Posted on 02/22/2019 4:37:06 AM PST by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
Hey, it worked for that other racist over in Virginia. – Virginia’s baby-killing racist governor Ralph Northam appears to have shown the way for leftwing nitwits caught doing bad things all over the nation, and Jussie Smollett’s been paying attention.
Basically, Gov. Blackface’s strategy has been to lie, deny and go about his business, a strategy copied by his Lt. Governor and Attorney General, all of whom have survived the media firestorm, such as it was, surrounding their bad acts, and continue to govern the once-great Commonwealth. Actors, even bad ones, are typically pretty good at observing and learning, and that’s what Smollett has obviously done.
After being arrested and arraigned and seeing Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson deliver one of the most epic press conferences in the city’s history at his expense Thursday morning, Smollett was right back on the set of his TV show, “Empire”, a few hours later, filming new scenes and lying and denying his role in blatant hoax he has perpetrated on our country.
“I wanted to say I’m sorry and, you know me, I would never do this to any of you, you are my family,” he reportedly told the cast and crew, “I swear to God, I did not do this.” Hooboy. So, the strategy adopted by Gov. Blackface is now being mainstreamed, and the Chicago PD, with its long, sordid history of corruption, had better hope its officers dotted every “i” and crossed every “t” in the conduct of their investigation.
Because here’s the deal on this, folks: The fake news media and Democrat Party hate the fact that they have been forced to report negative things about a guy they spent 2 solid weeks building up into some sort of modern-day civil rights hero. Jussie’s story fit their preferred narrative about President Trump and his supporters, and now they’ve been forced off that narrative, something they can’t happily abide.
If they find the slightest excuse to hang their hat on here in terms of some irregularity about how the Chicago PD went about its business, they will latch onto it and pound it into the public’s consciousness until Smollet has not only been set free but gotten the raise that apparently motivated him to plan and commit the hoax to begin with.
As impressive as Superintendent Johnson was in his press conference yesterday, history tells us that the chances the Chicago PD conducted itself strictly by the book in this case seem disturbingly slim. This story, and the fake news media’s treatment of it, isn’t over yet. Indeed, unlike the Northam case – which they’ve all dropped like a hot potato because there ain’t no way to get that atrocity back on the preferred narrative path – the media engagement on the Smollett case may be just beginning.
Green New Deal Update! – Professor at New York University – where Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez allegedly received a college “education” – Ian Bremmer issued a tweet that caught my highly-trained eye yesterday:
ian bremmer ✔ @ianbremmer Miles of high-speed rail track in operation as of Jan 2019
China 19K Japan 2K Spain 1.77K France 1.75K Germany 976 Italy 557 S Korea 551 US 457 (Are You Kidding Me) Turkey 369 Morocco 124
UIC Worldwide Railway Org
1,221 8:17 AM - Feb 21, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy 719 people are talking about this Bremmer is probably a huge fan of the socialist fantasy that the Green New Deal and its plan to replace the miracle of air travel with the popular 19th century mode of transportation represents, and he no doubt thinks those numbers are somehow impressive. But they would only be impressive to someone who has no knowledge of the actual history of high-speed rail and how ridiculously expensive it is to build and operate.
We’ve already seen the example of California having to cancel most of Jerry Brown’s great high-speed rail boondoggle as the original $29 billion cost estimate climbed well north of $100 billion with no end in sight. Yet, despite that clear object lesson, AOC and her fellow socialist Democrats would have us believe that we can just slap down hundreds of thousands of miles of high speed rail all over our country and make those pesky airplanes obsolete as a result, and do it all in a span of a mere decade.
Look again at Bremmer’s numbers: If you do the math and add them up (something AOC is likely incapable of doing) you’ll see that they total to a little over 27,000 miles. Globally. Worldwide.
Again, that number might seem impressive to someone who, like AOC, has no understanding of the history of high speed rail. It becomes less impressive when one understands that the first such rail line was completed and put into operation in …wait for it…1964, just after Lyndon Johnson became president.
That’s right: In 55 years, the entire world has laid just 27,000 miles of high speed rail. For those who are math-challenged, that comes out to right at a paltry 500 miles per year, and no, I did not leave out a zero.
Oh.
But it gets even less impressive than that. The first successful test of a “high speed” electric rail system took place in … are you sitting down? … 1903, when an electric rail car designed by Siemens & Halske crossed a speed of over 200 kmph. That’s right: The “high-speed” rail technology has been around for 116 years, and in all that time, across the entirety of Planet Earth, just 27,000 miles of such rail has been successfully completed, and 19,000 of those miles were built by the one of the most brutal and heinous communist regimes in world history.
As unimpressive as all that history is, even less impressive is just how “fast” these high-speed rail trains are able to run. The fastest in the world, the “maglev train service began operating in 2004 with trains reaching a top speed of 431 km/h (268 mph), and remains the fastest high-speed service in the world.”
Oh.
That’s the fastest, mind you. The standard for “high-speed” rail is that “new lines in excess of 250 kilometres per hour (160 mph) and existing lines in excess of 200 kilometres per hour (120 mph) are widely considered to be high-speed.”
Oh.
Meanwhile, your standard airliner operates at speeds of 400-500 mph, double and triple the average “high-speed” rail system. Plus, unless you’re on Southwest or just had bad luck, most flights go straight from departure to your final destination with no stops, or no more than one. If you read the fine print of the “Green New Deal” you’ll see that the socialists’ plan is for the transportation system to be “accessible to all”, meaning those “high speed” trains are going to be stopping in every city, town, village and convenience store along the way.
Oh.
So, if AOC and her compatriots have their way, all those quick weekend jaunts to Vegas some of you have been taking will become week-long, tiresome journeys. All you Texas Aggie fans who love to fly out on Fridays to take in your football team’s Saturday games with South Carolina and Alabama, forget it. The nation’s tourism business will die a very quick and ugly death. No more Disney World. No more Broadway. No more fun, no more joy, because the first job of socialism is to do away with fun and joy, after all. Then it all goes downhill from there.
Oh.
I hope you have enjoyed today’s little walk through “high-speed” rail history, which will also become your future if AOC and the rest of the Democrat commies get their way.
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Guard,: OK smellitt,bend over and spread em
Smollitt: OK, can we do this again tomorrow?
Lie and deny is the Bill Clinton motto.
If dumping the dim means another liberal takes over, virtue signal and dump them like Al Franken.
If they are in a NJ Senate race against a Republican, not only us run of the mill corruption ok, sex with under age gets a pass too.
Excellent post.
Must read every word.
Especially about “high speed rail”.
The universe contains a trillion galaxies and each of those galaxies averages 200 billion stars. That’s 200 billion trillion stars in the observable universe.
And with all the planets we’ve been finding, it seems logical to assume that there is a lot of life out there, and some of that life is bound to be sentient.
But of all the sentient creatures in all those 200 billion trillion stars, I’d venture to say that nowhere will you find a sentient being as stupid as a democrat.
Nowhere.
And Occacional Cortex is the most stupid democrat of them all. She is the Great Stupid One, Queen of Stupidity in the entire Observable Universe.
Don’t forget...many miles/kilometers of those rail systems are government subsidized to offset their losses.
Oh, that’s right...that’s AOC’s ultimate goal...gubment run trains.
Never mind.
I can fly from 3 convenient Bay Area airports to 4 convenient LA airports in an hour for as low as $49 (with proper planning).
Yeah, but you didn’t add in the time for TSA security checks.
All it will take on the train to nowhere is one terrorist threat and there will be security there too. And how exactly do you protect 119 miles (Yes, that is all that it is) of track against terrorist sabotage? And can the train get me from Madera (where?) to Bakersfield (where?) for $49? I doubt it. But it really doesn’t matter because I don’t want to go to either of those places anyway.
Just think how great it would have been if they had sunk all that money into existing or new airports.
AOC explained the left’s approach as well as anyone: It doesn’t matter if I’m “factually right” as long as I am “morally right”.
The Smollett attack will be a “fact” used in the 2020 election. Even if it didn’t happen, it represents so many other attacks on minorities that we “know” happen all the time (we “know” without evidence because we are “morally right”)
T-Bone isn’t a problem for Booker for the same reason. Even though he lied about T-Bone, he was “morally right”.
Dems may find a better term than “morally right”, but the fact is that “facts don’t matter” to them.
The Smollett attack will be a “fact” used in the 2020 election.
In fact, I think Trump will use it first.
I can hear Trump praising the police now, those wonderful wonderful police who do a good job of protecting us. Trump likes to give praise for doing the right thing. It won’t be an issue of gay rights.
Well, it doesn’t hurt that the FBI arrested a far-right, gun-toting Coast Guard lieutenant - one they’ve had an eye on for some time, replete with a hit list targeting every high-profile leftie, to distract from the Blackface twins, the chief law enforcement racist, Smell-it and the lying media. Pure coincidence, I’m sure; after all, it is the FBI, the premier law enforcement agency in the world... (I just threw up in my mouth.)
The biggest hoax is Barack Obama.
Bill Clinton set the standard for Democrats caught behaving badly: “Deny, deny, deny.” Of course, that requires lying, but the object is to keep your job. Democrats and Muslims have much the same attitude toward lying.
“I did not have fraudulent relations with those MAGA Nigerians.”
Worked for Slick
“Jussie Smollett and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez – Keeping Hoax Alive”
Future democrat big shots,
excellent
That’s what I’m afraid of...
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