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'Resisting' Democracy and Decency
by Arnold Ahlert
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. Pulosi's Pugnacious Preaching
Rep. Rodney Davis (R-IL) was in the batter's box when a deranged leftist opened fire at a ball field in Alexandria, Virginia, Wednesday. Davis reflected, "This could be the first political rhetorical terrorist attack." Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich put a finer point on it, saying, "You've had a series of things ... that tell people that it's OK to hate Trump. It's OK to think of Trump in violent terms. It's OK to consider assassinating Trump and then ... suddenly we're supposed to rise above it until the next time?"
As Mark Alexander argued, violent leftist rhetoric is exactly why violent actions followed.
Yet House Minority Leader Nancy Pulosi was having none of it. Asked to respond to Republican comments, she was incredulous. "The comments made by my Republican colleagues are outrageous," Pulosi lectured. "Beneath the dignity of the job they hold, beneath the dignity of the respect we would like Congress to command. How dare they say such a thing? How dare they?"
If anyone knows about operating beneath the dignity of the office, it's Pulosi. Typical of her ridiculous anti-GOP rhetoric is this regarding Neil Gorsuch's Supreme Court confirmation hearings: "The president ... has appointed someone who has come down on the side of corporate America ... against employees' rights. Clean air, clean water, food safety, safety in medicine and the rest if you care about that for your children, he's not your guy." There are other examples of Pulosi's slander too numerous to recount here.
But yesterday, she leveled both rhetorical barrels at Republicans again. "Probably as we sit here, they're running caricatures of me ... of vitriolic things they say that resulted in calls to my home constantly, threats in front of my grandchildren really predicated on their comments and their paid ads." She continued, "So this sick individual does something despicable and it was horrible what he did, hateful but for them to all of a sudden be sanctimonious as if they've never seen such a thing before. And I don't even want to go into the president of the United States, in terms of some of the language that he has used."
She wasn't done, relating a harrowing tale of having received "scores of horrible, disgusting, yucky messages a lot of them toward me, a lot of them toward liar-Hillary Clinton, a lot of them toward Barack liar-nObama. And using language that is from some of the messages that [Republicans] had put out."
We're not defending hateful rhetoric directed to members of Congress, but is she seriously comparing some mean mail or phone calls with the bullets fired at her Republican colleagues? We've heard the saying, "The pen is mightier than the sword," but she might be taking that too literally. ~The Patriot Post
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Democrats Using Soviet
Secret Police Tactics Against Trump
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, who makes a point of declaring that he is a liberal who voted for liar-Hillary Clinton, defends President Trump... against the witch hunt that is underway by Democrats and the political establishment. He says, “What the Democrats are trying to do to President Trump is exactly what some Republicans and extremists tried to do to liar-Hillary Clinton.” Dershowitz may be a smart guy, but in that regard he’s delusional. liar-Hillary Clinton is a criminal who committed espionage and got off because of criminal malfeasance by James Comey, Loretta Lynch, Hussein liar-nObama and many more insiders, and the deep state influence. He is absolutely correct in his view that the supporters of action against President Trump would be on the other side of the issue if it were a question about whether or not to target a Democrat under the same circumstances. That’s the politicization of the criminal justice system, which is part of the danger that he’s warning against... http://rickwells.us/dershowitz-democrats-using-soviet-secret-police-tactics-trump/
Iran missile strike a ‘flop,’ with most missing target
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Democrats Block Witnesses
from Testifying in House Intel Probe
by Bill Gertz
{freebeacon.com} ~ House Democrats are continuing to block testimony from about a dozen witnesses who sought to appear before the intelligence oversight panel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election... Congressional officials said one of the key witnesses, former informal adviser to the Trump campaign Carter Page, was scheduled to testify at a closed hearing of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. But Democrats on the committee blocked the testimony, asserting they needed more time to prepare. "He's the guy that many Democrats have been pointing to as the supposed mastermind and you would think they were interested hearing his story," said one Capitol Hill official....
New Texas Legislation Bans Sharia Law in Courts
by Alice Greene
{punchingbagpost.com} ~ Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed "American Laws for American Courts" (ALAC) last week, a law that prohibits the use of Sharia law or any other foreign law by Texas judges in “family law cases.”... In a recent press release, state Rep. and ALAC author Dan Flynn (R-Canton) explained how foreign law is often used in cases concerning child support, divorce, and other family disputes. “My colleagues and I here at the Texas Legislature want to make sure Texas judges never apply foreign law in Texas courts in violation of constitutional rights and the public policy of our state,” said Flynn... All 50 states should follow suit. http://punchingbagpost.com/new-texas-legislation-bans-sharia-law-in-courts.
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MSNBC's Joy Ann Reid attacks Congressional Rep. Scalise as he recovers from Assination attempt
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Former U.S. Soldier, Now an Aid Worker, Rescues Little Girl From ISIS in Mosul
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Will NKorea be held accountable for Otto Warmbier's death?
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Fred Fleitz on London mosque van attack: we have to condemn this regardless of who did this
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT5JaxsxQRQ
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT5JaxsxQRQ
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NEWT: Blasts Russia (Special Counsel Mueller) investigation bias
NEWT: Blasts Russia (Special Counsel Mueller) investigation bias
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TUCKER: Spars with NJ Dem Who Tweeted '#HuntRepublicans' after the shooting of Rep. Scalise
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'Resisting' Democracy and Decency
By Arnold Ahlert: "Liberals protest; radicals rebel. Liberals become indignant; radicals become fighting mad and go into action. Liberals do not modify their personal lives and what they give to a cause is a small part of their lives; radicals give themselves to the cause. Liberals give and take oral arguments; radicals give and take the hard, dirty, bitter way of life." —from Saul Alinsky's "Reveille for Radicals," published in 1946
Perhaps nothing has contributed to the toxic nature of today's political climate more than the disturbing reality that a once classically liberal Democrat Party has been hijacked by the radical Left. This is not the party of John F. Kennedy, Tip O'Neill or former DNC chair Henry "Scoop" Jackson, who simultaneously supported liberal causes while remaining staunchly anti-Communist. Today's DNC chair is Thomas Perez, whose contribution to "thoughtful" debate is to assert that Republicans "don't give a sh-t about people," and declare that Donald Trump "didn't win the election."
But Donald Trump did win the election, despite the recounts, the death threats and petitions aimed at getting Electoral College voters to subvert the will of the people, and the felonious Inauguration Day riots, courtesy of leftist thugs who smashed property and threw rocks at police.
And ever since, a Democrat Party, aided and abetted by a corrupt phalanx of leftist radicals in media, academia, Hollywood and vast swaths of the unelected federal bureaucracy, has made it clear Donald Trump must not be merely challenged or discredited. He must first be demonized and then impeached — by any means necessary.
Hence, a severed presidential head is presented as comedy. A Shakespeare play featuring an orange-haired Caesar murdered by political rivals is presented as drama. A CNN host of a religious show tweets that Trump is a "piece of sh-t" who is "a stain on the presidency," and Huffington Post columnist Jason Fuller writes that everyone assisting Trump's agenda must be convicted of treason — and executed. "Anything less than capital punishment — or at least life imprisonment without parole in a maximum security detention facility — would send yet another message to the world that America has lost its moral compass," Fuller spews.
America hasn't lost its moral compass. Democrats have urged their followers to trample on it. Last Wednesday, Bernie Sanders supporter and dedicated Trump-hater James T. Hodgkinson attempted to massacre Republican Congressmen, critically wounding Steve Scalise before being shot dead by two Capitol Police officers.
Sanders was "sickened by this despicable act" and insisted that violence "is unacceptable in our society" — now. Yet the same Bernie Sanders told Rachel Maddow in March that "seeing members of Congress, Republicans, having to sneak out the back door or claim I'm worried about my safety, I can't even hold a town meeting" is "our goal."
Blaming Democrats or the greater left for the motives of Hodgkinson, regardless of his politics, or his list of Republican targets, is the stuff of fools or agitators. Yet it is hard to ignore the reality that Democrat politicians have supported groups such as Occupy Wall Street, and Black Lives Matter, whose violent tactics have been propagandized as a fight for "social justice." They are virtually silent about, or tacitly supportive, of masked "antifa" (anti-fascist — irony alert) thugs who commit violence to oppress "hate" speech. And in May, liar-Hillary Clinton announced her intention to fund groups supporting the "Resistance™" movement.
The Resistance™ movement highlights the divide between classic Democrat liberalism and the Party's current allegiance to radicalism. The Nation's Natasha Lennard illuminates why the former no longer satisfies the radicals. "Liberals cling to institutions: They begged to no avail for faithless electors, they see ‘evisceration' in a friendly late-night talk-show debate, they put faith in investigations and justice with regards to Russian interference and business conflicts of interest," she writes. "They grasp at hypotheticals about who could have won, were things not as they in fact are. For political subjects so tied to the mythos of Reason, it is liberals who now seem deranged."
In short, faith in the Constitution and the Rule of Law is deranged. What's not? According to Lennard, "disruption, confrontation, doxxing [publishing personal information online] and altercation remain tactics anyone taking seriously a refusal to normalize Trump-era fascism should consider."
No one has led the effort to de-normalize Donald Trump more than Democrats and their media allies. Absent a shred of proof, Americans have been fed a steady diet of media leaks regarding collusion between Trump and the Russians, while former FBI Director James Comey, who testified that investigation began almost a year ago, refused as late as May to confirm whether the FBI had even begun investigating the only known felonies perpetrated by that leaking.
And media leaking about the Russian investigation has now morphed seamlessly into leaks of the investigation being conducted by Robert Mueller, and the revelation that the investigation into "Russian meddling" has now morphed into an investigation of Trump's "obstruction of justice."
Loretta Lynch's efforts to obstruct justice as outlined by Comey himself? Mueller's conflict of interest with regard to his long friendship with Comey, in clear violation of a special counsel statute? His hiring of at least a dozen attorneys, including four who contributed several thousands of dollars to the Democrat Party, Barack liar-nObama and liar-Hillary Clinton, and one who once represented the liar-Clinton Foundation?
The media portray Muller as a paragon of integrity, and Democrats threaten that any attempts to remove him will precipitate impeachment proceedings. The same impeachment theme Democrats have reiterated ad nauseam since the inauguration.
The Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan takes on the media and their unstinting efforts in making "the whole political scene lower, grubbier," and "showing the young what otherwise estimable adults do under pressure, which is lose their equilibrium."
The result? "By indulging their and their audience's rage, they spread the rage," Noonan adds.
The Democrat Party? Dedicated leftist Camille Paglia excoriates their reaction to Trump's election as "one of the most disgraceful episodes in the history of the modern Democratic party," and describes Party leader Chuck clown-Schumer as someone who "asserted absolutely no moral authority as the party spun out of control in a nationwide orgy of rage and spite."
Not quite. Rage and spite are integral parts of the Democrat Party platform. Promoting victimization, and the tribalism it inevitably produces, is now its stock in trade, based on an adage as timely as it's ever been: The right believes the left is wrong; the left believes the right is evil.
Thus, a party once known for classic liberalism's "give and take," now embraces the radicals' "hard, dirty, bitter way of life." It is the party that champions the political correctness Paglia refers to as "repressively Stalinist, dependent on a labyrinthine, parasitic bureaucracy to enforce its empty dictates."
What dictates? "Well-nigh the entire ruling class — government bureaucracies, the judiciary, academia, media, associated client groups, Democratic officials, and Democrat-controlled jurisdictions — have joined in 'Resistance' to the 2016 elections," writes Angelo Codevilla, who further characterizes that Resistance™ as "a cold civil war against a majority of the American people and their way of life." Will Democrats and their allies turn a cold war hot? ~The Patriot Post
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