We are the drain the swamp people

“I woke up and discovered, to my horror, that Trump had won.” (Barbara Bush)

“She didn’t hide her horror from those close to her. After Trump was elected, a friend in Kennebunkport gave her a Trump countdown clock as a joke. The red, white, and blue digital clock displayed how many days, hours, minutes and seconds remained in Trump’s term. She parked it on the side table in her bedroom, next to the chair she would sit in to needlepoint or watch television.”

As George W Bush said about Trump’s Remarks at His Inauguration: “That’s Some Weird Sh-t’

As a conservative, and kind of a “nominal” Republican these days, I must admit that I’ve consistently voted for GOP presidential candidates in recent years…even though the Republican candidates in the two elections prior to the latest espoused few conservative, American, values …only because the Democrat candidates were so inimical to the interests of America.

In the case of the two Bushes, GHWB and GWB I did so because, at the time, I genuinely admired them and trusted them.

Boy! Was I conned about them!

In recent years it has become apparent that these two, and the entire Bush family were not what I thought them to be.

Among other things, I thought the family was gracious and elegant, devoted to the values and culture that made this nation truly ‘great’!

I must admit, I was having some misgivings about “43” during his time in the Oval Office. His handling of the Scooter Libby situation was shocking. That entire episode was so obviously in need of sober, evenly handed justice that George so inexplicably exhibited cowardice, timidity, naivete’, and just plain stubbornness. From the outset it was known around D.C. that the “outing” of Valerie Plame was done by Richard Armitage, Sec. Of State Colin Powell’s chief of staff. Even before Patrick Fitzgerald formally began his “investigation”, the Special Prosecutor and personal friend, Acting Attorney General James Comey (yep, the same), both knew it.

Yet, Fitzgerald went ahead with the “investigation”. During that probe the Central target, Karl Rove, got off the hook and Fitzgerald, having to show something for his effort, entrapped Scooter Libby, Vice President Cheney’s Chief of Staff.

Libby’s recollections of a conversation with NBC’s “revered” reporter Tim Russert and Matt miller about the so-called outing of Blame as a CIA undercover operative differed. Fitzgerald preferred to accept Russert’s version and charged Libby with perjury and obstruction … “process crime”…even though the Special Prosecutor knew that Libby was guilty of nothing.

Libby was thus the only person charged in the Plame investigation. He was charged and convicted of perjury and obstruction for ‘lying to the FBI’ (ever heard of that one?).
Eventually and reluctantly, after repeated pleas by Cheney on Libby’s behalf, Bush commuted the 30 month prison sentence …he did not, however, grant Libby ‘full clemency’ , leaving Libby with 2 years’ probation and a $250,000 fine!

It wasn’t until the 2016 campaign, however, that my views of the Bush clan seriously began to change. With JEB’s humiliating defeat, the Bush family clearly demonstrated that they could be as petty and devious as most politicians. Their image of grace and elegance took a big hit.

When JEB’s departure from the GOP race for the nomination became a reality, the true “Bush character” began to emerge.

When early indications surfaced that JEB couldn’t become president, the Bush family was unabashed in their obvious preference for Hillary. It was already apparent that the Bushes had a great affection for the Clintons. Bill was already a ‘member’ of their ‘adopted’ family, welcomed as a great good buddy of GHWB and a “brother by another mother” according to GW.

There was JEB’s warm 2013 introduction of Hillary at the National Constitution Center awarding her the Center’s “Liberty Medal” for all her wonderful public service.
(“Possible 2016 Republican contender Jeb Bush is presenting Hillary Clinton, the presumptive front runner for the 2016 Democratic nomination, with an award Tuesday, Sept. 10 in Philadelphia — and it has one conservative group criticizing the ceremony:
” …(JEB)Bush, the chairman of the National Constitution Center…(presented)…Hillary Clinton with the organization’s 2013 Liberty Medal.

“Former Secretary Clinton has dedicated her life to serving and engaging people across the world in democracy,” Bush said in a statement released earlier this summer. “These efforts as a citizen, an activist, and a leader have earned Secretary Clinton this year’s Liberty Medal.”)

Before then Bush 43 and JEB had made it clear that massive illegal immigration was OK with the family (“an act of love”, was JEB’s description), even if voters made it clear during GW’s administration that legalizing ‘open borders’ was not wanted.

With Trump’s election, the Bushes decided to drop all pretense of who they really were.
Bush 41 publicly announced that he had not voted for the Republican nominee. Then there was GW’s very public “weird sh-t” assessment of Trump’s inauguration remarks.

We were also learning that members of the family supported gay marriage, something not all suspected during either former president’s tenure. And then, G W’s daughter, Barbara Bush Pierce delivered the keynote address at a Fort Worth fundraiser for Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas!

Earlier it was reported that she had attended a fundraiser for then presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton!

And, now we get USA Today’s gleeful report on a book soon to be released by USA Today ‘s Susan Page about the Bush family’s Matriarch, the late Barbara Bush.
The ‘big reveal’ by USA Today seems to be how much she despised Donald Trump!
Wow! A shocker!

Seems the former First Lady was understandably a bit miffed that President Trump defeated her “low energy’ offspring, and had even offered some unkind comments about JEB during the campaign.

But now we learn how deep her resentment and dislike for Trump ran:

(adapted from The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty, which will be published April 2 by Twelve Books. Author Susan Page, the Washington Bureau chief of USA TODAY, spent hours interviewing the former first lady during the final six months of Bush’s life and was given access to her personal diaries spanning decades:

“Barbara Bush blamed Donald Trump for her heart attack.”

“It wasn’t technically a heart attack, though she called it that. It was a crisis in her long battle with congestive heart failure and chronic pulmonary disease that hit her like a sledgehammer one day in June 2016. An ambulance was called to take her to the hospital. The two former presidents who had been at home with her that day, her husband and her oldest son, trailed in a car driven by the Secret Service. The tumultuous presidential campaign in general and Trump’s ridicule of son Jeb Bush in particular had riled her. “Angst,” she told me. )

For me this will hopefully conclude any speculation that the two former presidents and their families were full-fledged “Establishment” . . . and even very questionable “Republicans”! Like many other American voters, there should no longer be any belief that the would-be Bush “dynasty” shared our traditional values, culture, and beliefs in America. To them, as with Obama and today’s radical leftist Democratic party, ‘it needs ‘fundamental transformation’! I make one exception to my disenchantment with the Bush clan. Both “Georges” were supportive of our military, and GW continues to this day.

While each gave our nation some admirable public service and could rightfully claim certain accomplishments, they were not very close to what they presented themselves to be.

For the Bushes, in the end, it was still all about the Establishment, and, whether in error or in a cynical commitment, it was not about preserving America as it was founded, with all its past history, warts and mistakes, accomplishments and great contributions to a better world…and ultimately its Greatness. It was all about power, getting it and keeping it.

As one well known public figure often says, “so sad”!    DLH

—–Hours before they were to leave office after eight troubled years, George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney had one final and painful piece of business to conclude. For over a month Cheney had been pleading, cajoling, even pestering Bush to pardon the Vice President’s former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby. Libby had been convicted nearly two years earlier of obstructing an investigation into the leak of a covert CIA officer’s identity by senior White House officials. The Libby pardon, aides reported, had become something of a crusade for Cheney, who seemed prepared to push his nine-year-old relationship with Bush to the breaking point–and perhaps past it–over the fate of his former aide. “We don’t want to leave anyone on the battlefield,” Cheney argued.

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Trump Pardons Libby

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-pardons-ex-cheney-aide-scooter-libby

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HO HUM, ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER DISCOVERY OF A ‘HUUGE’ IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE BY (ugh) PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP!

As the AP breathlessly reports:

Trump team overruled 25 clearance denials, official says

“A career official in the White House security office says dozens of people in President Donald Trump’s administration were granted security clearances despite “disqualifying issues” in their backgrounds, including concerns about foreign influence, drug use and criminal conduct.” *   . . .

The allegations were detailed in a letter and memo released Monday by Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee.

Surely, at some point, if that has not already been reached, the overwhelming majority of American voters of both parties (maybe even a significant number of the millions of illegal Democratic voters) will grow weary and sufficiently angry with the gross little stooges in the House of Representatives leadership.

Like Elijah Cummings, for example. If Hillary had not so ‘polluted’ the word that it can longer be used without a germ killing mouthwash, he could be accurately described as one of the really ‘despicable’ members of Congress (the competition for that title is fierce in Dem ranks.).

So Tuesday’s big story, as dutifully ‘reported’ by the AP is that the Trump administration has done it again!

Despite the best efforts of the ever vigilant ‘deep state’ guardians of our national security, it has managed to put into all manner of key government positions ‘foreign agents’ and God knows what kind of ‘bad actors’.

That is pretty much what we heard about all day from our favorite liberal anti-Trump “news” outlets.

Seems a whistle blower, an “18 year career employee” (hmm, elevated to that secure position during either the unwary GW or the ultra crooked, ‘male Clinton’ administration) has come out with the latest revelation of an ‘impeachable offense’. I’m sure this lady has no motives whatever, other than protection of the American people from the collusive reprobates who are now being run out of the Oval Office and the Kremlin.

No doubt this revelation will go into the “Pencil Neck’s” and Rep. “Swallow-well(?)’s” bags of ‘evidence of “Russian collusion”!

After all the obstruction by the Democrats to President Trump’s ability to fill even a fraction of the positions in his administration after 2 years, isn’t it amazing that he was able to sneak these likely “Russian Agents’ into key positions?!

And, reader, are you one of those who believes, like Karl Rove, that Trump should “just move on” after Mr. Mueller’s ‘disappointing’ performance …and let this Democrat freak show go along unhindered and uninhibited? Magnanimity with Democrats today gets you more petty politics.

Or . . .  as is our view, isn’t it time that we have a Special Counsel appointed to get to the bottom of how badly corrupted Obama and virtually his entire administration were, and how it nearly succeeded in destroying our Country as it was founded? Attention to the really dangerous and lawless activity by Obama which the Democrats are so diligently working to distract from with their phony scandals like this needs desperately to be exposed.

If such an investigation and report is not undertaken the next Democrat administration will be even worse and more effective. (I, for one, would be very disappointed to see ‘Jussie’ Smollett heading up the FBI in an Ocasio-Cortez administration.)     DLH

* In the Obama Administration serious risks would be hailed by the press as just being “inclusive” RM

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Can there be any doubt that this Pope is a Marxist and Liberation Theology promoter?  Marxist analysis is the economic and philosophic basis, twisted to sound theological, of his commentaries.  His is a cartoonish view of capitalism that he rails about but that does not exist anywhere, yet he uses it to morally bludgeon people and nations and to promote his unholy (in our view evil as all human experience has shown it to be totalitarian and death-dealing and not supported by Scripture or Catholic tradition) Marxist views.

In this article from the Daily Caller read Pope Francis’ comments about capitalism not just his essential denunciation of nation states. The Caller is way to reticent in its description of the Pope’s analysis. Following that we excerpt Monica Showalter at American Thinker who has an insightful  analysis of the Pope’s comments.

Pope Decries US Border Wall, Says It Will Make America A ‘Prisoner’

dailycaller.com/2019/03/31/pope-francis-trump-border-wall

Pope Francis decried President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall, saying it would make the U.S. a prisoner and that rejecting migrants was unjust.

Francis disparaged the Trump administration’s stance on immigration in an interview with Spanish journalist Jordi Evole from La Sexta on Friday before leaving for his trip to Morocco. The pontiff criticized not only the U.S., but also other countries that have put up physical barriers to illegal migrants, like Spain. (RELATED: Viral Video Of Pope Francis Rejecting Kisses From The Faithful Raises Questions)

“He who raises a wall ends up a prisoner of the wall he erected,” Francis said, according to Crux Now. “That’s a universal law in the social order and in the personal one. If you raise a wall between people, you end up a prisoner of that wall that you raised.”

“Yes, I defend my autonomy, yes. But you’re left alone like a mushroom,” he added.

Francis also decried the fences that Spanish authorities put up, which have spikes atop them to deter migrants, as “shameful.” He argued that war, famine and poverty motivate migrants to leave their countries, and that Catholic faithful should be “coherent” in living according to the Gospel by welcoming migrants.

“Why do [migrants] come? [Because] they live in despair and are united in a great illusion … they don’t measure the consequences, and we don’t measure the pain those people have,” Francis said.

Francis laid the blame for poverty and war at the feet of capitalism, saying it provokes the situations that cause migrants to flee their home countries. He said nothing, however, concerning the destructive influence of socialism that has created social, political and economic crises in South American countries like Venezuela.

This handout picture released by the Vatican press office on July 8, 2015 shows Bolivian President Evo Morales exchanging gifts with Pope Francis in La Paz during his pastoral trip in South America. (OSSERVATORE ROMANO/AFP/Getty Images)

“This is the hourglass,” Francis said. “Capitalism conceived of as a savage, not a social market economy […] What doesn’t work is the world of finance. This also creates wars, for the possession of wealth, does it not, whether they are international or national? I argue that we are already in a third world war, in pieces.”

Though Francis has not blatantly promoted communism or socialism, he has made several statements that seemed to support Marxist ideologies to a degree, and reflected aspects of Marxism in his proposed policies to combat climate change, which involve imposing heavy economic regulations. The pontiff also garnered criticism for accepting a gift of a hammer and sickle crucifix from Bolivian President Evo Morales.

By Monica Showalter at American Thinker (excerpt)

Pope blames illegal migration to capitalist countries … on capitalism

Pope Francis was at it again, offering up a confused “narrative” about illegal immigration in his bid to hector Western nations seeking to control their lawless borders through the construction of border walls. This time, his Marxist analysis of things got in the way of his theologically-charged argument, making him look like a V.S. Naipaul-style third-world boob.   . . .

The pope’s shot against capitalism, though, is where the real hypocrisy can be found.

Here’s his quote again:

Francis said “in general” capitalism provokes the situations of poverty that drive people to flee, because “fewer and fewer reach people with a lot of money and there are more poor people with very little money.”

“This is the hourglass,” he argued. “Capitalism conceived of as a savage, not a social market economy

If there were any truth to what he was saying, you can bet the migrant surges would be heading as far away from the U.S. as possible. Why would they want to head for as bad a place as the U.S. with all its ‘savage’ capitalism, just waiting to ravage them in its maw?

If the pope really believed that, he’d be urging the migrant waves to head for socialist countries instead. You know, the kind the Maryknolls and other Catholic liberation theology leftists have advocated for as the great “sea of happiness.” The pope is buddies with these people, and his thinking is clearly the kind of garbage they propound. Why are all those three million Venezuelans fleeing socialist Venezuela again? Capitalism? File under ‘ridiculous.’

Actually, it’s socialism that drives people from their homelands, as any Venezuelan, Cuban or Nicaraguan can tell you. Mexico has been socialist for decades, run up until recently by a party described by Mario Varga Llosa as “the perfect dictatorship.” Central America has gladly voted in socialist ex-guerrillas to high office, particularly in El Salvador. The more socialism, the more migration. The problem of course, is that these migrants are fleeing to the pope’s dreaded capitalism.

Confused? Resentful? You bet. The pope has gone Full Naipaul with this nonsense, making his argument utterly incogent – and utterly easy for any sane person to just ignore.

V’PAC

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• No! the Democrats don’t get to pull this stuff on Republicans, then have their people escape . . . throw a punch then say lets forget about it
• There is however the internecine warfare aspects – the only reason that various prog outlets such as AOL news /Huffpo, and more, are doing a number on Old Uncle Joe about this is they want somebody else for the Demo nomination
• You can bet they won’t be “Never Biden’s”  however

Gosh, who would believe old Joe could do such a thing??

Biden doesn’t recall alleged kissing incident from 2014

Joe Biden’s spokesman said Friday that the former vice president does not recall kissing a Nevada political candidate on the back of her head in 2014.

The allegation was made in a New York Magazine article written by Lucy Flores, a former Nevada state representative and the 2014 Democratic nominee for Nevada lieutenant governor.

Flores’ claim comes as Biden, the early leader in national Democratic presidential polls, is in the final stages of deciding whether to seek the 2020 nomination. Biden has been taking steps to assemble a political team in early-voting states such as Iowa and South Carolina.
In the article published Friday, Flores wrote that she and Biden were waiting to take the stage during a rally in Las Vegas before the 2014 election.

“I felt two hands on my shoulders. I froze. ‘Why is the vice president of the United States touching me?'” Flores wrote. “He proceeded to plant a big slow kiss on the back of my head.”

Flores said Biden’s behavior “made me feel uneasy, gross, and confused,” adding, “Even if his behavior wasn’t violent or sexual, it was demeaning and disrespectful.”
Biden spokesman Bill Russo said in a statement Friday, “Neither then, nor in the years since, did he or the staff with him at the time have an inkling that Ms. Flores had been at any time uncomfortable, nor do they recall what she describes.”

Russo said Biden “believes Ms. Flores has every right to share her own recollection and reflections, and that it’s a change for the better in our society that she has the opportunity to do so.”

Also note this Huffpo piece doing a number on old Joe in service to whoever their favorite nominee is

Joe Biden faces new scrutiny from Dems over behavior with women . . . Some Dems doubt Biden’s ability to win amid allegation

Related reading:

https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/31/lucy-flores-biden-cnn-kiss/

https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/31/joe-biden-lucy-flores/

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This Conservative Treehouse / Last Refuge article by Sundance — What is in the full Mueller report? . . .  —  we think accurately describes the personality, the underhandedness the lies and distortions, the MO of the Swamp and their centurion Mueller.

Mueller was being outrageous, making questionably obtained grotesque criminal referrals which triggered partisan arrests designed for public consumption and intimidation, stringing the Russian collusion”investigation” along even though they knew there was no collusion by Trump  — all in order to increase anxiety and bait Trump to do anything they could then accuse of being obstruction of justice.  It didn’t work.

It does not bother the likes of Mueller however, because doing the swamp’s bidding means never having to say you are sorry, much less face punishment.

The article presents a descriptive case for the motivations behind what is a great political scandal. It resonated with us and believe it will for you as well.

Related reading: Dowd Nails It – Former Trump Attorney Outlines Insufferable Behavior of Mueller and Rosenstein in Perpetrating Political Russia Hoax… 

DLH and R Mall

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JEFF SESSIONS WAS MORE THAN JUST A BUMBLING, INEFFECTIVE ATTORNEY GENERAL…

He is apparently a treacherous phony, and an insult to the intelligence of the American people!

Anybody besides the screwballs in the U S Congress (Schiff, Nadler, Swalwell, etc.) believe that Sessions should not be called to testify under oath about the treacherous scam he and Rosenstein pulled on the American people?

Daily Caller article, bold emphasis ours.    DLH

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/03/28/amid-calls-for-new-special-counsel-silence-on-internal-probe-of-fbi-doj-abuse/?

– Huber, who oversees federal prosecutions in the District of Utah, is working collaboratively in the internal investigation with Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz. “

– “There is no evidence a real investigation is taking place,” the head of one legal watchdog group told The Daily Signal.”

– The government’s inspectors general don’t have prosecutorial authority, but Huber brings to his investigation the tools of a federal prosecutor, including the ability to issue subpoenas.”

– Without mentioning Huber’s ongoing work, Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., this week called for Attorney General William Barr to appoint a new special counsel. Trump has said he is open to another special counsel. “

– The mission: to investigate government spying on a former Trump campaign aide, Carter Page, and other questionable actions by the Justice Department that led up to Mueller’s probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election—and allegations that the Trump campaign colluded with Moscow.”

– “…in March 2018, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, in consultation with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, appointed Huber to oversee a probe that included potential abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act by the Justice Department and the FBI.”

– “Huber’s portfolio also includes questions surrounding Russia-connected mining company Uranium One’s links to Bill and Hillary Clinton and their Clinton Foundation.”

“There is no evidence a real investigation is taking place,” Peter Flaherty, president of the National Legal and Policy Center, a conservative government watchdog group told The Daily Signal. “We don’t have a grand jury. It doesn’t seem key witnesses were interviewed. There is certainly no evidence he has staffed up. What he is up to is a mystery.”

– ” The White House’s role, including that of President Barack Obama, also remains almost completely unknown.”

– “The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Utah deferred questions on Huber’s investigation to the Justice Department’s Office of Public Affairs.”

– “Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec told The Daily Signal that there is no update at this point on the work of Huber and the inspector general.”

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While the quote at top is from Don Feder his article (set forth below) makes more points about the economic effects of socialism. It is entirely worthy, however it does not delve into the moral and theological degeneracy, the root of the evil.   It does raise the matter of the antisemitism long connected to socialism, certainly evil, and refers to Hitler’s National Socialist Party’s adoption of it.  Perhaps  the relentless disregard for individual life and liberties inherent in socialism/communism chronicled in such histories as The Black Book of Communism is well enough known. For socialists/communists agitators it’s OK to break a few eggs in the march of progress. Its called the dictatorship of the proletariat, evil even if it were true about socialism/communism, but it is not as it is invariably an elitist cadre, a junta, a rigid bureaucracy, a party apparat, an autocrat . . . in control.

So the corruption of socialism might have been touched on more with the use of such a great quotable line. Fear not readers as we rise to the occasion by referencing the moral analysis of some previous Popes, enshrined forever within our page bar above titled Papal Pages.  Nevertheless read Feder who concentrates on economic effects, the flesh, and expand it with reference to the soul of communism as revealed by previous Pope’s. (see below)

The Really Dumb, Stupid, Totally Clueless, Idiot’s Guide to Socialism
By Don Feder

1. Why now, with a great economy – and Venezuela as the classic example of how to kill a country with socialism – are so many buying in to Yellow-Brick-Road economics? The unemployment rate, job creation, and price of energy point to a bright future. The last time Americans were turned on by socialism was during the Great Depression, with 25% unemployment and Hoovervilles dotting the landscape. Then there’s Venezuela, once one of the most prosperous countries in Latin America, where there are periodic blackouts in what was a major oil-producing state. A March 12th story in The New York Post reported, “Desperate Venezuelans were forced to turn to filthy sewage drains and polluted rivers as the country’s nearly weeklong power outage left many without water.” And this is when Millennials and most Democrats say they favor socialism over free enterprise. Bottom line: It’s about power and plunder, not fairness and compassion.

2. Socialism is based on a profound ignorance of the laws of economics. Karl Marx, who spent most of his life writing in the library of the British Museum, refused to set foot in a factory – fearing it would shatter his illusions. At the ripe old age of 29, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is like a babe wandering around a grown-ups world – where people work and pay taxes. Her last job was bartending at a Manhattan saloon. If you asked her how a corporation works, she’d begin babbling about the “1%” and the Israeli “occupation.” For socialists, ignorance is an impenetrable shield.

3. Socialism makes a few rich and many very poor. Hugo Chavez, the socialist ruler of Venezuela before the current socialist ruler of Venezuela, used to say it’s “bad” to be rich – which is why the policies of he and Maduro have produced so many desperately poor people. Chavez’s favorite daughter, Maria Gabriela Chavez, is worth an estimated $4.2 billion – doubtless acquired through canny investments. In the USSR, there was the “new class,” which grew fat on the misery of the proletariat. Socialism is a way for non-producers to strike it rich.

4. Socialism is fueled by envy. In the socialist melodrama, there’s always a villain – a role currently assumed by the Democrats favorite scapegoat the proverbial 1%. “Why should they have so much more than you,” socialists ask? Well, perhaps they work harder than you, take risks you’re unwilling to take. Maybe they’re smarter or more creative. Yes, they’re ultra-rich SOBs – ultra-rich SOBs who produce wealth and innovations and jobs. When we help the Bernies of the world to pull them down, we pull down ourselves with them.

5. Where has socialism ever worked? Taiwan versus China (before it adopted market reforms)? East Germany versus West Germany? North versus South Korea? No, no, no, say Bernie and Bitchy. We mean democratic socialism, what they have in the UK and Scandinavia. Britain almost sank under the dead weight of post-World War II socialism, before Margaret Magnus began cutting and privatizing. Scandinavian socialism is more myth than reality. Take Sweden. Guided by conservative governments, by 1970, Sweden had the world’s 4th highest per capita income. Then the socialists came in, raising taxes, piling on regulations, and spending like drunken Vikings. By 1990, Sweden’s per capita income had plummeted to 14th worldwide. Since 1997, ministries that propose new spending have to offset it with cuts in existing programs. In 2007, the nation reduced unemployment payments. In the preceding decade, power and transportation sectors were deregulated. The highest corporate tax rate was cut from 28% to 22% (scheduled to go to 20.4% by 2021). Today, Sweden is richer than all major EU countries. Some socialism.

6. Socialism consistently fails, domestically as well as internationally. In America, the failure of socialism extends to almost everything the government touches, except the military, including the U.S. Postal Service, public education, VA hospitals and public housing. U.S. District Court Judge William Pauley III wrote in an opinion last year that public housing in New York City (the People’s Republic of de Blasio) was “Somewhat reminiscent of the biblical plagues of Egypt, these conditions include toxic lead paint, asthma-inducing mold, lack of heat, frequent elevator outages, and vermin infestation.” The city’s housing authority has “whitewashed these deficiencies for years,” the judge charged. In the Big Apple, the house that socialism built rests on mold, toxicity and vermin infestation.

7. Laying the groundwork for socialism. The left is on course to bankrupt the nation, import swarms of mendicants, raise debt from student loans to unsupportable levels, and repeal the Industrial Revolution with the Green New Deal. They intend to build their socialist utopia on the ruins of what’s left of a free-market economy. As Tucker Carlson points out on FOX News, student-loan debt stands at $1.5 trillion, more than the GDP of Spain or Sweden. In the past 13 years, the average indebtedness per graduate increased from $20,000 to $37,000. For two million Americans, it’s more than $100,000. Academia has gone on a spending spree, encouraged by federal subsidies. (Between 1997 and today, the number of administrators on college campuses has more than doubled.) Now, proponents of socialism threaten to solve the problem government created by nationalizing student loans. Works for them.

8. Socialism’s cheerleaders – the academic/media axis. The media made Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, creating a legend out of a ditz who defeated a 10-term incumbent – a middle-aged white-guy hack who didn’t know he was in a race till it was too late – in one of the most heavily Democratic congressional districts in the country. Every time a Democrat presidential hopeful proposes another socialist program, media mutts salivate like Pavlov’s dogs. Academia is even worse. In a 2017 survey covered by U.S. News and World Report (based on responses from 8,688 full-time professors at 51 of the 60 top-ranked liberal arts colleges), there were 10 registered Democrats for every one Republican. From lectures, to assigned reading, to speakers, most college campuses resemble the Communist International, except they’re to the left of Stalin.

9. Anti-Semitism isn’t an aberration; it’s central to socialism. Some on the left professed to be shocked when Sanders and AOC rushed to the defense of Rep. Ilhan Omar, after her anti-Semitic Tweets. But the movement has always been anti-Semitic. Socialists were quick to pick up on anti-Jewish stereotypes – Jews care only for money; Jews are lackies of business interests; There’s a Jewish conspiracy to dominate humanity. In his 1844 essay (“On the Jewish Question”) Marx wrote: “What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money.” This was a meme picked up a century later by Germany’s National Socialists. The late Hugo Chavez had a paranoid belief in Jewish conspiracies. In 2005, he referred to Jews as “the descendants of the same ones who crucified Christ,” who had “taken possession of all the wealth of the world.” From this perspective, the Hitler-Stalin Pact made perfect sense.

10. Millennials (Generation Dumb) and Socialism. As we’re regularly reminded, socialism’s greatest appeal is for the young, Millennials (ages 22 to 27) in particular. According to a recent survey, more favor socialism than capitalism (43% to 32%). This stands to reason, given their profound ignorance of U.S. History and economics. In a YouGov survey by the Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness, only 35% of Millennials knew which presidents were shown on Mount Rushmore (compared to 71% of Boomers). Only 11% of the former knew which rights are guaranteed by the First Amendment. And it doesn’t get any better for the next generation. The same survey showed that over half of today’s high schoolers believe Obama was more important to America than George Washington. They’re probably right. How can winning the War for Independence and leading the United States through its first quarter century of existence compare with Obama Care and subsidizing Iran’s nuclear program.

You could call the foregoing socialism simplified, for the really simple. Those who want to avoid the cataclysm need to keep reminding our fellow citizens that socialism isn’t just bad economics, it’s evil, part of the death march of progress.

The Black Soul of Communism

Papal Pages

Papal Pages

We have lambasted the current Pope’s public demeanor as more than that of a fellow traveler in Marxist analysis, along with too many Cardinals and Bishops.  Theirs is a huge corruption.

The papal encyclicals Rerum Novarum, and Quadragesimo Anno are not appreciated by clerics who have never honestly studied comparative economics, or history for that matter, and who are steeped in a welfare system blind to their own dependence on free markets and capitalism, sustenance that would be hugely curtailed by the implications of what they propagandize for. But then their actual gospel as reflected in the advocacy bureaucracies they have created are about government dependence not soul craft.

However in some dioceses of yore, the protectors of the faith took the dangers presented by species of government collectivism seriously as identified by Popes Leo XIII and Pius XI (while supporting voluntary Christian based labor unions). Consider item 23 from this scan of a photostat of my father’s application for a Knights of Columbus life insurance policy in 1934. No answer to the affirmative, no policy.

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FRESHPERSON REPRESENTATIVE OCASIO -CORTEZ NOW RUNS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S SENATE CAUCUS!

Rep. Ocasio-Cortez Says She Told Senate Democrats to Vote ‘Present’ on Green New Deal…And, So They Did!

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New York Mayor Bill de Blasio recently said: “Brothers and sisters, there’s plenty of money in the world. There’s plenty of money in this city. It’s just in the wrong hands.”

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HOW WILL BRADY SURVIVE THIS LOSS?!

WHO IS ‘CHRIS EVANS’?

– Losing “Chris would be Like Losing Barbra Streisand; Brady Can Only Hope

Chris Evans says he ‘might have to cut ties’ with Tom Brady

‘Avengers’ star Chris Evans said in a recent interview he ‘might have to cut ties’ with Patriots quarterback Tom Brady for being a Trump supporter.

“Captain America” star Chris Evans talked politics in a recent interview and said he “really” hopes the quarterback of his favorite team, Tom Brady, is not a supporter of President Trump.

Evans, 37, conducted a tell-all interview with The Hollywood Reporter that was published Wednesday. The discussion turned to politics when the issue of the actor’s vocal political views on social media came up.

“You don’t want to alienate half your audience,” Evans told magazine of his tweets. “But I’d be disappointed in myself if I didn’t speak up. Especially for fear of some monetary repercussion or career damage — that just feels really gross to me.”

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