Author: Doug Santo

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Insane education apocalypse headline of the day

Diversity dysfunction: UVA’s new Multicultural Student Center has ‘too many white people’

Not satire

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Love this response

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American optimism vs. media despair

Greg Gutfeld:

“…How bad do Americans feel about life in America?

If you listened to the media and their favorite Democratic candidates, you’d say “bad, ugly bad.” You’d expect to look out the window and see breadlines and food riots.

That’s what Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., calls a “worker’s paradise” from the porch of one of his big houses.

But once again, the picture they paint and the reality lived by the rest of us diverge dramatically. That’s what happens when you invent despair.

Take Gallup’s annual mood survey. It reports that as Americans say they’re better off now than they were a year ago 74 percent predict they’ll do even better next year! That’s the most optimistic reading they’ve ever recorded.

So why the great mood amidst the gloom and the doom?

Well, perhaps we finally see the gloom-and-doomers for what they are: fabricators with a grudge against a country that built the colleges where they were brainwashed.

So while they paint an apocalypse with their bitter brush, the economy surges with amazing job and labor participation numbers. And not just for some, but for all. Women, black, teens, even “never Trumpers” and Democrats.

It’s great watching Republicans deliver on promises that the left could never keep. But there’s another reason for optimism as well.

Amidst the tweets and taunts, people forget that Trump is a cheerleader-in-chief. For years, he has been telling us how amazing America is. And that optimism is contagious, so much so that it’s reversing the negative charges of an anti-capitalist, anti-American press.

Trump shows us that solutions need not always involve blood or treasure. But by simply adjusting one’s outlook…”

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Election May Offer Nation the Choice It Needs

Michael Walsh:

“…As the phantom candidacy of Joe Biden sinks slowly, lifelessly to the ground, the question increasingly on Democrats’ minds is not only which of their shrinking band of candidates can beat President Donald Trump but which of them can even stagger to the finish line. Of their remaining front liners, Pete Buttigieg is too young and cocky, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is too old and phony, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) too dowdy, Andrew Yang too weird. What remains are two outsiders, each of whom bears only a tangential relationship to the Democratic Party: opportunistic plutocrat Mike Bloomberg, a Democrat-turned-Republican-turned-independent-turned-Democrat; and “democratic socialist” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), with no major party affiliation.

Amazing as it sounds, one of those two is likely to be the nominee…

…In 2016, Trump effected a hostile takeover of the Republican Party, demolishing more than a dozen party stalwarts, including the dynastic hulk, Jeb Bush. Sanders would have done the same to the Democrats in 2016, except that the Democrats rallied around their own Jurassic candidate, Hillary Clinton, and euchred Sanders out of the nomination that rightfully should have been his.

Now he’s back, for what he knows will be his final shot at the nomination. At 78, and having recently suffered a heart attack on the campaign trail, Sanders is five years older than Trump, and would far and away be the oldest man ever elected to the White House should he go all the way. He would also be the first openly socialist—some might say communist—candidate ever to win the White House.

The mainstream Democrats know this, too, which is why the party regulars are so desperately trying to stop him. To them, a Sanders candidacy would be an unabashed disaster, as Americans time and again overwhelmingly tell pollsters that they won’t vote for socialism. Sanders, they think, would get slaughtered by Trump in the general election, especially in the Electoral College. Insiders are hoping against hope that Klobuchar, the least controversial of their mainstream candidates, might turn out to be the silver bullet, but so far she’s failed to catch fire. Nor will she…

…A Trump–Sanders race, however, at least would be honest, and would give Americans a real choice. A stark contrast between gilded capitalism and redistributive “democratic socialism.” America First vs. America Last…”

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Climate crisis solution

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Mayor Bloomberg flip-flops on crime

I don’t have a problem with his statements in this audio. The Democrat party does.

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The left begins to wake up on the Hunter Biden issue

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Interesting article on immigration from Central and South America

The Unacknowledged Real Motivation Behind Guatemala’s Mass Migration to the American Border

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Yesterday’s Gone: Iowa Was Waterloo for Democrats

Matt Taibbi takes a critical look at the state of the Democratic primary. It is worth clicking over for a progressive’s view of the progressives. It is not a flattering picture.

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Leading Democrat – ‘People forced out of work by my climate policies need to go to community college to be retrained’

Related – Goodbye tax cuts

Doug Santo