Thursday, January 2, 2020

Hundreds of Biden's old co-workers confirm they'd rather vote for someone else

By Jared Harris, The Western Journal
Published January 1, 2020 at 9:53am

Former Vice President Joe Biden seemingly has a good argument for Democratic voters ready to pick their party's presidential nominee. His experience working in the White House is shared by only one other candidate in the entire 2020 race -- President Donald Trump.

Unfortunately for Biden, hundreds of those who also worked under former President Barack Obama are making it clear that the former vice president isn't their first choice for the office.

As of now, 231 people who worked in Obama's 2008 campaign, his 2012 re-election campaign and his administration have voiced their support for Sen. Elizabeth Warren's bid for the White House. The list of Obama alumni was acquired by CNNand is headed by the 2008 campaign's field director, Jon Carson.

Carson was no low-level organizer, either. After Obama's victory in 2008, the former campaign operative was given a spot in the new administration as the director of the Office of Public Engagement.

Needless to say, many of these 200-plus people likely crossed paths with Biden or worked with him in some capacity.

Their endorsement of the Massachusetts senator, someone who can't even keep her own family history straight, over Biden is an embarrassing blow.

"We are a group that really uniquely knows that electability is self-determining and that oftentimes it's the people with the boldest vision and the most unlikely candidacies early on who can really shift the field," Sara El-Amine, an Obama alumna who helped Carson organize the group, told CNN.

She said Warren "really has the zest and the grit and the gumption and the audacity that we loved that President Obama really embodied."

Ouch.

Unfortunately for Biden, reports have surfaced that Obama is working with Warren behind closed doors to strengthen her campaign.

This shouldn't come as a big shock to the former vice president, who has been unable to even secure an endorsement from his friend and former boss. Even after Biden hinted at throwing Obama a seat on the Supreme Court, an outright show of public support is still nowhere to be seen.

Of course, things could always get much worse for him.

Although Biden has held a steady lead in the polls since announcing his 2020 campaign, the tumultuous nature of this election means that anything can happen. His main opponents -- Warren, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and rising threat Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Indiana -- are all seemingly poised to score a major upset over him.

Biden's chances haven't been helped by a steady stream of gaffes and embarrassments during his campaign.

Along with apparent health problems and his seemingly struggling mind, he also has had to deal with an ugly amount of family issues that pose a major problem as the election grows nearer.

The most important hangup for Biden remains: Despite his work in the White House, if those with whom he worked closest can't even voice their support, what does that say of his work in our nation's capital?

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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2020: Buckle your seat belt for a year of chaos

Michael Brown says today' polarized political sides are barely into the trash-talking phase

By Michael Brown
Published January 1, 2020 at 5:21pm

I am not claiming some great prophetic insight. I do not believe I have received any special revelation. In my view, I am only stating the obvious.

In short, barring dramatic and unforeseen circumstances, the year 2020 will be one of the most chaotic, divided and tumultuous years in our nation's history. It will also be a year of clarity, as we will see people and groups and movements as they really are. All this is part of the larger "Trump effect."

To explain, it was former Gov. Jeb Bush who first labeled Donald Trump the "chaos candidate." This, in turn, led evangelical leader Lance Wallnau to title his best-selling 2016 book, "God's Chaos Candidate: Donald J. Trump and the American Unraveling."

Wallnau wrote, "When Jeb Bush referred to Donald Trump as the 'chaos candidate,' he may have been tapping into something more prophetic than he was aware. America is already in chaos and heading into what I am referring to as the Fourth American Crucible."

That chaos will only intensify in 2020. And, to repeat, it doesn't take a prophet to see this.

The conclusion of the impeachment hearings, followed by the fall elections, will keep the news cycle going day and night with intensity. And if you think things are hectic and crazy and wild now, hold on tight.

The mudslinging has barely begun (and I mean this from all sides of the political spectrum).

In fact, we've barely even reached the trash-talking stage before the game, let alone the game itself. (Perhaps I should say "before the fight" or "before the brawl," rather than "before the game"?)

Expect political chaos in 2020. Expect even more frenzied reporting in the media. Expect emotions to boil over – in the home, in the workplace and on social media.

The year 2020 will not be for the faint of heart.

But it will also be year where very little will be hidden. We will see how biased some of us are. How bigoted. How mean-spirited. How partisan. How angry.

We will also see how Christian some of us are. How kind. How compassionate. How courageous. How committed.

What kind of people are we, really? How deep is our faith? How different is our voice than the hate-filled voices that surround us and bombard us 24/7?

The crazier (and darker) things get, the more clearly and soberly our light can shine.

But will it? Or will we reveal other colors, more political than spiritual and more partisan than pure?

In October 2018, Thomas Hicks Jr. and Curtis Ellis posted an article on the Hill titled, "Donald Trump: The great disruptor."

They wrote, "Well, here's to the disruptor living at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave."

Yes, "President Trump – the Great Disruptor who is challenging the premises and practices that all the Serious People tell us are immutable – is disrupting business-as-usual in Washington, New York, Geneva, Brussels and Beijing.

"Donald J. Trump has been upsetting the status quo ever since he descended the escalator in Trump Tower to disrupt the make-believe world of mendacious politicians mouthing meaningless talking points and the media that pretend to believe them."

More recently, in September 2019, Newt Gingrich said of Trump, "He gets up every morning and thinks, 'What can I disrupt?' He's not going to back off." (The reference to not backing off was regarding the impeachment process.)

The atmosphere of chaos and shaking is one in which Trump appears to thrive, as the constant disruptions seek to make him stronger.

That's why it was no surprise that, within hours of posting a Christmas messagecalling on Americans to "foster a culture of deeper understanding and respect," Trump was attacking "Crazy Nancy Pelosi" for her role in the impeachment process.

And that's why, under his presidency, the political establishment has been threatened. The spirit of political correctness has been mocked. The swamp has been challenged. And religious hypocrisy has been exposed.

Everyone is revealing their true colors, for better or for worse, from the media (on all sides), to the Democrats and Republicans, to students on their campuses, to preachers behind their pulpits.

And as things in months ahead, 2020 promises to be a time of great upheaval and shaking.

But it can also be a time of holy upheaval and divine purging, a time when God's people rise up with wisdom and insight and courage, transcending the political fray.

And it can be a time of growth and maturity, as we learn to find stability in divine truth rather than in circumstances, and we put our trust in eternal scriptural principles rather than fleeting human opinion.

So, 2020 can be a year when everything around us shakes. And yet, with God's help, we do not need to be shaken (see Psalm 55:22).

Either way, 2020 will be quite a ride. I suggest you get yourself ready.

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'Law & Order': Who's doing the raping? Part 2

Ann Coulter responds to 'queer Jewish feminist' happy over columnist's previous piece

By Ann Coulter
Published January 1, 2020 at 5:26pm

America's apparently unstoppable gusher of mass Third World immigration is on track to deliver a sick, dystopian future, where some people will do very well – cheap maids and all – but women and children will fare quite poorly.

(Finally! A story where women and children really ARE "hit hardest.") (That's Joe Sobran's gag on a typical New York Times headline.)

With the major media actively covering up the crimes of immigrants, and big tech companies censoring people who point out the peculiarities of other cultures, there seems to be a major campaign on to prevent Americans from noticing.

Luckily, we have "Law & Order" to tell us the truth – technically to prompt me to tell the truth by correcting their scripts, in which sex traffickers, little boy rapists and women-hating mass shooters are invariably Trump-supporting white American males.

Beautiful actors and actresses spout dialogue written for them by "queer Jewish feminists" – according to one writer's self-description in response to my recent "Law & Order: SVU" column.

I had pointed out that sex traffickers of 9-year-old illegal alien girls – while prevalent in our new "diverse" country – have never, ever, ever been what the show advertised: married white American businessmen.

Celine Robinson responded on Twitter:

"I could not be more proud that ann coulter hates an episode of TV that I wrote. Nothing makes my heart sing like a fuming racist all-capsing about the progressive messaging she cannot stop due to her eternal and total irrelevance.

"Yours,

"A half French, queer, Jewish feminist"

I can't help but notice that they don't let viewers get a gander at Celine. No, they use hot actors and actresses – pretty much the molecular opposite of a "queer, Jewish feminist" – to express the multiple hatreds of a "queer, Jewish feminist" to the TV viewing public.

You can view Celine's photo here. It's always Opposites Day at "Law & Order: SVU"!

Today, I will review another totally believable episode, from Season 20, titled "Man Up/Man Down." In this show, a blond, blue-eyed married American man anally rapes his teenage sons when he takes them ... hunting. Yes, hunting. The only thing missing was the MAGA hat.

Checking my research on child rape in America, I see this has happened NEVER.

To the contrary, American men who look a lot like "Law & Order's" idea of a pedophile came home from Afghanistan sickened by the boy-rape frenzies of our dear Afghan "allies."

I don't know what we're supposed to be doing in Afghanistan at this point, but apparently stopping child rape was never on the agenda. Our own troops were ordered not to interrupt the Afghans' boy-rape bacchanals.

Even the left-wing (but not "Law & Order: SVU"-level dimwitted) Guardian (in the U.K.) has written about the gusto for boy-rape in the Arab world:

"[M]en who sodomise young boys are not considered homosexuals or paedophiles. The love of young boys is not a phenomenon restricted to Afghanistan; homosexual pederasty is common in neighbouring Pakistan, too."

Numerous documentaries have covered Afghanistan's practice of "bacha bazi," or "boy play." This includes such "fuming racist all-capsing" productions as Vice Media's "This Is What Winning Looks Like" and Najibullah Quraishi's "The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan."

In the Vice Media documentary, after a young boy is shot trying to escape his indigenous sodomizer, a U.S. Marine demands that the barracks be searched and any Afghan policemen hiding children be tried and jailed.

The Afghan police chief replies: "[The boys] like being there and giving their asses at night." He demands of the U.S. Marine: "If [my commanders] don't f–k the asses of those boys, what should they f–k? The p–-ies of their own grandmothers?"

Thank heaven we have "Law & Order: SVU" to expose NRA members!

In the brain of a "queer, Jewish feminist," the thought process is: I personally don't enjoy this perfectly traditional, masculine, Anglo-Saxon sport of hunting; therefore, I will portray American male hunters as butt-raping their own sons.

"Toxic masculinity" today: Dads don't show up to their sons' soccer practice in time because they're too busy working 60 hours a week to put a roof over their families' heads.

"Toxic masculinity" tomorrow: Dads demand the right to anally rape little boys – else they "f–k? the p–-ies of their own grandmothers."

I just want to be there when it happens.

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