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Nov022022

Episode 626 – No Chance!

There are things happening around the world we should know about but we are always stuck within our little bubble.

Joe Biden is on the campaign trail six days before the election. Turns out he should have stayed home.

And a viral article asks for amnesty from all us conspiracy theorists concerning the China virus when it turns out everything we said is true. Let’s go over it.

 

News

Here is some news:

According to the Wall Street Journal:

Saudi Arabia has shared intelligence with the U.S. warning of an imminent attack from Iran on targets in the kingdom, putting the American military and others in the Middle East on an elevated alert level, said Saudi and U.S. officials

In response to the warning, Saudi Arabia, the U.S. and several other neighboring states have raised the level of alert for their military forces, the officials said. They didn’t provide more details on the Saudi intelligence.

  • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defeated Jair Bolsonaro to become President of Brazil.
    • Lula is a Hugo Chavez socialist.
    • Lula also served time in prison for money laundering and corruption.
    • Bolsonaro is contesting the election because it was really close.
    • There are currently riots in Brazil started from both sides.
    • Brazil is a mess.
  • Benjamin Netanyahu is going to be Prime Minister of Israel again. This time it will be different.
    • He also gained 65 seats in the Knesset, or parliament.
    • There, finally, might not be election in Israel for a while.
  • Elon Musk announced that his monthly fee will be $8 a month.
    • It’s pissed off AOC. She said: “Lmao at a billionaire earnestly trying to sell people on the idea that “free speech” is actually a $8/mo subscription plan.”
    • Well, if it pissed off AOC, I will be buying in. Be prepared for a blue checkmark next to my name!

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/30/1132561987/brazil-election-lula-da-silva
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/02/middleeast/what-netanyahus-return-means-mime-intl/index.html
https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/aoc-hits-elon-musks-possible-twitter-verification-charge
https://www.wsj.com/articles/saudi-arabia-u-s-on-high-alert-after-warning-of-imminent-iranian-attack-11667319274?mod=hp_lead_pos4

 

This Is Not Going Well

With on week left until the election and the candidates, President and former President are on the road to try to gain back some momentum. Here’s the problem they are having, they have to speak. For most of them, this is easier said than done.

Here is John Fetterman on CNN discussing (sort of) inflation with Don Lemon. How Lemon can keep a straight face, I don’t know.

His brain damage is really showing and I do not believe he is helping himself by doing these interviews and appearances. I know he feels the need to do it because Mehmet Oz has caught up with him. Why Oz isn’t beating this guy like a red-headed step child.

But it isn’t just Fetterman who should keep himself in the basement. Joe Biden is also hitting the campaign trail. He cruising all over the country making speeches which is giving me a lot of sound bites because he can’t say words anymore. He did a speech for Debbie Wasserman Schultz in Florida. People were not excited to hear him as can be heard when he was introduced by Wasserman-Schultz:

Having to get the crowd to cheer for the President of the United States is not a good thing. I can’t think of a worse start. That is until Joe Biden started talking.  He had so many gaffs that Town Hall made a little compilation, so I used that. That’s why you’re going to hear music in the background. It was a good video.

Didn’t take Biden long to show his senility:

This was the start of his speech and he already screwed up. Debbie Wasserman Schultz has never been in the Senate. She’s running for a House seat.

Here he is screwing up the acronym for FEMA:

FEMA stands for Federal Emergence Management Agency. He used just about every word beginning with an “A” except the right one. He should know this since he used it for the hurricane in Florida. What is the name of the hurricane, Joe?

It was Hurricane Ian. Not Ivan, not Ion but Ian.

Biden always needs to bring his dead son in on everything even inflation.

He son served in Iraq but dies of brain cancer in Maryland. He brings up his dead son in almost every speech trying to gin up sympathy. It’s cynical. Notice he never brings up Hunter.

He continues with inflation.

Not partisan enough…Jeez. And, no, we do not have the lowest inflation in the world.

Still more on inflation:

So he’s admitting that there is inflation and we are all affected and…that’s it. At least he didn’t blame anyone for it.

Then he goes off on drug companies but can’t remember what they sell:

He just said, “aspirin” yet he can’t remember what he just said.

How about insulin, Joe?

The guy who invented insulin died in 1935, one year before Biden was born. The guy lies so much and no one fact checks him.

He continues with health care and pulls a Hilary Clinton, switching to a southern accent.

I wonder if he realizes that “boy” is considered a racist term? Probably, but he’s just racist so he doesn’t care.

Finally, to Debbie Wasserman Schultze relief, old decides to close his speech:

You knew that was coming. Damn Republicans need a blessing from God to get smarter. They’re so dumb. Just a reminder that Democrats hold the House, Senate and Presidency.

At least he didn’t blame Trump for the mess he made.

Tonight, Biden has decided to make a speech from the Oval Office. That should be fun.

 

How About No?

Emily Oster is an economist at Brown University. She wrote an article that has gone extremely viral. It’s called Let’s Declare a Pandemic Amnesty: We need to forgive one another for what we did and said when we were in the dark about COVID.

Let’s go through it.

In April 2020, with nothing else to do, my family took an enormous number of hikes. We all wore cloth masks that I had made myself. We had a family hand signal, which the person in the front would use if someone was approaching on the trail and we needed to put on our masks.  Once, when another child got too close to my then-4-year-old son on a bridge, he yelled at her “SOCIAL DISTANCING!”

OK, this family already sounds really annoying!

These precautions were totally misguided. In April 2020, no one got the coronavirus from passing someone else hiking. Outdoor transmission was vanishingly rare. Our cloth masks made out of old bandanas wouldn’t have done anything, anyway. But the thing is: We didn’t know.

No, we actually did know. I am not a doctor and I knew masks didn’t work, being outside was the best way not to catch the virus because of the open air and the sun and

I have been reflecting on this lack of knowledge thanks to a class I’m co-teaching at Brown University on COVID. We’ve spent several lectures reliving the first year of the pandemic, discussing the many important choices we had to make under conditions of tremendous uncertainty.

Some of these choices turned out better than others. To take an example close to my own work, there is an emerging (if not universal) consensus that schools in the U.S. were closed for too long: The health risks of in-school spread were relatively low, whereas the costs to students’ well-being and educational progress were high. The latest figures on learning loss are alarming.  But in spring and summer 2020, we had only glimmers of information. Reasonable people—people who cared about children and teachers—advocated on both sides of the reopening debate.

All the things she’s talking about were talked about three months after the pandemic started. But everyone who said it was banned from social media or ridiculed.

Another example: When the vaccines came out, we lacked definitive data on the relative efficacies of the Johnson & Johnson shot versus the mRNA options from Pfizer and Moderna. The mRNA vaccines have won out. But at the time, many people in public health were either neutral or expressed a J&J preference. This misstep wasn’t nefarious. It was the result of uncertainty.

“Wasn’t nefarious”? The president of international sales said the vaccines were never tested. They lied about the efficacy of vaccines. They lied about the side effects of the vaccines. They lied about the dangers of COVID. They lied about everything.

Obviously some people intended to mislead and made wildly irresponsible claims. Remember when the public-health community had to spend a lot of time and resources urging Americans not to inject themselves with bleach? That was bad. Misinformation was, and remains, a huge problem. But most errors were made by people who were working in earnest for the good of society.

Nobody said we should inject ourselves with bleach. This is just one of the many lies spread because of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Given the amount of uncertainty, almost every position was taken on every topic. And on every topic, someone was eventually proved right, and someone else was proved wrong. In some instances, the right people were right for the wrong reasons. In other instances, they had a prescient understanding of the available information.

The people who got it right, for whatever reason, may want to gloat. Those who got it wrong, for whatever reason, may feel defensive and retrench into a position that doesn’t accord with the facts. All of this gloating and defensiveness continues to gobble up a lot of social energy and to drive the culture wars, especially on the internet. These discussions are heated, unpleasant and, ultimately, unproductive. In the face of so much uncertainty, getting something right had a hefty element of luck. And, similarly, getting something wrong wasn’t a moral failing. Treating pandemic choices as a scorecard on which some people racked up more points than others is preventing us from moving forward.

So much here:

  • Getting anything right was not lucky. It was common sense from what we know about viruses.
  • There wasn’t heated and unpleasant conversations here. People’s lives were ruined because they didn’t tow the party line.
  • I was yelled at several times because I wouldn’t wear my mask all the time.
  • I was yelled at in the street because I wasn’t wearing a mask while I was running, alone.

We have to put these fights aside and declare a pandemic amnesty. We can leave out the willful purveyors of actual misinformation while forgiving the hard calls that people had no choice but to make with imperfect knowledge. Los Angeles County closed its beaches in summer 2020. Ex post facto, this makes no more sense than my family’s masked hiking trips. But we need to learn from our mistakes and then let them go. We need to forgive the attacks, too. Because I thought schools should reopen and argued that kids as a group were not at high risk, I was called a “teacher killer” and a “génocidaire.” It wasn’t pleasant, but feelings were high. And I certainly don’t need to dissect and rehash that time for the rest of my days.

I call BS here. She sounds like the person that would have kept schools closed.

Moving on is crucial now, because the pandemic created many problems that we still need to solve.

Student test scores have shown historic declines, more so in math than in reading, and more so for students who were disadvantaged at the start. We need to collect data, experiment, and invest. Is high-dosage tutoring more or less cost-effective than extended school years? Why have some states recovered faster than others? We should focus on questions like these, because answering them is how we will help our children recover.

Many people have neglected their health care over the past several years. Notably, routine vaccination rates for children (for measles, pertussis, etc.) are way down. Rather than debating the role that messaging about COVID vaccines had in this decline, we need to put all our energy into bringing these rates back up. Pediatricians and public-health officials will need to work together on community outreach, and politicians will need to consider school mandates.

The standard saying is that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. But dwelling on the mistakes of history can lead to a repetitive doom loop as well. Let’s acknowledge that we made complicated choices in the face of deep uncertainty, and then try to work together to build back and move forward.

So, we should grant amnesty to all those people who lied to us over the past two years. To the same people who are still pushing that we are in a pandemic.

Let’s see:

  • Old people were left to die alone in old folks homes.
  • We hold any funerals.
  • People were fired for not getting vaxxed.
  • Children were kept out of school for two years, erasing two decades of math and reading progress.
  • Children ended up with myocarditis because of the vaccine.
  • 2-year-olds were forced to wear masks.
  • People lost their businesses.
  • Churches were closed.
  • We were being censored on social media.
  • People were arrested for not wearing masks.
  • People couldn’t see their families because restrictions.
  • In China and New Zealand, there were actual concentration camps to imprison COVID positive people.

Let’s remember this small piece of propaganda that was being pushed by people like Jimmie Kimmel:

They wanted us to die. Now they want amnesty?

I also want to point one more thing out. In that article, notice something is missing? They want forgiveness but I still have yet to hear an apology. That seems to be missing from this article.

So, amnesty to the people that have been peddling misinformation about COVID?

F-you! They’ll get some forgiveness when I see people in jail over this.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/covid-response-forgiveness/671879/

 

 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/saudi-arabia-u-s-on-high-alert-after-warning-of-imminent-iranian-attack-11667319274?mod=hp_lead_pos4

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Nov012022

Episode 625 – It Can Get Worse!

The Supreme Court is at it again and prepare for more crying from the Left.

Elon Musk is making a splash at Twitter.

And just when you thought the fuel shortage, the supply chain issues and inflation couldn’t get worse – surprise!

 

Busy Bees 

The Supreme Court is at it again. Be prepared for more howls of agony and despair.

  • In a ruling yesterday, the Supreme Court put a stay on Trump needing to give his tax records until there is further review.
    • There will be more debate on November 10.
    • The Justice Department and Congress want to see his tax records but their reasoning is rather blurry.
    • I think that’s why the Supreme Court said, “Whoa!”
    • This is a harassment by the Justice Department and Congress.
    • I don’t know what’s going to happen when Congress is taken over by Republicans.
  • The Supreme Court is also listening to arguments over affirmative action.
    • Listening to the questions, it sounds like it is going to be banned.
    • Seth Waxman, who is defending affirmative action, keeps arguing with the Justices, which is pissing them off.
    • Some of the questions:
      • Samuel Alito asked: “I still haven’t heard any explanation for the disparity between the personal scores that are given to Asians.”
      • Waxman admitted race was decisive “for some highly qualified applicants,” just like “being… an oboe player in a year in which the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra needs an oboe player.”
      • Which Roberts remarked: “We did not fight a civil war about oboe players. We did fight a civil war to eliminate racial discrimination.”
      • Clarence Thomas asked what the definition of diversity is. He didn’t get an answer.

 

Gnashing of Teeth

The drama with Elon Musk taking over Twitter, the drama continues.

  • Musk fired Twitter Chief Executive Parag Agrawal, Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal and legal affairs and policy chief Vijaya Gadde.
  • Elon will be interim CEO or Chief Twit.
  • He still plans to fire 75% of the staff. He has ordered lists from managers and directors.
  • He is creating groups made to defeat spam bots and content advisors.
  • Nothing has been done with the algorithm.
  • Though he has not yet allowed Trump back on, he has said he never wants to suspend anyone permanently.
  • He will continue to follow all federal and international laws and regulations.
  • Musk has indicated he sees Twitter as a foundation for creating a “super app” that offers everything from money transfers to shopping and ride-hailing.
  • He plans to take the company public in a few years.
  • He has plans to charge $20 a month to verify user accounts. This is a great idea.

The employees threw a fit at the thought that most of them were getting fired. In their genius, they decided to write Musk and the soon-to-be-canned board/ This thing is hysterical so I have to read it:

Staff, Elon Musk, and Board of Directors:

We, the undersigned Twitter workers, believe the public conversation is in jeopardy.

Elon Musk’s plan to lay off 75% of Twitter workers will hurt Twitter’s ability to serve the public conversation. A threat of this magnitude is reckless, undermines our users’ and customers’ trust in our platform, and is a transparent act of worker intimidation.

Twitter has significant effects on societies and communities across the globe. As we speak, Twitter is helping to uplift independent journalism in Ukraine and Iran, as well as powering social movements around the world.

A threat to workers at Twitter is a threat to Twitter’s future. These threats have an impact on us as workers and demonstrate a fundamental disconnect with the realities of operating Twitter. They threaten our livelihoods, access to essential healthcare, and the ability for visa holders to stay in the country they work in. We cannot do our work in an environment of constant harassment and threats. Without our work, there is no Twitter.

We, the workers at Twitter, will not be intimidated. We recommit to supporting the communities, organizations, and businesses who rely on Twitter. We will not stop serving the public conversation.

We call on Twitter management and Elon Musk to cease these negligent layoff threats. As workers, we deserve concrete commitments so we can continue to preserve the integrity of our platform.

We demand of current and future leadership:

Respect: We demand leadership to respect the platform and the workers who maintain it by committing to preserving the current headcount.

Safety: We demand that leadership does not discriminate against workers on the basis of their race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, or political beliefs. We also demand safety for workers on visas, who will be forced to leave the country they work in if they are laid off.

Protection: We demand Elon Musk explicitly commit to preserve our benefits, those both listed in the merger agreement and not (e.g. remote work). We demand leadership to establish and ensure fair severance policies for all workers before and after any change in ownership.

Dignity: We demand transparent, prompt and thoughtful communication around our working conditions. We demand to be treated with dignity, and to not be treated as mere pawns in a game played by billionaires.

Sincerely,

Twitter workers

I hope they signed it with their names. That way he will know who to fire.

The media and the Left (but I repeat myself) have been flipping out.

  • Yahoo News reported that the use of the n-word has gone up 400%. Another source said the use of the n-word has gone up 500%
    • There are no actual stats.
    • There are no examples.
    • Sounds like BS.
    • Most people, when they accuse someone, post it.
    • I also want to point out Elon has been there for two days. He hasn’t made any changes yet because he hasn’t had a chance.
    • Musk himself pointed this out.
  • Another said that anti-Semitism was on the rise. Yeah, whatever.
  • The media got duped.
    • Two men walked away from the Twitter building carrying boxes.
    • The media thought they were fired employees and they interviewed them.
    • These guys came up with stories about what they did with Twitter.
    • Turns out they were trolls.

This whole thing is going to be so fun.

Democrats are trying to do what they are trying to do with Trump. Harass him into submission.

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn. sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Monday saying that the acquisition must be investigated because Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal had purchased his stake in Twitter. Mind you, no one said a word when he actually bought it which was way before Musk purchased Twitter.

He wrote:

“I write to draw your attention to potential national security concerns arising from the recently completed takeover of Twitter, Inc. by Elon Musk and a number of private investors.

“​​Setting aside the vast stores of data that Twitter has collected on American citizens, any potential that Twitter’s foreign ownership will result in increased censorship, misinformation, or political violence is a grave national security concern.

“Saudi Arabia is one of the most repressive countries in the world, with little to no tolerance for free expression. Importantly, the Saudi government has demonstrated a willingness to enforce their restrictive approach to dissent outside the Kingdom’s borders—illustrated most tragically by the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.”

Here’s what is scaring the crap out of Democrats and the Left.

  • Musk is a free speech guy and uses Twitter. He does not appreciate all the censorship that has been happening on Twitter and that he bought it to create a free speech platform.
    • Twitter will still moderate.
    • But news stories that were suppressed before will be allowed now.
  • The government was able to control some information before.
    • Both Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey admit working with the government.
    • Facebook and Instagram have special E-mail boxes for government input.
    • The above came out and now the government is using non-profits to proxy their input.
    • Musk doesn’t want this.
  • A bigger fear might be that Musk is going to be successful.
    • The company has not made money since its inception.
    • If he starts making money, other companies may lose subscribers.
    • Those companies then may follow Twitters path.
  • Finally, if Twitter is successful and other companies start to follow, this will kill the mainstream media.

.https://nichegamer.com/twitter-staff-open-letter-elon-musk-warning-demands/
https://news.yahoo.com/n-word-twitter-jumped-almost-122043804.html?ncid=twitter_yahoonewst_sjwumo1bpf4
https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/elon-musk-completes-44-bln-acquisition-twitter-2022-10-28/
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/democrats-capitol-hill-set-sights-elon-musks-twitter-acquisition

 

Tragedy

There were two tragedies this weekend.

  • In Seoul, South Korea, 146 were killed and 150 were injured during a Halloween street party. The crowds gathered on a narrow street and started pushing up on each other. Most of the victims were small women.
  • In Morbi, India, a bridge collapsed killing, at least, 120 people. The bridge is a foot bridge that was built by the British in the 1th century. Recovery efforts are still ongoing.
  • At the Los Angeles International Airport, four became ill, one gravely, due to a carbon dioxide leak. This has just happened and there will be more later.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-146-people-dead-150-injured-after-being-crushed-in-large-halloween-party-reportIn Seoul
https://www.dailywire.com/news/80-dead-after-bridge-from-19th-century-collapses-sending-hundreds-plummeting-into-river

 

It Could Get Worse?

Just when you thought that things couldn’t get any worse. I actually had to look this story up to make sure it was true.

Fuel supply company Mansfield Energy warned on Tuesday that the northeastern and southeastern United States are poised for diesel shortages. The supply could run out as soon as a month in that area. This is probably a big victory for the Biden administration because diesel is the dirtiest, and was the cheapest, form of fuel. The problem is trucks and other large transport vehicles depend on diesel.

But that’s not the only problem. The rail union is still planning to strike. They want more from that sweet deal the government offered them last month.

What does this mean? More supply change issues and more inflation.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/energy-company-warns-of-diesel-shortages-in-multiple-parts-of-the-country

 

 

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Oct312022

Episode 624 – Barrack Might Not Be Helping

Barrack Obama does a lot of campaigning while Old Joe kicks his feet up at home.

And Paul Pelosi is in the news again.

 

Kamalaism

With a little over a week before the elections and a landside looking to take place Joe Biden is doing what any President does, he goes to his mansion in Delaware.  But, before he takes off, he has to say something stupid and he came up with a doozie.

This guy just needs to go away.

Of course, we have to put in something from Kamala cause she’s an idiot. Here she is lecturing us on the dangers of being too aggressive on the bully pulpit:

Is she frigging kidding me? Her and her cohorts spend hours on the bully pulpit calling Conservatives traitors and terrorists. Joe Biden stood on a stage with a blood red background and the military in position, telling half the country how evil we all are because we disagree with him.

They’ve demonized:

  • Parents who don’t want their kids trans-ed.
  • They’ve called parents book burners for not wanting pornography.
  • They condemned 75 million people because 400 droogs rioted at the capital building.
  • We are against democracy for not wanting him to spend $6 trillion over a year.
  • We are stupid if we hate high gas princes and inflation. Or, we just don’t understand.

I don’t want to hear about demonization on the bully pulpit from these people.

Speaking of losing his shine, Barrack Obama was on the campaign trail. He said the typical stuff:

Um, except Republicans do know what to do:

  • Lower taxes.
  • Lower regulations.
  • Stop spending money.
  • Encourage drilling and and refining so we can be energy independent.
  • Everything that Reagan did when recovering from Jimmy Carter’s disasterous Presidency and what Trump was doing two years ago.

And, of course, all the problems we are seeing in the country are Trump’s fault including crime:

You know what the good news is? People aren’t buying his BS.

The emperor has no clothes on.

 

This IS Going to Get Weirder

Paul Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi’s husband, has had a bad year. A couple of months ago, he was arrested for drunk driving after he got into an accident, hurting the other driver. He got a lot of crap because he appeared to get off with nothing but a slap on the wrist and the prosecutor did not want to release body cam footage.

On Saturday morning, there was a disturbance at his house and the police went to do a welfare check. This is what happened that we know about.

  • The incident occurred around 2:20 AM Saturday morning.
  • The police entered the home and found Pelosi and the suspect fighting over a hammer.
  • The suspect got the hammer and started beating Pelosi with it.
  • The suspect was disarmed by police and arrested.
  • The suspect was in his underwear.
  • He was, supposedly, yelling, “where’s Nancy, Where’s Nancy.”
  • He is being charge with attempted murder, elder abuse, burglary and assault with a deadly weapon.

Here’s what we know about the suspect:

  • His name is David DePape, age 42.
  • He lives in Berkley, in a commune. He physically lives in an abandoned bus. Some say he’s homeless.
  • He is from Canada and is illegally in this country on an expired visa.
  • He’s a nudist activist.
  • He belongs to the Green party.
  • He’s a supporter of BLM.
  • He has been accused of child sexual abuse by his family but no one is sure that’s true.
  • He’s a conspiracy theorist with some extreme political views, though those views remain rather muddled.
  • He’s nuts.

Of course, Democrats are going to try to make this into a violence against Democrats thing by far right extremists.

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a Democrat and CNN political commentator, wrote:

“We don’t know why someone violently assaulted Paul Pelosi today. Yet. But it’s hard not to notice that the same Republicans who keep talking about crime *keep inciting people to violence.* Their logic is self-perpetuating. More fear, more violence, more guns. Rinse & repeat.”

Jon Alba tweeted:

The Terror of Dublin, a Left wing journalist from Ireland, said:

Tony Pasnanski said:

Even the unifier, Joe Biden, has some harsh words:

But hold on just a minute. What we don’t know is a thing. We don’t know what politics this guy followed. He supported the Green party, supported BLM and was a nudist activist. Do those sound like the typical ultra-MAGA, Trump supporting type. Yeah, I don’t think so either.

His family also reported he was an illegal alien (from Canada), had severe mental health issues and was homeless. Again, not a sign that he’s a Conservative.

There are also other questions that are lingering and don’t appear to be getting answered:

  • Why was the guy in his underwear and what was Paul Pelosi wearing. There are rumors about Paul’s exotic tastes.
  • Who’s hammer was it?
  • Did Paul know the guy? The released 911 calls seems to show that Pelosi did know him.

  • There’s a report that there was someone else at the house. Is that true, if so, who?
  • The glass from the back door is all over the floor on the outside of the house meaning it was broken from the inside. How did that glass break?
  • There are cameras all over the house. Where is the footage?

There are a lot of questions out there and no answers. Maybe before everyone starts blaming Republicans for this, the Pelosi’s should be a little more transparent about what happened. It’s not like Paul Pelosi is an angel.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/paul-pelosi-attacker-david-depape-daughter-describes-him-abusive-father-tried-be-good-person
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nancy-pelosi-husband-paul-pelosi-assaulted-san-francisco-suspect-david-depape-police-say
https://www.dailywire.com/news/paul-pelosis-frantic-911-call-from-bathroom-saved-him-from-maniac-accused-child-molester-reports
https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-visits-home-dubbed-hippie-collective-in-connection-to-paul-pelosi-attacker-report
https://dailycaller.com/2022/10/28/liberals-blame-republicans-assault-paul-pelosi/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Oct272022

Episode 623 – Satanic!

I have to rant about something.

It’s Halloween time which means it’s time to ban costumes.

And Elon Musk arrives at the Twitter headquarters and there are plenty of cries and gnashing of teeth.

 

The Rant

One of my grandchildren is being tested for ADHD. He’s one year old.

Let me tell you what’s going to happen:

  • He’s going to take the test.
  • He’s going to found to have ADHD.
  • They’re going to put him on Ritalin.
  • He’s going to end up a slobbering zombie.

Leave the kids alone!

 

Kamalaisms

We cannot go a day with stupid things being said by the White House.

Here is Joe Biden talking about the economy and he just goes off on the size of airplane seats and how it hurts the poor and black people.

You have to give the guy a break. He’s old and senile and probably isn’t going to be President much longer.

Luckily, we have Kamala Harris waiting in the wings and she loves yellow school buses!

God help us.

Luckily, she did say something far more intelligent a little later in her speech.

I lied. This was a stupid statement too.

Yes, that’s why are kids are dumb. Diesel fueled buses.

 

Tis the Season

It’s Halloween next week which means we have to start banning Halloween costumes. Fox News released an article on the hot new costumes that are going to be banned. Let’s go over them.

  • The Jeffry Dahmer costume.
    • Ever since the release of “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” viewers of the MA-rated drama streaming on Netflix have been able to “portray” the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer by purchasing lookalike costumes on eBay and through other online marketplaces.
    • eBay banned sales of Dahmer “costumes” and/or accessories this week.
    • “These items are banned on eBay and are being removed under our ‘Violence and Violent Criminal Policy,’” an eBay spokesperson told Fox News Digital on Wednesday in an emailed statement.
    • Simone Biles tweeted: im just gon go head and say it, put the jeffrey dahmer costumes back in the closet. we ain’t having it!!!!!!
  • “Squid Game” costumes were said to be popular after the show’s release on Netflix, according to several reports.
    • The Fayetteville-Manlius School District, located in central New York State, added the costumes to the list of prohibited costumes, since some students were said to be playing their own version of “Squid Game” on the playground.
  • In 2016 the creepy clown craze had retailers such as Target pulling clown masks from its 1,800 stores and online shopping site.
    • That same year, New Haven Public School District in New Haven, Connecticut, banned clown costumes and any “symbols of terror” amid Halloween.
  • Social media users and activists sounded off in 2020 after a costume called the “WW2 Evacuee Girl Costume” went on sale.
    • Some people on Twitter called it an “Anne Frank costume.”
    • Alexandra DeVitt, a spokesperson for the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect based in New York, referred to the costume as “offensive” and said that it “trivializes her suffering.”
    • The costume is not that bad. It is a typical German child’s clothing from the time period mad up of a green dress, a beret and a purse. If they changed the name it probably wouldn’t be a big deal.
    • Target has pulled the costume but it is available on eBay and Amazon.
  • And, of course, anything that culturally appropriating or insensitive including:
    • Geisha costumes.
    • Indian costumes.
    • Sexy Handmaid’s Tales costumes.
    •  Will Smith/Chris Rock slap costumes (especially if you’re white).
    • Queen Elizabeth costumes (too soon).
    • Transphobic costumes.
    • Monkey pox costumes.
    • Body shaming costumes.

So, happy Halloween!

https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/banned-halloween-costumes-time-ebay-removes-jeffrey-dahmer-inspired-outfit
https://news.yahoo.com/10-problematic-halloween-costumes-shouldn-083947310.html

 

The Takeover

Elon Musk is about to take over Twitter. Probably tomorrow.

He decided to go to the corporate headquarters and he did it in style. He was filmed, walking into the lobby, holding a bathroom sink. Not kidding. When he got closer to the camera, he said, “Let that sink in,” and laughed. He also changed his Twitter profile to “Chief Twit”.

This guy is the ultimate troll. That’s worth $250 billion!

Well, he’s there for a reason. He’s going to can 75% of the company. Facebook is thrilled about it because they are recruiting all the former Twitter employees. Not sure that’s a great idea. Twitter hasn’t made a profit in ten years.

Of course, the Left is flipping out.

Juliette Kayyem tweeted:

Cruel? Really?

I don’t know who this broad is but she’s a blue check on Twitter. I’m hoping I can become a blue check on Twitter that no one knows.

The New York Times and Washington Post is bashing Musk for allowing free speech.

Elon Musk wrote a letter to advertisers:

I wanted to reach out personally to share my motivation in acquiring Twitter. There has been much speculation about why I bought Twitter and what I think about advertising. Most of it has been wrong.

The reason I acquired Twitter is because it is important to the future of civilization to have a common digital town square, where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner, without resorting to violence. There is currently great danger that social media will splinter into far right wing and far left wing echo chambers that generate more hate and divide our society.

In the relentless pursuit of clicks, much of traditional media has fueled and catered to those polarized extremes, as they believe that is what brings in the money, but, in doing so, the opportunity for dialogue is lost.

That is why I bought Twitter. I didn’t do it because it would be easy. I didn’t do it to make more money. I did it to try to help humanity, whom I love. And I do so with humility, recognizing that failure in pursuing this goal, despite our best efforts, is a very real possibility.

That said, Twitter obviously cannot become a free-for-all hellscape, where anything can be said with no consequences! In addition to adhering to the laws of the land, our platform must be warm and welcoming to all, where you can choose your desired experience according to your preferences, just as you can choose, for example, to see movies or play video games ranging from all ages to mature.

I also very much believe that advertising, when done right, can delight, entertain and inform you; it can show you a service or product or medical treatment that you never knew existed, but is right for you. For this to be true, it is essential to show Twitter users advertising that is as relevant as possible to their needs. Low relevancy ads are spam, but highly relevant ads are actually content!

Fundamentally, Twitter aspires to be the most respected advertising platform in the world that strengthens your brand and grows your enterprise. To everyone who has partnered with us, I thank you. Let us build something extraordinary together.

Yeah, Musk sounds like he’s going to destroy the world and democracy…by allowing free speech and users to control their content.
Terrible.

 

https://www.foxnews.com/media/meltdown-elon-musk-enters-twitter-headquarters-ahead-takeover-let-sink

 

Reality Always Wins

Reality always wins. Ideology will always lose in the end, no matter how much we scream about it. The climate “crisis” is an example of reality winning over ideology.

A German wind farm is being dismantled because there is a coal mine that needs to be expanded. Why? Because wind has a 25% efficiency and coal has a 90% efficiency. Winter is coming. It’s going to get cold, like 10 degrees. And Germany, listening to a 16-year-old, mentally deficient girl from Sweden, has cut off all other energy supplies and people are going to need heat to, you know, survive.

Reality always wins.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/energy/coal-mine-demolishes-neighboring-wind-farm-boost-countrys-energy-supply-drawing-climate-activists

 

This Isn’t Free Speech

This story really bothers me because no one is talking about it.

According to Fox News:

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) recently overturned the ruling of a French court that had fined and issued a jail sentence to a feminist who interrupted a Roman Catholic church service and “aborted” Jesus on the altar while topless.

Eloïse Bouton was bare-breasted and painted in pro-choice slogans all over her body when, in December 2013, she interrupted Christmas carols at Paris’ famous Madeleine church and protested the Catholic Church’s teachings against abortion by simulating an abortion of Jesus.

Wearing a crown of thorns to mock Jesus Christ and a blue veil to deride the Virgin Mary, Bouton carried pieces of ox livers to symbolize an aborted baby as she stood in front of the church altar and pretended to perform an “abortion” before urinating on the ground in front of the congregants.

I just want to point out this is completely evil. The article continues:

Written on Bouton’s body at the time was the French phrase “344 salope,” which translates to “344th slut,” in reference to an open letter of 343 French women who admitted to having an abortion in 1971.

The Ukrainian group Femen, which Bouton used to be a member of, later celebrated the act on social media, writing “Christmas is canceled!” and that “the holy mother Eloïse has just aborted the embryo of Jesus on the altar of the Madeleine.”

The church’s priest filed a legal complaint against Bouton, who was found guilty by a French court of an unlawful “sexual display.” She was sentenced to more than a month in prison and ordered to pay the church €2,000, a punishment France’s highest court upheld.

There are some things that really bother me about this story:

  • Globalism. They have taken sovereignty from countries.
  • This is definitely a crime. I get the free speech thing, but this isn’t free speech.
  • The attack on religion. Globalism needs to eliminate religion so the global government become God.
  • Finally, abortion is a religion and it is, literally, satanic.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/court-overturns-sentence-feminist-simulated-aborting-jesus-catholic-altar-topless

 

What a Shock

https://nypost.com/2022/10/24/sacheen-littlefeathers-sisters-claim-she-wasnt-native-american/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow

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Episode 622 – What a Disaster!

A verdict is reached in the Darrell Brooks murder trial.

John Fetterman debated Mehmet Oz for Senator of Pennsylvania and it turns out to be a disaster.

And it turns keeping kids out of schools for two years was a bad idea.

 

A Verdict is Reached!

Darrell Brooks, the 40-year-old Milwaukee man accused of plowing a Ford Escape SUV through a Christmas parade in nearby Waukesha last year, has been found guilty of all charges. Those charges include:

  • First degree intentional Homicide – 6 counts.
  • First Degree Recklessly Endangering Safety – 61
  • Hit and Run – 6
  • Bail-jumping – 2
  • Battery – 1

I watched a lot of this trial and it was just weird.

  • Brooks decided to defend himself.
  • He was thrown out of the court about seven times.
  • He objected to every question.
  • He argued that he was being charged by the state so he could not face his accuser.
  • He refused to wear his suit.
  • At one point, while in another courtroom because he was removed, he started stripping.
  • He refused to acknowledge his name.

The next stage will be the penalty phase. There is no death penalty in Wisconsin so he will spend the rest of his life in prison. This is the kind of guy that emphasizes why we need the death penalty.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/darrell-brooks-found-guilty-first-degree-intentional-homicide-waukesha-christmas-parade-massacre

 

How is This Even Close?

There were a bunch of debates. The one I did watch was between Mehmet Oz and John Fetterman. I thought this one would be the most entertaining because Fetterman is about as close to a walking vegetable as one can get.

I was right. The debate was entertaining.

Here, Fetterman is being asked about his stance on fracking.

Some things:

  • This is just a lie. He’s always been against fracking and has said it multiple times.
  • Notice the pause? He has an auditory processing issue. He read the question from a monitor and still couldn’t process an answer.
  • Does this sound like a guy who should be in the Senate?

Here he is being asked about raising minimum wage to $15.

What?

But it gets better. He was asked about why he was not paying his taxes. Basically because he was living off his rich parents well into his forties. But his none answer is funny.

Yes, I’m making fun of this man’s disability because he’s a jerk.

Got that?

Finally, here’s his closing statement.

That was the most understandable statement he made all night. It was that bad. During the entire campaign, anyone who pointed out that this guy has brain damage and should not be running for Senate is called an ablest. But that performance was so bad, even media can’t dig this guy out.

What’s amazing is this Fetterman has been talking like this every time he speaks and the race is still close. Mehmet Oz is that bad a candidate. I think Oz is going to win, but it is way too close for comfort.

 

So It Wasn’t a Good Idea

I guess shutting down schools for two years for a modified cold wasn’t a good idea.

According to the Daily Wire:

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is administered to fourth and eighth graders every few years, allowing for a comparison of reading and math proficiency by state between 2019 — just before the pandemic — and 2022. The decline in math scores was the sharpest ever since the test began in 1990, and the average math scores were the lowest since 2005. The average eighth grade reading score was the lowest since 1998.

Some things:

  • 43 of the 50 states have had math scores drop.
  • The map at the top of this article shows how badly the number of fourth-graders who scored at least “basic” in reading fell compared to before the pandemic in each state.
    • Basic is the lowest of the three tiers — basic, proficient, and advanced — and those who do not have even basic reading skills by fourth grade are at risk of serious problems when it comes to employment and higher education later in life.

Look at the maps for a better understanding.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/blue-vs-red-2022-test-scores-show-devastating-toll-of-school-shutdowns
https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/highlights/mathematics/2022/

 

Everything is Racist!

I was i Mexico this weekend and had some time to read the Washington Post editorial page. Wow, they really went out of their way this weekend. Amber Ferguson wrote an opinion piece called America has a Black sperm donor shortage. Black women are paying the price. I have to say, these people amaze me on what they can call racism.

This is a rather long article but I think you’ll get the idea in short order. Let’s get on with it.

Every night a little after 1 a.m., following her shift as a guard at a women’s prison, Reese Brooks would open her laptop, a second laptop, then her phone and a tablet, and begin scouring websites for sperm banks, opening dozens of tabs.

The websites offered hundreds of potential sperm donors, allowing Brooks to select for movie-star looks, height and hobbies, but when she filtered for Black or African American donors, her options swiftly dwindled.

Some things:

  • It’s amazing how people will do anything to avoid actually getting married and raising a family the old fashioned way.
  • I bet she can’t wait to tell her child that she paid to by sperm from a sperm bank and use a baster to get pregnant.
  • But that is another issue I’ll get into later.

The cryobanks gave Brooks a chance at motherhood, but they couldn’t provide what she wanted: a Black sperm donor who could give her a child who looked like her and shared her culture.

“I’d say I spent 40 hours a week looking for a donor. All together, I think I searched more than 800 hours,” Brooks said. But when it came to a Black donor, she said, the choices were slim to none.

Maybe should should have spent those 800 hours looking for a good man instead of the right characteristics she’s looking for. Is she saying there are no black men worth marrying?

Cryobanks reported that the number of Black women seeking their services to conceive rose sharply during the pandemic after increasing steadily over the years. Black women between the ages of 35 and 45 are far more likely to remain unmarried than women from other racial groups, according to the latest census data, with 44 percent of non-Hispanic Black women unmarried, compared with 16 percent of White women. Yet Black sperm donors represent just a fraction of available supply — fewer than 2 percent at the country’s four largest sperm banks, according to an analysis by The Washington Post.

The severe shortage is forcing Black women who need donor sperm into a painful choice: Choose a donor of another race and raise a biracial child or try to buy sperm from unregulated apps and online groups.

Or try to meet someone.

The reasons for the shortage are myriad: failure among cryobanks to recruit Black donors; a selection process that demands a three-generation medical history (which may be challenging for Black men who may not have access to quality health care) and excludes donors with felony convictions; mistrust of the medical profession by Black men because of a legacy of historical discrimination.

There it is. didn’t take long. Systemic racism.

It can’t be that black men just don’t want to jerk off into a cup.

The search for donor sperm usually takes place on a cryobank website where someone can browse profiles of available donors with limited personal and genetic information. Baby pictures of donors may be available for an additional fee.

On average, sperm is sold for $950-$1,300 per vial. Donors receive $70-$150 per donation. The cryobanks sell a fixed number of vials per donor to limit the number of children fathered by any one donor.

There are more than 20 cryobanks in the country, four of which have more than 100 donors. Among the four (California Cryobank, Fairfax Cryobank, Seattle Sperm Bank and Xytex) supply fluctuates, but as of Oct. 11, there were only 12 Black donors out of a total of 748. White and Asian donors are disproportionately represented, while Hispanic donors are also underrepresented.

This is where I have the problem with this article and the concept of sperm banks in general. This makes children a commodity not a human being. A lot of anti-abortionists are against this stuff and things like surrogate mothers. It basically makes children into cattle that can be sold. All this just to satisfy the desires of the woman. There is no thought to the quality of life of the child. No thoughts of what can become of a child that is born into a broken home or will have a father figure.

There is also another big question. Why not adopt? There are plenty of kids out there. Is it because she would not be seen as a suitable parent? Maybe her situation is not considered viable for a child? Why can’t cryobanks go through the same qualification process?

These are questions that are never asked in the article.

Of 15 women who talked to The Post, only one was able to buy sperm and conceive a child with a Black donor.

The Black women detailed fierce competition on cryobank websites for vials from Black donors, which, they say, typically sell out within minutes.

Angela Stepancic, a D.C. educator, recalled putting vials of sperm from a Black donor into her online shopping cart only to get beaten out by a sorority sister she was on the phone with who was faster to check out. Stepancic had a mixed-race child using sperm from a Latino donor.

At California Cryobank, the waiting list for an in-demand White donor is generally three months, according to Jaime Shamonki, the chief medical officer. The wait for a Black donor there can stretch as long as 18 months.

And women in their late 30s and 40s, who are facing diminishing fertility due to age, simply can’t wait.

“You know that if you get what you need, that means another sister won’t get what she needs if she wants a Black donor, too. I’m crying, fasting, praying and believing for a donor,” author Candice Benbow, 40, said. “I know she’s doing the same, but I need to buy as much as I can, pay my storage fee, and do what I need to do.”

Me, me, me. It’s all about what the chick wants.

Black women are predispositioned to other fertility hurdles. They face higher risks in conceiving and carrying a child. They are more likely to suffer uterine fibroids and other conditions that can compromise fertility and three times more likely than White women to die of a pregnancy-related cause.

And yet they are less likely to be referred to specialists than White women, said Michael Thomas, president-elect of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.

“One of the biggest problems that we face as fertility doctors is not getting those patients in sooner. And we see the gynecologists sometimes dragging their feet in those referrals because they just assume that these patients are going to get pregnant on their own,” Thomas said. Some may believe, inaccurately, that Black women are hyperfertile, he explained.

Yes, the system hates black women. Wah, wah, wah.

The women all said they love their kids, but they regret their lack of options.

“When you are in this position, sometimes you have to take what you can get,” said Sandra Wiley, a caseworker in Chicago who had a daughter and a set of twins using sperm from a donor of Indian origin.

By February 2021, Reese Brooks had spent months on an increasingly desperate effort to conceive a child with sperm from a Black donor when she drove 2½ hours from her apartment in Newark, Del., to Fairfax Cryobank in Northern Virginia and picked up a 10-pound cryotank containing two vials of sperm from a 5-foot-10 Peruvian man who practices MMA fighting.

After spending $8,000 on three failed insemination procedures with sperm from a cryobank, Brooks had conceived in 2019 using sperm from a close friend who is Black. But she lost her son, Kemet, after she delivered prematurely at 24 weeks.

When Reese felt ready to try again, her friend was in a new relationship and didn’t feel comfortable being her donor.

Yeah, she loved her son. So much so, she had no problems going through it again even though she could lose another child. The ultimate in selffishness.

The story goes along, talking about this gal looking for another donor when she finally decided to forget getting a black donor. She finally got pregnant.

After Zurie was born in November 2021, Brooks, who was newly single, posted to her 49,000 followers on TikTok. She said she was shocked by the negative reaction to the video of her infant daughter.

“I got comments like, ‘Of course she’s mixed,’ and ‘You only wanted a light-skinned baby. You don’t like being Black,’ ” Brooks said.

She acknowledges that she and Zurie don’t look much alike.

“I am not going to raise her strictly in the African American culture because that’s not who she is,” Brooks said. “I’m learning as much as I can right now about Peruvian culture.”

She wants Zurie to have a sibling and hopes to purchase more vials from the same donor. “There’s so many good African American men out there,” Brooks said. “Maybe they just don’t know how much they’re needed to create families.”

The fact that she decided to display her child shows me something about this woman. She needs to show off her kid on TikTok? That’s the problem with a lot of parents. They use their children as props. A real parent keeps their kid off of social media because there are too many creeps out there. The responses she got on TikTok prove this. That would have been the last time my kid is on social media.

I’m done with this article. Let’s just get to the main points:

  • This is not about racism or systemic racism.
    • Black men are not being prevented from donating, they’re just not.
    • Cryobanks are not discriminating against black men. There’s too much money in it for them.
  • This about the devaluing of life.
    • Children on not seen as human beings.
    • That’s why there is abortion.
    • Drugging “trans-kids”.
    • And body mutilation of trans-kids.
    • It why kids can watch drag shows.
    • And why kids can perform in drag shows.
    • It’s why educating kids is not as important as indoctrinating them in the public school system.
    • Like in Huxley’s Brave New World, they are drones to be grown and controlled.
  • Kids are seen as nothing but commodities. It’s perverse.
  • It devalues men. We are seen as nothing but sperm donors.
  • It’s about destroying the institution of the family.
    • Who needs a father?
    • We can just give a woman sperm and she can magically create a family.
    • Not once was this woman asked if she thought it might be a good thing to find a man and create a family. Not once.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/10/20/black-sperm-donors/

 

 

 

 

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Episode 621 – There Are How Many Bullets in a Round?

Amazingly, a new Illinois law will make Chicago worse.

Apparently keeping kids out of school for two years was a bad idea.

And everything is racist.

 

Some News

Here’s some news:

  • Joe Biden gets another COVID booster. I thinks this makes it 14 or something like that.
  • The New York Supreme Court ruled that those who were fired for not getting vaxxed need to be reinstated and will receive backpay.
    • Ouch!
    • 1400 employees were fired in New York City alone.
  • Brittany Griner, the WNBA player who brought drugs into Russia and got caught, had her 9 year sentence upheld in Russia. At least she won’t have to listen to the Star Spangled Banner for a decade.
  • Something you won’t hear in the mainstream media, a Marco Rubio canvasser was beaten up while working in Hialeah, Florida.
    • Marco Rubio tweeted: “Last night one of our canvassers wearing my T-shirt and a Desantis hat was brutally attacked by 4 animals who told him Republicans weren’t allowed in their neighborhood in #Hialeah #Florida. He suffered internal bleeding, a broken jaw & will need facial reconstructive surgery.”
    • I guess this is another example of all this right-wing violence. By that I mean violence done to the right-wing.

 

https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-york-supreme-court-reinstates-all-employees-fired-being-unvaccinated-orders-backpay
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rubio-canvasser-attacked-florida-1-arrested
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/brittney-griners-nine-year-prison-sentence-russia-upheld

 

Kamalaism

Poor Karin Jean Pierre had a rough day yesterday.

Here, she is being asked about the border crisis and the 2.4 million people that have crossed:

When human being breathe out, we release carbon dioxide which, we have been told, damages the environment. How much damage did Jean Pierre do to the environment with that long winded answer?

She could have saved the minute and forty-five second, and maybe a polar bear or two, by just saying, “We are not going to do anything about it.”

 

Some things:

  • Trump, Trump, Trump.
  • The reality, Biden hasn’t created one job. We just got to pre-pandemic levels and the unemployment rate, though good, is still higher than it was under Trump.
  • What does Trump’s tax cuts have to do with the question?
  • The American Rescue plan was rejected by Republicans because the pandemic was over and blowing $1.4 trillion into the economy would cause inflation. Oh, yeah, it did cause inflation.

Here’s Joe Biden being Joe Biden:

What? Last I heard, a bullet and a round are the same thing. Glad he’s in charge of gun control policy.

Ted Cruz, the Senator from Texas, has released a new book. So he is doing his rounds with the media. One show he went on was The View. This takes balls, but Cruz knows that the combined IQ of The View is like eight.

This clip just shows the hypocrisy of Leftist thought:

Some things:

  • Notice, he’s always interrupted. That’s what these people do. They don’t want the message to get out.
  • Cruz is telling them that Democrats have been bitching about how the 2016 election was stolen and Whoopie yells, “It was!”
  • She doesn’t know what an Antifa riot is? She should just walk through Portland. They are still causing problems.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/karine-jean-pierre-blasted-response-record-border-crossings-lots-words-no-solutions

 

It’s Going to Get Worse?!

Chicago had fifty shooting this past weekend and a bunch of deaths. Just when you thought that city could not get more dangerous, in comes the state government.

Last year, Gov. JB. Pritzker signed into law the SAFE-T Act (the Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity-Today Act). This bill is the same type of justice reform that is implemented in New York.

Kareem Butler, pretrial justice fellow of the Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts, said of the bill:

“We’d be ending wealth-based jailing and restoring the presumption of innocence in the courtroom, which is something that is really under fire and it is not valued under our current system.”

Some of the things it does:

  • Elimination of cash bail.
    • Very vague.
    • This constitutes a narrowly defined “danger standard.”
    • But the bill’s language also appears to enumerate a subset of crimes for which only a risk of flight can be used to deny release. Those crimes include aggravated battery, robbery, burglary, aggravated DUI, kidnapping, vehicular homicide, and all drug offenses.
    • SAFE-T Act has removed the danger standard and precluded judges’ discretion.
    • Either way, the decision to release someone on bail requires a formal hearing within 48 hours of arrest—far too soon for prosecutors to gather the necessary evidence to prove either danger or a risk of flight.
  • requirement for police body cameras
    • outlines a complex set of rules for when officers must have bodycams turned on or off. Law-enforcement sources claim that the rules are too convoluted to work on the street, setting up criminal-court challenges over footage that will inevitably be deemed “missing.”
  • mandates that detainees be allowed to make three phone calls from each location at which they are held.
    • This is going to be a logistical nightmare.
  • Downgrade crimes. For example, trespassing is no longer an arrestable offense. You’d only get a ticket.

Needless to say, law enforcement, judges and prosecutors are pissing on this 800-page bill, but politicians have no idea what they thing. Or just don’t care. This bill was never debated or open to argument from the public. It was presented and voted on almost immediately.

It’s going to become the wild west in states like Illinois, California and New York because people are going to start protecting themselves.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/americas-most-dangerous-law-illinois-candidate-warns-anarchy-criminal-justice-overhaul
https://www.city-journal.org/illinois-un-safe-t-act#:~:text=The%20SAFE%2DT%20Act%20mandates,and%20the%20rights%20of%20detainees.

 

 

 

 

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Oct252022

Episode 620 – Mr. President? You There?

Joe Biden short circuits during an interview on Friday.

A professor gets fired for teaching a hard course.

And we are all going to die.

 

News

Here’s some news:

  • The January 6th committee has voted to subpeona Donald Trump to testify.
    • Good luck with this.
    • The committee ordered Trump to produce the sought records by 10 a.m. on November 4, 2022, and ordered him to testify at a deposition on November 14, 2022.
    • They sent a letter to Trump: “As demonstrated in our hearings, we have assembled overwhelming evidence, including from dozens of your former appointees and staff, that you personally orchestrated and oversaw a multi-part effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election and to obstruct the peaceful transition of power.”
    • This thing has no teeth. It’s not going to happen.
    • This is suppose to be their October Surprise.  It’s not all that surprising.
    • The best thing Trump can do is roll his eyes and say nothing.
  • Justin Trudeau has decided to freeze handgun sales in Canada.
    • She, I mean he, said: ”

      “We have frozen the market for handguns in this country.”

      “As we see gun violence continue to rise … we have an obligation to take action. Today our national handgun freeze is coming into force.”

      “Our government is taking Canada’s most significant action on gun violence in a generation. We made a commitment to Canadians that we would act — and we are. The national freeze will tackle the alarming role of handguns in crime, gender-based violence, and more.”

    • Or he’s just a tyrant and wants to be the dictator of Canada.
    • Watch this closely. It will be attempted here. Luckily, we have a Constitution.
    • More on Canada later. They really are going head over heels nuts.

Imagine hearing, and seeing, this crap:

This is a drag performance.

Now, imagine this is being done in frone of six-year-olds.

That’s what happened in Plano, Texas.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton called for prosecution over a sexually explicit drag performance in front of at least one young child in exclusive comments to the Daily Caller News Foundation.

This is nothing short of sexual abuse. If this guy had done this outside to a little kid, he would be in jail. Everyone should be prosecuted here, even the parents that allowed their kids to see this crap.

  • Finally, Xi Jinping has won his third term as President of China, which means he has appointed himself dictator.
    • To celebrate, he had his predessessor, Hu Jintao, hauled out of a Communist China celebration with no explanation in fron of all the cameras to see.
    • Though there was no explanation it is obvious Jintao was not thrilled with Xi and may have said smething to the press, but that’s just speculation.
    • We can expect never to see Jintao again. He’ll be shot with a missile or eaten by dogs or something.
    • The Chinese are our biggest threat. Forget the Russians.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trump-subpoenaed-by-january-6-committee-2
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trudeau-officially-freezes-handguns
https://dailycaller.com/2022/10/19/ken-paxton-prosecute-drag-performer-child/
https://www.foxnews.com/world/boris-johnson-announces-he-will-not-run-next-uk-prime-minster
https://www.foxnews.com/world/drama-chinese-communist-party-summit-xi-predecessor-hu-jintao-hauled-out

 

Kamalaism

I would say this is a Kamalaism, but this is too sad and happening to someone who is too important.

Joe Biden’s brain has short-circuited before. He shakes hands with no one, walks in the wrong directions, goes off on tangents. But, when he is in a one-on-one interview, and has one of these brain reboots, it’s time to do something. Especially when the interviewer has to snap him out of it.

Listen:

It looks worse than it sounds.

I know this is going to be answered today as Joe was trying to craft and answer, but one could tell, this was edited to make the brain freeze appear like he came out of it instantly. He didn’t. He had no idea who Dr. Biden was. Hint: it’s his wife and she isn’t a real doctor.

Republicans are calling for a cognitive test. Republicans are threatening to make a cognitive required for the President, and all future President, as part of law when thewin the House and Senate in November. By the way, Republicans are going to win the House and have a 50-50 chance to win the Senate. That’s up from only having a 35% chance last month.

This should be the first thing they do when they take over in January. Of course, as I’ve said a hundred times, it won’t matter. Biden is going to pardon his son and resign by then.

Calling it!

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-slammed-scary-long-pause-asked-first-lady-supports-2024-run

 

Toughen Up, Buttercup!

According to Fox News:

The New York University professor who was fired from his job after students complained that his class was too hard is now speaking out and saying that colleges need to “apply a little tough love” to students.

Maitland Jones Jr., 84, a former chemistry professor at New York University, was fired from the university in August following a petition from students complaining that his course was too hard.

The petition said:

“We are very concerned about our scores, and find that they are not an accurate reflection of the time and effort put into this class.”

“We urge you to realize… that a class with such a high percentage of withdrawals and low grades has failed to make students’ learning and well-being a priority and reflects poorly on the chemistry department as well as the institution as a whole.”

Here are some things about this whole case:

  • This professor is 84 years old.
  • He held tenure and an endowed chair at Princeton University.
  • He was the head of research at Princeton!
  • He developed a teaching regimin and plan that was accepted by Princeton staff and certified by Princeton students!
  • He took that same plan to New York University and the children there couldn’t handle it.

This guy is retired and doesn’t care. It’s not going to hurt his reputation at all. He was doing New York University a favor. He wrote and op-ed for the New York Times. This what he said:

“They weren’t coming to class, that’s for sure, because I can count the house. They weren’t watching the videos, and they weren’t able to answer the questions.

“Critically, the growing number of administrators, major and minor, who are often without any expertise in a given subject matter, need to learn to stand back from purely academic matters and to support the faculty,” Jones said. “Deans must learn to not coddle students for the sake of tuition and apply a little tough love. They must join the community in times of conflict to generate those teachable moments.

“Even before COVID-19 disrupted classrooms, there were signs of trouble. I came to New York University in 2007 after 43 years of teaching and research at Princeton, where I had both tenure and an endowed chair. I wanted to see if the technique I had introduced at Princeton, in which the talking-head lecture was deemphasized in favor of small-group problem solving, was transferable to another university.

“All went well at first as students prospered in the problem-solving setting and younger faculty began to adopt it. But about 10 years ago, I noticed that students were increasingly misreading exam questions.

“Exams that should have yielded a B average dropped to C- or worse. Single digit scores became common and we even had zeros on exams, something that had never happened before. In his opinion piece, Malesic speculates on causes (screen time, COVID-induced remote “learning”) and suggests that we do no one a favor by continuing to dumb down our courses. I completely agree, although I must admit that I was guilty of some grade inflation.”

Let’s make something clear, chemistry sucks. It is hard. It is objectively hard. It takes a lot of work and one needs talent for it. I suck at chemistry and that’s a good thing that I realize it. Do you want me to be your doctor, prescribing you drugs when I don’t know how they are going to affect you because I don’t know the chemistry? Do you want me designing drugs when I feel this chemical combination should work but don’t reasonably know?

New York University should have told these children to f-off. Better yeat, tell these students they’re not kids and start putting more effort into their work.

This is what happens when feeling are more important than reality.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/nyu-professor-fired-students-complained-class-too-hard-says-colleges-must-apply-tough-love

 

Some Great News

This is awesome because it fits into a podcast we talked about last week.

According to the New York Post:

Nouriel Roubini is seriously reconsidering whether he wants to continue living in New York. Mostly because, well, he wants to survive.

“There’s a scenario in which, in the next twelve months, Russia uses tactical nuclear weapons against Ukraine and then they attack NATO and we start a conventional war with Russia. The first nuclear weapon is gonna go to New York,” said the 64-year-old NYU economics professor and CEO of Roubini Macro Associates. “Being in New York City is not safe.”

Wow, what a coincidence. He’s from New York University too but they celebrate this guy.

Even if Manhattan manages to avoid nuclear annihilation, there’s still the possibility of a natural disaster, like Hurricane Sandy that flooded New York in 2012, but “much, much worse,” Roubini told The Post. ”In the next 20 years, most of downtown New York is gonna be underwater.”

A recent $52 billion proposal from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which promises to build sea barriers to protect the city from another storm surge, are impractical, he added, because “Who’s gonna pay for that? They don’t even know if it’s gonna work. It’ll take twenty-five years to build and even if we save Manhattan, all of the Jersey Shore and Long Island will get flooded because that water needs to go somewhere.”

Ugh, haven’t we heard this crap before? I wonder if he has any morivation?

You don’t have to talk with Roubini for very long to realize why he earned the nickname “Dr. Doom” — a moniker that, along with his Page Six reputation for partying with models at hot-tub soirées, has always given him a sort of supervillain sheen.

He first came to prominence 16 years ago, correctly predicting the collapse of the housing market and the emergence of a worldwide recession. And now he’s back with a new book, “MegaThreats: Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, And How to Survive Them” (Little, Brown), which doubles down on his grim forecasts.

Done with the article. This guy does this crap to sell books, keep tenured and get laid. But New York University wants to get rid of an 84-year-old chemistry professor who tested his teaching method for 43 years at Princetoon University.

I’m pretty sure this is toxic masculinity.

Good job, New York University.

https://nypost.com/2022/10/22/san-diego-er-seeing-up-to-37-marijuana-cases-a-day?utm_source=nypost&utm_campaign=android_nyp

 

Something Else We Need to Give Up

To save the world from climate change, the Left has said:

  • We are not allowed to travel.
  • We are not allowed to have art work.
  • We’re not allowed to drive.
  • We can’t eat meat. We need to eat bugs.
  • We can’t have capitalism.
  • We can’t be white, straight or rich.
  • We can’t have heat.
  • We can’t have light.
  • We can’t have air conditioning.
  • Can’t have refrigerators, microwave, stoves or ovens.
  • Or we will all die in 10 years…again.

Sigh, according to Fox News:

A CNN climate piece arguing that pets and their “meat-heavy diet” are major contributors to climate change was shared online this week. 

The piece offered ways that owners can reduce their beloved animals’ “carbon pawprint.”

It suggested pet owners re-assess their pet’s diet, offering “lab-grown meat” and “insect-based pet foods” as a potential option for them. The article also recommended making sure that pet products, such as leashes, bags, toys and bowls are recyclable, and also advised that potential owners maybe adopt smaller breeds to minimize climate impact.

OK, I’ve heard this crap before. We all fart and, therefore, are contribuating to climate change. We fart because we eat meat. Of course, cows fart and they don’t eat mean. But I’m getting ahead of myself. So we need to eat grass, bugs and trees and we will all stop farting. Of course trees and grass fart so we are eating what is saving our environment. But they don’t talk about that.

Let’s forget about the fact that dogs and cats are carnvores and require meat to survive. they don’t want to talk about that.

Bugs do not offer the protein we need to survive and, most of the time, can be toxic because they contain enzymes that are poisonous, but we won’t talk about that.

But, what I do want to talk about, what are we going to do with all those animals that are f-ing up our environment. All those cows, chickens, pigs, cats and dogs that are farting. Though they don’t want to talk about this, what do we do with them? Kill them? (slippery slope falicy).

Hey, while we are at it, what about the lions and tiger, and bears. They all eat meat and fart. Do we kill them. (Slippery slope falicy).

What about those f-ing polar bears who Al Gore said proved global warming, then climate change, then the climate crisis? They only eat meat (not a lot of soy in the north pole), do we nuke them? (Slippery slope falicy).

Who determines what s a dog that is too big? Who determines what pet is acceptable?

This is all crap. It’s about control. Well, f-you. I’ll keep my German Sheperd and you can go suck a rock. And he’s going to eat the food he needs to which is a meat-based food.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-claims-pets-have-big-climate-impact-advises-buying-smaller-breeds-feed-them-insect-based-food

 

 

 

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Episode 619 – Dems Own This!

A new horror movie may have made an inadvertent commentary about the TikTok generation.

It takes men to explain about how to be a woman.

And somebody has some explaining to do at Boston University.

 

A Surprisingly Good Movie

I’m a big horror guy. There is a movie out on Amazon called Bodies Bodies Bodies. I didn’t have high expectations for this movie because it starred Pete Davidson and I think he’s kind of a jerk. Luckily, he dies really early in the movie.

It’s about a bunch of kids from the TikTok generation getting together to party at a remote mansion. Yes, they’re all rich and living off of mommy and daddy’s money. They decide to play a game called “Bodies Bodies Bodies” which is a game where someone touches someone on the back and that person “dies”. Then the rest need to figure out who killed that person.

Well, it doesn’t work out. They are all drinking and are on drugs and all that ends up happening is Pete Davidson’s character gets into a fight with the other male character. Game over.

Turns out not. Pete Davidson’s character turns out to have his throat slit and now the other character have to figure out who “killed” him.

That’s all you have to know about the movie.

What got me about this movie was not the clever dialog or gripping plot. What got me was the social commentary that came with it. I don’t know if this was done on purpose and, reading the writer’s commentary, I doubt it was, but it was there.

Basically, the movie shows all the flaws of the TikTok generation, better known as Gen Z (born 1996-2010). Everyone gives Millennials the short end of the stick but it is actually Gen Z which are the big criers.

So, what did this movie show?

  • Loose sexual morality.
    • Bisexuality.
    • Sleeping around.
    • Ease of discussing sex and expressing their desires.
  • The terminology of wokeness is all over this movie.
    • Ablism.
    • Sexism.
    • Racism.
    • But this stuff was over the top to the point it looked to be commentary, not woke.
  • Perception and feelings over reason and reality.
  • They are all really dumb.
  • There is an addiction to the Internet and social media. In fact, the main character died while doing something stupid for a TikTok video.
  • The final scene sums it up. The last words in the movie, when the owner of the house shows up, the kid doesn’t explain what happened but simply says, “I have reception” when her phone starts buzzing.

It really is sad to think these people are going to be in charge in a few years.

 

Living in a Fantasy

If you saw my video on Rumble, you met a guy named Dylan Mulvaney. He is a TikTok influencer who decided to become a woman and record every day that he was a woman. Here’s a little reminder of him.

You need to see the video and how ridiculous this guy looks.

Well, for those who saw that video, here’s a new clip. Here he’s talking about his trip to the store and buying tampons for his period. He must admit his lack of knowledge:

Well, this guy, who has been a woman for less than a year, was one of the speakers for the Forbes Women’s Summit, explaining how to be a successful woman in the business sphere. He got a lot of attention, though not the kind of attention that one would think is good. But Ulta Beauty thought it was good.

Ulta Beauty, a retailer for makeup and other beauty products, decided to do an interview with Mulvaney with another trans guy named David Lopez. The two were talking about beauty and how great it is to be girls. Here’s a little clip of the hour long video.

Some things:

  • He is never going to be a mother. It is physically impossible.
  • Those things will never accessible to him

Needless to say, there was a huge backlash from women. Here is just one clip that sums up what women are saying on social media about this:

She’s absolutely correct here.

Ulta responded to the backlash with a tweet:

Why do they deserve our respect? These two men are clowns, make up and all, and are making a mockery of women. I do not see any of this as deserving of my respect.

Remember a while back, Gillette, the men’s razor company, came out with a campaign telling men to not be so toxic? Remember what happened to them? They got a lot of praise for this by the Left, which is what they were looking for. What they also got was declining sales because, it turns out, insulting your customer base has repercussions.

Here’s the thing, the backlash is here. People aren’t tolerating this crap anymore.

 

Really?

This is just f-ing incredible.

According to the Daily Wire:

Last Friday, Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories released data claiming that it had combined the original strain of COVID with the omicron variant, resulting in a new strain of COVID that killed 80% of mice in the trial.

The new strain, while less deadly to mice than the original, is more deadly than the omicron variant, according to BU research. The lab denies that it was conducting controversial gain of function experiments.

The alpha virus wasn’t transmissible enough so they added an omicron spike protein to it to make the COVID virus more transmissible. And this is all funded by the government, which, we were told, they were not doing.

The question is why? What is the reason to do this? There needs to be an investigation into this because, if that virus gets out, it could turn this country upside down again. Also, we were told they were not doing this.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/ho-hum-boston-university-creates-potentially-unauthorized-deadly-covid-strain-hybrids-no-big-deal

 

Joe Biden is at It Again

Joe Biden had a press conference yesterday describing his new plans to lower gas prices. Let’s listen to some of it.

Problem here is gas prices went up over a dollar. These price decreases were inevitable with him dumping oil from the strategic reserve. I also notice he’s taking credit for the pennies prices have gone down since August. I wonder if he’s going to take responsibility for them going up in the first place and every month since he took office.

Some things:

  • Putin’s price hike. The first person to blame.
  • I am so tired of him making himself out as an ordinary guy. This jerk has been in politics since he was 29.

Some things:

  • Why through December? Maybe because the elections are in November.
  • The strategic oil reserves are not for lowering gas prices.
  • Biden has decreased the reserves to 50% capacity.
  • Maybe he should lift regulations and approve drilling.

Some things:

  • Every oil and gas company in the world disagrees with Biden. Him not preventing oil companies from drilling is just a lie.
  • Oil is selling at $87.50 a barrel. The reason it is so high is because of regulations and the lack of permits. When, exactly, does he think it is ever going to get down to $70 a barrel?

Some things:

  • First, it’s Putin’s fault, now it is the oil company’s fault.
  • Those profits are going up because oil is going up. Oil is going up because drilling is not happening. Drilling is not happening because of Joe Biden’s policies and regulations.
  • The oil industry has explained this.
  • This is the big question I have whenever these idiots talk about the greed of the oil industry. Where was this greed when Trump was in office when gas was half of what it was?

Some things:

  • Oil going down does not mean gas prices instantly go down. Oil needs to be refined before it is sent to gas stations. The Biden administration is preventing the upgrading and building of refineries.
  • It typically takes weeks before gas drops. This is just basic business.

Some things:

  • Oil companies shouldn’t do this while a “war is raging”? Here’s my question, why are we even involved in this war?
  • We don’t get our oil from Russia or Ukraine.

Some things:

  • That a great idea.
  • Lets speed up the production of less efficient, more expensive energy sources.
  • By the way, most of that stuff is made in China.

Some things:

  • Let’s see. He’s blamed:
    • Putin.
    • Oil companies.
    • The refiners.
    • Gas retailers.
    • And now Trump.
  • He takes all the credit and takes none of the blame.

No one’s buying any of this crap. Even the media sees this as an overt political stunt right before an election.

The question is where has he been for the last two years? Democrats own the House, the Senate and the Presidency. Republicans can’t do anything, they have had no power for the last two years. It’s his policies that caused this mess in the economy.

 

 

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Episode 618 – Not a Great Platform

As the election approaches and the Democrats look to get trounced, Democrats pull out an old subject to use as their platform.

Eric Swalwell, the guy who likes screwing Chinese spies, releases a horrid campaign ad.

And a study finds our military ain’t doing so good.

 

Kamalaism

Democrats look like they are going to get pummeled in November. They are saying anything to try to convince people what is important and that things just aren’t that bad.

Here’s Karin Jean Pierre saying that people are now saving money compared to June of 2022:

God, she’s bad.

  • I’m not sure why the media accepts that the administration changes the standard to June of 2022.
    • Sure gas has gone down since June but it’s still up by $1.50 since Biden took office.
    • That should be the standard.
  • He is also looking to buy millions of barrels of oil to refill the oil reserves which is down 50% since he took office.
  • Biden also released another 15 million barrels of oil today because gas prices still remain incredibly high.

Another problem the Democrats are having is finding a platform. They can’t use the economy, foreign policy, crime, the border, homelessness or drug use. All they have is all Republicans are fascists and abortion. And they push this at every point.

Here’s Stacey Abrams, whose running for governor in Georgia and is going to get her ass kicked, talking about how abortion will lower inflation.

Wow.

Some things:

  • This is simply evil.
  • The reason she says abortion will lower inflation is because they have no idea how to lower inflation.
  • But abortion has to be their platform. They have nothing else.

 

Yawn

In order to push the abortion platform as the the main platform for Democrats, Eric Swalwell released a video of a woman being arrested because she had an abortion. It is just an awful commercial and is the definition of gaslighting. Here it is:

Some things:

  • First off, this guy is from California.
    • California is not going to outlaw abortion.
    • California is expanding abortion, according to some interpretations of the law, up to 30 days after the child is born.
    • California is trying to push laws to pay for abortions for people out of state.
  • No one is going after the women who have abortions. They are going after the doctors.
  • No one is going after women who get an abortion out of state. That’s unconstitutional.
  • This is pure gaslighting. Pure hyperbolae. But what can we expect from a guy who was screwing a Chinese spy for years.

Here’s the reality that Swalwell and Abrams don’t understand: No one cares about abortion except the far Left. Only 5% of those interviewed said it was their top issue. The economy, gas prices and crime are the top issues which the Democrats don’t want to address and those issues are way ahead of abortion.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/eric-swalwells-new-ad-shows-woman-arrested-dragged-away-from-her-kids-for-having-abortion

 

This What Going Woke Gets You

This should put some fear into all of us.

According to the Daily Wire:

The Heritage Foundation’s Index of U.S. Military Strength assessed a wide range of areas, including threats to the U.S., the condition of the U.S. military, U.S. alliances, and more.

The Wall Street Journal’s Editorial Board noted that the assessment’s “weak” rating of the U.S. military was the first time it has ever received the score in the index’s nine-year history.

While the assessment found that the global operating environment from the U.S. perspective was largely favorable across the board, threats to the U.S. are rapidly increasing, with numerous nations posing a “high” threat against U.S. interests. The chief threats come from China and Russia, with Iran, North Korea, and others lagging behind.

Does the world seem more stable or less stable than it was before Biden took office? Should we keep up our military a little better at this moment? Well, we are not and we keep shipping our weapons to Ukraine.

Here is what the study finds:

  • U.S. Army — “Marginal”
    • “The Army is aging faster than it is modernizing. It remains ‘weak’ in capacity with only 62 percent of the force it should have. However, 25 of its 31 Regular Army BCTs are at the highest state of readiness, thus earning a readiness score of ‘very strong’ and conveying the sense that the service knows what it needs to do to prepare for the next major conflict.”
  • U.S. Navy — “Weak”
    • “This worrisome score, a drop from ‘marginal’ assessed in the 2022 Index, is driven by problems in capacity (‘very weak’) and readiness (‘weak’). This Index assesses that the Navy needs a battle force of 400 manned ships to do what is expected of it today. The Navy’s current battle force fleet of 298 ships and intensified operational tempo combine to reveal a service that is much too small relative to its tasks.”
  • U.S. Air Force — “Very Weak”
    • “The Air Force has been downgraded once again, the second time in the past two years. The Air Force was assessed as ‘marginal’ in the 2021 Index but, with public reporting of the mission readiness and physical location of combat aircraft implying that it would have a difficult time responding rapidly to a crisis, fell to a score of ‘weak’ in the 2022 Index. During FY 2022, the year assessed for this Index, problems with pilot production and retention, an extraordinarily small amount of time in the cockpit for pilots, and a fleet of aircraft that continues to age compounded challenges even more, leading to the current score of ‘very weak.’”
  • U.S. Marine Corps — “Strong”
    • “The score for the Marine Corps was raised to ‘strong’ from ‘marginal’ in the 2022 Index and remains ‘strong’ in this edition for two reasons: (1) because the 2021 Index changed the threshold for capacity, lowering it from 36 infantry battalions to 30 battalions in acknowledgment of the Corps’ argument that it is a one-war force that also stands ready for a broad range of smaller crisis-response tasks, and (2) because of the Corps’ extraordinary, sustained efforts to modernize (which improves capability) and enhance its readiness during the assessed year. Of the five services, the Corps is the only one that has a compelling story for change, has a credible and practical plan for change, and is effectively implementing its plan to change.”
    • I do want to point out the Marines never bought into any of this woke crap.
  • U.S. Space Force — “Weak”
    • “The mission sets, space assets, and personnel that have transitioned to the Space Force from the other services since its establishment in December 2019 and that have been added over the past two years have enabled the service to sustain its support to the Joint Force. However, there is little evidence that the USSF has improved its readiness to provide nearly real-time support to operational and tactical levels of force operations or that it is ready in any way to execute defensive and offensive counterspace operations to the degree envisioned by Congress when it authorized the creation of the Space Force.”
  • U.S. Nuclear Capabilities — “Strong”
    • “The scoring for U.S. nuclear weapons must be considered in the context of a threat environment that is significantly more dangerous than it was in previous years. Until recently, U.S. nuclear forces needed to address one nuclear peer rather than two. Given senior leaders’ reassurances with respect to the readiness and reliability of U.S. nuclear forces, as well as the strong bipartisan commitment to modernization of the entire nuclear enterprise, this year’s Index retains its grade of ‘strong,’ but only for now. U.S. nuclear forces face many risks that, without a continued commitment to a strong deterrent, could warrant a decline to an overall score of ‘marginal’ or ‘weak.’”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-assessment-sounds-the-alarm-over-the-condition-of-the-u-s-military-under-biden

 

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Episode 617 – What Would You Do?

The institutions and the government are now cancelling those who disagree.

A woman get lambasted for pointing out facts.

And it’s all about the science until it’s not.

 

This Is Dangerous

We have some wild crap happening that is affecting our institutions, thanks to orders from  the government.

  • Gov. Gavin Newsom recently signed California Assembly Bill 2098, making it the first state to attempt to censor what physicians can say about COVID-19 to their patients. This is a dangerous, and likely unconstitutional, effort that other states must resist.
    • The statute instructs that “It shall constitute unprofessional conduct for a physician and surgeon to disseminate misinformation or disinformation related to COVID-19, including false or misleading information regarding the nature and risks of the virus, its prevention and treatment; and the development, safety, and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines.”
    • California law requires the Medical Board of California to take action — up to and including license revocation — against any licensed physician charged with unprofessional conduct.
    • This is unconstitutional.
  • PayPal recently introduced a $2,500 fine for anyone involved in “the sending, posting, or publication of any messages, content, or materials” that — in “PayPal’s sole discretion” — “promote misinformation.”
    • After a firestorm of criticism, PayPal withdrew the policy, claiming the whole thing was a misunderstanding and was not official policy — hardly a convincing explanation from a site with a history of banning those it considers politically incorrect.
  • JPMorgan Chase bank was ending its banking relationship with West.
    • This comes after Kanye West made some anti-Sematic comments and admitted to supporting Donald Trump.
    • It also comes after he was at a French fashion show wearing a “White Lives Matter” T-shirt with Conservative black woman, Candace Owens.
    • JPMorgan stated:“We are sending this letter to confirm our recent discussion with [redacted] that JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A (the ‘Bank’) has decided to end its banking relationship with Yeezy, LLC and its affiliated entities (collectively, the ‘Company’),” the bank said in an email to West. “To provide the Company with sufficient time to transition to another financial institution, we will continue to maintain the accounts (attached as Exhibit A), including all related products and services, until November 21, 2022.”“To avoid any transaction delays, we suggest that you stop processing Company transactions and/or using any products associated with the accounts five business days before the scheduled closure date set forth above,” the statement continued. “After that date, the Bank will close any open accounts, and after deduction of any permissible service charges and pending transactions, remit all remaining funds in the form of a check delivered to the Company at the address of record.”
    • West is worth $2 billion but somehow I think he’ll survive, He will just become part of a Conservative seller and will be fine.
    • But what about those that aren’t worth $2 billion but have differing opinions from our banking institutions?
    • We are next.
  • Alex Jones has been ordered to pay $1 billion to the families.
    • I don’t like Alex Jones, he’s nuts.
    • What he said was terrible and did lead to some harassment of the parents.
    • But $1 billion?
    • This is a free speech issue.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/kanye-west-responds-to-getting-canceled-by-jpmorgan-chase
https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-alex-jones-ordered-to-pay-nearly-1-billion-to-families-of-sandy-hook-victims
https://nypost.com/2022/10/10/california-makes-it-illegal-for-doctors-to-disagree-with-politicians/

 

Imagine What She’s Going Through

Sometimes the truth is cruel and can hurt.

According to the New York Post:

Dr. Sydney Watson, who claims to be an American-Australian political commentator, took to Twitter last month in an unruly campaign arguing, “If you need a seat belt extender, you are TOO FAT TO BE ON A PLANE”.

Her offensive comments came after she sat between obese siblings on the short-haul American Airlines flight she said someone else had paid for.

She also tweeted:

“I am currently – literally – WEDGED between two OBESE people on my flight. This is absolutely NOT acceptable or okay. If fat people want to be fat, fine. But it is something else entirely when I’m stuck between you, with your arm rolls on my body, for 3 hours.”

These are terrible comments but, guess what, she’s right. I would have the same reaction if I were in her position.

  • She pays big money for a seat on the plane.
  • They stick her in between two morbidly obese women.
    • I mean morbidly obese.
    • Like 300 pounds each.
    • These women couldn’t even fit her seat
  • And she needs to sit there for three frigging hours like this?

Watson should, not only get an apology, but she should get vouchers for free flights. This is ridiculous. Here’s the thing, these two fat asses should have had to pay for two seats each. I know, they would have thrown a fit and accused American Airlines of fatphobia, whatever that is.

Here’s the thing: these two women are violating Watson’s personal space and her rights. No one seems to think anything about that.

So, if you think I’m cruel for saying these fat chicks are fat and that American Airlines is being victimized by Dr. Sydney Watson, but yourself in her shoes sitting in between two sweaty, morbidly obese women for three hours. I would have been in the bathroom for the entire flight.

https://nypost.com/2022/10/15/american-airlines-responds-after-woman-shames-overweight-passengers/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_campaign=SocialFlow

 

It’s All Crap

Here is an article by Bjorn Lomborg, who is the president of the Copenhagen Consensus and visiting fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He wrote an article called, Suppressing good news is scaring our kids witless. It talks about all the bad news we hear about the environment from the media but none of the good news.

Let’s go through it:

It’s easy to believe life on Earth is getting ever worse. The media constantly highlight one catastrophe after another and make terrifying predictions. With the never-ending torrent of doom and gloom about climate change and the environment, it’s understandable why many people — especially the young — genuinely believe the world is about to end. But the fact is that though problems remain the world is getting better. We just rarely hear about it.

We are incessantly told about disasters, whether it is the latest heat wave, flood, wildfire or storm. Yet the data overwhelmingly show that over the past century people have become much, much safer from all these weather events. In the 1920s, around half a million people were killed by weather disasters, whereas in the last decade the death toll averaged around 18,000. This year, like both 2020 and 2021, is tracking below that. Why? Because when people get richer, they get more resilient.

This is the big thing you never hear from climate activists. Man is better to adapting to the climate than trying to prevent climate change from happening. The statistics prove that. People like Lomborg and Michael Shellenberger (who are climate activists) constantly point out.

Weather-fixated television news would make us think disasters are all getting worse. They’re not. Around 1900, about 4.5 percent of the land area of the world burned every year. Over the last century, this declined to about 3.2 percent. In the last two decades, satellites show even further decline: in 2021 just 2.5 percent burned. This has happened mostly because richer societies prevent fires. Models show that by the end of the century, despite climate change, human adaptation will mean even less burning.

And despite what you may have heard about record-breaking costs from weather disasters — mainly because wealthier populations build more expensive houses along coastlines — damage costs are actually declining, not increasing, as a per cent of GDP.

But it’s not only weather disasters that are getting less damaging despite dire predictions. A decade ago, environmentalists loudly declared that Australia’s magnificent Great Barrier Reef was nearly dead, killed by bleaching caused by climate change. The Guardian newspaper even published an obituary. This year, scientists revealed that two-thirds of the Great Barrier Reef shows the highest coral cover seen since records began in 1985. The good-news report got a fraction of the attention the bad news did.

This is true. The Great Barrier reef hasn’t gotten better over the last two years. It’s been getting better over the last twenty years. What is more important to realize is that no one is talking about it. We kept hearing about the Great Barrier Reef all through school, then nothing.

Not long ago, environmentalists constantly used pictures of polar bears to highlight the dangers of climate change. Polar bears even featured in Al Gore’s terrifying movie An Inconvenient Truth. But the reality is that polar bear numbers have been increasing — from somewhere between five and 10,000 polar bears in the 1960s up to around 26,000 today. We don’t hear this news, however. Instead, campaigners just quietly stopped using polar bears in their activism.

That movie was nothing but gaslighting and exaggerated. The polar bears that he showed in that “documentary” had just come out of hibernation. The bear hadn’t eaten in three months.

There are so many bad-news stories that we seldom stop to consider that on the most important indicators, life is getting much better. Human life expectancy has doubled over the past century, from 36 years in 1920 to more than 72 years today. A hundred years ago, three-quarters of the world’s population lived in extreme poverty. Today, less than one-tenth does. The deadliest environmental problem, air pollution, was four times more likely to kill you in 1920 than it is today, mostly because a century ago people in poverty cooked and heated with dung and wood.

This is why we need to get back to oil, natural gas and nuclear power until some renewable power comes along that’s efficient. It will come but it might take time. And let’s face it, nuclear power is very clean. There’s no reason we don’t run that now.

But these climate nuts don’t want to. They want to eliminate oil, natural gas and nuclear all together. No, Europe is starting up coal power plants. People are storing coal, wood and wood pellets. Heck, they are fighting over it now. Does that sound like progress?

Despite COVID-related setbacks, humanity has become better and better off. Yet doom-mongers will keep telling you the end is nigh. This is great for their fundraising but the costs to society are sky-high: we make poor, expensive policy choices and our kids are scared witless.

We also end up ignoring much bigger problems. Consider all the attention devoted to heat waves. In the United States and many other parts of the world heat deaths are actually declining, because access to air conditioning helps much more than rising temperatures hurt. Almost everywhere, however, cold quietly kills many more people than heat does. In the U.S., about 20,000 people die from heat every year, but 170,000 die from cold — something we rarely focus on. Moreover, cold deaths are rising in the U.S. and our incessant focus on climate change is exacerbating this trend because politicians have introduced green laws that make energy more expensive, meaning fewer people can afford to keep warm. Lacking perspective means we don’t focus first on where we can help most.

They want to end all fossil fuels which heat our homes, but they have no solutions to replace them and cold is what really kills.

On a broader scale, global warming prompts celebrities and politicians to fly around the world in private jets lecturing the rest of us, while we spend less on problems like hunger, infectious diseases and a lack of basic schooling. When did politicians and movie stars ever meet for an important cause like de-worming children?

There’s a news flash. Hunger kills more people than the environment. COVID was not the first, nor will it be the last, pandemic and we didn’t handle that too well (mostly because of politics). And what about education? It’s been going straight to hell over the past couple of generations. How are future generations going to innovate efficient, renewable energy if our children can’t add because math is racist?

We need balance in our news, but that doesn’t mean ignoring global warming: it is a real problem humanity has caused. We just need perspective. To know what to expect from a warming planet, we can look at the damage estimates from the economic models used by the Biden and Obama administrations, which reveal that the entire, global cost of climate change — not just to economies, but in every sense — will be equivalent to less than a four per cent hit to global GDP by the end of the century.

Humanity is getting more prosperous every day. The United Nations estimates that without global warming the average person in 2100 would be 450 per cent better off than today. Global warming means people will only be 434 per cent richer instead. That is not a disaster.

Climate change fear is causing life-changing anxiety. You might be hearing nothing but bad news but you aren’t hearing the full story.

The media, Hollywood, politicians and the education system is trying to panic the kids. This will lead to despair and suicides. We will see this in a few years.

https://financialpost.com/opinion/bjorn-lomborg-suppressing-good-news-is-scaring-our-kids-witless

 

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