New California law mandates that big retailers maintain gender-neutral kid aisles

Babylon Bee: New Genderfluid Dolls Emit Blast Of Pepper Spray, Alert Authorities When Children Use Wrong Pronoun...""WRONG PRONOUN DETECTED. DEPLOYING COUNTERMEASURES." A pepper spray nozzle emerged from the doll's forehead and hit the girl with a several-second-long blast."...

The Sacramento Bee  "Oct. 10—Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday signed a law that requires large California retailers to maintain gender neutral toy and childcare sections.

"The new law, Assembly Bill 1084, requires that retailers with 500 or more employees in the state of California "maintain a gender neutral section or area, to be labeled at the discretion of the retailer, in which a reasonable selection of the items and toys for children that it sells shall be displayed, regardless of whether they have been traditionally marketed for either girls or for boys," according to the legislative counsel's digest.

"Assemblyman Evan Low, D-Campbell, and Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia, D-Bell Gardens, introduced the bill.

"Low in an interview with The Sacramento Bee earlier this year said he was inspired to introduce the bill after he learned of Target's 2015 decision to abolish gendered children's sections. The bill was sponsored by gender-free fashion brand The Phluid Project,

"As much as I'd like to think of this as watershed legislation, this is something the industry is already doing. We're just trying to play catch up," Low said earlier this year.". . . 

Has the White House dumped Kamala?

 But clearly, Harris has her own agenda and it doesn’t include taking the responsibility for the political tar baby at the border. As Biden’s position as president erodes and the murmurs of a health issue grow, Harris wants to be ready to answer the call no matter when it comes.

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Monica Showalter  "As Joe Biden's public approval tanks in the polls, his sidekick Kamala Harris is also looking pretty wretched.

She underwent 'repackaging' from swamp consultants who specialize in "crisis messaging," to very miserable results as she posed for videos with kids, coming off phonier than ever.

"And more important, she may have been frozen out of all serious decision-making as an obviously giggling lightweight.

"There's this item, reported by Fox News:

Several top members of the Biden administration were in Mexico City on Friday for a meeting with Mexican officials regarding security along the U.S.-Mexico border. But Vice President Kamala Harris wasn't among them.

 . . ."PJMedia columnist Rick Moran argues that Harris may be skipping out of this heavy-hitter meeting basically because she's so lazy, which is one possibility.

"But the other one is that she was disinvited. The big boys have moved in and pushed Instagram-obsessed Kamala aside as a nuisance who'll get underfoot.

"I lean to 'disinvited' at this point, given various circumstances.". . . 

New Polling on Biden Must Completely Terrify Dems

Biden is +9 in California and -13 in Florida. In other words, Florida is more anti-Biden than California is pro-Biden Bad news, Dems.

Feeble Joe? Exposing Biden's insidious destruction of Israel

Eugene Kontorovich: Israel Hayom

Point of fact: Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro made it clear prior to the last U.S. election that opening a separate consulate to the Palestinians would signal U.S. support for a Palestinian capital in that city.

"The Biden administration is trying to partially undo one of Israel’s greatest diplomatic achievements of recent decades — the recognition of Israel’s sovereignty over all of Jerusalem by the United States, followed by numerous other countries. The good news is unlike with many diplomatic attacks, the Israeli government has the power to stop this one.

"The United States is pushing to open up a new diplomatic office in Jerusalem — one that would be directed to the Palestinian Authority. The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem already provides consular services to the Palestinians. It is unheard of for a country to have an independent consulate in the same city where it already has an embassy. The point of creating a separate consulate is to undermine former U.S. President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem. But under international law, the United States would need Israel’s permission for this move.

"The United States does not want to open a consulate merely to have a place for diplomatic liaisons with the P.A. If that were all they wanted, they could easily accomplish it by opening a mission in Abu Dis or Ramallah — where most other countries conduct their relations with the P.A. Or they could reopen the Palestinian mission in Washington, D.C., which Trump also closed.

"By instead demanding that Israel accede to a consulate in Jerusalem, the administration is showing that this is not just about having a convenient place for coffee with P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas.". . . 

Report: Kyrsten Sinema Keeps Blowing Off Joe Biden’s Phone Calls

Democratic leaders and progressives in Congress have hounded Sinema and Manchin over their refusal to rubber stamp Biden’s high-spending priorities. 

Daily Wire " Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) has reportedly ignored phone calls from President Joe Biden as he tries to wrangle her support for his agenda.

"Biden’s frustration with the Arizona senator is growing as she and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) continue to stall the White House’s efforts to push costly legislation through Congress. The feeling of frustration is apparently mutual as Sinema has begun blowing off calls from the White House, according to CNN. As the outlet reports:

"“Off the charts,” one Democratic senator told CNN on Thursday when asked about the caucus’ frustration with Manchin, contending many senators privately gripe that the West Virginia Democrat takes his public stands for “publicity” reasons.

"Biden himself has sounded exasperated at both Manchin and Sinema, according to Democratic lawmakers who have spoken to him. The President told progressives this week that he has spent many hours with the two senators “and they don’t move,” two sources said. Biden even contended that Sinema didn’t always return calls from the White House, the sources added.

"Democratic leaders and progressives in Congress have hounded Sinema and Manchin over their refusal to rubber stamp Biden’s high-spending priorities.". . . 

Revolution Has Come to America

...As Barack Obama said after winning the 2008 presidential election, the purpose of the revolution is to “fundamentally transform the United States of America.” The doctrine that stands at the heart of the revolution is critical race theory. ...

 Caroline Glick  "How does a nation lose its freedom? One way, of course is through foreign conquest. History is filled with examples of nations being subjugated and enslaved by foreign tyranny.

"Today, in the United States, Americans are not losing their liberty to a foreign power, but to domestic revolutionaries. The revolutionaries are willing to use force, as they showed in the summer of 2020 when they burned and looted their way through U.S. cities. But generally speaking, their weapon is not the gun or the jackboot, but demonization and intimidation. And now, with the Biden administration firmly ensconced in power, they move forward with their revolution with the firm backing of the state, and its weapons of repression and criminalization.

"Last month the revolutionaries and the administration converged before the cameras at meeting between Vice President Kamala Harris and students at George Mason University in Virginia.

"A female student with the voice of a child used her audience with Harris as an opportunity to promote the revolution’s vicious hatred of Jews, and of America. She sniffed emotionally under her mask and told America’s second highest elected official that her feelings were hurt when Congress passed a bill for supplemental funding to Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile system. The move, she yowled, “hurts my heart because it’s an ethnic genocide and a displacement of people, the same that happened in America, and I’m sure you’re aware of this.”

"Harris might have been expected to call the student out for promoting anti-Semitic and anti-American blood

Mayorkas Faces Calls For Impeachment After Latest Move on Border Wall Construction

 Townhall

"Late Friday evening Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced contracts to construct border wall barriers in the Rio Grande Valley and Laredo Sectors, where the illegal immigration crisis is raging, will be canceled.

 " 'Consistent with the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) border barrier plan, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in coordination with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), intends to cancel the remaining border barrier contracts located within U.S. Border Patrol’s (USBP) Laredo Sector and all border barrier contracts located in the Rio Grande Valley Sector," DHS released in a statement. "CBP will then begin environmental planning and actions consistent with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) for previously planned border barrier system projects located within the Rio Grande Valley, Laredo, and El Centro Sectors." 

"DHS is also calling on Congress to cancel all remaining and previously allocated funding for border wall construction.

" 'Environmental planning activities will cover projects funded with DHS’s Fiscal Year 2018-2021 barrier system appropriations where construction had not started. These activities include additional biological, cultural, and natural resource surveys for project areas where no data have been previously collected. CBP will also conduct comprehensive and targeted outreach with interested stakeholders, including impacted landowners, tribes, state and local elected officials, and federal agencies. These activities will not involve any construction of new border barrier or permanent land acquisition," the statement continues. "The Administration continues to call on Congress to cancel remaining border wall funding and instead fund smarter border security measures, like border technology and modernization of land ports of entry." 

Premature Premonitions of Civil War?

Portland, Oregon; 2021

 William Sullivan  "Anyone paying attention knows that America is fast polarizing to become two distinct factions. One is comprised of the coastal blue states commanded by dictators, for whom concepts like individual liberty are just speed bumps on the way to their newfangled visions of progress, and the other is largely made up of the red states in America’s heartland and Southeast, where leaders still generally fear the electoral consequences of putting their boots on their constituents’ throats.

"The latter faction’s ultimate victory in the war of ideas is the only chance we have of maintaining anything that resembles the American ideal, but that chance seems to be vanishing quickly as the blue states are consolidating their current ascendency to bring blue state authoritarianism to the red states via international corporate power, social conformity campaigns, and federal tyranny in Washington, including executive edicts, unconstitutional legislation, and threats to subvert the judiciary.

"It’s no wonder, you might say, that roughly two-out-of-three Republicans are open to the idea of secession, according to some polls. So, are we heading toward civil war, as many have openly asserted in recent years? And if so, what can we learn from the last one to inform us about the nature of today’s crisis? Looked at closely, there are important differences.

"The media would have us believe that the blue states are the modern analogs of the free states in 1860, and the red states are the modern analogs of the secessionist slave states. And yet, this dynamic has existed almost entirely in the inverse for some time.". . . 

‘Let’s go Brandon’? NBC reporter ‘mishears’ NASCAR fans chanting ‘F**K JOE BIDEN’ during post-race interview

This week, the phrase ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ has taken over Twitter.

Can’t wait for the CNN fact-checks to tell us that the crowd was in fact, saying “let’s go Brandon”

When they very clearly were saying “F@ck Joe Biden”

Journos have a difficult job to keep licking Dems and Biden as per their channel bosses.#Brandonpic.twitter.com/PtyIYpL2Jx

— Manish Singh (@Manish_05Singh) October 3, 2021 

Can’t wait for the CNN fact-checks to tell us that the crowd was in fact, saying “let’s go Brandon”

When they very clearly were saying “F@ck Joe Biden”

Journos have a difficult job to keep licking Dems and Biden as per their channel bosses.#Brandonpic.twitter.com/PtyIYpL2Jx

— Manish Singh (@Manish_05Singh) October 3, 2021

Can’t wait for the CNN fact-checks to tell us that the crowd was in fact, saying “let’s go Brandon”

When they very clearly were saying “F@ck Joe Biden”

Journos have a difficult job to keep licking Dems and Biden as per their channel bosses.#Brandonpic.twitter.com/PtyIYpL2Jx

— Manish Singh (@Manish_05Singh) October 3, 2021

Russia Today  "A snippet of an interview with the winner of the NASCAR Xfinity Series Race at Talladega, Brandon Brown, went viral after an NBC reporter reportedly misheard offensive chants rumbling down from the stands.

“ 'Dad, we did it, let’s go!” Brown shouted at the camera during a live interview shortly after he was declared the winner of Saturday's race. However, chants from the crowd were even louder, with ecstatic fans clearly yelling “F**k Joe Biden!”  https://ifunny.co/tags/letsgobrandon  again and again.

This sounds literally nothing like "Let's go Brandon".

— Larry O'Connor (@LarryOConnor) October 3, 2021

"The NBC Sports reporter acknowledged the wild chanting, although she either genuinely misheard it as an obscenity directed at President Biden, or as many observers suggested, attempted some desperate damage control.

“ 'Brandon… as you can hear the chants from the crowd: ‘Let's go Brandon!” she said, triggering a torrent of mockery on Twitter. The video apparently went viral after it was shared by NASCAR itself, but later deleted without explanation."

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           The NBC Sports reporter acknowledged the wild chanting, although she either genuinely misheard it as an obscenity directed at President Biden, or as many observers suggested, attempted some desperate damage control.

“Brandon… as you can hear the chants from the crowd: ‘Let's go Brandon!” she said, triggering a torrent of mockery on Twitter. The video apparently went viral after it was shared by NASCAR itself, but later deleted without explanation.

The "Let's Go Brandon" Meme Has Taken Over the Internet — Here's What It Means

That's basically what happened in the case of the "Let's Go Brandon" meme that has been making its way around the internet thanks to Twitter. But what does it actually mean? A small incident in an interview with a NASCAR driver has intersected with politics and brought new life to a chant about the president.

 Mike Ses  @MikeSes01    @Manish_05Singh

"Mishears?" Nobody misheard anything. Everybody knew what the crowd was chanting....everybody!

Tony Branco

Only the grossly mis-educated would vote Democrat

One question must be asked of the regime that placed Biden in the White House.  Who is actually in charge?  Who is making the decisions?  Who is demanding these new Nazi-like rules/regulations/procedures?  Andrew W. Coy

George Orwell was Right  "From George Orwell's 1984 "Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building renamed, every date has been altered.  And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute.  History has stopped.  Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right."  And to paraphrase Orwell's Animal Farm, the paint is not yet dry on the side of the barn, and they are already changing the rules to benefit themselves...the Deep State.  

"This is Joe Biden's America today.

"It is so horribly unbelievable how far we have fallen since 2015.  The America of Biden and the Deep State is unrecognizable to when candidate Donald Trump came down the escalators at Trump Towers in 2015.  The Deep State has totally revealed itself, and thus far without impunity.  It is hard to call America a democratic republic today.  A liberal democracy under Biden, it is not.  It is difficult with an honest intellectual argument to say Americans are free today.". . .  

Who is Really Running the Destroy-America Biden Regime?  (Oct. 7, 2021) — “Guilty as hell, free as a bird—America is a great country.” Bill Ayers, Weather Underground founder

“The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.” George Soros,
hedge-fund billionaire.

"In today’s chaotic political landscape, it is obvious that the Democrat Party in power is comprised largely of far-left radicals, many of them shockingly anti-American and predictably anti-Semitic  (as are all deranged leftists)."

Tucker: Who is really in charge?   " 'Tucker Carlson Tonight' host sounds off on Biden's 'dazed and confused' conflict with France"

Gallup: Trust In The Media Sinks to 36 Percent, Second Lowest Ever

 Newsbusters  "Can the mistrust of the media get much greater? Gallup pollsters reported on Thursday that American trust in the media "to report the news fully, accurately and fairly has edged down four percentage points since last year to 36 percent, making this year's reading the second lowest in Gallup's trend."

"Overall, just seven percent of U.S. adults say they have "a great deal" and 29 percent "a fair amount" of trust and confidence in newspapers, television and radio news reporting -- which, combined, is four points above the 32 percent record low in 2016, during the Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton battle. 

"More than half of respondents sound fed up: 29 percent of the public currently registers "not very much" trust and 34 percent say they have "none at all."

"Whether you find the media trustworthy depends on how liberal you are. Gallup found 68 percent of Democrats said they trust the media a great deal or a fair amount. But that number is only 11 percent for Republicans, and also just 31 percent of independents. "Confidence in the media among Republicans over the past five years is at unprecedented lows."

"When Democrats have a great deal of trust in the media and Republicans have almost no trust, that is an obvious sign that the media favor Democrats! ". . . 

Does this take you back to MSNBC's reporting of the "mostly peaceful" demonstrations?

"Facebook, whistleblower Frances Haugen says of her former employer, is this generation’s Big Tobacco, 'hooking kids' on its products and lying about its business practices...."

 Althouse  "'It’s just like cigarettes,' Haugen said this week in testimony before a Senate Commerce subcommittee. 'Teenagers don’t have good self-regulation. They say explicitly, "I feel bad when I use Instagram, and yet I can’t stop."'... Society doesn’t have an interest in keeping children away from these technologies entirely as it does with cigarettes; rather, there is a public interest in preventing predatory targeting of minors and a countervailing interest in protecting free expression and encouraging innovation.... Haugen, a product manager until she resigned in the spring, argued that Facebook is even less transparent than tobacco companies in their heyday. For instance, outside scientists could independently invalidate claims about the safety of filtered cigarettes. By contrast, Facebook’s secret algorithms and refusal to fully cooperate with academic researchers protects the company from independent review. Haugen called for Congress to make them open up their black box...."

From "Opinion: Stop comparing Facebook and Instagram to cigarettes" by James Hohmann (WaPo).

"Recognizing the imperfection of the analogy only gets you so far. Clearly, "It’s just like cigarettes" is manifestly false. But then what? That doesn't establish that Facebook must show us its secret algorithms! Hohmann is saying that it's not like cigarettes in one way — cigarettes are physical objects that can be tested independently — so let's legislate to improve the analogy and force Facebook to reveal its secrets. He's clinging to the importance of working with the cigarette analogy. But why?!"

Lengthy discussion on this in the comments section. TD

China has an 'opportunity' to seize Taiwan with Joe Biden as POTUS

 Youtube  "Beijing knows that with Joe Biden in charge it has an "opportunity" to seize Taiwan, according to Sky News host Cory Bernardi."

Xi Jinping’s calculus as he ponders attacking Taiwan, possibly starting World War 3

"China’s aggressiveness in the face of Biden’s weakness could plunge thew world into war. Its dictator Xi Jinping is thinking about issues that few Americans understand or even know about.". . .