What Happens To A Country That Loses Its Mind? –

 Issues & Insights   "To see biological males win “woman of the year” awards and others compete against women in sports, and at least one paid to promote sports bras, it’s obvious the American mind has slipped a few gears. But our current troubles are about more than celebrating what is clearly a mental illness that needs to be treated. We have lost our way almost entirely across the board.

"The locus of our insanity, one could argue, is Washington, D.C. The federal government developed a habit long ago of spending beyond its means. But the foolishness has reached new levels.

"The federal debt is heading to $31.7 trillion like a freight train at full throttle with no brakes. Spending is outpacing revenue by more than $1.5 trillion. Social Security is headed for collapse sooner than its appointed guardians had expected, but the collective vision among our “leaders” on the Potomac doesn’t go beyond the next election. So nothing is done.

"Despite the obvious problems, the Democrats want to tax higher and spend more. The supply of vacuity seems endless

"Washington is also at the axis of weaponized government. Free speech is being crushed, dissent from the left’s political agenda is considered an imprisonable offense, and court rulings are to be ignored if they offend progressive sensibilities (yes, we know, two words that don’t belong together). The Democrats see the IRS not as just a revenue collector but also as a truncheon with which to discipline those who refuse to live under their boots. Parents who grouse at school board meetings? They are of course terrorists who must be watched.

"It’s no coincidence that we’re living in riotous times. The damage seems to build with every news cycle. But to listen to the Democrats and their communications department, also known as the mainstream media, the only riot in U.S. history was on Jan. 6, 2021. In their twisted minds, rampaging, killing, burning, and looting in the name of George Floyd, or some imagined resistance to fascism, are just benign elements of mostly peaceful protests. Democrats have even contributed money to bail out the “protesters.' ”. . .

Who Really Cares About Dead Kids?

Jones told Teen Vogue that "more policing does not lead to community safety." (The thousands of black men who are still alive thanks to Mayor Rudy Giuliani's more policing policy would disagree.) Instead, Jones proposed "more funding to social workers, public education [and] ending poverty." (Why didn't anybody else think of that?). Ann Coulter

Ann Coulter  "We've heard a lot lately about how Republicans don't care about dead kids -- just keep your hands off their guns! The bullhorn insurrection staged by Tennessee legislators, for example, was justified on the grounds that they were JUST TRYING TO SAVE CHILDREN'S LIVES!!!

"As MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell put it, the bullhorn episode showed "who is trying to protect the children of Tennessee and who isn't."

"The amazing statistic that's supposed to make us give up our guns PRONTO is that since 2020, gun violence has become the leading cause of death for American children.

"You're supposed to be thinking of the little kids killed in school shootings, like in Uvalde or the Christian school in Nashville. In fact, the odds that a child will be killed in a mass school shooting are 1 in 10 million.

"The trick is that "children" includes 16-to-19-year-old gang members. Exclude 16-to-19-year-olds, and the number of kids killed by guns every year plummets from 2,811 to a few hundred.

"It turns out, black teenagers are using guns to kill a lot of other black teenagers.

"This will come as a surprise to most people because black-on-black violence is not considered newsworthy. (By contrast, any white-on-black violence, even the sort of thing that wouldn't make local news if the perp were black, will get front-page coverage at The New York Times, international headlines and a call from the president.)

"Based on arrests reported in the local news, here are a few recent examples of "children" being killed by gun violence. You will notice that none of these suspected homicides would have been prevented even if Republicans gave up all their guns.". . .

The food that can feed, and maybe save, the planet: Bugs

 

Two words in this report give rise to caution: "maybe", and "CNN".TD

Bugs: The food that can feed, and maybe save, the planet | CNN

"On a morning in the not-too-distant future, you might toast bread made with cricket flour, drink a protein smoothie made from locust powder, and eat scrambled eggs (made extra-creamy with the fat from mopane caterpillars) with a side of mealworm bacon.

"That meal will give you four times the iron, more than three times the protein and more key vitamins and minerals than the bread, smoothie, eggs and bacon you eat today – all while saving the planet.

"No way you’ll eat bugs, you say?

"Well, sorry to break this to you, but if you eat chocolate, pizza and spaghetti, you are already eating insects – and worse.

Bugs, rodent hair and poop: How much is legally allowed in the food you eat every day?

The US Food and Drug Administration allows 30 or more insect parts and some rodent hair in every bar of chocolate; nearly two maggots in a 16 ounce can of tomatoes or pizza sauce; and up to 450 insect parts and nine rodent hairs in every 16 ounce box of spaghetti.". . .

Sorry, CNN, you're not helping; this will have to come from someone better than you. And MSNBC. TD

Argus Hamilton's Rogue Report

- Argus Hamilton (jewishworldreview.com)

• Steven Spielberg thanked Tom Cruise for insisting to Paramount that his last Top Gun movie not be streamed until its run in the theaters was over. He said it saved the movie industry. Moving forward Tom Cruise's next movie will be shot in outer space or, as Scientologists call it, the Old Country.
• • The Hollywood Reporter ran an article about older stars dating young women in the wake of all the publicity generated by Leonardo DiCaprio from dating women half his age. People magazine reported that Al Pacino is fifty years older than his fiancée. They are planning an open-casket wedding.
• Transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney became a woke star thanks to the Bud Light boycott over [his] image on the cans. [His] face was also on the cartons. I saw it and just assumed it was a Surgeon General's warning that if you drink too many Bud Lights you may wake up next to a woman with a penis. [Sorry, Argus; I cannot call a man by a feminine term.TD]
•  Budweiser released a series of patriotic ads starring the Clydesdales Monday. They are desperate to retrieve the customers they lost when they decided to put a Transgender on the Bud Light cans. The greatest day of my life was the day I discovered I don't need alcohol in order to make bad decisions.
•  Chicago teens went wild looting the shopping district en masse Sunday. The kids used Instagram to time the surprise meet-up and the mob was looting stores and smashing cars well before the cops arrived. The five-second rule for food dropped onto the floor doesn't work if you have a two-second dog.
• • Elon Musk gave an interview to Tucker Carlson Monday in which the billionaire industrialist and innovator warned that AI could get recklessly out of control and cause civilization to collapse. I recently bought a book titled How to Overcome Artificial Intelligence. I saw it advertised on Facebook.
• • The AARP set up a Fraud Watch Network to help its members avoid online shopping scams that involve scammers pretending to be legitimate sellers. The bargains they offer prey on human greed. I sure hope the diamond bracelet I just ordered for my girlfriend is real, otherwise I'm out twenty bucks.

Megyn Kelly and Michael Knowles Team up to Totally Wreck Dylan Mulvaney and Bud Light

 

Uh-huh. So you spend decades and untold millions of dollars promoting Bud Light as the “everyman’s beer,” then you get the brilliant idea that promoting a man who caricatures women — at best — is going to “bring people together,” how, exactly? I mean, this dumpster fire made the disastrous 1985 “New Coke” rollout, which still lives in marketing infamy, look not all that bad, in comparison.

 WATCH: Megyn Kelly and Michael Knowles Team up to Totally Wreck Dylan Mulvaney and Bud Light – RedState  "First, I’m over the Dylan Mulvaney-Bud Light discussion — way over — to the point of ridiculousness. But when I ran across former Fox News host Megyn Kelly‘s latest podcast, in which she tag-teamed with Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles to blister the bejesus out of the subject, I had to write about it."

"On Monday’s episode of “The Megyn Kelly Show,” Kelly went after Anheuser-Busch (A-B) big-time — over its transparent panicked attempt to stop the bleeding caused by Bud Light’s ill-advised hookup [no pun intended] with cartoonish “transgender” Mulvaney — with a syrupy patriotic ad, which only made things worse for the brewer. So how big-time did Kelly go? This big-time:. . . "Screw you and your stupid empty platitudes."

. . ."Anheuser-Busch’s monstrous Mulvaney fail will live in marketing infamy, alongside “New Coke” and other such disasters, which might make one think that this latest example of “Go woke, go broke” — while it won’t break the bank completely for A-B — would be a wake-up call to American corporations to stop pandering to a minute percentage of the population at the risk and expense of alienating loyal customers.". . .

Newly-Elected Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Declares Blacks Should Be Free To LOOT Without Fear Of Criminal Prosecution

  enVolve (en-volve.com)

Though Lori Lightfoot was voted out as a result of “widespread dissatisfaction from voters over her handling of crime and policing in the nation’s third-largest city,” voters replaced her with someone who is even more radical.

"Brandon Johnson, the newly elected mayor of Chicago, has stated that in order to combat “white supremacy,” black people should no longer be subject to criminal prosecution and be taken out of “state-sponsored policing.' ”

"During the George Floyd riots in the summer of 2020, Johnson was an ardent supporter of the “defund the police” movement and spoke on a panel titled “We Don’t Call Police: A Town Hall on a Police-Free Future” in which he praised activists for pushing “an agenda that actually can transform people’s lives,” the Chicago Tribune reports.". . .

Definitely NOT the Brandon we've been cheering for all this time. TD

Chicago Couple Beaten in Viral Video Speaks out, 'They Said They Were Going to Kill Us' – RedState   . . ."The mob proceeded to rob the couple of their shoes, phones, a pair of glasses, an Apple watch, and a hat. DJ suffered injuries to his face, shoulder, and back, and pointed to his black eye in the interview. The police initially classified the beating as a robbery:". . .

Twitter removes woke policy against ‘misgendering’ and ‘deadnaming’ transgender people

  Rebel News

Prior to the move, the platform’s content policy read: “We prohibit targeting others with repeated slurs, tropes or other content that intends to dehumanize, degrade or reinforce negative or harmful stereotypes about a protected category.” 

"Twitter has removed its woke-oriented policy against the misgendering and deadnaming of transgender individuals, stirring controversy among LGBTQ activist organizations that the platform could become an “unsafe” space for transgender individuals.

"Prior to the move, the platform’s content policy read: “We prohibit targeting others with repeated slurs, tropes or other content that intends to dehumanize, degrade or reinforce negative or harmful stereotypes about a protected category.”

“ 'This includes targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals,” the rule stated. The rule was put in place in 2018 following campaigning from activist groups. Other platforms, including TikTok and Pinterest explicitly ban misgendering and deadnaming as part of their content policies.

"On Monday, the company revoked its prior guidelines to replace them with a free speech-first policy built around the principle of “freedom of speech, not freedom of reach,” which only places warning labels on violative tweets and limiting their reach instead of banning the users who post them. . ."    

Deadnaming is the act of referring to a transgender or non-binary person by a name they used before transitioning or coming out, such as their birth name or former name, without their consent

Indifferent Citizens Are No Better Than the Corrupt Government They Detest -

 Intellectual Takeout   . . .

Emphases in the original

. . ."It means that, when we elect men to public office we cannot do it as lightly as we flip a coin. It means that after we’ve elected them we can’t sit back and say, ‘Our job is done. What they do now doesn’t concern us.’ 

That philosophy of indifference is what the enemies of decent government want. If we allow them to have their way to grow strong and vicious, then the heroic struggle which welded thousands of lovely towns like this into a great nation means nothing. Then we’re not citizens, we’re traitors!

The great liberties by which we live have been bought with blood. The kind of government we get, is the kind of government we want. Government of the people, by the people, and for the people can mean ANY kind of government. It’s our duty to make it be only ONE kind: uncorrupted, free, united! [Emphasis added.]

Leo Dee undermines cause by saying he's got "no hatred" for terrorists who murdered daughters and wife

 Leo Dee undermines cause by saying he's got "no hatred" for terrorists who murdered daughters and wife (ibloga.blogspot.com)   "The British-Israeli rabbi whose 2 daughters and wife were tragically murdered earlier this month by jihadists around the Jordan Valley has made a very bizarre and undermining statement about the jihadists themselves:

The Israeli-British rabbi whose wife and two daughters were killed this month in a terror shooting on a West Bank road said he has “no hatred” for the people who gunned down his family, in comments aired on Sunday.

Lucy Dee, 48, and her daughters Maia Dee, 20, and Rina Dee, 15, were killed after Palestinian terrorists opened fire at the car they were in as they drove through the northern Jordan Valley on April 7. The daughters were declared dead at the scene, while Lucy was rushed to a hospital in critical condition but died three days later.

The suspects remain on the loose despite promises from officials that they will be found and brought to justice.. . .

. . ."What Dee should really be doing is condemning any and all dhimmis who minimize the murder of his family, including those who substitute the word "murder" with "killed". That kind of disturbing mentality and MSM mandates are exactly what enable these tragedies to occur. It's absolutely awful these murders occur. But it's also awful when relatives of the murdered women take the lenient positions Dee is. That really hurts the battle against Islamofascism."

Dhimmi:  A non-Muslim subject of a state governed according to the shari'a who is granted the freedom to worship and is entitled to the protection of life and property by the state, although constrained to pay a special tax and not granted the full legal status accorded to Muslim subjects. The status of dhimmi was originally limited to Christians and Jews but has occasionally been extended to Hindus, Zoroastrians, and others.

New York; nothing to Bragg about

 

How Tough Is It To Start Your Own Business in New York State? (wpdh.com)

"According to Lending Tree, 21.1% of new businesses in the state of New York fail within the first year. After 5 years, that number jumps to 52.8%.  Read More: How Tough Is It To Start Your Own Business in New York State? | https://wpdh.com/how-many-businesses-fail-in-ny/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral

What New York City Will Look Like in 2050 (businessinsider.com)

What Is The Future Of New York City? (forbes.com)

"Don’t believe all you see in the news: New York City is not disappearing.

"It has certainly been hard hit. The Big Apple has become the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic. The death toll is high, the anxiety is deep and the images are brutal. But New York is tough. It has seen big crisis before. Actually, in the last 20 years, it has been the setting of three of the biggest world crises: 9/11, the Global Financial Crisis and, now, the coronavirus pandemic.". . .

House Judiciary hearing on crime in Manhattan brings out victims' grieving families, Trump supporters (yahoo.com)  . . ."The title of Monday’s hearing, “Victims of Violent Crime in Manhattan,” was intended as a referendum on the policies of Alvin Bragg, the progressive Manhattan district attorney who recently indicted former President Donald Trump for falsifying business records.

"Republicans said that because Bragg’s office receives some federal funding, Congress has oversight over his policies. “We certainly have a right, in Congress, to overview a lot of different subjects,” Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., told reporters after the hearing.". . .

Joe Biden’s Three Stooges...Plus Hunter

 

Joe Biden’s Three Stooges - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics  . . ."Joe probably presides over the least distinguished cabinet in history. There is Kamala, who as vice president has had to shuffle and reshuffle her staff so many times that Washington insiders suspect COVID-19 is alive and well in her office. Why can she not keep staff members for more than a few weeks? There is Secretary of Homeland Security Mayorkas, who has appeared before congressional committees so often that he might well be suspected of being a subversive or a foreign agent. And, of course, there is Secretary Buttigieg, who, like all of these three modern-day stooges, has a dreadful time getting down to our southern border to see how things are going. Frankly, I sympathize with the secretary. What if he got kidnapped down there? What if the White House refused to pay his ransom?

"Why cannot Joe put together a cabinet of some distinction? Well, a cabinet of distinction would be difficult to put together for either party as things stand right now. There is a troubling problem facing both political parties. America is lacking in leadership. A few paragraphs ago, I mentioned Henry Kissinger. He is a man of stature. Now in his 99th year, he is still writing, thinking, and listening. But he is too old to lead. Maybe he could advise the leaders of at least one party, and that would be the Republicans. The Democrats already take their leadership from something called “woke.” As in “we done woke up.”

WH Insists “There’s No ‘There’ There” When Asked If Hunter Paid His Own Way On Ireland Trip | Weasel Zippers Go to KJP for answers.

Biden is famous for his character and leadership

 American Thinker:

Biden is again pushing the white-on-black genocide myth - Andrea Widberg   "Earlier in April, a so-called “transgender man” went to a Christian school in Nashville and slaughtered six people, including (quite deliberately) three nine-year-olds. A couple of days ago, an 84-year-old man in Kansas City shot Ralph Yarl, a 16-year-old black teen who knocked on the wrong door. The White House responded very differently to these events. For the first, it sent Kamala Harris to support transgenderism and gun-grabbing. For the second, Biden invited Yarl to the White House. We know he did so to emphasize white-on-black killings. The problem is that it’s black-on-black killings that are the real plague in America’s black communities.". . .

Biden drives even Israel into China's arms - Monica Showalter  . . ."As the U.S. gets bogged down in Ukraine, and Russia aligns with China as both states win friends and influence around the world, Israel is pretty on its own now. The magnificent Abraham accords of President Trump's era, making peace for Israel and Saudi Arabia and a string of other nations after it, has been eclipsed by China's "peacemaking" between Saudi Arabia and Iran, freeing up the mullah-ruled state to focus its malevolence on tiny Israel alone. For Israel, its best option may be to move under China's wing so China can stop Iran.

If Marjorie Taylor Greene is accurate, what she says about Biden is mind-blowing - Andrea Widberg  . . ."It took a strong stomach to watch the videos and view the photographs on Hunter’s hard drive. They revealed a compulsively exhibitionistic man who couldn’t stop recording himself smoking crack, sniffing cocaine, and cavorting with prostitutes, some of whom looked as if they fell into the statutory rape category. Moreover, the laptop revealed that, when Hunter requested money from his Dad (the current Oval Office occupant) to fund this debauchery, Dad paid up.

What the laptop also revealed, despite Biden’s strenuous denials, is that Joe was involved in Hunter’s many business dealings. We know this because Hunter’s staffers, business partners, and prospects were all welcomed into Joe’s vice-presidential office.

The Biden crime family participated in human trafficking by soliciting prostitutes from the United States and abroad in countries like Russia and Ukraine.

There is an entire crime enterprise wrapped around Joe Biden and his family.@GOPOversight has a much bigger investigation… pic.twitter.com/AGUBqfxTLs

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) April 18, 2023

 It is Biden, Obama, and other leftists who continually seek to divide the country, not Trump - American Thinker   . . .Obama lied continuously to get Obamacare passed, not Trump. People who were against Obama’s policies on healthcare and other things were frequently called racists. 

“See! Right-wing intolerance, hatred and racism fuel this movement.”

"Obama dictatorially ignored immigration laws when he implemented DACA, not Trump.

"Obama and Biden support lawless sanctuary cities and states, not Trump.

"Obama used the IRS to target political opponents, not Trump. He sought to silence people who disagreed on policies before elections.

"Biden compared tea party members who wanted smaller government as domestic terrorists.

Democrats frequently use this tactic whether it is people who want to make America great again, people who protest elections, or parents.". . .Much, much more on Biden in this article and you may find it worth keeping. Tunnel Dweller

It is Biden, Obama, and other leftists who continually seek to divide the country, not Trump - American Thinker

Sarcasm alert: Donn Reeves:

So many more people love Sleepy over Trump due to his stellar handling of the economy, foreign and fiscal policy. Things couldn't be better. Economy is booming. Ukrainians are winning the war (or so we are told, and why this is good is beyond my pay grade) swimmingly. Mortgage rates are lower than under Carter's reign (17-18%). LOL. High food prices are transitory and will come down when...maybe Hell freezes over. The depletion of the strategic oil supply are keeping energy prices low. The minority population has never had it better. The alphabet people are doing their part being so tolerant towards some of us who don't believe in the depravity. Highways are racist. And the 11 killed and 26 wounded last weekend in Chicago was due to the hot weekend. LOL. Yup, we need another Biden term... well -- actually BO 3.0.

What Democrats have wrought: