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Mighty sad display. Woke to the max.
Good song though.
Hi K². We order a lot of stuff from Amazon and the wife also orders most of her crafts stuff from ETSY and some from Temu. Sadly. there's not many places these days that complete with their selection, pricing, shipping and return policies.
That said, the ad you posted makes me ill because of the emasculating which is a symbol of today's males! Those type of "guys", back in my high school days, would be of the extreme minority that would be picked on and maybe physically accosted.
Thanks, Bull. It makes me glad I've never ordered anything from Amazon.
Absolutely! I'm with you on this, kk!
Re: The frat boys...
I hate this Amazon ad. Talk about whipped...
Does anyone else find it as disgustingly emasculating as I do?
Frat Boy Summer is this year’s backlash against an epidemic of arrogant, entitled women
By Miranda Devine Published May 5, 2024, 10:19 p.m. ET
(I'm on the "frat boys" side.)
Behold the “frat boys” unapologetically saving Old Glory, singing the national anthem, chanting “USA, USA, USA,” and rudely ridiculing the campus freaks who parade around in Hamas colors and barricade themselves in university buildings.
God forbid! They look like Trump voters.
This display of irrepressible masculinity erupting in Gen Z is an affront to the grand societal feminization project of the left, which has only itself to blame.
Frat Boy Summer is this year’s backlash against an epidemic of arrogant, entitled women who have been coddled all their lives and think they’re smarter and more important than they really are.
It is a manifestation of the growing political divide between men and women that has been evident in opinion polls for some time. There is a 10-point gap on most issues between men and women.
Young unmarried women, in particular, skew very left, while young men are becoming markedly more conservative.
Growing gap
The latest ABC-Ipsos poll over the weekend showed Donald Trump winning the under-30s by five points over Joe Biden, 48% to 43%. That was entirely down to Trump’s huge advantage with young men, 54% to 43%.
Young women favored Biden by three points, 44% to 41%, still a rather anemic vote of confidence considering all the “Handmaid’s Tale”-style propaganda being thrown at them about abortion and Trump’s beastly ways.
It’s a nightmare scenario for Biden, who has been counting on the youth vote to win him the election like it did in 2020. Hence his desperate pandering to Gen Z.
The president is splashing around billions of taxpayer dollars on student debt relief, relaxing cannabis legislation, championing “trans kids” as the greatest heroes of their generation and inviting gender-fluid young TikTok influencers to VIP events at the White House. This is not your granddad’s Joe Biden.
But none of it can close the growing ideological gulf between the sexes, which has its roots in the unjust treatment of boys and young men in recent decades.
The college gender gap was a crisis when men outnumbered women up until the 1980s, but now that there are three women for every two men in college, we must rejoice. You go, girl!
Now there are 1 million fewer men in college than in 2011, according to Pew Research, with one-quarter of male Ivy Leaguers identifying as LGBT. It’s sexual reparations in which nobody had a say.
There is a cohort of women who are giving the fairer sex a bad name. These toxic femmes gobbled up the unjust privileges of affirmative action and the punitive fakery that the #MeToo movement became and then found they were more miserable than ever.
So they doubled down, offloading blame onto the patriarchy or toxic masculinity or whatever excuse they could find to avoid looking in the mirror.
During the pandemic, they were given the name “Karen” as they marched around in masks enforcing petty rules or flew into aggressive rages during minor parking lot encounters.
When accountability occasionally finds them, they are flabbergasted beyond belief, while the rest of the world quietly revels in their comeuppance.
Karine Jean-Pierre is the avatar of the entitled female.
The White House press secretary is simply horrible at her job. She’s not on top of her material and never provides a coherent answer to reporters’ questions.
But instead of showing a little humility and upping her game, she does interviews boasting about how awesome she is at “the hardest job in the White House … I’m an historic figure and I walk in history every day.”
Women’s colleges
The current campus protests have showcased the narcissism of these delusional damsels on social media for all to see:
• The females at the University of Virginia whining, “It’s raining!” when finally told to pack up their tents.
• The campus radical who held a press conference to demand that Columbia University supply food and water to her comrades who had barricaded themselves inside a building. “This is like basic humanitarian aid,” said Johannah King-Slutzky, a PhD student who sported the latest in terrorist chic, a keffiyeh around her neck.
• The academic at Emory University who screamed, “I am a professor!” when she was arrested for assaulting a cop. “I hit him on the head very lightly to get his attention and they grabbed me, threw me to the ground and arrested me,” Caroline Fohlin whined as she was carted away.
• The activist in California who stood up at a city council meeting and threatened to kill councilors who opposed a Gaza cease-fire resolution: “We’ll see you at your house. We’ll murder you,” she fiercely vowed. Next time we saw Riddhi Patel, she was bawling her eyes out in court after being arrested and charged with threatening state officials.
These are not people anyone can admire. They believe they are entitled to privileges and protections they did not earn and do not deserve.
The losers in the equation have been young men, especially if they are white and heterosexual and wish to remain male with their genitalia intact.
They are the new forgotten people, derided for who they are.
Since they have nothing to lose and nobody has earned their respect, the frat boys will be as rude and obnoxious as they like. If their very intrinsic maleness is offensive, why bother trying to be polite or chivalrous? Instead, they lean into their power in a rather Trumpian way.
Talking like Trump
Whatever else can be said about Donald Trump, he is undeniably, irredeemably masculine. The way he walks, the way he talks, the way he dresses, his lusty appreciation for attractive women, all of it is anachronistic in a world that abhors masculinity, and that probably is half his appeal — to men, and to the women who still love men.
Regardless of Trump, Gallup polls show that the percentage of young men, ages 18 to 29, who identify as Republican has increased 11 points in a decade, from 38% in 2013 to 49% in 2023, with a big jump from 42% after the pandemic.
This is the cohort whose school and college years were affected by COVID-19. Perhaps school-age boys resented the strictures of lockdowns more than girls and rejected the safety obsessions of females in authority.
Whatever the cause, 18- to 29-year-old men are now 30% more conservative than their ultra-liberal female counterparts.
Women ages 18 to 34 became increasingly liberal and Democratic in the past decade, according to polling data reported by the New York Times last week.
Women went from 55% to 60% identifying as Democratic and from 29% to 22% Republican between 2012 and 2023. They went from 32% to 51% liberal and from 29% to 17% conservative.
“You stand no chance, old lady!” one frat boy type told a woman trying to wrestle him for a barricade at a protest at UCLA last week. Nature always finds a way to assert itself, and it isn’t always pretty.
https://nypost.com/2024/05/05/opinion/frat-boy-summer-is-this-years-backlash-against-an-epidemic-of-arrogant-entitled-women/
Is it a crime for politicians to pay off people to hide the truth from the public because an election is coming up?
By Jack Hellner
The threats to our democracy (Republic) are power-hungry Democrats, corrupt Justice officials throughout the country, election workers who go around the law, and a complicit media who spend their time campaigning for Democrats and seeking to destroy Trump and other Republicans.
What if Congress spends $17 million to hide sexual harassment and other claims from the public by members and their staff?
That is 130 more times than the $130,000 President Trump paid of his own money for a nuisance lawsuit.
Congress paid out $17 million in settlements. Here’s why we know so little about that money.
Two things have become painfully clear on Capitol Hill this week: Lawmakers and staffers say sexual harassment is “rampant” – but even members of Congress have no idea just how widespread the problem is.
The controversial and sensitive issue has taken center stage in Congress this week, with female lawmakers making fresh allegations of sexual harassment against unnamed members who are currently in office, and the unveiling of a new bill on Wednesday to change how sexual harassment complaints are reported and resolved. On Thursday, a woman shared her story of being groped and kissed without her consent by Sen. Al Franken in 2006.
So far, there’s been little specific data to help illuminate just how pervasive sexual harassment is on Capitol Hill, but one figure has emerged: the total that the Office of Compliance, the office that handles harassment complaints, has paid to victims.
On Thursday, the Office of Compliance released additional information indicating that it has paid victims more than $17 million since its creation in the 1990s. That includes all settlements, not just related to sexual harassment, but also discrimination and other cases.
Congress essentially stole $17 million in taxpayer money that we know of, to hide stuff from the public. Which politicians and staff members were sued? We don't know. Most of the media clearly let this theft and coverup slide because they didn't harass Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and other career politicians to tell them the amounts that were paid and for whose benefit. How many of these politicians and staffers are still on the payroll? How serious were the charges? We don't know.
Isn't it great that these powerful politicians who supposedly work for us, think it is none of our business what they do or how many laws they ignore? How would they treat a private company if they hid so much derogatory information?
Here are some other things that most of the media somehow had little curiosity about:
All the women the Clintons whom mentally and physically abused.
The media did not want to see that President Obama was associated with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, had special deals with convicted felon and political fixer Tony Rezko and attended church with radical preacher Reverend Wright. Vetting Obama was unnecessary.
In 2008, they did not care about Joe Biden's record or why he was chased away from previous presidential races. They were too busy destroying Sarah Palin. I thought the media and other Democrats respected and supported all women.
The media didn't care about all the Clinton family kickbacks for access because Hillary Clinton had a powerful government position.
Nor have they cared about the Biden family kickbacks for access because Joe had a powerful government position.
They don't care that Hillary and Joe illegally had classified documents for years and mishandled them, and somehow were not prosecuted.
The media had little interest in who or why Seth Rich, who was a DNC campaign worker, was killed on his way home from work. For some reason, the FBI didn't think the laptop was of any interest and has kept it secret for seven years. Sort of like intentionally hiding the Hunter laptop from the public before the 2020 election.
Can anyone imagine the wall-to-wall coverage if a Trump staffer with a laptop was killed?
Seth Rich's Laptop to Be Turned Over by FBI, Judge Rules
Rich, who worked for the Democratic National Committee (DNC), was killed on July 10, 2016, while making his way home from a night out in Washington, D.C. The 27-year-old was speaking to his girlfriend on the phone when shots were heard.
The media certainly didn't care that the only person killed in the capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was an unarmed white woman, a veteran. She was killed by a black Capital Police officer.
Think of what the coverage would have been if the killing had happened to a black unarmed person at a violent protest by leftists after Trump won in 2016 or in the violent protests in 2020.
Or what would the coverage be if an officer killed an unarmed pro-Palestine person?
But an unarmed person who supported Trump is killed, and there is no sympathy, little coverage, and no empathy. Some lives are clearly more valuable to the media and other Democrats, especially if it promotes their agenda.
And there will be little to no coverage of Jack Smith's squad tampering with evidence and misleading the courts, just like few cared when FBI agents lied to the FISA courts to illegally spy on people surrounding Trump
After all, the goal for the last eight years is to destroy Trump, and they don't care about his rights.
Special Counsel Jack Smith's Team Confirms It Tampered With Evidence, Admits to Misleading Court
The threats to our democracy (Republic) are power-hungry Democrats, corrupt Justice officials throughout the country, election workers who go around the law, and a complicit media who spend their time campaigning for Democrats and seeking to destroy Trump and other Republicans.
It is certainly not Trump, who wants to give the power, money, and freedom back to the people.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/is_it_a_crime_for_politicians_to_pay_off_people_to_hide_the_truth_from_the_public_because_an_election_is_coming_up.html
Biden administration continues its attack on energy
By Eric Utter
Our power plants may soon blow no smoke, but the same cannot be said of the Biden administration.
No, I’m not speaking of the president “calling a lid” at 3:00 p.m. or appearing nearly comatose during certain speeches.
As part of its sweeping climate change agenda, the Bite me Biden administration recently finalized regulations that will make things much harder on existing -- and future -- fossil fuel-fired power plants.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and White House officials, via a joint announcement, noted that the rules and regulations would apply to all coal-fired power generation and future natural gas power plants, which will be required to control/capture 90% of their carbon emissions. This will force numerous older plants to simply shut down, or, to use the softer sounding euphemism, be “sunsetted.”
It's certainly reassuring that the administration has its priorities in order! Forget the open Southern border across which millions of unvetted foreigners are streaming, mostly military-aged men! Forget 100,000 fentanyl deaths a year and the rampant sex trafficking! Dismiss raging inflation and violent crime! Who cares about unsustainable debt, wars breaking out across the planet, and the ongoing violent anti-Semitism spreading across our college campuses?! Ditto for the continued collapse of the family and the impending collapse of Western nations’ populations! The Biden administration is properly laser-focused on limiting Americans’ choices in appliances, vehicles -- and elections -- and in trying to significantly drive up the cost of their food and energy.
Our power plants may soon blow no smoke, but the same cannot be said of the Biden administration.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/biden_administration_continues_its_attack_on_energy.html
Government mandates that your car 'monitor' your behavior
By Eric Utter
New technologies that will make monitoring drivers' behavior easy and comprehensive … will soon also be mandatory.
H.R. 3684, an “infrastructure” bill signed by Joe Biden in 2021 included a provision mandating expanded monitoring of folks as they drive an automobile. And henceforth the intrusive technologies will be required in all new vehicles being manufactured and sold in the U.S.
New vehicles will be required to have passive monitoring systems to assess each driver’s behavior. An algorithm will determine if the driver is too impaired to operate the vehicle. If so, the vehicle will either be disabled, or some as yet unexplained system or entity will take control of it.
Several obvious questions arise.
What will constitute “impairment?” Who or what might take control of the vehicle, and in what specific circumstances? And how? How long will data detailing driver behavior be stored? Where? Who will have access to it? In what other situations might the government take control of a driver’s vehicle? Is this unconstitutional, contra to protections under the Bill of Rights?
And what about hackers?!
We have seen how other government mandates, programs, and policies, almost all supposedly “for our own good,” have worked out. Think of the “Patriot Act,” the Department of Homeland Security, the TSA, or the lockdown response to the recent coronavirus pandemic, to name but a few. If you wanted to work out at a gym, attend a family member’s wedding — or funeral— well, sorry.
Is it really far-fetched to imagine that you won’t be allowed to drive if you have exceeded your monthly greenhouse gas emission limit? Or that your car might be disabled if you are on your way to purchase a firearm or attend a Trump rally, or the future equivalent thereof?
In places like California, there is already legislation in the works to mandate that car manufacturers equip your vehicle so as to make it literally impossible for a driver to go more than 10 miles-an-hour over the speed limit, regardless of reason or situation. Perhaps the software monitoring program will similarly decide that it doesn’t care for the way you brake or change lanes. Or for the talk shows you listen to on the vehicle’s radio/sound system.
No one defends drunk driving, nor should they. But this is existentially dangerous. Automobiles granted Americans unprecedented freedom and independence. Now Big Brother will use them to spy on citizens and modify their behavior … removing their freedom and independence altogether, along with their privacy.
The relationship between Americans and their cars is long and deep. That those cars will now be used as witnesses against them is chilling, dystopian.
Sadly, in a sense, all of our vehicles going forward will be “1984” models.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/government_mandates_that_your_car_monitor_your_behavior.html
House GOP schedules Tuesday vote on Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/house-gop-schedules-tuesday-vote-hands-our-home-appliances-act
The GOP-led House is scheduled to vote on the Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act on Tuesday.
According to an official summary of the legislation, the bill "modifies the process by which the Department of Energy (DOE) amends, revokes, or implements energy conservation standards for certain consumer products (other than automobiles), such as household appliances."
The bill would allow DOE to "grant a petition to revoke or amend energy conservation standards" under certain circumstances. The agency could revoke standards if it finds that they "result in additional costs to consumers," do not lead to "significant conservation of energy or water," are not "technologically feasible," or lead to an appliance "not being commercially available in the United States to all consumers."
Under the legislation, "new energy conservation standards must be technologically feasible and economically justified."
If the bill gets passed and signed into law, it would eliminate the "requirement under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act for DOE, within six years of issuing a final rule establishing or amending such standard, to issue a new proposed rule or publish a notice that the standard does not need to be amended." The agency instead would be able to "publish a notice of proposed rulemaking for prescribing a new or amended energy conservation standard for a consumer product at any time."
The legislation was proposed after the Biden Administration's Energy Department proposed a rule that would have led to a ban on the sale of about half of the gas stoves currently on the market.
Real leadership, would of stopped this in tracks a long time ago, but when your
courting the terrorist vote, this is what you get...
Barack Obama, 21st-Century Schizoid Man
By Pete McArdle
Although not a psychologist, I nevertheless convinced thousands of trusting souls to open their mouths (and wallets) for needles, drills, forceps, foul tastes, strange smells, not-good vibrations, and bills beyond imagination for more than forty years.
And after the obligatory formalities and a couple jabs of the ol’ Novocain had been dispensed with, I’d sit, patiently waiting for profound anesthesia, and provide free psychoanalysis to my patients.
I’d listen carefully — most times — and then, no matter what the patient’s problem was, I’d say, “You have a problem with congruity.”
“Congruity” is having the things you think and deeply believe match up with your actual words and actions. Most people fall short of absolute congruity, but the smaller the gap, or “schism,” between your talk and your walk, the happier and more fulfilled you are.
And the bigger the schism, the more troubled, angry, and unhappy you are.
With that in mind, who could possibly be more conflicted, disturbed, or downright resentful than the man currently sailing our ship of state into a stone jetty at about ninety knots?
Joe Biden, you say?
No, silly! He’s not running anything, except maybe his mouth when he’s occasionally allowed to.
Watch the recent video of Crusty Joe trying to eat his dinner at the execrable White House Correspondents’ Dinner. He’s zoning out on the person talking to him. He struggles to move salad from the salad plate to his dinner plate. He then loses interest in the salad and strains mightily to rip a small dinner roll in two, finally transferring half the roll to his dinner plate.
He then loses interest in both the roll and the person animatedly yapping at him, and attempts, ever so slowly, to bring a forkful of greens up to his quivering mouth — a meeting so perilous that it recalls one of the perilous outer space hookups needed for the successful Apollo 11 mission.
No, poor old Joe isn’t running things now, nor was he back when he was “elected” and still had two neurons to rub together.
It’s always been Barack Obama.
Barry O’s the puppet master who’s been running the show for fifteen years now, eight overtly and seven covertly, leading the Deep State efforts against sitting President Trump and later telling senile Joe exactly what to say on notecards and teleprompters.
And who could be more schizoid than the Lightbringer?
He tells the world, as the self-proclaimed first black president, that Whitey is inherently and systemically racist, whether he knows it or not. And meanwhile, Barry’s half–white supremacist himself!
Imagine hating half of yourself for the sins your distant forefathers may or may have not committed against distant relatives of your other half. Terribly confusing, no?
And in a love letter, young Obama tells a girlfriend that he feels androgynous and that he “makes love to men daily, in [his] imagination,” a sentence no heterosexual man has ever written, at least in recorded history. This certainly explains Barry’s love for the LBGTetc. movement, but not his attempt to sell the American electorate on a presidential candidate ostensibly deeply in love with a woman.
And imagine pretending to the American public that you’re a devout Christian, and then saying that the adhan, the Islamic call to prayer, is “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth.”
It’s certainly all right to love Islam and feel that way about the adhan, but why pretend you follow Christ? And what is it with Obama sending pallets of hard currency under cover of darkness to Iran, the leading sponsor of terror in the world and the people ultimately responsible for October 7?
Christians certainly don’t hate Jews, with whom they share beliefs written down in the Old Testament. Why does Obama?
The schism between what Barack Obama says he is and what he really is is enormous. He must be miserable.
He carries on incessantly about the environment and global warming and then buys three mansions with an enormous carbon footprint, one a Hawaiian oceanfront property. Obama either thinks he personally did stop the rise of the oceans, in which case he’s delusional, or he never worried about it in the first place, in which case he’s a liar. Which is it, Barry: delusional or liar?
“The One” also claimed that he was president for all people, both in blue states and red. And then he promptly sicced his CIA, FBI, IRS, and State Dept. — and our vile, supine mainstream media — on President Trump and his followers. He demonized Christians, whites, males, heterosexuals, the pro-life movement, and above all MAGA-supporters. No uniter, he.
Obama has habitually harangued the wealthy, pushing them to pay more taxes and asking them, when is enough enough? But his socialist veneer has worn thin, now that he and Michelle are multi-multi-millionaires. Barry must lie awake at night, in one of his mansions, wondering when exactly enough is enough.
Poor Obama — so narcissistic, neurotic, and incongruent. Such a nowhere man, making all his nowhere plans, desperately hoping DJT won’t be re-elected. He’s black, he’s white, he’s gay, he’s straight, he’s Christian yet loves Iran and the adhan, he was president of the USA for eight years and yet he hates and has often apologized for his country.
He alone makes the sad dried up turnip in the Oval Office’s mouth move and spew socialist venom, even as he, B.O., pretends to care about democracy. After fifteen years of King Barack’s either overt or covert rule, America has been brought to her knees.
It appears Obama’s psychotic, self-hating persona has permeated the U.S. public’s consciousness (see For Palestine, Jews or Gays). After this November, either hardworking, God-fearing, patriotic Americans will be running this country, or it will be a deeply conflicted Barack Obama, 21st-century schizoid man.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/05/barack_obama_21st_century_schizoid_man.html
False-flag Nation
By David Prentice
the Left wants – no, demands -- its power, no matter how dishonest, destructive, and ruinous to others they become, they want to define their opponents as worse. They live by the Alinsky rule to keep the pressure on, they want desperately to show anyone who will listen just how bad we are.
The definition of a false flag is a hostile or harmful action (such as an attack) that is designed to look like it was perpetrated by someone other than the person or group responsible for it.
It was first done by pirates who would fly flags of friendly nations to allow themselves to get close enough to attack merchant ships. The historical use of a flag isn’t the key -- it’s the deception.
This kind of tactic has been used often: in 1939, Hitler faked an attack by Poland on a German outpost so that he would have an excuse to invade Poland. A few years earlier Japanese forces set off a bomb next to a Japanese-owned rail line in Mukden as a pretext for the invasion of Manchuria.
Similarly, false flags have been taken to discredit many a politician or a political movement. One of the crassest charges ever levelled was by James Carville after Paula Jones accused Bill Clinton of pulling his pants down in front of her. He was quoted as saying, “Drag a hundred-dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you'll find.” This to put the blame on Jones for Clinton’s indiscretion. Carville claims that she was not the target. You decide.
The intensity of the Left’s obsession to take down Donald Trump has been breathtaking. The Left’s many accusations using the false-flag tactic have turned us into false-flag nation. Never has one person been so consistently harassed, pressured, and accused using one tactic.
Recall when Trump started his rallies back in 2016. Many of them involved some kind of violent fight or violent demonstration, with the media dutifully reporting that these proved the violence inherent in Trump and his backers. The only problem was these were leftist agitprop actors, and that was clear to most non-Democrat observers even then. Violence at an Illinois rally prior to that primary had Ted Cruz accusing Donald Trump supporters (likely cementing his loss).
To this day one of the consistent charges against Trump has been his intention to bring violence to our country. Jussie Smollett tried to add to this farce. It ended badly. The Whitmer kidnapping hoax showed the FBI goading and entrapping a few suckers to get involved in this charade. FBI plants invented the idea and pushed it to happen. This to once again prove Trump supporters were violent lawbreakers.
The RussiaGate scam was a false flag set up by the Deep State. These silly charges against Trump were manufactured by his opponents to make him appear guilty. The Trump Ukraine phone call impeachment came straight from Biden-supporting Democrats. Blaming Trump for Biden’s Ukraine corruption was pathetic, but our media pressed to convince Americans that Trump was the corrupt one -- not the Biden family that was neck deep in payments from Burisma.
Laughable attempts at demonstrations of white supremacy, clearly staged by Feds dressing up the way that leftists like to believe we would, would be comical if the duplicity was not so serious.
My brother went to the J6 rally to hear Trump speak. His wife was sick, so rather than go to the Capitol, they returned to their hotel room. They would likely be in prison had they gone. I mention this because he told me at the time that this crowd was entirely peaceful. He says there was no intent for anyone to incite an insurrection. No weapons, no plan, zero intent to become worse than Pearl Harbor and 9/11 combined.
Watching the videos of the peaceful crowd in front of the Capitol being bombarded with flash grenades and rubber bullets by the authorities is shocking. Clearly provoked, clearly being pushed to outrage over their treatment. There are unmistakable indications of FBI plants in the crowd, along with some seedy characters likely aligned with Antifa (the masked ones) trying to foment violence. Somebody opened doors from the inside.
The J6 insurrection has all the signs of being the worst false flag in recent memory.
The J6 myth was promulgated by a corrupt congressional committee set up by Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, Liz Cheney, and Adam Kinzinger. All liars, all with the intention of smearing Trump and his supporters with accusations of violence.
There are still some diehard leftists who still believe this, but much of the so-called “plot to violently overthrow the government” can be shown as a laughable farce, made up by leftists who want power forever for themselves.
Unwittingly, the Left has broken one of the Alinsky commandments. “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.” Meaning the jig is up for most false flags. They are now recognizable as such, more clearly with each one, and that is good news for us.
Because we are about to be hit by this leftist government with a lot of them. Designed to help re-elect Joe and keep the Deep State in power. We need to prepare for what is coming. Because it’s coming, and it’s their last hope.
These ruses may come from multiple sources. Some may be deadly. They could be race-based attempts to pretend the MAGA movement is racist. Gender-based, to show that the MAGA movement violently opposes gays and transgenders. They could be feminist-based, pretending MAGA people are misogynists out to enslave women. Or abortion based. They could be gun-based, to show that we violently want to seize power. They could be environmentally based, to showcase our defiance of Gaia. I have no doubt their new pro-Hamas wing could prompt false flags to use at their mostly peaceful protests.
We’re likely to see a lot of these events in series, or a few all at once. Because the Left wants – no, demands -- its power, no matter how dishonest, destructive, and ruinous to others they become, they want to define their opponents as worse. They live by the Alinsky rule to keep the pressure on, they want desperately to show anyone who will listen just how bad we are.
It’s a fatal flaw. This method has worked well in the past, they have become addicted to it and are using it too much.
The upshot: When a violent or dreadful event is reported, don’t trust the story. It will likely be a lie. Wait at least 48 hours after the breathless reporting by our oh-so-honest media about how bad Trump is. Because that is what they have wanted to prove since 2016. Orange man bad. MAGA bad.
The good news: Since the Elon Musk acquisition of Twitter, this leftist tactic has become more clearly exposed more each day. Since the exposure of the Twitter Files by Matt Taibbi, we know how powerful government agencies have been at censoring truth and promulgating lies. These are no longer believed by even half of the country. Only hard-core leftists are effective targets now. The better news: So many trusted media sources are now available. Tucker Carlson, Russell Brand, Julie Kelly, the Federalist group, Larry Schweikart, Charlie Kirk, Truth Social, Instapundit. And many more.
Watch these leaders of the new conservative media, the ones who you trust to find the real story. They won’t all agree, because the media organs of the Left can be very convincing. Be patient, the story will come out. Because the real story will be the story of the false flag. The new Jussie Smollett incidents of the Left.
They’re coming to a town near you. Be prepared.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/05/false_flag_nation.html
Parents Seek Tuition Refund Amidst College Protests
No safe spaces, but plenty of expensive ones.
by Kelli Ballard | May 6, 2024
The pro-Palestine college protests across the nation have caused disruption and unease. Jewish students have been told to stay home and do their work online, and protesters have taken over buildings and engaged in disturbing and often violent behavior. With graduation coming up soon, some schools have even elected to cancel the once-in-a-lifetime event. It seems that resentment over these institutions’ capitulation to a mob of demonstrators has reached a boiling point. Parents have certainly had it – and now many are demanding colleges refund their children’s tuition fees.
College Protests Angering Parents
Education doesn’t come cheap, especially when attending elite universities that cost upwards of $90,000 per year. The college protests, however, are disrupting the pricey classes, and parents are beginning to speak out. “They are not getting the education they expected and paid for,” Zev Gewurz, a Boston real estate lawyer whose daughter is a senior at Barnard College in New York City, told The Wall Street Journal. He said his daughter was supposed to deliver her final thesis last week and attend a luncheon, but the public presentation and guest lunch were canceled, along with in-person classes.
Lana Shami has a daughter attending the University of Southern California where the average annual tuition is nearly $70,000. Since there won’t be a graduation ceremony, she and other family members will be flying to California and going out to dinner to celebrate. “There will be no celebration at the university where we paid an exorbitant amount of tuition for the past four years,” she told The Journal. “It’s a huge letdown.”
Christopher Rim, founder and CEO of Command Education, told The WSJ he had received around 25 similar calls in a week from parents of students who attend the University of California, Los Angeles and Columbia University who wanted full or partial refunds from the institutions. “Physically blocking their child from attending class or a lecture hall is 100% not what they signed up for,” he said. “They are beyond upset at what’s going on.”
It Isn’t Just Parents
The Columbia Daily Spectator and New York magazine conducted a poll of 719 students, professors, and other active members of Columbia University between April 26 and May 2. Of the participants, 5% were conservative, 18% identified as moderate, 35% were leftist, and 40% were liberal. When asked if anti-Semitism is a problem at the university, 33% strongly agreed. But, when questioned on whether they felt they could express their political views on campus freely, only 8% strongly agreed. The participants were asked if the college protests had affected their academic work. Here are a few of the responses:
Professors are worried about speaking about the conflict due to fears of getting fired.
Students are policing one another and recording classes without consent.
As a person of color, I am scared to go to libraries knowing there are dozens of cops outside.
I lost my internship because I went crazy.
Since April 18, when 108 Columbia University students were arrested, the protests have only escalated. As of May 3, more than 2,200 people have been arrested on campuses in at least 22 states. The University of Southern California not only canceled the speech of its pro-Palestinian valedictorian, but it has also canceled the main commencement ceremony, claiming safety concerns.
“These antisemitic, anti-American radicals will seize on any opportunity to hijack the spotlight to harass and intimidate Jewish and pro-Israel students, so we expect to see disruptions at public functions, including graduations,” Liora Rez, founder and executive director of StopAntisemitism, told The Hill.
House Education Committee Chair Virginia Foxx (R-NC) said, “Instead of canceling graduation ceremonies out of fear of antisemitic disruptions, institutional leaders should grow a backbone and fight back against antisemitism on their campuses with decisive action and moral clarity.”
When parents and students fork out more money than many Americans make in one year, there are expectations. It seems that the rhetoric of tolerance espoused by elite educational institutions has morphed into cowardice from leadership and capitulation to the mob. With these supposed centers of excellence now failing to deliver even on providing in-person classes, parents have got to be asking themselves whether higher education is an investment worth making.
https://www.libertynation.com/parents-seek-tuition-refund-amidst-college-protests/
Not even after our two gas guzzlers die!!!
You didn't buy one yet?! 🙄
Pointing to the Looming EV Market Crash Suddenly Goes Mainstream
David Blackmon
May 06, 2024
Well, that didn’t take long, did it? I mean, I only started actively predicting a crash in the western world’s EV market late last year, and I’ve been skeptical about the tech’s potential all along, based on the fact that the industry still hasn’t solved the very same shortcomings and consumer concerns that caused it to crash 120 years ago. In 1901, electric cars outnumbered internal combustion cars by a wide margin. Within the next 5 years, the equation had reversed.
This isn’t anything new, and now, some legacy media outlets that have served as loyal boosters of this failing energy transition are starting to catch on.
The Times of London, one of the most shameless EV booster outlets, ran a story on Sunday headlined “The electric car crash will rival the dotcom bubble.”
That prediction could prove to be hyperbolic. Then again, maybe not.
Here’s an excerpt from that story:
What we are witnessing is an imminent business catastrophe impelled by a global corporate stampede: the herd was galvanised by governments, which have yet to recognise, let alone admit, their own responsibility.
In terms of global misallocation of capital, there has been nothing like it since the dotcom bubble. As far as the UK is concerned, the obvious thing for the government to do is to live up to Claire Coutinho’s words and abandon the attempt to force consumers to buy products they don’t entirely trust, which can only end terribly for the businesses involved.
Wow. That’s pretty damn blunt.
But the London Times isn’t the only legacy outlet commenting on the problem. Helen Thomas, a senior editor at the Financial Times, weighed in on the same day with a piece carrying this ominous headline: “The EV car crash is a warning for Europe’s industrial transition.”
But even in commenting on Europe’s approaching EV bloodbath, Thomas cannot bring herself to admit to reality.
In the piece, Thomas details how Chinese EV makers are already making big inroads into the European auto market and bemoans the fact that Europe’s own carmakers have been slow to adapt. She also pooh-poohs “complaints” by Europe’s carmakers that China has all sorts of advantages in the markets, controlling as it does supply chains for pretty much all of the minerals and parts that go into making of EVs, referring to them as “both true and slightly academic at this stage.”
Check out this excerpt:
But the sector itself continues to hedge its bets. It is still demanding “technological neutrality” from policymakers. That arguably gives policymakers an out from, say, building the dense charging network needed for widespread adoption and for reducing battery size and costs. Europe’s exemption for cars run on so-called e-fuels to Europe’s 2035 sales ban is a classic example — a political sop that spreads industry hopes across another technology that isn’t commercially viable, isn’t available at scale and will be needed in other sectors, such as aviation.
“This discussion of ‘what is the best technology’ is not helpful,” says Fabian Brandt, head of automotive at Oliver Wyman. “From an efficiency standpoint, there is no doubt that battery electric vehicles are the preferred technology. The industry needs to be decisive and go all in.”
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You have to love the part about how the industry “needs to go all in” on EVs.
Think about it: What if Ford had decided to go all-in on EVs in 2021? It would be out of business now, since it would not have been able to rely on its hugely profitable ICE models to offset the well more than $10 billion it has lost on EV investments. The same is likely true of GM and Stellantis, and is very probably true of European carmakers like BMW, Mercedes and Volvo.
In reality, a “go all in” strategic approach would become a “go broke and leave the market to China” strategy.
Thomas derides the Euro-car industry for continuing to “hedge its bets.” But what we see here is that, while the Times of London seems to understand the disaster this mad government-driven rush to EVs is going to create in Europe’s auto industry, it is the Financial Times that is still hedging its own bets.
Thomas ends her piece by quoting Harry Benham of Carbon Factor as accusing the Euro-car industry of “whistling as the darkness crept in.” In truth, the same could be said of the FT.
Thomas’s piece is, at the end of the day, a continuation of the leftist climate alarmist hubris that government policy can simply override market forces, an eternal misperception that inevitably ends in economic and financial ruin. The Times of London, amazingly, seems to no longer be laboring under such illusion.
That is all.
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/pointing-to-the-looming-ev-market?publication_id=712558&post_id=144358918&isFreemail=false&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
Absolutely no low that is low enough for these vermin in charge.
Well now we know who to send the bill to for all the damage and Police overtime....
Pro-Hamas Protests Funded by Biden’s Own Political Donors
JOEL B. POLLAK 5 May 2024 3:51
(Tech titan Bill Gates is part of this... and people wonder why I do as much as possible manually.
I don't trust programmers, especially the ones behind arti-FAKE intelligence. I'll do my own thinking, thank you.)
The pro-Palestinian, antisemitic protests on university campuses across the nation are funded by President Joe Biden’s own political donors — which could explain why he hesitates to condemn them and won’t investigate them.
Biden equivocated last month when asked to react to the protests, saying that he condemned the antisemitism but also condemned those “who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians,” which puzzled observers.
Research by NGO Monitor and others into the donors behind the protests has turned up familiar names from the Democratic Party bankroll — including George Soros’ Open Society Foundations and other liberal philanthropies.
Biden’s Department of Justice has notably refused to investigate the civil rights abuses being committed by the “encampments” — against Jews, journalists, and others — and has also refused to consider RICO conspiracy charges.
Biden can’t condemn antisemitism without protecting the perpetrators by condemning whatever it is they claim to be victims of. But regardless — why not go further? Where are the civil rights investigations, the RICO prosecutions? He’s protecting his donors https://t.co/V9P8jSxk6n
— Joel Pollak (@joelpollak) May 2, 2024
#KentuckyDerby pic.twitter.com/kOtkmIVUQg
— Merica✝️🍊🇺🇸 (@dfort65) May 5, 2024
Libs care. About anything but America and Americans. They can go to hell.
This is all just fine with the libs!!
Now hospital care is collapsing under the load of Joseph Biden's border invasion... pic.twitter.com/p2vHQASQwn
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) May 4, 2024
Fake media, fake claims of 'fraud' directed at President Trump
By Jack Hellner
This is all a bad joke and it shows how corrupt the media, the Justice system, and other Democrats are. They have set out to destroy Trump since before he took office, They can't stand the thought of someone giving the power, money and freedom back to the people.
This article actually has nothing to do with Trump, yet that is all the public will see.
Trump Media’s accounting firm charged with ‘massive fraud’
BF Borgers, Trump Media & Technology Group’s independent accounting firm, was charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday with widespread fraud and accused of operating a “sham audit mill.”
The SEC made no allegation of wrongdoing against Truth Social owner Trump Media (DJT), which is not mentioned in the charges from the regulator.
The SEC accused BF Borgers of “deliberate and systemic failures,” including “fabricating” audit documentation and falsely representing to clients its work would comply with accounting standards.
The agency described this as “massive” fraud taking place between January 2021 and June 2023 that impacted more than 1,500 SEC filings and more than 500 public companies.
The CPA firm made 1,500 fraudulent filings that involved 500 public companies that did not include Truth Social, yet somehow the only company listed in the article was Trump's that certainly didn't have an SEC filing in the time period involved.
Maybe Reuters could tell us who the 500 companies are so the public knows.
Reuters clearly didn't care. The sole purpose of the headline and article was to interfere in the election.
Isn't it pathetic that this firm was so fraudulent and yet somehow the SEC is so incompetent that it didn't file charges until after Trump's company went public?
The fraud trial in New York against Trump earlier was a joke because there were no victims, and the current trial against Trump over accounting issues in a hush money payment flap is a joke because there is no crime.
In the future, maybe the Justice Department and New York could make sure that no political candidate tries to do anything that hides information from the public that may be embarrassing.
The list of things that most of the media has intentionally hidden from the public about candidates who they campaign for would be immeasurable.
Think of:
John F. Kennedy, LBJ, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden for a short list of people the media has protected.
Bill and Hillary didn't write checks to the "bimbos" to prevent their "eruptions." They sent out people to destroy them. Paula Jones was effectively called trailer trash by the very pleasant Clinton campaign operative, James Carville.
Thank goodness there were no recordings of these Democrats using the word "p****." That seems to be the word that is now unacceptable. Alvin Bragg, other prosecutors, and the media seem to believe they can get a guilty plea because Trump used the word around twenty years ago. I hope the jury isn't that stupid.
The media and other Democrats just pretend they are offended by the word.
This is all a bad joke and it shows how corrupt the media, the Justice system, and other Democrats are. They have set out to destroy Trump since before he took office, They can't stand the thought of someone giving the power, money and freedom back to the people.
They interfere in elections every day as they seek to protect their fiefdom. It is a joke that people like Al Gore, John Kerry, Michael Bloomberg, and Nancy Pelosi got medal of freedom awards when all of them are seeking to take away our freedoms every day! They fly in private jets while they tell us that we can't drive gas cars or use gas appliances.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/fake_media_fake_claims_of_fraud_directed_at_president_trump.html
Judge Makes Ruling About Suspensions Of Arrested Anti-Israel Agitators
https://truthpress.com/news/judge-makes-ruling-about-suspensions-of-arrested-anti-israel-agitators/
A judge in Arizona has denied a motion that would have lifted the suspension of twenty students arrested last week amid anti-Israel protests.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona denied the Arizona State University students’ motion to have their college suspensions lifted on Friday, according to local outlet ABC 15.
The defendants filed the lawsuit against the Arizona Board of Regents on Tuesday, alleging that their suspension from ASU is causing “irreparable harm” due to their inability to enroll in classes.
The students, who are charged with trespassing, also alleged that the suspensions violate their First Amendment rights.
Approximately 72 individuals were arrested on Apr. 26 and taken into custody while continuing protests on the Arizona State University campus.
Police officers cleared the Old Main lawn area overnight — those arrested included both students and faculty.
Judge John Tuchi ruled that the students did not provide sufficient evidence that their First Amendment rights had been violated.
He also ruled that there was insufficient evidence that the university’s suspension of students was causing “irreparable harm.” The trespassing charges at the heart of the lawsuit have yet to be brought to court.
Students and faculty have demanded the university drop any charges against the protesters with ongoing demonstrations since the arrests.
Another institution of higher learning in the state — the University of Arizona — is embroiled in its own struggle to suppress protesters occupying areas of the campus.
University president Robert C. Robbins said in a May 1 statement that he directed university officials, campus police, Tucson Police and the Pima County Sheriff’s Office to “immediately enforce campus use policies and all corresponding laws without further warning.”
State troopers were seen on campus with pepper ball guns and gas masks. Demonstrators were initially given a 10:30 p.m. deadline to leave or face arrest, although arrests did not begin until much later.
Biden Isn’t Joking, and Fetterman Wins a New Hashtag
When will Hollywood ever learn that the Midwest is not under its influence?
by Sarah Cowgill | May 5, 2024
President Joe Biden lit another dumpster fire by calling two allies “xenophobic,” and another Hollyweird actor alienated the entire Midwest by claiming he knew how heartlanders think politically. The use of force in voter identification had Americans saying, “how ironic.” And, love him or hate him, Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) is making more sense than ever.
Biden Vision Quest Dimly Lit
If the president isn’t making up stories about Corn Pop, Uncle Bosey and the dreaded New Guinea Cannibals, or his blue-collar stint as an over-the-road trucker, he’s busy hurling insults at random voters or world leaders. Biden doesn’t seem to read his audience very well before throwing one of his signature temper tantrums. Instead, as has become his custom, the president just lets something harmful fly without reflection and leaves his aides scrambling to clean up the mess. Unfortunately for him, his trusted staff is no better at delivering the necessary explanations.
On the very first day of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, at a fundraiser, Joe delivered these remarks: “Why is China stalling so badly economically? Why is Japan having trouble? Why is Russia? Why is India? Because they’re xenophobic. They don’t want immigrants.”
The fundraiser was hosted by Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and US Trade Representative Katherine Tai, among other notables. It took a widely inappropriate turn with Biden’s remarks; it was probably embarrassing to Duckworth and Tai, but it was also a tragic move for ally diplomacy.
The Japanese Embassy issued a mild rebuke:
“It is unfortunate that some of the comments were not based on an accurate understanding of Japan’s policies. We have raised this point to the US government and explained Japan’s positions and policies once again.”
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was handed the mop, but she only made it worse: “Look, he, I think he was – look, the president was very clear. I think that …” and her one-sentence rambling explanation was interrupted when a reporter stated: “He wasn’t very clear. That is why we are asking you.”
KJP tried to rally, bless her heart, with another version: “I’m explaining what he was talking about and how he was – what he was focusing on in those comments – country of immigrants, it makes us stronger, and it is important to be very clear about that. And the president’s always going to be really clear on speaking on issues that matter to the American people.”
“I’m surprised she didn’t blame Trump and then say no more questions, which is her usual response,” wrote Phil Paulson of Milwaukee. But perhaps Bernie Taylor was coming to her defense when he pointed out: “Listening to Biden is like trying to understand Ozzy [Osbourne] recite old McDonald had a farm.”
Tone Deaf Daniels
Another actor has come forward in the waning days of his career to irritate heartlanders and flyover folks with political commentary. In an appearance on a big box media cable show, Jeff Daniels claimed he knew how middle America felt about the upcoming 2024 presidential election.
“He’s a bad Willy Loman. It’s the fraud. It’s the emperor has clothes, we get that. I’m not talking about the people on the right, MAGA, they’re going to go. People on the left are there, but it’s the people in the middle, in the middle of the country, not the Hollywood liberals. It’s the Midwestern independents who are sitting there listening.”
“I know this is costing him where I live in Michigan. This is costing him votes,” Daniels added. “I know Republicans who went with Trump to get their tax cuts and then maybe it’s DeSantis, and then it was Nikki Haley, and now they’re throwing up their hands. What everybody wants is decency. They want respect again.”
Mike Patrick, of Fulton, MO, gave him a nod, saying: “He should know about Midwesterners. On his flights between the east coast and west coast, he flies over them all the time.”
In Monroe, NC, John Simpson could not resist: “Dang, and all this time I just thought he was playing a part in Dumb & Dumber…never would’ve thought he was just being himself!” Daniels was once asked how he played the part of Harry Dunne in the cult classic, and he replied: “Don’t act dumb. Be dumb.” Daniels continued, “I determined that he had an IQ of 8.” It seems some Midwesterners likely now believe that’s true.
Wesley Bond in Davison, MI, gave a serious retort: “Wrong, we are sick of the current administration’s anti-American policies, open borders, and support for ‘woke.’” But Nick Karavalos in Champaign, IL, brought us back: “That is the most tone-deaf statement in the history of stuuuupid statements.”
“Can’t Find a Betterman”
On Thursday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill banning lab-grown meat in the Sunshine State. The governor released a statement saying Florida is: “fighting back against the global elite’s plan to force the world to eat meat grown in a petri dish or bugs to achieve their authoritarian goals. Our administration will continue to focus on investing in our local farmers and ranchers, and we will save our beef.”
As global elite Bill Gates put it, “I do think all rich countries should move to 100% synthetic beef. You can get used to the taste difference, and the claim is they’re going to make it taste even better over time. Eventually, that green premium is modest enough that you can sort of change the [behavior of] people or use regulation to totally shift the demand.”
Oh, Hell no. That’s just creepy – and Sen. John Fetterman agrees. “Pains me deeply to agree with Crash-and-Burn Ron, but I co-sign this,” he posted on X. “As a member of @SenateAgDems and as some dude who would never serve that slop to my kids, I stand with our American ranchers and farmers.”
A few flyover folks advised the man to get a bodyguard. In Gray, TN, Ron Wise was concerned: “I see a Russian collusion charge in his future.” Another conservative, Ron Thompsen of Crescent City, IL, applauded the man, saying: “When he was running for office, there was almost nobody that thought he would do well, and I was one of them being from the other side of the aisle. Since he has been serving in the Senate, he is standing up for the citizens, not only from PA but for the common people of the USA.” He went even further: “Thanks, Senator Fetterman.”
“He just keeps getting better and better,” mused Debbie Ritz Stricker in Queen Creek, AZ, “he has more brains than the whole D party.”
And just like that, a new hashtag was created: #Betterman.
“Stinkin’ Badges”
Former UK Prime Minister Boris ‘BoJo’ Johnson learned firsthand that some of his enacted policies are working quite well for the constituency. He was turned away at a polling station on Thursday, May 2, because he did not have acceptable photo identification and fell short of the rules his government instituted just two years past.
In Cedar Rapids, IA, Dustin Smith had a dream: “Good. The rules are being enforced. Not like in the USA where it seems to be rules for thee but not for me.”
https://www.libertynation.com/biden-isnt-joking-and-fetterman-wins-a-new-hashtag/
Manchin Gets Rolled Again With New Permitting Streamlining Measures
Gee, anyone else not surprised?...........al
David Blackmon
May 05, 2024
In case you missed it, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) rolled out measures designed to streamline permitting for energy projects last week. You might think that would make Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) happy given that he surrendered every bit of political leverage he formerly possessed in August, 2022 to become the deciding vote to pass the Orwellian Inflation Reduction Act based on the promise from Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi they would help him pass a bill to speed up such permitting.
But the folks at the Institute for Energy Research (IER) describe Manchin as being “livid” about the new permitting rules. Why? Oh, you know what’s coming, don’t you? Of course you do.
The reason for Manchin’s latest fit of pique is simple: CEQ’s new rules will apply only to energy projects helping the Democrat party’s rent-seeking client industries - wind, solar, and stationary batteries.
Here’s an excerpt from IER’s excellent analysis on the matter:
The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) finalized a rule changing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to streamline permitting for infrastructure for renewable energy and transmission projects. NEPA, a 1969 law that requires environmental reviews for major projects, is a frequent focus of litigation that can delay construction for years. According to Biden’s CEQ, the Bipartisan Permitting Reform Implementation Rule will facilitate agencies moving faster on permits for infrastructure that can help the environment, thus ruling out fossil fuel projects which supply about 80 percent of the nation’s total energy. The rule sets deadlines and page limits for environmental reviews and establishes one lead agency to handle such reviews.
As part of the rule’s review process, climate impacts have to be considered as well as environmental justice — the movement to assist disadvantaged areas — and outreach to those places must be conducted. Biden’s regulation also reverses parts of the 2020 NEPA rule changes, implemented by the Trump administration, that opponents argued made it more difficult for communities to engage in the environmental review process and “attempted to curtail judicial review” of permitting decisions.
Past attempts to provide streamlining of NEPA have been met with outrage and hyperbole from environmental groups, including groups accusing legislative initiatives of “gutting” NEPA and “dismantling” the Act. Apparently because the CEQ changes support the politically correct renewable energy for which these groups advocate, as well as the new transmission these sources require, the groups have not waged their normal campaigns against the reforms.
According to the CEQ, the new rule “fully implements” new permitting efficiencies the administration and Congress agreed to last summer when Congress passed the Fiscal Responsibility Act to raise the federal debt ceiling, including “setting clear deadlines for agencies to complete environmental reviews, requiring a lead agency and setting specific expectations for lead and cooperating agencies, and creating a unified and coordinated federal review process.”
According to some members of Congress, however, the final rule reneges on the debt ceiling deal, and they believe that it will extend—not reduce—the time it takes to get traditional energy infrastructure projects, like oil and gas pipelines, built. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, in particular, said the White House “disregarded” the deal, “corrupting it with their own radical agenda.” He vowed to lead a Congressional Review Act resolution of disapproval “to get back to the deal that they cut with Congress and signed into law.” According to Republican state attorneys general, it constitutes “a dramatic example of federal and administrative overreach.”
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So, once again, Joe Manchin, having surrendered every bit of political leverage he once possessed in a deal with the Devil (Schumer and Pelosi) finds himself getting rolled by the people to whom he surrendered.
Seriously: Is there anyone other than Manchin who didn’t see this all coming once he had given the Devil what he was after?
That is all.
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/manchin-gets-rolled-again-with-new?publication_id=712558&post_id=144328864&isFreemail=false&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
Thanks Bull. Somehow I'm not surprised!
He's extremely bright!
" Good Morning ~ I like Darren Beattie (hair) & all " ...
A thought-provoking discussion between Vivek and Darren Beattie (Revolver) of the complications and difficulties in "America First" implementation:
https://revolver.news/2024/05/beattie-vivek-ramaswamy-dive-deep-into-the-philosophical-core-of-americas-left-wing-rot/
Click the video at the link for a deep hour.
Congrats to Mystik Dan. Holy cow. What a finish.
Thanks for starting the day on a high note, Larry.
Good Morning.
Kentucky Derby: Mystik Dan wins in three-horse photo finish, >
outruns favorite Fierceness in stunning upset ..
The 150th Kentucky Derby produced yet another
magnificent two-minute spectacle.
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/kentucky-derby-mystik-dan-wins-in-three-horse-photo-finish-outruns-favorite-fierceness-in-stunning-upset-230800383.html
Disgraced Former CNN Anchor Chris Cuomo, Who Advocated for the COVID Vaccine, Publicly Admits for the First Time to Suffering from a COVID Vaccine Injury (VIDEO)
by Jim H?ft May. 4, 2024 1:40 pm
Disgraced former CNN anchor and vaccine pusher Chris Cuomo disclosed for the first time that he has been suffering from side effects he attributes to the COVID-19 vaccine.
This admission came during an in-depth interview with nurse practitioner Sean Barcavage, who was also featured in a New York Times article discussing similar vaccine-related injuries.
Barcavage shared his alarming experience with vaccine side effects that began just minutes after receiving his first dose in 2020. Symptoms included heart palpitations upon standing, numbness, and persistent tingling that quickly spread from his arm to his face and eyes, which got worse after his second dose.
“We know that vaccines can have unintended consequences, a.k.a. side effects… But nobody’s really talking about it because they’re too afraid of blame, and they just want it to go away,” Cuomo said.
“But the problem is people like Sean and me and millions of others who still have weird stuff with their bloodwork and their lives and their feelings physically are not going away,” Cuomo added.
“As soon as I was injured—15, 20 minutes into my first dose—I experienced numbness and tingling up and down my injected arm, which spread over the day to my face and my eyes. I consulted a neurologist who ran some tests and remarked, ‘Well, this is all new. We don’t know much about it, but the hospital is going to mandate it. You should get a second dose.’ Everything in my medical mind and in my bones was telling me, ‘No, if you have a reaction to something, don’t do it again,'” Barcavage said.
“However, the pressure was immense. Then, three weeks later, I received a second dose, and after that, everything blew up. I went from being a healthy, 100% healthy, fully functioning nurse to a complete downward spiral of health. I developed a myriad of symptoms,” he added.
Barcavage expressed his disappointment with the lack of support from various health agencies and from vaccine manufacturers.
“I thought there would be people ready to help me after my injury,” he explained. “I reached out to political representatives, the NIH, the CDC, the FDA, but I received no answers. No one wanted to touch it.”
With medical professionals in the U.S. offering no assistance, Barcavage took his quest international, sending blood samples to Germany, where he found scientists willing to aid his investigation.
“I sent blood samples to Germany and connected with German scientists who were more willing to help than those in my own country. The tests showed I had developed several autoantibodies, some of which scientists believe are related to this positional tachycardia you mentioned, where my heart rate spikes every time I stand up.”
“My autoantibodies resemble those seen in people with long COVID, although I never contracted the virus. This was confirmed through immunological studies of my blood. They found no viral antibodies,” Barcavage said.
Barcavage expressed his expectation of support from his pro-vaccine colleagues, who he believed would assist him in his time of need. Instead, he encountered a starkly different reality.
“I thought my pro-vaccine colleagues who championed me would lift me up and help me. Instead, they turned around, dismissed, denied, and tried to censor and bury me,” Barcavage said.
His situation, he argues, is exacerbated by the political implications of vaccine side effects. “They’re afraid that by showing my face, I’ll drive vaccine hesitancy. But what they don’t realize, and what I have come to realize, is that the censorship and concealment are actually fueling vaccine hesitancy,” he added.
Barcavage critiqued the Biden regime’s handling of vaccine reactions, suggesting that a more transparent approach acknowledging the novel nature of vaccines and setting up dedicated support programs could have fostered public trust.
“If the government had just said, ‘Hey, these are novel vaccines. There will be reactions. Let’s set up a program to handle them, establish a fund, and oblige the manufacturers to provide help or research,’ I think the citizens would have appreciated that.”
Barcavage, along with many Americans, experienced censorship on major social platforms, where his posts were often tagged as misinformation. “When I tried to reach out online, platforms like Facebook and Instagram would tag my messages as misinformation. Yes, that’s right. I’m just a desperate person to whom something bad happened, and I’m reaching out and pleading for help,” he said.
Cuomo, who was part of the censorship regime, admitted to Barcavage that he also suffering from side effects he attributes to the COVID-19 vaccine.
“Sean, I can’t help you because I’m no clinician. I’m sick myself. But I’m working with people who are working on this, so I’ll make sure that we’re in touch right after the show, and I’ll help any way I can. You may be ahead of me. I’ll connect you with my clinicians, and maybe you can share different protocols and things that may help. But I will never stop reporting on this. All I’m doing is just beating the drum for a 9/11-style commission to figure out what worked and what didn’t and what questions need to be answered because it’s not over,” Cuomo said.
WATCH:
Must Watch: Chris Cuomo interviews Nurse Practitioner, Sean Barcavage, who was featured in the NYT article today about vaccine injuries.
During the interview Cuomo offers to share his doctors’ info with him since he is also suffering from a vaccine injury as well. pic.twitter.com/xOeble3Y3I
— TeasLindsay™ (@TexasLindsay_) May 4, 2024
The irony and karma here are incredible. The New York Times and Chris Cuomo, who finds himself among those affected, are now acknowledging and reporting issues many have voiced concerns about for the past three years.
It can be recalled Chris Cuomo mocked and insulted anyone who refused to take the experimental vaccine.
In 2021, Chris Cuomo and Republican Texas state Rep. Michael Burgess engaged in a heated debate over the COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy that is prevalent among some members of the GOP and conservative media.
“You’re OK with this kind of jackassery that has absolutely led to a deficiency among Republican people in this country taking the vaccine, and now they’re getting sick? And now we’re seeing what we see at the hospitals. And now the age is reducing and the variant is spreading. You’re OK with this?” Cuomo asked.
“The people showing up at the hospital who are very sick are, almost without exception, unvaccinated. The people who are dying, 99 percent, are unvaccinated. You have people who are connected to your political party that you are not speaking out against who are telling people not to take it. You’re OK with that?” he added.
Burgess responded, “Don’t listen to people on political talking shows. That’s not where you should get your medical information.” When Cuomo queried about the stance of GOP members of Congress who discourage vaccination, Burgess firmly stated, “I’m telling you to take it, so buy that. What about people who say otherwise? Well, they’re wrong. Take the vaccine if you’re in the age group where you could be devastated by the illness.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/disgraced-ex-cnn-anchor-chris-cuomo-who-pushes/
Bee or not, thanks for this. We need some real R's. Not these turtle like creatures!
START THE COURT MARTIAL PROCEEDINGS: DC National Guard Whistleblower Alleges Trump’s Commander-in-Chief Powers Were Revoked by Military Brass During January 6 Capitol Riot
by Jim Hoft May. 4, 2024 8:00 am
in April the House Subcommittee on Oversight held a hearing with National Guard whistleblowers who stepped forward to correct the media lies and dishonest narrative by Democrats on the January 6 protests and riots.
Four members of the National Guard testified that they were ready to be deployed on January 6 but THE PENTAGON held them back!
This directly brings General Milley’s actions into question!
Kash Patel tipped us off last month that there were more reports like this coming.
National Guard whistleblowers: Command Sgt. Major Michael E. Brooks, Colonel Earl G. Matthews, Aaron Dean Retired, and Captain Timothy Nick stepped forward and testified before Congress to correct the record on January 6.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser were both warned about the security situation prior to January 6th, and both turned down National Guard troops at the US Capitol that day.
Pelosi and Mayor Muriel Bowser turned down thousands of National Guard troops at the Capitol on January 6 for political reasons.
Chris Wray’s FBI also refused to notify the Trump administration and his cabinet secretaries that they believed there could be violence like the mass protests at the Capitol that took place that day.
Nancy Pelosi also refused the National Guard at the US Capitol due to politics.
Capitol Police Chief Steve Sund said he asked House and Senate security officials for permission to request that the D.C. National Guard be placed on standby in case he needed quick backup. But they both turned him down.
John Solomon from Just The News released an explosive report in 2022 that revealed Capitol Police were first warned about possible violence at the January 6th protests TWO WEEKS before the planned rallies.
Pelosi, Mayor Bowser, and other government officials turned down the National Guard anyway. It is clear they were counting on an “insurrection” to blame on President Trump when they were the ones who allowed the violence to occur and continue that day!
But now there is more disturbing news on the military leadership on January 6th.
Colonel Earl Matthews testifies before Congress that Nancy Pelosi and Military Brass refused to send in National Guard troops on January 6. This was after President Trump called for National Guard backup that day.
According to Colonel Earl Matthews, who testified before Congress in April, US military leaders revoked President Trump’s Commander-in-Chief powers that day and refused to move in the National Guard – because it might look bad.
These military leaders should have been arrested and court martialed.
The Daily Mail reported:
Donald Trump’s authority as commander-in-chief was ignored by senior military leadership on January 6, 2021, claims the chief legal advisor for D.C. National Guard on that day.
Colonel Earl Matthews came forward as a whistleblower to the House subcommittee reviewing the January 6 Select Committee’s investigation.
He sat down with DailyMail.com two weeks after the public hearing to explain what he saw happen that day.
He claims that Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time, and then-Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy, were plotting to disobey any orders handed down by Trump because they ‘unreasonably’ assumed the then-president was going to break the law and try to use the D.C. National Guard (DCNG) to stop certification of the 2020 presidential election results.
A lot has been made about the breakdown in military and administration communication when it came to the timeline of deploying DCNG to the Capitol.
But Matthews claims senior military leadership was solely focused on getting the heat off of them and putting it back onto Trump.
The Select Committee on the January 6 Attack, Matthews claims, was more than happy to lean into this narrative and blame the entire ordeal on the then-president.
But Matthews says that senior military leadership essentially stripped the president of his authority as commander-in-chief by preemptively planning to go against orders because they didn’t like the optics of uniformed soldiers at the Capitol.
‘I think a very plausible argument can be made that through no fault of his own, President Trump’s command authority over both the D.C. National Guard and the U.S. Army itself had been surreptitiously curtailed by the senior leadership of the Army on January 6, 2021,’ Matthews told DailyMail.com.
He continued: ‘Army leadership had unreasonably anticipated an ‘unlawful order’ from the President, an order that the President had no plans to issue, and were preemptively seeking to curtail his discretion to issue such an order.’
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/start-court-martial-proceedings-dc-national-guard-whistleblower/
I have an update on the concert I offered to the frat boys at UNC! VOLUME UP! #FlagStock pic.twitter.com/Qr7dbKVbrb
— John Rich🇺🇸 (@johnrich) May 2, 2024
Good morning, I think its going to big,,, Not sure but i think more bands are reaching out
to John to be part of it.... Gotta tip your hat to Jogn Rich, he does unbelievable amount of
charity work ,, enjoy the day, back to cool weather weeding
" I saw Rich being interviewed when He announced that " .. !! >>
Good Morning, Iggy " .. !!
Mornin' K². Yeah, it was nice while it lasted and today is going to be showery. Still no snow or cold weather in the forecast.
I debated whether or nor to mow the front yard yesterday is it was getting quite tall. I'm glad I convinced myself that I'd thank myself for doing it. The wife finally convinced me to put away the snow shovels and hook up the hoses. We'll see what happens.
Biden to Let 100,000 Migrants Enroll in Obamacare
https://www.newsmax.com/finance/streettalk/health-care-insurance-migrants/2024/05/03/id/1163349/
Friday, 03 May 2024 06:29 AM EDT
Roughly 100,000 immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children are expected to enroll in the Affordable Care Act's health insurance next year under a new directive the Biden administration released Friday.
The move took longer than promised to finalize and fell short of Democratic President Joe Biden's initial proposal to allow those migrants to sign up for Medicaid, the health insurance program that provides nearly free coverage for the nation's poorest people.
But it will allow thousands of migrants to access lucrative tax breaks when they sign up for coverage after the Affordable Care Act's marketplace enrollment opens Nov. 1, just days ahead of the presidential election.
While it may help Biden boost his appeal at a crucial time among Latinos, a crucial voting bloc that Biden needs to turn out to win the election, the move is certain to prompt more criticism among conservatives about the president's border and migrant policies.
The action opens up the marketplace to any participant in the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, many of whom are Latino.
Xavier Becerra, the nation's top health official, said Thursday that many of those migrants have delayed getting care because they have not had coverage.
“They incur higher costs and debts when they do finally receive care," Becerra told reporters on a call. "Making Dreamers eligible to enroll in coverage will improve their health and well-being and strengthen the health and well-being of our nation and our economy.”
The administration's action changes the definition of “lawfully present” so DACA participants can legally enroll in the marketplace exchange.
Then-President Barack Obama launched the DACA initiative to shield from deportation immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally by their parents as children and to allow them to work legally in the country. However, the immigrants, also known as “Dreamers,” were still ineligible for government-subsidized health insurance programs because they did not meet the definition of having a “lawful presence” in the U.S.
The administration decided not to expand eligibility for Medicaid for those migrants after receiving more than 20,000 comments on the proposal, senior officials said Thursday. Those officials declined to explain why the rule, which was first proposed last April, took so long to finalize. The delay meant the migrants were unable to enroll in the marketplace for coverage this year.
More than 800,000 of the migrants will be eligible to enroll in marketplace coverage but the administration predicts only 100,000 will actually sign up because some may get coverage through their workplace or other ways. Some may also be unable to afford coverage through the marketplace.
Other classes of immigrants, including asylum seekers and people with temporary protected status, are already eligible to purchase insurance through the marketplaces of the ACA, Obama’s 2010 health care law, often called “Obamacare.”
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