Posse Incitatus

Our border wall hair-on-fire moment fades away

One of the interesting things about modern crises is how they are almost entirely fake.

last week's drama is a perfect example of this.  Donald Trump engineered the whole thing by refusing to sign a budget bill, then signed a short-term bill restoring funding, before refusing to sign another one unless certain conditions were met.

This resulting in hand-wringing, howls of protests and warnings of dire things to come (all of which depended on which side you were on).

In the end, a bill was signed, the government was funding, some of the border wall will get built, and life goes on.  Trump also followed through with something he's been telegraphing for a long time: an emergency declaration on border security.

Naturally, this is a dire Threat to the Republic, and the Democrats are (as is their wont) suing to get  judge to overturn it.  The fact that there are 31 other "states of emergency" is beside the point.

Indeed, if the administration's lawyers are smart, they should require the judge to either strike them all down, or none of them.  This business of the judiciary demanding a jump-seat in the Oval Office has got to stop.

There's still some smouldering debate about what exactly is in the funding bill (I mean besides payoffs for people of both parties), but this ignores the big picture, which is simply this:

Trump demanded money for a border barrier.  Nancy Pelosi said he would get none.  Instead, he got some.  Nobody's happy, but that's how compromise works.

Caveat Emptor, Part II

Nearly eight years ago, I used the Latin term for "Let the buyer beware" to warn of how computer technology and electronic financial transactions are making it difficult to invest with confidence, often leading to bad and uninformed investments that lose money.

Today's commentary has something in common with that April 2010 post, i.e., the role of technology in misleading and confusing us. Beware: There's a lot of BS out there, and it's often difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff. Just as we must be leery of the investment world, we must maintain a healthy skepticism when it comes to absorbing news, analysis and trends. The IT world and cyberspace, with its pernicious, ubiquitous social media, are definitely culpable.

We learned during the 2016 election of the extent to which the Russians and others influence news and social media with automated bots -- software applications that push out phony stories, tweets, posts and survey responses. Young, gullible reporters in the corrupt media, of which there are many, can get duped into reporting on "trends" or activist groups that are, in fact, manufactured and phony.

This seems to be how a lot of the fake news is generated, and it only promises to get worse as computer technology advances. Ignorance and a lack of critical thinking among the public are the gasoline stoking this fire of misinformation.

But let's be clear: Oftentimes, the fakery does not stem from computers or social media. It may well come from concocted stories that fit the leftist narrative -- stories that the corrupt media breathlessly reports without using any critical thinking or investigation. We've seen it time and time again, as false narratives are perpetuated by fictitious stories that crumble upon analysis.

Prime examples include:

• Covington high school kids and Native American activist Nathan Phillips;
• The "hands up / don't shoot" B.S. about Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri (even the Eric Holder Justice Department debunked this false narrative);
• Jussie Smollett's hoax about white Trump supporters wearing MAGA hats and using homophobic slurs while attacking him in Chicago (turns out it was a couple of Nigerian men, one of whom was, along with Smollett, part of cast of the "Empire" drama series);
• And going back more than a decade, the overblown Valerie Plame case in which media parrots reported for months that George W. Bush aide Scooter Libby "outed" the former CIA officer. Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald knew early on that it was Richard Armitage of the State Department, but the charade continued ad nauseam for what seemed like an eternity.
• Also going back into the archives, the Duke lacrosse case perpetuated a false meme and ruined reputations. As is typical, there were no apologies from the scum who publicly accused the innocent team members once it became clear the story was false.

So now, it seems, we have sophisticated computer technology run amok on social media, a gullible and naive public, and determined liars in the ranks of the Democrat Party and their media stooges. Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels famously observed that "If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself."

And that was before social media. Goebbels didn't know the tip of the iceberg.

 

 

Blue & Red Tax Follies

It's that ugly time of year when the weather is shitty (at least here in the Midwest), and taxes must be filed. Just getting together the paperwork can be a pain. This year, the whining about federal taxes from Trump haters is growing in intensity.

In late 2017, when President Trump's tax cut bill passed Congress and was signed into law, liberals in blue states were ready to "have a cow," as Bart Simpson used to say. They were (and still are) enraged that the new law puts a $10,000 cap on the deductibility of state income taxes and local property taxes.

The leftists have turned logic on its head, claiming that now they will be subsidizing tax cuts for red states, which tend to have lower property and income taxes. Well, for starters, this is not an argument that can simply be decided by pitting blue states against red states. Michigan, for example, has many communities with reasonable property taxes, but pockets of high property taxes -- college towns like Ann Arbor and East Lansing, as well as wealthy communities such as East Grand Rapids and the Grosse Pointes in suburban Detroit. There are also blue states that have some communities with more moderate property taxes.

But typically, blue states have significantly higher income tax rates. Egregious examples and their tax rate percentages include California, 13.3; Oregon, 9.9; Minnesota, 9.85; New Jersey, 8.97; and New York, 8.82.  The truth of the matter is, when there was no cap on deductibility of state income taxes, it was the red states that were subsidizing (or enabling) the exorbitant income taxes and profligate spending of the blue states. Or, put another way, subsidizing progressive policies.

But true to form, the blue liberals refuse to be held accountable for continuously electing big spending, high tax governmental leaders. Instead, they whine that those deplorables in MAGA states are sticking it to them, and they are footing the bill for the rubes in flyover country. In fact, it is entirely reasonable for those who choose to live in lower tax states to object to other Americans getting off scot-free from the consequences of their decision making.

The irony of the Democrats' complaints escapes them. They normally love raising taxes on wealthy people. But in the case of the State and Local Tax (SALT) deduction, it's the wealthy who most benefited from having no cap. The $10,000 cap means they will be paying more money. Removing the cap would mean the wealthy would pay less in taxes AND the government coffers would collect less money.

When's the last time you ever heard liberals agitating for tax breaks for the wealthy, and for reducing government revenues? We surely live in strange political times.

 

Some transgender thought experiments

One of the Hated Instapundit's co-bloggers had a link to a formerly transgender military veteran who has decided to embrace his body as it is and this got me thinking:

What if Big Pharma developed a revolutionary new drug to treat individuals suffering from mental illness?

It's being touted as a miraculous breakthrough that will cure some of the most difficult cases. 

However, it does have some considerable side effects.

For one thing, a single dose renders the patient sterile.  The sterility is irreversible, so once you start the treatment, you can never have children. 

Another issue is the high doses that need to be administered during the first two years of treatment.  The drug is so potent at these levels that patients need to be hospitalized before taking it.  Heavy bleeding, tissue infections and debilitating pain are common during this period.  Even after these symptoms go away (and they have presented in 100 percent of the cases to date), the patient will be dependent on low doses of the drug for life.

Most alarmingly, people who complete the first intense cycle of treatment have a greatly elevated likelihood of death.  After that, the long-term health effects aren't known.  Surviving patients claim to be happier, but others are deeply unhappy and regret ever beginning the treatment.  How many feel that way isn't known, likely because Big Pharma is threatening them with lawsuits.

Here's another thought experiment:

Let us say that in the run-up to 2020, Donald Trump goes all-in on cracking down on crime by illegal immigrants.  He get so carried away that he issues an executive order requiring that any non-citizen sex offenders that come into ICE's custody will have their genitalia physically cut off before they are released.

To even write that is to laugh at it.  It's utterly absurd and not only would ICE agents refuse to obey it, the courts would immediately strike it down as being cruel and unusual punishment.

I think you can see where I'm going with this.

A century ago, people who believed themselves to be the brightest and most compassionate minds in the country decided that forced sterilization of "undesirables" was a moral imperative, and they set about their work with gusto.  We now look back on horror at eugenics, but it was once a highly-respected field.

There is no doubt in my mind that people will look back on the mutilation of these helpless mentally ill people the same way.  They needed healing and in the name of compassion they were cut apart.

 

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who's the Kookiest Democrat of Them All?

Perhaps the Good Lord is looking down on Donald Trump with favor, and thinking he wants Orange Julius to win re-election in 2020 because the Trumpster is doing a great job and making inroads against the abortion holocaust.

What else could explain the moronic, insane policy proposals by the likes of Alexandria Ocasia-Cortez, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders? Sanders set the table three years ago with his socialist proposals, but AOC, as they call her, and Sen. Harris, (the female Barack Obama) are upping the ante.

Sanders' MEDICARE FOR ALL! pipe dream pushes the single payer fantasy that's long been a Democrat wet dream. Despite the fact Medicare is on the verge of going broke, and many health care providers have pulled out of the program due to its low reimbursement rates, liberals have a pie-in-the-sky idea that if the government declares that every single American is covered, every American will get quality health care. How many times do I have to repeat this: There's a big difference between having health insurance (i.e., the promise of coverage) and actually having access to the quality and quantity of services that the coverage promises.

Sad to say, but Medicare is woefully inadequate and not up to the task of providing healthcare for 325 million Americans. But let's move on from Uncle Bernie...

Sen. Harris recently faced some actual tough questioning regarding how MEDICARE FOR ALL! would work. She pulled no punches, admitting that the goal is to virtually eliminate private health insurance and adopt the single payer system. To borrow the title of that 1960s Monkees tune, there are lots of "Daydream Believers" on the left, and Harris is one of them.

News flash to Sen. Harris: About 155 million Americans receive their health insurance through their employers (This all started as a way for employers to sweeten reimbursement packages back in the World War II era when wage freezes were in effect.) Many of these programs, through companies like Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Aetna, Anthem and Cigna, provide satisfactory coverage. HMO's and PPO's are usually not the horror stories the liberals make them out to be. I seriously doubt this nation is ready to scrap private insurers and let Uncle Sam take over health care. Oh, and did I forget to mention that Harris, Sanders, AOC and other leftists never explain how we can pay for MEDICARE FOR ALL! when it will practically double annual expenditures?

As for the uber-liberal progressive ice queen, Sen. Warren, she's just another soak-the-rich Democrat, favoring a "wealth tax" (a 2 percent annual tax on household net worth above $50 million, and a 3 percent annual tax on net worth above $1 billion). The tax would affect an estimated 75,000 households, and would supposedly yield between $2 and $2.75 trillion yield over a 10 year period. Yeah, kinda reminds me of revenue forecasts for the so-called luxury tax of the early 1990s. How did that work out? Progressives generally seem blind to tax shelters and other tax evasion schemes. But then, rational thinking and living in the real world never seem to encroach on hopeless idealism.

Warren's Accountable Capitalism Act would require 40 percent employee representation on boards of federal corporations with over $1 billion income, and require such enterprises to obtain a "federal charter of corporate citizenship" which would mandate social responsibility (imagine the lefty bureaucrats enforcing those rules), and require 75 percent shareholder and director approval for political donations. I'll bet every kook left-wing activist organization is licking its chops, fantasizing about an endless supply of no-strings-attached free money with which to hire cronies, build a fiefdom and wreak mischief.

Moving on to AOC, she also subscribes to the loony health care and high tax policies of the Michael Moore wing of the Democrat Party. But her coup de grace is an outlandish fantasy called the New Green Deal. It would take all day to point out its glaring flaws, but one of the most absurd proposals is eliminating all air travel within the next 10 years. Just think of how much our complex, interconnected economy relies on rapid logistics with companies from all over the world. Throw a monkey wrench into that, and you've laid a solid foundation for dystopia. Then there are the usual liberal bromides -- electric cars, windmills, solar power...

Again, for the millions of dense progressives out there: Mining and manufacturing for things like batteries and solar panels involves emitting greenhouse gases and damaging the environment. Cadmium, nickel, cobalt and other minerals are not easy to come by. Plus, distribution of electricity generated by windmills is in its rudimentary stages. And then there are the poor birdies who succumb to the holocaust. But put all of that aside. The fact is, every American could go back to living like cavemen permanently. We could reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by 100 percent, and it still would not put a dent in CO2 emissions belched by wanton polluters like China and India. Does anyone actually think other countries will follow suit when the Great Satan hamstrings its economy to kiss the ass of the global warming god? Good God, liberals are stupid!

A few days ago, AOC scrubbed her website of a blog outlining the Green New Deal and including FAQ. Apparently the withering attacks and constant ridicule made her have second thoughts about putting this all out there before thinking things through. Ah, thinking... At least that's a start.

I was just about to wrap up, but suddenly it occurred to me that a rant about crazy Democrats is not complete without including the anti-Semite Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, a Somali immigrant who actually married her own brother to ensure citizenship. She proposed completely defunding the Department of Homeland Security, and referred to President Trump's proposed border wall as "hateful." Oh, you mean an inanimate object built of concrete and steel has emotions and thoughts? It can feel hate? How about love? Can it dance and sing? Oh, and what about the portions of the wall that were built when Democrats were president? Are they racist misogynists? And how does one portion of the wall stop being tolerant and reasonable, and another portion begin being a bigot? Stupid doesn't begin to describe this joke of a politician. Needless to say, the fact she was elected means Minneapolis is chock-full of useful idiots.

We're still about a year away from the kickoff of the Democrat primary & caucus season. Brace yourself: The lunacy promises to increase.

 

 

 

The Inquisition moves to defrock ex-Cardinal McCarrick

Despite statements overflowing with child-like ignorance, Pope Francis is in fact a very canny operator. 

Nowhere is the more apparent in the high-stakes game he is playing to cover up his own involvement with the pederasty priests. 

Let us recall his order to prevent the US bishops from developing a stringent code of conduct, or how he "rehabilitated" Cardinal Theodore McCarrick without any actual rehabilitation happening.

Indeed, without the courage of Archbishop Carlo Vigano, little if any of this would have come to light.  Pope Francis was in standard damage control mode after the devastating revelations and he has sought to downplay everything to do with it, even writing a flowery letter to McCarrick completely out of character with the man's crimes.

But the wheels of justice are turning.  McCarrick has lost his red hat and now the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is recommending he be expelled from the clergy all together.   Defrocking McCarrick is a minor step, but the most the modern Church can do.  Civil authorities will now have to take action.  The man is old and reportedly banished to a Kansas monastery, but he needs to see the inside of a prison cell, as do all of his twisted partners in crime.

Strong Church inquiries also need to be made regarding the conduct of the bishops of Kentucky and their reaction to the Convington Kids hoax.  Bishops are supposed to be shepherds and protect their flocks, yet these men joined the wolves who attacked their sheep.  Some have already fulsomely apologized, but a stronger stance has to be made. 

Bishop of Lexington John Stowe in particular deserves careful scrutiny.  It is an undeniable fact that the vast majority of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church targeted boys and male teenagers.  Stowe has been very loud and conspicuous in his outreach to the gay community.  Did he use this highly publicized compassion to exploit vulnerable members of his diocese? 

Some will no doubt raise the cry of "homophobia," but that is in fact what allowed this disgusting abuse to go on for so long.  Under the rubric of "openness" and "compassion" countless children were molested and assaulted right under the very noses of their parents and community.  Just as the rape gangs in England use cries of "racism" to shield their predatory behavior, it's clear crooked priests and bishops did the same by waving a rainbow flag.

Of course a full accounting won't take place until Francis is gone, but people of goodwill within the Church must set the table so that the next pope's job is that much easier.

When the Levee Breaks

Remember that great tune by Led Zeppelin (actually, a reworking of an old country/blues song from the 1920s) with the line, "If it keeps on rainin', the levee's gonna break"....

That song, off of 1975's masterpiece "Physical Graffiti" album, has a thunderous percussion, wailing harmonica and relentless, repetitive guitar riff, all topped off by Robert Plant's inimitable vocals. The song's intensity and anguish popped into my head as I pondered the emotions of Democrats in Virginia and mulled over expressions that could describe the goings on in Richmond: dumpster fire, from bad to worse, the dam is gonna break, when it rains it pours.... Um, all of the above...

For those who have been living under a rock, the hits just keep on coming for Virginia's governmental leaders. Three of them are in hot water now.

First, it was Gov. Ralph Northam being exposed by a shameful picture in his 1984 medical school yearbook showing a man in blackface standing next to a man dressed as a Klansman. The photo was on the two-page spread dedicated to Northam, and he admitted to being one of the two men (which one, he's not sure). But then, a day or two later, being the craven liar he is, Northam recanted, stating that, upon further reflection and consultation with his family, he didn't think either of those two clowns was him. How stupid does this guy think we are? Did he forget that his yearbook lists "coonman" as one of his nicknames?

The person who would succeed Northam should the governor heed the advice of many angry Democrat politicians who are demanding he step down, is Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax. Although Fairfax is black (ironic, given Northam's transgressions), his controversy has nothing to do with race. Nope; it's the old sexual harassment bugaboo that has ensnared dozens of progressives in the past year. Dr. Vanessa Tyson, a professor at Scripps College, charges Fairfax with sexually assaulting her in 2004 while the two were in a Boston hotel room during the Democratic National Convention. It turns out that Virginia Congressman Bobby Scott knew about the assault allegations a year ago, according to recent reports. Thanks for staying reticent to protect a crony, Bobby!

And as if these two weren't enough, we have also learned that Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring admitted to wearing blackface while he was a college student in 1980. He explained that he and a friend dressed up as rap singers when they attended a Halloween party. Predictably, calls for his resignation are picking up steam.

There are a couple of delicious ironies for those of us who love seeing high-and-mighty progressives twist in the wind due to their hypocrisy, arrogance and delusional nature. The first is Northam's over-the-top campaign commercial showing a redneck in a pickup truck with a confederate flag and Gillespie bumper sticker chasing Hispanic and Muslim kids down the street. Now, it seems, someone should re-do the commercial, showing a Klansman driving the pickup truck chasing the minority youth, and with a "NORTHAM" bumper sticker affixed to the truck.

Second, the Democrats jumped all over Judge Brett Kavanaugh during his September confirmation hearings when vague charges of sexual assault from 35 years ago were leveled against him by several women lacking in credibility, and without corroborating witnesses. But when it comes to Fairfax -- here's another irony, as there's a Virginia city by that name -- the Democrats are not so quick to hop aboard the #MeToo train. After all, Mr. Fairfax is black, and it's a "bad look," as they say, if the good ol' boys throw this black man under the bus simply because a woman accuses him of forcing himself on her.

It's also nice that these Virginia Democrats, whose party specialize in the "gotcha" charges of racism against anyone to the right of them ideologically, and whose supporters make up the rabid Twitter lynch mobs, is now on the receiving end of the vitriol. (How does that medicine taste, pray tell?)

But even beyond the racial hypocrisy and identity politics, Northam is a physician (i.e., highly intelligent), yet still supports a depraved form of butchery in the name of "choice" for women. He put his foot in his mouth big-time regarding the Virginia late term abortion bill several days before the racial shit hit the fan.

What's happened in Virginia these past few days is sort of like what happened after Harvey Weinstein got busted for blatant sexual assault and grotesque behavior around dozens of women. It opened up the floodgates to a host of accusations / resignations / firings / shamings involving newscasters, actors, athletes, entertainers, CEOs. Perhaps even more racist cretins in the Commonwealth of Virginia and elsewhere will be exposed in the coming weeks. There was no Internet in the 1970s and 1980s, but those old yearbooks tend to hold up rather well over the decades.

Oh, ya gotta love it. Just as I've been saying all along. Conservatives don't have to work hard to make Democrats look bad. The Dems -- always and forever overplaying their hand and engaging in cynical, two-faced hypocrisy -- do a bang-up job of screwing themselves up. Give 'em a little rope, and they'll hang themselves.

If this keeps up, I'll have to step up my workout regimen. All of that popcorn is taking its toll on my waist.

 

 

A most consequential State of the Union

I've studiously avoided the empty pomp and ceremony of the State of the Union address for some years, but last night I made an exception.

It was a remarkable performance, arguably the best of my adult lifetime.

This was because unlike previous presidents, Donald Trump is playing for keeps.  After weeks of siege warfare, this was his chance to break out into the open field.  He embraced it with gusto.

It was a long speech, and necessarily had its sluggish parts, but it also had moments that cannot easily be forgotten, such as a joint session of Congress singing "Happy Birthday" to a Holocaust survivor.

Or Trump's pointed and necessary calling out of the Democrats for supporting the murder of infants.

Yes, border security was a major theme, but who could watch Trump win over the White Robe Caucus without laughing hysterically?  They defiantly refused to applaud for every worthy cause Trump offered up to them, including a child cancer survivor, but when he talked about female employment rising, they couldn't restrain themselves. 

The master then chided his students for their failure before giving them new cause to cheer.  As they sat down, the master showman teased them that they should remain standing for what came next, which was his tribute to Womens' Suffrage and suddenly it was The White Resistance that was dancing and shouting "U-S-A!"

Democrat Feminist Status:  Owned.

Naturally, the eunuch wing of the GOP was outraged by this vulgar display and they've been pissing about it loudly on Twitter, which perfectly symbolizes their both their hatred of any kind of GOP success as well as their irrelevance.

Ironically, Trump's triumph is getting eclipsed by the Democrat meltdown in Virginia.  It is worth pointing out yet again that the KKK was always nothing more than the militant arm of the Democrat party.  The notion that it suddenly became a GOP front organization in 1965 was always low-grade bullshit.

It's utterly unsurprising that ancestral southern Democrats would use blackface and Klan hoods as punch lines in their youth, and it never made sense that Republicans would have anything to do with these hateful symbols since one of the Klan's pastimes was lynching Republicans.

The "Solid South" was solid because dissenters could easily find themselves on the short end of a long rope.

The sexual assault charges against Lt. Gov. Fairfax are also escalating in intensity, and this in turn makes me wonder: will he be the first thrown under the bus? 

And will the black community passively watch Southern White Democrats once again throw a black man aside without due process to save their miserable hides? 

We'll find out soon enough.

The Pompous Post

If there's one thing that really pisses me off, it's when a person or organization is blatantly hypocritical, yet insists on getting up on the high horse and preening with righteousness. Case in point: The Washington Post.

For a while now, the Post has often repeated the empty meme, "Democracy dies in darkness." As if this shrill left-wing rag is some kind of moral paragon, a watchdog and light shined on the entire Beltway cesspool. The fact is, the Post, since uber-leftist Jeff Bezos bought the paper in 2013, has been grotesquely one-sided in bashing Donald Trump and other Republicans, while largely ignoring and sweeping under the rug wrongdoings and corruption by Democrats.

For all of the harsh words I've had about the New York Times, at least the Old Gray Lady occasionally shows flashes of journalistic integrity. After all, it was the Times that broke the story about Hillary's home email server. And it doesn't sweep corrupt candidates under the rug, as evidenced by its extensive coverage of ethically challenged New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez and the pervert former congressman, Anthony "Happy Tweet" Weiner. But I guess this illustrates how bad the Post is when I am praising the Times in comparison. More objective than the Post? That's not saying much!

As I have mentioned before, the Washington Post, NY Times and many left-leaning TV networks have relied heavily on anonymous sources to tarnish President Trump and his administration. More often than not, these sources are wrong, and the stories inaccurate. (But seldom are corrections run.) Perhaps a good meme for the pompous Post would be, "Accuracy Dies in Anonymity." And given the Post's tendency to utterly ignore stories that don't fit their narrative (Trump is worse than Hitler/Satan/Stalin/Pol Pot/Mao COMBINED!), how about this motto: "Credibility Dies When Bias Rules."

The delusional Washington Post, so utterly self-absorbed and full of itself, actually ran a 60-second commercial during the Super Bowl titled - What else? - "Democracy Dies in Darkness." Tom Hanks, who played the late Post editor Ben Bradlee in the movie "The Post," narrated the commercial.

The self-congratulatory propaganda spoke solemnly about the vital role journalists play. Knowing empowers us and helps us decide, the script goes. You can't be serious. How would any Post reader know about the out-of-control Deep State, the FBI's dirty tricks, the massive corruption of the Hillary Clinton campaign, the booming economy that has improved dramatically under Trump's policies, and many other things, if they relied solely on Bezos' propaganda rag?

I suppose those who eagerly read the Post each day and think it's gospel actually took the commercial seriously. But those of us who recall what objective, fair and unbiased journalism was just shake our heads in disbelief. Is it any wonder, in our bitterly polarized nation, that the two sides just talk past each other?

The Thunderdome in Richmond

Wow.  You take a weekend break from the news and by Monday all hell has broken loose.

By now everyone (except people who read the Washington Post) know that the Democrat-run state government of Virginia is rapidly gearing up for a Thunderdome-style showdown.

For some strange reason, the exact same reporters who poured over the yearbooks of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and pondered the meaning of words like "boof" were utterly uninterested in those belonging to Democrat Gov. Ralph Northam.

Which is interesting, because in medical school (i.e. not when he was a stupid teenager, but instead a 25-year-old adult) Northam liked to wear blackface and maybe dress up in KKK robes.  His nickname was "Coonman."

Northam is now under pressure to resign, but refuses to do it. 

Coincidentally, Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax - who happens to be black - has been accused of sexual assault back in 2004.  Fairfax has admitted the encounter happened, but claims it was consensual.

That is to say, unlike the claims directed against Kavanaugh, there's no dispute that the encounter actually happened.

Meanwhile, the Attorney General has opined that the governor should resign and should the lieutenant governor do so as well, HE would become the governor.

Three men enter, one man leaves.

The mainstream press is of course being completely hypocritical in their treatment regarding these scandals and seem desperate to change the subject.  I assume Mueller will burp something about Trump tomorrow morning to help them, but the fact of the matter is that a ludicrously biased media establishment can harm as well as help. 

Northam is damaged goods and his checkered racial past (and the suspicion he leaked the sexual assault allegation to undercut his would-be African American successor), isn't going to do the Democrats much good in their ongoing efforts to keep black voters on their plantation.