Shhhhh, everybody, Barbra Streisand has something important to say.
The “Yentl” star thinks Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) belongs in the White House. There. Now you know.
“Adam Schiff is so impressive. His knowledge of the law… his passion… his articulateness. His sincerity! He speaks the truth and would make a great president,” Streisand wrote on Twitter.
Adam Schiff is so impressive. His knowledge of the law… his passion… his articulateness. His sincerity! He speaks the truth and would make a great president.
— Barbra Streisand (@BarbraStreisand) January 31, 2020
His “sincerity.” Wonderful. What insight.
Babs is one of those limousine liberals who believes – really believes – that everyone cares what she thinks. And like all the other glitterati in her camp, she’s deeply ill-informed, even though she thinks she’s a Rhodes scholar.
Streisand continued to offer her important thoughts on Friday, the day Schiff’s case against President Trump was blowing up in his face. Even his crocodile tears at the end of the sham trial failed to sway senators.
Said Streisand: “51% of Republicans overrule 75% of Americans who wanted witnesses to appear at the trial. This is not how democracy should work. I hope the senate pays a price for this sham.”
51% of Republicans overrule 75% of Americans who wanted witnesses to appear at the trial. This is not how democracy should work. I hope the senate pays a price for this sham.
— Barbra Streisand (@BarbraStreisand) February 1, 2020
Let’s unpack that a bit. Presumably, Streisand saw a poll that said 75% of Americans supported witnesses in the Trump trial. But here’s the thing: Polls don’t decide how things work. The Senate, as envisioned by the Founding Fathers, decides those things. This IS how government works.
See, we’re a representative republic. “In the context of American constitutional law, the definition of republic refers specifically to a form of government in which elected individuals represent the citizen body and exercise power according to the rule of law under a constitution, including separation of powers with an elected head of state, referred to as a constitutional republic or representative democracy,” says the textbook definition in Wikipedia. Pretty simple.
And for the record, a representative republic is NOT a democracy. The people elect representatives who then legislate and govern. That’s a representative republic.
Streisand gets her dander up a few times a year. Back in 2018, she threatened to move to Canada.
“I’ve been thinking about, do I want to move to Canada? I don’t know,” Streisand told The New York Times. She said she might pack it up and move if the Democrats don’t take control of the House of Representatives.
“I want to sleep nights … if we take the House I’ll be able to sleep a little bit better,” she said. “I’m just so saddened by this thing happening to our country. It’s making me fat. I hear what he said now, and I have to go eat pancakes now, and pancakes are very fattening.”
Streisand, 78, also put out a new album, “Walls,” that features a track titled, “Don’t Lie to Me,” which is about Trump. The song contains the lyrics: “How do you sleep when the world keeps turning?/All that we built has come undone/How do you sleep when the world is burning?/Everyone answers to someone.”
“I would lie awake at night with Trump’s outrages running through my head, and I had to do another album for Columbia Records, so I thought, why not make an album about what’s on my mind? And that became the title of the first song,” Streisand said.
On Trump, she told The Times: “I just can’t stand what’s going on. His assault on our democracy, our institutions, our founders – I think we’re in a fight. … We’re in a war for the soul of America.”
Well, representative republic. But we get your point, Babs.