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BULLYING: “I wonder how many people are like me and sympathize with Trump because he is bullied. I never liked Trump and I didn’t vote for him, but the continual attacks on him make me sympathetic. If this were a movie, he would be the hero, and the attackers are the smug ‘cool’ kids who will do anything and everything to humiliate him.”

A SHEPHERD MUST TEND HIS FLOCK. And at times, fight off the wolves.

I’VE DONE IT BEFORE, BUT here’s another plug for the Neck Gaiter. Best single cold-weather accessory.

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HE LOOKS AMAZING FOR 100: Tuskegee Airman celebrates 100th birthday with flight.

DEMOCRACY DIES IN DARKNESS AT NOON:

I remember when McCarthyism was supposed to be bad.

DON SURBER: Democrats’ Race Politics Backfire. “Democrats offer diversity, not competence. But Booker has a point. The experienced white senators are even worse than him and Harris. One’s a crook, one’s a liar, and one’s a commie. They are all socialists, which means they are willing to give you the shirt off your back.”

ALSO AFTER TOMORROW’S BOMBING: Here We Go Again: Pensacola Muslims Fear ‘Backlash’ After Jihad Massacre.

IT’S NOT “VANDALISM,” IT’S “PEOPLE’S ART.” Wall of banana exhibit vandalized with lipstick at Art Basel: ‘Epstein didn’t kill himself.’ “This is the gallery where anyone can do art, right? . . . If someone can eat the $120,000 banana and not get arrested, why can’t I write on the wall?”

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend in style.

ONE AMERICA NEWS (OAN) GOES WHERE MSM WON’T: Former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko tells OAN all about former U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovich’s “untouchables” list. If OAN can go to Ukraine and interview principals in the impeachment scandal, why can’t ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, the Washington Post, New York Times, etc. etc.?

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Answer: Because they’re not interested in knowing what actually happened.

ANOTHER UPDATE (FROM GLENN): I’m bumping this up because it’s very important, undercutting the thesis of the whole impeachment endeavor. And this is the evidence that the House prosecutors will be confronted with if there’s a trial in the Senate.

RIP: Rene Auberjonois, Star Trek and Boston Legal Actor, Dies at 79. “Auberjonois was a prolific television actor, appearing as Paul Lewiston in 71 episodes of ‘Boston Legal’ and as Clayton Runnymede Endicott III in ABC’s long-running sitcom ‘Benson.’ He played Odo in ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,’ and carried that role into video games, voicing the same role in ‘Harbinger’ and ‘The Fallen.’ He appeared in the movie ‘MASH’ as Father Mulcahy in the first of several collaborations with Robert Altman. Other film credits include Roy Balgey in 1976’s ‘King Kong’ and Reverend Oliver in ‘The Patriot,’ as well as parts in ‘McCabe & Mrs. Miller,’ ‘Eyes of Laura Mars’ and ‘Walker.’”

SPACE: SpaceX to Launch Critical Crew Dragon In-Flight Abort Test No Earlier Than Jan. 4.

OLD AND BUSTED: “The Buck Stops Here.”

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At what point does Biden go full Joliet Jake?

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THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU WAS A WARNING, NOT A HOW-TO GUIDE: Monkey-pig hybrids created by Chinese scientists.

WHY IS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY SUCH A CESSPIT OF RACISM? David Brooks on White Dem Primary: Democrats Think Other People Are Racist And Won’t Vote For An African-American.

HE WASN’T A VICTIM, HE WAS A HERO WHO RAN TOWARD DANGER: Father: Navy victim shot standing watch fresh from boot camp. “Fresh out of boot camp, Cameron Walters proudly told his father in Georgia during their nightly video chat that he had passed the exam qualifying him to stand watch and help secure building entrances at Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida. When news broke the next morning of shots being fired on the base, Shane Walters called his son’s cellphone repeatedly throughout the day. There was no answer. The 21-year-old airmen apprentice from Richmond Hill had been killed along with two other sailors by a gunman authorities later identified as a military aviation student from Saudi Arabia.”

UPDATE: In response to discussion in the comments, yes, it’s absurd to expect people to stand watch and secure a building unarmed. If you’re unarmed, you’re not a guard, you’re a hall monitor.

THE BULL SEES THE CAPE, NOT THE SWORD: This week federal judiciary became one-fifth Trump-appointed, while media focused on Jerry Nadler.

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WHITE CHRISTMAS: Walmart apologizes for sweater featuring Santa with cocaine.

To boldly go where Cheech & Chong went before.

KURT SCHLICHTER: The Democrats’ Massive Impeachment Fail. “To the surprise of no one who isn’t a blue city pol, a media hack, or an insufferable Fredocon sissy, the American people are not particularly impressed by the genius idea of replacing our president a year before an election because he allegedly expressed curiosity about why the coke-sniffing, stripper-impregnating, dead brother’s wife-trifling, Navy-rejected loser son of Vice President Gropey O’Definitelynotsenile scored a $50K+ a month gig on a Ukrainian gas board. And it’s just dawning on some of them they maybe this impeachment brainstorm was not the bestest idea there ever was.”

FAKE NEWS: Nikki Haley Did Not Just Defend the Confederate Flag.

I DOUBT I’D FIT IN IT, BUT THIS LOOKS COOL: WW2 Ball Turret with Twin .50 Cals at the Big Sandy Shoot. I love that this was new old stock, fresh out of the crate, just needing hydraulic fluid and a power connection.

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TO BE FAIR, IT’S STILL SAFER THAN GAS STATION SUSHI: Kratom is widely available in gas stations, despite experts’ warnings of addiction, risks.