DEI – Don’t Fly United

United Sets New Diversity Goal: 50% of Students at New Pilot Training Academy To Be Women and People of Color

United Airlines is only major U.S. airline to own flight school: United Aviate Academy

United Aviate Academy plans to train 5,000 new pilots by 2030 – at least 50% women or people of color

Scholarship commitments from United and JPMorgan Chase ensure highly qualified, motivated, eligible applicants won’t be turned away for financial reasons

United Aviate Academy now accepting applications; and aims to enroll first 100 students this year

As if I needed another reason not to fly, I don’t want unqualified pilots or mechanics. I want to get there safely and not crash.

Of course, DEI and woke ruin everything they touch. Get woke, go broke

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Ukraine $2.4 Billion, Hurricane Relief – Zero

DEI In Hurricane Recovery

Equity is how it’s going to be distributed.

In reality, the hardest hit was Asheville, the San Francisco of the East. So reliably blue that they don’t have to worry about it switching. Everywhere around it is Red and like East Palestine, if it’s not a blue state or area, no help is going to be given there either.

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Key House chairman to ask Congress to repudiate Democratsโ€™ J6 findings in face of new evidence

No, Donald Trump didnโ€™t grab the wheel of his presidential limousine and try to commandeer it. Yes, Nancy Pelosi felt responsible for security lapses at the Capitol, including the failure to pre-position National Guard there.

There’s no doubt that Trump did in fact order the Pentagon to send troops to secure the capital city ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, certification of electoral votes, but political and military brass declined to do so. And yes, there were both intelligence and security blunders by police that led to the breach of one of Americaโ€™s most storied buildings.

The last two years of investigations by Congress and Just the News have whipsawed the original, official narrative of what transpired during the Jan. 6 Capitol riots.

Now the man who has helped uncover much of the contradictory evidence, House Administration Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., is planning to ask his colleagues to take the extraordinarily rare step of officially repudiating the December 2022 findings of the Democrat-led House Select Committee to Investigate the Attack on the U.S. Capitol led by Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and ex-Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyoming.

โ€œMy intention is to bring the House floor a resolution that lays out all the evidence that we found that contradicts the evidence that they supposedly or the narrative they put in their report because future generations need to know, do not use this document that the select committee produced as any reflection of a historical record,โ€ Loudermilk told the “Just the News, No Noise television show on Thursday night.

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Harvard Eliminates Over 30 Fall Courses, Mostly โ€˜Far-Left History and Literatureโ€™

As I read it, I can’t believe they charged $84,000 to teach this kind of stupid ass woke crap to students. No wonder kids don’t want to go there anymore (see a couple of posts below)

Well, feast on this:

Harvard cancels over 30 courses; far-left History & Literature classes hardest hit

Harvard has canceled over 30 fall semester courses encompassing 20 departments, but the History and Literature department took it on the chin the hardest.

According to The Crimson, Hist-Lit Director of Studies Lauren Kaminsky said class offerings dropped from 19 to 13 classes after five lecturers either departed or chose to do something else.

The canceled Hist-Lit courses include โ€œBritish Soft Power from Shakespeare to Dua Lipa,โ€ โ€œMarx at the Mall: Consumer Culture & Its Critics,โ€ โ€œGlobal Transgender Histories,โ€ โ€œIndigenous Genders and Sexualities in North America,โ€ โ€œThe Making of Race across Latin America,โ€ and โ€œGlobal Histories of Capitalism.โ€

The course description for โ€œGlobal Transgender Historiesโ€ noted students โ€œwill become familiar with some of the global vocabulary of gender identities beyond the binary and will understand the historical impacts of phenomena such as racism, imperialism, and [the] medicalization on gender identities.โ€

Students also wouldโ€™ve โ€œdiscoveredโ€ the diversity of โ€œgender-variant peopleโ€ via โ€œreligious texts, poetry, art, legal cases, travelogues, newspapers, films [โ€ฆ] and oral histories.โ€

In โ€œIndigenous Genders and Sexualities in North America,โ€ students would have gained knowledge about the โ€œfoundations of settler colonialismโ€ and the โ€œresistance to itโ€ via โ€œpoetry, memoir, speculative fiction [and] media.โ€

They also would โ€œinterrogateโ€ various works in order to grasp โ€œthe anxieties, joys, and power that arise when Indigenous people embrace their bodies.โ€

Harvard Eliminates Over 30 Fall Courses, Mostly โ€˜Far-Left History and Literatureโ€™

Heckofva Job There Biden/Harris With Help With The Storm. Feds Won’t Help, But Can Give Billions To The Ukraine

Hurricane Helene: Biden, Harris, and the National Media are Missing in Action

Legal Insurrection reported Sunday on the havoc wreaked by Helene across the southeast Friday and Saturday, particularly the devastation that unfolded in western North Carolina and their neighbors in eastern Tennessee by what remained of the hurricane once she hit those areas.

Some mistakenly believe that once a weather event stops being a hurricane or tropical storm, the cities that are still in the path of whatโ€™s left are, for the most part, in the clear.

But that is most certainly not the case, as Helene had been downgraded to a tropical depression before she reached the mountains and foothills of North Carolina. By the time she moved on, rain totals for some areas reached as high as nearly 30โ€ณ, leaving historic flooding in her wake.

The images and videos, of course, are staggering. Heartbreaking. This is an area where itโ€™s not uncommon to hear about mudslides/landslides simply from having a few hours of rain from a random storm that rolled through, causing temporary road closures. Unlike the NC coast, itโ€™s simply not built to endure that much rain and high winds.

As far as national news outlets go, theyโ€™re covering it but much of what Iโ€™ve seen has been frustrating, as theyโ€™re treating it like it was merely a bad storm and not something that quite literally has changed the topography of a large swath of the western part of this state.

As for Biden and Harris, the POTUS was indeed at the beach this past weekend and Harris indeed was participating in swanky fundraisers out west, the optics of which were horrible and which would have been slammed by the Usual Suspects had our president been a Republican. Their insensitivity absolutely should be called out. Their rules and all.

But beyond that, Biden has pretty much done what he needed to do in an official capacity to pave the way for federal assistance. And both he and Harris have issued statements about the situation:

During a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, on Sunday, Trump accused President Joe Biden of โ€œsleepingโ€ at his beach house in Delaware and dragged Vice President Kamala Harris for holding fundraising events in California over the weekend โ€œwhen big parts of our country have been devastated by that massive hurricane.โ€

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Harris has been briefed by Criswell, according to the White House, and Biden has approved disaster declarations for numerous states and major disaster declarations for certain counties that will help provide temporary housing assistance, as well as grants and low-interest loans to help people with home repairs. Both urged the public to take the storm seriously ahead of landfall.

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Biden was at his beach house in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, over the weekend, where he received briefings about Heleneโ€™s devastation from Criswell and Homeland Security Adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall, according to the White House pool report. He urged the agencies to speed up the deployment of search and rescue teams into North Carolina, where people are stranded without cell service or electricity.

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None of them are red states and so they don’t care. They crucified Bush on Katrina, but at least he went there and sent Federal help.

They are doing as much as they do on the border, less than nothing but let the country disintegrate.

With Good Reason, More Americans Are Skipping College

Is college still worth it? According to Newsweek, millions of Americans are just saying โ€œno.โ€

Why? Because, according to a new poll, many see universities as a place where political agendas replace useful skills, and they walk away with $300,000 in debt that cripples them for life.

In fact, college enrollment is down 2.5 million since COVID-19, while the share of 18- to 26-year-olds working in the trades has gone from 25% pre-pandemic to 31% today.

Meanwhile, a recent Gallup survey found only a third of Americansโ€”of all agesโ€”say they have confidence in universities: 32% said they have little or no faith. Thatโ€™s a big drop from just a decade ago, when 57% had faith and just 10% did not.

Of those who lost faith, 41% said liberal indoctrination has taken over, while 37% said college doesnโ€™t teach relevant skills. The rest cited the cost.

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It’s a theme that people are figuring out that colleges are just indoctrination factories. While there are a few good ones (see the story posted below) and there are a few degrees needed for advanced education, the social bullshit they put students through is being exposed as not worth it.

Also, in the theme of woke that I’ve been on, people are tired of it and a lot of it starts with colleges.

Heritage Foundation releases guide to colleges that teach instead of indoctrinate

Heritage Foundation releases guide to colleges that teach instead of indoctrinate

In an effort to find at least two universities in every state that are focused not on leftist and queer indoctrination but instead on free expression and open inquiry, the conservative Heritage Foundation has now put together an interactive map and guide that parents and high school students can use to choose a quality college to attend.

click on this link to find the colleges on the map above

The image to the right is a screen capture of that map, located here. You can click on each dot to get more detailed information about why Heritage recommends or not recommends it. For example, for Thomas Aquinas College in California the guide says the following in explaining why it lists it as a โ€œgreat option.โ€

The mission of Thomas Aquinas College (TAC) is to renew โ€œwhat is best in the Western intellectual heritage and to [conduct] liberal education under the guiding light of the Catholic faith.โ€ TAC has an impressive โ€œA+โ€ rating from the American Council of Trustees and Alumni. It does not have a bias response team, nor does it require diversity statements for hiring. It has an impressive 80 percent four-year graduation rate. Thomas Aquinas College also accepts the Classical Learning Test for admission.

Meanwhile, the guide says the following in giving Cornell University, Duke, Brown, Harvard, and Tufts a โ€œnot recommendedโ€ status:

These universities exhibit a pervasive hostility toward diverse viewpoints and lack robust core curricular requirements, undermining a well-rounded education. These institutions are often heavily influenced by ideologically driven administration agendas and DEI bureaucracies, frequently resulting in limitations on freedom of expression. Moreover, these universities typically demonstrate weak returns on investment, evidenced by lower graduation rates and diminished post-graduation income, making them less favorable choices for students seeking both intellectual rigor and long-term success.

story at link above as well as , but maybe indoctrination will die and education will recover

I take my college classes at Hillsdale College

America Is Becoming Less Woke

And thank the Lord for that. Nothing makes me happier than to get rid of this useless pile of crap that let certain groups of grifters exploit social mores and common sense laws to act the fool. Almost all of them did it for money or what I call get evenism. That of course is some perceived justice for their butt-hurt feelings of not getting their way, so they acted up. Almost all of what they based their activism on was or is wrong, factually, morally, or any other way.

It’s always about power and money

Let’s just get back to acting like human beings and not SJW or revenge-bots because of being ignorant.

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get woke and go broke now comes fully true. Everyone is tired of it and the lies

This Is How The Northerners Ruined North Carolina

Sorry, Harvard. Everyone Wants to Go to College in the South Now.

A growing number of high-school seniors in the North are making an unexpected choice for college: They are heading to Clemson, Georgia Tech, South Carolina, Alabama, and other universities in the South.

Students say they are searching for the fun and school spirit emanating from the South on their social-media feeds. Their parents cite lower tuition and less debt, and warmer weather. College counselors also say many teens are eager to trade the political polarization ripping apart campuses in New England and New York for the sense of community epitomized by the Southโ€™s football Saturdays. Promising job prospects after graduation can sweeten the pot.


The number of Northerners going to Southern public schools went up 84% over the past two decades, and jumped 30% from 2018 to 2022, a Wall Street Journal analysis of the latest available Education Department data found. 

The number of Northerners going to Southern public schools went up 84% over the past two decades, and jumped 30% from 2018 to 2022, a Wall Street Journal analysis of the latest available Education Department data found. 

At the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, total freshmen from the Northeast jumped to nearly 600 in a class of about 6,800, up from around 50 in 2002. At the University of Mississippi, in Oxford, they increased from 11 to more than 200 in a class of about 4,500 in 2022. At the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, 11% of students came from the Northeast in 2022, compared with less than 1% two decades prior. 

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When I moved to North Carolina, it was the South. All the northerners came in and the big cities like Charlotte, Chapel Hill, Raleigh, and the like became liberal magnets. When I first got there, people would let you into traffic. Now, it’s like driving in Manhattan, or Florida. I left Florida to get away from the rude Northerners who ruined that place also.

Worst of all, they vote for all the policies that ruined their liberal states. I can’t believe that NC is a toss-up in the current election. It used to be a reliable red state.

I’ve moved now back to the South by leaving NC, but I see the damage that is done. Don’t come here and ruin the rest of the good part of the country.

I will say that western NC is still mostly pure, except Asheville. That is more like California, also leftarded.

It does say that they figured out that the Ivy League is a waste of money and not a quality education. I’ll give them credit for that.

Surprise: Tech Companies Ditch Their Climate (scam) Goals For AI Power

Surprise: Tech Companies Ditch Their Climate (scam) Goals For AI Power

Seriously, most of these tech companies, like most companies, were really just setting goals and saying they were doing โ€œgreenโ€ stuff but werenโ€™t actually doing much of anything

Powering AI Leapfrogs Climate Concerns

Itโ€™s Climate Week in New York, and dominating the conversation has been the apparently insatiable appetite of artificial intelligence for power.

The subject has been much in the news. Just last week, we learned that the infamous Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania will be restarted to supply electricity to Microsoft Corp.โ€™s data centers.

Then Tuesday, Bloomberg News reported that ChatGPT creator OpenAI had pitched the Biden administration on its vision for massive data centers that may each consume enough power to run an entire city.

Alarmingly for climate hawks, itโ€™s become clear thereโ€™s not enough low-emission energy โ€” nuclear or otherwise โ€” to satisfy AI, and natural gas will be key.

The boss of EQT Corp., Americaโ€™s largest producer of the fossil fuel, said data centers will be the biggest new source of US gas demand in the years ahead.

Indeed, the countryโ€™s energy companies already plan a slew of new gas-fired power projects. That could complicate the energy transition and threaten President Joe Bidenโ€™s lofty goal of ridding emissions from the grid by 2035.

Full story at the link above, but the key is they weren’t doing anything anyway other than saying they were. This is about money and they would claim anything for EPS and profit.

Media Desperate To Keep The Lid On Hollywood/Politicians Having Sex With Kids And Diddygate

With the arrest last week of media mogul “SEAN COMBS, a/k/a ‘Puff Daddy,’ a/k/a ‘P. Diddy,’ a/k/a ‘PD,’ a/k/a ‘Love'” โ€“ it would appear that high profile Democratic movers and shakers are allowed a long leash before the law reels it in.

Combs stands accused of, among other crimes, “sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice.” The charges against Combs and his “enterprise” date back to 2009.

In the 15 years since, while his perverse behavior was an open secret, any number of Democratic candidates, Kamala Harris included, solicited his support.

On April 10, 2020, for instance, Harris tweeted, “Thank you,@Diddy, for hosting this town hall last night. There’s a lot at stake for our communities right now and it’s critical we bring to the forefront how coronavirus is perpetuating racial inequality and health disparities.”

Combs is also accused of sexually exploiting minors, performers Usher and Justin Bieber among them.

Having established that, yes, Democrats are capable of running secret sex rings, it might be time to reexamine the most hush-hush Democratic sex scandal of all,”Pizzgate.”

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Things that they are trying to hide:

The politicians and the celebtards are fucking kids.

P Diddy was fucking Justin Beiber

There are blackmail tapes we’ll never get to see of the Freak parties Diddy hosted

Somehow, his usefulness was over and they turned on him, or he made a threat against the machine he couldn’t cash and they pulled the rug out.

The rich and famous will be running like roaches when the light gets turned on in the kitchen at midnight.

Obama and Clinton are as guilty as the day is long, but will be protected and never prosecuted, except in hell.

Diversity Hire Mayor In NYC Indicted

The allegations against Mayor Adams โ€“ acting as an unregistered foreign agent โ€“ are particularly concerning given the current global political climate. If proven true, these charges could suggest vulnerabilities within the cityโ€™s leadership to foreign influence, raising questions about decision-making processes at City Hall. Moreover, this comes at a time when New York City faces numerous challenges, from economic recovery post-pandemic to rising crime rates and educational reform needs.

Furthermore, the indictmentโ€™s timing is critical. Coming months before a hotly contested mayoral primary, it throws Adamsโ€™ re-election campaign into uncertainty. Challengers might seize this opportunity to gain ground by positioning themselves as ethical alternatives capable of restoring integrity to City Hall. This situation thus presents both a crisis and an opportunity within New York Cityโ€™s political landscape.

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Another one gets exposed. No wonder NYC turned into a shit hole

Sarcasm Deluxe

If you don’t get it, that is a stronghold for Palestinian sympathizers, also known as liberals

Pin The Tail On The Asshole

As Usual, the content is too controversial for WordPress, so click on the link to see the 2 ass wipes trying to ruin our country

https://twitter.com/AlexanderSoros/status/1838662515124789692

US Navy Oiler Runs Aground, Forcing Carrier Strike Group to Scramble for Fuel – DEI Strikes Again

Remember when regular guys were bad and we had to have a majority of anybody except straight, white, Christian men? Well the cows came home.

Captain has received multiple reports that the US Navy oiler USNS Big Horn ran aground yesterday and partially flooded off the coast of Oman, leaving the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group without its primary fuel source.

First reported on the gCaptain forum and by maritime historian Sal Mercogliano, a leaked video and photos show damage to the shipโ€™s rudder post and water flooding into a mechanical space. US Navy vessels donโ€™t typically transmit AIS signals, so we donโ€™t know the exact location of the ship but a Navy source confirms she is anchored near Oman awaiting a full damage assessment.

Fortunately, no injuries or environmental damage have been reported for the ship. This is significant because the 33-year-old vessel is one of the single-hull versions of the Kaiser-class oilers.

Diversity ruins everything it touches. Get the best you can find instead of a rainbow of everyone so that no one can be offended.

War is hell and we need competent sailors, soldiers and airmen. FJB, Harris and Lloyd Austin

Transcripts HIDDEN BY THE BIDEN-HARRIS ADMINISTRATION reveal Trump DID, in fact, notify top Pentagon officials of his desire for the National Guard to be deployed on January 6th, 2021.

Pelosi and Mark Milly said no to the National Guard. They are the ones who should be prosecuted for the murder of Ashli Babbit. The press completely covered this in a biased manner detrimental to Trump.

I Can Answer That, No, They’re Not Worth The Investment

College Admissions Expert Wonders if Ivy League Schools Are Still Worth the Investment

College admissions expert sends shocking message about Ivy League prestige: โ€˜Is it worth the investment?โ€™

Whatโ€™s in a name like Harvard, Yale, Brown or Princeton? If you ask college admissions strategist Greg Kaplan, the answer might surprise you.

Itโ€™s an age-old question that resonates among a slew of ambitious soon-to-be college students and their aspirational parents caught in the fervor of the rankings race, pursuing the dream of โ€œgoing Ivyโ€ โ€“ or having some other elite universityโ€™s name stamped on their resume โ€“ with unrelenting zeal.

But Kaplan warns that such tunnel vision can obscure what truly matters in the search for success.

โ€œWe really have to ask ourselves, โ€˜what are our kids learning at these schools and is it worth the investment?โ€™ Because if theyโ€™re going to be exposed to this groupthink where thereโ€™s no room for civil discourse, that is unacceptable because theyโ€™re not equipped to go into the real world. And what you see is our young people who are getting fired from tech companies because theyโ€™re using their jobs as a chance to do political protest, and then theyโ€™re complaining about it,โ€ Kaplan said in a recent interview with Fox News Digital.

โ€œWe really have to ask ourselves, โ€˜what are we getting in return for this? And are they going to be able to do what they want to do?โ€™ Itโ€™s okay to spend less on college because guess what? That allows you to invest more in their futures, so I think when someone says, โ€˜Iโ€™m going to community college, Iโ€™m going to transfer,โ€™ thatโ€™s fantastic. Youโ€™re increasing the return on investment.โ€

The California-based expert works with families to help students gain admission to colleges of their choice โ€“ looking beyond recognizable names to help students get accepted to schools that are great matches for them.

What Could Be Better? Two Democrat Bitches Fighting Each Other At Election Time

When prominent Democrats squabble, the prudent thing to do is not to choose sides, but rather to cheer for disharmony.

After all, nothing could better serve the cause of freedom than to watch Americaโ€™s worst tyrants tear each other apart.

Monday on the social media platform X, CNNโ€™s Jake Tapper posted a statement from Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan blasting Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, a daughter of Palestinian immigrants, for what Whitmer characterized as โ€œantisemiticโ€ comments that Tlaib directed toward Dana Nessel, the stateโ€™s Jewish Democratic attorney general.

โ€œWe must all use our platform and voices to call out hateful rhetoric and racist tropes,โ€ Whitmerโ€™s statement read.

The statement came one day after Whitmer, in an appearance Sunday on CNNโ€™s โ€œState of the Union,โ€ told Tapper that she would not get involved in the Tlaib-Nessel controversy.

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Congress Takes Big Step Toward Dismantling Biden-Harris Adminโ€™s Electric Vehicle Mandate

It was a loser who tried to force a bad solution that didn’t work on people who didn’t want them. Good riddance.

The House passed a bill Friday that would overturn the Biden-Harris administrationโ€™s de facto electric vehicle mandate if it becomes law.

By a 215-191 vote, the House approved H.J. Res. 136, a bill that would vacate the Environmental Protection Agencyโ€™s tailpipe emissions standards for light-duty vehicles if it passes the Senate and is signed into law by President Joe Biden. Eight House Democrats crossed the aisle to side with Republicans in favoring the bill, while one GOP lawmakerโ€”Pennsylvania Rep. Brian Fitzpatrickโ€”voted against the legislation.

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Microsoft-Owned LinkedIn Using People’s Data To Train Artificial Intelligence Models – How I Got My Revenge

The story in a minute. First, I stopped working so I didn’t need LinkedIn for anything other than a track record of people I worked with. I wound up changing it though to suit me.

When they wanted pronouns, I used “pronouns are woke” instead of He/him. My college is Faber from Animal House fame, Knowledge is good. I’ve adjusted a lot of of things to poke fun at them can call them out for being woke. I won’t bore the readers, but I lost respect for them and show it.

Now this:

Professional networking platform LinkedIn has confirmed that it automatically uses personal user data to train artificial intelligence (AI) models without first informing its members.

The LinkedIn app displayed on a phone in London on Jan. 11, 2021. Edward Smith/Getty Images

The California-headquartered company said in a Sept. 18 blog post that it has updated the privacy policy element of its terms of service to include language clarifying how it uses the information shared with it โ€œto develop the products and services of LinkedIn and its affiliates, including by training AI models used for content generation (โ€˜generative AIโ€™) and through security and safety measures.โ€

The platform said that there is an opt-out setting for members when it comes to using their data for generative AI training.

LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft, which has invested heavily in OpenAI, the developer behind ChatGPT. According to the FAQ section of the platformโ€™s website, the AI models used to power generative AI features may be trained by LinkedIn or another provider, such as Microsoftโ€™s Azure OpenAI service.

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Sure, I know one profile isn’t going to change AI, but it’s the most I can do. I make the day of a lot of HR recruiters when my work background meets their search requirements and then they read the satire I’ve left there.

And In NY – NY COVID Czar Attended Drug-Fueled ‘Lockdown Sex Parties’ While Crafting Policy To ‘Force’ Vaccinations

What a prick. Screwing the public while screwing around, completely doing the opposite of what he was making the public do. They all knew Covid-19 was a hoax.

Dr. Jay K. Varma, New York Cityโ€™s former top public health advisor during the pandemic, was caught on camera bragging about attending drug-fueled sex parties and dance events, even as he instructed millions of New Yorkers to stay home and socially distance. The bombshell revelations have sparked outrage across the city, with politicians and residents alike accusing the former official of blatant hypocrisy.

The footage, released Thursday by conservative podcaster Steven Crowder, shows Varma, who served under then-Mayor Bill de Blasio, detailing his pandemic escapades, which included hosting a sex party in a hotel room and attending a massive underground dance party beneath a Wall Street bank.

I had to be kind of sneaky about it,” Varma admits in the video, speaking casually to a woman off-camera. “I was running the entire Covid response for the city.”

At the time, public health officials in New York, like those in cities and countries around the world, were frantically seeking to contain the virus and Covidโ€™s rising death toll by encouraging people to wear masks and avoid large gatherings. New York City schools were abruptly closed beginning in March 2020. Indoor dining in restaurants was forbidden. Masking indoors in public places was mandatory. –NYT

“I’m gonna make it really fu*king hard to be unvaccinated,” Varma told his undercover date. “I actually was the one who convinced the Mayor to make it a mandate[vaccine].”

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What a C@cksucker, truly a jerk off for this

How To Ruin The Air Force – Documents reveal Air Force ‘goal’ to reduce ‘white male population’ joining officer ranks – More DEI

As always, Democrats hate the military and law enforcement.

The Air Force finally handed over a trove of documents pertaining to its sweeping “goal” of reducing the number of white male applicants in a popular officer program after spending months stonewalling requests for their release.

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman C.Q. Brown โ€” at the time the highest-ranking member of the Air Force โ€” issued a memorandum in 2022 that the branch was updating its racial and gender demographic goals for applicants seeking to become officers, in a bid to prioritize “diversity and inclusion.” Internal documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation include a slideshow from 2022 where the Air Force outlines racial and gender quotas and details how it hopes to “achieve” a reduced number of white males in its Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) officer’s applicant program.

The documents reflect the Biden-Harris Pentagon’s intense focus on implementing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies in the armed forces, even as the military continues to combat dwindling morale among its rank-and-file, recruiting and retention shortfalls and low pay.

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Those assholes want our country destroyed, starting from within.

DEI and Woke ruin everything they touch.

Caterpillar Dumps Woke And DEI Programs – Another One Down

We need to end this crap for good, everywhere

158 Democrats Voted Against Deporting โ€˜Non-Citizensโ€™ Who Commit Violence Against Women

Who are the Female haters now?

One-hundred fifty-eight House Democrats voted Wednesday against a resolution put forward by South Carolina Republican Rep. Nancy Mace that would designate noncitizens convicted of sex offenses or domestic violence inadmissible to and deportable from the U.S.

Two-hundred fifteen Republicans voted in favor of the Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act, with no one in the party opposing it. Meanwhile, only 51 Democrats voted in favor of the resolution, with 158 voting against it. Mace, who introduced the resolution, told the Daily Caller that โ€œ158 Left-wing members of Congress just voted against deporting rapists, pedophiles and murderers of women and kids.โ€

Meanwhile, Democrats have been largely silent on their vote against the resolution. In May, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerry Nadler explained his opposition to Maceโ€™s resolution, saying the bill is โ€œdangerous.โ€

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sure, let the invaders attack and hurt the women, they don’t care, pricks

The ‘Muslim Martin Lutherโ€™ Has Been Convicted of Rape

Tariq Ramadan, a Muslim intellectual who has been one of the foremost exponents, at least to non-Muslims in Europe and North America, of Islamic reform, has been convicted of rape.

It is impossible to overstate how shocking this is for those who have praised Ramadan to the skies for so very long. For many years, Tariq Ramadan was the darling of the Western intelligentsia. In 2002, Salon hailed him as โ€œthe Muslim Martin Luther.โ€ In 2004, Time Magazine listed him as one of the 100 most influential people in the world today. In 2012, Foreign Policy included him on its list of the top 100 global thinkers โ€œfor telling us that Islam and democracy can go together โ€” just when it matters.โ€

โ€œVirtually anythingโ€ is actually an understatement. One of his accusers said he subjected her to โ€œblows to the face and body, forced sodomy, rape with an object and various humiliations, including being dragged by the hair to the bathtub and urinated on.โ€ His sadism appears to have been, if one allegation is true, closely intertwined with his celebrated Islamic piety: another one of his accusers said he told her he was raping her because she didnโ€™t wear a hijab. In a similar vein, as more and more women began to accuse him of rape, one of those accusers has already been beaten and threatened.

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I thought it would be a goat bringing the charges against him, but heh…they are savages, not Martin Luther. It figures Time and the leftards would praise him

The Biased Press In Europe

Having (my wife’s) relatives (I won’t claim them) living in Europe and working with the press there as part of my career, I learned a few things. First, the favorite sport there is not football (soccer), it’s bashing America and Americans. I always knew it was because everyone shoots for number one.

I wrote recently about the anti-Trump 24/7 press in Denmark. It turns out that Germany wants in on the action too.

โ€˜Trump Sowed the Seedsโ€™: German Media Blames Trump For Assassination Attempts

This is ridiculous, bordering on mentally deranged (TDS). I know Trump challenges their power base because there always is a bigger fish (Qui-Gon Jinn, The Phantom Menace).

Well, they showed their hand. (full story at the link above)

Hours after a gunman tried to assassinate Donald Trump in Florida, the European โ€” particularly German โ€” media outlets were back to their vicious self, blaming the former U.S. president for the second attempt on his life within just two months.

โ€œThe right-wing rhetoric threatens everyone,โ€ leading German newspaper Die Tageszeitung declared in its headline reporting the thwarted assassination attempt.

Leading German newspapers, never shying away from stoking anti-Trump sentiment in the country, portrayed the former U.S. president as the real culprit.

โ€œAfter the first assassination attempt on his life, former President Trump said the divisive rhetoric had to stop. Does anyone remember this? Exactly.โ€ the newspaper wrote feigning irony.

The newspaper apparently showed empathy for the supposed โ€˜worriesโ€™ of the failed assassin if Trump were to win the election in November.

โ€œPerhaps [the would-be assassin] was really worried that under a second Trump presidency the U.S. would simply abandon Ukraine,โ€ Die Tageszeitung speculated. โ€œBut at least the concern about Ukraineโ€™s future after Trumpโ€™s re-election is real and shared by Ukraine itself and its allies in Europe,โ€ the newspaper empathized.

They are delusional. The only time there hasn’t been a war in the last 4 presidents (or more) was under him. Trump has made a point of stopping the Russia-Ukraine conflict as a priority.

They want war. It creates under the table money and for the press, headlines. Remember, if it bleeds, it reads.

Germany of all countries has little to be able to criticize others about. They’ve blown their energy policy, immigration, manufacturing, EV priority, and electing leaders.

To claim that his rhetoric caused the assassination attempts is as crazy as the 1930’s for them.

Also, stay out of our country’s business and politics until you can get yours to the point where it’s not completely wrong, just wrong.

The Reasons Young Women Embrace the Left Do Not Reflect Well on These Women

1 “Seeing someone like yourself” — meaning women seeing a woman running for president and then seeing her defeated, or voting for a vagina.

2. Mr. Trump called (Hillary Clinton) a “nasty woman.”

That this is one of the three major reasons for the 2016 left-wing shift of young American women is truly pathetic. It is further proof of the title of a column I wrote two years ago, “Feminism Has Weakened Women.”

There’s a wild inconsistency here as well: The whole point of feminism, according to feminists, is to have society treat men and women as equals, and equally. Yet feminists simultaneously insist that men treat women with a dose of chivalry or they’re “sexist.”

Well, she is a Cnut.

3. Trump “bragging about sexual assault on the ‘Access Hollywood’ tape.”

The third reason given for young women embracing leftism in 2016 was a recording made in 2005 that came out in 2016. In a private conversation with Billy Bush of “Access Hollywood.

I’ve got news for you. Women let powerful (and rich and famous) men get away with a lot more than they do Johnny on the street. Women sleep with who they want, and men sleep with who they can except the rich and famous.

The girls let him grab them by the puta. Their image of hanging out with the rich and famous lets them lower their guard for certain men. They are to blame, not a rich and famous man talking about it, in private

And it is a testament to the lack of wisdom among a majority of America’s young women that these three foolish reasons propelled them to vote for the ideology that is destroying our country.It is a testament to the lack of wisdom of our age that we think we can know people — let alone judge them — by what they say in private.

And it is a testament to the lack of wisdom among a majority of America’s young women that these three foolish reasons propelled them to vote for the ideology that is destroying our country.

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This demographic makes our country weak. They need to use their minds rather than emotions, or at least use both.

Grow up and stop being butt hurt losers. Voting with your va jay jay is the worst reason you could choose, especially for one so unqualified to lead a country.

Former FBI agent tells CNN that Democrat rhetoric is to blame for second Trump assassination attempt

A former FBI counterterrorism agent, Tim Clemente, told CNN yesterday that Democratic rhetoric is to blame for a second assassination attempt on President Trump and that it needs to stop.

Clemente told CNNโ€™s Erin Burnett:

โ€œYou know Erin, itโ€™s unprecedented in a civilised society. And I think weโ€™re becoming more and more uncivilised, sadly, with the political diatribes that are going on and the political indictments of either candidate. When, sadly, the finger-pointing at Trump has lead to โ€” you know, the line about the bloodbath, talking about the auto industry, being used as if heโ€™s going to create a bloody coup if he loses. That kind of the verbiage is something you use in a third-world country when youโ€˜re talking about a dictator. That sadly has led to, I think, these attempts on Trumpโ€™s life and I donโ€™t think itโ€™s going to end.โ€

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It’s the media and the libs again calling him Hitler and saying how bad he is non-stop. Then, they call the other side fascists and other names describing exactly what they are doing.

TDS is a powerful thing, even though they are wrong and emotional rather than stopping to examine the facts.

They haven’t talked this bad about a presidential candidate since Lincoln

Rep. Thomas Massie Says Recorded Phone Calls Prove CDC Lied About Covid โ€œVaccineโ€ Efficacy

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lied to Americans about the efficacy of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) โ€œvaccinesโ€ unleashed through Operation Warp Speed, and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) has proof.

Rep. Massie caught the CDC lying in its official publication (MMWR) about COVID jab efficacy all the way back in December 2020. He further confirmed the lies by calling the CDC and recording the answers he received to questions about the shots.

When the CDC refused to tell the general public the truth, Rep. Massie took it upon himself to share the recordings with investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson who exposed them publicly.

โ€œSo they created or worsened what could be considered a crisis by their misinformation โ€ฆ And my big question is, the misinformation was signed off on by something like twelve members of this CDC expert committee. Did none of them read the original studies as I had and as Congressman Massie had? Do they just sign papers somebody else writes and not understand the data and the claims in it are wrong? I think this is a huge scandal and nobodyโ€™s been held to account for that.โ€

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Of course they lied. There was too much money to be made on the jab and they took it. The real cure all along was Hydroxycholorquine and Ivermectin, but the patent money ran out of them.

It’s murder if you boil it down. They could have saved lives.

FAFO – ABC News hits panic button after sworn statement alleging rigged debate

ABC News is apparently pressing the panic button in the wake of fierce criticism of its Sept. 10 presidential debate between former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.

A sworn statement by an ABC News whistleblower exposing network bias favoring Harris continues to be in focus regarding “assurances” to the Democrat’s campaign days before the event.

Now David Muir, anchor of ABC’s “World News Tonight” and co-moderator of the debate, is defending his performance during the matchup, as ratings for his evening news broadcast have plunged some 12% in the aftermath.

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Yes, they cheated for Kamala, but NBADJT. We knew they were going to cheat and this time got caught before the election.

Turn off the news, your life is better without their lying

The Bud Light Of Science Journals

Mocking Ensues After Scientific American Endorses Kamala Harris

Back in 2020, the once highly respected Scientific American decided to break with 175 years of editorial tradition and endorse Biden for president, saying:

That is why we urge you to vote for Joe Biden, who is offering fact-based plans to protect our health, our economy and the environment. These and other proposals he has put forth can set the country back on course for a safer, more prosperous and more equitable future.

Subsequently, the magazine has completely lost its grip on sanity, reason, and logic. Since Biden took office, letโ€™s review some of the low-lights from the magazineโ€™s stack of articles.

So, as the 2024 presidential election season enters into the final stretch, it is not surprising that Scientific Americanโ€™s editorial team throws circumspection and neutrality out the window and endorses Vice President Kamala Harris.

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Why Most Trump Haters Hate Trump

It’s because most are sheep and were told to think that way. Before he announced he was running for president, people loved The Apprentice. Thousands of construction workers loved him because he gave them jobs, blacks, Mexicans, Whites, everyone.

Democratic politicians loved him because he was a reliable source of money for both parties.

He then challenged the status quo and the power base of the media. They hate not telling everyone what to think

The minions who listen to the media are the same people who acted like sheep when it came to Covid-19 getting jabbed, wearing a mask, and social distancing.

They are being told to hate him and don’t even know why. Most of what is being said are lies and they readily accept them. Let’s not get to Europe which doesn’t understand the concept of an Alpha Male and made them pay the share to NATO they agreed to. They wanted the US to be the world cop on someone else’s dime.

No, most don’t know when asked why they hate him. It’s because they were told to and obeyed. The same type of thing happened in Germany in the 1930’s. People lined up like sheep then and did what they were told to do.

Think for yourself. The country was better off when he was president and so was the world. There were no wars and the bad guys were shut down from being terrorists.

So screw the media. They are liars and have been since Cronkite. They have an agenda and that is to tell us what to think. Turn it off. You’ll take their power away

The Makeup Of The Second Trump Shooter, He

Once again, WordPress won’t let me imbed this X post because it makes liberals look bad, but

HERE’S THE LINK

Here’s part of what is in the link above. Suffice it to say he isn’t just (not only) some left wing loon, this guy has been a bad actor for a long time.

He’s a felon who isn’t allowed to purchase a gun, much less one with the serial number rubbed out.

BTW, did anyone notice that not one conservative made an attempt at Obama or Biden? It’s the leftist liberals who are unhinged enough to do this. Ban criminals from guns, not guns.

Here is another link to his background of crime and hate

Cut The Crap With Telling Us To Tone It Down – 2 1/2 Minutes Straight of Leftist Politicians and Media Calling for Violence and Unrest

Weโ€™ve seen two assassination attempts against Donald Trump, one on Sunday and the other on July 13 which came within millimeters of ending the former presidentโ€™s life.

Weโ€™ve seen the disgusting reaction from much of the nationโ€™s corrupt media and from multiple Democrat politicians implying or outright saying the GOP nominee deserved it because of his inflammatory rhetoric. Weโ€™ve seen hateful leftists like Rachel Vindman laugh about it, showing exactly zero humanity and ignoring the fact that, even if she has political differences with the man, in the end, Donald Trump is a human being with a family and has not committed any monstrous murders or other acts that would even remotely rationalize such burning hatred.

Here is the link to the hate speech X post. WordPress won’t let me imbed it so you know it’s bad


HOT TAKES: Left and Liberal Media Shame Themselves Over Second Trump Assassination Attempt

Moore to the Point – ‘He Had It Coming’

Adam Kinzinger, Vindmans, MSNBC Deliver Insane Responses to Second Trump Assassination Attempt


But who in the end is really spewing out the venomous rhetoric, the calls to violence? Sure, Trump is known to be a pugnacious orator and is more than willing to speak his mind, but in the case of the two episodes they get most worked up about โ€“ January 6 and Charlottesvilleโ€”they continually lie about what he actually said. He did not call white supremacists โ€œvery fine people,โ€ and he did not call for an insurrection at the Capitol.

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ABC News affidavit released – They Gave Kamala The Questions

Donna Brazille admitted that she gave Hillary the questions before her Trump debate. The media is just the propaganda arm of the democratic party.

Here you go:

Claims of a purposeful scheme to skew the Sept. 10 ABC News presidential debate in favor of Vice President Kamala Harris over former President Donald Trump are now intensified with the Sunday release of a sworn statement by a network whistleblower specifying the allegations.

The affidavit under penalty of perjury released by @DocNetyoutube indicates ABC coordinated with the Harris campaign to give her sample questions, along with assurances Trump would be fact-checked while Kamala would not, and favorable accommodations for the Democrat’s appearance on screen.

“Furthermore, the Harris campaign imposed serious restrictions on the scope of questioning, including:

  • No questions regarding the perceived health of President Joe Biden.
  • No inquires regarding her tenure as attorney general in San Francisco.
  • No questions concerning her brother-in-law, Tony West, who faces allegations of embezzling billions of dollars in taxpayer funds and who may be involved in her administration if elected.

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They are cheating at every move.

Kamala Lies ABC Didn’t Fact Check

But they jumped all over Trump for saying Haitians are eating ducks and cats in Springfield Ohio and other truths.

It turns out it was Trump who was right and cats might be the decider for the election

Media bias on display.

Fear Of War With Putin And My Wife’s Relatives In Denmark

My wife was just there and the news was anti-Trump 24/7. They are afraid of Putin attacking she was told, and to have 3 days of supplies on hand. Their media is worse than the ABC moderators of the Trump/Harris debate. They are liberals who hate freedom and what America is. They constantly try to say that their government works better and that the US is a warmonger. Well, that’s not all that wrong when you consider that only Trump didn’t have a war during his administration.

I don’t even go there anymore because of the anti-American/Trump bias. They love idiots like Elizabeth Warren (the bomb they called her) Obama and Biden. They believe everything they are told, most of which is to hate Trump.

The irony is not lost on me because Putin attacked Ukraine in 2022 because they were going to let Ukraine into NATO right next door. He was forced into it by the Biden administration her relatives so love.

Remember, they don’t love Biden really, it’s that the European media hates Trump so much that they’ve brainwashed entire countries. They did love Obama though because he hates America as much as they do.

Now this:

That’s right, they are poking the (actual) bear.

So Russia said:

Here is the translation to this link to an X post that wouldn’t embed, because the truth

Ukraine itself does not have such an opportunity. Only NATO servicemen can program such a weapon.

The neo-Nazi regime has been attacking our territory for a long time, outside the zone of hostilities, carrying out terrorist attacks against civilians and the civil infrastructure of our country. However, such a potential development of the situation will fundamentally change our relationship with the Western camp. If the decision to lift the restrictions is indeed adopted or will be adopted, it will mean that from this moment on, the NATO countries will start a direct war with Russia.

In this case, we will, of course, be forced to make the appropriate decisions with all the consequences resulting from them for the Western aggressors. Our Western colleagues will not be able to avoid responsibility and transfer all the blame to Kiev. As you know, the use of such weapons is possible only when you have access to intelligence data from the US and EU satellites.

The net of it is they are provoking a war before the election and blaming it on Trump. They don’t even get that if they didn’t put the missiles there or not let them into NATO, it could be resolved.

This is from a country that is nearly 100% vaccinated for COVID-19 and other mistakes in life, like socialism.

I cut them off from social media because I can’t take their hate for both Trump and America anymore and their total belief in the lies of their media.

Nevertheless, they love shopping in America as it’s so much cheaper. They wear Levi’s or Carhartt, depending on the fashion at the time. The smokers smoke Marlboro’s and they love Taylor Swift. That and being vaccinated says a lot to me.

Boeing Union Goes on Strike, Halting 737 Production

First, it was unions, then DEI, and now unions again. No wonder they can’t keep their planes in the air or bring back astronauts from the ISS.

Boeing Management has let the company go to shit. Get rid of the unions and the diversity and build a plane that I trust getting on. Competition is a good thing, it makes better products at cheaper prices, unlike Unions.

SEATTLEโ€”Boeingโ€™s BA 0.89%increase; green up pointing triangle biggest labor union went on strike, halting production of its best-selling jets and dealing the latest blow to the struggling aerospace giant.ย 

Thousands of machinists who build Boeingโ€™s 737, 777 and 767 jets walked off the job shortly after midnight Pacific time Friday, after rejecting a labor deal struck between the unionโ€™s leaders and Boeingโ€™s executives. The contract offered 25% wage increases over four years. 

Union leaders of the 33,000-member International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers chapter said about 94% of their members voted to reject the contract and 96% voted to go on strike. The officials said they would seek to return to the negotiating table with the company.

The strike will deal a financial blow when Boeing is bleeding cash and piling up debt following Januaryโ€™s Alaska Airlines accident in which a door plug blew off a 737 MAX jetliner in midair. A prolonged stoppage threatens to further strain the industryโ€™s supply chain and exacerbate jet shortages for airline.

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Once Again, Ivy League Schools Rated Worst by Free Speech Group

Four elite Ivy League institutions ranked at the bottom of 251 U.S. colleges and universities for their free speech climate as rated by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, with Harvard finishing last for the second straight year.

FIRE published its College Free Speech Rankings on Friday, with Harvard tying a record it set last year with a 0.00 score and an “abysmal” rating. But it was not alone. Columbia University also was given a 0.00 score and “abysmal” rating; and New York University, which finished 249th, was given an “abysmal” rating but had a 3.33 score. The University of Pennsylvania finished 248th, with a “very poor” rating and 12.53 score.

“With scores ranging from zero to 100, NYU plummeted nearly 30 points this year, and Columbia fared even worse, becoming the second school after Harvard to ever receive a zero,” Sean Stevens, FIRE’s chief research analyst, wrote in a news release.

“And Columbia, like Harvard, actually received a negative score that we ’rounded up’ to zero. The only reason Columbia was spared from receiving the title of this year’s Worst College for Free Speech is that Harvard’s actual score was even worse, a full 21 points lower.”

Related link: Why would anyone who wants a good college education ever go to Harvard?

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I didn’t think they could get worse, but they never fail to disappoint

And, Predictably, It’s Racism Again

American gymnast Jordan Chiles said her โ€œskin colorโ€ was part of the reason she lost her Olympic medal, which was intertwined in controversy. She sobbed in her first interview since she lost the bronze medal.

The Olympian gave her first sit-down interview since the Paris Olympics during a panel at the Forbes Power Women Summit 2024 on Wednesday.

The controversy comes after Ana Barbosu from Romaniaโ€™s team had initially finished with a higher score than Chiles. However, after judges reviewed Chilesโ€™ footage, they changed her score which bumped the American to third place.

When asked about the topic during her interview, the gymnast began sobbing and said her โ€œskin colorโ€ was part of the reason she lost.

โ€œTo me, everything that has gone on is not about the medal, itโ€™s about, you know, my skin color,โ€ Chiles said. 

Funny, skin color didn’t affect the scoring for Simone Biles

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She finished 5th and her score was bumped to 3rd. It’s the easy go to though, every time

Even CNN Thinks ABC News Is Biased On The Presidential Debate

That’s pretty bad coming from CNN, who spent 4 years hammering Trump when he was President.

ABC Should Be Prosecuted For Illegal Contributions To Harris In โ€˜Debateโ€™

The so-called debate was a total disservice to serious American voters who wanted to get an honest look at both candidates.

Former President Donald Trump showed up for a traditional political debate Tuesday night, but he instead found himself in the middle of a 90-minute ambush to boost Kamala Harris.

Working as a team, ABC hosts David Muir and Linsey Davis propped up Harris and repeatedly tried to vanquish Trump by talking over him, cutting him off, and asking bizarre questions they did not ask Harris. At one point, Davis jumped in for Harris and offered a rebuttal to one of Trumpโ€™s comments on abortion, a move beyond the scope of a moderator.

They allowed Harris more time to respond and followed her when she veered off topic, but gave Trump no such breaks. It was not a debate, but a campaign contribution. Thatโ€™s not a big surprise from either moderator, as Muir hosts the most Trump-negative network news evening broadcast and Davis has a long track record of promoting Democrat talking points including stolen election claims from Hillary Clinton.

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It was 3 against 1 as the 2 moderators were cheerleaders for Harris and prosecutors against Trump. Give us a fair debate.

The media keeps proving how corrupt it is, and biased

Google Strategist Exposes Search Engine Manipulation For Kamala Harris Campaign

of course they did. Google is the most biased company Satan has ever created.

Another Woke Company Comes To Their Senses: Stanley Black & Decker Removes โ€˜Diversity Quotasโ€™ And โ€˜Equity Training Workshopsโ€™ From Website Following Boycott Calls

The power toolmaker Stanley Black & Decker has now joined a number of U.S. companies who have chosen to halt certain DEI and LGBTQ workshops, policies, and campaigns after facing ongoing boycott calls from consumers.

The company, which is behind brands like DeWalt, Black and Decker, and Stanley, has in recent days removed pages about its โ€œequity trainingโ€ workshops and multimillion dollar giveaways to โ€œracial equityโ€ groups.

However, the companyโ€™s website still currently has a tab that is titled โ€œOur Inclusive Culture,โ€ which goes on to state: โ€œWeโ€™re building a company culture where inclusiveness is a reflex, not an initiative. Where there is a deep sense of pride, passion and belonging that transcends any role, business unit, language or country. Where all employees feel valued, heard and positioned to do their best work every day.

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If they try any of that DEI crap, the economy will put the Bud Light Treatment on their ass

Euro-Greenies Fail Again: Italy Demands the EU Scrap its 2035 Internal Combustion Phaseout

Who wants to hear an electric Ferrari?

โ€œโ€ฆ the ideological vision has failed. We need to acknowledge that โ€ฆโ€

Italy Seeks Reversal of EUโ€™s 2035 Combustion Engine Ban

By Alberto BrambillaSeptember 07, 2024 at 11:45AM EDT

Bloomberg) โ€” Italian officials said the European Unionโ€™s plan to ban sales of new internal combustion engines from 2035 should be reviewed.  

โ€œThe ban must be changed,โ€ Energy Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin said on the sidelines of the Ambrosetti Forum in Cernobbio, on the shores of Italyโ€™s Lake Como, on Saturday. 

Pichetto Fratin called the decision by the EU โ€œabsurd,โ€ and dictated by an โ€œideological visionโ€ along with a state-controlled approach to policy-making within the bloc. The plan needs changing in order to reflect different market realities amid the European auto industryโ€™s slowdown, he added. 

Industry Minister Adolfo Urso also backed a change, urging the incoming European Commission to anticipate the review of the plan to early 2025, from 2026. โ€œIn an uncertain landscape which is affecting German automotive industry, clarity is needed to not let the European industry collapse,โ€ Urso said in Cernobbio.

These greentards are delusional. Carbon and petroleum are not the danger they claim, nor is electricity the panacea they propose

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What are you doing this evening?

What are you doing this evening?

Reading a book. Not watching the debate.

I already know who Iโ€™m voting for so I donโ€™t need it to decide. Plus, the amount of media bias on display is too much for me to watch.

Just Begging For The Bud Light Treatment – Williams-Sonoma sued over its racist DEI hiring policies

Williams-Sonoma sued over its racist DEI hiring policies

On September 3, 2024 the non-profit first amendment legal firm America First Legal (AFL) filed a complaint to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against the Williams-Sonoma corporation for its extensive DEI racial hiring policies that specifically favor some skin colors over others.

Williams-Sonoma, a kitchenware and home furnishings retailer with brands including Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids, Pottery Barn Teen, West Elm, Williams Sonoma Home, Rejuvenation, Mark and Graham, and GreenRow, proudly represents to the public and its shareholders and investors that race, sex, and national origin are motivating factors in its hiring, employment, and contracting practices.

As outlined in Williams-Sonomaโ€™s 2024 Annual Report, their Equity Action Plan and Equity Action Committee led to โ€œapproximately 68.1% of our total workforce identified as female and approximately 41.1% identified as an ethnic minority group.โ€ The company boasts higher management, comprising โ€œ56.6% of Vice Presidents and above identified as female.โ€

Williams-Sonomaโ€™s Equity Action Committee also appears to reward executives for making race, color, sex, or national origin a motivating factor in hiring and other employee practices. The Equity Action Plan tracked and set goals for the diversity of the company, board members, and board nominees. It then designed the โ€œAssociate Equity Network Groupsโ€ that benefit some workers and disfavor others, specifically white, male, and religious Americans.

In other words, this company demands race and sex be considered as a qualification for a job, regardless of the personโ€™s skills, experience, or talent, and it also demands that whites and men be put on the back of the bus, considered last in all hiring decisions, merely because they are either white or male.

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FAFO – Penzeyโ€™s Spice Company Called All Republicans Racist, Then Lost 40,000 Customers in Two Weeks

Republicans โ€˜raced out to buy a crapload of guns because maybe they were finally going to get their chance to shoot a Black person,โ€™ Penzeyโ€™s Spices CEO wrote in a customer email.

Just two weeks after a Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based spice company held a โ€œRepublicans are Racistโ€ sale over Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, it is dealing with a massive loss of business and openly begging for new customers.

Penzeyโ€™s Spices CEO Bill Penzey, who routinely uses his companyโ€™s email list to send anti-Republican screeds, sent a newsletter earlier this month in which he accused GOP voters of fantasizing about killing African Americans.

โ€œRemember how Republicans, going against a mountain of evidence to the contrary, once again lied and said BLM [Black Lives Matter] wasnโ€™t a peaceful movement but instead terrorists inciting violence throughout the country and then raced out to buy a crapload of guns because maybe they were finally going to get their chance to shoot a Black person?โ€ he wrote. โ€œWhat a bunch of racists.โ€

In a follow-up email Friday, Penzey acknowledged this allegation had cost his business a substantial number of newsletter subscribers.

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How Kamala Is Running The Same Content Free Campaign Biden Did

The New Republic, a publication I can vaguely recall from my youth (when people last cared about it), is saying the quiet part out loud: โ€œKamala Harris Doesnโ€™t Need Policy to Win.โ€

This might be a true statement, but coming from the media, Kamalaโ€™s policy, or lack thereof, ought to be examined as a matter of public interest. Which is to say that the question they should be asking is not whether Kamala can win an election without talking about policy but whether she should.

Kamala Harris still doesnโ€™t have a single policy position listed on her website. Even Mark Penn, a former top adviser to Hillary Clinton, is appalled:

One interview. One debate. Some rah rah stump speech you read over and over. And voila you have a 50 per cent chance of being president.

Good gig if you can get it. No 3 debates. No 2 years of primaries, coalition building, no detailed policy development, and no daily press briefings. Or tests of leadership.

Itโ€™s only the most important job in the world with a $6 trillion budget and thousands of nuclear weapons.

The right thing would be 3 debates, real detailed policy briefings, and full availability to answer questions so the electorate could vote on an informed basis. Thatโ€™s what real democracy demands.

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With Few Debates And One Interview, Harris Is The Political Machine Candidate Running A Celebrity Campaign

Itโ€™s been 45 days since Vice President Kamala Harris became the Democratsโ€™ effective nominee to maintain the White House, and she hasnโ€™t held a single press conference or given a single interview to a reporter willing to challenger her on the issues.

But answering serious questions about her policy reversals isnโ€™t the point of a celebrity-style campaign. Harris is competing in a popularity contest as the machine candidate installed to claim the White House, and that requires shielding her from the press.

[LISTEN: Kamala Harris: The Machine Candidate]

With barely two months to go before Election Day, Harris has evaded substantive questions about a sudden whiplash of platform reversals on everything from fracking to immigration. With her first and likely only presidential debate scheduled next week in Philadelphia, Harris even tried to get out of that after she refused requests to expand the calendar for the three traditional forums held by the major party candidates.

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If you had to give up one word that you use regularly, what would it be?

If you had to give up one word that you use regularly, what would it be?

When this question first came up, the obvious thought of particular swear words or a pejorative towards feminists crossed my mind.

When reading the biography of Ben Franklin, he inspired me in a different direction. It would be to not use a word that could be judged as egotistical or one that tried to convince someone of your position. Rather, he supposed was if you could inform or educate someone to come to a more enlightened position rather than beat them over the head (which I do here) with your beliefs, you are a better man.

Who Would Have Ever Guessed This?

Harvard, Columbia, and Penn Top List of Worst Schools for Free Speech, According to Survey

The College Fix reports:

Harvard, Columbia, Penn top list of worst universities for free speech: student survey

The top five worst universities for free speech also all happen to be mostly Ivy League institutions, according to a major new student survey released today by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.

Harvard, Columbia, New York University, the University of Pennsylvania and Barnard College made up the bottom five schools, respectively.

Conversely, the top rated school was the University of Virginia. Last yearโ€™s highest, Michigan Technological University, came in second best for free speech. In third place was Florida State University, and fourth and fifth were Eastern Kentucky University and Georgia Tech.

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression released its annual College Free Speech Rankings for 2024 on Thursday. The free speech climate of 257 of Americaโ€™s universities was assessed by 58,807 students who responded to a College Pulse online survey from Jan. 25 through June 17.

story at the link above, but these schools are poisoning the youth. I guess you can look at the diversity hires they’ve had as presidents and seen the pattern

Facts We’ve Known, And Have Just Waited For Proof: Top DOJ Official EXPOSES Alvin Bragg, Admits Trump Cases Are Bogus

An undercover journalist with Crowderโ€™s Mug Club can be overheard leading Biase on as she said Braggโ€™s felony convictions โ€œdid nothing to stopโ€ President Trump from leading in the polls while President Joe Biden remained in the race. โ€œNo, in fact they made him more relevant,โ€ Biase admits near the start of the clip. Asked if Braggโ€™s case backfired, he nods. โ€œIt sure did.โ€

Going on, he added, โ€œThe whole thing is disgusting, and theyโ€™re out to get himโ€ฆ and thatโ€™s why, like, heโ€™s surging in the polls. You know, itโ€™s a perversion of justice.โ€

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Of course it was politically motivated. They couldn’t beat him at the ballot box, so they tried all the legal machinations to prevent him from running. These are the people that should be sent to jail, not patriots.

The Media Duplicity Towards The Candidates (With Memes)

Contrast: Dana Bashโ€™s Combative Interview With J.D. Vance Versus Softball Exchanges With Kamala

As expected, the โ€œinterviewโ€ Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, did with CNNโ€˜s Dana Bash on Thursday came off more like a conversation between a spokesperson and their boss, where they are both trying to make sure they are on the same page regarding what to say, how to react, etc.

Indeed, right out of the gate we were treated to a question where multiple choice answers were given by Bash to Harris in a clip on the vice presidentโ€™s flip flops that dropped several hours before the full pre-taped 18-minute interview aired.

Compare that to this:

BASH: Generally speaking, how should voters look at some of the changes that youโ€™ve made โ€” that you explained some of here โ€” in your policy? Is it because you have more experience now and youโ€™ve learned more about the information? Is it because youโ€™re running for president in a Democratic primary? And should they feel comfortable and confident that what youโ€™re saying now is gonna be your policy moving forward?

Now, the sarcasm in Meme’s

Why Are The Women Silent On Rape And Murder?

It’s because they are silenced by political correctness. You can’t criticize Muslims or any anti-Israeli faction.

Don’t come trashing the United States and conservative politicians about how females are treated and ignore the damage being done in the rest of the world.

Come November, the only candidate really sticking up for all people is the man. It’s just that no feminists, and especially liberals want to acknowledge that (I guess I’m redundant there). They’d rather vote with their private parts instead, and bitch about men. It fits the narrative that way but doesn’t help anyone, especially those most in need.

These Are The 10 Worst Countries In The World For Women

High maternal mortality rates, low education rates, and elevated rates of intimate partner violence were some key contributors to the low overall scores. Proximity to conflict also hindered the groupโ€™s rankings.

The average index score for the group, at 0.38, is around half the global average of 0.65. 

Overall, the status of women deteriorated in 13 countries globally from 2017 to 2023. Somalia (#169), Haiti (#167), and Eswatini (#170) underwent the largest declines.

New York Being Run By CCP

A former top aide to New York’s Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul has been arrested Tuesday on federal criminal charges in a political bombshell. She is accused of acting as an undisclosed agent of China and the Chinese Communist Party. She’s been identified as Linda Sun, who had previously served as Hochul’s deputy chief for a year, following stints in other positions at the state government level.

The significant list of allegations includes that she worked to advance CCP interests in sate government, and in return received huge sums of money and oversaw the facilitation of millions of dollars in transactions connected to Chinese government business interests.

Perhaps most alarming is that she’s alleged to have on multiple occasions blocked the ability of representatives of the Taiwanese government from meetings with NY government officials. Her husband, Chris Hu, has also been arrested, and implicated in the conspiracy.

A list of the key charges against her include:

  • violating and conspiring to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act
  • visa fraud
  • alien smuggling
  • money laundering conspiracy

Her husband Chris has been charged with the following violations:

  • money laundering conspiracy
  • conspiracy to commit bank fraud
  • misuse of means of identification

The governor’s office has immediately tried to distance Hochul from Sun, even though it looks like her deputy chief of staff was highly influential:

Hochulโ€™s press secretary Avi Small, in a statement to WNBC News 4 in New York City, said, “This individual was hired by the Executive Chamber more than a decade ago.”

“We terminated her employment in March 2023 after discovering evidence of misconduct, immediately reported her actions to law enforcement and have assisted law enforcement throughout this process,” Small said.

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New York has gone down the toilet, in other words, a shithole.

Molson Coors Latest Company to Drop DEI

Molson Coors Tuesday became the latest major U.S. company to walk away from diversity, equity and inclusion policies, the New York Post reports.

One outspoken man, anti-woke activist Robby Starbuck, is the reason why the brewer of Fosterโ€™s and Miller High Life has joined Ford, Loweโ€™s, Harley-Davidson, John Deere and Tractor Supply to drop controversial DEI tactics.

That puts Starbuck’s track record at six for six.

โ€œCompanies are starting to realize the whole DEI thing has been a house of cards,โ€ Starbuck says. โ€œSomebody just had to press the cards. The majority of CEOs in America are very happy to have an excuse to get rid of this stuff.โ€

Corporate America embraced DEI after a police officer killed African American George Floyd in 2020 during an arrest.

Conservatives say they are in favor of giving minorities better employment and educational opportunities, but that they are against setting unrealistically aggressive targets for hiring or board memberships when they are antithetical to running a profitable, successful business โ€” or become a form of racism unto themselves.

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woke is finally going broke for good. the world figured out that it ruins everything it touches and has no merit or place in this world

Covid-19, The Preventable Pandemic

When The Heritage Foundation released its comprehensive report on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, headlines tended to focus on the cost to the U.S. Thatโ€™s not surprising: At an eye-popping $18 trillion, itโ€™s almost 10 times the projected 2024 budget deficit.

Arguably, however, the commissionโ€™s most infuriating conclusion was this: The global pandemic was โ€œtotally preventable,โ€ in the words of Commissioner Dr. Robert Redfield, an experienced virologist who headed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during the outbreak.

Had the Chinese government been more transparent and cooperative at the outset of the pandemic, millions of lives and trillions of dollars could have been spared. The pandemicโ€™s โ€œproximal origin,โ€ the commission found, was the Chinese governmentโ€™s โ€œaggressive opposition to honesty, transparency, and accountabilityโ€ along with its โ€œsystemic cover up.โ€

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The Cover-Up

The commissionโ€”a blue-ribbon team of experts led by former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe and supported by data scientists, economists, and lawyersโ€”concluded that the SARS-CoV-2 virus began circulating months before Beijing warned the world, likely in August-September 2019. The Chinese government then not only withheld key details, it engaged in an elaborate and deadly cover-up.

Dr. Jamie Metzlโ€”one of the commissionโ€™s Democrats who served at the National Security Council, U.S. Senate, and State Departmentโ€”condemned Beijing for having โ€œdestroyed samples, hidden records, imprisoned Chinese citizen journalists, gagged Chinese scientists, blocked any meaningful international investigations, and cynically sandbagged the World Health Organization.โ€

Ratcliffe described Chinaโ€™s behavior during this period as โ€œfrankly inexcusable.โ€

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DEI Update: 22 more academic scandals

It never stops. What happened to giving kids an actual education instead of indoctrination? It would help them a lot more in life and cost a lot less. Cut the crap.

#1: MIT stops DEI statements

A couple of months ago, MIT became the first elite university to eliminate DEI statements in faculty hiring:

  • MIT becomes first elite university to ban diversity statements (UnHerd)
  • MIT stops using DEI statements in faculty hiring (FIRE)
  • Yet Another Victory Over DEI: MIT Abolishes โ€˜Diversity Statementsโ€™ (Goldwater Institute)
  • MIT abolishes mandatory DEI statements in faculty hiring (Campus Reform)
  • MIT bans mandatory DEI statements in faculty hiring (College Fix)

The Liberty Sentinel

MIT Drops Forced DEI Statements: โ€œThey Donโ€™t Workโ€

The dominoes are falling faster on Marxist โ€œDiversity, Equity, and Inclusionโ€ programs in higher education, with Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently becoming the first โ€œeliteโ€ U.S. university to eliminate DEI considerations in its hiring. Analysts are referring to the decision as a turning point in the battle against โ€œwokenessโ€ in academiaโ€ฆ

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#2: MIT stops affirmative action

โ€ฆand then just yesterday, MIT became the first major university to reveal the ethnic composition of its incoming undergraduate class since SCOTUS ruled against affirmative action last year. Unsurprisingly, asians showed a large (7%) gain, while blacks (-10%) and hispanics (-5) saw large drops. Whites were not impacted. See the black line plummet:

  • MIT’s Black student enrollment drops significantly after Supreme Court affirmative action ruling (NBC News)
  • MIT: Newest students less diverse due to Supreme Court affirmative action decision (The Hill)
  • At M.I.T., Black and Latino Enrollment Drops Sharply After Affirmative Action Ban (New York Times)
  • Top US college says diversity slumps after affirmative action ban (BBC)

Steve Sailer

MIT cuts black freshmen share from 15% to 5%

Yesterday, MIT became the first elite undergraduate college to announce the racial/ethnic composition of its first post-Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard freshman class. College admission aficionados like myself had been waiting around to find out, if when push came to shove, whether top colleges actually were going to obey the Supreme Court. Or wโ€ฆ

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IQ purists argue this 15% โ€”> 5% black decrease doesnโ€™t go far enough, lol, maintaining that โ€˜โ€˜less than 1% of those admitted would be black if admissions were based purely on academic qualifications.โ€™โ€™

The other 20 are at this link

Ford Becomes The Latest Company To Stop DEI and Woke

Ford Motor Co. has joined the ranks of companies that have pulled back on diversity, equity and inclusion policies while facing pressure from conservative groups.

CEO Jim Farley sent a memo to all employees early Wednesday outlining the changes, including a decision to stop taking part in external culture surveys and an annual survey by the Human Rights Campaign that measures workplace inclusion for LGBTQ+ employees.

โ€œWe will continue to put our effort and resources into taking care of our customers, our team, and our communities versus publicly commenting on the many polarizing issues of the day,โ€ the memo said. โ€œThere will of course be times when we will speak out on core issues if we believe our voice can make a positive difference.โ€

Farley wrote that Ford is mindful that employees and customers have a wide range of beliefs โ€œand the external and legal environment related to political and social issues continues to evolve.โ€ The company, he wrote, has been looking at its policies during the past year.

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I don’t know why these companies thought it was a good idea to go woke and against their customer base, but dollars matter, and dumping this nonsense is the best business decision.

Maybe their quality will come back now that meritocracy is back in charge.

DEI and Woke have destroyed everything they touched. It’s about time to get rid of this kowtowing to race hustlers

SLAVE REGISTERS FROM LONDON Name The Slaves Kamala Harrisโ€™ Ancestor Owned

Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris is descended from Irish slave owner Hamilton Brown, the namesake of Brownโ€™s Town in Jamaica, who recruited massive numbers of Irish migrants to Jamaica to work on his sugar plantations after the British empire abolished slavery.

Kamala Harrisโ€™ father Donald Harris wrote an essay entitled โ€œReflections of a Jamaican Fatherโ€ for Jamaica Global Online, in which he made a startling admission (emphasis added):

โ€œMy roots go back, within my lifetime, to my paternal grandmother Miss Chrishy (nรฉe Christiana Brown, descendant of Hamilton Brown who is on record as plantation and slave owner and founder of Brownโ€™s Town) and to my maternal grandmother Miss Iris (nรฉe Iris Finegan, farmer and educator, from Aenon Town and Inverness, ancestry unknown to me). The Harris name comes from my paternal grandfather Joseph Alexander Harris, land-owner and agricultural โ€˜produceโ€™ exporter (mostly pimento or all-spice), who died in 1939 one year after I was born and is buried in the church yard of the magnificent Anglican Church which Hamilton Brown built in Brownโ€™s Town (and where, as a child, I learned the catechism, was baptized and confirmed, and served as an acolyte).โ€

Harrisโ€™ fatherโ€™s passage ends

Hamilton Brown was not only a slave owner, but also an engineer of mass Irish migration to Jamaica after the British empire abolished slavery in 1834.

Jamaican Family Search recorded: โ€œHamilton Brown owned several plantations over the years 1817 to about 1845. According to the 1818 Almanac which can be found on this site, (Jamaican Family Search) , he was the owner of Minard (128 slaves) which he must have acquired from its previous owner (John Bailie) in 1815 or later. The number of slaves on this estate approximates the number of slaves in one of the registers attributed to his ownership (124 slaves). The other register (86 slaves) cannot be assigned to any estate, although he is listed in Almanacs for subsequent years as owning several, (Antrim, Grier Park, Colliston, Little River, Retirement and Unity Valley).โ€

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Ranked: Which U.S. Industries Spend the Most on Lobbying?

I knew the answer to this before I even opened the article, but here goes.

In the United States, companies, unions, trade associations, and other organizations invest billions of dollars each year to lobby Congress and federal agencies.

In 2023, over 12,000 different lobbyists in the U.S. spent a a record $4.3 billion on lobbying activities, according to Open Secrets, a non-profit research group tracking money in U.S. politics. This was up from $4.1 billion in 2022โ€”and the highest annual total so far.

Organizations either hire lobbying firms or employ in-house lobbyists to meet with government officials, seeking to influence government decision-making.

This chart shows the total expenditures on lobbying activities by the top 10 industries that invested the most in lobbying the U.S. Congress and federal agencies in 2023, using data from Open Secrets.

Which Industries Spent the Most On Lobbying?

The Pharmaceuticals and Health Products industry was the biggest industry spender in the U.S. in 2023, investing a total of $382.6 million towards lobbying.

Click here for the complete list of industries that don’t have your best interest in mind

It’s why they didn’t let us use Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine to make Covid-19 a non-event, and killed a bunch of people with the jab.

The New York Times turns on Kamala! As the liberal newspaper runs a string of brutal op-eds slamming Harris as ‘weak’, ‘a phony’ and ‘ignorant’, is her ‘Brat summer’ finally over?

There are few cheerleaders more reliable than Kamala Harris‘s friends in the liberal media.

Ever since President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 election race last month, their print presses and TV networks have put in a hard shift trying to paper over Harris’s past record as the most unpopular Vice President in American history.

To read and listen to their florid praise is to believe that Harris is already a shoo-in for president โ€“ and not an 11th hour replacement as Democratic nominee.

That was until her lackluster Thursday night speech at last week’s Democratic National Convention โ€“ which appears to have halted the torrent of feel-good fangirling.

The reliably liberal New York Times was among the first to suddenly change tack on Friday, taking aim at what many perceive to be Harris’s fatal lack of clear policy with a brutal headline that read: ‘Joy Is Not a Strategy’.

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There must be something up we don’t know about. The media and especially the NYT are in bed with any liberal.

Here’s How The GOP Has Been Infiltrated By Traitors

All of this time they said they stood up for numerous platform points that they never stood behind. It’s because they were Rino’s and now liberal supporters instead of patriots trying to save the country.

At least these traitors have come out and exposed both themselves and why they lost all of those years.

After Robert Kennedy and Tulsi Gabbard joined the Trump-Vance unity campaign, Kamalaโ€™s PR people dug up 200 fake Republicans.

More than 200 career politicians who worked under RINOs George Bush, Mitt Romney, and John McCain endorsed the communist team of Harris-Walz. Soros-tied publication Mother Jones announced the news. You can read the names of the deep staters here.

This is what is wrong with the Republican Party โ€“ infiltrators like these people with no core. they are subversives Glad to see them go, but they will return.

There is no way these people are Republicans.

The joy-filled Republicans are still pretending Donald Trump incited an insurrection, an insurrection that never happened.

They also pushed the lie that Donald Trump is following the dangerous Project 2025. There is nothing wrong with Project 2025, and Trump has completely disavowed itโ€”he even mocked it.

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I knew McCain and Romney were losers and Rino’s, but it was surprising to see the Bush crowd supporting liberals. That shows they were part of the deep state uni-party and never were really on the side of patriotic Americans. Plus, the Bush’s turned out to be One World Order fucktards.

WASHINGTON โ€” More than 200 Republicans who previously worked for either former President George W. Bush, the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., or Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president in an open letter Monday obtained exclusively by USA TODAY.

The letter from alums of the three Republican presidential nominees prior to former President Donald Trump comes on the heels of a Democratic National Convention last week in Chicago that showcased Republican detractors of the GOP nominee. At least five former aides to former President George H.W. Bush also signed the letter, which has 238 signatures in all.

A similar group of about 150 anti-Trump former staffers of Bush, McCain and Romney pledged support for President Joe Biden in the 2020 election.

“We reunite today, joined by new George H.W. Bush alumni, to reinforce our 2020 statements and, for the first time, jointly declare that weโ€™re voting for Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz this November,” the letter reads. “Of course, we have plenty of honest, ideological disagreements with Vice President Harris and Gov. Walz. Thatโ€™s to be expected. The alternative, however, is simply untenable.”

The fall of DEI accelerates

Fight! Fight! Fight! In the past two months it has become very clear that if Americans are willing to stand up to the left and its Marxist bigoted agenda, Americans will win.

Since late June, five different university systems have shut down their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion offices. Each is listed below, in chronological order:

And this list does not include the University of Florida, which in March shut down its own DEI office because the state legislature not only banned such offices, it cut the budgets of them.

Though it is true these states are all solidly conservative with legislatures largely controlled by Republicans, this fact on its face proves that voting can make a difference, with Florida the biggest proof. Unlike the other states, Florida had for decades been a swing state between the Democrats and Republicans. Voters however changed that in the past decade, so that today the state legisilature is solidly Republican. The result has been a definitive policy shift acting to eliminate these racist Marxist programs from state-financed universities.

There is no reason similar changes cannot be forced in other battleground states. Nor should we consider it impossible in the coastal states (California, Oregon, Washington, New York, Massachusetts, etc) where Democrats maintain full control. DEI concepts are inherently racist and divisive, and serve only to encourage anger, resentment, and hate across all ethnic groups. Ordinary voters recognize this routinely, when they make the effort to look.

Nor are things changing solely in the unversities because of the willingness of voters to force change. The boycott of Bud Light because of its endorsement of the queer agenda last year is having profound impact on corporate culture. In just the last few months a number of major companies have announced the elimination of their own DEI departments and programs, also listed below in chronological order:

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Not much has been this blatant, discriminatory, and biased, nor caused as much corporate loss of money and customer goodwill.

It proves that unity, not diversity is our real strength.

The energy ideology on which the U.S. has ‘wasted’ $1.5 TRILLION

I post this as I listen to Ford losing $5.5 billion on EV’s as they transition to hybrid because no one wants them. They’d rather have a ground shaking V-8 with a straight exhaust in their truck or a real Mustang, but no. Ford Loses $44,000 On Every EV Sells As It Switches To Hybrids

Now this:

We are often told that wind and solar, if not cheaper, are at least cost competitive with fossil fuels. Dead wrong! Wind or solar costs around five times more per megawatt hour compared to, for example, natural gas.

We are told that wind and solar will save us from a climate catastrophe. If there is a looming climate catastrophe, the only thing that will save us is nuclear power. Wind and solar are incredibly expensive methods of reducing CO2 emissions. The more wind and solar you build, the cost of removing CO2 increases disproportionately.

The U.S. has wasted $1.5 trillion on wind and solar and for that money only a little more than 10% of our electricity comes from wind and solar.

Fossil fuels are not dirty. Modern natural gas or coal plants are environmentally pristine. CO2 is not a pollutant, but an aerial plant food that is greening the Earth. CO2 makes plants grow faster with less water.

Wind or solar electricity is not worth what it costs to create it. It is worth what someone is willing to pay for it. That is a generally accepted economic principle.

If the government requires a utility to purchase some amount of electricity at some price, that is not a free market.  That is central planning. Central planning has a role, but it rarely works as well as the voluntary exchange of goods and services. Central planning creates unexpected twists and turns and often results in low productivity.

More on the lies they’ve been telling us about Green energy and the Green New Deal nonsense

The Trouble With People Today, This Close To The Election

I was having a conversation with my buddy George who claims he was perceptive. He was giving me the litany of reasons girls don’t like Trump, while standing firmly behind voting for him.

I did get a lecture as to how good JD Vance was because he was young and didn’t put out mean tweets.

I asked him if he’d investigated Tampon Tim Walz. He’d never heard of him. I’m wondering myself how can you be perceptive if you don’t know 1/4th of the Presidential election lineup.

This caused me to wonder about what Donald Rumsfeld said.

I was watching that press conference and it struck me how true this really was. Most people don’t know much outside of their little world and never see the big picture.

That took me to this well-known joke:

A guy was seated next to a 10-year-old girl on an airplane. Being bored, he turned to the girl and said, “Let’s talk. I’ve heard that flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger.”

The girl, who was reading a book, closed it slowly and said to the guy, “What would you like to talk about?”

Oh, I don’t know,” said the guy. “How about nuclear power?”

“OK,” she said. “That could be an interesting topic. But let me ask you a question first. A horse, a cow and a deer all eat the same stuffโ€ฆ grass. Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty, and a horse produces clumps of dried grass. Why do you suppose that is?”

The guy thought about it and said, “Hmmm, I have no idea.”

To which the girl replied, “Do you really feel qualified to discuss nuclear power when you don’t know shit?”


Most people don’t know shit, yet they talk a lot of shit.

I caught a lot of shit from my cousin about Trump’s mean tweets and being an Alpha male, you know the kind that girls let them do stuff to that they wouldn’t a less rich or powerful type. Instead, she went out of her way to promote the disaster that was our current president and how our nation was wrecked by incompetence. She failed to understand the concept of hypergamy. She also ignored that girls sleep with who they want, (most) guys sleep with who they can, except alpha males.

I don’t have a moral to the story other than look at yourself. You probably don’t know as much as you think. You know what you’ve heard and your opinions are usually reflections of other people you’ve heard. That means we all need to get better educated as to the candidates.

Critical thinking is a lost art. They don’t teach it in schools anymore (other than private schools). We sure could use more of that in this election cycle to bring some common sense to how and who we should have run our nation. History for example is a great teacher. We have a lot of it telling us what is the right thing instead of the politically correct thing.

I think our lives would be a lot less difficult if we all thought through things a bit more than what social media and the MSM tells us to think. It’s why I dumped Fakebook and Twitter years ago.

So after lampooning those who claim to be perceptive, I’m not going to do it. I am a person who sees patterns. What I see is a bunch of sheep being told what to think instead of thinking for themselves

YMMV

10 Of The Political Lies We Are Being Told Right Now (What, Only 10?)

As Steely Dan might say, the things that pass for knowledge today, I canโ€™t understand.  Itโ€™s all lies, falsehoods, and misdirection on tap, served fresh 24/7/365.

Lie #1: Joe Biden was a great president, a dedicated public servant who put country first and stepped aside so that Kamala Harrisโ€™s brilliance could save our democracy.

Well, thatโ€™s five lies all tied up in one bundle!  Joe Biden is easily the worst president in my lifetime, possibly ever.  He and his family got rich, not by serving anyone, but by grifting on his various political offices.  Slow Joe also didnโ€™t step aside; he was kicked to the curb by his Democrat comrades after it became clear he was going to lose in November. And so now we have Kamala Harris, who was chosen as V.P. simply because she possesses ovaries and dark pigmentation.  And for the one millionth time, America is a republic โ€” if we can keep it โ€” not a democracy.

Lie #2: Man-made climate change will make the Earth unlivable for humans in (pick one) 5, 10, 39, or 5,000 years.

Ha, ha!  If you think our Creator would allow us, His/Her/Zeyโ€™s most ambitious, creative, and intelligent organism, to destroy our beautiful terrarium, then youโ€™re either a fool or an atheist, possibly both.  Our most brilliant minds canโ€™t predict tomorrowโ€™s weather with precision, our weather records extend a mere blip into the nearly five billion years of the planetโ€™s estimated existence, and the only reason the scamโ€™s called โ€œclimate changeโ€ is because leftists gave up on โ€œglobal warmingโ€ when the Earth inconsiderately stopped warming.

Lie #3: Democrats love black people.

Where to start with this one?  The president who ended slavery in America was a Republican.  It was the Democrat party who championed Jim Crow laws.  Itโ€™s Democrats whoโ€™ve historically come up with all kinds of handouts and special programs for blacks, not because they love them, but because they think African-Americans simply canโ€™t cut it on a level playing field.  Folks, thatโ€™s racism of the highest order.

And Democrats just love killing unborn babies, a statistically telling percentage of whom are black.

Lie #4: Diversity is our strength.

Nope, sorry, uniformity is our strength.  A team thatโ€™s chosen based on merit alone, and who plays according to one set of values and with a single goal in mind, always wins.  But donโ€™t take my word for it; ask any recent champions of the almost three-quarters African-American NBA.  If diversity is strength, then the NBA is arguably one of the weakest b-ball leagues on the planet.

Go here for the other six, but I bet you can guess them

The (Dixie) Chicks Ruin The National Anthem At The DNC

They’ve been America haters for a long time anyway. I’ve never liked their stuff and change the channel when they come on. That’s rare since the good stations don’t play their shitty music much anyway. I can see why the DNC would want them though.

The Dixie Chicks were roasted on social media over their mangled performance of the Star Spangled Banner at the Democratic National Convention, Thursday.

Natalie Maines and sisters Martie Maguire and Emily Strayer took the stage inside the United Center in Chicago and delivered a choppy a cappella version of the national anthem most fans agreed they could have done without. They began their performance in harmony as they sang similar keys, but just a few seconds later, everything fell apart. They hit different notes for the rest of the anthem, and the internet immediately erupted with criticism.

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Suppressing The Truth: The Western World Has Succumbed to Tyranny

We can add Richard Medhurst to Tulsi Gabbard, Scott Ritter, Amb. Craig Murray, Julian Assange, and many others are harassed, arrested, and imprisoned by police state authorities in the US, UK, EU, and Canada for practicing the disappearing profession of journalism. When Richard Medhurst can be arrested in a London airport for โ€œexpressing an opinion or belief that is supportive of a proscribed organization,โ€ we know freedom is dead and journalism no longer exists. All that Western journalists are permitted to do today is to support the official lies in the official narratives that are used to construct the false reality in which we live.

We no longer have the BBC, the New York Times, the London Times, ABC, NBC, CBS to hold government accountable. What we have are propaganda ministries that support official narratives. The job of the Western media is to lie to the people in behalf of the establishment that rules them.

As the growing intimidation of alternative media makes clear, the ability to express truth is rapidly disappearing in the Western world. Soon we will be locked into The Matrix, only there will be no superhuman opposition.

It has been years since we could believe one word that we hear from the New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, CNN, Fox News, ABC, CBS, NBC, the London Times, Telegraph, The Guardian, or the main European media sources.

The notion that the West is free is a joke. When there is no free expression there is only tyranny. And that is what the Western world is. A tyranny.

The reason the Western governments have no difficulty supporting the Nazi governments in Ukraine and Israel is that they are Nazis themselves.

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IBM Sued Again For Being Racist Against White Men

IBM sued for being racist against white men

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Aug 21โ€ข 10 tweets โ€ข 3 min read โ€ข

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We just sued IBM for allegedly firing a high-performing white, male employee to fulfill illegal race & sex-based employment quotas.

This is the third legal action against IBM for race discrimination โ€” the second from AFL, plus one from @AGAndrewBailey.

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/2 Our client began working for IBM in October 2016 as a Senior Managing Consultant supporting existing clients on long-term projects. He was a model employee and consistently received high scores on IBMโ€™s primary employee performance metric, the โ€œNet Promotor Score,โ€ which is calculated directly from client feedback and overall satisfaction.

/3 While at IBM, our client received strong performance reviews and was publicly recognized on multiple occasions in his divisionโ€™s monthly all-hands meetings for his outstanding performance, with management quoting his feedback from clients and applauding his work.

By all accounts, our client was a high-performing employee at IBM.

/4 In July 2023, without notice or warning, IBM placed our client on a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP), citing reasons completely outside of his job description, work history, and control. Even worse, the PIP was generalized, vague, and lacked any concrete measures or metrics for success.

/5 Despite this, our client made a good-faith effort to follow the terms of the PIP and keep his job at IBM. He requested resources from IBM to help him secure a prospective client, which went largely unanswered.

In October 2023, IBM terminated his employment.

/6 At the time that our client was fired, IBMโ€™s corporate policies incentivized executives to make decisions about employees based on their race and sex. These incentives, which included executive bonuses, were directly tied to IBMโ€™s race and sex quotas for employees, which are illegal under federal law.

/7 Per IBMโ€™s 2023 ESG Report, they report:

/8 By instituting bonus incentives for hiring and promoting quotas tied to race and sex, IBM established discriminatory employment policies and motivated supervisors to reduce the number of employees outside of โ€œpreferredโ€ racial and sex-based categories.

/9 These discriminatory policies were discussed by IBMโ€™s Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna as far back as 2021, in undercover videos released on ๐• by @JamesOKeefeIII

@JamesOKeefeIII /10 This lawsuit is our second lawsuit against IBM for discriminatory and unlawful employment practices.

We sued IBMโ€™s subsidiary, Red Hat, for violating Civil Rights laws by allegedly engaging in discriminatory employment and termination practices against white males.


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Diversity when I worked there meant anybody other than straight white Christian men. The more checks you got for not being one of that combo, the more you could get away with things that would get others in trouble.

This of course is Woke. We know what happens to that

DNC – Democrats are anti-family, anti-child, pro-death, pro-stagnation, pro-civilizational suicide

Did you hear about the free abortions and sterilizations on offer at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week? Incredibly, the news is real. Abortion-inducing drugs (mifepristone and Plan B) will be doled out from the back of a Planned Parenthood RV, along with vasectomies, just a few blocks from a convention that will embrace a radical abortion-until-birth policy that would have been unthinkable, even for Democrats, just a decade ago.

Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance was savaged by the corporate press for repeatedly describing Democrats as โ€œanti-familyโ€ in media appearances last week. Now, as if to prove Vanceโ€™s point, here they are with an abortion van at their convention and supporters marching through the streets dressed as abortion pills. As my colleague Jordan Boyd noted, Planned Parenthoodโ€™s euphemistically labeled โ€œmobile health centerโ€ might not be an officially DNC-sanctioned part of the convention, but it fits right in with the partyโ€™s macabre platform that would federalize abortion law and allow it through all nine months of pregnancy.

25 killed so far in the mobile death camp

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Don’t Worry, No One Wants To Procreate With These Women

Women dressed up as abortion pills while defiantly insisting that they would not be โ€œforcedโ€ to procreate during a Sunday street parade protest of the Democratic National Convention (DNC).

โ€œF*** the courts, f*** the state, you canโ€™t make us procreate,โ€ women chanted during the parade, led by a young woman on a megaphone, while a few of the protesters wore balloon-like garments emblazoned with โ€œMIFEโ€ and โ€œMISOโ€ to represent abortion pills.

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it’s why they are feminists, ugly and fat

Woke Star Wars Gets Cancelled

People thought that the Disney version of Star Wars couldnโ€™t possibly get any more woke, but somehow they managed to do it.

Now the series has been canceled after just one season. Who could have predicted that no one would watch the show?

Deadline reports:

โ€˜The Acolyteโ€™ Canceled: No Season 2 For Disney+โ€™s โ€˜Star Warsโ€™ Series

The story of The Acolyte will not continue, with Lucasfilm opting not to proceed with a second season of the Star Wars offshoot starring Amandla Stenberg, sources tell Deadline.

Word of the decision comes more than a month after the eight-episode first season of the series from creator, director, executive producer and showrunner Leslye Headland wrapped its run on Disney+.

The news is not entirely surprising. The Acolyte did OK with critics, with 78% on Rotten Tomatoes, but divided Star Wars fans, which was reflected in its overall viewership.

Driven by interest into the venerable franchise, The Acolyte got off to a strong start when it launched June 4 with two episodes, generating 4.8M views in its first day on the streamer to rank as the biggest series premiere on Disney+ this year. The tally rose to 11.1 million views globally after five days of streaming. Corroborating Disneyโ€™s data, the series made its debut on Nielsenโ€™s Top 10 originals chart in its premiere week at No. 7 (488 million minutes viewed), climbing to No. 6 the following week.

But The Acolyte could not sustain the momentum, dropping out of the Top 10 in Week 3 and staying off before returning at No. 10 after the release of the finale (335M minutes, believed to be the lowest for a Star Wars series finale).

grtwt

get woke, go broke, every damn time.

What is interesting is how Disney never learns

People Vote With Their Money: Harley-Davidson Announces Changes After Backlash Over LGBTQ+ Sponsorships, โ€œWokeโ€ DEI Policies

Are there even any DEI departments left anymore?

It seems like every week another company is announcing the closure of their Diversity, Equity and Inclusion departments, or scaling back their corporate activities and donations focused on social causes and deciding to spend more time onโ€ฆyou know, things that actually have to do with their business.

In recent months, companies like Tractor Supply and John Deere have both announced changes in their corporate policies after coming under fire for their sponsorships of things like pride parades and festivals and their participation in DEI efforts companywide.

The changes have largely come as a result of pressure campaigns by conservative activist Robby Starbuck โ€“ and his latest target was the iconic motorcycle brand Harley-Davidson.

On his Twitter, Starbuck has criticized Jochen Zeitz, the German CEO of Harley who took the job in 2020 after formerly serving as CEO of footwear brand Puma, for his role in starting an organization called โ€œThe B Teamโ€ with billionaire Richard Branson. Among its goals, The B-Team seeks to phase out fossil fuels (which is weird for a motorcycle company) and โ€œtransform food systemsโ€ by reducing emissions. The group also lists as their priorities promoting โ€œglobal cooperation and inclusive representation.โ€

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The bikers were never going to go for this. I’m surprised it lasted this long. Who’s next?

Meet Don Harris, Kamala Harris’ Communist Father

Don Harris was referred to glowingly by fellow Marxist Economics Professor John Gurley as โ€œone of the leading young people in Marxist economics.โ€

The below article about Marxist economics professor Don Harris, Kamala Harrisโ€™ father, was posted at the Stanford University newspaper on May 13, 1975, when his daughter was just 10 years old.

The Stanford Daily article laughably claims that economic students at Stanford in 1975 were clamoring to learn more about Marxist economics, so the university accommodated them by offering Kamalaโ€™s father a position. Don Harris was referred to glowingly by fellow Marxist Economics Professor John Gurley as โ€œone of the leading young people in Marxist economics.โ€

The 45-year-old Stanford Daily article, titled โ€œMarxist Offered Economics Post,โ€ was posted first on Trevor Loudonโ€™s website Keywiki.org, where more information is posted about the father of the Democrat Partyโ€™s Vice Presidential Candidate. See Loudonโ€™s articles at the Epoch Times about Kamala Harrisโ€™ own socialist ties, as well as a prophetic article from August 2019 about the forces surrounding Kamala Harris and why she was chosen to be the Democratic nominee for President.

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