And " " " Comedy " " " Central's unfunny non-comedian diversity hire took the position that they *had* to use live ammunition, because rubber bullets "don't work anymore" to stop a strike.

And he's been using copyright claims to keep this hidden.

The CIA leaked this false story to its favorite vessels of disinformation in the propaganda press, running a hit on Trump by claiming Russia was paying bounties for US soldiers' heads in Afghanistan, and of course the Puppet of Putin wasn't doing anything about it.

There was a reason Trump didn't do anything about it (and later, neither did Biden): It was always false.

Or it was one step above false-- unproven, with little to demonstrate it was anything other than yet another CIA hoax.

From the Daily Beast:

On Thursday, the Biden administration announced that U.S. intelligence only had "low to moderate” confidence in the story after all. Translated from the jargon of spyworld, that means the intelligence agencies have found the story is, at best, unproven—and possibly untrue.

"The United States intelligence community assesses with low to moderate confidence that Russian intelligence officers sought to encourage Taliban attacks U.S. and coalition personnel in Afghanistan in 2019 and perhaps earlier,” a senior administration official said…

According to the officials on Thursday’s call, the reporting about the alleged "bounties” came from "detainee reporting” – raising the specter that someone told their U.S.-aligned Afghan jailers what they thought was necessary to get out of a cage.

Say, waitaminute, isn't that the exact sort of testimony the left has claimed for 20 years was absolutely worthless? (And it is worthless -- it's just that the left confuses that kind of tall tale with a terrorist admitting things that can be independently verified -- like, for example, if he tells you he keeps his bomb-making kit in an non-functional car at a local junkyard, and then you look in that car and find a bomb-making kit -- obviously, he didn't just make that up.)

But here's the CIA running yet another political information op against the enemy population -- which happens to be the US citizenry.

It was reported that while the CIA believed this story, the NSA did not.

This is an enemy intelligence organization. Disband.

I think it's good and right the media begins to get some of the "protest" they're inflicting on the rest of us.

Remember when merely chanting "CNN sucks" was violence, according to pillow-lipped pillow-biter Jim Acosta?

But  this? This is not violence.

This is protest against the Overclass.

It's time the Ruling Class got bloodied.

And then they decided to burn their own house down, because Stacey Abrams, Joe Biden, and Twitter SJWs demanded they do so.

New data from Morning Consult Brand Intelligence, which tracks consumer attitudes, indicates that MLB’s net favorability rating among Republicans plummeted from 47 percentage points in mid-March to just 12 points at the end of last week, following the league’s decision to relocate its events. Net favorability is calculated by taking the difference between the share of respondents with a positive opinion of the league and the share with a negative opinion.

MLB had the highest net favorability rating among Republicans of the four major sports leagues prior to the All-Star Game decision, but last week dropped below that of both the NHL and NFL

Commenters recommend this WSJ opinion piece on baseball's embrace of the communist state of Cuba. (Just as the Woke NBA embraces the communist Chinese party.)

Major League Baseball says "values” compelled it to move this summer’s All-Star Game out of Georgia. But this piety doesn’t square with its long record of collaboration with Cuba’s military dictatorship, one of the world’s most notorious human-rights violators.

This is especially relevant now, as the Cuban struggle for free speech and artistic liberty reaches new heights in the humble San Isidro neighborhood of Havana.

Baseball advertises itself as a champion of racial justice. But the league’s practice of engaging with the Castros as if the regime were normal has had the opposite effect. It has added to the isolation of Cuban dissidents.

You can't read the whole thing, alas, because of the paywall.

That exemption, by the way, is lawless. There is no reasonable legal or economic argument.

The exemption was made up out of whole cloth by the Supreme Court because Supreme Court Justices *liked* baseball.

Baseball was popular, so it got an exemption to the law.

Why should this lawless exemption continue when it becomes unpopular?

Two school board members in the state of Texas are facing grand jury charges after they privately discussed advancing Critical Race Theory and other far-left ideas in their district, in violation of a state law on meetings of governmental bodies, as reported byThe Daily Wire.

The two suspects are Michelle Moore and Todd Carlton, the president and vice president, respectively, of the Carroll Independent School District (CISD). They exchanged private text messages between each other discussing the district’s "Cultural Competence Action Plan.” This was ultimately determined to be in violation of a law in Texas known as the Open Meetings Act (OMA).

The charge is only a misdemeanor. 

From earlier this week: A teacher -- wait, let me use her pronouns; an "educator" -- was caught on video attacking her students' parents for daring to question her conviction as an "educator" that she should be allowed to stay home and sit on her ass and do "virtual" education.

It is the degradation of the sanctity and value of life, and it is one of the most powerful tools in the totalitarian playbook. They start with the unborn, who are the most innocent and the most vulnerable. Then they move on to the old and the infirm. Andrew Cuomo showed us the way by killing thousands of the elderly in their nursing homes and assisted living facilities.

But they have been itching to kill the mentally ill for some time. Just look at what they did to them by closing the mental institutions! How many thousands of them have died on the streets since the 1970s? As usual, Europe leads the way when it comes to genocide, but this time they are channeling a particularly vile brand of utilitarianism...kill the crazies, but let's harvest their organs too!

Belgium and the Netherlands legally permit euthanasia based on mental illness alone. Meanwhile, Canada’s Parliament just legalized lethal jabs of the mentally ill after a waiting period to permit bureaucratic death protocols to be worked out. This is particularly worrisome for the United States as Canada is our closest cultural cousin.

And here’s an insidious twist: Euthanasia for mental illnesses has become conjoined with organ donation in both the Netherlands and Belgium, Such kill-and-harvest procedures have even been written up approvingly—or, at least without criticism—in notable international organ transplant medical journals.

This is Hitler's death camps writ small. But they are following exactly the path that Hitler and his willing executioners followed in the 1930s...starting with the least desirable...the least visible...the ones who wouldn't really be missed.

Make society inured to the murder of the unborn and the old and the mentally ill, and the next step is oh so easy.

Define conservatism as a mental disorder, and we are off to the camps. And lest the naive among us believe that the medical profession would never do that, let me direct your attention to the conspicuous absence of certain kinds of body dysmorphia in the lists of mental disorders. Oh, I'm not talking about anorexia, which is appropriately considered a significant psychiatric issue. Look at the insanity of transgenderism being celebrated rather than treated as mental illness.

So we can't look to medicine to protect us from that particular lunacy; in fact many in the medical establishment have embraced it.

I wonder how they will justify strapping a few schizophrenics down on an operating table, pumping them full of death-dealing chemicals, then cutting their organs out to satisfy the demand for kidneys and hearts in the transplant market?

Absinth Drinker

Albert Anker