Here we go again: Another supply chain crisis hits America's ports, and where's Pete Buttigieg? -

 Monica Showalter...American Thinker   "Is Pete Buttigieg taking more time off, for, who knows?  Pride month?

"What else can one make of an emerging new supply chain crisis, at West Coast ports, that threatens to unleash a new round of shortages and price hikes to the public with no Pete in sight?

"According to The Hill:

Ships are piling up in some West Coast ports, and commercial shipping prices are spiking amid a labor fight between port operators and workers, threatening to trigger a new round of supply chain disruptions that could lead to shortages or higher prices.

The fight is sparking concerns among lawmakers who worry surging container prices could ripple through the economy and hit all sorts of consumer goods in a repeat of supply chain problems following pandemic shutdowns.

“The shippers I know are afraid of what might happen if we shut down our ports,” said Rep. Val Hoyle (D-Ore.), a member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. “People are concerned.”

Data from logistics platform Go Comet shows median delay times trending upward this week in several key West Coast ports, including Los Angeles, Seattle and Long Beach, Calif. Wait times at the port of Seattle are now more than a week.

"Didn't he tell us after the last one that he had it all under control? Back in 2021, he touted meetings with "stakeholders," got his hands on billions in new infrastructure spending, appointed a ports czar?

"Remember this?

"Here was his first ports czar, appointed in August 2021, shortly after he got back from his lengthy paternity leave as the first supply chain crisis raged:" . . .

Alan Dershowitz: Trump indictment doesn't pass the Richard Nixon test

 Fox Business  "The law has been 'stretched' to indict Trump: Harvard Law's Alan Dershowitz."

"Harvard University law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz says this is the first time in U.S. history that a leading candidate against an incumbent president is criminally indicted by that president."

Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz warned of the "dangerous" consequences posed by the federal charges launched against former President Donald Trump, arguing the indictment's "weak" appearance does not meet historic precedent.

Alan Dershowitz: Trump indictment doesn't pass the Richard Nixon test | Fox Business  "It has to be at least as strong as the case against Richard Nixon, which we will remember led not to Democrats to demand his resignation, but Republicans, his own colleagues came to him and said, this case is so strong that we can't support you," Dershowitz said Friday on "Mornings with Maria."

"I haven't seen any suggestion that Republicans agree with this indictment," the professor continued.

Trump himself announced the indictment Thursday on his social media platform, Truth Social. Seven federal charges have emerged out of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s months-long investigation, and reportedly involve obstruction of justice, conspiracy and illegal retention of classified government material.

"It has to be at least as strong as the case against Richard Nixon, which we will remember led not to Democrats to demand his resignation, but Republicans, his own colleagues came to him and said, this case is so strong that we can't support you," Dershowitz said Friday on "Mornings with Maria."

"I haven't seen any suggestion that Republicans agree with this indictment," the professor continued.". . .

Bud Light’s Woes Continue As It Is Bested By A Mexican Competitor

 Bud Light’s Woes Continue As It Is Bested By A Mexican Competitor (tampafp.com)

"Imports from Mexico have displaced Americans at the top of the heap — and no, this is not because of President Joe Biden’s open borders policy. At least not yet.

"Rather, thank Dylan Mulvaney.

"According to Newsmax on Friday, Modelo Especial, a Mexican beer, has replaced Bud Light as the best-selling beer in America.

"Bud Light, which is facing a fierce and sustained backlash from conservatives for its ad campaign featuring Mulvaney, a transgender social media influencer, racked up $297 million in sales during May.

"Modelo Especial, by contrast, posted $333 million last month.

In the news :Amid Mulvaney Backlash And Boycotts, Bud Light Donates $200,000 To LGBT Business Org

"Modelo’s year-over-year sales spiked almost 16% in May, while Bud Light, whose losing streak is now entering a third month, fell by nearly 23%.

"Ironically, Anheuser Busch, Bud Light’s parent company, has owned most of the global makers of Modelo Especial since 2013. But according to Newsweek, federal regulators forced the company to unload Modelo’s U.S. holdings to New York-based Constellation Brands to maintain competition in America’s beer market." . . .

Kristi Noem Vows to Protect Mount Rushmore After Finding Out What Target Execs Support Doing to It

Noem is 100 percent right, of course. Target is one of the worst of all American corporations for its efforts to undermine this country and destroy everything that makes it a great country. It’s all just another reason for good, patriotic Americans to refuse to patronize Target.

 Kristi Noem Vows to Protect Mount Rushmore After Finding Out What Target Execs Support Doing to It (ijr.com)  "Ultra-left retail giant Target is at it again, this time donating money to a radical group that wants to demolish the colossal monument to our great presidents at Mount Rushmore because it is “white supremacy.” But South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem isn’t having any of it.

"As Fox News noted on Monday, Target has ramped up its support of radical ideas and its sick donations to radical, left-wing groups, including transgender groups, LGBT groups, Black Lives Matter groups, and so-called “social justice” groups. But it is also amping up donations to groups that push the race-based Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion agenda. And one of the groups it donates tens of thousands of dollars to has been advocating for demolishing Mount Rushmore.

"According to a look at Target’s donations through its non-profit Target Foundation, the company has donated to a South Dakota group calling itself the NDN Collective. This group has targeted Mount Rushmore, calling the national monument an “international symbol of white supremacy.”

"Fox added that NDN operates with a “racial equity lens” and is “dedicated to building indigenous power [t]hrough organizing, activism, philanthropy, grantmaking … and narrative change.”

"The group also employs the fantasy term “intersectional,” says it supports transgenderism, and works to “liberate” the special interest group it claims are “oppressed.”

Denver Councilwoman Who Floated Reparations Gets Blown Out in Re-Election Bid

At least she spoke honestly; Biden and Hillary would have gotten by. TD

 Townhall  "Remember Candi CdeBaca? She’s the Denver councilwoman who endorsed reparations, suggesting that white-owned businesses be taxed more to help minority ones. It wasn’t part of her re-election platform, claiming that her comments, which were clipped and posted by Libs of Tik Tok, were not an actual policy she plans to pursue on the city council. Yet, to avoid offending her progressive supporters, Ms. CdeBaca did clarify that she remained an advocate of this policy in her newsletter last month:

Denver City Council member Candi CdeBaca, who is running for re-election, says white owned businesses should be taxed extra and redistributed to black owned businesses. pic.twitter.com/s9JhSdAmtj

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 5, 2023

From the comments to this post:  Cecelia

@Ceceliaism

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@libsoftiktok

Maybe instead of reparations you could try politely asking the Crips and Bloods to redistribute their gang activity to more equitable areas outside of Five Points and the rest of the Denver neighborhoods where they're entrenched.

Hunter Biden's explicit laptop images released by former Donald Trump employee

 Hunter Biden's explicit laptop images released by former Donald Trump employee (msn.com)

Mr Ziegler defended the decision to release the images, telling the Daily Mail: “If the American people want to know what their first family is like, they’re going to get it. And we’re not going to be taking out photos that paint the Bidens in a good light.”

"A former Donald Trump aide has published almost 9,000 images of Joe Biden’s son Hunter online, after claiming it took months to censor compromising images of him nude and with drugs and prostitutes.

"The photographs come from a cache of material obtained from a laptop the US president’s son reportedly took to a computer repair shop in Delaware.

"The contents were passed to the media and a number of the photos were published ahead of the presidential election in 2020 in an attempt to embarrass the Biden campaign.

"The latest images were published online by Marco Polo, a Right-wing non-profit organisation founded by Garrett Ziegler, a former employee of Mr Trump.

"They show the younger Mr Biden, 53, naked and apparently taking drugs and in the company of sex workers. Hunter’s battle with drug addiction is well documented.

"The photographs are dated between 2008 and 2019. Mixed in with the explicit images are a selection of family pictures, showing members of the Biden clan - including the president - holidaying in Rome.". . .

Does Biden make you miss Obama?

Time for Western Democracies to Stand with Iranian People (townhall.com) "Iran has been rocked by anti-government protests for years but the uprising that began in September 2022 is fundamentally different. With citizens taking to the streets, they are now demanding not only specific political and economic changes, but rather a complete overhaul of the ruling regime itself.  These protests have been met with violent crackdowns by authorities, which has resulted in hundreds of deaths and thousands of arrests. The executions of detainees have come in waves, with at least 130 beautiful young lives taken in since April 21 alone, including three young protesters on May 18." . . .

. . ."The Iranian people do not need material support from the West but deserve to know that they are not alone in their struggle for human rights, democracy and the establishment of a democratic, secular republic, and that the world is watching and supporting their efforts. So, in lockstep with U.S. Congressional sentiment, the international community should also provide moral and political support to Iranian people by recognizing their legitimate democratic demands and aspirations. These sentiments are duly expressed in House Resolution 100 and in this month's joint hearing of the Iran Women Congressional Caucus and Iran Human Rights and Democracy Caucus.  It is in this context that political and moral support for the people can play a critical role in promoting positive change.". . .

Why Obama Let Iran's Green Revolution Fail - Bloomberg

The president wanted a nuclear deal, not regime change.

. . ."But Obama wasn't just reluctant to show solidarity in 2009, he feared the demonstrations would sabotage his secret outreach to Iran. In his new book, "The Iran Wars," Wall Street Journal reporter Jay Solomon uncovers new details on how far Obama went to avoid helping Iran's green movement. Behind the scenes, Obama overruled advisers who wanted to do what America had done at similar transitions from dictatorship to democracy, and signal America's support.

Solomon reports that Obama ordered the CIA to sever contacts it had with the green movement's supporters. "The Agency has contingency plans for supporting democratic uprisings anywhere in the world. This includes providing dissidents with communications, money, and in extreme cases even arms," Solomon writes. "But in this case the White House ordered it to stand down."

2017: The Tunnel Wall: Plundered and looted by the mullahs, Iran's angry people protest

Why Obama Betrayed the Iranian People - American Thinker  . . ."No strike on Iran.  No sanctions.  Just diplomacy -- with a genocidally inclined and fanatically intransigent regime whose contempt for Obama's overtures made the president look increasingly beggarly as his presidency wore on.

"It is no mystery why many wonder which side NIAC is really on.  And as long as it continued to wield such influence in Washington and held the ear of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the freedom-fighters in Tehran didn't stand a chance.

"From the beginning of the unrest, the CIA should have been at work inside Iran, helping the dissidents and reformers and strategizing about the removal of the country's nuclear weapons.  And the president of the United States should have spoken out strongly in favor of the demonstrators, and freedom.  But instead, Obama said: "I've made it clear that the United States respects the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and is not interfering with Iran's affairs."

"Imagine: the people of Iran -- not the jihadis and the devout, but the women and the secularists -- were all calling for the head of the snake.   Iran is indeed the head of the snake.  Imagine the direction that the world might have taken if the greatest force for good, the United States, had stepped in to help the people of Iran remove that key part of the Axis of Evil.  Iran is now doing business as Hezb'allah in Lebanon and is the engine and puppetmaster behind Syria.  It supports Hamas and the Taliban, is agitating the Shia in Bahrain, and more.

"And if that weren't heinous enough, now the colluder in the White House is hiding behind his empty shell of a secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, as she throws the blame for the administration's betrayal of the Iranian demonstrators onto the stealth jihadists and Khomeini-aligned quislings they threw in with.  They should have thrown them out of country for working for our mortal enemy. " . . .

Cracker Barrel just told Bud Light to ‘Hold my beer’

 My favorite store!

Just as normal Americans experience a sense of revulsion when they think of Bud Light or Target, it’s to be hoped that this revulsion extends to Cracker Barrel. Nobody needs to buy a Cracker Barrel meal, and nobody needs to accept the not-so-subtle middle-finger Cracker Barrel just offered to its most loyal customers. 

Andrea Widberg - American Thinker  "Bud Light, to date, seems to have committed corporate suicide because of its endorsement relationship with Dylan Mulvaney, who makes a living by pretending to be a little girl. (Mulvaney is clever because he sweeps in both the pro-transgender crowd and the pedophile crowd.) The backlash showed that Bud Light totally misread its customer base, which now views the product with revulsion. So what does Cracker Barrel, which has a similar customer base, decide to do? Send out a pro-Pride tweet!

Cracker Barrel, which originated in Tennessee, has been around for 54 years. Its corporate identity is that it offers customers the experience of an old-time country store and some good country cooking. It sells itself to middle America by supporting patriotic values. Wikipedia sums up the experience nicely:". . .

. . ."On Thursday, Cracker Barrel revealed how it’s decided to respond to “the challenge of navigating an environment of softer consumer demand,” when those consumers are traditionally older and more conservative. It’s aiming for the youthful leftist consumer by celebrating “Pride”:"

‘Cracker Barrel has fallen’: Southern restaurant chain is latest to get criticized for inclusion campaign (msn.com) 

“We take no pleasure in reporting that Cracker Barrel has fallen,” tweeted the Texas Family Project. As evidence, the Texas group cited a two-page flyer from the restaurant chain celebrating Pride Month, its participation in which appeared to be a few rainbow-colored sponsored rocking chairs.

. . ."Culture wars have engulfed a number of companies of late, in particular Anheuser-Busch InBev, which ran a social-media campaign with Dylan Mulvaney, featuring her holding a personalized Bud Light can with her picture on it marking the anniversary of her gender transition. Shares of U.S.-listed Anheuser-Busch InBev have dropped 10% over the last month as Bud Light, and other of its beer brands, have seen sales skid in the U.S.

"When it came to the Cracker Barrel situation, many Twitter users lampooned the concern.". . .

Democrats, with the help of the mostly complicit media -and President -, are seeking to destroy the greatest country that ever existed as fast as they can

The founding fathers came to America and made "We the People" the most important component to our success and freedom. Democrats have decided that "We the government" is much more important than "We the people" 

Ian Macfarlane

 Democrats, with the help of the mostly complicit media, are seeking to destroy the greatest country that ever existed as fast as they can - American Thinker. . ."Democrats want all kids that can’t afford to go to private schools to be forced to go to public schools, no matter how bad the results are. Republicans want children of all income levels and all races to have freedom of choice, which would allow them the greatest opportunity to succeed. 

"National Democrats want all public schools to allow boys to compete with girls in sports and to share locker rooms with them. Republicans believe this is nuts and dangerous. 

"Democrats also want to control what kind of energy you use. Republicans believe people should have the choice to buy electric cars and appliances if they want but should not be forced. 

"Why doesn't the media report things about the climate that don't correspond with the dire predictions we have heard for decades? The answer is obvious. Facts don't make any difference to the media and other Democrats when they are pushing an agenda to control the people. They want to intentionally mislead students. They do not want students to ask any questions or do any research. After all, the media refuses to ask questions and do research themselves. That is why Democrats oppose letting poor and minority kids go to better schools. ". . .

DESANTIS slams the “different standard for a Democrat secretary of state and a former Republican president.”

“There needs to be ONE standard of justice in this country. Let’s enforce it on everybody … You can’t have one faction of society weaponizing the power of the state… pic.twitter.com/uEaVf4dh2o

— DeSantis War Room 🐊 (@DeSantisWarRoom) June 9, 2023

Liberal News Host Melts Down After Guest Points Out Hypocrisy In Trump Indictment (townhall.com)  "There's this issue – nice try," Trusty said, referring to when Biden was found guilty of having classified documents in his possession. 

" 'There's an issue that anyone that reads any newspapers would agree is a parallel track, which is the Delaware document scandal of Joe Biden," Trusty continued. "You have the ultimate unclean hands of a current sitting president who had no declassification, had none of the protections of President Trump, and who literally had to have stolen stuff from a skiff." 

"Stephanopoulos was speechless after Trusty pointed out the obvious difference between how Biden and Trump are treated. ". . .

"No one is above the yada, yada, yada"

 Biden Criticized For Not Being Interviewed Yet In Classified Docs Probe As Trump Faces Indictment (townhall.com)

This is a joke that will be repeated over and over by the media and other Dems: ‘No one is above the law’

 This is a joke that will be repeated over and over by the media and other Dems: ‘No one is above the law’ - American Thinker 

But if you are a Republican who wants to drain the swamp, question an election, or dare ask that foreign officials investigate the corrupt Biden family, you will be impeached and investigated endlessly in search of a crime. 

  "Here is a short list of people who have essentially been above the law no matter how many lies they tell under oath or how many crimes they commit. 

• Hillary Clinton
• Lois Lerner
• Eric Holder
• James Clapper
• Adam Schiff
• Fifty-one former intelligence officials who vouched for a fictitious document to elect a corrupt Democrat.
• Andrew McCabe
• James Comey
• Joe Biden. . .

. . ."Others less prominent can destroy cities and kill and maim cops and others and few will be prosecuted.

"They can illegally enter this country without fear of being prosecuted.

"No matter how often you lie or commit other crimes, the complicit media will hire you as long as you target Republicans and repeat the talking points to push the radical leftist agenda."

DeSantis Attacks Indictment of Trump – The American Catholic

DESANTIS slams the “different standard for a Democrat secretary of state and a former Republican president.”

“There needs to be ONE standard of justice in this country. Let’s enforce it on everybody … You can’t have one faction of society weaponizing the power of the state… pic.twitter.com/uEaVf4dh2o

— DeSantis War Room 🐊 (@DeSantisWarRoom) June 9, 2023

Hail to the Brave Parents Who've Had Enough of the Sexualization of Children –

But perhaps the greatest falsehood of all that has been pounded into their brain is that they must always show “tolerance,” including for those who are openly grooming their children—those who will never show tolerance once they’re in complete control, which is not far off. 

 PJ Media 

 A huge fight [video] broke out outside the Glendale School Board meeting in Los Angeles as parents, many of them from the Armenian-American community, came to protest the school’s pride events. Naturally, the left-wing zealots—read “Antifa”—showed up in force, and as you will see, some serious punches were thrown on both sides. A heavy police presence attempted to stop the fighting, violently pulling apart combatants to prevent serious injury.

"A very similar incident took place last October, when Muslim parents expressed their outrage at and vociferously condemned Dearborn school board officials for including books in school libraries that promote sexual deviancy (masquerading under euphemisms such as “pride,” “inclusivity,” etc.).

"When the Dearborn outburst occurred last October, some observers thought that Muslims were somehow uniquely placed to stand against the lgb-whatever agenda—that Muslims, due apparently to some “innate” conservatism, could become the natural leaders of a coalition of concerned parents.

"And yet, what the Armenians did yesterday—not just shout down but engage in an all-out brawl in defense of their children—was even more dramatic.". . .

Ron DeSantis On Education and Indoctrination in Classrooms (americanpigeon.org)  . . ."Notable moments include when DeSantis talked about teachers loving when parents take an interest in their children’s education because otherwise it is harder to reach kids when the parent is absent.

“ 'The only people who don’t want the parents involved [in their children’s education] are those who fear that parental involvement will impede their design to use the education system for ideological indoctrination.”

"DeSantis stressed the importance of education over indoctrination, arguing that when we stick to basic subjects, like science and history, rather than divert our attention toward ideology, we will see the achievement five to 15 years from now when the children are grown up. We need to “stay within the boundaries between education versus indoctrination,” he continued.

“ 'Every parent has a right to send their kid to elementary school without having concepts like woke gender ideology jammed into their curriculum.” . . .

Biden to Surrender U.S. Sovereignty Giving WHO Authority over Pandemic Policies

 American Pigeon.   "One side effect of the move toward globalization has been the development of a network of judicial bodies with wide-ranging authority to alter domestic policy and domestic law,” writes Mary L. Volcansek and John F. Stack in Courts Crossing Borders: Blurring the Lines of Sovereignty. “What began as a mere side effect is now…a major force in shaping legal practice in many regions of the world and in driving resolution of human rights, economic, and even criminal issues.”

"As a college student reading that book some years ago, I saw it as a warning that as globalization and transnationalism intertwined individuals and societies to the rules of intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, like the World Economic Forum, then the greater their sovereignty at the peril of our own.

"The fear of that reality has reawakened after news broke that the Biden administration is negotiating with the World Health Organization (WHO) to cede control of domestic health policy in the event of another pandemic. Domestic policy, in the United States and other signatory countries, would then be determined by the Geneva-based United Nations subsidiary.

"Discussions between U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra and WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus began in September 2022, announcing “the U.S.-WHO Strategic Dialogue,” according to The Epoch Times. In a joint statement, they say that the dialogue “provides a platform to maximize the longstanding U.S. government-WHO partnership, and to protect and promote the health of all people around the globe, including the American people.”

"Birthed from these talks was the “zero draft,” where an “Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB)” was established to negotiate a pandemic treaty, wherein the WHO will have the authority over nations’ vaccine mandates, lockdowns, treatments, and making sure such policies are “equitable.”

"Under “Article 4. Guiding principles and rights,” the draft states that members will have “the sovereign right to determine and manage their approach to public health…provided that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to their peoples and other countries.' ” . . .

WHO is running the club - American Thinker    "The UN lost any claim to being an international forum for democracy when the U.S. agreed to admit Stalin’s Soviet Union. The tossing of Taiwan for communist China was the death knell. Today, it uses the financial and political power of its committees to denounce democratic Israel.". . .