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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

15th November 2018

Trump says people wear disguises to vote multiple times in Florida, without giving any evidence  The Independent has to put that in the headline so you won’t mistake it for actual news.

Scarborough Accuses Pence Of Lying For Refusing To Acknowledge ‘Blue Wave’  Joe keeps mistaking his fantasy world for reality.

#WithoutProvidingAnyEvidence Bernie Sanders: Trump Is A ‘Racist,’ ‘Sexist,’ ‘Bigot’

#WithoutProvidingAnyEvidence NYT Attacks Facebook for Allowing Trump’s ‘Racist Sentiment’

Would Donald Trump really allow Melania to ‘remove’ a White House staffer given his views on women?  Cognitive dissonance strikes the media.

Robert De Niro calls Donald Trump ‘motherf*****’ while presenting award to Billy Crystal  Trump is still President, and deNiro is still a wanker.

Trump claims inner workings of Mueller probe are a ‘total mess’ — but gives no evidence  The Independent has to put that in the headline so you won’t mistake it for actual news.

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

14th November 2018

Here Are The Witch Hunts Investigations You Can Expect Democrats To Open When They Take Control Of The House

Meghan McCain Takes Swipe At Trump While Explaining Her Absence From ‘The View’  I guess, now that daddy’s gone, she feels she has to pick up the slack.

#WhileProvidingNoEvidence Bernie Sanders: Trump Is An ‘Authoritarian’

 

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Scarborough Says ‘Stupid Caravan Conspiracy’ Cost Republicans the House

14th November 2018

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On the contrary, it held Democrat gains to historic lows compared to the increases usually made by the ‘out’ party in off-years.

Joe needs to go back to school.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

13th November 2018

Trump would lose heavily to Michelle Obama, Oprah or Joe Biden in 2020 presidential election, poll shows  Presumably this is the same poll that had Hillary winning by a landslide. Pull the other one.

Jimmy Kimmel mocks ‘Trumpy Bear’ advert in new sketch taking aim at US president  What would he do if he didn’t have Trump?

Stephen Colbert ‘reveals’ what world leaders were really thinking when they saw Trump in Paris  More fantasy mind-reading. It would be different if he were actually funny.

Trump ‘poised to sack’ homeland security chief Kirstjen Nielsen  Funny how these mind-readers always know what Trump is ‘poised’ to do. (No ‘journalist’ ever got fired for predicting some horrible thing that Trump was ‘poised’ to do that never happened.)

Perez Hilton Explains How He’s Been Called A Racist For Agreeing With Trump On Birthright Citizenship, In Exclusive Interview With TheDC  My heart breaks for Perez Hilton.

CNN Sues The White House Over Jim Acosta’s Revoked Press Credentials  They have absolutely no grounds other than their sense of self-entitlement.

The WHCA Takes CNN’s Side In Lawsuit Against The White House Over Reporter Jim Acosta’s Press Pass  Trump should bar them all and let them see what life is like unemployed.

CNN’s John Avlon Chastises Trump For Blaming ‘The Victim’ In His California Wildfire Tweet  On the other hand: Why Donald Trump is right about California’s fires

Number Of Incoming Democrats Supporting Trump Impeachment Is Surprisingly Low I guess they’re not all crazy.

 

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Man Loses Weight After Month-Long Diet of McDonald’s – But Experts Aren’t Convinced

13th November 2018

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A tempest in a tea-pot. It is very easy both to gain weight and to lose weight eating at McDonalds, depending on what you eat and how much. Reading all of these bloviators, you’d think that McDonalds gave you a quart of Soylent for your meal and that was all you could get.

Eat one Egg McMuffin ($3.24) for breakfast, one McChicken sandwich ($1.08) for lunch, and one McChicken sandwich ($1.08) for dinner, and you will (a) lose weight if you weigh over 200 pounds and (b) gain weight if you weigh less than 120 pounds.

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Here’s the Anti-Semitism the Media Doesn’t Want to Mention

13th November 2018

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The 2018 midterm will bring many new faces to Washington, but few will find as much adoration as Ilhan Omar. One of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress, Omar, who will represent Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, is a Somali refugee with a celebrity aura and an uplifting story.

What went curiously unmentioned in all the flattering post-election coverage, however, was that Omar, who replaces Keith Ellison — a former acolyte of anti-Semitic minister Louis Farrakhan — also has some exotic notions about the Jewish people.

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The Camp, Hill, and Woolsey Fires Are Climate Change at Work

13th November 2018

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Well, no, they’re just forest fires, exacerbated by government employees kowtowing to environmentalists and failing to manage wild areas properly.

I guess ‘Wired Science’ is mostly wired with very little science.

UPDATE: It’s ‘Not Correct’ To Blame Global Warming For California’s Wildfires, Scientist Says

There you have it: Science.

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

12th November 2018

Why Did Facebook Fire a Top Executive? Hint: It Had Something to Do With Trump

Spike Lee calls Donald Trump’s response to migrant caravan ‘inhumane’  And I’m sure Trump worries about what Spike Lee thinks.

Trump to be investigated by Congress over use of state powers to target media  Good luck with that.

Tom Steyer Lists Trump’s ‘Denial’ Of Climate Change As Justification For Impeachment  Nope, not even close.

French army mocks Trump for skipping visit to First World War cemetery in Paris due to rain  Pretty tough talk from the guys who surrendered.

#StrawManTrump What has Trump tweeted today? The latest Twitter posts from the US President and what they really mean  Where ‘what they really mean’ is code for ‘what I fantasize that they mean’.

Democrats ‘to target 85 subjects’ for Trump investigations – from tax returns to family separation  Which is fine — it’s a waste of their time and taxpayers’ money but keeps their base quiet and does less damage than whatever legislative agenda they would otherwise be pushing. Play-acting for the cameras is about the least harmful thing they could do.

Facebook Fires Pro-Trump Employee After Large Donation

Celebrities attack Trump for inaccurate tweet on California wildfires: ‘This man is demented’  Except, of course, that the tweet wan’t inaccurate; they just disagree with it, and this Voice of the Crust doesn’t hesitate to emit opinion as if it were news.

 

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Andrea Mitchell Falsely Claims Broward County’s Brenda Snipes Is a Republican

12th November 2018

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Snipes, Broward County’s embattled Supervisor of Elections, may have been appointed by former Florida Republican Gov. Jeb Bush, but when she ran for re-election in 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016, she ran as a Democrat.

More fake news.

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Jerry Brown Blames ‘Those Who Deny’ Global Warming for Deadly Wildfires

12th November 2018

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Yeah, they were out there with blowtorches and everything.

Or maybe it was God’s Wrath on California for being so full of Heretics and Sinners.

Sometimes the proglodyte playbook is less than clear.

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The Washington Post Is a Partisan Rag, Critics Say

12th November 2018

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The Washington Post keeps coming up with ways to broadcast anti-Trump screeds in a form that misleadingly suggests its reporting the news honestly. We’ve become familiar with variations of the following locution: “This report is based on interviews with 38 individuals with knowledge of the situation, including senior White House officials.” It allows the Post to pick and choose among the people it talked to and report pretty much whatever it likes — even if most of these people, including all the ones at the White House with first-hand knowledge, said something different.

Now, the Post is attacking Trump in headlines attributing the attack to “critics.” Today, for example, the lead headline on the front page (paper edition) blared “Trump’s absence rankles critics” (a reference to Trump missing a ceremony in France honoring the World War I dead, due to bad weather). The Post has also used this approach to headline writing accuse Trump of racism, among other things.

Critics said lots of unpleasant things about President Obama. I don’t think the Post ever wrote headlines that parroted these attacks and then attributed them to critics. “Obama too anxious to cut deal with Iran, critics say” was never a Post headline, I’m pretty sure.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

11th November 2018

#StrawManTrump The media can’t stop making ridiculous accusation of racism against Trump

#StrawManTrump Donald Trump’s callous attitude in France shows he needs the lessons of WWI more than anyone

#StrawManTrump Trump condemned for missing Armistice ceremony at US cemetery because of ‘poor weather’

#StrawManTrump On Remembrance Day, Corbyn and Trump should have known better than to show even the faintest sign of disrespect

Report: CNN And Jim Acosta File Lawsuit Against Trump Administration  I don’t see that they have any cause of action. That the President talks to ‘the media’ at all is entirely at his discretion.

 

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Joy Reid Suggests Florida Democratic Voters Might Be Racist

10th November 2018

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‘A lot of that you have to put down to race-based voting’.

But race-based voting is what Democrats are always pushing.

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Sailer’s Law of Female Journalism Redux

10th November 2018

Steve Sailer is not yet tired of being correct, which is (unfortunately) not quite the same as winning.

Since 2009, I’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of Sailer’s Law of Female Journalism: “The most heartfelt articles by female journalists tend to be demands that social values be overturned in order that, Come the Revolution, the journalist herself will be considered hotter-looking.”

But female journalists continue to strive tirelessly to make my snark look like a Law of Nature. For example, here’s a colossal new article in the New York Times by a white-looking part-Asian woman editor about how devastating it is for her to look in the mirror in this racist society due to White Privilege.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

10th November 2018

Lemon: Trump must be really, really rattled  And, of course, Don Lemon is an expert on how Trump feels.

#StrawManTrump Rick Wilson: Trump Was ‘One Millisecond’ From Calling April Ryan The ‘N-Word’  More mind-reading journalists.

Trump cancels World War One memorial visit to US cemetery because of ‘poor weather’  This is given with the ‘Breaking News’ logo. How is this news? Well, you have to understand the Narrative. The implications (they can’t be honest enough to actually say it) is that Trump, that swine, is disrespecting American war dead.  UPDATE: UK minister condemns Trump for skipping military cemetery visit because of rain  Makes it explicit.

Trump: leader of America, master of English  Damning with faint praise.

 

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AEI: “If the United States had open borders, how many immigrants would come?”

10th November 2018

Steve Sailer fisks some cucks.

As of 2014 perhaps 3/5ths to 2/3rds of all Puerto Ricans lived in the 50 states rather than PR, so this doesn’t seem like a particularly reassuring example. And since 2014, things have gone really badly in PR and maybe we are now up to perhaps 70% of Puerto Ricans being on the mainland (or Hawaii, which has more than a few Puerto Ricans from old sugar cane days). And that’s despite lavish tax breaks and welfare to keep them on the island.

The Democrats benefit from letting PR fall apart via corruption, incompetence, and apathy, so that Puerto Ricans will move to Orlando and vote Democratic. We’ll find out whether that strategy has already tipped Florida blue shortly.

But reproducing Puerto Rico globally doesn’t seem to worry AEI too much …

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

9th November 2018

The entire White House press corps should walk out and stop indulging this bully  Oh, please do.

Don Lemon: Donald Trump’s Press Conference ‘Temper Tantrum’ Means 1 Thing  Yup, it means Don has TDS.

Snoop Dogg says ‘f*** the president’ while smoking a blunt outside the White House  Thugs will be thugs.

Kimmel Calls For Sarah Sanders To Be Fired After Acosta Video Incident  Yeah, like that’s going to happen.

Michelle Obama: I’ll ‘Never Forgive’ Trump  I’m sure Trump is devastated.

Trump Responds To Michelle Obama’s Memoir Criticism: She ‘Got Paid A Lot Of Money To Write A Book’

Trump denies doctored Acosta video shared by White House was doctored, then threatens to ban more journalists  Note the opinion in the headline reported as news. The Narrative must prevail.

Trump Says Video Of Acosta Sarah Sanders Shared Was Not ‘Doctored’  Let’s see — who has more credibility, Trump or the Media? Hmmm….

Sunny Hostin: Trump ‘Has A Problem With Anyone That Will Challenge Him, Much Like Many Dictators’  Like Obama.

 

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Scarborough Accuses Republicans of Using ‘Third World’ Tactics to Suppress Florida Vote

9th November 2018

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He ought to worry more about Democrats using Chicago tactics to steal the election.

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Liberals Angry at White Women for Re-Electing Ted Cruz, a Hispanic

8th November 2018

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But he’s a Republican, so he’s not a REAL Hispanic.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

8th November 2018

Trump is leaving a trail of ruin behind him  Certainly from the viewpoint of the Washington Post. I can’t say that bothers me much.

The Absurd Argument of the New Acting Attorney General, Matthew Whitaker, to Justify Reining in Robert Mueller  Yeah, expecting Mueller to limit his investigation to stuff about the election is just so Republican.

I’ve always voted Republican but Trump’s behaviour after the midterms disgusts me – so what now?  Accept that you’re really a Democrat?

Stephen Colbert Calls Trump A D*ck For His Spat With CNN’s Jim Acosta

CBS White House Correspondent Major Garrett Says Journalists Must ‘Lock Arms’ Following Press Conference Spat

DNC Chair Tom Perez Does Complete 180 On Sessions: Firing Him Is ‘Worse Than Watergate’  I guess that’s why they were all pushing for him to be fired prior to the election.

After women of colour did so well in the midterms, Donald Trump is trying to weaponise identity politics  Too late — the Left did that fifty years ago.

#StrawManTrump ‘No, Trump Is Not Diminished’

Trump’s Effort to Hobble the Mueller Investigation Must Be Stopped  All he’s done is replaced his Attorney General, which he is certainly entitled to do. But the knee-jerk reaction is that it somehow ‘hobbles’ the Mueller investigation.  (And how do they intend to ‘stop’ it? He’s the President.)

#StrawManTrump It’s true Democrats should make compromises with Trump – like painting smiley suns on cages before putting babies in This is the sort of deranged commentary that unfortunately erupts far to often in the establishment press (like a case of boils).

Trump is right about many things, which is why he must be stopped  That, at least, is honest.

 

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‘View’ Co-Hosts Say WH Female Aide Committed ‘Battery’ Against Acosta:’She Shouldn’t Have Touched Him’

8th November 2018

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The people who are always up in arms about Blaming the Victim are now … blaming the victim.

The people who are so adamant about protecting women against violence … aren’t.

The View is actually just a megaphone for Democrat party talking points. They don’t even pretend any more.

But you knew that.

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CNN, Which Has Repeatedly Defended/Justified Antifa Violence and Refused to Call Antifa Mobs “Mobs,” Puts Total Embargo on Story of Tucker Carlson’s Wife and Children Being Threatened By Antifa

8th November 2018

Ace of Spades points the finger.

The search “Tucker Carlson antifa site:cnn.com” yields no hits for this story. The search “Tucker Carlson Smash Racism DC site:cnn.com” yields no hits for this story.

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DNC Chairman Tom Perez Says We Should ‘Build Bridges of Opportunity Rather Than Walls of Distrust’

8th November 2018

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Boy, he sure sounds like a Republican.

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What We Just Don’t Understand About the 1%

8th November 2018

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The BBC is a government-owned Voice of the Crust, so they worry about ‘inequality’ without bothering to think about or attempt to explain why they believe that it’s a problem. IT JUST IS! is the sum of their thinking on the subject, if I may so misuse the term.

Amidst a word-salad of proper socialist base-touching and virtue-signaling, however, this Servant of the Crust reveals that the Mass of Deplorables in most countries think that inequality (in the form of what portion of the population owns what portion of the ‘wealth’ in that country) is vastly greater than it actually is.

He then engages in the typical hand-waving sociological jargon about why that is, without bothering to consider the obvious reason: It’s a problem because everything people read in the news and hear on TV and radio Just Assumes that it is.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

7th November 2018

After Winning the House, Democrats Might Pick an Impeachment Fight  Cuck’s-eye view.

Midterm elections: Blue wave fails to materialise – but Trump’s life is about to be made more difficult  Au contraire: Rather than having to drag House Republicans to action, he now has a Democrat punching bag whenever he wants one.

Brian Kemp’s victory in Georgia proves how the Republican Party is changing its tactics after Trump  Yes, pushing back against Dead Democrat Votes.

Joe Scarborough Accuses Voters Of Supporting An ‘Overtly Bigoted’ Racist After GOP Overperforms In Midterm

Trump accuses reporter of ‘racist question’ after she asks him if his rhetoric has emboldened white nationalists  The biter bit.

CNN Fires Back At Trump For Insulting Correspondent Jim Acosta  Funny how they don’t seem concerned about Acosta insulting Trump.

After Trump’s Scolding, Black PBS Reporter Now Has ‘Residue Of Hate’  Sounds as if she had it before talking to Trump.

Surprise! Now Chuck Schumer Demands That Sessions’ Temporary Replacement, Matthew G. Whitaker, Must Recuse Himself Too!!!  Trump needs to tell Schumer to suck on it.

John Legend brands Trump a ‘f****** embarrassment’ as president holds chaotic press conference post midterms

Make No Mistake, the Midterms Were a Democratic Victory and a Rebuke of Trump  Actually, Trump did better than predicted — he certainly didn’t get cornholed the way Clinton and Obama did.

Trump Unable to Stop Caravan of Democratic Women Invading Washington  Assuming, of course, that he cares — which I’ve seen no evidence that he does. (Democrats love to assume that everybody cares about the same petty bullshit that they do.)

Trump Fires Jeff Sessions, and Throws His Administration Back Into Chaos  ‘Chaos’ being DemSpeak for ‘under control’.

 

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‘You Can’t Do It Quietly’: Top Democrat Overheard Discussing Kavanaugh Impeachment Plans

7th November 2018

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Oh, I SO hope they try to impeach Kavanaugh. I really, really do.

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Texas Election: Beto O’Rourke Senate Loss Paves the Way for 2020 Presidential Bid

7th November 2018

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Only Democrats could think that losing an election sets you up for a presidential run.

Only a Voice of the Crust could be so delusional.

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Alyssa Milano Says Since Beto Lost ‘Now He Can Run for President’

7th November 2018

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Sure can. He’s welcome to lose running for President as well. Glad to have him.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

6th November 2018

#WhilePresentingNoEvidence Using bogus charge of “racism,” big media turns down Trump ad

#WhilePresentingNoEvicence Economist: GOP “increasingly unified around whiteness” I don’t see ‘unified’ as applying in any serious sense to the GOP. Quite the opposite.

Triumph Mocks Ted Cruz to His Face: Trump ‘Neutered’ You  Democrats: The Arrested Adolescent Party.

Steyer Lists Trump’s Ad As Justification For Impeachment  Which it isn’t, of course. (First Amendment? What’s that?)

A history of musicians rejecting Trump, from Rihanna to Pharrell Williams and the Rolling Stones  They say that like it was a bad thing.

#WhilePresentingNoEvidence Noam Chomsky: President Trump and the Republicans are “Criminally Insane” Because Climate Change

Joe Scarborough Uses Beatitudes To Shame Evangelicals For Supporting Trump Then Says He’s ‘Not Preaching’

#WhilePresentingNoEvidence America, beware of what Donald Trump will do if you empower him in the midterms – he’ll stretch the Constitution to breaking point

#WhilePresentingNoEvidence Vox’s Tech Magazine Urges Vote Against ‘Unhinged Despot’ Trump

#WhilePresentingNoEvidence Joy Behar: Female Trump Voters ‘Don’t Know The Difference Between A Predator And A Protector’

NCIS Star Says She Won’t Vote For Trump-Backed Picks Because Trump Is The ‘Opposite Of Jesus’  These people get to vote.

New York subway attack: Man who detonated pipe bomb strapped to his chest found guilty of terror offences  Blames it on Trump.

 

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The “We Don’t Choose Sides” Media Attempts to Bully Others Into Silence About Louis Farrakhan Leading the “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” Chants in Iran

6th November 2018

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Black good, white bad, all hail the holy Narrative.

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#WhilePresentingNoEvidence Silicon Valley’s Breakthrough Prizes Have Money, but They Need Diversity Too

5th November 2018

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Prizes are awarded on the basis of criteria. Presumably those criteria are connected some way with the reason for the prize. For example, a prize for winning a race is given to the person who runs the fastest, which is innately connected to the nature of a ‘race’.

To assert that we don’t have enough diversity in prize-winners (or race-winners) is to assert that the prizes ought to be awarded on some basis other than the reason for the prize. The ultimate expression of this would be to award the prize based on ‘diversity’ and totally ignoring the actual reason for the prize. Doing so fundamentally ignores the purpose for having a prize in the first place. Prize winners will win prizes for who they are rather than what they do.

It is totally absurd for a site called ‘Wired Science’ to publish so anti-science an article.

Welcome to the Axis of Drivel.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

5th November 2018

‘Trump has hijacked the election’: House Republicans in panic mode  At least POLITICO hopes they are.

Rihanna Is Furious That Trump Is Playing Her Music At His Rally  After all, who wants to be Hitler’s favorite singer?

The American civil war didn’t end. And Trump is a Confederate president  #WithoutPresenting Evidence Remember how Robert E. Lee came from Long Island? Pretty suspicious. (Steve Sailer points and laughs here.)

Midterms 2018: Obama accuses Trump of lying and ‘fear-mongering’ over migrant caravan as election looms

Rihanna posts scathing tweet about Trump for using her music at his ‘tragic’ rallies  Boy, that’ll tell ‘im.

CNN’s Ana Navarro Heats Up Election Rhetoric By Calling Donald Trump A ‘Racist Pig’  #WithoutPresenting Evidence Hey, if she didn’t have that, she wouldn’t have a job.

CNN’s Existential War With Trump

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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

Read it.

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

Read it.

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

Read it.

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

Read it.

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

Read it.

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

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