The clinically insane have achieved the cherished status of an “oppressed” identity group, to judge by a course announced earlier this year by American University:

According to the course description for “Mental Health, Madness, and Neuroqueerness,” the class will, “critically examine how ideas about mental health and wellness are situated in systems of colonialism, white supremacy, capitalism, and patriarchy.”

Just as pedophiles are now to be called MAPs, insanity will henceforth be referred to as “neuroqueerness.” Update your Newspeak Dictionary accordingly.

The course will also explore, “the life stories and knowledge of those who have been labeled or claimed the label of mad, neuroqueer, and/or mentally ill,” and “the longer histories of mental health discourses and encounters the lived experience of madness and neurodivergence.”

Those who went into hock to pay for this course get the added benefit of Biden’s student loan “forgiveness.”

Whether being crazy counts as neurodivergence even for those who are not sexual perverts is unclear:

According to Nick Walker, who claims to have coined the term, “Neuroqueer[ing],” is defined as, “the practice of queering (subverting, defying, disrupting, liberating oneself from) neuronormativity and heteronormativity simultaneously.”

“Neuronormativity” is Liberalese for what we would call “sanity.” The long clumsy word is intended to pathologize the concept.

Congratulations to Karine Jean-Pierre. A black lesbian from abroad now accrues extra intersectional bonus points for having loose screws in her head. All she has to do is convert to Islam and reveal herself to have undergone a sex change operation and she will reach the apex of the Cultural Marxist Pyramid of Power.

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.

On a tip from Varla.

When French President Emmanuel Macron honked about the “end of abundance” for regular people, the year 1789 came to mind. However, this goes beyond France.

Macron speaks for the entire Liberal World Order that he personifies. The LWO has declared that our standard of living is to be radically reduced in the name of the nonexistent climate crisis and an irrelevant war in an Eastern European backwater. If guillotines make a reappearance — figuratively or otherwise — it won’t only be in France. Here’s an Englishman at the end of his rope:

Back in the USA, Joe Biden just announced that he is shoveling another $3 billion at the corrupt and repressive regime in Ukraine. How much of the tens of $billions of largesse gets kicked back to Democrat politicians who will put the money in offshore accounts is unclear, but we can come up with a firm estimate on how much of the bounty will be paid for through inflation by everyone who has savings in US currency: all of it.

On tips from KirklesWorth and Varla.

After NYC, LA, Chicago, and Houston, the most populous cities in the USA are Phoenix, Philadelphia, and San Antonio. Add the populations of these three cities together and you get 4.9 million Americans. The same number of illegal aliens have invaded the country on Joe Biden’s invitation in the first 18 months of his disastrous regime.

Via Epoch Times via NTD:

A total of 4.9 million illegal aliens, including some 900,000 “gotaways” who evaded apprehension and have since disappeared into American communities, have entered the country by the end of July, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) said in a statement on Aug. 16.

The entire population of Ireland is 5 million.

If the illegal aliens Biden has already imported to displace us started their own city, it would be second in size to New York. The border remains effectively open.

We are not getting the cream of the crop from the Third World. We are getting people so desperate that they show up at someone else’s door and break in, employing their helplessness the way conquering armies of the past used bayonets.

Some will make good, but Biden’s handlers have calculated that most will not. If they were not expected to be reliant on government handouts for generations to come, they could not be counted on to vote Democrat, and consequently would not be allowed into the country.

America will never be the same.

On a tip from Chuck A.

It pays to let yourself be absorbed by the government borg and subsist as a bureaucrat. Workloads are light, vacation days numerous, pay extravagant, retirement packages opulent — and as an added bonus, you don’t have to pay back your student loans.

Having been bought by Big Education, Joe Biden has put off the requirement to make loan payments until December 31, and unconstitutionally “forgave” (i.e., transferred to the rest of us through inflation) $10,000 on most loans — $20,000 on Pell grants, explicitly due to racial favoritism (blacks are more than twice as likely to receive Pell grants). Not a bad deal for those who ran up student loan debt and would prefer to have other people pay it. But the deal is better still for government employees.

Posted at your expense on Whitehouse.gov:

If you have worked in public service (federal, state, local, tribal government or a non-profit organization) for 10 years or more (even if not consecutively), you may be eligible to have all your student debt canceled. Now, for a limited time, it is easier than ever to receive that forgiveness, or get credit toward forgiveness, if you have not yet served 10 years.

The Party of Government looks after its own.

It also looks after the ruling class that the American government has been subverted to protect and to serve:

At some point, the people forced to finance it will get angry enough to upset this applecart.

On tips from Kevin R and Anonymous.

Just because you are a zillionaire with no need for the money is no reason not to exploit our deranged legal system to loot taxpayers for some jackpot justice:

A federal jury found Wednesday that Los Angeles County must pay Kobe Bryant’s widow $16 million for emotional distress caused by deputies and firefighters sharing photos of the bodies of the NBA star and his daughter taken at the site of the 2020 helicopter crash that killed them.

The rich lady is offended because some first responders looked at some pictures. Consequently, everyone who pays taxes in LA County owes her money.

The courts are run by lunatics and shame no longer exists, so what’s to stop Vanessa Bryant from cashing in big on her “emotional distress”?

County attorney J. Mira Hashmall … emphasized that the photos had never appeared publicly, and had never even been seen by the plaintiffs. She said that meant that Sheriff Alex Villanueva and other officials had taken decisive and effective action when they ordered those who had the photos to delete them.

How and whether Vanessa Bryant was harmed by the pictures are unclear. The apparent purpose of the looting spree was not so much to compensate her for her supposed injury as for jurors to express what loyal fans they are of Kobe Bryant.

The jury returned its verdict on Kobe Bryant Day, which is celebrated on Aug. 24 because it uses both of his jersey numbers — 8 and 24 — and is the day after his birthday. Tuesday would have been Kobe’s 44th birthday.

Think how many hours you would have to work at your job — or rather, how many lifetimes — to earn as much as Vanessa Bryant gets from being married to a dead sports star and proclaiming herself to be upset.

Work doesn’t pay. Posing as a victim pays. That’s why we see ever less of the former and ever more of the latter.

Vanessa Bryant cried quietly as [the verdict] was read.

She might spare one of her lucrative tears for taxpayers.

On tips from Wiggins and Feet2Fire.

Joe Biden’s intolerably unfair (not to mention unconstitutional) decree that people who didn’t go to college or who paid off their loans have to pay off the student loans of freeloaders is about more than getting out the midterm vote among shiftless gender studies majors. Like his obedience to pernicious teachers’ unions, it is a matter of giving those who bankroll him what they have paid for — a piece of his power:

Biden received more than $64.5 million in contributions from people in the higher education sector during his presidential campaign in 2020, making him the top recipient by a large margin, according to data compiled by OpenSecrets.

Of the top 20 recipients of higher education cash, 19 were Democrats.

Biden topped the list, with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) coming in second with $17.2 million and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) in third with $11.6 million.

If you ever wondered whether the kooks running universities want to impose communism, now you know.

Democrats have continued to dominate the sector during the 2022 midterm cycle, with Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) topping the list at $2.2 million.

The anti-American demagogue Warnock is basically Obama’s pastor Jeremiah “God D*** America” Wright but with even less subtlety.

Big Education has plenty of money to throw at politics, because it is massively subsidized by Big Government. This drives up the price of education, enriching educrats. Debt “forgiveness” is another gigantic subsidy that will increase tuition costs.

The money cycle works the same as for Planned Parenthood: wealth is created by regular Americans, confiscated through taxes, handed out to nefarious institutions, and then a percentage is donated to corrupt Democrat pols, who see to it that the wheel keeps turning.

Like the higher education racket, our communist Chinese enemies own a piece of Joe Biden. The implications are alarming.

On a tip from Blackjack.

In the movies, the sign of the cross makes vampires cower, melt, burst into flames, transform into skeletons, and worse. All Van Helsing needs to do is hold up candlesticks so that they make a cross to get the better of Dracula. This symbol has a similar effect on LGBT moonbats, and for the same reason.

Idyllic Ocean Grove, NJ is known as “God’s Square Mile.”

The Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, a Methodist group, established the town just over 150 years ago, and it still owns the small beach and boardwalk and hosts year-round activities. Even though the town itself isn’t a purely religious enclave, the organization still owns the land that the town and its businesses sit on.

You can own a building there, but the Camp Meeting Association still owns the land under it.

A historic pier in Ocean Grove was damaged and needs to be rebuilt. The new design viewed from the sky is shaped like a cross. Moonbats don’t like it.

Douglas Grote, a retired Presbyterian pastor who lives in the town, has sent several letters to officials at the state and local level on behalf of members of the LGBT community, calling the pier design “Christian bullying.”

Evidence accrues that Presbyterianism is becoming a denomination in the blasphemous Church of Moonbattery.

Not long ago, they were demanding tolerance. Now gays and their moonbat advocates will not even tolerate the shape of the cross in a town owned by Christians. Who are the bullies?

Others opponents of the pier went farther:

Shane Martins, an attorney and Ocean Grove resident who is gay, says people are “being hurt” by the pier.

“Once this pier is built like a cross, I believe that will be the point of a no return,” he said to NJ.com. “To say (the cross-shaped pier) doesn’t represent Christian nationalism — anyone who says that isn’t being honest.”

Only when the shape of the cross has been completely eradicated can those who construct their identity around wallowing in debauchery and depravity be safe from Christian nationalism. Let’s start by abolishing the letter “T” from the alphabet.

On a tip from seaoh.

On a tip from Jester.

The supposed mass grave of oppressed indigenous children at the Kamloops school in British Columbia is among the grandest hate hoaxes of recent times:

A mass grave filled with the remains of 215 Indigenous children, some as young as three, has been found on the grounds of a former residential school in Canada…

The grisly discovery in the interior of southern British Columbia was made at the former Kamloops Indian residential school using ground-penetrating radar…

The school was open between 1890 and 1978 and ran by the Roman Catholic Church as part of a network of institutions across Canada…

This shocking revelation was aggressively seized upon by moonbats as proof of the nefariousness of Caucasians, Christianity, and Western Civilization:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau decreed, partly at the request of tribal leaders, that all flags on federal buildings fly at half-mast. The Canadian government and provincial authorities pledged about $320 million to fund more research and in December pledged another $40 billion involving First Nations child-welfare claim settlements that partially compensate some residential school attendees. Pope Francis issued a formal apology on behalf of the Catholic church, which ran many of the residential school facilities and asked for God’s forgiveness.

Francis should pray for Catholics to forgive him for reflexively siding against the Church he is supposed to represent.

Kamloops helped motivate a tidal wave of arson and vandalism unleashed against churches across Canada. But like everything else leftists want badly to believe in, Kamloops is a lie.

Ground-penetrating radar has supposedly revealed another 800 buried children. But well over a year since the supposed mass grave was revealed, no actual bodies have been found. It appears to be nothing more than an old septic system.

Canada’s Rebel News pulls back the curtain:

If something sounds too good to be true from the viewpoint of the liberal narrative, that is because it is not true.

No matter. The drive-by media made the desired impression. Plenty of people heard the original story. Few will ever know it was a lie. In politics, perception is reality.

On a tip from Steve S.

If the so-called “Inflation Reduction Act” didn’t convince you that Democrats are driving up inflation on purpose so as to apply Vladimir Lenin’s strategy of crushing the middle class “between the millstones of taxation and inflation,” maybe this will do the job:

Biden is set to “forgive” up to $10,000 in federal student debt for those making under $125,000 annually, and $20,000 for Pell grant recipients, transferring the cost of the loans to the American public, the White House announced Wednesday.

The effect this will have on inflation — which is already stratospheric due to Democrats’ massive wasteful spending and war on energy — is so obvious that this move qualifies as economic sabotage. It serves no benign economic purpose.

Politically, it will help Democrats by turning out the vote among people who want others to pay their debts. But it will alienate everyone else with its staggering injustice. Why should members of the working class, who get jobs and raise families instead of goofing around, have to pay to prolong the adolescence of rich kids who would rather marinate in moonbattery that spend their time productively? Note that useless not to mention pernicious liberal arts programs — which these days consist mostly of lunatic left political indoctrination — are to be coercively financed by the public at large.

In a free country, it would not be up to a single man — a corrupt and senile man in this case — to determine whether people are responsible for the debts they willingly incur. In the USSA, we have centralized authority under our system of omnipotent, omnipresent Big Government.

However, even fellow Democrat Nancy Pelosi balks at Biden’s use of executive orders to assume the power of a dictator:

Congress, not the president, is the only body that can cancel student debt, Pelosi said in July of 2021, arguing that “the president can’t do it.”

Even Biden’s own executive branch agrees:

The Department of Education came to the same decision, arguing that the executive branch “does not have the statutory authority to cancel, compromise, discharge, or forgive, on a blanket or mass basis, principal balances of student loans, and/or to materially modify the repayment amounts or terms thereof.”

It would be wonderful if people in Washington were to remember that this is supposed to be America, not the banana republic it is becoming under Biden.

However,

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told Biden to provide as much relief as possible in a phone call Tuesday night, according to Politico, saying its “the right thing to do morally and economically.”

As usual with Schumer, this is a shocking inversion of the truth. Morally, student loan “forgiveness” represents grand larceny and the enslavement of working people to the liberal elite. Economically, it represents sheer malice:

The total estimated cost for Biden’s one-time cancellation is $300 billion, according to a study released Tuesday by the Wharton School of business at the University of Pennsylvania.

That $300 billion comes atop the Inflation Reduction Act’s $740 billion of brazenly wasteful spending on crap like eagle-killing wind turbines and lavish subsidies for the electric moonbatmobiles favored by rich leftists.

We have the same quality of leadership as Venezuela. Consequently, we will soon have the same level of inflation.

On a tip from Varla.

In the USA, leftist anarchotyrants have driven the crime rate through the stratosphere by demonizing, defunding, and otherwise hamstringing local police. The UK takes a slightly different approach, reducing the police to a cringe-inducing laughing stock. Instead of arresting criminals, cops suppress free speech and cavort at gay pride parades:

On a tip from KirklesWorth.

On behalf of the moonbat establishment, French President Emmanuel Macron proclaims the standard of living we have earned in the West is over:

Macron warned Wednesday that France faced “sacrifices” in a new era marked by climate change and instability caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that signalled “the end of abundance”.

Note that the climate change “crisis” is imaginary, and that Russia’s reoccupation of Ukraine — which was part of Russia until recently — is only a big deal for Ukrainians.

The speech appeared designed to prepare the country for what promises to be a difficult winter ahead, with energy prices rising sharply and many families struggling with inflation.

Energy shortages are caused not by the war in Ukraine but by European reliance on Russian fossil fuels, which is caused in turn by green energy moonbattery predicated on the global warming hoax.

Inflation is caused by excessive government spending. Like the other causes of the end of abundance, it is unnecessarily imposed on us by our left-leaning rulers.

Needless to say, abundance will continue unimpeded for Macron, Biden, and the Davos set.

“This overview that I’m giving — the end of abundance, the end of insouciance, the end of assumptions — it’s ultimately a tipping point that we are going through that can lead our citizens to feel a lot of anxiety,” Macron continued.

It may be more of a tipping point than he realizes: a 1789 kind of tipping point.

On a tip from Occam’s Stubble.

We can’t be sure we will have enough to eat, given that the maniacs in charge believe that, like efficient energy, food is offensive to the climate. In contrast, there will be no shortage of giant wind turbine blades of dubious usefulness, now that Democrats have devoted hundreds of $billions to green energy waste and corruption in the act of economic sabotage they insolently refer to as the Inflation Reduction Act. What to do with the blades when the turbines stop working is an ongoing dilemma. Jonathan Swift suggests a solution. We must eat the wind turbine blades.

First, we make them into gummy bears:

[R]esearchers at Michigan State University constructed a new form of composite resin for wind turbine blades.

It is comprised of a mixture of glass fibers with plant-derived and synthetic polymers. Once blades formed from this resin can no longer be used, the new material can be recycled into a variety of products – including gummy bears. …

“We recovered food-grade potassium lactate and used it to make gummy bear candies, which I ate,” explained John Dorgan, one of the authors of the paper.

He then vomited blood and collapsed writhing on the floor.

Just kidding about that last part, but the rest of it seems to be on the level — though it is hard to tell fact from parody under rulers who want us to eat maggot butter, weeds, synthetic pseudofood, plastic trash, lentils, grass, crickets, larvae, et cetera in the name of the climate.

On a tip from Blackjack.