Flotsam and Jetsam - Tom Massie Still Gone

We're still seeing autopsy results from Tuesday's primary elections, not exlusively but most notably the defeat of Trump bête noire Thomas Massie. Sundance hosts President Trump Holding an Impromptu Tarmac Presser – Discussing Election Results, Elimination of Massie, Iran, Cuba and More. Steve Guest @SteveGuest, "@ScottJenningsKY doesn’t hold back on Thomas Massie’s way out the door: “Despicable, anti-Semitic, nasty, gutter politics… it needs to be condemned.” President Trump didn’t just beat Thomas Massie. He made an example out of him. Then Massie ends his career with this line about Ed Gallrein: “I had to find him in Tel Aviv.”" Brad Todd @BradOnMessage, "By the time Massie got to tonight, he’d ticked off the tax cut crowd, the gun crowd, the hard core Trumpers, evangelicals who love the Holy Land, & the GOP normies who think we shouldn’t vacate Speaker’s chair. All he had left were atheists, libertarian weirdos & never Trumpers." Ace, Thomas Massie Has No Constituency and Leaves No Legacy "In the last weeks of his doomed campaign, Tom Massie made explicit what he had previously been coy about: He was a full-blown Nazi. He invited open Hitler fans and Holocaust deniers on to the campaign trail with him, and into his home." Physics Geek @physicsgeek, "Massie votes against border control and funding ICE. People in his district overwhelming supported those things and booted his ass out. And now all the groypers are shouting TEH JOOOOZ. Ye gods, find a new schtick. We get it: You hate Jews. No need to keep beating that brown-shirted dead horse any more." The Free Bacon calls it Money Well Spent: 'Moron' Thomas Massie Joins Marjorie Taylor Greene on Ash Heap of History, "Trump's successful purge proves there is still one party that refuses to coddle its antisemites." Danny Gold @DGisSERIOUS, "Republicans lost Massie but the Dems gained a guy who said the Bondi Beach Massacre was a Zionist false flag, so it’s really sort of a wash." Quote InteractivePolls @IAPolls2022, " RACE CALL: AOC-endorsed Chris Rabb has won PA-03 Democratic Primary." Baddie @tinfoilbaddie, "I’m a huge supporter of Desantis, but if he suddenly started retweeting Candace, taking pics w/known groypers, saying things like, “Israel controls the US, my opponent is over in Tel Aviv.” I would drop my support for him. Blind idolization of any politician is stupid." Kirk @kirk_bridgers, "I live in KY4 and that is exactly what happened." TownHall's Matt Vespa finds The Replies to This Cenk Uygur Tweet About Ed Gallrein Were Brutal. Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur, "Ed Gallrein is a pathetic sock puppet for Israel. Anyone who votes for him is voting against American sovereignty." Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol, "Hey Cenk… Ed Gallrein was a Navy Seal 15 YEARS before you were an American. Please, shut the hell up." RBe @RBPundit, "Worth noting that antisemites keep winning Democrat primaries and losing Republican ones."  Leftism @LeftismForU, "A story in 4 parts." Sister Toldja at RedState hears Chris Murphy Spins a Fairy Tale About Thomas Massie’s Loss — Here’s a Reality Check Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT, "So there you have it. If you lead a campaign against powerful pedophiles, you get drummed out of the Republican Party." Will Chamberlain @willchamberlain, "The whole point is that there's nothing to blow open. The last time that Massie read names on the House floor, he defamed four random civilians who had nothing to do with Epstein other than being in a random police lineup with him. Massie was a fraud, a faker, and now he's done." Quote Gretchen Carlson @GretchenCarlson, "I’m begging @RepThomasMassie to go on the House floor asap & read all of the names in the #EpsteinFiles - you were a hero for survivors - you believed them & fought for them. Your actions were brave & heroic. Now pls blow the whole thing wide open. Thank you." The Babylon Bee, Massie Blames Defeat On Jews Of Rural Kentucky. 

Hat Hair staff, GOP Voters Are RINO Hunting. unseen1 @unseen1_unseen, "Senate gop gone come 2027 1. Tillis 2. McConnell 3. Cassidy 4. Ernst 5. Armstrong 6. Daines 7. Lummis 8. Tuberville 9. Mullin Possibly not coming back... 10. Cornyn Almost 20% of the current gop controlled senate will be replaced this year. Thats a sea change in and of itself and sonething not seen since at least 1980. Hold on. Change is coming." From Da Caller, Georgia Voters Force Runoffs In High-Stakes GOP Primaries. Shawn Fleetwood at Da Fed sees Conservative Candidates Sweep Georgia Supreme Court Elections. Ace, Republicans -- the Real Ones -- Win Big In Georgia, Sweeping the Suprme Court Races and Sending Raffensberger and His Grima Wormtounge Into Retirement. But Beege Welborn at Hat Hair frets Texas Opie Leading Both Cornyn and Paxton. PJM's Stephen Kruiser suggests Texas Soy Boy Talarico Is Giving Dems Premature Electoral Elation. NRCC, NRCC Posts Best Year-to-Date Fundraising in Committee History.Don Surber thinks Democrats are blowing it. "Taking back the House should be a gimme. It isn’t." A Larry video at Hat Hair, Newsom and Jeffries Realize They Can't Stop Trump's Plan to Crush Democrats.

Sundance at CTH is all over Cuba with AAG Todd Blanche Announces Indictment Against Raul Castro and Five Cuban Officials for 1996 Murders, President Trump Delivers Remarks Following Castro Indictment and Secretary Marco Rubio Delivers a Message to the People of Cuba. John Sexton at Hat Hair, DOJ Indicts Raul Castro for Murder. The Tectonic @thetect0nic, "Rubio delivered remarks in Spanish directly to the Cuban people tonight, hours before the DOJ announces at Miami's Freedom Tower tomorrow. The argument he made: GAESA - the military conglomerate Raúl Castro founded 30 years ago - has $18 billion in assets and controls 70% of Cuba's economy. Hotels, banks, construction, stores, even a percentage of remittances sent by Cuban families in the U.S. The regime depended on free Venezuelan oil under Chávez and Maduro. When that ended after January 3, they bought fuel for their generators and vehicles. Not for the people. "The reason you are forced to survive without electricity is not an oil blockade by America. It is because the people who control your country have plundered billions..." PJM's Sarah Anderson, Cuba Falling: These Sanctions Are Getting Mighty Personal. Enrique Alejandro @EnriAlejandroTV, "While Donald Trump is indicting Cuban communist dictator Raúl Castro, Barack Obama was attending baseball games with him in Havana." Kareem Rifai @KareemRifai, "Invoking Orwell to defend a totalitarian dictatorship and make excuses for its decades of corruption and mismanagement. Literally rolling over in his grave." Quote Ben Rhodes @brhodes "Rubio now full Orwellian: the total blockade that we have put on your country after decades of an embargo has nothing to do with the scarcity in your lives or the fact that we are intentionally starving your children."

Sundance, USMCA Development – Canadian Prime Minister will Announce New Advisory Council for USMCA/CUSMA Negotiations "Somewhere along the path to the inevitable dissolution of the USMCA trilateral trade agreement, reality will set in for Canada.  Until then, denial is the preferred course of action from Prime Minister Mark Carney.  Not since COVID-19 have we witnessed an intellectual disassociation happening over such a large sector of a population." Beege Welborn says About That Alberta Independence Petition: Rise Of Alberta @RiseOfAlberta, "BREAKING: 301,620 signatures have officially been announced for the Alberta independence petition. That is far beyond the required threshold to trigger the Alberta independence vote on October 19th. A massive day for the Alberta Independence movement."

At Fortune, Forget tariffs and the Iran oil shock—a top economist says the Fed is blind to the real inflation threat "The Fed needs to address the root cause. And that’s huge excess spending in the overall economy." Cathy Salgado at PJM on ‘Economic Fury’: U.S. Treasury Targets Iranian Exchange and Hamas Flotilla Fools.

Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes, "Spencer Pratt reveals he knows homeless NGO executives are making over $1 million dollars per year “Homeless "nonprofit" execs are raking in over $1 million a year on the homeless problem — guarantees the problem is never solved” “There's no excuse for anyone to get over $1 million to increase homelessness — Drive around LA. There is more homelessness than ever” 6 people are dying a day on the streets of Los Angeles I looked up some more of the highest paid homeless executives - Dr. Blayne Cutler, Heluna Health (Public Health Foundation Enterprises makes $680,000 - Darrell Evora, Pacific Clinics makes $635,035 - Stephanie Klasky-Gamer, LA Family Housing Corporation makes $331,195 The homeless problem will NEVER be solved as long as all these people are getting filthy rich No one getting paid $26,153.85 every 2 weeks to solve the homeless problem is going to solve the homeless problem." Capt. Ed at Hat Hair hears Laughing Bass on Homelessness: 17% Is A Passing Grade!  David Pivtorak @TheDavidPiv, "I love how every article like this is like, "Hi, I'm a disabled, transgender anchor baby whose family's existence was drain on American taxpayers. I hate children and my sexual fetish is watching homeless drug addicts writhing in their own feces on the sidewalk so I love the status quo here in LA. Anyway, please vote for the candidate that will allow me to keep pleasuring myself to the sight of living corpses on our streets." Quote Los Angeles Times @latimes ""Pratt’s loudest fans fundamentally loathe modern-day L.A., and that should chill all other Angelenos," writes The Times' columnist Gustavo Arellano. Read his latest column:" WSJ opines on Spencer for Hire, "Pratt’s campaign for L.A. mayor is creating a new vocabulary for political messaging." Twitchy, 'You Are Not Alone': Creator Behind Genius Spencer Pratt Ads Shares Latest and It's Brilliant (WATCH)

You Are Not Alone. Vote Spencer Pratt. pic.twitter.com/DdsIoVC7fK

— Gene Parmesan (@dsonoiki) May 20, 2026

Rick Moran at PJM hears ‘I Can’t Believe This Is the Field' — California Dems Reel Over Mediocre Governor Candidates. At JTN, Current polling shows Hilton and Becerra as top 2 in California governor race, "Under California law, the two highest vote getters in the June 2 primary, regardless of party affiliation, will go on to the Nov. 3 general election." Hat Hair's Duane Patterson, Honey, I Shrunk The California High-Speed Rail...Again. Even VodkaPundit at PJM is amazed I'm Sorry, but California Is HOW Deep in the Hole?  Insty, IF THIS FLIES, CAN WE REQUIRE 4 HOURS OF BASIC ECONOMICS AND CIVICS BEFORE PEOPLE CAN REGISTER TO VOTE? Bill Would Mandate 4-Hour Course for Those Moving to California Who Own Guns.

Matt Margolis at Substack wonders How Much Longer Can Graham Platner's Senate Campaign Survive? Capt. Ed, More From the Platner Files: Ridiculing Wounded Troops? Don Surber explains Why Democrats embrace Graham “Cracker” Platner "“Vote for the Nazi: It’s important” isn’t a sane campaign slogan." Capt. Ed again, Texas Dem: Let's Put All 'Zionists' in Camps – And Castrate Them! Jared Moskowitz @JaredEMoskowitz, "First current political candidate suggests concentration camps for American Jews. This should be national news! National Democratic leaders must call this out immediately." Quote Michael Karlis @MichaelKarlis, "TX-35 Democratic candidate Maureen Galindo says she will convert ICE detention center in Karnes County into an internment camp for "American Zionists." "It will also be a castration processing center for pedophiles, which will probably be most of the Zionists," she added." Ace is amazed that the Democrat Who Won the Most Votes for the Primary for Texas' 35th District Wants to Create Concentration Camps for "Zionists" and Forcibly Castrate Them. "That's not an exaggeration, that's her policy program as announced on her Instagram page." From the Free Bacon, JB Pritzker Admin Depicts White People, Cops as Mosquitoes in Microaggression Training That Rails Against 'Color Blindness.' Erick Erickson @EWErickson, "The Democrats have just nominated for Governor the woman who presided over the first burning of Atlanta since the Civl War, whose own constituents turned on her so much that she could not run for re-election as Mayor of Atlanta. Law and order is going to be a big issue now." Phil Holloway @PhilHollowayEsq, "Keisha bailed out on running for reelection as Atlanta mayor because she was despised by Atlantans for letting the city burn in 2020 She fled to a job in the Biden White House The general election for GA Governor is going to be a reckoning for what she did to Atlanta." Daily Wire @realDailyWire, "Not surprisingly, Ohio Dem tries to imply @lukerosiak's fraud investigation is RACIST: DEM: "For you to imply the racist information...You're implying that most of the fraud is happening in communities of color." LR: "I'm not implying it. I'm stating it."" Senator Jim Banks @SenatorBanks, "Sen Feinstein (D-CA) had a Chinese spy in her office. Gov Cuomo & Lt Gov Hochul (D-NY) had a Chinese spy in their admin. Rep Khanna (D-CA) had a Chinese spy volunteer. Rep Swalwell (D-CA) dated a Chinese spy. Mayor Wang (D-CA) is a Chinese spy. Democrats have a big problem."

John Sexton hears Mamdani is a Socialist Demagogue Relying on People's Ignorance. Driscoll at Insty, AND NOW, A FIRESIDE CHAT FROM MAYOR FRANKLIN DELANO MAMDANI: Coddled Affluent Professional @feelsdesperate, "Mamdani is unlocking levels of performative narcissism from a municipal politician that were previously unthinkable."

Ben Smith at RedState reports on how Tim Kaine Tried to Flush Hung Cao - Then the Navy’s Top Admiral Clogged the Narrative. 

Sundance reports DOJ Indicts U.S Attorney Who Supported Jack Smith Case Against President Trump – Stealing Classified Documents Related to Mar-a-Lago Case. "Last weekend former FBI Director James Comey said there were multiple officials remaining within the DOJ and FBI who were actively working to continue the weaponization of the agencies against President Donald Trump. When asked about it earlier today, President Trump said Acting AG Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel would root them out and deal with the issue. Hours later the Dept of Justice released and indictment {SEE HERE} against Managing Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Fort Pierce Branch, Carmen M. Lineberger. Asst USAO Lineberger was caught downloading classified files from the Jack Smith case to her personal email and labeling them as recipes so she could leak them to Lawfare resistance members." Mark Tapscott at Insty, UH-OH! WATCHDOG CAUGHT IN FLAGRANT FOIA VIOLATION: Hans Bader offers an illuminating illustration of how the Council on Inspectors General for Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE) flagrantly violated the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The violations by CIGIE — representing the 72 statutory internal government watchdogs — are so obvious that they illustrate why no federal employee has ever gone to jail for violating the FOIA. Also, WHAT’S UP AT CIA?, "A CIA veteran tells a Senate committee that political leaders in the agency reversed the draft assessment that Covid was leaked from China’s Wuhan lab. But just before the hearing opens, the CIA’s Director of Public Affairs releases a bruising condemnation of the proceedings. Apologies demanded, but not given. Silence from the White House and CIA chief John Ratcliffe. My latest Washington Stand post explores the behind-the-scenes eruption that seems to be brewing." At Althouse, Meade: "Super bloggable, no?" Me: "trying to find an inroad/the photo is overwhelming emotionally", "That's the text conversation here in Meadhouse after I send this to Meade:"

Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_, "As @BenBergquam is embedded with ICE and Florida Highway Patrol, an illegal alien driving a van is arrested. As that arrest is taking place, a car crash happens next to them. Ben reports that one of the drivers involved in that crash also ended up being an illegal alien." Quote "Ben Bergquam - Real America’s Voice (RAV-TV) News @BenBergquam, "Crazy scene on our Florida 287(g) Highway Patrol / ICE operation. As we’re picking up one illegal another illegal crashes right next to us. The truth is most Americans can’t comprehend how many illegals are in our country. Thank God, ICE and America First states like Florida are fighting to fix it!" AP whines Trump administration plans to admit more white South Africans as refugees this year.

Ace laughs maniacally, No Longer Propped Up by the American Taxpayer, Communist Former-State Media NPR Will Cut 300 Jobs, "Oh no!" PJM's Erick Florack asks The New York Times: What 'Journalistic Standards? The Mahvelous Margot Cleveland at Da Fed hopes Covid Dissenter Alex Berenson’s Free Speech Victory Might Be The First Of Many. PJM's Matt Margolis enjoys how Gutfeld Torches Colbert’s Legacy on the Way Out the Door.

John Sexton, Harvard Votes to Put an End to Easy A's. Steven Pinker @sapinker, "Breaking news: Harvard faculty votes to cap the number of A's awarded in course grades, a big step in combatting the grade inflation that has been dumbing down our courses, conveying the wrong message to students, and making universities a national laughingstock." From Campus Reform, Jewish students flee campuses citing antisemitism, transfer to Yeshiva University. From CJ, The “Pipeline” Problem That Medical Schools Don’t Want to Discuss. "Demographic disparities in medical and scientific knowledge show up long before admissions time. DEI manipulation at the end of the process doesn’t solve the problem."

 Driscoll cites BRIDGET PHETASY: We’re All Alex Jones Now. "There’s a famous joke that gets at where we suddenly find ourselves: A JFK conspiracy theorist dies and goes to heaven. At the Pearly Gates, God greets him. “Welcome. You are permitted to ask me one question, which I will answer truthfully.” The man asks, “Who really shot Kennedy?” God replies, “Lee Harvey Oswald shot him from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository. There were no accomplices. He acted alone.” The man pauses. “Shit. This goes higher up than I thought.”..."

Still plenty left at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 05.20.2026. The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: Writing Until Dawn up and garnering clicks at The Other McCain.

Circum Election Obamacare Schadenfreude

This collection of Obamacare Schadenfreude covers a time span both before and after the election, so some (in fact many) of the articles need to be considered with that seismic shock in mind. Of course, with the election of the Donald Trump, and the retention of both houses of Congress by the Republicans, the Pubs have a real mandate for revisiting Obamacare.  Health Care Industry Braces For Repeal Of Obamacare. Repeal and replace is the mantra but the sometimes sensible Megan McArdle has a different idea (brought to you via Wombat-sochos "In The Mailbox: 11.09.16"): Repeal Would Be Even Worse Than Obamacare

I have no doubt that Republicans would like to vote for something they can call “repealing Obamacare.” The problem is that repealing Obamacare will involve getting rid of two provisions that are really, really popular: “guaranteed issue” (insurers can’t refuse to sell insurance to someone because of their health status) and “community rating” (insurers can’t agree to sell a policy to some undesirable customer for a million dollars a year; the company has to sell to everyone in a given age group at the same price).

These two provisions are consistently popular with voters across the spectrum. Unfortunately, they tend to send health insurance markets into what’s known as a “death spiral”: People know they can always buy insurance if they get sick, so a lot of them don’t buy insurance until they get sick. Because the sick people are really expensive to cover, insurers have to raise the price of the insurance, which means that the healthiest people left in the pool drop their insurance, which means the price of the insurance goes up. … After a few rounds of this, everyone has a guaranteed right to buy insurance -- but the sticker price is astronomical.

Obamacare is built to counter this problem -- with subsidies to bring down the price for many Americans, with a mandate for individuals to buy insurance or face tax penalties, with rules on enrollment timing to complicate "gaming the system." These are the unpopular parts of Obamacare.

Repeal will involve getting rid of the unpopular bits. But it will also involve getting rid of the popular bits. Republicans will be under enormous pressure to repeal just the unpopular parts, which would, of course, make the individual market even more dysfunctional than it is now. I wish good luck to President Trump or to any member of Congress who explains to voters that if they want the popular parts, they need the unpopular parts too. Believe me, I’ve tried.
. . .
So I am skeptical that Obamacare will be repealed immediately. What might Republicans do instead?

The most obvious answer is: Wait for it to die a natural death. While Trump will not be pushing particularly hard for repeal, he will probably not be pushing to save Obamacare either. There will be no special deals for insurers who stick with the exchanges. His Department of Health and Human Services is not going to have a crack team devoted to coming up with ingenious regulatory tricks and dodgy funding mechanisms to make the exchanges work. Obamacare’s market structure is so deeply flawed that even benign neglect will probably prove fatal in fairly short order.

That's part of the problem with creating a new mandate. You create new government clients who, not shockingly, want someone else, somewhere (fat cats on Wall Street usually) to pay the bulk of the costs. I'm very pessimistic about the chances for completely repealing and replacing the system with a more rationale system, but Donald could accelerate the decline by repealing the executive orders that supported the law. Megan is similarly pessimistic about tweaking the existing law: A ‘Tweak’ to Fix Obamacare? That’s a Red Flag

Election 2016: it all started with Obamacare. It started and stayed unpopular, and yes, it fed the discontent that led to Trump. ObamaCare’s Chickens Come Home to Roost, and roost they did. Obamacare, the Last Straw. Did it cost Hillary the election? In a close finish, everything mattered.

So how has the law been faring lately? Here’s how the impending ObamaCare disaster affects you, Inside the Affordable Care Act’s Arizona Meltdown - Nearly every county in the state now has only one insurer selling plans through the health-care law’s exchange, and premiums are soaring. Trump took Arizona.

Providers continue to drop out in droves. With insurers pulling out of markets, some Obamacare users "really nervous" and Number of doctors participating in Obamacare plummets nearly 20%. More Megan: Anthem Threat Highlights Obamacare’s Big Test. Aetna exec sees ACA risk-adjustment death spiral If only someone would have warned them!

Prices continue to spiral, pushing people out: These Patients Are Covered by Obamacare But Can’t Afford Treatment,  CNN: ObamaCare stinks for the middle class, you know,  About that misleading 85% factoid about Obamacare subsidies, Obamacare Victims Revolt: ‘We Don’t have that Kind of Money’, Middle-Income Americans Take The Biggest Hit With Obamacare, and  Obamacare enrollee takes out 2nd mortgage to cover cost of his plan:

As Obamacare supporters would tell it, John is one of Obamcare’s success stories, i.e. he’s one of the millions of people now getting “high-quality, affordable” insurance on the exchange. But it’s doubtful that John would see it that way. Maybe initially he would have but once he was taking out a new mortgage to cover the cost of his mandatory insurance plan with $12,000 deductible, I sort of doubt it.

4 Reasons Obamacare Is Also A Lemon For People With Pre-Existing Conditions

1. Limited Access to Doctors
2. Restrictions on Drug Coverage
3. High Deductibles and Co-Pays
4. Loss of State High-Risk Pools

 Disaster averted: Tim Kaine said “Hillary Will Modify Obamacare To Include Gun-Addiction Therapy” Who put Tim Kaine and Hillary Clinton in charge of creating new mental illnesses to put on their political opponents?

Kaine and Unable at Clinton.com

A little cleanup in the email scandal aisle before we get on to the VP pick: Exclusive: Hillary Clinton exchanged top secret emails on her private server with three aides

Hillary Clinton exchanged nearly two-dozen top secret emails from her unsecured, private server with three senior aides, the State Department revealed in documents released to VICE News late Friday.

The 22 emails were sent and received by Clinton in 2011 and 2012. Clinton discussed classified information with her deputy chief of staff, Jacob Sullivan, her chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, and Deputy Secretary of State William Burns. A majority of the top secret emails are email chains between Sullivan and Clinton.

This is the first time the State Department has revealed the identities of the officials who exchanged classified information with Clinton through her private email server.

One of the top secret emails from 2012 was described by the State Department as an "email chain originating with email from a State Department official to multiple State Department officials, concluding with message to Jacob Sullivan from Secretary Clinton." Another from the same year was an "email from a State Department official to multiple State Department officials, forwarded by Jacob Sullivan to Secretary Clinton and Cheryl Mills." Only one classified email was exchanged with Burns. State described that one as an "email from a State Department official to multiple State Department officials, forwarded by Jacob Sullivan to Secretary Clinton, Cheryl Mills, and William Bums."

The only thing shocking to me was that she carried out State Dept. business at all. I figured she'd delegate all that icky stuff out to Huma or some intern while she stuffed the coffers of the Clinton Foundation.

Now, onto Kaine: NYT: Hillary picked Kaine to narrow gap with white males … and due to her “responsibility gene” If she has a responsibility gene, it's recessive and heterozygous. And, yeah, it's pretty obvious part of the Kaine strategy is to take white men off their guard. Don't be fooled! According to the WaPo Kaine’s VP pick greeted by blowback from progressive groups. Althouse: Tim Kaine: "I’ll enforce the death penalty as governor and I’m against same-sex marriage." But back in that era, Obama and Hillary said the same things. Michael Moore on Kaine Pick: Progressives Will ‘Stay Home’ Have another doughnut, pal. Instapundit shouts: YOU DON’T HAVE TO FALL IN LOVE, YOU JUST HAVE TO FALL IN LINE: Clinton VP pick could face liberal ire.

On the other hand, other than his last name not being Warren or Sanders, I don’t know what the left is losing much sleep over:

Guccifer 2.0 is the gift that keeps on giving: Wikileaks: DNC Fretted Over Proposed POTUS Host’s Ties to Sex Offender Jeffrey Epstein

The vetting correspondence highlights a February 2016 Miami Herald article, which claims federal prosecutors were “cowed by Epstein’s high powered attorneys, including Roy Black.” It goes on to say that that was part of the reason the billionaire sex offender received an extraordinarily lenient sentence despite reportedly abusing at least 34 underage girls.

DNC APPROVED PLANTING SATIRICAL CRAIGSLIST AD TO MOCK TRUMP, LEAKED EMAILS SHOW - Fictitious job listing says Trump "may greet you with a kiss on the lips or grope you under the meeting table" But no dirty tricks from the left. But, we can count on the press to police them, right? Leaked emails reveal Politico reporter made ‘agreement’ to send advanced Clinton story to DNC:

An influential reporter at Politico made an apparent “agreement” with the Democratic National Committee to let it review a story about Hillary Clinton’s fundraising machine before it was submitted to his editors, leaked emails published by WikiLeaks on Friday revealed.

Reporter Kenneth Vogel sent an advanced copy of his story to DNC national press secretary Mark Paustenbach in late April.

The email’s subject line read: “per agreement … any thoughts appreciated.”

Maggies Farm: Press conspired with DNC and Clinton to destroy Sanders. Bernie Sanders Campaign Chief Says Someone Must Be 'Accountable' for What DNC Emails Show Accountability? You want accountability? Maybe you should have thought about that before you endorsed her. One Bernie Bro finds out the hard way: VIDEO: Protester shouting ‘DNC leak!’ ejected from Hillary rally

Via Instapundit: TWO FORECASTS for the Democratic Convention.

In many ways I expect the Democratic National Convention to be more of the same. Oh, I doubt that the convention will blazon the Clinton name larger than the American flag across the stage as she speaks. But you can expect her to paint a republic in crisis, one where women are practically indentured servants of their male managers, where the police routinely use civilians for target practice, and of course, where Republicans roam among us, tirelessly impoverishing the poor and oppressing the oppressed. Who can save us now? Only one person, of course. It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s — HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON!
That case will, of course, be a lot more challenging to make given that Barack Obama has been president for eight years — which is why to hear Democrats talk, you’d often think that George W. Bush was just completing his fourth term in office. So they will spend the week pinning America’s flaws on Republicans.

So it’s business as usual, then.

Evidence of brain damage? Hillary Clinton's strange convulsions during interview - tries to play it off.



Pretty odd, but I think it's just a startle response.

That was quick! Linked at Pirate's Cove in The Fine 15 of this week's "Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup" and links. Thanks, Teach!

Kaine Chosen for Henchman at Clinton.com

Or maybe that should be "henchperson"?

As Ashe Schow speculated yesterday (or was it the day before), Hillary has confirmed that she's chosen Tim Kaine, former governor of Virginia, to be her running mate, generating loads of excitement. Ace: Hillary Picks Tim Kaine as Her Running Mate, for Some Reason. Althouse: I don't know if I really need to put up a post for this, because it's very boring... ... but Hillary picked Kaine. Instapundit shouts: WHAT, YOU THOUGHT HILLARY WOULD CHOOSE A RUNNING MATE WHO WASN’T CORRUPT? Kaine accepted clothes, vacation as gifts. Pretty much like his successor, Bob McDonnell, the Republican governor of Virginia who was indicted, tried and convicted by the Obama Justice Department, only to have the conviction overturned by the Supreme Court, who basically said what he did was tawdry, but necessarily against the law. Donald Trump has already made the link: Donald Trump Compares ‘Ethically Challenged’ Tim Kaine to Bob McDonnell

It looks like Hillary Clinton had reservations about choosing Elizabeth Warren as her running mate.

— Aleister (@AmericanGlob) July 23, 2016

In the Guccifer 2.0 emails hacked from the DNC we find Leaked DNC Emails Reveal Discussions About Attacking Bernie Sanders’ Religion. Remember, Hillary's team also brought up Obama's supposed Kenyan origin long before the Republicans.

In an email dated May 5, DNC CFO Brad Marshall apparently floats the idea of trying to raise Sanders’ potential atheism. The email does not mention Sanders by name. The email says, “It might may no difference, but for KY and WVA can we get someone to ask his belief. Does he believe in a God. He had skated on saying he has a Jewish heritage. I think I read he is an atheist. This could make several points difference with my peeps. My Southern Baptist peeps would draw a big difference between a Jew and an atheist.”

In his defense, Communists are supposed to be atheists.

In case you were wondering where Hillary stood when it comes to police

Word comes that Hillary Clinton has invited Michael Brown’s mother Lesley McSpadden to speak at the DNC Convention next week. McSpadden is the mother of Michael Brown. Brown was killed by Officer Darren Wilson after Brown refused a lawful police order, assaulted Wilson and then tried to take Wilson’s weapon, which was discharged in the police cruiser. Brown was killed as he charged Wilson, again refusing to obey Wilson’s lawful orders. The facts can be reviewed in the video here. Michael Brown, as did Alton Sterling, brought on his own demise. Subsequently, McSpadden got into a fight over the sale of Michael Brown merchandise. Brown’s family has filed suit against Ferguson and Darren Wilson. Despite having done nothing wrong, Wilson remains in hiding to this day because of death threats.

I wasn't really wondering where Hillary stands when it comes to police; like Bonnie and Clyde going for banks because that's where the money is (yeah, I know that was Willie Sutton), Hillary and Bill go where the votes (and money) are. Right now, that means trashing the police for the black vote. When it comes to November, I expect her to "triangulate" and try to split the difference, and hope the SEIU can enforce discipline on the police.

A Sanders voter makes the case for anybody but Hillary: I (was a lifer) am a Dem and I’m Voting for Trump. Let’s talk about it… #DemExit

Ivanka Trump in $138 dress

Ivanka Trump wore a $138 dress at RNC — and you can buy it

Unlike so many politicians and their families, who wear outrageously expensive clothes when they give speeches, Ivanka wore a simple pink sheath dress that cost $138. It's from her own fashion line, and after her speech she tweeted out a link for people to purchase the dress.

I get the obvious angle of Ivanka using her speech as a way to enrich herself. On some level I find it to be a cheap stunt, but on another level I'm just fine with this.

I find it difficult to find nice work clothes, and always end up seeing things that female politicians wear and wondering where they purchased their clothes. This made it easy to see a simple but nice dress and know where to buy it.

Even better, it only costs $138. She's the daughter of a billionaire, married to a billionaire and successful in her own right. She could have worn a dress that cost thousands of dollars, but she wore something that cost a little over a hundred. Yes, she did it to sell that dress, but she still could have tried to sell a more expensive dress.

Hillary Clinton in $12,000 sack

This is unlike, say, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, who wore a $12,000 Armani jacket while giving a speech about inequality. Her supporters can claim she did so to highlight inequality all they want, but the optics don't work in her favor.

Clinton still received more of a defense than did Mitt Romney's wife Ann, who wore a $900 shirt on TV and was criticized heavily by the liberal media. Other female politicians and family members – like first lady Michelle Obama and Sarah Palin – have been criticized by various media outlets.

I look forward to the "first daughters" debate.