Rolling Blackouts in California? Who could have guessed?

California Forced Into Rolling Blackouts As Heatwave Sparks First “Stage 3” Energy Crisis In 20 Years  Your woke tax dollars at work.

Our Collapsing Cities

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Everyone knows that rural America has gone deep red. That trend came last to the Upper Midwest, but it has arrived in Minnesota with a vengeance. Minnesota’s 8th Congressional District, home to the state’s mining industry, is heavily unionized and was long a Democratic Party bastion. No longer: the 8th, along with the rest of Greater Minnesota, is now Trump country. It is represented by Republican Pete Stauber, a former police officer and union member, who has been endorsed for re-election by every private sector union. Today it would take a miracle for a Democrat to win that seat.

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As temperatures soar into the the triple digits, the Extreme Heat Resilience Alliance says such names will spark public awareness and encourage safety measures.

I am not making this up.

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This week, Pew Research released a study on the use of the non-binary non-word Latinx that confirms what we’ve already known to be true: that the term, despite being shoved down the throat of the Hispanic community, has no acceptance within.

I’m with Jeremy on this one.

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The non-scientific mind has the most ridiculous ideas of the precision of laboratory work, and would be much surprised to learn that, excepting electrical measurements, the bulk of it does not exceed the precision of an upholsterer who comes to measure a window for a pair of curtains.

—Charles S. Peirce (1908)

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Actually, I’m prepared to believe it. Certainly they resemble Romney Republicans.

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Wouldn’t surprise me.

Recent questionable search results show Google appearing to conflate the opposing terms socialism and capitalism. A Google search for “socialism and racism” shows that Google may be confused about the definition of socialism. When the search is completed, Google includes results for “capitalism and racism” by default, forcing the user to click another link in order to show results only for the initial query, “socialism and racism.” The “including results from” feature is often used when search terms are misspelled. It will include search results for the original term and the suggested alternative by default. This results in a better user experience without the user having to correct the error and start the search over. Several years ago, some users noticed that Google was offering more navigational suggestions using this feature. For example, a search for “face” would include results for “Facebook,” and a search for “pint” would include results for “Pinterest.” It is unclear why Google would choose to include results for “capitalism and racism” when a search is conducted for “socialism and racism.”

Aussie Government Asks the UN to Dismiss an Indigenous Climate Case

Trump lifts Obama-era regulations on methane, a potent climate-warming gas

Climate change spelled doom for woolly rhinos 14,000 years ago, study says

Claim: Warming Greenland ice sheet passes point of no return

Angela Eaton, Environmental Urbanist

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris deploy the Charlottesville hoax to stir up racial pain and anger.

Krugman: Trump’s Racist, Statist Suburban Dream, by Steve Sailer

‘No Other Words But Disgusting, Racist’: Don Lemon Condemns Trump Over ‘Dirty Racist’ Attack On Kamala Harris

HuffPost Harangue at Trump: Do You Regret ‘All the Lying…You Have Done?’

Man Charged in Boy’s Death That Sparked Federal Task Force

Man Charged With First-Degree Murder In Killing Of 5-Year-Old Boy On Bicycle

Kindergartners To Learn About White Supremacy In PA School District

Kamala Harris Is an Affirmative Action Candidate

Looting May Drive Macy’s from Chicago’s Magnificent Mile, by Steve Sailer

Newspaper In Australia Refuses To Apologize For Cartoon Showing Biden Calling Kamala Harris ‘Little Brown Girl’

Nation’s Top Black CEO: US Should Consider Slavery Reparations

CNN Obsesses Over ‘Schmucker’ Carlson’s Mispronunciation of Harris’ Name  Who can’t pronounce Jambalaya?

Donny Deutsch’s Deplorables: ‘1 in 3 Americans Are Racists’

‘Do Something About It’: BLM Protesters In Seattle Call On White People To Give Up Their Homes

R. Kelly’s Manager Reportedly Hit With Charges After Saying A Shooting Would Happen At Theater Showing ‘Surviving R. Kelly’

‘Politics Of Fear, Big Government Edition’: Dr. Marc Siegel Blasts Biden For Demanding Mandatory Masking Outside

Lockdown Restrictions Are A Test To See How Much Tyranny Americans Will Accept

Ardern extends Auckland lockdown as New Zealand struggles with new infections 

“Stop Playing Politics With The Virus” – Trump Slams Biden’s Call For Mandatory Mask-Wearing

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It’s always bizarre when Hollywood decides to produce media versions of well-known Republicans or conservatives. These are people they can’t possibly relate to. But that doesn’t prevent liberals from continuing to make movies or television programs that showcase evil Republicans.

The latest example of this concept is an upcoming film tentatively entitled College Republicans, a “fact-inspired” movie about young versions of such “political titans” as Lee Atwater and Karl Rove as they were decades ago, when America witnessed the “dirtiest election in its history.”

Gunman On Watch List With ‘Islamist Sympathies’ Takes Multiple People Hostage In French Bank

UK Names ‘Channel Threat Commander’ as Boat Crossings Surge

American Who Pledged Allegiance To ISIS, Directed Others On How To Attack New York Pleads Guilty

Revolting Migrants in Treviso Don’t Like Being Quarantined

Outrage Grows During a Summer of Honor Killings

Stolen childhood: Niger’s girl brides

US Military Delivers 260 Tons of Supplies to Beirut in Wake of Explosion  And not one word of gratitude will they ever get.

Satellite Image Shows Pakistani Submarine With Chinese Navy

US: Iran Briefly Seizes Oil Tanker Near Strait of Hormuz

DOJ Takes Down Militant Groups’ Cryptocurrency Fundraising Effort

US seizes millions of dollars from Islamic State and Al-Qaeda’s cryptocurrency accounts

Knife Jihad at the Duomo in Milan

Calais Mayor Accuses UK “Declaration Of War” Over Attempts To Stop Illegal Boat Migrants

Kabul Begins Release of Final 400 Taliban, Talks to Follow

Turkey grants citizenship to Hamas operatives plotting terror attacks from Istanbul

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In the early 1960s, Julia Child and her husband handed Barbara Ketcham Wheaton the keys to their home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The famous couple was going to California for the summer, but they wanted their young neighbor to be able to continue one of her favorite activities: perusing Child’s collection of historical cookbooks.

Now an honorary curator of Harvard University’s Schlesinger Library Culinary Collection, Wheaton was then in her early 30s, with young children at home. She had left an art history PhD program a few years before to marry historian Bob Wheaton, but she still had a passion for the past. When she discovered her love of cooking, and her neighbor’s trove of unique books, Wheaton wondered: What if she turned the same methodology she had learned in art-history classes to a more humble text—the cookbook?

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The village of Sileby, in Leicestershire, began the small market in the parking lot of The Free Trade Inn earlier this summer. Every Tuesday stalls would be set up so that local businesses could sell foods and flowers. However, they have now been ordered to stop by Charnwood Borough Council, which represents the nearby town of Loughborough.

The council states that the pop-up market breaches a Royal Charter signed by King Henry III in 1227, which gave Loughborough the right to hold a market two days a week. Furthermore, the charter prohibits any other market ‘within six and two-thirds miles’ of this town. Sileby lies just within that boundary.

Only in Britain….

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As a senator, Sanders voted for many of the policies that granted billions in subsidies and incentives to Musk and his companies.  For example, Sanders voted for passage of the American Recovery and Investment Act of 2009, which boosted the solar energy tax credit from 10 percent to 30 percent of the cost of a solar installation.

Sanders also voted for the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 that provided tax credits of up to $7,500 to purchasers of electric vehicles. Tesla Motors sold 200,000 electric cars to buyers able to claim this credit.

Senator Sanders and presidential candidate Joe Biden support the “Solving the Climate Crisis” report that was issued in June by the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis. The report calls for extension of the 30 percent tax credit that provided more than $1 billion to SolarCity. It also proposes a national mandate “to achieve 100% sales of zero-emission cars by 2035.” The report calls for billions of dollars in additional subsidies for green energy that would flow to the companies of Elon Musk and other green billionaires.

It appears that billionaires don’t deserve to grow their wealth except when they build green energy companies.

Audacious Epigone runs the numbers.

The inverse correlation between favoring stricter gun laws and Donald Trump’s share of the 2016 presidential vote is a remarkable .95. That is a staggeringly strong relationship for the social sciences. Indeed, it is effectively a perfect correlation after sampling noise is accounted for. More than abortion, immigration, taxation, race relations, war, or any other cultural or political issue, a person’s approach to gun rights is a better predictor of how he’ll vote than anything else is.

Steve Sailer.

Tiny is a 6’6? Samoan.

But obviously a White Samoan. (Although I have to say, just from his picture, that he’s less White than Jambalaya Harris….)

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Trump is going to hammer it up their noses.

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The U.S. government has for the first time seized vessels allegedly loaded with Iranian fuel in violation of sanctions imposed by the Trump administration, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing U.S. officials.

U.S. prosecutors filed a lawsuit last month to seize the gasoline aboard four tankers that Iran is trying to ship to Venezuela, the latest attempt by the Trump administration to increase economic pressure on the two U.S. foes.

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The four vessels, called Luna, Pandi, Bering and Bella, were seized on the high seas in recent days and are now en route to Houston, the WSJ said https://on.wsj.com/3auMVJ2, citing the officials, adding that senior administration officials are expected to meet the tankers at an event scheduled to mark the docking.

Kamala Harris’ Record: Lawfare Against Climate Skeptics, “A Level of Indifference” to the Violation of Constitutional Rights

Baghdad heat is world’s climate change future  Washington Post.

Air pollution is much worse than we thought. Climate change is far from the only problem with fossil fuels.  Vox. Women and minorities hardest hit.

McIntyre on Kaufman et al 2020

More Solar Cyclomania

‘Abolish The United States Of America’: Radical ‘Youth Liberation Front’ Active In Portland Encourages Violence, Explicitly Rejects Peaceful Protesting

Chicago PD Launches Video Website Seeking Tips on Looters  Good luck with that.

Letters From Melbourne: A “Ghost Town Police State” Under Brutal COVID Lockdown

Pushback: California Megachurch Defies COVID Order, Brings in Thousands

San Francisco Shuts Down Homeless Hotels With Free Booze And Drugs After Meth Lab Found, Reporter Tells Tucker Carlson

Instagram blocks Kamalaharris.info in private messages

Homeless camp in Manhattan’s Chelsea district angers local business owners and residents

Police Declare Riot in Portland, Push Protesters Out

New York: ‘I Don’t Want to Leave, But I Don’t Feel Like I Have a Choice Now’

Pushback: 1,500 New York Gyms Go to Court in Bid to Reopen

Oregon Sanctuary City Demonstrators Block ICE Bus, Clash With Federal Agents

Kamala Harris Blames Trump for ‘Millions of Americans’ Unemployed

Details of Bob Woodward’s New Trump Book, ‘Rage,’ Revealed

Weekly Jobless Claims Fall Below 1 Million for First Time in Pandemic  This must be the unemployment that Harris is blaming Trump for.

Obnoxious O’Donnell: No Lies From Dem Ticket, Trump ‘Lives in Fear’ of Harris  Yeah, he’s afraid he won’t be able to get a 1 MOA group.

MSNBC: Kamala Harris Will Seek Vengeance Upon ‘Ba’ath Party’ Trump Supporters

Who Stands To Benefit? Group Behind ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Plans 50-Day “White House Siege”

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Steven Donziger, the attorney with connections to the Obama and Cuomo administrations who was at the center of a massive effort to extort billions of dollars out of Chevron, has been disbarred for “corruption of a court expert and ghostwriting his report, obstruction of justice, witness tampering, and judicial coercion and bribery.”

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‘Activist’ is a modern Politically Correct euphemism for Leftist Troublemaker.

Mike Forcia, a member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, is charged with criminal damage to property. Forcia, also a Twin Cities American Indian Movement activist, organized the June 10 American Indian Movement rally at the Capitol that resulted in the toppling of the statue, which came as many similar monuments were being pulled down worldwide after Floyd’s death in late May.

The toppling came after a State Patrol captain warned Forcia of criminal consequences and urged him to work through a Capitol planning board to remove the statue, according to the complaint.

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America has witnessed months of civil unrest in cities around America following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Many of the protesters decry income and net worth “inequality.”

But the most serious “inequality” is the unequal percentage of fathers in black households, a phenomenon that has been encouraged by government policies that normalize and reward out-of-wedlock births.

In 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who was assistant secretary of labor to President Lyndon B. Johnson, published “The Negro Family: The Case for National Action.” At that time, 25% of blacks were born outside of wedlock, a number that this former adviser to President John F. Kennedy, future adviser to President Richard Nixon, future U.S. ambassador, and future Democratic senator from New York, said was catastrophic to the black community.

Moynihan wrote: “A community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken homes, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any rational expectations about the future—that community asks for and gets chaos. Crime, violence, unrest, unrestrained lashing out at the whole social structure—that is not only to be expected, it is very near to inevitable.”

Bethany Mandel.

On social media these days I’ve noticed a funny phenomenon: People will post pictures and videos and make claims that we know on their face are bonkers. Like “we’re enjoying this socially distanced hangout!” and the folks in the picture are inches from each other.

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But here’s what’s annoying about these bald-faced lies: They always come from folks who spend all of their free time shaming everyone under the sun for the same kind of behavior.

Like the poor, the hypocrites we have always with us.

ZMan looks down the road.

For most people who plan to vote in the upcoming election, the choice is clear and they don’t have to think about it very much. They know their guy is the right choice and the other guy represents the end of the world as we know it. There is nothing anyone could say to them to change their mind. In fact, the number of persuadable people probably rounds to zero. The issue in this election, like most elections, is which side is able to get their partisans to vote, either in person or by mail.

Or by fraud (*cough* Democrats *cough).

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Harvey Risch says treatment effective in helping people in early stages of disease, especially those with higher risks.

Amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic Yale School of Public Health epidemiology professor Harvey Risch is asserting that the drug hydroxychloroquine, in conjunction with zinc and appropriate antibiotics, can help high-risk patients recover from COVID-19.

Risch draws a distinction between two stages of the illness, noting that while the treatment will likely work quickly during the first stage, it is not effective in helping people who have advanced to the more serious second stage.

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And the trickle becomes, if not a flood, at least a gush.

The news of Icahn’s relocation comes as New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has pleaded with wealthy New Yorkers to return to New York City following their exodus during the outbreak of the novel coronavirus.

“A single percent of New York’s population pays half of the state’s taxes,” Cuomo said, “and they’re the most mobile people on the globe.”

Heh.

The world’s growing concrete coasts

The Climate Left Attacks Nobel Laureate William D. Nordhaus

Exact climate data from the past

Insect apocalypse? Not so fast, at least in North America

The Oceans Won’t Suffocate!

Late Civil Rights Activist Mimi Jones On Fighting For Justice In The Pool | NBC Nightly News

Capt. Spaulding: Oprah Magazine’s White Guilt Special

I Will Need Three Months Worth of Willie Brown Anecdotes, by Steve Sailer “An interesting question is how long until an American political party nominates on its national ticket somebody descended from American slaves. So far they just nominate the children of foreign grad students.”

NYT: the Psychological Subtexts of Hospital Emergency Rooms Are Rife with Microaggressions, by Steve Sailer

BLM Advocates Looting

Murderball: the Essential Stats on Race and Crime, by Steve Sailer

“We Will Be Watching You”: Dems Put Media On Notice To Avoid ‘Racist Tropes’ Such As ‘Angry Black Women’

NBC-DNC Brings On Rice to Predict ‘Racism and Sexism’ Against Harris

Chicago Community Members Ask Protesters To Leave Police Station

Race War: Wikipedia Editors Battle Over Kamala Harris’ Ethnic Identity

Chicago Weatherman Predicts Another Huge Murder Front This Weekend  Babylon Bee.

No Prosecution for Many Arrested at Portland’s Protests  So you can expect them to do it again. And again….

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Calls Looting, Riots In Chicago ‘Planned Attacks’  BRAAAAAAAINS!

Prof: “The Constitution Is Racist”

Woke Insanity: CNN Decides That Saying a Black Person’s Name Is Racist

Kamala Harris Humbled To Have Been Chosen Exclusively For Her Race, Gender  Babylon Bee.

The Racism of the ‘Anti-Racist’ Movement

Try Not to Laugh: Scarborough Promises to ‘Call Out’ Kamala Harris When Needed

Demonized on Morning Joe: Trump ‘Wants to Be Seen as a Killer’ on Immigration  Scarborough has, of course, no idea of what Trump wants or doesn’t wants; he does, however, have a very rich fantasy life.

CNN’s Brinkley: Trump Speaking Would ‘Denigrate’ Gettysburg

FiveThirtyEight Gives Biden 71% Chance Of Victory, Same As Clinton In 2016

Portland Residents Complain As Destruction Bleeds Into Their Neighborhoods

George Soros Calls Trump ‘Dangerous,’ Believes He Will Do ‘Anything To Stay In Power’

If you can punish a teenage girl for spaghetti straps, you can enforce a mask mandate  Washington Post.

Philly Judge Won’t Wear Mask, Prompting Complaints

Portland DA Says Protesters Won’t Be Charged With Harassment, Rioting Under New Policy

Kamala Harris’s Former Press Secretary Is Twitter’s Top Censor

Montgomery County Gave ICE A 28-Minute Warning Before Releasing Illegal Immigrant Charged With Second Degree Rape

Christopher Columbus Statue In Philadelphia To Be Removed Because It Attracts Violence

Democrats And Their Media Organisms Finally Admit The Riots Are Violent

Cowards: New York Legislators Boot FNC’s Janice Dean From Hearing

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A new tyranny over the mind has arisen at some institutions of higher learning where open, diverse, and competing ideas across the spectrum of human interest is supposed to be the ideal. The last several years have been filled with numerous instances in which mobs of students and groups of professors have pressured university administrators to either prevent or revoke an invitation for an outside speaker to come to that campus because the vocal critics oppose the proposed speaker’s social, political or economic views.

When such an outside speaker has still appeared on such a campus, they have been greeted with crowds condemning their viewpoint even before the visitor has had the opportunity to express it, or has been drowned out by derogatory chants and slogans, or in a few cases they have been physically threatened and even assaulted.

Steve Sailer.

Looters used to just loot their own dumpy neighborhoods, but in 2020 they’ve gotten much more enterprising. To mourn George Floyd et al, they drive in to the most expensive neighborhoods in the metropolis and loot stores they’ve heard about from rap songs.

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A news story today reports that “Portland’s top newspaper reported Tuesday that after weeks of unrest in the city’s downtown, the ‘main action’ appears to have shifted to neighborhoods just outside the city.”

This has suburban residents very concerned, as one might imagine. As the mostly peaceful rioters and looters focus their efforts at urban renewal on residential neighborhoods, the nice liberal Portland suburb dwellers are struggling to criticize the wanton destruction of their own neighborhoods without sounding racist. A nice liberal can’t criticize Black Lives Matter, right? Not even if that organization has just peacefully protested their neighborhood into a post-apocalyptic video game cityscape.

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This is, I suspect, an outgrowth of the ‘kill the police’ movement.

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Biden’s choice of Kamala Harris to be his running mate shows the shallowness of the Democrats’ talent pool.  Biden handicapped himself by explicitly pledging to ignore men and then implicitly bowing to the demand that his female choice be black.  However, it’s still somewhat shocking that, out of all the black, female, Democrat politicians in America, the best he could do was Kamala.

What’s most striking about Kamala is that, like Barack Obama, she has nothing in common with the American black experience.  Despite her slamming the race card on the table, the only thing she shares with the generic “black vote” is skin color.

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I’ve been tempted to tweak my liberal friends with the mischievous thought that COVID-19 is actually a Trump five-dimensional chess plot to destroy universities, unionized K-12 public education, and Hollywood (since TV and movie production is largely shut down too).

Colleges and universities were already facing mounting financial pressure because enrollment is steadily declining and certain to get much worse in the coming decade (the result of falling birthrates back at the time of the housing crash in 2008-09). Add to this the financial hit they are taking right now because of the virus, on top of the huge loss this year of foreign students who typically pay full tuition rates and subsidize other students, and a large number of colleges and universities face a serious risk of insolvency. (There are many colleges for whom a large foreign student enrollment—especially Chinese students—is a key part of their business model.) This week it is reported that 20 percent of Harvard freshmen are deferring a year; at other colleges, the rate of students saying they aren’t returning runs as high as 40 percent. At places further down the food chain than Harvard, how many students will decide not to go to college at all a year from now?

Steve Sailer.

Lady Haden-Guest is being obstreperous.

Victor Davis Hanson.

Nine months ago, New York was a thriving, though poorly governed, metropolis. It was coasting on the more or less good governance of its prior two mayors and on its ancestral role as the global nexus of finance and capital.

The city is now something out of a postmodern apocalyptic movie, reeling from the effects of a neutron bomb. Ditto in varying degrees Minneapolis, Portland, Seattle, and San Francisco — the anti-broken-windows metropolises of America. Walking in San Francisco today reminds me of visiting Old Cairo in 1973, although the latter lacked the needles and feces of the former.

Cascading fallacies in climate risk assessment

The dirty secrets of ‘clean’ electric vehicles

Claim: Past evidence supports complete loss of Arctic sea-ice by 2035

WashPost Owner Bezos ‘Quietly’ Starts Company, Offers Clue to $10B Climate Change Push

Environmentalists: Border Wall Water Use Threatening Endangered Species

Chevron Is Trying to Crush a Prominent Climate Lawyer

Georgia student who shared image of packed hallway says she’s getting threats

Seattle Council OK’s Partial Police Defunding  Time to leave.

American Cities In Catastrophic Decline

The antifa aesthetic

Seattle Police Chief Resigns After City Approves Plan To Defund Department, Axe 100 Cops

New Zealand Revives Lockdown 2 Months After ‘Declaring Victory’ Over Coronavirus: Live Updates  Politicians everywhere are prepared to panic.

MLB Teams Explore Using Cameras to Detect Maskless Fans at Games  They love Big Brother.

Report: Increased Donations During Protests Enabled Minnesota Freedom Fund To Bail Out Accused Violent Criminals

FEC Commissioner: “Substantial Chance” We Won’t Know Winner On Election Night

Wisconsin Tells Some Officials To Wear Masks At Home On Video Calls To ‘Set The Safety Example’  Big Brother has his eye on you.

Gov Cuomo Calls Criticisms Of NY’s Nursing Home Deaths ‘Political’ As Damaging Reports Stack Up

17-Year-Old Employee Undergoes Surgery After Couple Assaulted Him Over Mask Policy At Sesame Place

What the media can and can’t say about Biden’s running mate  Get your crib sheet from the Ministry of Truth. Wouldn’t want to be a CrimeThinker.

Meathead Needs A History Class: Reiner Calls Potential Trump Gettysburg Speech White Supremacist ‘Dogwhistle’  Funny how only proglodytes can hear these ‘dog whistles’.

Delusional Joy Reid Attacks AG Barr for Going After Antifa ‘Bogeyman’: No ‘Proof’ They Caused Violence!  Except the pictures they post on Instagram.

New York Magazine Blames Crumbling College Football Season on Trump

Trump Generously Offers To Do Jobs Of Legislative And Judicial Branches Too  Babylon Bee.

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Scott Adams called it six months ago.

The Trump campaign was primed for Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., being named Joe Biden’s running mate, having attacks ready for her as a “phony” and pointing out her challenging Biden in the Democratic primary for segregationist busing support.

“Not long ago, Kamala Harris called Joe Biden a racist and asked for an apology she never received,” Trump campaign senior adviser Katrina Pierson released in a statement. “Clearly, Phony Kamala will abandon her own morals, as well as try to bury her record as a prosecutor, in order to appease the anti-police extremists controlling the Democrat Party.”

Notably, Pierson, an African American woman who promotes the website youaintblack.com, called Harris a “political living will” for Biden, 77, a shot at his age and the possibility Harris might take over the presidency before Biden could finish his term.