The Joe Biden debate fallout continues.

And the Supreme Court hands out some really big decisions.

Finally

According to the Daily Wire:

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Friday that an Oregon city’s law restricting camping on public property does not violate the Constitution’s prohibition against enacting cruel and unusual punishments under the Eighth Amendment. 

Writing for the majority, Justice Neil Gorsuch said that the courts did not have the right to strike down laws enacted by the city of Grants Pass in response to the homelessness crisis. Gorsuch was joined by Justices Brett Kavanaugh, John Roberts, Samuel Alito, and Amy Coney Barrett, with Clarence Thomas writing a concurring opinion. 

“The Constitution’s Eighth Amendment serves many important functions, but it does not authorize federal judges to wrest those rights and responsibilities from the American people and in their place dictate this Nation’s homelessness policy,” Gorsuch wrote. 

Previously, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Grants Pass could not enforce its restrictions on sleeping on public property if the number of publicly available beds for the homeless was less than the number of homeless estimated in the area. The city’s laws, including fines of $295 for sleeping on public property, were challenged under the Eighth Amendment on behalf of a group of homeless people in the area. 

“Yes, people will disagree over which policy responses are best; they may experiment with one set of approaches only to find later another set works better; they may find certain responses more appropriate for some communities than others,” Gorsuch wrote. “But in our democracy, that is their right. 

“Nor can a handful of federal judges begin to ‘match’ the collective wisdom the American people possess in deciding ‘how best to handle’ a pressing social question like homelessness,” he added. 

Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Elena Kagan all dissented. 

“Sleep is a biological necessity, not a crime. For some people, sleeping outside is their only option,” Sotomayor wrote. “For people with no access to shelter, that punishes them for being homeless. That is unconscionable and unconstitutional.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/scotus-rules-in-favor-of-oregon-citys-ban-on-homeless-encampments

ThisIs Huge!

According to the Daily Wire:

In a massive decision handed down that will limit the power of unelected agencies in the executive branch to interpret laws that Congress had left ambiguous, and a power Democratic administrations have used to impose additional regulations, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to overturn the 1984 ruling in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council.

“It authorized a massive shift in power from Congress and the courts to the president,” Henry Olsen noted of the Chevron decision. “Most of the administrative agencies subject to Chevron are run by presidential appointments. These officials might have subject matter expertise, but their knowledge does not negate the fact that they make inherently political judgments, which the Constitution envisioned would be made by elected legislators.”

“Under Chevron, a statutory ambiguity, no matter why it is there, becomes a license authorizing an agency to change positions as much as it likes. Chevron accordingly has undermined the very ‘rule of law’ values that stare decisis exists to secure,” Ed Whelan pointed out.

“During Barack Obama’s presidency … courts increasingly relied on Chevron to uphold a slew of new, progressive regulations,” Slate stated in an article titled, “The Supreme Court Is About to Seize Way More Power From Democratic Presidents.”

The case in which the Court overturned the 1984 ruling was Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo. The plaintiffs, who are fishermen, sued Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. A subagency of the Commerce Department, the National Marine Fisheries Service, forced the fishermen to “pay the salaries of the federal inspectors that federal law forces them to carry aboard their boats,” the Heritage Foundation explained, adding that the fishermen claimed there was no law that the National Marine Fisheries Service could cite giving them the right to force them to do so.

The National Fisheries Service cited the Chevron decision, saying that the law’s silence gave the agency its right to speak. As a result, inspectors’ salaries ought to be paid by fishermen.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled for the Fisheries Service. But in the petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court, the plaintiffs asked, “Whether the Court should overrule Chevron or at least clarify that statutory silence concerning controversial powers expressly but narrowly granted elsewhere in the statute does not constitute an ambiguity requiring deference to the agency.”

“Under the Chevron doctrine, courts have sometimes been required to defer to ‘permissible agency interpretations of the statutes those agencies administer—even when a reviewing court reads the statute differently,” the Supreme Court stated. “In each case below, the reviewing courts applied Chevron’s framework to resolve in favor of the Government challenges by petitioners to a rule promulgated by the National Marine Fisheries Service pursuant to the Magnuson-Stevens Act, which incorporates the Administrative Procedure Act (APA).”

“The Administrative Procedure Act requires courts to exercise their independent judgment in deciding whether an agency has acted within its statutory authority, and courts may not defer to an agency interpretation of the law simply because a statute is ambiguous; Chevron is overruled,” the Court ruled.

Perhaps most fundamentally, Chevron’s presumption is misguided because agencies have no special competence in resolving statutory ambiguities. Courts do. The Framers anticipated that courts would often confront statutory ambiguities and expected that courts would resolve them by exercising independent legal judgment. Chevron gravely erred in concluding that the inquiry is fundamentally different just because an administrative interpretation is in play. The very point of the traditional tools of statutory construction is to resolve statutory ambiguities. That is no less true when the ambiguity is about the scope of an agency’s own power—perhaps the occasion on which abdication in favor of the agency is least appropriate,” the Court wrote.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/massive-conservative-win-supreme-court-overrules-chevron-deference

Another Just Decision

According to the Daily Wire:

The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the Justice Department went too far in slapping obstruction charges on hundreds of January 6 defendants.

The court voted 6-3 in favor of defendant Joseph Fischer, a former police officer seeking to dismiss his charge of obstructing an official proceeding, Congress’ certification of President Joe Biden’s election victory.

However, the court ruled that an obstruction charge may be filed if prosecutors are able to prove that a protester was trying to stop the arrival of certificates used to count electoral votes to certify the election results, not just force their way into the Capitol Building.

The decision could have implications for former President Donald Trump, who is also charged with obstruction, although special counsel Jack Smith has argued that Trump’s obstruction of Congress’ certification was much broader than the protesters’ actions.

It could also force prosecutors to reopen at least some of the January 6 cases.

The court determined that the law designating obstruction as a felony was not meant to be interpreted so broadly. The 2002 statute, enacted as part of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act after the Enron accounting scandal, was only meant to apply in cases involving tampering with physical evidence, the court ruled.

Chief Justice John Roberts penned the opinion for the majority.

He noted that the “breach of the Capitol delayed the certification of the vote” but said the law never intended for these defendants to be sentenced to decades in prison.

“Nothing in the text or statutory history suggests that [the law] is designed to impose up to 20 years’ imprisonment on essentially all defendants who commit obstruction of justice in any way and who might be subject to lesser penalties under more specific obstruction statutes,” Roberts wrote.

Later in the article:

A total of 247 January 6 cases could be affected by the court’s ruling in favor of Fischer, but only 52 of those have obstruction as the only felony offense.

A total of 27 defendants are currently in prison with obstruction as their only felony offense.

More than 1,400 people were charged for their actions on January 6.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-rules-doj-overstepped-in-charging-hundreds-of-january-6-defendants-with-obstruction

Can’t Win Them All

According to the Daily Wire:

The day after its decision was “inadvertently and briefly” posted online, the Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a block on portions of an Idaho abortion law after the Biden administration sued the state, claiming that the pro-life protections violated federal emergency medical treatment laws. 

The court agreed to uphold a lower court ruling blocking Idaho’s “Defense of Life Act,” according to a decision officially published Thursday. Idaho’s law prohibits all abortions with exceptions if the mother’s life is in danger and punishes those who administer abortions with up to two to five years in prison. 

In the 6-3 decision, the majority declined to rule on the merits of the whole law but wrote that litigation on the law should continue on the lower level while allowing a block on parts of the law to go back into effect. Justice Elena Kagan wrote in the decision to uphold a lower court’s ruling that “will prevent Idaho from enforcing its abortion ban when the termination of a pregnancy is needed to prevent serious harms to a woman’s health.” 

The case revolves around whether the Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act, known as EMTALA, conflicts with Idaho’s abortion ban. 

Previously, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said that federal rules requiring emergency medical treatment applied to abortion situations. The Biden administration has argued that federal law would allow doctors to perform abortions in circumstances not allowed by state law. 

Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson, John Roberts, Amy Coney Barrett, and Brett Kavanaugh joined Kagan in the majority. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch dissented.  

Alito argued that the court should have ruled on the broader issues of state abortion laws instead of deferring on procedural grounds. 

“That question is as ripe for decision as it ever will be,” he wrote in the document. “Apparently, the court has simply lost the will to decide the easy but emotional and highly politicized question that the case presents. That is regrettable.”

Alito added that EMTALA “does not require hospitals to perform abortions in violation of Idaho law.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/leak-confirmed-supreme-court-rules-against-red-state-in-pro-life-case-day-after-decision-inadvertently-posted-online

Two More Cases Against Trump Are Shot

According to Fox News:

The Supreme Court ruled Monday in Trump v. United States that a former president has substantial immunity from prosecution for official acts committed while in office, but not for unofficial acts.

In a 6-3 decision, the Court sent the matter back down to a lower court, as the justices did not apply the ruling to whether or not former President Trump is immune from prosecution regarding actions related to efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

“The President enjoys no immunity for his unofficial acts, and not everything the President does is official,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the majority. 

“The President is not above the law. But Congress may not criminalize the President’s conduct in carrying out the responsibilities of the Executive Branch under the Constitution. And the system of separated powers designed by the Framers has always demanded an energetic, independent Executive,” he said. 

“The President therefore may not be prosecuted for exercising his core constitutional powers, and he is entitled, at a minimum, to a presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts. That immunity applies equally to all occupants of the Oval Office, regardless of politics, policy, or party,” he continued. 

The question stemmed from Special Counsel Jack Smith’s federal election interference case in which he charged Trump with conspiracy to defraud the United States; conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding; obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding; and conspiracy against rights. 

Those charges stem from Smith’s months-long investigation into whether Trump was involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot and any alleged interference in the 2020 election result.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissented, saying the decision “makes a mockery of the principle, foundational to our Constitution and system of Government, that no man is above the law.”

“Relying on little more than its own misguided wisdom about the need for ‘bold and unhesitating action’ by the President … the Court gives former President Trump all the immunity he asked for and more. Because our Constitution does not shield a former President from answering for criminal and treasonous acts, I dissent,” she said. 

President Trump had a comment:

“I have been harassed by the Democrat Party, Joe Biden, Obama and their thugs, fascists and communists for years, and now the courts have spoken.

“This is a big win for our Constitution and for democracy. Now I am free to campaign like anyone else. We are leading in every poll—by a lot—and we will make America great again.”

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-immunity-case-supreme-court-rules-ex-presidents-substantial-protection-prosecution

Jamaal Bowman has proved himself to be a classless, stupid human being after getting his ass kicked in his primary.

The Supreme Court kicks the ball down the road.

And AOC’s policies are coming to life. Maybe we shouldn’t have laughed at her idiocy 7 years ago.

Dumbass of the Day

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

pic.twitter.com/RT3jOCAS8F

— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) June 26, 2024

All Class

And ⬇️

During primary, Bowman accused Latimer of Islamophobia for saying his constituents are from Dearborn, MI.

Tonight, Bowman: “You don’t understand what the Muslim community specifically did in this race. The Muslim community from Yonkers to San Francisco to Dearborn, MI.” pic.twitter.com/p5FBOPUnKE

— Jacob N. Kornbluh (@jacobkornbluh) June 26, 2024

Much Ado About Nothing

According to the Daily Wire:

The GOP-led House voted on Wednesday to defund Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, a Biden administration official who was impeached by the lower chamber earlier this year in a rebuke of his handling of the border crisis.

A group of 193 Republican lawmakers voted to pass the amendment that Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) sponsored for appropriations legislation that aims to provide tens of billions of dollars to the Homeland Security Department (DHS) in the next fiscal year.

All voting Democrats, 172 of them, and one Republican opposed the measure. Seventy-two members, including 28 Republicans and 44 Democrats, did not cast a vote on the amendment when it was brought to the House floor.

“The House just passed my amendment to defund the office of the DHS Secretary,” Biggs said in a post to X. “Alejandro Mayorkas — who was impeached earlier this year — doesn’t deserve a single penny from American taxpayers.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-votes-to-defund-mayorkas

Maybe AOC Wasn’t Crazy?

According to U.S. News:

Denmark is poised to become the first country to tax farmers for the greenhouse gas emissions from their livestock in an effort to combat climate change by targeting one of its top sources – methane.

The proposed carbon tax – which still needs to be approved by the Danish parliament, according to The Associated Press – would go into effect in 2030, when Denmark aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 70% compared to 1990 levels. The U.N. Environment Program says methane is the second-biggest contributor to global warming, and the gas is released in part by farts and belches from livestock such as cows and pigs.

The proposal announced this week is the result of negotiations among the parties of Denmark’s “Green tripartite,” a coalition that includes, for example, government ministers and representatives from industries such as agriculture and conservation.

“The agreement will make Denmark an international leading country for future green land management,” Henrik Dam Kristensen, chairman of the coalition, said in a translated statement. “We can all be proud of that.”

Here are the important things to know about the interesting proposal by the Scandinavian country.

The carbon tax will amount to 300 kroner (or $43, per AP calculations) per ton of carbon dioxide equivalent starting in 2030, which will increase to 750 kroner ($108) by 2035. The effective tax, though, will be 120 kroner (about $17) starting in 2030 because of an accompanying 60% income tax deduction, according to the AP and a translated news release published by the country’s economic ministry.

Additionally, the Danish government said proceeds from the tax will be returned “to support the green transition of the industry” in 2030 and 2031. The handling of the proceeds will then be revisited in 2032.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2024-06-26/explainer-denmarks-proposed-tax-on-flatulent-livestock

A Big Loss

According to Reason:

In today’s ruling in Murthy v. Missouri, the Supreme Court dismissed claims that various federal agencies violated the First Amendment by pressuring social media firms to restrict posts, on the grounds that the plaintiffs lacked standing to file a lawsuit. Because the Court didn’t reach the merits, it didn’t make any ruling on the substance of First Amendment free speech doctrine. It certainly did not rule that what the government did here was legal. But the restrictive approach to standing adopted by the majority might make it very difficult for victims of indirect government coercion to get their free speech claims into court.

The plaintiffs in this case are people who allege that federal agencies (particularly the White House, the Surgeon General, and the CDC) pressured social media firms like Facebook and Twitter to bar posts about the Covid pandemic, vaccines, and some other issues, which the agencies regarded as harmful “misinformation.” The plaintiffs argue some of their posts were taken down or barred as a result. The lower courts ruled in favor of the plaintiffs on some of their claims, because they found extensive evidence that federal agencies did not just engage in persuasive “jawboning,” but threatened the social media firms with coercion, if they refused to comply. As the Fifth Circuit decision in the case put it:

On multiple occasions, the officials coerced the platforms into direct action via urgent, uncompromising demands to moderate content….

And, more importantly, the officials threatened—both expressly and implicitly—to retaliate against inaction. Officials threw out the prospect of legal reforms and enforcement actions while subtly insinuating it would be in the platforms’ best interests to comply. As one official put it, “removing bad information” is “one of the easy, low-bar things you guys [can] do to make people like me”—that is, White House officials—”think you’re taking action.”

The Supreme Court, however, ruled that the resulting restrictions on posting did not create an injury caused by government action and redressable by judicial action, sufficient for standing, because 1) the plaintiffs did not have sufficient proof that the social media firms’ content restrictions were a result of government pressure, as opposed to the firms’ own independent judgment, and 2) they were seeking “forward-looking” relief in the form of an injunction against future government pressure on social media firms, but they didn’t have evidence of “an ongoing pressure campaign,” as opposed to one that was largely ended in 2022.

Fox News Jonathan Turley, a free speech absolutist hit it on the head:

Jonathan Turley breaks down the frustrating anti-free speech ruling in Murthy v. Missouri.

"The Government is engaging in censorship by surrogate… they have made a mockery of the limits of the 1st Amendment." pic.twitter.com/K2eKnJtloF

— Media Research Center (@theMRC) June 26, 2024

.https://reason.com/volokh/2024/06/26/the-supreme-courts-dangerous-standing-ruling-in-murthy-v-missouri/

Of Course It’s Someone Else’s Fault

According to the Daily Wire:

California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) blamed the political Right for the failures of his state during the 2024 State of the State address that critics said sounded like a campaign launch event.

In his 28-minute speech, Newsom claimed that right-wing forces were “threatening the very foundation of California’s success” and that California’s culture was “the antidote to the poisonous populism of the Right, and to the fear and anxiety that so many people are feeling today.”

“The California way of life we recognize is under attack,” he claimed. “For conservatives and delusional California bashers, their success depends on our failure. They want to impeach the very things that have made us successful, as a tactic to turn America toward a darker future. They do so in the name of ‘liberty’ and ‘freedom.’ They want to roll back social progress, social justice, racial justice, economic justice, clean air, clean water, and basic fundamental fairness. They would cleave America from the principles of freedom and the rule of law. And in the process, throw our economy and, in many respects, society as we’ve known it, into chaos.”

Newsom’s claims are not tethered to reality in any meaningful way as they ignore basic realities, like the fact that more people have been leaving California than any other state in the country. Newsom also has recklessly spent the state’s resources and is now running a massive multibillion-dollar budget deficit every year.

He claimed that California has led the way with dealing with President Joe Biden’s border crisis, a false claim that reporters have called him out on in the past.

Newsom claimed that California was leading the way with fixing “America’s homelessness problem,” even though his state has by far the largest homeless population in the country.

He claimed that “wall-to-wall right-wing media coverage” about the crime epidemic in his state was completely false and that his state was safer than Florida, which is false.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/newsom-blames-conservatives-and-delusional-california-bashers-for-his-states-failures

I’m going to make an argument that, maybe, inflation has its benefits.

NASA releases its results on how earthlings would respond to an asteroid strike.

And everything is racist.

Dumbass of the Day

Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo blames Trump for 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungray's brutal kiIIing and r*pe by 2 illegal aliens.

She then says NOT to politicize it.

A reporter instantly calls her out: pic.twitter.com/jinwdSVqp0

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) June 26, 2024

Not Really a Tragedy

Another business is being killed by inflation.

According to the New York Post:

Hooters abruptly closed dozens of “underperforming stores” – the latest chain to shutter restaurants as inflation batters US consumers. 

The famed chicken wings brand, known for its skimpy uniforms, cited “pressure from current market conditions” for its decision to close an unspecified number of stores.

“Like many restaurants under pressure from current market conditions, Hooters has made the difficult decision” to close select locations, a spokesperson told The Post on Monday.

Roughly 40 of the 300 restaurants worldwide were shut, including in Florida, Kentucky, Rhode Island, Texas and Virginia, according to Nation’s Restaurant News. 

Later in the article:

Hooters’ closures come as other popular chains close their doors. 

Seafood chain Red Lobster shuttered 93 locations last month before filing for bankruptcy, while Applebee’s, TGI Fridays, Boston Market and California Pizza Kitchen also recently closed restaurants. 

Cracker Barrel’s CEO recently admitted the chain is “just not as relevant” as it used to be as its stock has been in freefall.

Overall, restaurant spending has slowed amid high dining costs, falling in four of the past six months, according to Census data as reported by NBC.  

Maybe inflation ain’t that bad. Hooters sucks and should have closed ages ago.

https://nypost.com/2024/06/24/business/hooters-abruptly-shuts-dozens-of-underperforming-stores-as-inflation-hammers-diners/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=nypost

I Wonder How That’s Going to Go

According to the New York Post:

What if a never-before-seen asteroid barreling in our direction was likely to strike Earth?

That’s the hypothetical scenario NASA astronomers tested with a recent simulation in which officials attempted to plan for an asteroid that had a 72% chance of hitting Earth in just 14 years.

After the theoretical timeline was posed to a group of nearly 100 government representatives in April, NASA found that the best plan they made to counter the horrifying doomsday scenario had several “high-level gaps,” according to their presentation.

“The uncertainties in these initial conditions for the exercise allowed participants to consider a particularly challenging set of circumstances,” Lindley Johnson, planetary defense officer emeritus at NASA Headquarters in Washington, said in a news release.

“A large asteroid impact is potentially the only natural disaster humanity has the technology to predict years in advance and take action to prevent.”

In the exercise, asteroid sizes ranged from 60 to 800 meters, with the most likely size to occur being between 100 and 320 meters.

To complicate the scenario, scientists said the looming asteroid then passed behind the Sun, making it impossible to observe from Earth for at least seven months.

The experiment was the first to use data from NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission, the first technology for defending Earth against potential asteroid impacts.

NASA notes in their release that applying this technology to an actual threat would require “many years of advance planning,” however the test stood as a way for the agency to measure readiness for a potential threat of an asteroid.

“These outcomes will help to shape future exercises and studies to ensure NASA and other government agencies continue improving planetary defense preparedness,” said Johnson.

https://nypost.com/2024/06/25/us-news/nasa-predicts-asteroid-has-72-chance-of-hitting-earth-in-14-years/?utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Of Course It’s Racist

According to the Daily Mail:

A taxpayer-funded project is set to research connections between milk and colonialism, it was revealed yesterday.

Academics at an Oxford museum will research the ‘political nature’ of milk and its ‘colonial legacies’.

One of the experts involved has previously argued that milk is a ‘Northern European obsession’ that has been imposed on other parts of the world.

Dr Johanna Zetterstrom-Sharp said the assumption that milk was a key part of the human diet ‘may be understood as a white supremacist one’, as many populations outside Europe and North America have high levels of lactose intolerance in adulthood.

The new project, ‘Milking it: colonialism, heritage & everyday engagement with dairy’, has won funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

The council itself is funded by the Government through the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, and awards around £110million to researchers at universities and independent organisations.

The milk project will be based at the History of Science Museum in Oxford, which announced it had received funding. The size of the grant has not yet been revealed.

The museum said: ‘By focusing on communities intersecting industry, aid and government regulation, the project aims to centre on heritage as a vital framework for understanding how colonial legacies influence contemporary issues and affect people’s lives.

‘Through milk diaries, archival research and participatory podcasting, it will investigate historical engagement with milk, building networks with consumers and producers in Britain and Kenya.

‘The project will question both the imagined and real aspects of milk, revealing the intimate and political nature of this everyday substance.’

Dr Zetterstrom-Sharp, a University College London associate professor at the Institute of Archaeology, and Dr JC Niala, head of research at the History of Science Museum.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13560881/Now-experts-asking-milk-racist-tax-payer-funded-research-project-connections-milk-colonialism.html

It Always Comes Down to the Greenbacks

According to Al Jazeera:

Skye Murphy, who is 22 years old, has lived with type 1 diabetes since she was 14. In the past month, she learned that there would be a 30-to-60-day delay in receiving her medication Humalog, an insulin drug made by Eli Lilly.

While announcing a shortage in March, Eli Lilly said several key insulin medications would be out of stock for several weeks, which, as reported by CNN, was because of a “brief delay in manufacturing”. The company has since scrubbed details on the shortage from the news release.

More than 38.4 million people in the United States have diabetes and rely on insulin for their survival. In context, that is more than the population of Tokyo, one of the world’s most populous cities.

Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly is one of three pharmaceutical companies that control the global insulin market. It competes with France’s Sanofi and Denmark’s Novo Nordisk. But Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly are of particular note. The two companies control 75 percent of the global market – and both have insulin shortages impacting people who rely on the medication.

Later in the article, we find out one of the reasons why insulin production has dropped:

Over the last year, the White House touted its plan to cap insulin costs for consumers at $35. US President Joe Biden showcased the efforts in his recent State of the Union Address. Thanks to cooperation with several pharmaceutical giants including Eli Lilly, Sanofi and Novo Nordisk, prices tumbled.

Prices dropped by 70 percent for Eli Lilly, 75 percent for Novo Nordisk, and 78 percent for Sanofi.

But even as the price cap kicked in, a new study from Yale University published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) showed that pharmaceutical giants have been charging significantly more than it costs to produce the drug.

But there’s more:

Novo Nordisk is now focusing on another set of medications called GLP-1 receptors, which regulate the gut hormone that affects hunger. The market for these is more lucrative. GLP-1 receptors are also intended for diabetes, but are now used more widely as a weight-loss medication – semaglutide, more commonly known as Wegovy or Ozempic.

Other pharmaceutical companies are also trying to make gains on Novo Nordisk’s GLP-1 receptors, including Eli Lilly, which, too, has an insulin shortage even as it is ramping up production of Zepbound and Mounjaro, Novo’s GLP-1 competitors.

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/5/2/what-is-behind-the-insulin-shortage-in-the-us

I have another example of Democrats not taking responsibilities for their own actions.

We haven’t talked about it but states are still virtue signaling on behalf of Juneteenth.

And blacks are really mad at white again concerning how we celebrate Juneteenth.

Dumbass of the Day

Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao who had her home raided by the FBI last week claims she’s done nothing wrong and blames “radical right-wing forces” pic.twitter.com/gOBbOhkqYg

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 24, 2024

The Oakland mayor has been under intense scrutiny in recent months for the city’s crime rates and the departure of the Oakland A’s baseball team. She will face a recall vote in November after her detractors collected enough signatures to qualify for the ballot.

Apparently, she’s now under investigation by Biden’s Justice Department for some type of corruption. It makes me laugh when these people blame the far right

Though what they are investigating is unclear, her family is very wealthy, donates to her campaign. The houses of other family member have been raided.

A Virtue Signal

According to the Washington Examiner:

Gov. Phil Murphy (D-NJ) is using this Juneteenth holiday to seek out criminal justice reform. The governor issued an executive order to create a new clemency program, which will allow some young and nonviolent offenders, along with domestic violence victims and others, to apply to leave prison early.

The program aims to address mass incarceration, racial injustice, and parole rules that make it difficult for people to get a new start when they leave prison, supporters said. A clemency board will review petitions and make recommendations to Murphy.

“As we celebrate Juneteenth and reflect on our nation’s ongoing journey toward racial justice for Black and Brown Americans, I am proud to sign this Executive Order to help address inequities and unfairness in our system of justice in New Jersey,” Murphy said in a statement.

“This new clemency initiative is a cornerstone of our Administration’s efforts to make New Jersey the State of Second Chances. Today, we pledge to take a responsible and equity-driven approach to pardons and commutations that will prioritize the most compelling cases,” the Democratic governor added.

Lt. Gov. Tahesha Way, who is black, also weighed in.

“In the spirit of Juneteenth, today we take another step forward in the ongoing struggle for racial justice in America,” Way said. “Too many people have been failed by our criminal justice system. The signing of this Executive Order provides second chances for our society and those who receive clemency. I am proud to see our state build upon our efforts for a progressive criminal justice system that truly ensures justice for all.”

State Democrats and civil rights organizations lauded Murphy’s decision, while state Republicans stayed largely silent.

“Clemency is about more than mercy — it can be a tool to end mass incarceration,” American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey Executive Director Amol Sinha said. “We built The Clemency Project to ensure we don’t leave any stone unturned in the pursuit of justice. I am grateful to Governor Murphy for embracing categorical clemency as a way to address injustices in the criminal legal system. We look forward to seeing the Governor fully exercise his executive power by pardoning and commuting the sentences of scores of people before the end of his term, demonstrating that New Jersey prioritizes people over punishment.”

.https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/state/3052167/phil-murphy-touts-creation-clemency-program-juneteenth/

That’s Why There is a Juneteenth

According to the Washington Examiner:

Juneteenth is supposed to be a joyous occasion that is set aside as a federal holiday to commemorate the end of the institution of slavery in the United States — even though slavery did not truly end in the United States for another six months in December 1865, making it odd to have a day to celebrate the end of slavery when slavery was not ended.

The holiday was promoted as the work of a racial reckoning and an achievement of racial equality. Yet, in 2024, racial animus still exists as some black people on social media have expressed anger that white people are off of work for Juneteenth. 

The holiday’s name is derived from the lexical blend of “June” and “nineteenth.” It marks the anniversary of Union General Gordon Granger’s issuance of General Order No. 3 upon arriving in Galveston, Texas, in 1865. This Order notified the residents of Texas of the Emancipation Proclamation and freed the slaves in the state. 

Despite this happening in 1865, it became a federal holiday after the George Floyd riots in 2020. There isn’t any connection between Floyd, the Civil War, and the Emancipation Proclamation; however, white Democrats wanted to pander to black people in the aftermath of the race riots and a time of tense racial strife.  

But hostility and animosity still exist even after making Juneteenth a federal holiday. And many are actually mad that white people have off for Juneteenth, implying a lingering resentment against white people. Consider this social media post on X by actor D.L. Hughley.

“Juneteenth is [a] Federal holiday!” Hughley wrote. “That means there will be more white people who get the day off, on a day that commemorates the end of slavery than people who are the actual descendants of slaves!!”

.https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3051197/some-black-people-on-social-media-are-mad-that-white-people-have-off-for-juneteenth/

Such a Feminist Term

According to the Fox News:

A cancer charity suggested people might like to use the trans-friendly term “front hole” instead of “cervix” in a post advocating for LGBTQ individuals to get cervical cancer screenings.  

The Canadian Cancer Society outlined cervical screening suggestions for a “trans man” or “non-binary person assigned female at birth” and under the page’s “words matter” section, the group explained the use of the term “front hole.”

“We recognize that many trans men and non-binary people may have mixed feelings about or feel distanced from words like ‘cervix,’” the page said. “You may prefer other words, such as ‘front hole.’” 

The organization also said it recognizes the “limitations of the words” used while also “acknowledging the need for simplicity.” 

“Another reason we use words like ‘cervix’ is to normalize the reality that men can have these body parts too,” the organization wrote. 

The Canadian Cancer Society explained that anyone with a cervix, “regardless of gender or sexual orientation,” should get regular cervical cancer screenings or pap smears by the age of 25 and suggested individuals get screened every three years, regardless of whether they are taking testosterone or not. 

“It’s important to tell your healthcare provider if you are taking testosterone because this can cause changes to cervical tissue that can affect your test results,” the organization wrote. 

https://www.foxnews.com/media/cancer-charity-suggests-use-trans-friendly-term-front-hole-instead-cervix?intcmp=tw_fnc

This Is Where We Are Heading

According to The Publica:

A 20-year-old woman in Hamburg, Germany, has been sent to prison after making “hateful” remarks towards a migrant who was involved in the gang rape of a child. The woman is just one of 140 people being investigated for making “harmful comments” towards the rapists.

The horrific assault took place in 2020, and involved multiple groups of migrant men independently attacking a 14-year-old girl in Hamburg’s Stadtpark over the course of one night. The park had become a popular hang-out spot for youth during the COVID-19 lockdowns, and the girl had been there drinking with her friends. But they became scattered after police swept the park and broke up groups while enforcing social distancing measures.

Confused and alone, the girl was defenseless against the first mob of four predators.

The men took turns on the girl, repeatedly raping her over an extended period of time. They robbed her of her wallet and cellphone before leaving her. Traumatized and disoriented from the first attack, and having no method of calling for help, the girl was assaulted a second time by two more men who took advantage of her vulnerable state.

Disturbingly, her assailants had begun inviting other men to rape her via their chat groups, gleefully sharing the news that there was an isolated teenage girl in the dark park with no potential witnesses.

The child was attacked a third time by a single man, and then a fourth time by three more men, who dragged her into a bush and sexually assaulted her.

Finally, the child managed to break away and ran, though pursued by her rapists. Eventually, she came across people who recognized her traumatized state and immediately called the police.

A total of 11 men were initially charged, but two were acquitted quickly due to a lack of DNA evidence. The sperm of nine of the men, however, had been successfully recovered from the girl’s body.

So you can imagine, this is brutal.

However, despite DNA and WhatsApp evidence, eight of the nine men convicted walked free with probation and spent no time in prison at all. The ninth was sentenced to two years and nine months in prison without parole.

The case caused outrage in Germany, both for the brutality of the rape itself and the lenient sentences given to the rapists. As a result, one of the men had his identity and phone number circulated on Snapchat by furious sleuths.

Angered by the news of the case, a 20-year-old woman from Hamburg messaged the number through WhatsApp. The unnamed woman called him a “dishonorable rapist pig” and a “disgusting miscarriage.” She added: “Aren’t you ashamed when you look in the mirror?”

The targeted rapist then reported the woman to police, and she was charged with sending him insulting messages.

The woman has now been convicted and sentenced to a weekend in prison for her remarks — meaning that she will have spent more time in jail than 8 of the 9 rapists. In court, the woman apologized for her remarks, saying she acted out of a “reflex” upon hearing the sickening details of the case.

Some things:

• Whenever you hear about our justice system being bad, remember this story. It is the norm not the aberration.
• Remember what a country is like without free speech. Remember, free speech is not that common in the world.
• Germany is having the same problem with undocumented immigrants (mostly Middle Eastern). France and England are also having issues.

.https://www.thepublica.com/germany-woman-convicted-of-offending-migrant-gang-rapists-receives-longer-prison-sentence-than-the-rapists/

.https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/06/dobbs-abortion-roe-trump-biden-campaign-kamala-harris/

Israel has a plan when it comes to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. If you think the riots are bad now, wait until Israel executes its plans against Hezbollah.

The man who is trying to save Democracy sure likes to break the law.

And baseball loses one of the greats.

Some News

Here is some sad news:

• Donald Sutherland has dies at the age of 88.
• MMA star and Forgetting Sarah Marshall actor, Taylor Wily has died at 56.
• Baseball legend Willie Mays has died at 93.
• We will not be hearing much from Joe Biden this week. He’s at Camp David getting shot up with amphetamines and prepping for his debate against Donald Trump on Thursday.
• Keeping up with all the great things illegal aliens, Ignacio Cruz-Mendoza, a 47-year-old Mexican national, was accused last week of crashing a semi-truck that caused the death of one person and caused another person serious injury.
  • ICE said on Monday that the man had either been deported to or voluntarily returned to Mexico at least 16 times in the past, Denver7 reported.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-hunger-games-star-donald-sutherland-dead-at-88
https://www.dailywire.com/news/baseball-legend-willie-may-passes-away-at-93
https://www.dailywire.com/news/taylor-wily-hawaii-five-0-and-forgetting-sarah-marshall-star-dead-at-56
https://www.dailywire.com/news/illegal-immigrant-charged-over-fatal-colorado-crash-had-faced-deportation-over-a-dozen-times

Dumbass of the Day

This is so sad pic.twitter.com/AAseXrhodN

— wilder😎🇺🇸 (@wilderpatriot) June 23, 2024

The Warning is Out There

According to the Daily Wire:

Israel approved plans for an offensive military campaign against the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah in southern Lebanon as it begins to look to the next phase of its war against Islamic terrorism following the October 7 massacre.

Hezbollah released a video this week that they claimed showed that the group had new, advanced military capabilities — in this case, they figured out how to put a camera on a drone and fly it over Israel.

The leader of Hezbollah, Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, claimed that the terror group had “new weapons” in its arsenal.

“But I won’t say what they are,” he claimed. “When the decision is made, they will be seen on the front lines.”

He also said that if Israel launches an offensive campaign against the group, it will target the European nation of Cyprus for helping Israel and that it will “deliberately target” everything inside Israel.

Hezbollah has already fired more than 5,000 rockets, missiles, and drones at Israel since Hamas’ October 7 massacre more than eight months ago. Hundreds of thousands of Israelis have been forced out of their homes in northern Israel because of the continued terror attacks from Hezbollah.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said this week that it had approved plans for an offensive campaign in Lebanon to take out Hezbollah.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/israel-approves-offensive-campaign-against-hezbollah-warns-it-will-wipe-out-iranian-backed-terror-group

This is Illegal

According to the Daily Wire:

The White House’s order for federal agencies to install thousands of signs along the nation’s highways praising Joe Biden has one Republican senator pressing the administration for more information on what she says is “public financing for the president’s own campaign.”

The Executive Office of the President’s Office of Management and Budget wrote in February 2023 that “Federal awarding agencies are strongly encouraged” to make it a requirement of each grant that the recipient, such as a local government, put up signs based on the “Official Investing in American Emblem Style Guide,” which prescribes signs that say “Project Funded By President Joe Biden’s [Insert Name of Law].”

“The Administration believes that clear and prominent signage on projects is one of several ways to inform taxpayers about how Federal funds from these laws are being spent and advance the goals of accountability and transparency of Federal spending,” it said.

The signs credit Biden for acts passed by Congress, and Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) says they amount to using taxpayer money for campaign signs before the November election. She wrote in a Thursday letter to the Office of Management and Budget that it’s absurd to pay for campaign signs with taxpayer money.

“Political campaign signs are not infrastructure. They do nothing to improve our roads or bridges and it’s obvious their real intent is only to pave the way for Biden’s re-election,” she wrote to OMB Director Shalanda D. Young.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-ordered-fed-agencies-to-install-nationwide-signage-praising-him-before-election

This is a Good Thing

According to the Washington Examiner:

Louisiana becomes first state to require Ten Commandments be displayed in classrooms.

Under this legislation, all classrooms from kindergarten to state-funded universities are required to have a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in classrooms by the start of 2025. 

These posters will also have a four-paragraph “context statement” describing how the Ten Commandments “were a prominent part of American public education for almost three centuries.”

Despite the bill not securing final approval from Landry, the period for gubernatorial action on whether to sign or veto the legislation has passed.

The posters would be funded via donations rather than state funds, according to the legislation.

While not mandatory, the law also “authorizes” the display of the Mayflower Compact, the Declaration of Independence, and the Northwest Ordinance in K-12 public schools.

Proponents argue this measure is not solely religious, but rather it also has historical significance because these are “foundational documents of our state and national government.”

However, opponents question the law’s constitutionality.

Given the threat of legal disputes, states such as Texas, Oklahoma, and Utah, which have proposed similar bills, have failed to enact them into law.

In 1980, the U.S. Supreme Court declared a similar Kentucky law unconstitutional, ruling it violated the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which says Congress can “make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” It was determined the law lacked a secular purpose and served solely religious interests.

.https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3052186/louisiana-becomes-first-state-to-require-ten-commandments-be-displayed-in-classrooms/

It’s summer. That means climate change is back.

More trans violence has happened and will be ignored by the media.

And Montgomery County, Maryland comes up with a really dumb idea to solve the crime crisis.

Dumbasses of the Day

New York Governor Kathy Hochul on the forecast predicting 90°F weather in NY:

"Temperatures at levels not seen in our lifetimes… a significant health event"

"Not a natural hot weather stretch" pic.twitter.com/FpM6bdN7po

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) June 19, 2024

MSNBC’s Joy Reid says summertime is the "predictable impact of a climate crisis & they're also killing us at higher rates."

"Increasingly oppressive hot days aren't a coincidence!" pic.twitter.com/7MQNLO3PIu

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) June 20, 2024

Are You Seeing the Pattern Yet

According to the New York Post:

A transgender woman allegedly gunned down her parents inside their Utah home Tuesday night, according to police and reports.

Mia Bailey — whom police said wears wigs and changes her appearance frequently — was cornered and arrested Wednesday after an extensive manhunt that spanned several hours.

Cops warned she was to be considered “armed and dangerous” while she was still on the loose.

“We have some good news,” Officer Tiffany Mitchell with the St. George Police Department announced on Facebook.

“We have the suspect in custody. Everyone is safe. No one else was injured.”

Bailey, 28, was immediately identified as the primary suspect after gunfire erupted around 7 p.m. in a home in Washington in southwest Utah near the Arizona border.

The bodies of a woman and man, both suffering gunshot wounds, were found in the living room, according to Washington City Police.

Although police did not make clear the relationship between the deceased and Bailey, records show that Bailey shared the home where the slaughter occurred with a Joseph and Gail Bailey, ages 70 and 69.

Gail’s brother took to social media to confirm that the pair’s killer was their child.

“My sister Gail and her husband Blue Bailey were shot dead tonight. I’m numb,” he wrote in a post seen by the Daily Mail.

“Their own son killed them. My poor mother has lost 3 of her 5 children. You always think it only happens to someone else. Give your brother or sister a call. Stay in touch.”

Few details about the killings — including a motive — have been revealed.

https://nypost.com/2024/06/19/us-news/trans-woman-kills-parents-in-utah-double-murder-police/?utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Here is the Dumbest Thing I’ve Ever Heard

MONTGOMERY COUNTRY, MARYLAND:

In an effort to combat the 300% spike in youth crime, police are giving tickets for free slush to well-behaved kids: pic.twitter.com/T3THGToWiJ

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) June 17, 2024

Of Course They Did

According to the Washington Examiner:

The Secret Service destroyed a film showing the Biden family dog, Commander, attacking an agent at the White House.

According to an email obtained by the Daily Mail through a Freedom of Information Act request, Commander was seen running at high speed toward a Secret Service agent in the East Wing’s Kennedy Garden, biting him hard enough to require stitches. The bite drew a serious amount of blood from the agent, requiring the White House to stop tours to clean it up.

“East Wing Tours were stopped for approximately 20 minutes due to blood from the incident being on the floors in the area of the Booksellers,” the message said.

FOIA Officer Kevin Tyrrell told the news outlet that the file was destroyed as part of standard Secret Service procedure.

“Due to Secret Service retention standards, the above mentioned file(s) has been destroyed,” he said.

The attack was the worst of about two dozen between October 2022 and July 2023, finally requiring Commander to be expelled from the White House.

Shortly before the attack, a Secret Service official warned others that Commander was “being left off leash.”

“Just for situational awareness. It seems that we’re back to the K9 being let off leash to roam the grounds freely,” the person wrote. “Tonight we had the team on the roadway for the evening sweep when [redacted] brought the dog out. K9 ran directly south and bounced between us techs.”

“Though no one was bitten it’s just a matter of time before it happens,” the official added.

Two things about this:

• It shows that Joe Biden doesn’t give a damn about anyone but himself. This dog has attacked over 30 times.
• I wonder, would those videos disappear if Trump’s dog attacked?

.https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3049759/secret-service-destroyed-film-commander-attacking-agent-white-house/

What About Our Vets?

We sure are going out of our way to help out illegal aliens, homeless people and drug addicts in blue cities.

• The San Diego Housing Commission is under fire over plans to purchase and convert three hotels into housing for the homeless that comes with a price tag of $400,000 per room.
  • Critics of the plan argue its a waste of taxpayer money that fails to address the root causes of homelessness.
  • The commission last week voted unanimously to move forward with the proposal to buy three Extended Stay America Hotels with 412 apartment-style units for $157.8 million, or roughly $383,192 per unit, according to local reports.
• A building once meant to house Brooklyn’s “hippest” hotel has since been converted into an emergency shelter, The Post has learned.
  • The city awarded a more than $7 million contract to a non-profit organization to run a “city sanctuary facility for homeless families with children” at 535 Van Buren Street — the same address as Artel 535, which touted itself as “Brooklyn’s Hippest Hotel” online.
  • But it doesn’t appear the planned hipster haven ever opened, and the building — on the border of Bed-Stuyvesant and Bushwick — is now serving as a shelter for migrants, run by the Neighborhood Association for Inter-Cultural Affairs under a $7,659,662 contract.
  • More than 60,000 migrants have arrived in the Big Apple since spring 2022, with more than 37,000 housed in city-run or city-funded shelters and facilities, according to city officials.
  • More than 60,000 migrants have arrived in the Big Apple since spring 2022, with more than 37,000 housed in city-run or city-funded shelters and facilities, according to city officials.
  • Much of the city’s hotel space — with the exception of the most touristy spots in Manhattan — is being reserved for migrants.
• A grand opening ceremony was held Wednesday for a high-rise building in downtown Los Angeles that will house homeless individuals.
  • There are 278 units in the 19-story development known as the Weingart Tower. It’s intended to help people currently without shelter on Skid Row and it will be L.A.’s largest permanent support housing project.
  • The building will have an entire floor of offices for case workers, in addition to a list of impressive amenities: a gym, art room, music room, computer room and library. Residents will enjoy six common balconies and a café.
  • It’s considered affordable housing, but the cost to build this type of project still adds up. Each unit costs nearly $600,000 and it’s being funded by taxpayers or
  • The $165 million project is receiving permanent financing from Proposition HHH, which voters overwhelmingly passed in 2016. The new tower is also receiving state housing funds and $56 million in state tax credits.
• While San Diego and other California cities attempt to grapple with the crisis, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced last month that he plans to spend $30 million to build 1,200 tiny homes to shelter a tiny fraction of the roughly 170,000 people homeless in the Golden State.
  • Since taking office in 2019, Newsom has signed off on more than $22.3 billion in new spending on housing and homelessness programs — but critics like Desmond have yet to see any results for all the money the city and state keeps spending.

https://nypost.com/2023/04/28/san-diego-blasted-for-157m-plan-to-buy-3-hotels-to-house-homeless/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social
https://nypost.com/2023/05/07/new-cool-brooklyn-hipster-hotel-turned-into-migrants-shelter/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=nypost
https://abc7.com/post/new-downtown-los-angeles-high-rise-building-house/14975022/

Joe Biden signs another executive order on Tuesday to deal with Illegal immigration. What a surprise! It’s going to encourage more illegal immigration.

One question we should be asking is how Mexican Americans feel about illegal immigration. We know now and the results may surprise you. Or maybe they won’t.

And today is Juneteenth. So I will go on my annual rant as to why this is not a real holiday and anyone who supports it is supporting revisionist history and racism.

Juneteenth

Today is Juneteenth and you are probably off of work. Today you will hear all about the evil of slavery and the plight of blacks in American history.

Do you know what you will not hear? You will not hear anything about the people who ended slavery.

• You will never hear about the abolitionists who worked for a hundred years to end slavery.
• They won’t say the the Atlantic Slave Trade ended in the United States in January of 1808 and slavery was banned in all new states and northern states.
• They won’t talk about Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865), a white man who was assassinated because he ended slavery.
  • Emancipation Proclamation – signed on September 22, 1862 and enacted on January 1, 1863.
  • Civil War – April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865. Killed between 620,000-750,000 people, mostly white people.
  • Assassination of Abraham Lincoln – April 15, 1865

The holiday’s name is a portmanteau of the words “June” and “nineteenth”, as it was on June 19, 1865, when Major General Gordon Granger ordered the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas at the end of the American Civil War. It really is quite irrelevant when it comes to the ending of slavery.

Why was this date chosen by the Black Lives Matter and Critical Race Theorist choose June 19th? It is the only day that the end of slavery can be celebrated that does not acknowledge anyone who ended slavery. Turns out slavery was ended primarily by white people. Blacks were slaves or second class citizens. They couldn’t end it without help from white people.  Frederick Douglass, a former slave knew this and worked with Abraham Lincoln.

Here are dates we should celebrate:

• Lincoln’s birth – February 12, 1809.
• Lincoln’s death – April 15, 1865.
• The signing of the Emancipation Proclamation – September 22, 1862.
• The ending of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade – January of 1808.
• The start of the Civil War – April 12, 1861.
• The end of the Civil War – May 26, 1865.

These were relevant days that change America. Juneteenth didn’t change shit and was only acknowledged in Texas until BLM stepped in.

https://www.ccpl.org/charleston-time-machine/end-trans-atlantic-slave-trade

Dumbass of the Day

Cori Bush claims she cured a woman’s tumors by putting her hands on them. “The lumps that were there, were no longer there.”

pic.twitter.com/rboMnK7vy6

— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) June 17, 2024

We’ve Already Done This Already

According to the Daily Wire:

President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday that he was rewarding hundreds of thousands of migrants who violated federal immigration laws, which comes as he claims that he is cracking down on illegal immigration.

Biden’s new policy will provide legal status and a streamlined path to U.S. residency and citizenship to more than 500,000 illegal aliens who married American citizens and have lived in the country for 10 years.

“This action will allow them to file paperwork for legal status in the United States, allowing them to work while they remain with their families in the United States,” Biden said.

In order to be eligible, the illegal aliens must have met the 10 year requirement by June 17, 2024, or else they will have to wait for the next Democrat mass amnesty program.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) slammed Biden in a statement, saying that just two weeks ago, Biden “pretended to crack down on the open-border catastrophe by engaging an election-year border charade.”

“Now he’s trying to play both sides and is granting amnesty to hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens,” he said. “The President may think our homeland security is some kind of game that he can try to use for political points, but Americans know this amnesty plan will only incentivize more illegal immigration and endanger Americans.”

Johnson also noted that this policy was “proof-positive of the Democrats’ plan to turn illegal aliens into voters.”

“I fully expect this order, which is manifestly contrary to the Immigration and Naturalization Act, to be challenged and struck down in the courts,” he added.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-rewards-hundreds-of-thousands-of-migrants-who-violated-federal-immigration-laws

We Already Knew This

According to the New York Post:

A majority of US Hispanics now support the mass deportation of migrants living in the country illegally — and are evenly split over whether the feds should create large detention centers to assist in carrying the massive operation out, according to a recent poll.

A CBS News/YouGov survey conducted this month shows 53% of Hispanics are in favor of kicking out all of the undocumented immigrants who illegally enter — and 50% support the establishment of federal holding facilities to keep migrants before deportation.

Another 47% of Hispanics oppose the mass deportation plan — and 50% oppose detaining migrants as part of that process.

If such a plan is implemented, 57% of Hispanics back the involvement of local law enforcement agencies in identifying the migrants, while 43% oppose such profiling.

Former President Donald Trump in March announced that his second administration would execute the “largest mass deportation effort” in US history to detain and remove “nearly 20 million” migrants living in the country illegally.

https://nypost.com/2024/06/17/us-news/most-hispanics-now-support-mass-deportation-of-illegal-migrants-in-us-poll/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost

We Are Becoming a Third World Country

According to ABC 7 New York:

An army of police fanned out at migrant facilities throughout the city Wednesday night to target a problem that’s exploded in recent months: unregistered scooters.

Eyewitness News was on the scene as officers cracked down on the issue, they say has become a persistent quality of life issue in Manhattan.

“We had to come here, and we had to do our job,” said NYPD Assistant Commissioner Kaz Daughtry.

The first order of business was they went for the bikes.

Dozens of bikes without registrations were confiscated, some with plates stolen off other bikes somewhere in the city.

All of them were immediately carted away on a police flatbed.

Wednesday’s operation was about a lot more than illegal bikes, as it comes after Saturday night’s melee near Times Square, where a dozen men — believed to be asylum seekers — attacked two police officers.

Five were arrested on the spot.

“Nobody’s going home tonight until we find the guys who assaulted our cops,” assured Daughtry.

Police arrested the man dressed in yellow in the video and are still on the hunt for as many as five more.

“We’re not going to tolerate individuals attacking out cops,” said Daughtry. “That’s not going to happen. We will comb this globe to look for you and bring you to justice.”

NYPD Asst. Commissioner Daughtry led teams of cops who scoured the area around the Row Hotel, a migrant center in Hell’s Kitchen, and they inspected more of those bikes, which have been involved in a growing number of robberies and the focus of police citywide for weeks.

“We are seeing an uptick of scooter robberies in the city, particularly in Manhattan, where individuals are on scooters, normally two on a scooter, and they’re taking their cell phones, AirPods, Beats, wallets, purses,” said Daughtry. “We’re going to be over aggressively going after these scooters and moped on city streets.”

https://abc7ny.com/exclusive-nypd-ride-along-unregistered-scooters-nyc/14376769

The New Narrative

Karine Jean-Pierre is BIG MAD that we distribute unfiltered, unedited, publicly available clips of Biden in public.

(We'll do more) pic.twitter.com/ps6gDqY8yb

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 17, 2024

.@NicolleDWallace⁩: “There’s a growing & insidious trend in right-wing media … to take highly misleading & selectively edited videos of Pres. Biden … and use those videos to spread messages virally to cast doubt on Pres. Biden’s fitness for office.” pic.twitter.com/Im5r6y9HDA

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) June 17, 2024

Misleading video clips of President Biden watching a skydiving demonstration at the G7 summit in Italy went viral last week, prompting the White House to say Biden is victim to a simpler version of "deepfakes." So, what are "cheap fakes"? CBS News Confirmed Executive Editor… pic.twitter.com/o7mHw9U3s4

— CBS News (@CBSNews) June 18, 2024

Israel Is on the brink of a war at the northern border. If the rioters were whining about what is happening in Gaza, wait until the war with Hezbollah.

The head of the Ku Klux Klan has endorsed a candidate for President and you’ll never guess who got it.

And more bigotry has been wiped from Los Angeles. Wait until you hear this one.

This One Will Be Bloody

According to Fox News:

Israeli officials warned that the country is on the “brink” of a full-scale war with Hezbollah if the terrorist group continues to increase its aggression in northern Israel.

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) made the warning on Sunday, just a day before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to meet with Amos Hochstein, a top aide to President Biden. Biden’s administration is pushing Israel to avoid a war in Lebanon, but IDF officials continue to highlight the outsized threat posed by Hezbollah compared to Hamas.

“Hezbollah’s increasing aggression is bringing us to the brink of what could be a wider escalation,” an IDF spokesman warned Sunday.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant echoed the statement in his own talks with Hochstein on Monday.

“We are committed to the diplomatic process, however Hezbollah’s aggression is bringing us closer to a critical point in the decision-making regarding our military activities in Lebanon,” he told the Biden representative.

Hochstein later met with both Netanyahu and Israeli President Isaac Herzog. Both Israeli figures thanked Hochstein for meeting with them but made no promises regarding a war in Lebanon.

Israel did not offer details about their conversations.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/israel-hezbollah-brink-all-war-officials-warn

A Shocker

According to the New York Post:

Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke says he is siding with anti-Israel protesters and those who will “save us from Jewish supremacism” — and now pro-Palestine activists are being ripped online for finding common ground with the hate group.

Duke, a self-proclaimed white supremacist and ex-grand wizard of the Knights of the KKK, made his hateful comments during a protest Friday in Detroit that was held after the rightwing America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC) led by white nationalist Nicholas Fuentes was abruptly canceled.

“I support Nick and all his work … and all the people who are working to save our country and save us from Jewish supremacism. We’re being genocided just like the Palestinians,” Duke says in a video shared on X by political commentator and undercover journalist Cam Higby.

When asked in the clip if he is friends with Fuentes, Duke replies, “I consider him a comrade in the fight for our people.”

Videos of Duke’s comments shared on X quickly took off, with many commenting that anti-Israel activists should be concerned they have seemingly found common ground with the KKK.

“If David Duke is on your side, you know you are on the wrong side,” the National Jewish Assembly (NJA) commented under the clip.

https://nypost.com/2024/06/17/us-news/kkk-grand-wizard-david-duke-sides-with-anti-israel-protesters/?utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Dumbass of the Day

KAMALA: "The importance of community banks is they are, as they are called, they're in the community" pic.twitter.com/j1zZoNMugk

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 14, 2024

More Accidents for Equity

LA City just took down a couple “no U-turn” traffic signs in Silver Lake, California because the signs are anti-LGBTQ.

You literally can’t make this up. Beyond parody. pic.twitter.com/5EaukBlCIi

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 14, 2024

According to the L.A. Times:

Messages like “No cruising. No U-turns. Midnight to 6 am” were posted around the neighborhood in 1997, with the intent to curb gay men from roaming the streets to hook up.

For years the signs remained, even as the city’s leadership changed and the community grew — until this week. In a celebration with LGBTQ+ community members, District 4 Councilmember Nithya Raman and District 13 Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez retired the signs on Monday.

“Los Angeles has a rich history of welcoming the LGBTQIA+ community, but there has also been real and present homophobia— which at times has been inscribed into the city’s physical spaces, as with these no-U-turn signs,” Raman said in a statement.

In the late 90s, when the internet was new and gay dating apps such as Grindr did not exist, queer men sometimes relied on printed guidebooks that listed public areas where they could find love, sex and community without outing themselves.

Among those areas was West Hollywood, where anti-gay traffic signs similar to the ones removed Monday were installed in 1991 and later removed — and Griffith Park Boulevard in Silver Lake, where Soto-Martinez and Raman’s districts now meet. The area is also where more than half a dozen bars, all within a 2-mile radius, serve a thriving queer clientele between East Hollywood and Silver Lake.

I just want to point out that East Hollywood and Silver Lake have huge crime, drug and gang problems. This is the big concentration of the L.A. City Council?

“Those who made you believe in absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” -Voltaire.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-12/silver-lake-retires-their-remaining-anti-gay-cruising-signs