31st July 2019
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But you knew that.
Is a higher federal minimum wage a workable idea? Let’s remember that Sanders was forced to eat a generous portion of humble pie when the public found out he was paying his own campaign staff the equivalent of $13 hourly. He raised their wage to $15 by cutting employee hours. Reality crashed in on yet another utopian plan.
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31st July 2019
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Mass shootings that can be used to beat Trump : Media loves it.
Daily murder rate in Democrat-run cities : Not news.
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30th July 2019
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Sorry, Joy, you don’t get to re-define words to suit yourself.
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30th July 2019
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Let’s see: Lowest unemployment in living memory, best black employment rate ever, lower taxes, hundreds of new conservative judges, economy growing at 3% ….
Okay, I’m good with it.
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29th July 2019
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I am not making this up.
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29th July 2019
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“Mommmeeee! Donald hit me back!”
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29th July 2019
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Angela Saini has an interesting review in Nature of Skin Deep, a ridiculous book about how racial differences have no role in sports achievement. Of course, that’s just nonsense, obviously so: some Kenyan and Ethiopian populations are way better at distance races,while people of West African descent always win the Olympic 100-meter. And so on.
Now you’d think that if if you were trying to defend blank slatism, you wouldn’t want to spend much of your time on your weakest possible point, any more than a PR-wise Stalinist would go on and on about how wise and good Katyn Forest was: how the Chekists killed those Polish POWs in self-defense, after a heroic struggle, etc. Arguing for zero physical differences between populations is that weak: everyone can see them, for Christ’s sake. And a lot of people are very interested in, and knowledgeable about, sports.
Yet, in Saini’s review, she does just that. She’s pushing obvious falsehoods – not just ones that can only be noticed by the elite that know how to do long division.
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29th July 2019
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No, this is not a joke.
The area surrounding King County Superior Court includes a homeless shelter and other social-services organizations and has become an “unsanitary and potentially frightening” scene — one “that reeks of urine and excrement” — according to an article in the Seattle Times. Desperate for help with the disgusting environment, two of the court’s judges have asked the city to please power-wash the poop-covered sidewalks. That seems like a pretty reasonable request, but apparently, one councilman is worried that doing so might be a form of microaggression.
According to the Times, Councilmember Larry Gossett “said he didn’t like the idea of power-washing the sidewalks because it brought back images of the use of hoses against civil-rights activists.”
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28th July 2019
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27th July 2019
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25th July 2019
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I like him already.
“This is a Tory Cabinet from hell, which Donald Trump or Nigel Farage would be proud of — with members that want to scrap the Barnett formula, privatize the NHS, roll back workers’ rights, undo the welfare state, cut taxes for the rich, and even bring back the death penalty,” the Scottish National Party’s Pete Wishart said.
High praise indeed.
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25th July 2019
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Joy Behar wouldn’t know a veteran if one pissed on her leg, which I’m sure a number of them would volunteer to do.
Like me, for instance.
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23rd July 2019
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21st July 2019
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21st July 2019
Steve Hayward at Power Line does some fisking.
Not content to leave things well enough alone, The Nation decided to go into full clown mode with this Tweet and article.
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20th July 2019
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20th July 2019
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A former Democratic Florida House candidate admitted this week that she lied about treating dozens of victims of the June 12, 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting.
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20th July 2019
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Of all the Democratic Party press’s efforts to cover up the scandals surrounding Ilhan Omar, that of the New York Times is among the lamest. Linda Qiu purports to fact check the claim that Ilhan Omar was simultaneously married to two men, with one of those marriages–perhaps to her brother–being fraudulent.
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19th July 2019
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Here’s a working definition of an “MSNBC Republican:” one who is loath to say anything good about anyone associated with President Trump. Susan Del Percio gave a perfect illustration of the genre on today’s Morning Joe. Discussing President Trump’s disavowal of the “send her back” chant at his recent North Carolina rally, Del Percio said: “We hear—and I hate to give her any real credit—but we hear Ivanka Trump did say, did speak to her father, too, saying this was a bit too far.”
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18th July 2019
Steve Sailer.
The New York Times explains that while, technically, the Soviets lost the Moon Race, they still won the race that really matters, the Race Race to Inclusion in Space.
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18th July 2019
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18th July 2019
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On Wednesday morning, CNN’s New Day aired a panel featuring eight Republican women from the Dallas, Texas area. In the face of biased, manipulative questions, the women pushed back against the liberal media.
CNN anchor Randi Kaye asked the panel of women a series of pointed questions, ones designed to pressure them to denounce President Trump so that CNN could show its viewers that the President is losing support amongst female voters. Only, the women pushed back….
They ought to know better that to pull that stuff on Texans.
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16th July 2019
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16th July 2019
Ace of Spades is not impressed.
David French: Backwards Beliefs and Islamic Propaganda Didn’t Radicalize Ilhan Omar.
You Did.
David French is an ignorant fool. He represents the Platonic Ideal of the modern cucservative. The fact that he has a respected place at National Review tells you everything you need to know about the Washington Generals of politics.
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15th July 2019
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15th July 2019
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Back in May, CNN’s United Shades of America ran an episode which glorified a Washington-based Antifa chapter called the Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club (JBGC), describing them as the “good guy[s].” On Saturday, a member of that group was killed by police for attempting to burn down a migrant detention center in Tacoma, Washington while armed with a rifle and incendiary devices. But as of 4:00 p.m. EDT on Monday, CNN still have yet to inform viewers of that man’s affiliation with the organization they so highly praised.
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15th July 2019
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Aggregation fallacy. States don’t have bodies and can’t be obese. Individual people have bodies and can be obese, but there is nothing about where they live that controls their weight.
The complications associated with obesity are tragic and expensive and they have a direct effect on all consumers in a number of ways. Excess weight relative to one’s height is medically linked with early death, heart disease, diabetes, and practically all maladies. Across pretty much all cultures across the globe, obesity is associated with early death.
What ways? That ‘they have a direct effect on consumers in a number of ways’ is asserted but no evidence is presented.
If you are a consumer and obese, well, there’s an effect — but the alleged connection between obesity and consumer status is supported neither by evidence nor by argument.
I really hate these hair-on-fire articles that make great claims and never back them up. But people believe this shit.
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14th July 2019
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14th July 2019
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Yeah, in the same way that a child loves the present under the Christmas tree.
Funny how she never has anything good to say about this country that she supposedly love so much.
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13th July 2019
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12th July 2019
CNN Bashes Trump’s Citizenship Speech as ‘Nonsense’ on ‘White Identity’ to Please Fox News
Nets Educate Viewers on How to Evade Trump’s ICE Raids of ‘Fear’
Enraged Nicolle Wallace: Why Aren’t We Marching on Immigrant-Detention Facilities? Because you’re a fat-butted journalist whose idea of exercise is running her mouth.
CNN’s ‘Inside Politics’ Panel Declares Amy McGrath’s Kavanaugh Flip-Flop a ‘Disaster’
CNN en Español Anchor: Trump Voters Are Old People Who Have to Pee a Lot And we have a lot to pee on.
YAWN: Lefty Lithgow Reads From His Book of Anti-Trump Poetry Laugh while you can, monkey boy.
Jimmy Kimmel: ‘All the Worst People on the Internet’ Came to Trump’s Social Media Summit
Liberal News Outlets Panic over ‘Extremists’ at Trump Social Media Summit
‘View’ Hosts Obsess over Race, Trump with 2020 Dem Kamala Harris Meghan McCain needs to go on a diet.
Maryland and D.C. officials sue President Trump, alleging he’s violating the Constitution’s Foreign and Domestic Emoluments Clauses by maintaining an ownership interest in the Trump Organization while president. That “global business empire”—which includes the Trump International Hotel in D.C. (in which the president has a 76% interest), the Trump towers in Manhattan, and income from the international distribution of The Apprentice—provides him with millions of dollars from foreign and local governments. Fourth Circuit: Maryland and the District lack standing to bring this “extraordinary” suit against the president in either his official capacity or his individual capacity. (With some fun interlocutory appeal twists for those interested in such things.)
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12th July 2019
The Other McCain calls a time-out.
Ever since President Trump was elected, leftists have been pointing fingers at everyone and everything, screaming “white supremacist”!
It’s not just Republicans (“Fascists!”) and Trump (“Hitler!”) who have been targeted by this campaign of screeching hysteria. In their paranoid dementia, leftists now see “white supremacy” everywhere, as if they are surrounded by a continuous Klan rally. The Washington Post now sees “white supremacy” in children’s cartoons….
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11th July 2019
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11th July 2019
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Let’s here it for White Privilege for Lions.
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11th July 2019
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Not really a surprise, but a useful reminder.
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11th July 2019
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The “fact checkers” at Snopes.com are running to the defense of liberal Democrats again in a July 10 post headlined “Did Rep. Frederica Wilson Advocate Prosecuting People Who ‘Make Fun’ of Congress?”
The answer is yes. But David Mikkelson at Snopes insisted “context is key,” that conservative media outlets like the Washington Times and the Daily Wire skipped over how Wilson was responding to rude Facebook memes.
Snopes has gone from being reliable fact-checkers to being a reliable Voice of the Crust who will join the DemLegHump Media when necessary. Very sad.
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10th July 2019
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10th July 2019
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A spokesman for the Ministry of Truth, as you can tell by his first paragraph…
A one-size-fits-all internet was supposed to liberate the world. We underestimated the demand for information about how white nationalism is good and vaccines are bad.
… makes what will probably prove to be the Official Argument for censorship of the Internet.
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10th July 2019
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Perhaps re-education camps. Those are popular with the Left.
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9th July 2019
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9th July 2019
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NBC was so desperate to smear Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as a racist, that they searched his family ancestry for slave owners to make some sort of “point” as to why he didn’t support reparations. If that makes no sense to you, you’re not alone.
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9th July 2019
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Actually, no, it couldn’t. The courts will decide, as they always do, and there is no ‘crisis’ involved.
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8th July 2019
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8th July 2019
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Washington Post contributing columnist Steven Petrow used to write a regular column for the Style section called “Civilities” (even as he supported manner-shredders like Dan Savage) to explain the LGBTQ Revolution in all of its linguistic permutations. On Saturday, that exercise returned in a book review touting “A necessary guide to gender inclusivity.”
Have you noticed that its always a professor of some sort who comes up with this crap?
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8th July 2019
Audacious Epigone questions some assertions.
While I’m certainly no expert on white nationalism, I was aware of It’s okay to be white, NPCs, and clown world. These all made inroads into mainstream culture. I can’t recall ever seeing the Betsy Ross flag used in any such context, though.
Is the assertion nothing more than a blatant lie employed for the purposes of suppressing criticism of a radical request made by Kaepernick and granted by Nike?
Or, rather than reactive damage control, is this a test run for an aggressive escalation in the culture war unlike anything that has come before?
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