The Morning Report — 4/17/24

Good morning, kids. A couple of under-the-radar stories that despite on the surface could be taken as good news items nevertheless underscore the ideologically-driven incompetence and lust for absolute power of the anti-American Democrat-Left that don't necessarily fill me with strength and confidence.

First, yet another story that tells us that the push for EVs is crashing and burning hotter than a Chi-Com lithium battery factory:

Tesla, the most iconic of EV manufacturers, seemed to be avoiding this skid. Unfortunately, the realities of being a niche market with every increasing costs associated with production have caught up with the firm headed by billionaire Elon Musk.

Tesla ill lay off more than 10% of its global workforce, according to a memo sent to employees by CEO Elon Musk. The company’s shares closed down more than 5% on Monday. “As we prepare the company for our next phase of growth, it is extremely important to look at every aspect of the company for cost reductions and increasing productivity,” Musk said in the memo obtained by CNBC. “As part of this effort, we have done a thorough review of the organization and made the difficult decision to reduce our headcount by more than 10% globally,” the memo said.

. . . Furthermore, EV sales continue to decline and other car companies are beginning to make alternative production plans as a result. Until there is a charging infrastructure network that can accommodate the entire American public, an electric grid that can handle capacity, enough natural resources to build models at a moderate price, and technology that doesn’t ignite when it gets wet or won’t start when it gets too cold, this may be the beginning of the end of the road for EV-mania.

Well, except for in the minds of lunatic eco-activists who are pushing their insane “Net Zero 2050” agenda. If we could power cars with their hot air and smugness, then we would be able to run our vehicles forever.

As we discussed with friend and friend of the blog Bob Zimmerman a couple of podcasts ago, we are actually fans of Elon Musk, mostly because SpaceX is a giant thumb in the eye of a the Junta's drive to wipe out independent, free market entrepreneurialism as well as for X/Twitter being perhaps the last large bastion of free speech open to conservative voices of opposition.

As for Tesla, well, EVs are nothing more than souped-up golf carts; status symbols that at present are just not capable of supplanting gasoline and diesel powered vehicles. That assessment is the sane, rational one. And yet, the Junta and the enviro-Marxists persist. Hint: they do so for anything but altruistic reasons.

Hold that for a while as we examine another category entirely, the entertainment industry. The collapse of the movie industry as a whole, with Disney being the prime example, as a result of backlash from ticket buyers and content subscribers against "woke" agitprop strangling golden-egg-laying gooses from the Marvel universe to Star Wars to James Bond and everything in between, should be seen as a lesson to the Bob Igers and Kathleen Kennedys of this world. Should be.

Before answering that question, here's another little bit of schadenfreude to have with your "covfefe":

Left-wing billionaire Jeff Skoll’s woke film studio Participant is reportedly shutting down operations and eliminating most of its staff — the latest victim of Hollywood’s sharp downturn that has seen a bloodbath of layoffs and budget cuts.

Participant, founded in 2004, often financed projects with social justice and globalist themes, including former Vice President Al Gore’s climate change documentary An Inconvenient Truth and its sequel. Other titles include the Obama’s Netflix documentary American Factory and the Ruth Bader Ginsburg doc RBG. . .

. . . Hollywood’s tectonic shift to streaming entertainment has wreaked havoc with the specialty movie model that depends heavily on theatrical distribution to generate word-of-mouth business and awards-season buzz. Specialty titles that would once have received a theatrical release now almost all end up on streaming platforms in lieu of cinemas.

Participant also experienced a number of high-profile box office flops — including the environmentally themed Dark Waters, starring Mark Ruffalo, and the Matt Damon thriller Stillwater. . . Hollywood studios have been hit hard in the past year, enacting deep budget cuts amid a perfect storm of economic chaos that includes Americans continuing to cancel their cable TV subscriptions, the steep downturn in TV advertising, and streaming losses in the billions of dollars.

For sure, the rise of alternate personal venues from computers to smart phones to streaming services put intense pressure on traditional movie theaters. The COVID lockdowns, rising costs and then skyrocketing costs since the installation of Joey-Sponge Brain-Shits Pants, plus the rejection of the majority of normal Americans of ham-fisted "woke" propaganda is the death knell. Or at least should be. Here to, they still persist.

The question is, why? Why continue to waste billions of dollars producing films and shows or EVs no one wants to see and no one wants to drive? Why take the far and away #1 selling beer in the nation and kill it as well as taint all the other labels of the corporation that brews it?

Elon Musk and Tesla aside, since he is essentially an enemy of the State, the reason is because ideology now trumps sanity. Plus the fact that the corruption that has all but destroyed the American system of government and the Constitution, has crept into the so-called private sector mostly via at least three generations of academic brainwashing.

Considering brainwashed Marxist automatons and power-mad venal tyrants control virtually all of the instrumentalities of government that, because of their lack of ethics, morals, aforementioned lust for power and in-your-face hatred of this nation, people, history and culture as founded, and now their willingness to use it to crush is like insects as can plainly be seen with Donald Trump's show trials among many other things, nothing can force them to slam on the brakes instead of flooring the gas pedal, or potentiometer?, before driving the car into the Grand Canyon.

Even if woke studios go broke, even if EVs are no longer to be made, that does not mean ipso facto that non-woke if not pro-American Judeo-Christian-affirming or plan old normal stories will be made or that a return to the sanity of gasoline powered vehicles is guaranteed.

Quite the opposite. It makes no difference. The bottom line is total control of the citizenry by an all-powerful State. How? By seizing control of "the means of production" and prohibiting alternatives. Any voice that challenges accepted State policy or woke worldviews will be silenced. Total control is the goal. Whether you refuse to purchase an EV because you don't like it, or because you can't even afford one and the strangulation of the internal combustion engine leaves no alternatives, and essentially stranded in place, the end result is the same.

Total control by the State.

Soon the government might shut down your car. [So-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden's new infrastructure gives bureaucrats that power.  

You probably didn't hear about that because when media covered it, few mentioned the requirement that by 2026, every American car must "monitor" the driver, determine if he is impaired and, if so, "limit vehicle operation."

. . . The kill switch is just one of several ways the government proposes to control how we drive. California lawmakers want new cars to have a speed governor that prevents you from going more than 10 miles per hour over the speed limit.  

That would reduce speeding. But not being able to speed is dangerous, too, says Fix. If "something's coming at you, you have to make an adjustment." New cars will have a special button on the dash. If you suddenly need to speed and manage to find the button when trying to drive out of some bad situation, and it lets you speed for 15 seconds.

For all these new safety devices to work, cars need to spy on drivers. Before I researched this, I didn't realize that they already do. The Mozilla Foundation reports that car makers "Collect things like your age, gender, ethnicity, driver's license number, your purchase history and tendencies." Nissan and Kia "collect information about your sex life."

How? Cars aim video cameras at passengers. Other devices listen to conversations and intercept text messages. Then, says Mozilla, 76% of the car companies "sell your data."

. . . Finally, Biden's infrastructure bill also includes a pilot program to tax you based on how far we drive. 

 "A mileage charge seems fair," I say to Fix. "You pay for your damage to the road." "Correct," she replies. "But when you start allowing them to do this, they could say, 'We don't want you to buy a firearm.' ... 'We don't want you to go to that destination. So we're not going to let you start your car.' It's about control."

I push back. "They're not controlling me."

"They can," she replies. "Wait until you get a bill for your carbon footprint. 'You're at your maximum for carbon credits. We're not going to let you drive today! Take the train. Take the electric bus.'"

"This is paranoia," I suggest.

"Maybe," says Fix. "But so far, everything that I've said about these things, each step keeps coming through."

"Control" was supposed to be a Janet Jackson song, not a how-to-do-it manual.

Meanwhile, Speaker Mike Johnson, the alleged sane alternative to Luntz cabana boy Kevin McCarthy and your GOP, Grifting Oleaginous Parasites, just rammed through an extension and probably expansion of FISA. The law aimed at "foreign" terrorists and spies.

Well, since the government we have is the furthest thing from America as founded, those of us who still identify as American-Americans are in point of fact foreigners now. And terrorists. And insurrectionists.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• "A police state isn’t about having too many police officers on the streets arresting criminals. It’s about having too many security agencies in your life threatening you and keeping your mouth shut. That’s precisely what America has become in 2024."
  America is Already a Police State; It Just Hasn't Captured You Yet
  
• "SCOTUS will rule in June 2024 on a First Amendment free speech case that has massive implications."
  A Massive Government-Censorship Industrial Complex
  
• "The Left might pine for a 2020 redux. But they shouldn’t hold their breath."
  There Will Be No George Floyd 2.0
  
• "Iraqi refugee and Michigan resident Mohammed Saadi Khudhair Al-Ani received a voter registration form from the Voter Participation Center."
  Why Did This Left-Wing Elections Group Send an Iraqi Refugee a Voter Registration Form? (To get to the other side? - jjs)

IRAN ATTACKS ISRAEL
• “We cannot stand still from this kind of aggression.”
  Israel Will Respond to Iran Attacks "in the Place, Time and Manner it Chooses"
  
• Victor Davis Hanson: "How Joe Biden perfected it."
  "Don’t!" – Or Ten Ways to Guarantee a Theater-Wide War
  
• David Harsanyi: "We have no idea what Israel will do. Maybe caution is the best policy. The notion that the Jewish state simply lashes out in revenge and doesn’t rationally consider all its options is preposterous. Whatever happens, it should be Israel’s terms, not Iran’s. Despite what Obama’s retreads demand."
  The World is Paying a Deadly Price for Barack Obama’s Foreign Policy Legacy
  
• “After this weekend, the threat of a nuclear weapon being deployed from inside Iran toward Israel is a step closer to reality.”
  Iran Closes Nuclear Facilities Over Fears They Could Be Targeted In Strike (Like posting a Gun-Free Zone sign at a school or a bank - jjs)
  
• "Osama Siblani serves as a 'sounding board' for Team Biden, according to AP."
  White House Adviser Defends Iran’s ‘Right to Defend Itself,’ Blasts ‘Genocide Joe’ Biden
  
• "Can you guess whom he thanks?"
  Hezbollah’s Nasrallah: "Israel Has Been Defeated"
  
• Michael Goodwin: "Iran’s terrorist leaders must be taught a painful and public lesson, one that will deter them from soon taking on Israel directly again. It will also clarify for their proxies just how weak their patron is. As the debate in Israel’s war cabinet continues over its response, it is helpful from a distance to grasp the significance of what happened last weekend."
  Hit the Mullahs and Hit’em hard, Israel — and 5 Key Takeaways from Iran’s Failed Attack
  
• "A major, direct, hot war between Israel and Iran is something to be avoided." (And if it can't what then, Paul Kengor? - jjs)
  Israeli Retaliation vs. Restraint
  
• "And we all know."
  The Biden Drone Attack on Israel

  ISRAEL GAZA/HAMAS FRONT

• "A 'Palestinian' state would bring war, not peace."
  Surprise! The New (and Old) "Palestinian" Authority is Jihadist
  
• Daniel Greenfield: "With penalties from 1 to 5 years in prison for Jewish activists."
  CAIR Asks Prosecutors to Lock Up Journalists Exposing Hamas Supporters
  
• Because "Death to America" is the Democrats' primary policy goal - jjs
  WATCH: Democrats Refuse To Condemn Burning American Flag, Chanting "Death To America"
  
• "Anti-Israel Google employees shout chants asking their boss, 'How many kids did you kill today?'"
  Google Employees Occupy Office of Boss Until Contract With Israel is Dropped
  
• "The real answer, of course, is for law enforcement and judges to do their jobs. Arrest them, charge them, and don’t release them except on substantial bail with conduct conditions. That’s not going to happen in any blue state, just like it never happened with the BLM riots in 2020."
  Sen. Tom Cotton to people stuck behind “pro-Hamas” road blockades: “take matters into your own hands to get them out of the way”
  
• Nothing quite says “freedom of speech” like insulting the very country that enshrined yours into law. And yet, the irony seems to be lost on pro-terrorism supporters in NYC, who proceeded to light American and Israeli flags on fire while chanting “death to America” this week.
  "Free 'Palestine' OR ELSE": Pro-Hamas Protesters Burn American Flags In NYC
  
• Christian Toto: "Far-left actor ignores countless lives impacted during nationwide protests."
  John Q. Sack Cheers Gridlock from Pro-"Palestinian" Protests
  
• David Harasanyi: "Pleasing Obama-era advisers and Hamas sympathizers."
  Biden Chases the ‘Death to America’ Voter

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• "The killing was captured on CCTV footage, in which Carney can be heard begging Adil to stop stabbing him. Adil, on the other hand, shouted in Arabic and praised Allah."
  Muslim immigrant stabs 70-year-old man to death minutes after stabbing flatmate for converting to Christianity in UK: report

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

• "Columbia found to have highest number of incidents among schools tracked."
  Anti-Semitic Incidents on College Campuses Surged 320 Percent Last Year, ADL Finds
  
• "Columbia needs to address the rampant anti-Semitism in its Middle Eastern studies program."
  Upend the Department
  
• A slap on the wrist and a pat on the back from the Junta for doing their dirty work - jjs
  Two Juveniles Accused of Vandalizing Catholic Church in Kentucky

  "BIDEN BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• “Notice anything missing?” wrote [Rep Scott] Perry. Speaker Johnson “failed to incorporate any border security into any of the FOUR of the bills he’s going to ram down our throats this week. On more than half a dozen occasions in the last six months, he promised the American People this wouldn’t happen,” Perry added.
  House Dissatisfaction with Johnson Explodes over Foreign Aid ‘Insanity’ that Neglects Southern Border
  
• "[Hillary] Scholten’s work as an immigration attorney appeared to reflect her beliefs laid out in the 2011 journal article when, beginning in 2018, she fought to stop the deportation of an Iraqi woman who was charged with molesting a 12-year-old girl, according to court documents first reported on by The Midwesterner."
  Dem Congresswoman Called Deportation "Cruel and Unusual Punishment," Fought Against Removal of Refugee Charged With Molesting Child
  
• GOP lawmakers are concerned that Democrats, who have long called the impeachment inquiry a “political stunt,” will try to cut short the process before a vote on whether to convict or acquit Mayorkas. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has so far not said whether there will be an effort to table or dismiss the impeachment charges.
  House Sends Articles Of Impeachment Against DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas To Senate
  
• "It probably did not occur to any of the 'adults in charge' that, at some point, all of those immigrants would actually expect them to put their money where the rhetoric is. That is, of course, part of a larger problem. On some level, these administrators, bureaucrats, and wonks knew that someone was going to have to pay for all of these immigrants, one way or another. With that in mind, their plan is to put our money, jobs, homes, and lives where their rhetoric is." (Machine gun nests and claymore minds would do the trick. Preferably on the Rio Grande and not the Hudson - jjs)
  Around 1,300 Migrants Mass at NYC City Hall, Demand Green Cards
  
• “This is no minor shoplifting operation. These men targeted specific products in large quantities and followed a patterned method for removing those items from the store without payment,” Suffolk County, Massachusetts, District Attorney Kevin Hayden said in a statement after the arrest of Josue Amperez-Perez. “This is the type of retail larceny that can drive stores out of communities and harm residents by removing convenient shopping options for them.” (Cut off their sticky fingers - jjs)
  Feds Arrest Migrant Shoplifting Gang After Five Years in New England
  
• "Deporting illegal immigrants and reducing the number of foreigners in this country is a good neighbor policy. It is the kind of moderate centrist solution that should be the basis of bipartisan reach-across-the-aisle politics that we can all agree on. (I read that as bi-partisan reach-around - jjs)
  Mass Deportations Would Lower Housing Prices

  SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION

• "More than 50 were turned away on Monday after they said they could not be impartial."
  First 6 Jurors Selected in Trump Hush Money Trial After Questioning of Anti-Trump Social Media Posts
  
• "Rather despicable."
  John Eastman Speaks Out After Bank Of America, USAA Shut Down His Accounts
  
• "This is the Soros-funded Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg, who is downgrading violent felony charges against people who are pushing old ladies down the stairs at churches and punching kids in the face. He's not going after those violent criminals; they're downgrading them to misdemeanors at best and sometimes letting them go while they're trying to upgrade these bookkeeping misdemeanors that are, at best, clearly time-barred beyond the statute of limitations to go after Trump,"
  This Is the Biggest Head-Shaking Issue in the 'Bogus' NYC Case Against Trump
  
• The attorneys for former President Donald Trump affirmed that his $175 million bond posted in connection with the ongoing civil fraud case in New York is financially sound. They have requested that the judge consider New York Attorney General Letitia James‘s challenge to the bond invalid. Additionally, Trump’s legal team is asking the former President to be awarded costs and fees for having to produce additional documents to comply with James’s challenge of the bond.
  Trump Tells Tish James ‘PAY UP’ After Her Frivolous Bond Claim
  
• ". . . if Trump is determined to be in violation, of which there are three allegations, he would be fined $1,000 for each violation."
  DA Bragg Calls on Judge to Hold Trump in Contempt for Social Media Posts About Daniels & Cohen

  CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

• “We recommended the defendant receive 15 years imprisonment. … The U.S. Attorney’s office had also recommended 12-15 years imprisonment,” said Julaine Appling, president emeritus of Wisconsin Family Action (WFA), the pro-life organization that was firebombed. “We are disappointed in the judge’s decision regarding a crime the judge called ‘terrorism’ multiple times.” (He'll be out in less than two years and get a gig on MS-NSDAP - jjs)
  Man Sentenced to 7.5 Years for Firebombing Wisconsin Pro-Life Organization in 2022
  
• "A lawyer for Judicial Watch, which is representing one of the groups in court, argued that Metro Nashville needs to provide a more detailed list of materials obtained from the shooter, as well as specific reasons why they’re exempted from release."
  Nashville Police Say "Ongoing Investigation" Prevents Release of Covenant Shooter’s Manifesto (Ongoing means never-ending - jjs)
  
• "No matter what example justices offered, including pro-'Palestinian' protesters blocking traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge on Monday, or the hypothetical of protesters blocking traffic from Virginia to Washington, D.C., the Biden administration's position that none of these would meet the same requirement. Curious, isn't it? I wonder what it was like for Prelogar to stand there as Gorsuch and Alito destroyed her case right before her eyes." (She has no ethics or conscience. Her job is to serve the State - jjs)
  Justice Gorsuch Throws Shade at Jamaal Bowman During J6 Hearing, and It’s Glorious
  
• Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL): “The swamp won today. The intel bros, uniparty, and deep state won two more years of warrantless surveillance.”
  FISA Bill Progresses, as "Checks and Balances" Amendment Fails
  
• "Stalin didn’t need warrants, but he would have wished for the U.S. government’s ability to buy American citizens’ data from data brokers."
  Stalin Would Have Killed for the FISA Bill Congress Just Passed (He literally did kill millions for a hell of a lot less - jjs)
  
• "The tremors we feel today promise a social earthquake still to come."
  When "Divide and Conquer" Unites and Enrages
  
• “This was us. Landlord Adams is torching our city so he can keep eating out of real estate lobby’s hands,” the group wrote. “He gutted the city’s Green New Deal, Local Law 97, so the rich can get richer. Enough is enough. Let’s get us a better mayor.” (Lori Lightfoot is, er, "tanned," rested, and ready to make the rubble bounce! - jjs)
  Protesters Storm Stage During NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ Speech: "How Much Money Do You Take from the Rich?"

  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• DoubleVerify, a firm that rates digital platforms such as X based on how they handle questionable content like racism or “misinformation,” acknowledged it made a mistake with its rating of billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform.
  X Says It Lost Advertisers After ‘Anti-Misinformation’ Firm Peddled Misinformation
  
• Jeffrey Lord: "Talk show host gives opinion on Trump trial jurors."
  Clay Travis’ Free Speech Threatened by Dem Rep. "Yum-Yum" Swalwell
  
• “NPR has formally punished Uri Berliner, the senior editor who publicly argued a week ago that the network had ‘lost America’s trust’ by approaching news stories with a rigidly progressive mindset. Berliner’s five-day suspension without pay, which began last Friday, has not been previously reported.”
  Longtime NPR Editor Who Documented Their Liberal Bias Suspended Without Pay, Threatened With Termination
  
• "Those who listened to NPR in the 1980s, 1990s, and even early 2000s may not be aware of how radical the site has become."
  With Everyone Having Fun Exposing NPR, It's Also Time to Expose NPR
  
• “Donald Trump is being held to account by the very multicultural, multiracial democracy that he’s trying to dismantle. Go DEI. My DEIs are bringing it home.” Reid has previously said that “DEI” is a modern variation of the “n-word.”Reid is most famed for pretending her Twitter account was hacked, to get out of posting anti-gay tweets. She also once claimed the ‘538’ website was named for Al Gore’s loss.
  WATCH: Yammering Overstuffed Knockwurst Joy Reid Says ‘Go DEI!’ – Admits Diversity Hires are Behind Trump Persecution
  
• "Meet an 'intellectual leader' of the Left."
  Rachel Maddow: Filthy Rich and Morally Bankrupt

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM

• “So, madam secretary, if the United States, consistent with your ambitions, with your plans, with the ambitions of the Biden [junta], if it completely transitions over to get to net-zero, exactly how many degrees will global temperatures decrease as a result of moving to net-zero?” Lee asked after outlining global cost projections for the green transition compiled by McKinsey and Company in 2022.
  Mike Lee Leaves Biden’s Energy Sec Flummoxed With Simple Question About Climate Agenda
  
• John Stossel: "Soon the government might shut down your car. [So-called quote-unquote "president"]
  Joe Biden's new infrastructure gives bureaucrats that power."
  The Kill Switch
  
• "This may be the beginning of the end of the road for EV-mania." (If [and really since] the ultimate goal is to immobilize the American citizenry, it makes no difference if EVs are unaffordable or unavailable - jjs)
  Tesla Plans To Lay-Off 10% of Its Global Workforce
  
• As part of a $600 million round of grant funding issued in December 2023 to advance “environmental justice,” the EPA gave out $50 million to a Fordham University-led coalition including the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) and the New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice (NJAIJ). The NYIC explicitly engages in “nationally recognized” voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts and pushed for a New York City law that allows non-citizens to vote, while the NJAIJ has advocated for same-day voter registration and maintains a voter registration portal on its website.
  Biden EPA Giving Millions To ‘Immigrant Justice’ Groups Registering, ‘Mobilizing’ Dem-Leaning Voting Bloc
  
• "Meanwhile, a wolf kills calf in Colorado in first confirmed depredation since animals’ reintroduction to the region."
  Latest in European Farmers Protests: Swiss Ranchers Dumping Dead Sheep Challenging Protected Status of Wolves
  
• "We know who will pay the bill."
  Our ‘Woke’ Rackets

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• “He repeatedly outright refused to acknowledge the long swaths of his report that quote other work verbatim without any quotation marks at all—instead stubbornly insisting that he cited over 1,100 references, as if that resolves the attribution issue (it does not).”
  Harvard Medical “Expert” Disqualified in Federal Court Case Due to “Overwhelming” and “Misleading” Plagiarism
  
• Scott McKay: "The case of Dexter Reed is just more of the same."
  Dead Thugs and Tired Narratives
  
• Price ran for election on a platform of reducing the number of people in prison, reducing sentences for offenders under the age of 25 and cracking down on alleged police misconduct, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Since Price took office in January 2023, crime has risen across Alameda County.
  Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price Faces Recall Vote After Crime Ravages Blue County

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• "Vivian Hunt [rhymes with], an ex-McKinsey consultant who has argued meritocracy ‘isn’t good enough,’ will serve as president of the Harvard Board of Overseers."
  Harvard Taps Longtime DEI Advocate To Help Pick University’s Next President
  
• "They still may advocate for teachers, but politicking is now their main focus." (Same as it ever was - jjs)
  The Teachers’ Unions are More Political than Ever

  ABORTION

• "During a Tuesday hearing, Kennedy posed a hypothetical scenario — a healthy baby and a healthy mother, one day before the due date — and Becerra repeatedly refused to say whether he’d support banning abortion even in that case."
  ‘Your Words, Not Mine’: GOP Senator Grills Biden Health Secretary Over No-Limits Abortion
  
• "The American house will not be divided against itself indefinitely, not over a question as seminal as what constitutes human life."
  Defending Trump’s Abortion Stance

  THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH

• "Pay attention people, because the canary in the coal mine isn’t breathing and we’re barreling toward a shocking and devastating 'checkmate.'”
  Maine Joins "Popular Vote" Interstate Compact, Bringing the Total 209—They Only Need to Reach 270
  
• “The people of Huntington Beach have made their voices clear on this issue and the people’s decision on the March 5th ballot measures for election integrity is final,” Gates said.
  California Sues Huntington Beach To Overturn Voter ID Measure Approved By Voters
  
• "The Department of Education’s response raises doubts about their commitment to nonpartisan use of taxpayer money, as it explicitly plans to use these funds for voter registration."
  Biden Education Department Doubles Down On Taxpayer-Funded GOTV Using College Students

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• The car being used at the time reportedly belonged to Ward’s husband, identified as William Douglas “Doug” Ward. The Mail report noted he was “appointed Deputy Director of the Commander’s Action Group and Senior Nuclear Deterrence Advisor at the United States Strategic Command in February.” (Teacher in the Sack >> SAC - jjs)
  PHOTOS: Nebraska Teacher Accused of Sex with Student Is Wife of High-Ranking Pentagon Official
  
• "Seven of the women vowed to pursue their case against Dominic Foppoli, former Mayor of East Windsor in California’s North Bay, during a press conference with their attorneys outside the Sonoma County Civil and Family Law Courthouse, ABC 7 Bay Area reported Sunday. There were eight other alleged female victims, according to NBC Bay Area."
  Multiple Women File Lawsuit Against Democrat Mayor for Alleged Sexual Assault After State AG Declines To Prosecute
  
• "Washington senator has slowed TikTok bill’s passage through Congress."
  Maria Cantwell Took Thousands from TikTok Lobbyist Days After House Passed Bill Targeting Chinese-Owned App

  POLITICS

• “There may be only two of us public right now. But he does not have the support of the conference at all. There may be people who might not vote to vacate him right now, but they will never vote for him to be Speaker next Congress. There are two large factions in the conference against his speakership.”
  MTG on Mike Johnson Speakership: "It’s Over – He’s Just the Only One Who Hasn’t Acknowledged It"
  
• "The Maryland Democrat’s personal investment into his campaign far exceeds all prior Senate primary candidates, including the previous record holder, Illinois Democrat Blair Hull, who spent $29.6 million on his failed 2004 Senate primary bid." (Maryland. "They're animals anyway, so let them lose their souls" - jjs)
  David Trone Has Poured a Record-Breaking $42 Million Into His Senate Campaign

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• “American voters are reluctant to provide additional aid to Ukraine,” said Scott Rasmussen, president of RMG Research, INC, who conducted the poll. “Our latest polling indicates that Americans in key swing states believe that securing our own southern border should be a higher priority than funding Ukraine.”
  Swing-State Voters Sour on Endless Ukraine Funding
  
• "The U.S. risks being caught off-guard if it expects the ’90s to last forever."
  What Russia Sanctions Failure Says About the Future
  
• "While the attack was quickly claimed by the Islamic State - Khorasan Province, who took responsibility through its Amaq News Agency, the truth is that the evidence that is currently available to us points in one direction, and one direction only: toward Ukraine. From the moment the very first details of the attack began to leak out, it became more and more obvious that this wasn’t any run of the mill Islamist terror attack."
  Ukraine is still the prime suspect in the Crocus terror attack

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• "One man's weakness, and his unique ability to always be wrong, might set the world on fire."
  Joe Biden’s Wars
  
• The fight on Monday is far from the first fisticuffs in the Georgian Parliament prompted by disagreements over the “foreign agent” law, which the ruling party shelved last year and promised to return to debate “when emotions subside.” (Dang, for a moment I got my hopes up and thought Kemp and Raffensperger got cold-cocked - jjs)
  Watch: Brawl Erupts in Georgia Parliament After Lawmaker Punched in the Face During Speech
  
• "Conservatives are apparently no longer welcome in Europe. What’s next?"
  Inside the Attempt to Cancel NatCon Brussels
  
• "Thus far, Poilievre has done quite a good job of holding Trudeau's feet to the fire in opposition, winning himself increasing admiration from the country's long-suffering conservative base."
  Pierre Poilievre Brings Down the House

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• Margot Cleveland: "A new lawsuit exposes an extreme and multifaceted disregard for the Constitution by the administrative state."
  Lawsuit Seeks to Stop the SEC’s Decade-Long Assault on Your Investment Data and Basic Rights
  
• "A proposed development in Harbor Springs, Michigan could be the next episode in the uglification of America."
  Central Planning Comes for Vacation Towns

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• John Dale Dunn, M.D.: "Our medical schools have embraced Marxist DEI and intersectionality theories, which will be a rolling disaster for American medical care."
  Karl Marx Conquers American Medicine

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• "Though the NASA press release notes the agency will revise its computer models for determining what will burn up in the atmosphere and what will not, it says nothing about reinbursing the homeowner, Alejandro Otero, for the damage to his home."
  NASA: The piece of space junk that crashed through a Florida house came from ISS, and we released it
  
• "In digging into the precise motion data from the Gaia space telescope scientists have discovered the Milky Way’s heaviest stellar-sized black hole, with a mass thirty-three times the mass of our Sun."
  Using Gaia data scientists discover the heaviest stellar black hole ever found

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

• “Standing behind the trans mania is a fear of adulthood and sexual difference.”
  The Trans Reckoning Is Here

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• "There will be no new content development or production, while a skeleton crew will remain to oversee the studio’s library of about 135 titles."
  Hollywood Depression: Participant, Studio Behind B-Movie Sci-Fi Fantasy An Inconvenient Truth & More Woke Message Movies, Shuts Down
  
• "Fans are finally listening and won't buy movie tickets or subscriptions to Disney's streaming platforms anymore. With this latest round of cuts, it will be interesting to see if Bob Iger will change course and dial back the woke programming or if Disney will continue doubling down on their losses."
  Disney Lays Off Marvel Employees as Wokeness Hits Its Bottom Line
  
• Maybe if she spent the rest of her life wearing blackface . . . - jjs
  Virtue Signal of the Week: Molly Ringwald Says 80s Hughes Films are "Really, Really, Very White"
  
• "The movie’s success reflects how the West has entered an era of neopaganism and Christianity has been replaced with incoherent philosophies."
  Our Nation’s Neopaganism is Driving the Success of Dune: Part II

  HITHER & YON

• “Whitey Herzog devoted his lifetime to the game he loved, excelling as a leader on and off the field,” Jane Forbes Clark, chair of the Hall of Fame’s board of directors, said in a statement. “Whitey always brought the best out of every player he managed with a forthright style that won him respect throughout the game.” (RIP to my Mets' big 80s nemesis, the White Rat - jjs)
  Whitey Herzog, Hall of Fame Manager who Led St. Louis Cardinals to 3 Pennants, Dies at 92
  
• "Erskine’s baseball career was remembered with the Brooklyn Dodgers’ storied “Boys of Summer,” of the 1950s.  He played his entire Major League Baseball career with the Dodgers from 1948 to 1959, helping the team secure five National League pennants and their memorable 1955 World Series victory." (RIP - jjs)
  Legendary Dodgers Pitcher Carl Erskine Dead At 97

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