Sunday roundup

Jeff Flake has a terminal case of Reasonable Gentleman Syndrome:

Smiling from ear to duplicitous ear, Sen. Jeff Flake (fake Republican-Ariz.) took the stage in front of a roaring crowd of #GlobalCitizens at a rock festival on Saturday. Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), the chap who seems to have talked Flake into betraying his constituents and party leaders, was alongside him in a bipartisan show of support for the big fat wrench in the form of a "one-week" delay in the confirmation process for Judge Kavanaugh. I put "one-week" in quotes because the chances of it ending before the midterms are about as minuscule as Lindsay Lohan making good life choices. It's possible, but it sure doesn't look like it's happening any time soon.

You would think that in this very serious time, where Flake himself worried that America is tearing itself apart over the "intergalactic freakshow" the Senate process has become, he would be more reserved and serious about the decision he made to drag it out even longer and put half of the country he is supposed to be representing on high blood pressure meds. You would think he would have the good sense to be photographed with Mitch McConnell, looking deeply concerned. But no. Instead, we get this: He thinks he's a flippin' rock star!

"You can join me in an elevator anytime!" a beaming Flake shouts to a crowd of screaming twenty-year-olds whose brains haven't fully developed yet and who probably think he's one of the dads on Full House. The audience he's trying to impress is full of the socialist-cheering young people hanging on every word of the likes of Janet Jackson, John Legend, Robert De Niro, and Disney stars I can't name. Every single one of them is a far-left kook.

Sportswriter Erik Brady has dog vomit where decent human beings have souls.  Again, I deliberated for a while about whether to link to this spiritually rotten piece of excrement, but we have to know what we are up against in this existential war.

Allie Stuckey gets the how-dare-you-stray-from-the-party-line-of-the-sisterhood treatment in Texas:

The result? Boos from the audience.

Stuckey lamented:

“I’m devastated to see a man’s life almost in ruins based on uncorroborated and unsubstantiated allegations. I am devastated by the thought of a world in which people are guilty until proven innocent and the burden of proof is on the accused.”

That’s the old way, Allie. As I indicated here, that went out of style with neon windbreakers and critical thought.

To the consternation of congressional Democrats, Allie then went full-bore insane — she championed the concept of evidence:

“I listened to both of their testimonies, and while I think both are believable, I think only Kavanaugh is credible. He’s the only one that has any substantiation for anything that he said, the only one with any corroboration, the only one who has gone through six FBI background checks, the only one that has any evidence for anything that he’s saying and witnesses to back up what he’s saying.”

Then the CRTV host dared speak against sexism:

“He’s the only one that has that, and yet we’re supposed to unconditionally believe the woman? Why? Because of her anatomy?”

That got ’em!

Boos filled the room, like hypocrisy filling a tank fueling a bus of p***y-hatted Bill Clinton supporters, on their way to protest Kavanaugh’s confirmation.
Stuckey…well…stuck…to her guns:

“I think that’s unjust, I think it’s discriminatory, and I don’t believe it.”
Allie posted to Twitter about the ordeal:

“So….I was just booed at #TribFest for supporting Kavanaugh, and, specifically, for saying unconditionally believing all women is unjust. Stand by it tho.” 

Not so fast on the assumption that North Korea is going to be a second Switzerland within three weeks. The US position is that sanctions stay in place until denuclearization is a verifiable done deal. NK says, "Reward us with incremental sanctions for each little thing we do that can be construed as moving toward denuclearization":

North Korea's foreign minister told the United Nations on Saturday continued sanctions were deepening its mistrust in the United States and there was no way the country would give up its nuclear weapons unilaterally under such circumstances.

Ri Yong Ho told the world body's annual General Assembly that North Korea had taken "significant goodwill measures" in the past year, such as stopping nuclear and missiles tests, dismantling the nuclear test site, and pledging not to proliferate nuclear weapons and nuclear technology.

"However, we do not see any corresponding response from the U.S.," he said.

"Without any trust in the U.S. there will be no confidence in our national security and under such circumstances there is no way we will unilaterally disarm ourselves first."

While Ri reprised familiar North Korean complaints about Washington's resistance to a "phased" approach to denuclearization under which North Korea would be rewarded as it took gradual steps, his statement appeared significant in that it did not reject unilateral denuclearization out of hand as Pyongyang has done in the past.

Well, that's nice that they're not rejecting denuclearization out of hand, but lets see some concrete steps.

Elon Musk's social-media oopsie has cost him the chairmanship of the car company he founded.