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Every person has experienced someone exercising “selective hearing.” Husbands do it to their wives and kids. Cats are continuous practitioners. Dogs don’t typically display selective hearing. They’re too worried about missing a treat or a dropped morsel of food. That is not the case with Cooper, the bulldog. He totally ignored his owner until she said the magic word, “cheeseburglar.” @madmel22 #carderclan #coopercarder #selectivehearing #McDonalds #cheeseburgler #bulldogsoftiktok #fyp #funnydog #weirddogsoftiktok #crazydogsoftiktok #viralvideo ♬ original sound – Cooper Carder Cooper lay on his dog bed, pretending to be asleep. Mom tried to tempt him to go outside and play ball. The dog’s only response was a snore. She offered the “sleeping” pooch a ride, which most dogs love. Next, she tried a boud-boudin, whatever that is. Cooper still did little more than breathe. When Mom asked, “Do you want to get (pause) a (pause) cheeseburglar?” Cooper immediately reacted by popping up, fully alert. His response proves, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that he was ignoring her earlier offers. There could not be a clearer example of the dog’s selective hearing than that! Image from TikTok. Folks in the comments section are laughing at the magic word. Cooper has a McDonald’s addiction. We also discovered that a boud-boudin is a car’s sound, so that was another way of asking Cooper if he wanted a ride. Cooper’s Mom posts many silly videos of Cooper and his brother Cash on TikTok. The two bulldogs haphazardly stumble through life, making us laugh at their antics. The pampered pups are definitely living their best life with their humans. Bulldogs are a special breed. They have their own personalities and little quirky behaviors. They will always keep you entertained. @madmel22 #carderclan #cashcarder #coopercarder #ahhhh #Ahhhh #rammed #englishbulldog #dogsoftiktok #viralvideo #funny #cute #DoritosDareToBeBurned #FYP #fypシ #fyp ♬ Ahhhhhh！ – funny Who expected that collision when Cash ran into Cooper? Please share if you agree that Cooper, the dog, was using selective hearing. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Bulldog Mom Shares Hilarious “Proof Dogs Have Selective Hearing” appeared first on InspireMore.

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In a just world, Donald Trump would have won the Nobel Peace Prize for securing the historic Abraham Accords peace agreements of 2020. So too, in a just world, would A-list Hollywood studios now be bidding for the rights to produce the film adaptation of the single greatest comeback story in American history: Donald Trump, the once and future president. Trump’s electoral landslide this week is one for the history books. His myriad foes illegitimately spied on his 2016 campaign. They fabricated a “Russia collusion” narrative out of whole cloth, then spent years “investigating” it. They impeached him twice. They prosecuted him across four separate jurisdictions; 91 criminal counts in total. They have tried to humiliate him, bankrupt him, and incarcerate him. Assassins have tried to kill him—twice. They have failed—repeatedly and catastrophically. Trump has solidified his status as the most consequential American political figure since Ronald Reagan. He has become the first Republican presidential candidate to win the national popular vote since George W. Bush in 2004. He has scrambled America’s political coalitions for a generation or more, expanding beyond his white working-class base to reach the full tapestry of modern American life. And he has done it all despite the impassioned opposition and scorn of ruling elites from sea to shining sea. Never again will Grover Cleveland, that venerable 19th-century “Bourbon Democrat,” be the sole answer to the trivia question, “Which president has served two nonconsecutive terms?” We can now add the maestro of Mar-a-Lago to the list. It is a mesmerizing, astonishing tale. Besides being the single greatest comeback story—political or otherwise—in American history, there are at least two other crucial takeaways from Tuesday’s romp. First, it is evident that the 2008 Barack Obama Democratic Party intersectional coalition has died. It is not that the coalition is wounded or endangered; it is that it is dead. Trump made historic inroads with Hispanic voters, black voters, young voters, and other demographic subgroups that have been vital to the Democrats since 2008. Trump won the nation’s single most Hispanic county—97% Hispanic Starr County, Texas—by 16%. Queens County, New York, famously one of the most ethnically and racially diverse counties in the country, moved over 20 points toward Trump from his 2020 performance. Overall, Trump won just under half the national Hispanic vote, and he made historic inroads with black men. Voters under the age of 35, such a core Democratic constituency in the not-so-distant past, are now a swing voting bloc. Obamaism is dead. This is a seismic shift in the American political landscape, and it’s not clear where Democrats go from here. They can scream “Nazi!” or “fascist!” until their lungs give out, but the reality is that their policies on a host of issues—from race to gender to immigration to crime to the economy—have alienated large swathes of modern America. Democrats seem inclined to scapegoat the senile president of the United States—as if Uncle Joe is somehow to blame for not bowing out of the race weeks, or even months, sooner. This is pure cope. The problem, Democrats, is not that Biden stayed in too long. Nor is the problem, as the insufferable Sunny Hostin laughably suggested on “The View,” rampant sexism or misogyny among the American electorate. The problem is that the Democratic Party is no longer a mainstream political organization. Second, Trump, JD Vance, and the broader MAGA movement are now blessed with a unique opportunity. That opportunity, as this column put it in July following Trump’s selection of Vance as his running mate, is to “effectuate transformative change in American political life by scrambling arbitrary old political lines and building a durable, generational coalition of the broader center.” It is imperative that Trump and—perhaps even more important—his soon-to-be allies in Congress understand this. America’s cultural and civilizational divide, which was reflected in this election, is less a traditional “Right” versus “Left” ideological split than it is a more prosaic—but no less stark—divide between normalcy and sanity, on the one hand, and decadence and freakishness, on the other hand. Republicans are about to control the White House, the U.S. House, and the U.S. Senate. These opportunities are infrequent, and Republicans must take advantage. Each and every day, the presidential and congressional agenda must be oriented toward prioritizing the common man who has been left behind for decades by both parties. Let the Democrats continue to navel-gaze and morally preen about their “virtue.” Just enact tangible policies, from the economy to trade to immigration and everything in between, that will better the common man’s lot in life. The opportunity to refashion the Republican Party as America’s majority party is ripe for the taking. And what a Hollywood ending that would be. COPYRIGHT 2024 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post The Death of Obamaism and the Historic MAGA Opportunity appeared first on The Daily Signal.

It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times. Seriously, it was the worst of times! How could a half-black, half-Asian, comparatively young woman lose so handily to a straight white male?! Hasn’t Donald Trump learned that he’s the recipient of a veritable mountain of privilege? In the name of justice, he should step aside and yield his space to this poor oppressed woman. Did he learn nothing in the Great Awokening of 2020? It couldn’t possibly be that Americans have definitively rejected the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) dogma rooted in the Marxist idea that ostensibly oppressed minorities must rise up against their oppressors, can it? Don’t tell me that Marxism has failed to produce its great revolution of the masses yet again—it can’t be! Only, it is, and it’s a bright new day in America because the straight white male who promised real change prevailed over the woke DEI hire who represented the status quo, of which Americans are rightly sick and tired. The last decade or so has shown that efforts to paper over the elites’ real problems with skin-deep genuflection to the Left’s gods of race, class, and gender have utterly failed. Americans are struggling, and it’s not because their leadership class isn’t diverse enough. Kamala Harris represented the elites’ ultimate attempt to paper over what everyone knows isn’t working with a shiny new gloss of diversity. When leftists scream that America rejected Harris because the country is racist, sexist, or [insert your favorite pet cause]-phobic, they show how truly out of touch they are. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is closer to the mark, although President Joe Biden tried a great deal of Sanders’ preferred policies, and we all know how that worked out. Trump represents real change, and that’s what the country wanted this year—even more than they wanted it in 2016. The Democrats have already begun the age-old tradition of finger-pointing in the aftermath of defeat, and there are indeed many factors that help explain what happened on Nov. 5. Sure, polls showed that Democrats didn’t want Biden to run for reelection, and by dropping out of the race so late, he weakened Harris’ chances. Sure, Harris didn’t go on Joe Rogan’s podcast. Sure, Harris failed to differentiate her from Biden’s unpopular policies while Americans struggle economically. Yet one essential element of the Left’s early excitement for Harris and her ultimate failure is the fact that the vice president was the ultimate DEI hire. Policies aimed at expanding diversity, equity, and inclusion often backfire, as Americans suspect that the normal rules for college acceptance, job hiring, or promotion may not be applied to candidates from favored groups. This suspicion leads to the term “DEI hire,” a phrase to suggest that someone gained his or her position in life not due to merit and achievement alone, but because his or her gender, skin color, sexual orientation, or gender identity checked a box someone else was trying to fill. Regardless of her other merits and qualifications, Harris would not have been the nominee if it weren’t for her sex and her skin color. To some degree, that’s patently obvious. After all, when Biden was a presidential candidate in the 2020 election, he pledged to pick a black woman as his running mate to satisfy his party’s DEI constituency. He proceeded to pick Harris, who had dropped out of the 2020 presidential primaries before a single vote had been cast and after she had attacked Biden, insinuating that he was racist. Yet recent revelations have only underscored the degree to which Harris is a “DEI hire.” How did Harris get into law school? According to a 2018 article in the University of California at San Francisco’s law school magazine, she attended through the Legal Education Opportunity Program, which is earmarked for students facing “educational disadvantage, economic hardship, or disability.” The catch? Harris wasn’t exactly educationally disadvantaged. Her parents were tenured professors, as my colleague Elizabeth Mitchell reported. Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, earned a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, worked at the University of Illinois and the University of Wisconsin, spent time in France and Italy, and received tenure at McGill University in Montreal. The would-be vice president lived in Canada with her mother and sister from age 12 until graduating high school. A study of professor salaries at 61 schools during 1975 and 1976 found that professors at universities such as McGill earned an average of $28,751 per year, well over double the median household income at the time, $11,800 annually. Harris was 12 at that time. Harris’ father, Donald Harris, also earned a Ph.D. from Berkeley. He was awarded tenure at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, then returned to California in 1972 to become an economics professor at Stanford University. Harris’ parents divorced in 1972. The University of California at San Francisco magazine noted that the special program Harris got into “offers admission to approximately 50 high-achieving students each year—up to 20 percent of the class—who have experienced major life hurdles, such as educational disadvantage, economic hardship, or disability.” “The majority are students of color,” the article added. Americans dislike “DEI hires” because they think these people cut corners. Regardless of whether the “DEI hire” truly deserves a college admission, a job, or a promotion, others wonder whether the real reason is merely skin deep. A recent bevy of plagiarism scandals has plagued academia and the Left generally. Harvard President Claudine Gay stepped down amid plagiarism accusations. At least three other Harvard academics—all black women—face accusations of lifting large sections of written material and passing it off as their own. Robin DiAngelo, a white author whose book “White Fragility” pushed the “anti-racist” movement, also faces plagiarism accusations. In the lead-up to the election, Harris joined these ignominious ranks. Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, first revealed that Harris’ 2009 book “Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer” included more than a dozen “vicious plagiarism fragments.” Harris and her co-author Joan O’C Hamilton, lifted sections of text from press releases, news reports, and Wikipedia verbatim without citing those sources. The Washington Free Beacon’s Aaron Sibarium compiled a long list of the many times Harris lifted long passages from other writers and presented them as her own work. The list includes 2007 congressional testimony in which Harris copied at least 15 large blocks of text, with a minor change here or there, and passed it off as her own. EXCLUSIVE: In 2007, Kamala Harris plagiarized pages of Congressional testimony from a Republican colleague.And in 2012, she plagiarized a fictionalized story about sex trafficking—but presented it as a real case.It's not just one book; it's a career-long pattern.? pic.twitter.com/ZiHkzxTg4r— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) October 22, 2024 What’s going on here? As the daughter of academics, Harris must have known that violated every rule in the book. It seems that Harris, like Gay and DiAngelo, figured that plagiarism wouldn’t get her in trouble because of her race, her sex, and her political/ideological affiliation. In fact, as soon as Rufo broke the plagiarism story, The New York Times found a “plagiarism expert” to downplay the accusations. The Harris campaign dismissed the accusations as a partisan attack. Partisan or not, the plagiarism accusations carry a great deal of weight, and they raise the same question Harris’ law school record raises: Did this woman use her race and skin color to cut corners, knowing she wouldn’t be called out on it? When Harris replaced Biden at the top of the ticket, her campaign attempted to run on “joy” and “vibes.” This attempt to frame Harris as the candidate of good feelings also feels like a “DEI hire” move. Would the legacy media uncritically celebrate a Republican candidate trying to run on “good vibes?” Would a Republican campaign even consider such framing? Or does the “vibes” moment reveal yet one more double standard that the Harris campaign relied upon to advance its message? Ultimately, the “vibes” fell flat. Trump’s previous experience as president, the people’s desire for real change, and the overwhelming sense that Harris was fake as all get-out prevailed over the DEI hire. Let’s hope the elites get the message. ?The Ode to Vibes?A tribute to Kamala Harris set to the tune of "The Ode to Joy."Tell me what you think!Full lyrics below:Joyful, joyful, they adore me,Veep of brat-ness, queen of vibes,Votes unfold like flowers? before me,No one fact-checks all my lies.Melt the… pic.twitter.com/y1IPl4pcMv— Tyler O'Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) October 28, 2024 The post DEI BACKFIRE: The Democrats’ Great Intersectional Hope Loses to Straight White Male appeared first on The Daily Signal.

There’s a good reason why it’s often referred to as the “Great Dying”.

What they definitely are is painful.