8th July 2018
Steve Sailer has some fun.
It’s almost as if New Yorker readers are profitably assumed to be part of an ideological tribe with as strong territorialist emotions — How dare Bad Guys defile the sacred turf of Berkeley? — as Glasgow soccer hooligans beating tourists from Milan.
But if you were as lucid as, say, Berkeley professor Judith Butler, you’d understand that Good Guys are Good. The masked vigilante Antifa Black Bloc might look like thugs, but they are Our Thugs, and that’s what counts.
Berkeley’s turf is sacred not because of some principle made about Free Speech in the 1960s but because that’s where Our Team beat Your Team. And the fact that Your Team is now appealing to the logic of Our Team’s rationalization of our triumph to contest our control of our turf just proves you are the Bad Guys.
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7th July 2018
University Prof Calls Zinke A Shill For ‘White People, Christianity And His Corporate Overlords’ As opposed to most professors, who are shills for socialism, racism, sexism, and the corporate bureaucratic state.
MSNBC’s Scarborough: Trump is Going to Pick ‘The White Man’ As Supreme Court Nominee And I’m okay with that, considering that the three women on the Court are brain-dead socialist trolls.
CNN Analyst Calls Trump Racist For Saying Maxine Waters Is A ‘Low IQ Individual’ The problem is that it has nothing to do with race and everything to do with Maxine Waters. You want a real racist, take a look at her.
Man Punched In The Face Over Trump Flag In His Yard Funny how all the violence is from anti-Trump people, and yet supposedly Trump is the New Hitler.
Donald Trump has been scared away from London by a big balloon Uh, yeah, right.
Roger Waters, British Summer Time review: a Pink Floyd-filled, politically charged show that took aim at Trump Signal that virtue! Signal that virtue! Rah! Rah!
The Boston Globe: Trump’s Cracks on Sen. Warren ‘a Double Scoop of Misogyny, Racism’
MSNBC Touts Misleading Claims Trump Kicking Immigrants Out of Military
18 inaccurate claims from Trump’s latest rally Funny how they never did that to Obama, although Obama’s ‘inaccuracies’ were frequent and blatant.
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7th July 2018
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And yet if it weren’t for white people she would have nothing to talk about.
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7th July 2018
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Apparently Trump personally travelled to Venezuela and stole their water and toilet paper.
Really, the headline could have just said “Cornel West Blamed U.S.’ and left it at that.
Is this guy famous for anything other than being a black academic with beard explosion?
I suspect that if his name were ‘DeShawn Abdullah’ no one would ever pay attention to him.
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7th July 2018
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Snopes is not a ‘fact-checking’ site, but rather just another Voice of the Crust.
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6th July 2018
Comedian On MSNBC: Trump Is A ‘Keyboard Gangster’ They can dish it out, but they can’t take it.
NYT’s Manjoo Plays Left-Wing Twitter Cop Again: Should Trump Tweets Face ‘Censure’? They wood if Twitter thought it could get away with it.
The Psychological Naïveté of Trump’s Moralistic Critics
Trump UK visit: Where are the protests against the US president taking place? You want to arrive early to make sure of having a place.
MSNBC Mika Lectures Viewers On ‘Utterly Sick!’ Trump Admin
Man Who Ripped MAGA Hat From Kid’s Head Is Arrested For Theft Perhaps the worm is turning.
Nancy Pelosi Accuses Trump Of Making ‘Despicable Attacks’ On Maxine Waters No mention, of course, of the previous despicable attacks on Trump by Maxine Waters. ‘MOMMMMEEEEE! Donald hit me BACK!’
Howard Kurtz: Are Never Trump Republicans Defecting for MSNBC Contracts? We’ve settled that, now we’re just dickering over price.
On Affirmative Action, Telemundo Declares: ‘Trump Against Minorities’ Guess they don’t read their own news, about how black and Latino unemployment are at the lowest levels ever.
Scarborough: People At Trump’s Montana Rally Were The ‘6,500 Meanest People’ And of course he’s personally acquainted with all 6,500.
CNN’s Ana Navarro: Trump Admin Sees Immigrants As ‘Second-Class Humans’ More left-wing mind-reading.
Never-Trumper Calls President’s Immigration Rhetoric ‘Ethnic Cleansers’ In Fiery CNN Debate If so, it’s not working terribly well.’
WaPo Cartoon Uses Desperate Thai Children Trapped In Cave To Attack Trump
John Brennan Compares Trump To Bernie Madoff: ‘Remarkably Unethical’ Like being called ugly by a frog.
Tim Kaine Hurls Insult At Trump After Pompeo Gives Kim Jong Un An Elton John CD Unhinged.
Sinbad: ‘Keyboard Gangster’ Trump Is ‘Post-Dementia’ Who Had ‘Mental Deficiency’ to Run for President ‘Sinbad? Sinbad Who?’
The Democrats Freak Out Over Jobs Apparently having more jobs is bad news.
Man Gives His Excuse For Stealing Teen’s MAGA Hat – Cap Same As KKK Hood Well, no, not really. Perhaps he needs professional help for these delusions.
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6th July 2018
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Um … feminists are more full of bull than anybody? That’s just a guess.
Of course, these days EVERYTHING is a ‘feminist issue’. Just ask one. (Or don’t.)
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6th July 2018
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Got news for you, guys: They already are. They always have.
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5th July 2018
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They seemed pretty straightforward to me. Were they translated from the Ebonic or something?
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5th July 2018
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You thought that you left high school behind, but, sad to say, they didn’t; they just went into ‘journalism’.
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5th July 2018
Max Boot fully turns his coat and shows his Crustian colors.
Not a great loss.
One of the most useful things about the Trump victory is that it has flushed out a number of pretend Republicans who merely affiliated with the party because it was a smaller pond and made their chances of being a big frog marginally better. (Yeah, I’m lookin’ at you, Bloomberg.)
They were always just hangers-on of the Chattering Class who could switch jerseys overnight and nobody would blink an eye.
Like Boot.
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4th July 2018
You’d think that the ankle- biters would take a day off but you’d be wrong.
NY Daily News Calls Trump A ‘Clown Who Plays King’ On July Fourth Cover
Pro-Immigrant Ad Uses Reagan And Targets Trump — But The First Four Words Step All Over Its Own Argument
MSNBC Guest: Trump’s SCOTUS Pick Will Jail Women For Miscarriages Where do they find these insane people?
Why Trump Derangement Syndrome is so Strong Scott Adams. Give a listen.
Trump boasted about writing many books – his ghostwriter says otherwise Of course, nobody complained about the ghostwritten books from Obama or the Clintons.
Donald Trump banned from Sheffield by city’s lord mayor I’m sure he’s losing sleep over it. (‘Sheffield? Where’s that?’)
The incredible silliness of Britain’s Stop Trump movement
MSNBC Blames Trump for Detention of Asylum Seeker Jailed by Obama What a surprise.
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4th July 2018
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The basic problem with the Demagogue Party is that they never have anything good to say about America. Their constant message is ‘America sucks, and it will always suck, but under us it will suck a bit less, maybe.’ There is always an OMG emergency, somewhere, the sky is always falling, somewhere, and we all need to do something about it right now, somehow.
I apologize ahead of time for Noticing, but to me the Chairman of the DNC looks like an illegal alien.
UPDATE: Why Do Democrats Hate America?
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3rd July 2018
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3rd July 2018
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He says that like it’s a bad thing.
He’d be perfectly alright with a ‘brazen’ progressive majority on the Supreme Court, of course.
Dude, you lost. When you lose, bad things happen. Get over it.
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3rd July 2018
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Not only was Barrett not present on the three-judge panel that rendered the verdict, but she didn’t even take her place on the Seventh Circuit until November, 2017 — five months after the case was concluded. In fact, the ruling was penned by Judge Diane Sykes — a woman, certainly, but a completely different one.
We’re sure that if she had been there she would have voted wrong, so it’s ‘fake but accurate’. And besides, TRUMP!
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3rd July 2018
Paul Mirengoff breaks out the popcorn.
I mention Brock’s allegation because it has been revived — a sure sign that the silly, albeit deadly serious, season of another judicial confirmation struggle is upon us. Off-hand comments a candidate may (or may not) have made at a party more than 20 years ago become fair game. Associates who were mentored by a candidate and who followed him from one job to another can allege, years after the fact, that the candidate engaged in sexual harassment. The allegation will enter, and very likely dominate, the debate over the nominee.
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3rd July 2018
Don Surbur provides us with a handy generic screed against Trump’s new Supreme Court pick.
Writing newspaper editorials is an exercise in exasperating futility. They have scant impact. 243 newspapers endorsed Hillary. 20 endorsed Donald John Trump. Who won?
To those still laboring at a craft that last had impact in the 19th century, I draw upon my 27 years of experience to offer this generic editorial on whomever President Trump nominates for the Supreme Court.
You may cut and paste it, and your boss will not notice the difference.
Applicable to anybody Trump might pick, including Obama.
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3rd July 2018
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I mean, it’s not as if he were a Democrat or a POC or somebody worth Pokemon Victim Points.
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3rd July 2018
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Fine. You first.
Amazing how many ideas they have for how the government ought to be blowing YOUR money.
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2nd July 2018
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I am not making this up. (I had gotten the impression that Asians were Honorary White People for Victim Pokemon Points purposes. When did that change?)
Let’s see: According to proglodytes, white people rule the world.
Asians, do you want to side with the winners, or with the losers?
Take whatever action you deem appropriate.
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2nd July 2018
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2nd July 2018
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Well, first they have to win a bunch of elections. That’s easier said than done.
I seem to recall that Roosevelt tried this and it didn’t fly. Can’t see it working in the Age Of Trump.
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2nd July 2018
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In a Sunday article shockingly not marked “opinion,” a New York Times reporter accused conservatives of “weaponizing” the First Amendment. The story by Adam Liptak titled “How Conservatives Weaponized the First Amendment” made it onto the front page of Sunday’s paper and was presented as a straight news story rather than an opinion piece.
My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.
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1st July 2018
Rubin on Real Time: L.L. Bean Should Leave Maine If Susan Collins Supports Trump’s Court Nominee Maybe come to Texas. We’ve got room.
ABC, NBC Celebrate Anti-Trump Immigration Protests, Tout Celebs and Dems A national exercise in preaching to the choir — all of these ‘rallies’ were in places that vote Democrat, and which haven’t the slightest chance of affecting Trump or his policies. Proglodytes do love their protests.
Rubin: Sarah Huckabee Sanders Should Be Harassed Publicly As a ‘Life Sentence’ Why? Trump cooties, of course! Didn’t you ever go to high school?
Michael Moore on Real Time: ‘Fascism Is at the Doorstep’ A VERY rich fantasy life.
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30th June 2018
John Legend Cussing Up a Storm About Sarah Sanders Is the Soundtrack You Need Today Or not.
‘Nuclear war’ could provide ‘course correction’ from Trump presidency, billionaire liberal donor says
Man charged with threatening to kill Ajit Pai’s family
Poll: Half of Dems fine with expelling Sarah Sanders from restaurant Let’s hear it for the Party of Hate.
AWKS! Meghan Markle who SLAMMED ‘misogynist’ Donald Trump ‘to be royal dinner partners’
CNN Lets Guest Liken Trump Illegal Immigrant Detention to Holocaust Because, you know, little brown people from the South are JUST LIKE THE JOOS, except for the culture and intelligence and all that stuff.
Leading Mexican Presidential Candidate Once Compared Trump To Hitler So he’s a Democrat. Good to know.
WaPo Columnist Accuses Trump Of ‘Fomenting Violence’ Against Journalists [VIDEO] No more so than ‘journalists’ foment violence against Trump — in fact, much less so. Beam’s in your eye, turkey.
Meghan McCain Says She’s ‘Never Going To Forgive’ President Trump For Attacks On Her Father Maybe she could persuade her father not to be so much of a butthead.
MSNBC Suggests Trump Had a ‘Larger Plan’ to Ensure Supreme Court Vacancy I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning…. Funny how, on the one hand, Trump is this idiot who can barely find his butt with both hands and is being led around by his staff, while, on the other, he has this Deep Dark Plot to do … something or other … but is surely FASCIST in its intent and object. I really wish these people would figure out which page they’re on.
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30th June 2018
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More virtue-signalling by people who aren’t going to suffer from the consequences of the silly thing they advocate.
Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren called for the abolition of ICE during a rally on Saturday morning. “The president’s deeply immoral actions have made it obvious we need to rebuild our immigration system from top to bottom starting by replacing ICE with something that reflects our morality and that works,” Warren said, according to The Hill.
I would agree that we ought to (not need to) rebuild our immigration system from top to bottom, primarily because it is so sclerotic and bureaucratic that it takes damned near forever to immigrate legally, which is a large part of what is motivating people to ‘cut out the middleman’ and immigrate illegally. That bureaucratic tangle has given rise to a vast number of ‘abogados’, lawyers specializing in Working the System for immigrants both legal and illegal, which only makes it worse — when you’ve got a large group whose income depends on the system being difficult, they’re going to be a great stumbling block in the way of making the system less difficult. (Think tax preparers and the tax system.) This is what the slur-term Special Interest is all about.
The great flaw in Warren’s position (and that of those similarly situated) is that ‘replacing ICE’ is not the best, or even a useful, place to start. All of this ‘replace ICE’ blather is just grabbing a complex situation by whatever sticks out farthest and pretending that that’s the handle. These politicians (and the bulk of the ‘protestors’) are good examples of what Scott Adams called ‘child-like thinking’ — like children, they look at the people who are in charge and shout ‘JUST FIX IT’ as if that’s all it took.
The family-separation fracas is a very good example of this sort of thinking in practice: There are very good reasons, often having to do with the safety of the children involved and the proven fact that a lot of these children come north with people who are NOT their parents, for separating them while things are sorted out. But, according to opponents, you should just change everything immediately so that they are not separated — Hey, just sign a piece of paper and everything will be fine. Well, Trump showed them that you ought to be careful what you wish for; he ‘signed a piece of paper’, and whaddaya know, it didn’t fix it. And of course now it’s his fault that the magic didn’t happen.
These people are the intellectual equivalent of a boss who gives you an impossible task and says ‘Just do it.’ The overwhelming urge to Just Do Him speaks to the way people react to such stupidity. Do enough of that and things blow up good and proper, and that’s the direction in which we are headed.
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30th June 2018
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Anti-Media sentiment? Maybe it’s justified!
What did this newspaper do to this guy to push him over the edge? Huh? Huh?
Maybe it’s the Dark Strain of Anti-White Sentiment that’s the cause of all of these black people getting shot by police! Ever think of that? Huh? Huh?
We can play this game for hours….
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29th June 2018
Jon Stewart Calls Out Trump For His ‘Gleeful Cruelty And Dickishness’ Talk about projection….
Seth Meyers To Trump: ‘Dude, Get A Therapist’ Right back atcha.
Shooting Survivor: I Don’t ‘Give a F*ck’ About Your Prayers In that case, you aren’t likely to get any.
MSNBC’s Wallace: ‘Are You Ready’ to ‘Rip Up Some of the Rules’ to Stop Trump SCOTUS Nominee? Of course they are.
Journos, Leftists Blame Trump For Maryland Newsroom Shooting The fact that he won’t sit still for being insulted obviously serves as a provocation to violence.
Without Evidence, CNN Expert Tries to Blame Trump’s Media Rhetoric for Annapolis Newspaper Shooter
After Annapolis Massacre, Reuters Editor Tweets: ‘Blood Is on Your Hands, Mr. President’
Maryland shooting: Trump ducks questions over Capital Gazette killings, as president’s attacks on journalists come into focus
Michael Moore Drops Clip From New Film About Trump’s Presidency [VIDEO] Unfortunately, Michael Moore is under the impression that he’s clever and witty rather than just snide and tedious.
Democratic Congresswoman Arrested For Protesting Trump’s Immigration Policies Signal that virtue! Signal that virtue!
‘You Caused This!’ Journalists Rush to Blame Trump for Newspaper Shooting, on Twitter
Lefty Radio Host to Steyer: ‘Buy Clear Channel’ and Silence Trump! None of this freedom of speech BS!
Rob Reiner: ‘The Media is Under Attack’ Thanks to Trump And Trump is under attack thanks to the media.
Jon Stewart Comes Out of Retirement to Attack Trump Yeah, that’s ‘news’.
PANIC on ‘Hardball’: ‘We Cannot Allow’ ‘A Potential Criminal’ to Pick a Supreme Court Justice! Notice all of the handwringing about what Trump might do, because they can’t point to anything that he has done.
CNN’s Avlon Says Trump Rhetoric Is ‘Ratcheting up Threats’ Yeah, threats from the Left. See Maxine Waters.
Democrats Try To Explain How They Will Stop Trump’s SCOTUS Pick That unicorn doesn’t fart any more.
Shock: #FakeNews Media Rushes to Blame Trump for Annapolis Newsroom Shooting
Michael Moore Calls Trump ‘The Devil,’ Says ‘Get Rid’ of Electoral College Two words: Stair Master.
Reporter Who Falsely Claimed Annapolis Shooter Wore MAGA Hat Resigns
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29th June 2018
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The people … united … will never be outshouted….
Seriously, I’m waiting for some ‘journalist’ to do something journo-listic at a Trump rally and wind up being dragged outside and having the snot beaten out of him one of these days.
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29th June 2018
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If you’re looking for the source of the ‘decline in civility’ that everybody in ‘journalism’ is so upset about, look no farther.
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28th June 2018
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28th June 2018
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The NRA are apparently the new Elders of Zion.
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28th June 2018
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One of the great proglodyte fantasies is that they are for the Little People and the other side is for the Wealthy and Powerful, conveniently forgetting that the Wealthy and Powerful are, by and large, proglodytes.
Just one fantasy among many, but a favorite of theirs.
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28th June 2018
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Boy, those Japanese sure do get around.
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27th June 2018
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27th June 2018
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Just what we need, another Bernadict Arnold in Congress.
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26th June 2018
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That lays it out, raw and bleeding. These people ought not to be allowed out unsupervised.
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26th June 2018
Michelle Wolf calls out CNN Trump coverage: ‘You’re all getting paid and we’re all getting f**ked’ I gotta say, it couldn’t happen to a nicer girl (using the term loosely).
MSNBC Guest: Kicking Sarah Sanders Out Of A Restaurant Is ‘Going High’ When Trump Goes Low He must be speaking a different dialect of English than what the rest of us use.
Hillary Clinton Suggests Trump Wants To Strip All Americans Of Due Process More Democrat MagicMindReader delusion.
MSNBC: Harassment of Trump Officials a Tool to Avoid Genocide For which, of course, there is no evidence. These people have a very active fantasy life.
CNN Guest: Civility Is In Decline Because People Don’t Believe Trump Is Legitimate Which belief is delusional. Ball’s in your court, punchy.
MSNBC Meltdown: Court’s Ruling Due to Seat ‘Stolen’ From Obama Such a bunch of sore losers I’ve never seen.
NYT Op-Ed Defends Discrimination Against Trump Administration Officials ‘It’s not evil if we do it because TRUMP!’
We Asked Liberals If It Was OK To Kick Trump Supporters Out Of Restaurants. Their Answers Will Shock You Well, no, it won’t — that’s the problem.
Jon Meacham: Trump Governs on ‘Grievance and White Nostalgia’ for America’s Racist Past Uh, actually, America’s ‘racist past’ was run by Democrats. You can look it up.
Schmidt Invokes Hitler; Trump ‘Faction’ ‘Trying to Impose Cruelty’ Where do they get these so-called ‘Republican strategist’ people? If these are Republican strategists, no wonder the Republicans keep losing.
Celebs Rage at SCOTUS: Travel Ban ‘Un-American’ and ‘Islamophobic’ Of course, it is really neither.
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26th June 2018
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“An elderly woman came up to me and said that I needed to get the ‘eff’ out. And then she turned to the crowd and whipped them all into a frenzy and they were saying ‘go home Jim, CNN sucks, fake news,’ and so on. And to me, it’s sort of like, really? This is civility?”
You could ask Maxine Waters. You could ask Joy Behar. You could ask Whoopi Goldberg.
“It’s sort of like being beamed into the twilight zone, Don, covering a political rally where your fellow Americans – you stand for the pledge of allegiance, you do the national anthem – and then they all turn on you and start screaming at you like this. It’s just unlike anything I’ve ever seen before and it’s quite startling.”
How do you like living like a Republican for a while, Jim?
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26th June 2018
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Colbert only wishes he had that kind of power. Colbert is more like the wizard that masquerades as the red-headed kid’s pet rat.
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25th June 2018
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25th June 2018
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Demagogues have no problem doing this because they think everyone not of the Crust won’t remember their previous position. When it comes to their supporters, of course, they’re right.
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25th June 2018
Jim Goad is fed up.
I’m not sure whether you’ve noticed, but the overwhelming percentage of online “discourse” these days is nothing loftier than grown men and women acting like schoolchildren in their bloody competition to out-care each other. Forget about policy and numbers and reason and what will work and what won’t. It’s all about whether you have a heart, and if you don’t, well, you should probably be hit with a shovel.
Welcome to the High School From Hell.
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24th June 2018
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24th June 2018
Read a review of the BBS program in The Times of London.
For anyone interested in the often fraught relationship between politics and the media, Reporting Trump’s First Year: The Fourth Estate (BBC Two) was a big draw. Documentaries exploring the internal workings of newspapers are nothing new but Liz Garbus’s series about The New York Times promised particularly rich pickings, capturing the embattled mood at the newspaper during the USA’s most turbulent political period in living memory.
I’m sure you can see the elephant in the room as well as I do.
But there was also something missing in Garbus’s account: any sense that a newspaper is made for readers, or anyone other than journalists and wonks, for instance. Or that those working for it might have political agendas of their own.
Oh, say it ain’t so….
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23rd June 2018
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Of course they would.
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22nd June 2018
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22nd June 2018
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Wait a minute … I thought it was Trump who was supposed to be Hitler….
(For those who weren’t around back then and for whom history started when they hit school, I should like to point out that the last two Presidents who sent people to camps were Democrats — FDR and Wilson.)
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