“Florida under Ron DeSantis has become hostile to Black Americans and in direct conflict with the democratic ideals that our union was founded upon. He should know that democracy will prevail because its defenders are prepared to stand up and fight. We’re not backing down, and we encourage our allies to join us in the battle for the soul of our nation.”
In fact, Florida has become so hostile to Blacks DeSantis Press Secretary Jeremy Redfern noted…
…along with the inconvenient truth Leon Russell, the NAACP’s Chairman of the Board, currently resides in Tampa. The only hostility we can sense is coming from the NAACP, an organization so hypocritical and corrupt it…
“While not a blanket recommendation against travel nor a call for boycott, the travel advisory outlines the devastating impacts of laws that are hostile to the LGBTQ community, restrict access to reproductive health care, repeal gun safety policies, foment racial prejudice, and attack public education by banning books and censoring curriculum in order that prospective travelers or residents can make the best decisions for themselves and their families.”
As Townhall.com‘s Rebecca Downs so tellingly observed of the statement, “It’s worth wondering what is even the point, then, other than to make themselves heard and remain relevant.”
Or, based on the statement, irrelevant! Just so we understand this, racist Black radicals and LGBTQ+ activists are advising their followers to avoid Florida, and this is…what?…supposed to make the Sunshine State less appealing to the rest of the country?!?
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, courtesy of Townhall.com, Kurt Schlichter is somewhat harsh as he accurately assesses…
“The obvious reaction to the bizarre idea that Chris Christie will soon enter the 2024 GOP primaries and then win the general election – “Fat chance! – is accurate on every level. The rotund Republican has zero support among the base, having missed his window a decade ago and having gone on to become one of those Republicans whose primary function is to trash other Republicans – a chubby chimp dancing for dimes as the MSNBC organ grinders play. Why is he running? Delusion? Narcissism? Greed? Who knows? Who cares?
We’ve talked about Nikki Haley before. Remember her? She’s still running for vice president, er, president. I spoke to about 150 conservative women in Washington state the other night and mentioned her. Her support was zero. Nada. Nil. Yet now the aforementioned Pillsbury Doughcandidate and a few other no-hopers are joining her in spending tens of millions to top out at 3%.
Add Mike Pence to the Footnote Force, about 20 years after the last election where his brand of milquetoast Weekly Standard weakness had any resonance.
…I will not dignify maple syrup sap Chris Sununu by pretending his nascent candidacy is a thing. Then there’s Tim Scott, the favorite of everyone who thinks Mike Pence is too fiery and aggressive…
…Here’s the test – if you think we should not dismantle the FBI because the problem is a few bad apples, you are impotent and unfit to lead. Get back in the rear with the camp followers and help with the cooking – we need a guy who will pick up his saber, yell “Follow me!” and charge.
…Why do Christie and Scott and Pence think they can win? Presidential politics is weird because otherwise sensible people become deluded into imagining that they have a chance. These guys have no chance. They are losers. (That‘s the “somewhat harsh” part!) They are Connor Roy in Succession, but at least Connor is amusing; these guys are just embarrassing.
Here’s the reality – this is a race between Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis, who is widely-expected to make it official soon. There’s no one else in the Octagon. It’s these two, and here’s the thing – it’s not about policy. Despite Trump attacking every win DeSantis has in Florida, DeSantis’s agenda is the base’s agenda and if DJT vanquishes RDS then he will immediately adopt it again. Sure, this leaves all his minions who have been fulminating about the Florida governor being too mean to Disney and Bud Light tossed under the bus, but if you befriend Trump you gotta know that that’s where you’ll go eventually.
No, this race is not about policy because that’s been decided. Our policy is to destroy the left. We had the choice of a sissy Pence peace or war, and we chose war. Think back to the Kavanaugh thing – can you imagine any candidate except Trump or DeSantis not folding like a house of cards when the ruling caste wagged its finger? Maybe Vivek, though I’m not sure he was even able to drive when the Kavanaugh thing went down.
No, the GOP’s decision in 2024 is solely over the identity of the general who will take command. Will it be the cold, calculating, ruthlessly effective RDS, or the unstoppable juggernaut (Unstoppable…except when he stops himself…which is all-too frequently!) – well, except for ridiculous tangents to call Rosie O’Donnell “Horseface” –that is Donald Trump? Both will rain down destruction upon our enemies – Ron the precision Hellfire and Don the massive MOAB.
So, the real difference between the two is electability – that is, who is most likely to win in the general election? The polls are all over the place and useless 18 months out, but we do have some indicators. The 2020 election, and subsequent ones, show Trump has a sub-majority ceiling. That’s a problem and it’s not likely to change – he threaded the needle once and maybe he can do it again, but hoping to get lucky twice is not a plan. The fact is that some people, including Republicans who should know better, irrationally hate him and will never vote for him. Of course, some Republicans will never vote for anyone else. We know both guys hate wokeness, communism, crime and all the other aspects of the Democrat agenda. What we need to know is how they each propose to win in PA, GA, AZ, MI, and WI.
This race is about winning and only about winning. And that’s why Christie, Pence, and Scott won’t really be in the race even after they get into it. It’s Ron or Don, and I’m voting for whichever one wins the nomination. I just hope he can pull it off in November.”
Here’s the juice in cartoon form:
And despite anything he says, Trump has no plan to win any of those five states, having done all he could to lose them for the GOP in 2022.
“Elon Musk lived in San Francisco until late 2021, when California’s lockdown policies, a serious uptick in crime rates, and a general decline in the quality of life prompted him to move Tesla to Texas.
He hasn’t regretted the decision. He recently commented on a Twitter feed about eleven major San Francisco retailers, including Nordstrom, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Whole Foods, closing their stores this year alone. “So many stores shuttered in downtown SF. Feels post-apocalyptic,” he tweeted. “The philosophy that led to this bleak outcome will be the end of civilization if extended to the world.”
Musk’s comments have prompted a backlash from progressives, who claim he has it all wrong about San Francisco. Last month, in the wake of the murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee, it was discovered that he was killed by someone he knew, not as part of a random act of violence. Miguel Almaguer, the local correspondent for NBC, reported that “San Francisco leaders fired back at Musk,” insisting that “the tragedy that unfolded could have happened anywhere.”
Indeed, San Francisco district attorney Brooke Jenkins lashed out at Musk for calling the city’s crime “horrific.” She said Musk’s tweets were “reckless and irresponsible” and “served to mislead the world and their perceptions of San Francisco.”
Just for the record: San Francisco lost 7.5 percent of its population between April 2020 and July 2022, a rate of decline unprecedented among major U.S. cities, including Detroit in its worst days.
Lee Ohanian, an economist at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, has calculated that San Franciscans face about a 1-in-16 chance each year of being a victim of property or violent crime. That makes it “more dangerous than 98 percent of US cities, both small and large. To put this in perspective, Compton, California, the infamous home of drug gang turf wars, and which today remains more dangerous than 90 percent of all US cities, is almost twice as safe as San Francisco.”
If that doesn’t sound like civilization being threatened, I don’t know what does.
Because of this record, the Left is pulling out all the stops in trying to distract attention from the damage San Francisco’s progressive policies have caused. Keith Humphreys, a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, had the gall to author last year in the San Francisco Chronicle an article headlined “Soft-on-crime liberalism isn’t fueling San Francisco’s drug crisis. Libertarianism is.”
This is what is called the politics of projection — accusing others of one’s own flaws — and it’s being used by the Left everywhere, from explaining how inequality has grown under President Biden to accusing Republicans of opposing energy development by voting against the Green New Deal…”
Here’s a second shot of the juice: They cannot ever admit their policies are responsible for the ruin inflicted on America’s urban centers, ever!. Because were they admit they’ve lied about one thing, it would call into question, and subsequently expose, the lies they’ve told about everything else!
Speaking of lies, Best of the Web records the fabrications formulated by…
“The politicization of formerly respected scientific publications is one of society’s more disturbing recent trends and it seems that yet another periodical is willing to surrender its claim to authority. Laura Helmuth, Editor in chief of Scientific American, recently tweeted:
White-throated sparrows have four chromosomally distinct sexes that pair up in fascinating ways
P.S. Nature is amazing
P.P.S. Sex is not binary
Other Twitter users were not impressed. Ms. Helmuth’s missive now carries an attachment from Twitter:
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
White-throated sparrows have 2 sexes with 4 unique chromosome combinations.
There are still just 2 sexes that produce either sperm or eggs.
The female types are the white-striped females and the tan-striped females. The male birds are white-striped males and tan striped males.
One can debate whether and how Twitter should address errors in user comments, but it’s clear that the operators of the social media platform are not the only ones raising an objection to the claim of a sparrow with four sexes. “It’s just incredible how far [Scientific American]– a periodical I admired — has fallen from its mission to provide accurate, clear, and vivid coverage of science,” observesYale professor of social and natural science Nicholas Christakis, who is also a physician.
Dr. Christakis points to a post on the Why Evolution Is True website maintained by Jerry Coyne, an emeritus professor of ecology and evolution at the University of Chicago:
The tweet Helmuth put up this week… distorts biology—in particular the work of scientists who spent years studying the genetics and mating behavior of white-throated sparrows (Zonotrichia albicollis). This is an interesting bird because both males and females show two forms (this is a “polymorphism”), with one form having a tan crown stripe and the other a white crown stripe.
The forms also differ in their parental behavior and courtship…
The post reviews some of the relevant research and then sums it up:
Just two sexes, and every ornithologist knows this. Even if each morph mated only with its own kind, so that there was total reproductive isolation between the forms and they would, in effect, be two species, there would still be just two species, with each having two sexes.
Now the popular press has mistaken this system for the phenomenon of “four sexes”, which is just flat wrong. The biological definition of sex involves what kind of gamete you make, and here there are only two. Females make and lay eggs, males make sperm.
Seems fairly straightforward, so perhaps a determined band of woke bird-watchers will now set off into the wilderness searching for an animal species that is just as confused about gender as human magazine editors. But this seems unlikely, as such an approach would necessarily require empirical evidence.
In defense of Ms. Helmuth, her tendentious tweet linked to a muddled story from Audubon Society editor Kenn Kaufman, who seems to have added to the confusion by writing that it’s “almost as if the White-throated Sparrow has four sexes” and then just a few sentences later sloppily claiming:
The resulting effect is that the White-throat really does operate as a bird with four sexes.
It really doesn’t.
Perhaps this is not so much a problem in science as a problem among the people who write about science. For those inclined to give Ms. Helmuth the benefit of the doubt and assume her errors are not driven by political bias, she’s tweeting today about a new opinion piece calling for reforms at the Supreme Court that for some reason appears in her magazine called Scientific American.
Sometimes it seems like today’s science media really does operate as a species with just one point of view.”
And that through blinders with rose-colored glass inserts.
Here’s a triple-shot of the juice: We cannot imagine anyone becoming editor of even a formerly-distinguished publication like Scientific American without some background in “science”; And we cannot imagine anyone with even a minimal background in science not being able to differentiate between four chromosome combinations and two sexes. That Laura Helmuth seems unable…or perhaps more accurately…unwilling to do so tells us this isn’t a question of science, but of journalistic integrity, a quality Ms. Helmuth possesses in no discernible quantity. Or she’s dumber than a box of rocks and has no business editing anything.
Moving on, here’s another sextet of special selections certain to pique the interest of inquiring Conservative minds:
“The women picketing the event were removed after bringing attention to the fact that a male athlete, Athena Ryan, had taken a female runner’s spot in the state championship by finishing second in the “Girls 1600m” event. The security guard who removed the protesters said he didn’t have a problem with their activism but that signs were only permitted outside the event. However, according to members of Women Are Real, other signage was permitted at the event and they were the only group removed.“
“However, following the death of George Floyd, Brown released an emotional video that detailed his experiences navigating racial prejudice in the military, saying he had lived in “two worlds” and was often the only African American in the room, either as a pilot or a commander, and facing questions about his qualifications, which he ascribed to racism. The move – a bold one taken shortly after receiving his promotion from then-President Trump – did not mar his confirmation, which the Senate unanimously approved.
And, (ii):
He later would say that he gave himself a “C” rating for his ability to implement change. Brown would inherit a difficult task: The military also has to worry about trying to hit its recruitment targets – goals that the branches have failed to achieve over the past two years, with data suggesting that they will fall short again this year.
As regards (i), we invite you to watch Brown’s “emotional video”….
…and see if you too get the impression Brown’s problems were all either of his own creation or in his own mind. As for (ii), an general officer who rates himself a “C” for his ability to implement change is hardly someone we’d deem qualified to head a Military in dire need of change, and that right soon!
(5). In declaring a state of emergency over Republicans’ veto-proof passage of a school choice bill, North Carolina’s Dimocratic governor obliquely observed, “Their private school voucher scheme will pour your tax money into private schools that are unaccountable to the public“, conveniently ignoring an almost complete lack of accountability in America’s public schools are the very reason the pro-school choice movement has gained so much momentum so quickly, and seeming to forget he sent his own children to private school.
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s these from Speed…
…along with five from The Patriot Post:
Finally, we’ll call it a wrap with yet another strange story straight from the pages of The Crime Blotter, and this just in from southern Maryland, where a…
“…The Charles County Police Department said officers patrolling in Waldorf, Maryland, at about 1 p.m. on May 16 saw two Hyundai vehicles in front of a business. A computer check revealed they were reported stolen. When the officers attempted to conduct a traffic stop, the drivers of the two vehicles sped off.
At the same time, a dispatcher took a 911 call about a group of suspects that entered a business and stole merchandise before fleeing in two vehicles that matched the cars the officers were attempting to stop. The suspects got out of the vehicles at a Park and Ride lot and attempted to hide, though the officers were ultimately able to apprehend them without any further incident.
From the two vehicles, police arrested 18-year-old Deshaun Deamonte Whitaker and 21-year-old Vincent Lee Alston, both of Washington, D.C., who were both charged with theft, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and rogue and vagabond…Four juveniles were also arrested and charged with theft and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.
Police said a female guardian was set to pick up the four juveniles, but the guardian and two other females arrived in what appeared to be another stolen vehicle, which left after the three women were dropped off at the police station. Officers located the vehicle on a nearby street, which reportedly had a broken back window and steering column damage. When the officer ordered everyone out of the vehicle, the driver fled, nearly hitting one of the officers. All the occupants got out of the vehicle after the driver drove a short distance, and it was determined the vehicle was stolen from another jurisdiction.
Anthony Matthew Stewart, 19, of Washington, D.C., was driving the vehicle and arrested after a brief chase on foot. He was charged with first- and second-degree assault, unauthorized use of a vehicle and providing a false name to police. Stewart also reportedly had active warrants for his arrest. Also in the vehicle were three juveniles who were apprehended. One of the juveniles, a 16-year-old boy, had active arrest warrants, and a 13-year-old girl was reported missing from another county. All three juveniles were charged with theft and unauthorized use of a vehicle.
The three women who picked up the four juveniles earlier that day – Carlisa Monnae Blackeney, 18, of Washington, D.C., and Mahkiyh McQuinn-Woodly, 18, of Hagerstown, Maryland – were charged with theft, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, providing a false name, and rogue and vagabond…”
Something tells us no one in this crew has a degree in rocket surgery, as the only “major” these delinquents have ever pursued is in crime.
Magoo
Video of the Day
Konstantin Kisin offers the truth about slavery Progressives don’t want you to hear or your kids to know.
Tales of The Darkside
Time has revealed every one of the people featured in this video compilation as either a liar or a parroting propagandist ignorant of the facts.
On the Heavier Side
This clip courtesy of the incomparable Stilton Jarlsberg demonstrates the truth of the old adage, if you thought you had a bad day, it could have been worse!
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