Is that land his land?
The leader of the “Draft Beto [O’Rourke] 2020” movement apparently wants to get one rival of the vanquished Texas Senate candidate out of the way.
Last week, Travis Justin posted on Twitter grainy footage of a shirtless, imbibing Bernie Sanders, then the mayor of Burlington, Vermont, toasting and singing “This Land Is Your Land” with a group of Soviets while in Yaroslavl in the former USSR in 1988.
While Yaroslavl is a sister city of Burlington, both Sanders and his wife, Jane, have in the past called the trip their honeymoon, which occurred shortly after their wedding.
Since Sanders is a self-proclaimed Democratic Socialist, boozing it up with his fellow comrades may not have been anything he thought was out of line. But Justin apparently believes some Americans may still think schmoozing with Communists is not the thing to do.
Hat trick
“Harry Potter” actor Daniel Radcliffe was not unlike much of the nation in rooting against the New England Patriots in last night’s Super Bowl.
They win too much, he says.
Radcliffe, 29, said last week he would be rooting for the Los Angeles Rams.
“The whole world is rooting for the Patriots sorry,” he said. He elaborated that he didn’t think Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, 41, should retire, but that “he should stop winning things.”
Like other diehard liberals, Radcliffe apparently feels earned success should be spread around. But he had another reason for rooting against the quarterback.
“Take that MAGA (Make America Great Again) hat out of your locker!” he said. “I feel like that was the moment when as a country we were all like, ‘Come on, dude! You’re awesome … Don’t put that in here.'”
Brady and President Donald Trump have been friends in the past and have played golf together, but Radcliffe was talking about a 2015 video where the hat emblematic of a Trump supporter could be seen. Since then, the Patriots star has been less forthcoming about any relationship he may still have with the president and in 2017 did not visit the White House with his team.
As with many liberals, though, old hate dies hard.
Snowed under
Trying evermore to link recent New York weather with climate change, Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo was chewed up and spit out by history he apparently didn’t know and didn’t check out last week.
“A new reality,” he said during a news conference, was bringing about weather – like hurricanes and massive snowfall – the state has never experienced. “We are getting more and more storms with a higher level of frequency. That is not a political statement. That is a fact. We did not have hurricanes in the state of New York. We did not have superstorms in the state of New York.”
Except, of course, when they did.
Cuomo may have been referring to Hurricane or Superstorm Sandy that hit the state in 2012, but the Empire State has seen dozens of hurricanes in the last 200 years and earlier. The deadliest among those was the hurricane of 1938, which made landfall on Long Island and is estimated to have killed 256 people.
The governor went on to talk about seven feet of snow in Buffalo as if snow off Lake Erie were a new phenomenon. In fact, the city averages 7.8 feet of snow per year, has had many years of snow exceeding seven feet and hit an all-time record for January in 1977 with 68.3 inches.
But, hey, it sounds good if no one ever calls you on it.
The new Jim Crow
A pro-abortion employee kicked a dozen Sacramento State pro-life students out of a San Francisco art gallery last weekend, and the gallery’s manager later tried to blame it on the lateness of the evening.
The students were booted between 9:15 and 9:30 p.m., but the Dennis Rae Fine Art gallery’s Facebook site lists its closing time at 10 p.m.
“I felt like it was very like the 1950s,” student Carmen Perez told NBC Bay Area, “like getting kicked out of a restaurant because of your race, but in this case, it was because of our political views.”
The students earlier in the day had rallied at a Walk for Life event, but when confronted by the employee were viewing a Dr. Seuss-themed art display.
“Just an FYI, we’re getting kicked out, because we’re pro-life,” a student said to the employee, as the incident began to be recorded.
“Good, yes, yes,” the employee said.
“OK, God bless you, have a good one, ma’am,” the student said.
As they left, the employee suggested the students, who support life, were “pro-death.”
“I am pro-life,” she said. “I am pro-choice. You are pro-death.”
After which she went back into the gallery to work on her comebacks.