22nd June 2019
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Lies, damned lies, and the New York Times.
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21st June 2019
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21st June 2019
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Of course it would. Like the Roman Emperor Caracalla, he wants to give citizenship to everybody.
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21st June 2019
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Good luck finding any ‘unfettered capitalism’ anywhere in the modern world.
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21st June 2019
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Democrats are locked into their all race, all the time narrative, in which they try to paint Republicans as villains. This is utterly ahistorical, of course: someone should remind these ignoramuses that the Ku Klux Klan was the militant arm of the Democratic Party, and that avowed segregationists populated the Democratic Party until very recently.
Segregationists like James Eastland and Herman Talmadge, whose racist credentials have never been challenged. Joe Biden bragged about his ability to be civil and get along with senators of all sorts, citing Eastland and Talmadge as examples. (Particularly weird was his praise for Eastland on the ground that he didn’t call Biden “boy.” I won’t try to untangle that one.) Biden’s riff prompted considerable blowback, and this from MSNBC, which described Eastland and Talmadge as Republicans:
Well, they were segregationists, therefore they HAD to be Republicans. That’s as obvious as Trump’s racism.
MSNBC did eventually correct, but one has to wonder about an alleged newsperson who doesn’t know that the Southern segregationists were Democrats. (Fun fact: Bull Connor was a member of the Democratic National Committee.)
The knowledge of history by the garden-variety proglodyte extends back about five years.
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20th June 2019
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20th June 2019
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Gwyneth loves them, Adele can’t sing without them and Kim Kardashian uses them to deal with stress. Many of us are lured by their beauty and promise of mystical powers, but are ‘healing’ crystals connecting us to the earth – or harming it?
Only your hairdresser knows for sure.
Women and minorities hardest hit, as usual.
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20th June 2019
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Lies, damned lies, and New York Times.
Unfortunately for the Narrative, there were no Republican segregationists.
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19th June 2019
Thin Skin: CNN Cuts Away from Trump Rally After Crowd Chants ‘CNN Sucks!’
Morning Joe Trolls Trump Rally: Fat Elvis with Quaaludes, Vodka, Shotgun
O’Donnell: Trump Watches TV as ‘Illiterate Man’s Window on the World’ Name-calling is all they’ve got.
Bernie Calls Trump ‘Racist,’ ‘Sexist,’ ‘Homophobe,’ ‘Xenophobe’ And ‘Religious Bigot’ After Orlando Rally
CNN’s Don Lemon Compares Trump To Hitler
Nets Trash Trump’s Campaign Kickoff: ‘Dark,’ ‘Scary,’ ‘Same Old Grudges’
MSNBC Reporter Falsely Claims Trump Didn’t Mention Abortion During Campaign Announcement
CNN Analyst: Border ‘Concentration Camps’ Will Lead to ‘Death Camps’ in U.S. But only for left-wing ‘journalists’, so that’s okay.
Celebrities, Journalists Go Crazy for #ImpeachTrump Day Dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.
CNN: ‘Fact-Free’ Trump Rally Was Used to ‘Deflect, Distract, and Divide’
Joy Behar Defends AOC: Trump on ‘Trajectory’ to ‘Exterminating’ Illegal Immigrants She really is insane.
Real News CNN Cuts Away From Trump Rally the Moment Trump Starts Criticizing Them They can dish it out but they can’t take it.
Steve Harvey Calls Mitch McConnell A ‘Hillbilly’ Over Reparations Comments I don’t imagine Mitch cares much.
Michael Moore Warns Dems About The ‘Enormity Of The Fight Ahead’ After Watching Trump Rally They’re comin’ for YOU, Fatso.
MSNBC’s Soboroff: Trump Deportations Designed to ‘Terrorize’ Illegals I certainly hope so.
Jessie Watters: Impeachment Is A ‘Self- Perpetuating’ News Cycle Reminding people every day that the political class is a bunch of numbskulls.
Why the polls will be wrong about Trump – again Lying to pollsters is a popular pastime.
Mazie Hirono Says Outrage Over Ocasio-Cortez Comment Is ‘Manufactured’ To Protect Trump The voters in Hawaii must be deranged to send such an imbecile to the Senate.
Univision Celebrates Rip-Off Artists Who Used Fake IDs to Work at Trump Golf Club
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19th June 2019
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Reminds me of teh old Gallagher line, ‘Don’t put your condom on to ring the doorbell.’
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18th June 2019
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18th June 2019
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My, what a surprise.
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17th June 2019
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17th June 2019
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17th June 2019
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Funny how that works.
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15th June 2019
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14th June 2019
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13th June 2019
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Pretty bad when you can’t even depend on applause from your own side.
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12th June 2019
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12th June 2019
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So why doesn’t she leave? Surely there’s room for her in Venezuela.
Waiting for her to leave….
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12th June 2019
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Well, Obama promised to Heal The Earth. He didn’t, but it got him elected.
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11th June 2019
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11th June 2019
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Apparently white people were showing up ‘in racist ways’.
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10th June 2019
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10th June 2019
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In 2016, the pink hat seen around the world was used by feminists as a symbol of “resistance” to protest the inauguration of the duly elected President Trump. Now, the latest virtue-signaling garb of the feminist movement is a red robe and white hat derived from the popular show, The Handmaid’s Tale. It is difficult to miss the slew of pro-abortion activists donning the trendy ensemble outside of the Supreme Court and state legislatures around the country.
Politics as theater. Or theater as politics. Sometimes it’s hard to tell.
UPDATE: Gayle King ‘Worries’ ‘a Lot’ About U.S. Turning Into ‘Handmaid’s Tale.’ Except that that’s a Leftist fairy tale (no pun intended), not reality.
UPDATE: Kylie Jenner’s ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Party Like ‘Holocaust Theme for Bar Mitzvah’ No meme too sordid for a ‘celebrity’ to make a party theme out of it.
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10th June 2019
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Well, he’s not Muslim, so he must be ‘white’.
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9th June 2019
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8th June 2019
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When The New York Times‘s hostility to police collides with the unyielding demands of solidarity and multiculturism, we get upside-down reporting like the kind that appeared in Saturday’s New York Times, when reporters Matt Furber and Mitch Smith question the harsh sentencing of a former police officer, Somali-American Mohammed Noor, found guilty in a woman’s death: “Over 12 Years in Prison for Minneapolis Officer in Woman’s Death.”
Substitute “seen by some” with “seen by Times journalists” in the weasel-worded text box: “Far from building trust in the system, a case came to be seen by some as a sign of a double standard.”
After the guilty verdict in May, Times reporter John Eligon, who has spent years criticizing police in the aftermath of racially charged shootings, did a 180-degree turn and showed bizarre new concern over alleged unfair treatment of cops.
Lenin said it best: ‘Who? Whom?’. If you’ve been following the Powerline coverage of the trial, you know that the Times had a seat reserved in the courtroom for the trial, which seat was never occupied. So this is not about what happened at the trial, or the evidence, or even the case. This is about the Narrative, and according to the Narrative, the search is for the Victim, which means the search for whomever has the most Pokemon Victim Points. In this case, the convicted cop is Muslim and Somali, so he wins.
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6th June 2019
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6th June 2019
The New York Times takes another shot at re-creating males to be dependent on female attitudes.
The ‘journalist’ involved is female, of course.
What we really need is a group of hair-on-fire masculinists to smash the matriarchy.
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5th June 2019
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4th June 2019
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4th June 2019
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Of course, it’s a real challenge to find something that ‘academics’ don’t say is an unethical tool of oppression.
Go ahead, I dare you.
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4th June 2019
The Guardian has its hair on fire again over a perennial proglodyte passion, ‘processed food’.
Apparently getting food cheaply where it’s most convenient is some kind of moral failing.
‘Food swamp’, like ‘food desert’ and ‘pink slime’, is one of those far-Left smear terms that the Statist Establishment love so well.
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3rd June 2019
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Well, if the NBA were overwhelmingly black, it wouldn’t be a problem, would it?
Maybe we need an affirmative action program for white guys in the NBA.
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2nd June 2019
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2nd June 2019
The Guardian is there for all of your gender intersectionality needs.
Women and minorities hardest hit, of course.
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1st June 2019
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1st June 2019
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Renowned British comedian John Cleese is highly opinionated on all sorts of topics, including contempt for Sarah Palin and the George W. Bush-loving American South. But only when he issues (mild) commentary about multiculturalism changing London does the brilliant co-creator of Monty Python’s Flying Circus and Fawlty Towers abruptly morph into a grumpy old racist.
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31st May 2019
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30th May 2019
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29th May 2019
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28th May 2019
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27th May 2019
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26th May 2019
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One can feel the anxiety pouring out of the mainstream media stories reporting President Trump’s authorization of Attorney General Barr to declassify the documents underlying the greatest political scandal in American political history — i.e., the Russian collusion hoax. The anxiety is overdetermined. Among other things, it is based in part on the media’s insane opposition to everything Trump and in part on their complicity with the perpetrators of the hoax.
When was the last time you saw media outlets oppose the declassification of documents?
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