Dumbass of the Day
Election Interference
According to the Daily Wire:
The Colorado Supreme Court removed former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 presidential ballot on Tuesday after ruling that he engaged in an insurrection with his actions on January 6, 2021.
The 4-3 ruling will be placed on hold pending appeal until January 4, the Court said in its ruling.
“A majority of the court holds that President Trump is disqualified from holding the office of President under Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution,” the ruling said. “Because he is disqualified, it would be a wrongful act under the Election Code for the Colorado Secretary of State to list him as a candidate on the presidential primary ballot.”
The Trump campaign responded to the ruling by saying that they would “swiftly file an appeal,” calling it “a completely flawed decision” that was “deeply undemocratic.”
“We have full confidence that the U.S. Supreme Court will quickly rule in our favor and finally put an end to these unAmerican lawsuits,” a spokesperson for the campaign said.
The Court said that they had “little difficulty concluding that substantial evidence” existed that showed “a concerted and public use of force or threat of force by a group of people to hinder or prevent the U.S. government from taking the actions necessary to accomplish the peaceful transfer of power in this country.”
The Court said that because of this, “the events of January 6 constituted an insurrection.”
“We do not reach these conclusions lightly,” the Court said in its ruling. “We are mindful of the magnitude and weight of the questions now before us. We are likewise mindful of our solemn duty to apply the law, without fear or favor, and without being swayed by public reaction to the decisions that the law mandates we reach.”
Trump reacted, of course:
Some things:
- This was a 4-3 ruling, all judges are Democrats. It looks partisan.
- The 14th Amendment is based off the Confederacy after the Civil War.
- There is no definition of insurrection. The 14th Amendment opened it up to Congress to create laws. They didn’t. This is basically based on a law that hasn’t been defined.
- Trump hasn’t been convicted of anything. The reason? He didn’t initiate January 6th. It’s on tape. He would win any trial put out there.
You Go Girls!
According to the New York Post:
50-year-old transgender swimmer was allowed to compete against teenage girls at an event in Canada — with horrified parents building a makeshift tent out of towels to shield girls as young as 8 in the locker room.
Melody Wiseheart, who once competed under the name Nicholas Cepeda, sparked outrage while competing during the Trojan Cup in Barrie, Ontario.
“The girls were terrified,” an unidentified parent of one of the teenagers told the Toronto Sun of having to share a locker room with the much older trans swimmer.
“It’s all so confusing for the kids,” another parent said. “No one is comfortable.
“Everyone is accepting of all people, but them swimming against our kids and being in a locker room with them is not appropriate.”
Wiseheart, a professor at York University, participated in several events at the event over the first three days of December, including the women’s 1500-meter freestyle for athletes 16 and older, in which she placed second.
According to Zerohedge:
If the university signs athlete Tate Drageset’s offer next fall, he will take one of 12 National Collegiate Athletic Association DI volleyball scholarships available for women at the school, Reduxx reported Wednesday.
An anonymous source whom Reduxx identified as “the parent of a minor player within the Southern California Volleyball Association (SCVA) community” expressed concerns to the outlet about “the steady escalation of Drageset’s participation in women’s volleyball,” according to the news outlet.
“As he got older, it became more obvious that something was off,” the source told Reduxx. “Anytime the subject of [Drageset] would come up EVERY PARENT from any SCVA team already knew about him. Parents look around before they speak in hushed tones. Some will wait to discuss until outside the gym.”
“Everyone is scared of how their child will be treated if they speak up,” according to the parent. “The stealing of positions and opportunities has been infuriating and so sad when you see how it affects the girls. There is no concern for their mental health or safety after being replaced.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trans-athlete-become-first-male-recipient-womens-division-1-scholarship
https://nypost.com/2023/12/15/news/50-year-old-transgender-woman-shared-pool-locker-room-with-young-girls-at-race/?utm_campaign=nypost&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
Oh, Jeez…
According to the New York Post:
Add going out for dinner to the lengthening list of things Gen Z simply can’t — or won’t — do like the rest of us.
A surprising majority of young people reported suffering from “menu anxiety” while eating in a public setting, a study conducted by British restaurant chain Prezzo found.
Researchers asked more than 2,000 people how relaxed they felt while eating out, hoping to gauge how enjoyable the experience is for everyone.
About 86% of Gen Z adults (aged 18 to 24 in this study) admitted they have suffered from “menu anxiety” when dining in restaurants — compared to 67% of all respondents.
Some of these young adults (34%) reported feeling so anxious, they wind up asking other people at the table to speak to waiters on their behalf.
“[While] most people look forward to dining out during the [holiday] season, we know — as our research shows — it can be stressful for some,” Dean Challenger, CEO of Prezzo, told The Post in a statement.
The frequent occurrence of this very specific fear appeared to be triggered by the increasingly exorbitant cost of a meal out, along with the respondent worrying about not being able to find something they like on the menu, or, after the fact, regretting what they ordered.
The End Goal
According to the New York Post:
Humans may be fueling global warming by breathing, a new study suggests.
“Exhaled human breath can contain small, elevated concentrations of methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O), both of which contribute to global warming,” according to research released last week in the UK journal PLOS.
The methane and nitrous oxide exhaled by humans make up about 0.1 of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions, the writeup said.
The gases are in addition to the carbon dioxide that humans exhale.
The study, led by Dr. Nicholas Cowan from the UK Center for Ecology and Hydrology, involved 104 adult volunteers and found that nitrous oxide was breathed out by every one of them, while 31 percent exhaled methane.
Those who did not exhale methane in their breath still probably released the gas “ion flatus,” the study said, referring to burping and flatulence.
“We report only emissions in breath in this study, and flatus emissions are likely to increase these values significantly, though no literature characterizes these emissions for people in the UK,” the research team wrote.
“Assuming that livestock and other wild animals also exhale emissions of N2O, there may still be a small but significant unaccounted-for source of N2O emissions in the UK, which could account for more than 1% of national-scale emissions,” they added.
Gas concentrations in the study samples allowed researchers to estimate that human breath accounts for 0.05 percent of the UK’s methane emission and 0.1 percent of nitrous oxide.
The study did not reveal a link between exhaled gases and diet.
“Concentration enhancement of both CH4 and N2O in the breath of vegetarians and meat consumers are similar in magnitude,” the researchers said. “Based on these results, we can state that, when estimating emissions from a population within the UK, diet or future diet changes are unlikely to be important when estimating emissions [exhale] across the UK as a whole.”
He May Have a Point
According to Fox News:
A Florida man who went viral in 2017 over a mugshot showcasing his “Joker”-styled face tattoos accused a gaming company of ripping off his likeness in the latest Grand Theft Auto video game.
“GTA we got to talk,” Lawrence Sullivan said in a TikTok video posted last week. “If not, you got to give me like a mil or two.”
Sullivan was reacting to the latest trailer for Grand Theft Auto IV, which was released last Monday and garnered more than 93 million views in 24 hours on YouTube, shattering previous records for a non-music video.
After the trailer’s wildly popular release, commenters sounded off that some of the characters in the game resembled a handful of viral real-life Florida moments, including an alligator walking into a convenience store, a woman threatening people with two hammers, and a police officer chasing a naked man down a street, according to video game website Kotaku.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/face-tatted-florida-man-says-video-game-character-him-wants-huge-payout
This Is Going to Backfire
According to the Western Journal:
A controversial new movie trailer appears to have had the opposite of its intended effect with its intended audience.
Focus Features released a trailer for its upcoming drama-comedy “The American Society of Magical Negroes” on Friday, and it did not go over well at all, if social media reactions are anything to gauge.
Blacks really seem to have a really hard time understanding something. It’s cruel but true. Nobody cares about you. White people do not care about you. That’s OK, white people don’t care about other white people.
We worry about ourselves, our families and those in our immediate circles. We don’t care about you or the fact that great-great-great-great grandfather was a slave. If you were a slave in this country, we might care. But you’re not so we don’t.
I’ll go a step further, we hear this crap and we don’t like you. We don’t want to be around people like you.