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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

24th July 2018

ABC, NBC Decry Trump Revoking Security Clearances from Obama Spooks

CNN: Removing Our Employee’s Clearance a ‘National Security Threat’

Democrats: Treason!! Voters: Ho Hum

Fox News mistakenly books Democrat who then lambasts Trump immigration policy  Oops.

Study: TV’s War Against Trump’s Immigration Enforcement Agenda

Alan Dershowitz Destroys Michael Avenatti’s Theory Of A Trump Resignation: ‘It’s Total Nonsense’

Jeffrey Sachs: “Trump is taking US down the path to tyranny”… Because Paris Climate Agreement

Denver Post Runs Letter To Editor Suggesting Trump’s Death Sentence For Treason  I suspect they’re for it.

Conservative Guest On MSNBC: Trump Has Made The Party ‘Dumber, Crueler, More Dishonest’ “Sykes, a self-identified conservative,…” which tells you that he isn’t really a conservative, but just plays one on TV.

This News Anchor Calls President Trump the ‘Worst Ruler in History’  Because that’s a news anchor’s job.

CNN: Iran Is More Stable and Rational Than Trump  Aside from that whole ‘Death to America!’ mob scene.

GMA Blasts ‘Shameful’ Trump ‘Punishing’ His Critics by Revoking Security Clearances  Yeah. If he were a Democrat, he’d do the traditional thing and sick the IRS on them. (Lois Lerner, call your former office.)

CNN’s John Avlon Alleges White House Cover Up To Distract From Trump-Putin Meeting  All Trump has to do is tweet and the media follow like a dog after a squirrel. Who needs a ‘coverup’?

Gov. Cuomo: Trump Is Waging ‘Jihad’ On Illegal Immigrants  Well, that ought to make Democrats more comfortable with him.

Warren: Trump Wants To Set ‘Black Working People Against White Working People’  First you have to find some black working people. Good luck with that. Trumps message to black working people is ‘You’ve been voting for Democrats for fifty years and what has it gotten you? Squat, that’s what.’ A powerful message.

Federal Judge Gives Green Light To Lawsuit Against Trump’s ‘Racist’ Cancellation Of TPS  Which will go nowhere, except to waste a lot of money, as all such lawsuits do.

Ryan Says Trump Is Just ‘Trolling People’ Over Revoking Intel Security Clearances  That’s the thing about Trump: You can never tell. Scott Adams calls this ‘shaking the box’.

Joe Scarborough Tries To Spread Chinese Conspiracy Theory Involving Ivanka Trump  Scraaaape that barrel….

Mike Huckabee Slams Former CIA Director John Brennan For Accusing Trump Of Treason

NBC Journalist: Trump Administration Is ‘Ripping Apart the Fabric of Society’

Joy Behar: Trump Wants To Take Away Brennan’s Security Clearance Because He ‘Is Afraid Of Any Kind Of Criticism’  Yeah, Trump sure looks afraid to me. Joy, you need to get out more.

Sen. Cory Booker Accuses Anyone Supporting Kavanaugh Of Being ‘Complicit’ In ‘Evil’  Yeah, well, New Jersey.

 

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CNN Anchor Fareed Zakaria’s Wife Files for Divorce

24th July 2018

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Yeah, Fareed’s been an insufferable asshole since he was at Yale. I’m surprised he found a woman that would actually marry him. (Perhaps he had to have one kidnapped for him in Pakistan.)

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American ISIS Fighter Captured in Syria Faces Federal Terrorism Charges

24th July 2018

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I’d be happier if he faced a rope.

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Fines Meant to Help Enforce Laws Hit Low-Income Workers the Hardest

24th July 2018

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They could always, like, you know, obey the law. (Wait, what am I saying….)

We could return to whipping people for minor infractions. That worked for a long time.

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Residents Are Worried A Solar Array Could HURT the Environment

24th July 2018

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Nothing is so good that somebody won’t worry about it being bad.

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News Director Shot to Death at Mexican Beach Resort Less Than a Month After Reporter at the Same Outlet

24th July 2018

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Yeah, we really need more of those people in this country.

I guess the opportunity to pop a gringo is what makes it a resort (for the Mexicans).

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The Experts Have Been Wrong About Lots of Things. Here’s a Sampling.

24th July 2018

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Funny thing about that, most of them showed up on TV.

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Salon Doubles Down on Sarah Sanders Rumor

24th July 2018

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If they clap hard enough, maybe Tinkerbelle will recover.

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#StopFascistHelicopterMoms

24th July 2018

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Starting in August, anyone with access to a 3D printer can yet again download the blueprints to print their own firearms at home. In response, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America launched an online campaign to “#StopDownloadableGuns.”

The gun-grabbers would if they could, and the government would back them up, but that trick didn’t work. Adding a bunch of do-it-our-way ‘moms’ isn’t going to have any effect other than to vent some spleens.

The anti-gun group’s link also asserted that the availability of the blueprints “would enable terrorists, convicted felons, and domestic abusers to download schematics online and print their own illegal and untraceable guns.”

Criminals don’t have the time for that, any more than they’ve got time (or brains) to build their own getaway cars. As  with vehicles, they buy them from friends or fences, or steal them.

The Moms Demand Action post links to a Everytown for Gun Safety petition to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to “stop the release of downloadable files that will allow people, including convicted felons and terrorists, to make untraceable guns on their 3D printers.”

Well, to begin with, that’s not in the job description of the Secretary of State. They might want to try the Secretary of Defense or the Attorney General. From what I know of all three of these men, they’re just wasting their time and getting some Virtue-Signalling Pokemon Points — which I suspect is the point.

In 2013, Wilson was told by the State Department’s Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance to take the blueprints for his “Liberator” gun offline. In 2015, Wilson sued the government.

According to CNN, the settlement states Wilson can yet again post his blueprints online.

So they’re asking the State Department to do something that has already lost in the courts. Like most proglodytes, they keep wishing until it becomes true, I guess.

I can make a gun out of a piece of pipe, a spring, and a nail. It’s called a ‘zip gun’ and has been used by gangs since before World War II. These ‘moms’ need to get out more.

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How Liberal Housing Policies Made San Francisco Unaffordable for All but the Rich

24th July 2018

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A study from the Bay Area Council, a public policy organization, found that 46 percent of San Francisco residents have plans to move out of the area, a jump of 12 percent since 2016. Of those who participated in the survey, 61 percent said they planned to leave the state, with Texas being a primary destination.

 

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Radical Feminist Exposes #TransCult

24th July 2018

The Other McCain in on the case.

It is difficult to exaggerate how radical Natasha Chart’s feminism is. She is chairwoman of the board of Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF), an organization that originated in Deep Green Resistance, which is just about as far left as you can go (without moving to Pyongyang).

It is therefore highly significant that Chart has joined the Hands Across the Aisle coalition, an effort to unite women across ideological boundaries in opposition to The Transgender Cult.

In a must-read article at The Federalist, Chart describes the harassment feminists have endured — including violence and bomb threats — for daring to dissent from transgender ideology….

Scorecards! Getcher scorecards here! Ya can’t tell the victims without a scorecard!

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Postmen Told They Are No Longer Allowed to Collect Letters After Post Box Was ‘Swallowed’ by a Tree

24th July 2018

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Don’t often see that happen.

I’ve lived in cities whose city government was that lazy.

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U.S. Appeals Court: Constitution Gives Right to Carry Gun in Public

24th July 2018

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The ruling issued by a three-judge panel on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, based in San Francisco, came a year after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to rule either way on the carrying of guns in public.

The 9th Circuit is the most left-leaning appellate court in the U.S. Not coincidentally, it is the most reversed appellate court in the U.S.

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VOTE on The Dumbest Thing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Has Ever Said

24th July 2018

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What to choose, what to choose….

Just to help out: The Ocasio-Cortez Highlight Reel

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No Charges Filed Against Pipeline Protesters Who Caused Millions of Dollars in Damage

24th July 2018

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The Crust takes care of its own. None of its rent-a-mob need fear jail time or fines.

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North Korea reportedly dismantling key launching site, Sohae Satellite Launching Station

24th July 2018

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But just remember that Trump has accomplished ABSOLUTELY NOTHING during his term in office.

Just remember that.

Absolutely nothing.

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Inflation In Venezuela on Track to Reach 1 Million Percent in 2018

24th July 2018

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Socialism has that effect. Just watch Zimbabwe. And South Africa appears to be getting into the ring, as well.

UPDATE: Meghan McCain Explains Democratic Socialism: ‘Name One Country’ That Has Successfully Used Socialism

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Professors Association Condemns Free Speech Legislation, Says It’s a ‘Political Agenda’

24th July 2018

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Yup, free speech is totally a political agenda, and professors just aren’t having it.

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Kansas City Star: Businesses Tied to McCaskill’s Husband Have Received $131 Million From Federal Government

24th July 2018

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Being a Democrat elected official can be very profitable. Ask Nancy Pelosi.

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South Korea Considering Pulling Troops Away From The DMZ In Preparation For A Possible Full Withdrawal

24th July 2018

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

Just remember that.

Absolutely nothing.

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Which One Is the Comedian?

24th July 2018

We report, you decide.

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Thought for the Day

24th July 2018

Pearls Before Swine for Jul 18, 2018 Comic Strip

Welcome to my world.

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Israel Shoots Down Syrian Fighter Jet

24th July 2018

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Two Patriot missiles were fired at a Syrian Russian-made Sukhoi jet on Tuesday after it was monitored flying around two kilometres (1.25 miles) into Israel, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said in a statement.

You’d think they would have learned that lesson by now.

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New Yorkers Trying to Flee High State Taxes Find Moving Isn’t So Easy

24th July 2018

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Hah! Suffer, you swine.

Any days without proof can be counted as a day in New York, and even a second inside the state’s borders can count as a whole day.

It can certainly seem like it.

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Tesla’s Driver Fatality Rate Is More Than Triple That of Luxury Cars

24th July 2018

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And you can’t pretend the smug assholes don’t deserve it.

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North Korea ‘Dismantling Missile Site’ in First Steps Since Trump-Kim Summit, Satellite Images Suggest

24th July 2018

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

Just remember that.

Absolutely nothing.

MORE: North Korea’s ‘dismantling of ballistic missile test site facilities’ draws wary response from experts

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Your Brain on Kittens

24th July 2018

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The purr doesn’t hurt.

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‘Real Indian’ Senate Candidate Slams Challenger Elizabeth Warren After Getting Attacked Outside Her Event

24th July 2018

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Scorecard! Getcher scorecards here! You can’t tell the victims without a scorecard!

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Four Illegal Aliens Kidnapped and Raped Ohio Sisters, 13 and 14, Police Say

24th July 2018

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Sure, open the borders! Let ’em all in! What could go wrong?

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Another Hate Hoax: ‘I Did Write It’: Waiter Admits Faking Viral Racist Note on Receipt

24th July 2018

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A Texas waiter who claimed to have been stiffed by a racist customer now admits he made the whole thing up.

Saltgrass Steak House waiter Khalil Cavil went viral after posting a Facebook picture of a racist note that Cavil claimed a customer had left on the receipt, in lieu of a tip.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

23rd July 2018

CNN’s Jake Tapper Asks If Carter Page and Donald Trump Are Russian Assets  Gee, he never asked that about Hillary.

NPR’s Hinojosa Claims Immigrant ‘Abuse’ Was ‘on Steroids’ Under Obama  But Trump is still to blame.

Kerry Slams Trump For Calling Biden A ‘Dream’ Opponent In 2020  Yeah, Trump needs to quit picking on Kerry’s retarded relatives.

NYT Shows No Self-Awareness, Hits Pro-Trump Tabloid for ‘Crossing…Line Into Politics’  ‘They can’t do that to our pledges! Only we can do that to our pledges!’

POLL: Trump’s Current Approval Rating Highest Ever, Stuns MSNBC  They might have to take their shoes off.

Democrats are helping Trump to win re-election  And we appreciate it.

Iran Fires Back After President’s Tweet: ‘Trump Cannot Do A Damn Thing Against Iran’  They must think Obama is still President. ‘Hold my Diet Coke and watch this….’

US reputation will take ‘years to recover’ from Trump presidency, warn experts  Yeah, restoring Obama’s fecklessness will be an uphill battle.

Dan Bongino Calls Democratic Rep Adam Schiff A ‘Fraud And A Liar’ For Pushing Russian ‘Hoax’ Scandal

WashPost ‘Humorist’ (and Ten Friends) Joke About How Chefs Should Mock Sarah Sanders

Scarborough Claims 80 Percent Of Republicans Say They Like Trump ‘Doing The Bidding Of Putin’  I’ve never noticed before what small, beady eyes Joe has.

President Trump Sounds Like He’s Siding With Putin Against America, Says CNN’s John Berman  John Berman sounds as if he’s a teeny bit biased. Just a teeny bit. (He also sounds like he’s got the IQ of a carrot, but that’s another issue.)

Washington Post Columnist Max Boot Suggests Trump Belongs In ‘Padded Cell’ For Warning Iran On Twitter  I suggest that Max Boot belongs in a padded cell for impersonating a conservative.

Maxine Waters Disparages Trump As ‘Putin’s Apprentice’  Maxine Waters would make a good evil stepmother.

Sunny Hostin Has A Theory About Trump’s All-Caps Rouhani Rant: ‘Wars Do Boost Low Presidential Ratings’  Grab for them straws….

CNN’s David Gregory Declares Trump Desperate ‘To Be Loved’ And Says He Suffers From ‘Paranoia’  Uh, yeah.

CNN’s Camerota: ‘Embarrassed’ Trump Trying to ‘Wag the Dog’ With Iran  Sure, a potentially nuclear insane-bigot state is just a TOTAL distraction from the non-existant ‘collusion’ witch-hunt.

MSNBC Conspiracy Theorist Maddow Fears Trump Is Really a ‘Foreign Agent’  Yeah, he’s a Republican — that’s foreign to Rachel Madow.

Trump-Deranged New York Daily News Fires Editor in Chief, Cuts Newsroom Staff In Half

Just How Far Will the Left Go?

Quick Update: White House Press Room “Gasped” When They Heard Their Most Productive Leakers Might Lose Their Security Clearances  Ought to have done that long since.

Woman Whose Career Has Transformed From Porn Performer to Stripper to Permanent CNN Expert On Trump’s Penis Now Says She Wants Her “Privacy”  Yeah, I can see that.

James Clapper: Taking Away My Security Clearance ‘Is A Petty Way Of Retribution’  Cry me a river.

‘Morning Joe’: Trump Is a ‘Weaponized Virus’ Made By Vladimir Putin

CNN Panel Praises ‘Brilliant’ Trump Resistance on TV  As ineffective as it has turned out to be.

Women’s Protest Says Pence ‘Ushering In A Theocratic Society’  Really? Where?

If Pence can ‘establish a theocracy’ in the face of the proglodyte rent-a-mobs, good luck to him.

WashPost’s Blackistone Tries to Link Trump with Past Racist Remarks by Pro Athletes  Well, they’re both racist, so obviously they’re connected, amiright?

 

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Portland Food Cart That Helps the Homeless Shut Down After Alleged Harassment From Occupy ICE Protesters

23rd July 2018

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God forbid that anybody should actually help the homeless and reduce the beak-wetting of the Bleeding Heart Establishment.

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Katy Tur Calls Out Daily Caller, Fox News — Says They Aren’t Journalists

23rd July 2018

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Certainly not in the sense that Katy Tur means it (i.e. propagandist for the Left).

I think we can all be thankful for that.

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Balko: “Was there a ‘Ferguson effect’ in Baltimore? Don’t be so sure.”

23rd July 2018

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This a few thousand words of obfuscation to distract from the fundamental fact that the total number of homicides nationally in 2016 was 20% higher than in 2014, when BLM launched over Ferguson in 8/14. Moreover, many of the worst spikes in murders, such as St. Louis, Baltimore, and Chicago, happened directly following BLM’s biggest victories.

Radley Balko, like George Will, is one of those Crustian sidewallers who can’t stand anybody on the Right who didn’t Pay His Dues working his way up through the ranks of the opinionator drudges as God intended.

If you scratch them deeply enough you will find the same contempt for Flyover Country and ordinary Americans that the John Kerrys of the world wear on their sleeves.

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Genes Affect Level of Educational Attainment, Study Reveals

23rd July 2018

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Reality is what sticks around even after you refuse to believe it.

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Virginia Government Officials Not Happy With First School District to Arm Teachers

23rd July 2018

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I should imagine not.

Virginia state law forbids the presence of firearms on school property, but the Lee County School Board will attempt to classify the armed employees as “conservators of the peace” to gain exemption.

Victims! Get yer victims here! Ya can’t have a gun-free zone without yer victims!

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Bed Bugs Have Found a New Home: Airplanes. Here’s How to Spot Them

23rd July 2018

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Or you could just stay off of airplanes, as I do.

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Cuomo Offers State Help to Turn Around NY Daily News After Layoffs

23rd July 2018

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The Crust takes care of their own, preferably at taxpayer expense.

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Eggs $1.39/dozen!

23rd July 2018

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How do you kill the goose that lays the golden eggs — or golden arches, in this case? You increase mandated minimum wage to the point that one of the greatest engines of entry-level job formation in history, McDonald’s Corporation, finds it cost-effect to replace unskilled kids with machines.

The McDonald’s just up the street from my house is in the process of remodeling. Presumably this is the reason.

I’m looking forward to using it.

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo Pardons 7 Ex-Criminal Immigrants to Prevent Their Deportation

23rd July 2018

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Democrats in Power: Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go Back on the Street….

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POLL: Which Celebrity Should Trump Deport To Canada?

23rd July 2018

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If Trump were really Hitler, Hollywood would be on the planes to Gitmo.

I’m kinda torn between Rob Reiner and Alec Baldwin.

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The Establishment Group Monkey Dance

23rd July 2018

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I am, sometimes, stymied at the establishment’s obdurate opposition to President Trump. Hey, the dude wasn’t my first choice for the Republican nominee, either. But Trump won the nomination, won the general election, and kept a no-kidding corrupt, scofflaw, sac of pulsating sociopathy and her machine out of the White House. So, I’m happy.

The reaction of the establishment, though, has been a little disconcerting. Logic, rational thought, and critical thinking have been thrown out the window. Not only have I been dismayed at the reaction to Trump’s election by people I’ve never met, but I read and thought highly of, for analysis and principle-based opinion, but by people that I know. People that took a different path than me and pursued Ph.D.s, wrote books, became experts in their fields. Many of these people have unyielding, uncompromising opposition to Trump, whatever he may do or say.

Then, re-reading a favorite book, I stumbled over — not the answer, but a partial answer. I was seeing a Group Monkey Dance.

People who have spent their lives preparing to prosper in a particular environment don’t take kindly to people to appear not to have ‘paid their dues’ in a similar fashion, no matter how much the two may be alike in belief and objectives. I doubt that there is any significant way in which George Will’s vision of a preferred America differ from Donald Trump’s, but Will will be damned if he lets his Up From Princeton struggle be queue-jumped by some hick from an Outer Borough.

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Irving Babbitt: The Primary Human Conflict Is in the Soul of the Individual

23rd July 2018

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When human passions are released, however, writes Babbitt, “what emerges in the real world is not the mythical will to brotherhood, but the ego and its fundamental will to power.” The will to power often presents itself in palatable ways, replacing traditional notions of virtue with what Babbitt calls “a sort of parody of Christian charity.” The Romantic is drawn not to humanism but to emotional humanitarianism. Believing himself to be blameless, the Romantic locates the source of society’s evils in everybody else. The Romantic humanitarian, Babbitt argues, will always go around pointing out the specks in his neighbors’ eyes while a plank burdens his own. Rousseau, the chief example of this tendency, wrote a 500-page book on how to raise and educate children, after leaving five of his own to a foundling hospital.

Precisely so. This is the disease that we all, to a greater or lesser extent, are fighting.

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Thought for the Day

23rd July 2018

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Sisters in Hate: Sarsour and Billoo Team Up in Fundraiser

23rd July 2018

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Reminds me of Rachel Corrie.

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The Brain May Clean Out Alzheimer’s Plaques During Sleep

23rd July 2018

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That reminds me — I have to go take a nap.

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British Tourist ‘Dies Taking Selfie’ After Falling From Cliff Whale-Watching in Australia

23rd July 2018

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

Think of it as evolution in action.

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Toronto Mass Shooting Claims 1 Dead 13 Injured

23rd July 2018

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Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders told reporters that the shooter used a handgun — a weapon that is extremely difficult to obtain legally in Toronto due to Canada’s strict gun laws.

Yeah, those ‘strict gun control laws’ really work. Just look at Chicago.

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Understanding the Alt-Right

23rd July 2018

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Actually, I’m not terribly interested in understanding the alt-right as a movement; what I find fascinating is the evolution of the term itself. There are two wildly different definitions being applied, and I believe that the left is using that confusion of terms, intentionally and with malice aforethought, to denigrate a large portion of the population as racist, right-wing oppressors.

The people who are actually on the Right but opposed to the current Crustocrat establishment prefer the term Dissident Right. Steve Sailer, Stacy McCain, John Derbyshire, and ZMan come immediately to mind.

It was only after the election that word began to filter out about an earlier, original definition for the term. We found out that the name was originally coined by a guy named Richard Spencer, the leader of a very specific, fringe group of white nationalists. Looking at their actual policy proposals, in that case alt-right seemed to refer more to being, well … leftist. It is a variant of socialism, essentially identical to several other identity-based movements in this country, populated by people who are black or Hispanic. But, while all those other movements are considered left-wing, this group, apparently for no other reason than them being white, are labeled as part of the right.

‘Alt-right’ is one of those slur-terms that the Left creates by reflex; like most such terms, it means ‘person I dislike who disagrees with me and is therefore an evil monster OMG WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!’.

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Mamas, Don’t Let Your Theybies Grow Up to Be Cowqueers

23rd July 2018

Jim Goad does what he does best.

In the tiny sheltered pampered enclaves of coastal American cities, some parents are refusing to reveal their children’s biological sex to anyone—including relatives and the infants themselves—until the toddler is old enough to decide for himself or herself. Instead of babies, they are calling their genderless spawn “theybies.”

 

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