $22. Do I hear $25? Tom
Steyer Vows $22 Minimum Wage if Elected. Democrat presidential hopeful and billionaire Tom Steyer has vowed to
raise the federal minimum wage to $22 per hour should he defeat other Democrat hopefuls and President Donald Trump in
November. According to a report from Fox News, Steyer made the announcement during a campaign block party on Sunday
while campaigning in South Carolina. Both Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) have
also released plans to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour.
Surging Steyer
makes the debate stage, as new polls show sudden strength. Tom Steyer appears to be moving up. The
billionaire environmental advocate turned Democratic presidential candidate is soaring in two new Fox News polls in the early
primary and caucus states of South Carolina and Nevada. And those two surveys put Steyer over the top — and
onto the stage at next week's Democratic presidential nomination debate in Iowa. Steyer stands at 15 percent in South
Carolina — second only to former Vice President Joe Biden — who's the overwhelming favorite in the
state where black voters make up a majority of Democratic presidential primary electorate.
Kanye West
That campaign lasted about nine days. Kanye
West drops presidential bid: report. Kanye West has dropped his 2020 presidential bid, according to a new
report. The 43-year-old rapper's campaign has reportedly been suspended less than two weeks after he shocked the nation
with a tweet that confirmed his decision to run for president of the United States in November. According to a new
report from Intelligencer, a "get-out-the-vote specialist" named Steve Kramer claims West is already "out" after the Yeezy
founder hired both "paid and volunteer" staff to help him secure signatures in Florida and South Carolina to get him on the ballot.
Kanye
Meltdown at "Campaign Rally" to Get on South Carolina Ballot, Promote New Album Named for Mother. Kanye
appeared in South Carolina at a "campaign rally" for his fake presidential campaign. He's trying to get signatures to
get on that state's ballot, but really he's just making a scene in advance of his "Donda" album. The sad part is that
he was at one point sobbing, carrying on that his father wanted to abort him when his mother mother was pregnant, "But she
saved me." His father is alive, his mother is not, and I'm sure he's thrilled to hear all this aired to strangers. He
also claimed that "Harriet Tubman never actually freed the slaves, she just had them work for other white people," and said
his brain was too big for his head.
Others / various combinations / everybody / somebody else
Editor's note: This
article includes a list of candidates who have dropped out of the race already: Wayne Messam Beto
O'Rourke Tim Ryan Bill de Blasio Kirsten Gillibrand Seth Moulton Jay
Inslee John Hickenlooper Mike Gravel Eric Swalwell Richard Ojeda
Trump
or DeSantis? The Democrat roster is, by all accounts, dramatically uninspiring. Biden, who speaks in
tongues, is plainly beyond redeeming; the question is whether he will manage to survive the year, let alone stumble, lollop,
and whiffle to the end of his first term. Kamala Harris belongs in vaudeville or farce, given her talent for provoking
laughter. Both will have to be retired in favor of an electable candidate. But who? Pete Buttigieg is a
perpetual embarrassment, in effect a political pothole. Elizabeth Warren is a professional liar and fraud, as everybody
knows. Hillary is an overdone political brisket. Gavin Newsom has destroyed his state, an enviable record for a
leftie, but California, despite the hype, is not America. Bernie Sanders is a geriatric commie with three tony
residences, a typical dacha commissar whose appeal is mainly to the badly educated young. Michelle Obama would be a
celebrity candidate; the thing is, most Americans are not celebrities, and Camelot has lost its luster.
The Editor says...
Yes, but most Americans are not Deep State oligarchs, either; yet that's who will select the Democrat nominee, just as they did
in 2020. There was no popular demand for Joe Biden, yet there he sits in the White House, signing executive orders.
The
virus is all they've got and they're clinging to it. [Scroll down] The Democrat party most likely did not
plan for Joe Biden to be their candidate. [...] It was perhaps an accident. They did not want Bernie Sanders,
Pocahontas polled badly as did Kamala Harris. Pete Buttigieg was a non-starter as was Andrew Yang. Amy Klobuchar
was, well, Klobuchar. Michael Bloomberg and Tom Steyer are extravagantly rich but pathetic. Tulsi Gabbard was
perhaps the most decent and well informed among them but they could not, would not consider her. She was a vet, smart
and unafraid. So they ended up with Biden by default.
Enemies to
the Left. The resurgence of Joe Biden and the inevitable defeat of Bernie Sanders led the pundits to declare
that the Democratic Party is rejecting socialism — a development all decent men would celebrate if it were
true. Yet, in a supreme irony, the Land of the Free dangerously underestimates or underappreciates the ideological
nature of the contemporary Democratic Party. Neither education nor life experience has prepared Americans for grasping
the Party's epochal ideological shift toward the ideology that signifies the total inversion of the Nation's historical
traditions and values. Every time the Democratic presidential contenders took the stage, whether it was a radical
Bernie Sanders or any of the so-called moderates such as Michael Bloomberg, Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar,
or Joe Biden, a frightening sense of déjà vu set in as those downsized American replicas of Leon Trotsky,
Nikolai Bukharin, Clara Zetkin, and Rosa Luxemburg clearly professed their socialist-egalitarian vision and prophetic
absolutism. None of them has talked of freedom or offered a single program for wealth creation, which epitomizes
capitalism; all of their proposals have been aimed at economic equality, suppression of freedom and destruction of wealth,
which embodies socialism.
Democrats
Hope For a Pandemic. [Scroll down] Other candidates had no reason or excuse to run and gained no, zero,
support: For example, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who enunciated the jurisprudential maxim that any woman claiming to
have been sexually abused or harassed, even decades before and with no corroboration, should be automatically
believed — conviction by denunciation; Robespierre and Stalin ride again. She said Bill Clinton, to whom she
owed her political career, should have resigned as president when accused by various women of harassment. Bill de
Blasio, mayor of New York, welcomed by Mr. Trump to the campaign as the "worst mayor in America and in New York's
[400-year] history, the king of potholes, graft, nepotism, and incompetence," made a cameo pass-through and gained absolutely
no support. Tom Steyer, a leftist billionaire (hedge fund), who assumedly thought that if Mr. Trump could do it,
he could, spent $175 million of his own money but struck out in the primaries. [...] Mayor Bloomberg was obviously a good
deal more serious.
2020 Primaries & Caucuses.
Candidates with no delegates include: Michael Bennet, Nathan Bloxham, Cory Booker, Mosie Boyd, Steve Bullock, Steve
Burke, Julian Castro, Roque De La Fuente III, John Delaney, Jason Dunlap, Michael Ellinger, Ben Gleiberman, Mark Greenstein,
Kamala Harris, Henry Hewes, Tom Koos, Lorenz Kraus, Rita Krichevsky, Raymond Moroz, [...] Deval Patrick, Joe Sestak, Sam
Sloan, Tom Steyer, David Thistle, Thomas Torgesen, [...] Robby Wells, Marianne Williamson, Andrew Yang.
The Editor says...
I read the news every day of the year, and I've never heard of David Thistle, Thomas Torgesen, Henry Hewes, Tom Koos,
Lorenz Kraus, Rita Krichevsky, Raymond Moroz, or Nathan Bloxham. Why do mostly-unknown candidates enter the race?
All they add is background noise.
The
Necessary (Temporary) Democratic Party Suicide. The debate in Charleston on Tuesday [2/25/2020] was like a
scene from Lord of the Flies as a disorderly, screechy group of misbehaving superannuated juveniles spoke and shouted
over each other, waving their arms in the air and exchanging epithets. [...] Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), finally targeted
as the frontrunner, was querulous and belligerent, shouting back at the audience and more demonstrative and short-tempered
than ever. He is almost majestic, barricading himself into his praise of Fidel Castro and not budging an inch on the
authoritarian extravagance of his compulsory medical care plan that would sweep away the satisfactory arrangements that 180
million Americans have already made with their physicians of choice. It is the majesty of a persevering and cranky old
man, but it is also acoustically irritating nonsense and anyone who imagines that the American electorate is going to put
this raving, neo-Marxist, charmless, cantankerous old dervish into the White House is in the same fantasyland as the candidates.
The
Democrat debate looked like a mixed martial arts cage fight. Anyone and everyone watching had to ask themselves
"How on earth are these seven people the presidential candidates of the Democrat party?" Not one of them has a chance
[...] of beating Trump. Each of them is campaigning on destroying all the great things Trump has set in motion and put
in place. They all pretend that Trump's polices have not made life better for nearly all Americans. But they have.
Nevada
Democratic debate was the greatest debate in human history. Forget Lincoln and Douglas. Forget Nixon and
Kennedy. Hell, forget the Athenians and the Melians back during the Peloponnesian War. Last night's Democratic
primary slagfest in Nevada was the greatest debate in all of human history. Oh, was it glorious — the sheer
raging hostility spraying across the stage as every campaign besides the Bernie Sanders and Michael Bloomberg bids face the
desperate possibility each might fade into the woodwork against the Bernie surge and the Bloomberg billions.
Bloomberg under siege
at chaotic debate debut, as Warren attacks field in bid to revive campaign. Elizabeth Warren shamed Mike
Bloomberg for allegedly calling women "fat broads." Amy Klobuchar asked Pete Buttigieg if he was calling her "dumb."
Bloomberg shut down Bernie Sanders by quipping that "the best-known socialist in the country happens to be a millionaire with
three houses." The Democrats' showdown Wednesday night in Las Vegas repeatedly put Bloomberg in his primary rivals'
crosshairs as the surging billionaire made his debate-stage debut. But the conflagration quickly expanded into an
all-out melee and easily the most aggressive debate of the nomination season to date, as each of the candidates took sharp
and often personal shots at one another.
The
Democrats' personalities were exposed in Nevada and it wasn't pretty. There's something almost tragic about the fact
that the essence of the Democrat Party — the oldest continuously existing political party in the world — has
been reduced to these six uninspiring, unqualified people.
Trump
World Responds To Democrats' Disastrous Debate Night. President Donald Trump, the Trump campaign, and the
Republican National Committee (RNC) all responded to Democrats' chaotic debate on Wednesday night [2/19/2020] by declaring
that Trump won the debate. Kayleigh McEnany, Trump 2020 national press secretary, responded to the debate in a
statement, saying, "The Democrat Party is in the midst of a full-scale meltdown. Americans are watching the party of
JFK be torn apart by anti-job socialists and anti-worker globalists who want to control every aspect of Americans'
lives. This train wreck is nothing compared to what they would do to our country. None of these candidates will
be able to go toe to toe with President Trump in November."
Crazy
Bernie Knows Something That MiniMike Doesn't. Democratic voters fall into one of two categories: freeloaders
and virtue signalers. Freeloaders have no money, so they want free stuff. Virtue signalers have too much money,
so they can afford to virtue signal by electing someone who will dole out free stuff even if that means that there is a slight
reduction in their stock portfolios. In other words, they are willing to give back some of the money president Trump has
made them in order to throw him out of office and get lifetime bragging rights in their social circles for doing so. It
appears that Mayor Pete has locked down the virtue signaller vote. After all, he is the virtue signaler's dream come true
and he is a bit more careful than others with the free stuff part of it. The competition for the freeloader vote is more
fierce. Both contenders for this electorate are septuagenarian Jews whose parents or grandparents were refugees from
Eastern Europe: Bernie Sanders and Mike Bloomberg. Regardless of their similar origins, their pitches to
Democratic voters are quite different, though the end result is the same.
Hold on to your hats. The Democratic race could get very
messy. Now that as many as six serious Democratic candidates remain in the race, pundits increasingly believe
the party is headed for a brokered convention. Hold on to your hats if that happens, because it's even more complicated
than it sounds. Presidential nominating conventions used to be "brokered" because the delegates were largely appointed
by — and loyal to — political bosses. Delegates voted on multiple ballots as rivals vied for the
bosses' favor, making the quadrennial events the political equivalent of reality television. You could never be sure
which governor or senator would be voted off the island and which would become the ultimate survivor. That all went out
the window after the Democratic convention of 1968 nominated a person who had not entered a single primary, Vice President
Hubert Humphrey.
Conventional
Wisdom About the Democrats' Primary Is Wrong. There are three widely proclaimed verities now bandied about in
the aftermath of the Democratic presidential primary in New Hampshire on Tuesday [2/11/2020]. They are that Senator
Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is a clear front-runner with a chance for a break-through to a commanding lead in the quest for the
nomination. The second is that former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg is a serious candidate with a chance for the
Democratic nomination, and the third is that former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been providentially assisted by the
disintegration of the candidacy of former Vice President Joe Biden and the bunching together of Sanders, Buttigieg, and
Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), and will seize the leadership of the race when he gets to the ballot in 15 states
simultaneously on Super Tuesday, March 3. I think all three of these deductions are mistaken.
Deval
Patrick, last black candidate in 2020 race, drops out. Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, the last
remaining African American candidate in a Democratic presidential field once defined by its diversity, ended his 2020
campaign Wednesday [2/12/2020] after his late bid failed to catch fire or resonate with voters.
The Editor says...
I didn't even know he was running.
The Democratic establishment
is out of time. Unlike Gaul, the Democratic primary electorate is divided into only two parts. Bernie
Sanders's victory in Tuesday's New Hampshire primary reminded observers of what we have known for a long time, namely that
the smaller of these two parts remains united in favor of his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination. The
larger moderate one remains split, not quite evenly, between Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Elizabeth Warren, and Joe
Biden. We know which side the Democratic National Committee, the party's leadership in Congress, wealthy mega-donors,
and luminaries like the Obamas and the Clintons are on. We also know that they are willing to do pretty much anything
to prevent Sanders from winning the nomination in 2020. The question is whether they will be able to.
WaPo,
trying to tank Sanders: Let's face it. None of these Democrats are "centrists". The Washington Post
editorial board is fed up with all of you people talking about the Democratic primary as some sort of internecine civil war
between the far left and centrists. This week they point out that it's simply not accurate to describe either Pete
Buttigieg or Joe Biden as "centrists." In fact, the entire field is chock full of socialists. Okay, they didn't
actually say "socialists" but that's the general feeling they're trying to get across. Everyone's policies are way to
the left, though some are a bit more left than others.
The
2020 Democrats All Have the Same Problem. So far, none of the candidates has built a coalition that reaches
broadly across the party. Instead, each is confined to a distinct niche of support that is too narrow to establish a
commanding advantage in the race. That could guarantee a lengthy war of attrition for the nomination — and
possibly even a brokered convention — as the leading contenders divide the Democratic voter base along lines of
race, class, generation, and ideology.
Things
I have learned from genuine, honest journalists and other Democrats. [Scroll down] Here are a couple of
hints as to who you shouldn't support for President. Don't support someone who takes massive kickbacks for their
personal foundation. Don't support someone who is in charge of Ukraine whose son gets a ghost job at a corrupt company,
making millions and who threatens to cutoff a billion dollars if they don't fire a prosecutor. Don't support someone
who makes up a fake racial composition to enrich herself, and don't support a socialist who appointed his wife to receive
commissions on advertising his campaign buys.
The
Seven Dwarfs on the debate stage. The grueling debate Friday night on ABC was actually sad for the seven
debaters, with the exception of Andrew Yang, for they all are panderers of the first order. They all say only what they
think their potential supporters want to hear. There are few core beliefs among them. They all seem either
ignorant or in serious denial of the countless successes of the Trump administration because they all simply deny them.
They are each depending, as usual, on the conviction that all Americans are very stupid and unable to discern between the
truth and their lies meant to terrorize unwitting citizens about health care, global warming, and President Trump.
There was not an honest broker on that stage except Yang, and he has no chance of being the nominee because is a relatively
normal human being.
Democrats
2020 race is starting to look like a suicide pact. For more than a year, Democratic candidates, up to 26 of
them at one point, have been crisscrossing Iowa's 99 counties, seeking votes in Iowa's precinct caucuses. They were
duly held on Monday night. But the Iowa Democratic Party did not release any results until Tuesday, and they were only
partial results. What does that say about the party's competence and judgment? [...] The Buttigieg camp claimed
victory; the Sanders campaign released partial results showing him ahead; and the Biden campaign noted that there were plenty
of contests to come. Such results must look dreadful to national Democratic Party professionals. They doubt that
a 78-year-old socialist who had a heart attack last October would be a strong nominee. They doubt that a 38-year-old
former small-city mayor with zero appeal to black voters can stop him.
Trashing
America as racist won't help Democrats beat Trump. Tom Steyer, the billionaire who's trying to buy a win
Bloomberg-style in the South Carolina Democratic primary, issued a stark warning at the beginning of the Democratic debate
Friday night in New Hampshire: Trump has the economic numbers that can help him get reelected, and Democrats are going
to need to have a strong message to overwhelm it. About an hour into the debate, they found their message:
America, Bernie Sanders said, is "a racist society from top to bottom." One by one, the candidates echoed the message
that "systemic racism" characterizes America. "We can't legislate away racism," said Andrew Yang, because racism runs
so deep in the American soul. Joe Biden, verbatim (poor Joe): "The fact is that we in fact there is systemic racism."
Elizabeth Warren even declared that "we need race-conscious laws in education, in employment, in entrepreneurship to make
this country a country for everyone."
The Iowa Caucuses Taught Us Once Again That No One Knows
Anything. Based on incomplete counts, Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders appear to have "won," by an arcane
metric called "state delegate equivalents" and raw vote totals respectively. Right now they're slated to get eleven
delegates each, and Elizabeth Warren five. The complete and final numbers will come out, eventually, but the damage is
already done. The Iowa caucuses are supposed to winnow down the field: in the past, candidates have often
dropped out of the race that night. If anything, the field is more confused now than it was last week.
Are
Democrats' new debate rules another establishment 'fix'? The Democratic National Committee bowed to reality on
Friday, dropping the fundraising requirements that had kept Mike Bloomberg out of the presidential debates. But the new
rules don't kick in until after the Feb. 7 debate in New Hampshire — and overall seem designed to shrink the
debate field, possibly to the advantage of establishment favorite Joe Biden. Until now, making the debates required
some minimal success both in the polls and in raising lots of donations from several states — 225,000 donors, with
at least 1,000 from 20 different states, for the Feb. 7 debate.
Democrats
[are] Becoming More Desperate, and More Dangerous. No leadership has emerged among their presidential
field. In fact, quite the opposite is true. Each passing day demonstrates more clearly that there is not a leader
among them. Biden is dropping like a rock. While some of the polls show Sanders to be rising, that is an illusion
reflecting only the far, far left ideologues. Sanders is a grouchy old man with all the charm of Karl Marx.
Imagine any electoral base pulling together for him. Warren, like Sanders, is completely lacking in any human
likability factor and is nearly as far left. She has a tractor trailer load of credibility problems.
Collectively, the candidates have abandoned their voter base, and it is possibly too late to recraft a message and a
candidate to address the chasm. The Democrats are in a desperate position. It is nine months until the
election. They have no presidential candidate and none in sight. They are not even close to a platform that
appeals to the nation.
John
Delaney Drops Out a Few Days Shy of Iowa. Did He Endorse Anyone? Former Maryland Rep. John Delaney
dropped out of the 2020 presidential race on Friday [1/31/2020]. It's a bittersweet ending considering he was just a few
days shy of the first real contest, the Iowa Caucus. The Democratic contender explained that he will "not have sufficient
support to get to the 15 percent viability threshold" needed on Monday night. Delaney declined to endorse another
candidate, but did say he wants a moderate.
The Editor says...
I have never heard of John Delaney and didn't know he was running.
Whatever
Happened to the Democratic Primary? The Iowa caucus will be held in a matter of days. New Hampshire votes
a week after that. Twelve Democrats are still in the race. Nobody cares. Maybe that's harsh. No doubt
the candidates' mothers are paying attention. Yet in two decades of serious observation of politics I have not seen a
presidential primary that exerts less of a hold on the nation's attention than this one.
The
Tenuous Future of the Democratic Party. We've now witnessed seven Democratic debates ahead of the Iowa Caucus
this February. At this point, it's clear that Biden, Sanders, and Warren have a legitimate shot at becoming the
nominee, whereas the rest will likely go home after the first few primaries. These frontrunners are now the subject of
a growing dilemma that's undermining party unity and raising questions about its future vision. Four years ago, the
Republican Party had to grapple with the rise of Trump, who undermined Republican orthodoxy whenever it suited him. [...]
Currently, Democrats are facing a similar dilemma. The leading candidates have very different visions for the Party and
for the country.
Democrat
Radicalism Creating a Dangerous Void. All of these candidates are a product of the same Democrat base, which is
how we landed at this point where the so-called Democrat moderates of today would have been considered dangerous radicals
just a few short years ago. If you put together a radical menu, they are all ordering just about everything on
it. Destruction of the energy industry? Order up a super-sized portion of that. Abortion über
alles? I'll take a side of that and throw in some infanticide, please. Government health care?
Naturally. The green new $90-trillion nightmare? Hey, just print more money and start killing cows.
Destruction of national borders and open invitation for all the world's unskilled workers to flock to America to receive
taxpayer largesse? It's the compassionate thing to do. Gun confiscation? Treating Iranian protestors like
inconvenient lepers? Reparations? Keep those refills coming.
In Iowa, Democrats tell farmers no new jobs until Greta Thunberg
is happy. Just 19 days before the Iowa caucuses, we finally reached the inevitable: Andrew Yang getting
the boot, as the white savior party shed the last of its racial minority aspirants, having decided that none was qualified to
take the helm this cycle. Better luck in 2024, blacks. The Democrat frontrunners remain, in order, a doddering
septuagenarian who can't reliably remember what state he's in, a hectoring schoolmarm, a 78-year-old communist who has never
accomplished anything in 30 years in Congress, and a weird, hairy child from South Bend whose eyebrow waxing gets more
meticulous with each passing debate.
Barbara
Lee: All-white Democratic presidential debate a sign of systemic bias. A Democratic presidential campaign
field that was once touted as the most diverse in history has been whittled down to six candidates on its debate stage, all
of them white. For Oakland Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee, that's a problem. Lee says the Democratic National
Committee's rules for determining who can participate in its presidential debates is "systematically discriminatory" against
people of color.
Handicapping
The Democrat Losers. The Democrat field is starting to narrow as some of the biggest losers drop out in humiliating
failure. The flatulent, pro-nuke Eric Swalwell is gone. Whichever Castro bro was in just quit. And that hapless
furry Beto is off selling autographs on the weirdo convention circuit dressed as a cartoon fox named "Yiffy." The ones still
in the race are even more pathetic.
The
Abortion Fight Will Heat Up in 2020. The clash between the pro-life worldview and the pro-abortion one is going
to be a factor in the 2020 election. The battlefield is taking shape. First, there's a sharp contrast between
President Trump and his Democrat challengers. President Trump is pro-life and has not been shy about saying so.
In his 2019 State of the Union address, he railed against the New York law, asserting, "Lawmakers in New York cheered with
delight upon the passage of legislation that would allow a baby to be ripped from the mother's womb moments from birth."
He called on Congress to "to prohibit the late-term abortion of children who can feel pain in the mother's womb." Trump
has been called "the most prolife president in American history." Not a single Democrat running for president is pro-life.
The
Left Goes Over the Edge. The Democrats in this campaign year seem as if they are hell-bent on illustrating, in
a 21st-century setting, Orwell's description of the left as comprised of "every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer,
sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist, and feminist..." A fake Indian, a gay small-city mayor, a mayor of a
larger, failed city with imaginary friends, a corrupt state AG... Not to mention old Joe, whose son Hunter turns out to
be a Bond villain. These were among the best that the Democratic Party could come up with. All we need to add to
that is an undeniable fact that it was the two crazy aunts — Hindu cultist Tulsi Gabbard and pop Christian mystic
Marianne Williamson — who came across as the most attractive, well-spoken, and sanest of the lot.
The
Campaign Money Industrial Complex. The current Democratic presidential primary with its fifteen surviving
candidates is a political spectacle of the first order. Oddities abound, for example, several former governors and
members of Congress, many with illustrious records, have dropped out yet others, notably Andrew Yang, Marianne Williamson and
Tom Steyer, still hang on despite having zero political experience. Equally odd, two of the leading contenders in the
pack, Senators Warren and Sanders, openly espouse views which only a few years ago would have been far beyond the ideological
mainstream, for example, open borders, drastic tax increases and a hodgepodge of socialist-flavored hyperexpensive entitlements.
Why
The Democratic Primary Seems Invisible. [Scroll down] Honestly, how can this possibly be? This is,
after all, a contest to decide which Democratic hero will square off against a president that most party members view as a
combination of Hitler, Darth Vader, and Benedict Arnold. [...] There [are] a few plausible reasons why this primary just
can't seem to get much traction. One often cited reason is that Democrats have essentially overshadowed their own
primary with impeachment. After all, networks like CNN and MSNBC that should be laser focused on the primary instead
spend approximately 58 out of every 60 minutes predicting Trump's imminent doom, as they have been for three years.
Don't Look Away.
The Democrats have fielded the most insane field of candidates ever assembled on a stage. A couple dozen [...] clowns,
each trying to be more socialist than the next and saying the most bizarre things, from promising free everything, including
free health care for illegals, at the expense of those of us who pay taxes, to "Dark psychic force", to accusing everyone
plus imaginary people of being Russian agents, and PEOPLE LOOK AWAY. They treat these people as though they have more
credibility than giant papier-mache puppets and a guy on stilts. [...] That's looking away. That's disabling the alarm.
America
Must Confront The Enemy From Within. Emboldened by the fact that no one stops them, Democrats have lurched all
the way into communism and spout the most insane ideas that they expect everyone to just accept and implement. Everything
from the Green New Deal to Medicare for All to Obamacare to the sacrificing of millions of the unborn to some inherent dark
beast. Every one of their potential candidates for the 2020 presidential ticket is [...] crazy in their policy views.
I take some comfort in knowing none of them can come close to beating Trump but I fear a last-minute entry by someone like
Michelle Obama who would ratchet up the stakes here nightmarishly.
Several
Democratic candidates call on the DNC to make the debates more diverse. Nine Democratic presidential candidates
have called on the Democratic National Committee to relax its debate standards next year, allowing some lower-polling rivals
onto the stage. "While we know this was an unintended consequence of the DNC's actions, many of the candidates excluded
due to these thresholds are the ones who have helped make this year's primary field historically diverse," the candidates
wrote. "Frankly, that unintended result does not live up to the values of our Democratic Party and it does not serve
the best interest of Democratic voters."
Democrats
Want to Manage, Not Represent, the People. The fading impeachment push has its mirror image in the glossy,
astroturfed and utterly substanceless Democratic primary, with its idiotic "debates" and even more unimpressive
candidates. Both are spectacles staged, run, and intended for America's elites, and both have become distinctly
unwatchable by any but the boutique audience they've cultivated. That they are so boring betokens their origins
in the rarified orbit of a detached elite more interested in perpetuating its own power than in responding to the concerns of
the electorate. [...] How could a party with so many impressive experts in its ranks fail to cough up even one
candidate impressive enough to defeat an incumbent widely considered by that party to be a racist and broadly reviled imbecile?
Obama:
'I Don't Care' Whether You'll Like the Nominee, Just Vote Democrat. On Thursday [11/28/2019], former President
Barack Obama was the main guest at a fundraiser in Silicon Valley. When asked a question about the many candidates
running, he told those present that he couldn't care less whether they'd like the eventual nominee. They just have to
vote for him/her/it. "Everybody needs to chill out about the candidates, but gin up about the prospect of rallying
behind whoever emerges from this process," Obama told the millionaire techies, according to far-left news channel CNN.
"There will be differences" between them, he added, "but I want us to make sure that we keep in mind that, relative to the
ultimate goal, which is to defeat a president and a party that has ... taken a sharp turn away from a lot of the core
traditions and values and institutional commitments that built this country," those differences are "relatively minor."
Why
Michelle Obama may jump into the race. To have any chance nationally, the Democrats do not just need minority
support, their candidate must overwhelmingly capture the black and Hispanic vote. None of the leading Democrat candidates
is up to that task -- not the homosexual from South Bend, not the Fake Indian from Massachusetts, and not Crazy Bernie.
New
Poll Shows Voters Aren't Buying Into the Progressive Sales-Pitch for Socialism. While soak-the-rich
progressives lead the Democratic presidential field, a new poll released Tuesday [11/26/2019] shows voters remain skeptical
of their socialist policies. Just 12 percent of likely voters reported preferring a socialist economic system,
according to a new Heartland Institute/Rasmussen poll. Sixty-nine percent said they preferred "a free-market economic
system." When it came to the 2020 contenders, only 26 percent of likely voters said they would vote for a
presidential candidate that identified as a socialist. Fifty-percent said they would not.
Washington
Post Prints Blatantly False Article: 'Barack Obama, Conservative'. The front of Sunday's Outlook section in The
Washington Post is a complete spit take. There in bold type is the blatantly false headline "Barack Obama,
conservative." David Swerdlick is an employee of the Post's Outlook section, so this isn't some freakish
freelancer. At first glance, this article seems like an obvious ploy to explain away just how radical the current
crop of Democratic presidential candidates are by comparison.
The
Democrats: Identity Politics above All. The Democrats are totally and absolutely a party focused solely
on identity politics and a party not at all concerned with the greater, general good of the country. Their electoral
strategy is based on identifying specific groups of voters to whom they can assign victimhood status and then promise a
taxpayer-funded government program to alleviate their suffering and correct the wrongs perpetrated against them.
Implicit in the Democrats' argument is the common theme that these so-called transgressions are the result of biased,
intentional wrongdoing by white conservative Republicans, whose prejudices, shortsightedness, and mean-spirited nature are
aimed at those groups, with the intention of maintaining (or regaining, in some instances) political control of the country
by a white heterosexual male cohort of European decent.
Deval
Patrick Cancels Atlanta Event After Only Two People Show Up. Democratic presidential candidate Deval Patrick
was forced to cancel a campaign event Wednesday night after only two people showed up. Patrick, who entered the primary
field too late to qualify for the MSNBC debate in Atlanta, was scheduled to speak across town at a campaign event at
Morehouse College, a historically black university. He cancelled the event after only two students showed up, according
to CNN reporter Annie Grayer. "Governor @DevalPatrick was supposed to have an event at Morehouse College tonight,"
Grayer reported. "An organizer with the college who planned the event told CNN that Patrick cancelled the event when he
arrived and learned that he would not have an audience.
Debate number N+1: The Democrat Debate Drones.
Your fearless debate correspondent here, to tell you that once again, you missed nothing. And by nothing, I mean an
empty, cavernous, negative space of dark matter where all intelligence, vitality, and humanity gets sucked into an endless
void. You are smarter for missing this misery. Who are these Democrats trying to appeal to? Who is the
constituency for their insanity? I really want to know. These are not serious people. It might be that
they're not people at all, just 10 robots put on a stage and talking word salad as placeholders. None of them act
like they can beat Trump. Do they even want to?
Poll:
Trump surges against nearly all Democrats in Wisconsin. Here's one the Beltway punditocracy didn't see
coming: Trump is soaring against nearly all Democrats in head-to-head matchups in Wisconsin. According to a
Marquette University Law School Poll, which is a generally reliable barometer of voter sentiment in the Midwest, Trump is
beating the daylights out of Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar. Only Cory
Booker has a measly one-point advantage over Trump and that's within the margin of error. The rest of the Democratic
cavalcade of candidates have polling numbers so low it's unlikely their even worth asking about.
Former
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick Announces White House Run. Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick
is making a late run for the Democratic presidential nomination, he announced Thursday in a video on his official
website. Patrick, a close friend and ally of former President Barack Obama, ruled out a presidential bid earlier this
year but has since been talking with Democratic operatives and donors about launching a campaign. His step into a
crowded ring makes Patrick the 18th candidate in the 2020 Democratic race. It comes as some Democrats express
uncertainty about the party's current crop of contenders.
Ex-Mass.
officials say Patrick fired them for their efforts to get his brother-in-law on sex offender registry. Former
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick's entry into the 2020 Democratic presidential race is drawing renewed scrutiny toward
his efforts to oust officials who had tried to put his brother-in-law, a convicted rapist, on the state's sex offender
registry. Patrick's brother-in-law Bernard Sigh was first convicted of spousal rape in 1993 and was again convicted of
raping Patrick's sister earlier this year, The Washington Post reported. Patrick in 2014 said that he had forced out
two Sex Offender Registry Board officials over their attempts to overturn a hearing officer's decision to keep Sigh off the
registry, arguing that the officials' actions were not appropriate, according to the Post.
Democrats
Are Failing the Reality Test. The Democrats running for president in 2020 don't talk about normal
issues — jobs and national security. They have nothing to say about opportunities for minorities.
Instead, it is all fake investigations of fake scandals. Democrats are running fake impeachment proceedings on a fake
accusation of quid pro quo from a fake whistleblower, who is one more deep state operative leaking hearsay that libels the
president. Who are they kidding?
They
all raised their hands, but PolitiFact gives 'mostly false' rating to claim that 2020 Democrats want to 'give free health
care to illegals'. On June 27, the second night of the first 2020 Democratic primary debate, NBC News's
Savannah Guthrie said the following: ["]A lot of you have been talking tonight about these government health
care plans that you have proposed in one form or another. This is a show of hands question, and hold them up for a moment
so people can see. Raise your hand if your government plan would provide coverage for undocumented immigrants["]
[emphasis added]. Every single person on that June 27 debate stage, including new age guru Marianne Williamson; South Bend,
Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg; former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper; tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang; former Vice President Joe Biden;
Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Kamala Harris of California, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, and Michael Bennet of Colorado; and
Rep. Eric Swalwell of California, raised their hands, for which they were awarded thunderous applause.
Democrats
Worry as Filing Deadlines Cement Weak 2020 Field. The 2020 Democrat presidential field is about to get locked
by filing deadlines and that is making a lot of Democrats nervous. If you want to run for president, it is a 50 state
process that requires filing papers and whatever else is required to get on the ballot. Alabama's filing deadline
passed last week. New Hampshire and Arkansas expire this week. The heavy hitters of Illinois, California, and
Texas are just weeks away. Ohio and North Carolina arrive before Christmas.
Top
Iowa aide to Tom Steyer's campaign resigns after AP report. A top Iowa aide to businessman Tom Steyer has
resigned a day after The Associated Press revealed he had privately offered campaign contributions to local politicians in
exchange for endorsing Steyer's White House bid.
Hillary
Clinton, Establishment Democrats Signal Deepening Panic over Democrat Field. The elite class and Hillary
Clinton, specifically, are unsatisfied with the current Democrat primary field and have signaled their dissatisfaction in a
variety of ways in recent weeks, from refusing to endorse former Vice President Joe Biden (D) to dismissing the ultra-far-left
candidates' radical agendas. [...] The first presidential primary is less than three months away, yet select Democrats are
still mulling a last-minute run.
Reports:
Eric Holder Considers Jumping into 2020 Presidential Primary. Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is again
considering running for the Democrat nomination for president in 2020 after previously ruling out a run, a move that comes as
former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has filed presidential primary paperwork in Alabama signaling he may be a late
entrant to the race.
Julián
Castro Team Bashes 'The Four White Frontrunners'. The campaign for Democrat presidential hopeful and former
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro took aim at "the four white frontrunners" in the race for
president. The comments, which were made by campaign spokesperson Sawyer Hackett, were shared in an official Castro
campaign email sent to reporters on Tuesday [11/5/2019].
Democrats
don't have a candidate who would beat Trump in Texas today, poll finds. None of the top Democrats seeking the
presidential nomination would beat President Donald Trump in Texas in an election held today — and neither would
either of the Texas candidates in that race, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
New
Poll Shows Democratic Candidates Have Been Living in a Fantasy World. In 2018, Democratic candidates waded into
hostile territory and flipped 40 House districts, many of them moderate or conservative in their makeup. In almost
every instance, their formula centered on narrowing their target profile by avoiding controversial positions, and focusing
obsessively on Republican weaknesses, primarily Donald Trump's abuses of power and attempts to eliminate health insurance for
millions of Americans. The Democratic presidential field has largely abandoned that model. Working from the
premise that the country largely agrees with them on everything, or that agreeing with the majority of voters on issues is
not necessary to win, the campaign has proceeded in blissful unawareness of the extremely high chance that Trump will win again.
Suppose
they gave an impeachment and nobody cared? Official Washington is obsessed with impeaching President Donald
John Trump and has been for three years. But in covering the presidential race in Iowa, Edward-Isaac Dovere of The
Atlantic found even hardcore Democrats in America could not care less. He wrote, "The impeachment fight is
all-consuming. It's the biggest story in politics. No one is talking about anything else — except
pretty much everywhere outside of Washington." The politicians act accordingly. He wrote, "Yet of the 13
candidates there, just one mentioned impeachment: Tom Steyer, the billionaire activist whose political group and TV ads
over the past two years have helped mainstream the idea of removing the president. Steyer argues that his long record
of being outspoken in favor of impeachment is a key part of why people should support his candidacy, yet his mention of
impeachment Friday night got a warm but not overwhelming response. [...]"
It's Unthinkable
One of the Dems Could Be President. President Trump has earned both the highest praise and severest criticism
for his decisions on defense and foreign policy matters. Whether he was revoking Obama's terrible nuclear weapons deal
with Iran or telling the world that he trusted Russian President Putin as much as he trusts our intelligence community, Trump
has followed no ideology or explained how or why he reached any decision. His beliefs and his actions are transactional.
[...] Despite Trump's unsteadiness, we have to remember that under any of the Democrats who want to replace him, all of these
decisions — and everything else related to the defense of our nation and our foreign policy — would
become vastly, almost unimaginably, worse.
Democratic
Candidate Divisions On Display At Fiery Iowa Dinner. The ideological divisions between the leading Democratic
candidates for president were on clear display at the rowdy Iowa Liberty and Justice Celebration on Friday evening
[11/1/2019]. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren took aim at her more moderate rivals during her remarks,
slamming them for "vague ideas that are designed not to offend anyone."
The RS Politics 2020
Democratic Primary Leaderboard. [#12] Michael Bennet: The 54-year-old senator is campaigning for a return
to integrity in government and a revival of American economic mobility. Bennet positions himself as "pragmatic
idealist" and has been calling for Democrats to temper ideas like packing the Supreme Court. [...] [#14] Steve Bullock:
[...] Even in a crowded field, Bullock's experience stands out. He won statewide office in a state Trump carried
by 20 points — and then got a GOP-majority legislature to agree to expand Medicaid. [...] [#15] John
Delaney: The former Maryland Congressman, 56, has been running for president since July 2017, preaching a relentlessly
bipartisan message of national unity. [...] [#16] Joe Sestak: The former three-star Navy admiral and two-term
congressman threw his hat into the 2020 ring in mid-June, and has been spotted stumping before sparse crowds in Iowa. [...]
[#17] Wayne Messam: The mayor of fast-growing Miramar, Florida, Messam has a low national profile.
'There's
no model for this': Impeachment timeline crashes into Democratic primary. On its current path, the impeachment
case against President Donald Trump is on a collision course with perhaps the most pivotal period in the Democratic primary,
threatening to unravel the campaign plans of some of the top 2020 contenders. The House is unlikely to vote on
impeachment until the end of the year, meaning the Senate trial against Trump figures to begin in January — just
weeks before the Feb. 3 Iowa caucuses. It's an event that could require the six Democratic presidential prospects
to remain in Washington every workday for at least a month.
Democrats push candidates to fully
commit to 2020 nominee. The push from Chairman Tom Perez is part of a wide-ranging strategy designed to prevent
the mistakes that cost Democrats the 2016 presidential election. It comes as the Republican National Committee
continues to dwarf the Democratic Party in fundraising, while Democrats face the prospect of a bruising, expensive nominating
fight that could last well into election year.
Bonfire
of the Democratic Party's Once-Rising Stars. [Scroll down] In a way, getting good press is just not that
difficult for a young-ish Democratic lawmaker with decent public speaking skills. Just invite a big newspaper or
magazine reporter to hang around for a few days, let them marvel as you charm little old ladies and speak some eighth-grade
Spanish to a local Latino organization, offer some trite observations that "technology changes everything" and "government
can do so much more if we only have the will," and then roll up your sleeves and pose for your looking-off-in-the-distance
photo shoot. Presto! Instant presidential "buzz."
Bonfire
of the Democratic Party's Once-Rising Stars. This primary is turning into a giant bonfire of once-promising
political talents who could make national reporters swoon. As far back as 2017, Vogue and other national
glossies gushed over the presidential potential of Kirsten Gillibrand. Beto O'Rourke was the favorite subject of
glowing profiles in national publications throughout 2018. Julian Castro spent much of the past decade being touted as
"the Latino Obama." Cory Booker was the subject of documentaries and a social media star ... and like the rest, he's an
afterthought.
Democrats
Have the Most Racially Diverse Field Ever. The Top Tier Is All White. When the Democratic primary contest
began last winter, it featured the most racially diverse field in history, with two black senators, a Latino former cabinet
secretary, an Asian-American businessman and the first American Samoan elected to Congress. But 10 months later, the
Democratic field has a top tier of four white candidates, three of them men. Candidates of color are languishing in the
low single digits in polls, well behind the four leaders — former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., Senators
Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind. The
divide could become even more pronounced in the coming months: Because of new, more rigorous thresholds for the Democratic
debate in December, it is possible that only one nonwhite candidate, Senator Kamala Harris of California, will qualify.
'You
lost': Democratic Left hits back at Hillary Clinton and donors fretting about quality of 2020 field. The
nervousness among Democratic establishment figures about the quality of the 2020 primary field has prompted mockery from
liberal activists who say that the wealthy are worried about losing their power. There have been a slew of reports that
Democrats like Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and Michael Bloomberg are thinking of jumping into the race at the last minute
because they believe the current crop of top candidates — Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, and Bernie
Sanders — won't be able to defeat President Trump.
Thinking
of a Late Entry Into the 2020 Primary? Think Again. Last week, the New York Times surveyed an "anxious
Democratic Establishment" and found people casting about for new presidential candidates, and some prospective candidates
giving a late entry into the race at least of modicum of thought. [...] These musings may not be, and probably are not, very
serious. But if anyone on the sidelines is truly planning a last-minute attempt to shake up the primary, they should
recognize that the track record of late entrants is atrocious.
Ohio
congressman Tim Ryan drops out of 2020 presidential race. Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio has ended his bid for the
Democratic presidential nomination, he announced Thursday [10/24/2019] in a video. "I'm announcing today I'm
withdrawing from the presidential campaign. I'll be returning home to my family and friends and community in Ohio,"
Ryan said, adding that he would seek reelection for his House seat in the state's 13th District.
The Editor says...
Congressman Ryan would have had his own subsection on this page, but I didn't know he was running!
Dem
donors reportedly asking about late entrants to defeat Trump. If you're not convinced that the Democrat Party
desperately wants to ensure that President Donald Trump doesn't secure a second term in the White House, you have not
been paying attention to their sham impeachment efforts. They are so desperate, according to New York Times Frank
Bruni, that donors in the party are beginning to panic over their current options to take on the president.
Democratic
leaders anxious over lack of viable 2020 candidates: report. Democratic Party leaders have reportedly been
struck by anxiety as the 2020 election approaches — and some fear they have no viable candidate to back.
Leaders and activists in the party are wary that all their top contenders have major weaknesses and are urging other possible
candidates to get in the race, The Washington Post and The New York Times reported Tuesday [10/22/2019]. "You can imagine
much stronger candidates," Democratic National Committee member Elaine Kamarck told The Washington Post.
Donors decide to winnow the
Democratic presidential field. Turns out, the scramble for political money has become far more decisive in the
Democratic primary races than any of their policy papers or tedious TV debates. And in that money contest, former Vice
President Joe Biden has also become the former front-runner for 2020. He's now lagging far behind the new frontrunners:
Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and — wait for it — Pete Buttigieg, the fresh-faced Indiana
mayor. It's still three months until the Iowa caucuses kick off Democrats' crucial decision-making among actual voters.
But fresh third-quarter campaign finance reports indicate donors are already picking winners in the still-crowded field.
And they're also picking losers, some of whom may not even make it to the first voting.
Kellyanne
Conway: Biden Is Only The Frontrunner Because The Rest Of The Democrats Are "Unabashed Socialists".
Counselor to President Trump, Kellyanne Conway, weighs in on Hunter Biden's overseas business dealings, the Democrats
impeachment push and Trump's potential trade deal with China. "I'm one of the people around the president who
just — who says, you know, prop him up, meaning let's keep Biden in there for a while," Conway joked about
Biden. "The reason he's the front-runner is because the rest of the field are unabashed socialists," she said. "
2020
Democrats Won't Attack Biden Over Ukraine Scandal. I recently noted the bizarre observation that 2020 Democrats
aren't launching any substantive attacks on the frontrunners for the nomination. Biden, Warren, and Sanders have,
generally speaking, gotten off pretty easy with their single-digit-polling rivals. If you think they're waiting for the
next debate to unload, you'd be wrong. [...] According to Beto O'Rourke, "There is no reason [to look] into Joe Biden or his
son Hunter Biden. They have been cleared of any wrongdoing whatsoever." [...] Beto is not the only one pulling punches.
Sarah
Palin and the Collapse of the Democrats. [Scroll down] Out of this divided party we see candidates for
the Democratic presidential nomination struggling to distinguish their candidacies because they all lack gravitas, magnetic
personalities, and records of leadership. This despite the fact that the candidates the Democrats have fielded are the
creme de la creme in their party. We conservatives are all a bit paranoid, so we see a lot of speculation that the
Democrats will field a star player at just the right moment. Michelle, Hillary, or some unknowable superstar are
supposed to be on the sidelines. This is unlikely. Losing is easy enough without turning to another false hope,
and an intra-party war would result from anyone trying to seize the nomination. No one need think about a new messiah
figure suddenly appearing. The Democrats don't have one. For the nomination, the candidates must appeal to one or
the other of these bifurcated wings of a now divided party.
Fracking
Ban Proposed By 2020 Dems Would Kill Millions of Jobs. A proposed fracking ban put forward by leading
Democratic presidential candidates would have a devastating impact on U.S. jobs, energy independence, and even national
security, according to several studies. Reports from the American Petroleum Institute, Independent Petroleum
Association of America, and U.S. Chamber of Commerce painted a stark picture of the economic fallout from ending fracking, a
process which has transformed the United States into the top oil and natural gas producer in the world.
Why Liberals
and Progressives Lie to Blacks. The obvious is that they are fishing for votes. Warren has a putative
weakness with African American voters. Tom Steyer is unknown to them (as he is to a lot of people). Harris is sinking
fast and needs to shore up her rep and Julián Castro's campaign has barely been registering enough to keep him on the
debate stage. [...] But beneath this are more disturbing beliefs, one of which is on the edge of disgusting and actually
racist: 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. Also at play here, as it is
everywhere in Democratic precincts, is Fear of Trump. African Americans are doing better under Trump than they ever
have been in this country with unemployment at record lows and salaries up.
Georgetown
College Republicans Host Rebuttal To Climate Forum Featuring 2020 Candidates. The upcoming presidential
election will be the first election many college-aged voters will be able to participate in and it makes sense that a climate
change discussion would be hosted on campus since several polls identified it as a top issue for the young voting
demographic. College Reaction, a polling and research company, released a survey in September that found almost 31
percent of respondents put climate change as their number one issue, followed by the economy and health care. On
Thursday night [9/19/2019], Georgetown students will have the choice to attend the climate forum or the rebuttal.
Brett
Kavanaugh Breaks the Democrats. 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. [...] [Senator Kamala]
Harris and a number of her fellow Democratic presidential aspirants, including Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Beto
O'Rourke, Cory Booker, and Julian Castro, have called for the impeachment of Justice Kavanaugh based on the Times
reporting. Their assessment of Kavanaugh's culpability in an alleged assault has not changed even as the original
reporting has undergone substantial revisions.
Plenty of Candidates, But No
Stars. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, 78, is a lovable scold to his die-hard supporters, and he's
genuine. So why aren't Democrats more enthusiastic about him? Elizabeth Warren, 70, is a great campaigner who
gained strength during the long slog that she began as the Democrat with a dubious claim to being Native American. And
still, the party apparatus has not coalesced behind her. And below that top-tier of Nestors are a pack of middle-aged
opportunists who stand out for their willingness to say anything to generate buzz.
Is It Really
A Three-Candidate Race? A much-discussed poll last month showing an effective three-way tie between Joe Biden,
Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders at the top of the Democratic primary field has since proven to be something of an
outlier. But the narrative that the Democratic primary has collapsed down into a three-way race between Biden, Warren
and Sanders is still going strong. Now that we're past the Labor Day holiday — traditionally a time when the
pressure increases on lesser-running candidates to either improve their performance or to drop out — is the
"three-way race" the right way characterize the primary?
If
You're Polling In The Low Single Digits, You're Probably Toast. [Scroll down] As my colleague Geoffrey
Skelley discovered in his series on the predictive accuracy of early primary polls, only one candidate has come back from
averaging less than 5 percent in national polls in the second half of the year before the primary to win the
nomination. That was Jimmy Carter, who did so in 1976. Given the number of candidates who failed to make it, that would
make their chances of winning the nomination very low — somewhere on the order of 1 or 2 percent. Now, you
might look at someone like a Booker or a Klobuchar and assume that they're better qualified than the candidates who were polling in
the low single digits in past nomination races. But that's not necessarily true.
Impeachment
Activist Tom Steyer Qualifies for October Democrat Debate. Billionaire left-wing Democrat mega-donor Tom Steyer
has qualified for the Democratic Party presidential primary debate in October, expanding the field to eleven candidates and
requiring the debate to be held over two nights. Steyer was the top individual Democratic Party donor in 2014 and 2016,
falling back to third place in 2018. He began his political career funding a nationwide campaign for action against climate
change, and successfully urged the Senate — then run by Democrats — to hold an all-night talk session
on climate change in 2014.
Obsession:
Broadcast coverage of Trump 11 times greater than Democratic hopefuls. Trump-bashing has become a tradition in
broadcast news, with anchors, correspondents and pundits supplying near non-stop negative coverage of President Trump and his
administration. The coverage has been, on average, 90% negative according to a series of studies by the Media Research
Center. These days, the Democratic presidential hopefuls are paying a price for this obsession. Networks'
"fixation on Trump" is leaving comparatively little airtime for his would-be presidential challengers, the conservative press
watch dog says in a new analysis released Monday [9/9/2019].
Inside A
Small City Mayor's Campaign For President. Wayne Messam is best known, if you've heard of him at all, as the
other mayor running for president — in his case, not quite as successfully as South Bend, Indiana's mayor,
Pete Buttigieg. The mayor of Miramar, Florida, has not found much of an audience or appeared in any debates. He
has raised a mere $93,812 and a small campaign staff. And now, according to internal campaign documents and interviews
with eight former Messam campaign staffers and contractors, his campaign appears to be in near-total disarray.
Top 10 Things the 2020 Democrats Will Ban
If Elected . Here, in no particular order, are the top 10 things that the 2020 Democrats want you — not
them — to give up.
[#1] Elizabeth Warren wants the government to control which light bulbs you use, which straws you use, and limit your cheeseburger consumption.
[#2] Joe Biden said the Green New Deal doesn't go too far and that he wants to ban coal power plants and fossil fuels.
[#3] Kamala Harris wants to ban plastic straws, fracking, off-shore drilling, and red meat.
[#4] Julian Castro wants to ban fracking while Andrew Yang wants to ban commercial air travel.
[#5] Pete Buttigieg believes that if you eat hamburgers or use straws, you are "part of the problem."
[#6] Cory Booker and Beto O'Rourke want to ban offshore drilling.
[#7] Bernie Sanders even endorsed eugenics-style population control, including unlimited abortions.
But climate change is so imminent and so catastrophic, the Obama family just bought a $15 million beachfront property on
Martha's Vineyard.
The
Two Ticking Time Bombs of the Coming Election. [Scroll down] [W]hen the public finally looks seriously
at the Democratic candidates, the race will tilt like a teeter-totter when a 300-pound man sits at the opposite end to a
child. Every candidate in serious contention for the Democratic nomination, except Joe Biden, has championed tax,
immigration, health care, and environmental policies that the great majority of Americans will not seriously entertain —
and that is without getting into reparations for descendants of slaves and natives, and legalized infanticide. And the one
prominent Democratic contender who can claim comparative sanity and civility — Biden — lacks the acuity
for the office he now seeks and always has.
Could a Warren/Sanders
Team-up Topple Biden? Maybe. But it is hard to imagine Sanders endorsing Warren until and unless Warren
defeats him consistently and by a significant margin in several early states.
Why
Harris, Booker, and Klobuchar will never be President. The calculated Russia hoax devised to bring down a presidential
candidate, president-elect and then president, is the most serious and egregious political scandal in US history. Second may be
the Kavanaugh hearings. So determined to not let Brett Kavanaugh be seated on the Supreme Court, the demented Left decided to
invent an equally monstrous lie to prevent the confirmation of Trump's choice for the Justice to replace Anthony Kennedy. I
think that every Democrat on that committee had to know that the accusations against Kavanaugh were false, that Blasey-Ford was a
plant, a willing dupe in the Democrat scheme to destroy a good man for their political purposes. The entire fiasco was so
unspeakable that in a just world, all the perpetrators would be in prison for fraud, Diane Feinstein among them. Three of
those perpetrators are currently candidates for President, Harris, Booker and Klobuchar.
$12
Million Couldn't Buy Tom Steyer a Spot in the Democratic Debate. Tom Steyer has blanketed the airwaves for
years, fronting ads for his political groups NextGen Climate and Need to Impeach. When he launched his presidential
campaign in July, pundits were skeptical that the investor-turned-progressive-activist could attract enough support to break
through in a field of more than 20 Democratic candidates. His most immediate task: Qualify for the upcoming
debates by registering support from at least 2 percent of respondents in four separate polls and by accumulating
130,000 individual donors. So the California billionaire — who has appeared in Super Bowl ads —
began shelling out millions of dollars to drum up attention and financial support. It hasn't quite worked
out — at least not yet.
Here's
Why 2020 Dems Are Dropping Like Flies. On Friday [8/23/2019], Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) —
Seth who? — will become the fourth candidate to drop out of the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential
nomination. In fact, three candidates dropped out in the past two weeks: former Gov. John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.),
current Gov. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.), and now Moulton. Americans can expect to see more Democrats throw in the towel
as August 28 approaches. While a whopping 21 candidates received the privilege of debating on stage in June and July,
the threshold to qualify for the September and October debates is much higher, and only 10 have qualified so far.
Why Michelle Obama Won't
Run in 2020. The Democrats are clearly losing confidence that their declared presidential candidates can beat
President Trump in 2020. They tout polls showing that any of their top four candidates would win the general election
were it held now, but only the most naïve take such hypothetical matchups seriously. Moreover, they can see that
their leading candidate is so fuddled that he frequently forgets his talking points and even where he is on a given day, while
his competitors are so far left of the mainstream that Trump would trounce them. This is why so many on the left have
turned their desperate eyes to Michelle Obama.
Michelle
Obama for president. The only one who can beat Trump? There is, however, one problem Michelle Obama fans
are going to have to deal with, and it's a big one. She ain't interested. "There's zero chance," she told the
National, an Amtrak magazine. And in an interview with Conan O'Brien, she said being in the White House and under the
spotlight for eight years was enough, and "I'm not interested in politics."
The Editor says...
Michelle Obama would love to wield the power she once saw in the hands of her incompetent husband. It's not that
she isn't interested in politics. She doesn't want to be soundly defeated and publicly humiliated by Donald Trump.
Even the loyal protection of the press and the novelty of a black female in the White House would not be enough to get
Michelle Obama elected.
Elizabeth
Warren, the worst of the bunch. They each advocate for open borders to all who show up, no matter from what
home country, no matter how likely they may be to be criminals. Not one of them cares about the thousands of American
citizens who are killed by illegal aliens. No, they care about only the "poor children at the border" whose parents
have either sold or rented them to drug cartels or coyotes for a price. But bleeding-heart Warren now wants to repeal
the 1994 crime bill, pushed by Joe Biden at the time, and that actually worked. For wholly mysterious reasons, Warren,
like the rest of the Left, values criminals, legal or illegal residents, over American citizens.
No One is
4th in Democrat poll. CNN polled 402 Democrats and asked them who among 33 candidates or potential candidates
they want Democrats to nominate for president. No One finished fourth, and Someone Else was eighth. Joe Biden led
the pack with 29%, down from 39% from April. The more he campaigns, the less support he has. Bernie Sanders
remained in second at 15%, same as April. Elizabeth Warren remained in third at 14%, up from 9% in April.
No One shot up to fourth place at 7%, up from 3% in April. No One passed Pete Buttigieg, Beto O'Rourke, and
Kamala Harris, who were at 7%, 6%, and 5% respectively in April. Someone Else went from zero in April to 2%,
creating a four-way tie with Cory Booker, Julian Castro, and Tulsi Gabbard.
The
climate change crisis racket. Do Democrats really believe in the climate crisis they have dubbed an "emergency,"
or is it really just a way to make a quick buck? Beto O'Rourke has suggested spending $5 trillion over the
next ten years investing in climate change initiatives primarily for "vulnerable communities." Not to be outdone, Kamala
Harris was one of the co-sponsors for the "Green New Deal," which proposes $700 billion a year in spending on a utopian
garden future. Bernie Sanders, also a loud supporter of the GND, proposes going even farther and banning any new
developments that would require fossil fuels. Cory Booker uses climate change to drum up fear, claiming with an
re-introduced bill that the environment is racist (yeah, seriously), and although he hasn't laid out any specific plans, he
has insinuated possibly legislating veganism.
The Editor says...
How is it possible to solve a global problem — assuming there is a problem — by spending money only
in "vulnerable communities?" What does that mean, anyway? Which "community" in the United States is so sensitive that
an imperceptible change in temperature would require five trillion dollars in remedial expenditures?
There is No 'Climate
Emergency!' Speaking at the 13th International Conference on Climate Change held on July 25th in Washington,
D.C., Dr. Roy W. Spencer of the University of Alabama in Huntsville said, "There is no climate crisis. There is no
climate emergency. Even if all of the warming we've seen in any observational data set is due to increasing CO2 (carbon
dioxide), which I don't believe it is, it's probably too small for any person to feel in their lifetime." Yet, on July 9,
Reuters News Agency reported "Democratic lawmakers, including six presidential candidates, on Tuesday unveiled a Congressional
resolution declaring a climate change emergency to spur 'sweeping reforms' to stem a dangerous rise in global temperatures.
Steyer:
A 'State Of Emergency' Over Climate Change On Day One. Democratic billionaire Tom Steyer of California has big
plans for his first day as president. "I will declare a state of emergency on day one," he said, referring to the need
to take on the effects of climate change. "We are faced with something that will affect the health and safety of every
single American, and every single American in the future."
The Editor says...
There is no climate emergency. If you turn off your television, you won't see anybody who thinks
there is a climate crisis. The weather this year is just like last year's weather.
Not
One Democratic Presidential Candidate Responds to Question Asking Them if They Condemn Antifa. Despite the
well-documented violence of the radical left Antifa group — the Department of Homeland Security classifies it as
"domestic terrorist violence" — not one of the 23 Democrats running for president would condemn Antifa when
repeatedly asked by CNSNews.com over the course of 12 business days. The Trump administration did respond, within a
day, condemning Antifa.
2020
Democrats get desperate after El Paso shooting. The national media are never going to like anything about
President Trump, so it doesn't matter that they're panning his pitch-perfect remarks Monday at the White House on the two
mass shootings that took place over the weekend. While they're busy searching their hearts for yet more reasons to hate
Trump, they're missing the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates make complete asses of themselves as they try to
out-grieve and out-outrage one another.
Democrats
have 24 candidates in the race, but they're all zeros. If anything can be gleaned from watching the Democrats
debate, it's this: President Donald Trump doesn't have much to worry about when it comes to his reelection.
Democrats, after all these months, even with all these candidates, still have nobody for president. There's no
break-away; there's no front-runner. There's no clear leader — certainly, no clear winner. Bluntly,
you know you've got a candidate problem when, in a field of 24, the perceived best chance of beating Trump is —
Michelle Obama. The one who's not running.
Little Stalins.
Comparing the debates to a reality game show is popular. Few if any of the candidates display any retail political
savvy or charm. That they are a circular firing squad, a pack of hyenas devouring each other, and/or coffee klatch of
resentful scare-mongers are all apt observations in one way or another. Let me propose yet another: that they are
mostly a bunch of little wannabe Stalins. That applies especially to the two avowed socialists of the group, Bernie
Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. But while not all of the candidates evidently share Sanders's affection for the old
USSR — he spent his honeymoon there, after all — they do share a kind of authoritarian stridency that
reminds of the great mustachioed one. Here Warren is the worst. Warren makes you search for a word stronger than
humorless. Is it the 1/1000 Cherokee in her? Are all American Indians so resolutely grim? Even Stalin
managed a genuine smile and a laugh now and then, after a good purge or government induced famine.
Democrat-Socialist
dinosaurs hype climate change debate. Last week, Democrat and Democratic-Socialist dinosaurs, all candidates
for president, debated over who had the best climate change plan. But climate change headlines aside, these plans are
really designed to rifle our bank accounts and hamper the progress of American industry. This despite the globe's
premier capitalist income-redistribution machine already having created 223,000 jobs in July alone.
Expect
More Attacks on Obama's Legacy from 2020 Democrats. Former Obama officials are reportedly concerned that
criticizing the Obama record is "bad politics" and that "Obama's legacy could become collateral damage" as a result.
For years, Obama and his record have been in untouchable territory. If you disagreed with Obama and his policies during
his presidency, you were dubbed a racist. Democrats fell in line without any pushback, and as a result, the party is
clearly unprepared for the Obama record to undergo such examination from within their own party. It was politically
expedient to brand Republicans as racist for opposing Obama, but not so much when the fire is coming from their own side from
people vying for their party's presidential nomination.
People
in Detroit Struggle to Name Democrat Presidential Candidates. Man-and-woman on the street interviews in Detroit
done on the eve of this week's two-night Democratic Party presidential debates show that even the front running candidates
are not very well known among voters. The interviews were conducted by Spectrum News reporter Lindsay Oliver and posted
by Spectrum to Twitter. The debates, hosted by CNN, are airing Tuesday [7/30/2019] and Wednesday night with ten
candidates each night.
Everything You Don't Know About Mass
Incarceration. Certain must-pass ideological litmus tests have arisen for the 25 declared candidates (so far)
seeking the Democratic Party presidential nomination. Perhaps chief among them is subscription to the belief that the
American criminal-justice system is racist and overly punitive.
In
Face Of Massive Border Crisis, Democrats Tell Americans Citizenship Means Nothing. On Friday night [7/12/2019],
a mob of protestors tore down an American flag outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Aurora, Colo.,
and replaced it with a Mexican flag. Local police stood by and did nothing. The next day, a gunman reportedly
associated with Antifa attacked an ICE detention center in Tacoma, Wash., throwing Molotov cocktails and attempting to set
fire to a propane tank. He was reportedly killed by police in a gunfight. The attack in Tacoma coincided with
left-wing protests at ICE facilities all over the country, prompted by nationwide ICE raids targeting Central American
families whom immigration judges have ordered to be deported after reviewing their claims. If you're a Democrat seeking
your party's nomination for 2020, what's your response to these events? So far, nothing.
Of Progressive
Carnivores and Cannibals. [R]evolutionary carnivores are rarely sated. Once they run out of easy hostile
targets — and they have with the collapse of the Mueller hoax and all the other impeachment melodramas —
they get hungry and as cannibals start to eye their own. We have already seen that autophagy in the initial primary
debates in which all the major Democratic presidential candidates — Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris,
Robert O'Rourke, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren — shouted out the most outlandish agendas possible in a
desperate effort to ensure that no rival could possibly pose more to their left.
Tired,
Irrelevant Democratic Candidates Point To Trump Reelection. The Democrats' major problems are that almost all
the president's policies are working. The collapse of the Russian collusion fraud has created an eerie silence as the
country awaits possible indictments of the Democrats responsible for that outrage; and the Democrats themselves are completely
unfeasible. [...] This is all the Democrats have left: snobbery, the moronic pretensions of a party whose leaders
politicized the intelligence and national police agencies to try to undo an election, and many of whose contenders abuse
public credulity by comparing resisting the will-o'-the-wisp of climate change with the invasion of Normandy (Senator Cory
Booker of New Jersey), and announcing the scientific unanimity of certainty about imminent planet-threatening global warming
(Beto O'Rourke [of] Texas).
Billionaire
Tom Steyer to join crowded 2020 presidential race. Billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer is planning to
launch his campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, a report said Sunday [7/7/2019]. The 62-year-old
Steyer — who toyed with the idea of running in the past — held a private conference call last week to
tell people close to him that he was planning to run, according to Politico.
Clown
Car: Who's Up for a 26th Dem Candidate in 2020? This is particularly confusing since [#1] Jay Inslee
seems to have already gotten into this thing as the global warming candidate under the impression that Steyer would be
funding him. The 2020 race will now have two single-issue global warming candidates arguing that only they can be
trusted to stop the planet from blowing up. Steyer's other big issue was impeaching Trump. I don't think even in
this field, it's possible to run for president based on a promise to impeach the previous president. But I may be
overestimating the idiocy and insanity of the current electorate. [#2] Steyer, unlike most of the field, doesn't need
to run for president to make money or build his national profile. So this is just a Bloombergian vanity candidacy.
Should
Candidates Forfeit Their Salary For Time Spent Campaigning? The title question may sound a bit facetious, but
it's the one being posed by Ken Frydman at the New York Daily News this weekend. There are more than two dozen elected
officials — current officeholders — running for President at the moment. They spend a vast amount
of time in New Hampshire, Iowa, South Carolina and at state Democratic conventions and galas across the nation. So much
so in fact that they rarely find time to make it back to their home states, districts, and cities, or even to their full-time
jobs in Washington. In a glaring example of this phenomenon, when the vote was held to approve billions of dollars of
humanitarian relief for the southern border, not one of the seven Senate Democrats running for the nomination showed up
to vote on behalf of their constituents.
Democratic
shakeout: Biden losing altitude, Harris surging, field dividing, bottom stuck at bottom. There have now
been five national polls since the first Democratic presidential primary debate. Together, the surveys, conducted by
ABC News/Washington Post, Quinnipiac, CNN, The Hill/Harris, and Politico/Morning Consult, show the debate has shaken up
the race. The field has separated into three clearly definable tiers, all atop a large group at the bottom made up
of candidates with virtually no support.
Willie
Brown says no 2020 Democrat can beat Trump after debates. Former California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown said
that no Democratic candidate in the 2020 race is capable of beating President Trump right now. Brown's political
analysis appeared in his San Francisco Chronicle column on Saturday [6/29/2019] in a piece titled "Bad news for
Democrats — none of these candidates can beat Trump." Brown admitted that not even his ex-girlfriend
Sen. Kamala Harris of California could beat Trump in a race today.
The Editor says...
This sounds like a well-planned set-up: None of the current candidates are good enough to beat Trump in 2020.
At some point, the news media will begin to say so, in unison, as if all the talking mannequins are reading from the same
teleprompter. Someone will have to ride to the rescue, most likely a black female with favorable name recognition,
like Michelle Obama or Oprah Winfrey. The pre-selected
candidate will put up a shhhtruggle for a day or two and then agree to serve as the nominee. The news media will
go crazy over her, just like they did for Barack H. Obama.
Border Crisis
Hypocrites on Parade. Conventional wisdom holds that political parties evolve, but do so slowly, over passing
generations. But today's Democrats have broken land-speed records as they have careened leftward on the question of
immigration. Today's Democratic Party is nearly unrecognizable when compared with where it was a decade ago, or even
five years ago. And the transformation has been extreme.
When
Democrat candidates offer everything free for all. Each Democratic presidential candidate seems determined to
top the others with proposals for more free stuff. From health care to college tuition to guaranteed income, they offer
freebies that resonate with the mini-mob of the day. President Trump says it's a race to see who can give away the most
stuff, and raise taxes the most. [...] Democratic candidates are so many that one needs a spreadsheet to keep up with who is
offering what to whom. But they are all quick to say that it — whatever it is — should be free.
22% of Democrats
care about 2020. The Associated Press reported on its own poll of 2020, "Only 22% of Democrats registered to
vote say they know a lot about the candidates' positions, while 62% say they know a little. And only 35% say they're
paying close attention to the campaign, with almost two-thirds saying they're paying some or no attention." What is to
know? Their positions are all the same. They are all for reparations, men in girls bathrooms, soaking the rich,
repealing middle class tax breaks, stripping the military, open borders, Medicare For All, and erasing student loan debt.
When one of the candidates tries to break out of the pack by proposing something insane, they all soon follow.
Here
come the Democratic nobles on parade. The legion of Democrats who think they can take the measure of Donald
Trump will go at it beginning Wednesday night [6/26/2019], each trying to figure out a way to stand out in a crowd of
mediocrities. [...] The candidates are practicing to come up with the meanest, harshest and most colorful way to say how much
more they hate the Donald than anyone else in the whole world, and certainly more than any of the others on the platform in Miami.
Summertime
2019: The Top 30 Hottest Political Women. [#4] Tulsi Gabbard: This Hawaiian beauty is more than just a
congresswoman and 2020 presidential candidate. She resigned from the Democrat National Committee when they tried to rig
the 2016 primary in favor of Hillary Clinton and away from her preferred candidate Bernie Sanders. She took a
principled stand, a rarity in American politics. Now she is running against Sanders as a saner version of him.
Election
2020: Democrats announce their 20 semi-finalists. [Scroll down] Why do I call this a beauty
contest? Because 20 is still too many to conduct a credible debate. Supposedly, the groups will be split up into
two sets over two nights. But even ten on the stage for a debate is way too much. Assuming it's a two-hour
debate, that means each candidate will get about 8 to 10 minutes of speaking time, counting for commercial breaks,
bumpers, announcer blather and moderator questions. And assuming none of them goes over their alloted time limits.
A Grotesque Political Party.
The lineup of Democrat presidential candidates currently stands at 25 and growing. Conrad Black has aptly described
them as "unelectable non-entities." The long and growing list is more like a tower of babel than a collection of credible
leaders. Evidence of that is that leading the race currently is former senator and vice president Joe Biden.
Beyond the confines of the Democrat Party the reaction to Biden's candidacy is typically, "Is this a joke?" Joe Biden?
The guy is a goof. He is known primarily for his gaffes, flip-flops, plagiarism, and unwelcome advances toward
women. The very fact he is leading the race is a sad indictment on all the other candidates. The unreality of all
the candidates' policy positions, e.g. the Green New Deal, sanctuary cities, open borders, unlimited taxpayer-funded abortions,
should be obvious to all sentient beings. Democrats label all Trump supporters as racists, just as Hillary Clinton
labeled them all "deplorables."
22
Democratic debate qualifiers and 20 spots. So who gets the little table? After saturating Twitter
something fierce in a quest for $1 donations over the weekend, Democratic presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand has
finally secured herself a spot on the Democratic Party's debate stage in June, bringing up the rear. [...] There are only 20
spots on the debate stage. Gillibrand's stagger over the finish line makes 22 among the qualifiers. And maybe the
last two Democratic hopefuls can pull a one-off and secure themselves spots, too, making the total 24, which leaves
Democratic Party boss Tom Perez's effort to cull the herd two weeks ago useless.
The
strange-birds of 'The 2020 Gang'. We have entered a political era when people with no substantive credentials
and few life successes believe they are qualified to be the leader of the free world and to govern your life. This era
started last decade when a little-known man became president, whose primary real-life achievement had been to run a rag-tag
street pack in Chicago. Almost none of the current presidential candidates has ever created a job or a real business,
or run a complex organization, except for a couple of the governors, and even they had the title of Governor but not much to
brag about in the accomplishments department.
2020
Democrats call to end ban on gay men donating blood. A growing number of Democratic presidential candidates in
the 2020 election are calling for an end to a long-held standard for blood donations, which critics say enforces latent
homophobia and leaves America's blood supply vulnerable to unscientific limits. That policy, which bans gay and
bisexual men who have had sex with other men within the past year from donating blood, has been criticised as unnecessary in
terms of modern scientific testing for blood-borne sexually transmitted diseases like HIV — modern tests can find
the virus in the bloodstream within two weeks.
Bernie
& Joe: Two Old White Males Take the Lead. In 2018, a record turnout of women, minorities and young added
40 House seats to Democratic ranks and made Nancy Pelosi speaker. This, we were told, is the new diversity
coalition — women, people of color, millennials — that will take down The Donald in 2020. So, how
has the Democratic field sorted itself out half a year later? According to the Real Clear Politics average of polls,
two old white guys, Joe Biden, 76, and Bernie Sanders, 77, are setting the pace and have together corralled more than half of
all Democrats.
AOC
Calls For 2020 Dem to Be Bounced for All: 'Please Sashay Away'. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is
calling for the elimination of a 2020 presidential candidate over his opposition to Medicare for all. In a Sunday
[6/2/2019] tweet, the representative from New York expressed her desire to have John Delaney bounced from the race. [...] At
the California Democratic convention in San Francisco on Sunday, Delaney — a former congressman from
Maryland — was booed after coming out against Medicare for all. "Medicare for all may sound good, but
it's actually not good policy, nor is it good politics," Delaney said, to the disapproving crowd.
Democrats Make Surprise
Move To Squeeze And Narrow Campaign Field, Concerning Campaign Officials. The Democratic Party's directive to
establish a 130,000 donor quota to qualify presidential candidates for participation in the third primary debate is raising
concerns among campaign officials. Two-thirds of the 2020 Democratic field might not qualify to participate in the
September debate due to the measure, The New York Times reported Thursday, citing officials from multiple campaigns.
The threshold doubles the amount of donors needed to participate in the two preceding debates scheduled for June and July,
which is set at 65,000 donors.
Democratic
2020 hopefuls AWOL on national security. Democratic insiders have concluded that President Trump is unusually
vulnerable on national security for a Republican, an assessment based on extensive research, but warn the party's leading
2020 contenders are squandering this unique political opening. The crowded field of would-be White House nominees has
been virtually radio silent on the range of threats facing the United States, from terrorism to illegal immigration to
cyberattacks, preferring to to discuss domestic issues such as healthcare popular with the progressive base. Liberal
foreign policy experts fear this failure to both acknowledge these key national security concerns, and offer contrasting
solutions, could cede crucial political ground to Trump once the general election begins next year.
Tom
Perez braces for criticism from Democrats for cutting the size of the clown car at the debates. With 24
candidates running for president against President Trump, Democratic Party chairman Tom Perez has moved to cut the size of
the clown car so voters can at least see the candidates on a single screen at the upcoming first debate, come June.
Fringe candidates can go to the children's table.
The Editor says...
The uppermost leaders of the Democratic Party will select their desired nominee, and make the necessary arrangements to see that this designated
person is on the national ticket. You can vote in the primary election if you like, but the outcome is predetermined. If this were
not true, Bernie Sanders would have been the party's nominee in 2016. But it was Hillary's turn.
The
24 Democrats. Every presidential primary ends with one winner and a lot of losers. [...] The 2020 Democratic
primary is going to end with about 23 campaigns falling short of actual victory and any moral victories. Perhaps two
candidates will end up in a unity ticket, and perhaps one or two will have set themselves up for another run for another
office someday. But the coming year will bring a lot of anticlimax, frustration, and disillusionment for a lot
of once-promising figures in the party.
Drowning in a sea of Democrats.
There are 19 candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination polling at 2 percent or less in New Hampshire, according
to a recent poll from Monmouth University. Sixteen of them are at or below 1 percent. Thirteen register at zero,
including Kirsten Gillibrand and Michael Bennet, both sitting U.S. senators, and Tulsi Gabbard, Eric Swalwell, Seth Moulton, all
of whom are members of the House. There is also a governor in there somewhere among the New Age gurus and 89-year-old
Alaskan ex-pols and former HUD secretaries. Now another one, Seth — sorry, I mean, Steve — Bullock
of Montana, is about to announce his candidacy.
Trump
versus the B-team: President says the Democratic race is down to just four of the 23 candidates. Donald
Trump singled out four of his challengers for ridicule on Tuesday [5/14/2019], mocking Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Beto O'Rourke and
Bernie Sanders and predicting one of them will win the 2020 Democratic nomination. 'Boy, you got some beauties there!' he
said during a speech in Louisiana about energy infrastructure. 'Three hundred and fifty million people and that's the best we
can do?' 'It's going to be one of these people,' he said. So far 23 different Democratic White House hopefuls have
declared their candidacies.
Democrats'
clown car for president may cost them any hopes of retaking Senate. Remember when Republicans were known as
"the stupid party"? Get a load of what the Democrats are doing to challenge them for the title. Mike Allen of Axios
has an interesting piece describing how the crammed clown car of Democratic candidates, all of them seeking to be the
president, may be costing them any prospect of winning back the Senate and might even hurt them in the House, too.
Impeachment as Political
Panic Button. The field of presidential aspirants is not as deep as it is wide. It contains many but not
much. No towering figure overshadows the others, as Hillary Clinton did in 2016. Instead, a pack of dwarves stand atop
their toes to ride the rollercoaster, with their collective height mattering little to the gatekeepers. None yet
measures up to the "You Must Be This Tall to Ride" sign.
Sixteen
candidates now qualify for Democratic debates. This year, the Democratic National Committee decided that
presidential candidates can qualify for the first two debates by earning at least 1 percent of the vote in three national or
early-primary-state polls conducted by qualifying pollsters or by receiving donations from at least 65,000 unique donors,
including at least 200 individual donors in at least 20 states. I assume that this liberal approach was a
reaction to charges that the DNC stacked the deck against outsiders four years ago. There will be outsiders galore
participating in Democratic presidential debates this year. According to FiveThirtyEight, 16 Democrats have already
met at least one of the DNC's two criteria.
Democratic
Party Candidates: Dumb and Dumber. With the entry of creepy "Uncle" Joe Biden into the race for the White
House, the total number of Democratic Party presidential candidates has reached 20, making it the largest field in
history. Unfortunately, a massive number of candidates does not translate into great ideas on how to move the country
forward. Most of the major proposals being offered by these presidential candidates are truly frightening and would
propel the United States of America on the road toward socialism, which leads to economic ruin and societal devastation.
Biden the front-runner? Here's
why the word doesn't really fit. [Scroll down] The two leading candidates in most polls are Biden and
Bernie Sanders. It's no coincidence that they also happen to be the only two candidates pretty much everyone is at
least somewhat familiar with. Gallup and Monmouth polling shows around 3 in 10 Democrats haven't formed an
opinion of Elizabeth Warren, about 4 in 10 don't have one of Kamala Harris, and about half are similarly
noncommittal or don't know Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand, Cory Booker, Beto O'Rourke and Pete Buttigieg. Biden is
popular among the Democrats who have an opinion of him — 72% favorable and 16% unfavorable in the Monmouth
poll — but he's not appreciably more popular among those who know him than a lot of these other candidates.
Rep.
Seth Moulton becomes the 19th Democratic candidate for president. Rep. Seth Moulton, a Massachusetts
congressman known for prioritizing veterans issues and for an unsuccessful push to unseat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,
declared his bid for the White House on Monday [4/22/2019]. In announcing his candidacy, Moulton becomes the 19th
Democrat in the race.
A
Reckoning Is in Store for Democrats. Cory Booker, perhaps the most compulsively verbose candidate since Hubert
Humphrey (who was a good deal more thoughtful and entertaining), is apparently full of goodwill, but very inadequate.
Kamala Harris seems to have the makings of a good candidate, but she is already tangled up in the runaway leftward
nonsense of open borders, socialized medicine, high taxes, and the Green terror. Beto O'Rourke, as foreseen, after a
brief flurry, has skateboarded off the dock and been abandoned by the media as an arm-flapping airhead. Elizabeth
Warren is everyone's nightmare of a severe, humorless kindergarten teacher, and she will not recover from her masquerade
as a native Indian. Amy Klobuchar is sensible and seems likeable but has no pizzazz and hasn't made inroads so far
with radical normalcy, though its time could come.
Socialists
and strongmen. The chaos increases every day. Migrant caravans, which carry diseases and conceal
criminals, are one aspect of this. Identity politics, with its insistence that only a group member can understand and
represent the group, pits different groups against each other. Some groups practice violence, and the local politicians
let this unlawful behavior happen and don't arrest or try to prosecute anyone. It all produces the effect that the
government is not in control, and (clutching pearls) "something must be done." The Democrats will produce a socialist
candidate in moderate's clothing as the savior of the republic. Do not believe them.
Calvinball Is the
Only Game Democrats Play. People hoping to become the Democrat nominee for president in 2020 have recently
floated suggestions for dismantling both the Electoral College and the Supreme Court as we know it. These ideas are in
addition to the urgency with which many of them also tell the rest of us to be both deeply suspicious of parenthood and
greener than Kermit the Frog, in the vain hope that those things might help to forestall climate change. But if
progressive policies are as self-evidently worth pursuing as leftists assume they are, then why do those same people keep
moving the political goalposts? Why, for example, did the Speaker of the House endorse a proposal to lower the federal
voting age to 16? It's as though the only game in town were Calvinball, minus the innocence of the original version.
Democrats in 2020:
Unelectable Nonentities. It is uproariously entertaining to see the scurryings of the innumerable host of
Democratic presidential candidates in what is already more of a lottery than a quest for the nomination of a great party to
the world's greatest office. The Gadarene stampede to (and over) the edge of the abyss of all who advocate open
borders, 70 percent income taxes, the green terror, socialized medicine, legalized infanticide, reparations to native
and African-Americans, packing the Supreme Court, and vacation of the Electoral College, has finally elicited, in a
Churchillian expression, a tiny mouse of dissent.
2020
Democrats Rely on Google Translate to Court Latino Voters. Democratic presidential candidates appear to be
relying on Google translate to bolster their outreach efforts to Latino voters. The Spanish-language portion of each
candidates website has "striking similarities" to "Google's translation service," according to an analysis by Politico.
The candidates appear to be using Google to translate the copy on their sites from English-to-Spanish and posting "with only minor
cleanup." The end result is that websites are riddled with "awkward phrases," incorrect idioms, and generally poor grammar.
For
Peace in America, We Must Return to the Rule of Law. The Left has simply become evil. That is not to say
all registered Democrats or Democrat politicians are necessarily evil, but the national-level leadership of the party and
their primary backers represent a genuinely evil, oppressive, authoritarian, and — not coincidentally —
anti-Semitic program (under the thin veneer of vicious, rabid anti-Zionism). They either represent this mindset outright
(e.g., vice DNC chairman Keith Ellison, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, etc.) or are unwilling to summon the elemental courage to
oppose these trends effectively in their own party (e.g., Pelosi, Schumer).
Forum With Presidential
Candidates Begins With Chant From Fugitive Cop-Killer, Assata Shakur. A Monday [4/1/2019] forum in Washington
D.C. that featured a number of Democratic presidential candidates began with the opening speaker leading a chant that originated
from a fugitive cop-killer. Jamal R. Watkins, the vice president of civic engagement at the NAACP, led off the
"We The People Summit" by reciting a call-and-repeat chant from Assata Shakur. "It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains," Watkins
said, referencing Karl Marx while the crowd repeated each sentence, according to Mediaite.
Here's
why Beto, Biden and Bernie are peaking. Much has been written about the supposed frontrunners for the
Democratic nomination for president: Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and former Rep. Beto O'Rourke
(D-Texas). For the past several months, the first two have been comfortably leading the pack in national, Iowa and New
Hampshire polls, while O'Rourke has been at or near the front of the remaining group. There has been an unmistakable
(and highly mistaken) air of inevitability surrounding these three. But the calculus that has gone into their decisions —
or in Biden's case, the expected decision — to enter this increasingly crowded field is laden with landmines that likely
will doom each of their candidacies.
Dems Go Third Party.
The candidates attracting the most attention look to me like third-party candidates, the sort who run against "mainstream"
politicians only to vanish from sight and memory. The difference is that, this time, one of these characters may well
win the nomination. Most of the traditional policy themes of the Dems — tax the rich, bail out the poor,
provide free health care for all, keep America away from our traditional allies in order to embrace "progressive" regimes,
and so forth — have long since failed the test of time. History has proven them wrong. So what do
these crazy candidates do? Two things: first, they cultivate a remarkable ignorance of history. Second, unable
and unwilling to rethink their doctrines, they double and triple down, taking the failed policies of the recent past to their
illogical conclusion, ending up with the advocacy of positions so extreme that only a fringe movement or third party could
seriously advance them.
Ilhan
Omar Played With Phone, Laughed During House's Denouncement Prompted By Her Anti-Semitism. Every now and then,
an issue arises in politics and just sits. And sits. And I wonder why it won't go away. Such a thing is
Ilhan Omar's relentless anti-Semitism. She just won't let the ruckus subside. While sitting in the back of the
room as the House voted on a measure to reprimand her anti-Semitic remarks recently, she played on her phone and
laughed. The resolution didn't mention her by name, but it was written to condemn her recent comments.
The
Democratic Presidential Contenders' Demeaning View of Americans. Each Democratic presidential contender emits a
foul odor of arrogance and superiority. They believe they are our betters, extremely qualified to dictate how we should
think and live our lives. Contrary to Sen. Harris' presidential announcement speech, she and her fellow Democrats
seek to remove our power by repealing our constitutional rights and block us from acquiring wealth. We are far better,
much smarter, and much stronger than Democratic presidential contenders think we are.
The Perfect
Democrat nominee. Democrats have as many presidential candidates running in 2020 as there blackbirds baked in a
pie. Each has qualities that would make the perfect candidate for the party. They need someone with the White
House experience of Joe Biden. Someone with the youthfulness of Bernie Sanders. Someone with the intelligence of
Cory Booker. Someone with 1/1,024th of the authenticity of Elizabeth Warren. Someone who treats her staff as well
as Amy Klobuchar does. Someone who made it on her own, as independent of any man as Kamala Harris is. Someone who
is as in tune with the Me Too movement as Kirsten Gillibrand is. Put those together, and you will have the perfect
Democrat nominee.
None of this is normal.
The Earth didn't stand still when Colorado ex-Gov. John Hickenlooper announced last week he is running for president. Nor will
Joe Biden's entry make the race more exciting. He's a likable person but that's not what the Democratic resistance is looking for.
They're resisting Trump. They want a candidate who's sure to defeat him.
Mark
Cuban on Making a Presidential Run: 'If Circumstances Were Right I Would'. Dallas Mavericks Owner Mark Cuban
has not ruled out a presidential run in 2020. "It really would take the exact right set of circumstances," Cuban told
the New York Daily News. "I haven't decided anything yet. We'll see what happens. It all comes down to how
things play out. It's not something I feel like I have to do," Cuban explained.
Why I'm for Bernie in
the Democratic Primaries. Another Democrat — Colorado governor John Hickenlooper — has thrown
his/her hat in the ring for that party's presidential nomination. That makes fourteen — count 'em fourteen —
candidates. [...] Quondam frontrunner Joe Biden hasn't even officially decided yet. Hickenlooper's pretty much a national cipher.
Perhaps he should announce his own Green New Deal — The Rocky Mountain Tree-Hugger Special or some such. The specter of
twenty or so potential nominees sitting on a stage debating each other over how to save the world from an agreed-upon imminent climate
Armageddon, when not a single one of them is a scientist or likely would pass an upper-level physics or chemistry course, is amusing
in a black comic sort of way.
Democratic Party debates, June 26 and 27, 2019:
Debate #1
The Democrat
debate farce. Imagine this debate as a play with 25 characters — 20 candidates and five interviewers.
Each character is saying "I am the best." Meanwhile, the interviewers were throwing softball questions, and spending most of
their time trying to control the speakers from arguing with each other and running over their allocated speaking and rebuttal
times. They could barely keep order. The answers were vapid and repetitive, yet there was an aggressiveness permeating
the event that the interviewers could barely control. And sometimes in answer to the question, "Why are you the best?" they
would answer, "Because Pres. Donald J. Trump is the worst."
A pathetic exhibition of virtue-signaling
in Miami. [Scroll down] Attentive readers will note that I put the word 'debate' in scare quotes.
Why? Because the entertainment that was beamed out tonight from NBC was not a debate. It had nothing to do with
debate. It was an exhibition — partly pathetic, partly amusing in a surreal sort of way — of
sclerotic virtue-signaling.
In
debates, Democrats move toward open borders. On the second night of the Democratic presidential debate in
Miami, NBC moderators asked candidates whether they would support decriminalizing the act of illegally crossing the border
into the United States — that is, reducing the seriousness and consequences of illegal entry to the level of a
parking ticket. "Raise your hand if you think it should be a civil offense, rather than a crime, to cross the border
without documentation," said NBC's José Díaz-Balart. All 10 candidates — Biden, Sanders,
Buttigieg, Harris, Gillibrand, Bennet, Swalwell, Hickenlooper, Yang, Williamson — raised their hands in approval.
That moment was perhaps the Democratic Party's most significant step yet toward embracing a policy of open borders.
First
Debate Proved The Democratic Party Has Gone ¡Loco!. Joe Biden won the first Democratic Party primary debate,
y ni siquiera tuvo que aparecer. Now, at his present political trajectory, Biden may end up promising to
perform late-term abortions on transgendered Guatemalan migrants with his bare hands by the time the debate rolls around on
Thursday. But really, all the former vice president needs to do to maintain his lead position is not turn completely
insane. Because while Sen. Cory Booker might believe that most Americans agree with the policy objectives of the
Democratic Party, this is not a Democratic Party that anyone would recognize ten, or even four, years ago. It's
unlikely, for example, that most Americans believe the United States should be an effectively borderless nation.
Democrats
Lurch Left on Abortion, Immigration, and Health Care in First Debate. [Scroll down] Julian Castro, a
former San Antonio mayor and Obama housing-and-urban-development secretary, contributed to the abortion debate by saying he
supports taxpayer-funded abortions for transgender women: "I don't believe only in reproductive freedom, I believe in
reproductive justice. And what that means is just because a woman, or let's also not forget someone in the trans
community — a trans female — is poor, doesn't mean they shouldn't exercise that right to choose." It
was not immediately clear whether Castro simply misspoke and made an unwoke gaffe by supporting abortion for a "trans
female" — that is, a biological man who identifies as a woman — or had reached some transcendent level
of wokeness by supporting tax-funded abortions in biologically impossible circumstances.
Democrats
try to talk down a solid blue-collar economy. If the premise of an argument is false, what does that tell you
about its conclusions? This is the problem facing Elizabeth Warren and other leading Democrats after the first
presidential primary debate [6/26/2019]. Warren, Cory Booker, Beto O'Rourke, and other candidates all apparently
believed that in order to sell their socialism, they needed to establish the premise that the Trump-era economy simply isn't
working for anyone besides the filthy rich. Warren says that the U.S. economy is "doing great, for a thinner and
thinner slice at the top." O'Rourke and Booker made a similar claim: that the wealthy are pulling away and
leaving behind the working class in today's economy. But this premise is false.
Which
country are Democrats running to be president of? A lot of Latino voters were kind of creeped out by three of
the Democratic candidates' calculated use of Spanish in their debate statements. Not only were Cory Booker, Julian
Castro, and Beto O'Rourke observably poor Spanish speakers, their use of the Spanish language to appeal to the Latino voters
was just a little too cute on the pandering front. And that doesn't even get into the matter of their Hugo Chavez-style
socialist promises for them. For many Latino voters, been there, done that. I would have loved to have seen the
fluently Spanish-speaking moderator test Castro, who reputedly speaks very little Spanish with a Spanish-language
question. Meanwhile, the most fluent Spanish speaker on the floor, the Sandinista- and Cuban-trained Bill De Blasio,
didn't join the panderfest. Maybe he didn't want anyone to ask him how he got so good at it.
Twitter
Users Of All Political Stripes Unite In Ruthless Mockery Of MSNBC's Mic Issues During Democratic Debate. MSNBC
was ruthlessly mocked by Twitter users of all political persuasions after the network experienced technical difficulties that
caused microphone issues and forced an unplanned commercial break. "Everybody's mics are on," said MSNBC host Chuck
Todd as Sen. Elizabeth Warren was about to answer a question. "I think we have a — heard that,
too. That's okay. I think we had a little mic issue in the back. ... Yeah, we have the audience's audio. So
the question is simply this — " Someone could be heard saying "sorry" before things cleared up.
But it was too late, at least to avoid getting mocked on Twitter.
The Beto Bust. I'm not sure
the first night of the Democratic debate had a winner, but it sure had a loser: Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke.
The former congressman found himself the target of Bill de Blasio, Cory Booker, Julián Castro, and John Delaney.
And O'Rourke didn't fare well. He came across as stilted and rehearsed during his answers and off-balance in his
responses to the other candidates.
Beto
O'Rourke is slammed on social media for failing to answer his first question in Spanish OR English. Former
Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke dodged a question about a proposed top income rate of 70 percent in two languages on Wednesday
evening — sidestepping the issue in English and Spanish at a Democratic debate. His second answer was so confusing that
fellow candidate Cory Booker, who answered a question later in Spanish, was caught giving him the side eye.
First
Democratic debate was a good night — for Team Trump. All in all, Democrats spent far more time
talking about how they would help illegal immigrants than about how they would help the voters they most need to win
over — the white working-class Obama voters who pulled the lever for Trump in 2016.
Democrats' Cirque
De Absurdite. Almost before the game show applause had settled, Beto O'Rourke launched into a juvenile
Spanish-language hustle that left Sen. Cory Booker wide-eyed and most everyone else rolling their eyes. Moments
later, Booker found common ground with Friedrich Engels, grousing about how the economy wasn't working for everyone, a common
thread throughout the "debate." Still later, he too resorted to Spanish, competing with O'Rourke to show he is the most
Hispanic candidate, even more Hispanic than someone named Castro and far more Hispanic than the Irish guy. A few beats
after O'Rourke's first foreign-language outburst, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the media's pre-selected winner, made the brave
declaration she wanted to return government to the people — while pointing at herself. Well done,
Senator. Now we know who she wants to vest the power of government in.
Elizabeth
Warren embraced by debate moderators. NBC and MSNBC embraced Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts in the
first debate of Democratic presidential candidates Wednesday night, treating her like the star of the show. The debate
led off with Warren, who had a huge popularity advantage from the start. Warren — who Trump dubbed
"Pocahontas" because of her phony claim of Native American heritage — was the only Democrat on stage who had
mustered double digits in recent polling. Moderators let her dominate the early part of the debate, when most people
were likely watching.
Debate Of The
Losers. On a set designed to look like a cardboard cutout White House, 10 cardboard cutouts of candidates,
hoping to sit in the real White House, frantically searched for their 15 seconds of fame, while ignoring moderator questions
and going over time. All the millionaire candidates agreed that the economy wasn't working for ordinary Americans like
the ones they see on TV. The speeches about the misery suffered by ordinary Americans in a booming economy at the hands
of giant evil corporations fell flat to a base in which a third of Democrat primary voters earn over $100,000. "Who is
this economy working for?" Elizabeth Warren asked, doing a hand hatchet chop in a tribute to her imaginary Native American
heritage while claiming that it was just working for those at the top. Like her. Not only was Warren wealthier
than most of the other candidates on stage, but she was called on three times as often.
Democrat
Debate — Elizabeth Warren: Gun Violence a 'National Health Emergency'. Presidential hopeful
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said during Wednesday's debate that gun violence is a "national health emergency in this
country." She suggested that solutions might include "universal background checks" and banning "weapons of war," a
reference to "assault weapons." Warren did not mention that California adopted universal background checks in the
early 1990s, yet the state has witnessed mass shooting upon mass shooting in the decades since.
The Editor says...
Guns are not violent. Widely scattered gunshots are isolated law enforcement problems, not a composite national health emergency.
Democrat
Debate Viewers Confused: Who Are These People? Viewers of the first Democrat debate expressed confusion
over who some of the Democrat candidates even were, with more than 20 candidates vying to become the Democrat nominee.
Featured in Wednesday debates were many of the lesser known candidates, including former Maryland Rep. John Delaney,
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, and Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan. Most of the confusion centered on those three.
Grim Lizzie. The grimmest candidate of all
may be Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who dominated Wednesday's debate stage. Ms. Warren is running on
her own unique brand of anticorporate populism, one that attacks "a small group that holds far too much power." Every
problem she sees in America — climate change, guns, student-loan debt, health-care prices, legislative
gridlock — is a product of "systemic" corruption. [...] Her campaign has remained singularly focused on the
politics of envy, in a bet that this is the Democratic path to those "forgotten" voters. That pitch has had the benefit
of distinguishing her ideas rhetorically from Sen. Bernie Sanders's socialist approach. And her growing stack of
detailed proposals — from shareholder rules to housing benefits to a wealth tax — has earned her the
admiration of the liberal intellectual elite. Columnists and TV hosts are paying her gushy attention, which has helped
propel her recent (modest) rise in the polls.
Debate #2 and/or recap of both debates
Detroit
Democratic debate's key winners and losers (plus one terrible trend). Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts emerged
as the clear winner in the Democratic presidential primary debate Tuesday night [7/30/2019], as she and Sen. Bernie Sanders of
Vermont battled for dominance in the far-left lane against eight more moderate candidates on stage.
No
mention of Mueller in Democratic primary debate. The first of the two debate nights in Detroit took place less
than a week after Mueller's high-profile but underwhelming testimony in front of Congress last Wednesday. The Democratic
presidential hopefuls did spar over healthcare, taxes, the economy, tariffs, President Trump, corporate welfare, racism, campaign
spending, gun control, student debt forgiveness, climate change, reparations, the border, education, "a dark psychic force," and
much more, but the special counsel's investigation was never mentioned.
Yang
likens Democratic debate to 'boring football game'. His comments come as 10 candidates, including progressive
Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), take the stage for the first night of the forum in
Detroit. Yang is slated to take the stage in Detroit on Wednesday night along with front-runner and former Vice
President Joe Biden, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), among others.
One
Candidate Snubs National Anthem At Democrat Primary Debate. Kicking off Tuesday's Democratic primary debate
hosted by CNN, presidential candidate Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) refused to hold his hand over his heart during the playing of
our national anthem. He was the only candidate on stage to do so.
Joe
who? No mention of Biden during second Democratic debate in Detroit. The 10 Democratic presidential
hopefuls had no problem mentioning the names of politicians such as Republican President Ronald Reagan and Democratic
presidential losers Michael Dukakis, George McGovern, and Walter Mondale. Even Donald Trump got a look in. But
one name was missing: Joe Biden.
Democratic
debate highlights: Moderates assail 'impossible' liberal agenda. The Democratic Party's two leading
progressives came under fire on Tuesday [7/30/2019] from a debate stage stuffed with moderates who said their "impossible"
proposals and "wish-list economics" risked keeping Republican President Donald Trump in the White House for four more years.
All-White
Candidates Kick Off the Second Democrat Debate. Round two of the Democrat debate is kicking off Tuesday night
with ten Democrat candidates on the stage, but the first night's lineup comes with a prominent sense of irony as all
candidates on the debate stage are white.
We Need Better
Primary Debates. If you're a Republican, so far the 2020 Democratic debates look like they'll be a hoot.
Front-runners and top-tier candidates share a crowded stage with obscure congressmen, a tech executive, and a spiritual
guru. The number of questions and the amount of speaking time each one has make the debates wildly lopsided in favor of
the big names. Trailing candidates jump in and interrupt, desperate to have some viral moment. Heated moments
often devolve into incoherent crosstalk.
Welcome
to the Democrat Freak Show. The Democrats' [...] plan is as follows: raise our taxes; abolish private-pay
health insurance; take our guns; regulate our industries out of existence; take what's left of our salaries to pay for
slavery[,] reparations[,] and abortions for men; exploit our youths into Vlad Lenin idol-worshiping Redcoat Hitler Youth; and
open our borders indefinitely, suborning illegal aliens to break laws without consequences. Oh, and don't forget the
"free" health care for illegal aliens! [...] What was heard on the stages of the first two Democrat 2020 "debates" was the
antithesis of what the majority of Americans in the majority of states want: nationalism and strong state sovereignty,
fewer taxes and less government spending, guaranteed constitutional rights upheld by our courts and lawmakers, and good ol'
common sense. [...] That tens of millions nationwide cheerlead for this is horrifying.
Is Common Sense
Making a Comeback? Did you notice that common sense was almost entirely missing from the two nights of the
Democrats' radicalism pageant last week? In terms of common sense and nonsense, the clear winner of the pageant was
Julian Castro. The former Obama housing secretary's bold advocacy of government-funded abortions for transgender
women — that is, for biological males incapable of bearing children — was the standout in two evenings
of real doozies. But even if Castro is not awarded the prize, the Democratic presidential nominee will be a person who
has taken a bold public stand against common sense — and done so on national television.
Dems Enrich
Drug Cartels And Hurt Latinos. The Democratic National Committee (DNC) made a calculated decision to elevate
the low-tier campaign of former Obama administration Housing Secretary Julian Castro at the fiasco that opened the first of
the party's presidential primary debates on June 26. Castro received far more attention than expected in Miami,
no doubt in a DNC move to appeal to Latino voters. But in putting this staunch leftist on a pedestal, if only
for one night, Dems shone a nationally televised spotlight on their insane propensity to cheerlead for open borders despite
the ongoing dire national emergency on our southern porch.
The
Perilous Mainstreaming of 'Democratic Socialism'. It has been both shocking and terrifying to observe just how
far to the left the Democratic Party has moved. While watching the debates last week, it was abundantly clear how
radical both the candidates and their policies truly are. The once-shunned label of "socialist" is now boldly embraced
by many on the left. They believe it to be a fairer system than capitalism. But no one stops to think about what
it means to have "free" education for all or "free" health care for all. There was scant mention of how we will pay for all
the "free" stuff during the debates.
Democrats
Circling the Electoral Drain. Democrats have convinced themselves that they represent the sentiments of a
majority of Americans. Watching the recent Democrat presidential debates, one cannot help but conclude the
opposite. Rather than looking beyond their liberal coastal enclaves to the fruited plain filled with deplorables and
bitter clingers, Democrats simply look in the mirror of CNN or the Washington Post to see complete agreement, believing that
all of America is on board with their wrecking ball agenda. The debates featured the 20 best candidates the Democrats
could field to challenge the success and charisma of President Trump. [...] Most of the candidates are so far to the
political left that they should be running as socialists, or better yet, communists. The only thing separating the
candidates are their looks and personalities. They all sing the same tune.
These Democratic presidential
debates are very important — until the next ones. Approaching its 243rd birthday, the United States
has a proud and widely-admired political tradition of freedom and generally democratic elections of its own leadership.
Thanks to voters' brief episodic attention spans and earnest but shallow media coverage that treats a leadership choice like
some marathon Kentucky Derby, the United States has a presidential selection process that's a mess. It is raucous and
familiar to most of us and may be better than many other leadership selections. But it's based on superficial TV
impressions, stereotypes, money, quips, empty hopes and complete happenstance.
An
Extremely Superficial Review of the Democratic Debates. Last Wednesday and Thursday night, the top twenty
Democratic presidential candidates — yes, there are actually more than twenty — locked horns in Miami
to [complain] about corporations, racial injustice, brown children who are denied Facebook access in concentration camps, how
guns are uncool, and all the other [stuff] no one really cares about. Every last one of them was rich and
powerful — at least compared to me — yet none of them could stop screaming about the "rich and
powerful." After thinking that my vote for Trump would change something — anything — I'm
back to where I was before 2016 — despondent that voting changes anything at all. I am unfamiliar with
nearly all of these clowns, and I doubt that I'd be persuaded even if they explained their policies. My "analysis" of
their performances is based not on their policies, because I doubt that even they understand their policies, if they
in fact have them. Instead,I will focus on what actually decides elections — physiognomy and gut reactions.
This Is What Insanity
Looks Like. Watching the actual debate made me feel like a baseball-sized tumor in my brain was about to
explode. Under normal circumstances, after 10 minutes, I'd be reaching for the remote. Heck, I am not sure I'd
last even 10 minutes. Did the people on that stage (except Bernie, obviously) know that they were signing onto utterly
insane proposals that the absolute majority of the American electorate flatly rejects? Did they know right there and then
that they are writing Republican attack ads for them?
A
few last words on those Democratic Party 'debates'. Americans really should be asking themselves, "Why?"
Why, for example, was there no one on the stage for either event who had a history of actual accomplishment? Or a
single fresh idea? Not one candidate who didn't join in the pandering — pandering so obvious that even
longtime Democrats were turned off and left embarrassed? Why were the actual concerns of the American people not under
discussion and left totally unaddressed? [...] There we find the roots of the endless nonsense: everything being put
forth on the stage of those "debates" was being put forth to advance or protect a dying status quo. And to snooker the
easily snookered.
Democrats
are Officially the Party of Derangement. The Democrats' clown shows last week serve as the perfect illustration
of just how nuts they have become. Free everything for everyone — whether criminally invading the country or
simply living beyond one's means — is now the policy of the Party. Enforcing our laws is passé and
viewed as bigoted while these self-righteous, dishonest ignoramuses fight each other for power. Unfortunately, these
progressive candidates get away with this nonsense because enough Democrats support their intolerant and totalitarian
views. They also get away with this by silencing opposing views. When I spoke out against my town's Sanctuary
City law, I was shouted down as a fear-monger and bigot by 100 crazy leftists who ignored the logic of my arguments to scream
that Trump was destroying the country.
CNN
Poll: Harris and Warren rise and Biden slides after first Democratic debates. Sens. Kamala Harris
and Elizabeth Warren have made steep gains after the first Democratic presidential debate, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS.
shows, with former Vice President Joe Biden's lead over the field shrinking to a narrow 5 points.
U.S.
Taxpayers Pay $18.5B a Year for Healthcare for Illegal Aliens. During the second night of debates for the 2020
Democrat presidential primary candidates, every Democrat — including Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, and
Pete Buttigieg — said they supported having American taxpayers pay for free health care for all 11 to 22 million
illegal aliens living in the country. The latest research by Chris Conover from the Center for Health Policy and Inequalities
Research at Duke University reveals that every year, American taxpayers pay nearly $20 billion for healthcare for illegal aliens.
The Editor says...
After laughing out loud, I can tell you that I've never heard of a Center for Inequalities Research (!) but I'm only
a little surprised. Why are inequalities worth researching? What good came come from such a place?
For
2020 Democrats, It's 'Ignore The Economy, Stupid'. How do Democrats sell their policies when the economy is
doing well and unemployment is at 50-year lows? By avoiding the subject. At least, that's what Democrats did
during the two nights of debating.
CNN Panel Goes Off The
Rails In Debate Recap. A CNN panel recapping the first Democratic debates turned into a free-for-all during a
segment of Sunday morning's "State of the Union." After lobbyist David Urban suggested that both debates this past
week had showcased the Democratic candidates attempting to "out-left each other," the other panelists jumped in, talking over
each other and accusing him of bringing up "crazy right-wing talking points."
The
'Debates' and the SCOTUS. Life is too short to spend it on phony debates when you can see the highlights in
videos and read the text of the remarks. The word peddlers are each picking their claims as to who won. The more
critical observers suggest that I was right not to bother. [...] The "debates" were largely a recitation of pap and bromides
aimed at the farthest left of their base.
A Wretched Start For Democrats.
The first two Democrat debates are now widely admitted to have been political sideshow trainwrecks as each candidate
attempted to promise more freebies than the other while completely ignoring the needs of the vast majority of Americans who
make up the Middle Class. A once-great political party continues to drift into the abyss, drowning under the weight of
the silly, the absurd, and the dangerously divisive and ignorant.
Democrat
2020 illegal immigration hysteria reaches new heights. The madness kicked off with the question of what should
be done to the thousands of people converging daily at the southern border. Kamala Harris announced that she "will
release children from cages." John Hickenlooper expressed his utmost disbelief "that this country would sanction federal
agents to take children from the arms of their parents, put them in cages, actually put them up for adoption[.]" "This
president, though, for immigrants, there is nothing he will not do to separate a family, cage a child," Eric Swalwell chimed
in. To anyone affected by amnesia, let it be known that the president signed an executive order last year that directed
the Department of Homeland Security to keep families together after they were detained crossing the border illegally.
An Angry,
Old White Guy Watches the Democratic Debate. I don't [care] where you were 60 years ago on civil rights.
I don't care if your great grand-pappy owned slaves or you grew up in rural Louisiana and used the "N" word as often as a
contemporary rapper. I can't get vexed about 2000 children at the border not getting enough facial tissue and diapers
when tens of thousands of American children are sleeping on the streets and in shelters of our cities. [...] The sine qua non
of great candidates is not where they stood on racism in 1963 but where they stand on America today! As of April 2019,
there were 22,000 children sleeping in NYC's municipal shelters. On any given night, half a million Americans are
homeless. Some 40% of them are minors. So, while you are raising your hands to give health care to illegal aliens
and feeling virtuous in the process, what [...] are you doing about the problems impoverished Americans face?
Would-Be
Democratic Presidents Want to Make America a Sanctuary Country. The star of Thursday night's Democratic
presidential primary debate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), was attorney general of California and, before that,
district attorney for San Francisco. This put her in the vanguard of the Golden State's sanctuary state and sanctuary
city policies. Now, it seems, all the 2020 Democratic hopefuls — and Harris in particular — are
trying to turn the United States into one big sanctuary country where crossing the border illegally is analogous to
jaywalking. That's why all 10 Democrats raised their hands Thursday night when asked if they wanted to make crossing
the border without documentation a civil rather than criminal offense. They all also raised their hands when asked if
they wanted to provide health care to unauthorized immigrants.
The Crazies are Running the Democrat Insane
Asylum. The Democrats' second debate was pretty much the same as the first except they virulently ramped up
their attacks on President Trump. Bernie Sanders said Trump was a 'racist,' without any proof. Kamala Harris went
on a virtue-signaling rampage about how Democrats need to protect children of illegal immigrants from Trump, who wants them
all in cages. Or so she claimed. The well-aged Biden had a bumbling and weak performance. Creepy Joe got
'owned' by Harris.
Buttigieg's
knee-jerk compulsion to scold Christians pops up again at second debate. If you ask me to pick a winner at the
Democratic debate on night two in Miami, I would have said Pete Buttigieg. He came off as reasonable, clear-thinking,
pithy, and pleasant. He respected time limits. I didn't agree with him on anything, but he gave a sense of coming
from rational grounding. Maybe his leftie ideas could be tempered with real-world realities. Maybe he could be
persuaded... But then, [...] Buttigieg whipped out for about the umpteenth time his unsolicited opinion about just how
un-Christian all those inadequate, wicked, dare-I-say sinful Christians out there really are, hooking his argument up to the
border surge issue. Gotcha. Bad Christians. Not like good-Christian me, that paragon of all virtue-signals.
Radical
Democrats seem to think it's shameful to put bad guys in jail. A perfect symbol to show how far-left and crazy
the Democratic Party has become is that it was an attack line in Thursday night's debate to say someone was a prosecutor.
[...] The assumption was that being a prosecutor is a bad thing. Apparently, for this primary electorate, that assumption
may be correct. And the lack of media surprise at this as a counterpunch also indicates that a prosecutorial background
is a liability in today's Democratic Party. This is nuts. In general, prosecutors are the "good guys." They
make sure bad guys, indeed sometimes truly awful people, go to prison.
Dems
Promise to Take Away Our Health Insurance and Give It to Illegal Aliens. We will have to wait and see how and
if the debates move the needle within the Democrat primary. But what these last two nights have done is clarify a
Democrat Party that is bound and determined to confiscate our guns, our money and our health insurance. Oh, and then
Democrats are going to decriminalize illegal immigration and give our health insurance to illegal aliens. That is my
long way of saying President Trump was the winner of the Democrat debates, because he is the only person standing between us
and this: • Tax increases. • Gun confiscations. • Slave
reparations • Decriminalize illegal immigration. • No more deporting of illegal
immigrants. • Abolish the private health insurance currently held by over 150 million Americans.
• Give free health insurance to illegal immigrants.
Dem (Debacle) Debate Part Dos.
It's night two of the first Democrat debate, and it was feistier. Short summation: No Spanglish, no sleepy
socialists. Nay, during this debate the redistributionists were out, proud, and loud. Let's list the goodies
everyone is giving away: • Medicare for all (and in Buttigoogoo's case, Medicare for all who want
it — hey, it's a clever nuance!) • Get rid of private insurance •
Healthcare for illegal immigrants • Open borders • Empty the detention centers
and let the children go free (where and with whom wasn't specified) • Take the guns •
Abort babies up to birth
Every Dem Says Illegal
Immigrants Should Get Health Insurance. Every single Democratic presidential candidate on stage Thursday night [6/27/2019]
during the second round of debates said that illegal immigrants should get government health insurance. The collective group of ten
candidates was asked if "undocumented immigrants" deserve health coverage paid for by the American taxpayer. [Video clip]
Joe Biden got demolished. When one
candidate enjoys an enormous lead in the polls in a field of two dozen, he's bound to be a target on the debate
stage — the one person everyone has an incentive to take down a peg. And so it was that in Miami on Thursday
night [6/27/2019], in the second half of the first Democratic debate, former vice president Joe Biden became a punching bag.
It started with Rep. Eric Swalwell taking a dig at the 76-year-old Biden's age by calling on him to "pass the torch" to a
younger generation. [...] But most stunning of all was the extended clash between Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris over Biden's
recent remarks harking back to the good old days of senatorial deal-making with segregationists — an exchange that
quickly evolved, at Harris' direction, into an argument about Biden's opposition to busing during the 1970s.
Bernie
yellsplains, Harris surges, Biden stumbles — but don't count Joe out yet. At the second Democratic
debate, Kamala Harris made her move and called Joe Biden a racist while saying Joe Biden is not a racist. He disagreed
with her forcefully — but fearful that he would seem like the logorrheic lunatic known to everyone in Washington,
he noted that his time was up and stopped talking. Stopped talking! Joe Biden! He must be old! He
must be out of step! He must be defensive! And that was it. Within 30 seconds, left-liberal Twitter
declared Biden a political corpse and began drawing up blueprints for Harris' presidential library.
Kamala
Harris, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders — Second Dem debate's big winners and losers. With more at stake
for the front runners, the second Democratic debate Thursday night in Miami had far more fireworks than the rather tepid
debate the night before. By and large, the moderators went down a list of Democratic issues as defined by the left of
the party, and the candidates largely pandered in their answers. Interestingly when asked what issue they would bring
before Congress this group of mostly seasoned politicians ducked the issue for fear of alienating one constituency over another.
Kamala
Harris attacks Joe Biden's record on busing and working with segregationists in vicious exchange at Democratic debate. The
most personal attack of Thursday's Democratic debate was aimed not at President Donald Trump, but at former Vice President Joe Biden.
California Sen. Kamala Harris called out Biden on the issue of race, saying the way he recently described his past working relationship
with two segregationist lawmakers was "hurtful." Biden, at a campaign event earlier this month, had cited his ability to get things
done even with segregationist senators as examples of the type of "civility" in Congress that has since disappeared. Numerous
Democratic presidential candidates took Biden to task for the comments, though som, including civil rights icon John Lewis, defended the
2020 frontrunner's remarks. Harris also accused Biden of opposing busing, which Biden disputed.
Joe
Scarborough smacks Democrats for 'disastrous' second debate: I hope 'people were not watching'. MSNBC
Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough ripped Democrats for their performances in Thursday night's [6/27/2019] second debate,
indicating they had formed a circular firing squad instead of focusing their aim on President Trump. "Last night was a
disaster for the Democratic Party," Scarborough said Friday.
Everything
Elizabeth Warren Said During Debate Night Economy Question Was a Lie. Wednesday evening [6/26/2019] saw the
very first Democrat debate of the 2020 presidential election. It was a major pander-fest, but Elizabeth Warren probably
delivered the biggest pack of lies of the night when she was asked about the economy. Warren has spent her political
career advocating political and economic warfare against our economy, but when a question about the economy was put to her,
her "answer" was filled with straight up lies.
Kareem
Abdul-Jabbar: Dem Debates An Embarrassment, Trump Won. Basketball icon and vaunted social justice warrior
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar came away furious from the first round of the Democratic Party's presidential debates this week and
proposed some remedies to prevent his ire in the future. Writing in The Hollywood Reporter, Abdul-Jabbar had nothing
positive to say about any of the candidates this week and declared Trump the winner to what he described as a game of
"Presidential Musical Chairs."
Democratic Party debates, July 30 and 31, 2019:
Don't
Buy the Myth of the 'Moderate' Democrat. Every Democrat on the stage was selling the same thing: Bigger
Government. [...] Gun control. There's that word "universal" again. This time used on seven occasions connected
to the term "background checks," which Hickenlooper claimed to have achieved in Colorado and Klobuchar and Bullock were going
to make happen by taking on the evil NRA, don't ya know. Along with consensus around "assault weapons" and closing
various "loopholes."
The biggest loser in Wednesday's
Detroit debate was sanity. I only caught about an hour of Tuesday's debate, but I could tell from tonight's
performance that I could have stopped after 10 minutes. True, out of the mephitic cauldron of bubbling nonsense, an
occasional bubble of sanity rose to the surface and expired in a satisfying eructation. But such little pops were
emitted by the debaters of whom no one had heard of before (well, not before the first set of debates a month ago) and surely
no one will hear of again. Those voices were shouted down by the hectoring war whoops of Elizabeth Warren —
what an unpleasant person — and socialist nostrums of Bernie Sanders. 'Let's give lots of stuff away!'
Wednesday Evening's
Gathering of Vultures. If Tuesday's installment of the Democratic presidential "debate" was dopey, featuring
candidates discussing "dark psychic forces" while others claimed that unworkable environmental proposals could be paid for by
merely raising taxes on a few Wall Street fat cats, Wednesday's sequel was downright depressing. There was near
unanimity among the candidates that the world will end by 2030 and that the U.S. is a racist, sexist hell-hole defined by
injustice and cruelty. Despite a strong economy and low unemployment, they insisted Americans are hurting.
The
Big Loser In Last Night's Debate Was Barack Obama. In the just more than a decade since Obama first sat in the
Oval Office, the Democratic Party has careened to the left like a sports car with a blown tire making a pass on the
Autobahn. Last night's debates saw defenses of socialism, calls to essentially open the borders, free money for
everyone, and plans for government-controlled health care with a price tag longer than a CVS receipt.
CNN
roasted over debate production, format: 'A disservice to serious people'. CNN faced backlash for its first
primary debate of the 2020 campaign season, with members of the media comparing its production to a sporting event or movie
trailer and others lamenting the time spent to kick off the event. Journalists noted that the event started on Tuesday
night [7/30/2019] at 8 p.m. with an introduction video, a commercial break and opening statements. The first question
to one of the ten candidates was not asked until 8:23 p.m., however.
Second
Democratic debate — A Trump supporter's top takeaways. Not a single person on the stage at the CNN
debate discussed how he or she might increase the incomes of Americans or how to create jobs. Instead, inspired by the
fleeting success of Sen. Kalama Harris of California in the first round of debates, they all came armed to take down
frontrunner former Vice President Joe Biden. What a sorry spectacle it was. Poor Biden, tripping over his garbled
defense of his 1994 crime bill support, his vote in favor of the Iraq war, his op-ed opposing tax breaks for childcare, and
so much more. Biden was attacked by nearly every rival, each one hoping that the next day's headlines would show that
he or she had successfully skewered the former vice president.
Democrats
turn on Obama legacy as they hit out at Biden in debate. When Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez
asked the audience gathered for the last night of the second Democratic presidential primary debate in Detroit whether they
missed former President Barack Obama, many suspected it wouldn't be the last time Obama's name was evoked that evening.
Obama's two-term No. 2, Joe Biden, took the stage moments later and was repeatedly forced to defend his political record,
eight years of which he amassed under the country's first African American president.
Biden
Survives, So Biden Wins. All night long, almost every candidate on stage aimed their attacks at Joe
Biden. Early on, Kamala Harris referred to him as "Senator Biden," a perhaps not-so-accidental demotion. Julian
Castro, Bill de Blasio, and Cory Booker all went after him in rapid succession. Even Kirsten Gillibrand claimed that
Biden opposed women working outside the home, a particularly implausible accusation. Here's the good news for
Biden: If tonight doesn't do any damage to his numbers, he will probably cruise to the nomination.
Dem
Candidates Call For More Than $200 Trillion in Spending. Democratic candidates for the 2020 nomination have
promised more than $210 trillion in new spending across the field, analysis by the Washington Free Beacon shows.
Of the 26 declared candidates — including Rep. Eric Swalwell (D., Calif.) who dropped out earlier this month —
most have put enormous new government programs front and center in their campaigns. Totaling up these proposals gives taxpaying
voters a sense of the budget priorities of the average Democratic candidate. That overall figure is an undercount, as it is based
only on proposals for which the Free Beacon could identify actual spending estimates.
The
debate that was and the debate that wasn't. Of the ten participants in tonight's Democratic presidential debate, only
two — Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders — have a realistic hope of being nominated. Thus, we might
have expected that these two would clash, the way we expect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to lock horns tomorrow night. But
that didn't happen. It was the debate that wasn't.
Winners
And Losers In The Democratic Debate. This was billed as Comrade Sanders against Chief Grand Cherokee, but
Sanders and Warren instead spent their time tag-teaming against the lesser creatures sharing the stage with them.
Warren, for her part, struggled to begin with. She tried to shoehorn in an anecdote in two separate questions,
resulting in the audience laughing and her snapping at them in response, saying "It's not funny!" However, she regained our
footing but didn't really explore any new ground here. She played it pretty safe with her usual talking points without
being incredibly controversial. Sanders, however, didn't care about taking swings and offending people.
No
Raising Hands: CNN Makes It Easier For Democrats To Fool The Public In Next Debate. CNN's decision not to
allow any "raise your hand" questions in the Democrat candidates' next round of debates, which the cable news channel will
telecast on July 30 and 31 from Detroit, is first and foremost an example of pure media bias. Thanks to those
no-escape-hatch questions in NBC's first round of debates last month, we learned that virtually all of the candidates would
extend taxpayer-funded healthcare to illegal aliens; most would downgrade illegal entry into the United States to a mere
civil offense; plus a number of them, when asked in such direct terms, could not hide from the fact that they would scrap all
availability of private health coverage. Trump wasted no time gloating the next day that it meant he had already won
his 2020 re-election.
Protecting
Dems: CNN Releases Rules for Next Democrat Debate. CNN released the outline for the second round of Democrat
primary debates Tuesday evening [7/9/2019], but some of the rules have critics wondering if the network is rushing to protect
Democrats. The debates — scheduled for 8:00 p.m. ET July 30 and 31 in Detroit — have
different rules than the first, with CNN banning shows of hands, one-word responses, and down-the-line questions. Candidates
will get 60 seconds to respond to moderator questions and 30 seconds for rebuttals. Additionally, candidates who
"consistently" interrupt will have their time reduced.
Democratic Party debate, Houston, September 12, 2019:
Why
Soft-on-Crime Democrats Are Tough on 'Gun Violence'. At their third primary debate, nearly all of the
Democratic presidential contenders offered full-throated support for gun control. In the very recent past, gun control
measures bowed to prudence by respecting the rights and expectations of law-abiding gun owners — even the Clinton
"assault weapons ban" grandfathered weapons and magazines manufactured and purchased before the ban took effect. Now,
however, the rhetoric has shifted and become even more radical and uncompromising.
Democratic
debate moderators haven't done American voters any favors. [Scroll down] Other than true believers on the
left, most Americans are rightfully skeptical of candidates who promise the world but fail to produce any realistic path to
paying for trillion-dollar plans from "Medicare for All" to free college to climate change. The only things missing on
last week's debate stage were a couple of unicorns grazing happily among pots of gold, shining under a glittering
rainbow. As an independent voter in a recent focus group told us about the Democrats' debate promises, "The money has
to come from somewhere." It's not a surprise that the last debate didn't move voters. Unlike the moderators,
most Americans haven't signed on to these progressive proposals that represent the largest redistribution of wealth in the
nation's history and would turn our current economic system upside down.
Sure
Democrats Will Lose in 2020, But They Are Dangerous Now, And Must Be Stopped! One thing that is somewhat
comforting this week is that after the last debate performance it is safer than ever to assume that not one of the candidates
who stood on the debate stage has even a prayer of a chance of becoming president. If any of them had the debate itself
removed any lingering hope. Between the pummeling of the moderates on stage, to the belligerent tyrannical claims, to
the utterly indescribable nonsense spoken, it is fairly clear they are a ship lost at sea. The arrogant hubris and
posing of what appeared to be an intoxicated Kamala Harris, to the incessant whining of Mayor Pete about people "scoring
points," all seem to indicate that this thin-skinned group of adults would have difficulty handling a class full of
elementary children for a day much less run a nation.
Charlie
Kirk notices one thing missing from stage in all 3 Dem debates.
In case you didn't watch, here's a quick recap of the night:
• Andrew Yang effectively turned his campaign into a Publisher's Clearing House-style sweepstakes
• Kamala Harris started off the night bashing Trump, because of course she did
• Kamala Harris later got taken to the woodshed on her criminal justice record by no other than a debate moderator
• Joe Biden told people to "turn their record players on" for some inexplicable reason
• Joe Biden also flat-out lied when he claimed that Obama "didn't lock people up in cages"
• Pete Buttigieg basically called all Trump supporters racist
• Julian Castro all but called Biden senile and was denounced by his peers
• Beto O'Rourke is coming after your guns
But while the rest of us were focused on what the Democrats (and socialists) were saying, Turning Points founder Charlie
Kirk was looking at something else entirely: the stage. What he found — or didn't find —
shocked him. There was not one American flag to be found.
Democrats
vs. the Constitution. One of the more shocking aspects of last week's Democratic debate was the cavalier manner
in which the Constitution was treated. Beto O'Rourke said he intends to confiscate guns that were legally purchased by
law-abiding Americans, and put out a t-shirt to that effect immediately after the debate. Kamala Harris said the same
thing, and when Joe Biden pointed out that the government lacks power to do what she proposed, she laughed at him.
Blame
academia for the insanity at Thursday's Dem debate. In watching Thursday night's Democrat debate, I first felt
as though I was watching a conservative spoof on a Saturday Night Live skit. There was Bernie Sanders, playing
the crazy and deranged college professor, quite literally spitting insanity. Kamala Harris was dancing, laughing, and
spouting gibberish, leaving the distinct impression she was hiding an empty rectangular bottle under her podium.
Julián Castro was screaming maniacally at Joe Biden about something he didn't say. Andrew Yang proudly informed
the audience that he is Asian, so he knows a lot of doctors, while Spartacus was promising to release 17,000 criminals back
into American communities as a good start. I'd likely vote for any of those criminals over Cory Booker. Joe Biden
made the profoundly stupid point that only violent criminals should be in prison, forgetting to add Republicans to that list.
The
Democrat debate was terrifying. Who are these people? The debate of Thursday night should be a
huge wake-up call for all freedom-loving Americans. Every one of the Democrat candidates wants to curb nearly all of
the freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights — speech, assembly, the right to bear arms. They mean to
restrict our access to health care, fuel, food, electricity, mobility by car or air, goods in markets. In short, they
well and truly intend to transform the country beyond what Obama did on his watch and not in a good way. They mean to
punish all of us who support Trump because, like Hillary, we are to them deplorable for loving our country. They are
not alone. The DNC debate audience in Houston were mind-numbed clapping seals. The more punitively race-conscious
and socialist the candidates' promises, the more they applauded. The fact that there have been no American flags on the
stage at any of the Democrat debates says it all.
#BoycottABC'
Trends After Debate Night Over Ad Against Socialism And Ocasio-Cortez. Calls to boycott ABC News have arisen
following Thursday evening's 2020 Democratic debate over a commercial featuring a picture of New York Rep. Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez's face burning while speaking out against socialism. The advertisement starred Elizabeth Heng, a
Republican from California's Central Valley who lost against Democratic California Rep. Jim Costa in 2018. Paid
for by "New Faces GOP," the advertisement featured Ocasio-Cortez's face on paper being burned as Heng talked about her
family's tragedies because of socialism.
Cruz
Criticizes PolitiFact for Claiming O'Rourke Doesn't Plan to 'Take Our Guns'. Texas senator Ted Cruz took aim at
fact-checking website PolitiFact on Friday, criticizing the site for having previously claimed that Democratic presidential
candidate Beto O'Rourke does not plan to "take our guns" after O'Rourke explicitly suggested otherwise at Thursday night's
Democratic debate. [...] "Just a reminder, when I said it, PolitiFact (a wholly-owned subsidiary of the DNC) rated 'Beto
wants to take our guns' as FALSE," Cruz wrote in a tweet. "Maybe they should buy one of his new t-shirts," he added,
along with a picture of a shirt being sold by the O'Rourke campaign which reads, "Hell yes, we're going to take your AR-15."
Cory
Booker: It's 'fear mongering' to say armed police will show up and confiscate weapons. Sen. Cory
Booker endorsed the proposal set by former Rep. Beto O'Rourke for mandatory confiscation of AR-15s and similar rifles,
but said "demagogues" are using fear in describing how it would be carried out. [...] When Berman asked how the idea would be
put into motion, Booker said he would use the same method applied after machine guns were banned following the passage of the
1986 National Firearms Act. "You have to set up a system. Yeah, that is mandatory. You have to set up a
system to pull them off. But this idea, this imagery that the fear mongers and demagogues try to say of somehow armed
police officers showing up and confiscating weapons, that's the fear mongering," Booker said.
What Do You Mean, 'We'?
Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke, the former congressman from Texas who couldn't beat Ted Cruz in a U.S. Senate race but who
nevertheless believes he can win the presidency, said a curious thing at the Democrats' third primary debate in Houston on
Thursday night. "Hell yes," he said, "we'll take your AR-15 and your AK-47 ..." As I say, curious. Who
exactly, I wonder, does Beto mean by "we"? A legion of overgrown adolescent 6-foot-4 rich-kids like him, collecting rifles
on skateboards? Or does he mean the United States government, under his command? If he intended the latter, then a
little history lesson might be in order.
This Democratic
debate was pure torture. On issue after issue, the candidates engaged in unclear, confusing, halting policy
discussions — that is, when they weren't engaging in pettifoggery designed to occlude our understanding of their
views rather than clarifying them. It got so bad that Julian Castro, one of the seven people on the stage who have as
much of a chance of becoming president as I do, thought he'd caught out Joe Biden in a candidacy-ending mistake. Hadn't
Biden just said everyone would be forced into Medicare two minutes after saying they could keep their private
insurance? Could Biden not remember what he had said two minutes before? Castro was playing the senility card
against the 76-year-old Biden. But the person who was senile in that moment was the 44 year-old Castro, because Biden
had not contradicted himself. Castro had misunderstood Biden.
Debate:
What's with all the sudden 'Obama-love'? It was a pretty stark turnaround because the first two debates for the
uniformly far-left Democrats were all about out-socialisting one another with each candidate promising easy free health care,
a massive, economy-upending green agenda, reparations cash to black people, and other Venezuela-style economy-busters.
Apparently, Obama didn't do a good enough job, despite the message from voters sent in electing Trump, and that was what they
were conveying to voters as they tried to build themselves up as shiny new socialists who had finally noticed something
wrong. [...] We could all see what was going on, too. They were in part all about toppling and taking out Joe Biden,
who has been the frontrunner as President Obama's chosen vice president, the one he honored with a medal.
Houston Hatefest: Dems Go Nasty.
Democrats onstage in Houston aspire not so much to govern America as to punish it. [...] The villains in the Democratic Party
story of America do not remain hundreds of years beyond our reach. Cops, gun owners, factory farmers, employees of
insurance and pharmaceutical companies, Wall Street speculators, the oil industry, Republicans, and so many others who,
together, constitute the majority of the nation: our Houston Dems do not look to them as fellow countrymen but as
impediments, evil impediments in some cases, to realizing their ideological vision.
ABC
Moderator Jorge Ramos Makes Several Misleading Claims During 2020 Debate. A news anchor moderating the
Democratic presidential debate on Thursday, Sept. 12 made several misleading claims within seconds of each other. Jorge
Ramos, a Univision anchor, claimed that President Donald Trump "called Mexican immigrants rapists and killers" and "tried to ban
Muslims from entering the country." He also said Trump "supported the chant of ... 'send her back.'" "Do you think
that people who support President Trump and his immigration policies are racist?" he asked South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg.
Debate
Moderator Jorge Ramos Says in Spanish 'This is Our Country Too'. In the opening of the third Democratic debate
in Houston, Texas, moderator Jorge Ramos spoke part of his opening statement in Spanish before finishing with "This is our
country, too." The extremely racially-charged rhetoric from Ramos preceded several race-based questions regarding the
status of illegal aliens in the country, where numerous false assertions were made. Ramos falsely claimed that
President Trump referred to all immigrants as "rapists," and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro
(D-Texas) falsely claimed that President Trump inspired the El Paso shooter, even though the shooter admitted in his
own manifesto that his views "predate Trump and his campaign for president."
Biden
Gaffe: Former VP Calls to Release All Nonviolent Criminals from Prison. 2020 presidential frontrunner Joe
Biden stated forcefully that no one who commits a nonviolent crime should go to jail — in what was either a wildly
progressive change of stance or another gaffe. "The fact of the matter is that what's happened is that we're in a situation
now where there are so many people who are in jail and shouldn't be in jail. The whole means by which this should change is
toll — the model has to change. Nobody should be in jail for a nonviolent crime," Biden said at Thursday night's
debate on ABC.
Democratic
Debate Gets Personal. [Scroll down] Buttigieg jumped on Warren and Sanders as well, saying Medicare for
All "doesn't trust the American people" to make their own decisions. Biden took a shot at Sanders's socialist beliefs
while bashing the Vermont senator's health care plan. "For a socialist, you've got a lot more faith in corporate America
than I do," Biden said, hitting Sanders on his claim that corporations would provide partial refunds of health care premiums.
Biden
ties Warren to socialist Sanders. 2020 presidential front-runner Joe Biden tried to tie Sen. Elizabeth
Warren of Massachusetts to Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont during a tense back-and-forth between the candidates during
Thursday night's debate. The comment was made in regards to the topic of health care. Both Warren and Sanders are
in favor of a single-payer "Medicare for all" health care system, while Biden supports keeping a private option.
At
third Dem debate, one big winner and two surprise losers. In the most contentious Democratic debate thus far, a
winnowed field of 10 Democratic candidates took the stage in Houston Thursday night and sparred over hot-button issues such
as health care and immigration. Notably, this was the first time that frontrunners Sen. Elizabeth Warren and
former Vice President Joe Biden shared the debate stage. Warren and Biden exhibited stark differences on style, policy
and vision for the Democratic Party, embodying two opposing theories of what the party should be.
Joe
Biden Says 'Nobody Should Be In Jail For A Non-Violent Crime'. During Thursday night's debate, Joe Biden proved
once again just how out of touch he really is. He said that nobody should be in jail for a non-violent crime.
What about car theft? How about not paying taxes? Has Joe really thought this through?
Democrats
take aim at gun owners in Houston debate. Gun control featured prominently in the third Democratic debate in
Houston, with most of the 10 candidates trying to one-up each other on the issue while also jabbing repeatedly at President
Trump. [...] New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, who describes himself as the only senator "who goes home to a low-income
inner-city community," in an impassioned monologue vowed to "bring a fight to the NRA and corporate gun lobby like they have
never seen before."
Left-wing
protesters interrupt Biden during closing segment of Democratic presidential debate. Left-wing protesters
interrupted 2020 presidential front-runner Joe Biden while he was speaking at the presidential debate Thursday night
[9/12/2019]. [...] As Biden began to speak about how he dealt with his family tragedies, protesters interrupted him, chanting:
"Three million deportations." One of the protesters wore a shirt that said "No human being is illegal on stolen land" on the
back, another: 'Defend DACA." DACA stands for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the policy that allows some illegal
immigrants brought to the U.S. as children to receive a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation.
Slow
Joe's Incoherent Rambling About Record Players, Phonographs, and $740 Million To Keep Venezuelans Oppressed.
Slow Joe steps in it yet again, this time with his nonsensical rambling about schools, more taxes, encouraging children to
listen to record players (or phonographs, as he started to say), and a completely off topic rant about spending $740 Million
so people can't leave Latin American countries where governments are oppressing the citizens.
Democrats
Call Trump A Murdering White Supremacist, Debate 'Moderators' Yawn. [Scroll down] On a debate stage on a
major broadcast network, the sitting President of the United States was point-blank accused of responsibility for the vicious
slaughter of 22 innocents. Yet that wasn't even the most slanderous charges leveled against the Chief Executive last
night, not by a long shot. The "winner" in that category also emanated from the addled brain of the White House wannabe
initially referenced above: "But we will also call out the fact that we have a white supremacist in the White
House, and he poses a mortal threat to people of color all across this country."
Houston
debate more wake than fete for O'Rourke and Castro. Two of Texas' biggest Democratic stars will take the debate
stage Thursday in their home state, but they'll be far from the center of attention. Literally. Beto O'Rourke,
the former El Paso congressman, and Julián Castro, the former mayor of San Antonio, will stand side by side in Houston
on the far end of the debate stage, a reflection of their low standing in presidential polls.
Debate
Field Reflects Democrats' Disdain for Business Success. The 2020 Democrats again take the debate stage Thursday [9/12/2019],
filling millions of family rooms across America with their faces and voices. With the field of presidential contenders essentially
cut in half, it will be a very different event than the previous two sessions. [...] The composition of the field tells us a great deal
about what Democrats value. The number of candidates on the stage who have ever run a business has fallen from four to one.
The field is dominated by the three A's — academics, attorneys, and activists.
Democratic Debate Preview: Why Your
Candidate Is The Worst. Thursday night's [9/12/2019] Democratic primary debate in Houston will feature 10
candidates vying for the party's presidential nomination. Only three have a shot at winning, and none stand a chance
against President Donald J. Trump. Who knows what will happen when these political titans square off on stage taking
questions from ABC News anchors? And, frankly, who cares? If you have a horse in this race, or even if you don't,
the following will help you understand why you've made the wrong choice.
DNC
Warns Candidates Not To Swear During The Debate, As O'Rourke Racks Up The F-Bombs. The Democratic National
Committee (DNC) sent a letter to qualifying campaigns ahead of its third presidential primary debate, warning the Democratic
presidential candidates not to use vulgar language while on the debate stage. "We wanted to take this opportunity to
remind you that, as the debate will air on the ABC broadcast network, we are governed by Federal Communication Commission
indecency rules," the DNC wrote in a letter obtained by Axios. "We will not be broadcasting on any delay, so there will
be no opportunity to edit out foul language. Candidates should therefore avoid cursing or expletives in accordance with
federal law and FCC guidelines."
The Editor says...
If ABC has any reason to believe there is a likelihood of profanity in an upcoming broadcast — for which they still have days
to prepare — there is no reason they could not include a five- or ten-second delay to filter out the prohibited words.
After all, in the digital television world, there is no such thing as a live broadcast anymore: Digital TV signals require a lot
of encoding and decoding, with or without satellite delays, so even the "live" local news is seen at home at least four seconds
after it happens. Oh, by the way, the candidates from the other political party don't have to be warned about cursing
on the air.
Democratic candidates
warned not to curse at Thursday's debate. Ahead of the third Democratic presidential primary debate in Houston
this week, candidates are being instructed to clean up their language. In an email to campaigns obtained Tuesday
[9/10/2019] by CNN, officials from the Democratic National Committee and ABC News — the host network of the
debate — warned the candidates to refrain from swearing on the debate stage so as not to run afoul of Federal
Communications Commission indecency rules.
CNN's one-sided global warming infomercial, September 4, 2019
The
Craziest Things Said at the CNN Climate Town Hall. Call the Federal Elections Commission: CNN made an
enormous in-kind contribution to President Donald Trump's re-election campaign on Wednesday evening [9/11/2019]. [...] Given
40 minutes apiece, the aspiring Democratic contenders showed that they are willing to de-industrialize the U.S. economy, put
millions of people out of work, and lower the standard of living for tens of millions more, all for the sake of "science"
they cannot explain and do not understand. It wasn't all the candidates' fault. CNN kept making "scientific"
claims that ranged from half-truths to pure baloney. Again and again, for instance, moderators suggested that Hurricane
Dorian was caused by climate change, or a sign of things to come. (It isn't.)
Buckets
of Icy Cold Reality. CNN just hosted a seven-hour climate bore-athon. That climate cataclysms are real,
imminent and indeed already devastating our planet is an article of faith. So host Wolf Blitzer and ten Democrat
presidential wannabes vied to make the most extravagant claims about how bad things are and who would spend the most taxpayer
money and impose the most Green New Deal rules to restrict our freedoms and transform our energy, economy, agriculture and
transportation, in the name of preventing further cataclysms. Cory Booker opened the bidding at $3 trillion.
Kamala Harris and Julian Castro raised it to $10 trillion, and Bernie Sanders upped it to $16 trillion. Then
they got down to the business of which personal choices and living standards would be rolled back the furthest.
CNN's
Climate Debate Hurts the Democrats It Tried to Help. It was reminiscent of an old-fashioned revival, this one
for a new secular religion. One by one, the top-tier contenders vowed to spend vast amounts of taxpayer money, kill
millions of jobs, and impose sweeping controls on the U.S. economy. It was a bidding war with somebody else's
money. CNN's amen chorus never bothered to ask three crucial questions. First, how can America pull off this
ambitious agenda without breaking the federal budget and fundamentally changing the way we live? Second, if these
proposals were implemented, how much would they actually reduce global warming? Most estimates show, unfortunately,
that they would have little impact, far less than one degree on the thermometer over several decades. Third, how can
this global problem be solved if China and India continue to fill the air with soot?
Pete
Buttigieg: Dumbest Ever Smart Person? At CNN's climate change freak show telethon, Buttigieg —
the South Bend, Ind. mayor, 2020 Democratic Party presidential hopeful, and Harvard- and Oxford-educated Rhodes
scholar — said in front of the entire world that defeating climate change will perhaps be more difficult than
defeating the Nazis in World War 2. This is the kind of candidate Democrats vote for, and with whom Republicans want
you and me to compromise. If the election were held tomorrow, Buttigieg would receive tens of millions of votes.
The
impenetrable, gloomy rage of the Democrat presidential candidates. 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. Their torturous town hall on the fake crisis of climate change was seven hours
of vitriol and the revelation of each candidate's ridiculous scheme to destroy the American economy and quality of
life. The only differences among them were the costs of their pie-in-the-sky plans to solve a non-problem and how fast
they would be implemented. One thing was made clear: these are the most hate-filled and, at the same time, the most
ignorant group of people ever to grace a stage.
Climate Change and the Democrats.
Last Wednesday [9/4/2019] we saw the Democrats' lonely crowd of candidates traipse across a stage for a ghostly pageant
hosted by CNN. [...] Gaffable Joe Biden, Pocahontas, Comrade Bernie Sanders, and all the rest arrived onstage Wednesday night
to talk about Climate Change all night long if need be. They compared it to World War II. They compared it to
cancer. They blamed it for wars already in progress and wars in the future. One ludicrous comparison was between
Climate Change and overpopulation. The wretched of Africa could be saved by Planned Parenthood's arrival in the Dark
Continent, all wearing pith helmets and garb from L.L. Bean. Frankly, the Democrats' obsession with Climate Change
is more than odd. It is delusional.
Democrat
Campaign Theme: Pain and Misery. Democrats have really gone off the deep end this time. Their
chances of winning the 2020 Presidential election are falling off a cliff. Don't believe me? Did you watch the
CNN Democrat "climate change" debate last week? It was an awful, pathetic, disastrous mess. The worst seven hours
in TV history. The only good news for Democrats is... No one watched.
CNN's
Climate Change Townhall — An Affirmation of Faith. Although high on emotion, politics, and
passionate intensity, none of the candidates offered a shred of evidence, scientific or otherwise, that the humans have
anything to do with the climate.
Ignorance
and silliness on display as Democrats race down [the] climate change rabbit hole. Hurricane Dorian has claimed
another victim: victory for Democrats in 2020. Last week's marathon CNN climate forum makes it clear: Dorian blew
what remained of Democrat common sense right off the map. Ask yourself, is Elizabeth Warren smart to promise she'll ban
fracking, when Democrats are desperate to win Pennsylvania in 2020, and the Marcellus fracking play has produced hundreds of
thousands of jobs and tens of billions in income for the state?
The truth about
Democrats' climate chamber. Joe Biden's bleeding eye at the Democrats' marathon "climate crisis" town hall on
CNN is as good an omen as any of the political curse of eco-catastrophism. From banning cheeseburgers and plastic
straws to aborting babies in poor countries, the swivel-eyed climate zealotry of the 10 Democratic front-runners has just
rendered them unelectable. It's extraordinary the candidates were gullible enough to be lured into what clearly was an
ambush by puppet youth climate activists from the shadowy Sunrise Movement and 350.org.
What
Democrats Are Really Pushing. Everyone once in a while, even if by accident, liberals tell you who they really
are, what they think, and what they want to do. Whether it slips out or they deliberately put it down in a statement,
it's a quick little glimpse into what's going on in the void behind their vacant eyes. This week saw a few of these
glimpses. [...] Luckily, and sensibly, very few Americans bothered to tune in. (Sympathy to those stuck in
airports. Even on mute, the crazy crept through.) While all called for things like banning coal, oil drilling,
fracking, and nuclear power, they also want to mandate the use of electric cars. None addressed, nor were asked by any
of the crowd or the so-called journalist cheerleaders moderating the clown show exactly where they planned to get all the
electricity to charge those cars.
America
Tunes Out the Demented Dems. It's too bad for America that CNN's seven-hour town hall on climate change was
such a rating disaster. If twenty times as many viewers had tuned in Wednesday night, about 22 million Americans today
would have a real clear idea what a bunch of leftwing nut-jobs are running in the Democrat presidential primary. Bernie,
Liz, Kamala, Cory and the others took turns trying to out-do each other with their scary visions of the coming environmental
apocalypse and their heroic trillion-dollar plans to use the Green New Deal to save the planet.
Winners
and losers from Democrats' climate change town hall. CNN devoted about seven hours to a series of town halls on
climate change Wednesday night, giving 10 candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination the chance to discuss their
wish-lists of extraordinarily expensive environmental proposals they would seek to enact if they make it to the White
House. The biggest winner of the night wasn't even on stage. It was President Trump, who has brought the American
people massive job creation, a stronger economy, lower taxes and a booming energy sector that has put us on the road to
energy independence. I predict that millions of voters who learned about the Democrats' energy plans will have no
choice but to turn to Trump to avoid the disaster those plans would bring.
The Editor says...
The picture accompanying the article above (at Fox News!) is an example of media bias: It is evidently an attempt to get the
reader to see smoke rising from a factory into an atmosphere that is already on fire. Upon closer examination, it is a picture
of water vapor rising out of a heat exchanger, apparently at a power plant, and then dissipating harmlessly into the atmosphere.
Smoke doesn't disappear a few seconds after it is released into the air. And the picture was taken at sunrise or sunset to
give the ominous orange glow.
There
are solutions and then there is what we saw on CNN. The CNN climate change extravaganza got bad ratings.
Worse than that, there were no serious solutions proposed. How can you have a serious discussion about energy
alternatives without discussing nuclear power? [...] So what did hear at the CNN town hall? We heard a lot of
fearmongering and more government programs.
CNN's Presidential
Climate Change Town Hall Was Insane. Put it this way: the most benign climate-change plan proposed during CNN's
seven-hour Democratic Party presidential candidate town hall was more authoritarian than anything Donald Trump has ever
suggested during his presidency. Democrats were not merely proposing massive societal upheaval but mass coercion.
CNN says it's a "crisis," though, so Democrats were free to offer one insane Nostradamus-like prediction after the
next. Not only is every weather event now a manifestation of global warming, but Beto O'Rourke says our communities
will soon be "uninhabitable," and Pete Buttigieg says the challenge of warming is on par with World War II, a conflict that
took more than 400,000 American lives and tens of millions of others. None of this hysteria, as far as I can tell, was
challenged during those seven hours.
CNN's
7-Hour 'Climate Change' Town Hall was a man-made disaster for Democrat presidential candidates. The
presidential ambitions of the leading Democrat candidates may not survive CNN's 7-Hour 'Climate Change' Townhall. It
was a man-made disaster, created in the fevered swamps of CNN and fueled by pledges of allegiance to Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal. The candidates came across as not-serious-people. Worse, they came across as
nanny-state monsters who really do want to take away your plastic straws and cheeseburgers to save the planet. It
was a self-parody of what woke totalitarianism sounds like, with an abnormal focus on meat.
Here's what the
2020 Dems plan to do for climate change. As promised, 2020 presidential candidates showed up for a marathon seven-hour CNN town hall to
discuss global warming last night. Here's what they had to say:
• Bernie Sanders wants to put U.S. tax dollars toward aborting kids in poor countries. He also promised that he'd raise taxes again.
• Joe Biden's eye filled with blood during the event. He also stumbled and jumbled all the way through an answer about national security.
• Biden also said the Green New Deal doesn't go far enough with policy specifics.
• Elizabeth Warren came out against nuclear power plants. She also wants to control Americans' use of light bulbs, straws, and cheeseburgers.
• Kamala Harris promised to nuke the Senate filibuster to pass the Green New Deal. She also wants to ban plastic straws.
• Pete Buttigieg said that fighting climate change is "perhaps even more challenging" than winning World War II.
• "Beto" O'Rourke promised to reissue every environmental regulation that the Trump administration has rolled back.
• Julian Castro wants to set aside half of all the land in the United States for "biodiversity."
• Cory Booker wants to ban offshore drilling, while Kamala Harris wants to ban fracking.
A
Handy Mashup Of All The Things Democrat Candidates Want Banned. A quick rundown: We as a nation will be
getting rid of red meat, plastic straws, offshore drilling, light bulbs, combustion engine vehicles, babies in poor
countries, fossil fuels, oil, natural gas, coal, fracking, carbon, nuclear power plants, and factory farming. What is
amusing in all of this hysterical hyperactive enforcement is the contradictions between their desires. Bernie talks of
transitioning off of these fuels, for instance, while Liz Warren says there will be no more nuclear power, a carbon-neutral
transition energy source. Red meat is — literally — off the table but the growing demand for more
grains will be stymied by the eradication of factory farming. My favorite proposal of the lot comes from Andrew Yang.
[H]is solution to curb the heating of the planet is to have an array of large mirrors in our atmosphere to reflect the sunlight.
CNN's infomercial for homosexuality, October 10, 2019
CNN
didn't disclose that [a] maxed-out Warren donor asked [the] question that spurred [a] viral answer.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren's answer to a question at last week's LGBTQ Town Hall meeting went viral, when she suggested that
opposition to gay marriage was the result of incel frustration. But the questioner appears to be a maxed-out donor to
Ms. Warren's campaign — a fact CNN did not disclose. According to a report Monday in the Washington
Free Beacon, questioner Morgan Cox was identified as "Chair, Human Rights Campaign Board of Directors" on the CNN
chyron. "It could have just as easily identified Cox as 'Donor, Elizabeth Warren,'" the Free Beacon wrote.
CNN
Failed to Disclose Warren Town Hall Questioner Was Maxed-Out Donor. Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth
Warren's zinger at an LGBT town hall may have gone viral, but CNN failed to disclose that the questioner donated the federal
maximum to her 2018 Massachusetts Senate campaign. CNN's Chris Cuomo introduced Morgan Cox at the Thursday town hall as
"the chair of the Human Rights Campaign board of directors" who was part of "a real estate investment firm in Dallas, Texas."
[...] The CNN chyron described Cox as "Chair, Human Rights Campaign Board of Directors." It could have just as easily
identified Cox as "Donor, Elizabeth Warren." Cox's Twitter profile indicates that his full name is "Morgan W.
Cox III" and he is a partner at the investment firm Marquis Group. The Marquis Group is located in Plano, Tex.,
part of the larger Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area.
Trump
Stands between America and Tyranny. This is not some loyal opposition party that disagrees on the ideal size of
government. They hate America and want to destroy everything it was created to represent. Anything that damages
Trump will help an American-hating socialist who promised to run her choice for secretary of education through a child-abused
9-year-old girl dressed in a suit. That was a mildly instructive moment in the insane CNN LGBT town hall in that you
had a false Cherokee pandering to a false boy in the modern leftist version of Peter Pan. Truth is always one of the
first casualties of leftism. The entire town hall was one giant promise to relentlessly persecute Christians while
shredding religious freedom in America.
Democrats
Are Going to Regret Beto's Stance on Conservative Churches. The issue of gay rights and recognition and
acceptance of the LGBTQ community has moved at warp speed — in political terms anyway — this past
decade. "I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage," said the candidate
Barack Obama in 2008. At Thursday night's nationally televised forum on LGBTQ rights, candidate Beto O'Rourke showed how
far, and how quickly, the Democratic Party has moved. The former Texas congressman caused quite a stir when he said he
would support revoking the tax-exempt status of religious institutions — colleges, churches, and charities —
if they opposed same-sex marriage.
Rubio
hits Warren's 'crude' and 'vulgar' response to opposition to same-sex marriage. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.)
criticized Sen. Elizabeth Warren's (D-Mass.) response to a town hall question about same-sex marriage earlier this
week. On Warren's response, Rubio tweeted Saturday, "Vividly captures the condescension of elites & their incessant
ridicule of Americans with traditional values. It elicits glee among celebrities & blue check brigade." "But for
the millions sick of being disrespected it elicits support for fighting back, even in a crude or vulgar way," Rubio continued.
Elizabeth
Warren mocks Christian men, delights Democrat base. There is no logical defense of redefining marriage to
accommodate the 2% of Americans who are gay. They are generally massively promiscuous and hardly ever have long-term
monogamous relationships. But by redefining marriage, the dishonest judges on the Supreme Court have put society's
imprimatur on the massively promiscuous, objectifying, and decidedly unhealthy gay lifestyle. When thrown a softball
question on this by someone who appears to be a significant donor to her campaign, but who was billed as just some random
person, Elizabeth Warren vilified all Christian men. The question was "Senator, I am old-fashioned, and my faith
teaches me that marriage is between one man and one woman. What is your response?" Her response was amazingly
bigoted, sexist, and racist.
The
Two Very Basic Questions Every Democrat Should Be Asked, But Won't Be. As I've already covered, the LGBT town
hall hosted by CNN was a debacle for the Democrats. Their extremism, moral derangement, and disregard for liberty and
basic human decency were put on display for all to see. Democratic presidential hopefuls applauded child abuse,
announced plans to violate the First Amendment, and called for tax payer funding of genital mutilation procedures, among
other things. Of course the moderators were only there to prop up and support the candidates. At no point was any
candidate asked anything approaching a tough or penetrating question. Indeed, even when Beto O'Rourke called for the
revocation of tax exempt status of churches that support biblical marriage, the moderator didn't think to ask whether mosques
should be punished as well.
Watch:
Democrats Say Yes to Every Transgender Demand. Democratic politicians agreed with almost every demand made by
the audience of invited transgender and gay advocates at a Thursday town hall managed by the Human Rights Campaign and
broadcast by CNN. Sen. Elizabeth Warren promised her nominee to the Department of Education would have to earn
the approval of a nine-year-old child who claimed to be transgender.
CNN
Buries Kooky, Poorly-Rated LGBTQ Town Hall with 2020 Democrats. Despite the fact that the Jeffrey Zucker-led
CNN has created a cottage industry out of town halls involving presidential candidates and/or some of their liberal causes,
CNN showed very little interest in recapping their four-and-a-half-hour, horrendously-rated Thursday night LGBTQ town hall
with nine 2020 Democratic presidential candidates. Between midnight and 7:30 p.m. Eastern Friday (so 21 and a
half hours total), CNN shows spent just under 25 minutes on a town hall that featured, among a slew of other alienating
takes, an angry trans woman briefly hijacking the event, Beto O'Rourke saying he'd target churches who aren't pro-LGBTQ, and
questions with elementary-age trans children.
Joe Biden's campaign could have been made into a good Leslie Nielsen movie. Biden
brings town hall to standstill, reminisces on 'gay bathhouses' and 'round-the-clock sex'. Former Vice President
Joe Biden's performance at CNN's LGBTQ Town Hall may not have been filled with his usual gaffes, but there were plenty of
head-scratching and simply awkward moments. The Democratic presidential candidate was one of nine 2020 contenders who
spoke on LGBTQ issues with CNN's Anderson Cooper at Thursday's Democratic presidential town hall, making several cringe-worthy
impressions with viewers as he joked about coming out and reminiscing about "gay bathhouses and 'round the clock sex."
The
Democrats' Disastrous CNN LGBT Town Hall. A few days after Donald Trump committed the worst foreign-policy
blunder of his presidency by betraying America's Kurdish allies in northern Syria, former vice president Joe Biden, the elder
statesman and co-frontrunner in the Democratic presidential primary, was on a national stage talking to CNN's primetime
audience about "round-the-clock sex" at "gay bathhouses" in San Francisco. Biden was bumbling his way toward making a
point that old stereotypes aren't true, and he concluded that "gay couples are more likely to stay together longer than
heterosexual couples." Biden's conclusion was not, you know, actually true according to social-science studies. [...] If the
Democratic party were calling the shots, candidates would have been focusing on Trump and Syria and Ukraine, but the Human
Rights Campaign, the most powerful LGBT special-interest group in the country, had partnered with CNN for the event, and the
previously scheduled show had to go on.
Democratic
Candidates Promise LGBT Voters They'll Punish All the Right People. The event was a CNN town hall in Los
Angeles Thursday night, where nine Democratic candidates were interviewed about their stances on LGBT issues. Those who
tuned in for the four-and-a-half-hour show were treated, with few exceptions, to each candidate answering variations of the
same questions in the same ways. What will they do about any continued discrimination against LGBT? They'll fight
against it and support the Equality Act. What will they do about improving access to HIV drugs and preventative
medication? They'll go after those greedy pharmaceutical companies, and all the drugs will be covered under their
health care plans. What will they do about hate crimes? They'll unleash the Department of Justice against them,
and hate crimes will definitely be exempted from any push to make federal sentencing less punitive.
Kamala
Harris promises White House office of LGBTQ issues. Sen. Kamala Harris on Thursday pledged to add a White
House chief advocate for LGBTQ affairs and name gay people to Cabinet posts if she is elected president. Ms. Harris,
California Democrat, said the moves aimed to reverse the "Trump Administration's hate agenda" toward lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender people. "Every LGBTQ person in America should grow up knowing they can not only get married but also live,
work, go to school, access affordable health care, and be supported, embraced, safe and celebrated," she said.
Raging
Black Trans Woman Crashes Question, Steals Mic at CNN Town Hall. The already bonkers LGBT town hall went wild
Thursday night when a black trans woman named Blossom C. Brown rushed a questioner from the audience, stole the mic, accused
CNN of erasing black trans women, demanded people "Google" her, and almost climbed on stage. Moderator Don Lemon was in
the middle of conducting the town hall for former Congressman and 2020 long-shot candidate Robert O'Rourke (D-TX) when he
wanted to take a question from Lizette Trujillo, a mother with a young transgender son. Just as Trujillo began to
preface her question, Brown ran up to snatch the mic as if she was Kanye West interrupting Taylor Swift:
CNN
Town Hall Applauds Jacob, 'A 9-Year-Old Transgender American'. "My name is Jacob, and I'm a 9-year-old
transgender American," the child told Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) Thursday night [10/10/2019]. People
attending the CNN town hall on LGBTQ equality erupted in cheers and applause, interrupting Jacob's attempt to ask Warren a
scripted question.
Democratic Party debate #4, October 15, 2019
Falling
ratings, pointless snark: Why hold televised debates at all? Who and what exactly do televised debates
serve? It's tougher to argue that it serves voters' interests after the fourth official DNC debate on Tuesday
night. Ratings for the event came in lowest for the series, with less than half of the viewership from the first debate
in June sticking around: [...] There's a reason that the best ratings come from the first debates — it's because
they are novelty acts, whose purposes are strictly limited to entertainment and media-narrative manufacturing.
The
ATF Has Been Enforcing a Rule That Does Not Exist. Anyone else sick to death of watching the Democrats debate
each other already? Tuesday saw them rehash numerous conversations they've already had, and there are still
eight excruciating nights of such television for us to endure.
Dems Scramble To Corner The Market On Morality. America
is in crisis. Actually, there are very many crises going on according to the dozen Democrats seeking to be the next president of the United States.
It is all very catastrophic: There is a health care crisis, a reproductive rights crisis, a gun crisis, and of course, there's the ever-present climate
crisis. And in every case, it all comes down to a deep, abiding moral crisis in America. During a three-hour debate on CNN, Dems repeatedly
spoke about who is moral, who is not, and why. Just who rose to the top of the immorality hit parade? Here are [four] targets:
• Gun owners, especially those who own an AR-15 or any other rifle deemed "assault."
• Wealthy citizens for having too much money.
• Pharmaceutical companies for killing Americans by manufacturing opioids.
• State legislatures for closing "reproductive health care clinics."
[...] There wasn't a single man or woman on the stage willing to utter the word abortion. The words "reproductive health care" were used to
sanitize the discussion. What kind of person is it who claims aborting a baby is a moral act?
Global
Warming Alarmism Deflated By The Dem Debate. [Scroll down] Even the candidates themselves groused.
"Three hours and no questions tonight about climate, housing, or immigration," tweeted former Housing Secretary Julian
Castro, who believes "climate change is an existential threat." Sen. Kamala Harris, apparently looking over
Castro's shoulder as he tittered on Twitter — or maybe it was the other way around — tweeted "Three
hours. Not one question about the climate crisis." "An entire debate without a single question on climate
change — the existential issue facing not just our country, but our entire planet," Tom Steyer, the billionaire
who made a good portion of his fortune investing in coal and other fossil fuels, grumbled in an overheated tweet. Is it
possible the Democrats have ginned so many phony issues that if they bite off too many in one debate the public will suffer
from an overload of nonsense? Did CNN intentionally steer clear of the subject to help Democrats avoid looking
completely loony?
Should
we be frightened by the AR-15 or the Democrat candidates? For almost three hours on Tuesday night, the
Democratic candidates solemnly described the many problems existing in our country. They unanimously identified for us
the evil, corrupt person causing these problems and threatening to destroy the Constitution and our country. Then they
passionately declared that they understand these problems, that they are uniquely qualified to fix them, and that they will
quickly turn our county into the utopia we deserve. We citizens can accept their declarations without question, or we
can think about what they say and check for ourselves.
The
Democrats — Who They Are, What they Want and How to Confront Them. Every time the Democratic
presidential contenders take the stage, we witness a stunning display of the Democratic Party's ideological conversion to a
Marxist-sponsored socialist cartel. In pursuit of utopian/egalitarian virtue, the party has adopted the language of the
ideology and is growing perpetually out of sync with American liberties. In a frightening sense of déjà vu,
the downsized American replicas of Leon Trotsky, Nikolai Bukharin, Clara Zetkin, and Rosa Luxemburg are seeking to impose the
moralities of a flawed society through seductive promises of fairness and equality with an intensity and passion that rivals
that of their precursors a century earlier. [...] Some bombastically prophesy environmental calamities and the end of the world
unless we implement insane ideas they put forward as the key to salvation. Those loonies cannot be persuaded by facts,
historical records, or common sense.
Democratic
Party presidential candidate are unqualified... and weird. [Scroll down] It is obvious to anyone with an
open mind that these candidates are totally unqualified to be president, or to hold any public office. The only chance
the survivor of this bunch has to beat President Trump is for the Democrats and the corrupt media to continue to attack
President Trump on a daily basis, as they have done since his election.
Why
Democrats Should Be Worried Elizabeth Warren Is The Frontrunner. The first big takeaway from the Democratic
primary debate Tuesday night was that Sen. Elizabeth Warren is now being treated like the frontrunner by her
opponents. The second big takeaway is that the candidates' angle of attack on Warren, together with her dismal
performance under pressure, should have Democrats very worried that Warren could be their candidate in the general election
next year.
Winners
and losers from the inconsequential CNN Ohio Democrat debate. When Democrats say something is the biggest issue
of our lives, ignore them, Then wait a week. They will have moved on to their next inconsequential issue. For
instance, do you remember when the DACA kids and kids in cages were the biggest crises requiring attention? Neither did
the Democrats in this debate. The moderators indeed forgot about them and other issues they recently declared
existential. The Ohio Democrat presidential debate featured moments of substance but was mostly inconsequential.
In three hours, there was not one question about Iran, Israel, China, North Korea, Harvey Weinstein and Matt Lauer,
inner-city violence in Chicago & Baltimore, California homelessness, California gas prices, or the Jalen Ramsey trade.
Trump:
Democratic debate showed candidates are too weak to win without impeachment. President Trump responded to the
fourth Democratic presidential primary debate by saying all the candidates looked weak and claiming that is why they are
pursuing impeachment. [...] The fourth Democratic debate took place on Tuesday night with 12 candidates taking the
stage. The first question of the event, sponsored by CNN and the New York Times, was on impeachment, which
every Democratic candidate who answered the question said they supported.
Dem
Debate: Clipping Coupons, Stealing Your Money, and Confiscating Guns. I didn't watch last night's
Democrat debate, because I'm sane and would prefer to stay that way. Besides, there was baseball on TV. But I did
follow the festivities in real time on social media, and quickly realized I didn't miss anything that wasn't entirely
predictable. [...] Speaking of Quid Pro Joe, he got the very predicable special handling from CNN hack Anderson Cooper, who
prefaced a question about his bullying of the Ukraine in order to protect is ne'er-do-well son with "You have been falsely
accused by the White House...", and bumbling 'Ol Joe was barely able to take it from there. If Cooper could've taken
him by the hand and walked him through an answer, you can be sure he would have done so.
CNN
and ABC News Terrified to Confront Bidens with Smoking Gun Golf Photo. Far-left CNN and ABC News did not have
the moral courage to confront the Bidens with a damning photograph that shows Joe and Hunter Biden enjoying an afternoon of
golf with Devon Archer, a board member on the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma Holdings. With the help of the crooked media,
former Vice President Joe Biden has been allowed to act outraged while not answering legitimate questions about his son Hunter
getting filthy rich by trading in on his father's name and influence, and doing so while Joe was still vice president.
Pete
Buttigieg Plays 'Uniter' After Months of Christian Bashing. Did you get a chance to check out Mean Little Mayor
Pete Buttigieg suddenly morphing into Mayor Uniter during Tuesday night's debate — you know, after he spent months
trashing anyone who doesn't agree with him as a terrible Christian? [...] Buttigieg's brand-spanking-new idea of bringing
people together, of uniting the country after President Trump's defeat, wasn't some offhand comment, either. It was his
theme for the night.
Anderson
Cooper Casually Vindicates Hunter Biden. I realize the task of checking bias at CNN is a Sisyphian one, but
moderator Anderson Cooper kicked off the Democratic primary debate on Tuesday with a particularly laughable sleight of
hand. Setting up a question to Joe Biden, Cooper said, "President Trump has falsely accused your son of doing something
wrong while serving on a company board in Ukraine. I want to point out there is no evidence of wrongdoing by either one
of you." Cooper effectively vindicated both Bidens before even asking the question. Perhaps he thought it was
clever to say Trump falsely accused the junior Biden of wrongdoing "while serving" on the board. Serving on the board
was, of course, the wrongdoing in and of itself.
The
Democrats' Debate Was Unconstitutional. Tuesday night's CNN/New York Times debate of the Democratic
presidential candidates was filled with propositions to radicalize American society, from confiscation of law-abiding
citizens' guns to adopting Canada's single-payer health system but somehow "we're going to do better than the Canadians do,"
as Sen. Bernie Sanders promised without extrapolating, to imprisoning executives of companies that pioneer life-saving
medicines. But, astonishingly, it also showcased casual discussion of the federal government adopting policies that
would stab the Constitution of the United States in the heart — in particular those of Sen. Elizabeth
Warren. "Understand," she said. "Taxing income is not going to get you where you need to be the way taxing
wealth does."
Last
night's Democrat debate: A cluster of tyrannical fantasists. Each of those candidates on the stage seemed
oblivious to the reality of the last three years — the fabulous economy, lowest unemployment in decades,
international trade renegotiated to our benefit, millions no longer on food stamps. Our military, eviscerated by Obama,
is being repaired. Manufacturing has been revitalized, and the border, despite the intransigence of the Democrats, is
slowly being better controlled. The wall is being built. Everything Trump has done since being elected has been
effective; he has tried to keep his campaign promises despite the Democrats' vow to see him impeached from day one. And
no matter how vicious the Left is, those candidates on stage last night continue to opt for mindless delusion that he can be
removed from office in order to prevent his re-election.
CNN
Cements Its Bias Reputation at Tuesday's Debate. If there is one thing that Tuesday night's Democratic debate
showed us — as if we didn't know it in the first place — it's just to what degree the media is in the
tank for the Democrats. They're not only in the tank — they built it, filled it with water up to the brim,
and would turn up the temperature to boil Donald Trump alive if they could. And maybe they can. You knew this
from the outset when CNN's lead moderator Anderson Cooper, along with his compatriots, one from the New York Times,
opened the festivities with a round of leading impeachment questions, giving each candidate in turn a chance to outdo each
other in bashing Trump.
At
Democratic debate, notes of caution on impeachment. Sen. Bernie Sanders said the president deserves to be
impeached not only for the Ukraine affair but also for the Trump-Russia matter and even for alleged violations of the Constitution's
emoluments clause. Sen. Kamala Harris said Trump is so guilty that impeachment should be a quick affair.
The Editor says...
What law has Mr. Trump broken? One would think the Democrats should have had courtroom-quality evidence before
impeachment proceedings began.
Does
the Democratic Party have a God problem? Democratic presidential debates provide an excellent opportunity for
the aspiring leaders of the party to address and embrace religious freedom for all Americans. Religious freedom should
be considered a positive fundamental American principle by both major political parties. At least one of the Democratic
presidential hopefuls — Beto O'Rourke — has stated that churches who don't support same-sex marriage should
lose their tax exempt status. Will any of the other candidates distance themselves from this unconstitutional weaponization
of the IRS? It was not so long ago at the 2016 Democrat National Convention when the attempt to add the words "God-given"
to a resolution was met with a chorus of boos from the delegates.
Fourth
Democratic debate's big winner, 2 surprise showings and the biggest loser. Democratic Sen. Elizabeth
Warren of Massachusetts was the big winner Tuesday night in Westerville, Ohio in the most crowded presidential debate ever
held. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., also delivered strong
performances. Former Vice President Joe Biden and the other eight candidates on stage came out the losers in the
three-hour Democratic presidential primary debate. Warren's strong performance will likely solidify her frontrunner
status ahead of Biden and Sanders. She emerged the clear winner of the night by showing she was sharp and prepared as
she fended off attacks from candidates who were looking to cut into her polling lead.
7
Democratic debate takeaways after watching candidates caught up in Trump Derangement Syndrome. A dozen
Democratic presidential candidates continued their race to become the left's most favored socialist when they debated Tuesday
night. Once again, the debate stage showcased a lackluster group of extremist politicians pandering to their far-left
base of support with harmful policy proposals that are way outside the mainstream. The three septuagenarian candidates
currently making up the top tier of the Democratic field include a confused and corrupt former Vice President Joe Biden some
20 years past his prime; unelectable socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who recently suffered a heart attack; and
hopelessly out-of-touch former Harvard professor and current Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who wants to throw
180 million Americans off their private health insurance plans, including union workers.
Democrat
Debate: Sanders Claims Trump Enriching Himself in Office, Refuses to Call Out Biden. Sen. Bernie
Sanders (D-VT) accused President Donald Trump of enriching himself while serving in the White House on Tuesday, but he
refused to address similar claims made about former Vice President Joe Biden's youngest son, Hunter. Sanders was asked
by CNN's Anderson Cooper at the fourth Democrat presidential primary debate in Ohio if he believed Trump's conduct in office
warranted impeachment. The senator responded by claiming there was "no choice" but to impeach the president because of
alleged violations of the emoluments clause.
Biden's
Worst Moments From Tuesday's Democratic Debate. Former Vice President Joe Biden was the clear loser of the
night, not only rambling his way through responses, and at many points making completely incoherent statements, but failing
to give a strong defense of his son, Hunter, over his gig at Burisma while he was vice president overseeing Ukraine
policy — an issue he should have been more than prepared to discuss.
CNN
and NYT Debate Moderators Did Not Ask One Question About China. While the fourth Democratic presidential debate
hosted by CNN and the New York Times covered a wide variety of issues, one large topic was not asked during the
three-hour event: China. China not only has been in the news because of Hong Kong protesters taking to the
streets to advocate for more freedoms, but also because of the recent controversies over NBA players and coaches, who usually
are more than willing to criticize the United States and President Trump, twisting themselves into pretzels in order to not
criticize China.
Democrats
Gush Over John McCain at Debate when Asked to Name 'Surprise' Friend. Democrats cited Sen. John McCain as
one of their "unlikely" friends when asked to name someone by CNN during the 2020 presidential debate on Tuesday
[10/15/2019]. "For me, it's John McCain, and I miss him every day," Sen. Amy Klobuchar said. "I traveled all
over the world with him." Klobuchar recalled McCain standing up for her chance to speak when they were in groups of world
leaders. Bernie Sanders also cited McCain, recalling his time working with the Republican senator on Veterans Affairs.
The Editor says...
John McCain's biggest fans were Democrats, when he was in the Senate, and that continues to this day. That says a lot about
Mr. McCain. Yet there is plenty more to say.
Beto
O'Rourke: If You Don't Hand over Your AR-15 We'll Take It. During the October 15, Democrat debate Robert
"Beto" O'Rourke made clear that AR-15 owners who refuse to hand over their guns will have them taken away. O'Rourke
reiterated his plan to use a government-mandated buyback to confiscate privately-owned AR-15s and AK-47s. In so doing,
he claimed that each AR-15 and AK-47 in private hands is a "potential instrument of terror." CNN's Anderson Cooper then
asked O'Rourke how he plans to get people to hand over their rifles. O'Rourke responded by explaining that he expects
complains [sic - compliance?] with the mandatory buybacks.
