WELL, THAT’S JUST BADTHINK THAT SHOULDN’T BE ALLOWED: President Trump ‘is doing more for African Americans than any other president has ever done,’ said a Jamaican immigrant.
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BUT OF COURSE: Strippers allegedly used sex toy on Hunter Biden at NYC’s Hustler Club. “During one particularly wild night, workers suspected Biden — son of former Vice President Joe Biden, the frontrunner in the Democratic primary race to challenge President Donald Trump — was high, and he was warned that drugs weren’t allowed on the premises, sources said. That same night, a worker had to be sent out to purchase a dildo so the gals could use it on Hunter, sources said. It’s unclear if the club didn’t have a similar device on hand or if he insisted on a brand-new one fresh out of the package.”
UPDATE: From the comments: “You can call him Steely Dan.” Plus the suggestion that that’s too obscure a reference for this crowd. But is it, really?
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BANG-UP JOB THERE, BRITISH SECURITY SERVICES: Report: London Attacker was Convicted Terrorist with Jihadist Ties. “The man who carried out the London Bridge terror attack has been identified as 28-year-old Usman Khan, Metropolitan Police confirm. He was jailed in 2012 as part of a plot to bomb the London Stock Exchange and build a terrorist training camp. He was also believed to have supported al-Muhijaroun, a militant jihadist network in the United Kingdom.” The police would have shown more interest if he had retweeted a “transphobic” poem.
But there was bravery on the scene:
More of that toxic masculinity I’m always being warned against, I guess.
OURS NEVER LAST LONG ENOUGH TO SPOIL: The clock is ticking on those Thanksgiving leftovers. Here’s how long before they go bad.
UNEXPECTEDLY: Ronan Farrow says Hillary Clinton cooled on him when he investigated #MeToo crimes. “It’s remarkable how quickly even people with a long relationship with you will turn if you threaten the centers of power or the sources of funding around them,” Farrow says earlier this week.
LUXURY BELIEFS AND LUXURY LIFESTYLES: You can’t afford my radical life.
AND THE ANSWER IS NONE. NONE MORE WOKE: “This Thanksgiving, It’s Time to Take On Your Conservative Relatives. Contrary to popular opinion, the holidays are not a time to ‘navigate’ your uncle’s bigoted MAGA jokes. They’re the time to confront him.” As Rod Dreher responded yesterday to above headline by the Nation’s Elie Mystal:
Wow. Somewhere in America, there are some Mystal family members who are pouring themselves extra wine to fortify themselves in the face of their yappy, rude, woke kinsman. Here’s part of what the Progressive Grinch Who Ruined Thanksgiving had to say:
We stand on the precipice of losing our American character to the forces of authoritarianism and bigotry. For many people, this holiday season will be the last face-to-face encounter with family members before the most consequential election of our lifetimes. And yet, many people are desperate to pass the potatoes without starting any uncomfortable conversations.
The holidays are when your resistance is needed. Some of you have the opportunity to talk to Trump voters and assorted conservatives this weekend. Some of you will have the opportunity to talk to people who live in an echo chamber of Fox News commentary and Russian troll farms. To waste that opportunity because of your own hang-ups and Mommy or Daddy issues is criminal.
Criminal! I guarantee you that anybody who took Mystal’s advice only confirmed their Trumpist or Trump-leaning relatives in their decision to back Orange Man.
And if confronting grandpa doesn’t work, you can use him as a prop to, as the kids say these days, “own the cons on Twitter,” as Daily Show producer Brandon Stefanowitz did yesterday:
This is an interesting balancing act for Stefanowitz. He believes in the apocalyptic vision of Greta Thunberg’s handlers enough to humiliate his grandfather on the Internet, but not enough to quit the massive combined carbon footprint of Viacom, Twitter, and Apple, or whatever he used to photograph grandpa and upload it to the Internet. It’s both a nice in-kind contribution to the Trump 2020 campaign, and a reminder that Grandpa Stefanowitz isn’t the hypocrite in his grandson’s personal psychodrama.
Or as Glenn writes today at Jewish World Review, “All the Democrats had to do was not be crazy, and they couldn’t even do that. They started out after the last election demanding that Donald Trump not be ‘normalized’ as president — and then proceeded to act as abnormally as possible. Weirdly, this strategy seems to be backfiring.”
UPDATE: After a massive ratio on the above tweet, Stefanowitz has protected his account.
DON SURBER: The Real Thanksgiving This Year.
ANALYSIS: TRUE.
WHEN IT GETS SO BAD THAT VOX HAS NOTICED: Moral grandstanding is making an argument just to boost your status. It’s everywhere.
EVERYTHING IS PROBLEMATICAL: Hallmark Channel Under Assault by Race Hustlers and LGBTQ Cult, ‘Too White.’
THEY ALSO PASSED A ORDNANCE AGAINST UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES, SO THIS SHOULD ALL WORK OUT A-OK: Denver approves a minimum wage that will rise to nearly $16 an hour in 2022.
RICHARD WINDERS: Understanding the Roots of the War on History.
KIRA DAVIS’ UNSOLICITED ADVICE: Just Suck It up and Pray at the Thanksgiving Table. “It really isn’t too much to ask that you respect a family tradition that may last a minute, tops. You don’t even have to say ‘Amen.’ It isn’t beyond the realm of possibility that you simply quietly bow your head, mock everyone in your mind and then when they’re through move on with your evening and enjoy your dinner.”
ANSWERS TO THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Why Baby Yoda should scare Michael Bloomberg and Deval Patrick. “Baby Yoda, the juggernaut character from Disney+’s Star Wars series ‘The Mandalorian,’ is driving almost twice as many average social media interactions on news stories about it as any 2020 Democrat, according to data from NewsWhip exclusively provided to Axios.”
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IT’S FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY: Don’t Cry Over Spilled Meth.
STATING THE OBVIOUS: Weight Loss Isn’t Genocide, and “Fat Activism” Is Stupid.
YES, BUT THAT WOULDN’T PROMOTE UNACCOUNTABLE BUREAUCRATIC TYRANNY: Universities should not be investigating rape cases: If we want justice to be done, victims must go to the police. Which is what it’s about, not ensuring that justice is done.
THE DECLINE AND FALL OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION: Ole Miss pisses the game away — literally. “’That’s not who we are. We’ve been a disciplined team all year, and so just disappointed that happened,’ said Matt Luke, the head coach of the losing team, after the game. I don’t know — if you’ve been flagged twice in two years for miming canine urination, maybe that is ‘who you are.’”
SOCIALIZED MEDICINE: Locked up naked on a soiled mattress: Venezuela’s mental health nightmare.
CLAUDIA ROSETT: Hong Kong’s Finest Hour.
WHERE ARE THE EXPLODING HEADS? Barack Obama Started the ‘Fake University’ ICE Sting Liberals Are so Outraged About.
ROTTEN INSTITUTIONS: Angelo Codevilla: FBI Diagnosed With CIA Disease.
AGING (OR LACK THEREOF): 104-year-old Wisconsin woman bagged buck during 1st hunt.
WHILE BRITISH POLICE GO AFTER TWEETS: Reports of shots fired at London Bridge after multiple people injured in suspected stabbing, man detained.
OH, TO BE IN ENGLAND: Putting the Thoughtpolice on Trial. “In January this year, Harry Miller, a 53-year-old docker and former police officer, was investigated by Humberside Police for retweeting a supposedly transphobic poem. Speaking to a police officer on the phone, Miller asked whether he had committed a crime, to which came the ominous response: ‘We need to check your thinking.’ His retweet had been reported as a ‘non-crime hate incident’ – essentially offensive speech or behaviour which police often investigate and record in cases where no crime has been committed. Previously unaware that Kafka and Orwell had written training manuals for police officers, Miller decided to bring a court case against the College of Policing, whose Hate Crime Operational Guidance (HCOG), issued in 2014, forms the basis of current practice.”
Earlier: British Cops, on the Lookout for Trolls, Ask Public to Report ‘Non-Crime Hate Incidents.’
Last year, when British cops were threatening social media critics after the NHS banished 23-month-old Alfie Evans to the Spartan hillside, British ex-pat Charles C.W. Cooke tweeted, “Michael Brendan Dougherty pointed out to me that police in the U.K. spend all their time on Twitter threatening people with jail time for frivolous things, and now I can’t stop seeing it.”
As a wise woman once wrote, “There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them.”
LOOK, WHEN YOU HAVE SOME SOLDIERS AND ARTILLERY AND A TARGET, STUFF’S GONNA HAPPEN: Why the Is Army Practicing Killing Ships with Artillery?
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Food Coma Friday Roundup. “President Trump has an extraordinary devotion to American troops. It is easy to see in his face in every interaction with them. He may come off as a cold New Yorker most of the time, but he has nothing but unrestrained love for those who put their lives on the line to defend liberty.”
I LOVE ALL THESE HONG KONGERS CARRYING PICTURES OF BARE-CHESTED TRUMP: ‘Rocky’ shock for China makes Trump Hong Kong hero. This is truly the most entertaining timeline.
UPDATE: From the comments: “Bare-Chested Hillary would not have been as effective.”
ANOTHER UPDATE: Also from the comments: “They keep telling me Trump has made America a laughingstock around the globe, but my eyes keep seeing just the opposite.” Isn’t it weird, though?
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UP IN SMOKE: California Plans to Hike Tax on Legal Marijuana, Threatening New Market With Rapid Extinction.
It’s only a matter of time before California goes all the way and starts taxing thingy.
KURT SCHLICHTER’S new novel, Collapse, is now #1 in Political Fiction, and #157 overall on Amazon. Nice.
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FLORIDA MAN TAKING THAT WHOLE “EDUCATION APOCALYPSE” MEME FAR TOO LITERALLY: Florida Man Seeking Revenge on Colleges Is Arrested for Plotting Terrorist Attacks With the Help of ‘ISIS.’
ANALYSIS: TRUE. China Proves It: Obama Really Was A Sap. “Remember when President Barack Obama was running around telling everyone how he’d convinced China to get serious about cutting its carbon dioxide emissions? A new report shows that Obama was easily duped.”
FLASHBACK: BLOOMBERG SAYS RAISING TAXES ON POOR PEOPLE IS A “GOOD THING.” “There’s just no question. If you raise taxes on full sugary drinks, for example, they will drink less and there’s just no question that full sugar drinks are one of the major contributors to obesity and obesity is one of the major contributors to heart disease and cancer and a variety of other things.”
We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good, to coin a phrase.
YOU GET MORE OF WHAT YOU REWARD, EVEN IN A CULTURE THAT REWARDS VICTIMHOOD: Australian academic charged with orchestrating fake harassment campaign against herself.
KEN MASUGI: Who Will Terminate the Would-Be Terminators? “In both the impeachment inquiry and the investigation of President Trump’s tax records, House Democrats are using unconstitutional means toward anti-democratic ends.”
BREXIT HO! United Kingdom & Brexit Election Outlook.
Meanwhile, the Corbynization of Jeremy Corbyn’s party continues apace: Jewish candidate for UK Labour Party bombarded with anti-Semitic death threats.
And the hits just keep on coming: Footage emerges of Corbyn saying BBC ‘biased’ toward ‘Israel’s right to exist.’
That footage is from 2011. This is from Tuesday: Jeremy Corbyn just gave the worst political performance of modern times.
Of course, the real scoop on the UK elections is this:
ANOTHER TRUMP INITIATIVE SCOFFED AT BY THE EUROPEANS IS BEING ADOPTED BY THE EUROPEANS: Europe’s Backlash Against Huawei Has Arrived.
APOCALYPSE NOW: In defense of Black Friday brawling.
TRUE, BUT THE STRIPPER BABY MAMA STORY IS PRETTY FUNNY, AND SO IS WATCHING THE PRESS DOWNPLAY IT BECAUSE HE’S A DEMOCRAT: Hunter Biden’s “stripper baby mama” isn’t a political story. Burisma is. And I don’t think the comparison to George W. Bush’s daughters fits. The Bush twins drank too much sometimes. They weren’t doing blow with strippers whom they impregnated while cheating on their brother’s widow.
HEY, BABYLON BEE, LOOK WHAT I FOUND AT MERRIAM-WEBSTER:
DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT DOESN’T SAY SATIRE SHOULD BE, BEE? WELL IT SHOULDN’T BE FACTUAL, BEE: Nation’s Progressives Give Thanks That They Have So Much To Be Angry About This Year.
Look, guys, I appreciate your hard hitting pieces as much as the next person, but when you set out to be a small, Christian satire journal and you become America’s paper of record, it pains me to say it, but you’re doing it as wrong as the New York Times, which claims to be reporting news while writing tawdry and predictable Marxist pulp fiction.
DON’T MISS THIS FROM JIM BOVARD ON THE DISGRACE THAT IS DEVAL PATRICK:
Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick entered the presidential race last week. Patrick is touted as a centrist Democrat and is reportedly former president Barack Obama’s favorite candidate. Patrick is also the only candidate in the race responsible for disastrous coverups at both the federal and state level.
Patrick was assistant attorney general for Civil Rights in the Clinton administration. Shortly before Clinton won the 1992 election, U.S. marshals killed 14-year-old Sammy Weaver and an FBI sniper shot Randy Weaver and killed his wife, Vicki Weaver, as she held their baby in the cabin door at Ruby Ridge.
An Idaho jury found Weaver not guilty on almost all charges and federal judge Edward Lodge slammed the Justice Department and FBI for concealing evidence and showing “a callous disregard for the rights of the defendants and the interests of justice.” A task force of 24 FBI and Justice Department officials compiled a 542-page report detailing federal misconduct and coverups and suggested criminal charges against FBI officials involved in Ruby Ridge. Patrick rejected the task force’s recommendation, ruling instead that the FBI sniper who killed Vicki Weaver had not used “excessive force” and did not intend to violate her civil rights.
In June 1995, the secret report leaked out and made a mockery of Patrick’s “no excessive force” ruling. One FBI SWAT team member at Ruby Ridge recalled the Rules of Engagement: “If you see ’em, shoot ’em.” The report condemned that rule as practically a license to kill that flagrantly violated the U.S. Constitution. The task force was especially appalled that the Weavers were gunned down before receiving any warning or demand to surrender, noting that the FBI’s tactics “subjected the government to charges that it was setting Weaver up for attack.” Patrick apparently shrugged off such concerns.
Top FBI officials were suspended on suspicion of committing perjury on the case the following month. Though Patrick had effectively absolved the government, the Justice Department paid $3 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit from the Weaver family. When the Senate Judiciary Committee held hearings on Ruby Ridge later that year, five FBI officials (including the sniper who killed Vicki Weaver) involved in the case invoked their Fifth Amendment rights to avoid incriminating themselves. In 1997, the chief of the FBI’s violent crimes section was sent to prison for destroying a report on the FBI’s failures at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
It’s as if the FBI and the DOJ have been cesspits of lies and corruption for decades, and Deval Patrick is just another slimy swamp inhabitant. But follow the link to find out what he did as governor of Massachusetts.
FINE. BUT CAN WE STILL INVESTIGATE UNDER WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES SHE GOT ADMITTED TO THE COUNTRY, LET ALONE GOT CITIZENSHIP? How A Fake Imam, The Krassenstein Brothers And A Canadian Played Roles In A Dubious Story About Ilhan Omar And Qatar.
IN THIS MOST PERILOUS MOMENT, OUR COUNTRY MUST FIND ITS WAY THROUGH FOG. AND THE FOG MIGHT BE DELIBERATE: FBI Diagnosed With CIA Disease.
ENVIRONMENTALISTS ARE DAMAGING THE ENVIRONMENT. THEY’RE ALSO DAMAGING MY CALM: Your Emails Are Damaging the Environment.
SHE’S MISSING THE POINT. FOR LIFE INSURANCE TO PAY YOU HAVE TO BE DEAD. OWNING A GUN (AND KNOWING HOW TO USE IT) MIGHT PREVENT YOU BECOMING DEAD. GUESS WHICH ONE I PREFER? Fisking Another Anti-Gun Nut.
AS A PROUD MEMBER OF A STUPID CULT: Rutgers Prof Calls Second Amendment Supporters “A Death Cult”.
THE WHOLE THING IS AN EXERCISE IN INSANITY: Economics Lesson.
IT’S LIKE PEOPLE HAVE HAD ABOUT ENOUGH: Hundreds of Banks Torched in “Vast” Anti-Regime Protests, Iran’s Ayatollah Admits.
SERIOUSLY? THEY’VE LOST WHAT LITTLE BRAINS THEY EVER HAD: Michelle Obama 2020 Chatter Rising — As We Predicted Over Two Years Ago.
TELLING THEM THEY’RE NOT THERE TO FIX THE WORLD AND THAT NO, THEIR JOB ISN’T TO AFFLICT THE COMFORTABLE AND COMFORT THE AFFLICTED, THEY’RE JUST SUPPOSED TO REPORT WOULDN’T HURT EITHER: How we’re training young journalists is wrong, here’s how we fix it.
THEY LIT THE VIRTUE SIGNAL. QUICK, TO THE VIRTUEMOBILE: Pete Buttigieg Returns Campaign Donations Because Of Kavanaugh Ties.
BE THE AMERICA HONG KONG THINKS YOU ARE: Hong Kong Protestors Hold Thanksgiving Rallies In Gratitude For Trump And American Support.
I’D SAY SHUT UP AND ACT, BUT HE WAS NEVER VERY GOOD AT THAT, EITHER: Robert Redford can’t sleep at night!
THE PRESS NEEDS A BIGGER SENSE OF HUMOR. OR, YOU KNOW, A SENSE OF HUMOR: As the press bloviates, Trump pulls out the laser pointer.
November 28, 2019
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5 MYTHS ABOUT TESTOSTERONE.
Flashback: “This sort of hormone-shaming is not okay.”
ANNALS OF TRUMP DERANGEMENT: Newsweek, Suckered by Trump, Grudgingly Corrects Thanksgiving Story
ELECTION 2020: PJ is starting up a separate section for Election coverage. Here are a couple of recent pieces.
Bloomberg: ‘America Needs An Awful Lot More Immigrants’
Pete Buttigieg in 2011: Minority Children Don’t Have Role Models Who Value Education
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: MoveOn.org Ruins Thanksgiving by Issuing Talking Points to Teach Your Family about Impeachment.
Wait until MoveOn.org discovers the origins of MoveOn.org’s name!
NOTE THE “TRUMP VISITS TROOPS WHERE WE’VE BEEN AT WAR FOR EIGHTEEN YEARS” AS THOUGH HE’D BEEN PRESIDENT ALL THAT TIME: Rolls eyes. Refresh my memory. DID Obama ever visit the troops in areas at war? Maybe he did and my faulty memory is failing me. However, visiting those who might die at your command is just good manners. Particularly when they’re spending a national holiday that’s normally devoted to family far from theirs. Newsweek, Suckered by Trump, Grudgingly Corrects Thanksgiving Story.
STRANGE ATTRACTORS: Politically extreme counties may act as magnets, migration patterns suggest. “These migration patterns could be a mechanism behind the growing political divide in the country.”
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ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: The Woke Attack On Pete Buttigieg. If you just treat “woke” as a synonym for “idiotic,” you won’t go far wrong.
BE THE AMERICA HONG KONG THINKS YOU ARE! Thousands in Hong Kong Stage ‘Thanksgiving’ Rally After Trump Signs Rights Bill.
THE CDC SUCKS, BASICALLY: Study Finds Nearly All Minnesota Patients With Vaping-Related Lung Injuries Used Illegal THC Products Containing Suspect Additive. “Although the CDC is now emphasizing the potential hazards of vitamin E acetate, it continues to warn the public about e-cigarettes that don’t contain it.”
They jumped on this to unleash an across-the-board anti-vaping campaign as if it was all a setup or something.
NASTY SCOLDS SCOLD, NASTILY: 10 Things Climate Alarmists Don’t Want You to Be Thankful For.
Hint: it’s most everything.
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
We have come here tonight to add our celebration to those which are going forward all over the world, wherever allied troops are fighting in bivouacs and dugouts, on battlefields, on the high seas, and the highest air. Always this annual festival has been dear to the hearts of the American people. Always there has been that desire for thanksgiving, and never, I think, has there been more justification, more compulsive need than now.
It is your Day of Thanksgiving, and when we feel the truth of the facts which are before us, that in three or four years the peaceful, peace-loving people of the United States, with all the variety and freedom of their life in such contrast to the iron discipline which has governed many other communities – when we see that in three or four years the United Sates has in sober fact become the greatest military, naval, and air power in the world – that, I say to you in this time of war, is itself a subject for profound thanksgiving.
We are moving forward in this struggle which spreads over all the lands and all the oceans; we are moving forward surely steadily, irresistibly, and perhaps with God’s aid, swiftly towards victorious peace.
There again is a fitting reason for thanksgiving, but I have spoken of American thanksgiving. Tonight here, representatives of vaster audiences and greater forces moving outside this hall, it is British and American thanksgiving that we may celebrate today. And why is that? It is because under the compulsion of mysterious and all-powerful destiny we are together.
We are joined together, shedding our blood side by side, struggling for the same ideals, and joined together until the triumph of the great causes which we serve has been made manifest.
—Winston Churchill at the Royal Albert Hall, November 23, 1944.
(Via Ben Domenech.)
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