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The inmates are in charge of the asylum.
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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5th January 2019
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4th January 2019
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The super-insulated, radio-frequency-controlled designer cat passageway is one of many energy saving features in a super energy efficient house being built in West Vancouver.
Even in Canada, there are people with far more money than sense.
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4th January 2019
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Yet to be explained: Why the mere fact that ‘the rich get richer’ is a bad thing, much less why something ought to be ‘done about it’.
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3rd January 2019
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Must be all those white males, the swine.
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3rd January 2019
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2nd January 2019
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PETA wants a lot of things that they’re not going to get.
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2nd January 2019
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2nd January 2019
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But you knew that.
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2nd January 2019
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1st January 2019
Federal Worker Union Sues Trump Over Shutdown Because, as we all know, anything bad that happens in the world is Trump’s fault.
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1st January 2019
Steve Sailer does little fisking on a New York Times hit piece regarding Nobel Laureat James D. Watson.
Said hit piece starts with: “The Nobel-winning biologist has drawn global criticism with unfounded pronouncements on genetics, race and intelligence. He still thinks he’s right, a new documentary finds.”
‘Unfounded’ pronouncements? I’m going to believe some random DemLegHump Media journalist over a guy who got the Nobel for GENETICS?
Unbelievable.
UPDATE: Nobel Prizewinner James Watson Won’t Stop Talking About Race, DNA, and Genetics
And the cry goes ’round the Times ‘Why won’t he just SHUT UP?’
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1st January 2019
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Jane, you ignorant slut….
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1st January 2019
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In part, the new Communist chic reflects the rise in the popularity of socialism. A Gallup poll earlier this year found that, among Democrats, Democratic-leaning independents—and, perhaps most significant, among all American adults under 30—socialism is now viewed more positively than capitalism. To some extent, this is a consequence of capitalism’s falling stock: more than half of respondents in both groups have reported a positive view of socialism since 2010, while approval of capitalism has dropped by more than 10 percentage points in two years. Most Americans who profess to like socialism associate it with Western European welfare states; still, even Communism is viewed favorably by more than one in four young adults. Meanwhile, Democratic Socialists such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are shaking up the Democratic Party. And hip new intellectuals and pundits with a soft spot for Communism are everywhere.
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1st January 2019
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31st December 2018
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31st December 2018
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I’m curious as to how this writer expects that to happen, since all he has to recommend is the Same Old Shit that people have been ignoring since the U.N. was founded. Wesley Smith used to be a ‘conservative’ but apparently that gig didn’t pay enough. I guess National Review has dropped the mask and gone full Chicken-Little statist.
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