Anything that succumbs to moonbattery is reduced to dysfunctional farce. Because the ideologically deranged federal government has arrogated a major role in research, this includes even the medical technology Western Civilization has developed to radically improve the human condition:

The Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention could soon employ “Indigenous Knowledge” in their research, a document obtained by the Washington Free Beacon shows.

The document is a proposed revision of scientific integrity guidelines for the Department of Health and Human Services, which encompasses the FDA, CDC, and the National Institutes of Health. Going forward, agency staff should employ “multiple forms of evidence, such as Indigenous Knowledge,” when analyzing data, the document states.

A pharmaceutical compound might be proven safe and efficacious through rigorous clinical trials. Or it might be revealed as safe and efficacious through the hallucinatory visions of a shaman high on mushrooms. In accordance with the liberal doctrine of relativism, both are equally valid.

Affirming the relevance of “indigenous knowledge” (a.k.a. savage superstitions) allows bureauweenies to proclaim their devotion to diversity/equity/inclusion:

“A strong culture of scientific integrity begins with ensuring a professional environment that is safe, equitable, and inclusive,” the report says. “Issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility are an integral component of the entire scientific process.”

Scientific integrity is ensured by elevating the magical thinking of failed societies to the level of modern science, according to the depraved lunatics comprising the liberal ruling class.

Fortuitously, bureaucrats may be able to make the numbers add up even after they have finished incrementally socializing medicine by substituting witchdoctors wagging bones for medical care.

On a tip from Angel.

When UK police cracked down on the English flag because it is racist, Not the Bee wondered whether they would also come after the Union Jack, which is based on it. Looks like we have the answer:

Extended video, via Blazing Cat Fur:

In the UK as in the USA, the government is at war with the country it rules. Hence the systematic displacement of the respective native populations via mass Third World immigration.

On a tip from Brian Brandt.

The establishment media is in a state of freefall due to its willingness to sacrifice credibility to advance the leftist agenda. But if you think private sector propaganda platforms like ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN are a joke, consider the media outlets that are financed by Big Government. Examples include the BBC, PBS, and at the last limits of lunacy, NPR — which informs us that the mountain of debt compiled by moonbats as they waste our money on crap like public broadcasting actually constitutes savings.

From National Public Radio:

NPR’s Leila Fadel talks with Stony Brook University professor of economics Stephanie Kelton about some potential benefits of the nation’s $34 trillion of debt.

The word “benefits” is not a typo.

Fadel introduces her guest as…

“…a senior economic adviser for Senator Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaigns. She’s also a proponent of modern monetary theory, or MMT, which argues that since the U.S. prints its own currency, it can’t run out of money like a household or a business can.”

An economic advisor to a communist believes we can produce infinite wealth by printing infinite money. Refer to Zimbabwe to see how this turns out in real life.

The nutty professor explains her theory that debt is savings:

“So over the arc of U.S. history, the U.S. government typically spends on an annual basis more dollars into the economy than it taxes away from us. And so it’s adding dollars, and over time, we keep track of how many dollars have been added. And what that 34 trillion is telling you is that over the long sweep of history, the U.S. government has put that many dollars into our hands without taxing them away. So what it is is it’s our after-tax savings that’s being reported.”

Then the men in white coats arrived with their butterfly nets and escorted her away.

Currency issued by the government is not wealth; it only represents wealth. NPR’s expert is unwilling or unable to grasp this:

“[T]he idea that taxes pay for what the government spends is pure fantasy,” she writes in The Deficit Myth. “[I]t is the currency issuer — the federal government itself — not the taxpayer, that finances all government expenditures.”

Meanwhile, as even some liberals understand,

MMT is a recipe for hyperinflation, as Harvard economist and former Clinton Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers has noted, along with countless other economists. …

Printing mass amounts of money cannot solve the problem of scarcity.

An economist who cannot comprehend scarcity is like a mathematician who cannot count.

“The carpenter can’t run out of inches,” she tweeted in 2019. “The stadium can’t run out of points. The airline can’t run out of [frequent flier] miles. And the USA can’t run out of dollars.”

There is a reason Kelton has crazy eyes. She is crazy.

There is also a reason NPR provided a platform to this kook:

Kelton was all but certain to say the $34 trillion debt was no problem. Don Boudreaux, Peter St. Onge, David Henderson, Bob Murphy, Antony Davies, or any number of other free-market economists would have given a very different answer, one that no doubt would have been far more grounded in economic reality. But as a media entity receiving tax dollars, NPR has little incentive to promote a free-market economist or free-market views. Indeed, they have an incentive to do precisely the opposite.

The skyrocketing national debt is not the only looming crisis that we will be lucky to survive. There are also the undefended border, the likelihood of Iran acquiring intercontinental nuclear missiles, and a ruling class that may actually believe its own self-serving lies, no matter how preposterous.

On a tip from Barry A.

It is not enough for them to dictate what you can say. Social engineers implementing the LGBT agenda intend to control what you think. From Airstrip One:

Civil servants have been told to ‘think’ of transgender colleagues as women in new staff guidance…

The diktat by bosses at data watchdog the Information Commissioner’s Office suggests that it is not enough to call employees by their chosen gender pronouns.

The ostensible purpose of the ICO is to protect privacy. Yet it does not even respect the privacy of people’s thoughts:

It says staff can show their support for trans colleagues by ‘thinking of the person as being the gender that they want you to think of them as’.

The taxpayer-funded body also claims that transgender women – who are born male – go through the menopause.

In 1984, Winston Smith cannot make the torture stop by saying, “Okay, okay, 2 + 2 = 5.” He has to actually believe it.

On tips from Franco and ABC of the ANC. Hat tip: Modernity.

Normally, a school shooting sends the media into an jubilant frenzy, as propagandists scramble to exploit the tragedy to attack our right of self-defense. Not this time:

The now-deceased suspected gunman who shot at least six victims—killing one, a sixth-grade middle schooler—at a small-town high school in Perry, Iowa, early Thursday morning has been identified by authorities as 17-year-old student Dylan Butler.

Butler’s social media imprint reveals why the media won’t find the bloodshed worthy of the 24/7 laser focus for days on end we have come to expect following school shootings:

An emoji of the gay Pride flag was featured in the TikTok page’s bio and an image of an anime girl was selected as the profile’s avatar. In another TikTok video, the account used the hashtag “genderfluid.” Using an identical profile picture on Instagram, user @DylanSayWhat212 identified as trans non-binary with “he/they” pronouns. However, the account has also since been scrubbed.

According to a series of Reddit posts that Butler appears to have authored, he interacted with transgender and “femboy” forums. …

Over on the platform X, formerly Twitter, the since-suspended account @DylanSayWhat212, under the screenname “Dylan Jesse,” professed his love for My Little Pony and “f*cking furries” while replying to a Happy Pride Month post.

From the viewpoint of the liberal establishment, guns in private hands are bad, but not as bad as driving children insane with transsexual ideology is good.

The reason the demonic Audrey Hale is not a household name is that she was pretending to be a man (and possibly taking male hormones) when she murdered six people including three 9-year-olds at the Covenant School in Nashville for being Christian. A similar dynamic will ensure Butler’s obscurity.

Matt Vespa predicts the Iowa story will be gone by Monday if not sooner:

There’s nothing here to weaponize against conservatives. The shooter was a genderfluid/transgender whackjob. With 2024 upon us, politicians aren’t going to be sticking their necks out for a gun control bill based on a transgender going insane. The media will write up the main points and move on because this shooting, yet again, does not comport with the narrative that pro-MAGA white supremacists are killing us all.

If only briefly, the media has no choice but to acknowledge what happened. So it provides the politically correct spin by portraying Butler as the victim — basically siding with him against his victims:

The AP published a piece with the headline ‘He got tired of the bullying,’ classmates say of shooter, and detailed how Butler had been “bullied relentlessly since elementary school.”

Nothing is beneath the Associated Press.

Transsexualism is literally a form of psychosis. Promote it among unstable youth while pushing a phony Cultural Marxist narrative of oppression…

…and the results are so predictable, they must be intended.

Please welcome Dylan Butler to the Transsexual Violence Hall of Horrors:

• Dylan Butler
• Kendall Stephens
• Leion Butler
• Jason Lee Willie
• Audrey Hale
• Kimbrady Carriker
• Maya McKinney
• Snochia Moseley
• Anderson Lee Aldrich
• Moses Lopez
• William Whitworth
• Shanu Varma
• A guy calling himself Lara
• Zion William Teasley
• Jason Michael Hann
• Cali Anderson
• Dana Rivers
• Vivian Ginger-Rain Shemansky
• Linnea Pugmire
• Mark Campbell
• Paul S.

On tips from Jester, Wiggins, ABC of the ANC, and the Great Cornholio.

A central objective of leftists dating back to Karl Marx has been the destruction of the most basic structure holding together human civilization, the family. Black Lives Matter made this goal explicit, before it was removed for strategic reasons during the George Floyd riots. Progressives have embraced postmodernism, according to which power is wielded through language. So it should come as no surprise that social engineers are erasing familial relationships from the Newspeak Dictionary.

Goodbye “brother” and “sister”:

‘Brother’ and ‘sister’ could be banned from official documents and other public communication and be replaced by the term ‘siblings’, under updated anti-discrimination laws in one Australian state.

“Anti-discrimination” refers to the overhauling of society to remake it according to the specifications of LGBT activists.

[New South Wales] is overhauling its Anti-Discrimination Act of 1977 next year and preliminary submissions are already pouring in for what could be a highly contested battle between differing lobbyists.

That battle is between those who want to delete any word deemed to be an obstacle to LGBTism and those who want to preserve the English language and civilization in general.

Goodbye “husband” and “wife”:

The Methodist Church in Great Britain released an “Inclusive Language Guide” this month advising Methodists to avoid using gendered terms such as “husband” and “wife” because such allegedly assumes what is not “the reality for many people.”

At least moonbats provide some comic relief by using the term “reality” in the context of pretending there is no difference between men and women.

Tellingly, British Methodists also want to erase the word “insane.” To avoid cancelation for thoughtcrime, you are commanded to say “neurodiverse.” Don’t forget to keep a straight face.

Before long, the word “family” itself will be deleted from the Newspeak Dictionary.

On tips from ABC of the ANC and Franco.

With minimum wage madness, moonbats recently provided an elementary lesson in economics. Now they teach us about public health by adding the morbidly obese to the Cultural Marxist coalition with the body positivity movement:

Aggressively promoted by the liberal establishment, obesity confers precious oppressed status, resulting in legal privileges and free seats on airplanes. A conspicuously unfit 400-pounder named David Lopez believes himself entitled to a job as a gym teacher despite suffering from asthma, hypertension, diabetes, etc. on the grounds that he is overweight; he is suing Wayne State University for “discrimination.”

However, there are drawbacks to not keeping your weight under control, including:

• All-causes of death (mortality).
• High blood pressure (hypertension).
• High LDL cholesterol, low HDL cholesterol, or high levels of triglycerides (dyslipidemia).
• Type 2 diabetes.
• Coronary heart disease.
• Stroke.
• Gallbladder disease.
• Osteoarthritis (a breakdown of cartilage and bone within a joint).
• Sleep apnea and breathing problems.
• Many types of cancer.
• Low quality of life.
• Mental illness such as clinical depression, anxiety, and other mental disorders.
• Body pain and difficulty with physical functioning.

The privileges of oppression are hard to enjoy when you are sick or dead.

On a tip from R F and Mr. Freemarket.

Following the terror atrocities of October 7, Hamas is riding high on surging support from leftists. The Muslim–moonbat alliance has teamed up to attack Christmas:

Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters waved the pan-Arab-colors flag and wore the symbolic Palestinian keffiyeh in a series of coordinated “No Xmas as Usual in a Genocide” rallies and marches across the US on Saturday.

They mean “genocide” in the Orwellian sense; specifically, genocide = opposition to the genocide of Jews in the Holy Land as advocated in the slogan “From the river to the sea.”

Organizers with Shut It Down for Palestine said the organization had focused its protests on the second-most popular shopping day of the year – the day before Christmas Eve – as part of ongoing civic and commercial disruptions. …

Posts on social media channels showed protests in New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto and in Chicago, where a convoy of cars temporarily blocked a highway and entrance to Chicago O’Hare airport.

In New York, protests organized by pro-Palestinian groups the People’s Forum and Palestinian Youth Movement held a rally at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street – the apex of Manhattan’s luxury shopping district…

In San Francisco … protesters gathered to call for a permanent ceasefire as well as an end to US spending on the war.

“Ceasefire” means unconditional surrender to Hamas. Terrorists are not expected to abide by ceasefires. The US spending they object to is aide for Israel; Biden will continue to shovel mountains of our money at Hamas with their approval.

Nothing is beneath these demons:

In what has become a running trend across the globe throughout December, pro-Hamas protesters once again crashed a Christmas production, this time in Melbourne, Australia. Named “Carols by Candlelight,” the event is held to raise money for blind children.

No matter, though, the group of pro-Hamas fanatics stormed the stage anyway, waving Palestinian flags while attempting to grab the microphone and shouting “Free Palestine.”

Video:

Bonchie hits the nail on the head:

They don’t just hate Israel. They don’t just hate Jews. They hate you and your way of life. They hate that you celebrate Christmas. They hate that you care enough to raise money for children. They hate that you spend time with your family. What is happening across the West is a soft revolution meant to shame and suppress those who would dare partake in the traditional aspects of society, and the revolutionaries are winning.

Modernity offers an indication of what the future will look like if we don’t turn the tide quickly:

Security services in Germany, Spain, Austria have beefed up their presence outside churches and other major landmarks after learning terrorists had schemed to bring chaos to major cities over the Christmas period.

Concern was particularly high around Cologne Cathedral in Germany, site of the infamous New Year’s Eve 2015 mass molestation of women by huge gangs of migrants from North Africa. …

Counter-terror operations are also underway in Vienna and Madrid, with St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna being mentioned as a specific target as well as Christmas markets. …

Authorities in Austria made several arrests [Saturday] night of ISIS-linked terrorists who were planning mass casualty attacks, according to reports.

Given current demographic, cultural, and political trends, it will be impossible to hold them off for long.

On tips from Anonymous and ABC of the ANC.

If ever there was a disconnect between rulers and ruled, it is in leftist-dominated Ireland, whose government has been systematically displacing the native population with a massive influx of welfare colonists, largely from Africa.

According to the government, the de-Caucasianification of Ireland is not happening fast enough:

Now a word from the people of Ireland:

Riots broke out across Dublin, Ireland, late Thursday evening as Irish citizens took control of the city centre following a mass stabbing attack where an immigrant man is accused of slashing five individuals near a school — three of which are young children, including a five-year-old girl. …

After word spread of the attack, Irish citizens took to the streets to loot stores, assault police, and set fire to multiple vehicles on Dublin’s O’Connell Bridge. Eventually, the rioters took control of the city centre.

They are beginning to understand what is being done to them:

In the 12 months leading up to April this year, 141,600 immigrants landed in Ireland.

The Irish population has increased by more than 2%. If the US had similar immigration, it would mean 9 million extra people. …

Ireland’s non-nationals comprise a whopping 20% of the population.

Given immigrant reproduction rates, this will soon reduce the Irish to a despised minority in their own country.

Moonbat establishmentarians predictably caterwaul about right-wing extremists, by which they mean anyone to the right of all the way left.

Police chiefs have been quick to blame “far right” anti-immigrant elements.

Yet public frustration with homelessness, joblessness, immigration, lack of law and order and anti-social behavior have been breeding a revolt by the urban underclass. …

Commentary with vague but menacing tones about the “far right” masks the fact there is no political representation of serious conservative opinion in the Irish Parliament.

This could be why it took the police more than 4 hours to put down the riot:

Plus, police morale is very low due to pointless virtue-signaling such as “hate speech” initiatives.

More than 90% of ordinary police officers recently voted “no confidence” in the country’s top law-enforcement officer.

Police chiefs owe their allegiance to the political class. Refer to the perjurer Medaria Arradondo of Minneapolis for an especially egregious American example. Left-wing governments are not on the side of the police rank and file.

Stand by for some historical irony:

While the foundational story of the modern Irish state is one of throwing off British oppression, Dublin has been quick to request the loan of water cannon from a United Kingdom police force.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland, one of 43 police forces in the United Kingdom has responded to a request for mutual aid from the Republic of Ireland and has delivered two water cannons. The high-pressure devices are truck-mounted and operated by police forces to pacify protests and riots.

The Irish were far better off ruled by the British than by moonbats — although nowadays there would be no difference.

In the USA, leftists spent the year 2020 advancing their agenda through hundreds of riots. Countermoonbats can riot too, as hinted by the election fraud protest that got out of hand on 1/6/23. The absurd overreaction to January 6 indicated that the leftist establishment will crack down with overwhelming force on those it deems threatening. But regular people slated for welfare state enslavement followed by displacement won’t go down without a fight.

On tips from Wiggins and Ed McAninch.

Every sector of society is now devoted to fabricating racism — even archeology, which has been enlisted to prove that the Plague discriminated against black women:

Black women of African descent were more likely to die of the medieval plague in London, academics at the Museum of London have found.

That must be why they called it the Black Death.

Data on bone and dental changes of the 145 individuals from East Smithfield emergency plague cemetery, St Mary Graces and St Mary Spital formed the basis of the study.

This primary data was then examined by applying a forensic anthropological toolkit to estimate whether the bones were likely to have come from someone with African heritage.

I could have spared the experts the trouble by reminding them that anyone buried in London in the 1300s was almost certainly not of African heritage.

Nonetheless, the study managed to reach its intended conclusion:

It found there were significantly higher proportions of people of colour and those of Black African descent in plague burials compared to non-plague burials.

We are told to believe that 18.4% of the plague burials were blacks. In 14th century England.

The research concluded that higher death rates amongst people of colour and those of black African descent was a result of the “devastating effects” of “premodern structural racism” in the medieval world.

The story is ludicrous even by BBC standards. But it must be admitted that there were black women in England long before welfare colonists started pouring in over the past few generations. Anne Boleyn was now black.

On a tip from Franco.

Artificial Intelligence is not all the Biden Regime wants to subordinate to “equity.” The Internet faces the same fate:

Federal Communications Commission Commissioner Brendan Carr is calling the Biden administration’s “digital equity” plan for all internet services and infrastructure an “unlawful power grab.”

Equity can only be imposed by a totalitarian government that controls every aspect of human existence. That’s the point of it.

“President Biden’s plan hands the Administrative State effective control of all Internet services and infrastructure in the country. Never before, in the roughly 40-year history of the public Internet, has the FCC (or any federal agency for that matter) claimed this degree of control over it. Indeed, President Biden’s plan calls for the FCC to apply a far-reaching set of government controls that the agency has not applied to any technology in the modern era, including Title II common carriers,” Carr said in a statement on Monday.

Read websites like this one while you can. Federal bureaucrats are unlikely to find anything to the right of all the way left to be consistent with the principles of equity.

“For the first time ever, those rules would give the federal government a roving mandate to micromanage nearly every aspect of how the Internet functions—from how [internet service providers] allocate capital and where they build, to the services that consumers can purchase; from the profits that ISPs can realize and how they market and advertise services, to the discounts and promotions that consumers can receive. Talk about central planning,” Carr warned.

What do you expect? Today’s Democrats are Marxists. The only difference between them and Bolsheviks is they have not yet gathered the nerve to try to disarm us so they can throw us into gulags.

Cautions Carr:

“The Biden Administration’s plan empowers the FCC to regulate every aspect of the Internet sector for the first time ever. The plan is motivated by an ideology of government control that is not compatible with the fundamental precepts of free market capitalism.”

Traditionally, when thugs seize control in a banana republic, the first thing they take over is the television stations. But Democrats already control those. The Internet is the only platform for meaningful dissent.

“Biden is turning ‘digital discrimination’ into a pretext for regulating everything. For equity,” Phil Kerpen, president of American Commitment, said of the Biden plan for the FCC.

Whether you call it “equity,” “Critical Race Theory,” “Cultural Marxism,” “LGBTism,” or the more general “moonbattery,” the ideology of our degenerate liberal rulers is a totalitarian creed. Every aspect of society will be increasingly oriented toward enforcing it so long as they remain dominant.

Ideological conformity and the authoritarianism required to impose it are symbiotic; each motivates the other.

On a tip from Htos1av.

Let’s hope Blinken’s son hauled in plenty of candy while trick-or-treating dressed as the King of the Moochers, because it may have to last forever. Halloween could face cancelation now that Yahoo has revealed it to be “an ecological disaster”:

All those candy wrappers have to go somewhere. So do all the plastic pumpkins, plastic vampire teeth, plastic Harry Potter wands.

And where they go, for the most part, is into landfills and waterways, where they contribute to a plastics problem that has become a global challenge.

Plastic — the miracle material that makes modern life possible — is a synthetic polymer derived from fossil fuels. It is regarded as unholy in the moonbat religion.

Halloween furthermore oppresses animals:

Fake spiderwebs stretched over hedges or fencing are a common Halloween decoration. They are also a danger for birds.

If mudpuddles have rights in Milwaukee, surely we can grant birds the right to a world free of fake spiderwebs.

That’s not all:

Earlier this year, a young deer in Michigan had to be rescued after its head became stuck in a plastic Halloween bucket…

Also, jack-o’-lanterns may end up rotting in landfills. We are told to believe this makes it be too hot outside, because decomposing vegetation produces methane, “a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming.”

Clearly there can be no place for Halloween in liberal utopia.

On a tip from Lyle.

From the beginning, it was obvious that experimental Covid vaccines made no sense for healthy young servicemembers, to whom the vax was more of a threat than the virus. Yet the moonbats in charge demanded they roll up their sleeves. It looks like myocarditis has resulted. Now the VA reportedly refuses healthcare benefits, claiming that the vaccine imposed by the Pentagon was not service-related.

LifeSiteNews has background:

The COVID vaccines, developed and reviewed in a fraction of the time vaccines usually take under former President Donald Trump’s Operation Warp Speed initiative, continue to be dogged by public concern over evidence of harmful side effects, which the federal government has been largely uninterested in pursuing.

Medical billing data from the Pentagon’s Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED) shows that 2021 saw drastic spikes in a variety of diagnoses for serious medical issues over the previous five-year average, including hypertension (2,181%), neurological disorders (1,048%), multiple sclerosis (680%), Guillain-Barre syndrome (551%), breast cancer, (487%), female infertility (472%), pulmonary embolism (468%), migraines (452%), ovarian dysfunction (437%), testicular cancer (369%), and tachycardia (302%).

Nonetheless,

Until last December, President Joe Biden’s Pentagon leaders enforced COVID-19 vaccine mandates on American service men and women, provoking almost 40 lawsuits and threatening soldier and pilot shortages potentially adding up to tens of thousands, contributing to broader ongoing problems of force strength, troop morale, and public confidence.

Now we hear infuriating stories like this:

The VA denying disability benefits to vax victims appears to be more than hearsay. A half dozen senators — Marco Rubio (R-FL), Rick Scott (R-FL), Ted Cruz (R- TX), Tom Cotton (R-AR), Steve Daines (R-MT), and Mike Braun (R-IN) — demand answers. From a letter they sent to Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Denis McDonough:

We write for clarification on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) policy for veterans who have injuries resulting from receiving the COVID-19 vaccine while in service. As you are aware, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) required all service members to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Many service members, despite hesitations against receiving the vaccine, chose to be vaccinated to continue their service to our country.

The senators have questions for the VA’s Chief Bureaucrat:

1. What is the VA’s process for considering COVID-19 vaccine injuries for disability claims?
2. Does the VA consider COVID-19 vaccine injuries as service-related if the service member received the vaccine during service?
3. Has the VA investigated the health effects of COVID-19 vaccine injuries?
4. What resources does the VA provide service members who are concerned that a COVID-19 vaccination led to their injury?

Don’t hold your breath waiting for straight answers from the Biden Regime.

On tips from Anonymous, 100Bravo, and seaoh.

Norman Rockwell captured the essence of America when it was healthy and strong. The magic of AI allows us to apply his iconic style to the America progressivism has reduced us to:

This one captures the essence of what liberals have done to education:

Revolver News has a whole collection of these gems. They poignantly emphasize the fundamental transformation promised by the moonbat messiah, Barack Obama.

On a tip from Stormfax.