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Has Joe Biden Finished Losing Yet?

Posted on | February 11, 2020 | Comments Off on Has Joe Biden Finished Losing Yet?

 

Michael Bloomberg hired enough write-in votes to win Dixville Notch, N.H., but the total of reported early votes from New Hampshire actually favor Amy Klobuchar, for whatever that’s worth. The one thing everybody knew before any votes were cast was who the big loser will be:

Joe Biden could finish as low as fifth place in tonight’s New Hampshire primary results. Certainly, if we can trust the most recent poll, the former vice president will do no better than third, behind Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg. Even a third-place finish in New Hampshire for Biden would be an improvement over his dismal showing in the Iowa caucus, in which he placed fourth behind Sanders, Buttigieg, and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. But as badly as Warren’s campaign has floundered, it’s unlikely Biden could beat her in her own backyard. What most troubles the dreams of establishment Democrats is the worst-case scenario for Biden in New Hampshire, namely that Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who finished fifth in Iowa, can gain enough momentum to claim fourth place tonight.
Such an outcome would probably be a fatal blow to Biden’s campaign, and the sense that the end is near for Biden has inspired panic in the ranks of Democrats and their media allies over the possibility that either (a) the socialist Sanders could win the party’s nomination, or (b) their coalition might come completely unraveled should the establishment Democrats cheat Sanders out of the nomination, as the Vermont senator’s left-wing loyalists believe happened in 2016. Either way, the odds of any Democrat beating Donald Trump in November have become increasingly bleak, and the Great Liberal Freakout of 2020 has now begun in earnest. . . .

Read the rest of my latest column at The American Spectator.




 

Category: American Spectator, Election, Joe Biden, New Hampshire

Oscars 2020: #GetWokeGoBroke

Posted on | February 10, 2020 | Comments Off on Oscars 2020: #GetWokeGoBroke

 

What? Americans won’t watch an anti-Trump “social justice” ceremony?

ABC’s Oscar telecast reached all-time lows in the ratings, falling sharply from last year.
The three-hour-plus kudocast averaged about 23.6 million viewers and a 5.3 rating among adults 18-49, well below the 29.56 million and 7.7 for 2019’s awards ceremony — which aired two weeks later in the year. The Oscars were down 20 percent year-over-year in viewers and 31 percent in the key ad-sales demo of adults 18-49.
Last year’s Oscars stopped a four-year ratings slide, growing the audience for the first time since 2014.
Sunday’s awards show also falls well short of previous ratings lows for the Oscars, set in 2018. That year the telecast averaged 26.54 million viewers and a 6.8 rating in the demo; Sunday was down 11 percent in viewers and 22 percent in adults 18-49 from prior lows.
The Oscars join the Emmy Awards in suffering steep ratings declines. The September 2019 Emmy broadcast on Fox fell by 32 percent in viewers and 29 percent in adults 18-49 from the previous year.

Well, after Trump gets re-elected, maybe they’ll figure it out.




 

Category: Hollywood

In The Mailbox: 02.10.20

Posted on | February 10, 2020 | 1 Comment

– compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: “Free Men Have Guns, Slaves Don’t”
Ammo.com: The Italian Years Of Lead
EBL: Sabo Strikes Again, also, What About Angry Amy Klobuchar?
Twitchy: Occasional Cortex Lashes Out At Rural Areas For Using The Electoral College To Pick On Big Cities
Louder With Crowder: First-Person Footage Shows Antifa Beating Down A Journalist

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: All Hail Duterte, also, Podcast #134 – The Crazy Jordan Episode
American Conservative: There Is No Political Solution To Income Inequality, also, For The First Time, No Big Texas Welcome For Refugees
American Greatness: The Once And Future Scandal, also, NYPD Urges Officers Not To Wear Uniforms In Public
American Thinker: Democrats Hate What Trump Is Highlighting About Them, also, Rush Limbaugh’s True Contribution
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Despite Media Whitewashing, Bernie Sanders Was, Is, & Always Will Be A Communist, also, The Pope Remains Silent While Nicaragua’s Church Battles Socialist Tyranny
BattleSwarm: Rush Limbaugh On Receiving The Presidential Medal Of Freedom, also, Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update
Cafe Hayek: Politics & “Involvement”, also, Free Trade Straw Men
Camp Of The Saints: Red China Has Us By The Lungs, also, Coronavirus Update
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, also, A Midrats Pre-Valentine Melee
Da Tech Guy: What Does A 355-Ship Navy Mean? also, California Assembly Set To Outlaw Choice
Don Surber: WaPo Notices The Obvious, also, Just Being Against Trump Won’t Work
First Street Journal: How The Major Dailies Are Covering For Democratic Candidates, also, Midget Mike’s Quixotic Campaign
The Geller Report: AG Barr Indicts Eight For Illegally Funneling Foreign Money To Schiff, Democrat Senators, also, Jihadi Who Plotted To Destroy Brooklyn Bridge Stripped Of Citizenship
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, NGC 3447
Hollywood In Toto: Seven Reasons Birds Of Prey Flopped At The Box Office, also, Hollywood’s 1% Cheer Income Inequality Drama Parasite 
Joe For America: Chris Matthews On Socialism – “It Doesn’t Frickin’ Work!”
JustOneMinute: Share The Pain, or, Why Should NYC Suffer Alone?
Legal Insurrection: Joe Biden Calls Female Student “Lying Dog-Faced Pony Soldier”, also, Sen. Collins Getting Death Threats After Voting To Acquit Trump
Michelle Malkin: Dirty Little Secret About Democrats’ “New Way Forward Act” – Open Borders Utah Republicans Already Passed It!
The PanAm Post: Former Caracas Police Chief – Venezuela Has Two Soleimanis
Power Line: Ilhan Omar Hates America, also, Whence A Lyin’, Dog-Faced Pony Soldier?
Shark Tank: DeSantis Praises Fifth Third Bank’s Decision To Support Choice Scholarship Fund
Shot In The Dark: Believing Their Own Press
The Political Hat: Venezuela – Is Reality Setting In?
This Ain’t Hell: Revisiting The “Trump Mocked Disabled Reporter” Claim, also, Foley’s Forgery Folly – The Official DD214
Victory Girls: Workers Of The World Unite, Obama Gives Two Thumbs Up
Volokh Conspiracy: “Now That Democrats Have Failed To Remove The President From Power…”
Weasel Zippers: Buttigieg Would Decriminalize Heroin, Meth, also, Bigger Than Vindman – Trump Scrubs 70 Obama Holdovers From NSC
Mark Steyn: Bean There, Done That, also, Telstar

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Democrats Begin 2020 Panic; Biden May Finish Fifth in New Hampshire

Posted on | February 10, 2020 | 1 Comment

 

After a week of disasters, with the New Hampshire primaries looming on Tuesday, Democrats have begun to read the writing on the wall:

This was the worst week for Democrats since Donald Trump’s election-night shocker of 2016. . . .
In less than 200 hours, Democrats botched Iowa, watched Trump hit an all-time popularity high, debated ousting the DNC chair, and watched a socialist soar and an ideological civil war intensify. . . .
[T]here’s an underlying unease about unifying the party enough to get the kind of turnout needed to win in November. . . .
There’s a new fatalism in my conversations with Democrats, with many telling me that what once seemed unthinkable — Trump’s re-election in November — is now starting to look more likely than ever.
In a CNN segment [Sunday] morning that included Friday’s rosy economic statistics, a graphic asked: “IS TRUMP’S RE-ELECTION PATH WIDENING?” . . .
Whoever is ultimately nominated [by Democrats] will start in a tremendous hole against a Trump campaign has been relentlessly organized and optimized over the past three years.

The latest New Hampshire poll shows Sen. Bernie Sanders leading at 24% followed by Mayor Pete Buttigieg (22%), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (13%) and former Vice President Joe Biden at 10%. However, Sen. Amy Klobuchar got a boost from her Friday debate performance; she’s now at 9% in the New Hampshire poll, which means that if her momentum continues, Biden could finish fifth on Tuesday. That would be an unmitigated disaster for his campaign, essentially ending his status as “establishment consensus” candidate. The prospect of Sanders as the nominee sent MSNBC’s Chris Matthews over the edge of the cliff:

Just this week, former Clinton adviser James Carville had a meltdown over the “AOC crazy” direction he says the Democratic party has taken, and former Obama adviser Van Jones hit the panic button for Democrats over Trump’s serious play for black voters.
Not to be outdone, after Friday night’s Democratic presidential candidate debate in New Hampshire, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews went on a tear against Sanders, bluntly stating that socialism “doesn’t frickin’ work” and wondering what Sanders thought about socialist dictators like Fidel Castro:

“[T]hose of us like me who grew up — who grew up in the Cold War and saw some aspects of it after visiting places like Vietnam like I have, seeing countries like Cuba, being there, I’ve seen what socialism is like. I don’t like it. Okay? It’s not only not free. It doesn’t freaking work. It just doesn’t work.” . . .
“When they go back to the early 1950s, I have attitude about them. I remember the Cold War. I have an attitude towards Castro. I believe if Castro and the — and the Reds had won the Cold War, there would have been executions in Central Park and I might have one of the ones getting executed and certain other people would be there cheering, okay? So, I have a problem with people who took the other side. I don’t know who Bernie supports over these years. I don’t know what he means by socialism.”

Where has Chris Matthews been the past 20 years? Did he think Obama was a moderate centrist? Did he not notice the rising tide of radicalism in the Democratic Party? Hillary Clinton had to cheat to deprive Sanders of the nomination in 2016, and the Antifa goon squads have been terrorizing Trump supporters for more than three years.

For years, Democrats were able to have their cake and eat it, too, promising the sun, the moon and the stars to their left-wing base, while soaking up millions in contributions from the corporate donor class. In the Trump Age, however, that formula isn’t working anymore, and the Democratic establishment is collapsing under the weight of its own corrupt hypocrisy. Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen . . .




 

Category: Bernie Sanders, Democrats, Joe Biden, MSNBC, New Hampshire

Rule 5 Sunday: Carole King

Posted on | February 9, 2020 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Today’s appetizer is folk/pop singer Carole King, who was quite a dish back in the day if you liked that pseudo-peasant folkie hippie girl look. I personally didn’t, but that’s no reason for me not to post someone the Loyal Readers might have fancied when “It’s Too Late” was on all the Top 40 radio playlists.

The chanteuse dressed in the style of her people.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick Of The Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #888, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns.

Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Divestment Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Groundhog Day, Brittany Matthews, Shakira, Elizabeth Lail, Sophie Skelton, Kirk Douglas RIP, Joan Baez, Lynda Kay Parker, Savi Levensart, and the Garoppalo Girlfriend Mystery.

A View From The Beach: All the News That’s Fit to Post – Chloe Melas, Fish Pic Friday – Red Grouper, RIP: Kirk Douglas, Tanlines Thursday, Progress on Maryland Striper Regs, And #HerToo, She’s Not Spoiled or Anything, But . . ., Don’t Throw It Away – Let Us Do It, Stupor Monday Shampeachment, Another Muddy Monday, The Big Question? and Super Bowl Palm Sunday

Proof Positive: Bette Davis

Red Pilled Jew: Women With Braids

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!

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Category: Uncategorized

Never Trust a Bisexual

Posted on | February 9, 2020 | 1 Comment

 

In 2010, when she was 24, actress Amber Heard publicly “came out” as a lesbian. but a year later seemed to reconsider her identity, saying “I don’t label myself one way or another.” Gosh, what could have prompted such a reconsideration? Heard had been in a relationship with an older woman, Tasya van Ree, since 2008, so why did she suddenly become uncomfortable with the word “lesbian”? Ah, she had a target in her sights: Johnny Depp, with whom she co-starred in The Rum Diary. At the time Heard expressed her disdain for labels, Depp was 47 and in a relationship with Vanessa Paradis, with whom he had two children. Depp was also one of the most successful actors in Hollywood, the star of Disney’s lucrative Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. In 2012, Heard dumped her girlfriend, Depp split with the mother of his children, and they became a couple, marrying in 2015.

This would prove to be the worst mistake of Johnny Depp’s life.

NEVER TRUST A BISEXUAL!

How many times do I have to explain this? Barely a year after their wedding, Heard filed for divorce, then filed for a restraining order, accusing Depp of domestic abuse, and I wrote at the time:

Anyone who was surprised by this simply hasn’t been paying attention to the many omens of doom surrounding their relationship. . . . 
Three words: Borderline personality disorder.
It was my lesbian friend Cynthia Yockey who pointed out the substantial overlap between bisexuality and borderline personality disorder. People with BPD notoriously have “boundary issues.” They can’t stand to be told “no,” and don’t think the rules should apply to them. They love to cause drama, and would rather have negative attention than to be ignored. BPD is “characterized by extreme fear of abandonment; unstable relationships with other people, sense of self, or emotions; feelings of emptiness; frequent dangerous behavior; and self-harm.”
Does that fit Amber Heard? I’m not qualified to offer a clinical diagnosis, but her “no labels” attitude struck me as symptomatic, and it seems as if the “unstable relationships” factor was evident in her marriage to Johnny Depp. There are reports that Ms. Heard never fully let go of her relationship with Tasya van Ree, and that this created problems.
Depp’s friend Doug Stanhope says he never liked Ms. Heard, and accuses her of blackmailing Depp. We cannot know the whole truth of two people’s private relationship, so I’ll reserve judgment as to the details, but let me say this in general: I don’t trust bisexuals.

If Johnny Depp had asked for my advice, I’d have told him not to go near that dangerous lunatic, nor any other “bisexual,” for that matter. But he made a fool of himself, as I wrote in June 2018:

He’s wrecked. He’s ruined. The Pirates of the Caribbean star has utterly destroyed his career and reputation, and is rapidly approaching financial ruin. The drug-addled 55-year-old actor is living out a 21st-century version of Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress.
Do you realize that the five Pirates films grossed a combined $4.5 billion? And that Depp’s cut of that gold mine was $600 million? Basic arithmetic tells you that Depp was making $40 million a year — about $750,000 a week — for more than a decade, and there is no logical explanation for why he should be teetering on the brink of bankruptcy now, except for the unfortunate fact that Johnny Depp is a fool.

Depp has pursued a defamation suit against his “bisexual” ex-wife, and last week, after audio emerged of Heard admitting she had hit Depp, the hashtag #JusticeForJohnnyDepp trended on Twitter. Alas, the damage  Amber Heard inflicted on Depp’s reputation and finances cannot be undone, and guess what she’s up to nowadays?

 

Yep, got herself a 38-year-old lesbian girlfriend. She just destroys a man’s life and moves on, because that’s what bisexuals do.

Of course, you guys are free to do whatever you want to do, but don’t say nobody warned you. Leave those crazy bisexual women alone.




 

Category: Celebrities

FMJRA 2.0: Monolight

Posted on | February 9, 2020 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Monolight

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Monday: A Fine Pair
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
EBL
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive

Senate Votes 51-49 Against Witnesses; Impeachment Circus Will End Wednesday
EBL
A View From The Beach

Violence Against Women Update: Strangled Victim He Met on a Dating App
EBL

Jenn Rubin: QED A Bigger #LiberalHack
EBL

DNC Sold Out to Bloomberg ‘Because He’s Got a Billion F***ing Dollars!’
EBL

‘Blade Runner’ in San Francisco
EBL
357 Magnum
Animal Magnetism

FMJRA 2.0: As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls
EBL
A View From The Beach

Chiefs Come Back to Win Super Bowl; Halftime Show Unexpectedly Goes NC-17
EBL
A VIew From The Beach

Terrorist in London Stabbing Attack Had Just Been Released From Prison
EBL

Argument by Assertion
357 Magnum
EBL
A View From The Beach

In The Mailbox: 02.03.20
357 Magnum
EBL
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive

Disaster in Iowa: The Democratic Party Is Decadent and Depraved
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.04.20
EBL
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive

Violence Against Women Update: Two Killed in Texas Campus Shooting
EBL

Nancy Pelosi Is Tearing Apart America
EBL
Transterrestrial Musings

Trump Acquitted, Romney Guilty
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.05.20
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

Wednesday: Have Democrats Finished Stealing Iowa From Bernie Sanders Yet?
357 Magnum
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

Violence Against Women Update
357 Magnum
EBL

Crazy People Are Dangerous: Are ‘Incels’ Now a ‘Domestic Terrorism Threat’?
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.06.20
EBL
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive

$300 by 5 p.m.
EBL

Trump Does Impeachment Victory Dance, Slams Democrats, Media as Liars
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL
A View From The Beach

‘Blank-Slate Equalism’
Dark Brightness
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.07.20
357 Magnum
EBL
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive

Top linkers for the week ending February 7:

  1.  EBL (25)
  2.  A View From The Beach (10)
  3.  357 Magnum (7)
  4.  Proof Positive (6)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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Not Surprisingly, Populism Is Popular

Posted on | February 9, 2020 | 1 Comment

 

My post yesterday about the situation in the Philippines, where President Rodrigo Duterte’s right-wing populist government is cracking down on drug dealers, Communists and other troublemakers, got the attention of Australian blogger Adam Piggott:

Duterte has been in office for roughly the same time as Trump has been president, but we can call Duterte the forgotten man. When he first gained power the western press was all over him, how he was a horrible individual who was guilty of “human rights” abuses, blah blah blah, you know the drill. This went on for some time until suddenly it didn’t. From rather a lot of coverage the news went deathly quiet on the subject of the Philippine’s far-right leader.
The reason for the absence of news is down to how effective his policies have been, particularly as regards law and order. . . .
A couple of months ago I spent a few days on a couple of offshore energy support vessels for work. On both vessels the catering crew were Filipino. . . .
I was speaking to one of the Filipinos in a private conversation when he brought up the subject of his president. He was most fulsome in his praise. Under Duterte the streets are now safe. His kids can happily play on the streets. Business is going well, and particularly without the criminal element extorting money from small family concerns. The man was so enthusiastic that I decided to ask a few other of the Filipino crew what they thought. . . .
To a man they love Duterte. One guy said that in the beginning he didn’t like the president; he had not voted for him and he considered him to be a bad guy. But now he was most enthusiastic in his support. Their quality of life has improved immeasurably under their leader’s policies. . . .

You can read the rest. The populist trend has become an international phenomenon — Trump in the U.S., Boris Johnson in the U.K., Orban in Hungary, Bolsonaro in Brazil, Duterte in the Philippines, etc. — to the consternation of the sponsors of the globalist “progressive” agenda. There is a worldwide elite of billionaires, bureaucrats, academics and journalists committed to the vision of a one-size-fits-all world in which ordinary people are powerless to resist whatever policies are favored by the kind of “influential” people who gather annually at Davos and Aspen.

Just as Trump’s success in America has reduced Democrats to deranged impotence, so also has the rise of populism elsewhere frustrated the ambitions of the elite who, just a few short years ago, believed they had created a New World Order, manipulating public opinion to elect their chosen candidates and implement their preferred policies.




 

Category: Philippines
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