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5/18/22 - Replace the Great Replacement Theory, If You Can (Redux)
Big media outlets are doing backflips after the Buffalo shooting trying to convince you the Great Replacement theory is just a right-wing conspiracy. NPR is going all out, doing 18 one-sided propaganda pieces on it since the shooting. There’s just one problem - several, actually. A number of Left-wing activists and politicians have openly talked about replacing the existing American population with third-worlders to create a permanent political majority for the Democrats. The Great Replacement is the admitted goal of an actual left-wing conspiracy, not a fantasy of the Right.
Senator Dick Durbin trumpeted the changing demographics of the country in a floor speech and how all the new voters were moving away from the Republican Party. Democrat operatives talked openly at a 2019 conference about working to make demographics ‘destiny’ to amass power for their party. The Leftist Center for American Progress said in 2013 that “[s]upporting real immigration reform that contains a pathway to citizenship for our nation’s 11 million undocumented immigrants is the only way to maintain electoral strength in the future.” Left-wing Salon wrote in 2008 the growing Hispanic population turned New Mexico blue and would establish a permanent lock on the White House for Democrats. Similar comments have been made by other Democrat politicians and in the pages of the left-wing Los Angeles Times and New York Times. Democrats never miss an opportunity to celebrate demographic change.
So don’t tell me the Right is just imagining things. The gaslighting by NPR and others is not appreciated. Not when newly obtained government documents show Joe Biden knows his border policies are enriching the human smuggling cartels and endangering the United States. And not when no other satisfactory explanation has been offered for the numerous policy changes the Biden administration has instituted to open the border, numerous policy changes I’ve compiled and documented in previous commentaries [Daily Skirmish - 4/28/22]. The only other explanation that’s been attempted - prioritizing ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’ - smacks of racism and aligns closely with Great Replacement. So if you’ve got an alternate explanation for why the Biden administration keeps taking steps to open the border despite all the problems they know it’s causing, let’ hear it. I’m all ears. I first asked for an alternate explanation half a year ago [Daily Skirmish - 10/14/21), but nobody has given me one.
Speaking of problems, there are fresh reports of untrammeled illegal immigration overwhelming border towns, threatening the safety of border farmers, bringing more drugs into the country, fueling the overdose crisis, and allowing terrorists to walk free inside the country. You’d think all this would be enough to get a sane administration to reverse course but, in the twisted mind of the Biden administration, all is going according to plan. They hate the country as currently constituted and are trying to destroy it. This is why illegal aliens get baby formula and panicked ordinary Americans can’t find any.
The numbers are staggering - one and a half million illegal aliens have flooded the country since January, including 100,000 who were released into the country in April. No wonder Arizona is busing illegal aliens to D.C., just like Texas. Texas Governor Greg Abbott said his state might challenge the Supreme Court decision giving free public education to all illegal alien children. Growing public discontent finally got Sweden’s political elite to reverse course and admit open immigration drains resources and causes crime. It’s too much to hope that a frank recognition of the problems will get the Biden administration to reverse course, not when Great Replacement is the plan. I put more hope in the idea new arrivals can eventually be convinced the Democrats are the wrong choice. Sound impossible? A number of stories have appeared recently about the Democrats losing support among Hispanics over inflation, crime, religion, and other issues. Democrats seeking a permanent political majority by opening the borders are chasing a mirage. There are no permanent victories in politics.
5/17/22 - The Diversity Narrative Is Against the Law
Three cheers for equal protection of the law. Agitators pushing the Left’s phony diversity narrative just got doused with reality. They’re finding out that a lot of what they want to do violates the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot had wanted to grant one-on-one interviews to “black and brown” journalists only, because the evil white people are oppressors. After she got sued for violating equal protection of the law, she doubled down, saying she “absolutely” would continue discriminating. Well, the case just got settled, with the Mayor backing down completely, agreeing to drop her racist policy against white journalists.
California had wanted to mandate women be given a certain number of corporate board seats, because assuring equal outcomes for women is the important thing, even if we have to beat people into submission to achieve it. A California judge just struck down the gender quota because it violates equal protection. The judge ruled the state failed to prove women had been the victims of actual discrimination, thus taking direct aim at one of the principal tenets of the diversity faith: that everyone should be tarred and feathered to assure equal outcomes even if they didn’t do anything wrong. The diversity nuts believe the whole system is rotten - systemic racism, systemic sexism, blah, blah, blah - and this judge is saying, ‘sorry, not good enough, you actually have to prove your case.’
Separate dorms and separate graduation ceremonies for every stripe of the rainbow are all the rage on campus these days but, guess what, they’re illegal. A U.S. civil rights official warned two colleges that segregated graduation ceremonies for Black, LGBTQ, and other minority students violate federal anti-discrimination laws. Imagine if white students insisted on their own graduation ceremony. People would be up in arms, and rightly so. I have a dream that, one day, every graduate will be able to attend a single, nondivisive, nondiscriminatory graduation ceremony.
Staying on campus for a moment, Texas had a law requiring out-of-state students to pay higher tuition than illegal aliens residing in Texas. A federal judge used equal protection principles to knock down the state law. A federal law specifically bars states from giving illegal aliens any postsecondary education benefits that are not offered to U.S. citizens on equal terms, including citizens from other states. The judge ruled the federal law preempted the Texas law, dealing another blow to the phony diversity narrative which mindlessly holds we must hand our country over to illegal aliens because we’re so guilty of whatever.
That guilt trip is what’s motivating leaders in the medical field to toy with the idea of dispensing medical services on the basis of race, as I mentioned yesterday. It all goes back to what used to be called ‘compensatory equal protection’ which, as applied in this context, means white people got the best care in the past so other people should be compensated with the best care now, no matter who is sick today. That kind of thinking is on full display in Utah, where public health officials were warned dispensing COVID drugs based on race was illegal, but did it anyway with the Biden administration cheering them on. The state health officials didn’t even bother getting a legal review, but just plowed ahead. Well, you can have compensation, or you can have equal protection, but you can’t have both at the same time; ‘compensatory equal protection’ is an oxymoron.
The phony diversity narrative has a blind spot when it comes to race and sex that blanks out all other considerations, including equal protection of the law. The exclusion of all other values is what makes the diversity narrative fundamentally crazy. It will not endure. Other values will reassert themselves, as equal protection of the law is now. Eventually, rationality will carry the day, a balance between competing considerations will be restored, and the race hustlers pushing the poisonous Woke garbage to line their own pockets will have to find another gig.
You want to compensate disadvantaged groups for past injustices? Find another way. Just don’t misuse the government or the law to do it.
5/16/22 - Give It a Rest, Bernie
Bernie Sanders reintroduced Medicare for All legislation in the Senate, recently. He should give it a rest. His single payer proposal hasn’t gotten any better with time. Witnesses and Republican senators tore it to shreds in a hearing last week.
Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin pointed to the government’s “miserable failures” on testing, restrictions on treatment, and its other sorry responses to the COVID pandemic. “Why in the world would anybody put government more in charge of health care?,” he asked. He said there will be more bureaucracy, not less, if the government takes over all healthcare, producing less innovation and higher costs.
Sen. Rick Scott of Florida said Bernie’s plan would abolish Medicare and private insurance. Worse, it would “have the federal government deciding which procedures you get and when you get them. Think about that...Do you want the government to make these choices for you?”
A healthcare policy expert testified Bernie’s plan to pay doctors and hospitals 30 to 40 percent less would force many physician practices and hospitals to close or significantly cut back on services (p.11). If you think we have a doctor shortage now, just wait. She further testified Bernie’s plan would also cut access to new medications and pull the rug out from under new drug development, including new cancer treatments (p.13). She noted single payer supporters keep saying nationalized healthcare would cut administrative costs, but claims would still need to be processed which means the administrative cost differential would largely be a wash (p. 13).
A budget expert testified the additional cost of Bernie’s 2017 plan, over and above current federal healthcare spending, would be around $38 trillion in the first 10 years (p.2). If you add in current spending, the total cost is more like $60 trillion (p.3). You could double all personal and corporate income taxes, and it still wouldn’t be enough to pay for single payer (p.2). As I’ve commented before, there’s never enough money to pay for single payer. The National Health Service in Britain is always running out of money and asking for more.
The arguments for and against single payer haven’t changed much in years. Arguments against single payer coming back around recently include it would raise taxes thereby reducing GDP and the incentives to work and invest; produce massive fraud; and lead inescapably to rationing and long wait times as other countries have found out. Most insidious of all, though, is how single payer will completely politicize all of medicine. The kind of care you get will depend on who you know in high places. Care will be doled out to privileged classes, perhaps even by race and ethnicity. The federal government is already moving in that direction, now requiring private insurers selling Medicare Advantage plans or Obamacare plans through government exchanges to report race and ethnicity data beginning in 2023 (p. 1).
Bernie and his supporters know all about these problems, but never talk about them. All you get from them is happy talk. That should make you deeply suspicious of their motives. Do they really want better healthcare for all, or are they just looking for a way to control the people, as a congressman let slip during the Obamacare fight?
When Bernie and other single payer supporters stop the happy talk and start addressing the very real problems their proposals will cause, then I might start to listen. Until then, my message to them is ‘in the future, you will control no one and be happy.’
5/13/22 - Biden Channeling Bismarck in Buying Votes
19th-century German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck was very explicit about why he created the modern welfare state - to buy votes. Joe Biden is channeling Bismarck and attempting to do the same, as we can see from an executive order Biden issued in March 2021.
The order directs government benefits agencies to submit plans to promote voter registration and turnout to help Democrats. If the Biden administration didn’t believe this would overwhelmingly benefit Democrats, they wouldn’t be doing it, would they? This is the new Zuckerbucks - a thinly disguised Get Out the Vote effort for Democrats - except it will be done with government agencies and money instead of private funds. Call them ‘Bidenbucks’.
The order lines up with the recommendations of the far-Left activist group Demos. Two people from Demos are now in the White House.
The Biden administration won’t reveal the details of the agencies’ voter registration plans. What’s that about? What are they hiding? What don’t they want people to know about what they’re up to? Activist groups are using the Freedom of Information Act to attempt to find out.
This is what we know so far:
The order instructs agencies to use all means at their disposal to “engage with the public ... about how to register to vote, how to request a vote-by-mail ballot, and how to cast a ballot in upcoming elections....” HUD will conduct voter registration drives at public housing projects. HHS will launch a new voting access hub. The Agriculture Department will be looking for new voters in the food stamp program. Jailers will fish for new votes in federal prisons. The order pushes vote by mail which the bipartisan Carter-Baker Commission noted 17 years ago is notoriously insecure. The order allows agencies to enlist the aid of outside third-party organizations, which you can take to mean Democrat activist groups working to boost Democrat turnout in key areas, just like what happened with Zuckerbucks in the 2020 election. Zuckerbucks, overwhelmingly, went to Democrat strongholds. In addition, the order pushes agencies to get their own employees out to vote - reliably Democrat - and to volunteer to work on elections - again, to help Democrats.
Since when is voter registration and turnout the business of the federal government? You can’t find boosting voter registration and turnout in agency mission statements.
On top of all this, Joe Biden’s budget proposal is asking for 15 billion more Bidenbucks to assist local election officials and goose the U.S. Postal Service to better accommodate voting-by-mail. This is Zuckerbucks all over again, except with government grants and 30 times as much money.
Some Republicans are trying to figure out how to fight all this. Nine House Republicans sent a letter to the White House demanding answers about the executive order’s constitutionality and statutory authority. Defunding the executive order if Republicans take back Congress and various legal theories are also under consideration.
So imagine if every person who receives food stamps, housing, Medicaid, and other government benefits registers to vote. Everyone has a right to vote, that’s not the issue. The federal government should not be putting its thumb on the scale in favor of one political party at the expense of all others. More importantly, as has been observed since ancient times, democracy ends when people discover they can vote themselves the Treasury - more votes leading to more government benefits to buy more votes in an endless cycle until the current system is destroyed. Joe Biden, and Bismarck before him, may not have realized this before issuing the executive order and ginning up the welfare state, but it’s that old saying, ‘It’s OK to be piggy, but hogs go to slaughter.’
5/12/22 - More Questions Arise About Electronic Voting Machines
There are two documentaries out now about the 2020 election you really should watch. The one getting all the attention is 2000 Mules which grossed over $1 million in its first 12 hours on Rumble. It presents cellphone geotracking evidence establishing an organized effort to stuff ballot dropboxes in the middle of the night in key swing states in the 2020 election. Such ballot harvesting is illegal in Georgia and several other states. See the movie, read the so-called fact-checkers and their critics, and decide for yourself whether the evidence presented persuades you this activity was enough by itself to change the outcome of the 2020 election. The other documentary is Rigged which discusses how Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg spent $400 million in a thinly disguised Get Out the Vote effort for Democrats in several key cities in the 2020 election, another Democrat dirty trick.
But, today, I want to talk to you about electronic voting machines because more investigations have been completed and the story just keeps getting stranger and stranger.
You might recall the results of the first court-ordered forensic examination of voting machines which took place in Antrim County, Michigan. The examination found the machines deliberately generated a 68 percent error rate right off the bat elections officials could then fill in any way they wanted. A later forensic report found an algorithm that was used to shift votes in the 2020 election and 66,000 ballots not associated with registered voters recorded in nine counties. In addition, a machine was discovered to have a modem installed on its motherboard allowing the machine to connect to the Internet without wires. The same equipment is used in eight Michigan counties.
The scene shifted to Colorado in March when an examination of machine ballot images in Mesa County showed new databases were created partway through the 2020 election, enabling a machine to essentially keep two sets of books. Moreover, the report found extensive destruction of machine logfiles which are critical to detecting intrusions, improper operations, and configuration changes that could alter the actual vote count. The independent examiners concluded “the machine secretly manipulated ballot data and destroyed critical records.” “[T]housands of ballots that had already been counted were secretly re-processed inside the voting machine, undetected by election officials.” The officials could no longer see the original results, only the changed results. The machine wirelessly connected to the Internet, which means it could be hacked from anywhere in the world. The manufacturer and the very partisan Democrat Colorado Secretary of State destroyed all the data on the hard drive despite federal law requiring it be preserved for 22 months. [More here.]
The questions don’t stop in Colorado and Michigan. In April, Joe Biden’s nominee for the Federal Election Commission admitted to Congress she put her name on a legal pleading alleging that the machines used in Georgia in 2018 were switching votes illegally from one candidate to another. The pleading was filed in support of Stacey Abrams’ claim the gubernatorial election was stolen from her. After Trump claimed machine irregularities cost him the 2020 election, the allegations about machine vote-switching in 2018 were removed from the pleading.
Finally, a U.S. Election Commission investigation into a municipal election in Tennessee in 2021 found the number of ballots tabulated by the machines did not match the number of ballots scanned due to the way the machines were programmed. This was attributed to an error in the software code, but this begs the question of how the machines could be officially certified for use in elections with erroneous code and such obviously erroneous results.
We’ve been assured 2020 was the most secure election ever. We’ve been told there’s nothing to see here and to just move along. You can trust us and you can trust the machines. Sorry, not good enough. It’s not disputed this machine technology was used to steal elections in Venezuela. A machine software company CEO admitted it. All of the questions about electronic voting machines in the U.S. need to be answered, not shouted down.
I’ve said previously, if Democrats want to steal elections in the future, they’ll need a new bag of tricks. It looks like they’re on their way to getting one and, tomorrow, I will tell you more about it.
5/11/22 - All Congress Critters Great and Small
Yesterday, a Republican congressman from upstate New York resigned a year after apologizing for making unwanted sexual advances toward a female lobbyist in a bar four years earlier.
He is not the only Congress critter guilty of ethical lapses, lately.
Democrat House Majority Whip James Clyburn has been giving campaign cash to members of his family. Two daughters, their husbands, and a grandson have received more than $200,000 among them. The expenses are called ‘campaign management fees’, ‘voter outreach’, or ‘office rent’. Nice work if you can get it, but if you’re not related, you can’t.
A watchdog group sent a complaint to the House Ethics Committee alleging a member of Congress from Oregon improperly used official resources in his reelection campaign. Two of his campaign ads use official press releases issued by his office. The group said the rules against using taxpayer-funded resources in campaigns are intended to ensure government funds are not diverted for personal use and official actions are taken for the good of the country, not political purposes.
A Democrat congressman from New York drew an ethics complaint from the same watchdog group after failing to report almost $900,000 in stock trades in a timely fashion as required by law. The trades involved several companies regulated or affected by congressional action. It’s not the first time he’s skirted the rules. There was a previous complaint about him failing to disclose 300 trades worth about $11 million.
A Hawaii Democrat hasn’t voted in person in Congress since January. He’s too busy at his other job as a pilot for Hawaiian Airlines, so he votes by proxy. He missed the State of the Union address, important meetings with Honolulu city officials, and committee hearings. He says he is earning less than the amount allowed for outside employment under House rules, which is about $30,000 a year. However, his airline says its pilots are required to fly a minimum 1,500 hours annually, suggesting his outside income is at least four times the amount allowed. Reportedly, he has not documented that his outside employment has been approved by the House Ethics Committee. But here’s the best part: his airline lobbies the House Transportation Committee. He sits on that committee. A little conflict of interest, maybe?
A former Congressional staffer pled guilty last month to stealing $80,000 in public funds. He misused his position as payroll manager for his office to submit false bonus pay forms for himself, thus inflating his own salary.
The common thread in all these stories is the misuse of a position of trust for self-dealing. Too many Congress critters are only in it for themselves, not the public interest. But we get the government we deserve. Often, people know their Congress critters are up to no good, but reelect them anyway. If this is the case with your member of Congress, work with others to throw the bums out. They work for us.
5/10/22 - All Swamp Creatures Great and Small
Alligators, snakes, and raccoons live in swamps. They bite, but not as bad as the alligators, snakes, and racketeers who inhabit the D.C. swamp.
They say the fish rots from the head down, so let’s take a look at some swamp creatures who have strong ties to Joe Biden. We start with Jen Psaki, White House press secretary who is moving on to MSNBC this week. This humble public servant is already worth millions, and reportedly will earn millions more at MSNBC. Jen, don’t let the revolving door hit you on the backside on your way out.
Longtime Biden ally Chris Dodd has been appointed to represent the U.S. at a Latin America summit, despite having a conflict of interest. His lobbying and law firm has a Latin America practice which stands to benefit from Dodd’s appointment.
The brother of a senior White House official is lobbying for the drug industry.
Other Biden administration officials lower on the food chain are still feeding well in the swamp. An inexperienced nonprofit was awarded a $530 million government contract to find hotel rooms for illegal aliens just months after it hired a Biden administration official.
Prior administrations had their own swamp creatures. It was an open secret for years that a woman at the VA was mixed up with her husband’s employer, a veteran’s benefits group, while running the GI Bill program.
An Obama ambassadorial appointee has been criminally charged with soliciting foreign work while in office. He is accused of having a role in an illegal lobbying campaign for Qatar.
A long-time FDA employee just went through the revolving door to work on regulatory compliance for a global drug company.
What would a swamp be without swamp water? Lots of people are swimming in federal cash who shouldn’t be. The Biden administration is steering federal funds to Democrat donors, including a $500 million federal loan to a solar company co-owned by a big Biden donor, and $3 million in federal contracts to a medical technology company owned by another big donor. Meanwhile, a lot of federal COVID money has disappeared. There was widespread fraud in the Paycheck Protection Program where funds went to buy Ferraris, yachts, jets, and jewels. The fraud added up to more than $80 billion, ten percent of the entire program.
Tomorrow, I’ll tell you about the creatures who inhabit the other end of the swamp, the Congress critters whose feeding ground is Capitol Hill. I’ll stop today with the observation that corruption and fraud is what we get for not being adequately engaged in our own governance. Plato said, “One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” The thing about our inferiors is, they make more money than we do, for no good reason, and that’s infuriating.
5/9/22 - Climate True Believers Should Doubt Their Faith
Beyond the Left’s climate change chants lie big problems, big enough to destroy the faith of any climate change true believer who accidentally pays attention to reality.
We can start with exploding electric buses. Two caught fire in France, one exploded. Not a pretty picture - public buses engulfed in flames. You can add to that electric scooter fires in India, where a dealer said, “Lithium has a natural affinity for fires.’’ Do tell. Makes me want to close my climate change hymnal. In my area, a big school board is requiring electric school buses for transporting kids. Hmm....
While I’m on the subject of electric vehicles, where are you going to put all those old dead batteries? It’s a huge issue nobody’s talking about. And what are you going to say to the six-year-olds who mine the cobalt that goes into the batteries? Nobody wants to talk about the child labor problem, either.
Ask a climate true believer where the power comes from to run electric vehicles and you are likely to get a blank stare. The fact is it comes from the electrical grid, but utilities are warning the addition of solar and wind energy to the grid has not kept pace with the retirement of fossil fuel plants. They warn of price hikes and electricity shortages, even rolling brownouts ahead. With the prospect of energy supplies becoming unreliable, businesses are rethinking whether they want to be in Illinois where these problems, arising from state green energy mandates, are already in sight. State lawmakers are looking for ways to ease the mandates, which is surely a mortal sin in the High Church of Climatology.
Another feature of Climatology is animal sacrifice. “(W)ind turbines have been annihilating eagles for decades,” and there’s no way around it if you want those blades to keep spinning. One wind company acknowledged 150 eagles have died at its wind farms in the last 10 years, and just paid the government $35 million in fines and restitution. A new government study documents that wind and solar facilities have reduced the bird population of California.
Before he left office, climate true believer Bill de Blasio signed a bill banning natural gas in new construction in New York City. I’m sure he felt the climate gods were smiling down on him when he did so. The idea was to reduce emissions by requiring electric heat and electric stoves, but there’s just one problem: Most of New York City's electricity comes from natural gas. It takes twice as many fossil fuels to run an electric stove as a gas stove. Oops. Hope those climate commandments weren’t on stone tablets.
Another problem is the apostates in China who are saying one thing, but doing another. China will tell you it aims for carbon neutrality, but it’s increasing coal production by 300 million tons this year, sending coal usage up more than 12 percent from two years ago.
That ought to shock the faithful. I wonder when they’ll wake up to the true mission of their church and what their Jim Jones’s really have in store for them. The point of Climatology is not to save the planet. It’s to reduce your energy use to lower your standard of living. The high priests want you poor, immobile, and malnourished so you will be easier to control. All the while they are telling you to atone for raping Mother Earth, they are focused on amassing wealth and power for themselves. Being a true believer is one thing. Being a sucker is another. If it were me, I’d stop going to church and putting money in the collection plate until John Kerry and Leonardo DiCaprio get rid of their private jets.
5/6/22 - The Unhinged Violent Left Goes Crazy over Abortion
I’ve commented many times about the unhinged, violent Left. They’re out in full force now, completely unglued by the draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade.
We start with the actual violence they have already perpetrated. Pro-abortion activists smashed police cars and injured police officers with rocks and bottles in Los Angeles, shattered all the windows at City Hall in Portland, and spit on and shoved counter-protesters in front of the Supreme Court. They also spit on counter-protesters in Arizona, while calling them names that can’t be repeated here.
Next come the public figures who are inciting others to violence. California Governor Gavin Newsom said we will soon feel the fury of abortion supporters and told them to “fight like hell”, which was not OK and amounted to insurrection, according to Democrats, when Trump said it on January 6th. Transgender activist Chelsea Manning urged people to arm themselves and train in teams to learn how to use their weapons. Other unhinged Leftists said, “BURN IT ALL DOWN” and “political violence works ... burn down the Supreme Court”, among similar statements. A leftist on Twitter said someone should murder Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
Then there’s the intimidation. Leftists groups are telling protesters to go to the homes of Supreme Court Justices to make their feelings known. One group published the addresses. The White House refused to condemn it. What could possibly go wrong? You might not recall, but a deranged angry leftist shot and injured a security guard at the Family Research Council in 2013, having gone there with the intent to massacre as many people as possible. Another deranged Leftist shot Steve Scalise and other Republican congressmen on a baseball field four years later. Maybe the Justices will get lucky and the protesters will only pound on their front doors like they pounded on the doors of the Supreme Court during the Kavanaugh hearings.
Meanwhile, other abortion fanatics are saying the wackiest things. Whoopi Goldberg said abortion decisions should be between “my doctor, myself, and my child.” Huh? Well, Whoopi, what do you think unborn babies would say if given a choice in the matter? They just might say, “My body, my choice.” Too bad we don’t get to hear from them. A minor Hollywood actor tweeted, “I don’t think anybody actually believes fetuses are people.” Oh, maybe just half the country. Then there were the unhinged Leftists who said the Supreme Court will outlaw interracial marriage next. That will come as a surprise to Justice Clarence Thomas who is in an interracial marriage.
You can be sure there’s more to come - more wacky statements, more intimidation, and more violence from the unhinged Left. But all of this pales in comparison to what they’re doing to the unborn. It all fits, doesn’t it? Anything goes with the unhinged violent Left, including murder, just to get their way.
5/5/22 - War on Parents: “We’re Coming for Your Children”
Today, I wrap up my series of commentaries on the War on Parents with a closer look at the far-Left radical groups we’ve encountered along the way, and their ultimate aims.
I mentioned the “Transition Closet”, a group in Arkansas pushing the availability of opposite-sex clothing for kids being pushed into transgenderism in schools across the country. Not content with operating at the college level, the group is now going after young children in public schools. The founder of the group supports keeping the activity secret from parents.
Another far-Left group, AMAZE.org, pushes sex education for young adolescents, producing videos some call pornographic. Its website bears all the hallmarks of a well-funded, well-oiled machine of the Left, starting with a couple dozen staffers. That doesn’t happen by accident. That takes money. The group’s managing partner is Advocates for Youth, another well-oiled machine that pushes wider access to abortion, free menstrual products, free condoms, and gender neutral restrooms. The group has assets of $10 million [p.1] and won’t disclose its donors on its tax forms. [p.24] They also get government grants [p. 9], which means you are paying for some of their activities.
We also encountered after-school Satan Clubs along the way. They are run by the Satanic Temple which is now bringing lawsuits to try to get its way in the schools. They also litigate to promote abortion as part of their religion, to give Satanic invocations at public meetings, and to remove Christianity from the public square. Overall, they are trying to foment “social change”, a dead giveaway placing them squarely on the Left.
One group I haven’t mentioned yet is the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). They oppose the new Florida law preventing the early sexualization of children and call for more LGBT content in children’s programming. They are agitating in Hollywood to bring it about. Like the Satanic Temple, this group is up front about working for “cultural change”.
Another gay group, the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, said last year, “We’ll convert your children….We’re coming for your children.” I take them at face value, but here’s what you need to understand: This isn’t about transgender rights or the gay agenda. Those are merely weapons to get to where the leaders of these groups want to go: socialism. I’ve documented that ultimate aim in previous commentaries, including the communist theorist who came up with the idea of destroying society with sex and the transgender activists caught on video late last year saying their goal is communism and they are merely using transgenderism to get there. These leaders are hardcore committed Leftists, first and foremost. Their sexual agendas are for the useful idiots. The real goal is to weaken and destabilize society so Leftist leaders can seize power. The issue is never the issue; the issue is always wealth and power for a tiny elite.
This set of Leftist leaders has been called the ‘Gay Gestapo’ and their methods go beyond sexual indoctrination in schools. They also want to destroy religion by denying tax exemptions to churches that oppose gay marriage. These people are deadly serious and playing for all the marbles. If you want to see society destroyed and a tiny communist elite take over, throw in with them. For the rest of us, take what they say about taking over at face value and respond accordingly.
5/4/22 - War on Parents: Fighting Back Update
Others more clever than me have observed ‘never get between a Mama Bear and her cubs.’ Parents around the country are fighting back against the hard-Left takeover of public schools, using the courts, state legislatures, and several other means.
Parents are challenging books in school libraries and classrooms in record numbers. They’re objecting to sexually explicit content, profanity, anti-police messaging, and other left-wing indoctrination found in schoolbooks. The most-challenged books are “Gender Queer” and “Lawn Boy”, the latter a gay story normalizing sex acts between 4th-graders which has been criticized for encouraging pedophilia.
Members of the Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC) have inundated Disney executives with almost 150,000 phone calls and emails objecting to the company’s self-described ‘not-so-secret’ gay agenda. There’s a website where you can join this national campaign.
Parents in North Carolina protested an elementary school’s Satan Club which is an organized effort now pushing hard in several states. An elementary school in Pennsylvania refused to allow such a club.
The America First Legal Group has a website showing parents how they can assert the federal Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (20 U.S.C. § 1232h) which allows parents to review curriculum and opt their children out of school surveys that pry into students’ sex lives, drug use, and attitudes.
In the courts, parents sued the Baltimore City Public Schools - where kids graduate from high school without being able to read - for failing children and wasting taxpayer money.
In Florida, a conservative legal foundation filed a lawsuit on behalf of two parents against a school district for hiding the transgender counseling the school was giving their 12-year-old daughter who attempted suicide twice. Similar suits against schools for secret gender transitioning have also been filed in Massachusetts, Wisconsin, and Maryland. One attorney for parents pointed out schools have parents sign forms for field trips and require parental consent before a school can give a child ibuprofen but somehow, magically, schools claim harmful gender transitioning is exempt from disclosure.
As for legislation, the Iowa House passed a bill to require schools to post their curriculum and materials online for parental review. A curriculum transparency bill is also pending in Arizona. Another bill in Arizona would prohibit schools from exposing kids to sexually explicit content without parental consent.
Which brings us to the new law in Florida that prohibits the early sexualization of young children third-grade and below in public schools, the law that made Disney throw a hissy fit. It’s already having results. At least two teachers are planning to leave the profession because they feel they are no longer free to talk to their students about their gay proclivities or their gay marriage. What’s odd about these two is that they both teach above the third grade, so the law doesn’t even apply to them. Be that as it may, I say good riddance if you were only there to indoctrinate kids into the gay agenda. Private sexual activity between consenting adults is one thing, but it’s quite another to claim the right to promote left-wing agendas in the classroom and interfere in your young charges’ sexual development. Unfortunately, left-wing agitators no longer distinguish between the two. Being forced under penalty of law to shut your mouth about your sex life is what you get for coming between Mama Bears and their cubs.
5/3/22 - War on Parents: Federal Government Update
Yesterday, I told you how public schools across the country are violating parental rights by indoctrinating very young children, including preschoolers, in the radical gay and transgender agendas. Today, unfortunately, I have to report to you that our federal government under the Biden administration has taken up these radical left-wing causes and is now a big part of the problem.
We start with Rachel Levine, a biological male transgender, who is Assistant Secretary of Health in Biden’s HHS. Levine was pressed on transgender surgery and drugs for young children during confirmation hearings, but deflected the question. It’s no surprise Levine now talks openly about the “value and the importance of gender-affirming care" for young children. Levine recently made the astounding claim “there is no argument among medical professionals” - including pediatricians - about this. The fact of the matter is there is a great deal of argument. A group of physicians called the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine argues “the growing number of detransitioners” shows gender-affirming pediatricians don’t really know what they’re doing. Moreover, the psychiatric profession does not agree with Levine. The psychiatric manual DSM-5 recognizes a diagnosis for “gender dysphoria” in children calling for treatment as a sexual development disorder. Rachel Levine is a far-left political hack and, indisputably, a colossal liar.
Levine’s boss, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra told Congress last month he absolutely supports the use of federal funds to pay for mutilating, irreversible sex change surgery for minors. He said he will defend the rights of children to undergo these gruesome procedures. This man is sick. Children cannot even consent to a car loan, and you’re telling me they possess the legal capacity to sign up for irreversible body-mutilating surgery and a lifetime of drugs and doctor visits to maintain the fiction they are now the opposite sex? If that’s what you think, YOU’RE sick, sick in the head. There’s lots of things children cannot legally consent to, like tattoos, and they need to be protected from the consequences of making choices when they can’t understand the ramifications.
The Biden White House doesn’t like the fact that Florida passed a law prohibiting the early sexualization of young children third-grade and below in Florida’s public schools. The Biden administration is even investigating the new law as a federal civil rights violation. Biden himself said last month the law will have a “tragic impact” and targets vulnerable students. He dismissed parental rights with the wave of a hand. That’s ironic. Here’s who is targeting vulnerable students - far-Left school administrators across the country steeped in Marxist doctrine (I’ll get to that in a future commentary), teachers who pester kids to change gender while keeping it all secret from parents, and the transgender-industrial complex - the psychologists, surgeons, and drug companies who are all for artificially inducing gender dysphoria in young children so they can make a buck off of it.
All of this begs the question, “Whose Children Are They?” In previous commentaries, I’ve told you about a parade of Democrats, school administrators, and others who fervently believe children are state property and parents have no rights - including Democrat Terry McAuliffe who lost the governor’s race in Virginia last year because he said in a debate, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” The latest to join this parade is Joe Biden himself who told teachers just last week, “they are not somebody else’s children. They’re yours when you’re in the classroom.” Too bad somebody didn’t take Hunter Biden away from Joe Biden so Hunter could be raised properly.
There’s a powerful new documentary discussing the question “Whose Children Are They?” The documentary contains compelling testimony from parents and educators about what the public schools are up to - no good. It’s a powerful film and I highly recommend it to you.
Fortunately, most people don’t believe the far-left propaganda coming from Rachel Levine and Joe Biden. Most people believe children are not property of the state and parents have rights and the say-so in the raising of their children. But it’s not enough just to shake your head and say, ‘isn’t it a shame.’ People need to fight back and tomorrow, I will tell you about some parents who are doing exactly that.
5/2/22 - War on Parents: Schools Update
Today I continue my commentary on the War on Parents with reports of outrageous actions by schools across the county. These are not isolated incidents; reports are pouring in from everywhere about how schools are taking a jackhammer to parental rights. The destruction is starting just as soon as public schools can get their hands on kids.
A teacher - I don’t know where - made a video advocating three-year-olds be taught about gender Identity, sexual orientation, and preferred pronouns.
A transgender teacher in Massachusetts told kindergartners and first- and second graders that doctors only guess whether new-born babies are boys or girls and, sometimes, they’re wrong.
The Maryland Department of Education is telling schools to teach alternative LGBT family structures and gender fluidity to preschoolers.
A suburban school official in Kansas City claimed kindergartners are identifying as transgender and should be taught all about it.
Schools in Evanston, Illinois are teaching preschoolers to break the ‘gender binary’ established by ‘white colonizers’, to celebrate the transgender flag, and to experiment with made-up pronouns like ‘ze’ and ‘zir’.
A school district in Washington state is teaching gender fluidity to first-graders. They are being told, sometimes, gender does not exist and they can have two genders. They are also being taught transgender pronouns. The district defended its curriculum by saying it’s required by state law, but it’s not true.
First- and second-graders in New Jersey are being given explicit instruction on private body parts and gender identity. One of the lessons - ‘Pink, Blue and Purple’ - tells kids they can feel like a boy even if they have girl parts.
I’ve mentioned secret ‘gender transition closets’ in schools before, but now they’re popping up in more places. Children are being encouraged to change their clothes and their gender identity without their parents’ knowledge in California, Colorado, and elsewhere. A radical nonprofit advocacy group called ‘The Transition Closet’ in Arkansas is pushing the idea all over the country.
A fifth-grade lesson plan in New Jersey calls for pushing masturbation and puberty blockers on kids.
A school in Missouri handed out a math worksheet that asked questions about Maya Angelou being sexually abused at age 8 and a single mother working as a pimp and prostitute. Is this math or indoctrination?
Two teachers in California are accused of secretly facilitating the gender transition of a 12-year-old and calling Child Protective Services on the parents when the parents found out about it and objected.
Not telling the parents about their child’s gender identity issues is official school policy in Loudon County, Virginia.
A gay teacher in Florida said she is willing to break the law and keep hiding sexual information about students from their parents even if she loses her job and gets thrown in jail for it.
At a school board meeting - I don’t know where - a dad read graphic descriptions about b-jobs and vagina-tasting straight from high school materials. Filth is filth, he said, and it has no place in school. He doesn’t buy the argument, ‘the kids are going to see pornography anyway’ because it would be unthinkable to sell beer and marijuana in the school cafeteria just because kids are able to obtain intoxicants outside of school.
There’s more, but this is enough to show you the extent of the problem. I’ll get into LGBTQ indoctrination coming from other directions and what this all means later this week.
Big media outlets are doing backflips after the Buffalo shooting trying to convince you the Great Replacement theory is just a right-wing conspiracy. NPR is going all out, doing 18 one-sided propaganda pieces on it since the shooting. There’s just one problem - several, actually. A number of Left-wing activists and politicians have openly talked about replacing the existing American population with third-worlders to create a permanent political majority for the Democrats. The Great Replacement is the admitted goal of an actual left-wing conspiracy, not a fantasy of the Right.
Senator Dick Durbin trumpeted the changing demographics of the country in a floor speech and how all the new voters were moving away from the Republican Party. Democrat operatives talked openly at a 2019 conference about working to make demographics ‘destiny’ to amass power for their party. The Leftist Center for American Progress said in 2013 that “[s]upporting real immigration reform that contains a pathway to citizenship for our nation’s 11 million undocumented immigrants is the only way to maintain electoral strength in the future.” Left-wing Salon wrote in 2008 the growing Hispanic population turned New Mexico blue and would establish a permanent lock on the White House for Democrats. Similar comments have been made by other Democrat politicians and in the pages of the left-wing Los Angeles Times and New York Times. Democrats never miss an opportunity to celebrate demographic change.
So don’t tell me the Right is just imagining things. The gaslighting by NPR and others is not appreciated. Not when newly obtained government documents show Joe Biden knows his border policies are enriching the human smuggling cartels and endangering the United States. And not when no other satisfactory explanation has been offered for the numerous policy changes the Biden administration has instituted to open the border, numerous policy changes I’ve compiled and documented in previous commentaries [Daily Skirmish - 4/28/22]. The only other explanation that’s been attempted - prioritizing ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’ - smacks of racism and aligns closely with Great Replacement. So if you’ve got an alternate explanation for why the Biden administration keeps taking steps to open the border despite all the problems they know it’s causing, let’ hear it. I’m all ears. I first asked for an alternate explanation half a year ago [Daily Skirmish - 10/14/21), but nobody has given me one.
Speaking of problems, there are fresh reports of untrammeled illegal immigration overwhelming border towns, threatening the safety of border farmers, bringing more drugs into the country, fueling the overdose crisis, and allowing terrorists to walk free inside the country. You’d think all this would be enough to get a sane administration to reverse course but, in the twisted mind of the Biden administration, all is going according to plan. They hate the country as currently constituted and are trying to destroy it. This is why illegal aliens get baby formula and panicked ordinary Americans can’t find any.
The numbers are staggering - one and a half million illegal aliens have flooded the country since January, including 100,000 who were released into the country in April. No wonder Arizona is busing illegal aliens to D.C., just like Texas. Texas Governor Greg Abbott said his state might challenge the Supreme Court decision giving free public education to all illegal alien children. Growing public discontent finally got Sweden’s political elite to reverse course and admit open immigration drains resources and causes crime. It’s too much to hope that a frank recognition of the problems will get the Biden administration to reverse course, not when Great Replacement is the plan. I put more hope in the idea new arrivals can eventually be convinced the Democrats are the wrong choice. Sound impossible? A number of stories have appeared recently about the Democrats losing support among Hispanics over inflation, crime, religion, and other issues. Democrats seeking a permanent political majority by opening the borders are chasing a mirage. There are no permanent victories in politics.
5/17/22 - The Diversity Narrative Is Against the Law
Three cheers for equal protection of the law. Agitators pushing the Left’s phony diversity narrative just got doused with reality. They’re finding out that a lot of what they want to do violates the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot had wanted to grant one-on-one interviews to “black and brown” journalists only, because the evil white people are oppressors. After she got sued for violating equal protection of the law, she doubled down, saying she “absolutely” would continue discriminating. Well, the case just got settled, with the Mayor backing down completely, agreeing to drop her racist policy against white journalists.
California had wanted to mandate women be given a certain number of corporate board seats, because assuring equal outcomes for women is the important thing, even if we have to beat people into submission to achieve it. A California judge just struck down the gender quota because it violates equal protection. The judge ruled the state failed to prove women had been the victims of actual discrimination, thus taking direct aim at one of the principal tenets of the diversity faith: that everyone should be tarred and feathered to assure equal outcomes even if they didn’t do anything wrong. The diversity nuts believe the whole system is rotten - systemic racism, systemic sexism, blah, blah, blah - and this judge is saying, ‘sorry, not good enough, you actually have to prove your case.’
Separate dorms and separate graduation ceremonies for every stripe of the rainbow are all the rage on campus these days but, guess what, they’re illegal. A U.S. civil rights official warned two colleges that segregated graduation ceremonies for Black, LGBTQ, and other minority students violate federal anti-discrimination laws. Imagine if white students insisted on their own graduation ceremony. People would be up in arms, and rightly so. I have a dream that, one day, every graduate will be able to attend a single, nondivisive, nondiscriminatory graduation ceremony.
Staying on campus for a moment, Texas had a law requiring out-of-state students to pay higher tuition than illegal aliens residing in Texas. A federal judge used equal protection principles to knock down the state law. A federal law specifically bars states from giving illegal aliens any postsecondary education benefits that are not offered to U.S. citizens on equal terms, including citizens from other states. The judge ruled the federal law preempted the Texas law, dealing another blow to the phony diversity narrative which mindlessly holds we must hand our country over to illegal aliens because we’re so guilty of whatever.
That guilt trip is what’s motivating leaders in the medical field to toy with the idea of dispensing medical services on the basis of race, as I mentioned yesterday. It all goes back to what used to be called ‘compensatory equal protection’ which, as applied in this context, means white people got the best care in the past so other people should be compensated with the best care now, no matter who is sick today. That kind of thinking is on full display in Utah, where public health officials were warned dispensing COVID drugs based on race was illegal, but did it anyway with the Biden administration cheering them on. The state health officials didn’t even bother getting a legal review, but just plowed ahead. Well, you can have compensation, or you can have equal protection, but you can’t have both at the same time; ‘compensatory equal protection’ is an oxymoron.
The phony diversity narrative has a blind spot when it comes to race and sex that blanks out all other considerations, including equal protection of the law. The exclusion of all other values is what makes the diversity narrative fundamentally crazy. It will not endure. Other values will reassert themselves, as equal protection of the law is now. Eventually, rationality will carry the day, a balance between competing considerations will be restored, and the race hustlers pushing the poisonous Woke garbage to line their own pockets will have to find another gig.
You want to compensate disadvantaged groups for past injustices? Find another way. Just don’t misuse the government or the law to do it.
5/16/22 - Give It a Rest, Bernie
Bernie Sanders reintroduced Medicare for All legislation in the Senate, recently. He should give it a rest. His single payer proposal hasn’t gotten any better with time. Witnesses and Republican senators tore it to shreds in a hearing last week.
Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin pointed to the government’s “miserable failures” on testing, restrictions on treatment, and its other sorry responses to the COVID pandemic. “Why in the world would anybody put government more in charge of health care?,” he asked. He said there will be more bureaucracy, not less, if the government takes over all healthcare, producing less innovation and higher costs.
Sen. Rick Scott of Florida said Bernie’s plan would abolish Medicare and private insurance. Worse, it would “have the federal government deciding which procedures you get and when you get them. Think about that...Do you want the government to make these choices for you?”
A healthcare policy expert testified Bernie’s plan to pay doctors and hospitals 30 to 40 percent less would force many physician practices and hospitals to close or significantly cut back on services (p.11). If you think we have a doctor shortage now, just wait. She further testified Bernie’s plan would also cut access to new medications and pull the rug out from under new drug development, including new cancer treatments (p.13). She noted single payer supporters keep saying nationalized healthcare would cut administrative costs, but claims would still need to be processed which means the administrative cost differential would largely be a wash (p. 13).
A budget expert testified the additional cost of Bernie’s 2017 plan, over and above current federal healthcare spending, would be around $38 trillion in the first 10 years (p.2). If you add in current spending, the total cost is more like $60 trillion (p.3). You could double all personal and corporate income taxes, and it still wouldn’t be enough to pay for single payer (p.2). As I’ve commented before, there’s never enough money to pay for single payer. The National Health Service in Britain is always running out of money and asking for more.
The arguments for and against single payer haven’t changed much in years. Arguments against single payer coming back around recently include it would raise taxes thereby reducing GDP and the incentives to work and invest; produce massive fraud; and lead inescapably to rationing and long wait times as other countries have found out. Most insidious of all, though, is how single payer will completely politicize all of medicine. The kind of care you get will depend on who you know in high places. Care will be doled out to privileged classes, perhaps even by race and ethnicity. The federal government is already moving in that direction, now requiring private insurers selling Medicare Advantage plans or Obamacare plans through government exchanges to report race and ethnicity data beginning in 2023 (p. 1).
Bernie and his supporters know all about these problems, but never talk about them. All you get from them is happy talk. That should make you deeply suspicious of their motives. Do they really want better healthcare for all, or are they just looking for a way to control the people, as a congressman let slip during the Obamacare fight?
When Bernie and other single payer supporters stop the happy talk and start addressing the very real problems their proposals will cause, then I might start to listen. Until then, my message to them is ‘in the future, you will control no one and be happy.’
5/13/22 - Biden Channeling Bismarck in Buying Votes
19th-century German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck was very explicit about why he created the modern welfare state - to buy votes. Joe Biden is channeling Bismarck and attempting to do the same, as we can see from an executive order Biden issued in March 2021.
The order directs government benefits agencies to submit plans to promote voter registration and turnout to help Democrats. If the Biden administration didn’t believe this would overwhelmingly benefit Democrats, they wouldn’t be doing it, would they? This is the new Zuckerbucks - a thinly disguised Get Out the Vote effort for Democrats - except it will be done with government agencies and money instead of private funds. Call them ‘Bidenbucks’.
The order lines up with the recommendations of the far-Left activist group Demos. Two people from Demos are now in the White House.
The Biden administration won’t reveal the details of the agencies’ voter registration plans. What’s that about? What are they hiding? What don’t they want people to know about what they’re up to? Activist groups are using the Freedom of Information Act to attempt to find out.
This is what we know so far:
The order instructs agencies to use all means at their disposal to “engage with the public ... about how to register to vote, how to request a vote-by-mail ballot, and how to cast a ballot in upcoming elections....” HUD will conduct voter registration drives at public housing projects. HHS will launch a new voting access hub. The Agriculture Department will be looking for new voters in the food stamp program. Jailers will fish for new votes in federal prisons. The order pushes vote by mail which the bipartisan Carter-Baker Commission noted 17 years ago is notoriously insecure. The order allows agencies to enlist the aid of outside third-party organizations, which you can take to mean Democrat activist groups working to boost Democrat turnout in key areas, just like what happened with Zuckerbucks in the 2020 election. Zuckerbucks, overwhelmingly, went to Democrat strongholds. In addition, the order pushes agencies to get their own employees out to vote - reliably Democrat - and to volunteer to work on elections - again, to help Democrats.
Since when is voter registration and turnout the business of the federal government? You can’t find boosting voter registration and turnout in agency mission statements.
On top of all this, Joe Biden’s budget proposal is asking for 15 billion more Bidenbucks to assist local election officials and goose the U.S. Postal Service to better accommodate voting-by-mail. This is Zuckerbucks all over again, except with government grants and 30 times as much money.
Some Republicans are trying to figure out how to fight all this. Nine House Republicans sent a letter to the White House demanding answers about the executive order’s constitutionality and statutory authority. Defunding the executive order if Republicans take back Congress and various legal theories are also under consideration.
So imagine if every person who receives food stamps, housing, Medicaid, and other government benefits registers to vote. Everyone has a right to vote, that’s not the issue. The federal government should not be putting its thumb on the scale in favor of one political party at the expense of all others. More importantly, as has been observed since ancient times, democracy ends when people discover they can vote themselves the Treasury - more votes leading to more government benefits to buy more votes in an endless cycle until the current system is destroyed. Joe Biden, and Bismarck before him, may not have realized this before issuing the executive order and ginning up the welfare state, but it’s that old saying, ‘It’s OK to be piggy, but hogs go to slaughter.’
5/12/22 - More Questions Arise About Electronic Voting Machines
There are two documentaries out now about the 2020 election you really should watch. The one getting all the attention is 2000 Mules which grossed over $1 million in its first 12 hours on Rumble. It presents cellphone geotracking evidence establishing an organized effort to stuff ballot dropboxes in the middle of the night in key swing states in the 2020 election. Such ballot harvesting is illegal in Georgia and several other states. See the movie, read the so-called fact-checkers and their critics, and decide for yourself whether the evidence presented persuades you this activity was enough by itself to change the outcome of the 2020 election. The other documentary is Rigged which discusses how Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg spent $400 million in a thinly disguised Get Out the Vote effort for Democrats in several key cities in the 2020 election, another Democrat dirty trick.
But, today, I want to talk to you about electronic voting machines because more investigations have been completed and the story just keeps getting stranger and stranger.
You might recall the results of the first court-ordered forensic examination of voting machines which took place in Antrim County, Michigan. The examination found the machines deliberately generated a 68 percent error rate right off the bat elections officials could then fill in any way they wanted. A later forensic report found an algorithm that was used to shift votes in the 2020 election and 66,000 ballots not associated with registered voters recorded in nine counties. In addition, a machine was discovered to have a modem installed on its motherboard allowing the machine to connect to the Internet without wires. The same equipment is used in eight Michigan counties.
The scene shifted to Colorado in March when an examination of machine ballot images in Mesa County showed new databases were created partway through the 2020 election, enabling a machine to essentially keep two sets of books. Moreover, the report found extensive destruction of machine logfiles which are critical to detecting intrusions, improper operations, and configuration changes that could alter the actual vote count. The independent examiners concluded “the machine secretly manipulated ballot data and destroyed critical records.” “[T]housands of ballots that had already been counted were secretly re-processed inside the voting machine, undetected by election officials.” The officials could no longer see the original results, only the changed results. The machine wirelessly connected to the Internet, which means it could be hacked from anywhere in the world. The manufacturer and the very partisan Democrat Colorado Secretary of State destroyed all the data on the hard drive despite federal law requiring it be preserved for 22 months. [More here.]
The questions don’t stop in Colorado and Michigan. In April, Joe Biden’s nominee for the Federal Election Commission admitted to Congress she put her name on a legal pleading alleging that the machines used in Georgia in 2018 were switching votes illegally from one candidate to another. The pleading was filed in support of Stacey Abrams’ claim the gubernatorial election was stolen from her. After Trump claimed machine irregularities cost him the 2020 election, the allegations about machine vote-switching in 2018 were removed from the pleading.
Finally, a U.S. Election Commission investigation into a municipal election in Tennessee in 2021 found the number of ballots tabulated by the machines did not match the number of ballots scanned due to the way the machines were programmed. This was attributed to an error in the software code, but this begs the question of how the machines could be officially certified for use in elections with erroneous code and such obviously erroneous results.
We’ve been assured 2020 was the most secure election ever. We’ve been told there’s nothing to see here and to just move along. You can trust us and you can trust the machines. Sorry, not good enough. It’s not disputed this machine technology was used to steal elections in Venezuela. A machine software company CEO admitted it. All of the questions about electronic voting machines in the U.S. need to be answered, not shouted down.
I’ve said previously, if Democrats want to steal elections in the future, they’ll need a new bag of tricks. It looks like they’re on their way to getting one and, tomorrow, I will tell you more about it.
5/11/22 - All Congress Critters Great and Small
Yesterday, a Republican congressman from upstate New York resigned a year after apologizing for making unwanted sexual advances toward a female lobbyist in a bar four years earlier.
He is not the only Congress critter guilty of ethical lapses, lately.
Democrat House Majority Whip James Clyburn has been giving campaign cash to members of his family. Two daughters, their husbands, and a grandson have received more than $200,000 among them. The expenses are called ‘campaign management fees’, ‘voter outreach’, or ‘office rent’. Nice work if you can get it, but if you’re not related, you can’t.
A watchdog group sent a complaint to the House Ethics Committee alleging a member of Congress from Oregon improperly used official resources in his reelection campaign. Two of his campaign ads use official press releases issued by his office. The group said the rules against using taxpayer-funded resources in campaigns are intended to ensure government funds are not diverted for personal use and official actions are taken for the good of the country, not political purposes.
A Democrat congressman from New York drew an ethics complaint from the same watchdog group after failing to report almost $900,000 in stock trades in a timely fashion as required by law. The trades involved several companies regulated or affected by congressional action. It’s not the first time he’s skirted the rules. There was a previous complaint about him failing to disclose 300 trades worth about $11 million.
A Hawaii Democrat hasn’t voted in person in Congress since January. He’s too busy at his other job as a pilot for Hawaiian Airlines, so he votes by proxy. He missed the State of the Union address, important meetings with Honolulu city officials, and committee hearings. He says he is earning less than the amount allowed for outside employment under House rules, which is about $30,000 a year. However, his airline says its pilots are required to fly a minimum 1,500 hours annually, suggesting his outside income is at least four times the amount allowed. Reportedly, he has not documented that his outside employment has been approved by the House Ethics Committee. But here’s the best part: his airline lobbies the House Transportation Committee. He sits on that committee. A little conflict of interest, maybe?
A former Congressional staffer pled guilty last month to stealing $80,000 in public funds. He misused his position as payroll manager for his office to submit false bonus pay forms for himself, thus inflating his own salary.
The common thread in all these stories is the misuse of a position of trust for self-dealing. Too many Congress critters are only in it for themselves, not the public interest. But we get the government we deserve. Often, people know their Congress critters are up to no good, but reelect them anyway. If this is the case with your member of Congress, work with others to throw the bums out. They work for us.
5/10/22 - All Swamp Creatures Great and Small
Alligators, snakes, and raccoons live in swamps. They bite, but not as bad as the alligators, snakes, and racketeers who inhabit the D.C. swamp.
They say the fish rots from the head down, so let’s take a look at some swamp creatures who have strong ties to Joe Biden. We start with Jen Psaki, White House press secretary who is moving on to MSNBC this week. This humble public servant is already worth millions, and reportedly will earn millions more at MSNBC. Jen, don’t let the revolving door hit you on the backside on your way out.
Longtime Biden ally Chris Dodd has been appointed to represent the U.S. at a Latin America summit, despite having a conflict of interest. His lobbying and law firm has a Latin America practice which stands to benefit from Dodd’s appointment.
The brother of a senior White House official is lobbying for the drug industry.
Other Biden administration officials lower on the food chain are still feeding well in the swamp. An inexperienced nonprofit was awarded a $530 million government contract to find hotel rooms for illegal aliens just months after it hired a Biden administration official.
Prior administrations had their own swamp creatures. It was an open secret for years that a woman at the VA was mixed up with her husband’s employer, a veteran’s benefits group, while running the GI Bill program.
An Obama ambassadorial appointee has been criminally charged with soliciting foreign work while in office. He is accused of having a role in an illegal lobbying campaign for Qatar.
A long-time FDA employee just went through the revolving door to work on regulatory compliance for a global drug company.
What would a swamp be without swamp water? Lots of people are swimming in federal cash who shouldn’t be. The Biden administration is steering federal funds to Democrat donors, including a $500 million federal loan to a solar company co-owned by a big Biden donor, and $3 million in federal contracts to a medical technology company owned by another big donor. Meanwhile, a lot of federal COVID money has disappeared. There was widespread fraud in the Paycheck Protection Program where funds went to buy Ferraris, yachts, jets, and jewels. The fraud added up to more than $80 billion, ten percent of the entire program.
Tomorrow, I’ll tell you about the creatures who inhabit the other end of the swamp, the Congress critters whose feeding ground is Capitol Hill. I’ll stop today with the observation that corruption and fraud is what we get for not being adequately engaged in our own governance. Plato said, “One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” The thing about our inferiors is, they make more money than we do, for no good reason, and that’s infuriating.
5/9/22 - Climate True Believers Should Doubt Their Faith
Beyond the Left’s climate change chants lie big problems, big enough to destroy the faith of any climate change true believer who accidentally pays attention to reality.
We can start with exploding electric buses. Two caught fire in France, one exploded. Not a pretty picture - public buses engulfed in flames. You can add to that electric scooter fires in India, where a dealer said, “Lithium has a natural affinity for fires.’’ Do tell. Makes me want to close my climate change hymnal. In my area, a big school board is requiring electric school buses for transporting kids. Hmm....
While I’m on the subject of electric vehicles, where are you going to put all those old dead batteries? It’s a huge issue nobody’s talking about. And what are you going to say to the six-year-olds who mine the cobalt that goes into the batteries? Nobody wants to talk about the child labor problem, either.
Ask a climate true believer where the power comes from to run electric vehicles and you are likely to get a blank stare. The fact is it comes from the electrical grid, but utilities are warning the addition of solar and wind energy to the grid has not kept pace with the retirement of fossil fuel plants. They warn of price hikes and electricity shortages, even rolling brownouts ahead. With the prospect of energy supplies becoming unreliable, businesses are rethinking whether they want to be in Illinois where these problems, arising from state green energy mandates, are already in sight. State lawmakers are looking for ways to ease the mandates, which is surely a mortal sin in the High Church of Climatology.
Another feature of Climatology is animal sacrifice. “(W)ind turbines have been annihilating eagles for decades,” and there’s no way around it if you want those blades to keep spinning. One wind company acknowledged 150 eagles have died at its wind farms in the last 10 years, and just paid the government $35 million in fines and restitution. A new government study documents that wind and solar facilities have reduced the bird population of California.
Before he left office, climate true believer Bill de Blasio signed a bill banning natural gas in new construction in New York City. I’m sure he felt the climate gods were smiling down on him when he did so. The idea was to reduce emissions by requiring electric heat and electric stoves, but there’s just one problem: Most of New York City's electricity comes from natural gas. It takes twice as many fossil fuels to run an electric stove as a gas stove. Oops. Hope those climate commandments weren’t on stone tablets.
Another problem is the apostates in China who are saying one thing, but doing another. China will tell you it aims for carbon neutrality, but it’s increasing coal production by 300 million tons this year, sending coal usage up more than 12 percent from two years ago.
That ought to shock the faithful. I wonder when they’ll wake up to the true mission of their church and what their Jim Jones’s really have in store for them. The point of Climatology is not to save the planet. It’s to reduce your energy use to lower your standard of living. The high priests want you poor, immobile, and malnourished so you will be easier to control. All the while they are telling you to atone for raping Mother Earth, they are focused on amassing wealth and power for themselves. Being a true believer is one thing. Being a sucker is another. If it were me, I’d stop going to church and putting money in the collection plate until John Kerry and Leonardo DiCaprio get rid of their private jets.
5/6/22 - The Unhinged Violent Left Goes Crazy over Abortion
I’ve commented many times about the unhinged, violent Left. They’re out in full force now, completely unglued by the draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade.
We start with the actual violence they have already perpetrated. Pro-abortion activists smashed police cars and injured police officers with rocks and bottles in Los Angeles, shattered all the windows at City Hall in Portland, and spit on and shoved counter-protesters in front of the Supreme Court. They also spit on counter-protesters in Arizona, while calling them names that can’t be repeated here.
Next come the public figures who are inciting others to violence. California Governor Gavin Newsom said we will soon feel the fury of abortion supporters and told them to “fight like hell”, which was not OK and amounted to insurrection, according to Democrats, when Trump said it on January 6th. Transgender activist Chelsea Manning urged people to arm themselves and train in teams to learn how to use their weapons. Other unhinged Leftists said, “BURN IT ALL DOWN” and “political violence works ... burn down the Supreme Court”, among similar statements. A leftist on Twitter said someone should murder Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
Then there’s the intimidation. Leftists groups are telling protesters to go to the homes of Supreme Court Justices to make their feelings known. One group published the addresses. The White House refused to condemn it. What could possibly go wrong? You might not recall, but a deranged angry leftist shot and injured a security guard at the Family Research Council in 2013, having gone there with the intent to massacre as many people as possible. Another deranged Leftist shot Steve Scalise and other Republican congressmen on a baseball field four years later. Maybe the Justices will get lucky and the protesters will only pound on their front doors like they pounded on the doors of the Supreme Court during the Kavanaugh hearings.
Meanwhile, other abortion fanatics are saying the wackiest things. Whoopi Goldberg said abortion decisions should be between “my doctor, myself, and my child.” Huh? Well, Whoopi, what do you think unborn babies would say if given a choice in the matter? They just might say, “My body, my choice.” Too bad we don’t get to hear from them. A minor Hollywood actor tweeted, “I don’t think anybody actually believes fetuses are people.” Oh, maybe just half the country. Then there were the unhinged Leftists who said the Supreme Court will outlaw interracial marriage next. That will come as a surprise to Justice Clarence Thomas who is in an interracial marriage.
You can be sure there’s more to come - more wacky statements, more intimidation, and more violence from the unhinged Left. But all of this pales in comparison to what they’re doing to the unborn. It all fits, doesn’t it? Anything goes with the unhinged violent Left, including murder, just to get their way.
5/5/22 - War on Parents: “We’re Coming for Your Children”
Today, I wrap up my series of commentaries on the War on Parents with a closer look at the far-Left radical groups we’ve encountered along the way, and their ultimate aims.
I mentioned the “Transition Closet”, a group in Arkansas pushing the availability of opposite-sex clothing for kids being pushed into transgenderism in schools across the country. Not content with operating at the college level, the group is now going after young children in public schools. The founder of the group supports keeping the activity secret from parents.
Another far-Left group, AMAZE.org, pushes sex education for young adolescents, producing videos some call pornographic. Its website bears all the hallmarks of a well-funded, well-oiled machine of the Left, starting with a couple dozen staffers. That doesn’t happen by accident. That takes money. The group’s managing partner is Advocates for Youth, another well-oiled machine that pushes wider access to abortion, free menstrual products, free condoms, and gender neutral restrooms. The group has assets of $10 million [p.1] and won’t disclose its donors on its tax forms. [p.24] They also get government grants [p. 9], which means you are paying for some of their activities.
We also encountered after-school Satan Clubs along the way. They are run by the Satanic Temple which is now bringing lawsuits to try to get its way in the schools. They also litigate to promote abortion as part of their religion, to give Satanic invocations at public meetings, and to remove Christianity from the public square. Overall, they are trying to foment “social change”, a dead giveaway placing them squarely on the Left.
One group I haven’t mentioned yet is the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). They oppose the new Florida law preventing the early sexualization of children and call for more LGBT content in children’s programming. They are agitating in Hollywood to bring it about. Like the Satanic Temple, this group is up front about working for “cultural change”.
Another gay group, the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, said last year, “We’ll convert your children….We’re coming for your children.” I take them at face value, but here’s what you need to understand: This isn’t about transgender rights or the gay agenda. Those are merely weapons to get to where the leaders of these groups want to go: socialism. I’ve documented that ultimate aim in previous commentaries, including the communist theorist who came up with the idea of destroying society with sex and the transgender activists caught on video late last year saying their goal is communism and they are merely using transgenderism to get there. These leaders are hardcore committed Leftists, first and foremost. Their sexual agendas are for the useful idiots. The real goal is to weaken and destabilize society so Leftist leaders can seize power. The issue is never the issue; the issue is always wealth and power for a tiny elite.
This set of Leftist leaders has been called the ‘Gay Gestapo’ and their methods go beyond sexual indoctrination in schools. They also want to destroy religion by denying tax exemptions to churches that oppose gay marriage. These people are deadly serious and playing for all the marbles. If you want to see society destroyed and a tiny communist elite take over, throw in with them. For the rest of us, take what they say about taking over at face value and respond accordingly.
5/4/22 - War on Parents: Fighting Back Update
Others more clever than me have observed ‘never get between a Mama Bear and her cubs.’ Parents around the country are fighting back against the hard-Left takeover of public schools, using the courts, state legislatures, and several other means.
Parents are challenging books in school libraries and classrooms in record numbers. They’re objecting to sexually explicit content, profanity, anti-police messaging, and other left-wing indoctrination found in schoolbooks. The most-challenged books are “Gender Queer” and “Lawn Boy”, the latter a gay story normalizing sex acts between 4th-graders which has been criticized for encouraging pedophilia.
Members of the Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC) have inundated Disney executives with almost 150,000 phone calls and emails objecting to the company’s self-described ‘not-so-secret’ gay agenda. There’s a website where you can join this national campaign.
Parents in North Carolina protested an elementary school’s Satan Club which is an organized effort now pushing hard in several states. An elementary school in Pennsylvania refused to allow such a club.
The America First Legal Group has a website showing parents how they can assert the federal Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (20 U.S.C. § 1232h) which allows parents to review curriculum and opt their children out of school surveys that pry into students’ sex lives, drug use, and attitudes.
In the courts, parents sued the Baltimore City Public Schools - where kids graduate from high school without being able to read - for failing children and wasting taxpayer money.
In Florida, a conservative legal foundation filed a lawsuit on behalf of two parents against a school district for hiding the transgender counseling the school was giving their 12-year-old daughter who attempted suicide twice. Similar suits against schools for secret gender transitioning have also been filed in Massachusetts, Wisconsin, and Maryland. One attorney for parents pointed out schools have parents sign forms for field trips and require parental consent before a school can give a child ibuprofen but somehow, magically, schools claim harmful gender transitioning is exempt from disclosure.
As for legislation, the Iowa House passed a bill to require schools to post their curriculum and materials online for parental review. A curriculum transparency bill is also pending in Arizona. Another bill in Arizona would prohibit schools from exposing kids to sexually explicit content without parental consent.
Which brings us to the new law in Florida that prohibits the early sexualization of young children third-grade and below in public schools, the law that made Disney throw a hissy fit. It’s already having results. At least two teachers are planning to leave the profession because they feel they are no longer free to talk to their students about their gay proclivities or their gay marriage. What’s odd about these two is that they both teach above the third grade, so the law doesn’t even apply to them. Be that as it may, I say good riddance if you were only there to indoctrinate kids into the gay agenda. Private sexual activity between consenting adults is one thing, but it’s quite another to claim the right to promote left-wing agendas in the classroom and interfere in your young charges’ sexual development. Unfortunately, left-wing agitators no longer distinguish between the two. Being forced under penalty of law to shut your mouth about your sex life is what you get for coming between Mama Bears and their cubs.
5/3/22 - War on Parents: Federal Government Update
Yesterday, I told you how public schools across the country are violating parental rights by indoctrinating very young children, including preschoolers, in the radical gay and transgender agendas. Today, unfortunately, I have to report to you that our federal government under the Biden administration has taken up these radical left-wing causes and is now a big part of the problem.
We start with Rachel Levine, a biological male transgender, who is Assistant Secretary of Health in Biden’s HHS. Levine was pressed on transgender surgery and drugs for young children during confirmation hearings, but deflected the question. It’s no surprise Levine now talks openly about the “value and the importance of gender-affirming care" for young children. Levine recently made the astounding claim “there is no argument among medical professionals” - including pediatricians - about this. The fact of the matter is there is a great deal of argument. A group of physicians called the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine argues “the growing number of detransitioners” shows gender-affirming pediatricians don’t really know what they’re doing. Moreover, the psychiatric profession does not agree with Levine. The psychiatric manual DSM-5 recognizes a diagnosis for “gender dysphoria” in children calling for treatment as a sexual development disorder. Rachel Levine is a far-left political hack and, indisputably, a colossal liar.
Levine’s boss, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra told Congress last month he absolutely supports the use of federal funds to pay for mutilating, irreversible sex change surgery for minors. He said he will defend the rights of children to undergo these gruesome procedures. This man is sick. Children cannot even consent to a car loan, and you’re telling me they possess the legal capacity to sign up for irreversible body-mutilating surgery and a lifetime of drugs and doctor visits to maintain the fiction they are now the opposite sex? If that’s what you think, YOU’RE sick, sick in the head. There’s lots of things children cannot legally consent to, like tattoos, and they need to be protected from the consequences of making choices when they can’t understand the ramifications.
The Biden White House doesn’t like the fact that Florida passed a law prohibiting the early sexualization of young children third-grade and below in Florida’s public schools. The Biden administration is even investigating the new law as a federal civil rights violation. Biden himself said last month the law will have a “tragic impact” and targets vulnerable students. He dismissed parental rights with the wave of a hand. That’s ironic. Here’s who is targeting vulnerable students - far-Left school administrators across the country steeped in Marxist doctrine (I’ll get to that in a future commentary), teachers who pester kids to change gender while keeping it all secret from parents, and the transgender-industrial complex - the psychologists, surgeons, and drug companies who are all for artificially inducing gender dysphoria in young children so they can make a buck off of it.
All of this begs the question, “Whose Children Are They?” In previous commentaries, I’ve told you about a parade of Democrats, school administrators, and others who fervently believe children are state property and parents have no rights - including Democrat Terry McAuliffe who lost the governor’s race in Virginia last year because he said in a debate, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” The latest to join this parade is Joe Biden himself who told teachers just last week, “they are not somebody else’s children. They’re yours when you’re in the classroom.” Too bad somebody didn’t take Hunter Biden away from Joe Biden so Hunter could be raised properly.
There’s a powerful new documentary discussing the question “Whose Children Are They?” The documentary contains compelling testimony from parents and educators about what the public schools are up to - no good. It’s a powerful film and I highly recommend it to you.
Fortunately, most people don’t believe the far-left propaganda coming from Rachel Levine and Joe Biden. Most people believe children are not property of the state and parents have rights and the say-so in the raising of their children. But it’s not enough just to shake your head and say, ‘isn’t it a shame.’ People need to fight back and tomorrow, I will tell you about some parents who are doing exactly that.
5/2/22 - War on Parents: Schools Update
Today I continue my commentary on the War on Parents with reports of outrageous actions by schools across the county. These are not isolated incidents; reports are pouring in from everywhere about how schools are taking a jackhammer to parental rights. The destruction is starting just as soon as public schools can get their hands on kids.
A teacher - I don’t know where - made a video advocating three-year-olds be taught about gender Identity, sexual orientation, and preferred pronouns.
A transgender teacher in Massachusetts told kindergartners and first- and second graders that doctors only guess whether new-born babies are boys or girls and, sometimes, they’re wrong.
The Maryland Department of Education is telling schools to teach alternative LGBT family structures and gender fluidity to preschoolers.
A suburban school official in Kansas City claimed kindergartners are identifying as transgender and should be taught all about it.
Schools in Evanston, Illinois are teaching preschoolers to break the ‘gender binary’ established by ‘white colonizers’, to celebrate the transgender flag, and to experiment with made-up pronouns like ‘ze’ and ‘zir’.
A school district in Washington state is teaching gender fluidity to first-graders. They are being told, sometimes, gender does not exist and they can have two genders. They are also being taught transgender pronouns. The district defended its curriculum by saying it’s required by state law, but it’s not true.
First- and second-graders in New Jersey are being given explicit instruction on private body parts and gender identity. One of the lessons - ‘Pink, Blue and Purple’ - tells kids they can feel like a boy even if they have girl parts.
I’ve mentioned secret ‘gender transition closets’ in schools before, but now they’re popping up in more places. Children are being encouraged to change their clothes and their gender identity without their parents’ knowledge in California, Colorado, and elsewhere. A radical nonprofit advocacy group called ‘The Transition Closet’ in Arkansas is pushing the idea all over the country.
A fifth-grade lesson plan in New Jersey calls for pushing masturbation and puberty blockers on kids.
A school in Missouri handed out a math worksheet that asked questions about Maya Angelou being sexually abused at age 8 and a single mother working as a pimp and prostitute. Is this math or indoctrination?
Two teachers in California are accused of secretly facilitating the gender transition of a 12-year-old and calling Child Protective Services on the parents when the parents found out about it and objected.
Not telling the parents about their child’s gender identity issues is official school policy in Loudon County, Virginia.
A gay teacher in Florida said she is willing to break the law and keep hiding sexual information about students from their parents even if she loses her job and gets thrown in jail for it.
At a school board meeting - I don’t know where - a dad read graphic descriptions about b-jobs and vagina-tasting straight from high school materials. Filth is filth, he said, and it has no place in school. He doesn’t buy the argument, ‘the kids are going to see pornography anyway’ because it would be unthinkable to sell beer and marijuana in the school cafeteria just because kids are able to obtain intoxicants outside of school.
There’s more, but this is enough to show you the extent of the problem. I’ll get into LGBTQ indoctrination coming from other directions and what this all means later this week.
4/29/22 - War on Parents: Disney Update
There are so many reports coming in now about the War on Parents, it’s hard to keep up. Today, I’ll bring you up to date on Disney’s role in all of this, then cover other aspects of the War on Parents in coming days.
The big news on Disney, of course, is the move by Florida to end the special tax district for Disney World. The fight began when Disney opposed Florida’s new law prohibiting classroom instruction on sexual orientation and transgenderism for very young children third grade and below. In response, the state legislature passed and Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill revoking Disney World’s special privileges to build without local approval, to collect taxes, and to issue bonds. Disney shot back, saying the revocation violates the original agreement with the state, as well as state law, and the special district’s status cannot be changed unless and until Florida pays off the district’s billion dollars in outstanding debt. Governor DeSantis denies the state is on the hook and says county taxpayers will not be stuck with tax increases. DeSantis has not offered specifics, so we’ll have to see how all this plays out.
Meanwhile, an heir to the Disney fortune - a high school biology teacher - came out as transgender and blasted Florida’s efforts to prevent the early sexualization of children. The heir’s family is giving half a million dollars to the far-Left Human Rights Campaign which advocates for gender-transitioning young children and giving them puberty-blockers. Walt Disney’s grandson Roy, the heir’s father, said “equality matters deeply to us” because the heir - his child - is transgender and a “proud member” of the LGBTQ+ community. Roy Disney and his wife have supported the Human Rights Campaign group for over 20 years.
In 2012, a Disney cruise ship employee was caught on camera molesting an 11-year-old girl in an elevator. Disney took steps to cover up the incident. Two years later, another Disney cruise ship employee was charged with molesting a 13-year-old girl in an unoccupied cabin. This year, Disney employees were arrested in a prostitution, human trafficking, and child predator sting in Florida not too far from Orlando. Before you dismiss these cases as meaningless, you should know that convicted ‘groomer to the stars’ and Jeffrey Epstein arranger Ghislaine Maxwell hosted a fundraiser called “Happy Family Disney Day” in 1985. You should also know Disney cruise ships took kids to Jeffrey Epstein’s private island for years. And all this is just a coincidence?
Here’s what’s not a coincidence: at the very time Disney started pushing back on Florida’s law prohibiting the early sexualization of young children, Disney started an employee benefits program to help employees and their minor children obtain “gender affirmation procedures.” This typically means puberty blockers, breast removal, and genital surgeries for “kids who are transitioning.”
All of this explains a few things about why the Disney company is pursuing its self-described “not-so-secret gay agenda” and “adding queerness”, in its own words, to programming. Which brings me back to something I’ve said before: I don’t know why any parent of impressionable young children would invite Disney into their living room.
I’ll have more to say about the War on Parents next week.
4/28/22 - Secretary Mayorkas Gaslights Congress
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told Congress yesterday his department has “effectively managed” the crisis at the southern border. Secretary Mayorkas is an excellent liar. Not only is his department not effectively managing the situation, he and others in the Biden administration have deliberately caused the situation with numerous policy changes intended to open the border in the name of racial ‘equity’ or, as I call it, racial payback. Let’s take a trip in the Wayback Machine and look at some of those changes, shall we?
Just yesterday, it was revealed the Biden administration has already started letting more illegal aliens into the country despite Title 42 COVID restrictions by exempting them from health regulations altogether. A memo went out instructing the Border Patrol to work with advocacy groups to get as many illegal aliens as possible into the country using the exemption process. This means the expected Title 42 avalanche of new arrivals is already starting. When the COVID restrictions are eventually lifted, the administration plans to release the flood of new arrivals on their own recognizance or with a notice to appear which, everybody knows, is often ignored.
It was also reported yesterday secret night flights to move illegal aliens by the hundreds of thousands into multiple states are continuing. Many of the aliens on those flights are unaccompanied children. The White House previously admitted a Biden policy decision caused such children to flow across the border in large numbers. The Biden administration also took steps to reunite families separated at the southern border. This includes allowing parents who are not currently in the U.S. to enter the country to settle with their children who are here illegally. Politico Politico U.S. authorities are releasing illegal alien families without court dates or sometimes any paperwork at all. AP
Earlier this year, the administration allowed illegal alien criminals to be released into the general population after they finish their sentences, instead of taking them into custody for deportation as federal law requires. A DHS rule change gave leniency to illegal aliens guilty of nominally less serious crimes. Wife-beaters and other felons now get to stay in the country. At the same time, the number of ICE detainers has dropped by 75 percent under Biden. This means that far fewer criminal illegal aliens are being picked up by the Feds for deportation after serving time in state jails.
Remember, Secretary Mayorkas once said just because somebody is in the country illegally doesn’t mean they should be deported. They get to stay, under the current regime. He followed this up with another policy change declaring illegal aliens could not be arrested at schools, parks, daycare centers, or just about anywhere else they might actually be. Administration policies overall have cut the deportation of illegal aliens by 90 percent.
The Biden administration is ending a program that allowed border agents to quickly return illegal crossers back over the border. Alejandro Mayorkas has been accused of lying in Senate testimony, claiming he is working to deport catch-and-release illegal aliens who fail to show up for ICE appointments when ICE has been telling them they won’t be arrested. The Biden administration also reversed the Trump administration’s move to discourage people more likely to need welfare from coming here. Biden is also taking refugee admissions to the highest numbers in 30 years. DHS plans to allow people who committed fraud in applying for U.S. citizenship to remain citizens, saying the important thing is for them not to have to worry about their future. Washington Times
The administration took immigration courts out of the asylum process and assigned low-level bureaucrats to quickly rubber-stamp asylum claims on the spot when illegal aliens arrive, without any serious examination. The administration also stopped requiring GPS monitoring for illegal aliens released into the country. The administration did its best not to comply with a court order to reinstate Trump’s Remain in Mexico policy, then fought the policy all the way to the Supreme Court.
Illegal aliens can now present their deportation and arrest warrants as acceptable forms of identification to board domestic flights. How accommodating. It’s not the only way the administration has rolled out the welcome mat for illegal aliens. The Biden administration reallocated COVID relief money, meant for Americans, to house illegal aliens pouring across the border. The administration is developing a smartphone app to do pre-screening BEFORE illegal aliens even get here.
Finally, Joe Biden stopped construction on the border wall, costing taxpayers $72 million so far to shut it down.
Hmm... I detect a pattern here. Can you see it? The Biden administration is opening the borders at every turn.
Alejandro Mayorkas told Congress yesterday he is effectively managing the crisis. Sure, and I’m the tooth fairy. He also once declared, “The border is closed.” Funny guy, huh? He also dismissed the idea of national borders altogether, saying they should be viewed as “points of connection” to facilitate the flow of people and goods from different countries.
Alejandro Mayorkas is an excellent liar, exactly the quality you need in a Secretary of Homeland Security if your goal is to erase the border while at the same time convincing people the border is more secure than ever.
You can lie to my face, but I gotta tell you, the gaslighting is not appreciated.
4/27/22 - Don’t Wait for November, Let’s Work on Closing the Border Now
Calls are growing for the impeachment of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas - if Republicans take back the House - for failing to faithfully execute the nation’s immigration laws and leaving the southern border wide open. Mayorkas, you will recall, keeps yapping about “equity” which, when translated into the immigration context, means bringing as many non-whites into the country as possible to fight the evil white supremacist American people. Apparently, he believes his own propaganda, making him a deeply troubled man willing to ignore or break any law to implement his vision of racial payback.
His brand of equity comes at a cost, however. Mayorkas’ policies have effectively put drug cartels in control of the southern border. Border agents seized 123 pounds of heroin, cocaine and marijuana in the El Paso area earlier this month. That’s just the tip of the iceberg. The cartels are using thousands of drone flights to spot gaps in border enforcement, thus informing them where to concentrate their drug smuggling and human trafficking activities. The drones are also used to get fentanyl across the border, since it doesn’t take big amounts of that drug to get a big pay-off. The DEA is warning about a spike in “mass-overdose events”, clusters of fentanyl overdoses and deaths in Austin, Omaha, and other cities.
Another cost of pursuing racial payback is the growing national security threat from an open border. Twenty-three illegal aliens caught crossing the border last year were on the terrorist watch list. We still don’t know what the Biden administration did with them, despite people asking questions. Were they released into the interior of the country like so many other illegal aliens? We don’t know; the Biden administration isn’t saying.
The administration is also hiding the ball on data regarding arrests and deportations, information that was routinely released in previous years. The lack of data allows criminal illegal aliens to run free in the country and prevents analysis of the true effects of the government’s immigration policies, critics say. They also say this suits Secretary Mayorkas and his colleagues just fine because they oppose their own Department’s mission, and don’t care who gets hurt in the process of pursuing racial payback.
The administration also continues to keep illegal alien night flights secret. Critics say the activity shows a systematic plan to move illegal aliens by the hundreds of thousands - or millions - to multiple states around the country, many of them unaccompanied children.
But the ideologues at DHS aren’t done, yet. After the pushback on lifting Title 42 COVID restrictions at the border, the Biden administration has already started letting more illegal aliens into the country by exempting them from health regulations. A memo went out instructing the Border Patrol to work with advocacy groups to get as many illegal aliens as possible into the country using the exemption process. This means the expected Title 42 avalanche of new arrivals is already starting. By the way, exemption from health regulations means not only more COVID, but more ebola, yellow and dengue fever, and drug-resistant tuberculosis being brought into the country in the name of ‘equity’. [Frank Gaffney’s Secure America show, 4/26/22]
Some states are fighting back. Texas Governor Greg Abbott made news when he put illegal aliens on buses to drop them off in Washington, D.C. Twenty-six Republican-led states have joined forces to share intelligence and fight drug and human trafficking. But there’s only so much states can do, after the Supreme Court told Arizona it could not enforce federal immigration laws on its own ten years ago.
If you are an activist fighting the open borders crazies in DHS and the Biden administration, get in touch with me at tips@liberato.us. I can amplify your work through my network of more than a thousand activists, many of whom have substantial activism and media platforms of their own. We don’t have to wait for the Republicans to take back the House. We can put our heads together and figure out ways to get better enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws now.
4/26/22 - Left-Wing Crazies a Danger to Themselves and Others
You might have seen the news over the weekend about a Colorado man who died after setting himself on fire in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. What was not widely reported, however, was the fact the man was a climate activist and his self-immolation was a protest against climate change. A friend of his, a climate scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund, said it was a "deeply fearless act of compassion to bring attention to climate crisis." The left-wing press might have wanted to ignore this part of the story, but I’m going to zero right in on it because it’s part of a pattern: left-wing crazies are a danger to themselves and others.
Speaking of fire, a member of the Nashville school board was caught on a hot mic saying during a meeting break, "Can we just go set Marsha Blackburn on fire?" The member was objecting to the Tennessee Senator’s asking the nominee if she could define a ‘woman’ during the confirmation hearings.
A medical student in North Carolina got mad at a patient who laughed at the student’s pronoun pin and deliberately missed the patient’s vein, necessitating a second needle stick for a blood draw. The student was unhinged enough to brag about it on social media, but it all makes perfect sense when you learn the student had published papers about transgenderism and led a far-left medical group devoted to advocating for LGBTQ+ patients.
A violent left-wing mob chased several members of Young America’s Foundation after the mob disrupted a speech by black conservative Allen West at the University of Buffalo earlier this month. The mob screamed ‘go get her, go capture her, the girl in the red dress.’ They went after the event organizer who said, ‘I realized I was the target for these protesters, and about 200 of my fellow students started hunting me down on campus, started chasing me,’ she said. The mob captured one of the YAF members and beat him.
Actress Sally Fields was ranting about pro-life lawmakers recently, calling them “ignorant” and “power-hungry”. Her harshest words were for the Governors of Texas and Florida: “I can’t say enough horrible things about what I feel about those men,” she said, adding, “If you see them coming toward me, those two governors specifically, lead me out of the way because I cannot be responsible for what I would do.” You know what? I believe her, after reading about all the other violent left-wing crazies out there. This flying nun flew over the cuckoo’s nest.
There’s more. Late-night political hack Stephen Colbert called for Joe Biden to slap Fox News reporter Peter Doocy for daring to ask Biden to clarify his Russia regime change comments last month. Another late-night hack, Jimmy Kimmel, suggested someone slap Marjorie Taylor Greene in the face for not supporting Ketanji Brown Jackson. Greene reported the remark as a threat of violence to the Capitol Police, as well she should have.
This is the same violent Left that burned down cities and tried to burn 113 police officers’ eyes out with lasers in the riots of 2020, while other crazy leftists denied the riots were happening or said they didn’t mean anything. Who could forget that iconic moment when the crazy leftist CNN reporter was saying the riots were ‘mostly peaceful’ when a building was burning on camera behind him.
Hate to break it to you Lefties, but violence is not normal, despite your best efforts to make it so. Every time you stick us with needles, point lasers at us, and chase us down, is another reason for the American people to reject you and everything you stand for. You’re sick. You are a danger to yourselves and others. As a result, your credibility has gone up in smoke.
4/25/22 - Tyranny Is a Heavy Lift
You Lefties out there might not realize it, but you can’t get to where you want to go without telling lots of lies and forcing people to play along.
The Biden administration is getting ready to throw out Trump-era rules that protected doctors and other healthcare workers from being forced to participate in abortions and sex reassignment surgery against their conscience. The move is being called an existential threat to Catholic hospitals and other faith-based healthcare facilities. So much for free will, personal autonomy, and limited government. This is government without limits, government that tramples the individual. Under this reasoning, any group that gets control of the government can force you to do just about anything, whether you like it or not. You might like government forcing doctors to perform abortions against their will today, but I guarantee you won’t like it when the government forces your doctor to put a surveillance chip inside your head tomorrow. And that just one scenario for what lies ahead if the authoritarian Left consolidates its control over all healthcare.
A law set to take effect in California next year will force every state university to give free abortion pills to its students. Not only are the pills dangerous and can kill the women who take them, conscience is once again implicated because you can bet there will be people forced into paying for and dispensing the pills who don’t believe in chemical abortions. But that’s what happens when you put the power of the state behind fanatical left-wing beliefs and force everyone to get with the program, or else.
California is also the place where fanatical Leftists want to give the state the power to take medical licenses away from doctors who disagree with government narratives on COVID. I’ve commented before about how government health authorities have been wrong about masks, lockdowns, natural immunity, and just about everything else having to do with COVID. [Daily Skirmish 2/10/22] But now the Left wants the power to stop anybody who disagrees with these erroneous positions from practicing medicine at all. Putting left-wing political hacks in charge of scientific truth is not the way forward.
There are other dangers in allowing the government to enforce phony narratives. The Department of Homeland Security now considers you a national security threat if you question the government’s pronouncements on COVID, or question the 2020 election. That’s a lot of people, half the population in the case of the dubious 2020 election results. What are you going to do, lock us all up? Go ahead and try.
Another danger of the government enforcing phony narratives is that the truth becomes hate speech. In Sweden, a professor faces prosecution for publishing a research paper showing that most rapes in the country are committed by migrants. The Swedish government evidently doesn’t want anyone telling the truth about migrants and will bring the full weight of the state down on anybody who does.
Wrong direction but, if you insist on going down that road, you should know you’re going to need ever-increasing amounts of coercion to keep dissenters in check. It’s already suspected the federal government was tracking lots of people who met certain profiles through their cell phones before the 2020 election in order to get a head start on arresting them later. It’s not so far-fetched when you consider Justin Trudeau confiscated bank accounts of people he didn’t like during the trucker protests. He also tried to freeze their cryptocurrency accounts. This is the mindset of the authoritarian Left which is perfectly willing to trample the individual and view us as state property, a mindset that wants to force you to give up your organs when you die, no matter your personal beliefs or wishes.
It’s not supposed to be this way. We the People are supposed to be in charge, not have wannabe masters of the universe rule over us. Government is supposed to protect our rights - not rule by phony narrative, force us to do things against our conscience, or seize our assets if we believe different. So if you think left-wing policies are as natural as the air we breathe and implementing them will be a piece of cake and never be challenged, you’ve got another think coming.
4/15/22 - Suing, Buying, and Competing the Delusional Left Out of Existence
“If Elon Musk successfully purchases Twitter, it could result in World War 3 and the destruction of our planet.” That’s what some crazy leftist said on Twitter yesterday. World War 3? The destruction of the planet? What’s interesting to me is that these crazy leftists are so far down the rabbit hole, they could believe such things. They are delusional and should seek professional help.
Meanwhile, back in the real world, reality is delivering some stunning rebukes to these crazy leftists and their crazy beliefs.
A public university in Ohio agreed to pay $400,000 to settle a lawsuit by a philosophy professor who refused to use students’ preferred pronouns. It also agreed to cease and desist in its attempts to force him to use preferred pronouns in the future. It’s crazy for the authoritarian Left to compel speech in violation of the First Amendment and, furthermore, to compel all of society to tell lies. Boys are not girls and girls are not boys. To compel everyone to believe and speak otherwise is straight out of Soviet thought control. To think you have the power to compel everyone on earth to labor under your delusions is really crazy.
If you think $400,000 is a lot, just wait until you hear this. An Ohio appeals court panel just upheld a $44 million judgment against Oberlin College in Ohio for libeling a bakery when the College actively backed a student protest against the bakery. The owner’s son chased down a black student for shoplifting. The student later pled guilty, but protesters accused the bakery of racial profiling and discrimination. The Dean of Students circulated a flyer and the student body passed a resolution, both containing defamatory statements about the bakery - ‘racists’, blah, blah, blah. Defamatory statements were posted in the student union, and the school refused to take them down. The flyer with the false information encouraged students to boycott the bakery. The verdict included $33 million in punitive damages. So, to all you smug crazy leftists out there, who trip over your own virtue signaling and let yourselves get carried away despite the facts of the case, just remember you, too, might one day be staring down the barrel of a $33 million punitive damage award. To persist when the facts show you to be dead wrong, that’s really crazy.
And it’s really crazy to think you can force your beliefs on others. A woman in Tennessee just won a $10,000 settlement from her union that tried to force her to pay union dues to support the union’s pro-abortion stance. She had requested a religious exemption, but the union refused. The union also agreed to write a letter of apology to settle the case. It’s really crazy to think you can force everyone in the world to put their money behind your leftist beliefs.
Back to the Big Lie of transgenderism for a moment, a women’s group has filed a formal civil rights complaint against the University of Pennsylvania for allowing that biological male Lia Thomas to compete on the women’s swim team. You probably heard about the unfair competition and destruction of women’s sports, but the complaint also alleges the university created a hostile environment for women by allowing Thomas into the same locker room where he proudly displayed his male genitalia to the women’s team. Team members requested the school make Thomas use a different locker room, but the coaches refused. You leftists are really crazy if you think you’re going to get away with this kind of stuff.
You’re also crazy to think you’ll never suffer any consequences from your outrageous behavior. Students at Yale protested an event hosted by a conservative legal society featuring a speaker who had defended the Colorado baker in the gay wedding cake case in the Supreme Court. After the protest, a federal judge took the unprecedented step of sending an email to all federal judges in the country encouraging them not to hire any Yale law students who took part in the protest. If the students are not committed to free speech, they shouldn’t be getting prestigious clerkships from federal judges.
So, you put that together with multimillion dollar punitive damage awards, conservatives starting competing companies when authoritarian leftists mess with their free speech, and Elon Musk mounting a hostile takeover of Twitter for doing the same, and you’ve got cold hard facts on the ground that should give even the most insane committed leftists pause. Careful what you wish for, careful what you do, because we’re not going to sit still for your nonsense. We can’t wait to return the favor and sue you, buy you, or compete you out of existence.
4/14/22 - The Personal Tragedy of Transgenderism
I told you a year ago about personal stories of unhappiness coming from transgenders who end up regretting the choices they made. [Daily Skirmish - 4//6/21]. Another such story has just been told. This one is remarkable because it appeared where you would least expect it, in the ultra-liberal Washington Post.
A middle-age transgender who had sex change surgery at 19 wrote, “I know now that I wasn’t old enough to make that decision.” This person now regrets not being able to have children and being condemned to a lifetime of powerful drugs:
The writer is today “alarmed by how readily authority figures facilitate transition. I had to persuade two therapists, an endocrinologist and a surgeon to give me what I wanted. None of them were under crushing professional pressure, as they now would be, to ‘affirm’ my choice.”
The writer advises young people give your body and your sexuality a chance before making irreversible changes:
Another 19-year-old transgender, this one in California, committed suicide. She started transitioning to a boy secretly at her school a couple years earlier, but it never made her happy. Her mother lost custody when the mother wouldn’t get with the program.
A former transgender says kids are often misdiagnosed with ‘gender dysphoria’ and set on a path toward sex change, when what they really need is treatment of their underlying unhappiness. Trauma from adverse childhood experiences like sexual abuse, or physical or emotional abuse, can manifest as gender dysphoria but, once identified and treated, can dissipate without going down the gender transitioning road.
Draft guidelines from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health recommend mental health screenings for adolescents before transitioning starts. This is common sense but, unfortunately, too many professionals skip that step and go right to gender transitioning as the first resort.
A year ago, I wrote about the hundreds of transgenders who regret their choices and seek to detransition, about how hormone blockers are linked to over six thousand deaths, and about individual transgenders lamenting their sex change was a bad idea, and it ruined their life.
Reason is what sets us apart from animals. Humans can think about the consequences before making choices. People who don’t think about the consequences end up having a bad life, it’s that simple. Transgenders with regrets later in life are Exhibit A.
There will always be transgender people, and nobody should hate them or wish them harm. But it’s an adult choice, only to be taken after years of calm reflection, not a choice to be foisted on unsuspecting youth by financially self-interested professionals or ideologically motivated left-wing activists. Think about the consequences - unhappiness, suicide, a lifetime of powerful drugs, among them - before the current bout of transgendermania ruins your life or the life of someone you love.
So ask the professionals trying to make a buck, the activists pursuing a political agenda, and school officials who want to keep it all secret from parents: where’s the fire? Have you made full disclosure of all the risks to me, including not being able to have children and dementia in old age? And are you going to be around to help me if it all goes horribly wrong? See what kind of answers you get. “Most of all, slow down.” The secret is, there is no fire.
4/13/22 - Baby Boy 1
The story coming out of a late-term abortion clinic in Washington, D.C. shows you everything that’s wrong with abortion and the people who promote it.
Here is a picture of Baby Boy 1, one of five babies killed at the clinic recently whose remains were reportedly obtained by a pro-life advocate who has since been arrested.
I defy anyone to look at this picture and tell me this is not a human being:
There are so many reports coming in now about the War on Parents, it’s hard to keep up. Today, I’ll bring you up to date on Disney’s role in all of this, then cover other aspects of the War on Parents in coming days.
The big news on Disney, of course, is the move by Florida to end the special tax district for Disney World. The fight began when Disney opposed Florida’s new law prohibiting classroom instruction on sexual orientation and transgenderism for very young children third grade and below. In response, the state legislature passed and Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill revoking Disney World’s special privileges to build without local approval, to collect taxes, and to issue bonds. Disney shot back, saying the revocation violates the original agreement with the state, as well as state law, and the special district’s status cannot be changed unless and until Florida pays off the district’s billion dollars in outstanding debt. Governor DeSantis denies the state is on the hook and says county taxpayers will not be stuck with tax increases. DeSantis has not offered specifics, so we’ll have to see how all this plays out.
Meanwhile, an heir to the Disney fortune - a high school biology teacher - came out as transgender and blasted Florida’s efforts to prevent the early sexualization of children. The heir’s family is giving half a million dollars to the far-Left Human Rights Campaign which advocates for gender-transitioning young children and giving them puberty-blockers. Walt Disney’s grandson Roy, the heir’s father, said “equality matters deeply to us” because the heir - his child - is transgender and a “proud member” of the LGBTQ+ community. Roy Disney and his wife have supported the Human Rights Campaign group for over 20 years.
In 2012, a Disney cruise ship employee was caught on camera molesting an 11-year-old girl in an elevator. Disney took steps to cover up the incident. Two years later, another Disney cruise ship employee was charged with molesting a 13-year-old girl in an unoccupied cabin. This year, Disney employees were arrested in a prostitution, human trafficking, and child predator sting in Florida not too far from Orlando. Before you dismiss these cases as meaningless, you should know that convicted ‘groomer to the stars’ and Jeffrey Epstein arranger Ghislaine Maxwell hosted a fundraiser called “Happy Family Disney Day” in 1985. You should also know Disney cruise ships took kids to Jeffrey Epstein’s private island for years. And all this is just a coincidence?
Here’s what’s not a coincidence: at the very time Disney started pushing back on Florida’s law prohibiting the early sexualization of young children, Disney started an employee benefits program to help employees and their minor children obtain “gender affirmation procedures.” This typically means puberty blockers, breast removal, and genital surgeries for “kids who are transitioning.”
All of this explains a few things about why the Disney company is pursuing its self-described “not-so-secret gay agenda” and “adding queerness”, in its own words, to programming. Which brings me back to something I’ve said before: I don’t know why any parent of impressionable young children would invite Disney into their living room.
I’ll have more to say about the War on Parents next week.
4/28/22 - Secretary Mayorkas Gaslights Congress
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told Congress yesterday his department has “effectively managed” the crisis at the southern border. Secretary Mayorkas is an excellent liar. Not only is his department not effectively managing the situation, he and others in the Biden administration have deliberately caused the situation with numerous policy changes intended to open the border in the name of racial ‘equity’ or, as I call it, racial payback. Let’s take a trip in the Wayback Machine and look at some of those changes, shall we?
Just yesterday, it was revealed the Biden administration has already started letting more illegal aliens into the country despite Title 42 COVID restrictions by exempting them from health regulations altogether. A memo went out instructing the Border Patrol to work with advocacy groups to get as many illegal aliens as possible into the country using the exemption process. This means the expected Title 42 avalanche of new arrivals is already starting. When the COVID restrictions are eventually lifted, the administration plans to release the flood of new arrivals on their own recognizance or with a notice to appear which, everybody knows, is often ignored.
It was also reported yesterday secret night flights to move illegal aliens by the hundreds of thousands into multiple states are continuing. Many of the aliens on those flights are unaccompanied children. The White House previously admitted a Biden policy decision caused such children to flow across the border in large numbers. The Biden administration also took steps to reunite families separated at the southern border. This includes allowing parents who are not currently in the U.S. to enter the country to settle with their children who are here illegally. Politico Politico U.S. authorities are releasing illegal alien families without court dates or sometimes any paperwork at all. AP
Earlier this year, the administration allowed illegal alien criminals to be released into the general population after they finish their sentences, instead of taking them into custody for deportation as federal law requires. A DHS rule change gave leniency to illegal aliens guilty of nominally less serious crimes. Wife-beaters and other felons now get to stay in the country. At the same time, the number of ICE detainers has dropped by 75 percent under Biden. This means that far fewer criminal illegal aliens are being picked up by the Feds for deportation after serving time in state jails.
Remember, Secretary Mayorkas once said just because somebody is in the country illegally doesn’t mean they should be deported. They get to stay, under the current regime. He followed this up with another policy change declaring illegal aliens could not be arrested at schools, parks, daycare centers, or just about anywhere else they might actually be. Administration policies overall have cut the deportation of illegal aliens by 90 percent.
The Biden administration is ending a program that allowed border agents to quickly return illegal crossers back over the border. Alejandro Mayorkas has been accused of lying in Senate testimony, claiming he is working to deport catch-and-release illegal aliens who fail to show up for ICE appointments when ICE has been telling them they won’t be arrested. The Biden administration also reversed the Trump administration’s move to discourage people more likely to need welfare from coming here. Biden is also taking refugee admissions to the highest numbers in 30 years. DHS plans to allow people who committed fraud in applying for U.S. citizenship to remain citizens, saying the important thing is for them not to have to worry about their future. Washington Times
The administration took immigration courts out of the asylum process and assigned low-level bureaucrats to quickly rubber-stamp asylum claims on the spot when illegal aliens arrive, without any serious examination. The administration also stopped requiring GPS monitoring for illegal aliens released into the country. The administration did its best not to comply with a court order to reinstate Trump’s Remain in Mexico policy, then fought the policy all the way to the Supreme Court.
Illegal aliens can now present their deportation and arrest warrants as acceptable forms of identification to board domestic flights. How accommodating. It’s not the only way the administration has rolled out the welcome mat for illegal aliens. The Biden administration reallocated COVID relief money, meant for Americans, to house illegal aliens pouring across the border. The administration is developing a smartphone app to do pre-screening BEFORE illegal aliens even get here.
Finally, Joe Biden stopped construction on the border wall, costing taxpayers $72 million so far to shut it down.
Hmm... I detect a pattern here. Can you see it? The Biden administration is opening the borders at every turn.
Alejandro Mayorkas told Congress yesterday he is effectively managing the crisis. Sure, and I’m the tooth fairy. He also once declared, “The border is closed.” Funny guy, huh? He also dismissed the idea of national borders altogether, saying they should be viewed as “points of connection” to facilitate the flow of people and goods from different countries.
Alejandro Mayorkas is an excellent liar, exactly the quality you need in a Secretary of Homeland Security if your goal is to erase the border while at the same time convincing people the border is more secure than ever.
You can lie to my face, but I gotta tell you, the gaslighting is not appreciated.
4/27/22 - Don’t Wait for November, Let’s Work on Closing the Border Now
Calls are growing for the impeachment of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas - if Republicans take back the House - for failing to faithfully execute the nation’s immigration laws and leaving the southern border wide open. Mayorkas, you will recall, keeps yapping about “equity” which, when translated into the immigration context, means bringing as many non-whites into the country as possible to fight the evil white supremacist American people. Apparently, he believes his own propaganda, making him a deeply troubled man willing to ignore or break any law to implement his vision of racial payback.
His brand of equity comes at a cost, however. Mayorkas’ policies have effectively put drug cartels in control of the southern border. Border agents seized 123 pounds of heroin, cocaine and marijuana in the El Paso area earlier this month. That’s just the tip of the iceberg. The cartels are using thousands of drone flights to spot gaps in border enforcement, thus informing them where to concentrate their drug smuggling and human trafficking activities. The drones are also used to get fentanyl across the border, since it doesn’t take big amounts of that drug to get a big pay-off. The DEA is warning about a spike in “mass-overdose events”, clusters of fentanyl overdoses and deaths in Austin, Omaha, and other cities.
Another cost of pursuing racial payback is the growing national security threat from an open border. Twenty-three illegal aliens caught crossing the border last year were on the terrorist watch list. We still don’t know what the Biden administration did with them, despite people asking questions. Were they released into the interior of the country like so many other illegal aliens? We don’t know; the Biden administration isn’t saying.
The administration is also hiding the ball on data regarding arrests and deportations, information that was routinely released in previous years. The lack of data allows criminal illegal aliens to run free in the country and prevents analysis of the true effects of the government’s immigration policies, critics say. They also say this suits Secretary Mayorkas and his colleagues just fine because they oppose their own Department’s mission, and don’t care who gets hurt in the process of pursuing racial payback.
The administration also continues to keep illegal alien night flights secret. Critics say the activity shows a systematic plan to move illegal aliens by the hundreds of thousands - or millions - to multiple states around the country, many of them unaccompanied children.
But the ideologues at DHS aren’t done, yet. After the pushback on lifting Title 42 COVID restrictions at the border, the Biden administration has already started letting more illegal aliens into the country by exempting them from health regulations. A memo went out instructing the Border Patrol to work with advocacy groups to get as many illegal aliens as possible into the country using the exemption process. This means the expected Title 42 avalanche of new arrivals is already starting. By the way, exemption from health regulations means not only more COVID, but more ebola, yellow and dengue fever, and drug-resistant tuberculosis being brought into the country in the name of ‘equity’. [Frank Gaffney’s Secure America show, 4/26/22]
Some states are fighting back. Texas Governor Greg Abbott made news when he put illegal aliens on buses to drop them off in Washington, D.C. Twenty-six Republican-led states have joined forces to share intelligence and fight drug and human trafficking. But there’s only so much states can do, after the Supreme Court told Arizona it could not enforce federal immigration laws on its own ten years ago.
If you are an activist fighting the open borders crazies in DHS and the Biden administration, get in touch with me at tips@liberato.us. I can amplify your work through my network of more than a thousand activists, many of whom have substantial activism and media platforms of their own. We don’t have to wait for the Republicans to take back the House. We can put our heads together and figure out ways to get better enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws now.
4/26/22 - Left-Wing Crazies a Danger to Themselves and Others
You might have seen the news over the weekend about a Colorado man who died after setting himself on fire in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. What was not widely reported, however, was the fact the man was a climate activist and his self-immolation was a protest against climate change. A friend of his, a climate scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund, said it was a "deeply fearless act of compassion to bring attention to climate crisis." The left-wing press might have wanted to ignore this part of the story, but I’m going to zero right in on it because it’s part of a pattern: left-wing crazies are a danger to themselves and others.
Speaking of fire, a member of the Nashville school board was caught on a hot mic saying during a meeting break, "Can we just go set Marsha Blackburn on fire?" The member was objecting to the Tennessee Senator’s asking the nominee if she could define a ‘woman’ during the confirmation hearings.
A medical student in North Carolina got mad at a patient who laughed at the student’s pronoun pin and deliberately missed the patient’s vein, necessitating a second needle stick for a blood draw. The student was unhinged enough to brag about it on social media, but it all makes perfect sense when you learn the student had published papers about transgenderism and led a far-left medical group devoted to advocating for LGBTQ+ patients.
A violent left-wing mob chased several members of Young America’s Foundation after the mob disrupted a speech by black conservative Allen West at the University of Buffalo earlier this month. The mob screamed ‘go get her, go capture her, the girl in the red dress.’ They went after the event organizer who said, ‘I realized I was the target for these protesters, and about 200 of my fellow students started hunting me down on campus, started chasing me,’ she said. The mob captured one of the YAF members and beat him.
Actress Sally Fields was ranting about pro-life lawmakers recently, calling them “ignorant” and “power-hungry”. Her harshest words were for the Governors of Texas and Florida: “I can’t say enough horrible things about what I feel about those men,” she said, adding, “If you see them coming toward me, those two governors specifically, lead me out of the way because I cannot be responsible for what I would do.” You know what? I believe her, after reading about all the other violent left-wing crazies out there. This flying nun flew over the cuckoo’s nest.
There’s more. Late-night political hack Stephen Colbert called for Joe Biden to slap Fox News reporter Peter Doocy for daring to ask Biden to clarify his Russia regime change comments last month. Another late-night hack, Jimmy Kimmel, suggested someone slap Marjorie Taylor Greene in the face for not supporting Ketanji Brown Jackson. Greene reported the remark as a threat of violence to the Capitol Police, as well she should have.
This is the same violent Left that burned down cities and tried to burn 113 police officers’ eyes out with lasers in the riots of 2020, while other crazy leftists denied the riots were happening or said they didn’t mean anything. Who could forget that iconic moment when the crazy leftist CNN reporter was saying the riots were ‘mostly peaceful’ when a building was burning on camera behind him.
Hate to break it to you Lefties, but violence is not normal, despite your best efforts to make it so. Every time you stick us with needles, point lasers at us, and chase us down, is another reason for the American people to reject you and everything you stand for. You’re sick. You are a danger to yourselves and others. As a result, your credibility has gone up in smoke.
4/25/22 - Tyranny Is a Heavy Lift
You Lefties out there might not realize it, but you can’t get to where you want to go without telling lots of lies and forcing people to play along.
The Biden administration is getting ready to throw out Trump-era rules that protected doctors and other healthcare workers from being forced to participate in abortions and sex reassignment surgery against their conscience. The move is being called an existential threat to Catholic hospitals and other faith-based healthcare facilities. So much for free will, personal autonomy, and limited government. This is government without limits, government that tramples the individual. Under this reasoning, any group that gets control of the government can force you to do just about anything, whether you like it or not. You might like government forcing doctors to perform abortions against their will today, but I guarantee you won’t like it when the government forces your doctor to put a surveillance chip inside your head tomorrow. And that just one scenario for what lies ahead if the authoritarian Left consolidates its control over all healthcare.
A law set to take effect in California next year will force every state university to give free abortion pills to its students. Not only are the pills dangerous and can kill the women who take them, conscience is once again implicated because you can bet there will be people forced into paying for and dispensing the pills who don’t believe in chemical abortions. But that’s what happens when you put the power of the state behind fanatical left-wing beliefs and force everyone to get with the program, or else.
California is also the place where fanatical Leftists want to give the state the power to take medical licenses away from doctors who disagree with government narratives on COVID. I’ve commented before about how government health authorities have been wrong about masks, lockdowns, natural immunity, and just about everything else having to do with COVID. [Daily Skirmish 2/10/22] But now the Left wants the power to stop anybody who disagrees with these erroneous positions from practicing medicine at all. Putting left-wing political hacks in charge of scientific truth is not the way forward.
There are other dangers in allowing the government to enforce phony narratives. The Department of Homeland Security now considers you a national security threat if you question the government’s pronouncements on COVID, or question the 2020 election. That’s a lot of people, half the population in the case of the dubious 2020 election results. What are you going to do, lock us all up? Go ahead and try.
Another danger of the government enforcing phony narratives is that the truth becomes hate speech. In Sweden, a professor faces prosecution for publishing a research paper showing that most rapes in the country are committed by migrants. The Swedish government evidently doesn’t want anyone telling the truth about migrants and will bring the full weight of the state down on anybody who does.
Wrong direction but, if you insist on going down that road, you should know you’re going to need ever-increasing amounts of coercion to keep dissenters in check. It’s already suspected the federal government was tracking lots of people who met certain profiles through their cell phones before the 2020 election in order to get a head start on arresting them later. It’s not so far-fetched when you consider Justin Trudeau confiscated bank accounts of people he didn’t like during the trucker protests. He also tried to freeze their cryptocurrency accounts. This is the mindset of the authoritarian Left which is perfectly willing to trample the individual and view us as state property, a mindset that wants to force you to give up your organs when you die, no matter your personal beliefs or wishes.
It’s not supposed to be this way. We the People are supposed to be in charge, not have wannabe masters of the universe rule over us. Government is supposed to protect our rights - not rule by phony narrative, force us to do things against our conscience, or seize our assets if we believe different. So if you think left-wing policies are as natural as the air we breathe and implementing them will be a piece of cake and never be challenged, you’ve got another think coming.
4/15/22 - Suing, Buying, and Competing the Delusional Left Out of Existence
“If Elon Musk successfully purchases Twitter, it could result in World War 3 and the destruction of our planet.” That’s what some crazy leftist said on Twitter yesterday. World War 3? The destruction of the planet? What’s interesting to me is that these crazy leftists are so far down the rabbit hole, they could believe such things. They are delusional and should seek professional help.
Meanwhile, back in the real world, reality is delivering some stunning rebukes to these crazy leftists and their crazy beliefs.
A public university in Ohio agreed to pay $400,000 to settle a lawsuit by a philosophy professor who refused to use students’ preferred pronouns. It also agreed to cease and desist in its attempts to force him to use preferred pronouns in the future. It’s crazy for the authoritarian Left to compel speech in violation of the First Amendment and, furthermore, to compel all of society to tell lies. Boys are not girls and girls are not boys. To compel everyone to believe and speak otherwise is straight out of Soviet thought control. To think you have the power to compel everyone on earth to labor under your delusions is really crazy.
If you think $400,000 is a lot, just wait until you hear this. An Ohio appeals court panel just upheld a $44 million judgment against Oberlin College in Ohio for libeling a bakery when the College actively backed a student protest against the bakery. The owner’s son chased down a black student for shoplifting. The student later pled guilty, but protesters accused the bakery of racial profiling and discrimination. The Dean of Students circulated a flyer and the student body passed a resolution, both containing defamatory statements about the bakery - ‘racists’, blah, blah, blah. Defamatory statements were posted in the student union, and the school refused to take them down. The flyer with the false information encouraged students to boycott the bakery. The verdict included $33 million in punitive damages. So, to all you smug crazy leftists out there, who trip over your own virtue signaling and let yourselves get carried away despite the facts of the case, just remember you, too, might one day be staring down the barrel of a $33 million punitive damage award. To persist when the facts show you to be dead wrong, that’s really crazy.
And it’s really crazy to think you can force your beliefs on others. A woman in Tennessee just won a $10,000 settlement from her union that tried to force her to pay union dues to support the union’s pro-abortion stance. She had requested a religious exemption, but the union refused. The union also agreed to write a letter of apology to settle the case. It’s really crazy to think you can force everyone in the world to put their money behind your leftist beliefs.
Back to the Big Lie of transgenderism for a moment, a women’s group has filed a formal civil rights complaint against the University of Pennsylvania for allowing that biological male Lia Thomas to compete on the women’s swim team. You probably heard about the unfair competition and destruction of women’s sports, but the complaint also alleges the university created a hostile environment for women by allowing Thomas into the same locker room where he proudly displayed his male genitalia to the women’s team. Team members requested the school make Thomas use a different locker room, but the coaches refused. You leftists are really crazy if you think you’re going to get away with this kind of stuff.
You’re also crazy to think you’ll never suffer any consequences from your outrageous behavior. Students at Yale protested an event hosted by a conservative legal society featuring a speaker who had defended the Colorado baker in the gay wedding cake case in the Supreme Court. After the protest, a federal judge took the unprecedented step of sending an email to all federal judges in the country encouraging them not to hire any Yale law students who took part in the protest. If the students are not committed to free speech, they shouldn’t be getting prestigious clerkships from federal judges.
So, you put that together with multimillion dollar punitive damage awards, conservatives starting competing companies when authoritarian leftists mess with their free speech, and Elon Musk mounting a hostile takeover of Twitter for doing the same, and you’ve got cold hard facts on the ground that should give even the most insane committed leftists pause. Careful what you wish for, careful what you do, because we’re not going to sit still for your nonsense. We can’t wait to return the favor and sue you, buy you, or compete you out of existence.
4/14/22 - The Personal Tragedy of Transgenderism
I told you a year ago about personal stories of unhappiness coming from transgenders who end up regretting the choices they made. [Daily Skirmish - 4//6/21]. Another such story has just been told. This one is remarkable because it appeared where you would least expect it, in the ultra-liberal Washington Post.
A middle-age transgender who had sex change surgery at 19 wrote, “I know now that I wasn’t old enough to make that decision.” This person now regrets not being able to have children and being condemned to a lifetime of powerful drugs:
- Surgery unshackled me from my body’s urges, but the destruction of my gonads introduced a different type of bondage. From the day of my surgery, I became a medical patient and will remain one for the rest of my life. I must choose between the risks of taking exogenous estrogen, which include venous thromboembolism and stroke, or the risks of taking nothing, which includes degeneration of bone health. In either case, my risk of dementia is higher, a side effect of eschewing testosterone.
The writer is today “alarmed by how readily authority figures facilitate transition. I had to persuade two therapists, an endocrinologist and a surgeon to give me what I wanted. None of them were under crushing professional pressure, as they now would be, to ‘affirm’ my choice.”
The writer advises young people give your body and your sexuality a chance before making irreversible changes:
- Most of all, slow down. You may yet decide to make the change. But if you explore the world by inhabiting your body as it is, perhaps you’ll find that you love it more than you thought possible.
Another 19-year-old transgender, this one in California, committed suicide. She started transitioning to a boy secretly at her school a couple years earlier, but it never made her happy. Her mother lost custody when the mother wouldn’t get with the program.
A former transgender says kids are often misdiagnosed with ‘gender dysphoria’ and set on a path toward sex change, when what they really need is treatment of their underlying unhappiness. Trauma from adverse childhood experiences like sexual abuse, or physical or emotional abuse, can manifest as gender dysphoria but, once identified and treated, can dissipate without going down the gender transitioning road.
Draft guidelines from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health recommend mental health screenings for adolescents before transitioning starts. This is common sense but, unfortunately, too many professionals skip that step and go right to gender transitioning as the first resort.
A year ago, I wrote about the hundreds of transgenders who regret their choices and seek to detransition, about how hormone blockers are linked to over six thousand deaths, and about individual transgenders lamenting their sex change was a bad idea, and it ruined their life.
Reason is what sets us apart from animals. Humans can think about the consequences before making choices. People who don’t think about the consequences end up having a bad life, it’s that simple. Transgenders with regrets later in life are Exhibit A.
There will always be transgender people, and nobody should hate them or wish them harm. But it’s an adult choice, only to be taken after years of calm reflection, not a choice to be foisted on unsuspecting youth by financially self-interested professionals or ideologically motivated left-wing activists. Think about the consequences - unhappiness, suicide, a lifetime of powerful drugs, among them - before the current bout of transgendermania ruins your life or the life of someone you love.
So ask the professionals trying to make a buck, the activists pursuing a political agenda, and school officials who want to keep it all secret from parents: where’s the fire? Have you made full disclosure of all the risks to me, including not being able to have children and dementia in old age? And are you going to be around to help me if it all goes horribly wrong? See what kind of answers you get. “Most of all, slow down.” The secret is, there is no fire.
4/13/22 - Baby Boy 1
The story coming out of a late-term abortion clinic in Washington, D.C. shows you everything that’s wrong with abortion and the people who promote it.
Here is a picture of Baby Boy 1, one of five babies killed at the clinic recently whose remains were reportedly obtained by a pro-life advocate who has since been arrested.
I defy anyone to look at this picture and tell me this is not a human being:
via LifeNews
This boy was a nearly full term baby, viable outside the womb. The photo shows that “that he remained largely intact, raising questions about how his life ended. He also has what appears to be a fully formed face, fingers, toes, and all the primary features normally visible in a newborn.”
Abortion supporters want legal cover to be able to kill babies like this up to birth. If you support this, I will tell you right to your face you are a monster.
But the abortion-industrial complex has circled the wagons. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser refuses to investigate, even though the five babies might have been killed in illegal partial birth abortions, killed after birth, or left to die after being born alive.
Gone are the days when abortion rights supporters would tell you they wanted abortions to be ‘safe, legal, and rare.’ Now we get hysterical attempts to push the envelope precisely at the moment public support for abortion is dwindling and the Supreme Court is poised to pull back on abortion rights. The demands are getting more shrill and outrageous. Now, abortionistas claim the right to an ‘effective abortion’, meaning, they want to kill the baby if it’s born alive. An abortionist at that D.C. clinic admitted some years ago, that he “probably wouldn’t” help a baby who survived an abortion even though “legally we would be obligated to help.” So much for the law. One of his staff said at the time a baby born alive after a botched abortion should just be flushed down the toilet. So much for humanity.
A Democrat-controlled committee in the California Assembly recently reported out a bill critics say would allow infanticide, letting babies die up to 6 weeks after birth. As originally written, the bill would have allowed the murder of newborns for any reason. The language was revised, but it still allows the killing of infants and discourages law enforcement from investigating the circumstances.
California isn’t the only place pushing the envelope. Democrat-controlled Colorado and New Jersey now have laws allowing abortion up to birth. The Democrats who control the U.S. Senate wanted to federalize a right to abortion up to birth and shred all state pro-life laws in the process. The bill failed, but by only one vote.
Take a look at the picture of Baby Boy 1 again. Look long and hard. If you support his killing, or the Democrats’ insane drive for abortion up to birth and beyond, I don’t mind telling you to your face you are a monster. The only question is, what kind of monster are you?
4/12/22 - Cheap Chinese Import: Swamp Gas and Muck
Today, we look at the latest ways communist China has compromised our elites, in a process that has come to be called ‘elite capture’. We’ll leave Hunter Biden’s laptop and questions about whether Joe Biden has corruptly sold his office for another day. There are plenty of other things happening.
Liz Cheney’s husband’s law firm represents Chinese companies tied to China’s military, intelligence, and security services. So when Liz Cheney says we need to stand up to the “generational threat” posed by China’s “malign behavior”, just remember where her bread is buttered and ask yourself if it’s all just posturing.
Members of the Bush family have ties to China. Prescott Bush got a golf course approved in China - no mean feat - when his brother George H. W. Bush was president. Another brother, Neil Bush, got a contract during that presidency with a Chinese semiconductor firm. He had no qualifications for the work, but got paid $400,000 a year, anyway. Sound familiar? More recently, the Bush Foundation sent 2 million COVID masks to China at a time the U.S. was facing a mask shortage. And we’re supposed to believe the Bush family has America’s best interests at heart?
Tony Podesta, brother of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign chairman John Podesta, received at least a million dollars to lobby the White House last year on behalf of the giant Chinese telecom company Huawei. Huawei, you might recall, was banned in the U.S. and eight other countries because it poses national security risks.
Republican lawmakers accuse a Chinese surveillance firm of sparking a congressional investigation into a U.S. company which had been exposing the Chinese firm’s monitoring of the Uighurs in Xinjiang province for the Chinese Communist Party. The U.S. company says the investigation is part of the CCP’s efforts to silence critics of China’s genocide and repression of the Uighurs.
There’s a bill in Congress to require think tanks and nonprofits to disclose foreign funding, like universities currently have to do. The bill is intended in part to address Russian funding of U.S. environmental groups, but notes, “A number of ... think tanks, and other civil society organizations receive substantial funding from Beijing that is often targeted at shaping views and discourse on China.” The money comes from a political warfare arm of the CCP that works to undermine democratic countries around the world, including the U.S.
The bill is a good idea, but it will have to get past Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell first, both of whom have their own China problems. Nancy’s husband and son get a lot of money from business relationships in China which, critics say, has led her to soften her criticism of Chinese human rights abuses. As for Mitch McConnell, an Inspector General report recommended his wife Elaine Chao be criminally prosecuted for helping a U.S. shipping company owned by her father and sister with extensive business in China while she was Secretary of Transportation under Donald Trump. The Justice Department may have declined to investigate, but the stench remains.
Now that more people are waking up to the fact that China is our enemy and seeks to put the entire world under its authoritarian thumb, it’s time root out Chinese elite capture and drain this part of the swamp.
4/11/22 - Crime Is Soaring in Joe Biden’s America
If you needed more evidence Woke criminal justice reform is the wrong way to go, it came with the arrest of the second suspect in the Sacramento gang shooting this month that left six dead and 12 wounded. The second suspect had been released early from a ten-year prison sentence under a new California law that reduced punishment for felonies. This time, you can’t blame the politicians. California voters approved this change in the law. It’s pure insanity. Punching your girlfriend, dragging her home by the hair, and whipping her with a belt are all now considered ‘nonviolent offenses’ qualifying for early release.
You can’t blame the politicians in Oregon, either. One year after state residents voted to decriminalize drug possession, Oregon now ranks second in the nation in substance abuse disorders and worst in the country for people needing but not receiving drug treatment. Overdose deaths are increasing. Way to go Oregon, problem solved!
Crime is up 44 percent in New York City this year, where politicians are trying to back-pedal from Woke bail reform. It’s also up 36 percent in Chicago, where Mayor Lori Lightfoot defunded the police and refused to call out the National Guard to put down the riots.
Not only has Woke criminal justice reform made crime rates go up, it’s gotten police officers killed. A hundred and one police officers have been shot in the line of duty so far this year, including 17 fatalities. The shootings are up 43 percent from last year.
After the rise of smash-and-grab robberies in recent months - including in Chicago and Beverly Hills - the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is begging for a stronger response to shoplifting and organized retail crime. You know, shoplifting, which the Woke crowd says it totally justified because it redistributes income? Shop owners should just file their insurance claims and get over it.
Unfortunately, this kind of thinking just got institutionalized a bit with the ascent of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. She is a proponent of Critical Race Theory (CRT) which holds that society is systemically racist and all non-white people are oppressed. She claimed during her confirmation hearings CRT does not come up in her work, but she was dissembling. She has advocated in the past for making CRT a factor in sentencing. In plain English, she believes sentencing cannot be fair unless the race of the defendant is considered and non-whites get breaks that whites do not. Isn’t there an equal protection clause against that kind of thing? It doesn’t matter. Blind Lady Justice goes out the window when Woke Lady Justice Jackson goes to the Supreme Court.
Democrats put her there. Democrats also defunded the police, reduced penalties for felonies, caused more drug use through decriminalization, and let more repeat offenders back out on the street with Woke bail reform. But now they have the nerve to pretend they are tough on crime. Democrats in New York, New Jersey, and New Mexico are pushing legislation that would roll back bail reform and bring back tougher sentences. The motivation could be confession of error - they knew these were bad mistakes, or it could be the fact they have to face the voters in November. In any event, it’s too little, too late. They will get hammered by the voters in the elections later this year, as they so richly deserve for caving into the Woke Progressive wing of their party. The reckoning for wrecking America is coming on this and many other issues.
4/8/22 - Ode to No Joy: A World Without Beethoven, Edison, or Van Gogh
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I visited the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. over New Year's. I hadn’t been there in at least ten years. One of the exhibits that made a big impression on me on previous visits was no longer there - an ambulance with the windows painted black. The Nazis used ambulances like that to round-up disabled people and take them to the hospital to be killed without anybody seeing what they were doing.
Ten days ago, Oregon announced it would stop enforcing its residency requirement for assisted suicide. Now, anyone in the United States can travel to Oregon to have the government there help them kill themselves. I’ve been tracking the assisted suicide issue for a long time, and I can tell you it is well-documented one of the motivating factors among promoters of assisted suicide is prejudice against the disabled. It’s also well-known there are lots of cases where relatives and beneficiaries pressure people into assisted suicide. So you have to wonder how long it will be before disabled people from across the country are pressured to go to Oregon to be killed.
As for proof that prejudice against the disabled motivates assisted suicide supporters, a U.N. report two years ago noted “widespread prejudice and discrimination against persons with disabilities.” It went on to say, “From a disability rights perspective, there is a grave concern that legalizing euthanasia and assisted suicide could put at risk the lives of persons with disabilities. If assisted dying is made available for all persons with a health condition or impairment, regardless of whether they are terminally ill or not, a social assumption might follow that it is better to be dead than to live with a disability.”
Last month, disabled members of the House of Lords in the U.K. spoke out against an assisted suicide bill, firmly rejecting the notions they would be better off dead than disabled and their impairments make their lives less worth living. A disability rights lawyer in Connecticut has been fighting for 40 years on behalf of disabled people she knows can live “productive and fulfilling lives,” lives assisted suicide would cut short. Lives of the disabled are now being cut short in Austria, where assisted suicide became legal this year for people with debilitating conditions even though they are not terminally ill.
Austria, where Mozart was born. It is suspected Mozart suffered from Tourette syndrome. Imagine a world without Mozart’s ‘The Magic Flute’, or without Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Beethoven was deaf when he wrote it, and was actually going deaf while writing his first symphony. Or a world where the light bulb, phonograph, or movies were never invented - Edison was also mostly deaf. Henry Ford had a severe hearing loss, but he was still able to bring the automobile to the masses. Van Gogh was mentally ill and suffered hallucinations and seizures, but that didn’t stop him from painting ‘The Starry Night’. John Milton was blind when he wrote ‘Paradise Lost’. I encountered blind lawyers, deaf lawyers, and lawyers in wheelchairs when I was practicing law. The Austrian Paul Wittgenstein lost his right arm in World War I, but went on to a brilliant career as a concert pianist afterwards, playing specially commissioned works by Richard Strauss and other famous composers. Imagine if he were living today and were being pressured by his fellow Austrians to end his life because he had a debilitating, non-terminal condition.
All of these stories about these and other less than perfectly formed people were brought to my attention by a wonderful disabled man, Mark Davis Pickup of Canada who, after many years in a motorized wheelchair, began to walk again. Pickup recently wrote his mission in life is to help others bear their suffering and find hope. Who are you to say that a man who has brought such beauty, grace, and joy to this world has no right to be here? Or should be transported to Oregon in an ambulance with the windows painted black to be killed? Read his blog at HumanLifeMatters.org and be enlightened.
4/7/22 - Biden Rolling Out the Welcome Mat for New Border-Jumpers
New details are emerging about what will happen at the southern border once COVID restrictions are lifted on illegal immigration. The Feds are expecting 18,000 border-jumpers a day. That’s more than a half a million a month.
Three states have sued to get the COVID restrictions reinstated. In addition, Texas Governor Greg Abbott said he will bus illegal aliens to the steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said he will send them to Joe Biden’s home state of Delaware, as both reacted to the expected surge in illegal immigration.
So, some are fighting the Feds, but the fix is in. All that talk about addressing root causes of illegal immigration was just talk. The Biden administration is rolling out the welcome mat for the new wave of lawless border-jumpers.
A leaked DHS memo shows the administration will use “broadscale release mechanisms” to open the floodgates. In plain English, this means illegal aliens will be released on their own recognizance or with a notice to appear which, everybody knows, is often ignored. This memo follows a long list of policy changes the Biden administration has made to open the border since it’s been in office, changes I’ve documented in previous commentaries.
But the administration isn’t done yet; the Feds want to open the door even wider to illegal aliens. The administration is in discussions to roll out a smartphone app to do pre-screening BEFORE illegal aliens jump the border. Plans are also being laid to spend big on illegal aliens once they arrive: $69 million for medical support at 63 locations; $32 million for medical claims; $29 million for a new Office of the Chief Medical Officer; $140 million for a new processing center; $97 million for flights and ground transportation; $24 million for humanitarian relief necessitated by opening the border; $25 million for emergency family shelter beds; $527 million for alternatives to detention; $12 million for victim assistance necessitated by causing the immigrant crime problem in the first place; $375 million to administer looser asylum standards; and $389 million to process the application backlog caused by its own policies. By the way, there are more than 8 million pending applications - 8 MILLION. And healthcare for detained illegal aliens cost U.S. taxpayers $316 million last year.
The Biden administration is releasing single adult aliens into the interior by the hundreds every day. They’re given a cellphone so they can be tracked, but there’s nothing the Feds can do if the aliens toss the phones. The administration is also allowing illegal alien criminals to be released into the general population after they finish their sentences, instead of taking them into custody for deportation as federal law requires. The Biden administration had wanted to limit deportation to serious criminals, but a court partially blocked that for now. Finally, as previously reported, the administration is moving to take immigration courts out of the asylum process and have low-level bureaucrats quickly rubber-stamp asylum claims on the spot when illegal aliens arrive, without any serious examination.
A lot of these new changes ignore federal laws passed by Congress. So where is Congress in all this? Why aren’t the House and Senate holding oversight hearings to protect their power and insist Joe Biden faithfully execute the laws, as he is constitutionally required to do? Oh, I forgot. They’re controlled by Democrats, too.
A reckoning is coming.
4/6/22 - How to Steal an Election
Today, I’m going to tell you how to steal an election. Everything I’m about to tell you comes from recent documented findings about problems with the 2020 elections.
If I wanted to steal an election, one thing I would do is engage in ballot harvesting, which is illegal in many places. A citizens’ group found, in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, perhaps 7 percent of ballots put in drop boxes were in batches, not single ballots, and therefore illegal. If you extrapolate this out across the country, it could have been 5 million illegal votes in the 2020 election. A Wisconsin state senator filed a complaint with the Wisconsin Elections Commission alleging the city of Racine is currently intentionally ignoring the law and court rulings by allowing people to return ballots for other voters. The problem with ballot harvesting is you don’t know the circumstances under which the ballots were obtained, perhaps fraudulently or under pressure, or maybe they are completely made up, you just don’t know. Doesn’t sound like a free and fair election to me.
In fact, there’s surveillance video and cellphone evidence in Georgia of 2,000 mules dumping multiple ballots into drop boxes while wearing latex gloves and disguises in 2020. Not only that, they stopped off at Stacey Abrams’ headquarters and Democrat offices between runs where, it is thought, they picked up the ballots. Does that sound like a free and fair election to you? Before you answer ‘yes’, you should know an official investigation is ongoing.
Another thing I would do to steal an election is make sure the voter rolls were as dirty as possible. There’s been an awful lot of resistance in recent years from elections officials who just do not want to clean up the rolls. For example, 60,000 voters on North Carolina’s rolls are dead, registered twice, or enrolled in another state, according to a new public interest law firm report. If you’re going to steal an election, you need dirty voter rolls to supply names of real registered voters who haven’t voted to which to assign all the fake votes you generate, so things tally and look kosher at the end.
Speaking of fake votes, remember the truck driver who courageously stepped forward and told the nation he had hauled 288,000 suspicious ballots from New York to Pennsylvania in the 2020 election? The U.S. Postal Service still refuses to release its investigative report on the matter. What’s up with that?
If I wanted to steal an election, I’d get a billionaire friend of mine to dump $400 million into thinly disguised get-out-the-vote drives for Democrats. Mark Zuckerberg did that in the 2020 election, with just enough money going to Republican areas so that the people involved in the effort could think they had covered themselves. But the chickens are coming home to roost. Milwaukee city officials have just been accused of election bribery in accepting grants from a Mark Zuckerberg-funded organization, according to a complaint filed with the Wisconsin Elections Commission. The Zuckerbucks story isn’t over, not by a long shot.
Another thing I would do is rig the machines. You might recall that a court-ordered forensic audit of electronic voting machines in Antrim County, Michigan found the machines deliberately created a 68 percent error rate right off the bat. What’s that about? More recently, an examination of machine ballot images in Colorado showed new databases were created partway through the 2020 election, enabling the machines to essentially keep two sets of books. The examiners further found the numbers did not add up and the log files were overwritten, not accidentally but extensively. No wonder people want to go back to paper ballots and laws have been passed in some states to keep the machines from connecting to the Internet.
There’s lots more I would do: count absentee ballots anyway even though the signatures don’t match what’s on file; get felons to vote illegally; and get school administrators to sweep student records to find more votes for Democrat candidates.
After I did all these things, I would turn around and claim we just had the most secure election ever. The bigger the lie, the more believable it is, that’s Propaganda 101.
All kidding aside, we on the grassroots political Right are not going to let the 2020 election go. We are not going to just ‘move along’. We want all the documented problems run to ground and fixed. The way I hear the story, $20 to $30 million dollars has come from big donors on the Right to fix these problems. That’s buying an awful lot of vigilance now and new efforts from the professional Right to ensure election integrity cross my desk several times a day. So, if Democrats want to steal elections in the future, they’ll need a whole new bag of tricks. And we’re watching - closely - so good luck with that.
4/5/22 - Swamp Creatures on the Loose
Swamp creatures are on the loose, being sighted all over Washington, D.C.
At the White House, a medical technology CEO and friend of Joe Biden who donated to Biden’s campaign was rewarded with a White House post on the President’s council of science advisors and given millions of dollars in federal contracts. Critics call it cronyism, and neither the CEO nor the White House is answering questions.
General Motors hired Joe Biden’s niece to work on environmental sustainability goals. Joe Biden wants to spend big on green energy and electric vehicles. General Motors is moving into the production of electric vehicles, big-time. What could possibly go wrong here? See how this works?
The Biden administration is racking up federal ethics waivers, more than 50 so far. A watchdog group is having a devil of a time getting the details, as six agencies have not responded to the group’s Freedom of Information Act requests.
At the Capitol, Congress critters are giving Biden administration swamp creatures a run for their money.
A Republican Congressman from Nebraska was convicted of lying to the FBI about a foreign campaign contribution. He resigned - good riddance.
A Democrat congressman from New Jersey boasted in campaign ads he wouldn’t take corporate PAC money so they wouldn’t ‘own him’, but he has now been caught taking tens of thousands of dollars from business special interest groups and corporate lobbyists.
A watchdog group found five Senate committee staffers own stock in industries that could come before their committees, in violation of Senate rules. For example, a banking committee staffer owns stock in three financial institutions, including Wells Fargo.
But the fish rots from the head down. A new report shows 49 members of Congress failed to properly report their stock trades as required by law. There are stories of members of Congress or people they know trading stocks after congressional meetings. That’s called insider trading and can be against the law.
Democrat Congressman from Texas Henry Cuellar used almost $100,000 in campaign cash to fund a private plane. His home was raided in January in a separate ethics probe. He’ll be in a run-off primary election in May so, Texas voters just remember, you get the government you deserve.
A private plane - that’s nothing. An Illinois Democrat in the House apparently used campaign funds to bribe a rival candidate to stay out of her primary election by giving the rival a job. She’s not talking. I don’t blame her. Congressional investigators say this is illegal.
Nepotism. Bribery. Selling your office. Using campaign funds for personal expenses. Phony promises to refuse special interest money. What’s next - orgies and cocaine parties in Washington? Naw, couldn’t be. Our elites could not possibly be that corrupt, could they?
4/4/22 - Obamacare: Where Does It Hurt?
The problems with Obamacare are well-known. So are the lies.
Let’s start with the lies. Obamacare fans are still crowing about the program’s record enrollment this year - 14.5 million. Undoubtedly, it will be mentioned when former President Obama visits the White House tomorrow to celebrate Obamacare. What they’re not telling you is they promised 21 million people would sign up for Obamacare when it was passed. I don’t see how falling 50 percent short of your goal is anything to crow about. And the only reason enrollment is high this year is because Obamacare subsidies are temporarily jumbo-sized. Temporarily. An HHS report indicates enrollment could fall back to 11 million next year if the bigger subsidies are not made permanent.
Now for the problems. President Obama promised families would save $2,500 a year on their health insurance, but premiums have tripled since Obamacare was signed into law. Congressman Byron Donalds says he’s never paid higher premiums than under Obamacare. But locking higher subsidies into place permanently, as Biden and the Democrats want to do, will be inflationary. Higher subsidies will cost $220 billion over the next decade and, thanks to looser eligibility requirements, benefit the wealthy - people making more than six figures - more than low income families. It’s foreseeable health insurers will raise prices. The problem will be worse in the one-third of counties that still only have one or two Obamacare insurers; they’ll raise prices even more. This is so typical of Democrats - they cause a problem, then turn around and say, ‘oh, but we’ll HELP you,’ offering Band-Aids to fix the problems they created in the first place. It’s one of their machines for buying votes.
And you’ll notice Obamacare pushed government assistance into the middle class, way beyond the poverty level where government assistance programs first started. Making it so the middle class and now even well-off people can’t function without the assistance of the federal government - what do you suppose that’s about? Whatever the Democrats’ ulterior motive, it’s the wrong direction. And it’s a trap. Democrats are working to cut off escape routes like short-term plans so there’s no escape. The increased availability of cheaper short-term plans was very popular under Trump, but Democrats want to cut them to three months with no renewal. [Heartland Institute Health Care News, p. 5]
The problems with Obamacare don’t end there. Obamacare’s crowning achievement was supposedly covering people with preexisting conditions, but stories persist of cancer victims being denied coverage. No, you can’t keep your doctor and you can’t keep your plan. Obamacare’s regulatory burden has cost small business $64.6 billion and more than 3.3 billion hours of lost productivity. Some insurers continue to trip up on Obamacare’s adverse selection problem - the idea that the sickest people sign up for Obamacare plans. Adverse selection hits the insurers’ bottom line and they’re getting out of the marketplace. That problem is baked into Obamacare’s design and can’t be fixed. Finally, Obamacare did nothing to fix the problem of people not going to the doctor because they can’t afford it.
We’re stuck with all these problems for the moment, because there’s no chance of repealing Obamacare any time soon. But that doesn’t mean we should accept this crazy contraption as normal or fall for it the next time the Democrats promise us the earth, the moon, and the stars.
4/1/22 - OK, Groomer
The War on Parents is heating up. A public middle school in Connecticut suspended a school nurse for revealing online the school was secretly gender-transitioning kids without their parents’ knowledge. The nurse said the school was giving puberty blockers to kids and starting the process of confusing kids about their gender in kindergarten. Teachers, social workers, and school administrators are all part of the program. In suspending the nurse, the school said some remarkable things: It is the school’s job, not the parents’ job, to be the caretakers of children. Further, schools and not the parents must provide for the health, well-being, and social and emotional development of children. That’s just stunning. The job of the parents, I guess, is to just shut up and pay the taxes that make all this insanity possible. Not to mention, as ‘birthing persons’, to turn out new lab rats for professional left-wing activists’ social engineering experiments.
Connecticut isn’t the only place where this insurrection is taking place. New reports have come in about public schools in New Jersey forcing students to learn about transgender hormone therapy without their parents’ knowledge or consent, and secret gender-transitioning occurring in schools in California, Wisconsin, and Florida. Federal support for this began in the Obama administration. The Biden administration just yesterday picked up where Obama left off, affirming puberty blockers and irreversible sex-change surgery for children.
In Texas, the state Attorney General informed the Austin school district it was breaking state law by holding Pride Week events that provided sex education to students without parental consent. The schools encouraged students to keep the content of the instruction secret from their parents. “What we say in this room stays in this room,” pre-K through second graders were told. The schools fired back against the Attorney General, telling him they want their “LGBTQIA+ students to know that we are proud of them and that we will protect them against political attacks.”
So public schools in Texas and Connecticut are NOT SORRY for driving wedges between children and their parents, or for signing kids up for political agendas, specifically, the sexual revolution and the fundamental transformation of this horrible rotten place we call America. Public schools in Eau Claire, Wisconsin aren’t sorry, either. According to them, parents are not entitled to know about their child’s sexuality at all, UNLESS the parents are fully on board with the schools’ left-wing agenda to completely destroy society in order to save it. If the parents will support the political agenda, then and only then can they be brought into the loop and be told about their children.
Here are the consequences of keeping parents in the dark and claiming it’s not their job to worry about the mental health of their children: A California teen committed suicide after being coached by her high school on how to get hormone treatment and sex-change surgery when she should have been referred for treatment for her depression. The mother blames the school, which kept everything secret, for her daughter’s death.
Anybody who opposes any of this insanity is branded a domestic terrorist by our federal government. Schools in Fairfax County, Virginia asked for proposals to collect intelligence on parents. The contract calls for monitoring social media posts, identifying parents by their real names, and mapping out all their associations. The funny thing about Fairfax is, all the school board members are professional left-wing activists. There is not even one parent on that school board.
Are you starting to get the picture? I’ve documented several times the communist roots of all this. I’ll tell you who the real terrorists are - professional left-wing activist teachers, school administrators, and school board members who will stop at nothing - even espionage - to pursue their left-wing agendas and tear everything down until there’s nothing left. It’s no accident communist theorists like Herbert Marcuse and Wilhelm Reich were the ones who ushered in the sexual revolution. And it’s no accident another communist theorist Georgi Lukacs called it “cultural terrorism”.
None of this has anything to do with education or children’s well-being. it all has to do with a communist program to destroy America. If that doesn’t bother you, and you just keep sitting on your couch eating bonbons, I guarantee you, pretty soon, you won’t have an America left to eat bonbons in.
Abortion supporters want legal cover to be able to kill babies like this up to birth. If you support this, I will tell you right to your face you are a monster.
But the abortion-industrial complex has circled the wagons. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser refuses to investigate, even though the five babies might have been killed in illegal partial birth abortions, killed after birth, or left to die after being born alive.
Gone are the days when abortion rights supporters would tell you they wanted abortions to be ‘safe, legal, and rare.’ Now we get hysterical attempts to push the envelope precisely at the moment public support for abortion is dwindling and the Supreme Court is poised to pull back on abortion rights. The demands are getting more shrill and outrageous. Now, abortionistas claim the right to an ‘effective abortion’, meaning, they want to kill the baby if it’s born alive. An abortionist at that D.C. clinic admitted some years ago, that he “probably wouldn’t” help a baby who survived an abortion even though “legally we would be obligated to help.” So much for the law. One of his staff said at the time a baby born alive after a botched abortion should just be flushed down the toilet. So much for humanity.
A Democrat-controlled committee in the California Assembly recently reported out a bill critics say would allow infanticide, letting babies die up to 6 weeks after birth. As originally written, the bill would have allowed the murder of newborns for any reason. The language was revised, but it still allows the killing of infants and discourages law enforcement from investigating the circumstances.
California isn’t the only place pushing the envelope. Democrat-controlled Colorado and New Jersey now have laws allowing abortion up to birth. The Democrats who control the U.S. Senate wanted to federalize a right to abortion up to birth and shred all state pro-life laws in the process. The bill failed, but by only one vote.
Take a look at the picture of Baby Boy 1 again. Look long and hard. If you support his killing, or the Democrats’ insane drive for abortion up to birth and beyond, I don’t mind telling you to your face you are a monster. The only question is, what kind of monster are you?
4/12/22 - Cheap Chinese Import: Swamp Gas and Muck
Today, we look at the latest ways communist China has compromised our elites, in a process that has come to be called ‘elite capture’. We’ll leave Hunter Biden’s laptop and questions about whether Joe Biden has corruptly sold his office for another day. There are plenty of other things happening.
Liz Cheney’s husband’s law firm represents Chinese companies tied to China’s military, intelligence, and security services. So when Liz Cheney says we need to stand up to the “generational threat” posed by China’s “malign behavior”, just remember where her bread is buttered and ask yourself if it’s all just posturing.
Members of the Bush family have ties to China. Prescott Bush got a golf course approved in China - no mean feat - when his brother George H. W. Bush was president. Another brother, Neil Bush, got a contract during that presidency with a Chinese semiconductor firm. He had no qualifications for the work, but got paid $400,000 a year, anyway. Sound familiar? More recently, the Bush Foundation sent 2 million COVID masks to China at a time the U.S. was facing a mask shortage. And we’re supposed to believe the Bush family has America’s best interests at heart?
Tony Podesta, brother of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign chairman John Podesta, received at least a million dollars to lobby the White House last year on behalf of the giant Chinese telecom company Huawei. Huawei, you might recall, was banned in the U.S. and eight other countries because it poses national security risks.
Republican lawmakers accuse a Chinese surveillance firm of sparking a congressional investigation into a U.S. company which had been exposing the Chinese firm’s monitoring of the Uighurs in Xinjiang province for the Chinese Communist Party. The U.S. company says the investigation is part of the CCP’s efforts to silence critics of China’s genocide and repression of the Uighurs.
There’s a bill in Congress to require think tanks and nonprofits to disclose foreign funding, like universities currently have to do. The bill is intended in part to address Russian funding of U.S. environmental groups, but notes, “A number of ... think tanks, and other civil society organizations receive substantial funding from Beijing that is often targeted at shaping views and discourse on China.” The money comes from a political warfare arm of the CCP that works to undermine democratic countries around the world, including the U.S.
The bill is a good idea, but it will have to get past Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell first, both of whom have their own China problems. Nancy’s husband and son get a lot of money from business relationships in China which, critics say, has led her to soften her criticism of Chinese human rights abuses. As for Mitch McConnell, an Inspector General report recommended his wife Elaine Chao be criminally prosecuted for helping a U.S. shipping company owned by her father and sister with extensive business in China while she was Secretary of Transportation under Donald Trump. The Justice Department may have declined to investigate, but the stench remains.
Now that more people are waking up to the fact that China is our enemy and seeks to put the entire world under its authoritarian thumb, it’s time root out Chinese elite capture and drain this part of the swamp.
4/11/22 - Crime Is Soaring in Joe Biden’s America
If you needed more evidence Woke criminal justice reform is the wrong way to go, it came with the arrest of the second suspect in the Sacramento gang shooting this month that left six dead and 12 wounded. The second suspect had been released early from a ten-year prison sentence under a new California law that reduced punishment for felonies. This time, you can’t blame the politicians. California voters approved this change in the law. It’s pure insanity. Punching your girlfriend, dragging her home by the hair, and whipping her with a belt are all now considered ‘nonviolent offenses’ qualifying for early release.
You can’t blame the politicians in Oregon, either. One year after state residents voted to decriminalize drug possession, Oregon now ranks second in the nation in substance abuse disorders and worst in the country for people needing but not receiving drug treatment. Overdose deaths are increasing. Way to go Oregon, problem solved!
Crime is up 44 percent in New York City this year, where politicians are trying to back-pedal from Woke bail reform. It’s also up 36 percent in Chicago, where Mayor Lori Lightfoot defunded the police and refused to call out the National Guard to put down the riots.
Not only has Woke criminal justice reform made crime rates go up, it’s gotten police officers killed. A hundred and one police officers have been shot in the line of duty so far this year, including 17 fatalities. The shootings are up 43 percent from last year.
After the rise of smash-and-grab robberies in recent months - including in Chicago and Beverly Hills - the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is begging for a stronger response to shoplifting and organized retail crime. You know, shoplifting, which the Woke crowd says it totally justified because it redistributes income? Shop owners should just file their insurance claims and get over it.
Unfortunately, this kind of thinking just got institutionalized a bit with the ascent of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. She is a proponent of Critical Race Theory (CRT) which holds that society is systemically racist and all non-white people are oppressed. She claimed during her confirmation hearings CRT does not come up in her work, but she was dissembling. She has advocated in the past for making CRT a factor in sentencing. In plain English, she believes sentencing cannot be fair unless the race of the defendant is considered and non-whites get breaks that whites do not. Isn’t there an equal protection clause against that kind of thing? It doesn’t matter. Blind Lady Justice goes out the window when Woke Lady Justice Jackson goes to the Supreme Court.
Democrats put her there. Democrats also defunded the police, reduced penalties for felonies, caused more drug use through decriminalization, and let more repeat offenders back out on the street with Woke bail reform. But now they have the nerve to pretend they are tough on crime. Democrats in New York, New Jersey, and New Mexico are pushing legislation that would roll back bail reform and bring back tougher sentences. The motivation could be confession of error - they knew these were bad mistakes, or it could be the fact they have to face the voters in November. In any event, it’s too little, too late. They will get hammered by the voters in the elections later this year, as they so richly deserve for caving into the Woke Progressive wing of their party. The reckoning for wrecking America is coming on this and many other issues.
4/8/22 - Ode to No Joy: A World Without Beethoven, Edison, or Van Gogh
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I visited the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. over New Year's. I hadn’t been there in at least ten years. One of the exhibits that made a big impression on me on previous visits was no longer there - an ambulance with the windows painted black. The Nazis used ambulances like that to round-up disabled people and take them to the hospital to be killed without anybody seeing what they were doing.
Ten days ago, Oregon announced it would stop enforcing its residency requirement for assisted suicide. Now, anyone in the United States can travel to Oregon to have the government there help them kill themselves. I’ve been tracking the assisted suicide issue for a long time, and I can tell you it is well-documented one of the motivating factors among promoters of assisted suicide is prejudice against the disabled. It’s also well-known there are lots of cases where relatives and beneficiaries pressure people into assisted suicide. So you have to wonder how long it will be before disabled people from across the country are pressured to go to Oregon to be killed.
As for proof that prejudice against the disabled motivates assisted suicide supporters, a U.N. report two years ago noted “widespread prejudice and discrimination against persons with disabilities.” It went on to say, “From a disability rights perspective, there is a grave concern that legalizing euthanasia and assisted suicide could put at risk the lives of persons with disabilities. If assisted dying is made available for all persons with a health condition or impairment, regardless of whether they are terminally ill or not, a social assumption might follow that it is better to be dead than to live with a disability.”
Last month, disabled members of the House of Lords in the U.K. spoke out against an assisted suicide bill, firmly rejecting the notions they would be better off dead than disabled and their impairments make their lives less worth living. A disability rights lawyer in Connecticut has been fighting for 40 years on behalf of disabled people she knows can live “productive and fulfilling lives,” lives assisted suicide would cut short. Lives of the disabled are now being cut short in Austria, where assisted suicide became legal this year for people with debilitating conditions even though they are not terminally ill.
Austria, where Mozart was born. It is suspected Mozart suffered from Tourette syndrome. Imagine a world without Mozart’s ‘The Magic Flute’, or without Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Beethoven was deaf when he wrote it, and was actually going deaf while writing his first symphony. Or a world where the light bulb, phonograph, or movies were never invented - Edison was also mostly deaf. Henry Ford had a severe hearing loss, but he was still able to bring the automobile to the masses. Van Gogh was mentally ill and suffered hallucinations and seizures, but that didn’t stop him from painting ‘The Starry Night’. John Milton was blind when he wrote ‘Paradise Lost’. I encountered blind lawyers, deaf lawyers, and lawyers in wheelchairs when I was practicing law. The Austrian Paul Wittgenstein lost his right arm in World War I, but went on to a brilliant career as a concert pianist afterwards, playing specially commissioned works by Richard Strauss and other famous composers. Imagine if he were living today and were being pressured by his fellow Austrians to end his life because he had a debilitating, non-terminal condition.
All of these stories about these and other less than perfectly formed people were brought to my attention by a wonderful disabled man, Mark Davis Pickup of Canada who, after many years in a motorized wheelchair, began to walk again. Pickup recently wrote his mission in life is to help others bear their suffering and find hope. Who are you to say that a man who has brought such beauty, grace, and joy to this world has no right to be here? Or should be transported to Oregon in an ambulance with the windows painted black to be killed? Read his blog at HumanLifeMatters.org and be enlightened.
4/7/22 - Biden Rolling Out the Welcome Mat for New Border-Jumpers
New details are emerging about what will happen at the southern border once COVID restrictions are lifted on illegal immigration. The Feds are expecting 18,000 border-jumpers a day. That’s more than a half a million a month.
Three states have sued to get the COVID restrictions reinstated. In addition, Texas Governor Greg Abbott said he will bus illegal aliens to the steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said he will send them to Joe Biden’s home state of Delaware, as both reacted to the expected surge in illegal immigration.
So, some are fighting the Feds, but the fix is in. All that talk about addressing root causes of illegal immigration was just talk. The Biden administration is rolling out the welcome mat for the new wave of lawless border-jumpers.
A leaked DHS memo shows the administration will use “broadscale release mechanisms” to open the floodgates. In plain English, this means illegal aliens will be released on their own recognizance or with a notice to appear which, everybody knows, is often ignored. This memo follows a long list of policy changes the Biden administration has made to open the border since it’s been in office, changes I’ve documented in previous commentaries.
But the administration isn’t done yet; the Feds want to open the door even wider to illegal aliens. The administration is in discussions to roll out a smartphone app to do pre-screening BEFORE illegal aliens jump the border. Plans are also being laid to spend big on illegal aliens once they arrive: $69 million for medical support at 63 locations; $32 million for medical claims; $29 million for a new Office of the Chief Medical Officer; $140 million for a new processing center; $97 million for flights and ground transportation; $24 million for humanitarian relief necessitated by opening the border; $25 million for emergency family shelter beds; $527 million for alternatives to detention; $12 million for victim assistance necessitated by causing the immigrant crime problem in the first place; $375 million to administer looser asylum standards; and $389 million to process the application backlog caused by its own policies. By the way, there are more than 8 million pending applications - 8 MILLION. And healthcare for detained illegal aliens cost U.S. taxpayers $316 million last year.
The Biden administration is releasing single adult aliens into the interior by the hundreds every day. They’re given a cellphone so they can be tracked, but there’s nothing the Feds can do if the aliens toss the phones. The administration is also allowing illegal alien criminals to be released into the general population after they finish their sentences, instead of taking them into custody for deportation as federal law requires. The Biden administration had wanted to limit deportation to serious criminals, but a court partially blocked that for now. Finally, as previously reported, the administration is moving to take immigration courts out of the asylum process and have low-level bureaucrats quickly rubber-stamp asylum claims on the spot when illegal aliens arrive, without any serious examination.
A lot of these new changes ignore federal laws passed by Congress. So where is Congress in all this? Why aren’t the House and Senate holding oversight hearings to protect their power and insist Joe Biden faithfully execute the laws, as he is constitutionally required to do? Oh, I forgot. They’re controlled by Democrats, too.
A reckoning is coming.
4/6/22 - How to Steal an Election
Today, I’m going to tell you how to steal an election. Everything I’m about to tell you comes from recent documented findings about problems with the 2020 elections.
If I wanted to steal an election, one thing I would do is engage in ballot harvesting, which is illegal in many places. A citizens’ group found, in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, perhaps 7 percent of ballots put in drop boxes were in batches, not single ballots, and therefore illegal. If you extrapolate this out across the country, it could have been 5 million illegal votes in the 2020 election. A Wisconsin state senator filed a complaint with the Wisconsin Elections Commission alleging the city of Racine is currently intentionally ignoring the law and court rulings by allowing people to return ballots for other voters. The problem with ballot harvesting is you don’t know the circumstances under which the ballots were obtained, perhaps fraudulently or under pressure, or maybe they are completely made up, you just don’t know. Doesn’t sound like a free and fair election to me.
In fact, there’s surveillance video and cellphone evidence in Georgia of 2,000 mules dumping multiple ballots into drop boxes while wearing latex gloves and disguises in 2020. Not only that, they stopped off at Stacey Abrams’ headquarters and Democrat offices between runs where, it is thought, they picked up the ballots. Does that sound like a free and fair election to you? Before you answer ‘yes’, you should know an official investigation is ongoing.
Another thing I would do to steal an election is make sure the voter rolls were as dirty as possible. There’s been an awful lot of resistance in recent years from elections officials who just do not want to clean up the rolls. For example, 60,000 voters on North Carolina’s rolls are dead, registered twice, or enrolled in another state, according to a new public interest law firm report. If you’re going to steal an election, you need dirty voter rolls to supply names of real registered voters who haven’t voted to which to assign all the fake votes you generate, so things tally and look kosher at the end.
Speaking of fake votes, remember the truck driver who courageously stepped forward and told the nation he had hauled 288,000 suspicious ballots from New York to Pennsylvania in the 2020 election? The U.S. Postal Service still refuses to release its investigative report on the matter. What’s up with that?
If I wanted to steal an election, I’d get a billionaire friend of mine to dump $400 million into thinly disguised get-out-the-vote drives for Democrats. Mark Zuckerberg did that in the 2020 election, with just enough money going to Republican areas so that the people involved in the effort could think they had covered themselves. But the chickens are coming home to roost. Milwaukee city officials have just been accused of election bribery in accepting grants from a Mark Zuckerberg-funded organization, according to a complaint filed with the Wisconsin Elections Commission. The Zuckerbucks story isn’t over, not by a long shot.
Another thing I would do is rig the machines. You might recall that a court-ordered forensic audit of electronic voting machines in Antrim County, Michigan found the machines deliberately created a 68 percent error rate right off the bat. What’s that about? More recently, an examination of machine ballot images in Colorado showed new databases were created partway through the 2020 election, enabling the machines to essentially keep two sets of books. The examiners further found the numbers did not add up and the log files were overwritten, not accidentally but extensively. No wonder people want to go back to paper ballots and laws have been passed in some states to keep the machines from connecting to the Internet.
There’s lots more I would do: count absentee ballots anyway even though the signatures don’t match what’s on file; get felons to vote illegally; and get school administrators to sweep student records to find more votes for Democrat candidates.
After I did all these things, I would turn around and claim we just had the most secure election ever. The bigger the lie, the more believable it is, that’s Propaganda 101.
All kidding aside, we on the grassroots political Right are not going to let the 2020 election go. We are not going to just ‘move along’. We want all the documented problems run to ground and fixed. The way I hear the story, $20 to $30 million dollars has come from big donors on the Right to fix these problems. That’s buying an awful lot of vigilance now and new efforts from the professional Right to ensure election integrity cross my desk several times a day. So, if Democrats want to steal elections in the future, they’ll need a whole new bag of tricks. And we’re watching - closely - so good luck with that.
4/5/22 - Swamp Creatures on the Loose
Swamp creatures are on the loose, being sighted all over Washington, D.C.
At the White House, a medical technology CEO and friend of Joe Biden who donated to Biden’s campaign was rewarded with a White House post on the President’s council of science advisors and given millions of dollars in federal contracts. Critics call it cronyism, and neither the CEO nor the White House is answering questions.
General Motors hired Joe Biden’s niece to work on environmental sustainability goals. Joe Biden wants to spend big on green energy and electric vehicles. General Motors is moving into the production of electric vehicles, big-time. What could possibly go wrong here? See how this works?
The Biden administration is racking up federal ethics waivers, more than 50 so far. A watchdog group is having a devil of a time getting the details, as six agencies have not responded to the group’s Freedom of Information Act requests.
At the Capitol, Congress critters are giving Biden administration swamp creatures a run for their money.
A Republican Congressman from Nebraska was convicted of lying to the FBI about a foreign campaign contribution. He resigned - good riddance.
A Democrat congressman from New Jersey boasted in campaign ads he wouldn’t take corporate PAC money so they wouldn’t ‘own him’, but he has now been caught taking tens of thousands of dollars from business special interest groups and corporate lobbyists.
A watchdog group found five Senate committee staffers own stock in industries that could come before their committees, in violation of Senate rules. For example, a banking committee staffer owns stock in three financial institutions, including Wells Fargo.
But the fish rots from the head down. A new report shows 49 members of Congress failed to properly report their stock trades as required by law. There are stories of members of Congress or people they know trading stocks after congressional meetings. That’s called insider trading and can be against the law.
Democrat Congressman from Texas Henry Cuellar used almost $100,000 in campaign cash to fund a private plane. His home was raided in January in a separate ethics probe. He’ll be in a run-off primary election in May so, Texas voters just remember, you get the government you deserve.
A private plane - that’s nothing. An Illinois Democrat in the House apparently used campaign funds to bribe a rival candidate to stay out of her primary election by giving the rival a job. She’s not talking. I don’t blame her. Congressional investigators say this is illegal.
Nepotism. Bribery. Selling your office. Using campaign funds for personal expenses. Phony promises to refuse special interest money. What’s next - orgies and cocaine parties in Washington? Naw, couldn’t be. Our elites could not possibly be that corrupt, could they?
4/4/22 - Obamacare: Where Does It Hurt?
The problems with Obamacare are well-known. So are the lies.
Let’s start with the lies. Obamacare fans are still crowing about the program’s record enrollment this year - 14.5 million. Undoubtedly, it will be mentioned when former President Obama visits the White House tomorrow to celebrate Obamacare. What they’re not telling you is they promised 21 million people would sign up for Obamacare when it was passed. I don’t see how falling 50 percent short of your goal is anything to crow about. And the only reason enrollment is high this year is because Obamacare subsidies are temporarily jumbo-sized. Temporarily. An HHS report indicates enrollment could fall back to 11 million next year if the bigger subsidies are not made permanent.
Now for the problems. President Obama promised families would save $2,500 a year on their health insurance, but premiums have tripled since Obamacare was signed into law. Congressman Byron Donalds says he’s never paid higher premiums than under Obamacare. But locking higher subsidies into place permanently, as Biden and the Democrats want to do, will be inflationary. Higher subsidies will cost $220 billion over the next decade and, thanks to looser eligibility requirements, benefit the wealthy - people making more than six figures - more than low income families. It’s foreseeable health insurers will raise prices. The problem will be worse in the one-third of counties that still only have one or two Obamacare insurers; they’ll raise prices even more. This is so typical of Democrats - they cause a problem, then turn around and say, ‘oh, but we’ll HELP you,’ offering Band-Aids to fix the problems they created in the first place. It’s one of their machines for buying votes.
And you’ll notice Obamacare pushed government assistance into the middle class, way beyond the poverty level where government assistance programs first started. Making it so the middle class and now even well-off people can’t function without the assistance of the federal government - what do you suppose that’s about? Whatever the Democrats’ ulterior motive, it’s the wrong direction. And it’s a trap. Democrats are working to cut off escape routes like short-term plans so there’s no escape. The increased availability of cheaper short-term plans was very popular under Trump, but Democrats want to cut them to three months with no renewal. [Heartland Institute Health Care News, p. 5]
The problems with Obamacare don’t end there. Obamacare’s crowning achievement was supposedly covering people with preexisting conditions, but stories persist of cancer victims being denied coverage. No, you can’t keep your doctor and you can’t keep your plan. Obamacare’s regulatory burden has cost small business $64.6 billion and more than 3.3 billion hours of lost productivity. Some insurers continue to trip up on Obamacare’s adverse selection problem - the idea that the sickest people sign up for Obamacare plans. Adverse selection hits the insurers’ bottom line and they’re getting out of the marketplace. That problem is baked into Obamacare’s design and can’t be fixed. Finally, Obamacare did nothing to fix the problem of people not going to the doctor because they can’t afford it.
We’re stuck with all these problems for the moment, because there’s no chance of repealing Obamacare any time soon. But that doesn’t mean we should accept this crazy contraption as normal or fall for it the next time the Democrats promise us the earth, the moon, and the stars.
4/1/22 - OK, Groomer
The War on Parents is heating up. A public middle school in Connecticut suspended a school nurse for revealing online the school was secretly gender-transitioning kids without their parents’ knowledge. The nurse said the school was giving puberty blockers to kids and starting the process of confusing kids about their gender in kindergarten. Teachers, social workers, and school administrators are all part of the program. In suspending the nurse, the school said some remarkable things: It is the school’s job, not the parents’ job, to be the caretakers of children. Further, schools and not the parents must provide for the health, well-being, and social and emotional development of children. That’s just stunning. The job of the parents, I guess, is to just shut up and pay the taxes that make all this insanity possible. Not to mention, as ‘birthing persons’, to turn out new lab rats for professional left-wing activists’ social engineering experiments.
Connecticut isn’t the only place where this insurrection is taking place. New reports have come in about public schools in New Jersey forcing students to learn about transgender hormone therapy without their parents’ knowledge or consent, and secret gender-transitioning occurring in schools in California, Wisconsin, and Florida. Federal support for this began in the Obama administration. The Biden administration just yesterday picked up where Obama left off, affirming puberty blockers and irreversible sex-change surgery for children.
In Texas, the state Attorney General informed the Austin school district it was breaking state law by holding Pride Week events that provided sex education to students without parental consent. The schools encouraged students to keep the content of the instruction secret from their parents. “What we say in this room stays in this room,” pre-K through second graders were told. The schools fired back against the Attorney General, telling him they want their “LGBTQIA+ students to know that we are proud of them and that we will protect them against political attacks.”
So public schools in Texas and Connecticut are NOT SORRY for driving wedges between children and their parents, or for signing kids up for political agendas, specifically, the sexual revolution and the fundamental transformation of this horrible rotten place we call America. Public schools in Eau Claire, Wisconsin aren’t sorry, either. According to them, parents are not entitled to know about their child’s sexuality at all, UNLESS the parents are fully on board with the schools’ left-wing agenda to completely destroy society in order to save it. If the parents will support the political agenda, then and only then can they be brought into the loop and be told about their children.
Here are the consequences of keeping parents in the dark and claiming it’s not their job to worry about the mental health of their children: A California teen committed suicide after being coached by her high school on how to get hormone treatment and sex-change surgery when she should have been referred for treatment for her depression. The mother blames the school, which kept everything secret, for her daughter’s death.
Anybody who opposes any of this insanity is branded a domestic terrorist by our federal government. Schools in Fairfax County, Virginia asked for proposals to collect intelligence on parents. The contract calls for monitoring social media posts, identifying parents by their real names, and mapping out all their associations. The funny thing about Fairfax is, all the school board members are professional left-wing activists. There is not even one parent on that school board.
Are you starting to get the picture? I’ve documented several times the communist roots of all this. I’ll tell you who the real terrorists are - professional left-wing activist teachers, school administrators, and school board members who will stop at nothing - even espionage - to pursue their left-wing agendas and tear everything down until there’s nothing left. It’s no accident communist theorists like Herbert Marcuse and Wilhelm Reich were the ones who ushered in the sexual revolution. And it’s no accident another communist theorist Georgi Lukacs called it “cultural terrorism”.
None of this has anything to do with education or children’s well-being. it all has to do with a communist program to destroy America. If that doesn’t bother you, and you just keep sitting on your couch eating bonbons, I guarantee you, pretty soon, you won’t have an America left to eat bonbons in.