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NOTABLE QUOTES

Michael Anton contributor to American Greatness: Well, these days if you even suggest that the United States might be trending in a bad direction, here come the conservative enforcers. It’s not merely that they think our constitutional system is, or ought to be, sacrosanct. On that, I agree with them. It’s that they believe—against the Founders, and against all experience of history—that once implemented, it can never be lost. They defend every perversion, distortion, corruption, and topsy-turvy reinterpretation of that system as if it were the system itself.

Tucker Carlson: “Wokeness is not just a political ideology, it’s not just something annoying that emerged on college campuses that we can ignore. It’s a state religion that supplants actual religion which is also being destroyed. There is a reason the strip bars and the liquid stores and the weed dispensaries stayed open under COVID, but the churches didn’t. If you don’t connect those dots you’re missing it. While faith in God and commitment to family isn’t fascist, attacking these things in the pursuit of power is.”

Auguste Meyrat contributor to The Federalist: Marxism is an idea with the power to ruin even the most prosperous communities. It must be aggressively rejected by every generation.

Alex Newman senior editor for The New American: Deep State totalitarians are now targeting your mindset and worldview as they move toward the Great Reset and the New World Order. This includes propaganda, lies, “nudging,” emotional manipulation, and brainwashing masquerading as “education.” World Economic Forum chief Klaus Schwab openly said “mindsets” must be transformed.

Steve Jalsevac co-founder and managing director of LifeSiteNews.com: Many FBI, CIA, NSA, Homeland Security and other law enforcement and intelligence agents, other civil servants and military personnel – who still have a conscience, and we should assume most do – have to be encouraged to NEVER participate in any way in these on-going, unconstitutional, criminal actions against the people. We don’t just need them to not obey these unjust orders: we need them to actively help us save the United States from those who are obviously committed to destroying it from within.

Joe Hoft co-founder of Gateway Pundit: Sixty-three additional documents or photographs without classification markings were taken from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort than previously listed by the FBI, according to an updated inventory list. The revised inventory was submitted to the federal court in southern Florida on orders from U.S. District Judge Raymond Dearie, a Reagan appointee who was inserted into the case as a special master, or an independent third party to handle disputes and other matters.

Pete McArdle contributor to American Thinker: The only truly effective way to avoid getting an FBI jackboot placed firmly upon your neck is to vote every Deep State Democrat and RINO out of office this November. That’s the start of reining in the now thoroughly disgraced agency.

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Clews: Why America Needs Trump-DeSantis 2024

A unique and unprecedented political movement is sweeping America. A movement that could determine the outcome of the next presidential election. And, if successful, change the course of American history. The movement is spearheaded by a highly respected, longtime political leader with a decades-long track record of effective political movements. Constitutional Rights PAC Chairman Larry Ward launched “We Want Don Ron 2024 ” a movement calling on President Donald Trump and Governor Ron DeSantis to join forces and take back the White House in 2024. […] “It would give us not four, not eight, but 12 years of powerhouse, conservative leadership in the White House. That is the time required to undo the 12 years of Obama’s radical leftist leadership, which continues to plunge America further into darkness and decay. Twelve years would create lasting political, societal, and legal changes not so easily undermined by the left.” During Trump’s term, DeSantis would have ample time to . . . […] The sole reason establishment Republicans would shy away from such a strong ticket is for fear of palatability. Ask yourself, palatability to whom? Since when do conservatives adhere to identity politics, and specifically, affirmative action at the ballot box?

McCaan: Donald Trump and the Future of Western Civilization

The panoply of heads of state leaders at the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II highlighted the dire reality that there are at present no resolute statesmanlike leaders capable of reversing the accelerating decline throughout the whole of the Western world, thereby averting the very real possibility of a global conflict with an allied Communist China and Russia. The West, in particular the United States, is currently populated with patronizing, oblivious, and callous leaders more concerned about themselves and globalism than the people and the future of their respective countries. Nor do they acknowledge that Western Civilization, because of its roots in Christianity, has increased freedom, wealth, health, comfort and life expectancy to unprecedented levels throughout the world.When virtually all Western nations pursue the same ruinous policies, and their ruling classes have the same self-absorbed characteristics, decline and collapse from self-immolation is inevitable.

HISTORY 101

Anton: What Does Fidelity to Our Founding Principles Require Today?

What does fidelity to our founding principles require today? Let me begin to answer that question with a quote—perhaps a familiar quote to some or most of you. But it’s apt, and there’s always a chance some of you haven’t heard it, and/or that others can use a refresher. The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of his revolution, the traditionalist is already defending it as part of his tradition. Thus we have two great types—the advanced person who rushes us into ruin, and the retrospective person who admires the ruins. He admires them especially by moonlight, not to say moonshine. Each new blunder of the progressive or prig becomes instantly a legend of immemorial antiquity for the snob. This is called the balance, or mutual check, in our Constitution. Those words were spoken by G.K. Chesterton, a Brit, in 1924. He was speaking of the British Constitution, not ours. But the words strike me as especially apt to our situation. What have our conservatives conserved? But before we answer that—hint: almost nothing—let’s first ask: . . .

THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE

Cox: Regulation Nation

It is clear to me that we have become a “Regulation Nation.” And we are governed by an “Administrative state.” What do I mean by that? I mean that we are being governed by regulations issued by administrative agencies, instead of being governed by laws duly passed by our elected officials.

Why does that matter? Because agencies are run by unelected, government bureaucrats who are beholden to nobody but the person who appointed them. They don’t care what the voters think or want or don’t want. They don’t have to care. They don’t need your vote to stay in power. They only need to appease the politician who appointed them. If they just follow the yellow brick road, they will land on the other side of the rainbow. Let me give you a few real-life scenarios. or starters, my quarantine camp lawsuit is a perfect example.

GLOBALISM & TRANSHUMANISM (HUMANS 2.0) ARE INEXTRICABLY LINKED

Newman: Deep State Targeting Your MIND, Literally

. . . according to whistleblowers, Rick Stengel, former Obama undersecretary of state, operates an outfit called the Good Info Foundation, that is paying influencers big money to lie to Americans. Speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations, Stengel boasted of the alleged benefits of using propaganda against Americans. People like Obama regulatory “czar” Cass Sunstein, meanwhile, have advocated the use of “nudging” to shift people’s views and behavior. British authorities have been doing it for a long time. Working with the UN, John Podesta–a key operative with the Clinton family and Obama–also spoke of the need to change people’s mindsets.

Read more/Watch the 19:38 minute video: https://thenewamerican.com/deep-state-targeting-your-mind-literally/

Wauck: Globalism: The Ecclesial Front

By now I think everyone is aware that Jorge Bergoglio is a staunch supporter of globalist transhumanist ideology. He regularly meets with public perverts and promotes them within the organization he heads. How to designate that organization is a bit of a conundrum—the Modernist Church, the Conciliar Church, Hoax Catholicism? Because of the lingering prestige of the institution of the Catholic Church which Bergoglio apes—dressing in white and so forth—his support for Soros’ globalist Open Society war on what once was Western civilization has importance to the extent that it helps to disguise the real enemy from well intentioned but poorly informed people. Cardinal Gerhard Mueller, former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith—sacked by Bergoglio—recently provided an interview to the site InfoVaticana. Mueller goes into a critique of what’s going on on the Ecclesial front of the globalist movement which, I hope, will be of interest to readers. Before excerpting the interview (drawing from Rorate Coeli) it may be well to provide my own attitude—at least in part.

RULE OF LAW: CANCELLED

Kelly: Fair Trials Are Impossible for January 6 Defendants

Odds are jurors in Douglas Austin Jensen’s trial took longer to fill out the verdict forms than they took to decide his fate. After only a few hours of deliberations on Friday, 12 residents of the nation’s capital found Jensen guilty on seven counts related to his involvement in the Capitol protest on January 6, 2021. Jensen, an alleged QAnon follower, infamously confronted Capitol police officer Eugene Goodman inside the building that afternoon; he potentially faces decades in prison for convictions on impeding law enforcement officers and obstruction of an official proceeding, a dubious nonviolent felony punishable by up to 20 years in jail. NBC News reporter Ryan Reilly, who covers all things January 6, noted in a tweet that “An ongoing issue with these Jan. 6 jury trials is that you barely have time to write the story on closing arguments before the jury returns their guilty verdicts.” Reilly then swooned over the Department of Justice’s “flawless” track record before D.C. juries. […] Judges on the D.C. District Court have denied every change of venue motion, absurdly insisting residents of a city that voted 93 percent for Joe Biden in 2020 can be fair and impartial. Further, judges claim . . .

McDonough: Stalin, and New York’s Attorney General Letitia James, are Proved Wrong

Show me the man, I’ll show you the crime. Lavrentiy Beria, Stalin’s Secret Police Chief One favorite technique of mass-murdering communist dictators is using their country’s “justice” system to destroy their political opponents. This technique is needed when one knows that even when the vote is rigged one might not be able to beat that opponent at the ballot box. One cannot let the peasants get the dangerous idea that the opponent is popular with the people. Beria’s rationale could arguably be that that since everyone, no matter how upstanding, has done something illegal at some point in their life, one can eliminate anybody one wants while claiming the mantle of the selfless justice warrior by investigating relentlessly until one discovers that one crime. That is just one interpretation, another is that words and acts can be twisted to fit the desired mold. Either way, the rationale requires that one abandon the most basic principles of a fair justice system, the principle that everyone is innocent until proven guilty. […] In 2018, while running for New York Attorney General, Letitia James stated, while giggling (very professional): “[W]e’re definitely going to sue [Trump]. We’re going to be a real pain in the ass. He’s going to know my name personally.” Unfortunately, being a pain in the ass or getting Trump to “know [her] name personally” is not the job of the AG. In September 2018, also before the election, Letitia, who has apparently forgotten that it is not the job of the AG to prosecute one’s political opponents, stated, “I will never be afraid to challenge this illegitimate president [Trump who is] ripping families apart, threatening women’s most basic rights … when our fundamental rights are at stake. From the Muslim ban, to efforts to deport immigrants, to denying transgender students the ability to choose whatever bathroom they want, rolling back regulations to protect our planet, colluding with foreign powers, putting profits over people, dividing us in ways we haven’t seen in generations.”

2022 ELECTIONS

Miller: To Our Conservative and Moderate Friends

Are you considering voting for a Democrat, or not voting for a Republican because you think they’re crazy? If you’re someone who votes according to the “candidate I like,” rather than the political party, consider what RESULTS your vote will bring to America, Arizona, and your family. A candidate’s likability and respectfulness mean nothing if their actions bring destruction. You may like a Democrat as a person, and they may seem “reasonable” compared to the Republican alternative, but gone are the days when you could assume both parties have the same goals for America with different ideas to achieve them. Today’s Democrats have the opposite vision for America than Constitutional Republicans. […] Look at what Democrat ideas have done to your daily reality: . . .

Justice: Jan. 6 Committee Decides To Move Final Show Trial Hearing Even Closer To Election Day

The House Select Committee on Jan. 6 postponed Wednesday’s hearing to move the panel’s latest show trial closer to Election Day. In a joint statement to The Washington Post, committee leadership blamed inclement weather brewing 1,000 miles away for the decision to postpone. […] “Their challenge: Making the public care deeply — and read hundreds of pages more — about an event that happened more than a year ago, and that many Americans feel they already understand,” The Washington Post reported. […] “We have far more evidence to share with the American people and more to gather,” Cheney said.

The Right Scoop: “This means war!” – Democrats turn to violence against Republicans ahead of midterms

Democrats on Capitol Hill and in the media have turned to violent rhetoric against Republicans ahead of the midterms. Grabien put together a supercut showing Democrats calling for violence against Republicans with their over-the-top rhetoric, and accusing Republicans of turning to violence.

Watch the Democrat Party’s 2:16 minute call to violence: https://therightscoop.com/this-means-war-democrats-turn-to-violence-against-republicans-ahead-of-midterms/

(Fortified not rigged? You decide.) REPOST Ball: The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election

This is the inside story of the conspiracy to save the 2020 election, based on access to the group’s inner workings, never-before-seen documents and interviews with dozens of those involved from across the political spectrum. […] That’s why the participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream–a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information. They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it. And they believe the public needs to understand the system’s fragility in order to ensure that democracy in America endures. Sometime in the fall of 2019, Mike Podhorzer became convinced the election was headed for disaster–and determined to protect it. […] It turned out Podhorzer wasn’t the only one thinking in these terms. He began to hear from others eager to join forces. The Fight Back Table, a coalition of “resistance” organizations, had begun scenario-planning around the potential for a contested election, gathering liberal activists at the local and national level into what they called the Democracy Defense Coalition. Voting-rights and civil rights organizations were raising alarms. […] Protecting the election would require an effort of unprecedented scale. [NOTE: In some instances, in Democrat run states, election law was changed unconstitutionally bypassing state legislatures.)

LaChance: Republican Tiffany Smiley Gaining On Democrat Patty Murray In Tightening Washington State Senate Race

This is probably not a race that Democrats expected to be competitive, but it is and Smiley is within striking distance. If Smiley pulls out a win here, it will send shockwaves through the political world.

FAUCI’S VIRUS

Judicial Watch: New Documents Reveal COVID-19 Vaccine Studies Used by HHS were Conducted in China

Judicial Watch announced today that it received 115 pages of records from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) revealing previously redacted locations of COVID-19 vaccine testing facilities in Shanghai, China. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had claimed the name and location of the testing facilities were protected by the confidential commercial information exemption of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). […] The newly unredacted documents reveal the following Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine studies’ locations: . . .

Nevradakis Ph.D.: CDC has 3 days to release data on COVID vaccine injuries collected via V-safe app, court rules

A federal court in Texas is giving the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention until Friday to release the first batch of data on adverse events following COVID-19 vaccination collected by the agency via its V-safe app. […] Historically, VAERS has been shown to report only 1% of actual vaccine adverse events.

Billingsley: Covid Conspiracy Uncovered

“The potential for conspiracy is really on the other side. The conspiracy is [former National Institutes of Health director Francis] Collins, Fauci, and the established scientific community that has acted in an antithetical way to science.” So said Dr. Robert Redfield, former director of the Centers for Disease Control, in a September 15 interview with Paul Thacker’s Disinformation Chronicle newsletter. According to Redfield, “Everyone had to agree to the narrative” enforced by Dr. Anthony Fauci and other health officials that the COVID-19 virus came from a “wet market” in Wuhan and not the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). And Dr. Fauci “clearly misled Congress,” about funding dangerous gain-of-function research at the WIV.

Wauck: Remdesivir Induced Emergence Of Covid Variants

Ask yourself: Off the top of your head, does that sound like a good thing or a bad thing? But then, who should care? Big Pharma is making Big Money and that’s good for the country—or something like that. By the way: Do you trust your doctor? […] Here’s the summary from the article: . . .

Bleau: CDC Drops Universal Masking Recommendation for Healthcare Workers

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) quietly dropped its universal masking recommendation for healthcare workers last week.

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA REGIME: TRANSFORMING FOREIGN POLICY

Rafizadeh: Thanks to the Biden Administration’s and EU’s Appeasement, Iran’s Mullahs Go Big on Cyberattacks

Not only is the Biden administration is turning a blind eye to the Iranian regime’s terror activities and plots abroad, it has also been completely silent about the mullahs’ escalating cyberattacks. The small country of Albania appeared to have more courage and stronger leadership than the Biden administration: it recently sent a strong message to the Iranian regime after Iran’s cyberattacks against Albania in July. Albania severed diplomatic relations with Tehran and ordered Iranian diplomats and embassy staff to leave within 24 hours. Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama stated in a video: . . .

Gertz: Chinese, Russian warships spotted sailing near Alaskan island

The first Chinese ship spotted was the guided-missile cruiser Renhai and was about 75 miles north of Kiska Island, at the far western end of the Aleutians in the Bering Sea. Two other Chinese naval vessels and four Russian navy ships were also part of the joint Chinese-Russian convoy that sailed in a single formation, according to a statement put out Monday by the Coast Guard.

CHINA: AMERICA’S MORTAL ENEMY

Hawkins: Report: China Readying Push Against ‘Global Gun Proliferation’

The Global Times notes that China’s international gun control push is part of the Firearms Protocol, which was originally introduced at the U.N. General Assembly in 2001. It is a push China is preparing to undertake in earnest now. “China is fulfilling its domestic legal procedures to ramp up ratifying the Firearms Protocol, a key step in implementing the global security initiative and maintaining international peace and stability amid the global threat of gun proliferation, said Chinese Foreign Ministry on Monday,” according to the Global Times, . ..[…] . . . Chinese dictator Xi Jinping used a speech at the Boao Forum for Asia to urge the world to join the Global Security Initiative to “oppose the pursuit of one’s own security at the cost of others’ security.”

Bhole: ‘It’s a mass poisoning’: Images show rainbow-colored fentanyl disguised as Skittles and Nerds CANDY – as ex-DEA official warns parents that dealers are peddling the drugs to kids on social media

A drug that’s contributed to the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans last year has been found hidden in candy packaging – and could be peddled to young children via social media, experts say. The DEA said drug traffickers have expanded their inventory to sell fentanyl – a synthetic opioid 50 times more potent than heroin – in a variety of bright colors, shapes and sizes. A recent seizure in Connecticut found 15,000 fentanyl pills stashed in Skittles and Nerds packaging, and with Halloween just weeks away, the DEA is urging parents to be vigilant. The agency have sent a stern warning to parents to educate themselves as children prepare for the spooky season, with a former specialist warning that ‘this is not a drug issue, it’s a mass poisoning.’

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA REGIME: TRANSFORMING AMERICA

Hazard: Biden dangerously draining Strategic Petroleum Reserve like ‘campaign credit card, industry warns

President Biden is recklessly draining the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve to insulate his party from the political fallout of high oil prices before the upcoming midterm elections, claims the president of the U.S. Oil and Gas Association, Tim Stewart. Stocks of crude oil in the SPR fell 6.9 million barrels in the week ending Sept. 16 to 427.2 million barrels, the lowest level since August 1984, according to Department of Energy data. […] “Let me put it in perspective if I could,” he added. “At the current rate, the U.S. is selling more oil out of its emergency reserves than the production of most medium-sized OPEC countries like Algeria or Angola. We’re selling twice as much per day than we’re producing out of Alaska. That puts us somewhere between Exxon and Conoco in terms of … the impact we’re having on the daily supply — and this is happening without new oil going into replace it.”

Phillips: Democrat Joe Manchin gives in and PULLS energy plan from spending bill to avert shutdown

Sen. Joe Manchin has asked Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to remove his pipeline permitting reform bill from a continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government. Schumer, D-N.Y., had agreed to attach Manchin’s pet project to a bill to fund the government in exchange for his vote on the Inflation Reduction Act. But amid bitter opposition from both Republicans and the progressive left, Manchin realized leaving in pipeline language could potentially trigger a government shutdown. ‘It is unfortunate that members of the United States Senate are allowing politics to put the energy security of our nation at risk,’ the West Virginia Democrat said in a statement. ‘A failed vote on something as critical as comprehensive permitting reform only serves to embolden leaders like Putin who wish to see America fail.’

Oliva: Biden Threatens Conservation Efforts By Appointing Gun Control Activist To Hunting And Wildlife Council

The White House appointed gun control activist Ryan Busse to the Hunting & Wildlife Council, an advisory committee that assists the Department of the Interior (DOI) and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) in crafting policies on issues including wildlife conservation, wildlife management and public lands access for hunting, recreational shooting and fishing. Busse was listed as an “unaffiliated” shooting sports adviser. That couldn’t be further from the truth. Busse is a partisan gun control zealot.

Hartley: A Brave New Financial World

How can the Federal Reserve help you today? A few years ago, such a question would have been rather odd. The Federal Reserve was created a little over a century ago as an independent government agency with a rather small mandate: manage the money supply. It was an important, but limited, role. In normal times, the Fed existed to ensure the money supply grew at a reasonable rate. In times of crisis, the Fed would become the Lender of Last Resort, lending funds to solvent banks to get them through a crisis. But, times have changed. The Fed, no longer tied to the mast, is here to take your order. This new world is magnificently described in Lev Menand’s The Fed Unbound: Central Banking in a Time of Crisis. With impeccable brevity and precision, Menand details how the Fed has abandoned its historical mission, appropriating to itself a new mandate and powers of dubious legality. None of this has been done in secret. Its actions have been front page news, Congress has aided and abetted the unbinding, and as the quotation at the outset notes, it was all predictable in 1990.

DEMOCRAT PARTY’S MARXIST PLAYBOOK: WOKE IDENTITY POLITICS

Spencer: James Madison’s Home to Become Site of Massive White Guilt Monument

“We want to make this a national monument to the ‘Invisible Founders,’” said the Rev. Larry Walker, a trustee at Montpelier, the home of James Madison, father of the Constitution, in announcing plans to build a national slavery monument right on the grounds of Madison’s home. The Montpelier board is planning on a massive scale: “Our memorialization project is not going to be limited to a bench and a plaque,” Walker declared, as the board compared the projected monument to the Lincoln Memorial. If this thing is built, future visitors to Montpelier will come away with one overwhelming message: James Madison was an evil man who enslaved other human beings. Board chairman James French showed the photo of the Lincoln Memorial in order “to illustrate…our desire to create a national monument for the legacy of those who were enslaved.” […] That’s right. The woke have won the culture, or want us to believe that they have, and so they’re recasting American history as one of racism, white supremacy, colonialism, and other assorted evils. MacKinnon added: “A monument honoring America’s slaves is a worthy goal. But the only reason to build it at the home of James Madison is if you aim to deny, demean, and dismiss him by focusing on his weaknesses and not his massive contributions.”

Meyrat: ‘Uncle Tom II’ Shows How Marxism Decimated Black Communities

It’s no secret that, as a group, black Americans are not exactly thriving. Despite the decades of social welfare policies, activist campaigns, and changing public attitudes, the black community suffers the most dysfunction of any racial group in the U.S. There’re two popular explanations for this. Those on the left usually blame this situation on systemic racism and unequal opportunities. Those on the right tend to blame the collapse of the family and decadent culture. Both these views are explored in the documentary “Uncle Tom” directed by Justin Malone and produced by Larry Elder. But there’s a third major factor that has hurt the black community, and it is the focus of the new sequel “Uncle Tom II.” Yes, historical setbacks and the proliferation of broken homes have much to do with the current struggles of black Americans, but there’s also something else that affected the course of black liberation: Marxism.

As “Uncle Tom II” illustrates, nearly all black liberation movements of the past century have been co-opted by Marxists.

THE DEMOCRAT LED WAR ON CHILDREN

Rufo: SEXUAL DISTURBANCE

The teachers union promotes a how-to guide for “anal sex,” “bondage,” “sadomasochism,” and “fisting.” The national teachers union’s “LGBTQ+ Caucus” has created a website and badge for public school employees that promote non-binary identities, a how-to guide for “queer sex,” and the idea that “transgender men can get pregnant.” According to local reports, the National Education Association and its local affiliate in Hilliard, Ohio, have been providing staff in the Hilliard City School District with the QR code-enabled badges, which point to the “NEA LGBTQ+ Caucus” website and resources from gender activist organizations including Scarleteen, Sex, Etc., Gender Spectrum, The Trevor Project, and Teen Health Source.

McCotter: Woke Youth’s State-Sanctioned Rebellion

Though I know the cliché has lost its cache, I am, in fact, old enough to remember when youthful rebellion was organic, autonomous, and anti-establishment. Such is no longer the case amongst today’s woke youth, who have been indoctrinated to serve as tools of the leftist establishment. Woke youth’s “rebellion” is not organic. This is not to say that woke youth’s rebellious streak isn’t innate. But their youthful “outrage” is conditioned; and their rebellious acts are channeled at progressivism’s opponents by the Left’s civil religion and its high priests—namely, the deep state, the Democratic Party power-brokers, woke corporations, and the dinosaur media and social media.

Scarry: Here’s Some Required Reading For Gender-Confused Teen Girls Before They Remove Their Breasts

The New York Times ran a chipper story Monday about the glamour of teenage girls removing their breasts to, as the paper put it, “better align their bodies with their experience of gender.” Surely there’s no better way to enhance a child’s life than to indulge their thoroughly considered ideas about “the experience of gender.” I can’t think of any! […] Furthermore, the article highlighted plastic surgeon Sidhbh Gallagher who promotes her specialty in mutilative transgender surgeries straight to impressionable young people on TikTok. “Her feeds often fill with photos tagged #NipRevealFriday, highlighting patients like Michael whose bandages were just removed,” the article said. “On her office windowsill sits a framed nameplate with one of her best-known catchphrases on TikTok: ‘Yeet the Teet,’ slang for removing breasts.” […] Gallagher should probably be in prison, but if teenage girls distressed about their sex are going to be led to believe even for a moment that hacking off their breasts, rendering them permanently incapable of ever breastfeeding, is a good idea, there’s some literature that might interest them. First, The Atlantic’s extensive report in 2018 on children experiencing gender dysphoria. One young girl profiled by the magazine was 14-year-old “Claire” . . .

EDUCATION INDOCTRINATION

Fitchett: Students recite woke pledge during white coat ceremony

The University of Minnesota Medical School (UMMS) class of 2026 recited an oath during the white coat ceremony that included references to anti-racism, climate advocacy, commitment toward indigenous ways of healing, and collaboration with political and social systems. A handout provided at the ceremony indicated the oath was written by the oath writing committee, which comprised fifteen medical students in the class of 2026. […] “We recognize the inequities built by past and present traumas rooted in white supremacy, colonialism, the gender binary, ableism, and all other forms of oppression,” the oath continued.

Leesman: Virginia Students Stage Walkouts Over New Transgender Policies

Students in Virginia are planning walkouts this week over new guidance from the commonwealth’s Department of Education that requires transgender students to participate in sports programs and use restrooms, locker rooms and other facilities that align with their biological sex versus their “gender identity.”

OTHER NEWS

Fleetwood: 56 GOP Members Beg Their Colleagues To Do Anything To Stop Biden’s Destructive Agenda

Fifty-six congressional Republicans are urging their colleagues in the House and Senate to vote against a wasteful, stopgap spending measure that would fund the federal government — and a number of Democrats’ wasteful wish-list items — through the middle of December. In a letter sent to his Republican colleagues in the House of Representatives, Texas Rep. Chip Roy explained how Congress’s current spending habits are “fueling rampant inflation and funding the Biden administration’s radical agenda,” which includes “empowering authoritarian bureaucrats at agencies like the IRS and FBI, implementing open-border policies that are threatening [American] communities, imposing COVID-19 mandates that shut down schools,” and “forcing [U.S.] military servicemembers out of their jobs, and advancing self-destructive energy policies.”

Holiday: Judicial Watch Sues Secret Service for Records on Hunter Biden’s Handgun Dumped Into Public Trashcan

Explaining the lawsuit, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said, “The Secret Service and the Biden administration apparently are in cover-up mode for Hunter Biden. Whether its Hunter Biden’s laptop, his business practices and travel, or these documents related to the careless disposal of a gun in a dumpster near a high school, this administration continues to put up unlawful roadblocks to any effort to investigate the activities of the Biden family, particularly Hunter.”

Smith & Talcott: The US is investigating Smartmatic over allegations of bribery in the Philippines

The investigation does not concern the 2020 U.S. election and is not looking at whether any votes were changed, according to a company lawyer and two other people familiar with the Justice Department inquiry. But it adds an unexpected turn to one of the highest-stakes legal actions to come out of Donald Trump’s failed effort to stay in power, Smartmatic’s $2.7 billion lawsuit against Fox News over the unfounded election conspiracy theories that spread on the network. Federal investigators are conducting an intensifying inquiry, which began in 2019 under President Trump, into whether Smartmatic violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, according to the two sources and a document connected to the case reviewed by Semafor. That law bars U.S. citizens and companies from paying bribes to foreign officials.

Sarah D.: ‘Your money is not safe at Citi’: Thread on Citi’s insane policy with regard to their customers is legitimately ‘terrifying’

Citi’s a ginormous company, and a whole lot of people and businesses bank with them. And right about now, that whole lot of people and businesses may want to reconsider. […] Yeah, um, that’s an understatement. We’re not exactly huge fans of The Bulwark’s Will Saletan, but he’s got a thread that’s definitely worth your time — and, potentially, your money. Check it out: . . .

INTERNATIONAL

Duffy: King Charles Can’t Serve Globalist Elites And The British People

Charles is the face of the WEF’s “Great Reset,” which is the reason people can’t afford groceries or heat. […] Unfortunately, this idea that the modern monarchy is “beyond the reach of private ambition” appears to have died with the queen. Her son, King Charles III, has abandoned all semblance of impartiality and has aligned himself with globalists cloaked as environmental activists who don’t care about the welfare of Charles’ people or any of us common folk, for that matter. During the 2020 Davos World Economic Forum (WEF), then-Prince Charles officially launched “The Great Reset,” declaring that the Covid-19 pandemic “offers an unprecedented opportunity to rethink and reset the ways in which we live and do business.” The prince, who traveled to Switzerland on a private jet, stated, “We need nothing short of a paradigm shift, one that inspires action at revolutionary levels and pace.”

Roy: The Duchess of Decline

Meghan Markle obsesses us because she is a symbol of our willful degeneration. The queen is dead; long live the king. The queen is dead, but the world media wants to make it about cable actress and fashion blogger Meghan Markle. This includes everyone from Markle’s low-IQ lackeys, who have used the opportunity (following her example) once again to belabor the subject of the royal family’s supposed racism, to her haters, whose blinding outrage propels them to seek the devil (the duchess) under every rock. How did we get here? Why does Meghan Markle affect everyone so? Why can’t I log on without seeing her face? […] It’s no secret that monarchs have been reduced to symbolic and ceremonial icons in today’s Europe. And that’s the only level on which they are relevant in public life. But what do they symbolize in the hearts of millions? They represent sovereignty, tribal loyalty, and an organic and socially accountable relationship with the state and its institutions—all of which have no place in our alienated, deracinated, and technocratic modern Western world. Meghan Markle isn’t just the in-law from hell. She’s fashioned herself as the symbolic antithesis of monarchy. She represents the hatred of hierarchy and order.

Sykes & Teeman: Meghan Markle Was ‘Narcissistic Sociopath’ Who Wanted to Be Rejected by Royals, Former Aides Say

Things got so bad between Prince Harry, Meghan Markle and their royal staff that they called her a “narcissistic sociopath.” They also reportedly said on repeated occasions: “We were played.” The fresh revelations are contained in the second extract from the London Times royal correspondent Valentine Low’s new book, Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown, in today’s Sunday Times. The group of former staff even came up with a name for themselves, the “Sussex Survivors’ Club”; their key members were private secretary Sam Cohen, communications chief Sara Latham, and assistant press secretary Marnie Gaffney. In the first extract published Friday, Low detailed the alleged bullying of staff undertaken by Meghan (and Harry)—denied emphatically by them—which reportedly left their staff “broken” and “shaking with fear.”

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