Who do you suppose a cheesy, juvenile moonbat like Geraldo Rivera would prefer, Ted Cruz or Donald Trump? Geraldo confirmed the answer with a characteristically unhinged harangue, during which he bizarrely denounced Cruz as an anti-Semite for not approving of the degenerate values of local politicians like Andrew Cuomo and Bill do Blasio, and even implied that Cruz has something against Catholics. Even Trump-friendly Bill O’Reilly and Eric Bolling were aghast at the idiocy:

If Geraldo knew more about politics, he would realize he is taking the wrong line of attack. Trump’s most fervent support is from alt-right quasi-Nazis. If any are clueless enough to take Rivera seriously, they might switch their vote to Cruz.

On a tip from Torcer.

Stefan Molyneux applies some psychology to Europe’s suicidal importation of unassimilably massive numbers of Muslims:

Maybe Europe isn’t committing suicide. Maybe it is being murdered by the mongers of political correctness.

On a tip from Stormfax.

Via Janie Johnson.

Steven Crowder is hitting his stride. Here he gives us a glimpse of a future in which progressive populist doppelgängers Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump face off in the general election:

If you want bigger government and higher taxes (Trump’s beloved tariffs are a crippling tax that will hit everyone), you can’t go wrong with either Bernie or the Donald.

On tips from Troy and TED.

An entitled young punk comes to regret burning the flag that represents values far better Americans than himself died to uphold:

Via Patriot Nation, on a tip from C. Steven Tucker.

You have to hand it to Sesame Street. After all these decades, the coercively financed child indoctrination program still manages to outdo itself regarding political correctness. It has now introduced a feminist Muslim Muppet:

Zari, a curious and lively girl whose name means “shimmering” in the Dari and Pashto languages, makes her debut on Thursday on the “Baghch-e-Simsim” Afghan local co-production of the long-running U.S. educational TV show for pre-schoolers.

For a small girl, Zari has a big mission.

She’s there to promote female empowerment in a nation where women and children were almost completely excluded from educational opportunities some 15 years ago, according to a 2014 United States Agency for International Development (USAID) report.

Zari “will be veiled where appropriate” according Sesame Workshop officials.

I’m all for Afghan women having educational opportunities. But I’m also for letting kids be kids, without endless indoctrination. It used to be instilling values was left to the parents, while kids watched stuff like Bugs Bunny that was fun and relatively authentic, compared to feminist Muslims.

Look for Zari to embrace lesbianism when she is introduced to American audiences.

On tips from Stormfax, Rob E, and J.

Another milepost rushes past as we slide ever faster down the slippery slope to hell:

A mother reunited with the son she gave up for adoption 30 years ago says now they’re in love – and trying for a baby together.

Kim West, 51, has been in a relationship with her biological son Ben Ford, 32, for two years and believe they are ‘meant to be’ after she was forced to give him up for adoption just a week after he was born.

But the couple, who say their sex life is ‘incredible’ and are planning to get married, insist their relationship is not incest, the New Day reports.

No doubt the word “incest” is now exclusionary, bigoted, etc. It would be more politically correct to use the term “genetic sexual attraction (GSA).”

Adding another level to the degeneracy,

Two years before Ben had married his wife Victoria, who he later split up with to be in a relationship with his mum.

On the bright side, at least the dumped wife is no longer married to a pervert.

But I’m forgetting — depravity isn’t wrong once it has been redefined:

Kim told the New Day sex with Ben was “incredible and mind-blowing”.

She said: “This is not incest, it is GSA.”

Don’t be surprised if a Christian baker is compelled by the government to bake a cake for their wedding.

On tips from RKae, Steve A, and Steve T.

It is probably paranoid to suspect that Donald Trump, who was still a strikingly left-wing Democrat just a few years ago, is a plant whose mission is to throw to Hillary an election that Republicans otherwise would have won. But if that is the plan, it is working beautifully. Trump’s unfavorable rate among the general public is now approaching 70%:

Seven in 10 people, including close to half of Republican voters, have an unfavorable view of Trump, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll. It’s an opinion shared by majorities of men and women; young and old; conservatives, moderates and liberals; and whites, Hispanics and blacks — a devastatingly broad indictment of the [supposedly] billionaire businessman.

Even in the South, a region where Trump has won GOP primaries decisively, close to 70 percent view him unfavorably. And among whites without a college education, one of Trump’s most loyal voting blocs, 55 percent have a negative opinion.

Those who have imagined that Trump has any chance whatsoever of winning the general election are now disabused of their unwholesome fantasy:

More than 60 percent of all registered voters and 31 percent of Republicans said they definitely would not vote for Trump in the general election.

Trump’s unfavorable rate has been exceedingly high from the very beginning. Incredibly, he has managed to jack it up even higher. It has risen over 10 percentage points since mid-February.

If he were to secure the nomination, the media would take the gloves off and use every tool at its disposal to push his negatives higher still. Anybody who has spent decades looking at his cheesy face on the cover of NYC tabloids knows there will be no problem finding damaging material. But journalists won’t need to do any research. They can just ask him any rudimentary policy question, then stand back and try not to laugh as he beclowns himself.

By November, Trump’s unfavorability rate will exceed 80%. If the summer is anything like March, it might top 90%, as even glassy-eyed Branch Trumpidians sheepishly admit they have been seduced by a conman.

Trump stands to lose all 50 states, having put even Republican gimmes like Utah and Mississippi in play for Democrats. The devastation will extend down-ballot.

If Trump still has any admitted supporters after the election, they will of course bark that the senseless destruction they have wreaked is all the fault of the “Establishment.”

Maybe there is a silver lining; at least the careers of some of the shameless hacks who have irresponsibly promoted Trump may end in ignominy. The Fox News lineup and talk radio offerings will be much improved.

On tips from Torcer.

People snigger when you remind them that universities were once considered free marketplaces of ideas. Now that the Left has achieved hegemony in academia, they are the polar opposite of free. The persecution of thought criminal John McAdams at Marquette University is illustrative:

In November 2014 an undergraduate approached philosophy instructor and PhD candidate Cheryl Abbate, after a class on John Rawls’ theory of equal liberty. The student said he objected to her suggestions during the class that same-sex marriage isn’t open for debate and that “everyone agrees on this.”

In past times, someone pursuing a PhD in philosophy would probably respect the concept of open debate, rather than tyrannically shutting it down with the “everyone agrees so shut up” club so familiar from its overuse to prop up the global warming hoax. But not these days.

Unknown to Ms. Abbate, the student recorded the exchange on his cell phone. During the conversation, she told him “there are some opinions that are not appropriate, that are harmful, such as racist opinions, sexist opinions” and if someone in the class was homosexual, “don’t you think that that would be offensive to them if you were to raise your hand and challenge this?”

What if someone in the class is Christian? Marquette was founded as a Catholic University, after all.

Enter the thought criminal, one of the last countermoonbats who has not been drummed out of academia:

When the student replied that he has a right to argue his opinion, Ms. Abbate responded that “you can have whatever opinions you want but I can tell you right now, in this class homophobic comments, racist comments and sexist comments will not be tolerated. If you don’t like that you are more than free to drop this class.” The student reported the exchange to Marquette professor John McAdams, who teaches political science. Mr. McAdams also writes a blog called the Marquette Warrior, which often criticizes the Milwaukee school for failing to act in accordance with its Catholic mission.

Mr. McAdams wrote on his blog that Ms. Abbate was “using a tactic typical among liberals now. Opinions with which they disagree are not merely wrong, and are not to be argued against on their merits, but are deemed ‘offensive’ and need to be shut up.”

The blog post received sufficient circulation as to create some blowback for Ms. Abbate in the form of nasty emails. She is no longer at Marquette.

But now Marquette is going after Mr. McAdams. In December 2014, the school sent him a letter suspending his teaching duties and banning him from campus while it reviewed his “conduct” related to the blog post. “You are to remain off campus during this time, and should you need to come to campus, you are to contact me in writing beforehand to explain the purpose of your visit, to obtain my consent and to make appropriate arrangements for that visit,” Dean Richard Holz wrote.

Marquette President Michael Lovell told the tenured professor that he would be suspended without pay and would not be reinstated unless he admitted his conduct was “reckless” and apologized for the unpleasant emails Ms. Abbate received.

So much for the academic freedom that is guaranteed by section 306.03 of Marquette’s Faculty Handbook, which states that “in no case” can a professor be dismissed “to impair the full and free enjoyment of legitimate personal or academic freedoms of thought, doctrine, discourse, association, advocacy, or action.” That verbiage is only for defending leftists.

Professor McAdams is holding firm:

McAdams told Mr. Lovell this week that he won’t participate in the “compelled speech” demanded by the university by April 14 in exchange for reinstatement.

There are still a few Americans left in this country. But they won’t last long in academia.

On a tip from Varla.

Terence Jeffrey wonders,

Does the president of the United States have the power to unilaterally tell millions of individuals who are violating federal law that he will not enforce that law against them now, that they may continue to violate that law in the future and that he will take action that makes them eligible for federal benefit programs for which they are not currently eligible due to their unlawful status?

Not according to the Constitution he doesn’t. The president is supposed to faithfully execute the laws passed by Congress. As for whether he has the power under our out-of-control judicial oligarchy, we won’t have to wait long to find out:

On April 18, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case. Entitled United States v. Texas, it pits President Obama against not only the Lone Star State, but also a majority of the states, which have joined in the litigation against the administration.

At issue is the policy the administration calls Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents, which would allow aliens in this country illegally who are parents of citizens [i.e., anchor babies] or lawful permanent residents to stay in the United States. …

[A]s explained to the Supreme Court by Obama’s solicitor general, when DHS grants an alien here illegally “deferred action” under the president’s DAPA policy, that alien is not given “lawful immigration status” and can be removed from the country “at any time.” However, according to the solicitor general, that alien will be authorized to work in the United States and will be “considered ‘lawfully present'” for purposes of being eligible for “the Social Security retirement and disability, Medicare, and railroad-worker programs.”

That means that someone from another country who is here illegally could make a cushy living at our expense just by developing a possibly fictitious sore back or case of chronic depression. Disability claims have skyrocketed under Obama.

No wonder the entire Third World seems to be beating a path to our virtually undefended border.

On tips from Stormfax, Steve A, and Torcer.

On a tip from TED.

George Orwell had it right:

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

Let’s give it a try: Western Civilization is the best thing the human race has ever produced; cultural relativism is B.S.; political correctness is a toxin.

Paul Joseph Watson elaborates (LANGUAGE ALERT):

On a tip from StephaneDumas.

The campaign to impose belief in discredited global warming theory by force is getting downright scary, in light of this short history lesson from Hans von Spakovsky:

Beginning in 1478, the Spanish Inquisition systematically silenced any citizen who held views that did not align with the king’s. Using the powerful arm of the government, the grand inquisitor, Tomas de Torquemada, and his henchmen sought out all those who held religious, scientific, or moral views that conflicted with the monarch’s, punishing the “heretics” with jail sentences; property confiscation; fines; and in severe cases, torture and execution.

One of the lasting results of the Spanish Inquisition was a stifling of speech, thought, and scientific debate throughout Spain. By treating one set of scientific views as absolute, infallible, and above critique, Spain silenced many brilliant individuals and stopped the development of new ideas and technological innovations. Spain became a scientific backwater.

Fast forward to 2016:

Treating climate change as an absolute, unassailable fact, instead of what it is—an unproven, controversial scientific theory—a group of state attorneys general have announced that they will be targeting any companies that challenge the catastrophic climate change religion.

Speaking at a press conference on March 29, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said, “The bottom line is simple: Climate change is real.” He went on to say that if companies are committing fraud by “lying” about the dangers of climate change, they will “pursue them to the fullest extent of the law.”

The coalition of 17 inquisitors are calling themselves “AGs United for Clean Power.” The coalition consists of 15 state attorneys general (California, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington State), as well as the attorneys general of the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands. Sixteen of the seventeen members are Democrats, while the attorney general for the Virgin Islands, Claude Walker, is an independent.

The inquisitors are threatening legal action and huge fines against anyone who declines to believe in an unproven scientific theory.

We all know that the climate changes. It always has, and so long as the earth has an atmosphere and therefore a climate, it always will. When authoritarians demand that we believe in climate change or face legal penalties, it is not enough just to believe the climate changes. We must believe in dogma that is both specific and constantly fluctuating. If Al Gore disagrees with the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on the exact ratio between punitive taxation and imaginary temperature increases, it is hard to say which you must side with. As in any tyranny, punishment will be at the arbitrary discretion of whoever is in charge.

The new inquisition is already underway:

Schneiderman and Kamala Harris, representing New York and California, respectively, have already launched investigations into ExxonMobil for allegedly funding research that questioned climate change. Exxon emphatically denounced the accusations as false, pointing out that the investigation that “uncovered” this research was funded by advocacy foundations that publicly support climate change activism.

Standing next to Schneiderman throughout the press conference was the grand inquisitor himself, former Vice President Al Gore, who has stepped into the role of Tomas de Torquemada.

As for the freedom of speech without which we have no effective scientific inquiry,

When pressed on the effect such investigations and prosecutions will have on free speech, General Schneiderman claimed that climate change dissenters are committing “fraud” and are not protected by the First Amendment.

This comes on top of U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch admitting that the Justice Department is discussing the possibility of pursing civil actions against climate change deniers, and that she has already “referred it to the FBI to consider whether or not it meets the criteria for which” federal law enforcement could take action.

By now everyone who has been paying attention knows that global cooling/global warming/climate change or whatever they call it next week is a power grab. People driven to achieve control over others through deception and coercion do not tend to be the best among us. Neither common sense nor decency will slow down the likes of Schneiderman and Sheldon Whitehouse in their quest for more power.

On tips from Mike F and Varla.

Stay away from the Yahoo! login page if you are easily frightened or just ate lunch. This ad appears to be getting heavy rotation:

Given the leftist proclivities of the tech industry, I don’t think moonbats need to worry about being subjected to a full-page ad for Ted Cruz when they try to log in.

Compliments of Sean C.

The campaign by Democrats to criminalize political speech with which they disagree did not end with the Citizens United decision, even if they fail to overturn or overrule it. Big Government has countless means of regulating speech. Abuse of these means is only mitigated by constant resistance:

The three Democrats on the Federal Election Commission, in their latest and boldest move to regulate conservative media, voted in unison to punish a movie maker critical of President Obama after he distributed for free his latest work, Dreams of My Real Father: A Story of Reds and Deception.

Filmmaker Joel Gilbert, owner of Highway 61 films, has produced several independent politically-themed movies and sent Dreams out to millions of voters in key swing states prior to the 2012 election.

While he acted on his own, and with no ties to political groups or parties, an FEC complaint was filed claiming he violated reporting rules, prompting him to seek the standard media “exemption.”

When you rely on bureaucrats to give you exemptions in order to express yourself, you may only be allowed to say what they want to hear.

[D]espite giving the same exemption to liberal movie makers like Michael Moore and Daily Kos, the Democrats recently voted against Gilbert in a February action, reviving their bid to punish conservative media…

This time the authoritarians were stopped:

Lucky for Gilbert, the three Republicans on the FEC also united to vote to give him the exemption. The tie vote blocked any action, and was followed by a unanimous 6-0 vote to close the file. Had he lost, Gilbert would have been required to report who helped fund the anti-Obama movie.

Conceivably, the funders would have been targeted for prosecution in turn, under laws of the sort used to make an example of political film-maker Dinesh D’Souza.

When enough laws pile up, virtually anyone can be arrested. We stay out of prison by not incurring the government’s disfavor, rather than by not breaking laws. That’s how tyranny works.

The latest Democratic move on conservatives comes as some Democrats in Congress, and liberal publications, are pushing to end the even split between Democrats and Republicans on the FEC, a move conservatives have warned would lead to punishing new rules on right-leaning media and candidates.

The more power Democrats are given, the more they will take.

Gilbert’s movie promotes the theory that Obama’s father was not an African communist but an American communist — namely, his mentor Frank Marshall Davis, who was an unsavory character to put it mildly. Whether Gilbert’s movie has any merit has no bearing on his right to distribute it as he sees fit, but here’s a trailer:

On tips from Stormfax, Torcer, and J.

As Milton Friedman famously said,

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.

Confirmation comes from socialist Venezuela, where Obama/Hillary/Sanders types have consolidated control over the economy. The country is floating on oil, yet due to Big Government there are chronic shortages not only of food, diapers, toilet paper, et cetera, but also of energy.

Rejoice comrades! More government means less work:

Venezuelan workers will get Fridays off in the months of April and May, in a bid to save energy in the black-out hit country, the president said.

President Nicolas Maduro said Venezuelans will have “long weekends” in an appearance on state television on Wednesday night, announcing the measure as part of a 60-day plan to fight a power crunch.

Good thing Venezuelans don’t need electricity in their homes. They can just sit in the sweltering darkness and think pure thoughts about the nobility of collectivism.

Last month, Maduro tried shutting down the entire country for a week to solve the energy crisis. It didn’t work.

Dropping reliance on hydroelectricity and letting a free market provide electricity by whatever means prove most economically efficient would have the lights on quickly. But that might expose Venezuelans to the menace of income inequality.

On tips from J and Torcer.

At Indiana University in Bloomington, it seemed the surreal fantasy world inhabited by campus moonbats was nightmarishly crossing through from the other side of the looking glass into real life:

[Monday] night around 9:15 PM, social media became a furious storm of confusion regarding a man in white robes roaming along 10th St. and purportedly armed with a whip.

Students thought the white robes indicated Klu Klux Klan affiliation.

Naturally students whimpered for those in charge to provide them with a safe space:

But authorities’ hands were tied by our vestigial Constitution. Resident Assistant Ethan Gill warned his residents:

Students can come out from under their beds now. The Klansman in question was revealed to be Dominican monk Father Jude McPeak of St. Paul’s Catholic Center. His “whip” evidently consisted of a rosary.

Yet even after this was revealed, the social media storm continued:

How about it, authorities? Can nothing be done about this? Don’t the police realize how traumatic it is for liberal snowflakes to see something that frightens them?

On tips from seaoh and chronos Z. wonderpig.

To construct utopia, thought criminals associated with resistance to the LGBT agenda must be dealt with severely — even if they are only 4 years old:

A Colorado preschool has booted a 4-year-old after her parent’s questioned the administration about its curriculum promoting homosexuality and transgenderism.

R.B Sinclair told the Denver Post that she wanted her daughter excused from classroom discussions on sex and gender, because she sees it as sex education.

She feels her daughter is too young for the discussions offered at the Montview Community Preschool & Kindergarten in Denver. …

Sinclair says one day her daughter came home worried that her dad might no longer like girls.

She met with the principal over concerns about the books being read in class, including ones that told the stories about same-sex couples and worms unsure about their gender.

School officials from the privately run parent cooperative explained the stories were part of the school’s anti-bias curriculum, and because the discussions are sprinkled through the day’s activities, they told her that opting out was not possible.

No doubt. Even math class probably features full-throated endorsements of the homosexual lifestyle — always assuming that schools still have math class.

[T]wo days after meeting with the principal Sinclair was handed a letter saying it was the girl’s last day in school and that the situation was “not a good fit.”

A letter was released shortly to the school after Sinclair’s daughter was kicked out.

The letter, drafted by the school’s director Linda Mars, acknowledged concerns over the books being read in class but explained that children need to learn diversity and tolerance…

Those who fail to embrace tolerance cannot be tolerated, because unless everyone is on the same page, diversity cannot be achieved.

On a tip from Steve A.

On a tip from ScrewyPuppy.

There won’t be peace so long as whiteness exists. That’s why Portland Community College history and humanities professor James Harrison would like us to imagine a world without whiteness:

If you are having a hard time imagining a world without whiteness, first picture Zimbabwe, then subtract the white farmers who haven’t been killed or driven out of the country yet, then subtract the foreign aid from the USA and Europe, then subtract whatever European technology the natives have managed to implement. If you don’t want to go to all that mental trouble, you can just look at this picture:

View more of the nutty professor’s toxic white history month ravings at Progressives Today.

On a tip from Rob E.