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Michael Moore Says White Supremacists Must Adjust to Being the Minority in Coming Years

12th October 2020

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Oh, I suspect that they’re a minority even now. Try to find one.

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Wyoming Ranchers in Butchering Bind Are Selling Beef Directly to Consumers

12th October 2020

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The pandemic has created a butchering capacity shortage in the U.S. It’s illegal for ranchers to butcher their own animals and sell them directly to consumers, but a new state law offers relief.

A cow sold to restaurants or retailers has to be processed at a USDA-certified facility.

Why would it be illegal for ranchers to butcher their own animals? Does that make any sense at all?

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The Ascendancy of the InterNazis

11th October 2020

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The Antifas or “anti-fascists” were all but unknown to Americans until after the election of Donald Trump four years ago. In the fall and winter of 2016-2017 they appeared in “black bloc” gear on the streets of American cities like Minerva bursting full-grown from the head of Zeus. In the ensuing years they have continued to ravage public spaces across the country, and have joined forces with Black Lives Matter to the point that the shock troops of the two groups are all but indistinguishable.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

11th October 2020

PBS NewsHour Pundits Agree Trump Will Lose on COVID, It’s Not Ideological At All

Hours after Trump’s dark and divisive White House speech, his doctor still won’t say if he’s tested negative (CNN)

How Trump damaged science — and why it could take decades to recover (Nature)

NYPD seeks would-be thief who pulled knife on man wearing MAGA hat

Smerconish: There’s a feeling this thing is getting away from Trump (CNN)

Taliban Slams CBS ‘Fake News’, Refutes Claim They Endorse Trump

 

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

11th October 2020

UK at ‘Tipping Point’: England Braces for More Restrictions

Bill Burr Rips Cancel Culture And Woke White Women In Incredible ‘Saturday Night Live’ Monologue

Putin Trolls Biden: Communists & Dems Share ‘Common Values’ While Trump Record Hard On Russia

Why rightwing extremists are thriving on Facebook  (The Guardian) Except that they aren’t rightwing extremists, but leftwing extremists.

Greta Thunberg: ‘Get Everyone To Vote’ For Joe Biden

Ex-NYPD Commish Kelly: Mayor de Blasio Made NYC ‘Unsafe’

The Great California Exodus Accelerates

Bad Kshama: meet Seattle’s worst socialist

Security Paralyzed By Fears Of Being Called “Racist” As Shoplifting Mobs ‘Bulldoze’ Luxury NY Stores

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

11th October 2020

Study: “mitigation costs of limiting global warming … are higher than … avoided damages this century”

A Coronavirus Vaccine Could Kill Half a Million Sharks, Conservationists Warn

Do they really care about science ?

 

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Today in Black Privilege

11th October 2020

Killer Mike’s new Black-owned bank receives ‘tens of thousands’ of account requests in less than 24 hours

One Dead After Shooting At ‘BLM-Antifa,’ ‘Patriot Rally’ Protests

Kaepernick Makes ‘Demand for Abolition’ of Police, Prisons

I altered my personality to fit in at work

Math Association Say Math “Inherently Carries Human Biases”, Citing Critical Race Theory

Race for Los Angeles District Attorney Increasingly Bitter

 

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How Newspapers Lie

11th October 2020

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A front page story in yesterday’s Minneapolis Star Tribune is a good illustration of how corrupt today’s press has become. It would be insignificant, except for the fact that its dishonesty is replicated thousands of times every day, in newspapers across the country.

The Strib’s story is headlined, in the print edition, “Town Lashes Out at Floyd’s Uncle.” The story refers to a controversy that occurred several months ago in Gettysburg, South Dakota, population 1,162, where, coincidentally, George Floyd’s uncle Selwyn Jones lives. Strib reporter Chao Xiong describes the controversy this way: “Jones led the charge to remove Confederate flag-adorned patches from the uniforms of Gettysburg police.” At the outset, there are several problems with this story.

 

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Everything I Know About Elite America I Learned From ‘Fresh Prince’ and ‘West Wing’

11th October 2020

This article from the New York Times is an overview of how the Crust recruits new members and succeeds in brainwashing a considerable part of what ought to be Middle America.

Obviously, this guy went to Yale after the rot set in, so his experience doesn’t match those of us who went there in ‘the good old days’ (which weren’t all that good, just less bad than now). To a considerable degree, ‘wokeness’ is simply an attempt by parvenus to blend in with what they think is the Upper Class, especially black kids who have been promoted beyond their competence — they come to think that the way to success is to be activist assholes, and for the most part they’re right.

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The New Deal Wasn’t Intrinsically Racist

11th October 2020

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In recent decades, “racial disparity” has become the central framework for discussing inequities affecting African Americans in the United States. In this usage, disparity refers to the disproportionate statistical representation of some categorically defined populations on average in the distribution of undesirable things—unemployment, low wages, infant mortality, poor education, incarceration, etc. And by corollary logic, such social groupings are also found to be statistically underrepresented in desirable things—wealth, income, educational attainment, etc.

This way of thinking about injustice and what does and doesn’t call for remedial action has its roots in enforcement of anti-discrimination law in the 1960s and 1970s. Identifying disparate treatment or outcomes that correlate with racial difference can be a critical step in validating a complaint. However, the inclination to fixate on such disparities as the only objectionable form of inequality can create perverse political incentives. We devote a great deal of rhetorical and analytic energy to the project of determining just which groups, or population categories, suffer or have suffered the worst. Cynics have sometimes referred to this brand of what we might term political one-downsmanship as the “oppression Olympics”—a contest in which groups that have attained or are vying for legal protection effectively compete for the moral or cultural authority that comes with the designation of most victimized.

Women and minorities hardest hit.

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Progressive Taxation

11th October 2020

Freeberg digs up an old corpus dilecti.

Once again, I’m venturing into a college town, a stranger in a strange land. This is where you can finally find one or two Biden/Harris signs. Which isn’t so bad, but there’s a prevailing sentiment that Bernie Sanders is an okay guy and might still have the right idea. Months after he took the money & ran. People can’t figure out what smells.

Resentment appeals to people, especially to people who pay attention to politics only occasionally. I suppose it’s like a smoothie, that first sip is enticing and delicious. Nobody wants to suck away at it all day, but that’s okay because with politics people only pay attention long enough to form an opinion. They can’t see what their resentments are doing to them, and to the rest of us.

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What the Pandemic Has Taught Us About Science

11th October 2020

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The scientific method remains the best way to solve many problems, but bias, overconfidence and politics can sometimes lead scientists astray.

Matt Ridley has published an article in the WSJ What the pandemic has taught us about science, that is highly relevant for climate change as well as for Covid-19.  It is excellent, I agree with and endorse every word of this.

The paper is behind paywall; Dan Hughes kindly sent me a topic of the text.  Here are extensive excerpts.

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Thought for the Day

11th October 2020

Whenever anyone asks ‘How are you?’ I always respond ‘Compared to what?’ Try it sometime.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

10th October 2020

Shameful Hacks: Morning Joe Lobbies for 25th Amendment to Oust Trump  This is just virtue-signalling; Scarborough was a Congressman and knows it isn’t going to happen.

The Press Found Two More Apparent Trump Financial Crimes Today (New York Magazine)

Keilar: This response from Pence would’ve embarrassed Pinocchio (CNN)

MSNBC’s Joy Reid Asks If Trumpites Should Be Tried at the Hague  I ask whether Joy Reid ought to be sent back to Africa.

Harvard Student Newspaper FURIOUS Over Campus Republicans Endorsing Trump

Trump Has Utterly Broken Their Minds

Prof Compares Mitch McConnell To A Nazi Who “Picks Off Old Jewish Ladies With A Rifle”

CNN FREAK OUT: Camerota Brings on Pence Aide Just to Scream at Him

Top 20: Celebs Rage Against ‘MASS MURDERER’ Trump and ‘BIGOT’ Pence

Hysteria, Panic Grip WashPost’s Jennifer Rubin on Trump 2020

Fredo Cuomo: Trump Didn’t Win Peace Prize Because He Encouraged Terrorism

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

10th October 2020

Without nuclear power, the world’s climate challenge will get a whole lot harder’

‘Real and imminent’ extinction risk to whales (BBC ‘News’)

On Hannity’s show, Trump reveals his corrupt, panicky endgame (Washington Post)

Virtue, Wherefore Art Thou Signal?

“We need to change”: Astronomers Admit Their Outsized Contribution to the Climate Crisis

 

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

10th October 2020

Death To Free Speech In The Netherlands – Again

NY Court Rules Student’s ‘Don’t Tread On Me’ Social Media Post Was Racist

Man Slowly Eats Bag Of Cheetos All Day So He Won’t Have To Wear A Mask  Babylon Bee.

“Big Tech Has Become A Tool Of Totalitarian Fascism” – Google Has ‘Memory-Holed’ The Great Barrington Declaration

‘White Supremacist’ Narrative Unravels: Whitmer Kidnap Suspect Attended BLM Rally, Another Called Trump A ‘Tyrant’

NYT’s Astor: Literally Any Criticism of Kamala Is Racist and Sexist

Washington Post Wields Occam’s Butterknife to Attribute Murder Surge to Lifting Lockdowns (Rather Than to BLM)

 

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Today in Black Privilege

10th October 2020

WaPo: Smirking Is Black Women’s Superpower

The Latest Woke Demand – Stop Teaching Black Students Standard English

‘F*** Reform:’ Kaepernick Starts Month-long Movement for Abolition, Dismantling of Policing

Flint Councilman Proposes Shutting Down Gas Stations, Liquor Stores At Night To Reduce Crime

Navy Veteran Joe Collins Targets ‘Mansion Maxine’ Waters In New Campaign Ad

 

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OPSEC Critique of the Michigan Governor Kidnap Plot

10th October 2020

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The world is full of amateurs.

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Put Whom Back in Chains?

10th October 2020

Charlie Cooke.

If I’m reading this correctly, the Democratic candidate for Senate in South Carolina believes that Tim Scott, who is already a senator from South Carolina, intends to vote for a Supreme Court nominee, who herself has two black children, who will put him back in chains? In what, one of those 13th Amendment cases we get regularly? Our politics is really rather stupid sometimes.

Democrat lies don’t have to make sense, they just have to push the Narrative.

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Big Pharma Money Flows to Biden, Not Trump

10th October 2020

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President Donald Trump has touted being saved by big pharma drugs to treat his COVID-19 infection, but his work to lower drug prices for Americans might ultimately be a death sentence for his reelection.

Because, now, big pharma’s big money is flowing to Democrat Joe Biden, according to Kaiser Health News.

“Traditionally the industry tends to favor Republicans,” Center for Responsive Politics research director Sarah Bryner told KHN. “But this cycle, we’re seeing that flipped.”

The Crust look after their own.

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Halfrican Mind-Reader: This Lefty Celeb Claims to Know What’s Wrong With Black Conservatives

10th October 2020

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Black conservatives face considerable stigmas from the Left. The recent documentary Uncle Tom highlighted the abuse they suffer while letting black conservatives share why they vote for smaller government and greater individual freedom.

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How an Arrogant Journalist Helped Crucify Columbus in New Haven

10th October 2020

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Since 18s92, a statue of Christopher Columbus in New Haven’s Wooster Square has been a place where Italian Americans rallied on Columbus Day. It’s gone now, another victim of the current fashion of erasing our history. It’s gone partially thanks to the willful ignorance and arrogance of a New Haven Register journalist, and his reliance on the anti-American lies of the left’s favorite history textbook.

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Thought for the Day

10th October 2020

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The Brown Queen: the Evolution of Unbreakable Political Power

10th October 2020

Audacious Epigone blows the whistle.

In Manufacturing Consent, Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman describe how the Establishment creates a softly coercive consensus using the combined power of corporate media, DC think tanks, and the military-industrial complex. By laundering information through this vast network, the system is able to fabricate perceived realities at odds with reality itself. Future president Kamala Harris is the personification of this process….

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ABC Avoids Reporting Police Shooting Victim Was Armed and Fired Weapon

10th October 2020

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On Thursday morning, ABC News correspondent Alex Perez was again doing his part to stoke racial strife as he informed viewers that a police officer in Milwaukee will not be charged for shooting a 17-year-old African American teen, Alvin Cole.

As Good Morning America ran a full report showing a clip in which a protester called the shooting a “murder,” at no point were viewers told that Cole had fired a handgun before being killed by Officer Joseph Mensah.

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VIDEO: Cop-Hating Anarchist in Michigan Calls Trump a ‘Tyrant’

9th October 2020

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Say hello to Brandon Caserta, one of the “right-wing extremists” charged with a conspiracy to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

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Vanity Fair Portrays NY Congressman as Moderate But Skips Impeachment Vote

9th October 2020

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Quick! If you have heard of Congressman Max Rose (D), what is the most significant vote he has cast during his first and only term in office? If you know the answer, I am sure most of you answered that it was his vote to impeach President Donald Trump despite his earlier promise he would not do so.

Therefore you would figure that if he gives an extensive interview to a publication such as Vanity Fair, that he would be asked about that impeachment vote which is now political poison for him since his congressional district comprising Staten Island and part of Brooklyn is the most conservative district in New York City. Added to that he is currently in a very tough congressional race with Republican opponent Nicole Malliotakis.

As part of its effort by Vanity Fair to portray Rose as some sort of moderate despite his vote to impeach, the very first sentence of the introduction to the October 9 interview by Peter Hamby makes Rose seem as somehow a defender of Trump despite voting to remove him from office.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome, With a Side of ACB

9th October 2020

Trump’s rejection of virtual format puts future of debates in question (CNN) Oh, ya think?

Presidential debates commission proves that it, too, is in the tank for Joe Biden (New York Post) What gave you your first clue?

USA Today ‘messed up’ by leaving Pence out of poll asking who won vice presidential debate

Trump Lashes Out at Everyone After a Week in Quarantine (New York Magazine)

Activists at Amy Coney Barrett super-spreader event launch US bus tour (The Guardian)

Profs Say Trump Is Guilty Of “Negligent Homicide”, Call Him A “Climate Terrorist, Traitor, & Mass Murderer”

This Isn’t a Joke, Joy: Juvenile Reid Plays Psychologist Diagnosing Trump as ‘Not…Well’  The Adventures of Joy Reid, Mind-Reading Pseudo-Psychiatrist.

CA-Based Media Outlet Posts False Story About Pence Testing Positive For COVID-19  He just had to! HAD TO! Don’t you see?

‘Fascist’ Insult-Hurling CNN Infuriated Trump Called Kamala a ‘Communist’  “MOMMMEEEE! Johnny hit me back!”

Another Lecture: New England Journal of Medicine Wants Trump Voted Out

Pelosi Pens Letter Blasting Trump’s Coronavirus Response  Letter to whom? The article doesn’t say.

Stephanopoulos Encourages Whitmer to Blame ‘Complicit’ Trump for Foiled Kidnapping Plot

CNN Doc Calls Trump ‘Criminal,’ But He’s Offended Trump Would Want Doctors Not to Leak

Cuomo Slams Trump For “Fomenting Violence And Division” With Borough Park Robocall

Tinfoil Hat Fool Figliuzzi: Trump Should Have Been Probed as Co-Conspirator in Whitmer Plot

Trump And Biden Agree To A Socially Distanced Debate Using Soup Can Telephones  Babylon Bee.

President Trump wants to hold rallies this weekend. Could he spread COVID-19?  (Popular ‘Science’)

A Super-Spreading Presidency, Experimental Treatments, and More Coronavirus News  (Wired ‘Science’)

‘Not a Doctor’ CNN Speculates on Trump’s Mental Stability, ‘Roid Rage’

‘The Swamp’: Debate Commission Packed With Trump Critics From Both Parties

MSNBC’s Tur Tries to Prove Trump Voters Are Conspiracy Theorists  They sure have plenty of reason.

 

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Today in Black Privilege

9th October 2020

Yelp Creates New Alert That Flags Businesses Accused Of Racism  Just accused.

Yelp Debuts New One-Click Smear ‘n’ Shakedown Feature, by Steve Sailer

Trump-Barr Justice Department sues Yale for discriminating in admissions

Black Woman Pundit at Washington Post: America Hates to Let Black Women Speak

REPORT: Tory Lanez Charged With Allegedly Shooting Megan Thee Stallion, Faces ‘Roughly 23 Years’ In Prison If Convicted  I wonder why Pat Boone never thought of shooting one of the Osmonds.

Jamelle Bouie: A Sore and Vindictive Loser

Firearms Experts’ Report Shows Breonna Taylor’s Boyfriend Fired Shot That Wounded Officer, Dismissing ‘Friendly Fire’ Theory

UNC Asheville Locked Down After Email Threat Demands BLM Mural Be Painted Over

South Carolina Senate Candidate Suggests Amy Coney Barrett Might Allow Racial Segregation To Return  Black Democrats have really amazing fantasy lives.

Yelp Hires Workers With Megaphones To Follow People Around And Call Them Racists  Babylon Bee.

Analysis: Cities’ Crime Hike During Pandemic Shows Widening Racial Disparity

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

9th October 2020

‘The Weaponization of Weather in the Phony Climate War’

Climate migration: what the research shows is very different from the alarmist headlines

The Guardian: Climate Denial is an Extreme Form of Avocado Buyer’s Guilt

Nights are warming faster than days. Here’s what that means for the planet.  (Popular ‘Science’)

 

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Google Contractors Say Their Work Is Being Shipped to Poland After Unionizing

9th October 2020

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Unions for for fungible labor. If your labor is sufficiently fungible to justify forming a union, then it’s just the sort of thing that companies nowadays get from overseas, where rates are cheaper and employees are less whiny.

Suck it up, buttercup.

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Read These Taxpayer Funded Antigun Research Projects

9th October 2020

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The Centers for Disease Control recently announced the projects funded by more than $7.8 million dollars to “Prevent Firearm-Related Violence and Injuries.” This is after the National Institutes of Health funded more than $11 million in firearms-related research from 2014 to 2017.

I guess owning a firearm constitutes having a disease to the healthcare bureaucrats.

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Still Not Over RBG: Stunt Meeting Scheduled for ACB Hearings

9th October 2020

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s biggest fans in the political and entertainment worlds will be holding a virtual meeting with two items on their agenda: first, honoring the former Supreme Court Justice, and secondly, figuring out how to fulfill one of her supposed last requests: “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.”

Except that they have no control over that. Again, the Democrat fantasy life intrudes on reality.

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Here Are the Secrets of Antifa That Undercover Reporters Revealed

9th October 2020

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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Unidentified Mailers with Absentee Ballot Applications Found

9th October 2020

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Some New Hampshire residents have been getting unidentified mailers containing an absentee ballot application form with a handwritten note saying, “You are needed,” instructing the recipient to fill it out, the attorney general’s office said.

State law requires that such mailings contain the identity of the entity mailing and distributing the form, the attorney general’s office said in a news release Thursday. There’s no identification with the mailer, which also includes a return envelope with the recipient’s town or city clerk in the address block.

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Voter Fraud In Minnesota: An Update

9th October 2020

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A local television station, Fox 9, published a report on the Veritas videos that was essentially a smear. That report has blown up in the face of reporter Tom Lyden, who produced it. Lyden simply took the principal miscreant seen in one of the Veritas videos, a ballot harvester named Liban, and tried to turn him into a hero. On Fox 9, Liban said that he lied in his own Snapchat video when he said that he had illegally harvested 300 ballots on behalf of a DFL candidate, when in fact he had illegally harvested only 20. A great defense! Lyden also published Liban’s unsupported assertion that Omar Jamal had offered him $10,000 as though it were a fact, notwithstanding that it came from an admitted criminal and liar. Further, Lyden claimed that Jamal himself had recanted his story. This was apparently based on a misunderstanding of something that Jamal said in Somali. I have met with Omar Jamal, and I can assure you that he has recanted nothing.

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Yuan Surges Most in 15 Years on Expectations of Pro-China Pivot by “President Biden”

9th October 2020

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I guess Biden is the Beijing Candidate. He’s certainly got the Communist vote.

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Nancy Pelosi Calls for 17-Member ‘Standing Committee’ on Presidential Fitness

9th October 2020

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When Democrats call, who answers?

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The Full Crowley

9th October 2020

Victor Davis Hanson.

Crowley became a real-time, partisan fact-checker, rather than a moderator—but of a peculiar sort that did not fully assume her new role until Obama himself was desperate for a bailout.

Crowley’s crazy logic apparently was that Obama really had meant Benghazi when he deliberately talked only in vague terms about generic acts of terror shortly after the attack, but then for the next two weeks nonetheless had allowed his subordinates to float the trial balloon of an alternate reality video, before giving it up when the evidence made peddling that fiction impossible.

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Election Reset

9th October 2020

ZMan does his weekly podcast.

We are a little over three weeks from the most consequential election in the history of the republic, according to the media. In reality, this election will probably not be all that interesting or consequential. Few elections make much of a difference, when viewed in the grand scheme of things. The great fear of democracy was that it would lead to wild swings in public policy. In reality, democracy results in a shadow elite maintaining their preferred course, regardless of the election results.

There are some exceptions. In 1960, the Illinois Democrat Party rigged their election in favor of Kennedy. If Nixon had won, there is a good chance Vietnam would not have happened as it did, which would have changed the arc of the 60’s. The anti-war movement was the energy of the cultural revolution. It also means Johnson’s Great Society would not have happened. Probably something else would have been passed, but it would not have been that program.

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UN’s World Food Program Wins Nobel Peace Prize

9th October 2020

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I guess they just couldn’t stomach giving it to Trump. I, for one, am curious just where exactly in the world this transnational Crustian ‘food program’ has brought peace — in the Middle East? In the Caucasus? In Africa? In the Balkans? In Asia? Just … where, exactly?

UPDATE: Nobel Picks World Food Program Over Trump

Trump’s three nominations for his Middle East peace deals, the Abraham Accords, are not up until 2021.

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The Moderator Who Built Kamala’s Cocoon

9th October 2020

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In the last few months, the Trump-Pence team has held a plethora of press conferences and “pool sprays” taking hostile liberal questions, while Joe Biden’s campaign calls a “lid” on the press many days, and has “lidded” Kamala Harris from the national press since she was picked in August.

So it’s a little perverse that when Harris finally showed up for big-league questioning at the vice presidential debate, moderator Susan Page of USA Today gave her little-league questioning.

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Thought for the Day

9th October 2020

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ISLAMOCOPIA FRIDAY: What’s New in the Religion of Peace

9th October 2020

Iranian Fuel Seized By US For Venezuela ‘Sanctions-Busting’ Discharges In New York

Allahu Akhbar! Italian Nuns Put to Flight by a Culture-Enricher

Azerbaijan’s War Against Artsakh and Armenia

Spike In Boycotts Of Turkish Goods And Services

Man Reportedly Attacks Jewish Student With Shovel As He Enters Synagogue In Germany

Iran Threatens To “Sink” UAE & Israel Over 3 Disputed Islands In Gulf

Over 100 Alleged Jihadists Released In African Country To Free A Politician And A French Philanthropist

Muslim Pakistani Professor Kills Minority Professor After Argument Over Religion, Police Say

Terrorists Known as the ‘Beatles’ Expected to Be Brought to US Soon

Culture-Enriching School Days in Borlänge

Participating in a Terrorist Criminal Association

DOJ Announces ISIS Terrorists To Face Criminal Charges In American Federal Court

Instagram Bans QAnon Accounts, But Refuses To Remove ISIS Accounts Celebrating 9/11

Culture-Enriching Jew-Hatred in the 19th Arrondissement

 

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Texas Mayoral Candidate Arrested for Mail-In Ballot Fraud

9th October 2020

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Zul Mohamed is running to become the mayor of Carrollton, Texas.

As a Democrat, naturally.

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Anti-California Dream Creates Booming Business Opportunities

9th October 2020

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In recent years, the number of Californians leaving the Golden State has exceeded the number of new residents moving in, and the mass exodus has created business opportunities for companies offering to help disillusioned residents settle elsewhere in the United States.

Two of those companies are LeavingTheBayArea.com and LeavingSoCal.com, started by Scott Fuller, a real estate broker now residing in Arizona. Fuller told Fox Business that he got the ideas for these companies by working with a lot of clients who were “getting fed up and tired of what’s happening in California.”

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Trump Administration Sues Yale Over Use of Race in Admissions

9th October 2020

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And about time, too.

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Republican Senator Blurts Out That He Hates Democracy

9th October 2020

Jonathan Chait, who apparently can’t read.

Except that he didn’t say that, of course; what he said was that democracy was a means, not an end, and that it was sometimes ineffective. But you wouldn’t expect somebody writing for New York Magazine to have the IQ to appreciate that distinction.

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Today in Black Privilege

8th October 2020

Florida principal fired after Holocaust comments that ignited outrage rehired

Army’s First Black, Active-Duty Female Chaplain to Become Colonel Invites Others to the Table

Dallas Police Department Requests Public’s Help Identifying Burglary Suspect

Minnesota National Guard activated after George Floyd ex-cop released, demonstrators gather in Minneapolis

Here We Go Again in Wisconsin

Amidst Historic Ratings Plunge, NBA Commissioner Says League Likely To Pull ‘Black Lives Matter’ Messaging Next Year  Sometimes pandering doesn’t get you where you want to go.

Elementary School Kids Taught That “Objectivity” & “Perfectionism” Are Racist Traits Of “White Supremacy”

Once-Fired High School Principal Reinstated, Attorney Says It Is ‘Outside The Scope Of His Duties’ To State The Holocaust Occurred

REPORT: Rapper Diamond Blue Smith Used $1 Million Of PPP Loan To Purchase Ferrari  Does that surprise you? It doesn’t surprise me.

Re: University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Punishes Doctor Who Questioned Affirmative Action

The Evidence Is Coming In, And It Looks Like LeBron James Destroyed The NBA  What an overachiever.

JP Morgan Pledges $30 Billion To “Fight The Racial Wealth Gap”  Or at least pretend to do so.

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome, With a Side of Mike Pence

8th October 2020

No Mask For Zoom Call - Dilbert by Scott Adams

Harris won by keeping the focus on Trump — and Biden (Washington Post) An odd definition of winningl.

Debate moment leaves Dana Bash amazed by ‘gall of Mike Pence’ (CNN)

ABC’s Stephanopoulos accuses Pence of ‘mansplaining,’ gets rebuked by female panelists

MSNBC: Pence Has ‘Steep Climb’ in Debate, With ‘Rocks Rolling Downhill’  They hope.

Kamala Harris Repeats Lie That Trump Called Virus A ‘Hoax’

VP Debate Post-Mortem: Pence Trounces “Gaffe Machine” Harris

‘Mortician’ Pence Is Worse Than a Pedophile ‘Priest’: Hollywood Goes Low During Debate

‘Limp And Lame’: Nicolle Wallace Says Mike Pence Was ‘Flaccid’ In VP Debate

Debate Damage Control: CNN Says Kamala Was Victim of Racism, Sexism

George Stephanopoulos Says A Lot Of ‘Mansplaining’ Went On During Pence, Harris Debate

Twitter Lefties Accuse Pence of ‘White Male Privilege,’ ‘Mansplaining’ During VP Debate

ABC Hails ‘Spicy’ Harris Battling ‘Evasive,’ ‘Mansplaining,’ Possibly-Infected Pence

Obama Pal Gayle King Bemoans Interruptions, Thinks ‘Fly of Color’ Had Symbolic Meaning

Biden Confused By Woman Of Color On TV Who Isn’t Stocking Grocery Shelves  Babylon Bee.

Unhinged Stephen Colbert Unravels: Trump Is the ‘Banality of Evil’

Being pro-Trump has caused me more grief than being Osama bin Laden’s niece

‘Mark Of The Devil’: MSNBC Guest Says Fly Landing On Pence Was Historical Sign Of Sin  I thought MSNBC didn’t believe in the Devil, or in sin. I wish they’d make up their minds.

Pelosi: Dems Looking at 25th Amendment Due to Trump’s COVID-19 Diagnosis  Scraaaaaaape that barrel … unfortunately for them, there’s nothing they can do unilaterally.

‘View’ Goes Crazy for Kamala: ‘Clear Winner’ Showed ‘Grace’ to ‘Dangerous’ Bully Pence

Media Dubs Trump’s Appearance a Mussolini Moment

Billy Crystal Sucker Punches Pence on Kimmel: He Is a ‘B.I.G.O.T.,’ Thinks ‘Roots’ Is Rom Com

CNN Helps Biden Campaign Surrogate Trash Trump in Joke ‘Interview’

 

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