As always, we have plenty to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. However, one thing it would be hard to be thankful for is the Biden looting spree, which has had a predictable effect on prices:

Food prices have been driven up in part because of supply-side factors, such as the higher cost of the fuels needed to transport grain and livestock, as well as the broader inflationary environment. Inflation has soared in recent years, and the overall consumer price index is up more than 18% from the start of 2020.

Fuel will tend to cost more when the federal government is at war with the energy industry. Hard to believe that only a few years ago, America was energy independent. Then came Biden.

The average price of a Thanksgiving meal for 10 people this year is $61.17, according to a report from the American Farm Bureau Federation, which compiles the cost estimate every year around the holiday using a basket of goods that includes only basic foodstuffs and excludes any special ingredients or drinks.

We can be thankful for a fortuitous drop in the price of turkey, as a result of the absence of avian flu.

But the cost of a Thanksgiving dinner is now 25% higher than in November 2019, the last holiday before the pandemic took hold.

With the pandemic came insanely irresponsible government spending, which accelerated under Biden even as Covid waned.

If we work hard to make it happen, socialists will be dislodged from power as in Argentina. Then prices will stabilize, and we will have even more to be thankful for.

On a tip from Blackjack.

If feminists were going to be reasonable about anything, it ought to be Islam, which has treated women as subhuman from the beginning. In the early days of Mohammad’s cult, a primary recruiting tool was the distribution of booty from the caravans it looted — including women who were captured as sex slaves. To this day, Islamic regimes repress women to such an extreme that they are forbidden to show their hair and in some places even their faces. Yet in the aftermath of October 7, feminist groups side with Islam:

After Hamas terrorists set about murdering, raping and abducting as many women as they could, one might have expected widespread condemnation from the West’s feminist groups. After all, Hamas had provided enough evidence of its crimes — within hours, they were posting footage of abducted young women in bloodied trousers being paraded around Gaza.

Not to mention that women’s Achilles tendons were slit so they couldn’t run away before getting gang raped.

The response among the majority of groups committed to ending violence against women and girls (VAWG) was threefold: to keep quiet, to disbelieve the victims, or to insinuate they deserved their fate. In the words of 140 American “prominent feminist scholars”, to stand in solidarity with Israeli women is to give in to “colonial feminism”.

In Liberalese, “colonial” means “pertaining to Western Civilization.”

The British feminist group Feministo has no evident issue with Islam but plenty of problems with all things “colonial” — including the existence of Israel. A demonstration demanding its surrender to terrorists who want the country erased shut down London’s Liverpool Street Station.

Afterwards, the charity issued a 600-word statement, filled with references to “apartheid”, “genocide” and disproved reports that the IDF had bombed Gaza’s Al-Ahli hospital. There was no mention, however, of the 239 abducted Israelis, roughly 100 of whom are believed to be women, or the sexual assaults that took place on October 7. When journalist Hadley Freeman pointed out this wasn’t terribly feminist of them, the group responded by claiming reports of Hamas’s sex attacks amounted to “the Islamophobic and racist weaponisation of sexual violence”. Towards the end of their rambling statement, they concluded: “no people would ever accept being murdered, humiliated, dispossessed, racially targeted, oppressed, cleansed, exiled and colonised without resisting.”

Murder isn’t murder if committed by a favored group against colonial women and children, who are the real murderers according to moonbat ideology.

The horrors inflicted on women on October 7 are well documented. Progressives dismiss the documentation as Israeli propaganda. Believe all women, unless it conflicts with the agenda.

Other feminist groups openly siding with Hamas terrorists in the aftermath of the nightmare last month include Southall Black Sisters, Women for Women UK, Women’s Place UK, and UN Women.

The testimony of Nachman Dyksztejna regarding the Islamic atrocities clarifies what feminists are siding with:

“In Kibbutz Be’eri, I witnessed bodies of two women with their hands and legs tied to a bed. One of these bodies we found was sexually terrorised with a knife stuck in her vagina and all her internal organs removed. After brutally violating these women, Hamas detonated the house on them, so we found them beneath a pile of stones.

“The mini shelters scattered from the Nova party site to road 34, shelters that had been broken into, were filled with piles of women. Their clothing was torn on the upper part, but their bottoms were completely naked. Piles and piles of women, dead bodies, lying this way. When you took a closer look at their heads, you saw a single shot straight to the brain of each.”

The scene makes a good metaphor for what leftists want done to all of us for being “colonial.”

None of this sounds very empowering for women. But then, feminists don’t care any more about women than climate kooks care about the weather or Black Lives Matter fellow travelers care about the welfare of blacks.

The issue is never the issue; the issue is always the destruction of civilization so that it can be replaced by a regime of inescapable moonbattery. Like feminism, Islam makes for a useful wrecking ball.

Hat tip: Maggie’s Farm.

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.

Again and again, we find ourselves gasping in astonishment at Joe Biden’s appalling habit of oozing creepiness upon little girls in public:

In the latest example, he employs his trademark chilling whisper to flirt with a 6-year-old:

Let’s hope for Biden’s sake his fellow liberals don’t find it homophobic that he doesn’t do this to little boys.

Either Biden is so senile that he has no idea that he is creeping everyone out or he is so arrogantly contemptuous of his subjects that he doesn’t care. Hard to say which would be worse.

On tips from Wiggins, WDS 2.0, and MrRightWingDave.

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.

No matter how much of our wealth is sucked up by the federal behemoth, government resources will always be limited. Therefore, it is necessary to prioritize. For example, the FBI might find time to stop child rapists — but not if it is too busy hunting down dissidents.

Via Daily Wire:

On January 6, 2021, the FBI explicitly chose to abandon a sting on a child pornographer in Virginia who was messaging with an undercover agent about having sex with a nine-year-old boy, opting instead to focus on prosecuting Donald Trump’s supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol. Less than three years later, the FBI discovered the same man living in Alaska where he appears to have been performing sex acts on a 10-year-old boy, according to court documents.

This gives an idea of the activity that is allowed to flourish while authorities focus on Jacob Chansley’s unscheduled tour of the People’s House:

On December 2, 2020, an internet user with the screen name “gayboy69freak” messaged an undercover agent with the FBI’s Washington Field Office, who was posing as a father pimping out his 9-year-old son, and told him that he wanted to travel to D.C. to have sex with the boy. The man also sent the agent a video of “a prepubescent minor male being anally penetrated by an adult male’s erect penis.” His IP address led the FBI to Brogan Welsh of Glenn Allen, Virginia.

The case was abruptly abandoned 1 month later explicitly to free up resources for investigating January 6.

Welsh was finally arrested this October 24 when he came up in an unrelated perversion investigation. We’ll never know how many children he had raped in the meantime.

Here’s why the FBI was too busy to follow through:

Federal prosecutors have charged more than 1,000 defendants in what they call the “Capitol Breach,” and more than 65,000 legal documents have been filed in the cases, according to a Daily Wire database.

That’s enough to keep investigators busy, considering that the FBI also has pro-lifers to terrorize and Catholics to monitor for thoughtcrime.

Violent crime in DC has exploded while local prosecutors focus on January 6. As Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch observes,

“When you use politics to guide your law enforcement priorities, it necessarily means that public safety takes a back seat.”

To hold the interest of law enforcement based in the District of Corruption, there must be a left-wing political angle, such as a connection with Republican voters:

A typical January 6 case is that of three Marines, Joshua Abate, Michah Coomer, and Dodge Dale Hellonon. The entirety of the allegations against them is that at 2:20 p.m., they “entered the U.S. Capitol Building through the Senate Wing Door and proceed to walk South down a hallway,” used “their cellular devices to take pictures, videos, and answer phone calls,” “remained in the Rotunda for a couple minutes before leaving through the South entrance,” and remained “inside the Rotunda for approximately 30 minutes until police arrive and form a line to direct people out of the Building.” Then they exited “the U.S. Capitol Building through the Rotunda Door having been inside for approximately 52 minutes.”

For that case, prosecutors scoured social media, subpoenaed Facebook, consulted motor vehicle and military records, interviewed people who served in the Marine Corps to identify them, subpoenaed his phone provider, and analyzed his GPS movements.

The uncherrypicked January 6 surveillance video has finally been released, confirming that the Democrats’ answer to the Reichstag Fire has been absurdly overhyped.

The FBI demonstrates why law enforcement must be left to the states. Anything federal has as its primary purpose the advancement of federal power. This increasingly takes the form of suppressing opposition to the Party of Government.

Speaking of Democrats, possibly their primary purpose in promoting Black Lives Matter was to undermine local police. The resulting void in law enforcement is meant to be filled by politically oriented federal agencies.

On a tip from Jester.

Energy expert David Blackmon has revealed that when the government chooses wind projects to shovel other people’s money at, capacity to actually produce electricity is hardly even considered.

For example, at the state level…

…the wind resource constitutes less than 1% of what [New York State Energy Research and Development Authority] considers important for offshore wind projects.

They know in advance that wind projects will not generate anywhere near the electricity promised. That’s why they avoid performance guarantees regarding output.

Sweden just proved what happens you actually have performance guarantees for wind. Markbygden Ett is the largest onshore wind farm in Europe, located in Sweden and owned by China. Its electricity contract with Norwegian Hydro Energi requires that Markbygden provide a fixed amount of electricity at a fixed price for 19 years. When the wind doesn’t blow, they still have to provide the contracted amount of power, at the contracted cost, regardless of the price they pay on the electricity market to cover the shortfall. The result is that Markbygden’s forecasted expenses far exceed revenues, and the company has been experiencing large losses for several years.

The more whale–killing offshore wind projects are constructed, the less electricity they produce:

It’s called the wind wake effect. Any sailor is well familiar with this- a sailboat in front of you will steal your wind, and make your sailboat go slower if you stay behind it. …

In 2018, Harvard University flagged this and found that the average power density of a wind farm was up to 100 times lower than estimates by some leading energy experts because previous estimates failed to account for the wind wake effect.

They found a transition to wind power would require 5 to 20 times more land than previously thought, require one third of the continental U.S. to be covered by windmills in order to meet present day U.S. electricity demand, and that since the wind would get sucked out of the air surface temperatures would rise by about 0.24 degrees Celsius, with an up to 1.5 degree Celsius increase at night.

Meanwhile, the alleged point of the wind turbines is to lower supposedly excessive temperatures. As for the actual point: they are boondoggles. Their function is to launder taxpayer money to pay Democrat donors, thereby creating a massive return on investment for political contributions. This form of graft was pioneered by Joe Biden’s mentor and probable primary handler, Barack Obama. Under his administration, 80% of Department of Energy green energy loans reportedly went to his donors, confirming that the not only useless but pernicious DOE must be abolished at once.

Also, the output of offshore wind projects has been predicted to decrease by 4.5% annually. The ocean is not big enough for all the wind turbines that would be required to meet our future energy needs.

Blackmon presents the bottom line:

[O]ffshore wind doesn’t work. It’s not designed to work, or to be economically feasible in real life. It’s a giant Ponzi scheme wholly dependent on government subsidies and political “climate change” brownie points.

Yet our rulers are bankrupting the country to pay for it. This intolerable situation has resulted from insufficient pushback against climate change hogwash and a lack of consequences for the political corruption that inspires it.

On a tip from R F.

Given what they stoop to in order to generate propaganda for their fellow travelers to run with — including torturing and murdering children and their parents in front of each other, as in the October 7 operation — it should surprise no one that jihadists utilize the hate hoax stratagem.

This is sure to yank on heartstrings:

Nasty Jews! Now for the rest of the story:

Authorities in North Ridgeville, Ohio, arrested 20-year-old Hesham A. Ayyad on Tuesday and charged him for allegedly faking a hate crime attack last month.

According to Cleveland.com, On Oct. 22 Ayyad told the Cleveland chapter of the Islamic Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) that he was assaulted by someone in an SUV making “anti-Palestinian slurs.” However, investigators found his injuries were the result of a fight with his brother.

Not that CAIR would care. It exists to crybully and generate propaganda to advance the spread of Islamic domination.

On Oct. 23, CAIR issued a press release on the incident that said Ayyad was the victim of a “reported hit and run,” and said that “he was walking home from eating lunch when a car slowed down and rolled down the window. The driver of the car allegedly started yelling at him using anti-Palestinian statements like “Kill all Palestinians,” and “Long live Israel,” as he swerved his car to intimidate the victim. The driver then allegedly turned around and hit the man while shouting “DIE!”

If it’s too over the top to be true, that’s probably because it isn’t true — especially if the alleged victim is a member of a preferred victim group.

Hesham A. Ayyad and his brother Khalil A. Ayyad, 19, were both arrested on Tuesday. Hesham was charged with making false alarms, falsification, obstructing official business, domestic violence, and assault. Khalil was charged with domestic violence and assault.

After the truth came to light, CAIR propagandists profusely apologized and pulled the tweet you see above. Or maybe they didn’t.

On a tip from Sean G.

Nazis came to power democratically, but consolidated control by exploiting the Reichstag Fire, which was probably set by a Dutch communist. Hitler strategically hyped it into a crisis, claiming that communists were on the verge of overthrowing the government. The supposed emergency led to the Reichstag Fire Decree, which cleared the path for dictatorship:

• Implemented one day after the fire, the decree suspended the right to assembly, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and other constitutional protections, including all restraints on police investigations. It remained in effect until Nazi Germany was defeated in May 1945.

• The decree permitted the regime to arrest and incarcerate political opponents without specific charge, to dissolve political organizations, and to confiscate private property.

• The decree also gave the regime the authority to overrule state and local laws and overthrow state and local governments.

Sounds like a Democrat dream. Unsurprisingly, Democrats have produced their own version. As the saying goes, history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.

A great deal more exaggeration was required in the USA than in Germany. During the dysfunctional, morally degenerate, hyperinflationary Weimar Republic, communists really might have taken over the government, like they had done with catastrophic consequences in Russia.

Democrats started with a protest against election fraud that got a little out of hand (though nothing serious compared to a Black Lives Matter riot) — possibly as a result of federal agents provocateurs. No one would have taken it seriously if not for hype from the complicit media and preposterous show trials featuring a disgraceful pair of RINO collaborators. A wacky guy dressed as a buffalo was never going to overthrow the US Government.

Eventually, everyone learned the truth about the Reichstag Fire — i.e., that the only real threat was in the response to it. Despite the media’s/Democrats’ best efforts to suppress it, we are now learning the truth about January 6. Speaker Mike Johnson has released the 44,000 hours of surveillance video.

We no longer have to rely on what Democrat operatives cherrypicked out of context to support their contrived narrative. View the videos for yourself here.

A sample:

The footage is horrifying, all right. It’s horrifying that the liberal establishment was able to pass this off as a Threat to Our Democracy. Given their control of the media, their lack of principles, and the willful idiocy of their supporters, Democrats can turn any whisper of dissent into a weapon to suppress resistance.

On a tip from Mr. Freemarket.

If you don’t understand why you need to exercise your fundamental right to bear arms, ask Vince Ricci. He could also explain to you why, under Democrat rule, your government is not your friend:

A Los Angeles father who pulled a gun on masked intruders when they tried to break into his luxury home has revealed he has been stripped of his firearm permit.

It is easier to lose a concealed carry permit in California than it is to obtain one.

‘After successfully defending my home and my family and my five-month-old child, California has now decided to suspend my Second Amendment [rights],’ Ricci said.

The November 4 incident was captured on video, so we can see for ourselves how to go about losing constitutional rights in the land of Gavin Newsom:

The sheriff’s office told Ricci the permit was pulled because he yelled at officers over sloppy police work.

He had reason to be armed:

His home was broken into in June and his car was broken into the month before that.

A night prior to the shootout, Ricci revealed a group of criminals driving a Dodge Charger with no license plates had been allegedly targeting other homes in his neighborhood.

Leftist social engineers have utilized the welfare state, lax enforcement, wrist slap punishments, defunding of the police, and Critical Race Theory/Black Lives Matter ideology to grow a vast army of violent criminal scumbags, which they have weaponized against the decent law-abiding Americans they aim to eradicate. It would be naive to expect Democrat authorities not to side with this army.

On a tip from Chris Neilson.

What leftists get ahold of is twisted into something disgusting and pernicious. This holds true of whole sectors of society, like the entertainment industry. It also holds true of concepts — like the concepts of “rights”:

The German Bundestag has accepted a petition outlining children’s rights which was drafted by men involved in a pro-pedophilia activist organization. Krumme-13 [K13], a lobby group which advocates for lowering the age of consent and legalizing child pornography, announced on its website that a resolution developed by the group’s founder, Dieter Gieseking, had achieved enough votes to be added to the constitution, or Basic Law.

A little background on a pioneer in moonbat “rights”:

Gieseking, a 68-year-old former Federal Border Guard official, founded K13 in Trier in 1993 and promoted the group as a “self-help” organization for “pedosexuals.” He has been repeatedly charged with the possession of child pornography.

His punishment for not only possessing but distributing kiddie porn has consisted of wrist slaps.

When it comes to degeneracy, what a society tolerates, it gets more of. Already Germany has deliberately placed foster children in the homes of pedophiles.

Pedophiles would like to capitalize on the appalling success of the LGBT movement:

Last July, K13 boasted that members of their group displayed a “MAP flag” during one of Europe’s largest Pride celebrations in Cologne. “MAP” is an acronym used in some pro-pedophile circles which stands for “minor-attracted person.” …

K13 endorsed Germany’s new gender self-identification law, stating that “trans kids” are “politically important” for advancing pedophile rights.

The American pro-pedophilia activist group Prostasia must be watching intently.

The giants who left us the Bill of Rights would not be surprised that one day a degenerate ruling class would reject free speech and self-defense as rights. But they never would have believed these rights would be replaced by the right of children to molested by perverts.

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.