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Rod Thomson contributor to American Greatness: The reality is that an awful lot of people are above the law—they just all happen to be Democrats and leftists or members of Democratic voting blocks.

John Hinderaker contributor to PowerLineblog.com: The Democratic Party is making war on Republicans, conservatives, and America. All rules have been abrogated, all traditions trashed, all sense of fairness gone. It is past time for conservatives to quit being nice guys. The Democrats’ assault can be stopped only by a healthy dose of their own medicine. Let’s start investigating prominent Democrats with an eye toward bringing criminal charges against them. Most of America’s district attorneys, those that have a political affiliation, are no doubt Republicans. Likewise, most attorneys general are Republicans. They all should think about Democrats who can be charged in their jurisdictions.

Matthew Boose contributor to American Greatness: Like all totalitarian cults, the trans cult preys upon the youth, and drives a wedge between parents and their children. It demands unyielding obedience and affirmation of its false creed, which burns with sulfurous hatred of Christians and the faith that was once the beating heart of the West. Society is paying the price for having tiptoed around these hectoring tyrants over the past seven or eight years. People have become too afraid to speak the truth: “trans people” need humility, not “rights.” It is beyond the power of society to satisfy them, as their grievance is with God, not man.

David Eisenberg contributor to The Imaginative Conservative: the self-absorption that is so prominently on display in the present day precludes such transcendence. It involves an inflation of the self that results in the eclipse of all phenomena transcendent to it. The question that materializes in this age is not so much, what do I matter, but what does anything else matter but me? In the ego-centric cosmos, the I is the center around which all else revolves.

David Strom contributor to Hot Air: There are still a few sane academics in America, but they are a dying breed. Critical theory has so invaded the academic world that there is almost no point in trying to have a conversation with a university professor. It’s not that they are just wrong about what they believe and what they spout. It’s that they don’t believe that there is an underlying concrete reality that exists outside their own heads.

Danile Greenfield contributor to Frontpage Magazine: Of course, there’s potentially a whole lot more to AI than ChatGPT or a handful of others that are making the news, but the fundamental point remains correct. Software does what we tell it to do. Weaponized AI can be potentially quite deadly, but we’re the only ones who can weaponize it. The ‘sorcerer’s apprentice’ expectation that technology will come to life and run amok, from Frankenstein onward, is a parable about chaos and hubris that tells us a good deal about ourselves, but little about our artificial inventions. Guns don’t jump off the shelves and shoot themselves. AIs won’t kill us because of their own motives, but because we tell them to do it. In the short term, they’ll be used to manipulate us and lie to us. Our tools are mirrors of ourselves. AI is just another mirror and a particularly apt one because it can copy us more closely than any living creature has before.

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(From 11/22/2022) Showalter: More about that famously ‘impartial’ Trump prosecutor, Jack Smith

After a long speech droning on about “impartial and determined,” “integrity,” and “highest standards of professionalism” of the appointment of Jack Smith as special prosecutor for Getting Trump, Attorney General Merrick Garland sounds a little phony about that right now. Latest news about Smith from Newsweek:

Newly appointed Special Counsel Jack Smith is married to a documentary filmmaker who worked on a 2020 film about former first lady Michelle Obama and donated to President Joe Biden‘s 2020 campaign. […] . . . somehow, he seems to go after only Republicans in his storied career as a prosecutor — a man who, as Garland claimed, would “independently manage an investigation and prosecution” “in the public interest” with “commitment to both independence and accountability” and “indisputably guided only by the facts and the law”; a “veteran career prosecutor”; a former “chief of the public integrity section”; a man with a “reputation as an impartial and determined proscutor”; a man who will “follow the facts wherever they lead”; a man of the “highest standards of professionalism” — “with integrity,” of course, because it’s the “right thing to do,” and Smith is the “right choice to handle this matter in an even-handed and urgent manner.” This from the guy who led a prosecution that was so flawed against Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell that the Supreme Court, . . . […] Worse still, Smith was the actual instigator to the IRS’s attack dogs, led by the infamous Lois Lerner, who fired the starting pistol for the IRS’s persecution of Tea Party groups in 2012, . . .

DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: CANCEL THE FIRST AMENDMENT

Fox News: Tucker Carlson: This is the most shocking attack on free speech in our lifetimes

Watch the 8:39 minute monologue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ManPOFooYXo

Revolver.news: Gulag America: Biden DOJ convicts Doug Mackey for anti-Hillary memes… faces up to 10 years in prison…

As we’ve reported earlier, this is the most important First Amendment case in the country. The Biden DOJ is attempting to codify the disinformation scam into the criminal code. Mackey’s meme conviction, for which he could face up to 10 years in prison, represents the complete breakdown of the rule of law and constitutional norms in this country—we are in uncharted territory. Mackey’s attorney has released the following statement: “This case presents an unusual array of compelling appellate issues. I am optimistic that the conviction will be vacated.” As we said in a previous article on this case, the stakes couldn’t be higher: . . .

Mackey: Here’s all the ways you can donate to the Doug Mackey “Ricky Vaughn” legal defense

I need your help to fully fund my legal appeal.

Here are all the ways you can support the cause in one easy guide.

Meme Defense Fund: Make a charitable, tax-free donation to the Meme Defense Fund at memedefensefund.com, or send a check or cash donation made out to “American Cause—Meme Defense—10321 Hunt Farm Ln, Oakton, VA 22124”

Send a personal gift via physical cash, check, or money order made out to Douglass Mackey and mail it to “Doug Mackey, PO Box 6332, Delray Beach, FL 33482”

Please also send prayers, as we need those as much, or more, as we need your financial support.

GLOBALISM (GREAT RESET) & TRANSHUMANISM (HUMANS 2.0) ARE INEXTRICABLY LINKED

War Room: Joe Allen: Artificial Intelligence Poses Existential Threat—White House is Clueless in Response

Watch the 21:30 minute interview: https://rumble.com/v2fozm2-joe-allen-artificial-intelligence-poses-existential-threatwhite-house-is-cl.html

Yudkowsky: Pausing AI Developments Isn’t Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down

An open letter published today calls for “all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.” This 6-month moratorium would be better than no moratorium. I have respect for everyone who stepped up and signed it. It’s an improvement on the margin.

I refrained from signing because I think the letter is understating the seriousness of the situation and asking for too little to solve it. The key issue is not “human-competitive” intelligence (as the open letter puts it); it’s what happens after AI gets to smarter-than-human intelligence. Key thresholds there may not be obvious, we definitely can’t calculate in advance what happens when, and it currently seems imaginable that a research lab would cross critical lines without noticing. […] Here’s what would actually need to be done: . . .

Lara Logan: American Globalists Elitists Have Gone To War Against the Populist Nationalists

The American version of the global elites have now gone outright war with the populist nationalist movement.

Watch the 8:25 minute interview: https://rumble.com/v2fp0ha-laura-logan-american-globalists-elitists-have-gone-to-war-against-the-popul.html

Greenfield: Two Takes On AI

This Time Magazine op-ed on AI has been making the rounds with its clear and forthright message of “we’re all gonna die.” […] And a much more down-to-earth one. This week, US Senator from Connecticut Chris Murphy said on Twitter that ChatGPT taught itself chemistry of its own accord without prompting from its creators. Unless Sen. Murphy knows something that hasn’t been made public, ChatGPT as we know it can do no such thing. To be clear, if ChatGPT or any other GAN sought out and learned something on its own initiative, then we have truly crossed over into the post-human world of Artificial General Intelligence since demonstrating independent initiative would unquestionably be a marker of true human-level intelligence. But if a developer tells a bot to go out and learn something new and the bot does as it’s asked, that doesn’t make the bot intelligent.

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: RADICAL TRANSFORMATION OF FOREIGN POLICY

Sundance: Zelenskyy Sends “New Democracy” Jackboots to Shut Down Orthodox Christian Religion in Ukraine

While the United States is sending hundreds of billions to fund the new form of “western democracy” in Ukraine, the outlawing of political opposition, the shutting down of non-state-controlled media, and now the cancellation of religion has a historical rhyming to it. Leftists in the general sense are supporting these new constructs within this newly defined version of democracy, and the western corporate media seem to be subservient to the fiats. In the latest development, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has sent the state police to shut down Metropolitan Pavel Lebed, the leader of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Pavel Lebed is now under house arrest. Pavel’s sin against the Ukraine regime is described by Politico: . . . […] History tells us that churches and organized religion are always the first targets of the totalitarian state, because they represent a unity of purpose and assembly that is not reliant on the totalitarian state. In all communist regimes, religious worship is generally banned.

Read ore: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/04/01/zelenskyy-sends-new-democracy-jackboots-to-shut-down-orthodox-christian-religion-in-ukraine/

BOOK REVIEW: THE INDICTMENT: PROSECUTING THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY & FRIENDS FOR CRIMES AGAINST AMERICA. CHINA, AND THE WORLD By FRANK GAFFNEY

The American Conservative: The Indictment: Prosecuting the Chinese Communist Party and Friends for Crimes Against America, China, and the World

The CCP explicitly seeks America’s destruction and has long used devastating, albeit pre-violent, “unrestricted warfare” against us – with help from their friends among our “captured elites.” Now, the Chinese Communists appear poised to add a shooting war against Taiwan, other American allies and partners and probably us. We need a serious, multifaceted and sustained campaign to inform and mobilize the American people, and motivate their elected representatives to action. playbook for the campaign is at the publishers: The Indictment. The book enumerates: . . .

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: RADICAL TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICA

Nolte: Democrat Party’s Prosecutorial Abuse Crusade to Rig 2024 Election Has Only Begun

There are 19 months between now and Election Day 2024. Trust me, what the Democrats have in store to rig the 2024 presidential election through prosecutorial abuse has only just begun. To begin with, you have to remember just how vile and depraved the Democrat party has become. To appease their demonic base, Democrats like Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi openly advocate for child mutilation, gay porn in elementary schools, mentally ill men invading the girls’ locker rooms, and exposing little kids to the kind of depraved drag queens who want to expose themselves to kids. What’s more, to hold on to a U.S. Senate seat, Democrats were willing to kill John Fetterman. Additionally, Democrats have openly aligned with the rioters, murderers, and cop killers in Antifa and Black Lives Matter. Democrats are so eager for power and to replace Americans with more compliant illegal immigrants, they are willing to flood our country with the poison of fentanyl and enable sex trafficking, including the trafficking of children.

Waldman, M.D.: Obamacare: Still Killing People 13 Years In

On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed his namesake legislation, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) colloquially Obamacare, into law. On March 23, 2023, the Biden-Harris administration celebrated the ACA’s thirteenth anniversary. They should be holding a funeral, not a celebration party. The ACA has caused countless avoidable American deaths. They are due to Washington’s conflation of a piece of paper (an insurance policy) with a professional service: medical care. Xavier Becerra, the Health and Human Services secretary, astonishingly missing during the entire COVID health crisis, declared the following: “As we celebrate the anniversary of the Affordable Care Act today … this law has lived up to its name, providing a way for Americans to access quality, affordable health coverage.” […] Note the conflation of care with insurance. Washington wants you to think having the latter means you get the former, presumably when you need it. Otherwise, what good is insurance? Having insurance does not mean getting timely care. In fact, there is a seesaw effect: as the number of people with government-provided insurance increases, access to care decreases.

DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: A CORRUPT & DANGEROUS MEDIA INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

Fred T: ABC News segment proclaims it’s OPPONENTS of sick drag shows that are the REAL groomers

As conservatives and sane people across the United States have taken a stand against the transgender mafia’s enforcement regime imposing explicit sexual performances on children under the guise of “drag shows”, an ABC News segment on Saturday concluded that it’s actually those parents and people of conscience that are the REAL threat to children. The REAL groomers. RuPaul Drag Race winner Alexander “Sasha Velour” Hedges Steinberg was interviewed by gay ABC reporter Gio Benitez for Good Morning America on Saturday and it was a farce as you can imagine.

ANOTHER CORPORATION CHOOSES TO AFFIRM MENTAL ILLNESS & CANCEL WOMEN

Barkoukis: Conservatives Stunned by Bud Light’s Latest Partnership

Boycott calls are growing for Bud Light after the company became the latest to go woke by embracing trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney. The transgender activist showcased how the beer company sent packs featuring the influencer’s face to celebrate what Mulvaney claims has been “365 Days of Girlhood.”

“Happy March Madness!! Just found out this had to do with sports and not just saying it’s a crazy month! In celebration of this sports thing @budlight is giving you the chance to win $15,000! Share a video with #EasyCarryContest for a chance to win!! Good luck! #budlightpartner,” Mulvaney wrote on social media.

A second video of Mulvaney drinking Bud Light in the bathtub was also posted. Twitter users were stunned by how far left the company has gone.

Read ore/Watch the short videos: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2023/04/03/bud-light-n2621461

THE MEDICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX HAS CANCELLED THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH

Boston Children’s Hospital director calls for drastic increase in capacity for gender surgeries for minors

The director at Boston Children’s Hospital said medical school students should learn transgender surgeries in residency programs

Brock & Duggan: ‘Age Is A Number’: Gender Clinic Offered Puberty Blockers To Kids As Young As 8, Surgery Referrals At 14, Records Show

The Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania (CHOP) Gender and Sexuality Development Program offers medical interventions to children as young as eight as part of the medical transition process, according to documents reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Clinic employees have publicly advocated for certain cross-sex surgeries for minors, along with hormones and puberty blockers, and have downplayed the seriousness of the infertility which is a known consequence of some of these interventions.
“I think it’s really important to remember that age is a number,” clinic co-founder Dr. Linda Hawkins said. “But as an adolescent medicine and developmental specialist, we know that where a child is cognitively and socially is more important than that exact number of their age.”

(Skin color over merit) Do No Harm: Standing Up Against Woke Ideology

Watch the 8:55 minute interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81xsB5sWhxk

PEACEFULLY & PATRIOTICALLY HAVE YOUR VOICES HEARD

Sibarium: Federal Judges Say They Won’t Hire Clerks From Stanford Law School

James Ho and Elizabeth Branch, the circuit court judges who announced last year that they would no longer hire clerks from Yale Law School, are adding Stanford to the boycott. “We will not hire any student who chooses to attend Stanford Law School in the future,” Ho, who sits on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, said Saturday evening in a speech to the Texas Review of Law and Politics, a transcript of which was reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. The clerkship moratorium, like the one on Yale, will exempt current law students. […] Though Steinbach is on leave, Stanford has ruled out disciplining the hecklers, who by Stanford’s own admission violated the school’s free speech policy. “Rules aren’t rules without consequences,” Ho said. “And students who practice intolerance don’t belong in the legal profession.”

Crawford: Sorority Members Sue University After Trans Woman Granted Membership and Allowed Into Sorority House

Members of a sorority at the University of Wyoming are suing the school for admitting a transgender woman into their house who was seen multiple times secretly watching them and was caught doing so with an erection at least once. Seven unnamed sorority sisters in Kappa Kappa Gamma have filed a lawsuit against the school and against the transgender sorority member, 21-year-old Artemis Langford, who joined their chapter in September 2022. Langford, a 6’2″, 260lb transgender woman, will be allowed to move into the KKG sorority house next semester. However, many girls feel uneasy about this because, since joining the sorority, Langford has allegedly been spending a lot of time inside their sorority house watching the sorority sisters. At least once, Langford has been caught watching them with an erection. [[…] The lawsuit . .

Sibarium: This Law Professor Took on Nixon and Trump. Now He’s Facing Off Against Stanford Law School Students.

Most lawyers probably would not appreciate being compared to a cold-blooded terrorist responsible for thousands of deaths. But for John Banzhaf—an octogenarian litigator who’s been called the “Osama Bin Laden of Torts”—the comparisons are a point of pride. Now an emeritus professor at George Washington University Law School, Banzhaf, 82, is among the most accomplished and aggressive public interest lawyers in the United States. His first legal jihad, . . .[…] He’s hardly a right-wing zealot. It was Banzhaf who proposed and popularized the idea of appointing a special prosecutor to investigate former president Richard Nixon, setting in motion the legal drama that would ultimately end his presidency. […] Banzhaf told Stanford earlier this month that he will file a character and fitness complaint against the students with the California state bar. “It appears that you have not taken any steps to discipline or otherwise sanction the student violators,” Banzhaf said in a letter to Jenny Martinez, the law school’s dean, who has since ruled out punishing the hecklers. As such, the complaint “will have links to video recordings of the disruption so that bar officials can judge the students’ conduct for themselves.”

OTHER NEWS, COMMENTARY, OPINION

Crawford: Crazy Liberal Woman “Tricked” Her Way Onto Conservative Dating App, Then Reported Men Who Were at the Capitol on Jan. 6 to the FBI

A liberal woman recently “tricked” her way onto an invite-only online dating platform for young conservatives. Her initial motivation was just to make fun of people on the app in the typical ‘loving, accepting liberal’ fashion. However, she ended up gathering the personal information of people who were at the Capitol on Jan. 6 and turning them in to the FBI. […] Since Berg didn’t have an invite to the app, she appealed to the company by sending them an email under the pseudonym “Keightlynne Brandy.” She wrote, . . . […] Berg posted some of the men’s profiles on the app, calling them “rodents from the depths of hell” simply because their political and personal opinions differ from hers. […] Berg then realized that some of the men on the app had pictures from the Capitol on Jan. 6, and she decided to screenshot their profiles, get their information, unmatch with them, and give their information to the FBI. She claims to have reported 7 or 8 men.

Allen: APRIL FOOLS: Billboard Appears In Texas Roasting Southwest Airlines’ Woke Policies

On Saturday, a billboard mocking woke airlines like Southwest appeared just ahead of April Fools Day, along I-35 South of Fort Worth. The satirical billboard ad featured a fake company called Southwoke. The billboard’s tag phrase says “Bringing San Francisco’s baggage To Texas non-stop,” and features depictions of Southwest Airlines CEO Robert Jordan and Board of Directors members David Biegler, Nancy Loefler, Gary Kelly, and Veronica Biggins in drag attire.

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