Hollywood leftist and wannabe political cartoonist Jim Carrey released another disturbing picture in his series of crude drawings depicting women in the White House.

Just two days after Christmas, Carrey attacked Department of Homeland Security Sec. Kirstjen Nielsen, who he characterized as a murderer.

“Now we add a second child to your list of murders. Callin’ it your job don’t make it right, Fraulein Kirstjen,” Carrey wrote on Twitter alongside the drawing of Nielsen.

Now we add a second child to your list of murders. Callin’ it your job don’t make it right, Fraulein Kirstjen. pic.twitter.com/ZYGo6Ny18N

— Jim Carrey (@JimCarrey) December 27, 2018

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Carrey’s drawing was inspired by the death of a sick migrant child who was detained at the border with his father. The left has tried to falsely place the blame of the child’s death on Border Security, when in fact he was repeatedly given medical attention.

Carrey has also unleashed vicious attacks on White House press secretary Sarah Sanders.

Last week, Carrey posted a crude cartoon of Sanders and compared her to “the Gorgon,” who will “turn your heart to stone.”

Beware the Gorgon.

She’ll turn your heart to stone. pic.twitter.com/mGwn7GClea

— Jim Carrey (@JimCarrey) December 19, 2018

Carrey also attacked Sanders in March, calling her “wicked” and “monstrous.”

“This is the portrait of a so-called Christian whose only purpose in life is to lie for the wicked. Monstrous!” he wrote alongside the drawing.

This is the portrait of a so-called Christian whose only purpose in life is to lie for the wicked. Monstrous! pic.twitter.com/MeYLTy1pqb

— Jim Carrey (@JimCarrey) March 17, 2018

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Carrey also attacked first lady Melania Trump during the hysteria about a jacket she wore while visiting migrant children.

Carrey claimed Melania didn’t give “two craps” about the migrant children that she went out of her way to visit.

Nothing comforts a federally-abducted refugee child like a photo op with a Slovenian model wearing a coat that says she doesn’t give two craps about your misery. pic.twitter.com/vqO5GyeRRL

— Jim Carrey (@JimCarrey) June 22, 2018

Carrey’s fixation with women in the White House is misogynistic and obsessive.

It’s unfortunate Carrey went from a once beloved actor to just another unhinged Twitter troll and mindless cog in the leftist machine.

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It’s truly curious how Democrats will be the first to be up in arms anytime a close election doesn’t go their way.

When a Democrat loses, it must be “voter suppression” or some other nefarious plot to undermine them.

But if a Democrats win a tight race by, say, “ballot harvesting“? They’ll laud it as a hard-earned victory.

It’s a truly nauseating double-standard. Making matter worse, it’s a double-standard that Democrats have gotten away with for years.

You certainly won’t hear the establishment media criticizing Democrats, and many Republicans don’t want to come off as sore losers.

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But when an outgoing Republican governor, who has nothing left to really lose, has to sign off on a close and controversial congressional race in his state? That certainly sets up the potential for sparks to fly.

And, boy, did the sparks ever fly in Maine.

Outgoing Republican Gov. Paul LePage voiced his sincere contempt with the manner in which Democratic Rep.-elect Jared Golden “beat” incumbent two-term Republican Rep. Bruce Poliquin in the November election.

I use “beat” in quotations because it must be noted that Poliquin initially finished with 2,000 more votes than Golden. Thanks to some questionable loopholes, Golden ultimately surged ahead and won.

LePage was obviously not happy with the way it happened, and he made sure to note it on the official election documents he had to sign off on.

I’ve signed off on the CD2 election result as it’s no longer in federal court. Ranked Choice Voting didn’t result in a true majority as promised-simply a plurality measured differently. It didn’t keep big money out of politics & didn’t result in a more civil election #mepolitics pic.twitter.com/0fEhD1dvAb

— Paul R. LePage (@Governor_LePage) December 28, 2018

Next to his signature, LePage very clearly wrote “Stolen Election.” That is as searing of a jab as any, and considering the legal importance of the document, it will be enshrined forever.

But as savage as that burn was, the manner in which Golden won his House seat is certainly no trivial matter.

The controversy in Maine centers on its “ranked-choice” electoral system, per Fox News. In that system, if a candidate does not win the outright majority of votes, another tally of votes is triggered. Unlike the original tally, the “ranked-choice” tally would consider voters’ second and sometimes even third choices on a ballot, then add those votes to the tally.

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That initial 2,000-vote lead that Poliquin had was wiped out when Golden overtook the lead after secondary votes for independent candidates were reallocated in his favor.

It’s as dubious as it sounds and an unsurprising impetus for Poliquin to pursue legal action. He felt the “ranked-choice” initiative was unconstitutional and asked courts for another election or for him to be outright declared the winner. Neither happened.

Could you imagine the leftist outcry had a Democrat lost an election in this manner? Based on recent history, it wouldn’t be outlandish to suggest that there would be rioting in the streets.

As it stands, don’t expect to hear a peep from the Democrats. By hook or crook, they just got another House seat.

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Will the Supreme Court issue a ruling on Robert Mueller’s magical mystery subpoena before the ball drops in Times Square on Monday night? Politico’s Josh Gerstein reports that the government got its response submitted to the court three full days ahead of an expedited deadline, although it might not have come directly from Mueller. The seal on the case is so encompassing that it’s tough to tell the players without a scorecard … and a decoder ring:

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office appears to have responded to a foreign company’s bid to get the Supreme Court to step into a fight over a grand jury subpoena served on the firm. …

The docket entry doesn’t indicate Mueller’s office is involved in the legal fight. Indeed, there’s not even a mention in the Supreme Court’s public records that the U.S. Government or the Justice Department is involved in the case.

Friday’s filing was likely submitted by Solicitor General Noel Francisco’s office, which handles nearly all Supreme Court briefs for the U.S. government.

That creates an amusing, if not entirely interesting, picture. At one point, Francisco was an option for supervising Mueller’s operation if Rod Rosenstein quit or got dismissed; the firing of Jeff Sessions and the appointment of William Barr almost entirely mooted that necessity. Francisco has been seen as more sympathetic to Donald Trump than Rosenstein might be, although that’s mostly just speculative. Having Francisco shepherd Mueller’s defense of his subpoena in what looks like some kind of foreign-influence angle in the investigation certainly seems a little remarkable.

Unfortunately, whoever submitted the response to the challenge requested that the case remain under seal. That means we won’t get a chance to find out the identity of the subpoena target nor the reason for Mueller’s interest at least until the Supreme Court decides the matter. We won’t even know if this part of the case features any nude selfies, although that may be for the best depending on who got targeted for that picture.

So who might be Mueller’s target? Could it be a person or financial institution connected to Victor Boyarkin, a former Russian intel officer and major fixer for a Putin crony? Time Magazine’s Simon Schuster reports today on Paul Manafort’s connections to Boyarkin and the money he owed to Oleg Deripaska:

In his only interview with the media about those connections, Boyarkin told TIME this fall that he was in touch with Trump’s then-campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, in the heat of the presidential race on behalf of the Russian oligarch. “He owed us a lot of money,” Boyarkin says. “And he was offering ways to pay it back.”

The former Russian intelligence officer says he has been approached by the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign. Boyarkin’s response to those investigators? “I told them to go dig a ditch,” he says. Peter Carr, the spokesman for the Special Counsel’s Office, declined to comment. Through his spokesman, Manafort likewise declined to comment on his alleged connections with Boyarkin.

But those connections could be potentially important to the Special Counsel’s inquiry. They would mark some of the clearest evidence of the leverage that powerful Russians had over Trump’s campaign chairman. And they may shed light on why Manafort discussed going right back to work for pro-Russian interests in Eastern Europe after he crashed out of the Trump campaign in August 2016, according to numerous sources in the TIME investigation.

This picks up on a thread reported quite some time ago — fifteen months ago, in fact. As then, the thread never quite connects to Trump himself in this article, nor any other contacts with Russian intelligence. The Shuster story paints Manafort as a man willing to sell anything and everything in order to further his own monetary interests, but it never gets further than that. The closest it gets is a suggestion that Trump’s opposition to Montenegro’s admission to NATO paralleled that of Russia’s, but (a) that came up long after Manafort’s departure and Trump’s win in 2016, and (b) it also can be easily explained as part of Trump’s skepticism of NATO expansion in general (or NATO itself, arguably).

Perhaps Mueller has found more evidence, or evidence of evidence, involving money, communications, or both in the Deripaska connection. If not, though, the Boyarkin thread looks like a cul-de-sac, as does Manafort himself. Of course, Mueller’s interest and subpoena may be on another lead involving other people entirely. We’ll just have to wait for the nude selfie to see.

Ranked-choice voting favors the Democrats. Update to this story.

Via WGME:

Governor Paul LePage certified the election result from Maine’s Second Congressional District Friday.

LePage tweeted that he decided to certify the result because it was no longer being appealed in federal court.

Next to the initials “PRL,” LePage included the remark “Stolen Election” on the signature line.

The governor also criticized the ranked-choice voting process, alleging that it “didn’t result in a true majority as promised-simply a plurality measured differently.”

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Douglas Ollivant, former Iraq director at the National Security Council under President’s George W. Bush and Barack Obama, said on Friday that the Islamic State (ISIS) is defeated and President Donald Trump has a “solid strategy” and is on the “right path” to confront the remaining terror threat.

After playing a soundbite from the president saying that even if the U.S. withdraws troops from Syria, they will remain in Iraq, National Public Radio (NPR)’s David Greene pressed Ollivant about Trump’s claim that ISIS has been defeated.

“Well, they’ve been defeated,” Ollivant said. “We use some different terms here in military speak. Defeated means you can’t do what you were trying to do before.”

“So ISIS is defeated in the sense that there is no – physical caliphate is the word that Brett McGurk uses,” Ollivant said. “I think we all know what that meant.”

McGurk was the special presidential envoy for the global coalition to counter ISIS, appointed during the Obama administration.

Ollivant said ISIS no longer controls any territory in the Middle East.

“That has now shrunk down to pretty much nothingness. So in that sense, yes, they’re defeated,” Ollivant said, adding that ISIS is still a threat operating around the world, including Europe and the United States, independent of the caliphate.

“That center level, that core, the physical caliphate is gone,” Ollivant said. “And so I think to say that they are defeated in that sense is true.”

The Pentagon has insisted for months that a U.S.-backed coalition primarily consisting of Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Unit (YPG/YPJ) fighters have taken over 98 percent of the former Islamic State “caliphate.”

Contrary to Ollivant’s claim, however, ISIS jihadi veterans have begun consolidating in other parts of the Middle East and North Africa, most prominently in Libya. Experts have predicted there is a significant risk of ISIS re-establishing a caliphate amid the political chaos in Libya. This week, ISIS claimed an attack on the Libyan Foreign Ministry in Tripoli.

Greene, a longtime reporter and host at the leftist, taxpayer-funded NPR, pressed Ollivant about Trump’s strategy going forward.

“So what do you make of the president’s strategy here?” Greene asked. “If they’ve been physically defeated, is it a good move to move these 2,000 troops out of Syria? Does that still give the United States the capability to go after sort of the new ISIS in 2019?”

“Well, I think so,” Ollivant said. “The troops in Syria were starting to transition to other missions. We were starting to worry more about protecting the Syrian Kurds from the Turks and countering Iranian influence inside Syria, which may or may not be important missions – we can debate them – but is not fighting ISIS.”

“We have commandos all over the place in bases all over who can project power throughout the regions,” Ollivant said. “It’s not as if we’re now helpless and emasculated because 2,200 troops are leaving Syria.”

“So are you optimistic, looking at what the Trump administration has done so far in the fight against ISIS, that they are doing all they can to protect us, protect the United States from potential attacks and potential threats from this group?” Greene asked.

Ollivant said the president’s plan represents “a kind of continuity of government” between the Obama and Trump administrations.

“But yes, I think we have a pretty solid strategy for dealing with ISIS. ISIS, at least now in Iraq and Syria, is no longer really a military problem,” Ollivant said. “It’s an intelligence service problem. It’s a police problem. It’s a special forces problem, but it’s no longer a problem that lends itself to artillery or even airstrikes for the most part.”

“I have some issues with the way it came about, but … in terms of the policy itself, yes. I think this is probably the right path,” Ollivant said.

As Breitbart News reported, the Pentagon confirmed Trump’s announcement about troops leaving Syria:

In a statement sent to Breitbart News via email, Dana White, the chief spokesperson at the Pentagon, declared:

The coalition has liberated the ISIS-held territory, but the campaign against ISIS is not over. We have started the process of returning U.S. troops home from Syria as we transition to the next phase of the campaign. For force protection and operational security reasons, we will not provide further details. We will continue working with our partners and allies to defeat ISIS wherever it operates.

Trump also told an NPR reporter last week that he has no plans at this time to withdraw troops from Iraq.

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Kelli Vassallo, an ex-middle school teacher in Pennsylvania, has been sentenced to two years in jail for having sexual relations with two teen girls.

Vassallo, a suspended basketball coach at a school in Loyalsock Township in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, admitted having sexual relations with a 13-year-old and a 17-year-old girl between 2009 and 2013, the Daily Mail reported.

The 38-year-old teacher was convicted of the crimes and this month was sentenced to the jail term along with ten years of probation. Vassallo will also have to register as a sex offender for 25 years.

The older victim, who was 17 at the time that the relationship started, said she convinced herself that a relationship with a grown woman was “normal” and even fought with her mother over the relationship.

The victim, who is now married, said that the ex-teacher attempted to drive a wedge between her and her mother. In a statement read to the court, she said, “I hated to be at home. Kelli made it out to be my mom’s fault. Kelli needs to be stopped.”

The second victim, who was 13 at the time of the molestation, also spoke of how Vassallo manipulated her, adding, “You stole the best years of my life away from me. You attacked me.”

Vassallo pleaded guilty in August to charges of institutional sexual assault and corruption of a minor.

But the ex-teacher also proclaimed her lack of faith that the justice system would understand her situation.

The judge wryly noted that if she felt innocent, she should plead not guilty and go to trial. “I don’t want to put an innocent person in jail,” he said.

During the sentencing this month, Lycoming County Judge Marc Lovecchio concluded that “it is too kind” to say Vassallo betrayed the victims.

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Outgoing Maine Gov. Paul LePage decided to troll a Democratic candidate who won a House race on Friday by writing the words “stolen election” on an election certificate certifying the win.

LePage, in one of his final acts as Maine’s governor before his term ends, confirmed Democrat Rep.-elect Jared Golden’s election win on Friday, but not before scribbling a few words noting how he felt about the election:

I’ve signed off on the CD2 election result as it’s no longer in federal court. Ranked Choice Voting didn’t result in a true majority as promised-simply a plurality measured differently. It didn’t keep big money out of politics & didn’t result in a more civil election #mepolitics pic.twitter.com/0fEhD1dvAb

— Paul R. LePage (@Governor_LePage) December 28, 2018

Golden won the election to Maine’s 2nd congressional district after two-term incumbent Rep. Bruce Poliquin (R-ME) conceded on December 24, ending a legal challenge contesting the election results.

The controversy in the congressional election stemmed from Maine’s “ranked choice” voting system, which allows voters to rank their candidates in the order they prefer.

But if neither candidate wins the majority of votes, the votes are tallied a second time and voters’ second and third-choice preferences are added to the voting total.

In this case, Poliquin initially led the race by 2,000 votes but was short of winning an outright majority. Golden then leaped ahead of Poliquin in the polls after election officials tallied voters’ second preferences from ballots listing two independent candidates as the first choice in the recount.

Golden won 50.5 percent of the vote while Poliquin pulled in 49.5 percent of the vote after the recount, the Portland Press-Herald reported.

Poliquin called the move unconstitutional and took the matter to court. He asked the court to hold another election or declare him the winner.

LePage is stepping down as governor in January due to term limits. Janet Mills, a Democrat who served as Maine’s attorney general, will replace LePage in January.

The outgoing governor told reporters in November he would be getting out of politics and relocating to Florida to take advantage of the state’s low taxes.