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Soviet Labour Camps Were ‘Compassionate’, ‘Educational’ Institutions, Say Trans Rights Campaigners

11th September 2018

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Uh, sure.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

10th September 2018

9/11: Donald Trump’s bizarre quotes about September 11 attacks before becoming president  Gee, I don’t remember anybody going back into Obama’s life before he became President to cherry-pick ‘bizarre statements’ he made.

Dem Candidate Claims ‘Nazis’ Work In The White House

Maxine Waters Doubles Down On Harassing Trump Officials In Public  The BitterBeerFace will get you if you don’t watch out.

America ‘underestimating how serious’ situation is in Trump’s White House, Bob Woodward says  Women and minorities hardest hit, etc. etc.

How Anonymous Hurt the Anti-Trump Opposition

Triggering a Trump meltdown: What was the point of that anonymous Op-Ed piece?

NBC News Claims Conservatives Paid For Steele Dossier  Uh, no.

Obama Has Been Claiming Credit For Trump’s Economy — Trump Marches Out Economist, With Receipts  Facts are such troublesome things.

Trump’s Top Economist Has Stinging Barb For Hillary Voters In Obama-Economy Fact Check

Broadway Star Pushes Trump Assassination — ‘Where’s John Wilkes Booth When You Need Him?’  In the grave with Democrat chances of getting rid of Trump.

Omarosa releases new secret recordings revealing Trump ‘rambling’ about Steele dossier  ‘Please! I want my fifteen minutes of fame back!’

6 Denials of Claims in Woodward’s Trump Book Before Its Release  Is that a record? Maybe not for a Woodward book….

 

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US News Changes College Ranking Criteria To Address Income Inequality

10th September 2018

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U.S. News and World Report changed the ranking system for its Best Colleges report by recognizing universities with higher enrollment and graduation rates of lower income students.

The changes were announced Monday, according to a U.S. News press release. The changes decreased the weight of SAT/ACT scores and expert opinions along with removing acceptance rate as a criteria in the rankings.

So the rankings have been ‘adjusted’ to reflect SJW values rather than, you know, the actual quality of the education. (Colleges that have strong racial preferences will have larger dropout rates and can’t possibly be allowed to suffer because of that.)

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

9th September 2018

Activists Sent 3,000 Coat Hangers To Sen. Collins’s Office To Protest Against Confirming Kavanaugh  There is, of course, no evidence that Kavanaugh has any inclination to reverse Roe v. Wade. But reality never mattered to ‘activists’.

There Are Over A Dozen Democrats Considering Running Against Trump In 2020  Great. Pass the popcorn.

Joy Behar Unleashes Tirade Against Melania Trump, Says She ‘Believed In Birtherism’  Apparently ‘birtherism’ is some sort of new proglodyte disease, like ‘climate denial’. Of course, Behar has no idea what Melania Trump believes or doesn’t believe; but that doesn’t stop her from Psychic Journalism.

Miss America contestant criticises Trump as the ‘biggest issue facing our country today’  I guess they don’t pick ’em for their brains.

 

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NSA Metadata Program “Consistent” With Fourth Amendment, Kavanaugh Once Argued

9th September 2018

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Which it is.

Telephone ‘metadata’ is the phone number of the phone you used, the phone number of the phone you called, when you called, and how long the call took. This is information recorded by the phone company for billing purposes. It is not YOUR information, it is the PHONE COMPANY’s information, and therefore doesn’t fall under the Fourth Amendment WITH RESPECT TO YOU. It’s no more ‘your’ information than the entries on the receipt you get at McDonald’s when you buy a Happy Meal.

A lot of people without legal training, or even the brain to follow an argument, get that one wrong, including the author of this article.

Yes, that information can be used to track you. So can having somebody following you on the street, or somebody watching the elevator in your building, or dusting a room for fingerprints in which you have been. Technology allows law enforcement to collect a lot of data more cheaply than they could 100 years ago; that’s not a violation of the Constitution.

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Hipster Antitrust

9th September 2018

Steve Sailer picks up on a new trend.

Everything old is new again.

The whole theoretical basis of ‘antitrust’ is that dominant companies will cut prices so low as to drive competitors out of business, and (once they’re the Last Company Standing) jack up prices for consumers because they have no choice but to by from the ‘monopolist’.

The fly in the ointment is that no one has every produced any instance of this jacking-up-of-prices-after-Mom-and-Pop-have-been-put-out-of-business. Has Walmart increased its prices in places where it has ‘driven’ smaller local stores out of business? If it has, nobody in the LameStream Media has reported it. (And, considering how much ‘journalists’ hate Walmart, I doubt that they would have missed it.) Has Amazon jacked up its prices to customers in places where small local suppliers can’t compete against the Bezos Behemoth? Again, not that I’ve heard of — and it would be difficult to do so, since Amazon prices are uniform for all customers.

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CJR: “The Mystery of Tucker Carlson”

8th September 2018

Steve Sailer fisks some poor chick at the Columbia Journalism Review, just to keep his hand in.

Tucker Carlson is handsome, affluent, smart, and funny. He’s a winner.

Poor Ms. Lenz is broke, divorcing her husband for being a Republican (she says), not as sharp, and humorless. She’s kind of a loser.

Much of Social Justice Jihadism is the losers’ hope that if only they could get their personal loserness Socially Constructed as winnerness, they’d be happy winners. That’s what they are taught in college, so why shouldn’t they believe it? It helps them get out of bed in the morning. The first step toward our new, improved culture Socially Constructing themselves into winners is of course to shut up anybody who points out that’s not really how the world works.

One would think that a ‘journalism review’ affiliated with a prestigious Ivy League university could be counted on as an exemplar of good journalism by good journalists. As the piece Steve dissects proves, yet another supposed reputable institution has let us down.

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Why Are Newspaper Websites So Horrible?

8th September 2018

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When Emily Goligoski’s parents want to read their local newspaper, the two Ohioans load up the PDF version of the print newspaper on their iPad and scroll through, “turning” digitally pixelated pages instead of reading the stories from the paper’s website.

“My parents refuse to access the website because it’s just so painful to look at,” says Goligoski, a veteran of Mozilla and former user experience research lead for The New York Times.

…

The torments of these sites are well known: clunky navigation, slow page-loading times, browser-freezing autoplaying videos, a siege of annoying pop-up ads, and especially those grids of bottom-of-the-page “related content” ads hawking belly fat cures and fake headlines (what’s known as Internet chum).

Put another way: Why must newspaper websites suck so damn much?

One might more usefully ask ‘why do newspapers suck so danm much?’ I rather think that the two are related.

One sees a similar degeneration in popular music radio. Where once local DJs curated content to local tastes and developed serious fan followings, nowadays the local franchise of National Radio Network runs centrally-produced content that is blandified to match the Marketing Department’s guess about what appeals to the lowest common denominator, interrupted occasionally by automatically inserted ads that may or may not have any relationship to the content. That’s certainly cheaper, and it’s all about the bottom line. You want healthy food, try Whole Paycheck — you ain’t gonna find it at Grocery Barn.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

8th September 2018

Trump will undoubtedly face impeachment, says Watergate attorney  This time for sure!

‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ — Fox News Host Pete Hegseth Diagnoses Former President Obama

 

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Rise for Climate: Protesters Take to Streets Across the Planet to Demand Action on Environment

8th September 2018

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Well, I’m sure that will work any day now … just like all the other times….

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Tucker Carlson Dares Question Dogma of Diversity; Pointing and Sputtering Ensues

8th September 2018

Steve Sailer spanks Matthew Yglesias for being a racist asshole.

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

7th September 2018

We are a superpower run by a simpleton  I guess they think that if they repeat it often enough it will become true.

Trump’s dipping approval is putting Republicans in dangerous territory  At least they hope it does.

There Oughta Be a Law  The New York Times succumbs to its inner fascist.

Dems Threaten To Seize Trump’s Tax Returns If They Take The House  Hey, let’s see Hillary’s.

Chelsea Handler, Others Speculate First Lady Behind Anti-Trump NYT Op-ed: ‘I See You Melania’  More mind-readers in the media. I’m sure they wish it were true.

Obama Hits Campaign Trail, Goes Off On Trump: ‘We Can’t Just Put Walls Up All Around America’  Uh, I think we can.

Kathy Griffin Labels Trump’s Election ‘Funeral For Our Country’  Does anybody even listen to Kathy Griffin?

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

6th September 2018

This Is a Constitutional Crisis  Except, of course, that it isn’t.

Bernstein: Why doesn’t John Kelly resign?  Perhaps because he doesn’t agree with Bernstein? That’s just a guess.

We’re Watching an Antidemocratic Coup Unfold  Or maybe not.

Trump’s sales pitch to the Daily Caller on his electoral success was used-car-salesman-esque  Whatever that means.

Congressional Republicans Are the Real Authors of the Anonymous Op-Ed  Uh, sure, okay.

Trump claims he has 100 photos of Comey and Mueller “kissing.” We tried to find some.  Except that that’s just a figure of speech, which Vox is too stupid to realize.

Donald Trump might hate the establishment – but it turns out that’s exactly what’s saving his presidency  Or maybe it’s just the Constitution.

Lodestar: Mike Pence suggested as Trump official behind anonymous op-ed, as White House hunts culprit  Scraaaape that barrell….

The NeverTrump movement’s latest trick? Sabotaging the White House

Trudeau Says Trump ‘Doesn’t Always Follow The Rules’  He certainly doesn’t always follow Trudeau’s rules.

The Ghost of Richard Darman

Chelsea Handler To Republicans: ‘Do The Right Thing … Invoke The 25th Already’  As if any Republican would take advice from Chelsea Handler, now that McCain is dead.

The Left’s White-Power Self-Own

CNN’s April Ryan Accuses Trump White House Of Trying To ‘Kill’ Her Career Because She’s A Black Woman  Of course, it couldn’t just be because she’s an incompetent jerk; of course not.

 

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How Urban Planning Is Failing Women Around the World

6th September 2018

Three journo chicks do their feminist thing, women and minorities hardest hit, etc. etc.

Poor city planning can make women feel unsafe. It’s time we moved on from one group shaping the world on behalf of everyone else.

It’s not a big deal, apparently, that cities make everybody ‘feel unsafe’; only women are to be taken into account.

I haven’t done a word search, but I’m sure ‘patriarchy’ makes an appearance, at least by implication.

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Cory Booker Is Embarrassing Himself

6th September 2018

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Not unexpected.

For those keeping score at home:

  • Cory Booker is now Spartacus
  • Having dramatically charged that Judge Kavanaugh is in favor of racial profiling in the name of security but against it when it comes to affirmative action, Booker has provided an email that confirms that Kavanaugh . . . is in fact against racial profiling in both cases.
  • That email, which Booker said he was obliged to share in violation of confidentiality rules, was in fact cleared for release last night.

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Cynthia Nixon on Getting Single-Payer Health Care in New York: ‘Pass it and then figure out how to fund it’

6th September 2018

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The term ‘ass-backwards’ leaps immediately to mind.

The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money. Nixon would scrub ‘eventually’ from that prediction.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

5th September 2018

Bernstein calls on Kelly to resign following Woodward book  Sure, that’s gonna happen.

Mueller Is Looking for Proof of “Corrupt Intent.” Trump Provided It on Monday.  I must have missed where Saletan got his law degree.

Bernstein: Trump presidency a national emergency

Woodward book reveals ‘crazytown’ White House  Or at least claims to.

Trump suggests protesting should be illegal  Except, of course, that he didn’t.

Premature death could help explain why Donald Trump is president, suggests study

Rob Reiner interview: ‘If we’re not able to slow Trump down, he’ll be worse than Bush’

Trump rages over Bob Woodward expose and hints at US libel law change  Although he actually doesn’t, of course.

Stephen Colbert Claims The Only Stupid Southerners Are The Ones Working For Trump

Joe Scarborough Challenges Pro-Lifers To Come At Him Over Kavanaugh Handshake Controversy

Protesters Immediately Interrupt 2nd Day Of Kavanaugh Hearing

Michael Moore Blames Gwen Stefani For Trump’s Decision To Run For President  Really, you can’t make this stuff up.

Donald Trump’s cabinet ‘considered using 25th amendment to remove him from office’  Except, of course, that they didn’t.

What’s Motivating the Times’ Anonymous Op-Ed Writer Inside the White House?  Money would be my guess.

 

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Raising Taxes Would Make People Happier, Says Archbishop of Canterbury

5th September 2018

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No wonder the Church of England is coming apart.

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Charted: Here’s How Much Your Food Waste Hurts the Environment

5th September 2018

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I’ll bet you thought Popular Science was about science, didn’t you? Well, it’s not! It’s about making you feel bad because you’re not on board the latest SJW obsession! So feel ashamed!

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Robert Reich: We Might Be Heading for a Crash as Bad as 1929

5th September 2018

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And then again, we might not. It’s not as if Reich has been great at the prediction game in the past.

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Krugman Misleads on Federal Pay

4th September 2018

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n criticizing President Trump’s decision to withhold a cost-of-living increase for federal workers, Paul Krugman writes:

Federal workers with low levels of education are paid more than their counterparts in the private sector — but do you really want our government to emulate the always-low-wages policies of, say, fast food chains? More educated workers, on the other hand, are paid substantially less than private-sector equivalents, and CBO finds that overall the federal government pays only about 3 percent more than it would if it matched private pay schedules.

Four Pinocchios! An economist with less of a political axe to grind would have specified that federal wages are 3 percent higher, but that wages are only part of compensation. The same CBO report found that federal benefits are 47 percent higher than private-sector levels. Combine wages and benefits, and the average federal employee enjoys a 17 percent compensation premium. Furthermore, “more educated” federal employees are paid less only when we are talking about people with professional degrees and doctorates. Federal employees with bachelors’ and masters’ degrees still receive a premium.

Government employees are inevitably going to get better wages than they can get in the private sector because current political realities mean that they are increasingly drawn from Fashionable Victim Groups rather than on the basis of actual qualifications. (Ask grandad where the phrase ‘good enough for government work’ came from).

 

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What Would a Socialist America Look Like?

4th September 2018

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Politico indulges in some unicorn-spotting. I’ve never seen to many proglodyte buzz-words in one place.

The Daily Beast, however, isn’t buying it:  Hey, Democratic Socialists: More Big Government Won’t Work

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Why Identity Politics Benefits the Right More Than the Left

3rd September 2018

A Voice of the Crust wags a finger.

I love the way the link is constructed: ‘identity-politics-right-left-Trump-racism’. It’s as if they can’t construct a link to a Guardian article without including ‘Trump’ and ‘racism’ ‘in it. (I suppose they have editors to make sure people follow the rules….)

This does not mean racism is irrelevant; it matters, but social science suggests it does in more complicated ways than much commentary suggests.

Of course, if ‘racism’ is the persistent filter through which a large part of the political establishment views things, then it damned straight is relevant, although more as a mental disorder than as an actual thing.

Perhaps because straightforward bigotry has declined precipitously while more subtle, complex resentments remain, understanding how intolerance shapes politics requires examining not just beliefs, but also the relationship between beliefs and the environments people find themselves in. This distinction has important implications for how we interpret and address contemporary social and political problems.

Translation: Since obvious racism is becoming more and more difficult to uncover without looking like idiots, we’re going to keep digging and bloviating until we’ve convinced ourselves that it’s really there nevertheless; with any luck, we’ll take a lot of stupid people with us.

Rather than being directly translated into behavior, psychologists tell us beliefs can remain latent until “triggered”. In a fascinating study, Karen Stenner shows in The Authoritarian Dynamic that while some individuals have “predispositions” towards intolerance, these predispositions require an external stimulus to be transformed into actions. Or, as another scholar puts it: “It’s as though some people have a button on their foreheads, and when the button is pushed, they suddenly become intensely focused on defending their in-group … But when they perceive no such threat, their behavior is not unusually intolerant. So the key is to understand what pushes that button.”

So just because you haven’t done anything racist yet, nevertheless you’re really racist deep down inside and could break out in racism without warning at any time. Sort of a ‘climate change’ theory of racism.

What pushes that button, Stenner and others find, is group-based threats.

Such as, say, being hectored for racism by people who have nothing better to do with their time. Of course, it’s still your fault rather than the fault of the people pestering you, who only have your welfare in mind.

Building on such research, Diana Mutz recently argued that Trump’s stress on themes like growing immigration, the power of minorities and the rise of China highlighted status threats and fears particularly among whites without a college education, prompting a “defensive reaction” that was the most important factor in his election.

Of course, these aren’t actually real threats, no no no! They’re just manufactured threats that Trump uses to scare the people in Flyover Country to stampede.

This “defensive reaction” also explains why Trump’s post-election racist, xenophobic and sexist statements…

Of which there are none, except in the minds of his critics.

… and reversal of traditional Republican positions on trade and other issues…

Gee, they never complained when John McCain did it.

… have helped him – they keep threats to whites front and center, provoking anger, fear and a strong desire to protect their own group.

Yeah, Trump created Black Lives Matter out of whole cloth just to scare white voters.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

3rd September 2018

Lanny Davis Defends CNN, Takes Blame As He Explains Trump Tower Claim Backtrack

Trump is failing to bring back American jobs  Really? That’s not what I see when I look at the unemployment figures.

Parkland Survivor David Hogg Helps Raise Thousands for Anti-Ted Cruz Billboard Featuring Trump Tweet  “Camera” Hogg is at it again. We ought to encourage the Party of Hate to waste their money campaigning against Ted Cruz in Texas.

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

2nd September 2018

Our Teflon President?

Ocasio-Cortez Recruits Children To Help Her Fight Trump  Occasional-Cortex apparently was given a copy of the Democrat Playbook.

Fake News, Real Hate

Politicize a Funeral? Last Time, It Didn’t Turn Out Well

Michael Avenatti To Hold A ‘Resistance’ Rally In Texas The Same Time As Trump’s Rally  You know who’s going to get more people.

 

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Fisking the Washington Post

2nd September 2018

Ace of Spades finds a guy to do the heavy lifting.

Here is a complete fisking of a Washington Post article by commenter 2nd Amendment Texan, Who happens to be an ex passport-fraud investigator. He thinks that the WaPo is full of shit. I know…crazy idea! But hear him out. It’s long, but worth a read.

You may have read the Washington Post article, or one so much like it that it doesn’t matter, about this matter. Here we have a guy Knowledgeable About The Matter to look behind the curtain of the Fake News.

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Analysts Suggest Tesla Should Hire a Woman to Rein in Elon Musk’s Excesses

2nd September 2018

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No … wait … a Woman of Color!

No … wait … a Lesbian Woman of Color!

No … wait … a Transgender Lesbian Woman of Color!

No … wait ….

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

1st September 2018

Poll by sinking poll, Trump inches toward impeachment  If only they could substitute a poll for an election….

Michael Eric Dyson Goes On Anti-Trump Rant During Aretha Franklin’s Funeral  They just can’t let it go.

Trump hasn’t drained the swamp, and Americans know it  But he’s done better than anyone since Reagan, and Americans know that, too.

Alyssa Milano Argues Press ‘Coddled’ Trump, Didn’t Do Enough To Stop Him  I guess she expected them to assassinate him at a press conference or something.

Meghan McCain Blasts Trump At John McCain’s Funeral Service: ‘America Was Always Great’  Yeah, that’s why everybody voted for another Clinton, it was just that great.

Trump Critics Use John McCain’s Funeral To Criticize The President — Here’s What They Said  Of course they did. Everything is politics to the Party of Hate.

 

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Socialist State Senate Candidate Caught Lying About Supposed ‘Working-Class Background’

1st September 2018

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

No doubt she ‘identifies’ as working class.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

31st August 2018

NY Mag: ‘Trump Is a Snob Who Secretly Despises His Own Supporters’  More psychic journalism.

Juan Williams: Donald Trump Is the ‘Snowflake President’

The walls are closing in. And Trump’s lawyers know it.  “I hope, I hope, I hope….”

State Department Refutes WaPo Story- Passports To Citizens Denied More Under Obama Than Trump  Once again, what the Media present as a Special Outrageous Evil Trump Trick is actually a longstanding practice under The Magic Negro.

Trump administration ‘denying passports to US citizens living near Mexico border’  No, it’s not ‘the Trump administration’, it’s ‘the government’. Nobody bitched about it under Obama.

Eminem wages war on Trump and rival rappers in surprise Kamikaze album  I’m sure Trump will notice.

Trump allies raise alarm over expected impeachment as president’s legal team shrinks  “I hope, I hope, I hope….”

Head Of ACLU Argues Trump Admin. Passport Denials Are ‘The Latest In A Series Of Inhumane Acts’  Funny, they never complained when the Obama administration did this stuff.

WaPo Reporter Implies Trump Supporters Are Not Rooted In Reality  Yet he’s still President. That’s pretty real.

Fact Check: Trump Administration Challenges Washington Post Hispanic Passport Story

Karl Rove Rips Into Trump For Considering DOJ Probe Of Hillary Clinton  To the extent that a manatee can ‘rip into’ anyone, I suppose.

Trump’s presidency has imploded – in less than two years  This guy lives on a weird and interesting planet.

The sordid reality of the Trump presidency  Apparently one can make good money by writing ‘Eeuuww! Trump!’ for certain publications. Nice to know if I ever need to go back to work again.

ABC/WaPo Poll: Trump Disapproval Rating Hits 60 Percent  Certainly among viewers of ABC and readers of the Washington Post.

Trump ‘Disapproval’: Poor Polling Used (Again) To Manipulate Americans Ahead Of Elections  Wow, that’s news.

Rubio Criticized Trump For The Way He Handled McCain’s Death  I guess Marco wants to be The New McCain.

Eminem Tries, Once Again, To Get Trump’s Attention With ‘Kamikaze’ Album Release  That trick never works.

NBC News “Reporter” Jonathan Allen Now Pulitzer Prize Favorite After Publishing Lyrics of “Brown Sugar” by the Rolling Stones (To Suggest Trump Is Racist)

 

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India and Pakistan Engage in War of Words at UN Over Kashmir

31st August 2018

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Which is all that the U.N. is really good for.

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German Author Thilo Sarrazin ‘Is Fuelling Fear of Muslims’

31st August 2018

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They say that like it was a bad thing.

Critics say a new book by the controversial German writer and politician Thilo Sarrazin could further embolden the far right and fuel an upsurge in neo-Nazi violence.

Called Hostile Takeover: How Islam Obstructs Progress and Threatens Society, it warns that Muslims will be the majority group in Germany within two or three generations and calls for an immediate end to immigration. The birth rates among Muslim immigrants are “demographic dynamite”, Mr Sarrazin writes.

A former member of the Berlin city government and of the Bundesbank’s board, Mr Sarrazin said at the book launch in Berlin that Islam was not a religion of peace “but a violent ideology cloaked as a religion”.

This is one of those Voice of the Crust specials that works to pre-emptively discredit a book of Inconvenient Truth and justify burying it out of sight of the buying public. ‘Nothing to see here, move along, move along’ is the cry, as passersby are encouraged to avert their eyes to the ThoughtCrime in process.

The fact that anybody who reads the newspapers or listens to the news on radio or TV knows perfectly well that Islam is not a religion of peace but a violent ideology cloaked as a religion is apparently too outré a thought to be allowed out in public.

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Economist: “What is racism now?”

31st August 2018

Steve Sailer exercises his fisking muscles.

Okay … I’m going to trim most of the Economist’s Deep Think verbiage about the Omarosa Crisis of last week or maybe the week before. Has anybody noticed how much Omarosa resembles in real life the stereotypical mid-level manager Litigious Black Lady that she plays so convincingly on TV? But that’s about all the interest I can generate in Omarosa.

Actually, fisking a Voice of the Crust like The Economist isn’t all that hard, but it’s a useful exercise to keep your yourself in trim.

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China Must Release Uighur Muslims From Alleged Re-Education Camps ‘Immediately’, UN says

30th August 2018

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Good luck with that.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

30th August 2018

Trump heightens attacks against CNN, Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein over Trump Tower story  Note how ‘CNN and Carl Bernstein heighten attacks against Trump’ is apparently not a story. (Of course, it’s certainly  not news.)

WaPo Buries Bush/Obama Connection To Pin State Department Policy On Trump Administration

Trump Can’t Tout Economic Accomplishments Until He Doubles The Stock Market, Says Jim Himes  Funny, they never demanded that from Obama. Or Clinton.

Dem Candidate Compares Trump To Osama Bin Laden  Maybe it’s the beard.

Democrats cave, handing Trump a major victory — and liberals are angry about it

Slate Claims Trump Doesn’t Use Computers — Prove Themselves Wrong With Just One Tweet  Hard to tweet without a computer.

Sadiq Khan blimp to be flown over London in protest at Trump baby balloon  Uh, okay.

 

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MSNBC Contributor Adds ‘Performed Well’ to List of Offensive Phrases

30th August 2018

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Another Random Person of Color whose job it is to seek out new ways to be offended.

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Maine Will Erect Memorial to Lobsters If PETA Has Its Way

30th August 2018

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I am not making this up.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) wants to build a memorial on a Maine highway for thousands of lobsters who never made it to a dinner plate after an August accident saw the lobsters fall out of the back of a truck and die on the roadside.

These people never progressed emotionally past about 14 years old.

I wonder whether we could convince them that they’re all really transgender. I’d chip in for the surgery.

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Everything Is Racist When a Democrat Wants to Win an Election or Argument

30th August 2018

Ace of Spade is fed up.

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

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‘Stop interrupting.’ ‘Stop lying.’ For 60 Minutes, Andrew Cuomo Debates Cynthia Nixon

30th August 2018

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If you can call an eternal series of ‘You’re a poopy-head!’ ‘No, you’re a poopy-head!’ a debate — Democrats doing to each other what they always do to Republicans.

Bring popcorn.

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MSNBC Guest: Ron DeSantis ‘Might as Well Have Just Said the N-Word’

29th August 2018

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

Who says there isn’t any opportunity in America for black people? The DemLegHump Media will pay handsomely for black people to wear suits and be on the lookout for ways to be offended.

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ESPN Rips Tiger Woods for Refusing to Inject Politics Into Golf Presser; Questions His “Blackness”

29th August 2018

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I wasn’t aware that Tiger Woods worried all that much about his ‘blackness’. Certainly not as much as Obama did.

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UN Appointed Climate Science Team Demands the End of Capitalism

29th August 2018

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Wow, that’s news.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

28th August 2018

Levin: Trump in great shape when it comes to the law

Univision’s Acevedo: US-Mexico Trade Deal ‘Sounds a Bit Like’ Bush’s ‘Mission Accomplished Moment’

This is the cynic’s finest hour  “The presidency held by a cruel bigot.” Only in the delusional world of moron supposed-journalists. In Real Life, he’s doing fine.

Trump’s authoritarian musings are now seen as routine  As opposed to, say, the ‘authoritarian musings’ of writers in the Washington Post like, oh, Thomas Friedman and Paul Krugman.

Could Trump’s Missing Signature Force Him to Be Deposed?  You can almost hear the “I hope, I hope, I hope…” in the background.

Dershowitz Educates TV Pundits On The Law- ‘Hope Can’t Substitute For Reality’

Lanny Davis Busts CNN — Admits He Was Source For Network’s Debunked Trump Tower Story

CNN Still Standing By Trump Tower Story After Lanny Davis Admits To Lying … Again

Scarborough Still Hammering Trump For Treatment Of McCain: ‘Clown Who Wouldn’t Lower The Flag’  And Joe Scarborouth is all about lowering the flag.

Alec Baldwin to play Batman’s Trump-like father in Joker film  If it weren’t for Trump, Baldwin would have no career at all.

CNN Quadruples Down On Dubious Trump Story — Leaves Out Key Details

 

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Craigslist Founder Donates $1 Million to Mother Jones to Fight Fake News

28th August 2018

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Which is like donating money to Die Stürmer to fight anti-semitism.

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Russia! Russia! Russia!

28th August 2018

The Other McCain blows the whistle.

As I’ve been saying for months, the Mueller “investigation” isn’t really an investigation, it’s a cover-up, intended to conceal or distract attention from the illegal means by which corrupt Obama administration operatives sought to sabotage the Trump campaign. As the latest revelations show, however, the so-called “mainstream” media were an integral part of this anti-Trump operation, and so you cannot expect Democrat-controlled organizations like CNN and the Washington Post to tell the public the truth about all this. If all you know is the “news” you get from CNN, you have no idea what actually went on in the manufacturing of the phony “Russian collusion” story.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

27th August 2018

Cohen Attorney Backtracks On Claim That Trump Had Advance Knowledge Of Russian Hacking

The Triumph Of Trumpism Will Outlast Trump

Midterm Elections Are About ‘Results Vs. Resistance,’ Says House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy  Got it in one.

CNN Standing By Trump Tower Story Despite Lanny Davis Backtracking  That’s their story and they’re sticking to it.

Andrew Cuomo Claims Trump Is Jealous Of McCain  Actually, McCain was jealous of Trump.

 

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Law Professor Jonathan Turley Criticizes GoFundMe for Allowing People to Purchase Legal Testimony

27th August 2018

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Shades of Animal House: ‘They can’d do that with our legal system! Only we can do that with our legal system!’

I ought to have tried to get a gig as a professor. It appears to be indoor work with no heavy lifting.

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The Apotheosis of McCain

27th August 2018

Rush Limbaugh is having a great deal of fun this day playing sound bites of Democrats tongue-bathing McCain (now that he’s dead) in conjunction with what those same Democrats said about him (The New Hitler) when he dared to run for President against the Half-Blood Prince. Once he performed his Republican Duty by losing, he went back to being the war-hero darling of the DemLegHump Media. CNN’s Jake Tapper has admitted that the chief value of McCain’s death is that it provides them with a rhetorical stick with which to beat Trump.

Just as Doonesbury’s Reverend Scott Sloane was the Fighting Young Priest Who Can Talk to the Young, John McCain was the Maverick Republican Who Can Reach Across the Aisle. Like the other members of the RINO Fringe in the Senate, his function was to trash-talk his own party and provide bipartisan cover for whatever silly scheme Democrats had on their menu.

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

26th August 2018

Liberal media’s desperate push for Trump impeachment may actually hurt Democrats

Brian Stelter Ignores CNN’s Bungled Trump Tower Story

Donald Trump colours in US flag, gets it wrong  Had it been Obama, they would hail it as ‘creative’.

Baltimore Sun Columnist Says Press Should Assume Donald Trump Is Always Lying  And why not? Everybody assumes that the Baltimore Sun is always lying. Fair’s fair.

ESPN Reporter Jemele Hill Who Called Trump A White Supremacist Out At Network  The wheels of the Trump grind slowly, but they grind incredibly fine.

 

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Impeachment Porn

26th August 2018

Scott Adams pokes into the darkest crannies.

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