thedailycaller--2020-01-21--What Gun You Need: Virginia Gun Rally Edition

American citizens showed off their weaponry at a Richmond , Virginia , gun rally Monday .
“ Good people with guns … they save lives , ” one woman said .
“ Good people with guns stop bad people.
” “ It ’ s best for a good guy to have a gun and protect his community , ” she continued .
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American citizens showed off their weaponry at a Richmond, Virginia, gun rally Monday.
“Good people with guns … they save lives,” one woman said. “Good people with guns stop bad people.”
“It’s best for a good guy to have a gun and protect his community,” she continued.
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thedailycaller--2020-01-21--How The Democrats’ New Party Rules Could Turn Their 2020 Convention Into A Free-For-All

The Democratic presidential field has grown smaller and smaller as the party ’ s convention in Milwaukee approaches , but some strategists are worried it ’ s not nearly small enough .
A confluence of superdelegates , a packed field , and new rule changes have brought about the possibility of a contested convention , something Democrats haven ’ t dealt with since 1952 .
In most years , Democratic Party conventions are little more than coronations , with the winning presidential candidate becoming obvious weeks ahead of time .
In a contested convention , however , none of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ secure the nomination , leaving candidates to barter for votes behind closed doors .
The red flag causing whispers of a contested convention to be taken more seriously this year is the downgraded role of superdelegates at the 2020 convention .
While normal Democratic delegates are pledged to a candidate before the convention begins , superdelegates – who are often party insiders – are free to vote for whichever candidate they choose .
This structure is a long-standing practice for Democrats , but it lead to an uproar in 2016 when many viewed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ party elite veto of Bernie Sanders .
( RELATED : Rigged ?
Bernie Wins In Wyoming , But Hillary Leaves With More Delegates ) As a result , superdelegates won ’ t be allowed to vote until the convention ’ s second ballot , should there be one .
Instead , the only votes cast in the first round will be from regular delegates , which are awarded to candidates in proportion to their performances in state primaries .
This is where the state primary rules come into play .
A candidate needs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ earn a share of a state ’ s delegates .
This means that as polls stand today , Joe Biden , Elizabeth Warren , Bernie Sanders , and Pete Buttigieg are all likely to take a slice of delegates from most states , making it starkly possible for none of them to reach a true majority of delegates before the convention .
( RELATED : CNN ’ s Jake Tapper Challenged DNC Chair To Explain ‘ Rigged ’ Superdelegate System ) Biden may be able to nip these fears at the bud if @ @ @ @ @ @ @ four primary states and pressure the poor-performers out of the race .
The first four states are Iowa , Nevada , New Hampshire , and South Carolina .
Biden has a 6-point lead in Iowa , a 4-point lead in Nevada , and a 17-point lead in South Carolina .
He is only losing in New Hampshire , where he has been chipping away at Sanders ’ now 2-point lead .
( RELATED : ‘ Bull**** ’ : Buttigieg Flips Out On NYT Writer Who Says He ‘ Was On The Front Lines @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not to sweep the opening states , however , the first ballot at the convention may have no clear winner , leaving candidates to barter with one another behind closed doors and court superdelegates for the second ballot , all as cameras broadcast the disarray to the entire country .
Punting superdelegates to the second ballot was intended to lessen their perceived control over nominations , but under the current structure they would essentially serve as kingmakers in the second ballot .
( RELATED : VOTE : Who Will Be The 2020 Democratic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ may not be the end of the world , however .
Biden has held a consistent , if fluctuating , lead over his opponents throughout the primary , and he ’ s likely to enter the convention with at least a plurality of delegates .
It is entirely possible that Biden maintains his lead through the first ballot and the superdelegates fall into line to propel him to the nomination .
( RELATED : A Third Of Democratic Primary Voters Expected Elizabeth Warren To Perform Best At Debates ) But all bets are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ behave , according to Republican strategist Karl Rove .
“ Imagine the anger on some parts of the convention floor if the superdelegates — party insiders and elites — go for someone other than the first-ballot leader .
”

The Democratic presidential field has grown smaller and smaller as the party’s convention in Milwaukee approaches, but some strategists are worried it’s not nearly small enough.


thedailycaller--2020-01-21--Meghan Markle Takes Legal Action Over Snaps Of Her And Archie In Canada

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry sent a letter to news outlets warning them that “ action will be taken ” if they purchase and or publish photographs taken under circumstances described as “ harassment.
” “ There are serious safety concerns about how the paparazzi are driving and the risk to life they pose , ” the letter read , according to NBC News in a piece published Tuesday .
This comes after attorneys for the royal couple issued a letter to the British press stating that pictures taken by photographers trailing the family under such circumstances will result in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : Meghan Markle And Kate Middleton ’ s Alleged Feud Really Between Prince Harry And Prince William ) The letter went on to explain how paparazzi were already camped outside the royal ’ s home in Canada and attempting to photograph them with the use of long-range lenses .
( RELATED : Report : Meghan Markle And Prince Harry Plan To Have At Least One More Child ) According to the outlet : In October of last year , Harry accused the tabloid press of “ ruthless ” attacks against his wife , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I ’ ve seen what happens when someone I love is commoditized to the point that they are no longer treated or seen as a real person .
I lost my mother and now I watch my wife falling victim to the same powerful forces , ” he wrote .
It all comes a day after the Duke of Sussex talked about the “ great sadness ” he felt after stepping away from his royal role and proceeded to join the Duchess of Sussex and their child in Vancouver Island .
“ The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wife and I to step back is not one I made lightly , ” the duke shared during a charity event for Sentebale posted on the Sussex Royal Instagram page .
“ It was so many months of talks after so many years of challenges , ” he added .
“ And I know I haven ’ t always gone at it right , but as far as this goes , there really was no other option .
What I want to make clear is we ’ re not walking away .
And @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from you.
” Prince Harry continued , “ When I lost my mum [ Princess Diana ] 23 years ago , you took me under your wing .
You looked out for me for so long , but the media is a powerful force .
And my hope is one day , our collective support for each other can be more powerful , because this is so much bigger than just us .
It is beyond privilege to serve you and we will continue to lead a life of service .
So in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Elizabeth II issued a statement over the weekend releasing Harry and the former “ Suits ” actress of their duties , stating that they are “ no longer working members of the Royal Family .
”

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry sent a letter to news outlets warning them that “action will be taken” if they purchase and or publish photographs taken under circumstances described as “harassment.”
“There are serious safety concerns about how the paparazzi are driving and the risk to life they pose,” the letter read, according to NBC News in a piece published Tuesday. This comes after attorneys for the royal couple issued a letter to the British press stating that pictures taken by photographers trailing the family under such circumstances will result in legal action. (RELATED: Report: Meghan Markle And Kate Middleton’s Alleged Feud Really Between Prince Harry And Prince William)
View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Duke and Duchess of Sussex (@sussexroyal) on Jan 8, 2020 at 10:33am PST
The letter went on to explain how paparazzi were already camped outside the royal’s home in Canada and attempting to photograph them with the use of long-range lenses. (RELATED: Report: Meghan Markle And Prince Harry Plan To Have At Least One More Child)
According to the outlet:
Photos of Meghan walking with her two dogs and carrying Archie in a sling were published in outlets such as the front page of The Sun newspaper on Tuesday and aired on the ‘TODAY’ show. News websites also carried photos of Harry landing in Canada after leaving the U.K. on Monday.
In October of last year, Harry accused the tabloid press of “ruthless” attacks against his wife, comparing it to “bullying.”
“I’ve seen what happens when someone I love is commoditized to the point that they are no longer treated or seen as a real person. I lost my mother and now I watch my wife falling victim to the same powerful forces,” he wrote.
It all comes a day after the Duke of Sussex talked about the “great sadness” he felt after stepping away from his royal role and proceeded to join the Duchess of Sussex and their child in Vancouver Island.
“The decision that I have made for my wife and I to step back is not one I made lightly,” the duke shared during a charity event for Sentebale posted on the Sussex Royal Instagram page.
“It was so many months of talks after so many years of challenges,” he added. “And I know I haven’t always gone at it right, but as far as this goes, there really was no other option. What I want to make clear is we’re not walking away. And we certainly aren’t walking away from you.”
Prince Harry continued, “When I lost my mum [Princess Diana] 23 years ago, you took me under your wing. You looked out for me for so long, but the media is a powerful force. And my hope is one day, our collective support for each other can be more powerful, because this is so much bigger than just us. It is beyond privilege to serve you and we will continue to lead a life of service. So in that respect, nothing changes.”
Queen Elizabeth II issued a statement over the weekend releasing Harry and the former “Suits” actress of their duties, stating that they are “no longer working members of the Royal Family.”


thedailycaller--2020-01-21--Exiled Shah Of Iran Dunks On Reporter Who Asked About 1953 Coup D’état: ‘That’s As Much As I Have To

Exiled Shah Of Iran Dunks On Reporter Who Asked About 1953 Coup D’état: ‘That’s As Much As I Have To Say On The Subject’

Reza Pahlavi , the exiled Shah Iran , addressed during a recent speech at the Hudson Institute the role his @ @ @ @ @ coup d ’ etat his family took part in back in 1953 .
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Reza Pahlavi, the exiled Shah Iran, addressed during a recent speech at the Hudson Institute the role his family played in the so-called coup d’etat his family took part in back in 1953.


thedailycaller--2020-01-21--‘Come On!’: Buttigieg Tells Audience To Clap For Him In Awkward Video

Democratic 2020 candidate Pete Buttigieg had to instruct audience members to clap for him in an awkward moment on the campaign trail Tuesday .
Buttigieg asked audience members at an Iowa campaign event if he “ can look to you to spread that sense of hope to those that you know ?
” The room went silent as the audience neither clapped nor applauded in response to Buttigieg ’ s question .
“ Come on !
” Buttigieg said , motioning with his arms for the audience to cheer .
The awkward moment immediately drew comparisons online to former Florida @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ please clap ” gaffe during the 2016 Republican primary .
Bush ’ s plea to his audience ended up becoming one of the defining moments of his doomed 2016 campaign .
A splice-up of Buttigieg and Bush asking their audiences to clap showed the similarities between the two moments .
Buttigieg is currently running fourth in the RealClearPolitics average of Iowa primary polls .
( RELATED : ‘ Bull**** ’ : Buttigieg Flips Out On NYT Writer ) Former Vice President Joe Biden , Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders , and Massachusetts Sen. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Buttigieg in Iowa , according to the RCP average .
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Democratic 2020 candidate Pete Buttigieg had to instruct audience members to clap for him in an awkward moment on the campaign trail Tuesday.
Buttigieg asked audience members at an Iowa campaign event if he “can look to you to spread that sense of hope to those that you know?” The room went silent as the audience neither clapped nor applauded in response to Buttigieg’s question.
“Come on!” Buttigieg said, motioning with his arms for the audience to cheer.
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The awkward moment immediately drew comparisons online to former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s much-mocked “please clap” gaffe during the 2016 Republican primary.
Bush’s plea to his audience ended up becoming one of the defining moments of his doomed 2016 campaign. A splice-up of Buttigieg and Bush asking their audiences to clap showed the similarities between the two moments.
I put the Buttigieg “Come On” and the Jeb “Please Clap” side by side and it’s kind of mesmerizing pic.twitter.com/Gp4L5oRq0J — Alec Sears (@alec_sears) January 21, 2020
Buttigieg is currently running fourth in the RealClearPolitics average of Iowa primary polls. (RELATED: ‘Bull****’: Buttigieg Flips Out On NYT Writer)
Former Vice President Joe Biden, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren are all polling ahead of Buttigieg in Iowa, according to the RCP average.
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thedailycaller--2020-01-21--Wayne Dupree Weighs In On Media’s Dangerous Coverage Of Virginia 2A Rally

Political commentator Wayne Dupree weighed in on the media ’ s coverage of the massive pro-gun rally Monday in Richmond , Virginia .
Dupree slammed NBC reporter Ben Collins for calling the event a “ white supremacist rally ” on Twitter , a statement Collins later deleted .
Dupree told the Daily Caller ’ s Anders Hagstrom he believed Democrats had come unhinged since losing the 2016 election to President Donald Trump , and that has manifested in Democrats panning moderate conservative gun-rights advocates and in the ongoing attempt to impeach and remove Trump .
( RELATED : ‘ 2nd @ @ @ @ @ @ @ VA Gun Rights Marcher & GOP Candidate Sounds Off ) Police estimates say roughly 22,000 people attended Monday ’ s gun rights rally in Virginia , with zero reported incidents of violence .
Prior to the event , Democratic Gov .
Ralph Northam suggested extremist groups were planning to incite violence at the event and declared a state of emergency .
( RELATED : # BlackGunsMatter Founder Rips Media ’ s VA Gun Rally Coverage – ‘ They Have An Interest In Chaos ’ ) As a result , rally-goers were banned from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 6,000 attendees went through airport-style security to enter the fenced-in capital , with roughly 16,000 remaining outside , many of them heavily armed .

Political commentator Wayne Dupree weighed in on the media’s coverage of the massive pro-gun rally Monday in Richmond, Virginia.
Dupree slammed NBC reporter Ben Collins for calling the event a “white supremacist rally” on Twitter, a statement Collins later deleted. Dupree told the Daily Caller’s Anders Hagstrom he believed Democrats had come unhinged since losing the 2016 election to President Donald Trump, and that has manifested in Democrats panning moderate conservative gun-rights advocates and in the ongoing attempt to impeach and remove Trump. (RELATED: ‘2nd Amendment Has To Stand Strong’: VA Gun Rights Marcher & GOP Candidate Sounds Off)
Police estimates say roughly 22,000 people attended Monday’s gun rights rally in Virginia, with zero reported incidents of violence. Prior to the event, Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam suggested extremist groups were planning to incite violence at the event and declared a state of emergency. (RELATED: #BlackGunsMatter Founder Rips Media’s VA Gun Rally Coverage – ‘They Have An Interest In Chaos’)
As a result, rally-goers were banned from carrying firearms on capital grounds. Roughly 6,000 attendees went through airport-style security to enter the fenced-in capital, with roughly 16,000 remaining outside, many of them heavily armed.


thedailycaller--2020-01-21--Judges Explain Why They Are Knocking Down Enviro Attempts To Sue Oil Companies Into Oblivion

• Activists who are working to level lawsuits on oil companies and the federal government are reeling after a series of brutal defeats , with one environmentalist saying a child-led climate lawsuit was a “ big ask.
” • Judges have nixed climate lawsuits leveled at the Trump administration and ExxonMobil , respectively , leaving similar litigation in Baltimore in limbo .
• The judges in the children ’ s climate lawsuit argue that it is “ beyond our constitutional power ” to force President Donald Trump to tackle global warming .
Activist-led attempts to hold the government and oil @ @ @ @ @ @ @ court system are hitting a brick wall as judges argue such efforts are unlikely to gain traction .
A panel of judges knocked down a lawsuit on Jan. 17 in which a large group of young people sued the Trump administration for not doing more to tackle global warming .
One of the judges in that case strenuously dissented , suggesting that the court might curse the day it nixed the argument .
Children do not have standing to sue the federal government for not adequately addressing climate change , the 9th Circuit @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the case .
The 21 young people argued the government had a constitutional responsibility to cut support for fossil fuels .
President Donald Trump has made headway in recent months changing the makeup of the 9th Circuit Court .
He nominated Patrick Bumatay and Lawrence VanDyke to the court in September 2019 .
They would raise the number of Trump ’ s 9th Circuit appointees to nine .
The panel did not buy the argument .
“ Reluctantly , we conclude that such relief is beyond our constitutional power .
Rather , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be presented to the political branches of government , ” the panel wrote in their decision .
Judge Andrew Hurwitz ruled that it was “ beyond the power ” of his court to mandate the federal government to set climate policy , writing that the case “ must be made to the political branches or to the electorate at large.
” The panel argued the government had competing interests , including “ economic or defense considerations.
” One judge dissented , arguing that the climate case was a matter of “ social justice @ @ @ @ @ @ @ could have a negative impact on the plaintiff ’ s lives .
“ The denial of an individual , constitutional right— though grievous and harmful—can be corrected in the future , even if it takes 91 years .
And that possibility provides hope for future generations .
Where is the hope in today ’ s decision ?
” Judge Josephine Staton wrote in her dissent .
She added : “ Plaintiffs ’ claims are based on science , specifically , an impending point of no return.
” ( RELATED : 9th Circuit Court @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Who Sued Trump Over Climate Change ) “ From the outset , it was a big ask , ” Michael Burger , executive director of Columbia Law School ’ s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law , said in a statement to The Washington Post .
“ Courts simply do not have it in their power in the United States to command the entire energy system.
” This is the second climate lawsuit judges have nixed in a matter of months .
New York Attorney General Letitia James , a Democrat , argued @ @ @ @ @ @ @ customers , exposing “ the company to greater risk from climate change regulation than investors were led to believe.
” New York ’ s Supreme Court cleared the company in November 2019 , effectively ending New York ’ s nearly four-year-long crusade against the company , which began in 2015 with an investigation and ended with a lawsuit lodged in New York .
Former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman initially led the effort before resigning under disgrace .
Judge Barry Ostrager appeared to treat James ’ s concerns seriously before eventually dismissing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this opinion is intended to absolve ExxonMobil from responsibility for contributing to climate change , ” he wrote in his opinion .
Ostrager found James ’ s case fell short in demonstrating that the oil company violated an anti-fraud law .
“ The Court finds that the Office of Attorney General failed to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that ExxonMobil made any material misrepresentations that ‘ would have been viewed by a reasonable investor as having significantly altered the “ total mix ” of information made available , ' ” Ostrager @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are still in the offing .
The U.S. Supreme Court , for instance , rejected in October 2019 a request from several energy companies to block a Baltimore lawsuit seeking to hold Exxon and other oil producers responsible for producing carbon emissions .
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Activists who are working to level lawsuits on oil companies and the federal government are reeling after a series of brutal defeats, with one environmentalist saying a child-led climate lawsuit was a “big ask.”
Judges have nixed climate lawsuits leveled at the Trump administration and ExxonMobil, respectively, leaving similar litigation in Baltimore in limbo.
The judges in the children’s climate lawsuit argue that it is “beyond our constitutional power” to force President Donald Trump to tackle global warming.
Activist-led attempts to hold the government and oil companies responsible for climate change through the court system are hitting a brick wall as judges argue such efforts are unlikely to gain traction.
A panel of judges knocked down a lawsuit on Jan. 17 in which a large group of young people sued the Trump administration for not doing more to tackle global warming. One of the judges in that case strenuously dissented, suggesting that the court might curse the day it nixed the argument.
Children do not have standing to sue the federal government for not adequately addressing climate change, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in California ruled in the case. The 21 young people argued the government had a constitutional responsibility to cut support for fossil fuels.
President Donald Trump has made headway in recent months changing the makeup of the 9th Circuit Court. He nominated Patrick Bumatay and Lawrence VanDyke to the court in September 2019. They would raise the number of Trump’s 9th Circuit appointees to nine.
The panel did not buy the argument. “Reluctantly, we conclude that such relief is beyond our constitutional power. Rather, the plaintiffs’ impressive case for redress must be presented to the political branches of government,” the panel wrote in their decision.
Judge Andrew Hurwitz ruled that it was “beyond the power” of his court to mandate the federal government to set climate policy, writing that the case “must be made to the political branches or to the electorate at large.”
The panel argued the government had competing interests, including “economic or defense considerations.” One judge dissented, arguing that the climate case was a matter of “social justice” and that delaying the matter further could have a negative impact on the plaintiff’s lives.
“The denial of an individual, constitutional right — though grievous and harmful — can be corrected in the future, even if it takes 91 years. And that possibility provides hope for future generations. Where is the hope in today’s decision?” Judge Josephine Staton wrote in her dissent.
She added: “Plaintiffs’ claims are based on science, specifically, an impending point of no return.” (RELATED: 9th Circuit Court Of Appeals Deals Brutal Blow To Teens Who Sued Trump Over Climate Change)
Michael Burger, executive director of Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, said in a statement to The Washington Post: “From the outset, it was a big ask.”
This is the second climate lawsuit judges have nixed in a matter of months. New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, argued in a 2018 lawsuit that ExxonMobil deceived customers, exposing “the company to greater risk from climate change regulation than investors were led to believe.”
New York’s Supreme Court cleared the company in November 2019, effectively ending New York’s nearly four-year-long crusade against the company, which began in 2015 with an investigation and ended with a lawsuit lodged in New York.
Former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman initially led the effort before resigning under disgrace.
Judge Barry Ostrager appeared to treat James’s concerns seriously before eventually dismissing the case outright. “Nothing in this opinion is intended to absolve ExxonMobil from responsibility for contributing to climate change,” he wrote in his opinion.
Ostrager found James’s case fell short in demonstrating that the oil company violated an anti-fraud law.
“The Court finds that the Office of Attorney General failed to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that ExxonMobil made any material misrepresentations that ‘would have been viewed by a reasonable investor as having significantly altered the “total mix” of information made available,'” Ostrager wrote in a memo.
Activist-led lawsuits are still in the offing. The U.S. Supreme Court, for instance, rejected in October 2019 a request from several energy companies to block a Baltimore lawsuit seeking to hold Exxon and other oil producers responsible for producing carbon emissions.
Editor’s Note: Burger’s quote has been updated to better reflect its context.
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thedailycaller--2020-01-21--Dax Shepard Reveals ‘Incredible’ Date With Brad Pitt: ‘I Felt Like Pretty Woman’

Dax Shepard revealed that he went on what he has described as an “ incredible ” date with his bromance Brad Pitt and admitted he felt just “ like Pretty Woman.
” “ But I went on a date with him [ Pitt ] , ” the 45-year-old actor explained Tuesday during his appearance on “ The Ellen DeGeneres Show , ” per Yahoo.com .
“ We took a helicopter — you think I ’ m lying — we took a helicopter to a motorcycle track .
We both love riding motorcycles .
And just the two of us just @ @ @ @ @ @ @ track.
” ( RELATED : Kristen Bell Performs ‘ Frozen ’ Songs For Irma Victims ) “ I felt like Pretty Woman , I did , ” he added .
“ I felt like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman .
I was waiting for him to set that chopper down on Rodeo and let me just go wild in one of those stores with his credit card .
If it had happened , it wouldn ’ t have surprised me .
It was that incredible.
” ( RELATED : Keira Knightley Says ‘ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ As Important ’ ) Shepard continued , “ So , we went up , and he ’ s everything you ’ d hope .
He attacked that track like his character from Troy — he ’ s a warrior on two wheels.
” The “ Bless this mess ” star then revealed as perfect as the special date was , he lamented that with all the leather the “ Once Upon A Time In Hollywood ” star was wearing , he could ’ t get a peak at his pal ’ s physique @ @ @ @ @ @ @ any trapezia , no abs , ” Shepard shared , before suggesting the two hit the beach next time .
“ Brad , let ’ s hit the beach , my friend.
” It all comes after “ The Ranch ” star and husband of actress Kirsten Bell revealed once again his bromance with the “ Fight Club ” star a year ago on the show .

Dax Shepard revealed that he went on what he has described as an “incredible” date with his bromance Brad Pitt and admitted he felt just “like Pretty Woman.”
“But I went on a date with him [Pitt],” the 45-year-old actor explained Tuesday during his appearance on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” per Yahoo.com. “We took a helicopter — you think I’m lying — we took a helicopter to a motorcycle track. We both love riding motorcycles. And just the two of us just took a jaunt up to this motorcycle track.” (RELATED: Kristen Bell Performs ‘Frozen’ Songs For Irma Victims)
Dax Shepard has a slight obsession with Brad Pitt and recently told a story about going “on a date” with him. pic.twitter.com/HlYUkBNNtB — TODAY (@TODAYshow) January 21, 2020
“I felt like Pretty Woman, I did,” he added. “I felt like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman. I was waiting for him to set that chopper down on Rodeo and let me just go wild in one of those stores with his credit card. If it had happened, it wouldn’t have surprised me. It was that incredible.” (RELATED: Keira Knightley Says ‘Women’s Stories Are Suddenly Viewed As Important’)
Shepard continued, “So, we went up, and he’s everything you’d hope. He attacked that track like his character from Troy — he’s a warrior on two wheels.”
The “Bless this mess” star then revealed as perfect as the special date was, he lamented that with all the leather the “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood” star was wearing, he could’t get a peak at his pal’s physique.
“I wasn’t seeing any trapezia, no abs,” Shepard shared, before suggesting the two hit the beach next time. “Brad, let’s hit the beach, my friend.”
It all comes after “The Ranch” star and husband of actress Kirsten Bell revealed once again his bromance with the “Fight Club” star a year ago on the show.
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thedailycaller--2020-01-21--Here’s Why Establishment Democrats Are Sabotaging Bernie Sanders

Establishment Democrats have begun sabotaging their socialist colleague Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders , the short answer why is that they are afraid he could win .
Democrats have taken notice of Sanders ’ polling strength in two big primary states , Iowa and New Hampshire .
The self-described democratic socialist is polling just behind Biden , according to Real Clear Politics .
Sanders also raised more than any other democratic candidate in the last quarter , the Associated Press reported .
( RELATED : Bernie Sanders Surrogate Says Biden ‘ Has A Big Corruption Problem ’ ) The latest example @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Hillary Clinton , who recently said , “ Nobody likes him , ” in a new documentary when talking about Sanders .
She went on to say that she “ won ’ t go there yet ” when asked if she ’ d support Sanders if he secured the nomination .
Another example of sabotage came right around the seventh democratic debate .
A CNN moderator asked why Sanders told Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren in 2018 that he thought a woman could never win the presidency .
Warren is on the more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with Bernie , though much of the socialist left is deeply skeptical of her .
“ CNN reported and senator warren confirmed in a statement that in 2018 you told her that you did not believe a woman could win the presidential election .
Why did you say that ?
” CNN moderator Abby Phillip asked Sanders at the debate .
Sanders denied the incident occurred , saying , “ I never said that.
” The CNN moderator then completely ignored his definitive answer , and gave Warren a chance to respond .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Jan. 13 which said four people confirmed that Sanders told Warren in a December 2018 meeting that he believed a woman could not win the presidency .
Two of the four reportedly talked to Warren directly after the meeting , according to CNN .
Bernie and I met for more than two hours in December 2018 to discuss the 2020 election , our past work together and our shared goals : beating Donald Trump , taking back our government from the wealthy and well-connected , and building an economy that works for everyone @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was what would happen if Democrats nominated a female candidate .
I thought a woman could win ; he disagreed .
I have no interest in discussing this private meeting any further because Bernie and I have far more in common than our differences on punditry .
I ’ m in this race to talk about what ’ s broken in our country and how to fix it — and that ’ s what I ’ m going to continue to do .
I know Bernie is in the race for the same @ @ @ @ @ @ @ allies in this fight for a long time , and I have no doubt we will continue to work together to defeat Donald Trump and put our government on the side of the people .
Some in the media have sided with Sanders , Mika Brzezinski included , who called Warren “ brittle and completely weak ” for confronting Sanders at the end of the debate .
California Rep. Ami Bera warned that a Sanders nomination would make it difficult for 40 Democratic House reps to run , saying they would need to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” according to AP .
“ I come from a state that ’ s pretty damn red .
There is no doubt that having ‘ socialist ’ ahead of ‘ Democrat ’ is not a positive thing in the state of Montana , ” Sen. Jon Tester said , AP reports .
( RELATED : The Key To Winning In 2020 Will Be Properly Explaining Socialism , Says Bernie Sanders ) Those 40 democrats would be in a difficult situation with Sanders as the nominee .
For the time being , however , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fundraising numbers and now has been hit by several establishment Democrats , including one of his primary opponents .
Why ?
Because he has a real chance at this nomination and establishment Democrats can ’ t wrap their heads around it .
As Dems are running from Bernie or attacking him , Republicans have been defending the socialist senator from Vermont .
Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz said on Monday night ’ s “ Tucker Carlson Tonight ” that he believes , “ they ’ re trying to give Joe Biden the field in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the United States Senate during this impeachment trial .
That ’ s just how Washington works , trying to keep the populists at bay on every side of the political spectrum.
” Trump , who was in a similar situation in 2016 , also suggested they are using impeachment to take him out of Iowa .
“ They are rigging the election again against Bernie Sanders , just like the last time , only even more obviously , ” Trump tweeted , implying Nancyt Pelosi held onto the articles for a couple of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Senate immediately .
Politico reported that some swing-seat freshmen have participated in phone calls with Biden , Sen. Amy Klobuchar and former Mayor Pete Buttigieg , and most of them are leaning towards a Biden ticket .
“ If we ’ re going to campaign on issues like Medicare for All and free college for everybody , we ’ re not going to have a winning message in 2020 , ” New York Rep. Anthony Brindisi said , per Politico .
“ The wrong person at the top of the ticket — and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is — there would be down-ballot carnage all across the country , and I think that people are starting to recognize it , ” Democratic Louisiana Rep. Cedric Richmond and a national co-chair of the Biden campaign said to Politico .
House Democrats are hoping for a moderate , because a self-described socialist like Bernie Sanders might cost them their own seats and might cost Democrats the election altogether .

Establishment Democrats have begun sabotaging their socialist colleague Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the short answer why is that they are afraid he could win.


thedailycaller--2020-01-21--CNN Forces Out Another One Of Its Pro-Trump Commentators

A pro-Trump CNN commentator accused CNN of benching him Monday over a video where he defended the president ’ s comments regarding the 2017 Charlottesville “ Unite the Right ” rally .
Steve Cortes , formally a member of President Trump ’ s Hispanic advisory council , announced Monday that his time at CNN had “ just ended.
” He made the comments on “ The Steve Cortes Show ” and later spoke with Fox News ’ Laura Ingraham about the allegations .
Cortes told Ingraham that CNN had a problem with an August PragerU video where he defended Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ both sides ” comment regarding the deadly Charlottesville rally .
The former CNN commentator argued in the August video that Trump was not speaking about the neo-Nazis who attended the rally .
He said this video resulted in him being “ benched ” by CNN as a commentator and added the move did not come as a surprise .
Cortes is currently a spokesperson and senior adviser at America First Action PAC .
( RELATED : ‘ Why Not Use This Opportunity To Say We ’ re Done ?
’ — Laura Ingraham @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) “ Unfortunately Laura when you look at corporate media in this country , they have overwhelmingly forsaken journalism in favor of narrative promotion , and the foremost narrative they want to promote about the president is that he is a racist , and that those of us who support him are racist as well , ” Cortes told Ingraham on Monday .
“ For committing what was the unpardonable sin , at least in the eyes of CNN , for declawing that deception that they continued to push , they put me @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
“ They took me off the air after I did a PragerU video that got 6 million hits detailing exactly why the Charlottesville myth was a deception.
” Cortes said that he wasn ’ t given a written explanation for the decision , but that the network told him “ it was directly because of the Charlottesville video.
” He stood by his PragerU video , adding that “ we did strong work at improving the truth of the matter.
” Cortes told the Daily Caller that stories claiming the network fired @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I was fired are incorrect , ” Cortes said Tuesday .
“ I was ‘ benched ’ by CNN following the Prager U video , and only appeared once on air during the last 6 months of my contract which just expired.
” The network has previously parted ways with multiple pro-Trump commentators , including author Jeffrey Lord in 2017 and politician Ed Martin in 2018 .
CNN did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller .
( RELATED : CNN Reporter Complains About Satirical Article Getting As @ @ @ @ @ @

A pro-Trump CNN commentator accused CNN of benching him Monday over a video where he defended the president’s comments regarding the 2017 Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally.
Steve Cortes, formally a member of President Trump’s Hispanic advisory council, announced Monday that his time at CNN had “just ended.” He made the comments on “The Steve Cortes Show” and later spoke with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham about the allegations.
Cortes told Ingraham that CNN had a problem with an August PragerU video where he defended Trump’s “very fine people on both sides” comment regarding the deadly Charlottesville rally. The former CNN commentator argued in the August video that Trump was not speaking about the neo-Nazis who attended the rally.
He said this video resulted in him being “benched” by CNN as a commentator and added the move did not come as a surprise. Cortes is currently a spokesperson and senior adviser at America First Action PAC. (RELATED: ‘Why Not Use This Opportunity To Say We’re Done?’ — Laura Ingraham Presses Trump On Leaving Iraq For Good)
“Unfortunately Laura when you look at corporate media in this country, they have overwhelmingly forsaken journalism in favor of narrative promotion, and the foremost narrative they want to promote about the president is that he is a racist, and that those of us who support him are racist as well,” Cortes told Ingraham on Monday.
WATCH:
“For committing what was the unpardonable sin, at least in the eyes of CNN, for declawing that deception that they continued to push, they put me on the bench,” Cortes added. “They took me off the air after I did a PragerU video that got 6 million hits detailing exactly why the Charlottesville myth was a deception.”
Cortes said that he wasn’t given a written explanation for the decision, but that the network told him “it was directly because of the Charlottesville video.” He stood by his PragerU video, adding that “we did strong work at improving the truth of the matter.”
Cortes told the Daily Caller that stories claiming the network fired him are incorrect.
“Stories that I was fired are incorrect,” Cortes said Tuesday. “I was ‘benched’ by CNN following the Prager U video, and only appeared once on air during the last 6 months of my contract which just expired.”
The network has previously parted ways with multiple pro-Trump commentators, including author Jeffrey Lord in 2017 and politician Ed Martin in 2018.
CNN did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller. (RELATED: CNN Reporter Complains About Satirical Article Getting As Many Engagements As His Outlet)


thedailycaller--2020-01-21--McConnell Makes Change To Senate Impeachment Rules

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made a change to a resolution Tuesday that will lengthen President Donald Trump ’ s impeachment trial in the Senate by at least one day .
The altered resolution will give both sides 24 hours to argue their case over three trial days instead of two as originally planned .
Senators would then be given 16 hours for questioning .
The schedule would mean a break from the previously scheduled 12-hour days of argument in the Senate .
The impeachment trial could be over before Trump ’ s scheduled State of the Union address , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Representatives officially voted Jan. 15 to send the articles of impeachment against Trump to the Senate and approved the House ’ s impeachment managers .
The vote to send the articles of impeachment to the Senate and approve the impeachment managers was 228-193 .
Democratic Minnesota Rep. Collin Peterson was the only Democrat to vote nay , breaking with the rest of his party .
House Republicans all voted together .
Pelosi announced Jan. 15 the seven lawmakers who will serve as the House managers in the Senate impeachment trial against the president @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Asked Every GOP Senator About Impeachment .
Seven Ruled It Out . )
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff is the lead manager .
The other managers include House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler , House Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries , Democratic Colorado Rep. Jason Crow , Democratic Florida Rep. Val Demings , Democratic Texas Rep. Sylvia Garcia , and Democratic California Rep. Zoe Lofgren .
The seven impeachment managers ’ roles are very much like the roles of prosecutors , as the members are responsible for presenting the impeachment inquiries to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to why Trump should be impeached with the evidence they have gathered .
( RELATED : Sen. McConnell Says Pelosi ’ s Impeachment Strategy Achieved ‘ Absolutely Nothing ’ ) Pelosi had previously withheld the articles of impeachment , saying she doesn ’ t think the Republican-led Senate will hold a trial that both sides can agree on .

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made a change to a resolution Tuesday that will lengthen President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate by at least one day.
The altered resolution will give both sides 24 hours to argue their case over three trial days instead of two as originally planned. Senators would then be given 16 hours for questioning. The schedule would mean a break from the previously scheduled 12-hour days of argument in the Senate. The impeachment trial could be over before Trump’s scheduled State of the Union address, on Feb. 4.
The House of Representatives officially voted Jan. 15 to send the articles of impeachment against Trump to the Senate and approved the House’s impeachment managers.
The vote to send the articles of impeachment to the Senate and approve the impeachment managers was 228-193. Democratic Minnesota Rep. Collin Peterson was the only Democrat to vote nay, breaking with the rest of his party. House Republicans all voted together.
Pelosi announced Jan. 15 the seven lawmakers who will serve as the House managers in the Senate impeachment trial against the president. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: We Asked Every GOP Senator About Impeachment. Seven Ruled It Out.)
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff is the lead manager. The other managers include House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, House Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries, Democratic Colorado Rep. Jason Crow, Democratic Florida Rep. Val Demings, Democratic Texas Rep. Sylvia Garcia, and Democratic California Rep. Zoe Lofgren.
The seven impeachment managers’ roles are very much like the roles of prosecutors, as the members are responsible for presenting the impeachment inquiries to the Senate and making the case as to why Trump should be impeached with the evidence they have gathered. (RELATED: Sen. McConnell Says Pelosi’s Impeachment Strategy Achieved ‘Absolutely Nothing’)
Pelosi had previously withheld the articles of impeachment, saying she doesn’t think the Republican-led Senate will hold a trial that both sides can agree on.


thedailycaller--2020-01-21--Hubs And Heartlands: The Battlegrounds Of The New Class War

The following is an excerpt from “ The New Class War : Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite , ” out Tuesday from Penguin Books .
On a map of the United States color-coded by party , big cities and university towns and a few regions with large immigrant and racial minority populations are a chain of Democratic islands in a Republican ocean .
Similar patterns appear on maps of voting for Brexit in the UK and elections in continental Europe .
Looking at these maps , it is easy to see why scholars and journalists refer to the “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Farm owners and farmworkers make up only a tiny sliver of the population in the typical Western democracy .
Most voters in Europe and North America today live in broadly defined metro areas or small communities on their periphery .
In the case of partisanship , the most important border is not between city and countryside , but between expensive , high-density urban business districts and inner suburbs on the one hand and , on the other , low-density suburbs and exurbs .
Rather than use the terms “ city ” and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the high-density areas as “ hubs ” and the low-density areas around and between the hubs as “ heartlands.
” The hubs and heartlands are distinguished not only by population density but also by different economic sectors .
In the hubs , home to most of the managerial overclass , we see two primary sectors : high- end business and professional services , and luxury services .
In the heartlands , we find two other sectors : goods production and what can be described as “ mass services.
” ( RELATED : The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , It ’ s Between The Ascendant Rich Elites And The Rest Of Us ) The high-end business and professional services concentrated in the hubs , which Saskia Sassen has called “ global cities , ” such as New York and London , include software , finance , insurance , accounting , marketing , advertising , consulting , and others whose clients are often corporations , including global corporations managing supply chains in many countries .
No matter where they are born , professionals and managers often move to pursue their careers in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ producer services — software in San Francisco and the Bay Area , finance in New York and London and Frankfurt .
Much of the discretionary income of elite managers and professionals in the hub cities is spent on luxury services .
In Europe and North America , these amenities are provided by the sectors that the economist David Autor calls “ wealth work , ” a category with formal job titles that include Gift Wrapper , Fingernail Former , Mystery Shopper , and Barista .
The combination of low wages and high living @ @ @ @ @ @ @ New York , London , and Paris make these occupations unattractive to many native workers of all races , as well as more prosperous immigrants , who often move to suburbs or exurbs as soon as they can afford to escape .
Urban service jobs are filled disproportionately by recent immigrants , for whom miserable pay and crowded living conditions in the hubs are preferable to the limited opportunities in the countries they left behind .
The social liberalism of these high-end service meccas can not disguise their extreme inequality .
The gap @ @ @ @ @ @ @ City is comparable to that of Swaziland ; Los Angeles and Chicago are slightly more egalitarian , comparable to the Dominican Republic and El Salvador .
Meanwhile , in the vast areas of low-density , low-rise residential and commercial zones around and among the hierarchical hubs , a radically different society has evolved .
In the national heartlands , apart from expensive rural resort areas , there are fewer rich households and therefore fewer working poor employed by the rich as servants and luxury service providers .
( RELATED : Here ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The Manufacturing Jobs Are Coming Back ) In the U.S. and Europe , the population of the heartlands is much more likely to be native-born and white .
But the heartlands are becoming more racially and ethnically diverse , making the familiar equation of “ urban ” and “ nonwhite ” anachronistic .
For example , most African Americans and Latinos in the U.S. are neither poor nor urban but belong along with most white Americans to the suburban and exurban working class .
Over time , the share of the heartland population @ @ @ @ @ @ @ growing , as both non-white immigrants and native minority- group members are driven by rising real estate costs out of hub cities that have grown whiter and richer thanks to gentrification .
In the United States , immigrants from Latin America are assimilating to mainstream language and culture and marrying outside of their group at a rate similar to that of European immigrants in the past .
It is a mistake , therefore , to assume that the hub city ethnic diasporas of today will endure rather than wither away in time as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” and “ Little Bohemias.
” In the heartlands are found almost all of the goods-producing industries that have not been offshored to other countries — factories , farms , mines , and oil and gas wells .
In addition to being the realm of goods production , the heart- land is the land of mass services .
In the somewhat idealized era of mid-twentieth-century industrial Fordism , the workers in mass-production industries earned enough to buy the products they made , such as cars , radios , and television sets .
In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mass-provision service industries — waiters at inexpensive chain restaurants with working- class clienteles at exurban highway intersections , for example , unlike waiters at prestigious downtown restaurants — often can afford to purchase the services they provide , in a kind of service-sector Fordism .
In short , the hub-heartland divide that is reshaping politics on both sides of the Atlantic is the geographic manifestation of a class divide .
Partisan geographic differences tend to be proxies for class conflicts , with the interests of hub city overclasses and heartland working classes colliding @ @ @ @ @ @ @ trade , immigration , and values.Of all of the self-serving myths that are found in metropolitan overclass propaganda , the most absurd is the idea that the hubs are more “ productive ” than the heartlands .
This makes sense only if productivity is equated with income .
By this standard , if all the billionaires in the United States moved to Jackson Hole , Wyoming , the luxury resort community would become the most “ productive ” area in the U.S. overnight .
( RELATED : LORD : Donald Trump ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ investors , managers , and professionals in global hubs like New York , San Francisco , and London are paid for the services or capital they provide to major industries or firms , most of which have physical production or transportation facilities elsewhere .
The fortunes of many San Francisco tech executives depend on legions of underpaid factory workers in China and other countries , on energy-hungry server farms located in remote rural areas , and on massive communications and transportation infrastructures stretching over vast distances among cities and nations and maintained by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Morgan Asset Management writes that without U.S. heartland regions , “ cities would not be able to grow as they have , and/or the U.S. would be highly reliant on geopolitically insecure and costlier imports of food and energy , and be exposed to volatile weather , environmental and exchange rate conditions out of its control.
” As a tongue-in-cheek thought experiment , Cembalest allocated the 538 votes in the electoral college that elects the U.S. president to American states on the basis of two equally weighted factors , their populations and their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the Midwest and the Rockies gain electors , while East Coast states and Michigan lose them.
” Without any irony William Jennings Bryan , the leading agrarian populist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , would have approved , having declared : “ The great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies .
Burn down your cities and leave our farms , and your cities will spring up again as if by magic ; but destroy our farms , and grass will grow in the streets of every city @ @ @ @ @ @ @ physical production that remains in Western nations , like manufacturing , agriculture , and mining , including fossil fuel extraction , along with infrastructure construction and upkeep , occur far from the fashionable downtowns and affluent , inner-ring suburbs where most of the managerial overclass lives and works .
Overclass elites in urban hubs therefore can favor stringent environmental regulations at little cost to themselves .
Heartland communities are more likely to be sensitive to the costs of environmental policies than hub city managers and professionals .
What is more , the property-owning @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also likely to be more sensitive to environmental restrictions on what property owners can do with their property than the denizens of the hubs , where not only the working poor and the working class but also many professionals must rent be- cause they can not afford to own homes .
And most working-class individuals in low-density regions rely on their personal cars or trucks for commuting , shopping , and recreation .
The French yellow vest riots of the winter of 2018–19 illustrated the intersecting fault lines of class and place in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for only a negligible amount of global greenhouse gas emissions , in order to advertise France ’ s moral leadership in combating global warming , President Macron ’ s government raised taxes on diesel-fueled cars and trucks .
The costs of this exercise in virtue signaling fell disproportionately on working- class and rural citizens , dependent on their automobiles and trucks .
Their spontaneous protests escalated into months of violence in Paris and other French cities , forcing Macron ’ s government to abandon the policy.9 Subsequently in 2019 the conservative party in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , came from behind and defeated a progressive party that pushed environmental regulations that threatened jobs and low living costs in the periphery .
( RELATED : Josh Hawley ’ s Common-Good Conservatism Isn ’ t Just Right , It Can Win ) Like debates about the environment , debates about trade are battlefields in the class war .
The overclass population living in hubs continues to tout the benefits of trade liberalization among high-wage and low-wage countries , including slightly lower prices for consumers for imports from low-wage nations , but much @ @ @ @ @ @ @ longer listening .
As manufacturing jobs disappear overseas , disproportionately affecting the livelihoods of the working class in the heartland , more and more disaffected Americans look to leaders who promise to change the trade balance , economic orthodoxy be damned .
In 2016 , according to the economists David Autor , David Dorn , Gordon Hanson , and Kaveh Majlesi , voters in U.S. regions exposed to Chinese import competition were more likely than others to support the outsider candidacies of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders : “ Trade-exposed [ congressional ] @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or initially in Republican hands became substantially more likely to elect a conservative Republican , while trade-exposed districts with an initial majority- minority population or initially in Democratic hands also became more likely to elect a liberal Democrat .
In presidential elections , counties with greater trade exposure shifted towards the Republican candidate.
” The overclass most important in the hubs of and the the many native divisions working- between class voters in the heartland is the clash over immigration policy .
Like trade policy in today ’ s era of transnational production @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Immigration has always been a flash point in the class war between employers and workers .
Members of the mostly white overclass elite in the U.S. often personally benefit from lax enforcement of immigration laws .
The Pew Research Center reports that in the U.S. , immigrants make up nearly half of all household servants , who are employed by a relatively small number of affluent households .
As Lynn Stuart Parramore writes for the left- leaning Alter Net , “ In the U.S. , nearly half of maids and housekeepers are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
( A big chunk of the wealthy is happy to support mass immigration of cheap labor so that these workers can continue to be underpaid . )
” The adoption by many U.S. hub cities of seemingly idealistic “ sanctuary city ” laws , which forbid local law enforcement officers from collaborating with federal officials in identifying and deporting illegal immigrants , saves money for managers and professionals by maintaining their access to local pools of low-wage , untaxed , unregulated , off-the-books nannies , as well as other luxury service labor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ privileged lifestyles .
By one estimate , 90 percent of nannies in New York City are paid off the books by employers who ignore employment rules and tax laws .
High levels of immigration , both legal and illegal , also maintain the populations and economies and real estate prices of overclass-dominated hubs .
Fore decades , there has been a net outflow of U.S. citizens moving out of unaffordable big cities like New York , San Francisco , and Los Angeles and their counterparts in Europe .
If international migration had not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the 1970s onward , New York City would have lost population and its property tax base would have shrunk by $ 500 billion over thirty years .
( RELATED : There Are Now More Overdose Deaths In Major Cities Than In Rural Areas ) Absent perpetual repopulation from abroad , cities like New York , San Francisco , London , and Paris might go into demographic and economic death spirals .
Luxury industries , including tourist businesses , might cost more in a tight labor market , while urban real estate prices might @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wealth of local elites .
At the same time , the flight of natives from the hubs might accelerate further if two-earner professional couples had to pay higher wages to their servants .
In contrast , curtailing low-wage immigration from abroad would not harm and in some cases might help the working classes employed by the production industries and the mass service industries of the national heartlands in America and Europe .
Few of them can afford foreign-born nannies , maids , and gardeners .
And if tighter labor markets allow waiters at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they can also spend more , not only on mass-produced services but also on mass-produced goods like those at the discount furniture outlet at the highway intersection .
Tighter labor markets would make it easier for exploited urban immigrants to demand higher wages from miserly employers as well .
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The following is an excerpt from “The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite,” out Tuesday from Penguin Books.
On a map of the United States color-coded by party, big cities and university towns and a few regions with large immigrant and racial minority populations are a chain of Democratic islands in a Republican ocean. Similar patterns appear on maps of voting for Brexit in the UK and elections in continental Europe.
Looking at these maps, it is easy to see why scholars and journalists refer to the “urban-rural divide.” But this is misleading. Farm owners and farmworkers make up only a tiny sliver of the population in the typical Western democracy. Most voters in Europe and North America today live in broadly defined metro areas or small communities on their periphery. In the case of partisanship, the most important border is not between city and countryside, but between expensive, high-density urban business districts and inner suburbs on the one hand and, on the other, low-density suburbs and exurbs.
Rather than use the terms “city” and “countryside,” we can describe the high-density areas as “hubs” and the low-density areas around and between the hubs as “heartlands.”
The hubs and heartlands are distinguished not only by population density but also by different economic sectors. In the hubs, home to most of the managerial overclass, we see two primary sectors: high- end business and professional services, and luxury services. In the heartlands, we find two other sectors: goods production and what can be described as “mass services.” (RELATED: The Real Conflict Is Not Racial Or Sexual, It’s Between The Ascendant Rich Elites And The Rest Of Us)
The high-end business and professional services concentrated in the hubs, which Saskia Sassen has called “global cities,” such as New York and London, include software, finance, insurance, accounting, marketing, advertising, consulting, and others whose clients are often corporations, including global corporations managing supply chains in many countries. No matter where they are born, professionals and managers often move to pursue their careers in major hub cities that specialize in particular producer services — software in San Francisco and the Bay Area, finance in New York and London and Frankfurt.
Much of the discretionary income of elite managers and professionals in the hub cities is spent on luxury services. In Europe and North America, these amenities are provided by the sectors that the economist David Autor calls “wealth work,” a category with formal job titles that include Gift Wrapper, Fingernail Former, Mystery Shopper, and Barista. The combination of low wages and high living costs for many workers in hubs like New York, London, and Paris make these occupations unattractive to many native workers of all races, as well as more prosperous immigrants, who often move to suburbs or exurbs as soon as they can afford to escape. Urban service jobs are filled disproportionately by recent immigrants, for whom miserable pay and crowded living conditions in the hubs are preferable to the limited opportunities in the countries they left behind.
The social liberalism of these high-end service meccas cannot disguise their extreme inequality. The gap between richest and poorest in New York City is comparable to that of Swaziland; Los Angeles and Chicago are slightly more egalitarian, comparable to the Dominican Republic and El Salvador.
Meanwhile, in the vast areas of low-density, low-rise residential and commercial zones around and among the hierarchical hubs, a radically different society has evolved. In the national heartlands, apart from expensive rural resort areas, there are fewer rich households and therefore fewer working poor employed by the rich as servants and luxury service providers. (RELATED: Here’s A Look At One Ohio Town Where The Manufacturing Jobs Are Coming Back)
In the U.S. and Europe, the population of the heartlands is much more likely to be native-born and white. But the heartlands are becoming more racially and ethnically diverse, making the familiar equation of “urban” and “nonwhite” anachronistic. For example, most African Americans and Latinos in the U.S. are neither poor nor urban but belong along with most white Americans to the suburban and exurban working class. Over time, the share of the heartland population that is nonwhite or mixed race is growing, as both non-white immigrants and native minority- group members are driven by rising real estate costs out of hub cities that have grown whiter and richer thanks to gentrification. In the United States, immigrants from Latin America are assimilating to mainstream language and culture and marrying outside of their group at a rate similar to that of European immigrants in the past. It is a mistake, therefore, to assume that the hub city ethnic diasporas of today will endure rather than wither away in time as did America’s “Little Italys” and “Little Bohemias.”
In the heartlands are found almost all of the goods-producing industries that have not been offshored to other countries — factories, farms, mines, and oil and gas wells. In addition to being the realm of goods production, the heart- land is the land of mass services. In the somewhat idealized era of mid-twentieth-century industrial Fordism, the workers in mass-production industries earned enough to buy the products they made, such as cars, radios, and television sets. In the twenty-first century, the workers in mass-provision service industries — waiters at inexpensive chain restaurants with working- class clienteles at exurban highway intersections, for example, unlike waiters at prestigious downtown restaurants — often can afford to purchase the services they provide, in a kind of service-sector Fordism.
In short, the hub-heartland divide that is reshaping politics on both sides of the Atlantic is the geographic manifestation of a class divide. Partisan geographic differences tend to be proxies for class conflicts, with the interests of hub city overclasses and heartland working classes colliding when it comes to environmental policies, trade, immigration, and values.Of all of the self-serving myths that are found in metropolitan overclass propaganda, the most absurd is the idea that the hubs are more “productive” than the heartlands. This makes sense only if productivity is equated with income. By this standard, if all the billionaires in the United States moved to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the luxury resort community would become the most “productive” area in the U.S. overnight. (RELATED: LORD: Donald Trump’s Country Party)
In reality, affluent investors, managers, and professionals in global hubs like New York, San Francisco, and London are paid for the services or capital they provide to major industries or firms, most of which have physical production or transportation facilities elsewhere. The fortunes of many San Francisco tech executives depend on legions of underpaid factory workers in China and other countries, on energy-hungry server farms located in remote rural areas, and on massive communications and transportation infrastructures stretching over vast distances among cities and nations and maintained by blue-collar workers.
Michael Cembalest of J.P. Morgan Asset Management writes that without U.S. heartland regions, “cities would not be able to grow as they have, and/or the U.S. would be highly reliant on geopolitically insecure and costlier imports of food and energy, and be exposed to volatile weather, environmental and exchange rate conditions out of its control.” As a tongue-in-cheek thought experiment, Cembalest allocated the 538 votes in the electoral college that elects the U.S. president to American states on the basis of two equally weighted factors, their populations and their food and energy production: “Texas, the Midwest and the Rockies gain electors, while East Coast states and Michigan lose them.” Without any irony William Jennings Bryan, the leading agrarian populist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, would have approved, having declared: “The great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms, and grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.”
Most of the physical production that remains in Western nations, like manufacturing, agriculture, and mining, including fossil fuel extraction, along with infrastructure construction and upkeep, occur far from the fashionable downtowns and affluent, inner-ring suburbs where most of the managerial overclass lives and works. Overclass elites in urban hubs therefore can favor stringent environmental regulations at little cost to themselves. Heartland communities are more likely to be sensitive to the costs of environmental policies than hub city managers and professionals. What is more, the property-owning, working-class majorities of the heartlands are also likely to be more sensitive to environmental restrictions on what property owners can do with their property than the denizens of the hubs, where not only the working poor and the working class but also many professionals must rent be- cause they cannot afford to own homes. And most working-class individuals in low-density regions rely on their personal cars or trucks for commuting, shopping, and recreation.
The French yellow vest riots of the winter of 2018–19 illustrated the intersecting fault lines of class and place in environmental policy. Although France is responsible for only a negligible amount of global greenhouse gas emissions, in order to advertise France’s moral leadership in combating global warming, President Macron’s government raised taxes on diesel-fueled cars and trucks. The costs of this exercise in virtue signaling fell disproportionately on working- class and rural citizens, dependent on their automobiles and trucks. Their spontaneous protests escalated into months of violence in Paris and other French cities, forcing Macron’s government to abandon the policy.9 Subsequently in 2019 the conservative party in Australia, based in low-density working-class areas, came from behind and defeated a progressive party that pushed environmental regulations that threatened jobs and low living costs in the periphery. (RELATED: Josh Hawley’s Common-Good Conservatism Isn’t Just Right, It Can Win)
Like debates about the environment, debates about trade are battlefields in the class war. The overclass population living in hubs continues to tout the benefits of trade liberalization among high-wage and low-wage countries, including slightly lower prices for consumers for imports from low-wage nations, but much of the Western working class is no longer listening. As manufacturing jobs disappear overseas, disproportionately affecting the livelihoods of the working class in the heartland, more and more disaffected Americans look to leaders who promise to change the trade balance, economic orthodoxy be damned. In 2016, according to the economists David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon Hanson, and Kaveh Majlesi, voters in U.S. regions exposed to Chinese import competition were more likely than others to support the outsider candidacies of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders: “ Trade-exposed [congressional] districts with an initial majority white population or initially in Republican hands became substantially more likely to elect a conservative Republican, while trade-exposed districts with an initial majority- minority population or initially in Democratic hands also became more likely to elect a liberal Democrat. In presidential elections, counties with greater trade exposure shifted towards the Republican candidate.”
The overclass most important in the hubs of and the the many native divisions working- between class voters in the heartland is the clash over immigration policy. Like trade policy in today’s era of transnational production, immigration policy is essentially labor policy. Immigration has always been a flash point in the class war between employers and workers. Members of the mostly white overclass elite in the U.S. often personally benefit from lax enforcement of immigration laws. The Pew Research Center reports that in the U.S., immigrants make up nearly half of all household servants, who are employed by a relatively small number of affluent households. As Lynn Stuart Parramore writes for the left- leaning Alter Net, “In the U.S., nearly half of maids and housekeepers are not native-born, with Latin Americans dominating. (A big chunk of the wealthy is happy to support mass immigration of cheap labor so that these workers can continue to be underpaid.)”
The adoption by many U.S. hub cities of seemingly idealistic “sanctuary city” laws, which forbid local law enforcement officers from collaborating with federal officials in identifying and deporting illegal immigrants, saves money for managers and professionals by maintaining their access to local pools of low-wage, untaxed, unregulated, off-the-books nannies, as well as other luxury service labor that allows college-educated professionals to maintain their privileged lifestyles. By one estimate, 90 percent of nannies in New York City are paid off the books by employers who ignore employment rules and tax laws.
High levels of immigration, both legal and illegal, also maintain the populations and economies and real estate prices of overclass-dominated hubs. Fore decades, there has been a net outflow of U.S. citizens moving out of unaffordable big cities like New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles and their counterparts in Europe. If international migration had not compensated for the exodus of natives from the 1970s onward, New York City would have lost population and its property tax base would have shrunk by $500 billion over thirty years. (RELATED: There Are Now More Overdose Deaths In Major Cities Than In Rural Areas)
Absent perpetual repopulation from abroad, cities like New York, San Francisco, London, and Paris might go into demographic and economic death spirals. Luxury industries, including tourist businesses, might cost more in a tight labor market, while urban real estate prices might tumble, with disastrous consequences for the wealth of local elites. At the same time, the flight of natives from the hubs might accelerate further if two-earner professional couples had to pay higher wages to their servants.
In contrast, curtailing low-wage immigration from abroad would not harm and in some cases might help the working classes employed by the production industries and the mass service industries of the national heartlands in America and Europe. Few of them can afford foreign-born nannies, maids, and gardeners. And if tighter labor markets allow waiters at suburban chain restaurants to earn more, they can also spend more, not only on mass-produced services but also on mass-produced goods like those at the discount furniture outlet at the highway intersection. Tighter labor markets would make it easier for exploited urban immigrants to demand higher wages from miserly employers as well.
“The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite” by Michael Lind will be published on Jan. 21 by Portfolio, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. © 2020 by Michael Lind.
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thedailycaller--2020-01-22--Adam Schiff Reportedly Released False Information In Ukraine Probe

Rep. Adam Schiff released inaccurate information last week regarding a text message between Rudy Giuliani and a former associate concerning Ukraine-related matters , according to a news report .
The California Democrat claimed in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler on Jan. 14 that Soviet-born businessman Lev Parnas sent a message to Giuliani on July 3 , 2019 , about a potential meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky .
Schiff asserted that Parnas ’ s message to Giuliani that he was “ trying to get us mr Z ” referred to an attempt to meet with Ukrainian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Parnas continued to try to arrange a meeting with President Zelensky , ” Schiff wrote to Nadler of the message .
But according to Politico , unredacted communications that Schiff has not released indicate that Parnas was referring to Mykola Zlechovsky , the owner of Burisma Holdings , the Ukrainian gas firm that had Hunter Biden as a director .
Parnas sent Giuliani notes from an interview he conducted with Zlochevsky days after the July 3 text message .
“ mr Z answers my brother , ” Parnas wrote , the communications , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Parnas worked together to collect and disseminate information about Biden ’ s ties to Burisma .
As part of the effort , Parnas helped set interviews for Giuliani with Ukrainians who claimed to have information for the project .
Democrats have accused Trump of abusing his office by pressuring Zelensky to open investigations into Hunter and Joe Biden in exchange for military assistance .
Schiff has previously been accused of releasing false information in Trump-related investigations .
Donald Trump Jr. accused Schiff of being behind leaking a Dec. 8 , 2017 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an email containing a trove of WikiLeaks documents on Sept. 4 , 2016 .
The timing would have been significant because WikiLeaks did not release the documents to the public until days later .
But it turned out that CNN ’ s source provided the wrong date for the email .
It was instead sent to Trump Jr. on Sept. 14 , 2016 , a day after the WikiLeaks materials in question were publicized .
Schiff has also acknowledged that he falsely claimed not to know the substance of the whistleblower complaint that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Schiff admitted that a CIA analyst met with one of Schiff ’ s staffers before filing the complaint .
The aide reportedly briefed Schiff on the analyst ’ s allegations about Trump .
Schiff also came under fire for reading a parody of Trump ’ s July 25 phone call with Zelensky , which is at the center of the impeachment push , during a Sept. 26 House Intelligence Committee hearing .
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Rep. Adam Schiff released inaccurate information last week regarding a text message between Rudy Giuliani and a former associate concerning Ukraine-related matters, according to a news report.
The California Democrat claimed in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler on Jan. 14 that Soviet-born businessman Lev Parnas sent a message to Giuliani on July 3, 2019, about a potential meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Schiff asserted that Parnas’s message to Giuliani that he was “trying to get us mr Z” referred to an attempt to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“Mr. Parnas continued to try to arrange a meeting with President Zelensky,” Schiff wrote to Nadler of the message.
But according to Politico, unredacted communications that Schiff has not released indicate that Parnas was referring to Mykola Zlechovsky, the owner of Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian gas firm that had Hunter Biden as a director.
Parnas sent Giuliani notes from an interview he conducted with Zlochevsky days after the July 3 text message.
“mr Z answers my brother,” Parnas wrote, the communications, which Politico obtained, show.
Giuliani and Parnas worked together to collect and disseminate information about Biden’s ties to Burisma. As part of the effort, Parnas helped set interviews for Giuliani with Ukrainians who claimed to have information for the project.
Democrats have accused Trump of abusing his office by pressuring Zelensky to open investigations into Hunter and Joe Biden in exchange for military assistance.
Schiff has previously been accused of releasing false information in Trump-related investigations.
Donald Trump Jr. accused Schiff of being behind leaking a Dec. 8, 2017, story to CNN alleging that he received an email containing a trove of WikiLeaks documents on Sept. 4, 2016.
The timing would have been significant because WikiLeaks did not release the documents to the public until days later. But it turned out that CNN’s source provided the wrong date for the email. It was instead sent to Trump Jr. on Sept. 14, 2016, a day after the WikiLeaks materials in question were publicized.
Schiff has also acknowledged that he falsely claimed not to know the substance of the whistleblower complaint that triggered President Donald Trump’s impeachment.
Schiff admitted that a CIA analyst met with one of Schiff’s staffers before filing the complaint. The aide reportedly briefed Schiff on the analyst’s allegations about Trump.
Schiff also came under fire for reading a parody of Trump’s July 25 phone call with Zelensky, which is at the center of the impeachment push, during a Sept. 26 House Intelligence Committee hearing.
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thedailycaller--2020-01-22--White House Counsel Pat Cipollone Tells Jerry Nadler He ‘Should Be Embarrassed’

White House counsel Pat Cipollone tore into Democratic New York Rep. Jerry Nadler , one of the House impeachment managers , during the Senate trial early Wednesday morning .
Cipollone , part of President Donald Trump ’ s legal team , told Nadler that he “ should be embarrassed ” about the way he conducted himself in the Senate .
Shortly before Cipollone ’ s remarks , Nadler accused Trump ’ s defense team and Senate Republicans of participating in a “ cover-up.
” “ We ’ ve been respectful of the Senate , we ’ ve made our arguments @ @ @ @ @ @ @ deserve and we don ’ t deserve what just happened , ” Cipollone said .
( RELATED : Impeachment Star Adam Schiff Won First Congressional Race By Campaigning Against Impeachment ) “ Mr .
Nadler came up here and made false allegations against our team , he made false allegations against all of you , he accused you of a cover-up .
He ’ s been making false allegations against the president .
The only one who should be embarrassed , Mr. Nadler , is you , for the way you ’ ve @ @ @ @ @ @ @ United States Senate .
You ’ re not in charge here , ” Cipollone continued .
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White House counsel Pat Cipollone tore into Democratic New York Rep. Jerry Nadler, one of the House impeachment managers, during the Senate trial early Wednesday morning.
Cipollone, part of President Donald Trump’s legal team, told Nadler that he “should be embarrassed” about the way he conducted himself in the Senate. Shortly before Cipollone’s remarks, Nadler accused Trump’s defense team and Senate Republicans of participating in a “cover-up.”
“We’ve been respectful of the Senate, we’ve made our arguments to you. You don’t deserve and we don’t deserve what just happened,” Cipollone said. (RELATED: Impeachment Star Adam Schiff Won First Congressional Race By Campaigning Against Impeachment)
“Mr. Nadler came up here and made false allegations against our team, he made false allegations against all of you, he accused you of a cover-up. He’s been making false allegations against the president. The only one who should be embarrassed, Mr. Nadler, is you, for the way you’ve addressed this body. This is the United States Senate. You’re not in charge here,” Cipollone continued.
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thedailycaller--2020-01-22--John Roberts Admonishes Both Sides As Impeachment Trial Grows Heated

The Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump grew so heated early Wednesday morning that Chief Justice John Roberts stepped in to remind both the House impeachment managers and Trump ’ s defense team to “ remember where they are.
” Democratic New York Rep. Jerry Nadler , one of the House impeachment managers , accused Senate Republicans and Trump ’ s defense team of orchestrating a “ cover up ” — an accusation that sparked a fierce rebuttal from Trump ’ s team .
White House counsel Pat Cipollone , a key member of the Trump defense , told @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” for his remarks .
“ I think it is appropriate for me to admonish both the House managers and the president ’ s counsel in equal terms to remember that they are addressing the world ’ s greatest deliberative body , ” said Roberts , who is presiding over the impeachment trial .
“ One reason it has earned that title is because its members avoid speaking in a manner and using language that is not conducive to civil discourse , ” the chief justice continued .
( RELATED : Nearly All @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Impeachment Before Whistleblower Complaint Was Filed ) “ In the 1905 [ Charles ] Swayne trial , a manager objected when someone used the term ‘ petty fogging.
’ The presiding officer said the term ought not to have been used .
I don ’ t think we need to aspire to that high a standard but I think those addressing the Senate should remember where they are , ” said Roberts .
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The Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump grew so heated early Wednesday morning that Chief Justice John Roberts stepped in to remind both the House impeachment managers and Trump’s defense team to “remember where they are.”
Democratic New York Rep. Jerry Nadler, one of the House impeachment managers, accused Senate Republicans and Trump’s defense team of orchestrating a “cover up” — an accusation that sparked a fierce rebuttal from Trump’s team. White House counsel Pat Cipollone, a key member of the Trump defense, told Nadler that he “should be embarrassed” for his remarks.
“I think it is appropriate for me to admonish both the House managers and the president’s counsel in equal terms to remember that they are addressing the world’s greatest deliberative body,” said Roberts, who is presiding over the impeachment trial.
“One reason it has earned that title is because its members avoid speaking in a manner and using language that is not conducive to civil discourse,” the chief justice continued. (RELATED: Nearly All Of Pelosi’s Impeachment Managers Supported Impeachment Before Whistleblower Complaint Was Filed)
“In the 1905 [Charles] Swayne trial, a manager objected when someone used the term ‘petty fogging.’ The presiding officer said the term ought not to have been used. I don’t think we need to aspire to that high a standard but I think those addressing the Senate should remember where they are,” said Roberts.
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thedailycaller--2020-01-22--Democrats’ Impeachment Strategy Is Bore Everyone To Death

On today ’ s podcast we cover the first day of the impeachment trial in the Senate , in which @ @ @ @ @ how to bore their audience to death .
Also , Hillary Clinton hates Bernie Sanders @ @ @ @ @ the Senate impeachment trial was a long , boring day of taking votes everyone knew @ @ @ @ @ If Democrats had a strategy to getting everyone not paid to watch , or who @ @ @ @ @ turn the channel : mission accomplished .
Torture is illegal everywhere but the Senate , @ @ @ @ @ there ’ s no way you had the intestinal fortitude to .
Also , Hillary @ @ @ @ @ elect any Democrat , the immediately backtracked when asked if that included Bernie Sanders .
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On today’s podcast we cover the first day of the impeachment trial in the Senate, in which Democrats held a seminar on how to bore their audience to death. Also, Hillary Clinton hates Bernie Sanders.
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The first day of the Senate impeachment trial was a long, boring day of taking votes everyone knew the Democrats would lose. If Democrats had a strategy of getting everyone not paid to watch, or who seriously hates themselves, to turn the channel: mission accomplished. Torture is illegal everywhere but the Senate, apparently. We watched because there’s no way you had the intestinal fortitude to.
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Also, Hillary Clinton pledged to work to elect any Democrat, then immediately backtracked when asked if that included Bernie Sanders.
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thedailycaller--2020-01-22--Kate Middleton Shines In Beautiful Teal Print Top And Pants Combo In Birmingham

Kate Middleton definitely shined when she stepped out Tuesday in a beautiful teal print top and pants combo during an outing in Birmingham , England .
The Duchess of Cambridge looked just as striking as ever in the long-sleeve , button-up blouse that she paired with black pants during her visit to MiniBrum , a Thinktank in the Birmingham Science Museum .
( RELATED : Report : Meghan Markle And Kate Middleton ’ s Alleged Feud Really Between Prince Harry And Prince William ) She completed the terrific winter look with loose hair and blue high heels .
( RELATED @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Her Greatest Looks As First Lady [ SLIDESHOW ] ) To say she looked terrific would be a serious understatement .
Judging by the pictures , a good times was had by all .
“ Today The Duchess of Cambridge launches # 5BigQuestions on the Under 5s , a landmark survey which gives people across the UK an opportunity to provide their view on raising the next generation , ” a tweet from Kensington Palace read , along with several great pictures from the day ’ s event .
Middleton ’ s fashion @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been noted numerous times before .
Most recently , she got everyone ’ s attention when she showed up in a sparkling red , sheer gown during a royal reception at Buckingham Palace .
Check out some of her other unforgettable looks throughout the years here .

Kate Middleton definitely shined when she stepped out Tuesday in a beautiful teal print top and pants combo during an outing in Birmingham, England.
The Duchess of Cambridge looked just as striking as ever in the long-sleeve, button-up blouse that she paired with black pants during her visit to MiniBrum, a Thinktank in the Birmingham Science Museum. (RELATED: Report: Meghan Markle And Kate Middleton’s Alleged Feud Really Between Prince Harry And Prince William)
She completed the terrific winter look with loose hair and blue high heels. (RELATED: Celebrate Melania’s Birthday With Her Greatest Looks As First Lady [SLIDESHOW])
To say she looked terrific would be a serious understatement.
Judging by the pictures, a good times was had by all.
“Today The Duchess of Cambridge launches #5BigQuestions on the Under 5s, a landmark survey which gives people across the UK an opportunity to provide their view on raising the next generation,” a tweet from Kensington Palace read, along with several great pictures from the day’s event.
Today The Duchess of Cambridge launches #5BigQuestions????on the Under 5s, a landmark survey which gives people across the UK an opportunity to provide their view on raising the next generation:https://t.co/RkyFFmUnhC pic.twitter.com/9hAn8koR4G — Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) January 21, 2020
Middleton’s fashion sense is always on point as has been noted numerous times before. Most recently, she got everyone’s attention when she showed up in a sparkling red, sheer gown during a royal reception at Buckingham Palace.
Check out some of her other unforgettable looks throughout the years here.


thedailycaller--2020-01-22--‘Don’t Tread On Me’: Why Do Gun Owners Love The Gadsden Flag?

Why do gun owners love the Gadsden “ Don ’ t Tread on Me ” flag ?
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Why do gun owners love the Gadsden “Don’t Tread on Me” flag?
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