Biden is rolling back the culture war. The country should thank him. (Washington Post) Apparently the people writing for the Washington Post don’t read their own news stories.

Another Anti-Gun Extremist Promoted For Biden’s Cabinet

Biden’s Immigration Policies Caused The Ongoing Border Crisis, Republican Study Committee Says

Biden Admin Silences DHS Over Border Crisis As Viral Video Shows Flood Of Migrants Streaming Into Arizona

The Make-Believe Administration

12 States Sue Biden Administration Over Climate Executive Order

Gas Prices Expected To Rise Over Next Few Weeks  Hating on fossil fuels by the President will do that.

Grassley Grills Biden Nominee Over Push to Lift Sanctions on Group Tied to Terror

Number Of Minor Detainees At Southern Border Has Tripled Over Last Two Weeks

A City In Crisis Braces For the Worst  Unlike Trump supporters, black activists riot for real.

White Guy Sports Anchor Canceled Over the Wounded Amour Propre of His Black Lady News Anchor,

Don’t Mention All the Murders

From “The Atlantic:” “My Mother Was a Racist Crank, and I Am Too, But That’s Admirable Because We’re Black.”

The Politics of Smash and Grab

US Dept. of Education curbs decision on race-based ‘affinity groups’

Police Arrest 12-Year-Old On Charges Of Armed Carjacking In Washington D.C.

Meghan Markle Inspires Millions Of Young Girls With Message That No Matter How Famous, Rich, And Powerful They Are, They Will Always Be Oppressed  Babylon Bee.

More Americans Now Fully Vaccinated Against COVID-19 Than Have Been Confirmed Infected

‘Truly Noble’: Serena Williams Backs Meghan Markle Following Oprah Interview  Truly narcissistic.

Protests Begin After Chauvin Trial Delayed, Prosecution Pushes To Reinstate 3rd Degree Murder Charge

New Study Undercuts The Argument That American Law Enforcement Is Systemically Racist

George Floyd’s Brother: ‘We All Want Justice, Looking for a Conviction’  Uh, not the same thing….

Facebook Purges Farrakhan Vaccine Conspiracies That Twitter Bizarrely Allows

Outrage Mob Goes After Cartoon Skunk Pepe Le Pew For “Normalizing Rape Culture” 

Speech police continues to intrude on sports

Fake Outrage: CNN’s Don Lemon Comes Unglued Over GOP Leader Reading Dr. Seuss

Star Wars goes woke

Clearing racist beastliness from our art galleries

Three Alabama professors put on leave over photos of them with ‘racist symbols’

Why Would The New York Times Interview Sen. Josh Hawley’s Prom Date?

Supreme Court Sides With Christian Student In College Free Speech Case

Mumford & Sons Banjo Player SLAMMED on Twitter for Supporting a Conservative

On Being Blacklisted

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There are two women leaning against a railing overlooking the medieval armor exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on a Sunday afternoon. Both have shoulder-length, proudly gray hair, are resplendent in wooden jewelry and draped in clashing layers of flowing tapestry ranging from clay to marigold to topaz, some with vaguely ethnic-inspired patterning.

The two women are in conversation, six feet apart down to the inch and laughing. They’re having a good time. The tableau is a sort of variation on a theme, an aesthetic we might call Santa Fe Art Mom and they are exactly the sort of person you’d expect, as they are, to be wearing two face masks, each.

These two women were numbers four and five out of six people I counted sporting two face masks, one directly top of the other, on a recent cold and drizzly afternoon trip to the Met. The double face mask is a queer, late-stage coronavirus grotesquerie. Just as America’s trifling, paper-pushing dictators sensed skepticism metastasizing in the peasant flock, they needed to make things a little more frightening. Turns out, the one mask you’ve been wearing for an entire year was never good enough.

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Voters in Switzerland approved a ban on non-medical face coverings in all public areas by a thin 51%-49% margin Sunday.

The new ban will include religious attire such as burqas and niqabs worn by Muslim women, and face coverings worn by protesters like ski masks and bandannas to conceal their identity, according to the Associated Press. Authorities will now have two years to write specific legislation following the referendum.

And … they will drag their feet, because that’s what ‘authorities’ do.

Freeberg nails it.

Brain dead liberals: We make $3 and Morgan makes $6. This is wealth inequity.

Company: Tell us about it. We want to hire Morgan and we’re ready to offer him $7.

BDL: Clearly we have to raise Morgan’s taxes to make the wealth inequity go away.

Government: How much?

BDL: Well let’s see. We pay %10 on our $3 and Morgan pays %40 on his $6. So how about you bump that up to %55 then he’ll be left with the same amount as us.

Government: Okay! Company, and Morgan, you do what you want because we’re not banning or requiring anything here, we lack the balls to take responsibility for anything. But these are the new rates! We’re representing our constituents, don’t you see.

Company: Yikes! Morgan won’t move his fat ass for 45 cents, but we really have to have him. So now we’re going to offer him $10.

Morgan: Uh…um…okay.

BDL: Morgan is making 10!! We’re still making $3, the disparity is getting worse! Who can we blame for this? Derp derp derp.

ZMan talks about partisanship.

Last week the House passed an election “reform” bill. The point of the bill is to nationalize the chaos and fraud we saw in many states during the last election. The game of “pallets of ballots” showing up in the middle of the night will become a 50-state phenomenon. The Democrats think that because they have anathematized any discussion of election fraud, they can now institutionalize it at the national level.

The motivation for this is the salient question. Some argue that it is so they can win every election. This will give the Democrats and presumably the institutional Left absolute power. Others argue that the Left already has absolute power over the institutions, so the better explanation is ideology. They truly believe they are in a twilight struggle against the enemies of democracy. These reforms are part of the battle against the dark forces that allegedly subverted the 2016 election.

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For decades, the American left has been using Huxley’s “Brave New World” not as a form of literature, but rather as an instruction manual for gaining control of a previously free society. And it has been working just as well as Huxley feared. This is why every Democrat since FDR has fought against means-testing for Social Security – they want us all on the take. Just let government take care of everything. As George W. Bush said, “When someone is hurting, government has to act.” Once government takes responsibility for all our troubles, then we no longer need to take responsibility for ourselves. Which is nice. But Mr. Huxley knows where all this is going. And now that Democrats control the White House, Congress, and our elections, we’re starting to find out. Why are we just finding this out now? Because we didn’t listen to Mr. Huxley, who wrote “Brave New World” 90 years ago, in 1931.

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The Democrats intend to ride the mini-riot at the Capitol on January 6 for all it is worth. One aspect of their strategy is lawsuits by people like Eric Swalwell. Swalwell has sued President Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., Rudy Giuliani and Congressman Mo Brooks for, among other things, intentional infliction of emotional distress. Is there any chance the rest of us can sue Swalwell for the emotional distress he has caused us? I suppose not.

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A German virological researcher named Professor Winfried Stöcker has invented a new vaccine which is proving safe and effective against COVID-19. Strictly speaking, it’s an antigen rather than a vaccine — a peptide that confers immunity against the coronavirus without the risks associated with the mRNA vaccines.

It’s no surprise that Prof. Stöcker has aroused the ire of the German medical bureaucracy, to the point where criminal proceedings have been initiated against him. His response is to make the process for manufacturing the new antigen public, without filing for a patent and without asking for payment.

Biden’s actions are encouraging supply chain dependencies from foreign sources

Biden Signs Executive Order To ‘Provide Voting Access’ To Citizens In Federal Custody  Are you comfortable allowing convicted criminals to help select who makes the laws? I’m not.

‘Purposefully Withholding That Information’: Rep. Henry Cuellar Says Biden Admin Isn’t Sharing Real Border Numbers

Majority Of Germans Favor Easing COVID-19 Restrictions

COVID-19 Travel Insurance Becoming a Vacation Staple

As 5th Woman Accuses Cuomo Of Harassment, Let’s Review Media Fawning During Nursing Home Quagmire

Russian Disinformation Targets Vaccine Efficacy, Safety

Greyhound CEO Tells DHS Head Migrants Must Test Negative For COVID-19 Before Boarding Buses

GOP Pushes Bills to Allow Social Media ‘Censorship’ Lawsuits

‘Special Counsel And Two Impeachments’: Chris Wallace Tells Juan Williams He Can’t Say Donald Trump ‘Went Uninvestigated’

We Hear You: Cancel Culture Reaches a Galaxy Far, Far Away

Urban Dictionary Bans “Blue Anon” Entry Defining Liberal Conspiracy Theorists; Google Censors Search

California’s Energy Policies Hurt Minority Citizens The Most

“Profiteering Off Poverty” – The Side Of Baltimore The Media Won’t Show You

Study Shows Far-Right Misinformation Is Thriving on Facebook

Global Social Media In The Era Of Great Power Conflict

Glass House Alert! MSNBC Lets Ex-Lincoln Project Adviser Accuse OTHERS of ‘Grift’

NYC mom enraged by teacher playing rap videos during Zoom economics class No wonder people are fleeing NY.

Federal Workers Scoring Massive Perks In COVID Relief Bill

CNN’s Stelter Ignores Cuomo Scandals, Fox’s Kurtz Excoriates Media Hacks

FLIP! FLOP! Before Mocking Andrew Cuomo, CNN’s Chris Cillizza Adored Him

No Mention Of CO2: New Study Shows African Climate Variability Strongly Linked To Natural Cycles

What is bendable concrete, and how can it help fight climate change? (The Hill) It’s not enough that it’s ‘bendable concrete’, the important part is that it ‘fights climate change’.

Canceling the AMO

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An excellent introduction to the writing of Jordan Peterson, whom you all ought to study.

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That’s what happens when Democrats run your state.

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It is a testament to Elon Musk’s genius that it transcends how fantastically immature he is.

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Dead cow and spuds are the foundation of all true civilization.

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Oh, ya think?

After the passage of the pork-laden atrocity known as the $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill passed the Senate on a party-line vote on Saturday, ABC spent part of Sunday’s Good Morning America sneering at Republicans for not going along with the package President Biden refused to negotiate with them on. They also warned that Democratic Senator Joe Manchin (WV) would also be a problem since he came from a state that voted for former President Trump.

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A mascot for the Narrative Media.

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“While a mass exodus from California clearly didn’t happen in 2020, the pandemic did change some historical patterns. For example, fewer people moved into the state to replace those who left,” Natalie Holmes, research fellow at the California Policy Lab, said in a statement. “At the county level, however, San Francisco is experiencing a unique and dramatic exodus, which is causing 50% or 100% increases in Bay Area in-migration for some counties in the Sierras.”

UPDATE: Bay Area drug kingpins lured low-level dealers, promising cheap rent (2020)

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Swiss voters decide Sunday on a proposal to ban face coverings, both the niqabs and burqas worn by a few Muslim women in the country and the ski masks and bandannas used by protesters. Polls are pointing to a close outcome.

Greenpeace Eco-Warriors ‘Greenwash’ Boeing 777 At Paris Airport 

Guardian Promotes “Global Lockdown” Every Two Years To Combat Climate Change

Biden’s New CEQ Climate Hire Wants to Make Climate Action Affordable

‘It’s Incompetence’: Former ICE Chief Says Biden Administration Has Turned Border Detention Centers Into ‘Welcoming Centers’

Iranian Dissidents Slam Nominee for Top Defense Post

Biden Hires Qatari Agent as Senior Adviser

Tulsi Gabbard Calls Out The US Dirty War On Syria That Biden & Aides Admit To

CNN, The Pro-Biden ‘Miracle’ Network, Hails ‘Safest, Most Secure Election In History’

Facebook Says Louis Farrakhan’s Anti-Vaccine Screed Violated Policy Against Misinformation, Twitter Stays Silent

Hyperinflation Pushes Venezuela to Print 1M-Bolivar Bills

CNN’s Biased ‘Facts First’ Can’t Get Its Facts Straight About HR 1 or Pence

MSNBC ‘Republican’ Slams ‘Insulting’ Dem Siding with GOP on Min. Wage Vote

Newsom COVID ‘Equity’ Plan: Vaccinate 2 Million Latinos Or California Won’t Reopen

NY Times Attempts Balance, Fails: Hispanic GOP ‘Stoked’ on BLM ‘Conspiracy Theories’

MSNBC Analyst Malcolm Nance Predicts ‘Terrorist And Paramilitary Insurgency’

Protests Spark Up Before Derek Chauvin’s Trial Starts Monday  Note: They aren’t in support of Chauvin.

Google’s Expensive Diversity Push Isn’t Uncovering Many Diamonds in the Rough Perhaps because not many People of Color have what it takes to work at Google, and those that do have more opportunities than they can deal with already.

Arizona’s Education Department Launches Internal Review After Report Reveals Its ‘Equity Toolkit’ Traces Racism To Babies

Joy Reid Says the Quiet Part Out Loud

CNN Fails to Clarify Racist Hate Mail Came From Democrats

CDC Allows Child Migrant Facilities To Operate At 100% Capacity

Japan Supercomputer Finds Double-Masking Doesn’t Work

French Health Minister Mulls Banning Vaccine Exports

Analysis: Vaccines Alone Could Bring Herd Immunity By Summer

‘Fear’ Is The New ‘Smart’

The one simple tell that reveals Fox News’s Seuss obsession for what it is  (Washington Post) Which tells you more about the obsessions of the Washington Post than about Fox News.

Here are the ‘wrong’ illustrations that got six Dr. Seuss books cancelled

How the West was lost

MSNBC Prepares Liberals for Trump Tax Returns Disappointment

Reporters Fear This Film Exposing Media’s Scandalous Treatment of Covington Kids

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Under single-party rule, the internecine battles are generally more interesting than their debates with their opposition. Partially because corruption is so easy and rampant under single-party rule. But also because, with no meaningful opposition, the ruling party can do whatever it wants. So under these circumstances, you really find out who these people are and what motivates them.

Audacious Epigone.

Steven Hayward at PowerLine.

It is now leftist orthodoxy that any disparities you can measure between groups are evidence of racism and white supremacy, and that “equity” requires equal outcomes, not equal rights. One reason today’s race-mongers say it is no longer legitimate to treat people as individuals can be grasped by comparing these two news stories from earlier this week involving the educational outcomes of two black teen boys, one in Baltimore, and one in Atlanta.

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I wonder whether their software can tell the difference between me and My Brother The Communist.

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Filling the restaurants and small venues in the beautiful outdoor weather. While Lord Governor Ducey talked out both sides of his mouth*, desperately trying to split the difference between Abbott/Desantis and Cuomo/Newsom, the bikers rolled back into downtown Mesa for bike night without permission or Mesa city hall control. Live music from an earlier rebellious era filled Main Street, punctuated by the sound of more Harleys rolling in. It was the sound of freedom.

Beyond the biker crowd, people jammed into every surviving eatery and watering hole, including new ones optimistically opened by small, true entrepreneurs. For the first time in nearly a year, you had to search for parking on a Friday night.

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As Widdowson reports in a newly published book, these efforts at Indigenization (sometimes referred to as “decolonization”) comprise a combination of symbolic gestures, ramped-up affirmative-action programs, mandatory anti-racism courses, and demands that Indigenous folklore be accorded epistemological stature on par with science. At Concordia University in Montreal, for instance, a dozen researchers are collaborating on a project called “Decolonizing Light,” whose aim is to “investigate the reproduction of colonialism in and through physics and higher physics education.” Our scientific understanding of light as constituting electromagnetic radiation perceptible to the human eye, these scholars explain, is the historical product of “a white male dominated field [i.e. physics] disconnected from social life and geopolitical history. [Its] narrative both constitutes and reproduces inequality.”

Not the Babylon Bee. I checked.

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If you’re a White person who thinks racism only hurts people of color, the story behind an empty, abandoned swimming pool in Missouri might just change your mind.

Only if you have the IQ of a carrot.

These public pools, of course, were for Whites only. But when civil rights leaders successfully pushed for them to be integrated, many cities either sold the pools to private entities or, in the case of Fairground Park, eventually drained them and closed them down for good.

These closures didn’t just hurt Black people, though — they also denied the pleasures of the pool to White people.

Uh, no, it was the efforts of those who tried to force people whom they consitered heretics and sinners to associate with others (that they didn’t want to associate with) that ‘harmed white people’. So it was proglodyte ‘anti-racism’ that harmed white people, not racism — under ‘racism’, white people were just fine.

This is what passes for thinking at CNN.

‘Science’? PolitiFact Denies the FACT That We’re Born Boys or Girls

Iowa Democrat Says $15 Wage Hike ‘Will Cause Harm’ in State, Still Supports It

‘Never Let Facts Get In The Way’: Candace Owens Calls AOC Minimum Wage Plan ‘Scary’

Panel Recommends ‘Quick Reaction Force’ for Capitol

How Democracy Dies: Big Tech Becomes Big Brother

Track Athlete Resists Being Forced to Compete Against Biological Males

So, What Happened at the Capitol on March 4?

China Abandons 24-Year Experiment With Open Hong Kong Elections  Democracy dies under Communism.

China Cuts Growth Outlook, Increases Military Spend, Shrugged Off Climate Change In Latest ‘Five-Year Plan’

NYU Study RIPS ‘Far-Right’ News on Facebook, Ignores Platform’s Liberal Bias

628-Page COVID-19 Bill Takes Senate Clerks Just Over 10 Hours To Read Out Loud

Republicans’ new strategy? Pointless obstruction. (CNN)

A liberal analyst’s warning: Liberal elites are driving minority voters from Democratic Party

Colbert Fawns Over Fonda’s Foul Activism in Re-Released Anti-War Tour Documentary

As the Insurrection Narrative Crumbles, Democrats Cling to it More Desperately Than Ever

Protesters Seeking Financial Support For Illegal Immigrants Shut Down Traffic On New York Bridges

MSNBC to GOP Senator: Here’s A Clip of a Democrat Saying You’re Wrong

Feelings First! CNN INTERN ‘Fact Checks’ Rand Paul on ‘Gender Confirmation Surgery’

LA Teachers’ Union Pushing Racial Division in Fight Over School Closures

We Were Repeatedly Warned Of March 4 Violence. Troops Were Met With Mild Weather And Joggers

Biden DOJ Asks Supreme Court to Dismiss Sanctuary City Cases  That didn’t take long.

White House Spokeswoman Refuses to Credit Operation Warp Speed for Expedited Vaccine

105 Illegal Immigrants Arrested At Texas Border

Supreme Court Dismisses “Sanctuary City” Cases At Request Of Biden’s DOJ

“Days Away From A Crisis”: 100,000 Illegal Immigrants Arrested At US Mexico Border; Most For February In 15 Years

Oregon climate activist wants to ban diesel fuel  They’d ban fire and the wheel if they could.

Global Warming is Causing More Severe Winters

Bloomberg: “600% Gain in Carbon Prices Vital to Rein in Global Warming”

The New Pause lengthens by another month to 5 years 7 months

Gas stoves are bad for the environment—but what if the power goes out?  Popular ‘Science’ plays around with the Narrative.

“Earth’s Oxygen is Rapidly Running Out…” We’re Doomed!

Friday Funny: The Folly of Mann

Oakland bans the use of combustion engine-powered leaf blowers and trimmers

Michael Strahan Slams Chris Harrison’s Apology For Defending Racism As ‘Weak’

House Democrats Vote to Aid Criminals

Science News: Whites Are Most Likely to Volunteer Their DNA for Science, So Nonwhites Are Victimized by Whites’ Altruism, or Something

‘Clarice’ Introduces BLM Narrative to ‘Silence of the Lambs’

The Richest Black Girl in America

Kim Klacik Shows The Daily Caller How Baltimore Became One Of The Most Dangerous Cities In America

Joy Reid Says More Police Mean ‘More Violence’

DNA databases are too white, so genetics doesn’t help everyone. How do we fix that?

Baltimore HS student fails all but 3 classes over 4 years, ranks near top half of class

Joy Reid Says Conservatives Would ‘Trade Tax Cuts’ To ‘Openly Say The N-Word’  They actually pay her to say this nonsense. Does any rational adult think that she would have a job if it weren’t for her skin color?

James, BLM Activists Exploiting NBA All-Star Weekend With Attack on ‘Voter Suppression’

Newsom Urges Double-Masking For All Californians, Will Not Make “Terrible Mistake” Like Texas  And that’s why he’s getting recalled.

Pittsburgh Penguins Caught Photoshopping Masks Onto Pictures Of Barefaced Fans

Here’s Why Teachers Can Avoid In-Person Classes While Grocery Store Workers Must Show Up For Work

Virus experts demand new probe into origins of COVID-19

Chief Of World-Renowned Medical Journal Has Repeatedly Bashed US, Praised China For Coronavirus Response

Nets Hide Blue CT Reopening Businesses, Smear GOP as Against COVID Relief

NIH will invest $1B to investigate ‘long Covid’  Ka-ching!

You’re Vaccinated and People Want to Visit. Now What?  Wired ‘Science’ propagates the Narrative.

Cuomo Aides Rewrote July Nursing Home Report To Conceal COVID Death Toll

Gov. Cuomo ‘Needs To Go To Jail’: Janice Dean Reacts To Report That 15,000 People Actually Died In NY Nursing Homes  I agree.

Don’t worry about COVID super strains

Detroit Mayor Declines New Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Doses Because It Isn’t ‘The Best’

Progressive Surprised To Learn He Can Still Wear Mask Even Without Government Forcing Him To  Babylon Bee.

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Be prepared.

Scott Johnson at PowerLine.

All things considered, Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis looks to be the most successful governor in the United States. The Florida contingent of the garbage media is therefore determined to destroy him one way or another.

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Of course, the fact that he’s incompetent and a socialist has nothing to do with it.

Apparently those who base their judgments on appearance (like, say, skin color) seem to think that everybody else does that too.

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Backed by $20 million in venture capital funding and building off recent advances in robotics and precision manufacturing, the Culver City company is developing a device the size of a breadcrumb that doctors can insert into the spine or skull and magnetically steer to a target to deliver a precise dose of drugs. The plan is to move to clinical trials by 2023.

Glenn Harlan Reynolds (“Instapundit”).

In America, class warfare is often disguised as culture war, and culture war is often cloaked by talk of race. But underneath it all, the class warfare is still there. Whether accidentally or intentionally, America’s upper classes seem to wind up harming the working class and small businesses, always in the name of some high-minded cause.

 

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The addition of just a touch of graphene could make the world’s most ubiquitous building material stronger, more durable and even a touch greener.

Jonathan Chait.

Glenn Greenwald’s long intellectual journey from center left to far left to, well, somewhere is a subject of fascination in elite circles. Greenwald comes out of a tradition of progressive journalism that focused primarily on attacking liberals and the Democratic Party from the left. Like many progressives, he latched on to Bernie Sanders’s two presidential campaigns as a righteous crusade to liberate the Democratic Party from the nefarious grip of its corporate, neoliberal masters.

After that, things got weird.

If Tucker Carlson is a ‘true socialist’, then I’m more comfortable with socialism than I ever expected to be.