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“Intersectionality” is the post-modern identity politics term of art for conflating the car crash of competing victimization categories. I think. Because in addition to oppressed women, minorities, and genderfluid people, it apparently also includes . . . chickens. Also cows.

You have to read the abstract to believe it. Sample sentence:

Such socio-spatial practices are the means through which men, women, chickens and cattle become privileged and/or othered within dominant gender–species hierarchical arrangements.

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In just one brief period between Monday and Tuesday, WaPo ran the following headlines:

• Romney twisting in the wind offers a preview of Trump’s reality-show governing style
• ‘We’ve never had anything like this’: Racist, threatening message left on door of black church
• Donald Trump’s political mandate is historically small
• House Democrats demand Chaffetz probe Trump’s finances
• Trump’s ‘news’ source: Alien lizards, fluoride mind control and voter fraud
• Why we can’t — and shouldn’t — ignore Donald Trump’s tweets
• In one tweet, Trump trashes two constitutional amendments
• Donald Trump and social media have weaponized the conspiracy theory in American politics
• Trump just scored perhaps the biggest victory of his new tenure. But it comes with a huge asterisk
• AP FACT CHECK: Trump won presidency but lost popular vote
• Donald Trump is never going to change. Not ever.
• Trump’s populism is about to face a rude awakening
• Trump has already defeated the news media. And it’s unclear what we can do about it.

Gavin McInnes examines the Reality Denial Field that is the modern Left.

We are at war with a value system based on meaningless platitudes and conjecture. When you bring up data that contradicts their insane hypothesis they say, “I’m sorry—I just don’t—that sounds completely ludicrous to me,” as Million Student March organizer Keely Mullen did when Neil Cavuto asked her who was going to pay for her free-college utopia.

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Play it through logically. Trump is going to deport legal immigrants? How? He’s going to imprison all his opponents? Who? He’s going to make it illegal to burn the flag? What? He’s going to repeal Roe v. Wade? When? He’s going to start a nuclear war? Where? He’s going to dissolve gay marriages? Why? Your belief system can’t make it past one question?

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Following Donald Trump’s stunning win in the election, a plague of hate crime hoaxes has been sweeping the country.

From California to Illinois to Louisiana, stories are cropping up of hate crimes perpetrated by Trump supporters that later prove to be fabricated by the so-called “victim” of the crime. Here is a roundup of the “hate crimes” identified as hoaxes so far, although there are other unsubstantiated stories that perhaps have not been identified as hoaxes because the perpetrator is more competent. (RELATED: Here’s A List Of Completely Substantiated Attacks On Trump Supporters)

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Have you noticed how much of the DemLegHump Media are filled with ‘The world is coming to an end, women and minorities hardest hit’ stories since Hillary fumbled her shot at the ‘glass ceiling’?

I suspect a connection.

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Oh, who gives a shit? I mean really….

You want news? News would be when something doesn’t ’cause outrage among vegetarians’.

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I guess it’s not about Blackness, after all — it’s about Redness.

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And about fargin time, too.

It will be fascinating to read and view the mainstream media’s treatment of the dead dictator. I wonder to what extent the MSM, which wants to resist “normalizing” Donald Trump, will normalize the Cuban tyrant and his regime, as President Obama has done to some extent. I expect we will see at least a few stories in the “he did some good things; he did some bad things, but what a giant he was” mode.

They will praise him for doing things he didn’t do (but they wish he had) and ignore the things he did do (and they wish he hadn’t). The DemLegHump Media will sufficiently full of Fake News during this next month to choke a Facebook.

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You’d think that the panzers were in Whitehall. I wouldn’t have believed that there were this many immature and foolish people gainfully employed on the airwaves.

This is what happens when people spend their lives breathing their own exhaust. ‘Sky is falling. Women and minorities hardest hit.’

They’re going to look very foolish spending the next four years looking for concentration camps and not finding any.

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Jon Chenette is the interim president of Vassar College. He is a little late getting in on the freakout act in the wake of Donald Trump’s election as president. He takes the occasion of Thanksgiving to make up for his tardiness. He treats the operative shibboleths and cliches as so much stuffing for this particular turkey.

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A Trump-inspired “hate crime” at a university in Chicago has turned out to be a hoax.

An openly bisexual senior at North Park University claimed she was the recipient of a homophobic note and hateful emails following Donald Trump’s win in the presidential election. But the school president reported Tuesday the notes are “fabricated.”

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

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It’s all about the Narrative, Larry.

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The members of the American Sociological Association have decided to be very angry about the Cleveland Indians “Chief Wahoo” logo, and they have collectively written a letter to Major League Baseball commissioner Robert D. Manfred, Jr., telling Manfred just how angry they are.

Alert the media! Oh, wait, they already know … because the first thing one does in a situation like this is release the letter to the DemLegHump Media. You might even eventually get around to sending it to the nominal recipient, but that’s not required — he can read in in the news like everybody else.

“Academic research clearly demonstrates” that nicknames and logos honoring Native Americans “reflect and reinforce societal stereotypes,” “undermine” “accurate understandings of” Native Americans and “harm Native Americans” by “depressing their self-esteem,” Lamont claims. Also, she and other cloistered sociology professors are just sure that Native American team names “convey disrespect.”

Such letters as these certainly reflect and reinforce stereotypes about Professors of Sociology as a bunch of far-left tofu-heads. Perhaps they ought to be banned as well.

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The Democrats and their media adjunct played the race card over and over in the campaign that concluded with the election of Donald Trump on November 8. They aren’t about to give it a rest now. They have done a superb job of devaluing the charge. One might reasonably infer that the equal treatment of men without regard to race means nothing to them. Rather, they treat the issue of racism as a charge to be invoked purely for instrumental purposes.

Congressman Kramer pulls the lid off.

From the outset of this process, Standing Rock Sioux leaders have refused to sit down and meet with either the Army Corps of Engineers or the pipeline company.

The Army Corps consulted with 55 Native American tribes at least 389 times, after which they proposed 140 variations of the route to avoid culturally sensitive areas in North Dakota. The logical time for Standing Rock tribal leaders to share their concerns would have been at these meetings, not now when construction is already near completion.

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And I’m sure that Donald Trump is listening hard to Bernie Sanders and will just hop to it. Any second now.

This is just public posturing on Bernie’s part, to demonstrate to his followers that he’s still more-progressive-than-thou.

I guess he didn’t want people to forget that he’s Just Another Politician.

And of course the DemLegHump Media report this as ‘news’. Actual news would be Bernie Sanders saying, in public, that people ought not to jump to conclusions about Stephen Bannon on the basis of hysterical vaporings by the Far Left. But, of course, Bernie would never do that.

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We’ll give you Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan in exchange for a pack of gum and a subway token.

Kathy Shaidle has reached her limit.

Frankly, I’ve been looking forward to dusting off my If George Bush is Hitler, why aren’t you a lampshade? bitchslap for deployment on social media over the next four years. But otherwise, I’m not sure what else I am looking forward to now.

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Liberal news network CNN is still pushing a hoax story about a Muslim woman who claimed to have been attacked and robbed by supporters of President-elect Donald Trump after his election on Tuesday.

The woman, who attends the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, claimed that two white men, one of whom was wearing a Trump hat, attacked her and stole her wallet and the hijab she was wearing.

The unnamed woman claimed her attackers knocked her to the ground while hurling racial slurs at her.

She later admitted to police that she fabricated the entire thing.

UPDATE: Woman charged after claiming she was attacked and had hijab stolen by men wearing ‘Trump hats’

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Sounds like a win-win to me.

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A Slate writer called on anti-Donald Trump people to begin wearing a symbol on their clothing so they are easily identifiable as non-bigots in a column Thursday.

Lamenting the fact that the people around her do not immediately know she voted for Hillary Clinton, columnist Michelle Goldberg suggests all the non-bigots such as herself begin wearing the symbol as a “quick, easy” way to set themselves apart.

How about that Hillary ‘this way to the hospital’ badge? That seemed to work.

Or they could wear brown shirts. That’s traditional.

Gavin McInnes weighs in.

What are all these celebrities still doing here? Didn’t they promise us they were gone if Trump won?

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It’s been some low-hanging fruit watching celebrities react to this election, but low-hanging fruit is delicious. Lady Gaga asked that we “say a prayer America” and then blew Trump’s mind by standing outside one of his buildings with a sign that said “Love trumps hate.” This is a powerful message because Trump hates love. He was hoping that eventually he could wipe out all the love in America but Gaga was ensuring him that no matter how hard he tried, it would still be there. Where do these people get their views from—Dr. Seuss? He’s not the Lorax, Lady.

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This is all symptomatic of modern journalism’s great moral and intellectual failing: its unbearable smugness. Had Hillary Clinton won, there’s be a winking “we did it” feeling in the press, a sense that we were brave and called Trump a liar and saved the republic.

So much for that. The audience for our glib analysis and contempt for much of the electorate, it turned out, was rather limited. This was particularly true when it came to voters, the ones who turned out by the millions to deliver not only a rebuke to the political system but also the people who cover it. Trump knew what he was doing when he invited his crowds to jeer and hiss the reporters covering him. They hate us, and have for some time.

And can you blame them? Journalists love mocking Trump supporters. We insult their appearances. We dismiss them as racists and sexists. We emote on Twitter about how this or that comment or policy makes us feel one way or the other, and yet we reject their feelings as invalid.

Even CBS can smell the coffee.

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

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The day after Donald Trump’s presidential election win on Tuesday night, a teacher at a fancypants private high school in New York City penned an essay — datelined NEW YORK — to explain how he is helping the children of obscene wealth cope with “despair, anxiety or indignation” about the news.

The teacher is Jim Cullen. He presides over history classes at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York — right across from Central Park. A single year of high school tuition at the elite bastion costs $47,000. (A year of kindergarten also costs $47,000.)

Perhaps I need a new category: The Crust In Therapy.

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President-elect Donald Trump somehow was able to win Tuesday’s election despite a steady stream of “open letters” meant to stop the real estate mogul from becoming president.

Any time you see the words ‘open letter’, you can bet it’s aimed at the friends of the writer, not the addressee.

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There is much to savor this morning, including the hysteria that is sweeping across the Left. We see it in ways large and small. At one of our local colleges, a class was canceled because the professor was crying too hard to teach. “I don’t feel safe here,” she said. The storm troopers were due any minute, apparently.

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Making up for lost time, today I’m enjoying (for the first time in memory) reading liberal columns on the Washington Post’s op-ed page. E.J. Dionne isn’t subtle. The title of his piece is “Where white male voters took America.”

Dionne isn’t original either. After the Dems took a beating in 1994, the late Peter Jennings reported that “America threw a temper tantrum.” Dionne parrots this astonishingly juvenile line: “What the polls suggested was that a large number of Americans were prepared to throw a fit, regardless of the consequences.”

Pollster: “Are you prepared to throw a fit regardless of the consequences?”

Respondent: “You’re goddam right, I am.”

Watching the Media Meltdown is our new spectator sport.

My wife asked me why I bought us a popcorn-popper, since we rarely eat popcorn. Well, I think it’s time to start.

Listen to it.

Just tell them that you drank the Kool-Aid but you were wrong, that the things you accepted as truth were actually lies. But of course you can’t do that.

This is a typical Leftist attempt to dictate the terms of their loss. Somehow it is Trump’s duty to apologize for all the things of which the Left falsely accused him.

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Presumably because all women are pathological liars and crooks like Hillary? Not the message that feminists really want to spread, I think.

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Esquire magazine’s resident Chekist, Matt Miller, whose official job title is Associate Culture Editor, is now engaged in a culture war against celebrities whose high crime is that they haven’t joined in the liberal hate fest against Donald Trump by openly denouncing him. Not only does he condemn them generally but Miller goes so far as to list their names along with their social media following.

It doesn’t matter if these celebrities are silent even though they really support Hillary or they are just apolitical or if they secretly support Trump but don’t want to alienate a portion of their fan base. To Miller it is an outright Thought Crime if they don’t loudly become as openly psychotic over Trump as he is.

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The liberal California billionaire famous for railing against money in politics is slated to become the biggest spender during the 2016 election season.

Former hedge fund manager turned environmentalist Tom Steyer will have spent more than $75 million on this year’s election when all the dust settles. Much of his efforts have gone toward registering millennials to vote, mostly on environmental issues.

It’s other people’s big spending that he objects to, not his own.

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You can’t keep up with the jargon without a program….

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And yet Trump is the liar.

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The New York Review of Books makes it to the second paragraph before descending into Social Justice Warrior territory:

The story of the Beach Boys is a kind of philosophical problem. Not that they didn’t make some albums still eminently worth hearing, if we go by the unit of the album: Pet Sounds, from 1966, is the prize pony, full of confident hits as well as deep-purple self-absorption (“God Only Knows,” “Wouldn’t It Be Nice,” “Caroline, No”). For anyone justifiably wary of the whole idea of the pop masterpiece, Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!), from 1965, is a great uncool record—cornball, hard-sell with its lists of proper nouns and tour-stop shout-outs (“Amusement Parks U.S.A,” “Salt Lake City,” even “California Girls”), but getting grand-scaled in tone and mass. SMiLE, started in 1966 and not really finished till 2011, is the art-song project, a kind of underground labyrinth of melody, exhaustingly effective in its final form.

But time and social change have been rough on the Beach Boys. Their best-known hits (say, “California Girls,” “Help Me, Rhonda,” “I Get Around”) are poems of unenlightened straight-male privilege, white privilege, beach privilege. It is hard to imagine that they helped anyone toward self-determination or achieving their social rights. Brian Wilson’s great integrative achievement as a songwriter and producer was absorbed in bits and pieces by others—Paul McCartney especially—but it mostly worked for him alone. In their rhythm and humor the Beach Boys sound squarer all the time compared to Motown, the Beatles, and the Stones, and a lot of Phil Spector. Of course, it comes down to individual songs.

Unbelievable.

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The “Big Three” networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) continued their marathon of covering up Democratic scandals and controversies, Monday, by failing to report the prison sentencing of a former Democratic Party “rising star” during their evening broadcasts. “A judge sentenced former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane on Monday to 10 to 23 months in prison for committing multiple felonies stemming from a politically motivated act of retribution,” reported CNN’s Max Blau.

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So we’ve got that going for us.

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The following news outlets can be added to the Zero Coverage list so far: The New York Times, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe and the Chicago Tribune. The PBS NewsHour and NPR transcripts also came up with a zero. (We can guess why NPR would dump out.) The Associated Press was still a zero.

It’s all about the Narrative, Larry.

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Liberal NBC finally dedicated a serious amount of time to the “political terrorism” committed against the North Carolina Republican Party over the weekend, in the form of a firebombing of an HQ office. But instead of focusing on the heinous act, they decided to paint Republicans as the ones stoking the violence.

I am not making this up.

Jim Goad gives it his best shot.

It is always cause for deep personal grieving when I observe a nonsensical term that had long lurked on the fringes of leftist dogma beginning to leak its way into the mainstream vernacular, where it becomes so familiar that your average media-brainwashed moron can’t distinguish it from breathing.

One such term is “toxic masculinity,” which, in stark contrast with “toxic homosexuality,” “toxic bitchiness,” and “toxic blackness,” has slowly and decisively wriggled its way into newsrooms across this crumbling nation.

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We are told that masculinity has no roots in biology and is merely a social construct. It’s a miracle that all these “social constructs” happened to be constructed almost identically throughout every culture in history.

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When my son, Macallah, was born five years ago, my college students asked how it felt to be a new father.

“Terrifying,” I blurted. “All I can think about is bullying.”

Silence and perplexed looks filled the room. “Your child was just born,” a female student said.

“I know,” I responded. “But this boy’s going to be raised to feel and express his vulnerability. That’s a curse in this culture.”

What worried me just as much was the flip-side realization: Whatever my wife and I tried to do to shape our son’s masculine identity would compete against such cultural norms as a postured indifference to school, which can lead to lower grades, graduation rates and academic motivation; a sports and gaming culture that exalt alpha domination (and aggressive male reflexes); and a tight-lipped John Wayne ethos that breeds alienation and, too often, depression.

The beta male’s lament.

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NBC execs had a plan to time the release of the Donald Trump audio to have maximum impact on both the 2nd presidential debate and the general election … sources connected with the network tell TMZ.

Multiple sources connected with NBC tell us … top network execs knew about the video long before they publicly said they did, but wanted to hold it because it was too early in the election. The sources say many NBC execs have open disdain for Trump and their plan was to roll out the tape 48 hours before the debate so it would dominate the news cycle leading up to the face-off.

As we reported, Billy Bush was bragging about the tape — in front of NBC execs at the Rio Olympics — in early August. NBC says it’s only known about the tape for a little more than a week.

We’re told the plan was to edit the tape to keep the focus on Trump and not Billy. “Access Hollywood” we’re told was not going to air the portion where Trump and Billy got off the bus and Billy goaded Trump and the soap star to hug. Our sources say the tape was going to be “sanitized” to protect Billy as much as possible.

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

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Really? I never heard tell of a slave who could quit any time he wanted to. Or one who could eventually wind up making millions of dollars a year.

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The head of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) hammered Donald Trump’s “shackles” comment on Tuesday, saying the comments were “reckless” and harken back to the age of slavery.

Which is, of course, horseshit. It’s a standard metaphor that has been used for hundreds of years and has nothing whatever to do with slavery except in the minds of those who have victimhood on the brain.

(Funny how much the head of the Congressional Black Caucus looks like a white guy. I guess it’s enough to ‘identify’ as black.)

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First World Problem: The poor people are fat and the rich people are thin.

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Typical ‘some immigrants are awesome so open up the borders!’ non-sequitur thumbsucker. Nobody objects to potential Nobel-prize winners coming into the United States. We’ll take all the advanced-degree-holding STEM workers we can get. (Can you say ‘H-1B Visa’? I’m sure you can. Certainly Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg can.)

Unmentioned: Not one of these guys hired a ‘coyote’ to sneak him across the border so that he could take lawn-care day-labor jobs and send money ‘back home’.

The Identity Politics movement has gotten people trained to think that if you can find a collective noun to describe a group of people, it thereby converts all of those people into exactly identical clones of each other … AND the typical exemplar of that group is whichever one feeds the Narrative about that group.

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The Associated Press reports on Donald Trump’s talking about Hillary Clinton’s role in her husband’s rape and sexual harassment scandals. Perhaps recognizing that some people might consider being an accessory to rape and sexual assault more serious failings than talking crudely about women, the AP doesn’t take any chances. You almost have to read between the lines to extract the story from the spin.

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Internal documents leaked from Hillary Clinton’s campaign reveal which reporters had cocktails with the campaign and a then-Politico (now New York Times) reporter that Clinton’s staff described as a “friendly journalist.”

The list won’t surprise you if you’ve been paying attention.

Another document in the leak, titled “Earned Media/Next Steps,” describes the Clinton campaign’s strategy for placing stories. The January 2015 memo states, “We are all in agreement that the time is right place a story with a friendly journalist in the coming days that positions us a little more transparently while achieving the above goals.” The Intercept reports that according to the document’s metadata it was created by traveling Clinton campaign press secretary Nick Merrill.

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Aura Bogado, who writes about racial justice and immigration for The Nation, blamed deaths from the storm on racism, using the hashtag BlackLivesMatter (BLM).

I am not making this up. (Who knew a hurricane could be racist?)