Democrats bark that we must be deprived of our right to bear arms because guns are used to commit crimes. This ignores that lawfully owned guns are often used to prevent crime. Guns used in crimes tend not to be lawfully owned, as stats from Ammo.com confirm:

• Only 1.3% of criminals used a firearm that was purchased from [a dealer with a Federal Firearms License (FFL)] during the commission of a crime, based on a 2016 survey

• 89% of inmates reported that they possessed a firearm during the commission of a crime that was not obtained at a retailer (FFL Dealer)

• 56% of inmates arrested with a firearm at the time of their crimes stated they had stolen it

Click through for detailed stats and graphics.

Criminals don’t worry about gun laws. They steal their guns or buy them on the black market anyway. There are an estimated 400,000,000 guns in the USA. Criminals will always have access to them.

Gun laws render the law-abiding defenseless against criminals, to whom gun laws do not apply. Yet again we see that Democrats side with criminals against regular Americans.

On a tip from Jester.

While some globalist moonbats target nonessentials like coffee, others cut to the chase. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, an actual communist and head of the UN’s World Health Organization, declares that our “food systems” offend the climate:

Remember how the World Health Organization handled Covid? Imagine these people taking control of agriculture on a worldwide basis to ensure that it complies with their ideology.

Lefty icon Mao Zedong killed tens of millions of his own people by starvation. The kooks comprising the United Nations would starve billions.

Literally all human activity creates the harmless carbon emissions that are regarded as unclean in the moonbat religion. That’s why CO2 is bad, not because anyone really believes it makes the weather be a problem.

On a tip from Anonymous.

You can see why the federal government needs a new FBI headquarters twice the size of the Pentagon. There are a whole lot of federal agents out there. Watch as some attempt to master the turnstile:

On a tip from WDS 2.0.

How is it possible that a moonbat like Nikki Haley almost came within 10 points of Trump in the New Hampshire Republican primary? Here’s how:

Mark Dice confirms that the soy boy above is no outlier among Haley supporters:

According to a CNN exit poll, about 70% of Nikki Haley voters in New Hampshire were not registered Republicans. Haley ought to take a hint and switch parties.

On tips from Wiggins, KirklesWorth, and ABC of the ANC.

At what point will the worm turn against our globalist moonbat ruling class? When they take away our cars? When they take away our beer? Maybe when they take away our coffee.

Swiss banker and World Economic Forum “agenda contributor” Hubert Keller explains why coffee offends the weather gods:

Whatever you value, moonbats will declare it racist or offensive to the climate and take it away from you. Wokeism is a zero tolerance ideology, and what it has zero tolerance for is you.

If we can’t bulldoze the United Nations building into the East River, can we at least put an end to US taxpayer funding of the insane and malevolent World Economic Forum?

On tips from seaoh and ABC of the ANC.

Those who are not cognitively challenged or pathologically gullible may find it hard to take leftist climate ideology seriously. However, the money involved is plenty serious.

Al Gore has milked the global warming hoax for a fortune:

His wild prediction at Davos that Earth faces ‘rain bombs’ and ‘boiling oceans’ is just his latest in decades of climate alarmism.

At the same time, the former VP has been at the forefront of green technology investment that has seen his wealth balloon to an estimated $330 million.

Four years after losing to George W Bush in 2000, Gore set up Generation Investment Management with former Goldman Sachs Managing Director and close friend David W. Blood.

The mission statement of the investment firm, where Gore collects $2 million in a monthly salary, is to back companies that are making strides towards going green. The firm is worth around $36 billion.

The Goracle’s take is chump change compared to what the left-wing globalist ruling class expects us to pay to indulge their self-serving doctrine that the weather is somehow a problem and they can control it:

As Daily Signal reported last summer,

Lawmakers grilled climate czar John Kerry on Capitol Hill…

Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., said that through much of earth’s history there was more carbon in the atmosphere than today and questioned Kerry’s statements about the exact amount of carbon that’s appropriate.

“In December of 2022 you told The Washington Post we need to remove 1.6 trillion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere via direct air capture, the direct cost for that is about $1,000 per ton or $1.6 quadrillion,” Perry said. …

Kerry said he disagreed with the characterization of the issue and asked Perry why so many other countries would sign on to the reduction of carbon emissions.

“Because they are grifting like you are,” Perry said.

The global warming hoax may constitute the biggest grift in the history of the world. Under liberal rule, increasingly massive amounts of wealth created by Americans will be redistributed to other countries in the name of climate reparations.

But don’t worry about the expense. If taxes don’t cover it, Democrats can just print the money.

On tips from R F and WDS 2.0.

As the airline industry collapses into dysfunction under the weight of end stage moonbattery, flying is getting increasingly harrowing:

A New York-bound Virgin Atlantic flight was canceled just moments before takeoff last week when an alarmed passenger said he spotted several screws missing from the plane’s wing.

British traveler Phil Hardy, 41, was onboard Flight VS127 at Manchester Airport in the UK on Jan. 15 when he noticed the four missing fasteners during a safety briefing for passengers and decided to alert the cabin crew.

At first they attempted some ad hoc repairs. But passengers were watching:

If Hardy hadn’t raised a fuss, the flight might have found its way to the bottom of the Atlantic.

Hardy said airline staff repeatedly reassured him there was no safety issue with the wing, but his fear was heightened given the recent ordeal in which an Alaska Airlines plane lost its door plug and a chunk of its fuselage flew off mid-flight.

For context regarding Virgin Atlantic, these are actual ads for the airline:

Thanks, I’ll take the bus.

Leftism dictates that diversity/equity/inclusion must take precedence over keeping planes in the air. This shift in emphasis places the public at increasing risk.

From the liberal viewpoint, air travel becoming prohibitively hazardous is not a bug but a feature. Only members of the ruling class can fly without offending the atavistic weather gods they worship — and John Kerry types take private jets.

On tips from ABC of the ANC, WDS 2.0, and R F.

Move over, Babylon Bee. You have been supplanted by the allegedly conservative Supreme Court, which can push left-wing lunacy as far as any satire site.

See if you can tell parody…

In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court has ruled that it’s now illegal for the Texas National Guard to guard Texas or the nation. …

As a result of the ruling, Texas is being ordered to open its border completely and let millions of people flood the state and the rest of the country until everything Americans hold dear is left a smoldering ruin. “It’s the compassionate thing to do,” said [Ketanji Brown] Jackson.

…from reality:

After Texas installed around 30 miles of razor wire along the southern border, the U.S. Border Patrol repeatedly cut through the wire to allow illegal immigrants to enter the country. Texas filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration, saying the federal government damaged state property and was trespassing…

In a 5-4 ruling on Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court granted an emergency request from the Biden administration to allow agents to cut through the razor wire…

Forget property damage and trespassing. The feds have been committing straightforward treason by deliberately facilitating the largest invasion in human history.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott vows to continue fighting to secure the border from foreign invasion and internal treachery. He is in effect the real president of what remains of the United States.

Republican-appointed Justices John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett joined the court’s three liberal justices in the 5-4 ruling. The high court’s ruling, however, is not final as it simply allows Border Patrol agents to cut through the concertina wire while litigation continues. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals is still weighing the full case and will hear oral arguments on February 7.

In the meantime, thousands of illegal welfare colonists and cross the deliberately undefended border each day, steadily transforming American demographics to facilitate leftist political objectives.

At least the Supremes will have time to familiarize themselves with the US Constitution that it is their job to uphold. According to Article IV, Section 4, the federal government is required to defend the states from foreign invasion. This is one of the very few legitimate duties of the federal government. Under Biden, it not only refuses to defend the states, it does not even allow states to defend themselves. More blatant defiance of the Constitution would be difficult to imagine.

If sanity reasserts itself and the Supreme Court sides with the USA against its enemies, expect the Biden Regime to simply ignore the ruling as it has done with student loans. Or maybe it will cut to the chase and pack the court with rubber stamp left-wing apparatchiks like Ketanji Brown Jackson.

On tips from Lyle, Mr. Freemarket, ABC of the ANC, and KirklesWorth.

What could earn even greater admiration from the media than cross-dressers of creepy nonbinary sexuality? How about indigenous cross-dressers of creepy nonbinary sexuality from the Third World? The Seattle Times can hardly contain itself:

The muxe (pronounced MOO-shay) are Zapotec people who view themselves as neither man nor woman, but instead a distinct “third gender.” Identified as male at birth, they embody female characteristics — in presentation, behavior and professions — which once earned them contempt and scorn.

Nowadays whatever was universally regarded throughout the ages as warranting contempt and scorn earns praise from social engineers.

Elvis Guerra, 30, the queen in waiting, explains that the muxe stand in solidarity with burgeoning gender rights movements worldwide, pronouncing themselves trailblazers of cultural preservation and inclusion in a rural bastion of Catholicism.

Eroding the Christianity that has prevailed in Mexico for centuries in favor of the subversive LGBT agenda constitutes “cultural preservation” because of the indigenous angle.

“We share the same fight as the LGBTQ community,” said Guerra, who is also a published poet, lawyer and head of a company producing fabrics with Indigenous motifs.

This all-around renaissance muxe is celebrated as a personification of Mexico’s cultural decline.

Mexico’s legacy of machismo and Roman Catholicism has fostered hostility to homosexuality and alternatives to conventional gender norms. That has begun to change, slowly, in recent decades.

Machismo and Catholicism will have to be abolished altogether before Mexican culture meets with the full approval of the Seattle Times.

The connection with leftist politics is made explicit:

[B]eginning in the mid-1970s, the muxe launched what they view as a liberation movement, including public protests and appeals to police and politicians. At the same time, left-wing movements were sweeping the isthmus — a part of Mexico with a long and proud history of rebellion and cultural independence, providing an opening for the muxe to throw their support behind political reform.

As in the USA, leftists have made significant progress in normalizing the sexually grotesque…

Still, Guerra said, the battle doesn’t end “until we have equality, respect in the community, and every muxe child is permitted to go to school dressed like a girl.”

Evidently there is a muxe gene that makes some Mexican schoolboys want to show up for school in a dress.

The muxe, [Guerra] adds, are long past the stage of accepting just being tolerated. “Tolerance, no: Respect,” the queen insists. “We demand respect. Because we have earned it. And deserve it.”

Like gay pride, this respect is to be based on deviance as somehow inherently praiseworthy.

On a tip from Mike B.

“Third World toilet” is not just a metaphor for what Democrats are turning the USA into; it is a literal description. From my former neighborhood in New York City:

Since November, thousands of adult migrants have waited outside the former St. Brigid’s School on East 7th Street, and overflow into Tompkins Square Park, to score a bed in the city’s shelter system after their 30-day and 60-day stay limits expired.

Back in the day, Tompkins Square was populated by drug-addled derelicts. No matter how bad the decay with moonbats in control, they will always make it worse. Now the park is home to a tiny fraction of the welfare colonists Democrats have illegally imported to displace the American population. Workers have given up on trying to maintain the porta-potties. You can see why.

In the past week, locals and volunteers said they’ve spotted cups filled with urine around the park’s entrance near the former school, along with human-sized poop in tree beds and between parked cars. …

One migrant had no problem taking an al fresco whiz on a tree Wednesday afternoon as The Post surveyed the stomach-churning scene.

Moonbat Mayor Eric Adams has proclaimed NYC to be a sanctuary city, welcoming the countless illegal aliens the Biden Regime has treasonously allowed to flood the country. The unfolding consequences were inevitable.

On a tip from Barry A.

What’s next after denying medical care based on political incorrectness? Maybe deliberately killing the patients:

The Irish Medical Council has stripped a prohibition against the “deliberate killing” of patients from the most recent update to its national medical guidelines.

Meanwhile, across the Irish Sea,

Euthanasia deaths in Europe and Canada have leapt by almost a quarter in just 12 months, raising fears that legalising assisted dying in the UK will become a slippery slope leading to more and more people choosing to die.

Increasingly, this decision will be made under pressure.

As we have been learning with marijuana intoxication, legalize something and you get progressively more of it as it becomes established as normal:

Deaths doubled over the past five years in Canada, which legalised in 2016, Belgium, and the Netherlands, which both legalised in 2002. …

The findings come amid calls in Britain to legalise assisted dying for terminally ill adults from politicians and celebrities…

In Canada, which legalised euthanasia in 2016, cases jumped by an astonishing 30 per cent last year and have more than quadrupled since 2017. …

In 2021, the law was widened to include serious and chronic physical conditions, even if they were not life threatening, after being initially offered only to the terminally ill.

Already in Canada the government has been pushing people to have themselves put down for long wait times, anorexia, PTSD, poverty, and needing a wheelchair lift (not for regretting sex change surgery though). As Canada has gone, so will go the rest of the West unless trends are reversed.

On tips from R F and Anonymous.