Sunday, November 10, 2019
Gamer Girlfriend
On Twitter:
Miss smiley tits! @guiltygkatie #boobs #tits @CryptoHooters pic.twitter.com/6qwNzvU0Nm
— Big Breast Pics (@BigBreastPics) November 7, 2019
President Trump Gets Warm Reception at Alabama-LSU Game
At the Epoch Times, "Trump Gets Warm Welcome, Chants at Alabama-LSU Game."
I was there and it was a rousing welcome for 45! Americans respecting their president and enjoying their football. @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/mKqTlGnkWF
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) November 10, 2019
Backlash in Boise Against California Transplants
Here's a downside to those Californians looking for redder pastures out of state.
Following up from yesterday, "Conservatives Flee California."
At LAT, "‘Go back to California’: Wave of newcomers fuels backlash in Boise":
Following up from yesterday, "Conservatives Flee California."
At LAT, "‘Go back to California’: Wave of newcomers fuels backlash in Boise":
‘Go back to California’: Wave of newcomers fuels backlash in Boise. “If you come here and fly that California flag in your driveway and have stickers on your car that say, ‘Santa Cruz,’ there’s going to be some hard feelings.” https://t.co/WIp96jJrCf by @marialaganga
— Hailey Branson-Potts (@haileybranson) November 10, 2019
BOISE, Idaho — This city sure knows how to roll up the welcome mat — that is, if you happen to move here from California.Keep reading.
Just consider last week’s mayoral election. It was the most competitive race in recent memory, a referendum on growth in the rapidly expanding capital of Idaho. And candidate Wayne Richey ran on a very simple platform: Stop the California invasion.
His basic plan to fulfill that campaign promise? “Trash the place.”
Richey figured that would be the best way to keep deep-pocketed Golden Staters from moving to his leafy hometown. He blames them for pushing home prices and rents up so high that Boiseans can’t afford to live here on the meager wages most Idaho jobs pay.
At a candidate forum in late October, he had a terse answer for the question: “If you were king or queen for the day, what one thing would you do to improve Boise?”
“A $26-billion wall,” he said, laughing, drawing out each word for maximum emphasis. As in build one. Around Idaho.
California bashing is a cyclical sport with a long history in the heart of Idaho’s Treasure Valley. Growth spurts have more than doubled Boise’s population since the 1980 census. Four months before federal counters hit the streets here that year, a Washington Post headline crowed, “To Most Idahoans, A Plague of Locusts Is Californians.”
In this current wave, California concerns have made their way into a heated mayor’s race. They have taken up residence on Nextdoor social networks.
And they erupted into a recent tweet storm that swirled around two beloved institutions, Boise State University and football. The electronic uproar caused residents all the way up to Mayor David Bieter to defend their city’s welcoming nature and insist that they like Californians, really they do, despite evidence to the contrary.
The Twitter squall started in late September, when former Boise State University football player Tyler Rausa went out to his car one day. There he found a professionally printed card, white with an elegant charcoal gray and gold border. It had a nicely centered, two-line message in all capital letters.
GO BACK TO CALIFORNIA
WE DON’T WANT YOU HERE
He posted it online with a very short response: “Hmmmm didn’t think I’d ever find this on my car in Boise. #ThankYou.”
Greta Thunberg Mural Goes Up in San Francisco (VIDEO)
The climate change movement has its cult of personality in Little Greta.
At the San Francisco Chronicle, "Giant Greta Thunberg mural going up in Union Square."
And from Ed Driscoll, at Instapundit, "RIDE THE CLIMATE CHANGE RECURSION!"
At the San Francisco Chronicle, "Giant Greta Thunberg mural going up in Union Square."
And from Ed Driscoll, at Instapundit, "RIDE THE CLIMATE CHANGE RECURSION!"
Saturday, November 9, 2019
Conservatives Flee California
I'd bail out right now if I could. I've got a decade until retirement, that is, unless I get a golden parachute early retirement package from my college.
Not sure where we'll move, but out of state is a definite destination when the time comes.
At LAT, "California conservatives leaving the state for ‘redder pastures’":
Not sure where we'll move, but out of state is a definite destination when the time comes.
At LAT, "California conservatives leaving the state for ‘redder pastures’":
California conservatives leaving the state for ‘redder pastures’https://t.co/1s1xmtcm0l— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) November 9, 2019
The Volkswagen SUV whizzed past the Texas state line, a U-Haul trailer in tow, as it made its way toward Amarillo.Keep reading.
“Yay!” Judy Stark cried out to her husband, Richard, as they officially left California. The pair bobbed their heads to ’50s music playing on the radio.
Like many voters who lean to the right in California, the retired couple have decided to leave the state. A major reason, Stark and her spouse say, is their disenchantment with deep-blue California’s liberal political culture.
Despite spending most of their lives in the Golden State, they were fed up with high taxes, lukewarm support for local law enforcement, and policies they believe have thrown open the doors to illegal immigration.
Just over half of California’s registered voters have considered leaving the state, according to a UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll conducted for the Los Angeles Times. Republicans were nearly three times as likely as their Democratic counterparts to seriously have considered moving — 40% compared with 14%, the poll found. Conservatives mentioned taxes and California’s political culture as a reason for leaving more frequently than they cited the state’s soaring housing costs.
Stark and her husband decided it was time to put their Modesto home up for sale about six months ago. After doing some research online, she came across the website Conservative Move, which, as its name suggests, helps conservatives in California relocate from liberal states to redder ones, such as Texas and Idaho.
Pulled over at a Pilot truck stop just outside Amarillo, Stark said she was excited to be hours from their final destination, Collin County, near Dallas. The pair purchased a newly constructed three-bedroom home in McKinney for about $300,000. In much of California, Stark said, a similar home would run about twice as much.
“We’re moving to redder pastures,” Stark, 71, said by phone. “We’re getting with people who believe in the same political agenda that we do: America first, Americans first, law and order.”
Alex Biston's Saturday Forecast
It's nice and mild this weekend, and not windy so far.
Here's the lovely Ms. Alex, for CBS News 2 Los Angeles:
Here's the lovely Ms. Alex, for CBS News 2 Los Angeles:
House Republicans Plan to Call Hunter Biden in Upcoming Public Impeachment Hearings
Well, this oughta be good.
At the Epoch Times, "Republicans Request Hunter Biden, Whistleblower, DNC Consultant Testify in Impeachment Inquiry."
More at Memeorandum.
At the Epoch Times, "Republicans Request Hunter Biden, Whistleblower, DNC Consultant Testify in Impeachment Inquiry."
More at Memeorandum.
Jojo Levesque
At Taxi Driver, "Jojo Levesque in White Top."
u have my heart 💞🍀 https://t.co/4udPQjvkwk
— JoJo. (@iamjojo) November 6, 2019
Cindy Crawford in Black and White
At Taxi Driver:
Cindy Crawford Posing Topless but covered In B&W - https://t.co/hpszjvHaJD - pic.twitter.com/pmlL0Gj8t7
— Taxi Driver (@TaxiDriverMovie) November 7, 2019
Germany's Unsettled Identity
At the New York Times, "Germany Has Been Unified for 30 Years. Its Identity Still Is Not":
Germans mark 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall on Saturday. But while unification fixed German borders for the first time in the country’s history, it did little to settle the neuralgic issue of German identity. https://t.co/5bDLoXzt4v— New York Times World (@nytimesworld) November 8, 2019
BERLIN — Abenaa Adomako remembers the night the Berlin Wall fell. Joyous and curious like so many of her fellow West Germans, she had gone to the city center to greet East Germans who were pouring across the border for a first taste of freedom.Still more.
“Welcome,” she beamed at a disoriented-looking couple in the crowd, offering them sparkling wine.
But they would not take it.
“They spat at me and called me names,” recalled Ms. Adomako, whose family has been in Germany since the 1890s. “They were the foreigners in my country. But to them, as a black woman, I was the foreigner.’’
Three decades later, as Germans mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, the question of what makes a German — who belongs and who does not — is as unsettled as ever.
The integration of East and West has in many ways been a success. Germany is an economic and political powerhouse, its reunification central to its dominant place in Europe.
But while unification fixed German borders for the first time in the country’s history, it did little to settle the neuralgic issue of German identity. Thirty years later, it seems, it has even exacerbated it.
Ethnic hatred and violence are on the rise. A far-right party thrives in the former East. Ms. Adomako says she is still afraid to go there. But she is not the only one who feels like a stranger in her own land.
Germany’s current effort to integrate more than a million asylum seekers welcomed by Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2015 is just the most immediate challenge. It is compounded by past failures in a country that opened a regular path to citizenship for the children of immigrants only in 2000.
In the decades since the wall fell, Germany’s immigrant population has become the second largest in the world, behind the United States. One in four people now living in Germany has an immigrant background.
But that is not the story Germans have been telling themselves.
Two decades after the country stopped defining citizenship exclusively by ancestral bloodline, the far right and others have started distinguishing between “passport Germans” and “bio-Germans.”
The descendants of Turkish guest workers who arrived after World War II still struggle for acceptance. Jews, most of whom arrived from the former Soviet Union, are wary after a synagogue attack in the eastern city of Halle last month shocked the country that had made ‘‘Never Again’’ a pillar of its postwar identity.
Not least, many East Germans feel like second-class citizens after a reunification that Dr. Hans-Joachim Maaz, a psychoanalyst in the eastern city of Halle, calls a “cultural takeover.”
Across the former Iron Curtain, a new eastern identity is taking root, undermining the joyful narrative that dominated the reunification story on past anniversaries.
“It’s an existential moment for the country,” said Yury Kharchenko, a Berlin-based artist who defiantly identifies as a German Jew despite — and because of — the armed guards outside his son’s nursery in Berlin. “Everyone is searching for their identity.”’
Overcoming the past, especially the Nazi ideology that gave rise to the Holocaust, has been a guiding precept of German identity since World War II. In West and East alike, the ambition was to create a different, better Germany.
The West resolved to become a model liberal democracy, atoning for Nazi crimes and subjugating national interests to those of a post-nationalist Europe.
The East defined itself in the tradition of communists who had resisted fascism, giving rise to a state doctrine of remembrance that effectively exculpated it from wartime atrocities.
Behind the wall, the East was frozen in time, a largely homogeneous white country where nationalism was allowed to live on...
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Tulsi Gabbard on 'The View' (VIDEO)
At Memeorandum, "Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard fights back against Clinton's remarks, calls them ‘demeaning’."
She calls out Joy Behar for her vicious and dishonest smear campaign.
She calls out Joy Behar for her vicious and dishonest smear campaign.
Demi Rose Shares Svelt Throwback Snap
At Daily Mail and Twitter:
Demi Rose shares incredibly svelte throwback snap https://t.co/Jq9eK86qkT
— Daily Mail Celebrity (@DailyMailCeleb) November 6, 2019
— Demi Rose (@DemiRoseMawby) November 5, 2019
Special edition 💓 pic.twitter.com/kHq3FdwlY6
— Demi Rose (@DemiRoseMawby) November 1, 2019
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
Trump's Campaign Says Election Is His to Lose
A great piece, at McClatchy, "Trump’s well-oiled campaign has everything planned — except Trump":
“He’s no Mr. Nice Guy” but sometimes it takes a Donald Trump to get the job done.@realDonaldTrump’s campaign is ready for battle. https://t.co/4YFnFBpX3z— Brad Parscale (@parscale) November 5, 2019
President Donald Trump fiddled for months with a 2020 election message that would be ready for primetime. His top two campaign aides — Jared Kushner and Brad Parscale — sought a message that would resonate with the president’s core political base and also reach skeptical independents.More.
Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and most trusted adviser devising the campaign’s strategy, and Parscale, his campaign manager, turned to Larry Weitzner, a top political advertising consultant behind many of Trump’s 2016 ads.
Weitzner produced a spot with a new slogan: “He’s no Mr. Nice Guy.”
Trump loved it. He called Parscale and told him to air it during the World Series.
One year away from a referendum on his presidency, Trump and his campaign are embracing elements of his political identity that have sharply divided the nation. The same instinctive, mercurial president remains at the helm. But this time he sits atop a campaign infrastructure fueled by an unprecedented war chest, a sophisticated digital operation and a disciplined staff.
“We’re going to be attacked. We don’t care. But we’re not going to be nice about it,” said Katrina Pierson, a senior advisor to Trump’s reelection campaign, about the slogan her bosses loved so much.
But Trump’s senior aides have a slogan of their own that reminds them of their task: Only Trump can beat Trump. The race, in their minds, is his to lose.
Trump’s allies worry those same political instincts that won him the presidency also led to the impeachment inquiry — a strategy to collect opposition research on a political opponent gone too far, involving foreign powers, that might have circumvented the official campaign.
Some aides fear that Trump’s effort to compel Ukraine, and possibly China, to investigate and release information on former Vice President Joe Biden and his family is just one example of his unpredictability.
Indeed, it is the first time in modern political history that a president has been subject to an impeachment inquiry during his first term.
“On issue after issue the president has accomplished the things that he ran on despite the most devastating headwinds that any president has ever faced with a Democrat Party doing everything they can to nullify the election of 2016 since day one,” said Ronna McDaniel, chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, who participates in daily calls with Kushner and Parscale on strategy.
Matt Schlapp, American Conservative Union chairman and a White House ally, said the president is favored to win — if he can stay focused on his agenda and good news on the economy while fighting the impeachment inquiry.
“Are you asking me if I wish the president would stay on message? My answer would be one word: Yes,” he said...
'Brain Stew'
Sunday, November 3, 2019
Jennifer Delacruz's Sunday Forecast
I mentioned the nippy mornings we're having. It's warm in the daytime, cool in the evenings, and downright chilly early A.M.
Here's the spectacular Ms. Jennifer, for ABC News 10 San Diego:
Here's the spectacular Ms. Jennifer, for ABC News 10 San Diego:
One Year Out, a Nation Divided
It's one year until election 2020, and we're divided as a nation, as divided as ever.
At the Associated Press, "1 Year Out: A divided nation lurches toward 2020 election":
At the Associated Press, "1 Year Out: A divided nation lurches toward 2020 election":
One year to go: A divided nation lurches toward the 2020 election, a contest that will be a referendum on Trump’s vision for American culture and the nation’s role in the world, reports @jpaceDC: https://t.co/chgFu10xTq
— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) November 3, 2019
WASHINGTON (AP) — One year from Sunday, voters will decide whether to grant President Donald Trump a second term in office, an election that will be a referendum on Trump’s vision for America’s culture and role in the world.Keep reading.
Much is unknown about how the United States and its politics will look on Nov. 3, 2020.
Who will Trump’s opponent be? How will Democrats resolve the ideological, generational and demographic questions roiling their primary? Will a strong economy shore up Trump’s support or will recession warning signs turn into a reality? Will Trump face voters as just the third American president to have been impeached by the House of Representatives?
“It seems like Republicans and Democrats are intractable,” said Mark Updegrove, a presidential historian and chairman of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation. “They are both adhering to their own versions of reality, whether they’re based in truth or not.”
The political divisions today reflect societal and economic schisms between more rural, largely white communities where the economy depends on industries being depleted by outsourcing and automation, and more urban, racially diverse areas dominated by a service economy and where technology booms are increasing wealth.
Many of those divisions existed before Trump, but his presidency has exacerbated them. Trump has panned his political opponents as “human scum,” while Democrats view his vision for America’s future as anathema to the country’s founding values.
Indeed, no president in the history of public opinion polling has faced such deep and consistent partisan polarization.
Polling conducted by Gallup shows that an average of 86% of Republicans have approved of Trump over the course of his time in office, and no less than 79% have approved in any individual poll. That’s compared with just 7% of Democrats who have approved on average, including no more than 12% in any individual poll.
One thing that does unite the parties: voters’ widespread interest in the presidential campaign, even at this early phase. A poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows 82% of Democrats and 74% of Republicans are already interested in the election.
To win, Trump’s campaign needs to recreate the enthusiasm among his core supporters, a task that isn’t always easy for an incumbent burdened with a four-year record in office. But Trump is already leaning hard into the strict immigration policies that enlivened his supporters in 2016, while trying to convince more skeptical Republicans that Democrats are moving so far left as to be outside of the mainstream...
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