‘WHITE PRIVILEGE’ IS AN INVISIBLE DEMON EMITTED BY PALE SKIN. IT DOES HEINOUS THINGS, SO IT’S TOTALLY ALL RIGHT FOR THE WOKE TO PREVENT ANY WHITE PERSON FROM EXPRESSING AN OPINION. ANY WHITE PERSON NEEDS TO DO PENANCE FOR EMITTING THIS DEMON, BUT THERE IS NO ABSOLUTION. IOW ‘WHITE PRIVILEGE’ IS SOMETHING INVENTED TO MAKE IT OKAY TO HATE ONE RACE AND HOLD ITS MEMBERS IN CONTEMPT. NOT ONLY NO, BUT H*LL NO:  Gillibrand Lectures White Women on Their Privilege.

22-YEAR OLD WOMAN STAYING AT KENNEDY COMPOUND DIES OF SUSPECTED DRUG OVERDOSE. “The death takes place 50 years after the late Senator Ted Kennedy’s car plunged off a bridge off of Martha’s Vineyard, killing his 28-year-old passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne.”

UPDATE: RFK’s granddaughter Saoirse Kennedy Hill identified as overdose victim at Kennedy compound.

(Bumped.)

HEH: Elijah Cummings’ Home Broken Into The Same Day He Blasts Trump For Calling His District ‘Dangerous.’

OUT: #NEVERTRUMP. IN: Sometimes Trump.

OPEN THREAD: It’s a playground for your mind.

HE DOESN’T LET UP: Full Replay: President Trump Hosts “MAGA” Rally In Cincinnati.

QUESTIONS NOBODY IS ASKING: “Are period products too gendered?”

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Dangerous Invective Against President Trump: The continued litany of threats to physically assault or kill a president will haunt the country long after Trump is gone.

CONRAD BLACK: The inconvenient truth about Trump — he’s doing what he said he would: To the extent to which his record in office conforms to pre-electoral promises, Trump’s record has been the best of any U.S. president since Calvin Coolidge.

Trump promised prosperity, tax cuts, renegotiation of disadvantageous trade deals, the annihilation of ISIL, the establishment of a southern border that would control entry to the country, the shaping up of the military, revival of the concept of nuclear non-proliferation regarding Iran and North Korea, withdrawal from the inane and self-punitive Paris Climate accord, a resuscitation of education through non-unionized schools and incentives to the reintroduction of free speech in academia and the end of NATO’s condition as a gang of defenceless freeloaders (such as Canada), generously accepting a military guaranty of their territory by the United States without paying for it.

The fact that he has delivered wholly or partially on all of this is, to borrow a phrase from one of the great charlatans ever elected to U.S. national office, Al Gore, “an inconvenient truth” that the conventional media of the Western world have great difficulty acknowledging.

To put it mildly.

CAMPUS REFORM ASKS DEMOCRATS TO NAME JOE BIDEN’S ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Campus Reform went to the theater where the Democratic debate took place and asked a bunch of Democrats what they would consider Joe Biden’s major accomplishments. “I don’t know of a specific accomplishment of his,” one woman respondent tells Cabot Phillips early on, and it doesn’t get much better from there.

…And? This is the postmodern 21st century. A lack of accomplishments didn’t stop Biden’s boss from becoming president. Though unlike Barry and/or his ghostwriter, Biden’s been around the block far too many times to make that work for him by saying, “I am new enough on the national political scene that I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views.”

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Carleton College Suspended a Student for Drunken Sex. He Appealed. Then They Expelled Him.

WELL, BUZZFEED: BuzzFeed Publishes a Misleading Story About the Babylon Bee Controversy.

What’s really going on is that Snopes is trying to engineer the deplatforming of the Bee from Facebook and Twitter — not because there’s anything wrong with it, but because popular and effective satire from the right cannot be tolerated.

And Buzzfeed is trying to help them.

TULSI GABBARD CALLS KAMALA HARRIS A DRUG WARRIOR AND DIRTY PROSECUTOR. SHE’S RIGHT.

Found via Small Dead Animals, who add: “Prediction: The MSM will Attempt to Destroy Tulsi Gabbard.”

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Solar Sail Success! LightSail 2 Is Officially Soaring on Sunlight.

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PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

● Shot: “Global warming will sink our city and poison our kids if we don’t take action now. #GreenNewDeal.”

—Tweet by Bill de Blasio (or at least bearing his name), April 24, 2019.

● Chaser: Bill de Blasio makes fliers wait on tarmac so he can rush to The View. 

—The New York Post, today. 

Via Brooklynite Stephen Miller who tweets, “I’m going to get more enjoyment watching this dude’s campaign suspension speech more than just about anyone else this entire cycle.”

WHEN TRAGEDY BEFALLS YOU, DON’T LET IT DRAG YOU DOWN. LOVE CAN CURE YOUR PROBLEMS, YOU’RE SO LUCKY I’M AROUND: Report: Marianne Williamson’s guest felt the knocking on her dressing room door was ‘too aggressive.’

It’s true. Those Californians whose consciousnesses have been raised to the highest level know that three progressively louder knocks are the only way to announce the presence of your chakra:

COCAINE MITCH PLAYS FOR KEEPS: While you were watching the Democrat debates, Mitch McConnell rammed through more judges.

NONSENSE. EVERYONE KNOWS THAT ONLY WOMEN ARE BODY-SHAMED: Many men report weight-related stigma. “Supportive interventions should be available for men, women, and people whose gender is not male or female to help them cope with weight stigma in less harmful ways, she concluded.”

I’m not sure, but I don’t think that “supportive interventions” means “help losing the weight.” Which would be the best intervention.

FIRED BY GOOGLE, A REPUBLICAN ENGINEER HITS BACK: ‘THERE’S BEEN A LOT OF BULLYING.’

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Kevin Cernekee was still a “Noogler”—Google’s term for a new employee—when his conservative take on political and social issues raised hackles within the search giant.

After several posts on the company’s freewheeling internal message boards in early 2015 rankled some colleagues, he was given an official warning from human resources about conduct deemed disrespectful and insubordinate. Around that time, a senior manager wrote on the boards that he added Mr. Cernekee to a “written blacklist” of employees he wouldn’t work with.

Mr. Cernekee, 41 years old, spent much of the next three years battling Google over his perceived violations, and pressing his contention that right-leaning employees were being treated unfairly, according to interviews, documents and copies of posts on Google’s internal message boards. In one example from 2017 that he reported to human resources, a manager publicly asked on a board about employees holding views like Mr. Cernekee’s: “Can’t we just fire the poisonous assholes already?”

In June 2018, Mr. Cernekee was fired.

I’m so old, I can remember when leftist corporations posed as being against blacklists.

Related: Google Employees Donate over $350K to Democrat Presidential Candidates.

BREAKING: Al Sharpton Is Not a Civil-Rights Hero.

A few years ago, progressive reporter Wayne Barrett dug up a detail worthy of Bonfire of the Vanities. He found that Comcast had paid Sharpton’s outfit, the National Action Network, some $140,000 as it was preparing to buy NBC/Universal. By remarkable coincidence, Sharpton gave his blessing to the merger, which was being opposed by black leaders such as Jesse Jackson on diversity grounds. By a still-more amazing coincidence Sharpton was, after the merger, given his own hour-long talk show on MSNBC, though today he is merely a frequent guest on the news network. Stuart Stevens at The Daily Beast wrote, “Sharpton is hardly alone in having spent decades vomiting hate, leaving innocent victims in his wake. What distinguishes Sharpton is the willingness of powerful people and organizations to look past the hate when they believe it may benefit them.”

Al Sharpton is a not a leading voice of anything except anti-Semitism. He seeks only to leverage racial resentment to advance the interests of Sharpton, to go “as far as his bullhorn audacity will carry him,” in the words of the New York Post columnist Bob McManus, who took Sharpton out to dinner once but drew the line at paying for the $350 glass of cognac Sharpton indicated he wanted. Making a career out of lies and hate has worked nicely for Sharpton, but only because the media and the Democratic party have served as his public-relations team.

Read the whole thing.

Related: Al Sharpton, living large among the 1 percenters.

THEY TOLD ME IF DONALD TRUMP WERE PRESIDENT, THE HANDMAID’S TALE WOULD BE SEEN AS A HOW-TO GUIDE, AND THEY WERE RIGHT! NYT: Jeffrey Epstein Tried To Get Scientists To Help Him Impregnate 20 Women At A Time.

HERE’S HOW TO ACTUALLY DRAIN THE SWAMP: President Donald Trump has made a small start on relocating federal agencies out of the nation’s capital and Sen. Joni Ernst has a bill that would remove some significant obstacles to expanding the initiative in a big way.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Tulsi Gabbard Calls Kamala Harris a Drug Warrior and Dirty Prosecutor. She’s Right.

Related: Kamala Harris Has a Distinguished Career of Serving Injustice.

I remember when she argued that using a false confession in court wasn’t outrageous.

IS THAT EVEN A FELONY IN CALIFORNIA ANYMORE? Florida man sentenced 10 years after withholding HIV status from two unsuspecting women.

Answer: No, it’s not a felony in California.