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Month: February 2019

The Socialist Headache

A couple of days ago, I heard that, after Amazon decided not to put its east coast headquarters in Long Island City, New York, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rejoiced at the “victory” and remarked that the $3 billion New York would have “spent” could be used by the state to create their own jobs. Here’s part of what she said:

“If we were willing to give Amazon…$3 billion for this deal we could invest those $3 billion in our district ourselves if we wanted to.”

When I heard that my palm hit my forehead so hard I got a headache.

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Identity Politics Equals Racism?

So the Democrat governor of Virginia got caught this week having a yearbook photo of him (he says not him) in black face with another grad student in full KKK costume. What does CNN do? They display his name with “(R)” after it.

How do you make a mistake like that? Was it a mistake at all, or does CNN simply never miss an opportunity to smear Republicans and conservatives? What may have happened is that, because of the Democrat party’s commitment to Identity Politics and CNN’s commitment to propping up the Democrat party, some low-level Chyron operator simply assumed anyone who would appear in black face with someone in a Klan costume would be a Republican.

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