Would you volunteer to pay $17.22 per gallon for gasoline? Then don’t let leftists pressure you into an electric car. Daily Wire reports on a new study:

[The authors] give evidence that “the average model year (MY) 2021 EV would cost $48,698 more to own over a 10-year period without $22 billion in government favors given to EV manufacturers and owners. … Adding the costs of the subsidies to the true cost of fueling an EV would equate to an EV owner paying $17.33 per gallon of gasoline. And these estimates do not include the hundreds of billions more in subsidies in the Inflation Reduction Act (2022) for various aspects of the EV supply chain, particularly for battery manufacturing.”

“Nearly $22 billion in federal and state subsidies and regulatory credits suppressed the retail price of EVs in 2021 by an average of almost $50,000,” the authors note.

Even with the subsidies,

“Car lots are swelling with unsold EVs and the Ford Motor Company is losing over $70,000 on each EV it currently sells.”

EV drivers can’t count on others being forced to pick up most of the tab forever. The extravagantly wasteful subsidies won’t last, because as Margaret Thatcher observed, eventually socialists run out of other people’s money.

No wonder blue states like California and New York — as well as Democrats at the federal level — have moved to make electric vehicles mandatory. Otherwise, who would drive them?

Only after we have been forced into inefficient, expensive, unreliable, unsafe, environmentally harmful electric cars can Democrats price us out of having cars altogether.

On tips from Chris Neilson and Occam’s Stubble.

As part of a campaign to escalate urban violence and politically destabilize the country, in hopes of creating a situation that will enable gun confiscation followed by authoritarian rule, George Soros has spent massive amounts of money helping into office pro-criminal district attorneys throughout the country. Examples include Alvin Bragg (New York), George Gascon (Los Angeles), Kim Foxx (Chicago), Kim Ogg (Houston), Larry Krasner (Philadelphia), Chesa Boudin (San Francisco), Kim Gardner (St Louis), Marilyn Mosby (Baltimore), Monique Worrell (central Florida), Jason Williams (New Orleans) — and Pamela Price of Oakland, who on Friday afternoon had her work laptop stolen from her car during a smash-and-grab robbery outside a “family justice center.”

Price foolishly tried calling the police, who tend not to exert themselves in places like Oakland because they know the DA won’t prosecute anyway.

ABC7 reported her bodyguard parked the $90,000 county Tahoe SUV just outside the Family Justice Center and came back to find the windows smashed.

Imagine how much worse life in Oakland is for those who don’t have presumably armed bodyguards.

A source from the Oakland Police Department reported that Price waited an hour for authorities to arrive before she decided to file a report online.

At least the culprits might get prosecuted, in the unlikely event they are apprehended.

Price had some help in her rise to power, as a story from last August reminds us:

Alameda County district attorney Pamela Price, who took $130,000 from [George] Soros for her failed 2018 bid, secured the position for her boyfriend Antwon Cloird, the San Jose Mercury News reported Sunday. Cloird joined Price’s office as a “senior program specialist” in 2023, with a $115,502 per year salary. Price brought him onto her team without disclosing their relationship, although it is an “open secret” in the office, according to the report.

Since becoming district attorney in 2022, Price has presided over a massive crime surge in Oakland…

Crime in Oakland has been skyrocketing across the board. Business owners recently held a strike to protest rising crime and inadequate protection. Lifelong residents have been escaping. Even the Oakland NAACP is fed up:

The Black advocacy group wrote a letter that was aimed directly at Price.

‘Failed leadership, including the movement to defund the police, our District Attorney’s unwillingness to charge and prosecute people who murder and commit life-threatening serious crimes, and the proliferation of anti-police rhetoric have created a heyday for Oakland criminals,’ the letter said.

‘If there are no consequences for committing crime in Oakland, crime will continue to soar.’

That’s the point of installing tools like Price, who has pushed for less prison time even for murderers. She responded to the NAACP with disappointment that “a great African-American organization would take a false narrative on such an important matter.”

Devout liberals know there is only one True Narrative, according to which criminals are the good guys because racism.

In other Oakland crime news,

Less than 24 hours after launching, Oakland Police Department has ended the social media crime reporting program.

The announcement went out Friday night, soon after Price lost her laptop.

Witnesses to car break-ins should call 9-1-1 instead of sending messages to those deactivated accounts.

No reason was given for the sudden termination.

If you don’t want to be a crime victim, stay out of towns where George Soros backed the DA.

On tips from Ed McAninch and R F.

If the 2024 election doesn’t work out, Trump could launch a new career in standup comedy. The Joe Biden impersonation he performed in Las Vegas Saturday was spot on:

There are still enough Americans living in the USA that attempting a direct repeal the Second Amendment would result in resistance. Yet the leftist agenda cannot be advanced much further until the public has been disarmed. So Democrats have settled on a strategy of destroying firearms manufacturers.

First, they soften up public opinion with a propaganda barrage fed by the mass shootings that inevitably result when a society promotes psychosis and lets maniacs run loose. Then, they cripple the businesses they want to destroy with shenanigans like this:

The United States has halted most civilian firearm exports for the next 90 days, the U.S. Department of Commerce said late Friday.

Moves like this are always pulled late in the day on Friday, so as to escape public scrutiny.

Citing national security reasons, the Commerce Department said the U.S. will largely stop issuing civilian export licenses and will assess the “risk of firearms being diverted to entities or activities that promote regional instability, violate human rights, or fuel criminal activities.”

Naturally the ban does not apply to Ukraine, at which the regime is shoveling hundreds of $billions of our money as our own economy drowns in government debt. Biden’s handlers want Ukrainians to have guns. They don’t want you to have guns. That’s why they will pull stunts like this as part of a broader campaign to drive firearms manufacturers out of business. Other aspects of the campaign entail denying them banking services and suing them for misuse of their products.

The regime will still need guns to provide at our expense to friends like Zelensky and to shoot those of us deemed to be Threats to Their Democracy. After legitimate manufacturers have been bankrupted, the firearms industry will be nationalized, with Big Government as its only customer.

Something similar is happening in the auto industry. In the future, all cars will be electric, manufactured at a loss, and driven by our rulers.

On a tip from Chris Neilson.

To see what’s next as progressivism progresses, let’s plug into Bing Translator a German news story about students at the University of Augsburg demanding gloryholes in lecture halls:

“Three gloryholes are to be installed in the lecture hall center opposite the entrance, by the information boards. These are to be approved by the Department of Space and Construction and cleaned by the building management. In addition, they should be soundproof and opaque. The gloryholes should be designed to be as barrier-free as possible – the height should be adjustable, there should be wall handles that can be held onto. The lights should be dimmable and a possible knee padding should be installed. In addition, condoms, licking wipes, lubricants and disinfectants and wipes are to be provided free of charge in the gloryholes; trash cans are also needed,” the application reads.

The stated purpose is to reduce stress, but when use of the gloryholes inevitably becomes mandatory, it will be so as to display solidarity with the LGBT community.

On a tip from R F.

On a tip from Htos1av.

Sorry, Jews. No slice of the racial equity pie for you:

New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ new appointee for chair and executive director of the city’s Commission on Racial Equity has a distinguished history of spewing antisemitic rhetoric. …

Linda Tigani, who earned more than $140,000 in 2022 as acting chief equity and strategy officer for the city’s Health Department, has shared a number of posts on X that appear to be antisemitic.

In the aftermath of the October 7 terror atrocities, Tigani has been posting pro-Hamas propaganda and shrieking the slogan “FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA,” which is a call for the eradication of Jews from their homeland.

You don’t get any equity from our moonbat overlords if people who are categorized as browner than you have been torturing your children to death.

The media will tell you that the recent mass murder in Maine was caused by our Constitutional right to defend ourselves. Saner voices observe that such horrors are to be expected in a society that fosters psychosis and lets maniacs run free. Neither addresses the killer’s motive, which only Portland City Councilor Victoria Pelletier seems to know:

“The motive is he’s white.”

Victoria elaborates:

It appears that all of Robert Card’s victims were white too — despite the killings taking place in a town with a large minority population. But only the unwoke allow petty details to distract from the narrative.

On a tip from Latrunculus Occulte.

Although the fetishization of non-Caucasians has reached extremes unimaginable only a few years ago, the racial imposter scam has been going on for some time. Folk singer Buffy Sainte-Marie’s career as an Indian began in Greenwich Village back in the early 1960s.

From the early days of her career, Sainte-Marie has claimed to be a Cree woman, born in Canada. She has also allowed herself to be celebrated as an Indigenous icon and success story.

A success story to be sure. The liberal establishment made her a deity.

Her birth certificate indicates she was born not to Cree Indians in Canada but to white parents in Stoneham, Massachusetts — and yet:

Sainte-Marie has been named a companion of the Order of Canada, the country’s highest civilian honour. In addition, her website says she has been awarded honorary doctorates from at least a dozen universities.

Recently, there has been a resurgence of interest in Sainte-Marie. In 2021, she appeared on a Canadian stamp.

Last year, she was the subject of a travelling exhibit featured at Ottawa’s National Arts Centre. She was also the focus of a five-part CBC podcast about her life and legacy and a one-hour concert televised on CBC that celebrated her leadership in Indigenous music.

Now the jig is up:

Late last year, CBC received a tip that Sainte-Marie is not of Cree ancestry but, in fact, has European roots. She is the latest high-profile public figure whose ancestry story has been contradicted by genealogical documentation, including her own birth certificate, historical research and personal accounts — the latest chapter in the complex and growing debate around Indigenous identity in Canada.

Since CBC moonbats consider the issue “complex,” let’s boil it down for them. Stone Age savages were replaced by Europeans. The Europeans were so successful that they eventually became soft and spoiled, so that moonbattery set in. Out of self-hatred, they worship descendants of the savages they displaced. This provides opportunities for racial imposters who wish to enjoy the obsequious favoritism afforded to nonwhites — thereby giving the lie to the liberal dogma that whites are privileged and nonwhites are oppressed.

Watch this Fauxcahontas forerunner lie to the kids on Sesame Street about how real she is back in 1975:

Buffy joins a growing list of racial imposters that also includes Andrea Smith, Kay LeClaire, Elizabeth Hoover, Carrie Bourassa, CV Vitolo-Haddad, Gwen Stefani, Heather Rae, Jessica Krug, Kristen Rosen Gonzalez, Rick Caruso, Kelly Kean Sharp, Rachel Dolezal, Raquel Evita Saraswati, Sacheen Littlefeather, Satchuel Cole, Shaun King, Ward Churchill, and Elizabeth Warren.

On a tip from Steve T.

It keeps happening in Britain. Because the country is run by morally depraved moonbats, silently praying for the lives of the innocent is regarded as “antisocial behavior” and punished accordingly:

Needless to say, preaching from the Bible will also get you arrested in the UK. So will questioning the treatment by authorities of street preachers.

No meaningful definition of tyranny would fail to describe liberal rule.

On a tip from Brian Brandt.

Finally, there is some pushback against Biden’s appalling tactic of imposing LGBT ideology on schools by withholding lunch funding from those who resist.

From May 2022:

K-12 schools must allow boys into girls’ private areas to obtain federal funds for lunches, breakfasts, and snacks, the Biden administration announced this month.

As remarked earlier,

You don’t want boys exposing themselves in the girls’ shower room? Then don’t take money from a government run by evil creeps like Joe Biden.

Except it is our money. The reason the federal government doles back some of what it has confiscated through taxation and inflation is to make people dependent.

Biden is hardly the only evil creep in Washington. His party backs him on withholding food as leverage to impose sexual perversion on children:

Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) spoke from the Senate floor on Thursday, calling on his colleagues to support his resolution to prevent the Biden administration from withholding school lunch money funding from schools that don’t allow children to use the bathroom of the opposite sex. …

Marshall’s resolution needed a simple majority to pass in the Democrat-controlled Senate but came up short, with only 47 senators voting in the affirmative and 50 senators, all from the Democratic caucus, voting against it. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) broke away from his party to vote with Republicans.

The only Democrat in the Senate who meets the bare minimum standard of human decency knows he won’t be getting elected again in West Virginia as a Democrat, after what his party has done to his energy-producing state in the name of bogus climate ideology. Manchin is openly considering leaving the party.

At least Republicans are gathering the courage to push back against government-mandated LGBT sickness. They are going to have to push hard, because Democrats will oppose them every step of the way.

On a tip from MrRightWingDave.

It’s the weekend; let’s lighten the mood with a hearty laugh:

The Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence at Case Western Reserve University will award Dr. Anthony Fauci, a physician, immunologist, and infectious disease expert, with the 2024 Inamori Ethics Prize.

Fauci made a name for himself as not only the most grotesquely overpaid but also one of the most arrogantly dishonest bureaurats ever to infest the DC swamp.

That he is a liar, not even Fauci himself is dishonest enough to dispute. He admitted that he lied to the public about herd immunity, moving the goal posts based on what figures he thought the public would believe.

Fauci misused his power to impose the “natural occurrence” Covid narrative long after we knew it was a joke. He did this to hide his own culpability for Covid’s existence. It appears highly likely that it was engineered in a probable bioweapons lab with funding he helped provide and that he knew this from the beginning.

Fauci is a felon for lying to Congress. Demands from prominent senators that he be criminally prosecuted are ignored because Fauci benefits from our two-tiered justice system, under which no one so beloved by leftists that they burn votive candles to him will ever face justice.

Instead, the establishment gives him an ethics prize. Maybe our moonbat overlords have a sense of humor after all.

The announcement itself is jarringly dishonest. Fauci is praised for helping to “combat rampant and dangerous misinformation.” In reality, he aggressively suppressed dissent to protect himself and his ChiCom compadres and to facilitate Covid tyranny.

The unrepentant Fauci’s only regret after the pointless misery, repression, and economic devastation that he helped inflict is that the Big Government he personifies was not repressive enough:

“If I knew in 2020 what I know now, we would do a lot differently,” said Fauci in an interview [last year]. “The insidious nature of spread in the community would have been much more of an alarm, and there would have been much, much more stringent restrictions in the sense of very, very heavy encouragement of people to wear masks, physical distancing, what have you.”

The previous Inamori Ethics Prize winner was from Ukraine, arguably the most corrupt nation on the planet. Follow the trajectory and you have to ask, can an ethics prize for Joe Biden be far away?

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.

No need to worry about Hollywood deteriorating to the point that the woke crap it excretes is no longer watchable. Pallywood provides an alternative. The career of Saleh Aljafarawi is flourishing:

If you have been on social media platforms like Twitter or TikTok over the past three weeks, chances are pretty good that you’ve seen him.

The anguished. The angry. The triumphant raising of the AK-47. Give the man an Oscar! …

Since hostilities began he now has a whopping 1.5 million followers on Instagram and more than 9,000 subscribers on YouTube.

A sample of Aljafarawi’s oeuvre:

With the liberal media anxious to lap up whatever lies Hamas barfs up in front of them, it’s no surprise Aljafarawi is all smiles:

The rockets they get from Iran with financial assistance from the Biden Administration are useful for indiscriminately showering down upon civilians, but the primary weapon of Palestinian terrorists is propaganda. It is effective only because our ruling class is eager to believe and even propagate it.

If we were all as willfully gullible and morally unmoored as liberal journalists, Democrat pols, and some college students, by now our government would be directly rewarding terrorist atrocities with $100 million bonuses. Oh wait…

On a tip from R F.