SURE. WHATEVER. BUT MOSTLY? VOTER FRAUD. MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD. WE EITHER CLEAN UP THE VOTING OR WE’RE GOING TO HAVE TO SHOOT OUR WAY OUT SOCIALISM:  How did the Squad get elected? And what’s the game plan to get more far leftists into the House?

Until we can, remember this simple plan: lie to pollsters. Lie like a rug. Tell them how much you love the most socialist candidate.  Vote on the day and either in person or (where that no longer happens) take your ballot in at the last possible moment.  If you have a ballot mailed to you and don’t use it, shred it. If they don’t know how many votes to fake, we might have a chance. Follow the plan like your life depends on it. It might.

I HOPE NOT, BECAUSE THE PRC WON THAT ONE.  OH, SURE, WORLD OPINION, BUT THEY REMAINED IN POWER:  The Hong Kong Protest Is Beijing’s New Tiananmen Square.

SAME AS THEY ALWAYS DO:  Democrats Use the Specter of Racism to Sow Racial Discord.

ABOUT TIME: Good riddance: Clinton-man governor of Puerto Rico is finally booted.

VERY MUCH AMEN:  The investigators need to be investigated.

MOST THOROUGHLY HOIST ON THEIR OWN PETARD:  DOJ Invokes Fast And Furious With Refusal To Prosecute Willam Barr For Contempt.

I DON’T KNOW WHO IS MORE DANGEROUS, BUT THE FOUR SOWS OF THE DERPOCALYPSE ARE MORE UNHINGED:  Progressives Versus Pelosi.

DEMOCRATS? FIX SOMETHING? YOU’RE ASSUMING ENTIRELY TOO MUCH COMPETENCE AND CONTACT WITH REALITY:  Mueller is Finished, So Democrats Fix Your Cities.

TIME FOR CNN TO EITHER DOXX ITSELF OR GIVE AN EDITOR A PROMOTION: CNN Photo Editor Posted Vicious Anti-Semitic Tweets on Deaths of ‘Jewish Pigs.’

Mohammed Elshamy has now locked his account (unexpectedly), but he’s far from the first CNN employee who has expressed anti-Semitic sentiments. A week ago, Jewish Insider reported that “Former CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill claimed that news outlets like NBC and ABC were ‘Zionist organizations’ that produced ‘Zionist content,’ during a panel on Friday at the annual Netroots Nation summit held by progressive activists in Philadelphia…Hill’s comments came less than a year after he lost his CNN perch after calling for a ‘free Palestine from the river to the sea,’ during an appearance at the U.N. The statement was interpreted by many as a call for the elimination of Israel, something Hill denied.”

In 2014, the Washington Free Beacon reported that “CNN International correspondent Diana Magnay referred to a group of Israelis as ‘scum’ after she claimed that they were standing on a hill near the town of Sderot cheering as bombs landed in Gaza, according to a screen-shot of the comment captured by National Review.”

When CNN’s senior editor of Mideast affairs Octavia Nasr was fired in 2010, for tweeting, “Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah.. One of Hezbollah’s giants I respect a lot,” Cal Thomas opined, “The dirty little secret here is that she was simply expressing viewpoints that is widespread not only in the American media but much of the Euro media.  If you watch the BBC, for example, as I frequently do when I’m over there, coverage of the Middle East, it is virtually all one-sided, pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel.  Christiane Amanpour holds many of these views as well, I would daresay, but she is smart enough and sophisticated enough not to stick them on a Tweet.”

UPDATE: Elshamy walks the plank; CNN is describing it as a voluntary “resignation:”

CNN Digital Worldwide & Great Big Story Communications Vice President Matt Dornic said in a statement to the Journal, “The network has accepted the resignation of a photo editor, who joined CNN earlier this year, after anti-Semitic statements he’d made in 2011 came to light. CNN is committed to maintaining a workplace in which every employee feels safe, secure and free from discrimination regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation or religion.”

Associate Dean and Director of Global Social Action Agenda at the Simon Wiesenthal Center Rabbi Abraham Cooper told the Journal in a phone interview that he didn’t think CNN’s statement on Elshamy was good enough.

“They owe the Jewish community and the victims of terrorism an apology,” Cooper said.

Note that CNN’s laundry list above doesn’t include political worldview, which is why the network has no problem doxxing conservatives.

MORE: Another CNN Personality’s Antisemitic Tweets Unearthed: ‘I Love You Hitler.’

(Updated and bumped.)

FUNNY:  Ilhan Omar Lectures America About Racism.

Can someone show Madame Elmi a mirror?

AH, THE LEFT IS STILL THE LEFT:  Vandalizing the Marketplace of Ideas.

BEAUTY QUEEN SPEAKS THE TRUTH: ‘Coming out as conservative is harder than coming out as gay.’

In 2011, actor/comedian Paul Rodriguez explained his own coming out to the Annual California Republican Assembly Convention: “I remember many years since, trying to contemplate the idea of joining the Grand Old Party, and I said I better run this through Mom. I said, ‘Ma, Dad, sit down, I want to talk to you.’ Before I could go any further, they said, ‘Oh, my God, he’s gay. (AUDIENCE LAUGHTER) Ay, Dios mio, he’s gay.’ I said, ‘No, no, no, Mom, I’m thinking of being a Republican.’ She said, ‘I wish you were gay. (AUDIENCE LAUGHTER) Please look, what have we done?’”

EVEN AT A LEFTY IVY LEAGUE COLLEGE, WHERE MORE STUDENTS IDENTIFY AS SOCIALISTS THAN CONSERVATIVES, there’s no majority for impeaching Trump.

RUTH BADER GINSBURG: Brett Kavanaugh Is a ‘Very Decent’ Man.

SOMEBODY JUST SHARED THIS ON FACEBOOK, BUT I MISSED IT BACK IN MAY. WEIRD HOW IT GOT SO LITTLE MEDIA ATTENTION. Former Disney VP convicted of sexually abusing girl. “A former Disney executive has been convicted of sexually abusing a 7-year-old girl. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports 73-year-old Michael Laney was convicted Tuesday of four counts of first-degree sexual abuse after a six-day trial. . . . Court documents say Laney began abusing the victim in 2009 and there were multiple incidents of abuse spanning about two years.”

OPEN THREAD: Discuss the events of the day.

IT’S GOING TO BE HARD TO FIND A NON-CORRUPT OFFICIAL IN PUERTO RICO.

WHY ARE LEFTIST MEDIA OUTLETS SUCH CESSPITS OF ANTISEMITISM AND HATE? CNN Photo Editor Mohammed Elshamy Posted Vicious Anti-Semitic Tweets on Deaths of ‘Jewish Pigs.’

I HOPE WE’RE NOT TOO MESSIANIC, OR A TRIFLE TOO SATANIC: Hollywood Comedian D.L. Hughley Compares Trump Supporters To Devil Worshippers.

Trump’s enablers are, according to D.L., “self-centered” and “morally vacant.”

Does the entertainer think the same about all the rappers who praised New York’s most eccentric billionaire for years before his ram-horned Republican transformation?

Also, guess what — it’s the Republican side that’s anti-Semitic:

“[Trump’s] supporters are anti-Semitic. He’s calling [the Quad Squad] racist, he’s racist. … When people committed acts of violence in your name and you don’t denounce them, and you still support him, you are a vacant human being.”

But wait — there’s more.

And if you, the reader, can tear away from your meeting in the woods trying to summon a spiritual Earth-curse that’ll either annihilate humanity or be cast into a bunch of swine long enough to continue reading this…I’ll tell ya more about Americans sporting red caps.

Here’s D.L.’s message:

“You could worship the devil and be a better human being than if you worshiped Donald Trump. Look up the tenets of the Church of Satan… and then go to a Trump rally and you’ll feel safer around Beelzebub than this dude.”

So is that a lateral move or a step down for former John McCain supporters, millions of diverse Americans dismissed by Hughley because they “literally look like Nazi Germany” in 2009? (A statement he uttered while interviewing African-American then-RNC Chairman Michael Steele, curiously enough.)

APPARENTLY CORY BOOKER’S ENDOGENOUS TESTOSTERONE ISN’T DOING THE JOB, SO MAYBE HE NEEDS TO GET A SHOT: Exogenous testosterone increases sensitivity to moral norms in moral dilemma judgements.

MICHAEL YON ON FACEBOOK:

The conflict in Hong Kong is not about the Extradition Bill — and now many other issues are piling up almost weekly. The issue is that Communist China is trying to swallow and digest Hong Kongers who know the taste of freedom.

Humans are far more likely to fight to keep something they have than to fight for something they do not have. Mainland Chinese as a group never in their lives have tasted freedom. The communist cowboys in Beijing ride their broken slave horses daily and the broken horses just stare at the ground and go where they are told.

The British helped Hong Kongers taste freedom, and rule of law, and Hong Kongers love their freedom and legitimate judicial system. They will fight. The real fight is beginning.

Hong Kong is a key battle ground in a much larger war. Taiwan and others are watching.

And the Gray Lady is there to tell the rest of the world to pay no attention: “A New Red Scare Is Reshaping Washington:”

In a ballroom across from the Capitol building, an unlikely group of military hawks, populist crusaders, Chinese Muslim freedom fighters and followers of the Falun Gong has been meeting to warn anyone who will listen that China poses an existential threat to the United States that will not end until the Communist Party is overthrown.

If the warnings sound straight out of the Cold War, they are. The Committee on the Present Danger, a long-defunct group that campaigned against the dangers of the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s, has recently been revived with the help of Stephen K. Bannon, the president’s former chief strategist, to warn against the dangers of China.

Once dismissed as xenophobes and fringe elements, the group’s members are finding their views increasingly embraced in President Trump’s Washington, where skepticism and mistrust of China have taken hold. Fear of China has spread across the government, from the White House to Congress to federal agencies, where Beijing’s rise is unquestioningly viewed as an economic and national security threat and the defining challenge of the 21st century.

“These are two systems that are incompatible,” Mr. Bannon said of the United States and China. “One side is going to win, and one side is going to lose.”

I’d take the New York Times more seriously, if they hadn’t been doing their damndest in recent years to rehabilitate the legacy of the Soviet Bloc. (The ghost of Walter Duranty smiles.)

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Related: While Everyone Is Distracted By Russia, Chinese Spying And Influence Runs Wild. But it’s not just China.

COME AND SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: Parents cheer as kids bash an ICE agent piñata and throw balls at the painted image of President Trump.

Flashbacks:

● After Obama-mocking rodeo clown, Missouri fair requires ‘sensitivity training.’

● Joe Biden: I Want to ‘Beat the Hell Out of’ President Trump.

● Bernie Bro James T. Hodgkinson, Attempted Assassin Of Steve Scalise, Already Being Erased From History. And additional examples of leftist violence and eliminationist rhetoric at the link.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: Howard Fineman: Why does it make people so mad to see political elites and media elites hobnobbing at a Georgetown cocktail party?

It’s almost suspiciously perfect. The dictionary definition of an elitist Washington cocktail party becomes reality — just hours after Democrats’ big Mueller impeachment show turns out to be a total dud, with Pelosi seemingly evincing not a care in the world?

And the party was being thrown to celebrate a book about Supreme Court confirmation fights, a subject on which Senate Democrats have failed spectacularly not once, not twice, but three times in the span of three years? And there’s Chuck Schumer, also seeming to be having a grand old time?

And the journalist hosting it just so happens to have been the conduit for Pelosi’s recent trash talk about the left’s heroes, the Squad?

It’s as if this image was forged in some populist lab, a deepfake designed to encourage the total overthrow of the Democratic establishment.

The reaction on Twitter from both sides was swift and brutal and foreseeable to everyone in the universe. Except, somehow, to the man who posted it.

“All establishments are hated.” Any theories why?

This fellow might have some thoughts:

A political party is dying before our eyes — and I don’t mean the Democrats. I’m talking about the “mainstream media,” which is being destroyed by the opposition (or worse, the casual disdain) of George Bush’s Republican Party; by competition from other news outlets (led by the internet and Fox’s canny Roger Ailes); and by its own fraying  journalistic standards. At the height of its power, the AMMP (the American Mainstream Media Party) helped validate the civil rights movement, end a war and oust a power-mad president. But all that is ancient history.

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The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans. The problem was that, once the AMMP declared its existence by taking sides, there was no going back. A party was born.

—“The ‘Media Party’ is over,” Howard Fineman, MSNBC, January 13, 2005.

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