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So it was a ruse. The hysteria over the separation of illegal-alien asylum-seekers from their children (or their purported children) was in large part pretextual. The real target of rage was the Trump administration’s policy of prosecuting all illegal border-crossers for the federal misdemeanor of illegal entry.

Told ya so.

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Well, that’s socialism for you. Why is this a surprise?

Rich Lowry is upset.

Unfortunately, the arrested adolescents that he needs to reach aren’t going to read anything by Rich Lowry.

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The Demagogues are officially the Scofflaw Party as well as the Party of Hate.

Wanda Sykes Launches Vulgar Tirade Against Ivanka

MSNBC’s Mika Attacks Ivanka For Not Standing Up For Separated Families  How dare she disagree with us!

New York to Sue Trump for ‘Violating the Constitutional Rights’ of Families Separated at Border  I guess there’s a constitutional right to cross the border illegally. Who knew?

MSNBC Panel Compares Trump to Nero  Nero was better on the violin.

Liberal Media Thrilled By Time Magazine Cover Trashing Trump

Cynthia Nixon: I Wish Trump Would Sign ‘More Executive Orders Protecting All Of Us From Him’ [VIDEO]  How Nixonian.

MSNBC Analyst Wants Detention Centers To Be Renamed ‘Trump Hotels’  Or we could call them Obama-ramas (Former Obama Sec. Admits To Expanding Family Detention Centers)(Lawsuit Photos Reveal Inhumane Conditions For Migrant Children Held At Obama Detainment Facility).

Even Slate Can’t Defend Peter Fonda’s Hate

Media and Sad Twitter Addicts Spend Afternoon Obsessing Over Melania’s Jacket

White House misspells ‘separation’ on immigration executive order  It’s all they’ve got.

Trump pictured discussing migrant family separations with room full of white men  Why worry about fixing the problem when we can obsess over trifles?

Stephen Miller: Who is the Trump adviser credited with crafting the president’s ‘zero tolerance’ immigration policies?  How can we smear him? Let us count the ways….

Time Magazine cover shows Trump looking down on crying migrant toddler

MSNBC Guest: If You Support Trump’s Immigration Policies, You’re A Nazi  ‘You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.’

MSNBC’s Ari Melber Finds Guest to Say ‘Donald Trump is Pure Evil’  And, from their perspective, he is.

Rolling Stone Sees End of Democracy at Trump’s Duluth Rally  I see the end of democracy in Rolling Stone. Let’s trade.

Morning Joe: Did You Vote Trump? You’re a ‘Racist’ ‘Nazi’  When Joe hits puberty, it’s going to be a shock.

NBC News: “We” Have a Great Opportunity to Hurt Trump  There’s a giveaway.

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If I were a socialist, that’s the kind of socialist I would want to be.

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Your tax dollars at work.

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Sounds like a deliberate invasion to me.

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This is not making me like John McCain very much.

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“Trump,” says Pew, “is a bigger factor in midterm voting preferences—positive or negative—than any president in more than three decades.” Sixty-one percent of Democrats see their vote as a vote against President Trump. A majority of Republicans see theirs as votes for him. Taxes, immigration, trade, and foreign policy have been subsumed into a larger phenomenon: the Trump phenomenon. One’s vote is conditioned not by any particular macroeconomic or geopolitical issue. What matters is one’s attitude toward Trump.

Is that a good thing or a bad thing? In any event, it’s a thing.

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Wait a minute … I thought it was Trump who was supposed to be Hitler….

(For those who weren’t around back then and for whom history started when they hit school, I should like to point out that the last two Presidents who sent people to camps were Democrats — FDR and Wilson.)

There is nothing more entertaining than the DemLegHump Media trying to put Trump in a box, because he keeps appearing outside of the box.’Wait a minute — didn’t we have him in a box over here? What is he doing holding a pep rally over there?’

1. Meme: ‘He’s a misogynist! He hates women!’ Reality: Women appointed HHS and Education Secretaries, head of the CIA, Press Secretary, and important staff like Kellyanne Conway.
2. Meme: ‘He’s a racist! He hates black people!’ Reality: He invites black people to the White House, he kisses a black grandmother, he commutes the sentence of a black criminal who has apparently reformed, he pals around with Kanye West and Dennis Rodman.
3. Meme: ‘He’s a homophobe! He wants to stuff gays back in the closet!’ Reality: Nobody can find a single instance where Trump has shown hostility to homosexuals. All the evidence is that he doesn’t care one way or another.
4. Meme: ‘He’s Hitler! He wants to put brown people in CONCENTRATION CAMPS and break up their families’ Reality: Said people are criminals, and criminals are put in detention facilities that admittedly look like camps (except for, you know, the gas chambers and the ovens; they always forget about that part), but that’s what happens when you get a lot of ‘refugees’ and have no place to put them. When the Chattering Class objected to splitting up families, he said, ‘Okay, we’ll put them back together, even though that won’t survive the inevitable legal challenge.’ When did Hitler ever do that?

If he hates women, if he hate black people, if he hates gays, if he wants to put people in camps, he’s got a very odd way of showing it. If Trump is trying to be a dictator, somebody needs to tell Trump, because he obviously hasn’t gotten the memo. If Trump is trying to be Hitler, somebody needs to send him a book or something, because he keeps getting it wrong.

Or maybe….

Krispy Kreme. Just sayin’.

State Department ‘Concerned’ After Iranian Human Rights Lawyer Arrested In Iran

Suspects in Murder of Jaffa Christian Leader’s Widow: Her 18-year-old Daughter and Her Partner

‘Punish a Muslim Day’ letters suspect charged with soliciting murder

First all-female terror cell jailed over plot to attack British Museum

Merkel’s Leadership Threatened by Killings by Immigrants, Wrought by Open Borders

Battle for Hodeidah: Hundreds dead as Arab coalition takes international airport from Houthi rebels

Saudi Arabia soap opera showing liberal society prompts fury among hardliners

Saudi-led forces seize airport in Yemen city of Hodeidah

Eid truce between Afghan army and Taliban marred by deadly blast

Islamic State Bombs Holiday Gathering Of Taliban, Afghan Troops  It’s hard to tell the jihadists without a scorecard.

Car bomb in Afghanistan leaves at least 26 dead and threatens end to ceasefire

REPORT: Woman Crying ‘Allahu Akbar’ Stabs 2 In Southern France Supermarket

Dozens killed in Afghan suicide bombings despite Eid ‘ceasefire’  That trick never works.

Taliban to resume fighting as it ends first ceasefire in 17 years  What’s in all mean, Mr Natural? It don’t mean shit.

How climate change and scarce resources are pushing Muslim cattle herders and Christian farmers to the edge of civil war in Nigeria

Saudi coalition strikes Hodeidah port as UN tries to strike deal to control humanitarian supply  In other words, the U.N. is doing nothing of any value other than posturing.

Box Cutter Jihad in France

The Horrors of Honor Violence: Terrorism At Home

US-Backed Rebels Destroy Massive Cache Of ‘Chemical Courage’ Narcotics Fueling ISIS Forces In Syria  Allahu, like, Akbar, man….

Mysterious Airstrike Kills More Than 50 Pro-Regime Fighters In Syria

Israel Strikes Back At Gaza After Explosive Kite Attacks  More Israeli ‘war crimes’. ‘MOMMEE! Johnny hit me back!’

Hundreds of Afghans arrive in Kabul after Ramadan peace march through Taliban-held territory 

One dead, five wounded in Malmo shooting

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Thank you, minimum wage.

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But you have to remember that Trump has accomplished ABSOLUTELY NOTHING during his term in office.

Justy bear that in mind.

Absolutely nothing.

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Doesn’t surprise me.

I’m surprised the news business doesn’t create an award, similar to the Pulitzer, named after William Randolph Hearst, for Fakiest News.

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We really, really need more of these people in th U.S.

Really.

And we need to send them to San Francisco.

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This is progress.

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As Global News reports, the University of Toronto psychology professor’s suit alleges that faculty at Laurier defamed him when they dressed-down a teaching assistant for showing a video of Peterson debating gender-neutral pronouns with an opponent.

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But you have to remember that Trump has accomplished ABSOLUTELY NOTHING so far in office.

Just bear that in mind.

Absolutely nothing.

Rush Limbaugh had a lot of fun today doing a play-by-play on the most recent KiddeGate news. I do not binge-watch the news as Rush does — I have more important things to do, like folding my underwear, but it’s really the basis of his job — so I’m depending on his time-line, which I think justified.

We must begin with some background, a case called Flores consent degree from 1997 in which the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals (the most reversed appellate court in the U.S.) entered into a ” with the Clinton Justice Department whereby illegal immigrant children can’t be detained for more than 20 days. (‘Consent degrees’ are a species of collusion often used by Demagogue administrations to fix the law to be more to their liking. One of their pet activist groups will bring some bullshit suit against a law they don’t like, and the administration will give in and sign a ‘consent degree’ that puts a court’s stamp of approval on the twisted interpretation that they wanted all along.)

The Flores case is the grit in the oyster of immigration enforcement around which has accrued a proglodyte pearl of great price called ‘catch and release’, whereby the kids are held for some amount of time less than 20 days, and then released, and Since We Can’t Separate Families, the parents are released as well with a little notice of when the court date for their asylum case will be. They murmur gracias, señor, and snigger on their way to meet the folks from La Raza, who hand them a map to the nearest Sanctuary City with a hearty Bienvenido a Los Estados Unidos, and nobody in the government ever sees them again — unless they are picked up in a sweep for illegal immigrant workers, such as happened recently in Ohio, or they’re arrested for a serious crime (maybe).

This is the background for all of the pressure on Trump. The Chattering Class figured that if they could win on the Keep Families Together front, then catch-and-release would go back into effect that the border would continue to drip future Demagogue Party voters.

Trump, however, has done one of his political judo moves again. He let the pressure build up until he judged it the right time to jerk open the door that they’re all piling against by signing this Executive Order that the families be, hey, kept together. For about a half an hour the Chattering Class went through their little victory lap until some bright boy actually read the document and discovered that it didn’t reinstate catch-and-release: Sure, they families will stay together in detention. Oh, then came the wailing and gnashing of teeth (Dems Get What They Want, Are Still Outraged) as the Chattering Class was forced to admit that there was indeed a legal bump in the road (Flores) and that what they had been screaming for all along would not, in fact, come to pass — As soon as the ACLU or its equivalent can get before a Federal court, this Executive Order is going to get thrown out. And there will stand Trump with his hands out, saying ‘Hey, I gave you what you wanted, and guess what? It’s against the law, just as I told you it was?’

So now we’re back to the status quo ante and all they can do is bluster, having been stripped naked of the conceit that It’s For The Children. Everyone will realize that it’s not for The Children at all; it’s just about pummeling Trump.

What the next step in this dance will be I don’t know; I’m not a political judo-master like Trump. But I’m sure it will be entertaining. Pass the popcorn.

Rosie O’Donnell, Celebs Continue To Slam Trump Following Executive Order To Keep Families Together On Border  Proof that it was never about the border, and always about finding another way to bash Trump.

Trump adviser Stephen Miller ‘called a fascist in Mexican restaurant by fellow customer’, amid anger over separated children  This is God telling you not to eat Mexican food.

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It only remains for me to point out that a sea-level rise of .6mm per year means 6mm per century.

6mm is about a quarter of an inch. I wouldn’t start packing the BugOutBag quite yet.

Wake me when seaside property prices in California and Florida start going down.

Audacious Epigone departs from his usual number crunching to wax delightfully dyspeptic.

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Everything is political these days, sometimes for not being political enough.

The Professor’s main complaint is that there isn’t enough Magical Progressive Thinking in math.

I can see where a Crustian would have a problem with that. All of those Right Answers, and no room to fudge things for Fashionable Victim groups.

Top Senate Democrat Shoots Down Cruz’s Proposal to End the Family Separation Democrats and the Media Supposedly Care So Much About, In Order to “Keep the Focus on Trump”  Demonstrating that this is all political posturing.

Sen. Warren Dodges Congressional Responsibility Question, Instead Blames Trump

Immigration tensions boil over as Dems accost Trump, intern curses at president  The Party of Hate in action.

Congressional Intern Allegedly Yells ‘F*ck You!’ At President Trump  I love that ‘allegedly’.

New York to sue Trump administration over ‘callous and inhumane’ family separations  I don’t think you can sue the government for enforcing the law. But I could be wrong, these days.

Trump confidant accused of mocking story of Down’s syndrome girl taken from mother at border  Apparently the straight Narrative is not working so they need to embroider it.

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow cries on air as she reports migrant children being sent to ‘tender age’ shelters  And if you think that was an accident, or spontaneous, you’re her target demographic.

Pundits, Activists Celebrate Harassment Of Female DHS Secretary  The Party of Hate has a party. (I always eat at Chick-fil-a because I know I’m safe from proglodytes there.)

Bruce Springsteen condemns Trump’s ‘inhumane’ US border policy during Broadway show  Gotta signal that virtue, even if it interrupts the show.

Has-Been Actor Peter Fonda Flips Out: ‘Rip Barron Trump From His Mother’s Arms!’  The Party of Hate gets even more unhinged. (Of course, anyone saying this about one of Obama’s kids would be in jail now.)

Obama Rips Trump On Family Separation, Forgets His Own Record

George And Amal Clooney Blasts Policy Of Separating Kids At Border With Massive Donation  Signal that virtue! Signal that virtue! Rah! Rah!

Trudeau Says Trump Is ‘Wrong’ To Separate Child Migrants — But Canada Does Too  Signal that virtue! Signal that virtue!

Former Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham on Trump: ‘As If George Wallace Had Won in 1968’  I wish they’d make up their minds. Is he Hitler? Is he George Wallace? Is he Darth Vader? Who is that masked man?

Media Unsatisfied By Trump Executive Order On Family Separations  Of course not. It’s not about the kids. It’s never been about the kids. It’s about bashing Trump.

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Anybody still fooled into thinking that Bloomberg was a Republican for any other purpose than to get elected Mayor more easily ought now to be fully ‘woke’.

Just because somebody claims to be a Republican, it ain’t necessarily so.

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Third World problem?

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From 1996 through 2016, just under half of all aliens who were set free pending a trial date—1.25 million in total—were ordered removed, i.e. deported. Of that number, 952,291 were removed for evading court. Less than a quarter of this same group actually appeared in court. Over the span of more than two decades of court business, nearly two-fifths (37 percent) of those who were let free before their trial ended up fleeing court.

Since 1996, an average of 45,000 migrants each year disappeared, adding to a backlog of unexecuted removal orders that in 2016 numbered 954,000. If predictions are correct, nearly 57,000 people will evade their hearings in 2018 and bring the 23-year failure-to-appear total to 1.05 million—that’s 9.3 percent of the illegal population in the U.S. as measured by a 2017 Pew Research Center study.

It is here that damage to the courts, immigration enforcement, and national security intersect.

Steve Hayward points out that there is nothing new under the sun.

Watching the collective media and political class freak out over the “crisis” of immigration enforcement at the border sent me to my bookshelf to dust off Daniel Boorstin’s classic 1961 book, The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America. Step back for a moment from the whack-a-mole problem of sorting out fact from fiction in this current drama; the way this is playing out is a perfect case study in what Boorstin had in mind.

Boorstin defines a “pseudo-event” as not merely a fact or real event that happened, but a fact or event that is made into “news” of a certain kind by a deliberate and artificial process. You might think of Boorstin’s analysis as no more than the Deep Theory of Public Relations (or as the first analysis of what we today like to call “fake news”), and many of the examples in the book come from the corporate world. Here is some of his description of the dynamics of a “pseudo-event” —see how many aspects of this you can make out in the present controversy…

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Wait for it: “The strategist worked for John McCain and George W Bush.”

You knew that was coming, didn’t you?

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As predicted, the inevitable reaction to proglodyte subversion has gotten its act together and is taking it on the road, so to speak.

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The story began a couple of weeks ago, with a remorselessly probing piece of investigative journalism by Devra Furst. As the Globe’s restaurant critic, Furst had been working on the story for years. On June 13th, she broke the news that the club sandwich might be ‘the perfect American food’. In a changing world, the club sandwich’s recipe has been stable since 1902. After extensive research, Furst wiped the mayo from her lips, took an antacid, and confirmed that the club sandwich remains ‘the best choice’ when it comes to room service, a poolside snack, or the consolations of the diner.

Or not. This week, the Globe carried a letter alleging that the club sandwich is ‘rooted in white male privilege’, and that Furst’s encomium proved ‘the power of the patriarchal establishment in the United States’. The author, Anastasia Nicolaou, holds a master of liberal arts in gastronomy from Boston University, with a side order of Professional Certification in Cheese Studies. You can’t argue with an expert.

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The Left thinks that they can indulge in any kind of hateful behavior but their targets have to just grin and bear it.

Sauce for the goose….

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Sam Lavigne, a far-left artist and game designer, is an adjunct professor at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He created a database of 1,595 ICE employees using their LinkedIn profiles and shared it to his 3,600 followers on Twitter Tuesday morning.

Prediction: Nobody will get fired, nobody will go to jail.

One of these days one of these trolls will trigger the wrong person and get his head blown off. And then there will be a wailing and a gnashing of teeth….

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Priyamvada Gopal says she repeatedly asked porters to address her as ‘Dr Gopal’ instead of ‘madam’.

Oh, yeah, that’s ‘racist abuse’ all right.

Priyamvada Gopal said she would stop tutoring students at the institution in protest of being subject to “consistently racist profiling and aggression by porters” at the college over the years.

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Unfortunately for the Cultural Marxists, Buckingham Palace gives even fewer shits about that than Donald Trump.

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This underscores the essentially religious nature of Cultural Marxism. Just because a Nazi said something doesn’t ipso facto make it wrong — but, from the religious perspective, one can’t go around quoting Satan or one of his Dark Angels  (and everybody not on the Good Side is a minion of Satan, by definition).

In any event, the sentiment expressed in the quotation is contrary to the normal operating procedure of the Left: They are only too glad to ignore important things in order to focus on trifles.

The saddest aspect of the situation is that a University staff member didn’t know who Erwin Rommel was.

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I guess being ‘woke’ depends on whose pocket is being picked.

Pass the popcorn.

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But you have to remember that Donald Trump has accomplished ABSOLUTELY NOTHING during his term in office.

Just bear that in mind.

Absolutely nothing.

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Own Damned Fault for eating Third World food.

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Why they think they need this when they have CNN and MSNBC and ABC and CBS and NBC is a mystery.

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It is an unfortunate fact that we are now in our second generation of black people who have been raised to believe that anything they don’t like about their lives is the fault of white people — not specific white people, but all white people.

This cannot end well.

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The problem ain’t what they know, it’s what they know that ain’t so.

And yet: If it were a hammer-and-sickle? No problem, I suspect.

UPDATE: John Hinderaker, in Desperately Seeking Supremacists, has some thoughts:

An obvious question is, what on God’s green Earth would cause anyone to think that the vaguely cross-like symbol on Gaertner’s elbow is a Nazi or white supremacist sign? Only a person far gone in hatred for ICE employees would leap to such an irrational conclusion.

Part of the story, I think, is that the Left is hard up for white supremacists. Liberals talk about them all the time, but to the best of my knowledge, I have never met one. Have you? Liberals need to come up with someone other than Richard Spencer; hence the eagerness to libel a heroic ICE employee.

Lavin made her Twitter account private after the falsity of her smear was revealed, and the New Yorker appears to be throwing her under the bus….

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Anybody in doubt about Wikipedia’s proglodyte bias ought now to be disabused.

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And the Blame America First crowd is alive and well … on CNN.