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Today in Witch-Hunt Culture

22nd September 2021

Trump Sues NYT and Niece—Who Calls Him ‘F*cking Loser’ (Daily Beast)

Residents in AOC’s district say how much they think the rich pay in taxes

A couple wore masks inside a Texas restaurant to protect their newborn son. The owner kicked them out. (Washington Post)

Grieving Harry Dunn Family, Who Trump Tried to Ambush, Settles Out of Court (Daily Beast)

Trump Campaign Admitted in Internal Memo That Outlandish Election Conspiracy Was BS (Daily Beast)

Texas Democrat argues with CNN anchor over Border Patrol agents: ‘They don’t carry whips’

Huge hack reveals embarrassing details of who’s behind Proud Boys and other far-right websites (Washington Post)

New bombshells show Trump’s coup threat was real and hasn’t passed (CNN)

Dead Horse: ABC, CBS Continue FAKE NEWS Smear Against Mounted BP Agents

CNN On Debt Limit: ‘Nihilistic’ Republicans ‘Happy To Let World Burn’

MSNBC Trash Talker: Republicans Deride Minorities as ‘Dirt,’ ‘Enemy’

No Holds Barred: Joy Reid Latches Onto Lies About Border Agents Using ‘Whips’

Punch in the face

Trump Sues Niece, NY Times Over Pulitzer-Winning Tax Story

Liberal Group Includes Call to ‘Shoot Republicans’ in Letter to FCC

 

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Today in the Biden-Harris Slow-Motion Train Wreck

22nd September 2021

Sen. Ron Johnson Grills Secretary Mayorkas About ‘Closed’ Borders Claim

Angry Scenes at Haiti Airport Add to Biden Pressure Over Expulsions

GOP Rep. Gibbs Files 3 Articles of Impeachment Against Biden

Officials: Many Haitian Migrants Are Being Released in US

White House Reporters Have Launched ‘Formal Objection’ About Biden Refusing To Answer Questions

New Proof Emerges of the Biden Family Emails: a Definitive Account of the CIA/Media/BigTech Fraud

Biden’s Aides Won’t Let Him Speak

Politico Reports Biden Laptop ‘Genuine’; NY Post Mocks: ‘Shocked’

FBI Admits It’s Really Hard To Solve Crime They Didn’t Make Up Themselves  Babylon Bee.

 

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

22nd September 2021

‘Nasser Was Not An Outlier’ – Exposing The FBI’s Incurable Rot

California Voters Give Newsom Approval to Continue Regressive Policies Against the Working Class

Woke Was At Its Worst Last Week In Cook County

Mississippi Attorney General Details Abortion Case That Could Undo Roe v. Wade

Twitter and the ‘Fact Checkers’ Line Up for Biden

Lithuanian government warns about secret censorship features in Xiaomi phones

‘We’re All Pro-Life, Everybody’: View Hosts Dismiss GOP Guest Calling Out ‘Extreme’ Pro-Abortion Dems  And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

Democrats Push Tax Breaks for Union Political Activity

Border Patrol Agents Accused Of Patrolling Border  Babylon Bee.

Uma Thurman Shouts her Abortion: It Was ‘Path To Life of Joy & Love’  So I ought to be able to whack Joe Biden, which would similarly enrich my life? Is that what you’re saying?

 

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Today in Black Privilege

22nd September 2021

A Black town’s water is more poisoned than Flint’s. In a white town nearby, it’s clean (The Guardian)

MSNBC’s Joy Reid dismisses focus on Gabby Petito case as ‘missing White woman syndrome’

Reasonable Doubt

Lemon Claims BP Is Example of ‘Systemic Racism,’ Cuomo Defends ‘Slavery’ Smear

CW’s ‘Supergirl’ Leans on White Guilt as Black Superhero Embraces Her Power

Are the Del Rio Haitians the Forerunners of the Coming African Inundation?

How Racial Anxiety Conquered an Orchestra and Crushed a Career

Virginia County Board Votes to Denounce Teaching of Critical Race Theory

Federal Judge: Florida Immigration Law Racially Motivate  I didn’t know judges could read minds. Impressive.

Chelsea player breaks ranks, declines to kneel

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

22nd September 2021

Are US Northwest Summers Getting Drier? The Truth May Surprise You.

Claim: Climate Change is Causing Catastrophic Power Line Fires

 

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Top 10 Totally Rad Animals God Should Have Created

22nd September 2021

Babylon Bee.

The natural world is teeming with God’s creative genius, engineering brilliance, and artistic beauty. Our only complaint? WE NEED MORE. Seriously–we’ve had the same animals since God created the universe. Would it hurt to get some new ones? We at the Babylon Bee are geniuses when it comes to thinking of new animal designs. Here are ten ideas.

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‘Pay Your Fair Share’ Taxation Isn’t About Actual Fairness

22nd September 2021

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According to The Washington Post, the top 10% of American income earners pay nearly half of all income taxes, compared with just 27% for the top 10% of Swedes, 31% for the top 10% of Germans, and 28% for France’s top 10%.

So what, precisely, does Biden mean by “pay their fair share”?

Perhaps he means simple sloganeering. Like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., donning a Cinderella ball gown emblazoned with the words “Tax the Rich” to the Met Gala—a dress made by Aurora James, a woman who owes tens of thousands of dollars in back taxes and who has received more than $40,000 in federal pandemic aid—class-warfare sloganeering is more about the sloganeering than the class warfare.

Low-Information Voters are the Democrat base.

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Who Is Driving the Great Resignation?

22nd September 2021

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According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 4 million Americans quit their jobs in July 2021. Resignations peaked in April and have remained abnormally high for the last several months, with a record-breaking 10.9 million open jobs at the end of July. How can employers retain people in the face of this tidal wave of resignations?

Addressing the root causes of these staggering statistics starts with better understanding them. To explore exactly who has been driving this recent shift, my team and I conducted an in-depth analysis of more than 9 million employee records from more than 4,000 companies.

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Don’t Be Surprised

22nd September 2021

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In the space of one week, we have been subjected to the Met Gala, the Emmys, and the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly—three orgies of preening self-congratulation by disgraceful narcissists. Besides their total uselessness to society, these nauseating pageants have a few other things in common: they feature inane political statements by people with distinguished track records of feckless idiocy, they cost exponentially more money than they are worth, and they are forced relentlessly into our field of vision despite the fact that, if we have even a little dignity, we find them repulsive.

It has become standard practice to dismiss these sorts of spectacles as “irrelevant.” In one sense that is true: they are the farcical dying gasps of an American monoculture that was long ago hollowed out into a skin suit for entitled mediocrities to cover the nakedness of their souls. Though the Emmys’ ratings ticked up slightly this year, their overall pattern this millennium has been one of steady decline. Your average American has far more pressing things to do than mire his psyche in the interminable transcript of Biden’s speech to the U.N., and practically the only thing anyone has seen of the Met Gala was that dress AOC wore.

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The New Exodus From the Golden State

22nd September 2021

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orget what you hear most pundits saying about last week’s recall election that failed to unseat California Governor Gavin Newsom. Some Democrats think because Newsom ran on an anti-Trump platform that will bring the party success — or cause them less damage — in the next two elections.

They are wrong. The real story is the slow but gaining-in-speed exodus from California to states with lower or no state taxes. This mass exit likely reduced the number of people who might have voted to oust Newsom. Then there’s the rising cost of just about everything, including gasoline. At nearly $6 a gallon at some stations in the San Francisco Bay area and Los Angeles, California has the highest average price for gas in the nation.

There are also other forces at work.

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Dems Back Measure to Give Aid to Iraqi Militia Groups Tied to Iran

22nd September 2021

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Democratic leaders in the House are backing a measure to provide U.S. assistance to Iraqi militia groups that are known to be dominated by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

A Democrat-led amendment to the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act, the sprawling annual bill that funds U.S. military operations around the world, would permit U.S. funding for Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces, a confederation of militia groups that work alongside the corps’s Quds Force, Iran’s paramilitary fighting brigade.

The amendment, authored by Rep. Brad Sherman (D., Calif.), was slipped into a larger package of measures that are backed by Democratic leadership and expected to easily pass into the larger National Defense Authorization Act, which is set to be finalized this week.

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Finally! Celebrities Taking the Fight to Covid with Open Letter

22nd September 2021

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Decades hence, historians laboring to make sense of the Covid years will undoubtedly ask why it took 18 months to deploy our most powerful weapon against the virus — the open celebrity letter. How many lives would have been saved if, in the early weeks of the pandemic, authorities had tapped the intellect of Anne Hathaway or the insights of Peter Dinklage?

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Life imitates “Clueless”

22nd September 2021

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Team Biden is running a con game: “A second U.S. official, also with direct knowledge and speaking on the condition of anonymity, said large numbers of Haitians were being processed under immigration laws and not being placed on expulsion flights to Haiti that started Sunday. The official couldn’t be more specific about how many.”

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Who’s Whippin’ Who

22nd September 2021

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The left has found a scenario it thinks it can retail to defuse the invasion of the United States by Haitians and hundreds of thousands of others via our former southern border. They want us to believe that overwhelmed immigration enforcement authorities on horseback are whipping Haitians.

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Crisis Of Culture

22nd September 2021

ZMan does a deep dive.

In the present crisis, the culture of the ruling class is lacking the tools to address the problems, but it also lacks the sort of people who will look outside the system. It has been selecting for highly conservative people, with respect to the culture of the managerial class, for generations now. It is why the system violently vomited up Donald Trump and continues to dry heave over the memory of him. The culture of the ruling class is built around adversity to change.

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Joy Reid Is … Right?

22nd September 2021

The Other McCain weighs in.

Nearly all my fellow conservatives are shrieking in anger at MSNBC’s Joy Reid for saying something that is actually true: There is such a thing as “Missing White Woman Syndrome,” and we ought to call it out when — as in the case of Gabby Petito — it dominates the news cycle.

A blonde, blue-eyed “social media influencer” is not typical of murder victims, who are disproportionately male and black. During the month of August, when Gabby and her boyfriend were on their excursion across the West, 87 people were killed and 424 were wounded in Chicago. Did any of those Chicago victims make national news? Well, about 83% of the victims in Chicago were black, and none were blonde, blue-eyed 22-year-old “social media influencers.” Not newsworthy, you see?

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“No Debate” No Longer an Option

22nd September 2021

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Gender identity ideology began as a way to conceptualise transgender people. According to this belief system, they have a gender identity that doesn’t match the sex they were “assigned at birth”. This ideology currently has the endorsement of governments, educational institutions and NGOs worldwide — a state of affairs that has come about with remarkably little comment. Contradicting this dogma has become suddenly taboo, even via statements nobody would have considered controversial ten years ago, such as arguing that the national census should continue to collect data on people’s biological sex, or that sex itself is a fixed and binary characteristic.

In spite of the pressure, this summer has seen the publication of three new non-fiction books by “gender critical” feminist writers who oppose gender ideology.

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Syria: Almost Everyone Wants Peace

22nd September 2021

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The latest example of this is the fact that Iran has major, and expensive, problems in Syria, Iraq, Gaza, Lebanon and Yemen. All these Iranian trouble spots are managed by the Iranian Quds Force as part of its ongoing wars against Israel and Saudi Arabia. None of these conflicts are doing well for Iran, which provides some comfort for the people in Syria, now being torn apart by its own endless civil war. The most damage to Iran is occurring in Syria. The core problem is that if Sunni Islamic terrorists remain in northwest Syria (Idlib province), while ISIL is active in eastern Syria and Iranians near the Israeli border, there will be no peace and rebuilding. While the Islamic terrorist and the Iranian presence persists, the Syrian civil war will not be over. Officially, Iran needs this civil war to end so they can concentrate on Israel. The key role of Iran in Syria has been noted and no one, not even Iranian allies, are cooperating with Iran. The only ones who cannot walk away from this are the Syrian Assad government, Turkey and Israel.

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Thought for the Day

22nd September 2021

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Coming to America

22nd September 2021

Steve Sailer.

The sudden crossing of the Rio Grande river at Del Rio, Texas, by 15,000 Haitians is a reminder that the most prophetic novel of the last half century was the late Jean Raspail’s 1973 book The Camp of the Saints about a million third-worlders landing on the beaches of France, and whites being unable to summon the will to be so racist as to turn them away.

Do American leaders still believe that they have the moral right to protect the territory of the American people by force? Or will we unilaterally disarm in the Scramble for America?

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TikTokers Are Trading Stocks By Copying What Members Of Congress Do

22nd September 2021

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Young investors have a new strategy: watching financial disclosures of sitting members of Congress for stock tips.

Among a certain community of individual investors on TikTok, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s stock trading disclosures are a treasure trove. “Shouts out to Nancy Pelosi, the stock market’s biggest whale,” said user ‘ceowatchlist.’ Another said, “I’ve come to the conclusion that Nancy Pelosi is a psychic,” while adding that she is the “queen of investing.”

“She knew,” declared Chris Josephs, analyzing a particular trade in Pelosi’s financial disclosures. “And you would have known if you had followed her portfolio.”

Last year, Josephs noticed that the trades, actually made by Pelosi’s investor husband and merely disclosed by the speaker, were performing well.

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

21st September 2021

Seth Meyers Nails Tucker Carlson for COVID Mandate Contradiction (Daily Beast)

Eat the rich! Why millennials and generation Z have turned their backs on capitalism (The Guardian) Constant trash-talk from media like The Guardian probably has something to do with it.

Louisiana State University Begins Disenrolling Students Not Compliant With Vaccine Rules

Get the Jab, or Lose Unemployment Benefits

“F**K The Jab, Long Live Australia” – 20,000 Shut Down Melbourne Highway In Massive Lockdown Protest

J&J Says Its Booster Shot Provides Increased Protection from Covid  But they would say that, wouldn’t they?

Health Authorities Claim “Performers” (Rich & Famous) Are Exempt From Mask Rules  Of course they are.

New York Restaurant Adds Voting Booth So They Can Allow People In Without ID  Bablyon Bee.

Medical Schools Update Hippocratic Oath To Exclude The Unvaccinated

 

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Today in Black Privilege

21st September 2021

Black Lives Matter holds ‘cancel Carmine’s’ protest in New York City

CBS’s ‘The Neighborhood’ Pours on the White Guilt for ‘America’s Racist Past’

 

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Today in Witch-Hunt Culture

21st September 2021

Memo shows Trump lawyer’s six-step plan for Pence to overturn the election (CNN)

The wealthy may avoid $163 billion in taxes every year. Here’s how they do it  All of which is perfectly legal. (CNN)

January 6 Rioters Identify As Pedophiles So FBI Will Cover For Them And Look The Other Way  Babylon Bee.

ABC, CBS Smear Border Patrol Agents With Lies About Using ‘Whips’ on Illegals

In Breach of Norms, Biden Fires Trump Appointees From Government Panels

Royal Holloway music professor quits over cancel culture

One-Sided NPR Cues ‘Abortion Providers and Seekers’ to Rip ‘Cruel’ Pro-Life Law in Texas.

Mark McCloskey, Wife Could Face Suspension of Law Licenses After Firearms Incident

AOC, Omar Spread Fake News Claims That Border Patrol Is Whipping Migrants

‘Billionaires Joyriding Into Space’ Draw UN’s Red Glare

University Says ‘Action Could Be Taken’ Against Students for ‘Misgendering’ or ‘Pronoun Misuse’

Democrats Agree: Criticizing Our Behavior Is Racist, Sexist, Homophobic

Amid Dem Progressive Outcry, Military Aid for Israel Is Pulled From US Bill to Fund Government

Rep. Nunes Wins Major Victory In Defamation Case Against Ryan Lizza And Hearst

Telemundo’s Border Coverage Now Pushes The “Whip” Hoax

 

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

21st September 2021

How (Not) to Tax Billionaires (CNN}

Centrist Democrats threaten Biden’s agenda over opposition to lower drug prices (Salon)

Nancy Pelosi, Estimated To Be Worth $114 Million, Says Capitalism Has “Not Served Us Well” And “Needs Improving”

Census Data Confirm Migration from Big CIties

Ben & Jerry’s ‘Change Is Brewing’ Funds Defund Police Movement

Fiscally Responsible Democrat Says We Should Be Able To Destroy America For Way Less Than $3.5 Trillion  Babylon Bee.

 

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Del Rio Illegal Immigrants Revolt Against US Agents in Bus Takeover

21st September 2021

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Illegal immigrants who were camped out under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas, revolted against customs agents and took control of a federally contracted bus.

The Washington Examiner reported that Haitian migrants in custody hijacked the bus on Monday as it was en route from Del Rio to San Antonio. They then escaped custody.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Customs and Border Protection agency did not respond to the Examiner‘s requests for comment, though ICE confirmed to Local 23 news that “several individuals attempted to flee the bus and were able to escape for some time.”

Most commonly used phrase by a public employee: “We can’t tell people that!”

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Afghanistan Girls Soccer Team Given Asylum in Portugal

21st September 2021

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The girls on Afghanistan’s national soccer team were anxious. For weeks, they had been moving around the country, waiting for word that they could leave.

One wants to be a doctor, another a movie producer, others engineers. All dream of growing up to be professional soccer players.

Then the message finally came early Sunday: A charter flight would carry the girls and their families from Afghanistan — to where they didn’t know. The buses that would take them to the airport were already on their way.

“They left their homes and left everything behind,” Farkhunda Muhtaj, the captain of the Afghanistan women’s national team who from her home in Canada had spent the last few weeks communicating with the girls and working to help arrange their rescue, told The Associated Press. “They can’t fathom that they’re out of Afghanistan.”

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The Shadow State

21st September 2021

ZMan smells a rat.

magine if at your place of work, you began to suspect that many of your coworkers were members of a secret organization. At first you notice that when one has an idea, all of them suddenly adopt it. One day one will use a turn of phrase and then all of them are using it, as if on command. They display no outward expression of membership in a secret group, but their behavior suggests they are controlled by the same source, or they are coordinated by some unknown actor.

This would have been the experience of Donald Trump when he took office. He knew, of course, that many of the people he inherited were loyalists to the Bush crime family or the Clinton crime family. That was part of his campaign, rooting out these people as bad for the American people. What he did not understand is that even the people who appeared to support him in Washington were part of an informal club. The Bush and Clinton clans were just manifestations of this secret club.

That seems farfetched, but take a look at this post in Politico about what they call “the secretive consulting firm that’s become Biden’s Cabinet in waiting”. The short version of it is that a “consulting firm” operated as a shadow administration while the Democrats were out of power. When Biden was installed, in was from this shadow government that he picked key appointees. The source of funding for what amounts to a secret society is not mentioned, but it is not hard to guess.

I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

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The Kids Are Also Polarized

21st September 2021

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Adolescents used to identify with a party but polarization was muted by a general warmth towards authority figures. Today, however, the warmth is gone and adolescents are as polarized as adults which has implications for future polarization and generalized distrust.

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Trailerduck Is a Smart e-Bike Trailer That’s Bound to Make City Life Easier

21st September 2021

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DroidDrive is a German company currently working on such a trailer. It’s called Trailerduck and, for the time being, it still needs a tow vehicle, even though it’s not technically towed by it. Trailerduck is self-propelled, but it still takes cues from the vehicle in front, which can be anything from an e-bike to an actual car.

I am not making this up.

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Apple Researching Ways to Use iPhone Camera to Detect Childhood Autism

21st September 2021

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Apple is reportedly researching ways to use the cameras inside of the iPhone to detect childhood autism, aiming to use data from the camera to observe a child’s behavior that could be used for early diagnosis, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal.

UPDATE: iPhone & Apple Watch study launches to detect depression, dementia

 

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The Real Story of the California Recall

21st September 2021

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The real story is the slow—but gaining-in-speed—exodus from California to states with lower or no state taxes. This mass exit likely reduced the number of people who might have voted to oust Newsom. Then there’s the rising cost of just about everything, including gasoline. At nearly $6 a gallon at some stations in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Los Angeles, California has the highest average price for gas in the nation.

There are also other forces at work.

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Thought for the Day

21st September 2021

Apparently I’m not the only one who noticed the resemblance.

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What A Competent Republican Party Would Be Doing About Democrats’ Tyranny

21st September 2021

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Here are some ideas of what Republicans could do if they actually wanted to motivate voters to show up for them at the polls ever again after Lucy-with-the-footballing us for decades.

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NYT: Architecture That Makes the Case for Discomfort

21st September 2021

Steve Sailer.

Olgiati’s house reminds me that I have an opened cardboard box sitting around that I need to stomp flat so I can put it in the recycling bin.

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The Jaded Wisdom of Travis McGee

21st September 2021

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“I am wary of a lot of other things, such as plastic credit cards, payroll deductions, insurance programs, retirement benefits, savings accounts, Green Stamps, time clocks, newspapers, mortgages, sermons, miracle fabrics, deodorants, check lists, time payments, political parties, lending libraries, television, actresses, junior chambers of commerce, pageants, progress, and manifest destiny. I am wary of the whole dreary deadening structured mess we have built into such a glittering top-heavy structure that there is nothing left to see but the glitter, and the brute routines of maintaining it.” The Deep Blue Good-By

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

20th September 2021

Bloomberg: Nowhere is Safe from the Climate Apocalypse

Joint Statement by Pope Francis, Ecumeniocal Patriarch Bartholomew and Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury on Climate Change

Floods Have Swamped the US. The Next Health Problem: Mold

Record Power Prices & Blackouts Hit Germany

Big tech’s pro-climate rhetoric is not matched by policy action, report finds

Body Of Evidence: All Of Antarctica Is Cooling… Peninsula Cooling Since Long Before Greta Was Born

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

20th September 2021

Seth Rogen Calls Out COVID-Unsafe Emmys: ‘This Is Insane!’ (CNN) OF course, we all look to Seth Rogen for public policy advice.

Covid hospital bills arrive for patients as insurers restore deductibles and copays (Washington Post)

Fauci Defends FDA Panel Rejecting Boosters for Most Americans

Trump Insists ‘Gross Incompetence’ Caused Pandemic

Vatican to Require COVID-19 Pass for Residents, Visitors

Schoolboy Who Hasn’t Seen A Human Face In Weeks Just Glad Celebrities Had A Good Time Last Night  Babylon Bee.

SF Mayor Berates ‘Fun Police’ After Getting Caught on Camera at Club Without Mask  Rules are for thee but not for me.

 

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Today in Black Privilege

20th September 2021

6 people shot, 1 fatally, in heart of Deep Ellum overnight, Dallas police say “The incident happened shortly before 12:45 a.m. near the intersection of North Malcolm X Boulevard and Main Street”

BLM Protest Planned at New York Restaurant Where Brawl Over Vaccination Proof Occurred

Cleveland mayor’s grandson fatally shot, report says

BLM to Protest Racist Karen Restaurant Hostess

Black Gunshot Victims Up 89% During Racial Reckoning

‘Hotel Rwanda’ Hero Guilty in Terrorism Case

More White Than Black People Want Police Abolished In Minneapolis, New Poll Finds

 

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

20th September 2021

Wally The Socialist - Dilbert by Scott Adams

Democrats ‘Want People to Be Dependent on Government,’ Georgia Governor Says  Who doesn’t know that?

More Radical Than Roe: House Abortion Bill Would Repeal Existing Laws, Prohibit Future Pro-Life Laws

Hungary and Serbia Plan to Stop the Migration Tsunami

Dems Call For Infrastructure Spending To Build More Bridges For Haitian Migrants To Live Under  Babylon Bee.

Left Leans Into Champagne Socialism

 

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Today in Witch-Hunt Culture

20th September 2021

Support for Abbott plunging in Texas: poll (The Hill)

The Banality of Bonkers (New York Magazine) When in doubt, bash Trump.

Democrats want to tax the very rich. Here’s who they are. (CNN)  The rich, not the Democrats.

Republicans who let Trump ‘bully’ party will seal midterms defeat, GOP senator says (The Guardian)

Trump may be gone, but Covid has not seen off populism (The Guardian)

This $100,000 Donation by Matt Gaetz Raises All the Eyebrows (Daily Beast)

Two women nabbed for stealing MAGA hat, ripping Trump sign learn their fate Probation.

12 People Canceled by the Left After Expressing Conservative Views

NY Times Freak Out Over ‘ULTRACONSERVATIVE’ Texas ‘Shifting Right’

Brian Williams Promotes Disgraced Lincoln Project, Airs Free Ads Attacking GOP, Fox News

ABC Enthralled by Woodward Book Warning America in Peril if Deranged Trump Runs Again

 

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BORN TO LOSE: Beto O’Rourke Eyes Trifecta of Political Failure

20th September 2021

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“I’m just born to be in it,” failed Senate candidate Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke told Vanity Fair before he announced his failed campaign for president in 2019. He dropped out a few months later, after a series of Democratic primary polls showed him getting blown out by alternative options such as “None” and “Not Sure.”

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Michigan Dem Chooses Vacation Over Crucial Committee Votes

20th September 2021

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Just days after House members returned to Capitol Hill from their August recess, Michigan Democrat Haley Stevens skipped hearings on President Joe Biden’s record-setting budget to take a vacation.

Fresh from a month-long recess, Stevens married software engineer Rob Gulley in a September 3 ceremony. According to the Democrat’s wedding registry, the couple planned to “head up north right after the wedding” and accepted cash contributions to fund “boating, couples massage, [and] dinner” on the honeymoon.

The trip coincided with two House Committee on Education and Labor markup sessions during which members voted on an array of amendments to Biden’s $3.5 trillion spending plan. Stevens, who has served on the committee since she joined Congress in 2019, missed votes on at least a dozen amendments, including one that would prohibit funds in the bill from going to universities that host Chinese government-funded Confucius Institutes.

Stevens did not return a request for comment.

Priorities, man, priorities. If you’re in a safe seat (Dem – Michigan – ’nuff said), and your party has a solid majority in your house, you can take a little time to smell the flowers. It’s not like anybody really depends on you to show up or anything.

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Republicans on Verge of Outnumbering Democrats in Florida for First Time

20th September 2021

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Republicans appear ready to claim more registered voters than Democrats in Florida for the first time in modern political history, Politico reported.

Democrats had 23,055 more registered voters than Republicans in the Sunshine State at the end of August — that was down from the 700,000 voters advantage President Barack Obama won the state with in 2008.

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Thought for the Day

20th September 2021

Speed Bump Comic Strip for September 17, 2021

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New York Times: Iran’s Top Bomb-Maker Loved Persian Poetry, Drives to the Seashore

20th September 2021

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I guess nuking Jews was just a hobby.

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Syrian Youth Planned to Blow Up Synagogue in Hagen

20th September 2021

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An underage Syrian culture-enricher in the German city of Hagen allegedly plotted to attack a synagogue with explosives during Yom Kippur.

Let’s hear it for the Religion of Peace.

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Maspeth HS Diplomas ‘Not Worth the Paper’ They’re Printed on

20th September 2021

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Maspeth High School created fake classes, awarded bogus credits, and fixed grades to push students to graduate — “even if the diploma was not worth the paper on which it was printed,” an explosive investigative report charges.

Principal Khurshid Abdul-Mutakabbir demanded that teachers pass students no matter how little they learned, says the 32-page report by the Special Commissioner of Investigation for city schools, Anastasia Coleman.

“I don’t care if a kid shows up at 7:44 and you dismiss at 7:45 — it’s your job to give that kid credit,” the principal is quoted as telling a teacher.

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

19th September 2021

AOC’s ‘Tax the Rich’ dress designer Aurora James owes debt in multiple states

Secession! Sarah Silverman Proposes Breaking America Into Two Countries

J6 ‘Chaos’ Total Bust For Media As Cops, Journalists And FBI Appear To Outnumber Protesters

 

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Today in Witch-Hunt Culture

19th September 2021

The words Trump couldn’t bring himself to say (CNN)

Private Jet Attendants Tell All About Flying the Super-Rich (Daily Beast)

Trump’s ‘Waning Influence’ Shown in ‘Very Small Crowd Size’ at ‘Justice for J6’ Rally: Ted Lieu (Newsweek) You mean the one he told people not to go to?

New Yorker moves to Texas and shares ‘culture shock’ with viral TikTok

The insurrectionists and their defenders are an old American story (Washington Post)

 

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