Gutierrez Attacks Trump For ‘Pro-White Agenda’  There is, of course, nothing ‘pro-white’ about Trump’s ‘agenda’ that isn’t also ‘pro-black’ and ‘pro-brown’.

People who react strongly to disgusting smells more likely to support Donald Trump, study finds  No problem with that, it’s the ‘prefer authoritarian leadership’ assertion that’s questionable.

College Course To Focus On Impeaching Trump  You know it had to happen.

Univision News Anchor Calls for Trump’s Defeat in 2020

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Americans aren’t happy with companies that severed ties with the National Rifle Association (NRA) in the wake of the tragic Florida high school shooting this month, according to a Wednesday Morning Consult poll.

Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Norton Antivirus, LifeLock, MetLife, Alamo, National Car Rental and SimpliSafe cut ties with the NRA in response to the Feb. 14 Parkland, Fla., high school shooting that claimed the lives of 17 individuals.

Morning consult surveyed 2,201 adults from Feb. 23-25 regarding their views of each company. The polling agency asked each respondent if they had a “favorable or unfavorable” view of each company before and after they were informed of the company’s choice to cut ties with the NRA.

Net favorability among all adult respondents fell between two and 18 percent for all companies after subjects learned of cutting ties with the NRA.

Before respondents were informed of MetLife’s decision, they had a 45 percent favorable and a 12 percent unfavorable rating. After respondents found out, unfavorable views doubled to 24 percent.

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Hey, Mugabe got away with that for decades. How hard can it be?

Also: This Is What Democracy Looks Like

The wolves have voted: The sheep are to become dinner. There’s a joke that goes “What’s the difference between South Africa and Zimbabwe? About 10 years.” Turns out, it wasn’t a joke.

Scott Wilmott fisks the Magic Negro at his most recent Secret Speech.

Apparently, Barack Obama gave a “secret” speech at a sports analytics conference at MIT. But he didn’t talk about sports analytics, he talked about himself and how great he is and other progressive bull. Pity the poor attendees at that sports analytics conference.

“We didn’t have a scandal that embarrassed us.” That is because it takes a sense of shame or humiliation to feel embarrassed, and this man has no shame or humility. In case you need a reminder of the scandals that he used to fundamentally transform America and that didn’t embarrass BHO, here is a short list:

1. Benghazi
2. Hillary’s private server
3. Fast and Furious
4. AG Holder being held in contempt of Congress
5. Solyndra
6. Delivering pallets of cash to Iran in the dead of the night
7. Obamacare “You can keep your doctor”
8. IRS targeting conservative groups
9. Bowe Bergdahl
10. Spying on journalists
11. Unmasking/spying on political opponents

Hey, ain’t nothin’ major when The Press is on your side.

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Activists are always calling for a boycott of something or other. Just the usual witch-hunt for Heretics and Sinners.

I predict that, like most such boycotts, it will go nowhere; boycotts are only effective against things that people don’t depend on every day — like Apple and Amazon.

In fact … excuse me, I need to go buy some Amazon stock.

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Sealioning is the name given to a specific, pervasive form of aggressive cluelessness, that masquerades as a sincere desire to understand.

A Sealion is a person who, when confronted with a fact that they don’t care to acknowledge, say, the persistence of systemic racism in America, will ask endlessly for “proof” and insist that it is the other person’s job to stop everything they are doing and address the issue to their satisfaction.

Note that the Left is congenitally guilty of ‘sealioning’ while having created it as a stick to beat those who don’t bow to the Narrative. ‘Sealioning’, like ‘mansplaining’ and ‘price gouging’ (and ‘profiteering’ and ‘black market’) is one of those smear-words that statists make up so they can have a label they can use to survive episodes of cognitive dissonance.

There is, of course, no ‘systemic racism’ in America, except in the fantasies of those who are so obsessed with the race Narrative that they see it everywhere. It’s just another political religion, the axioms of which are unquestionable.

Donald Trump ridiculed by late night talk show hosts over claim he would have run into Florida school to tackle shooter  I’m readier to believe that Trump would have done it than that any of these beta males would have.

Steve Sailer points out some blatant racism on the part of the Usual Suspects.

One interesting thing about the current liberal media is how often they feel it’s a really good idea to insult their base of nice white lady public schoolteachers as being evil horrible racists.

I find it also interesting that the very people who are so, so irate about supposed stereotypes of minorities are perfectly willing to indulge in ludicrous stereotyping of white people.

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Melber claimed that “2A” has never protected AR-15s or so-called assault weapons, and that politicians deferring to it are cowards for pretending it does. Anyone genuinely understanding Heller knows otherwise.

Melber dishonestly used the 1991 words of former Chief Justice Warren Burger, who said on PBS that “(2A) has been the subject of one of the greatest pieces of fraud … that I have ever seen in my lifetime,” as his lead-in.

Melber didn’t note that Chief Justice Burger had retired five years earlier, that he never considered a case directly relating to the Second Amendment’s substance on the bench, or that Burger, in that interview, stated a clearly fringe view that “If I were writing the Bill of Rights now, there wouldn’t be any such thing as the Second Amendment.”

Tom Steyer Claims Trump Wants To Abolish Presidential Term Limits  And that’s just petty sniping horseshit.

20 Books Focused On Trump Published After The 2016 Election  Jeez, who reads this stuff?

Trumpism’s Enduring Legacy to the GOP will be a Relentless Culture War  tReason magazine’s pet SJW, Shikha Dalmia, is hallucinating again. She does that a lot.

Kimmel: ‘I Don’t Regret Anything I’ve Said’ about Trump, GOP; ‘You Can’t Go Too Far’  Well, he’s certainly giving it that old college try.

Trump Derangement Syndrome: Morning Joe Panelists Long for a Hero

Loony Barbra Streisand Blames Trump for Inspiring Shooting, Convinced Election Was Rigged  Of course she does.

Obsessed Rosie O’Donnell Selling ‘Artwork’ of Trump  The fools are those who would buy it.

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A sobering study shows how life in the Golden State continues to get too expensive

California, many say, is the future. A center for creative industries and new technology—look at its impressive rollout of electric vehicles and autonomous cars—it’s also a diverse state, pushing progressive policies that could be models for the rest of the country.

And people are leaving in droves for opportunities elsewhere.

The state is golden, but the people are insane. That’s all it takes.

UPDATE: California Losing Residents Via Domestic Migration

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Wonder what would have happened if he had had a gun?

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And they said it couldn’t be done.

Not a Joke: Dan Rather on ‘Reliable Sources’ Slamming Trump’s ‘Fantasy Land’

Chris Cuomo Laughs At Trump’s Marriage Woes  Proglodytes are the first to criticize others as ‘mean’ and ‘insensitive’ but when one of their favorite targets comes into view they give it both barrels.

NYT Reporter Compares President Trump To Dictator For Doing Well In CPAC Poll  The one flaw in the analogy is that if Trump were actually a dictator this troll would be in jail.

CNN Delves Into Conspiracy Theories and Gossip About the Trump Marriage  Hey, it’s not as if they have anything more important to do.

Russia investigation: Rick Gates’ testimony could be ‘the end’ of the Trump Presidency, says Watergate lawyer  The ‘Watergare lawyer’ in question, of course, is John Dean, the serial liar who cased the Watergate feeding frenzy.

Maxine Waters Compares Trump To Kim Jung ‘UM’  The most persuasive argument against democracy in the U.S.

Steve Sailer points out some inconvenient truth.

Notice that Japan has never had a Muslim terrorist incident.

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Republicans in Congress appear to have mastered this.

Victor Davis Hanson extrapolates.

When the human experience is simplistically divided into two worlds, then things increasingly do not easily fit.

Specifically, what happens when the number of victims begins to outnumber the pool of oppressors? At that point can the oppressed become victims of the oppressed?

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Proglodytes are going to be chanting ‘Global Warming! Global Warming!’ until the glaciers arrive.

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My grandmother cooked with lard every day of her life and she lived to be 98.

Wait around long enough, and everything bad is good for you.

So much for your ‘scientific consensus’….

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Abstract

Black Panther is the hereditary leader of the African nation of Wakanda, a small, natural resource rich country, which lacks access to the sea. Historically the political leadership has tried to hide Wakanda ‘s existence from other countries which has limited its eco-nomic integration with the rest of the world. In spite of its geographic endowments, nota-bly the incredibly rare ore vibranium, Wakanda has attained unprecedented technological development. This chapter explores the political economy of Wakanda and its leader, Black Panther. After explaining the origins of Black Panther, the chapter turns to the economic puzzle of Wakanda by exploring the geographic and economic implications of isolation. This is followed by an investigation into the way Wakanda has avoided the re-source curse that has plagued so many other countries. Next, a comparison is made be-tween Wakanda and the nation of Botswana. While there are some telling similarities, the lack of democracy in Wakanda is a glaring difference. It will discuss how it has de-veloped high-levels of technology that help advance the Black Panther’s dictatorship. Fi-nally, it will address the potential for democracy to emerge in Wakanda. Black Panther offers an opportunity to understand the role of political institutions in affecting the long-run economic, political, and technological development of a country.

Hey, tenure doesn’t grow on trees, you know.

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For a supposed Proud Black Woman, Michelle (Mrs. Magic Negro) Obama sure has very straight hair.

No doubt it’s the patriarchy’s fault.

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New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof is very worried about what is in his urine, and he wants you to be too.

I often worry about Nicholas Kirstof, and it never has anything to do with his urine.

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I have no doubt that he does.

You might find it useful to bear that in mind. Just sayin’.

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It would appear that there may be more to the recent school shooting than meets the media narrative.

“One of the first things I saw was a huge differential in minority students, black male students in particular, in terms of suspensions and arrests,” he says. Black students made up two-thirds of all suspensions during the 2011-2012 school year despite comprising only 40 percent of the student body. And while there were 15,000 serious incidents like assaults and drug possession reported that year, 85 percent of all 82,000 suspensions were for minor incidents—use of profanity, disruptions of class—and 71 percent of all 1,000-plus arrests were for misdemeanors. The last statistic, says Runcie, “was a huge red flag.”

Emphasis on the red: The implication is that this disparity didn’t mean that black students were more prone to crime, oh no; what it meant was racism and bias against black students.

Broward announced broad changes designed to mitigate the use of harsh punishments for minor misbehavior at the beginning of this school year. While other districts have amended their discipline codes, prohibited arrests in some circumstances, and developed alternatives to suspension, Broward was able to do all these things at once with the cooperation of a group  that included a member of the local NAACP, a school board member, a public defender, a local sheriff, a state prosecutor, and several others. In early November, The Miami Herald reported that suspensions were already down 40 percent and arrests were down 66 percent. Yet these changes required years of advocacy. The hard scrabble road to Broward’s success also helps explain why zero tolerance policies have persisted.

In other words, the policy was that they backed off on punishing black student crime in order to improve their ‘optics’.

It is not a great mental stretch to suppose that the ‘red flags’ displayed by the school shooter Cruz were not acted on because of a deliberate policy in local government to turn a blind eye to such things when ‘minorities’ were involved. Presumably if the kid’s name had been Schmidt he would have been picked up and constrained in some way that might have prevented this tragedy.

The deeper problem is that when student criminals are dealt with outside of the criminal justice system, their names won’t show up on that perennial favorite, the Background Check. Hence people like this kid won’t have the bar to legally obtaining a gun that otherwise would work toward public safety.

Food for thought.

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I guess ‘style’ means wearing clothes that would look ridiculous and ugly even on a young person.

The modern world is full of people who refuse to act their age, from arrested adolescents to second-childhood seniors. This is not a good thing.

Conor Friedersdork commits the ThoughtCrime of Noticing.

My first introduction to Jordan B. Peterson, a University of Toronto clinical psychologist, came by way of an interview that began trending on social media last week. Peterson was pressed by the British journalist Cathy Newman to explain several of his controversial views. But what struck me, far more than any position he took, was the method his interviewer employed. It was the most prominent, striking example I’ve seen yet of an unfortunate trend in modern communication.

First, a person says something. Then, another person restates what they purportedly said so as to make it seem as if their view is as offensive, hostile, or absurd.

Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and various Fox News hosts all feature and reward this rhetorical technique. And the Peterson interview has so many moments of this kind that each successive example calls attention to itself until the attentive viewer can’t help but wonder what drives the interviewer to keep inflating the nature of Peterson’s claims, instead of addressing what he actually said.

Scott Adams has turned this into a verbal tag: Whenever somebody does this to him, he responds ‘Now, don’t try to Cathy Newman me….’

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Mark Janus remembers getting his first pay check from the Illinois Department of Public Health, where he works as a bookkeeper, and wondering about the $50 fee deducted to pay dues to a union he’d never agreed to join.

More than a decade later, the disagreement over that fee has brought Janus before the U.S. Supreme Court, as the plaintiff in a case that could change the landscape of public sector unionism in the United States. The high court will hear oral arguments in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees(AFSCME) on Monday morning. Janus and his attorneys are asking the court to overturn a previous decision and “declare [mandatory public sector union] fees unconstitutional.”

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A New York court has dismissed a lawsuit against Google by authors who accused the internet giant of digitally copying millions of books for an online library without permission.

US circuit judge Denny Chin, in Manhattan, accepted Google’s argument that its scanning of more than 20m books, and making snippets of text available for online searches, constituted fair use under US copyright law.

The fact remains that so-called ‘intellectual property’ is not ‘property’ in the sense that the term in used both in the law and in ordinary use. Property is something that, when you have it, other people don’t and can’t use it. You and I can both have and enjoy a copy of a book or a TV show or a poem or a software program at the same time without interfering with anyone else doing the same thing. Copyright is an artificial government-created and government-enforced monopoly designed in pursuit of a particular public policy agenda, as the U.S. Constitution makes clear and most writing on the subject admits. Calling it ‘property’ is an intellectual verbal shell game, like software ‘piracy’ and ‘price gouging’. The world would be a better place if people were just honest.

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The economic engine of Silicon Valley seems to have driven right by the midwest. America’s urban coastal cities have enjoyed an explosion in their technology sectors. New York’s Silicon Alley and Boston’s biotech corridor are world-class incubators of talent and startups. Austin (Texas), Seattle (Washington), Washington, D.C, and even Miami Beach claim a piece of the digital economy (and Silicon-something monikers).

But what about Columbus and Indianapolis and Kansas City? After years in the doldrums, their fortunes are rising. Venture capital firms are setting up shop. Startups are clustering in old industrial strongholds. But the region’s tech sectors look different than their coastal cousins.

The midwest is seeing the rise of “mid-tech.”

Alongside the traditional high-flying software jobs that are plentiful in Silicon Valley, mid-tech jobs, loosely defined as tech jobs requiring less than a college degree, are growing fast in the Midwest. While not an official designation, mid-tech jobs can be defined as skilled tech work that doesn’t require a college degree: just intense, focused training on the job or in vocational programs like those of blue-collar trades of the industrial past.

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The article assumes, and assumes that the reader agrees, that this is ipso facto a bad thing.

No thought or discussion is given to the base fact that it consists of the government taking less of the company’s profit than it otherwise would have. Apparently decreased government theft is a serious moral failing.

Or perhaps it’s the fact that cutting taxes not only helps poor people but rich people as well, which it can’t fail to do since the rich are the ones who pay most of the taxes after all. Apparently it’s a moral failing as well to help poor people if there’s any possibility that a rich person might benefit as well.

And of course nobody bothers to mention that Buffet could just write a check to the IRS if he were seriously bothered about all the money he’s making. Yet he never does, and nobody ever notices.

Eric S. Raymond is guilty of the ThoughtCrime of Noticing.

I had been thinking about posting about immigration recently, because some facts on the ground have caused me to move away from a pure laissez-faire position on it. A few minutes ago I wrote a long comment on G+ that I realized says a lot of what I wanted to. This is a slightly revised and expanded version of that comment.

I am asked, by another member of the educated white elite, why we shouldn’t simply end border enforcement entirely rather than buid a wall or tolerate Joe Arpaio’s squalid detention camps.

Both here and in Europe there’s been a significant spike in communicable diseases that can be traced back to low immunization rates in what Trump may or may not have called “shithole” countries.

Crime is a real issue. Legal immigrants have a slightly higher criminal propensity than the native born (the difference is small enough that its significance is disputed) but illegals’ propensity is much higher, to the point that 22% of all incarcerees are illegals (that’s 92% of all jailed immigrants).

But the elephant in the room is the impact of illegal immigration on social trust.

This is the one that the ‘diversity’ religionistas get wrong.

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Apparently, not every DREAMer is a high school valedictorian headed for Med School.

Who knew?

Steve Sailer fisks one of the Grey Lady’s finest.

Obviously, crypto-currencies (which may blow up the world or make it much better, don’t ask me, I don’t know) are totally sexist. The only reason Satoshi Nakamoto’s idea has swept the world is because his strong handshake, curly blond hair, red beard, green eyes, mole on his upper lip, Heidelberg dueling scar on his left cheek, gold tooth, missing last joint of his ring finger on his left hand, discreet skull & bones 322 tattoo on his right wrist, and deep gravelly voice with a Frisian accent gives Satoshi his White Male Privilege.

John Wright assembles the roll shame:

Here is a list of companies with whom you will want to avoid dealing if you support the U.S. Constitution and the Second Amendment.

• Allied Van Lines/North American Van Lines
• Avis and Budget
• Avis Car Rental
• Chubb Insurance
• Delta
• Enterprise Rent-a-Car
• First National Bank of Omaha
• Hertz
• MetLife
• National Rent a Car
• Paramount Rx
• Starkey Hearing Technologies
• Symantec
• TrueCar
• United Airlines
• Wyndham Hotel Group

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The African-Australian Community Taskforce was announced by Victoria Police last month following a spate of crimes involving African youth. It has been charged with providing information to police on emerging issues and hot spots, allowing officers to act swiftly, and establishing a more efficient channel for police to engage with community leaders and receive advice on preventing youth crimes and antisocial behaviour.

Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton today said that although the taskforce had met a few times, it was yet to finalise its membership due to “internal political issues”.

He agreed there was concern growing within Victoria Police that tribal divisions between Dinka and Nuer ethnic groups had caused delays in formally establishing the taskforce.

Ask yourself why two tribes from the South Sudan should be causing problems in Melbourne.

Former Mexican Pres. Fox: FL Shooting ‘What You Get’ With ‘Racist’ Trump’s ‘Violent Language’  Even though there’s no evidence that Trump’s language had anything to do with motivating the shooter. The Narrative is sacred.

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Yet another reason not to live in Mexifornia.

All of the talking heads yelling ‘Trump is Hitler!’ never take a look at California, where the ghost of Hitler (and Stalin, and Mao) is rubbing his hands with glee.

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Not if we have guns and you don’t, kid.

Let’s hope you never have to find that out the hard way.

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The book is chock-full of history, and in page after page, points out how climate science has not just been a series of missteps, but an outright colossal failure of the scientific method because it has come to be so highly politicized. As I referenced above, money does that.

The arguments against climate-change alarmism, written so simply that even a Democrat can understand them.

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They’re afraid that he actually means it. That gives him huge (excuse me, yuge) leverage.

Mexico is delaying a meeting between Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and President Donald Trump for a second time because Trump refuses to take border wall talks off the table.

They don’t want a talk, they want a photo op. Trump has been down this road before and he’s not buying it.

Nieto canceled his first planned White House visit in January 2017 after Trump signed an executive order that authorized border wall construction along the southern U.S.-Mexico divide. After announcing he would not attend the White House meeting, Nieto promised the Mexican people the nation would not pay for any part of the wall — a reference to one of Trump’s key campaign promises regarding its construction.

This is what Scott Adams calls ‘thinking past the sale’. Scott points out that Trump is a master of combining two ideas, one that is based on the other happening first, and then getting the conversation about the second one, thereby fixing in people’s minds that the first one has effectively already happened. ‘We’ve already settled that, now we’re dickering over the price.’

The Mexican president’s assertion illustrates the line in the sand that both administration’s have drawn. Trump has insisted since he kicked off his campaign in 2015 that Mexico will pay, either directly or indirectly, for the wall. Nieto, like former Mexican President Vicente Fox, is unwilling to concede that point, insisting Mexico will not cough up one red cent.

All the U.S. has to do is to impose a significant tax on foreign remittances and earmark that money for the Wall, and it’s done — the Mexican President is completely cut out of the process. This is a significant portion of the Mexican economy, and one of the reason why Mexico assists illegal immigration to the U.S. as much as it can,

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

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Yet another hipster fashion debunked.

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I moved to San Francisco for its radical politics. Lots of people did, for generations. Maybe it was like moving to Los Angeles if you longed to be a movie star: If you wanted to be part of the grand project of reconstructing the American Left in the petri dish of a single city, San Francisco beckoned.

The quirky, counter-cultural San Francisco so many of us fell in love with is almost gone now, destroyed by high housing costs. We’ve lost not only the politics, but all kinds of cultural experimentation that just doesn’t thrive in places that are expensive.

We are watching the old San Francisco slip away before our eyes. Every time a housing unit becomes vacant, it goes on the market at a price so high that no organizer, writer, teacher, activist or artist could dream of affording it. Trying things that don’t have monetary potential just isn’t possible anymore.

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Sometimes the lesson that not everybody is a Silicon-Valley hipster needs to be reinforced by losing a lot of money.

Brian X. Chen points out that sometimes the old ways are best.

Some of the most mundane devices are designed to accomplish a simple task extremely well — and in some cases they still execute those duties better than their high-tech brethren.

So let’s take a moment to appreciate some of the best dumb things.