THIS IS NOT NEW: Passing the port from left to right at the Science Fiction Writers of America dinner.
They’ve lost the plot. The plot, the characters, the ability to string words, and their minds. But they still got their wokeness to keep them warm.
FORCING YOU TO PROCLAIM AN OPINION IN UNISON WITH OTHERS TO KEEP A JOB: “By refusing to take part in this collective operation”.
Particularly an opinion that has nothing to do with your job. Hey, lefties? Nineteen eighty four? Not an instruction manual!
THAT’S DIFFERENT BECAUSE SHUT UP: Hey Look! Proof Former Obama Admin Officials Committed Treason Under Trump. “According to a memo obtained by ACLJ via a FOIA lawsuit, several Obama administration officials held secret meetings with Iran during Trump’s presidency.”
OPEN THREAD: Never been a better time than this.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: China targets permanently shadowed regions at lunar south pole. “The Chang’e-7 mission, expected to launch in 2024 or 2025, will consist of multiple spacecraft including an orbiter, relay satellite, lander, rover and ‘mini flying detector.’ Searching for water ice in a permanently shadowed region (PSR) is noted as a major mission objective.”
Send the Moon Marines to Shackleton Crater, stat.
GOOD WOMAN WITH A GUN: West Virginia Police Say Woman With CCW Stopped a Mass Shooting, Saved Lives. “Police say Dennis Butler returned after being lectured about speeding through an apartment complex where kids were playing. He parked his car and began shooting at a graduation party with an AR-15. A woman among the group of 30 to 40 people saw Butler, 37, in his back seat firing on the group. Instead of running, Hazelett said, she engaged the threat, shooting and killing him.”
Outperforming — and outmanning — the entire Uvalde police department.
SOON LUNAR ICE MINING WILL BE A THING, AS GOD AND ROBERT HEINLEIN INTENDED: The Source of Water Ice on The Moon Could Be Traced to a Seemingly Unlikely Source. “There’s water. Lots of water. Bound up in the lunar regolith. Trapped in volcanic glass. Possibly even in sheets of ice on or just below the surface, hiding in craters at the poles that lurk in permanent shadow, where it can’t be sublimated by the heat of the Sun.”
IDIOTS DELIBERATELY MISCONSTRUE WHAT SEN. BILL CASSIDY SAID: Racial disparities in maternal mortality is getting to be one of those issues for which one must robotically repeat the progressive talking points. No further comment is permitted.
ANN ALTHOUSE ON THE UVALDE DEBACLE: “If the police don’t arrive and save us from violence, how can this event support the argument for restricting guns? This is the very situation that makes the most responsible people want to own guns. It reminds me of the summer of 2020, when there were riots, and the police stood down.”
BATTY OLD LADY SAYS WHAT? Bette Midler Encourages Armed Protests of NRA Annual Meetings.
LIFE IN THE BLUE ZONES: ‘Professional booster’ with 108 arrests shoplifted from same UES store 10 times: NYPD. “A Manhattan Criminal Court judge opted to release Mckelley late Thursday night after she pleaded guilty to one count of petit larceny and three counts of disorderly conduct. The career shoplifter must complete five sessions of a program for recidivist offenders or she’ll risk a 90-jaily sentence, Judge Lumarie Maldonado-Cruz said.”
SLOGANS VS REALITY:
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY: I’d Like to Report a Criminal President. “There’s a lesson in this silly little tale: Even guys drunk enough to think El Chapo should be released from prison have enough wits about the to know that Joe Biden belongs there.”
LANDO CALRISSIAN WAS NOT REACHED FOR COMMENT: Lucasfilm prepped Star Wars actress against ‘racist’ blowback for Obi-Wan role. “In her interview with the Independent, the ‘Obi-Wan’ actress tackles diversity issues in the franchise. ‘To me, it’s long overdue. If you’ve got talking droids and aliens, but no people of colour, it doesn’t make any sense. It’s 2022, you know. So we’re just at the beginning of that change. But I think to start that change is better than never having started it.'”
The trailer looked good, no signs of the wokeness infecting everything in the new Disney-fied Star Wars (except for The Mandolorian) universe.
But this report all but guarantees that Obi-Wan is more of the same tripe that older fans have turned our backs on.
#NARRATIVEFAIL: White Supremacists Are NOT The Most Likely Mass Murderers. Shocker, I know.
PENNSYLVANIA: John Fetterman got a defibrillator after his stroke. But doctors say the campaign’s story ‘doesn’t make sense.’ “With Fetterman now the Democratic nominee in one of the most competitive and consequential Senate races in the country, the unanswered questions about his health have left some Democrats anxious — and cardiologists watching from the outside puzzled.”
OH, COME ON! Border Patrol tactical team arrived at Uvalde school shortly after noon — but cops stopped them from going in. “I continue not to understand why a town with its own police force and its own SWAT team hadn’t already neutralized the shooter by the time the immigration agents got there. Reportedly, the agents don’t understand it either. But as bad as it was that Uvalde had to rely on federal officers to handle this, worse is the fact that the feds weren’t allowed to handle it at first.”
Plus: “I almost can’t bring myself to ask this but I have to: Did they hear any children screaming on the other side of the door while they stood there for 48 minutes?”
And: “They must have known that some kids in the room were alive, as a few were on the phone with 911 sporadically: ‘From 12:03 to 12:46, 911 dispatchers received numerous calls from within the classroom, including repeated calls from a child whispering that people were dead and begging: ‘Please send the police now,’ Mr. McCraw said.'”
Remember, the police have no duty to help you. And calling 911 doesn’t work like on the TV shows. I triple-dare the producers of shows like S.W.A.T. to do an episode while they just stand around while kids die. And yet that’s become disturbingly common in America.
Also, buy a gun.
Related: DPS offers timeline, admits on-scene commander got it wrong: ‘It was the wrong decision. Period.’ “Officers did go in and engage the shooter immediately, but after that initial push they stood outside in the hallway from 11:35 am until the door was finally breached at 12:50 pm. That’s 75 minutes during which there were no attempts to breach the door. McGraw then went through a timeline of 911 calls which made the delay seem even worse. A female teacher called at 12:03 pm and told police where the shooter was. Of course based on the earlier timeline, they already knew that. The same teacher called back at 12:10 to advise police there were multiple people dead. At 12:13 and 12:16 she called once again to say there were 8-9 students still alive.”
Plus: “The next question is more clear. Why did they treat this as a barricaded subject when there were children inside the classroom, some of whom were still alive. . . . That’s one hell of a big mistake to make and you do wonder why it took three days for them to admit it.”
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CLOSE ENCOUNTERS: Homeland Security Agents Tell of Encounters With Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. “According to sources The Debrief has interviewed, these incidents include encounters with aerial objects that appear to perform maneuvers well beyond the capabilities of conventional aircraft. Some of these events, which were also captured on video, have left a number of veteran pilots and other personnel questioning the nature and origin of these objects.”
FAILURE. MASSIVE, ULTIMATELY-UNCONCEALABLE FAILURE. What’s next for China’s zero COVID policy.
HUMILIATION REQUIRES A SENSE OF SHAME: Sen. Klobuchar Humiliates Herself With Stupid Gun Control Talking Point.
SHUT UP, THEY EXPLAINED: Libs Of TikTok Suspended From Instagram.
Remember, all Libs of TikTok does is share videos by leftists who have not been suspended.
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