Our liberal ruling class has more than one variation on Marie Antoinette’s infamous if apocryphal “Let them eat cake.” A favorite, in light of the gasoline crisis Democrats caused, is “Let them drive Teslas.” The left-wing elitists at Bloomberg introduce another in the face of inflation: “Let them eat lentils.”

Here’s how to deal, you peasants who make less than $300,000 and therefore get crushed by Democrat policy (unless you receive special privileges as a member of an “oppressed” identity group). In addition to giving up your cars and meat, you are advised not to eat in restaurants, to refrain from buying furniture and appliances, and to withhold expensive medical treatment from your pets.

These sacrifices need to be made not because of an unavoidable crisis, but because the party of the liberal elite controls the federal government. In accordance with Democrat policy, hyperregulation strangles economic production, and wasteful government spending bloats the money supply, syphoning the value out of our money. If the 2020 election had turned out differently, the economy would be booming, as it was under Trump before the Covid overreaction.

The Blaze reviews public responses to Bloomberg’s condescending advice, including these:

Tara Servatius: “Elites to those making less than 300k: you’ll own nothing, you won’t even be able to afford meat or a pet, and you’ll shut up and be happy.”

The global left-wing elite calls that plan the Great Reset.

Wesley Hunt: “Good news. According to Bloomberg, you can avoid all the disastrous policies of the Biden White House for just a mere $300k a year! Can you say, tone deaf?”

Bloomberg is 88% owned by zillionaire nanny state leftist Michael Bloomberg, who ran for president. Guess which party.

As an alternative to Bloomberg’s advice, a more effective way to address inflation would be to stop voting for Democrats.

On tips from Anonymous and KirklesWorth.

Only recently, Arizona was a bastion of Americanism, home of the great Barry Goldwater. Then came colonization by California. Currently, the state is ruled by the likes of Attorney General Kris Mayes, who like her New York equivalent Letitia James is plunging the state into banana republic territory and trying to take the rest of the country with it by criminalizing opposition to Democrats in the runup to the November elections:

An Arizona grand jury indicted several important allies of former President Donald Trump — including former Trump attorney and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Arizona Republican Chair Kelli Ward, and former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows — for their roles in disputing the results of the 2020 presidential election. …

Meadows, Giuliani, [former Trump attorney Jenna] Ellis, and [former Trump campaign adviser Boris] Epshteyn are among those who were indicted for allegedly attempting to help Trump receive Arizona’s electoral votes in the 2020 presidential election, which was more than three years ago.

They are being indicted now because a major fork in the road is approaching:

The indictment of several Trump allies and members of Arizona’s Republican Party comes as a Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll conducted between April 8 and 15, found that President Joe Biden is trailing Trump in several key swing states such as Arizona…

If you are going to work on the Trump campaign, make sure you win. Otherwise, you might land in prison.

Typically of Democrats, Mayes takes the Orwellian approach of claiming that she is snuffing out democracy because she “will not allow American democracy to be undermined.”

If Democrats win after using these tactics, they will only become more arrogant. The last resistance to authoritarian single-party rule will be quickly extinguished. The coming election is a referendum on whether this will be America or a very different kind of country.

On tips from Varla and Wiggins.

As part of the absurd pretense that he somehow represents the regular Americans that his regime has been eradicating through open borders, socialism, and the DEI ideology of the liberal elite, the figurehead of our degenerate ruling class presents himself as “Scranton Joe,” on the grounds that he happens to have been born in the working class town before moving to Delaware. LANGUAGE ALERT — here’s how Biden is welcomed by the actual residents of Scranton:

Biden’s visit to Scranton was intended to contrast his middle class background with Trump’s privileged upbringing. Marxists forget that in America, it isn’t where you start; it’s where you end up.

Creepy Joe represents the decadent rich. The wealthiest have grown wealthier with him in office, whereas the rest of us have been incrementally impoverished by inflation. In contrast, Trump represents resistance to their misrule, which is why they hate him so much.

On a tip from WDS 2.0 and Jester.

The USA is coming to a fork in the road. We can see where one path goes by looking to the north, where authorities warn of societal collapse under squishy soft liberal tyrant Justin Trudeau. All the way in the opposite direction, Javier Milei presents the other option:

Argentine President Javier Milei announced his plans to slash 70,000 government jobs in an effort to shrink government expenditure and reduce the national deficit to zero. …

Over 50,000 of Argentina’s approximately 3.5 million public sector employees have already been dismissed, but more cuts were on the way.

Even in Argentina, upon which government hypertrophy has inflicted pointless misery for decades, pushback will be ferocious:

The Association of State Workers (ATE), one of the unions representing public employees, claimed that at least 10,000 state workers have already been let go as of Thursday. ATE leader Rodolfo Aguiar called the layoffs “illegal” and “unjustified” and called for a national strike on April 3.

Milei is also halting public pork projects and taking his budgetary chainsaw to wasteful welfare programs. It has to be done:

Argentina’s inflation rate has reached a three-decade high at over 250 percent, with an estimated 57 percent of the country living in poverty. To end the economic crisis, Milei has slashed state subsidies, reduced the number of government ministries by half, closed state agencies, and devalued the peso by 50 percent.

That’s the sort of decisive leadership that will be required to get the USA’s staggering national debt under control.

Other benefits of purging our own hostile bureaucracy are obvious to any lover of freedom. But who will have the nerve to carry out this essential task before the parasite finishes killing the host? The liberal establishment thinks Trump might do it, or it would not have worked itself into a hysterical frenzy over the likelihood that he would win a fair election.

On a tip from Ed McAninch.

It seemed British knighthood had reached rock bottom when it was bestowed upon a perverted pop star. Yet progressives always find a way to progress still deeper into moonbattery. They are going to knight the already absurdly overdecorated four-star hypocrite Mark Milley:

Britain’s defense attache to the U.S., Rear Adm. Tim Woods, released a statement on X: “From leadership over Afghanistan, expansion of @NATO, to the creation of AUKUS, our nation has been truly fortunate in these turbulent & uncertain times to have the confidence of America’s leading military figure.”

If Milley is America’s leading military figure, stick a fork in us, for we are done.

Aside from his catastrophic “leadership over Afghanistan,” Milley is best known for politicizing the military on behalf of the Democratic Party. Assuming Bob Woodward’s reporting to be accurate, Milley committed treason during the Trump Administration in collusion with communist China. He espouses antiwhite race hate and regards a large percentage of the US population to consist of enemies of the government.

Other pernicious American moonbats to receive knighthood include Bob Iger (CEO of the LGBT grooming operation that is Disney) and Michael Bloomberg (nanny state plutocrat, propagandist, and crusader against the right of self-defense).

Knighthood has become as disgraceful as the Nobel Peace Prize, which moonbats have bestowed upon a rogue’s gallery of reprobates including the terrorist Yasser Arafat, global warming scam artist Al Gore, and two of the three worst US presidents in living memory (hold on Creepy Joe; if Carter and Obama got one, you probably will too).

On a tip from WDS 2.0.

The initial local response to Genesse Ivonne Moreno trying to shoot up a megachurch in Houston as service was set to begin was to investigate the proper pronouns to use so as not to offend the dead maniac. This looks like the liberal establishment’s national response:

Senator Edward Markey (D-MA) is pushing legislation that could prevent churches around the country from using a “security services unit” comprised of concealed carriers in congregations, parishes, etc.

The bill is the Preventing Private Military Act of 2024, and it is co-sponsored by Senator Laphonza Butler (D-CA).

“(D-CA)” must be a typo. I thought the Lesbian of Color identity appointment Laphonza Butler was from Maryland.

It’s not like Democrats don’t understand what they are doing:

Church attendance isn’t low enough. Maybe turning churches into shooting galleries for psychos will help, the way encouraging school shootings with gun-free zone policies has helped the media propagandize against the Second Amendment.

On a tip from WDS 2.0.

To justify engineering the coming energy crisis, Democrats present dogma that cannot pass the laugh test. Check out this actual January 8, 2024 headline from Bloomberg:

Don’t Be Fooled, Snow Is Becoming a Thing of the Past

Tell that to anyone living in the Midwest, which has been getting hammered by way too much snow as well as hoax-defying “dangerously cold” temperatures.

Ten years ago, a New York Times headline shrieked,

The End of Snow?

By now we have a definitive answer: no.

Yet our moonbat rulers continue to double down on the hysteria, distracting the gullible from their systematic destruction of the country by convincing them that energy will make the pretty snow melt away. Dates are altered on their predictions of doom as dictated by circumstance.

David Blackmon touches base with reality:

For the record, the amount of snowfall in any discreet regional area has always ebbed and flowed as the climate and temperatures and amount precipitating moisture in the air around us have always fluctuated.

The same goes for all aspects of the climate. If the media can make us forget this and panic over every minor fluctuation, we are a herd of cattle and deserve the fate that awaits us at the stockyards leftists are driving us toward.

On a tip from R F.

By now it should be obvious that most people do not benefit from college, except to exploit it as a pretext to prolong adolesce at the expense of getting on with their adult lives. Yet liberal social engineers want everyone to attend university, for fear K-12 has not instilled sufficient indoctrination. Not everyone is going to make it through STEM classes. So the curriculum has been adjusted to accommodate the lowest common dominator:

Harvard professor and “diehard Swiftie” Stephanie L. Burt will be teaching a new course called “Taylor Swift and Her World,” set to debut this spring in the Ivy League university’s English Department, according to a report by the Harvard Crimson.

Thanks to identity-based admissions, being accepted to the most prestigious school in the country is no guarantee of being smart enough to find better uses for your time.

Meanwhile, at UC Berkeley, students will be offered a for-credit course called “Artistry & Entrepreneurship: Taylor’s Version” in the spring, according to a report by Los Angeles Times.

The class will be led by UC Berkeley graduate Crystal Haryanto, who seeks to address the alleged “stereotypical critiques” of Swift, as well as the pop star’s ever-increasing popularity and influence.

Less snooty schools also work diligently to advance moonbat pop star scholarship:

University of Florida will also be offering a course on Swift called, “Musical Storytelling With Taylor Swift and other Iconic Female Artists,” according to a report by Bloomberg.

Chinese students learn how to make rockets. Meanwhile:

As Breitbart News reported, courses on Swift have also recently been established at Stanford University, Arizona State University, New York University, University of Texas at Austin, and Ghent University in Belgium.

If you can’t stop laughing, remind yourself that colleges both public and private are subsidized to the hilt with your money, and that the Biden Regime is defying the Supreme Court to make us pay off other people’s student loans through inflation so that they can listen to Taylor Swift instead of getting jobs and starting families.

On a tip from Barry A.

The leftist war on meat continues. Nazi blitzkrieg tactics involved softening up the target with air raids and artillery; then came the tanks and infantry. With globalist moonbats, the softening up is accomplished by the media through propaganda campaigns:

One of the biggest drivers of the climate crisis, accounting for a third of the planet’s greenhouse gas emissions, is food production, with meat – particularly beef – at the top of the list.

What climate crisis? Before gullible readers have thought to ask, the alleged news item presses forward with a claim that 12% of Americans eat half of the beef consumed in the country.

“It may be that some of those 12% don’t realize the impacts that beef has on their health or the environment,” said study author Diego Rose, professor and director of nutrition at Tulane University. “The concern is, on a usual basis, are you eating a disproportionate amount?”

A disproportionate amount means more than your fare share.

Remember how Marxist moonbats used to bark about how much they hated the 1% during the Occupy Wall Street craze? It’s up to 12% now. Must be Biden’s inflation.

We are told that beef is 50 times more offensive to the weather than beans. No wonder environmentalists are so full of the latter.

Add eating beef to the long list of crimes attributable to the hated white race:

White people were among those more likely to eat more beef, compared with other racial and ethnic groups like Black and Asian Americans.

Assuming that not even liberal journalists are screwy enough to honestly believe eating beef makes it be too hot outside, this could be the real reason they oppose it:

“There’s this connection between meat consumption and masculinity,” said Joshua Specht, author of the book Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America.

Masculinity is bad enough. Worse still is colonization — i.e., the expansion of Western Civilization into savage wilderness:

Beef was first introduced in North America as European colonizers cleared Indigenous land and wildlife like bison. It became a core part of the nation’s identity in the late 19th century, with the expansion in the United States west.

Fortunately, we don’t have to give up meat completely to please our moonbat masters — at least, not for now:

Making a positive impact on the climate doesn’t necessarily mean giving up all meat – even reductions and substitutions can make a difference.

Substitute with what? How about sawdust:

Eating it is probably the last thing that comes into your mind, but that may be about to change thanks to one Estonian start-up.

ÄIO, set up in 2022, has created a way of producing fats and oils from industrial waste. …

The rosey red oil produced by ÄIO’s innovative process is ideal for making alternatives to meat, which often need a splash of colour to attract consumers away from their animal-based rivals.

Not to worry, if industrial waste isn’t to your taste, there are plenty of other options that meet with woke approval, including beetleburgers, cockroach milk, maggot butter, weeds, synthetic pseudofood, plastic trash, lentils, grass, crickets, larvae, wind turbine blades, mealworms, worm dogs, and seaweed.

On a tip from Lyle.

It is no secret that monsters have been gravitating toward Disney and public schools due to the emphasis both place on the perverse sexualization of children. So it comes as no surprise that those arrested in a Florida human trafficking operation include three Disney employees and a teacher.

[Those] arrested included Russell Rogers from Winter Haven, Florida, who was accused of negotiating to have sex with a prostitute.

Rogers, who is married with three children, is also the athletic director at Vanguard School and a teacher at Auburndale High School. …

Meanwhile three Disney employees, Kenneth Green, Marquis Nixon and Carlos Ro were also arrested in the operation for soliciting prostitutes.

As for those charged with human trafficking:

Freddy Escalona, 30, and Maria Guzman, 36, were charged with human trafficking and deriving proceeds from prostitution.

Both were in the country illegally. A border deliberately left undefended has its uses for some.

Although children may not have been involved this time, they often are. There is no shortage of prostitutes in the USA, but as with fentanyl, meeting the demand for underage prostitutes can require moving the goods across the open border.

No wonder the liberal establishment was so adamantly opposed to the movie Sound of Freedom that Bloomberg dispatched an actual pedophile activist to trash it. The degenerate ruling class does not want attention paid to human trafficking. It would crimp the lifestyle of those with certain preferences. Love is love!

If the stuff you see on TV makes you sick, imagine what is going on behind the scenes, as social engineers relentlessly define deviancy downward. A climate of moral decline will breed unspeakable crimes.

On tips from Ed McAninch and ABC of the ANC.

Abject poverty is bad enough when it is imposed by circumstance. Worse still is when it is inflicted by our liberal ruling class out of sheer moonbattery:

Fourteen major American cities are part of a globalist climate organization known as the “C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group,” which has an “ambitious target” by the year 2030 of “0 kg [of] meat consumption,” “0 kg [of] dairy consumption,” “3 new clothing items per person per year,” “0 private vehicles” owned, and “1 short-haul return flight (less than 1500 km) every 3 years per person.”

C40’s dystopian goals can be found in its “The Future of Urban Consumption in a 1.5°C World” report, which was published in 2019 and reportedly reemphasized in 2023. The organization is headed and largely funded by Democrat billionaire Michael Bloomberg.

Uncoincidentally, Bloomberg has spent many $millions attacking the Second Amendment, the main purpose of which is to defend us from tyranny.

Nearly 100 cities across the world make up the organization, and its American members include Austin, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Seattle.

Local leaders have begun imposing restrictions in pursuit of these malevolent objectives. For example, in NYC,

Eric Adams announced that the city will place caps on the amount of meat and dairy served by city institutions, such as schools and prisons.

Kooks like Adams need to pick up the pace in the race to impose poverty and tyranny in the name of the weather. Europe is pulling ahead of them:

The U.K. has banned the sale of new gas-powered vehicles after 2030, and France has banned short-haul flights “to cut carbon emissions.”

The goal is to reduce us to a Third World standard of living, while restricting fundamental liberties like freedom of movement and property rights. Though the implementation may be local, the design is globalist:

In 2020, the World Economic Forum (which promotes C40 Cities on its website) introduced “The Great Reset,” which seeks to use the Covid-19 pandemic as a point from which to launch a global reset of society to supposedly combat climate change. This reset, however, has far more to do with social control than it does with the climate. If globalist leaders truly cared about the environment, they wouldn’t be chartering private jets or owning massive, energy-consuming mansions on the coast in California, which, by climate fanatics’ own calculation, will soon be underwater.

Few could be dumb enough to take the supposed “climate crisis” at face value. Yet in the absence of resistance, the agenda continues to move forward.

To get an idea of how cartoonishly malevolent these maniacs are, consider WEF-linked “bioethicist” Dr. Matthew Liao:

Liao has proposed the idea of scientists genetically modify humans to be allergic to meat. Liao has also discussed shrinking the physical size of humans via eugenics or hormone injections so they consume fewer resources.

When they have us helpless enough, they can experiment at will.

If demanding we surrender our freedom and standard of living in the name of the weather stops getting traction, social engineers can always fall back on Covid-19. You thought that was over? Why would they let it be over?

On tips from R F and Jester.

Sound of Freedom exposes other movies that have come out over the past several decades as popcorn by comparison. Cultural gatekeepers are willing to make fools of themselves to trash it. They want us to watch woke vacuous crap like Barbie instead.

In part, this is because the Powers That Be want a public shallow and stupid enough to consent to their rule.

In part, it is because the producers of Sound of Freedom proved that you can make a great movie by circumventing Hollywood. It may be the only way to make one.

Mainly, it is because Sound of Freedom forcefully brings home the reality of the struggle between good and evil. The liberal establishment opposes this, because evil flourishes in the darkness. That’s why Bloomberg published an attack piece written by an actual child rape advocate.

Presenting America’s ruling party:

Stacie Marie Laughton is America’s Historic First Transgender-Identifying Former State Lawmaker to Be Arrested for Distributing Child Pornography. He was presumably put in power specifically for embodying the ideology of the ruling class, which has increasingly focused on promoting sexual perversion. This outweighed already being a convicted felon when he was elected.

Chilling details have emerged on how Laughton acquired child porn with the help of an accomplice working at a daycare center:

Laughton, 39, of Nashua, N.H., was referred to as “PERSON 1” in the federal criminal complaint against Lindsay Groves, 38, of Hudson, N.H., who was charged last month with taking pornographic images of children at the Creative Minds daycare in Tyngsboro, where she worked.

“I want to do this with you with one of my kids,” Groves allegedly texted her former romantic partner — who has now been identified as Laughton following Tuesday’s federal complaint filing — the afternoon of June 14 alongside a picture of a prepubescent boy with a focus on his genitals. “I took that picture a couple minutes ago.”

Laughton allegedly responded to that text with “I also need to be honest I mean yes that picture was hot of that little boy but you probably have gotten the picture by now that I prefer little girls (sic), but he is cute,” and allegedly requested that Groves to touch the little boy inappropriately. …

The feds say the messages included at least four sexually explicit images of children appearing to be between 3 and 5 years old, and lots of sex chatter about hooking up with each other and others, including children.

We can only assume that he was elected to the state legislature for the same reason the conspicuously incompetent Pete Buttigieg is the Secretary of Transportation: out of reverence for his warped sexual proclivities. Voters didn’t know just how warped, but they did know that no one should be judged for whom they love.

If it feels good, do it — right? Or maybe liberals have a deeper moral creed that I am unaware of. Let’s ask James Gordon Meek, a former ABC News producer who was nominated for an Emmy five times as a reporter. Someone that well entrenched in the liberal establishment ought to be able to help us:

According to the DOJ, Meek was visiting South Carolina in February 2020 from his home in Virginia when he sent and received disturbing images and videos that depicted minors engaged in sexual activity with adults.

He allegedly discussed in detail his sexual interests in children during conversations on a smart phone while using a chat application.

Files found on the phone reportedly included images and videos of prepubescent children and at least one file that depicted an infant being raped.

You could call this anecdotal — or you could call it symptomatic.

It isn’t just academia, Hollywood, and the upper echelon liberal elitists who visited Jeffrey Epstein’s Pedophile Island. The degenerate ruling class is rotten to the core. This rot is the perfect soil for evil to grow.

Where else would progressives progress to next after transsexualizing children if not to raping them? By shining a klieg light on this issue and providing moral clarity, Sound of Freedom impedes the agenda.

On tips from Barry A, ABC of the ANC, Ronin, and Ed McAninch.

In case you were running short of reasons to avoid New York City under moonbat rule, here’s another:

In an effort to reduce plastic use, New York will start fining restaurants and third-party delivery services that provide disposable utensils, soy sauce packets, and similar items without the customer requesting them.

Plastic is so useful that the Democrat religion regards it as unholy.

Of course the media is on board:

With the popularity of takeout and delivery steadily rising, this new rule is arriving at an opportune time. It will encourage businesses and consumers to be more conscious about plastic use habits and hopefully curtail the impact of single-use plastic on the environment.

Next Democrats will require forks to be made out of wood:

In fact, creating one ton of plastic cutlery results in roughly 1,350 to 3,800 more pounds of [supposedly] harmful carbon pollution than disposable wooden cutlery.

Petty tyrants have constructed a petty tyranny, in which no detail of our personal lives is too trivial for woke bullies to intrude upon.

On the positive side, maybe the climate gods will be pleased at our obeisance when they see New Yorkers eating Chinese takeout with their fingers and send pleasant weather.

On a tip from Wiggins.

The liberal establishment’s hostility to the movie Sound of Freedom has been ferocious. Propagandists have even hauled out what they regard as their biggest gun, absurdly attempting to link it to January 6 by calling it “QAnon adjacent.”

At first this seemed to be a defensive reaction against proof that successful movies can be made outside progressive Hollyweird. However, the subject matter bothers the liberal establishment even more.

Exposing pedophilia and child trafficking is taboo. Why would that be? Noah Berlatsky offers a clue:

Berlatsky’s latest criticism of the drama focusing on the grave yet glossed over issue of child trafficking lambasted the movie with vitriolic scorn for perpetuating dangerous tropes, whilst he himself turned to the truly tired trope of accusing the movie of packaging together various QAnon conspiracy theories and being a movie made for alt-right boomers. There’s just one problem…Berlatsky has a sordid history of advocating for the normalization of pedophilia.

In 2021, Berlatsky was named the communications director at Prostasia, a non-profit organization which has dedicates itself to a self-avowed mission of protecting children from sexual abuse.

Those who have seen what LGBT advocates do to “protect” children they proclaim to be transsexual — up to and including genital mutilation — can guess what “protecting children from sexual abuse” means in this context.

It means raping them.

If there’s any doubt about Prostasia’s pro-pedophilia stance, the organization literally facilitates a safe space for pedophiles, which it has dubbed its MAP Support Club Partnership.

“MAPs” (minor-attracted persons) is what progressives call pedophiles in an attempt to normalize their crimes against children and against decency. Social engineers ostensibly mainstreamed homosexuality and even transsexuality virtually overnight. Pedophilia is next on the agenda.

This isn’t the first time Berlatsky attacked a movie for threatening to expose the child sex industry:

In 2016, he published a piece titled Child Sex Workers’ Biggest Threat: The Police with The New Republic. In the article, Berlatsky takes aim at the 2012 film Eden which is another drama centered around exposing the grim realities of child sex abuse.

Berlatsky took the position that children should be free to work in the sex industry.

On social media, he has made a pageant of his support for the sexual abuse of children:

A noted supporter of “trans-kids”, Berlatsky’s history of perverted tweets also takes aim at the relationship between parents and their children, a cornerstone of the transgender movement which seeks to obscure its brainwashing children into gender dysphoria with a cacophony of language designed by groomers.

Unsurprisingly, his Twitter account is now private. However, ZeroHedge has screenshots of the receipts.

The objective of Prostasia is to establish pedophiles as “marginalized,” like homosexuals and transvestites, with all the privileges and superior legal status that entails. As noted here the last time Berlatsky came to our attention,

If you have anything negative to say about pedophiles, get it off your chest now. In a few years, such talk will be forbidden, on pain of losing your job. We don’t tolerate homophobes; why should we tolerate pedophobes? Remember, all must be revered for who and how they love, so long as they don’t indulge in anything unwoke like heteronormativity.

Berlatsky extols the allegedly positive impact of pornography on children, and denounces parents as “an oppressive class, like rich people or white people.” Like many moonbats, he is a sick freak. He serves well as the personification of our cultural gatekeepers.

Those gatekeepers are failing where Sound of Freedom is concerned:

People understand that if the liberal establishment does not want you to watch something, you need to watch it.

On tips from Bluto and MrRightWingDave.