Wednesday Overnight Open Thread (7/17/19)

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

Quote I

"With or without a report from an economist, anyone with a modicum of common sense should be able to recognize that banning the sale of America's most popular quit-smoking tool will inevitably lead to more cigarettes being smoked," Gregory Conley, president of the American Vaping Association, a nonprofit advocacy group.

Quote II

“Busch has the best fans out there who are always up for a little challenge, so we know they’ll be out in the forest finding our hidden ‘Schop.’ The chance to win beer for life also doesn’t hurt.” Daniel Blake

Quote III

"I mean, I'm not in support of middle class families paying more taxes for it. Part of it is going to be about Wall Street paying more. It's going to be about what we tax in terms of financial services. That's part of it. The other part is to ups understand this is about an investment that will reap a great return on the investment. We can't only look at this issue in terms of cost without thinking about benefit. The benefit to the American public will be that people will have access to health care that right now they cannot afford. And we are all paying a price for that." Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA)

Quote IV

As a Coalition of the Fringes, the only thing that holds together the Democrats is demonizing core Americans. Without ever increasingly whipping up hatred of whites, what is there to keep the Democrats’ collection of miscellaneous identity groups from turning on each other? Steve Sailer

Quote V

“They are entitled to their opinion. They are Americans. But I’m entitled to my opinion, and I just think they are left-wing cranks and they are the reason that there are directions on a shampoo bottle,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA)

Quote VI

"This disclosure will serve as a wake-up call to every community in the country. America should brace itself for the harsh reality of the scope of the opioid epidemic. Transparency will lead to accountability." Peter J. Mougey

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This story sounds outlandish, but......The generation that needs coloring books and pet petting therapy sessions Special snowflakes in the work place don't take criticism well.

Millennial Writer Cries at Work, Puts Mother on Speakerphone after Her Boss Corrects Her Spelling

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Previously we covered the story of the late Joseph D. Robertson. A US vet who was convicted of digging ponds on his property. A US Appeals court has vacated the conviction.

Taking a cue from the Supreme Court, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated the conviction of U.S. Navy veteran Joseph D. Robertson who languished in prison for a year and a half for digging fire protection ponds near his home outside Basin, Montana, without federal permits.

Federal regulators claimed that Robertson interfered with a “navigable water” —a small ditch with a trickle of water—when he dug the ponds. The Environmental Protection Agency declared the ditch a federally protected waterway under the Clean Water Act and required a federal permit—even though his home is 40 miles from the Jefferson River, the nearest navigable waterway.

Robertson died March 18 at age 78. He used to operate a business that supplied water trucks to fire-fighting agencies. Robertson was also fined $130,000. In November 2018, he asked the Supreme Court to look at his conviction after it was upheld by the 9th Circuit.

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Hope for America? Gen Z band plays song "CNN Sucks".

A reporter covering President Donald Trump’s rally scheduled for later tonight caught a teen band playing a song titled “CNN Sucks” for the crowd lined up to see the president speak.

As Trump already assemble for tonight’s Greenville, North Carolina rally, a group of teens took it upon themselves to provide free entertainment for those waiting, playing an original song titled “CNN Sucks” for the crowd.

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No mention of alcohol or how much may have been involved. Sex to die for.

A woman died after being crushed under her partner when they fell nine storeys while having sex over a balcony. It is believed he survived after she cushioned his fall at the tower block in St Petersburg, Russia. According to witnesses the man staggered back into the building and went upstairs to join his friends.

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As soon as I read this headline I chuckled out loud. Journalist Goes to Ilhan Omar's Homeland to Prove How Great It Is -- Gets Killed by Terrorists

Before President Donald Trump suggested on Twitter Sunday that Rep. Ilhan Omar “go back” and “help fix” her native Somalia, Hodan Nalayeh was already in the country doing just that.

According to a Washington Post report published Saturday, the Somali-Canadian journalist had returned to the country of her birth to tell “uplifting” stories of how people lived there. However, her homecoming ended in tragedy.

By the time Trump unleashed his nativistic tirade against Omar, Nalayeh had been dead for two days.

I guess the Misanthropic side won.

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Jack of all trades. Master of none, Elon Musk.

Elon Musk unveiled new developments underway at Neuralink, the company developing brain-machine interface technology. The secretive project is developing the technology with the goal of implanting devices in paralyzed humans to allow them to control phones or computers.

Musk revealed new updates to the projects during a presentation streamed live from Neuralink’s website Tuesday night, The Verge reported. Neuralink’s new advances include the use of thin, flexible threads which will cause less damage to the brain and transmit a higher volume of data than the materials used in existing brain-machine interfaces. Considerably thinner than a human hair, the threads will be automatically embedded by a newly announced neurosurgical robot capable of inserting six threads per minute

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Ah, the good old State of Florida and Florida Man.

GILCHRIST COUNTY, Fla. – A Florida man reportedly used scissors to cut off the penis of a man he suspected of sleeping with his wife, according to law enforcement officials.

The Gilchrist County Sheriff’s Office arrested Alex Bonilla, 49, on Sunday. He is accused of breaking into the victim’s house, holding him at gunpoint and tying him up before mutilating him.

The unnamed victim was transported to a hospital Sunday and is in stable condition, the Sheriff’s Office said. Most noteworthy, he told deputies Bonilla fled the scene with his severed penis, according to the report.

Consequently, Bonilla was arrested a couple hours after. No additional evidence was found in a countywide search, the Sheriff’s Office said. Moreover, authorities did not specify whether the victim’s penis was recovered.

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The ONT looking out for you. The best and worst countries to travel to.

Believe it or not, Florida is not mentioned. (Insert sarc tag here)

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LOL GF'd

Gibson's Bakery awarded over $6.5 million in attorney's fees and expenses against Oberlin College.

Over and above what had already been awarded.

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Actor Kevin Spacey's indictments dismissed.

Prosecutors in Massachusetts have dropped a criminal case against Kevin Spacey.

Cape & Islands District Attorney Michael O’Keefe said in a court filing that he was filing ‘due to the unavailability of the complaining witness’. The 59-year-old American Beauty actor was accused of indecent assault and battery in connection with an allegation he groped a young man in a bar in July 2016. Spacey has always denied the allegations. However earlier in July the man, who was 18 at the time of the alleged assault, pleaded the fifth testifying about the incident.

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The car wash didn't do a good enough job. It had to be submersed. Genius Award Winner 1st-Runner up.

A driver from New Jersey ended up splashing down in the Hackensack River on Tuesday morning after mistakenly hitting the gas pedal instead of the brake as they left a car wash.

Surveillance video captured the moment the SUV pulled out of the wash in Hackensack before it suddenly accelerated, sending the vehicle and its occupants straight into the muddy water.

Although there is a fence around the perimeter of the wash, there is no barrier railing at the point where the car zoomed over the edge into the flowing waters.

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Coffee consumption and virtue signaling. What I learned from quitting coffee after 15 years of consumption.

I used to drink coffee on a daily basis since I was a teenager.
Every now and then I toyed with the idea of drinking less coffee, but I never made an attempt at giving it up. Tolerance develops quickly when you drink it regularly and I hadn’t felt the waking effect in a long time. I drank coffee for no particular reason other than having come to like its taste.
Two weeks ago I stopped cold turkey. Here’s the backstory, how I did it, and what I noticed since making the change.

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The ONT Musical Interlude

July 17, 1959 - Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday died in a New York City hospital from cirrhosis of the liver after years of alcohol abuse, aged 43, (while under arrest for heroin possession, with Police officers stationed at the door to her room.) In the final years of her life, she had been progressively swindled out of her earnings. The singer who had recorded classics such as 'God Bless the Child' and the civil rights anthem 'Strange Fruit' died with just $0.70 in the bank. via thisdayinmusic.com

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What happens when you drink 33 beers in one evening? You probably become The ONT's Genius Award Winner.

According to an arrest affidavit, that’s what Monahan told St. Lucie County sheriff’s deputies he did after accusations he used foul language and tried to fight outside Body Talk Sports Bar on South U.S. 1.

Deputies about 11:40 p.m. July 8 went to the adult entertainment establishment after a report of a man passed out in the parking lot.

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Viet Nam vet, business man and cancer survivor. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

Mobility is truly one of the wonders of life that so many of us take it for granted. This is a story about how an astonishing 580 people got their freedom back, thanks to a Connecticut businessman’s passion and determination.

It all started in Philip Pavone’s pawn shop in 2009, when he stumbled upon an opportunity to make a difference. There were some motorized wheelchairs hanging around the shop that still hadn’t sold and, in an attempt to clear space for new inventory, he placed an ad in his local paper, offering them for free.

Within two weeks, he received more than sixty letters in response to the ad.

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America's Sweetheart Ilhan Omar, Who Has Brought to America Her Native Somalia's Fragrant and Joyous Form of Anti-Semitism, Wants to be Heard on Her Favorite Topic -- Those F***ing Jews

—Ace of Spades

The best of America -- she must have learned her anti-semitism from someone on Twitter that David French doesn't like and wishes to smear.

Trump Greenville, North Carolina Rally Thread

—OregonMuse

Link below the fold.

House Votes to Kill Fakey-Fake Impeachment Inquiry

—Ace of Spades

Should be a lot of anger among the emotionally incontinent.

The resolution went down on a vote of 332 to 95, with all Republicans voting for it and more Democrats in favor of killing the impeachment resolution than were for backing it. There was a single abstention.

After hours of uncertainty about the mechanics of how the measure would be dealt with, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California, a Trump loyalist, moved to table the resolution – not long after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she would 'deal' with it, without specifying precisely how.

This doesn't mean that the Democrats got out of this with no penalty -- now they have a lot of "moderate" Democrats who have voted to keep Literal Hitler, Worse Than the First Hitler, in Das Weiss Haus, and that's going to Not Be Okay with the progressives, super-partisans, NeverTrumpers and assorted other lunatics who sit on Twitter all day and then cry in the shower like Glenn Close in the Big Chill.

Also, Trump can now say, correctly, that even his enemies in the Democrat-controlled Congress have decided that there's no case for impeachment.

From Tami:

@ChadPergram

Hse votes to set aside articles of impeachment for President Trump prepared by Rep Al Green (D-TX).

The vote was 332-95

137 Democrats voted yea

95 Democrats voted no

All Republicans voted nay

Rep. Justin Amash (I-MI) voted yes.

Reps. Peter DeFazio (D-OR) voted present

This is a delight:

Also via Tami: Jake Tapper's twitter thread with what he hears from his many, many, MANY close Democrat friends, some of whom don't even work for Fusion GPS!

Absolutely Brutal RNC Ad Links "The Squad's" Rhetoric, Including Promise That They'll "Bring the Fire," to Domestic Terrorist Antifa Attack on ICE Facility

—Ace of Spades

Thanks to Lizzy.

Did Liz Harrington, new-ish RNC spokesman, script this ad? She was documenting all this stuff on her Twitter feed.

She's #Woke, in the good way.

Jonah Goldberg, You're So Funny

—Ace of Spades

The funniest thing that ever came out of your mouth remains me, Jonah.

Oh I get it, Volksgeist, Spirit of the Folk/Race! So you're calling your twitter enemies... drum roll... Nazis!

"I'm so surprised Jonah Goldberg is now freely using the talking points and slogans of the Squad!" said... no one. Not a one. No one said this. No a single soul thought anything remotely close to this.

As a great man (me) said, the problem with NeverTrump socialism is that eventually you run out of Pierre Omidyar's money.

Ebola Outbreak Now Declared a World Health Emergency

—Ace of Spades

I assume Trump will not have any qualms about banning all air travel from affected countries, unlike Barry Wonderful, who promised there was no chance any US citizen could contract ebola from someone traveling from Nigeria, and then, woopsie!, a couple of Americans did, if you can believe that.

Trump Steals Reagan's 84 Reelection Playbook

—Ace of Spades

Special kicker at the end.

Michael Avenatti: I May be a Scumbag Creepy Porn Lawyer Who's Going to Federal Prison for a Very Long Time, But Look at My Twitter Follower Count, Losers!!!

—Ace of Spades

Your twitter follower count plus that sweet, sweet ass n' mouth of yours will get you a pack of cigarettes a month.

Via Twitchy.

22 Members of Real American Organization MS-13 Arrested for Hacking Seven Victims to Death With Just As American as You Or Me Machetes

—Ace of Spades

So American. I can't believe the racism here in arresting them for just living life to the full in America, which is the world's Las Vegas -- whatever happens in America, stays in America.

Some people literally had their hearts hacked out with machetes.

The indictment describes one grisly murder in which a rival gang member was kidnapped and taken to Angeles National Forest. He was allegedly attacked and killed by six MS-13 members wielding machetes.

“The victim was dismembered, and his body parts were thrown into a canyon after one of the defendants allegedly cut the heart out of the victim’s body,” prosecutors said.

Most of the killers are -- get this -- illegal immigrants. Also known as The Most American of All Americans.

Good catch from AmGreatness's KBO:

The Los Angeles Times takes care to point out in the middle of an article discussing 24 gruesome, violent machete murders committed by illegal aliens that "MS-13 has also become a bogeyman used by President Trump to justify stronger immigration enforcement by linking the issue to crime."

Bogeyman.

Planned Parenthood Head Terminated After Just Eight Months in the Abortion Lobby Womb; Found to Not Be Pro-Abortion Enough, Refused to Admit That Men Need Abortions Too

—Ace of Spades

She didn't want to use language about transsexuals in talking about abortion, thinking, I guess, that some people might think it's weird when you keep talking about men's need of abortion services.

She also apparently used slightly, slightly softer euphemisms for abortion (like "abortion care" -- see, they care!), which the Abortion Warriors found insufficiently strident.

The Morning Rant

—OregonMuse

And furthermore, he has glued them firmly onto the backs of the entire Democratic Party. So I think it's going to work out good for us in the long run. This association between will be a suppurating open wound from now until 2020, the squabbling will continue, and the Democrats' constant howling that Trump is a racist is bouncing off him like raindrops hitting a tin roof. They've used that word so many times that literally nobody cares anymore. Except the progressive nutroots, who, along with the French Davidians, will believe anything if it can be construed to mean OrangeManBad."

"You know, I don't think it
would be much of a debate."

Special Delivery For 'The Squad':

Nutroots conference promotes DIY home abortions. What could possibly go wrong? https://t.co/e0x8eRQ2xw via @BreitbartNews

— OregonMuse (@OregonMuse) July 15, 2019

Who Dis:

Kind of looks like a high school yearbook photo, doesn't it? Here's one that most likely didn't come from a yearbook.

For the 'Ettes:

(click for a bit larger)And here's a photo of him when he was a bit younger.

Monday's celebs: Hammer Studio's scream queen Caroline Munro and John Phillip Law, both of whom appeared in The Golden Voyage of Sinbad.

AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List

For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact FenelonSpoke, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at

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(All one word, no spaces)

If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to her.

Praise report:

Lizzy’s husband found out that he did not have cancer.

Fenelon’s son started his college biology class and is enjoying it.

Jewell’s SIL is home from hospital and doing better

Requests for continued prayer:

For healing from cancer:

Slapweasel (also for an organ donor) and strength in caring for elderly parents with have memory and other issues, Cheribee, alsoTami’s daughter, Circa’s brother, VNRedLeg, Scott M, OldDoginMO’s wife., Fox 2!’s friend, Mary Beth for healing from bladder cancer. Rickl-for healing from brain tumors/cancer, Mother of a co-worker of Josephistan , Rickl-healing from cancer,
Other continuing health issues and requested prayers for healing: Fixeupperupper’s mothers-kidney function. Michelle’s son- continued recovery from car accident.. Sock-rat-eeze, for things to go smoothly so that he can have reversal of colostomy. USNTakin and wife-he asked particularly that she have relief from pain, but strength and relief from pain for both of them

For healing for Josephistan’s mom who has difficulty with daily tasks and is anxious and withdrawn. Also strength for him caring for his mom as he is alone in doing this. Help in finding a caregiver. He also needs job help.

Hrothgar’s friend, a hospice counselor who needs healing after being affected by fumes from muriatic acid

Healing for Blaster’s son who has issues with depression

Updates and new requests:

6/6-Suzanne’s friend, Kevin, was told he has 6 months to live. He is praying for a miracle.

6/7-Poster “ Bete in reflection”has cancer and needs healing.

6/7- Prayers forJane Doh’s husband and Jane as they deal with his diabetes diagnosis. Prayers for wisdom for doctors as they deal with this condition.

6/7-Natrium’s father-in-law, a retired lieutenant colonel is dying. Comfort and peace for his wife and her dad.

6/10-Antisocialist after a year and a half of clean scan and good blood work, something came up on last CT scan. Antisocialist is scared and asked for prayers.

6/11-Hogmartin grandmother, Sophia, was admitted to ER. Had arterial bleed. At her age, surgery is not an option. Hogmartin asked for comfort, peace, and healing.

6/11-redc1c4 asked for prayers for “Doc and his wife” on ward A at City of Hope hospital. He was a medic in Vietnam. His Wife has inoperable liver cancer. Prayers for healing, strength, peace, and wisdom for caregivers and generally for family to bear burdens.

6/19 Hrothgar’s SIL has an elderly beloved pastor of a tiny but vibrant church of older folks. “Sister Charlotte” needs healing of heart issues so that she can return to being that congregations shepherdess

6/19- Poster Juddgement’s brother-in-law suffers from severe depression. He went off meds and tried to commit suicide twice. Has been in 3 different mental wards and lives with Juddgement in their basement because he can’t be left by himself. Brother-in-law is exploring electro shock therapy. Please pray for a treatment which would be able to provide relief from this severe depression.

6/21-LadyL asks for prayers for two friends of her daughter: Laura, in her early 30’s was given a prognosis of 3 years to live after a recurrence of metastatic breast cancer. Please storm heaven for a miracle of complete healing. Also, Allison, another of her daughter’s friends, had a stroke two-weeks after the birth of her first child. She is still unable to walk after 6 months. Doubtful she will be able to teach again. Pray that she be fully healed and to enjoy life and her family.

7/3-Maddog’s PSA blood test says PSA has low which indicates no larger scale cancer present, but since cancer spread outside body will be undergoing hormone therapy soon and radiation after that.

7/1 Hrothgar’s SIL Elizabeth has diabetic related neuropathy. Needs healing

7/3-Poster ET going through very difficult time. Needs rough places made smooth.

7/3 For Leslie-for spiritual strength and comfort after death of daughter who died from flu-one year ago February

7/8-Beltway Elite asked for prayers for their mother who had stroke at end of June, leaving her paralyzed on right side. Thankfully she remembers herself and details but faces lengthy period of recovery and physical therapy. Prayers for quick recuperation, management of other health conditions and for Beltway Elite’s sister to act with compassion.

7/9-16 redc1c 4- Last I heard his dad came through spinal surgery o,k. and was awake and alert but depending on what doctor’s says if he doesn’t get some relief from pain he may have to go in to hospice. Prayers for red’s dad and his wife for healing and also because dad is cardiac fragile, strength and, calm and wisdom and insight for caregivers.

7/13-Winston, a dreg of society (Hey, Winston. I know your handle is humor, but you’re really not a dreg of society, You’re a beloved child of God! ) Winston asked for prayers for his dear friend Dee, who fell and broke right arm near shoulder while on a road trip. Four months earlier had broken wrist, 2nd time cancer survivor. Prayers for healing.

7/16 Sturmtoddler-Will have kidney surgery on the 23rd. Prayers for successful surgery and recovery.

7/16-Deep State in Deep Sh**-Asked for prayer for friend, Tiffany, in 2nd fight with cancer, not as bad as first time but still needs prayers for healing

7/16-OldDoginMO’s wife-admitted back to hospital due to infection in wound from last surgery probably as result of chemo. White blood cell count dropped, but is better today and may be able to go home. Prayers for complete healing.

7/16-Grammie’s daughter is supposed to go on a mission trip to Swaziland in August to work with children and( women?) Who had been in sex trafficking and daughter has to travel through South Africa-Prayers for her safety and of all the people travelling with her,

7/16-Prayers that rough places are made smooth for Fenelon and family dealing with huge, unexpected bill from IRS

7/17-Fenelon asks for prayers for Ray, who had chemo and a bone marrow transplant for blood cancer. Needs healing.

Job needs:

Emperor County Boy asked for prayers for wisdom and guidance and direction in his job search and in other areas.

Insommniac Is looking for job.

Donna&&&& needs FT job in areas of expertise

PDX Republican needs sedentary PT job.

Fenelon’s Spouse is looking for FT job

Hadrian IV is looking for new job.

Wednesdays are days in which mothers in the horde and anyone else says special prayers for children of horde members. Please include the grandchildren as well.

Please note; Prayer requests are generally removed after five weeks or so unless I receive an update. This in NOT because we don’t care; It’s simply because of lack of space. Updates as well as thanks for answered prayer and new prayer requests are always welcomed.

Please feel free to copy requests which you see on the board and send them to me. I am unable to be on the board all the time, even though it seems like I am, and so if people don’t tell me about prayer requests I may have no way of knowing. Thx and God bless!

FenelonDirection18 at gmail dot com

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

The Evangelists St. Mark and St. Luke
Matthias Stom

The Morning Report - 07/17/19

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning, kids. I've got an image stuck in my head this morning and I can't seem to shake it. It's from the final scene of Alfred Hitchcock's wartime thriller Saboteur where the heavy, played by Norman Lloyd is dangling from Lady Liberty's torch as the hero, Bob Cummings, strains to hold on to his sleeve, desperately trying to save the guy he's chased for the entire picture who framed him for treasonous sabotage. And then Hitch cuts to a close up of Lloyd's shoulder where, one by one, the stitches on his jacket sleeve start popping loose...

Everything about that entire scene combines into a metaphor that perfectly encapsulates where the Democrat Party and even more frighteningly the nation as a whole is at this moment in time. We're coming apart at the seams. The better angels of our nature are desperate to cling to something, anything in our political enemies that will pull them back from the brink, knowing full well that if the situation were reversed, they'd be doing what Martin Landau did to Cary Grant as he dangled from a precipice atop Mount Rushmore in North By Northwest: grind his heel into Grant's hand.

Beyond any shadow of a doubt (no pun), the Democrat Party has gone from being merely a political enemy and morphed into a mortal enemy not just of the GOP and conservatives, but of the nation as founded, its distinct culture, traditions, heritage and its people. The spectacle over the last few days that we have had to endure, which is solely and wholly at the feet of the Democrat-Media Complex, will go down as a low point in our history, naturally depending upon who gets to write that history. For me, almost as repulsive as having to listen to the effluent coming from the flapping castanets of the Febrile Four Females of "The Squad" aka "The Aristocrats!" are the fools, stooges and confederates of the anti-Trump persuasion who cast equal if not more blame on this President and by extension the majority of the American people.

President Trump has rightly called them out in the plainest of terms for who and what they are and what they have said, vis a vis the bald-faced lies about or immigration and detention policies and more generally the nation and its citizens. Nowhere in any of his comments were any individuals named, let alone their race or country of origin. Only one was born in one of the worst foreign shit-holes on the planet and the other three come from domestic shit-holes of the Democrat-controlled variety, but I digress. The attitude and meaning of the phrase "America, love it or leave it" is unambiguous, and the only crime in Trump saying what amounts to that sentiment is that for far too long it has gone unsaid.

What all of these idiots are missing, mostly because the propagandists aren't covering it, is the rhetoric that Trump was attacking has and continues to incite violence. When you label detention facilities as "concentration camps," compare Trump to Hitler, Pence to Himmler, the Border Patrol and ICE agents as the SS rounding up innocent children and torturing them, is it any wonder that some guy attempted to firebomb a detention facility in Tacoma? (NB: CNN gave the now room-temperature terrorist in question a glowing profile). Not only do The Aristocrats!" refuse to condemn this action but an equally vile backbencher colleague, Karen Bass, is preemptively blaming any future violence on the President. Meh, the Democrats are not going to condemn Antifa terrorists because like their antebellum antecedents, Antifa is as part of the Democrats now as the KKK was back then and for over 100 years, the big "switching of the parties post 1964" lie notwithstanding. Oh yes indeed. I do not have solid proof definitively tying Antifa to any Democrat, but to this day Dick Durbin and his staff have yet to be called to account for their evidently close and extensive relationship with James Hodgkinson, the man who nearly massacred GOP House members at a softball practice two years ago. Cui Bono is not Cher's dead ex.

As the late, great Barry Goldwater famously said,

Before his words get twisted, as they always do, Goldwater was not promoting violence. He was merely exhorting those in his political party who detested him, to stand up to the oncoming tidal wave of anti-Americanism and Democrat-Socialism that 50+ years later is about to swamp us. Trump is the only president or real political leader on the right in my lifetime to have taken Goldwater's words to heart. Make no mistake, I am not promoting violence either. But it is the Democrat-Left-Media Complex that is going to - and in fact is - forcing the issue. Of winds and whirlwinds, yo.

Now to the links we go...

The Son-In-Law also rises, mostly by rolling out the President's immigration fixes, Ken Cuccinelli warns of an ICE dam, Dems tell American citizens to FOAD, Nancy Palsi's "spark of humanity" boys engage in the mostly peaceful cutting out the heart of a victim with machetes, and when the CBP is arresting illegal aliens up in Maine, you know you have a crisis.

• Son-In-Law Kushner Details 2020 Immigration Reform Plan with E-Verify, Merit, Asylum Fixes
  
• Ken Cuccinelli: "ICE Is Overcrowded; The Pipeline Is Clogged Farther Down the Pipe"
  
• In Face Of Massive Border Crisis, Democrats Tell Americans Citizenship Means Nothing
  
• Immigration By the Numbers
  
• Trump Takes On Illegals... And Their Leftist Collaborators
  
• California: 22 MS-13 Animals Charged with Brutal Machete Murder
  
• Border Patrol Arrests In Maine Illustrate the Extent of the Immigration Crisis, Official Says
  CIVILWAR 2.0
  CBP Chief blasts the Democrats for inciting violent insurrection, Pelvis Pressley's fiery rhetoric may have touched off actual flames, thug protestors block DHS and ICE facilities, the Dems will not condemn that which they not-so-secretly applaud and Karen Bass (T)-Ard blames Trump for any future attacks on America.

• CBP Chief: Democrat Rhetoric Responsible For "Fueling" Terror Attack On ICE Facility
  
• Pelvis Pressley Threatened Detention Facilities: If You Don't See the Light, "You Will See the Fire"; Facility Then Attacked By Antifa With Fire Bombs
  
• Abolish ICE Protestors Block DHS Building Entrances and Exits, Attempt to "Shut Down ICE" (what happens when they come en masse, dressed in black and armed? - jjs)
  
• "The Aristocrats!" Radicals Refuse to Condemn Firebomb Attack Against ICE (that's because they instigated it - jjs)
  
• How Hard Can It Possibly Be For Democrats To Denounce Antifa?
  
• Karen Bass (tarD): I "Absolutely" Believe Trump Will Have Blood on His Hands for "Racist" Tweets (like firebombing the ICE facility, acid-tits? - jjs)
  DEMOCRAT-LEFTIST SCANDALS, CRIMES, CHUTZ-POCRISY, MESHUGAS
  Jeffrey Epstein is one smooth operator (feh) and if you can't get Coonman to resign then naturally you take his campaign cash. Or quid pro quo?

• Epstein Preyed On At Least One Woman As He Served Time In Florida Jail, Lawyer Says
  
• Democrats Who Called On Coonman Northam To Resign Now Accepting Donations From Him
  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY ANTI-SEMITISM

  Mark Lamont Hill wins today's Dunning-Krueger Prize.

• Netnuts Exposed as Anti-Semites: Ex-CNN Talking Head Marc Lamont Hill Says News Networks are "Zionist Organizations" (like Al Jazeera? - jjs)
  CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, THE MUELLER DECEPTION

  Devin Nunes warns that Dems are colluding with Mueller before he testifies next week and Daniel Greenfield takes one for the team.

• Rep. Nunes Fears Mueller Is "Back-Channeling" With Democrats As He Prepares for Hearings
  
• Greenfield: I Read E. Jean Carroll's Book So You Don't Have To
  POLITICS
  Several links about the total Democrat shit-show in the House late yesterday afternoon where Nancy Palsi winds up getting rebuked before 4 GOP assholes join with the Dems for perverting the meaning of censure and non-"Let's Stay Together" Al Green dumps a bucket of hot grits on his own party by getting the impeachment ball rolling, GOP releases new ad highlighting "The Aristocrats!", Ol' Yeller Levin goes to the mattresses for the President, Dems officially support anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism in the form of the four foul dames who are all set to decapitate their own party leadership. Meanwhile, real women and lots of them cry "4 more years!" in Pennsylvania, Cuck Schemer down for reparations and rips Cocaine Mitch, Blotto is tanking big time, several pieces on rotting corpse Bernie including the vile anti-Americanism from a key advisor, the bank-hating alte-cocker gets invited to speak at a WaPo event sponsored by B of A, Dems running on fumes in the campaign coffers, Salena Zito on the race to replace Justin A-mush, challenge to Tom Cotton's seat a likely fiasco and a cromulent question in light of my above monologue.

• Pandemonium Overtakes House as Nancy Palsi Violates Chamber's Rules, Trump Rebuke Backfires
  
• Dems Rally Around Anti-American Jew-Hating "Squad" With Anti-Trump House Resolution
  
• GOP Releases Brutal New Campaign Ad Against "The Squad"
  
• Ol' Yeller Levin Backs Trump on "Squad" Tweets: "A Hell of a Lot of Americans" Are "Sick and Tired" of These Congresswomen
  
• The Congresswoman Representing Somalia
  
• "The Aristocrats!" Aim to Decapitate the Democrat Old Guard
  
• A Different Take on Trump/s Tweet Storm About "Progressive" Democrat Congresswomen
  
• Women for Trump at Pennsy Rally: "Four More Years!"
  
• Cuck Schemer Supports Slavery Reparations Bill, Rips Cocaine Mitch
  
• Blotto O'Rourke Fundraising Crashes and Burns in Second Quarter
  
• Top Bernardo Sandersnista Adviser No Fan of the US: "America Is a Predator"
  
• Awkward: Bank of America Sponsors Bank-Hating Bernie's Interview with WaPo
  
• Sandersnista Attacks Joe Bidet's Voting Record, Discusses Foreign Policy
  
• Democrat "Doomsday Scenario" as Campaign Funds Evaporate
  
• Zito: Party, Personality, a Big Name, and a Primary in Western Michigan
  
• Democrat Challenge to Tom Cotton Off to Dismal Start
  
• The Hidden Fronts in the Culture Wars: Can An Anti-American America Survive?
  FIRST AMENDMENT, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, BIG BROTHER BIG TECH

  Google Veep sez "Blacklists? Never heard of them!," Teh Ted rips into Google as fraudsters that should be investigated, Twitter and Facebook muzzle tranny critic and St. Augustine, two government house organs need to be fumigated immediately and hack-in-black Amy Jackson-Berman muzzles Roger Stone.

• Google VP Denies "Blacklists" of Search Results After Leaks Showing Their Existence
  
• Teh Ted: DoJ "Should Be Investigating" Google for "Fraud," "Breach of Contract"
  
• Twitter Bans Free Speech Champion Lindsay Shepherd For "Abusing" Trans Activist
  
• Facebook Bans St. Augustine Quote as "Hate Speech"
  
• Voice Of America Ignored Multiple Warnings On Anti-Trump Facebook Posts By Its Editor
  
• Soros Sleaze Infests US Gov't Media Agency with Obama Holdovers Still Refusing to Go
  
• Hack-In-Black Berman Jackson Bars Roger Stone from Posting on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter
  SECOND AMENDMENT

  Idea for Chicago-based political party: "The Death Toll Is Too Damn High!"

• Chicago Lawmaker Encourages Constituents to Arm Up for Self-Defense
  ABORTION

  Planned Parenthood aborts prexy after 8 months, severe Catholic Joey Bidet sez if you can't nuzzle them as pre-teens, kill them in the hoo-hoo, and Oklahoma judge upholds baby protection.

• Planned Parenthood Terminates Leana Wen's Presidency After Eight Months
  
• Catholic Joe Bidet's Healthcare Plan is Full of Pro-Abortion Mandates
  
• Law Against Dismemberment Abortion Upheld by Oklahoma Judge
  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

  Not much meat but what there is is "cherce," with Iran caught smuggling nuke materials out of the US and France's taxing of big tech could touch off a trade war with the US.

• Iran Caught Smuggling Nuke Materials Out of US
  
• France's Digital Tax Could Spark Trade War With US
  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

  Shrill, squawking sham-squaw squawks at hawk, gets claws to her high cheekbones.

• Fauxca-Has-Been Warren Tries To Shame Defense Secretary Nominee Mark Esper In Confirmation Hearing
  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE BUREAUCRACY, WASTE, FRAUD, CORRUPTION

  McYertle surrenders on the budget, and a nice sentiment about New York that ignores the real politic.

• McConnell Surrenders the Most Important Budget Fight of Trump's Presidency Before It Begins
  
• Bring Back Boomtown: New York Needs to Think Like a Growth City Again (how, if it's populated by people who keep voting Commie? - jjs)
  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

  On Trump killing the Obama CAFE standards and resuscitating the car industry at home.

• Elections Matter, Because Trump Might Have Saved the American Car Industry
  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

  Feds won't charge officer who administered alleged choke-hold on Eric "Loosie" Garner and alleged murderer of a civil rights activist gets pinched.

• Arrest Made in Gruesome Murder of Louisiana Civil Rights Activist, Sadie Roberts-Joseph
  
• Feds Right Not to Charge Officer Daniel Pantaleo in Eric Garner's Death
  EDUCATION, INDOCTRINATION

  First it's Big Tech, and now Josh Hawley to take on Big Brainwashing.

• Sen. Josh Hawley Introduces Plan to Break the Universities' Higher Ed Stranglehold
  HEALTHCARE

  Johnson & Johnson opioid trial has huge implications for big pharma, and on shrinks turning political

• Oklahoma, J&J Reach End of First National Opioid Trial
  
• What Happens When Psychiatric Abuse Begins To Affect Politics
  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, LYSENKOISM

  Dupes and idiots rail at the tide and tilt at windmills in Blighty.

• Climate Change Activists Disrupt UK Cities With "Summer Uprising"
  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

  Prager U video on feminazis fouling your kids' brains and Trump's latest LGBT moves.

• Prager U Video: Feminist Books For Brainwashing Kids
  
• Is Trump's Pandering to the LGBTQ Crowd a Political Ploy?
  CULTURE WARS, HITHER & YON

  From the ridiculous to the sublime: Christian Toto on Scarlett Johansson forced to kneel, comparing Muhammed Ali to Krylon-Krackpot Rapinoe, two fine essays on the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, and the 74th of America's first atomic test at Trinity.

• Toto: Scar-Jo's Lame Backpedal Shows "Woke" Rules Hollywood
  
• Ali vs. Rapinoe
  
• Prager: We All Wanted to Love the Women's Soccer Team
  
• Dreams Of Chariots: 50 Years Ago, Apollo 11 Launched
  
• The Religious Moment On the Moon NASA Never Wanted You To See
  
• Trinity at 74: When America Became the Most Powerful Nation in History

Anyway, links from around the world, across the nation and up your street. Have a better one and remain blessed.

NOTE: The opinions expressed in some links may or may not reflect my own. I include them because of their relevance to the discussion of a particular issue.

Overnight Open Thread (07-16-2019)

—CBD

[Misanthropic Humanitarian is otherwise engaged, and Ace's D&D die, repurposed for who gets Tuesday night coverage, landed on "Dildo." The downside is that I usually get a head start on the Art Thread on Tuesday nights, so next week will probably just be a Lucian Freud/Ivan Albright retrospective]

I have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don't agree with very well. He'll hold up a flower and say "look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. Then he says "I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing," and I think that he's kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe. Although I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is ... I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty. I mean it's not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there's also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure, also the processes. The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; it means that insects can see the color. It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts.

I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious

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Good. Destroy women's sports as quickly as you can, you freakish, profoundly disturbed maniacs! Your psychoses, supported by the pinch-faced scolds of the SJW contingent will drive away normals in droves, and you will be left with...whatever your lunatic dreams can conjure.
Another man wins gold in women's weightlifting

The transgender conquest of women's sports continued over the weekend as a New Zealand weightlifter took home multiple gold medals at the 2019 Pacific Games in Samoa.

Laurel Hubbard won two gold medals and a silver in the three heavyweight categories, for women weighing more than 87 kilograms, or 192 pounds, finishing first in the snatch-lift and combined categories and second in the clean-and-jerk.

The 41-year-old weightlifter was born as Gavin Hubbard and reportedly transitioned while in the mid-30s.

Of course he did.
[Hat Tip: Jay Guevara]
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Classic Rock And New Wave Songs Brilliantly Reimagined As Vintage Pulp Fiction Paperbacks
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North Carolina Lunacy

Yeah, it's an NC car, but it was in South Carolina. They should tighten up their border!
[Hat Tip: Jane D'oh]

Okay...I screwed this up completely. I have no idea why I thought that Jane D'oh was in SC, and I will not blame the Irish Whisky.

It was in Georgia!

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Why Not?

—Ace of Spades

Thanks to Brian in New Orleans, your next governor of Mississippi.

More from Mr. Peebles:

Interviewed:

Gregory Wash is a self-proclaimed cartoonist, fashion designer and songwriter. And he's running for Governor of the State of Mississippi.

Here.

Squad Goals!: Democrats Will Be Forced to Vote on Impeachment, Which Is What Nancy Pelosi Was Hoping to Avoid

—Ace of Spades

I agree with the Squad on this, and not in an ironic way, either: I'm tired of the establishment of either party (actually, two wings of the same overparty) deciding which debates will be permitted to be had publicly and which will be hushed up and worked out behind closed doors.

So, vote. Let's get it all on the record.

And if that puts your allegedly "moderate" members at risk -- tough shit.

No more secret deals to hide contentious debates from the public.

And that goes, most of all, for the Corporatist Cuck Overlords (or former overlords) of the GOP.

Mark Sanford, Who Abandoned His State to Dally with His Mistress in Argentina, Ponders Running Against Trump in the GOP Primary

—Ace of Spades

The Valparaiso Vagabundo, the Buenos Aires Aranador, the Pimp of the Pampas, is a real attractive candidate for the Morality Police who pretend to be Republicans, such as Noted Marriage Advocate Charlie Sykes.

Former South Carolina congressman Mark Sanford is considering launching a bid for president just months after leaving office following President Trump urging Republican voters in the Palmetto State to reject his renomination.

Speaking to The Post and Courier newspaper, Sanford said that he is taking the next month to decide whether or not he’ll mount a challenge to Trump's candidacy in the 2020 presidential election, where he would run on a platform focusing on curtailing the national debt and government spending.

"Sometimes in life you've got to say what you've got to say, whether there's an audience or not for that message," Sanford said.

Sanford is set to make his announcement from an undisclosed location, possibly on an Appalachian trail.

Update: Dang, Valparaiso is in Chile, not Argentina. Nuts! I spent five minutes looking for a v-word to match it with!

"Pimp of the Pampas" courtesy of eleven.

Update:

Peter Thiel: Google May be Infiltrated by Chinese Intelligence

—Ace of Spades

He says Google must answer three questions:

"Number one: How many foreign intelligence agencies have infiltrated your Manhattan Project for AI (artificial intelligence)?" Thiel reportedly asked. "Number two: Does Google’s senior management consider itself to have been thoroughly infiltrated by Chinese intelligence?"

Thiel then slammed Google for its decision to work with the Chinese military while refusing to renew a contract with the U.S. Department of Defense.

"Number three: Is it because they consider themselves to be so thoroughly infiltrated that they have engaged in the seemingly treasonous decision to work with the Chinese military and not with the US military," Thiel said.

Hawley's grilling a google executive now.

Poll: The Public is Defining the Democrat Party by Alexandria Donkey-Chompers, and the Public Loathes Alexandria Donkey-Chompers

—Ace of Spades

Panic time?

Top Democrats are circulating a poll showing that one of the House's most progressive members — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — has become a definitional face for the party with a crucial group of swing voters.

...

"If all voters hear about is AOC, it could put the [House] majority at risk," said a top Democrat who is involved in 2020 congressional races. "[S]he's getting all the news and defining everyone else's races."

The poll -- taken in May, before Speaker Pelosi's latest run-in with AOC and the three other liberal House freshmen known as "The Squad" -- included 1,003 likely general-election voters who are white and have two years or less of college education.

These are the "white, non-college voters" who embraced Donald Trump in 2016 but are needed by Democrats in swing House districts.

The group that took the poll shared the results with Axios on the condition that it not be named, because the group has to work with all parts of the party.

The findings:

Ocasio-Cortez was recognized by 74% of voters in the poll; 22% had a favorable view.

Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota -- another member of The Squad -- was recognized by 53% of the voters; 9% (not a typo) had a favorable view.

Socialism was viewed favorably by 18% of the voters and unfavorably by 69%.

Capitalism was 56% favorable; 32% unfavorable.

"Socialism is toxic to these voters," said the top Democrat.

And this focus group -- this is a different study -- doesn't seem inclined to support the Democrats' "Give illegal immigrants all that they want, and more!" agenda:

007 Will Now Be a Black Woman or Something

—Ace of Spades

I don't think it's real. I mean, part of it is real. But it's not really real.

Ages ago, Barbara Broccoli (daughter of EON co-founder "Cubby" Broccoli) was asked if she'd ever make a Female James Bond movie, and she said: "James Bond will always be a man."

Period.

But you know how the UK is now -- it's like 20% worse than America. So every male hero has to be gender-swapped to female, and the British media will attack you until you give in.

The "007 is now a black woman" story goes like this: Supposedly, James Bond begins the next terrible movie retired, so his code-number is now released to be used by others. (They're not going to retire that number and hang his Tuxedo from the rafters? Guy's saved the world like 22 times.)

The "007" who is played by the Captain Marvel actress (another Charisma Exclusion Zone, I'm told) is not James Bond, but just another agent who's been elevated to 00 status, and assigned his old number because it was available.

I agree with the anti-SJW pop culture channel Nerdrotic about this -- Barbara Broccoli and her husband Michael G. Wilson got so sick of the "When is James Bond going to be a woman? Black? Gay?" question that they decided to shut the SJWs up and make a black woman "007" (but not James Bond) briefly in one movie, so that The Mary Sue would get off their backs. I also agree that if Broccoli wants to really end all questions, they'll also bait that this new 007 is a lesbian, so they can Check That Box on the "gay" 007 thing too.

Based on what usually happens in movies, I imagine that this 007 will be killed during the movie, and the real 007 will have to come out of retirement to investigate, or will cede the number back to James Bond near the end of the movie when she realizes he really is a legend and that number should only be his.

I hate the James Bond movies now so this isn't fanboy stuff; I'd kind of love it if they did just set fire to the IP, like they've set fire to Star Wars, Doctor Who, Ghostbusters, etc.

Burn it all up.

But I think this is a fake-out.

You know what's even more of a danger to the 007 franchise?

Their new devotion to continuity.

They're pushing continuity in every movie now. The first one showed Bond getting his 00 license to kill. The third one showed him getting older and going missing and retiring, then coming back. The fourth one also heavily implied he was retiring and getting married. This newest one will feature him retired, and probably with a dead wife on his hands.

What are they going to do when Craig retires? Another reboot?

The old series of 007 movies ignored continuity to the point where no one even wondered about it any more, making it very easy to swap out actors or remake old plotlines or violate prior history in the series.

But these Craig movies are emphasizing that this is all supposed to be part of the same non-epic epic. There's supposed to be a real throughline. We're following Bond through most of his career.

So what happens when Craig retires?

It will be weird when another actor comes in and says "Ignore the past five movies' continuity."

And yeah, in the old series, we always had to ignore prior continuity, but we'd gotten used to the idea that no James Bond movie was really a "sequel" to any other -- each movie was basically a stand-alone with little to no connection to any other movie.

Now they've made it weird.

Likely Plot: Just so you know, there was a leak/rumor that the newest film would be called "Shatterhand."

This was denied.

But so everyone knows: Shatterhand was the pseudonym Blofeld was using in You Only Live Twice, AFTER he'd murdered Tracy.

So if this movie indeed has something to do with "Shatterhand," the plot would go like this: Bond is retired in the beginning of the film, after having married the bland Lea Seydoux from Specter, and Blofeld or his agents kill his wife.

Then he un-retires and seeks vengeance.

So this "new 007" would probably just be investigating a front that turns out to be Blofeld in the beginning of the movie, to offer some espionage-type stuff in between the "Bond hanging out in Jamaica with his wife" stuff to set the stage.

David French: Backwards Beliefs and Islamic Propaganda Didn't Radicalize Ilhan Omar.
You Did.

—Ace of Spades

A friend suggested that French meant that American-born Islamists radicalized her.

Well, maybe he meant that, but he avoided using that word, didn't he? Because he was Virtue Signaling for Liberal Approval and didn't want to taint it by spreading a Racist Meme like "Islamists spread the doctrine of Islamism."

Does David French think that Ilhan Omar was spotless of anti-semitism until Mean Americans taught her to hate Jews?

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who, like Omar, grew up in Somalia, says that's unlikely. She says that she was anti-semitic herself due to the dominant backwards culture of Somalia and had to deprogram herself.

But I guess we need more Real Americans like Ilhan Omar, and I guess we should take David French's word for it that the American immigration system screens out all Islamists.

That's the single stupidest thing he's ever written, by the way.

Here is some of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's recent article from the Wall Street Journal.

I once opened a speech by confessing to a crowd of Jews that I used to hate them. It was 2006 and I was a young native of Somalia who'd been elected to the Dutch Parliament. The American Jewish Committee was giving me its Moral Courage Award. I felt honored and humbled, but a little dishonest if I didn't own up to my anti-Semitic past. So I told them how I'd learned to blame the Jews for everything.

Fast-forward to 2019. A freshman congresswoman from Minnesota has been infuriating the Jewish community and discomfiting the Democratic leadership with her expressions of anti-Semitism. Like me, Ilhan Omar was born in Somalia and exposed at an early age to Muslim anti-Semitism.

Some of the members of my 2006 AJC audience have asked me to explain and respond to Ms. Omar’s comments, including her equivocal apologies. Their main question is whether it is possible for Ms. Omar to unlearn her evident hatred of Jews--and if so, how to help.

In my experience it is difficult, perhaps impossible, to unlearn hate without coming to terms with how you learned to hate. Most Americans are familiar with the classic Western flavors of anti-Semitism: the Christian, European, white-supremacist and Communist types. But little attention has been paid to the special case of Muslim anti-Semitism. That is a pity because today it is anti-Semitism's most zealous, most potent and most underestimated form.

I never heard the term “anti-Semitism” until I moved to the Netherlands in my 20s. But I had firsthand familiarity with its Muslim variety. As a child in Somalia, I was a passive consumer of anti-Semitism. Things would break, conflicts would arise, shortages would occur--and adults would blame it all on the Jews.

When I was a little girl, my mom often lost her temper with my brother, with the grocer or with a neighbor. She would scream or curse under her breath "Yahud!" followed by a description of the hostility, ignominy or despicable behavior of the subject of her wrath. It wasn’t just my mother; grown-ups around me exclaimed "Yahud!" the way Americans use the F-word. I was made to understand that Jews--Yahud--were all bad.

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We were taught that the Jews betrayed our prophet Muhammad. Through Quranic verses (such as 7:166, 2:65 and 5:60), we learned that Allah had eternally condemned them, that they were not human but descendants of pigs and monkeys, that we should aspire to kill them wherever we found them...

We were taught that the Jews occupied the Holy Land of Palestine. We were shown pictures of mutilated bodies, dead children, wailing widows and weeping orphans....

The theological and the political stories were woven together, as in the Hamas charter: "The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said: 'The Day of Judgment will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The Stones and trees will say, "O Muslims, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill me."' . . . There is no solution for the Palestine question except through Jihad."

Is the delicate cuck David French quite certain that immigrants such as Ilhan Omar come to the US devoid of any antisemitism or Islamism, only to be taught it by Americans?

Or is this an entirely sham claim he's knowingly lying about just to win a Twitter Argument in which he was exposed as a fool?

Tater Totter: CNN's In-House Flack Brian Cryface Stelter Has Lost Forty-Two Percent of Xis Audience This Year

—Ace of Spades

If ratings were bodyfat, and Tater lost 40% of his bodyfat, he'd still be really fat.

But ratings aren't Tater's bodyfat. This is a big drop. And this Egg With Legs didn't start with high ratings.

The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

—CBD

Biden's my man, because who better to tamp down the enthusiasm of the maniacal farther-left of the Democrat party? He's a tedious old fool who is a boring speaker, has no signature cause or accomplishments, and panders to the last people in the news without being able to suggest concrete entitlement payouts because he is terrified of making a tactical error and alienating some other group. His only saving grace is that he comes off as the doddering uncle who brings candy for the kids (and then paws them and smells their hair: but that's a different issue).

Is he really going to energize the Antifa fascists to go vote and stuff ballot boxes and intimidate Republican voters? Are the insane Gaia-loving enviro-wackadoodles going to rush to the polls to vote early and often to support a 77-year-old career politician who looks like everything they hate?

However, a credible argument could be made for any one of the 93 people currently campaigning for the Democrat nomination...Warren is a shrewish, nagging middle school principal; Sanders is a crazy dude who wandered in off the street and smells faintly of vomit and patchouli; Harris is a nasty and hectoring backstabber who rifles through the overcoats in the den looking for wallets; and Buttigieg looks like a cartoon character who wandered in from another dimension. And the rest of them? Even weirder and dumber.

Any one of these people should be beatable by President Trump, in spite of their many advantages; first and foremost of which is the Media-Industrial-Complex being completely and totally in the bag for the Democrats. But that may not be such a bad thing; disseminating without a critical eye every idiotic comment from every corner of the leftist cesspit certainly won't endear the Democrat party to the American people.

Commenter Monty James made an important point this morning...

It's not 11d chess. It's just been so long since we've seen a Republican get in and mix it up with Democrats that we confuse it for some master plan; most of them don't like to get their bow ties mussed.

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The Morning Report - 07/16/19

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. Tuesday and of course the lead story is yesterday's utter fiasco of "The Squad" - that the four frosh Congressmen of the so-called "Justice Democrats" - who called a press conference ostensibly to slam President Trump for his "racist" Tweets against them, but instead unleashed a torrent of anti-American, anti-Semitic racialist bilge that, while disgusting to have to witness, nevertheless had the effect of making them and what they spewed the face of the Democrat Party.

I would surely have loved to have been a fly on the wall of Nancy Palsi's office as she drained her liquor cabinet and then started guzzling her own cologne or the can of Lysol under the bathroom sink, pausing only to shriek vulgarities in between swigs that would make George S. Patton blush and even Hillary say "jeez lady, get a grip!" Can you blame her? The Democrat Party, with the vital help of an allied agitprop media, has for decades successfully cloaked itself with an illusion of love-of-country as it did everything possible to destroy it while blaming Republicans and conservatives for the country's ills. Even during the Obama years, the illusion was maintained, gossamer thin as it was by that time, mostly because there was no one in the GOP to challenge it. Now, what took well over 100 years to establish is gone in the blink of an eye, and with it perhaps the last coffin nail in any chance the Democrats might have had of beating President Trump in 2020 has been nailed shut.

Once again, Donald Trump's mere presence in the White House and more crucially his willingness to defend himself, his policies and by extension defend all real Americans and this nation loudly, proudly with Queens accent and all, is what got us here. And thank G-d for it! It needs to be emphasized here that the President did not instigate this. He was reacting to the lies being perpetrated by Chiquita Khruschev and her cohorts about "concentration camps" and other phony "crimes against humanity" allegedly perpetrated by ICE, DHS, CBP et al on the illegal alien invaders who are the real criminals here for trying to jump our borders and abuse our amnesty laws. At the same time, these four have been able to turn almost their entire party into a veritable Greek chorus of anti-American, anti-Semitic, racialism and historical revisionism that heretofore went unanswered and allowed to fester.

President Trump used their words against them, and retorted when he dared utter the phrase (albeit with slightly different language) that every real American knows so well: America - Love It Or Leave It. Boom. He was actually much more charitable in his attack stating that the four miscreants should instead of trashing America go back to the places they escaped from, work to improve them, and then return and report back. Naturally they and the media twisted the President's words just like every other day ending in "Y" but his point was made. Well, that of course could not stand and so, like moths to a flame, the four idiots called a press conference.

The question is, is Trump playing 11-dimensional chess or is it just his willingness to confront bullshit, not back down and in doing so force the Left to invariably hoist itself on its own petard? I think it's a bit of both. Whatever he did, he forced Nancy Palsi who was desperate to try and keep a lid on these freaks to publicly support them and call for a censure of Trump. That is, he forced the Democrat House Majority Leader to publicly rise to the defense of anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, racialism and global socialism before the entirety of the American people. As to the RINOs, "Con" artist frauds and anyone in the Cuck-servative media who is saying that this was a titanic and fatal error on Trump's part, that is so far removed from reality that you're not wrong; you're lying.

Check and mate, Mr. President.

SQUALID SQUIDS PRESS FIASCO

• Trump Troll Level: Grand Master
  
• Trump Campaign, RNC Raise $108 Million in Second Quarter
  
• President Trump Triples Down: "If You're Not Happy Here, Then You Can Leave"
  
• Meltdown: "The Squa(li)d Far-Left Congresswomen Implode At Press Conference On Trump Tweets
  
• "The Squad" Takes Turns Hitting Back At Trump During Press Conference (and ignoring the first rule of holes - jjs)
  
• Sen. Graham-inator: Chiquita Khruschev "AOC and This Crowd Are a Bunch of Communists"
  
• Chiquita Khruschev AOC's "Squad" Will Destroy Democrats In the 2020 Election
  
• Trump Tweets Ignite Firestorm... On the Right
  
• Is This the Moment Where the Revolution Eats Its Own?
  
• America-Hating Americans Are the Ultimate Ingrates and Hypocrites
  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, MIGRANT INVASION BORDER WALL, BORDER SECURITY

  Now to the border from whence all of the aforementioned madness sprang and is reverberating in blue shit-holes were ICE is confronting sedition and lawlessness with the so-called Sanctuary Cities and States. The agency has released a list of criminal illegals after local cops refuse to cooperate in detaining them, Eric Garcetti in LA publicly announces he is aiding and abetting the criminals, the 9th Circuit gives Trump a big win in withholding bucks from these rogue entities, was the desecration of the American flag at the ICE facility in Aurora a Lexington & Concord moment, Lindsay unleashes his Graham-inator persona on detainees, the corruption of John Roberts on the census question, even an Axios poll shows voters siding with Trump, even Obama's own flunkies are warning the Dem prexy parade to cool it with the open borders talk, of all people and places a NY state Dem opposes the sanctuary nonsense, and the White House is going to the mattresses, or the courts anyway, on new tough asylum regs.

• ICE Released List Of Illegal Immigrants Accused Of Crimes After Local Police Ignored Detainers
  
• LA Mayor Garcetti On Eve Of ICE Raids: "Rest Assured, We Are Not Coordinating With ICE" (every red cent of Federal money to that shit-hole should be frozen - jjs)
  
• 9th Circuit Hands Win to Trump: DoJ Can Withhold Grants From Sanctuary Cities
  
• Will the Desecration of the American Flag at ICE Facility Turn the Tide of the Border Battle?
  
• Sen. Graham-inator: "I Don't Care" If Illegal Aliens Are Detained for "400 Days," We're Not Releasing Them
  
• Why John Roberts' Citizenship Decision Is Legally and Politically Corrupt
  
• Who Is For Middle America?
  
• Axios Focus Group of Swing Voters Side With Trump On Immigration
  
• Obama-Era DHS Officials Implore Democrats to Pull Back from Border Decriminalization Positions
  
• The First Person to Stand For Our Sovereignty and Laws Against Sanctuary Policies Is... A Democrat?
  
• Trump White House Announces New Asylum Restrictions; Lawsuits Coming
  CIVILWAR 2.0

  Wheels within wheels, people vis a vis the gradually heating cold Civil War as that Tacoma AntiFa terrorist who attacked the ICE facility there left some turgid manifesto urging others to, get this, ignore gun laws, arm up and cause mayhem. Also, Chip Roy shreds the Leftists after visiting the Aurora facility where the flag was desecrated and Tucker Carlson on the insane hypocrisy of who is and who is not a "fascist.

• Tacoma ICE Terrorist's Manifesto Urges Leftists to Ignore Laws, Arm Themselves
  
• Rep Chip Roy Shreds Democrat "Leftist Radicals" After Visiting Attacked ICE Facility
  
• Tu-Ca: "Guys Who Are Literally Armed With Steel Bars and Have Black Masks On Are Calling Other People Fascists"
  DEMOCRAT-LEFTIST SCANDALS, CRIMES, CHUTZ-POCRISY, MESHUGAS

  So, you're a beautiful young woman and Jeffrey Epstein approaches you, naked and holding a vibrator and when you flee he yells" Hey! I'm close friends with President Bill Clinton!" What do you do? Also the case of Dem donor Ed Buck goes to the LA DA (presumably to be buried forever), Fauxca-Has-Been does shady deal to get the DNC's voter files and Kamala-Toe ripped Epstein's lawyers yet took lots of donations from them.

• Epstein's Friendship With Bill Clinton Invoked, Former Model Who Reportedly Fled His Home Says
  
• Case Against Democrat Donor Ed Buck Presented To LA District Attorney
  
• Donor Helped Fauxca-Has-Been Pay for Access to DNC Voter File
  
• Kamala-Toe Harris Criticized Jeffrey Epstein's Law Firm While Her Campaign Fundraised Off It (if you like your hypocrisy, you can keep your hypocrisy - jjs)
  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY ANTI-SEMITISM

  Speaking of the new leaders of the Democrat Party, AG Barr announces renewed effort to fight anti-Semitism (we can start by abolishing the Democrats), Leftist sham front group ADL accuses Trump of using Jews as a shield, Cory and the Paste-Eater's reticence to join the pogrom earns opprobrium from their cadres and Islam and Leftism are two sides of the same coin when it comes to the weather-controlling, child-defiling, economy-manipulating, war-mongering you-know-whos.

  li> AG Barr Fiercely Condemns Anti-Semitism: "Cancer" That "Can Rapidly Metastasize" (and take over one of America's main political parties - jjs)
  

• Leftist Front Group Anti-Defamation League CEO Accuses Trump of "Using Jews as a Shield"
  
• Booker, Bidet Leave Far-Left, Anti-Israel Activists Fuming
  
• Jihadist Evil Unites With Leftist Evil
  POLITICS

  In other political news, Marianne "non-Jeff-variety flake" Williamson beating out better know candidates in New Hampshire, potential Trump nicknames for the top five, non-"Let's Stay Together" Al Green blathers about impeachment... yet again, Blotto Beto mea culpa on slave ownership, Julian Castro booed for not holding a baby (be glad he didn't do a Coonman and make it comfortable with a My Pillow over its face), Daniel Greenfield on the beyond pathetic Bill Weld and an essay highlighting the Democrat lowlights of 2020.

• New Hampshire Poll Has Williamson Polling Ahead of Booker, Gillibrand, and O'Rourke
  
• Name That Candidate: Potential Trump Nicknames for the Top Five Dem Contenders
  
• Al Green Vows to Force Impeachment Vote This Month (he should be forced to change his name - jjs)
  
• Blotto Beto Is Using His Slave-Owning Ancestry
  
• Crowd Boos Julian Castro for Refusing to Hold Baby (would they applaud if he aborted it? - jjs)
  
• Greenfield: The Hopeless Never-Trumper Running Against Trump
  
• Soundings
  FIRST AMENDMENT, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, BIG BROTHER BIG TECH

  Pete Thiel wants CIA and FBI to investigate Google's Chi-Com ties, Teh Ted and Josh Hawley want the FTC to look into Big Tech election meddling, and soccer broad attacks teammate for not kissing the ring of Big Homo.

• Peter Thiel Calls on CIA, FBI to Investigate Google's China Ties
  
• Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley Demand FTC Investigate Big Tech Firms That Can "Sway Elections"
  
• Soccer Star Ashlyn Harris Attacks Ex-Teammate Hinkle As "Intolerant" and "Homophobic"
  SECOND AMENDMENT

  Chicks with rods is a beautiful thing.

• Women From All 50 States Gather In DC to Advocate For Gun Rights
  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

  Maduro's thugs arrest opposition leader Guaido's bodyguards, Chi-Coms building railroads in Cuba, Justin Trudeau makes Canada's mind "right," Germany let's Syrian migrants go home for vacation all expenses paid, and Seb Gorka on the Sir Kim spat.

• Venezuela: Maduro Regime Arrests Juan Guaido's Bodyguards
  
• China Touts Trans-Cuban Railway as Belt and Road Expands in Latin America
  
• How Justin Trudeau Is Pushing Canada Further Right
  
• Syrian Refugees in Germany Are Returning to the Country They Fled for Vacation... While on the Gov't Dole
  
• Gorka: The Sir Kim Kerfuffle: Who's the Real Terminator?
  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

  Ol' Yeller Levin rips a House amendment tying the President's hands on dealing with Iran and sad news on the tenth soldier killed in Afghanistan this year.

• Levin: This "Extraordinarily Irresponsible and Dangerous" House Amendment on Iran Would Put America's Security at Risk
  
• US Suffers 10th Combat Fatality in Afghanistan This Year
  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

  You loved him at the 2016 Democrat Convention but do you really know Khzir Khan? What a great American [sarc].

• Who Is Celebrated "Patriot" Khizr Khan? The Bizarre and Subversive World of Pro-Sharia American Loyalism
  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE BUREAUCRACY, WASTE, FRAUD, CORRUPTION

  Calling out the GOP for hiding behind the military to justify spending madness everywhere else, and was New York's semi-blackout a harbinger of things to come?

• GOP Must Stop Using the Military as an Excuse To Justify Massive Spending
  
• Dark Days Ahead? Saturday Night's Manhattan Blackout Could Be a Harbinger of Things to Come
  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

  A "prime day" for Amazon grunts to go on strike.

• Report: Amazon Warehouse Workers Strike on "Prime Day"
  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

  Former South Carolina police chief pleads guilty to thievery and the South Bend cop who shot a black man on duty resigns for doing his job.

• Former Police Chief Pleads Guilty in Federal Court to Theft of Government Funds
  
• South Bend Police Officer Who Fatally Shot Black Man Resigns
  EDUCATION, INDOCTRINATION

  Only 1 of 41 Dem politicians say they'd be willing to exempt themselves from student loan forgiveness, execrable Harvard prof's execrable speech that won't be banned while they purge others from the hive mind and Californians up in arms about porn disguised as sex-ed. Meh, you're being replaced with replicants from south of the border who don't complain and still vote Democrat.

• Dems Quiet on Whether Their Own Student Loan Debt Should be Forgiven
  
• A Speech That Should Be Punished
  
• Pro-Family Advocates: Opposition to California's Graphic Sex-Ed Curriculum Grows
  HEALTHCARE

  Joe Bidet cannot be this stupid, can he? Also the out of control opioid epidemic.

• Joe Bidet Totally Tone Deaf; Recites Obama's Biggest Whopper "If You Like Your Health Care Plan, You Can Keep Your Health Care Plan"
  
• Attention to Opioid Epidemic Fades as Death Rates Rival the AIDS Crisis
  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, LYSENKOISM

  Report shows EPA still feral and tyrannical, and the sham of solar energy.

• Report: EPA Wants to Limit Extent to Which Individuals Can Fight Pollution Permits (abolish the EPA - jjs)
  
• Why Planting Flowers Under Solar Panels Won't Make Solar Work
  CULTURE WARS, HITHER & YON

  Hard to treat TDS when the shrinks have it in spades, Dairy Queen employee fired over boss' stupid mistake, Christian Toto reviews the new Adam Carolla, Dennis Prager documentary on free speech and finally, a special poem the head Ewok hisself will appreciate!

• What Do You Do When Mental Health Professionals Treating Trump Derangement Syndrome Have TDS Themselves?
  
• Dairy Queen Employee Fired After Her Manager Mistook "Moana" for "Marijuana"
  
• Toto: Carolla & Prager's No Safe Spaces - Our Last Chance to Save Free Speech?
  
• Cuck Elegy

Anyway, links from around the world, across the nation and up your street. Have a better one and remain blessed.

NOTE: The opinions expressed in some links may or may not reflect my own. I include them because of their relevance to the discussion of a particular issue.

Monday Overnight Open Thread (7/15/19)

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

Quote I

"Number one, how many foreign intelligence agencies have infiltrated your Manhattan Project for AI?

Number two, does Google's senior management consider itself to have been thoroughly infiltrated by Chinese intelligence?

Number three, is it because they consider themselves to be so thoroughly infiltrated that they have engaged in the seemingly treasonous decision to work with the Chinese military and not with the US military... because they are making the sort of bad, short-term rationalistic [decision] that if the technology doesn't go out the front door, it gets stolen out the backdoor anyway?" Peter Thiel

Quote II

We all know [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] and this crowd are a bunch of communists. They hate Israel, they hate our own country. They’re calling the guards along our border, Border Patrol agents concentration camp guards. They accuse people support Israel doing it for the Benjamins. They’re anti-Semitic. They’re anti-America. Don’t get down, aim higher. We don’t need to know anything about them personally. Talk about their policies.” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)

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It isn't every day you encounter a buffalo. But just in case you do, here are some tips.

Our driver slammed on the brakes. We braced ourselves for impact. We were on a collision course, all of us certain the massive creature barreling toward us in the dark would slam into the side of our truck at any second. The vehicle couldn’t stop fast enough. We were in trouble. The cab filled with our panicked cries, and I clutched the dashboard, bracing for impact. Our rim-to-rim Grand Canyon backpacking trip was about to end before it began, shattered by a bison on a lonely road along the North Rim.

Then, just as the truck jolted to a stop, the animal swerved, missing us by mere inches.

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#HeyLookAtMe, Robert Francis O'Rourke's family owned slaves.

Democrat presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke says he was recently given documents showing that both he and his wife are descended from people who owned slaves.

In a post Sunday night for the website Medium, the former Texas congressman writes that the documents showed that one of his paternal great-great-great grandfathers owned two women in the 1850s.

You're irrelevant, go a way. Go a way now!!

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I laugh in your face!As The Boss would say, LOL GF'd

Dick’s May Have To Close Stores Due To Anti-Gun Decisions

I’ve written more about Dick’s Sporting Goods in 2018 than I ever thought I would. When the year started, we thought the company would have gotten the message that taking anti-gun stances wasn’t conducive to profits, but it didn’t.

So Dick’s doubled down after Parkland and purged the rest of the AR-15s from its stores and then instituted a discriminatory policy against legal adults.

The other side has pushed, poked and prodded. Law abiding citizens with an ounce of common sense are sick and f*cking tired of your type, Dick's.

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The ONT Musical Interlude

Born on this day: July 15, 1946 - Linda Ronstadt
American singer Linda Ronstadt who had the 1975 US No.1 single 'You're No Good', and the 1989 UK No.2 single with Aaron Neville, 'Don't Know Much' plus over 15 other US Top 40 hits. She has earned 11 Grammy Awards, three American Music Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, and an ALMA Award. via thisdayinmusic.com

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The Judges have given this individual all zeros and awarded him: The Genius Award.

A BOOZY reveller sleeps off a night on the tiles — out cold and dangling from a garden fence by his flies.

Craig Strathie, 26, is thought to have got stuck as he tried to stumble home after necking almost a bottle of vodka.

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Golf clap. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

Jack Higgins approached the stage to receive his high school diploma with his hands over his ears to block what he thought would be applause and cheers.

Instead, he was met by silence.

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Breaking: Jeff Flake Outraged!

—Ace of Spades

Jeff Flake, host of the beloved 1980s game show, Who's Inside My Wife?, has some Concerns:

Update: The Washington Post is a real newspaper. Seriously.

Why are you laughing?

America's Sweetheart:

Donkey-Chompers refused as well.

Report: Ousted UK Ambassador Kim Darroch Leaked "Highly Classified," "Very Sensitive" US National Security Information to Media

—Ace of Spades

I'd like to pass along an invitation to the Saudi embassy in Turkey.

Leaked U.K. diplomatic cables critical of President Trump have led Britain's ambassador, Sir Kim Darroch, to announce his departure from Washington earlier than expected. But the story is not yet concluded.

According to one current and one former U.S. government official speaking on the condition of anonymity, Darroch repeatedly leaked classified U.S. intelligence information, including highly classified material, to a journalist for a U.S.-based media outlet. The sources are consolidated by the reaction my related inquiries have received from other government officials.

These leaks are unrelated to the diplomatic cables which sparked Trump's anger and Darroch's departure.

Still, one source says that the U.S. government was so alarmed by Darroch's leaks that it launched an official investigation to find the source of the information.

Democrat Presidential Candidate Jay Inslee Says He'll Ask Megan Rapinoe to Serve as Secretary of State, if Elected

—Ace of Spades

This is a roundabout way of saying he won't be elected.

But you gotta get your #WokeScore high enough to make the next debate!

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) said Saturday that if he is elected president, he will ask soccer player Megan Rapinoe to be his secretary of state.

He said at the progressive Netroots Nation conference that one of his first acts as president would be to get a secretary of State who embraces world unity and "love rather than hate" as he rebuked President Trump's foreign policy.

"My first act will be to ask Megan Rapinoe to be my secretary of State," he said. "I haven't asked her yet, so this could be a surprise to her."

If she says no, ask one of the 15-year-old boys who beat her team.

Oh, and here's an update to the Squad press conference: Ilhan Omar refuses to say she's not pro-Al Qaeda, as if it's some kind of loaded question.

She also said that "Muslims will no longer" denounce terrorism, so as not to give "dignification" to the question of whether they support terrorism or not.

Cool clock, bro.

"The Squad" on National TV

—Ace of Spades

already in progress.

Good to see Ilhan Omar totally learned the English language. I mean, she's been here since she was six, and man, she sounds just like a native!

Clearly she's a better American than I am, and clearly there's no problem with having so many non-English speakers that they never feel the least inconvenienced by not speaking English.

I think Donkey-Chompers just said, "This country belongs to the world." I heard the last part of that, and a commenter provided the first part.

So American!!!

Ilhan Omar refuses to say she's not pro-Al-Qaeda. She further says that "Muslims will no longer allow the dignification" of the claim of Al Qaeda sympathy by denouncing terrorism any further.

Video below.

BuzzFeed Weighing Whether or Not to Doxx a Critic of the Media

—Ace of Spades

CarpeDonkum is a meme maker and a gif maker. He has committed no crimes and advocated for no violence (unlike, say, antifa and its CNN defenders such as Chris Cuomo (not all punches are morally equal) and Don LeMon.

His crime is that he makes fun of the media. Which is, don't kid yourself, now as close to an official Thoughtcrime as you can come.

He was invited to the White House summit and Buzzfeed is so mad about that they're very close to doxxing him.

Meanwhile, Ben Shapiro, who has worked pretty hard to justify the deplatforming of his Twitter enemies, is upset that Trump would invite deplatformed people to the White House to build public pressure to deplatform them:

Pelosi Pushes Resolution to Support "The Squad"
Update: Mitt Romney Says... Seems to Me These Women Do Have Some Anti-American Tendencies, No?

—Ace of Spades

Allegiance.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Monday urged House Democrats to support a resolution to condemn President Trump for tweeting that four Democratic congresswomen of color should "go back" to their countries, even though all are U.S. citizens. "The House cannot allow the President’s characterization of immigrants to our country to stand. Our Republican colleagues must join us in condemning the President’s xenophobic tweets," Pelosi wrote in a letter to House Democrats announcing a "forthcoming" resolution from Reps. Tom Malinowski (D-N.J.), who was born in Poland, Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), and other Democratic members who were born abroad.

"This weekend, the President went beyond his own low standards using disgraceful language about Members of Congress," Pelosi added. "Rather than attack Members of Congress, he should work with us for humane immigration policy that reflects American values."

There's speculation that Trump's tweets will actually work to his benefit, for precisely the reason seen above: They force Pelosi to embrace The Squad, a group of four radical, America-hating socialists who are loathed by the American public.

Omar Ilhan, for example, has a favorability rating of nine percent in the country as a whole.

If it's true that this forces Democrats into a tactical error of defending indefensible ground, people will say Trump's a genius.

I wouldn't go that far. But I'd say this: If a football's team defense does not aggressively go after the opponents' offense -- that is, if it sits back and just reacts -- the offense will work the ball down the field and make scoring look easy.

Trump does understand something that the cuck class does not or will not: That the only way to force errors, and make someone look clumsy and amateurish, is to challenge them. Pressure them.

Teams that are not pressured do not make many errors. Teams that are pressured do make errors.

The Democrat Party is used to operating in a friendly, permissive environment in which they can execute their plans and plays without counter-pressure.

They're not used to pressure.

Trump isn't a genius, I don't think. But he does have the small, tiny advantage of being right on policy, and the little advantage of grasping, intuitively, that you cannot win a game without aggression and pressure.

The cuck class does not believe in pressuring Democrats, except on largely procedural bullshit that no one really cares about. One example: Mitch McConnell permitted the Democrats to delay a vote until their sick members could rejoin Congress and vote Obamacare into law.

But Mitch McConnell didn't sell us out. He got something big in return. Remember what it was?

Of course you don't. Because it wasn't big.

McConnell's big "get" in exchange for shepherding Obamacare into law was getting Democrats to agree to hold a vote to increase the debt ceiling just before the evening news shows. This would be super-embarrassing for the Democrats, he told us, and would lead to Big Political Victories down the line.

I think we can say that history has rendered its verdict, and McConnell's big "get" was a big nothing.

Another reason the cuck class doesn't push on immigration -- an issue which has the ability to move votes in our favor -- is that they are in substantial agreement with the left on open borders.

Remember, Boehner and McConnell and the other open borders corporatists weren't against the DACA policy. They limited their objection to Obama's use of an executive order to achieve it. They wanted Congress to pass DACA.

A procedural complaint, again, while supporting the main point of the liberal amnesty agenda.

Update: Mitt Romney decides that You Never Go Full David French.

Will NeverTrump now seek to excommunicate him, as they've done with poor Maro Rubo?

Meanwhile, here's a little flashback from May 18, 2019: a pilot program of rapid DNA typing concluded that 30% of "asylum seekers" were travelling with a child they were unrelated to, but claiming as their own.

Where did these children, used to make a dangerous, illegal border crossing in which rape is a very real possibility, come from?

Does anyone care?

Earning citizenship, one trafficked child at a time.

From May 18, 2019:

In a pilot program, approximately 30% of rapid DNA tests of immigrant adults who were suspected of arriving at the southern border with children who weren't theirs revealed the adults were not related to the children, an official involved in the system's temporary rollout who asked to be anonymous in order to speak freely told the Washington Examiner Friday.

"There’s been some concern about, 'Are they stepfathers or adopted fathers?'" the official said. "Those were not the case. In these cases, they are misrepresented as family members."

In some incidents where Immigration and Customs Enforcement told the adults they would have to take a cheek swab to verify a relationship with a minor, several admitted the child was not related and did not take the DNA test, which was designed by a U.S. company.

More: Below, Ana Navarro says we should send Melania Trump, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio back to their "home countries."

Note that Rubio was born in America and Ted Cruz is the son of an American, born in Canada due to the parent working there at the time.

Is this suddenly Not forbidden when the left wants to snark?

Either it's forbidden and taboo or it's not.

Apparently it's not. So shut the fuck up.

Keeping Up With the Cucks

—Ace of Spades

For the first tweet, note that Jane Coasten is the "reporter" on the GOP and the right for the very leftwing Vox, which recently ran articles suggesting that Andy Ngo deserved his beating by antifa, and that antifa should arm themselves with guns for the coming revolution.

The Bulwark's thrice-married Charlie Sykes wants to probe her mindthoughts and soulpatterns about the right.

Meanwhile...

And note that after a weekend in which pro-illegal-alien "protesters" took down the American flag and replaced it with the Mexican one...

...and an antifa-affiliated terrorist attacked an ICE facility with molotov cocktails and a rifle...

The 69-year-old armed man killed by Washington state police as he attacked a local Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center Saturday sent a manifesto to friends the day before the assault in which he wrote "I am Antifa," and was being lionized by members of the leftwing group as a "martyr."

The group Seattle Antifascist Action described assailant Willem Van Spronsen a "good friend and comrade" who "took a stand against the fascist detention center in Tacoma" and "became a martyr who gave his life to the struggle against fascism."

The safe-for-MSNBC liberals who infest "conservative" media and hold all the high positions and editorships are laser-focused on giving ample coverage to all the important news:

David French: It's Racist to Say that Immigrants Who Are Unhappy Here Should Go Back to Their Native Countries. You Know What's Not Racist? Saying that Natural Born Citizens Are Less Worthy Than Immigrants.

—Ace of Spades

It's racist to say an immigrant is less "American" than a natural born citizen, but it's not racist -- and in fact Enlightened -- to say that a (legal) immigrant is more American than a natural born citizen.

I believe every American should be grateful for American liberty and opportunity. But the average immigrant citizen did more to earn their place than the average natural-born citizen. /2

They generally:

1) Exercise courage and grit to get here;
2) Learn a new language;
3) Stay out of trouble and build a new life;
4) Become productive members of the community;
5) Take a test most Americans would fail; and
6) Swear an oath of allegiance. /3

Here’s what I had to do to enjoy the blessings of American liberty:

1) Survive labor and delivery.

That's it. That’s the whole thing. /4

So who should be the most overwhelmed by gratitude? The person who had to do actual work in the real world to earn citizenship or the person who enjoys the fruits of the sacrifice of millions entirely by accident of birth? /5

My youngest daughter is an immigrant. She’s also fully completely and totally American. I want her to be grateful for the blessings of liberty, but I also want her to know that she can enjoy and exercise -- without guilt! -- that same liberty. And . . . /6

If any person, be they a Twitter troll, or a draft-dodging, lying, adulterous, sex predator of a president tells her anything to the contrary, then they’re far less American than she is. /End

Open Thread

—Ace of Spades

I'll be back in a bit.

The Morning Rant

—OregonMuse

"Last time I discussed how the Democrats would win the trust of the American people and demonstrate how how they were worthy of governing. But they will take the opportunity to miss the opportunity, just like they missed a big opportunity when Donald Trump was elected. Oh, I know they're bitter and angry about 2016 since it was supposed to be the start of year one of the reign of Her Most Adipose Thighness, and the progressives probably thought, boy howdy, now is the time to go full speed ahead and implement every single item on our bucket list. But it didn't work out for them, so they've been throwing temper tantrums and promoting conspiracy theories for nearly three years. Not very productive. But they could've done something different. They could have looked at Donald Trump objectively and thought, ok, what does he have that we can work with? They could've looked at what he's done in the past. They could've read his book The Art of the Deal and maybe gotten a clue about how he thinks. They could've noticed that he has a yuuge ego that likes to be stroked and schmoozed. They could've told each other, look, our gal didn't win, so we're not going to get all we want. But maybe we can get a few things passed and cut our losses. Let's figure out how to butter him up, tell him what a great guy he is, show him a bit of respect, and maybe then he'd be more amenable to doing a deal with us. If the Democrats had done this, they would've demonstrated, I think, some competence, and also wisdom -- wisdom to realize that in politics, you can't get everything you want, but by settling for less, you can perhaps set yourself up for greater gains down the road. In other words, they could've incrementally ratcheted the progressive enterprise forward by some small amount. But no, they were so angry at coming within a hair's breadth of winning the big enchilada that they, once again, overplayed their hand. The progressive Democrats declard all-out, scorched-earth, take-no-prisoners war against the president. They deluded themselves into thinking that they could remove Trump from office, and then, somehow, magically, Hillary would become president. Fast forward two and a half years. What have the Democrats accomplished? Well, nothing, basically. Trump is still in office, appointing judges right and left, the economy is roaring along, and all the Democrats are doing, when they're not fighting and squabbling with each other, is trying to come up with new ways to impeach Trump. It's like they're Wile E. Coyote thinking that this time, yes *this* time, with these new Acme rocket-powered roller skates and Acme anvil dropped from an Acme hot-air balloon, they can bring catch that pesky Roadrunner and make a meal of him. Our plan to get Trump will work this time! Trust us! And all Trump says is meep, meep."

MoDo watched her side do this to conservatives for decades and said nothing. And now she's finally figured out they'll be coming after her next. I'm going to stock up on popcorn. https://t.co/iRhlSssNb5

— OregonMuse (@OregonMuse) July 14, 2019

Sadder But Wiser:

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Tucker Carlson doesn't seem to understand that the "AR" in AR-15 stands for "Assault Rifle" pic.twitter.com/EwrE6BDqpw

— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) July 13, 2019

Read the hilarious comments and see this Media Matters clown double and triple down on stupid. (Update: Actually, I think the guy made an ignorant mistake, and rather than admit it and move on, he's just pretending to be a troll. Nobody, not even a progressive, is this dumb).

Mesmerizing:

The beauty of mathematics (gravity vs force tension) in pendulum motion pic.twitter.com/NLr6uPrlFc

— Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) July 13, 2019

Who Dis:

(click for bigger)Here's Here is another photo of her you 'rons might like.

For the 'Ettes:

Friday's celebs: Simone Signoret (not a great beauty, but a very good actress) and her husband Yves Montand. They married in 1951 and stayed together until she succumbed to pancreatic cancer in 1985.

Today's Edition Of The Morning Rant Is Brought To You By Prime Rib:

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

The Death Of Marat
Jacques-Louis David

The Morning Report - 07/15/19

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. The start of a new week and several stories are converging across a couple of different categories (with the locus being the immigration crisis) that confirm what I have been stating for quite some time now. To wit, that the Democrat Party is a hostile domestic enemy and represents the greatest threat to the continued survival of the republic. One can argue that this has always been the case from almost the time of founding, and for sure since the Wilson administration. But at the very least, that party (with the not inconsiderable assistance of the media and academia) had perpetuated and maintained, to a greater or lesser extent, the illusion of love of country; that their disagreements with conservatives and Republicans were on matters of policy. Yet, they draped themselves in the flag and railed against the latter's putative reactionary and retrograde weltanschauung, preventing the nation from living up to its promise, despite the fact that for 100 years or more, their goal had all along been the destruction of America as founded or, to coin a phrase, "fundamental transformation."

I think it's safe to say that as of this past weekend, the myth the Left had built up of itself and concomitantly projected about us has been severely damaged if not shattered for good. The Democrat Party is now at war with itself and it has revealed the ugly truth of who and what they are for all but the utterly blind to see. One the one hand, you have the old guard Trotskyites as exemplified by Nancy "Palsi" Pelosi who continue to believe in the need to hoodwink the American people into voting for them now being confronted by the Maoists represented by Chiquita Khruschev AOC who neither understand, nor appreciate the long march through the institutions that not only put America on the brink but ironically enough begat her and her ilk, courtesy of nearly five decades of brainwashing in schools and universities controlled by anti-Americans in virtually every position. Now, like far too many of her generation, they want gold handed to them on a silver platter... And they want it now.

Writing in American Greatness, the estimable Victor Davis Hanson states:

...In the manner that Robespierre and his Committee of Public Safety guillotined naive Girondists, so too, "the Squad" of Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Ill.), and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) are now damning Nancy Pelosi as a racist. No matter that just hours earlier Pelosi herself had called Donald Trump a racist who wanted to turn away all nonwhite people at the border simply because they were nonwhite.

Again, Pelosi is old, and in the way, and is a target of her party's quick adoption of her own identity politics. What were the Pelosi generation, the left-wing journalist crowd, and the professoriate thinking when they harangued nonstop about the forthcoming irrelevancy of supposed old white dinosaurs? That thereby, such woke white liberals somehow had purchased exemptions from the very executioners whom they had helped create?...

...Mostly, the Jacobins frighten the old guard progressives. They empower Donald Trump. They make what is left of the Never-Trump Republicans look even more ridiculous. Ultimately, they are racists, who self-define by their appearance and their ethnic backgrounds in an ever more integrated, multiracial country in which the effort to transcend those Neanderthal considerations was largely the story of the last century.

Where will it all lead?...

For sure, that is the $64 trillion dollar question both in terms of the Democrat-Left as well as more broadly the fate of the nation. But I think we can state without question, where it started: the election of Donald Trump in 2016. He's proven himself to be an outsider who has been, and remains, fully committed to reversing the suicidal course our nation and culture have been on (and slaughtered many sacred cows in the process). They central pillar of his crusade has been a completely broken immigration system that intentionally corrodes our economy and our culture at the same time. As the Democrats spent the past few weeks blood-libeling the President as well as ICE, DHS and CBP as the moral and actual equivalent of SS guards cruelly torturing illegal alien children in "concentration camps," the President Tweeted:

So interesting to see "Progressive" Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how it is done. These places need your help badly, you can't leave fast enough. I'm sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!

I don't think I need tell you the reaction this received from the casting couches to the faculty lounges to the Lido Deck of The Kristol Ship of Fools, but my reaction is "fuckin' A." Amazing how despite being painted as irredeemably racist, sexist, bigoted, misogynistic, homophobic, Islamophobic, oppressive to non-whites and illegitimately founded, millions of people from all over the world (and possibly the M-79 star system) risk their lives, their children's lives and other children's lives to get here. Why is that Kaepernick? Why is that Rapinoe? Shouldn't you and your ilk be doing everything you possibly can to dissuade people from coming here? No, of course not, because you and everyone like you lack even two brain cells to rub together to ignite even a spark of a clue as to what the reality is. Many people see the miracle that is this nation from the misery and squalor of the third world shit-holes they seek to escape, while far too many others sadly are being enticed here as a means to overwhelm and collapse us from within, while filling up the voter rolls of the Democrat Party and depressing the wages and even displacing the American worker so the Koch/CoC whores can squeeze one last penny out of the strained cloaca of the golden goose before it disappears in a bloody mass of feathers and fat.

From a tactical standpoint, this is once again Trump being brilliant. He has forced the Democrat-Left Media Complex to choose sides, and by defending Nancy Palsi from being labeled as a racist, he's put her in the uncomfortable position of having to agree with him in order to defend herself from the charge. No doubt her enemies are going to have a field day with that while spewing even more insanity to turn off even more voters.

Let's go to the links, and staying on this topic:

AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, MIGRANT INVASION BORDER WALL, BORDER SECURITY

The internecine struggle within the Democrat Party is filtering down to the local level where an NYPD union boss is no doubt defying DeBolshevik and Cuomo by telling his constituents to cooperate with ICE, the agency's acting director rips sanctuary city leaders for helping illegal aliens avoid arrest, Trump's policies are winning in Mexico and now Guatemala, two stories about two different illegal alien animals and the pain they have wrought us, Daniel Horowitz at Conservative Review not thrilled with AG Barr's census question cave while the 9th Circus ruling is an important win against rogue sanctuary cities, Kamala-Toe spews incitement, Ol' Yeller Levin rips Palsi for encouraging illegals to break the law and former ICE Director Tom Homan utterly demolishes Chiquita Khruschev at an immigration hearing about the so-called horrors of DHS "concentration camps."

Sunday Overnight Open Thread (7/14/19)

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

I have your f*cking trigger warning right here.

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No Math! How about the laws of physics?No, The Laws Of Physics Are Not The Same Forwards And Backwards In Time

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Child rearing practices of Benjamin Franklin. H/T Hank Curmudgeon

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Am I an isolationist? I don't think so but we can no longer be the world's policeman. Why are we defending Germany?

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The ONT Musical Interlude

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Dammit!!!! Rollover and have sex with me. Genius Award Winner.

After her boyfriend said he was too tired to have sex, a Florida Woman allegedly grabbed a kitchen knife and slashed him multiple times on the arm and shoulder, according to a criminal complaint.

The confrontation between Jennifer Lee Chapman, 37, and her live-in boyfriend occurred around 5:45 AM Friday in the couple’s apartment in Dunedin, a Tampa suburb.

A sheriff’s deputy reported that Chapman and the 36-year-old victim “got into a verbal argument over defendant wanting to have sex and the victim did not because he was too tired.”

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Not feeling Humanitarian tonight. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

A homeowner with an AR-15 killed two of four intrusion suspects Wednesday night, one of whom was wearing a “Jason” mask.
The Ocala Star Banner reports that four suspects allegedly targeted the home. Two of the suspects, 22-year-old Nigel Doyle and 21-year-old Keith Jackson Jr, were killed when the homeowner opened fire. Guns were found near the bodies of both men.

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