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The inmates are in charge of the asylum.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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28th November 2018
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Scott Adams has been saying that for years.
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28th November 2018
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Lies don’t get much bigger than that.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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26th November 2018
Ace of Spades digs the dirt.
Simply Shocking!
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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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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;

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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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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26th November 2018
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I am not making this up.
I wish I were.
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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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24th November 2018
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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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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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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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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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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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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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22nd November 2018
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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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22nd November 2018
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Remember: If you hear the dog-whistle, then you’re the dog.
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22nd November 2018
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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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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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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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20th November 2018
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20th November 2018
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No, they don’t. This is just more wishful thinking on the part of a Voice of the Crust.
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19th November 2018
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Isn’t that amazing.
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19th November 2018
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I guess Jews are officially white, now. This may come as a surprise to some.
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19th November 2018
We Watch CNN’s Terrible Media Show So You Don’t Have To
Architect of bin Laden raid: Trump ‘threatens the Constitution’ when he attacks the media Oddly enough, I don’t see any mention ot ‘the media in the Constitution, aside from ‘freedom of the press’ that Trump isn’t threatening.
Carl Bernstein suggests media should edit White House pressers before airing them I guess lying about them isn’t sufficient.
#PsychicNews Network Trump leaves Finland bewildered by claiming country stops wildfires by ‘raking and cleaning’ And of course the author of this article, who is not Finnish and has probably never talked to anybody in Finland, knows exactly what ‘Finland’ is thinking.
Trump called ‘infantile’ for tweet about Democrat Adam Schiff My, what a surprise.
Jim Carrey Compares Trump To Cancer, Says Sarah Huckabee Sanders Is ‘Putting Makeup On It’ It’s really sad when somebody’s career tanks.
Kirsten Powers: Supporting Donald Trump ‘Makes You Racist’ Is that how Don Lemon got to be a racist?
Three Senate Judiciary Democrats Sue Over Whitaker Appointment And now it starts.
Whoopi Goldberg Puts Khashoggi’s Murder On Trump’s Shoulder: ‘This Is How Things Build Up’ Yeah, he was right there with the bone saw.
Dan Crenshaw: Let’s Not Claim Trump Is Guilty of “Literal Attacks” on the Press. I’ve Been Literally Attacked. I Know What Literal Attacks Are. Although Whoopie apparently does not.
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18th November 2018
Are Jared and Ivanka Good for the Jews? Imagine the firestorm if a newspaper had asked ‘Are Barack and Michelle Good for Blacks?’
Trump Suggests Turning Journalists’ Cameras Off In White House Press Briefings I like it.
Conservative Lawyers Form Group To Focus On Trump And The Rule Of Law You can see why NPR LOVES this story. The headline is inaccurate, though it ought to have said ‘Cuckservative Lawyers’.
Man who shouted ‘Heil Hitler, Heil Trump’ at theatre apologises saying he was protesting US immigration policy
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18th November 2018
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That would be a win for Georgia.
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17th November 2018

Why Was Trump’s Tax Cut a Fizzle? Except that it wasn’t — but the New York Times needs to paint it as one because the Narrative requires that Trump not be allowed any victories if the Dems are going to win in 2020.
Trump’s Fabricated Tax Cut Now Another Log On His Credibility Bonfire Although actually it wasn’t, except in the reality distortion field inhabited by the Huffington Post.
CNN’s Don Lemon Takes Down Melania Trump’s ‘Be Best’ Campaign: ‘It’s Completely Irrelevant’ Although not as irrelevant as racist CNN’s Don Lemon.
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17th November 2018
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As if that were any of his business. Of course, racist Don Lemon intrudes in many areas that are none of his business.
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17th November 2018
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Some black-on-black action.
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17th November 2018
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The NY Times is obsessed with the President — it cannot report anything without taking a pot shot at him.
In this case, NY Times Climate journalist, Kendra “Gloom is My Beat” Pierre-Louis, wades into the roiling waters of Climate Change and Politics, apparently far over her head.
Time for a little fisking.
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16th November 2018
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16th November 2018
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Yeah, but I doubt that he would be alive to see it.
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16th November 2018
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Perhaps some day these people will learn to read.
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16th November 2018
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I think it’s safe to say that Shutting Up About It is not on the table.
I think it’s also safe to say that Costing Taxpayers Big Bucks will be the foundation of any program.
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15th November 2018
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The masks are slipping badly.
Hey, if they’ll twist the Constitution, an itty bitty law is a piece of cake.
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