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Just when I thought the Biden administration was beyond shame, it (at least temporarily) pulled the plug on the Disinformation Governance Board, causing the buffoonish Nina Jankowicz to resign. I can't recall a speedier and more embarrassing belly flop of a government initiative than the announcement of this transparently Orwellian state organ, headed by a cringeworthy exhibitionist besotted with her own musical talent and purported wisdom. The astonishing lack of forethought in choosing Jankowicz as the arbiter of truth, when she is on the record affirming that Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation (even the Washington Post and New York...

A rather peculiar moment occurred during the Congressional hearings on Unidentified Aerial Phenomenal (UAPs, aka, UFOs) Tuesday (May 17). Congressman Mike Gallagher (R-Wis) asked a question about the 1967 Malmstrom Air Force Base incident, and got a rather astonishing, shall we call it, non-reply. Scott Bray, the deputy director of Naval Intelligence, responded that he knew nothing of the event, other than that it has received some publicity outside of official channels. Of course, we cannot expect that the foremost people leading the UAP investigations, especially at this initial stage, will know everything about every reported incident going back decades....

The Democrats and the liberal media were quick to blame the Republicans and conservative television commentators after a recent mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, where 18-year-old gunman Payton Gendron killed ten people at a supermarket. CNN referred to the gunman's "writings about his perceptions of the dwindling size of the White population" and linked it to the "replacement theory," which they claim Tucker Carlson and other prominent conservatives have pushed. Most other media outlets stuck with this narrative. Joe Biden condemned the gunman's "hateful, perverse ideology rooted in fear and racism" and called out those who have pushed the...

Hart Research Associates, a Democrat-run polling organization, released a poll taken from May 5 to 10 that asked voters about various issues as well as their general feeling about how the country is doing. The numbers are spectacularly grim for Joe Biden and the Democrat party generally. These numbers do two things: they bode well for Republicans taking over Congress in the midterm elections, and they make Democrat cheating more difficult because it's impossible for Democrats to have final outcomes that deviate too much from the mood of the country. It's not a random opinion to say Hart Research is...

The abortion issue deserves a deeper perspective than is currently being offered. Democrats insist that abortion is a human right but there’s something much more pragmatic going on here. Given how our welfare society is causing a population collapse, with people having fewer children, why is there a high-pressure campaign to force this brutal procedure into our legal system? It must be very important to produce so many dead babies—and it is. The reason is simple: money. Our society has reached the point at which, through lack of intellectual clarity and cognitive ability, Americans fail to see that, in many...

Since the new millennium, what I term "rearview-mirror parenting" has precipitated in parents a sobering self-appraisal of how successfully they raised their children. Myers-Briggs probably won't venture to offer online assessment tools for that because I doubt many people really want to know their percentile. With the advent of Facebook, life's complaints are a thing of the past anyway. Yet friends with tales from Worry Land are semi-privately sharing their concerns — some straightforwardly and others cryptically with furrowed brow. Here are some examples. Some years back, our financial adviser was going through a divorce. We asked how his children...

National outrage over George Floyd's death was particularly virulent in super-progressive ("woke") Vermont, where schools widely displayed the BLM flag beside the American flag. Unconcerned that this was a blatantly illegal government endorsement of an overtly partisan organization, proponents donned the "hear no evil from constitutionalists" earmuffs and prided themselves on agitating their neighbors by violating the Constitution. Many Vermonters have complained publicly that this is obvious abuse by government, but school officials have stonewalled, gaslighted, and suppressed all efforts to assert this axiomatic constitutional truth. The state's capital city of Montpelier shamelessly painted BLM on the road in front...

What began as a fairly straightforward U.S. policy of arming the Ukrainians with defensive weapons against Russian aggression has now expanded into a dangerous and rapid escalation. We now have embarked on the inevitable slippery slope of mission creep and where we will end up will probably not be where we had intended. If history has taught us anything, it is that before engaging in an armed conflict, we must have a clearly defined end state and the strategy (the ends, way, and means) of achieving it. Right now, we have neither. The New York Times on Wednesday published an...

Forty or fifty years ago, my friend Wendy dragged me to an abortion debate, an event populated mostly by women. The debate began in an orderly manner and then devolved into chaos. Simplifying for concision, the dialogue proceeded something like this: Pro-abortion woman: "It's my body" Pro-life woman: "It's not your body that dies in the abortion." Pro-abortion woman: "It's my choice." Pro-life woman: "You made your choice when you got pregnant!" Pro-abortion woman: "It's my privacy." Pro-life woman: "The same privacy as bank-robbers!" Pro-abortion woman: "It's just a clump of cells." Pro-life woman: "It's alive!" Pro-abortion woman: "It's not...

Billionaire and free-speech warrior Elon Musk skewered the mindset of Disinformation Governance Board (DGB) leader Nina Jankowicz for suggesting a group of elites should be able to “add context” to other users’ tweets. Remember when nobility were knights in shining armor? Now the nobles just want to nag your tweets. A Twitter user shared a video in which DGB head Jankowicz suggested that “verified” Twitter users she deems “legit” can place “context” over users’ tweets: “So verified people can essentially start to edit Twitter, the same sort of way that Wikipedia is, so they can add context to certain tweets."...

Video Transcript: "The US Anti-War Left is Dead. The Squad's $40b War Vote Just Killed It." Many Dems voting YES have long denounced exactly these sorts of bills. What happened? May 14, 2022 After Joe Biden announced his extraordinary request for $33 billion more for the war in Ukraine — on top of the $14 billion the U.S. has already spent just ten weeks into this war — congressional leaders of both parties immediately decided the amount was insufficient. They arbitrarily increased the amount by $7 billion to a total of $40 billion, then fast-tracked the bill for immediate approval....

If you’re a prepper living in the city, you need to have an emergency preparedness plan before SHTF so you can bug in or bug out as needed. If you’re not sure where to start, learn about the six principles of survival and prepare a bug-out bag. (h/t to SurvivalCache.com) Wilderness survival skills like fire starting, hunting, building a shelter and water purification techniques are all valuable skills, but you need to adapt if you want to survive in the city when SHTF. When planning for an urban disaster scenario, you should also focus on situational awareness, personal protection, planning...

Surveillance footage shows the horrifying moment a monkey snatched a toddler and dragged her away as the little girl was playing on her scooter. The innocent child was left with scratches across her face after she was rescued from the monkey in China’s Chongqing Municipality on Tuesday.

A Florida bride and a wedding caterer were apprehended after several wedding guests were served food laced with drugs, according to deputies. The victims began feeling sick and high after eating the drug-laced food.

There was a fine gentleman that used to have spots in the Rush show during commercial breaks back in the day. It was "the other side of the story" Who was he, am not finding anything on the interweb, not claiming to be the best at this. Thanks to my fellow Freepers and be Blessed! PS: Had to have a web link to post, so why not go with the best.

Alana Thompson aka “Honey Boo Boo” and her boyfriend Dralin Carswell are still going strong despite being criticized over their 4-year age gap.

A Florida woman strangled her two kids to death this week and called police to come and get them saying she doesn’t want them anymore, according to a report. The 41-year-old mom, Odette Joaossaint, called 911 multiple times before police officers arrived at her Miami home for a welfare check Tuesday night

A Tennessee interracial bride and groom are facing backlash on social media after a controversial clip from their wedding shows the seemingly white bride escorting the groom, an apparent black man, into their reception on a dog leash.

A pregnant Pennsylvania woman is afraid her unborn daughter is going to have an attitude just like her after the baby girl flipped her off while in the womb.The ensuing footage shows the baby squirming around her mom’s womb before clearly flashing the camera a middle finger. The unborn child then makes amends for her rude gesture and gives viewers a two-finger peace sign.

Teachers and administrators at New Jersey’s Pearl R. Miller Middle School forced students to watch a video about a transgender man’s hormone treatment without notifying the students’ parents. The video, “Ten Years on Testosterone,” was part of a social studies class and detailed the transition of an LGBTQ activist. The garden State will put in place “updated” health standards this September, guidelines that were approved by the governor-appointed New Jersey Board of Education in 2020. The new “standards” mandate teaching second-graders about genitalia, reproduction, and “gender expression.” Fifth-graders will be required to define masturbation. Eighth-graders will have to define gender...