INDEED:
It's kinda disturbing that conspiracy theories zealously persecuted by fact checkers, their utterers blackballed, their careers ruined, lives doxxed turn out to be official US govt vetted facts after only a few months.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) June 14, 2023
OPEN THREAD: It’s almost Saturday night.
THE ESSENCE OF FEMININITY: Nothing says “I am a WOMAN” like raping and murdering a 14-year-old babysitter and a 38-year-old mother.
Pretty impressive that Owen—who raped and murder multiple women, including a 14-year-old babysitter—managed to survive 30 plus years without “medically necessary gender-affirming care.” https://t.co/P18THDXh8r
— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) June 17, 2023
Muslim residents packing city hall erupted in cheers after the council’s unanimous vote, and on Hamtramck’s social media pages, the taunting has been relentless: “Fagless City”, read one post, emphasized with emojis of a bicep flexing.
In a tense monologue before the vote, Councilmember Mohammed Hassan shouted his justification at LGBTQ+ supporters: “I’m working for the people, what the majority of the people like.”
While Hamtramck is still viewed as a bastion of multiculturalism, the difficulties of local governance and living among neighbors with different cultural values quickly set in following the 2015 election. Some leaders and residents are now bitter political enemies engaged in a series of often vicious battles over the city’s direction, and the Pride flag controversy represents a crescendo in tension.
“There’s a sense of betrayal,” said the former Hamtramck mayor Karen Majewski, who is Polish American. “We supported you when you were threatened, and now our rights are threatened, and you’re the one doing the threatening.” . . .
On one level, the discord that has flared between Muslim and non-Muslim populations in recent years has its root in a culture clash that is unique to a partly liberal small US city now under conservative Muslim leadership, residents say. Last year, the council approved an ordinance allowing backyard animal sacrifices, shocking some non-Muslim residents even though animal sacrifice is protected under the first amendment in the US as a form of religious expression.
Come on, man. Diversity is our strength, remember?
PRIORITIES:
If I opposed the death penalty, I would probably focus on the whole “the death penalty is bad” argument, not…whatever this is. https://t.co/cwmgmxCfiz
— Michael Watson (@MichaelWatsonDC) June 17, 2023
WHAT WHERE THEY EXPECTING? Talk about posting your “L’s”. The Guardian is reporting that smug liberals (well, no, The Guardian would never say that) in Michigan celebrated as their city attracted international attention for becoming the first in the United States to elect a Muslim-majority city council. And on Pride Week, that city council has quite openly — even proudly — passed legislation banning Pride flags from being flown on city property.
Gee, who would’ve seen that coming?
“There’s a sense of betrayal,” said former mayor Karen Majewski. “We supported you when you were threatened, and now our rights are threatened, and you’re the one doing the threatening.”
Mayor Amer Ghalib, 43, who was elected in 2021 with 67% of the vote to become the nation’s first Yemeni American mayor, told the Guardian on Thursday he tries to govern fairly for everyone, but said LGBTQ+ supporters had stoked tension by “forcing their agendas on others.”
All animals are equal.
Some animals are more equal than others.
A WOMAN NEEDS A MAN LIKE A FISH NEEDS CLEAN, OXYGENATED WATER: Dads Make the Difference: The Impact on Breastfeeding and Infant Sleep Safety.
LET’S BE HONEST, OBAMA IS A PUTZ:
Bravo to both @NikkiHaley and @SenatorTimScott for swinging back hard at the divisive former president. I hope both join me this week on air or continue to push back hard on the rhetoric that has deepened divisions in this country since ‘09 https://t.co/9c7P6akCWS
— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) June 17, 2023
WATERGATE STARTED 50 YEARS AGO TODAY. Recent events have made me view Watergate quite differently.
LAW & LIBERTY: The Heroic Jimmy Lai.
DEAD-EMPTY STANDS: Dodgers wind up with about 60 people attending the game for their anti-Catholic stunt.
DODGER STADIUM-The “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” are recognized for Pride night to a mostly empty audience.
Two Dodgers fan nearby begin loudly booing after they’re announced: pic.twitter.com/OO6NT5RIc8
— Savanah Hernandez (@sav_says_) June 17, 2023
UPDATE: That’s not attendance at the game, but at the Sisters’ pregame program.
READER FAVORITE: New Balance Men’s 608 V5 Cross Trainer. #CommissionEarned
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Rates of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease are soaring, study finds.
I don’t know, but I suspect a choline shortage.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: San Francisco Announces That Due To Crime, It’s Moving To Texas.
MY GAS STATION HAS A BITCOIN VENDING MACHINE: Korean convenience stores selling gold bars in vending machines.
DEAL OF THE DAY: Sun Joe SWJ803E 10 inch 8.0 Amp Electric Multi-Angle Pole Chain Saw. #CommissionEarned
TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! Babbling Biden tells Connecticut crowd ‘God save the queen, man’ at end of baffling speech where he joked about being 110 and said ‘don’t make me a dog-faced lying pony soldier.’
And he’s been watching too many crime dramas:
Biden: “Down in Philadelphia and New York, areas I know well, like up here, you’d see a truck pull up, pull to the curb and selling weapons, selling guns, selling AR-15s.”
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) June 16, 2023
Related:
Tucker Carlson tongue-in-cheek just last night:
"If Joe Biden ever developed some profound physical or medical problem that was obvious to everyone, the media would say something. This is not North Korea. We don't have State Media here… It's not like they would cover it up!" pic.twitter.com/xHXZnYXg0l
— Danny De Urbina (@dannydeurbina) June 16, 2023
SCHUMER SHUFFLE ON ENERGY FACTS: None of the journalists covering Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) asked him for the evidence on which he bases his claim that “Democrats have spent the last two years lowering energy costs,” so I did. I’m betting you can probably guess what the response was.
On Wednesday at a hearing for the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Representative Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) blasted a far-left witness for her inability to cite even a single medical study that proved her bogus claim of transgender surgeries benefiting minors.
The Lone Star State Representative spoke with Yale School of Medicine assistant professor Meredith McNamara about a proposal to withdraw funding from hospitals that provide any gender-transitioning treatments to minors. The far-left university staff member found a problem with the idea and was at the hearing to speak against such a move.
And this is how it went:
This is a radical new movement that is performing permanent physiological changes to children with no evidence of any benefits. pic.twitter.com/BV9at1G7At
— Rep. Dan Crenshaw (@RepDanCrenshaw) June 14, 2023
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