Archive for August, 2018
7th August 2018
Guy Who Admitted To Smashing Trump’s Hollywood Star Charged With Felony, Faces Possible Jail Time
Sarah Jeong equated Trump and Hitler “before it was cool”
CNN’s Own Legal Analyst Dashes Panel’s Collusion Narrative
Candace Owens, Charlie Kirk Detail The Moment Their Breakfast Became An Assault
Donald Trump Jr. On Sarah Jeong Tweets — ‘She’s An Asian Woman So She Can Say Whatever She Wants About White People’ Asian female, anyway.
Rosie O’Donnell: ‘I Don’t Believe That Trump’s A Legitimate President,’ Calls For Him To Be ‘Impeached’ And of course we all depend on Rosie O’Donnell for political advice.
Notre Dame Professor Compares Reporters To Soldiers In CNN Op-Ed In the military, such ‘soldiers’ are known by the acronym REMF.
Rosie O’Donnell And Broadway Performers Protest Outside White House, Trump In New Jersey Virtue-signaling knows no time or place.
Trump’s star on the Walk of Fame to be permanently removed after West Hollywood council vote
Candace Owens: Prominent Trump supporters chased out of restaurant by protesters
Trevor Noah Tries To Bait Trump Into Talking About Him On Twitter: ‘Why Do You Ignore Me?’ Whine, little snowflake, shiver, shiver….
Don Lemon Declares It A ‘Fact’ That Trump Is Racist
Don Lemon And CNN Guest Agree: President Trump Inherited Good Economy From Obama Really?
Joe Scarborough Fat-Shames Trump For Not Being Drafted The closest Scarborough ever came to military service is sitting on the House Armed Services Committee. I don’t see that he has any room to throw stones here.
‘Morning Joe’ Panel Says Trump Is Nothing More Than A Con Man Who Lies At His Rallies Let’s see how many people show up to a Joe Scarborough rally.
Trump Voters On CNN Panel Debate If The President Is Racist Ought to be ‘whether’ rather than ‘if’, but you know ‘journalists’.
Don Lemon: Trump Supporters ‘Lie To Their Own Mother’ And of course he has the tapes to prove it.
The latest battle in the War for Truth has sent Donald Trump into a panic More ‘psychic journalism’. I doubt seriously that anything within the last twenty years has ‘sent Donald Trump into a panic’. Wishful thinking is what passes for journalism these days.
Former NBA Champion Curses President Trump, Convinced He’s a Racist I understand that they get a lot of brain injuries in professional sports. And when you don’t have a lot of brain to start out with, well….
Mother Who Lost Disabled Son Mocked By Jeopardy Star For Supporting Trump
Menendez Pulls The Race Card Against Trump … Again He should have learned by now that this will not end well for him.
CNN’s Anderson Cooper Tries To Bait Guests Into Calling Trump Racist
How the media embraced en masse fake news about Trump Tower meeting
Democrats Continue To Misleadingly Call President Trump A Racist
Al Sharpton Doesn’t Rule Out Running For President, Criticizes Trump This is news?
Caitlyn Jenner: Trump’s Been ‘Extraordinarily Disappointing’ On LGBTQ Issues, But ‘It’s Not Over Yet’ Well, he’s not as obsessed with pervert issues as the perverts are. That strikes me as pretty normal.
West Hollywood’s Moral Crusade against Trump
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7th August 2018
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There’s no pleasing some people.
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7th August 2018
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I’ve always wondered about that….
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Which would never have happened under Obama, much less Hillary.
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7th August 2018
Reihan Salam gives us our daily dose of cynicism.
In some instances, white-bashing can actually serve as a means of ascent, especially for Asian Americans. Embracing the culture of upper-white self-flagellation can spur avowedly enlightened whites to eagerly cheer on their Asian American comrades who show (abstract, faceless, numberless) lower-white people what for. And, simultaneously, it allows Asian Americans who use the discourse to position themselves as ethnic outsiders, including those who are comfortably enmeshed in elite circles.
Sarah Jeong just gave the market what it was willing to pay for.
Jonah Goldberg: Sarah Jeong, Schumpeter’s Child
Schumpeter predicted, before the massive expansion of higher education, that capitalism would breed a new class of intellectuals (writers, journalists, artists, lawyers, etc.) who would be motivated by both ideology and self-interest to undermine liberal democratic capitalism. “Unlike any other type of society, capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest,” Schumpeter wrote in Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy. He adds a bit further on: “For such an atmosphere [of social hostility to capitalism] to develop it is necessary that there be groups whose interest it is to work up and organize resentment, to nurse it, to voice it and to lead it.”
Sarah Jeong is not the ideal example of what Schumpeter was talking about, viz. capitalism (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fits that bill better). But she is a good example of the larger adversary culture that universities not only “nudge” students toward, but actively indoctrinate them into. Simply put, there is an entire industry dedicated to the proposition that not just the American past, but the American present, is disordered, bigoted, and oppressive. And Jeong’s meteoric and meritocratic rise demonstrates how so many of our best and brightest have gotten that message. How many have internalized it as ideology or have just cynically decided that’s how you get ahead is an open question.
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7th August 2018
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But that trick never works.
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I have an idea: Let’s put the border wall on the California border, and let them have all the illegal immigrants.
They wind up as Mexifornia and slide slowly into the sea, and the rest of us go on our way. Win-win.
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7th August 2018
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Well, the had to go and elect some South American Jesuit as Pope … be careful what you wish for….
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7th August 2018
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The ‘media’, where science fiction passes for news.
Women and minorities hardest hit, of course.
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7th August 2018
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To quote the song lyric, ‘People are strange….’
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7th August 2018
David Cole reminisces.
I recall one black classmate telling me she’d finally “figured out” what this Jew thing is all about: “You guys just wear the cross, but without the little man on it, because you don’t think Jesus is the savior. But we Christians wear the little man because we believe in him.”
Bless her heart, at least she tried.
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The point I wanted to make is that if you’re a typical American Jew, the gentiles in your life almost certainly know what a Jew is, and they’re properly respectful. Jews don’t like moving in circles where that’s not the case. And frankly, I think that’s a mistake. Whether it’s spending time in the darkest corners of inner-city black America, or in a Mexican slum, every Jew needs the occasional reminder that to a lot of people in the world, we’re not just “nuthin’ special,” we’re worse—we’re white.
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7th August 2018
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This morning, Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens of Turning Point USA were eating breakfast in a restaurant in Philadelphia. They were spotted, apparently, by a liberal who ran to gather a mob. The mob of liberals besieged Kirk and Owens inside the restaurant, as you see here, and were waiting for them when they emerged. As you can see, the liberals are terrible human beings. One question, though: are there really people who wander around the streets carrying bullhorns?
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There is a certain irony in a gang of white fascists chanting about “white supremacy” to an African-American like Candace Owens. But no one ever accused liberal activists of having brains.
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7th August 2018
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So many rights to violate, so little time….
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Stefan Löfven is the leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party and the prime minister of Sweden. As you probably know, his country is rapidly descending into chaos due the massive influx of violent, unemployable Muslim migrants. Ahead of next month’s elections, the Sweden Democrats, an anti-immigration party, is putting up the hardest fight the Social Democrats have seen in many decades.
So what is Mr. Löfven’s most important platform plank? Basically the same as Antifa’s: Hunt down all the Nazis and get them off the streets.
I don’t understand Sweden; I never have. But maybe he’s right. Maybe promising to fight the Nazis will gain him lots of extra votes and help him win the election. Maybe this is the most important issue for ordinary Swedes, when they take a break from being beaten or raped by migrants.
It could be true. I mean, this is Sweden, after all.
The prime minister is standing in front of a “Pride” flag in this video, and appears to be pitching his spiel to LGBTQRSWXYZ voters.
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6th August 2018
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6th August 2018
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The laughably awkward teaser for the segment featured CNN reporter Bill Weir wandering around the blue collar town in a CNN ‘Facts First’ shirt and talking to some of the thousands of bikers who ride to Sturgis every year to celebrate the biker lifestyle. In the opening of the segment, Weir is seen driving down the road on a motorcycle complaining about the lack of minorities in the town.
“This is one city that looks nothing like the rest of America,” Weir, who is a white male, observes, “You can go hours without seeing a person of color. In Sturgis, a minority is a white guy on a foreign bike.”
What are they supposed to do, import Fashionable Minorities to make him feel better?
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6th August 2018
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Lest we wander too far afield, here, let us get back to our roots.
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6th August 2018
Kevin Williamson scratches his head.
What is it that Paul Manafort is charged with again? So far, the prosecution seems to be trying him for the crime of being a rich a**hole with bad taste.
Or having been. I take it his finances have declined.
Much is being made of Manafort’s shopping addiction: this expensive suit, that expensive ostrich-skin jacket, etc. (Yes, you’d think a guy who spent like that on clothes would have a better wristwatch.) My understanding is that he’s charged with getting his money badly, not spending it badly. But I’m no lawyer, I suppose.
If bad fashion choices were a crime, Hillary would have been behind bars years ago.
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6th August 2018
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Once again: Trump for the win.
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6th August 2018
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The laws of economics works even when you don’t want them to.
The government doesn’t want teenagers working. The government wants teenagers dependent, so they’ll grow up dependent on government benefits, which they will ensure by voting for Democrats.
Let’s get with the program.
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No marches? No protests? No 24/7 news coverage? No Black Lives Matter? No complaints about Trump and the NRA?
I guess David Hogg is busy this weekend or something. Maybe he’s getting his eyebrows waxed.
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The U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to rule on a case that could have a major impact on civil liberties and whether civil asset forfeiture can continue to serve as low hanging fruit for bureaucratic interests run amok.
Timbs v. Indiana involves a man whose $42,000 Land Rover was confiscated via civil asset forfeiture. Attorneys from the libertarian public-interest law firm, Institute for Justice, don’t deny their client Tyson Timbs was convicted of selling $385 worth of heroin in two transactions and that his vehicle was used in the sale.
What they do contest is that the confiscation of the Land Rover (purchased with a payment from a life insurance policy, not drug money) was unconstitutional under the Excessive Fines Clause of the 8th Amendment.
How is that? Due to a plea bargain, Timbs was sentenced to one year of house arrest and five years of probation. He was also assessed a total of $1,200 in fees and fines. The offense carries a maximum fine of $10,000. Hence, Timbs’ attorneys assert the confiscation of a $42,000 car exceeds what he was liable for in the first place.
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6th August 2018
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American culture rules.
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I have an idea!
ALL PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE THAT WE’RE ALL DOOMED BY GLOBAL WARMING, MOVE TO CANADA.
That would solve SO many problems….
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6th August 2018
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There’s your double standard, right there. I smell a lawsuit a-brewin’.
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Residents of upstate New York are actively assisting migrants illegally cross the border into Canada.
As the Washington Post reports, the activists are supplying people — supposedly seeking asylum from the United States — with food, clothing and support. They even call their assistance network an “Underground Railway,” in tribute to the clandestine operation that ferried slaves from the South to abolitionist enclaves in New York and Canada.
Those facilitating the illegals’ journey to Canada, via the Quebec border, say this is no different than assisting the draft-dodgers who fled to Canada to avoid service in the Vietnam War.
“We view this as our Underground Railroad,” Carole Slatkin told the Post. Moving migrants across the border from Esssex, New York, Slatkin says she is following a higher calling. “While no one is being flogged, and no one is being sold, there is this sort of modern-day equivalent of feeling like people are in danger.”
Yeah, there’s that ‘nobody’s being flogged, nobody’s being sold’ rock in the middle of the stream of Virtue Signaling. But they can ignore it successfully; it’s what they do.
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Surely there must have been Trump supporter behind the violence. Just ask Joe Scarborough.
I’m sure the did this from a distance. Up close and personal, my money is on the Marines.
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There’s your renewable energy.
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However much people have complained about Trump’s handling of foreign affairs, nobody has expelled a U.S. Ambassador and frozen trade with the U.S.
Looks as if the orange-haired guy beats the woke metrosexual when it comes to government.
Just sayin’.
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Compared to Mika, maybe.
Whatever beneficial effect Obama may have had on the economy, and I have yet to see any of his supporters actually cite any actions he took that would have benefited the economy, it would have gone in the toilet had Hillary been elected President. So the beneficial economy is due to Trump, not Obama, because Obama’s candidate would have killed it.
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6th August 2018
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5th August 2018
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Thank God for those strict gun control laws in Chicago, or the place would be like Texas.
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5th August 2018
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Apparently perverts and their fellow travelers aren’t any better at ‘safe spaces’ than ordinary people.
Can’t say that I have any sympathy.
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When health care is provided and funded by the government, every medical question becomes a political question, and who gets what medical care depends on who has political power at any given moment.
In a country where cancer patients are being turned away because the government can’t afford to treat them, time and money is being wasted on the question of whether sexually confused people are entitled to ‘fertility treatments’.
Whenever you see the phrase ‘human rights watchdog’, you can tell that things are going to end badly for human rights.
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The mask is wearing thin, the makeup is peeling off….
Sen. Kamala Harris accused critics of “identity politics” of weaponizing the term to diminish issues of race, gender and sexual orientation, pressing Democrats on Friday to address those issues head on.
“I have a problem, guys, with that phrase, ‘identity politics,’” Harris told the progressive gathering Netroots Nation, wading into a messaging debate roiling Democrats ahead of the midterm elections. “Because let’s be clear, when people say that, it’s a pejorative. That phrase is used to divide, and it is used to distract. Its purpose is to minimize and marginalize issues that impact all of us. It is used to try and shut us up.”
Translation: The Heretics and Sinners are pulling back the curtain and revealing the Hell that proglodytes are preparing for them. Quick! Jerk it back in place!
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5th August 2018
The Other McCaine points out that, no matter how bad it might be here, other places have it arguably worse.
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5th August 2018
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A little noticed detail in Santa Barbara’s recent drive to criminalize plastic straws, which culminated in the Santa Barbara city council taking testimony from a nine-year-old about the planetary menace, has come to light in recent days. During that council session, councilman Jesse Dominguez said to following in response to citizens who asked “what’s next?”:
“Unfortunately, common sense is just not common. We have to regulate every aspect of people’s lives.”
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5th August 2018
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The problem with a ‘crowd-sourced’ reference site is that it embodies the morality of the crowd — in this case. proglodyte. In many cases this doesn’t matter; but two generations of kids have grown up thinking that Wikipedia is a one-stop shop when they are looking for information, and many take the ‘stop’ literally.
This is all part of the Cultural Marxist ‘march through the institutions’, about which the canaries have been chirping since the 1960s.
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5th August 2018
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5th August 2018
Tyler Cowan is not afraid to ask the obvious questions.
One factor that he overlooks, unusual for an economist, is that tech has political problems for the same reason that everyone has political problems — people are so used to using government power as a stick to beat their enemies that everybody winds up covered in bruises. The way to reduce the scope of ‘political problems’ is to reduce the ability of governments to cause or exacerbate problems, and that means reducing the power of government. Unfortunately, I don’t see that happening.
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5th August 2018
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The victim argued with his friend and in an attempt to get his friend’s attention, he lay down in the street in front of a car the suspect was driving and was run over, Buttle said.
Now there’s a friend.
Let that be a lesson to us all.
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4th August 2018
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I don’t even have to say anything.
Ambassador Duke: Automatic weapons fire is the overture?!
Chinese Communist Official: As it so often is in life, Mr. Duke.
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4th August 2018
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The Guardian newspaper in Britain is the ‘journalistic’ voice of the Labour Party. Sort of like the Washington Post without the professionalism.
Apparently, Narrative-consistent racism is the key to fame and fortune among the Voices of the Crust.
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4th August 2018
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4th August 2018
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St Thomas’ is the latest evangelical parish to quit the official Anglican church in Scotland and back a rival splinter movement in reaction to the vote supporting gay marriage in June last year.
A number of other churches have either left or are considering leaving in the wake of the decision to change the Scottish Episcopal Church’s (SEC) definition of marriage as being between one man and one woman.
The worldwide family descended from the Church of England is coming apart like a wet paper towel. It was inevitable that ‘Catholicism without the Pope’ would eventually degenerate; when you cut a plant off from its root, it eventually withers and dies, sometimes soon, sometimes later, but always eventually.
This was the chief structural weakness of the Protestant Reformation. Once people got the idea that the Roman Church was wrong in some things, and needed to have those things fixed, it became easier and easier to ‘fix’ other things that weren’t really ‘broken’ but didn’t comport with the individual predilections of the demagogues that always rise to the top in such situations. That rot is now metastasizing, and Protestant ‘Christianity’ is dissolving like a pile of sand in a rainstorm. Within my lifetime I expect to see all such ‘denominations’ reduced to Hip And Trendy costume parties that call themselves Christian(of the new and improved kind!) and provide a place for Social Justice Warriors to socialize on weekends but whose doctrines (if they have any) no Christian of the Church’s first thousand years would recognize.
Put your ear to the ground. That rumbling you hear is Satan laughing his ass off.
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4th August 2018
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Today’s @realDonaldTrump approval ratings among black voters: 29%
This time last year: 15% http://bit.ly/preztrack @POTUS @realDonaldTrump
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4th August 2018
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Trust the French to focus on the important stuff.
‘Wine scientist’ sounds like a great job to have.
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4th August 2018
The Other McCaine unpacks the Narrative.
What has happened in recent years is that the Right has begun to fight fire with fire, and the Left calls this “harassment.” This was the basic story of #GamerGate: Videogame enthusiasts had grown tired of their hobby being targeted by “social justice warriors” (SJWs) and decided to fight back. Defending themselves against the organized lobby of politically correct censors and critical-theory busybodies (e.g., Anita Sarkeesian), the #GamerGate crew were accused of “misogyny” and “haraassment.” And this exposes the double-standard: When the Left attacks the videogame industry, this is “activism”; when gamers fight back, this is “harassment.” Likewise, when left-wing outfits use the past words of conservatives to brand them racist, this is “research”; when the tables are turned, liberals call it “trolling.”
This proglodyte tactic is merely a signature symptom of the eternal childishness of the Left. ‘Mommeee! Johnny hit me back!’
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