QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: How are non-U.S. citizen migrants traveling across the country?

QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED:

Shot: It’s the World’s Biggest Election Year. Is Democracy Good for Climate Change?

—Time magazine, today.

Chaser: No. Democracy is far less important than fighting the terrifying scourge of global cooling!

—Time magazine, apparently, based on the recurring theme of their cover stories from the 1970s:

TYPICAL: Director of ‘Bronx Rises Against Gun Violence,’ Caught With Illegal Guns, Sentenced To Prison.

Flashback: Leland Yee, the Gun-Hating Calif. Pol. Accused of Helping Smuggle Guns, Agrees to Plea Deal.

BE PREPARED: Survival Vegetable Seeds Garden Kit. #CommissionEarned

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Oops, Drudge Did It Again.

DON’T GET COCKY: How Corruption Hollowed Out China’s Military. “I’ve got to say, trying to get away with graft in your nation’s nuclear forces is a pretty bold move.”

GREAT MOMENTS IN PROJECTION: Whoopi Goldberg Warns That If Elected Again Donald Trump Will ‘Disappear’ Journalists And ‘Gay Folks.’

Which seems like an odd statement, considering Trump didn’t “disappear” either group during his first term. But in any case, Joe Biden’s doing an excellent job of pairing down his operatives with bylines, and their support staff: NBC News Undergoes Layoffs Impacting “Double Digit” Number Of Employees.

A source familiar with the plans said that the number of those laid off would be in the 50 to 100 range out of several thousand employees. NBC News and MSNBC had a workforce of about 3,500 employees as of 2023. Those who are impacted will receive 60 days of notice before their employment ends, with a severance package and outplacement services.

The job cutbacks are the latest to hit a media outlet, with other organizations taking more severe action to trim their staffs. CNN cut hundreds of employees in 2022, while NPR last year trimmed about 10% of its workforce. The Washington Post recently offered buyouts that saw the departure of many well known journalists as it sought to cut its staff by 240.

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—Headline, NBC News “Select,” October 3rd, 2019.

LOSS OF TRUST: US verges on vaccination tipping point, faces thousands of needless deaths: FDA. Top regulatory officials call for clinicians to speak up and drown out misinformation.

TRUMP: A UNITER, NOT A DIVIDER!

Shot: It’s Official … Biden is Too Damn Dumb to Realize He JUST Campaigned for Trump.

—Twitchy, today.

Chaser: Biden voted to overturn Roe v Wade in 1982 saying women don’t have ‘sole right’ to say what happens to bodies. President had said in 1974 that he thought the Roe v Wade ruling ‘went too far.’

—The London Independent, May 5th, 2022.

I’M SO OLD, I REMEMBER WHEN EVEN SUGGESTING SUCH A THING WOULD GET YOU CANCELED: Fauci Now Says the Lab-Leak Hypothesis Isn’t a ‘Conspiracy Theory.’

SHOCKER: Panel members for new psychiatric ‘bible’ received more than $14M from industry, analysis finds. “Sixty percent of US physicians serving as panel and task force members for the American Psychiatric Association’s official manual of psychiatric disorders received payments from industry totaling $14.24m, finds a study published by The BMJ. Because of the enormous influence of diagnostic and treatment guidelines, the researchers say their findings ‘raise questions about the editorial independence of this diagnostic manual.'”

HOW’S THAT UNMANNED SURFACE WARFARE VESSEL PROGRAM COMING ALONG? At-Sea Billet Gaps Rise to 22,000 for E1-E4 Sailors, CNP Says. “Overall, the Navy has 21,000 gaps in at-sea fill billets, Vice Adm. Richard Cheeseman told an audience at the Surface Navy Association Wednesday. Overall at-sea fill gaps are lower than those in apprentice manning because some at-sea billets for ranks E-5 and above are overmanned, Lt. Lewis Aldridge, a spokesman with the chief of naval personnel, clarified after the speech.”

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Surprise launch of Chinese satellite triggers missile attack alerts in Taiwan.

YES. NEXT QUESTION? Can Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas Be Impeached for Incompetence?

“Will he be?” is an entirely different question.

HMM: Study pinpoints how psychiatric drugs lead to weight gain.

THAT’S HOW DIVIDED GOVERNMENT WORKS, AS EXPRESSED BY THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE IN THE MOST RECENT ELECTION: GOP’s 2024 agenda: Stifle Biden at every turn.

KURT SCHLICHTER: Yeah, No – We’re Not Ready to Forgive Bud Light.

As a Los Angeles trial lawyer, I love the cynicism of literally buying off conservative influencers to end the misery. Corporations need to do what’s right for the bottom line, I guess, though I would suggest that maybe not hiring people to market your crappy product wh hate your audience might be a better option. I would be mildly insulted if I actually cared what the head of the World Federation of Sweaty Men Rolling Around With Each Other thinks, though, apparently, the Bud Light guys believe that WFSMRAWEO is super influential. If you’re influenced by its business decisions, your judgment about culture and politics is probably just as bad as your judgment about beer. But Bud Light thinks buying out of the boycott is a great investment. And so do a bunch of conservative influencers, apparently.

So pathetic. I love all the lame explanations about how Bud Light is a great company and how it’s wonderful and how “Oh, we have to help out all these working guys who are working for Bud Light, and they shouldn’t have to suffer because the corporation they are part of wants to support an agenda that leads to the mutilation of children. Why do you hate the workers? Here, everybody have some crappy beer. Excuse me, I got to make a deposit at the Bank of Savings & Loan.”

The argument that this will hurt a bunch of guys who work for the company is not a good one. This thinking ties our hands, because there are always good people who work for every crappy company that wants to turn our society into a cesspool of gurgling perversions and weirdness. I’m not going to live my life like that scene in “Blazing Saddles” where the sheriff holds a gun to his head, and the townspeople let him escape because he’s just crazy enough to do it. I don’t believe in human shields. If we’re going to fight the culture war, there’s going to be collateral damage, and if you choose to work for a company that wants to make it easier to castrate young boys, because that’s what glorifying weirdos like Dylan Mulvaney does, well, I’m not obligated to care more about your employment prospects than you are about my society.

Tucker Carlson brought up a good point. He was observing it from the outside without taking a position, but he did mention that, at some point, maybe we should forgive. Maybe in theory, but forgiveness is not an entitlement. It’s not on a clock where you look at your watch and go, “Well, it’s been a half hour of not buying this crappy beer, so I guess all’s well and I better go get a 12-pack.”

Forgiveness requires a recognition of wrongdoing, an apology, and the making of amends. One thing I haven’t seen is anybody from Bud Light saying, “You know, we suck. We shouldn’t have glorified this weirdo and his whole bizarre agenda, and we shouldn’t have insulted and disrespected our largely conservative consumers. We were wrong to do that. That was bad, and we’re never going to do it again. We reject this whole trans weirdness, and we love you, our consumers. You’re the heart and soul of America. You built our country, you feed it, you fuel it, and you fight its wars, and you are great Americans, and we love you, and we’re sorry. We’re sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry,  and we will never do it again.” That would be a start.

An apology will never happen — like almost every major corporation, Anheuser-Busch is too terrified of ginning up the rainbow-alphabet outrage mob on social media to actually publicly back down from the Mulvaney debacle.

CORRUPT AND DISHONEST: Why DEI Regime Cries Victim in Harvard-Claudine Gay Scandal: It can’t and won’t defend the politicization, corruption, and incompetence that flows naturally from its leftism, so it can only resort to smearing its critics.

DON’T ASK, HE WON’T TELL: Donald Trump Has Picked His Running Mate.

READER FAVORITE: GTHUNDER Digital Night Vision Goggles Binoculars for Total Darkness. #CommissionEarned

DECLINE IS A CHOICE: We got too accustomed to peaceful seas: Say goodbye to the global ‘conveyor belt.’ “It’s somewhat ahistorical that the world’s oceans have been relatively painless to navigate in the second half of the 20th century, permitting trade to flow around the world. That was not the case for much of human history.”

GEORGE MF WASHINGTON: Risk Is Our Business.

It’s impossible to discuss the politics of Star Trek without focusing on the original 1960’s series, which is where the entire ethos of the Star Trek Universe received its DNA. No series produced since then could exist without the context, the canon if you will, that this first series provided.

So first, let’s be clear about what the original Star Trek series, Gene Roddenberry’s first creation, actually was… it was a smart, muscular and unapologetic defense of the power of Western Civilization to change the world (universe) for the better… and it was a series which celebrated courage and risk taking as among the most important of all human virtues.

If any of that sounds like something that would send Conservatives fleeing for their lives like vampires before a runaway garlic truck with a busted brake line, well then you’re probably a BLM activist… or at the very least you are admitting that you’re entirely ignorant of the things that modern Conservatives actually believe.

The problem, in my experience, is that most Progressives have not actually seen much of the original series (TOS), and have only a very rudimentary understanding of the show’s ethos. To the extent they are familiar with TOS at all, it is often through modern media “criticism” of the show which focuses on what mainstream critics, which is to say Leftists, have concluded… that the show’s politics were proudly and unapologetically Progressive.

The problem is that this conclusion just ain’t true… it’s a misunderstanding often based on a single episode… “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield”, which has become the most famous episode of Star Trek precisely because it is about race… our modern culture’s most fraught, most talked about, most obsesssed-over issue.

Plus, a look at “A Private Little War” and “Patterns of Force,” so you’ll want to read the whole thing.

THE $23 MILLION QUESTION: Chicago Public Schools ‘Lost’ HOW Many Laptops and iPads???

ANOTHER DOOMSDAY AVERTED: The Retirement Crisis That Wasn’t. Experts predicted that baby boomers would be broke in their old age — prompting endless media alarms and and calls for the government to intervene.  Instead, the boomers are now one of history’s richest generations.

PRIORITIES: Border-Jumpers Are Pushing American Kids Out Of School All Across The Country.

Democrats’ open border is turning the entire United States into a refugee camp. The record-breaking numbers of foreigners allowed to break U.S. border laws are most heavily affecting large and sanctuary cities like New York City, but the numbers are so high they can’t help but affect cities across America as well.

Yesterday, a Brooklyn high school informed parents their children will be getting low-quality remote instruction because their school is being turned into a refugee camp. The 4,000 students are being displaced on behalf of approximately 1,900 foreign lawbreakers. In spring 2023, city officials also occupied school gyms with migrants, prompting safety concerns from parents about unvetted, military-age male foreigners sharing buildings with their kids.

As the “Louder with Crowder” blog notes, “Brooklyn went 74%-25% to Joe Biden, whose policies started the current border crisis. Also, pro-illegal immigration Governor Kathy Hochul won Brooklyn 72% to 28%.”

Gooder and harder.