As Tucker and I discussed the other night, prudent persons have no choice but to drag the Republican Party across the finish line this November - because the only alternative is a post-American Reign of Terror mob who look at you as a pigeon-crapped statue they just haven't got around to yet. That said, the GOP remains as unlovely and useless an institution as one could find. To reprise my mournful refrain, when Democrats win, they're in power; when Republicans win, they're in office. That's why the trend-line never changes: on everything that matters - debt, China, transformative immigration - you're either driving off the cliff in fourth gear, or heading in the same direction in a more relaxing third gear.
All that's different this time round is that the Democrats have decided to floor it - and, if Trump goes down in November, the GOP Senate will be gone too, so whoever's waggling the moth-eaten sock of the "Biden Administration" will have a clear run. And, when Dems hold the House, Senate and Oval Office, they don't waste their time: contrast 2009-2011 with 2017-2019. Thank you, Paul Ryan.
Mitch McConnell is the very embodiment of this wizened insufficient alternative. the Senate Majority Leader is currently spending two million bucks (given to him by Republican voters) trying to defeat Kris Kobach in the Kansas GOP primary. Why? As Ann Coulter puts it, "because the Chamber of Commerce wants more cheap foreign labor".
Quite. Kris Kobach is serious on immigration, and where it takes America if nothing changes. He has spent years attempting to expand the bounds of public discourse on the subject, because as long as the conversation is kept within the approved parameters of the left - "comprehensive immigration reform", "jobs Americans won't do" - the people will continue to lose, regardless of who wins the election.
Mitch McConnell is a narrow-parameters man down to his Chinese-made wingtips. And don't give me that "What about the judges?" crap: That reductive thinking is a big part of why America's where it is. As I said on this weekend's Mark Steyn Show, when you're fretting about 5-4 SCOTUS appeals, you're implicitly admitting you've already lost everything else in the country. I want Republicans who are prepared to move the ball down the field, so I'd rather there were fewer McConnells, fewer sleazy opportunist open-borders hedge-fund hacks like this football coach Tuberville ...and more Kobaches.
~If you don't follow Kansas politics as closely as McConnell's Chamber of Commerce chums do, here's me talking to Mr Kobach a year or two back:
"There are actually more immigration laws than any functioning society would need," Steyn pointed out. "It's the fact that there's not the political will to enforce the immigration laws that's the issue."
Kobach agreed. "We often hear this cop-out, 'Oh, our immigration laws are broken.' No, they're not broken. If you actually read them, Congress over the many decades that we've had these laws has inserted a lot of really good provisions in there that if we have the will to actually use them, we could reinforce our rule of law in this country."
See what you think:
~What with the Covid, the lockdown, the looting and the statue-toppling, a one-trick pony has to work a little harder to keep his single issue in the public discourse. Nonetheless, vanity plaintiff Michael E Mann has been doing his best. Anthony Watts at the indispensable WattsUpWithThat reports:
Dr. Mann (or as Mark Steyn calls him – Dr. Fraudpants)...
Whoa, hold it right there. I certainly did call him Doctor Fraudpants, but I'm thinking of switching that to Doctor Deadbeat - because it is now ten-and-a-half months since the British Columbia Supreme Court ordered Mann to pay Tim Ball's costs, and Mann, having lost his case, has yet to pay Dr Ball a penny. I'm not really sure why I should be expected to play along with a plaintiff who declines to respect the judgment of the courts, but, as he's now the Penn State version of those deadbeat dads on the milk cartons, I think I should call him Doctor Scofflaw McDeadbeat, PhD, MS (Deadbeat of Phraudology, Miserable Scofflaw).
Where was I? Oh, yeah. Doctor Deadbeat, with his hockey stick drooping ever more flaccidly, has been trying to cut himself a piece of the #BlackLivesMatter action. Shouldn't be that difficult really: Both #BLM and Mann like to take the law into their own hands - #BLM setting up autonomous zones in American cities, and Mann carrying on like a one-man autonomous zone, rejecting the ruling of judges he himself has petitioned.
Where was I again? Oh, yeah. So Doctor Deadbeat tries to muscle into the fracas du jour with the following Tweet re the Glorious Fourth at Mount Rushmore:
A perfect storm of antiscientific stupidity, malicious ignorance and bigotry as Trump disregards climate change-fueled fire danger and the spreading pandemic to cynically stoke the fires of nativism and racism on our nation's birthday.
In the event, South Dakota didn't catch fire. But, even if it had, so what? Everywhere else is alight, so what's the big deal? Setting Atlanta and Minneapolis and Seattle ablaze is supposedly a legitimate contribution to public debate, so why not Mount Rushmore? And, had Mann got his way and had Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt emerged on the morning after all sooty and ravaged, they'd just look like every other monument in the country.
As for "antiscientic stupidity", that's on a scientific establishment that spent four months telling America that almost all formerly routine activity is now too dangerous to contemplate and those few exceptions to that rule have to be conducted in surgical masks and six feet apart - and then turned around and said, hey, but if you want to engage in mass riots, have at it because white supremacy is a bigger public health crisis than the Covid.
Pay Tim Ball what the court ordered, Doctor Deadbeat, 'cause right now the only tinderbox is your pants.
~Just to tie those themes together (Covid and immigration), since Chairman Xi decided to loose it upon the world, the WuFlu has gone in waves: first Europe, then the US, and latterly Latin America. In the last couple of weeks, Brazil's death toll has averaged a thousand a day and rocketed up to 72,000 - second only to America. Hard on its heels, Mexico is now in fourth place, having overtaken Italy and on course to pass the UK.
So what do the American states newly stricken by ChiCom-19 have in common? Republican governors? Trump rallies? Actually, California, Arizona, Texas and Florida are all states with porous borders to Latin America and consequently high and mobile populations of the "undocumented". Given that reality, it's hardly surprising that they look more like the northern end of the surging southern pandemic than the southern end of the now muted north-eastern pandemic.
Of course, no one would ever dream of compiling statistics on that, so the media will continue to blame it on MAGA super-spreaders from Mount Rushmore.
~The Washington Redskins have caved, and ditched the name. No word yet on its replacement - The Washington Yellowbellies? The Washington Pantywaists? The Washington Wussy Wimpy Mincing Milquetoast Pansy Nancies?
Honestly, if you're one of these butcher-than-thou types sitting in your man cave with a case of Bud Lite watching ESPN and waiting for the "black national anthem" to end, don't you think it's time to man up and switch to the ballet channel? At least the tutus don't have shoulder pads.
~It was a busy weekend at SteynOnline, starting with a brand new edition of The Mark Steyn Show with the ongoing bonfire of our civilization, plus the Club of the Canceled, Blake goes black, Miss Egypt meets the Muscles from Brussels, and much more. You can listen to the full show here. What with the stampede to erase the entirety of American history, Kathy Shaidle's Saturday movie date revisited 1776 while we still can, and our Sunday song selection offered a classic hymn to a now shrunken state, "Oklahoma!". Oh, and I hosted the first of our weekend summer specials: an anthology of my Sunday poems - and music. If you were too busy sweepin' down the plain before handing it over to the Cree, I hope you'll want to check out one or three of the foregoing as a new week begins.
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I would like to hear your comments on the Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski free speech case now being considered by the Supremes. Apparently they want the school to suffer some sort of consequence for infringing on the free speech rights of students on campus and 2 in particular. I think they may have a valid point, but I fear the 9 will fluff it off. Our wonderful new conservative judges not withstanding..........
One little-noted aspect of Senator McConnell's "long game" is that we have to keep Senator Mitch in it. This self-serving "long game" argument shouldn't be unchallenged, especially since the only winner seems to be McConnell himself.
Regarding Mann's tweet: isn't it interesting how all these scholarly tirades aimed at Trump always seem to deteriorate into word salad?
With respect to the Redskins name, the Washington Post has taken at least three polls of Native Americans over the past fifteen years, and I believe the number is something like 90% of NA's either support or are indifferent to the name. Who is this change for? Let's suppose a fan comes to game in 2, 5, 10, 25 years decked out in Redskins gear - is that fan now racist?
As for the social justice permeation into sports, it's pathetic. I love watching the English Premier League, and thanks to the COVID-condensed schedule, there are games every day with triple- and quadruple-headers on the weekends. The players keep the same pre-game routine: intros, hand shakes...but before kick-off, the official blows his whistle and all the players take a knee for five seconds. Wow, I can't imagine anything more powerful than a league-sanctioned protest with universal participation. What are we protesting again? Per the BLM website, "we disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement." Sorry BLM, but the Great Society beat you to it by half a century.
michael mann is a real life example of 'white privilege' (although it would be more aptly named 'leftist privilege').
He's a little, self centered man who has held an over paid, useless, meaningless, destructive job for almost all of his adult life. I wish the government of Canada would petition mr. mann's place of business to attach his salary for the money he owes Dr. Tim Ball.
mr. mann is a nasty dictator in his own little fiefdom of ignorant tyranny. He's the ultimate display of leftist 'white privilege.' If antifa and blm meant what they say they'd be smashing his door down and throwing him in a pond.
If Tuberville defeats the stalwart Sessions, as with so many other dismal outcomes among the distaff conservative citizen activist cadres, look to the libertarian Koch machine for blame. Whenever I point out that David Koch ran for VP on an open-borders platform so audacious it made the ACLU blush -- and literally, not figuratively -- I get blowback from the 21-year old collegerepublican Ken Dolls AFP dispatches to browbeat elderly TEA Party activists into silence.
For the win:
A football team wants a name that projects strength, power, a driving force, a machine. And so, I give you:
The Washington Engines
(boycotting my own boycott so as to get the prize money)
Thanks for the idea, Paul. I've just sent Kris Kobach my financial contribution.
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Your ahead of me, Sol. It's just moved up on my list of priorities. It would be nice if good candidates (or other entities) got a push every time Mark mentioned them.
The Tuberville-Sessions primary could be a typical GOP no-win scenario for the voters.
President Trump's anger against Sessions has not subsided so he glowingly endorsed Tuberville. Is Sessions seeking the position to make amends to Trump and serve his state admirably or to enact relentless revenge on Trump? Tuberville initially criticized P Trump but now talks like a border hawk and strongly supports the wall. He also claimed earlier--"I'm getting money from the people of Alabama, and I'm going to vote how they want me to vote in the state."
Tuberville's alleged "open-borders hedge-fund hack" campaign funds are dwarfed by the money Dem Jones has officially taken in. It appears the hedge-fund donors like him better. Five or six times better. "Tuberville reported total contributions of $2.9 million for the election cycle while Sessions raised a total of $2.1 million for the election cycle. (June 24 data)
Dem Jones' most last campaign finance report in May, showed that he'd raised $14.3 million for the election cycle and had cash on hand of $8.3 million. (March 31st data)"
Did Tuberville's cheap hedge fund donors suddenly inject millions into his campaign? Mark must have the updated or more accurate campaign info.
President Trump's victory was thinning out the ranks of the GOP Decepticons like Corker, Flake, Amash etc. but others like BLM supporter Romney took their place as expected.
Rather than sit at home and let a few TV hosts like Tucker; a few spearheaded Conservative muckrakers like Steyn or the Twitter combatants do most of the fighting, the "grassroots" Tea Party groups took a very active part in politics and were beginning to make a difference against McConnell. But the Obama WH, the Schumer-McCain-McConnell Uniparty, the CoC, the corporate Super Pacs and the full resources of the DC political machine tried to destroy them. As we know, the IRS targeted countless tax-exempt conservative groups only for audits.
"True the Vote" founder Ms. Englebrecht testified in 2014 to a House Committee that she was "visited" by agents from the FBI, IRS, ATF and OSHA. (She is still active today despite the abuse and intimidation) Did this abuse of power by the Obama admin. discourage other Conservatives from getting directly involved themselves and taking on McConnell who led the GOP attacks on the Tea Party? Conservatives are also less likely to engage in large protests as the lack of supportive pro-police marches (non wanker of course) to counter the vicious anti police marches never occurred on a large scale. Fortunately Conservatives are also less likely to emulate antifa and BLM.
But that leaves one side always fighting less vigorously than the other in the cultural war with or without Decepticon McConnell being involved. With PDJT in the WH, the Dems have had to outsource the harassment, bullying and ruination of Conservatives to Social Media's Cancel Culture character assassins, violent BLM bullies and Marxists and other anarchist groups. I've been wondering if any of the endless court cases Mark has been subjected to are also examples of outsourced harassment and attempted ruination funded and supported by unscrupulous unknown sources in the shadows trying to silence his Conservative views. If this is the case, they've failed miserably.
Speaking of Tommy Tuberville, I do hope that Jeff Sessions cleans his clock in the run-off tomorrow in Alabama. Unlike almost everyone else who has left the Trump Administration, he has tried to advance the policies Trump wants without writing a hatchet job book. He has always struck me as one of the few ex-Senators with class. Trump could use such folks going forward.
Actually nothing concerning the laW is "broken." There simply isn't the political will to enforce larges swaths of it.
Robert Bolt may have had Sir Thomas More saying, "Friend Roeper, the nation is planted thick with laws for your protection as well as that of the Devil" and "Where will you hide when the Devil turns on you - All the laws being down"- But what good are those eloquent observations when the culture and the political class don't give a damn? I am sure that Mark and his lawyers are following all of the legal niceties in "Fraudpants v. Steyn." Yet despite this fastidious devotion to procedure the D.C. District has allowed this case to drag on for seven years. I'm the fsct thT this farago has not been dismissed for antt of plaintiffs participation tells you all you need to know about the federal judiciary. Most are over-credentialed time-servers free from the necessity of intelligently managing their docket. I cant think of any state judge in my part of the country who would have let this run for two years before forcing a trial or dismissal.
The aforementioned Fraudpants will get away with his brazen defiance of the Canadian court and Tim Ball. The Canadian judiciary only seems good at fanatically expanding the rights of bi/trans/gay/queen plaintiffs and they will probably make Ball file ANOTHER action in court to collect his damages. The "law" simply won't give a damn.
We have seen entire cities and states abandon the law as it applies to crime victims and property owners. In virtually every jurisdiction where this monstrous abdication of responsibility has taken place, the chief executive has been a lawyer. I'm a lawyer and officer of the court and I am expected to follow the law and rules of ethics and the rules of the State Supreme Court - Why isn't Lori Lightfoot?
So there are plenty of laws but their enforcement has become jocular, whimsical and capricious. That's a lousy recipe for a stable society - But of course a lot of people are simply bored with a stable society.
With one rider: the Canadian judiciary may be apologist in terms of queen rights, but not the Queen's. She is as unwelcome in the upper echelons of Commonwealth judiciaries as a paedo at a playground.
"So there are plenty of laws but their enforcement has become jocular, whimsical and capricious. That's a lousy recipe for a stable society." Exactly right, J., and bad laws don't help either. How, for instance, is it possible to declare "sanctuary cities" without incurring quite serious criminal charges? Somebody has been asleep at the wheel, I'd say.
Hard to believe that there was a time when Republicans controlled the entire legislature, and did pathetically little to rectify matters. What a wasted opportunity!
But I'll side-step the inevitable blame-shifting debate and cut straight to the conclusion. Personally, I'm not sure that President Trump's re-election will change anything. Maybe after a few years of President Biden the Republicans will recover the legislature in another landslide - this time with an appetite for putting matters right. But what years those will be!
Spell check is an eternal struggle. I meant "queer" as in LGBT etc. However you are right. The Maple Leaf flag elites and the eternal juveniles who run the country have no more use for Her Majesty than they do for anything that is more than ten days old. Can't believe that this is the same country that produced some of the hardest guys to fight in World War II. But that seems to be the entire situation applicable to the West these days.
Most Repubicans are both spineless and amazingly intimidated by the media. In my former state of Ohio you have Governor Mike DeWine and Senator Rob Portman. Both are Republicans. They each have incredibly impressive resumes on paper but stand for absolutely nothing. There is nothing to separate them from the ultra-liberal Democrat Sherrod Brown. DeWine and Portman are scared little opportunists, the archetype of Chesterton's "Men Without Chests."
Sorry - I always screw that up. It was C.S. Lewis who made that apt observation.
Sounds like an unpleasant affliction either way, J.
Today's "Law" (re: SCOTUS, Amy Berman Jackson, Emmett Sullivan, et al.) wouldn't give you a lot to hide behind when the Devil turns on you. The Bible says that the only thing to protect you against the Devil is your faith in God. That was written a long time ago so they didn't know about Winchester pump shotguns. Might as well give it a try. Just in case.
Mark certainly is on-point here for at present there is no counter-force that I can see capable of standing up to this rapidly evolving revolution. The great Thomas Sowell in a recent interview wondered if America hasn't already passed the point-of-no-return. I see no grounds for optimism today.
You may be right, R., but I trust that you will understand why I hope that you are not. Certainly ground has been lost, and there is little hope that it will be recovered by the current leadership. If you'll afford some latitude in sense, "There's hell, there's darkness, there's the sulphurous pit,/ Burning, scalding, stench, consumption; [...]! [...] Get thee glass eyes;/ And like a scurvy politician, seem/ To see the things thou dost not. [...] When we are born, we cry that we are come/ To this great stage of fools [...]. " Yeah, okay, that may be a bit too much latitude, but you can see that I share your mood. Lear perhaps puts it a little strongly.
"Of course, no one would ever dream of compiling statistics on that, so the media will continue to blame it on MAGA super-spreaders from Mount Rushmore."
Not correct, Mark.
There are recent stats showing the southern border counties have Mexican levels of infections, and that these infections result from the open border.
Redskins -- don't change the name. Change the logo to a potato.
B.B. see Fran's comment.
My suggestion for new team name, go local- the Washington Foggy Bottoms.
And it looks like it's all over for Trump, Biden is coming out of isolation well-rested and sharp!
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What makes you think they'll keep "Washington"? Maybe "DC Marxists" would be more appropriate. Except the "C" stands for Columbia, so maybe the team name will eventially be the Federal Autonomous Zone Marxists.
Maybe the Redskins should pick a new name that is reflective of its host city as run by Democratic administrations for decades? How about the Washington 45s or the Washington Glocks?
If Dan Snyder really wants to drive the media crazy, he could rename them the Washington Trumps!!
The Royal Ulster Constabulary used to be exasperated by the propensity of Washington DC politicians to pontificate about violence in Northern Ireland, during the Troubles. In a quarter century of appalling political violence, Northern Ireland still, thankfully, could not match Washington's own death toll.
I just looked at the Wikipedia page on Washington DC's crime statistics and, wow, what a tour de force in shameless obfuscation that is. You think it may be a right for American citizens (to whom I do not belong, by the way, being British) to know the murder rate in their capital and that does seem reasonable and, the internet being the internet, I guarantee that that number is available out there somewhere, but there's another someone tremendously keen to hide the reliable numbers from the world's biggest encyclopaedia.
I found the numbers for you, Owen, but they are "OT".
However, completely on-topic, the numbers for the Washington DC Deadskins are:
Offense 2018 2019 Percent Change
Homicide 160 166 4%
Year to Date (July 13):
Offense 2019 2020 Percent Change
Homicide 81 100 23%
I wouldn't criticize anyone for not following Kansas politics, but I kinda have to pay attention. Kansas has three fairly equally-populated political parties: conservative Republicans, "moderate" Republicans, and Democrats. When a Republican candidate is unacceptable to the moderates, they vote with the Democrats and we end up with a Democrat in office. That's why Kris Kobach isn't Governor of Kansas, and a Democrat is. If Kobach wins the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, Kansas will also end up with a Democrat senator.
Thanks for the Kansas political insights, Ron. Once again, "moderate" Republicans are just the Democrats' Junior Varsity.
So a Democrat is someone who wants to shove totalitarian government down your throat and a moderate Republican is someone who doesn't mind if the Democrats shove totalitarian government down your throat.
The difference between 2009-2011 and 2017-2019 is that for the latter period Democrats held 60 seats in the Senate-a strong and if unanimous, filibuster proof majority. (And if anything that mattered had been 58-42, they would not have hesitated to nuke the filibuster).
In 2017, Republicans held 52 seats and that is if you count the likes of John McCain and Susan Collins as Republicans.
Ryan passed what he could - and Democrats plus Senate defectors voted it down. Of course, a major issue Ryan had to give up on was entitlement reform, because it turned out voters wanted their welfare so badly that even the "conservative" party would nominate a reality TV star if he embraced the Democrat line on entitlements.
Of course, Steyn knows this, but Paul Ryan is a hate figure to the Trump right, so he's gotta pander.
Roy: I can't speak for the other "pandees" of the Mark Steyn Club; however, it is not a question of hating Paul Ryan. What is hated is the lost opportunity which resulted from his feckless, pusillanimous legislative collaboration with Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump. Republicans have excuses, Democrats have results.
As I read your column Rona McDaniel, RNC Chair, was on TV. The Republicans are only a telemarketing outfit trying to find new customers through their advertising, emails and texts. "Please don't hang up, I have an important message... (I don't know how the rest of the script goes.) The RINO's look for any hot button issue to increase sales but since they believe in nothing, nothing will ever be done.
I've noticed their latest push is for a greater share of Black voters. Pre-Trump the R's were convinced the future of the party was getting 4 out of 10 new Hispanic votes. Don't do the arithmetic. An increase of 2% of the Black vote will not win any key battleground states in November, yet they court that unattainable vote and alienate the blue collar independent voters that provided the margin of victory in 2016. The R's are not called the Stupid Party for nothing.
How about naming the Washington DC NFL team the Washington Weiner dogs or Washington Woke.
The NFL Shop is offering 20% off all Redskins gear. Don't miss out!
My favorite still is the Washington Red Potatoes and they can call their mascot the Little Redskins. After all the Redskins were a thing once, weren't they?
When they have a winning streak, should that ever occur again, the sports announcers can say the Red Potatoes are hot poppers this season, or if they ever lose to New England they can say the New England Lobsters put the Washington Red Potatoes in the deep fryer this week and left them there to burn. If every NFL team was named after a vegetable, or fish for those teams by the coast, we could really have a Sunday Buffet Zone to tune into and I'm sure after a season or two of that the spectators will all get fed up with the nonsensical world they created.
I like it, D. The Washington Woke Weenies would be my compromise choice.
The Washington basketball team may offer a clue. The Baltimore Bullets at least had alliteration going for it them. Once they moved to Washington in 1973, where ammunition flew in equal proliferation, it was more difficult to defend the name. Hence the name change to Wizards. If the Washington football team follows suit, there is only one choice: the Fairies. What? What did I say?
Vegetables are a safe choice, Fran, but I would steer clear of fish names: Discriminatory toward Piscine-Americans.
Washington Swamp Monsters has a nice ring. The NFL's doomsday machine has been activated and the end draws near.
Along the same line of thought, how about the Washington Peanuts? The logo on the helmets would be equally fearsome to behold.
Hmmm. Let's expand on your idea. Potatoes could be used right across the league: The Kansas City Russets, the Minnesota Yukons, the Philadelphia French Fries, Seattle Spuds, Cleveland Baked, and on and on.... They can all fit into same woke 10 lb. bag.
Would the Washington Wankers be out of line?
I would suggest the D.C. Swamp Rats or the Denizens, killing two birds with one stone. You also get to cancel evil, racist warmonger George Washington. Instead though, they will pick some self aggrandizing name like the Washington Senators baseball team did. Beltway Bureaucrats? No, but they will think of something. They are really good at acronyms.
PS. Please don't call me on the "C" in D.C. I am hoping the woke won't notice.
How about the Washington Wonders? It's a nebulous concept - they could adopt a burgundy-and-gold exclamation point or question mark as their logo. To avoid any reference to animal species, ethnic groups or historical figures, the mascot could be an epicine human in a burgundy-and-gold body suit that disguises any sexual characteristics, neither Wonder Woman nor Wonder Man, just Wonder - and not even Stevie Wonder. The team fight song could be "That Thing You Do;" and the cheerleaders - called The Wonderines - would be made up of both biological women and transgendered ones.
Washington Wizards? As in Grand Wizards of the KKK?
No, fish work swimmingly well, Paul! We already have two named! Of the coastal teams (we can talk about lakeside teams later) going clockwise starting with Boston Lobsters, NY Nibblefish and Noodlefish (The Nibbles and Noodles for short), The Philadelphia Flounders, because they do, the Baltimore Blue Crabs (yum!), The Washington Walleyes (because we still have an eye on that Wall!), The Carolina Carpsuckers, The Atlanta Anglers, The Jacksonville Javelins, Miami Dolphins are good, Tampa Bay Tunas, New Orleans Alligators, Houston Hammerjaws, The LA Albacores and the LA Anchovies and my personal favorite, The San Francisco Aholeholes. Leave the Seattle Seahawks alone, as they've suffered enough grief up there.
Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) was a season ticket holder.
The Washington Pajama Boys.
I suppose Washington Gizzards would stick in their craw. Washington Criminals, Washington Zulus, Washington PACs (payoff another crook), Washington Corruptions, Washington Rinos, and last for now Washington Cover Ups.
No good, Fran. It's only a matter of time before all these fish-named teams are canceled. But, you get A+ for creativity!
Washington Weasels?
Wait! Why no fish names? And you know we don't get letter grades anymore, too triggering. I think there is even a Trigger Fish. Well, I know there's a tigger fish, maybe it was a tiger fish.
Why no fish names? As I stated, they're discriminatory toward Piscene-Americans. Yes, there is a Trigger Fish (very cool fish). He serves as the Trigger for all offended Piscene-Americans.
You've started something big, D. I like Washington Wet. We can have the Denver Damp, the Vermont Vapid and the Philadelphia Flatulence. This is going to get ugly.
Ditch Washington AND Columbia and they can be the District Dog-Faced-Pony-Soldiers. What? Too hyphenated?
No the American professional sports leagues aren't making it easy for their fans are they, a race to the bottom to see who can be the most woke. I might have to look into that ballet league soon at this rate.
Mark,
You are dead wrong on Tommy Tuberville. Sessions, the swamp rat has painted the picture that Tubberville is open borders. Nothing could be further from the truth. Tuberville is a total Trump supporter, unlike Sessions, Ryan, Graham, Romney and the like. All do-nothings!
Nope. Tuberville is an ignoramus on immigration, whereas Sessions could write an encyclopedia on the subject -- illegal immigration, legal immigration, "refugees" and "asylees" [the quotation marks are warranted], anchor babies, work visas, overall numbers -- you name it. And he's a patriot on all aspects of the subject.
Read a VDARE piece from last year that laid out Tuberville's gibbering ignorance on the subject: "Is Immigration Wimp Tommy Tuberville REALLY The Best Alabama Can Get To Succeed Jeff Sessions?"
Here's a quote right from the buffoon himself: "There are people coming across the border that need jobs, okay, and we want them to come over here, we just need to know who's here, okay. Put the wall up, then we let them come in, and become citizens like we all became citizens." That's enough to show that Tuberville doesn't recognize that the problem is immigration itself, not merely the fraction of it that's illegal. (See Center for Immigration Studies exec director Mark Krikorian's classic piece from 2007: "Legal Good / Illegal Bad?")
Sessions, who was about the first prominent person to endorse Trump in 2016, is a better supporter of Trump's 2016 agenda than Trump himself. (Trump has some good instincts on immigration, but he's never come close to mastering the subject -- he's gone mostly downhill since giving his great campaign speech on the subject in August 2016. Presumably it was written by Stephen Miller, and Trump delivered it without really absorbing its content.)
Mark, re Michael Mann, Cary Katz, et al., is there no legal point at which the loser must finally pay? Can Mann and Katz simply refuse to pay the judgments against them ad infinitum with no legal consequences? I know nothing about these matters so I don't understand why they are able to continually flaunt what I assume to be the law. If there are no financial penalties for losing, other than spending other people's money to pay his lawyers, it's no wonder that Mann sues everyone in sight.
The mania for changing the names of sports teams is the paradigm of leftist activism: A cause that makes narcissistic people feel good and virtuous while doing absolutely nothing to improve the lives of the people they claim to have "helped".
referring to doing nothing but feeling good about it: the main Black Lives Matter website has (top right) "Take Action", which consists of, essentially, 4 ways to give them money. what a crock.
it's how atheists buy indulgences
20+ years ago, Congress had a fair amount of immigration enforcement types and many of them were Democrats. In fact, one of them was a Democrat from North Carolina who I believe was a former quarterback for the Washington Redskins, Heath Schuler (I think. Someone may need to look that up.) Anyway, little by little they all faded away (the immigration hardliners in Congress, not the Washington Redskins). The last of them was beaten in the primary this spring having been pummeled by the same GOP hammer that is now going after Kris Kobach. Republican Steve King from Iowa who was the last anti-illegal immigration member of Congress had every media outlet in the state, didn't even need to have any one in the Democrat party run attack ads against him. The state GOP did a bang up job on it's own. The same state where Mollie Tibbets was allegedly murdered by an illegal immigrant has destroyed the political career of the only person who wanted to put a stop to such tragedies and return what used to be good paying jobs to U.S. citizens. If black lives truly mattered to the political class then the first order of business is to excuse the 30 or 40 or 50 million illegal immigrants from the United States and return the wage and labor structure back to the old normal. No segment in society has been harmed more broadly than black working families by illegal immigration. I guess the Democrats just can't let go of slavery, can they. And now they have succeeded at getting the Republicans hooked too. I like Kris Kobach. I think he would make an excellent Senator. But he is fighting a tidal wave that has an almost perfect record at destroying everything in it's path. Trump is the only exception that I can think of.
Thank you for this, Robert. I admit that Kris Kobach was not on my list, but I'm going to send him some money. It's normal to support your candidates against the Enemy, the Democrats, but to have to support your candidates against the Democrats' Junior Varsity, the GOP, is a theater of combat for which few of us are prepared.
"Republican Steve King from Iowa who was the last anti-illegal immigration member of Congress ..."
Steve King is (was) important, and he was treated abysmally by the House GOP "leaders." But NumbersUSA, which keeps track of every bit of immigration-related activity in Congress, rates 22% of the current membership (House and Senate combined) as A-minus, A, or A-plus for overall grades, with comparable fractions for sub-topics such as "Reduce Illegal Jobs and Presence."
Some names among the virtuous are Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Mo Brooks (R-AL), and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN).
King was a leader in pushing on the subject, and that's why his loss is so grievous. Most of the others who've voted themselves into high grades with NumbersUSA don't specialize in the subject.