Open Thread
Compliments of Chuck A.
In his characteristically slithery way, metrosexual moonbat Justin Trudeau is striking back at Trump for trolling him as the governor of the 51st state.
From Canada’s state-affiliated media:
“We were supposed to be on a steady, if difficult, march towards progress. And yet, just a few weeks ago, the United States voted for a second time to not elect its first woman president,” Trudeau said, adding that “women’s rights and women’s progress” are “under attack.”
By “women’s rights and women’s progress,” he appears to mean abortion.
The comments could be interpreted as a thinly veiled swipe at U.S. president-elect Donald Trump. In his first term, Trump appointed Supreme Court justices who were intent on overturning abortion jurisprudence — something they ultimately did with the Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health decision.
Careful with the swiping, Justin. You don’t want to go into a battle of wits unarmed.
It is doubtful that Trudeau will turn over his job to a woman — or even that he can define one.
On a tip from Bluto.
Among the ways Trump’s election has already made America a better place, it has expanded the vocabulary of moonbats. The Biden Administration has given this site may opportunities to use the word “kakistocracy.” Now that kakistocrats have been voted out of power, moonbats have discovered the word.
Clarence Page specifically cites Elon Musk and Pete Hegseth as the sort of people who might staff a kakistocracy, while also getting in a dig against the great Calvin Coolidge.
The Economist has proclaimed it the Word of the Year:
Which word can capture the mix of surprise, excitement and trepidation people feel as the MAGA movement returns to power?
“Kakistocracy,” we are told — following an administration led and staffed by unsavory characters.
Even insufferably pretentious liberal elitists sometimes have a clue as to what is going on outside of their insular bubble of wokeness:
[M]any of [Trump’s] supporters are delighted, seeing in his appointments a wrecking crew to pull down a deep state they loathe.
The Economist has managed to get that much right. As for its use of the word “kakistocracy,” it makes sense when you consider that liberals live in upside-down world, where everything is called its opposite, as in Orwell.
On tips from ABC of the ANC.
Evidence accrues that de facto president Jill Biden probably voted for Trump. Even now she is trolling Skankala, whose silly campaign theme was “joy.” Watch Dr. Jill engage in Kamalaesque word salad at the White House Conference on Women’s Health Research yesterday:
JILL, ED.D.: "I think we all need to feel joy now during this time." pic.twitter.com/AyOVrw7zZk
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) December 11, 2024
The audience reaction shows they got the joke.
On a tip from seaoh.
In the olden days, advertising attempted to generate a positive attitude toward the product or service being advertised, so as to increase the customer base. Then political correctness got out of control. Now, the purpose is often to make potential customers gag with revulsion by ramming wokeness down their throats. As usual, Google is at the forefront of corporate moonbattery:
The tech giant produced a Christmas ad for its shopping aggregator featuring self proclaimed ‘nonbinary’ TikTok influencer Cyrus Veyssi prancing around in women’s clothing, mincing on about skin creams.
See if you can get through 24 seconds of it:
Christmas ad from Google. Dear Lord.pic.twitter.com/O6ML2Li9c4
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 11, 2024
Evidently Google isn’t worried about losing customers, due to the effective monopoly position that makes the odious company virtually impossible to avoid. This would beg the question, why bother to advertise — if we didn’t know that the entire objective is to subject us to moonbattery.
On a tip from WDS 2.0.
It isn’t just screwballs like Taylor Lorenz from the liberal establishment media. Even a Democrat Senator excuses murdering people for being health insurance executives in the name of Marxist ideology. Like White House spokesmoonbat Cringe Jean-Pierre, Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has issued a dutiful left-handed condemnation of the murder of Brian Thompson. Warren’s crosses the line into an effective call for more blood.
“Violence to combat any sort of corporate greed is unacceptable,” says Cringe, framing the murder in the Marxist context of “corporate greed” — as if the government that confiscates our money hand over fist and won’t even defend the border in return is less greedy than a company providing people with health insurance on a voluntary basis.
Fauxcahontas goes farther. “Violence is never the answer, but people can be pushed only so far,” she told HuffPost, then ominously added:
“This is a warning that if you push people hard enough, they lose faith in the ability of their government to make change, lose faith in the ability of the people who are providing the health care to make change, and start to take matters into their own hands in ways that will ultimately be a threat to everyone.”
She made similar remarks on MSNBC:
“Violence is never the answer. This guy [Luigi Mangione] gets a trial who’s allegedly killed the CEO of UnitedHealth[care], but you can only push people so far, and then they start to take matters into their own hands.”
She implies that her fellow moonbats should commit murder not only because the health care system has flaws, but also because Big Government has not been able to “make change” — the result of people voting the wrong way.
One reason we don’t vote the way Warren wants is that she has helped expose the evil at the heart of the Democratic Party. Notes Charles C. W. Cooke,
It was Warren’s lurch into extremism that inspired Kamala Harris to adopt many of the positions she promulgated in 2019 — positions that Harris struggled to shed during this year’s presidential election. And it was the coterie of Warren-inspired White House staffers who successfully seized the moderate Joe Biden after his winning 2020 campaign and transformed him into a myopically left-wing president whom a majority of Americans came to loathe. It should perhaps have been obvious that Warren was a crank when she started tweeting out sentiments such as, “Black trans and cis women, gender-nonconforming, and nonbinary people are the backbone of our democracy” without having first been threatened with waterboarding. But if it was not clear then, the consequences of her influence have now made the indictment clear. Warren is a disaster for her party, a disaster for America, and a disaster for the basic human decency that we are entitled to expect from our politicians…
Unfortunately, Warren is no outlier. The Democratic Party has effectively embraced Marxism. Marxists kill people; it’s what they do.
On a tip from Varla.
To get an idea of how far the liberal establishment wants to divorce us from reality, consider that they want us to believe blacks were prevalent in revolutionary Russia:
New Paramount+ show A Gentleman in Moscow is taking DEI casting to new levels of absurdity. Meet the new Russians! pic.twitter.com/xJEK3aC67y
— Way of the World (@wayotworld) December 8, 2024
At least they won’t make genocidal fiends like Lenin and Stalin black. That would be racist. Then again, they might redefine Lenin and Stalin as the good guys.
Moonbats control not only Tinseltown but also the schools. Imagine what kids are being taught in history class.
On a tip from WDS 2.0.
What does it take to get a moonbat excommunicated? Abortion advocate Nancy Pelosi pushes the envelope:
[Nasty Pelosi] flaunted her disobedience of San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone by saying she continued to receive Communion despite his pastoral letter stating that she could no longer receive in his diocese.
Sneers Pelosi:
“I received Communion anyway. That’s his problem, not mine. My Catholic faith is, Christ is my savior. It has nothing to do with the bishops.”
That is, her presumably politically advantageous “Catholic faith” is whatever she says it is.
As Archbishop Cordileone had reminded the prominent congresscritter,
“The Church’s ancient and consistent teaching [is] that ‘from the first moment of conception life must be guarded with the greatest care while abortion and infanticide are unspeakable crimes.’”
Pelosi had two options: repent of her support for abortion or present her middle finger to the Church. Which would you have expected her to take?
On a tip from MrRightWingDave.
We have three major economic problems: excessive regulation, government debt, and inflation. All are caused by government bloat. All have been addressed by the esteemed countermoonbat Javier Milei only 1 year after coming into office by applying the limited government principles upon which the USA was founded.
Regarding regulation:
Deregulation is already bearing fruit, and this is crucial for maintaining the loyalty of Milei’s supporters. The efforts of the new Ministry of Deregulation and State Transformation, led by Federico Sturzenegger, have been particularly noteworthy, including the abolition of the country’s rent control laws. This led to a substantial and rapid increase in the supply of housing. … The monthly rent for an average flat in the city of Buenos Aires fell by 30 percent in real terms between November 2023 and July 2024 as a result of the abolition of the rent control laws.
Regarding debt:
Milei announced this week that after 123 years of deficit, his major governmental cuts have resulted in a surplus.
Regarding inflation:
Milei’s economic plans are proving enormously successful, as the country’s inflation plunged to 2.7% in October…
Prior to Milei, the only time Argentina didn’t have double digit inflation going back to 1945 was during the 1990s, when the peso was pegged to the dollar.
The Economist noted in June that Milei had “slashed spending” while the “central bank stopped printing money to finance the deficit,” adding that “by most economic measures Mr Milei is beating expectations. … Argentina has had fiscal surpluses for five months in a row.”
Urges Milei:
“Do not surrender to the advance of the state. The state is not the solution. The state is the problem itself. … long live freedom!”
The USA’s regulatory state is out of control. The federal debt has skyrocketed past $36 trillion. Inflation has eaten into our standard of living since Biden took power. But if Milei can fix Argentina after generations of moonbat rule, we can still dig our way out.
🇦🇷 MILEI: ARGENTINA ENDS DEFICIT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 123 YEARS
"The deficit was the root of all our evils—without it, there’s no debt, no emission, no inflation.
Today, we have a sustained fiscal surplus, free of default, for the first time in 123 years.
This historic… https://t.co/uszEgPd493 pic.twitter.com/nt5jJGQM1V
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) December 11, 2024
On a tip from Gringoman.
At last, moral clarity on CNN. No one should have to spell it out, but Scott Jennings does: Daniel Penny is a good guy; Luigi Mangione is a bad guy.
NEW: Scott Jennings pulls out a chart in front of a CNN panel as he rips the left for their reactions to UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s execution.
“Let me just help you understand if you're on the American left tonight.”
“The good guy today, Daniel Penny.”
“The bad guy,… pic.twitter.com/63RGG6k6ZS
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) December 10, 2024
Naturally, moonbats bellow threats against the good guy and sympathize with the bad guy.
You’ve heard of left-handed compliments; Cringe Jean-Pierre provides a dutiful left-handed condemnation:
“Violence to combat any sort of corporate greed is unacceptable.”
We condemn all violence. But if anyone could deserve it…
Too bad for Taylor Lorenz that the Democrats lost. Continuing its descent into malevolent moonbattery, the party might have tapped her as the next White House press secretary. Via Townhall:
The former Washington Post reporter has been vocal about her pleasure over the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, who was murdered in the early morning hours on December 4 outside the New York Hilton Midtown hotel. Lorenz has taken the weird position that wishing death upon those who they think might have caused the issues within America’s healthcare system is warranted and should be celebrated.
Lorenz explains why Thompson’s appalling murder fills her with joy:
.@Taylor Lorenz experienced “joy” at the murder of Brian Thompson. What a psychopath.
On the flip side, kudos to the McDonald’s employee who identified the murderer & called the police. pic.twitter.com/CyyaPxq6FE
— Jennifer Sey (@JenniferSey) December 10, 2024
If moonbats are that willing to embrace political violence on TV, imagine what they must be saying behind the scenes in the Ivy League. Julia Alekseyeva is a professor at University of Pennsylvania, limousine leftist Luigi Mangione’s alma mater. This appears to be her reaction to the murder:
DISGUSTING: UPenn professor Julia Alekseyeva celebrates the alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO's assassin and that the murderer attended UPenn.
To anyone wondering how America's youth becomes so radical to murder someone, it is because of the extremist professors. pic.twitter.com/j2LlgaSAZf
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) December 10, 2024
So long as moonbattery rages, more senseless violence can be expected.
On tips from Bluto, Jester, and CDaJFunk.
Homosexualizing Christmas is not good enough. To properly desanctify the holiday, it must be transsexualized too:
Trans Secret Santa UK has kicked off its 2024 Christmas gifting campaign to raise funds to deliver festive gift parcels to trans youth across the UK.
“Trans youth” mostly means vulnerable children targeted for grooming. Transsexual children would have been hard to imagine before LGBTism was embraced by the moonbat establishment.
Trans Secret Santa UK will once again bring together volunteers, LGBTQ+ advocates, and allies to support trans children and young people who may otherwise feel isolated during this time of year. Funds raised through the campaign will go toward carefully selected gift parcels, each accompanied by a Christmas card featuring messages of love and encouragement from prominent trans figures.
Best not to think about what kind of toys the carefully selected parcels might contain or what the kids are being encouraged to do.
On a tip from Mike B.
Fascinating pic.twitter.com/cyTMIq07rW
— AlphaFo (@Alphafox78) December 7, 2024
On a tip from WDS 2.0.
If a nation is willing to eradicate itself by cultural genocide, you can hardly expect it to be concerned with security. Consequently, ethnically British students are not allowed to apply for an intelligence services internship program:
The paid 10-11 week scheme, offered by MI5, MI6 and GCHQ, is exclusively open to students from Black, Asian, mixed heritage or ethnic minority backgrounds who also come from socially disadvantaged circumstances.
Security expert Professor Anthony Glees says the program “represents a real and present national security risk.” However, security is no longer the point of security services, because under moonbat rule, the sole point of everything is moonbattery.
Sorry 007. Nowadays, you would be regarded as disqualified by being British.
On a tip from Franco.
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