Shot in the Dark

Tag: Tide Pod Evita

  • Inhuman

    Saddled with a senile President and a party that’s divided but driven by its radical left, Democrats are reaching for one of the few weapons they have left: the appeal to ridicule. Last year, it was Ted Cruz being (wrongly, I think) accused of abandoning Texas during the infamous ice storm (on a trip that…

  • Anyone Have “Socialist Patrician Scofflaw” On Their Democrat Bingo Card?

    Turns out the couturier who created AOC‘s “Taxi The Rich“ dress from the Met Gala last week, and whom Ocasio-Cortez hailed as a “fellow woman of color“ who had endured the de rigeur persecution that AOC seems to see around every corner, is: is a tax dodger, has left her workers withholding taxes unpaid has…

  • Let The Orgy Of Overreach Begin!

    They’re Democrats. They’re in power. I mean, what do you expect? That may be the good news, in the long run.

  • Squad Level Tactics

    SQUAD: “America is a racist, place, built around institutionalizing white supremacy and victimizing women, people of color and the poor, and is controlled by Jewish money”. NON-SQUAD: “So it sounds like you don’t care much for America?” SQUAD: “RACIST!”

  • “Earthers”

    Remember when Democrats tittered with glee at the (small) number of Republians who were obsessed over Barack Obama’s birth certificate? They can all, every one of them, shut up now: …according to a Rasmussen poll released today, a staggering 67 percent of Democrats believe Ocasio-Cortez’s climate change warning to be completely legit.According to the poll,…

  • Tide Pod Evita Does Science

    I have concerns about the climate, and about man’s involvement in them. I have bigger concerns about being logrolled. I have nothing to say about Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’ “Green New Deal” (which got disappeared after it was revealed to be something a spoiled sixth-grader could have, and may have, written) y abou that David French at…

  • Hostile Takeover

    When private health insurance was unable to provide uniform affordable coverage, Congress had no choice but to take it over through Obama-care.  The success of that program proves the principle is sound: government must do what private industry can’t do.Thousands of people are without electricity during dangerously cold weather.  Private power companies have demonstrated they are incapable of…

  • She’s So Cold

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Minneapolis and St. Paul public schools are closed today.  I’m getting old, my memory isn’t what it was.  I remember looking forward to snow days, but did we get cold days off school?  My sister claims there were a couple of occasions when the country kids didn’t have to…

  • In Which Tide Pod Evita…

    …calls for a repeal of the First Amendent: We cannot allow the financing of misinformation campaigns to shape our democracy. We can disagree on policy, but climate change is real. Period. Proud to have joined @chelliepingree on this letter asking for greater responsibility to our democracy and planet. https://t.co/5hLsg1FmgT — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 28,…

  • Somewhere, Bobby Riggs Is Smiling

    I’m not the only one that figures that Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez is setting back feminism half a decade or more: In mere minutes, Ocasio-Cortez managed to affirm nearly every negative stereotype about the female sex, from the trope that we’re no good at math to the notion that you shouldn’t trust us with a credit card. If…

  • Dearth Of Capital – Intellectual And Fiscal

    Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, self-described champion of the working person, fudged her workman’s comp for her own campaign employees. That’s OK, there really are two different sets of rules out there, and nobody is going to make modern Progressivism’s “It Girl” accountable for anything of the sort. But the rest of the world? That’s another story.…

  • The Rhetorical Equivalent Of The Moral Equivalent Of War

    Why is it that the party that claims to eschew war (while getting us into most of the wars we’ve had since 1900) can’t keep its mitts off of militaristic rhetoric? Big Left’s “Green New Deal” is, like nearly every gigantistic utopian Big Left enterprise since the Wilson Administration, the “moral equivalent of war” –…

  • Sharing Democracy With The Depraved

    Rep Steve Scalise – who’s had more, closer contact with the depravity of the hard left than most anyone – has had enough with Alexandra Ocasio Cortez’ supporters: Hi @AOC. Happy to continue this debate on the Floor of the People’s House, but it’s clearly not productive to engage here with some of your radical…

  • Marginal Knowledge

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The New Hotness wants higher income tax rates.  The Left says it’s sensible and there’s historical precedent.The trouble with historical precedent is picking the right precedent.  College students who drink until they vomit could point to Rome, the pinnacle of civilization at the time, where vomitoria were provided in public entertainment…

  • “What’s The Difference Between The GOP And Democrats?”

    The short answer: whille the GOP on the national level capitulates on spending and allow all sorts of government scope creep the chips are down, the Democrats take the gas pedal of power and jam it to the firewall: Democrats are increasingly lining up to support a “Green New Deal,” which, while vague on details,…

  • A For Facts, C+ For Premise

    Kevin Williamson on – ahem – “Why Alexandria Ocasio Cortez drives Republicans Crazy”, and I’m gonna stop right there. She doesn’t “drive anyone crazy”.  She’s a walking, talking testimony to the media’s left-wing bias; Ocasio Cortez actually is as vapid and ignorant as the media would have had you believe Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann were, and…

  • Wait! Back Up!

    You mean to say that Alexandria Occasional-Cortex…er, Ocasio Cortez, was making a cheap “Affordable Housing”  sympathy ploy with her “I can’t afford an apartment in DC” schtick last week? Well, shut my mouth.

  • I Pledge Pledge Allegiance To Alexandria Ocasio Cortez…

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I get it now. I understand. It’s hard to change a lifetime of thinking one way, the wrong way, but I get it now. I hope my children do worse than I. I hope their prospects are dimmer, their fortunes poorer, their deaths early. You see, I once believed…

  • Can’t Make This Bulb Much Dimmer

    I’m gonna take a wild guess that if you asked Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez how precisely it was that the US defeated Naziism, “turbocharging the industrial base and floating the whole thing on a sea of oil and a mountain of coal, to back up a complete national militarization” isn’t what she’s thinking. I think she’s thinking…

  • The Rush To Mediocrity

    The likes of Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and most of the MInnesota DFL genuflect toward the Europeans for their economic advice. Inconvenient fact:  all of Europe’s economies would fit tidily within the bottom third of US states: Most European countries (including Germany, Sweden, Denmark and Belgium) if they joined the US, would rank among the…

  • Alexandria Ocasio Cortez – White Supremacist

    No, seriously:  our lefty betters tell us the “OK” symbol always was a white supremacy hand signal: Expect modern Big Left to respond “non-whites don’t have the power to, er, make hand signals”.

  • Do you You Remember…

    …when the main stream media went nearly bugeyed shrieking about Melania Trump, Sarah Palin, and for that matter Nancy Reagan and their respective wardrobes? Of course you do. And I am just amazed that nobody in the mainstream media seems to find this remotely worth comment. It’s a wardrobe day in the life of the…

  • Dear Democrats

    Remember when Donald Trump was Literally Hitler for his treatment of the media? No, I didn’t think you would: Democratic socialist House candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez banned reporters from attending several of her public town hall events this week. Ocasio-Cortez, who shocked the political world by defeating Rep. Joe Crowley (D–N.Y.) in June’s Democratic primary, held…

  • And To Think They Say “Progressives” Are Illiterates About Economics

    Remember when people called Sarah Palin vapid and dim? But Alexandira Ocasio-Cortez and the ever-more-vacuous Chelsea Clinton… “Whether you fundamentally care about reproductive rights and access right, because these are not the same thing, if you care about social justice or economic justice, agency – you have to care about this. It is not a…

  • The Demography Of Anti-Democracy

    A friend of the blog writes: This story, which will likely be explained away as a harmless anomaly, hints at what is likely a much larger issue. A dozen invalid ballots? I would like to know if the full dozen were all witnessed by the same ineligible person or if its a dozen ineligible persons.…