* This is a BFD! Trump is really assembling a coalition of both flanks of the GOP. And there is nobody stronger than Sessions on immigration. May Trump win big!
PS: CNN and MSNBC carrying Trump’s massive rally in Huntsville live. But not Fox.
* Meanwhile the news reported that McCain and Mitch McConnell are planning to wrest the nomination away from Trump by “united” action of Republican legislators in the Senate and House and anoint Boy Rubio as the nominee at the Convention.
* The thing about Sessions is it really hurts the cause of those who say Trump will flip on immigration.
I’d rather Sessions be Homeland Security than AG.
* Keep Sessions exactly where he is.
He is the conscience of the Senate. Otherwise Mitch McConnell and his ilk would throw white America under the bus in a heartbeat.
* Rep Tulsi Gabbard endorsed Sanders because Hillary is nuts. It may be possible she would endorse Trump against Clinton as she has one issue, best Commander in Chief.
DNC vice chair resigns, endorses Sanders, blasts Clinton’s “interventionist, regime change policies.”
* They’re not necessarily opposed–neocons and paleocons are different groups that don’t overlap, but you can be pro-invade the world and anti-invite the world. There’s nothing logically connecting one to the other. Explain to me why being pro-life means opposing gun control, why supporting environmental regulation means you support gay marriage, or, for our local people, why you can’t believe in HBD and global climate change? (Anatoly Karlin does.)
* Palin is a player. I’m surprised that she still has that access. Good for her. Good for Trump in recognizing her. The thing with Palin, which is evident to anyone who examines the entirety of her career, is her view has remained consistent on the relationship a politician has to the people. She was a demon against vested interests in Alaska. Sessions is criticizing the “Masters of the Universe.” Trump is firing on all cylinders against the moneyed elites who subvert government in order to direct benefits to themselves. The fact that Trump is aligning with people like Palin and Sessions reduces my skepticism on whether he’s exploiting an ignored audience and after securing their support will betray them. He doesn’t need to have a meeting of the minds with Palin and Sessions in order to take his positions. He might be playing them too, but at some point the conspiracies within conspiracies analysis has to give way to Occam’s Razor.
Palin resurrecting her reputation would be sweet justice and a massive middle finger to the elites who belittled her.
* Pull quote at top of Drudge from Sessions statement is ‘bust up the oligarchy’ !! antisemitic, amirite?
* Did anyone just see the Chris Rock Oscar monologue? Holy crap, I was not expecting that all! It had some of the most “HBD-influenced” commentary I have ever seen in a mainstream media event. I never thought I would hear that Rocky/Star Wars joke on TV! Are we living through the death throes of PC?
* Some went over the National Review and collected everyone’s belt and shoelaces. There was an orgy of Trump bashing this morning as they repeating the prepared lines about Trump being a mafia Nazi klansman.
I suspect someone was sent out to buy purple shrouds and Nike sneakers for the “staff meeting” tomorrow.
* Professional (sort of) black lady Melissa Harris-Perry race-hustles herself out of a job.
MSNBC has severed ties with Melissa Harris-Perry after the host sent a critical email. Here’s what happened between the network and the show host. (Monica Akhtar/The Washington Post)
By Paul Farhi February 28 at 11:29 AM
MSNBC has parted ways with host Melissa Harris-Perry after she complained about preemptions of her weekend program and implied that there was a racial aspect to the cable-news network’s treatment, insiders at MSNBC said.
Harris-Perry refused to appear on her program Saturday morning, telling her co-workers in an email that she felt “worthless” to the NBC-owned network. “I will not be used as a tool for their purposes,” wrote Harris-Perry, who is African American. “I am not a token, mammy or little brown bobble head. I am not owned by [NBC executives] or MSNBC. I love our show. I want it back.”
* Glenn [Beck] should be able to fast for quite awhile before the effect is noticeable.
* I should also add that putting a hardline military guy as Homeland Security would do it. If Stanley McCrystal is hardline on immigration, put him as Homeland Sec and watch him execute the Trump/Sessions plan and install other plans designed to secure the American people from foreign incursion. (Also, McCrystal as the pick would seriously needle Obama and Biden on their way out the door)
The fact that a military person isn’t the default pic for Homeland Security is troubling enough. It’s a job suited for a military mindset: securing borders, establishing checkpoints for foreign entries, dealing with illegal infiltrators, a non-civilian court system run by its own rules with only minimal constitutional intervention (USCMJ courts and immigration courts), vetting entries, spying, evaluating intelligence reports…..this is stuff the military is suited for.
