Posse Incitatus

The strange drip drip drip of declassified documents in DC

As the Mueller investigation lurches to an uncertain ending, we're seeing a steady flow of hitherto restricted document coming from House Republicans.

The leftwing press isn't much interested in them because it hurts their cause, but they're out their availability will have a considerable impact on pending judicial action.

The facts likely don't come as a surprise to anyone involved.  We now know that the press was working hand-in-glove with the FBI to leak anti-Trump stories and further the deep state conspiracy against him.

Bob Mueller also has been exposed as exactly the partisan hack people thought he was.  He went after people for process crimes and used dawn raids to intimidate them all the while giving Democrats who did the exact same thing a pass. 

Again, all of this was already known in DC, though the politicians are pretending (as they always do) that each release is a total shock and surprise to them.

No, what's intriguing is the timing and the method of the release.

Donald Trump could have put all this information out and more well before the fall elections.  Yet he's still behaving like a onlooker, cheering each release but also remaining independent of it.

I've seen some conservatives berate him for this, but that too misses the point.  Trump wanted the information out, but didn't want to release it himself.  The reason is obvious: the Dems - and their Grand Inquisitor - would insist that the president using his lawful authority was somehow "obstructing justice."

Indeed, this whole shitshow has been an attempt to turn Trump's decision to fire the sanctimonious lying hack James Comey into a Constitutional crisis, despite the fact that Trump has both the right to do it and Comey absolutely deserved it.

All of which is to say:  things are coming out in a manner Trump desires and at a time of his choosing.  This leads me to believe that other things will progress in a similar manner.

It's going to be interesting to see what he has in mind.

With their victory, Democrat anti-Semites will only become louder and more confident

There's a personality type that can't simply accept the win with dignity.  They have exult, preen and boast after every victory.

This can be a problem, however, when the victory is supposed to be downplayed.

For example, the Democrats have long pretended that anti-Semites only existed on the right (just as they pretended that the KKK all joined the GOP in 1968).

They were able to get away with this charade because the media steadfastly ignored examples of leftwing anti-Semitism and their own Jew-hating allies know how to keep their remarks on the downlow.

To be sure, there were provocations from time to time, but nothing that their media allies couldn't cover up.

That time is now past, and it is precisely because the new generation of Jew haters are actually proud of the distinction and want to world to know what they think. 

It is ironic that these people won't shut up because of another Democrat belief - that of the virtue of ignorant youth.  Alexandria Occaiso-Cortes and her fellow freshman believe that their youth and inexperience make them morally superior to the leaders of the caucus.  They believe that far from owing deference to their elders, their elders actually owe deference to them.

Nancy Pelosi was able to keep a lid on this, but Ilhan Omar was always a loose cannon, beholden to none.  She'd smear Jews, apologize, and then go do it again.  I'm sure she found this hokey-pokey style of discussion tedious and was willing to finally give it up so she could air her full-throated hatred of Zion and the hook-nosed blood-drinkers therein.

To their great discredit, the Democrat leadership caved.

Expect the statements to grow more strident as victorious anti-Semites consolidate their position.  I anticipate a plank in the 2020 platform endorsing both the Boycott Divest and Sanction movement as well as the "Zionism is Racism" United Nations resolution.

When that happens, the Trumpening will have yet another Great Reveal to its credit.  While alarming, this reckoning is also absolutely necessary.  Only after we know the full scope of the problem can we solve it.

Dems want gun control for citizens, not illegal aliens

It is a strange and wonderful thing to see the Democrats suddenly admitting what they really believe.

Last week, the House Republicans managed to come up with a bold gambit regarding a Democrat gun control bill: they introduced a floor amendment that would require the FBI to notify immigration enforcement (aka ICE) if an illegal immigrant tried to purchase a firearm.

Enough Democrats crossed over to support what should be unanimously-agreed upon policy that it was added to the bill.

Naturally the progressive wing is pissed. 

It's long been clear to careful observers (like this blog) that the Dems don't actually care if gun control "works."  They are indifferent to gun crime and could care less about its victims.  We know this because the Obama Administration made it a policy never to prosecute "straw purchases," which allowed people to buy legal guns and turn them over to criminals with impunity.

What this vote did was put it out in the open.  According to the Dems, all purchases of firearms everywhere need to go through a federal background check, but illegal aliens who fail that check are free to go about their business.

Essentially, non-citizens get unqualified immunity from American gun laws.

Meanwhile, the Dems will continue to demand "common sense gun laws," all the while pretending this vote didn't happen.

Trump's second North Korea summit

Well, this isn't going to make the Endless Unwinnable War lobby happy.

Just to review: since the previous summit - which all the NeverTrump losers denounced as a sell-out, North Korea has not conducted a single missile or nuclear weapons test.

The amount of money/fuel/food provided for this concession?

Zero.  Zip.  Nada.

Ending a previously intractable conflict takes a little time, and it's funny to see how many people who conspicuously failed during their time in power are now demanding that Trump provide instant results.

That being said, I think Trump wants to see some concrete progress on de-nuclearization.  Perhaps a "nukes for food" deal with an American mission in Pyongyang would be mutually acceptable.  Anyhow, the media will as usual be utterly useless in both analysis and relating the actual events, so stay tuned.

As a side note, every time Trump leaves the country, something happens on the FBI/DOJ conspiracy front.  Interesting to see what happens there as well.

If it wasn't for fake hate crimes, we would have any hate crimes at all

Wow, seems like just a few weeks ago the media was in a lather condeming Catholic kids for taunting an American Indian activist who was also a proud Vietnam veteran.

Of course, that was fake.

But not to worry, we have a new fake hate crime involving an obscure Fox TV actor who once again checked all the boxes to continue the media narrative that Trump's America is a Hateful Place.

The alleged attackers were of course white, anti-gay and boldly sported their MAGA hats.

Turns out, they weren't any of those things, but who cares?  We'll have another outrage "proving" America is full of hate in a few days.

The truth is, this country has never been more tolerant - unless you're conservative.   

Another truth is that the left has to keep pushing these hoaxes to justify their miserable performance in office.  Black people have to vote Democrat because REPUBLICANS ARE NAZIS!!11!

That is why Kanye West got beaten up so badly.  Just 15 percent of black voters shifting away from the Dems will destroy them as a national party.

Fake news is not exactly a new thing, but it's become more blatant of late.  I am now completely jaded regarding the outrage du jour.  And once again, I've been vindicated.

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.

 

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 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.

 

New York: Our abortion laws are as close to murder as you can get; Virginia: Hold my beer

One of the features of social media that render it so toxic is the need to showcase one's virtue with ever greater levels of righteous indignation.

Thus: it wasn't enough that some high school boys might have acted poorly.  No, they my be expelled, their parents reduced to poverty and they themselves soundly beaten!  Firebomb the school, too!

All this for a lie that fell apart within 48 hours.

In the case of abortion, Democrats seem driven to ever-greater extremes.  Virginia is considering legislation that define "abortion" as being what happens when a kid is starting to be born, and maybe after.

The Quisling Never Trump-endorsed Democrat governor, Ralph Northam, tried to explain away this horrific notion by mentioning that if a child is born prematurely, the mother and doctor could then discuss whether or not to let it live.  At least that's what it sounded like he said.

The problem of course with late, late-term abortion is that it isn't really "abortion" any more.  It's murder. 

The whole judicial construct of abortion was built on a foundation of lies wrapped around the notion of "viability."  That is to say, as long as the child was entirely dependent on the mother for life, she could legally kill it without consequence.

But late-term abortions turn this concept on its head.  The womb is now a place of supreme danger for the unborn infant, and according to the Solons of New York and some in Virginia, there's nothing wrong with carrying a perfectly healthy child almost to term, feeling it kick and move and respond to sounds and movement - and then killing it.

Words fail to express the utter depravity at work here.  One can point out that using a similarly grisly procedure on cats or dogs would almost certainly result in a prison term for animal cruelty.

But to Planned Parenthood, it's just expanding their core business and seeking new organ-harvesting opportunities.

Ah, was it only a few weeks ago that I was fondly recalling when Democrats said they wanted abortion "safe, legal and rare?" 

Once you move into "up to the moment of birth" territory, you've already crossed the line into infanticide, because the few seconds that separate the two are so easily bridged with a scalpel.

Jonah Goldberg: the voice of erudite, scrupulously moral, porn fantasies

I stopped reading Jonah Goldberg years ago, but I had no idea just how far the guy had degenerated.

Writing about Roger's Stone's made-for-TV process crime arrest, Goldberg went as low as he feasibly could:

Stone often wooed the ladies by noting that, thanks to his tat, “you’ll never meet another man with a d*** in the front and a d*** in the back,” another bon mot that might become both literal and figurative — if not quite literary — should he be incarcerated.

What this has to do with the crime he's accused of is besides the point.  Goldberg is supposedly a Thought Leader and Deep Thinker at a highly-respected magazine.

Which is why he makes dick jokes.

The column goes on with the usual "Must be something there if Mueller keeps digging," which after two years seems a bit jaded.  I mean the FBI had Trump under total surveillance for more than a year and they've produced zilch.

But that's another issue.  What we have here is a guy who wants the respect and dignity of National Review while reserving the right to go as low as he wants.

National Review has yet to own up to its full-throated and enthusiastic role in the Twitter lynch mob directed at innocent Catholic high school students.  They published a couple of pieces that regretted their "tone" and basically said "things were done, people misbehaved.  Now let us tell you about our upcoming cruise..."

Goldberg works for an elite institution that is no longer elite.  You see, to retain that elite reputation one must work very hard to sustain it.  Constantly getting the Big Picture wrong and falling for transparently obvious hoaxes wrecks one's credibility.

Reputations being what they are, only a few bad moves can leave it in tatters, requiring years of perfect behavior to repair.

The National Review crowd seems not to understand this.

If you want to be a voice that discusses serious issues, you have to actually be a voice discussing serious issues.  Roger Stone's personal behavior could have been alluded to in a single sentence rather than a multi-paragraph graphic recitation which coincidentally has nothing to do with the charges he was facing.

No, Goldberg brought it up first and foremost to take virtue-signalling swipes at Trump ("see, he associates with people I consider morally inferior") and to go for the cheap gags.

By the way, does Goldberg not know that prison rape is a national scandal and a human rights outrage?  Is it the official position of National Review that it's an appr0priate punch line in certain cases?

Something is either a moral outrage or it isn't.  Either you believe forcible rape is a hideous crime or you don't, and even toying with the notion that it may be good for some people you don't like abdicates any claim to moral authority and consistent principles.

I think a lot of the crew at National Review want to have it both ways - they want to be Jon Stewart doing his "clown-nose on, clown-nose off" routine where they can be Super Serious and also Just Kidding, often in the same item.

The problem is that Stewart was on Comedy Central, not writing for a venerable policy magazine. 

The next time National Review climbs on its soapbox and starts with its holier-than-thou morality lecture, this article will be proof that they're nothing more than hypocrites.

I guess I should give Goldberg some credit - this is the first time I visited the site in years.  But as the mass layoffs at Buzzfeed and elsewhere demonstrated yesterday, lots of clicks doesn't mean much these days.