Joe Biden meets with Vlad Putin and it doesn’t look like it went well.
I’m a White supremacist and a racist. I just need to look at what I did yesterday to prove it.
And why can’t people listen to those who’ve been there before.
Biden/Putin Summit
Today, President Biden met with President Putin from Russia to discuss, well, not really sure. I know we will have more to talk about tomorrow when the dust settles. The meeting lasted about four hours. When it was completed, the two held separate press conferences.
That is bad. President Putin said some things that were just not true and Biden wasn’t there to contradict him. It showed tremendous weakness.
This is what we got out of the Putin press conference:
He answered about thirty questions and spoke for an hour.
He said he never felt pressure and the conversation was friendly.
He said there were no agreements established but he said they understand each other better though they had disagreements.
He did not take responsibility for any of the hacks. He said the United States did most of the hacking in the world.
When pushed on the imprisonment of his opposition Alexi Nelvany, Putin side-stepped it by comparing his imprisonment to the January 6th riot and the imprisonment of the rioters.
When asked about their human rights violations, Putin side-stepped it by talking about the “racism” in the United States and our systemic racism.
Biden’s press conference was about half an hour. Here’s what we saw:
In his opening statement, he talked about human rights and sounded strong with a loud voice. He was trying to sound strong.
He talked about voting interference.
He gave Putin a list of infrastructure areas that should never be attacked by cyber criminals.
He spoke about the humanitarian issues in Syria.
He talked about the arctic being a free zone from military settlements.
He talked about how Iran cannot get a nuclear weapons.
He expressed concerns about the Ukraine and Belarus.
When he took questions, he, again, followed a list of reporters provided to him by his staff. We found out later he had a teleprompter.
This makes the press conference look staged.
The questions look like they were pre-approved.
He kept looking at his notes as if he is reading the answers to the press questions.
He did not call on Peter Duecy of Fox News. This would have been the one guy who would have asked hard questions. He did take one when he was leaving and it was about China and COVID-19.
He took his coat off in the middle of the questioning because it was hot. A very strange move.
The questions were very simple. No one pushed him.
He got angry at the end because a reporter asked him why he was confident Putin will change his behavior.
It was a bad press conference. It was a good call that Biden didn’t have a joint press conference. Biden talked to seven reporters, Putin talked to eighteen. We ended up giving Russia the Nordstream pipeline but we got nothing. This whole thing has been a disaster.
Why Aren’t These People Being Interviewed
One of the reasons that I hold the beliefs that I have is because of my grandparent and family.
I fear communism and tyranny of any kind. I also appreciate the freedoms that our Constitution provides and know that they are unique throughout the world and history.
My grandparents escaped Nazi Germany.
The grandfather was wanted by the Nazis for being a spy and was then held as a spy for a time when he got to the United States.
They came here with no money and was able to go from nothing without being able to speak English to very wealthy because of the opportunities that the United States gave them.
My aunt was trapped in the USSR where her husband was a member of the Politburo.
The aunt came to the United States once but came alone. She was not allowed to bring her family because they wanted her to return.
She and her husband disappeared and it was presumed they were executed.
Their story of my family is not unique. Their experiences led them to love and appreciate this country and despise any tyrannical government. They have also always feared this country could end up like Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union. All it would take is people to stop appreciate what they have.
We are seeing this today.
Yeonmi Park, a 27-year-old who escaped from sex slavery in China after fleeing North Korea, is warning that leftist professors inside America’s top academic universities are indoctrinating students with extreme ideologies that remind her of North Korea.
This clip is long but I think her message is important:
This is someone who should be listened to. She has gone through about as much suffering as anyone could have ever gone through thanks to the tyranny fir in North Korea and then China. She knows what communism is. She know what socialism is. She in young, part of the same generation that is calling for communism in this country. The difference is that generation has never experienced communism and tyranny. They have become spoiled by the freedom they have.
I would suggest that any of these Antifa or BLM fools actually go to a communist country and see what is happening. Go to North Korea and try to burn a business like they are here (though there really aren’t any businesses in North Korea). See what happens. Go and protest the government in China, see what happens. Oh, wait, we saw what happened in Hong Kong but no one cared. Go to Cuba and talk crap about Castro and see what happens.
Of course, none of them will do that. They will continue to demonize people who appreciate this country, including this brave woman. And she knows it and says it’s already happening:
Listen, people will not learn. We will not be able to teach them. The way we end this scourge is remember who we are and fight against those who push back. That is happening now and we are seeing it almost on a daily basis.
Rick DeSantis laws fighting all this woke crap.
Greg Abbott building his own wall in Texas and making laws to fight this woke crap.
Parents fighting against school boards to end CRT and the LGBTQ indoctrination.
People moving from blue states to red states.
Gun ownership sky rocketing.
We can and will take this country back and I am confident we will.
This has been a really bad week for the Biden administration as far as foreign policy is concerned. First, Kamala Harris screw up in Central America and Mexico. Now Joe Biden in Europe during the G7. We still have Russia to deal with.
Iran is feeling empowered, thanks to the Biden administration.
And the government, once again, proves they’re incompetent.
The G7 Disaster
Not You, Boris
“We need to make sure that as we recover, we level up across our societies and we build back better,” Johnson said, the New York Post reported. “And I actually think that we have a huge opportunity to do that, because as G7, we are united in our vision for a cleaner, greener world, a solution to the problems of climate change. And in those ideas, in those technologies, which we’re all addressing together, I think there is the potential to generate many, many millions of high-wage, high-skill jobs.”
“And I think that is what the people of our countries now want us to focus on,” the conservative PM continued.
“They want us to be sure that we’re beating the pandemic together and discussing how we’ll never have a repeat of what we’ve seen, but also that we’re building back better together,” Johnson said. “And building back greener and building back fairer and building back more equal and in a more gender-neutral and perhaps a more feminine way. How about that, apart from everything else. So those are some of the objectives that we have before us at Carbis Bay.”
The Outcomes
The Daily Wire summed up the weekend in five points. Mind you, the United States lost with everything this weekend because Joe Biden is a globalist and doesn’t care about the United States.
1. Biden’s “top priorities” were focusing on doing more for other countries while speaking in woke terms:
“Ending the pandemic and maintaining robust support for an equitable, inclusive global economic recovery were the top priorities of our nations as we got together. We know we can’t achieve one without the other; that is, we have to deal with the pandemic and — in order to be able to deal with economic recovery, which — as we’re doing in the States, but we committed that we’re going to do more for the rest of the world as well.”
“The fact is that we — the U.S. contribution is the foundation — the foundation to work out how we’re going to deal with the 100 nations that are poor and having trouble finding vaccines and having trouble dealing with reviving their economies if they were, in the first place, in good shape.”
2. Biden committed to helping fill a $40 trillion need to build infrastructure in other counties.
“We also made a momentous commitment at the G7 to help meet more than a $40 trillion need that exists for infrastructure in the developing world. I put forward an idea that was called — we named the ‘Build Back Better World Partnership,’ which is — we’re calling it the ‘B3W.’”
3. Biden attacked the use of fossil fuels.
“We also made a historic commitment to permanently eliminate the use of our public finance to support unabated coal projects around the world, and to end — and to end them by this year. The G7 agreed to that. And those who are not members, but visiting members who are participating in the G7, who have coal-fired facilities have also agreed that they would work in that direction as well.”
“So, transitioning the world to cleaner energy sources is urgent, it’s essential if we’re going to beat the climate. And there is — one of the things I — some of my colleagues said to me when I was there was, ‘Well, the United States is — their leadership recognizes there is global warming.’ And I know that sounds silly, but, you know, we had a President who last — who basically said it’s not a problem — global warming. It is the existential problem facing humanity, and it’s being treated that way. So we’re going to provide up to $2 billion to support developing company [sic] — countries as they transition away from unabated coal-fired power.”
4. Biden insulted the words of the Declaration of Independence, saying they sounded “corny.”
We’re unique as a country. We’re built on — we’re unique in a sense that we’re not based on ethnicity or geography or religion; we’re one nation that said we organized on an idea: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.” It sounds corny, but it’s real.
5. Biden said that he would be open to handing people inside the U.S. over to the Russian government.
Biden made the remarks with NBC News’s Peter Alexander:
ALEXANDER: But [Russian President Vladimir Putin] said — then, just to conclude — today, he said that Russia would be ready to hand over cyber criminals to the United States if the U.S. would do the same to Russia and an agreement came out of this meeting coming up. So, are you open to that kind of a trade with Vladimir Putin?
BIDEN: Yes, I’m open to — if there’s crimes committed against Russia that, in fact, are — and the people committing those crimes are being harbored in the United States — I’m committed to holding them accountable. And I’m — I heard that; I was told, as I was flying here, that he said that. I think that’s — that’s potentially a good sign and progress.
Later, Biden’s staff said the United States would not be handing over Russian prisoners in the United States in exchange for criminals against the United States.
Another area that was not covered in the Daily Wire was the global corporate tax rate of 15%. This will allow other countries to tax U.S. companies that work outside of the United States. What’s jacked up about this is that European companies that work within the United States will not get taxed by the United States.
Who gets screwed with this global tax? U.S. citizens. We end up paying higher rates because companies we use will have to raise their rates to pay the higher taxes.
The final area of concern is the Biden agreed that the organization who should investigate the origin of the COVID-19 virus. They decided that the best group to investigate would be the World Health Organization. Yeah, they want the Chinese propaganda source that hid everything about COVID-19 because China wanted them to. These folks are slaves to China. Biden should be one that wants to find out what happened but he won’t do it.
The Gaffs
Biden had dozens of gaffs and he can’t get
Biden repeatedly mixed up Syria and Libya. He did this three times in his rambling, incoherent answers to a question on Russia.
Biden repeatedly called COVAX, an initiative aimed at supplying the world with vaccines, “COVID.” The White House made adjustments to the official transcript of Biden’s speech to reflect that he repeatedly got the name wrong.
Biden, at a separate G7 event, was laughed at by world leaders after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson had to remind Biden of something that he just happened moments prior.
In his only solo press, Biden only took questions from reporters pre-selected by his staff.
In his final speech, Biden said four times that his staff was going to get mad at him if he continued to answer questions.
When speaking to French President Macron, staff threw all reporters out when they started asking him questions.
Joe Biden wandered into the wrong cafeteria for lunch and had to be led out by his staff.
This is your President. How do you think Biden is going to do when he faces Vladimir Putin? Well, he will not be holding a press conference with Putin because he did not want to get into a verbal sparring match with him in front of the media and the world. That’s because his staff knows Putin will eat Biden’s lunch.
Conclusion
Here’s what we got out of this whole thing:
Wokeness has struck all the leaders of the G7. If Conservative Boris Johnson gets woke, we are in trouble.
Globalism is on Biden’s agenda. He doesn’t care about the United States. He thinks we have too much and he feels the United States should help the world so everything can be more “equitable”.
Europe won big in this whole thing. Not only did they get to tax American corporations 15% but Biden promised to send American tax payer money to third world countries to improve their countries.
Meanwhile, what does the U.S. get? Nothing.
Biden promised to support NATO countries they way the United States did before Trump. In other words, pay for everything and get nothing.
But worse of all, Biden has shown how week he is and how out-to-lunch he is. I’m pretty sure every country, right now, knows they can take full advantage of him.
It’s Saturday and I never do a podcast on a Saturday. So, to celebrate a doing something I don’t normally do, I am going to do something I don’t normally do: Make a longer episode.
There’s been that much going on.
The Biden Magic Continues to Amaze
The Labor Department said last month’s increase in the consumer-price index was the largest since August 2008, when the reading rose 5.4%.
The core-price index, which excludes the often-volatile categories of food and energy, jumped 3.8% in May from the year before—the largest increase for that reading since June 1992.
Consumers are seeing higher prices for many of their purchases, particularly big-ticket items such as vehicles. Prices for used cars and trucks leapt 7.3% from the previous month, driving one-third of the rise in the overall index. The indexes for furniture, airline fares and apparel also rose sharply in May.
May’s jump in prices extends a trend that accelerated this spring amid widespread Covid-19 vaccinations, relaxed business restrictions, trillions of dollars in federal pandemic relief programs and ample household savings—all of which have stoked demand for Americans to spend and travel more.
Prices for new vehicles have soared because of a computer-chip shortage that has crimped car production. That, in turn, has bolstered prices for used autos. Rental-car prices have soared because companies sold their fleets when demand collapsed along with travel during the pandemic. Airfares and hotel-room rates are rebounding as consumers start traveling again.
Stronger demand has spurred employers to try to hire more workers, but many businesses are raising wages as they struggle to hire people. Job openings reached 9.3 million in April, the highest number since records began in 2000, as the gap widened between open positions and workers taking the roles.
Here’s the shocker of the year. This comes after Joe Biden got rid of the Trump ban on TikTok and WeChat, two Chinese companies who were collecting private information on our citizens.
Iran has been playing hardball with the Biden administration to get back into the Iran nuclear agreement. Too know, the agreement that didn’t prevent Iran from creating a nuclear bomb but did give them a lot of money and eliminate sanctions. Yeah, well Biden has decided appease these terrorists once again.
The Biden administration lifted sanctions on three former Iranian officials and several energy companies.
The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday repealed sanctions on former senior National Iranian Oil Co. officials and several companies involved in shipping and trading petrochemical products. The administration described the moves as routine administrative actions, saying the officials were removed from U.S. blacklists because they no longer held positions in the sanctioned entities.
But officials familiar with talks under way in Vienna on the future of the 2015 multilateral Iran nuclear agreement said the Biden administration has been looking at how it could inject momentum into the negotiations.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement:
“These actions demonstrate our commitment to lifting sanctions in the event of a change in status or behavior by sanctioned persons.”
Here we go. The weakness of the Biden administration is showing. Weakness the Iran knew he would show. He could have told Iran that they could rejoin the agreement, no questions asked, but the knew Biden would folded like nice linen pants. And he did.
Anthony Ruggiero, a former top national security adviser to President Trump, said:
“Lifting sanctions during negotiations shows weakness to Iran and tells Tehran to continue its nefarious activities, including nuclear extortion and sending conventional arms to U.S. adversaries.”
Yep.
I’m sure the Iranians aren’t going to respond to this. They not only want to enter the world economy again, but I’m sure they want another several pallets of cash from the United States.
Listen, we know this was going to happen. My cynical self says Biden has been prepping this since he took office. Why am I so cynical?
Cost of old Was a $20 a barrel.
The United States was not only oil independent but we became a major exporter of oil.
Biden cancelled the XL pipeline.
Biden limited offshore drilling.
Biden cancelled oil drilling leases in Alaska.
Meanwhile, he opened up the pipeline from Russia to Germany, increasing the flow to Europe.
Gas prices went up 25-40%.
Oil is up to $70 a barrel.
Here’s why I’m cynical. OPEC has decided to increase the production of oil Why? Europe doesn’t need it. China alway needs oil but their demand wasn’t enough to raise demand to over $30 a barrel.
The reason is because the United States is no longer energy independent. We need oil. We need oil for cars, plastics, electricity among other things. Well, just about everything we use on a daily basis.
Boom! No American oil, oil and gas prices go straight up.
How can Biden be a hero? Get back into the Iran nuclear deal. Iran is allowed to sell oil to the world. They will also sell missiles to Hamas and Hezbollah to continue the proxy war with Israel. And continue their proxy war with the Saudis in Yemen. And continue their influence in Iraq and Syria, which they had to stop when Trump put the clamps on them.
Anyway, they will sell oil to the United States. Oil prices will drop 10% and Biden is a hero.
Ilhan Omar continues to prove she hates the Jews and America.
Yep, she compared the United States and Israel to the Taliban and Hamas. At least she admitted that Hamas commits atrocities. I don’t understand how this gal is allowed to serve this country with the venom she spews.
A group of Jewish Democratic Congressman, not all of them of course, signed a letter, not condemning her, but asking her to clarify her statements. Mind you, no one will condemn her because she is way too popular.
Way to go calling her out guys! No wonder nothing is getting done in Congress.
Ilhan, who I think likes the attention, just went right after these cowards. She tweeted:
This broad is incredible.
She’s called out for being anti-Semitic.
She gets pissed about being called out and attacks.
She calls these guys Islamophobic. Nothing in that statement that I read was Islamophobic.
She pissed about them not coming to her privately. Has that ever worked before?
What can you expect from this broad:
She married her own brother. Doing this she committed:
Tax fraud.
Immigration fraud.
Bigamy.
She had an affair with a married man while married, lied about it then secretly got a divorce and married him.
Is being investigated for funneling money to her new husbands firm.
Is being investigated for other types of corruption.
Rashida Tlaib, the other dumb one from the squad, tweeted:
Really? These two have been called out for anti-Semitic tweets every three months since they’ve been in office and they are being muzzled? If they were being muzzled, why to they keep getting into trouble for saying anti-Semitic tweets and constantly giving me fodder for my podcast?
By the way, the silent Rashida Tlaib actually tweeted a picture of a sticky note posted over Israel with Palestine written on the posted note. Question: Is supporting the complete destruction is Israel anti-Semitic? Did she get into trouble for that?
I guess when your company has hit rock bottom there is nothing you can do to make it worse.
CNN decided to rehire Jeffrey Toobin after he was fired six months ago. I’ll let Alisyn Camerota, in probably the most uncomfortable interview of her career, explain what happened and we can hear Toobin’s response:
I think the HR department over at CNN should be prepared for Alisyn to file a report for having to do that horribly awkward interview.
CNN decided to rehire him after he did some time in a soup kitchen. Not sure that’s really a thing. Maybe a couple of years of heavy therapy is probably more in line of what he needs.
I know why CNN is doing this, even though most of the CNN employees don’t want him there or won’t sit in any chair he has used. They are trying to raise there ratings. I think people might watch Toobin speak on CNN because people like watching a train wreck. So watch. CNN will announce that Toobin is coming on well in advance, people will watch the segment and then the ratings will tick up during that segment. Eventually, it’ll crash out.
Anyway, a couple of hours later, Jim Acosta went on television and said Fox News was BS. Talk about bad timing.
I only thought Fauci was incompetent before. Now I see he’s incompetent and an ass.
Let’s take a look at Fauci’s career:
He’s been a bureaucrat for 40 years.
He hasn’t treated a patient since the 70’s.
He was wrong about AIDS:
He said it could spread through routine contact.
He flip-flopped on whether or not it was mainly contracted through gay sex.
He completely screwed up the COVID pandemic:
He lied about masks.
He said the virus was not started in a lab, protecting China.
His policies closed the economy and now we are seeing this might have been a mistake.
He said we needed to continue wearing masks even if vaccinated or have had the disease.
Yeah, criticizing Fauci is not criticizing science. He has been wrong about everything.
Um, No…
Greta Thunberg has released a new video this week and she is addressing what I have been talking about for the last two weeks: How we are bad people for eating meat. Here’s a clip from the five minute video:
Yeah, nothing. Not a damn thing.
If I was meant not to eat meat steak wouldn’t taste so good. We’ve been eating meat for thousands of years. And we will be eating meat for thousands more because we humans are omnivores. We eat just about everything and it’s health for us.
You know who else says we should eat meat? God. He spent most of Leviticus telling us what meat we can have and can’t have. He even taught us how to prepare it. But Greta probably doesn’t believe in God so this argument is moot.
I also get the impression that Greta has never watched Animal Planet or any of the shows during Shark Week. The beauty of nature kind of goes south when watching a killer whale chomp on a baby seal. Nature is beautiful but it does suck too. And all those animals that eat meat wouldn’t mind gnawing on my leg either. If you question that, walk into the lion enclosure at the zoo.
Finally, most animals are biological machines. Especially fish. They don’t have any more feeling than a rock.
I do want to point out that, though Greta is 18 years old, she looks like she’s eight. Maybe if she had a steak she’s look more her age.
Senator James Lankford (R, OK) decided to question HHS Secretary Xavier Bacerra about a term he used when writing out his budget proposal for the Department of Health and Human Services. I think it’s actually a pretty good question.
Women have it tough. They have to:
Share restroom with men who think they are women.
Compete in sports with men who think they are women.
Have derogatory terms for their body parts like “front hole.”
Now, they can’t even have an endearing term for something that is specific to them like being a mother.
The question here is a good one. How is changing the language going to change the policy. That’s the danger of changing the language. That’s why I refuse to call a woman a man and vice versa, use someone’s preferred pronouns, call a riot a protest or call speech hate speech. Laws and policies are designed from these redefinitions of reality.
Joe Biden overturns an Executive Order pertaining to Chinese apps.
Mara Gray, like AOC, is an idiot and the New York Times tries to defend her.
And Dr. Seuss is racist. Sidewalks are racist. Air is racist. Water is racist. So, why not?
Could Be a Good Idea
Donald Trump was never a fan of China. He saw the growth of their military, the stealing of our intellectual property, the tyranny with Hong Kong, the unfair trade practices, their influence on big tech and their undercutting the United States when it came to manufacturing. Trump was tough on China by implementing tariffs and putting sanctions on China. This was working. One of the thing Trump wanted to secure from China is the American citizen.
One of the things China was doing was getting personal information of American citizens through apps like Tik Tok. Trump implemented a policy to ban Chinese apps like Tik Tok and We Chat, which have been collecting data on its users. Joc Biden has revoked this policy.
What Biden wants to do is remove the ban on the two apps and do a review on all foreign apps. This actually might be a good thing. If his review works the way he says it’s going to work, it could be good because it will analyze all foreign apps. Here’s the problem I have: we already know TiKToK and Wechat are collecting information on its users. Why get rid of the ban?
Trump’s executive order did have issues. It was essentially unenforceable. A judge had blocked the executive order which is why our kids are still doing stupid videos on TiKTok.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) framed Mr. Biden’s action as a retreat, however, tweeting on Wednesday:
“This is a major mistake—shows alarming complacency regarding #China’s access to Americans’ personal information, as well as #China’s growing corporate influence.”
I agree with this. Here’s what happens with Democrats. When they don’t like something but know it has to be addressed to appease the public (the border crisis is an example), they order the establishment of a committee or a bureaucratic review. These take a really long time, don’t result in anything and usually are forgotten by the public.
I also do not Trust the intentions of the Leftist Biden administration. Biden has always been sympathetic to China and he is not looking like he is going to be flexing his muscles with them now. Again, we already know what China is doing with the two apps Trump banned. Why unban them?
China opposes the action. That’s kind of a good thing. China’s U.S. embassy spokesman, Liu Pengyu, said in a statement:
China “opposes the U.S. abusing its national power under the pretext of national security to suppress and coerce non-American companies.
“We urge the U.S. government to provide an open, fair, just and nondiscriminatory business environment for foreign companies.”
If this does what Biden says its going to do, this is going to be a good move. But do you really trust Joe Biden’s judgement or intent?
Mara Gray. God, what a stupid bitch. This is the one who said this:
She’s cute, but really stupid. By the way, if Bloomberg were tp pay $1 million to every American, that would be:
1,000,000 x 350,000,000 = $350 trillion dollar.
Mike Bloomberg is rich. Not that rich. Could anyone at MSNBC actually do multiplication before they had this moron on television trying to make a point?
But she said something else that was pretty stupid. Well, it’s stupid but there is a movement happening right now that we should fight back against and she’s promoting it. But her understanding is just stupid. I will say this now: if she actually believes in this, Gray should just leave the country because she doesn’t get it.
Couple things here:
Americaness has never been associated with whiteness. That’s a lie and we have an entire history that proves that:
We fought a civil war to end slavery.
We paid reparations to injustice done to the Japanese because of internment during World War II.
We ended Jim Crow and implemented the Civil Rights Act making color irrelevant under the eyes of the law.
We added two amendments to the Constitution making equality law of the land that cannot be changed.
“Share democracy with others”? What is she talking about. I don’t know what she thinks but I think we all share the democracy together. If that wasn’t the case, we’d be having Civil wars left and right.
She is saying all people who fly the American flag scare her because they are racist and she feels she is in danger when around them. Being proud to be an American is the new white supremacy.
The only people I see destroying the society because they don’t like it is the Left. And don’t keep pointing out January 6th.
She doesn’t get what the American flag is all about.
I played the entire video because she got a lot of flack about those comments and she started claiming that she was taken out of context. That she didn’t say what she said. Don’t believe your own lying ears.
The New York Times Communications tweeted:
“New York Times editorial board member Mara Gay’s comments on MSNBC have been irresponsibly taken out of context. Her argument was that Trump and many of his supporters have politicized the American flag. The attacks on her today are ill-informed and grounded in bad-faith.”
No New York Times and Mara Gray, Gray said what we thought she said and it will be digitally available for all times.
But here’s what bothers me: She doesn’t doesn’t understand what the flag is about. The flag is not my flag or a white flag. It is an American flag. It is about our country as a whole. It is about our history, our union and the great attributes of the people:
The 13 stripes represent the original 13 colonies.
The 50 stars represent the states in the union.
The color represents our hardiness and bravery.
The color white represents our innocence and purity.
The color blue represents vigilance, persistence and justice.
The flag is unifying. It represents all of us as citizens of the greatest country in human history. People have died to protect it and enforce the meaning of the flag. Blacks who were slaves should, and did in the case of Fredrick Douglas and Martin Luther King Jr., saw the flag as their flag also and its representation is why slavery and Jim Crow needed to end because the United States wasn’t living up to the meaning of the flag. Do you know who else thought that? The Founding Fathers. They did not see that slavery could survive for long. They debated it in the Continental Congress in 1776 and the Constitutional Congress in 1789. It is discussed in the Federalist Papers.
A flag that can be seen as divisive would be the Confederate flag. That flag represented the breaking of the country and the continuance of slavery. It represents the continuing tradition of the rich controlling the means of production. I don’t mind when people complain about taking that flag down in front of state buildings. But I also understand that the flags meaning has changed. That it doesn’t represent the Confederacy but represents to spirit and bravery of the South. That flag doesn’t actually have anything to do with slavery anymore but I understand why people don’t want it flown.
Ugh.
The state department gave permission to all the federal agencies to be able to fly the BLM flag because of the anniversary of George Floyd’s death and the gay pride flag because it’s gay pride month…again. Seems like it’s always gay pride month. The flags of the Left are the most divisive flags, more so than the Confederate flag.
The Black Lives Matter flag represents the destruction of the system and all our values so that Marxism and equity can rule.
The Gay Pride flag represents only the LGBTQ+ individuals. In fact, a guy in France just created a new flag to add a-sexual people. It doesn’t even represent their own group correctly. And straight people need not apply.
The Antifa flag, which has been around since before World War II in Nazi Germany fighting against Hitler’s regime, represents a militancy that fights against what they see as fascist systems. Ironically, they use fascism to push this. It is a communist organization.
These flags represent divisiveness. These philosophies represent divisiveness. But the Left wants to replace our unifying flag with one of these flags all the time.
I have an American flag hanging in my place. It’s been there for a few years. It’s special because it was flown over the Capitol Building. I am proud of it. I am proud of this flag. And it is your flag too. Embrace it because it is really the only unifying symbol out there and it represents all the values and the union that is the United States.
Good news: the Department of Defense said they would only fly the American flag.
My God! If the U.S. flag represents racism, how long is it going to be that apple pie represents racism?
Apple Pie is Racist
A couple of weeks ago, Raj Patel who writes for The Guardian wrote and article about how apple pie and hamburgers are racist.
Bet you didn’t see that one coming.
The article is in the Climate Change section of the website (what a shock) and is titled, Food Injustice Has Deep Roots: Let’s Start with America’s Apple Pie. Do I really even need to read the article? This is just another America-Bad thing. It’s a long article. Let me give you the jist of it.
The article starts:
Resting on gingham cloth, a sugar-crusted apple pie cools on the window sill of a midwestern farmhouse. Nothing could be more American. Officially American. The Department of Defense once featured the pie in an online collection of American symbols, alongside Uncle Sam and cowboys.
He wants to make absolutely sure that people realize that the evil apple pie is American. That’s why it’s evil.
And the evil, imperialist, genocidal military saw it as a symbol of America.
Not that apples are particularly American. Apples were first domesticated in central Asia, making the journey along the Silk Road to the Mediterranean four thousand years ago. Apples traveled to the western hemisphere with Spanish colonists in the 1500s in what used to be called the Columbian Exchange, but is now better understood as a vast and ongoing genocide of Indigenous people.
Here’s a remaking of history.
The Spanish were not allowed to enslave the Indians. In fact, they were encouraged to marry the natives to bring them into the Spanish culture.
Columbus was jailed for sending slaves from Haiti back to Spain.
The Indians were not killed through genocide. They mostly died of disease. That’s not genocide.
In fact, the Indians had their own diseases, such as a strain of syphallis, that killed some of the Spanish.
OK, let’s just get to how apple pie is racist. I wanted to read the first couple of paragraphs so you get where this whole thing is going. I doubt I even need to talk about it because the premise is so stupid.
English colonizers then used apple trees “as markers of civilization, which is to say property,” he wrote.
“John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, took these markers of colonized property to the frontiers of US expansion where his trees stood as symbols that Indigenous communities had been extirpated,” he wrote.
He linked sugar to the slave trade,
gingham cloth to “war capitalism” that “enslaved and committed acts of genocide against millions of Indigenous people in North America, and millions of Africans and their descendants through the transatlantic slave trade.” In the process, cotton laid the basis of finance, police and government that made the United States.
Guardian readers ought by now to be familiar with the exercise of undoing the commodity fetish. Scratch the surface of a bar of chocolate, a tuna sandwich, or even a chicken nugget, and you find the horrors of international trade: violence, exploitation, poverty and profit. Capitalist logic is everywhere the same, but countries are capitalist in their own ways. The apple pie is as American as stolen land, wealth and labour. We live its consequences today.
Then he just goes off into a tangent.
He calls chocolate, tuna fish sandwiches, the chicken nugget and hamburgers are racist and promote genocide.
He goes into food inequity.
How whites owned most of the farms.
How the food system is the lowest paying market. He includes flipping burgers getting only minimum wage. He doesn’t mention that restaurant ownership is also the riskiest investment endeavor.
He talked about how cowboys were an exploited class.
He talks about how the food industry is part of Jim Crow.
Basically, what this guy has done is said that America’s food is racist without actually proving it is racist and using a lot of woke terminology. This should not be surprised that the woke Left decided to attack apple pie. Dr. Seuss, sidewalks, air, water have all proven to be racist. Why not apple pie.
Kamala Harris heads to Guatemala. It isn’t going well.
The Supreme Court makes a huge and surprising ruling.
The Left still doesn’t get biology.
And comedy is under attack.
It Ain’t Going Well
Vice President Kamala Harris is heading to Guatemala to try to solve the border crisis. She hasn’t been to the actual border get because she is going to go after the root cause of the problem. Problem is the root cause is Joe Biden being an idiot but there are no exotic trips associated with that. It did not go well for her. It was damned right from the beginning.
Bad Start
The trip for Kamala did not start well. Twenty- five minutes into the flight, there was a problem with the plane, Air Force 2. They had to land the plane and switch planes. Reports were that there was a minor glitch and the plane needed to be maintained. My bet is that they ran out of Orangina or something and Kamala threw a fit.
Of course, instead of just saying everything was fine and no big deal, she said the said a little prayer and the were OK. If I were Kamala, I would have prayed a little too. Air force. is Flown by the Air Force and she is not exactly Friendly to the military.
The Trip
Things didn’t go much better when she got there.
When she got off the plane, she was greeted with all the ceremony. There were a bunch of protestors on the streets telling her to mind her own business and to go home. The meeting didn’t go so well either.
Harris said to the Guatemalan President, Alejandro Giammattei:
“And so I am in Guatemala today to discuss and advance our shared priorities,” Harris told President Alejandro Giammattei after arriving in Guatemala. “Foremost among those, as you have mentioned, is addressing migration from this region in particular.”
“We are neighbors and the position of the United States is that we then are interconnected, we share familial bonds, we share bonds that are historic, and it is important that as we embark on a new era that we recognize the significance and the importance of this relationship as neighbors,” she said on Monday.
Grammatter already knew what Kamala’s story was. Last month, she gave her opinions about the border crisis :
“I’m thinking of corruption, violence and poverty, the lack of economic opportunity, the lack of climate adaptation and climate resilience, the lack of good governance.”
So he already knows that some blane is coming his way. But Giammattei has his own opinion. He said this in an interview:
But Giammattei, in an interview aired a day earlier, had pushed back against the “root causes” explanation, and said that the two “are not on the same side of the coin” on the issue.
Instead, he blamed what he saw as a more welcoming message to migrants by the new administration for the surge.
“The message changed too: ‘We’re going to reunite families, we’re going to reunite children,'” he told CBS News. “The very next day, the coyotes were here organizing groups of children to take them to the United States.”
Something must have gotten through to her. She said this after the meeting:
There’s a real turn around in policy.
Listen, Kamala is going to get a lot of pushback, not only from Guatemala, but from EI Salvador, Honduras, and Mexico. These countries, though they love the remittances, hate the fact that the immigration crisis is causing crime issues with gangs and losing young male workers. The President of Mexico has been blaming the United States and the Biden administration for opening the borders and enriching the cartels by expanding drug and human trafficking.
Biden really screwed the pooch on this one and I think this is going to be the anchor around the Democrats neck. Last week, a normally blue, heavily Hispanic city in Texas ousted their Democratic mayor and voted in a Republican myor. And not by a little margin. Remember when the Democrats thought they could turn Texas blue? Yeah, that’s gone thanks to the open border thing. Texas has become more solidly red. Arizona, a borderline purple state, is also turning red.
I hate to capitalize on the tragedy of bad policy but I’m glad to see that Biden is showing his stripes. People are beginning to realize that he’s not a moderate and he is actually hurting the country. The election in 2022 couldn’t come fast enough.
But It Gets Worse
I guess the Constitution is the Constitution even if one is an activist Supreme Court Justice.
In a 9-0 decision issued Monday morning, the Supreme Court ruled that a law, barring illegal immigrants from seeking green cards, is constitutional and that those illegal immigrants who later earned a Temporary Protected Status (TPS) are still ineligible to apply for permanent residency.
Justice Elena Kagan, the most activist judge on the Supreme Court, upholding a rule that barred “unlawful entrants” who later received Temporary Protected Status from applying to remain in the United States. Temporary Protected Status technically “gives foreign nationals nonimmigrant status,” Kagan noted, but TPS does not rubber-stamp an “unlawful entry.”
The TPS status “applies to people who come from countries ravaged by war or disaster. It protects them from deportation and allows them to work legally. There are 400,000 people from 12 countries with TPS status.”
The Court was called upon to decide whether a “couple from El Salvador who have been in the U.S. since the early 199s” who were given protected status in 2001 but who originally “entered the country illegally” were actually “admitted” into the United States when they were given protected status, enabling them to apply for a green card.
Kagan was clear, in her opinion, that they were not. “The TPS program gives foreign nationals nonimmigrant status, but it does not admit them. So the conferral of TPS does not make an unlawful entrant…eligible,” she wrote.
“Congress, of course, could have gone further, by deeming TPS recipients to have not only nonimmigrant status but also a lawful admission,” Kagan said in her opinion, writing for the unanimous court. “Legislation pending in Congress would do just that.”
“The House of Representatives already has passed legislation that would make it possible for TPS recipients to become permanent residents,” Kagan noted, per the Star-Tribune. “The bill faces uncertain prospects in the Senate.”
This is bad news for the Democrats and the Biden administration. This means that making an illegal alien legal through amnesty is going to have to go through Congress by creating a law. That’s not going to happen over the next year and a half. They don’t have the votes and Congress hasn’t created a law in the last six years (I’m exaggerating).
There is a wave of feminism occurring throughout the United States and it is coming from an unlikely source. Well, unlikely if you are a Democrat. It is coming from Republicans. That is that boys cannot compete in girls’ sports.
Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law in Florida that mandates that boys (or trans girls) cannot compete against biological girls.
DeSantis said when signing the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act:
“We believe in the state of Florida, of protecting the fairness and the integrity of women’s athletics. And I can tell you this in Florida, you know, girls are going to play girl’s sports and boys are going play boy’s sports, that’s what we’re doing. We’re going to make sure that that’s the reality. So the bill that we’re doing today will ensure fairness for women athletes for years to come in the state of Florida. It says that athletic teams or sports that are designated for females are open to females. And we’re going to go based off biology.”
U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona told ESPN (why ESPN is involved in politics at all is my question) that the Biden administration was prepared to take steps to do something on a national level:
“I do believe in local control. I do believe in state control, but we do have a responsibility to protect the civil rights of students. And if we feel the civil rights are being violated, we will act. Our LGBTQ students have endured more harassment than most other groups. It’s critically important that we stand with them and give them opportunities to engage in what every other child can engage in without harassment.”
Civil rights are not being violated. Well, they are. The civil rights for the women competing against men that cannot cut it in men’s sports.
LGBTQ students have endured more harassment than other groups? Really? They made up .4% of the student body in schools. Also, more than black students throughout history?
Finally, I’m tired of hearing that they are “no allowed to engage in sports.” They are allowed to engage. Play sports with their own sex and stop taking opportunities away from women.
“It’s their right as a student to participate in these activities. And we know sports does more than just put ribbons on the first-, second- and third-place winner. We know that it provides opportunities for students to become a part of a team, to learn a lot about themselves, to set goals and reach them, and to challenge themselves. Athletics provides that in our K-12 systems and in our colleges, and all students deserve an opportunity to engage in that.”
Again, they can compete. They can compete in the boys’ sports. These states that have the guts to fight against this transgender BS already face an uphill battle. They have to deal with the NCAA which fully supports men playing in women’s sports. They have to deal with a media that calls anyone who doesn’t agree on the subject a “transphobe,” whatever that means. They have to deal with Leftist schools who care more about ideology than fairness and safety for women.
I guess the only way the Left is going to get it is if some 250 pound trans female wrestles against a 175 female wrestler and breaks her neck. No, who am I kidding. They won’t care about that either. It’s all about the ideology.
It looks like the New York Times is getting sued by the executives at the Babylon Bee.
This whole thing started with an article from the New York Times in March 2021 discussing fake news from satire sites like the Babylon Bee and how social media sites like Facebook and Twitter should block these sites.
According to the New York Times article under suspicion:
But satire kept popping up as a blind spot. In 2019 and 2020, Facebook often dealt with far-right misinformation sites that used “satire” claims to protect their presence on the platform, Mr. Brooking said. For example, The Babylon Bee, a right-leaning site, sometimes trafficked in misinformation under the guise of satire.
I don’t know if you have ever been to the Babylon Bee or seen any of their social media posts but they are clearly satire. Very clearly satire. For those that are too dumb to understand that their headlines are fake, they post over the top pictures that correspond to the headline and those pictures are, guess what, over-the-top. This isn’t a fake news site, it is a satire site.
Funny thing is, this isn’t the first time they have been bashed by Left wing media. Snopes actually fact checked them on one of the comical headlines. I believe it was CNN that reported on the “fake news” from the Snopes fact check.
Here’s the thing: I hope the Babylon Bee wins. Getting slandered by the New York Times may not seem like much except subscribers may stop subscribing because of any controversy. I doubt it because the site is openly Conservative and Conservatives like comedy and are smart enough to tell the difference between the two.
But the biggest problem I see here is the attack on comedy and satire. I think it’s disgusting. Cancel culture attacks anything that is entertaining. No, I’ll go a step further. Cancel culture attacks anything that makes you think or you have to be aware of. Most comedy is based on life and if we aren’t aware, it might not be funny. Comedy actually forces us to use our reason to understand what a joke is. Comedy picks on the stupidest things in our culture and the Left has a ton of stupid to make fun of.
Look at South Park. Trey Parker and Matt Stone run straight down the middle when it comes to their politics and they pick on everyone. But they enjoy picking on Leftists because their stuff is so stupid and always gets a great reaction. By the way, South Park is second only to The Simpsons as the longest running sitcom (FamilyGuy, also a offensive show, is number 3) . They are doing something right. Or maybe most people don’t buy the political correctness thing.
Things are getting so bad comedians like Seth Rogan and kat Williams, two of the most politically incorrect comedians (though they are, sort of has-beens) say that comedy has changed and comedians need to deal with it.
Well, I say, “NO!” I say life is awesome with comedy. I like that Richard Prior used the “N” word in one of his album names. I liked that Andrew Dice Clay joked about having sex with a lot of women. I don’t care that Eddie Murray picked up a tranny hooker or that Luis CK jerked off in front of other comedians. I don’t care that Jimmy Kimmel work blackface while mimicking Karl Malone on The Man Show.
I definitely don’t care that the Babylon Bee makes fun of AOC and Joe Biden. By the way, before you tell me I never see the insults, I’m a huge South Park fan and they make fun of people like me all the time. I can take it. I have a sense of humor and can laugh at myself.
You know what I do care about? The fact that these guys are growing afraid of doing it. That would be tragic for society.
The jobs report is in for May and, though better, is still disappointing:
Employers added 559,000 jobs in May.
The target was 650,000 jobs. That is down from 978,000 expected jobs in April.
The unemployment rate, meanwhile, declined 0.3 percentage points to 5.8%.
Most of the jobs gains were in the entertainment and hospitality industries.
The construction sector lost 20,000 jobs in May and has 220,000 fewer workers as a result of the pandemic.
U.S. companies have had a difficult time finding workers as a supplemental unemployment benefit of an extra $300 per week has encouraged many to stay home. At least 25 states have announced plans to end the benefits earlier than their September expiration.
The labor force participation rate was little changed at 61.6% and has remained between 61.4% and 61.7% since last June. The reading was 1.7 percentage points below where it was in February 2020.
Economists say the labor market’s recovery could continue to run below its potential until the benefits are phased out.
The BS is Done!
Tony Faves might be in some trouble. Thanks to a FOIA request from Buzzfeed, thousands of e-mails have been released between Fauci and other doctors including ones from China.
Oops!
This is a big deal because he has been in front of Congress over the last year and it looks like he has been lying. When asked about the new revaluations, Rand Paul, Fauci’s main competitor and a doctor himself, simply said, “I told you.”
Here’s the Scoop:
Fauci was told that this Virus was discovered as early as September of 2019.
Fauci knew that China was lying about the infection and death numbers in China in January, 2020.
Fauci knew that the WHO might have been wrong about how the virus was transmitted.
Fauci was told as early as March 2020 that the virus was Created in a Chinese lab, probably the Wuhan Virology Lab.
He knew there was gain-of-function research in the Wuhan lab.
Finally, Fauci knew that the United States has been financing this Chinese lab through a grant given by a partner lab.
Fauci actually had a secret conference call to discuss the situation and compare notes.
I haven’t read all the e-mails. There’s a ton of them. I only read the ones that were deemed relevant. What I learned:
Tony Fauci was depended upon to bury this whole thing. BY China, the CDC and the WHO.
Tony Fauci was trying to hide the funding the NIH, the organization he leads, to the Chinese government.
Tony Fauci lied about it all.
Fauci is all over the map on this. He can’t remember E-mails, some were too long and he didn’t read them. But his big excuse seems to be the fragility of China. Listen:
The media is hitting this but only half-heartedly and they are never pushing back against him.
The White House is also kind of dismissing these E-mails. Jen Psaki, in a press conference, has decided that this is no big deal and Fauci is still awesome:
It amazes me how everyone is running away from China.
We haven’t talked about the stupid thing AOC has said recently. What a week. Maybe she is getting smarter, you may ask. Nope. Dumb as ever.
Her first misstep, which she wants to implement of policy, was so bad that Chuck Schumer, who was standing next to her, looked like he ate a lemon. She believes that we could lower crime by getting rid of jails and prisons. Listen:
Rep. @AOC: "If we want to reduce the number of people in our jails, the answer is to stop building more of them … It's to support communities, not throw them away." pic.twitter.com/vj4BnNKEVV
This is great! New York is falling apart because of high taxes and crime and what does AOC want to do? She wants to let out more criminals. Yeah, this isn’t working in New York. You know who is saying that? New Yorkers. They are either leaving the state or voting for more moderate candidate.
The mayoral race has a former cop, running as a moderate Democrat with a hard nose crime policy and Andrew Yang, who is a moderate Democrat who also does not like the defund the police movement. One of those is going to win because the rest are Leftists that are still pushing the all the policies that have destroyed New York.
By the way, 86% of New Yorkers believe that the police should not be defunded or the budget should be increased.
Keep going AOC! Your policies will kill the Democrat party.
But that wasn’t the only dumb thing she did.
On Twitter, she made a post:
She got ravaged on Twitter for posting that. She actually was blaming Trump because her grandmother was living in a crappy home. I’m not going to read the posts because they are all pretty much the same:
She makes $174,000 a year and is worth almost a million dollars. She’s single with no children or expenses. Why couldn’t she have helped her grandmother?
AOC wears designer, expensive suits and owns a Tesla.
That hurricane happened almost four years ago. So grandma was living like this for three years ago. So, in all that time, she never helped out her grandmother?
Trump did send Puerto Rico money, supplies and military support. The mayor of Puerto Rico got recalled and replaced by a conservative mayor because of corruption. Gee, I wonder where everything Trump sent went?
If she is not going to sacrifice, why should anyone else? Her grandmother can’t depend on her rich granddaughter, why expect help for the government? That’s because the government is suppose to be the head of the family.
Yeah she got pillaged online. She ended up issuing a follow tweet:
Now, before you worry about AOC’s mental health, don’t worry. Thank God for the January 6th riot. You know, the one that she was almost a mile a way from and was in no danger whatsoever. Yeah, she’s said she is seeing a mental health care professional about it because it was so traumatizing. Maybe she can bring up some new issues to him.
Ugh!
How do people with so little mental and emotional constitution get into office and use that as a selling point for them staying in office. Incredible.
This is Dani Lass on TikTok with a beautiful song about her celebrating freedom. It is rare that I find something good on TikTok because it is evil. But this is gorgeous.
Sleepy, creepy Joe reminds us that we are all racists…again.
The ineffectiveness and policies of the Biden administration is causing prices to rise everywhere.
And it couldn’t have happened to a more deserving country.
Tulsa Race Riots
The Tulsa race Riots were the worst race riots in American history. It happened between May 31 and June I, 1921. The riot resulted in 39- 300 deaths, 800 Injuries and 35 blocks burned down in the black district of Greenwood. Also, 400 blacks were illegally stuck in internment camps.
Here’s what happened:
A 19-year-old black man named Dick Rowland got on an elevator with a 17 year old white girl named Sarah Page. Rowland needed to go to the top floor of the building to use the colored restroom.
No one knows what happened but someone waiting for the elevator heard Page scream.
When the elevator opened, Rowland ran out.
The white witness that Page had been sexually assaulted.
The sheriff was called.
Rowland, afraid of being accused, went to the Greenwood to stay with his grandmother.
A mob formed and Rowland was arrested even though Page said nothing happened and refused to press changes.
The mob wanted to lynch Rowland but the sheriff convinced the mob to leave.
That’s when the mobs started the riot and all hell broke loose for the next two days.
This major event was never really taught in schools. I think I heard it only once in school. That’s a shame. But, of course with our racial division, it is a big deal now.
So, Joe Biden decided to go to Tulsa to “Celebrate” the hundred year anniversary. Oh, yeah, and sell his plan to sell his plan to spend more money.
Biden’s Speech
I’m not going to spend a lot of time on old Joe’s speech because he didn’t sag a lot. He did bring up a policy of helping minorities start small businesses, which 19 unconstitutional (What a shock). But it was entertaining and infuriating.
He started by doing something really creepy. He stepped off the podium and approached two little girls. Of course, he touched them on the head. With all the crap he has been accused of you’d think he’d knock that crap off.
Then he started talking about the Tulsa riots. That was good. But he mentioned that this was something that must never be forgotten. Believe it or not, I agree with him. I thought this incident was as big as Emmitt Till and no one talks about it.
But then he started talking about race. That’s when have started going off the deep end. Listen:
This is just stupid.
White supremacy is not a huge threat. Hasn’t been for a long time. Do you even know a white supremacist?
This is the narrative. He has to ignore the far Left extremism from Antifa and BLM.
Of course the Justice Department says white supremacy is the biggest threat because Antifa doesn’t exist to the Left and BLM is an “organic” movement, not a group.
Can someone name a white supremacist terror attack? Not January 6 and Charlottesville was five years ago.
Of course, everyone applauds this.
This is nothing more than a selling point to Biden. He’s going to ride this horse all the way. Either you’re with us or you’re a white supremacist.
I also want to point out that Biden gave a eulogy for Robert Byrd when he was Vice President. Remember him? He was a grand cyclops for the KKK.
So Biden announces his plan to help fund small businesses for people of color, specifically blacks. There’s good reason why the government should help them according to old Joe. Listen and see if you hear something wrongs here:
That’s racist!
It shows he believes in the bigotry of low expectations.
This gaff (and I think that’s what it was) was completely ignored by the media. What of Trump said this?
But here is a statement I wish Republicans would take to heart :
OK, the “selling soap” thing was weird.
His point is culture is being taken over by the Left.
Republicans are always worried about politics but the left is worried about changing the culture.
President Joe Biden on Tuesday suspended oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that were approved by the Trump administration.
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said:
“The Department of the Interior today suspended all activities related to the implementation of the Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge pending completion of a comprehensive analysis under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The Department is notifying lessees that it is suspending oil and gas leases in the Arctic Refuge, pending the review, to determine whether the leases should be reaffirmed, voided, or subject to additional mitigation measures.”
Gas prices are up $.60 nationwide. In California, prices are up $1.20. This is a great move.
Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy is pissed:
The Alaska economy is dependent on drilling.
The order might be illegal, violating Section 20001 of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (2017) clearly says ‘The Secretary shall establish and administer a competitive oil and gas program for the leasing, development, production and transportation of oil and gas in and from the Coastal Plain.’
So far:
He has cancelled the XL Pipeline.
Won’t allow drilling in Alaska.
Is limiting offshore drilling.
But has allowed Russia to build a pipeline between Russia and Germany.
But that’s not it!
Russian hackers have attacked the largest beef producer, immediately cutting beef production by 20%.
Attack on JBS S.A., a Brazilian company that is the largest meat processing company in the world.
This included hitting beef production plants in Australia and Canada, but no is sure how many actual plants were affected.
Stocks for beef dropped like a rock while pork went straight up.
The Biden administration was informed.
In a statement, the Biden administration said they were addressing the infrastructure of our computer networks to protect it against ransomware.
Jen Psaki pretty much said the same thing she did last time: it’s the problem of the private sector.
Who the hell knows who’s doing what.
Well, Biden didn’t want us to drive or eat meat. Making sure it is not affordable is one way to do it.
Iran’s largest warship caught fire and sank Wednesday in the Gulf of Oman in what is just the latest series of mysterious fires and explosions to rock Iran in recent weeks.
All crew members were rescued.
The cause of the sinking remains a mystery. Sure it is.
Later, in the day, well…today, a large fire erupted at an oil refinery near Iran’s capital, Tehran.
This comes after a drone factory in Iran was destroyed.
Couldn’t have happened to a better country.
The big question is going to be: Did Israel do this. They have enough reason:
Iran was funding Hamas and sending the missiles to shoot at their population.
Iran is funding Hezbollah in Lebanon.
During the Israel/Hamas conflict, Iran send an armed drone into Israel. Well, they tried.
I hope Israel is doing it and I hope they keep doing it. It is the only way to temper Iran. Treating them with force is the only thing they understand. I also love that their factories and refineries are being hit. It weakens their economy.
The embrace of the United States government for Black Lives Matter is now being pushed, secretly, for the world to see.
But is this organization long lasting like the NAACP? Not looking that way.
It’s Suppose to be the American Flag
The memo, first reported by Jack Posobiec at Human Events, prefaces the guidance on BLM in relation to the upcoming anniversary of George Floyd’s death:
May 25 marks one year since the brutal murder of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Last year, the horrific video of Mr. Floyd’s final 9 minutes and 29 seconds went viral and spurred Black Lives Matter protests worldwide, in response to his senseless killing and to demand an end to systemic racism and police brutality. One year later, many in the international community will honor Mr. Floyd and acknowledge the long journey nations face to advance racial justice. Leading up to May 25, the Department has issued guidance on the use of Black Lives Matter language, banners, and flags.
The department describes BLM as leaderless and organic, adding that the Black Lives Matter Global Network is “the most prominent” organization that uses “BLM terminology.”
According to the Office of U.S. Special Counsel, “As a social movement, BLM gained prominence following a series of high-profile killings of Black Americans in 2013 and 2014 and, in particular, the acquittal of George Zimmerman for the killing of Trayvon Martin. The movement appears to have begun organically on social media. The phrase ‘Black Lives Matter’ then became a rallying cry for protesters and organizations seeking to raise awareness of, and respond to, issues associated with racism in the United States. BLM is thus an umbrella term for a constellation of ideas, objectives, and groups. There is no ‘leader’ of the BLM movement. Rather, there are numerous organizations that use BLM terminology to varying degrees, including some whose names include the phrase ‘Black Lives Matter.’ Of these, the most prominent is the Black Lives Matter Global Network (BLMGN).”
No:
BLM has a leadership and is organized.
They have a flag and a hierarchy. The leader just quit.
They have a philosophy. They believe in:
Marxism.
Segregation.
Racism.
Ending of the nuclear family.
Ending of capitalism.
Ending of the two party system.
Eliminating state, county and local police.
No law, order, and consequences (incarceration).
BLM, like Antifa, wants to be the national police.
They say they care about the LGBTQ but they don’t. They say this to get more people on their side.
They are a Leftist militia. Just like Antifa. You know, the same militias that the 2nd Amendments allows Constitutionalists to create to protect ourselves from the government. The same 2nd Amendment the Left wants to destroy unless it conforms to the will of BLM and Antifa.
There’s a reason the Left wants to criminalize Conservatives. That reason is to take our rights away so we can’t fight against them. The way they do that is normalize their movement, not only within this country because they are all globalists, but normalize their movement throughout the world.
Good news: Republicans might be seeing that. They introduced a bill that would stop this idiocy of normalizing BLM. It won’t pass but I think it will be argued. On television. For all to see. Better news: I think people are beginning to see it now.
In April 2015, Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors told an audience at Harvard Law School that they should “end the imperialist project that’s called Israel.”
Speaking on a panel hosted by the Human Rights Program at Harvard, entitled “Globalizing Ferguson: Radicalized Policing and International Resistance,” Cullors stated:
I am also the co-founder of Black Lives Matter … What I will say, what’s important, I think, in this conversation around trans-national solidarity is that it’s simple. We should be building relationships with people across the world. If we believe we are part of the human family, then we need to push ourselves in particular ways to see the connections always. The other thing I’ll say is Palestine is our generation’s South Africa, and if we don’t step up boldly and courageously to end the imperialist project that’s called Israel, we’re doomed.
Couple of problems here that I’ll say again:
Again, she points out that BLM is a globalist and humanist organization.
“Human family” is a slap at the nuclear family because they see humanity being the family. That’s collectivism. That’s socialism.
Israel gave up the West Bank and Gaza Strip. If they are imperialists, they’re really bad at it.
Actually, there no such thing as Palestine. It’s never existed.
Twenty percent of the population is Arab. They have representation in the government and on their supreme court. Israel is really bad at being an apartheid state.
How many Jews live in the Gaza Strip? Zero. How many Jews live in the West Bank? Zero. Who’s the apartheid state?
Cullors went to Palestine with a group called the “Dream Defenders”, a BLM sub-group that is anti-Semitic and believed in the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) movement. She said when she got back from Israel:
And I think that I had learned about Palestine for a long time, I’d known about it, been wanting to travel, and I was really, really grateful when the Dream Defenders asked me to come on the delegation. But nothing would’ve prepared me for the level of militarization and the level of violence that we would witness those ten days inside of Palestine. Nothing would have prepared me for the ways in which we witnessed people’s terror. People live in terror on a daily basis. And nothing would have prepared me for how much clarity I would have on why we have to be a part of Palestinian solidarity.
Apparently she didn’t go when Hamas launched 4000 missiles into Israel, aiming at civilian population.
The entire organization ignored the 4000 missiles. They supported the Palestinian Authority and Hamas during the conflict started by the Palestinian Authority and Hamas. This has turned out to be a very unpopular stance.
Patrice Cullors said on Thursday that she is resigning from BLM. This comes on the heels of the decreasing popularity of BLM. The popularity is dropping because:
Violent riots propagated and planned by BLM.
The extreme views such as the desire for Marxism and the end of the nuclear family.
Cullors spending BLM money, which came from donations, on three or four houses in the last two years.
But another reason is because Black Lives Matter, in the most egregious, I’ll say scandal, is not using their power to actually help the black community.
The mothers of Tamir Rice, Breonna Taylor, and others are lashing out just as Cullors steps down, accusing both BLM and Cullors of using their children’s deaths to raise money but failing to pass the money on to black families in need.
Samaria Rice, the mother of 12-year-old Rice, said to the New York Post:
“I don’t believe she is going anywhere. It’s all a facade. She’s only saying that to get the heat off her right now.”
Rice added:
“She first sought out Cullors to enlist the group’s help in re-opening a federal investigation into her son’s 2014 death. She said she exchanged a few emails with Cullors over the years, but had never managed a face-to-face meeting.”
She also said that Cullors raised $5000 for Tamir’s funeral but hasn’t seen anything from BLM yet.
Lisa Simpson, whose son was shot in Los Angeles, California, added:
“Now she doesn’t have to show her accountability. She can just take the money and run.”
Both women made the following statement:
“We never hired them to be the representatives in the fight for justice for our dead loved ones murdered by the police. The ‘activists’ have events in our cities and have not given us anything substantial for using our loved ones’ images and names on their flyers. We don’t want or need y’all parading in the streets accumulating donations, platforms, movie deals, etc. off the death of our loved ones, while the families and communities are left clueless and broken.”
My question to you is why hasn’t there been an investigation yet? These folks are a registered non-profit and it seems only the leadership is profiting. Isn’t that illegal?
But it get worse. They have internal problems.
Rashard Turner, the founder of a Black Lives Matter chapter in St. Paul, Minnesota, revealed in a video published last week that he quit the organization after he “learned the ugly truth” while being an insider in the far-left group.
He released the following video about Black lives Matter:
This is a great message, which is why I played the whole thing. He:
Expressed the importance of the family, which BLM rejects.
He speaks of the importance of education, which BLM only embraces when their message is pushed (CRT).
He believes in opportunities our system because he had them and works to pave the road for people like him to realize their opportunities. BLM tells black people they have no opportunities.
He’s an idealist. He believes in action. This is a good man.
The New York Times has found the reason why Black Lives Matters has lost popularity: Republican elites.
According to the Daily Wire (because I don’t subscribe to the New York Times:
While “there has been a net increase in favorability toward Black Lives Matter since 2018,” it “peaked in the immediate aftermath of George Floyd’s death and then swiftly declined,” especially “among Republicans and white Americans, two large and often overlapping groups.”
Of course, BLM’s behavior and beliefs have nothing to do with why Republicans don’t like them.
The Times later admitted positive views of the BLM organization “did not last long” and “swiftly declined” across every “racial group.” Rather than blame this universal decline on the BLM organization, the Times blamed the GOP.
“The precipitous decline in support … mirrors the increased politicization of the issue by elites,” the article, by Jennifer Chudy and Hakeem Jefferson, continued. “In the days and weeks following Floyd’s death, Republican politicians quickly turned attention away from the actions of a murderous police officer to those individuals protesting the injustice.”
Last I checked, blacks voted for Democrats. If blacks are not happy with BLM than how is it Republicans fault?
Of course, the $3 billion in damage caused by riots never came across the minds of the writers.
And maybe a lot of people believe the police aren’t “murderous”.
They have caused nothing but chaos in the form of riots.
Though they have taken in $90 billion over the last year, they have done nothing to improve the lives of black people.
They have ignored the deaths of black people by other black criminals.
They have shown to be extremely corrupt.
People are tired of it and now we are seeing push back. That’s a good thing because it means we are going to see pushback against of of the Left’s policies which BLM propagates.
Being a nice guy doesn’t make John Cena right or any less of a coward.
The Dutch apparently don’t want energy anymore.
And an update on the Lori Vallow story I brought up last year.
But first:
COWARD!
John Cena, the former WWE wrestler, actor and show host, was holding an interview pushing the movie Fast and the Furious 9 (yes, there are nine of them) which he is starring in. During the interview, he called Taiwan a country. If you saw the interview, you would not have even noticed it. Well, this is a bad thing to say when your movie has made $135 million in China and China does not acknowledge Taiwan as an independent state. They see Taiwan an extension of the Chinese mainland and feel they have dominion over it.
After this was pointed out, probably by the movie studios, John Cena did the most cowardly thing. I liked John Cena but this destroyed the respect I had for him. Listen:
That’s right. Not only did he grovel for forgiveness but he did it in Mandarin Chinese. How pathetic. Let me let John in on something: Taiwan is a country. It is a democracy and has been for over 50 years. He is apologizing for something he said that was true for money.
The media, specifically Fox News, are really kind of giving Cena a pass. On Gutfeld! yesterday, Tyrus, also an actor and former WWE wrestler, defended Cena and even became angry, I think, at Greg Gutfeld, who was criticizing Cena as being “without backbone”. Listen:
I like Tyrus. He’s not a Conservative and leans a lot to liberal ideology but he is reasonable and I agree with his takes probably 80% of the time. But, here, he is dead wrong.
Taiwan is a country. I believe Tyrus may not know this. He doubled down on this today.
It doesn’t matter if John Cena is a “good guy”. What he did was grovel to a fascist dictatorship that:
Enslaves its people.
Commits genocide. Is responsible for 100 million deaths over their history.
Commits forced abortion and sterilization.
Steals technology from other countries.
Released, either on purpose or not, the COVID virus, killing the world economies and 2 million people.
Here’s my problem with John Cena’s apology and I will not give him a break on this. Greed has been given precedence over our virtues, ethics and values to satisfy a tyrannical regime who is looking to destroy our virtues, ethics and values.
Let me say that again:
Greed has been given precedence over our virtues, ethics and values to satisfy a tyrannical regime who is looking to destroy our virtues, ethics and values.
Our corporations are so busy chasing the almighty dollar in China that they are willing to discard the very backbone that made them successful for a regime that want to break that backbone.
Nike, Apple, Amazon, Espirit, North Face, Gap, Adidas and Puma are using slave labor in China to make their products. All are bowing down to this evil regime. And the regime is evil. Everyone talks about Hitler and Hitler was evil. But he was nothing compared to the Chinese leadership through the years. Heck, President Xi Jinping is now imprisoning Muslim Wyghers. Executions, forced abortions, forced sterilizations, rape, re-education and family separation. This is happening now and we’re ignoring it.
John Cena is a coward and he is a symbol of what is wrong with American corporations.
A Dutch court on Wednesday ruled that Royal Dutch ShellPLC is partially responsible for climate change and ordered the company to reduce its carbon emissions, a first-of-its-kind ruling that adds fresh pressure on oil-and-gas companies already facing heightened scrutiny from governments and investors.
The company must lower their emissions by 45% by 2030 based on their 2019 output.
This ruling could cause a precedence to be used in other Western countries, especially in Europe.
The ruling can be appealed.
The case was brought by a group called Friends of the Earth Netherlands, a local offshoot of the global environmental nonprofit network based in Amsterdam.
The court said that Shell wasn’t in breach of its obligation to reduce carbon emissions, but that there was an “imminent breach” and therefore set the reduction requirement. So they were actually lowering carbon emissions but maybe…
Shell argued that climate change is a broader societal issue, and that it wasn’t appropriate to ask a single private party to reduce its carbon emissions. Probably not a good idea to admit they were helping global warming.
Don’t think we haven’t heard the end of this. Watch all the lawsuits that are going to pop up in the United States from these fringe environmental groups.
Now Exxon
An activist investor won at least two seats on the board of Exxon Mobil Corp. , a historic defeat for the oil giant that will likely force it to alter its fossil-fuel focused strategy and more directly confront growing shareholder concerns about climate change.
Exxon said Wednesday a preliminary vote count showed shareholders backed two nominees of Engine No. 1, an upstart hedge fund owning a tiny fraction of the oil giant’s stock.
Exxon Chief Executive Darren Woods was also re-elected to the board along with seven of Exxon’s candidates, while two seats were undetermined, the company said.
It was an enormous blow to Mr. Woods, who personally campaigned against Engine No. 1. Many viewed the vote as a referendum on Mr. Woods’ performance. Exxon lost a record $22 billion last year and was struggling to regain its status as an industry-leading profit engine even before the coronavirus pandemic crushed global demand for oil and gas.
The hedge fund called for Exxon to gradually diversify its investments to be ready for a world that will need fewer fossil fuels in coming decades. Exxon defended its strategy to expand drilling, saying demand for fuels and plastics will remain strong for years to come, and pointed to a new carbon capture and storage business unit as evidence it is taking climate change seriously.
Engine No. 1 sought four seats on Exxon’s board and argued Exxon should commit to carbon neutrality, effectively bringing its emissions to zero—both from the company and its products—by 2050, as some peers have.
This had to be the weirdest story of 2019 and 2020. I actually did a podcast on it last year because it was so weird. So let me review:
2001 – According to The Post Register, Lori Vallow married her third husband and Tylee’s father, Joseph Anthony Ryan Jr., in 2001. Joseph adopted Lori’s son Colby, who she had in her previous marriage. Joseph and Lori eventually filed for divorce in 2004. Joseph died of a heart attack in 2018 and was cremated.
2006 – Lori and her fourth husband Leland “Charles” Anthony Vallow married in Las Vegas in February of 2006. The two adopted Joshua Jaxon “JJ” Vallow, who was the biological grandson of Charles’ sister Kay Woodcock, whose husband, Larry, would eventually raise concerns to law enforcement over the disappearance of JJ and Tylee.
2014 – Approximately a year after the couple moved to Hawaii with JJ and Tylee, it was reported by FOX 5 NY that Lori became “obsessed” with books written by Chad Daybell, four years before the two eventually married.
2018 – According the East Idaho News, Lori met Chad Daybell in 2018, when he was teaching an evening class at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which she attended. Their relationship continued.
2019 – Court documents suggest that things began to unravel for the family early in 2019, when Lori was still married to Charles Vallow. The couple were estranged, and Vallow had filed for divorce, saying he feared she would kill him and that she had developed cult-like beliefs. Charles alleged that Lori claimed to be “a god assigned to carry out the work of the 144,000 at Christ’s second coming in July 2020.”
2019 – The family was living in a Phoenix suburb in July when Lori’s brother, Alex Cox, shot and killed Vallow. Cox asserted that the shooting was in self-defense after Vallow allegedly came at him with a baseball bat. Police investigated, but the case didn’t go far before Cox died of a blood clot in his lung in December of 2019.
2019 – Lori Vallow moved to Idaho with JJ and Tylee, getting an apartment in the small town of Rexburg and spending time with Chad Daybell. At the time, Chad was married to Tammy Daybell, a 49-year-old school librarian who helped him run his small publishing company. Tammy Daybell died in October, her obituary saying she passed away in her sleep of natural causes. The family declined an autopsy before she was buried in Utah. About two weeks later, Chad Daybell married Lori Vallow in Hawaii.
Tylee was last seen in September of 2019 headed into Yellowstone National Park with Lori and other family members for a day trip, and JJ was last seen by school officials several days later.
In November of 2019, the Woodcocks asked Rexburg police to check on the children. When officers stopped by to question Lori, they said she and Chad Daybell lied about the children’s whereabouts. When investigators returned the next day to follow up, Lori and Chad were gone.
While the couple slipped away to Hawaii in January, the investigation pushed forward in Idaho, Arizona and Utah. Eventually, they were found in the islands, and a judge ordered Lori to bring the children to officials to prove they were safe. She refused and was charged with child abandonment and other crimes, then extradited to Idaho.
On June 10, authorities said they uncovered human remains at Chad Daybell’s home in rural Idaho, as they investigated the disappearance his first wife and Lori’s two children.
Today, Lori Vallow Daybell was indicted by a grand jury Monday with conspiracy and murder in connection with the deaths of her two youngest children, Joshua “JJ” Vallow, 7, and Tylee Ryan, 17.
Her husband, Chad Daybell, the two children’s stepfather, was also charged. He was also charged in connection to the murder of his former wife, Tammy Daybell, 49, who died under “suspicious circumstances” in 2019.
But we must celebrate the day that a drug addicted felon died because of all his death did so much to improve society in just a year. In Minneapolis, Black Lives Matter can see how their philosophy has improved the country by simply looking at the celebration being held at George Floyd square. Watch:
Here’s the moment shots were fired near George Floyd Square earlier this morning. pic.twitter.com/NIWRBr6b9Y
Yep, a shoot out. Minneapolis police showed up right away. Not. Minneapolis has lost a substantial portion of their police force and it wouldn’t matter anyway. They’re not allowed to arrest anyone and, if they have the audacity to arrest someone, that person would be released right away.
Now, we are supposed to celebrate all the great changes that Black Lives Matter has done since the George Floyd’s. I mean, they’re calling it an anniversary. But, I have a question: What has Black Lives Matter done that was good besides make $90 million? I know the damage they’ve done:
There was $2-3 billion of damage that was done during riots last year. They’re still happening.
Murders and violent crimes are up throughout the country by 20%. Some cities are up over 100%.
Police a retiring, going on leave or quitting a record rates. Most police forces are facing a staff shortage.
People are not becoming police anymore. New York is down 75% with new recruits.
They are ignoring the murders of blacks by other blacks. Chicago, Baltimore and Detroit have a huge black-on-black murder problem.
Crime in large, blue cities is no longer being enforced. Felons are being released.
Black Lives Matter made $90 million and have given none to society to improve it. But Patrice Cuellors, the founder, did buy three homes.
I don’t know what they’re celebrating. Black Lives Matter has just made things worse.
Oh, Now You Get It
The leadership in a lot of the big blue cities seem absolutely shocked at the major spike in crime. I guess trying to take money away from police departments and condemning every move they make without looking at all the evidence has not worked the way they thought it would.
Jacob Frye, the effeminate mayor of Minneapolis, said:
“The violence needs to stop, its unacceptable. People deserve to feel safe in their neighborhood, they deserve to be able to send their kids out to the sidewalk to play and to recreate without bullets flying by. That’s unacceptable. We should be holding these perpetrators accountable.”
In another press conference, Frye said:
“When you make big, overarching statements that we’re going to defund or abolish and dismantle the police department and get rid of all the officers, there’s an impact to that.”
He has called for federal and state help since violent crime climbed 21% over the last year.
In Los Angeles, the idiot mayor Eric Garcetti cut $150 million from the police. That brilliant move increase violent crime 36%. Murders are at a 10 year high of 350. The city council, reversing themselves, have approved hiring 250 new officers.
In New York City, they experienced a more than 50% jump in the number of shootings over the same time last year. The spike comes after last year when jumped 97% and the murders across the city increased 45% over 2019. The dumbass mayor Bill de Blasio promised to cut $1 billion from the police budget. That was a lie. He didn’t. Now he has approved to build a brand new police precinct.
None of this is actually being covered because most of the media and the Left still want cuts to the police departments. In fact, they want to eliminate the police all together. But that’s the problem when those people are not in leadership. They are not responsible when the consequences for their bad ideas come to fruition. In fact, they twist those consequences and try to make them proof that their ideas are necessary. For example, Jen Psaki was asked about the crime problem and she said that it was a gun problem.
Everything with the Left is about politics and the narrative. It’s never about common sense.
But, What?
So the leaders in Minneapolis have an idea on how to lower crime: innocent citizens should talk about it. No crap.
Minneapolis community leaders held a “take back the block” rally at Shiloh Temple in north Minneapolis last week to kick off a campaign of community pushback to violent crime. On Monday, volunteers took to the streets of Minneapolis in a display meant to signify that criminals do not run the city.
Rev. Brian Herron said at the rally:
“It isn’t an invasion of your block — this is support of your block. We want to see you come out. We want to see you sitting on your stoop.”
Minnesota Commissioner of Public Safety John Harrington tried his little misdirection I talked about in the last story:
“We have to get the guns off the streets. We cannot live with this insanity.”
See the misdirection? Get the cops off the streets, violent crime goes up and it’s the guns, not the criminals, that cause crime.
One of the things police have a hard time with is actually getting witnesses and get help for catching violent felons.
Police Chief Medaria Arradondo said:
“Minneapolis police officers will continue to rush into harm’s way to save lives; however, we need help from community leaders and residents to stand up and speak out.”
I think this is true. I think people are too afraid to report anything to the police. But I also think it is leadership’s fault for not putting away violent felons. Hey, it’s the people living in the neighborhoods that have to deal with the issues when that felon is released, and he will be released. There are no consequences for committing crime in Minneapolis and, therefore, no motivation not to commit crime. Criminals are not usually very smart. All they understand are hard consequences. They cannot be reasoned with.
I also think this is a bad idea because leadership, by asking people to help, is targeted policing, not proactive policing. Criminals need to see that they are going to get caught by a police presence. If I am walking down the street and I am planning to rob a house but I see a cop on the corner, guess what? I won’t rob the house. If I am walking down the street at 2 AM and a cop sees me, stops me and finds that I am carrying a crow bar, a gun and a flashlight, he used to be able to arrest me for carrying robbery tools. Boom, no crime. That is proactive policing.
If I commit a robbery, rape or murder because their were no police around and the cops find our who I am, this is targeted policing. It’s too late. I might have gotten caught had policing been proactive.
When They Say No, They Mean Yes
A couple of weeks ago, there was a meme on Twitter that made fun of Joe Biden’s policies limiting the beef intake of American citizens for climate change. Jen Psaki was asked about it and she said she didn’t know what the reporter was talking about. I did not
An article from Vox called A no-beef diet is great — but only if you don’t replace it with chicken. Let’s not swap one moral disaster for another by Kelsey Piper.
Have you ever met a vegetarian? You know what they always tell you? That they’re a vegetarian.
Now I know it is not all vegetarians. But a lot of them are self-congratulating, condescending prigs. When they found out that, not only is vegetarianism is healthy, they will also scream that it is saving the environment.
Here’s a news flash: Meat is a healthy part of a diet. It has all the major amino acids and complete proteins that one can’t get on a vegetarian or vegan diet. Men, who have more muscle and bone density, require those amino acids and proteins that meat provides. That’s why most vegan men are incredibly thin and frail looking. Now, does that mean men can’t be vegan? No. All it means is that if a man is a vegan, he has to eat a lot more to obtain what a piece of meat could give immediately.
Cutting meat consumption is as smart an idea as advertised. Industrial farming — the source of 99 percent of the meat Americans eat — provides the world with cheap meat, but it does so at a terrible environmental and moral cost.
Where it gets complicated is when people decide which meat, exactly, they’ll be cutting back on. Often, it’s beef that loses out in that calculus. And often, the messaging is that we can save the world by switching out our beef consumption for chicken.
The problem with this message is that switching beef for chicken basically amounts to trading one moral catastrophe for another.
Get that? No meat at all. Sound familiar? Can you say “Green New Deal”.
The environmental reasons for cutting beef from one’s diet are clear. Most of the climate impact of animal agriculture comes from raising cows for beef. Cows produce methane, a greenhouse gas that is a major contributor to global warming; it’s much more potent than carbon dioxide. Transitioning away from eating beef to eating other factory-farmed animal products undoubtedly reduces the carbon impact of a person’s diet.
But the transition away from beef can end up being a Pyrrhic victory if it drives up the world’s rapidly rising chicken consumption. That ends up swapping one disaster — the climate crisis and beef farming’s role in it — for another: the moral disaster of industrial chicken production.
Here’s the good news. This writer is probably a socialist. If socialism comes to this country, none of us will have any food to eat anyway. History kind of tells us that.
The choice to swap beef for chicken is further compounded by the differences in their quality of life. Cows are raised for slaughter on pastures and feedlots — enclosed spaces where they’re fed grain in preparation for slaughter. Most animal well-being experts say that the life of a cow raised for beef is punctuated by traumatic events and cut needlessly short, but it’s not ceaseless torture.
This is a typical PETA article.
On the other hand, factory-farmed chickens — and that’s 99 percent of all chickens we eat — have an awful life from the moment they’re born to the moment they’re slaughtered. The most efficient way to raise chickens is in massive, ammonia-choked, noisy warehouses, where the birds grow so rapidly (due to genetic selection for excessive size) that their legs can’t support their weight. They live about six weeks and then are killed.
So switching from cows to chickens is a way to somewhat reduce carbon emissions — but it comes with a massive increase in animal suffering.
Choosing between the two is a knotty dilemma that tends not to be discussed often. But this tension isn’t inevitable. After all, climate advocates and animal advocates are on the same side: supporting a transition away from industrial agriculture. And most people care about both animals and the environment, so addressing factory farming is a simple win-win.
The solution to factory farming’s many harms can’t be shuffling consumers between chicken and beef depending which of their devastating impacts is on the top of our minds. And consumers shouldn’t accept as inevitable the choice between torturing animals and dramatically worsening global warming. There is a path to a food system that doesn’t force us to choose, but we’re going to need to take much bigger steps, in terms of policy and consumer choice, to get there.
OK, there is a lot more to this article and you can click on the link to read it. It is just more environmental craziness. I want you to notice some things about it:
Environmentalism has become a religion, determining now what you are allowed to eat.
The article is very loose with the science. Human beings are made to eat meat and have since our appearance on the earth.
Now am I against veganism or some of their philosophies? No, I’m not.
There are health benefits.
Slaughter houses are cruel.
Eventually, they will create an artificial meat.
This is a part of the Green New Deal. This craziness was never a thing before that stupid proposal AOC came up with.
And the article never addressed this: If we all stop eating meat, what do you do with the cows in chicken? Look what’s going on in India.
This environmental crap is all just insane. These people think they have all the answers no matter how crazy they are and everything involves taking away our freedoms. We can’t drive. We can’t fly. We can’t eat meat. We can’t have coal or oil or energy.
