DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES:

THIS IS WHAT THEY MEAN BY “OUR DEMOCRACY:”

KEVIN DOWNEY JR: Filthy Pinko of the Week: Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy! “Murphy appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher and went full bosh goblin as he vomitously disembogued his Pravda-esque presstitution about what a censoring tyrant President Donald Trump is regarding the recent head-lopping of propagandist Scott Pelley. Maher, who appears to be politically waking up, albeit with the speed of a tectonic plate shift, wasn’t having it.”

REMINDER:

WHAT ARE THE FACTORS INSIDE IRAN THAT VICTORY REQUIRES?  The resumption of the war with Iran, Part 3.

THEY’VE BEEN SACRIFICING OUR GIRLS ONE ALTAR OR ANOTHER FOR AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER: They don’t like girls — or humans — much anyway.  The Left Sacrifices Our Girls on the Altar of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

TRUMP STORMS OUT OF MEET THE PRESS INTERVIEW:

The exchange started to unravel when the topic of election integrity came up. Trump made clear that he views the media’s handling of these stories as part of a larger systemic problem, one that the press has deliberately chosen to ignore. He told Welker that her network actively works against him and that he had the receipts to back it up.

“You play right into their hands with this stuff,” Trump said. “You know that these elections are rigged. Your network knows that they’re rigged. Do you know that I won an election in a landslide and I got 94% bad press.”

Welker tried to redirect the conversation toward acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, but Trump wasn’t having it. Every time she jumped in, he pushed through it. He insisted the evidence of problems with election integrity runs deep: “You have more evidence, there’s more evidence than ever presented.”

“Your elections in this country — we’re like a third world country,” he said. “Your elections are crooked and you’re crooked, and Meet the Press is crooked.”

He didn’t stop there. “And so is ABC and CBS and CNN,” Trump continued. “You’re a one-sided crooked network.”

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Meanwhile America’s Newspaper of Record might to revise and extend its remarks:

UPDATE:

GOOD AND HARD, L.A., GOOD AND HARD:

UPDATE:

Tweet concludes, “We look forward to winning a contest against an opponent who allows encampments near schools and fights against hiring more cops, yet is MIA on saving Hollywood jobs and fighting back when ICE invades LA.”

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Richard Fernandez’s tweet concludes, “How honest was city hall? How reliable was the state? None of the answers to these things are available from Google but you can infer it from observation. Thus ‘poor devil, he never had a chance’ can also mean ‘don’t go to that swamp. It’s full of reptiles.’”

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.