The Power Of Positive Pessimism

As Dems prep for 2020 Joe Biden is optimistic about their opportunity as the Party of Pessimism:

MANCHESTER, N.H. — A vast array of Democratic leaders, divided by generations but uniformly emboldened by President Trump’s perceived vulnerability, have begun taking palpable steps toward seeking the White House in an election that is still three and a half years away.

A prominent member of that group, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., may have sounded a starting gun for the 2020 race on Sunday night as he delivered a tough-love manifesto for the party’s future to a crowd of Democrats here.

Mr. Biden called on Democrats to deliver an optimistic message aimed at the needs of struggling Americans and to emphasize issues like health care and education, which he described as largely sidelined in the last election. “I’m absolutely positive they want to be with us,” he said of people in economic distress. “We have to prove, again, we understand that hopelessness.”

Go, go Joe! When I think of hopeless I think of Biden, as do we all. I also notice that [Insert honorific here] Biden has even cleaned up his language a bit - could he be warming up for 2020 himself?

Mr. Biden said he was prepared to storm the country to help revive the party, and boasted of his comfort in wooing areas that voted for Mr. Trump. “Wherever you want, just let me know, because it’s important,” he said.

"It's important"?!? I would say it is a big effing deal.

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[Threadkiller]

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[Dave (in MA)]

Mr. Biden said he was prepared to storm the country to help revive the party

Hide your daughters, Creepy Uncle Joe's a coming...

[Threadkiller]

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[henry]

Multiple generations... any of them under 75? just asking.

[Appalled]

This song is dedicated to a JOM non-favorite:

https://archive.org/details/78_feather-merchants-balll_teddy-powell-and-his-orchestra-teddy-powell-ray-coniff_gbia0007989a

(Not a bad riff number, actually.)

[Captain Hate]

The Horde on the GOPe sellouts:

There is no hill to die on. Unless you're a Dem. Otherwise, it's a place for naps.

Every time time Schumer smiles and is happy, an angel gets mange.
Posted by: GnuBreed at May 01, 2017 12:36 PM (wTwJ2)

[sbwaters]

Snorfle!: Every time time Schumer smiles and is happy . . .

[Gentlejim]

How could healthcare possibly be an emphasized issue for libtards? I thought 404care fixed everything.

[henry]

For Janet... forget filling potholes, Milwaukee is wasting money on a trolley. And whining about a gas tax increase to pay for their potholes. Bad schools, high crime, and a trolley that goes around a 5 block loop. Perfect... you stay there, we'll drive around you and get on with life.

[CLEAR A PATH. HE'S GONE STUPID AGAIN.]

"I think the rules in Congress and, in particular the rules in the Senate, are unbelievably archaic and slow moving and, in many cases, unfair,” Trump said

Civics is harder than he thought.

Let's just do away with those reasoned traditions so Trump doesn't have to study so much

[Captain Hate]

Somehow Carlos Slim's barely house trained chimps missed the dumbest retard to crawl out of Scranton's pledge to not run in 2020:

http://www.ibtimes.com/why-wont-former-vice-president-joe-biden-run-office-2020-2532795

Maybe their department of retractions will clean it up but they're very busy these days. Not that I wouldn't relish DJT cleaning this mean spirited blowhard's clock and put to rest some misapprehensions here that he's not a gutter level prick.

[hrtshpdbox]

Biden said he hasn't seen a more dire time for the country since his first days as a backbencher Labour MP, and that his wife, Mrs. Kinnock, feels the same way.

[henry]

This from his private Amtrak bar car Box?

[donald]

Second Round, Kell at Starr's Mill, second series in my backyard and crew chief again. These are two of the best baseball programs in Georgia and that is saying something. I'm kinda pumped.

[hrtshpdbox]

Of course, henry; as we all know, Joe has taken that Wilmington-DC train every day for the last 80 years, and still remembers kicking social program ideas back and forth with fellow passenger FDR (Joe says he always helped him on and off the handicapped car).

[Captain Hate]

This software just dropped a comment: according to Tammy, Tucker Carlson is crushing BOR's ratings. I guess THE FOLKS are fickle.

[hrtshpdbox]

Captain, it shouldn't be long before publication of Tucker's book, "Killing O'Reilly".

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

I posted this at the end of the previous thread before I realized there was a new one:

Old Lurker,

These are 4 articles, all related, which relate to your concerns. It is why I am patient, because I understand who is wielding the influence and who is writing the legislation. It will take time to fix this.

I also think once you read this you will see that Rush got all of his show prep here and did not attribute it to Sundance. According to what I read on the Treehouse site, it was almost word for word from Part 2.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/04/27/understanding-why-president-trump-has-not-received-legislative-action-from-congress/

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/04/28/part-ii-why-president-trump-has-not-received-legislative-action-from-congress-and-what-can-be-done/

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/04/28/part-iii-prediction-jim-demint-will-join-the-trump-administration/

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/04/29/part-iv-2016-prescient-dc-lobbyists-talk-trump-the-end-of-life-as-we-know-it-here/#more-131968

Jim Demint is apparently leaving Heritage. I also saw a director of a big medical clinic (Mayo or Cleveland, can't remember which) who has been consulting for the White House has also turned in his resignation. This sounds to me like they are bringing more people in to write legislation.

At any rate, I am optimistic that things will get done in unexpected ways.

I hope you take the time to read those articles.

[JimNorCal]

It's a desperate time for Dems. Their last bastion, as I think many have realized, is the GOPe.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/05/president_schumer_agrees_to_bill_funding_pr_obamacare_abortionists_but_no_wall.html
President Schumer agrees to bill funding Obamacare, abortionists, but no wall.

[Fundamentally incurious]

I never tire of the predilection to cry Biden! or Hillobama!
when the goin gets tough.

Prime projection beats taking hits from peers who can see the Emperor's new clothes.

[Captain Hate]

Somebody beat him to it, box:

https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Bill-OReilly-Tom-Christian/dp/1492748307

[anonamom]

Fox News says multiple people stabbed at UT Austin, per my Twitter feed.

Porch--what's going on??? Stay safe.

[henry]

Anonamom... someone">https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/68o3rk/breaking_news_multiple_stabbings_on_ut_campus/">someone concealed carrying stopped the stabber, but he got away. no real news stories yet.

[henry]

dang.. link

[Old Lurker]

Thanks, MM. This was near the end of #4:

"President Trump needed only three legislative items to fulfill his policy mission:

...Repeal of ObamaCare.
...Passage of Tax Reform. -OR- Just the targeted portions of the tax proposal.
...Passage of a budget.

Despite all the media protestations to the contrary, these are the only three essential ingredients in the President Trump domestic policy agenda."

MM, I would add a fourth:

...Build a wall along our Southern Border.

So I worry because:

...The only O'care repeal was anything but a repeal, institutionalized many super dangerous features of O'care, and never got the votes. The amended version looks even worse, but so far does not have the votes either.

...To soon to say on Tax Reform but if it is handled as the O'care Repeal and the CR and the Wall have been handled, his grand plans have zero chance.

...Pass a budget? This first half year budget looks like a Chuck Schumer Barak Obama bath house wet dream. Yes I know they say the next one will be all Trump.

...Build a Wall? Then why would he sign a CR that not of does not fund a wall, but prohibits one?

Your links make my points.

[henry]

They caught the Austin stabber. One dead apparently.

[Old Lurker]

Austin Stabber?

The Lib-Prog-Nuts (I repeat myself) are getting ahead of themselves. They should have stuck to guns until they got to take all of them away from citizens before moving on to knives.

Now they are diluting their message.

[Threadkiller]

https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/04/28/president-donald-j-trump-proclaims-may-2017-asian-american-and-pacific

Maybe United can offer free flights..

[James D]

Via Insty, more madness from the academic world:

“Coupling nature with motherhood… can inadvertently support biologically deterministic arguments about the roles of men and women in the family (for example, that women should be the primary caretaker,” the study says.

Yeah, the left really cares about science, don't they?

[Fundamentally incurious]

Whether or not you've heard of Mark T. Short (I hadnt) remember that name.

http://shareblue.com/pences-longtime-aide-is-orchestrating-white-house-obstruction-of-russia-investigation/

[Fundamentally incurious]

This is what makes Ryan Presidunce, if he isn't tainted

Who would follow Speaker? Too lazy to look up.

[Fundamentally incurious]

I get the feeling Pence is your Biden.

[Fundamentally incurious]

Oh shit. I think it's chief justice.

[Fundamentally incurious]

Memory from 8th grade Constitution test.

96% then. Amirite?

[Fundamentally incurious]

Too bad Trump didn't attend public school in California.

[Captain Hate on the iPhone]

Is there anything these assholes can't fuck up?

http://nypost.com/2017/04/30/breeder-says-united-cremated-giant-bunny-without-her-permission/

[Truthbetold5]

CH

Wait until investors learn about the looting that goes on at United

[hrtshpdbox]

“That’s an internal war of politics in the US in which the Democratic party has taken a suicide pact or something to blow him up; in other words, to completely de-legitimise him and in so doing blow up the US essentially,” he said. “What they’re doing is destroying the trust that exists between people and government. It’s a very dangerous position to make accusations you cannot prove.”

A little unexpected to hear Oliver Stone say anything that's actually true.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2017/05/01/oliver-stone-trump-russia-connection-a-path-that-leads-nowhere/

[art in newport]

So, Bill Shine is out at Fox, per NYT, others

[Fundamentally incurious]

It's the dismal tide, cap'n. It's not the one thing. I think it starts when you stop hearin' yes sir or no, ma'am..."

Tommy Lee Jones-(No country for old men)

[pagar, a bacon, ham and sausage supporter]

Who knows?

http://usapoliticsnow.com/breaking-obama-tax-audit-turns-millions-offshore-accounts-stolen-taxpayers-2/

[Threadkiller]

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/05/01/part-v-trump-policy-building-toward-crescendo-on-multiple-simultaneous-fronts/

[Porchlight]

Hi all, was just returning to campus from jury selection (cancelled) when I saw the emergency vehicles coming in. Parked and called Mr Porch who checked Twitter and urged me to come home (we didn't know the suspect had been apprehended). The police said to stay away from the area, but I feel bad not being with my people at work. So sad. I may go back in later if they give the all clear. Can't seem to get in touch with anyone.

The stabbing was right near my building, at the gym which is kitty corner across the street. If it's true that a CC person stopped the spree, that might ease some liberal minds on campus....maybe.

[Threadkiller]

Fake news site, Pagar.

[Fundamentally incurious]

Look, look over here..uh, rather over there. No. No. Look UP!

Now stand on your head and LISTEN to what I'm telling you!

Lol.

[Fundamentally incurious]

OL:

Indeed. Europe has banned gunz with alacrity. Yet they've done nothing about kitchen knives and 18 wheelers.

[Fundamentally incurious]

Want good but reasonably priced ar15 iron sights.

Would appreciate a link.

[pagar, a bacon, ham and sausage supporter]

Thanks, TK, Hope they get rid of the fake stuff so we don't have to waste time checking every site.

[Porchlight]

Turns out the stabbing was just outside my building on the steps. Holy cow. My buddy the guard ran out to help one of the victims. I wouldn't have been able to get into the library even if I had headed into work. They're letting people out of the building but they're not letting anyone in.

[Gunny]

We need to ban unlimited magazine machetes from public access.

[Jim Eagle]

Has this been linked yet: Trump Proposes Alternate History Where Civil War Was Avoided. [If only Old Hickory was still alive:]

Features cameo appearance by The Omen.

https://twitter.com/i/moments/859083631746265088

[Clarice Feldman]

close call, Porch--whew

[Gunny]

Times change..people change when they die, or when they see death and desire a change in themselves to avert death, but NO other motivation is strong enough.

But they can enter the mode of behavior modification, or fooling yourself with different habits.

Identity politics is stupid and inane. Political correctness is a philosophical trap set for the sincere so they will.pressure the rest to comply. DACA progressive failure is tied to their requirement that the disadvantaged should move to the front of the line against the resident citizenry.

Many stipulations to progressive stupidity ongoing. Try not to match the idiocy.

[Dave (in MA)]

Stabber:

[Dave (in MA)]

(do the right click thing)

[Dave (in MA)]

Stephen Miller‏Verified account @redsteeze 8h

Happy May Day comrades!...

[henry]

Per commenters at The_Donald, there were Antifa threats against fraternities and the stabbed went after people with Greek letters on their clothes. Several said CCL guy chased the stabbed with weapon drawn, but the guy decided it was too crowded to shoot. (Good call).

[Dave (in MA)]

New Fox News show today, The Fox News Specialists. Multiple fails from the picture alone:

1. Mark Cuban
2. Mark Cuban in the "Leg Chair".

[Gunny]

No longer republican/ Democrat.

No more hiding your useless carcass as Indepedent.

No more labels.

I won't vote as a Block. I will cherry-pick my issue of.importance and vote despite the horde if necessary.

I will be compassionate but not enabling.

I will pay taxes fairly and without compunction as a member of civilized organizations who see the benefit of all boats rising with the tide.

That'll do er.

[Gunny]

That took ten minutes.

How long did it take to write the Budget?

[Captain Hate]

Tweety has competition:

https://ricochet.com/426097/vive-la-resistance-san-francisco-chronicle-columnists-plaintive-cry-help/

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Dave (in MA),

Eric Bolling will be the only pro-Trump person on that show.

Cuban is in a rivalry with Trump. I think the black woman is a dem. The gal with glasses is mainly libertarian and snark. The guy in the hat is I think an ad guy who did some work for W but is a dem.

There ya go. Wouldn't watch even if I had cable.

[deplorable]

The new Fox show at Five will not last. So sad what the Murdoch boys have done.

[Marlene]

I agree that Bolling's show doesn't look promising. The other guy MM mentioned is Mark McKinnon who does "The Circus" on Showtime.

[Gunny]

Shooter: "I see what you're trying to do with the colts, but you cannot play them man-on-man.

You're playing Cedar Knob on Friday. No one knows them better than me. Buncho mites. Run you off the boards. You got no head--toppers..push em back to the cheap seats..."

[Captain Hate]

So, Bill Shine is out at Fox, per NYT, others

Wasn't this also sex related? Whatever happened to "it's only sex"? Didn't the bluenosed brats get the memo? Tammy mentioned that Shine was very helpful to her career at Fox.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Yesm thank you Marlene.

Mark McKinnon, who did the crappy ads for W. I could have done better ads in my basement.

W had a lot of mediocre hangers-on who got their reputations because they hooked up with him, not because they were brilliant.

W was sort of the anti-Trump when it came to choosing staff and cabinet. Colin Powell is all I have to say on that subject.

[Dave (in MA)]

Conservatives are mostly not going to be in front of a TV at 5 PM; at best they'll be driving home from work.

[Dave (in MA)]

http://insider.foxnews.com/people/eboni-williams

"Eboni".

[Captain Hate]

HOF zombie:

More Madness: Pomona College Protests the Hiring of a White Professor

Not sure if this info was known at the time, but the story is 100x more schadenfreudlicious than previously realized.

The white professor who was hired (and whose hiring caused the fracas) is no ordinary white professor, but instead is a leading warrior in the "fabricate anti-white narratives in order to bring about the Black Revolution" cause, and it was for that very reason she was hired -- because although her skin tone may be white, she's so left-left-left-left-wing and so pro-black that she makes Rachel Dolezal look like Edgar Winter.

Her masterwork? Writing a book called "On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City" in which she "goes rogue" and basically joins black gang members on their crime sprees, then wrote about it for a white intellectual audience -- showing the criminals' humanity and blaming the racist police for the criminals' misdeeds.

Wait for it -- yup turned out she TOTALLY FABRICATED MOST OF THE BOOK solely in order to increase her street cred amongst white academia.

But it gets better. Even though her book was factually debunked, LEFTIST ACADEMIA DIDN'T CARE THAT IT WAS DEBUNKED and lauded her to the skies and -- the point -- hired her as a professor.

Basically, she thought the she had blacked herself up enough and debased herself with gangsta culture enough that she would be essentially made an "honorary black person" -- she she has learned the hard way that THE ALLIGATOR WILL NOT EAT HER LAST. Instead, she is the first one eaten. Shock!

Links provided if interested.
Posted by: zombie at May 01, 2017 04:53 PM (DQ4Fv)

[Threadkiller]

The glasses chick, Timph or something, is the equivalent of a background Muppet that nods it's head in approval.

She is #FakeSerious.

A waste of a salary.

[Threadkiller]

...its...

[jimmyk]

"Eboni"

Well, she has this going for her:

"She received a B.A. in Communications and African-American Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/05/01/explaining-why-republicans-in-congress-need-to-undercut-trumps-budget-objectives-wilbur-ross-and-nafta/#more-132046

Be sure you watch the interview with Wilbur Ross.

[Easter Bunny Hunny]

It's almost like I'm hearing the middle of a conversation which began somewhat earlier in another location.

Lol!!

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-05-01/-alt-left-strategist-bannon-isn-t-going-anywhere-trump-says

[Tupelo Honey]

Heh.

"Bannon loves this Country.."

Yeah,

Like a glutton loves his lunch.

[mike in houston]

Here is the UT Stabber

https://www.facebook.com/Kchazz

[Threadkiller]

Thanks for that link, MM.

After watching Ross conduct himself I wanted to see how it compared to Odummy's Commerce Secretary.

Get your barf bag ready:
https://youtu.be/jyWONXC92Z8

It is no wonder other countries as well as our own citizens were no longer taking the US seriously.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

TK,

Every single one of the cabinet people is wonderful. I like Ryan Zinke (former Navy SEAL, congressman, Eagle Scout) who is full of energy and is really on board with opening the lands to the people.

I don't even remember who Obama's Interior Secretary was.

[Porchlight]

If the stabber turns out to be Antifa, things could get ugly. I don't remember seeing him on campus before.

Library has closed for the night. Definitely the best option.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

TK,

And let's contrast General Kelly with Jeh Johnson.

Case closed.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzkBfTfiXS0&feature=youtu.be

Donald Trump: the World's Greatest Troll

This is really funny, and a great review of the campaign.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--I don't even remember who Obama's Interior Secretary was.--

That would be Reggie Love.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--There is no hill to die on.--

Just once I'd like to see some Republicans looking for a hill to kill on.

[Threadkiller]

TM, please close this thread and erase all comments with the exception of MM's 6:09 and Ig's 6:12.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Iggy, TK, HAHAHAHAHA!

[Captain Hate]

UT stabber looks like another one of the JEF's imaginary sons.

[Jane]

"I think the black woman is a dem."

Ebony Williams is smart as a tack. I like her a lot. The show sucked tho.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

OJane,

I didn't recognize her. Might need new bifocals!

Yes, she is smart. I stand by my comments on the rest, though.

[deplorable]

Jane, I, too, like Eboni very much. She is smart and personable, but also a fair Dem. The show as I have said was horrible. Eric Boling, I like very much, and am so sorry that he has left The Five to do this show. What a comedown for a good person and reporter.

[daddy]

Good Morning. Just caught Bret Baire talking about top folks at FOX News exiting. I don’t know any of the names he’s talking about but sounds pregnant with consequences for that outfit.

[deplorable]

daddy, Fox News as I have known it since its inception has gone.

[sbwaters]

Fox Business is the only thing worth watching/listening to, and even then, only with your finger on the channel change button.

Too much what if and opinion, while too little news.

[Comanche Voter]

My Indian cousin (there's a crazy one in every family) Liawatha plans to lead a raid on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in 2020.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I guess I better address that goofy stuff from the last thread.
I know a lot about very little and a little about a lot and absolutely nothing at all about an embarrassing number of things.
I know a lot about tractor logging and trees, native to my home area.
I know a lot about some old rifles.
I know quite a bit about the things of God, breast cancer and European and Mopar cars of the sixties.
That's about it.
I went to about two months of college and decided I wanted to spend my life outdoors instead of on a drafting stool.
Mrs Iggy regularly made fun of me because I liked to read the old Encyclopedia Britannica she owned.
As a kid I liked to read and mostly pretty weird stuff for a kid. My parents had the complete works of Shakespeare with footnotes, so I could tell what the heck the old wanker was saying, and I read most of those when I was in grade school along with the nice concise Funk and Wagnalls encyclopedia they had. They also had the Harvard Classics and I waded through The Odyssey early on and Two Years Before the Mast, Voyage of the Beagle, Don Quixote.
But my favorite reading was often the dictionary. I like words. At one point I started at A and was going to write down every cool word I came to. But by the time I made it to anthropophogite and was on my seventh or eighth page of cool words I realized I wasn't really slimming down the dictionary much and so just did the hunt and peck thing after that.

When I happen upon something that is interesting and I don't know much about I like to find out.But there are many people here and everywhere else who know vastly more than me.

Admittedly though there are very few who are as rakishly handsome and irresistible. :P

[Dave (in MA)]

Iggy can't take a compliment.

[Texas Liberty Gal]

MM - How many year has Rush been on the air??? Do you really think he needs to gets his talking points from others. I don't think so! Lets get real here & now.

[Texas Liberty Gal]

I saw Eboni on Fox & Friends this am. Whoever did her makeup did her no favors!!!

[Tupelo Honey]

She's yer cuzzin commanche?

She's a Firebrand. Bet she's a worthyride.