VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Changing reality with words.

Newspeak is alive and well in the progressive movement....

HEH: My left shoe won't reboot!

JENNIFER RUBIN: Trump's rhetoric is giving people all the impetus they might need to commit violence.

Is Ms. Rubin aware that most of the violence is coming from the Left? So it's Trump's fault the Left is infested with violent bigots?

I'M RUNNING A LITTLE LATE THIS WEEK: Here is PowerLine's Week in Pictures from Saturday. My favorite:

Bonus: a cat anecdote: One of our cats was sitting patiently at the door to be let outside. As I opened the door, I asked the cat "Why don't you use your cat door?" (We have two leading outside). My wife jumped in with this comment: "Why should he? He has humans."

The cats aren't dumb. Why should they open a door themselves when they can have a human do it for them?

SEEING IS BELIEVING ...



Except when it's not....

REP. ERIC SWALWELL [D(UMB)-CA] braved the elements last Wednesday to bypass a café inside the Trump Tower and opted to find another coffee spot in New York City.

And this clown thinks he could be President? He should change his name to 'Smallwell'; it fits better.

LEFTISTS ARE CRAZY - and violent. More violence here, here, and here.

The world they live in isn't even loosely connected to the one we live in. Example: MAGA hats will someday be viewed the same way as KKK hoods. Does this bozo even know the Ku Klux Klan belonged to the Democrats?

Why do we let these evil beings even in our schools, much less run them?

FIRST WE 'POUNCED' ON THEIR IDIOCY, then we seized it, and now we're exploiting it.

Perhaps if the Democrats quit being idiots, we wouldn't have to pounce, seize, exploit (or whatever's next) their idiocy.

OCASIO-CORTEZ HAS A NEW FIRST:

She cracked the glass floor.

ELIZABETH WARREN'S WEALTH TAX likely can't survive a court challenge.

But if it were to become law, you can bet it would kick in at one dollar more than her then-current wealth. It's not her wealth she wants taxed....

RANDOM THOUGHT: Democrats, Socialists, and the Far Left more generally exist for the sole purpose of spending other people's money.

And control. Never forget control.

NICK SANDMANN sues the Washington Post. $250M isn't enough but it might discourage the Post in the future.

MORE: Others to come? Sandmann's attorneys sent preservation letters to more than 50 media organizations, celebrities and politicians – including the New York Times, CNN, Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D(umb)-MA], and the Hollyweird (Bill Maher, Alyssa Milano, Jim Carrey, Debra Messing, and Kathy Griffin) among others.

With decent juries, Sandmann deserves to emerge a billionaire....

NOT EVERYONE IS ENAMORED OF RAINBOWS AND UNICORNS: The risk of progressives talking.

What does it mean to say you're trying to protect a group when its members say they don't require your protection?

It means you're a bubble-bound overeducated bigot.

THOSE GREEN NEW DEAL solar panels don't work too well under 12 feet of snow: Reporting from the polar vortex.

When did Al Gore move to Minnesota?

TRY LOOKING UNDER A ROCK: Where in the world does Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez live?

SURPRISED? Virginia's green new deal exposes what Democrats really care about and it's not the environment.

HEY LIBERALS, YOU SUCK! Pack up your dogma and leave.

Peacefully, preferably. And remember which side believes in the Second Amendment.

RECOVERY:

Have you looked at Trump's economy lately?

INEPTOCRACY:

Originally posted in 2012 ... but Obama won anyway.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Autopsy of a dead coup.

Only like the Phoenix, it'll return unless a stake is driven through its heart, the corpse cremated, the ashes buried deeply, and the ground above salted.

Even then I'd be forever wary.