PRETTY SURE I WAS PROMISED THE OPPOSITE: Legalizing marijuana linked to increase in binge drinking among adults, study shows.
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June 22, 2023
PUSHING BACK AGAINST WEIMAR AMERICA: Riley Gaines Humiliates the President of Human Rights Campaign.
Dem witness: "There's been this news article about men that think they can beat Serena Williams in tennis. And it's just not the case. She is stronger than them." @Riley_Gaines_: "Both Serena and Venus lost to the 203rd ranked male tennis player." pic.twitter.com/MSAnV6IA5t
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) June 21, 2023
NEVER BEND THE KNEE: America’s Largest Theater Chain Caves in to Pride Mob Bullying.
IT CAN NOW BE REVEALED: Issues & Insights has disclosed the toughest job in the Biden White House. Trust me, it’s not one you would ever want.
THE CHINA SYNDROME:
Greg Hayes, chief executive of Raytheon, said the company had “several thousand suppliers in China and decoupling . . . is impossible”.
Insanity. Basically the outcome of a war with China will rest on whether China decides to supply us with ammunition.https://t.co/kk3EFdDeLg
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) June 20, 2023
IT’S BETTER THAN EATING BUGS: Lab-grown chicken meat gets green light from federal regulators.
CHANGE: Finland Elects Euroskeptic Government. “Time and time again we’re told that the EU policies (just like Social Justice policies in the U.S.) are popular, while time and time again EU member states elect government that oppose many of those policies, especially those favoring unlimited Muslim immigration into member countries.”
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BEN DREYFUSS: Let’s Discuss The Left Wing Psychopaths Who Think The Titanic Tourists Deserve To Die.
We, Princes of Maine, Kings of New England, live in the future of tomorrow and have medicine and shelter and Grubhub, so our empathy machines are not as directly responsible for our immediate survival as they were for people who knew that if their buddy didn’t help them out, they would get eaten by hyenas. But that doesn’t mean empathy totally just for funsies. On a societal level, it’s pretty important that people be generally against unnecessary suffering, and setting life and death aside, there are lesser but still important benefits to the social contract.
(I’m paraphrasing, so if you are really interested in some of this evolution stuff, I think you should check out your local library.)
The abnormal psychopaths, refusing to admit that they are indeed psychopaths, would argue that their empathy machines are, in fact, the ones that are doing the purest evolutionary function. They are caring about people like them because a world that cares about people like them is easier to live in for people like them, and they are a person like them. History has shown us that this can lead to very bad things like war and death and prejudice and those travel adapters you have to bring with you when you go to Europe, but there is a bit of a certain “ok, sure, in some limited ways,” you have to hand them.
But one of the defining characteristics of normal people is that our empathy machines, fortunately for society, are not so singularly transactional. We care about people even when it isn’t immediately obvious that there is something in it for us.
The normal people on Monday did what the normal people do. But the abnormal people didn’t do that.
They heard the news, read the stories, took in all of the information that made you sad, and their first reaction was: anyone who can afford a $250k tourist trip deserves to die.
Or worse — they voted for people who have (R)s after their names: The New Republic Decided to Go There on the Titanic Submersible Story.
COULDN’T HAVE SAID IT BETTER MYSELF: Unfettered free speech actually increases tolerance, law professor argues.
UNEXPECTEDLY: Washington State gas prices now highest in U.S.; experts point to new climate legislation.
Washington unseated California this week as the state with the most expensive gasoline.
Prices here have been steadily climbing since January, reaching $4.91 per gallon of regular gas on average this week, surpassing the Golden State, the longtime national leader at the pump, according to a Seattle Times analysis of retail prices compiled by AAA. The average price in King County exceeded $5 a gallon on Wednesday.
Experts say Washington’s price surge is linked to the state’s latest, most-ambitious efforts to battle climate change, specifically the new carbon-pricing program launched this year that charges businesses for the greenhouse gases they emit. The first two quarterly auctions of emission allowances raked in more than $850 million.
Now oil companies are choosing to pass on the compliance fees, the experts say. Those costs add up to about 50 cents per gallon for the consumer, according to the Oil Price Information Service, a Dow Jones company that collects fuel-pricing information for many clients, including AAA. The state Department of Ecology, which oversees the carbon-pricing program, says it’s aware of oil companies passing on the costs but has no power to stop it.
Flashbacks: Why Aren’t Democrats Dancing for Joy About Sky-High Gas Prices?
In the service of reducing carbon emissions, Democrats have long openly worked to raise the price of fossil fuel energy. They have done so by proposing carbon taxes, cap-and-trade schemes, higher leasing fees, and other measures to jack up costs so people burn less of it. This is why Barack Obama said, in answer to a related question about electricity, that his energy plan would make prices “necessarily skyrocket.” This is why Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna praised BP’s CEO less than six months ago for pledging to reduce oil and gas production by 40% by 2030. Reductions in oil production and rising gasoline prices are part of the Democrats’ agenda and the Paris climate agenda.
There’s even more to it than that. Over the past decade, the Democrats’ overt hostility toward fossil fuels has even driven companies in the industry to sideline production, purely for public relations purposes, while prioritizing meaningless, politically correct carbon emissions goals. How can Democrats suddenly feign outrage at their incredible success in influencing the industry?
Is it a mystery why Democrats aren’t doing a sack dance and celebrating the salvation of planet earth?
There’s the small matter of their political survival, of course. It would be unseemly — like doing a jig at an Irish funeral — to celebrate other people’s pain. And it would cost many Democrats who are secretly jubilant about high gas prices their political careers.
Instead, Democrats are pretending to look for a way to “ease consumers’ pain.”
In September of 2019, after CNN’s seven hour “climate change town hall,” Bryan Preston wrote, “Seriously, if you see all of the above — which is just a sample — and vote for any of these people for any office at any level, it’s on you. If you like Venezuela, voting for any of them will bring you a whole lot of Venezuela.”
And as Kate of Small Dead Animals wrote after the CNN horror show, “Don’t make the mistake of thinking they don’t mean it.”
● Aren’t California’s High Gas Prices What The Left Have Wanted?
● NBC, the Washington Post, and the New York Times in lockstep call for higher gas taxes.
● 2008 L.A. Times headline: “The joy of $8 gas.”
● “Under my plan, energy costs will necessarily skyrocket…”
IT ISN’T LIKE THERE’S A REPUBLICAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE: CNN’s Presidential ‘Fact-Checker’ Has Gone Missing.
DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION, EXCEPT, YOU KNOW, FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE DIFFERENT: One year after Dobbs, campus hostility to pro-life students continues.
CHANGE (IT BACK): Transgender detransition is a taboo topic, but data shows it’s on the rise.
In 2017, Dr. Kinnon MacKinnon, an assistant professor of social work at York University in Toronto, thought that transgender detransitioning wasn’t really a thing. Sure, a few people who undergo gender-affirming therapy halt or undo their medical interventions and re-identify as their birth sex, but they are so few in number that their experiences don’t even merit study. After all, doing so might provide empirical firepower to anti-trans forces, he reasoned.
Six years later, Mackinnon, a transgender man, has significantly shifted his stance on detransition. In the past few years, research, including his own, has shown that rates of discontinuing or reversing gender-affirming medical or surgical interventions are likely higher than thought. Even worse, some academics still refuse to study or acknowledge the matter at all, as he once did.
To do so would bust a very profitable narrative.
More to the point, there hasn’t been an explosion in young people actually suffering from gender dysphoria. What we have instead are untold numbers of adolescents, usually girls, going through the usual difficulties with puberty. Instead of being told their issues are normal and transitory, they’re being encouraged to make permanent changes to their bodies through hormones and surgery.
WHEN ROME’S SYSTEM FALLS APART: “Characteristic of the late republic is less the widening of ideological divides often envisaged, as much as the exponential rise in ‘rule-breaking’ among members of the elite.”
Plus: “In practical terms, systems operate regardless of personal preferences and personal discretion. Rather, persons adapt to systems until such time as they choose not to, and then the systems fall apart.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Riley Gaines Is the Hero Sane America Needs This Pride Month. “The loss that Gaines pointed out happened a long time ago, but it was a fairly famous incident in the sports world back then. Robinson couldn’t have picked a worse example to attempt to advance her lunacy. I like to say that liberals think none of us have the internet. Now I’m beginning to think that none of them do.”
K12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: RealClearInvestigations: Suddenly, School Choice: Its Rapid Post-Pandemic Expansion Sets Up a Big Pass/Fail Test for Education. “After public schools’ pandemic failures, eight states – including Arizona, Florida, and Indiana – are committing tax funds for educational alternatives for most any student, including those already in private schools and from wealthy families”
Money should follow kids, not buildings or bureaucracies.
DON SURBER: Biden is funding the grooming.
Biden reportedly applied to have the child support expenses reduced last year, citing reduced circumstances.
Lancaster said: “Lunden is a great mom and little Navy is going [to] be fine.”
“The kid has lots of love on the maternal side of the family in Batesville. They are a very, very close family. They adore her and are always going to support her … But I think everybody is disappointed that there’s not more contact [with the Biden family].”
“It’s not lost on anybody that Jill Biden wrote a children’s book and [dedicated it] to her grandchildren. She could have kept it at that, but she named every child except Navy.
“They hung stockings for the dog at Christmas but not for Navy. That is one of the saddest things.”
Indeed.