[PowerLine] I caught a headline yesterday concerning how Arnold Schwarzenegger regrets and is apologizing for his old line about "girly men," because #MeToo or something:
In the summer of 2004, Schwarzenegger called Democrats "girly men" and urged voters to "terminate" them on Election Day ‐ prompting outrage from his opponents, the Los Angeles Times reported at the time.
Of course, the real reason the Governator is recanting is that he became a girly man himself.
In any case, one of Ah-nold’s legacies is California’s current "jungle primary" system, in which all candidates from every party appear on the primary ballot together, and the top two vote getters go on to the November general election ballot. In 2016 this led to two Democrats facing off in the Senate race, and it has happened again this year, as Sen. Dianne Feinstein is facing off against the far-left Kevin de Leon for the U.S. Senate. There is no Republican on the ballot.
Which raises this delicious possibility: California Republicans have it in their power to punish Feinstein for her role in the Kavanaugh nomination process by voting en masse for de Leon. Since the Democrats are head fast to the far left, why not help them out on this self-destructive course. de Leon is a mediocrity (and also something of a fraud, since he added the "de" to his name only a few years ago to give an artificial boost to his identity politics street cred).
There has been speculation that Feinstein launched the late stunt on Kavanaugh because she was worried about losing to de Leon. It would be the height of irony if it was Republicans delivered a humiliating blow and ignominious end to her long career as a result of that bad faith act. I know it is an unnatural act for good California Republicans‐all ten of us that are left‐to vote for a socialist, but think about it. I doubt Chuck Schumer would really thrill to having Kevin de Leon in his caucus.
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Rush's Operation Chaos got you Obama. Be careful for what you wish for.
California has a lot of Republicans. If the Blue counties split their vote and the Republicans vote for a single person they could actually have a decent chance.
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Errr, there is no Republican candidate it’s DiFi or the communist no other choices are available. I was going to write in “anybody else”, but the ballot has no write in line.
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Can you feel the excitement? Hillary Clinton is in The Atlantic, telling us how democracy is in crisis. She is on CNN, telling Christiane Amanpour that only when Democrats win back both the House and the Senate, "that’s when civility can start again." She’s on tour: Together with her husband, she plans to embark on a post-midterm 13-city romp during which they’ll bedazzle audience members with "one-of-a-kind conversations [about] some of the most impactful moments in modern history."
Does she have to spell it out for you, America? Hillary Clinton wants you to beg her to run for president in 2020. On behalf of America, I am answering. Hillary Rodham Clinton, I beg you: Please run again.
Hillary Clinton is precisely the candidate the Democratic party needs. And the Democratic party she represents is exactly the one the country needs: foolhardy, inept, dismissive of reality, blind to appearances, deaf to lessons, alien to the heartland, and contemptuous of the voters. The longer Hillary Clinton remains the Democrats’ idea of a standard-bearer, the better off the country will be. She should run in 2020. And in 2024. And forever.
[AmericanThinker] Fresh off getting their britches kicked over the Kavanaugh nomination, the American left has come up with yet another scheme to stymie the GOP and strangle the MAGA program in its cradle.
This is the product of John Burton, an Obama acolyte and political activist who, harnessing the crowdsourcing process (the "Wiki effect"), has signed up an army of amateur volunteers to examine the records of dozens of vulnerable GOP candidates with the intention of publicizing these findings in a string of October surprises.
Burton is an ex-banker who worked for the Obama campaign as an opposition researcher. After Donald Trump was elected, he joined the "Resistance," according to his own words, out of guilt that he'd allowed Trump to be elected.
He immediately organized a telephone campaign in which, shortly after the inauguration, 78,000 callers contacted the Senate Judiciary Committee demanding an investigation into "Russian collusion." Some sources give him credit for the Mueller investigation, which is arguable, to say the least.
Burton then applied himself to organizing "Citizen Strong," a 501(c)(4) "grassroots" outfit dedicated to ending the Trump menace. Anticipating the 2018 elections, he has organized 16,000 volunteers who have been searching the net for "damaging material" on GOP candidates. Citizen Strong is targeting three Senate races, 22 House races, and 133 state legislative races in 13 states. The effort has been financed by what even his supporters call "dark money." (It should also be mentioned that one of the individuals involved is an evident Russian immigrant named "Tanya." Another is named "Vlad." You'd really think they'd know better.)
The purpose is to unleash all this material prior to November 6, throwing GOP electoral efforts into chaos and delivering the seats in contention to the Dems.
We will pause here for the usual suspects to respond, as they did to the Mueller investigation and the Kavanaugh hearings, by racing back and forth and screeching, "It's over... it's hopeless... nothing can be done... They've won... we're finished, I tell you..."
Moving on, we will now calmly examine the reasons why it's by no means "all over":
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Character assassination is all they have. They have no arguments, nothing. All they can do is attempt to discredit the speaker. The ad hominem method of argument. They have no points to make, none.
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There will be a lot of fake dirt used I am sure.
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Explain Soros before I jump out of this internet and "into your face" You worthless Nazi followers. The soros crew is now the END TIMES> Pieces of shit.
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How much care shall I put forth in it's disposal, I mean NAZI Soros and HIS Democrat party?
I think we need to De-nazify the world after Nazi Germany where he turned in little children to be slaughtered by the Reich.
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I'm waiting for the liberals to come up with a cyber-dirty tricks division. Have a group that can update Wikipedia with "old" data about something bad, then cook up a dozen Myspace pages talking about that something bad, and of course some old newspaper stories or something, everything ready to go except the nominee name and the abused name so that everything looks like an old crime that was covered up.
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With witnesses pledged and ready to go with memorized stories. Hopefully Nun's or people of color or something that would be awkward to argue against.
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I'm waiting for the liberals to come up with a cyber-dirty tricks division.
They already have the MSM! Just listen to the "outrage Machine" where the Talking Heads comment emotionally to each other out about how 'outraged' they are are about the 'outrageous behavior' that some (Right Wing) person has done -- all carefully left vague and formless, but. It. Was. Outrageous! Irredeemable! Horrible!
[LI - via news links in article, hence Opinion] These Appointments could be Trump and Mitch's longest impact on the Federal Government. Extremely pleasantly surprised by that and Grassley's help
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I actually got texts from McConnell and Graham in the last two days. Asking for money, of course, but they are apparently upping their game.
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#5, Agreed. Demortuis nil nisi bonum. But I do have to wonder what might have happened to the Kavanaugh nomination if McCain were still around.
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Someone needs to put a take in McCain's body to make sure he stays dead. His departure seems to have removed a huge weight from the GOP in the senate
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] New Delhi’s sudden cancellation of a scheduled meeting between the Foreign Ministers of India and Pakistain on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York is still an unsolved mystery intriguing diplomats and analysts alike.
Last month India’s External Affairs Ministry spokesperson, Raveesh Kumar, announced with a flourish that External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj would hold talks with her Pak counterpart, Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi, in New York "next week", but within 24 hours India called off the bilateral meeting without a valid explanation for the change of heart.
The buzz in India is that US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... exerted pressure on Prime Minister Narendra Modi to agree to a Pak proposal to resume talks resulting in the announcement. But Mohan Bhagwat, chief of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) ‐ the mother of all Hindu right-wing bodies including the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party ‐ ordered Modi to cancel the talks.
Apparently, Bhagwat conveyed to Modi ‐ who is himself an RSS member like his cabinet colleagues ‐ that resumption of peace dialogue with Pakistain at this juncture wouldn’t go down well with the BJP’s core constituency ahead of crucial assembly elections in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh, not to speak of the 2019 general elections. And Modi fell in line.
If the talks had not been cancelled, it would have been the first face-to-face meeting between the Foreign Ministers of India and Pakistain since December 2015.
OFFICIAL EXPLANATION Diplomats and commentators refuse to buy New Delhi’s official explanation that the talks were cancelled because of the killing of an Indian security personnel and a Pak stamp honoring separatist Burhan Wani as both the "deeply disturbing developments" took place before the talks were announced.
The harsh language of the Ministry of External Affairs statement, replete with inaccuracies, while calling off the meeting ‐ "the evil agenda of Pakistain stands exposed" and the "true face" of Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality problems... has been "revealed to the world" ‐ also raised eyebrows.
The statement claimed that Khan had been in office "for a few months" when in fact it had only been a month. Sharat Sabharwal, India’s former High Commissioner in Pakistain, virtually said that MEA run by Indian Foreign Service (IFS) had been completely bypassed in the announcement and cancellation of talks between the two foreign ministers.
Election-oriented statements
"IFS does not draft such election-oriented statements or take such hasty flip flop decisions. Seems like the handiwork of ’muscular’ thinking. More ’brawn’ than ’brain’!", said an outspoken Sabharwal.
Sabharwal seemed to hint that Ajit Doval, National Security Advisor, known for his hawkish views on Pakistain, had drafted the statement released by MEA announcing cancellation of talks instead of career diplomats who are more circumspect.
ALSO READ: New book says India’s Modi gunning for Pakistain but subservient to China, the US
India’s "muscular" statement gave Khan an opportunity to attack Modi personally. Said Khan: "All my life I have come across small men occupying big offices who do not have the vision to see the larger picture", while Pak commentator Zarrar Khurho said that the "language used in the Indian cancellation is nothing short of a Bollywood script or a Star Plus drama".
Jyoti Malhotra, Editor National Affairs & Strategic Affairs of The Print website in New Delhi, told Al Arabiya English that the cancellation of talks by India "demonstrated insecurity".
"The Indian government put out several reasons for the confirmation and cancellation of talks with Pakistain within a span of 24 hours. But the truth is that it demonstrates a certain insecurity for a country that wants to project itself as a regional power. And the tragedy is that ordinary people of the two countries will suffer from the lack of contact," she said.
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they know pakistanis are shit
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And the tragedy is that ordinary people of the two countries will suffer from the lack of contact," she said.
h/t Instapundit
So now Brett Kavanaugh has been confirmed to the Supreme Court, duly sworn in ‐ after weeks of sturm, drang and drama such as a reasonable person can hardly credit, of unproven accusations of every kind of sexual misconduct on the part of Justice Kavanaugh by hysterical and/or malicious people. Seriously, have the Move On, MeToo, Pussy-Hat crowd gone so far off the rails as to believe that the presumption of innocence standard must be utterly disregarded, and the commandment against bearing false witness be revoked entirely? Apparently ‐ and never mind that this single-minded attitude towards accusation and punishment leads straight back to the era of strange fruit hanging from the poplar tree, blood on the leaves and blood at the root. Only not black bodies swinging in the southern breeze, but the actual or metaphorical bodies of husbands, friends, sons and brothers. Requiring proof of an accusation against any male appears to be an utterly outré notion to the vicious brigade of professional 21st century feminists ‐ and the fact that ordinary women of every color and inclination are not merrily following the tumbrils as our uteri are supposed to direct us, appears to be cause for volcanic outrage among the vicious brigade.
Well, life is full of these little tragedies, kids. Better luck next time. Go louder, more obnoxious, and double down on the personal threats ‐ that will so convince us and win overwhelming support to your side! Maybe even on a rope.
...The other party, or parties which may very well lose as substantially over time as the establishment media may very well be millennial-aged and slightly older women in the workplace. It can’t have gone unnoticed that for thirty and more years, that quiet wisdom in the workplace was never to be alone with a female subordinate (or superior!) lest wagging tongues create a scandal ... or a malicious/resentful woman have cause to later complain of sexual harassment. The usual suspects sniggered at Billy Graham and Mike Pence as paranoid old prudes when they made it an absolute rule never to be alone with another woman not their wife, but in the wake of #metoo, no one is laughing. What is even more frightening than a perhaps mildly credible accusation of sexual misconduct is the one made up of whole cloth. I can easily foresee a whole lot of woman going into a workplace ‐ and having nothing but a distant and impersonal relationship with the men in it. While I am all for professional respect and courtesy in the workplace ‐ not having any kind of mentoring, or social relationship, even just plain old friendship ‐ would get very draining after a time. Chalk that up to another thing which the screaming professional feminists have ruined.
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Something people don't always realize about employers. If a person sues an employer or makes an accusation against an employer, other employers will not hire them.
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There was a black lawyer on Instapundit saying he's heard from other lawyers that they are not going to hire women given the choice and they are not doing anything with them after hours. He said that important connection are most often made during after hours socializing . Women will miss out on that now.
Yesterday in the comments, there was a discussion about the bitter fruits of #metoo.
And it made me wonder exactly what else was supposed to happen.
Sure, in many industries women are treated shamefully. This is usually the kind of industry ‐ like writing used to be, like literature still is, like academia, I’m sure, also is ‐ that is afflicted by oligopsony. I.e. there is only one buyer (the gate keeper) but far more suppliers than could possibly be bought. In such a market it quickly becomes known that the reason you’re being bought or rejected is not just the quality of your work.
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The end state of feminism has become the death knell of traditional heterosexual interactions on so many levels. I would never go to evening mixers now without my spouse under any circumstances, and one-on-one meetings of any kind are taboo. In my career I genuinely mentors a number of females without the hint of sexual interest, despite several being easy on the eyes. But today, verboten! In the long run, this will create stovepipes of gender-linked management within the public and private sector. Utterly tragic for meritocracy management.
h/t Instapundit
[VictoryGirls] Oh no, those groups of screaming, shoving, surrounding, doxxing, kicking, pounding Democrats are not a mob! Who are you going to believe, the media or your lyin’ eyes?
From Maxine Waters to Hillary and Eric Holder, Democrats are encouraging their followers to engage in intimidation and harassment.
They are so used to the Stupid Party’s leaders backing down in the face of any challenge to comity they still don’t get why Donald Trump was elected President.
They certainly haven’t learned the lesson of how and why their nose was bloodied by Kavanaugh’s confirmation. How could such false charges not have met the mark?
And to have loyalists who chase Republicans out of movie theaters and restaurants labeled a mob? Say it’s not true!
I would add, they aren’t just "a mob." The Democrats are barbarians.
Saddle up, cowboys ... this rodeo is just starting.
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They are so used to the Stupid Party’s leaders backing down in the face of any challenge to comity they still don’t get why Donald Trump was elected President.
Could be they think they can drive a wedge between Trump and the wussier members of the Stupid Party. That's why it was such a pleasant surprise to see Lindsay Graham suddenly grow a pair. It's also nice to know that Flake is on his way out.
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