“Existential Comics” is an unfunny hard Left “comic”. In a recent “comic” the artist was trying to… say that a gay man was transphobic for not wanting a boy in a girls bathroom or playing on women’s sports because Harry Potter—unlike a real boy—turned himself into a literal girl meaning that Dumbledore is just a hater.
Of course, what this does do is demonstrate just how much transgenderism is just magic cosplay taken seriously to the point of being an honest belief in imitative magic.
With all the advancements of science, perhaps the ability to generate complex life from a handful of cells has so many unexplored vistas of possibilities, including the genetic engineering of catgirls suitable for domestic adoption. A research team at the University of Cambridge has now created “synthetic” embryos complete with beating heart and functioning brain:
“Scientists from the University of Cambridge have created model embryos from mouse stem cells that form a brain, a beating heart, and the foundations of all the other organs of the body. It represents a new avenue for recreating the first stages of life.
“The team of researchers, led by Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, developed the embryo model without eggs or sperm. Instead, they used stem cells – the body’s master cells, which can develop into almost any cell type in the body.
“By guiding the three types of stem cells found in early mammalian development to the point where they start interacting, the researchers mimicked natural processes in the lab. The scientists were able to get the stem cells to ‘talk’ to each other by inducing the expression of a particular set of genes and establishing a unique environment for their interactions.”
And what comes after the mouse but the cat? With lab grown embryos and the development of artificial wombs, it will only be a matter of time before the world will be filled with catgirls!
Most importantly, the development of a synthetic organic brain for hyper-intelligent catgirls is now possible:
“A major advance in the study is the ability to generate the entire brain, in particular the anterior part, which has been a major goal in the development of synthetic embryos. This works in Zernicka-Goetz’s system because this part of the brain requires signals from one of the extraembryonic tissues to be able to develop. The team thought that this might be taking place from their 2018 and 2021 studies, which used the same component cells to develop into embryos at a slightly earlier stage. Now, by pushing development just one day further, they can definitively say that their model is the very first to signal development of the anterior, and in fact the whole, brain.”
Two years ago, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order to ban the sale of gas automobiles and trucks. That executive order is now being put into effect.
“California on Thursday is expected to put into effect its sweeping plan to prohibit the sale of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035, a groundbreaking move that could have major effects on the effort to fight climate change and accelerate a global transition toward electric vehicles.
“‘This is huge,’ said Margo Oge, an electric vehicles expert who headed the Environmental Protection Agency’s transportation emissions program under Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. ‘California will now be the only government in the world that mandates zero-emission vehicles. It is unique.’
“The rule, issued by the California Air Resources Board, will require that 100 percent of all new cars sold in the state by 2035 be free of the fossil fuel emissions chiefly responsible for warming the planet, up from 12 percent today. It sets interim targets requiring that 35 percent of new passenger vehicles sold in the state by 2026 produce zero emissions. That would climb to 68 percent by 2030.”
It is not solely from government that the woke Left implements it’s woke “queer” agenda, even if they end up working through government. Christopher Rufo has uncovered a left-wing NGO whose sole aim is to indoctrinate school children into woke beliefs without the children’s parents ever knowing.
SCOOP: A left-wing NGO has laundered radical gender theory into more than 4,000 American schools, promoting an agenda of "anti-capitalism," the "abolition of the police," and encouraging children to adopt sexual identities such as "non-binary," "pansexual," and "genderqueer."
🧵— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) August 10, 2022
The GSA Network is an umbrella organization for thousands of “Genders & Sexualities Alliances” (GSAs), which operate in elementary, middle, and high schools in 40 states. The organization has a multimillion-dollar budget and its activism is subsidized by many public schools. pic.twitter.com/A7gFsDDRDk
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) August 10, 2022
In a political manifesto, the GSA Network endorses calls for the “abolition of the police,” the “abolition of borders,” the payment of “reparations” to minorities, the “decolonization” of native lands, and the overthrow of the “cisgender heterosexual patriarchy.” pic.twitter.com/t9HxIxmWGk
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) August 10, 2022
News of the Week for Aug. 28th, 2022
When most normal people think of a burger, they think of a hamburger made with a beef patty. For other patties, there is usually a qualification (e.g. “chicken burger”, “veggie burger”, &c.). Why? Because a hamburger is definitionally made from beef.
But not anymore… in Austria anyway for Burger King who believe that “meat is no longer a matter of course in the future.”
“Burger King Austria is continuing the chain’s introduction of plant-based menu items around the world with a new campaign to promote the burgers, which will be positioned as ‘the new normal’ on its menu.
“The restaurant chain has begun a campaign titled ‘Meat Option,’ which will see Burger King staff ask all customers whether they want their order as ‘regular or with meat’—as it standardizes the plant-based option over its more traditional offering.
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“The campaign motto ‘Normal, or with meat?’ will be promoted throughout Austria and on social media. The video has already generated around 100,000 organic views through Instagram and YouTube, under the hashtags #normalodermitfleisch/#meatoption.”
The commercial they made is… pure cringe.
But at least they are giving an option that mentions meat as at least an alternative so that people don’t get hornswaggled, for now, which is more than the company Blue Bottle has done:
“In the United States, coffee chain Blue Bottle has made a similar shift. In 2021, it tested an oat milk default at its West Coast locations, so if customers order a latte without specifying a milk preference, it is made with oat milk rather than cow’s milk. Based on the overwhelmingly positive results, Blue Bottle has expanded its oat milk default nationwide.
“These food giants are posing a question to the public: how can we define a new normal?”
Veganism is increasingly being imposed by stealth when they don’t even tell you you aren’t getting what you are actually ordering. You buy a burger, you expect beef. You buy a latte, you expect dairy.
Your humble author has often pointed out that many on the rights seemed inclined to tear down institutions, and even mores, in a quest to stop elites from being a threat, if not outright seek to “hear the lamentations of their women”. Dan McLaughlin, provides an illuminating history of what he refers to as “republicanism”, and how this republicanism in an American vein could easily find itself into a more anti-American/European style of “republicanism”.
So, what is this “republicanism”?
“Among all of these values, republicanism may sound the least relevant to today, when monarchy is out of fashion in most of the world, and scarcely anybody in the Western world still professes faith in the underlying assumption that governing power is divinely ordained to be handed down by hereditary birthright rather than earned through some form of popular sovereignty or proven merit. But to early Americans, republicanism as an ideological concept meant something broader than ‘no more kings.’
“What it meant was an end to the entire mindset of formal and informal aristocratic privilege and social deference to the highborn. In a truly republican society, no man had a hereditary position, and no man needed to give way before his ‘betters.’ All would never be equal in natural talents or inherited wealth, but everyone started with at least a theoretically equal position of opportunity for advancement and for earning the respect of his fellow man. This was distinct from republics of the past — the Roman republic, the Venetian republic — that had no king and some representative institutions, but were still run by an aristocratic or oligarchic elite.”
Radical Gender Theory is systemically embedded in the school system and all children are being indoctrinated, not only with Critical Gender Theory, but the intersectional ideology of Critical Race Theory which posits that all non-Whites were queer genderless noble saveages until White people imposed the “gender/sexual” binary on indigenous peoples, and only the “other ways of knowing” of these non-White peoples—which strangely seems cribbed from the ideology of the Whitest of White leftists—will liberate anyone from the evils of not accepting English language neo-pronouns… because somehow all languages outside of Western European languages recognized that gender and biological differences between the sexes didn’t exist!
That they are imposing far greater “Whiteness” on the thinking of non-Whites than any conquistador or colonizer ever could seems to escape them. Yet, here they are pushing their Whiteness on the bon sauvage! And not on some graduate school level… but on impressionable children.
SCOOP: Portland Public Schools is now teaching elementary school students to subvert the sexuality of “white colonizers,” acknowledge that girls can have penises, and begin experimenting with “ze/zir” pronouns and exploring “the infinite gender spectrum.”
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— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) July 27, 2022
The new curriculum translates the principles of academic queer theory into K-12 pedagogy. The premise is simple: privileged heterosexual “white colonizers” have created an oppressive “gender binary” in order to exploit racial and sexual minorities. pic.twitter.com/GZWNYVOqdj
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) July 27, 2022
Beginning in kindergarten, teaches give anatomy lessons with graphic drawings of children’s genitalia. The lessons refer to “person with a penis” and “person with a vulva,” because some girls have penises and some boys have vulvas. “Any gender and kid can have any type of body.” pic.twitter.com/6oOgQbVdjO
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) July 27, 2022
Due to some vacation time, there won’t be posting, including News of the Week, until early/middle of next week.
Until then, enjoy this kitten live cam.
Why have responsible and limited government when you can use it as a cudgel against your political enemies?
They'll just try to weaponize it for themselves, be completely incompetent about it, and leave the Democrats with an even more and bipartisan powerful tool that will be used against the GOP with the GOP's prior endorsement of the "new rules". https://t.co/fO3221ogto
— The Sizzlin' Summer Hat (@ThePoliticalHat) August 9, 2022
No one in the GOP wants to fix it. They want to co opt it and use it against their enemies (i.e. not fighting back with one arm tied around their back and instead using the "new rules"). They'll screw it up like the Hungarians in The Usual Suspects.
— The Sizzlin' Summer Hat (@ThePoliticalHat) August 9, 2022
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