Sunday, December 22, 2019

Derek Hunter: The Era of Stupid Has Just **Begun**

By An Old Friend
Sun, Dec 22, 2019 12:21 a.m.
Derek Hunter: The era of stupid has just **begun**


In the Era of Stupid

Derek Hunter

12/22/2019 12:01:00 AM 






I've always known our liberal friends were insane, but I never knew their destructive nature reached so far as to target themselves too. I'd always considered them more of the recruiter than the suicide bomber – you know, the guy who convinces someone else to strap an explosive vest to themselves and walk into a market without it ever occurring to the poor sucker to ask, "If this is the key to an eternity in paradise, why haven't you done it? Don't you want 72 virgins?"
But this week showed me differently. Perhaps begrudgingly (dragged by radicals and fear their base won't show up next November without it), perhaps willingly, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi tried to have her cake and eat it too.
The House voted to impeach President Donald Trump on two counts, both made up.
The first, abuse of power, isn't a crime so much as it's a tactic. People are generally said to have abused their power in the commission of a crime. But in this case, there is no crime. Leftists are trying to claim suggesting Joe Biden might have some smudges on his hands in Ukraine that led to his unreliable, untalented, unfaithful, stripper-loving, drug-using son being showered with case is somehow "seeking foreign assistance in the election," but that's ridiculous.
There is ample reason to think the former vice president used his position to help his son, or at least enough to warrant a serious investigation. Anyone who can accurately be described with the above superlatives, coupled with no experience in oil and gas, no ability to speak the language, and quite probably never having spent any serious time in Ukraine (has Hunter ever even been there?), pulling in more than the average American's salary every month for a job that required next to nothing in return should raise red flags.
But the extent of the "investigations" of it to this point consisted mainly of reporters asking people involved if they've committed felonies. Would you trust Barry Bonds to give you his honest opinion about whether or not Mark McGuire cheated at baseball? Or might you think they all have something to hide?
Of course, this hasn't stopped Democrats in the media from repeating Biden's denials as fact. OJ insists he's innocent too, the only difference is no one takes him at his word because of the evidence.
The left has taken to simply declaring things facts, whether they are or not. "Donald Trump broke the law, no one disputes this," is a common refrain on cable news. It goes unchallenged because the interviewer and the interviewee are on the same team, so the "no one disputes this" part becomes self-perpetuating. It's amazing how loud the echo chamber can be when your world consists of cable news green rooms, staff members you pay, and people who give you money to keep you in power. It's so loud it can make you think there are no other voices.
The second charge, obstruction of Congress, is simply made up. The president exerted privilege and Democrats chose not to challenge it, as has happened every other time a president did the same thing. Exerting rights is not obstruction. The left's response is impatience.
So now that the House has voted, Democrats are leaving everyone hanging by not finishing the impeachment process by delivering the articles to the Senate for trial. Democrats want Trump removed, but they know they don't have a case. Dismissal of the case, or worse for them, an acquittal, will further expose the buckles on their vests. So they're trying to stall, making absurd demands on the Senate to commit to a process they refused to do. But the Senate doesn't take any more kindly to the House telling them what to do than the House would take it from the Senate. Members of each chamber are very territorial, and rightly so.
And that's how we find ourselves here: one party insisting the president is such an "existential threat to the very existence of our democracy" that they had to vote to impeach quickly…before taking a 2 week vacation and refusing to complete the task.
As I said within an hour of Pelosi's announcement that she wasn't sending the articles to the Senate, "The impeachment process does not end until the House sends the articles to the Senate for a trial. Technically, the President is not impeached, the House just passed articles of impeachment. They have to take the final step. Unless this is all political BS." (I even did a whole podcast on the subject that night). It has since been parroted by people with much bigger megaphones than I have, and much more impressive degrees and jobs. Many of whom are liberals.
If even I can see this, and see it first, how did the Democrats miss it? Rage does blind, but so does fear, both of which seem to be fueling the Democratic Party exclusively these days. Half their party is angry: angry at the president, angry at his voters, angry that they don't get their way, angry when they do get their way and if fails, they're just pissed off in general that the people might reelected Donald Trump. The other half is scared to death: scared the angry mob they created to go after Republicans and other heretics might turn on them, scared they'll say something to set it off, scared the public at large will listen to their candidates during the primary season and realize just how far left the Democratic Party has gone.
This combination of anger and fear are the ingredients of stupid. The Democratic Party has become crippled by both, paralyzed trying to fend off all the things they've created. So far, this paralysis has been a good thing. Democrats haven't been able to get much of anything else done, which means they haven't been able to screw anything else up. But it's not for lack of trying.
As the panic sets in deeper, and more polls roll in over the Christmas recess, it's important to remember that Democrats won't do the sane thing, no matter how bad it gets for them, and fold. They've been impatiently wanting to push all their chips into the center of the table since before the Mueller investigation was announced. They thought they had pocket aces when the phony whistleblower approached Adam Schiff with the second-hand tall tale of the Ukraine phone call, so they went all in. They're pot-committed now, holding an eight and a deuce, off-suit, with nothing left to lose. If you thought they were crazy before, you ain't seen nothing yet. It may seem like we're approaching the end of this left-wing craziness, but the era of stupid has just begun.
Derek is the host of a free daily podcast (subscribe!), host of a daily radio show on WCBM in Maryland, and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the massesFollow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.




3 comments:

Anonymous said...

And this is the problem in the "Era of Stupid"--Lesta Holt has a national forum on which to spread the manure every night,while Derek Hunter(who has it right) is on a podcast.
That's it in a nutshell.
---GRA

Anonymous said...

Here's today's "Face the(Commie)Nation" lowlights--starting with a joke:
"A black (Jamelle Bouie),an Asian(Sun Ming Kim),an Indian (Ramesh Ponnaru)and a white guy (David Sanger)all walk into the CBS studio to say the same thing."
THAT'S the joke!!!
CBS has their diverse world already assembled (have to work on replacing whitey Margaret Brennan though--it's very racist to have a white lead the duscussion--even if the person is a woman).
What did they agree on?
Trump is repeating what Putin said about impeachment--which makes Trump a Russky operative.
The Evangelicals(in spite of Billy Graham's son objecting to the suggestion)are "turning on Trump."
This is another Dem tactic:Take a group or person that has supported Trump in the past,but is now publicly against him,and beat that story of "enlightenment" into viewers heads.It happened with Michael Cohen,Omarosa,Scaramucci,Mattis(and other previous cabinet members who were fired)--they become exalted liberal heroes --and constantly mentioned and glorified as such.
The Indian made a joke about Trump they all laughed at--that with the John Dingell dust up--"Trump appears to like to fight with dead people."
Of course that's not true--Trump is fighting with Debbie Dingell(alive last I heard) and he USED to fight with McCain when he was alive.But it got the negro,white and Asian chick to guffaw as the cameras quickly darted to each of them.
Finally,the Asian woman remarked that,"Pelosi,holding up the impeachment,is getting under Trump's skin--he's reportedly very mad."
Trump must have quite the on-off switch,because I've never seen him blow a gasket in talking to the press--and he could have.Just another seed that MSM likes to plant in the public mindset--'Trump is crazy,Trump is out of control,Trump fumes,Trump bellows,Trump explodes."
You'd think we'd have seen it once by now.On "Face the(Commie)Nation"--it's a fact.
--GRA

Anonymous said...

SOME GOOD NEWS--THANKS TO TRUMP--9TH U.S. COURT OF APPEALS GETTING MORE CONSERVATIVE
(POLITICO)A bastion of liberalism in the federal judiciary is slowly turning rightward, threatening Democratic court challenges on everything from abortion to who gets a green card.

The Senate confirmation of Lawrence VanDyke and Patrick Bumatay to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals this month brought to nine the number of appointments President Donald Trump has made to the 29-member bench that serves as the last stop for nearly all legal complaints lodged in nine Western states. Democratic-appointed judges now hold a three-seat majority, compared with 11 at the start of Trump's presidency.

If the trend continues, it represents a major shift in the liberal wing of the judiciary, meaning lawsuits for progressive causes won’t find a friendly ear as easily as they have. The circuit has been the go-to venue for activist state attorneys eager to freeze Trump policies on health care, immigration and other social issues. It ruled against Trump's weakening of Obamacare's contraceptive mandate, as well as multiple versions of his travel ban.
It's now weighing the administration's overhaul of the federal family planning program, the "public charge" rule that denies green cards for individuals who participate in programs like Medicaid — and it could take up the "conscience rule" allowing health providers to opt out of providing care on religious or moral grounds. With Congress largely gridlocked, the rules often are the only way to change policies, even if they're often challenged in court. And transforming the judiciary to make it more sympathetic to such an agenda could be one of the enduring victories of Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell that will far outlast their time in office.

Trump has called the 9th Circuit “a complete and total disaster" and a "big thorn in our side," and some congressional Republicans still threaten to break up its jurisdiction. But its changing ideological makeup could wind up giving states like California less legal elbow room to challenge Trump policies and go their own way in areas like reproductive rights and LGBTQ issues.
GRA:Fingers crossed,
---GRA