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Washington Official Explodes When Board Member Opposes Sex Offender Joining Group

Esteemed medical journal calls for segregated med school.

We live in the age of stupid transmogrifying into the age of the absurd.

Biden’s ‘Gender-Fluid’ Ex-Nuclear Waste Chief Arrested for ANOTHER Theft of Women’s Luggage

Just so we’re clear – New York has “No Plan B” for the power plants they’re shutting down

“…As part of last week’s budget deal, Gov. Kathy Hochul and the Legislature ordered the New York Power Authority to shut down all its fossil-fuel plants in just seven years — even though gas-fired plants supply nearly half the state’s electricity.

At the same time, they banned gas (for stoves and heating) in all new buildings by 2029, forcing them to be all-electric.

And by 2035, the only new cars sold here must also be purely electric…”

These measures will likely cause significant disruption to the lives of millions of people that live in the area. But don’t worry, these Democrats are going to save the planet from global warming. So they are doing this for all of us. Absolute stupidity.

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This is about elite virtue signaling and power over the great underclass. The importation of large numbers of underclass people more accepting of elite dictates than Americans is another story. The Democrat elite and some Republicans view themselves as above the rest of the country and they intend to impose their will on us because they are smarter and know better. Exceptions will be made for preferred pets. Here is an example of a perfect elite liberal pet:

Celebrity chef Jose Andres exempted from Palo Alto gas stove ban

The Immunity Option: How Congress Could Have the Final Say on the Russian Collusion Scandal

“…For those interested in the truth about the Russian collusion investigation, the Durham Report has hundreds of pages of details of the alliance of political, government and media figures behind arguably the greatest hoax in U.S. history. The only thing it does not have is an actual indictment or true accountability for the critical players in an effort to derail an American presidency. Indeed, some witnesses associated with the Clinton campaign appear to have refused to cooperate with the investigation. Congress could change that.

Buried in the detailed account is a little noticed footnote stating that Clinton General Counsel Marc Elias “declined to be voluntarily interviewed by the Office.” Likewise, Durham noted that “no one at Fusion GPS … would agree to voluntarily speak with the Office” while both the DNC and Clinton campaign invoked privileges to refuse to answer certain questions.

It is not clear whether Durham was able to get a full account from these sources, but he was still able to establish the details on how this unprecedented political hit job succeeded despite a lack of evidence. In the course of that account, Durham demolished the prior claims of Democratic members like Adam Schiff and many in the media. Durham concludes that the investigation should never have been launched and that the whole effort was based on “raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated” information.

It turns out that the “pee-tape” was the creation of a Clinton operative without any factual basis despite years of the media (and former FBI Director James Comey) referencing the false salacious claim.

It turns out that Trump was correct that the FBI did spy on his campaign despite years of mocking denials in the media.

Indeed, Trump was right that this was a manufactured hoax engineered by the Clinton campaign, weaponized by the FBI, and then promulgated by the media.

As expected, the media has imposed another virtual blackout on coverage of the report other than to deny that there is anything new for the public to see. For those of us concerned about the rise of a type of state media in the United States, the report and its coverage has only magnified those concerns…”

John Fetterman speaks at a press conference on the debt ceiling negotiations. pic.twitter.com/yiXDkFQtMY

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) May 18, 2023

 

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— Dr. PMS (@2timeguy) May 18, 2023

Guns? We need to control Democrats

Statement of GORSUCH, J.

“…Since March 2020, we may have experienced the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country. Executive officials across the country issued emergency decrees on a breathtaking scale. Governors and local leaders imposed lockdown orders forcing people to remain in their homes. They shuttered businesses and schools, public and private. They closed churches even as they allowed casinos and other favored businesses to carry on. They threatened violators not just with civil penalties but with criminal sanctions too.

They surveilled church parking lots, recorded license plates, and issued notices warning that attendance at even outdoor services satisfying all state social-distancing and hygiene requirements could amount to criminal conduct. They divided cities and neighborhoods into color-coded zones, forced individuals to fight for their freedoms in court on emergency timetables, and then changed their color-coded schemes when defeat in court seemed imminent.

Federal executive officials entered the act too. Not just with emergency immigration decrees. They deployed a public-health agency to regulate landlord-tenant relations nationwide. They used a workplace-safety agency to issue a vaccination mandate for most working Americans. They threatened to fire noncompliant employees, and warned that service members who refused to vaccinate might face dishonorable discharge and confinement. Along the way, it seems federal officials may have pressured social-media companies to suppress information about pandemic policies with which they disagreed.

While executive officials issued new emergency decrees at a furious pace, state legislatures and Congress—the bodies normally responsible for adopting our laws—too often fell silent. Courts bound to protect our liberties addressed a few—but hardly all—of the intrusions upon them. In some cases, like this one, courts even allowed themselves to be used to perpetuate emergency public-health decrees for collateral purposes, itself a form of emergency-lawmaking-by-litigation.

Doubtless, many lessons can be learned from this chapter in our history, and hopefully serious efforts will be made to study it. One lesson might be this: Fear and the desire for safety are powerful forces. They can lead to a clamor for action—almost any action—as long as someone does something to address a perceived threat. A leader or an expert who claims he can fix everything, if only we do exactly as he says, can prove an irresistible force.

We do not need to confront a bayonet, we need only a nudge, before we willingly abandon the nicety of requiring laws to be adopted by our legislative representatives and accept rule by decree. Along the way, we will accede to the loss of many cherished civil liberties—the right to worship freely, to debate public policy without censorship, to gather with friends and family, or simply to leave our homes. We may even cheer on those who ask us to disregard our normal lawmaking processes and forfeit our personal freedoms. Of course, this is no new story. Even the ancients warned that democracies can degenerate toward autocracy in the face of fear [citing Aristotle’s Politics].

But maybe we have learned another lesson too. The concentration of power in the hands of so few may be efficient and sometimes popular. But it does not tend toward sound government. However wise one person or his advisors may be, that is no substitute for the wisdom of the whole of the American people that can be tapped in the legislative process.

Decisions produced by those who indulge no criticism are rarely as good as those produced after robust and uncensored debate. Decisions announced on the fly are rarely as wise as those that come after careful deliberation. Decisions made by a few often yield unintended consequences that may be avoided when more are consulted. Autocracies have always suffered these defects. Maybe, hopefully, we have relearned these lessons too.

In the 1970s, Congress studied the use of emergency decrees. It observed that they can allow executive authorities to tap into extraordinary powers. Congress also observed that emergency decrees have a habit of long outliving the crises that generate them; some federal emergency proclamations, Congress noted, had remained in effect for years or decades after the emergency in question had passed.

At the same time, Congress recognized that quick unilateral executive action is sometimes necessary and permitted in our constitutional order. In an effort to balance these considerations and ensure a more normal operation of our laws and a firmer protection of our liberties, Congress adopted a number of new guardrails in the National Emergencies Act.

Despite that law, the number of declared emergencies has only grown in the ensuing years. And it is hard not to wonder whether, after nearly a half century and in light of our Nation’s recent experience, another look is warranted. It is hard not to wonder, too, whether state legislatures might profitably reexamine the proper scope of emergency executive powers at the state level.

At the very least, one can hope that the Judiciary will not soon again allow itself to be part of the problem by permitting litigants to manipulate our docket to perpetuate a decree designed for one emergency to address another. Make no mistake—decisive executive action is sometimes necessary and appropriate. But if emergency decrees promise to solve some problems, they threaten to generate others. And rule by indefinite emergency edict risks leaving all of us with a shell of a democracy and civil liberties just as hollow…”

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— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) May 18, 2023

Stormy Times as Democrats Use FBI in Defense of Their Power

John F. Kennedy, January 20, 1961

“Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”

Cori Bush, May 17, 2023

Cori Bush demands $14 Trillion in Reparations

RFK JR.’S LONG LEGACY OF SUPPORTING CENSORSHIP

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— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) May 17, 2023

If you burn a church in this country, the police won’t devote any resources to catching you.

If you hand out bibles on the sidewalk however — or hold a rally to defend fundamental rights in a time of hysteria — you will be arrested and fined immediately. We’re a sick society. https://t.co/Z0MbLomXkN

— Maxime Bernier (@MaximeBernier) May 17, 2023

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In this issue as in several others, the Democrat policies and positions are extreme and counter to common sense and practical solutions.

 

NJ Gov. Murphy: We’ll Defy SCOTUS ‘to Save Lives’ if They Rule Against Abortion Pill

The Democrat cult of the killing of the unborn. Killing unborn children is more important than any other thing to these people. Kill the children!

Democrats Beware: Victory Would Endow Trump With a Strength Only Adversity Can Create

“…The appearance of Donald Trump on CNN on Thursday, May 11, was a turning point of modern American political history. The dream-world of dirty tricks and self-delusion in which the Democrats and other Trump-haters prevalent in the national political media and in the putrefying corpse of the Bush-McCain-Romney-McConnell Republicans, was blown up and sunk like the outer ships on Battleship Row at Pearl Harbor on the Day of Infamy. The questioner, Kaitlan Collins, elegant, articulate, and argumentative, with impeccable anti-Trump credentials going back to rude dust-ups at Trump presidential press conferences, was rolled over by her guest as if by an Abrams tank liberating the Donbas.

Peggy Noonan, who had already been writing about Trump as if her hair were on fire, almost gave up in the Wall Street Journal on Saturday, May 13. She and other fully paid-up industrial league Trump-haters could acknowledge his talents as a comedic performer and his ability to be the evocator and the voice of a vast swath of the American lower middle and working classes who felt left out of the last generation of American material progress, and practically unrepresented in the White House since Ronald Reagan. But she and others, cowering in fear of Trump’s forensic and histrionic talents, are effectively advocating a boycott of him.

“Once again, (CNN) has made Trump real.” She reproached the network for giving him ”this solo boost, to reenact so showily all the careful respect they showed them in 2016,” (which CNN never did), and complained that “He was addressed as Mr. President,” even “after January 6.” Every president, past and present, receives and deserves that courtesy, but this reveals the Trump-hate theory that he is the Elephant Man of presidents, always to be tormented, spuriously investigated and falsely charged, because of his indifferent manners. American politics is not a social cotillion and presidents are not chosen by typecasting studios. She objected that the New Hampshire audience “wasn’t Gov. Sununu’s broad GOP.” I suspect that many people are tired of hearing from Sununu, who trails Trump by 30 points in presidential polls in his own state, pronounce that Trump can’t win.

Peggy Noonan also made the point that Trump “lied… over and over. It’s what he does. Dogs bark, bears relieve themselves in the woods.” In fact, he rarely lies; he does engage in what he himself calls “constructive hyperbole.” This is New York real estate developer-tycoon exaggeration. In Trump’s first big deal he raised up a sheaf of papers and told a press conference “I have a signed agreement” to redevelop the Commodore Hotel. He did; he just didn’t tell them that it been signed by him alone at that point. Four critical facts are left out of this and other anti-Trump critiques of what was conceded to have been a triumph for him that reestablishes him as the most likely next president.  (Even the Democrats seem to concede  that more phony indictments will just backfire like the Stormy Daniels nonsense.)

Trump’s oft-repeated complaint about the 2020 election has not “been probed and adjudicated,” (Noonan). The real issue is the tens of millions of unverifiable harvested ballots. No one really knows who filled them out and who cast them and an improbably heavy majority of Biden votes arrived in drop boxes after the polls officially closed. Rudy Giuliani’s trick-or-treat operation unfortunately gave Trump’s opponents the ability to claim that his grievances had been judged in court. The courts at every level refused to hear and judge the merits of all 19 lawsuits taken to challenge the constitutionality of the voting and vote-counting changes adopted in the swing states supposedly to facilitate voting during Covid. To some extent Trump has himself to blame for not challenging these changes in the states as they were made. But it remains a legitimate complaint and the Noonan view of it propagated with locked arms and sealed ears by the entire media is, in Napoleon’s phrase “lies agreed upon.”

That was why he called for a large gathering of his supporters in Washington on January 6, 2021. The ship had already sailed as the courts don’t alter the apparent result of a presidential election, just as, until now ex-presidents were not indicted. He called for peaceful demonstrations and there seems little doubt that he had cautioned Speaker Pelosi and the mayor of Washington that hooligans could be present masquerading as his supporters and that he would provide National Guard reinforcement if asked. He was not asked. FBI director Wray has confirmed the absence of any connection between the trespassers and vandals and the Trump campaign. These are the relevant facts. Trump does have an authentic complaint about 2020 and no frequency of denials will erase it, even with scatological references to bears (or the comparable activities of the homeless masses in Democrat-governed American cities).

The Trump-haters also fail to recognize that the principal offenders in matters of political ethics are those who gave us the Steele Dossier and presented it as the authentic findings of the intelligence agencies, and the high officials who signed false affidavits seeking illegal F.I.S.A. telephone intercepts of the Trump campaign and transition office; those who lied under oath, and unlawfully removed and leaked confidential information while conducting an improper investigation of an incumbent president. Former FBI director James Comey said 245 times of these matters only a few months after they occurred that he did not recall them. Trump’s enemies fabricated a Russian collusion story that they knew to be false. And they frivolously impeached him twice, the first time over an expression of curiosity about the Bidens’ financial activities in Ukraine which we now know to have been justified. Nothing that Trump has done or said remotely approaches in its evil implications the enthusiastic Democratic recourse to the false criminalization of politics and corruption of non-political government agencies.

The Trump-haters also duck their responsibility for inflicting this horrifyingly incompetent administration on America and the world. Trump effectively ended oil imports, unemployment, and illegal migration, with minimal inflation. Now, Illegal crossings of the southern border have risen to 10,000 day. The antlike movements of China all over the world show how quickly American weakness is exploited. The administration deserves credit for supporting Ukraine and insisting that it will defend Taiwan if necessary, but the Afghanistan debacle emboldened China and has shaken the Western Alliance. High inflation, skyrocketing urban crime, and the green terror in pursuit of John Kerry’s infantilistic vision of America as a rainforest punctuated by windmills are all disasters. The Trump-haters never stopped for a moment to consider how much better off America would be if Trump’s reelection had not been stolen. And none of them seems to have the least self-consciousness about the fervor with which they sold Biden as an “adult in the room with a steady pair of hands.” The scale of that misrepresentation requires no elaboration.

The last great failing of the Trump-hate perspective is that it fails to recognize how much stronger a candidate Trump now is. No seeker of that office has been more beset by such a campaign profoundly illegal harassment and obstruction, and, unlike his earlier practice, he rarely says  or puts out anything his enemies can sink their teeth into–those berating CNN for giving him their shrunken audience are really not complaining about the exposure, but that he made such good use of it. If he returns as president, he will do so with the strength that adversity alone can give. His opponents are not his peers…”