The 9th of November, 2016 has a special flavor for those who live in the shadow of George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate. The homo bureaucratus infestation is so bad here that Her Majesty beat Trump at the polling station I support by roughly 3:1.
Elections here are a genteel affair. There is no voter suppression. Everyone is educated and friendly. You know who’s here, how the vote is going to go down (at least in our immediate vicinity), so there is no need do anything other than focus on running a clean election.
You also know that Greasy Terry McAuliffe is the governor. You know that His Lubricant was all-on for Her Majesty, granting by fiat the vote to 60k felons, who, presumably, know who their momma is come election time.
Campaign finance records show Mr. McAuliffe’s political-action committee donated $467,500 to the 2015 state Senate campaign of Dr. Jill McCabe, who is married to Andrew McCabe, now the deputy director of the FBI.
And you certainly haven’t forgotten that the proposed new, $2.5B FBI headquarters is a short walk to the West of the polling station. Oh, and, by the way, the decision that was supposed to happen this December just got bumped to next March, when Barbara Mikulski’s Senate seniority won’t be such an obstruction to giving Maryland the shiv. I, for one, think that locating the facility near riot-torn Baltimore would have the effect of putting the FBI closer to its “customer” base.
Having said all that, I sure hope that The Oily One down there in Richmond understands that honorable Virginians are jeering at him like the disgusting little bottom swab he is. We can’t wait until next year, when we can replace him with somebody honorable like Ed Gillespie.
Shorter 2016–
Hillary Clinton: “I read Alinsky.”
Donald Trump: “I read Sun Tzu.”
Dishonesty, selfishness and cruelty are the basic principles of the Democrat Party in 2016, although “social justice” is what Democrats call their perverse ideology. As the American people go to the polls today, Hillary Clinton’s supporters are expressing their dangerous beliefs:
“What about diversity of opinion?” That question has been a common response to our real fear for our and others’ safety from the hate- and fear-mongering of Trump’s campaign. Those who ask often define inclusion as requiring all people and views to be included?– regardless of how they promote excluding others. We find this definition offensive and reject it.
Trump is uniquely harmful, because his actions are beyond political speech — he actively promotes and festers hate and violence.
In other words, disagreeing with Democrats is not “diversity of opinion.” Disagreeing with Democrats promotes “hate and violence,” and therefore it is wrong, bad and evil to disagree with Democrats. This totalitarian certainty, the belief that no one has a right to oppose “social justice,” is a preemptive justification for the suppression of dissent.
If you vote Republican, you’re a hateful, racist, sexist ignoramus, Sarah Lerner says, and certainly every Democrat shares her opinion. You may be sure that Hillary Clinton has only contempt for you, Republican voters.
According to the final Real Clear Politics average of national polls, Clinton has 45.5% support to 42.2% for the GOP nominee Donald Trump. Four years ago, about 125 million Americans voted in the presidential election. If this year’s turnout matches the 2012 total, that means about 53 million people will vote for Trump — 53 million hateful, racist, sexist ignoramuses, per Ms. Lerner.
If you are one of these 53 million, Ms. Lerner says, you deserve no empathy. She informs us that “racism and xenophobia” are the “driving force” of your support for Trump. Also, your “hateful attitudes toward women.” . . .
Republican Donald Trump holds a 5-point lead over Democrat Hillary Clinton in Ohio, where her support among women is collapsing, according to a new poll released Wednesday by Quinnipiac University.
If the election were today, Trump would get 46 percent to Clinton’s 41 percent while independent Gary Johnson would pull 5 percent of the vote and Green Party candidate Jill Stein would get 2 percent, the poll found. Women voters are now split 44-44 in Ohio while 17 days ago Clinton held a 12-point lead in the same poll with female voters.
Peter Brown, Quinnipiac University assistant poll director, offered no explanation for the finding that Clinton’s support among Ohio woman is eroding, other than Trump is doing better overall in Ohio than he is in other swing states.
Quinnipiac reported on Wednesday that Clinton holds slim leads in other key states: One point in Florida, three points in North Carolina and five points in Pennsylvania. . . .
“No one has been elected president since 1960 without carrying two of the key swing states, Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania. And, this year, North Carolina has been added to the mix. All four of these key states remain close entering the final days,” Brown said in a written statement. “Florida, which has the largest cache of electoral votes, is a virtual tie and North Carolina is almost as close. Donald Trump’s strength is with independent voters.” . . .
The possibility that the Huma Abedin/Anthony Weiner email scandal could damage Hillary so badly in the closing week of the campaign that Trump pulls off a miracle comeback, is the sort of karmic payback Team Clinton richly deserves. The Clintons made a deal with the Devil long ago. Bill sold his soul to become president, lied his way through an impeachment scandal, and Hillary was this close to winning the White House just a couple of weeks ago. Yet now all the effort and money that has been poured into her campaign is on the verge of being lost because emails that weren’t supposed to exist — emails that Huma Abedin swore under oath she did not have — turned up on a device found by FBI agents investigating Anthony Weiner’s sexting with a 15-year-old girl.
Every four years, the Republican Party choose a man to be labeled the next Hitler by liberals. Having been born during the presidency of Eisenhower (who opposed Communism and was therefore Hitler, in the liberal imagination) and having lived through the presidencies of five other Republican presidents, I can tell you that at least four of those were demonized as latter-day Hitlers by liberals. The sole exception was Gerald Ford, whom liberals considered too stupid and incompetent to be Hitler.
The Republicans are Nazis, every liberal believes. Certainly, we all remember how in the late 1980s, roaming gangs of GOP brownshirts rounded up Jews, labor-union leaders and subversives (e.g., people driving Volvos with Dukakis-Bentsen bumper stickers) who were loaded onto railroad cattle-cars and shipped off to the death camps in Idaho.
Right-wing populism has had the same character for decades — in 1950, Theodor Adorno described the fear of outsiders, and the veneration of law and order, as “the authoritarian personality”; in 1964, Richard Hofstadter described a similar tendency as “the paranoid style” — but until recently, those movements lived outside both political parties. The political scientists Jonathan Weiler and Marc Hetherington found that, as recently as 1992, the Republican and Democratic parties had an equal proportion of voters with an authoritarian personality. By Obama’s first term, authoritarian personalities identified overwhelmingly with the GOP. In its preference for simplicity over complexity, and its disdain for experts and facts, the party has steadily ratcheted down its standard of intellectually acceptable discourse: from a doddering Ronald Reagan to Dan Quayle to George W. Bush to Sarah Palin. From this standpoint, Trump is less a freakish occurrence than something close to an inevitability.
You can read the rest of that, but Chait’s invocation of Adorno (a member of the Frankfurt School which brought Cultural Marxism to America) shows how nothing is ever really new in politics. If you spend a few decades watching this game closely — and I have clear memories of presidential campaigns going back as far as 1968 — the liberal playbook becomes as predictably familiar as the Ohio State Buckeyes’ offense during the Woody Hayes “three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust” era.
Decades ago, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” some liberals seemed to assume that FDR intended “fear itself” as a synonym for the Republican Party. For more than 80 years, Democrats and their liberal journalist friends have striven to convince Americans that catastrophe will befall us if the GOP wins the next election. The names of the candidates change, and the specific “issues” vary a bit from one campaign cycle to the next, but always the Democrat message must tap into that sense of primordial fear that haunts the liberal imagination. The ghost of Calvin Coolidge and the spooky specter of Ronald Reagan — these spirits of long-dead Republican presidents swirl around in the disordered minds of young liberals. College kids who were not yet born when Reagan was president have been taught that the 1980s were the Dark Ages of American history, an era even worse than the unspeakable nightmare of the Eisenhower presidency.
Somehow, the liberal believes, the American epoch that produced Elvis Presley and the 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air was the worst thing that ever happened in all human history, and why? Because there was a Republican in the White House. The myth of the 1950s as an era of “repression” has a specific origin, having been invented by Communist Party sympathizers who seemed mystified as to why Americans didn’t want to employ admirers of Josef Stalin as defense-plant workers or public school teachers. No, the liberals insisted, there was no reason to take precautions against Soviet subversion. Just because such Roosevelt administration personnel as Alger Hiss, Harry Dexter White and Lauchlin Currie were Soviet agents, it was unfair to suspect Democrats of disloyalty, the liberals said, and it was paranoia — “McCarthyism”! — to vote Republican and hate Communists.
From such a warped perspective, an almost total inversion of reality, liberals fabricated the myth of Republicans as crypto-fascists, and invented an image of the 1950s as a nightmare of “repression.” Three decades later, during the Reagan-Bush era, these liberal delusions of persecution returned, and many Americans under 30 have been persuaded that the 1980s were a sort of neo-Nazi revival. It’s no use trying to discuss facts with young “progressive” fanatics, the ones who are “triggered” whenever someone like Christina Hoff Sommers shows up on a college campus. You simply cannot get these True Believers to understand that they are victims of a partisan propaganda campaign. They will not listen when you explain that their irrational fears originate in myths created by liberal intellectuals like Jonathan Chait for the simple purpose of helping Democrats win elections. So the Trump-is-Hitler card is on the table, and Chait is dusting off his old copy of Adorno’s The Authoritarian Personality, and probably a lot of otherwise well-educated young people are persuaded by this, simply because they haven’t been watching this political version of the old Woody Hayes playbook long enough to recognize the pattern. And it doesn’t matter, really, who the Republicans nominate, or whether the nominee wins or loses. The GOP candidate is always the next Hitler.
If he wins, liberals will spend four years decrying his every policy initiative as a human-rights violation akin to the Holocaust, but if he loses, liberal journalists will turn their attention to demonizing Republicans in Congress as so many mini-Hitlers. Also, if a Democrat wins the White House, liberal reporters will write long “investigative” articles about popular Republican governors, showing how Hitler-like their administrations are. And so in the next campaign cycle, when various GOP senators and governors are competing in the primaries for the opportunity to challenge the Democrat incumbent, every liberal journalist will have a thick dossier on each of the candidates. These dossiers will be full of “news” stories written by other liberal journalists who have toiled many hours to prove the Nazi tendencies of each Republican candidate. Therefore, every televised debate between the GOP candidates will be perceived by liberals as a contest between would-be Hitlers, each seeking to become officially the next Hitler. If you don’t believe these liberal persecution fantasies — if you think it’s OK to vote Republican — then obviously you are secretly a Nazi, and you will be blamed for the Holocaust that ensues if the Republican wins.
Donald Trump is an authoritarian — the next Hitler — according to liberals like Jonathan Chait. Therefore, if Trump is inaugurated as president next January, it will be only a matter of time because liberal journalists are rounded up, loaded onto railroad cattle-cars, and shipped to death camps in Idaho. Jonathan Chait considers this an argument for voting against Donald Trump. But some might see it the other way.
Former writers for Gawker, every on-air personality at MSNBC and CNN, feminist bloggers, Yale professors — all of them crammed into the cattle cars, weeping and shouting “we told you so” as those long trains roll westward — and what will Trump voters be doing then? I’m not sure about you, but I’ve got my eye on a ’57 Chevy Bel Air . . .
Boys with crew cuts! Girls in poodle skirts! Jukeboxes full of vinyl 45s by Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry! We’re gonna have Happy Days, and all we have to do to get there is elect the next Hitler! Jonathan Chait is a visionary genius, really. Just not in the way he’d hoped.
Donald Trump has surged to within 1 point of Hillary Clinton in a national poll released Sunday morning.
Clinton leads Trump, 46 to 45 percent, in a four-way race including Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson and the Green Party’s Jill Stein in the latest ABC News/Washington Post tracking poll. Johnson has 4 percent support while Stein has 2 percent.
Clinton led Trump by 12 points in that poll, 50 to 38 percent, early last week.
Readers will recall — and perhaps never forgive — that I pronounced the election over three weeks ago. There was no way, I concluded, that Donald Trump could win after the sudden torrent of revelations about his past sexual misbehavior. What I did not consider, however, was that no matter how much damage Trump suffered, Hillary might still lose, simply because of the sordid doings (and sordid people) of Team Clinton:
In the summer of 2013, Hillary Clinton had just left the State Department and returned to New York. She planned a quiet year, basking in sky-high approval ratings and enjoying a respite from the media spotlight as she laid the groundwork for a second presidential run.
Then Carlos Danger happened.
Anthony D. Weiner, the husband of Mrs. Clinton’s closest aide, Huma Abedin, was running for mayor of New York when news broke that he had continued to exchange lewd messages with women online after the practice cost him his congressional seat. This time, he used the embarrassing Spanish-inspired moniker.
The tawdry story line and Ms. Abedin’s closeness to Mrs. Clinton made the events explode far beyond New York, dragging Mrs. Clinton’s name into messy headlines about penis pictures, Mr. Weiner’s descriptions of his sexual appetites and his online paramour named Sydney Leathers.
Now, with Mrs. Clinton seemingly on the cusp of winning the White House, Mr. Weiner, who once described himself as “a perpetually horny middle-aged man,” has pulled her into another drama. Federal investigators looking into his sexual messaging with an underage girl stumbled upon thousands of emails potentially pertinent to the F.B.I. inquiry into Mrs. Clinton’s private email server.
Her husband is an accused rapist who lost his law license for perjury. She's being investigated by the FBI. Hillary IS the Democrat Party.
Yeah, creepy sex and lying under oath — this is the Democrat Party that everyone over 30 remembers so well from the 1990s, when Hillary’s husband was the Perpetrator-in-Chief. Millennials who did not live through that era, or who were mere toddlers when Bill Clinton wagged his finger in America’s face and said he did not have sex with “that woman, Ms. Lewinsky,” might want to catch up on the history of deceit and corruption that is likely to repeat itself if Hillary is elected.
The Dauphin County District Attorney’s office arrested and charged a Bishop McDevitt High School teacher with dozens of child sex abuse counts Thursday.
Randi Lynn Zurenko, 33, of Millerstown, Perry County, is charged with 13 counts of institutional sexual assault, 153 counts of sexual abuse of children, 33 counts of unlawful contact with minors, 20 counts of dissemination of obscene material to a minor and 13 counts of corruption of minors.
Between January 1, 2013, and October 14, 2016, Zurenko sexually abused two Bishop McDevitt students while she was a teacher at the school in Lower Paxton Township, according to DA Ed Marsico Jr.’s office.
The DA’s office said Zurenko and the first victim had “an encounter” at Fort Hunter park in Susquehanna Township before the student graduated in 2013.
During the meeting, Zurenko massaged the student’s back and undid her bra, and she gave the underage victim alcohol several times, before and after the student graduated from Bishop McDevitt, the DA’s office said. . . .
In early 2015, Zurenko also began sexually abusing a second student, and continued to do so until Oct. 14, the DA’s office said. Zurenko had sex with the second victim, according to the DA’s office.
She also took pictures of the second student in various stages of undress, Marsico’s office said, and took pictures of her and the student having sex. . . ..
Now, you may say stories like that are trivial, but is there no larger significance to these headlines? Isn’t it possible that we are witnessing a trend? Couldn’t these events be symptomatic of cultural decadence?
The frog is being boiled slowly, so that we gradually become accustomed to accept things which seemed utterly unacceptable — even perhaps unimaginable — not too long ago. Hideous evil is rampant in America.
Left to right: Gregory Walker, Lillian Roberts and Ernest Coleman.
3 plead guilty in Detroit teen’s slaying
Three people pleaded guilty Wednesday in the kidnapping and killing of a 13-year-old Detroit boy who vanished this year after reportedly taking less than $100 outside an east side store, prosecutors said. . . .
Ernest Coleman faced charges of torture, unlawful imprisonment, felony firearm, felon in possession and habitual third offender in the slaying of Deontae Mitchell, said Maria Miller, a spokeswoman for the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office. A sentence evaluation found 12-15 years on the torture charge, 10-15 years for unlawful imprisonment, 1-5 years for felon in possession and 2 years for felony firearm, consecutive.
Lillian Roberts pleaded to second-degree murder and kidnapping charges for a sentencing agreement of 24-40 years behind bars, the Prosecutor’s Office said.
Gregory Walker pleaded to second-degree murder, kidnapping and felony firearm charges. His sentencing agreement calls for 40-60 years. . . .
Video footage from the scene captured the teen being forced into a car May 31 by a man, whom authorities identified as Walker, outside Nino’s Market.
Three adults kidnapping and torturing to death a 13-year-old boy, school girls being molested by lesbian teachers — these stories are not important. No coverage on CNN. Nobody knows, and so nobody cares.
The latest batch of Clinton emails to be released would be considered a bombshell in any other presidential campaign in American history. Sadly, given the lack of attention most of the media is willing to pay to them combined with the general propensity to focus on whatever Donald Trump said at his last campaign stop makes this pretty much another day that ends in a Y. Add to that the fact that pretty much all of the emails paint the same dismal picture of the lack of ethics on display in the Clinton clan and it seems as if people’s eyes just begin to glaze over.
Evil is winning. Democrats are pro-evil, and so is CNN.
An activist who bragged about disrupting multiple Donald Trump campaign events in a recent Project Veritas video was on Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign payroll, a search of Federal Election Commission (FEC) records reveals.
In a Veritas video released Monday, filmmaker and provocateur James O’Keefe recounts meeting activist Zulema Rodriguez at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. In the video, Rodriguez takes credit for violent protests in Chicago that forced Trump to cancel a March rally. . . .
Rodriguez also takes credit for an Arizona protest, also in March, that shut down a major highway outside a Trump event.
Notably, a search of FEC records reveals that Rodriguez was paid by the Clinton campaign shortly before she disrupted the Chicago rally. The campaign paid her $1,610.34 as a “payroll” expense, and also gave her a $30 payment that is described only as “phone.”
A month ago, support for Donald Trump was within a one-point margin of Hillary Clinton in the Real Clear Politics average of national polls, but since early October, the advantage in the presidential campaign has clearly shifted toward the Democrat. Trump’s support peaked at 45% in the RCP average on Oct. 2, and has since sagged to 41.7% in the head-to-head match-up, while Clinton’s support has increased over the past month from 44.9% to 49.2%. In a four-way race, with Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein on the ballot, Clinton enjoys a 7.3-point lead (46.3%-39%) in the RCP average. Examining the Electoral College map, RCP’s average of state polls show that Clinton at this point would win 333-205, carrying every “swing” state except Ohio.
With the final debate scheduled tonight, headlines suggest Clinton’s current momentum could enable her to further increase her lead:
The myth of the 1950s as an era of “repression” has a specific origin, having been invented by Communist Party sympathizers who seemed mystified as to why Americans didn’t want to employ admirers of Josef Stalin as defense-plant workers or public school teachers. No, the liberals insisted, there was no reason to take precautions against Soviet subversion. Just because such Roosevelt administration personnel as Alger Hiss, Harry Dexter White and Lauchlin Currie were Soviet agents, it was unfair to suspect Democrats of disloyalty, the liberals said, and it was paranoia — “McCarthyism”! — to vote Republican and hate Communists.
It’s no use trying to discuss facts with young “progressive” fanatics, the ones who are “triggered” whenever someone like Christina Hoff Sommers shows up on a college campus. You simply cannot get these True Believers to understand that they are victims of a partisan propaganda campaign. They will not listen when you explain that their irrational fears originate in myths created by liberal intellectuals like Jonathan Chait for the simple purpose of helping Democrats win elections. So the Trump-is-Hitler card is on the table, and Chait is dusting off his old copy of Adorno’s 
