BIDEN’S BANANA REPUBLIC IS NO LAUGHING MATTER: There’s Only One Terrifying Reason for a Woke Indoctrinated Military and This Is It.
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March 5, 2024
WEIMAR GERMANY, REDUX: Berlin rows back on daycare ‘sex rooms’ for toddlers to masturbate in privacy.
The U-turn was announced by State Secretary for Youth and Family Falko Liecke in a statement to Junge Freiheit on Monday.
“In Berlin daycare centers, there will expressly be no separate rooms for educational sexual explorations for children among themselves, nor any guided or free other sexual-educational concepts,” he told the news outlet.
“We are aware that the recommendations for action given to us from the scientific field represent a different perspective. However, we expressly do not share these views and will not include these recommendations in the Berlin educational program for daycare centers and daycare,” Liecke added.
In the draft of the new program, educational experts advising the local government had called for the establishment of sex rooms for three to six-year-olds to experience “feelings of pleasure” in privacy.
Several other states, including daycare centers in North Rhine-Westphalia, have already adopted the policy with at least two nurseries in the state entertaining the idea of safe spaces where young children can retreat to masturbate, or as one daycare center in Kerpen put it, “discover and satisfy themselves physically.”
How did kids ever figure this stuff out before they had creepy professional educators to help them along?
GENERATIONAL THEFT: The U.S. national debt is rising by $1 trillion about every 100 days.
The nation’s debt permanently crossed over to $34 trillion on Jan. 4, after briefly crossing the mark on Dec. 29, according to data from the U.S. Department of the Treasury. It reached $33 trillion on Sept. 15, 2023, and $32 trillion on June 15, 2023, hitting this accelerated pace. Before that, the $1 trillion move higher from $31 trillion took about eight months.
U.S. debt, which is the amount of money the federal government borrows to cover operating expenses, now stands at nearly $34.4 billion, as of Wednesday. Bank of America investment strategist Michael Hartnett believes the 100-day pattern will remain intact with the move from $34 trillion to $35 trillion.
“Little wonder ‘debt debasement’ trades closing in on all-time highs, i.e. gold $2077/oz, bitcoin $67734,” he wrote in a note Thursday.
Anything that can’t go on forever will stop.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: NY Offers Huge Bribe to Get Illegals to Leave But There’s Just One Problem… “How would you like to live anywhere, rent-free, for an entire year? That’s the offer that New York City Mayor Eric Adams hopes the illegal aliens flooding his city can’t refuse. But, as it turns out, ‘anywhere’ looks a lot more like ‘nowhere.'”
THIS IS MUCH BIGGER THAN JUST BRUSSELS VS. CUPERTINO: Apple and the EU are now at war, as Spotify case results in $2 billion fine.
The Commission whacks Apple with a €1.84 billion fine for that streaming-subscriptions-information thing, of which only €40 million is the actual core fine—the maximum allowed by the EU’s existing antitrust law. EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager says the extra $1.8 billion is intended to “account for the non-monetary harm caused to consumers and to achieve deterrence,” both for Apple and other Big Tech firms. Apple also must remove the so-called anti-steering provisions at the heart of the case. Apple says it will appeal, and issues a statement attacking Spotify for “coordinating with the European Commission,” while also complaining that the Commission is trying to “enforce the DMA before the DMA becomes law.”
It’s not like Apple and Vestager haven’t clashed before—she’s still appealing against the reversal of an earlier decision that would have put Apple on the hook for over $14 billion in Irish back taxes. But as for what we’re now witnessing, yes, it’s war. So what happens next?
After the DMA takes effect on Thursday, the Commission will probably start paving the way for charges against Apple over its new “core technology fee.” I think there’s a strong likelihood of this given that the DMA demands “fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory general conditions of access” for businesses offering their services on iPhones, and some of the biggest names in tech are urging the Commission to reject Apple’s idea of DMA compliance. In her comments on today’s Spotify case decision, Vestager said her team would “carefully look” into the matter.
It isn’t that Apple is the good guy here because the bigger the company has gotten, the more it acts like a bully. But the EU is arguably much worse. Now that Brussels has legislated tech innovation nearly out of existence, the EU uses regulation to punish innovative tech firms from this side of the Atlantic.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: A Glorious Twofer — Unanimous SCOTUS Decision and Unanimous Dem Meltdown. “The meltdown on the Left over the decision was delicious. It was entirely avoidable for them, of course, but they are so blinded by hatred that they’re incapable of seeing the potential for their egregious judicial overreach to blow up in their faces.”
IT’S WORKING EXACTLY AS INTENDED BUT OPPOSITE FROM HOW IT WAS MARKETED: Is Bidenomics Working? Rhetoric vs. Reality.
What’s interesting here is that Americans for Prosperity managed to buy the Bidenomics.com domain because apparently the White House never bothered to.
IF YOU CAN’T WIN, CHEAT; IF YOU CAN’T CHEAT, CHEAT HARDER: Democrats Are STILL Determined to Boot Trump Off the Ballot Despite Supreme Court Ruling.
THEY DOTH PROTEST TOO MUCH: China ‘Deeply Concerned’ About US Reviewing Chinese Vehicles.
China is “deeply concerned” about the United States’ move to review Chinese vehicles with connected car technology for any potential national security risks, the commerce ministry said Monday.
The ministry said it will continue to assess the follow-up situation of the review and take strong measures when necessary.
If Chinese EVs turn out not to be roving spyware I’d be amazed.
NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS: GOP Ohio Sen Candidate Bernie Moreno Mocks Gun Owners: ‘Do You Really Need 100 Bullets?’
March 4, 2024
THE ATLANTIC: Other Presidents Have Retired in March of Their Reelection Year.
With more than 100,000 people casting a vote against the incumbent president in the Democratic primary last week in Michigan, a swing state essential to his reelection, the wisdom of Joe Biden’s decision to face voters in November is again under intense scrutiny. Historically speaking, it isn’t too late for President Joe Biden to voluntarily drop his reelection bid. And he must know it: Two other Democratic presidents in his lifetime surprised the nation by announcing in March of an election year that they would not seek a new term.
The enormous challenges that confronted Harry Truman and Lyndon B. Johnson—wars in Korea and Vietnam—have little substantive resemblance to Biden’s current predicament. But the question Biden now faces is the same: Should he risk his presidential legacy by seeking another term in office? The events of 1952 and 1968 are as much a guide to making what is a hard, lonely decision as they are a warning: Having lost the advantages that incumbency incurs, the Democratic Party lost both of the elections that followed, and Republicans took the presidency.
What today’s Democrats are asking themselves and one another amidst all the flop-sweat is whether keeping Biden on the ballot would be worse for them down-ticket than installing somebody, anybody else at the top.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: WaPo Writer Makes It Official: Shoplifting Is Just Reparations.
WHEN SONIA SOTOMAYOR SUDDENLY BECOMES YOUR IDEA OF A RIGHT-WING TOOL…:
Left-leaning attorney buddy of mine texts, re: 9-0 Colorado ballot decision pic.twitter.com/jwvilxC8h2
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) March 4, 2024
I can.
I WONDER WHAT CHANGED IN 2020…: Murder and Violence Spiked on NYC Transit Since 2020.
COMMIES GOTTA COMMIE: China’s Roving Death Vans. “They used to have public executions in arenas. They haven’t done away with that (or shooting you on the side of the road and burying you in a ditch), but the death vans are considered more ‘efficient.'”
VINDMAN SAYS A LOT OF STUFF: Vindman Says Trump Has ‘Every Intention’ to Destroy Democracy if He’s Elected.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN):
Mainstream Media Warn If Trump Is Elected He Might Indict His Political Enemies, Imprison Detractors, And Rig Elections In His Favor https://t.co/mlKQLCKrur pic.twitter.com/IeYc9bogta
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) March 3, 2024
COLORADO: Dems unveil ‘system-changer’ bills to limit oil and gas drilling, new emissions. “The bills, which have been in germination since the Legislative Interim Committee on Ozone Quality finished its work in December and in circulation in draft form for two weeks, aim broadly to reduce emissions in sectors ranging from transportation to energy to warehouses. But supporters made it clear that the primary targets of their proposals are oil-and-gas drillers and Suncor Energy, which operates the state’s only refinery in Commerce City.”
The Californication continues.
GENERATIONAL THEFT: Somebody Set Us Up the $175 Trillion Debt Bomb.
UPDATE: British Ship Rubymar Hit by Houthi Missile Sinks in Red Sea.
A Houthi missile strike on Feb. 18 had blown a hole in the cargo vessel, Rubymar, which was shipping 22,000 metric tons of Saudi fertilizer to Bulgaria. That evening, the crew abandoned the vessel, flagged in Belize, and it vanished into the sea late Friday after taking on water for two weeks.
The Houthis have carried out more than 60 attacks in the Red Sea region, upending the shipping industry’s ability to travel through one of the world’s busiest commercial waterways, which connects Asia to Europe and beyond through Egypt’s Suez Canal.
The U.S. and its allies have sent warships to the Red Sea, and the U.S. and the U.K. have conducted airstrikes against the Houthis in Yemen to deter the group from more attacks on the shipping industry. But the Houthis have proved resilient, saying they will continue to attack what they say are ships connected to Israel in response to its invasion of Gaza, though many of the vessels have no connection to Israel.
They’re at war with civilization.
SCENES FROM WEIMAR AMERICA: Shocking Video Shows Teens Licking and Sucking Toes at School Event.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA’s ice-hunting VIPER moon rover getting ready to slither to the launch pad.
VIPER will land near the lunar south pole and search for water ice and other resources that could help support NASA’s future Artemis astronauts. Those moon explorers will include the first woman and the first person of color to set foot on the lunar surface; they’ll do so on the Artemis 3 mission, which is currently targeted for 2026.
VIPER will spend 100 days roaming the lunar south pole region, collecting data that will reveal where water ice is most likely to dwell and determining how easy these resources will be to access.
In the process, VIPER will become the first-ever resource mapping mission on another body in the solar system. These resource maps will be a vital step in establishing a long-term human presence on the moon.
He who controls the water, controls the Moon.
CHUTZPAH: Lawyers who voided Elon Musk’s ‘excessive’ Tesla pay package want $6 billion fee. “The law firms said the fee works out to an hourly rate of $288,888 for representing Tesla shareholder Richard Tornetta in the lawsuit to rescind the massive compensation package.”