TO BE FAIR, AS BEN RHODES NOTED, THEY LITERALLY KNOW NOTHING: Journalists react to Trump presser with an exceptional ignorance.

SO THEY’RE READY TO BE DEMOCRATIC MEMBERS OF CONGRESS: VIDEO: Students say impeach Trump…but can’t give reason why.

MONICA SHOWALTER: Sorry, Greta, even your fellow Swedes aren’t buying the climate change claptrap anymore. “Thirty-six percent of Swedes think climate change is man-caused. Forty-eight percent think the climate is changing, and humans are only partly responsible. Eight percent say the climate is changing and it’s not people doing it. Two percent say it’s not changing at all.”

To be fair, she’s a horrible pitchwoman.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: ‘Outrage is a commodity:’ Director Todd Phillips bashes ‘far left’ criticism of Joker.

LIES, DAMNED LIES, AND DEMOCRATS: The MSM-DNC’s Worst Week Ever.

AT AMAZON, save in Sports & Fitness.

FLASHBACK: 1998 Jerry Nadler Said Impeachment ‘Is An Undoing of A National Election.’

NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Menopausal night sweats associated with impaired thinking.

TAKE A BOW, 4CHAN: Anti-Defamation League Cedes ‘OK’ Hand Gesture To White Supremacists.

And you too, Nike: With Attack on U.S. Flag, Colin Kaepernick‏ Shifts the Goalposts.

SAVANNAH SHOEMAKE: Pipeline Protest Could Hurt Democrats’ Chances in Minn.

While it hasn’t garnered much attention on the national stage yet, it could very well become the next Dakota Access or Keystone XL fight in the months ahead and just in time for the 2020 election. Democratic contender Bernie Sanders jumped into the debate early on by releasing a video in January opposing Line 3, and just last week Elizabeth Warren came out against the pipeline in a tweet prior to her rally in St. Paul, which drew criticism from local construction union members.

Just as we saw with Warren, Democrats need to be cautious about blindly joining this fight for a few important reasons. First, the project is supported by local labor unions and leaders, as well as lawmakers in both parties in the state. Second, as we’ve seen from past protests over pipelines, they usually have a costly and negative impact on local residents, taxpayers, law enforcement and government – and therefore a negative impact on any politician who is supporting the protests.

Finally, Democratic candidates wading into the issue are automatically aligning themselves with the organizations that are leading the battle. For example, organizations such as Honor the Earth, which led the Dakota protests, are already planning events to prevent the pipeline from being rebuilt in Minnesota. On the surface, it might not seem like the kind of group a Democratic candidate needs to be wary of, but there are questions about its funding and authenticity that could have repercussions.

Corn, popped.

SKYNET SMILES: These Robots Literally Just Flap Their Wings. That’s It. But the Army Loves Them.

JULIE KELLY: ‘Ukraine-Gate’ Is About the Russian Hack That Wasn’t. “President Trump asked the Ukrainian president about CrowdStrike, the politically connected cybersecurity firm that investigated the alleged Russian ‘hack’ of the Democratic National Committee. Here’s why that matters — and why it should not be ignored.”

Read the whole thing.

A DEMOCRATIC HOUSE WAS ALWAYS DESTINED TO IMPEACH PRESIDENT TRUMP:

You may recall that for much of 2018, House Republicans campaigned on the message that Democrats would impeach Trump if they took control of the House. The assessment in many corners of the media was that this was a reflection of Republican paranoia, a desperate hyping of an implausible scenario designed to motivate the party’s base through fear.

In April 2018, representative Dina Titus of Nevada told the New York Times, “They’re trying to encourage us to be more out front on impeachment so then they can use that to rev up their base and say, ‘That’s all the Democrats care about.’”

In August, Perry Bacon Jr. wrote at FiveThirtyEight, “If the Democrats are planning to impeach Trump if they win control of the House, they are doing a really great job of hiding it. Congressional Democrats aren’t talking about impeachment.” That same month, New York magazine explained, “Republicans, not Democrats, want the midterms to be about impeachment.”

In September, CNN’s Rebecca Buck reported, “many Democrats [are] downplaying or rejecting the prospect of impeaching President Trump, while Republicans, including the President and his closest allies, insist his ouster is all but certain if their party loses power in Washington.”

Clearly, some of the newly elected Democrats didn’t get that memo; Representative Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.), famously vowed on her first day in Congress to “impeach the mother****er.” By March, Tlaib claimed, “I think every single colleague of mine agrees there’s impeachable offenses. That’s one thing that we all agree on. We may disagree on the pace.”

As Investors Business Daily noted in 2017, with flashbacks to the Reagan and George W. Bush eras, “Democrats Want To Impeach A Republican President? What Else Is New?”

BIDEN’S NUMBERS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN BUOYED BY HIS OUTSIZED SUPPORT FROM BLACK VOTERS:

Ouch.

ADAM SCHIFF (D-CA) MAKES UP HIS OWN TRANSCRIPT OF CALL BETWEEN TRUMP AND UKRAINE PRESIDENT: “’My summary of the president’s call was meant to be at least part in parody,’ Schiff tried to clarify.”

ORANGE MAN BAD: Trump vs. Iran: How Did Trump Become the Villain?

Iran attacked a Saudi oil facility in a desperate attempt to drive up global oil prices and fill their own coffers. Trump’s reaction was restrained, because clumsy, reckless warmonger or something.

TYLER O’NEIL: The Fastest, Most Premature Impeachment in American History.

At the time of Pelosi’s announcement, the text of the phone call had not yet been released, but the president had announced that he would release the transcript on Wednesday. Rather than waiting for that release, Pelosi went for the jugular, declaring that “the actions of the Trump presidency revealed the dishonorable fact of the president’s betrayal of his oath of office, betrayal of our national security, and betrayal of our election.”

Yet when the transcript was released, it proved far less damaging than Pelosi suggested it would be. The call between Trump and Zelensky was friendly, and Zelensky first brought up Giuliani, leading toward the conversation about Joe Biden. Crucially, there was no quid pro quo explicitly mentioned or hinted at during the entire call.

Yes, but Orange Man Bad.

ALLIES: The US just approved the $6.5 billion sale of 32 F-35 fighter jets to Poland.

Poland will finally be able to retire the last of the aging Soviet Su-22s and MiG-29s they’re still flying.

BERT: U. Oklahoma ‘Black Emergency Response Team’ alerts campus to new ‘blackface’ incident.

From the comments: “How about another team called the Excessive Reaction Notwithstanding Insufficient Evidence so they could have a BERT and ERNIE tag team?” Plus expressions of surprise that this is not a Babylon Bee story.

BREAKING: Whistleblower Complaint Has Been Released and It’s Another Nothingburger.

I’ve never seen the Democrats and the MSM — but I repeat myself — suffer a week of so many self-owns.

Then again, it’s only Thursday morning.

DEEP STATE BLUES: Intel Inspector General Found Whistleblower Had ‘Bias’ In Favor Of ‘Rival Candidate’ Of Trump, Report Says.

WHY IS SO MUCH ABOUT “DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION” KEPT ON THE DOWN-LOW? USD pres in diversity forum recording: ‘I am terrified that this is live-streamed.’