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Biden Regime Comes After Air Conditioners
Democrats were not likely to stop at gas stoves, which they still want to ban. Nor would they stop with refrigerators and washing machines. My fellow Phoenix residents will be alarmed to learn than now Biden’s handlers are coming after our air conditioners:
The Biden administration announced its latest home appliance regulations this week, targeting air conditioners in an action it said would reduce the nation’s carbon emissions.
As the reference to the essential plant nutrient carbon dioxide suggests, Democrats are imposing the excessive regulations in the name of “tackling the climate crisis.”
The climate crisis exists only in the imaginations of gullible moonbats. In contrast, the government hypertrophy crisis is quite real. If not addressed, it will leave us without appliances. Progressives will inflict this progressively, by using Deep State regulation to drive up the cost of appliances so that ever fewer can afford them.
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Gigantic New FBI Headquarters Twice Size of Pentagon
Its largest structures are an indication of what a society is centered on. For example, the pyramids testify to ancient Egyptians’ focus on the afterlife. American society was founded on the principle of limited government. Tragically, this noble principle was rotted away by leftism. Now, the nucleus is all-powerful, omnipresent centralized government. Its primary enforcement arm is the alarmingly politicized FBI, which is getting a new home befitting its significance:
The massive new building/complex will be, at minimum, double the size of the Pentagon, which, until very recently, was the largest office building on the face of the planet. The Bureau’s new headquarters will be built on one of three selected sites in suburban Virginia and Maryland, all of which are between 58 and 80 acres in size.
This means that the Feds’ new building may potentially end up being even larger than the Kremlin, which covers a staggering 66 acres.
The KGB has been eclipsed by its emulator.
The fact that the FBI, the U.S.’s domestic intelligence and security service and federal law enforcement arm, will soon have a home dwarfing that of the department of defense charged with guaranteeing our national security and protecting us from myriad threats from abroad, speaks volumes about the Biden administration.
If our rulers had any interest in defending the country from foreign threats, the border would be closed in an hour. Our government regards us as its only real enemy.
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Regulating Junk Food as a Drug
Pretending to impose equity is a great way for authoritarians to achieve intrusive levels of power. Pretending to prevent the climate from fluctuating as it always has and always will is another. As we learned by enduring Covid tyranny, a third way is public health:
Highly-processed foods should be reclassified as drugs because they are as addictive and harmful as cigarettes, scientists argue.
Classification as a drug enables hyperregulation. Only when every aspect of existence is micromanaged by federal bureauweenies can perfect safety be achieved.
Researchers claim items like donuts, sugary cereals and pizza meet the meet official criteria that established cigarettes as a drug in the 1990s.
We know from the War on Tobacco what comes next, in addition to suffocating regulation: looting in the form of exorbitant taxation and jackpot justice lawsuits by people who achieve diabetes by eating too many donuts.
Ultra processed foods – which also include things like soda, chips, pastries and candies – contain high amounts of unnatural flavorings, preservatives and sweeteners.
Shouts a “health behaviors research professor” named Alexandra DiFeliceantonio:
‘They are not foods anymore. These are these products that have been really well designed to deliver addictive substances.’
Speaking of ultraprocessed “food,” allegedly edible insects have to be heavily processed so as not to make you sick. But Klaus Schwab and the Davos set want us eating bugs, so they will escape punitive regulations for the time being.
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What Progressives Are Progressing Toward: North Korea
The Democratic Party is loyally supported by the explosively proliferating bureaucrats infesting the Beltway because it is the Party of Big Government. Its mission — whether in the name of equity, the climate, or whatever other pretext — is to move the ratchet ever further toward more powerful and intrusive government at the expense of individual liberty. To give young people an idea of what awaits at the end of this path, PragerU takes them on a tour of the ultimate leftist utopia, where government is omnipotent and omnipresent — North Korea. Here’s a video kids might watch in school if education had not fallen to the Long March Through the Institutions:
At least Democrats wouldn’t ban pets, like North Korea’s rulers. Oh wait…
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