As IF Times

Source: Democratic congressman introduces “Stable Genius Act”

The longevity of the rancor and derangement of the anti Trump crowd is amazing to behold. You’d think that after a full year since the election, people would go back to their lives. It’s as if entire swaths of the American population have stopped working and are focused only on exposing the latest Trump insult to their sensibilities.  When you think about it, Trump’s ascendency has probably been the best thing for many leftist businesses, since there is an endless supply of grist for their news cycle mills.

Twitter would probably be bankrupt if not for the enormous traffic that The Donald generates. Without the most recent outrage du jour to distribute on Facebook feeds, it would just be a site for posting cat photos and vacation selfies.  And without Trump’s frequent inelegant utterances, the mean girls at MSNBC, CNN etc., would only have tales of  LGBT woes, stories of racism, as well as the latest Kardashian accomplishments to fill their long days.

Unwilling to acknowledge that Americans voted to install someone in the White House that is more action than talk, unlike the previous occupant,  the cacophonous lunatic fringe insist on a do over of some kind.  The on going protest takes the form of Russia, Russia, Russia,  the questioning of his sanity, his supposed lack of literacy, his intemperate views of minorities, his diet of fast foods and of course his hair.

But instead of revealing weaknesses in the President, the nutters instead expose just how far out the flimsy limb of sanity they’ve all moved.  Robert DeNiro is a prima facie example of the unhinged rage  that has consumed otherwise normal people.  Shocked that the public rejected their choices of champions for  their cause which included, a career politico with trainloads of questionable baggage, a septuagenarian self avowed communist and a person claiming native Indian ancestry by virtue of high cheekbones, the left are attempting to try a new tack.  They feel that Oprah Winfrey should be anointed to lead them.  Oprah.

This idea reveals the main flaw that afflicts all leftists.  They don’t have a reality filter. Their beliefs are rooted in the world of ifs and shoulds.  Granted, an Oprah presidency would bring with it all kinds of benefits, not the least of which is the possibility of a new car for everyone.  When dealing with despots of hostile nations, we can rely on the technique of collective weeping as persuasion.  Handkerchief companies will soar.

The other big benefit of an Oprah ticket is the rich pool of capable people from which to create a cabinet. We could use Doogie Howser and Dr. Mcdreamy as heads of the Health department, since they were so effective on their TV shows.  The Rock, Dwayne Johnson would be the Secretary of Defense, since, well, he’s never lost a battle… we wouldn’t even need an army.  For Secretary of Education, we nominate the aforementioned articulate Robert DeNiro .  They could use Perry Mason as attorney general.  He may be dead, but law cases take so long to resolve, no one will know the difference.

As fanciful as these ideas are, none of this is any more preposterous than the Democratic incumbents today. As long as they continue to live in their fantasy world, the general public will be safe in theirs.

Source: The Post (2017) – Rotten Tomatoes

Observing the massive conflagration of liberal properties has been entirely amusing of late.  We refer not to the California fires of course, but to the majority of news outlets that purport to offer straight up reportage.

When I first began to make comments on the subtleties of bias that permeated most of the popular media’s offerings of news, those threads of bias were not always obvious.  As the years have passed and with the widening political divide in America, any pretext of objectivity has yielded to full blown whoppers and knee slappers on the part of many heretofore unimpeachable sources.  Like him or not, the election of Donald Trump has poked through the thin veneer of credibility of such outlets as CNN, NBC and ABC, not to mention the more foamy at the mouth MSNBC and the Washington Post.  He has exposed these outlets for their nakedly partisan skews.

It’s not that all of this now properly labeled “fake news” originates from these outlets.  Sometimes, it’s just a matter of reporting on the crackpot utterances of someone famous.  However, the fact that they give voice to the rants of the more logically challenged people of society, mainly ‘celebrities’, makes them complicit in their dissemination of fake news.  Just the other day, Chelsea Handler (who?) expressed that the massive fires in Southern California were somehow orchestrated by Donald Trump.  Of course, that’s preposterous.  We know that only Kim Jong Un can control the weather.

Recent revelations of galling hypocrisy and malfeasance within their own ranks is the most rapturous bit of schadenfreude that could be offered to the rational public, now hopefully awakened to the dangerous tilt that these outlets have all subscribed.  This tilt was recently best depicted by David Frum who recently opined in an interview that:

“…The mistakes are precisely the reason people should trust the media. Astronomers make mistakes all the time because science is a process of discovery of truth. Astrologers never make mistakes or at least they never own up to them because what they are offering is a closed system of ideology and propaganda…”

It hardly gets more Orwellian than that.  By the way, replace the word Astrology with Global Alarmists next time someone brings up that bit of fantasy.

It is therefore all the more galling that an upcoming film depicting the noble activities of the Washington Post will soon be offering their version of moral courage to the unwitting public. More amusingly, Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks, those two pillars of liberal  sanctimony are cast as the sympathetic protagonists.  That would be like a film on how Pravda provides the truth and exposes corruption to the Russian people.  It’s assured that the film will be reasonably successful, if only because of the fan base of the title stars. It will however, compete with that other blockbuster film, also in the fantasy space, only slightly less believable,  the next installment of Star Wars.