1. Eric Swalwell literally pressed the ageist position, using the tired cliche of “pass the torch.” The old Democrats like Sanders, Biden and Warren LOOK so old it is hardly necessary to point it out; Swalwell’s harping on “the new generation” reeks of bigotry. What has Swalwell done, other than to be younger than dirt, to justify anyone trusting him with executive power? Let’s see: he’s been an assistant DA and a House member. He’s never run anything in his life.
2. Every candidate on-stage raised their hands to indicate they are in favor of U.S. health care covering illegal immigrants. All but one want illegal immigration to be only a civil offense. The “Think of the Children!” lies about “children in cages” and evil ICE were treated as fact all night. Biden endorsed the fatuous position that only illegal immigrants who commit ‘major crimes” should be deported. KABOOM.
So anyone can illegally come here, especially if they are dragging a kid or three, and force Americans to pay for their health care. Under what ethical system other than free-floating altruism is that a fair or responsible position? The Democratic Party wants open borders, and worse, wants to achieve it while denying that this is its position.
3. Pete Buttigieg unethically and cravenly threw his own police officer to the wolves under the bus by essentially pronouncing South Bend Sergeant Ryan O’Neill guilty of shooting Eric Logan out of racist animus. Buttigieg said that he tried to eliminate racial bias—aka bigotry—by police but couldn’t, and blathered, “I am determined to bring about a day when a black person driving a vehicle and a white person driving a vehicle, when they see a police officer approaching, feels the exact same thing: a feeling not of fear, but of safety.” The problem is that the investigation of the shooting has not been completed, or even begun.
South Bend Sergeant Ryan O’Neill responded to the Central High School Apartments parking lot around 3:30 a.m. on Sunday, June 16, investigating a tip that someone with a flashlight was breaking into parked vehicles. O’Neill was alone when he pulled into the parking lot; six vehicles had been broken into and had items stolen.
The officer said he saw Eric Logan with his legs sticking out of a vehicle, and that Logan stepped out of the car holding a knife and refused to drop it when O’Neill repeatedly ordered him to do so. The officer claimed Logan lunged at him with the knife, and in response, fearing for his life, O’Neill fired two shots, fatally striking Logan in the abdomen.
Logan’s family says O’Neill’s version is inconsistent with Logan’s personality—you know, like Michael Brown was a “gentle giant.” Logan did not have a violent criminal history, he had only previously served time in prison for drug distribution and had a prior conviction for carrying a handgun without a license—a model citizen, in other words.
The white officer is being convicted of racism and murder on the basis of his occupation and color, and the Mayor of South Bend is helping.
4. In what seems to be the most talked-about exchange of the night, Senator Kamala Harris race-baited Joe Biden for daring to say that he maintained cordial and collegial relationships in the Senate with Southern Democrats who were segregationists. Apparently this makes Joe soft on racism. What the “new generation” wants is a political system that somehow forbids discussion, collaboration and cooperation among elected representatives with differing positions. Don’t support gun confiscation? Open borders? Draconian climate change regulations? Racial and gender quotas? Why, you’re just fascist scum, and we want good Democrats and progressives to spit in your face, not work toward compromise!
Democratic republics don’t work that way, but the Democratic Party isn’t very keen on democracy these days. I wonder how long it will take for that to sink in…
5. Funny, I thought there was a general consensus that the Sixties court-ordered busing policies were a massive failure and an example of judicial over-reach. Harris seems to think busing was wonderful.
6. Senator Gillibrand’s idiotic quote of the night: “Women are on fire!” She sexist and an anti-male bigot.
7. Biden, as expected, looked enervated and running on fumes. He is much diminished, and Joe was never all that sharp to begin with. It’s irresponsible for him to be running for the Presidency, just as it’s irresponsible for octogenarians to be serving in the Senate and Supreme Court. Biden isn’t literally 80, but he might as well be.
8. As he did in 2016, Bernie Sanders again announced that we would never nominate any Justice to the Supreme Court unless that Justice pledged to defend Roe vs. Wade. No competent judge would do that: it’s unethical to pre-judge cases that haven’t been brought yet. Bernie doesn’t understand what the Supreme Court is, or what justices do.
9. Boy, it will be nice when Swalwell has to withdraw. Still, none of the candidates had the integrity to break ranks and condemn his indefensible claim that that the government should confiscate “assault weapons” because, as a parent, he belongs to a generation “where we look at what our children are wearing as they go to school, in case we have to identify them later.”
What a fear-mongering asshole.
10. Buttigieg became the SECOND Democratic candidate in history to use “piss off” in a public forum, after Juan Castro in the previous debate. Stay classy, Democrats!
11. As a fitting coda to the evening, Joe Biden, speaking for the most deliberately divisive administration in U.S. history as a candidate for the first major party in U.S. history to try to reject and undermine a President duly elected by half the country, said, “This is the United States of America! We can do anything if we’re together — together.”
12. With this post, I am reviving 2016’s tag, “This will help elect Donald Trump.”
Ethics Alarms 
Swalwell is a sleazeball who until now has operated from the same playbook as Adam Schift. The only difference is that Swalwell has figured out the advantages of hair dye, Botox and cosmetic surgery, which Schift still looks like a poorly-made bobblehead doll of Mr. Bean.
Having watched as much of both debates as I could stand, my conclusion is that as things stand right now it’ll be Harris v. Trump in the 2020 election (and possibly the subsequent SCOTUS case of the same name).
The ONLY candidate that I thought came off as someone who could actually attract independents and some conservatives was Delaney. Of course, he doesn’t stand a chance, being a MAWG* and all.
*Middle Aged White Guy
Nothing on Williamson’s crazy?
Crazy isn’t unethical.
Marianne Williamson struck me as someone who is just marketing herself. Smart business investment this. Can’t last right?
Only that’s how Trump struck me at first also.
“Crazy” doesn’t disqualify. Is she crazy? Or just eccentrically flamboyant? A valid question I think.
>to the wolves under the bus
I don’t know if that was intentional, but I like it.
It was intentional.
I like it too.
YIKES!
There are WOLVES under here? Now I am spooked…
4–I’m surprised no Righty has created a meme coupling Harris’ “I was that little girl” to “that blatantly lied about smoking a fatty in college while gettin’ down with oh yeah, definitely, Snoop. Uh huh, Tupac. For sure, for sure,”
1. Swallwell will look real nifty in his brown uniform if elected. He has the high cheekbones of a good Aryan.
4/5. I made the comment in the previous post regarding Harris’s little girl speech. Court ordered bussing amounted to a reverse Rosa Parks situation in which cities who were in the midst of white flight forced white kids to go to the schools the black kids came from to make room for the black kids at the formerly white school. I was one of those kids they tried to bus across town to a predominately black school.
As for the rest. They are all people of small minds and grandiose aspirations simply because of the power they feel.
Sorry none are any more worthy based on character than Trump, and his track record is what I will evaluate
Court-ordered busing. Court ordered bussing would violate today’s Me Too norms
Your analysis is spot on. After watching both “debates,” (so-called) my first reaction was to ask ,”Does anyone with an IQ in the double digits actually believe that any of these people is competent to be the President of the United States?” Also I am unconvinced that Marianne Wiliamson isn’t just a very high quality computer graphic cartoon character. Good grief!
But, ya know, so long as Kamala’s got a side-job turning her six-year old self into a commodity.
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2019/06/28/kamala-harris-disappoints-some-followers-with-t-shirt/23759240/
That was fast production there, wasn’t it?
I’m going to make a complementary shirt with a photo of a little white boy saying I am the kid that had to go to Kamala’s old school so she could take my place.
I’ll buy one.
Wouldn’t it be nice if someone somewhere from any party said the words “national debt” or “deficit?”
Sorry, not “woke” enough for the Democrats, too potentially damaging for Republicans to raise, since the idea of cutting public spending has become anathema to most Americans. We know this because that’s the only way boondoggles such as open borders, extending benefits to illegal aliens, and “Medicare for all” is not an instant political death sentence.
That ship has sailed, and until it returns to port and starts shooting up the country, we’re all resolved to forget about it.
Does this same logic apply to military deserters?
Boy, it will be nice when Swalwell has to withdraw. Still, none of the candidates had the integrity to break ranks and condemn his indefensible claim that that the government should confiscate “assault weapons” because, as a parent, he belongs to a generation “where we look at what our children are wearing as they go to school, in case we have to identify them later.”
What a fear-mongering asshole.
How does he intend to confiscate assault weapons from gangbangers while avoiding mass incarceration?
#3 My office used to be directly across the street from where the attempted arrest and police shooting took place. It is not a great neighborhood.
I’ll disclose my brother in law is a South Bend cop.
I believe it is 20 feet equalizing the value of a knife and non-drawn gun. At that range with the command to drop the weapon not being heeded at 3;30 a.m. in that neighborhood caught clearly doing something very odd at best, if the suspect does not drop the weapon, most often it’s bye-bye suspect.
Told you Pete was not ready for prime time.
He’s not even ready for his current job, a fact that’s now on profound and unimpeachable display.
Only a democrat can get away with using his past incompetence at his current job as a resume enhancer for a promotion.
2. It beggars belief that the Democrats think America will support this position. Against anyone but Trump, they would have no chance at all.
Essentially, the Democrats are taking the position that there is no difference between a foreign alien and an American citizen, except for the fact that the alien hasn’t gotten here yet.
Let’s stipulate (rightly or wrongly) that they don’t want to extend effective citizenship to criminals, gangs and terrorists. Everyone else is welcome, if they are to be believed, to show up at our border and demand entrance, including full health and social benefits.
Those legally applying still have to wait. So what rational person would try to immigrate to the US legally? What reparations do we offer people like my wife and her mother, who had to take actual exams and go through a whole naturalization process to be legal immigrants? Democrats today would have decried this as abuse.
The Democrats position on immigration is incoherent and destructive of the republic. It is, to be only a little hyperbolic, insane.
3. Shorter Buttigieg: Cynically using a police officer as life raft to prevent drowning in a sea of accusations of racial insensitivity. Drown, copper, white folks can’t be police anymore. See, everybody, I’m all about black people!
4. Biden’s association with segregationist Democrats (except we know they were all really Republicans!) is one of those “new” sins that earns you erasure from society — fraternizing with a known racist, sexist, homophobic or other insensitive, the definition of which is a deliberately moving target.
Harris’ ignorance about how bussing actually worked is typical of today’s Democrat when it comes to history. I don’t know whether to blame her, or the system that created her by mis-teaching or ignoring history.
6. Gillibrand is apropos to nothing. She is already a casualty of this circular firing squad.
9. I have personal animus toward Swalwell, so I’ll just leave that commentary to you.
11. Biden
Anything — including destroying our own republic.
#3 Do these idiots not realize how much they hurt their own cause when they tout cases like this one? Sadly the clear answer is no, they’re not very smart.
I’m a big advocate of changing police training and also that weapon free non-compliance shouldn’t be a free pass for an officer to use lethal force.
But if you holding a freaking knife and an officer shoots you after saying drop it and giving you a second, too bad so sad. Sticking up for the perp in these cases only gives the “officer is always right” types ammunition to sway the public their way.
8) Justice Roland Freisler often got away with pre-judgment of trials. Decisions were clearly made before hand the trials were essentially kangaroo courts to justify the “final” decisions of the court. It’s an awful way to handle jurisprudence, but some political philosophies seem comfortable with it. I wonder if Bernie would appoint him to the Supreme Court?