THEY TOLD ME IF DONALD TRUMP WERE ELECTED PRESIDENT, WE’D SEE THIRD-WORLD STYLES OF MEDIA TREATMENT. AND THEY WERE RIGHT! CNN’s April Ryan after bodyguard ejects local journalist: ‘When I speak, I don’t have news covering my speech.’

Plus: Wait, I’m one of you! “Kratovil expressed his solidarity with Ryan, an outspoken critic of President Trump and his treatment of the press, but told Fox News that ‘her reputation’ now depends on addressing what had happened and is hoping for an apology.”

Her reputation is as a Democratic Party operative with a chyron, and thugs on hand. She’s never been anything else. And the combination of thuggishness, entitlement, and cluelessness is absolutely typical of the breed. See also Chris “Fredo” Cuomo. I mean, I know CNN’s ratings have tanked, but surely they could hire people who know how to behave in public if they wanted to. But maybe they don’t want to.

UPDATE: Related: Don Lemon Sued for Highly Unusual Dive Bar Interview Technique.

This. Is. CNN.

OUT ON A LIMB: Why I vote ‘Hell, no!’ on a vegan president.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Why Ripley in ‘Aliens’ Is the Ultimate Anti-Mary Sue. “Today’s woke screenwriters wouldn’t dare create the Ripley character we’ve loved for decades.”

What’s fascinating about watching James Cameron’s sequel today is spotting what isn’t on the screen. Thirty-three years ago, Cameron didn’t stuff the narrative with empowering speeches. He didn’t need to virtue signal to his fellow filmmakers.

The screenplay doesn’t emasculate male characters to make Ripley look more bad ass. Bill Paxton’s glorious Hudson is blissful comic relief.

In short, Cameron wrote Ripley as a full-bodied character sans agenda. And she’s glorious.

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HITLER INVADED POLAND IN SEPTEMBER 1939. DO YOU KNOW THE OTHER NATION THAT ALSO INVADED POLAND IN SEPTEMBER 1939? Sadly, the fact that Stalin joined Hitler’s invasion  of Poland is hardly ever mentioned. Law & Liberty’s Ryszard Legutko reminds us of the immense and enduring significance of the Hitler-Stalin Pact signed 80 years ago this month.

I WONDER HOW LONG OBAMA WILL KEEP QUIET IN THE FACE OF THIS SORT OF THING? 2020 Dems’ Latest Attack on Obama: His DOJ Bungled the Michael Brown ‘Murder’ Investigation.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Univ. BANS BURGERS to ‘tackle climate change.’ Where could it happen next?

Remember, higher ed was sold on the idea that it would make people critical thinkers who are less subject to mass hysteria.

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KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Epstein’s Death Just Got Weirder Shocked Face Edition. “At this point one might run the risk of actually spraining something while trying to avoid a conspiracy theory. Another few days of coincidences piling up the way they have been since Saturday and investigators are going to have to wear hazmat suits to wade through the toxic b.s.”

RELATED? Seen on Facebook: “While the medical examiner was on lunch break today, Epstein cremated himself.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: My Son’s Freshman Orientation At Virginia Tech Was Full Of Leftist Propaganda. “The school constantly defined and showcased identity group politics, but certainly not all identities. It’s apparently way cooler to be a minority trans woman with food allergies than simply to be an American college student. Interestingly, the university offered Halal food but no certified kosher meals. Religiously observant Jewish students, tough luck, but if you are vegan, you’re in business.”

DEMOCRATS: TRUMP IS A BULLY WHO THREATENS THE INTEGRITY OF OUR INSTITUTIONS.

Also Democrats: If the Supreme Court upholds the Second Amendment, we’ll totally pack it when we get back in power.

GERMAINE GREER: Transgender Women Are Not Women. This is from 2015. The BBC probably wouldn’t let her say that on the air now.

A WIN FOR GUN OWNERS AGAINST MASSACHUSETTS AG HEALEY: Judge denies Healey’s motion to quash cops’ testimony in gun suit. “A federal judge has denied Attorney General Maura Healey’s motion to quash testimony from local police departments in a firearms lawsuit, a ruling an attorney for the gun retailers suing over her so-called copycat assault rifle ban praised. . . . The foundation and other gun retailers sued the attorney general over her 2016 enforcement notice expanding the state’s ban to guns that appear similar to prohibited weapons such as AR-15 rifles, but were designed without features that are used to define assault weapons in state law. Business owners argue the notice is unconstitutionally vague, violates the Second Amendment and deprives gun shops of property without due process.”

To Healey, those aren’t bugs — they’re features.

FROM THE CITY THAT BROUGHT YOU MAYOR BERNIE SANDERS: Burlington City Council opposes F-35 fighter jets at airport.

OH: Jail guards on Epstein unit falsified log entries for checks, source says.

ACTUALLY, SHE’S BEEN ENGAGING IN A SPECIES OF VOTER FRAUD HERSELF BY CLAIMING SHE WON AN ELECTION SHE CLEARLY LOST. Stacey Abrams isn’t running for president — she’s launching a voter protection program. And the press has enabled her lie, as it never would for a Republican.

MY CONGRESSMAN: Tim Burchett of Tennessee Reportedly Files Bill Going After Antifa.

JOHN HINDERAKER IS SUCCINCT: Read The GOAT!

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ANGELO CODEVILLA: The White Supremacy Hoax. “In practice, a ‘white supremacist’ is anyone whom anyone in power dislikes enough to so label him. Who would accept being outlawed at will? Our ruling class plays with matches in a house drenched in gasoline.”

More:

The Wall Street Journal on Saturday featured an essay by one Clint Watts, formerly of the FBI and West Point’s Counter Terrorism Center. Watts makes those proposals using the word “white” 16 times in 18 paragraphs. The sociopolitical ideas rife among white people are the main matrix of terrorism in America, Watts contends. Racial profiling, anyone?

Bemoaning the fact that U.S. law now restricts surveillance of, never mind restrictions on, U.S. persons to those who have committed or may be about to commit crimes, Watts proposes legislation that would permit designating persons associated with what the government may identify as “white supremacist ideology” as subject to surveillance to “preemptively assess whether these white supremacists are taking a radical turn toward violence.”

Watts also proposes “red flag” laws, that would allow the government to take away weapons from someone so designated. Loss of weapons would be the least of burdens imposed on anyone so “red-flagged.” Career, reputation, possibly family, would be gone because someone in the notoriously impartial FBI so decided, perhaps with the agreement of the highly scrupulous FISA court, subsequent to ex parte, secret proceedings.

This has become ruling-class conventional wisdom. Desire to wage war on ordinary Americans—to disadvantage them and even to kill them—had long been bubbling in the ruling class’s basements. The countless, nearly identical pronouncements from on high in recent days can be taken as an announcement that the ruling class has raised them into its forceful mainstream.

Needless to say, read the whole thing.

IT AIN’T SO, JOE: No, Joe Biden the assault weapons ban did not work.

FAA BANS SOME APPLE LAPTOPS FROM FLIGHTS: “U.S. airline safety regulators banned select MacBook Pro laptops on flights after Apple Inc. recently said that some units had batteries that posed a fire risk.” Apple has recalled them.

SWAMP TO TRUMP: “YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG.” Trump rips emolument lawsuits: Being president ‘costing me a fortune.’

LIFE AS A DC LOBBYIST CAN BE VERY REWARDING! The town is full of lobbyists like Jaime Harrison used to be. The Washington Free Beacon’s Brent Scher examined the South Carolina Democratic senatorial aspirant’s financial disclosures and found evidence of just how truly rewarding the lobbying life was for the associate chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

THE ELITE RESPOND TO TRAGEDY BY TRYING TO CONTROL THE REST OF US. THE REST OF US RESPOND CONSTRUCTIVELY: Gun sales are up in El Paso and concealed carry classes are packed.