“I feel like if the pandemic hadn’t happened at all, a lot of my sadness and mental problems would not be as bad as they are,” Neenah Hughes, who was in eighth grade when COVID hit, tells 60 Minutes. https://t.co/AcrGU6Vlg1 pic.twitter.com/zaVXfvnwae

— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) May 8, 2022

Deep in my heart of hearts I believe every single person who came up with and enforced school closures, remote learning, the closing of parks and playgrounds, masking of kids, etc. should be marched into the desert and forced to kneel facing a hole in the ground.

When I am asked why I am filling a old copper pit mine to the brim with bodies, I will point to the rate of depression and suicide, academic failure, and lack of social development among kids affected by COVID policies and will say “I’m doing this for the same reason you used when you implemented these policies, to protect the children.”

A California startup is offering cocoon-like pods to allow 14 residents to share a single house as an escape from soaring rents and real estate prices

Brownstone Shared Housing has two locations: the first is just minutes away from Stanford University in Palo Alto and houses 14, while the second sleeps 6 in central Bakersfield.

“We started with how can we house as many people as possible in an existing space in a way that preserves dignity and comfort and privacy,” CEO James Stallworth, who co-founded the self-financed Brownstone with Christina Lennox, said in an interview with Insider.

Both houses are fully furnished with shared co-working and living spaces, along with two bathrooms and a shared kitchen.

What makes the concept different is the “fully equipped” sleeping pods that the company says are 40% larger than a traditional bunk bed.

At $800 per month, which includes utilities, the cost of a pod is less than half the rent of a studio apartment in Palo Alto. Meanwhile, the median sale price topped $4 million in March for single-family homes, according to Redfin.

This feels like a joke from Demolition Man.

You cannot preserve dignity, comfort, and privacy when you charge $800 per month to share a house with 14 people and only have a box that is 40% larger than a bunk bed to yourself.

The old California dream was to buy a house.  California once had the highest middle-class quality of life of any state.

Today, the California dream is affording your own pod rental.

This is an obscenity.

I am a Star Trek fan.

I will acknowledge that Star Trek was always a bit on the left, but it was Liberal left.  A utopian world where infinite resources eliminated scarcity and a desire to accumulate wealth, so people were free to follow their passions and discover new things for the sake of discovery, not profit.

Star Trek was an aspirational future.

The wife and I watched the first season of Star Trek: Picard and like it.

Season Two is a woke shit-show.

One character, Captain Rios, is awesome.  He’s played by a Chilean actor.

They go back to Los Angeles in 2024, which doesn’t look any different from LA in 2022.

Rios is arrested by ICE who raid a “we don’t ask questions or need to see your papers” clinic run by another Hispanic woman.

ICE are all white guys who don’t speak Spanish and torture scared and timid Hispanics.  Suspected illegals are put on a bus and “disappeared” without trial in less than 24 hours after being arrested, never to be heard of again.  The dialog is peppered with commentary about how evil this is.

Later on, Picard runs into a young Guinan (not played by Woopie Goldberg).  Guinan, who has been on Earth for years says to Picard that fairness is something “for people that look like you, not like me” – because he’s a white man abs she’s a black woman – and that society is just as racist as it ever was and only “wears a suit instead of a hood.”

The absolute fuck is this?

It’s woke hyperbole that America hasn’t changed since Alabama in 1959 or even 1859, we just hide it better.

This is objectively untrue.

As for the ICE thing, this is Los Angeles, California, at the end if the Biden Administration (April, 2024).ICE and CBP are overwhelmingly Hispanic.  It is illegal to perform an immigration arrest in a hospital or health care facility.  Bybtgis time Title 42 would have expired so they’re not deporting anyone without a felony conviction.

In reality, if ICE even bothered to contact Rios, he’d probably be given a cellphone, a few hundred dollars in cash, and a subsidized hotel room with a note to when to show up at court for his immigration hearing.

But reality doesn’t spread the woke message that America is a horrible, white supremacist nation. So they have to make ICE look like Nazi Jew-hunters going after poor Hispanics.

It’s impossibly bad and totally destructive to the legacy of Star Trek.

The marchers have made it to what appears to be Justice Kavanaugh’s house. pic.twitter.com/c5YJMULMv7

— Douglas Blair (@DouglasKBlair) May 8, 2022

This is Level 1.

This is angry Leftist activists chanting ugly slogans.

These are the people who will be used to provide cover for Level 2, activists who engage in property damage.

The vandals will hide among the protesters allowing the media to call them “mostly peaceful” and portray any attempts to clear the protesters as repressive attempts to deny people their civil rights to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

This is well orchestrated.

How to Safely Destroy Your Ghost Gun- pic.twitter.com/gOhPGyKPjD

— ₩₳Ɽ ₱₳₮Ⱨ (@WarPath2pt0) May 5, 2022

A play in three acts:

Hunter Biden's laptop password was "analfuck69"https://t.co/pvUnsicvnB

— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) May 7, 2022

Pro-abortion activists are planning protests in churches on Mother's Day and are preparing visits to Supreme Court justices' homes next week to express anger over an anticipated ruling overturning legalized abortion. https://t.co/IeCBkvOyx6

— The Washington Times (@WashTimes) May 5, 2022

Pro-abortion heathens want to attack mothers at church on mother’s day.

Because that will somehow convince people to support their side?