AMMO GRRRLL digs into the Left’s dirty thesaurus.

ALL THE BEST SOCIALISTS are rich socialists.

WILL THEY REALLY #WalkAway from the Democrat Party? I think so - click through to the Twitter hashtag and see for yourself.

CANADIANS ARE SMARTER THAN AMERICANS: Restaurant manager fired after refusing to serve customer wearing MAGA hat.

RURAL DEMOCRATS’ BIG PROBLEM IN MINNESOTA: "Nobody cares about us." It's not just rural Democrats; it's rural America.

APPARENTLY NOT: Can immigrants be deported without a trial?

Which makes it all that more important to build that wall to keep them out in the first place....

ON THE LOSS OF CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: No space for Trump supporters in country's biggest newspapers.

YOU'RE NOT GONNA LIKE LIVING UNDER YOUR OWN RULES:



Heh.

I'M IN THE WRONG HALF: Democrats think nearly half of all Republicans make more than $250,000/year.

The lede is amusing, but what is really striking is the level of overestimation by Republicans of atheists/blacks/LBGTs/union members. My thought is that this is a result the mainstream media's continual emphasis on 'snowflakery' as opposed to news.

WE CAN'T ERASE THE BORDERS, SO LET'S DO THE NEXT BEST THING: Democrats demand elimination of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Let's do what Democrats usually do: change the name. I like National Immigration and Customs Enforcement (NICE).

A UNIQUE PROTEST ON MULTIPLE LEVELS: Trump supporter arrested for throwing chicken shit at Red Hen restaurant.

I agree that he should have been arrested; I only wish that the Antifa (and Antifa-like) protestors demonstrators would be treated the same way.

TRUMP & REPUBLICANS should send Harry Reid a gift basket for giving them carte blanche on SCOTUS nominees.

THE STATE OF LIBERALISM: "I find sobering the thought of ... [anyone] ... voting for a candidate whose only 'credentials' are treason and a [government-funded] sex-change operation."

If insane asylums were to suddenly return, they would all be standing-room only.

A REMINDER TO LIBERALS that the sword is double-edged: You won't like having to live under your own rules.

FOR YOU, NOT FOR THEM: The success of socialist candidates would mean a return to poverty and tyranny. Because they deserve to be richly rewarded for their hard work in controlling every aspect of your life....

Venezuela is a prime example.

CHANGE: We win; they lose.

'EMOTIONAL LABOR': It's men' fault.

IT’S NOT MISOGYNY if the targets are Republicans. Right? Right?

LEFTIES ARE NOT HAVING A GOOD WEEK and Instapundit is insulting rocks.

GOOD FOR HIM: Scott Pruitt is rolling back one of the EPA’s most expansive powers.

I still wish President Trump would take Pruitt into the Oval Office and read him the riot act about his ethical misadventures, but that said, he has done an exceptional job of rolling back the EPA's regulatory overreach.

ANOTHER IDIOT BUSYBODY SELF-IDENTIFIES: A San Francisco woman threatened to call the police on an 8-year-old girl selling water bottles.

She's now out of a job.

CHRIS MATTHEWS UNHINGED: Democrats shouldn’t even allow meetings with Trump’s Supreme Court nominee.

You can almost read the spittle coming from his mouth. The man is stark raving mad. Where are the mental institutions when you need them?

PORTLAND ICE OCCUPIERS gear up for confrontation with police after eviction notices served. Frankly, I'll be disappointed if said confrontation doesn't include jail time - and some busted heads - for the 'evictees'.

Update: some arrests, but not by the Seattle police who are still on the sidelines.

SO WHY AREN'T THE LIBERALS OUTRAGED? American families separated by government action.

LIBERALS HAVE THE SUPREME COURT SADZ: "The courts aren’t going to rule in the Democrats’ favor just because they scream 'HITLER NAZI ARMAGEDDON' about everything."

WISCONSIN DEMOCRAT introduces bill to abolish ICE, says 'heartless' agency doesn't 'represent our values'.

I find that difficult to believe since Democrats apparently have no values.

CONSERVATIVES school the New York Times.

It's the rule of law, doofi, not the rule of feelz....

HILLARY CLINTON thinks a change to the Constitution is necessary so a tragedy like her losing the election never happens again.

IT'S GETTING SERIOUS: Democrat threatens to murder Congressman's children.

He's been arrested.

BECAUSE THEY CARE: MSNBC panelists have a good laugh imagining a tanking economy bringing down Trump.

MID-WEEK IN PICTURES: Red Hen edition. As I noted in an earlier post, Red Hen's employees had better get their resumes spiffed up.

ANOTHER DOOFUS SELF-ILLUMINATES: The Ignorant Do Not Have a Right to an Audience. To which I wholeheartedly agree, provided I am the one making the decision.

IT'S TIME TO LEAVE: Afghanistan isn’t a country — it’s a hole in the map where neighboring countries aren’t.

EVEN IF THERE IS A BLUE WAVE, it looks like Nancy Pelosi won't be Speaker of the House again.

HARVARD IN THE PILLORY: Sometimes it's the crime you didn't commit that nails you.

MAKING A RUN FOR THE BORDER: Hollyweird D-listers [Lena] Dunham and other super clueless celebrities (?) to the rescue!

GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Red Hen restaurant owner closes doors through July 4.

Nothing says 'bankrupt' better than closing your doors over a holiday....

BREAKING: Just because the Earth is warming (it isn't) is not the exclusive fault of U.S. oil companies.

Sort of common sense, but common sense seems to be exclusive to normal people.

MANUFACTURED OUTRAGE: the hysteria this time.

Over at least the last 40 years I've always found the Left's approach to any problem is always to punish the innocent and protect the guilty.

“CHIEF JUSTICE” ANTHONY KENNEDY RETIRES; Liberals go berserk.

THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA HAS FACT-CHECKERS ...

... but they're not allowed to interrupt the narrative.

MAXINE WATERS' DAYS OF RAGE: There is no limiting principle on leftist fury.

CROCODILE DUNDEE EXCEPTED, it's not a good idea to come to a gun-friendly country armed only with a knife.

GLOBAL WARMISTS NOT AMUSED: Lack of CO2 hits EU beer production.

THAT'S WHY THEY'RE CALLED 'STILETTO' HEELS: Woman stabs fellow rider with high-heel in subway brawl.

ARMED: How to go out in public as a Trump supporter.

YES! YES, YES, YES: Supreme Court rules no government employee can be fired for refusing to pay a union.

PUNCHING BACK (ALREADY): CNN 'star' Jim Acosta shamed at Trump rally as crowd chants, 'Go home, Jim'.

How does it feel to be on the receiving end, Jim?

HOW DANGEROUS AND INSANE HAVE LIBERALS BECOME? Some recent examples.

READING QUEERLY: I suppose that means reading with a closed mind.

HEH: Liberals argue against Civil Rights Act of 1964. (Which they voted for: 46-21 in the Senate; 153-91 in the House.)

THE MISOGYNISTIC RESISTANCE: Pam Bondi becomes fourth female Trump supporter to be harassed in public. They target women because they know men might punch back.

Cowards.

SINCE THE U.S. WITHDREW FROM THE JCPOA Iran seems to be falling apart.

REMEMBER WHEN we were told that electing Trump would ramp up the war on women? Well, it did.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON on the fate of the West, Trump, and the Resistance. It's long, but worth a full reading. For an excerpt, see this Instapundit post.

THE INEVITABLE RESULT OF CLOSING INSANE ASYLUMS BACK IN THE 60'S: It's crazies all the way down.

THE LEFT is not enjoying living under the rules they created.

DEAR AMERICA: the Left has declared war on you.

If it's to be a 'war', here's a reminder for the Leftists....

WHO WOULD HAVE THUNK IT? FAKE NEWS IS BEING IGNORED: The battering Trump is taking in the press is not hurting him.

THE FACE OF LIBERALISM:

Smug, spiteful, stupid.

SOCIALISM IS GREAT IF YOU'RE AT THE TOP: One percenter Bernie Sanders earns $1 million for the second year in a row.

For the rest, not so much. Socialists want to redistribute your income, not theirs.

JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE of (oxymoron alert) left-wing media bias insanity.

THE RED HEN EATERIES are feeling the heat after the Lexington, Virginia refused to serve Press Secretary Sarah Sanders.

I'm hoping the other restaurants sue the Lexington restaurant alleging loss of business and reputational damages.

DON SURBER: Why the Resistance is futile.

THOSE WHO READ SHADOW'S WORLD know that I'm perpetually at war with the governmental 'safety nanny' idiots (herewith to be called nannidiots). Here's this month's example of nannidiocy: hiding directions for use in warning label on a bottle of weed killer.

The bottle is a small one of concentrate, so the 'instructions' are a 16-page foldout taped to the side of the bottle. The first 8 pages (the entire front side of the foldout) are risks & warnings, mostly common sense, and a few, frankly, idiotic. The last 8 pages (the back side of the foldout) contain 6 pages of blather and ads and only two (2!) of actual, you know, directions for use.

The directions themselves could have easily been printed on the side of the bottle in large print.

STEVE SCALISE CALLS FOR CIVILITY AND RESPECT; the Left responds (poorly).

CHRIS CILLIZZA: Why the Trump Time magazine cover is so powerful. Here's the cover:

After the outrage erupted, even Time finally admitted the cover was a 'fake (but accurate)' photoshop.

Since "fake but ..." seems to be Time's standard, here's a fake (but even more accurate) photoshop:

And to add insult to injury, here are two more fake (but funny) photoshops:

and

All of them can be found here.

"IF YOU THINK OF THE LEFT as spoiled, nasty children, prone to temper tantrums when they don't get their way ... you're absolutely right."

NOW THERE'S AN OXYMORON: Progressive Ethics.

HOW TO BE AN ARROGANT JERKWAD in one easy lesson.

Not that progressives need lessons....

THE SELF-ANOINTED HAVE FOUND THEY HAVE NO POWER: Why mainstream media hysteria is increasing.

SAVING THE PLANET THROUGH VIRTUE-SIGNALING: Buy food ethically, unless it's too hard.

SEATTLE MAYOR [JENNY] DURKAN travels to Mexican border to protest: ignores own backyard.

Well, it's hard to virtue-signal standing in the middle of a filthy, drug-addled homeless encampment.

AND MOST OF THEM ARE NOT IN THE HANDS OF LIBERALS: There are nearly 400 million civilian-owned guns in America.

That, I suppose, is why they're worried....

CALIFORNIANS DIVIDED on how to divide. I say keep it together for now and whatever's left after the big earthquake to come can be renamed Novo California.

POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures (Space Force Edition) has posted. While there are many good 'space force' cartoons, this one is my favorite:

'We will denuclearize' is a worthy runner-up.

SANCTIMONIOUS HYPOCRITES: Sanctuary city opposes housing illegal aliens.

THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA IS GETTING DESPERATE: Politico runs article from Trump adviser’s 3rd grade classmate about what a wall-loving, glue-addicted doodie head he was.

And this is relevant? To what?

VICTORY GIRLS: Sarah Sanders and freedom of association.

The Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, VA 'got woke'; it shouldn't be long before they 'gone broke'. If I was an employee, I'd be polishing my resume....

APPLY THESE RULES TO YOUR LIFE --

1. Act, Don't React
2. Try Everything
3. Chaos Is Power
4. Never Show Your Hand
5. Don’t Be Afraid to Be the Bad Guy

-- and maybe you'll marry the model and live in a Batman penthouse. Maybe not. But you can have a better life.

Linked from this Don Surber post.

THEY DON'T LIKE IT WHEN THEIR RULES ARE USED AGAINST THEM: Blue check Resistance appalled Sarah Sanders tweeted name of restaurant that kicked her out.

More (from PowerLine) here. I found this comment(At what point do we start calling them bigots?) most apropos, and to which I respond "No time like the present."

Finally, the restaurant has certain standards ... to uphold, such as honesty, and compassion, and cooperation.”

Trump Derangement Syndrome has gone too far. If I had been the co-owner, I'd have fired the employees on the spot rather than give in to their virtuE-signaling.

WHY MIGHT THAT BE? Nobody’s ever trying to chop up meat and treat it so it looks and tastes like broccoli.

Heh.

AMMO GRRRLL TO FECKLESS FEMI-NINNIES: "Shut the feck up. Normal Americans are sick of you."

IMAGINE THAT: Trump supporters are now immune to media outrage.

And it drives them nuts....

PROBABLY: Did the Supreme Court just bankrupt tens of thousands of small online businesses? With the help of the government-embedded Regulatory State....

Via Instapundit, who comments "The Powers That Be seem ready to rein in the Internet, whether it’s free speech or free enterprise."

LIBERALS ARE CRAZY. But will voters notice?

How many Americans understand how crazy and evil liberals are? I’m not sure. Hardly anyone, in the scheme of things, is on Twitter. And the liberal press does its best to cover up its allies’ insanity. Still, I think word is leaking out. I can’t believe that Americans will vote a party this nuts back into power.

I certainly hope they won't.

From the comments:

"We have reached peak insanity." - John Hinderaker
"Hold my beer." - CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, etc.

Heh.

IF IT WEREN'T FOR DOUBLE STANDARDS, THEY'D HAVE NO STANDARDS AT ALL. Nancy Pelosi in 2014: Let’s not politicize all of these children in detention facilities.

FAKE NEWS MEDIA: It's really about U (you).

They didn't get it. Unexpectedly, of course.

More.

MAN-BUNNED PROTESTER turns out to be 'full-time human guinea pig' idiot and aspiring comedian.

These days, 'idiot' and 'comedian' are redundant.

THE SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS OF THE NFL couldn't find one person to pardon:

President Trump on June 7 offered an olive branch to NFL players demanding social justice. The president of the United States said he would consider pardons for anyone the players requested.

Two weeks later, not one NFL player has come up with one victim of injustice to be pardoned.

They were 'trumped' again....

DON’T THINK! GET OUTRAGED! Let your feelings run free.

Facts are the enemy when it comes to liberal policies, so they don’t want you messing with the message by bringing them up. Instead, they want you outraged, and your mind clouded with ginned-up anger, ready to do their bidding.

Ignore the outrage. Watch it sputter and fade away. The liberals will fake another outrage for your amusement soon enough.

THE LAWS OF PHYSICS AREN'T STYLISH: Why do all cars look so much alike?

GET WOKE, GO BROKE. Amid filth and violence.

PROFESSOR: Learning math can cause ‘collateral damage’ to society. The 'professor' should be reminded that the universe does not run on progressives'"feelings".

IF WE CAN'T FIND EXTREMISTS ON THE RIGHT, we'll create them.

CNN TO DEMOCRAT SENATOR: Did you object when Obama kept unaccompanied illegal kids in cages?

JAMES COMEY, a legend in his own mind.

A CAT SPEAKS: Cats are purr-fect and smarter than dogs.

My cats agree....

STEVEN HAYWARD writes about Charles Krauthammer.

THE INSPECTOR GENERAL REPORT was a whitewash and devastating all at once. One sentence summary:

The rule of law matters, and the rule of law does not have exceptions that exempt preferred people and groups.

Indictments are needed.

ANOTHER MASS SHOOTING: one dead, 22 injured, including a 13-year-old boy. So where's the outrage?

Explanation: pretty much everyone involved with the shooting was black.

A CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSIONER weighs in on 'children at the border' insanity.

WHO SAID IT?

But, but ... they didn't really mean it.

Linked from Townhall.

THE STATES with the most psychopaths seem to be blue.

[I]f you’re looking for the highest concentration of psychopaths in the country, head to Washington, D.C. Apparently they have more of them than you can shake a stick at and the majority are working “in the political sphere.”

D.C. was completely off the chart. Surprised?

THE INTENSITY OF THE IMMIGRATION DEBATE, EXPLAINED: Existing voters won’t give the Left the power it wants, so they’re importing new ones.

A SMALL STEP FORWARD: These Harvard kids got the lesson of their lives in the Heartland. (It wasn't what they expected.)

IF YOU EVER WONDERED ABOUT 'INTERSECTIONALITY', here's the answer.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The dream and the nightmare of globalization.

More nightmare than dream (unexpectedly, of course).

PRICKLY CITY: Inside the liberal bubble.

DON'T THE PROLES KNOW INEFFICENCY IS GOOD? The 'Kochtopus' strangles mass transit.

Read the "'smart growth' is dumb" post as well.

JUST WATCH A FEW TV commercials and you'll find it plausible too: People's egos get bigger after yoga and meditation.

THE INSPECTOR GENERAL REPORT demonstrates the small-minded pettiness of the FBI.

I'm still reading the report, but two things are clear: (1) our liberal political class - across the board - is incredibly stupid, and (2) the 'progressive' left is insane.

TRUMP'S GOP is decidedly not your father's Republican Party. And your father's Democratic Party? It no longer exists.

DILBERT explains 'truth to power'.

YES, TRUMP DOES HAVE HIS WALL: an FBI stonewall. More than FBI - a 'deep state' stonewall.

CHANGE: Catholic Bishops gear up to beat Trump in 2020.

TROLL LEVEL: GRANDMASTER.

JEFF JACOBY: The real significance of the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision.

THAT MID-TERM BLUE WAVE TRICKLE has Elizabeth Warren's feathers ruffled.

(She must have made a recent fly-over of heathen country since we found one of her headdress feathers in our yard.)

A VISIT FROM THE SECRET SERVICE WILL DO THAT: Peter Fonda says he’s sorry for crude remarks about Melania and Barron Trump.

He should also realize that a mere apology won't get him off their radar....

DON SURBER ON THE INSPECTOR GENERAL REPORT: I want indictments. Me too.

A different view here. I still want indictments.

MINNESOTA POLITICS: I have seen the future, and they are jerks.

JUST ANOTHER 'anti-rich' millionaire politician.

The top Democrat running in New York’s 19th Congressional District took out a full page ad in the Albany Times Union slamming the “billionaires” and the “corporations” who “have rigged the system against us.” It is a pretty typical political ad. He looks stern with his arms crossed and his sleeves rolled up on his blue dress shirt — literally a blue collar! And then, there’s the $8,950 timepiece on his wrist.

But it's okay; he's a progressive.

HEH: Just another nut in the Leftist fruitcake.

THEN WHY HASN'T HE MOVED THERE? Human rights professor says Venezuelans 'better off' under socialism.

Doesn't he want to be 'better off' too?

ONLY 7? The seven nuttiest things Nancy Pelosi has said this year.

Nancy Pelosi is the poster child for progressive insanity.

BEEN THERE, DONE THAT, RETIRED SOON THEREAFTER: Why you’ll love having Gen Zers in the workplace.

NO BIAS HERE, FOLKS. Now just move along.

BECAUSE SHE CARES ABOUT PEOPLE: Nancy Pelosi encourages ‘uprisings’ around the country.

I think she missed the 'uprising' that elected Donald Trump president of the United States....

AMMO GRRRLL finds no limits in the third rail (of feminism).

DONALD TRUMP IS A DISRUPTOR.

He is disrupting the fat, arrogant, and corrupt elite and the web of self-dealing it has spun over the last seven decades. Is Trump putting at risk everything that's been built in the last 70 years? I sure hope so. Because the system that was built over the last 70 years is no longer working for all of us. It's working really well for a few of us, but that's just not enough anymore.

Read it all.

TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME IN A NUTSHELL:

It's this week's favorite from PowerLine's Week in Pictures. Now go and see the rest.

YOU GO FIRST, GUYS: Berkeley declares 'climate emergency', demands 'humane' population control. I'll hang around a while to see if it works.

Random thought: If an environmentalist commits suicide, is it a self-abortion (to save Gaia, of course)?

THE DEEP STATE IS AN ORGANISM, not a conspiracy.

Charlie Martin may not know how to deal with the 'Deep State' but I do: stop feeding it!
Starvation works.

WELL AND TRULY SPOKEN: "Those who proclaim themselves 'socialists' are usually depressing, have no sense of humor and attended an expensive college."

FROM MY EMAIL:

The subject of stopping the Hawaiian volcano has come up in Hawaii amongst lifelong residents.

According to ancient Hawaiian tradition, the quickest way to appease Pele and have the volcanic fires stop is to make a human sacrifice into her fires, and according to tradition, that needs to be a celebrated leader who was born in Hawaii.

Obama quickly announced he was actually born in Kenya, and has the birth certificate to prove it.

Heh.

THE FBI’S FRACTURED FAIRYTALE: If the goal was to frame one man and his employees, then everything makes sense.

IT WAS WALL-TO-WALL CORRUPTION, but the press didn’t care. Because Obama.

POWERLINE: The high price of stale grievances.

The entire essay is here.

SUMMER'S HERE: Be sure you can recognize these parasites...

CALIFORNIA'S 'three-state' solution. To what? Is there evidence somewhere that three smaller incompetent states is somehow 'better'that one large incompetent state? Best comment pair:

I think CA should be annexed to Mexico.
In practice, it is. We just need to finish the paperwork.

Personally, I'd okay giving California back to Mexico. It would solve the illegal immigration problem and I suspect improve America's trade inbalance with the world.

TRUMP THE VULGAR – The Angry Deep State Tells All.

To which normal America replies: "Well, yes, he may be a bastard - but he's our bastard." Now go pound sand.

EVEN IN GOVERNMENT: Mock your boss; get fired.

TRUMP'S SCHADENFREUDE LIST continues to grow. Sixty-four now - and still counting....

Update: Make it 65 and add (soon-to-be-former) Rep. Mark Sanford (R-SC) to the list.

PRAGER UNIVERSITY: Europe is committing suicide. Why?

Is the United States far behind?

BEN RHODES: "If you were part of the Obama Administration while it normalized Cuba and dropped off pallets of cash in Iran, maybe you should just sit out commenting on the meeting in Singapore between President Trump and Kim Jong-Un."

HERE'S HOW THE MARS ROVER GOT THERE:



I worked for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory many years ago. I'm almost sorry I left.

IT'S TOUGH WHEN YOUR TAX BASE GETS UP AND LEAVES: Seattle poised to repeal tax on big businesses after protests from Starbucks and Amazon.

Especially when they're progressive big businesses....

I'D LIKE TO BELIEVE THIS ABOUT JEFF SESSIONS: Why they let the FBI "get away" with ignoring subpoenas.

LIFE BEGINS AT CONCEPTION and ends at Planned Parenthood.

Sign of the times....

DEMOCRATS' PRIORITY LIST as seen by NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio. I particularly like Doug Powers' summary:

... send an illegal alien to ask de Blasio for sanctuary in his city while holding a
Chick-fil-A sandwich in a styrofoam container.

A perfect summary of the Democrat party nationwide.

CALIFORNIA desperately needs an electoral college.

Rather than an electoral college, I think it'd be easier for the Israelis absorb the Palestine territories and Gaza (since they know how to do it) and reserve the two-state solution for California.

GEORGE SOROS COMPLAINS: ‘Everything that could go wrong, has gone wrong’.

Not for normal Americans....

DON SURBER on why the Obama administration anti-Trump plan failed: "The smooth talk aside, he [Obama] does not seem to be very intelligent."

I CAN UNDERSTAND why NYT's Charles Blow is a single parent.

NASA ANNOUNCES A MAJOR FIND BY THE CURIOSITY ROVER: organic molecules on Mars. Not evidence of life, but evidence of possible precursors.

KURT SCHLICTER: A huge win in the culture war.

MY FAVORITE from PowerLine's Week in Pictures this morning:

Finally CNN does something positive.

Now go and see the rest.

IT'S TIME for a U.S. carrier strike group to transit the Taiwan strait.

ANOTHER MIDDLE FINGER TO 'CONSUMER ADVOCATE' ELIZABETH WARREN: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Chief Mick Mulvaney 'shakes up' (meaning essentially fires) current Consumer Advisory Board.

I wonder: Will the Left ever learn that many - if not most - consumers don't want 'advocates' helping them?

CNN'S MELANIA TRUTHER BRIAN STELTER defends vicious fake news; gets hammered on Twitter.

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy....

IRONY ALERT: 'Evil' big banks stopped Obama administration's shady Iran deal.

WILL HIS NETFLIX TELEVISION DEAL RUIN OBAMA? Not likely: "Television won’t ruin Obama because cronyism already has."

NO, HE'S JUST A BIGOT: Is Mayor de Blasio an anti-Asian bigot?

BECAUSE THEY'RE GETTING LESS VIDEO TIME TO POSTURE: Mainstream media melts down after Trump calls on the Daily Caller.

BEN SHAPIRO ASKS “What can we do to stop suicide?”

Since suicide has been steadily increasing over the last few years, I would suggest that someone check the data for correlation with the growth of progressivism, especially the last few years of social justice warrior progressivism.

Linked from this Instapundit post.

WELL, MAYBE YOU OUGHT TO STOP VOTING FOR THOSE CLOWNS AT CITY HALL: Seattle residents fed up with spending more on the homeless with little to show for it.

NOEMIE EMERY: Ben Rhodes and the world as it was should have been.

RANDOM THOUGHT: The singular thing that the Trump administration has done is to highlight the Democrats' unwillingness to give up slavery.

NOT ONLY NO, BUT HELL NO: Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) wants a national gun registry.

FOX NEWS' CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER says goodbye to colleagues, friends and viewers. More here.

Godspeed, Charles. May you rest in peace, and prayers for your family. We were truly blessed to have you for as long as we did.

TAMMY BRUCE: California's new water rules are making people flee the Golden State.

A new law in California limits how much water can be used by each household. Now their showers, how many flushes, and how often they can do their laundry will be under the watchful eye of the state government.

“Assembly Bill 1668 is where it gets personal. This establishes limits on indoor water usage for every person in California and the amount allowed will decrease even further over the next 12 years. ‘The bill, until January 1, 2025, would establish 55 gallons per capita daily as the standard for indoor residential water use, beginning January 1, 2025, would establish the greater of 52.5 gallons per capita daily or a standard recommended by the department and the board as the standard for indoor residential water use, and beginning January 1, 2030, would establish the greater of 50 gallons per capita daily or a standard recommended by the department and the board as the standard for indoor residential water use …’”

More here.

WHAT? YOU MUST BE KIDDING: Feds spending $350K to see if lesbians are using the right contraception.

Nope. Not kidding.

OPEN LETTER TO SCOTT ADAMS: #SummerOfLove will never work. It takes two to have a conversation; the Left only knows 'lecture'.

Read it all.

DEREK HUNTER: There is nothing Liberalism won't ruin.

MONKEY HEAR, monkey laugh. Monkeys are insulted.

SUMMARY: He may be a bastard, but he's my bastard.

POLITICAL COMMENT OF THE YEAR:

Law isn't law anymore (for the left political class) it is a suggestion that can be ignored. We aren't a nation of laws any longer, today we are a nation of lawyers who lie cheat and steal while the taxpayer pays them to work at the DOJ.

From among the many comments to Fox News article on the upcoming release of the DOJ Inspector General report. (I made one tiny correction to the quoted comment.)

OH MY: The cartoons are spot on target today.

HOW ABOUT FLOODING CALIFORNIA WITH CRIMINAL-BASHING PROSECUTORS? Voters reject Soros' big-money bid to flood California with cop-bashing prosecutors.

COMMENT OF THE DAY:

I tried losing nice with Romney. Didn't like the taste it left in my mouth.

I prefer winning with Trump.

From this Don Surber post.

WOKEST PRESIDENT EVER? Starbucks founder ponders run for president, possibly opening WH bathrooms to all.

Maybe he should run for mayor of Seattle first?

MAINSTREAM MEDIA: It's all Trump's fault we spread those vicious rumors about Melania.

[Update]: CNN's Brian Stelter defends the mainstream media. Poorly.

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION TO CONGRESS: “F them.”

IT'S A BIT LATE, JOE: Manchin says he regrets Clinton support.

MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY: "[W]here the SJW idiocy seems never-ending."

THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU COLLECT CATER TO THE HOMELESS: Seattle has collected 42,000 pounds of garbage around homeless camps in just 3 weeks.

GET WOKE, GO BROKE: soon to come to a Miss America pagent near you.

HEH: Recess is canceled! Which is appropriate since Congress is acting like a bunch of spoiled first-graders.

McConnell should next make the Senators sit in their desks with their heads down for an hour or two....

NFL VS NASCAR AND NASCAR WINS: Yo, Philly! Trump says your Eagles can go take a knee somewhere else.

Not on the peoples' White House lawn.

WITH SOME LUCK: We won’t have Keith Ellison to kick around any more.

Good riddance to bad rubbish....

A CLUELESS FINAL YEAR: "[A] devastating portrait of mandarin entitlement gone horribly wrong."

CNN SHOULD APOLOGIZE to the NRA and spokeswoman Dana Loesch for their witch hunt/dog and pony show/kangaroo court 'townhall'.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: California and conservatism:

Conservatives know that the problem with California is not skin color, ethnic affinity, or race, but rather a juxtaposition of historically unprecedented great wealth on the coast and the culture it spawns — especially in high technology, government, finance, entertainment, and academia — with dire poverty in the state’s north and interior, some the result of years of open borders and illegal immigration. The result is a state in which the pernicious consequences of elite policymaking are never quite experienced by their insulated architects.

Open borders are fine, but then so are their proponents’ gated communities and the growth in coastal private academies and prep schools, as the public schools score near bottom in the nation’s test scores. Water transfers are the obsolete projects of a bygone age, but not those such as Hetch Hetchy, vital to Bay Area survival. Expensive gas and electricity are good green policies, but their deleterious consequences fall most heavily on the distant inland poor of the much hotter and colder interior. The nation’s highest basket of income, sales, and gas taxes can be either avoided or easily paid by those who are most in favor of them.

And, yes, there are enormous demographic changes in the state going on. One in four residents was not born in the U.S. Somewhere near 4 million Californians have left in recent years. The Democratic party has largely bifurcated into a pyramidal, medieval organization of the few very wealthy and the many very poor, the former pursuing iconic green and identity politics and gender issues, the later increasingly dependent on social services.

California is a state with the nation’s most billionaires and some of the highest per capita income communities in the country, while home to one-third of the nation’s welfare recipients, with a fifth of the population living below the poverty line. My own rural community is now part of a tri-county region that is more impoverished than Appalachia; most of my former neighbors’ farmhouses now have ad hoc trailers and shacks behind them, often resulting in ten or 15 residents per home. Sheriff raids to break up drug production, prostitution rings, and gang violence are not trumped-up conservative angst, but common in our rural neighborhood.

Is there any hope?

TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME: Have you quit beating your wife yet?

Liberal loons, mainstream media and Democrats (but of course I repeat myself (thrice over)) have gone completely nuckin' futz.

MAUREEN DOWD sums up Obama.

Obama did not like persuading people to do what they didn’t want to do.... He wanted them simply to do what he had ascertained to be right.

He knew the proles were too dumb to know what's best for them.

JUST LEAVE YOUR 'CALIFORNIA VALUES' BEHIND: Nearly 50 percent of Californians say they want to move out soon.

MOLES.

OUR RULES ARE FOR LITTLE PEOPLE, NOT US: Liberals (once again) exempt themselves from the rules.

SAMANTHA BEE DECIDES it’s America’s fault that she’s vulgar.

One of the benefits of Trump Derangement Syndrome is that it has ripped off the progressive mask and exposed them as the lowlifes they really are.

CALIFORNIA BLOCKHEADS fail to block shipment of Elon Musk’s '(Not A) Flamethrower'.

And Elon Musk made a cool $11 million....

SOCIALISTS RUN OUT OF EVERYTHING but zeroes.

“THE WORLD IS FULL OF STUPID AND ANGRY PEOPLE, and most of them live in Portland.”

THIS IS YOUR BRAIN on marijuana. (And they misspelled 'marijijuana' too.)

NANCY PELOSI indicates Democrats have settled on bold midterm strategy of running against a good economy: "You’re better off these days without a job."

STAND BACK AND ENJOY: The Democrats’ circular firing squad continues to form up.

But of course your betters in Washington D.C. know what's best for you proles....

PELOSI SLAMS JOBS REPORT: strong employment numbers mean little.

Actually they mean a lot: the 'little people' can't be as easily controlled when they aren't on a diet of government cheese.

BEN RHODES updated.

Heh.

REALITY WINS: HBO election documentary shows what happens when Democrats' overconfidence collides head-on with reality.

OBAMA ON TRUMP VICTORY: What if we were wrong?

My favorite part(s) of the Fox News story were the two pictures that accompanied it:

Smug Obama --

-- replaced by not-so-smug Obama.

Whether the photo substitution was inadvertent or intentional, it captured the Democrats' pre-election/post-election shock perfectly.

THE ANSWER IS OBVIOUS: What do socialists usually do with your money?

KURT SCHLICHTER: Defeating the top 5 obnoxious liberal arguments.

THE SHORT ANSWER IS YES: Does high-tech highway design make us less safe?

More generally, the Peltzman effect suggests that every place in America reachable by the tentacles of the bureaucratic Nanny State is riskier today than ever before.

From my 'wayback machine' I recall predicting that accidents (and insurance rates) would increase after Texas introduced its first seat belt law in September 1985. It happened. The only upside was that the number of accident-related deaths did subside as fewer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_AwardsDarwin award candidates died.

RELATED: Does regulation breed financial illiteracy?

FORWARD, NOT BACK: Building a time machine.

Forward is easy; back, not so much.

BUT. BUT. BUT... The self-anointed can't possibly be racists.