Sunday Democrat debate

2016 Demorat January DebateWith Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley.

Hillary: “One out of three black men will end up going to prison.”  Because our country is so intrinsically racist, you see.

My response: then one out of three black men should stop committing crimes.

Despite that statistic quoted by Clinton to be patently false.

Bernie Sanders couldn’t hear a question to him.  That’s called a clue.  Sanders’s answer to the question was that every death of a person in police custody should be investigated by the US DOJ.  And that police departments must look just like the communities surrounding them.

Every custody death must be investigated by the US DOJ.  Because states can’t be trusted on their own.

A clear and obvious abrogation of the 10th Amendment.

Bernie hates SuperPacs.  He wants limited donations by small contributors.  Oh my God, is that Bernie’s death knell for the Demorat Party — that survives on big money donations?.  Big money makes both parties rock and roll, and the DNC bends over the nearest toilet in fear when they hear Sanders say that.

Martin O’Malley: “Secretary Clinton, that’s not true.  You do not go as far on reigning in Wall Street as I would.  It’s not true.”  And the look that Hillary Clinton gave O’Malley would have otherwise set him aflame.

Sanders would want Wall Street to bail out the public, and he would raise taxes generally and specifically on corporations.

“The wealthy will pay for healthcare, student debt, free schools and colleges.”

O’Malley: “we want youth services, jobs for kids.”  Right; that volunteerism.  The Bloods and Crips and Nortenos and Surenos and tongs will be all over that.

O’Malley doesn’t like the phrase “boots on the ground.”  Too demeaning.  Good to know.

Hillary thinks Europe needs to get tough with Putin right away.  That’ll happen.  Because Putin supplies a great deal of EU oil.  Sure.  Right away.

O’Malley: “we should be secure in our homes, in our papers, the government should be required to get warrants before they come in our front door or our back.”  Completely agreed.  When I was a cop I had to acquire search and arrest warrants on cases.  The US government should be no different.

This time, it was all about Bernie Sanders.  You could clearly see that he was the Socialist liberator and Hillary Clinton was the corporatist.  She was also the obvious Obama-clinger.

As per normal, it was the consistent “rentoon rentoon rentoon” of more spending, more money, higher taxes, more Free Cheese.  Moar moar moar.  Everything will be great if we can only get those judgmental Republicans and bible-toting, Constitution-embracing, gun-splaying, unborn-loving, government-regulating conservative fucktards out of the way.

I could not possibly want to envision this country under another four years of rampant regulatory increases, taxation, national diminishment and the SCOTUS appointments that would be made by appeasers and socialists.

BZ

 

Lindsay Graham bows out

Lindsay Graham Leaves GOP Presidential RaceAnd I would say that was the appropriate thing to do.

Graham was animated and contentious and emotive and passionate at last Tuesday’s GOP debate, but he became something of a One Trick Pony with regard to ISIS.

What “killed” Lindsay Graham?  He wanted to put the proverbial “boots on the ground” again in the Middle East.  Up to 20,000 of them.

Graham could be provided a cabinet appointment, perhaps for SecDef, or maybe Secretary of State.

Lindsay Graham came to his senses today.  For that I congratulate him.

Or perhaps Graham was simply “before his time” regarding ISIS?

BZ

 

Dr Ben Carson BLASTS Democrats and black community

Finally, a logical, mature black man who dares, truly dares to state the obvious.

Background: Dr Ben Carson, running for president, visited Harlem in New York City on Wednesday.  He said:

“Of course black lives matter.  What I feel, instead of people pointing fingers at each other, and just creating strife, what we need to be talking about is, how do we solve the problem in the black community of murder.

“For a young black male, in the inner city, homicide is the most likely cause of death. That’s ridiculous.

“Most of those occur at the hands of other young black males. We need to be talking about, ‘Why is that occurring?’ We need to be talking about, ‘How do we instill values into people again?’ And those are family and faith.

“I think it’s because the Democrat Party has subscribed to the Lyndon Johnson philosophy.

“Lyndon Johnson said, if you give those ‘n-words’ such and such, they’ll vote for us for the next 200 years.”

The rampant hypocrisy of Leftists, Progressives, Demorats, is exposed by Dr Ben Carson.  He speaks words for which most anyone else would be pilloried by the media at best, and their lives destroyed at the worst.

I wrote before that Demorats and Leftists continuously prove that black lives don’t matter.  And in truth, Demorats and Leftists are the Slavemasters and young urban black males (and others) are the slaves.

Blacks, listen up.

BZ

 

Thoughts on Donald Trump

Ross Perot For PresidentI’ve not made much mention about Donald Trump on the blog if for no other reason than he certainly doesn’t require my approval for any move he makes.  However, with the most recent kerfuffle regarding John McCain, I felt it was time to put phalanges to black keys.

That is because we, meaning Conservatives, are on the cusp of losing the presidency once again; not because we didn’t vote or decided to stay home but because we became what I will call “Perot’ed.”

One nice thing about being older is having a memory, as it is, with regard to America’s history.  Ross Perot, another wealthy individual not customarily linked to overt politics save those required to build his company, decided to enter the 1992 presidential contest as a third party candidate.  His vacuuming of votes from then-president George HW Bush resulted in the installation of Bill Clinton as president, though Clinton won only 42% of the national vote.  Perot himself won 19% of the vote — the greatest for a third party candidate since Theodore Roosevelt with his “Bull Moose” party of 1912.

I credit Trump for bringing certain issues to the forefront, primarily those of illegal immigration.

However, Trump’s venture into the verbal battle with John McCain proved that I cannot take Trump seriously for what I consider to be some very good reasons.

In my opinion Senator McCain “started it” with his pejoratives towards Trump.  Trump verbally retaliated.  I don’t believe it’s any more complicated than that.  McCain made it “personal” in the eyes of Donald Trump.  And therein lies the problem.

Certainly Trump can be as bombastic as he wishes because of the monetary buffer he possesses.  He is unlike any other candidate in that regard.  But upon closer examination one discovers that Mr Trump has supported Democrats and their causes in the past, written them large checks, and is a friend of Hillary Clinton.  Taken in a business perspective, this is understandable.  Trump’s world is New York as was Hillary Clinton’s.  In business you frequently have to play both sides of the street.  I just have to be convinced now, in order to vote for him, that Mr Trump is truly a reformed Democrat.

I find myself not so convinced, unlike others.

Trump is who he is, there’s no denying.  He’s loud, flamboyant, larger-than-life, and broadcasts his appearance via the neon-orange shellacked nest of material atop his pate.

What he isn’t, however, is politically astute.

Certainly, he has negotiated tremendous financial deals sitting down at ebon tables, that much is readily apparent.

But when as powerful a man as Trump takes a comment personally to the point that he retaliates with even greater overwrought (and apparently ill-thought-out) rhetoric, he proves to me that he can be unbalanced in his application of critical thinking skills.

To the point that he may be manipulated.

It is now no secret that, should Trump be elected president, he can be swayed or purposely engineered into speech or actions that are predicated upon either emotions or his own immediate personal reactions and feelings.

Yes, Donald Trump is getting good poll numbers at this point.  And yes, it is understandable that people are tired of staid politicians and yearn for something fresh and new on the political stage.  I get that.

But I can’t see handing a vote to Trump when he has proved, time and again, that he is not to be trusted with consistency.  He’s in, he’s out.  He’s serious, he isn’t.  He says he’s serious now.  He’s funding his own campaign.  He’s making what I believe are totally off-the-cuff speeches.

It shows.

You have to be able to play the long game.  Trump is having difficulty playing the short game.

But here’s the caveat.

As Trump — if Trump — continues to take the air out of the room, we as Conservatives and the Republicans are in danger of revisiting 1992 all over again.  Trump could siphon a certain percentile of votes away from the GOP to do nothing more than guarantee a win for Hillary or another Demorat candidate.

What keeps me from walking away away totally from the GOP this time around can be condensed down into one consideration: SCOTUS.

Think about that aspect.

BZ

P.S.

Michael Beckman has a wonderful article about Trump here.  Please read.