Maxine Waters gets her way in Flyover Country.: Some guy in San Antonio named Kino Jiminez is looking for work today. He lost his job at a bar called Rumble after he was filmed assaulting a teenager at a local Whataburger (good choice!) for having the temerity to wear a “Make America Great Again” cap.
In addition to stealing the kid’s cap and verbally abusing him, Mr. Jiminez also threatened him physically and threw a soft drink in his face. Being a liberal idiot, he was no doubt shocked that he ended up getting fired by his employer after the video of his assault went viral on social media.
And why wouldn’t he be? After all, a member of congress can get up and incite exactly this sort of behavior in public, have her despicable rant end up on national television and nothing happens to her. Ol’ Kino was just taking direction from his betters, after all, right?
So Mad Maxine’s getting her way, even out here in Flyover Country.
And speaking of Mad Maxine getting her way, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, fresh off of being accosted in a Washington, DC restaurant a few days ago, resigned from his office on Thursday, citing “unrelenting attacks” from the left and the fake news media on himself and his family.
Pruitt has done a great job of reining in the most abusive agency in the entire federal government during his year and a half on the job, but he has been beset by unending “scandals” – many fake, some real – over his personal behavior in office. Late last year, the fake news media and their Democrat wards determined that Pruitt was ethically challenged and decided to mount a focused, coordinated campaign to run him from office, which is what the media and the Democrats always do whenever an effective conservative is running the EPA.
Unfortunately, Pruitt gave them a little rope to work with, and they wrapped it around his neck and kept squeezing until the pressure became too much to bear. Adios, Mr. Pruitt.
Things won’t be any easier for Pruitt’s successor, Andrew Wheeler. Before the ink had dried on Pruitt’s resignation letter, fake news media outlets like Newsweek and the Associated Press were out in force with their first shots across the bow in their war on his character as well.
Where Pruitt had sued the EPA dozens of time while serving as Oklahoma’s Attorney General, Wheeler spent time as a lobbyist for a coal company and also as a staffer for Oklahoma Senator and fierce EPA critic James Inhofe, a truly great man who is of course utterly detested by the the Climate Change hoaxers. Having worked for Inhofe, who has himself been the subject of unending assaults on his character from the global warming lobby for decades, means Wheeler is no stranger to the sort of treatment he is about be subjected to.
Thus, the hilarious outcome for the Climate hoaxers is that they may have “won” a battle with Pruitt, but their war to regulate the U.S. economy into submission through the EPA isn’t going to get any easier with Wheeler taking the reins.
All of which brings me around to this morning’s overriding point, which is that, thanks to the radicalization of the Democrat Party, our country is in danger of losing all notion of public civility. There are no longer any adults serving in leadership roles in the Democrat Party or in the fake national news media that serves as their propaganda arm, and that is ultimately a danger to the nation’s survival.
The refusal by anyone in a position of authority within the Democrat Party to discipline Maxine Waters for her clear, repeated public incitements to violence is one of the saddest disgraces in American political history. Likewise, the refusal of our fake news outlets to call the Democrats to account for their putrid behavior is equally disgraceful and just one more bit of proof – as if we needed any more – that the media has consciously and intentionally abandoned its intended role as the watchdog for the public interest.
Look how they treated Clarence Thomas just because he dont fit in with the liberal cause he rejects racial prefrences and supports the 2nd Amendment and so they brought in Anita Hill they failed