Artificial Intelligence mainly programmed by moonbats is likely to make most of our lives worse, but it does offer one advantage. Now when public figures are caught on video saying something they wish they hadn’t, they can claim they are victims of “deep fakes.”

Illinois NAACP President Teresa Haley is enraged that the massive hordes of illegal aliens Democrats have been importing from the Third World to displace the America population are prioritized even above native-born BIPOCs.

Gripes Haley:

“But black people have been on the streets forever and ever, and nobody cares because they say that we’re drug addicts, we got mental health issues. But these immigrants have come over here, they’ve been raping people, they’ve been breaking into homes, they’re like savages as well!”

It is unclear whether she means that undocumented Democrats are like savages in addition to raping people and breaking into homes, or that they resemble savages just like… Never mind.

Governor JB Pritzker took her to task for deviating from political correctness:

“Reprehensible remarks, I would hope that she would apologize for the remarks. I also think that people should recognize that immigrants to this country are all around us,” he said.

Democrats rarely miss a chance to conflate legitimate immigrants who came to assimilate and contribute to American society with criminal invaders who sneer at our laws just by being here while sponging off public assistance.

Haley did apologize – but then after she was tracked down on vacation in Dubai by Chicago ABC station WLS-TV, she suggested it was a deepfake, saying “With AI, anything is possible.”

Is it a deep fake, or has Haley stepped in something deep by committing thoughtcrime? You be the judge:

On a tip from Barry A.

By electing quintessential moonbat Brandon Johnson, Chicago set itself on a course for ruin. But until the city collapses completely, at least the illegal aliens imported to displace the native population get lots of free money:

Chicago is giving $9,000 to illegal migrants to assist with temporary housing after already paying out a staggering $ 7.2 million for staffing shelters in just one week.

There could be drawbacks to a self-proclaimed sanctuary city offering extravagant handouts in a country that effectively has no borders:

The city now faces enormous pressure, with over 11,000 migrants in shelters and 4,000 staying in police stations and the O’Hare International Airport.

No worries; the state will step in to pick up the tab:

Now, the state of Illinois is helping cover costs for temporary housing for illegal migrants to free up room in shelters, including $9,000 in housing and rental assistance for six months, Chicago deputy chief of staff Cristina Pacione-Zayas confirmed.

The city has allocated $4 million already to help migrants find temporary housing, while the state contributed a further $38 million.

The left-wing administration of Governor JB Pritzker has proclaimed Illinois “the most welcoming state in the nation” for illegal aliens.

Even a few Americans are making out quite well:

Kansas-based company Favorite Healthcare Staffing billed the city more than $7.2 million to staff migrant shelters for just four weeks…

The invoices covered 400 employees who worked between April 22 to May 19, including one nurse who was paid $20,000 for a single week of work in December. The same nurse made $16,536 for seven days of work in April.

Due to insanely extravagant public sector pensions, the entire state is lurching toward fiscal insolvency. Before long Biden’s handlers will have to put the printing presses into overdrive to bail out Illinois. You will pick up the tab for the looting spree as the value of your savings is deflated.

On tips from Barry A and ABC of the ANC.

The Cultural Marxist coalition may experience a few bumps on the road to utopia. Chicago residents have noticed that whites are not the only demographic Democrat border policy is displacing:

Meanwhile, the state’s moonbat rulers move toward recruiting people who are in the country illegally as police officers:

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed off on a controversial bill allowing foreign nationals to become law enforcement officers, a move that critics blasted as “madness” for setting the stage to potentially deputize illegal aliens to arrest U.S. citizens in their own country.

Contempt for the rule of law goes hand in hand with tyranny, as anarchotyrannical Democrats often remind us.

The bill, which amends the Illinois Municipal Code and goes into effect on January 1, 2024, “Provides that an individual who is not a citizen but is legally authorized to work in the United States under federal law is authorized to apply for the position of a police officer, subject to all requirements and limitations, other than citizenship, to which other applicants are subject.”

U.S. Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) assailed the passage of the law that could lead to illegal aliens being given guns and badges and unleashed on citizens in the Land of Lincoln.

The police are not happy:

Pritzker signed HB 3751 despite fierce opposition from the Illinois Fraternal Order of Police which strongly condemned the bill when it passed the House.

However, the last people Democrats want to please are local police.

This comes on the heels of abolishing cash bail with the Purge Law. As New York and California have already demonstrated, less cash bail means more crime.

How fitting that the Democratic National Convention will be held in Chicago next year. The sinking city pulling the state down the drain reflects what Democrats want to extend to the entire country.

On tips from Ed McAninch and Wiggins.

Catch and release has worked so well at the border and in New York City that Democrat-dominated Illinois is adopting the policy:

The Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a state law passed following the death of George Floyd that was intended to end cash bail for most criminal defendants.

At first it seemed sanity might intervene…

The SAFE-T Act was approved by the state General Assembly in January 2021 but was halted at the eleventh hour after a Kankakee County judge ruled the ending of cash bail to be unconstitutional.

But as usual in Illinois, moonbattery prevailed:

The lower court ruling was sent to the state Supreme Court, which overturned it in a 5-2 decision.

Obese plutocrat Governor J. B. Pritzker approves of the decision. Anarchotyranny means the same tyrant who would not allow more than two people to ride on a boat during Covid hysteria wants actual criminals to run loose wreaking havoc.

The dementedly pro-criminal SAFE-T Act has been called the “Purge Law,” in reference to the movies/TV series about crime being made legal for 12 hours once a year to keep the population down. Orland Park Mayor Keith Pekau calls it “the most dangerous law I’ve ever seen.” In addition to establishing a revolving door for dangerous criminals, other aspects include…

…limiting when defendants can be deemed flight risks, allowing defendants under electronic monitoring to leave home for 48 hours before they can be charged with escape, and preventing police from arresting non-violent trespassers…

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul barks that “The SAFE-T Act was intended to address pervasive inequalities in the criminal justice system.”

That’s the purpose the criminal justice system serves, where Democrats have consolidated control: addressing “pervasive inequalities” rather than securing public safety.

After cash bail is ended on September 18, Democrats will boast of having reduced the incarcerated population. This will win votes from their base in places like the South Side of Chicago. The city has succumbed to the Democrat Death Spiral, having driven out enough sane people to guarantee ever more radical left-wing rule. The entire state looks ready to follow it down the drain.

On a tip from Franco.

Those who have been allowed to invade our country in contravention of our laws in order to displace us do not enjoy the same privileges as American citizens; they enjoy better ones. As on Orwell’s Animal Farm, all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others. Like preferred racial groups and the sexually insane, illegal aliens are more equal than you, because they are favored by our liberal rulers. They are “protected.”

That means landlords will be forced to rent to them, even if they have qualms about turning over their property to criminals who break the law just by being here:

A new Illinois law will require landlords to rent or sell property to undocumented migrants, adding immigration status to the list of protected classes in the Illinois Human Rights Act.

SB1817 was signed into law by Governor J.B. Pritzker (D-Ill.) last month and is set to go into effect at the beginning of 2024. The law will add “protections in the Illinois Human Rights Act for housing regarding immigration status protection.”

As we learned when CDC bureaurats exploited Covid hysteria to impose an eviction moratorium, it isn’t the landlord’s property; it is the government’s property. By extension, it is illegal aliens’ property, because so long as the government is run by Democrats, it can be counted on to side with illegal aliens against Americans.

On a tip from Wiggins.

The leftists who run Harvard discriminate against whites and Asians in the name of diversity. They want to achieve a balance. But only when it comes to race. When it comes to something more meaningful, namely viewpoint, the Harvard Crimson reveals their idea of balance:

Members of the Harvard Corporation, the University’s highest governing body, contributed more than $1.5 million in political donations to federal candidates and political action committees in 2021 and 2022. Of that number, just $12,900 went to Republican political causes.

That comes to less than 0.86% to Republicans. There’s you balance. There’s your diversity.

Within the Corporation’s ranks are two former Obama administration officials, two billionaires, and three heads of private investment firms. Ahead of the 2020 election, Corporation members financed over $1 million to Democratic campaigns and PACs.

Senior Fellow Penny S. Pritzker ’81, who served as the U.S. Secretary of Commerce under President Obama, contributed the most out of the board’s members, supplying Democratic causes with more than $750,000 ahead of the 2022 midterms. She gave similarly in the 2020 election cycle, with $861,000 in support of Democratic candidates.

Penny S. Pritzker is the sister of the authoritarian leftist J.B. Pritzker, Governor of Illinois, who ought to take up acting if they ever do a live action film adaptation of George Orwell’s Animal Farm. He would be perfectly cast as one of the pigs.

As for billionaire Harvard Corporation member David M. Rubenstein,

Rubenstein is a close friend of President Joe Biden. During the first two years of his presidency, Biden stayed at Rubenstein’s Nantucket home for Thanksgiving.

As George Carlin might say of our moonbat ruling class, it’s a big club, and we are not in it. To elaborate:

“You and I are not in the big club. And by the way, it’s the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head in their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table is tilted folks.”

Orders regarding what to believe are passed down to us through the media, but they originate with those running institutions like Harvard.

By the way, of the trivial amount that went to the GOP, almost all was to the loathsome Adam Kinzinger, best known for pandering to Democrats. He actually publicly wept as part of Pelosi’s January 6 show trials.

Back to the Harvard Crimson:

Paul J. Finnegan ’75 was the sole Corporation member to support Republican candidates, giving $5,000 to former U.S. Representative Adam D. Kinzinger (R-Ill.) and $2,900 to Jesse L. Reising, who lost in the 2022 Republican primary in Illinois’ 13th Congressional District. Finnegan also contributed $5,000 to Kinzinger’s PAC.

Kinzinger voted to impeach former President Donald J. Trump for inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection and served on the House Jan. 6 Select Committee investigating the attack on the Capitol.

Kinzinger did not face voters again. He now works as a propagandist for the Democrat Party disinformation platform CNN.

If you don’t count Kinzinger as a Republican — who would? — the percentage given to Republicans comes to $2,900 out of over $1.5 million, or about 0.19%. The last place on earth to look for diversity is among the homogeneous leftist Borg comprising our ruling class.

On a tip from Jack D.

We will soon reach the point where no other item on the liberal agenda can be inflicted until after they have imposed the most important item of all: gun control. There are limits to what an armed population will put up with. This is why Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is said to have said, “You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.” This may not hold true for long in Illinois, where the Democrat Death Spiral has driven so many regular Americans out of the state that Governor J.B. Pritzker feels empowered to make a ham-fisted power grab by signing into law a statewide ban on assault weapons.

The term “assault weapon” is useful to authoritarians because they can apply it as broadly as they please. It means “an object that can be used to assault people.” A total ban on assault weapons would include baseball bats, chairs, fists, et cetera. For now,

The bill, HB 5471, will outlaw the sale, manufacture, possession and purchase of “assault-style” weapons, assault weapon attachments and .50 caliber cartridges, while also limiting magazine capacity to 10 rounds for long guns and 15 rounds for handguns, according to the legislation.

This will criminalize a large percentage of modern firearms, prominently including the most popular, America’s rifle. If this flies, the next few yanks on the ratchet will ban whatever is left.

Illinois residents who own guns that are now restricted under the law all be able to keep them, but will be required to register the firearms with the state police, according to the legislation.

Confiscating the registered firearms will follow inevitably, should the unpacked (for now) Supreme Court allow the brazenly unconstitutional law to stand.

The reason media moonbats can barely restrain their euphoria whenever there is a school shooting and blue state authorities go out of their way to keep violent lunatics on the street is they want a pretext. For Illinois Democrats, a lame duck session protecting them from voters was sufficient opportunity.

There are still a few Republicans that the moonbattery oozing down from Chicago have not driven from the state, including State Senator Chapin Rose, who responds:

“Enforce the laws that already exist. We’re going to make felons out of taxpayers. Put the bad guys behind the bars, not the good guys.”

That is exactly the reverse of Democrat policy, which is why this is happening in infamously corrupt Illinois. Dems know as well as anyone that this law will have minimal effect on criminals, while disarming those who would like to defend themselves against criminals.

State Senator Darren Bailey sounds downright American:

“You’ve got to know the actions that you are taking are tyrannous. You also must know that I and millions of other gun owners in this state will not comply.”

If we do comply with the coming gun confiscation, Democrats will have crossed the Rubicon. They hate us, and will be able to do whatever they want to us.

On tips from Troy H and Varla.

Hate hoaxes involving alleged nooses no longer pass the laugh test, even if they are found on the construction site of a temple devoted to worship of the Moonbat Messiah himself:

I wonder if the noose they found is the same one Jussie Smollett wore around his neck for some time after it was allegedly placed there in the middle of the night during a snowstorm by the Trump supporters who we were expected to believe rule the streets of Chicago.

If not, it might have been the noose psycho PC bully/Black Lives Matter activist/NASCAR Driver of Color Bubba Wallace found in his garage. No wait, that was just a door pull.

Maybe it was the noose that oppressed two black professors at Penn State University. No, that turned out to be part of a swing set.

Could it be the noose that inflicted hate upon a construction site at Central Connecticut State University? Apparently not, since that was just a steel loop in a construction cable.

Then it must have been one of the nooses unleashed against Persons of Color at Stanford. No again; those were loops in what had apparently once been part of an abandoned swing or rope ladder.

Despite the Obama center noose being at worst a prank, and almost certainly either a hate hoax or just an innocent piece of rope,

Lakeside Alliance, the company building the $830 million dollar presidential center, told the New York Post it immediately halted construction and notified police after a noose was discovered at the worksite on Thursday morning.

Lakeside alliance is offering a $100,000 reward to find the culprit who left a piece of rope at a construction site, where rope tied in all sorts of knots can often be found all over the place. Fools and their money…

Democrat demagoguery went straight to fifth gear:

The Obama Foundation told the New York Post the incident was “a shameless act of cowardice” and Illinois’ Democratic Gov. J.B Pritzker called it “a heart-stopping reminder of the violence and terror inflicted on Black Americans for centuries.”

Panted Pritzker,

“I condemn this act of hate in the strongest possible terms, and the state of Illinois will make all needed resources available to help catch the perpetrators.”

Meanwhile, actual criminals in Chicago are allowed to run riot.

You would think the media would brandish the noose triumphantly as evidence in support of its narrative. But I can only find pictures of a nondescript coil of rope stuffed in a trash bag.

On tips from Wiggins, Heckrules, Steve T, and Eddie_Valiant.

Under Democrat rule, civilization is collapsing. This can be seen everywhere: in the quality of our political leadership, in the filth children are exposed to, in the unwatchability of entertainment, in the subversion of formerly trusted institutions like the military and medicine, and most conspicuously of all, in the crime crisis that predictably followed in the wake of Black Lives Matter.

A typical story from New York:

Dramatic surveillance video shows the moment a trio of robbers — one swinging a sledgehammer — smashed their way into a high-end Park Avenue jewelry store over the weekend.

The video:

Not even the nicest parts of town are safe from the collapse of law & order that began under Bill de Blasio and continues uninterrupted under Eric Adams.

At last word there were no arrests in the looting of Cellini Jewelers, which lost over $500,000 in merchandise.

According to NYPD’s latest crime statistics, burglaries and grand larcenies were up more than 31% and 41% respectively, while robberies have seen an increase of 35.5%, compared to the same time last year.

Last year crime rates were already stratospheric in New York and nationwide.

Republican campaign ads have enraged liberals by calling them on it. Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Inquirer says drawing attention to crime is “vile” and “racist.” Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot got this ad pulled for showing what has been going on in Chicago:

But Pritzker and Lightfoot have not been able to suppress public awareness of how fellow thugs have exploited the carte blanche offered them by liberal rule. Crime has emerged as a major issue in the midterms — and people know who to blame for it.

In contrast, Republicans offer solutions. They are outnumbered more than two to one in New York, yet Lee Zeldin is running neck and neck with incumbent Governor Kathy Hochul. Zeldin says he will immediately declare a state of emergency to combat crime:

“I’m going to suspend New York’s cashless bail laws and some other pro-criminal laws that have been passed, force the legislature to come to the table to negotiate an improvement because we have to take back our streets.”

He plans to remove Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for refusal to enforce the law. Like George Gascon (Los Angeles), Kim Foxx (Chicago), Larry Krasner (Philadelphia), Chesa Boudin (San Francisco), and Kim Gardner (St Louis), and Marilyn Mosby (Baltimore), Bragg was placed in office by sinister leftist financier George Soros.

Weather Underground scion Chesa Boudin has been recalled. The rest need to follow. But to properly clean house, Democrats must be pried from power.

On tips from Wiggins, ABC of the ANC, and MrRightWingDave.

Tatiana Ibrahim of Carmel, New York is not the only mom who has had enough of the depravity that is force fed to children by the leftists who control schools. Becky Swan let loose at a school board meeting in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois:

Swan’s statement came in response to a new bill, S.B. 0818, which mandates that schools teaching sex education in the state must comply with the National Sex Education Standards. The bill has passed both chambers of the Illinois legislature and now awaits signing by Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker.

With left-wing maniacs in control of Washington, no parent should want national standards inflicted on their children. But Democrats are all about ending local control so as to implement their centralized, top-down, authoritarian approach to everything from education to elections.

Swan observed that the Democrat approach to sex ed “sexually grooms young children by introducing sensitive and inappropriate topics.”

Reading a sampling from the NSES, she noted that students in kindergarten through second grade are expected to “list medically accurate names for body parts, including the genitals” …

Grade 3–5 education features sexual feelings and masturbation.

Those children are also taught that “gender expression and gender identity exist along a spectrum” and are expected to “distinguish between sex assigned at birth and gender identity” as well as be able to “describe the role hormones play in the physical, social, cognitive, and emotional changes during adolescence and the potential role of hormone blockers on young people who identify as transgender.”

By the time children reach grades 6-8, they are expected to be able to “define vaginal, oral, and anal sex” …

In healthier times, adults would have been arrested for talking to children about these subjects.

Swan brandished a book with an Orwellian title that is apparently used in Illinois schools. Illustrations make it obvious that the book is not suitable for children.

The book, “It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health,” has been the subject of controversy and outrage before. It includes illustrated depictions of naked teens and adults, sexual intercourse, different types of birth control, homosexuality, and masturbation.

Despite the outrage, the book is still widely used in public schools. It is not enough to complain. To prevent children from being molded into degenerate moonbats, parents need to push as hard and as relentlessly as leftists have been pushing their deranged ideology down the country’s throat.

Swan also takes a swing at critical race theory indoctrination. Watch and admire:

On a tip from Dragon’s Lair.

The joke that progressives use 1984 as an instruction manual is not as funny as it used to be. The New York Times, flagship publication of the liberal establishment, has published a piece by Kevin Roose entitled, “How the Biden Administration Can Help Solve Our Reality Crisis.” It calls for a cross-agency task force under the command of a Reality Czar that would be a corollary of George Orwell’s Ministry of Truth.

The Reality Czar would command “a centralized task force” that would “coordinate a single, strategic response” to what the liberal media establishment calls “disinformation” — i.e., facts and opinions that do not comply with the Democratic Party line.

When Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker sent 500 National Guard troops to contribute to the show of force that has been staged in Washington, he cited “the dark forces of racism, white supremacy, and disinformation.” Maybe the troops will help round up perpetuators of disinformation and escort them to Room 101 for what liberals call “deprogramming.”

Among the beliefs Roose wants the federal government to prevent us from holding is that COVID-19 came from a Chinese lab — which it probably did.

The liberal establishment’s embrace of totalitarianism is out in the open now:

The muddled, chaotic information ecosystem that produces these misguided beliefs … actively exacerbates our biggest national problems, and creates more work for those trying to solve them. And it raises an important question for the Biden administration: How do you unite a country in which millions of people have chosen to create their own version of reality?

“Unite” is used in the Biden sense, meaning “conquer and pacify.” There is no question of seeking common ground. Liberals dictate their version of “reality” and the rest of us are forced to conform to it. That is the only unity that interests them.

I’ve spent the past several years reporting on our national reality crisis, and I worry that unless the Biden administration treats conspiracy theories and disinformation as the urgent threats they are, our parallel universes will only drift further apart, and the potential for violent unrest and civic dysfunction will only grow.

Our wrongthink must be rigorously suppressed, or else there will be violence.

Roose called upon “experts,” mostly from the leftist fever swamps of academia, to put an authoritative imprimatur on his opinions. That’s where he got the surreal concept of a task force headed by a Reality Czar to impose the liberal establishment’s notion of reality.

In the past year, we have seen Twitter suspend the account of the New York Post for breaking a bombshell story regarding Biden’s corruption and YouTube impose a stated policy of censoring anything that contradicts the ChiCom-dominated World Health Organization on COVID-19. Yet the Paper of Record thinks Big Tech needs federal assistance to become still more authoritarian:

This task force could also meet regularly with tech platforms, and push for structural changes that could help those companies tackle their own extremism and misinformation problems. (For example, it could formulate “safe harbor” exemptions that would allow platforms to share data about QAnon and other conspiracy theory communities with researchers and government agencies without running afoul of privacy laws.)

You don’t need privacy laws unless you are trying to hide something from Big Brother.

Several experts recommended that the Biden administration push for much more transparency into the inner workings of the black-box algorithms that Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other major platforms use to rank feeds, recommend content and usher users into private groups, many of which have been responsible for amplifying conspiracy theories and extremist views.

The people who run the media benefit more than anyone from the First Amendment. Yet they literally want the federal government to control what can be said online, so as to suppress “conspiracy theories” that sometimes turn out to be true and “extremist views” that include any views that contradict liberal establishment dogma.

Alarmingly, Roose portrays the expression of views he disagrees with as “a public health issue.” He recommends ads targeting thought criminals “with empathetic messages about mental health and mindfulness.” If that doesn’t work, there are always mental institutions, as in the Soviet Union.

Maybe liberals really do believe they can control the climate. They seem to think they can control reality itself, if they just apply enough coercion.

On a tip from Dragon’s Lair.

We are used to judges helping to impose moonbattery in California, as when gay US District Judge Vaugh Walker overruled Prop 8 to take a wrecking ball to marriage. But Gavin Newsom has gotten so carried away that a judge is acting as a brake:

Sutter County Superior Court Judge Sarah Heckman issued a preliminary order for Newsom to stop making executive orders that could contradict state laws after determining one of his orders was “an unconstitutional exercise of legislative power.”

Her order prevents Newsom “from exercising any power under the California Emergency Services Act which amends, alters, or changes existing statutory law or makes new statutory law or legislative policy.”

The pushback against Newsom’s COVID-19 tyranny unsurprisingly was initiated by the handful of Republicans remaining in the erstwhile Golden State.

Republican state Assemblymen James Gallagher and Kevin Kiley challenged Newsom, saying he was overstepping state law with his executive orders.

The problem is not necessarily particular decrees; it is that our system of government requires the legislative branch to make the laws, not the executive. Someone needs to get word of this to other Democrat governors who have exploited the ChiCom virus to set themselves up as regional dictators (Andrew Cuomo, Gretchen Whitmer, Phil Murphy, Kate Brown, JB Pritzker, Janet Mills, et al).

Let’s hope the Supreme Court provides the same pushback if Biden prevails and his handlers try to make good on his threat of a “dark winter.” Unfortunately, if Democrats follow through on another threat, they will pack the court with rubber stamp leftists and turn it into a superlegislature that will render future voting futile.

On a tip from FrancesJohn.