Is George Floyd more influential to American history than Martin Luther King Jr.?

A terror attack in Texas proves that we live under a corrupt regime.

And Ted Cruz redeems himself.

Way to Minimize What a Hero Does

I was in Big Bear this weekend, dying of the China virus. But it was Martin Luther King’s birthday so I decided to enjoy it anyway. I did not watch much news, as I tend to do on holidays with the family. So I’m coming home and I hear the most insane statement from Joe Biden “celebrating” MLK Day. Listen:

Some things:

• That pause at the end was so Old Joe’s wise words could sink in.
• Or maybe in was the red flag in his brain that popped up 30 seconds later that said, “That is a really dumb thing to say. Don’t say it.”
• Then his brain said, “Shit, too late.”

There are some stark differences between Martin Luther King and George Floyd.

• MLK was had a doctorate in theology from Boston University. George Floyd was a rapper known as “Big Floyd” from a rap group called “Screwed Up Click”.
• MLK fought for Civil Rights for black people during Jim Crow. George Floyd spent time in prison for drug possession and armed robbery.
• MLK died because he pushed the passing of the 1964. George Floyd died because he was stoned on a lethal cocktail of drugs and gave out a fake $20 bill to get some cigarettes and a bad cop killed him.

Does this sound like George Floyd is of the same character as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.? Why in God’s name would he say something like this?

Well, there are a few things.

To start off, Joe Biden is stupid and always says the wrong things. There is a good chance he said this and realized in mid-sentence that this was a bad thing to say. Most people know that George Floyd was a career criminal and a thug. This comment is not going to sit well with anyone other than the BLM crowd.

But George Floyd’s life is a representation of what the Left wants. His death did transform the country into something the Left has been wanting since the 1960s. He didn’t mean to do it. He was just stoned and wanted to steal a pack of smokes. But his death was a sacrifice for the Left that would overturn 250 years of the American spirit. His death is an excuse to:

• Eliminate the nuclear family.
• Eliminate the Constitution.
• Eliminate free speech, the free press, religion and guns.
• Eliminate capitalism.
• Reboot segregation.
• Demonize white people.
• Implement critical race theory in schools to children.
• Defund the police.
• Clear the prisons.
• Legalize crime.

All Martin Luther King Jr. did was end systemic racism caused by the Jim Crow laws that only lasted 100 years because King believed that blacks should be seen as equal to whites in society and the eyes of the law. He believed in this country and thought that this country was not living up to its promise of the Constitution. That is not a popular stance with the BLM movement.

So, yes, George Floyd did have more affect on the country, and, as a consequence, the world. To you and me, that’s a bad thing. To Joe Biden and the Left, that’s a good thing.

A Real Clear Message

There was a hostage situation at a Jewish synagogue in Texas this weekend. The reaction from the FBI and White House is amazing.

The Story

Here is the story:

• On Saturday, the holy day for the Jews, a homeless man walked into the middle of the service at the Beth Israel Synagogue in Colleyville, TX.
• The Jews let him in because that’s what they do. Turns out religious people have empathy for the less fortunate.
• The man pulled a gun (that he bought, illegally, on the street) and held the people hostage.
• Several got out and called the police.
• The police and FBI were called and surrounded the area. The Texas SWAT team was also contacted.
• The FBI established communications with the man. His demand was that one of his sisters, who was in prison and sentenced for 86 years in prison, was to be released. The man said that he was not going to come out alive. At this time, only four people were being held.
• The Rabbi, while the hostage taker was talking to the police, threw a chair at the man. The four hostages escaped.
• SWAT broke into the building and, according to reports, killed the suspect.

Why?

So here’s the question: Why did this happen?

According to everyone, we don’t know. Here is the FBI talking about the motives of the suspect:

The FBI had no idea. For all they know, this guy was just cruising down the street, came up to a Jewish synagogue and decided to take hostages.

Old Joe also had no idea what was happening. He said in a statement:

He doesn’t know why this guy walked into a Jewish synagogue, took a bunch of Jews hostage and used anti-Semitic terms? Really? Could I venture a guess?

I got some clues about it:

• He live streamed the attack.
• His name was Malik Faisal Akram.
• The woman he wanted released is named Aafia Siddiqui, also known as ‘Lady al Qaeda.’

According to ABC News correspondent Aaron Katersky:

Aafia Siddiqui is “linked to al Qaeda and was convicted in 2010 of attempting to kill Americans in Afghanistan. Siddiqui … who’s known in counterterrorism circles as ‘Lady al Qaeda,’ has been linked to 9/11 ringleader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and was once on the FBI’s most-wanted terrorists list. Educated in the United States — she studied at M.I.T. and received a doctorate from Brandeis — Siddiqui was arrested in 2008 in Afghanistan carrying sodium cyanide, as well as documents describing how to make chemical weapons and dirty bombs and how to weaponize Ebola. When FBI and military officials tried to question Siddiqui, she grabbed a weapon left on the table in her interrogation room and fired upon them.”

Gee, do we still have no clue why this guy decided to attack Jews?

Maybe They Should Have Read This

Maybe Joe Biden and the FBI should subscribe to the right-leaning British newspaper, The Daily Telegraph. The day after the terrorist attack, they had a full spread on Akram. Here’s what they found:

• He lived in Blackburn, England.
• He may have been on a terror watchlist, but no one will confirm. That usually means he was.
• He got a tourist visa from the United States by lying on his application.
• He has criminal history dates back to 1996, when he was jailed for violent disorder following a baseball attack on a member of his extended family.
• He was given a six-month custodial sentence but was jailed again the following year, after being found guilty of destroying property.
• In 1999, he was again behind bars following a conviction for harassment and, after being let out on license, he breached the terms of his release and was returned to prison.
• His most recent spell in prison came in 2012, when he was remanded in custody after being accused of stealing a phone and almost £5,000 from a man in Chorley.
• Akram was a regular visitor to Pakistan and was understood to be a member of Tablighi Jamaat, an Islamic organization banned by Saudi Arabia.
• His family had a history of mental health problems.

In other words, this guy was a terrorist with a criminal history and should have never been allowed in this country. He hated Jews and wanted to kill them. If it wasn’t for that brave Rabbi, he probably would have killed them. But that is not the most disturbing part of this story.

There are three things that are disturbing here:

• Identity politics and the victim class narrative is more important than the truth.
  • For some reason, Muslims are seen as a victim class and the Left wants us to have more compassion for them than the Jews, who are considered a “master” class.
  • Jewish deaths mean nothing. Look at the issue with Israel and terrorists in the Middle East.
  • The Left does not care about any of the privileged classes. They can die and that’s OK.
• Terrorism is a political football. It is something the Biden administration, among all their other failures, don’t need right now. You could see that Biden tried to shift the narrative. He tried to blame guns for this whole incident even thought this guy got the gun illegally.
• The government shows how they suck, once again. This guy should have never been in this country. His application was, obviously, never vetted.
• The FBI has been corrupted by politics.

The last statement is the scariest because our chief law enforcement arm in this country has now become, politically, an arm of the Left. If you need more proof of this, all we have to do is look back to January 6th, 2020.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-slammed-texas-synagogue-hostage-taker-not-related-jewish-community
https://www.dailywire.com/news/senator-graham-on-hostage-situation-at-texas-synagogue-this-is-a-religious-war
https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-suspect-who-took-hostages-in-texas-synagogue-is-dead
https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-releases-statement-on-synagogue-hostage-situation-leaves-out-major-details
https://www.dailywire.com/news/alleged-hostage-taker-claims-to-be-brother-of-terrorist-convicted-of-trying-to-kill-troops-in-afghanistan
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/17/texas-synagogue-terrorist-imprisoned-three-times-gave-fake-address/

Cruz Redeems Himself

Last week, Ted Cruz got lambasted because he called the January 6th rioters “terrorists”, basically playing into the Democratic narrative. I thought the comment was not good, but I didn’t put too much into it. I like what Ted Cruz stands for so I just dismissed it as clumsy language.

Tucker Carlson didn’t. He ripped Ted Cruz to the point Cruz felt the need to go on Tucker’s show to explain himself. Tucker tore into him and Cruz sucked it up. He said he used clumsy, stupid language and didn’t mean what he said. Tucker pointed out that Cruz is a master of language and has never said something he didn’t mean. Cruz just took it and assured Tucker that it was an accident and he didn’t mean.

I’ll give him this, he has balls to go in and face the music.

I will give Ted Cruz the benefit of the doubt and I thought the whole thing was overdone anyway. But, this week, while interviewing a couple of directors from the FBI about the January 6th Capitol riots, he redeemed himself and brought up doubts as to the role of the FBI during the riot. He may have invalidated the January 6th commission that has been wasting money and time for the last six months.

In the first clip, Cruz goes after Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen.

Olsen was testifying in front of the Senate. How could he not know this information? How could he not know that Republicans were going to ask those questions?

The reality is he did know. He didn’t want to answer the questions.

Here, Cruz points out that the FBO and DOJ is a strong arm of the Biden administration, doling out justice unequally.

Everything he said is correct.

In the next clip, Cruz goes after the the FBI’s executive assistant director for the national security branch, Jill Sanborn. He was no less brutal to her. He didn’t care that she was a woman.

Why can’t she answer those questions? They were yes/no questions that people in America have. Tucker Carlson did an entire series on it. Twitter and Facebook are exploding with these “conspiracy theories”. She doesn’t have to say what the FBI did, just if they were there. And if they weren’t there, she could easily say no.

But they were there. She knows it. She doesn’t want to answer those questions but she doesn’t want to lie.

Cruz continues:

Ray Epps is another conspiracy theorist legend. Except he was actually there. He was filmed and he, conveniently disappeared. Are you getting the impression maybe some of these conspiracies that people are coming up with might not be conspiracies? And why didn’t the January 6th committee not ask about Ray Epps? Let’s be clear, there is video of the guy inciting violence against the capital. You could hear him talking.

Let’s let Cruz continue:

Doesn’t look like a conspiracy theory anymore, does it? It sounds like the conspiracy is being perpetuated by the Democrats. It’s looking like that Biden’s DOJ and FBI, along with the Democrats, are hiding some things.

Good for Ted Cruz. He is forgiven for his missteps.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/revival-and-reformation-is-needed-canadian-pastors-sound-off-on-new-law-that-threatens-to-criminalize-evangelism

We get some more virtue signaling from an odd source.

The Sweet Baby Gang cult leader lights up the trans argument.

And the worst song since the “I Love You, You Love Me” Barney song has broken a new record. I’ll let you guess what the song is.

God Help Our Youth

According to the IndiaPress:

In a first, a YouTube video breached the 10 million views mark, and no points for guessing it’s none other than ‘Baby Shark’! Yes, the catchy children’s song that even made an entry on Billboard’s coveted Hot 100 chart, managed to create another rare milestone on Thursday (January 13), making it the most-viewed video in the platform’s history.

That’s right! One of the most annoying songs that has ever been written has gotten 10 billion (with a “b”) views on YouTube. It blew by Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee’s ‘Despacito’, which only has 7.7 billion views.

https://indianexpress.com/article/trending/trending-globally/baby-shark-becomes-first-youtube-video-to-get-10-billion-views-7722624/#:~:text=The%20children’s%20song%20by%20the,other%20than%20’Baby%20Shark’!

Some News

Here’s some news that I’m not going to expand upon today. We will in the coming days but I think we’re going to get more information later:

• As of right now, the Dow Jones has fallen nearly a thousand points. Many economist point to a few things for this:
  • We could be going through a correction. The Nasdaq has fallen too and moth markets have fallen since the beginning of the year.
  • The issues between Ukraine and Russia heating up.
  • China threatening Taiwan is becoming an issue. Taiwan makes a lot of our technology like processor.
  • The Biden administration throwing up their hands with inflation and throwing it to the Federal Reserve which is going to raise interest rates.
• Russia could invade Ukraine at any moment.
  • Biden has given Putin permission for a “minor incursion” which was a real f-up.
  • The President has not ruled out sending troops and has put 8.5 thousand troops on high alert.
  • 40,000 NATO troops have been put on alert though NATO seems a little stand-offish with fighting with Russia.
  • Lethal weapons have been sent to Ukraine from the U.S. government.
• China has sent a sortie of planes over Taiwan again. It was bad enough that Taiwan scrambled their fighter jets. China is being emboldened by Russia.
• The TSA has announced that they are using the arrest warrants that illegal aliens get when crossing illegally as identification to board airplanes.

I Thought You Ate Them

In an attempt to become woke, Mars Inc., the makers of M&Ms, has decided to make their mascots, which are the little colored candies that are trying to eat each other all the time, more inclusive.

According to The Daily Beast:

What qualities are the most important for a modern, progressive woman to possess? On Thursday, Mars provided its customers with an exciting new answer: her shoes, of course. Alongside an announcement of its “global commitment to creating a world where everyone feels they belong,” the candy company behind M&M’s rolled out a redesign of their beloved mascots. Preparing their “lentils” for a “more dynamic, progressive world,” the characters are now being spotlighted for their “personalities, rather than their gender.” Apparently, that translates to gifting each with a fresh set of new kicks. Green is swapping her white, heeled go-go boots for a “cool, laid-back pair of sneakers,” according to Mars, while Brown (formerly Ms. Brown) will sport kitten heels instead of stilettos. The two female members of the cast, Green and Brown will also be trading in their traditionally competitive relationship to start “throwing sunshine and not shade,” Mars said.

Changes will include:

• The green M&M will be even tennis shoes instead of the retroactive go-go boots.
• The brown M&M, which has been a bossier character, will sport shorter heels and actually be the boss. They are also going to drop the Ms. title for something else.
• The red M&M, who has been kind of a bully, will be kinder to the other M&Ms.
• And the orange M&M, who is so neurotic that he can’t even tie his shoes, will come to grip with his mental disorders and will have his shoes tied from now on.

Cathryn Sleight, Mars Wrigley’s chief growth officer (there’s a title for you) said:

“M&M’s has long been committed to creating colorful fun for all, and this purpose serves as a more concrete commitment to what we’ve always believed as a brand: that everyone has the right to enjoy moments of happiness, and fun is the most powerful way to help people feel that they belong.”

All the world’s problems are solved.

Even the mainstream media is chuckling at this obvious attempted virtue signal. The Washington Post released one article that questioned the purpose of doing this. He said this was an obvious attempt to make the company look woke and would have no impact on anything. Another Washington Post op-ed spent a thousand words asking another simple questions: Can we still eat them or have M&Ms become so inclusive as to deserve the same rights as we do? I don’t think that’s a bad question. It’s stupid but not a bad one.

These companies don’t get it. They are solving nothing with these little (very little) contributions. They are just targeting, what they think, is towards a niche market that’s going to make them more money. That’s what this whole thing is about. Money. It’s not about changing the world. The cartoon green M&M wearing tennis shoes instead of go-go boots in not going to solve all our ills. Or any of them. It’s stupid.

Let’s not piss on Mars Wrigley Inc. All companies do it. Coke was telling us to be less white. Gillette told men they were toxically masculine. Just last week, Audi said some woke crap that got a laugh on social media. The problem these companies have that jump in the woke pool so late is we all see it and get what they’re doing. They look stupid and conformist, even to woke outlets.

They’re not accomplishing what they set out to do, which is make money. They’re just pissing off customers like me that won’t buy their products.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/mm-characters-are-becoming-inclusiveC

This Is What’s Needed

Last week, I missed the Dr. Phil Show. This shouldn’t be too much of a surprise because I do not watch a lot of day time television. But this show was different. One of my favorite talk show hosts, Matt Walsh from the Daily Wire, was on to debate transgender issues with a couple of transgender folks.

I missed it because I was wasting braincells watching the Bide press conference and just forgot about it but the highlights were posted and they were delicious.

At first a trans couple, one a trans man and the other a trans woman, discussed their lives, their efforts as consultants to companies to trans acceptance and their philosophy on the trans lifestyle. I do want to point out that since one is a biological woman and the other is a biological man, the two are actually a heterosexual couple. Weird.

Anyway, here are the clips.

In this clip, Matt Walsh blows the crap out of the entire trans argument.

Here’s the part on Dr Phil where I demonstrate that the “gender experts” cannot even define the word woman or explain what they mean when they use it

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— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) January 19, 2022

Some things:

• This is a disastrous argument for the trans community. They are trying to convince all of civilization that being trans is, not just normal, but natural.
• Normal is subjective and changes with time. Nature is absolute and cannot be changed, no matter what people think.
• If these two cannot answer what a woman is, then there really is nothing to transition to.
• Womanhood is not a subjective thing. It actually exists. We’ve proven it. We’ve mapped it all the way to the DNA and no one can change that.
• Walsh does a good job shooting the guy down with the science.
• The person goes into the “what if she can’t have children” argument, which is a dodge and Walsh doesn’t buy it. He’s already scientifically defined a woman. His turn.
• Here is the big problem with the trans ideology: It is all based on individual subjectivity. That’s how the Left argues on everything. It’s about how I feel and I manipulate science to reflect my feelings.

Here is another great argument about the idiocy of pronouns:

My preferred adjectives are handsome and brilliant. Please respect my self-identification.

pic.twitter.com/HSxR4t2yKy

— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) January 19, 2022

Some things:

• Again, women are objective beings and language, including pronouns, are objectively used.
• People can’t just change language based on their feelings.
• Again this is all about objectifying subjectivity.
• By the way, for telling your child, you can serve prison time in Canada for conversion therapy.

On the show comes a college professor (of course). She asks Matt a question he has answered hundreds of times before:

.@mattwalshblog on why he cares about biology and gender identity: "I care about the truth…I care about children and these insane ideas about gender are being foist on kids…I care about the woman who are having their opportunities stolen from them." pic.twitter.com/heU145LGGM

— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) January 19, 2022

Some things:

• This is a stupid question because it is the trans community that wants us to care. They are pushing this crap on us on a daily basis.
• They are pushing this crap on our kids. They believe kids should be able to go on hormone therapy and have sex change surgeries without parental consent.
• This crap is being taught in schools with no dissenting views.
• And this whole things goes against nature and I refuse to be part of it.

But one of the more disturbing trends from the trans community is how men are encroaching on the women’s world, places where women should feel safe. That includes women’s sports, restrooms and locker rooms. In Louden County, Virginia, a girl was raped by a boy dressed in a dress in the girls’ restroom because he was allowed to use it. The school district covered it up and the kid was moved to another school where he did the same thing. Parents fear for their children’s safety and privacy.

A man who thinks she’s a woman joined the women’s swim team and has broken all the women’s records. Opportunities for women in sports is disappearing. And the trans community is using Title IX to get what they want. The same rule that gave the opportunity to have sports.

Well, sharing restrooms became a topic. Joining the show were a couple of parents that had a daughter that was assaulted in a restroom by a trans girl, who is actually a boy. Listen:

Wherein the woke professor claims that girls getting raped in the bathroom isn’t a safety issue

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— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) January 19, 2022

That’s what it comes down to: The feelings of the trans community is more important than the feelings of anybody else. That’s because the trans community is highest on the victim list. Doesn’t matter the tragedies that occur or the feelings of the majority of people, just that the minority feels good. This is the poison that is identity politics.

So, who won the debate? We can tell easily by the response to the debate:

Matt Walsh is being called a transphobe. But it is Dr. Phil that got the crap-end of the stick. Here are some responses:

“Truly f*** Dr. Phil for this. Why would you invite a nonbinary person onto national television just to be humiliated by an outspoken transphobe? Who is this for? Who does this help? Man f*** you.”

This is a great response because the writer is admitting Walsh destroyed the trans activists.

“Dr. Phil you’re a scumbag for even giving this guy a platform to spread his bigotry. Your show needs to end if y’all are so desperate for ratings that you’ll stir the pot for drama while knowing it’s wrong.”

Another said:

“Of course Dr. Phil would invite Matt Walsh onto his show…they are both white males who think they know entirely more than they really do.”

There’s that identity politics again. It’s not just that Matt Walsh is wrong and this is why. It’s because he’s a straight, white male. These people don’t understand, two things can be right at once: Matt Walsh is a straight, white male and he’s right. The fact that nobody had a response to his questions shows that there is no argument.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/matt-walsh-issues-scathing-response-to-lgbt-activists-traumatized-given-nightmares-by-his-dr-phil-appearance
https://www.dailywire.com/news/f-dr-phil-leftists-freak-out-about-matt-walsh-appearing-on-dr-phil-to-discuss-radical-gender-theory

Rest in Peace, Meatloaf

The rock singer Meatloaf died last week. He was 74. He is most famous for his song I Will Do Anything for Love, But I Won’t Do That from his Bat Out of Hell album.

A little more about him:

• He was born in 1947 in Dallas, Texas.
• When his singing career started he toured with The Who and the Grateful Dead.
• He also did stage performances. In the early 1970s, he starred in the musicals Hair and The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
• In the late 1970s he released Bat Out of Hell and Bat Out of Hell II, which both went platinum.
• He was also on screen in movies such as Wayne’s World, Formula 51 and Fight Club.

He was a very talented singer.

Here he is, singing the National Anthem at one of the MLB All Star games:

Patriotism. RIP, Meatloaf. pic.twitter.com/xdCXvkEHvW

— Wendy Rogers (@WendyRogersAZ) January 22, 2022

Rest in peace.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/rock-legend-meat-loaf-dead-at-74

The Los Angeles DA continues not to do his job.

J.K. Rowling of Harry Potter fame gets cancelled again.

And do our kids really need to be pulled further from reality?

They Don’t Care

Remember in my podcast yesterday, I talked about how miserable Los Angeles was and how Josie was completely surprised about it? I told her it was because nothing was illegal.

Well, Los Angeles District Attorney, George Gascon, has decided to create a program for juvenile criminals so that they don’t automatically get locked up.

The program is called “Restorative Enhanced Diversion for Youth Pathway” and is meant to send the fledgling criminals to rehabilitation instead of Juvenile Hall. I actually thought that Juvenile Hall was a form of rehabilitation.

The felonies that would qualify:

• Burglary
• Assault without firearms or extensive injuries
• Vehicle theft
• Robbery
• Grand theft person
• Sexual battery
• Arson

I don’t know about you but those seem like some pretty serious felonies. Sexual battery? Arson? It sounds to me that these people may need to be punished along with being rehabilitated. In all these crimes, there are victims. What about their rights to live without having to worry about being assaulted.

Deputy DA Jonathan Hatami is not thrilled about it at all. He says that this is a slap on the wrist for some very serious felonies. He said:

“Diversion means that we’re not charging anybody, So, if we’re not charging anybody, they don’t go through the court system. So you can’t give them any sort of programs that are monitored through the court.”

This has been tried in New York and Chicago and, guess what, it doesn’t work. So, good for Los Angeles. Time to move if you can because things are just getting worse.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/los-angeles-gascon-diversion-program-youth-criminals

We Have Too Much Time on Our Hands

This is a story that really shows the state of this country and how good we actually have it here that this is a story.

According to the New York Post:

The sport inspired by “Harry Potter” is going full muggle.

US Quidditch and Major League Quidditch said in a joint news release that they will change their name, citing author J.K. Rowling’s outspoken views on transgender issues.

JK Rowlings basically said that men are men and women are women and men who say they are women should not be able to compete in sports against women. That’s transphobic, apparently.

I thought that was common sense.

The league’s statement:

US Quidditch and Major League Quidditch said in a joint news release that they will change their name, citing author J.K. Rowling’s outspoken views on transgender issues.

Our sport has developed a reputation as one of the most progressive sports in the world on gender equality and inclusivity, in part thanks to its gender maximum rule, which stipulates that a team may not have more than four players of the same gender on the field at a time,” the leagues’ statement said. “Both organizations feel it is imperative to live up to this reputation in all aspects of their operations and believe this move is a step in that direction.

If you have never seen Harry Potter and don’t know how to play Quidditch, you’re not alone. It is a fictional game where kids fly around on brooms trying to hit a ball into a goal while two others chase a thingy. If the thingy is caught, game over. If not, the team with the most goals wins.

So, I had to watch what a typical game in this league looks like. Basically, it’s water polo on grass while the players run around with a ball while holding sticks in between their legs.

This has become a story in this country. My God.

https://nypost.com/2021/12/18/quidditch-league-changing-name-over-j-k-rowlings-trans-views/

IT’S NOT REAL!

If you thought that the last story is an example of people not being in touch with reality, wait until you hear this story.

According to the New York Post:

Meta revealed the incident on Dec. 1, saying it occurred on Nov. 26. The woman had reported the assault on the Horizon Worlds beta testing Facebook group.

“Sexual harassment is no joke on the regular internet, but being in VR adds another layer that makes the event more intense,” she wrote, according to the Verge. “Not only was I groped last night, but there were other people there who supported this behavior, which made me feel isolated in the Plaza,” the virtual environment’s central gathering space.

I have an Oculus and I love it. It is great with families, playing the saber games. We cast the VR to the television and we can all watch as we play and hear what’s going on. We played some of the horror games and my house mates watched as we took turns playing. They said it was like watching a movie. It’s a lot of fun.

It also gives a lot of exercise. You’re sweating after some of these games. But I do have some issues with what Facebook is doing with this. I understand why they are doing it. It’s a great idea. I just don’t think it’s good for a society that is already disconnected from each other. We’ll get more into that in a few minutes.

Further down the article:

In its statement about the incident, Meta pointed to its “Safe Zone” feature, which allows users to place a block against interaction with other users. However, the company admitted that it needs to work on making the feature “trivially easy and findable,” said Vivek Sharma, the vice president of Horizon, in a statement to the Verge.

Meta spokesperson Kristina Milian also told MIT Technology Review that users are required to complete training that covers safeguarding tools before joining Horizon Worlds, while reminders are also prompted during users’ experiences.

We have to have safe spaces in a video game. That’s what Oculus is, it’s a video game.

Sexual harassment in virtual reality is sexual harassment in real life, full stop, experts have said.

“At the end of the day, the nature of virtual-reality spaces is such that it is designed to trick the user into thinking they are physically in a certain space, that their every bodily action is occurring in a 3-D environment,” Katherine Cross, a Ph.D. student researcher of online harassment at the University of Washington, told Technology Review.

“It’s part of the reason why emotional reactions can be stronger in that space, and why VR triggers the same internal nervous-system and psychological responses,” she added.

No, sexual harassment in VR is not the same as sexual harassment in life. This is the problem. If sexual harassment in VR is real then I am a mass murderer because of the games I’ve played Call of Duty. I am a batterer because I played Mortal Combat. I am a Jedi because I play Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes. I can promise you, I am not any of those things.

This is also a real insult to women who are actually sexually harassed. And where does it end? Will we have virtual rape? How about virtual murder? Are we going to have to create laws, now, to counter virtual crimes? Are we going to see civil lawsuits? See where I’m going with this?

We, as a society, are already having problems with reality. We think men can be women. We think the 1619 Project is real history. We have become lazy and fat. Now, with virtual reality, we don’t even need to get off the couch to meet with people, to socialize.

Finally, do our kids really need something like this? The Internet has been the greatest blessing and the worst curse. For me, it is all human knowledge at my finger tips. Whenever I have a question, I look it up. But for our kids, who have always had this technology, it has become life itself. Look at a 15 year old with a phone. He is constantly on it. Their entire lives become content on social media. They cannot actually socialize with people directly. They text.

Any you can tell it is affecting our kids. Drug addiction and overdoses is up. Depression is up. Our population is shrinking. I believe, in 10 to 20 years, one will need to be 21 to own a smart phone because we will have found the damage that they are doing to these generations.

https://nypost.com/2021/12/17/woman-claims-she-was-virtually-groped-in-meta-vr-metaverse/
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-investigated-woman-claims-she-was-groped-in-metas-metaverse-2021-12#:~:text=Meta%20launched%20an%20investigation%20after,a%20stranger%20in%20the%20metaverse&text=A%20beta%20tester%20of%20Meta’s,hadn’t%20enabled%20safety%20features.

Opinion

This is Christmas week and, as you can imagine, the Grinch’s on the Left are going all out to convince everyone that we should be miserable during one of the best, and most revered holiday for Christians, Christmas. There is an opinion article from the Washington Post called I Hate Christmas and You Should Be OK with That by Brian Broome.

I read this thing because I pay for the service and I love to hear what these idiots have to say. This article left me with one question which I’ll get to after I read you the article.

I can feel it now the way a buzzard can smell carrion from miles away. The dreaded season is here, even if the commercials started long ago. The ads feature beautiful people wearing violently colorful sweaters and pouring fine liquor into glistening glassware. The stores where I buy my meager Hungry-Man frozen dinners now explode with silver and red in a gaudy celebration of unchecked, poinsettia-riddled capitalism.

I didn’t like Christmas in part because the steel mill where my father worked had closed. That news did nothing to stop the commercials with shiny, happy, children opening reams of colorful paper to reveal the things that they’d always wanted. The ads seemed to suggest that the more stuff you got, the better person you were. I learned through those commercials that good people got presents and that my family was trash. I took it into me every year like communion.

What a sad, cynical, little man. Can you imagine how miserable this man is? This is not someone I would want anything to do with. I know, (well, knew) people like this. I wanted nothing to do with them. They were downers.

I told you there was a question I had after I read this article and it goes to the Washington Post: Why? What made he editor say, “This is an awesome article! Let’s run with it!”? If I listed all the reasons I liked Christmas, would they publish it?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/12/why-brian-broome-hates-christmas/

Time to panic again. We are all going to die.

I would like to say, Rest in Peace, Build Back Better.

And, can we have it too good? The answer is yes if the last story is actually a story.

Panic For Nothing

The world is going insane again. Why?

Omicron!!!

Yes, a new variant of the China virus is out and the world is on fire!

• California has implemented a news mask mandate for 30 days (which means forever.
• New York is threatening to shut down the entire state.
• They are arresting people in New York City for not showing police their vax cards.
• Kids can’t go into a movie theater without being vaxxed.
• Schools are thinking of going back to online learning.
• They are now testing vaccines on infants.
• Germany and Holland have completely locked down and are segragating vaxxed from non-vaxxed.
• Israel has issued a travel ban.
• Australia has concentration camps that people are trying to escape from. Sorry, I meant happy, fun camps. With fencing and bars.

Joe Biden has summed it up:

We’re all going to die!

The Biden administration is even contemplating setting a vaccine mandate, along with their mask mandate, on all domestic flights. Merry Christmas!

The NIH with Dr. Fauci said, exactly the same thing:

White House COVID Response Coordinator tells unvaccinated Americans to be prepared to die:

“You're looking at a winter of severe illness and death.” pic.twitter.com/HU5d7WJ9YH

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) December 20, 2021

OK, not so fast.

You know who isn’t panicking? South Africa, the genesis of the new strain. They report that omicron spreads than delta but is far less dangerous. Even the symptoms aren’t bad. Just that of the common cold. In fact, South Africa reported that they did not have one death from omicron.

I’ll go a step further, there have only been 7 confirmed deaths according to Forbes. Forbes said we should panic and this proves omicron is not just a mere cold but he never mentioned co-morbidities, health issues or statistics. And to say colds aren’t dangerous is a bit of a stretch. Colds are viruses and are just as dangerous to people with compromised immune systems, but he doesn’t want you to think about that.

There have been no deaths in the United States yet. California, which is thinking of shutting down again, has 43 cases as of this writing. I’m sure there will be more and some will die but all indications say that this virus is nowhere near as deadly as delta and because it spreads so easily, will overwhelm all the previous variant. That’s a good thing and how viruses are designed to be.

We probably need to stop panicking and just living life again.

They’ve Got It

There are some industries now pushing back. The CEOs of both Delta and Southwest were testifying in front of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. They had some news that might set Tony Fauci off.

John Laughter, Delta Air Lines’ Executive Vice President & Chief of Operations said:

“We continue to electrostatically spray our aircraft interiors with high-grade disinfectant and use HEPA air filters to remove 99.99% of airborne particles onboard.”

He was pressed about this and he continued:

“Part of the discussion on the HEPA filters on board the aircraft was to understand what that air turnover rate was, and how the air quality onboard the aircraft would compare to other facilities. I think we all generally agree now that the cycle of the way air turns over in a pressurized air cabin, and the filtration system is superior to many indoor spaces that you can be.”

United Airlines CEO Gary Kelly said:

“Yeah, I think the case is very strong that masks don’t add much if anything in the air cabin environment. It is very safe, and very high quality compared to any other indoor setting.”

American Airlines CEO Doug Parker agreed:

“I concur. The aircraft is the safest place you can be. It’s true of all of our aircraft, they all have these HEPA filters and the same airflow.”

These are men that are in charge of the health and safety of their passengers. They have the most to lose if there is ever a super spreader event in one of their flights. They also know the science and innovation behind their planes. They invested into that technology. They say we don’t need masks on planes. Should we listen to them?

Tony Fauci says, “no”:

Q. “Are we going to get to the point where we won’t have to wear masks on airplanes?”

Fauci: “I don’t think so.”

pic.twitter.com/PI4gvLGuhs

— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) December 20, 2021

So there you go. Should you listen to the men who are in charge of the technology and are fiscally responsible for the safety of passengers or shall we listen to the doctor who hasn’t practiced since the 1970s, has been wrong about everything for his entire career and seems to spend more time on CNN and MSNBC than reading data and statistics and has been lying since the beginning of the pandemic?

Just and FYI before you answer this rhetorical question. There has not been one instance where air travel has started a super spreader event. Not one.

Fun Note

This is funny and actually a good idea as a form of protest.

According to the New York Post:

A Florida man was reportedly banned from flying United Airlines after wearing a red thong as a face covering while boarding a flight in protest of the federal mask mandate.

Adam Jenne, of Cape Coral, told NBC 2 that his Wednesday morning antics at Fort Lauderdale Airport got him booted off a plane bound for Washington, DC.

“It’s all nonsense. COVID doesn’t know that we’re at cruising altitude. It’s stupid. The whole thing is theater.”

Apparently, this guys has pulled the same stunt on several other flights but was never kicked off.

United Airlines released a statement:

“The customer clearly wasn’t in compliance with the federal mask mandate and we appreciate that our team addressed the issue on the ground prior to takeoff, avoiding any potential disruptions [in] the air.”

My question: How was he out of compliance? Was the thong covering his nose and mouth? If so, why is that different than any other piece of cloth?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2021/12/17/airline-ceos-congress-mask-mandate-factcheck-flight-attendant/?sh=2dd9e6066666
https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-says-unvaccinated-will-overwhelm-hospitals-warns-of-winter-of-severe-illness-and-death
https://nypost.com/2021/12/16/man-banned-from-united-airlines-after-wearing-thong-as-mask/
https://nypost.com/2021/12/16/nyc-lockdown-in-question-amid-rising-covid-19-cases/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2021/12/18/7-deaths-from-omicron-covid-19-coronavirus-variant-in-uk-showing-its-not-the-omicold/?sh=dba81c12023c

R.I.P.

Joe Manchin put the final nail into the coffin of Joe Biden’s Build Back Better bill:

Now, is this a surprise? Of course not. This has been his stance all year. He has a very realistic view of the economy and the text of the bill. He’s also from a very red state and, if he voted for this bill, he would lose his next election. Joe Biden is dying in the polls and does not have any power over Manchin. There’s just no reason to vote for this bill.

But it’s not just Joe Manchin like the media is portraying. Kyrsten Sinema, who has been rather quiet about this bill, has said that she wasn’t interested in this bill and there are several purple state Senators that are thrilled at the thought at not having to vote for this thing.

You can imagine the response from the Leftists.

Jen Psaki released a statement:

Senator Manchin’s comments this morning on FOX are at odds with his discussions this week with the President, with White House staff, and with his own public utterances. Weeks ago, Senator Manchin committed to the President, at his home in Wilmington, to support the Build Back Better framework that the President then subsequently announced. Senator Manchin pledged repeatedly to negotiate on finalizing that framework “in good faith.”

On Tuesday of this week, Senator Manchin came to the White House and submitted—to the President, in person, directly—a written outline for a Build Back Better bill that was the same size and scope as the President’s framework, and covered many of the same priorities. While that framework was missing key priorities, we believed it could lead to a compromise acceptable to all. Senator Manchin promised to continue conversations in the days ahead, and to work with us to reach that common ground. If his comments on FOX and written statement indicate an end to that effort, they represent a sudden and inexplicable reversal in his position, and a breach of his commitments to the President and the Senator’s colleagues in the House and Senate.

Couple of problems here. First, Joe Manchin never said in public that he was for Build Back Better. So someone is lying here. I wonder who.

Second, is this the way one says when he’s trying to get him on board? Calling him dishonest? Has that ever worked? And, as stated by Ben Shapiro, this could indicate that the Biden administration is giving up and knows nothing will pass.

Believe it or not, this was the most reserved response. Ilhan Omar got a little testy:

"We all knew that Senator Manchin couldn't be trusted. The excuses that he just made, I think, are complete bullshit." @IlhanMN to @AliVelshi pic.twitter.com/qFQmqr1Wui

— People for Bernie (@People4Bernie) December 19, 2021

Some things:

• Saying that Manchin is not trustworthy and bad for his state is just not a thing to convince him of anything. They have been doing this for months since Manchin has been against this.
• This also shows the “We are right and you are wrong” mentality of the Left. They want compliance, not debate.
• Machin explained why he is against this bill. These people only tell you what the government will give you and then lie about the cost.
• I don’t understand the whole thing about politicians cussing. It doesn’t sound intelligent and it is not a debating point.
• Notice she never brought up why he wrong just all the presents BBB will give?
• Machin put out an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal explaining exactly why he was against this plan.

Of course, AOC had some comments:

AOC says Dems have “every right to be furious with Joe Manchin.”

“It’s really about time that we take the kid gloves off and we start using them to govern for working families in this country.” pic.twitter.com/XFZ2H2RNKD

— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) December 20, 2021

She, again, never addresses Machin’s well-documented arguments. I think it’s because she doesn’t understand them because her little brain can’t process things. She just blames Manchin for being a liar which is weird because he’s always been against this thing.

But her last statement is what ticks my curiosity. Does she really think we believe the Democrats haven’t been vicious against people who disagree with them? And what does it mean that Democrats are going to take off the “kid gloves”? Normally, I don’t think much about words like this but these people are radical. What can we expect? BLM and Antifa putting themselves into the fray and we always know how that ends up.

But nothing would be more complete unless we heard from the author of the Build Back Better bill than Bernie Sanders. He’s pretty pissed too:

If Joe Manchin does not have the guts to stand up to the powerful special interests, he's going to have to explain that to the people of West Virginia who are hurting and hurting badly. pic.twitter.com/U5OeNlk6ea

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) December 19, 2021

Some things:

• Just an FYI to Bernie, he would never win in West Virginia so Joe Manchin couldn’t care less what Bernie Sanders thinks. I know that most of the citizens don’t care what Bernie has to say.
• Again, insulting Manchin as being a coward and a liar is an interesting take.
  • It’s not going to convince Machin to joining “the cause”.
  • Isn’t Manchin the brave one? He doesn’t believe in the BBB and he is bucking his own party. His committee assignments are determined by the Democrats.
• All that crap Bernie lists has already been explained by Joe Manchin in his Wall Street Journal article.
• The ironic part of Bernie saying that climate change is what Manchin is going to have to explain is that Bernie wants to get rid of all the jobs that West Virginia has because of climate change.
  • West Virginia is a coal producing state. Bernie wants to eliminate all those jobs.
  • If Manchin votes for this bill, he’s going to have to explain why his constituents why they lost their jobs. I doubt climate change is going to cut it.
  • They know, in West Virginia, that their jobs are on the line because 11,000 were lost when Bernie cancelled the XL pipeline.
•  Bernie does this all the time and I don’t understand why he remains popular. He’s all over the place. He’s always bitching about something, mostly, taking other people’s money.
  • The drug companies.
  • The rich.
  • Special interests groups.
  • Big corporations.
• You know what? I hope they do vote on it. That way, this stupid bill will go away.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/manchin-says-he-cannot-vote-for-build-back-better-ive-done-everything-humanly-possible
https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-breach-of-his-commitments-jen-psaki-unloads-on-manchin-after-he-says-no-to-build-back-better?%3Futm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dwtwitter
https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-squad-loses-it-after-manchin-says-no-go-on-build-back-better-bill
https://www.dailywire.com/news/ocasio-cortez-slams-democrat-leadership-we-cannot-accept-no-for-an-answer
https://www.dailywire.com/news/let-him-vote-no-in-front-of-the-entire-world-bernie-sanders-says-manchin-doesnt-have-the-guts-to-support-build-back-better

Republicans puss out on the debt ceiling.

Prices are sky high and it’s all part of the plan.

And Germany is now going insane.

There Goes the Debt

Congress approved a $2.5 trillion debt ceiling increase, ending months of debate between Democratic and Republican leadership.

The New York Times reported:

Democrats were united in support of the measure, which passed the Senate 50 to 49 along party lines on Tuesday afternoon and then cleared the House in a 221-to-209 vote shortly after midnight on Wednesday. Republicans opposed the legislation en masse, with only one, Representative Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, voting in favor. The bill now heads to President Biden, who was expected to quickly sign it.

The swift action came a week after party leaders announced a deal to establish a one-time fast-track process to increase the debt ceiling with a simple majority vote, instead of the 60 votes needed to move most legislation through the Senate.

I’m against raising the national debt limit because is non-sensical. Basically, we are paying off our credit card by getting the maximum balanced on that credit card to make our credit card payment.

Let’s take a look at the national debt.

It is currently at $28.9 trillion. If you divide that by the 100.5 million households that pay taxes (100,424,240) that comes to each family needing to make up $287,859 per family. Don’t forget, the government produces nothing, makes no money. They only spend. When the government says “they have to pay our bills” they pay nothing. They take it from us and we pay for it.

This is why I don’t want to government raising the debt ceiling. I want them to stop spending. Like us in real life, the government needs to be fiscally responsible. Unfortunately, there are going to be consequences. But, guess what? Those consequences are going to happen no matter what.

That $287K is going to have to be paid. Either we do it now or our grandkids will do. We are going to default eventually. We are going to have to cut our spending. It is looking like we’re going to end up in austerity which means China is going to be making decisions on our economy.

I’d rather do it now so I suffer and not me grandchildren.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/national-debt-now-287859-per-household-as-congress-raises-debt-ceiling
https://www.dailywire.com/news/congress-gives-final-approval-to-2-5-trillion-debt-ceiling-increase

Going Up and Up and Up

On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed that consumer price inflation in the United States has reached a rate of 6.8% — the largest year-over-year increase since June 1982, as well as the sixth straight month in which inflation remained above 5%.

If you think that’s bad, businesses are getting killed. It has been found that wholesale prices, those are the prices businesses pay to provide us goods, are up a whopping 9.6%. What does that tell you is that businesses are losing money.

Ben Ziesloft of the Daily Wire had a list of products that are going up.

• Gas — 58.1%
• Used vehicles — 31.4%
• Hotels — 25.5%
• Meat, poultry, and fish — 13.1%
• Furniture and bedding — 11.8%
• New vehicles — 11.1%
• Domestic services — 10.2%
• Jewelry — 6.7%
• Electricity — 6.5%
• Food — 6.1%
• Apparel — 5%
• Milk — 4.6%
• Fruits and vegetables — 4%

The AP reported:

45% of American households report that recent price increases are causing their family some degree of financial hardship. Ten percent describe it as severe hardship affecting their standard of living, while another 35% say the hardship is moderate…

Lower-income households are most likely to have experienced financial hardship due to price increases. Seventy-one percent of those living in households making less than $40,000 a year say that recent price hikes have caused their family financial hardship. That compares with 47% of those in middle-income households and 29% in upper-income households.

That’s who inflation hurts. The poor. They need their money to go further.

The Biden administration has no answers for this. At first they said the economy was getting better. Then prices kept going up. Then they said it was transitory. The prices kept going up to the point we know a lot of this is permanent. Then they said it was fine because wages were going up. But rising wages turned out to be 3% behind inflation.

Well, Jenn Psaki is coming up with the new excuse:

Jen Psaki blames increases in meat prices on "the greed of meat conglomerates." pic.twitter.com/NlSXwIcUTP

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) December 14, 2021

That’s right, it’s the evil Big Meat industry is greedy. They are saying the same thing about the car industry. Here’s the problem with this argument:

• Prices are not determined by greed. They are determined by supply and demand.
• If prices were determined by greed, another company producing the same product would corner the market by lowering prices.
• She says the same thing about the car industry. Why are used cars up in price too?
• Also, is every industry greedy? Everything is up.

This is not a conspiracy theory. I’m going to prove.

Inflation is done on purpose. It is part of AOC’s Green New Deal. It is the way that the Biden administration is going to change the way our economy works which is what was promised in 2020.

Let’s look at this and compare it with the news or my past podcasts:

• Cost of gas, cars, used cars, hotels – Barrack Obama told us to change our habits when it comes to travel. AOC said we need to stop using fossil fuels.
• The price of meat and milk are up because cows fart, according to the Green New Deal.

This is part of the deal. That’s why people like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are saying that inflation is not much of an issue. That’s why the media is saying that it’s not much of an issue. The media tells us we should lower our expectations and change the way we live life. That’s why they keep pushing climate change. Because our suffering is to save the planet.

Good news! People aren’t going to tolerate this. The Leftists are going to find this out at the ballot box next year, especially when they tells us we should not travel to see our families on Christmas because of the China virus.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/gas-up-58-meat-up-13-inside-the-newest-record-breaking-inflation-report
https://www.dailywire.com/news/corporate-greed-psaki-blames-big-meat-for-soaring-food-prices
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/14/wholesale-prices-measure-rises-9point6percent-in-november-from-a-year-ago-the-fastest-pace-on-record.html

Just Silly

Germany is going insane.

According to CNN Business:

A man who slipped down the stairs and broke his back while walking from his bed to home office can file a claim on his employer’s insurance after a court in Germany ruled that he was commuting at the time…

The man, an area sales manager working for a company identified only as “R-GmbH” was on his way to work “from his bedroom to his home office one floor below,” when he slipped and fractured a vertebra, according to a statement issued by the court on Wednesday.

His employer’s insurance initially refused to cover the claim.

But because he was walking down the stairs, for the first time that day straight to his home office, the court considered his journey to be “insured as an activity in the interest of his employer, as a commute to work.”

Now walking from one room to another is considered commuting and is covered by the business that you work for.

This is happening

https://www.dailywire.com/news/german-court-rules-that-moving-from-bed-to-home-office-counts-as-commuting-man-gets-workers-comp-for-slipping-down-the-stairs