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

With thanks to Debby Witt, a kindred soul.

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Looking sleazier and sleazier.

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Sometimes it is good to be the son of the Vice-President.

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Russia covered up the deadly nuclear reactor explosion in August during the salvage at sea of one of Vladimir Putin’s new superweapons, a nuclear-powered cruise missile called Skyfall, a senior State Department official disclosed.

The reactor exploded Aug. 8 off the coast of the northern Russian town of Nenoska, killing seven Russians on a barge in the White Sea as they were overseeing the recovery of a sunken Skyfall. The missile had been sitting on the seafloor for about year after a failed flight test, said State Department official Thomas G. DiNanno.

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Better get used to it, ‘ladies.’

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

Just remember that.

Absolutely nothing.

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I was at dinner recently with a colleague and two PhD students. The latter are brilliant young women, very hard working and, as you’d expect of 20-something students interested in gender and race, extremely right-on.

Inevitably, over (admittedly delicious) vegan stew, the conversation turned to a series of gender awareness workshops we were all encouraged to attend in order to boost our handling of transgender issues.

“There Is Definite Hanky-Panky Going On”: The Fantastically Profitable Mystery Of The Trump Chaos Trades

The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics  It’s Politico so they’re all anti-Trump.

Obama Staffer Slams Mulvaney For Admitting ‘Quid Pro Quo’ — Then Concedes It Happens All The Time

Greta Thunberg Urges Extinction Rebellion to Break the Law

Extinction Rebellion isn’t about the Climate. It’s about Heteronormativity

EU fails to set tougher climate targets before December U.N. conference

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That would explain a lot about their politics.

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Gee, they wouldn’t do that, would they?

Perhaps we can look forward to a year or two of ‘mysterious’ explosions and such.

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I am not making this up.

Plastics:  Science is Winning

Why Is The Elitist Establishment So Obsessed With Meat?

John Kasich calls for Trump’s impeachment, sending CNN into ‘breaking news’ frenzy

NY Times Prints Op-Ed for Actor John Lithgow to Rant Embarrassing TDS  He even looks crazy.

On the march to stop Trump’s impeachment

O’Donnell Goes Gaga Over ‘Adult in the Room’ Nancy Pelosi Rebuking ‘Child President’ Trump  Strike that. Reverse it.

Justin Amash: ‘Hillary Clinton Is A Donald Trump Asset’

Times Square Billboard Shows Trump Being Hogtied & Tortured

New York Times Decides Which Groups Are ‘Islamophobic,’ Shouldn’t Meet at Mar-a-Lago

Impeachment Becomes A Psychodrama Of The Press

Bill Maher Offers Trump a Million-Dollar Bribe to Resign — and More From ‘Prickstarter’ Trump ought to offer him a million-dollar bribe to STFU.

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Good. I should very much like to see Brennan, Clapper, and even Comey behind bars.

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Think of it as evolution in action.

Unfortunately, they never give it to people like me, who could really use it.

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I’ll bet you didn’t even know that “ethical use of human genetic material from the past” was even a thing.

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Just send them a color photograph of your forearm.

ZMan looks south.

If we are looking around for some small event, or seemingly small, that could turn out to be an inflection point today, the Mexican failure to deal with the Sinaloa cartel this past week is a good choice. The operation by the Mexican government to arrest Ovidio Guzmán López, the son of former drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán, and then turn him over to the U.S, may be more than a typical Latin bungle. It has revealed that Mexico is a failed state, largely controlled by large criminal cartels.

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Last week, several prominent journalism outlets publicized a bombastic claim about tax policy in the United States. According to analysis by Berkeley economists Gabriel Zucman and Emmanuel Saez, the bottom 50 percent of earners in the United States now pay a higher overall tax rate than multimillionaires. The New York Times and Washington Post trumpeted this claim as if it was settled fact, even though the study it was based upon has yet to go through scholarly peer review.

Yet as we also saw, Saez and Zucman’s numbers immediately came under intense scrutiny — including from high quarters in the economics profession. Their overall depicted trend in tax rates conflicted with better-established estimates from the Congressional Budget Office (for federal rates) and the Institute on Taxation and Policy (for state and local rates) — which, when combined, reveal an unambiguously progressive distribution of the tax burden.

Saez and Zucman’s supporters nonetheless insisted that their alternative estimates would be vindicated with the release of their new book, The Triumph of Injustice. After an unconventional rollout that included providing selected journalists with privileged access to unvetted stats, the Saez-Zucman data files are finally available. Far from demonstrating the superiority of their new estimates, the statistical release has only cast further doubt upon their methods.

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Democratic presidential candidate and Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard – who like Trump was quickly put in the crosshairs of the military industrial complex, the deep state and the pro-war Atlantic Council for her de-interventionist foreign policy – fired back at Hillary Clinton, accusing her of being behind a “concerted campaign” to destroy her reputation and challenged her to stop hiding and enter the 2020 presidential race. Earlier in the day, Hillary Clinton floated a conspiracy theory that the Russians are “grooming” the Hawaii congresswoman to be a third-party candidate in 2020, while claiming 2016 Green Party nominee Jill Stein is “also” a Russian asset.

UPDATE: Van Jones: Hillary Clinton Is ‘Playing A Very Dangerous Game’ With Gabbard Criticism

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Intuit’s QuickBooks accounting product remains a steady moneymaker, but in the past two decades TurboTax, its tax preparation product, has driven the company’s steadily growing profits and made it a Wall Street phenom. When Smith took over in 2008, TurboTax was a market leader, but only a small portion of Americans filed their taxes online. By 2019, nearly 40% of U.S. taxpayers filed online and some 40 million of them did so with TurboTax, far more than with any other product.

But the success of TurboTax rests on a shaky foundation, one that could collapse overnight if the U.S. government did what most wealthy countries did long ago and made tax filing simple and free for most citizens.

For more than 20 years, Intuit has waged a sophisticated, sometimes covert war to prevent the government from doing just that, according to internal company and IRS documents and interviews with insiders. The company unleashed a battalion of lobbyists and hired top officials from the agency that regulates it. From the beginning, Intuit recognized that its success depended on two parallel missions: stoking innovation in Silicon Valley while stifling it in Washington. Indeed, employees ruefully joke that the company’s motto should actually be “compromise without integrity.”

The guardrails are off the Trump presidency  Word salad.

White House admits quid pro quo over Ukraine aid  Except that they didn’t.

CBS Spends Almost Half of Cummings Tribute Talking About Trump

Senate Republicans Are Not At All Worried About Impeachment

Schlichter: Bad Gaslighting Epidemic Sweeps The Elite

‘All Roads Lead To Putin’: Pelosi Blames Russia For Ukraine Fracas Again  Putin! Is there anything he can’t do?

DISGUSTING: Tom Arnold Hits Trump Rallying in Dallas With JFK Assassination Taunt

NBC’s Mitchell Gushes About Photo of Pelosi Storming Out of Meeting  Looks like a ‘tantrum’ to me.

Liberal ‘Witch Hunt’ Reaches Fever Pitch

CNN: Contemporary Christian Music Stars Are ‘Copouts’ for Failing to Denounce Trump

Scarborough: Trump Fans Are ‘Should Be Kept Away from Blenders’ Stupid

Impeachment Bluff – Who Holds The Cards?

Hillary Clinton: Putin Has Kompromat on Trump, Russia Will Back Tulsi Gabbard’s Third-Party Bid, and Jill Stein is a Russian Asset And Oh Yeah, He’s Also Going to Install Himself as Caesar For Life  We could do worse.

Times Square Billboard Portrays Trump Getting Hogtied By Woman In A Bra  Sounds as if somebody is having a fantasy moment.

Trump’s Decision To Host Next G7 Summit At Chuck E. Cheese Draws Criticism  Babylon Bee. I was pushing for Chik-Fil-A.

Extinction Rebellion: Metro Climate Protest Attackers were Stressed by Ecological Collapse  No, they were stressed by virtue-signaling assholes who were blocking them getting to work.

Climate ‘limits’ and timelines

Greta Thunberg Leads Climate ‘Strike’ In Alberta — Oil And Gas Workers Counter-Protest

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And who’s to say that they don’t deserve it?

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The plot thickens.

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Sometimes it is good to be the Vice-President’s son.

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Edmund Burke famously wrote of the French Revolution, “The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please; we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations which may be soon turned into complaints.” The truth of Burke’s warning to France was proven by subsequent events, and yet it seems we have learned nothing from the history of the past two centuries.

Think about the consequences of the Sexual Revolution and modern feminism, which began in the late 1960s as the Women’s Liberation Movement. The catastrophic effects of “liberty to individuals” can scarcely be denied, and we can see this not only as statistical trends, but in particular cases. Some people are simply incapable of exercising prudent judgment, and their folly often inflicts heartbreaking pain on those unfortunate enough to be associated with such fools.

In a post earlier this week (“What Causes Misogyny?”), I discussed the case of a man who discovered from a DNA test that his 15-year-old daughter was not actually his daughter, but rather the result of his cheating ex-wife’s affairs. What perhaps shocked me most in that tale was when the man told how, after discovering how he’d been deceived, he determined have nothing more to do with his ex-wife’s daughter — and yet allowed his mother to talk him into embracing the child as if she were actually his own!

My mother would have been the first to kick that chick (and her mother) to the curb. But that was her.

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If competitive soccer games are too toxically masculine for your taste, and if your idea of “diversity” is an all-black cast, The New York Times has some games for you!

The Times in mid-October posted “Fear, Anxiety and Hope: What It Means to Be a Minority in Gaming,” a roundup of diverse and (uniformly) progressive video game creators who The Times hopes will replace gaming’s “toxic” culture.

Many of the games specifically deal with the creators’ own trauma and issues of identity. From an artistic perspective, the classic advice of “write what you know” is an understandable starting point, but many of these creators seem happy to jump off the deep end.

In Davionne Gooden’s “She Dreams Elsewhere” — which is apparently a “diverse” game because it features “an all-black cast” (“diverse” evidently means not white) — themes of “anxiety and depression” take center stage.

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

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Mexican authorities briefly detained jailed drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán’s son, but were forced to release him after they were overwhelmed by cartel gunmen firing military-grade weapons.

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They’re fools if they do.

Rush Limbaugh said it best when he spoke to the big Republican Congressional cohort elected under the Contract With America: These people are not your friends. They are not going to report what you say in an objective manner. They are going to twist every word into a stick with which to beat you. Just Don’t Say Anything.

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This feels like it might be using government process and media to push a political narrative.

In other words, I guess Trump has learned from Obama, Hillary, Comey, Lynch, Clapper, Brennan, and Schiff.

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The hammer doesn’t care whose hand wields it.

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I never thought I’d see The Telegraph make the wrong choice between ‘that’ and ‘which’. I’m disappointed.

Babylon Bee.

The California State Legislature passed a law today which requires every American flag in the state to have the stars representing anti-LGBTQ states removed. Governor Gavin Newsom signed the bill in rainbow ink this morning and then blew a kiss to the CNN camera in front of him.

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Guess you can’t trust a Muslim, even a NATO ally.

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I don’t eat cereal for breakfast, but if I did, it wouldn’t be Kellogg.

Actually, the Alphabet Soup people are just another niche market, so this is well within traditional breakfast sugar bomb marketing.

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Sometimes it is good to be the Fortunate Son.

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We have the technology … or will shortly.

Islam: The Learning Curve

Medieval Geopolitics: The Origins of Jihad and the Islamic Conquests

ISIS Jail Break Begins? Riots At Sprawling Al-Hol Prison Camp As Turkey Invades

Dispatch: Anger on Turkish border as conflict reveals contradiction at the heart of Western Syria policy

Dramatic Video Shows ISIS Prison Break Under Turkish Artillery Fire In Syria

Did the Knife Jihadi do a Data Dump on the French Police?

France’s Homegrown Terrorism

France & Germany Halt Arms Exports To Turkey As 100,000 Syrian Kurds Displaced

Report:  Fight against ISIS flags due to Turkish invasion [UPDATED]

Turkish-backed rebels accused of killing unarmed Kurdish civilians  Must have mistaken then for Armenians.

British Isil ‘matchmaker’ feared to have escaped after mass prisoner breakout

How Times Reporters Proved Russia Bombed Syrian Hospitals

US Troops Can Fire Back If Turkey Attacks Positions Again, Pentagon Says

“Anarchy” As 750 ISIS Prisoners Escape Syria Camp After Turkish Shelling

Mattis: Resurgence Of ISIS ‘A Given’ After Withdrawal Of US Troops

Syrian Army To Enter Turkish-Besieged Cities “Within 48 Hours” As US Exits

US meets Taliban in attempt to revive Afghanistan talks

Kurds agree to Russian-brokered plan to allow Assad into their territory  Another white Toyota pickup with a machine gun mounted on the bed.

GOP Congressman: Trump’s Syria Abandonment Aids America’s Enemies — Especially ISIS

“Compromise Or Genocide”: Putin’s ‘Deal Of The Century’ Rapidly Unfolding In Syria

Assad troops enter northeast Syria after Russia-backed deal with Kurds

First Afghanistan province declared mine-free – thanks to an all-female team who cleared them

ABC News Busted Using Gun Range Footage To Report Turkish ‘Slaughter’ Of Kurd Civilians

British orphaned children of Isil fighters rescued from Syria camp after ‘prison break’

Outcry as gravely ill Australian boy threatened with deportation to Pakistan because of medical bills

Forbes Slammed For Encouraging Women To Vacation Alone In Pakistan

The Amsterdam Knife Jihadi Gets 26 Years in Prison

“We Came From Fire”: A Brief History Of The Syrian Kurds

Two Iraqi migrants found dead on French beach may have been attempting to cross Channel  What is so magical about Britain, as opposed to France?

US Officials: Turkey Deliberately Releasing ISIS Prisoners, Then Blaming Kurdish Forces

Kurdish, Syrian, and Turkish Ironies

Alleged jihadist in court accused of plot to blow up St Paul’s Cathedral

Convicted American Al-Qaida Terrorist Tries to Parlay Khashoggi Murder into Freedom

500 shackled children freed from third Islamic boarding school in north Nigeria

‘You Did A Double Wrong Here’: Chris Cuomo Scolds GOP Congressman For Supporting Trump

Megyn Kelly Torches the Liberal Media’s ‘Hyperfocus on Impeachment’ in Return to TV

No More Pretense: Journalists, Dems Use Identical Talking Points on Impeachment

Daily Beast Sees Trump in Documentary Series ‘Why We Hate’

CNN Mocks Trump Letter to Erdogan: ‘Isn’t Exactly Ph.D. Level’

Nancy Pelosi Treated Trump Staff With ‘Disrespect,’ Called Them ‘Incompetent,’ Hogan Gidley Claims

Nadler Slams “Brazen Corruption” As Trump Picks Doral Resort To Host 2020 G-7 Summit

Joy Behar Brags She Scolds Trump Supporters While on Vacation  How endearing.

Trump-Obsessed NY Times Makes Death of Cummings All About President  Considering that Cumming’s district is one of those that give Baltimore the nickname ‘Lagos on the Chesapeake’, that’s pretty salty.

Multiple Outlets Highlight Trump In Elijah Cummings Obituary  They weren’t, of course, highlighting Cummings calling Trump Hitler, but rather Trump criticizing Cummings.

Celebs Use Cummings’ Death a Weapon Against Trump

The Media Has Been Telling You Trump’s Syria Withdrawal Is A Gift To Putin. It’s Not, Here’s Why  “Vlad, give that tarbaby over there a punch for me, would you?”

Arahant: The Johnnie Cochran School of Impeachment

4 Big Indicators of What’s Next in Impeachment Process

Twitter Announces That It Will Begin Partially Deplatforming Donald Trump’s Tweets  Can you spell ‘lawsuit’?

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Enough irony to sink an Iranian oil tanker.

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The National Immigration Institute, the department that manages Mexico’s immigration affairs, announced late Wednesday that it flew 311 Indian nationals from Toluca, Mexico to New Dehli, India. The move is being hailed by the Mexican government as first of its kind, and further illustrates its efforts to stop the flow of illegal migrants reaching the U.S. southern border.

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

Just remember that.

Absolutely nothing.

The Other McCain looks at the Democrat field.

Once the debates began, it became apparent that Biden is not a viable challenger to Trump. He is simply too old, and has too much baggage — not least of which being his son’s deals in Ukraine and China — and cannot inspire the left-wing grassroots. The idea that Biden is a “moderate” who can appeal to blue-collar voters was, perhaps, wishful thinking for Democrats, who have become the anti-white, anti-male, anti-American party. If they nominated Biden, Democrats would be symbolically repudiating everything on which their identity-politics “social justice” agenda is based. Therefore, even if Biden could win the primaries, this would set up the Democrats for defeat in November 2020, because so many of their supporters — especially of the purple-hair feminist SJW variety — would not bother to vote.