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Home Front: Politix
The wicked witch won't go away
h/t Instapundit
Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is "talking about" running for New York City mayor, Newsmax reports.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/05/2017 18:39 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If they vote for her, they deserve her.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/05/2017 21:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, they voted for two really shitty mayors so far. Why not go for three?
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/05/2017 22:40 Comments || Top||

#3  She could run for Mayor of London.
Posted by: gorb || 01/05/2017 23:58 Comments || Top||


Seven Tests That Can Keep Republicans from Screwing Up
h/t Instapundit
...Voters did not elect Republicans as much as they elected for a change ‐ and want it to result in positive action, economic revival, a secure and strong America, and most of all greater accountability from Washington DC. Had they articulated among themselves a set of tests for proposed actions that reflected those principles, they might have avoided this debacle entirely. These seven tests, in descending priority order, will provide Republicans on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue insight into whether their actions reflect their understanding of that mandate:
1. Does it serve to bring accountability to the political establishment in Washington DC?
2. Does it add to the economic power of the US and create good jobs for Americans?
3.Does it address the most critical needs of the country ahead of the ideological agendas of the parties?
4.Does it enhance national security and the defense of Americans both at home and abroad?
5.Does it serve the rule of law equally applied to all?
6.Does it restore the proper balance of power between the executive and legislative branches?
7.Does it restore the proper balance of power between Washington DC and the states?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/05/2017 13:22 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  All worthy objectives. Let's see what happens.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/05/2017 15:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Let's revisit this in a year. In the mean time we can take bets on the number of these tests that the Gops will pass.
Posted by: Hupiter Turkeyneck1467 || 01/05/2017 16:20 Comments || Top||

#3  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA really I thought the deal was they and their friends get 8 years to rob us all blind!
Posted by: Crinegum Ulaigum2776 || 01/05/2017 17:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Does it help the Chamber of Commerce?

Does it get the GOP invites to all the best parties?

Does it keep Paul Ryan's lefty wife from squeezing his tiny tiny balls too hard?

Will it get them a fawning write-up in the NYT/WaPo axis?

Will it get them strange new respect and the "maverick" label?

How about a cameo on some sitcom?

Boats and hoes?

Priorities, folks.
Posted by: charger || 01/05/2017 21:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Let's revisit this in a year. In the mean time we can take bets on the number of these tests that the Gops will pass.

You'll need one of these go with your post: /sarc
Posted by: gorb || 01/05/2017 23:57 Comments || Top||


Thanks Obumble, the Democrat Party is Decimated
A short video. But they are all wrong: decimate means to kill one out of every ten. What happened to the Democrats in terms of their elected politicians including state and local representation has been much, much worse. But they worked hard to achieve it, so there's that, at least.
Posted by: Beavis || 01/05/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why not just embed the video? Like this.

Posted by: Thumper Dribble5791 || 01/05/2017 2:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Decimated everyone but the a$$holes, that is. And the RINOs who sheltered in place.
Posted by: gorb || 01/05/2017 2:40 Comments || Top||

#3  And yet they are still doubling and tripling down on the stupid that has failed them so well in the past.
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/05/2017 4:37 Comments || Top||

#4  I think the word we're looking for is annihilate.

an·ni·hi·late
əˈnīəˌlāt/
verb
verb: annihilate; 3rd person present: annihilates; past tense: annihilated; past participle: annihilated; gerund or present participle: annihilating

destroy utterly; obliterate.
"a simple bomb of this type could annihilate them all"
synonyms: destroy, wipe out, obliterate, wipe off the face of the earth; More
eliminate, liquidate, defeat
"an ungodly tornado touched down, annihilating everything in its path"
antonyms: create
defeat utterly.
"the stronger force annihilated its opponent virtually without loss"
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/05/2017 7:30 Comments || Top||

#5  Given the opportunity, most rational people reject communism.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/05/2017 7:33 Comments || Top||

#6  Lookin' for a downside.......
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 01/05/2017 8:02 Comments || Top||

#7  Geez I really needed some good news this morning...

Kinda brings a tear to your eye doesn't it.

I once asked a lefty spouting the joys of Communism and asked him to name a successful communist society...he kinda went into frothing, spittle filled, twitching fit and left the party.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 01/05/2017 10:12 Comments || Top||

#8  But the Republican party is the party of stupid. That will give the Dems time to reconstitute.
Posted by: gorb || 01/05/2017 10:22 Comments || Top||

#9  I'm afraid gorb is right.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/05/2017 11:07 Comments || Top||

#10  Thank you, Thumper Dribble5791. I'm afraid I lack that skill.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/05/2017 11:10 Comments || Top||

#11  But it is a nice, heart warming story.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/05/2017 11:12 Comments || Top||

#12  "And yet they are still doubling and tripping down on the stupid that has failed them so well in the past. Posted by: DarthVader"

FIFY
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 01/05/2017 11:37 Comments || Top||

#13  We've seen this before, and it's been said about the Republicans as well.
Posted by: Iblis || 01/05/2017 11:58 Comments || Top||

#14  So, what's going to replace the Democratic party - unless you want to live in a one party system?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/05/2017 12:06 Comments || Top||

#15  Yet another positive checkbox for his administration.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/05/2017 13:10 Comments || Top||

#16  I wouldn't worry about the Democrat Party. They were in disarray when Ronald Reagan got elected too. They have an amazing ability to bounce back which I think can be attributed mainly to the short memories of the electorate, MSM bias and Republican stupidity.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/05/2017 13:51 Comments || Top||

#17  Pretty typical for both parties Abu.

It isn't like the Republicans have some earth shattering and mind blowing new things. They are just in power now because they ain't the demoncrats.

The left will get back into power because the Republicans will show themselves to be little better than anyone else.
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/05/2017 14:02 Comments || Top||

#18  What gorb said. In the immortal words of that great philosopher, Han Solo:"Don't get cocky, kid!" Never underestimate the power of the Stupid Republican Party to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Posted by: PBMcL || 01/05/2017 14:26 Comments || Top||

#19  Either party gets corrupted if they have the reins too long.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/05/2017 15:16 Comments || Top||

#20  So, what's going to replace the Democratic party - unless you want to live in a one party system?

There is an effort to imitate the Tea Party awakening among the young Sanders supporters. If they roll with the current anti-globalist agenda, how about National Socialist?

Nah, the Democrat party will continue on, too much organizational foundation to just pull stakes and fold tent. What it will be in a year is an interesting question. If enough youth go Sandernista and enough minorities go 'hey Trump is alright after all' it will be a party of mostly aged hippies and soccer moms.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/05/2017 15:59 Comments || Top||

#21  Soccer moms vote Republican, swksvolFF, and this time many of them voted for Mr. Trump in the end. It's single women who mostly vote Democrat.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/05/2017 16:12 Comments || Top||

#22  Corrected; thinking of the ones I know; I believe you are right about this last election, with the across-the-board Republican win.

What is interesting is Obama and Trump were essentially off the bench, rather than an established starter (McCain, Romney, Clinton).
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/05/2017 16:33 Comments || Top||

#23  Works for me, #3 DV.
Posted by: Barbara || 01/05/2017 20:25 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Womans march on Washington now in the hands of career activists
The link goes to a 'feels good' 'heroine' 'ordinary woman starts movement' story in the WAPO but the real news is below the lede.
The march
Woman's March on Washington formerly million women march on Washington
Soon to be the few hundred women march...
has become a catch-all for a host of liberal causes, from immigrant rights to police killings of African-Americans.
bet your botton dollar the pro Sharia and BDS folks will get there too
But at its heart is the demand for equal rights for women after an election that saw the defeat of Democrat Hillary Clinton, the first female presidential nominee of a major party.

"We plan to make a bold and clear statement to this country on the national and local level that we will not be silent and we will not let anyone roll back the rights we have fought and struggled to get," said Tamika Mallory, a veteran organizer and gun-control advocate
and protege of Valjar
who is now one of the march's main organizers.
A girlfriend of mine talked about going on that march. She retired last year as a division head at Mr. Wife's company, and has since busied herself consulting and doing good works, mostly along the lines of Girl Scouts and other efforts to help girls develop the skills to have successful technical careers like hers. She expressed puzzlement that the woman's march somehow ended up on the same day as the inauguration.
Posted by: lord garth || 01/05/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Dammit! We OWED her a coronation, not weepy drunken defeat!"
Posted by: Frank G || 01/05/2017 7:21 Comments || Top||

#2  As Allen King once said about the ERA:

"The only way women will get equal rights in the US is to give up a few"

Since most of us with wives know that our society is a matriarchy...

Just more Critical Theory Bull Shit from women's studies and ethnic studies.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 01/05/2017 10:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Will there be a 'Free the Nipple' contingent?
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/05/2017 13:12 Comments || Top||

#4  “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket" -- Eric Hoffer
Posted by: regular joe || 01/05/2017 14:59 Comments || Top||

#5  Liberal broads - they'll fuck this up somehow.
Posted by: Raj || 01/05/2017 16:19 Comments || Top||

#6  On the Newsweek Express cover they advertised the woman's march by placing the women in a formation shaped like the male symbol....The mockery was deep and satisfying.
Posted by: Jeasing Creque5352 || 01/05/2017 18:49 Comments || Top||



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