First up, this is usually the time where I extend for six more months. I'll make that decision on Saturday, sorry. I have a number of things to take care of tomorrow (Rebecca's hinted at one) and I'll get that accomplished before deciding what happens next.
It's been a long 14 plus years already and I've posted daily ever since this site started. I am tired. Mainly, though, I just want to get through tomorrow before deciding if I'm doing this site for six more months.
Longterm community members know that I expected this to be only for a few years and to be done after the 2008 election.
Turning to e-mails, a reader writes the public account that he's a Trump supporter and wonders if I can find anything to praise about President Donald Trump?
Sure. Here's one: America's ugly immigration response has been exposed. La Raza and others tried, while Barack Obama was in the White House, to raise the issue and get it treated seriously; however, the press and partisans covered for Barack. Among Latino activists, he was the Deporter In Chief. He more than earned that title.
And, yes, he put immigrants in cages.
It took public offense/distaste for Donald Trump for America's ugly immigrant response to get serious attention and widespread condemnation.
The same reader asked about the 'ban' on Donald by the networks -- ABC, CBS, MSNBC and NBC -- today?
I think that's ridiculous -- the ban. I wouldn't have watched but I don't ever watch that nonsense. However, these same networks deem it news worthy when other people are president.
They didn't air him because they don't like him.
Now they're going to whine that people call them biased. Well they are biased.
I don't like Donald. That predates his presidency and he knows I don't like him. He probably doesn't like me either -- and that's fine.
But I have tried to be fair to him here -- fair to him as a president.
I do not believe he is the root of all problems and, in fact, his being president shines a light on some very awful US policies that have long been in place.
What happens next?
If he's not re-elected, I bet we will stop caring about immigration, for example.
It is this moment's Iraq War and Democratic activists have seized upon it to try to drive elections. They did the same with the Iraq War.
That would be the ongoing Iraq War -- the one they did nothing to protest or end after Barack became president.
For eight years, they didn't give a s**t. You had ridiculous idiots like Pam Spaulding declaring long before 2012 that, whatever he did, Barack had to be supported for president in 2012 or it would be racism.
People like her and Laura Flanders insisted in the 2008 primaries that they would hold Barack accountable -- just not now. He needed to get the nomination. Once he did, they insisted, they would make demands on him.
Then came the general election where they did nothing.
But, they insisted, if he got elected, the gloves were off.
He got elected.
The gloves never came off.
Barack lied and got away with it. He made deals with terrorists and got away with it. The League of Righteous killed Americans and were in US custody, for example. Instead of putting them on trial, Barack made a deal with the terrorist organization where he released their imprisoned leaders and they released three (eventually four) British corpses and one living British citizen.
That's really not a deal he should have made and it only got a tiny moment of attention from the press. But no one interviewing him ever made him go on the record about this deal.
He deported more immigrants than any president before. He put them in cages. He wasn't forced to answer for it.
So when the next Democratic Party president is in the White House, the groups whining about immigration now we'll go back to being silent.
They don't really care about the issue. They only care about making it into an issue that they can use in elections.
The Iraq War? Democrats controlled nothing. But Nancy Pelosi said, "Give us one house in Congress and we'll end the war." America, to everyone's shock -- including Nancy's -- gave them both houses of Congress in that election (2006 mid-term).
Did they end the war?
No.
The war gave them a huge turnout and great results.
The Iraq War, they realized, could deliver them the White House in 2008. So they let it run along.
And they stopped pretending to care once Barack was in office.
The Democratic politicians stopped pretending to care and their mouthpieces in the media stopped pretending.
Alyssa Milano is a whore. She doesn't call out the wars now. She pretends to care about immigrants but watch a Democrat take control of the White House and she'll fall silent again.
She's a whore.
Her whole point it to elect Democrats.
It's not to have an acting career because she can't act. And that face is aging so badly because it's a kid's face, not a woman's, and as the age piles up on it, she gets uglier and uglier.
She's a whore and all she does is whore.
These 'activists' were silent on sexism in 2008. It didn't matter when their goal was to elect Barack. But, in 2016, they were suddenly all on board with Hillary and suddenly it mattered.
They have no core, they have no ethics. They pretend to care about something when that issue can be used.
But they don't work on real issues because they're whores.
Right now, you're seeing so many people pretending to care. If Donald loses in 2020, watch how quickly those 'caring' whores scurry for cover and ignore reality.
Occupy Wall Street wasn't an issue for them because Barack was in the White House. If Occupy happened today, you better believe the Debra Messings would be Tweeting about it non-stop.
Susan Sarandon is not a whore. She has a core and she has ethics. Too many others don't and part of the reason they attack her to this day is because they know they're hypocrites. They can't stand her because she is the real deal.
Susan and I do not always agree on every issue. But she does care deeply and she is committed and, unlike an Alyssa, Susan will allow that she might be wrong. If you talk to her about an issue and ask her what about X or Y, she'll consider it. If it doesn't, in her evaluation, matter, she'll stick to her guns. If it does matter, she'll take a different approach or position.
She's the real deal and anytime someone's slamming her, you'd do well to look at who it is. Are they genuine or are they just spitting out talking points for a political party?
They tear her down because they have to. She exposes them as the frauds they are and, this really scares them, she might encourage others to stand up and speak out. The 'leaders' don't want you to think, they want you to follow them -- out onto the street corner apparently where these whores can then be your pimps.
The internet -- always under attack -- was supposed to create a brave new world where people could have wide ranging exchanges, argue their points, hear what others thought.
The attacks on the internet have been rooted in the fact that the internet promoted freedom and whores don't want freedom, they've enlisted to control the debate, not expand it.