Anyone arguing that Barack Obama’s presidency was not a horrible mistake can be refuted with a single fact: he commuted the sentence of Bradley Manning.

As a consequence of releasing a massive quantity of restricted documents, Manning was guilty of approximately 750,000 counts of treason. He placed the lives of innumerable Americans and foreign allies in jeopardy, warranting execution as surely as any traitor ever has.

Instead, the Obama Administration agreed to force taxpayers to finance his sex change operation. Then Obama commuted his sentence.

Not even free from prison yet, Manning has already been embraced by the liberal media, which is sure to offer him a soapbox for many years to come. He took to the Guardian to express his gratitude to Obama — by denouncing his protector as weak and apologetic:

Barack Obama left behind hints of a progressive legacy. Unfortunately, despite his faith in our system and his positive track record on many issues over the last eight years, there have been very few permanent accomplishments.

This vulnerable legacy should remind us that what we really need is a strong and unapologetic progressive to lead us.

Manning even accused Obama of not being sufficiently obsequious toward the “queer community” — despite reflexive kowtowing to LGBT militants probably being primarily responsible for his commutation.

In the aftermath of the deadly shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando that took the lives of nearly 50 queer and brown people, it took Obama over 300 words of his speech to acknowledge the queer community, and even then, as an abstract acronym.

Whatever you give the unworthy, it will never be enough.

On a tip from Scott D.

Passed along by PhiloTFarnsworth.

We are often left to wonder what politicians are actually saying to each other during public events — but not with Trump’s inauguration, thanks to Bad Lip Reading:

On tips from Stormfax and Varla.

Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) traveled to Syria, then returned to appear on CNN, which has been taking part in the ongoing propaganda campaign exploiting tearjerker tactics to wrench open the floodgates to Muslim refugees and possibly get us involved in a war. But Gabbard did not play along with the usual spin. This clip starts off a little slow but gets interesting:

Baby Assad is a very bad guy, but there are worse people in Syria — namely, the terrorist Islamomaniacs leftists like Obama and fools like McCain have worked to replace him with. Nothing we can do is going to make Syria a pleasant place to live. Hopefully we will pursue a more sensible policy going forward.

On a tip from Dragon’s Lair.

The good news for Obama is that there were three other presidents in the post-FDR era who were even more unpopular, according to underreported Gallup findings that came out last Friday:

Only three presidents scored worse than Obama since Gallup started doing these surveys in 1945: never-elected Gerald Ford (47.2%), one-termer Jimmy Carter (45.4%), and Harry Truman (45.4%).

Obama even did worse overall than Richard Nixon, whose average approval was 49%, and was less popular overall than George W. Bush, who got an average 49.4%.

Obama rode high upon a wave of euphoria in his first year, due to media hype and the country’s morbid obsession with race. He got a bump at the end from the ugliness of the 2016 campaign and the unpopularity of those nominated to replace him. In between was a lousy presidency, possibly the worst yet. Liberal historians have their work cut out for them if they are going to pass it off as anything but.

On tips from Torcer and Artfldgr.

Any attempt to get the illegal immigration situation under control will result in the media bringing out its big guns: tearjerker stories about the put-upon victims, impoverished urchins with their daddies dragged away in chains by the Stormtroopers, leaving one and all with the certitude that only a total monster would enforce immigration law. For once, those defending America are fighting fire with fire:

In order to better inform Americans about the impact illegal aliens are having on crime rates in sanctuary cities, President Donald Trump [yesterday] ordered the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security to publish a weekly list of crimes committed by illegals.

In an executive order titled “Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States,” Trump directed Secretary John Kelly to be transparent with citizens.

This transparency will come in the form of “a comprehensive list of criminal actions committed by aliens and any jurisdiction that ignored or otherwise failed to honor any detainers with respect to such aliens.”

I’ll see your sobbing anchor baby and raise you Kate Steinle.

On tips from Bodhisattva and Rob E.

I wonder what students have been learning about their country in Payal Modi's class?

A high school art teacher in Dallas posted an Instagram video of herself “shooting” an image of Donald Trump with a squirt gun and screaming “die” during Friday’s inauguration.

The original post was deleted, but the Internet is forever:

It is unclear whether students were in the classroom at the time.

Encouragingly, reaction to her behavior at Rate My Teachers has not been supportive.

On tips from Tchhht!!! and Torcer.

It didn’t happen until after he finally left office, but Obama at last managed to unite Democrats and Republicans, in all 50 states of the Union:

All 50 state secretaries of state are urging the Trump administration to rescind a last-minute Department of Homeland Security directive calling state election systems “critical infrastructure.” …

Then-Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson surprised and outraged state election officials with his Jan. 6 action, just two weeks before President-elect Donald Trump was to assume the presidency.

Johnson tried to portray his move as part of the Obama administration’s effort against Russian government hacking of Democratic Party emails during the presidential campaign.

Shrillary’s campaign manager John Podesta was witless enough to fall for an obvious phishing scheme. Largely as a result of this, some emails ended up in the hands of WikiLeaks that were mildly embarrassing to Democrats, who justifiably dismissed the whole brouhaha as a “nothingburger” — until they lost. Since then, this incident has been spun as Russian hacking of the election, and exploited not only to delegitimize Trump, but to attack the integrity of our elections and the federal system that defends us from centralized tyranny.

[Johnson] broadly put all state election facilities under the federal “critical infrastructure” purview. His designation would affect all state-operated polling places, centralized vote [tabulation locations], election storage facilities and IT systems holding voter registration databases.

He also angered state officials because the federal designation would exempt future election activities from public access via the Freedom of Information Act or from state open record laws.

The “Russian hacking” justification is a lie. Election machinery does not connect to the Internet.

Critics contend the action was part of a long-standing goal by progressive activists to “nationalize” future elections with a federal takeover.

Other than Obama and Jeh Johnson, who would be in favor of this power grab? Only far leftists:

Support for the designation can be found among liberals and members of the Congressional Black Caucus.

Jan. 16, Rep. Hank Johnson, a Georgia Democrat who also is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, introduced legislation to support the designation.

Hank Johnson is the cognitively challenged moonbat who frets that the presence of our troops may cause the island of Guam to capsize.

“In the wake of the DNC server hack and well-documented efforts by states to suppress the vote, citizens are rightly concerned,” Johnson stated when he introduced the bill.

“Suppress the vote” is Liberalese for “ensure the integrity of elections.” Moonbats were listening when Founding Father of Progressivism Joseph Stalin said,

Thankfully, other Democrats are beginning to wake up to the benefits of federalism — now that they no longer control the White House.

In his last days, Obama certainly showed his true colors — commuting the sentences of a traitor and a terrorist, shoveling our money at terror-supporting Palestinians, and now this. America is well rid of him.

On tips from Torcer and Dragon’s Lair.

These days you can’t boycott every business that caters to moonbattery, or you would end up eating out of dumpsters like a freegan. But there are a few I would just as soon avoid — Chili’s, for instance:

Chili’s restaurants in two states are coming under fire from pro-life advocates for giving 15% of patron’s meal purchases to the Planned Parenthood abortion business.

Earlier this week the Planned Parenthood abortion business affiliate in Indiana and Kentucky posted a promotional code its supporters could use to request that Chili’s donate 15% of the pre-tax meal purchase to benefit the abortion corporation. …

This is not the first time that Chili’s has been involved in potential donations to the Planned Parenthood abortion business. A Chili’s restaurant in California initially set up a fundraiser for a local Planned Parenthood abortion clinic but eventually cancelled it after pro-life advocates complained.

Sometimes complaining works — and fortunately Chili’s makes it easy to do.

On a tip from Dan F.

It appears that flyers plastering the University of Kansas that depict anarcho-capitalism and the slogan “Make America Great Again” as coded language for Nazism have been traced to their source — the university’s own School of Social Welfare:

The flyers in question were found throughout campus Tuesday, including in Strong Hall and Twente Hall, and were sent anonymously to Campus Reform by students believing them to be the work of informal “anti-fascist” student groups that have sprung up in the wake of Donald Trump’s election.

In addition to deciphering “coded” neo-Nazi language, the flyer warns that “opponents of safe spaces” may be more prone to joining white nationalist groups, and suggests that flyers from “hate groups” on campus should be torn down and reported.

Campus Reform reached out to Stand With ME—an anti-fascist, anti-Trump group at KU that recently labeled Young America’s Foundation a “hate group”—to ask whether the group was responsible for the flyers.

Stand With ME denied responsibility, but praised the flyers, which they jubilantly claimed had been created and distributed by the School of Social Welfare.

Students, their parents, and taxpayers all put up big money for the sake of education. Too often, we get juvenile propaganda instead.

You do not need a degree in political science to be aware that anarcho-capitalism is the polar opposite of statist/collectivist ideologies like Nazism and communism. But after earning a degree from the School of Social Welfare, you might not have a clue — although you would know that anyone with a Make America Great Again hat is a Nazi.

On a tip from Sterling B.

Via David Fischer.

Bill Clinton could do no wrong from moonbats’ point of view. But what would their attitude be regarding Juanita Broaddrick’s credible allegation of rape if Trump were the rapist? Faith Goldy discovered the answer at the Women’s March in D.C.:

On a tip from Dragon’s Lair.

If you like divisiveness, you will love Shia LeBeouf's anti-Trump “art” project outside the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens:

The project is being constantly live-streamed onto the internet, with people allowed to stand in front of the wall and recite the phrase, ‘he will not divide us.’

[LeBeouf] was previously captured screaming into the face of a ‘white supremacist’ just two days into his four-year protest of Donald Trump.

The 30-year-old actor spent the weekend partaking in the event, and on Sunday was approached by a young man who said directly into the camera: ‘We must secure the existence of white people.’

At the time, LaBeouf and all those present had been chanting ‘he will not divide us,’ and when the young man made his statement the actor immediately went off on a tirade.

In a moment that seemed almost too good to be true the Indiana Jones And The Crystal Skull star screamed: ‘HE WILL NOT DIVIDE US. HE WILL NOT DIVIDE US.’

LeBeouf’s other acting credits include a 2013 arthouse porno film called Nymphomaniac. But for now it looks like he will be too busy for acting:

[LeBeouf] is determined his protest art show will go on for 24 hours a day, seven days a week for Trump’s entire four-year term in office.

If progressives keep making a pageant of their radicalism, another 4-year term will likely follow. Given the average moonbat attention span, LeBeouf’s public tantrum is unlikely to last much more than a week.

Here LeBeouf (in red cap with goofy pompom) employs his sophisticated debating skills against someone who doesn’t share his point of view:

There is more to this ideology than shouting, “He will not divide us!” Sometimes they also shout, “We’re all equal!” This is how some moonbats see fit to spend their time:

LaBeouf’s comically hypocritical “He Will Not Divide Us” campaign has generated so much unity, Jon Voight accuses it of “teaching treason.”

On a tip from J.

The results are unfortunate wherever moonbattery is applied. When it is applied to police work and the justice system, people get killed. Australia’s recent Bourke Street Massacre provides an example.

Jimmy Gargasoulas, 26, has been charged with murder after five people were killed and many others badly injured when he allegedly deliberately ran down pedestrians in the Melbourne mall after police had tailed him for hours beforehand. …

In the hours before the mall attack, Gargasoulas had allegedly stabbed his brother, kidnapped his girlfriend and been followed by police. He also stunned bystanders by doing doughnuts outside Flinders St Station just before driving down the mall. Two teenage boys with baseball bats tried to stop him.

That was more than the police had been willing to do for the past 16 hours or so. Why did they not save innocent lives by apprehending him sooner?

Victoria police had been directed not to shoot at or rush to intercept stolen or suspect cars months before last Friday’s Bourke St Mall car attack.

The Herald Sun reported on Wednesday that Deputy Commissioner Andrew Crisp wrote in an email to all officers in September: “Plan your approach and response when intercepting a stolen or suspect vehicle — time is on your side.”

The two children who were killed might not agree.

Police union secretary, Detective Senior Sergeant Ron Iddles, has said there were several occasions where police believed they could have safely intercepted and arrested him, but were told not to by their superiors. …

Within hours of the tragedy sources within the police said there had been seven occasions where they could have safely tried to intercept Gargasoulas.

But the allegation is that on each occasion staff were told not to attempt it by their superiors.

Apparently inspired by a moonbatty safety-first mentality, police got people killed by waiting for Gargasoulas to tire himself out.

The maniac was out on bail at the time. The lost lives would have been spared had he still been behind bars. Here is why he wasn’t — from the Australian, via the Herald Sun:

The alleged Bourke Street killer was wanted on warrants and facing 20 charges — including dangerous driving over a police chase, assault and breach of bail — when he was released by a volunteer bail justice only days before five people died, including three-month-old Zachary Bryant.

Who are these volunteer bail justices, who can be as young as 18?

To become a bail justice, applicants require no formal qualifications. They complete a course and meet selection criteria including strong interpersonal and conflict management skills, initiative, empathy and cultural awareness.

Even if they don’t understand bail laws, at least they have empathy and cultural awareness.

Good thing Australia banned guns. Now everyone is safe.

On a tip from Andrew in Australia.

Fight for $15 foolishness has evoked the easily predictable response:

You can’t beat the price — at least for now:

The automated cheeseburger machine will offer three different sizes: traditional, the Mac Jr. and the Grand Mac, according to Metro Boston. The sandwiches are expected to be free of charge and available for a short time period.

People in the area can obtain the stacked sandwich without conversing with any humans, which seems to be part of a trend for casual restaurants.

I wonder why?

Wendy’s can’t afford to get left behind:

Wendy’s, another popular fast-food establishment, announced plans in May to start installing self-serving kiosks at some of its over 6,000 locations later in the year. The chain is replacing cashiers and other low-skilled jobs with computers and automated machines because, as Wendy’s president Todd Penegor told Investor’s Business Daily, it has to compensate for wage hikes.

It used to be that fast food restaurants provided first job opportunities for teens starting upward from the bottom of the ladder. Add that to the list of things moonbattery is taking away from us.

On a tip from Dragon’s Lair.

There are more than enough sanctuary cities, which flout federal law and refuse to cooperate with immigration authorities. Yet newly elected Travis County Sheriff Sally Hernandez is attempting to create another out of greater Austin, the San Francisco of Texas. Governor Greg Abbott is having none of it:

Abbott on Monday told Austin’s sheriff that her jail would become the first in the state to lose taxpayer money over so-called “sanctuary cities” policies unless she reverses plans to curtail working with federal immigration authorities by February.

The governor has previously threatened other “sanctuary cities” in Texas, and ultimately did not withhold funds … but has not delivered such a direct ultimatum before now.

Looks like this time he is serious. The climate is different, with a new sheriff in Washington.

Austin’s moonbat sheriff picked the wrong time to start reading from Obama’s outdated playbook:

Hernandez on Friday – in a defiantly timed announcement after Trump was inaugurated – said starting Feb. 1 she would end her predecessor’s policy of honoring all jail detainers sought by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Hernandez is a Democrat whose campaign in Texas’ most liberal city partly ran on promises to change how detainers are handled.

Trump will go a long way toward proving conservative critics wrong about his sincerity if he puts an end to the sanctuary city nonsense — which it looks like he is doing.

On a tip from TrojanMan.

It may be wise to stay out of blue state coffee shops until moonbats get over the election results:

Do blacks not feel insulted by condescending kooks like this?

On a tip from Sean C.

Colorado taxpayers have an extra reason to resent Quentin Tarantino, now that we know this radical left Hollyweird moonbat with a net worth of $100 million is a Colorado welfare queen:

The State of Colorado gave this multimillionaire [$3 million] to film part of his latest work of glam-violence, The Hateful Eight, in Colorado, instead of using that money for something as mundane as fixing your potholes. But on the bright side, this cinematic celebration of 16 highly profane and extra grisly murders takes place in Wyoming. Maybe it mentions Colorado in the credits.

Tarantino isn’t the only zillionaire from Tinseltown on the Colorado welfare roll:

It’s part of the over $9 million a year the state spends in corporate welfare “incentives” for TV and filmmakers.

The rich and flakey can also benefit by buying politically correct moonbatmobiles.

The state currently spends $7.6 million a year to give $5,000 cash to people who buy electric vehicles. The tax credit is on top of the $7,500 the feds kick in.

Normally wealth redistribution is justified by high-toned talk of helping the poor. Not this time.

[T]he Colorado Energy Office, in its Electric Vehicle and Infrastructure Readiness Plan, reports the key target market for electric vehicle purchasers in Colorado is made up by those aged 38-78 who earn more than $100,000 annually, have a bachelor’s degree or higher and own two or more vehicles.

Teslas can cost over $200,000. Despite the electricity they run on being 70% generated by coal, electric cars are often vanity baubles for the ultrarich who want to show off their fashionable enviromoonbattery.

Furthermore,

since these coal-powered cars don’t fill up at the gas station, they don’t pay any gas tax to help maintain the roads they still use.

Once again we see that liberalism is an alliance of the poor and the rich against those of us in the middle, who do not get tax breaks to drive extravagantly expensive eco-toys, who do not get paid $millions to make sick movies, and who have to pick up the bill for those who do.

On a tip from R F.