The “new normal” has snuck up on us; Well This is Ominous: Waiting to Declare the Climate Emergency...more

The “new normal” has snuck up on us; people and standards have declined

Social engineering takes time. It takes at least a full generation to create a solid shift toward a new psychological mode. And that is what happened. Today, the people who were born after 2001 are no longer kids but young adults. The aspirating masters have been working on shifting people’s values from “proud consumer individualism” to “fear-driven subservience” for at least two decades – and the result of their trickery is here.

Well This is Ominous: Waiting to Declare the Climate Emergency 

There’s nothing quite like preparing well in advance to declare a (checks notes) “climate emergency”. Hey, one can never be too prepared!  Even more amusing — in a rather dark, very 2020s way — is the idea of a proposal for a “Climate Emergency Initiative.” And apparently a really good one at that. Odd this didn’t come up in Mr. Goffman’s prolonged, still-inchoate confirmation process…

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PBS Wrecks Independence Day: An ‘Ideological Tool’ of Right-Wing Extremists

While PBS stations celebrated music and fireworks with A Capitol Fourth from coast to coast on July 4, the tax-funded PBS NewsHour marked the Independence Day holiday in its own inimitable style by trying to tie the patriotic celebration to right-wing extremism and the January 6 Capitol Hill riots. Congressional reporter Lisa Desjardins sat down with two liberal professors to decry the dangers of the right wing on Tuesday evening.

Host Amna Nawaz set the scene for PBS’s attempt to deflate the spirit of the Fourth of July by linking the Founding Fathers to right-wing extremism, while also reminding viewers that many of the Founders were slave-owners, as if that’s shocking news.

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The Most Predictable Outcome of 2023's Post Truth Society: Dutch Dude Wins 'Miss Netherlands' 

The news here isn’t that a transvestite won. It’s that this is so commonplace now, the fact that he was transgender didn’t even get mentioned until paragraph five. The next big pageant news we will see in the future is when a trans contestant DOESN’T win.

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Nation's largest teachers union votes to officially promote child sex changes

The new business item requires the union to promote and facilitate access to sex-change procedures for LGBTQ youth and address homelessness among the community, Education Week reported. In accordance with the measure, the NEA will create grant opportunities for professional development courses regarding preferred pronouns, “LGBTQ-inclusive” policies and how to support gender-transitioning students.

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The 40 Americans Wrongfully Detained Around The World Face An Additional Challenge At Home: The IRS

When Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian was released from Iran after 544 days of imprisonment, he said his welcome home came with bills of $20,000 for unpaid taxes, late payment penalties and interest.