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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

28th November 2020

Trump’s baseless claims of Georgia voter fraud spark fears among Republicans (The Guardian) Baseless!

President Trump pushes baseless voter fraud claims as more of his campaign lawsuits fail (CBS) Baseless!

‘Mini desk. Tiny hands. Small soul’: Trump mocked for giving speech at little table (The Guardian)

Trump’s furniture fail: that’s not a desk, Donald – it’s a table for TV dinners (The Guardian) Somebody has a table fetish.

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

27th November 2020

Trump says for first time he’ll leave office if Electoral College votes for Biden (CNN) Of course he will. The only people who ever believed otherwise are the Trump-is-Hitler crowd.

Comedians Buy Trump 2024 Website Domain to Call President a ‘Loser’

 

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26th November 2020

WashPost Honors ‘Best Books,’ Especially Their Employees Trashing Trump

Joe Scarborough: Won’t Go Back to GOP After It Backed Trump  As if they would take him.

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

25th November 2020

Morning Joe: We Have No Reason to Tolerate, Understand Anyone Who Supported Trump

Blame Trump: Politico Tries to Cover for Potential Biden Econ Failure

Mika Eager to Lock Him Up: Tells ‘View’ She Hopes Biden Will ‘Investigate’ Trump  For what?

‘You Can’t Let All These Things Go By’: Mika Brzezinski Wants Investigations And A Post-Mortem On Trump Presidency  What things?

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

24th November 2020

CNN’s Crazed Brinkley Claims Trump Will Form a ‘Shadow Government’ with Rush Limbaugh  I’d vote for that.

‘This Close To A Dictatorship’: Joy Behar Calls Trump Officials The Cast Of ‘Lord Of The Flies’  Hang on, girl, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

5 Mainstream Liberal Fever Dreams That Came Up Gloriously Short Of Expectations

Watch: CNN Declares Trump Will Form “Shadow Government”, Hold “Counter Inaugural”

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

23rd November 2020

Trump repeats unfounded election fraud claims in late-night posts flagged by Twitter  (Washington Post) Unfounded!

Trump’s election lies are an attempted coup. Biden and other Democrats should say so. (NBC News) Lies! Attempted coup!

Actor Kurt Russell to Hollywood: Shut Up and Act

Scarborough on Trump Vote Challenges: ‘None Dare Call it Treason—But Maybe They Should’  Treason has a definition, and apparently Joe has never read it.

Whoopi Wails Trump’s Attempting a ‘Coup:’ ‘This Is What Dictators Do!’  No, Whoopi, stealing elections is what dictators do.

‘He’ll Be Living With Macho Man In Cell Block 11’: Joy Behar Predicts Trump Will Land In Prison  Joy’s just jealous.

Rep. Waters Calls for Investigation of ‘Criminal’ Trump Just what exactly is he supposed to have done?

Hunter Biden Arrives At White House Dressed As Turkey In Hopes Of Being Pardoned By Trump Babylon Bee.

Debra Messing Wants to ‘BURN the Constitution’ If Trump Doesn’t Go To Jail

 

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NY Times Miami Bureau Chief Still Lashing Out at Latinos for Trump in Florida

23rd November 2020

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How dare these people not know their place?

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

22nd November 2020

The Founders didn’t prepare for a president who refuses to step down, historians say  They also didn’t prepare for a stolen election.

Brian Williams Gives Free Air Time to Lincoln Project Ad Attacking GOP ‘Traitors’

ABC Presses Biden Chief of Staff for Investigations of Trump, Administration  Of what? Being called a Nazi for four years by ABC?

 

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Where’s the Outrage?

22nd November 2020

Paul Mirengoff at PowerLine.

The Washington Post claims that the “Black community” is angry over claims of vote fraud by President Trump and his legal team. It’s true that some of the claims of fraud center on precincts that are populated almost entirely by Blacks. However, I doubt that many Blacks care about the Trump campaign’s allegations of fraud and I suspect that even fewer are outraged by them.

The Post cites five Blacks who have expressed displeasure. Four of them are activists. The other is a professor of African-American studies. It’s part of their job to be angry, just as it’s part of the job of Washington Post reporters to dig up people who are outraged by supposed racial slights by Donald Trump.

But the reporters provide no evidence that the grievances of the activists and the professor have any resonance in the Black community. It simply expects readers of the Post to assume they do.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

21st November 2020

Rancorous Reid: Joy Floats ‘Sedition’ Charges for Trump Team, Levels Lazy GOP Stereotypes

Stop Donald Trump’s coup. Impeach him again (LA Times)

Mr. President, it’s time to pack (Washington Post)

Donald Trump is still busy trying to bulldoze democracy (The Guardian)

Trump Planned to Break the Census, Just Not This Way (New York Magazine)

Senior GOP lawmakers grow anxious over Trump’s effort to overturn election results (CNN)

Donald Trump considers executive order ending birthright citizenship (Daily Mail) According to ‘various sources’ i.e. nobody who actually knows something.

Kraken Holds Press Conference To Distance Itself From Trump Campaign  Babylon Bee.

CNN Condemns Trump Rallies As ‘Physically Peaceful But Morally Violent’

 

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Hey, Remember When Media Outlets Were Concerned About Vote Fraud?

21st November 2020

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I am writing this column from suburban Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the State Capitol building a mere couple miles away across the Susquehanna River. And in that Capitol Friday there was scheduled by the Republican-controlled State Government Committee of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives a hearing as part of the committee’s investigation into the election.

The scheduled witnesses were representatives of Dominion. And lo and behold on Thursday night, the literal night before the hearing, State Representative Seth Grove, the Committee chairman, was notified that, in his words, Dominion had “lawyered up” and backed out of the hearing.

Hmmm. As this is written, this news is nowhere to be found in The Washington Post. It is nowhere to be found in The New York Times. Maybe it will at some point. Maybe.

Much less have either paper assigned a Woodward and Bernstein-style investigation of just what is going on with election fraud in this country and the role of voting system companies in this business.

Hmm. Isn’t this curious.

 

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Why We Have the Worst “Experts,” Chapter 12,186

21st November 2020

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Our elite betters wonder why we don’t trust their “scientific” authority, but let’s roll back the tape to this May 15 story from NBC News, which they called a “fact check:”

Fact check: Coronavirus vaccine could come this year, Trump says. Experts say he needs a ‘miracle’ to be right.

Funny how often Trump turns out to be right about something the “experts” dismissed as outlandish and irresponsible. Start with moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. Yeah, the violent unrest in the Middle East in the aftermath of that provocative move still hasn’t abated. What’s that? Oh, never mind.

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Mark Shields Sends GOP Senators to Hell for Refusing ‘Meet the Press’ Invite

21st November 2020

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On Friday’s PBS NewsHour, liberal pundit Mark Shields raged at Republican senators for universally rejecting a beating on NBC’s Meet the Press. Shields compared this to “Dante’s great quote that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a time of moral crisis, remain neutral.”

Shields described the NBC show as an “important forum,” and avoided the obvious notion that under Chuck Todd, Republican Senators get yelled at for bringing “Fox News conspiracy propaganda” into their answers. Any Republican who showed up was going to be browbeaten into condemning the president’s failure to concede defeat.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

20th November 2020

Mitt Romney calls Trump’s attempt to overturn Michigan election ‘undemocratic’ (CNN) RINOS ASSEMBLE!

Trump history and behavior suggest destructive mental processes that put America at risk (USA Today)

In the waning days of Trump’s presidency, White House press pool reports are getting snarkier (Washington Post) My, what a surprise.

Chuck Todd, MSNBC Historian Hope That Unlike Trump, Biden Can Be Like Lincoln  Assassinated?

‘Undemocratic Action’ — Romney Sounds Off On Trump For Not Providing Enough Evidence Of Widespread Voter Fraud  RINOS ASSEMBLE!

AP DC Chief Julie Pace: ‘For Trump, Sowing Post-Election Chaos Is the Goal’

Hysterical CNN: ‘Mad King’ Trump Will ‘Scorch the Earth’ of America  He will certainly scorch the earth of CNN.

 

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Smug Morning Joe Gloats Over Beating Fox in Ratings… After 20 Years of Losing

20th November 2020

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In recent weeks, Fox News has been losing audience, as some viewers have become disenchanted with the network’s increasingly Trump-skeptical tone. Morning Joe has been a beneficiary of this trend, beating rival Fox & Friends in the ratings for the first time in almost 20 years.

Joe Scarborough et al. thus have an interest in encouraging Fox News to continue down the path that has benefitted Morning Joe. And thus it was that on today’s Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist lavishly praised FNC personalities who have criticized the efforts of the Trump team to contest the election results. Scarborough and Geist singled out FNC’s Kristin Fisher, playing a long excerpt of her takedown of yesterday’s press conference featuring Rudy Giuliani.

It’s all because Fox has decided to join the Corporate Media, and is thus losing viewers.

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Chaos Erupts As Vice President Pence Walks Out Of Press Briefing

19th November 2020

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What did they expect? To be catered to by somebody that they spend all of their days calling a Nazi? I’m surprised he didn’t spit on them on the way out.

If I were Trump I would revoke all White House ‘press corps’ credentials and just e-mail statements to the respective publicans’ editors.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

19th November 2020

“I’m Not Ruling Out” A Trump Re-Election – JPM AM CIO Fears ‘Remote Risk’ Of “American Horror Story”

Variety: Hollywood’s Anti-Trump Crusade ‘Driven by Patriotism,’ ‘Pure Love of Country’ Actually, it’s just mindless conformity.

Atlanta Mayor Says Trump ‘Will Eat His Own Children If He Found It Prudent’  There is no limit to the nonsense Never Trumpers will emit.

CNN Mirrors Biden’s Doom & Gloom: Trump Is Endangering the Country  He’s certainly endangering their country.

‘Blood Is On His Hands’: Whoopi Goldberg Says She’s Never Seen A President Who ‘Didn’t Care Whether People Lived Or Died’

Romney Says Trump’s ‘Lame Duck Period’ Is More Dangerous Than His Transition Process  RINOS ASSEMBLE!

NBC Hides Radical Trump-Hating Rant From Ta-Nehisi Coates

 

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Paul Krugman Whines GOP Senate Majority Will Be ‘Bad for Business’

19th November 2020

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Since Krugman has historically been wrong EVERY SINGLE TIME he makes a prediction about the effect of something on business, I am greatly encouraged.

(This ought to tell you something about the people who give out the Nobel Prizes, as well.)

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

17th November 2020

Ilhan Omar Calls Trump Campaign Events ‘Klan Rallies’  As if she would know a Klan rally if she saw one.

Do we dare call Donald Trump a treasonous president? (USA Today) I suspect they do.

Trump’s New Vote Fraud Theory Is So Much Crazier Than You Realize (New York Magazine)

Fact checking Trump’s barrage of lies over the weekend (CNN)

Will Trump Burn the Evidence? (The New Yorker) Evidence of what? They never say.

Amid the worst of the pandemic, our mad king rages only about himself (Washington Post) Almost as much as the Washington Post does.

Columbia Prof Urges Constitutional Amendment ‘To Prevent Another Trump’  Virtue-signaling writ large: It will have no effect except to polish his reputation among the Crust.

Unhinged CNN: GOP Hates ‘Democracy,’ ‘Uncomfortable’ With Voters

Here’s Why Big Pharma Hates Trump

Partisan CNN Gushes Over ‘Upset’ Obama Blasting Trump

REPORT: James Harden Wants Off Of The Houston Rockets Because The Owner Is Pro-Donald Trump

Sen. Hirono Pressures Social Media CEO’s to Ban Trump

DEFUND PBS: Amanpour Offers WEAK Apology for Comparing Trump to Hitler

 

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How to Lose Georgia in One Easy Step

17th November 2020

National Review cuck Rich Lowry blames the victim.

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Daily Beast: Dems Knew Hunter Biden Drew HUGE Social-Media Buzz, But MSM Spiked

17th November 2020

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The Daily Beast posted a piece on Monday warning that “Dems Are Losing the Social Media War.” Left unsaid was the Dems are winning the “news media” war.

Lachlan Markay, Hanna Trudo, and Sam Stein reported the Biden campaign had a reason to be worried about the potential damage of reporting on Hunter Biden’s sleazy gig trading on his powerful father’s name overseas.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

16th November 2020

Fareed Zakaria Likens Trump Contesting Election to Pre-Nazi Germany

Brian Williams Frets Trump Voters are ‘Tyranny-Curious’

What Is John Brennan So Worried About?

Trump tweets Biden won — but won’t concede election or stop fundraising. Here’s why. (NBC News) The odds that NBC News has a clue as to why Trump does anything at all are verging on zero.

London Mayor Cries “It’s Never Been Harder To Be A Muslim” And It’s Trump’s Fault

Whatever Happened to America’s Scariest Problem, Foreign Election Interference, Anyway?

Celebrities Can’t Wait to Kick Trump Out of the White House

Twitter Starts The Week By Repeatedly Dinging Trump’s Claims, Including 2 Tweets Where He Said He ‘Won The Election’

Obama Compares Trump To A Dictator Who Thinks He ‘Can Kill People’ And ‘Suppress Journalists’ In 60 Minutes Interview

Man Who Allegedly Attacked Trump Supporters With A Firework Arrested And Charged  Funny how the violence always comes from the Left.

Rioter Who Punched Out Trump Supporter In Viral Video Is Registered Child Sex Offender

Another Trump Attorney Harassed As Election Challenges Move Through Courts

Israeli Consul Pressures CNN Executive For Apology Over Holocaust, Trump Comparisons

‘Off The Charts’: State Attorneys General Have Filed 138 Lawsuits Against Trump, More Than Obama And Bush

‘Truth Decay’: Obama Claims Trump Is Responsible For The Collapse Of Honesty In Politics

Obama Mocks Trump In Interview, Calls Him ‘Richie Rich’  You’re one to talk, sambo.

Censorship Insanity: Twitter Goes After Trump and Campaign 194 Times

Biden: ‘More People May Die’ From Coronavirus Because Trump Is Holding Up The Transition  Which is horseshit.

Twitter Censors Trump — AGAIN — for Contesting Election

Nets Spin Brutal Attacks on Trump Supporters: ‘Relatively,’ ‘Largely’ Peaceful’

‘Bury Trump in a Nazi Graveyard’: Insane Alec Baldwin Fumes Over Trump Yet Again

 

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Chuck Todd Says Every GOP Senator Declined Invitations to Go on Meet The Press

16th November 2020

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THEY ARE FINALLY LEARNING! HALLELUJAH!

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The Myth of Harmonious Indigenous Conservationism

16th November 2020

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… a strongly held noble-savage belief system within progressive circles. Various formulations of this mythology have become encoded in public land acknowledgments, college courses, and even journalism. The overall theme is that Indigenous peoples traditionally lived their lives in harmony with the land and its creatures, and so their land-use demands transcend the realm of politics, and represent quasi-oracular revealed truths. As has been pointed out by others, this mythology now has a severe, and likely negative, distorting effect on public policy, one that hurts Indigenous peoples themselves. In recent years, Indigenous groups have finally gotten a fair cut of the proceeds of industrial-development and commodity-extraction revenues originating on their lands. And increasingly, they are telling white policy makers to stop listening to those activists who seek to portray them as perpetual children of the forest. It is for their benefit, as much as anyone else’s, to explore the truth about the myth of harmonious Indigenous conservationism.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

15th November 2020

MSNBC Host Fantasizes Over Trump ‘Dragged Out of White House Like ‘Cops’ Show

Colorado Professor Compares Questioning Voting Results To Holocaust Denial

 

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CNN’s Cabrera and Leftist Professor Push Insane Conspiracy

15th November 2020

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On Saturday afternoon’s CNN Newsroom, host Ana Cabrera conspired with radical leftist Yale professor of history Timothy Snyder to spout insane conspiracy theories about President Trump. Cabrera proclaimed that she was “unsettled” by a tweet from Snyder in which he claimed that Trump “has attempted” a “coup d’état” and Snyder responded by crazily insisting that Trump is “going for it.”

Cabrera began the segment by hyping Snyder’s book, On Tyranny, in which he compared Trump to Hitler and claimed that Trump will take over the U.S. government through a Reichstag Fire type scheme. Snyder seems to be obsessed with making psychotic accusations towards Trump, as he also told Cabrera earlier this year that U.S. Democracy is in a “precarious situation” due to Trump nominating Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

14th November 2020

How Trump’s Voter Fraud War Room Became a Fart-Infused ‘Room From Hell’ (The Daily Beast)

This is no conventional coup. Trump is paving the way for a ‘virtual Confederacy’ (The Guardian)

Prediction: Trump will resign, Pence will pardon him (The Hill) For what?

A war among Trump’s kids shows this family won’t let us move on (Washington Post)

CNN Touts Claim Trump ‘Wants to Lose,’ ‘Worried About Getting Arrested’ For what?

ABC’s Dan Abrams Worries that Trump Could Still ‘Steal This Election’

 

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Are You a ‘Far-Right Extremist’?

14th November 2020

The Other McCain is not afraid to ask the hard questions.

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, anyone concerned about the integrity of the 2020 election is part of a “cluster of far-right extremists including neo-fascists, white nationalists and militia members.” Thus do they describe the #StopTheSteal rally planned for noon Saturday at Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C. Among the featured guests at the D.C. rally are Michelle Malkin. Amy Kremer, Mike Cernovich, Jack Posobiec and many other pro-Trump personalities.

So now the SPLC is defining support for the President of the United States as “hate.”

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

13th November 2020

‘Dejected’ Trump waffles over waging baseless election fight (CNN) Baseless!

Biden defeated Trump, but Democrats didn’t win a mandate. They ignore that at their peril. (NBC)

Sore loser Donald Trump claims he was cheated out of reelection. Where’s the proof? (USA Today) Well, you could look at the court filings. But I guess that would be, you know, work.

End of Trump era deals heavy blow to rightwing populist leaders worldwide (The Guardian) Kind of jumping the gun, I suspect.

Disgusting NY Times Compares Trump’s ‘Anti-Democratic Tactics’ to Mugabe, Pinochet

MSNBC’s Manic Joe Fancies Himself a Psychic, Knew Trump ‘Shock Opera’ Would End Badly

TAX $ AT WORK: Amanpour Viciously Compares Trump Not Conceding to Nazi Genocide

 

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No One Invited You, Joe: Scarborough Not Coming Back to GOP

13th November 2020

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And stop being the toast of the Upper West Side and the Hamptons? Imperil domestic tranquility with Democrat wife and co-host Mika Brzezinski? Maybe even get “canceled” by a liberal establishment baying for Republican political blood?

One of the benefits of having Donald Trump as President is that it has flushed the RINOs out of the underbrush.

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Showtime Documentary Smears Reagan as Racist Precursor to Trump

13th November 2020

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he Showtime pay cable channel, owned by ViacomCBS, has become the latest media outlet to promote specious leftist attacks meant to destroy the credibility and respect for a political leader admired by conservatives.

On Sunday night at 8 PM EST (repeating at 11:30 PM and 1:30 AM EST, matching times in the West coast feed) Showtime will debut a four-part documentary series, The Reagans, devoted to smearing President Ronald Reagan as an anti-civil rights user of racist “dog whistles” who, in the words of its director, served as a tool of “plutocrats” who “in many ways paved the way for Trump.”

Remember, if you hear the dog whistle, then you’re the dog.

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Fox News: What Occurred?

13th November 2020

Scott Johnson at PowerLine.

The dismal performance of FOX News on election night put an exclamation point on the descent of the network into the trough of antipathy and distrust conservatives relegate its competitors. One can infer that FOX News is disturbed by the reaction of conservative media outside the network’s circle to the network’s election night pratfalls (to put it charitably).

Consider the number of respectable conservative pundits who are tongue-tied by virtue of their contractual relationship with FOX News as contributors. Their public silence is inherent in their relationship, but is there any conservative outlet or pundit not on the payroll who hasn’t spoken up to observe the miasma at the network?

Fox fumbled the election coverage pretty thoroughly.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

12th November 2020

Enough is enough: Republicans’ fealty to Trump imperils America itself (The Guardian)

Trump officials mocked Democrats in 2016 as ‘sore losers’ for not accepting election results  (CNN) That’s because they were the actual results.

Trump is replacing Mark Esper and Pentagon officials with loyalists. Here’s why. (Vox) Proglodyte psychics read Trump’s mind for you.

ELECTION UGLINESS: Journalists Celebrate Toppling ‘Dictator’ Trump

Deranged Mika: ‘Law Enforcement’ Should ‘Come After’ Trump to Stop Him From Selling Secrets

Hysterical CNN Fears ‘Dictator’ Trump Installing ‘Loyalists’

‘That’s How Sick He Is’: Joy Behar Says Trump ‘Relishes’ Leaving COVID Mess In Biden’s Lap  As if Joy Behar has any clue about what Trump thinks.

Former Reddit CEO Wants Trump SIlenced Online to Stop ‘A Coup’

Nation’s Democrats Make Fortune Selling Used ‘Not My President’ Merch To Republicans  Babylon Bee.

Condescending CNN Spews Venom at ‘Diaper Man,’ ‘Petulant’ Trump, ‘Pathetic’ Republicans

 

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Biden Staffer Accuses Facebook of ‘Shredding the Fabric of Our Democracy’

12th November 2020

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Bill Russo, a deputy communications director for the president-elect’s campaign ripped the social network in a series of Twitter posts over its failure to clamp down on users disputing the 2020 election results,” the New York Post (the Post) reported Nov. 11. Russo accused Facebook of “shredding the fabric of our democracy” in an apocalyptic thread slamming the platform for giving conservatives a voice.

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Fox News Still Will Not Admit Bungling Election Night Call on House Races

12th November 2020

The Other McCain is on the case.

In addition to botching the presidential call in Arizona, Fox News was even more disastrously wrong in their congressional projections on Election Night, claiming that Democrats would “expand” Nancy Pelosi’s House majority by as many as 15 seats.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

11th November 2020

Team Biden sees Trump’s post-election fight as comedy of errors (Politico) I have no doubt that they do.

GOP lawmaker on why he publicly acknowledged Biden’s victory (CNN) Buidling the New Narrative: ‘Nothing to see here, move along, move along….’

White House tells federal agencies to proceed with plans for Trump’s February budget in latest sign of election defiance (Washington Post) Defiance!

To my family who chose Trump over me: Was it worth it?  (CNN) Was your blind hostility to Trump worth it?

Chris Cuomo: Trump Is A ‘Dissident’ And ‘A Dead Man Walking’

Fake News: ABC, CNN Claim Trump Gearing Up to Leave a War for Biden  Oh, I think Biden can be depended on to create one by himself.

So Much Healing: Wash Post Equates ‘Trumpism’ to ‘White Supremacy,’ ‘Disease’

Nasty CNN Says ‘Someone Needs to FedEx’ Trump the Constitution Perhaps he could then explain it to them.

Baffled MSNBC: Wait, How Can Women Actually Support Trump?

NBC & CBS: Trump’s Concession Delay Could Cause Another 9/11!

Unhinged CBS Cites Churchill Quote on Nazis to Bash Trump on Recount

Twitter Censors Twelve Trump Posts In One Day

New Bible Features Removable Romans 13 For When You Don’t Like The President  Babylon Bee.

 

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Times Change

11th November 2020

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The New York Times is apparently being dragged into 1984 by its ‘woke’ employees.

 

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Civil War on the Left : New York Times Edition

11th November 2020

Steven Hayward at PowerLine.

We knew things at the New York Times were bad, but hoo-ey boy we had no idea just how bad! New York magazine is out with a deep dive into the internal Maoist struggle sessions going on inside the Times, and get a big bowl of popcorn ready for this long piece.

The piece could be called “Annals of the Liberal Self-Obsessed,” as it contains many nuggets of pure comedy gold.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

10th November 2020

No, Trump will not run for president again in 2024 (Washington Post) Every time the WaPo tries to read Trump’s mind, it never turns out well.

We asked nine legal experts about Trump’s latest lawsuit challenging election results in Pennsylvania. Their verdict: Dead on arrival. (USA Today)  Well, now, that depends on who you ask, doesn’t it?

CNN: Trump is a ‘Petulant Child’, ‘Adults Are Back in Charge’

MSNBC Trump Hater Robinson Pushes to Jail Trump Officials for Immigration ‘Cruelty’

CBS Cranky Over Trump Not Conceding, Cheers Abrams for Same Thing

VILE Sunny Hostin Agrees With AOC: Trump ‘Sycophants’ Must Go On Enemies List

 

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HOT MIC MESS: MSNBC Reporter Drops Profanity Bombs on Craig Melvin

10th November 2020

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MSNBC national security reporter Ken Dilanian dropped an F-bomb and an S-bomb on the air on Tuesday morning with Craig Melvin in the 11 am Eastern hour. Melvin turned to the current liberal spin – the Trump administration’s supposedly awful refusal to work on the presidential transition with Joe Biden’s team. “NBC’s Ken Dilanian has new reporting on something we talked about at the top of the hour, how the Trump administration is handling the transition with the incoming Biden team, or not handling it, we should say, to a certain extent.” He asked Dilanian, “Ken, what have you learned, sir?”

 

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‘Chris, We Haven’t Called Texas Yet’

10th November 2020

The Other McCain puts the hammer down.

Millions of Republicans have stopped watching Fox News after the Election Night debacle in which the network’s “Decision Desk” (i.e., a Democrat named Aaron Mishkin) called Arizona for Joe Biden at a time when they were still claiming that Ohio and Texas were “too close to call.”

Apparently Fox has decided to sell out to the Corporate Media Complex.

Perhaps somebody made Murdoch an Offer He Can’t Refuse.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

9th November 2020

Biden must put down the monster that is Trumpism (Washington Post)

Jared Kushner, Melania Trump advise Trump to accept election loss  According to CNN. Do you believe that? I think it’s Fake News.

Tonight Show Head Writer Quits Over Trump Jokes Supposedly Giving Him Power

Gov. Cuomo Says It Is ‘Bad News’ That Potential Virus Vaccine Comes While Donald Trump Is In Office

Top Mueller Prosecutor Suggests Trump Is Gearing Up For A Military Coup  I guess that’s what he would do.

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8th November 2020

Sen. Schumer Calls on ‘Dishonest’ Trump to Concede

‘Don’t Say That, Please’: CNN Reporter Scolds Crowd Chanting ‘F*ck Donald Trump!’

Ex-Facebook Data Experts Spent $75M on Targeted Anti-Trump Ads

 

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7th November 2020

Republicans are amplifying the president’s lies. This has never been more dangerous. (Washington Post)

Election results: Joe Biden wins presidential race, defeating Donald Trump (Vox)

Business leaders plan response if Trump disputes election results (CNN) They’d better hurry up.

Republicans who’ve tried to exist in both the MAGAverse and reality are being forced to choose (Washington Post)

Germany Says Trump Is “Pouring Oil On The Fire” Of Potential “Constitutional Crisis”

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6th November 2020

Fact check: Trump delivers the most dishonest speech of his presidency as Biden closes in on victory (CNN) Most dishonest!

Top Republicans defend Trump on baseless voter fraud claims as concerns grow in the ranks (CNN) Baseless!

America’s friends embarrassed it still insisting Trumpism a fluke, not personality trait (Washington Post)

‘The Most Fevered Brain’: Jake Tapper Mocks Trump Speech Blaming ‘Grand Conspiracy’

Keith Olbermann Calls For The Arrests Of President Donald Trump And Tucker Carlson How about we arrest Keith Olbermann?

Van Jones, David Axelrod Suggests Trump Is A Racist For Questioning Vote Counting In Philadelphia, Detroit

Delusional CNN RAGES at ‘Obese Turtle’ Trump ‘Inciting Violence,’ Launching an ‘Attack’

NBC Demands Trump Be ‘Conciliatory’ and Concede Like Al Gore  Good luck with that.

Impatient Stephanopoulos Urges Biden to Declare Victory; Demands Trump Accept Defeat Good luck with that.

Biden Campaign Threatens To Escort Trump From The White House

Pompous Colbert DEMANDS Republicans Speak Against Trump’s ‘Fascist’ Plot to ‘Kill Democracy’  He’s not really in a position to demand anything of anybody.

Vile Vega: Trump Presidency’s ‘Biggest Moments’ Were His Racist Statements  Of which there were none.

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5th November 2020

Fact check: Almost everything Trump has said after Election Day is wrong (CNN)

Trump Is Literally Hitler, Metaphorically Stalin

Rioters Patiently Wait For All The Votes To Be Counted  Babylon Bee.

Janelle Monae Shreds Civility: Says Anyone Who Voted Trump Will ‘Burnnnnnnnnnn’

‘Threat to Our Democracy’: Dems Call on Twitter to Suspend Trump

Self-Righteous ‘View’ Hosts Scold ‘Selfish’ Americans Who Voted for Trump: Need a ‘Come to Jesus Moment’  Let them come to Jesus first.

Twitter Continues Censorship of Trump: Five More Posts in Last Day

Actress Natalie Morales Says Some Cuban-Americans Are ‘10000 Percent Brainwashed’ And That’s Why They Voted For Trump

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

4th November 2020

Marco Rubio Supports Trump’s Authoritarian Political Violence Now  (New York Magazine) As opposed to Biden’s authoritarian political violence?

Chrissy Teigen: ‘Our Fears’ Are If Trump Wins ‘We Will Prob All Die Or Be Handmaids’

Nets Bemoan Trump ‘Disinformation’ ‘Scared’ Florida Latinos by Calling Dems ‘Socialists’  Which they undoubtedly are.

‘He’s An IDIOT!’: Cenk Uygur Freaks Out As Trump-Biden Election Stays Close

DERANGED Colbert Election Special Blames Trump for Black Panther Star’s Death

MELTDOWN: CBS Blames Trump for Possible Riots, Wonders About ‘Repercussions’ for Speech

U.S. Exits Paris Climate Accord After Trump Stalls Global Warming Action for Four Years  Orange Man Bad!

DC Police Confirm Stabbing Attack On 4 Trump Supporters Near White House

Worried NBC Can’t Believe ‘Unacceptable’ Trump is Competitive

Celebrities Really Didn’t Like That People Actually Voted For Donald Trump  Even if Biden eventually wins, causing ‘celebrities’ heartburn is always a worthwhile activity.

Bloomberg Lost $100M in Florida Attacking Trump

‘I’m Scared:’ Twitter Employees Melt Down Over Potential Biden Loss

Hollywood Hacks Angry ‘Dangerously Racist’ America Didn’t Totally Repudiate Trump

Twitter Again Refuses To Censor Kathy Griffin’s Pic Of Decapitated Trump Head 

Hollywood Actors: Trump Is a Nazi, His Voters Support Nazis

 

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3rd November 2020

ONE LAST DITCH ATTEMPT: Media Wastes October Using Same Old Playbook

Yahoo Buries Millions of Users Under Avalanche of Anti-Trump Headlines

NERVOUS? Hollywood Left Prays to God for ‘Evil’ ‘Racist Criminal’ Trump’s Defeat

Thousands Of Witches Are Casting “Binding Spells” On Donald Trump To Lose The Election And the Democrats claim to be the Party of Science. I’ve never met a New Age Nutjob yet that wasn’t a Democrat … or worse.

Keith Olbermann Apologizes After Calling Trump ‘A Whiny Little Kunta Kinte’

Morning Joe & Susan Rice: Trump Victory Would Be a Win for ‘Russian Disinformation’

MSNBC Likens Trump Caravans to ISIS, Racism Behind Backing McCloskeys  Yeah, ISIS sure likes to wave the American flag.

Tapper Leads Off Election Eve Coverage With Venomous Anti-Trump Rant  As he does.

 

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2nd November 2020

Trump lashes out after FBI announces investigation of Biden bus incident (NBC News) Lashes out!

Positively shocking: Trump’s boasts of help from Sean Connery fall apart (The Guardian)

NASTY: ‘Saturday Night Live’ Fake News Anchor Claims Trump’s a Mass COVID Murderer

Colbert’s ‘Our Cartoon President:’ ‘You’d Have to Be a F***king Idiot’ to Vote Trump

The US government’s subversion of Trump, 2016-2020

Scarborough Brags: We’ll Censor Trump If He Declares Victory!

Joe Scarborough Says ‘If Trump Declares Victory’ Tuesday He’ll Tell Network To Block ‘The Feed’

Multiple Arrests After Midday Clash Between NYPD And Anti-Trump Rioters

MSNBC’s Ruhle Fears Violence From Trump Supporters if Biden Wins  But she has nothing to say about the BLM/AntiFa violence that has already occurred.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Says Trump Will Lose Election If All Votes Are Counted In Pennsylvania Sounds like they’ve got the vote fraud all lined up and ready to go.

Pushback: Kansas Man Allegedly Shoots 3 People He Believed Stole His Trump Yard Signs

Last Ditch Hollywood Appeal: Celebs Are ‘Begging’ For You To Be the ‘Heroes,’ Vote Biden

Trump-Supporting Sports Figures Are Dead to Deadspin

Psychiatrist Who Sought A Mental Health Check For Trump Compares Him To Hitler

SAT Now Just A Single Page Requiring You To Draw Devil Horns On A Picture Of Trump  Babylon Bee.

All Aboard the Crazy Train! CNN and MSNBC Guest: Trump Is WORSE Than Hitler!  How ironic — an insane psychiatrist.

 

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Diversity at Slate

2nd November 2020

Kevin Williamson points the finger of shame.

A Slate headline: “Most Slate Staffers Are Voting for Biden—but Not All of Us.”

Another way of writing the same headline: “Not One Slate Staffer Is Voting for Trump, But At Least One Is Voting for the Green Party Candidate.”

It is of some interest that National Review, an explicitly conservative journal of opinion, has more political diversity among its contributors than does Slate, which, unless I have missed something, still presents itself as a conventional news source rather than as a journal of left-wing advocacy such as The Nation or The New Republic. The New York Times does not have one pro-Trump columnist on its pages.

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