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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25th May 2019
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24th May 2019
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24th May 2019
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I think I qualify. Is there a cash prize?
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23rd May 2019
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23rd May 2019
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Unlike, oh, say, Democrats raising taxes and the minimum wage.
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22nd May 2019
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22nd May 2019
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Well, if he didn’t inhabit a criminal subculture, maybe that wouldn’t be a problem.
I think this says more about ‘Ice-T’ than Amazon. Just sayin’.
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21st May 2019
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21st May 2019
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21st May 2019
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It has been about a week since the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media (WGSPM) published a leaked internal document from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) investigation into an alleged chemical attack in Douma, Syria last year. The document, whose authenticity the OPCW has confirmed, contends that the official story which was used to justify an air strike by the US, UK and France about poison gas being dropped on civilians from Syrian government helicopters is scientifically implausible, saying “In summary, observations at the scene of the two locations, together with subsequent analysis, suggest that there is a higher probability that both cylinders were manually placed at those two locations rather than being delivered from aircraft.”
I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.
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21st May 2019
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I’m sure there were folks who thought that about Plessy v. Ferguson, too. It was ‘the law of the land’ for 58 years, then was thrown out by a unanimous Supreme Court.
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21st May 2019
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I guess the Middle Agea aren’t ‘woke’ enough for them.
None of these people would last a day in any environment other than this one.
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20th May 2019
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20th May 2019
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More embarrassing than Chelsea Clinton?
More embarrassing than Hunter Biden?
More embarrassing than Jesse Jackson Jr.?
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20th May 2019
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And a lot of it is ‘journalists’ mind-reading Trump and members of his administration — as if they could.
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