ZMan does the economy.

We may be seeing one of the terrible side effects of narrative politics. This is the belief that a good story often repeated can change reality. Elites have come to believe that saying it makes it real. This is why they invest so heavily in creating narratives and having them repeated by their media organs. Everything is about messaging rather than objective measures. Team Biden is now selling the story that gas prices are falling at historic rates, despite record high gas prices.

In a world where the people in charge are sure that all they have to do is create a really good story and that story will become true, there is no reason for them to ever reconsider the narrative. Once they commit, they are committed. This means anyone questioning the narrative is an enemy. Public policy ceases to be about trade-offs and is instead about the friend-enemy distinction. Friends repeat the narrative and enemies question the narrative.

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Rather an unusual story for a publication called WIRED.

Although the European bison belongs to the same family as the domestic cow, you’d never mistake one for the other. Weighing in at up to a tonne, the bison is one beefy bovine. It has its own mannerisms, too: It scratches against tree trunks, rolls on the ground to take dust baths, and wraps its tongue around almost any vegetation—grass, leaves, branches—to feed.

These traits make the bison a dominating force on its surroundings. It can reshape ecosystems, refurbishing existing habitats and laying foundations for new ones. One rewilding project in Kent hopes to harness the bison’s natural engineering abilities in order to better manage the local woodland and increase its biodiversity, by bringing the herbivorous megafauna to the UK for the first time in thousands of years (and possibly ever).

I love the concept of “Iron Age pigs”.

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Disappointing, but not really surprising, given the way libel law has been interpreted in this country.

At least he was able to squeeze settlements out of CNN and NBC, which I hope will partially compensate for the fact that he will be harassed by Woke activists for the rest of his life.

Steve Sailer.

I find this encouraging.

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A culture-enriching rapist in the German city of Neustrelitz was convicted of raping an 11-year-old girl in a park. The young fellow was allegedly sixteen at the time, but like so many recent migrants in Germany, he is thought to be older.

A German court threw the book at him: two years probation. That’ll teach him a lesson! And if it doesn’t, maybe the shrink can help him.

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Dozens of former Republican and Democratic officials announced on Wednesday a new national political third party to appeal to millions of voters they say are dismayed with what they see as America’s dysfunctional two-party system.

The new party, called Forward and whose creation was first reported by Reuters, will initially be co-chaired by former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang and Christine Todd Whitman, the former Republican governor of New Jersey. They hope the party will become a viable alternative to the Republican and Democratic parties that dominate U.S. politics, founding members told Reuters.

This could prove entertaining. I’ve always liked Andrew Yang, and I’ve always disliked Whitman, so I will be paying attention as to how this discomfort with the current UniParty translates into policy. Typically such ‘third parties’ are started by people who aren’t getting what they believe to be Their Fair Share of the political pie, so they have short life-spans; Teddy Roosevelt’s Bull Moose Party, Ross Perot’s Independence Party, and the Dixiecrat party in the late 1940s being the poster children here.

Historically these only survive because one of the two national parties has disintegrated, and the Federalists and Whigs did before the Civil War. Despite gleeful cacklings on the part of activists, I don’t see that happening these days, although the Democrats are skating close to the edge with their embrace of Woke ideology that only a proglodyte could love. But we’ll see.

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Conservative leaders are calling on senators to reject the House-passed Respect for Marriage Act, which aims to codify into federal law the Supreme Court’s 2015 legalization of same-sex marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges.

“The Act, which was suddenly rushed through the House without any public hearings or input, is an attack on millions of Americans, particularly people of faith, who believe marriage is between one man and one woman,” wrote more than 80 conservative leaders, along with the legal advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom, in a letter Tuesday to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.

The letter writers believe the bill would threaten the religious freedom rights of individuals and groups across the nation if it becomes law.

Over half of the states have amended their constitutions to provide that marriage is only between one man and one woman. Ineffective under the Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision, these would come back into effect if that decision were overturned, as the various abortion-limiting laws still on the books sprang back into life once Roe was overturned.

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Ever since Stonewall, formerly known as a gay rights organisation, decided to focus on trans rights at the expense of all others, anyone articulating a reasonable objection to this change of direction has been subject to abuse, threats, and even loss of livelihood. The charity’s activists have effectively forced big corporations, public bodies and independent employers to write policies on diversity and inclusion which put trans ideology above all else.

But the barrister and lesbian Allison Bailey may have put a stop to this. Yesterday’s ruling in her case Bailey v Stonewall and Garden Court Chambers found that she had been victimised and discriminated against by her employer for expressing gender critical beliefs. Such was the oppressiveness of Garden Court’s actions against her, she was awarded aggravated damages: £22,000. These are only granted where a discriminator’s actions are particularly unnecessary, high-handed or oppressive.

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Cocoa flavanols have previously been found to lower blood pressure and arterial stiffness as much as some blood pressure medication. However, how effective flavanols are in everyday life in reducing blood pressure has remained unknown, as previous studies in this area have been performed in tightly controlled experimental settings.

Surrey’s new research reduces concerns that cocoa as a treatment for raised blood pressure could pose health risks by decreasing blood pressure when it is not raised, paving the way for it to be potentially used in clinical practice.

Well, there you go.

The fundamental flaw in ‘Make America Great Again’ (Washington Post) It’s liked by Republicans.

SF man gets red zone parking ticket after curb was repainted while his car was parked  Life in a Blue State.

California ice cream shop owner ‘not surprised’ after thieves ravage business, steal ATM  Life in a Blue State.

MSNBC Pushes Disinfo About MO Pregnancy Law, Domestic Violence Stats

Italian Conservatives Call For Greater Border Security After Footage Of Migrant Violence Goes Viral

Top Senate Democratic candidates refuse to say whether men can get pregnant, or define the word ‘woman’

Pennsylvania Has A Youth-Crime Crisis  Life in a Blue State.

Ohio Dem Worked To Raise Taxes To Boost Teacher Pay. Executives Got the Money First.  My, what a surprise.

Don’t Call the New Federal Gun Law a Gun Law

PBS Declares Conservatism Should Reject Conservative Polices, Dobbs  You can’t make this shit up.

Columbia University Fencer Defeats Lia Thomas For ‘Woman Of The Year’ Nod

Rainbow Haired Dr: Parent’s Who DON’T Chemically Castrate Children Are Abusers

CBS Lionizes Indiana Abortionist, Allows Her to Peddle Disinformation on Post-Roe America

Iowa School District Allows Students to Spend Overnight Trips With Whichever Gender They Identify With  What could possibly go wrong?

Soros Network Defends Progressive Prosecutor Who Lied on Crook’s Behalf

UN Official Investigating Israel: ‘Jewish Lobby’ Controls Social Media

Academy Of Breastfeeding Medicine Advising Hospitals To Use Term “Father’s Milk”  You can’t make this shit up.

White House announces sale of additional 20 million barrels of oil from Strategic Petroleum Reserve  Just in time for the mid-term elections! What an amazing coincidence!

FBI, DOJ accused of burying Hunter Biden dirt: Sen. Chuck Grassley

‘Desecration’: Biden administration to expand walls at historic border meeting point (The Guardian)

Twitter blows up over Kamala Harris introducing herself with ‘she/her’ pronouns, description of her clothing  I’m surprised she’s able to dress herself in the morning.

Lauren Boebert Blasts Kamala Harris for ‘Idiotic’ Use of Gender Pronouns

US Sold Nearly 6 Million Barrels of Oil From Reserves to China, Records Show

US Actually Sold 6 Million Barrels From SPR To Hunter Biden-Tied China Firm  My, what a surprise.

New Hampshire Dems Say: Go Away, Joe!

Same Krugman Who Foretold ‘Global Recession’ Under Trump Says ‘Ignore’ Two-Quarter Rule for Biden

‘You Can’t Be Pro-Insurrection And Pro-American,’ Says President Of Nation Founded By An Insurrection

WATCH: Biden Goes 40 Seconds Without Blinking, Raising Health Concerns  Peter Cook could do that on stage.

Watch: Fed Chair Powell Desperately Avoid Saying The ‘R-Word’

Fearing a wipeout, Democrats try to unify around a simple midterm message: Republicans are ‘extremists’ (CNN)

Republicans Might Skip Liberal Interviews? Good

Why are the younger Trumps so awful? Did you hear the speeches at Ivana’s funeral?  (The Guardian)

Justice Dept. investigating Trump’s actions in Jan. 6 criminal probe (Washington Post)

Justice Dept investigation into Jan. 6 now encompasses communications of allies of Trump (CBS News)

DOJ reportedly investigating Trump’s conduct, conversations as part of 2020 election probe

Reports: DOJ criminal investigation hones in on Trump communications (Axios)

Trump’s defense secretary denies there were orders to have 10K troops ready to deploy on January 6 (CNN)

Trump did not have 10,000 troops ready to deploy on Jan. 6, his defense secretary says (CBS News)

Merrick Garland calls Justice Department’s Jan. 6 probe the ‘most wide ranging investigation in its history’ (NBC News) Wider-ranging than Watergate? Wider-ranging than the Kennedy assassination?

AG Garland refuses to rule out prosecuting Trump for Jan. 6  Of course he does. Prosecuting Trump is the whole goal and end of this entire charade.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Defends Nationalist Speech as ‘She Is a Nazi’ Trends (Newsweek)

Georgia state bar investigating two lawyers who participated in fake elector plot (CNN)

A repulsive new breed of Trumpist candidates poses a fresh threat (Washington Post)

Big Oil was quick to jack up gas prices at the pump but slow to drop them: report (Salon) It’s called ‘the ratchet effect’ and is well-known to anyone with the slightest knowledge of economics, which sadly doesn’t appear to include those who write for Salon.

Why some Supreme Court justices are supremely unpopular (The Hill) Being targeting for a Narrarive Media witch-hunt will do that.

Tulsi Gabbard, Rand Paul Placed on List of Russian Propagandists by Ukraine (Newsweek)

As Ukraine ‘blacklists’ some Americans, one journalist wonders if Zelenskyy watches ‘Morning Joe’

What if the Supreme Court had had term limits from the beginning?  (Washington Post) Funny how proglodytes never worry about term limits when they’re winning; only when they lose.

Michigan medical students walk out of induction ceremony to protest keynote speaker with anti-abortion views  (CNN)

The media’s role in the January 6th hearings (MSNBC) Provider of pitchforks and torches, apparently.

“We’re Very Angry”: Fire-Stricken Liberals Freak After CA ‘Militia Group’ Provides Disaster Aid  Why do ‘militia members’ always look like homeless bikers in camo?

Hayes Suggests Zeldin Colluded With NY DA to Release His Attacker Without Bail

At This Manhattan Middle School School, Sixth-Graders Are Asked To Surveil Friends and Family for ‘Microaggressions’

VICTORY: The View Buckles to Turning Point USA’s Defamation Threat

MSNBC Warns of ‘Malicious, Muscular Christianity’ Taking Over Country

Justice Thomas no longer listed as GWU faculty after Roe backlash (Politico) Cancelling the parts they can reach.

California city votes unanimously not to enforce LA County mask mandate

These Vaccines Will Take Aim at Covid—and Its Entire SARS Lineage (WIRED) And will no doubt be just as ineffective.

Facebook considering ending restrictions on Covid misinformation (The Guardian)  I.e. they’re no longer enforcing The Narrative.

More than 1,000 monkeypox cases confirmed in New York City (The Guardian) The U.S. capital for unprotected anonymous homosexual activity.

Patient-derived monoclonal antibody neutralizes SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants and confers full protection in monkeys (Nature) So the CDC and WHO will of course ban its use.

Six suspected monkeypox cases in Sonoma County, as WHO declares global health emergency (Santa Rosa Press Democrat)

Larimer County has its first confirmed monkeypox case. Here’s what to know. (Coloradoan)

Layoffs Hit Labs As COVID-19 Testing Dwindles

Recent Fauci Claims Dismantled By Former CDC Director – And Fauci’s Own Words

NYC Health Czar Takes Decisive Action Against Monkeypox: He Demands WHO Change the Name “Monkeypox” to Some Incomprehensible String of Characters

Struggle to protect gay, bisexual men from monkeypox exposes inequities (Washington Post) One would think that the disease struck gay and bisexual men from out of the sky, while they were walking down the street minding their own business.

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The New Yorker has turned into a forum for rich New Yorkers to hate on even richer New Yorkers. (Not to mention Unfashionable Foreigners, like Russian ‘oligarchs’.)

Who knew envy could be so profitable? (Yeah, I know, that’s pretty much the Democrat party platform….)

The nice thing about a yacht is that you don’t have a BLM or AntiFa mob showing up at your front door.

‘A moral imperative’: how southern ministers are trying to change minds about the climate crisis (The Guardian)  The only possible circumstance in which The Guardian would give a shit about ‘southern ministers’.

Energy & Environment — Biden to make more climate moves this week (The Hill)

CNN correspondent sounds alarm on ‘climate crisis’: ‘Fate of life on Earth is at stake’

US to plant 1 billion trees as climate change kills forests (Associated Press) What’s the point, if ‘climate change’ will just kill the new trees as it killed the old trees? Are they magically going to shield the new trees from ‘climate change’? If they can do that, why can’t they protect the old trees?

Even ‘net zero’ aviation could still cause significant global warming (New Scientist) Because no effort is ever enough.

Eight years? Nine years? Six years ago? A climate change activist guide to doomsday

Why tech workers are quitting great jobs at companies like Google to fight climate change (CNBC)

John Kerry BBC Net Zero Rant: Instructs Tory Candidates Not to “Jigger” with 2050

Shark Attacks and Climate Change

Green Dreams, Inflationary Realities

‘Zoe’ becomes the world’s first named heat wave  Sheesh.

New Surface Stations Report Released – It’s ‘worse than we thought’

British Government: Shiver in the Dark, to Save Britain’s Broken Green Electricity Grid

Washington Post.

It’s a witch-hunt show trial. Is anybody supposed to take it seriously?

The question all along was the extent to which the public’s views of Donald Trump’s effort to stay president would be changed by the committee’s work. Might the committee be able to convince non-Democrats of Trump’s culpability for the worst elements of that day? Could it persuade Republicans to see Trump’s efforts as unacceptable?

Not without proof, proof that was never presented.

New polling from CNN, conducted by SSRS, suggests that views of Trump within his party have eroded a bit since the hearings began. Overall, though, many Republicans don’t see Trump as having done anything wrong — and a plurality still somehow believe the purported predicate for Trump’s objections, that there’s solid evidence the 2020 election was stolen.

Gee, I wonder why?

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In June of last year a Somali culture-enricher waged jihad with a knife in the German city of Würzburg, killing three people and wounding six others (see the list at the bottom of this post for links to previous articles about the incident). Now the killer has had his day in court, and he won’t be doing any jail time because — surprise! — he’s mentally ill.

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A group of 45 self-proclaimed “Republicans” rolled out by Democratic senator Mark Kelly’s (Ariz.) reelection campaign to showcase his bipartisan appeal is filled with Democratic donors.

A Washington Free Beacon review of FEC filings dating back to 2016 found that three-quarters of the roughly $300,000 in federal political donations made by “Republicans for Kelly” members went to Democrat-endorsed candidates and Democratic-aligned PACs. Less than a quarter of contributions went to Republicans, with most GOP donations coming from a single couple. The majority of the donations to Republicans were directed to politicians who supported efforts to remove former president Donald Trump from office.

Democrats lie. It’s what they do. RINOs lie as well, which makes them effectively Democrats.

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On Wednesday hundreds of followers of the hardline Iraqi Shia cleric, militia leader, and politician Muqtada al-Sadr overwhelmed security in Baghdad’s Green Zone, where they were able to breach and storm the country’s parliament building.

The protests came amid political friction which pits al-Sadr’s bloc, which won a majority as the largest faction in the 329-seat parliament during prior October elections, against the pro-Iran Coordination Framework faction. The latter group’s nomination for prime minister, Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, is being fiercely opposed by al-Sadr’s followers.

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Scientists exploring a submerged mountain range in the mid-Atlantic stumbled onto something they can’t explain: An organized series of holes punched in the floor of the Atlantic Ocean.

The discovery was made July 23, and photos show the dots connect into nearly straight lines … or trails … or designs.

NOAA Ocean Exploration isn’t yet sure how to explain it.

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I set up a fake dog that barks if my surveillance cameras are triggered while I’m out of town on vacation. It’s a pair of computer speakers plugged into a Raspberry Pi, which is an inexpensive single-board computer. One speaker faces the front door and the other faces the side door.

When the front door camera is triggered my surveillance camera system sends a message to the Raspberry Pi. A simple program plays an audio clip of a big dog barking through the side speaker and then the front speaker. The change in speakers simulates a dog moving towards the front door. The opposite happens if the side door camera is triggered.

ZMan turns over a rock.

Given that we live in an age of universal deceit, at least by those in positions of authority, the evolution of lying suddenly matters a great deal. Part of it is that we are better able to see the lying of the people in charge. Before the mass media age, it was hard for people to get information on official lies. Of course, it was also much harder to promote official lies. Mass media results in a sense of mass cooperation, which means the communications revolution has revolutionized mass lying.

Even adjusting for our natural recency bias, institutional lying has exploded over the last thirty years in America. Every day someone from the government stands in front of cameras and blatantly lies about things. They know they are lying. The people in the press room know they are lying. Everyone in the room knows that the people watching it know everyone involved is lying. There is the sense that the people in these positions look at lying as a game where the biggest liar wins the day.

This is not a new thing. For twenty years the drug companies have said that serotonin levels are responsible for depression. It turns out to be wrong and the studies they relied upon were obviously wrong. In other words, they should have known their claims were false, but they had a billion reasons to lie, so they lied. This sort of deception has become the norm.

His name isn’t Bob, it’s Dick.

Ron Paul.

After two years of unprecedented government tyranny in the name of fighting a virus, the prime instigators of this infamy are walking free, writing books, and openly pretending they never said the things they clearly said over and over.

Take Trump’s White House Covid response coordinator Deborah Birx, for example. She was, as the Brownstone Institute’s Jeffrey Tucker points out in a recent article, the principal architect of the disastrous “lockdown” policy that destroyed more lives than Covid itself. Birx knew that locking a country down in response to a virus was a radical move that would never be endorsed.

So, as she admits in her new book, she lied about it.

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Are Democrats trying to incite an insurrection? The party’s rhetoric on the “existential threat” of so-called climate change has grown increasingly radical and vitriolic of late, its policy solutions alarmingly anti-democratic in nature. Given the way some Democratic politicians have implicitly endorsed subversive tactics to enact their controversial agenda, one can’t help but wonder why outraged liberal voters aren’t storming the U.S. Capitol building at this very moment.

“This is our last chance to prevent the most catastrophic—and costly—effects of climate change,” Sen. Ron Wyden (D., Ore.) told the New York Times earlier this month. “We can’t come back in another decade and forestall hundreds of billions—if not trillions—in economic damage and undo the inevitable human toll … failure really is not an option here.”

Her office hit by the pandemic and morale issues, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx struggles to keep up with prosecutor exits (Chicago Tribune)

Brooklyn pastor says he and his wife were robbed of more than $1 million in jewelry while preaching

Someone gave our daughter a White doll. How do we, um, ‘disappear’ it? (Washington Post) Explain to her that you’re racists and she can’t be allowed a ‘white doll’.

‘Wildly talented’ illustrator of Stacey Abrams book shared post calling police ‘pigs,’ said ‘f–k the police’

LAPD seeks suspects after 2 killed, 5 injured in shooting at crowded San Pedro park (L.A. Times)

Biden’s Cybersecurity Czar Says ‘Systemic Racism’ Is Major Threat to US Security  Another affirmative-action hire.

Ivy League Prof Blasts Woke Libs for ‘Uncle Tom’ Attacks on Clarence Thomas

Glenn Loury, Ian Rowe, and Robert Woodson Debunk Myths about the Black Experience in America

Democrats Decriminalized Drugs to Help Black People. Black Overdoses Skyrocketed

Hateful Americans Despise Black Women’s Athletes – Huffington Post  Quite possibly because black women athletes go out of their way to be dispicable.

Ring Vaccination Beat Smallpox. Could It Work for Monkeypox? (WIRED) “Oh, we don’t know their names, dear!”

‘Centaurus’ subvariant of Omicron: What do we know? (Medical News Today) Well, it escaped from a Star Trek episode….

What to do if you have Covid symptoms but keep testing negative at home, according to experts (NBC) Well, to start with, you need to PANIC!

Monkeypox could spread well beyond communities of gay and bisexual men, WHO says

COVID Update: IL reports 3,341 new cases, zero deaths; Cook County in ‘high’ transmission, CDC says (ABC)

Biden administration weighs declaring monkeypox a health emergency (Washington Post) Wokes and gays hardest hit.

Canadian Pastor Arrested For Holding Church Services During COVID Wins Legal Victory

A “Global Emergency?” Nah, Just Global Political Correctness

5 mistakes Dr. Anthony Fauci made on COVID that spelled disaster

Monkeypox’s Inconvenient Truth

‘Elmo Wants to Be an Upstander to Racism’: ‘Sesame Street’s’ Racial Justice Curriculum Begins With Infants

Teachers Worried Their Gay Students May Regress And Turn Straight Over Summer Break (Babylon Bee)

Abolish State Senates (American Prospect)

Meet the FBI Analyst Behind The Decade’s Biggest Political Disinformation Campaigns

The left is starting to realize AOC is just a performance artist

Scientists Unveil Periodic Table Of Genders (Babylon Bee)

Why progressive Democrats are losing ground (Washington Post)

Woman Terrified She May Have To Actually Use One Of The Dozens Of Cheap, Readily Available Methods of Birth Control In Post-Roe America (Babylon Bee)

Interstate Travel Post-Roe Isn’t as Secure as You May Think (WIRED)

Former Californians Begin Grumbling In 105-Degree Texas Heat: ‘It Would Be Better For Us To Go Back To Slavery Under Pharaoh Newsom!’ (Babylon Bee)

Corporate America reckons with its role in reproductive rights (NPR)

“We failed”: Gay Republicans who fought for acceptance in Texas GOP see little progress (Texas Tribune)

Richer people left San Francisco in the pandemic. And they took billions of dollars with them (S.F. Chronicle) Wow, who could have seen that coming?

Nazi protesters show up outside young conservatives meeting in Florida  A transparently obvious false-flag operation.

Florida Methodists sink into the mire

If you have a miscarriage in Republican America, your health is now at risk (The Guardian) Says somebody who knows nothing about health care, America, or the law….

Highly potent weed creating marijuana addicts worldwide, study says (CNN)

How The Fight To Ban Abortion Is Rooted In The ‘Great Replacement’ Theory (FiveThirtyEight)

A Company Flees Illinois for Florida, Showing Red States’ Appeal

Democrat Insurrection: Liberal Hill Staffers Arrested for Storming Dem Leadership Office

Seven Australians Refuse To Wear Pride-Themed Jersey For Match

Maryland School District Prohibits Faculty From Disclosing Children’s Use of Pronouns From Parents

New HHS Rule Would Force Insurers to Pay for Children’s Sex Changes

Polygamy Seen as Possibility Under House-Passed Marriage Bill  My, what a surprise.

You’re Going to Miss the Deep State When It’s Gone (Daily Beast) Oh, I don’t think so….

Bee-Line to Extinction: TBS Kills Off Leftist Sam Bee’s ‘Comedy’ Show

I used to be optimistic about America’s future. Not anymore. (Washington Post) Voice of the Crust Max Boot loses his shit.

Trump’s revenge (Axios)

CNN’s Jim Acosta: Trump ‘returning to the scene of the crime’ in DC this week (The Hill) He’s right, but not in the way he means.

Adams admits NYC schools, health care ‘inundated’ by migrant influx, but blames ‘callousness’ of border states  Yeah, if they’d only stand still and allow their pockets to be picked….

Liz Cheney is already looking beyond 2022 (CNN) Let’s see: MSNBC gig, book deal, think-tank spot….

Liz Cheney and Larry Hogan show what it means to stand against GOP lies (Washington Post) And stand with Democrat lies.

How Donald Trump Contaminated the Secret Service (Daily Beast)

The View Falsely Claims DeSantis Thinks Neo-Nazis Are ‘Good People’

Sandy Hook Parents to Testify Against Alex Jones, and a Culture of Lies (N.Y. Times) They want to get their testimony in favor of the Culture of Lies on the record.

Former Olympian Swimmer Says Trans Hate Mob Has “Made My Life Hell”

Red states are building a nation within a nation (CNN)

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A grand research project created our origin myth that early human societies were all egalitarian, mobile and small-scale

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Marx’s idea that societies were naturally egalitarian and communal before farming is widely influential and quite wrong

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The House Committee on Education and Labor is expected this week to consider legislation known as the Healthy Meals, Healthy Kids Act.

H.R. 8450 is a far-left wish list, seeking to expand welfare for all through universal free school meals and trying to use the school meals programs as a pretext to push far-left environmental, labor, and social justice policies.

I have searched the Constitution, and nowhere do I find that school meals are the job of the Federal government.

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Russia will pull out of the International Space Station after 2024 and focus on building its own orbiting outpost, the country’s new space chief said Tuesday amid high tensions between Moscow and the West over the fighting in Ukraine.

Welcome to the new Cold War.

David Cole turns over a rock.

To battle his present-day (imaginary) Nazis, Soros has constructed an assembly line of black golems. He’s devoted his fortune ($32 billion just since 2017) to shielding black criminals from prosecution and incarceration. Every day in cities across the U.S., black thugs with Soros-bought immunity from consequences venture forth to murder, steal, rape, and assault.

For Soros, this is war, and every murder committed by one of his blacks is its own mini-Dresden, another blow against fascist Western Christendom.

The No Apologies Tour.

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Last month I reported on a mass assault by culture-enrichers on the border fence between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla in North Africa. It’s not certain how many migrants died during the attempt to breach the fence, but the total was greater than twenty.

Now thirty-three of the invaders have been given prison sentences for their part in the assault on the border.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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“He’s a truly spiritual person,” Fuad Abu Bakr told me. He was referring to his father, Yasin, the notorious Trinidadian militant who led the first and only Islamist insurrection ever attempted in a Western democracy. We were standing in front of the mosque his father built at 1 Murcarapo Road on the outskirts of Trinidad and Tobago’s capital city, Port of Spain.

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Here in Baltimore, I belong to (and attend) a very nice range. When they opened, the clientele was maybe 30% black. From Covid until this spring, it grew to perhaps 60% black.

But now, after the Supreme Court ruling? The place is packed, and packed with black people getting trained so they can carry legally, and protect themselves, their loved ones, and their property. Last night, staff excepting, #5 and I were the only white faces there. Fantastic!

Well, actually, blacks are already armed (see the crime statistics in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles), but now they can do so legally.

A totally uncovered story is the extent to which 2nd Amendment rights were a factor in allowing black people under Jim Crow laws to defend themselves against, say, the Ku Klux Klan.

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Unlike, say, their children.

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I have no answer, but a question: What will happen when the Democrats lose control of the Progressive monster they have created?

The monster has several heads, including the pod-people infesting education, Obama’s army in the streets, the union of Party and media, the co-option of Big Tech by Big Government, and now the supremacy of a government-within-a-government, the “intel community.”

We see now the pinnacle of this development — a supine, ridiculous administration feebly figure-headed by a doddering fool, subject to zero ridicule by the state-controlled media, defended by Big Tech censorship (nope, no government censorship here, that’s all private sector, Bub!) — all in the service of a literal cabal, literally behind the scenes, literally insulated from Republic-style representation, accountability, or even identification. The left has won — they are unassailable and, but for the widespread armament of millions of Americans, they would be omnipotent in this human sphere. They control the horizontal and the vertical.

Which famous tragedy is this? At the moment of supreme triumph, the winner’s own nature destroys him. In a Greek tragedy, we might survive. In a Shakespearean tragedy, I suppose we all die, which sounds about right. It is not as though the failure of the Republican will leave the Republicans standing.

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We are just 15 weeks away from election day in what is already shaping up to be a contentious 2022 midterm season. If the press follows their typical campaign play book, journalists will pick out certain conservative candidates who commit gaffes or make odd comments and try and make them the face of the GOP.

One thing they won’t do is single out the radical, extreme nature of some of the Democratic Party’s most well known congressional members: The Squad.

Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as well as far-left representatives like Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley, have been gaffe machines in the last few months. Most recently, some of them pretended to be restrained by police officers using invisible handcuffs while protesting for abortion at the Supreme Court.

But there’s also been far more serious moments. Congresswoman Tlaib, it was revealed in July, had campaign events in 2018 organized by alleged terrorist financiers. Also, the Somali-born politician introduced a resolution in May that recognized the “catastrophe” of the creation of Israel.

But you wouldn’t know about any of these because the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts haven’t covered them. Here’s the four Squad scandals the press should have been covering.

ZMan is apparently waiting for the rapture.

Many commenters have noted that American political discourse is much coarser and nastier today than it was a generation ago. The change can be dated to the arrival of the Clintons on the national stage in the 1990’s. They brought with them a crudeness that has become the norm in national politics. The great interregnum that lasted from the 1980’s into the 1990’s was replaced with an ugly and vulgar brand of politics that eventually led to the nasty and censorious present.

The question that never gets asked is why has public discourse become so nasty and unforgiving over the last three decades? The time for intolerance was the Cold War when mistakes could mean nuclear war with Russia. Instead, it was a time of relative tolerance compared to the present. Technological and material advances have made the margin for error extremely broad, yet the people seeking to shape public discourse carry on like one misused pronoun will end the world.

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The funny thing is, the Left should be riding high, given that they control all of the high ground of American society. If the new fad on the Left is for “birthing people” to wear flowerpots on their heads, every news anchor will either have the flowerpot on her head or state in advance that they are not a person of uterus so they are respecting the culture of the birthing people. The Left has never had more power in American society, yet they have never been angrier.

 

White House says a second consecutive quarter of negative GDP ‘unlikely’ to be indicative of recession  Yeah, I’m sure they do.

Supreme Court’s climate change ruling complicates the push for sweeping student debt cancellation (CNN)

Biden could declare climate emergency – Kerry (BBC)

Yellen predicts Fed’s anti-inflation policies will be ‘successful,’ after wrongly calling it ‘transitory’

AG Merrick Garland’s kid gloves vs. Hunter Biden

The White House has been lying to the country for a year and half: Sean Duffy

Biden Appoints Pro-Crime Appellate Judge

Hunter Biden ‘Almost Certainly’ Broke FARA Laws: Report

Republicans Cheer As Beto O’Rourke Digs Giant Sinkhole For Democrats To Pour Their Money In (Babylon Bee‚

An ‘imposter Christianity’ is threatening American democracy (CNN) As if anybody at CNN knew squat about Christianity.

A West Coast port worker union is fighting robots. The stakes for the supply chain are high (CNBC)

WaPo’s Jennifer Rubin calls for a ‘conscience’ exemption for abortion in states with bans  More accurately, a ‘lack of conscience’ exemption.

Bye bye, San Francisco: The top 7 U.S. cities homebuyers are seeking to leave (CNBC)

Cheney: ‘No question’ it’s worth losing my job to tell the truth about Jan. 6 (CNN)

Nearly one in three Americans say it may soon be necessary to take up arms against the government (The Hill)

Movement to boycott Walgreens grows online as more customers report being denied birth control and other contraceptives (Insider)

Google: Whatever Happened to ‘Don’t Be Evil’?

Feds Pay LGBT Magazine $77K To Advertise for Minnesota National Guard

Swine and Sleaze: Democrat Conspired To Hike Pork Prices, Lawsuits Say

AP Rejects Facts, Insists the Media Genuflect to Trans Activist Terminology

Jan. 6 editorials suggest Murdoch has tired of Trump (NPR)

Melting ‘snowflakes’? How climate change became a new front in the right’s culture war (The Guardian)

Buttigieg rips Rubio for having ‘time to fight against Disney’ but not for protecting same-sex marriage  Does Buttplug Pete think that Rubio feels under some obligation to defend gay privilege?

Kinzinger: ‘Trump is becoming irrelevant’ (The Hill) Not half as irrelevant as Kinzinger.

Hogan blames ‘collusion’ between Trump and Democrats for Dan Cox winning GOP primary (The Hill)

Trump’s credibility shredded; Secret Service purge imperative (The Hill)

Conservative Media Turns on Donald Trump Amid January 6 Hearings Fallout (Newsweek) Pushing the Narrative.

Democrats Prepare To Unleash Hell On Fed Chair Powell For The Coming Recession

The Four Stages of Republican Misinformation (Daily Beast)

Left-Wing Activists Tried To Cancel This Pro-Life Doctor. They Failed.

These soaring temperatures have given Britain a taste of the dystopia to come (The Guardian)

Climate change: The global Jenga game (The Hill)

Farmers Fear ‘Crisis’ on Horizon as Heat Wave Threatens Crops, Animals (Newsweek)

Tyre dust: the ‘stealth pollutant’ that’s becoming a huge threat to ocean life (The Guardian)

Mideast nations wake up to damage from climate change (Associated Press)

Plastic in the depths: how pollution took over our oceans (The Guardian)

Here Come the Power Failures, and You Can Thank the ‘Green Energy’ Agenda (CBN)

The EU’s Green Experiment

Congo to Auction Land to Oil Companies: ‘Our Priority Is Not to Save the Planet’ (N.Y. Times)

ABC’s Jonathan Karl Pokes Al Gore From the Left on Climate Change

Race Towards Net Zero Will Break Energy Market, Drive Up Energy Price: Analyst

Reuters:  How to Lie with Facts

Flashy NYC bishop robbed in $400K jewelry heist during live-streamed service  “Leaders of Tomorrow International Ministries” has bishops?