To Whom Do Our Children Belong? -

  Intellectual Takeout

“Teachers know what is best for their kids,” tweeted Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, “because they are with them every day. We must trust teachers.”

"In his May 20 article “‘These Are Our Kids, They Belong to All of Us’: Three Times the Left Trampled on Parental Authority This Past Week Alone,” Tim Meads looks at this comment, alongside recent remarks from Florida fifth-grade teacher Jenna Barbee and White House Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.

"Barbee showed an LGBTQ film to her fifth-graders, was met with a protest from parents, and responded by saying that parental rights “are gone when your child is in the public school system because there are students talking about these things.”

"Jean-Pierre’s comments were the most egregious, though. Speaking at a GLAAD (formerly Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) function, she sharply criticized states and localities that are banning sex-change surgeries on children. “That’s something that we have to call out and continue to be very clear about,” she said. “These are kids. These are our kids. They belong to all of us.”

"All three of these people are emblematic of the ongoing battle over children, their upbringing and education, and the role of the state in these matters vis-à-vis the parents. Key to this conflict is a simple question: To whom do our children belong? . . ."

Dylan Mulvaney OUT! Manly Men IN!

 NEW: Budweiser Tries 'Manly Man' Move to Careen Out of Crisis – RedState  "The boycott has gotten so bad for Bud Light, they’re even offering to essentially give beer away for free just so they can try to salvage some of their sales numbers over the Memorial Day weekend. But they were even offering to buy back some of the beer from wholesalers and ales are down in all regions of the country. Anheuser-Busch’s stock has also taken a serious tumble. The controversy has even affected other Anheuser-Busch brands beyond Bud Light.

"That last point may explain Budweiser’s latest move. They’re teaming up with Harley-Davidson for an ad and a limited edition can that celebrates the iconic motorcycle brand. It features dudes working on a Harley and then having beers as a narrator intones about “grit and resilience.”. . .

"More like this “Dud’s” for you, as some observed. It’s also a bit of a stereotype, which means that’s how they think of people. It’s like they went to the ad guys and said, “What can we do to recover and appeal to dudes who used to drink our beer?”

"Is this the best thought that they could come up with? Do they think that this is the way to win back their customers? That people are going to be buffaloed by such efforts? They must think so since they keep trying to pull out the ads like this. This is like when they put out a “countrified ad,” thinking throwing country music out there would do the trick. The effort to pander is silly. It’s a shallow assessment of what they think of their former customers while continuing not to get why people are disturbed or directly addressing the elephant in the room. What they should have done from the beginning is listen to the customers and hear why they were disturbed.

"Now, if you buy Bud Light, people think it means you’re endorsing Mulvaney or getting involved in politics. Most people when they buy beer just want to have a cold one — they don’t want it with a side of controversy, which is why it’s so bad for companies to wade into political wars.". . .

Bye bye bud. Looks like you’ve got company on your downhill slide to the cesspool of woke.

Harley Davidson death by Budweiser can!https://t.co/rXsEqJy2DT

— Lawrence Stewart (@418LLS) May 26, 2023

AOC Heckled and Shouted Off Stage by NYC Voters: 'Put America First'

 AOC Heckled and Shouted Off Stage by NYC Voters: 'Put America First' (townhall.com)

"Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY) was booed off stage during a New York City town hall by attendees who were frustrated by the Democrat's position on the looming debt ceiling issue, the border crisis, and the millions of dollars being funneled to Ukraine. 

"Hecklers shouted at the Squad member several times, telling her that she doesn't put America first. 

" 'American citizens before migrants," one man shouted as he walked toward AOC holding small American flags. "Where are you on the migrant issue? You're a piece of s—t."

"A crowd member attempted to defend AOC saying, "Immigrants have nothing to do with vets; it's just an excuse. We all, for the most part, came through Ellis Island." However, someone yelled out: "Legally!" 

"AOC has been a long-time advocate for illegal immigration, even before they began being shipped to the Democrat-run city by Republican governors, as an attempt to deal with the thousands illegally crossing the southern border every day. 

"On several occasions, the Squad member accused the Trump Administration of housing illegal aliens in concentration camps at the border." . . .

Another asked if the U.S. would do anything to stop the war with Russia, suggesting the country was on the brink of a nuclear war; she previously voted to send over $100 billion to Ukraine after suggesting she supported the idea of removing the debt ceiling. 

Ron Paul Suggests Adam Schiff Should Be Expelled From Congress

 American Lookout

Retired Congressman Ron Paul is a man of integrity. He was sometimes described as the conscience of the Republican party.

"In a new column, he is suggesting that Adam Schiff should be expelled from Congress.

"Paul is saying this because of all of the damning information about Schiff that has been exposed since Elon Musk took over Twitter.

"Ron Paul writes at CNS News: "Isn’t it Time For Adam Schiff to be Expelled From Congress?

. . .

The short version of what Taibbi reported comes from around the time then-Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) was about to release his Committee’s findings about the FBI misuse of the FISA Court to spy on the Trump presidential campaign. The FBI, it turns out, relied exclusively on the widely-discredited “Steele Dossier” – paid by the Hillary Clinton campaign – as justification to spy on the Trump campaign.

When pressure grew to release the Nunes findings, Twitter exploded with users demanding that Congress “release the memo.” That’s where then-ranking Member Schiff and his staff began relentlessly pressuring Twitter to show that the accounts demanding the release of the memo were actually Russian agents, out to help their supposed favorite, Donald Trump.

Let’s Bankrupt All the Pride Sponsors (With Joy and Conviction) -

 The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

We conservatives are not going to spend our lives looking the other way.

"For once, for once in our lives, let us wage war. Not like in the old days, hand-to-hand combat is so last century, but ChatGPT to ChatGPT (“Tell me something that annoys my enemy, apart from my condescension”), and besides, fighting is vulgar.

"Let’s be practical about this thing we call culture war. We have the Bud Light case going. . .

"We conservatives are not going to spend our lives looking the other way while they spit on us. Jesus said to turn the other cheek, but he didn’t say anything about not poking your finger in an enemy’s eye once in a while. Besides, it’s self-defense, in defense of our values, our families, and everyone, really. (READ MORE: Dylan Mulvaney Offers Companies Exit Plan From Woke Stronghold)

"America will soon be forced to endure the invasion of Pride Month, exemplifying over-the-top postmodern stupidity better than anything else. Proof of this is the fact that it is May and I am already writing about it because I have seen the press full of news about the event.". . .

Catholic Group Announces Boycott, $1M Ad Campaign Against Dodgers –

  RedState

"As RedState’s been noting, normal people are waking to the social carnage wrought by the Sex & Death Left. They don’t like people sexualizing their kids or turning every public event into a ritual of woke political theater. Bud Light is learning it, Target is learning it, and hopefully, the Dodgers might be catching on soon.

"They will if CatholicVote has anything to do with it. The group has sent a public letter to L.A. Dodgers owner Mark Walter and CEO Stan Kasten announcing a boycott of the team to be publicized by a $1 million ad campaign.

"At issue, of course, is the Dodger’s on-again, off-again invitation to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to receive a community service award during the team’s “Pride Night” on June 16.

"The team initially announced the invitation a couple of weeks ago. Then, when Catholic groups and others started calling attention to the nature of the Sisters – transgender men dressing as Catholic nuns and simulating gay sex to intentionally mock the Church – the Dodgers disinvited the group. That, in turn, alienated L.A. Pride, which backed out of Pride Night.

"All of which threatened to answer the old question: What if they threw a Pride Night and nobody came? So the Dodgers caved. They re-invited the anti-Catholic bigots and apologized abjectly.

"It was a smart move to get the gays to Dodger Stadium on Pride Night, but it might prove a bad move if they care about getting normal people to the ballpark every other day of the season.". . . 

Well, they will have celebrities and TV Hosts,,,

Biden Energy Official Sam Brinton Led D.C. Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Chapter (msn.com)   "President Biden’s former nuclear waste commissioner, Sam Brinton, a self-identified “non-binary” individual, previously held a leadership role in the Washington D.C. chapter of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a group known for blasphemous exhibitionism.

"Brinton served as the principal officer of the D.C. Sisters and adopted the nuclear-themed name Sister Ray Dee O’Active, according to tax filings reviewed by Fox News.

Sam and friends

"Recently, Brinton made headlines for his involvement in airport-luggage thefts. He was arrested as a fugitive from justice in Maryland following similar larceny in Minneapolis and Las Vegas. Brinton avoided jail time in the two previous cases by entering pleas. 

"The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a group based in San Francisco, were initially invited by the Los Angeles Dodgers to participate in the team’s Pride Night, then uninvited due to pressure from Catholic groups, but then re-invited, with the Dodgers organization promising in a press statement to “better educate” themselves. The Sisters often engage in activities that mock Christianity and the church, such as pole-dancing on a cross." . . .

Media Reports Suggest Turmoil Between Biden, Harris Going Into 2024

  Jon Dougherty

Former GOP presidential candidate and media magnate Steve Forbes told Fox News: “Joe Biden will not be the Democratic Party nominee … Because the economy — yeah, they can sweep the Hunter stuff away — but that has a stench out there

"A spate of new media reports hint that there is rising tension in the White House between President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris as the 2024 presidential election cycle begins in earnest, with more Republicans jumping in to challenge them.

As noted by the outlet 1945, one of the biggest mounting concerns is Biden’s age and the fact that Harris, should the geriatric president be forced to resign his post or worse, die in office, would succeed him. She’s not been a popular vice president and in fact, her polling has consistently been worse than Biden’s, even when Biden’s numbers were at historic lows.

“ 'A vote for the Democrats might be for Biden. Then again, it might not be,” is what Republicans want Democratic voters to understand, the outlet noted.

"The report added ominously: “After all, President Joe Biden will be 82 if he were to win his reelection. The average lifespan for most American men is 77 years of age.”

?The report noted further:. . .

As uncomfortable as it is, Americans need to have the conversation about Biden that no Democrat wants them to have: can the forty-sixth president even make it as president for another four years? As a corollary to that line of questioning comes another important query that voters should be asking: can Kamala Harris be a good president, if something were to happen to Biden?

. . . 

Biden Has No Idea Who He Is Calling for at Event, as He Ditches Debt Deadline for Vacation

  RedState   "Joe Biden doesn’t seem to give a darn about debt negotiations or our economic status.

First, he refused to even talk with Republicans for 97 days. But since he has been talking, he doesn’t want to cut anything, he just wants to keep spending us into the poor house. He’s completely in the thrall of the leftist wing of his party and they don’t want him to agree with the Republicans. Unfortunately for the Democrats, Americans want cuts and they see Joe Biden as the obstacle here. The Republicans already passed a bill, it’s Biden who isn’t getting it done and Americans see it. A new Fox poll is showing that Americans would ascribe any blame here, quite rightly, to Joe Biden.

So what is Biden doing in the face of all this? We’ve already been put on a “credit negative watch” because of him. But he’s not changing anything about his habits — he’s out the door for yet one more weekend vacation on Friday, with time in both Camp David and at his home in Delaware. He’s already spent about 40 percent of his time in office away on vacation, and there he goes again, hang agreeing on anything of substance.

"But let’s hear how urgent he thinks things are from White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.

"...the president is going to Camp David this weekend, going to Delaware. Can you describe the sense of urgency that the president feels?"

Karine Jean-Pierre: "There's always been urgency!"

Biden waited 97 days to discuss the debt ceiling. pic.twitter.com/UR1MjAitwU

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 25, 2023

America’s Dangerous Shortage Of Free Thinkers –

  Issues & Insights  

A society without free thinkers, dissenters and contrarians is not only one that lacks color and vibrance, it is accelerating toward a wreck. Some might recognize that happening right in front of them. 

"Our country has become a conformist society where free expression is rewarded with the swing of a truncheon. We’re on a road that leads to repression, and we are not far from the destination.

"This nation owes its existence and its never-seen-before prosperity to free thinkers. The founders were men of the enlightenment. They stand in stark contrast to our ruling class of today, a corrupt and depraved cabal of politicians, state media, institutional leaders, militant activists and corporate executives that is hurtling us into an era of darkness. In the 2020s, the only “truth” is what the narrative, invariably fabricated by the worst people who have ever held power and influence in this country’s history, says it is.

"We see those yard signs, the ones that proclaim their occupants’ unwavering grand tolerance and thirst for diversity. But we know that those who put up those signs are the most intolerant, limited thinkers among us. They don’t believe in diversity of thought. Their objective is to force conformity to their way of thinking while immodestly displaying their superior virtue.

“​​ 'There is a new use for tolerance today, and, quite frankly, it is self-serving and hypocritical,” says Paul Chappell, a pastor and president of the West Coast Baptist College in Lancaster, California. “It doesn’t mean tolerance in the traditional sense of the word at all. It means, ‘You must condone and support my choices – even at the expense of your beliefs.’”

Entropy, Joe Biden, and the Progressive Left

Entropy, Joe Biden, and the Progressive Left - American Thinker    Joe Biden’s decline into incompetence is more than a personal journey towards life’s end, it is an allegory for the likely collapse of the Progressive Left and the Democrat Party now under its rule.

"As Joe Biden’s mind closes in on itself and his body struggles with infirmity, the Second Law of Thermodynamics is at work.  The Second Law holds that the more energy systems (think a person or an organization) become self-absorbed and isolated from the larger eco-systems surrounding them, the less productive work they can accomplish.

"This is the law of entropy where, as entropy increases, useful work decreases because the energies in closed systems become random and uncoordinated in seeking practical outcomes.  The system just gets more and more chaotic, losing rhyme and reason.

"Notice Joe Biden’s use of words -- his mind works randomly and can’t stay on topic. He even has trouble being coherent when reading what his staff has written for him to say. When he walks or greets people, he seems out of touch with his surroundings. This is chaotic randomness working right before our eyes.

"Now, with Biden his randomness comes from aging -- his mind and body are no longer capable of intersecting with reality as they once were. The effects of aging slowly but surely close down our internal biological and physical systems. At the end we can do no work at all as our mind and body slip away into that final rest.

Texas Continues Bussing Illegal Immigrants to “Sanctuary Cities”

 Texas Continues Bussing Illegal Immigrants to “Sanctuary Cities” (legalinsurrection.com)

"Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced on May 18, 2023, “the arrival of the first group of migrants bused to Denver, Colorado from Texas.” This follows Texas bussing illegal immigrants to Philadelphia, Chicago, New York City, and Washington, DC.

"Governor Abbott blamed the Biden Administration’s “border policies” for the influx of illegal immigrants burdening Texas communities and the need for bussing to sanctuary cities:

"Texas’ overwhelmed and overrun border communities should not have to shoulder the flood of illegal immigration due to President Biden’s reckless open border policies, like his mass catch and release without court dates or any way to track them. Until the President and his Administration step up and fulfill their constitutional duty to secure the border, the State of Texas will continue busing migrants to self-declared sanctuary cities like Denver to provide much-needed relief to our small border towns.Texas began its program of shipping illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities in April 2022 and has reported bussing over 19,000 people since then.

"Chicago, under the direction of then-Mayor Lori Lightfoot, strenuously objected to Texas’s bussing program in a letter dated April 30, 2023. Mayor Lightfoot urged the Abbott “administration to stop the inhumane and dangerous action”:" . . .

 

 

The Left Has Pushed the Envelope

. . ."All these implosions are not just shocking but surreal. Why are our government, corporations, and popular culture colluding in mass suicide - to the delight of our enemies like Communist China??

 RealClearPolitics   "The Left is waging a full-fledged cultural revolution against traditional America. And the Maoist results are often as absurd as they are terrifying.

"Special-counsel John Durham just issued his final report on wrongdoing within the FBI, CIA, and the Department of Justice.

"The summary confirms that our premier investigatory and intelligence agencies interfered in the 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns.

"Directors and high-ranking FBI officials lied under oath. They misled Congress. They altered court documents and deceived federal judges.

"The FBI hired a foreign national to gather dirt on Donald Trump's 2016 campaign - while he was being paid by the rival Hillary Clinton campaign.

"The FBI contracted Twitter to suppress news stories. It kept the Hunter Biden laptop under wraps, even as former intelligence officials flat out lied it was likely "Russian disinformation." That was a blatant effort to aid the 2020 Biden campaign.

"The IRS just conceded whistleblowers were correct and the agency fired its entire multi-year audit team responsible for investigating Hunter Biden's purported tax irregularities.

"The agency claimed it was ordered to do so by the Department of Justice, headed by Biden's appointee Merrick Garland." . . .