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The inmates are in charge of the asylum.

MSNBC Reporter Blocks Handicap Parking Spot During Live Shot

5th November 2018

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I don’t even have to say anything.

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Telling Admissions From the New York Times About Anti-Semitism

5th November 2018

Paul Mirengoff reads this stuff so you don’t have to.

The leftist media insists that President Trump is encouraging anti-Semitism even though he has never made a statement that fairly can be considered anti-Semitic. It relies in part on untenable inferences from statements by Trump that have nothing to do with Jews, and in part on claims that anti-Semitic incidents have risen since Trump became president.

What does the Times usually say about Trump? ‘Without evidence’?

Bellafante (or is it the police?) tactfully declines to say how many of those apprehended for anti-Semitic hate crimes are Muslims and how many are black. We learn, however, of the Muslim livery driver who jumped out of a car, started beating up a Jew, and yelled “Allah.” And we just learned that person who wrote anti-Semitic graffiti all over a synagogue in Brooklyn is an African-American and Democratic activist.

I don’t think you can blame Trump for the Muslim driver’s assault. The same goes for the Democratic activist, though I suppose it’s possible he thought he was helping his Party by contributing to the narrative that Trumpism causes anti-Semitic incidents.

Imagine that.

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Tracing a Meme From the Internet’s Fringe to a Republican Slogan

5th November 2018

The New York Times.

They would never, of course, do that for a Democrat meme.

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Your Friendly Neighborhood Socialist Is Running for Office in D.C.

5th November 2018

The Washington Post

Would they say ‘your friendly neighborhood Nazi’? I don’t think so.

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Brian Kemp’s Office, Without Citing Evidence, Investigates Georgia Democrats Over Alleged ‘Hack’

5th November 2018

The New York Times

‘Without Citing Evidence’: That’s the new boilerplate when Voices of the Crust don’t like the message.

You’ll notice that’s never included when Democrats speak.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

4th November 2018

Dem Senator Says Trump Immigration Ad ‘Outrageous’ And Isn’t ‘Working’  Oh, I think it’s working well enough.

Baltimore Sun Media Critic Says Press Must Call Out Trump’s ‘Madness Of Lies’ And ‘Call Him Racist’  For which no evidence is presented, as the media keep saying about Trump statements.

 

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Italy’s Far-Right Government Offers Free Land to Parents Who Have Third Child in ‘Neo-Medieval’ Policy

4th November 2018

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Notice the inclusion of opinion in the headline as if it were news. There is no right that is not ‘far-right’, there is no policy that is not ‘neo-medieval’ (notwithstanding that there is nothing ‘medieval’ about such a policy).

The masks are coming off.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

3rd November 2018

Trump’s Leninist midterm pitch  It’s amazing how many people are paid to live out their rich fantasy life in print.

3 Ways Donald Trump Is Weakening Social Security  Once again, opinion is being reported as news. If you actually read the article, the author admits that what Trump has done strengthens SS in the short term, but might weaken it on the back end if the author’s preferred policies aren’t adopted.

Trump the Dictator?

Donald Trump said black people were ‘too stupid to vote’ for him, claims former lawyer Michael Cohen  And if you believe that one, he’ll tell you another one.

Midterms 2018: Obama mocks Trump’s migrant caravan response, branding deployment of troops a ‘political stunt’  As if the caravan itself weren’t a ‘political stunt’.

Khashoggi murder: Trump administration ‘devoid of moral foundation’, killed journalist’s fiance says  No reason given.

No, there’s no Trump-fueled surge in anti-Semitism

Jane Fonda Tells Women To ‘See The Parallels’ Between Trump And Hitler  Straight from the traitor’s mouth.

US troops dispatched by Trump install razor wire on Mexico border in ‘political stunt’ days ahead of midterm elections  Note how the headline includes an opinion (‘political stunt’) as if it were news.

Carole King comes out of retirement with anti-Trump anthem  Night of the Living Dead.

 

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How Dare Trump Defend the Border Instead of Fighting in the Middle East?

3rd November 2018

Steve Sailer fisks the New York Times.

I like how the poor bastard who enlisted to fight in The Forever War in the Middle East is an elderly white-mustached Wilford Brimley-lookalike who must have enlisted on 9/12/2001.

I also like how the New York Times gives its cartoonist a headline and a subhead to explain his cartoon.

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MSNBC Stunned to Find Hispanics Who Oppose Illegal Aliens and Support Republicans

2nd November 2018

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I am surprised that these people are competent to get out of bed and to work in the morning.

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The latest front in the War on Beckys: Crosswalk Cathy

2nd November 2018

Steve Sailer turns over a rock.

1. Woman calls Portland parking authority (not cops) b/c a car’s blocking crosswalk

2. Owners of car happen to be black (caller didn’t know)

3. Journos play up nonexistent racism angle

4. Asshole geniuses of Twitter busily get to work
doxing and trying to ruin her

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

2nd November 2018

The Most Hated Man in America

Joe Scarborough Suggests Trump Plans To Have Marines Shoot ‘9-Year-Old Girls’ If They Throw Rocks At Soldiers  Except, of course, that 9-year-old girls don’t throw rocks at soldiers.

Group Of Migrants Not Yet At US Border Sue Trump For Allegedly Violating Their Constitutional Rights

Caravan Migrants Refer To Trump As ‘Our President’ In Lawsuit

Trevor Noah says Donald Trump wants to change the Constitution to ‘whiten America’  Amazing how these people can read Trump’s mind without ever talking to him. I think it says more about them than about him.

Media Decries Trump’s Illegal Immigration Ad As ‘Racist’  Of course they do. If he ordered black coffee they would decry it as racist.

Parody Ad Sticks It To Media: 72-Second Supercut Of Pundits Calling Trump A Nazi

Watch Millennials Roast Trump For Racist Comment — Then Get Told Hillary Clinton Actually Said It

 

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Student-Loan Debt Is Crushing Millennials

2nd November 2018

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Maybe they ought to have thought twice about BORROWING THE MONEY.

Every discussion of ‘debt’ in the DimBulb Media seems to proceed from the assumption that debt is just something that dropped on its victims from a passing tree.

If you don’t want to be ‘crushed by debt’, DON’T BORROW THE MONEY.

If you can’t afford to pay for college without borrowing money, think about maybe being a plumber or electrician instead.

Sheesh.

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Eminem Books Out Entire Cinema so Fans Can Watch His New Film ‘Bodied’ for Free

2nd November 2018

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I guess he’s not confident that they’ll actually pay to see it.

Is there any whiter-looking guy in the U.S. than Eminem?

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Joan Walsh Takes Offense When Steve Cortez Calls Cop Killer An ‘Illegal Alien’

2nd November 2018

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Which, of course, he was.

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Extreme Summer Weather Will Be Back Next Year . . . and Probably Forever

2nd November 2018

Popular Science cements its place as a Voice of the Crust.

Some research suggest these outliers are shifting to norms.

Notice how, for climatistas, ‘some’ and ‘suggests’ implies ‘probably forever’.

This is what passes for ‘science’ these days.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

1st November 2018

Accused Synagogue Shooter Actually Hated Trump! Was It Still Trump’s Fault?  Of course it was. Haven’t you been listening?

Trump Is Finished, Because the Media Say So!

Trump shocks with racist new ad days before midterms  Apparently pointing out inconvenient truth is racist now.

Jews in Pittsburgh tell Donald Trump to stay away as first victims’ funerals take place

Trump’s ‘Racist’ Ad on Immigrant Crime ‘If you have a Spanish-sounding name and kill cops, it’s racist for Donald Trump to put you in an ad.’

Andrew Gillum Goes Back To Comparing Donald Trump And Ron DeSantis To Pigs After Complaining About Name-Calling  I guess all pink creatures look alike to him.

Trump releases one of most racist political adverts for decades on eve of election  Apparently pointing out inconvenient truths is racist now.

Trump has ramped up his sickening attack on immigrants, but he’s forgetting America’s role in displacing them  Next up: How Trump wielded the garotte in the Saudi embassy on Khashoggi.

Jeff Flake Calls On ‘Republicans Everywhere’ To Denounce New Trump Ad  I’d like to call on Republicans everywhere to denounce Jeff Flake.

Democrats Are Blaming Trump For A Toxic Environment They Created

Jeff Zucker Says CNN Needs Trump To Have An Audience  Apparently, if it weren’t for Trump, nobody would watch CNN. I can believe it.

MSNBC Skips Trump Immigration Announcement To Talk About Oprah

 

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MSNBC’s Katy Tur Confuses North Dakota and Montana

1st November 2018

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Hey, from the Other Left Coast they all look alike, right?

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Millennials Aren’t the Animal Rights Warriors They Claim to Be – Half of Vegetarians Eat Meat

1st November 2018

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

31st October 2018

Jim Carrey Paints Image Of Trump And Supporters Going To ‘Hell’ In Latest ‘Artwork’  Is there some particular reason we ought to care about Jim Carrey and his artwork?

Beto O’Rourke: Trump Is Inciting Violence  As CNN and MSNBC say about Trump, ‘without presenting any evidence’.

The Media Has A Long History Of Hateful Attacks, Violent Rhetoric Against Trump Administration

Beto O’Rourke Accuses Trump Of Trying To ‘Stoke Paranoia’ Before The Election  Guess he hasn’t been listening to his fellow Democrats much. (Not that I would blame him.)

Don’t be fooled by Trump’s caravan rhetoric – it’s much more profitable to incarcerate migrants than to stop them at the border  Don’t be fooled by ‘journalist’ rhetoric — it’s much easier to criticize Trump than think.

CNN’s Don Lemon Suggests Not Calling Trump A Racist Would Violate His Journalistic Integrity

Trump Rips ‘Fake News’ For Focusing On Protesters During Pittsburgh Synagogue Visit

Elevating the Tone: Missouri Democrat Calls for Trump’s Assassination

Essex seaside village outraged after being used in pro-Trump campaign advert  Well, maybe they ought to clean the place up. I guess they’re waiting for the government to do it. That’s a Speaker Pelosi situation right there.

Same Media That Claims Trump Is Responsible For Pittsburgh Shooting Freaks Out Over Suggestion That Democrats’ Catch-and-Release Open Borders Policy Is Responsible for Criminal Alien’s Cop-Killing

 

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Satanic Group ‘Taking Legal Action’ Against Netflix Sabrina Reboot for Copyright Violation

31st October 2018

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I am not making this up.

I guess they’re afraid it might give Satanism a bad name or something.

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Why Did Media and Democrats Abandon Their Investigation Into Brett Kavanaugh?

31st October 2018

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If it was important to investigate the claims because Kavanaugh was up for a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court, it remains just as important to investigate it now that he’s been confirmed. This would be true even if impeachment were not an option if the allegations were ever substantiated. That impeachment is an option makes the October silence even weirder. Why did media outlets go from hourly updates on this story to dropping it like it’s hot?

Guess it wasn’t working for them.

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Why People Hate the Drive-By Media: Compare and Contrast

31st October 2018

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CNN’s Don Lemon: ‘The Biggest Terror Threat in This Country Is White Men’

31st October 2018

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Tell it to the black people that die every weekend in Chicago and Baltimore and St Louis and D.C.

Not one of them was shot by a white man.

UPDATE: Don Lemon Is So Stupid That It’s Racist

 

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Joe Scarborough Likens Migrant Caravan to ‘Gypsies and Jews’ Who Were Persecuted By The Nazis

31st October 2018

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Except for the unfortunate fact that there aren’t any extermination camps waiting for them back where they came from. And the unfortunate fact that countries between Germany and the U.S. weren’t supplying the Jews and Gypsies with food, water, medical care, and free transportation.

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O’Rourke Reiterates Claim His Mother Is A Republican

31st October 2018

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Perhaps he thinks that makes him a victim, I dunno.

‘No one could steer me straight, but momma tried, momma tried….’

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

30th October 2018

Tom Steyer Runs Facebook Ad Comparing President Trump To Saddam Hussein  If Trump were Saddam Hussein Steyer would have been fed to a plastic shredder long since.

Florida Sen. Nelson Compares U.S. Political Climate To Lead Up To Rwandan Genocide  Senility never looks good.

President Trump Calls Out Washington Post For Associating Him With Bomber

Pharrell Williams bans Trump from using his music as president plays ‘Happy’ after Pittsburgh shooting  Except that he can’t really do that. As long as Trump pays the government-regulated royalties, he’s free to use it or not.

Jamal Khashoggi’s fiancée hits out at Donald Trump and calls on western leaders not to allow a cover-up over his killing  Yeah, yeah, yeah, everything’s Trump’s fault.

Shootings and bombs in the US are just one symptom of the aggressive political discourse we are normalising  Not one mention of the fact that the Democrats were the ones escalating the rhetoric long before Trump got involved.

MSNBC’s Schmidt Blames The Right’s Alleged ‘Propaganda’ For The Mail Bomber, Synagogue Shooter  Not Maxine Waters? Not Tom Steyer?

The Atlantic’s Franklin Foer: Jewish Trump Voters Must Be Shunned

Trevor Noah Says You Don’t Have To Be A ‘Rocket Scientist’ To Connect Trump’s Rhetoric To Recent Violence  That’s good, because Noah is far from being a rocket scientist. I guess Trump is responsible for gunshots through the windows of Republican campaign headquarters in Florida, too.

Andrew Gillum Compares Trump And DeSantis To Pigs On ‘The Daily Show’

CNN’s John Avlon Compares Trump’s ‘America First’ Message To Kristallnacht And World War II Anti-Semitism

CNN’s John Berman And Brian Stelter Try To Connect Trump’s Views On Immigration To Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting

Seth Meyers Condemns Conservatives Who Blame ‘Both Sides’ For Political Climate: Only The Right Is ‘Encouraging Violence’

9 of the best anti-Trump songs, from Janelle Monae to Kendrick Lamar  ‘They may have won all the battles / But we had all the good songs!’

Barbra Streisand Says Trump Is Making Her Fat  I rather think that he encouraged her inner fattie to express itself.

Enemy of the People Don Lemon Claims No Democrats Are Trying to Kill People; Smugly Dismisses Assassination Attempt on Republican Congressmen When Confronted With It

Ben & Jerry’s releases new anti-Trump flavour ‘Pecan Resist’  I wonder how effective they think it will be.

 

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Barbra Streisand Says She’s ‘Thinking About’ Moving to Canada if GOP Keeps House

30th October 2018

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Yeah, well, we’ve heard that many times before. I’ll pay for her bus ticket.

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Why Do We Know Almost Nothing About Pittsburgh Gunman Robert Bowers?

30th October 2018

The Other McCain is not afraid to ask the obvious question.

Maybe the Media are so busy figuring out some way to pin it on Trump that they haven’t any bandwidth left over for actually reporting.

The blankness of Robert Bowers should disturb us. Evidently, any random loner — the quiet, nondescript high-school dropout with no friends or family — could log onto the Internet, find some kind of hate that appeals to him, and become a mass murderer. And in all the world of journalism, nobody except some reporters for the local newspaper will expend any effort to figure out what went wrong in this guy’s life. Why? Because they can explain it all with one word: Trump.

That’s the answer, you see. There is no need to examine Robert Bowers’ biographical background in search of an explanation, because the reasons are ready-made: Trump, and “hate” sites on the Internet.

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Caravan Journalism

30th October 2018

What do they eat? Where do they poop? Who is providing them with food and water? Where do they sleep?

A few of the questions that the DemLegHump Media are not telling us.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

29th October 2018

Fahrenheit 11/9: Michael Moore shares footage of US mail bomb suspect Cesar Sayoc at Trump rally

Trump ‘not welcome in Pittsburgh’ until he denounces white nationalism, Jewish community leaders say

The Only Thing Democrats Aren’t Trying To Blame On Trump Is The Booming Economy

The Atlantic: Excommunicate the Jews Who Support Trump  How do you ‘excommunicate’ a Jew? Sew his foreskin back on?

Progressive Jewish Group Tells Trump ‘You Are Not Welcome In Pittsburgh’  Didn’t know that they speak for the whole city.

Michael Moore Releases Sayoc Video, Ruins It With Idiotic Anti-Trump Sermon

To end our global political crisis, the left needs to learn from Donald Trump

CNN Claims They Never ‘Directly’ Blamed Trump For Pipe Bombs

GQ Writer Julia Ioffe: Trump Has Radicalized Many More People Than ISIS

CNN Guest Apologizes For Claiming Trump Has Radicalized More People Than ISIS

‘Big Bang Theory’ Asks For God’s Help With Election Against ‘A Fascist, Hate-Filled, Fear-Mongering’ Ruler  Did Hillary get elected and I missed it?

Slavoj Žižek: Trump’s rise is a symptom of a dark and subtle force

 

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Tom Steyer Accuses Republican House Leader Of Anti-Semitism

28th October 2018

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Billionaire Tom Steyer accused House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of “straight up” anti-Semitism for a now-deleted tweet about Democratic mega-donors.

“In terms of interpreting what [McCarthy] said, that seems to me like a straight up anti-Semitic move. I think that is a classic attempt to separate Americans. I think that absolutely falls in the category of what I’m describing as political violence,” Steyer stated Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Sounds to me like he’s got a sensitivity problem. He needs to dial it back a bit.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

28th October 2018

Sarah Sanders Fires Back At Washington Post For Tying Terror To Trump

Donald Trump’s MO Is To Divide America, Says Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff  Gee, I thought that twas Adam Shiff’s agenda. Don’t like division? Get with the Trump program; problem solved.

The Left Blames President Trump For Mail Bombings — Are They Right?  Well, no.

Pittsburgh synagogue shooting: Donald Trump makes false 9/11 claim to justify campaign rally  Actually, he didn’t. He was trying to motivate people, and his memory (never too good at the best of times) failed him. Not a patch on Obama’s callout to the ’57 states’, I think.

Liberals don’t want Donald Trump to be civil. They want him to lose

 

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‘Midterms 2018: Win or Lose, Beto O’Rourke Has Ushered In a Progressive Era for Texas Politics’

28th October 2018

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Well, not exactly. I’m sure the Voices of the Crust who generated this article would wish it were so, but it isn’t.

Nothing is more perennial than proglodyte dreaming about turning Texas into a Blue state. It ain’t gonna happen.

Americans embarking on nationwide journeys to support progressive candidates in battleground states wouldn’t likely stop in Texas during any other campaign season — but something is clearly happening across the Lone Star state in 2018.

Yeah, Voices of the Crust are using biased polls to get their hopes up. They think that if they say it enough times it will come true. Which is why they depend on ‘blue wave tour’ activists for their ‘facts’:

“We’re travelling from here to Georgia to support Stacey Abrams, and then we’re going to Florida to support Andrew Gillum,” Mr Pierce says. “I really think Texas is on its way … This is the start of their story. The next generations are going to build from here, and maybe that’s the most inspiring part of all of this.”

Uh, no.

Mr O’Rourke is within five points of Mr Cruz’s lead in the reliably red state, according to the latest polls, reflecting a surge of energy surrounding progressives across the country, including in regions typically believed to be Republican strongholds.

Such polls typically oversample Democrats, which is why they all predicted a landslide for Hillary that Didn’t Happen.

Along the campaign trail, Mr O’Rourke has sought to set himself apart from the national Democratic Party by avoiding discussion of political affiliations and attempting to focus on the issues that matter most for local voters, from immigration to healthcare.

Uh, no. He has tied himself to the national Democrat fetish of Identity Politics by ‘identifying’ as Hispanic (hence the ‘Bet0’), and in general follows the socialist line concerning Free Stuff for everybody. Still, all this handwaving doesn’t escape the core fact that he is, indeed, Just Another Democrat:

At the same time, he hasn’t shied away from defending the progressive stances he’s taken on issues generally considered too taboo to discuss in Texas politics, from abortions to impeaching Donald Trump.

The ‘issues that matter most for local voters’, outside of the urban blue pustules, are taxes and jobs. Trump has those nailed, and Cruz is right behind him.

Meanwhile, Mr O’Rourke has broken national fundraising records in the latest three-month period, vowing to spend the whopping $38m entirely on his own race, rather than sharing some of the cash flow with other Democrats in the region.

Most of which has come from out-of-state, underlining that fact that, popular Media mythology aside, the Democrats are the Party of the Rich.

You will note the lack of mention of the Invasion Caravan approaching the southern border, which has increasingly focused Republican attention and has energized Republican turnout for what is normally a snooze-fest election.

UPDATE: Mural depicting Beto O’Rourke as a superhero is vandalised days after being unveiled

‘El Paso gentrifier supports Israel’ among slogans spray-painted on Austin artwork

Guess Beto isn’t the liberal dreamboat that everybody says he is.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

27th October 2018

BBC presenter recalls how ‘creepy’ Donald Trump called her ‘beautiful’ 

Jeez, not now, Iran… Facebook catches Mid East nation running trolly US, UK politics ads

Maher Rips Media For ‘Doing Donald Trump’s Dirty Work’ On ‘Stupid’ Caravan Coverage  Rope-a-dope depends on the participation of a dope; the DemLegHump media are always happy to oblige.

NYT’s Paul Krugman Blames Trump For Deadly Synagogue Shooting  Of course he does. Everything is Trump’s fault, from Global Warming to cracks in the sidewalk.

Maher: ‘Sounds Like’ Trump Is ‘Partnering’ With Bomb Suspect  The way Obama ‘partnered’ with Weather Underground bomber Bill Ayres? Or anti-American hate preacher Wright?

GQ Writer Blames Trump For Synagogue Shooting  Not a word about the demagoguery from Democrats. Apparently that doesn’t count.

 

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MSNBC’s Toure Neblett Calls Conservatives ‘Anti-Media, Anti-Intellectual and Anti-Science’ Conspiracy Theorists

27th October 2018

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Another talking head whose only qualification seems to be that he is black. His biggest claim to fame is that he is a ‘music journalist’, which of course gives him special expertise in political opinions.

Anti-Media? With good reason, if you turn on the TV.

Anti-Science? Hey, the witches and Satanists aren’t voting Republican.

Anti-Intellectual? Let’s take a look at those ‘intellectuals’ in ‘gender studies’ in the Ivy League and ponder whether that’s a bug or a feature.

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Steyer: The Mail Bomber Is Partly Why Americans Should Vote Democrat in Midterms

27th October 2018

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Logic was never his strong suit.

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Malcolm Nance: Anyone Who Fails to Call Out the Suspected Mail Bomber Is Supporting Terrorism

27th October 2018

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I guess the fact that most of the bombs were crude theatrical props doesn’t have anything to do with it.

Never heard of Malcolm Nance? Me neither. But he’s black, so he gets on the news.

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Ebony Magazine Leaves All 6 Republicans Out of Profile of Black Candidates

26th October 2018

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I guess they’re Not Real Negroes.

Actually, that’s a neat trick. If you register as a Republican and become an UnNegro, does it push you all the way to White or just to Brown? And, if the latter, what kind of Brown do you become?

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

25th October 2018

CNN’s Jeff Zucker Rips Trump: ‘Words Matter’

CNN Pounces, Seizes on Nonfunctional Bomb Scare As 17,883rd Reason Trump Must Never Dare Criticize CNN as “Fake News”

Yesterday, The New York Times Published Five (Awful) Fiction Pieces About How the Trump Presidency Would End. One Naturally Went to the Assassination Fantasy — with Trump’s Secret Service Helping to Kill Him.

Celebs Blame Trump After Suspicious Packages Are Sent To Obamas, Clintons And CNN  Of course they do. When in doubt, blame Trump.

Trump’s nationalist declaration ‘like pouring gasoline on a fire’ ahead of midterms  Boy, I’m sure scared.

Trump has called for unity over the bombs sent to CNN, Hillary Clinton and others – but his words ring hollow after everything he’s done

New York Times Publishes Trump Assassination Fantasy After Asking Fiction Writers To Imagine End To Mueller Investigation

John Kasich Claims Trump Is Responsible For Division That’s Tearing Country Apart

MSNBC Commentator: Bomb Scare May ‘Exceed The Scope’ Of Lincoln’s Assassination  Uh, yeah.

Donald Trump’s attacks on the media have brought us to a dangerous moment in US politics  No mention, of course, of the media’s attacks on Donald Trump.

How Trump turned the Democrats into the nasty party  We prefer the term ‘Party of Hate’.

Pelosi Blames Trump For Mail Bombs, Condemned Idea That Democrat Rhetoric Played Role In Scalise Shooting

MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski Tells GOP It Has To Ditch Support For Trump’s Rhetoric After Bomb Scare  And of course we’re all going to take advice from Mika.

When the U.S President Phones Friends, the Chinese Listen and Learn  Yeah, they’re learning not to mess with Trump.

CNN’s John King Claims ‘No One’ Is Blaming Trump For Bomb Scares, Guest Immediately Does Just That  And these people are alleged to be professionals….

Democrat Sen. Doug Jones Compares Trump To George Wallace, Bull Connor  Except that they were Democrats. But no Democrat knows any history these days.

Michael Moore: ‘Trump — You Know EXACTLY What You’re Doing’ With Anti-Media Rhetoric  Yup — holding up a mirror to slugs like you.

200 Members Of The Media Sign Open Letter Condemning President Trump’s Rhetoric About The Industry, Claims He’s Inciting Violence  ‘Mommeee! Donald hit me back!’

MSNBC’s Katy Tur Becomes Livid When Guest Points Out Violent Left-Wing Rhetoric

Maxine Waters Calls On Trump To ‘Take Responsibility’ For Bombs  Sure, Maxine, if you’ll take responsibility for Hitler.

 

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New York Post Source: CNN “Bomb” Was Not a Bomb at All, As It Had No Blasting Cap Nor Any Other Device That Could Detonate It.

25th October 2018

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Looking more and more like a ginned-up publicity stunt designed to make Democrats look like victims before the midterm elections.

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Democrats and Journalists Exploit Mail Bombs to Attack Republicans

25th October 2018

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Wow, didn’t see that coming.

This is smelling more and more like a false-flag operation — the incompetence is signature for Democrats.

UPDATE: Dan Bongino Claims Explosive Devices Sent To CNN And Democratic Politicians Were Amateur On Purpose

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Newsweek Tries to Tie DeSantis to Pipe Bombs Sent to Liberals

25th October 2018

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“I want to make sure that Andrew Gillum knows that inviting his failed presidential candidate is the WORST mistake of his campaign,” the DeSantis email said. “I want Hillary Clinton’s visit to be a kiss of death.”

A Newsweek article linked that rhetoric to the bomb sent to Clinton, despite the fact that there is no evidence to link the two.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

24th October 2018

Don Lemon: Hard to believe Trump’s never heard of ‘white nationalism’  Hard to believe that Don Lemon thinks he knows what Trump has or has not ‘heard of’.

Joe Biden says silence in the face of white supremacy ‘is complicity’ during fiery speech against Trump  Unless you’re virtue-signaling, 24/y, you’re a Bad Guy.

The Media Lies About Trump’s ‘Nationalist’ Comment And The ‘Caravan’

Tucker Cracks Up When Former Hillary Aide Says Soros Bomb Is Trump’s Fault

Retired Marine And Double Amputee Joey Jones Slams Students Who Claim They Have PTSD From Trump

MSNBC Host Says Trump Voters Are ‘Loathing, Desperately Fearful’ People  I guess that’s the Media’s definition of ‘winnning’.

And Here We Go: CNN’s David Gregory Declares Sarah Sanders’ Criticism of CNN No Longer Permissible; Thug/Governor Andrew Cuomo, Who Once Declared That There Was No Place for Pro-Lifers In His State, Calls for “Civility” in “Discourse”

Media Suggest President Trump Is Indirectly Responsible For Suspicious Packages

Sunny Hostin Blames Trump For Suspicious Packages: ‘The Tone Is Coming From The Top’

 

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Tucker Asked Jorge Ramos How Many Caravan Migrants He Planned to Take In — Things Got Awkward Fast

24th October 2018

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The anti-American folks in the media always seem to choke when it comes to doing what they want to force other people to do. If you want an awkward silence, ask Paul Krugman how much he pays in taxes.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

23rd October 2018

British Actor John Cleese: Trump a ‘Sleazy, Corrupt, Egotistical and Mendacious Sociopath’

Man accused of groping woman on flight tells police Trump ‘says it’s okay to grab women by their private parts’  Except that he didn’t, of course; the media just lied about it.

Morning Mirror: CNN’s Acosta Calls B.S. On White House  Perhaps to match the number of times it has gone the other way?

CNN’s John Avlon Says Trump’s Embrace Of Nationalism Clashes With American Exceptionalism: ‘Not A Tribe-Based Nation’  As if he would know.

The US’s actions in Central America are to blame for the migrant caravan leaving Honduras – Trump has to let them in  Uh, I don’t think so.

Rachel Maddow Equates Trump’s Voter Fraud Tweet to 1922 KKK Leaflets

Don Lemon Says ‘Racial Resentment’ Was The ‘Key Factor’ in Trump’s Election  Yeah, black resentment of white people; white people finally got the message.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: America today is ‘a feudal court’ – and Donald Trump’s ‘a toddler’  And, of course, she’s the expert. Perhaps she ought to try ‘improving’ her native Nigeria rather than pestering Americans.

Trump’s claims of ‘voter fraud’ are to deny upcoming Democrats win, Krugman warns  When they start market-testing their excuses, you know the Blue Wave is a dud.

 

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The Elections

23rd October 2018

Steve Sailer does a pre-vote run-up.

The New York Times is angry that Trump is trying to distract voters from the real issues, such as America’s ongoing BBQ Becky Crisis, with his crazy talk about irrelevancies like “the border” and “national identity.”

Apparently nobody at the New York Times has seen the picture of the Migrant Invasion Force tromping through Mexico (hey, what a great name for a song).

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Tom Steyer Is Using an Unusual Campaign Message on College Campuses

22nd October 2018

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‘You can change this world, or it can be run by … entitled, rich white old men’
Like, say, Tom Steyer.
Or, say, George Soros.
Or, say, Michael Bloomberg.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

22nd October 2018

April Ryan Says US ‘Not Safe’ For Journalists

Keith Ellison Points To Allegations Against President Trump To Defend Himself

Trump pushing world towards another Cuban missile crisis after withdrawing US from arms control treaty, Russian MP says

Joe Scarborough Asks If Trump Thinks The American People Are ‘Stupid’ Enough To Believe In Another Tax Cut

CNN Commentator Accuses Trump Of Inhaling Oxygen And Exhaling Lies  Just like a Democrat!

The Real Reason They Hate Trump

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Trump Tells Reporters to Go Check for Evidence When Asked If [sic] There Are Terrorists In Migrant Caravan

22nd October 2018

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Reporters? Look for evidence? Who has time for that?

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