I must confess I don’t understand why we are not seeing the following argument coming out of every single spokesperson for the incoming administration:
Let me get this straight: The same media who told you inflation wasn’t an issue, the border was secure, that can’t define what a woman is, who told you that Joe Biden was sharp as a tack & insisted he wouldn’t pardon Hunter, that Kamala was Not Border Tsar & that she was going to win big…is spreading rumors about President-Elect Trump’s nominees, and you take them seriously? Why?
Until the new Senate is sworn in they should dismiss it all as fake stories from the fake news.
There have in fairness been the rare Democrat voice objecting to the pardon of Hunter Biden although we have also gotten defenses of the pardon from the View and this gem from MSNBC because, well it’s MSNBC:
Yep, that’s the real problem, it makes these Never Trump guys look bad.
and as Professor Jacobson notes there is something that they find even worse….
That’s why the Democrats are angry. They’re not angry that Joe Biden pardoned his son. They’re not angry that he lied about it for years. They’re angry that they feel that this had given an advantage to Trump. That’s what the anger is about on the Democrat side, and the Never-Trump side. It’s complete anger that they feel that Joe Biden has handed Trump a potential victory, and that’s what they’re upset about.
What does it come down to? The sin of Pride, pride to keep from consequences, pride in that “we’re better than Trump” and pride in thinking the only problem with corruption is it embarrasses them.
There is a reason why Pride is the 1st of the deadly sins, because it excuses so many others.
Chicago is descending to anarchy, and it’s not just because of the shootings.
There are also Mad Max style “street takeovers” for Chicagoans to cope with on a regular basis.
Last night, CWB Chicago reports, there were several street takeovers. And at one of them, two people were shot.
So sometimes shootings and street takeovers are synchronous.
Street takeovers generally consist of domestic muscle cars meeting at predetermined gathering spots–social media gives the when and where–and the where is also always on a main thoroughfare. The street takeovers aren’t 1950s-style cruise night parades, the sports cars engage in such dangerous and possibly deadly activities and as drag racing, drifting and spinning donuts.
Chicago street takeovers happen about once a month, although the establishment local media tends to ignore them. For the most part, the cops just watch the cars drift. Last night was different because, as once again CWB Chicago tells us. Bricks were thrown at one Southwest Side street takeover and at another Southwest Side motorized mayhem rally, multiple objects at police officers.
I’ve never been a cop, but it’s pretty easy to ascertain how to end them–in Chicago and elsewhere.
The next time there is a street takeover, cops should just place spike strips on the offended streets. The car will end up with flat tires and possibly damaged wheels and a ruined suspension, but who cares? Driving is a privilege, as we know, not a right. And reckless driving is a crime. And streets are built and paid for by taxpayers for responsible transportation, not dangerous stunts.
Yes, the jackals who attend these might throw more objects at the law enforcement officers who lay down the strips–so cops working to reestablish order need to where riot gear–but word will get out, quickly, on social media of course, that the streets of Chicago are no longer open for street takeovers.
I’m eagerly awaiting the first insurance company to decline a claim on a car damaged during a street takeover.
Yes, speed strips are an easy solution.
Apparently, the CPD owns some spike strips. Two years ago, ABC Chicago reported that a pilot project to use spike strips to combat street takeovers–but apparently this project was grounded.
But will Chicago’s pro-criminal mayor, Brandon Johnson, allow it? He’s an apologist for Chicago’s lawbreakers. For instance, while mayor-elect last year, “Branjo” dismissed a downtown riots, saying that kids make “silly decisions.”
Jon Sable:I get twenty five percent of anything I recover
Sherman: That’s kind of steep isn’t it?
Jon Sable:Depends on how you look at it. I figure 75% of something is better than 100% of nothing
Jon Sable Freelance Issue 8 1984
I was talking to a friend yesterday about the election. This is the guy I mentioned before who had previously been NeverTrump but decided that he HAD to vote for him to punish the left for what the Department of Justice had done to him. There had to be consequences for such horrible behavior.
While he teased me about Matt Gaetz (who he thought was unqualified) and Pam Bondi ( who we both agreed was incredibly qualified) we found ourselves worried about one thing.
Conservatives in general and MAGA people in particularly have been rightly celebrating and some of the meltdowns we’ve seen have been really amusing, but when it comes down to it we have to acknowledge something that a few folks don’t want to hear:
While Donald Trump won 100% of the presidency the reason why he did is because the left was chasing voters away who weren’t 100% pure and Donald Trump welcomed them into the fold.
A lot of those people who joined with us will be expecting to get a portion of the spoils of victory which means there are going to be some people appointed to positions that I wouldn’t choose and some decisions made that I wouldn’t make but we’re likely going to get 70% of what we want. and that’s OK.
Or to put it another way. Would you complain if your Baseball, Football, Basketball or Hockey franchise managed a .700 winning percentage? You’d be tickled pink.
Now maybe over time we will convince them of the advantages of conservatism in both culture and economics and it may in fact be that we will be pleasantly surprised at the effectiveness of some of their ideas toward the common good.
If we want to raise an objection here and there, that’s fine we should make the best case we can for what we believe, but in the end we’re not going to get a lot done if after winning a historic election we take the people who helped us to that victory and chase them back to where they were and remember in four years we won’t have Trump as a unifying force so we damn well better keep them as friends because we won’t want them as enemies in 2028.
Let’s leave the purity tests to the left, after all I already have a religion.
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