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The left’s hypocrisy is truly astonishing. A piece appeared in the New York magazine claiming that Trump and his cast of MAGA warriors have destroyed comedy by attacking free speech. It of course supplies an additional laundry list of all of the left’s grievances against this administration, charging Trump with “destabilizing the world economy,” deporting citizens, “suppression of LGBTQ and women’s rights,” the “rise of authoritarianism” and the “collapse of the federal government,” all leading to comedians being able to resurrect using the R-word to criticize their peers who voted for him. Yes, that word is “retard.” Wow. A whole article inspired by an HBO special based on a comment about the fictional suppression of free speech so that comedians can apply a slur to Trump voters. Pickings must be slim for clickbait. None of these journalistic geniuses recalls the demise of comedy in the woke era that preceded Trump’s re-election. Comedians lamented that mining for material that poked fun at race, homosexuality, trans-genderism, ethnicity, or even overweight people resulted in accusations of racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and body shaming. 

Stereotyping has long been the mainstay of comedy. Not anymore. How many comedians have had to roll back comments deemed offensive to some minority group lest they be cancelled? Remember when a diminutive black comedian was criticized for hosting a children’s birthday party with a Cowboys and Indians theme?  Alas, the only group remaining that can be bashed with impunity seems to be white heterosexual males. And if it weren’t for Donald Trump, most late-night talk show hosts wouldn’t have any material. Does anyone remember Frank Sinatra, widely credited with supporting equal accommodations for his Black musicians when on tour, mercilessly making what would now be considered racist jokes at Sammy Davis Junior’s expense onstage?  And Sammy giving it right back to the man who helped make his career. And does anyone recall Don Rickles? He would never have survived in this hypersensitive age of partisan division. In the words of Andrew Breitbart: “The left thrives on division and victimhood.” And the New York magazine is just offering us more of the same. 

Defaming Charlie

Breitbart had a caller this morning who launched into a rant that Charlie Kirk was a bigot, a racist, and despite being asked multiple times to explain what Charlie had ever said to make him come to that conclusion, he refused and just continued to parrot the Democrat talking points. Slater, the host, finally had enough and hung up on him, declaring there was no better poster child for the left: someone not willing to engage in thoughtful discussion but wanting only his views to be heard without justification for them. Slater’s guest said he’s tired of it and refuses to engage with the left. He said that we have to adopt their tactics of cancellation, boycott, and doxing. No more trying to appease a group of people who have shown time and again that they promote violence against us, that fund organizations that burn our cities and destroy property and take what isn’t theirs. He has a point.

Charlie Kirk

I made the mistake of going on HuffPo to see the left’s comments on the Kirk assassination. Big mistake. About 80% of the comments were from lefties who accused Kirk of being a “provocateur,” if not outright calling him a misogynistic, racist, homophobic hate monger. And of course, all of them referencing Jan 6 as being the start of political violence. Totally ignorant of the fact that the only person to die on that day was an unarmed woman. No mention of the BLM riots, of course. All deflection and finger-pointing with a smattering of gun ban talk. Too many are basically saying he deserved it because he supported the Second Amendment. The left is composed of some truly horrible people. This is not my America.

The Black Mystique

A Black caller from Milwaukee called in to “Charlemagne tha God’s” talk show and praised Trump coming into urban areas to clean up crime, stating that he was a productive member of society, working, paying a mortgage and putting his kids through school, but was sick of having his life disrupted by YNs (Black speak for young, the N word) with no future, causing mayhem. He was attacked by the Black hosts who claimed that the Black community had offered solutions but had been rejected by the government…..implying, of course, “white government”. The solutions?  Gun control, and more social programs for mental health, and the channeling of those Black offenders into vocations. What a swerve! Black, Democrat run cities controlling their cities’ destiny and that of their Black inhabitants, yet have failed to do so. And when Trump suggests a radical plan to control the violence, they double down on their failed policies. It is interesting that the caller also rejected gun control, stating that he needs to protect his family and gun control would only prevent him from doing that.  And this in the wake of a most recent 14-time offender, released onto the streets, stabs a woman to death with no provocation on a commuter train in Charlotte, North Carolina. The criminal statistics generated by the Black community as a whole are abysmal,  negating the contribution of those who are a credit to their race and country, the likes of George Schuyler, Thomas Sowell, and Elridge Cleaver. Do they heed their words of wisdom for guidance? No, they do not; they choose the diatribes of Al Sharpton,  Alexandria Corteze. and Jasmine Crockett.

Shame On You Harvard

Did you happen to catch the Atlantic article that revealed the level of grade inflation at Harvard? In 2001, 33% of students received an A in classes. By 2021, that figure had reached 80%. The Dean’s response was that professors have spent more time addressing the emotional needs of students, particularly those with disabilities. Huh? Meritocracy wanes in Cambridge, MA.

Not To Be Cruel

I think after yet another deranged transgender specimen succumbed to homicidal and then ultimately suicidal impulses, we can conclude that there exists a significant level of mental illness in this subset of the unhinged. We are about to descend into the cacophony of gun control proposals from the democrats, everything from assault weapon bans, handgun bans, to magazine bans. This particular offender gave them the entire menu, bringing a rifle, a pistol, and a shotgun to the massacre. If only he had brought a BB gun and a slingshot, the progressives could have left us defending ourselves with rocks. But once again, the manifesto left by this boy turned girl, then regretfully wanting to be a boy again, paints a picture of serious mental illness. And yet not one of his umpteen siblings nor his parents, let alone the myriad of so-called healthcare professionals and psychologists required to wade through the transitioning process, had an inkling?  Aside from the family members likely in denial, the medical community had been an enormous disappointment in exposing their liberal leaning undergarments by embracing the nonsense that has been disingenuously labeled “gender affirming care.”  If you were actually to affirm the gender of these folks, you may want to use the blueprint of DNA as the guidelines. Sorry Robin, but your DNA and the original equipment in your trousers tend to suggest that you’re male.. Wear a dress, speak in falsetto, and by all means, when you’re of age, feel free to find some morally corrupt physician willing to cut off healthy body parts… but you’re still a . phenotype, genotype…..lipstick on a pig. And the European literature, folks who have been doing this a lot longer than we have, is there to back it up. “Gender affirming care” does not, in fact, reduce the prevalence of mental illness and suicide in this population. It is not “life-saving care,” so just knock it off, lefties. But it is most likely that this perpetrator and his peers were suffering from depression, anxiety, or some mental illness that required medication. The antidepressant class of meds, usually SSRIs, are associated with suicidal and violent delusions, so much so that it is actually included on their warning labels. So the medical community, which has embraced this therapy, is actually prescribing medications likely to induce violent tendencies in a class of patients who already have a mental illness?  Genius. So, rather than banning guns for the entire population, how about we flag the records of people taking medications that may cause them to engage in violence?  “Oh, but HIPAA and patient confidentiality,” screams the left, the same people who continually attempt to make public the records of law-abiding gun owners. And with an estimated 10% of the population taking medication for depression, that’s a large segment of the public. So what. If the left wants to ban firearms, here’s your chance to eliminate 10%. Radical?  Maybe. Will the NRA holler? Probably. Will patients refuse to be prescribed SSRIs? Maybe that will spur the medical community to seek less deleterious alternatives. And besides, what percentage of the depressed population owns firearms?  More research is needed into this option rather than the simplistic “solution” of banning all 400 million firearms currently in the hands of the citizenry. Especially when those seeking to make policy are like the grandstanding mayor of Minneapolis, who opined that “clips” in conjunction with magazines and guns that can “pierce armor” are not your father’s hunting rifles and should be banned. Before speaking in public, it would be best not to sound like an ill-informed idiot. But I digress. Medical community:  it is time to step up and review the science and statistics and make decisions based on medicine, not politics. Depression and anxiety have become all too common in this age of social media in America. It’s time we treated the disease and not the symptoms. Keeping firearms out of the hands of the mentally ill, especially those taking medications with documented side effects of delusional thoughts of suicide and violence, might be a good place to start. 

Prompting An Exodus

And you wonder why our taxes are so high?  Did you see the article in the WSJ on firefighter pensions in NYC?  An average annual pension of $176K after 20 years on the job, with one quarter of retirees receiving over $200K. 60% of retired firefighters receive a disability pension, able to retire at 75% of their salary. Adding to that painful government boondoggle is that they don’t have to pay state and city taxes on the benefit and receive free healthcare. Dangerous work, yes, but that sort of expenditure would seem to be, not only ripe for fraud and corruption, but wholly unsustainable, particularly when  the solution proposed by Mamdani and the socialists on the left is to increase taxes on “richer and whiter neighborhoods.” With polling in NYC’s mayoral race showing Mamdani enjoying a 44% lead, perhaps now is the time for the rich and the white to flee to more hospitable climates.