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American Thinker, by Gary Gindler — January 11, 2020

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It took the American mass disinformation media and the socialists Democrats three years of Trump’s presidency to finally develop a coherent policy of confronting Trump.

This policy is very primitive: everything that Trump does is denied, rejected, and negated.  Everything.

As a result, the opposition’s reaction began to resemble the reaction of Pavlovian dogs — any statement by Trump, any action by Trump, and any achievement of Trump can cause only one thing — salivation of total negation.

However, the complete and unconditional denial of everything makes the Democrats predictable and, as a result, vulnerable and easily amenable to manipulation and provocation.

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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/01/trump_is_masterfully_using_democrats_opposition_against_them.html

GATEWAY PUNDIT, by Jim Hoft — January 10, 2020

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FBI Director Chris Wray announced that the FBI’s response to the agency’s FISA Abuse and the criminal spying on the Trump campaign.
He sent out out a training video.
And no one will be disciplined for the criminal acts.

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They really don’t care about the public’s trust.

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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/01/fbi-director-wray-announces-agency-is-sending-out-a-training-video-in-response-to-fisa-abuse-and-spying-on-trump-but-no-discipline-for-criminal-acts/

Racialism, from any side of the political spectrum, is a recipe for disaster.

City Journal, by Joel Kotkin — January 9, 2020

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Perhaps nothing so animates the progressive Left today as the notion of an increasingly race-conscious society, segregated by ethnic identity and dismissive of the traditional ideal of assimilation. If this seems ironic, it should—in the not-so-distant past, this was a position embraced by the reactionary Right, particularly in the Jim Crow South. Today, however, progressives support separate dorms for African-Americans and promote restricted “safe spaces” for minorities and other designated victim groups. Indeed, it’s hard to pick up the New York Times—even its arts, sports, or travel pages—without seeing race-based analysis and reportage. The Times’s racial obsession reached new intensity with the  “1619 Project,” which overstates the role of slavery in American history and economic development.

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https://www.city-journal.org/tribalism-racialism

The Babylon Bee (SATIRE) – – January 8, 2020

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TEHRAN—In a bid to cut costs and save time, Iran has announced that its 24/7 state propaganda station will be replaced with an MSNBC broadcast.

The decision to broadcast MSNBC instead of official state propaganda came after an MSNBC reporter parroted the false claims of the Iranian government after yesterday’s rocket attacks.

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https://babylonbee.com/news/iranians-to-outsource-propaganda-to-msnbc

GATEWAY PUNDIT, by Brock Simmons — January 8, 2020

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Wackjob “economist” Paul Krugman, who once proclaimed that markets would “never recover” after Trump’s election victory, is seemingly taking a preemptive approach to possible child porn charges by claiming he’s been hacked. Check out what he tweeted this afternoon:

“Well, I’m on the phone with my computer security service, and as I understand it someone compromised my IP address and is using it to download child pornography. I might just be a random target. But this could be an attempt to Qanon me. It’s an ugly world out there.“

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President Trump Delivers Remarks — (Video: Recorded remarks by Mr. Trump can be viewed starting at about the 40:30 mark in the clip)

He’s been ‘vilified’ because of his impartial view of the Justice Dept.

The Washington Times (opinion, commentary), by R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. — January 6, 2020

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The Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberly A. Strassel has just conferred her “Adult of the Year Award” on a man who deserves it, Attorney General William Barr. And Ms. Strassel writes with sufficient distance from the swamp to be taken seriously. Her column, titled “Potomac Watch,” is, I am told, composed from her lair in Alaska. That ought to insulate her from the swamp’s fumes and from Wall Street’s, too.

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Ms. Strassel in her award-conferring column noted that upon being nominated for attorney general by President Donald Trump in December 2018 “he received the respect that he deserves.” Official Washington was quick to note Mr. Barr’s years of nonpartisan facility with the law observable in years spent at the Justice Department, at the CIA and in private practice. He was known as a serious student of the law and of the U.S. Constitution. All agreed he would not be anyone’s toady. 

Yet Ms. Strassel notes that his honeymoon is over. He has begun to be “vilified precisely because he has maintained an impartial view of the Justice Department and has kept his promises.” This demonstrated integrity by the attorney general has “commenced one of the more obvious, not to mention nasty, delegitimization campaigns in modern Beltway history.”

Official Washington has been yapping at the attorney general’s appointment of John Durham — a prosecutor of squeaky-clean reputation — to investigate the FBI’s probe into the 2016 Trump campaign. It became “hysterical” when the attorney general stated “his own view” that the Inspector General’s December report confirmed that, as Mr. Barr put it, the FBI suspicions about the 2016 campaign were “insufficient to justify the steps taken” by the country’s top cops. 

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https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jan/7/attorney-general-william-barr-adult-of-the-year/