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1619 PROJECT: The Protocols of the Elders of Hulu | Steve Berman

1619 PROJECT: The Protocols of the Elders of Hulu | Steve Berman


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A month ago, Hulu announced it would air a six-part “docu-series” called “The 1619 Project,” based on Nikole Hannah-Jones’ eponymous essay published in the New York Times Magazine. From Variety: Hosted by Hannah-Jones, “The 1619 Project” seeks to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the very …

2023: We’re Gonna Blow a 50-Amp Fuse | Steve Berman

2023: We’re Gonna Blow a 50-Amp Fuse | Steve Berman


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An advisory committee of educated ignoramuses in San Francisco recommended that practically every Black person in the city, with few exceptions, receive $5 million from the government in reparations. The fact they failed to even touch on the repercussions of handing that kind of cash to people is the apotheosis of the spirit of the age in …

BIDEN’S CLASSIFIED CACHE: I Told You So | Steve Berman

BIDEN’S CLASSIFIED CACHE: I Told You So | Steve Berman


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If you’re a proponent of do-nothing government, congratulations! You’ve just unlocked new achievements. Sigh. Yesterday, I warned that when Congress becomes an inquisitor, nothing good happens. I’ve been saying for a while that the relationship between the National Archives and former POTUSes is a bit collegial, or “fast and loose,” in the public vernacular. Really, there are …

INQUISITIONS: Oh, They’ll Find Something, But Please, Stop | Steve Berman

INQUISITIONS: Oh, They’ll Find Something, But Please, Stop | Steve Berman


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“Here in my hand,” Mr. McCarthy said, his rapt audience of Republican women held by his earnest concern for our nation. “A list of 205.” Two hundred five names of “all the men in the State Department who have been named as members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring.” The list …

MCCARTHY SHOULD FRAME THIS QUOTE: “By God Sir! I Will Not Retreat!” | Steve Berman

MCCARTHY SHOULD FRAME THIS QUOTE: “By God Sir! I Will Not Retreat!” | Steve Berman


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Kevin McCarthy has vowed to keep fighting for his quest to become Speaker of the House, despite a contingent of “burn it all down” members of his own party determined (and able!) to deny him. The last time the House may have been this divided, it took 133 ballots to elect a Speaker. McCarthy has called on the …

WOULD YOU RATHER: Get Fired for Thoughtcrime or Impregnating Your Wife? | Steve Berman

WOULD YOU RATHER: Get Fired for Thoughtcrime or Impregnating Your Wife? | Steve Berman


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In USA Today, I read a piece about a “righteous living” lawsuit against Ramsey Solutions. Summed up, a man they hired was recently married, and disclosed his wife was pregnant. Ramey executives determined that the man must have gotten her pregnant before they were married, violating their ban on extramarital sex, so they fired him. They did …

I’M WRONG: 2023, Medvedev’s Hellscape, and Truth | Steve Berman

I’M WRONG: 2023, Medvedev’s Hellscape, and Truth | Steve Berman


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If you want to read a hellscape for 2023, Dmitry Medvedev has one on Twitter. Here’s one in the thread. Medvedev, Vladimir Putin’s longtime partner in crime, also predicted the EU’s collapse, a united Irish republic including Northern Ireland, and a Fourth Reich “encompassing the territory of Germany and its satellites, i.e. Poland, the Baltic states, Czechia, Slovakia, …

IT’S WRONG: Congress Trashes the Law on Trump Taxes | Steve Berman

IT’S WRONG: Congress Trashes the Law on Trump Taxes | Steve Berman


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Democrats in Congress spent six years in court Donald Trump’s tax returns, and now that they have them, they have voted to release them to the public. It’s wrong to do this. Trump, as a candidate, promised to release his tax returns, then flip-flopped, citing an ongoing audit. The New York Times, which obtained decades of …

JAN 6: Drink the Kool-Aid, Die from the Poison | Steve Berman

JAN 6: Drink the Kool-Aid, Die from the Poison | Steve Berman


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Republicans had one chance to do the right thing in January 2021, and they went for the poison Kool-Aid instead of choosing to live. There’s really no more powerful evidence of this than Trump’s reaction to panicked texts from his own political supporters.  Marjorie Taylor Greene—yes, her—texted Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows, “Please tell the President …

CRYPTO-FAIL: It’s Time to Kill Crypto-Currency | Steve Berman

CRYPTO-FAIL: It’s Time to Kill Crypto-Currency | Steve Berman


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They arrested the wrong guy. Sam Bankman-Fried likely violated federal law and a whole bunch of securities regulations. But he’s not the one who should be in jail. It’s the venture capitalists who piled on the real cash, and the politicians who lent respectability to what essentially is the financial equivalent to snake oil who …