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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

30th December 2018

Soyboy Beta Cuck Screams Like an Infant at Someone Wearing a Trump T-Shirt in a Vape Store

 

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MSNBC’s Chuck Todd Kept ‘Climate Deniers’ Off His Hour-Long Global Warming Special

30th December 2018

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Well, it’s not as if anybody expected to hear more than one side from CNN, after all.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

29th December 2018

Ocasio-Cortez Accuses White House Of ‘Starving Out’ Puerto Rico  Ignoring the fact that ‘the White House’ has no control over what food gets to Puerto Rico. Little Miss Bug-Eyed Congresswoman thinks facts are for Republicans, obviously.

Michael Moore Says He’s Looking Forward To Trump Family Members ‘In Orange Jumpsuits’ In 2019 We’re looking forward to him going on a diet when his latest movie bombs.

OPINION: The Press Made It Impossible For Trump To Win Christmas

‘Leave The Store!’ — Video Of Vape Store Clerk Freaking Out Over Customer Wearing Trump Gear Goes Viral

Trump’s ‘close the border’ threat sounds like an ‘angry eighth-grader’, Republican congressman says  Cucks everywhere.

Trump’s threats to shut down the Mexican border betray the real reason he’s so desperate to build the wall  Yup, although the chances of this Voice of the Crust getting it right are zero

 

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High School Student Discovers New Way to Extract Diamonds From Kimberlite

29th December 2018

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Except that she didn’t. She was assigned to record the results of the use of a new machine, and reported that the machine did what it was hoped it would do. She didn’t discover shit.

If it weren’t for the fact that she was a Woman of Color named Hamdi Ali it would never even have been reported.

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New York Times Proposes Credit Card Monitoring For Gun Rights

29th December 2018

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Unfortunately, professional criminals are fully aware of the potential for their lives to be monitored via credit card paper trails (much like telephone records) and take steps to avoid it. Funny how criminals are smarter than writers for the New York Times.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

28th December 2018

Mona Charen: Fake News  Mona Charen is another Washington Establishment cuck who never passes up an opportunity to punch right. People like this are the reason that Republicans (and the American people) can never have nice things.

CNN’s Racist Don Lemon Attacks Trump For Iraq Visit: ‘He’s Like The Grinch’  Except that the Grinch stole Christmas, while Trump has provided it. Trust Lemon to get it wrong.

Sarah Sanders Hits Back At CNN For Attacking Troops Who Got Their Hats Signed

CNN Pushing Hard to Bring Soldiers Up on Charges For Bringing MAGA Hats to Trump Visit  Sarah can’t call them pettifogging assholes, but I can.

Newsweek And Others Claim Without Evidence That Trump ‘Outed’ A ‘Covert’ SEAL Team

Star Wars Actor Mark Hamill Says Trump Is Worse Than Darth Vader  Of course we all take political advice from has-been actors.

Media Points Out Soldiers May Have Broken Rules By Asking Trump To Sign MAGA Gear. Didn’t Same Situation Happen With Obama?

Climate Alarmism defined: NYT’s Editorial Board Claims That ‘Trump Imperils The Planet’

Air Force Pours Cold Water On CNN’s Allegations That US Troops Engaged In Misconduct

Dems Introduced Bill Requiring Mexico To Pay For The Wall, And No One Seems To Have Noticed  Sheila Jackson Lee is one of those demented black women that Democrats keep electing to Congress, no one knows why.

Trump lies to US troops about pay increases during visit to Iraq military base

Trump tweets video revealing covert Navy Seal deployment during Iraq visit  Except that he didn’t.

The Inevitability of Impeachment  They hope they hope they hope….

The horror! U.S. troops want America to be great

CNN: Trump Has Had Four Times As Many Impromptu Briefings With Reporters As Obama  Apparently this says something bad about Trump; I was unable to winkle out why.

Here’s What This Army Ranger Thinks Is Most Astounding About The Negative Coverage Of Trump’s Visit To Iraq

House Democrats Already Sending Out Job Postings Seeking Lawyers To Investigate Trump

Presidential Historian Calls Trump’s Speech To Troops ‘Obscene’ And ‘Nasty’ On MSNBC  Is ‘presidential historian’ some sort of official position, or is it self-assumed, like ‘watchdog’?

War Scholar: This Was Trump’s Biggest Mistake On The Syria Decision  Is ‘war scholar’ some sort of official position, or is it self-assunedm, like ‘watchdog’?

Muqtada Al-Sadr Of Sadr City Is Upset Trump Didn’t Tell Them He Was Coming For ‘Security Reasons’  The nerve of that guy….

Trump ‘violates protocol’ by politicising Christmas visit to US troops in Iraq and Germany, critics say

Trump claims without evidence that new migrant caravan is forming, and threatens to cut aid to Central America  They had to stick the ‘without evidence’ in there to make sure you didn’t mistake this opinion piece for news. (Another Central American Migrant Caravan Is Forming, But It’s Reportedly Not Heading For US)

 

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Nearly 75% of Coastal States Aren’t Prepared for Sea Level Rise

28th December 2018

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They aren’t prepared for a Zombie Apocalypse, either . So what?

Chicken Little Syndrome has quite obviously infected the people at Forbes magazine.

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Pass-Through Deduction (199A) Will Fuel Wealth Inequality

28th December 2018

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This is in Forbes, allegedly a business magazine but in reality these days just another Voice of the Crust.

Totally undiscussed in this article is (a) why ‘wealth inequality’ is a bad thing and (b) why increasing ‘wealth inequality’ is a bad thing.

The author has a great deal of expertise in accounting but no obvious expertise either in accounting or philosophy. He has strongly-held opinions, obviously, but apparently feels under no obligation to explain why we should give a shit.

I could start screaming CHUCK SCHUMER IS COVERED IN MOSQUITO BITES! and it wouldn’t tell you a damned thing about Chuck Schumer (other than the fact that he was maybe covered in mosquito bites). Unless I make the effort to connect the dots (no pun intended), it takes not one step on the road to justifying my obvious opinion that being covered with mosquito bites somehow implies a failing on the part of Chuck Schumer. Unless that effort is made, I may feel sorry for Chuck Schumer on account of all of his mosquito bites, but it doesn’t tell me anything negative about his character. Similarly, telling me that Jeff Bezos gets paid a squillion times what one of his package-stuffers is paid tells me nothing about Jeff Bezos except that he is highly compensated. It may make me envy Jeff Bezos but it doesn’t tell me a damned thing about his character. If you think that’s a bad thing, EXPLAIN WHY.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

27th December 2018

Stock Market Gains Over 1000 Points In Biggest Single-Day Gain in History  Waiting for Obama: ‘That was me, people; say thank you.’

So Now the Democrats Are Hawks?  An entertaining compilation of DemLegHump Media being wrong and getting smacked for it.

Did a Queens Podiatrist Help Donald Trump Avoid Vietnam?  And if he did, who the Hell cares? Nobody gave a shit over Clinton’s draft-dodging.

Why the Trump presidency will end poorly  Jonah Goldberg never passes up an opportunity to punch right. If you ever wonder why Republicans can never have nice things, this is the reason.

Media Attacks Trump For Not Visiting The Troops While He’s Visiting Troops In Iraq

Morning Mirror: Trump And FLOTUS’s Iraq Trip Leave Montel, Milano Confused

Jemele Hill Doesn’t Think Calling Trump A Racist Is ‘Controversial’  It isn’t, in her circles.

David Axelrod Accuses Trump Of Wallowing In ‘An Orgy Of Self-Pity’ Over Christmas  I guess people weren’t paying enough attention to David Axelrod.

CNN’s Bakari Sellers Says Trump Shouldn’t Get Credit For Visiting Iraq Because It’s What He Was Supposed To Do

CNN Tattles On Troops For Holding MAGA Hats During Trump’s Iraq Visit

UN Free Speech Czar Says Trump Is ‘Worst’ Purveyor Of Fake News  Worse than the U.N.? I think not.

Trump Goes to Iraq, #FakeNews Media Embarrass Themselves

NYT’s Editorial Board Claims That ‘Trump Imperils The Planet’

 

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Soledad O’Brien Calls Brit Hume ‘A**Hole’ in Pre-New Year’s Taunt

27th December 2018

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He committed the sin of noticing that she was being, well, an asshole.

 

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Commentary: “The ‘Hyper-Whitening’ of the Jews”

27th December 2018

Steve Sailer does a little fisking.

Okay … well, maybe then it would be prudent for Jewish journalists to ease up on the White Privilege talk? Rock-throwing black adolescents in Crown Heights can’t really tell a Bad Gentile Becky from a Good Jewish Becca, and even if they could, they don’t care, so maybe it’s time for Jewish writers to start pointing out to each other that the Beckys and Beccas are all in the same white boat together.

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Claire McCaskill To Ocasio-Cortez: Don’t Anger Working Class White People

26th December 2018

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Not often you get to see the sausage being made in public like this.

I doubt that Occasional-Cortex is equipped to accept this advice, even if she were equipped to recognize its wisdom. The scorpion is going to sting the frog because that’s its nature.

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The @emrazz Thread: Feminist Dreams of Eliminating All Male Life on Earth

26th December 2018

The Other McCain reads this stuff so you don’t have to.

It seems likely that soon — perhaps within 72 hours — the crew at 4chan will have outed and doxxed “Feminist Next Door” (@emrazz), who will then have a conniption about this “harassment.” But you see she engages in behavior that is typical of feminists: They insult men categorically, and then claim victimhood when men respond with anger.

Actually, you don’t need to read it.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

26th December 2018

Trump’s New Chief of Staff Has Previously Called for Cuts to Social Security  Apparently having a political opinion not shared by the DemLegHump Media disqualifies someone for a job in the government. Who knew?

A potential Trump impeachment is a ‘huge risk’ for 2019, expert says  I wonder whether he was one of the guys predicting that Hillary would win.

Little girl still believes in Santa, despite what Donald Trump told her  So young, and already a Democrat.

Liberals Hate Trump More Than They Love America  Just as Palestinians hate Jews more than they love their children.

Bob Woodward: Government Shutdown Has Become A ‘Governing Crisis’ For Trump  Exercise for the reader: Name one thing that Boob Woodward doesn’t think has become a ‘governing crisis’ for Trump. Take your time; I’ll wait.

Worst of MSNBC in 2018  You know Trump features prominently.  Actually, if it weren’t for Trump, MSNBC wouldn’t have much of anything to talk about.

Union Accuses Trump Of ‘Gambling’ With The Lives Of High-Paid Federal Employees  Better that than with the lives of low-paid military personnel. But Unions don’t care about workers who aren’t union members.

Democratic Coalition Rewrites Christmas Carol To Call For Impeachment

NBC News Misfires On Article Slamming Trump For Not Visiting Troops

 

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America Cheers Justice Ginsburg’s Recovery — But Mother Jones Is Still Mad at Her

26th December 2018

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Apparently her failing to retire when Obama could pick her replacement somehow Let Down The Side.

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Environmentalists Are Furious After Japan Ditches International Ban on Commercial Whaling

26th December 2018

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But it’s the fact that Japan doesn’t give a rat’s ass about their fury that frosts them the most.

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Ocasio-Cortez Calls Jesus a ‘Refugee’ Baby in Christmas Tweet

26th December 2018

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It doesn’t surprise that her knowledge of history is on a par with her knowledge of economics.

I’m wondering how she gets around the fact that Mary & Joseph didn’t cross any border in going from Nazareth to Bethlehem, but were actually traveling to Joseph’s ancestral home for the census. I guess if all the illegal migrants went back home for Christmas would be somehow Trump’s fault.

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A Gutted I.R.S. Makes the Rich Richer

26th December 2018

The New York Times warns is that only a generously-funded IRS stands between us and a country crawling with rich people! Be Warned!

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

25th December 2018

Nope, it doesn’t even stop for Christmas.

The Ghost of Trump Chaos Future

Israel’s Government Collapses Amid Corruption Charges and Trump’s Mideast Chaos

Trump tweets ‘poor me’ as shutdown continues

Wealthy Republicans lose faith in Trump, as nearly 40% say they wouldn’t vote to re-elect him: CNBC survey’  I’d be interested in how many voted for him in the first place. Not that many, I’d guess.

Tom Friedman’s Christmas fantasy  Democrats are always giving Republicans advice.

Democrats: Government Is Christmas, and Trump Is the Grinch or Something

The engine that sustained Trump’s popularity could be about to stall  ‘We hope we hope we hope….’

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

24th December 2018

GoFundMe account looks to buy ‘ladders’ to scale Trump’s border wall

Chris Christie compares Trump to ‘a 72-year-old relative’ who always thinks they’re right  He’s certainly more right than Chris Christie.

We Watch CNN’s Terrible Media Show So You Don’t Have To

Trump’s 12 Days Of Christmas

Adam Schiff Will Subpoena Mueller Report If White House Tries To Block Its Release  Of course, there’s no evidence that the White House is even considering doing that, but the Democrat gaslighting has to start somewhere.

Michael Bloomberg attacks Trump over government shutdown and warns ‘beginning of the collapse’ has begun  I’m sure that’s what he hopes is happening.

 

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Der Spiegel Reporter Accused of Making Up Stories ‘Appealed for Donations for Syria That Went Straight Into His Bank Account’

24th December 2018

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The new journalism.

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Women’s March debates: Do Jews have white privilege or are they victims?

23rd December 2018

Steve Sailer shadows the New York Times on this vital issue.

Anyway, the solution to this kind of infighting is, as always, to unify the Coalition of the Fringes by ginning up more hatred for The Gentile White Male Other: Emonahanal Havenstein. Nobody who is anybody objects when you engage in blatant anti-whitism. Unlike anti-semitism, anti-whitism isn’t even a word.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

23rd December 2018

For Trump, ‘a War Every Day,’ Waged Increasingly Alone

‘A rogue presidency’: The era of containing Trump is over

US government shutdown: Trump border wall row puts 380,000 employees on unpaid leave over Christmas  Note the media spin that this is Trump’s border wall row, despite the fact that it’s actually Schumer’s border wall row.

Trump rebuked by Macron over Syria troop withdrawal: ‘An ally should be dependable’  Really? How many French soldiers are in Syria? None that I’ve heard of.

Trump calls aides ‘f****** idiots’ as presidency risks spinning out of control  It’s so hard to get good help these days.

Leon Panetta: Trump Presidency Causing ‘Too Much Chaos’  And whose fault is that?

Can Patrick Shanahan handle the madness of King Trump?  The question is, can he handle the madness of the media?

 

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Michael Moore Replaces Christmas Angel With Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

23rd December 2018

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Yeah, she looks as if she has a stick up her butt all the time.

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Academic Absurdity of the Week: Writing is Racist

23rd December 2018

Steve Hayward at Powerline makes an exciting discovery.

Like our coveted Green Weenie Award, we could cover academic absurdities on an hourly basis these days. To paraphrase Will Rogers, there’s no trouble exposing the rot of our universities when so many faculty are working full time for you. So we limit ourselves to the most extraordinary or novel expressions of academic rot.

Like the idea that conventions in writing are—wait for it, you know what’s coming—raaaacccist!

I have always suspected it.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

22nd December 2018

Trudeau Blames Trump For Canada’s Illegal Immigrant Crisis  Yeah, if we’d just shut up and take in all those vagrants, Canada wouldn’t have to.

Trump’s Hollywood Walk of Fame star vandalised again – this time with swastikas  These people just refuse to grow up.

Stephen Colbert Prays For A Trump Reboot Of Richard Nixon’s Last Month In Office

NYT: Crazed Trump doesn’t understand that Forever Wars mean forever

Trump is irresponsibly worrying about American border rather than Syria  I mean, really.

US government shutdown: ‘Trump temper tantrum’ halts work at string of departments after $5bn border wall demand rejected  ‘Temper tantrum’ must be the new Democrat talking point, all the ‘journalists’ are using it.

 

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Can We Deport the NY Times, Please?

22nd December 2018

The Other McCain is a bit steamed.

The New York Times has published the most anti-American column imaginable on the subject of immigration, with this astonishing headline: None of Us Deserve Citizenship.

Certainly the people who write for the New York Times don’t, as this demonstrates rather completely.

 

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Video of Glitter Bomb for Package Thieves Exposed as Partial Fake

21st December 2018

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My, what a surprise.

My first wife would have loved it.

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United States Added to List of Most Dangerous Countries for Journalists for First Time

21st December 2018

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Considering the amount of lies and distortions that ‘journalists’ perpetrate every year, I’m astonished that it took this long.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

21st December 2018

Chuck Schumer: Trump Is ‘Throwing A Temper Tantrum’ And It’s Leading To A Government Shutdown  This is a common smear trotted out whenever a Republican fails to cave to Democrat pressure.

Chicago Dem Says Trump Administration Would Have Let Baby Jesus Die  Chicago water turns people insane. I blame Putin.

‘This Could Be A Critical Moment’ — Maggie Haberman Hints Republicans Could Turn On Trump Impeachment  Don’t count your impeachments until they’ve hatched, girl — it isn’t over till it’s over.

CNN Chief Media Correspondent Declares Trump Untrustworthy  I cannot take seriously anybody who looks like a character from Seinfeld. Sorry, just can’t do it.

Washington Melts Down Over Trump’s Syria Withdrawal

#PsychicNewsNetwork Democratic Congressman: Trump ‘As Disloyal To Allies As He Is To Melania’  The notion of a Democrat opining on disloyalty is pretty amusing.

James Mattis resignation over Trump foreign policies sparks panic: ‘I’m legitimately frightened’  One of Trump’s great virtues is that he scares the right people.

Trump ‘flipping out’ as conservatives turn on him over border wall crisis and Mattis resignation  Another attempt at remote mind-reading by a ‘journalist’ who substitutes fantasy for facts.

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

20th December 2018

Laura Ingraham, Jim Jordan Criticize Trump, Republicans On Border Wall Retreat  Let’s wait and see what happens, eh?

Forever War Betrayed: Washington is outraged that Trump is bringing boys home from Syria just because we defeated ISIS  The nerve of that guy.

How Russia has distorted the Trump balance sheet (and it’s not how you think)

Joe Scarborough Continues To Say Trump Won’t Run In 2020, Claims He Only Wants To ‘Line His Pockets’  Scarborogh is just working for free, of course.

‘Daily Show’ Tells Trump If He Wants To Put Kids In Cages He Should Start With His Own Children  Welcome to the SyFy channel.

Michelle Obama Says Trump Has Lowered The Presidential ‘Bar’  Hey, if Obama can get elected, anybody can.

Scarborough Suggests Trump Pulled Out Of Syria To Satisfy Putin  No doubt Trump goes to the bathroom to satisfy Putin.

Ann Coulter Moves Herself Into Trump Enemy Territory

BREAKING: Trump Moves Towards Shutdown Over Wall Funding  Oh ye of little faith….

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Emmett Till’s Perpetually Rising Star

20th December 2018

Audacious Epigone looks at the reactionary Left.

This provides a nice opportunity for keeping credible the pseudonymous surname by parroting an observation Steve Sailer has made time and time again. One of his recurring themes is to point out that to the hivemind it is always 1965. When it comes to race relations it’s as though the last five decades never happened. The most recent lynching in the US occurred before I was born. Emmett Till, murdered in 1955, has been a perpetual bull since the Reagan administration.

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CNN’s 2014 Journalist of the Year Resigns After Admitting to Falsifying Stories

19th December 2018

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I thought that was why he got the award in the first place.

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There Is No Planet B

19th December 2018

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Kim Stanley Robinson is an award-winning science fiction author and, like many such these days, a proglodyte.

If, however, we change our technologies and our economic system to better match the physical and biological realities of life on Earth, the resulting history could be quite amazing, what some are calling “a good Anthropocene.” That future would, in effect, be the story of humanity devoting itself to nurturing the health of the biosphere and creating a sustainable prosperity for all the living creatures on this planet. While not exactly utopia, that future could be called optopia—the “optimal place,” the best possible outcome given the current conditions.

Like many such, he has a conceited notion of how much control human planning has over human activity, and th monomaniacal desire to make everyone conform to his vision of the future that afflicts all Social Justice Warriors.

Like many such, he is fundamentally deceived by the Aggregation Fallacy, that there is some universal ‘we’ out there and that all ‘we’ have to do is decide that unicorn farts exist in order for them to magically appear.

An economic system is a complex interaction of the many components that compose it, and in particular the components who are intelligent and self-aware. It never occurs to people who want to ‘change our economic system’ that there might be parts of that economic system that don’t want to make those particular changes, and that they are perfectly placed to spend their days frustrating those changes in order to achieve self-centered personal goals. Markets work even when you try to distort or destroy them. Planners never seem to learn that simple truth.

Technology is something that occurs when it can occur, and it spreads and becomes permanent when social conditions are right for it. Humans have known about the power of steam since Hero of Alexandria, but it wasn’t until 1800 years later that the social matrix was in place to make steam power effective. Once that matrix was in place, however, the spread of steam power was inevitable. We can’t ‘change our technologies’ any more than we can change our economic system, precisely because they depend on multiple interactions of self-conscious agents who may (and often do) have a different agenda.

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Huge Antarctic Ice Sheet ‘Melted During Similar Temperatures to Today’ Raising Fears of Catastrophic Global Floods

19th December 2018

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I keep waiting for these ‘catastrophic global floods’ and rising sea levels and they never arrive. What’s up with that?

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

19th December 2018

CNN’s John Avlon Claims Russian Social Media Posts Helped Sway Election  These all look pretty lame. Maybe they would have swayed John Avlon; they wouldn’t have swayed anybody that I know.

CNN’s Van Jones Calls Trump ‘Loudest Champion On Criminal Justice’ Following Senate Vote  But he’ll be right back to calling Trump a racist bigot tomorrow.

Ann Coulter Lays Into Trump Over Lack Of Border Wall  Ann needs to take a chill pill and get a massage or something.

Worm-like Panamanian amphibian that burrows its head in the sand named after Donald Trump

Donald Trump, unindicted co-conspirator  Unindicted because he hasn’t done anything illegal.

Trump’s week of chaos: Shutdowns, probes, legal woes — and it’s only Wednesday  And the ‘journalists’ just can’t quit talking about it.

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

18th December 2018

Reporter shouts at Sarah Sanders after briefing: ‘Do your job, Sarah!’  She ought to have said, ‘Dude, do yours!’.

Jon Meacham: Trump May Be Committing ‘Definition Of Treason’ Right Now.  Who is Jon Meacham? Got no idea.

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

18th December 2018

Robert DeNiro lampoons Donald Trump once again, says the President is ‘like a nightmare that you remember’  Anything that gives De Niro nightmares has my vote.

Trump supporters turning on president over Mueller investigation into Russia ties, poll shows  A poll by CNN. No credibility problems there.

DC Circuit Judge Turns Down FOIA Request For Trump Tax Records

Robert De Niro Calls President A ‘Nightmare,’ Then Claims Trump’s Insults Aren’t ‘Even Witty’  But certainly more interesting than De Niro on his best day.

How the Democrats plan to use Congress to get hold of Trump’s tax returns

Yes, Donald Trump Is in Real Legal Jeopardy for Campaign-Finance Violations  David French is a National Review cuck who never passes up an opportunity to punch right.

Scott Adams points out that the Russians spent less on affecting the 2016 election than he did.

Sanders Asked If Trump Should Share His Opinions — Says, ‘That’s Why People Elected Him’  Wow, what a concept.

The pillars of Trumpworld are crumbling They hope, they hope, they hope….

Boy With Last Name ‘Trump’ Gets Bullied Into Changing It

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SCIENCE Article Castigates ‘Human Supremacy’

17th December 2018

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Environmentalism is growing darkly anti-human, a misanthropy that has also seeped into science.

Vivid case in point: Science, one of the world’s most prominent scientific journals, just published an anti-human exceptionalism screed by Eileen Crist. Crist, who has a Ph.D. in sociology and not in any of the natural sciences, writes to warn that the end is nigh — and the reason for the pending catastrophe is “human supremacy.”

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‘Boldy and Decisively’: Pelosi Promises Swift Action on ‘Commonsense’ Gun Control

17th December 2018

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Since it won’t go anywhere in the Republican-controlled Senate, ‘swift posturing’ would be a more accurate description.

In Democrat-speak, ‘common sense’ = ‘unconstitutional’.

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‘Republican’ PAC That Attacks GOP Bankrolled by Liberal Billionaires

17th December 2018

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A prominent ‘Republican’ women’s political action committee that regularly receives national media attention for its criticisms of President Donald Trump and the GOP is bankrolled by three liberal billionaire donors and activists, Federal Election Commission filings show.

Republican Women for Progress, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit, was founded by Jennifer Lim and Meghan Milloy, both former employees of Republican organizations. The duo also previously founded Republican Women for Hillary and spoke at the Democratic National Convention in the past.

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New York Times Article Explores Apple’s Failed Attempt to Build the Macintosh in California

17th December 2018

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Thumb-sucker. Who didn’t know about that?

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Sandra Bullock Interview: ‘Society Still Makes Single Mothers Feel They Are Not the Complete Package’

17th December 2018

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Maybe because they aren’t. The ‘complete package’ is two parents per child.  That’s a no-brainer.

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Does the Media Have It Out for Elizabeth Warren?

17th December 2018

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Rolling Stone, a Voice of the Crust. lets you peek behind the Narrative.

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Doctors Cite Climate Change for Rise in Animal Bites, U.S. Health Care Costs

17th December 2018

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Climate Change: Is there anything it can’t do?

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

16th December 2018

Saturday Night Live stages star-studded spoof ‘It’s a Wonderful Trump’  I remember when SNL was actually funny. It was a while ago.

New Facts Indicate Mueller Destroyed Evidence, Obstructed Justice

Adam Schiff Suggests Trump Might Be Compromised For Ties To Deutsche Bank  Then again, he might not.

 

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Ten Years Ago, @AlGore Predicted the North Polar Ice Cap Would Be Gone. Inconveniently, It’s Still There

16th December 2018

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Well, one could make a long list of things AlGore said that turned out not to be true.

Women and minorities hardest hit….

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The Sahrawi Refugee Crisis Is One of the Longest Running Humanitarian Issues – So Why Do So Few Know About It?

16th December 2018

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Perhaps because there are enough ‘refugee crises’ for every man, woman, and child in a major European country — who can keep track of all of them?

Every year universities in the First World graduate thousands of Social Justice Warriors just aching to go out into the world and Make A Difference … when all they actually wind up doing is Make A Stink.

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Surging Levels of Greenhouses Gases Are Making People Tired and Stupid, Scientists Claim

16th December 2018

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Well, actually, they don’t claim that.

What they do claim is: “Surging levels of greenhouse gases could make people tired, forgetful and stupid.”

Of course they could. But are they? No such claim is made.

But increased levels of carbon dioxide could not just affect office workers but the entire population by the end of the century, according to scientists at University College London.

Again, that weasel-word could.

This is just more climate-change alarmism, ‘journalists’ who ought to know better seizing on tentative research conclusions to justify their Chicken Little agenda.

Faugh.

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Extinction Rebellion Protests: Hundreds Join Demonstrations Across UK Demanding Demanding Government Takes Action on Climate Change

15th December 2018

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I guess fighting climate change implies leaving trash strewn around. Who knew?

At present the UK has over 66 million people. I doubt that protests involving less than a thousand people are going to impress anybody whose job it isn’t to report on it as if it were important.

Note the assumption that only the government can solve the climate change problem, implicitly by forcing people into behavior that they would not naturally do.

Note the meta-assumption that every problem is by its nature a political problem that requires political action to solve.

 

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