AOC Stooges For Tiktok

By William Teach March 27, 2023 – 7:00 am

I wonder what they have on her? Or what they’re paying her?

Ocasio-Cortez posts first TikTok in support of the app, says ban ‘doesn’t feel right’

As a potential TikTok ban looms, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) gave her response in a unique way: by posting her first video on the social media platform.

“This is not only my first TikTok, but it is a TikTok about TikTok,” Ocasio-Cortez said in her introduction, adding “Do I believe TikTok should be banned? No.”

The New York Democrat said banning the popular video-sharing app would be an “unprecedented” move.

“I think it’s important to discuss how unprecedented of a move this would be. The United States has never before banned a social media company from existence, from operating in our borders,” she said in her video. “And this is an app that has over 150 million Americans on it.

“They say because of this egregious amount of data harvesting, we should ban this app. However, that doesn’t really address the core of the issue,” Ocasio-Cortez said in her video.

What does she want instead?

“In fact, the United States is one of the only developed nations in then world that has no significant data or privacy protection laws on the books,” she argued, later adding “So to me, the solution here is not to ban an individual company — but to actually protect Americans from this kind of egregious data harvesting that companies can do without your significant ability to say no.”

She wants massive government control over social media companies…which would put the data in the hands of the U.S. government. Kinda like what China is doing. Strange, eh?

AOC TikTok defense ripped after Chinese parent company gave 6-figure donations to Hispanic caucus nonprofits

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., was criticized for defending TikTok after it was revealed the app’s Chinese-owned parent company gave six-figure donations to the Black and Hispanic caucus non-profits.

Fox News Digital previously reported that disclosures show ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, funneled six-figure contributions to nonprofits aligned with the congressional Black and Hispanic Caucuses. ByteDance donated $150,000 to both the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and Congressional Hispanic Caucus Foundation in December, its lobbying contribution report shows.

Jake Denton, who handles tech policy for the Heritage Foundation, noted on Twitter Sunday that AOC is a member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) advisory council.

“What a coincidence!” Denton wrote, responding to Ocasio-Cortez’s video defense of TikTok initially shared Saturday.

Some Democrats are in support of banning Tiktok, then you have some like Jamaal Bowman and Robert Garcia….wait, aren’t they part of those caucuses?

Personally, I’m not for a ban, except on government devices. If private citizens want to be dumb and use it, giving the Chinese government all their data, well, that’s on them for being stupid.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 26, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…are shoes made of horrible petroleum, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Outside The Beltway, with a post on making cheap booze expensive.

It’s fit girls week.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach March 26, 2023 – 9:08 am

Happy Sunday! Another wonderful day in the Once and Future Nation of America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing (loudly), and the NJ Devils have made the playoffs for the first time in 6 years, and are the 3rd best team in the NHL. Wasn’t expecting that this year. This pinup is by Fiona Stephenson, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. A View From The Beach notes that coral reefs are doing just fine
  2. American Greatness highlights the FBI finding no credible threats after investigating protesting parents
  3. Bustednuckles covers Trump still drawing huge crowds
  4. Chicks On The Right has an exclusive interview with Nikki Haley
  5. Cold Fury shows people aren’t buying what Fauci is selling
  6. Da Techguy’s Blog says most military vaccine refusers won’t come back
  7. Diogenes’ Middle Finger makes the case for the Oxford comma
  8. Geller Report covers men named as women of the year
  9. IOTW Report discusses Ray Epps’ lawyer threatening Tucker Carlson
  10. Irons In The Fire covers a “limited experiment” involving mice and bat coronaviruses
  11. Jihad Watch discusses the Biden regime trying to censor private text messages
  12. Legal Insurrection notes World Athletics banning men in women’s competitions
  13. Moonbattery covers the high price of low bond for lowlifes
  14. neo-neocon says that high fat foods just taste better
  15. And last, but, not least, Pacific Pundit wonders about the difference in John Fetterman’s face

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your Pinups for Vets calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me. I’ve also mostly alphabetized them, makes it easier scrolling the feedreader

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

Two great sites for getting news links are Liberty Daily and Whatafinger.

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Brandon Admin Cracking Down On Air Conditioning

By William Teach March 26, 2023 – 7:00 am

Why should Biden and his Comrades care that this will spike the cost? They’re rich. It won’t bother them. The working and middle classes? Yet another hit in the wallet

Biden admin cracks down on air conditioners as war on appliances continues

The Biden administration announced its latest home appliance regulations this week, targeting air conditioners in an action it said would reduce the nation’s carbon emissions.

The regulations, unveiled Thursday by the Department of Energy (DOE), finalize energy efficiency standards for home air conditioning units, or window air conditioners, and portable air cleaners. The DOE said the move would cut air pollution and push consumer costs down by billions of dollars via energy savings.

“Today’s announcement builds on the historic actions President Biden took last year to strengthen outdated energy efficiency standards, which will help save on people’s energy bills and reduce our nation’s carbon footprint,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said in a statement.

If you spend $1,000 more on a unit, and save $200, is that a win? Or, even if it’s an almost even swap, can the average American afford the extra cost upfront?

According to the DOE, the new energy efficiency standards will save Americans about $1.5 billion annually and curb carbon dioxide emissions by 106 million metric tons over three decades. The agency added that the regulations were part of President Biden’s efforts to promote innovation and lower costs for families “while tackling the climate crisis.”

Piss off, cultist.

Over the last several months, meanwhile, the DOE has introduced a series of energy efficiency regulations impacting various home appliances including gas stoves, ovens, clothes washers and refrigerators. Critics have blasted the rules as federal overreach and unnecessary given that the industry has improved technology without government intervention.

“What these mandates, what these standards do is enforce a level of efficiency that doesn’t make sense,” Ben Lieberman, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, told Fox News Digital in an interview last week. “And they compromise product quality. We’ve already seen this to an extent with cost of clothes washer standards.”

The standards can make the units either too expensive for most to purchase, or substandard. All for an imaginary problem. Really, the best way is to make products that last a long time. My washer and dryer were purchased from Sears in 1994. They still work (knock on wood). Maybe they aren’t as efficient as today’s models, especially the dryer, but, a lot better than replacing every 5 years or so, right?

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WWIII Watch: Russia To Put Nuclear Weapons Back in Belarus

By William Teach March 25, 2023 – 5:16 pm

Things keep getting safer and safer, eh? Thank goodness Biden is on top of this from (checks calendar) his home in Delaware for the weekend yet again

Putin says Moscow to station nuclear weapons in Belarus, first time since 1990s

Russia will station tactical nuclear weapons in neighbouring Belarus, President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday, marking the first time since the mid-1990s that Moscow will have based such arms outside the country.

Putin made the announcement at a time of growing tensions with the West over the Ukraine war and as some Russian commentators speculate about possible nuclear strikes.

“Tactical” nuclear weapons refer to those used for specific gains in the battlefield rather than those with the capacity to wipe out cities. It is unclear how many such weapons Russia has, given it is an area still shrouded in traditions of Cold War secrecy.

Experts told Reuters the development was significant, since Russia had until now been proud that unlike the United States, it did not deploy nuclear weapons outside its borders.

Belarus has borders with three NATO members – Poland, Lithuania and Latvia.

So, under Trump there were no new wars, peace was spreading in the Middle East, and Russia wasn’t getting frisky. Under Brandon, he gave up Afghanistan to the Taliban, China is getting frisky with Taiwan, and Russia invaded Ukraine and is stationing tactical nukes in an allied nation. But, hey, no mean tweets, right?

Speaking of Afghanistan

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 25, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…are masks to stop the climate caused pandemics, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Green Jihad, with a post on Ford’s EV unit losing billions.

Doubleshot below the fold, check out 357 Magnum, with a post noting that compliance does not guarantee your safety.

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Climate Czar Kerry Says We Need To Work With China And Russia On Climate Crisis (scam)

By William Teach March 25, 2023 – 10:30 am

Well, of course he does, since the Cult of Climastrology is based on authoritarian government, hence the lack of concern by John Kerry over China and Russia. The cult doesn’t care about human rights abuses or anything

Kerry: U.S. must work with China and Russia on fighting climate change

John Kerry climateDespite mounting tensions between the United States and its rivals China and Russia, President Biden’s climate envoy, John Kerry, told Yahoo News that the U.S. must work with those adversaries on combating climate change.

“We have to work with China, we have to work with India,” Kerry said during an interview Friday at Yahoo News’ New York offices. “We even have to find a way, ultimately, if we can resolve the war in Ukraine, to work with Russia, because Russia is a huge emitter. And any one of these countries has an ability — if it doesn’t move to change its energy base — to make it much harder for the rest of the world, if not impossible, to reach the goals we’ve set.”

China is by far the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, which scientists have established are causing global temperatures to rise. The United States is the second-largest emitter, followed by India and Russia. But China, with a population of 1.4 billion people and as the world’s second-largest economy, towers over the others. Its emissions are more than double those of the U.S., and Kerry echoed United Nations climate change experts who say that the world will be unable to avert catastrophic climate change unless China takes more significant steps to curb emissions.

“President Biden empowered me to reach out to China and work with China, which we have done for two years, and with some effect,” Kerry said. “Not as much as we need, ultimately.”

Meanwhile, China permitted two new coal plants every week in 2022. And kept up their human rights abuses. Russia invaded Ukraine. India is building more coal plants, and cozying up to Russia for their energy needs, ignoring sanctions. Climate cultists will ignore everything in the face of their Beliefs.

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Warmist Vs Enviros: Geothermal Project Wants To Delist Endangered Toads

By William Teach March 25, 2023 – 7:15 am

Who wins? The Warmists tell us the climate crisis (scam) is all about the environment, yet, windturbines kill off huge numbers of birds and insects. They leave massive concrete blocks after their 30 year lifespan. Mining for precious metals is as bad, if not worse, than mining for coal. Warmists want solar projects and extreme-enviros sue to stop them. And now

Geothermal developer wants to delist endangered Nevada toad

In an unusual move that could pit two Biden administration agencies against each other, the developer of a planned Nevada geothermal power plant says it intends to sue U.S wildlife officials to overturn the endangered species listing of a toad in adjacent wetlands.

Ormat Technologies said in a 60-day notice of its intent to sue the Interior Department’s Fish and Wildlife Service that the listing of the Dixie Valley toad in December was illegal.

“The toad does not meet the definitional standard for a threatened — let alone endangered — species, and the service failed to base its decision on the best scientific and commercial data available,” Reno-based Ormat said.

It’s the latest legal maneuver in a series of conflicts underscoring challenges President Joe Biden faces in vowing to protect fish and wildlife while also pushing development of so-called green energy projects on U.S. lands to help combat climate change.

A court battle over the toad’s listing would put the administration in the precarious position of using its Justice Department lawyers to defend the wildlife service’s decision to list the toad, while continuing to defend the Bureau of Land Management’s approval of the geothermal project in a lawsuit brought by conservationists and a tribe.

I just have to wonder: if these projects are so green, then why would there be any concern about causing harm to the toads?

The opponents say pumping hot water from beneath the earth’s surface to generate carbon-free power would adversely affect levels and temperatures of surface water critical to the survival of the toad, which is sacred to the tribe.

Why are there always issues with “green” energy?

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Federal Court Blocks Brandon’s Vaccine Mandate

By William Teach March 25, 2023 – 7:00 am

Only what, a year and a half too late?

Court blocks COVID-19 vaccine mandate for US gov’t workers

President Joe Biden’s order that federal employees get vaccinated against COVID-19 has been blocked by a federal appeals court.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, in a decision Thursday, rejected arguments that Biden, as the nation’s chief executive, has the same authority as the CEO of a private corporation to require that employees be vaccinated.

The ruling from the full appeals court, 16 full-time judges at the time the case was argued, reversed an earlier ruling by a three-judge 5th Circuit panel that had upheld the vaccination requirement. Judge Andrew Oldham, nominated to the court by then-President Donald Trump, wrote the opinion for a 10-member majority.

The ruling maintains the status quo for federal employee vaccines. It upholds a preliminary injunction blocking the mandate issued by a federal judge in January 2022. At that point, the administration said nearly 98% of covered employees had been vaccinated.

Of course they got vaccinated. They mostly vote Democrat, and they want to keep their cushy jobs and expansive benefits. For those who didn’t, when do they get their jobs back and back pay? And, even with the mandate, people who got vaxxed were still getting COVID and still dying.

Meanwhile

LA County’s 3-year COVID Emergency Ends On March 31. Here’s What Will Change

After three years, Los Angeles County’s COVID emergency will end on March 31. Here’s what is changing in L.A. County.

Rent protections expire

The county Board of Supervisors rejected a proposal on Tuesday intended to soften the blow for renters who could soon face eviction. L.A. County’s COVID-19 emergency tenant regulations have given low-income tenants protections in eviction court if they can’t pay rent on time due to economic harms brought on by the pandemic. But those tenants will have to pay their April rent on time — or face eviction.

Wait, they still had all this stuff in place? County health employees will still be required to wear masks. Silly.

Is America’s Pandemic Really Over?

A little more than six weeks from now, on May 11, the U.S. will end its national and public-health emergency declarations over COVID-19, marking an official end to the country’s sweeping pandemic response. The Washington Post reported Wednesday that as part of that transition, the White House will also be disbanding what’s left of its COVID-response team, and national COVID coordinator Ashish Jha will most likely be leaving the administration. There are other signposts marking the end of the pandemic in America, too. The New York Times announced Thursday that it was shutting down its COVID data-gathering operation, which has for years given one of the most reliable by-the-numbers overviews of COVID’s toll. And two weeks ago, the venerable Johns Hopkins University COVID data tracker went dark, as well.

It’s over. Move on. Unfortuantely, we will never truly get a reckoning against those who thought they were dictators.

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Colorado Town Bans 7the Fossil Fuels Station

By William Teach March 24, 2023 – 3:00 pm

That’ll show those Evil fossil fuels companies!

Blue Colorado ‘burb bans new gas stations to fight climate change

Electric vehicleA Democratic-led suburb in Colorado is doing its “obligation” to fight climate change — approving a proposed ban on all new gas stations.

The city council in Louisville — 20 miles outside Denver — voted Tuesday to set the cap at six filling stations for its 21,000 residents. A seventh would be allowed only if it’s part of a large retail center.

Any new station would also be required to include at least two charging stations for electric vehicles — and be 1,000 feet away from an existing station.

“I don’t think any single action this council or community takes is going to fix climate change,” council member Maxine Most said during the vote. “But I think it’s a really good idea to decarbonize because it sends a signal and it sends a message.”

The message is “the city council is a bunch of idiots and worried about the wrong things.” But, hey, the citizens voted for these lunatics, when vital services start going downhill it’s on them.

The suburb currently has five gas stations, with a sixth approved for construction.

Louisville leaders also hope the ban persuades residents to ditch their gas vehicles for electric cars.

I’m not finding any articles where a reporter asked the members of the city council if they have switched over to EVs themselves, and ended any use of natural gas at their homes, among other things they can do to reduce their “carbon footprints.”

Meanwhile, Brandon took a fossil fueled helicopter to the airport, jumped in his jumbo jet, and took off to Canada today, with a multiple other fossil fueled airplanes to protect him, and

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