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Donald VonShittyPants's rally in the Bronx on Thursday was off the charts. And again (we keep having to say this), if President Biden had done one-tenth of what Trump did during his ego rally, the media would be all up in that.
Trump welcomed on his stage Sleepy Hallow and Sheff G, who were indicted last May along with 30 other gang members on a 140-count criminal indictment.
d r i f y g l a s s - first they mock you, then they block you;
Juanita Jean's - the last puppy Kristi Noem killed;
Left Jabs - the New York Times has gone to the Dark Side;
The Editorial Board - Clarence Thomas just hates having all this power;
The Smirking Chimp - if democracy dies, so what?
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New York Times: “This is the kind of local governance that China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, wants: more visible, more invasive, always on the lookout for real or perceived threats. Officers patrol apartment buildings listening for feuding neighbors. Officials recruit retirees playing chess outdoors as extra eyes and ears. In the workplace, employers are required to appoint ‘safety consultants’ who report regularly to the police.”
“The Chinese Communist Party has long wielded perhaps the world’s most sweeping surveillance apparatus against activists and others who might possibly voice discontent.
New York Times: “It is the silver lining for Mr. Trump, as he spends his first sustained period of time in Manhattan since he moved to Washington in 2017. He passes the days in a dingy courtroom downtown, where he faces 34 felonies, listening to people from his old life describe him as a depraved liar who sullied the White House.
“Republicans right now think inflation is a much bigger problem than Democrats do, and a lot of that is just politics. But here’s another possibility: Many of the places Republicans live indeed have had significantly higher inflation than Democratic enclaves,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“In new research, economists Carola Binder, Rupal Kamdar and Jane Ryngaert examined Labor Department inflation figures for U.