LeftWatch
2/5/23 - The Left Never Quits (Potpourri 1)
The Push for 16-Year-Olds to Vote
The idea of 16-year-old voting is being pushed by leftwing advocacy groups with multimillion dollar budgets (e.g., Generation Citizen, Vote16USA) and their liberal donors (e.g., ActBlue, Ford Foundation, etc.) . The idea has been adopted in a handful of uber-liberal jurisdictions. A resolution has been introduced in the U.S. House to amend the U.S. Constitution to lower the voting age to 16 in ALL elections - federal, state, and local. The game is afoot.
Prison Cities of the Future
“Extremely invasive technology [is] being set up in SMART Cities – from license-plate readers to SMART Lights and SMART Poles to SMART cars and SMART neighborhoods, SMART homes and SMART appliances – all connected to 5G and wirelessly communicating with each other. If you pay attention, you will see hundreds of these LED light poles lining streets and highways and in many cases they are retrofitted with surveillance cameras and speakers for listening. Jabbi also talks about drones charging stations being set up and how drones might be weaponized against citizens.... Many of these LED Smart lights are outfitted with what’s called PUKE Ray technology, which can be weaponized and used to incapacitate humans. This is a military technology being applied in our cities for potential use against civilians, courtesy of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security...." (more here)
Pennsylvania Prison Trying Out Scandinavian Ideas
The pendulum between punishment and rehabilitation is always swinging. See if you think this tips the balance too far in one direction: “incarcerated people can wear their own clothes, work in jobs that prepare them for employment and cook their own meals.... Prisons in Scandinavia are also small, with some housing roughly a dozen people... access to many of the same social and educational services and programs as people who are not incarcerated.... Proximity to nature is often considered... Cells in Norway are also for a single person – not multiple people... correctional officers have at least a two-year, university-level education and are directly involved in rehabilitation and planning for the incarcerated person’s re-entry into the world outside of prison.... With single cells, a communal kitchen, Nordic-like furnishings and a landscaped, outdoor green space, Little Scandinavia looks unlike any other U.S. prison.” (RouteFifty.com)
Southern Poverty Law Center PACs Targeting School Board and Other Local Races
“The SPLC Action Fund announced the launch of two political action committees..., targeting local government races in the South and countering conservative actions against critical race theory in school board races.... The SPLC Action Fund president then gave a glimpse into the goals of the local election arms. She lamented that uncontested races result in ‘school boards that are not only banning books, but also the teaching of Black history and culture, and the Holocaust; cities that arrest and kill Black citizens at a rate five times greater than whites; and elections deniers in charge of counting votes in elections.’” (Daily Signal)
Planned Parenthood Replacing Lost Abortion Revenue with Gender Transitioning
Planned Parenthood has joined the Transgender Industrial Complex: “Planned Parenthood is the second largest provider of hormone therapy” for “transgender and gender non-conforming patients....” Turning Planned Parenthood clinics into hormone dispensaries for vulnerable young people is shockingly negligent, and it brags that “Most people are able to get a hormone prescription at the end of their first visit with us.” Planned Parenthood does not seem to offer controversial puberty blockers, though it spreads the word about their use. It does, however, sell feminizing hormones estrogen and spironolactone, as well as the masculinizing hormone testosterone, to clients as young as 16. And it admits that its “treatment” can result in infertility, especially if body-changing surgeries take place. Planned Parenthood doesn’t seem to offer the surgeries, but it will assist in setting them up.” (The Federalist)
Union Popularity Highest in Six Decades
“About 71% of Americans say they approve of unions, up from 64% pre-pandemic and a low point of 48% in 2009, the polling found.” (Axios)
The Push for 16-Year-Olds to Vote
The idea of 16-year-old voting is being pushed by leftwing advocacy groups with multimillion dollar budgets (e.g., Generation Citizen, Vote16USA) and their liberal donors (e.g., ActBlue, Ford Foundation, etc.) . The idea has been adopted in a handful of uber-liberal jurisdictions. A resolution has been introduced in the U.S. House to amend the U.S. Constitution to lower the voting age to 16 in ALL elections - federal, state, and local. The game is afoot.
Prison Cities of the Future
“Extremely invasive technology [is] being set up in SMART Cities – from license-plate readers to SMART Lights and SMART Poles to SMART cars and SMART neighborhoods, SMART homes and SMART appliances – all connected to 5G and wirelessly communicating with each other. If you pay attention, you will see hundreds of these LED light poles lining streets and highways and in many cases they are retrofitted with surveillance cameras and speakers for listening. Jabbi also talks about drones charging stations being set up and how drones might be weaponized against citizens.... Many of these LED Smart lights are outfitted with what’s called PUKE Ray technology, which can be weaponized and used to incapacitate humans. This is a military technology being applied in our cities for potential use against civilians, courtesy of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security...." (more here)
Pennsylvania Prison Trying Out Scandinavian Ideas
The pendulum between punishment and rehabilitation is always swinging. See if you think this tips the balance too far in one direction: “incarcerated people can wear their own clothes, work in jobs that prepare them for employment and cook their own meals.... Prisons in Scandinavia are also small, with some housing roughly a dozen people... access to many of the same social and educational services and programs as people who are not incarcerated.... Proximity to nature is often considered... Cells in Norway are also for a single person – not multiple people... correctional officers have at least a two-year, university-level education and are directly involved in rehabilitation and planning for the incarcerated person’s re-entry into the world outside of prison.... With single cells, a communal kitchen, Nordic-like furnishings and a landscaped, outdoor green space, Little Scandinavia looks unlike any other U.S. prison.” (RouteFifty.com)
Southern Poverty Law Center PACs Targeting School Board and Other Local Races
“The SPLC Action Fund announced the launch of two political action committees..., targeting local government races in the South and countering conservative actions against critical race theory in school board races.... The SPLC Action Fund president then gave a glimpse into the goals of the local election arms. She lamented that uncontested races result in ‘school boards that are not only banning books, but also the teaching of Black history and culture, and the Holocaust; cities that arrest and kill Black citizens at a rate five times greater than whites; and elections deniers in charge of counting votes in elections.’” (Daily Signal)
- Well, what else are you going to do when you have half a billion dollars stashed offshore?
Planned Parenthood Replacing Lost Abortion Revenue with Gender Transitioning
Planned Parenthood has joined the Transgender Industrial Complex: “Planned Parenthood is the second largest provider of hormone therapy” for “transgender and gender non-conforming patients....” Turning Planned Parenthood clinics into hormone dispensaries for vulnerable young people is shockingly negligent, and it brags that “Most people are able to get a hormone prescription at the end of their first visit with us.” Planned Parenthood does not seem to offer controversial puberty blockers, though it spreads the word about their use. It does, however, sell feminizing hormones estrogen and spironolactone, as well as the masculinizing hormone testosterone, to clients as young as 16. And it admits that its “treatment” can result in infertility, especially if body-changing surgeries take place. Planned Parenthood doesn’t seem to offer the surgeries, but it will assist in setting them up.” (The Federalist)
Union Popularity Highest in Six Decades
“About 71% of Americans say they approve of unions, up from 64% pre-pandemic and a low point of 48% in 2009, the polling found.” (Axios)
- This is bad news, given that union leadership has swung hard Left. The days of anticommunist union leaders like George Meany are long gone.