KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Gov. Lujan Grisham Is All Alone on a Commie Gun-Grabber Island. “There is so much wrong with her edict banning open and concealed carry for 30 days in Albuquerque that Lujan Grisham has achieved something almost impossible in this political climate: she has Republicans and Democrats agreeing on something.”
Archive for 2023
September 13, 2023
#JOURNALISM:
Pretty amazing error by @NYTimes on a key point. https://t.co/ZXEwxWeQ91
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 12, 2023
HUXLEY MEETS ORWELL: California Bills Headed to Newsom’s Desk Will Launch a Transgender Inquisition Targeting Parents.
AB-5, called the Safe and Supportive Schools Act, passed the California State Assembly in May by a vote of 64-4 and on Thursday passed the California State Senate, 32-3. The bill would mandate an “online delivery platform and an online training curriculum to support LGBTQ cultural competency training for teachers and other certified employees.”
Not only does this training enforce transgender ideology among educators, but it also trains educators to profile those despicable “anti-LGBTQ” parents.
Sure, the so-called Safe and Supportive Schools Act doesn’t explicitly state that “the material will include five tips on profiling parents who dissent from gender ideology so we can rip their kids from their arms.” It’s far subtler than that.
The bill states that “at a minimum,” training will include information on ” identifying LGBTQ+ youth who are subject to, or may be at risk of, bullying and lack of acceptance at home or in their communities.”
Yet how would teachers identify these allegedly vulnerable “LGBTQ+ youth” if not by examining the parents who supposedly pose such a threat to the boys and girls they brought into the world?
Make no mistake: This bill does involve training teachers to profile parents based on the likelihood that they may secretly harbor heresy against the transgender state religion.
Let’s call this what it is: The sex-groomer Stasi.
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Here’s how Republicans can get minority voters to abandon the Democrats.
NATO ENLARGEMENT: Sweden Shows It Can Be Done. “Sweden was right on COVID, and they’re right here too.”
THEY WANT US TO KEEP VOTING UNTIL WE GET IT RIGHT: Yesterday afternoon, the California Assembly passed ACA7. For those of you who haven’t been following my posts, ACA7 is the latest attempt to destroy Prop 209–the 1996 initiative that prohibited the State of California from engaging in preferential treatment on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin.
Three years ago, with Prop 16, our esteemed legislature tried to get voters to repeal Prop 209. They failed in that effort big time. Now the Assembly wants voters to adopt an “exception” that will swallow the rule. If the California Senate concurs (32 Dems, 8 Reps), the issue will go on the ballot.
I was struck by the “argument” put forth by Assemblyman Corey Jackson in favor of ACA7: ” [T]here is no room for respectfully disagreeing on this issue. There is no room for decorum when it comes to the very existence and atonement of my people.”
DON SURBER: Abbott’s Buses Won The Battle. “Battles are usually fought with horses, tanks or aeroplanes. Greg Abbott used buses. As of June, he shipped 500 busloads of illegal aliens to sanctuary cities. The shipments continue. You want ’em, you got ’em. It turns out, sanctuary cities don’t want them.”
And now it’s time to take the next step.
KNOW YOUR PLACE, PEASANT! Listen to 911 Call From Frustrated EV Driver, Who Admonishes Jennifer Granholm Aide for Hoarding Charging Station.
The green economy in a nutshell: Manufactured scarcity with special treatment for the insider bigwigs.
Flashback: The Trouble With Battery-Operated Cars.
WELL, GOOD: St Louis Children’s Hospital will no longer perform sex changes on minors.
The Washington University Transgender Center at Saint Louis Children’s Hospital will no longer prescribe puberty blockers or sex hormones to minors for purposes of gender transition, as a result of a new law in Missouri.
In a letter to staff obtained by The Post Millennial, Dr. David H Perlmutter, the executive vice chancellor for medical affairs of Washington University’s School of Medicine told staff at the center that following a review, “We have now reached a point where we can no longer continue to operate the center in the same way.”
He specifically cited “Missouri’s newly enacted law regarding transgender care” that has “created a new legal claim for patients who receive these medications as minors. This legal claim creates unsustainable liability for healthcare professionals and makes it untenable for us to continue to provide comprehensive transgender care for minor patients without subjecting the university and our providers to an unacceptable level of liability.”
Providers are moving very quickly from denying they ever did these kinds of things to sounding resentful that they’re no longer allowed to.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: U.S. Incomes Fall for Third Straight Year: Rapid price increases hit household finances in 2022, cutting inflation-adjusted median income to $74,580.
Surging inflation gobbled up household income gains last year, making 2022 the third straight year in which Americans saw their living standards eroded by rising prices and pandemic disruptions.
Americans’ inflation-adjusted median household income fell to $74,580 in 2022, declining 2.3% from the 2021 estimate of $76,330, the Census Bureau said Tuesday. The amount has dropped 4.7% since its peak in 2019.
The figures add to the picture of the economic challenges facing households since Covid-19 hit in early 2020. Inflation hit a four decade high last summer as the pandemic upended supply chains and the Ukraine war drove up energy prices.
Totally, completely unrelated: Why Team Biden might be purposefully grinding down the middle class.
OPEN THREAD: Speak, friends.
UNPERSON ALERT: China’s defense minister not seen for two weeks.
There has been no sign of Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu in public for two weeks, touching off speculation about his fate.
With the start of President Xi Jinping’s third term in office, there has been a string of surprise personnel changes, including the replacement of Foreign Minister Qin Gang and the firing of a senior official from the People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force.
Li was appointed to the Central Military Commission in October last year and became defense minister in March. Li has not been heard from since giving a speech at the China-Africa Peace and Security Forum in Beijing on Aug. 29.
A U.S. government official hinted it is likely Li’s absence is related to corruption.
“The PLA’s most enduring problem is too big for Xi to fix. These problems have a big impact on what Xi wants to achieve,” the official told Nikkei, using an acronym for the People’s Liberation Army.
Unless he has already assumed room temperature, Li Shangfu might eventually be un-unpersoned. Recall former president Hu Jintao, who was forcibly removed from a party meeting in October of last year, only to resurface in December: Hu Jintao reappears as China comes to standstill for late leader Jiang Zemin.
GREAT ORATORS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. To borrow an old recurring leitmotif of James Taranto, when he was writing the Wall Street Journal’s Best of the Web Today:
● “One man with courage makes a majority.” — attributed to Andrew Jackson.
● “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt.
● “The buck stops here.” — Harry S. Truman.
● “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” — John F. Kennedy.
Which brings us to:
.@SenFettermanPA reacts to Speaker McCarthy moving forward with a House impeachment inquiry into POTUS…
(Just watch) pic.twitter.com/jg3aeyDW7F
— Liz Brown-Kaiser (@lizbrownkaiser) September 12, 2023
THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX’s near monopoly on rocket launches is a ‘huge concern,’ Lazard banker warns. “Several other U.S. companies are working to launch competitors to SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon rockets, but delays mean American rivals are struggling to field next-generation operational rockets. . . . A few days ago, SpaceX launched its 63rd mission of 2023 – and the company has already topped last year’s record of 61 missions while flying at a blistering average of a launch every four days. Beyond the U.S. rocket market, SpaceX leads the world in both launches and spacecraft mass delivered to orbit each quarter. The company alone keeps the U.S. ahead of China, the next closest geopolitical competitor, in satellite and astronaut launches. . . . ULA, historically the next largest U.S. rocket competitor, has completed only two launches so far in 2023, and is working toward the inaugural launch of its next-generation Vulcan rocket in the coming months.”
Blue Origin was supposed to be a competitor, but has been a disappointment. Rocket Lab is a very cool company, but not in SpaceX’s league. Neither are any others. SpaceX is just a generation or two ahead, and it’s gotten that way by drive and discipline, and willingness to make mistakes and then learn quickly from them.
HOW IT STARTED: What would it mean to ‘defund the police’? These cities offer ideas.
—Headline, NBC News, June 10th, 2020.
How it’s going: Watch: Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski Caught Off Guard By Surging Crime Rates.
—Resist the Mainstream, today.
SHINING A LIGHT ON WEIMAR AMERICA: Senator Kennedy Reads From Gender Queer During Judiciary Committee Hearing.
Addressing [Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias], Kennedy said: “Now, Mr. Secretary what are you asking us to do? Are you suggesting that only librarians should decide whether the two books I just referenced should be available to kids? is that what you’re saying? Tell me what you’re saying.”
“First of all, with all due respect senator, the words you spoke are disturbing, especially coming out of your mouth, is very disturbing,” Giannoulias replied. Despite his actions in Illinois, he added: “But I will also tell you that we’re not advocating for kids to read porn.”
Giannoulias then appeared to argue that parents should not have the right “to try and challenge the worldview” of those who want to push LGBTQ themes on children.
“We are advocating for parents, random parents, not to have the ability under the guise of keeping kids safe to try and challenge the worldview of every single manner on this issue,” he said.
“You’re getting conceptual again,” Kennedy shot back. “Because I want to know what you’re recommending. It sounds to me like some of you are saying the librarians should decide who gets to see that book.”
The Secretary again argued that parents cannot be trusted to decide what’s appropriate for their children.
“I’m saying when individual parents are allowed to make that decision of where that line is, then “To Kill A Mockingbird,” which involves a rape scene, should that book be pulled from our libraries? I think it becomes a slippery slope,” he said.
But it’s Giannoulias’ fellow leftists who are already banning Mockingbird: Self-Own: California Gov. Gavin Newsom Poses with To Kill a Mockingbird, Banned by District in Own State.
Aside from mockery online by those who were incredulous that he had not read most of the books already, since several are common in school curricula, some pointed out that Newsom was mocking other states despite California’s own examples of censorship.
To Kill a Mockingbird was recently banned, at least temporarily, by schools in Burbank, California, among other classic books, over concerns about “racism” and the use of racial slurs in the text. As Newsweek reported at the time:
Middle and high school English teachers in the Burbank Unified School District received the news during a virtual meeting on September 9.
Until further notice, teachers in the area will not be able to include on their curriculum Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, Theodore Taylor’s The Cay and Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.
Four parents, three of whom are Black, challenged the classic novels for alleged potential harm to the district’s roughly 400 Black students.
Flashback: Atticus Finch: American literature’s most celebrated rape apologist.
I WISH MANOLO THE SHOEBLOGGER WERE STILL AROUND FOR THIS STORY: Ancient Tracks Reveal Oldest Evidence of Footwear Ever Found.
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Here’s how Republicans can get minority voters to abandon the Democrats.
Everyone knows Democrats are encouraging illegal immigrants from Mexico and Central America because they expect them to vote Democratic.
But will they, if they know what Democrats stand for?
I propose that Republicans, or GOP-aligned groups, start an education and outreach program aimed at those immigrants, explaining to them what Democrats actually support.
It should include pictures of teenage girls whose breasts have been removed as they transition to being male, with their mothers standing proudly by them (these pictures are already out there on social media, circulated by the pro-transition crowd).
It should include Democratic officials’ own words about removing police from urban neighborhoods and letting social workers deal with violent crime.
And it should include environmentalists’ vows to get rid of air conditioning, automobiles, cheap electricity and inexpensive housing — you know, the kinds of things immigrants come to America to get.
Every immigrant bused up north — or even in camps in Texas, New Mexico or wherever — ought to receive this literature, which should warn them: “Beware of Democrats, the enemy of the working people.”
Do it right, and when Democrats attack this stuff and say they don’t actually favor teenage transitions or a ban on gas stoves, their own constituencies will go ballistic.
Make it painful.
Extra painful.
I’M KIND OF ENJOYING THIS: New Mexico AG to Governor on Defending Her Second Amendment Suspension: Drop Dead.
There are now six lawsuits (and counting) challenging New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s public health order suspending Second Amendment carry rights in the Bernalillo County and the city of Albuquerque. While literally no local authorities are willing to enforce her clearly unconstitutional diktat, Grisham is still claiming that the New Mexico State Police will do her dirty work.
The State Police, however, have remained strangely silent on the matter and no one has been cited for any violations.
This afternoon, however, New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez delivered the latest body-blow to the Governor’s authoritarian tendencies by announcing in a letter to Grisham that his office will not be defending her in court. . . .
That means Grisham will have to rely on the kindness of strangers to take up her side, countering the motions for temporary restraining orders, and then defending her in the mountain of civil rights litigation that will follow.
She’ll no doubt get offers of pro bono help from like-minded law firms, but Torrez’s announcement is a very public rebuke — this one from the state’s top law enforcement officer — and the latest humiliation for the hapless Governor following her disingenuous, half-baked, unconstitutional order.
Keep ’em coming!