DAVID MARCUS: We’re choking on your idiocy, Mr Trudeau – Canadian wildfire smoke is burning our lungs because of YOUR incompetence… and no amount of greenwashing can mask the inconvenient truth.

There is not a single plank in the green platform that will fix this mess over the next four or five decades as we wait for rising temperatures to ease – if that even happens.

Net Zero by 2050 is poor consolation for the millions in Gotham, who are choking their way to work in a facemask that at least serves a purpose this time.

Electric buses and wind power 10 years from now won’t restore missed school days or ease the breathing of asthmatics today.

What Ottawa’s Captain Planet and the rest of the ‘Blame Climate Change Squad’ don’t want you to know is that there is a solution for right now. And it’s one that our inept, self-described saviors have been ignoring.

For years, Canadian parks officials have been warning that their country does not do enough to cull its forests and now we’re witnessing the catastrophic results.

It’s simple really. Edward Struzik, author of ‘Dark Days at Noon, The Future of Fire’ lays it out well.

‘We have been suppressing fires for so many decades in North America that we have forests that are older than they should be,’ he said. ‘We have dead and dying trees that are more vulnerable to increasing temperatures.’

‘Prescribed burns are one of the best ways to mitigate the wildfire threat,’ he added.

Did you hear that? We mustn’t wait until we’re all driving flying cars powered by unicorn farts to be free of the smoke.

What graft is there to be had from controlled burns?

TRUTH VS. POLITICS: THE MAINSTREAM PRESS HAS CHOSEN SIDES: “Apparently, the mainstream press doesn’t consider it news when the FBI works with a foreign intelligence service to try to censor an award-winning Western reporter.”

HMM: Coincidence? Trump Indictment Drops Same Day Biden Bribery Docs Revealed.

REMINDER: Now out from Tony Katz & Fingers Malloy: Let’s Go BBQ!: Recipes, Tips and Tales from the Pit. Their Eat, Drink, Smoke podcast is cool, too.

JOEL KOTKIN: The Greatest Generational Conflict of All: Youth Alienation Isn’t Confined to the West. “The adoption of green “de-growth” philosophy impacts both on the youth of the West, who face a consciously scaled-down quality of life, as well as a new generation in developing countries desperate for growth. . . . Evidence of a ‘great resignation’ is also emerging in East Asia. In Japan, young adults, according to David Pilling, are ‘pioneering a new sort of high-quality, low-energy, low-growth existence.’ In China, meanwhile, the children of largely upwardly mobile parents face an increasingly fraught economic future. Xi Jinping may hope for a generation that will follow the path of devoted Stalinist Stakhonovites or Maoist Red Guards, but confronts a generation more concerned with 20% unemployment and limited options than ideological fervour. As in Japan and the West, China now sees a generation — including an increasingly underemployed surplus of educated people — who eschew their parents’ work ethic, embracing instead a desire to ‘lay flat’ as they essentially avoid the congestion and stresses of urban life.”

Related: “Mediocrity, after all, Matt, is the safest place to be, especially when the cops are out, you know?”

TO BE FAIR, SHILLING FOR INANITY IS WHAT HE DOES: Climate Cult Leader John Kerry Uses D-Day Analogy to Shill for Green Energy Inanity: Biden administration policies are leading to transformer shortages and warnings of energy blackouts during the summer.

NOT EVEN A LITTLE: Are China’s Intentions Really Such a Mystery?

In an article in the Naval War College Review, three academics cast doubt on what they call the “growing hawkish consensus” about China’s “intent and capabilities.” Jeffrey Meiser, an associate political science professor at the University of Portland (Oregon), Renny Babiarz, an adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins, and David Mudd, who recently graduated from the University of Portland with English and political science degrees, “see significant evidence that China’s intentions are indeterminate and, in some arenas, neutral or even possibly aligning with U.S. national security interests.” The best strategic approach to China, they conclude, is not engagement or containment, but instead what they term “entanglement.” This article is an example of why most academics should be kept as far away from policy making as possible.

Heh.

VICTORIA TAFT: After UFO Story Flops, Biden Cornerman Gavin Newsom Tries Another Bribery Scandal Diversion.

A desperate attempt to make gun control a thing again, too.

BE PREPARED: AstroAI Tire Inflator Portable Air Compressor. #CommissionEarned

WHEN YOU’VE LOST CHRIS CUOMO…:

Chris Cuomo and Matt Taibbi scoff and cast doubt on the charges Trump was reportedly indicted over.
Cuomo says they appear "at or below a level" anyone would deem "impressive."
Taibbi say, "A person who grew up in a third world country, you would recognize this kind of thing… " pic.twitter.com/LpXHp1rGTo

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) June 9, 2023

COOKING THE BOOKS TO HIDE RACIAL DISCRIMINATION: Ahead of affirmative action ruling, 83% of colleges and universities now SAT/ACT optional.

WELL, FOR CERTAIN HOME OWNERS ASSOCIATIONS…: America’s Suburbs Are ‘Breeding Grounds for Fascism,’ Says Writer for ‘The Nation.’

THEY’RE POLITICALLY WEAPONIZING EVERY INSTITUTION: How the Biden Administration is politically weaponizing higher education.

WOW: Parents of Nashville trans school shooter vow to give rights to manifesto to victims’ families. “According to the Tennessee Star, attorney David Raybin argued that the Hales have the right to their daughter’s manifesto and writings. They claim that since the police took the documents from their home it is their property and they can assign them to whomever they want.”

That’s an amazing gesture, but since the Powers That Be clearly want to keep the manifesto under wrap, the parents have a hard legal fight ahead.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: “It’s Really Unprecedented”: Solar Power Generation Cut In Half Due To Canada Smoke.

This is a two-fer: Idiotic “green” forest-management practices lead to wildfires, which then slash solar-energy production. Related: Thank the green-energy cult for major blackouts this summer.

FREDDIE DE BOER: The Real Media Bias is Writing for Each Other (But, Like, They’re All Liberals, So… ). “I think Weiss attracts a type and level of ire from her peers in journalism that’s fundamentally personal in nature, not political or professional, in a way that exemplifies the transparent sense in which media culture is simply a redo of high school where some of the sad and lonely kids have tried to invert the popularity pyramid and become the new bullies.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Trump Is Indicted, But Biden Is the Real Criminal. “Joe Biden is guilty of pretty much everything. Trump is a halo-wearing saint compared to President LOLEightyOneMillion and his drug-dealing kid. Biden has classified document from the days when MTV still played music videos but no one in the Justice Department wants to upset the pudding-brained boss.”

DEAL OF THE DAY: GTHUNDER Night Vision Binoculars. #CommissionEarned

RIOT HELMETS TAKEN FROM CAPITOL POLICE: A few days before the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill, dozens of riot helmets were taken away from the Capitol Hill Police,  according to an exclusive news report by The Epoch Times’ Joseph Hanneman.

SPEAKING OF NON-MATERIAL NOTIONS LIKE ‘FREEDOM’ AND ‘CREATIVITY:’ Analytic Philosopher Jay Richards — the William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society — explains his view that materialism and natural science are not one and the same things.

Otherwise, there’s no room for non-material concepts like individual liberty, justice, limited government natural rights, and so forth. It’s an 11 minute video on HillFaith that I happily suggest is well-worth some serious thought. You may not agree with Richards after listening to him, but then how would you quantify your thoughts on the matter (no pun intended).

HMM: Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, June 7, 2023. “The destruction of the KHPP dam is affecting Russian military positions on the eastern bank of the Dnipro River. The flooding has destroyed many Russian first line field fortifications that the Russian military intended to use to defend against Ukrainian attacks. Rapid flooding has likely forced Russian personnel and military equipment in Russian main concentration points in Oleshky and Hola Prystan to withdraw. Russian forces had previously used these positions to shell Kherson City and other settlements on the west (right bank) of Kherson. Ukrainian Southern Operational Command Spokesperson Nataliya Humenyuk stated that Russian forces relocated their personnel and military equipment from five to 15 kilometers from the flood zone, which places Russian forces out of artillery range of some settlements on the west (right bank) of the Dnipro River they had been attacking. The flood also destroyed Russian minefields along the coast, with footage showing mines exploding in the flood water. Kherson Oblast Occupation Head Vladimir Saldo, however, claimed that the destruction of the KHPP is beneficial to the Russian defenses because it will complicate Ukrainian advances across the river.”

CHANGE: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott OKs river blockade of illegal immigrants.

WHITE WOMEN GROUP GOES KAREN ON STRONG BLACK WOMAN: Giffords pounces on VA Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears as she talks about root causes of violence. “Sears went on live TV and courageously stated the truth. She talked about gangs, revolving doors for criminals, leadership, and accountability. Most politicians shy away from talking about root causes in the aftermath of a shooting, let alone boldly and unapologetically defending the rights of the law-abiding. Sears did it. . . . Sears blamed the ineffective leaders for good reason. She talked about real solutions. And what did the gun grabbers at Giffords bring up yet again? “Common sense gun safety laws” – passing more of them, to be precise. It’s obvious to anyone but those asleep like Rip Van Winkle that these groups keep coming back for more instead of admitting that the previous iterations of gun control laws they passed were useless, ineffective, and completely antithetical to the American notion of Liberty.”

REVISITING REAGAN’S FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS IN 1967: Yes, RR’s first elective public office was governor of California and, while it is now known only to a few Reagan scholars and a fading coterie of aging veterans (like me!) of his campaigns, the Washington Free Beacon’s Matthew Continetti considers how that 1967 address remains extraordinarily relevant to the present day.

PRIORITIES: CIA and FBI Celebrate Pride Month but Saw Catholics, J6 as Domestic Terrorists.