TO BE FAIR, CLINTON STARTED THAT WHEN HE WEAPONIZED THE CDC AGAINST THE SECOND AMENDMENT: Permanent Emergency: Corporate State Repackages Gun Violence as ‘Public Health Crisis.’
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April 13, 2023
EMMA-JO MORRIS: Survivors of the Trans Panic: Lesbians Threatened by Gender Ideology.
“It’s just another way to get lesbians to want to be with men”
“It’s very sad to see women in general being erased … I see a lot of screenshots of pictures from lesbian dating apps, and, like, every other swipe is a man.”
Jaimee Michell is the founder of “Gays Against Groomers,” a gay advocacy group set up to denounce the targeting and sexualization of children by “LGBTQQIP2SAA” activism. Jaimee began the organization in an effort to separate homosexuals from the gender ideology movement, in her words, to “reclaim our good standing in society that we just achieved not that long ago.”
Jaimee told Breitbart that, amid the push to “affirm” transgender claims that biological males are “women,” lesbians are being marginalized as they are forced to disregard or downplay their innate sexual preference — hinged on gender and biological sex being aligned and immutable — to appease community activists. Conversations among lesbians about only wanting to date biological women have been dubbed “transphobic” and “abusive” by activists and media. Lesbian dating apps now boast “inclusion” of “queer,” “non-binary, gender-fluid and transgender people” — broadening the pool of users from homosexual women to people who don’t “identify” as women, or people who are not women at all.
Lesbians and non-woke feminists — usually derided as “TERFs” by their enemies on the Left — were among the first to warn of this madness.
CHRIS QUEEN: The NPR Emperor Has No Clothes. “Instead of pushing out its ‘editorial independence’ on Twitter, NPR is asking listeners to follow it on TikTok — you know, the Chinese Communist spyware social media outlet.”
April 12, 2023
NONE OF THEM GOOD: Here are the 7 biggest revelations from the US leaks so far.
I THINK HE SHOULD MAKE THEM KEEP IT: Elon Musk says BBC’s ‘government-funded media’ Twitter tag will be changed.
Meanwhile: NPR quits Twitter after being labeled ‘state-affiliated media.’
Why does the Beeb get preferential treatment?
BANANA REPUBLIC: Biden’s DOJ Goes Easy on Trans Lunatic Who Vandalized Church.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Credit Crunch Crisis Carpocalypse. “Dealers are overexposed right now. They have paid way too much for their inventory and now they are having a hard time selling it.”
OR MAYBE YOU WILL: You Won’t Believe What Trump Said About America’s Hardest-Left Governor. “Before you start ranting on social media about the latest outrage about what this guy said or that gal said… watch the whole clip and not just the excerpt.”
MATT WELCH: Democrats Choose to Advertise Failures of Single-Party Democratic Rule by Holding the 2024 DNC in Chicago.
The Windy City has been run by Democratic mayors for 93 consecutive years. The 50-member City Council currently includes zero Republicans. The Cook County Board of Commissioners has 17 seats; 16 are filled by Democrats. So totalizing is the city’s unipartisan political culture that recently vanquished mayoral finalist Paul Vallas, a lifelong Democrat, could not overcome the campaign criticism that he was a “Republican in disguise.”
So what has all this unobstructed Democratic governance produced? Population flight, for starters. From a peak of 3.6 million residents in 1950 the city has tumbled down to an estimated 2.7 million in 2021. What for a century had been the “Second City” in the United States has been #3 since the 1980s; what was the fifth-largest metropolis in the world in 1900 is now #5 just in North America.
And those U-Haul trucks are leaving behind a mess. Chicago’s public pensions have a larger combined total of unfunded liabilities – north of $46 billion – than 45 states. The funding shortfall, due to decades of Democratic mismanagement, has swallowed up most of the city’s many tax hikes.
But other than that, unfettered Democrat rule has been great for Chicago.
THE RETURN OF “THE GREAT GAME”: China Unveils ‘Grandiose Plan’ For Central Asia.
Since Russian President Vladimir Putin began his ill-advised “special military operation” against Ukraine a year ago, China has taken advantage of Russia’s rising wartime distraction by discreetly attempting to increase its influence in Central Asia, far from the front lines. Beijing can now offer Central Asia what Russia cannot—that is, massive potential foreign direct investment (FDI). In contrast, the Russian Federation’s main economic contribution to Central Asia is now primarily serving as a destination for the region’s economic migrants, whose remittances continue to form a significant part of Central Asia’s economies.
On February 16, Xi sent a message to the participants at the First China–Central Asia Forum of Industrial and Investment Cooperation, convening for three days in Tsingtao, in which he reaffirmed China’s readiness to expand economic ties as well as industrial and investment cooperation with the countries in the region. The largest economic enticement offered by Xi was not only access to China’s massive market but also its highly developed industrial system and advanced technologies to deepen business cooperation in achieving mutually beneficial results and promote the qualitative development of the Central Asian economies (Vzglyad, February 16). The Chinese enticements appear even more alluring in light of a lack of similar proposals from Russia.
Putin can’t afford to annoy Beijing — or do much of anything else, really.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Biden White House Is So Polluted With Sleaze It Should Be a Superfund Site. “The worst aspect of this Constitution-shredded presidency has been the way it transformed the Federal Bureau of Investigation from being a domestic security agency to a taxpayer funded organized crime goon squad. What little faith conservatives had in government has been shattered by that and it’s not going to be coming back.”
I’M SO OLD, I REMEMBER WHEN JOE BIDEN RAN AS A MODERATE: The end is nigh for gas-powered cars.
It won’t be as easy as banning the sale of gas-powered cars or mandating that companies only sell vehicles with electric powertrains. Rather, the new EPA rules would set an emissions limit on the total number of new cars each automaker sells in a year. That limit would essentially ensure that two-thirds of vehicles they sold in the US by 2032 would be EVs, according to a report by The New York Times. The full details are expected to be released on Wednesday.
The effort to make this a reality will be absolutely massive. Automakers have already set out on the path to more EV sales, but plug-in vehicles still only account for a fraction of the overall car market in the US. Getting them from where they are today, at around 7 percent of new car sales, to where the Biden administration wants them, roughly 68 percent of all car sales, will be unlike anything ever attempted in the 150-year history of the auto industry.
Meanwhile, on the other end of the supply chain: ‘They Will Die’: Tesla-Linked Mining Project Is Devastating One of the World’s Uncontacted Peoples. “Indonesia is the world’s leading nickel producer, propping up the globe’s electric battery supply. But the industry is increasingly coming at a high cost for indigenous groups.”
THEY’RE FROM THE GOVERNMENT AND THEY’RE HERE TO HELP: Secret limits to stop ‘suspicious’ Xanax and Adderall orders are forcing some legitimate patients to scramble.
Patients diagnosed with conditions like anxiety and sleep disorders have become caught in the crosshairs of America’s opioid crisis, as secret policies mandated by a national opioid settlement have turned filling legitimate prescriptions into a major headache.
In July, limits went into effect that flag and sometimes block pharmacies’ orders of controlled substances such as Adderall and Xanax when they exceed a certain threshold. The requirement stems from a 2021 settlement with the US’s three largest drug distributors — AmerisourceBergen Corp., Cardinal Health Inc. and McKesson Corp. But pharmacists said it curtails their ability to fill prescriptions for many different types of controlled substances — not just opioids.
Independent pharmacists said the rules force them come up with creative workarounds. Sometimes, they must send patients on frustrating journeys to find pharmacies that haven’t yet exceeded their caps in order to buy prescribed medicines.
It’s just like shopping in the Soviet Union, but without the low prices.
J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS: Meet Radical Trump Prosecutor Matthew Colangelo. “In sum, Bragg has appointed a militant leftist attorney to prosecute Donald Trump in New York City. A Harvard Law graduate, Colangelo has used his powers and position to advance far-left ideological aims. His abuse of power has cost taxpayers millions of dollars in one state.”
April 11, 2023
FILM LADD ANSWERS THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Should I Hate Wil Wheaton?
WE MADE ANOTHER MARKET FOR THEM: Why Is Saudi Arabia Buying Record Levels of Oil? “When I think of Saudi Arabia these days, I think of one of my favorite lines from Bull Durham.”
ALSO TELL THE RUSSIANS THEY SHOULDN’T READ IT: White House Tells Journalists They Have ‘No Business’ Reporting On Leaked Intel.
COME SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: A Member of the Tolerance Crowd Slaps a Middle Schooler.
I’M NOT SURE THIS IS ANY WORSE THAN THE CITY’S FLESH-AND-BLOOD DRIVERS: Dashcam Footage Shows Driverless Cars Clogging San Francisco. “Driverless cars have completed thousands of journeys in San Francisco—taking people to work, to school, and to and from dates. They have also proven to be a glitchy nuisance, snarling traffic and creeping into hazardous terrain such as construction zones and downed power lines. Autonomous cars in San Francisco made 92 unplanned stops between May and December 2022—88 percent of them on streets with transit service, according to city transportation authorities, who collected the data from social media reports, 911 calls, and other sources, because companies aren’t required to report all the breakdowns.”