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Wednesday, July 4. 2018

Wednesday morning links - Happy 4th

The Gadsden flag was a revolutionary battle flag dating to around 1775. The Stars and Stripes dates to around 1792.

Why your summer might be full of mosquitoes, according to a scientists

FDA approves country’s first medicine made from marijuana

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'Anti-bias' training not enough for Starbucks – advisers say 'civil rights audit' is next

The Left Steps Up Its Infatuation With the Political 'Wisdom' of Kids

Vaunted Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is damaged goods now

Faux ghetto

My Martha’s Vineyard Friends Have Shunned Me For Defending Trump

They are not friends

New York Times: Hey, Let's Kill The First Amendment. It's Helping Conservatives Too Much.

The Court: Restraint vs. Originalism

The 'Janus' Decision Is a Victory Decades in the Making

In Newly Revealed Secret Memo, Congress’ Top Cop Said House Democratic Server Vanished

Stranger and stranger

Good News: Trump Rescinds Obama’s ‘Affirmative Action’ Guidance

Ben Shapiro drops the HAMMER on Kamala Harris after she SNAPS at White House over her ‘record’

" When you arrested them for crimes, did you separate their children from them?"

Backfire: Trump soars 5 points in IBD-TIPP poll after Democrats go rabid

Iran: Cloudy with a Chance of Jewish Conspiracies

Istanbul Police Shoot Rubber Bullets and Tear Gas — And Sic Dogs on Gay Pride Marchers in Istanbul

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A Happy 4th to all Maggie's farmers and readers!

re Vaunted Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is damaged goods now

Methinks this is wishful thinking on the part of Monica.

Her Westchester origins were already known.

Monica says, Can't Democrats get anything right? Voters don't like phonies.

Apparently she has forgotten one Barack Hussein 0bama and how far his political career advanced.

Perhaps she won't get far in politics but it is too early to write her off.

#1 feeblemind on 2018-07-04 09:46 (Reply)

QUOTE:

Vaunted Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is damaged goods now

That Ocasio-Cortez graduated high school in Yorktown was not a secret. After her father died, Ocasio-Cortez worked three jobs to help the family ward off foreclosure. Her mother worked as a housekeeper.

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Democratic congressional nominee Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had a message for a critic who incorrectly attacked her background: "Try Google."

#2 Zachriel on 2018-07-04 10:28 (Reply)

Who was it again, that was advertising that they were the Girl With Roots In The Bronx? Tell us how much of your life-affirming formative identity was defined from the time you were 1 through 5 years old, then. Phony is as phony does. She will easily take her district, but that's because she has the correct DNA as compared to the Party Hack Bolillo that was running on tradition and comfort. That's Politics. Pointing out Phoney Baloney on Pretenders is fair game.

#2.1 Aggie on 2018-07-04 11:36 (Reply)

Aggie: who was it again, that was advertising that they were the Girl With Roots In The Bronx?

She does have roots in the Bronx, and she commuted to visit her extended family there after they moved to Yorktown. Again, none of this is a secret.

#2.1.1 Zachriel on 2018-07-04 13:21 (Reply)

Yeah, that's an interestingly convoluted take, but I like your thinking and I want you to keep it up - at least until November.. A few visits and a Christmas card list with the right zip codes doesn't equate to "roots". Accumulated life experience and formative learning in an immersive neighborhood is what equates to roots. She's a suburb girl and a Phoney - she'll go far.

#2.1.1.1 Aggie on 2018-07-04 14:55 (Reply)

I'm not sure how she's "damaged goods" - an intellectual elitist claiming to speak for the common workers all the while knowing common workers are too stupid to know what's for their own good and must have the intellectual elites to run their lives for them. She's got a bright future as a progressive with an outlook like that.

#2.1.1.1.1 Jerryskids on 2018-07-04 17:00 (Reply)

Jerryskids: an intellectual elitist

Sure, a graduate of Boston U, who worked to help support the family, who's still paying student loans, whose mother cleaned toilets to support the family, who a year ago worked as a bartender; she's an elitist.

#2.1.1.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2018-07-05 09:00 (Reply)

Hitlers mother cleaned toilets to support the family too. Stalin's mother cleaned toilets to support the family. I see a trend here.

#2.1.1.1.1.1.1 Anon on 2018-07-05 09:48 (Reply)

Hitler's mother was the wife of a civil servant.

Stalin's mother was the wife of a shoemaker, but was abused and left him, eventually holding a position in a couture shop. Neither would be considered to be of the elite.

#2.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2018-07-05 10:03 (Reply)

QUOTE:

Backfire: Trump soars 5 points in IBD-TIPP poll after Democrats go rabid

This is the sort of straw-grasping up with which you should not put!

41% approve
54% disapprove

#3 Zachriel on 2018-07-04 10:34 (Reply)

According to the polls it looks like an early night for Trump

😁😂😅😇

#3.1 drowningpuppies on 2018-07-04 11:34 (Reply)

http://americandigest.org/wp/whenever-you-see-a-trump-poll-add-12/

Back to your sandbox, kiddiez.

#3.2 drowningpuppies on 2018-07-04 12:11 (Reply)

QUOTE:

Ben Shapiro drops the HAMMER on Kamala Harris

The Trump Administration has separated legal asylum seekers.

The law gives wide discretion to the executive with regards to immigrants. Trump had decided to separate families, but did no planning whatsoever for the logistics involved, much less account for the damage done to families for such a policy.

#4 Zachriel on 2018-07-04 10:39 (Reply)

Zach, how much logistical planning did Obama put into his cages? And how much havoc did he place on illegals breaking the law bringing their families into the US?

Obama did provide space plankets for them, so I suppose it's all A-OK.

#4.1 Dave on 2018-07-04 11:10 (Reply)

Dave: how much logistical planning did Obama put into his cages?

The Obama Administration was dealing with an exogenous problem, a sudden flow of underage refugees. There was no choice but to provide them shelter, and the effort was slapdash and overwhelmed. They did not separate families except under special circumstances.

What Trump did was create a situation by separating children from the parents who accompanied them. It was avoidable, and certainly something for which plans could have been made.

#4.1.1 Zachriel on 2018-07-04 11:22 (Reply)

Good to see Zzzz finally admit Obama did it too.

Uh, but uh, that was different.

Back to your sandbox, kiddiez.

#4.1.1.1 drowningpuppies on 2018-07-04 11:50 (Reply)

Ask the Clattering Soros Robot(s) if it(s) knows why these separations have occurred for years*. While the CSR(s) has been testing its Media Hysteria Resonance Unit lately, apparently its Pedantry Module prevents its busted-to-hell Because History Matters! programming from ever being completed.

*Whether or not the CSR(s) ever searches its failing silicon for 10 IF illegal alien GOTO 20 *human trafficking* and related topics pertinent to regular normal human people persons is unknown. Regular normal human people persons realize that the common inability to assess a bloody damn parent and thus establish how to house a completely unidentifiable illegal minor for his or her own damn safety is but one of thousands of areas where the CSR(s) deviates from simple mechanical and perceptual reality and descends yet again into simple bullshit...

#4.1.1.1.1 Meh on 2018-07-04 13:37 (Reply)

That does not accurately describe what happened. Trump ONLY enforced the law. Obama was more than happy to simply let the illegals go free. This CAUSED his 'exogenous problem' because it encourged more illegals to enter with their children because it was seen as a sure pass into the country. The courts are the original cause of the problem with their ruling that these illegal children could only be held for 20 days. Why? We hold American children away from the parents for years if conditions warrant it. The ONLY way to discourage illegal immigration is to make the process undesirable to the immigrant. Two simple changes would permanently fix this problem in seconds. 1. if you are caught entering illegally you are booked, photoed, fingerpriinted and deported within 24 hours and because of this crime you can never enter the country again under any circumstances. 2. Ditto if caught within the country.

#4.1.1.2 OneGuy on 2018-07-04 11:55 (Reply)

OneGuy: Trump ONLY enforced the law.

Trump used executive discretion, discretion given under the law, to separate families.

OneGuy: This CAUSED his 'exogenous problem' because it encourged more illegals to enter with their children because it was seen as a sure pass into the country.

Again, the problem during the Obama Administration was unaccompanied minors, not adults with their children. They approached the problem by educating people that simply sending their children to the border doesn't automatically qualify them for asylum.

OneGuy: if you are caught entering illegally you are booked, photoed, fingerpriinted and deported within 24 hours and because of this crime you can never enter the country again under any circumstances.

People have the right to due process. Many of these immigrants have reasonable asylum claims.

#4.1.1.2.1 Zachriel on 2018-07-04 13:26 (Reply)

Well no, Obama announced in 2014 he was going to break the immigration laws by executive fiat and refuse to enforce them, after Congress refused to give him that power. The illegal invasion ensued, not only from Central America, but Mexico and other places. This is one of the many things for which Obama should have been impeached, but Congress was too weak to do so.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/07/01/obama-asks-congress-for-more-power-to-return-illegal-immigrant-children.html?intcmp=latestnews

Other illegal immigration actions such as DACA and DAPA also occurred. By contrast, Trump is simply "faithfully executing the law," as required by the Constitution and his oath of office.

Obama created this mess, not Trump. Trump is only trying to carry out the law to correct the immigration nightmare created by Obama.

#4.1.1.2.1.1 Jim on 2018-07-04 15:44 (Reply)

Jim: Obama announced in 2014 he was going to break the immigration laws by executive fiat and refuse to enforce them

Um, that's not what the article you cited says. In fact, Obama asked Congress for additional powers to send people back to their home countries.

#4.1.1.2.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2018-07-04 15:50 (Reply)

House Democrat server vanishes.

This just might be the political crime and coverup of the century. Imran Awant, the Democrats IT guy, just got the best possible deal from the DOJ after they dismissed dozens of crimes he committed including spying and collusion. Something smells to high heaven here. Was Debbie Wasserman Schultz complicit in the spying or just the coverup. What is it the Democrats ere hiding? Look quick because this is being swept under the rug as we speak never to see the light of day again.

#5 GoneWithTheWind on 2018-07-04 11:03 (Reply)

I believe he was being tried on bank fraud and crimes associated to that one issue. More is coming.

#5.1 jma on 2018-07-04 12:39 (Reply)

If this had been a GOP server, the Dems and their media minions would be screaming to high heaven. But it wasn't, so...crickets.
And denials.

#5.2 Sam L. on 2018-07-04 19:32 (Reply)

Ocasio-Cortez won largely because the district lines had been redrawn and she is Hispanic. Both the left and the right made too much of the idea that her victory is socialist. The far left misattributed her victory in order to puff their feathers.

@ Zachriel, yes she did work in the Bronx, including advocacy with an Hispanic nonprofit after finishing college. Are you saying she did not grow up in Yorktown Height privilege? Try Google.

As to whether she is now damaged, I agree with the commenters who say that this will not matter to most of her constituents, nor to her national audience. I am trying to think of the Democrat whose career was ruined by being exposed as a fraud? Al Franken, maybe, mostly because of timing. In a different year, he'd still be Senator.

#6 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2018-07-04 12:47 (Reply)

Assistant Village Idiot: Are you saying she did not grow up in Yorktown Height privilege?

They moved because the schools were better, but the family had their feet in both communities. That formed the basis of her campaign, having seen that zip code helps determine one's destiny.

Assistant Village Idiot: As to whether she is now damaged, I agree with the commenters who say that this will not matter to most of her constituents, nor to her national audience.

Then we are in agreement on that point.

Assistant Village Idiot: I am trying to think of the Democrat whose career was ruined by being exposed as a fraud?

No fraud by Ocasio-Cortez is evident.

#6.1 Zachriel on 2018-07-04 13:32 (Reply)

Come on team Z, are you so naive or misinformed that you cannot understand the use of "a fraud" in this context? One of you all should be able to figure out which of these definitions AVI is using.

fraud (frɔd)

n.
1. deceit or trickery perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.
2. a particular instance of such deceit or trickery: mail fraud; election frauds.
3. something that is not what it pretends.
4. a deceitful person; impostor.

Well?

#6.1.1 Earle on 2018-07-04 14:47 (Reply)

None of those definitions properly apply, nor does conflating the various definitions constitute an argument.

#6.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2018-07-04 15:32 (Reply)

Whether it constitutes an argument is irrelevant. My question is are you capable of discerning what definition AVI used. It's a common practice when folks are having a conversation, to clear up uncertainty or misunderstanding. You have clearly engaged with some definition of frauf in mind. Which is it?

#6.1.1.1.1 Earle on 2018-07-04 16:54 (Reply)

Another typical example of the kiddiez' being obtuse AND abtruse.

That's all they have when they've lost the argument.

#6.1.1.1.1.1 drowningpuppies on 2018-07-04 18:21 (Reply)

Yeah, but it(s) is a Clattering Soros Robot(s)...

#6.1.1.1.1.1.1 Meh on 2018-07-05 06:37 (Reply)

Earle: My question is are you capable of discerning what definition AVI used.

As already stated, none of the definitions properly apply. Assistant Village Idiot addresses this question below.

#6.1.1.1.1.2 Zachriel on 2018-07-05 08:24 (Reply)

I don't recall seeing anything in her campaign literature that highlighted her childhood privilege. She isn't obligated to, but it does leave one open to the charge of not being entirely candid.

#6.1.2 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2018-07-04 18:54 (Reply)

Assistant Village Idiot: She isn't obligated to, but it does leave one open to the charge of not being entirely candid.

So the definition of fraud you're using is the "not being entirely candid" definition.

Assistant Village Idiot: I don't recall seeing anything in her campaign literature that highlighted her childhood privilege.

The primary theme of her campaign was based on the differences she saw between Yorktown and the Bronx. Here's a typical example from before the election:

QUOTE:

Queens Tribune: Her mother is from Puerto Rico and her father hails from the Bronx. When Ocasio-Cortez was growing up in the early 1990s, she said that her parents were disappointed with the public schools in the Bronx and had no money for a private school. After her extended family chipped in, her parents were able to put a down payment on a small home in Yorktown.

However, her father still owned a small business in the Bronx and her entire family was there. Ocasio-Cortez said that visiting the Bronx and living in Yorktown taught her about income inequality.

“Even at a really young age, I saw what my schools had and what my family in the Bronx had,” she said. “The idea of inequity became apparent to us, even as children.”

#6.1.2.1 Zachriel on 2018-07-05 08:51 (Reply)

QUOTE:

“The idea of inequity became apparent to us, even as children.”

But apparently not as an adult.

#6.1.2.1.1 drowningpuppies on 2018-07-05 10:38 (Reply)

I doubt it(s) knows the difference.

#6.1.2.1.1.1 Meh on 2018-07-05 15:40 (Reply)

You can't think of a Democrat politician whose career was ruined by fraud because there are none. Al Franken was undone by the exposure of past boorish behavior at the perfectly wrong time.

The most recent Democrat fraudster I can think of is MA senator Elizabeth Warren. Her career at Harvard and in politics was advanced by fraud, not harmed by it.

#6.2 steve walsh on 2018-07-05 06:34 (Reply)

Do you mean, criminal convictions? Jesse Jackson Junior? Anthony Weiner? Corine Brown? Chaka Fattah? Laura Richardson? William Jefferson? Frank Ballance? James Traficant? Rod Blagovich? Mel Reynolds? Carl Perkins? Walter Fauntroy? Dan Rostenkowski? Joe Kolter? How am I doing so far?

There are plenty of Republicans represented on the list too. A good reason to throw the bums out and demand term limits.

#6.2.1 Aggie on 2018-07-05 12:11 (Reply)

Re: The political wisdom of kids, seems like this is just another version of the "clown nose on, clown nose off" argument. They'll tell you these kids are wiser than adults but when you poke holes in the arguments, well, what do you expect, they're just little kids! Seems kind of churlish to be arguing with children, doesn't it? But of course it's not the children you're arguing with, it's the arguments they're making and those arguments might be cute coming from a kid but they are (or should be) embarrassingly juvenile for an adult.

#7 Jerryskids on 2018-07-04 17:15 (Reply)

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Wednesday, July 4. 2018

Wednesday morning links - Happy 4th