Posted on 08/24/2017 10:08:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Musings upon a sultry August.
Earlier this week, I spoke to a local Republican womens group, and one topic of conversation which came up is something often discussed in this space; namely, the Lefts tone-deaf insistence on cultural aggression as a form of power politics.
In my speech I described the effect of this thusly: it makes little difference what Trumps approval rating is, because the Democrats rating is a lot lower.
That might be hard to poll, because the Democrat Party might poll better than Trump and at the moment none of the potential candidates of that party are under the kind of scrutiny and constant attack Trump is.
None of it matters. The Democrats, as the party of the Left, are cutting their own throats. They cant beat Trump and, as an excellent column by David Benkof at the Daily Caller earlier this week notes, theyre on course for an ugly bloodbath in next years midterm elections.
Why? Lots of reasons.
Consider this monument-removal binge theyre on, for one example. It started with the bowdlerization orgy of wannabe 2020 presidential candidate Mitch Landrieu in New Orleans, but now its virtually everywhere New Yorks resident moron mayor Warren Wilhem, who does business as Bill de Blasio, is demanding a review of all that citys statuary, while in Baltimore theyve removed monuments not just to confederate figures but to Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, who wrote the Dred Scott decision. And its happening pretty much everywhere Democrats are in control now, despite a lack of any evidence the public at large has an appetite for re-enacting ISIS at Palmyra or the Taliban at Bamiyan
Heres the thing. It may well be a majority of Americans might sympathize with getting rid of Jefferson Davis statues, though its unlikely thats much of a majority or a very passionate cohort in the bargain. What matters, though, is absolutely nobody in this country has the slightest degree of trust that the Left will respect any limits or stop there. Everybody knows that this is just another spoke in the wheel for the social justice crowd and itll just build momentum for the next exercise in stupidity.
And people are exhausted with cultural aggressions from the Left. Theyre ready for normality for a while. Thats why Trumps approval rating doesnt matter; they might think Trump stinks as a president, but theyre not going to vote him out so some wild-assed leftist like Kamala Harris or Liz Warren can turn the rest of America into Evergreen State College.
Thats what happens when youve overstepped your bounds and shown your contempt for the people.
Plus, its the stupidity. By now our readers certainly have heard about the ridiculous ESPN/Robert Lee story, in which the Chinese-American sportscaster (no, Im not going to call him Asian-American, because Asian means he could be Pakistani or Kazakh and hes clearly not; you wouldnt call Paddy OShaughnessy a European-American) was bounced off the networks scheduled telecast of the William & Mary-Virginia game next weekend because of the unpleasantness in Charlottesville and the likeness of his name to that of the Confederate general whose statue was a subject of the protests there.
When the country heard about ESPNs actions and widespread condemnation of them started taking hold, the networks president John Skipper said in an internal memo which soon leaked that the decision to lift Lee from the UVA assignment was made for his safety, as though someone would confuse him with the dead white guy from the statue.
This is the kind of thing that will destroy the Democrat Party, because voters know its the Democrats activists who are pushing it and voters also know its elitist Democrats who are sapping their morale with one cultural aggression after another. Dumb things like this only remind them of the times.
And more, theyll especially resent it coming from ESPN those voters who watch ESPN want to watch sports to get away from politics and its attendant divisiveness. When theyre robbed of even that distraction, theyre going to be pissed off.
Ive complained about this before, but not having U.S. Attorneys in place is a truly damaging state of affairs for the country and some of it is Trumps fault. Virtually all of our readers could bring up stories of rampant political corruption in the cities near their homes, and as its the federal governments role these days to police that corruption its a terrible idea for the Democrats to still be in charge of the U.S. Attorneys offices around the country.
In Washington, Trump has made a nomination for U.S. Attorney. His name is Jesse Liu, and by all accounts hes an excellent choice no honest Democrat could oppose. But Lius nomination is bottled up in the Senate, and for some reason Trump didnt force the resignation of the current U.S. Attorney in D.C., a lifelong Democrat apparatchik named Channing Phillips, whose father was actually placed in nomination for president at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
That decision reared its ugly head when last week an indictment was returned in the Imran Awan case by Phillips office and lots of heads were scratched. The indictment is a masterpiece of omission and it looks an awful lot like the U.S. Attorney is throwing the case in order to let Awan off and make the entire embarrassing scandal surrounding him and his family and their potential theft of sensitive information and even possible blackmail of Democrat congressmen go away.
This cant happen. Trump ought to demand Phillips resignation and then make a recess appointment of Liu and every other US Attorney hes chosen. Get these people in office and put them to work draining the swamp at the local level starting with a hell of a lot more aggressive prosecution of the Awan case.
If you havent watched Ozark, the new Netflix drama starring Jason Bateman and Laura Linney, its worth a quick binge in advance of the start of football season. The writing has some holes here and there, but the acting is terrific and the story, though familiar, is compelling. Batemans character is a financial manager who a decade ago made the choice to launder money for a Mexican drug cartel, and when things eventually go badly he sells his angry and psychopathic client on the highly underrated prospects of investing in the bucolic area around the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri, which he knows nothing about.
The show is one near-death experience after another, and it can be stressful to watch, but watching the moves he makes to stay ahead of the FBI and the cartel, not to mention the local crooks, amounts to terrific TV.
But just like every other show on TV now, there is a gay angle with one of the major characters. And just like every other show on TV, that gay angle adds nothing of value to the story line. Once again, this is the kind of thing that leads to Trumps re-election people are tired of having the Lefts cultural agenda forced down their throats when they try to escape politics by watching a TV show.
A final thing on politics: last year John Kennedy, who was Louisianas state treasurer, won a special election to replace David Vitter in the Senate. So this fall, there is a special election in Louisiana to replace Kennedy.
As some of our readers might know, Louisiana operates with a jungle primary rather than the usual party primaries, which means there are three Republicans state representative John Schroder, state senator Neil Riser, and former commissioner of administration under Bobby Jindal Angele Davis and only one Democrat among the major candidates.
That Democrat is Derrick Edwards, and hes basically a Powerball ticket of identity politics. Edwards, who is black, is a former football player who was paralyzed during a high school name. It was expected hed have to be institutionalized, but instead he managed to earn two degrees from Tulane University and a law degree from Loyola University and is a practicing attorney which is an incredible story youd expect to see highlighted by the party which pretends to care about the less fortunate.
Except theres a short-circuit somewhere, because not only is Edwards, who ran for the Senate last year and got just three percent of the vote, not being turned into a household name but the Louisiana Democratic Party wont even endorse him. Why? Who knows. So much for the Democrats we care rhetoric, right?
A President’s approval rating on a random week a few months into his term is irrelevant.
...”But just like every other show on TV now, there is a gay angle with one of the major characters. And just like every other show on TV, that gay angle adds nothing of value to the story line. Once again, this is the kind of thing that leads to Trumps re-election people are tired of having the Lefts cultural agenda forced down their throats when they try to escape politics by watching a TV show.”...
YES! Like millions of others, I have been hooked on “Grey’s Anatomy,” but the cultural rot on that show, sexually and in regards to the gay angle is too much for me at times. I fast forward through so many scenes that I eventually do not see much of the story. Many times, the main point of the story is centered around the sex rather than the medicine and what trauma surgeons go through in a day. In the end, the show probably is a realistic but extreme look at what goes on out there in the lives of many of our elite professionals today. Most of us know that lasting happiness does not lie at the end of that tunnel, no matter how clever TV producers make it look. And, who are the next tycoons going to be? Why they will be the companies that make the sexual robot dolls. However, maybe the bright light there will be that those will lessen the problem of human sex trafficking. What a world we live in where the very worst of humanity has bubbled to the top and those who are ruined by it are killing themselves with heroin laced with fentanyl. While all this is going on, the one-track media pushing the cultural rot is trying to take down a President who is trying to clean up the governmental rot which is effecting the lives of all the people who do not choose to live that way. I do think people are awakening to the bad state we are in. I hope I am right.
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