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Episode 887 – May the Fourth Be With You…Not Him!

Luke Skywalker makes a dumb move. Guys, give him a break. He’s old and a has-been.

I think Joe Biden has, officially, insulted all our allies.

And the Chicago Teacher’s Union makes some really unreasonable demands and they will probably get it. Citizens of Chicago voted for this.

Dumbass of the Day

Some things:

  • This gal has four piercings in the corners of her eyes, three piercings in her nose, and blue hair. She is lucky to get hired anywhere and now she just lost her job.
  • This is typical Marxist doctrine about the power of the worker. Guess what? That doctrine has always been wrong.
  • Finally, she is not the average worker. She works for Google, which means she is horribly overpaid.

May the Fourth Be With You!

According to Fox News:

Social media users mocked President Biden and actor Mark Hamill’s official “Star Wars Day” post this weekend.

Hamill, the actor behind legendary “Star Wars” character Luke Skywalker, joined President Biden in the Oval Office this week to commemorate May 4, affectionately known as “Star Wars Day.”

In a post shared to Biden’s official presidential account on X, formerly Twitter, both he and the 72-year-old sci-fi actor shared some Star Wars-themed cheer with the president’s followers. 

Joe Biden released a statement on Twitter: We had a very good feeling about this. May the 4th be with you, America.

Some of the comments on Twitter (now X):

  • Bonchie: And just like that, he ruined it.
  • Bricksuit: The most hilarious thing is that Joe is in Delaware right now and has already forgotten he said this.
  • Brilyn Hollyhand: The most hilarious thing is that Joe is in Delaware right now and has already forgotten he said this.

Some things:

  • Joe Biden is desperate to bring a 72-year old has-been actor to stand up for him.
  • The whole scene was cringy, to say the least. The fawning by Hamill was just gross.
  • It also shows that Hamill is living pretty well since doing his only acting role. He obviously doesn’t have to deal with buying things or is concerned with how much things cost.
  • This administration hasn’t figured out that hiring celebrities does not work.
  • By the way, Luke Skywalker doesn’t support Joe Biden. Mark Hamill does. Unlike what a lot of Conservatives say, this does not ruin Star Wars.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/bidens-star-wars-day-post-featuring-luke-skywalker-actor-jeered-online-ruined-star-wars

Still Being Unifying

Joe Biden decided to go out and insult our allies again. This time he decided to target Japan and India. Let’s listen to him:

That’s right. Japan and India are racist, xenophobic and sexist because they don’t “import” workers.

Well, we have been importing “workers” and how’s that going to us? Crime is up, welfare is up and our GDP is down. Does it look good for the economy to be importing 2 million people a year?

For some reason, this administration wants us to believe that all these people breaking the laws and sneaking over the border are getting jobs that Americans won’t do. That is not the case. Instead, they are taking handouts, committing crime, and changing out culture.

The Trump campaign is now planning to make mass deportations an election platform. This would be unheard of five years ago. It’s a winning message today.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/unfortunate-japan-responds-to-being-called-xenophobic-by-biden
https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-labels-japan-xenophobic-for-not-following-his-lead-in-importing-hordes-of-third-worlders

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Episode 886 – We Need to Turn Our Eyes East!

Could we be coming to a head with the real threat to us in this world? Well, if we are, it’ll be within the next few months.

A man in Florida is missing his emotional support pet. Yeah, there’s more to this story.

And evidence comes out that a vegan diet may not be the best for one’s body. Who would have thunk it?

We Need to be Watching

Here is an article by Scott Miniter of Fox News:

This might sound like a plot for a thriller — and I am the author of “The Year of the Dragon” — but the director of the FBI, Christopher Wray, recently said, at Vanderbilt University’s “Summit on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats,” that Chinese-government-linked hackers have “burrowed into critical U.S. infrastructure” and are waiting for “just the right moment to deal a devastating blow” to America.

Could such a moment come if China attacks Taiwan? Just imagine the mayhem in the U.S. if the national power grid was taken down for days. 

The U.S., along with Taiwan, run war games scenarios on worries like these annually. But why is the director of the FBI worrying about them publicly?

Also, why in the same political moment did U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken publish talking points saying there are now “290,000 Chinese students in the United States” but just 900 American students in China? 

In the release, Blinken did not mention the massive rise in Chinese nationals entering through the porous southern border of the U.S. — that fact just isn’t something the Biden administration finds politically convenient enough to talk about. 

But Blinken did say the Biden administration is “very clear-eyed about the challenges posed by the PRC [People’s Republic of China] and about our competing visions for the future,” before talking about how China is supplying Russia with military parts that are “powering Russia’s brutal war of aggression against Ukraine.”

He also mentioned Chinese involvement in selling chemicals to Mexican cartels that are sending massive amounts of the fentanyl into the U.S. — chemicals that are killing more Americans every year than died in the entire Vietnam War — though he didn’t take a stance tough enough to make the Chinese flinch on this critical topic.

So then, why are Biden administration officials suddenly sounding so tough on China? 

Biden recently signed legislation to force the sale of Chinese-owned TikTok and legislation to fund Taiwan’s defense. In response, Chinese officials are now threatening to take “resolute and forceful steps” against the U.S. and Taiwan. 

Saber-rattling can be an important part of diplomacy, but typically, rhetoric like this would be said through diplomatic channels while solutions are floated publicly.

As that is not happening here, this appears to be all about U.S. domestic politics.

To put this in perspective, it is important to remember that Biden accused former President Donald Trump of xenophobia when he called COVID the “China virus.” Later, the Biden administration worked with American social-media companies to censor political speech about China’s involvement in the virus. 

Even when Trump used tariffs to try to force China to play fair, Biden and much of the Left mocked and attacked him for it. 

Indeed, when China sent a spy balloon over the U.S., Biden hesitated and let it cross the entire continent before ordering it to be shot down. In fact, much of the Left, from The Atlantic to The New York Times, have long told us that the Chinese model of a state-run economy is far superior to America’s freer iteration of a market economy.

Yet, with a presidential election looming and the polls not looking so good for Biden, his administration is suddenly saying some very tough things about China. 

A central reason for this is that the Biden administration clearly wants to distract American voters with a foreign threat — and they are willing to risk a horrifying war to do so.

Next, this threat would empower the Biden administration’s ambitions on the domestic front; after all, if private and state-run companies all agree that the Chinese hacking threat is real, then they will feel obligated to give the FBI access to their computer systems and data now — at the same time, for security reasons, they’ll need to keep any details about this from the public. This then, would further empower the FBI by giving them more access to Americans’ data and more control of corporations at a time when the FBI has too often behaved as a partisan political player for Democrats.

We know, after all, where the U.S. intelligence agencies stand on Fourth Amendment-protected due process rights of U.S. citizens. 

This isn’t to say that China isn’t a real threat. Many “red states” have passed legislation barring Chinese interests from purchasing land near military bases for this very reason. I am spelling this all out because the American public needs to be aware of all the nuance within this critical topic so they can at least try to vote this November for what is in their best interest — the Biden administration and various members of U.S. intelligence agencies, after all, have not always done what is in the best interest of the American public. 

Look at what China has done:

  • Stealing of intellectual property.
  • Spying.
  • The fentanyl crisis.
  • Human smuggling.
  • Unfair trade practices.
  • Buying farmland.
  • Purchasing American businesses.
  • Promoting propaganda in film, television and media.
  • Run Chinese police stations in the United States to keep dissidents in line.
  • Tik Tok.
  • Hacking.
  • Distributing cash to politicians.
  • Political lobbying.
  • Smuggling illegal weapons.
  • Promoting discontent and abhorrent behavior.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/chinese-about-deal-devastating-blow-america

Some Books to Read

Here are some books about China that would be worth reading:

  • Blood Money by Peter Schweizer
  • Laptop from Hell by Miranda Divine
  • Red Handed by Peter Schweizer
  • Unrestricted Warfare by Col. Qiao Liang and Col. Wang Xingsui

They Stole a What?

According to Fox News:

An emotional support alligator has reportedly gone missing in Georgia, prompting a desperate search by his owner and pleas from the gator’s social media fans.

Pennsylvania resident Joie Henney believes that his 8-year-old gator named Wally was stolen during a trip to Brunswick, Georgia. Henney was reportedly visiting his friends at the time, and he brought Wally with him.

Henney claimed in a TikTok video that Wally was left in an enclosed yard when a trapper captured the reptile, then released him into the wild.

“We need all the help we can get with bringing my baby back,” Henney says into the camera, as tears welled in his eyes. “Please, we need your help.”

Henney and Wally are an inseparable pair. Wally is a licensed emotional support alligator and helped Henny through his battle with prostate cancer, Fox News Digital previously reported.

https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/emotional-support-alligator-stolen-georgia-prompting-frantic-cries-owner-social-media-fans

Well, Duh!

According to the New York Post:

Good for the environment — but what about your body?

Trendy plant-based meats could be triggering health issues less frequently seen in humans who prefer to chow down on the real thing, a new study warns.

Research published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition compared the impacts of protein alternatives, scientifically known as plant-based meat analogues, or PBMAs, to actual meat dishes — and the experts didn’t necessarily like what they found.

I have said this for YEARS!

During an eight-week period of analysis, it turned out that actual beef provided more protein than its imposter — while typically being higher in sodium, a problem for those struggling with hypertension.

It’s not about the protein. It’s about the amino acids. There are 16 amino acids that make up protein. We need all of them. Non-animal proteins do not have all 16 amino acids. We can’t even replicate it.

Also, PBMAs contained high levels of potassium and calcium, possibly triggering issues with blood sugar control in ways not observed among meat eaters.

“This suggests that assumptions of health benefits from consuming [plant-based meats] may not be directly extrapolated to those consuming a [plant-based diet],” the researchers said.

Previous research found that plant-based diets overall have been found to show little health benefits to counterpart foods.

In another study, veganism was found to launch the female libido up to 380%.

The medical news comes as well-known brand Beyond Meat experiences tanking sales. The company has been making attempts to cut fat from its products by 60% recently.

And while the jury may still be out, that hasn’t stopped the likes of Bill Gates from giving meat alternatives a strong vote of confidence.

“I think eventually these products will be very good, even though their share is small today,” Gates told Redditors in a recent online discussion.

I just want to point out the science has been proven for a very long time. For some reason, he Left wants us to eat plants and bugs, but they know this is not good for is. The important people will get the beef, pork, chicken and fish. It will be served with a side of fois gois and a nice chiante. After all, our elite need to be healthy.

https://nypost.com/2024/04/12/lifestyle/plant-based-fake-meats-can-cause-real-health-risks-study/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social

We Already Knew This

According to Fox News:

Vitamin D could be a surprise weapon against cancer, new research suggests.

A study of mice published in the journal Science last week found that eating a diet rich in vitamin D changed the gut microbiome in a way that boosted cancer immunity.

The micronutrient increased levels of the bacterium Bacteroides fragilis, which has been shown to improve cancer immune response.

The mice that received vitamin D showed improved responses to cancer immunotherapy and greater immunity to new tumor development, according to researchers at the Francis Crick Institute in London, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Aalborg University in Denmark.

“This could one day be important for cancer treatment in humans.”

The researchers aren’t yet sure why vitamin D seems to foster a “good” microbiome.

“If we can answer this, we might uncover new ways in which the microbiome influences the immune system, potentially offering exciting possibilities in preventing or treating cancer,” said co-author Evangelos Giampazolias, former postdoctoral researcher at the Crick and now group leader of the Cancer Immunosurveillance Group at the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute, in the release.

“What we’ve shown here came as a surprise — vitamin D can regulate the gut microbiome to favor a type of bacteria that gives mice better immunity to cancer,” said senior study author Caetano Reis e Sousa, head of the Immunobiology Laboratory at Crick, in a press release.

https://www.foxnews.com/health/cancer-immunity-gets-boost-one-common-nutrient-study-finds-intrigue-optimism

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Episode 885 – Why Would She Write That?

The campus riots look to be winding down, even in blue cities.

Joe Biden keeps to the Brave New World playbook.

And when are we going to see dumb politicians as dumb and get rid of them?

News

Here is some news:

  • A large number of New York Police Department officers swarmed Columbia University’s campus on Tuesday after the school finally gave the department permission to enter and help regain control after pro-Hamas extremists illegally overtook a building this week. Dozens were arrested and all the barricade were removed.
  • Northwestern and Brown Universities have agreed to a settlement ending negotiations with the pro-terrorist protestors. This includes investigating what pro-Israeli businesses the universities are investing in.
  • Both China and Iran have released statements supporting the protests.
  • By the way, Joe Biden has quietly released $6.1 billion in student loan handouts.
  • President Joe Biden is reportedly considering bringing Palestinians to the United States as refugees as he looks to assuage the anger he faces from anti-Semites within his own party who are angry about his administration’s support for Israel in its war against Hamas.
    • Weird how Egypt, Jordan, the UAE, Kuwait, Syria and Saudi Arabia don’t want Palestinians into their country.
  • President Joe Biden’s Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is reportedly moving to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
    • The reported change would downgrade marijuana from being a Schedule I drug alongside drugs like heroin and cocaine to a Schedule III substance, meaning it could be obtained with a prescription.
    • Meanwhile, Biden is looking to ban menthol cigarettes.
    • This is right out of the Brave New World playbook. In that book, the government required the people to take the drug soma to pacify the people under their tyranny.

Just Dumb

According to The Guardian:

In 1952, as a Republican candidate for vice-president, Richard Nixon stirred criticism by admitting receiving a dog, Checkers, as a political gift.

In 2012, as the Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney was pilloried for tying a dog, Seamus, to the roof of the family car for a cross-country trip.

But in 2024 Kristi Noem, a strong contender to be named running mate to Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, has managed to go one further – by admitting killing a dog of her own.

“Cricket was a wirehair pointer, about 14 months old,” the South Dakota governor writes in a new book, adding that the dog, a female, had an “aggressive personality” and needed to be trained to be used for hunting pheasant.

What unfolds over the next few pages shows how that effort went very wrong indeed – and, remarkably, how Cricket was not the only domestic animal Noem chose to kill one day in hunting season.

This has gone viral. The Left and the Right are throwing fits about this.

Some things about this:

  • There were some things left out of the article.
    • The dog had disciplinary problems. It was known to attack people.
    • It broke into a chicken coup and killed a bunch of chickens.
    • It would have probably been put down by animal control.
  • She is a candidate for vice president but she shouldn’t be.
    • She’s from a very small state.
    • She reportedly had an affair during her marriage.
    • She vetoed a law that would ban trans people from competing in sports. She’s not that Conservative.
    • The media sees her as a Conservative. Trump needs someone more moderate.
  • She is stupid. Why would a politician ever say they did this in a book? A smart politician would never bring this up.
  • Everyone needs to knock off their pearl clutching.
    • This broad lived on a farm. Killing animals is a pretty common occurrence on a farm, even dogs and horses.
    • If your dog killed another animal, your dog would be put down too.
    • We get all hot and bothered about killing animals. Well, you’d be shocked where your hamburger came from.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/26/trump-kristi-noem-shot-dog-and-goat-book

What About the Parents

According to the Post Millennial:

On Wednesday, the then-17-year-old Florida student who was arrested after he assaulted a teacher’s aide for taking his Nintendo Switch filed a complaint against Flagler Schools with the Florida Department of Education which blamed the school for the incident.

While Brendan Depa pleaded no contest to “aggravated battery of a school employee,” his attorney Stephanie Langer told FOX 35 the incident was avoidable.

According to the complaint, Depa is a student with “Emotional Behavioral Disorder, Intermittent Explosive Disorder, Mood Disorder, and ADHD” and that “had the student’s needs been properly addressed and had the staff around him been properly trained, this incident would not have occurred.”

“What we saw was a complete failure to do any evidence-based intervention practices to change his problem behaviors as identified by the school district,” Langer said. “It’s not about negating what he did or excusing what he did, but it’s holding the system accountable to make sure that kids get the support and services they need, so we never have another Brendan who goes out and hurts a paraprofessional or hurts anybody.”

“Had the school system acted in the right way, this incident would never have happened, and the 17-year-old, now 18 years old, would not … be in jail today and would not be facing such significant penalties for his conduct that day,” she claimed.

Video from the attack made national news in February 2023 after “a school resource deputy was notified that a teacher’s aide had been physically attacked on campus. Officials said the woman was unconscious, bloody, and had severe injuries.”

I do want to point out a couple of things. First, this kid is 6-foot-6, 270-pounds. He beat the crap out of someone half his size. The teacher suffered from a concussion, five broken ribs and hearing loss in one of her ears.

The guy pled no contest and will be sentenced this week. He’s black, the teacher is white so I would bet he gets no jail time even though he could get 30 years in prison. I don’t care if he has mental problems, he should get 30 years in prison. He’s dangerous.

Finally, I did not know a Nintendo Switch was a necessary tool in school. Why did his parents allow him to take the game to school? Why aren’t they in any trouble? It seems to be they are mostly to blame for this. If I were that teacher, I would sue them.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/student-accused-viciously-beating-aide-viral-video-blames-school-new-lawsuit-ticking-time-bomb
https://thepostmillennial.com/florida-student-accused-of-violent-attack-on-teachers-aide-files-lawsuit-blaming-school-for-incident

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Episode 884 – I Told You This Year Would Be Nuts!

So, let’s go over this.

We have a former President on trial and facing jail time.

We have an “insurrection” happening on our college campuses.

And we have The View trying to make sense of it all.

I told you it was going to be a crazy 2024!

So Dumbass of the Day

Getting Nervous

The Biden administration ain’t looking like they think they are going to win the next election.

This week, they started the drills that are Constitutionally required to do for a peaceful transition. But that’s not all they are doing. They are getting ready to issue a series of Executive Orders that is will affect the economy, the energy industry and business.

Here are some of them:

  •  New FTC rules that ban non-compete agreements.
  • EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) charges of racism against a company because they avoided hiring criminals. He already sicked the EEOC on Elon Musk for not hiring illegal aliens.
  • More federal help on student loans.
  • FTC preventing the merger of two luxury goods makers.
    • Most recently, the agency sued to block luxury fashion firm Tapestry’s acquisition of Capri. Tapestry owns Coach, Stuart Weitzman and Kate Spade, while Capri owns the Versace, Jimmy Choo and Michael Kors labels.  
    • Henry Liu, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Competition claims, “This deal threatens to deprive consumers of the competition for affordable handbags…”
  • New overtime rules.
  • New regulations detailing airline refunds.
  • New decision restricting drilling in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve.
  • FTC blocking hospital group mergers.
  • New power plant emissions rules.
    • This includes implementing carbon capture technology by 2032. There’s just one problem. There is no carbon capture technology available.
    • This includes banning gas-burning cars, especially SUVs.
    • This includes shutting down coal-burning power plants that produce electricity.
  • Putting on hold a ban on menthol cigarettes.
  • A revamp of school lunch mandates, reducing sugar and salt.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/biden-white-house-signals-pessimism-election-surprising-way

That’s Some Spin

The pro-Hamas protests are becoming a real issue for the Left and Joe Biden. Even the Leftist universities are beginning to lose their patience. The media needs to try to put some sort of positive spin on these things. Leave it to The View to come up with one of the dumber spin.

Here is Anna Navarro and Sunny Hostin issuing warning to the protesters while, at the same time, justifying them.

Anna Navarro knows these protests/riots are not a good look. It makes the Biden administration look pro-terrorist, anti law and order and anti-Semitic. It also makes him look afraid of the protestors. Finally, voters are questioning his judgment of student load forgiveness.

I also want to point out that none of these children have, historically, turned out to vote. They won’t vote because they hate the system and don’t want to participate in it and they hate Joe Biden too.

Sunny Hostin, jeez.

  • The Vietnam War protests and the Hippies were not popular.
  • The Vietnam War involved differing ideologies (democracy and communism). It did not involve a terrorist attack on anyone. Why we were there was not clear.
  • The Vietnam War involved the United States. The Hamas and Israel war has little to do with us.
  • These kids protesting are showing hate for the United States, love for a terrorist state and calls for the genocide of the Jews. This is not justified.
  • The hippies wanted no war at all. These idiots want Israel to lose and the Jews eliminated.

Sorry, not quite the same thing.

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Episode 883 – How Low Can He Go?

Joe Biden cannot spin the very bad economy anymore and the polls are showing he’s not fooling anyone.

Crime is finally hitting the important people in California. It’s about time.

And The anti-Israel protests are getting out of control. Is anyone going to do something about it?

News

Here is some news:

Bad news for Joe Biden on Friday:

The Biden administration released a statement saying: “Today’s report shows the American economy remains strong, with continued steady and stable growth. The economy has grown more since I took office than at this point in any presidential term in the last 25 years — including 3% growth over the last year — while unemployment has stayed below 4% for more than two years.”

Then he went on to talk about free healthcare, junk fees, student, taxes, bullshit like that.

Trump made some comments and they were right on.

Here’s the thing, these are the only numbers that make sense. I do not believe the job numbers. They are leaving a lot out (number of hours, number of jobs a person has, etc.). I do not believe a lot of the inflation numbers. I’ve been to the grocery store. I’m paying at least 20% more for groceries.

Here’s the thing, you can’t keep hamstringing the energy industry, regulating business, printing money and giving away free things and not end up in debt and in a recession. Things are going to get worse. We are going to be in a recession if we aren’t already in one (even the experts are saying that now). We are going to end up in austerity because of our national debt. The job market will crash. The stock market will correct (it is artificially high right now because too many people have too much money). High gas prices, high grocery prices and high housing prices will continue to rise over the next few years. Taxes will go up.

This isn’t doom and gloom. This is basic economics. What this idiot in the White House is exactly the opposite of good economics.

In other news:

  • Joe Biden was on the Howard Stern show on Friday. Yeah, another hard hitting interview before he flies out to Delaware for another vacation.
    • His numbers are cratering in the polls. He has decided he will debate Trump.
    • It may be the only thing he has left to save himself.
    • I would really think about this if I were Trump. Biden has the media in his pocket and don’t think for a second he won’t manipulate the debate.
    • Biden needs the debate more than Trump does.
  • Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) was robbed in San Francisco on Thursday before attending a dinner with wealthy backers of his Senate campaign, which caused him to show up to the event without a suit, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
    • The Chronicle reported that car thieves stole Schiff’s luggage, including his clothes, before he was set to speak at a dinner attended by lawyer Joe Cotchett, who is supporting Schiff’s Senate run against Republican candidate Steve Garvey.
  • Mayor Matt Mahan, a Democrat, was speaking into KRON4’s news camera in downtown San Jose when a black male carrying a backpack walked by and shouted something, including a bleeped obscenity, video of the incident showed.
    • Mahan has previously committed to hiring more cops, but last year he was criticized for being slow to staff up the police department.
  • New York’s highest court on Thursday threw out Harvey Weinstein ’s 2020 rape conviction with a ruling that shocked and disappointed women who celebrated historic gains during the #MeToo era and left those who testified in the case bracing for a retrial against the ex-movie mogul.
    • The court found the trial judge unfairly allowed testimony against Weinstein based on allegations that weren’t part of the case.
    • Weinstein, 72, will remain in prison because he was convicted in Los Angeles in 2022 of another rape.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidenomics-takes-lumps-after-shocking-gdp-report
https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-says-im-happy-to-debate-trump
https://www.dailywire.com/news/adam-schiff-robbed-in-san-francisco-before-dinner-with-senate-campaign-supporters
https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-san-jose-mayors-security-assaulted-on-street-during-tv-interview-mayor-recommits-to-more-police
https://apnews.com/article/weinstein-metoo-appeal-ed29faeec862abf0c071e8bd3574c4a3?taid=662a56887eee480001a871b3&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter

He Sounds Kind of Privileged

We are going to listen to a guy named Khymani James. Here are some things to know about him:

  • He is a first generation American with Carribean parents.
  • He was raised mostly in Dorchester, Mass. This is a diverse middle class city outside of Boston.
  • The city is 30% black with a large gay community.
  • He previously attended Dever Elementary and UP Academy Boston.
  • James was accepted early to Columbia University.
  • He is the last person you would think would call himself a victim. He’s had a pretty good life.

He’s also a far Left, anti-Israel, anti-American activist. He was working at organizing the protests (I’d call them riots) at Columbia University.

Here he is, giving his thoughts about the Jews:

Some thoughts:

  • People did believe Hitler needed to die. But not only for world peace but also because he was committing genocide against…wait for it…the Jews.
  • Mind you, a Zionist is a Jew!
  • He is calling for the same genocide as Hitler did. Would we be justified in killing him?
  • Hamas is calling for the genocide of the Zionists (Jews). They say it in their constitution and have shown it in their actions. Wouldn’t that mean the Jews are justified in killing all of Hamas?
  • White supremacists hate Jews.
  • Ben Netanyahu is not the only Israeli against Hamas. All of Israel is including the Left in Israel are for the destruction of Hamas.
  • Israel is also providing aid to the Gaza citizens which is unheard of in war.
  • I also want to point out white supremacists, Nazis, anti-Semites and any other hate group can live and say whatever they want as long as they are not threatening or violent. That’s freedom of thought and speech. You don’t have to agree with it.
  • He doesn’t seem all that bright.

Well, that video was taken as he was being investigated by Columbia University for…you guessed it…genocidal threats against the Jews. Guess what? He got expelled and is no longer able to step foot on the Columbia campus to work with his own protest.

Here released a statement. Of course, he blamed white supremacists, the right wing and probably Trump for his ouster:

What’s amazing about this is that this kid is completely privileged. He lived in a middle class neighborhood, went on to a private, high school education, and got accepted into an Ivy League college. He did all this as a black, gay kid who is a first generation American. Talking about biting the hand that feeds you.

He also uses his victim status (black and gay) as a shield against consequences. It’s kind of pathetic.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/columbia-student-who-said-zionists-dont-deserve-to-live-reportedly-expelled?topStoryPosition=1
https://www.dailywire.com/news/columbia-student-claims-he-misspoke-after-repeatedly-calling-for-zionists-to-die-in-hour-long-livestream

Meanwhile, At Our Colleges

Meanwhile, colleges across the country are blowing up over these anti-Semitic protests:

  • Indiana University protesters shout “Pigs go home!” at officers observing anti-Israel rally,
  • Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein among 100 arrested protesting at Washington University.
  • USC says continued anti-Israel protests ‘will not be tolerated,’ warns agitators to clear out.
  • Columbia says it has no plans to evict anti-Israel agitators as admin opens ‘dialogue’ with students.
  • GWU students stand up to anti-Israel protestors, warn faculty are ‘indoctrinating’ kids with ‘lies’.
  • Cal Poly Humboldt closes campus for rest of semester as anti-Israel protesters occupy buildings.
  • Anti-Israel protesters re-erecting tents on Yale campus.
  • Anti-Israel protests reignited outside Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan.
  • New Orleans — Police try to make more arrests of pro-Gaza rioters outside the famous St. Louis Cathedral.

Why anyone would send their kids to these colleges amazes me. And how these colleges just lets these kids do this crap really kills their credibility.

Of course Ilhan Omar showed up to Columbia University to support the protest. She believes everyone should be free from violence. Let’s listen:

https://www.dailywire.com/news/columbia-university-caves-will-not-use-police-to-clear-out-anti-israel-encampment
https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/antisemitism-campus-surges-agitators-take-over-columbia-yale-universities

Dumbass of the Day

And that leads us to our dumbass of the day. Here is a protester at Columbia talking about why she is protesting.

Yeah, this is 90% of the people who are protesting. No one knows what’s going on. They’re just bored.

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Episode 882 – You Mean, That Wasn’t a Felony?

I bet you didn’t know it was not a felony to sell your kid in California. Well, it is now after a year and a half of debate.

Alejandro Myorkas gets impeached and it’s already over. Republicans lose again…for now.

And Chicago confuses burglary with a lease agreement. No wonder these people have a crime problem.

Some News

Here is some news:

  • Donald Trump has a jury for his trial in Manhattan. He is being accused of campaign finance violations.
  • A protestor in front of the courthouse where Trump is being tried has set himself on fire. I don’t know why yet, but he is probably dead.
  • Israel has attacked Iran. There is no news what was attacked. Iran says it was not a significant attack, which I doubt. This is good news for the Middle East since Iran might back off a bit now.
  • A trans teen has been arrested for plotting a mass shooting at a school. She (who goes by he) released a 129 page manifesto that we will never be allowed to read. Apparently, she idolized the trans Nashville shooter.
  • And Taylor Swift’s new album comes out today. Yay! It’s called The Tortured Poet’s Department and it has 31 songs on it.

Dumbass of the Day

Some things:

  • Being “triggered” has nothing to do with what you are.
  • Sociology is more of a philosophy than a science. It is also a relatively new study.
  • Sociology never said women weren’t adult, biological females. That’s new.
  • The definition that this guy is referring to is a definition by the pedophile and sexual degenerate John Money in 1955 when he differentiated sex and gender, changing the definition of gender to make it a social construct.
  • I reject that definition.
  • Maybe this guy needs to read a dictionary to learn that gender is a Latin term that defines the sex of a child at birth. It is a genetic term.

It Figures

According to the Daily Wire:

The Democrat-controlled Senate voted on Wednesday to quash a pair of articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, ending a months-long effort by Republicans to hold the Cabinet official accountable for his handling of the border crisis before a full trial could be held.

House impeachment managers tasked with prosecuting the case did not even get a chance to speak when the proceedings wrapped up in one afternoon. Senators were sworn in as jurors, fought over how to conduct the trial for a couple of hours, and ultimately voted 51-48 to nix one article of impeachment and 51-49 to crush the second.

The impeachment charges accused Mayorkas “willfully and systemically” refusing to comply with federal immigration laws and alleged he “breached the public trust” with false statements and obstructing lawful oversight of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-kills-mayorkas-impeachment-articles-without-full-trial

You’ve Got to be Kidding

The bill passed, but it didn’t when it was first presented back in July of 2023.

According to the Catholic News Agency:

Democrats in the California State Assembly drew criticism this week for blocking a bill that would have elevated the offense of child trafficking to a “serious felony,” but Gov. Gavin Newsom, also a Democrat, vowed to get the measure passed. 

Senate Bill 14, introduced by Republican Sen. Shannon Grove, would add “human trafficking of a minor” to the state’s definition of a “serious felony.” California law reserves the designation of “serious felony” for major crimes that may warrant life in prison or the death penalty. 

The bill had already passed the Democratic-controlled Senate earlier in the year. Yet the measure stalled in the California Assembly Public Safety Committee. The two Republicans on the committee voted in favor of the measure while the six-Democrat majority abstained from voting. 

The bill was granted “reconsideration” status, meaning it may come up for a vote again.

I want to point out that certain aspects of the old law required the pedophile to sell or buy a kid with intent. That means the seller intended to sell the child for sex or the buyer intended to buy the kid for sex. Under the law, intent is very hard to prove. If intent couldn’t be proven, the charge was dropped to a misdemeanor.

Here’s the question I have: Why did Democrats not want this bill passed? Could it be that there are Democrats that are pedophiles? Could it mean that all crime in our society have to be eliminated with the goal of overturning civilization? Could it have to do with the destruction of children and innocence just like radical gender theory and abortion?

How about “yes” to all three.

Before you get excited about California really letting pedophiles have it, they really watered down the bill.

  • Punishable by up to four years in prison.
  • A fine of up to $25,000.
  • The bill would also require a person convicted of soliciting a minor to register as a sex offender for 10 years.
  • However, the new version of the bill would only allow prosecutors to level felony charges if the minor was under 16, meaning those who attempted to buy sex with a 16-year-old or 17-year-old could still only be charged with a misdemeanor.

This is just evil.

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/254795/bill-to-designate-child-trafficking-a-serious-felony-stalls-in-california
https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-bill-making-buying-child-sex-a-felony-moves-forward-after-dems-water-it-down

That’s Burglary

According to the New York Post:

Gordon Ramsay once said he doesn’t “run restaurants that are out of control” — but that’s apparently not the case at one of his London eateries.

A swarm of squatters have shacked up inside the celebrity chef’s $16.1 million pub — using Ramsay’s own kitchen appliances to barricade themselves inside, according to a report.

Shocking photographs taken by The Sun show the “professional squatters” holed up inside York & Albany pub, which the “Hell’s Kitchen” host was about to sign over to new partners in a multi-million dollar deal.

One person was seen barefoot and sprawled across on a black leather sofa inside the restaurant, with their personal belongings and debris, including empty wine bottles, strewn across the floor.

What appears to be a filthy plush dog toy is seen tossed on the floor near the swanky front bar that months earlier had been adorned with fresh flowers and pricey cocktails.

Another disheveled-looking man — sporting two black eyes, a massive hoodie, flip flops and athletic tape wrapped around his knee — was also seen walking around the exterior of the swanky pub.

“It’s an absolute nightmare scenario for poor Gordon,” a source told the UK outlet Thursday.

“The pub was temporarily closed while he was finalizing a new lease, and during this handover period, a gang of professional squatters somehow bypassed all the security and CCTV, and got themselves in.

“They’ve now boarded themselves in the building and are slowly taking over the place, leaving their crap everywhere and brazenly telling locals this is now their home.

“They’ve glued tight all the locks and are cooking up a storm in the kitchen, which is especially galling for Gordon.”

The insider said there are at least six “professional squatters” — five men and one woman — living inside the restaurant and its attached bedrooms.

“God knows the damage and filth,” said the source.

Ramsay has reportedly called police to obtain an eviction notice, “but it’s proving an absolute nightmare.”

The squatters themselves have threatened legal action against anyone that tries to force them out.

Calling themselves “The Occupiers,” the group slapped a notice on the front door claiming they are entitled to stay in the pub because it “is a non-residential building.”

https://nypost.com/2024/04/13/world-news/gordon-ramsays-london-pub-york-amp-albany-taken-over-by-squatters/
https://www.dailywire.com/news/professional-squatters-kicked-out-of-gordon-ramsays-16m-london-restaurant

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Episode 881- Let’s All Just Calm Down

O.J. murdered two people, but it was completely justified.

Old Joe’s weakness is making a mess of things. It’s time for Israel to make Biden take a side.

And f-ing California.

Dumbass of the Day

Here is Ashley Allison on CNN saying what the previous reporter would not say.

Time to Change Stratgy

Iran has chosen to start World War III by attacking Israel. Here’s what is happening up until now.

  • On Thursday and Friday, the United States warned Israel that Iran was preparing for an attack of some kind. This was because Iran was pissed that Israel killed a couple of commanders from the Revolutionary Guard in Syria.
  • On Saturday, President Biden was called back to the White House early from his vacation in Delaware. Mind you, Old Joe has spent 40% of his presidency on vacation.
  • A few hours later, Iran launched an attack made up of 300 ballasitic missiles and suicide drones.
  • The missiles were shot down by Israel’s Iron Dome. The drons were shot down by Israeli, British and U.S. fighters. Only a few landed, none hit targets.
  • On Sunday, the reactions came in.
    • Israel said there would be a response and it would be strong.
    • Most of Europe stands by Israel including Germany, England and France.
    • Many countries are blaming Russia and China for continuing to support Iran.
    • The United States said it would stand by Israel, but would not back them if the hit Iran. Weird. That sounds like they don’t stand by Israel.
    • The United Nations has not condemned the attack but urges restraint from both sides.
    • Meanwhile, in Chicago and Dearborn, Michigan, the traitorsofthis country are celebrating and calling for the genocide of te Jews.

Some things about this mess:

  • This whole thing is going to backfire.
  • Israel may realize they have no support and are being attacked from four fronts: Iran, the West Bank, the Golan Heights, and Hamas. They may say, “f- it” and go in to these territories balls out. This is what they should do.
  • The Biden administration has no idea what to do. Support their radical, pro-terrorist base (for votes) or do what is right (which most of the country supports and is for votes). I thought they just hated Israel, but it’s more than that.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-to-netanyahu-u-s-will-not-back-counterstrike-against-iran-report

Its Been Three Years

According to Newsweek:

Millions of Southern California residents could see one aspect of their water bill double.

On Tuesday, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD) passed a budget that solidified rate and property tax increases for its customers over the next two years. Years of drought in California contributed to the increase, as the district battles revenue declines following widespread conservation efforts related to climate change.

Two abnormally wet winters have aided in California’s recovery from drought, but despite the state’s improved water conditions, conservation efforts have had an impact on the MWD.

“We’ve been successful in conservation to the point where our sales are declining, and we need to make that up somehow,” MWD Board of Directors Chair Adán Ortega Jr. said, according to a Los Angeles Times report. “We’ve made up the revenue and stabilized the past rates with the reserves, and we can’t keep doing that.”

The increase will impact two aspects of residents’ water bills—their monthly bill and their annual ad valorem property tax.

Water rates will increase by 8.5 percent in 2025 and another 8.5 percent in 2026. The rate increase will be reflected on the monthly water bill received by the 26 public water agencies the district serves. It delivers water to 19 million people in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego and Ventura counties.

In addition to the rate increase, the budget doubles the MWD’s property tax assessment.

This is pure corruption.

Some things:

  • Droughts in California are not rare. They happen all the time.
  • Rainy seasons are not rare. They happen all the time.

https://www.newsweek.com/california-water-bill-doubles-climate-change-drought-1889068

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Episode 880 – More Bad News

Joe Biden can’t seem to get out of inflation’s way and this is a bit of a problem for him in front of the election.

Chicago is bracing for more riots after a Black man is shot by police. Let us look and see if the anger is justified.

And you won’t believe what is bad for the environment now.

Is It Ever Going to End?

According to the Wall Street Journal:

Stubborn inflation pressures persisted in March, derailing the case for the Federal Reserve to begin reducing interest rates in June and raising questions over whether it can deliver cuts this year without signs of an economic slowdown.

The consumer-price index, a measure of goods and services prices across the economy, rose 3.5% in March from a year earlier, the Labor Department said Wednesday. That was a touch higher than economists had forecast and a pickup from February’s 3.2%. So-called core prices, which exclude volatile food and energy categories, also rose more than expected on a monthly and annual basis.

Stocks fell, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down more than 400 points to its lowest close in nearly two months. Yields climbed on U.S. government bonds, reflecting bets that the data could help delay and diminish future interest-rate reductions.

Biden did have a comment about this. It what I expected though did not want to hear:

This is a big thing. Is Joe Biden talking to the Feds? He’s not suppose to have anything to do with the Fed. They are suppose to be independent of politics. Of course, we know that’s bullshit and he is telling them what to do. That said, he is going to lower interest rates by May or June, whether it’s good for inflation or not, so he can say he lowered interest rates before the election.

I was going to go over all the bad news, but ABC News did it for me. Let’s listen:

Here are some basic stats of what inflation was with Trump and under Biden:

https://www.wsj.com/economy/inflation-march-cpi-report-interest-rate-239b7e5e

Guess What Happened

Of course, that is not quite what the story is.

According to the New York Post:

Graphic bodycam footage released Tuesday revealed the chaos that unfolded when plainclothes Chicago cops fired nearly 100 gunshots during a traffic stop last month, killing one young man and leaving another injured.

By the way, the other injured was the police officer!

Dexter Reed, 26, was killed during a March 21 traffic stop in Humboldt Park after officers in an unmarked cop car pulled him over for allegedly failing to wear a seatbelt.

The chaotic footage shows Reed rolling down the window of his SUV and then raising it before refusing to exit his vehicle as five officers scream commands and draw their weapons.

Preliminary evidence showed Reed had fired first at one officer during the shootout on West Ferdinand Street. Four other officers returned fire, the Civilian Office of Police Accountability said in a statement.

“Available preliminary evidence also confirms that officers returned fire approximately 96 times over a period of 41 seconds, including after Mr. Reed exited his vehicle and fell to the ground,” COPA said.

Just a little FYI, when someone starts shooting, the police unload their weapons. Each cop has between 17 and 19 rounds (some more with extended clips). There were five cops there. If each unloads a clip, that’s between 89 and 95 rounds. So, 96 rounds being fired is surprising or against police policy. Especially if one cop has already been shot.

The videos released show multiple perspectives, including from the officer who was shot, but there isn’t clear footage of Reed shooting at police.

A gun was later recovered from the passenger seat of his vehicle.

Fuck around and find out.

https://nypost.com/2024/04/10/us-news/chicago-police-fired-nearly-100-shots-during-fatal-traffic-stop-video/

I Bet It’s Racist Too

According to the Daily Mail:

They might be an essential piece of everyday clothing, but scientists now say that even a simple pair of jeans could be bad for the environment. 

Wearing a pair of fast fashion jeans just once creates 2.5kg of CO2, the equivalent of driving a petrol car 6.4 miles. 

Scientists from the Guangdong University of Technology analysed the life cycle of a pair of Levi’s jeans from growing the cotton to their eventual disposal. 

There’s a shock. Scientists from China think an American classic is bad.

They found that some jeans were worn only seven times – earning them the classifiation of ‘fast fashion’ – and produced 11 times more CO2 than jeans wore more often. 

Dr Ya Zhou, the study’s lead author says: ‘The humble wardrobe staple – a pair of jeans – has a significant impact on the environment.’

I wonder what “Dr.” Zhou thinks of the tons of pollution pumped into the air by China every hour. Has he ever done a study about that?

To see how fast fashion affects the environment, the researchers analysed the lifecycle of a pair of Levi’s 501 jeans from raw cotton to their disposal by incineration. 

During the product’s lifetime, the researchers discovered that fast fashion jeans had a carbon footprint 95-99 per cent larger than traditional fashion jeans, which are worn 120 times on average.

The biggest difference between the two styles of consumption is that clothes sold for fast fashion are transported faster and are worn less often before being thrown out.  

Dr Zhou told MailOnline: ‘Changing fashion trends induce people to purchase clothing frequently and use them short-lived to keep following the latest trends.

‘Such the overconsumption has led to a significant increase in resource and energy consumption in the clothing industry by accelerating the entire clothing supply chain, including the production, logistics, consumption and disposal processes, thereby exacerbating the clothing industry’s impact on climate change.’

Question: Who wears a pair of jeans only six times??

Here comes the bullshit:

The researchers estimate that a pair of jeans produced for the traditional fashion market produces 0.22 kg of CO2.

This is higher than previous estimates since the researchers believe jeans are worn less often and washed more frequently than had been thought.

However, of that total carbon footprint, 48 per cent is caused by the washing, drying and ironing of jeans after purchase.

I agree with this. Jeans are not supposed to be washed more than once a month. It is actually recommended that jeans be put in a freezer for washing.

Who the hell irons jeans?

Meanwhile, the researchers estimate that jeans sold in fast fashion produce 11 times more emissions. 

Since they are worn only seven times on average, these jeans produce 2.5 kg CO2e per wear, despite needing very little energy to wash and dry over their lifetime. 

Unlike traditional fashion, the vast majority of the emissions in fast fashion come from the production of the jeans and fibre, making up 70 per cent of the total emissions.

The remaining emissions are largely created by the transportation of the jeans from factories to consumers, making up 21 per cent of total emissions.

Dr Zhou explains: ‘To achieve a quick response (to fashion trends) of the global supply chain, fast fashion model prefers transportation modes with shorter logistical times, such as cross-border transportation by air rather than by sea.’

Because fast fashion’s transport is much more energy intensive, their transport produced a staggering 59 times more CO2. 

What’s funny about this article is that these are all estimates. There has been no science put into this.

Second, it assumes you are not going to wear jeans more than 11 times.

Finally the assumption is you wash your jeans after every wearing. This is not only not recommended, it is just dumb. Jeans do not absorb sweat will, so it takes a long time before they smell. Again, Levi Strauss recommends washing them once a month by washing them in cold water. They used to recommend putting them in a freezer of several hours, taking them out and letting them dry.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13267731/JEANS-bad-environment-Study-reveals.html

Just No

According to the New York Post:

What started as a humble canvas tote soon launched an expansive collection of handbags in CJ Robinson’s closet.

The 28-year-old New Yorker is now the proud owner of upwards of 30 handbags and is part of a growing class of men taking after fashion-forward A-list hunks who flaunt designer bags.

Aussie actor Jacob Elordi, a fashion “It” boy in his own right, has been lauded for his impressive collection of Louis Vuitton, Bottega Veneta and Fendi, while Harry Styles, Pharrell and A$AP Rocky have been spotted with various designer bags. Even athletes, like Travis Kelce, LeBron James and David Beckham, tout ultra-luxe totes.

“They’re something that I can carry around, I can still feel masculine, but it’s something that I can use and be fashionable at the same time,” Robinson, who works at Brandon Blackwood, told The Post.

For him, a bag is both fashionable and functional, looking chic while still holding the “million things” he tosses inside.

Jalen Noble, a New Jersey-based content creator, needs to carry his two phones, keys, wallet, eye drops and chapstick — and even men’s pockets aren’t large enough. So, he opts for a luxe leather bag.

“I noticed that when I would just wear pants with two pockets in them and that’s it, my pockets would look bulky,” Noble, 30, told The Post, adding that he needed a satchel “for convenience because I can carry so many things.”

“Some people might call them a bag, a satchel … or anything else that people want to label it, but to me, it’s just a crossbody purse. I love them.”

You know what you can carry a lot of stuff in but look less gay? A backpack.

All these people are Left wingers. The is part of the continuous femininization of masculinity. The best men are feminine. No, thank you. I like being a man. My wife likes me being a man. She would never allow me to carry a purse. She’s be embarrassed about it.

https://nypost.com/2024/04/05/lifestyle/hot-guys-carry-handbags-now-how-travis-lebron-and-jacob-made-man-purses-a-must/

Gee, I Wonder Why This Is?

According to the New York Post:

Accelerated aging — when someone’s biological age is greater than their chronological age — could increase the risk of cancer tumors.

That’s according to new research presented this week at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting in San Diego, California.

“Historically, both cancer and aging have been viewed primarily as concerns for older populations,” Ruiyi Tian, MPH, a graduate student at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and one of the study researchers, told Fox News Digital.

“The realization that cancer, and now aging, are becoming significant issues for younger demographics over the past decades was unexpected.”

In the study, diagnoses in patients younger than 55 years old were considered early-onset cancers.

The researchers analyzed data from 148,724 people using the UK Biobank database. 

They estimated each person’s biological age using nine biomarkers in the blood — then compared that to their chronological age.

Those with a higher biological age had a 42% increased risk of early-onset lung cancer, were 22% more prone to early-onset gastrointestinal cancer, and had a 36% higher risk for early-onset uterine cancer.

The researchers also determined that people born after 1965 were 17% more likely to experience accelerated aging than those born in earlier decades.

“The principal findings highlight that accelerated aging is increasingly prevalent among successive birth cohorts, potentially serving as a crucial risk factor or mediator for various environmental and lifestyle-related risk factors leading to early-onset cancer,” Tian said in an email to Fox News Digital.

“This discovery challenges us to reconsider the underlying causes of the increasing incidence of early-onset cancers among newer generations,” he added.

The hope is that these findings will lead to interventions to slow biological aging as a “new avenue for cancer prevention,” the researchers noted, combined with screening efforts tailored to younger individuals.

“It is vital for recent generations to become more health-conscious and consider the implications of accelerated aging,” Tian said.

https://nypost.com/2024/04/09/lifestyle/cancer-rates-rising-in-young-people-due-to-accelerated-aging-according-to-highly-troubling-new-study/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social

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Episode 879 – It Ain’t the Moon That’s Full of Gas!

Sheila Jackson-Lee has apparently become an astrophysicist.

A terrorist plot has been thwarted, but expect more to come.

And the Pope finally does the right thing. Better late than never.

Dumbass of the Day

Is This a Surprise?

According to Fox News:

The FBI has arrested an 18-year-old in Idaho after uncovering his “truly horrific” and “violent plot” to attack churches in Coeur d’Alene this past weekend on behalf of ISIS, the Justice Department says. 

Alexander Mercurio is now facing a federal charge of attempting to provide material support or resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization after the FBI says he devised a plan to “incapacitate his father, restrain him using handcuffs, and steal his firearms to use for maximum casualties” in an attack he had been planning to carry out in the northern Idaho resort city on Sunday, April 7. 

“The defendant allegedly pledged loyalty to ISIS and sought to attack people attending churches in Idaho, a truly horrific plan which was detected and thwarted by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said in a statement. 

Is this really a shocking story?

https://www.foxnews.com/us/fbi-arrests-idaho-18-year-old-violent-plot-attack-churches-behalf-isis-justice-department

It’s About Time

According to Fox News:

The Vatican has released a document criticizing gender theory, transgender surgery and surrogacy as affronts to human dignity.

Dignitas Infinita, Latin for “Infinite Dignity,” was released on Monday after more than five years in development by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) and focuses on threats to human dignity in the modern world.

“In the light of Revelation, the Church resolutely reiterates and confirms the ontological dignity of the human person, created in the image and likeness of God and redeemed in Jesus Christ,” the document states in its beginning.

Dignitas Infinita addresses over a dozen individual issues of the modern day through the lens of scripture and church teaching, including abortion, human trafficking, poverty, euthanasia, the death penalty, and more.

Notably, the document formally reaffirms and expands on the Catholic Church’s teaching regarding gender theory – which it holds as an inadmissible ideology – asserting that attempts to alter an individual’s immutable gender are ultimately misguided attempts to play God. 

“Regarding gender theory, whose scientific coherence is the subject of considerable debate among experts, the Church recalls that human life in all its dimensions, both physical and spiritual, is a gift from God,” the document states. “This gift is to be accepted with gratitude and placed at the service of the good. Desiring a personal self-determination, as gender theory prescribes, apart from this fundamental truth that human life is a gift, amounts to a concession to the age-old temptation to make oneself God, entering into competition with the true God of love revealed to us in the Gospel.”

It’s not a new stance for the church – Pope Francis, forced to confront the rapid rise of gender ideology in recent years, has previously called it one of the world’s “most dangerous ideological colonizations.”

The document continues, “Another prominent aspect of gender theory is that it intends to deny the greatest possible difference that exists between living beings: sexual difference. This foundational difference is not only the greatest imaginable difference but is also the most beautiful and most powerful of them. In the male-female couple, this difference achieves the most marvelous of reciprocities. It thus becomes the source of that miracle that never ceases to surprise us: the arrival of new human beings in the world.”

Dignitas Infinita has been revised extensively over the past few months and was finally approved for publication by Pope Francis on March 25. Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect for the DDF, presented the document at a Monday press conference in Vatican City.

The document reaffirms the Church’s teachings on abortion, and also elaborates on its long-standing ethical criticisms of surrogate pregnancies, which it says are contrary to the pro-life position.

“The Church also takes a stand against the practice of surrogacy, through which the immensely worthy child becomes a mere object,” the document states.

“First and foremost, the practice of surrogacy violates the dignity of the child. Indeed, every child possesses an intangible dignity that is clearly expressed – albeit in a unique and differentiated way – at every stage of his or her life: from the moment of conception, at birth, growing up as a boy or girl, and becoming an adult,” the dicastery wrote in the document. “Because of this unalienable dignity, the child has the right to have a fully human (and not artificially induced) origin and to receive the gift of a life that manifests both the dignity of the giver and that of the receiver.”

Surrogacy via in vitro fertilization typically requires the artificial fertilization of multiple human embryos, some of which are often then perpetually frozen or destroyed.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/vatican-says-transgenderism-surrogacy-gender-theory-violate-human-dignity

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Episode 878 – The Day the Earth Stood Still

I have some thoughts about the eclipse yesterday.

The minimum wage in California is having predictable results.

And King Joe Biden has decided to ignore the Constitution again.

Dumbass of the Day

The Dominos Fall

According to Fox News:

Mod Pizza, which has 500 locations nationwide, closed five shops in the state at the end of March, according to local Fox affiliate KMPH.

Those shops were among the over two dozen locations that the company closed across the nation. The company did not specify a reason, but workers in Clovis, whose shop abruptly closed, told the outlet they suspected that the California closures had to do with the new law that took effect in April, 

“It just kind of seemed like the right timing, two weeks before all of the fast food locations in California got that increase that we closed,” a Mod Pizza employee, who asked to remain anonymous, told KMPH.

The legislation that went into effect in California on April 1 increases the minimum wage for restaurants that have at least 60 locations nationwide, except those that make and sell their own bread, from $16 to $20. This equates to an annual salary of $41,600.

The median fast-food worker in the U.S. earned $13.43 an hour in 2022, while those in California made an average of $16.60 an hour, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. 

Other stores that have been closing include Round Table Pizza, Pizza Hut and Foster’s Freeze. Door Dash has stopped hiring employees because the profit boosts make ordering food to expensive and they aren’t getting business.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/pizza-shop-closes-california-locations-before-minimum-wage-law-took-effect

Dictatorship

According to the Daily Wire:

President Joe Biden, facing poor polling numbers for a Democratic candidate with young voters, announced another student loan bailout program this week ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

His new plan comes after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked his attempt to this last year because it was illegal.

Biden’s new plan would take taxpayer money to wipe out the student loan debt of over 30 million borrowers, the White House said. The administration said that the actions were specifically designed to provide relief to black and Latino borrowers who attended community college and who are financially vulnerable because they took out debt but never had the chance to complete their degree.

The plan would provide relief to borrowers who owe more than they did at the start of repayment; borrowers who are otherwise eligible for loan forgiveness, but have not yet applied; borrowers who first entered repayment many years ago; borrowers who enrolled in low-financial-value programs; and borrowers experiencing hardship paying back their loans.

“Today, too many Americans, especially young people, are saddled with unsustainable debts in exchange for a college degree,” Biden said from an event in Wisconsin. “The ability for working and middle class folks to repay their student loans has become so burdensome that a lot can’t repay it for even decades after being in school.”

“Even when they work hard and pay their student loans, their debt increases, not diminishes,” he said. “Too many people feel the strain and stress wondering if they can get married, have their first child, start a family because even if they get by, they still have this crushing, crushing debt, and it’s not just a drag on them.”

Biden claimed that people couldn’t buy homes because they had to repay their student loans when most people can’t afford homes because of high interests that were sparked by the inflation that his American Rescue Plan caused.

“Tens of millions of people’s debt was literally about to get canceled, but then some of my Republican friends and elected officials and special interests sued us and the Supreme Court blocked us, but that didn’t–well, that didn’t stop us,” he said. “No, I mean it sincerely. We continue to find alternative paths to reduce student debt payment that are not challenging.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-again-tries-to-win-over-young-voters-with-new-student-loan-bailout

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