WHAT’S IN A NAME? Pentagon Panel Releases Suggested Names to Replace Names of Confederates on Military Bases. “Somewhat controversially — although why that is says a lot about the time we live in — the new name chosen for Fort Bragg is ‘Fort Liberty.'”

OF COURSE THEY ARE: An off-duty CBP agent killed the Uvalde gunman and many on the left are attacking ICE.

He must be racist, he killed a Latino teen!

Related: CNN national security analyst: Suspend immigration enforcement in Uvalde.

FROM HENRY VOGEL:  The Hostage in Hiding

In a family full of heroes, Nora Connaught is the normal one. She’s never fought space pirates. Never saved anyone’s life. Never done anything remotely heroic.

Now she’s 18, and going off to college on another planet. Nora hopes she’ll finally get to live a normal life.

But life never goes as expected.

After pirates hijack the starliner she is traveling on, putting thousands of lives at risk, Nora must live up to the Connaught name.

Can she cast her own heroic shadow?

SO THAT’S WHY THEY’RE TRYING TO STARVE BABIES, IS IT?  US birth rates increased in 2021 for the first time in 7 years.

Can’t allow a bunch of new Americans, can they?

CLIMATE CHANGE, IS THERE ANY THING IT CAN’T DO?  Climate change might be keeping you from a good night’s sleep, study finds.

You know the problem with all these imaginary entities is that authors always end up giving them too many powers, until they become utterly unbelievable.

GOOD:  Pushback: Navy loses in attempt to fire officer who refused COVID shots.

THESE ARE THE REGIMES THAT DEMOCRATS ADMIRE:  Xinjiang Police Hack Reveals Horrors of Uyghur Camps.

WHOEVER IS PUPPETEERING BIDEN IS NOT TERRIBLY BRIGHT:  Biden Didn’t See Afghanstan Withdrawal Cockup Coming.

DUH:  Mental Health Issues Are Not “Bullsh*t”.

IT’S THE AUTHORITARIANS OR HUMANITY:  Why any flavor of authoritarianism must be destroyed.

#teamhumans

BEHOLD! MY SHOCKED FACE:  European Parliament Rejects Discussion on Christian Persecution.

ROLLS EYES:  CDC Now Recommending All US Domestic Travelers Get Tested for Covid Before Travel.

Can anyone find my eyes? they rolled on the floor and I’m afraid the cats will play with them.

THEY’RE ALL STUPID AND VENAL LIKE ALL DEMOCRATS:  an Alternative to Biden in 2024.

THERE’S IDIOTS, AND THEN THERE’S BETO:  Beto Makes the Texas School Shooting About Him by Crashing Gov. Abbott’s Press Conference.

WE WON’T BE FOOLED AGAIN:  Virologists Claim ‘Hyper-mutated’ Strain of Monkeypox is Spreading Globally.

PHILLIP K. DICK, CALL YOUR OFFICE:  Majority Report: Canada’s Latest Advance in Precognitive Legislation.

IT’S NOT ABOUT THE NAIL: Mass Shooting Facts to Shut Down Your Liberal Sister and Her Annoying, Man-Bunned, Non-Binary ‘Boy’ Friend. “Anyone engaging in this sort of boring drivel doesn’t really want to stop the problem of mass shootings. They want to take our guns and have Republicans voted out. Gun-grabbers have no problem standing on the bodies of dead people, even kids, to get what they want.”

Witness one Beta, er, Beto O’Rourke.

OPEN THREAD: Super Duper.

DAVOS MORPHED INTO A SPECTRE LAIR SO SLOWLY, I HARDLY EVEN NOTICED:

World Economic Forum shill, Yuval Noah Hariri:

"Covid is critical because this is what convinces people to accept to legitimize total biometric surveillance. We need to not just monitor people, we need to monitor what’s happening under their skin”https://t.co/qoPKVGxR7d

— أبو عمّار (@MaajidNawaz) May 21, 2022

I DREAMED I WAS TRAVELING TO MARS LAST NIGHT: NASA shows off early plans to send astronauts to Mars for 30 days.

JOHN NOLTE: ‘Ricky Gervais: SuperNature’ Review: Gloriously Inappropriate, Perfectly Wrong.

Old people, lesbians, Woketards, transsexuals, the Holocaust, Christians, pro-lifers, Muslims, fat people, female comedians, the Chinese, dwarfs, pedophiles, Eskimos, AIDS… Pow! Crash! Wham! Boom!

The story he tells about a straight man transitioning to a woman, becoming a lesbian, somehow finding a “pretty lesbian,” and realizing the mistake he’s made after strapping on a strap-on, literally, and I mean literally, had me rolling on the floor.

And every time you think he’s going to virtue signal or become a little Chappelle-esque in his defensiveness, he goes right for the throat of the joke:

In real life, of course I support trans rights. I support all human rights, and trans rights are human rights. Live your best life. Use your preferred pronouns. Be the gender that you feel that you are. But meet me halfway, ladies. Lose the cock. That’s all I’m saying.

[…]

I mean, [Boris Johnson] started off by saying women in burkas look like postboxes. Now, it’s not up to Boris Johnson what a Muslim woman wears on her face. It’s up to her husband.

Heh, indeed. Read the whole thing.™

THIS WILL END WELL: Colin Kaepernick getting workout with Raiders.

GOV. GREG ABBOTT SHOULD BE THANKING “BETO” O’ROURKE FOR HIS UVALDE STUNT:

And that’s all she wrote for Beto O’Rourke, who is about as Hispanic as I am Chinese. The Irishman did not have much of a chance of defeating Abbott in the first place; this little stunt just sealed his fate. It would be one thing if he held his own press conference or shot a video in which he criticized Abbott and other Republican officials for not doing enough to stop these types of atrocities. Whether one agreed with his arguments is irrelevant – it’s how these types of issues should be handled.

But it’s quite another to disrupt a press conference in which Abbott is explaining to the public how the incident went down as the state is in mourning. The murdered children and two teachers are not even in the ground yet and O’Rourke is using their deaths to score cheap political points. Sure, this stuff plays well for fellow leftists who have no problem exploiting deaths to push for gun control, but for the average Texan, this ain’t it.

For starters, his stunt was probably the most indecent thing he could have done at that moment. He took a tragedy and made it about himself and his campaign. Secondly, he’s doing it to push for further restrictions on firearms, which isn’t exactly a popular sentiment in Texas.

Earlier this year, as the Reload noted, “Beto Backtracks on AR-15 Confiscation: ‘I’m not Interested in Taking Anything From Anyone.’”

Based on his stunt today, apparently O’Rourke has flip-flopped yet again on that previous flip-flop.

Flashback: Revealed: Beto O’Rourke Wrote Fantasy About Murdering Children, Report Says. “In a profile that also documented O’Rourke’s involvement in a hacker group, Reuters reported: ‘it’s unclear whether the United States is ready for a presidential contender who, as a teenager, stole long-distance phone service for his dial-up modem, wrote a murder fantasy in which the narrator drives over children on the street, and mused about a society without money.’”

Related: The politicians are supposed to make the Kinsley gaffes — not the press!

Here’s a screen shot of the original tweet:

UPDATE: America Mourns The Slaughter Of Twenty-One Innocents While The Inconsiderate Make It Political.

ONLY PARALYZED ON THE OUTSIDE: New Study Reveals The Inner Thoughts of People Mysteriously Frozen by Catatonia.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Disaster or outlier? Biden plummets to 36% in new Reuters/Ipsos poll.