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Thursday, February 13, 2025

An extremely disturbing video circulated two months ago featuring a Biden EPA political appointee talking about how they were tossing gold bars off the Titanic, rushing to get billions of your tax dollars out the door before Inauguration Day. The gold bars were tax dollars, and tossing them off the Titanic meant the Biden Administration knew they were wasting it. Following this revelation, during my meetings with members of Congress, I made a very important commitment to them and to the American people, which I reiterated at my confirmation hearing that if confirmed, I would immediately get a full accounting. Fortunately, my awesome team at EPA has found the gold bars. Shockingly, roughly $20 billion of your tax dollars were parked at an outside financial institution by the Biden EPA. This scheme was the first of its kind in EPA history, and it was purposefully designed to obligate all of the money in a rush job with reduced oversight


What if I were to ask you what are the most repressive governments around the world when it comes to freedom? Who suppresses freedom of speech and enterprise the most? You'd surely say North Korea. Iran. Russia. But what if I told you Germany should be on that list? That France should be on that list"and many other EU countries? Oh, and that Canada, where I'm from, should be on that list, too? I'm not saying those countries are the same as the fear-based, authoritarian societies of North Korea and Iran. Not by a long shot. But I am suggesting that some of the free countries are not, in fact, living up to their promises of liberty. And that many allies of the U.S. have gotten in the habit of using the government against political enemies or disfavored companies.


Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Speaking to the Democratic National Committee, which met to select its new leadership this weekend, the outgoing chair, Jaime Harrison, attempted to explain a point about its rules concerning gender balance for its vice-chair race. "The rules specify that when we have a gender-nonbinary candidate or officer, the nonbinary individual is counted as neither male nor female, and the remaining six officers must be gender balanced," Harrison announced. As the explanation became increasingly intricate, Harrison's elucidation grew more labored. "To ensure our process accounts for male, female, and nonbinary candidates, we conferred with our [Rules and Bylaws Committee] co-chair, our LGBT Caucus co-chair, and others to ensure that the process is inclusive and meets the gender-balance requirements in our rules


Thursday, February 06, 2025

LONDON (TNND) " A self-guided tour at the U.K.'s Science Museum accuses popular building toy Lego of reinforcing "heteronormativity." The accusation is part of a self-guided tour titled Seeing Thing Queerly, which allows visitors to "discover some of the objects on display at the Science Museum that tell stories of queer communities, experiences, and identities." Among items such as airplanes and replica chickens, the tour accuses Lego of taking an anti-LGBT stance. "Like other connectors and fasteners, Lego bricks are often described in a gendered way," a description on the museum's website reads. "The top of the brick with sticking out pins is male, the bottom of the brick with holes to receive the pins is female, and the process of the two sides being put together is called mating." "This is an example of applying heteronormative language to topics unrelated to gender, sex and reproduction,"


Today, the NCAA announced the Board of Governors voted to update the Association's participation policy for transgender student-athletes following the Trump administration's executive order. The new policy limits competition in women's sports to student-athletes assigned female at birth only. The policy permits student-athletes assigned male at birth to practice with women's teams and receive benefits such as medical care while practicing. This policy is effective immediately and applies to all student-athletes regardless of previous eligibility reviews under the NCAA's prior transgender participation policy


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" He ended with analogizing Marquis de Lafayette's sword to AI weapons"

He was equivocating the importance of both in their respective eras. But, I agree with you. It's not a very good analogy.

" He hilariously criticized using AI's use curtail the spread of disinformation by our allies after crying for it to be unfettered, and then turned around and said we can't let authoritarians misuse it. All the while saying that Europe (Germany) had no right to their own laws and autonomy when it comes to dealing with its own history. He ridiculously called out two examples of what exactly I am not sure. It was silly. It wasn't logical. It was an emotional ploy."

Disinformation/misinformation is a vague catch- all to describe wrongthink that justifies censorship.

" Then there was his remark about how we, the United States, are going to educate our children, through our schools, to be the best and brightest in the world on this technology. You know, while we do away with DOE and focus on indoctrination and non-value stupid culture war nonsense"

the DO Ed was created by Congress. It can't be eliminated without new legislation and that should happen. It can be reorganized and restructured and absent legislation it absolutely should. The culture war nonsense came from the left - transing confused kids, males competing in girl's sports and having unfetter3d access to girl's private spaces, DEI where white kids are taught to be ashamed of themselves due to their skin color (Asians too) and black and brown kids are taught to resent white kinds as their oppressors, policing language, etc.

" Arrogant, demanding compliance, contradictory, hypocritical, and belittling anyone that won't agree with the trump policy."

It wasn't a demand it was an appeal, an attempt to persuade. That's how it came across to me.

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