Election 2016 - Aftermath

Wasn't it odd how Black Lives Matter protests that shut down freeways managed to stop for the month before the election?

And now they've started up again.

And remember how we learned that the DNC was sending payed agitators to start riots at Republican rallies?

Based on what we NOW KNOW how the left operates, does anyone doubt that this is anything but a spontaneous protest or that it this isn't a coordinated bit of agitprop from George Soros?

//Police in Portland, Oregon, are now classifying the anti-Trump protests there as a "riot" due to "extensive criminal and dangerous behavior," according to a tweet on the police department's Twitter page.

"Crowd has been advised," the tweet added.

Police tweeted that projectiles had been thrown at officers, and cars had been damaged.

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Protests and demonstrations in the wake of Tuesday's election continued Thursday night in other US cities including Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Denver, Minneapolis and Oakland, California.

Developing story - more to come//

Fake Hate Crimes....

...because there are never enough real ones to go around.

You can bet a lot of this mean-spirited mischief is going on right now.

//A young Muslim woman claimed she was attacked and robbed of her headscarf and wallet by two men, one of whom wore a Trump hat, but police are now saying it was a hoax. The attack supposedly took place in Louisiana where the woman is a student. Here’s how NBC News initially reported it:

The first police reports started trickling in within 10 hours of Donald Trump’s victory speech.

A Muslim student from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette reported being attacked by two men on Wednesday morning. The victim told investigators that one wore a white “TRUMP” hat while they hit her with a metal object and shouted obscenities as she fell to the ground. University police say the suspects fled with the woman’s wallet and hijab.
This story really checks all the boxes. It took place in the south. It appeared to involve obvious bigotry by the thieves. And, of course, there’s a connection to Trump. The ACLU of Louisiana quickly put out a statement condemning the attack:

The ACLU of Louisiana is outraged at the news of a young Muslim woman being assaulted and robbed of her hijab in Lafayette yesterday morning. The report that her attackers also shouted slurs and wore Donald Trump clothing is especially troubling in light of Mr. Trump’s frequent use of anti-Muslim rhetoric on the campaign trail.
Only it never happened as the AP reports:

A Louisiana college student has acknowledged she fabricated a report that she was assaulted and robbed of her wallet and Muslim headscarf by two men, one of whom she described as wearing a white “Trump” hat, police said Thursday.

The Lafayette Police Department said in a statement that it is no longer investigating the 18-year-old woman’s claims, which were made within hours of Donald Trump’s presidential victory.
Two other alleged attacks on women wearing headscarves have been reported to police. One at San Diego State University and another at San Jose State University. The attack in San Jose involved one person who pulled on a woman’s headscarf but never said a word. The other attack involved two men who made comments about Trump and then stole the woman’s keys. When she went for help they came and stole her car.//

Election 2016 - Aftermath.

Last week, the handwringing media was all about "Will Trump accept his loss?"

The media, of course, never asked if Hillary supporters would be willing to accept her loss.

But "acting out" is what leftists do when they don't get what they want.

//Anti-Trump protests continue for second day in California following a night of vandalism and arrests

Dozens of arrests were reported during a second day of protests in California on Thursday as people from the Bay Area to Los Angeles took to the streets forcefully denouncing President-elect Donald Trump.

Demonstrations continued into the morning with students in San Francisco and downtown Los Angeles walking out of classrooms and marching in the streets.

In San Francisco, the California Highway Patrol confronted a small group of students who were attempting to march onto the Golden Gate Bridge, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Just after 3 p.m. in Boyle Heights, a group of protesters walked onto the westbound 10 Freeway, near the 710 Freeway, and across lanes for about 20 minutes, said Officer Kevin Tao of the California Highway Patrol.

Officers diverted traffic as they drew protesters off the freeway.

Police cruisers blocked the crowd of protesters from reentering the freeway near Cal State Los Angeles.

“We don’t know where these groups of protesters came from,” Tao said.

In Los Angeles, 28 people were arrested overnight for impeding traffic when hundreds of protesters poured onto the 101 Freeway downtown, LAPD officials said.

In the loud and aggressive demonstration, many chanted, “Not my president,” and “Respect all women.” The mostly young crowd marched through the city before heading onto the freeway near Alameda Street.

The pack of hundreds — many screaming against both Trump and law enforcement, others riding skateboards on the freeway — caused a traffic backup that extended for miles.

The freeway was cleared, and all lanes were reopened by 4 a.m. Thursday, the California Highway Patrol said.

In Santa Ana, an estimated 650 demonstrators marched to Bristol Street and McFadden Avenue, where they squared off with police. A brick was thrown into a police cruiser, two other vehicles were damaged and two businesses were vandalized, said Santa Ana Police Cmdr. Phil Craft.

Officers fired bean bags to disperse the crowd, and 10 people were arrested, he said. The Orange County Sheriff’s Department assisted with crowd control, officials said.//

Name them and shame them.

Election 2016 - Aftermath

We have a few idiots who are allegedly acting racist, and who really believes that in 2016 any of these stories involve actual Trump supporters as opposed to leftists who are acting out a caricature of what they think Trump supporters should act like?

On the other hand, you have thousands of disappointed leftists doing this:

//Several hundred people flooded onto one of the busiest freeways in Los Angeles, causing a miles-long traffic backup.

The protesters, who had remained peaceful and not overly disruptive for most of the night, poured onto US 101, which links downtown LA to Hollywood, and stayed there for most of an hour. Drivers sat and waited. Many got out of their cars.

There was no violence between police officers and protesters.

Back in Manhattan, protesters unleashed their rage at the states that helped elect Trump.

“F–k Florida!” and “F–k Indiana!” people shouted, along with “F–k Mike Pence!” and “F–k Giuliani!”//

This tasteless BS looks tasteless.

What the leftists are doing looks both pathetic and insulting and offensive to everyone who died for democracy.

One thing the country needs is a less corrupt media.

Rasmussen reports:

//The media created a false narrative about the 2016 presidential campaign, and most polling reinforced it.

Controversy was the name of the media game, most of it focused on Republican Donald Trump, and many media outlets, most prominently the New York Times, and many pollsters were saying little over a month ago that Democrat Hillary Clinton had already won. But the three daily tracking polls – the Los Angeles Times, IBD/TIPP and Rasmussen Reports – consistently showed a much tighter race.

In a survey released just yesterday, most voters told us that the election would be decided on the controversies that surrounded the presidential candidates, not the issues.

Who created those controversies? Voters said the media, not the candidates, set the agenda in the presidential campaign  and that the media was more interested in controversy than in the issues.

Yet last month, 62% of voters said a candidate’s specific policy proposals are more important than their character.  Maybe that should have been the tip-off because when it comes to the issues, Trump has long had the advantage over Clinton, according to Rasmussen Reports polling.

Obamacare? Most voters have opposed it since Democrats in Congress passed it into law in March 2010. In a survey released just last week, voters overwhelmingly favor changes in the health care law, with more voters than ever calling for its outright repeal.

Illegal immigration? Clinton was a champion of amnesty and allowing even more illegal immigrants into the country, even though the majority of voters for years have said they want more secure borders and more deportations.

The economy? Only last month, 63% of voters said the U.S. economy is unfair to the middle class, a view most voters have held in surveys for the past several years.  Yet Clinton’s plans were a continuation of current economic policies.

Taxes and spending? Most voters have long called for lower taxes and less government; Clinton proposed increasing both.  Trump wants to cut taxes and government regulation.

Free trade? Voters are very skeptical, notably of the new Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) that Clinton helped negotiate. She said in recent months that she’s against it, but her own running mate, Tim Kaine, was caught telling TPP supporters privately she would reverse course as soon as she was elected.

National security? Clinton wouldn’t use the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism” for fear of offending Muslims, but most voters continue to believe we’re at war with it. Meanwhile, confidence at home about America’s safety from terrorism remains near all-time lows.

War on police? Trump called for law and order; Clinton called for healing and rooting out racist police officers. When cities erupted in violence over police shootings, voters weren’t all that sympathetic: They thought Clinton was on the side of the protestors, while Trump was on the side of the police.  But only 14% of Americans think most deaths that involve the police are the fault of the policeman.  More than ever (72%) rate the performance of the police in the area where they live as good or excellent.//

Now for something weird - 

On a battlefield vote comparison, Trump would have defeated Obama in 2012.

Screw Caste Privilege.

Ace of Spades ponders the election:

//Here is why Trump won:

1. People are sick of being bullied. Especially by sanctimonious assholes who offer no achievements or evidence of their moral or intellectual superiority other than mere assertion of it (or, more commonly: by a sort of pussy implication of it).

2. People are sick of being lied to all the time by people -- including the conservative media and establishment -- who clearly have an agenda when they offer allegedly "objective analysis." And that agenda is contrary to the interests of those they're supposedly trying to "help" think "better thoughts."

3. People are sick of the attitude from many that they have some special constitutionally-enshrined duty or #Privilege to "guide the thoughts of the lower orders," to make sure those uneducated "lower orders" do not have access to information that might cause them to "think wrong things and vote the wrong way."

And on that last point, this Class I'm talking about is largely the college educated, and the Twitterati, and the people who are super-proud to have relatively low-profile, low-paid jobs posting dreck online.

So listen to me, idiots:

Three things:

1. The fact that you have a college degree is no big deal. It's an "honor" shared by a mere 36% of the population. And frankly, many of you went to very non-prestigious schools, if we're going to be putting so many eggs in the credentialism basket.

And even those who went to the Better Schools: Nothing about attending college proves you learned a damn thing there. Or, more importantly: Have learned a damn thing since.

I went to college.

Know what most people in college are?

Fucking idiots. Just like everywhere else.

So stop aggrandizing your not-very-impressive non-credentials into some sort of Caste-Signifier conferring upon you the duty and #Privilege of thwarting the lower orders and making sure they don't think wrongthoughts.//

Comes the morning, people start looking around with a new sobriety.

Reason magazine sees the shaming intent of political correctness as part of the Trump election.

//Example: A lot of people think there are only two genders—boy and girl. Maybe they're wrong. Maybe they should change that view. Maybe it's insensitive to the trans community. Maybe it even flies in the face of modern social psychology. But people think it. Political correctness is the social force that holds them in contempt for that, or punishes them outright.

If you're a leftist reading this, you probably think that's stupid. You probably can't understand why someone would get so bent out of shape about being told their words are hurtful. You probably think it's not a big deal and these people need to get over themselves. Who's the delicate snowflake now, huh? you're probably thinking. I'm telling you: your failure to acknowledge this miscalculation and adjust your approach has delivered the country to Trump.

There's a related problem: the boy-who-cried-wolf situation. I was happy to see a few liberals, like Bill Maher, owning up to it. Maher admitted during a recent show that he was wrong to treat George Bush, Mitt Romney, and John McCain like they were apocalyptic threats to the nation: it robbed him of the ability to treat Trump more seriously. The left said McCain was a racist supported by racists, it said Romney was a racist supported by racists, but when an actually racist Republican came along—and racists cheered him—it had lost its ability to credibly make that accusation.

This is akin to the political-correctness-run-amok problem: both are examples of the left's horrible over-reach during the Obama years. The leftist drive to enforce a progressive social vision was relentless, and it happened too fast. I don't say this because I'm opposed to that vision—like most members of the under-30 crowd, I have no problem with gender neutral pronouns—I say this because it inspired a backlash that gave us Trump.

My liberal critics rolled their eyes when I complained about political correctness. I hope they see things a little more clearly now. The left sorted everyone into identity groups and then told the people in the poorly-educated-white-male identity group that that's the only bad one. It mocked the members of this group mercilessly. It punished them for not being woke enough. It called them racists. It said their video games were sexist. It deployed Lena Dunham to tell them how horrible they were. Lena Dunham!//

Shaming Americans.

Last night, when my daughter was reading Twitter comments that blamed "whites" for electing Trump, I pointed out to her that her entire education had involved blaming white people for slavery and Jim Crow and all manner of evils and it wasn't surprising that this created a reaction in the minds of Americans who were wondering what they had done wrong.

I've suspected that the purpose of public education was to indoctrinate "white" Americans in shame.

Now, we find out that my suspicions were right.


//Though job loss and economic stagnation played a role in his victory, so did shame. As the principal investigator on a study of the middle class for the National Institute of Mental Health, I found that working people’s stress is often intensified by shame at their failure to “make it” in what they are taught is a meritocratic American economy.

The right has been very successful at persuading working people that they are vulnerable not because they themselves have failed, but because of the selfishness of some other villain (African-Americans, feminists, immigrants, Muslims, Jews, liberals, progressives; the list keeps growing).

Instead of challenging this ideology of shame, the left has buttressed it by blaming white people as a whole for slavery, genocide of the Native Americans and a host of other sins, as though whiteness itself was something about which people ought to be ashamed. The rage many white working-class people feel in response is rooted in the sense that once again, as has happened to them throughout their lives, they are being misunderstood.//