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Shake it once that’s fine… Over the past weekend, Luke Combs headlined the massive Stagecoach festival in Indio, California, which included surprise performances with the Backstreet Boys, Garth Brooks and even pop punk band, Good Charlotte. Joel and Benji Madden came out to sing Luke’s original “Where the Wild Things Are,” in addition to their hit “The Anthem,” which was featured on their 2002 The Young and the Hopeless album. The originally wrote the song for a film soundtrack alongside John Feldmann, but it didn’t ever appear in the movie, and it has since been certified Gold in the United States. If you were into rock or listened grew up in the late 90’s/early 2000’s, bands like Good Charlotte probably shaped your music taste similar to mine, and so it’s really cool to hear the song in 2025 with a little twang courtesy of Luke Combs. I haven’t honestly heard it in years, but this was so well done and unexpected… it’s really not super often we hear Luke cover songs outside of the country genre, but of course, he has an amazing voice so I’m not surprised at how good this is: @billboard Throw all your hands up @Good Charlotte performed “The Anthem” with @Luke Combs during his headlining #Stagecoach set #lukecombs #goodcharlotte #theanthem #country #countrymusic ♬ original sound – billboard Here’s a little bit more: @manicpanicmusic SO UNEXPECTED BUT WE ARE SOOOOO BACK #goodcharlotte #lukecombs #stagecoach ♬ original sound – manic panic music And here’s some footage of “Where the Wild Things Are”: @netflixcomedyscout Luke Combs x Good Charlotte @stagecoach ♬ original sound – NetflixComedyScout “The Anthem” The post Luke Combs Teams Up With Good Charlotte For Performance Of “The Anthem” At Stagecoach first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

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The following article, Send The Lid To Israel, was first published on Conservative Firing Line. Voting Ends on May 4th; if I receive enough votes, I’ll get a trip to Israel. PLEASE VOTE FOR ME NOW! Herut North America is deeply committed to combating antisemitism and ensuring the security and dignity of American Jewry. They recognize that Antisemitism remains a persistent challenge and stand firm in the efforts to confront and … Continue reading Send The Lid To Israel ...

You're an ambitious person. You've got big dreams and lofty aspirations. You know you're capable of success. You envision reaching or even exceeding your goals, and you know All The Things you need to do to make it happen.But your couch is so comfy. And Netflix has all the Gilmore Girls seasons. And you're just going to check the news on social media real quick. And you should probably do some laundry because you're out of underwear, so you don't do All The Things. You're lucky if you do any of The Things to reach your goals. You wake up an ambitious dreamer and go to bed a lazy procrastinator, over and over, and the cycle of wanting-to-but-not-willing-to continues. Join the ambitious-but-lazy club.Photo credit: CanvaDon't worry. You're not the first person to be stuck in the ambitious-but-lazy rut, and you certainly won't be the last. There's a good chance you've tried various methods to motivate yourself or boost your willpower without lasting success. Quick dopamine hits trump ambitious dreams nine times out of ten.But is it really laziness? A three-minute video from The Blurb explains how the cycle of knowing what you need to do but not doing it over and over again leads to a cycle of procrastination, creates guilt, and causes you to label yourself as a lazy person. And most methods of addressing the problem only deal with the symptoms—turn off your phone so don't get distracted, etc.—but don't deal with the root cause of procrastination.What is that root cause, according to The Blurb? One word: Inertia. - YouTube www.youtube.com In physics, inertia is Newton's first law of motion—an object at rest tends to stay at rest and an object in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted upon by an external force. "This applies just as much to tasks as it does to object," the video states. "Getting started on any task, no matter how small, requires an initial push and some amount of energy to overcome the resting state of inertia, and this precisely is the issue. We make this initial push so big and difficult in our minds that instead we just avoid the task entirely and distract ourselves with cheap dopamine-inducing activities. So to break break procrastination, we need to break inertia." So many ways to procrastinate.Photo credit: CanvaThe video explains that there are two ways to break inertia:1. Reduce the stakesWe tend to build things up in our minds, which can overwhelm us. Thinking about the entirety of a task can cause us to not want to act at all because it seems so daunting. Reducing the stakes by breaking tasks down into tiny steps and only focusing on the step in front of you is often enough to break inertia. Instead of thinking, "I have to write a 5,000 word essay," tell yourself you just have to write the first 50 words. That feels much more doable, which makes inertia much lower. 2. The two-minute ruleAgain, the getting started is the biggest hurdle, so tell yourself you only have to do the thing you need to do for two minutes and give yourself permission to stop after that. Need to clean your room? Put on a song, start cleaning and stop as soon as the song stops. It's unlikely that you'll not want to continue at that point. 2 Minutes Close Enough GIF by Overlook Horizon Giphy "The best part is usually you'll continue longer than two minutes or you'll end up writing more than 50 words," the video states. "And this is because objects in motion stay in motion, meaning once we get started, we start gaining momentum and this momentum keeps us going for longer. Initially, it's like pushing a ball uphill but once we pass the point of inertia, it's downhill from there and that's why it's important that the initial push is small and easy."There are lots of examples of reducing the stakes and utilizing the two-minute rule to get yourself past inertia:Having a hard time consistently working out? Tell yourself you just have to put your workout clothes on and step out the door. That's it. Once you're outside or at the gym (because once you're out the door in your workout clothes, you'll might as well head to the gym if you belong to one) tell yourself you only have to exercise for two minutes. Once you break inertia, tasks become easier. Photo credit: CanvaNeed to work on a school or work project? Break it down into small parts and just do the first small part. Write one paragraph. Make the first presentation slide. Spend two minutes doing research. Just take the first step.It might sound overly simple, but sometimes the simplest solutions are the most effective and you might be surprised by how well this works. Instead of searching for motivation, think of creating momentum. All it takes that first tiny push to break inertia and get the ball rolling, literally and figuratively. You can find more helpful videos on The Blurb's YouTube channel.

Justin Trudeau will be remembered as the most unserious man ever to hold serious power in Canada. He governed by press release, ruled by emotion, and floated through crisis after crisis with nothing but slogans and an empty smile. He invoked the Emergencies Act against working-class protesters, locked down the country for years, and divided citizens by class, jab status, and belief. But Mark Carney represents something far more dangerous. The 60-year-old didn’t rise through politics. He was not elected. He was installed — by the very institutions that profit most from technocratic control and public obedience. Goldman Sachs. The Bank of Canada. The Bank of England. The Financial Stability Board. The World Economic Forum. Bilderberg. The Trilateral Commission. The Council for Inclusive Capitalism. This is a man who has spent his entire adult life inside the machinery of global finance and elite governance. Now, he’s running a country. Carney is no fool. He speaks in the hushed tones of central bankers. He uses the sterile vocabulary of “sustainability,” “transition,” and “inclusive growth.” But behind the euphemisms is a blueprint for absolute control. At the center of that blueprint is the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). Carney has long supported the deployment of CBDCs, programmable money issued and controlled by the state. This is infrastructure for obedience sold as innovation. Unlike physical cash, a CBDC can be tracked, restricted, and deactivated in real-time. It allows the government — or its banking partners — to control not just how much you spend, but where, on what, and whether you’re allowed to spend at all. The potential for abuse is staggering. This is not paranoia. It is already the reality in China. There, the CCP links digital currency to a nationwide social credit system. Criticize the government? Restricted travel. Associate with the wrong people? Denied access to loans. Buy too much alcohol or cross the street improperly? Face penalties that follow you for years. This is not fiction. It’s functioning policy, and Carney, through CBDCs, is laying the foundation for a Western version dressed in softer language. In his vision of Canada, your financial freedom will be conditional. Your access to basic services, your ability to travel, to protest, to live — all of it programmable. A digital leash controlled by the state, managed by corporate intermediaries, and justified in the name of security or “sustainability.” Every purchase becomes a checkpoint; every transaction, a test of political alignment. Cash will not just be obsolete. It will be forbidden. Now pair that with another thing close to Carney’s heart: Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) metrics are sold as “responsible capitalism,” but they operate as a private-sector censorship tool. Companies are rated and rewarded not based on value, but on ideological conformity. Support fossil fuels? Downrated. Speak out against progressive orthodoxy? Flagged. ESGs create a parallel legal system — corporate enforcement of state-approved morality. The end result is the same: Speech is silenced, dissent is punished, and financial tools become instruments of control. Carney believes in a world run by metrics, not mandates. A world where unelected boards and regulatory frameworks, not elected leaders or public debate, decide what you can build, drive, buy, or say. And make no mistake: this isn’t speculative. It’s already happening. In Germany, for example, ESG scores determine access to capital. Banks now deny loans to farmers and small businesses that don’t meet climate benchmarks. Investment firms blacklist companies that fail social compliance audits. In the Netherlands, emissions policies are shuttering family farms. In Ireland, livestock culls are being proposed to meet EU carbon targets. What was once the stuff of dystopian fiction is now administrative policy, and Carney will likely help expand it. His rise is the culmination of a quiet shift in Western governance, from nations to networks. In this model, borders are outdated, citizens are data points, and dissent is “misinformation.” Carney doesn’t serve the people. He serves the process. And the process is consolidation. He’s already admitted as much. “I’m connected,” he said. “I know how to get things done.” And by “things,” he means the dismantling of national sovereignty, the bypassing of parliaments, and the integration of once-free societies into a global management grid. Carney is not here to lead Canada. He’s here to bury it. READ MORE by John Mac Ghlionn: Beauty Is the New Bigotry Tom Hanks, Samurai Swords, and Neo-Nazis — Yes, Really! A Message to Larry David: Curb Your Derangement The post Mark Carney Is Incredibly Dangerous appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

What do you get when you take a 40 percent out-of-wedlock birthrate, mix it with a 25 percent absentee-father rate, and sprinkle some social media on top? You get feral kids. Raised by their devices and peers, and educated not in the school of virtue but of virality, most of them are in their late teens to early twenties. Anybody living in our nation’s largest cities has become acquainted with these kids in recent years — from the teen takeovers in Chicago and illegal house parties in Nashville to the drag racing in Florida and the storming of malls in California. These kids have reached the age of majority, and they have been sicced on the world. What crimes do they commit? Looting, assault, damage to property, illegal drag racing, setting off fireworks, obstructing traffic, violating curfew, arson, evading arrest — the works. On March 28, a 15-year-old boy was shot during a teen takeover in Chicago’s Streeterville neighborhood. On March 29, a hundred-strong mob vandalized police cars in the Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens. That same day, motorists on three-wheelers staged a takeover of Washington Avenue in Houston. On February 28, some 200 teenagers broke into a newly built home in East Nashville and threw a party with booze and drugs. Owner Kyle Grasser was alerted and called the police, only to learn that no officers were available. He was forced to break up the party himself. The teenagers caused $100,000 in damage. In the last three months of 2024, Los Angeles County witnessed an increase of 88 street takeovers. In September of that year, the Ohio cities of Columbus and Cleveland endured street takeovers within weeks of each other. Police in Columbus arrested almost two-hundred people in a single night. These are a few examples. Teen takeovers have plagued several other cities. For the most part, police officers have been unable to curtail the mayhem. For poorer residents unable to move to greener pastures, they’ve been forced to sit back and enjoy the fireworks, skid marks, gunshots, and broken windows. How did an entire generation turn feral? What can be done about this? As for the first question, one of the biggest indicators of future criminality in children is family structure. How were they raised? Did they live in stable families? Where are the parents during these takeovers? Short of interviewing the kids themselves, we can rely on statistics and studies. According to the National Fatherhood Initiative, one in four U.S. children live without a father in the home. That includes biological, step, and adoptive fathers. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that 40 percent of all births in the U.S. are to unmarried women. A study referenced by the America First Policy Institute states that 70 percent of juveniles in state-operated institutions are from single-parent households. When the Moynihan Report was published in 1965, the out-of-wedlock birthrate among blacks was 25 percent. According to the Center for Equal Opportunity, it’s 70 percent today. What would the late senator have to say about family structure now? Obviously, these claims are controversial. Naysayers will argue that teenagers have always acted like teenagers. Besides, this country has a long history of unrest and rebellion. The anti-war protests, Woodstock, the civil rights movement, the anti-nuclear protests, the anti-Apartheid sit-ins. Kids have always taken to the streets and fought against the Man. So, just give them space and let them grow out of it. Right? There are three differences between the teenagers of yesteryear and the feral kids of today. The first is that many teen gatherings in the past were purpose-driven. Anti-war activists protested the Vietnam War and burned their draft cards. Civil rights organizers marched for racial integration. Concertgoers at Woodstock went to listen to The Who, Hendrix, and the Dead. Today, 17-year-old girls storm Michigan Avenue in Chicago and twerk on top of police cars. What’s the political statement there? The second difference is that of logistics and technology. Before the internet, it took days, weeks, and months to plan a protest. Organizers had to print fliers, make phone calls, hang up posters, and spread the word. This gave local governments and law enforcement time to prepare. Now, teenagers are able to chat on social media, meet at a specified location, and overwhelm the authorities — all within minutes. When police officers finally do arrive on the scene, most of the troublemakers have already fled. The third and most important difference lies in family structure. In the 1950s and 1960s, American families were, for the most part, intact. The vast majority of women had children after the wedding night, not before. Their husbands stuck around and helped raise the kids. Some of them were good fathers, some were bad, and most were mediocre. But they put in the time for their families. At the very least, children growing up with bad fathers learned what to avoid when they became parents. Today, our feral kids have no such role models. What can be done about them? Unfortunately, not much. Their brains are developed and their habits set. They grew up on social media, and they’re acting it out as adults. There’s no changing their behavior now. The only recourse left is in the legal system — enforcing law and order by arresting those responsible for these teen takeovers and prosecuting them for their crimes. But to prosecute someone, the police need to catch them. In most of our biggest cities, there aren’t enough cops to go around. The police departments in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Phoenix, Baltimore, and San Francisco have all reported officer shortages. In the short-term, moving away from these crime-ridden areas is the only solution. These teen takeovers have been going on for years and will continue for the foreseeable future. The only way to avoid them is to vote with your feet. In the long-term, plenty can be done. Prioritize marriage. Bring back the stigma against out-of-wedlock birth and absentee fathers. Raise your kids without screens until they’re of legal age. Inculcate virtue during their eighteen years in the nest. Otherwise, we will continue to suffer the consequences and produce more feral kids. The post An Entire Generation Has Turned Feral appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

I’d never heard of this Shri Thanedar, the Indian-born Michigan congressman who filed impeachment articles against President Trump a few days ago. Maybe that was the point. In fact, it was almost certainly the point. A little research into Thanedar will induce a chuckle and a shake of the head. From Wikipedia: Thanedar borrowed $24 million from Bank of America to finance seven acquisitions, offering the bank a personal guarantee to back the debt. One acquisition, Azopharma, grew rapidly from $1 million in 2003 to $55 million in 2008. Thanedar’s group of companies employed 500 people in 2008. He built a mansion in Ladue, Missouri with an in-home theater to accommodate 150 people. In 2007, Thanedar was offered $132 million to sell Azopharma. During the 2007–10 recession in the United States, Azopharma’s revenue fell by 70%, triggering bankruptcy proceedings by Bank of America. Azopharma closed and its assets were sold for $2 million. During the bankruptcy proceedings, AniClin, one of Azopharma’s research facilities of which Thanedar was the sole owner, abruptly closed; a 2010 USA Today article claimed that laboratory animals were abandoned at the facility after the company was placed in receivership. According to later reports, employees climbed the fences to care for the animals until animal welfare organizations gained legal access and facilitated the adoption of all animals in the facility. Thanedar denied that any animals were abandoned. Chemir remained profitable throughout the legal proceedings and was sold on March 31, 2011, for $23 million. That sale plus the combined assets in the firm covered Thanedar’s debt to Bank of America. And here’s some more: Thanedar briefly retired in 2010, then came out of retirement later that year to launch Avomeen Analytical Services, an Ann Arbor-based chemical testing laboratory, with his son Neil. Avomeen was named to the INC 5000 list of fastest-growing U.S. companies in 2015 (#673) and 2016 (#1365). In 2016, Thanedar sold a majority stake in the business to private equity firm High Street Capital. He shared $1.5 million of the proceeds with his 50 employees. Thanedar was named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for the Central Midwest Region (Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska) in 1999, 2007, and 2016. He maintains 40% ownership of Avomeen. Hey, that sounds pretty good. But wait: In November 2017, a buyer of Avomeen Holdings LLC filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Detroit, claiming Thanedar made “fraudulent and misleading representations” of his company’s finances in order to sell the majority stake in November 2016. Thanedar denies the allegations, saying that revenues “are anticipated to significantly exceed” those of past periods. U.S. District Judge Gershwin A. Drain dismissed the case in August 2019, citing a notice from Thanedar and Avomeen Holdings LLC that they had reached an agreement to resolve the matter out of court. So here we have somebody who managed to build and destroy multiple businesses and left a messy trail of litigation and cruelty before getting into politics. Where such a record would seem to be par for the course. OMG. Shri Thanedar, the Democrat Rep who filed impeachment charges against Trump, reportedly left over 150 dogs and monkeys to starve to death at an abandoned NJ testing lab that HE OWNED. This is the guy who wants to impeach Trump. Unbelievable. pic.twitter.com/VGGTohM1FG — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 30, 2025 And maybe even worse… So the weirdo who wants to impeach Trump came to the U.S. on a student visa in 1979 from India, married a U.S. Citizen in 1984 and obtained his papers through her, and then she killed herself by overdosing on anti-depressants. In 2010, 170 tortured dogs and monkeys were rescued… pic.twitter.com/szhNGukf2f — Bad Hombre (@joma_gc) April 28, 2025 Thanedar got elected first to the Michigan state legislature, and then moved on to Congress in a safe Democrat seat in 2022. But nobody knew much about him until this week, when this happened: I have introduced articles of impeachment against President Trump. When Trump ignores the Constitution, Congress, and the courts, he is not “fighting for America.” He is tearing it down and endangering our democracy. pic.twitter.com/40iBTZKjkC — Congressman Shri Thanedar (@RepShriThanedar) April 28, 2025 Can we impeach that hair? Can we impeach this guy’s tailor? No, you are not allowed to call him Brown Jimmy Fallon. And what can we say about Thanedar’s position on criminal illegal aliens? Watch Democrat Rep. Shri Thanedar DEFLECT and avoid answering when a constituent BLASTS him for voting AGAINST the Laken Riley Act. This is who’s trying to impeach Trump. He’s mad that foreign terrorists are getting deported pic.twitter.com/DIR9Jp6t90 — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 28, 2025 Trump wasn’t particularly impressed by Thanedar’s impeachment articles… …and neither should you be given the circumstances in which they were filed… Remember this: most people vote on name recognition. Rep. Shri Thanedar knows he has no chance at impeaching Trump. He only did this to get his name known since a sizable challenger just entered the race today- and it worked. He is viral now. pic.twitter.com/BxbHtlY4L0 — Anna Matson (@AnnaRMatson) April 28, 2025 …or the antics surrounding the impeachment… Democrat Shri Thanedar is trying to impeach Trump and is now running this billboard in his district, which is TAXPAYER-FUNDED. pic.twitter.com/0oY1m9OMrj — Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) April 29, 2025 Yes, this is a circus. And it’s so entertaining that Laura Loomer smoked out why it’s happening… NEW: FEC records reveal that “Shri for Congress,” the campaign of Democrat Michigan Congressman Shri Thanedar @RepShriThanedar, who filed impeachment articles against President Trump today, is deep in debt, with a deficit of -$730,313.81, according to FEC records reviewed by… pic.twitter.com/4kxfdTOw9j — Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) April 28, 2025 Sure, go and scoff at Loomer. But then you can explain why Thanedar’s campaign went from a half-million dollars in the black to more than $700,000 in the red based on a $1.2 million payment to Thanedar marked as “investment loss.” We know members of Congress tend to do awfully well in the market. This would seem to be an anomaly of some size. Not to mention a bit of a stretch of the ethical rules — can you really use campaign funds to indemnify yourself against investment losses? If so, it would explain the large amounts of money spent on elected offices that pay $170,000 per year. Now, the defense to this might be that Thanedar put some $5 million of his own money into running for Congress in the first place. Paying back a loan to the campaign, one guesses. You could maybe think this wasn’t prima facie evidence that he’s a crook, if you got an honest explanation from him. But it wasn’t like Thanedar had anything to say about that subject when he had a chance to: EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: INDIAN SCAMMER DEMOCRAT CONGRESSMAN WHO FILED ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP GETS CONFRONTED ON VIDEO Today, @LoomerUnleashed confronted Indian-born, Democrat Michigan Congressman Shri Thanedar @RepShriThanedar, who filed articles of… https://t.co/Ra4w1SSWQx pic.twitter.com/GNJEvvdOI3 — Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) April 29, 2025 It’s tempting to just throw your hands up and laugh at this sort of thing. Shri Thanedar is dead in the water for reelection, as he just picked up a primary challenger very likely to beat him in a district where his identity politics aren’t quite so favorable, and it looks like this happened a little after he raided his campaign war chest for more than a million dollars in the expectation he wouldn’t have a race. So with his derriere deeply in a crack, it appears Thanedar decided to prove the most fundamental rule of evil organizations, which is that the people who rise in them aren’t the smartest, strongest, or most virtuous but instead are those willing to do what others are not. And the guy with the most shameless hair in Congress decides to make a play for campaign donations from stupid people to clear that red ink, and perhaps pave the way for his campaign to reimburse him for more “investment losses,” by giving said stupid people the impeachment they want. Were it not for that hair, you might conclude this would make Thanedar such a hero on the left as to save his chances of reelection. But I’m going to say this is a gag which by now has whiskers on it, and that we’re so far beyond the point of diminishing returns on Democrats trying to impeach Republican presidents that it’s become a joke. But Shri Thanedar is a joke. He’s utterly ridiculous. And, given his record and life story, visibly corrupt. Here’s hoping Donovan McKinney, the Michigan state legislator who announced a primary challenge to Thanedar, is successful in sending him back to the private sector. McKinney might be every bit as loathsome a leftist as Thanedar, and perhaps even just as corrupt. But there is value in the churn, and in Thanedar we might have found the single most churnable politician in D.C. READ MORE by Scott McKay: The Bell Is Tolling for Puffed-Up, Arrogant Propagandists at CBS Five Quick Things: AOC 2028? Yes, Please! James Carville v. David Hogg? Yes, Please! The post Shri Thanedar’s Shameless Stunt appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

In public service announcements on television, the California Department of Aging (CDA) warns of internet scams, identity theft, and other forms of fraud. Such announcements, Californians have cause to believe, are better issued by state Attorney General Rob Bonta, who has been warning of “text-based toll scam activity.” When it comes to aging, Californians have access to helpful information from their doctors, HMOs, and countless medical websites. That invites a look at what the California Department of Aging, with its labyrinthine organizational chart, is all about. With a budget of more than $466 million, the California Department of Aging has 284 employees, led by director Susan DeMarois. She is accompanied by a chief deputy director, two deputy directors, two assistant deputy directors, plus a deputy director and chief information officer. The California Department of Aging also deploys a Division of Policy, Research and Equity, with its own deputy director, assistant deputy director, and yet another assistant director. By its own account, the California Department of Aging is quite top-heavy, but there’s more to it. “The CDA believes diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential for creating a more just and equitable society for all older adults.” The California Department of Aging funded a survey about “the current and future health and well-being of LGBTQIA+ older adults.” In addition, “the LGBTQIA+ community continues to face challenges as they age,” and so on. Since the letters represent different phenomena, the alphabet formulation is a construct, relentlessly imposed on California youth. Last year, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1955, the “Support Academic Futures and Educators for Today’s Youth Act.” The measure bars government school districts from notifying parents about the gender transitions of their own children. California policy also portrays the alphabet construct as an oppressed community. Californians have evidence that precisely the opposite is the case. Consider, for example, Herbert David Brown, who in 2013 murdered his 22-month-old daughter, Lily. The child was found with a “fractured skull, consistent with being hit with great force against a hard object and vigorous shaking.” In September 2015, Brown pleaded no contest to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison. After serving 12 years, Brown, “now identifies as a woman, going by the name Allie Hazel Brown.” On October 30, 2024, California granted parole to the convicted murderer, still regarded as a threat to public safety by San Luis Obispo County district attorney Dan Dow. If Californians thought the claim to be a woman played a role in the murderer’s early release, it would be hard to blame them. Consider also the case of Rodney Quine. In 1980, the father of two daughters murdered Shahid Ali Baig and stole his car. In prison, Quine claimed that since the age of nine he believed he was really a woman. Federal judge Jon Tigar believed him and in 2017 Quine became the first inmate to receive sex-change surgery funded by taxpayers. The convicted murderer is now inmate WB1121 at the Central California Women’s Facility. Quine and Brown both pleaded innocent, after which the court examined physical evidence to determine if the claim was true. On the other hand, with the murderers’ claims to womanhood, nothing of the kind took place. In California, reality dysphoria trumps justice and gains a new supporter in the California Department of Aging, another redundant bureaucracy pushing misguided policy on the taxpayers’ dime. Meanwhile, as the people might recall, the California Department of Aging issued no televised warning about possibly the worst scam in state history. On the watch of Julie Su, head of the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency, California indulged more than $30 billion in unemployment fraud, with millions in payments to convicts and out-of-state fraudsters. Never held accountable, Su was Joe Biden’s pick for labor secretary. If Gov. Newsom Julie taps Su for some government post, embattled Californians would not be surprised. Lloyd Billingsley is a policy fellow at the Independent Institute in Oakland, Calif. The post California’s Aging Scam appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.