The pro-Democrat networks easily betray their partisanship when they pretend bad news is no news for Democrats. On Saturday afternoon‚ NBCNews.com ran a headline: Senate staffer alleged by conservative outlets to have had sex in a hearing room is no longer employed Conservative news outlets alleged that the aide to Sen. Ben Cardin‚ D-Md.‚ appeared in a leaked video showing men having sex in a Senate hearing room. Conservatives could hardly believe it. After all‚ Cardin's aide Aidan was canned‚ and he complained it was over "who I love" (on camera). Just like Politico Playbook‚ NBC ran it merely as a Daily Caller accusation: Sen. Ben Cardin’s office has parted ways with a staffer who conservative news outlets alleged was shown in a leaked video having sex in a Senate hearing room. “Aidan Maese-Czeropski is no longer employed by the U.S. Senate‚” the Maryland Democrat’s office said in a statement to NBC News on Saturday‚ which was first obtained by Politico. “We will have no further comment on this personnel matter.” On Friday‚ The Daily Caller‚ a conservative news outlet‚ published what it said was video showing a congressional staffer having “sex with an unknown man in the Senate hearing room.” It added that the video was shared “in a private group for gay men in politics.” How is this headline real? pic.twitter.com/0P90GrJk8r — Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) December 16‚ 2023 From Saturday night through Sunday night‚ we couldn't find any mention of this Democrat scandal on ABC‚ CBS‚ NBC‚ or PBS. It wasn't mentioned on any of the Sunday morning interview shows‚ including CNN's State of the Union. A search of NPR.org found nothing. FoxNews.com reported "Capitol Hill rocked‚" but the story drew light mentions on air. The Washington Post‚ the paper with the "Democracy Dies in Darkness" motto‚ couldn't apparently shed any light on this‚ despite Senator Cardin being from Maryland‚ in their newspaper's back yard.  The New York Times? Nothing.

For Rosa Parks‚ the disenfranchised black woman‚ to become Rosa Parks‚ the civil rights icon‚ the tired seamstress needed to step into the breach and pick a fight on a Montgomery‚ Alabama‚ bus one day in 1955 with absolutely no guarantee of success. In fact‚ it was the likelihood of her failure that made it all the more important for somebody — anybody — to take a leap of faith‚ with the understanding that important societal change usually only comes the hard way. It is in that spirit that I’d like to wish you a Merry Christmas by placing some presents under your tree in the form of three women who understand and appreciate that there is indeed good in this world and it is worth fighting for. Let’s start with Michelle Efendi‚ who‚ like Parks‚ was arrested. But in Efendi’s case‚ it was for refusing to show proof of taking the poisonous jab upon attempting to enter the Massachusetts statehouse in March 2022. Since that time‚ the government has refused to drop the trumped-up charges against her‚ and former friends and estranged family members have petitioned to have her children taken from her because of her refusal to drink the COVID Kool-Aid. It might not be easy‚ but that doesn’t mean it isn’t simple. The walls were closing in so hard — including being put on a list of COVID “deniers” drawn up by the same Boston mayor who was recently outed for throwing “no whites allowed” holiday parties — that Efendi and her husband moved their family to the free state of Florida. A combination of factors initially triggered her resistance to the COVID regime: the haste of Operation Warp Speed (even though she had never been “anti-vax” before)‚ the refusal of state government officials to respond to emails and phone calls‚ and being forced to give birth to her baby while wearing a mask. “It all felt like an out-of-control situation‚” said Efendi‚ 37. This despite the fact that in 2020 she distributed masks and‚ at times‚ even lectured her local officials for not doing enough to fight the pandemic. “I had never voted GOP in my entire life‚” she said. “I voted for Hillary. I voted for Bernie. I was all in. And I believed everything the government told me about COVID. It hurts to have been manipulated like I was. They groom people with this feeling of compassion and that you are doing the right thing.” “It is terrifying and humiliating‚” she continued. “I’m disgusted by the whole thing. It’s been like the Salem Witch Trials.” Don’t be too hard on yourself‚ Michelle. You have eyes to see now in the land of the blind. That is far more than could be said even for a place like the alleged red state of Texas‚ where 30 miles outside Dallas-Fort Worth‚ a prostitute last month was discovered sitting on multiple school district committees — including a sex-ed committee! — as well as serving as a classroom volunteer in a small‚ rural farming town. Yet this revelation was so unremarkable for Superintendent Rich Dear and six of the seven school district board members that it left the remaining board member‚ 36-year-old Kayla Lain‚ to dig in and fight by herself. As a homeschooling mom‚ Lain doesn’t even have children in the district any more. But she was fed up with her children’s experience there in the past and knew too much to simply stand by and do nothing. Lain could get no clear explanation for how a woman who had lived in town for less than a year could sit on a long-range planning committee‚ a school health advisory committee‚ and a steering committee for the city despite having four previous arrests‚ including two for prostitution. Somehow she was cleared to work with kids in the classroom. Lain also said that the woman‚ who remained an active escort‚ found her way onto the school health advisory committee without ever having been approved by the school board as required. Yet no clear account was forthcoming from the superintendent or district staff. “The superintendent is very tyrannical‚” Lain explained. “He sends trespass warnings to people or shuts them down if they don’t stick to the topics he allows them to talk about at board meetings. He masked 3-year-olds during COVID and kept the masks after the governor lifted the mandate.” After more than two weeks of stonewalling and obfuscation‚ Lain got the local police and the Texas Rangers involved. And per state code‚ the moral fog suddenly lifted. The prostitute was told she had to go. Perhaps the Texas Rangers could also take a look into the world of Irish dance competitions‚ where transgender usurpers take the place of prostitutes in our next story. Florida resident Sarah Tyler traveled to the Lone Star State earlier this month to participate in a regional contest that determined who would go on to nationals. Rumors were flying on social media that a boy might attempt to replicate what has already happened in far too many youth sports across the nation‚ but all comments of concern were deleted.“It was hard to know who was an ally and who would forward your text and potentially get your kid blacklisted‚” said Tyler‚ 41. And then it happened. A boy who competed as a boy as recently as July “turned up in a dress” and took the top spot from a girl who had won the national championship just a year earlier. “A few rabid people were cheering‚ but everyone else was exchanging glances‚ and we all saw that it wasn’t even close to ‘everyone is OK with this‚’” Tyler said. “Then we went home‚ started networking and calling attorneys. This time‚ the mob might have come after something we’re actually willing to fight for.” There you have it. It might not be easy‚ but that doesn’t mean it isn’t simple. Three women said‚ “Enough is enough.” Here are three wise women who don’t claim to have all the answers but who know a cult or a con when they see one. They refuse to lie down and take it while their children and society suffer for it. They get it. What’s your excuse?

Harvard President Claudine Gay’s recent embarrassing performance while testifying before Congress reminded me why I dislike the “credentialed people.” Obviously‚ not all credentials betoken villainy‚ and admittedly‚ medical researchers and true scholars who have passed through our academic bedlam may well deserve the degrees and titles they hold. But there are other humans with titles and degrees who are less admirable and who flaunt their association with now-corrupted institutions. They also take their moral and social bearings from snobs like themselves and delight in parroting the dreariest woke opinions. Although Gay disgraced herself before Congress and although even the anti-white agitprop she passed off as scholarship in preparation to become Harvard’s president seems to have been plagiarized‚ the Harvard Corporation stands by its president — unanimously. When their preferred educational institutions came up in conversation‚ government workers sounded like ancient Egyptians stringing together parts of their godhead. Instead of “Amon-Ra‚” they would utter sounds like “Harvard-Yale-Princeton.” “It’s the faculty and students of the university who decide the president‚ not the billionaire people on Twitter‚" opined Ryan Enos‚ a Harvard professor of government and director of the Center for American Political Studies. And Gay’s auxiliary forces on “Saturday Night Live” even provided a skit in which she was depicted as a thoughtful intellectual trying to respond to Republican U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik’s outrage at her perfectly rational remarks. After all‚ Gay was just “contextualizing” those calls from her prestigious community for the killing of Jews. We shouldn’t be surprised that Gay still has stalwart defenders‚ which is also true of MIT’s president‚ Sally Kornbluth‚ who also beclowned herself before Congress. Such credentialed people have friends in our make-believe high society‚ and their well-wishers‚ including hundreds of faculty members‚ won’t let them down. At least for the foreseeable future‚ our two disgraced university presidents seem secure in their positions. Particularly with regard to Gay‚ any trustee who would ridicule a culturally radical plagiarizer who is also‚ not incidentally‚ a black female might be accused of being one of them. By “one of them‚” I mean those lowbrow normies who don’t get invited to parties thrown by the Obamas and the Clintons and who might even be crypto-MAGA Republicans. Those are not the people with whom those who went to the appropriate schools and now protest against homophobia‚ carbon emissions‚ and systemic racism would want to rub shoulders. I first came across this type as a graduate student at Yale in the 1960s‚ when some of my classmates walked around with week-old copies of the pro-Soviet French newspaper Le Monde and lectured me on my boorish dislike for communist governments. I deepened my acquaintance with the snob class while residing in a Washington‚ D.C.‚ suburb in the late 1980s. Government workers struck me as particularly obnoxious‚ even more so than politically correct academics. They filled their tedious conversations with talking points taken mostly from state radio (aka NPR). Some of these self-important people listened to NPR a second time in Spanish‚ lest they miss a fashionable opinion while hearing it in English. My erstwhile neighbors and professional contacts held posts in a vast bureaucratic hierarchy. Although most of them never reached the heights of social and media recognition achieved by a Jack Smith or one of Biden’s multiculturally enriching cabinet secretaries‚ the fact that they were government employees who could afford to live in a predominantly white D.C. suburb made them “special‚” at least in their own minds. Some of my neighbors even had “Ph.D.” attached to their names and flaunted that adornment whenever they could. These state employees were naturally big on self-promotion and boasted about their meetings with Democratic Party bigwigs. (As one might surmise‚ 99.9% of these acquaintances were Democrats and usually associated with the party’s busybody wing.) They also attended demonstrations for abortion and gay rights and would proudly announce their attendance at these events when talking to other credentialed people. Among their objects of special veneration were Ivy League universities. If it turned out that someone in their society had attended one of these institutions‚ they would never stop telling you. And if one of their offspring made it into such a paradise‚ they would place that information on a bumper sticker and ride around sharing it with others who couldn’t care less. These socially insecure acquaintances also tended to string together Ivy League institutions when mentioning them. Acceptance at these hallowed halls of ivy was‚ for them‚ a rite of passage. It was a necessary step for those who would someday be taking the Metro to work in the federal bureaucracy in its‚ by then‚ even more grotesquely metastasized form. Sometimes when their preferred educational institutions came up in conversation‚ government workers sounded like ancient Egyptians stringing together parts of their godhead. Instead of “Amon-Ra‚” they would utter sounds like “Harvard-Yale-Princeton.” This contraction was occasionally lengthened to include such lesser objects of veneration as Georgetown‚ George Mason‚ and American University. The plan now bruited about by presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy to cut the federal workforce by 75% seems a good start. Perhaps Vivek‚ if he were elected‚ could send the rest of the swamp crew to the Noth Pole or‚ even better‚ Cambridge‚ Massachusetts.

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