SPENGLER: Yes, it’s Cold War with China — so win it like the last Cold War.

THE NEW CIVILITY: Hawaii Congresswoman Calls Trump ‘Saudi Arabia’s Bitch.’

YOUR DAILY TREACHER: The NYT Has an ‘Angry Uncle Bot’ to Help You Navigate Thanksgiving with Your Family. “According to the robot programmed by a liberal, if you want to talk to somebody about hot-button issues over Thanksgiving dinner, the only acceptable responses are to agree with the liberal or to avoid openly disagreeing with the liberal. Anything else and you’re just an angry uncle.”

Do not taunt the angry uncle bot.

HEADLINES FROM THE BIRTHPLACE OF LIBERTY: Defrosting your windscreen wrongly can mean a £60 fine and three penalty points.

JOHN HAWKINS: The 5 Critical Keys to Making Something Go Viral.

NO. You can buy Christmas lights for your beard.

MEET THE NEW BOSS… It’s been exactly a year since Robert Mugabe resigned, but Zimbabwe is still the house that Bob built — and the new president has done little more than paper over the cracks.

CREEPING SHARIA: Ban on female genital mutilation ruled unconstitutional.

DOWN BUT NOT OUT: ISIS Threat Invoking Christmas Market Attack: ‘Retribution’ Coming on New Year’s Day.

RACISM, STRAIGHT UP: Missouri Democrat Says Oval Office ‘Needs to be Fumigated’ After Kanye West Visit.

QUESTION ASKED… Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?

…and answered, by Chanel’s new line of “imperceptible” makeup for, well, boys?

(Hat tip to Kevin Furr on Facebook.)

UPDATE: #MeTooByTSA spotlights TSA abuse; screener arrested for felony sexual battery after pat-down.

Airline passengers this Thanksgiving can look to the trending hashtag #MeTooByTSA and the valid citizen’s arrest of ex-TSA screener Michael Gerard Polson for felony sexual battery, to help draw attention to inappropriate, overzealous and excessive force searches by TSA screeners.

While we all want good airport security, the abundance of admitted striking of passengers’ genitals by TSA screeners is not being tracked by TSA. Just like the MeToo movement, #MeTooByTSA seeks to draw attention to abuses of authority, for which TSA admits to paying screeners $250 cash bonuses after they strike or abuse passengers ( https://bit.ly/2Tj5N4s ), encouraging abuse of passengers!

TSA’s excuse in court even cited by the federal court as implausible is that TSA screeners claim to still not know that they should not hit or strike compliant passengers’ testicles or genitals!

There’s nothing funny about official abuse.

LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: LA’s Skid Row Voter Scheme and Much, Much More. “So it’s obstruction of justice because Trump had conversations with his advisors about prosecuting Clinton and Comey but didn’t do it? Remember, the Obama administration actually DID THIS. Obama went after the Trump campaign for Hillary with the ‘insurance policy’ and used a salacious and unverified garbage dossier to spy on everyone involved in the Trump campaign.”

That’s different because shut up.

THIS SEEMS PRUDENT: Trump administration paying undercover informants in migrant caravan.

DHS spokeswoman Katie Waldman, in a statement to The Hill, declined to comment on the “sources or methods” that DHS uses to gather intelligence on the migrants. But she added that it would be “malpractice for the United States to be ignorant about the migrants.”

“We have an obligation to ensure we know who is crossing our borders to protect against threats to the Homeland and any indication to the contrary is misinformed,” she added.

And as Jazz Shaw noted on Twitter, “I bet it was dirt cheap, budget-wise.”

TO BE FAIR, IT ISN’T 2020 YET: Even Hillary can’t hold a candle to outsized sore loser Stacey Abrams.

HMM: Democrats Have Devised A Way To Dilute Trump’s Judicial Picks.

California Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D) and Kamala Harris (D) are utilizing their positions on the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee to try and have a say in who should fill vacancies in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and various district courts.

The two legislators sent a letter to White House Counsel Pat Cipollone to let the Trump administration know that they’re ready and willing to come to a compromise nominees.

Were they able to come up with a reason Trump should want to compromise with them?

SPOILER: THEY’RE FLEEING. The only options for Illinois millennials: fight or flight.

Dowling calls for Illinois millennials to get engaged. Kudos to him for the wake up call.

But the question of what exactly Dowling wants millennials to fight for remains. He doesn’t make clear whether he favors passing the tough reforms like a constitutional amendment so the state can restructure not-yet-earned pension benefits, or just more tax schemes and the pension “fixes” Pritzker is considering. (More on Pritzker’s progressive tax scheme and his potential pension fixes here, here and here.)

If Dowling favors more taxes and “fixes”, he’ll need to revisit his opinion piece – especially the line where he says, “We are the ones that will shoulder the $129 billion for the foreseeable future.” Dowling wrongly assumes Illinois millennials will stick around to pay the higher tax bills and face the cuts in services. But millennials are highly educated and an extremely tech-savvy generation. They don’t have to stay in Illinois to find their future.

The data already tells us they aren’t.

Illinois has lost a net of 107,000 millennials and their dependents to other states across the nation since 2012, according to the Internal Revenue Service.

It’s a stunning number.

Yes, but hardly shocking. Illinois has probably already entered a fiscal death spiral, and the state will go broke in the two ways made famous by Ernest Hemingway.

KABUKI: Ocasio-Cortez Not Sold on Ousting Pelosi Because Pelosi Opponents Not Diverse Enough. “Congresswoman-elect fears that ouster attempt by segment of caucus ‘creates a window where we could potentially get more conservative leadership’.”

That doesn’t seem like much of a risk.

LISTICLE: The 10 Greatest Moments in Modern Sports History.

D. C. MCALLISTER: Actress Ellen Pompeo Shows Lack of Empathy in Call for ‘Inclusivity.’

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Everything You Need To Know About Winning A Thanksgiving Argument. “Don’t start one. That’s how you win.”

Pass the gravy, and pass on the Gleichschaltung.

CDR SALAMANDER: A Hospital Ship’s Soft Powers Sharp Elbow.

UPDATE: Chipotle Rehires Wrongly Fired Manager.

CREEPY ABUSIVE PORN LAWYER UPDATE: Aspiring actress seeks restraining order against Michael Avenatti.

READINESS: Navy Lost 1,891 Days of Attack Sub Operations Waiting for Repairs; Spent $1.5 Billion Supporting Idle Crews.

From 2008 to 2018, most of the planned repairs for the Navy’s fleet of about 50 nuclear attack submarines have started late and run long resulting in a combined 10,363 days of maintenance delays and idle time.

“Our analysis found that the primary driver affecting attack submarines are delays in completing depot maintenance,” read the report. “For example, of the 10,363 total days of lost time since fiscal year 2008, 8,472 (82 percent) were due to depot maintenance delays.”

“Although the Navy has shifted about 8 million man-hours in attack submarine maintenance to private shipyards over the past five years, it has done so sporadically, having decided to do so in some cases only after experiencing lengthy periods of idle time,” read the report. “According to private shipyard officials, the sporadic shifts in workload have resulted in repair workload gaps that have disrupted private shipyard workforce, performance, and capital investment—creating costs that are ultimately borne in part by the Navy.”

What a mess.