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One of my favorite scenes from one of my favorite movies.
One of my favorite renditions from Diana Krall below:
She is the farthest thing from treasonous you could find.
Romney is a cockamamie jerk that was broken by Trump.
Related:
Gabbard GUTS Mitt Romney In Response To Treason Accusation
And she is a tough, outspoken, beautiful woman.
“…Below is my column in the Hill on the Democratic campaign to simply declare the Equal Rights Amendment ratified as the 28th Amendment to the Constitution. The question is whether raw politics is enough to shock the unratified and undead into life.
Here is the column:
Madison, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin: The names of great constitutional figures are etched in the minds of every schoolchild. But soon, if Democrats in Congress have their way, they will add one more: David Ferriero.
Who is David Ferriero, you ask? He is 10th Archivist of the United States. He also may be the man who unilaterally declares the long-dead Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) not just alive but now part of our Constitution as the 28th Amendment.
Democratic leaders like Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, want Ferriero to simply publish the ERA in the Federal Register as a ratified amendment. It isn’t, of course. However, these Democrats insist that a unilateral decision from Ferriero declaring it ratified would mean it is ratified … at least until some courts say otherwise. And they are calling on President Biden to support this dubious move toward amendments by archival acclamation.
Such muscle plays have become common in the last two years. Democratic members and advocacy groups have pushed to pack the Supreme Court with an instant liberal majority. They have sought to negate state election laws and impose their own federal election standards on states.
These efforts have one thing in common: They avoid having the issues addressed by the voters directly or by the states.
This one makes the other efforts look restrained by comparison, however. Rather than submit a new ERA to the states, Democratic leaders want Ferriero to just declare it a done deal…”
With such little time left, can’t we all just get along!?!? pic.twitter.com/Qz3d1Og5vx
— Dan Scavino Jr.🇺🇸🦅 (@DanScavino) March 8, 2022
Edward Dowd:
“…The millennial generation experienced 61k excess death in the second half of 2021. That is a Vietnam War event. Death by government mandates…we call this democide…”
“…This is truly astonishing. I never thought I’d hear people as nasty as Bill Maher and Trevor Noah praise Donald Trump, but that’s what’s happening. Faced with the grim reality that Joe Biden has a head full of pudding and commands no respect from any corner of a dangerous world, these two are finally missing the 45th president of the United States…”
https://twitter.com/ThePr0diga1S0n/status/1502686631366737922
“…Rosenberg, the national security correspondent for the New York Times, said the media’s coverage of the Capitol riot was “overblown” and that the events of Jan. 6, 2021 were “no big deal,” according to undercover video released Tuesday by Project Veritas.
In print, Rosenberg and his colleagues have described the claim that there were FBI plants instigating the protestors outside of the U.S. Capitol a year earlier as a “reimagining” of the “attack.” But in the Project Veritas video, which appears to have been recorded without his knowledge, Rosenberg paints a different picture. Here he admits that “there were a ton of FBI informants amongst the people who attacked the Capitol.”
“I know I’m supposed to be traumatized,” Rosenberg said in the video, “but like, all these colleagues who were in the (Capitol) building and are like, ‘Oh my God it was so scary!’ I’m like, [expletive] off!’”
Rosenberg said the Times was “not the kind of place where I can tell someone to man up,” but he said “I kind of want to be like, ‘dude come on, you were not in any danger,’” according to the video. “These [expletive] little dweebs who keep going on about their trauma … . Shut the [expletive] up.” Rosenberg then used a profanity to indicate that his colleagues at the Times lack courage.
“They were making it too big a deal,” Rosenberg said of the political left. “They were making this some organized thing that it wasn’t.”…”
“…The war in Ukraine has exposed the moral infirmities of the West…
…The war in Ukraine seems to be waking up Western European leaders to their own dangerous delusions. It is shaking some from their luxurious conceit that we inhabit a post-war, post-nationhood world in which everything is mostly fine and dandy, give or take the ‘climate emergency’ and all of that. So Germany has started to make unprecedented moves to bolster its military forces. Some German greens are even wondering if the fantasy of living in a non-nuclear world has been firmly shattered by the Russia-Ukraine war, and if it might now be time to resuscitate all those shutdown nuclear power plants. No doubt British officials are also looking at whether their decimation of the military and their capitulation to anti-nuclear greens has been wise, given that war and energy and other historical questions are not as neatly resolved as we thought they were.
Yet even as all of this happens, we need to ask ourselves how we got into this situation. How we arrived in a world in which defending people from supposedly offensive words is considered more important than defending our borders. In which we seem to have so little need for the virtue of ‘strength’ that we’re willing to blacklist the word itself for being gendered and stereotypical. This is where the Ukraine war really confronts us. It interrupts, violently, our post-Cold War conceits. It upends our belief that history, in Europe at least, is largely settled, and now we can concern ourselves with petty things like pronouns and sexual identity or with purposely overblown, mission-creating projects for the technocratic elite, like the ‘climate emergency’. This conceit has impacted on almost every facet of public life in recent decades, nurturing the delusion that ours is a post-war, post-borders, post-everything continent, in which the highest aim of public life is either to manage the public or validate individual identities. Those bombs in Ukraine have shattered this Western arrogance and decadence by reminding us that history lives…”
“…Breck Dean said his great-grandfather started the business in 1927, when he opened the family’s first diner in the town of Indiana: “At one time there were five of them all in operation all over western Pennsylvania. The one here, which is the only remaining one in business, was moved to this spot in Blairsville when U.S. 22 was realigned, and the highway passed our original Blairsville location by.”
For everyone in the place, their visit to Dean’s Diner was part of either a weekly routine or a customary traveling experience; in short, it was normal to pick a diner over a fast-food restaurant or a corporate franchise. They liked supporting a local business, the hardy yet inexpensive meals and the sense of belonging — even if they’d never been to this particular diner before.
A Washington, D.C.-based journalist working for a well-respected newspaper — seeing someone being interviewed at a diner for another reporter’s story — recently tweeted: “Who has time to sit down for breakfast at a diner on a weekday? Feels like people who have time for a leisurely weekday diner breakfast are not normal!”
It was another reminder that those who work for our cultural curators — corporations, academia, Hollywood, Silicon Valley and our national newsrooms — often have very little in common culturally with many of the people who buy their products, attend their schools, stream their shows, use their social media platforms or read their news stories.
(It was also a swipe at yours-truly, made explicit in a follow-up tweet about “the salena zito-style real american interview.”)
Unfortunately, many of these people who live and work and socialize in the “super zip codes” amuse themselves by mocking people who frequent diners, gas stations, Dollar Generals, Dunkin Donuts and other un-trendy places.
Keystone College political science professor Jeff Brauer sees it as a big part of the cultural divide in this country that has caused both the Republican and Democratic coalitions to shift so significantly over the past few years.
“Too many journalists, academicians and Washington insiders are still misreading the current political climate and divide in the U.S.,” explained Mr. Brauer. “There is still too much focus on left versus right, liberal versus conservative and Democrat versus Republican.”
The divide, he said, is much more inside versus outside, and has contributed to the rise of populism in both parties.
“At the heart of this populism is not traditional political ideology and debate; the heart is the haves versus the have-nots, the insiders versus the outsiders, the out-of-touch decision-makers versus the everyday folks trying to get by — folks who don’t care about ideology, folks who just care about helping their families and neighbors have a good, productive life.”…”
Biden Admin Suggests Adding More Water To Your Instant Ramen To Feel More Fullhttps://t.co/Rk6QBmlCLf
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) March 13, 2022
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Biden blames everyone and everything else for his policy failures:
"Make no mistake, inflation is largely the fault of Putin," Biden says.
Except inflation has been soaring above 5% since last May. pic.twitter.com/DfU1969ZT5
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 11, 2022
Biden claims he has created a strong economy and Americans just don’t understand the great job he has done:
https://twitter.com/MAGAJew2/status/1502343920918880257
Devolves to gibberish:
BIDEN: "This law's gonna put an end to all that, gonna put people in a much different position to be able to determine their own, their own judgments about when to sell their cattle, when they should — gonna change things!" pic.twitter.com/oyzsBnEQbh
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 11, 2022
Reality on Earth:
Well, no. These are Feb #'s and only include small Russia effect. This is Biden's inflation and he needs to own it. https://t.co/WsJjn6picV
— Steven Rattner (@SteveRattner) March 10, 2022
Americans see through the bullshit:
DEM POLL SAYS PARTY RISKS ‘HISTORIC DEFEAT’ WORSE THAN ’94 OR ’10
https://twitter.com/backtolife_2022/status/1502600816473088005
I think there are mistakes here, but it definitely shows the trend.
Once you get an ideological bureaucracy in Washington, the more militant it becomes, the stupider it gets because it relies on groupthink and not expertise to reach decisions. Critical feedback is absent and it becomes just as blind as Putin's inner circle.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) March 13, 2022
You need an external POV to unstick a bogged down ideological bureaucracy the way you need holdbacks, pulleys and a recovery vehicle to get a tank out of the mud. Without real intellectual diversity a civilization can languish indefinitely.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) March 13, 2022
