Sunday, July 1, 2018

On illegals' kids issue, where were the protests and wall-to-wall coverage when Obama did the same thing?

So the left is busy protesting President Trump's zero-tolerance stance on illegal immigration, which up until recently has included the separation of kids from parents, as illegally entering parents (or human traffickers posing as parents) are prosecuted.
 
Where were the organized protests of hundreds of thousands in 2013 and 2014 when Obama did the same thing and worse? Look at the pictures. People released pictures in the past month thinking they showed kids in cages because of Trump. The pictures quickly went away after it came out that they were really pictures that were taken under Obama. Why didn't George Soros, or the ACLU organize protests when Obama did it? There were a few stories, so obviously the media knew Obama was separating and incarcerating children while trying to deport their parents. 
 
Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush, Michelle Obama, the harridans of The View, Hollywood itself, and rest didn't feign outrage in 2013 and 2014, so their outrage today is obviously contrived. 
 
It is especially appalling to watch the media today, along with lefty pols such as Maxine Waters, Dianne Feinstein, Dick Durbin, Chuckie Schumer, Hillary Clinton, Jeff Flake and John McCain just roar at Trump while they were extremely quiet or supportive of Obama when kids were in worse facilities. It was under Obama that they had blankets made of foil. 
 
Why didn't the media, Hollywood and the politicians compare Obama to Hitler and the Nazis? Here's instead the kid-glove treatment they have been getting. This first one is from Business Insider:
 
Several former Obama administration officials took to social media and news outlets last month to explain a gallery of years-old photos that showed immigrant children sleeping in shoddy conditions at a government-run holding facility in Arizona.
 
The images, which the Associated Press first published in 2014, resurfaced recently for reasons that remain unclear, and quickly prompted viral outrage on Twitter. One particularly disturbing image showed two children sleeping on mattresses on the floor inside what appeared to be a cage.
A number of prominent liberals — and even a former Obama administration official — shared the photos, mistakenly believing they depicted the Trump administration's treatment of immigrant children who were forcibly separated from their parents.
Jon Favreau, who worked as a speechwriter for former President Barack Obama, tweeted, "This is happening right now, and the only debate that matters is how we force our government to get these kids back to their families as fast as humanly possible."
Favreau said he later deleted the tweet after social media users pointed out that the photos were taken during the Obama administration. But by that point, critics had already rushed to accuse him of concealing Obama's own harsh immigration tactics while condemning Trump's.
Favreau said in a series of tweets that he made a "mistake" by not checking the date of the photos before sharing them on Twitter. He explained that the photos were taken in 2014, when the Obama administration faced "an influx of unaccompanied minors who showed up at the border, fleeing violence from Central America."

He added that the pictures had been taken while the government was trying to "move those children out of those shelters as fast as humanly possible and connect them with their parents, most of whom were already in the United States."
In 2014 the Obama Administration wanted to make it easier to send kids back. So there is this, from Vox:

The Obama administration and Republicans in Congress have both embraced the idea of changing the law, to children who are coming over from Central America the same way as children coming from Mexico: they'd have to pass an immediate screening interview in order to stay in the country.
That's likely to greatly reduce the number of children who are able to stay. But the rushed process is ending up sending Mexican children back into danger. That should raise red flags for any proposals to deal with Central American children the same way.
Obama, Jeff Flake, McCain and others demanded that the laws be changed so kids could be deported immediately. Now McCain, Flake and others rip Trump incessantly and the compliant media acts like Trump is a tyrant dictator and compare him to Hitler. Here we have it, from the New York Times:
Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, said that Congress needed to repeal the 2008 human trafficking law. “The message has to be, ‘If you cross our border illegally, you will be returned immediately,' ” he said.
Senator Jeff Flake, Republican of Arizona, said the Department of Health and Human Services, which takes in many of the unaccompanied children, needed to be cut out of the process so that law enforcement officials could ship them home more quickly.
The immigrant rights groups should be ashamed of themselves because it is obvious they didn't protest during Obama and it's clear that these are staged protests and not spontaneous. It is a shame that the media participates in the duping of the public and uses these kids as pawns to trash Trump because that is the sole goal, to trash Trump. 
 
Everyone should remember that when people are only outraged part of the time on same situation, then the outrage is obviously fake. As fake as showing pictures from 2014 and saying they were current.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/07/on_illegalss_kids_issue_where_were_the_protests_and_walltowall_coverage_when_obama_did_the_same_thing.html

Michael Moore threatens to surround the capitol to stop vote on SCOTUS pick

Michael Moore is an hysteric. This much we knew. But what he showed in his interview on Friday night with "Real Time's" Bill Mahar was someone divorced from reality.
Michael Moore on Friday said he would rally on Capitol Hill with a million others to keep lawmakers from confirming President Trump’s pick to succeed outgoing Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy.
Appearing on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” the liberal filmmaker and activist said he’d participate in a wide-scale protest to prevent the Senate from approving the president’s second Supreme Court nominee, assuming Republican leadership schedules a vote before the November midterm elections when Democrats risk gaining control.
“We’ve got to hold the Democratic seats we have, but look, 90 percent of incumbents are always returned,” Mr. Moore. “The Democrats in Montana and North Dakota, West Virginia, they’ve got to do their job, they’ll do their job. Our job is to win Nevada, Arizona and Tennessee and they could all be won!”

“But the vote’s going to take place before then, no?” responded comedian Bill Maher, the program’s host.
Nearly four months until midterms, Mr. Moore said Democrats “have to find ways” in the interim to stop the Senatefrom voting on whoever Mr. Trump picks to replace Justice Kennedy, who announced his retirement earlier this week.
“‘Find ways?’ What does that mean? Like what?” asked Mr. Maher.
“I’ll join a million other people surrounding the United States Capitol,” replied Mr. Moore. “I will stand there. I will put my- Bill, let me tell you something. If this judge goes through, for at least the rest of all of our lives, it’s a right-wing court. That’s it. It’s over.”
What's "over"? Partisan liberal dominance of the Supreme Court? Judicial lawmaking? Being able to ignore the spirit and intent of the Constitution?
No word if Moore thinks a million people could surround the capitol or whether he could do it all by himself.
The filmmaker's girth aside, this is a classic example of "epistemic closure." 
In the closed information loop of liberal media, pundits and commentators vie for attention by trying to be more outrageous, more hysterical than anyone else. What seems incredible or ridiculous to a more settled mind, makes perfect sense to many on the left.
In effect, they egg each other on to new heights of lunacy. In this frenzied atmosphere, it's easy to see how Trump can go from being an incompetent dunce to the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler. 
The left has convinced itself that Trump represents a mortal danger to the republic - to our freedoms, our rights, even the safety of liberals. They are so divorced from reality that they are oblivious to how crazy this worldview is seen by most ordinary people.
Voters are more and more likely to throw some cold water on the left this November and two years from now, giving Trump a second term.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/07/michael_moore_threatens_to_surround_the_capitol_to_stop_vote_on_scotus_pick.html

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/06/the_lefts_hysteria_over_abortion.html

Hilarious satire of Dem apoplexy over Trump’s next Supreme Court pick

Hilarious satire of Dem apoplexy over Trump’s next Supreme Court pick
The obsessive media hatred of President Trump has made them entirely predictable. Everything he does is not just wrong, it is an outage. And everyone he appoints to office is utterly, irredeemably evil, so malign that dining at a restaurant is a threat that must be countered by mobs.
Blogger Don Surber has provided us with a splendid satire of the spittle-flecked media madness that will erupt as soon as President Trump announces his nominee for the Supreme Court seat being vacated by Justice Kennedy. What makes this brilliant satire is that it is a generic editorial that could (and will) be published against anyone the president chooses. Don instructs journalists:
To those still laboring at a craft that last had impact in the 19th century, I draw upon my 27 years of experience to offer this generic editorial on whomever President Trump nominates for the Supreme Court.

You may cut and paste it, and your boss will not notice the difference.
The Senate Must Reject This Monster

President Trump -- a vain, deranged, and impulsive man elected by Russia and not a majority of Americans -- has nominated the worst judicial candidate since Roger Brooke Taney, the chief justice who authored the Dred Scott decision. [Nominee's name] may be worse. Not only does [he or she] view African-Americans as chattel, but women as second-class citizens!

Read the whole thing.
The best thing about this is that it preemptively dismisses all the editorials that will look like it once the nominee is announced.  They will be proven to be just boilerplate.
Don Surber has given us one of those gifts that will keep on giving.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/07/hilarious_satire_of_dem_apoplexy_over_trumps_next_supreme_court_pick.html

     Don Surber


The generic editorial against Trump's next pick

Writing newspaper editorials is an exercise in exasperating futility. They have scant impact. 243 newspapers endorsed Hillary. 20 endorsed Donald John Trump. Who won?

To those still laboring at a craft that last had impact in the 19th century, I draw upon my 27 years of experience to offer this generic editorial on whomever President Trump nominates for the Supreme Court.

You may cut and paste it, and your boss will not notice the difference.

The Senate Must Reject This Monster

President Trump -- a vain, deranged, and impulsive man elected by Russia and not a majority of Americans -- has nominated the worst judicial candidate since Roger Brooke Taney, the chief justice who authored the Dred Scott decision. [Nominee's name] may be worse. Not only does [he or she] view African-Americans as chattel, but women as second-class citizens!

Most Republicans want to return America to the oppressive and conformist days of the 1950s when everyone had a job instead of welfare!

President Trump has nominated a person who wants to return to the slave days of 1850s!

This would be Armageddon for our Constitution. Women would be forced to seek reproduction freedom from back-alley butchers again. Republicans would bar minorities and millennials from voting. People would be allowed to own as many guns as they like without registering them; vaginas would be more regulated than assault weapons!

As a justice, [nominee's name] would declare open season on undocumented workers, forcing them to return to the squalor and violence they fled in their native countries. The Statue of Liberty would be sold as scrap as our borders would be shut to all but a few!

With this nomination, President Trump has made an existential attack on democracy. This nomination would guarantee the alt-right control of the nation's highest court for the next 50 years. If confirmed by the Senate, [nominee's name] would be complicit in shutting down newspapers, silencing critics, and allowing hate speech in a perverted misinterpretation of the First Amendment!

Corporations would be allowed to pollute the air and rivers again. Then they would move all the jobs overseas. Slave wages would be paid on the remaining jobs as citizens and undocumented workers would compete for those jobs in Wall Street's version of "The Hunger Games"!

As a justice, [nominee's name] would usher in a new era that would turn America into a theocracy in which prayer returns to school, the teaching of evolution is banned, and only climate change deniers would be allowed to teach science!

Only Fox News would be allowed to broadcast. The president would be allowed to spy on the political opposition. The president could weaponize the IRS to go after his enemies, and the court would be silent about this threat to democracy!

This is not who we are. We are better than this. These are not our values. Not only must the Senate reject [nominee's name] but the Senate must vote to disbar [him or her] to show that the nation will not tolerate intolerance!

https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-generic-editorial-against-trumps.html#more

No Lib Outrage for Andrew Tahmooressi

It depends on whose ox is being gored, the saying goes, or maybe it depends on whose border is being crossed for those now outraged over U.S. border policy were silent when Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, a decorated U.S. Marine Corps veteran suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), languished in a Mexican prison in 2014 for the crime of making a wrong turn and wandering into Mexico with legal U.S. firearms in his vehicle.
Tahmooressi, a 25-year-old combat veteran, was jailed in late March 2014, after he missed a freeway exit near San Ysidro, Calif. and drove into Tijuana.  The active U.S. Marine reservist, who served two combat tours in Afghanistan, was moving to San Diego to be close to his treatment center for his PTSD at the time of his arrest.
In his trunk, Mexican authorities found three guns legally owned in the United States.  Tahmooressi was incarcerated in La Mesa Prison in Tijuana.  After Mexican authorities said he allegedly attempted to escape and suffered a self-inflicted stab wound, he was at one point placed in a jail infirmary with his arms and legs restrained.  That April, Tahmooressi even attempted to take his own life.
If you want to consider the alleged harshness of U.S. immigration policy, consider Mexico's treatment of Tahmoressi and the callous indifference of President Obama to his plight, as Obama was really putting illegal alien children in cages after separating them from their families:
We tolerate armed incursions by Mexican authorities and a flood of unaccompanied minors and other illegal aliens but are quite content to let a Marine with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder who made a wrong turn on his way to San Diego twist in the breeze of the Mexican judicial system.

Tahmooressi has been held in a Mexican jail since March 31, when he was arrested after poor signage caused him to accidentally cross into Mexico.  In his truck were three legally purchased guns[.] ...
Cue the chirping crickets, for it appears the Obama administration, which has as ample an opportunity to free Tahmooressi as it did deserter Bowe Bergdahl, is quite content to let Tahmooressi sit in jail, his case already botched by two assigned attorneys who failed to submit any evidence for the Mexican courts to review[.]
President Obama had quite a different approach in the matter of Army deserter Bowe Bergdahl.  Bergdahl did not miss a highway sign when he deliberately left his post in Afghanistan to find himself and commune with the Taliban enemy.  President Obama didn't care, and neither did the liberal legacy media:
From the famous "latte salute" to the Marine holding the presidential umbrella, President Obama's respect for our men in uniform has been open to question.  Unless, of course, they desert their post in Afghanistan to try to join the Taliban, like Bowe Bergdahl.  Then you have the parents to the White House and trade the Taliban general staff to obtain their release.  After all, we leave no one behind.  Except, maybe, for Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi.
Jill Tahmooressi, Andrew's mother, has never been invited to stand by the president on the White House lawn.  Nor has she ever received a phone call from President Obama, as she testified Wednesday before a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee.  Presidential calls of support are reserved for basketball players like Jason Collins, whom Obama called to say "he was impressed by his courage," according to a White House spokesperson, for announcing that he was gay.
For our part, we are impressed by the courage of Sgt. Tahmooressi, who served two tours of duty fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, and his mother.  Her son fought the enemy instead of trying to join them.  And for making a wrong turn into Mexico while carrying legal American firearms in his trunk as he journeyed to San Diego for treatment of his PTSD, he now sits in a Mexican jail ignored by the country he risked his life for.
Tahmooressi spent 214 days in a Mexican prison  under appalling conditions until a strong diplomatic push helped convince a Mexican judge to release the former Marine on humanitarian grounds:
Tahmooressi's release came only after a strong diplomatic push from former Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico and Reps. Ed Royce (R-CA) and Matt Salmon (R-AZ).  Speaking by phone on his way to board a plane with Tahmooressi, Richardson said the trio, along with talk show host Montel Williams, met with Mexico's Attorney General and Ambassador to the US, advocating for his liberation.
Tahmooressi fought for his country, but his president did not fight for him.  There were no protesters at any Mexican consulate or embassy and no panels on MSNBC or CNN lamenting his plight and presidential culpability.  As Fox News contributor and Afghan veteran Pete Hegseth wrote at the time in The Hill:
President Obama is perfectly content to apply the weight of his office to advance the causes he cares about.  So his failure to wield his power on behalf of Sgt. Tahmooressi raises a pointed question: Does he even care? ...
In May, the president stood in the Rose Garden to proudly announce that his administration had negotiated the release of U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl from captivity in Afghanistan, trading five terrorist killers to the Taliban in exchange for a soldier who reportedly deserted his front-line unit less than two months into his first tour of duty. 
Tahmooressi crossed the border into Mexico by accident.  Illegal aliens are deliberately flooding our borders in violation of U.S. law with their parents in many cases recklessly sending their children up north, unaccompanied by anybody except a "coyote," an MS-13 recruiter, or a drug cartel member.  That does not garner liberal angst.  But the plight of Andrew Tahmooressi garnered their moral indifference.  Maybe if he had been ten years younger and headed the other way...
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/07/no_lib_outrage_for_andrew_tahmooressi.html

Young Stockton, CA mayor has never held a full time job before

The PBS NewsHour had a glowing story about the mayor of Stockton California, a very young looking black man.  His name is Michael Tubbs and he became Mayor of Stockton, California at the age of 26. And, as far as I can tell, he has never held a full time job before becoming mayor. (I checked his Wikipedia page and many other sources).
Mayor Tubbs was raised by a single mother in violence-torn Stockton while his father is serving a life sentence in prison. Tubbs got a free scholarship to Stanford. How did he make use of this rare educational opportunity? By majoring in Race and Ethnicity. Tubbs, who is black, got a degree in the subject of... being black. Then he got a master's degree in something called "Policy, Leadership, and Organization Studies". I honestly have no idea what that is. Then, even more bizarrely,  he got a "multi-disciplinary degree" from the University of Cambridge in "gender studies". In short, Tubbs went to excellent schools and wasted it all studying race and gender and social science doubletalk.
Then Tubbs got an internship at Google, even though he never studied computer programming. I was unable to find any record of what it was he did there. Then Tubbs got an internship at the White House, even though he never studied government or political science. I was unable to find any mention of what it was that he did there.
Tubbs then returned to Stockton and ran for the city council, and won. I believe this was his first job, albeit a very part-time one.

Then Tubbs, at the age of 26, ran for mayor of Stockton and won. Stockton is a mess -- it was in bankruptcy and has a lot of violent crime. Tubbs' solution is topay residents $500 a month, and to focus on alternatives to policing such as mentoring youths who have had "contact with the criminal justice system."  Thestory on PBS portrayed him as a rocket scientist, when clearly he has no experience or idea how to run a city the size of Stockton, or of any size.
As Donald Glover might say, "This is America".
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/07/young_stockton_ca_mayor_has_never_held_a_job_before.html

Pro-Trump US Senate Candidate For Virginia, Corey Stewart Holds Rally at Red Hen Restaurant (VIDEO)



Corey Stewart, Bikers For Trump rally at The Red Hen
Corey Stewart, a pro-Trump candidate running for US Senate in Virginia, along with other conservatives, rallied at the liberal Red Hen Restaurant in Arlington, Virginia this weekend.
According to reports, The Red Hen will remained closed until July 5th in the wake of the Sarah Sanders controversy.
Corey Stewart is running to defeat radical Democrat Senator and Hillary’s former VP pick, Tim Kaine.
Bikers For Trump along with other patriots showed up at the Red Hen carrying signs that said, “We shall overcome Democrats!” and “Democrats= No break from the hate!”
President Trump gave Corey Stewart a shout out on Fox News Sunday morning.
Sarah Sanders and her family were recently forced out of The Red Hen restaurant.
The owner, Stephanie Wilkinson, followed Sanders’ family across the street to another restaurant and formed a protest to continue the harassment.
Congresswoman Maxine Waters threw kerosene onto the explosive controversy and told a cheering mob of Democrats to continue to harass and harm people in Trump’s cabinet if they are spotted at restaurants or gas stations.
The message from the left is one of hate, violence, intolerance and totalitarian rule.
The left is totally unhinged, calling for our nation to cease to exist by demanding we obliterate our borders.
Corey Stewart and other MAGA conservatives will turn the ‘blue wave’ into a blue puddle in November because of the left’s extremism.
Corey Stewart said Virginians are known for their hospitality and what The Red Hen did to Sarah Sanders and her family did not represent Virginian values.
WATCH:
Leading Rally in Front of Red Hen in Lexington, VA!!
Posted by Corey Stewart on Saturday, June 30, 2018

 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/07/pro-trump-us-senate-candidate-for-virginia-corey-stewart-holds-rally-at-red-hen-restaurant-video/

WATCH: Portland Police Declare Riot, Revoke Protest Permit as Sides Clash

These Antifa Cockroaches are the new Left. They must be proud



Police in Portland, Oregon, revoked a permit for a pro-America march and declared the scene a riot when counter-protesters erupted in violence on Saturday.

Officers in riot gear deployed flash-bang grenades and sprayed tear gas to break up the dueling crowds as protesters launched fireworks and threw eggs, bottles and other items at each other, according to KATU in Portland.
The initial permit was secured by the Patriot Prayer group that had planned a march entitled the “Freedom and Courage” rally. But a large number of members of a local violent, black-clad Antifa group also gathered along the march route and began a series of confrontations with the marchers.
The Rose City Antifa, held a counter-rally it called the “Defend PDX: Patriot Prayer’s Violence Must End” rally. A spokesman for Rose City said, “it is very important that antifascists keep up the pressure so that we can stop them once and for all.”
The Rose City group apparently did not have a permit.
Police waded in quickly, revoked the permit, and began clearing the area of both sides once the violence began.
The rally began with the prayer group’s permitted march from Portland’s Terry Schrunk Federal Plaza. The event was organized by activist Joey Gibson, a U.S. Senate candidate for Washington and leader of Patriot Prayer.
The AntiFa group organized some distance away but not before police seized weapons such as utility knives, clubs and chemical sprays, according to The Oregonian.
Despite the confiscations, the AntiFa group initiated hostilities by throwing eggs, bottles, and other items at the Patriot group, the paper noted.
Officers reported witnessing incidents of assault and soon revoked the Patriot group’s permit and began forcing both groups to leave the area.
Antifa activists left graffiti in their wake according to Twitter users:
One video from the streets shows members of Antifa clearly throwing objects at the Patriot Prayer group before both sides erupt in a rumble.

Police arrested four, but the charges lodged against them were all for previous incidents and outstanding warrants. Three of the four were later released after processing.
Follow Warner Todd Huston on Twitter @warnerthuston.
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/07/01/watch-portland-police-declare-riot-revoke-protest-permit-as-sides-clash/
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/06/30/open-borders-ralliers-raise-holocaust-imagery-to-vilify-trump-administration/
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/06/30/photos-top-signs-of-open-borders-activists-rallying-to-abolish-ice/

Deep State Slime Balls Went After President Trump Knowing Entire Effort “Oxferd C0mma” Was Based on Numerous Lies

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