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The inmates are in charge of the asylum.
20th January 2019

MSNBC Analyst: Buzzfeed’s Been Debunked, but Hey, Something Could Still Turn Up!
MSNBC Guest Calls Trump A Domestic Terrorist, Compares Speech To ‘1933 Nazi Germany’
CNN Blows Gasket Over Trump’s ‘Inflammatory,’ ‘Scare-Mongering’ Speech Offering to Compromise
Clueless: WashPost ‘Fact Checker’ Sees ‘No Excuse’ To Skip Real-Time TV Trump Rebuttals
Gillibrand Doesn’t Think Trump’s ‘Racist’ Border Policies Were Racist When She Supported Them Also, she wasn’t running for President then.
BuzzFeed Doubles Down On Trump Story, But Won’t Discuss Documents Or Sources “Sources? We don’t need no stinkin’ sources!”
On CNN, Buzzfeed Defends Dubious Report With Shady Deflections
We Watch CNN’s Terrible Media Show So You Don’t Have To Brian Stelter looks like a bit player from Seinfeld.
Trump confuses weather with climate change again: ‘Wouldn’t be bad to have a little good old fashioned Global Warming right now!’ He was, of course, making a joke. But the media pinheads have no sense of humor.
Two years of Trump’s anti-immigration tactics have put marginalised groups in peril – another couple will create complete devastation The fact that Trump’s policies aren’t any different than Obama’s is, of course, contrary to the Narrative and therefore Not Seen.
Trump says San Antonio shows border walls works, despite city being 150 miles from border and having no wall Which had nothing to do with what he was saying, but the dimwits in the media can’t keep up.
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20th January 2019
Nabila Ramdani, being virtually non-white for Pokemon Victim Point purposes, has to relate everything to ‘whiteness’ because that’s her job. Making sense is not her job, so she doesn’t bother.
They actually pay people to write this shit.
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20th January 2019
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Except that her son didn’t harass the Native American man; the Native American man was trying to harass her son.
We got yer fake news, right here.
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20th January 2019
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Why would they update it? They got what they wanted.
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19th January 2019
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19th January 2019
Scott Johnson at Powerline does some fisking.
Lo these many years since the Russian Revolution and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the New York Times is still doing public relations for Communism. The most recent example — I find it almost unbelievable — is Nicholas Kristof’s January 18 Times column “Why Infants May Be More Likely to Die in America Than Cuba” (accessible here on Outline).
For those not aware of it, Outline (https://outline.com) offers a tool that, if you paste in a piece’s URL, will eliminate all the tedious persiflage and just give you the story in an easily readable form. It will also pierce many paywalls, such as that of the New York Times.
“Cuba has the Medicare of All that many Americans dream about” may be true in a sense, but this is so old and so lame. Kristof’s column is based on Cuba’s low infant mortality rate as reported. He acknowledges the gauzy veil of Cuban health care statistics yet he fails to get at the essential problems they raise. He is a fool for Communism. He promotes what Jay Nordlinger aptly derided as “The myth of Cuban health care” in his 2007 NR column on Michael Moore’s Sicko.
Jay noted that “Cuba’s infant-mortality rate remains respectable,” but put it in the context that Kristof failed to provide. Jay noted, for example, “if there is any sign of abnormality, any reason for concern — the pregnancy is ‘interrupted.’ That is the going euphemism for abortion. The abortion rate in Cuba is sky-high, perversely keeping the infant-mortality rate down.” See also Katherine Hirschfeld’s case study below. The word “abortion” doesn’t appear in Kristof’s column.
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18th January 2019
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This kind of Vox-like explainer about a New York Times article appearing in the New York Times is pretty weird. Presumably, the NYT, having recently Watsoned for crimethinking geneticist James Watson now wants to Watson fellow crimethinker geneticist David Reich.
UPDATE: Gregory Cochran unloads on the NYT’s jihad to Watson geneticist David Reich
UPDATE: Primitive tribesmen complain about technologically superior invaders
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17th January 2019
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17th January 2019
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How can they tell? It reads just like the regular Washington Post.
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17th January 2019
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Another National Review cuck wrings his hands because the sky is falling.
Actually, prior to TV, Presidents sent a written message to Congress in accordance with the Constitutional requirement, and it wasn’t a big deal. The only reason this feature is in the Constitution is because the Founding Fathers were seeking to enact the Whig view of the current British parliamentary system, and this was the analog of the King’s Speech before each session of Parliament.
All Trump needs to do is send over a message ‘Doing well. See you next year.’ and leave it at that.
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17th January 2019
Ann Coulter has some fun.
Today, “white supremacy” is nothing but a comfortable fantasy the left developed to explain its sick preoccupation with white people.
Talk about a manufactured crisis! The same people who love to snicker about Fox News viewers worrying about Sharia law sweeping the country are convinced that mythical “white supremacists” are hiding under every bed.
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17th January 2019
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I am not making this up. I wish I were.
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16th January 2019
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What Jonah conveniently fails to mention is that Trump is crushing domestic policy, so they need some other area in which to pee in his soup.
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16th January 2019
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I’ve always had my suspicions.
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15th January 2019

Chris Matthews Pretends Trump Still Can’t Deny Being A Russian Agent
Trump Triggers the Liberal Food Scolds
WashPost Whacks Trump’s Texas Border Fashions: ‘Choice of Attire Was a Disaster’
MSNBC’s Hayes: Trump’s Base Wants ‘an Ethnically Pure America’
Donald Trump and His Team of Morons
Networks Trashed Trump With 90% Negative Spin in 2018, But Did It Matter?
Trump lauds footballers who ate ‘over 1000 hamberders’ at White House banquet, in early morning twitter outburst This is tagged by The Independent as ‘Breaking News’.
Here are 18 reasons Trump could be a Russian asset Max Boot, in the Washington Post, apparently failing in his attempt at replicating the Jeff Foxworthy comedy routine You Might Be A Redneck. Apparently anyone with even marginal name recognition can write trash about Trump and get it published (and presumably get paid for it).
MSNBC’s Heilemann on Trump ‘Russian Agent’ Denial: Maybe Lying Like Clinton, Nixon Or maybe not. Maybe it’s MSNBC’s Heilemann who is lying.
‘Trump has turned the White House into a White Castle’: President roasted for serving Clemson fast food No one who reads the Washington Post, much less anyone who works there, would be caught dead at a White Castle, of course, since that’s where the people in Flyover Country. (Due to the government shutdown, the White House is short-staffed, leading President Trump to order a feast of fast food. Which Trump paid for personally, incidentally.)
What it means that Trump served Big Macs in the State Dining Room Because, of course, since only people who write for the Washington Post realize What It Means, so they have to explain it to you.
‘Fox & Friends’ Celebrates Trump’s Clemson Fast Food Party By Ordering Their Own Fast Food
The Atlantic’s Hill Accuses Trump of ‘War on Black Athletes,’ Cites Only One Target The only ‘black athlete’ actually named is Kaepernick, who is more of an athlete-wannabe.
CNN Panel Melts Down Over Trump’s ‘Sexist’ Salad Joke It’s good to know that they’re keeping an eye on the important stuff.
Former Obama-Era Attorney Under The Impression Trump Can Be Charged With Crime For Leaving NATO Scraaaaaape that barrel.
CNN Now Triggered by Sexist Dog Whistle “Salads” Remember: If you hear the dog whistle, then you’re the dog.
Sunny Hostin Suggests Trump, 42% of Americans Are Racists Who Won’t ‘Let Brown People In’ Since when did ‘brown’ become a race?
No Need to Fear Terrorists: We Have Trump!
CNN’s Russia Coverage Is Rigged Against Trump
President Trump and the Kobayashi Maru
Why has comedy got so much worse in the Trump era?
FBI debated whether Trump was ‘following directions’ of Russia, transcripts reveal
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15th January 2019
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Williams must be pushing for Dan Rather’s niche as Most Embarrassing Purported Journalist.
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15th January 2019
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It’s not enough to be ‘black’ any more, you have to be the right kind of black for it to earn any Pokemon Virtue Points.
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15th January 2019
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In D.C., the Revolving Door doesn’t have to revolve very far any more.
I supposer this qualifies as a promotion.
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15th January 2019
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The ignorance of those who write for newspapers never ceases to amaze me. Cleopatra was a Ptolemy, descended from Alexander’s general who got Egypt in the carve-up after ol’ Alex died; they were Macedonians, and quickly followed the Pharaonic custom of marrying their siblings, so there is no possible way that Cleopatra was ‘black’, i.e. sub-Saharan African. Judging from her name and picture Biba Kang is Asian so perhaps can’t be expected to know any better, but presumably this piece passed through the hands of editors at least one of whom presumably attended University and so ought to have intervened. But perhaps accuracy isn’t that important any more in ‘journalism’.
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15th January 2019
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The Sunday morning gabfests are turning into asylums a la Marat/Sade, without the pathos or human interest.
Couldn’t have put it any better myself.
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15th January 2019
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Thank you for that warning, otherwise I wouldn’t know what to do.
I’m going to start selling T-shirts that say ‘YOU CAN’T MAKE ME CARE’. I think that it has the potential to generate many millions of dollars in sales and an impressive number of ugly incidents on college campuses.
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15th January 2019
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‘Male-dominated capitalist machine’? So far as I can tell, this isn’t intended as a parody, although these days the distinction is getting less and less. (Funny, I don’t see any complaints about the male-dominated socialist machine; perhaps they ought to interview Berni and President Maduro on that.)
First Rule of Totalitarianism: Even making ‘woke’ noises won’t get you off the hook.
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15th January 2019
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The range is now Lies, Damned Lies, and Media Reports. (Sorry, statistics.)
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14th January 2019
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Advantage eunuch, obviously.
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14th January 2019
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14th January 2019
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Oh goody. A researcher over in England named David Klemperer has come up with a “Class Struggle Index” to rank the Democratic presidential field now taking shape. Not surprisingly, Bernie does best, but Beto better find a more working class encounter than dental hygiene to Instagram next time, as he’s clearly trailing the progressive pack.
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14th January 2019
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Frank Bruni, formerly the New York Times’s White House reporter and now a columnist for the paper, has a long, long op-ed that is unintentionally revealing. It is headlined, “Will the Media Be Trump’s Accomplice Again in 2020?” As though the press were pro-Trump in 2016! “We have a second chance. Let’s not blow it.” A second chance to help a Democrat beat Donald Trump.
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13th January 2019
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13th January 2019
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Biting the hand that feeds her? This will not end well for AOC, I predict.
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13th January 2019
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‘Cost’, of course, assumes that the money you make belongs to the government, which then graciously allows you to keep part of it. From that perspective, then, a tax cut is a ‘cost’ to the government.
Of course, when YOUR ‘costs’ exceed your income, you have to either find new income or reduce your spending. The government never reduces spending — perish the thought! — so it has to find new sources of income. Since the only sources of income available to the government are the monies it takes from YOU, well….
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12th January 2019
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12th January 2019
Paul Mirengoff at Powreline unpacks the news.
The New York Times reports that “in the days after President Trump fired James B. Comey as F.B.I. director, law enforcement officials became so concerned by the president’s behavior that they began investigating whether he had been working on behalf of Russia against American interests.” The Times cites “former law enforcement officials and others familiar with the investigation.” They say the FBI investigation ended when Robert Mueller was appointed. If this specific charge remained under investigation, Mueller did the investigating.
If it’s true that the FBI undertook the investigation described by the Times, this tells us plenty about the FBI. It tells us nothing about Trump.
Whenever any of the DemLegHump Media say ‘according to anonymous sources familiar with the matter’, they’re just making it up.
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12th January 2019
Steve Sailer takes a look at the Left’s favorite talking point.
‘That’s not who we are.’ Maybe not, but maybe it’s what we’d like to be.
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11th January 2019
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11th January 2019
Steve Sailer feels their pain.
One doesn’t need a subscription to the Times when we have iSteve to tell us what stupid thing they’ve said today.
Not mentioned in this article as a possible cause for this puzzling decline in big city wage premiums for working class Americans: any words beginning with “immigra”.
Or any words beginning with ‘tax’ or ‘hous’.
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11th January 2019
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A San Diego television station on Thursday said that CNN had asked for a “local view” and then “declined to hear from us” after past reports from the station showed that a border wall was effective.
A CNN spokesperson pushed back on KUSI’s claim on Friday, calling it a “non story” since the network ultimately didn’t book any reporters from stations in the San Diego area.
It’s all about the Narrative, Larry.
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10th January 2019
Washington Post Columnist: The Networks Need To De-Platform Trump Good luck with that. He’s the only one shoring up their business model. They would soon find that they need him more than he needs them.
Ace of Spades comments:
For some time, the conservative movement has been divided between liberals who don’t really mind liberal rule because they like liberals because they are liberals, and actual conservatives, who feared, correctly, that the left was as serious as Hitler when it has repeatedly told us exactly what it intended to do, which is to punish and suppress any speech they think is “wrong.” They have repeatedly told us that all issues are now “beyond discussion,” and they have repeatedly proposed methods of punishing/criminalizing those who engage in such wrongthink.
Many of us said that there could be no compromise with this. Liberal Bill Kristol doesn’t need to fear the liberal censorship state, because he’s a fellow liberal and is useful for fighting their current political fight, but anyone who is actually opposed to leftwing hegemony and speech criminalization does need to fear them– as they fear us.
Well, we’re now at the point where the left has agreed (funny how they’re always so swift to agree about revolutionary proposals in such a short window of debate, almost as if they have been deciding these things behind closed doors before introducing to the public) that even The President can no longer be permitted to offer his unfiltered arguments to the public.
‘He Stops At Nothing’ — Cher Urges Nancy Pelosi To Let Trump ‘Have His FKNG Money’ Wisdom. Attend.
Media Throw Everything at Wall to See What Sticks
Republican senator breaks ranks to savage Trump’s government shutdown: ‘There is no good reason’ Murkowski does her RINO thing again.
Trump says ‘if there’s a concrete wall in front of you, go through it, go under it, go around it’, in rediscovered 2004 video Scraaaaaaape that barrel.
REPORT: The Oscars Won’t Have A Host, Will Attack Trump Heavily Duh.
Media Misses: Peddling a ‘Manufactured Crisis’ Narrative
Trump Asked About The ‘Human Pain’ Of Government Employees Those of us who are taxpayers rather than tax eaters are not sympathetic.
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10th January 2019
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Let’s hit her with that after the next mass shooting, shall we?
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10th January 2019
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I gotta tell you, the dedication and professionalism of ‘journalists’ today is certainly inspiring.
The fact that Navarro actually gets paid certainly ought to encourage every snowflake’s parents.
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9th January 2019
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8th January 2019
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8th January 2019
Ace of Spades documents the meltdown.
Let me guess: She’s a feminist and an anti-gun activist. Oh, and a Democrat, obviously.
Democrats: Party of Fear, Party of Hate, Party of Death.
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8th January 2019
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So young, and already a proglodyte.
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7th January 2019
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Unfortunately–from the standpoint of the Times and others who tried to make political hay out of the truly senseless killing of Jazmine Barnes–the police caught the murderer, and he is black. Just one day later, on January 6, the paper had to eat crow: “A Twist in the Jazmine Barnes Case as a Suspect Is Charged With Capital Murder.” It was the usual story. The murderer was a gang member who thought he was retaliating against a hostile gang and shot into the wrong car. How many times have we heard that?
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7th January 2019
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7th January 2019
The Other McCain spreads some truth.
When 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes was killed in a drive-by shooting in Houston Dec. 30, the story “captured nationwide attention,” because Jazmine’s family claimed that the shooter was a white man:
The teen and her mother described the suspect as a white man with blue eyes, a thin build and no beard. They say he “looked sick” with sunken cheekbones and a pale face with a “five o’clock shadow.” He was wearing a black hoodie.
CNN jumped on the story — RAAAAACISM! — and the usual crew of #BlackLivesMatter hate-hustlers leaped into action, raising money and sending out incendiary tweets. Unfortunately for the purveyors of this narrative, it was false. The white man in the red truck that Jazmine’s family had seen wasn’t the shooter, but an innocent guy who was himself caught in the line of fire. The actual perpetrators were driving a KIA.
And black. So the story has suddenly disappeared from the national news.
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6th January 2019
Robert De Niro calls Trump a ‘racist’ and compares him to Hitler and Mussolini If that were true, De Niro would already be in jail.
Government shutdown: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accuses Trump of ‘hostage taking’ over border wall demands The Democratic Party has found its very own James Traficant.
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5th January 2019
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Primarily because their strawman-conservative would of course be so; they persist in confusing their fantasies for actual reality.
Dancing is about all that anyone of her generation could possibly be good at — they don’t study real things in school, as Occasional-Cortex has demonstrated on numerous occasions, they make little effort to support themselves by honest toil, and their days are so occupied by seriatim Two Minute Hates that they have no room for anything else.
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