The takeover.

   The next republican debate is just a few moments away, and there is still no sign that the leading contender to represent the party will participate. 

Mr. Bad Hair just took his ball and went home. (Find another ball)

He is leading by a lot, so why should he give the also- rans a chance to beat up on him?
Dude is taking on the media arm of his own party and seems to be winning. It is driving traditional conservatives nuts.  All those millions Jeb is sitting on might as well be Monopoly Money, because it will not help him in this presidential race.

Anyway, this might be a good time to cut ad paste in the middle of an interesting article I saw in The New Yorker:

"The last real outsider to take over a party was Jimmy Carter, in 1976. In a piece I wrote for the magazine on the 2012 race, I cited the reaction of Averell Harriman, the former governor of New York, when he learned of Carter’s impending victory. “Jimmy Carter? How can that be?” Harriman said. “I don’t even know Jimmy Carter, and as far as I know none of my friends know him, either.” But even Carter was an elected official (a state legislator and one-term governor from Georgia) and had been active in the Democratic National Committee. On the Republican side, you have to go back to Senator Barry Goldwater’s nomination, in 1964, to find a Republican who captured a party against the will of the party’s élites.
 

Donald Trump’s attempt at a hostile takeover of the G.O.P. is astonishing in its breadth. He is not just competing against a large field of candidates for votes in the primaries; he is at war with nearly every power center in the Republican Party—and he is winning. How is he doing it? One of Trump’s strengths is that he has effectively co-opted a conservative counter-establishment that has been growing during the Obama years, which has seen the rise of a movement on the right that dislikes Republican leaders almost as much as it dislikes the President. Trump is finding that the anger of this movement can be harnessed to attack a broader array of targets than just Washington politicians.
 

Take, for instance, Trump’s war with Fox News. The fight started when Megyn Kelly, the Fox anchor and one of the moderators of a Republican debate last August, asked Trump about his pattern of insulting women with terms like “fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals.” After the debate, Trump seemed to make Kelly’s point by attacking her in a vulgar way. For months he has continued to belittle her, despite on-again, off-again truces reportedly negotiated between Trump and Roger Ailes, the head of Fox News. Certain shows on Fox—though not all of them—soon became hubs of anti-Trump voices, and Trump, who is well-known for holding grudges, responded by publicly attacking Fox pundits by name, especially George Will and Charles Krauthammer.
 

This week, according to Fox News, Trump’s campaign tried to muscle Kelly out of her moderator chair for a debate on Thursday. The fight descended into a volley of schoolyard taunts between the two sides, and Trump pulled out of the debate and said he would organize his own competing event, in Iowa, to benefit veterans. Trump’s campaign continued to escalate its attack on the network. “Fox News Corp. has donated over $3,000,000.00 to the Clinton’s [sic]. Makes you wonder what goes on behind the scenes….” Daniel Scavino, Jr., Trump’s senior adviser, tweeted. The number apparently combines donations to Clinton political campaigns and corporate philanthropic donations to the Clinton Foundation, though Scavino’s sources and methodology were unclear.
 

Fox News has long been considered the most influential news organization for conservatives. In an e-mail newsletter today, the longtime Republican consultant Alex Castellanos called Fox “the most powerful Republican institution in contemporary American politics” and “the stage on which Republicans play.” He added, “Most Republican candidates kneel before it, supplicants hoping to sip airtime from its chalice.” No matter how unfair the coverage, few Republican candidates dared to launch the kind of assault that Trump and his aides have initiated. It was considered a death sentence in a Republican primary. Similarly, Trump has been attacking, and been attacked by, the main organs of conservative opinion—National Review and The Weekly Standard—which were previously considered the enforcers of conservative ideology and institutions to be flattered rather than condemned." [More]

They created this monster; he is their totalitarian. The man who a certain segment of the population is reaching out to and yearning for after eight years of the Negro in charge.

Let the trumpless debate begin.

 

The Charlie Sheen candidate.

You have to believe me when I tell you that I am no fan of Megyn Kelly. I think she is an intellectual lightweight and a fraud, and the only reason she comes off as a half way decent journalist is because she plies her wares on FOX VIEWS. (What's that old saying? Oh yeah, "In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king.")

Still, the way Donald Trump has been treating her of late is shameful for someone seeking the highest office in the land. His obsession with her is juvenile and borderline creepy, and it speaks to some deeper issues with Trump's emotional stability.

Yet this man leads all republicans in the polls. America, what are you thinking?

I tried to view him as a serious candidate, I really did. I tried to listen to his speeches to see if there was something of substance behind all the bloviating and bluster, but alas, nothing. Just the same old Donald: talking loud and saying nothing. 

Then comes the kicker, he actually has Ann Coulter appearing at his political rallies now. Sorry Donald, but nothing says I am a joke of a candidate like having Ann Coulter appearing at your political events.

"Ann Coulter introduced Donald Trump at his rally in Iowa today, and she had a lot to say about their mutual favorite subject: immigration.

Coulter backed up Trump on the issue of deporting immigrants, even the ones with “anchor babies.” She mocked the liberal media for considering that a controversial statement and calling them “speech Nazis.”

She expressed her gratefulness to Trump that the media is actually talking about this issue and sanctuary cities and the border wall (“I love the idea of the Great Wall of Trump”), and declared, “I have not had this much hope for America since November 7th, 2012.”

Owen Wilson called Trump the Charlie Sheen of politics.   . That's not really fair. Charlie Sheen would have made a better president.

*Pick from Mediaite.com

American suckers.

Like other people who watch politics for fun, and view it as something akin to the National Football League, I am really enjoying this summer of Donald Trump right now.

 I bet he can't even believe what a ride he is having. Dude must pinch himself every time he wakes up in his gaudy gold crusted bed.  The guy puts his foot deeper in his mouth, and his lead in the polls widen. Go figure. (What was that P.T. Barnum said? Oh yea, something about a sucker.)

All of this is causing the GOP establishment and the also- rans who make up their field of presidential contenders some serious consternation.

And journalists can't write enough about his unlikely and incredible lead in the polls. It's like a college football team leading the New England Patriots at half time.

"I feel like I've written this post four or five times now. But I just cannot get over or even fully get my head around the way that Donald Trump's mere presence in the race has this power to drive everyone on the Republican side of the aisle insane. I don't mean just that they don't like that he's in the lead and creating campaign havoc. I mean forgetting who they are, getting into fights with each other, and just generally losing their minds.

It's like one of these classic Star Trek episodes where some malevolent non-corporeal force is driving everyone mad or putting everyone at each other's throats for some unknown reason. But it's not non-corporeal at all. It's extremely corporeal, more than you and me. It's Donald Trump.

The latest example - actually the second that involves him, the first being the Trump-triggered feud with Bristol Palin - is with Erick Erickson.

Erickson has posted a series of rage- and expletive-filled emails he got from Trump supporters after he tried to knock Trump when Erickson thought he was done - just after the Fox GOP debate when he thought Trump was on the ropes and conservatives were turning on him. As we know, Trump wasn't down at all. He was only getting stronger, about to successfully pocket an abject surrender from Fox News and perhaps even force Fox to turn over hostages for good behavior.

This has inspired Erickson to opine about the toxicity of public rhetoric today and importance of civility and being "happy warriors." My point here isn't to bash Erickson. He's a friendly enough guy in person. But he is not a civility guy. No way, no how, not even remotely. But now he's come into the Trump harmonic convergence field and apparently forgotten who he is and lost his mind.

Like I said, I don't know how Trump does it. He may have superpowers that require him to be President." [Source]

Poor John Marshall cant figure it out, either.

The folks over at FOX  are losing their minds as they count their money. (I saw those debate ratings)
This time, though, they might have sold their souls to the wrong devil. Unlike other right wing political candidates, this one cannot be controlled. So Megyn took an unsuspected vacation, Trump is bragging about beating them, and deep within the bowels of the wingnut echo chamber there are different sounds coming from different places.

This has been fun to watch, but I am almost out of popcorn. Honestly, I thought that this freak show would have been over by now.

*Pic from youtube.com

The confederacy fights back.

The right wing is now in full revolt mode. They believe that they are losing the war for the heart and soul of their beloved country, and they are not going to go down without a fight. 

While some people in the country are busy celebrating the official removal of the confederate flag from state grounds in South Carolina (a move that was long overdue, and that only came about because nine innocent people were  slaughtered by a defender of said flag), the friends of the confederacy and their right wing friends were regrouping to fight back against the tide of Yankee love sweeping over the country.

Pat Buchanan has all but declared that another Civil War is looming , and  he is calling for "mass right-wing civil disobedience." (Now that's funny, because I thought that is what we have been getting in Washington  for the past eight years.) 

He claims that it's the latest rulings from the Supreme Court legalizing same sex marriages and allowing the ACA to stand that has set him off, but Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles can see that it's the attack on the symbol of the confederacy that really sent him over the top.

He has lots of company. Over the past few days we have seen rallies and protests in support of the flag. Poor Nikki Haley, bless her pandering heart, has been attacked relentlessly on facebook and twitter for being a n**#%r lover.

Rocker Kid Rock has told us all to kiss his ass  (dude, you're from Michigan) and the right- wing editorials and pundits have already started about the flag not being a problem and that it's just a piece of cloth. Blah. Blah. Blah.

My prediction: In a  year or two this phase that Americans are going through will pass. And Wal Mart, Sears and Amazon will be moving products with the "stars and bars" just like they were before.
Politicians will no longer be on television moralizing about the offensive nature of the symbol, and everything that happened in South Carolina will fade from our collective memories.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I submit that what we see happening in the United States today is an apt illustration of why the Confederate flag was raised in the first place. What we see materializing before our very eyes is tyranny: tyranny over the freedom of expression, tyranny over the freedom of association, tyranny over the freedom of speech, and tyranny over the freedom of conscience.

In 1864, Confederate General Patrick Cleburne warned his fellow southerners of the historical consequences should the South lose their war for independence. He was truly a prophet. He said if the South lost, “It means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy. That our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the war; will be impressed by all of the influences of History and Education to regard our gallant debt as traitors and our maimed veterans as fit subjects for derision.” No truer words were ever spoken.

The idea that the Confederate flag (actually, there were five of them) stood for racism, bigotry, hatred, and slavery is just so much hogwash. In fact, if one truly wants to discover who the racist was in 1861, just read the words of Mr. Lincoln." [Source]

That folks, was Megyn Kelly, the most popular voice on right wing television. In that same article she says that the confederate flag should be raised; not taken down.

Stay vigilant people, and know your history. I have a feeling that it will be repeating itself real soon. 

*Pic from forwardprogressives.com

FOX buddies, and border hate.

Loved the following response from someone calling themselves "Mean Girl" to Bill O'Reilly's question about the right hating president Obama too much to get things done:


"Dear Bill,

Since you are one of the prime right wing "hate pundits," we find it very ironic, if not disingenuous for you to be asking "shouldn't we rise above it?" Like all petty tyrants and bullies (not to mention sociopaths), you have occasionally pivoted to this "soft side", showing us the face of "compassion conservatism (i.e. bullying with a smile). Are your ratings slipping or has the hate and bile on the right grown too much even for a full blown bully and sociopath such as you? Or is this just yet another one of your ploys to separate yourself from the pack of right wing hate pundits as a way for you to feel "special" about your hating?

In any event, you are our favorite right wing hate pundit. You always exhibit the exquisite brittleness and seething intolerance which renders your every utterance ironic.

Love and kisses,"


Classic!


Because if Bill O'Reilly can't see the irony of that question, he is clearly a narcissistic sociopath.


Hey, at least he isn't blatantly race- baiting like his colleague, Megyn Kelly.


Ms. Kelly brought an African American guest on her show to talk about....wait for it....Mumia Abu-Jamal. Remember him? He is the convicted cop killer from right here in Philly who, like the New Black Panther Party, never fails to get a rise out of the melanin challenged, octogenarian set, which makes up the typical FOX VIEWS audience these days.


Kelly looked long and hard for a guest to come on her program and defend Mumia, and she found one.


"Megyn Kelly got into an intense debate tonight with Johanna Fernandez over the infamous case of Mumia Abu-Jamal. Fernandez is a coordinator for the Campaign to Bring Mumia home, and Kelly was shocked that she actually found similarities between the convicted cop-killer and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. And Kelly was outraged that there’s actually a proposal to get this taught in California schools.


Fernandez, to Kelly’s frustration, went over issues related to Mumia’s case and conviction. She said the media describes him with “coded language” like “thug” and “militant,” and claimed that there have been facts that haven’t come to light showing there might have been another shooter.


Kelly refuted that argument as having been disproved in court, and went back and forth with Fernandez until the latter said, “You are entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts.”


Fernandez told Kelly that Dr. King was fairly radical himself. Kelly jumped in, telling her, “You can’t just come on and talk and talk and talk.” Fernandez fired back, “You’ve been interrupting me since I’ve been on!” [Source]


Looks like it all went just about how Kelly planned it to me.


Finally, a few words about the immigration debate and what to do with the children flooding into the country from Central America.


The right wing seems to have it all figured out: Send armed militia-men to the border to protect us all from those crazed children invading our country from South of the border.

"Militia groups are starting to line the border between Texas and Mexico to protect the region from an influx of refugee children, despite warnings from state lawmakers and U.S. Customs and Border Protection to stand down. 

The militias have provided dozens of pictures to the media of their members “guarding” the border while carrying what appear to be semi-automatic rifles. The members in the photos are wearing tactical gear and military-style balaclavas that shield their identities (other photos show militia members with their faces blurred out).

Reportedly, 10 or more militias have descended on the border while child refugees from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala continue to make the long trek and crossing to the United States. So far, an estimated 50,000 unaccompanied children have crossed the border. [Source]

The truth is these guys are no different from another group that has plans for those pesky children if they dare cross our border illegally.

"I’m sure you’ve been waiting with bated breath to get the KKK’s thoughts on the crisis at the border with all those undocumented children showing up there. Well, as you can expect, it’s really horrible. Al Jazeera America learned this week that they’re proposing a “shoot to kill” policy to deal with all those people (which again, includes lots of children) at the border.

Reporter Robert Ray asked a KKK imperial wizard why they would ever do such a thing. He explained that the people coming to the border are “criminals” and will “continue breaking the law” when they come into the country, not to mention bringing third world diseases.


Ray suggested it might be heartless to propose killing young children because of that. And here’s what the guy actually said.

“If we can’t turn ‘em back, I think if we pop a couple of ‘em off and leave the corpses laying on the border, maybe they’ll see that we’re serious about stopping immigration.” [Source]

This type of madness will continue until poli-tricksters in Washington decide to get serious about passing sensible immigration laws. They need to start working together to do things like free up funding for immigration courts, and to pay for the manpower needed to conduct deportation hearings in a relatively expeditious manner.


The children are coming because life in Central America has become increasingly worse, and the people living in those countries believe that it's better to send their kids on a dangerous journey to a country thousands of miles away that might ultimately offer them a better life, than to have them die in poverty at home.


Maybe it's time we started paying more attention to our foreign policy as it relates to those countries. We spend billions of dollars on small countries a half way around the world to protect our interests when it comes to things such as oil. Why not invest in these poverty stricken countries close to home so that their children won't be clamoring to come here?  


I think that would be the better way to go, because, at the end of the day, there are only so many children that the KKK and militia types can shoot.










 

 

An evil man.

The warden of one of America's largest and most notorious prisons is an evil man.


His name is Burl Cain, and he is no doubt a fan of FOX VIEWS and Megyn Kelly. You see, like Megyn Kelly, Mr. Cain believes that the Black Panther Party is still a threat to white security here in America.


"Kenny “Zulu” Whitmore has spent 35 years in what officials call closed cell restriction since being sentenced to the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola for second-degree murder in 1977. Whitmore, who has been in solitary for the last 28 consecutive years, reportedly attributes his vision damage, hypertension and other problems to the confinement.


Angola Warden Burl Cain, who has been running the prison for the past two decades, told students at The Medill Justice Project that he was thinking about allowing Whitmore to return to the general population.


But Cain argued that Whitmore's relationship with the Black Panther Party could continue to make him a threat to prison security.


“The Black Panther Party advocates violence and racism—I’m not going to let anybody walk around advocating violence and racism,” he said. ( I wonder how many Klansmen and white supremacists he kept in solitary for 25 years.)


“We will get him out,” Cain predicted. “We’d rather him out. I need his cell. I’ve got some young people, predators, that need to be in that cell. When I can conclude he’s not going to cause me the blues, then he can come out of the cell.”


In 2005, Cain explained to the Shreveport Times that his faith-based rehabilitation program worked because it gave the prisoners a sense of morality.


"The only way to make a prison safer is the Lord Almighty," Cain insisted.


A Bible verse on a tablet outside the prison quotes Philippians 3:13, and a wall inside Camp D reads, "Jesus is Lord."


"In what other prison would you see that?" the Warden asked.


"If I can get the population to become moral, then we're all safer, and then we then have an environment of rehabilitation," he told The Medill Justice Project. "It's real simple that moral people don't rape, pilfer and steal. It's the immoral people who commit the crime."


For his part, Whitmore has maintained that he was being held in solitary confinement as a "political prisoner" because of his ties to the Black Panther Party. [Source]


THIRTY FIVE YEARS IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT?! I am not sure there is such a place, but if there is, there is a special place in hell for people like Burl Cain.


The "Lord Almighty" that he loves so much is no doubt looking down on him and thinking that he is not exactly the type of person who he wants singing his praises here on earth.




God might need to start looking for some new salespeople.

Making sure that Chrsitmas stays white in New Mexico.

Do you see what you started Megyn Kelly? Now you have FOX News viewers buying into your pronouncement about the fat guy in a red suit. The one who comes around once a year to give out goodies.

"Fox News commentator Megyn Kelly isn’t the only one who believes in a “white Christmas.”

A teacher in New Mexico has been disciplined for telling a black student dressed as Santa Claus that Father Christmas is Caucasian.

“Don’t you know Santa Claus is white?” the teacher reportedly asked. “Why are you wearing that?”

Students at Cleveland High School in Rio Rancho, N.M., were allowed to dress as Santa, elves or reindeer. When ninth-grader Christopher Rougier arrived wearing a white beard and red Santa cap, the teacher ridiculed him, the boy’s father, Michael Rougier, told KOB-TV.

School officials in Rio Rancho said the teacher admits making a “dumb” mistake and apologized to Rougier’s family.

Officials wouldn’t specify what punishment the unnamed teacher would face.
Rougier is still angry.

“Whether this teacher felt Christopher may have been wearing this out of context, there's no room for it,” he said. “There's just no room for it.” [Source]

Is a "dumb mistake" what we are calling openly humiliating a 9th grader with racist statements by those in positions of authority these days?

Sadly, it looks like FOX News  is winning their war on Christmas, one racist at a time.














 

A reminder from Megyn.

"You know, I've given her her due. Just because it makes you feel uncomfortable doesn't mean it has to change," [Megyn]Kelly said. "Jesus was a white man, too. It's like we have, he's a historical figure that's a verifiable fact, as is Santa, I just want kids to know that. How do you revise it in the middle of the legacy in the story and change Santa from white to black?"

 

Lord have mercy! And Megyn is the "straight" news reporter over at FOX.

 

Anyway, we knew Santa wasn't black, because all of their [Fox] viewers would have shot his big behind the moment he started crawling down the chimney. Besides, the whole "I saw mama kissing Santa Claus" thing... Not a good look. But Jesus? Come on now, Megyn. Dude was definitely not white. He had a posse for crying out loud.

 

From what I hear the J man was pretty cool. He used to walk around on earth dropping pearls of wisdom and being the life of every party by turning water into wine and all. Not to mention feeding a whole bunch of people with just a loaf of bread and some fish.

 

Can you imagine having a friend like that? "Yo dudes, you hungry? Yea, but we only have enough for a two piece order of Popeye's. No problem, I will just turn that bad boy into a family pack."   

 

And now Megyn Kelly and the folks over at Fox want to claim the J man as their own. Unbelievable! The fat guy in the red suit isn't enough? Personally, I think the J man must have looked more like Bunny Wailer than Brad Pitt, but maybe that's my own cultural and racial bias kicking in.

 

People like Hadas Gold are trying to get all historical and accurate on Megyn. But it all boils down to Megyn's own prejudices and belief system. A belief system that was ingrained into her at an early age. In truth, Megyn is no different than most other folks in the majority population who believe that Jesus and Santa were created for them and no one else. By making this declaration on Fox, she was just preaching to the faithful.

 

"I'm a straight news anchor, I'm not one of the opinion hosts.."

 

So there you have it. What Megyn just declared to the world is not her opinion; it was a fact.

 

There are a lot of biblical scholars who would disagree with her facts. But hey, Megyn works for Fox news.

 

 

Megyn Kelly hates Adrian Peterson and all other ungrateful Negroes.

I am still waiting for the wingnuts and the FOX NEWS folks to blame the tsunami in Japan on Obama. Don't laugh, I am sure it's coming.

Speaking of FOX, Megyn (maybe if I hike my skirt up a little more and show my legs folks won't pay attention to how dumb I sound) Kelly is at it again with her own -reverse- racism chasing. (I swear that woman got burned by a one of you Negroes earlier in her life.) The latest news event pushing her color arousal buttons (h/t to Francis Holland for that phrase) is the police exam case in Dayton, Ohio.

I will give it to you from a wingnut perspective:

"DAYTON — The Dayton Police Department is lowering its testing standards for recruits.

It’s a move required by the U.S. Department of Justice after it says not enough African-Americans passed the exam.

Dayton is in desperate need of officers to replace dozens of retirees. The hiring process was postponed for months because the D.O.J. rejected the original scores provided by the Dayton Civil Service Board, which administers the test.

Under the previous requirements, candidates had to get a 66% on part one of the exam and a 72% on part two.

The D.O.J. approved new scoring policy only requires potential police officers to get a 58% and a 63%. That’s the equivalent of an ‘F’ and a ‘D’.

“It becomes a safety issue for the people of our community,” said Dayton Fraternal Order of Police President, Randy Beane. “It becomes a safety issue to have an incompetent officer next to you in a life and death situation.”

“The NAACP does not support individuals failing a test and then having the opportunity to be gainfully employed,” agreed Dayton NAACP President Derrick Foward.

The D.O.J. and Civil Service Board declined Dayton’s News Source’s repeat requests for interviews. The lower standards mean 258 more people passed the test. The city won’t say how many were minorities.

“If you lower the score for any group of people, you’re not getting the best qualified people for the job,” Foward said.

“We need to work with the youth and make them interested in becoming law enforcement officers and firefighters,” said Beane. “Break down the barriers whether they are real or perceived, so we can move forward in this community.”

The D.O.J. has forced other police departments across the country to lower testing standards, citing once again that not enough black candidates were passing..." [Wingnut source]

Ahhm, excuse me, but since when is 66% or 72% a great score? Look, I hate to break it you folks in the majority who are losing your minds because some blacks folks who aren't exactly Mensa candidates might get on a police force. But the last time I checked, police officers aren't exactly the type of folks in classrooms trying to figure out what is the geometrical meaning of the central extension of the algebra of diffeomorphisms of the circle, or the "Riemann Hypothesis". Sorry, they just aren't. Call me crazy, but I want my police officer to be able to work their sources, be street smart enough to handle themselves in tough situations, and know the law as it applies to their jobs. That's pretty much it.

So move along Megyn, there is nothing to see here. Time to start working your New Black Panther sources again.

Finally, last night it was Jalen Rose, tonight it's my man Adrian Peterson. America is mad at another one of you high paid high profile Negroes for not being happy with your station in life here in the land of the (some are) free. Adrian, you done went and compared yourself to a slave, and, as is to be expected, like Jalen, you are facing a backlash.

Here is an example from the Shutdown Corner sports blog on Yahoo:

"tell that knuckle dragger to go get a job like us........that stupid coon can afford all the fried chicken he wants while all the other apes have top rob for there fried chicken". Nice.

Adrian, let me leave you with one of my favorite sayings. And think about it the next time you want to speak your mind. (Which, by the way, you have every right to do.)

"There is nothing a white man with a penny hates more than a N*&&%r with a nickel."