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Related: “Impeachment was only added to the nothingburger because every other hyperbolic term was no longer registering with the voting public.”

Plus: “Does this mean Donald Trump isn’t an idiot? No, it just so happens that an idiot can play this game too, and clearly, better than you. . . . They can’t stop taking the bait.”

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AMERICAN POLITICS IN THE TRUMP ERA IS SO TAWDRY. WHY CAN’T WE BE SOBER AND DIGNIFIED LIKE THE CANADIANS?

‘I HATE KIDS, TOO. WELL PLAYED:’ Mark Hamill dumps on Ivanka Trump over a photo of her kid dressed as a Stormtrooper.

Tough to fault Ivanka for her kid dressing up as a workaday foot soldier for the good guys. But have some sympathy for Hamill, too — between Luke Skywalker and the voice of the Joker, Hamill’s career is built around portraying mass-murdering terrorists — and in Skywalker’s case a communist-inspired slave-owning religious fanatic to boot. Even for an actor, it’s got to get to you after a while.

Related: It Happened To Me: Mark Hamill’s Son Got Me Pregnant, And His Family Tried to Make Me Get an Abortion.

THAT’S AWFULLY RICH COMING FROM ONE OF THE LEADERS OF THE PARTY THAT BOOED GOD: Nancy Pelosi Says She’s ‘Prayerful’ As Impeachment Moves Forward.

SPACE: SpaceX Finishes Assembling New Starship Prototype. It looks the way a spaceship ought to look.

UPDATE: Yep:

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LET’S CHECK IN ON CNN’S RELIABLE SOURCES, ALREADY IN PROGRESS: Robert De Niro drops F-bombs on live TV, lashes out at pro-Trump critics.

Exit Question: When did Robert de Niro become such a douchebag? “Of course de Niro has his big new Netflix film, Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, to plug and cursing on live TV is a great way to draw attention to yourself. It’s also pathetic.”

KAMALA HARRIS: “LEAVE JOE BIDEN ALONE!”

“If you were elected president, would you allow the son or daughter of your vice president to serve on a board of an oil company outside this country?” a reported asked.

“Probably not,” Harris responded with a laugh. “The problem that we’ve got, again, with this issue is that it’s a distraction from the fact that, look, as far as I’m concerned, leave Joe Biden alone. Just leave him alone. On this issue of what this president has done that has been about corrupting America’s democracy, being in cahoots with a foreign leader, to yet again, try and manipulate the election of the President of the United States.”

“That a judgement though?” the reported asked.

“I-I-I’m not going to be distracted by what this president is trying to play, which is a game, because he knows that he is actually, probably, probably, looking at an indictment and is then trying to distract from the realities of his behaviors that have been in violation of our moral, our ethical, and probably our legal rules,” she responded.

Kamala and other Democrats can say President Trump was in “cahoots” with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, but they seem to forget that Ukraine and the United States have a diplomatic relationship. It was signed in the 1990s under President Bill Clinton. Trump knew of the Biden’s wrongdoings. He had an obligation to bring it to Zelensky’s attention. If he didn’t, he’d be in violation of the bilateral agreement.

It’s amazing though. Democrats are more upset that Trump discovered what took place with the Bidens and wanted to get to the bottom of it than they are about the swampy behavior Joe and Hunter displayed.

Kamala Harris was attorney general of California from 2011 through 2017.

Related: As She Sinks In Polls, Kamala Harris Is Betting Everything On ‘F—ing Moving To Iowa.’

BLUE-CHECK JOURNALIST THINKS NIXON WAS IMPEACHED.

YOU KNOW YOU’RE OVER THE TARGET WHEN YOU START RECEIVING FLAK: Biden Campaign Demands TV News Execs Stop Booking Giuliani.

Presumably, most DNC operatives with bylines will comply — unless they want another taste of the closet. Or worse.

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ROBERT FRANCIS O’ROURKE NEEDS NEW MATERIAL: Beto’s fundraising pitch: ‘Now, we don’t want anything to happen to the kitten …’

He joked that it may take a Facebook livestream event that involves a kitten to meet his fundraising goal but he’s not going anywhere any time soon.

“You know, it’s kind of raising the ante or the bar for how we compete for those dollars,” O’Rourke said. “I mean, I could maybe do a Facebook livestream with a kitten and, say, you know, ‘Now, we don’t want anything to happen to the kitten … and so, you know, send your $5 or $10 or $15 in now. And, you know, Miss Whiskers is going to be fine.’”

To be fair, O’Rourke is a big fan of recycling — including this (in)famous 1973 National Lampoon cover, from the earlier, funnier, pre-PC era of leftism: