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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

30th September 2020

Doctors Group Sues California for Failing to Add Processed Meat to Cancer List

40 Minneapolis Restaurants Ask Mayor For Help Due To Fear That Perception Of Lawlessness Is Impacting Businesses  Gee, I wonder why.

Gov. Cuomo Argued Against Resending Ballots to Voters Who Received Mismarked Ones

TV Journalists Hide Biden’s Court-Packing Fumble From Voters

Portland Asks US to Rescind Deputization of City Police

 

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Today in Black Privilege

30th September 2020

9 charged after McCloskey confrontation won’t be prosecuted  My, what a surprise. Which means they’ll continue to do it.

Suspect Arrested, Charged With Murder For Ambush Shooting Of LA Sheriff’s Deputies

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

30th September 2020

Two Cities Just Pulled Out of the Tiny Reactor Nuclear Revolution

MIT Researchers Say Their Fusion Reactor Is “Very Likely to Work”

The Oceans Appear to Be Stabilizing. Here’s Why it’s Very Bad News

Is It Too Late To Stop Climate Change? Well, it’s Complicated.

Amazon Drama Promotes Overpopulation Myth, Bemoans ‘Endless, Global Assembly Line of Babies’  Mostly among black and brown people, although they aren’t allowed to Notice it.

Total Precipitable Water and the Greenhouse Effect

Wild Claim: ‘Someday, even wet forests could burn due to climate change’  With enough napalm, anything will burn.

Wildfires inhibiting solar power generation in California

UGLY: ‘Climate emergency’ soon to justify ‘house arrest’

An asteroid didn’t kill the dinosaurs by itself. Earth helped.

The Debate Was a Disaster. But Hey, Climate Change Came Up

 

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Ex-Auto Workers President Pleads Guilty to Embezzling Member Dues in Ongoing Federal Corruption Probe

30th September 2020

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Look for … the Union label….

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Pennsylvania Officials Face Felony Child Endangerment Charges After Allegedly Covering Up Lead And Asbestos Contamination

30th September 2020

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Betcha they’re all Democrats.

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Why I’m Leaving California

30th September 2020

Ben Shapiro.

What somebody like Ben Shapiro was doing in California in the first place passeth all understanding.

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Kyle Rittenhouse’s Lawyer Threatens Biden With Libel Lawsuit Over ‘White Supremacist’ Accusation

30th September 2020

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The attorney for Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old accused of killing two people in Kenosha, Wisconsin, threatened to sue Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Wednesday after Biden released a video suggesting Rittenhouse is a “white supremacist.”

Biden’s video accused President Donald Trump of refusing to condemn white supremacists and included footage of Rittenhouse in Kenosha. There is no public evidence that Rittenhouse is a white supremacist.

Do it. That would be entertaining.

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The Church of Covid

30th September 2020

ZMan pulls the curtain back.

Depending upon when you mark the beginning, the world is anywhere between six and eight months into the Covid panic. While some parts of the world have slowly climbed back down from the ledge, other parts of the world seem committed to another round of lock downs and public hysteria. In fact, the great and the good are telling us that the public rituals may be a permanent condition. The question, though, is why has the world gone crazy over this particular pandemic?

Strangely forgotten in all of this is the fact that every generation or so has a nasty virus get loose that results in a very bad flu season. The last one was Swine flu, which was about a decade ago. There was a worldwide outbreak of H1N1 called the Soviet flu in the 1970’s and before that the Hong Kong flu. There are localized outbreaks of even scarier things like MERS and SARS. In other words, Covid is neither unusual or particular harmful compared to the regularly occurring pandemics.

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Salon Owner Who Defied Lockdown Makes Texas Senate Runoff

30th September 2020

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A Dallas salon owner who was sent to jail for defying coronavirus lockdown orders and became a symbol of conservative angst over COVID-19 restrictions advanced to a runoff for a Texas Senate seat on Tuesday night.

Republican Shelley Luther finished in a virtual dead heat with four-term Republican state Rep. Drew Springer as both advanced. Luther had 31.7% of the vote in a special election to fill a vacated seat in a heavily Republican North Texas district. Springer, a Muenster tax consultant, tallied 31.83% of the vote. Jacob Minter, the lone Democrat in the six-candidate race and an electrician heading up a quality control team for a union in Sherman, finished third with 21.06% of the vote.

An interesting wrinkle: Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick pays fine for salon owner who refused to close

The subtext is that this was a pissing contest between the Democrat political ruling class in Dallas County and a Republican business owner. Hence the Lt. Governor’s contribution.

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PBS, The Propaganda for Biden Service

30th September 2020

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Here’s Exhibit A for how shameless PBS looks in the fall campaign. On September 22, their series Frontline aired a two-hour documentary on the presidential election called “The Choice,” as they do every four years.

The quick review: Donald Trump is a vicious “killer” and bully. Joe Biden is “Obama’s trusted partner.”

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Thought for the Day

30th September 2020

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Caste Aspersions

30th September 2020

Steve Sailer.

You might think that Isabel Wilkerson’s best-selling book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents might be timely because Kamala Harris is descended both from a high-caste Brahmin mother and a Jamaican father from that island’s “middle-class brown” caste.

Harris’ father, a retired Stanford economics professor, appears to be a product of the careful breeding regimen that author Malcolm Gladwell describes in his writings about how his Jamaican mother’s ancestors kept themselves distinct from the black masses. An affluent Jamaican once told me with bemusement: “Everybody calls me black in the United States and white in Jamaica.”

On the other hand, it could be argued that the only real system of caste in the world is found among the Hindus of South Asia, Bali, and Silicon Valley, with their thousands of endogamous groups and endless proliferation of rules. Everybody else’s caste system is just a weak-tea metaphor for the Indian straight stuff.

 

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Today in Russia Hoax News

30th September 2020

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We seem to be approaching the bottom of the biggest political scandal in American history thanks to the declassification of information that was somehow kept under wraps over the past four years. This information wasn’t leaked to the Times or the Post or any of the Democrats’ other co-conspirators in the mainstream media.

In the latest information to emerge from our fabled intelligence community, DNI Ratcliffe advises that Hillary Clinton appears to have hatched at least one prong of the Russia hoax against then candidate Donald Trump in July 2016 — “the IC does not know the accuracy of this allegation” — and former CIA Director John Brennan briefed President Obama and other senior national security officials on it. Intelligence officials forwarded an investigative referral to former FBI Director James Comey the following September.

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Nanoparticles With Self-Replicating RNA Stop Cancer in Mice

30th September 2020

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Mice always get the best stuff first.

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Police: News Anchor Bashes Acquaintance With Bottle Over Politics

29th September 2020

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I’m surprised it wasn’t the other way around — because I’ve had that impulse.

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

29th September 2020

Brain-eating amoebae are very rare, but warming waters may change that  California is safe, they haven’t any brains to speak of.

Great Lakes Drying Up… No, Overflowing… Because Climate Change

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome, With a Side of ACB

29th September 2020

The story behind Amy Coney Barrett’s little-known Christian group People of Praise  (Washington Post) As seen through the eyes of Margaret Atwood.

Democrats aren’t anti-Catholic bigots for questioning Amy Coney Barrett (The Guardian) They are the way they’re doing it.

Harlow shuts down WH official: Stop attacking the press or this interview will end  (CNN) Funny how no news organization ever threatened to shut down an interview for someone attacking Trump. (Bias? What bias?)

‘Classic Authoritarian’: How Historians Rate Trump’s Danger to Democracy  (New York Magazine) Except, of course, for the fact that if Trump were who they say he is, they’d all be in jail.

Rich Guys Cuomo, Lemon Claim Trump Loans Endanger All Americans

Bernstein: NY Times Tax Report A ‘Smoking Gun of a Pervasively Criminal Presidency’  Except for the ‘criminal’ part, of which there was none.

California Teacher Threatens To Kick Student Out Of Virtual Class Over Pro-Trump Flag

Schumer Refuses To Meet With Amy Coney Barrett  Don’t confuse him with facts, his mind is made up.

Scarborough: If Trump Loses, He Might Commit Treason to Pay Off His Business Debts  The way Bill & Hillary did?

CBS Brings on Anita Hill to Talk Blocking Barrett, Endorsing Biden

Stephen King Drops More Hate on Trump Supporters

New York Times: Even Third World Feels Sorry for America Under Thuggish Trump

CNN Pre-Debate Poll Shows Biden Clearly Won Debate  Babylon Bee.

‘Foremost Propagator Of Disinformation’: Joe Biden Campaign Hits Facebook For Not Removing Donald Trump’s Mail-In Voting Posts

‘Illegitimate Power Grab’: Elizabeth Warren Says She Won’t Meet With Amy Coney Barrett  I’m guessing she didn’t teach Constitutional Law.

Ahead of Debate, CNN Warns of Trump ‘Stunts,’ ‘Neo-Civil War’

 

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Today in Black Privilege

29th September 2020

The family whose Black Lives Matter sign shook their conservative town (The Guardian) Funny how they never write an article about The Family Whose Trump Sign Shook Up Their Liberal Town.

Louisiana Dem rep says she’s embarrassed to be a White woman, gets trolled online

UW-Madison Grad Student Resigns Leadership Roles After Falsely ‘Identfying’ As Black

FBI: Blacks Made Up 55.9% of Known Murder Offenders in 2019  Diversity is certainly the strength of the crime statistics.

Murders Up 28% in 2020 in 59 Sampled Cities, by Steve Sailer

“N-Word Science” Proves You’re a Racist!

REPORT: Gabrielle Union Reaches Settlement With NBC Following Accusations Of Racism And Misconduct On The Set Of ‘AGT’

Radicalized Antiracism on Campus—as Seen from the Computer Lab

 

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

29th September 2020

Police Break Up Nearly 300-Person Wedding In NYC For Violation Of Mayor De Blasio’s Pandemic Guidelines

Billionaire Jeffrey Gundlach slams California over taxes, may leave state

Homeless men who caused havoc at Upper West Side hotel will now be moved to Wall Street  Let’s see how many people we can persuade to leave NYC.

Pushback: Madrid Erupts As Citizens Clash With Police During Anti-Lockdown Riots

Newsom Signs Law Mandating Trans Inmates Be Housed Based on Gender Identity  Oh, yeah, that will end REALLY WELL.

New York Region Sees 40 Percent Bankruptcy Surge, Braces for More

Hennepin County Attorney’s Office Said No Reports Of Voter Fraud, Despite Project Veritas Claims  I guess the publicly posted video doesn’t count.

Gov Cuomo Threatens To Send In National Guard To Pick Up Trash As NYC Garbage Crisis Worsens  Come have a rewarding career in the New York National Guard!

Notre Dame President Maskless At White House, Students Demand Resignation

‘120-Plus Days’: Portland Officer Hospitalized, Gun And Knives Recovered As Riots Continue

Christian Wedding Photographer Challenges Virginia Law That Requires Him To Provide Service To Same-Sex Weddings

 

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Trump Gets Third Nobel Peace Prize Nomination

29th September 2020

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President Donald Trump has received a third nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize, this time from a quartet of Australian law professors who lauded his reduction of American overseas military involvement, brokering Middle East peace agreements, and increasing energy independence to lessen the need for military intervention.

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Follow Tonight’s Debate With the Babylon Bee’s Handy Bingo Cards

29th September 2020

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You can’t be a Really Engaged Voter without a Babylon Bee Debate Bingo Card.

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HOW DUMB ARE WE? USA Today ‘Fact Checks’ Babylon Bee on ‘Court Overturns’ RBG’s Death

29th September 2020

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Proglodytes have no sense of humor and so don’t recognize humor when they see it.

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Media Gunning for Scott Atlas Because He Keeps Exposing Coronavirus Lies

29th September 2020

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“Dr. Scott Atlas is arming Trump with misleading data” about COVID-19, Centers for Disease Control Director Dr. Robert Redfield told a colleague Friday, according to a Monday report by NBC News political reporter Monica Alba.

Within hours, numerous outlets ideologically allied with NBC amplified the coverage. Here are some screenshots of the Google News results for the story just a short while later, but is Redfield’s assertion correct? The Federalist spoke to numerous epidemiologists to find out.

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Fundraiser For Kyle Rittenhouse Hits Half a Million Dollars

29th September 2020

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Kenosha County Sheriff Endorses Trump, Says There Is ‘A Huge Difference’ Between President And Biden

29th September 2020

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Perhaps this is the start of a trend.

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Facebook, Instagram Try to Purge Hunting Consortium from Platform

29th September 2020

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Facebook and Instagram apparently would prefer that users not look at photos of big game hunting. But even more than that, Facebook will not allow specific links to the hunting website The Hunting Consortium to be shared on its platform or through Facebook Messenger.

The Hunting Consortium, an international hunting agency, has been suffering from online censorship at the hands of Facebook. “The Hunting Consortium, (@huntingconsortium) has recently fallen victim to the censorship issue that has been plaguing the hunting community for some time now,” stated Vice President of the Hunting Consortium Rob Kern. “In July, we experienced a censorship issue greater than anything we, or any of the experts we have talked to, have encountered.”

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Peaceful Separation

29th September 2020

ZMan points out some inconvenient truth.

“Familiarity breeds contempt” is an old expression that like many others, remains true even though it is widely ignored. Proof of this is all round us, as Americans know more about one another than at any time in history. The more we know, the less we like about one another. The reason for this is we have never been one people or anything close to a nation. For most of our history, we have barely been a country. Now we get to see this reality every day on our media platforms.

 

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The Progressive Medusa

29th September 2020

Victor Davis Hanson.

There was once a tradition of Democratic liberalism. But that wing of the Democratic Party no longer exists and died sometime in the 1990s. Old-style liberalism has been absorbed by Progressivism at best and unapologetic socialism at worst—in a journey on the supposedly predetermined arc of history that bends toward 1984.

The new-old leftist aim is not to operate within either the existing parameters of the Constitution as written or the customs and traditions of America—a 150-year-long nine-justice Supreme Court, the Electoral College, a 50-state nation, a Senate filibuster, two senators per state, and a secure border. All are obstructions to the drive for power.

Given its redistributionist creed, socialism cannot afford to be patent and honest. If socialism were transparent, it never would gain majority support. Joe Biden cannot talk about the Electoral College or court packing, unequivocally condemn the violence in our urban centers, discuss the Green New Deal, name his likely Supreme Court appointments, be honest about his plans for fracking, or explain his views on the borders, because he is now owned lock, stock and barrel by the hard Left whose agendas were rejected even in his own Democratic primaries.

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Thought for the Day

29th September 2020

Frazz Comic Strip for September 28, 2020

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A Virus of Opportunity

29th September 2020

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If we were in a normal situation, and the disease hadn’t been politicized, we could rely on recorded statistics to tell us whether or not COVID-19 should be classified as a pandemic. Unfortunately, this is not a normal situation. Statistics on the infection have been gamed and manipulated to inflate both incidence and fatality rates. I have no confidence in any of the aggregate statistics put out by state and federal governments.

Therefore I am forced to focus on anecdotal evidence and utilize common sense. For the past three or four months, during my very limited social interactions (mostly involving family and close friends), I’ve made it my habit to quiz people about their personal experience with the coronavirus: Do you know anyone who has contracted COVID-19? If so, did any of them die of it?

For myself, I don’t even know anyone who has tested positive for the disease, much less died of it. And the overwhelming majority of the people I asked don’t know anyone who has had it. Out of all the people I have asked, only one person knows someone (a very elderly person) who died of the WuFlu.

If this were a real pandemic, we would all know multiple victims of it. Every family would have seen at least one fatality from it. Every person would be able to give a lengthy roster of friends and relatives who had contracted it, some of whom would have died.

 

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More on Trump’s Taxes

29th September 2020

John Hinderaker at PowerLine.

Steve beat me to this, I see, but here are a few additional comments on the New York Times’s felony du jour. Well, to be fair, they just aided and abetted the felony. Maybe someday that will be illegal.

First, I doubt whether anyone cares. Donald Trump has been president for four years, and if you think he has done a good job (as I do), you are hardly going to be deterred from voting for him by the fact that he hires good accountants. The people who are excited about the Times felony/scoop weren’t going to vote for him anyway.

Second, on its face the Times “expose” falls flat. I understand that someone at the IRS feloniously leaked Trump’s tax returns for more than 20 years, and it is true, as Trump has said, that he has been subject to one or more audits also extending over a period of years. So apparently the IRS has been unable to find anything wrong with Trump’s tax returns. Case closed.

Third, this retired tax accountant supplies a knowledgeable perspective, as opposed to anything you might read in the co-conspirator Times. [Quotes Larry Correia]

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How Focusing on Individual Achievement Favors the Upper Class

29th September 2020

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At least according to a magazine called Behavioral Scientist. (This is an interpretation of ‘scientist’ with which I am unfamiliar.)

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No, You Idiots. That’s Not How Taxes Work. – An Accountant’s Guide to Why You Are a Gullible Moron

28th September 2020

Larry Correia.

I posted that last night on Facebook, and sure enough, this morning my feed is filled with people who don’t know shit about taxes retweeting the stupid opinions of other morons who also don’t know shit about taxes. This is just as annoying as last week when these same idiots all suddenly became Constitutional Scholars. Or the month before that when they were all experts on use of force laws and police tactics. Or the month before that when they suddenly got their epidemiology degrees from the University of Internet and turned into infectious disease experts.

Holy shit, you Dunning-Krugerands are annoying. Of course the comments are all about the “morality” of paying your “fair share”. Which isn’t how any of this works in real life. Just stop it with your vapid hot takes already. You clearly have a child-like grasp of a complex topic, and your words are making America dumber.

As a former accountant, please allow me to explain why all of today’s newly formed tax experts are fucking morons, and we should metaphorically put a brick in a sock and beat them over the head with it until they shut up.

I love the term ‘wokesplaining’ and will be using it henceforth.

I highly recommend Larry’s ‘Saga of the Forgotten Warrior’ series.

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

28th September 2020

Study: Global Warming Hiatus (aka “The Pause”) Was Real

Morning Consult Poll: 1/4 Won’t Have Kids Due to Climate Change  And they are precisely the sort of people whom we ought to encourage not to reproduce. Win-win!

 

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

28th September 2020

Colorado Encourages Dead People, Non-Citizens To Vote

NYC principals union votes ‘no confidence’ in de Blasio, Carranza

The Florida patrol attempting to enforce a mask mandate  The Guardian.

Project Veritas uncovers ‘ballot harvesting fraud’ in Minnesota

Systemic Voter Fraud In Minnesota?

UK: Coronavirus latest news: Police ‘struggling’ as £10,000 self-isolation fines come into force

Seattle Rioters Allegedly Bust Windows, Light Fires, Hurl Objects At Officers Near Former CHOP Location, Police Say

Another Horrific Chicago Weekend: 5-Year Old Girl Stabbed, 49 People Shot

Pushback: Firefighter’s Union Sues New Jersey Over Handling Of COVID-19

Ted Cruz Triggers Joy Behar by Bringing Up Cuomo’s Disastrous Nursing Home Policy

Portland Rioters Hurl Firecrackers, Rocks at Officers, Weapons Recovered as Unrest Continues, Police Say

Around 1,400 Virginia Voters Received Two Absentee Ballots In Mail, Officials Blame Printer Problems

Calif. Teacher Threatened to Kick Student Out of Zoom Class Over Trump Flag

Rotten apple: New Yorkers are fleeing to the suburbs

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome, With a Side of ACB

28th September 2020

New York Times Begs You to Ignore Damning Trump Dossier Details

Backlash Builds After Biden Compares Trump To Nazi Propagandist Goebbels

Feminist Crank Runs and Hides After Tweet on ACB ‘Weaponizing Her White Womanhood’

MSNBC Panel MELTS DOWN Over Barrett Nomination

Pelosi Begins Process of House Picking President  Guess they’re not that confident that Gropin’ Joe will win.

New York Times: Trump paid no income taxes in 10 out of 15 years beginning in 2000  Because he had tremendous losses, which he was allowed to deduct, all fully lawful. Scraaaaaaape that barrel….

Will the New York Times taxes report sink Donald Trump?  The Guardian. No, because it was all perfectly legal. Scraaaaaaape that barrel….

The micro-thin silver lining in the Amy Coney Barrett nomination  Washington Post.

‘All in’ for Trump: These White men, the strongest Trump supporters, say they can’t be swayed  Washington Post.

Trump Wanted Ivanka To Be His Vice President Before Picking Mike Pence, Book From Former Campaign Aide Claims  Fake news. Trump throws out many ideas; he’s a creative guy. Bottom-feeders interpret every idea as a firm plan and promptly run around with their hair on fire.

Tom Ridge Endorses Biden: ‘Time to Vote Country Over Party’  RINOs ASSEMBLE!

Sick: Media’s Favorite ‘Antiracist’ Scholar Spews Racist Hate for Barrett Adopting Black Children

Cindy McCain Will Serve on Biden’s Transition Team Advisory Board  There will be a lot of jobs open for RINO sonderkommando in a Biden administration.

Twitter CEO Dorsey Gave $10M to ‘Antiracist’ Scholar Who Spewed Racist Hate at Barrett  My, what a surprise.

CNN Reports Amy Coney Barrett Attended Bizarre Ceremony Where She Ate Flesh, Drank Blood Of Jewish Guy  Babylon Bee. The horror! The horror!

CNN Anchor Shocked After Rick Santorum Suggests NYT Story On Trump’s Taxes Is False

WOW: NBC Lets Tax Cheat Sharpton Lecture Trump on Taxes

CNN Cheers Trump Tax Returns, Concocts Conspiracy Theories

 

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Today in Black Privilege

28th September 2020

Organizer Arrested After Driving Car Into California Protest

How Black Lives Matter Is Being Used to Further a Communist Agenda

49 Shot, 7 Dead In Violent Chicago Weekend, 5-Year-Old Stabbed To Death

PBS Lets MSNBC Analyst Liken Cops to ‘Gang Bangers’ Killing Breonna Taylor

Feds Charge Louisville Man After He Allegedly Threatens To Gun Down Officers On Facebook Live

Lemon Pushes MLK III To Label Supreme Court Pick ‘Abysmal’ for Minorities and Women  Funny how ‘MLK III” looks whiter than Don Lemon, who looks about as white as a Halfrican can be.

 

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Analyst of Totalitarianism—Reading Simon Leys Today

28th September 2020

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Simon Leys was perhaps the pre-eminent Western chronicler of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, and it is worth returning to his work for its vivid first-hand accounts of life in Beijing during this period. But Leys was also interested in the process by which, under the right conditions and with the right ideology, a society can collapse into insanity and murder. His description of the Cultural Revolution showed how political hysteria and the legitimization of violence and hatred combined to ravage a nation.

These developments, however, are by no means unique to communism in general or China in particular, and Leys explored similar themes in his retelling of the harrowing true story of a ship wrecked off the coast of Australia in 1629. His book on the topic, The Wreck of the Batavia, is a short masterpiece about how the small society that the ship’s survivors tried to construct in the wake of the disaster was plunged into apocalyptic madness and murder by a psychopathic leader operating according to his own deranged totalitarian ideology. The parallels to Maoism—although Leys was too elegant a writer to belabour them—are obvious.

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Lawmaker Demands Charges Against Governor Over Virus Orders

28th September 2020

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A conservative lawmaker took his frustration over Ohio’s coronavirus public health orders to a new level Monday by demanding that criminal charges be filed against fellow Republican Gov. Mike DeWine.

Rep. John Becker, a Republican from Cincinnati, says DeWine has exceeded his authority under state law and the Ohio and U.S. constitutions in issuing orders restricting Ohioans movements and activities. He made his demand in Clermont Municipal Court under a provision of state law allowing private citizen affidavits.

A reviewing prosecutor dismissed the request for charges almost immediately, and a DeWine spokesman called the move “absurd.”

Becker filed to have the prosecutor charge DeWine with 10 different crimes, including engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, complicity, terrorism, inducing panic and interfering with civil rights.

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Facebook Leaks Reveal Zuckerberg’s Struggle With Far-Left Employees

28th September 2020

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Facebook has made multiple anti-conservative policy decisions in recent months, but reported leaks indicate the platform’s far-left employees could make the platform even worse.

“Employees want him to take a harder line against the Trump Administration. His user base wants him to do the opposite,” The Verge wrote in a September 23 piece with the headline “Mark in the Middle.” The piece discussed various leaks from the controversy-embattled company and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

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The Handwringing Tale

28th September 2020

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As mentioned here over the weekend, one reason among many that President Trump chose to appoint Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court is that she’s already survived a Democratic attack, and one that was especially ugly in its overt anti-Catholic bigotry. Democrats with sense understand that a reprise of that attack will be a disaster for them. Over the weekend you could see various Democrats, including Nancy Pelosi and Dick Durban, saying that Barrett’s faith should not be an issue, but I’m betting a lot of leftists just won’t be able to help themselves.

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Hugh Hewitt Exposes Brian Stelter on Collusion, the Steele Dossier, and ‘Irrelevant’ Avenatti

28th September 2020

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I can think of no prospect more repellant than an exposed Brian Stelter.

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Ilhan Omar Implicated in Election Fraud

28th September 2020

The Other McCain keeps track of this stuff because the DemLegHump Media won’t.

A ballot-harvesting racket in Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Minneapolis district — where paid workers illegally gather absentee ballots from elderly Somali immigrants — appears to have been busted by undercover news organization Project Veritas.

One alleged ballot harvester, Liban Mohamed, the brother of Minneapolis city council member Jamal Osman, is shown in a bombshell Snapchat video rifling through piles of ballots strewn across his dashboard.

The problem with modern-day Criminals of Color is that they can’t resist telling the world about their guilt.

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Recent Evolution

28th September 2020

Severian blows the whistle.

It should be clear to even the dullest social observer that human software has well and truly outstripped our hardware. We’re not built for the world we’ve built. This has been happening for a long time, of course, but it has really taken off recently. Note how hard it is not to watch tv, for instance. Even if you don’t have one in your home, go to a bar, an airport, hell, go to the grocery store — there are blinking screens everywhere, and it takes serious effort not to watch them. Our hardware interprets bright flashing things as a threat — can’t be helped. If you’ve been away from civilization for a few days, like I was recently, you’ll experience fatigue, even nausea when you first come back into town. The low-level-but-constant effort it takes to override your hardware when surrounded by blinking screens wears you out.

 

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The Great Stagger

28th September 2020

ZMan takes a gander.

A popular theme in science fiction is one where the human explorers stumble upon alien technology and they are baffled as to what it does. It’s not that they know the purpose but cannot figure out how to make it work. It’s that they don’t understand the purpose of the technology. The implication is that the aliens were so advanced that they were creating tools to solve problems humans have yet to contemplate. The gap between the aliens and humans is so great that it cannot be bridged.

It is a useful thing to keep in mind when thinking about the modern world. The evidence is pretty good that Western man is dumber than his ancestors. We have more overall knowledge than our ancestors, but our ability to add to it is in sharp decline along with our ability to use it. The people in charge now struggle to do the basics of government, like maintain order and the infrastructure. In America, streets are crumbling and there are regular power failures in parts of the country.

Preventing riots and looting is the essence of government. Any government that cannot do  that is ipso facto incompetent. Yet the sheep on the Left Coast will continue to vote for them, until the place falls into the sea.

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Quotation of the Day

28th September 2020

No one would live as a knight and role-play as a marketing consultant.

— Curtis Yarvin (Mencius Moldbug)

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Thought for the Day

28th September 2020

Not to mention the free long-distance phone calls.

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It’s Not Okay to Say

28th September 2020

Audacious Epigone deals with some inconvenient truth.

If Trump were a tyrannical dictator, nobody would be able to get away with calling him one. If so-called white privilege was beneficial, non-whites would be trying to pass as white to cash in on that privilege. Instead they run from the liability, pretending to be non-white because of how lucrative it is. Hell, if it were okay to be white it would be okay to say it’s okay to be white, but it’s not okay to be white so it’s not okay to say it’s okay to be white.

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Why Are Liberals Such Whiny Wusses?

27th September 2020

Read it.

So as we know, the left is having a collective freakout over the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, and they seem to be in competition to see who can disgrace themselves the most, with the Barrett-Is-a-Racist-Because-She-Adopted-Black-Kids caucus off to a strong early lead.

And the left is extra mad at Harvard’s Noah Feldman, otherwise a liberal, for publicly praising Barrett. For this sin, Stanford Law Professor Michele Dauber called Feldman a “worthless shitty white man” on Twitter. Then the fun really began….

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

27th September 2020

Supreme Court case on carbon price is about climate change, not the Constitution

Cement is the source of 8% of the world’s CO2 emissions (2018)  BBC. They say that like it was a bad thing.

Claim: Gujarat Solar Park is Failing to Fulfil Mandatory UN Renewable Energy Gender Empowerment Requirements  It’s not enough to save the planet, it must incorporate the Crust’s entire proglodyte agenda.

How Humanity Came to Contemplate Its Possible Extinction

Ponds, Beaver Ponds, Arctic & Antarctic Ponds, and Walden Pond

Nuclear power: Are we too anxious about the risks of radiation?  I think so.

New study to uncover how climate change and tectonics drove evolution in East Africa  Women and minorities hardest hit.

 

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