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I guess ‘style’ means wearing clothes that would look ridiculous and ugly even on a young person.

The modern world is full of people who refuse to act their age, from arrested adolescents to second-childhood seniors. This is not a good thing.

Conor Friedersdork commits the ThoughtCrime of Noticing.

My first introduction to Jordan B. Peterson, a University of Toronto clinical psychologist, came by way of an interview that began trending on social media last week. Peterson was pressed by the British journalist Cathy Newman to explain several of his controversial views. But what struck me, far more than any position he took, was the method his interviewer employed. It was the most prominent, striking example I’ve seen yet of an unfortunate trend in modern communication.

First, a person says something. Then, another person restates what they purportedly said so as to make it seem as if their view is as offensive, hostile, or absurd.

Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and various Fox News hosts all feature and reward this rhetorical technique. And the Peterson interview has so many moments of this kind that each successive example calls attention to itself until the attentive viewer can’t help but wonder what drives the interviewer to keep inflating the nature of Peterson’s claims, instead of addressing what he actually said.

Scott Adams has turned this into a verbal tag: Whenever somebody does this to him, he responds ‘Now, don’t try to Cathy Newman me….’

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The article assumes, and assumes that the reader agrees, that this is ipso facto a bad thing.

No thought or discussion is given to the base fact that it consists of the government taking less of the company’s profit than it otherwise would have. Apparently decreased government theft is a serious moral failing.

Or perhaps it’s the fact that cutting taxes not only helps poor people but rich people as well, which it can’t fail to do since the rich are the ones who pay most of the taxes after all. Apparently it’s a moral failing as well to help poor people if there’s any possibility that a rich person might benefit as well.

And of course nobody bothers to mention that Buffet could just write a check to the IRS if he were seriously bothered about all the money he’s making. Yet he never does, and nobody ever notices.

Steve Sailer fisks one of the Grey Lady’s finest.

Obviously, crypto-currencies (which may blow up the world or make it much better, don’t ask me, I don’t know) are totally sexist. The only reason Satoshi Nakamoto’s idea has swept the world is because his strong handshake, curly blond hair, red beard, green eyes, mole on his upper lip, Heidelberg dueling scar on his left cheek, gold tooth, missing last joint of his ring finger on his left hand, discreet skull & bones 322 tattoo on his right wrist, and deep gravelly voice with a Frisian accent gives Satoshi his White Male Privilege.

Former Mexican Pres. Fox: FL Shooting ‘What You Get’ With ‘Racist’ Trump’s ‘Violent Language’  Even though there’s no evidence that Trump’s language had anything to do with motivating the shooter. The Narrative is sacred.

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Not if we have guns and you don’t, kid.

Let’s hope you never have to find that out the hard way.

Rosie O’Donnell Finally Decides To Make Money Off Of Her Hatred For Trump  Took her long enough.

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The sad thing is that they have no idea what they’re talking about. They are utterly ignorant of what Trump was trying to say, and utterly ignorant of the profound differences between Trump and, for example, Fidel Castro.

The ironic thing is that in any other context they would have nothing but good to say of Fidel Castro.

Esquire Article on ‘Black Panther’ Actor Takes Cheap Shots at Trump

Neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups have multiplied under Trump, report finds  The implication being, of course, that this is somehow all Trump’s fault — for which, of course, they have no evidence, merely proglodyte assumptions.

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Blue states — where even the food is racist.

Speaking as a white guy who grew up in Indiana eating watermelon and ribs, I’ll be happy to claim them for white people.

I don’t know of any non-black people who actually eat chitlins and collard greens, so I don’t see what the problem is there.

Scott Johnson of Power Line pulls back the curtain.

Last night CNN took up the 2018 children’s crusade that is intended to produce gun control where previously there has only been left-wing frustration. We are counseled to “do something” in a tone of unanswerable indignation. The volume is turned up to ear-shattering levels in lieu of traditional means of persuasion. In Minneapolis, students badly in need of the tools of critical thinking took the day off from school to wave slogans such as “Regulation isn’t scary, getting shot is.” The mayor joined the parade. On CNN, Senator Rubio faced up to the mob while Senator Nelson showed that he too had been shortchanged in the critical thinking department.

RealClear Politics has posted local television video of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Colton Haab. Haab says he was approached by CNN to ask a question at last night’s “town hall” but decided not to after the network gave him a “scripted question” in lieu of one he wrote himself. According to the report, Haab is a member of the Junior ROTC who shielded his fellow students while the school was under attack from the shooter, said he was going to ask about using veterans as armed security guards. He appears to be an impressive young man.

This morning CNN issued a statement to the effect “that it did not, and does not, script any questions for town hall meetings, ever.” I’m surprised to see CNN disputing one of the children possessing absolute moral authority, but perhaps Haab lost his immunity somewhere along the way.

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Of course they did. How is this news?

Every picture of ‘Parkland Shooting Survivors’ ought to have circles and arrows saying ‘TOOL’.

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Masculinity, perhaps, but hardly toxic — except to those who resist progress except at the hands of Official Victim Groups.

Obama Staffer ‘Really Sad’ That Trump ‘Literally Is Constitutionally Incapable of Being a President’  Uh, sure.

How Donald Trump is making racist language OK again  Another case of somebody reading Trump’s mind as to what he MUST be saying because TRUMP!.

Friedman Calls ‘Code Red’: ‘Our President is a Disturbed Person’  More chatterati mind reading.

New Trump dating service uses convicted child sex offender as model  The site has no connection to Trump, other than the exploitation of his name, but the chatterati are using it as a stick to try to beat the President nevertheless.

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The only problem is, John Oliver isn’t American. He’s not American by birth and he’s not American by paperwork. He holds a green card and is married to an American, but he himself is not a legal citizen of the United States. He doesn’t vote, he doesn’t qualify for a slew of American welfare programs, and he can’t advocate to bring family members over to the US. The only thing that makes him ‘American’ is his weekly platform that allows him to pontificate about politics and flex a Constitutionally-endowed right to say what’s on his mind.

And about time, too. Late-night beta males like Oliver, Kimmel, and Colbert may have a lot in common with the Obamacare pajama boy but not with the bulk of real Americans.

This wasn’t lost on Piers Morgan, a fellow British ex-pat who called Oliver out while watching his show.

“Watching John Oliver repeatedly say ‘we’ & ‘us’ when discussing America is comical,” he tweeted.
“Mate, you were born in the Midlands to a pair of Liverpudlian parents & speak in a thick Brummie accent. You’re about as American as cricket & mushy peas, you shameless old fraud!”

Pretty sad when you can get called out by Piers Morgan.

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Colbert is sort of a Gold Standard for how stupid left-wingers can be. There is no opinion too silly for him to promote.

CNN’s Stelter Contrasts Unifying Winfrey with Divisive Trump  Trump isn’t divisive; it’s the Trump-haters who are divisive. The only thing that Winfrey unifies is the group of people who want to find goodies under their seat. (The perfect Democrat candidate….)

CNN Reporter Literally Goes Dumpster Diving For Collusion Evidence In St. Petersburg  It’s GOT to be here SOMEWHERE.

Donald Trump ranked worst president in US history by nearly 200 political scientists  And in 100 years they’re all going to look like the partisal political hacks that they are.

The Flawed Nationalism of Donald Trump  This approach would be more convincing if publications like the Atlantic (and the people who write for them) didn’t believe that all nationalism is flawed, and any nationalism that points to America is positively evil.

Is Trump the Worst President Ever?  John Hinderaker fisks this traditional Lefty anti-Republican trope.

Donald Trump criticised for ‘playing golf’ while Florida shooting victims funerals took place nearby  As if his not playing golf would have avoided the usual criticism.

WashPost: Abused Wife in Democrat Candidate School Saw ‘Ugly Parallels In Trump’  I saw ugly parallels to Mugabe in Obama, too. So what?

Joe Scarborough: Attacking Trump Is ‘What We Do’  That’s pretty obvious.

Trump presidency is ‘code red’ level threat to US democracy, says Thomas Friedman  Journalistic hysteria.

Donald Trump is flailing like never before thanks to Robert Mueller – and a coalition of angry high school students  Apparently wishing will make it so.

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If you don’t like the evidence you find, find some evidence you like.

That’s climate change!

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These people are genuinely insane. They get paid to say this crap.

I’m glad to see Bill Kristol has wound up on CNN, where he apparently belongs.

They’re Joking, Right? NPR Game Show Says Trump’s Slashing Medicare, Medicaid  It MUST be true,  because TRUMP!

Scarborough Speaks For Shooting Victims And Uses Their Suffering To Bash Trump  On Planet Scarborough, a thing is of interest only insofar as it can be used to bash Trump.

The Media Attacked Trump For Smiling In Photos With Shooting Victims – Obama Did The Same

Washington Post’s Karen Tumulty Compares Russian Trolling to Pearl Harbor Attack  If they want to get rid of Trump, they have to gin up a crisis.

WashPost Column Blames ‘Word-Abusing’ Trump for NBC’s Flubs at the Olympics  Uh-huh.

Anti-Gun Students Hold ‘Lie-In’ Outside White House  Somehow it’s Trump’s fault that their community produced a nutcase who shot up a school. I’d love to know what they think he can do about that, and why they think that it’s the job of the President of the United States to solve their problems.

Russia and Trump campaign may still have colluded, suggests top Democrat  I THINK it can, I THINK it can….

Washington Post Claims Last Week’s Indictments Destroy Trump’s Denial Of Collusion  Huh?

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Lawrence Tribe, advancing into senility and realizing that he’s never going to get on the Supreme Court, has found out that teenagers actually buy the BS that the Democrats are selling.

I’m surprised that he can even read that with a straight face, much less tweet it. Teens between 14 and 18 are responsible for most of the stupid things that occur in schools and in urban gangs. (Of course, none of those deviants make it to Harvard, so Tribe would never have encountered them.)

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What’s a progressive to do?

Two words: Home School.

(One question that is never asked: Will it prevent such things in the future? Because that’s not What It’s All About.)

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This is like saying that butterflies are putting pressure on an elephant. It is doubtful that the elephant even notices.

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Nothing stands in your way, Bill. You’ve got a pen and a check book. Start writing.

Dem Congressman Calls Trump ‘A Psychopath’ Over School Shooting Remarks  More psychic psychiatrist illusion.

Can’t Let It Go: CNN Hung Up on Collusion Despite Mueller Indictments

Trump Skipping Golf To Honor Victims Of Florida Shooting  Not that he’ll get any credit for it.

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Well, if the kids aren’t in school, then there won’t be any ‘school massacres’.

Maybe that’s God giving us a hint.

I’m SURE future school shooters will be swayed by this protest. Just SURE. (Unfortunately, that’s all they know how to do.)

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Correction: We’re only talking about this shooting because the SHOOTER was white.

This many young blacks get gunned down every week in Chicago and other Democrat-run cities … but it’s by other young blacks, so nobody dares mention it lest they be charged with the ThoughtCrime of Noticing.

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

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Gee, I wonder why.

Maybe it’s all the lies?

Naw, that can’t be it.

Is puzzle.

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Who knew that Kimmel was a licenses psychiatrist? Oh, wait, he isn’t.

Well, then, he must have studied psychology. Oh, wait, he didn’t.

Must be another instance of what Scott Adams calls the ‘psychic psychiatrist illusion.’

He’s supposedly a comedian, but I have yet to see it reported that he’s said something funny.

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That would certainly explain why so many cops belong to the NRA, and why ‘conservatives’ are so eager to defend cops against slander by, say, Black Lives Matter.

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Actually, no, they don’t. They’re still preaching from the same old proglodyte playbook.

What is being celebrated here is the passing of the ideological baton to a younger generation of brain-laundry graduates. The article is for the purpose of reassuring the Chattering Class that they’re on the ‘right side of history’.

The ‘adults’ being ‘called to account’ aren’t the people pushing gun control — in what region of The Press is that message not dominant? — but rather the ‘adults’ opposing ‘gun control’ … although the pro-gun-control people never seem to get around to telling us why somebody might possibly think it reasonable to oppose ‘gun control’; they’re just Heretics and Sinners who must be burned at the stake.

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Pretty bad when even  a major Voice of the Crust thinks you got it wrong.

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Nothing could be more pedestrian than a gay person, Olympian or otherwise, ‘slamming’ the Trump administration. This is not being a ‘pioneer’, but being a tag-along. Proglodytes have gone from ‘speaking truth to power’ to ‘speaking clichés to the whipping boy’. The witch-hunt for Heretics and Sinners must ever be stoked by moral preening and posing.

You will notice that the focus is on Mike Pence, and the reason for that is that they know as well as we do that Trump doesn’t give a shit whether a person is gay or not. Every attempt to portray Trump as ‘anti-gay’ falls to the ground in the face of the total lack of any evidence; you might as well say that Santa Claus is anti-broccholi.

Mueller Investigation Is Pressuring Trump Toward ‘Pushing The Nuclear Button,’ Mental Health Expert Says  Another case of psychic psychiatry, in which a person who has never met or talked to Trump feels free to engage in medical diagnosis.

Florida shooting: Parkland school student calls Donald Trump a ‘piece of s***’ over tweet of condolence  There’s no pleasing some people.

CNN Trashes Trump Response to Shooting: ‘That’s a Dumb Thing He Just Put Out’

Pot, Meet Kettle: NPR Talks Up ‘Epidemic’ of Team Trump Sexual Assault  Trying to distract attention from Harvey Weinstein and his Democrat running mates.

Media Push Discredited Myth That Trump Urged Execution of Innocent Teens  Of course! He MUST have! Because Trump!

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It’s For the Children — but only after they’re actually born.

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As Trey Goudy said, ‘Show me the law that will be guaranteed to stop this sort of thing, and I’ll push it.’ But there is no such law.

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Perhaps there ought to be a qualifying test for public office.

Maybe an IQ test as well, although that would bar most members of the Congressional Racist Caucus.

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If they’re looking for ‘domestic terrorism enablers’, how about the people who want to import huge numbers of Muslims and other inhabitants of ‘shit-hole’ countries? I suspect Joe and Mika are among their number.

When it comes to ‘useful idiots’, you can’t include Joe and Mika, who are unuseful idiots.

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One nut job, and somehow it’s all the fault of ‘the country’. No, lady, it’s not the country’s fault. It’s the fault of one guy. If you’re worried about it, homeschool your kids.

MSNBC Analyst: America Has Never Had Someone So ‘Intellectually, Morally, Temperamentally’ Unfit As President  Oh, I think Obama and Carter would serve as counter-examples.

CNN Runs Entire Segment On How Trump Says The Word ‘Stupid’  Evidently he has a lot of stupid to deal with, including CNN.

The Predictable Disasters That Unfold from the White House’s Hiring Decisions  Predictable, that is, if you hate Trump. Funny how, of all the ‘predictable disasters’, very few are happening (although the few that happen  are endlessly touted in The Press.) I don’t recall these ‘predictable disaster’ articles during Obama’s tenure, even from National Review, although his ‘hiring decisions’ were far worse.

Donald Trump’s richest campaign donors lose $12bn as stock market falls  Apparently the only thing that makes news interesting is whether or not it hurts Trump.

MSNBC: Trump ‘Doesn’t Give A Damn’ About The Poor  Common proglodyte trope, automatically applied to Republicans and other Heretics/Sinners, not really specific to Trump.

Bizarre: ABC Links Florida Shooting to Trump in ‘Turmoil’ Over Rob Porter Scandal

Compare MSNBC’s Chris Hayes Accuses Trump Of Exploiting Florida High School Shooting with Democrats Blame Republicans, Demand Gun Control After Florida School Shooting

Paul Mirengoff at Powerline is delightfully dyspeptic today.

I had hoped that the idiotic left-wing outrage at Attorney General Sessions’ use of the term “Anglo-American law enforcement” would dissipate without making it into mainstream discussion. The fact that former President Obama has referred to the Anglo-American nature of our justice system seemed to support my hope.

No such luck. This morning, I heard NPR pretend there is a legitimate racism story here. So did ABC Newsand the New York Daily News. (To its credit, the Washington Post countered by trying in two stories to set the record straight).

Accordingly, I must reluctantly agree with Charles Cooke’s take on this pseudo-controversy: “We’re screwed.”

We’re screwed as a polity if we must pretend that our system of law isn’t what it actually is — Anglo-American — lest we be accused of racism.

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Yeah, only twelve of his seventeen players are black.

Obviously they’re under-represented and being Held Down By The Man.

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New York Times Opinion editor and frequent guest on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, Bari Weiss drew the ire of both the left and right Monday after she tried to score a political point using false information.

Weiss tweeted out praise for U.S. skater, Mirai Nagasu, who made history this week by becoming the first female U.S. Olympian to land a triple axel. Weiss congratulated Nagasu by touting, “immigrants get the job done.”

Problem is, Nagasu is not an immigrant–she was born and raised in California.

Apparently, like the proglodyte straw man of the ‘white supremacist’, she assumed that somebody with a non-vanilla-American name is necessarily an immigrant. Oops.

Weiss twisted herself into a pretzel trying to explain that by congratulating Nagasu as an “immigrant”, she was referring to her parent’s Japanese heritage.

Not sure how this differs from a person believing that any non-white ancestor makes somebody a Negro. (Can you say ‘racist’? I’m sure you won’t be allowed to.)

This goes to the heart of the proglodyte trope that ‘we’re all immigrants’. No, we’re not all immigrants.

I was born here; I am not an immigrant. My parents were born here; they are not immigrants. My grandparents were born here; they are not immigrants. I know of one great-grandparent who came from Ireland, but the other seven were not immigrants. The fact that almost all of my ancestors came from somewhere else at some point IS NOT PROOF that I am IN ANY WAY an ‘immigrant’, proglodyte fantasies to the contrary notwithstanding. This is the sort of perversion of the language that gives us ‘gay marriage’ and ‘gender identity’ and other attempts to corrupt thought by corrupting the language. Resist it, steadfast in the faith.

Kay Hymowitz speaks truth to glower.

This weekend, in a New York Times op-ed entitled “Single Mothers Are Not the Problem,” three sociologists argue that reducing single motherhood would not significantly lower poverty rates in the United States. If we were really serious about alleviating poverty, they maintain, we would introduce “generous social policies” more in line with those in other rich democracies.

It’s a textbook example of social science as advocacy, which is not to say that the study on which the Times piece was based, due to appear in the prestigious American Journal of Sociology, is fake news. The authors show that as a percentage of all households, single-mother homes have declined since 1980. Those low numbers—in 2013, only 8.8 percent of Americans lived in single-mother homes, down from 10.5 percent in 1980—mean that further reducing such households wouldn’t have much impact on national poverty rates. They also argue that single motherhood is a less useful predictor of poverty than low levels of education, unemployment, and “forming households at young ages.”

But by using the metric of “households,” lead researcher David Brady and his coauthors camouflage the primary reason that family scholars have gotten so hot and bothered about single motherhood: the children. Yes, the percentage of single-mother households has declined; that’s largely an artifact of demographic changes that have increased the overall number of households. Those changes, including mass immigration, later marriage, and more people living alone, are largely irrelevant to the well-being of American children. But during the same decades that the authors show the rate of single-parent households declining, the percentage of children living with a single mother tripled.

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‘Could’. That magic word. They would rise quite a bit if an asteroid hit the earth. If.

I’ll believe that the sea levels are actually rising when property in Malibu drops in price.

Trump’s budget hits poor Americans the hardest  Yeah, the deficit isn’t big enough. We don’t owe enough money yet.

Is Trump scaring away people who would stand in his way?  I certainly hope so.

ABC Panelist: To Work in White House You Must ‘Degrade Your Humanity’ and ‘Your Very Being’  And you don’t even get fries with that.

Immigrant Gang Attacks in Sweden Escalate Wins the Dan Rather ‘fake but accurate’ award.

‘Homeland’ Season Premiere Takes on ‘Paranoid,’ ‘Fascist’ President  And won’t tell the truth that it would more likely be a Democrat like Obama.

Robert De Niro Promises America Will ‘Eventually Cure Itself’ Of Donald Trump  In, oh, about 2024. I can wait.

MSNBC Assures Leftist: ‘We’re on the Same Side’ Against ‘Racist’ Trump  Of course, there’s no actual evidence that Turmp is a racist, but a good lie will serve the Narrative.

Head Of CPB Claims Trump Cutting PBS Funding Could Kill People But only the ‘right’ people.

NYT Reporter: President Trump’s ‘Hostility’ Toward Hispanics Explains Decline in Flu Shots  See whether you can untangle this one.