It’s Wednesday, May 31st, 2023…and we apologize at the outset for the length of this installment, but there’s soooo much happening out there it’s tough to ignore certain stories, such as this one which broke just before the Memorial Day weekend highlighting how the depths of Progressive insanity haven’t even begun to be plumbed:
“It’s good for us all to realize, there would be no climate crisis if there was no racism. There would be no climate crisis if there was no patriarchy. A mindset that sees things in a hierarchical way. White men are the things that matter and then everything else [is] at the bottom.”
Such absurdities are akin to claiming 2+2=snorkle. Then again, having embraced the North Vietnamese as benevolent Communists…
…Fonda has long demonstrated a detachment from reality. It’s only appropriate she now spouts spurious assertions shared by an adolescent, obsessive-compulsive Swedish Asberger’s sufferer.
Meanwhile, energy correspondent Jeff Foutch offers reality in the form of this paper published in the Health Physics section of The Radiation Safety Journal, which offers an in-depth analysis of…
The last sentence of the opening Abstract says it all:
“We determined that in 2018, atmospheric anthropogenic fossil CO2 represented 23% of the total emissions since 1750 with the remaining 77% in the exchange reservoirs. Our results show that the percentage of the total CO2 due to the use of fossil fuels from 1750 to 2018 increased from 0% in 1750 to 12% in 2018, much too low to be the cause of global warming.”
Then there’s the first sentence of note #8 in the Conclusions section:
“Claims of the dominance of the anthropogenic fossil component have involved (a) the misuse of the d13C and D14C statistics to validate these claims when they are expressed in the common unit of per mil (‰), which causes their slopes in plots to be magnified by a factor of 1,000 above what they otherwise would be;”
Here’s the juice: As noted above, given the choice between hard, unbiased science and Hanoi Jane’s echoing of the emotional rants of an adolescent, obsessive-compulsive Swedish Asperger’s sufferer, we’re going with the science.
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First, Townhall.com‘s Guy Benson is scratching his head, wondering…
He’s run with this stupidity before, but I’m genuinely wondering why he or his advisors think that this — of all things — is an effective attack to persuade anyone, really, let alone Republican voters. Claiming that Florida’s Ron DeSantis handled COVID worse than New York’s Andrew Cuomo because the former state experienced more raw deaths is an insult to the intelligence of anyone he’s trying to convince. Florida had the third-most COVID deaths because it has the third highest population in the country. New York had fewer COVID deaths because it has almost two million fewer residents. According to these statistics, Florida outperformed New York (and many other states) on per capita deaths, which is impressive, given its disproportionately older population. Florida also outperformed New York (and many other states) on the key metric of so-called ‘excess deaths.’ And yet, the former president, eager to blast his top 2024 rival with ‘kitchen sink’ attacks — regardless of truth — just repeated the following. Stay tuned in the clip for DeSantis’ response:
TRUMP: Ron DeSantis is “better than most Democrat governors, but very average at best compared to Republican governors…Even Cuomo did better [on COVID].”
DESANTIS: “Would have rather have lived during COVID under Cuomo in New York? Are you glad that we in Florida stood up to… pic.twitter.com/LPdJiLNiTo
Which provides the perfect segue into what the heck was Gavin Newsom thinking when he tweeted this cartoon on Memorial Day?!?
After all, doesn’t every responsible gun over with small children in the house store their child’s reading materials over their firearms?!? Hat tip to Carl “The Great One” Polizzi for the forward from California Insider.
Turning back to Trump, NRO‘s John McCormack offers his condolences to hardcore Trumpeteers still living in the past, because…
“Elections are supposed to be about the future, but Donald Trump is stuck in the past. He is dead set on running for president in 2024 by campaigning on the very worst part of his record.
In his much-hyped return to the mainstream media, a CNN town hall on May 11, Trump doubled down on his claims that millions of fraudulent votes were the cause of his defeat in 2020. He said he had no regrets about his behavior before and during the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, and that he does not owe Mike Pence an apology for ordering him to flout the Constitution and the federal law governing the counting of Electoral College votes. He recast his December 2022 endorsement of the “termination” of the Constitution when there is voter fraud as “cherishing” the Constitution. He said that if elected in 2024, he would pardon many of those convicted for illegally storming the Capitol, and he even left open the possibility of pardoning leaders of the far-right extremist group the Proud Boys who were recently convicted of seditious conspiracy for spearheading the attack on the Capitol.
But two and a half years after the 2020 election, the voter-fraud theories on which the “stop the steal” campaign was based look weaker than ever.
…In the end, the 2020 election was as simple as that. Trump improved his performance among minority voters nationwide but lost the Electoral College by sliding among white voters. It was not fraudulent vote dumps in America’s inner cities that cost him the election. Those who understand why the 2020 conspiracy theories are false may find it exhausting to present the truth, fact by fact, but that task is important. Trump’s insistence on debunked voter-fraud claims has major implications for the country’s present and its future.
In ordinary circumstances, Trump’s loss in 2020 would be politically poisonous for him as he sought the 2024 GOP nomination. But by making it an article of faith among many GOP activists and voters that he really did win the 2020 election, he has made it harder for his rivals to attack him over his biggest vulnerabilities. But by indulging Trump’s voter-fraud conspiracies, another GOP candidate will seem weak and submissive — as if aiming to be Trump’s running mate instead of president. Pointing out that the emperor has no clothes — that Trump really did lose in 2020 to a doddering old man who campaigned from his basement — is probably the wiser course, but a successful Republican challenger would find a way to make that point without sounding like a resistance warrior on MSNBC.
Trump’s obsession with 2020 could matter far beyond the 2024 primary, of course. The 2022 midterm results showed that swing voters were repelled by candidates who embraced Trump’s “stop the steal” campaign; but if he wins the nomination and the general election, January 6 would serve as a litmus test for cabinet secretaries and lower-level Trump-administration staffers. Anyone who served in the first Trump administration and was publicly horrified by January 6 — an official such as Attorney General Bill Barr — would be persona non grata in a second Trump administration. Few officials who were horrified by Trump’s postelection conduct would want to serve under Trump anyway. A second Trump administration would have to scrape the very bottom of the staffing barrel.
And if he becomes the 2024 GOP nominee and loses again, it’s reasonable to assume that Trump would again try to overturn the election result through extraordinary measures. True, the system held in 2020, and a reform of the Electoral Count Act that passed in 2022 reinforced it. Trump would not have the powers of a sitting president. And in the states that will very likely decide the 2024 election, Trump will not have lackeys serving as governor, who play a key role in certifying Electoral College results. Republican Brian Kemp, who stood up to Trump’s efforts to overturn the Electoral College results in 2020, will still hold the governorship in Georgia, while Democrats will hold that post in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Arizona. But even a failed attempt — a second one, no less — by Trump and other political elites to overturn the decision of the voters would undermine the foundation of our democratic republic.
None of this, of course, is a future the country or the Republican Party is destined to face if enough primary voters simply choose to rally behind one other Republican presidential candidate.”
Here’s a second shot of the juice: Trump is incapable of recognizing the reality the only reason he won in 2016 was he ran against the most unlikeable candidate ever to run for president.
This is NOT to say vote fraud didn’t happen in 2020 and won’t happen again in 2024 and beyond. After all, Progressives are masters of electoral manipulation, and there’s no question in our mind the result of the 2020 election was tilted toward the demented old deviant who campaigned from his basement.
However, we must also note The Donald remains an incredibly unpopular candidate whose actions in 2020 not only undermined his own campaign, but effectively handed the Senate to the other side. Likewise, in 2022, his continued insistence any candidate seeking his endorsement echo his stolen election canard certainly cost Republicans dearly, as many, much more qualified and competitive contenders lost in the Republican primaries to inferior, Trump-backed candidates. Dr. Oz is a prime example, as, like The Donald, he lost, despite running against a mentally-impaired opponent unable to string a cogent series of words into a sentence.
Speaking of “other” Republican presidential candidates, also courtesy of Townhall.com, Josh Hammer makes…
“Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ much-anticipated 2024 presidential campaign is finally here. DeSantis is, by any empirical metric or otherwise reasonable estimation, the only person with a viable chance of defeating former President Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination. What follows is a straightforward affirmative case for DeSantis’ candidacy, written from the perspective of someone who moved to the Sunshine State during the COVID-19 pandemic due in no small part to his courage, independent judgment and dynamic leadership during that most woeful chapter of recent American history.
President Ronald Reagan famously said, “the nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.'” That was an accurate assessment at the time Reagan said it, when America was drowning in punitive taxation and draconian regulation. In the year 2023, by contrast, overweening government is certainly still a threat, but the single all-encompassing threat facing the American people is the metastasis of the woke ideology, which spreads like a cancer and is weaponized by the out-of-touch ruling class elites who populate all the major institutions of our political and civic life.
There is no elected official in America who better understands this reality and — even more important — who has wielded political power to repeatedly fight back against it than Ron DeSantis. Whether it is anti-Americanist critical race theory or gender ideology indoctrination in the elementary school classroom, the university faculty lounge or the corporate boardroom, DeSantis has taken decisive measures to defend civilizational sanity and curtail or outright proscribe the dissemination of wokeism’s corrosive tenets.
…Perhaps most impressive from the perspective of an aspiring presidential candidate, DeSantis is almost singularly responsible for transforming the nation’s third-most-populous state, which was once the iconic swing state that decided the 2000 presidential election by a paltry 537 votes and which only first elected DeSantis himself in 2018 by a 0.4% margin, into the beating heart of red-state America. By leading the top of the ticket with a whopping 19.4%-point victory this past November, DeSantis helped usher in an all-Republican state Cabinet (the first time that has been the case since Reconstruction) and Republican supermajoritiesin both houses of the state legislature. Thanks to that influence and those victories, the recently completed Florida legislative session successfully enacted the most sweeping right-wing agenda of any state in modern American history. The legislative session’s myriad achievements, too numerous to list in full, touched on virtually every hot-button issue: immigration, abortion, guns, gender ideology, and education among them.
These achievements were made possible due to the sheer number of people who flocked to Florida during the COVID-19 pandemic, where DeSantis stood above the fray and brazenly defied the biomedical security state’s pro-lockdown/pro-vaccine mandate ruling class ideology. People moved to Florida for those policies, no matter how much revisionist history and disingenuous gaslighting DeSantis’ foes may regurgitate to the contrary.
Registered Republicans now outnumber registered Democrats in Florida by nearly 500,000, a shift of over 700,000 since DeSantis’ minuscule 2018 gubernatorial victory. Of the active voters who have moved to Florida since the onset of COVID, roughly twice as many are registered Republicans as registered Democrats. Simply put, throngs of people (including yours truly) have moved to Florida en masse due to DeSantis’ impressive leadership of the Sunshine State — initially on COVID, and subsequently on a whole host of other issues. DeSantis has secured for the Republican Party of Florida a voter registration advantage for an entire generation or two — similar, on a smaller scale, to what FDR was able to achieve for the national Democratic Party over the course of his lengthy presidency.
The 2024 Republican presidential primary is shaping up to become a grand battle royale between an eccentric, larger-than-life Baby Boomer who obsesses over relitigating the last election and is constantly distracted by self-imposed wounds and personal grievances, and on the other hand an extremely disciplined, mission-oriented Gen X conservative who single-handedly made the nation’s largest swing state ruby-red and has overseen the implementation of the most transformative right-wing agenda in modern American history. That is the basic choice.
In order to defeat presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and stand the best chance of (actually) draining the swamp and salvaging a decadent late-stage republic, let’s hope Republican voters choose wisely.”
Though the common wisdom in some circles suggests Trump will clinch the Republican nomination, common sense at the moment dictates DeSantis is the only candidate capable of making certain Biden isn’t reelected.
Next, writing at NRO, Madeleine Kearns records how…
“Apparently, every negative social interaction between a white person and a black person can be explained by racism.
Take the case of Sarah Comrie, a physician’s assistant at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, who was branded a “Karen” (a racist middle-class white woman) after a disagreement with a group of young men over a Citi Bike. Comrie, who is six months pregnant, had just finished a twelve-hour shift at the hospital and was trying to leave on a bike that her lawyer has since produced evidence showing she rented, when a group of young men confronted her, claiming they had rented the bike. A struggle ensued during which Comrie called for help, expressed distress as one of the men brushed against her baby bump, started crying, and dismounted the bike.
If any characteristic was relevant here, it was sex — not race. Women are physically vulnerable around men and acutely aware of that fact. And perhaps none more so than small, tired, pregnant women. Comrie may have gotten emotional, but her response was also rational. Outnumbered by a confrontational group of men, she felt intimidated as any woman in her situation would. No wonder she gave the bullies what they wanted.
But that’s not how others saw it. Benjamin Crump, a (race hustling) trial lawyer, accused Comrie of “trying to STEAL” the bike from young black men and then endangering them by trying to “weaponize white tears.” The hospital, meanwhile, released a statement calling the video “disturbing” and emphasizing their commitment to fighting “discrimination” and placed Comrie on leave.
Or take another recent controversy. Earlier this month, Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old homeless man, got on the F train and, according to a witness, began harassing and threatening fellow passengers. In response, Daniel Penny, a 24-year-old Marine veteran, restrained Neely using a minutes-long chokehold that tragically resulted in his death. Penny is now charged with second-degree manslaughter and, if convicted, could face up to 15 years in prison. There is a serious debate to be had about whether Penny’s risk assessment was accurate, or his use of force proportionate. But once again, an outrage mob formed with little interest in the facts.
Perhaps naively, Penny told the New York Post, “I am not a white supremacist” and expressed admiration for other countries and cultures. But white supremacy no longer means what Penny thinks it does. White supremacy is an “invisible evil” that anyone can fall into, even “well-meaning liberal types, even people of color,” according to an American Medical Association-affiliated doctor. Reni Eddo Lodge, author of Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, has called for “a collective redefinition of what it means to be racist and what we must do to end it.”
If this is effective, it is because human beings are moral creatures whose consciences are informed by external standards. Traditionally, informing consciences has been the role of religion. But whereas a Catholic following his church’s teachings knows when he has committed a sin and has a means of atonement, with “white guilt” there is no specificity in the offense and no way to make up for it. You are predestined to be an oppressor or victim based solely on characteristics you did not choose and cannot change. Under this definition, every encounter a white person has with a non-white person is potentially racist.
Because this is impossible to put right, the best you can do is signal your self-loathing. In 2018, a New York Times reader wrote to advice columnists, asking how he could cure his white guilt. The reader, who went by Whitey, said he felt “riddled with shame,” specifically “white shame,” “like my literal existence hurts people, like I’m always taking up space that should belong to someone else.” The responding columnist, Cheryl Strayed, who is also white, advised: “You’re feeling the full force of what it means to be white in a white supremacist culture and it makes you feel uncomfortable because up until now, in some unconscious way, you’d exonerated yourself from it.”
Prince Harry signaled similarly virtuous self-realization on his Netflix series, saying he’d lived with “unconscious bias” for years: “The thing with unconscious bias is it’s actually no one’s fault. But once it’s been pointed out or identified within yourself, you then need to make it right. It’s education, it’s awareness. And it’s a constant work in progress for everybody, including me.” This may sound more forgiving, but it operates by enlightened white people scapegoating the unenlightened white people.
The message is clear: All white people are racist, at least subconsciously. In any circumstance, neither motive nor evidence matters, only the privilege status associated with a person’s skin color. Anyone who challenges this new and expanded definition of racism can expect to be accused of it.“
Here’s a third shot of the juice in meme form, courtesy of Rick Page:
In a related item also penned by Madeleine Kearns, she informs us when a Progressive publication can’t refute raw reality, the answer is to simply not publish the proof, as J. Michael Bailey and co-author Suzanna Diaz recently learned when publisher Springer Nature decided to retract their paper purportedly relating to a lack of “written informed consent” by the participants whom the paper surveyed, but in reality because it provides compelling evidence of rapid-onset gender dysphoria, which would call into question the need for, and even advisability of, so-called “gender-affirming care”.
Moving on, here’s a nonet of items guaranteed to garner the attention of inquiring Conservative minds:
(3). Life is about to get quite interesting for Trump’s appointee atop the most corrupt federal agency since the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the mid-to-late 19th century. Then again, at least the BIA corruption involved personal gain, rather than multiple attempts to illegally influence national elections. This all, of course, depends on: (i) Republicans actually having the cajones to find Wray in contempt; (ii) the document actually existing; and, (iii) if it does exist, Wray’s people not destroying it prior to its release.
As G. Trevor noted, how far the American public and MSM have come from 1974, they hung on every word of the Watergate hearings; What ever happened to, “What did you know, and when did you know it?”
(4). Since we’re on the subject of systemic corruption at the highest levels of government, in an absolutely must-read analysis of the motivations behind the infamous Letter of 51, courtesy of NRO, Peter Theroux, recipient of the Career Intelligence Medal, details the CIA’s Bud Light moment…or worse!
Smith added, “And we know he’s not stupid. We know how smart he is.” So Stephen, if you know how smart he is, how can he be stupid? And if he isn’t stupid, did you ever stop to consider his policies appeal to people far beyond the limited audience and influence of the racist radicals like the NAACP and you?
Here’s the juice: Stephen A. Smith is yet another example of life imitating art, in this case, Forrest Gump…
(9). For more on the subject of stupid, allow us to introduce the lady who just joined the ranks of other spellbinding Progressive speakers like Jeb Bush…
…and Nancy Pelosi…
…as Dr. Jill begs her hand-picked audience to clap like a herd of trained seals:
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s these from Ed Hickey…
…Rick Page…
…and Breeze Gould…
…along with four more from The Patriot Post:
Finally, we’ll call it a wrap with one more sordid story straight from the pages of The Crime Blotter, and as you’ll see, when we write “sordid”, we mean sordid, as one…
Sorry, but in our opinion, Randy Emillion Goodreau is a psychopathic pervert. Those who promote his perversion are evil, plain and simple.
At least police were able to take Goodreau off the street prior to him acting on his impulses; Such was unfortunately not the case with the latest violent felon L.A. D.A. George Gascon set free to commit a more murderous misdeed.
Stefen Sutherland evidently had a history of reacting violently to noise:
And though a knife makes sense, firing 19 shots at Jennifer Gomez while indoors is a somewhat incongruous means to settle a noise dispute. Which begs two questions: First, what will it take for George Gascon to lose sleep over pain and loss he’s inflicting on those he’s sworn to protect; Second, when will sheepish Angelenos wake up and realize this guy’s siding with the wolves?
Magoo
Video of the Day
John Stossel correctly classifies Medicare and Social Security as ticking time bombs neither side of the aisle seems willing to defuse, including the self-proclaimed master of the deal.
Tales of The Darkside
Jay Richards of the Heritage Foundation exposes the ugly truth behind the alarming trend towards transgenderism.
On the Lighter Side
Proof positive nothing replaces good, solid detective work, particularly an artist’s sketch of the purported perp.
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