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King Charles just unveiled the first official portrait of himself since the coronation.
What the bloody hell is this? pic.twitter.com/nD2qKhDq22
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 14, 2024
Obama set the mark for cockamamie art as a fashion statement for the liberal elite.
More evidence that Democrats are clueless jerks. Skin color as determinative factor in emergency services:
Massachusetts politicians are pushing a bill to create a special alert for missing black women and kids: Ebony Alert.
Rep. Bud Williams (D) says the Ebony Alert is needed because the missing white girls with "blonde hair, blue eyes" get more attention.
California recently… pic.twitter.com/vL82LSNLef
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 15, 2024
Also, Democrats are just simply stupid. Stupid.
NEW:
Senator Warren, Senator Markey and Rep. Ayanna Pressley are calling for a federal investigation into ShotSpotter, gunshot detection technology used in Boston.
They believe the system is racist because sensors are installed more in non-white neighborhoods.
The reason for… pic.twitter.com/JpClBSDoX4
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 15, 2024
Democrats.
That’s who they are.
Vote for Democrats and this is what you get.
“…The Navy is struggling to meet some of its operational requirements in part because it simply doesn’t have all the ships it expected. The current threat to navigation in the Red Sea is precisely the scenario for which the Navy invested so much time and resources building the Littoral Combat Ships. The LCS program was sold to the American people as a “networked, agile, stealthy surface combatant capable of defeating anti-access and asymmetric threats in the littorals.”
The Houthi rebels launching missiles and drones from shore and hijacking commercial shipping in the confined waters of the Red Sea meets the textbook definition of an asymmetric threat in a littoral region. Yet the “little crappy ships,” as they have come to be known, are nowhere to be seen inside the Red Sea. Rather, the Navy has to keep a carrier strike group composed of Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruisers and Arleigh Burke-class destroyers on station longer than anticipated in an attempt to keep an important maritime choke point open.
The Littoral Combat Ship is one of two major shipbuilding failures from the past 20 years. The other is the Zumwalt-class destroyer. Both programs began in earnest in the years after 9/11 and almost immediately ran into trouble. The Zumwalt program saw massive cost growth which forced Navy leaders to slash the planned fleet size from the originally planned 32 to 7 and finally to the three which were actually built. These three ships cost nearly $8 billion each while failing to deliver promised combat capabilities.
The Littoral Combat Ship program cost $28 billion to build a fleet of 35 ships. According to the Government Accountability Office, the Navy expects to pay more than $60 billion to operate the fleet for its expected 25-year lifespan. Like the Zumwalt, the LCS program’s combat functionality is far less than expected. The ships were designed to be modular with crews swapping out mission systems in port for different missions. Engineers could never get the mission modules to work properly, so the scheme was abandoned.
The LCS program does excel in spectacular breakdowns. The USS Milwaukee famously broke down shortly after it had been commissioned and had to be towed into a Virginia port while its crew attempted to sail the ship to its intended San Diego home for the first time. Other ships suffered from saltwater corrosion, cracked hulls, and broken-down water jets. The Freedom-class variant LCS had trouble with the combining gear linking its diesel engine with the ship’s turbines. The problems grew so bad that Navy leaders essentially threw up their hands and began retiring ships decades before they should have smelled mothballs. The Navy decommissioned the USS Sioux City after a single deployment and less than five years after the ship entered service…”
“…Fake studies have flooded the publishers of top scientific journals, leading to thousands of retractions and millions of dollars in lost revenue. The biggest hit has come to Wiley, a 217-year-old publisher based in Hoboken, N.J., which Tuesday will announce that it is closing 19 journals, some of which were infected by large-scale research fraud.
In the past two years, Wiley has retracted more than 11,300 papers that appeared compromised, according to a spokesperson, and closed four journals. It isn’t alone: At least two other publishers have retracted hundreds of suspect papers each. Several others have pulled smaller clusters of bad papers.
Although this large-scale fraud represents a small percentage of submissions to journals, it threatens the legitimacy of the nearly $30 billion academic publishing industry and the credibility of science as a whole.
The discovery of nearly 900 fraudulent papers in 2022 at IOP Publishing, a physical sciences publisher, was a turning point for the nonprofit. “That really crystallized for us, everybody internally, everybody involved with the business,” said Kim Eggleton, head of peer review and research integrity at the publisher. “This is a real threat.”…
…World-over, scientists are under pressure to publish in peer-reviewed journals—sometimes to win grants, other times as conditions for promotions. Researchers say this motivates people to cheat the system. Many journals charge a fee to authors to publish in them…”
.@ucdavis Professor Seeta Chaganti also canceled all her classes for a week in support of pro-Palestine protests and encouraged students to attend the protests. https://t.co/K84LnIVP9B
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 13, 2024
MIT Hired Six New Diversity Deans. Two of Them Are Serial Plagiarists, Complaint Alleges
“…MIT welcomed six new deans of diversity, equity, and inclusion, one for each of the institute’s main schools, as part of a “DEI Strategic Action Plan” launched the previous year. Aimed at boosting the representation of women and minorities, in part by developing DEI criteria for staff performance reviews, the plan pledged to “make equity central” to the university “while ensuring the highest standards of excellence.”
But according to a 71-page complaint filed with the university on Saturday, at least two of the six DEI officials may not be living up to those standards. The complaint alleges that Tracie Jones-Barrett and Alana Anderson are serial plagiarists, copying entire pages of text without attribution and riding roughshod over MIT’s academic integrity policies.
In her 2023 dissertation titled “Cite a Sista,” which explored how black women in the Ivy League “make meaning of thriving,” Jones-Barrett, MIT’s deputy “equity officer,” lifts a whole section on “ethical considerations” from Emmitt Wyche III, her classmate in Northeastern University’s Graduate School of Education, without any sort of citation…”
Liberal Mental Disorder.
I stand firmly behind Trump. These baseless attacks against him will crash and burn. It's enraging to witness the Biden administration shamelessly weaponizing the justice system to go after Trump.
— Vivek Ganapathy Ramaswamy (parody) (@VivekRammaswamy) May 14, 2024
Boom: right on cue, wholesale inflation for energy jumped 2.0% M/M in Apr, an annualized rate of 26.8% – you can only kick the statistical can down the road for so long… https://t.co/Do0b0sw4RT
— E.J. Antoni, Ph.D. (@RealEJAntoni) May 14, 2024
The killing of unborn children is a weird Democrat cult religion. Soul-sick. Twisted. Aztec-like in its rituals and logic.
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Illegal Immigration Overload: Border Town’s Criminal Prosecutions Explode by 5,000% on Biden’s Watch
Biden Finally Draws Larger Crowd Than Trump https://t.co/5MUZNJXved pic.twitter.com/rCbMNVYNNy
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) May 14, 2024
“Gold Star Parents: Constant Pattern from Biden Team”
“…Afghanistan Gold Star parents Steve Nikoui and Darin Hoover reacted to former White House Press Secretary and MSNBC host Jen Psaki incorrectly claiming that claims President Joe Biden looked at his watch during a service for soldiers killed in Afghanistan are “misinformation.”…”
Blinken supports canceling elections in Ukraine
You know things are going well when the U.S. Secretary of State is in favor of cancelling elections.
Biden.
