Another one bites the dust.
● New York’s liberal Democrat Attorney General is going down in flames. After harumphing about the #metoo “movement,” it turns out that he abused four women. Well, actually, he claims he was just playing S&M with them... which is probably even more creepy to voters. Either way, put a fork in this guy because he’s done. He has now resigned.
● Aside from this, by the way, the #metoo movement appears as dead as (insert Florida teen reference here). Interestingly, we can actually track how the movement died. It began by accident when a couple Hollywood outsiders wouldn’t stop talking and all the enablers were required to pretend to be shocked and outraged at what they now remembered happening to them. At first, they brought down a couple major sleaze balls. Then a few idiots self-reported and took themselves down too. Then things changed. The accused began to deny wrongdoing and refused to play along. Everything ground to a halt. No predators brought down... no media interest... and the #metoo movement started to vanish. Now we have Jerry Tambor, who was excommunicated early on, coming back to the television series that dumped him early on. That’s pretty much the end right there.
What I find interesting about the “movement” was that almost every predator they choose to reveal (they protected most of them) was a Democratic politician or fundraiser. Yes, there were a couple Republicans (pervert Ron Moore and faker Bill O’Reilly), but almost all the rest were Democrats. What does that tell us about Democrats? Yeah, they're pretty sleazy.
● Speaking of the Democrats, the Democrats seem to be in serious trouble. Consider this:
● John McCain is dying as he lived... sh*tting on his allies in the most petty of ways. This is not a man I’ve ever respected and, I’ll be honest, I won’t miss him.
● In NFL protestor news, the two most obvious ring leaders of the anti-Anthem protests remain unsigned with any team. This is obviously intentional and it sends a great message. All the leftist sportswriters are horrified and pretend-shocked about this. Another main protestor admits that his sponsors have dropped him and won't touch him at the moment. Ha ha. What's funny is that these same people who claim that everyone should have the right to express their opinion and who admit that actions like this have consequences think it's somehow "wrong" that these guys are baring the consequences of their actions. Apparently. only the protestors had rights. Typical liberals.
● New York’s liberal Democrat Attorney General is going down in flames. After harumphing about the #metoo “movement,” it turns out that he abused four women. Well, actually, he claims he was just playing S&M with them... which is probably even more creepy to voters. Either way, put a fork in this guy because he’s done. He has now resigned.
● Aside from this, by the way, the #metoo movement appears as dead as (insert Florida teen reference here). Interestingly, we can actually track how the movement died. It began by accident when a couple Hollywood outsiders wouldn’t stop talking and all the enablers were required to pretend to be shocked and outraged at what they now remembered happening to them. At first, they brought down a couple major sleaze balls. Then a few idiots self-reported and took themselves down too. Then things changed. The accused began to deny wrongdoing and refused to play along. Everything ground to a halt. No predators brought down... no media interest... and the #metoo movement started to vanish. Now we have Jerry Tambor, who was excommunicated early on, coming back to the television series that dumped him early on. That’s pretty much the end right there.
What I find interesting about the “movement” was that almost every predator they choose to reveal (they protected most of them) was a Democratic politician or fundraiser. Yes, there were a couple Republicans (pervert Ron Moore and faker Bill O’Reilly), but almost all the rest were Democrats. What does that tell us about Democrats? Yeah, they're pretty sleazy.
● Speaking of the Democrats, the Democrats seem to be in serious trouble. Consider this:
(1) Their leaders are all ancient and out of touch. They don’t relate to the public or the progressives who speak for the left now.Given the insanity that is Trump, that’s all kind of shocking, and I think it shows that the Democrats are in serious trouble. Nancy Pelosi, of course, disagrees. She thinks she’s “effective.” Sure, Nan.
(2) Recent polls show the Democrats failing amount Millenials.
(3) Recent polls show black support for Trump growing, which I take to mean that black support for the Democrats is lackluster.
(4) I see little evidence that gays remain in politics.
(5) There is evidence that several Democratic incumbents, like Claire McCaskill in Missouri are in serious danger.
● John McCain is dying as he lived... sh*tting on his allies in the most petty of ways. This is not a man I’ve ever respected and, I’ll be honest, I won’t miss him.
● In NFL protestor news, the two most obvious ring leaders of the anti-Anthem protests remain unsigned with any team. This is obviously intentional and it sends a great message. All the leftist sportswriters are horrified and pretend-shocked about this. Another main protestor admits that his sponsors have dropped him and won't touch him at the moment. Ha ha. What's funny is that these same people who claim that everyone should have the right to express their opinion and who admit that actions like this have consequences think it's somehow "wrong" that these guys are baring the consequences of their actions. Apparently. only the protestors had rights. Typical liberals.
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A) Using 'the beating was consensual' as a defense was certainly a novel strategy. He should have followed the example of that Republican governor and just denied everything that couldn't be proven.
B) Didn't Bill Cosby go down just last week? I think you are writing MeToo's inevitable obit prematurely.
C) True, Dems haven't solved any of the problems they had in 2016. Trump is to their left on protectionism, which is a crowd pleaser even if it is bad economic policy. If they want to lure back lost Obama voters/Bernie bros they need to outbid Trump.
1) Yep.
2) Makes sense.
3) That's a familiar claim (happens every so often, usually when a celeb switches). I strongly doubt it. Trump's big government activism is probably attractive to Bernie bros regardless of color, but he also panders to racists quite often.
4) Not surprising. Trump positioned himself as the most gay friendly Republican, but evangelicals are vastly more important to him than gays so gays quickly found themselves thrown under the bus once the rubber met the road.
5) Red state Dems being in trouble makes sense.
D) Trump was a McCain ally? When did this happen? I must have blinked and missed it. Preferring Pence attend his funeral makes sense. Pence is likely to talk about McCain, Trump would probably talk about his heroic struggle to avoid an STD during the Vietnam War.
E) Those guys should have learned from Tebow and Colin K and just focused on football.
F) I love that Trump is telling West Virginia voters 'Do you want to support me or a shady businessman who loves racially inflammatory rhetoric?'. Truly modern politics are a comedy.
I love the shock by Hollywood that people are outraged at their little sacrilege ball at the MET. When you mock something people care deeply about, they tend to get upset. That no one in Hollywood realized this going in just shows out of touch they really are.
Anthony, Bill Cosby's trial started long before the metoos. He can't be counted as among that issue. Further, as I've noted several times, the metoo movement resulted in a handful of monsters (rapists) being criminally charged and a handful of self-penitents losing their jobs. If anything, Cosby falls into the rapist category. Beyond that, the movement achieved nothing, fell into in-fight, and is now out of the news.
As for McCain, no one ever said he and Trump were allies. McCain is talking about a lot more than Trump.
Andrew,
The only thing that surprised me about the Met was the direct involvement of the Catholic Church.
Hey All! OMG the whole NY AG Eric Schneiderman resigning has everyone in a tizzy! Especially the MeToo crowd. They don't know what to do since he was front and center at the The Women's March. But here's something interesting...the name Hillary Clinton is being floated for NY AG to replace him...
Also, the Met Ball. What a disaster. Every since Anna Wintour took over and started inviting B, C, and D list celebrities a few years ago, it has gone even bad to worse. I am certain that the real moneyed Park Avenue donors aren't really interested in mixing with the likes of D-listers like Lena Dunham.
And Anthony, you are right. Why was Cardinal Dolan there? It was an insult to Catholicism.
Anthony, I don't get it either. They must have thought that all these celebs would bring in lots of donations.
Bev, Welcome back from your secret mission! How was planning Harry's wedding? ;)
I'm laughing my butt off about the Schneiderman thing. What a fool to get involved with that!
I thought the choice of costume at the Met ball was pretty bizarre. I also am rolling my eyes at the idea that Clooney's wife was "brave" for wearing pants. Does that really count as brave these days? Then I should get the Congressional Medal of Honor for wearing a tie to dinner.
Trump pulling out of the Iran deal is sensible. I'm surprised it took this long.
Andrew...Officially, I had nothing to do with the Harry/Meghan wedding. [but just between you and me, the dress is going to faaabulous!]
All the Schneiderman thing makes me laugh. First rule of politics: Don't have secret sexually deviant proclivities and expect your political career to survive. Someone will ALWAYS talk and someone will always use the info to gain advantage.
Anthony, it looks to me—I must emphasize in retrospect—that Trump allowed Iran to do its thing so long as they were dismantling ISIS. With that work largely done, there's no longer any reason to remain laissez faire on the Iran deal. And with Iran setting its cross-hairs on ally Israel, there is ample justification to pull out now.
Sorry for the lack of article. We've been dealing with an imploding teenage girl. It's a bit like cleaning up a nuclear explosion based on weapons grade stupidity and buckets of heavy-water tears.
I'll get something written soon.
Our daughter moved out at age 17 and is not speaking to us at the moment. I won't go into all the gory details, but Andrew, you have my sympathy.
Tryanmax - I agree with you. Trump is also establishing that the US is no longer "leading from behind".
Thanks TJ. I don't understand it. She was the nicest kid. So sweet, so loyal, such a big heart. Super great student. And then in the past month, she's become Satan whenever her hormones kick in. She's in trouble at school, at home. She's burned through friends. She blames everyone for a whole list of imaginary things that she thinks are ruining her life. And then suddenly, she's nice again.
I've had to be a lot more strict with her suddenly, but I worry very much about her mental state, so I don't want to push too hard.
I'm sorry to hear about your daughter.
BTW, my day keeps getting better. Our lawn guy just had a seizure in front of our house. Thankfully, he's ok, except he needs stitches. The moment that ends, the school calls. Our youngest has a concussion.
Arg.
I don't have the mental capacity to comment on the main article at the moment, Andrew, but sorry to hear about all the chaos! And people wonder why I'm not much for kids.
I just picked her up. She's very dizzy (this is her third PE related concussion). She's also the third kid of the day with a head injury. Apparently. middle school PE is a rough place.
Wow, three concussions - that's not good. What in the world are they doing? I was a tomboy in middle school (1970's) and participated in softball, kickball, etc. and never had any injuries. Maybe I was just blessed, but that really does seem like a lot of concussions for middle school. Hope your daughter feels better soon.
As for your other daughter, I can also sympathize about not pushing too hard. It seems like everything we tried with ours backfired. How old is she? Ours just turned 19 and she was fine until about 15.
Thanks Daniel.
TJ, Our youngest is clumsy. She got hit three times upside the head with tennis balls in gym today. Her prior concussions involved being hit by a basketball, being punched by another girl, and smacking her head on an open drawer.
Our oldest just turned 15 and she seems a little/lot overwhelmed with high school (the first time she's struggled in school), by friends, and by the "boy" issue. And rather than address the things that go wrong for her, she blames us or her teachers or her friends, so she's cut off anyone who could help her.
"It seems like everything we tried with ours backfired."
That's how it seems with us too, by the way. We try to help, she blames us for interfering. We let her handle it, she blames us for not caring. And anything we do, then gets worked into the universe of reasons everyone is out to get her.
That makes it very hard to deal with her. No matter what you do, it just becomes another thing that upsets her.
Andrew, that's always how it seems to go. First, one kid will get sick and have to stay home. Then another kid will get hurt. Then the next kid will get in trouble. That's why I have four. That way, at least one is always running smoothly.
List of excellent reasons to never become a father or get married: GROW-ING...
I have two daughters 13 and 17. Lately the oldest has been having boy problems. I blame my daughters for the fact I have gray in my beard at 43.
Hang in there, Andrew. Our daughter imploded at 16 or 17. ADD had always made her a bit of a wild card, but the teenage years brought such a seething cesspool of emotions (mainly anger) and destructive behavior. There were days that I did not think we were going to survive. I went through a good 6 years of drama and emotional hell. My heart feared for what kind of future she was going to have. But here we are at a place I never thought I'd see. She will be 26 in July, is married, has a child of her own, and they are in the process of buying a house. She's still a bit of a drama queen (EVERYTHING is a huge freaking deal) and a hypochondriac, but she's mostly pulled herself together and on a good day admits that we were good parents, it was her that threw her teenage years away. I will be praying that your daughter also comes around. Praying for your daughter and your family, too, TJ.
I told my youngest son's girlfriend today not to ever try to drive a wedge between me and my boys...or I would run her ass off back to Kentucky...
Thanks for the kind wishes and the prayers, everyone! I wish you all the same. Apparently, this is a more common problem than I realized.
At the moment, I seem to have calmed things down and gotten her back on track. We had a very long and very honest talk about her imploding future. Then we talked about how to fix some of her problems. That seems to have helped for now.
Stacy, I'm glad your daughter came around. Believe it or not, but I actually have a lot of faith that she will work through this and become a normal, happy person. I think she needs to learn to handle the rush of hormones and that apparently needs a stronger parental control. Right now though, it's just shocking how much her personality can change on a dime. She will literally go from telling us how great we are as parents and how we spoil her to a minute later screaming that we hate her and don't care about her. Then she sets out to burn every bridge she can with everyone she can.
tryanmax, I get that too. They tag team. When one gets better, the other enters crisis mode.
Anthony, They can indeed turn your hair gray.
Rustbelt, This may sound contradictory, but they are still amazing and I wouldn't give them up for the world.
Thanks, Stacy. I know what you mean about drama. I don't remember ever being this way when I was a teenager. It seems she inherited the drama gene from her dad (he is way more emotional and temperamental than I am), but with age and experience he has learned to control it much better. Although I see that they are so much alike in personality that they can easily rub each other the wrong way. I found myself being the referee on more than one occasion before she moved out.
Now our son is more like me - a very low key, go with the flow kind of personality. There is very little drama from that quarter of which I am very thankful. However, just in the last couple of years his political leanings have moved slowly away from ours. He voted for Gary Johnson in 2016 - go figure!
You're welcome, TJ. I know I wasn't like these kids when I was a kid, but then if I'd ever said half of what has been said to me I'd still be grounded and I'm 53! Our kids are split on political leanings. One is conservative and one has declared himself a "Democratic Socialist." Ugh. That one has pretty much rejected everything about the way he was raised. We all just agree to avoid certain topics when we're together and I avoid his Facebook page.
Andrew, how well I know those emotions that turn on a dime. Our daughter was a pro at it. I still exercise caution with some things. And I know that if she calls or comes around and she is all syrupy sweet...she wants something. Beware the nice girl! LOL
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