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Jake Tapper is either tendentiously dishonest or lacks certain basic literacy skills.

We report, you decide.

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No evidence as to whether he started with a molehill.

John Derbyshire.

o there was this couple, he 86 and she 85, crossing the cemetery on their way to Anthony’s grave on the morning of May 8th as they had done hundreds of times before.

Twenty-nine-year-old Sheldon Francis, a black man dressed entirely in black, with a black face mask, came up behind them and shot them both with a handgun.

Maybe they needed to be jogging.

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C’mon, dude, Windows isn’t that bad.

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The Chinese Navy is building a string of overseas bases. So far the largest and furthest afield is in Djibouti on the Horn of Africa. This strategically-located base appears ready to receive large warships, maybe even aircraft carriers. One aspect of the base is particularly interesting: It is a modern-day fortress built from scratch. If the Communist country was hoping to give off non-imperialist vibes as it expands its presence overseas, then it may have chosen the wrong architects.

And it is not just castle aesthetics, the base really is designed to be highly defendable on a scale rarely seen, even in war zones. Construction of the walls started in early 2016, and was substantially complete by spring 2017. The base has been built up since.

What do they know that you don’t know?

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Conservatives and Republicans who are expecting fairness and Marquess of Queensberry rules in either the political arena or the public square won’t find it.

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Vicino operates several apocalypse bunker communities, in particular, The Verge visited xPoint, an abandoned military facility-turned-survivalist town at the base of the Black Hills in Fall River County, South Dakota. He said, “demand for doomsday bunkers is at an all-time high,” due mostly to the virus pandemic.

Steve Sailer.

From the New York Times opinion page’s series on how Raj Chetty has discovered exactly which Zip Codes are hoarding the Magic Dirt and which are stuck with the Tragic Dirt, a black lady writer responds to the growing menace of woke Asian lady writers by laying down just about All the race cards other than (unaccountably) Emmett Till….

I’m curious as to how a black woman wound up with a name like Brandi.

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Back in my day, Yale’s colleges had squash courts, pool rooms, wood shops, and not uncommonly print shops in which undergraduates could produce hand-printed limited edition books. Today’s Yalies go to therapy and play in sand boxes.

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At this point, most market participants outside California know LA County Public Health Director Dr. Barbara Ferrer as the public servant whose “miscommunication” Tuesday afternoon about a three-month extension to her county’s stay at home order was blamed for reviving anxieties about the economic reopening in the US that helped hammer stocks lower last week. The good doctor – who, as it so happens, isn’t a medical doctor, but the owner of a Ph.D in “Social Welfare” (whatever the f**k that means) – would like you to know she is truly sorry for the error, and the ensuing public furor she accidentally unleashed.

She looks like a zombie.

Global Cooling!! Low Solar Activity To Cause Temperatures To Plummet, Say Scientists

Using proverbs to study local perceptions of climate change

One Billion People Will Suffer from “Unliveable” Heat Within 50 Years

New Zealand Budget Ditches Climate Change, Prioritises the Economy

Will Congress Bankrupt The Mom-And-Pop Landlord With This Socialist New Bill?

‘Don’t Expect Us To Do It’: Democratic Michigan Sheriff Will Not Enforce Whitmer’s Lockdown Orders

Trump Rips ‘Radical Left’ Leadership at Tech Giants

Remember How Everybody Was Going to Die Because Georgia Ended Lockdowns?

CNN’s Toobin Rants Over ‘Outrageous’ GOP Lawsuit in Wisconsin, a ‘Failed State’

Google refuses to remove the state-sponsored app used to spy on Russian citizens

Taxpayer-Funded PBS Stations Are Airing Pro-China Propaganda

Inside the Media’s Desperate Cover-Up of ‘Obamagate’

MSNBC Parrots Chinese Propaganda Trashing Trump ‘Lunacy’

Juan Williams Defends Biden Gaffes By Turning The Spotlight On Trump

China’s State Media Declares It Will Meddle in the US Election Against Trump

Esteemed Medical Journal Says Trump Should Lose WH for Hobbling CDC in Pandemic

White House Challenges Left’s Pandemic Playbook Narrative

Acosta on Reopening: Trump ‘Not Dealing with the Reality of the Situation’

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Saturday’s New York Times cheered on the no-limits left-wing spending wishlist of congressional Democrats in “G.O.P.’s Slow Approach To Aid Risks Blowback” by congressional reporter Carl Hulse. It is Hulse’s favorite type of story, one he has written and rewritten constantly over the years: Democrats in Congress pressuring Republicans to cave in on one thing or another — immigration, spending, taxes, etc.

ZMan remembers.

One of the stranger things about the current age is that very few people talk about the Cold War or the events that drove it. For people living from the 1950’s through the 1980’s, it was the central topic of politics. When the Soviet Empire collapsed, it was if everyone decided to forget about the whole thing. If it is mentioned at all it is usually a conservative trying to remind people that socialism does not produce high quality consumer goods or not enough choices in the cereal aisle.

The great ideological battle between socialism and liberalism has been reduced to a battle between market economics versus command economics. The winner was the one that made better home electronics. Yet, right up to the end of the Cold War, the battle was not about economics. Sure, the lack of blue jeans and rock music was a popular way to mock the Soviet system, but even there it was not about the products, but the reason why they existed in the West and not the East.

In my case it will be ‘Jeez, was he still around?’

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

FedEx Pilot Breaks Virus Order, Sentenced to 4 Weeks in Singapore Jail

Joe Rogan Contemplates Move to Texas Over California Lockdown

Informercial, Not Comedy: Samantha Bee Pushes to Exploit Pandemic to Enact Socialism

Teachers’ unions are exploiting fear to advance their champagne socialism

‘You’re Disgusting, You’re The Virus’: Anti-Lockdown Protesters Taunt Journalist At Long Island Demonstration  The sheep rise up.

The War over Title IX Regulations Will Continue

Brian Willams Puts On Brennan, Disparages Any Focus on Team Obama’s Unmasking  There’s something about Brennan that just makes me want to smack him.

‘This Is My Dream’: Michigan Music Store Owner Weeps, Blames Gov. Whitmer For Putting Him Out Of Business

Facebook Buys Giphy For $400 Million As Tech Giant Pledges To Banish All “Hateful Memes”

ACLU Sues Betty DeVos Opposing Due Process Reforms in Student Sexual Harassment Cases

Camera Feed Cuts Out After CNN Asks James Clapper About Leaking Classified Information  Isn’t that amazing.

Google Allegedly Reduces Diversity and Inclusion Programs to ‘Shield’ from Anti-Conservative Perception

CNN: Want to Go Back to Church? Bigot.

Facebook Shuts Down Two Groups Opposed to Michigan’s Shutdown

CBS Worries That Lockdown Protesters Showcase a Growing ‘Pattern’ of ‘Hate’  Gee, I wonder why.

Montgomery County Sued For Doling Out Coronavirus Money To Illegal Aliens

‘Girl, You Just Got Here, SHHH!’: Whoopi Goldberg Scolds Kayleigh McEnany For Criticizing Dr. Rick Bright

Democrats Have Abandoned Civil Liberties  Matt Taibbi.

Crackpot Alyssa Milano Calls For ‘Mail-In Voting’ for 2020, Claims GOP ‘Suppressing Votes’  The best Underclass that money can buy.

‘View’ Berates Christie For Calling to Reopen Economy: Who Will You ‘Sacrifice To Die?’  Well, I have a list…. The Karens on The View, for a start.

UN Official Suggests Lockdowns Should Continue  What a surprise.

Multiple NAACP Branches Demand Resignation Of Michigan State Senator Who Wore Confederate Flag Face Mask  THOUGHTCRIME! THOUGHTCRIME!

CSIRO Scientists Accidentally Prove Coral Rapidly Adapts to Global Warming

Cooper Throws Childish Tantrum Over Criticism of Greta Being a Coronavirus Town Hall Guest

The Dangerous Consequences of Renewables in the Age of COVID-19

Climate change: The worst foods for the planet  Vox.

Harp seal population critical to Davis Strait polar bears is still increasing

The Great Lakes are higher than they’ve ever been, and we’re not sure what will happen next

The Great Lakes are higher than they’ve ever been, and we’re not sure what will happen next  Popular ‘Science’. Uh, they’ll go back down? As they always have?

Former and Current Reality TV Show Host Anderson Cooper Has Meltdown Over Completely Valid Criticism Over CNN’s Carnival-Barker Move of Naming Greta Thunberg a Covid Expert

Sky News Australia DESTROYS CNN: ‘Shame on CNN’ for Putting Greta Thunberg on COVID-19 Panel

Conservative poll finds 23 percent of Republicans think GOP shouldn’t nominate Trump | TheHill. For sufficiently broad definitions of ‘conservative’.

Abdul-Jabbar Wants a Mea Culpa Speech From Trump on Corona Mistakes  While he’s at it he ought to wish for a pony too.

Rory McIlroy Won’t Play Golf With President Donald Trump Anymore Due To His Coronavirus Response  What a hardship.

World’s Top Golfer Says No More Golf With President Who Says Terrible Things  I’m sure Trump will have no trouble finding golfing buddies.

Walmart Billionaire Heiress Christy Walton Funded Group Behind Anti-Trump Ad PUSHED by MSNBC

‘Science-Denying Grandma Killers’

Ace of Spades doesn’t pull any punches.

As you probably know, Andrew Cuomo ordered elderly persons infected with coronavirus back into their nursing homes, where they could — and did — infect all the other nursing home residents and kill thousands of them.

He did this deliberately. Why?

It’s hard to think of a reason why — these people could have been isolated in the thousands of unused temporary hospital berths built to… well, to keep coronavirus patients isolated.

Instead he ordered them back into nursing homes, to infect other people of a very high risk of dying from the disease.

And die they did.

By the thousands.

The Other McCain sports from the underside.

McKay, 63, was found stabbed and bludgeoned to death at the top of the stairs, near a bag filled with her belongings, as well as a utility knife.
Authorities were shocked when they pulled the body of her killer out of the lake (he’d jumped in and drowned during a police chase): it was Travis Lewis, who’d been convicted at 17 for the horrific 1996 murders of her mother, Sally Snowden McKay, 75, and her cousin, Joseph “Lee” Baker, 52, a prominent Memphis blues guitarist. . . .

Put not your trust in joggers.

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I’m good with that.

Peggy Noonan returns to her roots.

Here’s a generalization based on a lifetime of experience and observation. The working-class people who are pushing back have had harder lives than those now determining their fate. They haven’t had familial or economic ease. No one sent them to Yale. They often come from considerable family dysfunction. This has left them tougher or harder, you choose the word.

They’re more fatalistic about life because life has taught them to be fatalistic. And they look at these scientists and reporters making their warnings about how tough it’s going to be if we lift shutdowns and they don’t think, “Oh what informed, caring observers.” They think, “You have no idea what tough is. You don’t know what painful is.” And if you don’t know, why should you have so much say?

The overclass says, “Wait three months before we’re safe.” They reply, “There’s no such thing as safe.”

Preach it, sister.

Facebook Censorship Council Includes Pro-Muslim Brotherhood Activist

Barcelona police arrest suspected Islamic State terrorist planning lockdown attack

Busted in Barcelona

New Facebook Oversight Board Member ‘Partial Toward the Muslim Brotherhood’

People Smugglers Cash in on the Spanish Route

Riots Return To France’s No-Go Zones

Afghan commandos rescue 80 children and their mothers as gunmen attack maternity hospital

Advocacy Group Raises Awareness Of Abductions Of Christian Women In Egypt, Forced Conversions To Islam

Suicide Bombing Kills 24 At Funeral In Kabul; Two Newborns Dead After Hospital Attack

College District To Create Academic Freedom Committee After Professor Faced Backlash For Islam And Terrorism Test Question

“Turn the Infidels’ Joy Into Funerals” – Recent Terror Arrests Reinforce Jihadists’ Ongoing Menace

Death toll from Kabul maternity hospital attack rises to 24

Suicide bomb in eastern Afghanistan kills five

Culture-Enriching Rape of a Jogger in Sardinia

Life With the Muslim Brotherhood: One Woman’s Story

Welcome to Little Ankara!

Pro-Refugee French Activist Murdered By Migrant He Was Sleeping With

Christopher de Groot.

In the last few weeks Ahmaud Arbery, like Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Freddie Gray, has been put to a predictable use: advancing the liberal narrative of black victims of white violence. Regardless of the facts of the case, the media has trotted out its standard story of an innocent black man being subjected, like so many others before him, to the racist violence that, we are to believe, defines life for blacks in the contemporary United States.

In reality, most violence in the U.S. is intra-racial, but when it comes to interracial violence, blacks are considerably overrepresented, as they are in regard to violent crime generally. Still, the constant media hype obscures these simple truths, which people nevertheless know to be true from their own experience. Whenever, for example, people speak of “a bad neighborhood” in an inner city, it’s taken for granted that the neighborhood is a black one.

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One of the disadvantages of generous benefits is that it discourages work. Proglodytes like that because it increases dependence on the government and hence willingness to vote for the Free Stuff Party.

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Back on April 10, NewsBusters wrote about a bizarre move by the far-left group WASHLITE to have a judge removed from their farcical lawsuit trying to destroy Fox News for its supposedly dangerous, deadly, and inept coronavirus coverage. Earlier this week, the case took an even more baffling turn when, as part of a new filing, WASHLITE cited the Second Amendment in a case pertaining to the First Amendment.

Plastic pollution threatens marine life, humans and ecosystems. Enter FRED, a future vacuum of the ocean.

Climate Change Experts Explain to Insurers They Don’t Understand Risk

“Elon Is An Arrogant Ass”: Green Energy Blog Unloads On Tesla CEO In Stunning Diatribe

UN vs UN: “COVID-19 is disrupting a food industry already thrown into turmoil by climate change”

Climate Scientists Try to Rescue Renewable Energies from ‘Planet of the Humans’

Ocasio-Cortez Hits Critic For Not Reading Green New Deal Bill, Says It ‘Costs $0 If Passed’  And if you believe that one, she’ll tell you another one.

Conservative William Kristol: ‘We’re really going to pay a price for this terrible failure in leadership’

CNN Replaces President Trump’s Press Briefings With President Xi’s

“We Were In A Headless-Chicken Phase”: NYTimes Reporter Rebuked For Anti-Trump Tirade On CNN

CNN Hacks Dismiss Unmasking as ‘Contrived Scandal,’ ‘Disgraceful,’ ‘Shameful,’ Politics

Trump Says He’s Not Just Running Against Biden — He’s Also Taking On Media ‘And Some Really Stupid Republicans’

VIDEO: CNN Spent Nearly Two Years Lapping Up Schiff’s Collusion Lies

‘Could They At Least Hold Up A Baby In A Racist Onesie?’: Stephen Colbert Mocks Trump For Inability To Hold Rallies  Yeah, but it would be a black baby in a onesie reading ‘Down With White Privilege’.

Nets Tout Whistleblower Testifying Against Trump, Ignore His Ties to Dem Committee Chair

Obsessed Joe Scarborough’s Meltdown: ‘Donald! Donald! Hey, Donald!’

‘I Believe Lives Were Lost’ — Dr. Bright Rips Into Trump Admin Over Masks, Says That Nurses Are Still Not Protected

‘The Biggest Threat We Have’: Rahm Emanuel Says Trump Is Doing Exactly What The Russians And Chinese Want

‘Live N’ Let Die With Covid 45’: ‘Guns N’ Roses’ Sell Anti-Trump Band T-Shirts

Here’s How Chinese State Media Is Covering Biden, Trump And The 2020 Election

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For decades, we’ve been fed a near-daily diet of claims that public schooling is one of the most important—if not the most important—institutions in America. We’re also told that there’s not nearly enough of it, and this leads to demands for longer school hours, longer school years, and ever larger amounts of money spent on more facilities and more tech.

And then, all of sudden, with the panic over COVID-19, it was gone.

It turns out that public schooling wasn’t actually all that important after all, and that extending the lives of the over-seventy demographic takes precedence.

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Florida jogger.

Ace of Spades is on the case.

NeverTrumpers are always congratulating themselves on their alleged “courage” for betraying a disfavored and in fact frequently hated political minority to join the liberal media-government consensus that has near 100% hegemony over our entire culture and billions of dollars in funding from leftwing foundations and almost all big corporations and which has lots of contributorships and fellowships to hand out because they control the media and the think tanks.

This is like members of the French Resistance deciding they don’t like the nasty tactics the group is using against the Nazis, and then joining the Nazis and hunting down their former comrades, and then congratulating themselves on how brave they were to defect from a tiny harried underground movement to join a nigh-unstoppable army that controls the entire country.

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Dr. Qing Wang was arrested and charged with false claims and wire fraud after knowingly omitting affiliations with a Chinese university and accepting $3 million in research funding from China while also accepting $3.6 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health, a U.S. government agency, according to the Justice Department’s statement.

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Azar began by saying that everything Bright had complained about had actually happened, saying, “Everything he’s complaining about was achieved. Everything he talked about was done. He says he talked about the need for respirators. We procured respirators under the president’s direction. He said we need a Manhattan Project for vaccines. This president initiates a vaccine Manhattan Project, diagnostic Manhattan Project, therapeutic Manhattan Project.”

The HHS Secretary went on to suggest that Bright was spending his time complaining rather than doing the job he had initially been assigned.

“Oh, and, by the way, whose job was it to actually lead the development of vaccines? Dr. Bright. So, while we are launching Operation Warp Speed, he’s not showing up for work to be part of that. So, this is like somebody who was in a choir and is now trying to say he was a soloist back then,” Azar continued.

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“People are showing up in San Francisco from other places and asking where their hotel room is,” Mayor Breed complained.

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An outgoing Republican lawmaker says he will buck his party to vote for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s coronavirus stimulus package, a bill that includes a slate of progressive measures.

Let’s see what cushy Crust job he winds up in.

“Make unto you friends of the mammon of iniquity; that when you shall fail, they may receive you into everlasting dwellings.”

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Nothing to see here, move along, move along….

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… which he undoubtedly is.

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A lot of jogging goin’ on out there….

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A Florida sheriff’s sergeant fired because he sat in a parked car during a 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School will get his job back along with back pay, according to a statement from the union that represents deputies.

The arbitrator dismissed the case against Brian Miller after finding that his due process rights were violated when Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony terminated him, the South Florida SunSentinel reported.

I guess the dead kids didn’t get a say.

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As journalists have come under attack for accepting and forwarding Chinese propaganda about the coronavirus they unleashed from Wuhan, the National Association of Black Journalists was forced on Tuesday to cancel a panel discussion with CNN host Van Jones and former CNN analyst Roland Martin on the “rise of misinformation” on the virus when it became controversial due to its financial backer — Huawei, a telecom giant connected to the Chinese communist government that’s been indicted for racketerring and conspiracy to steal trade secrets.

One of the most astonishing aspects of the Pandemic Panic is the number of certifiable Crustians who are willing to shill for the Communist Chinese.

ZMan doesn’t like what’s coming.

Thirty years ago, as the Cold War was ending, the big question for the West was what was going to come next? The great struggle between liberal democracy and communism was over and the clear winner was liberal democracy. The only real question, in terms of politics, was just how quickly the rest of the world embraced what was clearly the only rational politics. The question political theorists will be pondering in the future, is what went horribly wrong with liberal democracy?

There really is no other way to frame things at this point. In 1990, there was a long list of things that no one thought would ever happen in the West. Most of things on that list were things assumed to be common in the Soviet Empire. The police arresting someone for holding the wrong opinion was the symbol of everything that was wrong in the communist system and everything right about liberal democracy. Yet, thirty years on and this is exactly what we see happening all over the West.

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Not only will no one fight to the death to defend speech, the great and the good line up to condemn anyone for speaking out. Where is the ACLU in these cases? Certainly not rushing to defend children against the crime of saying mean things. No, the ACLU is too busy ratting out heretics and blasphemers, who dare question the liberal democratic ideology. In one of life’s great ironies, all of the civil rights groups now work to limit your civil rights.

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It’s remarkable how often the Prestige Press manages to find somebody to sanctify who is a real dodgy character. Alternatively, how often do they find somebody who is even an okay guy?

Pelosi Includes Massive Tax Break For The Rich In New $3 Trillion Coronavirus Relief Package  Only the Correct Rich, of course.

Indian Cops Use Metal Tool To Grab Social Distancing Dissidents

These States Banned Religious Gatherings But Kept Liquor Stores Open

“Eat A Waffle, Go To Jail…” – Authoritarians Using COVID-19 Fear To Destroy America

PA Health Secretary Moved Mother Out Of Personal Care Home After Ordering Nursing Homes To Accept COVID Patients  Some pigs are more equal than others.

‘Went Too Far’: NYT Reporter Calls For CDC Chief To Resign, Sparking His Employer To Speak Out

WA Governor To Residents: COVID-Test-Deniers Will Not Be Allowed To Leave Home To Get Groceries

A Million Michigan Residents Stopped Staying Home After Whitmer Extended Lockdown, Data Show

Armed Militia Helps Reopen Michigan Barbershop 

Colorado Shuts Down Defiant Restaurant

Game of Courts

‘View’ Worries for Whitmer: Why Are You a ‘Target’ for Violent, Racist Lockdown Protesters?

Facebook Unleashed AI to Purge Platform of ‘Hate Speech’

EXCLUSIVE: House Republicans Open Inquiry Into Mysterious Drone Program Officials Use To Police Americans Who Aren’t Social Distancing

Wisconsin Supreme Court Strikes Down Governor Evers’ Stay At Home Order, Will The Badgers Play Football?

@CNN hits peak stupid, taps @GretaThunberg for #COVID19 panel

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Serve on Joe Biden’s Climate Policy Team

CNN Mocked for Inviting Greta Thunberg to Coronavirus Town Hall

Newsflash: Trump insults everyone

Another silly mainstream media attempt to paint Trump as racist

Pathetic: CNN’s Blitzer, Stelter Nail Trump as Racist for Exchange With Weijia Jiang

McConnell tells Obama to ‘keep his mouth shut’ after Trump criticism

Robert De Niro Says ‘Lunatic’ Trump ‘Doesn’t Care How Many People Die’

Ed Henry: Intelligence Sources Say John Brennan Deliberately Hid Evidence That Putin Favored Hillary, In Order to Make His Coup Frame-Job Stick GRENELL RELEASES LIST OF UNMASKERS BIDEN UNMASKED

Howard Stern: It’d Be ‘Extremely Patriotic’ of Trump to Resign  Fortunately, Howard Stern is not our standard for patriotism.

Robert De Niro Slams ‘Lunatic’ Trump’s Coronavirus Response

Flashback: Remember When The Media Predicted Trump Would Start World War III?

Cuomo’s COVID carnage

Andrea Mitchell Turns to Schumer & Schiff to Defend Obama From GOP ‘Conspiracy Theories’