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Hey Devin Nunes, your sheep say fuck your feelings all the time. How about you do the same?

Big Pharma is inefficient and greedy. CEOs should not dictate the prices on medicine.

The GOP use 1984 as party manual.

Trump punches down to feel better about his loveless, humorless, empty life.

After a gunman left 50 dead in an anti-Muslim massacre at two mosques in New Zealand, President Trump did not condemn the white supremacy extolled by the alleged shooter, nor did he express explicit sympathy with Muslims around the globe.

Trump wonders why he gets blame.

socialjusticeinamerica:

Russia hacked their emails, too. Google Smartech. These hacks of emails has been going on for years.

Graham, Corker, and Flake had their emails hack from Smartech servers. Notice how they all went from Trump critics to Trump ass-kissers?

(via recall-all-republicans)

There is no moral or intellectual reason that will persuade them. There is no respectful conversation to be had with people who argue in bad faith. - Jennifer Rubin

Religious leaders on the Right should be ashamed and held accountable by their parishioners, unless both have forgotten why they follow Jesus and his words of love and forgiveness.

Jerry Jr is a fraud in love with himself.

Trump is a lifelong racist scumbag living off inherited wealth. At 72, he is at his worst.

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White liberals present themselves as less competent when addressing minorities, while conservatives use the same vocabulary no matter what the race of their audience, according to a newly released study.

Yale and Princeton researchers found that white Democratic presidential candidates and self-identified liberals played down their competence when speaking to minorities, using fewer words that conveyed accomplishment and more words that expressed warmth.

On the other hand, there were no significant differences in how white conservatives, including Republican presidential candidates, spoke to white versus minority audiences.

White liberals self-present less competence to minorities than to other Whites that is, they patronize minorities stereotyped as lower status and less competent, according to the studys abstract.

Cydney Dupree, assistant professor of organizational behavior at the Yale School of Management, said she was surprised by the findings of the study, which sought to discover how well-intentioned whites interact with minorities.

It was kind of an unpleasant surprise to see this subtle but persistent effect, Ms. Dupree said. Even if its ultimately well-intentioned, it could be seen as patronizing.

The study flies in the face of a standard talking point of the political left that white conservatives are racist while raising questions about whether liberals are perpetuating racial stereotypes about blacks being less competent than whites.

The paper, which is slated for publication in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, first examined speeches by Republican and Democratic presidential candidates to mostly white and mostly minority audiences dating back 25 years.

Ms. Dupree and Princetons Susan Fiske analyzed the text for words related to competence such as assertive and competitive and words related to warmth such as supportive and compassionate.

The team found that Democratic candidates used fewer competence-related words in speeches delivered to mostly minority audiences than they did in speeches delivered to mostly white audiences, said the Yale press release. The difference wasnt statistically significant in speeches by Republican candidates.

Ms. Dupree noted that Republicans also gave fewer speeches to minority audiences.

The researchers then set up an experiment in which white liberals were asked to respond to hypothetical individuals named Emily and Lakisha.

Liberal individuals were less likely to use words that would make them appear highly competent when the person they were addressing was presumed to be black rather than white, said the release. No significant differences were seen in the word selection of conservatives based on the presumed race of their partner.

Ms. Dupree said the competence downshift could indicate a greater eagerness by white liberals to connect with those of other races.

My hope is that this work will help include well-intentioned people who see themselves as allies but who may be unwittingly contributing to group divides, said Ms. Dupree. There is a broader need to include them in the conversation.

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Thats the law. Nothing can be done about it.

And thats the liberal reaction to any rational action to stop the stampede of unruly, fractious, antagonistic masses toward and over the U.S. southern border. Liberals call law-enforcement unlawful. Or, they shoehorn the act of holding the line into the unlawful category.

Prevent uninvited masses from entering the country: Unlawful.

Tear gas marauding migrants for stoning Border Patrol personnel: Illegal, possibly even criminal.

Unconstitutional. Immoral. Un-American. These are some of the refrains deployed by wily pitchmen to stigmatize and end any action to stop, disincentivize and summarily deport caravans of grifters, bound for the U.S. in their thousands.

Our avatars of morality and legality seldom cite legal chapter-and-verse in support of their case for an immigration free-for-all.

To go by the law, as professed by the liberal cognoscenti, claims-makers must be allowed to make their claims.

Could the cuddly treatment mandated be predicated on the Christine Blasey Ford standard? Brett Kavanaughs accuser claimed she had A Story to tell. So, the country had to hear her tell it. A compelling standard.

Thats what happens when feelings and fancy replace reason and facts.

No wonder the noise-makers are drowning-out the authentic claims-makers in society. Against the sainted noise-makers on the border all laws appear to be null and void or tantamount to torture

The Left is creating reality on the ground, all right. But the prime real estate liberals hope to colonize is in every Americans head.

Ruffians are breaching the U.S. border near Tijuana, demanding access to the American Welfare State. Thats the reality! Helped by the American lefts monopoly over the intellectual means of productionthe average American is being encouraged to look at this aberrant apparition and think:

Awesome. This is who we are. American laws are amazing for inviting this.

Illegal, immoral, un-American: These are all pejoratives reserved not for the grifters making claims against Americans; but for the Americans resisting their claims.

To listen to the liberal propagandist class is to come away believing that breaking into America is legal so long as you call yourself a refugee or an asylee and are seeking a better life. Moreover, provided an asylee, refugee or saint in disguise appears at a port of entry (San Ysidro, in our case), then he must be admitted into America.

So, is The Law an ass or are those lying about the law the real asses?

A bit of both.

The Center for Immigration Studies provides something of a corrective. The gist of it is simple:

The Border Patrol has the authority to not only arrest those who enter illegally, but also to dissuade their entry. There is nothing in the law that requires the Border Patrol to allow aliens to enter the United States illegally, and then arrest them. Simply put, aliens do not have a right to illegally enter the United States.

Essentially, the opportunity to assert "a credible fear" of persecution, as explained by Andrew R. Arthur of the CIS, doesnt give a scofflaw the right to enter the country and claim asylum.

To the contrary: The credible fear provision, evidently being misused and misconstrued, doesnt exist to facilitate asylum claims. Rather, it exists to facilitate the removal from the United States of aliens who have attempted entry through fraud or without proper documents.

This charitable interpretation struggles to convince. Notwithstanding a defense of lousy and lax lawit nevertheless seems true to state that U.S. laws governing the admission of asylum-seekers and refugees will still process people based on a tale told at a port of entry, and despite disqualifying conduct: the brazen, even criminal, behavior evinced by the Central American caravanners rushing our border.

As practiced, the law is worse than an ass. Its perverse in the extreme.

In the context of law misconstrued or reinvented, the chant about the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act is as telling. Its the excuse parroted by almost everybody, Republicans included, for a lack of vigorous military action against an en masse breach of the southern border.

With their Posse Comitatus chant, the no-borders crowd is claiming that sending the U.S. Military to the border is tantamount to deploying the military for civilian purposes.

If an ongoing, sustained, intentional and international invasion of U.S. territory by foreign nationals is considered a domestic dispute to be handled by civil authoritiesthen America, plain and simple, is both defenseless and borderless; there is, seemingly, no law thatll defend American borders.

What those liberals colonizing our heads are attempting to convey is that a good America, a just America, a moral America is de facto and de jure a borderless America.

In truth, and according to the Congressional Research Service, as relayed by the Military Times, Posse Comitatus means that the U.S. military is not to be used to control or defeat American citizens on U.S. soil.

The hordes amassed on the border with Mexico, and rushing the port of entry in San Ysidro, California, are not American citizens. They are not even very nice.

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Liberals Want America To Go Borderless - townhall.com

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I have offended some liberals in the past by referring to Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke as a "failson." I understand now why this might have come across as dismissive of his totally awesome campaign to skateboard his way into a Senate seat. So in the future I will be more measured in my language.

Beto is not a "failson." He is, in fact, the successful son-in-law of a billionaire real estate developer whose low-key contempt for barrio grandmas puts him squarely within the mainstream of the Democratic Party. His seemingly inevitable attempt to secure his party's presidential nomination in 2020 will be only slightly more embarrassing to himself and his delusional followers than his recent loss to the most loathed senator in the United States.

I don't mean to make light of Beto's chances here. Going straight from the House of Representatives to the White House by way of a Senate campaign isn't unheard of. I mean, James Garfield did it in 1880, though nitpickers might observe that he actually managed to win the seat in the upper chamber he was running for alongside the presidency. In more recent times, Ron Paul ran some very successful campaigns while representing a Texas district in the lower chamber of our federal legislature. Dr. Paul's followers raised millions of dollars for him on the internet, handed out lots of very neat stickers and buttons, had concerts, and annoyed millions of their fellow Americans with their gushing enthusiasm. With any luck, Beto, who is much younger than Paul was at the time of his third and least unsuccessful campaign, will be able to run unsuccessfully for president as many as five times, assuming the money keeps rolling in. The more I think about it, in fact, the more "Like Ron Paul, except less interested in gold nuggets" seems like the most even-handed characterization of O'Rourke's role in American politics. Here's hoping he has a mop-headed son who can translate his father's nationwide following into a safe seat in Hawaii or someplace like that in a couple decades.

In all seriousness, though, I have no idea why anyone is taking the idea of O'Rourke's presidential campaign seriously. It's as mystifying to me as erotic tweets about him, which are as surprisingly common as they are unquotable in a family periodical. The biggest obstacle to his success will almost certainly be the crowdedness of the Democratic field. Beto might be the favorite of billionaire mega-donors and a man who came marginally close to becoming a U.S. senator, but he is going to have a hard time making headway against actual billionaire mega-donors like Tom Steyer and actual U.S. senators like Kamala Harris. And that's ignoring the off chance that Democrats might opt for a progressive instead, like Bernie Sanders or Sherrod Brown, in which case Beto will definitely be out of luck.

The news that party insiders in Iowa cannot wait to throw money and resources at Beto is the best early Christmas present President Trump's re-election committee could ask for. O'Rourke is never going to make it further than a San Francisco fundraiser or a CNN debate stage, but even if he did, he would lose in a landslide of proportions unseen since Ronald Reagan's second victory in 1984. I know this might be hard for alleged adults who consider his Instagram posts about cooking an aphrodisiac, but the aesthetic that gets Austin dog park goers racing to the polls will not go over as well in the Midwestern states that Democrats actually need to win in 2020. People in Mahoning County, Ohio, do not care how many indie rock EPs you have performed on or how totally sweet your Instagram feed is. They will also resent your opposition to President Trump's trade policies and your indifference to actual bread-and-butter issues in favor of a vague ethos of "cool" and "nice."

My advice to Democrats is that it's better to sound the wake-up call now. Let some formidable old hack like Dick Durbin, whose political fortunes do not depend upon the crucial WhatsApp constituency, just come out and say it now: Losers are not welcome in our party unless their last names rhyme with "Glinton."

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Liberals' infantile Beto fantasy - theweek.com

The Liberal government released its fall fiscal update Wednesday, making the bold pre-election claim that the land is strong even if it may not feel that way if youre trying to sell a house or work in the oilpatch.

In fairness things are going pretty well, on the back of surging demand from the U.S. But there appears to be a supreme confidence that it will ever be thus. Scant provision is being made for the recession rumbling towards us inexorably, like a winter storm.

The government gave itself a clean bill of health, pointing out GDP growth is forecast at 2 per cent for the next two years, before slowing to a still respectable 1.6 per cent.

Unemployment is forecast to be below 6 per cent over the next two years, while the federal debt-to-GDP ratio is predicted to continue to tick downward.

The government concluded its reelection pitch by claiming it has fulfilled a third of its mandate promises, with progress made on the other two-thirds.

For a government heading back to the polls next year, it is, at first blush, a solid base from which to launch a campaign for another mandate.

Finance minister Bill Morneau said Wednesday that a middle-class family of four is now $2,000 better off, thanks mainly to the Canada Child Benefit.

When it comes to specific measures the fall update, given the title Investing in Middle-class Jobs, is a modest document, with much to be modest about.

But it did introduce a number of measures aimed at addressing U.S. President Donald Trumps corporate tax cuts, including tax incentives to encourage businesses to invest in new assets like machinery and equipment.

The new plan will give Canadians the help they need to succeed, making smart investments to grow our economy for the long-term, while we bring the books back towards balance, Morneau said the first time anyone can remember a Liberal finance minister talking about balanced budgets since the days of Paul Martin, the deficit-slayer.

On the basis of the spin, were an election held tomorrow there would be line-ups at the polling booths to laud the Liberals for their incredible feats of economic alchemy.

Needless to say, while the fiscal update tells the truth it doesnt tell the whole truth.

On the basis of the spin, were an election held tomorrow there would be line-ups at the polling booths to laud the Liberals for their incredible feats of economic alchemy

Tax revenues for the first six months of the fiscal year were up 10 per cent, or a whopping $13 billion, but growth is patchy. The housing market for so long a driver of economic growth has recorded three quarters of contraction.

The oilpatch appears to be going through something of an existential crisis, as jobs and investment continue to bleed south of the border. In the Financial Post this week, former Encana CEO Gwyn Morgan noted with alarm how his former company has exported itself to the U.S. He blamed Justin Trudeau and the Liberal government for a litany of bad policy decisions from the oil tanker ban, to killing the Northern Gateway pipeline; from the introduction of upstream emissions in pipeline regulatory hearings to bill C-69, the impact assessment act that have all but killed Canadas most economically important industry.

The fall update offers little in the way of comfort for producers, or for Albertas provincial government, faced as they are with a price differential that is reaching record highs.

What it does contain is a range of tax changes to encourage business investment in Canada. Arguably, the measures should have been included in the spring budget, flush from the windfall of 3-per-cent growth in 2017.

But since business investment and exports will be relied on to make a greater contribution to economic growth, it is timely that the Liberals have finally acknowledged that the golden goose wont keep laying without some encouragement. This has not been a government overly concerned about wealth generation during its first three years in office.

Business groups had called for Morneau to reduce the corporate income tax rate across the board but the finance minister deemed his room for manoeuvre was limited, given the need to keep the fiscal anchor, the debt-to-GDP rate, ticking down. The new measures will cost $14 billion over the next five years, so this is not chump change. But the money appears to be targeted, since it allows Canada to market itself as the lowest marginal effective tax rate (METR) in the G7.

For many international companies, it is the METR, the cumulative rate of taxes that affect businesses, that is a key determinant of where they will invest.

It is a creative solution that will help businesses write-off assets in a range of industries at a faster rate including intangibles like computer software even if it doesnt address the specific problems facing the oil industry.

Needless to say, while the fiscal update tells the truth it doesnt tell the whole truth.

At the very least, it is investment that may have a productive outcome unlike many of the tax dollars that have been tossed hither and thither in the last three years. You only get it if you invest.

The real problem is that, for all the confidence in Canadas economic future the document expressed, a downturn is coming as surely as winter follows fall.

When it does, the debt-to-GDP ratio will not keep falling, because GDP will shrink. That is when a reckoning will take place.

The measures announced in the fall update will add to a deficit that is set to remain in double figures as far out as the Department of Finance projects.

The much-vaunted $2,000-a-year bonanza for the family of four is paid for with borrowed money. It is not just Conservatives who see that as a raid on future generations.

For all the billions being added to the national debt, the benefits are not being felt by everyone.

These are the good times but for many people, they dont feel that good. The government boasts about rising wages but for the past three years, real wages averaged gains of just 0.3 per cent, versus 1 per cent for the previous decade.

Rising interest rates are also making life tougher.

But there is none of this nuance in the sunny days document tabled by the government. In a self-assessment of their own brilliance, the Liberals judged their commitment to balance the budget by 2019-20 as a measure where action has been taken and progress made, even if, sadly, it is facing challenges.

That blatant nose-stretcher comes just 25 pages after the summary statement of transactions that says the deficit in 2019-20 will be $19.6 billion. Some progress, some challenge.

The entire document should come with a warning sticker: Caution stormy objects in your mirror are closer than they appear.

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