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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7th July 2019
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6th July 2019
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5th July 2019
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4th July 2019
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3rd July 2019
Read it.
I am not making this up.
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2nd July 2019
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2nd July 2019
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Gee, I wonder why.
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2nd July 2019
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Mainstream bioethics is often really just leftwing politics, masking as a field of objective expertise that seeks to influence society far beyond medical ethics and health care public policy. As an example, the other day I pointed out that leaders of the movement recently presumed to make the global-warming controversy a bioethics issue — which it isn’t.
‘Bioethicist’ is an occupation like ‘grief counselor’ that requires only a compulsion to tell other people what they ought to do.
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2nd July 2019
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I’m okay with that.
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1st July 2019
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1st July 2019
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According to the United Nations, everyone has the right to air conditioned comfort powered by magic.
And who could object to that?
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1st July 2019
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And yet presumably they still expect to be paid.
I’m waiting to see how they work that.
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30th June 2019
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30th June 2019
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And if you believe that one, he’ll tell you another one.
All socialists are delusional, Bernie is just more entertaining than most.
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29th June 2019
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28th June 2019
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28th June 2019
Bloomberg: White House Considers Capital Gains Tax Break That Would Benefit Wealthy
Name a ‘capital gains tax break’ that would NOT ‘benefit wealthy’. Go ahead. I’ll wait.
An honest headline, one for a NEWS organization, would have been ‘White House Considers Capital Gains Tax Break’. But that’s not the important part, for Bloomberg; the important part is the ‘Benefit Wealth’. They have to stick that in there so you’ll know that the White House is Contemplating Evil. The fact is that any ‘tax break’ is going to ‘benefit wealthy’, because wealthy people are the ones who are paying most of the taxes.
CNN: Trump considers bypassing Congress to cut capital gains tax on wealthy, report says
This is even more dishonest. They might as well have used the headline ‘The Latest Evil Thing Trump Is Going To Do’. The focus here is not on benefiting the wealthy, although that notion gets a drive-by, but what a low-live MF that Trump is.
Any cut in the capital gains tax won’t just benefit the wealthy, but anybody who pays capital gains, including Aunt Minnie in Kenosha who is depending on withdrawals from her IRA in order to fund her retirement. Certainly wealthy people will get a disproportionate benefit, but that’s because wealthy people have more money to invest — and they do invest it; they don’t just stick it in a cupboard somewhere — and so they pay most of the capital gains taxes.
But, again, the focus is on Trump, and any stick they can find to beat him with (even if they have to build it out of distortions) will do.
This sort of crap is why people rate ‘journalists’ below even Congress in trustworthiness.
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27th June 2019
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Ain’t no effort involved. They ARE socialist.
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27th June 2019
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Apparently we’ve reached the point in Wokeness that good music is being prepped as a target.
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27th June 2019
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The question he has to ask himself is: Why do they hate us?
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26th June 2019
The Latest Trump Accuser Is Acting Awfully Wacky On TV
Morning Joe Assumes Trump Is a Rapist, Skips Lack of Evidence
Trickle Down Theory: Powell Trashes Trump, Praises Himself
Christie’s Scathing Indictment of Trump Christie? Really?
Secret Service Detains Person Who Allegedly Spit On Eric Trump: Report
Megan Rapinoe Says She’s Not ‘Going To The F**king White House’ And the White House is the better for it.
Beto Says Trump ‘Responsible’ For Deaths Of Migrant Father And Daughter Which is, of course, a lie.
Morning Joe: Mueller Is ‘Good’ vs. Trump ‘Evil,’ Warnings on ‘Post-Mueller Depression’ What would they do if they didn’t have Trump to lie about?
It’s Trump’s fault that migrants die trying to cross the border?
CNN Sneers, ‘Triggered’ Trump Won’t ‘Take Personal Responsibility’ for Drowned Immigrants
Highlights Magazine Condemns Family Separation At The Border Even Though Trump Ended Policy In 2018 Can’t let truth stand in the way of the Narrative.
Whoopi: Trump Trying to Criminalize Homosexuality, Like in Iran Always knew she was an Islamophobe, with a name like Goldberg.
John Avlon: Huge Influx at the Border Is ‘Fundamentally a Trump Administration Policy’ I guess that’s why he keeps asking for a wall, the cunning devil.
Reddit ‘Quarantined’ Biggest Pro-Trump Forum
Sanders Says 2016 Election Was ‘Rigged,’ Claims He Would Have Beaten Trump
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25th June 2019
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Funny, I thought George Wallas was the Republican George Wallace.
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25th June 2019
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In a second day of bombshells from James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas, a leaked document reveals what appears to be members of Google’s “transparency and ethics” group calling prominent Jewish conservatives Ben Shapiro and Dennis Prager “Nazis,” along with Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson, who is not Jewish.
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25th June 2019
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25th June 2019
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Ooo! Ooo! Linked! Linked! Better watch out! It’s been — wait for it — linked!
These people make my ass tired.
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24th June 2019
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24th June 2019
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I’ll take the other side of that bet.
For one thing, I doubt that Gavin Newsom would recognize ‘hyper-masculinity’ if it peed on his leg — which it would probably do.
For another, I see no signs of ‘hyper-masculinity’ anywhere in the Republican party — more’s the pity.
For a third, no prediction of the coming demise of either the Republicans or Democrats — and there have been plenty of both during my lifetime — has ever come true. I suppose it’s possible, but the structure of our political system argues against it.
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24th June 2019
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The Washington Post put the December beheading of two young female Scandinavian hikers in Morocco on the front page with this strange headline: “In 2 brutal killings for Islam, a weapon for the far right.”
You can’t make this stuff up.
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24th June 2019
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Professor Umbrage wants you to just hand over your wallet and shut up.
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23rd June 2019
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22nd June 2019
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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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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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Funny how that works.
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15th June 2019
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