If anything could be almost as appropriate as Adam Kinzinger taking a job with Democratic Party propaganda organ CNN, it would be a newly elected Democrat congresscritter getting sworn in on a comic book:

California Democrat Robert Garcia—former mayor of Long Beach, proud representative of the LGBTQ+ community, proud immigrant, self-proclaimed “comic book nerd”—was scheduled to be sworn into Congress [Tuesday] accompanied by some important personal touchstones… including a very rare Superman comic.

Some still laugh at the childishness of a grown man reading comic books. But Bobby is defiant:

“For all of you upset that I still read comics and suggesting that I need to do more serious reading…..um…….anyone who understands comics knows that comics are an essential part of American fiction. And the lessons learned are invaluable. It’s serious sh[**].”

True enough, comics are not just for kids anymore. They deal with themes that no reasonable parent would want their children exposed to — pregnant men, for example:

Definitely more appropriate for a Democrat politician than a child.

Once sworn in (assuming Congress ever decides on a Speaker), Garcia will make history — not only for the comic book but for being the first LGBTQ immigrant to become a congresscritter. He hails from Peru.

Garcia is very excited about his new job. Here’s why:

Hopefully he will be too busy sprawled on the floor in the Library of Congress with comic books spread out all around him to cast many votes.

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.

Today is January 6, the most significant day on the moonbat calendar. On this date in the glorious year of 2001, it was proven beyond dispute that opposition to the Democratic Party constitutes a Threat to Democracy and that complaining about the voter fraud that is a key component of that party’s electoral strategy constitutes insurrection.

In honor of this holiday, let us congratulate one of the brightest stars in the 1/6 firmament, turncoat congresscritter Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), who was so willing to sacrifice self-respect to curry favor with the leftist ruling class that he wept crocodile tears over a guy in a buffalo costume trespassing in the People’s House during one of Nancy Pelosi et al.’s innumerable show trials. Kinzinger has been rewarded with more suitable employment. Just days after leaving Congress, he has taken a position as a propagandist for a major Democratic Party misinformation organ:

CNN announced Wednesday that Kinzinger, who officially left Congress this week after choosing not to seek reelection in the 2022 midterms, has joined the network as a senior political commentator. …

Kinzinger, one of the lawmakers on the House Jan. 6 Committee, was a frequent guest on CNN over the past two years, invited on-air to bash former President Trump and the majority of Republicans.

Only two Republicans were sufficiently obedient to Nancy Pelosi’s demands to serve on the Committee, the other being Liz Cheney. Neither will be in the new Congress. Whereas Cheney was erased in the primaries in a historic blowout, Kinzinger did not have the courage to face voters.

The Kinzinger news does not come as a surprise:

Critics have long asserted that Kinzinger’s anti-Trump commentary signaled his desire to join a liberal news network at the end of his term. …

“It’s the least CNN could do after his 2-year apprenticeship there,” Washington Free Beacon reporter Chuck Ross mocked the announcement.

We’ll see where Liz Cheney washes up. The lefties at the Los Angeles Times dream of her becoming Speaker of the House, but MSNBC is a more likely possibility. She raked in so much loot as a congresscritter that she doesn’t need to work at all.

Democrats could have no more appropriate hero than Adam Kinzinger. Let’s all be thankful that this teary-eyed fool is no longer in a position to start a nuclear war with Russia.

On a tip from bobdog19006.

This Vintage Hate Hoax originally appeared on Moonbattery December 2, 2019:

Hate hoaxers are advised not to ply their trade in Australia. Turns out you can actually get in trouble for it there, even if you are the Dean of Science at the University of Technology Sydney, as environmental chemist and toxicologist Dianne Jolley has learned. Read more »

On a tip from bobdog19006.

Moonbats weep and gnash their teeth because the Supreme Court no longer pretends that the Constitution acknowledges an inalienable right for them to kill their babies. Yet abortion is more unrestricted than ever in the blue states they tend to live in, and also more heavily subsidized by those who regard it as murder.

The New American reports:

As of Sunday, all health-insurance plans in the states of New York and California that offer maternity-care coverage are required also to cover abortion at no additional cost.

In March, New York Governor Kathy Hochul and California Governor Gavin Newsom, both Democrats, signed into law bills mandating “free” abortion coverage.

What your “private” insurance must cover is dictated by the government — as we learned from ObamaCare, which drove up insurance costs by forcing us to pay for coverage we will never need.

Hochul — who, like her abortion-loving counterpart in the White House, claims to be a devout Catholic — … signed a raft of laws guaranteeing that abortion-on-demand would remain legal in the Empire State even if the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, as indeed it did. Opponents of said laws, she declared, were “Neanderthals.”

It may be true that Neanderthals had more respect for the new life inside a pregnant woman than liberals do. They certainly couldn’t have had any less.

Newsom, not to be outdone by Hochul, signed twice as many pro-abortion laws as she had in June, “establishing some of the strongest abortion protections in the nation,” reported CalMatters. One of those laws “fund[s] procedures and travel costs for low-income individuals,” thereby forcing Golden State taxpayers to foot the bill for abortion tourism from pro-life states.

Planned Parenthood is getting our money’s worth regarding the taxpayer support it funnels back into the Democratic Party. Jodi Hicks, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, reportedly “got very emotional” when Newsom privately announced signing pro-abortion legislation to “stakeholders.”

When Planned Parenthood smiles, the Devil smiles too.

This must also make him smile:

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that retail pharmacies like CVS and Walgreens can now provide abortion pills.

The abortion drug Mifepristone was previously only available through doctors, clinics, or some mail-order pharmacies. The new rule change from the FDA will allow any pharmacy abiding by its guidelines to fill prescription orders in stores and by mail.

Death by mail. That’s maximum convenience. Canada is sure to offer something similar for suicide.

According to the Guttmacher Institute, medication abortion accounted for 54% of U.S. abortions in 2020. That percentage is likely to increase as retail pharmacies provide abortion pills.

Yet liberals work themselves into fits worthy of Regan MacNeil in The Exorcist over the supposed threat to their unholy sacrament. With assistance from the media, the Democratic Party exploits this hysteria to mobilize its ghastliest supporters.

On tips from ABC of the ANC and Mr. Freemarket.

At first glance, it is hard to see what is so controversial about Jordan Peterson. He is a soft-spoken psychologist who provides common sense self-help advice to young men. His political views are not extreme. However, his refusal to recite “2 + 2 = 5” on orders from the thought police got him kicked off Twitter under its previous ownership. Now, he has been sentenced to reeducation camp for criticizing Canada’s leftist government:

The College of Psychologists of Ontario ordered the best-selling author and Daily Wire+ host to undergo “social media communications retraining” or face a hearing on the potential suspension of his license.

Characteristically,

Peterson vowed not to participate in the process and decried the effort to stifle free speech.

That’s the attitude that got him in trouble in the first place.

Peterson wrote an open letter to Canada’s squishy soft pretty boy despot, Justin Trudeau:

“I simply cannot resign myself to the fact that in my lifetime I am required to resort to a public letter to the leader of my country to point out that political criticism has now become such a crime in Canada that if professionals dare engage in such activity, government-appointed commissars will threaten their livelihood and present them with the spectacle of denouncement and political disgrace,” Peterson wrote. “There is simply and utterly no excuse whatsoever for such a state of affairs in a free country.”

By “free country,” he must mean “soft tyranny.” When soft inevitably transitions to hard, people like Peterson will end up in gulags or face firing squads instead of having their licenses suspended.

His crimes:

Peterson’s latest alleged transgressions include retweeting Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre’s criticism of Trudeau, blasting Trudeau’s former senior aide, Gerald Butts, and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, tweeting opposition to a plan by Ottawa police to take custody of the children of the Trucker Convoy protesters, and telling Joe Rogan’s podcast audience that acceptance of radical gender theory is a sign of “civilizations collapsing” and that climate change models are unreliable.

Past crimes include pointing out that plus-sized swimsuit model Yumi Nu on the cover of Sports Illustrated for purposes of political correctness is “not beautiful” and that “no amount of authoritarian tolerance is going to change that.”

Styxhexenhammer666 observes that Canada’s thought police are applying a policy employed by repressive regimes like Saddam Hussein’s by trying to force him to pay for the bullet used to execute him. Specifically, he is supposed to pay for his ChiCom-style struggle session:

Regarding Peterson’s crime and punishment, this hits the mark:

“The whole point is to be as arbitrary and as opaque as possible so that they can always nail you.”

That’s why there are no actual laws in Oceania in 1984. It’s why an established sportscaster like Gary Hahn can get indefinitely suspended for saying “illegal alien.”

On tips from ABC of the ANC, Mr. Freemarket, and KirklesWorth.

A woman sentenced to be executed is exceedingly unusual, if only because women rarely commit crimes so brutal and heinous as to warrant execution in a society that rarely applies it:

Missouri has only executed one woman before, state Corrections Department spokeswoman Karen Pojmann said. …

‘It is extremely unusual for a woman to commit a capital offense, such as a brutal murder, and even more unusual for a women to, as was the case with McLaughlin, rape and murder a woman,’ Pojmann said.

Yet Amber McLaughlin was convicted of terrorizing, raping, murdering, and dumping by the Mississippi 45-year-old Beverly Guenther in 2003.

How is such a crime even possible? Here’s how: Amber McLaughlin was as man named Scott McLaughlin when he killed his ex-girlfriend. He played the transsexual card and made an appeal for sympathy in an attempt to evade the death penalty.

If this ploy had succeeded, it would have been a travesty of justice. It did not succeed; McLaughlin was executed Tuesday.

What we did see was a travesty of journalism, with even reputedly right-wing news sources like the Daily Mail referring to McLaughlin as a woman and using female pronouns. The purpose of the news media is to report facts, not to obscure them so as to comply with anti-reality LGBT ideology.

On a tip from Lyle.

Many have been wondering what Matt Gaetz and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had to say to each other on the House floor Tuesday that had them looking so intense. Forbidden love has been suggested. It has even been theorized that Gaetz was asking AOC if she and her fellow leftist radicals would vote for McCarthy, possibly in hopes of getting the fight over the speakership in the past without losing face. Turns out the subject was quite different, relating to something found in abundance inside AOC’s head:

Hat tip: Not the Bee.

Seattle isn’t the only Left Coast city where civilization appears to be collapsing. From the next state south:

A suspect has chewed off an elderly man’s ear and some of his face in a horrific attack on a Portland train platform.

The injuries were so severe that some of the 78-year-old man’s skull was exposed after the violent attack in the suburb of Gresham in the state of Oregon on Tuesday morning.

If you can reach it from the city by train, so can the riffraff that has taken over the city.

Police arrested 25-year-old suspect Koryn Kraemer and booked him on an accusation of assault in the second degree

Drugs were involved, including fentanyl and marijuana. Kraemer says he believed his victim to be a robot. He is likely to be or to eventually become a member of the homeless community that liberal policies have encouraged to flourish in places like Portland, where psychosis and drug use are the norm.

Our progressive future is unfolding like a horror movie along the lines of John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness.

On a tip from Wiggins.

This Vintage Hate Hoax originally appeared on Moonbattery September 7, 2017:

No wonder zillionaire football players who in any other country would be emptying trashcans for a living regard America as so oppressive that they refuse to stand for the national anthem. Look what happened to Michael Bennett of the Seattle Seahawks: Read more »

When progressives disapprove of something, they ban it progressively. First comes a media crusade, then warning labels, then onerous sin taxes, finally outright criminalization. Meat — a fundamental component of the human diet, as can be ascertained by looking at our teeth — is moving beyond MSM propaganda to the warning label stage:

A recent study investigating the possible impacts of so-called climate impact menu labels finds that such labels may prove “an effective strategy to promote more sustainable restaurant food choices.”

The call for warning labels on meat was excreted by elite institutions that know what to study to keep lucrative government grants flowing.

The study done by researchers from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the University of Michigan School of Public Health, and the Department of Human Ecology, University of California, Davis finds that customers may be more persuaded to choose more “climate friendly” options on menus that include a warning against how beef farming supposedly contributes to global warming.

Those who earnestly believe that eating beef makes it be too hot outside are encouraged to get in touch. I have started up a real estate business specializing in oceanfront property here in Arizona. Also, I’m taking offers on a bridge across the East River in New York.

The sin tax phase will follow soon:

Many European nations, including Germany, the Netherlands, and the U.K., have already considered enacting a value added tax (VAT) to the purchase of meat — none, as of yet, has crossed that barrier, but it appears to be only a matter of time.

No worries; our rulers have already presented plenty of climate-friendly meat alternatives for when we get to the total ban.

[G]lobalist groups such as the World Economic Forum continue to suggest that we can be “conditioned” to find sources other than red meat to fulfill our protein needs.

Potential sources include mealworms, cockroach milk, maggot butter, weeds, synthetic pseudofood, plastic trash, lentils, grass, crickets, larvae, and wind turbine blades.

The future won’t taste very good. But at least the climate will stop fluctuating for the first time in the planet’s history, so long as we don’t eat any meat.

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.

The societal decay that gave Seattle the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone has reached the point where it is becoming impossible to do business there.

That’s why two branches of the Seattle Credit Union are closing:

“Ensuring the physical safety of our members and staff both in and around our branch offices has become increasingly difficult at these locations. Your personal safety, as well as your financial well-being and banking preferences, are important to us, representing the key variables in our decision,” a Dec. 30 email explained to customers.

Physical safety cannot be ensured in the aftermath of Black Lives Matter because in cities run by progressives, the police have been marginalized. The closures are due to frequent vandalism and break-ins.

They aren’t the first:

In September, Bartell Drugs announced it was closing its Chinatown-International District location after relentless theft and vandalism.

Nor will they be the last.

Yellow Butterfly Coffee in Seattle’s Pioneer Square has dealt with ongoing issues. Its owner, Robert, recently dealt with a drug dealer who refused to leave and camped out in front of his storefront.

“He says, ‘I’m not moving, and I got guns.’ Today, the same guy, he threatens me with a gun,” Robert told the Jason Rantz Show on KTTH.

Robert had better get used to it. If liberalism prevails, only criminals have guns, because law-abiding citizens will be disarmed and local police will be out of sight and out of mind.

Multiple Starbucks locations have closed due to crime in the city of its birth.

We can have businesses, with the goods, services, and jobs they provide, or we can have moonbattery. Which would you prefer? Before answering, be advised that according to establishment ideology, preventing crime is white supremacist. Also, the climate prefers that we do not generate wealth.

On a tip from DCGere.

Mating with short people may make New York Times readers feel righteous, but the social engineers of the World Economic Forum warn that more must be done to cut the human race down to a size that suits the Liberal World Order. Watch in horror as famous primatologist and anthropologist Jane Goodall (formerly known as Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall) asserts the necessity of reducing the human population to what it was 500 years ago:

The world population for the year 1500 was an estimated 450 million. Thanks to capitalism and the technological breakthroughs it enabled in agriculture and medicine, we are now up to 8 billion.

The WEF is working on what to do with the excess 7.5 billion. Expect attacks on agriculture and medicine to escalate.

On a tip from Wiggins.