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You can’t say that Chuck Schumer doesn’t have a sense of humor.

I’ll bet Trump laughed so hard he stopped breathing.

I understand that Senator McConnell, in response, tweeting a video of Michael Jordan laughing until he cried.

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I’m not sure that Methodists even qualify as Christian any more. Perhaps they ought to just join the Unitarian Universalists and be done with it.

Vermont appears to be doing its best to pretend to be a part of Canada. Perhaps we ought to assist in that effort.

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Sometimes the system works.

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Of Zimbabwe, certainly, and maybe South Africa.

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Well, he’s certainly off to a good start.

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They seemed pretty straightforward to me. Were they translated from the Ebonic or something?

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Hey, it might work. It’s all in how you ‘identify’.

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Of course they are. All it takes is for some woman in a burqa to come in and say, ‘You’re discriminating against us because we are Muslim! You are racists! Just wait until I get to the newspaper!’ and they immediately cave; this process is explained at great length in Tom Wolfe’s essay ‘Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers’, which I heartily recommend.

The U.S. is doing the same thing, except that it’s harder to ferret out.

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You thought that you left high school behind, but, sad to say, they didn’t; they just went into ‘journalism’.

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Facebook is a product of the brain of Mark Zuckerberg, and Mark Zuckerberg is a nerd who was socially formed by Social Justice Warriors all his life. The vast majority of the people who work for Facebook are exactly the same sort of person. So they see nothing wrong with such bias; that’s just normality, to them.

If you offered Zuckerberg a policy that said ‘Free speech except for bigots’, he’d sign off on it in a heartbeat.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

UPDATE: Facebook finds Declaration of Independence ‘racist’

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I haven’t tried this so I don’t know how well it works, but if it does work, it would be a useful thing.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

Yet another reason why I don’t fly.

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Check your horse privilege.

Max Boot fully turns his coat and shows his Crustian colors.

Not a great loss.

One of the most useful things about the Trump victory is that it has flushed out a number of pretend Republicans who merely affiliated with the party because it was a smaller pond and made their chances of being a big frog marginally better. (Yeah, I’m lookin’ at you, Bloomberg.)

They were always just hangers-on of the Chattering Class who could switch jerseys overnight and nobody would blink an eye.

Like Boot.

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According to the revisionists at Vox, a USA in which the Continental Army was crushed and George Washington defeated would have been more like Canada, would have passed stronger climate laws.

So we actually dodged a bullet. Whew!

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When President Trump pulled the US out of the Paris Climate Agreement, he also pulled us out of paying any additional money to the so-called “Green Climate Fund” (GCF). Sorry, no more green for the greenies’ fund. This is the fund which has been given $7.2 billion dollars of taxpayer money from a variety of countries. It is the fund that countries around the world have been pushing hard to get their hands on. It is also the fund that was supposed to be given $100 billion, so they could parcel it out for corrupt third world politicians and greedy UN rent-seekers to swim around in for decades … dream on.

You’d think that the ankle- biters would take a day off but you’d be wrong.

NY Daily News Calls Trump A ‘Clown Who Plays King’ On July Fourth Cover

Pro-Immigrant Ad Uses Reagan And Targets Trump — But The First Four Words Step All Over Its Own Argument

MSNBC Guest: Trump’s SCOTUS Pick Will Jail Women For Miscarriages  Where do they find these insane people?

Why Trump Derangement Syndrome is so Strong  Scott Adams. Give a listen.

Trump boasted about writing many books – his ghostwriter says otherwise  Of course, nobody complained about the ghostwritten books from Obama or the Clintons.

Donald Trump banned from Sheffield by city’s lord mayor  I’m sure he’s losing sleep over it. (‘Sheffield? Where’s that?’)

The incredible silliness of Britain’s Stop Trump movement 

MSNBC Blames Trump for Detention of Asylum Seeker Jailed by Obama  What a surprise.

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For their article How to Fix What Has Gone Wrong With the Internet, magazine The Economist features, well, a healthy sample of what has gone wrong with the Internet, including a paywall, intrusive popup ad, clickbait headlines in a sidebar, and a bottom-slider plea to subscribe to their ‘newsletter’.

Very efficient. You don’t even need to read the article.

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Wow, that ban on guns has really reduced crime and violence, hasn’t it?

It has certainly reduced victim capacity to resist it.

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He’s certainly as qualified as Hillary.

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I give him 30 days, tops.

They could bury him under a mountain of dollar bills. That would be amusing, as well as ironic.

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Scientists have been searching for a way to polymerize lignin for over a century. This could be it.

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Ali Watkins, the journalist who did some of her best reporting in bed, has been “demoted,” not fired, by the New York Times. The Times announced that Watkins will be exiled from the paper’s Washington D.C. to . . .New York City.

A fate worse than death. The Crust take care of their own.

Watkins had a romantic relationship with James Wolfe, the former head of security for the Senate Intelligence Committee. Wolfe was indicted last month for making false statements to the FBI about his contacts with Watkins. The FBI was investigating leaks from the Intelligence Committee.

As security chief for that committee, Wolfe was privy to plenty of newsy secrets. Watkins, who is now 26 years old, shot up the journalism chain-of-being by breaking big news stories about the Intelligence Committee during the time she was romantically involved with Wolfe. The FBI wanted to know whether Watkins’ knowledge of those secrets came from Wolfe. It seems obvious that at least some of them did.

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

Had they been Republicans they’d have long since appeared on the Evening News doing the perp walk.

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Yeah, nothing says ‘inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness’ like killing unborn babies.

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The basic problem with the Demagogue Party is that they never have anything good to say about America. Their constant message is ‘America sucks, and it will always suck, but under us it will suck a bit less, maybe.’ There is always an OMG emergency, somewhere, the sky is always falling, somewhere, and we all need to do something about it right now, somehow.

I apologize ahead of time for Noticing, but to me the Chairman of the DNC looks like an illegal alien.

UPDATE: Why Do Democrats Hate America?

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In a move that is alarming San Francisco’s biggest industry, a major medical association is pulling its annual convention out of the city — saying its members no longer feel safe.

“It’s the first time that we have had an out-and-out cancellation over the issue, and this is a group that has been coming here every three or four years since the 1980s,” said Joe D’Alessandro, president and CEO of S.F. Travel, the city’s convention bureau.

California, especially in its coastal cities, is descending into a stratified society that consists of an extremely affluent upper class and a poor squalid underclass full of street people, drug addicts, and crazies. This is not, of course, what hipsters mean when they talk of ‘vibrant street life’, but this is what Blue State socialism gets you.

Freeberg wants to know.

It would make me happy if today, just as a mental exercise, my fellow Americans imagined someone from a poor, undeveloped country addressed them directly and asked this:

What’s up with all these Americans acting like they’re oppressed? Or, “speaking out” on behalf of other Americans they feel like were oppressed. Why is it that so many Americans are under the impression so many OTHER Americans are somehow victims…when you guys have so much food? Could you please help me understand?

You know how to answer this question? I don’t.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

Steve Sailer peers ahead.

We are constantly told that Central Americans are flocking to America to “escape violence.” Yet in Mexico the vast increase in criminal violence since 2006 has coincided with a lower level of emigration to the U.S., probably because the Mexican economy prospers from the drug trade. On the other hand, if disorder continues to spread in Mexico, the economy might well be hurt, which would make mass migrations to a once-again prospering America more likely.

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The main rule of Mexican politics since the late 1920s is no Presidents-for-Life. The winning generals of the Mexican Revolution of a century ago kept assassinating one another in their peacetime struggle for supreme power, so in 1929 Plutarco Elías Calles founded the oxymoronically entitled Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to cartelize rule via a strict term limit of one six-year presidential term. Under the vaguely left-of-center syndicalist PRI, there was to be no need to murder your rivals: If you live long enough, your faction would get its time at the trough.

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There are an increasing number of cases of Selfie Suicide these days.

Think of it as evolution in action.

ZMan is properly dyspeptic this Independence Day.

Patriotism, properly understood, is a loyalty to the citizens who came before you. The emotional draw is gratitude for what they bequeathed. That implies a duty to preserve it for the next generation. If citizenship is just a meaningless transaction, then those citizens who came before us are no more important than the next guy who wanders over the border. Put another way, according to our rulers, our ancestors are strangers and so are our decedents. What possible reason would anyone have to be loyal to strangers?

It’s actually worse than that. The reason America is descending into a transactional land of strangers is that our ancestors decided to piss it all away. Why should anyone feel loyalty to the people who pushed through the 1986 immigration act? Why should we want to preserve what they passed onto us? If anything, we should take this day to dig up their bones and smash them to bits on the capital mall. That sounds harsh, but is there anything more monstrous than denying your decedents a chance to live the life you lived?

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Looks as if the Danes are waking up, too.

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One of the key aspects of Cultural Marxist is the hunt for internal enemies, ‘deviationists’ and ‘revisionists’ and people who might not be as extreme as they ought to be. The great purges in Russia in the 1930s are an example of this tendency exploding out of control, as is the Cultural Revolution in China forty years later.

All radical regimes are subject to this tendency, from the Terror in revolutionary France to the witch trials and heresy trials held by the Puritans in colonial New England.

When this frenzy takes hold, the only way to stay ahead of the forest fire is to start a backfire, i.e. be quicker to denounce your neighbor than your neighbor is to denounce you. Sometimes this works; sometimes it does not, as Yagoda found out.

We may be seeing the first drip-drip-drips of this process in the ranks of proglodyte America.

Typically it does not end well.

SI Interview: Martina Navratilova Slams Trump, Pence for Making America Hateful Again  I guess the memory of her being granted asylum in 1975 from the Communist Czech regime has worn off. Well, she’s welcome to go back. Don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out, Martina.

Woman Walks Up To EPA’s Scott Pruitt While Eating At A Restaurant, Tells Him To Resign  Hey, how about you eat your meal and let him eat his? It’s called manners. Feel free to look it up.

Tucker Calls Out Palestinian Activist Who Says Trump, SCOTUS Are White Supremacists  Let’s here it for those disgusting White Supremacists Clarence Thomas and Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

Cuomo Suggests Trump Refused to Lower Flags Because He Hates the Press  And who could blame him? But it’s more likely that he just hates Cuomo. (And who could blame him?)

CNN’s Chris Cuomo Slams Trump For Not Lowering Flags After Capital Gazette Shooting [VIDEO]

Trump To Lower Flags To Half-Staff After Capital Gazette Shooting  Cuomo needs to do something about his premature ejaculation problem.

Trump Supporters Boycott Walmart Over ‘Impeach 45’ Clothing   Sauce for the goose…. UPDATE: Walmart Removes Impeach Trump Merchandise From Marketplace After Outrage

Donald Trump declines request to lower flags for Capital Gazette shooting victims, says Annapolis mayor  These guys need to get their story straight.

MSNBC Guests Offer Glowing Defense of Incivility, Maxine Waters

CNN Meltdown Over Supreme Court Pick: ‘Trump the Destroyer’

Deranged Creaky Lunatic Dan Rather Claims LeBron James Chose to Join the LA Lakers Because That City Was More Anti-Trump Than Others

Tom Smith has it right.

The way to stop discriminating on race is to stop discriminating on race.

“Holistic admissions” is an admissions process that is sufficiently subjective, complex and unrepeatable that one can discriminate on the basis of race or anything else (prep school LAX, celebrity parents, etc., etc.), and no one will be able to prove it.

The Crust loves to be able to fudge things so that they can say one thing and do another, which always seems to benefit them rather than their Fashionable Victim Groups.

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He says that like it’s a bad thing.

He’d be perfectly alright with a ‘brazen’ progressive majority on the Supreme Court, of course.

Dude, you lost. When you lose, bad things happen. Get over it.

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At least there they’ll be safe from proglodyte anti-Christian vandals.

Diane Feinstein, for example.

I’m very happy I left the Catholic Church before it became communist.

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Not really news, but a useful reminder.

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The brownshirts of the Left are on the march.

And yet Trump is supposedly the New Hitler.

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There’s a surprise….

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The brownshirts of the Left are on the march.

And yet Trump is supposedly the New Hitler.

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Well, that’s ‘environmentalism’ for you.

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I think that takes the ‘identifies as black’ business too far.

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And the brownshirts of the Left are on the march.

Yet somehow Trump is the New Hitler.

Read it. And watch the video.

Monday on FNC’s Tucker Carlson Tonight, a former liberal who started a campaign to help disenfranchised liberals leave the Democratic Party appeared as a special guest. Brandon Straka was a member of the Democratic Party, voting for Hillary in 2016. However, Staka explained that even before the election he started to have some misgivings about the direction the left was taking. He disagreed with the focus on identity politics, as well as political correctness.

Welcome to our world, Brandon. If it’s any consolation, we have the best barbecue.

Hillary Clinton goes on a fact-finding visit to Israel. While she is on a tour of Jerusalem she suffers a heart attack and dies.The undertaker tells the Americans accompanying her, ‘You can have her shipped home for $50,000, or you can bury her here, in the Holy Land for just $100’.

The Americans go into a corner to discuss for a few minutes. They return with their answer to the undertaker and tell him they want Hillary shipped home.

The undertaker is puzzled and asks, ‘Why would you spend $50,000 to ship her home, when it would be wonderful to be buried here and you would spend only $100? The American diplomats reply, ‘Long ago a man died here, was buried here, and three days later he rose from the dead. We just can’t take that risk.’

With thanks to the Ace of Spades, who is always worth reading.