Cory Booker: Donald Trump is ‘worse than a racist’

No need to click over. It is the wide-eyed nincompoop calling Trump names. Racist has been used, overused, exhausted—like a flat tire. Booker has to create new terms of terribleness to characterize the president.

Worst media and political class of my life.

NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE PRAISES SOVIET UNION FOR DIVERSITY IN LOSING SPACE RACE

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Bid to impeach Trump defeated in landslide…

This article is pretty close to my own thinking on the latest Trump vs. Squad stuff. I think the president has maneuvered the Democrats and the MSM into defending the Squad. See any articles about Biden? Was Biden interviewed by Gayle King about the dust-up? You might say “well it’s too early in the cycle for any of this to make a difference.” I disagree. The President has branded the Squad and by self-selection the Democrats and MSM as far-left and anti-American. I think the branding takes and lasts.

Ned Ryun:

“…As the Left collectively melts down over Donald Trump’s tweets about the socialist “squad,” calling calling him every name in the book from racist to xenophobic, the fact is, the president just flipped everything on its head. From Nancy Pelosi and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez having a very public spat to the entire Left and Democratic party reflexively defending the four socialists, Trump has made sure that the far-left Communist-loving progressive women are, in fact, the face of the Democratic Party…

…Every time Trump goads Democrats or the liberal media—but I repeat myself—they take the bait. Every. Single. Time. You would think at some point, after two-and-a-half years of this, Democrats would realize they’ve let Trump become their Pied Piper; he calls the tune and they dance to it.

But they don’t. What he has done this time is to put the four freshmen communists (let’s drop the “socialist” moniker and call them what they are) front and center. To “own Trump,” and because of intersectionality and the far left beliefs that have captured many of the Democratic activists and small-dollar donors, Democrats mindlessly have come to the defense of these women.

But to own Trump, Democrats also have to own everything these women stand for, including their refusal to disavow Antifa and al-Qaeda. What are the repercussions of this? Well, it allows Trump to do exactly what he’s wanted to: make 2020 a referendum on the competing worldviews of coercive socialism versus a free market, capitalistic approach, but also to show how un-American the Left truly is…

…He’s succeeding thanks to the mindlessness of Trump Derangement Syndrome but also because of the shallow, short term thinking and behavior of the Democrats. The Democrats have chosen or, perhaps one could argue, were actually compelled by the grassroots, to embrace the communist vipers. Problem is these movements, as history shows us with the Jacobins of the French Revolution, become all consuming fires, many times annihilating those who started the conflagration. Just ask Robspierre…”

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Trump “Forcing” Democrats To Embrace AOC’s Squad, Accept They Run The Party

Axelrod hits the nail on the head.

I generally respect Mort Kondracke. He leans left, but has some common sense. The statement below is worth repeating and is in line with other senior political commentators on the left—Thomas Friedman for instance. The rest of Kondracke’s article is blather.

Mort Kondracke:

“…If the Democratic Party keeps surging to the left and nominates a 2020 candidate who can be credibly labeled “socialist,” “radical” or just far out of mainstream, it will not only reelect Donald Trump, but unleash a cascade of nightmares on itself and the nation…”

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Going To The Moon Is Sexist, Claims NYT Article: Spacesuits Accommodate Male Sweat, Ladder Rungs Spaced For Men

Representative Omar

who may have married her brother

responded to the rally with a Maya Angelou quote

No silly, syllables are wrong

A Third of Dems Believe That Any White Politician Who Criticizes a Politician of Color is Racist

Hard to tell?

Trump’s policy is working. The policy has no effect on the United States. U.S. allies are defending their own shipping. Iran is being financially choked, and the constriction hurts.

Leila Gharagozlou:

• • Tehran faces rising food prices and food shortages.
  • Iran’s government is running out of options to help stem the costs.
  • A local cook estimates prices have increased by 50% to 100% in the last year.
  • The cost of beef has gone from 380,000 rials a kilo three months ago to nearly 1.2 million rials per kilo, pricing out many families.

It has been over a year since President Donald Trump pulled out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the nuclear accord designed to keep Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, leaving Germany, France and the United Kingdom to attempt to uphold the agreement with Iran…

…Unable to realize the economic benefits of the nuclear deal, Iran is facing high inflation, a devalued currency and an economy that the International Monetary Fund predicts will shrink by 6% this year. The Iranian government has found its hands tied as prices on foods climb higher, pricing out the population, whose average monthly salary of 32 million rials equals only $220…”

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Here is the tell that the policy is working:

Iran seizes foreign tanker with 12 crew accused of smuggling oil