MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Federal Court Strikes Down Biden Tranny Business Guidelines. “The social justice left isn’t just at war with Christianity, American patriotism and traditional sex roles, but with biological reality itself. In the future, the pronoun police and sex as social construct idiocy will be seen as an inexplicable madness of our age the same way that Pyramid Power and the Bermuda Triangle are exemplifiers of the craziness of the 1970s.”

Then again, the pyramid stuff was for harmless kooks and wasn’t enforced by law.

WALZ IS A JOKE: DHS Slams Walz’s ‘Gestapo’ Comments, Highlights Criminals Arrested.

THE NEW SPACE RACE (VIDEO AT THE LINK): Starship Flight 9 will NOT Catch the Booster. “SpaceX is not attempting to catch the Super Heavy Booster for Starship Flight 9 due to a strategic decision to prioritize other mission objectives and reduce risks. The booster, Booster 14-2, previously flew on Flight 7 and is set to perform a landing burn in the Gulf of Mexico instead of returning to the launch tower for a catch. This choice likely stems from the need to focus on resolving ongoing issues with the Starship upper stage, which has failed in the last two flights (Flights 7 and 8) due to engine-related anomalies. By opting for a simpler booster landing profile, SpaceX can concentrate on testing and refining the Block 2 Starship design, particularly its heat shield and reentry capabilities, without the added complexity of a tower catch. Additionally, posts on X suggest that SpaceX may be avoiding unnecessary risks to the launch infrastructure while iterating on fixes for the upper stage’s ‘harmonic response’ problem, which could delay the program if a catch attempt fails.”

SPOILER: THEY ARE NOT KIDDING HER WITH THIS HORSE SHIT.

You have got to be kidding me with this horse shit.

Gosh, USA Today, NOW you're wondering? https://t.co/kmjeeVzyqN

— The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) May 20, 2025

INDEED: They Lied to Us. We’ll Never Forget It.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Joe Biden’s WH doctor was a longtime family friend who once worked with his shady brother — as cancer ‘cover-up’ speculation mounts.

IT DIDN’T WORK: Biden’s Cancer Announcement Was Timed to Distract From the Cognitive Decline Coverup.

SUSTAINABILITY: Ray Dalio says the risk to U.S. Treasurys is even greater than what Moody’s is saying.

Bridgewater Associates founder and billionaire Ray Dalio warned Monday that Moody’s downgrade of the U.S. sovereign credit rating understates the threat to U.S. Treasurys, saying the credit agency isn’t taking into account the risk of the federal government simply printing money to pay its debt.

“You should know that credit ratings understate credit risks because they only rate the risk of the government not paying its debt,” Dalio said in a post on social media platform X.

“They don’t include the greater risk that the countries in debt will print money to pay their debts thus causing holders of the bonds to suffer losses from the decreased value of the money they’re getting (rather than from the decreased quantity of money they’re getting),” the Bridgewater founder said.

Moody’s on Friday cut the U.S. credit rating one notch to Aa1 from Aaa, citing the federal government’s ballooning budget deficit and soaring interest payments on the debt. It was the last of the three major credit agencies to downgrade the U.S. from the highest possible rating.

U.S. stocks fell Monday as the 30-year Treasury bond yield jumped to 4.995% and the 10-year note yield climbed to 4.521% in response to Moody’s downgrade.

“Said differently, for those who care about the value of their money, the risks for U.S. government debt are greater than the rating agencies are conveying,” Dalio said.

Well, we’re still in the “gradually” phase of going broke. The “suddenly” will catch a lot of supposedly very smart people completely off-guard.

COLORADO: Defending Education Sues Colorado Over Sick Trans Law. “You might remember the recently passed Colorado legislation to fund castration of “trans” kids with taxpayer dollars and in spite of parents’ wishes, to mandate pro-trans policies in schools, to criminalize ‘deadnaming,’ and to take supposed ‘misgendering’ into account in custody cases. Defending Education, an organization that stands for parents and against woke indoctrination in schools, is suing the Democrat-run state over the extremely harmful legislation. Colorado Parent Advocacy Network, Protect Kids Colorado, Do No Harm, and Dr. Travis Morrell also joined Defending Education in the suit.”

CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN: Secret Service, DOD, Coast Guard, Border Patrol applications surge under Trump.

In the first four months of the administration, U.S. Border Patrol received 34,650 applications, representing a 44% increase over the same four-month period in 2024, The Center Square reported. Under U.S. Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks, Texas’ first border czar, the first quarter of 2025 marks “the most successful four-month recruitment stretch in the agency’s history.”

The U.S. Coast Guard also saw a massive spike of applications after failing to meet recruiting targets every year under the Biden administration.

Since January, the Coast Guard is on track to exceed its recruitment goals by 110%, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security says. So far this fiscal year, the Coast Guard has already recruited more than 4,700 new members, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said. Under Trump, the Coast Guard has surged resources to secure U.S. borders and is seizing record amounts of illicit drugs, The Center Square reported.

The U.S. Department of Defense is also seeing a record number of recruits. After failing to meet recruitment goals every year during the Biden administration, in February 2025, all five military services met their recruiting goals.

During an April 30, 2025, cabinet meeting, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth described what was happening as a “recruiting renaissance.”

Leadership matters.

MIDDLE EAST: Resuming Control of Gaza Is a Terrible Idea. But What the Hell Else Can Israel Do? “No nation can be expected to accept anything less and Israel certainly won’t.”

DECOUPLING: China’s retail sales disappoint as stimulus fails to spur demand; industrial output defies tariffs.

Retail sales rose 5.1% from a year earlier in April, missing analysts’ estimates of 5.5% growth, according to a Reuters poll. Sales had grown by 5.9% in the previous month.

Industrial output grew 6.1% year on year in April, stronger than analysts’ expectations for a 5.5% rise, while slowing down from the 7.7% jump in March, indicating the impact from U.S. tariffs was not as harsh as was being expected.

“We should be aware that there are still many unstable and uncertain factors in [the] external environment,” the statistics bureau said. “The foundation for sustained economic recovery needs to be further consolidated.”

Fixed-asset investment for the first four months this year, which includes property and infrastructure investment, rose 4.0%, slightly lower than analysts’ expectations for a 4.2% growth in a Reuters poll.

The urban unemployment rate in April eased to 5.1% from 5.2% in March, at a time when U.S.-China trade war had led economists to warn about substantial job losses in China.

We have to rely on polls to try and figure out what’s going on in China because Beijing stopped reporting key economic figures in recent years.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Finally, Consequences Are Making a Comeback. “We don’t know how this is all going to play out, but one thing is certain: Democrats aren’t going to stop their scofflaw ways unless some repercussions are doled out. Now that a we have a leftist county judge and a Democratic congresswoman in legal hot water for not letting ICE do its job, perhaps others with think twice before joining the resistance.”

HMM: Voters: Trump protects Constitution better than Biden.

Voters have a message for liberals charging that President Donald Trump is a threat to democracy: former President Joe Biden was worse.

In its latest poll to reveal how wrong America views Trump’s Washington critics, Rasmussen Reports said that a majority of likely voters believe that the president is “preserving, protecting and defending the Constitution.”

Rasmussen said that 52% feel Trump is upholding the Constitution.

Biden, however, didn’t get a majority to agree when he was president. In May of last year, just 44% said Biden was doing a good or excellent job of preserving, protecting, and defending the Constitution.

Doing a better job than Biden is a low bar, but it’s comforting that so many people ignore the 24/7/365 media drumbeat about Trump being a fascist, a threat to democracy, etc.

ICYMI: Epstein Suicide Confirmed by Kash Patel and Frankie Five Angels. “MCC’s failures made it at least look like someone was sure that Epstein would have a wide-open window of opportunity to kill himself. The hint, delivered in the form of missing guards and plenty of alone time, was no more subtle than Hagen mentioning what happened to those caught plotting against the emperors of Rome.”

VAN JONES: Dems Will Be Paying For Biden Health ‘Coverup’ For A Long Time.

JAKE TAPPER, CNN: Van, I remember how emotional you were in the immediate moments after the June 27, 2024, debate because of what you saw on the stage. And with all this new reporting coming out — and I should disclose that I gave both of you copies of the book so you would have a little bit more information. Do you feel like you were duped, Van? Like, how do you feel?

VAN JONES, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: First, this book is extraordinary. I don’t care who you are, left, right, or otherwise. Anybody who cares about this country and about just the dynamics of power, this is “the emperor’s new clothes” playing itself out in real time.

Everybody knew, but everyone was afraid to say — except for David Axelrod, for two years — that something was wrong here.

I was shocked. I love Joe Biden. I don’t like him. I love him. I got a chance to work with him when I was a part of the Obama administration and loved him more every day.

I was shocked to see his condition when he came out. And so was the world. And that wasn’t the first time he was in that condition. The book makes it very, very clear. There are people who knew and said nothing. And that is a crime against this republic. And I think the Democrats are going to pay for a long time for being a part of what is now being revealed to be a massive cover-up.

Tapper was in on the coverup, so what does that make him?

I’d also add that Biden’s decline was obvious in 2020 — for those with eyes — and yet Democrat insiders still thought that Biden was better than any of the alternatives in 2020.

HMM: Is AOC’s Engagement Off, or Is She Just Skirting Ethics Rules? “Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Workers’ Paradise) announced her engagement way back in 2022, but it’s three years later now, and questions have begun to swirl around her marital plans. This is not just a matter of leftist schoolgirls dreaming of emulating Comrade Heroine, or even of disappointed young blokes who yearn to take the place of the beta schlub AOC apparently plans to marry. It actually involves serious ethics violations, which just a scant few months ago Democrats could commit by the bucketload without fear of the slightest consequences beyond a few curmudgeons grumbling at PJ Media. Now, however, it’s a different story.”

THEY ALL KNEW:

2022. Don Lemon reports on an email sent in 2020 from Barack Obama to former White House physician Ronny Jackson.

Biden was showing obvious signs of cognitive decline during his 2020 campaign and Jackson had posted about it. Obama was not happy. pic.twitter.com/YM01C35Sak

— MAZE (@mazemoore) May 19, 2025

JOANNE JACOBS: Surprise! It’s not OK to punch the teacher or threaten to blow up the school.

EVEN MORE STUFF I VOTED FOR: After Four Months, Trump is Already the Best Gun Rights President of the Modern Era. “The lesson… stop dooming. Things are moving in the right direction and a lot of progress has been made in a very short time.”

BREAKING: Supreme Court Rules for Trump’s Reversal of Biden-Era Parole of Illegals.

BILL MAHER DISCOVERS ANOTHER TRUTH: Wokeness = Dying Alone. “Let me tell you, folks, if the standards on the Left are going to be this high, and politics is going to be this much of a cock block, we’re never going to win elections or have any more babies.”

MEH, FREE MARKETS ARE DOING THEIR THING ALREADY: States Are Taking Action Against Lab-Grown ‘Meat.’

MARK STEYN: No Change, and Decay.

As I have written often, the consistent message from the permanent ruling class around the west is that nothing will be permitted to change on anything that matters. Of the two principal popular revolts of almost a decade ago – the Trump election and the Brexit vote – the jury is still out on Trump 47 (America’s last chance), but Brexit is dead.

A theme of my book The Prisoner of Windsor is that there is no Brexit. It never happened – or, perhaps more precisely, it was never permitted to happen. And so, as the PM tells the King, Britain is now reduced to the status of a princely state in the Indian Raj, under which, in a nominally sovereign sultanate, every decision that matters was made not by the sultan and his ministers but by the British Resident. The King protests that he hasn’t heard the phrase “princely state” in forty years …but that’s why it helps to know a little history, so you can figure out where all the bollocks is headed.

I saw where all this was heading when we first serialised The Prisoner of Windsor in audio five years ago. Sir Keir Starmer, taking time out of his hectic schedule of being firebombed by twenty-one-year-old Ukrainian “male models”, has spent the last few weeks enacting my literary jest into formal, binding treaty law. As a popular Steyn Show guest puts it this morning, for the “right” to live under EU laws and regulations in perpetuity, the UK will also have to surrender its fishing grounds permanently. Or, if you like, in exchange for surrendering national sovereignty to Brussels on law, it will also have to surrender national sovereignty to Brussels on fish.

Brexit is over. The EU has won: It has got what it always pined for during the Thatcher years – a Britain formally subordinate to Brussels but without a vote at the top table.

The elites on both sides of the Atlantic sure talk an awful lot about protecting democracy for people with zero interest in it.

DISMANTLE UNWRA: Here’s the Smoking Gun: UNWRA Knew About Oct 7 in Advance.