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About his strategy, I could make a quick and accurate analogy with medication: most pills are designed to cure a problem, but come with an array of secondary after-effects. Well, Trump is using medication solely for their after-effects, while the first intent of the pill is what’s keeping him in power and alive. By the end of this article, you’ll see that this metaphor applies for just about every decision, move or declaration he’s made. Once you understand what Trump is about, you’ll be able to appreciate the extraordinary presidency he’s conducting, like no predecessor ever came close to match.

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Donald simply doesn’t care if you like him or not, which makes him the ultimate anti-narcissist, by its psychological definition. And that’s not even up for opinion, it’s a quite simple and undeniable fact.

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While “Mayor Pete” rises in the polls in Iowa and New Hampshire, it is a delight to watch the media tiptoe around his very weak pull with black voters. The New York Times today ran a story headlined, “Pete Buttigieg is Struggling with Black Voters. Here’s Why.” Except the story never really tells you probably the biggest reason why: American blacks are highly hostile to homosexuality. This fact goes completely unmentioned anywhere in the Times story, no doubt because it would blow all the fuses at the Times‘s intersectionality switchboard.

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Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign rally in Atlanta on Thursday was derailed by parents protesting the Massachusetts senator’s opposition to charter schools.

The group of parents interrupted Warren’s event, which was aimed at courting black female voters, with chants of “Our children, our choice!” and “We want to be heard!”

Living-in-the-moment mentality and climate crisis concerns

Climate Activists Take Over Pelosi’s Office

ZMan gets an annual physical.

he funny thing about the problems of the American health care system is that this is the one area where libertarians could apply their arguments. They don’t, of course, as that would take time away from selling weed and porn to grade school kids, but there is a libertarian case to be made about health care. In fact, we have a libertarian health care system operating in the United States. It is world class and provides amazing results for the patients. It is called veterinary medicine.

In America, our pets get better health care than most humans on earth. The cost, compared to any system in the West, is trivial. The service is phenomenal, as there are lots of suppliers competing for customers. In my area, I have one doctor and five veterinary clinics. I don’t need permission to make an appointment and I am not required to pay a monthly fee for services I’ll never use. It is a great example of how to operate a market-based health care system that no one ever mentions.

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I have my doubts. Political ideology is the most reality-resistant thing in the universe.

Swedish “gangs”? What kind of gangs? Who belongs to these gangs? The ever-sensitive New York Times won’t report this directly, but they more or less give away that these are not gangs of delinquent Lutherans:

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This is a ‘Merkel Bench’:

It is obviously designed so that people can sit on it but vagrants can’t camp out on it.

Why are they called Merkel Benches, and what need has Auckland for them? Read the article.

Psychologists Vow to Promote Climate Change “Corrective Behaviors”

Largest coal plant in the West shuts down, dealing financial losses to Native American tribes

Exclusive: Inside The Media Conspiracy To Hype Greta Thunberg And The UN Climate Conference

What’s green, employs ten times as many people as the “fossil fuel industry” and fake?

NYT op-ed claiming scientists underestimated climate change lacks evidence

Vice: Despite a Failed Assassination Attempt, These Climate Deniers Continue to Impede Global Action

‘All you need to know about Climate Change… in cartoons’

Climate Extremism in the Age of Disinformation

Thugs bully Munich Conference Center – Force Cancellation of Climate Skeptic Conference

Climate Activists Take Over Pelosi’s Office  No woke deed goes unpunished.

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For many people, Latin is useless. I won’t enter into a discussion on the meaning of “utility,” a concept with variations and stratifications that are centuries in the making, and which itself merits an entire book. What I will say here, however, is that those “many people”—civilians, politicians, professionals in every field—have a sadly (and dangerously) limited idea of education and human development. What their focus on “utility” betrays is the belief that, in the end, knowledge amounts to know-how, that thought should be immediately adapted toward a practical aim. But if that were the case, knowledge would hardly be useful: we’d have surgeons, plumbers, and not much else, given that machines are growing more and more responsible for satisfying our primary needs. Eventually the surgeon or plumber will disappear too. And if such is the fate of knowledge, that it be surrendered to machines—or, as we put it more often these days, to technology—what exactly will there be for humans to know? Of course, we’ll have to learn how to build the machines and keep them functioning, and to dispose of the remains when they become obsolete, and to procure the materials necessary to build new machines.

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Here’s the bottom line: Most Americans, even many of those not making much right now, would pay more in new taxes than they would save from no longer paying for private health care.

Never underestimate the ability of the government to make people poorer.

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A reasonable position, I think.

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Scientists can now flood the black market for rhino horns with horsehair fakes. Conservationists, however, have serious concerns.

We have the technology.

Venice Flooding Reveals A Real Hoax About Climate Change – Framing It As “Either/Or”

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #386

Hurricanes really are becoming more destructive

Best ethical and eco-friendly Christmas gifts: sustainable present ideas for him and her

Venice and Unenlightened Climate Fear-mongering

Why It’s Hard to Take Global Warming Hysteria Seriously

Climate change hits the young hardest. What will we tell our children?

Climate science has died. The effects will be big.

How Many People Must Die To Fix The Planet?

Lakes are a climate change ‘ticking time bomb’, warn scientists

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Here in prison, it takes us more than two years to get an annual dental check-up, three years to get a filling, and two years to get eyeglasses.

I find it puzzling that those who adore government-provided health care feel free to ignore existing systems of government-provided health care, like the prison system and the VA network, much less the socialized medicine regimes overseas.

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I have always suspected as much.

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If the tentative entrance of former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg into the Presidential race materializes, he may discover difficulty of being an oligarch in an increasingly socialist-minded party. Bloomberg, whose fortune is estimated at $50 billion, many times Trump’s estimated $3 billion, much less Tom Steyer’s comparatively meager $1.6 billion, epitomizes the very capitalist class so detested by party activists.

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A foreign correspondent I used to know liked to say that a good test for national decline is the smell of urine. In declining countries, one frequently smells it.

Americans in certain jurisdictions can expect to smell more urine soon. Left-wing prosecutors, some financed by George Soros, will be decriminalizing urination in public.

This is one of a several “quality of life” crimes the left wants to stop prosecuting. Some prosecutors also want theft below a certain dollar amount to go largely unpunished.

The theory behind this decriminalization effort is that poor people and members of certain minority groups commit a disproportionate number of these crimes. But it’s also the case that poor people and members of the same minority groups are disproportionately victimized by many of them.

They can expect to be smelling the urine first.

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There is no actual political debate at all. We live in a post-politics age. Everything now is a moral issue. Opposing immigration is morally wicked. Questioning feminism is morally wicked. Expressing doubts about the tranny stuff is morally wicked. Expressing anything less than absolute support for homosexuals is morally wicked. Questioning affirmative action is morally wicked. Expressing even mild scepticism about racial oppression is morally wicked.

FP Proposes a Joint US / EU Climate Trade War Against China

It’s Officially the Tenth Anniversary of Climategate – and they’ve learned nothing

Does Greta Thunberg’s Lifestyle Equal Climate Denial? One Climate Scientist Seems To Suggest So.

Steve Sailer.

Michael Bloomberg, former mayor of New York City, apologizes for his greatest achievement: taking New York City murder rates that has already fallen surprisingly far under Rudy Giuliani and hammering them down to Yogi Berra Era levels. Why? Because he’s running for the Democratic presidential nomination.

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Well, yeah.

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One of the best ways to learn and come up with new ideas is to focus intensely on a problem, then let your mind wander. I’ve enjoyed doing this when problem solving and learning, and recently I’ve been thinking about how weird it is to build trust in your unconscious to do the work for you, especially when it comes to technical work.

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A small clinical study in California has suggested for the first time that it might be possible to reverse the body’s epigenetic clock, which measures a person’s biological age.

For one year, nine healthy volunteers took a cocktail of three common drugs — growth hormone and two diabetes medications — and on average shed 2.5 years of their biological ages, measured by analysing marks on a person’s genomes. The participants’ immune systems also showed signs of rejuvenation.

The results were a surprise even to the trial organizers — but researchers caution that the findings are preliminary because the trial was small and did not include a control arm.

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Based on Oxford College analysis, revealed within the British Medical Journal, vegetarians and vegans have a 20 % greater danger of stroke than those that frequently tuck right into a plate of bacon and sausages. The authors of the research, which tracked virtually 50,000 Britons for 18 years, mentioned this is likely to be as a result of veggies wouldn’t have not sufficient ldl cholesterol of their blood.

The discovering flies within the face of a lot typical knowledge, which says that vegetarianism is a wholesome various to a extra carnivorous life-style. We’re eternally being hectored in regards to the want – for each well being and environmental causes – to chop again on purple meat altogether.

But nutritionists say the elevated probability of stroke is simply one of many many well being dangers that any would-be vegetarian ought to be made conscious of earlier than they make the leap.

The healthiest diet for a creature is the one that it evolved to eat. For humans, that’s meat, fruit, and veggies. (Note the Oxford comma. Go thou and do likewise.) You want to give up cereals, be my guest. But keep the pig.

Do The World’s Energy Policies Make Sense?

Claim: Climate Change is Causing Arctic Blasts to Become Less Severe

An Analysis Of The 11,000 ‘Micky Mouse’ Climate Scientists

German Farmers Block Hamburg In Revolt Against Globalist Environmental Regulations

Climategate And Post-Normal Science

Some Inconvenient Facts for Robert Redford’s Climate Change Cry

“Adam Schiff has a face that says ‘Pick me last for dodge-ball’.” — Scott Adams

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Yet another reason not to fly.

Does Greta Thunberg’s Lifestyle Equal Climate Denial? One Climate Scientist Seems To Suggest So.

Greta Thunberg takes flak for returning to Europe on ‘plastic yacht’

Don’t Believe in Climate Change? You Jew-Hater!

170 Years of Earth Surface Temperature Data Show No Evidence of Significant Warming

Al Jazeera: Climate change exposes children to lifelong harm  I guess it turns them into little pockets of White Privilege, like Greta.

‘Climatism’ and the Apocalypse

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

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There is a growing feeling, among those who have the responsibility of managing large economies, that the discipline of economics is no longer fit for purpose. It is beginning to look like a science designed to solve problems that no longer exist.

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At a debate at Princeton. Of course, the Princeton daily shitpaper called both men “racists,” because competition to work in the dying media is fierce and Princeton students are smart enough to know what appeals to potential employers.

Hazony makes the point that the public has rebelled against Bret Stephens’ philosophy. Stephens would call his world-view “anti-nationalist.” Hazony would call it “imperialist,” because the point of his book seems to be that the opposite of nationalism is imperialism. There is no such thing as a sprawling transnational democracy; it will simply become a corrupt empire where all real power is held by an ostensible elite ensconced in the capital city.

Mazie Hirono Says Climate Change Is ‘A Religion And Not A Science’

Nasty Democrat Blob Mazie Hirono: You Must Believe in the Cult of Global Warming Like It’s a Religion, Not a Science

Climate Fury: “They don’t need the ravings of some pure, enlightened and woke capital city greenies”

Don’t Call Me a Pessimist on Climate Change. I Am a Realist

How should Billionaires Spend their Money to Solve Climate Change?  Ice cubes are $1.99 a bag at 7-11….

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My “cable TV’ service, like my “phone service”, is just piggy-backed on my Internet service. The additional charge is negligible.

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You would think that would be a no-brainer, but you’d be wrong.

ZMan digs down.

It has become a meme to mock the Baby Boomers for their obsession with stuff, but it is a society-wide phenomenon. Modern America functions like a ghetto riot, in which the culture is a liquor store. Everyone is just smashing and grabbing what they can, not because they need it or want it, but because that’s what they do. This is particularly true with conservatives. All of their arguments, particularly those that fall into the cultural and spiritual, have been reduced to economic appeals.

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

I’ll always remember the day a Paris cheesemonger told me there is actually a right way to cut up each type of cheese. I looked at him, incredulous. “It’s about making sure everyone has the same experience,” he explained as he cut a wheel of cheese into wedges.

I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

Up until that point, I’d been perfectly happy with the uneven slices and misshapen hunks of cheese I normally cut when I make a cheese board. However, right then and there I realized I had been committing a number of sins against cheese.

I’m not sure but I think this qualifies as a First World Problem.

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A fate worse than death.

Ocasio-Cortez Rails Against Climate Skeptics, Tells Rally Goers To Directly ‘Combat White Supremacy  I guess Global Warming is all about White Supremacy. Who knew?

Tucker, Guest Rip ‘Schizophrenic’ Leftists Who Say They Care About The Environment, Yet Want To Import ‘Climate Migrants’

How Scientists Got Climate Change So Wrong

Humans have 1 in 14,000 chances of going extinct next year – more than getting struck by lightning

Claim: Making Fun of Climate Doomsday Helps Reach More People

1 Meter of Sea Level Rise Now “Inevitable”… Eventually  I keep waiting ….

What Blackouts? Californian Climate Fanatics Demand All Electric Homes

101 ways to live sustainably  And, more importantly, feel morally virtuous.

These maps show how many people will lose their homes to rising seas—and it’s worse than we thought  I keep waiting….

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Just can’t scrape up any sympathy.