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Early Election Day Musings and Hello, Wisconsin!

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Today’s the day in a couple of places, and by day, I mean balanced on the edge of a knife Election Day.

Here in Florida, our own Congressional District 1 is up for grabs in a special election to fill the seat left vacant when Matt Gaetz resigned. FL CFO Jimmy Patronis is the Republican running and, while it’s never a given, I have to believe he’ll pull it off. He has name recognition, a Trump endorsement, and a dyed-in-the-wool Republican district (46% GOP – 29% DEM – 20% NPA). 

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One thing will shoot us down faster than anything, though, and that’s complacency. Gay Valmont, his whackjob Dem opponent, has been outspending Patronis something like 7 to 1, and her supporters are banging away at doors, including mine, twice.

Early voting ended this past Saturday, and so far, it’s been almost a 19% turnout in Escambia County, with the GOP slightly ahead in the vote total. Santa Rosa County GOP is running 2 to 1 GOP ahead of Dem voter turnout, as is Okaloosa. 

Now, major dad and I voted a week ago, but for anyone who didn’t have a chance, we need to polish that off today – put this sucker to bed. Let’s go!

The Congressional District 6 race over on Florida’s East Coast to replace Mike Waltz is going to be a nail-biter. 

Trump-endorsed State Senator Randy Fine is in a dogfight of his own making. Fine needs every last Republican and non-affiliated he can persuade in the district’s six counties to come out and vote for him. 

There has been a buttload of controversy, coverage, and heightened interest in this race. The brouhaha has apparently inspired everyone and their mother to want to vote, whether they can or not.

Early voting in St. Johns County shatters expectations for Florida’s congressional race to replace Mike Waltz

…Oakes shared that there is a lot of interest in voting for this special election.

She mentioned that some people were turned away during early voting because they did not reside within the District 6 boundaries.

“In St. Johns County, we have 240,000 registered voters. In Congressional District 6, there are only 33,000 eligible voters,” Oakes said.

Even with having to turn away ineligible voters, early voter turnout exceeded Oakes’ expectations.

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Again, Republicans need to do what they do better than anyone – be there TODAY. Pull this one over the line.

That margin in the House is literally a hair’s breadth.

Which leads to the State Supreme Court race in Wisconsin – holy crap.

Brad Schimel is THE NAME.

If the Florida races are about the majority in the House today, the Wisconsin race is about the future, and should that appalling Democrat win, the future is bleak indeed.

It’s really amazing what the ramifications of one loose cannon swinging a court can do, and right now, this race is frighteningly close.

And, of all things, Mother Nature is making it a challenge.

There were massive power outages yesterday thanks to ice storms – with 3 of the biggest Trump counties affected – and today looks crappy as can be…to anyone but a Wisconsonite, right?

The national media was doing its level best to push Crawford last night, demonizing Musk while not mentioning a single dime that Pritzker, Soros or any other Democrat bazillionaire had spent on that race.

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They’re all behind this woman.

There’s also a Constitutional Amendment on the ballot to require Voter ID during elections. Democrat Crawford DOES NOT SUPPORT VOTER ID.Early Election Day Musings and Hello, Wisconsin! 2

Hakeem Jeffries explains precisely why they need Susan Crawford to win today. It has nothing to do with justice, the law, and guarding the constitutional freedoms of Wisconsonites and everything to do with Democrats gaining the power to move Congressional district lines to regain seats and power. It won’t hurt that a progressive court will strike down all the election safeguards like Voter ID and banned drop boxes as unconstitutional whether voters have approved them or not.

Former Gov Scott Walker was on a Zoom call with some of our Townhall peeps talking about Crawford’s record and the implications if, God forbid, she’s elected.

“This will determine the future of things like Act 10, but far beyond that.  Voter ID would probably be gone. Susan Crawford actually when she ran for judge in Dane County, talked about it being draconian and a poll tax.  She was an attorney for Planned Parenthood, so it’s very likely they’ll throw out the pro-life protections.  She’d end concealed carry or even the first in the nation voucher program out of Milwaukee.  You see the very specific national implications for the congressional boundaries and what that would mean in the short term, but you also see a huge impact certainly within Wisconsin, but arguably on these issues, even nationally.

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They asked Walker about ‘too big to rig’ and ‘shenanigans.’ What does the ‘beat the steal’ margin have to be to defeat the Democratic machine? 

DO YOU THINK THE RESULTS WILL BE FINISHED THAT NIGHT AND DO YOU THINK THERE WILL BE SHENANIGANS?

Oh, I always do. I mean, Trump called it too big to rig when I ran the first time, and ever since then, I say you need about three to 5% buffer, right?

So you need to win. You can’t win, you know, 50, 50 plus one, you gotta win by at least three points because you have to get through a combination of corruption and incompetence. Milwaukee County’s gonna suddenly find 30 to 50,000 absent ballots. They forgot to count, you know, at about 12:30 in the morning.

We anticipate there’ll be some of that.

That is so sickening. But a fact of life.

Flat out – that’s it. Susan Crawford seated in the WI Supreme Court would be a naked power grab.

The absentee ballot game has been strong for the GOP. Bust-butt activists like Pressler have been on the ground for weeks, and Elon pulled a massive crowd in the freezing rain for his stop

It’s up to Republican and independent voters TODAY to close this thing out with a bang.

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COME ON, WISCONSIN

We’ve got to beat these guys.

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More ‘Now It Can Be Told’ Reporting From Journalists Who Refused to Tell Us When It Mattered

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Hugh Hewitt says that the new book “Fight” coming out today is a real shocker and well-worth reading. I have no reason to doubt him, and when it hits the shelves I will read it. 

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The book, written by NBC News politics correspondent Jonathan Allen and The Hill’s Amie Parnes, tells the behind-the-scenes stories of the 2024 election, giving the inside scoop on what went on behind the scenes, including the effort to cover up Biden’s decline, the lack of faith Obama and others had in Kamala Harris, and lots of other dirty details that, you know, citizens might want to have known during the Biden administration and throughout the campaign. 

As a politics geek, I’m sure I will be fascinated; as a citizen, I am really, really angry. Angry because the story being told should have been told at the time, not in a thrilling tell-all book that journalists will make a nice penny or two off of when the facts are mere matters of historical interest or gossip. 

All presidential elections matter, but the elections of 2016, 2020, and 2024 have been among the most consequential in American history. And they have also been the occasions of the largest number of hoaxes perpetrated by the candidates, their parties, and especially the Pravda Media. The lies have poisoned our politics, the whipping up of political violence, and by the systematic dishonesty not only of the politicians–we expect that–but of our Fourth Estate, who are in theory supposed to break through the facade, expose the lies, and help us navigate the world of news and politics. 

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To every “now it can be told” revelation, my response is simple: you should have told it to us THEN when it mattered so much more. The journalists who are telling the truth now were lying or hiding the facts from citizens who counted on them to tell the truth. And to every journalist who claims they didn’t know, then I say: Then what good are you? 

Journalists who told us that Biden’s apparent decline was the result of “cheap fakes” are now telling us that it was even worse than we guessed. When Chuck Todd goes off on a rant about how awful a man Joe Biden is, my only thought is that he should have said that when he was Vice President, a candidate for president, president, or running for reelection. 

Moralizing about Biden now is worthless and proof that he and other journalists are trash. They lied to cover up for Biden when it mattered and now want credit for spilling the beans after it matters. 

MSNBC is part of NBC News, and that makes Jonathan Allen a co-conspirator with all the talking heads on MSNBC who lied constantly about how Joe Biden was Albert Einstein in a fitter body when president. If he knew that these were lies when Biden was in office, he should have said so. If he didn’t, what kind of journalist is he?

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Worse than useless.

Obviously these journalists have sources at the very top–that is how a book like this gets written with all the inside details. But that just means that they had every reason to know for a fact what every sentient person in America suspected: Biden’s brain was toast. If you know the story behind Biden’s torturing Kamala Harris for his endorsement, why let the “Joe Biden is George Washington” meme get spread without challenging it? 

In the description of the book, we are told:

Bestselling authors Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes give readers their first graphic view of the characters, their motivations, and their innermost thoughts as they battled to claim the ultimate prize and define a political era. Based on real-time interviews with more than 150 insiders—from the Trump, Harris, and Biden inner circles, as well as party leaders and operatives—Fight delivers the vivid and stunning tale of an election unlike any other.

In other words, they knew what was going on as it was going on. “Real-time” interviews, but we only get the story…now, months after the election. 

Thanks for nothing, guys. “Journalists.” Lie to you when it matters, tell the truth when it doesn’t. Pravda. 

As with my need to subscribe to The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and other publications I find distasteful, I have already pre-ordered this book and will put money in the pockets of the authors. 

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But you better believe it pains me. I am angry at their betrayal of America. They covered up for bad people when it mattered, making them co-conspirators in one of the greatest coverups in American history. And now they will make money off the coverup, and bask in the glory of sharing the inside scoop they hid from us. 

Are you as tired of being lied to and manipulated as I am? I bet you are. 

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Anatomy of a Propaganda Campaign

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There are many reasons why the Democratic Party has seen a precipitous decline in support. We can all name many of them because they are so obvious. 

But one of the bigger reasons why people–especially younger people–are fleeing is the huge disconnect between what Democrats say and what they do. Democrats are liars, hoaxers, and, above all, phonies. It’s why the left can’t meme: there is no there there. Joe Biden’s brain is the perfect metaphor for the average Democrat strategist. Even leftists are disgusted with the Democrats, and have been for some time. 

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The Harris campaign was the apotheosis of this trend toward hollowness. The entire campaign was a fake, from beginning to end. The Democrats tried to turn the least popular Vice President in American history–a woman who couldn’t get a single vote in the Democratic primaries for the 2020 presidential nomination–into a cultural icon. 

That worked out as well as Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Nightmares. 

Harris’s campaign began with the “Brat” rebranding, which at the time seemed an odd branding choice. “Brat” was the hot album among post-teens whose cultural horizon began in March 2024 and ended in August 2024. Shallow, meaningless, ugly, and proud to be marginally naughty, the “Brat Summer” campaign was a lame attempt to attach stodgy and unlikeable Kamala Harris to a cultural moment whose lifespan was measured in weeks and whose relevance to politics was negative. 

But the Democrats poured all they could into it, because they have no ideas. Shallow was at least a strategy. So shallow it was–a campaign pushed by high-dollar consultants and funded by Democrat billionaires. 

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The abrupt withdrawal last year of President Joe Biden as the Democratic presidential nominee, followed rapidly by his replacement with Vice President Kamala Harris, irked many voters left out by the process. Yet social media seemed to ooze with enthusiasm and Gen Z-friendly hipster appeal. 

Influencers flooded the web with neon-matcha green pro-Harris videos synced to beats from singer Charli XCX’s album “Brat” released last year. The poppy rave videos, gushed journalists, showed that Harris embodied the confidently independent “brat” vibe conveyed by the music. Social media pages bubbled with memes celebrating Harris as the voice of queer and black youth, in contrast with the Republican agenda of white supremacy. Digital creator Amelia Montooth, in one viral TikTok video, kissed a woman and tried searching for pornography, actions her sketch suggested would be banned if Harris lost the election.

Harris, a career politician favored by the Democratic Party’s establishment, never quite fit the bill as an icon of activist movements. But the sudden influencer buzz seemed to transform the stodgy former prosecutor into an icon of the cultural zeitgeist. 

As it turns out, the tidal wave of enthusiasm was not entirely genuine. Much of the content, including Montooth’s videos, was quietly funded by an elusive group of Democratic billionaires and major donors in an arrangement designed to conceal the payments from voters. 

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This reminds me of Hillary and Chelsea Clinton sitting down with Cardi-B and rhapsodizing over the pathos of her song WAP, which stands for Wet Ass P****y. It truly was a profound song:

Whores in this house
There’s some whores in this house
There’s some whores in this house
There’s some whores in this house (hol’ up)
I said certified freak, seven days a week
Wet ass pussy, make that pullout game weak, woo! (Ah)

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, you fucking with some wet ass pussy
Bring a bucket and a mop for this wet ass pussy
Give me everything you got for this wet ass pussy

Beat it up, nigga, catch a charge
Extra large, and extra hard
Put this pussy right in yo’ face
Swipe your nose like a credit card
Hop on top, I want a ride
I do a kegel while it’s inside
Spit in my mouth, look at my eyes
This pussy is wet, come take a dive

It is a wonder that Hillary didn’t win, you know!

Harris may not quite put out the Cruella de Ville vibes that Hillary does, but she is as much a cultural trendsetter as she is. Tying Harris to “Brat Summer” was as doomed to failure as linking Hillary Clinton to stripper culture. 

RealClearInvestigations obtained internal documents and WhatsApp messages from Democratic strategists behind the influencer campaign. Way to Win, one of the major donor groups behind the effort, spent more than $9.1 million on social media influencers during the 2024 presidential election – payments revealed here for the first time. The amount was touted in a document circulated after the election detailing the organization’s accomplishments. 

The hidden social-media effort coached creators on phrases, issue areas, and key themes to “disseminate pro-Kamala content throughout the cycle.”

Way to Win

The effort supported over 550 content creators who published 6,644 posts across platforms, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Twitch, and X. Way to Win coached creators on phrases, issue areas, and key themes to “disseminate pro-Kamala content throughout the cycle,” a post-election memo from the group noted.

The look behind the curtain reveals that at least some of the image-making around the Harris candidacy was carefully orchestrated by the same types of covert social media marketing often used by corporate brands and special interest groups. Such campaigns provide the illusion of organic support through the authentic appeal of trusted social media voices.

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Democrats understand, intellectually, that Trump’s appeal is his authenticity, and as a creating of a political class that works diligently to keep the plebs in their place, they assumed that they could purchase authenticity if they threw enough money at it. 

Hire credentialed experts and they surely cannot fail! Throw in a few Harvard and Yale guys and victory is ours!

In a series of internal presentations about the influencer campaign, Way to Win emphasized its data-driven approach. “We know what messaging works,” noted Liz Jaff, a branding strategist working with Way to Win, during a call with donors last year. She touted the use of an AI-based focus group tool developed by Future Forward, the Harris campaign’s primary SuperPAC. 

Jaff also explained the process for developing talking points that could be inserted into organic-appearing messages and posts on social media. “We then convey that to the influencers who take that into their own words,” continued Jaff. “We then test those videos and see what needs to be boosted,” she added, referencing paid media efforts to amplify specific TikTok videos or favored streamers. 

The lofty promises of message mastery, however, often fell short. Way to Win directly financed a series of clunky YouTube shows and liberal identity politics-oriented social media skits designed to bring voters out to support the Harris campaign and Democrats more broadly. There’s little evidence that such measures moved any significant numbers of voters during an election in which Democrats lost historic levels of support from key constituency groups – the youth vote, Latinos, and black men swung significantly to Donald Trump last year, upending decades of voting patterns.

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The Democrats’ strategy was to create the appearance of authenticity, and they focus-grouped their authenticity and sketched out talking points to ensure that it was totally organic, you know. 

Experts! That will work!

There is a reason why Bernie and AOC have risen so far in the party–whatever you think they are, they are. Jasmine Crockett isn’t who she plays in public, but she plays it really well. Like a real con man. 

There is always an element of play-acting in politics, so a genuinely authentic politician is a relative rarity. Their emergence is usually tied to a crisis, and anybody who has followed the Republican Party for long knows that we have had our share of inauthentic “leaders.” 

It’s hard to say whether the Democratic Party will continue its decline into cultural irrelevancy. Currently, it is propped up by big money, the Pravda Media, and a Brownshirt activist base who are far more radical than the people at the top feel comfortable with. But it’s all they have. 

The closest analog in contemporary politics is the Conservatives in the UK, although they at least are not plagued by the consultant class the Democrats have in abundance. 

The failure of the “Brat Summer” and Harris campaigns have led Democrats back to their golden oldie–a billionaire-funded campaign of riots, domestic terrorism, and lawfare. The best such a campaign can do is stymie Trump, and the worst it might do is help him survive some of the inevitable drop in support that will accompany his Reaganesque attempt to remake government. Reagan took enormous political damage from his fight against inflation, and Trump will from his attacks on government bloat. 

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The ineptitude of the Democrats may just keep his support stronger and help him get through the painful couple of years of readjustment that are sure to come. 

Are you as tired of being lied to and manipulated as I am? I bet you are. 

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UK School Suspended a Toddler for Transphobia

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It’s hard to believe this could happen but the Telegraph has seen the documents which support that it did. A toddler at an unnamed nursery school was suspended for transphobia. The toddler in question isn’t identified either but, at most, this was a 4-year-old child. Other kids no older than seven were suspended for the same reason.

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Department for Education (DfE) data show the child, aged either three or four, was suspended from a state school in the 2022-23 academic year for “abuse against sexual orientation and gender identity”.

The school and further details of the case were not disclosed.

But statistics show that 94 pupils at state primary schools were suspended or permanently excluded for transphobia and homophobia in 2022-23.

These included 10 pupils from year one and three from year two, where the maximum age is seven.

The leader of a gender critical organization suggested the story was almost too crazy to believe.

“Every once in a while, the extremes of gender ideology throw up a story that seems too crazy to believe, and a toddler being suspended from nursery for so-called transphobia or homophobia is one such example,” Helen Joyce, director of advocacy at Sex Matters, told the newspaper.

“Teachers and school leaders involved in this insanity should be ashamed of themselves for projecting adult concepts and beliefs onto such young children,” she added.

Author JK Rowling also called the story “totalitarian insanity.”

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Elon Musk agreed.

And Ted Cruz.

Riley Gaines said “Even the youngest are punished for being honest.”

So what actually happened here? Again, we don’t have any details but a spokesman for the Education Department seemed to be defending this.

“All pupils and staff should feel safe and protected at school and should never face violence or abuse,” a Department for Education spokesperson told The Independent.

It makes no sense at all. How can a child this age be held accountable for transphobia? Here’s Helen Joyce speculating on what most likely happened in this case.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s office was asked about this and said he did not agree with it, sort of.

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Asked about the suspension of the nursery pupil, the Prime Minister’s official spokesman said: “I’ve seen these reports. Obviously the Prime Minister would not support those sorts of measures. But equally, I don’t know the specific incident in the case.

“I think the data around this is all pretty significantly analysed, so I think it’s quite hard to provide any comment on any specific cases.

“Pupils and staff should never be subject to abuse, but any action taken to tackle behaviour should also be proportionate.”

The spokesman didn’t actually say this treatment was insane, he suggested it was disproportionate, which is not the same at all. Starmer’s take seems to be that the toddler shouldn’t have been suspended just given a different corrective. Maybe we could just leave the little kids out of it? That doesn’t seem to occur to any of these people.

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Hegseth: There Will Be ONE Combat Fitness Standard Only

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ONE PING ONLY, VASILI

Our Secretary of Defense popped up on X today and dropped the MOA PINGS on the Gillibrands of the country.

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DA DADA DA DA I’M LOVIN’ IT

…Then, under Obama, all combat roles were opened to men AND women. BUT, different physical fitness standards for men and women remained.  

Today at @DeptofDefense — we fix this. All combat roles are open to men and women BUT they must all meet the same, high standard. 

No standards will be lowered AND all combat roles will only have sex-neutral standards. Common sense.

This has been a battle royale forever, since Colorado’s vile representative Pat Schroeder started her crusading when I was still on active duty. And man, let me tell you what – we all hated her and whatever three female officers she would always trot out to congressional hearings to make the case. All those chicas were worried about was their fitreps, whining that guys who had a combat ticket beat them out for promotions, so they needed to be able to break into those MOSs. 

No one asked the enlisted girls who were going to be the ones humping the hills constantly, breaking down from marches with too heavy packs our frames were never meant to carry, and going deaf from artillery what we thought.

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What we knew was that we couldn’t do it, and we were perfectly happy the way things were. I can’t haul a 175 lb guy off a battlefield, and I didn’t want his worrying about me to get him killed because he hesitated when we were all supposed to be moving.

Hell, no. All of us Marines of the female persuasion were plenty happy to fill our niche, appreciate the men for what they could do that we couldn’t, and vice versa.

We signed up knowing the limitations and the ‘why‘ of the limitations, and that was fine by us. 

But always comes the over-educated elite, 90% of whom have never spent a day in uniform in their lives, who always know best.

It’s always a total cluster, and that’s what this has been.

From the zoo surrounding the circus to get that first Army girl her ‘Ranger tab,’ with the women being coached beforehand and then allowed to repeat phases they’d failed – unlike the male candidates – just to be able to shove some chick over the line and say ‘Lookee here!’ 

…When the first integrated class started on April 19, none of the nineteen female candidates made it through the Darby phase of the course.

Eight were “recycled” back to the beginning of the phase to take a second crack at the course with the next class to show up, which is an entirely normal procedure. None of the eight passed on the second try. Of those eight, three candidates were given a third try but were required to start back at the very beginning and re-do RAP week, in what is known as a “Day One” recycled (as opposed to joining the next class after it completed RAP week, which is how the average recycle usually works).

Getting a third attempt at the course is certainly unusual, but it’s not unheard of. The opportunity is offered on relatively rare occasions to candidates who have performed well in most aspects of the course but struggled with a single test or task. In this particular class, three of the eight female candidates remaining were given a third try, as were two male candidates who had passed RAP week but failed Darby twice. (At this point, it’s worth mentioning two things. First, the two male candidates did not take the offer for a third chance as Day One recycles; all three female candidates did. Second, RAP week consists largely of pass fail physical tests that have objective and essentially unfudgeable metrics of success—you either run five miles within the time limit, for example, or you don’t; you either complete the twelve-mile weighted ruck march on time, or you don’t. Many people don’t pass all those tests even when entering the course for the first time in peak physical condition. The female candidates did, and they did it despite having already been subjected to the exhaustion and malnutrition of Darby Phase twice. Day One recycles are viewed by a lot of candidates as something close to a death sentence for your chances of passing the course for exactly that reason. That the female candidates passed RAP week events under those conditions speaks to their level of physical stamina and conditioning.)

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What a disgrace. And then what a disservice to the women who could actually complete the course – I think there’s been a couple – who will always get the side-eye, as in ‘Did she really?’ 

There are something like 100 women in Ranger battalions now.

But what was changed to get to that number? What lethality was compromised?

…It is important to emphasize that those whom I interviewed expressed admiration for the graduating females’ grit and perseverance and were not critical of the female candidates’ character or commitment. The officers and enlisted soldiers I spoke to uniformly respected the female candidates’ efforts and willingness to put themselves through the rigors of Ranger training. They repeatedly emphasized that their critiques were intended simply to highlight how systematic political pressure forced changes to the legendary Ranger course, damaging its integrity, just as political pressure forced detrimental changes at every level of the military during the eight years of the Obama administration.

There are always going to be the female studs who could, say, complete the Ranger course or get through SEAL training, but it’s not just the course. It’s the sustained combat environment that makes guys stronger but breaks a woman’s frame down. It’s just a fact. A female who tears a course up at Fort Benning is not going to look the same after three moths up and down the mountains in Afghanistan – something the males did routinely. Or even humping the hills of Camp Pendleton – it’s physiology. 

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For those unfamiliar with the weapons my friend J.R. is referring to, the M2 is a 50 CAL that they’re saying all the pieces clock in at about 84lbs [not a one person show, thank you Jeff] and the M240 is carried version machine gun, in at almost 30 lbs. His point is the fellows who carry these also have packs and ammo to lug with them. Think Adam Baldwin in Full Metal Jacket. 

He was lugging an M60 around Hue. With a 100-round belt, that’s an extra 30 lbs.

This is the right move by Hegseth.Hegseth: There Will Be ONE Combat Fitness Standard Only 10

SecDef did it the right way, too. He didn’t say ‘no women’ – he said everyone meets a single, lethal standard for combat arms..

…The memo, which orders the military branches to “develop comprehensive plans to distinguish combat arms occupations from non-combat arms occupations,” specifies in hand-underlined text that the soon-to-be-developed standards must not “result in any existing service member being held to a lower standard.”

“All entry-level and sustained physical fitness requirements within combat arms positions must be sex-neutral, based solely on the operational demands of the occupation and the readiness needed to confront any adversary,” Hegseth wrote.

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My fellow women veterans are already taking condescending virtue signalers to task all over X, and it is a GLORIOUS thing to see.

…Civilians weighing in on these things with your vague emotional reservations put our service members in danger because you have absolutely no idea how anything in combat works. I know you think you’re being principled, but you simply have no business weighing in on this.

Women have been in combat zones a plenty and fought fiercely – that’s not the issue. We don’t cower when the s**t hits the fan, and we are trained to raise hell the second we have to. 

There are also incredibly heroic women in uniform, like the Marine Corps lionesses, who were attached to combat units. These women went into Iraq and Afghan villages to work as liaisons between the women isolated in those tiny places and their commands as well as searching women who might be smuggling cash or weapons out for insurgents. They became a conduit for information that saved lives while risking their own every single day.

Not every hero has to carry a .50 CAL, but if they are in combat arms, they need to be able to pick it up and carry on if that guy cannot.

This is the right thing for the military and the best thing for our nation’s defense.

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Well done.

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Evanston, IL and Another ‘Hate Crime’ That Never Happened

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In May of 2022, three nooses were found tied to a small tree outside Haven Middle School in Evanston, IL. Here’s a local news report that captured the immediate reaction to the discovery. This is only about a minute long.

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It turned out there were two students present when the nooses were tied. Over the weekend, the parents of one of those students told their version of what happened that day. It all started on a day that students held a protest over some teachers who were being reassigned to different schools. That protest turned into complete chaos and police were called to the school.

On that same day a 6th grader walked outside and began tying some ropes from a recess bin into nooses.

By lunchtime, what had begun as a peaceful protest devolved into what one teacher described to me as “an absolute mob scene.” Inside the school, seventh and eighth graders were running through the hallways, slamming locker doors shut, and chanting “Fuck Latting,” referring to Haven’s principal, Christopher Latting. Someone called the police.

a sixth grader…pulled three jump ropes out of a recess bin and started tying them in knots.

He started fashioning them into nooses. He made three. Another child saw that he seemed upset, so he ran up to [Mike] Klotz’s son and asked him to come speak to his friend. Klotz’s son crossed the yard to ask the boy what he was doing—and checked if he was okay.

The two friends spoke a little. Then the child who made the nooses hung them on a small, shrub-like tree, and the two boys ran off to another part of the yard, leaving the ropes hanging a few feet off the ground.

Within hours, every parent in the district had received an email from superintendent Devon Horton about the nooses found on the tree. Horton was a big proponent of anti-racist education and his email left no doubt what had happened.

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“This is a hate crime and a deliberate and specific incidence of an outwardly racist act. It resounds with a tone of hate and hurt that will impact members of our entire community, namely Black and African American students, staff, and families who have experienced generations of harm.”

Mike and Melissa Klotz, who are both left-wing, got a call from the father of the 6th grader who had tied the knots. He admitted his son had done it and said their son was also involved. But after asking around, Mike Klotz was convinced that his son hadn’t done anything except go to check on his friend when asked to do so.

Meanwhile, the Haven “hate crime” was the major topic of discussion at the school, not just between classes but in class. Nearly a week later, Klotz’ son, and the other boy who tied the knots, were placed on administrative leave while the incident was under investigation by the police. That investigation took six weeks, causing both of them to miss the end of 6th grade.

But in mid-June, police finally concluded the nooses had been tied by one boy but were not intended as a racial threat. On the contrary, the final report saw them as a “cry for help.”

The final, 33-page police report detailing the authorities’ investigation —which Klotz showed to The Free Press after it was made available via a Freedom of Information Act request—states that the boy responsible for putting the ropes in the trees “has some very serious mental health issues and has tied knots previously as a soothing technique.”

According to the report, police spoke to a Haven student who said she watched a boy “place the rope over a tree, and put the noose around his neck for approximately 1 to 2 minutes.” She said the boy had a “look on his face” that was “serious,” and he “appeared as though he did not want to be there.” She told police other students there were worried he might “harm himself,” but added: “The tree the rope was placed over was not big enough to hold his weight.”

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This was a troubled kid maybe signaling he wanted to harm himself, not a hate crime. But superintendent Horton promised the district would continue to investigate to determine how to respond. A parent group called “District 65 Parents & Guardians” also rejected the police conclusions and demanded the student and the family be identified. And Kim Foxx’s office referred the matter to juvenile court, threatening the 5th grader with a misdemeanor for disorderly conduct. The juvenile court eventually dropped the matter.

The Klotz’s son really had no part in the nooses and there was no hate crime here anyway. Nevertheless, they decided to move, leaving Evanston for another town about 6 miles away, so their son could start the new year in a new school district. Unfortunately, he really hasn’t recovered. Formerly a straight A student, the boy now struggles in school. As for his parents, they now feel adrift from the progressive politics they have always believed in.

Melissa [Klotz] told me that what happened to her son completely changed her perspective on life. She said she’s now cynical about politics, and she’ll never vote again.

“I’ve lost faith in everything,” she said. “Now I just assume all people are bad people, unless they can prove otherwise.”

As for Superintendent Devon Horton, he moved on to a new job in Georgia about one year later. All of his anti-racist efforts don’t seem to have accomplished much for students in Evanston.

Last November, a district-wide “Equity Progress Indicator” report showed that the racial achievement gap in Evanston has actually been widening. The percentage of black students meeting standards in language arts dropped from 33.4 in the 2023-24 school year to 31.7 the following year, whereas that same metric for white students stayed consistent, at around 82 percent. In the meantime, enrollment in District 65 has continued to fall.

But Horton did enjoy one notable achievement: In November 2022, just six months after the Haven “hate crime” incident, the National Alliance of Black School Educators named him “Superintendent of the Year.”

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He generated a lot of reactions to a “hate crime” that never happened and won an award for his efforts.

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Mostly Peaceful, But Genuinely Stupid Protests by the Left

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Protests used to be really something in America. Back in the anti-war 70s, college kids and young adults were protesting continued U.S. involvement in Vietnam, and it was effective enough to alter the direction of the country. Those same hippies are now grandparents and great-grandparents, if they’re still alive. You might guess that a lot of their grandkids are the ones protesting Elon Musk and Tesla, Donald Trump, ICE, and whatever else they think is wrong. But that doesn’t seem to be the case most of the time. Many are foreign nationals here on a student visa. A lot of them are paid protesters.  

At Republican Congresscritter town halls all over the country, rooms are filled with people funded and Astroturfed in by left-wing advocacy groups. In Wisconsin over the weekend, Elon and a few Trump cabinet members appeared in their personal capacities to get out the vote in the Wisconsin Supreme Court battle between Republican Judge Brad Schimel and Dane County leftist Judge Susan Crawford. Musk offered two different $1 million dollars prizes for people that attended the rally. Wisconsin’s Democratic Attorney General, Josh Kaul, sued to keep that from happening, but the courts did not give him the relief he sought, and the giveaway ensued. When the protesters at the rally began disrupting, Musk noted that it was inevitable that the George Soros contingent would be present. 

While a lot of the talent from the Trump get out of the vote effort in 2024 have become cheeseheads the last couple of weeks to drive up turnout, Democrats in the Badger state chose a different way of 
protesting – by running over Schimel yard signs before losing control of their car. 

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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy took the stage in Wisconsin and noted the lengths to which people previously espousing environmental concerns are willing to go in order to destroy Teslas, the best-selling electric vehicles in the country. 

Meanwhile, on the side of the road, another protest developed. This one was the two-person type, holding up the obligatory Musk is a Nazi sign. 

Gotta love the mask-wearing…outdoors. They must have gotten the secret memo from Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins that COVID is still deadly and spreads most virally on the side of the road as people drive by doing 70 mph giving these two the bird, creating a wind draft behind them. They’re much safer on the side of the road facing oncoming traffic covering up their piehole. The mask will help keep their loose teeth in one place for identification purposes later when someone hugging the shoulder because they’re checking their texts whacks them with the rearview mirror. 

Grandma did not seem to understand the concept that there are more cameras on a Tesla than there are at a space launch. 

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In New York City, protesters are saving democracy by burning Teslas.

This totally normal-looking woman is now a resident in the Graybar Hotel because she gummed up, literally and figuratively, a Tesla. 

In Seattle, this protest also passed as a Doo-Dah Parade.

In my head as I was watching this, I was wondering where the “Springtime For Hitler” song from the Producers was playing behind them. Didn’t have to wait long. 

In Southlake, Texas, the protest ended promptly at High Noon. Why? No, there wasn’t a shootout coming at the O.K. Corral. Noon was the time through which these protesters were being paid to protest. At 12:01, they no longer gave an excrement about the issue to put in their own personal time as a protest. They were off the clock. It’s like an old Looney Tunes cartoon.

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There’s other forms of protests underway by a bunch of disturbed people who have the added benefit of being moronic enough to record their violent incitements. That is such an extra assist to an otherwise busy law enforcement community.  

Pro tip: When you make a selfie video in your car advocating for the shooting of ICE officers, Homeland Security will come calling. 

But my all-time favorite in the category of dumbest protest ever has to go to these Columbia alums who are so anti-Semitic that after they’ve paid the money, passed the classes, and earned the diploma from one of the more elite institutions in the country, they tear it up to protest the crackdown on anti-Semitism on campus by the Trump administration. 

I’m fairly certain that show of solidarity will finally turn everyone in the country against the Jews once and for all. If you’ve ever wanted to see a live demonstration of the difference between someone being book smart and street smart, well, I’m not sure this video is actually going to help. If you have deluded yourself into thinking tearing up $300,000 in 2025 dollars is the way to convince others to join your cause, you are too dumb to have received the paper in the first place. You’re actually weakening the judgment and prestige of the university with each rip. 

Remember this from Donald Trump’s State of the Union in February, 2020? 

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That didn’t cost her $300,000. If you add up the seven people I saw in that video who tore up their diplomas, that’s about $2.1 million dollars’ worth of what used to be considered among the finer educational experiences in the world. 

Now take this woman in the middle, the one whose name you can read on the diploma now rend in two. Her name is Eliza Margarita Bates. Just out of morbid curiosity, I did a little digging to see what would come up about her. In 2022, as part of a Mexico-based writing residency called Under the Volcano, Ms. Bates put this up as her bio, demonstrating her fun, wit, and positive outlook on life. 

I am a chronically ill and invisibly disabled writer and communications consultant to the Left. I have worked in the labor movement almost my entire adult life, first as an organizer and now in communications strategy. I pay the bills ghost writing OpEd’s (you may have seen my writing under the names of labor union leaders in fancy outlets) and speeches, and supporting workers in telling their own stories in the press. My personal writing focuses on work and the body and is centered on disability, illness, and on finding meaning — and sometimes dark humor — when our bodies are no longer able to produce labor under capitalism. I take a lot of expensive medications to stay alive, including immunosuppressants, and I spend my free time fighting with greedy health insurance companies. I live in Brooklyn, NY, with my musician husband, my 4-year-old Batman unicorn princess boy, a very sweet pit bull, and two mean cats.

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She certainly sounds like a catch, doesn’t she, fellas? Too bad she’s off the market. Today’s left is a collection of the most humorless, soulless people on the planet. Think there’s a lot of mostly peaceful thoughts going through her head? 

We’re just over two months into a four-year term. If this is the energy and direction that’s going to drive the Democratic Party, I’m pretty optimistic about who’s going to lead the country for the foreseeable future. Today’s Democratic party features prominently members of Congress like Jasmine Crockett, who seems to have a problem with people of a different race than hers. Watch this from The Breakfast Club late last week. 

You know, it wasn’t too long ago that on MSNBC, gaslighting about Donald Trump outlawing same sex and mixed race marriages was opined on the airwaves. Of course, that was nonsense. Crockett, a regular feature on the network, seems to genuinely have a problem with mixed race unions. I was previously under the impression that holding such a viewpoint was racist. 

The fun part about all this? It’s only Monday. 85-90% chance that this column will not feature the craziest stuff said and done this week by the time we get to Friday. 

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Government Unions Sue to Block Trump’s Executive Order

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Last Thursday night, President Trump signed an executive order putting an end to unionized collective bargaining at more than two dozen government agencies. This could potentially end union representation for more than half of all government workers. The unions and those who support them greeted Trump’s move as a declaration of war and promised a swift response. A statement released by the president of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) said lawsuits were on the way.

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“This administration’s bullying tactics represent a clear threat not just to federal employees and their unions, but to every American who values democracy and the freedoms of speech and association. Trump’s threat to unions and working people across America is clear: fall in line or else.

“These threats will not work. Americans will not be intimidated or silenced. AFGE isn’t going anywhere. Our members have bravely served this nation, often putting themselves in harm’s way, and they deserve far better than this blatant attempt at political punishment.

“AFGE is preparing immediate legal action and will fight relentlessly to protect our rights, our members, and all working Americans from these unprecedented attacks.”

The lawsuit from AFGE hasn’t materialized yet and is still probably a week or two away, but Immediately after Trump executive order was signed last week, some of the agencies involved sued the unions in federal court. One of the unions that was sued was the National Treasury Employees union. Here’s a bit of what that lawsuit says.

Since taking office,two ofPresident Trump’s top priorities for his Administration have beento improve the efficiency and efficacy of the federal workforce, and to promotethe national security of the United States.Unfortunately, many Executive Branch departments and agencies have beenhamstrung in advancing both of those important efforts by restrictive terms of collective bargaining agreements (CBAs).

These CBAs significantly constrain the Executive Branch, restricting how agencies hire and manage employees. They also effectivelydelegate important decision-making to unaccountable private arbitrators in the form of grievance arbitration. Virtually all limit the power of the President and his Executive Branch officials to promptly identify and address underperformance…

In light of the Executive Order and OPM guidance, Plaintiff now respectfully seeks a declaratory judgment from this Court that it has the power to rescind or repudiate the national CBA, as well as local supplemental agreements and MOUs(collectively, CBAs)with the National Treasury Employees Union(NTEU)and Defendant, one of the local chapters of NTEU that implements and executes the terms of the CBA in Kentucky.

Plaintiff wishes to rescind or repudiate those agreements, including so it can protect national security by developing personnel policies that otherwise would be precluded or hindered by the CBAs. But to ensure legal certainty and avoid unnecessary labor strife, it first seeks declaratory relief to confirm that it is legally entitled to proceed with doing so.

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Today, the NTEU filed a lawsuit in response. 

A union that represents 150,000 U.S. government employees filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking to block President Donald Trump from stripping hundreds of thousands of federal workers of the ability to collectively bargain with government agencies through their unions.

The National Treasury Employees Union said in the lawsuit filed in Washington, D.C. federal court that Trump’s executive order last week exempting more than a dozen agencies from collective bargaining obligations violates federal workers’ labor rights and the U.S. Constitution and threatens the union’s very existence.

The NTEU said the order applies to more than 100,000 of its 158,000 members and would require agencies to stop deducting union dues from those workers’ paychecks, a major blow to the union’s revenue and bargaining power.

That last paragraph sums up what this is all about for the unionists. Trump is cutting off their dues money so they will fight to protect that. The Trump administration is not only reducing the size of government, it is reducing Democrats’ piggy bank for future elections. Given what a serious challenge this represents, I’m surprised this isn’t getting more attention. So far the union issue seems to be on the back burner to opposition to DOGE. But that could change. 

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As I mentioned before, the public sector unions can’t risk a strike because that would give Trump a perfect opportunity to fire them. However, they can continue to protest outside of work hours. There’s another big protest planned for this coming Saturday, April 5.

Another test of the strength of the protest movement against Trump will come on April 5, when a coalition of liberal groups is planning nationwide demonstrations, including one at the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

“Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They’re taking everything they can get their hands on, and daring the world to stop them,” Indivisible, the organization running the so-called Hands Off! protests, said in a social media post.”

A bunch of unions, including NTEU, are part of the coalition that is supposed to turn out Saturday so we’ll have to wait and see how that goes.

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Hungry Yet, UK? British Government Going After Fishes and Farms

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I should do a daily column on their lunacy, this is getting to be so ridiculous.

It must be delightful to realize that YOU are the burden to your government, and not the other way around.

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I mean, that has to be so, else why are they constantly on the march to reduce food and energy sources for the British people?

The criticism over energy bills and cutting allowances for pensioners has been particularly brutal, and it turned out to be an awful winter on top of it.

Too bad, so sad.

But it won’t make no nevermind, as we say down here.

The happy Malthusian enthusiasts in Keir Starmer’s Labour government are going out of their way to starve whoever they didn’t freeze to death this past winter.

Skinny, starving people freeze faster, you know.

It’s Settled Science™.

So the first thing they announced was, rather than killing off cows, they’re working out how just to take the land back from farmers. It’s a shame if they grew foodstuffs on it for people, too, but these are the sacrifices one must make to save the planet for…somebody.

None of you British peasant people, obviously.

Any time a progressive says they’re looking for ‘new ways to deliver’ anything, gird your loins particularly when they’re not busy chattering away about it. This means they’re up to no good, sneaky style.

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The Land Use Framework, which states that 9% of England’s farmland will need to be taken out of production for climate goals, is “flying under the radar” for many farmers.

This is according to Laura Greenman, partner at HCR Law, who is urging farming businesses to have their say on the plans as the industry is “once again under threat”.

The Land Use Framework, which was launched for consultation at the end of January, seeks a new strategic approach to managing land use in England.

As part of it, the government is looking at new ways to deliver housebuilding, nature goals, energy infrastructure and entire new towns.

The framework states that 9% of England’s agricultural land will need to be taken out of production to meet environmental and climate targets.

What, ho?!

Nine percent of British farmland, gone? Just like that?

Ms Greenman, who seems to be abominably named considering she’s arguing for the practical side, points out very politely that none of these big plans talks about ‘FOOD‘ production. Doesn’t take it into account at all.

…Ms Greenman says that while it focuses on planning, energy and infrastructure, she warns that little consideration has been given to food security.

…“The framework claims to support Britain’s food security while suggesting that 760,000ha of agricultural land in England must be removed from production,” says Ms Greenman.

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What? 

No worries, says Labour. Who needs food?

We’ve plenty of it, and besides, bugs don’t take up much space.

Speaking of that, old chaps, LET’S TALK ABOUT THOSE FISH AND CHIPS…

You can wave goodbye to that distinctly succulent British treat if Labour has anything to do with it.

FOR THE CHILDREN

Labour is implementing stricter net zero measures on fishing boats, canal barges and pleasure craft, The Telegraph can reveal.

Under the maritime decarbonisation strategy, boat owners will be forced to swap out diesel engines, petrol generators and wood-fired stoves for electric motors, batteries and extra shore power hookups.

There will also be tax rises on marine fuel, with new boats required to be entirely electric.

Maritime bosses branded the Government’s plans “completely and utterly impractical”.

Richard Gregson, the owner of Worcester-based Classic Yacht Brokerage, said: “It’s complete nonsense to have net zero on yachts.

“The technology for electric engines on small boats isn’t really there. The amount of diesel a yacht burns in a year is negligible, and even if the diesel engines were replaced it would be offset by the making of electric batteries.”

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And listen to all the complainers. Good grief.

…Jerry Percy, the chief executive of the New Under Ten Fishermen’s Association, representing operators of craft less than 10 metres in length, said that adding emissions taxes to fuel for Britain’s fishing boats would “destroy the industry overnight”.

“At the moment we get a subsidy on diesel for fishing vessels; we pay less than you pay for it at the pumps. If they even remove that subsidy… three quarters of the fleet would go bankrupt,” he said.

Speaking about proposals to force fishing boats to go electric, he added: “It’s going to take some persuasion for companies to build port infrastructure for what is a relatively small number of vessels … I think we need to transition, but it’s not going to be easy”.

Peter Braybrook, the secretary of the National Association of Boat Owners, cautioned that replacing diesel engines and generators on canal boats would be impractical.

“The major problem is charging them on most canal boats, which are about seven foot wide and 60 foot long,” he said.

He added that the available space was not enough to install solar panels capable of charging boats for more than six hours’ operation.

Mr Braybrook warned the net zero measures could trigger a wave of homelessness, as people who lived on canal boats because of the high cost of housing would be unable to afford an enforced switch to electric power.

“No way they could do it,” said Mr Braybrook. “They’d be forced off the water, off their off-grid lifestyle, and probably into homelessness.”

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Seriously now – this is a government on crack.

Pretty soon they’re going to run out of peasants to run over.

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Hochul’s Corrupt Medicaid ‘Reforms’ Send Billions to Her Donor

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I’m sure you have heard all about how mean, nasty, ugly and rapacious the Republicans are. They work assiduously, day, night, through rain, sleet, snow, and even hurricanes to steal candy out of baby’s mouths and needed care away from the weak and disabled. 

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Elon Musk, who is a very stupid man who has never accomplished a thing, is finally in a place where he can get rich by stealing Social Security and Medicare funds. After a lifetime with no accomplishments, he is filling his pockets with your money. 

Uh, yeah, right. Whatever. 

As Democrats scream to high heaven about how Elon Musk is cutting aid to the needy, Kathy Hochul is…cutting aid to the needy, dumping a program to allow family members to take care of their disabled relatives, and giving a contract to a political contributor–who is working with the communist Service Employees International Union–to sweep in and control the market for home health aids. 

This is in the name of efficiency. Efficiently ripping off the taxpayers, the disabled, and private businesses not part of the Democratic Party grift, that is. 

A lack of funds does not drive Hochul’s need to cut back on Medicaid expenditures–she has increased Medicaid funding more in four years than Andrew Cuomo did in 11. As she cuts funds for autism and other programs for the needy, the primary motivation seems to be consolidating the market and ensuring that her contributors get their palms greased. 

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New York is facing yet another lawsuit alleging it rigged the bidding process for Gov. Kathy Hochul’s move to overhaul a massive $9 billion homecare program.

The new filing alleges that powerful healthcare union 1199SEIU was in on the fix to help controversial firm Public Partnerships LLC secure the multi-million dollar contract to handle payment services for the rapidly expanding Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program.

At least five lawsuits have so far been filed to try and unravel Hochul’s overhaul of the CDPAP, two of which have specifically alleging bid-rigging on the part of the governor’s administration.

Hochul and the state legislature, as part of the gov’s revamp of the allegedly fraud-ridden program, agreed to get rid of nearly 700 middlemen firms that acted as payroll agents between CDPAP caregivers and Medicaid in favor of one hand-picked contractor.

Critics, including the existing middlemen firms like Mark’s Homecare LLC — which filed the latest suit in Albany Supreme Court — have been crying foul about the process leading up Public Partnerships LLC being awarded the bid.

I have a hard time finding time to cry for many of the other companies getting edged out of the market–the entire industry is rife with corruption and questionable business practices–but making it even more difficult for family members to take care of their loved ones is disgusting. But then again, this is New York, where the scheme to dump COVID patients into nursing homes was cooked up. Far be it from me to suggest that killing off the aged and infirm was the plan, but…maybe it was the plan. 

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NY Senate GOP is urging 

@SecKennedy

 to investigate Kathy Hochul’s overhaul of the CDPAP program.

In 8 days over 100,000 elderly and disabled New Yorkers will lose their Medicaid home healthcare, and 600+ businesses will be shut down.

“We request that 

@HHSGov

 open an investigation into its implementation and the motivation behind this deeply flawed process.”

Kathy Hochul overhauled this Medicaid program and gave the entire contract to her billionaire donor friend at the advice of a consulting firm which owns 25% of her friend’s company.

RIGGED AND CORRUPT

When Elon Musk moves to pare back fraud in Social Security and Medicare to ensure that services can be well-funded, the left screams “cuts in benefits.” When Kathy Hochul enables fraud and cuts benefits, the left screams “government efficiency.” Projection, thy name is Democrat. 

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