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The inmates are in charge of the asylum.
15th November 2018
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14th November 2018
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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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13th November 2018
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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11th November 2018
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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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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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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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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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9th November 2018
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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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8th November 2018
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But he’s a Republican, so he’s not a REAL Hispanic.
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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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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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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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8th November 2018
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Boy, he sure sounds like a Republican.
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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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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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7th November 2018
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Oh, I SO hope they try to impeach Kavanaugh. I really, really do.
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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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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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6th November 2018
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6th November 2018
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Black good, white bad, all hail the holy Narrative.
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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.
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5th November 2018
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5th November 2018
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I don’t even have to say anything.
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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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5th November 2018
The New York Times.
They would never, of course, do that for a Democrat meme.
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5th November 2018
The Washington Post
Would they say ‘your friendly neighborhood Nazi’? I don’t think so.
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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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4th November 2018
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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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3rd November 2018
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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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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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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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2nd November 2018
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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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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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2nd November 2018
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Which, of course, he was.
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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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1st November 2018
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1st November 2018
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Hey, from the Other Left Coast they all look alike, right?
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