As Never-Trumper Bill Kristol has learned the hard way.
The Weekly Standard, a 28-year old neoconservative institution, is reportedly headed towards dissolution after its founder, Bill Kristol, devoted almost three years of work to attacking the President and his supporters.
It’s not just Kristol. The entire world of clickbait Trump-hate seems to be in jeopardy, including sites that cater to the liberal base.
On cable TV, one network in particular has abandoned decades of journalistic tradition and ethics, devoting its resources to a relentless, nakedly partisan crusade to savage President Trump: CNN. Its ratings, predictably, are in the tank — in October, CNN fell behind both the Hallmark Channel and Home and Garden Television.
VIDEO: “It’s not a crime.” — Obama had a much bigger campaign finance issue and all he got was a slap on the wrist.
CLINTON FOUNDATION HEARINGS: Democrats are pathetic — The House Oversight Subcommittee on Government Operations is holding a hearing on Capitol Hill on the Clinton Foundation today. Mark Meadows (R-NC), the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, will lead. Three Clinton Foundation whistleblowers are speaking, as well as Tom Fitton from Judicial Watch. In a bid to divert attention away from the Clinton crime family, Democrats brought in a “whistle-blower” from the Trump Foundation to testify. Mind you, the Clinton Foundation has been under investigation for ages. Also, the Trump Foundation has given away more than it collected. But TRUMP! ::smh::
BODY LANGUAGE: Government Shutdown Trump, Pelosi & Schumer— I wondered why Chuck was all hunched over. Pelosi and Schumer both sound like toddlers, not responding to Trump with new points, but rather repeating the same things again and again.
FOLLOW UP ON THE MEETING: CNN’s “fact check” got fact checked — Trump told Pelosi and Schumer, “People are pouring into our country, including terrorists…. We caught 10 terrorists over the last very short period of time. Ten. These are very serious people … that were looking to do harm.” CNN, never wanting to miss an opportunity to embarrass the president, reported: “DHS did not provide evidence of a single terrorist caught at the southern border over the very last short period of time as the president claimed.” Department of Homeland Security Spokesman Tyler Q. Houlton took to Twitter to tell us that CNN never reached out. Also, “DHS prevented 3,755 known or suspected terrorists from traveling to or entering the U.S. in FY 17. That’s in addition to 17,526 criminals, 1,019 gang members, and 3,028 special interest aliens.”
RUSSIA! RUSSIA! RUSSIA! — In 2010, as former President Bill Clinton prepared to collect a $500,000 payday in Moscow for giving a single speech, Clinton Foundation foreign policy adviser Amitabh Desai wrote to the State Department — then headed by SecState Hillary Clinton — for permission to meet with key business and government folks involved in the Russian nuclear energy firm Rosatom’s efforts to buy a bunch of our uranium. The email went to two of Hillary Clinton’s most senior advisers, Jake Sullivan and Cheryl Mills. Ultimately, the ex-president’s aides and the State Department decided not to hold any of these meetings. Instead, Bill Clinton got together with Vladimir Putin at the Russian leader’s private homestead.
JUDICIAL WATCH: Weekly Update “What an unholy mess” — President Tom Fitton discusses a BIG court ruling on Clinton emails, a NEW Clinton Foundation lawsuit, Comey testifying to Congress, plus Mueller special counsel abuses continue. I hope Tom Fitton has a body guard.
JUDICIAL WATCH: Breaking — Judicial Watch today released documents showing that Obama weaponized the State Department to kick off the Democrat’s non-stop unethical effort to discredit the incoming Trump Administration. Specifically, the Obama State Department provided classified Russia investigation information to Democrat members of Congress immediately prior to Trump’s inauguration.
SCRATCH A LIBERAL: From Stilton — Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski (whose last name is the single most valuable word you can play in Scrabble) made an unfortunate on-air faux pas Wednesday, when she called Secretary of State Mike Pompeo “a wannabe dictator’s butt boy.” It’s another case in which if you scratch a liberal (and frankly, we think that’s always a good idea), you quickly find the kind of deep-rooted intolerance and bigotry that they accuse others of having.
THANK U MR. PRESIDENT: Children saved from abortion— During next January’s March for Life in Washington, D.C., pro-lifers will be bringing thank you letters and cards to President Trump from children all across America whose lives were saved from abortion. One of the organizers says, “Our hope is to have a face-to-face (meeting) with President Trump and Vice President Pence” so that the children saved from abortion can hand-deliver the letters to him. We constantly hear from pro-choice activists ‘(motherhood) will ruin your life. And now we have these mothers with their children – who are in high school, who are productive – their lives are not ruined. They’re celebrating their children. And I actually think that these children are perhaps the greatest witness toward overturning Roe.”
ELECTRIC CARS: The immoral choice — Not only are electric cars predominantly charged with nuclear and/or fossil fuel power, but also the batteries in them are built on the backs of an army of children, some as young as four years old, who work in polluted mines for pennies a day.
SMUT INDUSTRY: New Trump AG worries them — The porn industry is worried about the enforcement of obscenity laws now that President Trump has nominated William Barr, a “staunch Catholic conservative” to head the Justice Department. Barr was a vigorous enforcer of obscenity laws when he was Attorney General under President George H. W. Bush in the early 1990s.
MARRIAGE TO GHOST IS OVER: Earlier this year, an Irish woman married the ghost of a 300-year-old Haitian pirate named Jack. The wedding to her ‘soulmate’ took place on board a boat in international waters off the Irish coast. She recently let us all know that the marriage is over. She posted to social media, “I will explain all in due course but for now all I want to say is be VERY careful when dabbling in spirituality, it’s not something to mess with.” Ya think?
ROFLLL: I ❤ Toothless!! –– Long-lost audition tape featuring Toothless and Kit Harington, the actor who won the part of Eret, Son of Eret in the How to Train Your Dragon trilogy.
CNN election analyst on Dems’ 2020 race: “I am not sure it’s the time to nominate a white man”
Enten’s not giving you his personal take on white male candidates writ large or white men in general, he’s saying that to Democratic primary voters being a traditional white male candidate may be more of a liability than an asset at this point. Which is true. By the time 2020 gets here, it’ll be 16 years since they’ll have nominated one for president and almost 24 years since they successfully elected one president.
And because the left measures all things in terms of “progress,” nominating a white guy after the trailblazing candidacies of Obama and Hillary will be seen by some as a “step back.” Activist righties spend much of their time nowadays complaining about the left’s obsession with identity politics, with good reason, but that’s exactly Enten’s point in the segment. Identity politics will matter next year in the primary. A lot.
Almost 30 Percent Think Santa Claus Should Be Female Or Gender Neutral
We are not far from all the holiday traditions we grew up with being banned or hideously mutated because some clown suffers from a bad case of butthurt.
“Modern Santa” has tattoos, a stylishly-trimmed beard, skinny jeans, sneakers, and a hoverboard. He’s tech-savvy and looks like he could easily feature in GQ magazine.
A new survey found that over 27 percent of people asked would rebrand Santa Claus as a woman or gender-neutral.
It’s not hard to figure what they’re up to. They’re looking for an excuse to take his old returns to a crooked democrat judge to concoct some sort of impropriety. “Tax evasion!”…”Tax fraud!”…”Impeach him!”
Democratic Rep. Richard E. Neal, the next chairman of the tax panel, plans to insist that Trump release his tax returns, according to The Washington Post.
If the president does not voluntarily hand them over, Neal said he would make a request to the Treasury Department.
Democratic lawmakers have been requesting the filings to determine whether there are any conflicts of interest with his business dealings and possible income from Russia.
Special counsel Robert Mueller is also looking into Trump’s business dealings and income as part of his investigation.
Incoming NY Attorney General vows to use full power of the State to get Trump
Letitia James: “We will use every area of the law to investigate President Trump and his business transactions and that of his family as well.”
It seems every democrat looking to make a name for themselves is trying to get Trump.
AG Eric Schneiderman, who ended up resigning in disgrace after sexual abuse allegations, made a name for himself by threatening Trump, as the NY Times reported just before Schneiderman resigned.
Schneiderman’s interim successor, AG Barbara Underwood, continued the use of the Office of Attorney General to get a political enemy. Her press release reflected the full-blown attempt to take down a variety of Trumps.
All of the candidates for NY AG in 2018 pledged to use the Office to get Trump. As CNBC reported, candidate Letitia James was particularly aggressive in pledging to get Trump:
Has Keith Richards mellowed out?! Legendary Rolling Stones hellraiser says he ‘stopped drinking a year ago’ and stopped the ‘other stuff’ because he ‘wasn’t feeling right’ (and his bandmates couldn’t be happier!)
He’s been abusing sex, drugs and alcohol for more than 50 years and he’s still here. It just doesn’t seem fair.
Richards, who turns 75 on December 18, will embark on the U.S leg of the Stones tour next year with bandmates Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts.
But this time, he told Rolling Stone magazine, he will perform in front of one million people in 14 cities completely sober.
Bandmate Ronnie Wood said he is ‘a pleasure to work with’ since cutting back.
Trump Inauguration Spending Under Criminal Investigation by Federal Prosecutors
Once again, infested DOJ, this is the office anti-Trump Preet Bhrara was in charge of.
They can’t get Trump through Mueller, so they’re trying another fishing expedition, investigation without a crime to tar the administration. They’re looking at did donors give money for access? Are they kidding? That’s what donors have done with every administration for the history of the country.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are investigating whether President Trump’s 2017 inaugural committee misspent some of the record $107 million it raised from donations, people familiar with the matter said.
Barack Obama receives RFK Human Rights award at NYC gala
When one thinks of human rights, his is not the first name that comes to mind.
Former President Barack Obama was honored with the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Award at a gala in midtown Manhattan Wednesday evening.
“I’m not sure if you’ve heard, but I’ve been on this hope kick for a while now. Even ran a couple of campaigns on it. Thank you for officially validating my hope credentials,”
The organization’s president, Kerry Kennedy, presented the award, which celebrates leaders “who have demonstrated a commitment to social change.” Past recipients include Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Bono, George Clooney and Robert De Niro.
For decades, Democrats have acknowledged the need for border security—even voting for it in the past. But when it's time to make a deal, they won't come to the table. pic.twitter.com/k1kpRO84QJ
CARAVAN: Border security is a major problem — Democrats refuse to come to the table for the sole reason that they HATE Donald Trump and fixing the border would make him look good. But Trump’s administration is working to enforce our laws and make the U.S. less illegal-friendly. During the past year, ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations arm has been cracking down on companies that employ illegal aliens, leading to a 700% increase in the number of people arrested.
“These laws help protect jobs for U.S. citizens and others who are lawfully employed, reduce the incentive of illegal migration, eliminate unfair competitive advantages for companies that hire an illegal workforce, and ultimately help strengthen public safety and national security.” — ICE HSI Executive Associate Director Derek N. Benner
Flashback: Hillary Clinton Brags About Voting For A Border Fence To Keep Out Illegal Immigrants —– So why are the Democrats saying @realDonaldTrump is a racist and a bigot when he wants the same thing🤔 pic.twitter.com/pMRzY77aPj
DEMOCRAT PLATFORM IN 3 WORDS: “We hate Trump.” — Chuck Schumer (who, like Hillary, was for a border wall before he was against it) says we can’t afford to shut down the government. Meanwhile Nancy Pelosi says Democrats are willing to keep it closed forever if necessary to prevent any money going to build a border wall. Yeah. That totally makes sense. Not.
And btw, Nancy’s claim that it was Republicans who shut down the government last time is a little off. The Republican-majority Congress that we elected to rein in Obama and Obamacare (which was passed in the dead of night, despite majority opposition from Americans) passed a budget; President Obama refused to sign it because it included restrictions on Obamacare that we’d asked for and been promised by those Republican legislators.
So the government shutdown came courtesy of elected officials doing what they’d been elected to do versus the Democrat Dictator Wannabe in the White House. The previous shut down was the same situation. Clinton got into office with a Democrat Congress and they attempted, but failed to pass Hillarycare. Voters put Republicans into office to rein in Billary, who refused to sign a budget that didn’t give them something or other they really wanted.
This time, we’re looking at a Republican president who is trying to do something he promised over and over on the campaign trail that he would do and that a majority of Americans favor. I.e., improve border security. It’s Democrats who don’t want border security and Democrats who run all the “screw ICE and federal immigration laws” sanctuary cities.
SPEAKING OF TRUMP HATE:New York Attorney Gen.-elect Letitia James says she plans to launch sweeping investigations into President Donald Trump, his family and “anyone” in his circle who may have violated the law once she settles into her new job next month. William Jacobson says, “What’s at stake in 2020 is not just an election, it’s whether we will enable the open abuse of state power by Democrats.”
CLINTON FOUNDATION: 3 whistleblowers with 6,000 pages of evidence set to testify — The Clinton Foundation is under investigation right now by the Department of Justice and FBI for a myriad of reasons, including whether any tax-exempt assets were converted for personal or political use and whether Hillary was trading favors for donations while she was the head of the Department of State. The pattern of donations strongly suggest the Clinton Foundation has always been more about pay-to-play and enriching Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea, than it has been about doing good deeds.
SEX HARASSMENT IN CONGRESS: No more free rides — The House and Senate reached an agreement to update sexual harassment policies on Capitol Hill, clearing the way for a vote on the measure in both chambers before Congress adjourns for the year. Under the legislation, members of Congress would be personally liable for sexual harassment settlements instead of using a taxpayer-funded settlement account.
HUSH MONEY: Is it a crime? — The Mueller Special Counsel and New York District Attorney’s Office seek to destroy President Trump for paying out $130,000 to shut the mouths of two women who were threatening to say The Donald had had sex with them. The New York District Attorney’s office has picked up the case because New York state crimes can not be pardoned by a president.
While most experts believe paying hush money is not a crime, I’m fairly sure that extortion is. Maybe Trump cheated on his wife; maybe he didn’t. But the apparent fact is that two women demanded money in exchange for not saying he had.
The Trump hating media has decided that these alleged “bribes” are criminal acts. But let’s enter the Way Back Machine and take a look at when Barack Obama was running for president and was being embarrassed by his long-time pastor’s loud, racist, America-hating mouth. Apparently, Jeremiah Wright didn’t threaten to embarrass Obama, so there was no extortion involved. Obama just found him to be a problem for his campaign.
Wright told an interviewer that a member of the church came with an offer of $150,000 if Wright would stop talking until after the election. He also said that Barack met with him personally to say, “I wish you wouldn’t speak. It’s gonna hurt the campaign if you do that.”
“THIS IS AMERICA RIGHT HERE”:In 2013, Obama refused to sign the spending bill that had been passed by the Republican-majority Congress we had elected to rein him in. He preferred to force a government shut down on us. You know, that thing Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are now screaming about that would be so unthinkably awful? Yeah, that.
But not only did Obama shutter non-essential government services, he also ordered government employees to set up metal barricades around open air memorials and then stand there to keep people out. The most notable of these was the WWII memorial that an Honor Flight of veterans was coming to visit. Obama didn’t go down there himself to tell those old warriors they couldn’t visit the memorial they’d come across the country to see.
No, he sent other people to do his political grandstanding for him. Because nothing says “we can’t afford to pay people to do stuff for stupid citizens who elected Republicans to Congress, because those evil Republicans won’t give me the budget I want” like paying people to do stuff to prevent elderly war veterans from walking around an open air memorial commemorating the sacrifices they made to stop Nazism.
But go ahead, Democrats. Tell me again how Republicans are all Nazi lovers. SUPER job on the video by my e-bud and Alert Reader, Mindful Webworks.
THIS IS FRANCE RIGHT HERE:The “people” can be such pains in the bum for would-be dictators like Obama and Macron.
POWER TO THE PEOPLE:Sales of “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” have soared in response to SJWs attempting to get it banned from the airwaves as a “rape” song. Also, a number of radio stations that caved to the complaints have reversed their policy in response to listener complaints and are now playing it again. The recording above is from Neptune’s Daughter, a 1949 romantic comedy musical. This is clearly a seduction song, not a rape song. I wonder how much of a fuss SJWs have ever made about the numerous hip hop and rap songs that blatantly glorify abuse, rape, drug use, and even murder.
PRESS WH CHRISTMAS PARTY: Canceled — For decades, reporters, anchors, commentators, media executives and their plus ones have been treated to an elegant Christmas party at the White House where they enjoyed expensive foods, elaborate desserts, and access to the beautifully decorated mansion. But the biggest fringe-benefit was the picture-taking sessions, in which the president and first lady would spend a couple of hours patiently chatting with guests and posing for pictures in front of a Christmas tree. Last year, the president and first lady hosted the gathering, but did not pose for pictures. This year, they’re just not having the media party at all. Good for them!
MIKA DROPS HOMO-BOMB: People have been fired for less –– This morning on MSNBC, Mika Brzezinski called Mike Pompeo a “wannabe dictator’s butt boy.” The station tried and failed to censor it, but did manage to leave it out of the closed captioning.
MIKE FLYNN: Judge demands FBI summary 302 report about the ambush Flynn interview — FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok showed up to the White House on January 24th, 2017, along with Special Agent Joe Pientka, to interview General Flynn; the meeting was arranged by former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. Flynn was told not have his lawyer with him and soon after the FBI agents began to question him he realized he was being ambushed over his phone calls to Russian Ambassador Kislyak. Strzok and Pientka didn’t write their 302 reports on the interview until 7 months later on August 22nd, AFTER Rosenstein wrote his August 2nd memo expanding Mueller’s scope.
Congressional investigators have long suspected the 302 summary notes on Flynn were altered to make it appear he was lying. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe previously testified to Congress that the two agents who interviewed Flynn didn’t detect any deception.
RELIEF FOR MID-EAST CHRISTIANS: Trump signs Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief and Accountability Act — The law, which was passed unanimously by both chambers, provides funding to various entities, including faith-based and religious organizations, that are helping with recovery and stabilization efforts in Iraq and Syria in religious and ethnic minority communities, including Christians and Yazidis. It also provides support for groups that are investigating members of Islamic State who committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in the region.
OPPORTUNITY ZONES: President Trump signs Executive Order establishing the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council –– Chaired by Ben Carson, the new group will cover 13 government agencies, looking for ways to spur private investment to revitalize hurting communities and unleash their economic potential. It will also work at streamlining, coordinating, and targeting existing Federal programs to economically distressed areas to eliminate cumbersome applications, program waste, and ineffective benefits.
OBAMA’S LEGACY: Another domino falls — “The Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday it is rolling back some of the excessive, and possibly illegal, water regulations imposed by the Obama administration. EPA’s announcement is a welcome relief for homeowners and property owners impacted by overly aggressive EPA officials.”
FIRST STEP ACT: Trump says the bill will pass — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Tuesday that that the Senate will take it up as early as the end of this week. The criminal justice reform policy that would overhaul the nation’s sentencing laws has been in the works for three years and has bipartisan support.
FARM BILL: Trump says it has bipartisan support — The 2018 Farm Bill that includes expanded safety-net programs for farmers could be voted on as early as Wednesday or Thursday after joint House-Senate negotiators released the final version of the legislation.
ABORTION FREE: Nashville’s last abortion clinic announced it will no longer provide abortions, because they can’t find a doctor willing to kill babies. Thank God!
