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Hiroshima for the DNC: @DonnaBrazile Devastates Democrat Corruption

Posted on | November 3, 2017 | 1 Comment

 

Democrats don’t just deceive, cheat and swindle the voters and taxpayers, they also deceive, cheat and swindle each other:

My predecessor [as chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee], Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, had not been the most active chair in fundraising at a time when President Barack Obama’s neglect had left the party in significant debt. As Hillary’s campaign gained momentum, she resolved the party’s debt and put it on a starvation diet. It had become dependent on her campaign for survival, for which she expected to wield control of its operations.
Debbie was not a good manager. She hadn’t been very interested in controlling the party — she let Clinton’s headquarters in Brooklyn do as it desired so she didn’t have to inform the party officers how bad the situation was. . . .
The Saturday morning after the convention in July, I called Gary Gensler, the chief financial officer of Hillary’s campaign. He wasted no words. He told me the Democratic Party was broke and $2 million in debt. . . .
Officials from Hillary’s campaign had taken a look at the DNC’s books. Obama left the party $24 million in debt — $15 million in bank debt and more than $8 million owed to vendors after the 2012 campaign — and had been paying that off very slowly. Obama’s campaign was not scheduled to pay it off until 2016. Hillary for America (the campaign) and the Hillary Victory Fund (its joint fundraising vehicle with the DNC) had taken care of 80 percent of the remaining debt in 2016, about $10 million, and had placed the party on an allowance. . . .

There’s a lot more where that came from. This is devastating beyond words. Everybody’s talking about how Brazile has confirmed the suspicion of Bernie Sanders that the Democrat primary process was basically rigged for Hillary, but the larger revelations are even worse:

  1. Democrats have been squandering their donors’ money in much the same way they routinely squander taxpayers’ money;
  2. The triumph of Obama’s two-term presidency, which should have yielded a fund-raising windfall for the DNC, instead left the party more than $20 million in debt;
    and
  3. The DNC’s indebtedness was exploited by the Clinton campaign to defraud Democrat primary voters.

It was this perception of a rigged nomination process that made Trump’s “Crooked Hillary” charge resonate with working-class voters in states like Pennsylvania and Michigan. And so the corruption of the Democrat Party — profligate spending, irresponsible management and insider favoritism at DNC headquarters — was a major cause of their devastating defeat last year. These revelations confirm the suspicions that a lot of grassroots Democrats have had all along, and will make the party’s recovery a very difficult prospect. If an appealing left-wing third-party candidate emerges before 2020, that might be R.I.P. for Democrats.



 

Category: Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Corruption, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Scandal

Feminism Is a Totalitarian Movement to Destroy Civilization as We Know It

Posted on | November 2, 2017 | 3 Comments

 

 

Last week, the Internet went wild about Professor Jessie Daniels, who teaches sociology at the Hunter College campus of the City University of New York (CUNY). What did Professor Daniels say?

Jessie Daniels, a self-described “expert on race,” began her tweetstorm . . . by declaring that “what I’ve learned is that the white-nuclear family is one of the most powerful forces supporting white supremacy.”
“I mean, if you’re a white person who says they’re engaged in dismantling white supremacy but…you’re forming a white family [and] reproducing white children that ‘you want the best for’ – how is that helping [and] not part of the problem?” . . .
Daniels notes that she’s not alone in her hostility towards the family. Other scholars have a “feminist critique of The Family as an inherently conservative force in society,” she says, citing the work of feminist scholars Peggy McIntosh and Michele Barrett, who argue in their book that the nuclear family structure is a “fact to be lamented.”
The sacredness of the family also concerns her, Daniels notes, adding that “there’s a whole ideological apparatus to justify how f-cking sacred the family is,” adding that “nothing’s more important” because “Until white people are ready to confront their own family’s racism [and] participation in systemic white supremacy, it’s not getting dismantled.”

Professor Daniels locked down her Twitter account, rather than to defend her wicked arguments. And she has been preaching this hateful ideology at taxpayer expense since 1993. Because higher education in America is extensively subsidized by federal and state taxpayers, everything taught in our universities is a matter of public interest. Even private colleges and universities received direct and indirect subsidies from taxpayers, especially in the form of Pell Grants and government-guaranteed student loans. Taxpayer funding is the financial source of what Professor Glenn Reynolds has called The Higher Education Bubble. Professor Daniels taught at the University of Cincinnati (1993-1994) and Hofstra University (1995-2000) before being appointed research director at CUNY/Hunter College’s Center on Community and Urban Health in 2002, and from there gained tenure as a full professor at the CUNY School of Public Health. Let the taxpayer ask, “How does the hateful message of Professor Daniels promote ‘public health’?” It is self-evidently absurd that such a hate-filled monster as Professor Daniels should be employed in this position, and who is paying her salary? Every taxpayer in New York City, New York state and the United States of America. Professor Daniels is a government employee, and her employment at public expense is tantamount to a government endorsement of her monstrous beliefs.

Professor Daniels has a verified “blue-check” Twitter account. She is a public figure, and not some obscure private citizen. Criticism of her hateful anti-family tirade is not “abuse” or “harassment.” Her arguments were self-evidently indefensible. Everyone with two eyes and a brain could see that Professor Daniels is a demented hatemonger and, by locking down her account, she tacitly admitted that she cannot defend herself in open debate. She waved the white flag of surrender.

Why does Professor Daniels believe what she believes? Because of her devotion to radical feminism, an ideology that emerged from the New Left in the 1960s. Radical feminism derived its methodology (historical materialism) from Marxism and the feminist belief in women’s collective oppression by patriarchy was cloned, so to speak, from the Marxist claim that the industrial proletariat was oppressed by capitalism.

This concept of oppression involves a zero-sum-game mentality, where individual success is condemned as a product of unjust exploitation of others. Because the capitalist system is inherently wrong, according to Marxists, the most successful people in our society are the worst people, and those who fail are the best people — the sainted “victims” of oppression. By equating success with oppression, and celebrating victimhood, this ideology of “social justice” condemns every honest person who works hard and saves their money to try to make a better life for themselves and their families. In the obverse, “social justice” ideology also incentivizes claims of victimhood, encouraging a form of identity politics based on self-pity and an attitude of resentment toward others. It is often the most privileged people in our society (e.g., students from affluent backgrounds attending elite universities) who embrace this identity politics mentality, claiming to be Victims of Oppression.

Feminism condemns “male privilege” as a way of stigmatizing male success. In most cases, the successful man “stands on the shoulders of giants,” so to speak, having been born into fortunate circumstances, inheriting certain advantages. As Malcolm Gladwell explains in his book Outliers: The Story of Success, it may take generations of hard work (and good luck) to produce the great man. A billionaire like Mark Zuckerberg, for example, is the son of middle-class parents, but he is the great-grandson of impoverished Jewish immigrants. The crucial factors that put Zuckerberg in a position to create Facebook while he was a Harvard student could be traced back to his grandparents’ generation, before anyone dreamed of modern computer technology. Read more

Category: Education, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 11.02.17

Posted on | November 2, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.02.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Democrat Civil War – Donna Brazile Blames Hillary for Sanders Fail, Sad State Of Party
Twitchy: Did Fauxcahontas Just Throw Hillary Under The Bus?
Louder With Crowder: Watch Democrat Pol Have Hilarious Crazy Meltdown – Over A Speeding Ticket


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: White Knights Rejoice! Your Princess Awaits!
American Thinker: Pamela Geller, Heroine, also, Time To Dump Gone With The Wind?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Fascist News
BattleSwarm: His Motives Remain A Mystery
Bring The HEAT: Air Force Colonel Finds Marine General In Contempt
CDR Salamander: A PSYOPS Own Goal
Da Tech Guy: Donna Brazile’s Revelations Are Not Brave, also, Happy Pick Your Insurance Day!
Don Surber: Schumer Needs To Explain Himself, also, Democrats Slowly Realize Obama Destroyed The Party
Dustbury: New World Odors
Fred On Everything: Diving Days – No Vast Political Importance
The Geller Report: Egyptian Lawyer Says “It’s A Duty” To Rape Women Wearing Ripped Jeans, also, NY Deputy Police Commissioner – “This Isn’t About Islam, This Isn’t About The Mosque He Attends”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Jammie Wearing Fools: Confused Hillary Admits Paying For Bogus Steele Dossier
Joe For America: ESPN Execs Terrified That Ratings Drop May Force Networks To Dump Monday Night Football
JustOneMinute: This Is Perjury?
Legal Insurrection: Donna Brazile Throws Hillary Campaign Under The Bus
Power Line: From The Bin Laden Files, also, Ralph Northam Was For Sanctuary Cities Before He Was Against Them
Shark Tank: Millionaire Navy Vet John Ward Running For Congress
Shot In The Dark: Why It’s Hard To Have A Conversation With Today’s Left
The Jawa Report: Alphabet People Doing Heckova Job
The Political Hat: The Campus Soviet – The Innocent Are Guily, The Real Guilty Shall be Protected, & You Probably Deserved It Anyway
This Ain’t Hell: Bernath Update, also, The Bergdahl Defense
Weasel Zippers: Think Progress Editor – Trump Didn’t Want Vegas Shooter Sent To Gitmo, also, Twitter Buried #DNCLeaks, #PodestaEmails Tweets In Last Two Months Of Campaign
Megan McArdle: Republicans Could Really Use That “Magic Asterisk” Right Now
Mark Steyn: “Muslims Fear Backlash From Tomorrow’s Terror Attack”


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Category: Linkagery

In The Mailbox: 11.01.17

Posted on | November 1, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.01.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #61 – Halloween Edition!
EBL: Halloween 2017
Twitchy: “Dropping Like Flies” NPR News Chief Resigning Over Sexual Harassment Claims
Louder With Crowder: Patriot Troll Master Yells “CNN Is Fake News!” Live On CNN


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Podcast #62 – The No Stone Unturned Episode
American Power: Eight Slaughtered In Islamic Jihadi’s NYC Truck Attack
American Thinker: Inspector Clouseau Pounces!
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: Rep. Jeb Hensarling To Retire
Bring The HEAT: Summary of the USS Fitzgerald and USS McCain Collision Reports
CDR Salamander: The Vietnam War Will Have To Wait a While Longer
Da Tech Guy: Some Of My Best Friends Are Catholic, also, If I Owned The Houston Texans
Don Surber: Republicans Learn To Win
Dustbury: Wanted – New Mistress Of The Dark
The Geller Report: Feds Interviewed Jihadi Truck Attacker In 2015 Regarding Terror Ties
Hogewash: I’m Not Making This Up, You Know, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Jammie Wearing Fools: Chuck Schumer Outraged That Anyone Would Politicize NYC Terror Attack After He Politicized Las Vegas Shootings
Joe For America: Detroit EMT Thinks All White People “Should Be Raped And Killed”
JustOneMinute: Distilling Papadopoulos
Legal Insurrection: Feds Arrest Man For Sending Death Threats To Sen. Scott, also, NFL Sponsor Papa John’s Complains Anthem Protests Are Hurting Pizza Sales
Michelle Malkin: Allahu-Akbar-Itis – America’s Deadly & Debilitating Disease
Power Line: Uzbek NYC Terror Suspect Entered USA Under Diversity Visa Program, also, “Latino Victory Fund” Caught With Its Pants Down
Shark Tank: NYC Jihadi’s Mosque Was Under FBI Surveillance, Trump Points To Failed Visa Program
Shot In The Dark: Punching Above Their Weight
STUMP: More NY Ballot Stuff – No Good Reason For Constitutional Convention
The Jawa Report: Jihadi Murders Eight Near WTC In NYC
The Political Hat: An Epitome Of Social Engineering
This Ain’t Hell: Joseph Cryer, The Resurgence, also, Logan Sutton, Phony SEAL
Weasel Zippers: Muslim Girl In Virginia Was Actually Chased By A Vehicle And Killed – By An Illegal Alien, also, Jake Tapper Reminds Us That “Allahu Akbar” Can be Beautiful
Mark Steyn: Jihad On The Bike Path


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Category: Linkagery

NYC Terrorist Got ‘Diversity’ Visa in Program That Democrats Still Support

Posted on | November 1, 2017 | 1 Comment

 

How does an Islamic terrorist get to New York City?

29-year-old Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov, the immigrant from Uzbekistan who murdered at least eight people in Manhattan on Tuesday, arrived in the United States seven years ago under what is called the Diversity Visa Program, a program that President Trump and the GOP have been trying to eliminate.

More details on the Halloween truck jihadi:

The man who allegedly ran down cyclists and pedestrians along 17 Manhattan blocks pledged his allegiance to ISIS before his attack, it has emerged.
Police sources say Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov, 29, entered a bicycle path at Houston Street at 3.05pm and drove downtown, knocking down victims before smashing into a school bus at Chambers Street, exiting and shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’.
He then waved a paintball gun in one hand and a pellet gun in the other, and was shot in the abdomen by a police officer. He has now come out of surgery and police are waiting for him to wake up before they question him.
Images of ISIS flags were found in his truck, as well as a handwritten note pledging his allegiance to the terrorist group.
An official said that the note read in part ‘ISIS lives forever,’ according to NBC Philadelphia.
CNN said it was one note, written in English, found inside the car. But the New York Times reports that it was multiple notes, written in Arabic, found outside the car.
As the horrific toll — currently at eight dead and at least 15 injured, including one child in critical condition — climbed up, details began to emerge about Saipov’s life.
He was an Uzbekistan native who had lived in the US for seven years and ran two trucking companies located in Ohio, sources claim.
The ride-hailing company Uber said Saipov passed its background check and drove for the service for six months, making more than 1,400 trips.
Documents reveal how he got married on April 12, 2013 to Nozima Odilova, who was 19 at the time. Both list Tashkent, Uzbekistan, as their hometown.

President Trump blamed Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) for the diversity visa program, which Ed Morrissey at Hot Air explains is inaccurate, but the Washington Post says it’s not entirely inaccurate:

The diversity visa program has been around for more than 20 years, offering a limited number of visas to people from parts of the world that have relatively few immigrants in the United States.
Schumer did play a key role in drawing up the program in 1990. His proposals eventually became part of a broader immigration package that was passed by Congress in a bipartisan vote and signed into law by a Republican president, George H.W Bush.

The blame-game about who did what on a bill passed in 1990 is irrelevant to what we need to do in 2017 — end this program, period.



 

Category: Immigration, Islam, Terrorism

In The Mailbox: 10.31.17

Posted on | October 31, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.31.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Did Team Mueller Tip Off The Podestas?
Twitchy: Planned Parenthood’s Mask Slips, Revealing Racist Monsters Underneath
Louder With Crowder: Watch Sarah Huckabee Sanders Perfectly Explain Taxes With Clever Bar Analogy


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: There Are No Short Cuts
American Power: Six Seconds To Live, also, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Crime And Punishment In The Russian Revolution
American Thinker: So Where Are The Podesta Indictments?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Spooky News
BattleSwarm: Podesta Lawyer Tries To Silence Tucker Carlson
Bring The HEAT: We Get It, You Vape
CDR Salamander: Cluelessness And The Africa Challenge
Da Tech Guy: A New Communist Manifesto, also, Tim Tebow Is The Obvious Choice To Backup Tom Brady
Don Surber: Remember Hillary’s Desperate Daisy Ad?
Dustbury: A Couple Of Wows
The Geller Report: Canadian Muslim Slits Woman’s Throat, Found “Not Criminally Responsible”
Hogewash: Tonight’s Sky – November 2017, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Jammie Wearing Fools: Granny Clinton Plans To Dress As “The President” For Halloween. Sad!
JustOneMinute: Keep BS Alive!
Legal Insurrection: House Of Cards Production Suspended Indefinitely After Spacey Allegations, also, Desperate Democrats Max Out Race Card In Virginia Governor’s Race
Michelle Malkin:
Power Line: Democrats To White Males – You’re Not Wanted Here, also, The Collusion Confusion
Shark Tank: Deutch, Democrats Still Mum On Fusion GPS, Awan IT Scandals
Shot In The Dark: Twisted Memory
STUMP: Happy Halloween! Some Scary Public Pension Projections
The Jawa Report: Where’s Rusty? Like Deliverance But In A Good Way Edition
The Political Hat: Happy Halloween!
This Ain’t Hell: Lost Mariners’ Story Not Adding Up, also, Mustafa Al-Imam In Chains
Weasel Zippers: Pelosi Claims “President Trump More Scary Than Any Ghoul Or Goblin”, also, Florida Rep Buchanan Rejects IRS Apology, Calls For Prosecution Of Lois Lerner
Megan McArdle: How To Break An Obamacare Exchange
Mark Steyn: Thumbs On The Scales Of Justice


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Category: Linkagery

UPDATE: ‘This Was an Act of Terror,’ NYC Mayor Says; 8 People Killed in Attack

Posted on | October 31, 2017 | Comments Off on UPDATE: ‘This Was an Act of Terror,’ NYC Mayor Says; 8 People Killed in Attack

 

 

Details are still sketchy, and early reports of such incidents are often wrong, but it is now being reported that a man used a rental truck to run over pedestrians and bicyclists in New York City. The driver was reportedly shot and wounded by NYPD and taken into custody. Six people are reported dead. Fox News says they have been told by law-enforcement officials that this is being treated as a terrorist attack.

UPDATE 5:15 p.m. ET: New York Daily News:

At least six people were killed Tuesday afternoon when a speeding Home Depot truck plowed along a Lower Manhattan bike path, running down helpless riders from behind, sources said.
Eyewitnesses told police the driver yelled “Allahu Akbar!” — Arabic for “God is great!” — after leaving the mangled bodies scattered behind his rental truck.
The Middle Eastern man was arrested after police shot him in the rear end. Sources said he was waving a pair of guns when cops reached the scene.
The truck jumped the curb near Houston St. at 3:04 p.m. and began bearing down on the unsuspecting bicyclists, sources told the Daily News. Video showed crumpled two-wheelers and four bodies left in the vehicle’s deadly wake.

UPDATE 5:25 p.m. ET: In a press conference, NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio says, “This was an act of terror.” He reports at least 8 dead and “more than a dozen” injured.

UPDATE 5:35 p.m. ET: The driver of the truck was a 29-year-old male, NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill said at the press conference. The suspect is in custody; his identity is not being released yet, pending further investigation.

UPDATE 6:05 p.m. ET: The suspect is an immigrant, and has been described as “of Middle Eastern descent.” The New York Times:

Eight people were killed when a man drove 20 blocks down a bike path beside the Hudson River in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday afternoon before he crashed his pickup truck, jumped out with fake guns and was shot by police officer, the authorities said.
Federal authorities were treating the incident as a terrorist attack and were taking the lead in the investigation, a senior law enforcement official said. Two law enforcement officials said that after the attacker got out of the truck, he was heard yelling, “Allahu Akbar,” Arabic for “God is great.”
Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a news conference: “Based on information we have at this moment, this was an act of terror, and a particularly cowardly act of terror aimed at innocent civilians.”
Two law enforcement officials said the driver of the truck, a 29-year-old man who came to the United States in 2010, was in grave condition. One official said he had rented the truck in New Jersey.
The motorist, driving south down the path in a Home Depot rental truck, hit numerous people as nearby Stuyvesant High School was letting out for the day, officials said. At least 15 people were injured, but officials were still working to assess the extent of the casualties.

 

Category: New York, Terrorism

Democrats: Proud to Be the Anti-White, Anti-Male, Anti-Heterosexual Party

Posted on | October 31, 2017 | 3 Comments

 

“Diversity” is Democrat Party code for deliberate discrimination:

Employees within the Democratic National Committee are looking for new employees in the Technology Department. However, the DNC is apparently not interested in your resume if you happen to be a white male.
In an email issued to DNC insiders on Monday, Data Services manager Madeleine Leader announced that the Technology Department is looking to fill several positions and asked interested parties to forward the openings to their colleagues.
She included the following caveat:

I personally would prefer that you not forward to cisgender straight white males, since they’re already in the majority. . . .

After the latest scandals to plague the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 presidential election, the new leadership under Tom Perez and Keith Ellison (D-MN) seek to rebrand the party as a more inclusive and welcoming community. Unfortunately, this email doesn’t exactly help their case.

Meanwhile, Democrats have resorted to fear-mongering propaganda as their strategy in the current Virginia election campaign:

A new ad for the Virginia governor race shows a man in a truck with a Gillespie sticker and Confederate flag on it, chasing minority children who are running for their lives. Gillespie is the Republican candidate.
What’s being implied in the ad is clear. The driver of the truck is a white Republican man who is trying to kill minority children by running them down.
This screen cap from the ad shows the back of the truck chasing the children. Note the Confederate flag, Gillespie sticker and “Don’t Tread on Me” license plate.

Democrats should be ashamed of themselves, but if they had any sense of shame, they wouldn’t be Democrats, would they?

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!

Also, it’s good to see Rod Dreher seems to have recovered from his Bush-era “Crunchy Con” detour, which was rather embarrassing.



 

Category: Democrats
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