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MICHAEL LEDEEN: The Anti-American Americans. “So here we are, at Thanksgiving, surrounded by a crowd of arrogant, ignorant, self-proclaimed superior people who proclaim, as was once declared about Vietnam, that the only way to save the country is to destroy it. That the European welfare state is the proper model for us, and that our electoral choices are mostly wrong. And evil. The first anti-American president put it bluntly in an interview with with one of his cronies, saying Americans are ‘confused, blind, shrouded with hate, anger, racism, mommy issues.’ In Obama’s view, we’re unworthy of him and his ruling class.”

Read the whole thing.

OUCH: GM to slash jobs and production as U.S. sedan sales sink.

GM plans to halt production next year at three assembly plants: Lordstown, Ohio; Hamtramck, Michigan; and Oshawa, Ontario. It will also stop building several models now assembled at those plants, including the Chevrolet Cruze, the Cadillac CT6 and the Buick LaCrosse. The Cruze compact car will be discontinued in the U.S. market in 2019.

Plants in Baltimore, Maryland, and Warren, Michigan, assembling powertrain components will have no products assigned to them after 2019 and are at risk of closure, GM said. It will also close two unidentified factories outside North America.

“We are right-sizing capacity for the realities of the marketplace,” Chief Executive Mary Barra said, adding that GM will double resources dedicated to electric and self-driving vehicles over the next two years.

Cost pressures on GM and other automakers and suppliers have increased as demand has waned for traditional sedans.

It looks like Ford was ahead of the curve.

SPACE: SpaceX’s 1st Crew Dragon Test Flight to Launch Jan. 7, NASA Says.

THE IMPORTANCE OF NOT BEING SEEN: Why Advanced Stealth is Still “Very Hard to Hit.”

“Static radar can help detect low observability aircraft, and acquire it. Now, an intercept requires a smaller aperture. When you transfer from acquisition to the weapons system you will need at long ranges, that dramatically reduces the ability for intercept. Detection is not what it is all about, you have an entire kill chain needed to eliminate a low-observable threat,” Ret. Lt. Gen. David Deptula, Dean of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, told Warrior Maven in an interview.

Deptula explained that moving beyond a ground based radar with a roughly 10-meter aperture to a 6-inch signal from a smaller “engagement” radar presents substantial challenges for attackers.

“Even if a radar can detect, I now have to track, and when I engage I will have to shoot a missile using much smaller detection. Also, a fusing mechanism can be affected by low observability technology,” Deputla said. “At every level, low observability can help.”

Nonetheless, Air Force developers are pursuing a new generation of stealth technology with a sense of urgency, in light of rapid global modernization of new Russian and Chinese-built attack systems.

Faster, please — you want to stay far enough ahead of the Other Guy that war never looks like an attractive option to him.

CHINOOK OVER A BLEAK STRETCH OF EASTERN AFGHANISTAN: A CH-47 helicopter on an operation in eastern Afghanistan. Photo taken October 14, 2018.

GERMS: Medieval dental plaque sheds light on how our microbiomes have changed.

EVERY BUBBLE POPS: Desperate Homebuilders Offering $100,000 Discounts, Free Vacations Amid Cooling Market.

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ANY OF IT: What part of “shall not be infringed” do these tireless busybodies not understand?

FASTER, PLEASE: Where’s Our Warp Drive to the Stars? “Physicists haven’t given up on the dream of zipping around the universe. Now they’ve come up with a far-out idea for making it happen.”

I’d settle for the Mannschenn Drive. Heck, even the unreliable Ehrenhaft lodejammers.

RIP: Bernardo Bertolucci, Last Tango in Paris director, dies aged 77.

OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY: Venezuelan Ex-Treasurer Admits He Took $1 Billion in Bribes.

In a statement, the U.S. Justice Department said Alejandro Andrade pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering under seal last December in federal court in Miami. The statement said that Mr. Andrade, a former bodyguard for the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, accepted millions of dollars in bribes from Raúl Gorrín, the president of Globovision, a Venezuelan pro-government television channel, to allow him and others to make foreign-currency transactions at favorable rates. An indictment of Mr. Gorrín on charges of money laundering and bribery was unsealed Monday in Miami.

Lawyers for Mr. Andrade and for Mr. Gorrín didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Mr. Andrade was Venezuela’s treasurer between 2007 and 2010. After leaving the government, he moved to Florida, where he owns a large estate and horse stables. As part of his plea agreement, Mr. Andrade agreed to a forfeiture money judgment of $1 billion and all assets, including real estate, vehicles, horses, watches, aircraft and bank accounts.

It’s good to be the nomenklatura — until you have to flee the hellhole you helped create, and get busted by a decent country where the rule of law mostly holds.

HEADING IN TO LUNCH AFTER THE GYM, I RAN INTO MY CONGRESSMAN: “Enjoy your Twitter hiatus!” he said. So far!

THE 21ST CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED: Dangerous Infection Tied To Hospitals Now Becoming Common Outside Them. “First seen as a problem mainly confined to hospitals and nursing homes, research suggests C. diff rates in the community are on the rise, and that traditional risk factors may no longer tell the whole story.”

YOU DON’T SAY: Those Of The Migrant Caravan Attempting To Storm The US Border Aren’t Asylum Seekers.

THIS IS CNN: Chris Cuomo Now Being Attacked by Left-Wing For Saying That Border Patrol Was Doing Its “Duty” By Using Tear Gas to Disperse Violent Border-Rushers. The left has brought out the Hitler Card, accusing Cuomo of deploying the “Nuremberg Defense.”

CHANGE? Congress to make determination on F-35s for Turkey.

IS THERE NOTHING HE CAN’T DO? Did you hear? Now man is causing climate change on the moon.

And don’t even think of going to Mars, since that would be “colonialism” in the SJW mindset of the NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology.

SUNSHINE IS THE BEST DISINFECTANT: Gowdy Says to Avoid ‘carnival’ by taping Comey interview for public to see.

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21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Fed Up Gamers Report Intrusive Sex Workers to the IRS for Tax Evasion.

It seems that THOTs on Snapchat and other platforms are using PayPal to charge men to see “premium snaps,” which are nudes or pornography. It’s also possible that these ladies of social media are not reporting their earnings to the IRS. In an effort that can only be described as hilarious, the anons at 4chan have launched a full-scale war on THOTs across all platforms. Women who fish for lonely and susceptible beta boys are the bane of many gamers, whose platforms are being taken over by the sex trollers. These women solicit in male-dominated platforms and many of the men who use the platforms are sick of it.

Bonus: “In a surprising twist, the #ThotAudit also serves the purpose of spreading the truth that taxation is theft.”

Added bonus: “4chan vs the Cam Girls” would make an excellent b-movie title.

KEVIN WILLIAMSON ON THE SNOB PARTY: Of course the Democrats are still mad for Beto: He is who they are.

There is a peculiar paradox at the heart of modern progressivism: Progressives, especially Democratic candidates for office, claim to speak for the poor, the low-income, the marginalized, those born and raised without the benefits and (inevitable word) privilege of a Bush or a Romney or a McCain. But, at the same time, there is nothing they hate worse than somebody who comes from such a background entering public life: You’ll recall the sneering at Sarah Palin’s education — six years spread out over four colleges, none of them very good ones. There are many good criticisms to be made of Sarah Palin and the shtick into which she eventually sank, but she is a self-made woman who entered public service in one of the least glamorous and least lucrative ways, as mayor of a small city — as thankless a job as there is in elected office. She was ridiculed as a “snowbilly” and worse.

And who was doing the ridiculing? There are eight schools in the Ivy League, but pare that down to the two most famous institutions: Harvard and Yale. You would have to go back to Walter Mondale to encounter a Democratic presidential candidate who did not have an affiliation with one or the other.

As Christopher Caldwell wrote in the Weekly Standard in 2004:

At some point, Democrats became the party of small-town people who think they’re too big for their small towns. It is hard to say how it happened: Perhaps it is that Republicans’ primary appeal is to something small-towners take for granted (tradition), while Democrats’ is to something that small-towners are condemned for lacking (diversity). Both appeals can be effective, but it is only the latter that incites people to repudiate the culture in which they grew up. Perhaps it is that at universities–through which pass all small-town people aiming to climb to a higher social class–Democratic party affiliation is the sine qua non of being taken for a serious, non-hayseed human being.

For these people, liberalism is not a belief at all. No, it’s something more important: a badge of certain social aspirations. That is why the laments of the small-town leftists get voiced with such intemperance and desperation. As if those who voice them are fighting off the nagging thought: If the Republicans aren’t particularly evil, then maybe I’m not particularly special.

That’s particularly true in Texas, where Beto lawn signs and bumper stickers will likely remain flying for quite some time.