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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

3rd December 2018

Jerry Nadler Claims Trump Knew About Cohen Cover-Up And Lied About It

Man Charged With Stealing Forklift, Planning To Attack Trump’s Limo

Man pleads guilty to planning to flip Trump’s limo with stolen forklift

Meryl Streep: ‘I’m Scared By’ Trump Now That ‘His Children Are In Jeopardy’

Kellyanne Conway’s Husband Accuses Trump Of Witness Tampering I guess he wants a position in the next Democrat administration.

Meghan McCain Shuts Down Joy Behar For Using Bush’s Death To Attack Trump

 

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‘Bringing Home the Bacon’: Idioms Referencing Meat May Become Obsolete as Veganism Rises

3rd December 2018

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Uh, I don’t think so.

Of course, I wouldn’t put it past vegans to attempt to ban them as ‘insensitive’ through the political process. Such people like doing that sort of thing.

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UN Kicks Off Climate Summit With Alarmist Message — Act Now or Face the Collapse of Civilization

3rd December 2018

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This is just another hand-waving exercise attempting to panic people into putting more power into the hands of the transnational bureaucrat-managerial class. The Clever Plastic Disguise ‘science’ used to justify climate alarmism has been debunked so many times that they’re just playing to the Stupid Seats at this point. Unfortunately, those Stupid Seats are full of elected officials.

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Venice Anti-Flood Gates Could Wreck Lagoon Ecosystem

3rd December 2018

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And preserving the existing ecosystem is SO much more important than preventing floods.

People just don’t get it.

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People Are Stacking Too Many Stones

3rd December 2018

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There is no activity so obscure and trivial that there isn’t somebody else around to bitch about it.

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How to Make Your Own Christmas Wreath Using Succulent Plants

3rd December 2018

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I’m sure you’re all dying to do this.

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The Last WASP President

3rd December 2018

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What goes unstated, however, is the subtext of that yearning. All the florid remembrances are packed with fondness for a bygone institution known as the Establishment, hardened in the cold of New England boarding schools, acculturated by the late-night rituals of Skull and Bones, sent off to the world with a sense of noblesse oblige. For more than a century, this Establishment resided at the top of the American caste system. Now it is gone, and apparently people wish it weren’t.

But Franklin Foer is here to tell you how wrong, WRONG they are.

There are so many ‘dog-whistles’ in this piece, you’d think that they’d have their own park.

Steve Sailer unpacks it here: Atlantic: Nostalgia for GHW Bush is anti-Semitic

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

2nd December 2018

The Lincoln Option

Trump administration accused of ‘inappropriately steering’ patients to private healthcare plans

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

1st December 2018

NPR Takes a Big Swing at Donald Trump Jr., Misses Badly

Stephen Colbert Asks Michelle Obama About Donald Trump’s Lack Of Moral Leadership  Apparently absent is any discussion whether ‘moral leadership’ is actually part of a President’s job.

Michelle Obama Dings Trump with Talk of Morals in Her Husband’s White House: ‘Not Shade, It’s Truth’  The available evidence makes it hard to associate ‘truth’ with her husband’s White House. (‘If you like your plan, you can keep your plan.’)

Michelle Obama Lofts Thinly Veiled Criticisms At Trump Over His Moral Compass  Oh, they aren’t thinly veiled at all.

 

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GISS Makes a Useful Reference Disappear From Their Land-Ocean Temperature Index Data Page

1st December 2018

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Apparently it was not consistent with the Narrative.

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Swastikas Are Appearing on Google Maps and People Have Taken Notice

1st December 2018

The Estrogen Post does what it does best, vix. vapors.

Swastikas have been in existence for thousands of years; a variation of the symbol became a ubiquitous feature of Nazi symbolism and an emblem of Aryan race identity, racism, and anti-Semitism. However, the symbol has far more positive messaging in many ancient religions from the cultures of Eurasia, standing for things like divinity and spirituality. Prior to the Nazis appropriating the symbol in the 1930s, it long meant “good luck” in the Western world.

It’s for this reason that Google Maps allowed users to search “points of interest” via the swastika icon. Google told HuffPost that the image seen on users’ Maps app is “not a swastika” but rather a “Buddhist symbol of worship.”

Well, yeah, it is a swastika, just one that rotates in the opposite direction from the one the Nazis used.

Despite their being used as religious icons, Google said that the symbols are being used incorrectly in some places.

I would be interesting in finding out what ‘Google’ (actually, the support people who made this statement) believes is an ‘incorrect use’.

It is an unfortunate fact that people have discovered that SJWs such as those who work for the Estrogen Post will wildly overreact whenever they encounter stuff they consider Politically Incorrect, and the more adolescent among us are beginning to amuse themselves by using such stuff to trigger entertaining reactions on the part of the overly sensitive. SJWs have demonstrated rather consistently that they don’t cope well with such behavior.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

30th November 2018

Todd Imagines How Different The U.S. Would Be If Hillary Won  More fantasy from the #PsychicNewsNetwork.

When MAGA Fantasy Meets Rust Belt Reality  Trump has still done more than anyone since Reagan.

Racist Don Lemon Can’t Stop Laughing As An Old Manafort Clip Comes Back To Haunt Trump  Yeah, Trump really looks haunted.

Why historians worry more about Trump than economists do

Dem Rep Raúl Grijalva Calls For Zinke To Resign, Says He’ll Hammer Trump’s Interior Anyway  The Witch-Hunt continues.

Former Bill Clinton Press Secretary Compares Trump To A ‘Crime Boss’ On CNN  Just jealous because Bill and Barack were incompetent crime bosses.

NPR Falsely Accuses Don Jr Of Lying In Senate Testimony

Air New Zealand releases Christmas ad mocking Donald Trump  He might even notice.

What sells more books: Trump love or Trump hate?

 

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Huff Post Tries to Lecture People About the ‘Serious’ Problems of ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer’

30th November 2018

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The Voice of the Crust that ZMan refers to as The Estrogen Post appears to have a dog-whistle problem.

If you see racism where everybody else does not, who then is the racist?

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Racism in ‘Harper’s Magazine’

29th November 2018

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There’s a certain type of black public intellectual who is becoming increasingly common. A leftist identitarian, as it were, his constant subject is racism—namely, what he believes to be the ongoing systemic white oppression of blacks.

His justification for this belief, however, is quite facile. He references group differences (or inequalities) and the past slavery and other past mistreatments of blacks, as if these things by themselves suffice to prove his case. They don’t—not even close.

What is more, for all his indignation and high-toned words, in many instances, it’s plainly he himself who is the racist. What really bothers this hypocrite, his reasoning reveals, is not racial injustice, but lack of black dominance. He is motivated by envy, not righteousness. He wants power, not equality.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

29th November 2018

You are in Melania Trump’s nightmare forest. Keep to the path.  Talk about ‘mean-spirited’….

Stephen Colbert Hits One Of Donald Trump’s Deepest Insecurities In Epic ‘Late Show’ Rant  Of course, they have no idea what, if any, ‘insecurities’ Trump might have, but they think he ought to be insecure, and that’s enough for the #PsychicNewsNetwork.

Racist Don Lemon Lists The Lies Told By The Trump Administration In Just 1 Day  Which doesn’t come close to the number of whoppers the Obama administration told about Obamacare in any given day.

CNN’s Lemon, Cuomo Mock Trump For Bringing Up Emmy Loss When Asked About Potential Nobel Prize

Senate votes to debate ending US involvement in Yemen war, in rebuke to Trump and Saudi Arabia  Uh, how is this a ‘rebuke to Trump’? The Yemen war started in 2011, and Obama supported Saudi Arabia against the jihadists then in rebellion — Trump continued it because foreign affairs (other than trade) is not one of his priorities. Support for Saudi Arabia in Yemen is something concerning which Obama can truthfully say ‘That was me, people’.

Melania Trump lashes out at media for mocking her blood-red Christmas trees at White House  If Michelle had done it, they’d be wetting their pants over how fashion-forward it was.

Democrats Will Use US Climate Report Against Trump In Court  The Crust takes care of its own.

California Floats Threat Of Suing Trump For Protecting Border With Force  These suits would go nowhere if there weren’t partisan Obama-appointed judges to hear them.

Former FBI Agent Says Trump Could Be Obstructing Justice By ‘Dangling A Pardon’ For Paul Manafort  Which, of course, he hasn’t done — he’s merely resisted calls from DemHumpMedia to promise not to do so.

Trump appears to confirm he wants US deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein in prison  Reading the tea leaves on behalf of the #PsychicNewsNetwork.

#PsychicNewsNetwork Joy Behar Says Trump Won’t Pardon Manafort Because He’s Saving Them ‘For His Children’  Apparently that’s what she would do so obviously that’s what Trump is doing. Pathetic.

Al Gore: Trump Is The ‘Face Of Climate Denial’  Well, we like to think so.

A Woman Wrote An Essay About How Wicked It Was For A Trump Voter From Kansas To Talk To Her Child And Compliment Her Family  Well, I would never have done it.

Trump’s Unacceptable Campaign Conduct and Two Other Takeaways from the Cohen Plea  David French is a National Review cuck who never passes up an opportunity to Punch Right.

Report: California-Based Communist Group Encouraging Migrants to ‘Remove’ Trump

Wall Street Journal Incorrectly Named The Russian President ‘Vladimir Trump’

 

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Former Shell Oil President Says Obama Had Nothing to Do With Increased Fuel Production

29th November 2018

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But you knew that.

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‘A Political Report Masquerading as Science’: The Truth About the New Climate Report

29th November 2018

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Each time an end-of-the-world prophecy is delivered—whether by a self-deluded preacher, a group of politicians, or scientists—we are told that we must believe. Never mind how many of their prophecies have been wrong in the past, this time they mean it.

Yet another product of the Deep State ‘Resistance’ to Trump and sanity.

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Is Nationalism Really the Future of Conservatism?

29th November 2018

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Nationalism is a hot topic right now on the American right. All of the pointy-headed conservatives are penning thoughtful essays on the subject, reflecting on why and how we should love our country. At first glance, this might seem like a strange controversy, since patriotic fervor has always been fairly fashionable among conservatives. It’s a burning issue now, though, because some hope to replace the semi-defunct body of thought that we used to call “conservatism” with an energetic and robust nationalism.

(a) There is no such thing as ‘conservatism’ as the author of this piece uses the term. There is no political platform that everyone who considers himself (or herself) ‘conservative’ agrees on and universally supports, ‘semi-defunct’ or not. So the ‘conservatism’ being discussed is a figment of the author’s imagination.

(b) There has never been anyone arguably described as ‘conservative’ who was not a ‘nationalist’ in some sense. But what sense ‘nationalism’ is a component of ‘conservatism’ is not discussed; the author just talks about ‘nationalism’ as if it were one unitary concept that everybody knows and agrees on.

(c) Nationalism in some form has always been a part of the past of ‘conservatism’, so it’s not difficult to imagine that it will serve some role in its future. But to label it ‘the future of conservatism’ suggests a simple-mindedness concerning which the author ought to feel some embarrassment, and maybe do a reality check with one of the ‘pointy-headed conservatives’ she disparages.

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Madison, Mason, and Manafort

29th November 2018

Yuval Levin, another National Review cuck who never passes up an opportunity to Punch Right.

If he ever suggested that Clinton be impeached for his corrupt pardon of Mark Rich, Google has no knowledge of it.

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Migrants in Tijuana Regret the Caravan: ‘I’m Done With the United States’

29th November 2018

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Good. Don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out.

This is like a party crasher, after being ejected, complaining that the people who kicked him out are ‘inhospitable’.

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‘The Confederacy Was Built on slavery. How Can So Many Southern Whites Still Believe Otherwise?’

29th November 2018

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Perhaps it’s related to the reason why so many black people think that the reason they aren’t rich and famous is merely because of white racism.

Slavery was certainly important to the Confederacy but it wasn’t ‘built on’ slavery — except in the minds of the people who see racism under every blade of grass … like the Washington Post.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

28th November 2018

Class Is Evacuated Because Of A Trump Hat?

Debunking 3 Myths About Trump Border Enforcement

Donald Trump disapproval rating among Americans higher than ever, according to new poll  And Trump will ignore it just as he has ignored every other attempt to influence him by ‘poll pressure’.

The Trump Paradox

Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart admit late night hosts have become ‘turd miners’ in the Trump era

Today I made a purchase at a convenience store and received in change a $10 bill with ‘IMPEACH TRUMP’ scribbled all over it. Pretty sad.

Jon Stewart Compares Trump To A ‘Giant Turd Asteroid’ On Colbert

Husband Hates Trump, But Not Enough. Wife Considers Divorce  Sounds like a win for him.

Barack Obama excoriates Trump: ‘Nobody in my administration got indicted’  Nobody in the Trump administration has gotten indicted, either, despite the best efforts of the Deep State. The most they have to show is former campaign workers.

The Media Continues to Buy Into Any RussiaGate Hoax-Claim, No Matter How Implausible

Gay Trump Supporters Set The Record Straight  I predict that it will not work.

The more Trump bellows about Mueller, the guiltier he looks  His looks, yes, I’ll give you his looks.

Hillary Clinton: Trump is ‘part of the coverup’ in killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi  Except, of course, for the inconvenient fact that Trump had, and has, nothing to do with it. You’d think that Hillary would be more familiar with how coverups work.

California Prof Assigns Students Hypothetical Scenario With ‘Donald Rump,’ Worth 30 Percent Of Final Grade

What the Casual News Watcher Knows, But Just Isn’t So

 

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Want Someone to Care About Climate Change? Make It Personal.

28th November 2018

Wired Science, once a mainstay of technical journalism, is become a wholly-owned Voice of the Crust. This is in line with a general Left-ward drift of tech companies and the reporters/pundits who write about them and their activities.

Anybody who actually pries into the ‘science’  behind the Climate Change Alarmist industry will soon recognize that it’s merely politics with a scientific paint job, like ‘Soviet science’.

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Obama Says Fox News Viewers ‘Have an Entirely Different Reality’ From New York Times Readers

28th November 2018

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Scott Adams has been saying that for years.

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Obama Touts Climate Change Legacy, Then Takes Credit for US Oil Boom

28th November 2018

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Lies don’t get much bigger than that.

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It’s a Day That Ends in ‘Y,’ So Liberals Are Crying Racism

28th November 2018

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Apparently the First Female Senator From X is a good thing when she’s a Democrat, but a bad thing when she’s a Republican. And if the Democrat she beat is a black guy, well, Katy bar the door….

UPDATE: MSNBC Hosts Express Gratitude For Panel That Called Hyde-Smith ‘A Racist, A White Nationalist’

 

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Migrant Caravan: Crisis Requires ‘Marshall Plan’ to Fix, New Mexican Foreign Minister Says

27th November 2018

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‘Marshall Plan’ meaning ‘You gringos send us a lot of money’.  Good luck with that.

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‘As a former member of an American cult, I know why so many white Christian women fervently support Trump’

27th November 2018

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Another #PsychicNewsNetwork ‘As an X I am automatically an expert on Y’ article from a Voice of the Crust.

Needless to say, the author’s knowledge of white Christian women and Trump supporters is of a comic-book level. But progs eat it up because of confirmation bias. And the author got paid — what’s not to like?

Like reading old articles in PRAVDA, it’s amusing.

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Jamal Khashoggi’s Borrowed White Privilege Made His Murder Count

27th November 2018

The Guardian is the voice of the Left in Britain.

This isn’t a parody; they’re actually serious.

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CNN Panel on Cindy Hyde-Smith Implodes and Devolves Into Name Calling

27th November 2018

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Apparently Max Boot has tired of pretending to be conservative and is polishing his friendship with the mammon of iniquity.

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Time to Quit Twitter?

27th November 2018

John Hinderaker of Powerline answers in the affirmative.

For me, the Twitter turning point came when the company denied that it shadow-bans conservatives. It then explained what it does do, which corresponds precisely to the definition of shadow-banning. Like other Silicon Valley tech giants, Twitter is run by people who think it is their job to help left-wing Democrats win elections. There is no reason why conservatives should support Twitter.

Or anyone else, for that matter. Those of us who avoided Twitter ab initio are now entitled to blow a raspberry and say ‘Ha! Told you so!’, which I now do.

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Shocking Report From MSNBC: The Majority of “Migrants” Are Adult Men, Not Women and Children as Previous #FakeNews Reports Intimated

26th November 2018

Ace of Spades digs the dirt.

Simply Shocking!

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

26th November 2018

Ivanka Trump email investigation is ‘indication of perils ahead’ for Trump family, White House sources say  Yeah, just look what happened to Hillary. And Ivanka isn’t even Secretary of State.

The Outrage for Next Week: They’re Literally Gassing Children at the Border

Malice in Plunderland  Boudreaux is a libertarian, so he refuses to admit that Trump has a strategy and insists that Trump is either stupid or evil. This is why we try not to let professors run the government.

Jim Carrey burns ‘hate-mongers’ Donald Trump and Cindy Hyde-Smith with new painting  As if anyone outside of the Zoo really cared.

No, the Use of Tear Gas is Not a War Crime

Trump says he ‘doesn’t believe’ his own administration’s report on climate change  Except, of course, that it’s not ‘his administration’s report’, it’s a report from Deep State appratchik holdovers that have nothing to do with Trump or ‘his administration’.

Melania Trump unveiled the White House Christmas decorations – and they’re already being mocked

Hillary Clinton Calls for Europe to End Mass Immigration… To Stop Trump, of Course

Robert Mueller report ‘is going to be devastating to the president,’ Trump ally Alan Dershowitz warns  Devastating, perhaps, to a Normal Politician — but Trump is not that. So we’ll see.

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Democrats Highlight Kamala Harris’s Race as Her Removal From the Senate Judiciary Committee Appears Likely

26th November 2018

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Liberals are preparing for Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris’s possible expulsion from the Senate Judiciary Committee by highlighting she is a black woman.

Findthe ‘black woman’ in this picture.

For reference, this is an actual black woman;

Message To Black Women about Dating and Relationships BY ...

In the event that Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith wins the Mississippi runoff election on Nov. 27, the makeup of the Senate Judiciary Committee will shift in favor of the GOP, with a seat currently held by a Democrat flipping red. Consequently, Harris, the most junior Democratic member of the committee, will likely be squeezed out.

So it’s an entirely mechanical process and there’s no racism involved. But, of course, the Zoo has to shout ‘RACISM’ because that’s all they’ve got to say.

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Environmental Groups Claim Coal Killed 7,600 People in Europe in 2016… Can’t Name Any of the Victims.

26th November 2018

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Of course not. It’s all guesstimates that they accept as fact. That’s why their ‘predictions’ never come true.

And these are the people who attack their skeptics as ‘science deniers’….

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‘When Mars missions could contaminate and destroy alien life, do we have a right to colonise the planet?’

26th November 2018

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I am not making this up.

I wish I were.

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New Frontiers in “Diversity”

25th November 2018

Scott Johnson points and laughs.

The Star Tribune never tires of creative ways to tout the alleged benefits of the immigrant waves transforming Minnesota. When one looks for an assessment of the costs, or an assessment of whether the costs might outweigh the benefits, one must look elsewhere.

This weekend the Star Tribune touts the coming of “diversity” to the business of craft beer. It reads to me like unintended satire. First we have the obligatory passing of the white man. We have the obligatory obsession with race.

Apparently the paucity of Negro Beer is the fault of white people … like everything else.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

24th November 2018

Trump uses Thanksgiving call to Navy officer to voice a weird grudge about aircraft carriers  Scraaaaape that barrel.

Media Misses: How Leftists and Pundits Got It Wrong on the Economy

Trump lays bare America’s smelly little orthodoxies

Trump may have a point about fake news

 

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Dolce & Gabbana’s Cancelled Chopsticks Advert Shows Us Orientalism Is Finally Being Taken Seriously as a Form of Racism

24th November 2018

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I’m a racist, you’re a racist, he’s a racist, she’s a racist, wouldn’t you like to be a racist, too….

I’ll bet you don’t know what ‘orientalism’ is. The author doesn’t, either, but it’s an ‘ism’ so it must be bad. Proglodytes love ‘ism’s, because it gives them a heresy to rail about.

Despite what some have claimed, the video is clearly not an homage to Chinese culture – but instead a racist depiction of the white West’s orientalist perception of Chinese culture.

Whenever a journalist says ‘clearly’ it’s a hand-wave regarding something that isn’t clear at all except to people who have the same delusional view of the world as the writer. The advertisement was clearly a humorous reference to how badly certain Western habits, like pizza, don’t match the way non-Western people live, like eating with chopsticks. The writer, of course, is incompetent to make any judgments about ‘the white West’s orientalist perception of Chinese culture’, because that’s just ‘burn the witch!’ fulmination.

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Fake History From the Washington Post

23rd November 2018

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The pragmatism of Kennedy and Kirkpatrick has guided U.S. post World War II foreign policy for 70 years. The only major exceptions were the Carter and Obama years.

Yet the Washington Post, in a hissy fit of an editorial, advances the absurd claim that President Trump, by not scuttling relations with the current Saudi regime over the slaying of one regime opponent, has “undermin[ed] the basic understanding that has worked to the United States’ advantage since World War II under presidents both Republican and Democratic.” Because Trump hasn’t insisted on accountability for those who planned and committed the murder of the Post’s man Jamal Khashoggi, the editors warn that “U.S. standing in the world — and, therefore, U.S. influence and prosperity — will dwindle.”

Re-writing history to fit a political Narrative is a hallmark of the Left, as Orwell pointed out so chillingly in 1984.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

23rd November 2018

Yet Another Open Letter to Trump  People keep writing ‘open letters’ to Trump, not to influence Trump (because they know that won’t happen), but to score Pokemon Virtue Signaling Points. It’s all about ‘Hey, look at me!’

Republicans wary of plot to impeach Trump: ‘We know the Democrats have a plan’  Democrats are full of plans. Few ever make it to reality.

 

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Anti-Vaccination Stronghold in NC Hit With Worst Chickenpox Outbreak in 20 years

23rd November 2018

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This is a surprise?

If your kids are vaccinated, you don’t have to worry about somebody else not vaccinating theirs.

Seems like a self-inflicted problem. Kinda like AIDS.

Don’t see what’s the big deal.

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UK: Dorset Village of Wool Should Change Its Name to Vegan Wool, Animal Rights Group PETA Claims

23rd November 2018

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Residents ridicule letter to parish council suggesting ‘animal-friendly update’.

I should think so.

UPDATE: Will vegans bully me into changing my name next?

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Joe Scarborough Says He’s Thankful for Hillary Clinton This Thanksgiving

23rd November 2018

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This is news?

I remember when Joe Scarborough was a Republican — or at least pretended to be one.

Seems a long time ago,

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

22nd November 2018

Grassley Has Trump’s Back On Roberts Rebuke — ‘I Don’t Recall The Chief Attacking Obama’

Trump Dings ‘Fake News Media’ For Blaming Traffic Congestion And Low Gas Prices On Him

#PsychicNewsNetwork Trump confuses climate change with weather, prompting widespread despair  Uh, no.

President Trump Doubles Down On Criticism Of The 9th Circuit

#WhileNotProvidingEvidence Trump blames judges for ‘bedlam and chaos’ in escalating attack on courts

Trump condemned for politicising Thanksgiving Day call to troops  As if any other President would have acted differently.

 

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The Best Way to Spend Your Money on Black Friday? A Hefty Donation to Striking Amazon Workers

22nd November 2018

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Notice how the ‘mainstream media’ (a) always take a side in such cases and (b) always take the side of the striking workers, never that of the management. What are the odds that the management is always wrong in every strike? Well, if you’re a proglodyte, it’s 100%.

The dirty little secret about strikes is that any employee who doesn’t like the pay or working conditions is free to quit and go work somewhere else. What a strike says is ‘We don’t like the way you run your business and we are somehow entitled to force you to do it our way instead’. This is derived from the proglodyte notion that everybody is entitled to a job and it is the function of businesses to provide those jobs, ‘good’ jobs, regardless of whether they can actually afford to do so.

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#PsychicNewsNetwork: WaPo Reporter Says Sen Cindy Hyde-Smith Used Racist ‘Dog Whistle’ to Gain Votes

22nd November 2018

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Remember: If you hear the dog-whistle, then you’re the dog.

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Obama: How Can We Miss Him When He Won’t Go Away?

22nd November 2018

Read it. And watch the video.

In the video we can observe the hauteur and condescension that we came to loathe about Obama. He combines unearned technocratic arrogance with the will to power. He thinks we didn’t get enough of it during the eight-year reign during which he lectured us at regular intervals to demonstrate his superiority and put us in our place. The otherwise mysterious reference to “mommy issues” that John notes adds an obvious element of projection to this incredibly offensive display.

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Midterm Elections: Democrats Lead Popular Vote in House by Largest Margin in History

22nd November 2018

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Of course, ‘popular vote’ doesn’t mean anything, any more than ‘total number of runs’ means anything in the World Series. But I suppose they need to grasp for any straw they can reach.

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Tom Steyer Publishes ‘Resources to Help You Talk About Impeachment’ for Thanksgiving Conversations

20th November 2018

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

Idea for a new Reality show: Rich People With Monomania.

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