Americans Permanently Divided Amid National Crises

Okay, I'm just now getting back online.

I attended a retirement brunch for a couple of my colleagues this morning, and I had to swing by the office to pick up a couple of final exams for students who took theirs at the disabled students center. I've recorded those now and posted my final course grades online.

I'm good to go for summer vacation, heh.

Of course, the Orlando attack is dominating the news, as it should be. See Memeorandum.

I'll be updating throughout the day, but one of the better reports I saw yesterday was from Karen Tumulty, at WaPo, "The new norm: When tragedy hits, Americans stand divided" (via Memeorandum):

Not since 9/11 has a moment like this brought the nation together, and that evaporated quickly. Since then, calamity seems only to drive the left and the right further apart, while faith in the nation’s institutions deteriorates further.

Across the ideological and partisan divide, it no longer seems possible to even explore — much less agree upon — causes and solutions. So the response has been muddled, even while the next tragedy looms.

Keep reading.

Chase Strangio, who's a Staff Attorney with the ACLU's LGBT & AIDS Project, really captured all that is wrong with the left's response to the attack. Naturally, for hardline LGBT activists, the problem is right-wing "homophobia" and the conservative "climate of hate."

This stuff is actually hard for me to read, it's so sickening and divorced from what's really going on:

Glad funders think LGBT movement is over. Between this & the anti-trans bills and vitriol I think it's safe to say we have some work to do.

— Chase Strangio (@chasestrangio) June 12, 2016

I spend my life fighting Christian homophobia while being loved & supported by my Muslim family. Fuck your take on an entire religion.

— Chase Strangio (@chasestrangio) June 12, 2016

I don't care who shooter claimed allegiance to. We don't have to look beyond the hateful culture right here to understand how this happened

— Chase Strangio (@chasestrangio) June 12, 2016

From arrests of groups of trans woc for loitering to shootings at gay clubs, survival mechanisms for queers lead to criminalization & death.

— Chase Strangio (@chasestrangio) June 12, 2016

To my queer Latinx siblings-you are so beautiful. I recommit to fighting for queer & trans people of color. We are all complicit in this.

— Chase Strangio (@chasestrangio) June 13, 2016

More, from Robert Stacy McCain, "Blame-Shifters: Democrats Use #Orlando to Scapegoat Christians, GOP, NRA."

Another Terror Attack? Yawn

At Cold Fury, "Yawn":

Candlelight vigils, weeping, tearful pleas for mercy, and plaintive versions of John Lennon’s Imagine will begin directly. “Resolute” vows to “bring the terrorists to justice” from pRetend pResident Oshitstain to follow, including a condescending lecture about the paramount importance of not even thinking the word “Islam” to oneself. Then will come the self-righteous demands that Americans disarm themselves and submit to further government intrusion on their freedom in the name of security theater.

And can there be any doubt among staunch “conservatives” that Trump’s racist, xenophobic, white-supremacist hate speech outrageously calling for being a bit more selective about who we allow to cross our borders and live among us are the real cause? Why, the guy was practically defenseless against the onslaught of such naked, fascist bigotry; who can really blame him if it drove him over the edge into the same kind of violence that Trump is constantly demanding from his hateful, slackjawed, trailer-dwelling followers?

In other words, it’s all just more of the same old shit, folks. If you haven’t gotten used to it by now, don’t worry, you will. This is, after all, the New Normal in helpless, gutless, wide-open, politically-correct Liberal Amerika. Just remember: if we fight them at all, in any way, it means the terrorists have already won. Because That’s Not Who We Are™.

The really sad thing is, they’re right: it isn’t.

Still more.

Here's Some Emily Ratajkowski from the Archives

She's nice to look at, for a change.

Islamic terrorism --- and its leftist enablers -- can get to you after a while.

And don't miss the Emily archives, heh.

Mirriam Seddiq Nails It

Wow.

This lady is good!

Via Instapundit:



Here, here, and here.

Disgusting #Orlando Politicization from the New York Daily News

Well, I guess we shouldn't expect anything less.

But still.

Despicable: "NRA’s fight to stop assault weapons ban enables killers behind shootings at Orlando nightclub, Newtown, and San Bernardino to use AR-15 rifle."

A look at tomorrow's front page...

50 dead in Orlando club massacre,
THANKS, @NRA:https://t.co/9Du2YEdzEo pic.twitter.com/hVJvzC351j

— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) June 13, 2016

Jihad Denial Kills…Again

From John Schindler, at the Observer, "America just suffered our worst terrorist attack since 9/11. We need to start talking honestly about the enemy that keeps butchering Americans":

How many more Americans have to die before we can have a "national conversation" about radical Islam & jihadism?https://t.co/JDZP9Ja0nB

— John Schindler (@20committee) June 12, 2016

Tonight we burn illusions. A terrorist attack on a popular gay club in Orlando, Florida in the middle of the night ended before the dawn with the violent deaths of at least 50 innocents and the maiming of 53 more. This was the bloodiest terrorist attack on America since 9/11. The Pulse nightclub, something of an icon in Florida LGBT circles, was transformed into a charnel house.

The United States had been lucky, having avoided truly mass casualty terrorist incidents since that awful day 15 years ago, through a combination of luck, inept enemies, and excellent intelligence work. But the Orlando horror demonstrates that attacks on soft targets in public places can cause huge numbers of casualties, here as well as in Europe, like last November’s assaults on Paris that killed 130 people, 89 of them at the Bataclan theater, where a hostage situation resulted in a bloodbath. Something similar has just happened in Florida.

While the Paris attacks were the work of nine terrorists, plus several others providing logistical support, so far only one killer has been identified in the Orlando atrocity. While there are reports of other shooters, these remain unconfirmed, and the sole terrorist definitely involved was Omar Mateen, born in this country in 1986 to immigrant parents from Afghanistan. He was killed by police at the end of the nightmare he inflicted on Orlando.

So far, his story is shaping up as the now-customary list of jihadist clichés. The 29-year-old went from a relatively normal American life towards extremism, winding up on the radar of the FBI more than once for his aggressive beliefs. A brief marriage failed, in part because he frequently beat his wife, she claims, asserting that Mateen “was not a stable person.” A trauma like divorce leading to an embrace of jihadism is as common as can be in extremist circles.

The killer’s family has claimed that their son’s terrible act had “nothing to do with religion” – again, following the script we have come to expect whenever a young person, usually male, brutally murders strangers in the name of Islam. While Omar Mateen’s father claims to be utterly mystified by his son’s actions, that assertion should be examined closely, since Seddique Mateen has publicly praised the Taliban in his home country – the very people the American military has been fighting since late 2001. In a truly bizarre twist, Mateen Senior claims to be the real president of Afghanistan. His statement that his son was triggered by seeing two men kissing in public seems unlikely to endear the family to the American public....

Within hours of the massacre, progressives and jihad apologists were insisting that the Orlando attack was “really” about guns – and certainly not about Islamism or jihadism. The Pulse massacre was about guns the way that the 9/11 attacks were “really” about box cutters and the 2013 Boston bombing was “really” about pressure cookers. There are millions of guns in Florida (the state has issued 1.3 million concealed carry permits alone) plus plenty of people who are not overly fond of gays. Why, then, was Omar Mateen the one who assaulted a gay club and shot dozens of innocent people?

Based on his statement on the atrocity, President Obama won’t be asking that question anytime soon. Although Mr. Obama demurred from some of his customary evasions, actually calling the attack an “act of terrorism,” he quickly defaulted to his usual talking points whenever radical Muslims butcher Americans: “hate” and “guns” were cited frequently by the president, while words such as “Islamism” and “jihad” were notable by their absence. Mr. Obama’s denial of the obvious, perfected during his two terms in the White House, appears unshakeable.

These evasions are met with derision by counterterrorism professionals, who deduced Mr. Obama’s agenda back in 2009 when he dismissed the Fort Hood massacre as “workplace violence.” Spies and cops have gotten used to this president’s persistent inability to call the enemy what he actually is, even though that enemy constantly calls himself such things. “What was he gonna call Orlando,” asked an old FBI friend just hours after the Pulse attack: “gayplace violence?”

It’s not difficult to determine what’s really going on here. Just two months before this attack, an Orlando mosque hosted an Islamic theologian known for pronouncing homosexuals as deserving of death. “Death is the sentence” they merit as an act of “compassion,” the imam stated. While his invitation got some coverage in Orlando media, one wonders what the mainstream media would have to say if a white preacher in Charleston had pronounced blacks as deserving the death sentence only two months before Dylann Roof murdered nine African Americans in a church...

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Horrible Person Yael Abouhalkah is All That's Wrong with This Country, Along with Leftism and Islam

Dana Loesch tweeted out this depraved leftist asshole earlier:

Sickening. I'm a member. The terrorist pledged to ISIS not the NRA. Shame on you. https://t.co/xWbdFAHvzW

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) June 12, 2016

Here's this horrible person's tweet:

Dear God:
Today I am so sickened by the evilness of the NRA and gun industry. May their leaders be plunged into ever-lasting hell.
Amen

— Yael T. Abouhalkah (@YaelTAbouhalkah) June 12, 2016

Bodies are still warm and this crust of human refuse already posted this, at the Kansas City Star, "Gun industry, NRA leaders and Congress have enabled killers in America."

Additional reactions:

As we all grieve to spew hate is very un-American https://t.co/Hey1MWz4Oi

— SalenaZito (@SalenaZitoTrib) June 12, 2016

At a time Florida and the country come together around the community that was attacked you continue to spew hate https://t.co/VqIfuh3mZs

— SalenaZito (@SalenaZitoTrib) June 12, 2016

Terror excusing @YaelTAbouhalkah decides regular American gun owners are at fault for Orlando shooting. What a scumbag.

— Warner Todd Huston (@warnerthuston) June 12, 2016

President Obama's Statement on Orlando Terrorist Attack (VIDEO)

At Twitchy, "Obama: No definitive judgement on killer’s motives":

During his presser on the Orlando shooting, Obama painfully admitted it was indeed an “act of terror,” but made sure to also include that there is no definitive judgement on the motivations of the killer. Apparently Omar Mateen making a call to 911 to swear allegiance to the Islamic State before massacring 50 innocents in the nightclub isn’t definitive enough for the leader of the free world.

That's despicable.

Barrack Hussein on #OrlandoShooting: No mention of Islamic jihad, but condemns easy access to firearms. #PulseNightclub #Pulse @DLoesch

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) June 12, 2016

Pink Pistols Statement on Orlando Shooting

This shooting is going to raise all kinds of contradictions for the radical left.

Via Instapundit, "FROM GAY GUN-RIGHTS GROUP THE PINK PISTOLS, a comment on the Orlando shooting":

Gwendolyn Patton, First Speaker of the Pink Pistols, an international GLBT self-defense organization, warns people not to jump immediately to the assailant’s guns as the object of blame, but to concentrate instead on Mateen’s violent acts. “The Pink Pistols gives condolences to all family and friends of those killed and injured at Pulse,” began Patton. “This is exactly the kind of heinous act that justifies our existence. At such a time of tragedy, let us not reach for the low-hanging fruit of blaming the killer’s guns. Let us stay focused on the fact that someone hated gay people so much they were ready to kill or injure so many. A human being did this. The human being’s tools are unimportant when compared to the bleakness of that person’s soul. I say again, GUNS did not do this. A human being did this, a dead human being. Our job now is not to demonize the man’s tools, but to condemn his acts and work to prevent such acts in the future.”

Patton’s concerns are that knee-jerk gun-control efforts may make preventing future events harder rather than easier, as only the law-abiding potential victims will be affected by such laws. “It is difficult, if not impossible, to foresee such an event,” continues Patton, “But if they cannot be prevented, then they must be stopped as fast as someone tries to start them.”

Oh boy.

Leftists will work to destroy this Pink Pistols group. They're in for two-minutes of hate, for an eternity!

Still more.

Kaitlyn Juvik Braless Protest

No bra? No problem.

At Heat Street, "Bra-Less Teen Is ‘Sexually Harassing’ Other Boys And Her Teachers":

This anti-bra high schooler wants to start a national discussion about the body shaming and sexualizing of women. https://t.co/OwERzjpPZU

— Heat Street (@heatstreet) June 12, 2016

The latest edition of People Magazine offers readers a slobbering human interest story about Kaitlyn Juvik, an attention-seeking Montana high-school student and Lena Dunham wanna-be (both in her penchant for showing off her body parts and her misunderstanding of feminism), who is eager to clear a few things up: Boys don’t matter. What does matter—really the only thing that matters—is Juvik and her feelings and personal comfort.

Juvik claims comfort was the main reason she tossed her bra aside and headed to school. She made several people uncomfortable, including, she claims, a teacher. Called to the principal’s office, Juvik was told she was in violation of the dress code (her school’s dress code actually doesn’t mention underwear…because I suspect school administrators thought parents might take the on the role of explaining how civil society works).

And now, Juvik’s crying foul—taking a page from the feminist handbook on first world problems (that only rich, white teenagers…like…totally get) and claiming she’s a victim of leering boys (and even a pervy teacher). Predictably, Juvik says she wants to start a “national discussion” about “the body shaming and sexualizing of women” because we haven’t been having that conversation for decades already.

Yawn. Wouldn’t it be nice if just once, a high-school student wanted to start a conversation about math, or science, great literature or real issues facing women…like the systematic rape of Yazidi women in Iraq and Syria. But no, let’s talk about bras and other nonsense...

More.

She's a high-schooler. High school kids are idiot, lol.

Summer Reading [BUMPED]

I'm off for ten weeks.

I don't go back for the fall semester until August 29th. My oldest son just now said, "That's pretty crazy!"

That is, lol.

I'll be doing a lot of reading, enjoying some beer and baseball, and perhaps taking a couple of smallish trips (maybe Las Vegas, or at least Harrah's Rincon resort, which is fabulous).

In any case, here's some reading material for folks, via Amazon.

See, Wayne Batchis, The Right's First Amendment: The Politics of Free Speech & the Return of Conservative Libertarianism.

And Judy Wajcman, Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism.

More, from Robert Lieber, Retreat and its Consequences: American Foreign Policy and the Problem of World Order.

Newt and Callista Gingrich, Rediscovering God in America: Reflections on the Role of Faith in Our Nation's History and Future.

Know your Marxist enemies, with Danny Katch, Socialism . . . Seriously: A Brief Guide to Human Liberation.

David Boaz, The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom.

I'm currently reading, Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left.

BONUS: Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter S. Onuf, "Most Blessed of the Patriarchs": Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination.

Sebastian Gorka, Defeating Jihad

I posted a link to Gorka's book in April. Now's a good time to give it another plug.

At Amazon, Sebastian Gorka, Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War.

Orlando Nightclub Shooter Called 911 to Pledge Allegiance to ISIS

Following-up from previously, "Jihadist Omar Mateen Massacres Dozens in Orlando: Obama Pushes Gun Control Narrative (VIDEO)."

There's more at Memeorandum, at NBC News.

And from Ed Driscoll, at Instapundit, "AFTER ORLANDO TERRORIST ATTACK, USUAL SUSPECTS SPOUT USUAL NARRATIVE":

.@Instapundit AFTER #ORLANDO TERRORIST ATTACK, USUAL SUSPECTS SPOUT USUAL NARRATIVE… https://t.co/JidbHRgNpo via @EdDriscoll #PulseNightclub

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) June 12, 2016

Jihadist Omar Mateen Massacres Dozens in Orlando: Obama Pushes Gun Control Narrative (VIDEO)

I was on Twitter at 5:00am when the news was breaking. Some folks were tweeting suspicions about Islamic jihad, but I wasn't going to speculate. When I woke up at 9:30am, the identity of the killer had been released: Omar Mateen, who called 9/11 during the siege to pledge allegiance to Islamic State.

And still, Barrack Hussien refused to even mention the words "Islam" or "Muslim," only to spew hateful far-left talking points about "easy access" to firearms.

It's a nightmare.

Memeorandum has the big roundup, "Omar Mateen, Terrorist Who Attacked Orlando Gay Club, Had Been Investigated by FBI."

And on Twitter:

Barrack Hussein on #OrlandoShooting: No mention of Islamic jihad, but condemns easy access to firearms. #PulseNightclub #Pulse @DLoesch

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) June 12, 2016

Obama not clear what the motive was when an Islamic terrorist slaughtered gay Americans and called 911 to pledge to ISIS first.

— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) June 12, 2016

Barrack Hussein refused to call out Islamic jihad - again! #OrlandoShooting #Pulse #PulseNightclub @Instapundit https://t.co/0gS7sdo5aG

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) June 12, 2016

As we all grieve to spew hate is very un-American https://t.co/Hey1MWz4Oi

— SalenaZito (@SalenaZitoTrib) June 12, 2016

#Orlando shooter called 911 before nightclub attack to pledge allegiance to ISIS https://t.co/nCEtIjet6i

— Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) June 12, 2016

Obama: "This massacre is a further reminder of how easy it is for someone to get their hands on a weapon." Here we go.

— Caleb Howe (@CalebHowe) June 12, 2016

"We can’t arrest every Muslim who wants to kill us, because ALL Muslims want to kill us." https://t.co/cMl7ojqu9z pic.twitter.com/Y9gvRsVfet

— FreeStacy (@Not_RSMcCain) June 12, 2016

Guy was fully licensed and cleared as security guard. Passed Obama’s background check. Loved ISIS. Was Muslim. D’uh. https://t.co/jicrJIFDVO

— Tully Chickpea (@Schwabcycler) June 12, 2016

Yes, Islamic hate. #OrlandoShooting #Pulse #PulseNightclub https://t.co/rQlW0bnnGv

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) June 12, 2016

Despicable comments. Americans tired of such rank PC. It's going to be an election issue for sure. #OrlandoShooting https://t.co/L8BRxgM1qH

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) June 12, 2016

Yeah, the "LGBT angle" exposes how leftist PC puts everyone in danger, even virtue-signaling Dems. @instapundit https://t.co/wbVp7u6JGg

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) June 12, 2016

Sickening. I'm a member. The terrorist pledged to ISIS not the NRA. Shame on you. https://t.co/xWbdFAHvzW

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) June 12, 2016

The terrorist called 911 and pledged allegiance to ISIS. He was a known entity to the FBI. This is a TERRORIST problem.

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) June 12, 2016

It's gonna boost Trump. https://t.co/ayq5dgSD5q

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) June 12, 2016

What We Know About Alleged Orlando Shooter Omar Mateen https://t.co/ilsWACjuHR via @heatstreet

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) June 12, 2016

Orwellian. https://t.co/c1T0yGi9DO

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) June 12, 2016

'Game of Thrones' at Mitt Romney Election Summit in Utah

Romney needs to just go away.

He lost twice already. He's not making a good name for himself here.

At WaPo, "Romney loyalists’ divisions over Trump spill out into the open at Utah summit":

PARK CITY, Utah — Mitt Romney warned that a Donald Trump presidency could normalize racism, misogyny and bigotry in the national conscience. Businesswoman Meg Whitman compared the presumptive Republican presidential nominee to Adolf Hitler. House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) was asked, uncomfortably, how he could explain his endorsement of Trump to a young child.

Then came Trump’s boosters, awkwardly imploring about 300 business executives and GOP establishment donors and strategists gathered here for Romney’s annual ideas festival to unite for the fall campaign. In a stroke of defiance, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus declared that Trump and the GOP would win in November “with or without you,” according to attendees.

So went the three-day Romney-hosted E2 summit that concluded here Saturday in this luxurious mountaintop resort. The confab put on stark display the Republican Party’s moral and philosophical divisions over its new standard-bearer and underscored the difficulty that Trump and allies such as Priebus will have to consolidate forces at the start of a general election in which Democrat Hillary Clinton is favored.

Anthony Scaramucci, a New York financier who was one of Romney’s top funders in 2012, came to Park City seeking to galvanize his old friends to help him raise money for Trump. He likened the atmosphere here to the hit HBO series “Game of Thrones.”

“I feel like Jon Snow, trying to get the Wildlings to team up with the kings of the castles,” Scaramucci said.

Recalling what he told Romney loyalists, Scaramucci said: “Your father just got slayed by your uncle, whom you don’t really like, and your uncle is now in charge. You’ve got the White Walkers descending from the north and they’re coming to hunt you and all the living. What do you do? Do you fight with your uncle or band together and fight the White Walkers?”

Romney made clear he would rather fight his uncle, figuratively speaking. The 2012 GOP presidential nominee was emotional here Saturday as he delivered an impassioned case against Trump. He said the business mogul’s campaign rhetoric — the latest example being his accusations of bias by a federal judge because of his Mexican American heritage — is so destructive that it is fraying at the nation’s moral fabric and could lead to “trickle-down racism.”

“I love what this country is built upon, and its values — and seeing this is breaking my heart,” Romney told summit attendees, according to the Associated Press.

Trump punched back at Romney at his Saturday rally in Tampa, calling him “poor, sad, Mitt Romney” and a “stone-cold loser.”

Scaramucci and other Romney associates supportive of Trump, including Ron Kaufman, a longtime RNC member from Massachusetts, have pleaded with Romney to tone down his opposition in the interest of party unity.

More.

I blogged Anthony Scaramucci's WSJ op-ed earlier, "Here Are Four Things #NeverTrump Doesn't Get."

English and Russian Soccer Fans Clash on the Streets of Marseille (VIDEO)

At Legal Insurrection, "England, Russia Fans Fight Before Match at Euro 2016."

And via Euronews:

Kristen Keogh's Gloomy Overcast Forecast

It was raining here in Irvine this morning.

And it's still pretty overcast right now, almost 2:00pm in the afternoon.

Via ABC News 10 San Diego:

Deal of the Day: Save $150 On Inflatable Stand Up Paddleboards from Ten Toes

At Amazon, Ten Toes iSUP Inflatable Standup Paddleboard SUP, theWEEKENDER (10'x30''x6'').

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More, Heather Mac Donald, The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe.

Ben Cohen, Some of My Best Friends: A Journey Through Twenty-First Century Antisemitism.

Also, from John Egerton, Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South.

Leon F. Litwack, Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow.

Still more, from Kimberlé Crenshaw, On Intersectionality: Essential Writings.

BONUS: Alan Abramowitz, The Disappearing Center: Engaged Citizens, Polarization, and American Democracy.

Anonymous Superdelegates Declare Clinton the Democrat Nominee Through the Mass Media

Politico had this back in February, "Sanders supporters revolt against superdelegates."

Too bad their revolt didn't come through.

Here's Glenn Greenwald, at the Intercept, "Perfect End to Democratic Primary: Anonymous Superdelegates Declare Winner Through Media":

This is the perfect symbolic ending to Democratic Party primary, run by insiders and funded by corporate interests. https://t.co/OnjtnMxG8X

— The Intercept (@theintercept) June 7, 2016

LAST NIGHT, the Associated Press — on a day when nobody voted — surprised everyone by abruptly declaring the Democratic Party primary over and Hillary Clinton the victor. The decree, issued the night before the California primary in which polls show Clinton and Bernie Sanders in a very close race, was based on the media organization’s survey of “superdelegates”: the Democratic Party’s 720 insiders, corporate donors, and officials whose votes for the presidential nominee count the same as the actually elected delegates. AP claims that superdelegates who had not previously announced their intentions privately told AP reporters that they intend to vote for Clinton, bringing her over the threshold. AP is concealing the identity of the decisive superdelegates who said this.

Although the Sanders campaign rejected the validity of AP’s declaration — on the ground that the superdelegates do not vote until the convention and he intends to try to persuade them to vote for him — most major media outlets followed the projection and declared Clinton the winner.

This is the perfect symbolic ending to the Democratic Party primary: The nomination is consecrated by a media organization, on a day when nobody voted, based on secret discussions with anonymous establishment insiders and donors whose identities the media organization — incredibly — conceals. The decisive edifice of superdelegates is itself anti-democratic and inherently corrupt: designed to prevent actual voters from making choices that the party establishment dislikes. But for a party run by insiders and funded by corporate interests, it’s only fitting that its nomination process ends with such an ignominious, awkward, and undemocratic sputter...

Greenwald's pretty excitable, and never forget he's a regular demonizer of Israel, etc., but he raises a good point nevertheless.

I can't stand the superdelegates. Would Hillary have won the nomination without them? Who knows? But had Bernie Sanders gone for the jugular early in his campaign, holding nothing back, and tearing into every corrupt, scandalous, enabling outrage that is the Clinton political machine, he might well have been crown the Democrat Party standard-bearer. In the end, that's probably the bigger story.

And remember, Donald Trump's under no such constraint. His challenge will be finding the zone while eviscerating the hulk shell cankles Clinton.

RELATED: At Truth Revolt, "Bill Clinton's Ex-Lover Describes Meeting Hillary: 'Lumpy, Thick Calves, Hairy Toes'."

Illegal Alien Valedictorian Larissa Martinez (VIDEO)

She's apparently been accepted to Yale.

Hey, good for her, but one can't help thinking that the so-called "disadvantaged" are nowadays the ones with the most advantages and social prestige.

At PuffHo, "Undocumented Valedictorian Takes Down Trump In Epic Speech."

More at FOX 4 News - Dallas-Fort Worth, "North Texas valedictorian reveals she’s an undocumented immigrant."

And I saw another woman, Mayte Lara, posting about her hot legs and undocumented status on Twitter. She's since deleted her account. No doubt she got death threats, and understandably so. These people are ghouls.

More at the Texas Tribune, "Valedictorians Draw Attention for Saying They're Undocumented (Video)."