California was the promised land. But the promise has gone wrong:

A wandering naked intruder is putting residents in East Hollywood on edge.

“None of us can get any sleep because we’re keeping an eye out for each other,” said one of the residents in the apartment complex that he broke into. …

“He’s running around naked,” the resident said.

He’s also been known to touch himself, a morbid sight neighbors regret seeing on security camera.

“There’s children in the building,” the resident said. …

The Los Angeles Police Department tells FOX 11 it is aware of the complaints but officers can’t really arrest the man since no crime has been committed.

Authorities are keeping down the incarceration rate, in accordance with liberal priorities.

More California:

Note that even with some of the most repressive gun laws in the country, criminals and lunatics have no problem acquiring firearms; it is only law-abiding citizens wanting to be able to defend themselves whose access to them is limited.

California is plunging over the edge into end stage moonbattery. The rest of the country is not far behind. As the disgusting farce that is Joe Biden staggers toward collapse, former California Senator Kamala Harris is a heartbeat away. Current California Governor Gavin Newsom stands ready to replace him on the 2024 ticket.

On tips from Varla and Wiggins.

Texas is run by patriotic Americans willing to defend the country from foreign invasion. Unfortunately, the artillery fire supporting the invasion is coming from behind — this time in the form of a Department of Injustice lawsuit:

The Biden DOJ claims the marine floating barriers state officials have installed in the Rio Grande are unauthorized and in violation of federal law.

Invading the USA really is a violation of federal law. For the unscrupulous, the convenient thing about law is that it only matters if enforced.

The 1,000-foot barrier is made up of interconnected inflatable sphere buoys four feet wide that can be shifted and extended. When grabbed, the buoys spin, thereby preventing individuals from climbing over.

Governor Abbott is ready to take the defense of his state and the country all the way to the Supreme Court. You can see why liberals want to pack it with Merrick Garland types.

As if trying to top the hypocrisy of Hunter Biden’s lawyer’s ethics complaint and the State Department’s denunciation of Cambodia’s rulers for behaving like Democrats, the witless fox ostensibly in charge of the henhouse (namely, Border Czarina Kamala Harris) responded by calling Abbott “un-American.”

The United States is undergoing a full-scale invasion of historic proportion. The obvious purpose of facilitating this foreign conquest is to displace the American population. Nothing Julius and Ethel Rosenberg did was more blatantly treasonous.

On tips from Lyle, Occam’s Stubble, and Mr. Freemarket.

Jason Aldean has taken a stand for community cohesion and basic decency. In response, the liberal establishment has been trying to destroy him. Ultra-woke CMT canceled his hit song “Try That in a Small Town,” which cultural gatekeepers denounced as racist because it sides with regular Americans against BLM/Antifa rioters. The media’s specialty is characterizing villains as heroes and vice versa on behalf of the leftist agenda, but Aldean is not an easy case, because no well-meaning person could oppose his viewpoint. One propagandist became so desperate to discredit his fan base that even as the country guffawed at Carlee Russell, she pulled off what looks like a hate hoax.

From Wisconsin:

A TMJ4 reporter was “left humiliated” while reporting from Country Thunder’s opening night in Twin Lakes Thursday after being yelled at and subjected to a racist slur.

Uncoincidentally, Jason Aldean played “Try That in a Small Town” at the Country Thunder festival, though not that same night.

Taylor Lumpkin, a Black multimedia journalist for WTMJ-TV (Channel 4) since 2020, tweeted Thursday night that “a guy ran up and yelled at me (unprovoked), and called me a N***** twice. No one helped. Everyone stared at me, and laughed.

“Do better people,” the tweet said.

The aptly named Lumpkin proved herself a true modern journalist by making herself the story. Her tweet has racked up 1.3 million views.

Naturally liberals are fawning self-righteously over how oppressed she is. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel squawks piously about the “core commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion” that likely put her in her job. She ought to set up a GoFundMe page.

Have a bucket handy as you brace for her follow-up:

Please. With apologies to talented black journalists who deserve their positions, everyone with access to a television who knows that blacks make up only 13% of the population also knows that the Powers That Be bend over backward to place them in front of cameras. Being a left-wing Woman of Color obviates the need for other qualifications, as Kamala Harris and Ketanji Brown Jackson comically confirm.

The improbable incident may earn Lumpkin a promotion, but it also earns her a spot on the Hate Hoax List.

On tips from Dave F and Todd Burgess.

Trump was wise not to take part in Tucker Carlson’s Family Leadership Summit in Des Moines. It was a killing field. Watch Tucker expose Asa Hutchinson’s willingness to sacrifice children to LGBTism, reduce Tim Scott to blathering duckspeak, and evoke from Mike Pence a gaffe on the scale of Kamala Harris promising to reduce the population:

Looks like there might be bipartisan harmony on topics like transsexualizing children and placing Ukraine’s interests above those of American taxpayers — unless Republicans choose their candidate wisely.

On tips from Jester.

Affirmative Action is worse than just moronic and unfair. Its consequences can be catastrophic. Openly because she is a Woman of Color, the conspicuously unqualified Kamala Harris was made Vice President of the United States. Joe Biden is barely alive and this is what stands ready to replace him at any moment:

Harris has publicly philosophized about moments in time before. From her speech at a pro-abortion rally:

“So, I think it’s very important, as you have heard from so many incredible leaders, for us at every moment in time — and certainly this one — to see the moment in time in which we exist and are present, and to be able to contextualize it, to understand where we exist in the history and in the moment as it relates not only to the past but the future,” she told a crowd at Howard University, her alma mater.

No doubt having attended an HBCU has been critical for her political career. For all anyone cares, she majored in basket-weaving.

Radio host Chris Stigall aptly responded to her latest word salad by describing Harris as “the emptiest human being alive.”

Some may argue that no one could possibly be worse than the creepy, corrupt, senile laughing stock Joe Biden, who has served as a sock puppet for the ultraleft. But progressives always manage to progress to something even worse.

On a tip from Jack D.

Only by rejecting all standards other than identity group box-checking and adherence to leftist ideology have we been able to achieve so many historic milestones — like the election of the Historic First Black Socialist Woman to Boston City Council, Kendra Lara.

Compounding the historicness, Lara is also the First Black Socialist Female Boston City Councilmember to crash her unregistered and uninsured car while driving after her license had been revoked.

Gasps of horror at our decay can be heard from overseas. The Daily Mail reports:

Lara, 33, totaled the gray 2019 Honda Civic when it crashed through a metal fence, ran over bushes, and slammed into the left side of a home in the Jamaica Plains district.

Her seven-year-old son Zaire was in the car, but was not in a booster seat.

He was taken to Boston Children’s Hospital where he received ‘several stitches’ and is expected to make a full recovery.

Lara can do better than Boston City Council. Her qualifications for office are the same as Ketanji Brown Jackson’s to serve on the Supreme Court and Kamala Harris’s to be VP.

On a tip from Ed McAninch.

Major last ditch operations are underway to rescue the tourist sub down by the Titanic:

Three C-17 aircraft from the U.S. Air Force reportedly landed at a cargo terminal in St. John’s, Newfoundland, carrying unmanned vehicles capable of going 19,000 feet underwater as well as two heavy-duty Hyundai winches emblazoned “6000 kg line pull,” a huge roll of cable, and two large machines that said “high voltage” on their sides, The Daily Mail reported. A forklift truck loaded the equipment onto six flatbed trucks.

The equipment was taken to a port where a ship dubbed the Horizon Arctic was scheduled to leave at midnight, although the journey to the area where Titan is submerged would take 15 hours. The Titan may be as deep as 12,000 feet below the surface and weighs 10,432 kg, so both winches would be necessary to pull it out.

Even assuming the sub is intact, less than 24 hours’ worth of oxygen remains. Too bad the people trapped inside can’t breathe moonbattery:

OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush told an interviewer he didn’t want to hire a bunch of “50-year-old white guys” like other submarine companies.

Rush is currently missing along with the other passengers and one pilot aboard his company’s Titan submersible.

Rush, a 61-year-old white guy, said refused to hire such people to his team because he wanted his company to be “inspirational.”

If it happens to be 50-year-old white guys who are most qualified, then qualifications must be discarded. Our government is run on similar principles, as Kamala Harris, Karine Jean-Pierre, and Ketanji Brown Jackson so embarrassingly attest.

As Ayn Rand observed, you can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. A reality currently confronting Stockton Rush is that merit matters, regardless of whether it has been deprecated in favor of political correctness.

On tips from Occam’s Stubble, Dave F, and Wiggins.

With liberals in the driver’s seat, news themes intersect at the point of absolute moonbattery. Take for example the themes of Biden’s comically inappropriate identity-based staffing choices (e.g., Kamala Harris for being a Woman of Color, Pete Buttigieg for being a sexual deviant, Karine Jean-Pierre for being both) and the leftist politicization of professional sports. These stories converge in the personage of the cross-dressing kleptomaniac Sam Brinton:

Joe Biden’s former nuclear waste czar, who in his off-hours liked to steal women’s luggage and then pose for selfies in their clothing, has another underreported entry on his curriculum vitae. Sam Brinton is also a member of the L.A. Dodgers’ favorite anti-Catholic political group, whose members dress up as drag nuns and mock Christ–and whose slogan is “go and sin some more.”

Presenting the guy Creepy Joe gave authority over nuclear waste in his natural — or should I say unnatural — milieu:

Blessedly, Brinton has finally been put in a cage where he belongs. If only we could say the same for Creepy Joe.

Before the Biden Administration named him to be a key contributor at the nuclear waste division at the Department of Energy, Brinton appeared on the show of a drag queen nun of the Boston branch of the Sisters and talked about his life and drag nun persona — Sister Ray Dee O’Active (get it?).

This reflects the type of people we have in charge under Democrat rule.

Even if Sam doesn’t get to stay in the ladies’ jail, at least it should cheer him up that the Los Angeles Dodgers caved to the woke mob so that the ceremony revering the explicitly blasphemous Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence is back on.

On a tip from Franco.

Joe Biden has already secured his place in American history as the nation’s worst president, crippling the country both domestically and abroad. Yet the senile, corrupt, incompetent leftist has the arrogance to run for reelection:

Biden’s three-minute launch video touched on the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, anti-abortion sentiment, Trump-aligned Republicans, and reforms to Social Security and Medicare. The president made the case that he needed another term to “finish the job,” although he made virtually no mention of the actual job he’s done so far.

That is, he is running on Reichstag fire hype over a minor riot that occurred years ago, Democrat love of abortion, and hysteria generated over the notion of reforming entitlements before they become insolvent.

See if you can stomach this slimy tyrant pretending to stand for freedom:

Veteran Republican strategist Scott Jennings summarizes the strategy:

“Their entire construct depends upon the Republican Party nominating the one person in this field who is guaranteed to get fewer votes than Joe Biden.”

That would be Donald Trump, who is no friend of conservatives. Trump sides with the Democrats on abortion and entitlements (not to mention LGBTism and even Covid lockdowns), but political ads do not target the sort of people who would follow politics closely enough to know this.

Speaking of political ads, the GOP let artificial intelligence respond to Biden’s video announcement:

A vote for Biden in 2024 is actually a vote for the explicit Affirmative Action hire who would likely take his place well before the end of his term:

“Finish the job!” croaks Biden. In light of what his handlers have been doing to the country — hamstringing the energy industry, humiliating us on the national stage, weakening the military, dividing the country with belligerent radicalism, driving up inflation and the national debt with a never-ending spree of wasteful spending that guarantees eventual economic collapse — it would be hard to come up with a more ominous slogan:

The nation is at fundamental odds about the nature of truth, government, and inherent rights. Biden wants to codify the murder of preborn children into law. He wants to ban private weapons so only the government has them. He wants to punish parents who pray outside abortion clinics or speak up at school board meetings by sending the DOJ and FBI after them. He wants to use the FBI to infiltrate churches to root out “extremism.” He wants to blow out spending and raise taxes while expanding the power of the IRS to collect said taxes. He wants to centralize power. He wants to make sure dissidence is censored under the guise of “disinformation.” He wants to rule by executive fiat instead of congressional lawmaking. He wants to stack the Supreme Court so it can’t check his power grabs.

That’s what finishing the job would mean, and what his handlers will inflict — whether behind him or behind Kamala Harris — if the spent force Trump with his sinking 25% approval cannot be stopped in the primaries.

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

Democrats regard merit as racist. They select personnel on the basis of two requirements: (1) left-wing political views and (2) not being a sexually normal white guy. This policy has placed Ketanji Brown Jackson on the Supreme Court and Kamala Harris a heartbeat away from the presidency. It may place Shane Kato Crews on the US District Court for Colorado. But not if Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) can restore some sanity:

During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing for several judicial nominations, including U.S. Magistrate Judge S. Kato Crews’ nomination to serve as a U.S. district court judge, Kennedy asked Crews an elementary question about evidentiary discovery.

Crews was given the opportunity to prove he made it through the first year of law school by explaining how he would analyze a Brady motion, by which a defendant compels prosecutors to turn over potentially exculpatory evidence. An example would be the video footage proving that political prisoner Jacob Chansley was not rioting much less trying to overthrow the government on January 6, but rather was escorted around the People’s House by friendly Capitol Police.

Crews was unable to answer the [softball] question.

“How I analyze a Brady motion? Senator, in my four and a half years on the bench, I don’t believe I’ve had the occasion to address a Brady motion in my career,” he said.

Kennedy forced Crews to admit that he does not even know what a Brady motion is. The concept does not relate to his historical oppressedness, so it never came up.

Ted Cruz weighs in:

“Wow. This is basic criminal procedure. If a [first-year law student] gave this answer, he or she would flunk criminal law,” Cruz reacted. “But the Biden White House would then try to make you a federal judge …”

The Affirmative Action mentality allows people like Crews to get into law school and even to graduate. Then Democrats grant them power over us, bestowing upon them the authority to dismantle the society our ancestors required many generations to build.

On a tip from Varla.

Translating Liberalese into English is easy. Everything means its diametric opposite. For example, “authentic” in Liberalese means “fake” in English. Kamala Harris demonstrates how to use “authentically” in a sentence in this Liberalese letter to Dylan Mulvaney, who has been embraced by the White House for his gut-churningly repulsive female impersonation shtick:

Now we know what our Affirmative Action VP does with her time other than secure the border.

On a tip from Mr. Freemarket.

Whereas most will agree that the climate fluctuates, belief in the global warming hoax is a psychiatric condition. Kamala “Heartbeat Away” Harris confirms it while jabbering about “climate mental health”:

We can’t count on the kooks at CNBC for investment advice, but moonbattery is their area of expertise, so let’s hear what they say:

It’s called climate anxiety, and it’s a real mental health condition that can take time to address, according to Portland, Oregon-based environmental psychologist Thomas Doherty. At the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colorado … Doherty spoke about the “learning curve” it takes to combat the anxiety, or even despair, stemming from climate change.

The guy is getting paid to be an “environmental psychologist.” I was going to say, “Only in Portland and Aspen,” but that would be wishful thinking.

Both the United Nations and the American Psychological Association (APA) have found that humans are increasingly at risk of climate change-induced mental health issues.

The UN and APA are likewise expert in the field of moonbattery.

In 2021, a global study found that 45% of people between the ages of 16 and 25 said climate anxiety was affecting their daily lives.

The percentage of people whose daily lives are affected by climate change itself is more like zero. But those who enjoy wallowing in neurosis can still seize on it to make themselves miserable.

Too bad they make others miserable too. Small children do not know better than to take enviromoonbattery seriously. Inflicting distress by submersing them in politically motivated gloom is not healthy, as we saw when Rep Katie Porter (D-CA) used global warming doctrine to instill in her daughter an affective disorder.

Nonetheless, schools are required by law to indoctrinate children with this toxic ideology in Connecticut and soon Oregon.

On tips from Mr. Freemarket, Ed McAninch, and Jack D.

Hapless identity group box-checker Karine Jean-Pierre is clearly not the best communicator even in the White House, despite being the official spokesmoonbat. (She is, however, a historic lesbian of Haitian descent.) Who is the best communicator? Let’s ask Karine:

After being questioned by a reporter about whether Biden is viewed by his team as “equally adept in all settings in terms of communications,” Jean-Pierre insisted that the president’s communication skills are the best in his administration.

That’s right, this guy:

Joe Biden’s communication skills are so impressive, some of his characteristically lucid utterances have been set to music:

At least we can all agree that the best communicator is not Ms. Heartbeat Away:

Kamala Harris’s tenure as vice president has been marked by redundant word salads to the point that even left-leaning “The Daily Show” tweeted a video comparing her statements to the fake politician from the “Veep” political satire series.

Jean-Pair — who calls the country to our north “Canadia” and who can hardly formulate a complete sentence without referring to prepared notes — is not far wrong. Conspicuously inarticulate as Biden is, the subnormal kooks around him are comparably awful. This is especially appalling when you consider that these are political players; communication skills are the only skills they have.

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.

I couldn’t bring myself to sit through the State of the Union. The actual state of our collapsing country under liberal rule is obvious. Even ABC News admits that record numbers of Americans are worse off since Biden et al. took power. Who has the patience to watch the vermin who are destroying the USA stand and clap for 5 minutes for every incoherent lie mumbled by a senile corruptocrat?

Daily Wire provides a SparkNotes summary:

The economy is booming, the border is secure, Ukraine is winning the war (they just need one more round of billions), climate change will kill us all, and Republicans are the divisive ones — not the guy who called 75 million Americans “ultra MAGA extremists” threatening democracy. Oh also, they think men can be women and that abortion is a gift from God to be protected. …

It was a campaign speech, not even pretending to be a State of the Union. He trotted out the same tired lines that we have all heard before. He even regurgitated lines from last year’s State of the Union.

The lowest point was probably when Biden attempted to exploit the killing of a black guy by five black cops under a black police chief in mostly black Memphis by implying that white racists were responsible. He even referred to The Talk “that so many Black and Brown families have had with their children” in an attempt to convince blacks and even the Hispanics pouring into the country that whites are somehow oppressing them. If anyone needs “The Talk,” it is white kids, who are vastly more likely to be subjected to racial violence, thanks to the cultural Marxism spread by reprehensible moonbats like Joe Biden.

This was alarming:

This was even more alarming:

Time to evoke the 25th Amendment and get Kamala Harris over with.

On tips from Varla and KirklesWorth.