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From The Borowitz Report:

Trump Sees New Polls and Orders Ukraine to Investigate Elizabeth Warren

“What Elizabeth Warren and her crooked kids have been doing in Ukraine is a disgrace,” Trump told reporters on the White House lawn. “This is maybe the biggest scandal in the history of our country.”

After Jim Acosta, of CNN, pointed out that there had been no reports of any involvement in Ukraine on the part of either Warren or her children, Trump responded, “You bet there’s been no reporting, because you people are even more crooked than she is.”

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From Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged:

Turns out, the stunt was staged by a pro-Trump conspiracy group

But for the folding of the satirical concept of eating babies lifted from Swift and whipped into frothing nightmare fuel, you’ve got your guano-brains du jour, Q‑Anon, serving up heaping helpings of adrenochrome. This is, apparently, the scared-child sauce that elite liberals have been drinking to stay looking so amazeballs and vigorous. It’s basically Pizzagate with a vampire twist, and has its origins in one of the oldest and most bigoted conspiracy theories (which has killed countless innocent people) on the books–the Blood Libel.

It’s batshit with a pedigree. Call the group you wish to destroy “child murderers”–say they eat babies–and watch it excite the part of the brain that wants to, quite rightly, desperately protect their young. Unleash the meme on people who already dislike this group. Watch as the people exposed to said unfounded slander decide that the claim is too grave to further investigate and action must be taken at once.

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From libertarian, senior fellow at CATO Institute, Julian Sanchez:

Interviewed by director of multimedia at the Cato Institute Caleb Brown

A claim that has made the rounds this week in conservative media goes like this: Until recently, would-be whistleblowers needed firsthand knowledge of wrongdoing in order to see their claims advanced. The problem with the claim is this: It’s wrong. Julian Sanchez comments.

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• Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post begins with a story, generally accepted as true, involving Winston Churchill relieving himself on Germany’s Siegfried Line as a show of disrespect toward Hitler. Jack goes on to suggest that Trump similarly shows disrespect toward everything that Makes America Great Already.
   
• In the deluge of Ukraine and China related Trump strong-arming revelations, the fount of wisdom known as Vixen Strangely asks us not to forget the sick fantasies my president talked over with aides about calculated cruelties toward desperate refuges.
   
• At the Ant Farmer’s Almanac, Lairbo tests the feasibility of President Trump’s plan for a moat along the southern border by interviewing alligators on their willingness to move.
   
• Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger provides a two-second contrast, explaining the greatest difference, during the last 10 years, between two occupants of the Oval Office.
   
• Those were idealistic times. M. Bouffant at Web of Evil contrasts, with what we accept as normal today, a 1963 Action Comics meeting between Superman and JFK. Actually, I remember reading that very comic book when I was a kid. My young universe collapsed one Friday afternoon when the unthinkable came to pass. 

Continue reading “Treason, Cruelty, Snakes, Trump and Obama and JFK and Churchill”

 

From Tommy Christopher:

‘Trump and His Supporters Are Getting Really Nervous’

“Look, there’s a lot we need to do and I understand, I understand that Donald Trump and his supporters are getting really nervous, and they have a good reason to be!” Warren said, to thunderous applause.

“Just saying. It’s sad. It really is,” Warren said, then turned to the man and said “I’m so sorry.”

Several other hecklers continued to shout things like “No socialism,” as Warren continued.

“We are not here just to worry about Donald Trump. We’re here to talk about a positive vision for how we build an America that works for everyone,” Warren said, adding “and I’ll be clear, when I say for everyone, I mean everyone, including Donald Trump’s supporters.”

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From Jonathan Bernstein:

Republicans spent more than two years defending the president from charges of collusion. This is how he thanks them?

I agree that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has played her hand well so far, for instance, and that Trump hasn’t. But I think there are three more important reasons why we are where we are now – with impeachment very likely, and Republicans less enthusiastic in their defense of the president than they have been.

One reason is what several people have pointed out: The Ukraine story indicates that Trump’s malfeasance is ongoing and forward-looking. That’s very different than a backward-facing scandal, like the special counsel’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election, where the key actions took place before Trump was in office. It also suggests that, as Matthew Green reminds us, the facts may actually matter.

Another reason is simply that impeachment, politically, is never about a single scandal. It’s always cumulative.

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From The Onion:

DEATH VALLEY, CA

“For the ninth and final time, this is not a cult but a programmatic intramental polysymbolic thought-system for enhancing mental paravirility and omnispiritual psychowellness as clearly stated in Protocol 117,” said Elder Healer Sister-Brother Camilla 82 Eridani, adding that this is the exact sort of transgram-sodden thought violation from which all must refrain, as that is the type of word used by those that seek to sow division amongst us.“For the ninth and final time, this is not a cult but a programmatic intramental polysymbolic thought-system for enhancing mental paravirility and omnispiritual psychowellness as clearly stated in Protocol 117,” said Elder Healer Sister-Brother Camilla 82 Eridani, adding that this is the exact sort of transgram-sodden thought violation from which all must refrain, as that is the type of word used by those that seek to sow division amongst us.

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From The Propaganda Professor:

Another popular traditional misconception is that Columbus encountered a lot of resistance to his proposed explorations because most folks at the time believed the earth was flat, and he would just sail off the edge of it. (Into what?). Not true; the rotundity of the planet had been common knowledge since at least the ancient Greeks. There may have been a few people who believed it to be a big platter floating in space, but probably no more than there are today.

The myth of widespread flat eartherism didn’t even gain traction until about two centuries after Columbus, when Protestants made such an accusation against Catholics. In the Nineteenth Century, the myth was advanced further by a handful of scientists in not particularly scientific books aimed at making creationists appear even more backward than they really were.

But for the myth relating specifically to Columbus, we can thank Washington Irving of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle fame. His 1828 book A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus was the literary equivalent of a 1950’s Hollywood biopic, giving Columbus the Parson Weems treatment. Weems, you may recall, was the “biographer” of George Washington who took great liberties with the facts in order to exalt his subject, and may have invented the cherry tree episode . Similarly, Irving inserted an account of a meeting between Columbus and a Spanish commission to consider his proposed voyages, in which the commission objected that the silly navigator believed the earth was (snicker, snicker) spherical, and they couldn’t possibly get behind such a notion. The meeting was apparently real. The objection was not.

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From Scotties Toy Box:

This is What Motivates Republicans

Republicans want retribution for Obama. They want to hunt down Hillary. They want a lawless white man to show the world that Republicans are party of white nationalism and misogyny.

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From Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson:

Matt Walker, the president of Platform Digital and the son of former Governor Scott Walker, announced on social media that he is not running for Congress in Wisconsin’s fifth congressional district.

Walker said that after much prayer he has decided to focus on his business instead. (Disclosure: RightWisconsin is a client of Platform Digital.) However, he added that the Republican Party needs more young people to run for public office.

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