California was the Golden State. Then Democrats established single party rule. Now U-Haul struggles to find enough trailers for all the people moving out. America has been the Land of Opportunity. If they can institutionalize voter fraud by ramming through HR1, Democrats will establish single party rule nationwide. This means they will do to the whole country what they did to California, a concept that liberals openly embrace.

John Stossel explains why this is unacceptable:

Democrat rule in California has been a roaring success from the point of view of Democrats themselves: stratospheric taxes, ubiquitous regulation, dying middle class — what’s not to like?

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There is no longer any standard of value in the MSM other than wokeness. This frees CBS’s odious 60 Minutes to reach new depths of mendaciousness as it kneecaps those seen as threats to the liberal establishment. Ron DeSantis scares these apparatchiks so much that they got carried away, causing even Democrat politicians to object.

The segment featured reporter Sharyn Alfonsi ambushing DeSantis at a press conference last month and aggressively questioning him using a misleading narrative…

Alfonsi tried to suggest that Publix, the largest grocery store chain in Florida, had engaged in pay to play by donating money to DeSantis’ campaign in exchange for being awarded a contract to distribute vaccines in the state.

DeSantis aptly responded to Alfonsi’s false accusations and laid them to rest. That part was left on the cutting room floor. Daily Wire has the full transcript, highlighting what CBS did not want us to hear. The selective editing takes lying by omission to a new extreme of deceptiveness.

Even Democrats back DeSantis against CBS’s outrageous lies:

Moskowitz isn’t alone. Dave Kerner, Democrat Mayor of Palm Beach County felted compelled to issue a statement:

The reporting was not just based on bad information — it was intentionally false. I know this because I offered to provide my insight into Palm Beach County’s vaccination efforts and 60 minutes declined. They know that the Governor came to Palm Beach County and met with me and the County Administrator and we asked to expand the state’s partnership with Publix to Palm Beach County. We also discussed our own local plans to expand mass vaccination centers throughout the county, which the Governor has been incredibly supportive. We asked and he delivered. They had that information, and they left it out because it kneecaps their narrative.

We have confronted this pandemic for over a year. Our residents, like all Americans, are tired. And the media is making it worse. They are hellbent on dividing us for cheap views and clicks. 60 Minutes should be ashamed.

Leftists have a big advantage in that they control the “mainstream” media. But like Joe Biden’s radical handlers, they are overplaying their hand. It has already become common knowledge that what we are presented with as “news” is liberal propaganda. As people begin to realize how shamelessly CBS et al. lie to us, the MSM will lose the last of its credibility. People will tune out their duckspeak and look for more reliable sources of information.

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.

California and New York have effectively succumbed to single party Democrat rule. This has predictably resulted in stratospheric taxation and smothering regulation, which in turn have predictably resulted in productive people leaving for freer states. Now that Democrats are only one bill (i.e., HR1) away from imposing single party rule nationwide, what is to stop wealth producers from leaving for freer countries? Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has the answer: a global minimum corporate tax rate.

Trump got the economy roaring by lowering the corporate tax rate to 21%. We had the healthiest economy in history. Then came the double whammy of Covid followed by Biden, who wants to raise the rate to 28% to defray the cost of his ongoing looting spree. The average corporate rate in the G7 is 24%, so this will make the USA uncompetitive. No worries; Democrats have a single solution to every problem: more government.

Why should the Biden’s Handlers Administration be content to lower the standard of living on behalf of Big Government only in the USA, when with a little arm-twisting it can accomplish this worldwide?

Yellen wants to shower the extra wealth expropriated upon the corrupt dictators running Third World countries and waste it on green posturing in the name of the global warming hoax.

Quacks Yellen:

“Over the last four years, we have seen first-hand what happens when America steps back from the global stage,” Yellen said. “‘America first’ must never mean ‘America alone.’”

America First is behind us for now. Until we get out from under Democrat rule, the USA is just another country, on its way down. Rather than competing to stay ahead of other nations, we will try to hobble them so they can’t race ahead of us.

Germany supports the plan and believes that more than 140 countries will agree to it. You might call it price fixing for greedy governments.

Good thing we have SpaceX. To escape excessive taxation, businesses may have to relocate to outer space.

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.

Even in these dark times, there are parts of the world where moonbattery does not prevail. Hungary, for example.

Black Lives Matter and its Antifa allies are famous for defacing and tearing down statues of great men who represent the civilization they are committed to destroying, including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Christopher Columbus, and many more. In Hungary, BLM reaped as it has sown:

[Last Friday], a rainbow-coloured statue in honour of the Black Lives Matter movement was inaugurated in Budapest.

Not everyone was pleased.

Our Homeland Movement … said the statue was “an anti-European, anti-white, anti-heterosexual, and anti-Christian symbol”.

Hungarians appear to know more about Black Lives Matter than Americans who rely on the MSM for news.

It was planned that the rainbow-coloured statue would have been displayed until April 14th. However, in the time since the statue was erected, the statue was fenced up, then doused with paint, and demolished and smashed on Friday morning.

It was hit by three separate attacks and destroyed within hours of its unveiling. What goes around comes around.

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.

One problem with picking a guy to be Assistant Secretary for Health in the Department of Health and Human Services on the grounds that he dresses in woman’s clothes, despite his having knowingly killed seniors by implementing a policy of seeding nursing homes with Covid patients, is that he might turn out to be a morally vacuous screwball with a horrific agenda:

During an interview last week with NPR, transgender [Rachel né Richard] Levine said bills banning young people from accessing drugs, such as puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, and transgender surgeries, such as elective double mastectomies, as well as bans against males competing in women’s sports are all “really challenging to see.”

He says it’s a “health equity issue.” Anyone who opposes equity is a hateful bigot, per Democrat dogma.

This provides some context for Levine’s eagerness to see children undergo chemical and surgical procedures that will leave them permanently disfigured:

The American College of Pediatricians has reported that experts on both sides of the issue agree that “80 percent to 95 percent” of children with a diagnosis of gender dysphoria “accepted their biological sex by late adolescence.”

You have to lock in transsexuality fast, before kids have a chance to figure out who they are. That’s how you grow a permanently alienated identity group on behalf of Democrats’ cultural Marxist coalition.

On a tip from Rapinhoe.

Despite demanding that we share their absurdly unscientific beliefs (men can menstruate, energy policy controls the weather, church services spread Covid but BLM riots don’t, etc), Democrats are fond of barking piously that we must “follow the science.” In the context of leftist politics, this slogan is meaningless. Science is not a Democrat. As astrophysicist Brian Keating observes in the video below, the word means “knowledge.” It does not mean “morality,” “policy,” or “moonbattery.”

Keating undercuts his own case by attacking eugenics. The idea that the human race could be improved in certain respects through selective breeding is objectionable for moral and political reasons, not scientific ones.

On tips from KirklesWorth and Dragon’s Lair.

Now that sports have been politicized top to bottom, we can turn to figures like retired NBA player Charles Barkley for political analysis. He has more insight into our political system than you will get from the liberal news media:

To quote Barkley:

“I think our system is set up where our politicians, whether they’re Republicans or Democrats, are designed to make us not like each other so they can keep their grasp of money and power. They divide and conquer. I truly believe in my heart most white people and black people are awesome people, but we’re so stupid following our politicians, whether they’re Republicans or Democrats, and their only job is, ‘Hey, let’s make these people not like each other. We don’t live in their neighborhoods, we all got money, let’s make the whites and blacks not like each other, let’s make rich people and poor people not like each other, let’s scramble the middle class.'”

Good thing he softened his insights by pretending that Republicans are also obsessed with sowing racial discord. Otherwise, a hook would have appeared from off-screen to yank him off the set.

Barkley is on the mark not only on Democrats’ cultural Marxist race-baiting, but also on their war of extermination against the middle class. Not even moonbat Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm denies that the coming tax hikes intended to partially pay for yet another frivolous spending blowout will hit the middle class hard. In California, where Democrats have already established single party rule, the middle class is going extinct.

On a tip from Troy H.

A Portland high school has postponed naming a tree as its mascot in light of the revelation that trees are racist:

The Ida B. Wells-Barnett High School’s namesake is the Pulitzer Prize-winning African American journalist who extensively reported on and protested against lynching, reports the Portland Tribune. Originally, the evergreen tree was proposed because, according to Ellen Whatmore, a mascot committee member and a teacher at the school, evergreens “are characterized by the life-giving force of their foliage, the strength of their massive trunk, and the depth of their roots—in an individual tree and as a forest of trees.”

The school used to be named after Woodrow Wilson, but like so many notable figures in American history, Wilson has been canceled for being racist.

The evergreen was the frontrunner out of 420 different nominations, but then Michelle DePass, the director of the Portland Public Schools Board of Education, suggested that the tree’s connotations to lynching could be problematic.

DePass is the only black on the school board, giving her potential veto power over anything she decides to declare racist.

Her concerns resulted in the board postponing the vote on the new mascot until they could reach out to Wells-Barnett’s family to see if they had any issue with it.

Since the family is presumably black, maybe the evergreen has a chance. If they were white, denying DePass’s lived experience as a victim of the hurtful racism of trees would invite accusations that they too are racist.

To avoid future cancelation, you have to be proactive. If you have trees on your property, cut them down at once, even if they are evergreens, which probably were not often used for lynching. If the trajectory of the woke mob’s witch hunt hysteria over the past few years is any indication, getting exposed on social media as an owner of racist trees could soon be a firing offense.

On tips from Varla and ABC of the ANC.

The case against Derek Chauvin has collapsed. The prosecution wants to go full kangaroo court by suppressing the findings of the official autopsy, which do not support its improbable contention that George Floyd died of asphyxia rather than cardiac arrest.

Jonathan Turley, a liberal-leaning but honest legal analyst, sums up the key facts:

►The autopsy did not conclude that Floyd died from asphyxiation (though a family pathologist made that finding). Rather, it found “cardiopulmonary arrest while being restrained by law enforcement officer(s).” The state’s criminal complaint against Chauvin said the autopsy “revealed no physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation. Mr. Floyd had underlying health conditions including coronary artery disease and hypertensive heart disease.” He also was COVID-19 positive.

►Andrew Baker, Hennepin County’s chief medical examiner, strongly suggested that the primary cause was a huge amount of fentanyl in Floyd’s system: “Fentanyl at 11 ng/ml — this is higher than (a) chronic pain patient. If he were found dead at home alone & no other apparent causes, this could be acceptable to call an OD (overdose). Deaths have been certified w/levels of 3.”

That is, Floyd’s fentanyl level was nearly four times what is considered potentially lethal. The case against Floyd’s illegal drug habit is much stronger than the case against Chauvin.

►Floyd notably repeatedly said that he could not breathe while sitting in the police cruiser and before he was ever restrained on the ground. That is consistent with the level of fentanyl in his system that can cause “slowed or stopped breathing.”

The sensation of not being able to breathe is also a symptom of heart failure. As Floyd was already complaining about not being able to breathe while he was still in the car, it is hard to blame this on Chauvin holding him to the ground with his knee afterward.

Floyd’s lungs were bloated with fluid. This is a symptom of opioid overdose.

►Finally, the restraint using an officer’s knee on an uncooperative suspect was part of the training of officers, and jurors will watch training videotapes employing the same type of restraint as official policy.

No reasonable person could call it murder when a police officer applies his training to restrain a criminal who is resisting arrest. According to Baker, the technique used was not likely to impact breathing.

Baker cited the drugs in the system as well as the 75-80% narrowing of coronary arteries that “put him at risk for a sudden cardiac arrest.”

This tells you all you need to know about the lynch mob that wants to string up Derek Chauvin for doing his job:

After those findings were released, Baker’s office had to be put under police protections due to threats to him and his staff.

If he gets a fair trial, Chauvin is likely to be acquitted. Many lives will be ruined and even ended as the media whips up another round of Black Lives Matter riots, laying waste to inner cities. But at least our system of justice will survive.

If Chauvin is found guilty, it will be of the charge for which he was actually brought to trial: being a white male police officer in a country run by leftists.

On a tip from Varla. Hat tip: Whatfinger.

Raphael Warnock is not only a Caucasian-hating, anti-American, ultraleft senator but also a pastor. That makes him the Jeremiah Wright of the Senate. His Easter message makes him a heretic:

“The meaning of Easter is more transcendent than the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Whether you are Christian or not, through a commitment to helping others we are able to save ourselves.”

Forget the Jesus stuff. You can achieve salvation by liking it when Democrats rifle your pockets in the name of the welfare state.

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.

In single-party New York, a bigwig like Andrew Cuomo can only be taken down by radicals from even further left. Unsurprisingly, that’s who he is pandering to in a desperate attempt to save his skin at the expense of taxpayers:

Cuomo, along with New York State Democrats, is negotiating a $2.1 billion fund where at least 187,000 illegal aliens and 87,000 felons could receive taxpayer-funded unemployment benefits that mirror state and federal benefits.

Other Dems will appreciate the erstwhile Luv Gov taking good care of the party’s base. They may let him ride out the scandal of killing thousands of seniors by forcing their nursing homes to accept Covid patients, and even the never-ending MeToo allegations that have been piling onto him since.

The payouts are extravagantly generous. Why not? It’s taxpayers’ money, not Cuomo’s.

Illegal alien and felon recipients could receive up to $28,600 a year thanks to the taxpayer-funded benefits, according to analysts. Weekly, illegal aliens and felons could receive $500 a week. For those unemployed since March 2020, recipients could receive on average $12,600.

Plenty of American citizens who never broke the law don’t make that much by working.

Recipients, should the taxpayer-funded program be included in the state budget, could also become secure medical coverage paid for by New York’s public health insurance program.

Other American citizens who never broke the law shell out more for health insurance than they do for food.

Many violent criminals are allowed to run free in New York thanks to bail reform, just as illegal aliens run free thanks to sanctuary policy.

Crime pays under the rule of criminals like Andrew Cuomo.

On a tip from Wiggins.

MLB punishing Georgia for a new law inhibiting the election fraud that the Democrat Party is banking on is, as Joe Biden might put it, hypocrisy on steroids.

MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred says the All-Star Game was pulled from Georgia (at Biden’s explicit request) because MLB “fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box.” Election security equals voter suppression, according to the leftist talking point.

Meanwhile, MLB just renewed a licensing contract with the ChiCom conglomerate Tencent, which does not air Houston Rockets or Philadelphia 76ers games because Daryl Morey expressed support for democracy in Hong Kong. Morey was GM for the Rockets and is now with the 76ers.

We already knew that Manfred doesn’t give a flying damn about democracy. Otherwise, he would be in favor of election integrity in Georgia.

More MLB hypocrisy:

According to Biden and toadies like Manfred, asking for ID is racist. That’s why Georgia must be punished. MLB did not respond to multiple requests from Fox News to explain its policy, which qualifies as “Jim Crow on steroids” by Biden’s criteria.

In case that isn’t enough hypocrisy to cure readers of watching hyperpoliticized professional baseball, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp notes that MLB is headquartered in New York:

“When you look at New York’s voting laws, you have to have an excuse to vote absentee by-mail in New York. You do not in Georgia,” Kemp said. …

Kemp said Georgia has 17 days of in-person early voting, while New York has 10.

“I guess we should be boycotting [MLB] for having their headquarters in New York because that law is more strict than ours,” he said. “I mean, this is all ridiculous.”

Not only is the Georgia boycott ridiculous, it is based on brazen lies.

The Georgia safeguards are less restrictive than those in Biden’s home state Delaware. But this isn’t about Georgia. It is about making sure everyone knows that no opposition to HR1 will be tolerated. If it passes, Democrats need never worry about the wrath of voters again. That’s why they have been pushing their radical agenda to the furthest extreme and shamelessly looting the treasury with blowout spending bills, as if the final election had already taken place.

Both parties have an interest in laws like Georgia’s. For either party to govern effectively, the public needs to believe it was elected legitimately.

However, the radicalized Democrats are no longer interested in governing. They want to rule. They don’t care if we regard elections as legitimate, so long as we know that if we resist we will be punished.

A local propaganda organ of the Democrat Party thinks Detroit should get the All-Star Game:

Given that Detroit is overwhelmingly Democrat, Manfred might agree. Plus, it has the sort of “diversity” championed by Democrats — i.e., in addition to being ideologically virtually homogeneous, it is even more overwhelmingly devoid of Caucasians.

On tips from ABC of the ANC and Steve T.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s recent bike buy was a hypocritical farce, but not as phony as this:

Buttigieg seemingly “biked” to a high-profile cabinet meeting [last Thursday] as an eagle-eyed reporter caught the former presidential candidate exiting his SUV just blocks from the White House.

Watch and laugh:

Not even Buttigieg’s bicycle antics are as phony as looting the country for $trillions to be laundered through green energy boondoggles, then calling it “infrastructure.” Phonier still is anyone with an IQ above 60 who claims to believe that the weather is a problem and that people like Biden and Buttigieg can fix it with wasteful spending and virtue signaling.

On tips from Dragon’s Lair and ABC of the ANC.