Mike Bloomberg Is ‘RAAAAACIST!’ (But Actual Racists Still Won’t Vote for Him)

Posted on | February 12, 2020 | Comments Off on Mike Bloomberg Is ‘RAAAAACIST!’ (But Actual Racists Still Won’t Vote for Him)

As I have been remarking for years, there are five A’s in “RAAAAACIST!” Bogus accusations of racism have become so commonplace that the word “racist” has been deprived of any meaningful definition in ordinary usage. That’s why the Left has now begun using “white supremacist” and, predictably, overusing it so that everyone except the most woke SJW now rolls their eyes at the term. Unless you’re a Klansman, a neo-Nazi or otherwise so ostentatiously anti-black as to be indefensible, I consider it a duty to take your side if the Left ever comes after you: “RAAAAACIST!”

With one caveat: Never apologize.

A dishonest smear deserves no apology, nor even any public notice. If character assassins attack you, strive to avoid giving them the pleasure of knowing what harm you may have suffered from their slander, because this will only embolden them to do the same to others. Just watch what happens when a fool thinks he can apologize and move on:

Newly uncovered audio of 2020 presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg depicts the former New York City mayor defending the controversial stop-and-frisk policy, which he enacted while in office.
The 2015 recording comes from a speaking event Bloomberg attended at the Aspen Institute, during which he acknowledged that the policy disproportionately affected minorities and defended it.
“Ninety-five percent of your murders, murderers and murder victims, fit one M.O. You can just take the description, Xerox it, and pass it out to all the cops,” Bloomberg said. “They are male, minorities, 16 to 25. That’s true in New York, that’s true in virtually every city. And that’s where the real crime is. You’ve got to get the guns out of the hands of people that are getting killed.”
“So one of the unintended consequences is people say, ‘Oh my God, you are arresting kids for marijuana that are all minorities.’ Yes, that’s true. Why? Because we put all the cops in minority neighborhoods. Yes, that’s true. Why do we do it? Because that’s where all the crime is,” he continued.
Bloomberg went on to argue that stop and frisk was a necessary policy to save lives because it forced people to leave their weapons at home so they couldn’t be charged with carrying it.
“And the way you get the guns out of the kids’ hands is to throw them up against the wall and frisk them. And then they start. ’Oh, I don’t want to get caught,’ so they don’t bring the gun. They still have a gun, but they leave it at home,” he said.

The audio of Bloomberg’s remarks was released by Benjamin Dixon, a Bernie Sanders supporter, which in turn inspired a conspiracy theory response by CNN’s Cristina Alesci, but the real story is how Bloomberg responded: He apologized and denounced his own former policy.

Do you think that will work? If so, you are a fool. Even if Bloomberg can succeed in buying the Democratic nomination, he cannot defeat Trump in November without Obama-level black support, and his apology certainly won’t suffice to achieve that. And while I would ordinarily be willing to defend Bloomberg against the accusation of racism — “RAAAAACISM!” — his craven apology cancels my obligation to defend him.

The “stop-and-frisk” policy was simply an effective police tactic, which helped drive down violent crime in New York City. If it hadn’t been effective, Democrats would not have been against it. Democrats are the Party of Criminals, and they don’t care how many people get killed as a result of their pro-criminal policies. Bloomberg is a man who is wrong about a lot of things, but when he was defending “stop-and-frisk,” he was right. Now that he’s apologized? He’s wrong. Screw him.

Oh, and while apologizing for his “racist” policies won’t help him with black voters, Bloomberg is never going to win over actual racists, because generally speaking, they hate Jews, too. So everybody can relax and enjoy the spectacle of this fool squandering his money for nothing.

Category: Crime, Racism

Elizabeth Warren Is Doomed, and Feminists Can’t Understand Why (And a BONUS Bidenfreude Update)

Posted on | February 12, 2020 | 2 Comments

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren placed fourth in yesterday’s New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary with less than 10% of the vote, as she was eclipsed by Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who more than doubled Warren’s vote total. Dana Pico at First Street Journal called attention to feminist Amanda Marcotte’s “hot take” on Warren. “If Warren was a man, this would be over already,” Marcotte wrote Tuesday:

Warren is a rock star. Crowds love her and she tends to get bigger cheers than anyone, even Sanders. She always takes her analysis to the next level, but manages to explain complex topics without dissembling. The ideas that sound radical in Bernie’s mouth (probably by design, to be fair) sound like common sense coming from Warren. She’s probably the single most popular candidate in the field, with people talking about her positively, even if they support someone else.
It’s clear, however, after months of cable news seeding the idea that the public is too sexist to elect a woman, that voters aren’t backing her. This created a weird dynamic in New Hampshire, where Warren drew big crowds, often due in large part to political tourists from other states who came to see the hottest act in town, not because she was actually rallying local voters here. So because of sexism, the most popular politician in the field will probably falter in the actual primary.

Not to put too fine a point on it, this is crazy.

Marcotte credits “cable news” with creating the (false) belief “that the public is too sexist to elect a woman,” which scarcely explains why Klobuchar (who, last time I checked, was also a woman) should have zoomed up from obscurity to finish third in New Hampshire.

Of course, to her devoted admirers, Warren is a “rock star,” but you know who’s an even bigger rock star? President Trump, who consistently draws overflow crowds to gigantic rallies in sports arenas. The fact that Marcotte can’t put this in a realistic perspective — she is incapable of viewing Warren objectively — is testimony to the solipsistic nature of the feminist worldview. Staunch conservative that I am, my profession as a journalist requires me to summon the mental focus necessary to step back from my personal prejudice, to think about what the political spectacle looks like to, say, a housewife in the Philly suburbs or a truck driver in Michigan. Like most other observers, I underestimated the strength of Trump’s populist appeal in 2016, but unlike feminists, my miscalculation wasn’t due to an ax-grinding personal bias.

Here is what Amanda Marcotte can’t understand: Elizabeth Warren is not losing because of cable news creating a sexist narrative. Elizabeth Warren is losing because she’s a transparent phony. When Trump calls her “Pocahontas,” this is not merely a personal insult, it’s a reminder that Warren falsified her own identity, claiming Native American ancestry in order to get affirmative action status in hiring at Harvard.

Moreover, Warren is losing because ordinary people (i.e., those who are not feminist fanatics) dislike her self-righteous persona. Politics is not merely about who advocates policies that are popular, it’s also about whose personality voters find most appealing. We may wish that this were not so, desiring politics to be an intellectual exercise, but that’s just the nature of the game, especially in terms of a national presidential campaign, where most people form their judgments of candidates based on television coverage. Many people (including some Republicans) dislike Donald Trump because he comes across on TV as an arrogant bully. People who know Trump personally might claim that Trump is really just a lovable teddy bear who wouldn’t hurt anybody, but his televised persona reminds many people of every blustering bully they ever knew.

If I, a conservative who voted for Trump and who plans to vote for him again in November, can acknowledge the perception problem that Trump faces in attempting to win over more moderate voters, why can’t Amanda Marcotte accept that Warren has a similar problem? Warren reminds me of certain middle-school teachers who couldn’t tolerate mischievous boys, sending me to the principal’s office whenever I made a wisecrack in class.

Amy Klobuchar, by contrast, seems like the nice kindergarten teacher who gave me punch and cookies. She is personally likable, even though she is a Democrat, and I would never vote for a Democrat. In that way, Klobuchar is quite Obama. A lot of white people who can’t stand the Jesse Jackson-style “civil rights” race-hustler politician found Obama much more likable, and so Obama won where Jesse never could have won.

Why isn’t Amanda Marcotte encouraged by Klobuchar’s success? One would think that the Minnesota senator’s popularity would give hope to feminists, but feminists like Marcotte aren’t pro-woman so much as they are anti-male. They want to send wisecracking mischievous boys to the principal’s office, long after we have finished middle school.

UPDATE: Jonathan Chait sticks the fork in Uncle Joe:

Biden has run for president three times. He has not yet managed to finish higher than fourth in any primary or caucus. Biden may, or may not, have been a good enough politician to win a presidential campaign in his prime. He is now well past his prime. . . .
If not for Biden, a mainstream liberal Democrat might well have begun to consolidate support of a party establishment that is not looking for a candidate who will embrace wildly unpopular policies and a wildly unpopular socialist label while emphasizing transformative economic change in the midst of the best economy in a generation. . . .
Biden’s campaigns in 1988 and 2008 ended in disaster for Biden. His 2020 campaign is going to end in a disaster for the whole party.

Hat-tip to Stephen Green at Instapundit, who calls this “a nice shot of schadenfreude in my coffee.” No, it’s Bidenfreude, and it’s delicious.

Category: Elizabeth Warren, Feminism, New Hampshire

NEW HAMPSHIRE RESULTS

Posted on | February 11, 2020 | Comments Off on NEW HAMPSHIRE RESULTS

Well, I suppose I might as well do one of these, since it’s the first time Democrats will vote in a situation where the party hacks can’t steal votes from Bernie. The polls in New Hampshire will close at 8 p.m. ET and . . . Wow, it must suck to be Joe Biden tonight.

UPDATE 8:10 p.m. ET: As I noted this morning, the possibility of a fifth-place finish for Joe Biden in New Hampshire could not be ruled out, and that’s how it seems to be shaping up. How can he continue his campaign after getting less than 10% of the vote in New Hampshire? Of course, the doddering old fool keeps talking about South Carolina, but I can’t imagine him doing so well there as to recover his “frontrunner” status. Biden was supposed to be Mister Electability, remember?

UPDATE 8:30 p.m. ET: Beside the Biden zombie campaign, you know who else is finished tonight? Elizabeth Warren. She’s heading for fourth place in her own backyard, losing to Amy Freaking Klobuchar, a nothingburger of Minnesota niceness. Warren was trying to be Hillary 2.0, selling what was supposed to be a new and improved version of The First Female President™ narrative. She finished third in Iowa and is now fourth in New Hampshire and where, pray tell, does she expect to actually win anything? So it looks like the feminist sisterhood is screwed, unless they can rally behind Klobuchar, who doesn’t strike me as the kind of Angry Bitch that feminists could be expected to support.

UPDATE 9:25 p.m. ET: Watching MSNBC tonight, and the anti-Trump network is in need of an intervention. They simply don’t want to deal with the reality: Bernie is winning, Biden is hopelessly doomed, and Warren probably won’t make it to Super Tuesday. Klobuchar did surprisingly well in New Hampshire, but she has neither the money nor the staff to campaign effectively for the Super Tuesday delegate bonanza. More to the point, there is no end in sight for this divided party, because multi-billionaire Mike Bloomberg has made a big play for Super Tuesday. Suppose, then, that Bloomberg is able to buy something around 10% of the vote on Super Tuesday. Assuming the Biden or Warren haven’t struck the tent by then, that will mean five candidates (Bloomberg, Biden, Warren, Buttigieg and Klobuchar) vying for the “Anybody But Bernie” vote. Even if Warren and Biden quit before Super Tuesday, however, there would still be three candidates trying to stop Sanders, who is good for 30% of the vote in just about any Democratic primary or caucus.

Meanwhile, both Andrew Yang and Colorado Sen. Michael Bennett have ended their campaigns, having gotten exactly zero delegates — the same number as Biden and Warren so far, I hasten to add.

UPDATE 9:50 p.m. ET: Looking at the numbers now, you’re struck by how weak Warren and Biden performed. Neither of them broke 10% and this outcome just won’t do. You’re not a viable contender if you can’t make double digits in New Hampshire. Considering that Biden was the consensus front-runner, leading nearly every national poll and with near universal name recognition, how does he explain this debacle?

Fourth place in Iowa and fifth in New Hampshire? Zero delegates?

Biden flew to South Carolina and gave another rambling semi-coherent speech, emphasizing the idea that black voters haven’t had any real influence in the results in the two early states, but so what? Does he expect black voters to stampede to the polls to save the old white man? Like they owe him something, and it’s time to pay up?

No sensible person would expect such a thing, and look at the calendar: We’re now about 10 days from the Feb. 22 Nevada caucuses (which Biden will lose), and the South Carolina primary isn’t until Feb. 29. Does anyone think Biden will recover enough momentum in the next 18 days to make his appeal to black voters in South Carolina more credible? Or would you guess, as I do, that most black voters are becoming disgusted with the choices offered to them in this primary campaign? Neither of the most promising black candidates (Kamala Harris and Cory Booker) even made it as far as Iowa, so why should black Democrats — offered a choice between five or six white candidates, none of them likely to beat Trump in November — get excited about voting for any of them?

UPDATE WEDNESDAY: Elizabeth Warren Is Doomed, and Feminists Can’t Understand Why.

Category: Bernie Sanders, Democrats, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, New Hampshire

In The Mailbox: 02.11.20

Posted on | February 11, 2020 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.11.20

– compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Sticks, Stories, & Scotch: Iowa Shows Again The Necessity Of Good QA
357 Magnum: Reality – It’s True, Even If You Wish It Wasn’t
EBL: Racist & Evil Mini Mike Bloomberg
Twitchy: CNN’s Jeff Yang Claims Nobody “Celebrates” Abortion, Gets Rekt
Louder With Crowder: This Professor Wants To Fight Climate Change By Ending Humanity

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: My Jordan Peterson Greatest Hits Collection
American Conservative: Donald Trump – The Great Uniter
American Greatness: Antifa Goons Allowed To Rampage Violently In Portland Again, also, Mitt Romney Betrays Republicans & Utah
American Thinker: After Three Years Of Hate, The Democrats Have Lost It
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Uncle Joe Failing News
Babalu Blog: FL Democrats Panicking Over Possibility Of Bernie Sanders Winning Nomination
BattleSwarm: James Carville Is Right, But Not In The Way He Thinks
Cafe Hayek: An Open Letter To A Solon In Illinois
CDR Salamander: OSD’s Budget – Off Phase, Off Course, Off Freq, Off Mission
Da Tech Guy: Andrew Jackson’s Censure Was Expunged, What About Trump’s Impeachment? also, One Point Ed AND Stacy Missed In This Piece On Climate Change Movement Racism
Don Surber: Spygate Could Save The Media
First Street Journal: The #BernieBros Wax Wroth
The Geller Report: Jihadis Burn Motorists To Death In Nigeria, 30 Dead, Women & Children Kidnapped, also, Tlaib Ejects Beloved Jewish Leader For Confronting Her Over Blood Libel, Antisemitism
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Meanwhile In Dixville Notch
Hollywood In Toto: Why Weinstein-Inspired Assistant Is A #MeToo Misfire
Joe For America: Home-Schooled Teen Makes $8000/Month Selling Her Secret Hot Sauce
JustOneMinute: To Dixville Notch & Beyond
Legal Insurrection: Finally, Trump Cuts 70 Obama Holdovers From The NSC, also, NYPD Sergeants’ Union Declares War On DeBlasio
Megan McArdle: For Good Or Ill (Probably Ill) At Least Bernie Sanders Is Sincere
The PanAm Post: Uruguay’s Pepe Mujica Trivializes His Violent Past
Power Line: Fracking & The Electoral College, also, Western Civilization – Why It’s Real & Why It Matters
Shark Tank: GOP Legislators Stiffarm Anti-Trump Enviro Lobbyists In Tallahassee
Shot In The Dark: Rush Limbaugh
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – The IL Governor Talks Taxes
This Ain’t Hell: More Than Three Dozen Military Hospitals To Stop Treating Retirees & Families, also, Public Service Announcement
Victory Girls: Tulsi & Pete – A Tale Of Two Veterans
Volokh Conspiracy: Justice Ginsburg Maintains Her Position That The ERA Deadline Has Passed
Weasel Zippers: Elizabeth Warren Stops By A Local NH Diner, Nobody Cares, also, Citizen Journalist Covering Coronavirus Outbreak Has Disappeared In Red China
Mark Steyn: He’s There, He’s Square, Get Used To It, also, When Shinners Are Winners

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Category: Linkagery

Yes, Democrats Are Trying to Cheat Bernie Sanders Out of the Nomination Again

Posted on | February 11, 2020 | 2 Comments

Bernie Sanders got the most votes in the Iowa caucus, but somehow — it’s just so mysterious — Pete Buttigieg got more delegates.

Besides the actual vote-stealing, of course, Democrats are also deploying their powerful media allies to hype Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar, as potential fallback establishment candidates, now that Joe Biden’s campaign is clearly approaching its Hindenburg-at-Lakehurst finale. Of course, the “Anybody But Bernie” narrative is being driven by Team Clinton, working behind the scenes to torpedo Sanders. Hillary cannot forgive Bernie for challenging her in 2016, so her allies and operatives are doing everything they can to make sure Bernie doesn’t win in 2020.

“In New Hampshire, Democratic Voters Are Paralyzed by Fear of Making the Wrong Choice” — well, here’s a hint: They’re all wrong. And speaking of wrong, let’s talk about Bill Kristol:

GOP-leaning independent voters in New Hampshire are receiving phone calls and texts from anti-Trump Republicans urging them to cross the aisle and vote in the Democratic primary on Tuesday, NHJournal has learned. The message is for these unaffiliated voters, who can vote in either party’s primary, to vote for a “responsible and electable” Democratic alternative to Donald Trump.
National #NeverTrump leader Bill Kristol, founder of the conservative Weekly Standard magazine, confirmed to NHJournal that he is part of the effort, which involves tens of thousands of New Hampshire voter contacts and a six-figure budget.
“Yup. I’m happy to have joined with some others to help remind New Hampshire independents, who might be accustomed to voting in the Republican primary, that this year, they may be able to make more of a difference by voting for a responsible and electable candidate in the Democratic primary,” Kristol said.
The calls don’t mention any candidates by name or endorse any specific Democrats, instead making a case for supporting centrists in the all-important First in the Nation primary, as opposed to self-described democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Yeah, with Team Clinton and the #NeverTrump crowd working together against him, Bernie Sanders is probably a shoo-in for the nomination. Kristol and the Clintons are a bunch of losers who deserve each other.

Category: Bernie Sanders, Iowa, New Hampshire

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.