Monday, June 02, 2025
What is MAGA? - by Michael Smith - Unlicensed Punditry
In short, it isn't conservative, populist or even Republican.
It has elements of all of those, but at its root, it is simply an anti-progressivism movement. - Michael SmithMAGA is not really a populist movement, at least in the traditional concept of populism...
I think the easiest way to understand both the division – and strength - within MAGA is this: it is not conservative, moderate, or even Republican, what it is, is anti-progressive.
- It has united people from across the political spectrum, most of whom agree on only one thing – that the collectivist progressivism that has coalesced within the modern Democrat Party is anti-American, anti-Israel, anti-reason, anti-science, and is destructive to prosperity and a positive future.
- Because MAGA is a movement of common sense for common people, the Democrats routinely characterize MAGA supporters as ignorant, stupid, and uneducated.
- Democrats see themselves as elites who look to “intellectuals” to provide the “authority” upon which their infinite appeals to authority (a logical fallacy) depend...
Elon Musk explains the reason why members of congress don't want to codify DOGE cuts
"There is a massive amount of corruption... - Christina Aguayo News | Facebook
...What happens is your taxpayer money is sent to various government organizations who then send it to NGOs, which an NGO is an non-governmental organization. But obviously, if it's a government funded non-governmental organization, it's just an organization. It's just a government." "And effectively, there's a giant fraud loophole, which is that the government can send money to an NGO that is no longer governed by the laws of the United States"
- "Then they'll send the money overseas to one NGO, then they'll go through a bunch of them."
- "I'm highly confident that a bunch of that money then comes back to the United States and lands in the pockets of people like Maxine Waters, Adam Schiff, Chuck Schumer etc'
- "Let's just say that there's, a lot of strangely wealthy members of Congress. How did they become rich? How do they get $20 million if they're earning $200,000 a year?"
- "Nobody can explain that."
God, guns, and glory: Trump's DOD obliterates woke DEI madness in patriotic recruiting video | Blaze Media
God, guns, and glory: Trump's DOD obliterates woke DEI madness in patriotic recruiting video | Blaze Media:
Under the former Biden administration, woke policies and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives infiltrated all aspects of the federal government, including the U.S. military.
Upon retaking office, President Donald Trump vowed to root out the dangerous DEI programs and refocus the military on its mission to fortify national security.
Why “cheaper” wind and solar raise costs. Part III: The problem with power markets
Part 3 of this series examines power markets, promoted by policymakers (FERC) and industry advocates to lower costs through competitive bidding and merit-order dispatch. - From Climate Etc. 
While markets can optimize resource allocation in many sectors, they struggle to deliver affordability and reliability in electricity systems dominated by intermittent renewables.
This post first explains how power markets operate, then highlights their challenges, and finally explores why they amplify the cost challenges associated with wind and solar.
- In Part 1 of this series, we explored how the fat tail problem undermines the cost-saving potential of wind and solar. It’s easy to supply electricity most of the time. The fat tail occurs in the rarer periods of maximal demands, when wind and solar are not available. These periods, not savings during easy times, drive system economics.
- Part 2 discussed how rate structures distort perceptions of affordability for solar applications.
How Power Markets Work (and Fail)
Power markets use a merit-order dispatch system, where generators bid their costs, and the market sets prices based on the most expensive unit needed. During “easy” times—when demand is low or renewable output is high—wind and solar often dominate.
Power markets use a merit-order dispatch system, where generators bid their costs, and the market sets prices based on the most expensive unit needed. During “easy” times—when demand is low or renewable output is high—wind and solar often dominate.
Their near-zero marginal costs (no fuel expenses) allow them to bid low, displacing higher-cost fossil fuel plants and driving down market prices.
This creates the appearance of cheap electricity and fuels the narrative that renewables are inherently cost-effective...
History for June 2
History for June 2 - On-This-Day.com 
Marquis de Sade 1740 - French aristocrat, revolutionary and writer
- 1793 - Maximillian Robespierre initiated the "Reign of Terror". It was an effort to purge those suspected of treason against the French Republic.
- 1897 - Mark Twain, at age 61, was quoted by the New York Journal as saying "the report of my death was an exaggeration." He was responding to the rumors that he had died.
- 1953 - Elizabeth was crowned queen of England at Westminster Abbey.
- 1954 - U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy charged that there were communists working in the CIA and atomic weapons plants.
- 1966 - Surveyor 1, the U.S. space probe, landed on the moon and started sending photographs back to Earth of the Moon's surface. It was the first soft landing on the Moon.
- 1979 - Pope John Paul II arrived in his native Poland on the first visit by a pope to a Communist country.
- 1999 - In South Africa, the African National Congress (ANC) won a major victory. ANC leader Thabo Mbeki was to succeed Nelson Mandela as the nation's president.
Sunday, June 01, 2025
Damning Evidence in Autopen Scandal: More Activity in Last 100 Days of Biden Admin Than in His First Three and a Half Years
Damning Evidence in Autopen Scandal: More Activity in Last 100 Days of Biden Admin Than in His First Three and a Half Years:
More executive action took place in those days than the rest of the term, including the pardons of Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley, the Jan. 6 committee, and Hunter Biden took place during that time and numerous executive orders.
But if these weren’t done at the behest of Joe Biden, then who abused the executive power? And will Comer and Co. be able to bring them to justice?
Wow!!!-----Swiss glacier collapse: How the village of Blatten was wiped off the map - BBC News
The village of Blatten has stood for centuries, then in seconds it was gone.
- Scientists monitoring the Nesthorn mountain above the village in recent weeks saw that parts of it had begun to crumble, and fall on to the Birch glacier, putting enormous pressure on the ice.
- Small rock and ice slides had begun to come down, and the village’s 300 residents, and even their livestock, were evacuated for their own safety. But everyone hoped the unstable rock would disperse incrementally over a few weeks, and that after that everyone could go home.
- On Wednesday afternoon, that hope was dashed...
In the mid-19th century, a silent, unseen killer stalked the maternity wards of Europe, claiming the lives of countless new mothers.
Clarice Feldman - . It was a terrifying mystery, striking down women with a virulent disease known as childbed fever. - Ancient history - Ancient Whispers 
Yet, in the bustling wards of a Vienna hospital in 1847, a Hungarian physician named Ignaz Semmelweis was about to challenge the very foundations of medical understanding and, in doing so, revolutionize patient care forever.
Semmelweis observed a stark and horrifying difference between two maternity clinics: one where doctors and medical students, who often came directly from performing autopsies, delivered babies, and another staffed by midwives, where mortality rates from childbed fever were significantly lower.
Semmelweis observed a stark and horrifying difference between two maternity clinics: one where doctors and medical students, who often came directly from performing autopsies, delivered babies, and another staffed by midwives, where mortality rates from childbed fever were significantly lower.
- Through meticulous observation and a leap of intuition, he hypothesized that "cadaverous particles" from the dissection room were being unknowingly transferred on the hands of medical personnel to the birthing mothers, causing the deadly infection.
- This idea, predating the widespread acceptance of germ theory, was a radical departure from the prevailing medical beliefs of the time...
...Semmelweis's groundbreaking discovery was met with scorn and ridicule by the medical establishment.
The notion that respected physicians could be the unwitting carriers of disease was deeply offensive to their pride and challenged the accepted norms of the era....
WATCH: Bureaucrat caught admitting to 'bending the rules' to give illegals benefits * WorldNetDaily * by Cristina Laila, the Gateway Pundit
WATCH: Bureaucrat caught admitting to 'bending the rules' to give illegals benefits * WorldNetDaily * by Cristina Laila, the Gateway Pundit:
The O'Keefe Media Group on Thursday released undercover video of a Nevada Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Division of Welfare and Supportive Services specialist admitting to bending the rules to provide benefits for illegal aliens.
"I get them emergency medical all the time… I just approve them for 12 months because I can," Nevada DHHS specialist Deshaun Eli Mack said.
"Even undocumented people from Mexico and things; I can still get them benefits," he said.
HEADLINE: “The IPCC’s models of anthropogenic climate change lack predictive validity.”
“Who would have thunk it? - Stephen Heins
The IPCC models’ forecast errors were greater for most estimation samples —often many times greater—than those from a benchmark model that simply predicts that future years’ temperatures will be the same as the historical median.
The size of the forecast errors and unreliability of the models’ forecasts in response to additional observations in the estimation sample implies that the anthropogenic models fail to realistically capture and represent the causes of Earth’s surface temperature changes...
Finally, this study provides further evidence that measures of statistical fit provide misinformation about predictive validity...
Who ran the White House? Ask Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson under oath | Blaze Media
Who ran the White House? Ask Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson under oath | Blaze Media:
The growing autopen scandal didn’t just reveal bureaucratic dysfunction — it exposed the collapse of constitutional order during Joe Biden’s presidency. For years, critics raised questions about Biden’s competence. But recent investigative findings paint a far darker picture. The debate is no longer about whether Biden was merely tired, was gaffe-prone, or had merely “lost his fastball.” The real question is much simpler: Who was actually running the White House?
The answer isn’t complicated.
They are lying to us!-----NERC’s latest reliability assessment is unreliable
NERC’s mission is to keep America’s grid reliable, which it has clearly failed to do. - From CFACT - David Wojick
There is a deep fallacy that lets NERC systematically avoid saying how bad things really are.
This fallacy is the dangerously misleading use of the word “normal.”
This fallacy is the dangerously misleading use of the word “normal.”
Here is a good example (out of many). Their basic finding is that “all areas are assessed as having adequate anticipated resources for normal summer peak load conditions.”...
- The fallacy is that there is no such thing as “normal” summer conditions for a given day, week, month, or season.
They really mean average conditions, and these are rare, not normal...
We need a realistic reliability assessment.
We need a realistic reliability assessment.
Seattle Police union president warns of a 'long, long summer' after mayor backs Antifa over officers, Christians
“If we're already below minimum safe staffing levels, and you've got these guys on the line who are getting assaulted by Antifa, and no mention from the mayor about the injuries on cops… we gotta buckle up for a long, long summer.” - Ari Hoffman
- The controversy erupted after Antifa targeted a Christian concert on Saturday. Antifa militants injured several Seattle police officers, but Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell blamed the violence on Christian worshipers.
- Solan said officers were left without proper support or recognition, claiming that Harrell appeared more focused on managing political optics than ensuring the safety of those on the front lines.
“Cops got put into the hospital,” Solan stated, referencing injuries sustained during violent protests... a dire state marked by depleted staffing and political abandonment...
“If we're already below minimum safe staffing levels, and you've got these guys on the line who are getting assaulted by Antifa, and no mention from the mayor about the injuries on cops… we gotta buckle up for a long, long summer.”...
“If we're already below minimum safe staffing levels, and you've got these guys on the line who are getting assaulted by Antifa, and no mention from the mayor about the injuries on cops… we gotta buckle up for a long, long summer.”...
Exclusive: Massive 18-state operation shatters Chinese sex-trafficking networks | Blaze Media
Exclusive: Massive 18-state operation shatters Chinese sex-trafficking networks | Blaze Media:
Chinese organized crime is fueling a $5 billion-per-year sex-trafficking empire in the United States, operating numerous illicit massage parlors where 75,000 victims are enslaved and traumatized.
This modern slavery crisis was the target of a nationwide operation on Thursday involving 18 states and more than 150 law enforcement agencies, Blaze News has learned.
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