Reader’s Links for June 12th, 2023

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Each day at just after midnight Eastern, a post like this one is created for contributors and readers of this site to upload news links and video links on the issues that concern this site. Most notably, Islam and its effects on Classical Civilization, and various forms of leftism from Soviet era communism, to postmodernism and all the flavours of galloping statism and totalitarianism such as Nazism and Fascism which are increasingly snuffing out the classical liberalism which created our near, miraculous civilization the West has been building since the time of Socrates.

This document was written around the time this site was created, for those who wish to understand what this site is about. And while our understanding of the world and events has grown since then, the basic ideas remain sound and true to the purpose.

So please post all links, thoughts and ideas that you feel will benefit the readers of this site to the comments under this post each day. And thank you all for your contributions.

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  2. “Men. Can’t live with ’em…but you can kill ’em!”

    Yes, we are more expendable. We are more often loners. We commit suicide more often. Accounting in divorce proceedings in Western countries do not include in the calculations the virtues of risk taking and the willingness to fight for one’s family. We choose to suffer alone. And for the man this is all true but also a bunch of blah-blah:

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-woman-becomes-trans-man-then-realizes-being-man-too-hard

  6. FOX News Sends Tucker Carlson Cease and Desist Letter as His Twitter Videos Crash 100 Million Views – His Attorney Responds
    By Jim Hoft Jun. 12, 2023 7:45 am228 Comments

    They fired him. Now they want to silence him.

    FOX News sent a cease and desist letter to Tucker Carlson after his first two “Tucker on Twitter” videos land more than 50 and 100 million views.

    Tucker’s attorney Harmeet Dhillon tweeted out that ‘Tucker Carlson will not be silenced!”

    She also added to her tweets that she is also not appearing on FOX News because she is passionately committed to free speech.

    FOX News is showing us how vicious they can be.

    They want to shut down Tucker before Trump’s indictment.

    Axios reported:

    Fox News has sent a “cease and desist” letter to Tucker Carlson as he ramps up a competing series on Twitter that drew a combined 169 million views for its first two episodes, Axios has learned.

    Why it matters: The contract battle between Fox and its former top host — who was taken off the air in April, after the network’s historic Dominion settlement — has mighty repercussions for the conservative media ecosystem.

    With “Tucker on Twitter,” Carlson and his growing production team are working to elevate Elon Musk’s social media site as a news platform.
    Details: The cease-and-desist letter has “NOT FOR PUBLICATION” in bold at the top.

    What’s happening: Fox is continuing to pay Carlson, and maintains that his contract keeps his content exclusive to Fox through Dec. 31, 2024.

    Carlson is making a First Amendment argument for posting on Twitter, and asserts that Fox has committed material breaches of his contract.
    Behind the scenes: Carlson’s first two Twitter episodes were straight-to-camera monologues. He plans to keep iterating with longer, more varied episodes and the addition of guests, Axios is told.

    We hear some big names have been lined up.
    Justin Wells, Carlson’s executive producer, tweeted yesterday: “Next Episode of Tucker on Twitter coming Tuesday: Tucker’s response to the indictment of President Donald Trump.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/fox-news-sends-tucker-carlson-cease-desist-letter/

  7. Parents Furious Over Math Teacher’s Use of Threats and Coercion to Make Students Watch “LGBT” Video
    By Jim Hoft Jun. 12, 2023 8:30 am0 Comments

    A controversy is stirring at Edison High School in Huntington Beach, California, after parents raised concerns over a math teacher’s reported use of threats and coercion to force students to watch a video about LGBTQ+ Pride.

    The incident reportedly occurred during a regular math class when the teacher played a Bolt TV episode that featured a video promoting LGBTQ+ Pride, according to R-let Vaz, whose daughter Ivory was one of the students and who recorded the incident.

    The video was part of a routine broadcast by Bolt TV, the school’s student-produced and administration-approved channel.

    However, the student’s reaction was far from uniform, as most students found the video very uncomfortable.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/parents-furious-math-teachers-use-threats-coercion-make/

  9. Louisiana Sovereignty Resolution Should Be Model for Entire Nation as DC Government Becomes Increasingly Lawless
    By Jim Hoft Jun. 12, 2023 8:15 am46 Comments

    Few things concern American citizens more than the steady encroachment of the federal government on our constitutionally protected liberty. WB Yeats’ words aptly describe the way millions of Americans feel about their own government: “The falcon cannot hear the falconer; things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.” The federal government seems to have no mechanism of self-restraint. We feel suffocated by its excesses.

    It is appropriate in this context to celebrate the passage of SCR 21, Senator Stewart Cathey’s Joint Concurrent Resolution. SCR 21, passed in both chambers this yesterday, affirms Louisiana’s sovereign constitutional right “to nullify unconstitutional acts of the federal government.” The Resolution rests on the foundational writings of the men who ratified the Constitution, the Federalist Papers, the guarantees made to the 13 free and independent States who formed our Constitution, and US Supreme Court precedent going back two centuries.

    In the 1798 Kentucky Resolutions, which nullified the federal Alien and Sedition Acts, Thomas Jefferson wrote that the States who agreed to ratify the Constitution are “sovereign and independent” within their sphere, and that whenever the federal government acts without constitutional authority, “nullification is the rightful remedy.” Indeed, neither the Constitution nor the revolutionary experiment in liberty it secured would have been possible had there been any question about the States’ right to nullify federal acts that violate state sovereignty. It was an express condition of entering into the constitutional compact. Alexander Hamilton, who believed in a strong central government, nonetheless said in Federalist 33 that any law passed by Congress that was not enacted “pursuant to its constituted powers will be merely acts of usurpation, and will deserve to be treated as such.” (Emphasis added).

    SCR 21 is a shot across the bow, a compelling, constitutionally grounded declaration by the Louisiana Legislature that states need no longer bow the knee to the steady erosion of their sovereignty by a monolithic federal government. Both Senator Stewart Cathey and co-author Representative Ray Garofalo, as well as Representative Alan Seabaugh, who carried the Resolution on the House floor, deserve praise for their efforts.

    To paraphrase Felix Adler, the statesman is the one who sets blazing torches of liberty in the dark streets of tyranny so that others may see. SCR 21 is just such a torch, lit by Cathey, Garofalo and Seabaugh, as well as the legislators who supported it to final passage. May states around the Country be emboldened to follow suit.
    Christopher Alexander
    Louisiana Citizen Advocacy Group
    http://www.lacag.org

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/louisiana-sovereignty-resolution-should-be-model-entire-nation/

  10. The Pandemic of
    Nuclear Trash Talk
    Is it all just saber rattling, buffoonery, the last braggadocious mutterings of a failed regime? Cheap efforts to obtain deterrence that arms have lost? Perhaps. And then again, perhaps not.

    By Victor Davis Hanson

    June 11, 2023
    After the world escaped a nuclear exchange during the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962, it has been generally understood that nuclear-armed nations did not publicly threaten their rivals and enemies with thermonuclear weapons.

    Of course, there were occasional lunatic exceptions to the rule. Since 2006, when the unhinged North Korean regime acquired nuclear weapons, the world has periodically dismissed the zany threats from the Kim dynasty. Kim Jong Un has sporadically warned he might strike Japan, South Korea, and the United States—usually in an outrageous and outlandish fashion.

    Kim finally was warned of the consequences of his brinkmanship rhetoric, most famously by Donald Trump in 2018. He reminded Kim that the American nuclear button was bigger than North Korea’s—an eerie counter-warning that for a time led to the cooling of North Korean rhetoric.

    Pakistan went nuclear in 1998. From time to time, its prime ministers have warned India that in any confrontation, what Pakistan lacked in numbers and arms would be made up by the preemptive use of nuclear weapons. But again, Pakistan’s threats, like those of Kim Jong Un’s, were dismissed as the rantings of the insecure and blustering, who were otherwise deterred by much larger nuclear arsenals.

    But the February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine opened a new chapter in nuclear trash-talking. The Ukrainian war has proved dangerously unique in a variety of ways. True, there have been prior large land wars involving nuclear powers. The first Gulf War of 1991 saw Britain, France, and the United States combine to help crush Iraq without mention of nuclear arms. The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979 without such threats. Neither did China mention a nuclear option in 1979, despite a less-than-successful short invasion of Vietnam. Nor did Great Britain, in its 1982 retaking of the Falkland Islands, talk of the bomb, although recently declassified documents revealed that the Royal Navy carried 31 nuclear weapons on its expeditionary fleet—presumably depth charges, bombs, and missiles—to the chagrin of the current Argentine government.

    Yet the Ukrainian war is the first large conventional war on the very doorstep of a nuclear superpower. And additionally, it has become a proxy war between the nuclear-armed NATO alliance and nuclear Russia.

    There are other dangers as well. The old maxim that democratic governments do not pose existential threats to the same degree as their autocratic counterparts suggests that the Putin regime is a bit different, a bit more unfettered than its NATO enemies.

    Another challenge is the fact that the saga of Russian and Ukrainian borders is complex, with long messy histories analogous to the volatility of the Balkans, and especially accentuated with the collapse of the borders of the old Soviet Union.

    Much of western Ukraine was Polish until 1939, when it was gobbled up and never surrendered by Stalin in 1945, who had switched alliances in 1941 to the Allied side. Crimea had been Russian since 1783, when it was annexed from the Islamic Khanate. Much of Ukraine itself was part of Russia from the 18th century until the collapse of the Soviet Union. In sum, autocracy, irredentism, and nuclear war make for a volatile combination.

    But far more dangerous is the notion that Russia was a superpower and in some ways still is one, given its huge land mass, its rich natural resources of natural gas and oil, and its nearly 6,000 nuclear weapons—still the largest such stockpile in the world.

    But most importantly, Putin’s blatant aggression is now checked and stalemated, and thousands of Russians have died. Ukraine is on the offensive, and there have been prior attacks on the Russian Black Sea fleet, strikes inside Russia itself, and apparent drone missions against Moscow suburbs. No one knows who blew up the Nord Stream pipeline, but assurances that it was not Russia’s enemies seem increasingly unconvincing, as new narratives emerge of Ukrainian responsibility, with likely Western support and perhaps foreknowledge.

    Ukraine’s stated war aims are not just to push Moscow back to the 2022 prewar border, but to cleanse Ukraine of all Russian troops and restore the 2014 Ukrainian nation, including all of Crimea and the disputed borderlands. That, of course, is a legitimate aim, given Russia’s cruel invasion and targeting of civilian targets. But the expansive agenda poses additional paradoxes and dangers—and what is a militarily sound and necessary strategy can often go out the window when nuclear weapons come into play.

    Putin first invaded Ukraine during the appeasing years of the Obama-Biden Administration. His sudden rashness likely was in response to the 2011 American Libyan misadventure, the empty Obama “redline” rhetoric in Syria, John Kerry’s request for Russia’s reentry into Middle East affairs, and Obama’s eerie “Tell Vladimir” quid pro quo “deal” of “space” for ending missile defense, all caught on a hot mic in Seoul in March 2012.

    In any case, no major Western leader, and especially not Barack Obama, ever had talked of supporting a counteroffensive between 2014 and 2022 to reclaim what had been lost in 2014. That current Western-sanctioned aim apparently emerged in 2023 in response to Russian setbacks and deeper Western supply intervention. Of course, new agendas always arise as a legitimate part of war, and hinge on the pulse of the battlefield. But again, there was no Obama-Biden post-2014 initiative to rally the West then to reclaim what it aims to now.

    A final wrinkle is the massive U.S. and NATO military aid to Kyiv, which in direct shipments, intelligence, and training might already have exceeded $100 billion. If so, Ukraine, in the most recent 12-month period, would have enjoyed the third-largest military budget in the world, behind only the United States and China—and nearly double the annual defense expenditures of Russia itself.

    Stranger still, Ukraine and its Western allies claim that such a staggering sum is insufficient, given that Ukraine needs far more offensive weapons to cut off the Russian supply chain, originating, of course, from inside Russia. That offensive agenda apparently is now to include F-15 and F-16 fighters, the most sophisticated German, British, and American armored vehicles, billion-dollar anti-missile batteries, and the most lethal artillery and missile weapons in the world.

    Add it all up, and what we are witnessing is a once haughty and aggressive dictatorial Russia so far increasing bleeding and humiliated in Ukraine—in large part thanks to the largest shipments of Western military support to any single country since the Anglo-American Lend-Lease supply of Soviet Russia in World War II.

    These weapons, necessary to the defense of an invaded Ukraine, largely explain Russia’s enormous losses, which may have reached or exceeded 200,000 or more dead, wounded, captured, and missing.

    Once-loose talk of incorporating Ukraine into NATO is now de rigeur. Next followed the admission into the alliance of Finland, with its 800-mile-long Russian border, and soon likely Sweden, which likewise possesses an extremely capable military and is a neighbor as well of Russia.

    What does all this mean to a humiliated Russia?

    The Putin dictatorship, which asked for such comeuppance, is flailing. The Russian military has suffered global disgrace. Moscow blames Western powers for ensuring the collapse of its offensive in its own backyard. Western leaders, including the U.S. defense secretary, have boasted that the Ukraine war is a needed proxy conflict in which the West will further weaken Russia and curb its aggression.

    Now Ukraine is targeting sites inside Russia—as traditional military doctrine would advise if its aim is to expel all Russians from its pre-2014 borders. But again, that was not the policy of the West from 2014 to 2021. Many of today’s loudest hawks were strangely silent when the Obama Administration appeasement led to the 2014 Russian invasion, that then was shrugged off as a permanent fait accompli throughout the Obama years.

    Russia is facing internal chaos and war resistance. An ailing Vladimir Putin is reeling. And the result is the largest epidemic of nuclear trash talk since the dawn of the nuclear age, almost all of it blithely dismissed as empty saber-rattling by an ailing thug who got his just deserts.

    Perhaps. But consider that the epidemic of nuclear bluster has exceeded the usual “one-bomb state” nuclear nonsense from theocratic Iran.

    For example, in summer 2022, Putin repeatedly suggested that Russia reserved the right to use nuclear weapons if threatened with destruction. A few prominent Russians openly envisioned thermonuclear war. Alexei Zhuravlev, a member of the Russian parliament, boasted on Russian state television, “I will tell you absolutely competently that to destroy the entire East Coast of the United States, two Sarmat missiles are needed. And the same goes for the West Coast. Four missiles, and there will be nothing left.”

    In September 2022, as Russian fortunes in Ukraine became even more problematic, the threats increased. Former Russian lawmaker Sergei Markov warned of such intercontinental strikes with nuclear weapons, publicly warning London: “In Russia, there’s partial mobilization, and for your British listeners, Vladimir Putin told you that he would be ready to use nuclear weapons against Western countries, including nuclear weapons against Great Britain. Your cities will be targeted.”

    In March, the International Court at the Hague indicted Putin as a “war criminal” for the savageries unleashed in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In response, a number of prominent Russians once again threatened a nuclear response. The former president of the Russian Federation and current deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, warned the justices, “It’s quite possible to imagine a surgical application of a hypersonic Onyx from a Russian ship in the North Sea to The Hague courthouse. So, judges, look carefully to the sky.”

    Margarita Simonyan, of the Kremlin-funded broadcaster Russia Today, likewise threatened, “I’d like to see a country that would arrest Putin under the ruling of The Hague. In about eight minutes, or whatever the [missile] flight time to its capital.”

    When a mysterious unidentified drone hit the Kremlin in early May, there was a chorus of renewed calls for nuclear action: “After today’s terrorist act, no variant remains other than the physical elimination of Zelenskyy and his clique,” once more thundered the megaphone Medvedev. And the chairman of the lower house of parliament, Vyacheslav Volodin, warned the Ukrainian nation that he would demand “the use of weapons capable of destroying it.”

    Russia’s former space chief Dmitry Rogozin likewise tried to lower the threshold of nuclear weapons use: “According to our [nuclear] doctrine we have the right to use tactical nuclear weapons because that’s what they exist for . . . a great equalizer for the moments when there is a clear discrepancy in the enemy’s favor.” When still more likely Ukrainian drone bombers hit an upscale district of Moscow in late May last year, Medvedev again issued more of his nuclear bombast: “The West does not fully realize the threat of nuclear war . . . There are irreversible laws of war. If it comes to nuclear weapons, there will have to be a preemptive strike.”

    Accordingly, the threshold on nuclear trash-talking and preemptive war in general have been lowered elsewhere. In December 2022, Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, explicitly warned Greece that newly acquired Turkish missiles could strike Athens itself—unless “you stay calm.” As Erdo?an more unabashedly defined his threats: “When you say ‘Tayfun,’ [“typhoon”] the Greek gets scared and says, ‘It will hit Athens.’ Well, of course, it will . . . We can come down suddenly one night when the time comes.”

    In December 2022, Iran was again talking of strikes against the Israeli’s nuclear reactor with threats to “raze Tel Aviv.” Tehran released a video showing simulated nuclear missile attacks destroying Israel. China is now in on the act, bragging about the virtual end of a defiant Taiwan, and has issued nuclear threats against both Japan and Taiwan, should they alter Taiwan’s status.

    All this rhetoric again is treated with nonchalance in the West—and occasionally with near glee as welcome symptomology of Russia’s crackup and the impending implosion of the Putin regime.

    Maybe, maybe not.

    Yet with billion-dollar critical pipelines and dams blowing up, we are entering a new phase of the war, in which casual reference to hitting targets inside Russia, of nonstop bragging about the superiority of lethal Western weapons over their inferior Russian counterparts, of schadenfreude over the flailing Russians, and reports of horrendous losses to both Ukraine and Russia are all earning eerie nuclear backtalk that we have not heard in 60 years.

    Is it all just saber rattling, buffoonery, the last braggadocious mutterings of a failed regime? Cheap efforts to obtain deterrence that Russian arms have lost? Perhaps. And then again, perhaps not.

    The key to remember, however, is that there must be a near certainty that nuclear trash-talking is all cheap rhetoric, since the slight chance that it forewarns something deadly serious is . . . quite deadly, indeed.

    https://amgreatness.com/2023/06/11/the-pandemic-of-nuclear-trash-talk/

    • The Putin dictatorship, which asked for such comeuppance, is flailing. The Russian military has suffered global disgrace.

      Russia is facing internal chaos and war resistance. An ailing Vladimir Putin is reeling…

      Much as I like VDH, I’m shocked at his shallow regurgitation of Western propaganda. He fails completely to consider Russkiy Mir, the historic conception of the Russian state and its tradition of language, religion, culture and forms of governance.

      To trash its institutions because they fail to meet “enlightened” Western models is fashionable orientalism. That may suit a tiny elite who become pets of Rhodes scholars and opportunists who parrot foreign rhetoric, but to extrapolate from that is ridiculous.

      Ailing? Fantasies of articles published in the Atlantic, NYT, and WaPo. Shameful.

      Same goes for bleeding and humiliated.
      VDH’s source for the casualty count must be the Kiev ministry of truth. They include Russian-Ukrainians of the Donbass who are fighting against Kiev – for their own lives on their own land. In fact they’re victims of the coup regime.

      Most of the casualties have been private military contractors. And, as terrible as it seems to us, Russians don’t care all that much about the lives of mercenaries. Mobilization has been limited by the designation of “Special Military Operation”: that puts legal limits on recruiting and industrial production policies.

      If/when “War” is declared, there might be more domestic dissent, but that’s simply not apparent right now. Most Russians aren’t paying much attention to Ukraine. It’ll take a concerted propaganda campaign, perhaps translations of articles like this one.

      Russia could do a Grozny on Ukraine and the war would be over. Putin – the cruel dictator thug – is resisting calls to do just that.

    • Re-reading this…
      Has VDH been feeding directly from the toilet?
      MSM??????cnn??????????????????????…?
      I’m soooo disappointed.

    • Yes it is interesting, another interesting question is if arsonists set some or all of the fires what is their political affiliation? After all there are several groups that don’t like the US and Canada and are operating in North America.

  14. Bill Barr, You Can Sit Up There and Call This a Good Case – We’re Going to Shove This Up Your A$$!” – Bannon Goes Off on Bill Barr and Chris Wray for Hiding Biden Crime Evidence (VIDEO)
    By Jim Hoft Jun. 12, 2023 10:45 am44 Comments

    Rudy Giuliani joined Rita Cosby on Newsmax on Saturday morning to discuss the latest Congressional investigations into the Biden Family Crimes.

    During the interview Rudy Giuliani DROPPED A BOMB!

    Rudy, who warned the American public about the Biden Family’s international pay for play scandals years ago, told Rita Cosby that he has a witness who is the former chief accountant at Burisma who is willing to testify on the Biden crimes. She even has the Biden bank account transactions. She has the receipts!

    Rudy Giuliani: It’s extraordinary. I gave them one witness that any investigator would jump through hoops to go to. Gave them a witness who is a woman who was the chief accountant at this crooked company, Burisma. She was the wife of the former owner who died under suspicious

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/bill-barr-you-can-sit-up-there-call/

  17. Report: NYC Mayor Eric Adams to Cut Services for New Yorkers So Migrants Can Stay in Hotels Free of Charge

    New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) is set to funnel billions in local taxpayer money to the powerful hotel industry, providing more than 140 hotels with multi-million contracts to house newly arrived border crossers and illegal aliens. As a result, the city is considering cutting public services like meals for senior citizens and library hours for New Yorkers.

    Since the spring of last year, more than 74,000 border crossers and illegal aliens have arrived in New York City — most of which are being given free hotel rooms to stay, paid for by local taxpayers, under a plan imposed by Adams.

    The hotel industry, hit hard by the Chinese coronavirus pandemic in 2020, is profiting millions, potentially billions, from the lucrative migrant hotel contracts, Bloomberg reports. In many cases, records show that New Yorkers are being charged daily hotel rates that are well above the market rate.

    Take the Holiday Inn in Manhattan’s Financial District, for example, which is raking in $190 a night per room given to newly arrived migrants —

    https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fpolitics%2F2023%2F06%2F09%2Freport-nyc-mayor-eric-adams-cut-services-new-yorkers-migrants-stay-hotels-free%2F

  18. SUZANNE DOWNING: Knives Out For The Supreme Court
    Suzanne Downing
    on June 11, 2023
    The question of whether universities practice institutional racism is not merely hypothetical; the jury of public opinion knows full well that it occurs under the protection of Affirmative Action law.

    This issue finds itself at the center of one of the most contentious U.S. Supreme Court decisions set to be announced this month. The justices are currently deliberating whether race can factor into the university admissions process as they wrap up their caseload for the summer.

    Whatever the decision, it’s bound to make waves. Just as with the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court in June 2022, any ruling that appears to weaken Affirmative Action policies, often championed by left-wing factions, could spark fierce backlash.

    This could potentially lead to another summer marked by social unrest, with defenders of race-based admissions pulling out the long knives for the Supreme Court, calling it inherently racist.

    Advocates of the Marxist theory of Continuous Revolution know a decision like this one could serve as the perfect rallying cry for their cause, demonstrating their view that the court itself needs a revolutionary overhaul. They will argue for packing the court with another justice. They may use the decision to hound Justice Clarence Thomas, who is one of the greatest civil rights advocates on the court, and the oldest member, one who they hope to retire under pressure.

    At the core of this issue are affirmative action programs at the publicly funded University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Harvard University, which have been accused of implementing racially biased admissions criteria that discriminate against individuals of Asian descent

    https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2023/06/11/suzanne-downing-knives-out-for-the-supreme-court/

  19. I have no idea what most of the letters stand for in LGBTQQIAAP2S+ and neither do its adherents because it is hard to keep up with the ever-changing founding principles of this religion. Well, it was built on sand, wasn’t it?

    I do know that gay pride month 2023 has been a huge loser for LGBTQQIAAP2S+ Marxism despite its status as a media-approved political movement that is funded by Corporate America and promoted by the government. Boycotts of Bud Light and Target are taking hold and showing Corporate America the price it could pay for peddling LGBTQQIAAP2S+ instead of their products.

    LGBTQQIAAP2S+ has turned Americans off.

    The Washington Post reported, “A 57% majority of adults said a person’s gender is determined from the start, with 43% saying it can differ.”

    Actually, sex is determined at creation by the Lord who creates each of us as a male or a female.

    The story said, “The Pew Research Center found 60% last year saying one’s gender is determined by the sex assigned at birth, up from 54% in 2017. Even among young adults, who are the most accepting of trans identity, about half said in

    https://donsurber.substack.com/p/why-lgbtqqiaap2s-is-losing

  20. June 11, 2023
    “God is Not the Author of Confusion”: Charges Dropped Against Protester Who Read Biblical Passages at Pride Event

    YouTube
    The Berks County District Attorney’s Office has confirmed that it is dropping charges against Damon Atkins after the preacher was arrested citing the Bible in protest of an LGBTQ Pride event in Reading, Pennsylvania. The only reason that the charges were dropped is that a third party videotaped the scene and disproved the account of the arresting officer. Ironically, Atkins was reciting 1 Corinthians 14:33 that begins “For God is not the author of confusion.” That role appears to rest with the Reading police, which processed a wildly exaggerated account of the encounter.

    Atkins was arrested on June 6 for “disorderly conduct, engaged in fighting.” However, a video of Atkins’ encounter with the police officer disproved the officer’s statement, as acknowledged in a press release.

    For many, the case is likely reminiscent of the arrest of the woman for praying near an abortion clinic in Britain. Fortunately, this case was dropped.

    Berks County Commissioner Christian Leinbach admitted that the arrest of Atkins was “unlawful” and “could open the City of Reading and their police department to legal action.”

    In the YouTube video, Atkins is shown talking with Sgt. Bradley McClure as he proclaims Bible verses. McClure clearly wants him to stop but Atkins notes “this is public property.”

    McClure tells him “Let them have their day.”

    That is a fair sentiment but it did not convince Atkins who responded “Oh, I’m respecting.” McClure makes no head way in the conversation and walks away before turning back as Atkins resumes preaching. He says “That’s it, you’re done” and arrests him to the applause of people in the Pride Event.

    What is notable is that, absent the videotape, Atkins would have had a difficult time refuting that he engaged in fighting. What is equally notable is the lack of any public statement on the repercussions for an officer making such a false charge. This was clearly a protest that was protected under the First Amendment. The violation of Atkins’ rights should result in something more than a shrug and dismissal of the charges

    https://jonathanturley.org/2023/06/11/god-is-not-the-author-of-confusion-charges-dropped-against-protester-who-read-biblical-passages-at-pride-event/

  21. “TRANTIFA”…UN Investigator and Republican Lawmakers Warn Of New Violent Extremist Group [VIDEO]
    By Patty McMurray Jun. 12, 2023 12:00 pm109 Comments

    On March 27, nine innocent people, including six children, were shot and killed in their Christian elementary school in Nashville, TN, by a violent young woman pretending to be a man.
    100 Percent Fed Up reports – To date, the shooter’s manifesto has not been released. The key to the reason for the mass murder of nine innocent people may never be known to the public, as it may cause the public to look at transgenderism as a mental illness instead of perfectly normal mainstream behavior.

    Only last week, we reported about a “trans” man pretending to be a woman who violently stabbed his own father to death, while the media completely ignored the story, and those who reported about the tragic murder refused to identify the accused killer as a “trans” person.

    From our report:

    34-year-old trans man Michael (Norah) Horwitz has been charged with the violent stabbing death of his father, Dr. Abbey Horwitz, a dentist in Virginia Beach, VA.

    With the exception of 100 Percent Fed Up and a few other truth-telling publications, there has been very little coverage of this unimaginable violent crime.

    Dr. Abbey Horwitz – Facebook photo
    The transitioning biological male’s 68-year-old father, who he allegedly stabbed to death, was found by police in his home, where he suffered multiple stab wounds. He was pronounced dead by EMS at 9:13 am. The stabbing reportedly began just before 9 am on Saturday morning.

    Dr. Abbey Horwitz and his wife Brenda – Facebook photo
    The accused murderer is reportedly on suicide watch in the prison where he is currently being held in the men’s section of the Virginia Beach Jail on second-degree murder charges.

    Accused murderer Michael (Norah) Horwitz
    The accused murderer was arraigned via Zoom this morning.

    Michael showed his support for Black Lives Matter in his Facebook profile.

    The accused murderer also appeared to be an artist, sharing many of his drawings, including this one, showing his support for Black trans people.

    On June 1, we reported about an Oklahoma parent who is suing her school district after her 15-year-old daughter was “severely beaten” in the school bathroom by a 17-year-old transgender student.

    The lawsuit, which was filed on May 25 by the victim’s mother Theresa Gooden, states that the attack occurred at Edmond Memorial High School on October 26, 2022. It alleges that the transgender student had “made previous threats of violence” against the victim and had previously been searched for weapons by police following these threats.

    In the police report filed after the bathroom assault, the transgender student is referred to as student “A” and the victim is referred to as “V.”

    According to the report, student “A” approached “V” in the girls’ bathroom to ask a question. “V” did not want to speak to “A,” who then grew angry and asked if she “wanted to fight,” then proceeded to punch her in the face. The attacker, a biological man, then carried on hitting and punching the victim who was unable to fight back due to the differences in strength.

    One friend of the victims reportedly tried to step in and help but was hit twice in the face.

    Per the police report, the victim sustained injuries to her “eye, face, and head with a possible concussion.”

    The Superintendent of Edmond Public Schools, Angela Grunewald, gave a statement about the incident shortly after it occurred, suggesting that the school did not even know that the assailant had been born as a male.

    “You may ask yourself how can that happen?” said Grunewald. “It’s hard to explain, but if a parent comes in and enrolls their child as a certain gender, and when you look at that child by all social norms they look and present themselves as that gender, it’s not something you would question.”

    The trans student had reportedly been enrolled as a woman without a birth certificate, which is not a requirement to begin high school.

    However, the lawsuit alleges that Edmond Memorial continued to allow the trans student to use the women’s restroom even after they learned of their true gender.

    On March 29, 100 Percent Fed Up wrote about a planned “Trans Day of Vengeance” in Washington, D.C.
    The mainstream media yawned.

    On May 20, we reported about yet another violent attack that took place at a Capitol building by far-left activists protesting legislation against “gender-affirming care” for minors.
    After a spate of violent outbursts at state capitols across the country by left-wing activists who were protesting against bills that restrict abortion and so-called ‘gender-affirming care,’ multiple arrests were made at the Nebraska Capitol on Friday.

    At least six were arrested as protesters threw bloody tampons onto the House floor to protest the abortion bill and stopped debate, leading to charges of obstructing a government operation and disturbing the peace.

    Perhaps most shockingly, one 33-year-old woman was arrested after allegedly punching a police officer in the chest as multiple people were having a verbal altercation with police.

    Republican Gov. Jim Pillen said that he plans to sign both bills that restrict abortion and ‘gender-affirming care.’

    Police have reportedly been clashing with protesters all week as they have used unruly and unlawful tactics to attempt to pressure legislators into voting against the legislation.

    On March 13, we reported about a mom who had to go into hiding after the woke mob came after her for exposing videos showing trans man pretending to be a woman, Jeffrey Marsh, who appears to be grooming small children in his popular social media videos where he speaks directly to sexually confused children, asking them to reach out to him directly.

    Now, the Daily Mail is reporting that UN investigator Reem Alsalem told them ‘screaming trans activists’ were a worrying and ‘increasing trend’ that must be tackled.

    The portmanteau of ‘trans’ and ‘ANTIFA’ is exactly what you’d expect — far-left transgender activists willing to intimidate, harass, and even use violence to advance their radical new ideas about gender.

    Much like ANTIFA, they’re not a formal group of card-carrying members, with the term ‘Trantifa’ coined on social media to highlight the strong transgender presence within the anarchist outfit.

    Julio Rosas, an author who recently testified to House lawmakers about leftist extremism, cites a series of trans-extremist incidents, including trans shooter Audrey Hale’s bloody rampage in a Christian elementary school in Nashville.

    “Trans activists gravitate towards these very far-left groups because they share their anarcho-communist type ideology,” Rosas said.

    “They view the US as systemically racist, that it’s subjugated queer people, and that states passing laws against child mutilations is part of a trans genocide. And they’re fighting back.”

    He described a radicalized group of trans activists concentrated on the East and West coasts who coordinate via messaging apps to stage rallies, confront rivals and push their ideas into the mainstream.

    The FBI declined to comment on whether it was monitoring violent trans activism, but Rosas, Alsalem and some Republican politicians refer to ever-more incidents that make headlines.

    Instead of addressing the threat Republicans and the UN investigator are warning about, the Biden regime and the dirty AG Merrick Garland will likely continue their focus on the Catholic church or Christians praying outside of Planned Parenthood…

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/trantifa-un-investigator-republican-lawmakers-warn-new-violent/

  22. Some good news, Mark Pitman, a Federal judge in Texas, has ordered the FDA to accelerate the release of COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Data to just 2 years, mid 2025. Hopefully there will not be too many more people injected by then.

    To me it was shocking that the Tuskegee Experiment lasted from 1932 – 1972

    Researchers told mostly poor black men they were being treated for “bad blood”
    The US Government Public Health (todayCDC) working with the Tuskegee Institute began a study of the natural history of syphilis on 600 black men. There were 399 men with syphilis and 201 without.

    INFORMED CONSENT WAS NOT COLLECTED FROM THE MEN. They received free meals, free medical exams and burial insurance.

    Men died, wives were infected and children were born with syphilis. No treatment was available. How did this despicable program go on for 40 years?

    Fast forward 40 years, what will the COVID-19 vaccine experiment teach anyone?
    Millions of people worldwide died, were vaccine injured, miscarriages, sterilized young people………NO INFORMED CONSENT COLLECTED….. governments told citizens the vaccines were safe and effective.

    Doctors, nurses, healthcare workers, anyone who did not comply with the coercion were publicly ridiculed, lost their jobs, could not collect unemployment. They were labeled racists misogynists, superspreaders, by the Prime Minister of Canada. He even asked if they should be tolerated. history will not be kind to Justine Trudeau and many, many other world tyrants.

    The main question will probably be “How could this have been allowed?”

  23. Joe Biden To Group of LGBTQ+ Supporters: This is Most Courageous Group “I’ve seen in anytime in the recent past”…Forgets 13 Military Members Murdered By Terrorists While Protecting Airport In Hostile Afghanistan With No Support [VIDEO]
    By Patty McMurray Jun. 12, 2023 12:50 pm0 Comments

    Joe Biden’s White House and military leaders have made the conscious decision to place the sexual preference of individuals above the respect, honor, and courage of our US troops.

    100 Percent Fed Up reports – To celebrate “Pride Month,” the US Air Force shared a photo of a member of the Air Force saluting the LGBTQ+ flag:

    Last week, we reported about how Joe Biden is hosting what is allegedly going to be the White House’s “largest Pride celebration in history” in honor of Pride Month. Joe Biden is also set to announce several new measures to “protect” the LGBTQ community, including countering book bans and increasing mental health resources.

    White House Domestic Policy Adviser Neera Tanden hailed the event as “the largest Pride celebration in White House history.”

    “This year, we’re seeing a disturbing surge in violent threats against LGBTQ community organizations, LGBTQ Americans are being targeted for who they are, and that, simply put, is discrimination,” Tanden said.

    Biden also announced his administration’s new initiatives to protect the LGBTQ+ communities, which included the announcement of a new coordinator in the Department of Education Office of Civil Rights who will take charge of an anti-book ban initiative.

    Apparently, this “anti-book ban coordinator” will inform school districts on how banning sexually explicit reading material negatively impacts LGBTQ kids and how it is a violation of civil rights laws.

    One Biden administration official told reporters, “Across the country, our nation is facing a spike in book bans, and these efforts disproportionately target the LGBTQI+ community as well as communities of color. These aren’t just attacks on the rights of LGBTQI+ Americans; they are part and parcel of a coordinated attack on our democracy.”

    Now, banning pornographic books that sick adults so desperately want our nation’s youth to read is a “coordinated attack on our democracy,” according to the Democrats.

    The Department of Homeland Security is also expected to announce a new “dedicated safety training and resources” for community groups, and the DOJ and Department of Health and Human Services will join forces on new advisories to help mental health care providers support transgender youth.

    The administration is also expected to unveil new initiatives to care for LGBTQ kids in foster care, as well as to combat youth homelessness in the LGBTQ community.

    Over the weekend, our imaginary “Commander-in-Chief” stood in front of a group of LGBTQ+ individuals at a pride event and called them the most courageous group that he’s seen “at any time in the recent past.”
    Watch:

    Perhaps Joe has already forgotten about the 13 US military members who were slaughtered in Afghanistan at the start of his “presidency” as they were following orders to defend the airport in Kabul and were slaughtered by terrorists.
    These are the 13 US Service members who were murdered by terrorists in Afghanistan:

    13 US Service members who were murdered by terrorists in Afghanistan
    Those 13 dead soldiers knew full well that they were left unprotected by failed US military leaders under the direction of Dementia-Joe, but they fought with their last breath to protect the airport so Americans and Afghan allies could be safely extracted from the terror nation.
    That is the definition of REAL COURAGE, Joe.

    Not this…

    Joe continued his pride tour with a bold statement about how he is “Proud to have ended the ban on Tranjester people!”
    Transjester people?

    The icing on the cake was on Friday afternoon, after pushing LGBTQXYZ crap down the throats of our military members, Joe couldn’t even find his way off the stage after an appearance in N. Carolina and appeared not even to know why he was on the stage in the first place.

    It’s bad enough that we have a so-called “Commander in Chief who can’t find his way off the stage, but it’s quite another when he’s fulfilling the radical ideology Barack Obama simply didn’t have time to implement.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/joe-biden-group-lgbtq-supporters-this-is-most/

  24. WAYNE ROOT: Trump Winning Again. Trump’s Poll Numbers Exploding UP. Here’s What Clueless Democrats, DC Swamp & Deep State Will Never Understand
    By Assistant Editor Jun. 12, 2023 1:05 pm0 Comments

    By Wayne Allyn Root

    I told you so.

    I’ve spent two and a half years now reporting Democrats get away with murder, while Republicans face life-in-prison for jaywalking.

    I spent last week on my TV and radio shows, and in my syndicated newspaper column, reporting that Trump would go UP in the polls after his latest criminal indictment.

    Beef Company CEO: “I’ll Shut Down the Company Before We Ship a Single Bag With mRNA-Injected Meat”

    I was right on both counts.

    Trump is UP in the polls. And he faces life-in-prison for an offense than no one understands, no one cares about, everyone knows is a bunch of bogus B.S. and legal mumbo-jumbo.

    The latest CBS poll (after the latest indictment) puts Trump over 60% in approval. And up by almost 40 points over his nearest GOP rival Ron DeSantis. Trump is running away with the race.

    I’m betting his lead in the general election over Biden will go up as well.

    Yes, I’m telling you Trump goes up each time he’s indicted. You know why he keeps going up? Because the American people aren’t blind, deaf and dumb. Because we may have been born yesterday, but we weren’t born in the past 15 minutes.

    Let me explain why the American people will never accept any of these charges against President Trump (whether technically it’s a crime, and he’s convicted, or not).

    I’m a street-smart, common-sense SOB (son of a butcher). I’ll always think like my blue-collar father, the butcher. Common sense average Americans know B.S. when they see it. This whole case is B.S.

    The media can put all the “legal experts” they want on TV to explain what a terrible and serious crime Trump has committed. And the average American voter will never care. They will grow angrier and angrier at our own government. Because this doesn’t pass “the smell test.”

    A) It doesn’t affect any of us. Trump didn’t hurt one American by “mishandling” a bunch of papers. How does that hurt me? How does that effect my life? It doesn’t.

    B) Trump himself didn’t benefit. He didn’t sell the papers. He didn’t show them to foreign enemies. They were left in boxes in his basement, and bathroom shower (according to the fake news media). So, who cares?

    C) Everyone does it. Obama has millions of pages of classified documents in his Obama Presidential Library that he never returned. We’ve all seen the classified docs on the floor of Biden’s garage. Even Pence had classified docs. I’ll bet every single U.S. Senator does too. This is a ridiculous waste of time.

    D) Everyone can see the new Democrat motto is, “If you can’t beat ‘em, jail ‘em.”

    E) President Biden has committed TREASON. He sold out the American people. He sold us all down the river. He made tens of millions, maybe hundreds of millions, at our expense. Who cares about a bunch of papers in a box at Trump’s home? No one.

    The best and simplest way to explain how average Americans see this is…

    Your neighbor on the right committed murder. Yet no one has arrested him.

    Your neighbor on the left is a pedophile. Yet no one has arrested him.

    Your neighbor directly across the street has committed a $100 million fraud. Yet no one has arrested him.

    But you drove 66 MPH in a 65 MPH zone, and a heavily-armed FBI SWAT team just invaded your home today to take you away in handcuffs and leg irons to a maximum security prison for murderers.

    Make sense to you? Does this make sense to anyone, anywhere?

    Anyone with common sense can see this is what just happened. The American people can see the difference between what’s “legal”…and what matters. This doesn’t matter to anyone except insane, obsessed Democrats with “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”

    It’s tantamount to speeding 66 MPH in a 65 zone. It’s like jay-walking. It’s like betting $100 on an NFL football game before most states legalized it.

    So please stop putting “legal experts” on TV to tell us how this is a crime. If it’s a crime, it’s a meaningless crime. It’s a load of horse manure. And we don’t care.

    But the opponents of Trump have no clue what butchers, bakers or candlestick makers out here in the real world think.

    All of these ridiculous, bogus, hyped-up-by-the-media indictments will push more and more average working Joes and Janes into Trump’s camp.

    Because common sense tells them if this man Trump is so hated by the whole government…the whole DC Swamp…the whole Deep State…the whole political class…the whole legal system…the whole DOJ and FBI…the whole mainstream media…if he’s such a threat to these people who rule our lives…

    If they’re desperate enough to turn jaywalking into a crime to end all crimes…and try to put Trump in prison-for-life…

    Trump must be doing something right. He must really have the goods on these creeps. He must be the guy wearing the white hat. He must be on our side.

    And their final common-sense conclusion will be…

    We all need to make this Trump guy President again in 2024 to see what all these terrible, evil, power-hungry, control-freak, psychopaths are so afraid of.

    Break out the popcorn. This is gonna be fun!

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/wayne-root-trump-winning-again-trumps-poll-numbers/

  25. Trump Attorney General William Barr Reveals He Had Intimate Knowledge of Biden Ukraine FD-1023 Investigation in Summer 2020; Failed to Tell American People Joe Biden Was Credibly Accused of Taking $5 Million Foreign Bribe as Vice President
    By Kristinn Taylor Jun. 12, 2023 2:35 pm330 Comments

    Trump Attorney General William Barr revealed in an interview with Fox News Sunday host Shannon Bream on Sunday that he was intimately involved in the Biden Ukraine bribe FD-1023 investigation in the summer of 2020. Bream did not press Barr on why he failed to inform the American people in the months leading up to the presidential election that Joe Biden had been credibly accused of taking a $5 million bribe from the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma when he was vice president to influence U.S. foreign policy in Ukraine and get a prosecutor who was investigating Burisma fired at the time Biden’s son Hunter was serving on the board of Burisma.

    The apparent purpose of Bream’s interview was to have Barr attack President Trump over the classified documents prosecution. The questions about the FD-1023 were an afterthought at the tail end of the interview with Bream not mentioning that Joe Biden himself was accused of taking a $5 million bribe or that it involved Burisma.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/trump-attorney-general-william-barr-reveals-he-had/

  26. 17:34 Edward Dowd explains how he thinks we will be invaded by aliens at the depths of the coming recession/depression, perhaps in 2024. While he says this with tongue-in-cheek, he goes on to say it will be a reason for governments to print even more fiat units than during C-19. This printing will be done using–taa-daa–CBDCs. The world will unite in defense around the alien threat in support of whatever medical/transport/financial restrictions are inflicted upon us under the alien narrative.

    I suggest people keep alien story files starting now for future reference:

    https://youtu.be/dmj5Hbn16hA

    • What about Schwab, Yuval Noah Harari, Billy Gates, where were they born LOL —they all seem like freaks to me. Cold, lacking any depth, cyborgs perhaps. Evil, lacking any sensitivity, ve have vays monsters. It is long past the time when the billions of people worldwide shut this clown show WEF – UN – WHO – EU down for the greater good.

  27. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/white-house-reporters-repeatedly-grill-karine-jean-pierre/

    White House Reporters Repeatedly Grill Karine Jean-Pierre About Biden’s Root Canal Procedure (VIDEO)
    By Cristina Laila Jun. 12, 2023 3:27 pm27 Comments

    A White House reporter on Monday asked questions about Joe Biden’s so-called root canal procedure.

    Biden missed College Athlete Day on Monday morning due to an emergency ‘root canal,’ according to the White House.

  28. POS Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey on Twitter Censorship and Twitter Staff Stifling Free Speech: “I Think They Acted with Fairness. I Think They Generally Did the Right Thing”
    By Jim Hoft Jun. 12, 2023 2:20 pm136 Comments

    Twitter founder Jack Dorsey went on with Breaking Points recently. Dorsey told the hosts that he was “surprised at the level of government engagement” with the social media platform. He then added that, “I think they acted with fairness. I think they generally did the right thing.”

    The Twitter Files reports revealed how Twitter targeted, censored, banned, and deleted conservative accounts and content. Of course, Dorsey was aware of this. The targeting NEVER went against the far left or the fake news who pushed false narratives about Trump and Russia for years.

    Twitter also censored, banned, and blocked accounts that questioned the bizarre, unscientific COVID19 policy and vaccines.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/pos-twitter-founder-jack-dorsey-twitter-censorship-twitter/