CNN: Jon Stewart- 'Chokes Up, Gives Angry Speech To Congress: Telling Congress To Do Their Jobs?

Source:This Is 50- Jon Stewart: speaking to an empty audience

"Former late night host and 9/11 first responders advocate Jon Stewart chokes up and slams Congress over health care for the 9/11 first responders during the hearing for reauthorizing the 9/11 victim compensation fund. "

Source:CNN

With all due respect to Jon Stewart: who I believe is one of the best political satirists of his generation and if he were a late night talk show host right, I believe he would be the best and the most popular, but telling Congress to do their jobs, is like telling a death row inmate to personally escort himself to the death house and put the needle in his arm, and the leave the doors open so he can escape from the prison.

Telling politicians to do what's not in the best political interest, is like telling your dog not to eat the potato chips that you left on the floor for him, why would they do that, especially when they represent people who continually reelect them, aren't aware of how unproductive at their expense that they are, or simply don't care even though they're paying for their un-productivity. Even when something is obviously the right thing to do like compensating 9/11 responders and financing the care and benefits to our military veterans things that are very popular and benefits that taxpayers owe these people, Congress sits on their fat, overpaid asses and does nothing, if it doesn't personally benefit them in their own district or state, or maybe a fringe in their party doesn't want them do to those things.

Jon Stewart, could've been speaking to a full house on Tuesday in that House committee hearing room and he still would've been speaking to an empty room as far as the people hearing him that would actually say: "you know, Jon Stewart is right: we should take care of the benefits of our first responders and do that right now." Congress right now, is made up of primarily careerists who are in public office to stay there or get promoted to the next office. Not to do their jobs, which is to represent their constituents like people who gave their lives and health to protect innocent Americans during the 9/11 attacks in 2001. And they can get away with it, because they keep getting reelected. 

Scott Bradley: 'To Run For Office Or Not'

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Political language — and with variations this is true of all ...

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George Orwell about truth (“Politics and the English Language”, 1946) -"

When I think about politicians, I think about one of George Orwell's quote about them: "political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable." Not all politicians are bad people who lack character and morality, but enough of them even if not most of them are and have replaced whatever character and morality that they started with when they were growing up with careerism. Once they into public office, they are there to stay there, or get promoted to the next job. That becomes their number one objective. And if doing a good job once they are in office helps them politically like effectively responding to a natural disaster, then they'll do that, just as long as it helps them politically and they need the support of the people that are getting hurt by that disaster. 

If being in public office just meant that once you are elected to whether it's Congress or some other office, or being promoted in Congress like moving from the House and getting elected to the Senate, if it just meant doing what you ran on and campaigned on, then I might like the job myself. Whether it was Congress, Governor of Maryland, General Assembly. 

I mean think about it: members of Congress ( House and Senate ) make roughly 150,000 dollars a year. If you're in leadership, you make more than that. Roughly three times more than the average American who can't afford to make bullshitting ( excuse the word ) their number one tool at work. If the average American bullshitted as much as the average politician, they wouldn't be able to hold a job, because no responsible employer would be able to trust them. And they might find themselves in jail for committing fraud. 

If you're in Congress, you make 150,000 dollars a year and for what: even if Congress doesn't do their jobs which they're supposed to do not just under the Constitution, but under their own rules like pass an annual Federal budget and appropriations bills, they can give themselves a raise. Congress, not only supervises itself, but is responsible for their own compensation, as far as deciding how much they should be paid and then leaving the taxpayers with the bill to compensate them, even if they're doing nothing other giving speeches, raising campaign funds, and taking political positions that are only in their best political interest. 

So I get back to George Orwell's quote: "political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder sound respectful." Politicians succeed on their ability to bullshit especially when they're either in trouble or facing tough political situations and positions. And trying to find a way to make people believe what they don't believe: like trying to make something that they're guilty of like flip flopping on a key issue make it seem like they're not flip flopping at all. ( That's about Joe Biden and his flip on the Hyde Amendment: in case anyone is wondering ) 

Or when they get caught in hypocrisy, trying to make people believe that they're not being hypocritical at all: like a right-wing politician claiming to be against big government, except when they're in favor of it, because they're against high taxes and government spending, but are in love with big government to the point that they would sleep with it when it comes to people's personal affairs and their own personal lives like when it comes to consensual sex amongst adults. 

Or a left-wing politician claiming to be pro-choice, because they support abortion rights and gay rights, but are anti-choice and pro-big government on just about everything else like as it relates to school choice, gambling, and everything else that the Far-Left in America would like to outlaw and put big government in charge, even telling people what they can eat and drink, and how we can talk to people. 

Politics in America in way too many cases regardless of how many cases and what the percentage is, is not for people who believe in strong character and morality and just want to make the world a better place for themselves and their country. American politics makes liars out of truth-tellers, and crooks out of moral people, because once good, average even if they're good people before they were elected, figure out that once that they're in office they like being able to make good money without actually having to be productive. 

Politicians like traveling around the country or even world at taxpayers expense and being able to attend campaign events at someone else's expense and giving speeches at someone else's expense. And decide if they want to keep their cushy taxpayers jobs ( like former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt ) they need to fall inline and not do anything that could hurt them politically, even if it's the right thing to do, especially if they're looking to serve in higher office. 

If being a politician was simply about doing the job and attending the committee hearings, asking important and relevant questions, holding government accountable, and actually legislating which at this point at least in the U.S. Senate sounds like a foreign word or at least a word that U.S Senator's seem to need to re-familiarize themselves with, because it's been so long that they've actually done any actual legislating, then I might be actually be interested in serving in public office myself. But then I get about to George Orwell's quote about politicians which keeps me out.

CNN: Right Now With Brianna Keilar- Kay Bedingfield: 'Sputters When Asked To Explain Joe Biden's Flip Flop Over The Hyde Amendment'

Source:Washington Free Beacon- "Biden Aide Struggles to Explain Flip-Flop on Hyde Amendment: 'This Is Not a Decision About Politics"

"CNN host Brianna Keilar accused her of not answering her questions."

From CNN

From Joe Biden's own words last Thursday when he explained his flip flop on the Hyde Amendment: "I can no longer support and amendment that denies health care to women, when I believe health care is a right." So last Wednesday when he still supported the Hyde Amendment that according to his own words denied health care to women, when he believes that health care is a right, he believed that was OK. But less than 24 hours later he now believes that denying women their right to health care is wrong, even though the previous 43 years when he supported the Hyde Amendment first in Congress, then as Vice President, and now as a private citizen, he believed denying women health care was OK. And he apparently didn't have any issues with it.

The only thing that changed from last Wednesday to last Thursday, was the politics. He was getting hammered from the Left of his party that believes that abortion should be legal at all times for any female in the country who is pregnant, even if they can't afford to get an abortion and that people who are antiabortion should be forced pay for low-income and teenage females right to an abortion. And has calculated that even though he prefers to run a general election campaign during the Democratic primaries. he needs the radical pro-choice-abortion vote in order to get the Democratic nomination next summer to face off against President Donald Trump.

Before last Thursday, the biggest asset that Vice President Biden had going for him other than his experience, personal charm, and sense of humor, was his candor. He really is the John McCain of the Democratic Party, but more likable and perhaps not as blunt. And less than a month later after entering the 2020 presidential race he's already in danger of losing perhaps his biggest asset which is candor and trust that people have in him and that they tend to believe him when he says something and when he takes a position on something. You can't run an anti-Donald Trump campaign when he you make the same flip flops that he does and flat out lie about important issues like the Hyde Amendment and abortion.

Listening to Joe Biden's flip flop over the Hyde Amendment, reminds me of George Carlin's monologue called Question Everything: the only people that automatically take the word of any politician on anything, even an honest politician ( if honest politician is not an Oxymoron ) without first looking at what the person is saying and the evidence behind what they're saying and what is actually happening, are people who buy used cars from car thieves without even test driving the car first. Perhaps they even buy the car without even seeing the car first. "So what if the doors falls off every time I open it: that just makes it easier to get in the car." The same people who automatically take a politician's word on anything, are the same people who ask to get kicked in the balls: they're begging for trouble and are completely unprepared for the fallout. 

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Gene Tierney: Mysteries and Scandals

Source:Hannah Howe- Hollywood Goddess Gene Tierney. 

"A lovely quote from Gene Tierney, discovered while researching her life and career, “A romantic picks the rose and is careless with the thorns.” 

"Joaquin Smithey farkıyla sunulmuştur.Lütfen takip etmeyi unutmayın.Mysteries and Scandals (also known as Mysteries & Scandals) is an American television program hosted by A.J. Benza. The series was originally broadcast on." 

From Hannah Love

Source:Jacinto Ruffeew- Oleg Cassini: one of Gene Tierney's husbands. 

From Jacinto Ruffeew

When I think of actress Gene Tierney, ( and this might sound corny ) but I literally think of the woman when she makes her entrance, she steals the show. That as soon as she appears, the only person and only thing that anyone can concentrate on is her. Maybe the woman who owns the show and just takes it over and everyone just automatically assumes the show is now hers. She was literally not just that beautiful, but she was so adorable in an adult and sexy way, lot a little girl way like Marilyn Monroe and a lot of other Hollywood babydoll's from that era, but she was so sweet and sexy at the same time and literally mesmerized any man who saw her.

If you are a political junky such as myself and you are interested in Hollywood political movies and you are also interested in Congress specifically, then Advise and Consent from 1962 where Gene Tierney plays the girlfriend of the Senate Majority Leader, is a great movie for you.  ( Played by Walter Pidgeon ) Gene, essentially plays the role of a Washington political wife even though she and the Majority Leader aren't married yet, but she throws Washington parties for her boyfriend in the movie.

There's this one scene in Advice and Consent where a couple of Senator's are arguing about foreign policy and one of them ( played by George Grizzard ) gets frustrated and stars yelling. Gene's character enters the room where this debate is going on and there's nothing but complete silence in room, because everyone is mesmerized by Gene's character. That was Gene Tierney in Advise and Consent and Gene Tierney in real-life where you really believe that peace could break out where she appears simply because of her presence.

There's another scene in Advise and Consent after their Washington party where she and the Majority Leader ( her boyfriend ) are alone together in their apartment. And Gene's line in that scene is and I'm paraphrasing here: "someone in Washington once said that any bitch with a million bucks, a big house, and a good caterer can be a social success in Washington." And then she asks her boyfriend: "do you think I'm a bitch?" With her boyfriend replying: "well if you are one, you're certainly a perfectly nice one." If all bitches were Gene Tierney, that word would completely lose its meaning, because she was a total sweetheart who always seemed way too cute to ever be mean.

Gene Tierney, was a Hollywood Goddess of Hollywood Goddesses and someone who wasn't just beautiful and adorable, but someone who was extremely special because of how sweet and beautiful that she was. Who is also one of the best actresses of her generation ( if not ever ) because she always owned every room and scene that she was ever part of, because of her beauty and ability to own every scene she was ever part of.  

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The Washington Post: Karen Tumulty: 'Joe Biden Learned The Hard Way There is No Middle Ground On Abortion'

Source:The Washington Post- Joe Biden: flip-flopping on the Hyde Amendment

"There has long been a relatively safe space for a Democratic politician, particularly a Catholic one, to inhabit on the morally fraught issue of abortion.

It was the stance that then-Vice President Joe Biden took during a 2012 debate: “Life begins at conception. That’s the church’s judgment. I accept it in my personal life,” Biden said. “But I refuse to impose it on equally devout Christians and Muslims and Jews. . . . I do not believe we have a right to tell other people — women — that they can’t control their body.”

At the time, that blanket declaration was enough to satisfy most Democrats. It is not anymore — as Biden learned this week, when the man who leads all the polls for the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential nomination was thrown off balance on the question of government funding for abortion."

Read the rest of Karen Tumulty's piece at The Washington Post

Source:ABC News: Joe Biden- 'Flips on The Hyde Amendment'- Joe Biden; doing his Mitt Romney, over the Hyde Amendment 

"2020 Democratic candidate Joe Biden reversed his stance on a measure that prevents using federal funding for abortions.When former Vice President Joe Biden announced that he was running for President last month, his message and appeal was basically that he wasn't President Donald Trump and that he was different."

If you look at Donald Trump before Barack Obama before he became President and then after he became President, the so-called Donald was basically a mainstream Democrat. A wealthy, New York City businessman who backed Democrats for most of his career. And then a guy named Barack Obama becomes President the first African-American in American history, with the bogus ( to be kind ) and racist birther movement around him and The Donald decides that he wants to be in politics too and becomes the champion of the Far-Right with the birther movement back in 2011.

And then in 2015 The Donald decides he wants to be President after 6 years of a Progressive, African-American President running the country and gets behind the Far-Right on everything in launching his own Nationalist movement in the country and basically other than perhaps tariffs and immigration, reverses course on almost every single political position that he had before. Making Mitt Romney look like the most principled politician that this country has ever seen.

Joe Biden, is running not just as the anti-Trump, but as someone who will change the character of the presidency and get it out of Donald Trump's morality toilet and return honor and decency to the country.

Kind of hard to make that case when on Wednesday of last week you're saying that your support for the Hyde Amendment, ( that was proposed by Representative Henry Hyde in 1976 ) that was passed by Congress in 1976 that then Senator Joe Biden voted for and continued to support during his entire career in the Senate, was a deeply heartfelt view that American taxpayers shouldn't be forced to pay for someone else's abortions, ( except in the cases of life and health of the mother, or rape or incest ) and then on Thursday announce you can no longer support an amendment that denies abortion rights to low-income women, even though on Wednesday that you already knew that low-income women couldn't get taxpayer assistance to pay for their abortions.

The Hyde Amendment to me at least is not about whether abortion should be legal in this country: I'm pro-choice on practically everything short of people hurting innocent people with what they're doing, including abortion because I don't believe life starts at conception, but at the last stages of the woman's pregnancy. It's not a question of whether abortion should be legal in America or not, but who should pay for it.

We all make our own choices and we all have our own personal freedom in this country. We also all have our own personal responsibility in this country and are held accountable for our own personal decisions. Why should abortion be any different? I'm not talking about forcing women who are raped including by their own male relatives to be forced to carry that pregnancy to its end. Or denying women abortion even though they need it to protect their health and even life. The Hyde Amendment, has all of these exceptions in it. I'm just saying that American taxpayers shouldn't be forced to subsidize the abortions of others other than the exceptions that I just laid out. And until last Thursday, Joe Biden shared this exact same position and held that exact same position since 1976 when he voted for the Hyde Amendment when it was passed in that Congress.

People who oppose the Hyde Amendment from the Left, argue that Hyde Amendment denies low-income women the same reproductive rights as women with means in this country who aren't poor and who can afford to get an abortion either from their private health insurance or out of their own pockets. And they're completely right about that, but that's not the issue. This shouldn't be a newsflash for anyone: low-income women simply don't have the same freedom as middle or high income women in this country. And low-income Americans regardless of gender, or race or ethnicity don't have the same freedom in America as middle or high-income Americans either. But that's not unfair, that's just life. You want to have a lot of freedom in America, you need to have the income to finance that freedom. That's just how America has always worked and how it should always be.

George Carlin: 'Question Everything'

Source:HBO- As great as George Carlin Was, RIP: even question George when he tells you something

"All credit for the video goes to its producers."

Source:George Carlin

At risk of sounding serious for a minute: ( and it might only be a minute ) do you want to live in a liberal democracy where you have the right to think for yourself, or do you want to live in a prison your whole life ( like a communist state ) and be told what to do, what to think and how to think, because that's what this is about. If you are someone who thinks for yourself and lives an evidence based life based off on reason, ( to paraphrase Ayn Rand ) then of course you are going to question everything.

We live in a country with career politicians who get paid very well with a benefits package that rivals a lot of great CEO's with their health care, housing, retirement package all at the expense of the people who voted them into office and the people who were smart enough to vote for someone else, who do only what they believe they need to do in order to get reelected. They routinely take positions based on what can help them politically at that moment, ( take Joe Biden for a moment on the Hyde Amendment ) or help them get elected to a higher office and get paid to bullshit us.

So I have to ask this question: with so many people like this who are supposed to represent us in government, would you just automatically take their word every time they opened their mouth like you were some type of slave at North Korean work camp, or would you bother to use your brain for a moment ( perhaps even longer than that ) even if it meant putting your smartphone down for an entire moment ( or even longer than that ) and ask yourself: "does this guy really believe what's coming out of his own mouth right now, or is he just saying and doing this to help him politically?" And of course it could be a female politician who is also a professional garbage thrower ( to be kind ) trying to feed us garbage ( to be kind ) as well.

And it's not just our wonderful career politicians who at times are less productive than your average person on Unemployment or Welfare, who just get paid ( to be kind ) or take our money for themselves who give so many Americans great incentive to question everything that they do and say, who make great cynics out of us at all.

From our parents who raise us as hypocrites who our entire childhoods telling us not to do what they did when they were growing up and if we disobey, there will be steep consequences for that, even though they routinely got away with doing the exact same things growing up that they don't want their kids to do. Or supervisors at work who seem to know less about their business than the people who are supposed to work for them. The coaches that know less about their sport than their own players. Anyone who lives life anywhere in the world who doesn't question everything that they hear, is living life in a coma and watching the world go by.

Dan Mitchell: ‘An Emerging Anti-Socialist Wing of The Democratic Party?’

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Source:The New Democrat

“Since I’m a policy economist, I rarely comment on political matters.

But I am worried that the Democratic Party is veering too far to the left. Bernie Sanders, an out-of-the-closet socialist is leading the way, followed closely by other leading Democrats with hard-left policy agendas, such as Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren.

But not every 2020 candidate is hopping on the socialism bandwagon. Some of the major candidates, such as Joe Biden, have avoided saying anything favorable about socialism.

And two of the candidates have explicitly rejected the poisonous ideology.

Interestingly, they’re both from Colorado.

CNN reports that the former governor, John Hickenlooper. received a very hostile reception when he rejected socialism.”

Read the rest of Dan Mitchell’s piece at International Liberty

Source:Fortune Magazine: 'John Hickenlooper: Meet the 2020 Candidate'- Meet another governor that almost no one has never heard of

"He’s the former Governor of Colorado."

Dan Mitchell is right here, but for obvious reasons: the only evidence that you need to know that not all Democrats and not even a majority and probably more like a small minority of Democrats haven’t all moved to Cuba, Venezuela, Scandinavia ideologically, mentally, and culturally is that Joe Biden is the clear frontrunner right now. When you’re getting 30-40 of all Democratic support right now and you are running for President, you know that the Democratic Party isn’t a socialist party yet. Why, for the obvious reasons that Joe Biden is not a Socialist and never has been.

If you look at the top 5-10 Democratic presidential candidates right now as far as their support, really only Senator Bernie Sanders and Senator Elizabeth Warren are the Socialists running for President. Bernie, being an out-of-the-closet Socialist ( as Dan Mitchell says ) and damn proud of it. With Liz Warren, being a trapped in the closet Socialist who believes in and proposes the exact same policies as Bernie except for a complete government takeover of the health insurance system, but they essentially believe in the same things ideologically.

Bernie and Liz,  would be part of the Center-Left in Europe, but the only problem that they have is that they are running for President of the United States and they are part of the Far-Left here. And the other problem that they have is that they’re both running for and competing for the same voters in the Democratic Party. Whether 20-30% of the Democratic Party are now Socialists, that alone is not enough to win the Democratic nomination and when you have two candidates cancelling each other out because they’re going for the same voters, that makes it even more difficult for even of them to emerge and get beyond the Far-Left of the party.

The reasons why Vice President Biden is doing so well right now, is because you still have a strong Center-Left of the party that still dominates the leadership of the party. Which Joe Biden has been part of his entire political career. And most if not all Democrats ( even if they’re Socialists with Che Guevara t-shirts in the hearts ) want to win in 2020 and are smart enough to know that a Socialist doesn’t win back Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Florida even against President Donald Trump. And a Socialist wouldn’t even be able to compete with President Trump in North Carolina, Texas, or Arizona. All states except for perhaps Texas where a Joe Biden could compete and perhaps even beat President Trump in.

As far as John Hickenlooper and Michael Bennett, both 2020 presidential candidates: they’re both part of the Center-Left ( the real Progressive Democrats ) wing of the Democratic Party that Joe Biden is running away with right now. And it’s good to see that they’re not Socialists either, ( as if the jury never came back on that ) but they’re probably room for only one Joe Biden type of Center-Left presidential candidate in the party right now, which would explain why he’s currently running away with the polls right now.