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The nonprofit organization building a coalition of states that favor choosing the president by popular vote promotes itself as nonpartisan, but is financed by millions of dollars from left-leaning groups.

Some of the leaders of the movement are prominent Republicans, and most of the funding for the nonprofit, National Popular Vote Inc., has come from a wealthy Democrat and a billionaire Independent.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

Have a brewski and see what develops.

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

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Just in case you were feeling good for a change….

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It isn’t all that meaningful to debate whether the inverted yield curve in the U.S. that occurred Friday will lead to a recession a year from now. Nothing is written in stone. Whether one comes to pass or not doesn’t validate nor negate the signal one way or the other.

Women and minorities hardest hit, etc. etc.

UPDATE: Here Comes The Selling: CTAs, Dealer Gamma Flip Short Today

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No good deed goes unpunished.

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Yeah, it’s a slow news day. What’s your point?

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Proglodytes do this on a regular basis.

Steve Sailer turns over a rock.

With all the current emphasis on hearing from too-long suppressed Voices of Intersectional Diversity, we are getting a crash course in what Women of Color have on their minds. Which often turns out to be: Let’s talk about how adorable I am. Let’s complain about how white racism causes white people to constantly talk about how adorable I am.

[Fill in the blank], Trump White House in chaos

Democrat John Lewis Says Donald Trump Impeachment Is Still On The Table: ‘I Think That Day Will Come’

MSNBC Off the Rails: Demand Dems Ignore the Racist Mueller Report

Top-Ranking Democrat Says Mueller Report Doesn’t Matter — ‘We Know There Was Collusion’

Ted Cruz Blasts House Democrats: ‘They Are Going To Impeach The President For Being Donald Trump’  Yup.

ABC’s Dowd Claims Trump HAS NOT Been Investigated for Two Years

Petulant NY Times After Ho-Hum Mueller Release: Trump ‘Surrounded Himself With Crooks and Liars’  As if Obama didn’t, or Clinton wouldn’t have.

Joy Reid Thinks Trump’s Criticism of Media Is a ‘Violation of First Amendment’

Radical Matt Taibbi on Russiagate: ‘Death Blow for the Reputation of the American News Media’  What there was of it.

Impeachment Odds Implode As Mueller Report Clears Trump Of Collusion  Funny how that works.

CNNers Declare: Trump Has Been ‘Cleared’ and ‘Exonerated’, Walk it Back

Chuck Todd Tries to Save Collusion Narrative, Wonders What Founders Would Think  They would consider him a slimy little weasel.

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Back in December I brought you the latest social science findings about the ideological meaning of . . . coffee choices. Sure enough, liberals do drink more lattes than conservatives, in part, the authors of the study speculated, because a preference for latte could somehow be connected to a more cosmopolitan, internationalist outlook, whereas the xenophobia of conservatives inclined them against liking Eurotrash beverages. Whatever. But the joke was on the latte liberals, as the authors noted that lattes actually have more domestic content than the average black cup of joe, because the milk came from all-American cows. I’m guessing, by the way, that latte liberals haven’t thought through how their lattes will suffer when the Green Nude Eel eradicates all those farting cows. (Sorry, but almond and soy milk just don’t cut it.)

I think vegetarians count as prey. What do you think?

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That’s … very interesting.

Look, prior to his capture by the North Vietnamese he was the military equivalent of Beto O’Rourke. If his father and grandfather hadn’t been Admirals he would have been passed over for promotion before he made Commander and had to go to work for a living. His main claim to fame as a Navy officer was how hard he could party and what sort of Black Sheep Squadron hijinks he could get up to.

While ie was a POW he behaved heroically, no one questions that. Sometimes people, when you step on them, prove that there’s a hard center to all that softness. But that doesn’t give you a pass for the rest of your life. And it’s the rest of his life that we’re talking about.

Once he got back, he resumed being a consummate jerk. He divorced his crippled first wife, who had kept the faith with him through his captivity, to marry a rich blonde. He ran as a solid conservative Republican in order to get elected to the Senate and then turned around and sold out his party whenever he got the notion. He was famous for being one of the chief RINOs in Washington, and for saying shit about people he didn’t like that Trump would never dream of.

Trump never said anything about McCain until after McCain had spent time bad-mouthing Trump. McCain was the source of the ‘dossier’ that sparked the Mueller investigation that has gone on for two years and cost the taxpayers millions of dollars for absolutely nothing except sending a bunch of small fry to jail for ‘process crimes’ that would never have occurred had it not been for the investigation.

Worst of all, John McCain, AFTER HAVING CAMPAIGNED ON GETTING RID OF OBAMACARE, cast the single vote that blocked Obamacare repeal BECAUSE HE WAS IN A SNIT ABOUT TRUMP. That failure has caused thousands of people millions of dollars in health care expense just because of personal pique. Whatever bad thing you can say about Trump, John McCain was just as bad, if not worse.

Sure, I’ll criticize John McCain. Call on me any time.

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Funny how she looks white but probably ‘identifies’ as black. I’m sure that gave her s leg up.

If I were a college I’d admit anybody at $70 mil a pop.

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If you were to transport someone from the 1980’s to our age, they would be amazed by some things, like HD TV’s and streaming services. They would probably be a bit disappointed that the internet has not advanced very far or that cars are still pretty much the same as they were forty years ago. Of course, even the most jaded man of the 80’s would be shocked at the cultural revolution that has taken place. The thing that would be most shocking though, is the total collapse in social trust.

Veronique de Rugy lays it out.

I get why so many are devoting such amounts of energy to this task. First, the likes of Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and few others have made the notion of socialism acceptable in some circles and even hip. Also, according to a poll from August, for the first time since Gallup has asked the question, more Democrats approve of socialism than of capitalism.

However, if all we do is talk about how Venezuela is a hellhole and Cuba is a terrible place, I fear that we might end up being the modern equivalent of Don Quixote fighting the windmill.

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In total, 41% of New York residents say they can’t cope with the city’s high cost of living. They believe they will be forced to go somewhere where the “economic climate is more welcoming”, according to the report.

Todd Laments Trump Never Dragged Before a Grand Jury, Frets He’ll ‘Banana Republic Us’  Nah, Obama already tried that and it didn’t work.

ABC, NBC Boast Dems Still Want to Hammer Trump Post-Mueller; ‘They Are Plowing Ahead’  Don’t confuse them with facts, their minds are made up.

Rep. Eric Swalwell Reacts To Mueller Report News

Must Watch: Chris Matthews Suffers an EPIC Meltdown Over the Mueller Report

Planned Parenthood President Says Being Called ‘Trump’s Nightmare’ Is A ‘Badge Of Honor’

The Trump scam has officially hit rock bottom  Well, as long as it’s ‘official’….

Rachel Maddow Spends Opening Segment About Mueller Report On Verge Of Tears

Joy Reid: Mueller Report Conclusion ‘Feels Like The Seeds Of A Cover-Up’

Maher on Trump: ‘I Don’t Need the Mueller Report to Know He’s a Traitor, I Have a TV’

Joy Reid Keeps Hope Alive after Mueller: Lots of Other Investigations!

Twitter Bans User For Laughing At Rachel Maddow’s Tears Of Despair Over Mueller Report

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Think of it as evolution in action.

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My, what a pity.

We have far too many colleges in this country, and far too many college students. The current crisis is caused by taxpayers being made to guarantee student debt on the part of people who don’t have the brainpower to succeed in college.

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The poster child for cognitive dissonance.

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Because he’s not Jambalaya Harris, the media candidate for the Democrat nomination.

Plus he’s white.

Plus he’s male.

Plus he’s rich.

Plus he’s a putz.

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Don’t ever say that we never have useful stuff here.

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Frankly, it hadn’t even occurred to me to worry about that.

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When Beau Jessup came up with an idea to help Chinese families name their babies, even she thought it was a bit far-fetched.

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Setting back feminism for about a thousand years….

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Democrats being Democrats. Light-colored Democrats who can pretend to be ‘black’ typically spend their time in ‘public service’ enriching themselves and their cronies, while destroying the areas over which they rule; thus Detroit.

ZMan turns over a rock.

Way back at the dawn of the internet age, the people paid to promote the interests of the ruling elite came up with the phrase “new economy” to describe the rise of electronic commerce. The idea was that it was not just a different way of doing the same stuff, internet sites instead of catalogs, for example, but a new type of economics. The old idea of a business having a building, employees and profits, was being replaced by the virtual business that existed as idea on-line, without a defined physical presence.

This idea that we were about to step through the barrier between the world governed by classical economics into a new world controlled by new economics was very popular with the business press. Guys like James Glassman wrote books about stock valuations based on this new form of economics, where companies that had no assets and no profits, had stratospheric share prices. These predictions were hilariously wrong in the short term, but the whole new economy stuff has proven to be false in the long run too.

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Gee, it was used about the New Zealand shooter, and i don’t think he was a Muslim….

And I’ve heard people on MSNBC use it about Trump, and I don’t think he’s a Muslim….

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Heh.

UPDATE: Adam Schiff Says House Intelligence Committee Is Willing To Subpoena Mueller

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

Just remember that.

Absolutely nothing.

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But you knew that.

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Welcome to the Left Coast. Be careful not to step in the diversity.

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Well, that certainly sounds ‘inclusive’ to me.

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So we’ve got that going for us.

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New research from psychologist and search engine expert Dr. Robert Epstein shows that biased Google searches had a measurable impact on the 2018 midterm elections, pushing tens of thousands of votes towards the Democrat candidates in three key congressional races, and potentially millions more in races across the country.

Ace of Spades keeps up with this stuff so that you don’t have to.

This Bulwark post isn’t serious, it is spank material for self-described true conservatives who never seem to have the time to worry about what the left is doing but a surfeit if time to tell the rest of us when it is appropriate to wear MAGA hats and what we must believe in order to be true conservatives.

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It’s official: whether it wanted to or not, the Fed’s doubling-down on dovishness this Wednesday is now seen by the market as a major policy error, perhaps the biggest in Fed history.

UPDATE: Bank Bloodbath Brings Down ‘Bull Market’ As Yield Curve Crashes

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“The Northeastern states are cutting their own throats, and their leaders are doing it with a green knife,” Kish said.

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Yes, he does look like a tick with a beard. There’s a reason for that.

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The 31st U.S. Marine Expeditionary Unit (31st MEU) seized a tiny island and airfield with special operations airmen and soldiers as part of a new island-hopping strategy.

Last week, 31st MEU, backed by the 3rd Marine Division, 3rd Marine Logistics Group and 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, members of the Air Force 353rd Special Operations Group, and Army soldiers with 1st Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group, conducted a series of simulated military exercises attacking and seizing Ie Shima Island located off the northwest coast of Okinawa Island in the East China Sea, reported Task Purpose.

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Thanks, Mom.

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

Of course, she’ll never go to jail the way a Dirt Person would….

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The European Union is terrified of the upcoming EU Parliament election, because they are anticipating a parliament dominated by populists, climate skeptics and Euroskeptics who want to break up the union.

If skeptics do win control of the European Parliament, under the democratically deficient EU system elected members probably won’t have the power to change EU climate policy or break up the EU. But the skeptics may rob the unelected soviet style bureaucrats who really run the EU of the facade of democratic legitimacy they have enjoyed to date, thanks to their rubber stamp parliament of tame elected Europhiles.

I’ve been married and I’ve been single, and married is better.