It is not as if the Democratic Party offers no alternative to the corrupt and senile Joe Biden, who is so beholden to radical leftists that he is trying to price electricity beyond the reach of normal Americans. Their next most popular 2024 candidate, Robert Kennedy, is polling at 19% among Democrat primary voters. RFK Jr thinks big too; he wants to ban fertilizer:

Biden and RFK Jr agree that food is bad, and the federal government should prevent us from producing it, because environmental radicalism.

Too bad RFK Jr can’t take credit for originality. Banning fertilizer in the name of envirofascism was already tried by Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who attempted to inflict all-organic farming. Fortunately, Rajapaksa was forcibly removed from power before mass starvation set in.

On a tip from R F.

Hanoi John Kerry reportedly gamed the system to receive medals during the Vietnam War. He then discarded them to express his contempt for America, which he accused of war crimes. But now the medals have been recovered:

Kerry told WRC-TV on November 6, 1971, that he “gave back” the medals he earned with his service in Vietnam. He, along with other anti-war veterans who discarded their honors, Kerry said at the time, “decided to give them back to their country.”

Hanoi John stated that he gave back all the medals he had received.

Kerry was a leader among anti-war veterans and led them in a protest in Washington, D.C. According to news reports in 1971, “many veterans were seen throwing their medals and ribbons over the fence in front of the U.S. Capitol,” and a handful of outlets “reported that Kerry was among these veterans,” according to ABC News.

Good thing John Kerry is a phony and ABC News is an unreliable source of information. Otherwise, he would not have any medals to impress the other liberal elitists at the coronation of his fellow climate warrior King Chuckles.

Let’s hope he traveled to the spectacle on an electric jet powered by Chinese solar panels. It wouldn’t look good for the Climate Czar to continue massively producing frivolous carbon emissions that supposedly make it be too warm outside.

On tips from ABC of the ANC and Franco.

The Democratic National Convention won’t be held until August 2024 in the hellscape Democrats are making of Chicago, but the Satanic Temple offered a preview over the weekend with SatanCon:

A group of Satanists cheered as two leaders opened SatanCon 2023 on Friday with a formal ceremony renouncing “symbols of oppression” by ripping up a Bible and a “Thin Blue Line” flag representing police.

The symbolism is not subtle. They want to destroy morality, tradition, and order, so as to impose their will upon the cultural ruins. The Democratic Party platform could not be described more succinctly.

The 3-day event sold out in liberal Boston. Underneath the cheesy horror movie trappings, it was state of the art liberalism:

“Sins of the Flesh: Satanism and Self-Pleasure” was taught by Eric Sprankle, a “sexuality studies” professor at Minnesota State University-Mankato. “Reclaiming the Trans Body: A/theistic strategies for Self-Determination and Empowerment,” was offered by Devi B. Dillard-Wright, a transgender woman who served as University of South Carolina-Aiken Associate Professor of Philosophy until July 2022.

Another event included “Hellbillies: Visible Satanism in Rural America,” which will be taught by Ash Schade, a transgender man who made headlines when he had a baby “after hooking up with someone on Grindr,” according to The College Fix.

The Satanic Temple even raises money on the promise that it will spend the cash helping to get babies aborted, just like the Democratic Party.

Climate change encourages leftists to posture self-righteously while inflicting tyranny and poverty out of hostility to the human race, but progressives are progressing beyond that. Satanism is the ideal cult for our times. It allows the woke to drop the increasingly tedious charade of pretending to mean well so they can get straight to the meat and potatoes, or rather, the depravity and hatred of humanity.

On tips from Barry A, Wiggins, and Old Man BEIJING Biden.

Democrat policies reward bad behavior and punish good behavior. Biden’s handlers push this to the point of parody by effectively fining homebuyers who have earned high credit scores so as to benefit those who don’t pay their bills:

A Biden administration rule is set to take effect that will force good-credit home buyers to pay more for their mortgages to subsidize loans to higher-risk borrowers.

Experts believe that borrowers with a credit score of about 680 would pay around $40 more per month on a $400,000 mortgage under rules from the Federal Housing Finance Agency that go into effect May 1…

Using the money to subsidize those with poor credit ratings will help to get people into houses they cannot afford, so as to reenact the mortgage crisis that swept Barack Obama into power.

The rules come as the housing market has struggled in the wake of multiple interest rate increases by the Federal Reserve.

The interest rate hikes are the inevitable result of crippling inflation, which in turn is the inevitable result of Democrats’ ongoing spending looting spree.

Those who have made sacrifices so as to achieve a high credit score expect to be rewarded for it. Under liberal rule, they will be punished.

You may have thought nothing could be more brazenly unfair than Biden et al. scheming to cancel student debt, so that working class Americans have to pick up the tab for useless moonbats’ gender studies degrees through inflation. However, Democrats will always manage to jab their finger even deeper into your eye.

It would be charitable to give liberals the benefit of the doubt by ascribing their opinions to the relentless indoctrination we are immersed in due to Democrat control of the media and schools. But a basic sense of fairness is innate to human nature. It beggars belief that anyone could be so brainwashed as not to understand that Biden’s policies are morally wrong.

Note that the War on Merit does not mean merely discarding merit in favor of identity politics. Democrats don’t ignore merit; they are actively hostile toward it.

On tips from THOUGHTCRIMINAL2084 and Varla.

The good news is that Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) is out of Walter Reed after spending more than a month as a psychiatric inpatient. The bad news is they are actually going through with the farce of pretending he is up to the job. Here he is chairing his first subcommittee hearing yesterday:

Fetterman details his bold new food stamp policy:

“Many SNAP households have had benefits stolen through skimming. Victims face the serious challenges of losing purchasing power. When debit cards are skimmed, there are protections for the card holder, what can, what needs can be done to ensure that families have that same kind of protecting,” Fetterman said.

Eric Adams needn’t feel embarrassed. He isn’t the only political leader barely able to read prepared text. The rejection of merit by Democrats has produced predictable results.

On a tip from seaoh.

The Department of Justice has reacted to video revealing that the “insurrection” on January 6 was more peaceful than the average Black Lives Matter demonstration by announcing there will be as many as 1,200 more arrests. A thousand people have already been arrested. Those who did anything remotely worthy of incarceration are already sitting in jail. The Democratic Party is rounding up political prisoners.

In jarring contrast, leftist rioters are not hunted down by federal agents. They are handed cash rewards at the expense of law-abiding taxpayers:

Philadelphia has reached an agreement to pay a total of $9.25 million to more than 200 people who were injured during the police response to protests following the murder of George Floyd in May 2020.

Rioters’ lawyers claim they deserve other people’s money because the zip ties, tear gas, and rubber bullets required to restrain them were hurtful. Some even claim to have suffered mental trauma. The liberals in charge are only too happy to open the public purse.

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney said in a statement obtained by FOX29 that the “pain and trauma” that police violence and racism have caused Black and Brown Philadelphians is “immeasurable.”

What do you expect in a country where the vice president explicitly raised funds to bail rioters out of jail and called for more riots?

Democrats reward rioting because they want more — so long as it serves to advance their agenda. Otherwise, even peaceful protesters may have their families awakened by FBI agents kicking in the door. This form of government is called “anarchotyranny.”

Weaponization of the justice system has gone well beyond anything someone worthy to be called an American would find tolerable. Under Democrat rule, this is becoming a banana republic. Those familiar with the French and Russian revolutions know what kind of Reign of Terror lays ahead if leftists are allowed to consolidate power further.

On tips from Wiggins and ABC of the ANC.

Can you pick out the US counties dominated by cities that are in turn dominated by Democrats? This map should help:

This is why Democrats want to ease up on punishing murder even outside the context of abortion.

On a tip from R F.

To get an idea of the cultural climate prevailing among our rulers, consider Patrick Lewis Wojahn, a regular guest at the White House who was mentored by our fabulously gay Transportation Secretary and who is the Historic First Openly Homosexual Mayor of College Park, Maryland.

Due to his deafening sexual deviance, the skids were greased for Wojahn, despite him being a white guy. Yet Wojahn, who “branded himself as something of a role model for LGBTQ youth,” has encountered a pothole in his career path:

Wojahn … is charged with 40 counts of possession of child sexual exploitative material and 16 felony counts of distribution of child porn.

With Democrats, it can be hard to distinguish arrogance from Joe Biden-level stupidity. Wojahn allegedly shared kiddy porn on social media, where he used the handle “Patrick4CP.” His reelection tagline was “Patrick for College Park.” “CP” is what child predators use to search for child porn online.

He might as well have walked around in public wearing a t-shirt declaring, “I am a pervert obsessed with indulging in sexual depravity.” Oh wait:

At least Wojahn still has his “pride.”

As for what he could conceivably have to be proud of,

This year, College Park received a perfect 100 on its Municipal Equality Index scorecard from the gay-lobbying group Human Rights Campaign (HRC), which doled out extra credit for the city’s openly LGBTQ elected leaders.

In 2020, city leadership publicly celebrated the first time it earned a perfect score, with Wojahn declaring that “College Park aims to be a welcoming community for all, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity.” The rating, which the mayor “worked for several years to achieve,” “recognizes our true commitment to diversity, inclusion, and equity,” Wojahn stated.

LGBTQ allies in the city had claimed that Wojahn “faced homophobia” on the 2019 campaign trail when a mayoral challenger rejected Wojahn’s efforts to make College Park more LGBTQ-friendly as an agenda she said was “totally against” her Christian beliefs.

However, Wojahn boldly overcame the “homophobia” that can be expected in a college town in a deep blue state on the East Coast to advance diversity on behalf of the LBGT and MAP communities.

Also, there’s this:

The disgraced mayor has frequented the White House for an array of Pride events hosted by Biden, whom Wojahn considers “the most pro-LGBTQ President in US history!” In mid-December, Wojahn and his husband [sic] were invited to attend Biden’s signing ceremony of the Respect for Marriage Act on the White House’s South Lawn.

The Orwellian “Respect for Marriage Act” would more accurately be called the “Desecration of Marriage Act.”

Wojahn rose to political prominence when he and [his “husband” Dave] Kolesar were named plaintiffs in the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)’s 2004 lawsuit seeking to overturn a ban on gay marriage in Maryland.

Wojahn has done his part to break down barriers. He got over his skis with the kiddy porn, but if Democrats continue winning the Culture War, he is only slightly ahead of his time.

On tips from Jack D, Chris Neilson, and Mr. Freemarket.

Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) epitomizes today’s Democratic Party. He is a radical leftist who has called for releasing one third of prison inmates and suppressing speech that brings attention to election fraud. Having no serious qualifications, he took office by running essentially unopposed, fellow leftist Mehmet Oz having secured the Republican nomination by sucking up to Donald Trump. The liberal establishment circled the wagons around Fetterman, dismissing his stroke (which left him cognitively disabled), his serious heart issues, and his inability to understand spoken English. The media placed him on a New York Times most stylish list for wearing shorts and hoodies in inappropriate contexts and even floated him as a presidential candidate. Earlier this month, he was hospitalized for feeling light-headed. Now, about 6 weeks into his 6-year term, we receive confirmation that Fetterman is psychiatrically unfit for office.

According to his Chief of Staff Adam Jentleson:

“[Wednesday] night, Senator John Fetterman checked himself into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to receive treatment for clinical depression. While John has experienced depression off and on throughout his life, it only became severe in recent weeks,”

“On Monday, John was evaluated by Dr. Brian P. Monahan, the Attending Physician of the U.S. Congress. Yesterday, Dr. Monahan recommended inpatient care at Walter Reed. John agreed, and he is receiving treatment on a voluntary basis.”

These are serious times. Economic collapse caused by recklessly excessive government spending and nuclear war with China and/or Russia are very real short-term possibilities. The country is coming apart at the seams. Meanwhile, our rulers include a psychiatric inpatient.

The psychiatric condition of the Commander in Chief, who has also had a stroke, is likely no better than Fetterman’s. Biden is conspicuously demented and flies into alarming fits of anger without provocation, as we saw again during his State of the Union address.

This is a kakistocracy. We would have better leadership if positions were filled by lottery.

On a tip from Varla.

Erin Healy is a Democrat state legislator not in some woke wasteland but in relatively based South Dakota. She presents the liberal view on family cohesion:

Like the word “fascism,” the word “un-American” has been repurposed to best advance the progressive agenda.

Healy says she is “disgusted” by the “extremist position” of defending the nuclear family.

People like this have power over us. Their degenerate ideology is destroying American civilization before our eyes.

On a tip from Occam’s Stubble.

Biden’s mendaciousness and senility were not the only aberrations on display during yesterday’s State of the Union address. Where you might expect patriotic flag pins, Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) and Congresscreature Madeleine Dean (D-PA) wore affirmations of something they truly believe in — human sacrifice on the altar of degeneracy:

The heart has a double meaning, representing both liberal love of abortion and the fact that abortion stops a beating heart at about 6 weeks after gestation.

LifeNews reports on where they got the pins:

Markey said the pins were a gift from Planned Parenthood. The abortion chain spends massive amounts of money to elect pro-abortion Democrats every year while reporting billion-dollar revenues and aborting more than 383,000 unborn babies annually.

The abortion industry’s investment has helped infest Washington with fiends who want to “codify this right” by inflicting abortion on a federal level,

something Biden called for in his speech Tuesday evening.

Nicknamed the Abortion Without Limits Up to Birth Act, the bill would force states to legalize abortions for basically any reason up to birth and force taxpayers to pay for them. It also would end parental consent for minors and jeopardize conscience protections for doctors and nurses who refuse to abort unborn babies.

Dean and Markey both support the bill, as do almost all Democrats in Congress.

Try to get your head around the lies leftists tell themselves to justify their moral depravity:

Killing children is healthcare because it saves lives. If you can say that with a straight face, you are ready to take the next step and embrace abortion as not only acceptable but sacred.

“I say the word, I wear the word.” Dean’s blasphemy is as subtle as a Sam Smith Grammy performance. Christians believe Jesus Christ is the Word. Democrats adhere to an opposing religion.

On a tip from Mr. Freemarket.

Why did the ChiComs have to spy on us using a balloon, when satellites are so much harder to shoot down? This might offer a clue:

Chinese state-owned television aired footage of a high-altitude balloon dropping hypersonic weapons in 2018.

The stunning footage displays a high-altitude balloon, not dissimilar from the one that traversed over the United States last week, carrying three hypersonic glide vehicles (HGVs) into high altitude and dropping them for testing. …

The balloon-dropped HGVs were part of an effort to develop precision warheads for hypersonic weapons, which would give the Chinese military an “unstoppable nuclear-capable weapon,” according to the South China Morning Post.

The balloon was likely not there to spy. This was a dry run, testing our preparedness and ability to respond. With the sick joke Biden as Commander and Chief, it is unsurprising that we flunked the test.

Here’s the next thing from China we might look up to see in our skies:

Maybe the next balloon won’t drop hypersonic missiles. Maybe it will carry an electromagnetic pulse device that will knock out our power and communications nationwide.

That would be game over. Xi Jinping knows that Democrats would probably respond with unconditional surrender.

Look at the bright side. At least transsexualizing children will stop under Chinese rule.

On a tip from Chuck A.

Some say balloons are an obsolete means of spying on an enemy with whom you are expected soon to be at war, because these holdovers from the 19th century are easier to shoot down than satellites. However, our ChiCom adversaries have obviated this shortcoming by planning ahead. First, they purchased the inept corruptocrat the liberal establishment later installed as our Commander in Chief. This preparation having been made, China has dispatched a surveillance balloon over Montana, home to the nuclear missile field at Malmstrom Air Force Base that the ChiComs would be keen to take out.

Even under the clownish moonbat apparatchiks Lloyd Austin and Mark Milley, the US military is aware of the balloon, which the ChiComs admit is theirs but smirkingly claim is a weather balloon. However, our “leaders” say they can’t shoot it down because people might get hurt by falling debris.

The population density of Montana is seven people per square mile. Apparently, despite the $trillions upon $trillions consumed by the federal government, it lacks the resources to destroy the balloon in such a way that it won’t land on someone.

It’s not as if there has been no response. Our gelatinous Secretary of State is teaching the ChiComs a lesson by postponing a trip to China. Pointless meetings between international bureauweenies are no fun if Antony Blinken isn’t there to laugh at.

A second balloon has already been spotted over Canada.

Maybe it’s just a test. If NORAD can’t stop balloons, Xi Jinping need have no qualms about sending nuclear missiles. Promptly shooting down the balloons might allow us to analyze the information the ChiComs have been collecting, to see what they have planned for us. But our leadership is so useless that they might be allowed to float back to the land of Joe Biden’s paymasters.

Despite his willingness to side with our enemies as he did in Afghanistan, despite being weakness personified, Biden isn’t the whole problem. The entire Democratic Party is irresponsible, inept, and uninterested in American interests. The Chinese have exploited this. Veteran Senator Dianne Feinstein’s chauffeur was a Chinese spy. Only when Republicans took control of Congress was Eric Swalwell finally kicked off the House Intelligence Committee, despite having been seduced by a Chinese spy. (Fang Fang says hi.)

At least we can stop worrying about China conquering Taiwan. No longer having access to the computer chips that make everything go will be the least of our problems if they are collecting intelligence for a direct nuclear attack on the USA.

Having better leadership, Indians would have known just how to deal with enemy balloons:

On tips from Wiggins, Chuck A, Mr. Freemarket, Marty, Gringoman, and Varla.

In a straight party-line vote that tells you all you need to know about Democrats, anti-American radical Islamist Ilhan Omar, an opponent of our key ally Israel, has finally been kicked off the House Foreign Affairs Committee, where her presence was irresponsible to put it mildly — treasonous, insane, and obscene to put it less mildly. This is not going over well with her fellow squad members, who are accustomed to always getting their way because they are leftist Women of Color. Squad queen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez threw such a tantrum that she might need a new computer:

The New York Democratic lawmaker declared to her fellow members that the GOP was “targeting women of color” with its vote to oust Omar, which Republicans said was due to past antisemitic and anti-American remarks. …

The congresswoman smacked her notebook against the podium after her speaking time ended.

She even denounced America for not sucking up to Islam sufficiently, which Omar is sure to appreciate.

As for the predictable crybully pretense that privileged Women of Color are oppressed,

Ocasio-Cortez’s critics took issue with her invocation of color, noting that White men like Reps. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., had also been removed from their committees as Republicans took the majority.

Omar, Schiff, and Swalwell were ejected for the same reason: they are conspicuously untrustworthy.

Hate-hoaxing fellow Squad kook Rashida Tlaib — like Omar a vehement opponent of Israel — made her point by bursting into tears:

It does not set the mind at ease to reflect that people of this caliber have power over us. At least we know that Kevin McCarthy is doing something right, or congressional moonbats would not be acting like their diapers need changing.

On a tip from Varla.