Weimar without Nazis
Repeat after me: America today is not like Germany in the 1930s. The Republicans are not Nazis. Trump is not Hitler. To say, as so many otherwise seemingly intelligent and …
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Worst homophobe ever
Not satisfied to have personally tied a noose around Jussie Smollett’s neck and poured some MAGA bleach on the gay “Empire” sort-of-a -star, Donald Trump now goes and does this: …
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ISIS MILFs want back in
In ages past, traitors who chose the other side and fought with the enemy against their country could expect a noose or a bullet if they had the misfortune to …
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Journalist commits career suicide by stating the obvious
CBS News foreign correspondent and a 60 Minutes regular gets interviewed by a retired Navy SEAL Mike Ritland for his podcast (a monster at 3 hours and 40 minutes) and in the …
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Socialism as a Millennial religion
Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it, as George Santayana once said. Slightly before him, Karl Marx claimed that history repeats itself, the first time as a tragedy, …
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Boys Gone Wild on Brisbane Tinder, Part IV: Special Valentine’s Edition
This morning we’ve had the latest installment of Girls Gone Wild, so for the sake of equality of the (two) sexes I cannot but now present some eye candy for …
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Girls Gone Wild on Brisbane Tinder, Part XIII: Special Valentine’s Edition
You have all been very good regular readers of TDC recently, absorbing a lot of outrage, ridicule and cynicism emanating from these pages under the guise of impassioned political and …
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$22,000,000,000,000 and (no one’s) counting
No one gives a shit anymore; after all, what’s another trillion between bipartisan friends? The national debt surpassed $22 trillion for the first time on Tuesday, a milestone that experts …
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Farewell to Carbs
In 19 years’ time, Germany will have no more coal mines and coal power plants, bringing to an end hundreds of years of successful history powering first the German Industrial …
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Chrenk Youth
As the Millennials the world over seem to be going ga-ga for socialism, there is one country that’s bucking the trend: In Poland, the young generation’s shift to the right …
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Getting free money makes people happy
Hot on the heels of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal proposal, which includes a call for “economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work” (or included, since AOC is now …
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Green Deal, Gone Girl
Ben Shapiro twitted yesterday that he is “increasingly convinced Trump created AOC in a laboratory to provide a comic foil.” Whether or not Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was created by Trump in …
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So much for that right-wing propagandist Murdoch
One major disservice that the mainstream media does through its political bias and negativity is that it neither prepares its audience for or explains to it events and trends that …
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Lending a pinching hand
This guy will be very happy today: So will Julie Bishop. With a big emphasis on disability and 50 skin shades of same or different sex multiracial couples holding hands, …
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Crazy Rich Commies
Not that there is anything new or surprising in the fact that the self-proclaimed friends of the workers are living it up while the workers themselves are rummaging through rubbish …
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Don’t give them your tired and your poor
Gosford’s finest continues to deliver, this time with this insightful critique of American society gleaned from “The Hunger Games”: #KidsOffNauru is great, but sending them to #USA commits them to …
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No, “Blade Runner” and “The Running Man” did not predict 2019
I normally rate “The New York Post” as far as tabloids are concerned but this feature on the prophetic side of the 1980s dystopian science-fiction reads more like something out …
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Now do Hitler
If it was the Soviet Russia, everyone would have needed to swipe right in order to be left: It’s amazing what kind of behaviour hot people can get away with on …
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