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Gee, I wonder why that would happen?

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This country is now dead and we must make a new one.

Meanwhile, Thotiana Lowe, a left-leaning writer at the supposedly formerly right-leaning Washington Examiner (owned by the same liberal corporatist who used to fund the Weekly Standard), writes that Columbus was racist and evil so, you know, might as well pull down his statues, too.

The problem faced by Popular Mechanics (and Popular Science and Scientific American and even the venerable National Geographic) is that their business model crashed and burned once the Internet got good. Nobody wants to pay for publications when information just as good is available for free. So they depend on advertising, which means they depend on ‘clicks’, which means they write everything in the standard click-bait formula that you see everywhere today. Which means they get ‘woke’ because the only people who are willing to work for such an organization are progressivism-steeped arrested adolescents who see nothing wrong with importing their totalitarian political agenda into every nook and cranny of life.

UPDATE: Woke Science: Popular Mechanics Instructs ‘How to Remove a Racist Statue’

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Today’s liberal institutional meltdown is brought to you by the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC), the folks who bring us an annual slate of book awards that are not to be confused with the National Book Awards, but who cares since they all think alike. Anyway, it seems the president of the NBCC drafted up the now mandatory institutional statement affirming Black Lives Matter with the required white guilt codicil, and circulated it to the board. And then things got weird.

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Boston, known as the “Athens of America” and the “Cradle of Liberty,” has, as was said of the Balkans, disparagingly, “produced more history than it can consume locally”. The City of Boston alone, compact and relatively small in the metropolitan area, has probably more historical monuments and statues than anyplace else in America except Washington, D.C.

During the recent Black Lives Matter riots, in addition to widespread looting and property damage, there was vandalism on a large scale all over the country. Confederate statues, of course; their day is done and I think, as Steve Hayward stated in PL, this is not the hill to die on for conservatives and Republicans. Columbus statues have long been on the left’s target list as well. The Columbus statue in Boston’s historic North End was, infamously, beheaded and the statue has been removed. Boston’s Public Garden holds the largest statuary monument in the city, of a magnificent George Washington astride a noble steed. It was not spared by the mob and its base was covered in graffiti.

Kayleigh McEnany, Mike Pence, and the narcissistic apocalypse of the new evangelicals  Salon.

New questions about Trump’s ugly Bible stunt hint at some dark truths  Washington Post. Not just a bible stunt, but an ugly bible stunt!

Rick Wilson Lashes Out at Domino’s Pizza for Thanking WH Press Secretary McEnany in 2012

Colbert & Dickerson Slam Trump’s ‘Barbarism,’ Hail Biden’s ‘Honesty’

Telemundo SHOCKED To Discover That Pro-Trump DACA Beneficiaries Exist

CNN’s King Smears: ‘Trump Sometimes Sounds Like Segregationist George Wallace  The DEMOCRAT segregationist George Wallace.

MSNBC Cuts Off Trump, Claims He’s Giving ‘Campaign Rally Speech’  Hey, it’s not as if anyone who wanted to listen to Trump listens to MSNBC in the first place.

Chris Hahn Says Trump Will Lose And His ‘Incompetent’ Staffers Will Be Looking For Jobs At Walmart  I guess we’ll find out. I wonder how many of Biden’s staffers will accompany him to the Deranged Old Folks Home.

UN: Covid-19, Climate Change and Racial Justice are all Linked  Not to mention UFOs and crop circles.

A carbon sink shrinks in the arctic

What if NASA’s new ocean satellite finds sea level rise isn’t the problem it’s touted to be?  We’ll never hear about it.

Atlanta mayor: This happens to black and brown men every day  While committing crimes.

Tucker Carlson: ‘Black Lives Matter Believes In Force … When They Want Something, They Take It’

Woke Mobs Now Destroying Statues Of Leading Anti-Slavery Figures  They just didn’t realize how racist they actually were.

UK Police Officers Told To “Take A Knee” For BLM Protesters

Two former Pinterest policy employees say they faced racism at work

Atlanta Falcons Coach Dan Quinn Will Support Players Who Kneel During The National Anthem

CNN Admits Humanity of ‘Unborn Baby’ When it Suits Black Lives Matter Narrative

Will Smith Will Star In Slavery Movie ‘Emancipation’ About Famous Civil War Whipping Photo  I’d pay money to see Will Smith whipped.

WashPost’s Robinson: Dylann Roof Taken Alive Proves ‘Systemic Racism’ Regarding Brooks  Except that Roof didn’t flee and didn’t resist arrest. Other than that, the cases are exactly the same!

The Mobs Aren’t Tearing Down America’s Statues Because They Hate Racism. They’re Tearing Down America’s Statues Because They Hate America, and Want to Destroy It.

Can implicit bias training help cops overcome racism?  Popular ‘Science’.

Fanning the Flames: Chelsea Handler Promotes Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan & BLM

Professor Discusses Recent Police Killings, The ‘Heroes And Martyrs’ Of ‘Black Lives Matter’ Movement, Contemporary Mass Media

Behar Uses Clarence Thomas’s Interracial Marriage to Shame Him on LGBTQ Dissent  Of course, to the proglodytes Thomas ‘isn’t really black’.

Tim Kaine Claims The United States Created Slavery And ‘Maintained It Over Centuries’  I’m sure the Greeks and Romans are glad that they’re finally off the hook. (Your taxes pay this moron’s salary….)

The Other McCain.

Tessa Majors made the mistake of attending Barnard College.

If your child ever expresses an interest in attending Barnard College, you probably should have them committed to a psychiatric institution, because you’d have to be crazy to go to Barnard, one of the worst colleges in America. The cost of attendance is $75,524 a year, including room and board, and also including the opportunity to be murdered.

That’s what happened to Tessa Majors. The 18-year-old, whose father is an English professor at James Madison University, was near the end of her first semester at Barnard in December 2019 when she made the mistake of going for a walk in a park near the college campus….

Ace of Spades does what he does best.

Isn’t it terribly odd that those who lost their jobs due to abuse of office and crimes such as obstruction of justice all very soon get hired by media and now social media companies, assuredly for more than they were previously making?

Why, it’s almost as if leftwing media corporations are handing out barely-disguised bribes to the coup plotters.

Well, that’s the way it works. You do something that demonstrates you hate Trump, and the Mammon of Iniquity invites you into the mansion. It’s not so much a revolving door as a launching pad.

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The Germans argue that they pick up financial slack in other ways, like accepting Syrian refugees. Creating a refugee crisis in Europe was a choice. But it has nothing to do with defense of the continent from … who? Let’s not forget it was Germany that shut down its clean-ish nuclear energy program and made a $10.5 billion Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline import deal with Putin, potentially giving Moscow more political leverage over Europeans than it has had in decades. It is only American sanctions that are holding up the deal.

Germany, incidentally, boasts a $3.948 trillion national GDP while Russia has a GDP of $1.658 trillion. There’s little reason for the United States to continue to subsidize the budget of a nation well positioned to defend itself.

Why are we spending a single dime on keeping troops in Germany to defend against a threat that disapeared THIRTY FARGIN YEARS AGO?

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Another ‘peaceful protester’.

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It’s hard to ‘Follow the Science!’ when the science is so bad.

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God forbid that the police should restore order in the woke capital of Washington state.

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For a sufficiently ‘woke’ value of ‘fascism’.

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Since Democrats are the Party of Death, they aren’t wrong.

ZMan points out some parallels.

If you step back and take a look at things, one of the things that stands out is just how primitive and superstitious the people are at the center of this crisis. It is not just in their appearance either. The new religion that has emerged among our rulers is not a great leap forward in consciousness, but a leap backward. it is primitive, superstitious and simplistic in its statements and actions. It is as if the world has been taken over by an ancient tribe of primitives who hate us.

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I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

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For fiscal 2020, the IRS has received a two-year, $180 million chunk for business systems modernization.

Here’s what the commissioner says about it: “The US economy has achieved impressive increases in productivity through investments in information technology. The IRS, which is still dependent on systems installed in the 1960s and 1970s, has established the Business Systems Modernization Program to take advantage of new technology to revamp the way we do business. I firmly believe the program is on the path to succeed.”

Oops, that was Charles Rossotti, writing in a 2000 progress report. He promised real results starting in 2001. In intervening years, the IRS has in fact modernized many of its systems and procedures. Plus, soon after that report, the IRS made it successfully through the conversion to 4-digit date codes. The IRS would go on to spend billions, but none of the contractors could ever convert the Individual Master File, coded in assembler language, to modern code.

And socialists want the government to run the economy. Yeah, that’ll work.

David Cole looks at those pesky facts.

There will, by necessity, be an element of self-indulgence in this week’s column. It’s not possible for me to broach this topic without invoking my own circumstances; my apologies in advance.

Let’s start by acknowledging a simple fact: There is no black genocide in the U.S. Period. You can count the number of unarmed American blacks fatally shot by cops in 2019 on your fingers.

Again, there is no black genocide. Certainly not at the hands of cops or whites in general (and even the black-on-black death toll doesn’t rise to “genocide” levels).

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Following days of escalating tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbors, Indian Army officials confirmed that three troops – an officer and two soldiers, to be more precise – had been gunned down by Chinese forces during a “violent faceoff” in Galwan Valley in the Ladakh region, which rests along the country’s border with China on Monday night.

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Iran has pulled back on the aggressive moves against Israel and is apparently relying on the American presidential elections in November to bring to power a more pro-Iran and anti-Israel government. Syria would prefer to make a separate peace with the Americans and the rest of the Arab world. Iran will not allow that and as long as Iran has over 50,000 mercenaries in Syria, a separate peace with the U.S. and Arab League is not going to happen.

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Then there is Turkey, which also avoids war with Israel yet portrays Israel an “enemy of Islam.” Turkey would prefer that Iran do the same and go home. Many Iranians and Syrians openly agree with Russia and Turkey. The Iranian government responds with “Israeli airstrikes are killing people in Syria.” Syrians note that most of the dead are Iranians or mercenaries (Arabs of Afghans) on the Iranian payroll. The Iranian government deliberately keeps as few Iranians as possible in bases likely to be hit. Iranians getting killed in Syria, even if they are IRGC Iranians, is very unpopular back in Iran. Syrians just don’t like all these Syrians who are working for Iran or Turkey as mercenaries and getting killed by whoever.

Steve Sailer.

Chechens have utilized the Black Lives Matter chaos to invade Dijon in Burgundy in eastern France to wreak vengeance on Algerians over something or other.

Do blacks really think they are going to come out on top in chaotic times? Do they have any inkling that there are scarier guys out there than them, for example, guys whose fathers defeated four columns of Russian Army armor on New Year’s Eve 1994? Or are blacks so brainwashed by their hip-hop boasting and so ignorant of history that they think all they need to do is defund the police and then the age of black supremacy will automatically ensue?

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Kevin Warren is literally hitting the ground kneeling in his new role as commissioner of the Big Ten Conference. The former Minnesota Vikings executive intends to turn this power five league into what could become one sensationally woke league.

Get a load of this. Warren (in photo) has formed the Big Ten Anti-Hate and Anti-Racism Coalition. He will assure that every single Big Ten athlete is allowed to kneel and may even take a knee himself. Using a Democrat talking point, he aims to fight so-called voter suppression. Warren also aims to register every single Big Ten Conference athlete to vote.

When you hire a black guy for your organization, it doesn’t matter what the organization was originally for; it’s going to be all about Oppressed Black People from then on. After all, we’re all aware of how black athletes are discriminated against in the Big Ten.

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Only a few days after Orthodox Jewish synagogues and schools were targeted by black supremacist rioters and their allies, Shais Rishon, the Content Manager for Bend the Arc, posted a hateful image of an Orthodox Jew in a Klan hood wearing handcuffs and nooses over his Tallit surrounded by text from Jews complaining about Black Lives Matter anti-Semitism and violent riots by the racist hate group.

Rishon accused Jews, who had anti-Semitic slurs shouted at them, seen synagogues defaced, congregants attacked, and stores looted, of “cluck clucking” about the black supremacist riots.

The Bend the Arc content manager had previously defended Farrakhan supporter Tamika Mallory’s slur that Jews uphold white supremacy by claiming that there is “white supremacy aplenty” in synagogues.

Shais Rishon, who goes by Ma Nishtana on social media, is a black nationalist activist who claims to have been secretly ordained as a rabbi: a common claim made by radical leftists who want the status of clergy. And Rishon/Nishtana fits in perfectly at Bend the Arc and its various bigoted arms.

Alexander Soros, on behalf of Bend the Arc: Jewish Action, a PAC he founded, had endorsed Keith Ellison, a longtime member of the Nation of Islam hate group with an even longer history of antisemitism. Bend the Arc’s CEO is Stosh Cotler is a former sex club dancer and anti-Israel activist.

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Well, let’s see: We can (a) live in a rustic paradise with other people like us and servants who know which side their bread is buttered on, or (b) stay in town and maybe have our fancy homes invaded and burned by roving mobs of Underclass thugs.

Boy, that’s a real head-scratcher….

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Keeping people safe is one of the essential functions of a government. It has never  been a Democrat priority as public budgets are more and more crowded with giveaways for their captive Underclass voting base.

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In the wake of George Floyd’s death and the subsequent protests/riots calling for “defunding the police,” Democrats have started targeting police unions, saying they are obstacles to accountability and reform. Do they realize that the same can be said of teachers’ unions?

If they do, they aren’t saying.

Like any other public-employee union, teachers’ and police unions are locked in a one-hand-washes-the-other relationship with the Democrat party, where they trade their block of votes for extra-sweet levels of wages and benefits, especially unfunded pension benefits that can be forward-loaded onto future generations.

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Members of Brooklyn’s Jewish community used a pair of bolt cutters on Monday to cut the lock on Middleton Playground in Brooklyn, according to footage posted by NYC Scanner.

A heavily Jewish community’s nearby entrance to the park had been welded shut Monday morning. The city’s Parks & Recreation department then “unwelded” the gate and installed a linked chain and padlock.

You want identity politics? We got your identity politics, right here.

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During the BLM riots in Brussels the weekend before last, the municipal police failed to act in a timely manner against the rioters’ violence and destruction. According to one disgruntled police officer, this was because they had been ordered by their superiors to hold back.

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I guess being a ‘protester’ confers immunity against the coronavirus. Who knew?

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We need to carve off the Left Coast and get rid of it somehow — maybe sell it to China, I don’t know.

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It’s a convenience, but one that comes with a price. Americans should be concerned about the potential for the government, for banks, and for payments companies to infringe on their freedoms by preventing them from making legal purchases, barring them from platforms, or using their transaction history against them.

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This all impacts consumer freedom of choice. Even absent the pressure from the government, payment providers like PayPal have unilaterally closed the accounts of organizations because of complaints about their political leanings. Payment processing and financing firms are putting restrictions on the legal firearm industry like the 2018 Citibank prohibition on its business partners selling firearms to customers under the age of 21 and Bank of America’s announcement it would stop lending to certain firearms manufacturers.

CNN’s Rye Justifies Taking Police Weapons: ‘Every Time We Don’t Fight Back, We Die’

REPORT: Las Vegas Police Officer Paralyzed After Protesters Shoot Him In The Head

Hong Kong Families Fearful of China’s Reign Prepare to Leave

MAINEN: Democratic Mayor And Developers Profit At The Expense Of Minorities

Firearm Prohibitionists Finally Target Elmer Fudd’s Gun

Dutch MD Euthanized Dementia Patient Despite Being Told ‘No’

Six eBay Executives and Employees Charged with Sending Threats, Bloody Pig Mask

Planned Parenthood Announces Biden Endorsement In ‘Life And Death Election’  A vote for Biden is a vote for death.

Saturday Night Hate: CNN Spews Lies, Compares Cops to North Koreans

NYPD Eliminates Entire Plainclothes Anti-Crime Unit In ‘Seismic Cultural Shift’

NYC Welds Park Gates In Jewish Community Shut 1 Day After Massive Demonstration

NYC Mayor Orders Army Of COVID-19 Contact-Tracers Not To Ask About BLM Protests Attendance

As Donald Trump Predicted — and Leftwing Media Propagandists Denied — They’re Now Ripping Down Statues of Thomas Jefferson

You can’t rally. We can riot.

Trump Pollster McLaughlin: ‘Anti-Trump’ Media Knowingly Pushing False Polls

‘You’re Not A Journalist, You’re An Activist’: Jenna Ellis Fires Back At Brian Stelter Over Trump CNN Threat  And not a very good one.

Stelter Decries Trump ‘Abuse of Power’ on Comcast, Forgets His Own Story on Obama vs. Fox

Trump’s Niece Publishing Tell-All Book on President’s Finances, Family Drama Everyone’s trying to cash in.

Princeton Professor Equates Lafayette Square Fence To Berlin Wall

Scarborough Questions Trump’s Health: ‘Stumble For Stumble … Even Worse’ Than Biden

To Zing Trump, Reporter Imagines Out Loud that Tulsa’s Next to Mexico

CBS on History: Will ‘Divisive’ Trump ‘Hold Back’ Progress?

Hockey Player Responds To People Who Attacked Him For Wishing The President A Happy Birthday  The political is personal.

‘View’ to Biden VP Hopeful: Isn’t RNC, Trump Rallies Just a ‘COVID Breeding Ground?’  Oh, like the ‘protests’?

NBC: Isn’t It Glorious to See People Packed Nuts to Butts to Support Black Trans People Also NBC News: Experts Question Safety of Trump Holding Rallies

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #412

No early breakup for W Hudson Bay sea ice again this year: polar bears still on the ice

Forbes: Plunging Renewable Energy Costs Should be Answered with Massive Federal Funding  I mean, after all, we’ve got all of this extra money….

YouTube Censors Comments About Violence at Black Lives Matter Protests

Democrats Clarify That Black Lives Will Only Matter Until November  Babylon Bee.

After GitHub CEO backs Black Lives Matter, workers demand an end to ICE contract

Angelina Jolie Opens Up About ‘Racism And Discrimination In America’ In Conversation About Raising Black Daughter

Anonymous Instagram account accuses Ivy Leaguers of racism  Without any evidence, of course.

“Internal Uprising” Within LA Times Newsroom Over Racial Inequality, Coverage Of BLM Protests  It’s all about the Narrative.

Boston Mayor Mulls Removing Lincoln Statue That Features Freed Slave

‘There Is No Neutral’: ‘Nice White People’ Can Still Be Complicit In A Racist Society  NPR, of course.

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Nearly 54 scientists have resigned or been fired as a result of the ongoing investigation, which aims to spot foreign funding that could pose a national security risk as the federal government cracks down on Chinese government influence within America’s most prestigious institutions. Of those who were fired or resigned, 93% were receiving hidden funding from a Chinese institution, Science Magazine reported.

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During a live interview with New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, on NBC’s Today show Monday morning, a heckler could be heard screaming at the Democratic politician, calling him a “dictator” and “hypocrite” for his coronavirus shutdown policies. It got so bad, co-host Savannah Guthrie was forced to acknowledge “this rage that people feel about businesses not being opened fast enough.”

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The problem isn’t so much black people as white people who wish they were black people so they could feel oppressed.

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Infosys has rejected the premise of a lawsuit brought by Davina Linguist, the former head of its diversity program recruiting manager program, who alleges the company prefers to hire South Asians and conducted visa fraud to replace US workers.

Filed in the East Texas District Court last week, case 4:20-CV-465, Divina Linguist vs. Infosys Limited, opens with the accusation that Infosys’ staff is 90 percent Indian as a result of a “pattern and practice of discrimination against individuals who are not Indian in the hiring, promotion, compensation, and termination.”

“Infosys managers have obstructed her efforts to increase the non-South Asian diversity of Infosys’ workforce,” the complaint alleges, adding that “Infosys retaliated against Ms. Linguist, stripping her of her title as the head of diversity recruiting (and replacing her with an individual with no relevant experience) and demoting her, among other improper conduct.”

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

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A suspected U.S. drone strike on Idlib’s city center on Sunday has killed two senior commander of al-Qaeda-affiliated Horas al-Din, Qassam al-Urduni and Bilal al-Sanani. The strike targeted the commanders’ SUV as it was passing on a road in the western part of Idlib city. The SUV, a silver Hyundai Santa Fe, was struck with what appears to be two U.S.-made AGM-114R9X Hellfire missile.

Steve Sailer.

There have been ethnic clashes over the weekend in the lovely French city of Dijon, home to the famous mustard, between Algerians and Chechens, who have poured in from all over France to rumble with the Algerians over some beef.

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If Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender didn’t exist, Portlandia would have had to invent her.

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Militant bike activists are the dumbest and most loathed figures in urban civics. No group of people is as entitled, obnoxious, or clueless as a bunch of white hipsters in lycra shorts out to convince city officials that giving them more bike lanes will end wars, eliminate racism, and save the planet. There was only one possible career pathway for Bender in Minneapolis. Urban planning through politics as a DFLer.

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Minneapolis still isn’t a college campus, but it has the first student council to run a major city. Besides Bender, there’s Keith Ellison’s son, who describes himself as a “visual artist, storyteller, and political organizer”, Phillipe Cunningham, whose bio is, “progressive, Black, queer & trans”, Lisa Goodman, “activist and dog mom”, and assorted other characters who ought to be debating at the student center.

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Bill Maher closed Friday’s edition of Real Time with a hyperbolic rant directed at Republicans on Capitol Hill. In addition to slamming the congressional GOP for always sticking by President Trump no matter what, Maher compared Republican Senator Lindsey Graham to a “slave abused by fat daddy” and warned that “democracy is about to stop breathing.”

I get the impression that Bill Maher is one of those fashionable people who at one time was considered ‘edgy and entertaining’ but has coasted to a crawl where he is just on the fringe. People watch him out of inertia and he gets paid out of inertia, in the same way that certain ‘classic’ black and white films get replayed on late night TV because they are ‘classics’ rather than because they are really worth watching.

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So now the left in Britain wants to take down statues of . . .  (checks notes) . . . Gandhi?!? Apparently he was “a fascist, racist and sexual predator.” Anyone who read Richard Grenier’s classic book The Gandhi Nobody Knows knew this a long time ago, but I thought his anti-colonial bona fides kept him in good standing with the Intersectionale.

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Before the 1960s, American blacks suffered from white people who actively tried to oppress them. After the ’60s, blacks suffered from white people who actively tried to help them. It was the latter who have, by far, hurt blacks the most.

Many black people spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about white people. Most white people spend negligible amounts of time thinking about black people. Black people find this so shocking and offensive that they refuse to believe it, clinging instead to the delusion that white people spend their time looking for ways to oppress black people.

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The disease isn’t over, but the hysteria is. For many, the turning point came when public health “experts” who had bitterly denounced demonstrations against shutdowns as health hazards, responded to the Black Lives Matter riots with silence and, often, enthusiastic endorsement. That lasted until President Trump announced his intention to resume holding rallies. Once again, we are told that public gatherings are a vitally important health threat. It isn’t hard to understand the game that is being played here.