Since Ilhan Omar likes Islam so much that she trivialized the terror atrocities of September 11, why did she come to the USA instead of an Islamic theocracy like Iran? Because in Iran, instead of being a powerful member of the nomenklatura, she would likely find herself dangling from a construction crane along with the sexual eccentrics she promotes:

Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota wants American Muslims to practice “solidarity” with homosexuals and gender-confused people…

Omar (one of four female minority Democrats in Congress collectively known as “the Squad” for their leftist solidarity) suggested that, because Muslims and people who identify as LGBT are both supposedly “marginalized communit[ies]” in the United States, the former should not “punch down” against the latter.

Considering that LGBT militants sit atop the power structure, it would be impossible for anyone to “punch down” at them — except that Omar is speaking Liberalese, an Orwellian dialect in which everything is called the diametric opposite of what it is. For example, murdering babies before they are born is called “reproductive healthcare.” Gender-denying sex change procedures are called “gender-affirming care.” Resistance to LBGT bullying is “punching down.”

The American Left has anointed itself an “ally” of both Muslims and LGBTs, as part of their claims to a monopoly on representing the interests of all racial, religious, and sexual minorities in a society supposedly rigged against them.

This defines Cultural Marxism, the leftist strategy of destroying American society by inflaming identity groups and playing them off against the core population. The glue that holds the Cultural Marxist coalition together is hatred of normal Americans. It is not sticky enough to adhere Muslims to the Alphabet People.

Islam teaches that homosexuality is a grave sin punishable by death, and to this day, majority-Muslim countries in the Middle East subject homosexuals to criminal penalties, violence, and alleged abuse unheard of in America…

You can only worship one god. The Church of England proves that you cannot be both a Christian and a moonbat. You can’t be both a Muslim and a moonbat either. However, Omar should hang onto the headscarf, because it enhances her popularity among liberals.

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.

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.

By now we could all use some comic relief, so let’s turn to the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. campaign. At an event held Tuesday night at Tony’s on New York’s Upper East Side, a guest asked the enviromoonbatty RFK about the environment. The New York Post takes it from there:

[I]t seems that the mere inquiry was enough to set off apparently drunk gossip columnist-turned-flack Doug Dechert, the host of the event, who became enraged and screamed at the top of his lungs: “The climate hoax!”

Meanwhile, octogenarian art critic Anthony Haden-Guest, who appeared to have been sleeping happily for most of the dinner, was roused by the abrupt rumpus.

Anthony Haden-Hyphen-Guest has written for Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair

He suddenly opened his eyes and denounced his longtime pal Dechert, calling him a “miserable blob.”

The situation escalated, with Dechert pooh-poohing the global warming hoax and Hyphen-Guest croaking insults in response, until…

…Dechert sensed the need for a new rhetorical tack, and let rip a loud, prolonged fart while yelling, as if to underscore his point, “I’m farting!”

The room, which included a handful of journalists as well as Kennedy’s campaign manager, former Rep. Dennis Kucinich, was stunned, seemingly unsure about whether Dechert was farting at Haden-Guest personally or at the very notion of global warming.

If the latter, you can’t fault Dechert for the sentiment.

Don’t get the idea he isn’t a gentleman:

When asked to comment about his, er, outburst the next day, Dechert told us: “I apologize for using my flatulence as a medium of public commentary in your presence.”

Unfortunately, there is not much chance that a President RFK Jr. would give Dechert John Kerry’s job.

On a tip from Stormfax.

The Biden Regime has a regret regarding wasting well over $100 billion of our money to keep the war in Ukraine going. Never mind all the death and destruction; if our rulers cared about that, they would not commit an acknowledged war crime by sending cluster bombs. Never mind the possibility of stumbling into a nuclear war. Biden’s Climate Czar reveals a more serious concern: septic tanks have been damaged, thereby releasing greenhouse gases that are offensive to the climate:

“But when you have bombs going off, and you have damage to septic tanks or to power centers, etc., you have an enormous release of greenhouse gas, of methane, you know, all of the family of greenhouse gases,” he continued.

“And the result is it’s adding to the problem,” Kerry said on how the Ukraine war is affecting climate change.

Does that mean instead of showering no-strings money on Zelensky we should pressure him to negotiate an end to the war, even if he loses some territory that is populated by Russians? Of course not:

“I’m not, you know, believe me, that’s eh, the fight in Ukraine is a fight that we have to make, that the world has to make,” he said.

We can just make it up to the climate by waging war on air conditioning.

On tips from Barry A and Varla.

The global warming hoax is bunk, but that doesn’t mean the climate won’t continue to fluctuate the way it always has. If it gets much warmer here in Phoenix, we will just about cook. Sunday’s forecasted high is currently 120°. That kind of heat can kill. Meanwhile, in the name of global warming, the Biden Regime is waging war on air conditioning:

The Biden administration has announced plans to continue its reduction of hydrofluorocarbons, releasing a new rule that aims to cut the United States’ use of the greenhouse gases by almost half starting next year.

Hydrofluorocarbons are used for refrigeration and air-conditioning.

The final rule announced Tuesday by the Environmental Protection Agency will reduce HFC consumption in the United States based on historic levels by 40% between 2024 and 2028.

The reduction will be on top of the 10% drop in HFC consumption that was implemented in 2022 under the bipartisan 2020 American Innovation and Manufacturing Act that sets the goal to reduce the production and consumption of HFCs by 85% by 2036 in an effort to prevent a 0.5 degree Celsius increase in global temperature by the next century.

There is zero chance that suppressing air conditioning will have any measurable effect on global temperatures. However, there is a high likelihood that it will result in the death of senior citizens, who are more vulnerable to extreme heat.

The liberal elite will still have access to air conditioning even after utopia has been imposed. The rest of us will have to suffer, because according to their religion, air conditioning makes it be too warm.

What does it take for people to rebel?

On a tip from R F.

You don’t need a seat at the table of the liberal establishment to make a difference. You just need the guts to serve as an inspiration to others. You might own a hair salon in Traverse City, Michigan:

“If a human identifies as anything other than a man/woman, please seek services at a local pet groomer,” Christine Geiger wrote disparagingly on a since-deleted Facebook page. “You are not welcome at this salon. Period.”

“This is America; free speech. This small business has the right to refuse services,” she added.

This is America to the extent we stand up for inalienable rights like free speech and freedom of association.

Geiger, who owns Studio 8 Hair Lab, appeared to be responding to a Michigan house bill that would expand the state’s hate-crime law to include harassment or intimidation on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation.

“Harassment or intimidation” are to be determined by the alleged victims. After the state’s cartoonishly tyrannical Disney witch of a governor signs the bill into law, remarks like Geiger’s will constitute a felony in Michigan, as will literally any statement the Alphabet People regard as unsupportive of their lifestyle and ideology.

Already the fist of Big Government is poised to crash down on her:

Geiger’s comments … were condemned by a spokesman for Michigan attorney general Dana Nessel. “The Attorney General finds the comments to be hateful, reprehensible remarks,” the spokesman told the Independent, adding that Geiger is likely to face legal consequences.

When it comes to suppressing free speech, turn to the experts at the ACLU:

Nathan Triplett, president of the Michigan ACLU, explained on Twitter that Geiger is in violation of the state’s Elliot-Larsen Civil Rights Act, which was recently amended to also prohibit discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.

The same sort of corporate moonbats who thought it was a good idea to put Dylan Mulvaney’s face on Bud Light cans also want to punish her:

On Wednesday, hair product manufacturer Jack Winn Pro withdrew its products from Geiger’s salon, writing in a statement that it “reject[s] hate speech in any form” and that Geiger “no longer has authorization to represent our brand or products.”

The leftist Gorgons on The View have set to work whipping up the mob against her:

Goldberg, 67, said ‘you can’t make fun and say rude stuff about people’ in reference to the controversial comment by salon owner Christine Geiger.

Or at least, you can’t about special people. Not unless you have a lot of nerve — which will be required to prevent the country from continuing to slide into straightforward tyranny.

On tips from Varla and The Great Cornholio.

The leftist fiends who dominate the US government are not misguided; they are evil:

Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) has received a $3.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to build a training program and a pro-trans website targeting trans-identifying youth in other states. The grant, which began on September 23, 2021 and will end on August 31, 2023, represents the most direct interaction known to date between a federal agency and the burgeoning industry for pushing gender transition procedures on minors.

Our federal system would allow pockets of sanity where depraved psychopaths are not permitted to surgically deform children in order to enslave them to an ideology straight out of hell. But the federal government is overruling the states — with the help of your tax dollar.

The fungible money is not supposed to directly fund child sex change surgery. Wink wink.

BCH found itself mired in scandal last August when it was revealed the hospital was performing gender transition surgeries on minors. The hospital not only performed gender transition surgeries on minors as young as 13, but it publicly promoted these in a series of videos on its website. Although the hospital tried to remove the evidence once it became a national scandal, a peer-reviewed study published in March 2022 confirmed that BCH had performed 65 gender transition surgeries on minors from January 2017-August 2020, as they formed part of the study’s dataset.

Rep Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) puts it mildly:

“It’s outrageous that our taxpayer dollars are being used to mutilate and sterilize vulnerable children.”

To the extent we are not putting a stop to these crimes against humanity, we are complicit. May God have mercy on us.

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.

On a tip from Jester.

Lately, it seems the Supreme Court is America’s last defense against tyranny. However, leftists have already broadcast their intention to pack the court with rubberstamp apparatchiks as soon as they have the leverage. In the end, America’s only real defense is the right to bear arms, which cannot be repealed because it is a natural right. However, it can be denied — which it is in some states more than others.

To see where your state stands, check out the gun rights ranking at Ammo.com. You can find your state’s ranking at a glance in the graphics, then learn the key details for each of the 25 most gun-friendly states.

Highlights:

• New Hampshire is #1 thanks to its incredibly relaxed gun laws, low crime rates, and lack of state sales tax.

• West Virginia is #2 due to recent legislative actions to remove firearm restrictions and reduce sales tax on firearms and ammunition.

• Arkansas, Montana, and Mississippi are #3, #4, and #5 thanks to their pro-2A governors, stand-your-ground laws, and relaxed carry and conceal requirements.

• Iowa, Utah, and Georgia all dropped in the rankings to #23, #24, and #25 due to enhanced restrictions on lawful gun owners, including taxes and fees.

• Some states ranked better than others due to the current governors’ past and present 2nd Amendment voting history.

There may be some surprises in the top 25, though no one will be shocked not to find blue states with out-of-control gun violence like California, New York, and Illinois among them. Stay tuned for details on the states to be avoided because hostility to gun rights has rendered them unsafe for the law-abiding.

Plans to pay blacks gargantuan sums of public money explicitly for being black are so insane that people probably assume not even Democrats would go through with them. But nothing is too insane for moonbats to go through with:

A Chicago suburb has become the first city in the nation to begin disbursing reparations payments to black residents over discrimination and limited access to housing, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

Approximately 140 residents in Evanston, Illinois, will receive $25,000 from the city by the end of the year, according to the outlet.

In 2019, the city of roughly 75,000 residents approved a $10 million reparations package to be distributed over 10 years. So far, the city has already disbursed reparations payments to sixteen qualified residents, the Evanston Round Table reported.

With government, what starts small expands rapidly to monstrous proportions.

Justin Hansford, the head of the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center at Howard University, said he sees the city’s reparations plan as “a test run for the whole country.”

No doubt Howard University alumnus Kamala “Heartbeat Away” Harris concurs. We can expect her to deliver some enlighteningly esoteric thoughts on the matter, as soon as she feels we have properly digested her revelations about culture.

Already official reparations recommendations have reached $5 million per sacred black person in San Francisco. Thanks to reparations math, the number will soon climb high enough to require new currency with extra zeroes, as in Zimbabwe.

Will they be happy when we bankrupt the country to hand them free money for being black directly instead of through the welfare state? No:

Resident and civil rights activist Bennett Johnson … argued that black residents were still being “discriminated” against and “hurt,” the Evanston Round Table reported. He also contended that the payments were not enough.

“I believe that [Evanston is] doing the same thing that we’ve done in the past, downgrading the ability of Black people to do things for themselves,” Johnson stated. “We could realize that if we don’t let Black people control this, we [are] still doing the same thing that we’ve done in the past.”

Hand them a blank check and let them fill in the amount. That way, they are doing something for themselves.

On a tip from Mr. Freemarket.

As has been pointed out earlier, Biden’s senility often takes the form of uncontrollable outbursts of rage:

Biden terrifies White House aides with his “quick-trigger temper” and expletive-filled rants, Axios reported on Monday.

• Examples of the president’s foul-mouthed eruptions include: “God dammit, how the f—k don’t you know this?!” “Don’t f—king bulls—t me!” and “Get the f—k out of here!”

• Biden’s temper tantrums are so bad some staff members “try to avoid meeting alone with him.”

What it means: Increased anger and agitation are common symptoms of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, according to the National Institute on Aging (NIA).

As with even the most alarming of Biden’s many flaws, this is spun by the establishment media as a good thing:

To grasp how pointless it is to try to intellectually engage most Democrat voters, consider that many of them have the slogans that serve them as thoughts installed by these same shrieking harpies.

In fairness, Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar are not the only pundits who find Biden’s senile meltdowns curiously arousing. Lisa Kennedy of Fox News does too.

On a tip from Jester.

Under totalitarianism, orthodox ideology is applied to everything imaginable — even kidney stones:

Thirty years ago, kidney stones were considered a disease of the middle-aged white man.

But now,

Kidney stones, hard deposits of minerals and salts that can get caught in the urinary tract, are now occurring in younger people, particularly among teenage girls, emerging data shows.

Here’s how middle-aged white men, the scourge of society, managed to spread their nasty disease to innocent young girls:

Experts aren’t sure why more children and teens are developing the condition, but they speculate that a combination of factors are to blame, including … climate change causing more cases of dehydration.

Seriously: climate change. Here’s proof:

Doctors who spoke to NBC News said they see more kids with kidney stones in the summer than any other season.

As Jane Fonda will be glad to shriek at you, global warming is caused by white men, who should therefore be imprisoned.

Kidney stones are of course racist:

Black adults and children in the study also developed kidney stones at greater rates than whites.

Fortunately, there is an obvious cure for kidney stones. We must allow Big Government to regulate the temperature by seizing more of our money and lowering our standard of living, in accordance with Democrat policy.

On a tip from Lyle.

Biden is still sharp enough to run a command-and-control economy from the White House. It’s just finding his way around stages without falling down that requires more cognitive reserve than he managed to store up before his brain began to decay. His fawning enablers at MSNBC blame his staff:

Eighty is older for some people than for others. Mika is right. From now on, Creepy Joe should never appear in public without the Easter Bunny to guide him:

On a tip from Occam’s Stubble.