PASS THE JUCHE ON THE LEFT-HAND SIDE: Joe Scarborough: Children, Grandchildren of Trump Defenders Will Be Punished!

SCARBOROUGH: We don’t know how this ends in the Senate. These shameless Trumpsters will remain shameless Trumpsters. But we do know how the story ends. We do know how history writes this. We know that everyone who defends Donald Trump right now will be exposed. We know Mike Pence will be exposed for what he is. We know that Barr will be exposed for what he is. We know that all of these characters, Rudy Giuliani, will be exposed for what he is.

History, it will be bleak. And their families, their children, their grandchildren—everyone who has their last name—will carry that around with them, if they decide to continue lying for a failed reality TV host who will show them no loyalty.

“Among the most shocking of North Korea’s human rights abuses is the ‘three generations of punishment’ rule. If one person is found guilty of a crime and sent to a prison camp, so too will their entire family, and the subsequent two generations born at the camp must remain there for life.”

(Or former Trump supporters can simply renounce their “crimes,” make the rounds and shed a few tears on Oprah-style chat show, and declare themselves newly reborn “Progressive” true believers, and —whammo! — instant redemption by the DNC-MSM. Just ask the governor of Virginia and the prime minister of Canada.)

WE GOT THIS: Americans drinking more now than just before Prohibition.

AGAIN: This year’s flu shot doesn’t match virus circulating: report.

GOOD LORD: Jeffrey Epstein Accused Of Sex Trafficking Hundreds Of Girls As Young As 11 In New Lawsuit.

FUNNY LADS MAKE GRAUNIAD MAD: Ricky Gervais and Jeremy Clarkson are no laughing matter. As Glenn likes to say, leftists are still trying to cope with their loss of accustomed impunity. While Clarkson, the veteran Top Gear/Grand Tour host has long been associated with England’s Torys, he’s anti-Brexit, and Gervais is reliably leftist on most issues, but understands that a comedian’s job is to poke fun at whoever the sacred cows in power happen to be. But these days, to mock the left is to be dubbed a cross between a crypto-Nazi and neo-confederate, based on the illustration that accompanies the Guardian’s screed:

That’s some highly subtle and nuanced leftist humor on display right there.

UNEXPECTEDLY: New York Bail ‘Reform’ Turns Into a Bonanza for Repeat Offenders.

ANCIENTS: Study pinpoints the timing of earliest human migration.

HARSH, BUT FAIR: Nancy Pelosi Is Doing Putin’s Bidding.

I GUESS I HOPE IT WORKS, BUT I CAN’T GET EXCITED ABOUT SLS, WHICH HAS BEEN A PORK PROJECT FROM DAY ONE: NASA Has Loaded Its Big Ol’ Rocket Onto Its Big Ol’ Barge. “Once the SLS core stage arrives at Stennis, it will be hoisted up onto the B-2 test stand and subjected to a number of tests of its avionics, propulsion systems, and four RS-25 engines. Eventually, the Pegasus Barge and SLS core stage will embark on a six-day trip to Kennedy Space Center in Florida. There, NASA engineers will begin to assemble the rocket and ready it for launch in the mid-2020s, barring any additional delays. While NASA intended for the SLS to return a crewed mission to the moon, the project has been plagued by delays. In May 2019, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine relented that it may cede the honor to a commercial company after all.”

THE RECEIVING END: Sanders Supporters Shocked to Find Bias at CNN. “Did these people actually believe the cable network was in the news business?”

Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi tweeted, “This is an unusually vile performance by CNN.” The Nation’s Elie Mystal raged, “Jesus Christ I hate these biased questions from the moderators. ‘How would you keep your plan from bankrupting the country?’ JUST ASK THE KOCH BROTHERS TO MODERATE NEXT TIME!” HuffPost’s Zach Carter griped about CNN’s post-debate panel discussion, “CNN’s crew is just straight bashing Sanders post-debate.” The New Republic’s Libby Watson whined, “CNN is truly a terrible influence on this country.”

Hmm … Where have we heard that before? Oh, that’s right. Conservatives have been making the same point for decades, only to be sneered at by progressives who insisted that such claims were conspiracy theories. In reality, it has long been obvious that CNN operates more like the PR department for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) than a legitimate news outlet.

Well, Bernie Bros, are you going to just sit there and take it?

SLAVERY DEFEATED: “HBO Cancels ‘Confederate’ Series Before a Single Script Is Written.”

I don’t see anybody freaking out about The Man in the High Castle, which ended its run a few months ago. The entire series is on Amazon Prime. You can watch it right now. It exists. And guess what? Nothing bad happened in real life! Or at least nothing worse than usual happened, if you’re one of the people who think 62 million Americans are actual Nazis because they voted for Trump.

Maybe Confederate would’ve been a bad show. Considering how GoT turned out, I’m approaching any new Benioff & Weiss show with a healthy dose of skepticism. But if it had been made, it wouldn’t have hurt anything but your feelings.

Alternative history TV shows are highly problematic, except when they’re not, apparently.

EYES ON THE PRIZE: Buzz Aldrin is My Hero.

BERNIE CERTAINLY HAS A WAY WITH WOMEN: ‘I Sort of Can’t Believe This Is Happening’: Young Progressives Agonize Over Bernie-Warren Feud.

THE MSM HAS LEARNED NOTHING AND FORGOTTEN NOTHING:

Shot: D.C. Fire Department recruits might be making “white power” hand gesture in photo.

—CBS News, today.

Chaser: West Point investigation concludes cadets did not flash “white power” sign at Army-Navy game.

—CBS News, December 20, 2019.

As Glenn noted back then, “The 4Chan trollers have scored again. I remember when ’culture jamming’ was a lefty thing, but the lefty culture jammers never scored at this level.”

INCENTIVES MATTER: Illegal Alien Crossings Down an Extraordinary 78 Percent.

BECAUSE MUCH OF THE WEST’S POLITICAL CLASS IS IN BED WITH (OR PAID OFF BY) THE PEOPLE AGAINST WHOM THE REVOLUTION IS TAKING PLACE: There’s a revolution going on in the Mideast. Why doesn’t the West see that?.

IT’S MINDBLOWING WHAT WE’VE BUILT DESPITE WASHINGTON’S BEST EFFORTS: We Are (Half) the World: What’s Your Real Worth, America?

A couple of years back, AEI’s Mark J. Perry put together a cool map renaming all 50 of our United States, if each one of them was an actual country of equivalent wealth (or GDP). Being the map freak Longtime Sharp VodkaPundit Readers™ know me to be, someone brought Perry’s map to my attention a few weeks ago, and I immediately fell in love with it.

But I have to warn you: It only tells a small part of the story I’m going to tell you today.

As that sharp commenter said to me, the United States economy is like an entire world unto itself.

Just how big that world is, and just how fantastically productive this country is, are the subjects of today’s column for our VIP members.

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GOOD LUCK WITH THAT: Kamala Harris Just Proved That Impeachment Is About Blocking Trump’s Judicial Nominees.

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I’M SORRY, THAT’S INCORRECT: Uproar as American game show host refuses to accept “Palestine” as an answer.

The show is structured under a number of different categories in which contestants answer questions that revolve around the same theme. In the episode that aired earlier this week, contestants were asked questions under the “Where’s the Church?” category, in which they had to name the place that was,”Built in the 300s A.D., the Church of the Nativity.”

In response, contestant Katie Needle said “What is Palestine?” But, her answer was rejected. Her opponent, however, responded with “What is Israel?” and was awarded the point.

As a whole, America recognises Israeli occupation of the Palestine region as Israel, however, internationally, the West Bank and East Jerusalem is not recognised as part of Israel. The Church of Nativity in question is where Jesus is said to have been born and is located in Bethlehem, at the Israeli occupied West Bank, which, again, is recognised as Palestine in most places, but not America.

It’s an American show, Israel is an American ally, and anyway that might have been a lawful part of Palestine if the Palestinians hadn’t rejected a peace offer giving them 93% of what they wanted and pursued the Intifada II terror campaign instead.

And Trebek is a national treasure.

OUR UNIVERSITIES ARE RUN BY HYSTERICAL CHILDREN: University suspended College Republicans because someone said they practiced ‘Nazism.’ “Someone said” the University of Maine should have its funding slashed because it’s a joke. And that someone is me.

SHOCKER: Klobuchar Claims She Will Take on Pharma, Has Taken $400,000 From the Industry.

COLD WAR II: China Discovers Underwater Spy Drones In Its Waters. “The secretive world of naval underwater surveys rarely breaks the surface. Now recent events are briefly shining a light into the darkness. In the Adriatic a Croatian fishing vessel caught one of the U.S. Navy’s undersea sensor systems last week. That mysterious object has largely been explained. Meanwhile, China has held an award ceremony for fishermen who alerted authorities after discovering similar devices in their nets. The devices may have been operating in international waters, but still in China’s back yard as they see it. We can infer that some of these devices may also belong to the U.S. Navy.”

I should hope so. I’d also hope we’ll get better at not getting caught.

Related and recommended: Blind Man’s Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage.

PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: UConn students arrested for ‘ridiculing’ speech are now suing.