The “Trump Derangement Syndrome” never ends. Not even for Christmas, the time of year when many focus on kindness and getting along with one another.

Case in point: In a guest appearance that was highly promoted on Twitter by Michael Moore, the controversial filmmaker told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes on Friday what he “was most looking forward to in 2019.” It was to see “as many members of the Trump family in orange jumpsuits as possible.”

As Moore laughed, Hayes chided him over how it “seems mean-spirited.” Moore then satirically agreed, while taking another swipe at President Donald Trump and his family.

“That is really the wrong way to end such a festive time of the year with such animosity toward those who would do wrong to this country,” he said. The exchange can be viewed in the first moments of the video below:

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Moore didn’t stop there with his attack. On Twitter, he retweeted a photo-shopped image of several members of the Trump family in orange jumpsuits.

Here’s the visual for the New Year! https://t.co/FCtAZdRP2E

— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) December 29, 2018

He also promoted his appearance again. This time he retweeted a post from MSNBC in which his statement about the orange jumpsuits was included.

Coming up again right now on MSNBC for your viewing pleasure. The Friday night replay! https://t.co/KPNXv4gTnm

— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) December 29, 2018

So what has the Trump family done that would merit them being imprisoned? Hayes said the concept wasn’t “crazy,” and said even Donald Trump Jr. has said he expected an indictment. Moore agreed and quickly added the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner to the list, as well as unnamed others he referred to as “and on and on.”

Hayes’ claim about a possible Trump Jr. indictment stems from an early November article published by Vanity Fair. The magazine cited three unnamed sources in its hit piece.

The article claimed that according to said sources, Don. Jr. had told friends he was concerned about being indicted. It added that one of the sources “speculated” that it was because “Mueller could indict him for making false statements to Congress and the F.B.I. about whether he had told his father about the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Russians to gather ‘dirt’ on Hillary Clinton.”

The Daily Caller noted that Moore didn’t stop there with his Trump-bashing. He told Hayes that he didn’t expect the president to be indicted in 2019.

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He said this was because in New York, “Trump got away with everything for 40 years. That streak shouldn’t end this year, more than likely, because Trump has always been careful to be not in the room when the crime is being committed.”

Moore offered no proof of crimes. He just made accusations.

Which again raises the question as to what prison-worthy crimes has the Trump family committed? The immediate Trump family includes the president; first lady Melania; Don Jr.; Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner; the president’s second son, Eric and his wife Lara; the president’s younger daughter, Tiffany; youngest son, Barron, and multiple grandchildren.

If there are no crimes, Moore is wishing for innocent people to be imprisoned. Why? Differing political views?

While he publicly pats himself on the back for his witty 2019 wish, the picture Moore paints of himself is not a flattering one. Publicly trashing the president and his family, wishing ill on them, and making accusations with no proof, are not the actions of a man of integrity.

His stunt may have gotten cheers within the leftist echo chamber. But to reasonable people, it may have looked petty, self-serving, and highly inappropriate, particularly given the time of year and context of the question asked.

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Recently, President of Samaritan’s Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association Franklin Graham reported being banned from Facebook because of a 2-year-old post.

It seemed to be one more in a long list of suspected censorship attacks against conservatives.

But Graham knew just how to respond.

Last week I was banned from posting on @Facebook for 24 hrs because of a 2016 post about NC’s House Bill 2 (bathroom bill). They said the post went against their “community standards on hate speech.” Facebook is making & changing the rules. 1/2 https://t.co/HYIgErnp3J

— Franklin Graham (@Franklin_Graham) December 29, 2018

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.@Facebook is censoring free speech. They’re making & changing the rules. Truth is truth. God made the rules & His Word is truth. The free exchange of ideas is part of our country’s DNA. You can read the post that Facebook took down last week here: 2/2 https://t.co/SIbgivZjTo

— Franklin Graham (@Franklin_Graham) December 29, 2018

But now it seems Facebook has taken heed. On Sunday, Graham shared the news on his Twitter account that the social media platform apologized to him and admitted his post did not violate its rules, after all.

He could have gloated or ripped on the tech giant for being so quick to act without facts. Instead, he accepted its apology.

Thank you to @Facebook for the apology, the admission that my April 9, 2016 post didn’t go against your Community Standards, and the corrective action taken. @FoxNews has asked me to be on this morning at 9:20 to discuss this issue. pic.twitter.com/dtFGtLOtIB

— Franklin Graham (@Franklin_Graham) December 30, 2018

While appearing on “Fox & Friends,” Graham spoke more about the banning and how he accepted Facebook’s apology.

He again showed grace in handling Facebook’s response. “I accept Facebook’s apology and I appreciate them stepping up and doing that.

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But he didn’t completely let company off the hook for it. “(But) I think (the banning) was just really a personal attack towards me.”

In addressing the seeming bias in Facebook’s banning of him, Graham offered the tech giant some words of advice.

“Facebook’s a private company and they can certainly do what they want,” he said.  “But (Facebook CEO) Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook is a platform for all ideas. I encourage Facebook to have a standard that doesn’t move.”

Graham then added some details about what such a standard could look like. He used free speech and the Bible as his guide.

“They ought to just come up with a standard based on God’s word that applies to all people everywhere. Let (Facebook) be a platform for all ideas.”

Graham was quick to add that while he supports free speech he does see a problem with certain speech. He is in agreement with Facebook on at least in one part of its policy.

“I’m against hate speech, I’m against people using Facebook to incite violence against someone, that’s terrible,” he said.

Graham’s point about Facebook coming up with “a standard that doesn’t move” is something many users, on both sides of the political aisle, could get behind.

The best way for users to be in compliance with rules is for them to be clearly stated and uniformly enforced.

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Sad day when a British citizen can’t handle a bunch of soy boys.

Via Daily Mail:

Counter-terrorism police have been called in to help protect people working in the meat industry from increasingly extreme protests by militant vegans.

Farms, abattoirs and factories have been subjected to vandalism, and owners and staff sent death threats during an alarming increase in incidents.

In one case, protesters accused Jewish workers at a kosher abattoir of being ‘Nazis’.

Police already have a long history of dealing with animal-rights activists who target those involved in the meat industry. But now officers are concentrating on vegans.

The vegan food industry has seen a rapid growth in popularity, with leading supermarkets now stocking vegan ranges.

The market is estimated to be worth £443 million in Britain alone. But a minority of vegan campaigners want the UK to become a meat-free society and are going to extreme lengths to achieve their goal.

The National Pig Association and the British Poultry Council are among the organisations being advised by specialist police.

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Facebook issued an apology for banning the Rev. Franklin Graham from posting on the social networking site for 24 hours and censoring one of his posts, a Facebook spokesperson announced Saturday.

The spokesperson told the Charlotte Observer that a member of Facebook’s 15,000-member content review team banned Graham’s account over a 2016 post he made about North Carolina’s House Bill 2 because it violated the social networking site’s policy on “dehumanizing language.”

The post in question referred to rocker Bruce Springsteen’s comments calling House Bill 2— also known as the bathroom bill— a step “backwards instead of forwards.”

“He says the NC law #HB2 to prevent men from being able to use women’s restrooms and locker rooms is going ‘backwards instead of forwards,’” Graham’s post from 2016, which referred to Springsteen, reads. “Well, to be honest, we need to go back! Back to God. Back to respecting and honoring His commands.”

Graham announced on Facebook Friday that administrators temporarily banned him from posting on the site and removed the post in question over the past week, criticizing the social media giant for “policing speech”:

Shortly after Graham’s post went viral, Facebook administrators apologized to Graham.

A Facebook spokesperson said Saturday the company issued an apology to the administrator of Graham’s Facebook page and restored the post in question.

Graham, in true Christian fashion, announced Sunday he would accept the social media giant’s apology and encouraged everyone— including those who work at Facebook— “to stand on God’s Word and His truth”:

The Christian evangelist also posted a screenshot of Facebook’s apology, which stated that his post did not “go against” the site’s “Community Standards”:

President Donald Trump has been busy this year reversing many of the burdensome energy regulations and policies of the Obama era that have hurt Americans and American businesses. 

Here are Trump’s top seven energy victories in 2018 through his America-First agenda:

• On August 21, 2018, Trump introduced the Affordable Clean Energy rule that dismantled the Obama administration’s federal rules over the nation’s coal production and gives authority to the states.

“Some states, like California, may propose even harsher targets. But others, such as coal-rich states like West Virginia and Pennsylvania, are likely to loosen emissions regulations that coal industry leaders have called burdensome and expensive,” National Geographic reported.

•  On September 18, the Trump administration announced final new rollbacks to reducing requirements for oil and gas companies to monitor and mitigate methane from wells and other production sources.

National Geographic noted that Obama’s last-minute 2016 rule would cost the oil and gas industries $530 million by 2025.

• On October 24, the Trump administration’s Department of Interior announced that it would allow the first oil and gas production in waters of the U.S. Arctic. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management issued a conditional permit to Hilcorp, which hopes to extract 60,000 to 70,000 barrels per day from as many as 16 wells on the island —  a total haul of 80 million to 130 million barrels over 15 to 20 years. Oil will be transported by an underwater pipeline.

“Responsibly developing our resources, in Alaska especially, will allow us to use our energy diplomatically to aid our allies and check our adversaries,” then-Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said about the announcement. ”That makes America stronger and more influential around the globe.”

• On November 30, the Trump administration permitted five oil and gas companies to use seismic airgun blasts to detect lucrative oil and gas deposits that may exist under the ocean floor off the U.S. east coast, from New Jersey to Florida.

“The proposal was shot down by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management in 2017 after it was deemed unsafe for marine life, but a recent review by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) concluded the blasts could be done without significantly threatening the population status of threatened or endangered species,” National Geographic reported.

• On December 6, the Trump administration announced it was putting plans in place to protect the once-endangered sage grouse but also allow millions of acres of public lands to benefit Americans in the states where the birds live,” Breitbart News reported. This includes plans to allow more oil and gas drilling, mining, and other activities.

“I completely believe that these plans are leaning forward on the conservation of sage grouse,” Interior Deputy Secretary David Bernhardt told the Associated Press. ”Do they do it in exactly the same way? No. We made some change in the plans and got rid of some things that are simply not necessary.”

•On December 6, the Trump administration announced it would lift some restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions from coal power plants.

“Consistent with President Trump’s executive order promoting energy independence, EPA’s proposal would rescind excessive burdens on America’s energy providers and level the playing field so that new energy technologies can be a part of America’s future,” EPA Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler said. “By replacing onerous regulations with high, yet achievable, standards, we can continue America’s historic energy production, keep energy prices affordable, and encourage new investments in cutting-edge technology that can then be exported around the world.”

• On December 11, the Trump administration announced its new Waters of the World rule, which gave power back to the states to “develop, build and invest in projects that improve the environment and the lives of their fellow citizens.”

“The U.S. is the gold standard for clean air and clean water. We reached that point through private sector innovation and cooperation between Washington and the states to implement our nation’s environmental laws,” EPA Acting Administrator Wheeler wrote in an op-ed in the Kansas City Star. “The Obama EPA’s 2015 definition upset that balance. The Trump administration’s proposal would respect the limits of federal authority and give hardworking Americans the freedom and certainty they need to do what they do best: develop, build and invest in projects that improve the environment and the lives of their fellow citizens.”

The Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law came up with a list of the thrust of Trump’s executive orders on energy: 

These executive actions … include:

• requiring that for every regulation promulgated, two must be eliminated;

• requiring agencies to establish regulatory reform task forces;

• freezing the issuance of all regulations for a set period so they can be re-reviewed by the new Administration;

• directing the Secretary of Commerce to establish a broader regulatory reform plan after considering public input; and

• directing various agencies to ‘suspend, revise or rescind’ several rules thought to potentially burden the development of domestic energy resources.

The lengthy report concluded, “The foundation of the America First energy policy is straightforward: pursue policies that (1) promote American energy independence, and (2) create American jobs.”

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Sunday on WAAY’s “Guerrilla Politics,” Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) said the government shutdown will end when the amount of “American blood” on the hands of Democratic leadership becomes overwhelming.

Brooks said, “It is a very tough position that the Democrats have put us in. On the one hand you have got thousands of Americans who are dead each year because of the Democrats’ refusal to secure the border. Those Americans are dying either because they have been murdered by illegal aliens, vehicular homicides by illegal aliens or the illegal narcotics that are shipped into the country by illegal aliens and their drug cartels with the drug overdoses that are in the tens of thousands of lost American lives per year.”

He continued, “So the question is going to be how much blood, American blood, you have to have on the hands of the Democrats leaders like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer before they will help us with border security? Or is their craving for power such that they are willing to accept the loss of American lives?”

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