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Everyone must stop saying they are "stunned" and "shocked." What you mean to say is that you were in a bubble and weren't paying attention to your fellow Americans and their despair.YEARS of being neglected by both parties, the anger and the need for revenge against the system only grew. Along came a TV star they liked whose plan was to destroy both parties and tell them all "You're fired!" Trump's victory is no surprise. He was never a joke. Treating him as one only strengthened him. - Michael Moore on the failure of both political parties in America

How delusions become reality

This past week, as I put together my coverage of Hell Week, I read how some liberals are creating petitions for the west coast to secede from the union. I read about the Canada immigrations web site being overwhelmed after the US election by visitors looking for an escape route from the US. I read about high-school kids who once sat peaceably next to each other in class rising up in class to beat up their classmates who voted for Trump. Prior to the election, I heard my own liberal friends say how they'd have to leave the country if Trump won.

For years Counter Current News had a tight relationship with various groups and alternative media websites that built up the Cop Block Facebook page.

For years groups like Cop Watch were aligned with Cop Block, due to the diplomacy and alliance-building of various leaders with Cop Block co-founder Pete Eyre.

Then, after years of ditching any form of activism, "Ademo Freeman" (real name: Adam Mueller), came back, after being informed that a number of sites were getting lots of traffic from having built up the social media page that he had nothing to do with.

For their part, the social media geniuses at The Free Thought Project and The Anti-Media took that page from 40,000 likes, to 1.5m. That's when Ademo came back in and began extorting sites who had built up the page's reach.

Each group posting on this page he did not build would be expected to "donate" $1,000 to him monthly. In addition to Cop Block ad revenue, Ademo was raking in several thousands of dollars every month, but each month he was as broke by the end as he was the month before.

Fellow white women, I'm done with you.


After all this talk of allyship, you didn't show up to the polls to push back against the openly racist, xenophobic, misogynistic now-President-elect Donald Trump.


The exit polls from the Nov. 8 election show that 53 percent of white women voted for Donald Trump, compared to only 43 percent for Hillary Clinton. It appears many white women are not moved by Trump's sexism, and instead would rather applaud the candidate for his lack of political correctness.


After all the supposed progress we've made, painstakingly trying to change a white feminist movement into an intersectional one (and for that we have only the hard work of women of color to thank), white women didn't show up to fight back against a man whose rhetoric and policies directly attack women of color, immigrant women, Muslim women, LGBTQ women and more.

Donald Trump is a brilliant man. His taking back of the White House for the American people against the world globalists proved that. And now liberals are having a freak out of epic proportions because Trump just picked his first three transition team members, and it's brilliant.

Trump was an anomaly in the corporate world when he would take female talent potential to run his hotels and companies. While the rest of NYC's business leaders stuck with the traditional male hierarchy, Trump broke ground multiple times when he saw talent that reached across gender lines. Now it's apparent his white house team will be no different. His first pick is a woman who made history as the first female to successfully run a presidential campaign, against a vicious media at that.

Kellyanne Conway was named Donald Trump's campaign manager Aug. 17, making her the first woman to ever run a Republican presidential campaign. She's traveled with Trump throughout his campaign in its last months and advised him, as well as appeared frequently on TV to speak on his behalf.

Demonstrators with signs reading "Not my president!" clogged streets in New York City on Saturday during a fourth day of anti-Trump protests nationwide, a day after a person was shot during a protest in Portland, Oregon.

Two 18-year-old men detained early Saturday were arrested later in the day in connection to the shooting on Portland's Morrison Bridge, which occurred after 1 a.m. local time (4 a.m. ET) Saturday, police said. It was unclear whether the shooting was politically motivated. "Preliminary information indicates that a suspect was in a vehicle on the bridge and there was a confrontation with someone in the protest," Portland police said in a statement. "The suspect got out of the vehicle and fired multiple shots injuring the victim." The victim is expected to survive, police said. The arrests were made after an off-duty officer spotted a suspect vehicle and detained four people who are believed to be "criminal gang associates," police said. A firearm was found in the vehicle, police said.

Earlier, police reported that "burning projectiles" were being thrown at officers during one of three demonstrations that occurred simultaneously in the city. The gunshots came on the fourth night of protests in Portland. Protesters hit the streets again Saturday on a fifth night of demonstrations since the election. There were three arrests, police said.

On Thursday, a similar rally boiled over into what police described as a "riot" after some demonstrators armed with bats smashed stores and cars, and others lit fires. Elsewhere overnight Friday, marchers blocked a major roadway in the Miami area and hundreds gathered in Atlanta, Boston and other cities. By early Saturday in New York, a total of 11 arrests were reported.

Donald J. Trump wasn't there himself. But in the well-appointed office of Mayor Byron W. Brown, a check for $10,000 from the real estate mogul was presented to the hero bus driver who brought a woman on the brink of suicide to safety. "Although I know to you it was just a warm-hearted first response to a dangerous situation," Trump wrote to Darnell J. Barton, "your quick thinking resulted in a life being saved, and for that you should be rewarded."

The City Hall ceremony was just the latest in a string of high-profile appearances for Barton since he stopped his bus on Oct. 18 on an Elmwood Avenue overpass and counseled a distraught woman who was contemplating suicide. And there will be more. On Wednesday evening, a crew from celebrity chef Rachael Ray's daytime television show interviewed Barton at the spot where the dramatic rescue took place. "I would like to apologize to the motorists on Elmwood at that moment," Barton said, confirming that Wednesday was the first day of filming for a feature the show is preparing.

Everything has been moving quickly for Barton, whose story spread to national news outlets and has brought congratulations from around the globe.

Barton has learned several lessons since that day, he said. "Let's just administer the grace that we would like administered to us," he said. "We want a better world? We have to be part of it." He has not been able to speak again with the distraught woman. "It is a plan of mine to do so, but I want to treat that with the sensitivity that that situation deserves," he said.

Tens of thousands of people from Kurdish and Alawite communities gathered in the German city of Cologne to protest presidential policies, as well as the Turkish government's crackdown on opposition and journalists.

The massive rally held on the Deutzer Werft embankment not far from the city center was initially organized by the European Alawite Association but later was joined by the Kurdish community that called off its own demonstration in the German town of Dusseldorf and instead decided to rally together with Alawites in Cologne, police spokesman, Benedikt Kleimann, told the regional WAZ newspaper.

Between 20,000 and 30,000 people attended the rally, according to various estimates. DPA news agency puts the number of demonstrators at 25,000. The protest was held under the slogan, "for democracy, peace and freedom." The demonstrators were holding banners that read, "yes to democracy - No to dictatorship!" Protesters sharply criticized the current policies of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and said that the Turkish president and his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) are turning Turkey into a dictatorship "at a breathtaking pace."

On Saturday hundreds of far left activists held a march-rally at the Trump Tower in New York City.

The anti-Trump protesters marched to Trump Tower in New York. At least three protesters were arrested. (KTLA) Several of the anti-Trump protesters admitted they answered an ad on Craigslist and were getting paid to protest Trump.

Seven University at Albany students are accused of blindfolding sorority recruits, making them eat mud and dousing them in rotten eggs and milk, sending one pledge to the hospital.

The Times-Union of Albany reports that one sickened victim was treated and released from a hospital after she experienced an allergic reaction.

Albany police made the arrests early Thursday and seven women were arraigned on misdemeanor hazing charges.

Katrina Bergvoy, Heaven Guanco, Monica Vitagliano, Tereyza Martin, Chinazao Ezekwem, Nicole Johnson and Jessica Raynor were arrested at the scene Thursday morning and each charged with one count of first degree hazing and one count second degree hazing.

One of the more amusing bits of fallout from last week's election has been the safe-space response of many colleges and universities to the election of the "wrong" candidate. But on closer examination, this response isn't really amusing. In fact, it's downright mean.

Trump's substantial victory, when most progressives expected a Hillary landslide, came as a shock to many. That shock seems to have been multiplied in academe, where few people seem to know any Trump supporters — or, at least, any Trump supporters who'll admit to it.

The response to the shock has been to turn campuses into kindergarten. The University of Michigan Law School announced a "post-election self-care" event with "food and play," including "coloring sheets, play dough [sic], positive card-making, Legos and bubbles with your fellow law students." (Embarrassed by the attention, UM Law scrubbed the announcement from its website, perhaps concerned that people would wonder if its graduates would require Legos and bubbles in the event of stressful litigation.)