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.

Courage and countermoonbattery are often rewarded. Indiana high school student Cameron Blasek didn’t let educrats tell him he couldn’t fly Old Glory from his truck. He could have backed down to the moonbat establishment, but he stood his ground. Now he reaps his reward:

A Cincinnati graphics company is supporting Blasek with a new custom wrap for his pickup truck. …

“We did it because we are proud Americans that believe that Cameron did exactly what needs to be done, stand up for our freedoms,” [GCI Digital Imaging] owner TJ Bedacht said.

Looks sharp:

Moonbats will grind their teeth to the gums watching it pull into the parking lot at East Central High School.

On a tip from WDS 2.0.

Grim as the situation sometimes appears, pushback still works. From St. Leon, Indiana:

Cameron Blasek was asked by school staff at East Central High School to remove the [American] flag from his truck.

According to the moonbat religion that prevails in the education establishment, the US flag is profane because it represents white supremacy, heteronormativity, cisgenderism, et cetera, ad nauseam.

They threatened to write the student up for insubordination. But Blasek refused to take down Old Glory.

Later in the same day, Blasek was called to the office to discuss the situation again. He showed school officials that he was following both laws related to the flag and the school’s code of conduct.

He was told the rules would be revised so as to forbid flying the flag.

The day following Blasek’s meeting with his educators, nearly two dozen other students showed up with flags attached to their cars. Blasek was called to the principal’s office nonetheless.

When Blasek continued to stand firm, the educrats backed down:

“After careful consideration and in recognition of the importance of the U.S. flag as a symbol of unity and national identity, I am pleased to inform you that we are allowing the display of the U.S. Flag by students in the East Central parking lot. I understand the significance of this symbol and the pride it instills in our students, teachers, and the entire school community. I share this pride,” Principal Tom Black wrote.

I’ll bet.

On a tip from Anonymous.

No countermoonbat wants to open a novel and step in a pile of wokeness. Readers won’t have that problem with The Cubist Supremacy by Gary Wolf.

Modern art and racial grievance ideology are rackets. Protagonist Carleton Peabody gets rich scamming the scammers with a scheme that involves framing avant-garde paintings as cultural appropriation. But when he uses his newfound wealth and prestige to defend real art, he discovers that postmodern garbage is more malign than a mere swindle. It is imposed by social engineers with an agenda. As one character puts it,

“[T]o these people, beauty is the enemy. They have a vision for a new world, one that is monotonous and repulsive. No one, they believe, should be allowed to create or enjoy real art. They know that individuals who succeed in doing so are enriched, and become impervious to dumbing down. With almost all modern art and architecture, this outcome is forestalled, because everyone is crushed down to the same bestial level. There will be no higher sphere, for anyone.”

Other aspects of the agenda are more sinister still, as Peabody discovers.

Dystopian science fiction like Equality by Daniel Watts extrapolates into the future to warn of where moonbattery is taking us. The Cubist Supremacy does the job in the present day context of woke posturing, Black Lives Matter lawlessness, Covid/Disease X, and nefarious globalist saviors of humanity, providing welcome relief from the moonbat viewpoint.

As the airline industry collapses into dysfunction under the weight of end stage moonbattery, flying is getting increasingly harrowing:

A New York-bound Virgin Atlantic flight was canceled just moments before takeoff last week when an alarmed passenger said he spotted several screws missing from the plane’s wing.

British traveler Phil Hardy, 41, was onboard Flight VS127 at Manchester Airport in the UK on Jan. 15 when he noticed the four missing fasteners during a safety briefing for passengers and decided to alert the cabin crew.

At first they attempted some ad hoc repairs. But passengers were watching:

If Hardy hadn’t raised a fuss, the flight might have found its way to the bottom of the Atlantic.

Hardy said airline staff repeatedly reassured him there was no safety issue with the wing, but his fear was heightened given the recent ordeal in which an Alaska Airlines plane lost its door plug and a chunk of its fuselage flew off mid-flight.

For context regarding Virgin Atlantic, these are actual ads for the airline:

Thanks, I’ll take the bus.

Leftism dictates that diversity/equity/inclusion must take precedence over keeping planes in the air. This shift in emphasis places the public at increasing risk.

From the liberal viewpoint, air travel becoming prohibitively hazardous is not a bug but a feature. Only members of the ruling class can fly without offending the atavistic weather gods they worship — and John Kerry types take private jets.

On tips from ABC of the ANC, WDS 2.0, and R F.

A little something to make moonbats’ heads explode:

Leftists subverted the culture by subverting entertainment. Now that moonbats are the establishment, patriots like Nicole Nogrady have the task of reversing the process.

On a tip from Troy H.

The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting is underway in Davos, where the globalist ruling class has gathered by private jet to discuss how to reduce our carbon emissions and in general make our lives worse in the name of moonbattery:

As you might expect, given the moral caliber of the liberal elite, prostitutes in the area have been completely booked.

Turns out the self-important degenerate kooks may have a sense of humor:

The theme this year is “Rebuilding Trust.”

They rebuild trust by scheming to restore Covid tyranny under the working title “Disease X”:

Disease X, a hypothetical illness with the potential for 20 times more fatalities than the COVID-19 pandemic, was the focal point of a panel discussion in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, where international leaders gathered to deliberate on the potential looming threat.

…calling for more censorship so as to suppress information that undermines their deranged ideology:

The unelected head of the European Union, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, has warned global power elites gathered for the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual summit that they must focus their energy on censoring so-called “disinformation.”

…suggesting that “ecocide” (i.e., farming, fishing, energy production) is a crime equivalent to genocide:

…and proclaiming that elections are quaint relics of the past that should be replaced by AI (presumably programmed by them):

Uh oh. There was a party crasher. No, not Damon Imani. I mean Argentina’s newly elected countermoonbat President Javier Milei (who unlike many flew commercial):

Watch Milei’s whole speech:

The other attendees will sit gingerly for days after that kick to their collective pants.

At least Trump didn’t show up. The Davos goblins regard him with abject terror.

On tips from Eddie_Valiant, R F, Bluto, Ed McAninch, Wiggins, ABC of the ANC, and Brian Brandt. Hat tip: Maggie’s Farm.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott was speaking in Collin County in favor of State Rep Candy Noble’s reelection Saturday when moonbats decided to hijack the event to propagandize in support of Hamas. The reaction was appropriate:

What flies in New York City and at the White House does not fly in Texas. That’s why leftists are using the open border to displace the population.

On a tip from DCGere. Hat tip: Feral Irishman.

No one else is taking on the incompetent, tyrannical, ideologically deranged, grotesquely overpaid educrats who have destroyed public education — so a 14-year-old girl steps forward:

Maybe there is hope for the future after all.

On tips from R F and Dr. Kufi Tutite.

I haven’t felt this proud to be American since before Biden’s handlers took power. To celebrate the election of the countermoonbat Javier Milei and the overthrow of socialism, Argentines are flying the Gadsden Flag:

“Without a doubt, we are partying tonight,” the president-elect of Argentina, Javier Milei, promised his supporters after winning the nation’s presidency on Sunday night – sending thousands to flood the streets of Buenos Aires chanting “Freedom!” and waving Gadsden flags.

Nothing could be more quintessentially American.

Patriot Wood has background on the flag. In 1775,

To accompany the Navy on their first mission, Congress also authorized the mustering of five companies of Marines. Some of the Marines that enlisted that month in Philadelphia were carrying drums painted yellow, emblazoned with a fierce rattlesnake, coiled and ready to strike, with thirteen rattles, and sporting the motto “Don’t Tread on Me.”

The flag was designed by the great patriot Christopher Gadsden, known as the “Sam Adams of the South,” with assistance from his friend Benjamin Franklin, who left notes on the flag’s patriotic symbolism:

• The Rattlesnake is found in no other quarter of the world besides America

• The rattlesnake also has sharp eyes, and “may therefore be esteemed an emblem of vigilance”

• She never begins an attack, nor, when once engaged, ever surrenders: She is therefore an emblem of magnanimity and true courage

• The rattle = the number of the Colonies united in America

How wonderful to see American heritage exercising a beneficial impact on the world, and to see other countries inspired by it to carry forward the fight against tyranny waged by our forefathers.

Closer to home, the Gadsden Flag is now denounced as “racist” by our leftist ruling class. A few months ago, a boy was not allowed into a Colorado Springs school because he had a Gadsden Flag patch on his backpack. The fight against tyranny is never over.

One of the most successful propaganda operations of all time was the elevation of a lowlife career criminal who died of a fentanyl overdose while resisting arrest into a martyr for the cause of moonbattery. The liberal establishment has proven that a coordinated campaign can dupe/bully the herd into believing any narrative, no matter how depraved, destructive, and preposterous.

At least the truth is on the record. The esteemed countermoonbats at Alpha News have documented what really happened in the film The Fall of Minneapolis:

“The Fall of Minneapolis” reveals a shocking tale of injustice and perfidy, and a ruthless political operation that contained the seeds of the January 6 Capitol riot eight months later and the consequent hyperbolic crackdown on Trump supporters.

The film was produced by Liz Collin, a former anchor at a CBS affiliate in the Twin Cities who was taken off air during the riots and demoted because her husband, Bob Kroll, was the Minneapolis police union chief at the time. …

From false testimony in Chauvin’s trial to police bodycam footage of Floyd’s arrest that was withheld for two months, to the autopsy report that was altered after the FBI got involved, Collin presents a damning forensic record that needs avenging.

Collin draws on new evidence unveiled last month in a sexual harassment lawsuit, filed by former Hennepin County prosecutor Amy Sweasy, against then-County Attorney Mike Freeman.

The Fall of Minneapolis presents a rogue’s gallery of moonbats who have not been held accountable for their crimes against justice, decency, and American civilization:

• [Medaria] Arradondo, the cowardly police chief who immediately branded Floyd’s death “murder.”

• Judge Peter Cahill, who ruled out exculpatory evidence, refused defense requests to move the trial out of Minneapolis, where the baying mob could be heard inside the courtroom, and refused to sequester the jury.

• Jacob Frey, the soy boy surrender mayor who ordered the Third Precinct to sacrifice its police station to the mob.

• Keith Ellison, the Antifa-hugging attorney general who ran roughshod over the rule of law when he railroaded Chauvin and the three other police officers jailed with him, and lied that Trump supporters (whom he branded “white supremacists”) were to blame for the riots.

• Tim Walz, the Biden-loving governor who refused to deploy the National Guard and instead allowed arson, looting and mayhem to engulf Minneapolis for 13 days and spread to the rest of the country.

The country as a whole will follow Minneapolis down the drain if we don’t start pushing back against progressives. As the trailer states, “If we don’t stand for the truth, we’ll fall for the lies.”

The phony George Floyd narrative must be thoroughly debunked if only so that when decent people are returned to power, Derek Chauvin can be let out of jail. Having an innocent police officer famously incarcerated as a political prisoner as a result of his disfavored race must have a devastating effect on morale for police nationwide, in addition to undermining our belief in our country.

Watch the whole thing for free as soon as you get a chance; I certainly will.

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.

Let’s start the week off with some excellent news. Formerly wealthy Argentina has spent generations in a state of economic misery thanks to the socialism entrenched by Juan Peron. At last it has turned a corner with the landslide election of President Javier Milei:

Milei campaigned as a libertarian, capitalist anti-socialist, leading his young political movement, Liberty Advances, against the long-standing Peronist socialist establishment.

Milei is libertarian in the sense of limited government interference in the economy, hopefully with minimum emphasis on the degeneracy and open borders foolishness that characterize our Libertarian Party.

As a Latin American libertarian, he also took socially conservative positions that do not align with the common understanding of mainstream libertarianism in the United States, such as opposing the legalization of abortion and discouraging business dealings with communist countries, including one of Argentina’s top trade partners, China.

No wonder the dejected moonbats at the Guardian sulk that Milei is a “far-right libertarian” as well as a “a climate-denying populist.”

Milei’s Liberty Advances Party first entered the Argentine Congress in 2021, giving Milei himself his first political experience and rising at the expense of both the socialist Peronists and the unpopular center-right establishment. The Peronists lost the Argentine Congress in 2021 for the first time since 1983. He has for years condemned politicians as “parasites” and referred to the nation’s career politicians as a “caste” that lives at the expense of the average Argentine citizen. As an economist, he has focused his public rhetoric for years on the wealth-generating power of unfettered capitalism, condemning socialism as an “impoverishing system” that allows for “parasites” in politics to live lavishly while most people suffer. To combat inflation and economic collapse, Milei has promised to “dollarize” the country – make the U.S. dollar an official Argentine currency – and eliminate the Argentine Central Bank.

Great idea — provided we pry Democrats out of power before their wasteful spending gives us a taste of the hyperinflation Argentines have become accustomed to.

While Joe Biden gibbers incoherently on behalf of bloated Big Government, Milei produces quotes like this:

“The state does not create wealth; it only destroys it.”

Milei is not a fan of his fellow Argentine Jorge Mario Bergoglio:

Milei … has derided Pope Francis as “a malignant presence on earth,” denounced him as a “filthy leftist” and charged that the pope had “an affinity for murderous communists.”

More Milei on Francis:

Milei called Pope Francis a “leftist son of a b* who is preaching communism throughout the world” and said that he was “the representative of the evil one in the house of God.”

Pope Francis represents a globalist left that aims to destroy our culture, our freedom, and our standard of living in the name of the repugnant ideology we know as moonbattery. Milei may come to personify worldwide pushback.

Celebrate Milei’s big win and get to know a promising countermoonbat by watching his interview with Tucker Carlson:

Hat tip: Canon 212.

Some question the sincerity of Vivek Ramaswamy and wonder what he is up to. But there can be no question that it was refreshing to watch him take the liberal media by the nose and kick it in the pants last night:

It may take Kristen Welker a week to get the frozen rictus off her face and another week before she can sit down without wincing. After that, I’m sure she’ll get right down to the task of explaining how MSM propagandists can expect us to believe anything they say after they lied through their teeth for years on end about Trump being somehow in league with the demonized Russians.

As for the budget-busting money-laundering operation that is our government’s support for Ukraine,

Ramaswamy is correct that the GOP establishment is content to lose. It is controlled opposition, serving an essential purpose for the Democratic Party by instilling a sense that dissent is futile.

On a tip from Varla.

After pro-life activist Mark Houck was not only arrested but terrorized in front of his family by a massive heavily armed FBI goon squad, he was found not guilty of any crime. Now he is fighting back by suing Biden’s tyrannical Department of Injustice over his politically motivated prosecution persecution:

“The government can’t do this to its people,” he added, referring to the Biden administration’s prosecutions of dozens of pro-life activists for purported violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.

Although Houck himself was acquitted, many other pro-life activists charged with violating the Clinton-era law were convicted and sentenced to prison.

Houck could have gotten 11 years for pushing a pro-abortion thug who was menacing his 12-year-old son. Fortunately, the jury found him not guilty in under an hour.

“It’s against our Constitution,” Houck continued. “We have rights, and they can’t do this in this egregious manner, and with no cause.”

On the contrary, Democrats can and will do it if we don’t push back. The Constitution is just a piece of paper if we don’t stand up for it.

Kudos and best of luck to Mark Houck.

On tips from Brian Brandt and MrRightWingDave.