Posted on 06/26/2019 11:20:39 AM PDT by ransomnote
LOL!
'Domestic' terrorists could target July 4 holiday events, but no known plots: Feds
Looks like there's an interesting undercover video at the top of the linked article I hope to go back and watch when I have time.
Such a slacker that I didn’t notice they are from 6/27! Duh, jokes on me!
Been out of town - not checking in as often as I should be.
Ha.
You got me all excited there for a minute.
bumpety bumpety bump. heh heh.
Radical Democrat Candidates Have Put Themselves in an Impossible Position
Brian Cates
July 1, 2019
What a stunning spectacle it was. During the two nights of Democratic debates last week, the American public got an up-close look at a Democratic party that has become increasingly radical and incoherent.
If this slate of twenty candidates is the best the Democratic Party can come up with, then it has even more problems than I thought it did.
Here’s a brief rundown of the litany of topics where these 20 candidates stand on issues:
Tax Increases: Repeal the Trump tax cuts and raise taxes on the middle class.
Open Borders: Cease all border enforcement and even take down the sections of the border wall that have already been constructed.
Abortion extremism: The candidates affirmed that they want no limits whatsoever on legal abortion, which means abortions into the third trimester.
Climate Change: They all think global warming is the biggest threat facing the world today and would attempt to implement the disastrous Green New Deal.
ObamaCare 2.0: Take away private health care plans and force everyone in the country into a state-run health care system. Also, raise taxes on U.S. taxpayers in order to pay for healthcare coverage for millions of illegal immigrants.
Gun control: Bring back the ‘assault weapons ban.’ One of the candidates, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) has made gun control his signature issue, boasting that he would ban all ‘assault weapons’ and then pay citizens to hand them over.
Reparations: A massive new government program to transfer taxpayer money to the descendants of former slaves.
Gender insanity: Candidate Julian Castro claimed he would protect the right of trans men to have abortions.
Number 5 in that list above is the one that absolutely blew me away. NBC News’ Savannah Guthrie alerted the 10 candidates on the stage that this would be “a show of hands question”:
“A lot of you have been talking tonight about these government healthcare plans that you proposed in one form or another. This is a show of hands question, and hold them up for a moment so people can see.”
After having ensured that the candidates understood what was coming, Guthrie asked this important question:
“Raise your hand if your government plan would provide coverage for undocumented immigrants.”
In response to that question, every single candidate on the stage raised their hand.
I’m still in disbelief this actually happened. Somehow, the Democratic Party’s best & brightest on that debate stage managed to take both the stripping of private healthcare plans (ObamaCare 2.0!) and raising taxes so U.S. citizens can foot the healthcare bill for illegals, and combined them!
It’s like they held a brainstorming session where they went “What two things could we bring together that would make most U.S. taxpayers so angry they’ll get out the pitchforks and torches and come after us?”
Former President Barack Obama only got into position to pull that neat Obamacare trick on millions of Americans because he and his surrogates spent years carefully deceiving the country about what was going to happen once the Affordable Care Act was implemented.
Now? The Democrats currently running for President are not even bothering to lie. “Sure, we’re totally planning to take your private plans away.” But amazingly, they’re going even further than that. “We’re gonna take your plans away and give free healthcare to illegal immigrants and we’re gonna make you pay for it!”
President Trump himself wasted no time calling attention to the fact that not only does this slate of candidates fully intend to take away the private health insurance of millions of Americans by forcing them into a state-run system, they also managed to boast about forcing American taxpayers to foot the bill for the health insurance coverage of millions of illegal immigrants. Within minutes of having watched that moment transpire, Trump took to Twitter:
“All Democrats just raised their hands for giving millions of illegal aliens unlimited healthcare. How about taking care of American Citizens first!? That’s the end of that race!”
If you’d told me back in 2017 that by 2019 the Democratic party would be running candidates for President who not only intended to rip Americans private health insurance out of their hands—and not even bothering to lie about it this time around—but would also force those same Americans to pay higher taxes to pay for the health insurance of illegals, I wouldn’t have believed you.
But I saw it with my own eyes. It happened. It’s on video.
This major political party is now being run by lunatics. Not only is what I outlined above not a winning platform, pushing this kind of extreme agenda is going to lead to electoral extinction for the Democratic Party.
All These Candidates Have Already Gone Too Far Left
The conventional wisdom is that candidates vying for a party’s nomination during the primary season make direct appeals to the base, then during the general election phase, the nominee works to hold the base that nominated them while simultaneously trying to attract independents and crossover votes from the other party. They accomplish this by shifting to the center.
Thus, a Republican nominee courts Conservatives during the primary season and then shifts to the middle during the general election and runs as a moderate. Conversely, a Democrat nominee courts Progressives during the primary phase by running as a super-liberal, then moves to the center during the general.
The biggest danger for the nominee is that while making the shift to the center, they not only fail to pick up enough of the Independent or crossover votes, they also end up alienating large segments of the base who only backed them during the primaries because they expected the nominee to run in the general either as a staunch Conservative or a hardcore Liberal.
Not a single state has held a Democratic primary yet and already these candidates have moved so far to the Left they risk falling off of the planet. Whichever one of them manages to secure the nomination is going to face the daunting task of holding on to the radical base that nominated them while courting voters in the middle. Move too far from the base, and the nominee risks losing it.
But it seems clear to me that to win this race against a strong incumbent president such as Donald Trump, who is enjoying the benefits of a strong economy and rising poll numbers, the Democratic nominee is going to be compelled to move to the center. In a conventional race, the Democratic nominee would not have to make all that large a jump to get to the center and compete with the GOP nominee for those crucial votes.
But it’s becoming quite clear already at this early stage that this is not going to be a conventional race. From where this Democratic slate of candidates is starting, with each trying to out-Liberal the others, by the time one of them secures this nomination, that person is going to face an impossible jump to get anywhere near the middle of the political spectrum for the general election. And by even attempting to make it, how much of the Democratic far-Left base would feel betrayed by that and abandon the nominee over it?
Trump won the 2016 election by convincing enough blue collar working class voters—who traditionally vote Democrat—to cross over and vote for him. He’s currently positioning himself to do it again. In the meantime, the Democrats are positioning themselves for a massive landslide defeat.
.@nayibbukele the President of #ElSalvador, said: No one should blame U.S. for deaths at the border. "They [migrants] fled El Salvador, they fled our country. It is our fault." || #BorderCrisis #CentralAmerica #BreakingNews | *RETWEET* https://t.co/JBsciCL5tX— Sara A. Carter (@SaraCarterDC) July 1, 2019
I finally got to his name spelled out and now I can understand what he's saying when he introduces himself at the beginning of his interviews! Thank you.
Considering it's flowers, I think the appropriate word is "lesbotanical".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV6CdgbfHAs&t=615s How they have manipulated us! Spread this.
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Excellent video - thank you for linking the key part.
It’s as though I’ve known on some level that “something isn’t right here” all my life and finally people are saying what “something” is.
WHen I was in first grade, I learned that getting to know other children started by asking them what they liked to do. It was how we introduced ourselves. Drawing, board games etc. Seemed like most kids had separate primary interests and secondary interests might be shared with few others in my class. So playing together meant compromises with time spent focusing on one child’s favorite past times and then switching to focus on another child’s favorites.
But years later I noticed that all children “had” to have the same toy and it had to be their primary occupation. Parents and family members battled “door buster” crowds competing for 10 available of that toy to make sure their child “got theirs” for Christmas. I was stunned - how could EVERY child suddenly take an obsessive interest in spending the majority of their play time with the same toy?
Teddy Ruxpin (talking toy bear) became an obsession, and children were trying to bring theirs to school, but many found the animatronic bear too heavy to carry. Someone made and succeeded in marketing a toy too heavy for a child to carry? And it was many times more costly than the average for toys sold over prior years of Christmas sales.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Ruxpin
Cabbage Patch Kids (dolls) also spent time as the national toy assignment for children, and again parents seemed likewise obsessed with it, if only for the purpose of locating and buying it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabbage_Patch_Kids
This homogenization was everywhere. Christmas movies drifted away from being special family moments to focus on portrayals of combative, distorted individuals and their strange manufactured crises. And
A dinner guest on Christmas Eve, I distressed my hostess by leaving for my 2 hour drive home at 10 pm rather than staying to watch a movie titled, “Little Miss Sunshine.” I had already learned to “decode” the promotional blurbs for movies and realized they inevitably portrayed families as toxic at best, so the promo text, “A dysfunctional family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross country trip in their VW bus,” seemed to be a red flag. Later my hostess reported being horribly disappointed with this “insipid, depressing” holiday video. And did we really need a children’s “Christmas” movie titled, “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” in which the hero and heroine are corpses?
I realize some may have genuine reasons to enjoy these movies - I’m just describing the perception I got of a being inside a “show within a show.” A 360 degree “fun house” of mechanized purchasing and viewing habits. Maybe they were using toy sales to learn how to control us. As you can see, your linked video really struck a chord with me.
Thank you for the link. :)
Haha. Touche.
You're so sciencey, AZ.
That you, trashcan man?
Concrete trucks weigh about as much I bet.
Anon notes on the purpose of Q!
Anon notable!!@realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/ycrbzNSP45— RunningTheRace ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (@2runtherace) July 1, 2019
I am rolling!
Officials with the Menlo Park Fire District say at least two people were exposed to Sarin at Facebook’s mailing facility. https://t.co/hObL1Ooj61— Praying Medic (@prayingmedic) July 1, 2019
He can use light tanks and personnel carriers.
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