Monthly Archives: August 2016

The killer instinct

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Let’s go to what he is reported to have said: Trump: Maybe ‘Second Amendment People’ Could Stop Clinton From Picking Judges.

Trump said at a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, on Tuesday that if Clinton gets to pick federal judges as president, there is nothing that can be done to protect the right to bear arms.

But then he adds without elaboration that maybe supporters of the Second Amendment could figure out a way. . . .

My first reaction on hearing that he had said this was to think that it was the first time I had heard him utter a defeatist word, hypothesising that Hillary might win in November. But then I have watched the reaction across the media, and even among the supposed conservative media, accepting the left-media’s interpretation of what Trump had said, that he had been advocating some kind of violence against Hillary. There are political morons everywhere, I’m afraid, but the left-media must be amazed at how stupid the conservative side of politics is. I will go to the logic of what Trump is supposed to have said, which is that:

  • if Hillary is elected
  • and she gets to choose the next Supreme Court justices
  • and she chooses nominees who are opposed to the second amendment
  • then, what?

It ought to be obvious that if she is already president, her death would have no effect on who is chosen for the Supreme Court. Suppose she nominates Judges X and Y and then another blood clot to the brain carries her off. The same nominees will go forward under President Kaine.

The thing that makes Trump so different from all of the other Republicans is that he is not gun shy of a serious fight. He must be no little dismayed and quite a lot disgusted by the Republican first eleven who are weak beyond measure and who have no fight in them. The way the story continues is how it looked to me even as I read his words:

Trump himself seemed unaware of the controversy in an interview shortly after the rally, but he repeated that his point was that Second Amendment advocates are a powerful lobby. Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani also came to Trump’s defense.

“I think you are talking about — I’m not sure because I haven’t’ heard this question — but I think you’re talking about the power of people that are in favor of the Second Amendment, and they have tremendous political power,” he said.

When asked about Democrats’ statements equating the remark to condoning violence, Trump said: Oh no, no. This is political power.”

Giuliani added, “I mean, this is the Clinton trick book that you fall for all the time.”

Trump senior communications adviser Jason Miller told CBS News’ Major Garrett the accusations the GOP nominee was calling for violence are “completely ridiculous.”

“Donald Trump was obviously talking about American voters who are passionate about their Second Amendment rights and advocating they use that power at the ballot box,” Miller told CBS News. “The Clinton campaign is desperate and is obviously throwing all sorts of outrageous charges. I am surprised so many reporters are falling hook-line-and-sinker for what is obviously a ridiculous charge.”

I’m not surprised, of course, and I would be surprised if he really were surprised. The media are Trump’s most relentless enemies.

What I like about Trump is that he brings a gun to a knife fight. He does not back down. He’s new at this political game, but what he is not new at is fighting to win. You want to win yourself, you want to get your policies up even with the gale force media winds in front. It disgusts me to see how weak his support is. Here it is, you dummkopfs. We are down to the last two, and if it’s not Trump then its Hillary. Don’t tell me about all of your concerns with this and that. If you are not all in for Trump, then do me a favour and just shut up.

It’s not what you do but who you are that counts

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obama daughter smoking grass

Compare and contrast the media response. First this:

MAKING DADDY PROUD: MALIA OBAMA CAUGHT SMOKING WEED

Are you even aware this took place, in Chicago where smoking grass is illegal? And then there was this:

Bush’s daughter in under-age drinks bust.

This you will remember although it happened fifteen years ago [!!!] because the news reporting went on for days at the highest level of intensity. And she was 19 at the time so in any sensible country there would have been nothing illegal about it. And the effects of grass are much greater than the effects of drink, specially on young children. But that’s not the point. It is what is reported and turned into scandal and what is not. And it is not so much “what” as “who”.

Unfit to be president in many ways – here’s one more

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Donald Trump suggests that political pressure could be applied to a President Clinton on the selection of supreme court justices in relation to the 2nd amendment and every unhinged journalist goes off the deep end accusing him of advocating violence. The story: Trump: Maybe ‘Second Amendment People’ Could Stop Clinton From Picking Judges.

Trump said at a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, on Tuesday that if Clinton gets to pick federal judges as president, there is nothing that can be done to protect the right to bear arms.

But then he adds without elaboration that maybe supporters of the Second Amendment could figure out a way. . . .

Like, say, through the Senate rejecting a nominee, maybe. Anyway, here he is:

Trump himself seemed unaware of the controversy in an interview shortly after the rally, but he repeated that his point was that Second Amendment advocates are a powerful lobby. Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani also came to Trump’s defense.

“I think you are talking about — I’m not sure because I haven’t’ heard this question — but I think you’re talking about the power of people that are in favor of the Second Amendment, and they have tremendous political power,” he said.

When asked about Democrats’ statements equating the remark to condoning violence, Trump said: Oh no, no. This is political power.”

Giuliani added, “I mean, this is the Clinton trick book that you fall for all the time.”

Trump senior communications adviser Jason Miller told CBS News’ Major Garrett the accusations the GOP nominee was calling for violence are “completely ridiculous.”

“Donald Trump was obviously talking about American voters who are passionate about their Second Amendment rights and advocating they use that power at the ballot box,” Miller told CBS News. “The Clinton campaign is desperate and is obviously throwing all sorts of outrageous charges. I am surprised so many reporters are falling hook-line-and-sinker for what is obviously a ridiculous charge.”

I’m not surprised, of course, but who can be so disciplined in everything they say so that nothing cannot be twisted to make it seem anything you like.

Then there is this story which, as always, shows up in The Daily Mail and thus will have virtually no impact in the United States: Child rape victim comes forward for the first time in 40 years to call Hillary Clinton a ‘liar’ who defended her rapist by smearing her, blocking evidence and callously laughing that she knew he was guilty. The story is an old one but not the statement of the 12-year old victim of a rapist who was defended by Hillary Clinton. The victim is now 54.

  • ‘Hillary Clinton is not for women and children,’ says Kathy Shelton, 54, who was 12 years old when she was raped by Thomas Alfred Taylor in Arkansas
  • Clinton was the rapist’s defense lawyer, pleading him down to ‘unlawful fondling of a minor’
  • The 41-year-old drifter served less than a year in prison
  • The plea came after Clinton was able to block the admission of forensic evidence that linked her client to the crime
  • Shelton says she’s furious that Clinton has been portraying herself as a lifelong advocate of women and girls on the campaign trail
  • Clinton accused Shelton of ‘seeking out older men’ in the case and demanded that she undergo a grueling court-ordered psychiatric examination
  • The presidential candidate later laughed while discussing aspects of the case in a recently-unearthed audiotaped interview from the 1980s

Have a listen to the interview below from the 1980s.

Go to link for a complete wrap up of the events.

From the same people who brought you Malcolm Turnbull

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The Australian – a Murdoch paper – has a supplement on the American Election. Not all that neutral, as you can see by clicking the link. But in case you cannot be bothered, here is what you see right after the intro:

President Obama said Republican nominee Donald Trump is “unfit” to be president and questioned why top GOP lawmakers continued to endorse Trump for the White House while denouncing his actions.

Which comes with the following video:

The power of self-deception within the media class is extraordinary. They pass off their shallow and subjective valuations as deeply considered objective truths. This from The New York Times is almost beyond parody: Trump Is Testing the Norms of Objectivity in Journalism. That the media fail this test in every single election is neither here nor there. That they believe they are objective is the true idiocy. Let me quote:

If you’re a working journalist and you believe that Donald J. Trump is a demagogue playing to the nation’s worst racist and nationalistic tendencies, that he cozies up to anti-American dictators and that he would be dangerous with control of the United States nuclear codes, how the heck are you supposed to cover him?

Because if you believe all of those things, you have to throw out the textbook American journalism has been using for the better part of the past half-century, if not longer, and approach it in a way you’ve never approached anything in your career. If you view a Trump presidency as something that’s potentially dangerous, then your reporting is going to reflect that. You would move closer than you’ve ever been to being oppositional. That’s uncomfortable and uncharted territory for every mainstream, nonopinion journalist I’ve ever known, and by normal standards, untenable.

Uncharted territory!!! What a bunch of self-deluded bozos these media people are.

Misleading indicators

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unemployment rate genuine

Counting the number of unemployed has always depended on who you include and who you leave out. And to be unemployed you must want a job and be looking for a job. If you are no longer looking even if you would like a job, then you are no longer officially unemployed. Which gets us to the statistic above from this article: It’s Time To Dump The Unemployment Rate. Begin with this:

The July jobs report was a good one, and the unemployment rate held steady at 4.9%, which in the past would have been sure signs of a robust economy. So why is the country in such a bad mood?

An unemployment rate below 5% is a relatively rare thing. Only twice before in the past 40 years has it dropped that low — once in the late 1990s during that economic boom, and again briefly in 2006-2007.

Yet unlike before, there is little joy in Mudville today. Instead of confidence and optimism, there is only malaise.

So look at the “real” unemployment rate in the chart. What is real about it is that it is measured based on a constant participation rate. It adjusts for the fact that people might drop out of the labour force because they have given up hope of finding a job. To quote from the article:

Put simply, what’s happened is that the official unemployment number has grown increasingly useless as a reliable economic indicator, for the simple reason that millions of people have simply quit looking for a job. Since the unemployment rate is based only on those who are actively looking for work, the more people who drop out of the labor force, the lower the unemployment rate becomes.

Up until 2010 that didn’t matter much, since the “labor force participation rate” was relatively steady. But during the Obama “recovery,” that’s changed. As the economy has slogged along for the last seven years, millions of non-elderly workers have given up looking for jobs entirely.

Employment stagnating in just the same way as has GDP. And this is with the supposed stimulus of continuing budget deficits and interest rates at zero. And all economists can think to do is to increase public spending and find some way to contrive to lower interest rates even more.

In the American election, which side do you suppose The Australian takes?

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See if you can guess. The Australian – a Murdoch paper – has a supplement on the American Election. Not all that neutral, as you can see by clicking the link. But in case you cannot be bothered, here is what you see right after the intro:

President Obama said Republican nominee Donald Trump is “unfit” to be president and questioned why top GOP lawmakers continued to endorse Trump for the White House while denouncing his actions.

Which comes with the following video:

The Oz also went for Turnbull which shows you how out to lunch these people are. Really absolute fools.

It would be a lesson to us all if only we knew what the lesson was

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From A Socialist Les Miserables in Venezuela but picked up at Instapundit. It is, of course, virtually never in the media since it exposes the disastrous result of running an economy on socialist “principles”. But what I find far more remarkable is that even where it is reported, the reporters can never explain what has gone wrong. It’s not that they know but won’t say. It is because they literally do not know what has gone wrong.

A mob of starving people advanced on the presidential palace chanting, “We want food”. They were met by soldiers and police dispatched by the tyrant from his lavish palace decorated opulently with a golden sun, giant rock crystal mirrors, sparkling chandeliers and towering oil portraits.

The scene wasn’t 19th century France, but 21st century Venezuela.

And if you are wondering why you haven’t seen it on the news, it’s because Venezuela is a Socialist disaster area that was once being used as a model by the left. Now it’s a place where the vast majority of people can’t afford basic food staples and a third are down to two or fewer meals a day.

Obama laughed and joked with deceased monster Hugo Chavez, who handed him a copy of the anti-American tract, “Open Veins of Latin America” that had even been disavowed by its own author. Obama called the book a “nice gesture”, but Eduardo Galeano, its author, had told an audience that the left “commits grave errors” when in power.

Venezuela, once a wealthy oil state, where the doctors offering “universal health care” have no medicine and starving people loot government stores looking for food, is yet another example. 50 people are dead in the latest food riots. Their graves are yet another “grave error” of the left.

Obama has not appeared too concerned at the meltdown in Venezuela. Unlike Syria, there are no threats of intervention to remove Maduro, Chavez’s successor, and the rest of the leftist regime illegally clinging to power while slaughtering Venezuelans, smuggling drugs and aiding terrorists.

When Hugo Chavez was killed by the wonders of Cuban medicine, a remedy that American leftists recommend to others while they obtain the best private health care for their own ailments, Obama offered a vague statement of support calling Chavez’s passing, “challenging”.

It was certainly that.

But the question remains, what did they do wrong? It will have to remain a mystery, I’m afraid even as something like a quarter of American voters wanted to make Bernie Sanders president.

A free press and an informed public

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hillry climbing stairs

Talking American politics with anyone who does not look at various right-of-centre blogs is a depressing experience. The picture is from this blog: SHOCK PHOTO: Multiple staffers help unstable Hillary up stairs where it was found on Drudge which carries the story further.

And then there’s this: Clinton discussed executed Iranian scientist on email.

Hillary Clinton recklessly discussed, in emails hosted on her private server, an Iranian nuclear scientist who was executed by Iran for treason, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said Sunday.

How many other policy disasters have followed from every foreign government having immediate access to everything Hillary illegally wrote as Secretary of State on her private email accounts. Ah well. What you don’t know can’t hurt you, I suppose. Or at least not right away.

He may really be the great negotiator he says he is

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Think of how nicely the ducks are falling into line:

WE ARE FAMILY: Trump endorses House Speaker Paul Ryan…
Expresses support for McCain and Ayotte…
Escalates attacks on HRC…
Plans biggest tax cuts since Reagan…

I still think it will be the debates that settle the issue, one way or the other. But if the Republicans can now all start supporting each other, there is no telling how well this could go. The Facebook ad, by the way, has had more than two million hits in less than 24 hours.

The largest issue remains the phenomenal dishonesty and bias of the American media. An important example here: Pat Caddell on ‘Cooked’ Reuters Poll: ‘Never in My Life Have I Seen a News Organization Do Something So Dishonest’. There is nothing in any mainstream news report you can trust but if the media can do it, they will get Hillary over the line.