The American Left has finally run off the rails. From Hillary Clinton to George Soros all the way down to college students, there is an insanity which has been fostered by our current president, for whom we can thank for his health insurance solution:
Associated Press:
Premiums will go up sharply next year under President Barack Obama's health care law, and many consumers will be down to just one insurer, the administration confirmed Monday...You hear that sound? It's the flushing of Obama's legacy, and he hasn't even left office yet.
Before taxpayer-provided subsidies, premiums for a midlevel benchmark plan will increase an average of 25 percent across the 39 states served by the federally run online market, according to a report from the Department of Health and Human Services. Some states will see much bigger jumps, others less.
Moreover, about 1 in 5 consumers will have plans only from a single insurer to pick from, after major national carriers such as UnitedHealth Group, Humana and Aetna scaled back their roles.
...Sign-up season starts Nov. 1, about a week before national elections...
No worries though. The political binaries have decided our next emperor will either be Caligula or Nixon.
Speaking of the Democratic Party's Nixon...
Daily Mail:
Hillary Clinton’s campaign knew about at least one of Donald Trump’s derogatory statements about ex-Miss Universe Alicia Machado’s weight gain nine months before the Democrat threw a spotlight on them at the first presidential race.Don't you wonder how much Clinton paid Machado?
An opposition research file on Trump that was compiled for Clinton’s campaign last year includes a reference to the Venezuelan-born beauty queen, an email stolen from John Podesta’s account revealed.
Mind you, this doesn't excuse what happened. Trump was hard on Machado, and beauty pageants are sexist by nature. But put aside the notion that Machado was somehow hurt by what happened. She walked into it, probably looking for the fame and fortune she eventually got from it. And many years later, when the Clinton campaign caught wind of her story, Machado was happy to jump on board for another 15 minutes of fame.
There is plenty of "deplorable" for all the parties involved in this story.
And on to the next Wikileaks story...
Breitbart:
A March 2016 email published Monday by the organization Wikileaks reveals that George Soros, in anticipation of a meeting with Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, requested Podesta read a memo accusing President Barack Obama of emboldening radical Islam in Malaysia in order to get the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) passed.What makes this fascinating is how much trouble to which Clinton's campaign goes in order to handle George Soros. It is also interesting to see that Soros is actually concerned about how Obama tried to appease a leader who supported radical Islamists.
Podesta received an email in March 2016 from Soros spokesperson Michael Vachon. “I have attached a memo on TPP and Malaysia, as it may come up when you see George and Alex [Soros, George’s son],” he writes. “In general I think George is more interested in talking about policy than the campaign per se, though I can’t imagine you won’t spend some time on politics.”
Podesta later forwards the attached memo in question to another Clinton campaign official. Subsequent emails seem to indicate Podesta met George and Alex Soros for dinner on March 15 of this year.
The attached memo, titled “The TPP and Malaysia’s Corruption Crisis,” argues that President Obama has wrongfully chosen to support the government of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, accused of a variety of outrageous abuses of power and responsible for the dynamic growth of radical Islam in the southeast Asian nation.
The memo appears to have been authored by John Pang, a board member at Soros’ Open Society Foundation. Pang writes that Najib is “a poster boy for the 21st century kleptocracy” who has used “a racial supremacist ideology that is collapsing under the weight of corruption” to perpetuate himself in power. Najib, he argues, has created “a Malay-Islamic state in which Sunni Islam’s supremacy is indivisible from the political and legal supremacy of the Malay race.” The result is a country in which “1 in 10 Muslims there had favorable views of ISIS and that a 53% majority were in favor of implementing Hudud, the Islamic penal code.”
That said, this doesn't tell us anything we didn't already know about how sycophantic Podesta can be, or how inept Obama is.
But let us move on to what others on the Left are doing...
Heatstreet:
Left-wing students at the University of California, Berkeley are protesting again. This time, however, these students are calling for “safe spaces” for transgendered people, as well as “spaces of color” at the University (which they already have).
The protesters are also harassing white students trying to study, barring their path across a key bridge while allowing students of color safe passage.
The protest, which began last Friday, blocked Berkeley’s Sather Gate, disrupted studying students in the Student Union, and blocked traffic at the intersection of Telegraph and Bancroft in front of campus.
In video of the protest, the so-called anti-racism protesters were seen denying passage across the bridge to white students — shouting “go around” — while happily allowing students of color to pass through.
So what exactly is a "safe space"? Let's go to that source of all modern information, Wikipedia:
In educational institutions, safe-space (or safe space), safer-space, and positive space originally were terms used to indicate that a teacher, educational institution or student body does not tolerate anti-LGBT violence, harassment or hate speech, thereby creating a safe place for all lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students. The term safe space has been extended to refer to a space for individuals who are marginalized to come together to communicate regarding their experiences with marginalization, typically on a university campus. It has been criticized for being contrary to freedom of speech.In other words, this is a place where insecure people can go to reinforce their own insecurity. they don't learn how to take any form of criticism by this, and in fact they learn that criticism is a bad thing.
This isn't to suggest there is anything wrong with homosexuality or anything else related to the LGBT movement. But I also believe that NOBODY can be above criticism for any reason (even if the reason is wrong or even hateful). Freedom of speech is far more important than any individual's right to feel good about themselves. If you want to feel good about yourself, then do it. Don't come crying to me about how bad you have it, especially not if you're in college, where real life doesn't seem to intrude upon these institutions of higher babysitting.
Before you start throwing nasty labels on me, consider this: When the haters start talking about you or others, at least you know who and what they are. If you try to shut them up, they will just be forced to be nice to your face, even as they scheme against you behind your back. So let the idiots say what is on their mind. You will have a much more accurate view of reality.
For example, take these UC-Berkeley protesters. By allowing them their freedom of speech, we have learned the following about them:
1. They are racist. Call it reverse racism if you prefer, but I don't. They are nothing more than the modern day version of the KKK, but with preference to darker skin colors. What would you call denying rights to white people for the sake of colored people?Don't let these kids fool you. Freedom of speech is more important than what these children want.
2. They are clearly anti-capitalist.
3. They are against freedom of speech for everyone but specific minority groups. (This is what safe spaces are: Places where freedom of speech is denied for specific reasons.)
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