The most obnoxious segment of Netflix’s Chelsea airing on August 4th involved two liberal California Democrats and the glimpse they give into the minds of the far left in the early days of the Trump presidency.
The episode titled “Let’s Keep Moving Forward” spotlighted Rep. Ted Lieu (show host Chelsea Handler’s congressman) and Rep. Eric Swalwell. Handler asked them about how Republicans in Congress are handling the Trump presidency and Lieu said, “Eric and I would love to be able to tape-record Republican members of Congress on the House floor and play them publicly, but we can’t do that. What they say privately is very different than what they say publicly.”
The topics of North Korea, immigration, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, impeachment and Russian sanctions were covered. The issue of North Korea opened the conversation. With Secretary of State Rex Tillerson open to the possibility of talks with that country’s madman dictator, Swalwell said, “We don’t have friends right now. The President is alienating our friends, and that makes us, I think, less safe, with an unfocused President.” Both Swalwell and Lieu sit on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Lieu said, “There is no strategy with the Trump administration.”
On immigration and the new guidelines put forth by the administration last week, Lieu said, “It’s a really stupid policy. It feels like we are going back 100 years.” Chelsea responded with a line that made me laugh, though she was being serious – “It feels like he’s a revisionist.” Oh, boy. Sounds like Chelsea learned a new word for her political conversations. “It’s a SAT test at the border,” said Swalwell. Because of the requirements of speaking English and being able to support themselves Swalwell deduced, “Make America Great Again I think really means 'Make America White Again.'” How predictable, right?
When Handler turned the focus to Attorney General Sessions, Swalwell was eager to jump in. “He has to go. He wasn’t forthcoming. Some people think the enemy of my enemy is my friend, but he wasn’t forthcoming with the Senate. He was part of James Comey’s firing. We can’t have a lack of trust for the top cop. I think this is an opportunity for the Senate to put someone in there who’s gonna start putting real checks and balances on the President.”
Lieu, however, prefers Sessions stays in place because it’s all about Special Counsel Mueller. He said, “I have a slightly different view. Jeff Sessions has racist views. He also committed slight perjury before Congress. But he’s the only person right now standing between Donald Trump and Special Counsel Mueller. So, in this bizarre world we live in I am deeply conflicted and I think it might be better to have Jeff Sessions there so that Donald Trump can’t fire Special Counsel Mueller.” Did you get all that? Lieu calls Sessions a racist and claims he perjured himself slightly before Congress. What, exactly, is “slight perjury”?
Now fully into a liberal’s alternative universe, Chelsea turns to impeachment. Both of these men sit on the House Judiciary Committee. Lieu said that since Articles of Impeachment have been filed, the committee needs to open its investigation and get the show on the road. No crimes were cited for justification of impeachment, mind you, but apparently Chelsea thinks lying is an impeachable offense. She asked, “Why isn’t it illegal to lie repeatedly on camera?" (Well, Chelsea, that would put you out of a job and in jail.) "Why is the President of the United States allowed to lie to the American people? Why is that not against the law?” she continued. Lieu assured her that the American people were wising up to the lies of Trump and quoted Abe Lincoln to do so – “Public sentiment is everything,” he said. “The president gets to lie but the public sees that happening.” Swalwell piped in, “When his lies start to obstruct our investigations, that is a problem.” Again, no examples of any high crimes or misdemeanors from the President.
And, finally, on sanctions against Russia, Lieu said, “We [Congress] were imposing our will on him.” “Babysitting him,” agreed Chelsea. “That’s right,” said Lieu. “Basically, we’re saying, 'We do not trust you, Donald Trump, on doing the right thing with Russia.'”
I’ll leave you with this truly cringe-worthy birthday greeting Chelsea delivers to Barack Obama. Talk about revisionist!
So, there you have it. Another episode of Handler’s show and her Trump-hating guests. I can only imagine the outrage if a Republican congressman had said he would love to tape-record Democrats on the House floor to show their contempt for Democratic leadership. In the bubble of the far left, though, anything goes as long as it’s against a duly elected Republican President of the United States.
