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Positive reactions poured in after The Daily Wire dropped a trailer for “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/lady-ballers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lady Ballers</a>,” a new feature-length comedy that mocks the recent phenomenon of men competing in women’s sports.
The film, directed by Daily Wire co-founder Jeremy Boreing, will follow the story of a down-on-his-luck former high school basketball coach, Rob, who will do anything to win — which in this case means teaching his team of men radical modern gender theory and leading them to identify as women in order to brutally dominate multiple women’s sports. Boreing stars in the film alongside Daily Wire sports show “Crain &amp; Co.” hosts.
“This looks sooo goood. Can’t wait to watch!” Libs of TikTok creator Chaya Raichik reacted to the trailer, which has been viewed over 10.5 million times on X.
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This looks sooo goood 😂. Can’t wait to watch! <a href="https://t.co/lE0Aha7mIi">https://t.co/lE0Aha7mIi</a>
&mdash; Chaya Raichik (@ChayaRaichik10) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChayaRaichik10/status/1729205278191862101?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
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“When and where can I see this?!” comedian Roseanne Barr said responding to the trailer’s drop on Monday. The film will be <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/lady-ballers">available</a> to DailyWire+ members beginning this Friday, December 1, at 8:00 p.m. EST.
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When and where can I see this?! <a href="https://t.co/MKWA9kTpEf">https://t.co/MKWA9kTpEf</a>
&mdash; Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne) <a href="https://twitter.com/therealroseanne/status/1729231859266338818?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Paula Scanlan, a spokeswoman for the Independent Women’s Forum and advocate for keeping men out of women’s sports, <a href="https://twitter.com/PaulaYScanlan/status/1729200125048770751">said</a> she was pleased the absurdity of men participating in women’s sports was being highlighted by film.
“While most days it’s frustrating or upsetting that so many people defend men playing in women sports, we have to admit it is hilarious that they do … I’m glad the absurdity (and humor) of the situation is being highlighted by this film. I can’t wait to see it. I am so glad non woke people are entering the comedy space again!” she said.
Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz, who has a cameo in the film, shared the trailer for the film on X, taking aim at comedian Jimmy Kimmel.
[Jimmy Kimmel], this is how you make basketball comedy that is actually funny. Take notes,” Cruz said, referring to their basketball rivalry.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/JimmyKimmelLive?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JimmyKimmelLive</a>, this is how you make basketball comedy that is actually funny. Take notes. <a href="https://t.co/0n0w28bRdC">https://t.co/0n0w28bRdC</a>
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1729225997403251138?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
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“This is what we have all been craving for so long. Actual comedy. Lady Ballers is going to be one of the top blockbusters of the year. Mark my words,” conservative X account End Wokeness <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1729207923732303945" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
The trailer reveals a who’s who of conservative personalities — including Daily Wire stars Ben Shapiro, Brett Cooper, Michael Knowles, and Andrew Klavan, plus college women’s swim champ Riley Gaines, Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon, with even more to be revealed in the film.
“I think it&#8217;s fair to say this trailer is the pinnacle of my acting career,” Klavan <a href="https://twitter.com/andrewklavan/status/1729216899404468224" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, sharing the trailer.
Gaines, who was forced to race against male swimmer Lia Thomas during her collegiate career, said she was very excited for the film’s release.
“Highlighting the absurdity of allowing men into women&#8217;s sports through comedy &amp; what&#8217;s supposed to be satire. This is the way Sooooo excited for this! Make sure to watch &#8216;LADY BALLERS&#8217; ft me and some of the most influential people in the conservative movement on 12/1,” she <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1729188903381524752" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Other prominent reactions included:
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🤣 AWESOME! <a href="https://t.co/4B7JZlWjwq">https://t.co/4B7JZlWjwq</a>
&mdash; PragerU (@prageru) <a href="https://twitter.com/prageru/status/1729202270997524595?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
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lol omg <a href="https://t.co/PL5sVWwXl2">https://t.co/PL5sVWwXl2</a>
&mdash; Tim Pool (@Timcast) <a href="https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1729189876313272548?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Yes. The madness must be mocked.
Well done, Jeremy. You&#39;ll get a mention when I win Best Supporting Actor for my part in this. <a href="https://t.co/5RZKdvqqzC">https://t.co/5RZKdvqqzC</a>
&mdash; Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) <a href="https://twitter.com/SethDillon/status/1729195288940978329?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Lady Ballers

‘Where Can I See This?’: Excitement Builds After DailyWire+ Drops Trailer For New Comedy Mocking Men In Women’s Sports

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Basketball

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DailyWire+

Jeremy Boreing

Riley Gaines

Roseanne Barr

Transgender Athletes

The Daily Wire released the trailer for its first-ever feature-length comedy “Lady Ballers” on Monday, a movie that mocks the recent and controversial phenomenon of men competing in women’s sports. 
“Lady Ballers,” a DailyWire+ original, is directed by the company’s co-founder Jeremy Boreing, who also stars in the film alongside Daily Wire sports show “Crain &amp; Co.” hosts. The movie tells the story of one down-on-his-luck former high school basketball coach, Rob, who will do anything to win — which in this case means teaching his team of men radical modern gender theory and leading them to identify as women in order to brutally dominate multiple women’s sports.
“The only thing happening in our culture more absurd and hilarious than men calling themselves women and then dominating women’s sports is that the ‘speak truth to power’ set on the left not only won’t make fun of it, they won’t even acknowledge it’s a joke,” Boreing said. “This movie is for the women who have trained their entire lives only to be beaten at their sport by a man who couldn’t win at his, the majority of Americans who find the whole idea of men in women’s sports to be objectively wrong, and anyone who misses comedy &#8211; which the woke left destroyed on their ascent to cultural primacy.”
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Hollywood won&#39;t make a movie about how laughably absurd it is that we now allow grown men to call themselves women and then dominate women&#39;s sports. 
So we did.
Introducing our first feature-length comedy, &#39;LADY BALLERS.&#39;
Available December 1st, only on <a href="https://t.co/p0JKWmMBKq">https://t.co/p0JKWmMBKq</a> <a href="https://t.co/zkukluQfT2">pic.twitter.com/zkukluQfT2</a>
&mdash; Jeremy Boreing (@JeremyDBoreing) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeremyDBoreing/status/1729186212085420387?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Boreing plays the lead character, Coach Rob, while “Crain &amp; Co.” hosts Jake Crain, Blain Crain, and David Cone join comedian Tyler Fischer and newcomer Daniel Considine as Lady Ballers players. The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh stars as woke beatnik, Kris; Instagram influencer Billie Rae Brandt debuts as the villainous journalist, Gwen Wilde; Lexie Contursi (La La Land) stars as Coach Rob’s ex-wife, Dharby; and Rosie Seraphine Harper debuts as Rob’s eight-year-old daughter, Winnie. 
The trailer reveals a who’s who of conservative personalities — including Daily Wire stars Ben Shapiro, Brett Cooper, Michael Knowles, and Andrew Klavan, plus college women’s swim champ Riley Gaines, Senator Ted Cruz, Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon, with even more to be revealed in the film.
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Though largely kept under wraps until now, the movie already had its fair share of controversy during filming in Nashville, with protestors rallying on location, bullying and harrassing cast and crew as they arrived on set, and successfully pressuring one contracted filming location to cancel. But the cast and crew were undeterred and successfully wrapped filming in early July, and the movie will premiere this Wednesday, November 29, at a red carpet event in Nashville. “Lady Ballers” will be available to DailyWire+ members beginning this Friday, December 1, at 8 p.m. ET.

Lady Ballers Trailer

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DailyWire+ Drops Trailer For 'The Most Triggering Comedy Of The Year' Mocking Men In Women's Sports

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They’re Coming After Elon Because He Committed The Sin Of Allowing Us To Speak

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Lynette Adkins isn&#8217;t exactly the person you&#8217;d expect to kickstart a social media conversation about international terrorism, and how Osama bin Laden might have done the right thing by ordering the 9/11 terrorist attacks. For one thing, Lynette Adkins is a recent college graduate whose latest <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qDEhVKb_gM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a> on YouTube is entitled, &#8220;getting hotter &amp; making friends in LA.&#8221; And in 2021, Adkins was <a href="https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-09-23/content-creators-meet-lynette-adkins-youtube-influencer-marketing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profiled</a> by The Los Angeles Times, not for her great insights on world affairs, but because of her videos on, &#8220;college life, skin and hair care,&#8221; including &#8220;a tutorial for Black women growing out their natural hair.&#8221; Adkins, the Times reported, was mainly successful because she often told her followers — which now number well over 200,000 on various social media platforms — how they could quit their white-collar jobs and become a vapid social media personality like herself.
But just a couple of days ago, Adkins offered an insight into a very different topic. Claiming she was in the midst of an existential crisis, Adkins posted this short video on TikTok:
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Tiktokers are now so anti semitic that they’re promoting OSAMA BIN LADEN and the essay where he rants about the Jewish Question <a href="https://t.co/X2QV2rLeCi">pic.twitter.com/X2QV2rLeCi</a>
&mdash; Kuleshov (@Kulesh0vEffect) <a href="https://twitter.com/Kulesh0vEffect/status/1724714049781588052?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
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She’s having an existential crisis, she says. We&#8217;re now a long way from telling black women how to grow out their natural hair. In that clip, Adkins conspicuously doesn&#8217;t mention what &#8220;A Letter to America” is, apparently because she worried people might not be interested in the document when they learned it was Osama bin Laden&#8217;s manifesto justifying the 9/11 attacks.
But in the end, Adkins&#8217; ploy apparently worked. As the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/11/16/business/tiktok-shredded-as-osama-bin-ladens-letter-to-america-gets-viral-praise-terrorist-propaganda/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported,</a> Adkins single-handedly &#8220;jumpstarted&#8221; a flood of activity on social media, and in particular on TikTok, about Osama bin Laden&#8217;s manifesto. Several <a href="https://www.thewrap.com/the-guardian-deletes-osama-bin-laden-letter-to-america-tiktok/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">other outlets</a> also credited Adkins for what happened next. The #lettertoamerica hashtag on TikTok racked up more than 14 million views and on X (Twitter), the same hashtag quickly accounted for nearly 100,000 posts. 
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1265-osama-bin-laden-becomes-a-tik-tok-influencer-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></h4>
The journalist Yashar Ali <a href="https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1724942399431217457" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that in thousands of TikToks, people of all races, ethnicities, and backgrounds responded to bin Laden&#8217;s letter. And for the most part, these TikToks involved young people saying bin Laden&#8217;s letter has led them to reevaluate their perspective on terrorism, and how it can, in fact, be a legitimate form of protest to a hostile, colonizing power. He uploaded just a small handful of these TikToks. We’ll take a look at a small handful of that handful:
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Over the past 24 hours, thousands of TikToks (at least) have been posted where people share how they just read Bin Laden’s infamous &quot;Letter to America,&quot; in which he explained why he attacked the United States.
The TikToks are from people of all ages, races, ethnicities, and… <a href="https://t.co/EwjiGtFEE3">pic.twitter.com/EwjiGtFEE3</a>
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Osama bin Laden, the mass murderer of 3,000 people, has opened their eyes. He has enlightened them with his penetrating insights and deep wisdom.
Now for anyone who lived through 9/11 — which many of these TikTok personalities didn’t — it might be hard to make sense of this. Twenty years ago, even the most rabid leftists on college campuses didn&#8217;t go out in public and proudly suggest that bin Laden was justified. That would have been unthinkable. Instead, the Left generally agreed that acts of terrorism that kill thousands of U.S. citizens were a bad thing. The mass protests that we saw after 9/11, which began in earnest 2002, were almost entirely in response to the planned U.S. military intervention in Iraq — a country that, it turns out, didn&#8217;t have anything to do with 9/11. That was the concern.
Until that point, the country was mostly unified. There was no groundswell of support on the Left in defense of 9/11, on the internet or elsewhere.
So what changed? For one thing, academic theories of &#8220;decolonization,&#8221; as the reaction to the events in the Middle East has made very clear, aren&#8217;t academic anymore. They&#8217;ve filtered down from the university system into the mainstream. But as I&#8217;ve said repeatedly, &#8220;decolonization&#8221; is about much more than Israel. And this latest TikTok trend makes that very clear. The ultimate objective of &#8220;decolonizers&#8221; is the destruction of anything that these zealots perceive as too white. 
Decolonization is a genocidal ideology. It expressly justifies the mass slaughter of innocents — white innocents, specifically — on the grounds that no white person can actually be innocent. That of course includes the thousands of people who died on 9/11 — and most people living in the United States right now.
One of the many striking aspects of this ideology is how incoherent and self-defeating it is. If Libs of TikTok&#8217;s videos are any indication, people on TikTok would be among the very first to get stoned to death if bin Laden&#8217;s version of Sharia Law ever came to the United States. (Which, by the way, is another demand in bin Laden&#8217;s <a href="https://archive.is/rjKSc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> — the total subservience of the West to Sharia law). Only defeated and very confused people, with a constant connection to other very confused people on the internet, would ever support their own eradication like this. 
But none of these people uploading this nonsense to TikTok actually came up with this idea on their own. For a long time now, many commentators have lamented that &#8220;the schools are failing&#8221; and asked,&#8221;What are they teaching these kids?&#8221; and so on. But the answer has always been pretty clear. This is what they&#8217;re teaching. Schools have succeeded in creating exactly the sort of people they set out to create. They may not be explicitly defending bin Laden, but they are spreading a deep hatred of white Western civilization. They&#8217;ve taught that colonization is an abject and eternal evil, with no positive upshot whatsoever. They&#8217;ve told students that the very idea of policing is a white supremacist concept intended to victimize black people. They have taught that “whiteness” is a sickness, a cancer, that must be eradicated. This is the actual language used in schools. Of course they&#8217;ve said the same thing about fundamental concepts like biology, as well. Schools want students to grow into adults who hate this country and everything about it. And that&#8217;s exactly what we&#8217;re seeing right now.
At the same time, the blame doesn&#8217;t entirely fall on the university system. For one thing, it&#8217;s probably not a coincidence that this trend is taking off on a Chinese social media app. As hard as this may be to believe, there are consequences to allowing millions of kids to spend their entire day ingesting content from an algorithm controlled by a communist adversary. In a follow-up video, the woman who apparently started this whole trend on TikTok, Lynette Adkins, went on to acknowledge that TikTok has a role in reprogramming Americans. 
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Here is the video so that no-one will have to click and enter the den of scum which is TikTok&#8230; <a href="https://t.co/L5uDaq1aJR">pic.twitter.com/L5uDaq1aJR</a>
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Young people, Lynette Adkins says, &#8220;have been so programmed to think a certain way.&#8221; And now, she says, &#8220;TikTok is undoing all of that. It&#8217;s crazy to watch in real time.&#8221;
That&#8217;s an understatement. It may be the only true and useful thing that Lynette has ever said on her various social media channels. And apparently, it&#8217;s the last thing she&#8217;s going to say. As of this morning, Lynette&#8217;s videos on TikTok — including the one I just showed you — are all inaccessible. Her account apparently doesn&#8217;t exist anymore. It&#8217;s not clear whether TikTok took her account down, or if she deleted her account herself. We reached out to her for an explanation, and she didn&#8217;t respond.
For its part, TikTok is claiming to be outraged by all of this. They&#8217;ve suppressed any videos that use the term &#8220;Letter to America&#8221; or &#8220;Osama bin Laden.&#8221; If you try to search for it, you&#8217;ll get a warning about &#8220;community guidelines.&#8221; And the company has put out statements saying they&#8217;re horrified that this letter has resurfaced. And they&#8217;re not the only ones saying that. The Guardian, which hosted a <a href="https://archive.is/rjKSc">version of this letter</a> on their website for the past 20 years, deleted the letter from its website in response to all the traffic from TikTok. And of course, in response, interest in bin Laden&#8217;s letter only grew from there, because you can&#8217;t delete anything from the internet. If you try, you just encourage more people to seek it out. Which is why the Guardian’s decision to delete the letter was ridiculous, and did more harm than good.
You can interpret these reactions from TikTok and The Guardian however you want. You can choose to believe that a social media platform controlled by the Communist Party of China is deeply upset that American youth are talking about how bin Laden was justified in taking down the Twin Towers. You can choose to believe that social media mercenary Lynette Adkins, for some reason, decided out of the blue one day to promote this whole idea.
But no matter what — whether you think this is just the latest successful Chinese propaganda effort or not — one fact remains, which no amount of online censorship can change. The truth is that, after 9/11, there were scattered reports of celebrations that broke out in response to the violence. Most of those reports are unverified and disputed to this day. But if another 9/11 happened today, it wouldn&#8217;t be hard to find people celebrating. All you&#8217;d have to do is look at any college campus, or go on TikTok. That’s the harshest reality to contemplate. Everyone was basically on the same page after 9/11 — everyone was sad, everyone was angry. And that was the last time we would all be on the same page about anything. If a similar attack were launched today, we would not even be able to all agree that it’s a sad thing.
That fact is now unavoidable. It&#8217;s unavoidable because of an ideology that both parties have been subsidizing in the university and public school systems for decades. This is an ideology that our leaders have done nothing to combat, for all the years it festered. So now, instead of our young people looking up to great authors or public servants — people with good moral character — they look up to tedious social media &#8220;influencers&#8221; like Lynette Adkins. That&#8217;s as humiliating an indictment of a society as you can find.
But for China, which controls TikTok, it&#8217;s fantastic news. Xi Jinping just <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-16/xi-says-china-seeks-to-be-friends-with-us-wants-peaceful-ties?embedded-checkout=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promised</a> at the APEC Summit that there will be no &#8220;hot war&#8221; with the United States. What he didn&#8217;t say is that he won&#8217;t need to launch a hot war in order to weaken, delegitimize, and ultimately destroy this country. All he needs is an army of useful idiots who want to destroy Western civilization from within.
And if there&#8217;s anything we can learn from what happened on TikTok this week, it&#8217;s that Xi Jinping now has that army. And it&#8217;s bigger and dumber than he could have possibly hoped for.

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Shortly after an 18-year-old opened fire on children at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, last year, killing 19 students and two teachers, the New York Times published a lengthy front-page article on the killer&#8217;s background. One line in the Times&#8217; report didn&#8217;t last long, before an editor deleted it from the article, without explanation. The sentence in question quoted one of the gunman&#8217;s co-workers at Wendy&#8217;s as saying: 
<blockquote>&#8220;He would often talk about how much he despised his mother and grandmother, whom he told her did not let him smoke weed or do what he wanted.&#8221;</blockquote>
It was never clear why that particular line was deleted. Most likely they wanted to push gun confiscation instead, and it confused the narrative. In any event, the New York Times didn&#8217;t want to talk about the shooter&#8217;s marijuana use. If the blogger Alex Berenson hadn&#8217;t <a href="https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-the-new-york-times-has-edited/comments?s=r" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spotted</a> the change, it&#8217;s likely no one would have ever noticed it. What we do know is that, if the shooter in Uvalde was indeed a pothead, then there are a lot of other examples just like him. Many other mass shooters — from Parkland to Aurora to Tucson to Sutherland Springs — were <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/cannabis-and-the-violent-crime-surge-marijuana-pot-use-thc-shootings-psychosis-mental-11654540197" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> marijuana users. 
That dovetails with <a href="https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.2020.19101008" target="_blank" rel="noopener">research</a> showing that young people who used marijuana were more than twice as likely to commit acts of violence. To give just one example, the American Journal of Psychiatry published a <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32456503/#:~:text=Conclusions%3A%20These%20results%20demonstrate%20a,a%20risk%20factor%20for%20violence." target="_blank" rel="noopener">meta-analysis</a> of several large-scale studies three years ago. The conclusion: 
<blockquote>&#8220;These results demonstrate a moderate association between cannabis use and physical violence. &#8230; Cannabis use in this population is a risk factor for violence.&#8221;</blockquote>
You never hear about these studies, probably for the same reason that the New York Times censored itself for mentioning marijuana in the context of the Uvalde shooting. In elite circles, talking about the consequences of marijuana use is unpopular. Anything that discourages people from smoking more weed is also disfavored. It&#8217;s almost like they want the masses to be drugged and passive, which might explain why the cigar tax in New York is <a href="https://www.tax.ny.gov/bus/cig/cigidx.htm#:~:text=New%20York%20State%20imposes%20an,one%20ounce%20or%20less%3B%20and" target="_blank" rel="noopener">75%</a>, while the marijuana tax is less than <a href="https://www.tax.ny.gov/bus/auc/#:~:text=If%20you%20make%20retail%20sales,sale%20or%20transfer%20is%20imposed." target="_blank" rel="noopener">15%</a>.
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Regardless of what exactly explains that discrepancy, the PR effort to push marijuana has obviously been successful over the past decade. Two dozen states have passed some form of legalization or decriminalization of weed. And because slippery slopes are real — and anyone who uses the term &#8220;slippery slope fallacy&#8221; is lying to you — the decriminalization movement did not end there. Instead, it&#8217;s progressed far beyond marijuana. 
Three years ago, on the heels of the race riots following the overdose of George Floyd, Oregon became the first state in the country to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/oregon-votes-to-decriminalize-all-drugs-allow-psilocybin-for-mental-health-treatment-11604477494" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decriminalize</a> the possession of all illegal drugs —not just marijuana, but every illegal drug. Nearly 60% of voters in the state approved Measure 110, along with a separate measure that legalized the use of hallucinogenic mushrooms for therapy. The idea was that laws against heroin and meth and other drugs were counterproductive and oppressive and of course racist, so they had to go.
Hopes were high. As Vox <a href="https://www.vox.com/21509815/oregon-ballot-measure-110-drug-decriminalization" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> at the time:
<blockquote>&#8220;Given that decriminalization is so far untried in the US, it’s difficult to say how it would play out. In that sense, Measure 110 would create a real-time experiment for Oregon and the rest of the country.&#8221;</blockquote>
Not long afterwards, though, problems began to emerge. In 2022, a local news station embedded with the head of a Portland drug interdiction task force. Here&#8217;s what they learned:
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Measure 110, the officer says, is the reason that fentanyl and stolen handguns and machine guns are flooding Oregon. &#8220;Measure 110 has everything to do with it,&#8221; he tells the reporter.  
Now, three years after Measure 110 was passed, voters are tired of it. Polls now show that a majority of residents in Oregon now want to re-criminalize hard drugs, and a ballot measure doing so is expected next year. That&#8217;s because, predictably, decriminalizing cocaine and heroin, and everything else, has led to nothing less than the breakdown of society in Oregon. To the extent that there was a society there before this.
This week, the Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/us-news/oregon-decriminalized-hard-drugs-it-isnt-working-78ee7476">published</a> an extensive analysis into the effect of Measure 110 on the state. It’s a report that everyone should read as it just entirely annihilates the case for drug legalization. And yet almost all of the pro-drug legalizers are simply ignoring it. They have gotten what they wanted — in Oregon, and to a lesser extent across the country — but you notice that they are not out touting the success of the policy they advocated for. That’s because there is no success. It has been a disaster. 
The paper reports that, as a result of the law, &#8220;People sprawled on sidewalks and using fentanyl with no fear of consequence have become a common sight in cities such as Eugene and Portland.&#8221; From May of 2022 to May of this year, the number of fatal overdoses in the state increased by more than 20%, to 1,500 overdoses. That&#8217;s the third-highest jump in the entire country. Police in Eugene Oregon report that this year, there have been 858 calls for overdoses. In 2020, the number was 438.
The whole point of Measure 110 was to force these people to go to rehabilitation services, instead of jail, but of course that hasn&#8217;t worked either: 
<blockquote>&#8220;Some 6,000 tickets have been issued for drug possession since decriminalization went into effect in 2021, but just 92 people have called and completed assessments needed to connect them to services,&#8221; the Journal reports. &#8220;The only penalty for those who don’t call is a $100 fine, which is rarely enforced.&#8221;</blockquote>
So in sum, Oregon&#8217;s decision to decriminalize all drugs has been an abject and totally predictable disaster. It turns out that when you invite people to do drugs whenever and wherever they want, you end up with a lot more people doing drugs whenever and wherever they want. Advocates for decriminalization have always claimed that decriminalizing drug use will not lead to more drug use, as though the law has absolutely no effect on people&#8217;s behavior. But that flies in the face of everything we&#8217;ve observed about human behavior since the dawn of civilized society. 
To put it simply: Laws matter. When the law allows a certain behavior, you get more of that behavior. It’s not hard to figure out this equation. 
That&#8217;s why — unless we want a lot more overdose deaths and illegal guns in major cities — we need to take a very close look at all forms of drug decriminalization, including the more limited decriminalization and legalization efforts we&#8217;ve seen across the country. As I mentioned earlier, weed is legal in most places now. How is that working out? Is there any evidence it&#8217;s making anything better? By the naked eye, it certainly seems to be contributing to our social decay. It has a demoralizing effect, at the very least, to walk through any city in America and smell the stench of weed everywhere, with people walking around stoned anywhere you go. 
I say this as someone who, for a time, believed that weed — not any other drug — should probably just be legalized or at least decriminalized, as much as I personally don’t like the drug. But I can look around at our cities, smell the stench everywhere, see people high on drugs everywhere, and ask myself: has this made society better or worse? That’s the question everyone should be asking themselves. 
Aside from the naked eye test, what does the data say? For a lot of reasons, it&#8217;s hard to measure the precise impact of marijuana decriminalization on people&#8217;s quality of life. There are so many variables — including the decision by leftist D.A.&#8217;s to stop enforcing a bunch of other laws — that it&#8217;s difficult to ascribe any particular blame to one specific policy or another. It’s all kind of a jumbled mess. To be sure, a lot of jurisdictions that have legalized or decriminalized marijuana have seen significant increases in crime. New York legalized cannabis in 2021, for example, and then immediately saw its overall crime index <a href="https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2023/01/05/nypd-december-2022-crime-statistics#:~:text=Police%20logged%20126%2C537%20crimes%20last,in%202021%2C%20the%20release%20said." target="_blank" rel="noopener">jump</a> by more than 22%. Along the same lines, after Washington&#8217;s Supreme Court struck down the state&#8217;s drug laws — effectively legalizing all drugs until legislators could fix the problem — crime spiked. Washington&#8217;s rate of violent crimes jumped from 337 per 100,000 people in 2021, to more than 375 per 100,000 people in 2022.
There&#8217;s no easy way to determine with absolute certainty at this stage what role, if any, drug legalization is playing in these numbers. But there have been some attempts at drilling this down. A couple of years ago, analysts at the Justice Research and Statistics Association <a href="https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/253137.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">looked</a> at the impact of marijuana decriminalization in 11 states — including Washington, Arizona, California, Colorado, Nebraska, and others — by speaking to local officials and law enforcement personnel. 
The researchers found that, after Washington state legalized recreational marijuana use in 2020, arrests for both the possession and distribution of heroin and methamphetamine increased significantly. Meanwhile in Colorado, which also decriminalized pot a decade ago, the researchers found that:
<blockquote>&#8220;Respondents in particular reported an increase in the homeless population from individuals moving to the state for jobs in the marijuana industry that failed to materialize. Other concerns expressed by interviewees related to criminal behavior associated with the marijuana business, such as attempts to steal marijuana and take over selling from locals.&#8221; </blockquote>
In Oregon, there were similar concerns: &#8220;An Oregon respondent reported a 55-60% increase in marijuana-related DUIs&#8221; following marijuana decriminalization. Along the same lines, a separate research team from the University of Utah <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047235220302361#:~:text=Results%20provide%20some%20evidence%20demonstrating,legalization%2C%20including%20property%20and%20violent" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scrutinized</a> crime data from Oregon. They found that:
<blockquote>&#8220;Results provide some evidence demonstrating a crime-exacerbating effect of recreational marijuana legalization, as reflected by substantial increases in the rates of multiple types of serious crimes &#8230; in Oregon relative to non-legalized states following legalization, including property and violent crime overall, as well as other crimes such as burglary, motor vehicle theft, larceny, and aggravated assault.&#8221;</blockquote>
None of this is particularly surprising, given that marijuana is a psychoactive drug that&#8217;s been linked to violent behavior. What is perhaps surprising is that, given what we know (and don&#8217;t know), several states are still pushing the decriminalization agenda. 
Ohio, for example, is set to decriminalize the drug in just a few weeks. Watch how local news is covering this:
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Notice that they&#8217;re not talking about how decriminalizing marijuana is going to make everyone more productive and happier members of society. They’re not claiming that it’s going to make the state a better place to live, which is really what every law ultimately should be designed to do. They’re not talking about how safe the schools in Ohio will be, after young children with mental disorders are granted even easier access to psychoactive drugs. Instead, they&#8217;re talking about tax revenue. They&#8217;re telling you the state will make more money. That&#8217;s the whole pitch. They&#8217;re not even pretending otherwise.
And that tells you something that even Left-wing voters in Oregon are now realizing: the more recreational drugs you legalize, the more crime and urban decay you have to deal with. This really should not be a surprise. People are more likely to do something when there is no legal ramification for doing it. That doesn’t mean everyone stops doing drugs when you make it illegal. It just means that the fewer obstacles in the way, the fewer consequences, the more of that behavior you get.
This isn’t just because of the practical obstacles put in place when something is illegal. It’s also because the law is a teacher. A thing begins to seem less objectionable to people when the law endorses it.  Ultimately, there’s no upside for anyone but the state Treasury, and the politicians who desperately need voters to be as stoned and submissive as possible. Otherwise, if voters aren&#8217;t high out of their minds, they might realize what these politicians are doing to their communities. They might realize that destruction and decay are a choice.
And then, like the voters in Oregon, they might decide they&#8217;ve finally had enough of it.
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One of the many remarkable things about activists who want to remake society, and invert every hierarchy that civilization has ever had in the name of &#8220;equity,&#8221; is how aggressive and totally unflinching they are. They don&#8217;t ask permission, they just do it. And they do it in such great numbers, in so many different areas, that it&#8217;s impossible to even keep track of them. Even if you object to their project, as most people do, there&#8217;s no way to keep yourself fully informed about what&#8217;s happening, simply because of the scale of the whole operation.
Here&#8217;s a recap, which is nowhere near exhaustive. In just the last couple of months, we&#8217;ve <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/law-and-order/2023/06/22/lapd-officers-claim-dept-is-lowering-standards-for-diversity-numbers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">learned</a> that the LAPD is relaxing its standards for new officers in order to recruit fewer white males. 
We&#8217;ve heard that the San Francisco school board will <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/san-francisco-considers-lowering-admission-standards-prestigious-schools-improve-student-outcomes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lower</a> entrance requirements, and that the Regents Exam in New York will soon be optional for high school graduates. (As the New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/13/nyregion/regents-exams-new-york.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">put it</a>, &#8220;The test had once been seen as a hallmark of academic rigor, but high-stakes graduation tests have fallen out of favor nationally.&#8221;) 
We&#8217;ve also been informed that the law school admission test, the LSAT, will <a href="https://dailynous.com/2023/10/23/lsat-drops-logic-games-section/#:~:text=The%20elimination%20of%20logic%20games,that%20portion%20of%20the%20test." target="_blank" rel="noopener">drop</a> its challenging &#8220;logic games&#8221; section, supposedly to help blind applicants. 
Meanwhile, some medical schools — like U.C. Davis — have started <a href="https://x.com/nytimes/status/1675510893860335616?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ranking</a> applicants not based on merit, but on the supposed &#8220;hardships&#8221; they&#8217;ve faced. Pretty much everywhere you look — whether it&#8217;s <a href="https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-launches-be-atc-campaign-recruit-next-diverse-generation-air-traffic-controllers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">air traffic control</a>, or <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/united-sets-new-diversity-goal-50-of-students-at-new-pilot-training-academy-to-be-women-and-people-of-color-301262479.html#:~:text=United%20Aviate%20Academy%20expects%20to,said%20United%20CEO%20Scott%20Kirby." target="_blank" rel="noopener">airline piloting</a>, or Silicon Valley, or even the National Association of <a href="https://www.aza.org/connect-stories/stories/importance-of-diversity-equity-access-inclusion-zoos-aquariums?locale=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zoos and Aquariums</a> — standards are dropping in order to increase &#8220;diversity,&#8221; meaning to make everything less white, less male, and less Asian.
So you might think, with all that in mind, that it&#8217;d be impossible to be shocked anymore by any industry that decides to lower its standards in the name of diversity. After all, if everyone&#8217;s doing it, how surprising can any of these initiatives really be? 
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That&#8217;s what I thought, until a couple of days ago, when I learned about a new plan to &#8220;diversify&#8221; what is, frankly, one of the least rigorous and least demanding professional fields of all. This is a field that I genuinely didn&#8217;t think could possibly lower its standards, given how low they already are. 
Here&#8217;s NBC News Washington to explain:
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They&#8217;re now lowering the standards for social workers because not enough people with “darker skin” are passing the test, apparently. It&#8217;s important to stop the clip there for a second to underscore how insane this segment is, already. This black woman, Sarah, is saying that she desperately needed to find a black therapist for treatment because she needed a therapist with the same &#8220;views&#8221; that she has. And for that reason, she couldn&#8217;t tolerate having a white therapist, or a Hispanic therapist, or an Asian therapist. NBC News never challenges this reasoning, or the implications of it. 
So let&#8217;s consider those implications. The first assumption, of course, is that you can only benefit from having a therapist who sees the world exactly like you do. That&#8217;s just a given in this segment because indeed, the vast majority of &#8220;therapy&#8221; is really just paying someone to agree with you. That&#8217;s all it is. There&#8217;s no science behind it. Patients self-select doctors who tell them what they want to hear, and doctors know that. In fact they have a word for this, it’s called “affirmative care.” That&#8217;s why the doctors tell children they&#8217;re &#8220;transgender,&#8221; or have &#8220;ADHD.&#8221; Their job is not to offer pushback or conduct any kind of independent diagnosis of symptoms. If they tried anything like that, they&#8217;d probably get fired for transphobia on the spot. This is how therapy and counseling works these days. But it’s not how it’s supposed to work. 
In theory, the person counseling you should be someone who quite specifically does not see the world the way you do. The whole reason you are in counseling is that there is a problem with the way you see yourself and the world. You want — or should want — someone from the outside, someone who sees it differently, to offer guidance. 
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But the more interesting part of that clip is how Sarah asserts that the only way to find a therapist who thinks the way she does, is to get a therapist with the same skin color. The term &#8220;racism&#8221; gets thrown around a lot, so I won&#8217;t use that term. A better (or at least mildly more creative) term for this is &#8220;race essentialism.&#8221; At its most extreme, race essentialism is the belief that your race determines your abilities, your personality, and all of your other characteristics. 
This is a perspective that, if it&#8217;s endorsed by a white person, will result in Merrick Garland sending a SWAT team to that person&#8217;s door at 6 AM. That person will be branded a domestic terrorist and banned from school board meetings. But if a black person endorses race essentialism, live on NBC News, then nothing will happen. In fact, NBC News will endorse what she&#8217;s saying.
But let&#8217;s continue with the clip, so we can get to the argument from these activists — these racists, these race essentialists, whatever you want to call them — for why the social worker exam needs to change. Watch:
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Let&#8217;s go over those statistics one more time. Between 2018 and 2021, roughly 76% of whites passed the bachelor&#8217;s level test the first time. Sixty percent of Asians passed, followed by 53% of Hispanics and 33% of blacks.  
For the most part, those rankings mirror the normal <a href="https://www.bestcolleges.com/research/average-sat-score-full-statistics/">distribution of SAT scores</a>, with one very notable exception. This social worker exam is one of the few tests you&#8217;ll find in which Asian test takers perform so poorly, relative to the overall pool. Normally, as with SATs, Asians are in the lead. But in this case, they&#8217;re in a distant second place.
There could be a number of reasons for that. Most likely, all the talented Asian test takers are busy with the MCAT or the LSAT or the GRE or some other test, which can get you a better job than being a social worker. But in any event, the point is that no one at NBC News even pretends to care about the relatively poor Asian performance on this test. Instead, they&#8217;re laser-focused on the low number of black students who pass. That&#8217;s really their only focus. 
For my part, I will admit that I take some pride in the fact that white people are beating Asians in at least one category. We have to take our wins where we can get them. 
Now, we’re led to believe that the 33%pass rate among black test takers is de facto evidence that the test is the problem. Somehow, these tests are racist. But how? I decided to look into this test by going on YouTube and checking out some study sessions, to see if I could identify any racist social worker questions. I was looking for dog whistles, microaggressions, slut shaming — everything you can think of. I didn&#8217;t find any of that. Instead, as I predicted, I was bored to tears. 
I won&#8217;t subject you to all of it, small sample will suffice:
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Spoiler alert: the answer to that particular question is &#8220;regression.&#8221; The video goes on like that for an hour. Incidentally, the training session you just saw was run by a black woman. At no point does she say the test is invalid because it&#8217;s racist, nor is there any way a reasonable person would find the test to be racist. All of the questions are like this one. They&#8217;re anodyne to the point of inducing death by boredom.
After looking into the questions that social workers are asked, I have to admit, I didn&#8217;t detect any racism. But maybe that&#8217;s just because I have a very untrained eye. NBC News, as you saw, quotes an expert, a college professor named Michael Massey, who tells us that the test isn&#8217;t capturing cultural nuances, and is making the profession less diverse: “We have great social workers of color who came to social work schools to serve their communities, and they&#8217;re not being allowed to do it despite rigorous preparation at school,” he says.
Of course, it&#8217;s not clear why &#8220;preparation in school&#8221; should matter more than a standardized test, especially in a field like social work, where there&#8217;s a glut of for-profit diploma mills that specifically advertise to black and Hispanic populations. At major institutions, like Tulane&#8217;s School of Social Work, the <a href="https://tssw.tulane.edu/about/aswb-licensure-pass-rates" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pass rates</a> are much higher, for every demographic group. But putting that aside for a second, the implication is that the test is somehow flawed. But nowhere in this NBC report does anyone — including Michael Massey — explain specifically what&#8217;s wrong with the test.
Let&#8217;s take stock of where we are. On the basis of no evidence whatsoever activists and elected officials in D.C. are now trying to pass a law eliminating the testing requirement for social workers — entirely. Watch:
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It&#8217;s a pretty funny clip. This woman, with the &#8220;Consortium for Child Welfare,&#8221; has to tell the reporter that the whole purpose of licensing requirements — whether it&#8217;s in medicine, or law, or any other profession — is to ensure that you have competent people in the profession. That&#8217;s how you protect the public and maintain standards. You don&#8217;t admit everyone, and then when an incompetent person gets someone killed, decide to start culling the herd. 
But now the script is completely flipped. We&#8217;re deliberately hiring morons in every conceivable profession. This is a terrible idea regardless of the profession, of course, but in the field of social work, it&#8217;s particularly ironic. The Left is lowering the bar for social workers after they spent the last few years insisting that social workers should replace law enforcement in a wide array of situations. So they are trying to expand the power and scope of social work while at the same time lowering the standards.
The only good news here, if you can call it that, is that for the most part, social workers are functionally useless anyway. Therefore, it&#8217;s not clear what the practical implications of lowering the bar will be, given how low it is already. But as a symbol for a much larger problem — for the regression we&#8217;re seeing in virtually every major industry — what&#8217;s happening in the field of social work is actually notable. What they&#8217;re doing makes it very clear that they&#8217;re trying to remake all of society, from the most important and demanding professions, to the jobs that are neither important nor demanding. Yesterday it was the police, today it&#8217;s social workers, tomorrow it will be dog walkers. They will not stop until they have eliminated the legitimacy of every conceivable job in this country.
Well, maybe that&#8217;s not true. The Left won&#8217;t implement any kind of &#8220;diversity initiative&#8221; for the NBA or the NFL or any other major sports league, because their preferred demographics are already dominant there. But in every other field, this is what they&#8217;re planning. This is an effort to reduce standards across the board, to the point that they&#8217;re nonexistent. If even social workers don&#8217;t have to endure the indignity of taking a simple, straightforward test, then that proves they truly can eliminate the standards for everything else. We can either have a functioning society, or we can allow them to succeed.
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When he was the mayor of San Francisco in 2008, Gavin Newsom announced a ten-year plan to &#8220;end chronic homelessness&#8221; in the city. This was a big challenge, Newsom said, and that&#8217;s why it would take a decade — longer than it took us to land the first men on the moon after Kennedy promised to do so. But after ten years, Newsom insisted, the residents of San Francisco would finally be able to enjoy their city without hordes of junkies and prostitutes and mentally ill vagrants wandering around downtown and defecating on everything. Watch:
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In case you missed the logic there, here it is one more time: &#8220;Food solves hunger. Shelter solves sleep. And housing solves homelessness.” These are deep insights. I’m surprised he didn’t also point out that dry land solves drowning, breathing solves suffocation, and not having cancer solves cancer. At the time, people living in San Francisco thought that this platform made sense. They didn&#8217;t think it was a bunch of meaningless platitudes. They also didn&#8217;t ask what it means for shelters to &#8220;solve sleep.” Does he think that people with houses don’t sleep? What does that mean exactly? Anyway, they just went with it. Give the guy ten years, they said. &#8220;Let him cook,” as the kids say. Pretty soon everyone will have homes and nobody will be sleeping, or something.
But predictably enough, Gavin Newsom&#8217;s ten-year plan turned out a lot like Greta Thunberg&#8217;s <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/03/15/greta-thunberg-reportedly-deletes-grim-2018-tweet-about-climate-change/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promise</a> that the world would end by 2023. It never materialized, and everyone involved knew it would never materialize. Not that Newsom stuck around for ten years to find out — he became lieutenant governor of California just three years after announcing his big ten-year-plan. And then he moved up to governor in 2019. And through it all, in the hands of Newsom and his deputies, the problem of homelessness in San Francisco — and in California at large — only became progressively worse. And year after year, the residents of San Francisco have heard excuse after excuse for this failure. The excuses kept changing, but one thing remained constant, which is that it was never the politicians&#8217; fault. It&#8217;s always someone else&#8217;s.
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Lately, politicians in the city have settled on a new excuse. They&#8217;re blaming federal courts for the homelessness crisis. Here&#8217;s San Francisco Mayor London Breed, for example, just a couple of months ago:
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So London Breed blames a federal judge for the homelessness problem in the city. And people apparently agree with her, as you saw. More than a decade after Newsom promised to end homelessness, people are cheering for a mayor who&#8217;s coming up with excuses for why her party completely failed to do that. The problem, Breed says, is a judge who issued some injunction within the past year. That&#8217;s why the plan to end homelessness didn&#8217;t work over the past 15 years. By the way, government is the only place where it works this way. It’s the only place where you can go to your boss with an excuse for why you utterly failed to do what you were paid to do, and then get a standing ovation.
To be fair to London Breed, though, a judge did recently issue an injunction against the city, preventing them from removing homeless encampments unless they had shelter beds to house everyone. And yes, that was a dumb ruling. The Ninth Circuit later clarified that the city can remove homeless encampments, as long as the homeless people <a href="https://www.kqed.org/news/11962388/san-francisco-will-enforce-sit-lie-laws-when-people-refuse-shelter#:~:text=Last%20month%2C%20the%20Ninth%20Circuit,in%20parks%2C%20in%20those%20cases." target="_blank" rel="noopener">decline</a> an offer of housing. So that&#8217;s something.
But all this legal wrangling is just the latest excuse that people in San Francisco have heard, when they ask why homelessness is still completely out of control. Every year, there&#8217;s a new explanation. Last year, for example, Newsom <a href="https://apnews.com/article/business-california-los-angeles-gavin-newsom-homelessness-f971c42abf024e8c84ab2d89bc4a8910" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blamed</a> the economy and COVID for why his plan to end homelessness wasn&#8217;t actually ending homelessness: “We’re dealing with unprecedented economic contraction, the worst in our lifetimes, induced by a pandemic,” Newsom said. A few years before that, in 2012, Newsom <a href="https://youtu.be/B4hQyR4dwFI?si=hi9ACvUo7E6E8-VQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attacked people</a> who pointed out that homelessness was getting worse, saying they were just being cynical and playing politics. Then, speaking to the Los Angeles Times, Newsom <a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-gavin-newsom-homelessness-san-francisco-20181023-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defended</a> his 10-year-plan, saying that Michelangelo taught him that it&#8217;s better to set a high bar and fail, than to set a low bar and meet it. Of course Michelangelo was talking about artistic pursuits, where that rule may apply. But with politicians, you’d much rather they set out to do simple things and then actually do those things, rather than claim that they are going to do a big thing and instead do nothing at all.
What do we take from this? If you live in California, the message is pretty clear: homelessness is just something you have to deal with. No ten-year-plan, no matter how well funded it is, can possibly solve homelessness. It&#8217;s a fact of life. The best you can hope for is helping a few thousand homeless people, as hordes more homeless people arrive. That&#8217;s the reality of life in a big city. And if you disagree, Gavin Newsom will tell you that you&#8217;re the problem.
That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s been so interesting to watch what&#8217;s been happening in San Francisco over the past few days. This week, San Francisco is hosting the APEC Summit, which will attract business leaders, tourists, and nearly two dozen heads of state, including Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping. In response, for the first time in a generation, virtually overnight, the city of San Francisco has cleaned the streets. Homeless encampments have been forcibly moved out of sight. 
The place looks presentable again — even livable, if you can believe it. Residents are completely stunned. They had no idea anything like this was possible. Watch:
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The last question from that guy in the clip is a good one. Why exactly doesn&#8217;t the city of San Francisco do this all of the time? Later in that news report, the news station makes it clear that the city isn&#8217;t spending any extra money on this clean-up. All the funds are coming out of existing budgets. They could easily be doing this all the time. So why aren&#8217;t they? 
Another local resident in the SoMa neighborhood had the same question. He <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/11/10/news/san-francisco-clears-drug-addicts-and-homeless-out-of-downtown-ahead-of-biden-and-xi-jinping-summit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the New York Post, “They’ve cleared out the tents … on Howard Street, which tells me the city had the capability to do this all along — instead they just do the bare minimum.&#8221;
Marc Benioff, the founder of Salesforce, <a href="https://twitter.com/Benioff/status/1702373402173120975" target="_blank" rel="noopener">echoed</a> that sentiment: &#8220;San Francisco has been incredibly clean, beautiful, and safe for the last 3 days &#8230; and it is great that the city is able to put its best foot forward for this major event that brings in 40K people from around the world, and $80M to the economy. It is important to ask why the city cannot be this clean and safe every single day?&#8221; 
Benioff has an especially good reason to ask that question, since he <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Benioff-uses-personal-and-corporate-power-to-get-13349594.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poured</a> roughly $8 million into Prop C in California, which taxed individuals and businesses to promote &#8220;homelessness services,&#8221; including a lot of nonprofits. What did he get in return for that money? Apparently not much. And that&#8217;s not surprising. When you hand Left-wing nonprofits money to fix any social issue — whether it&#8217;s homelessness or something more important like microaggressions in the workplace — you don&#8217;t actually give them incentives to fix the problem. Instead, you give them incentives to prolong it, so they can bilk more billionaires like Marc Benioff.
What&#8217;s the solution then? Well, it turns out that it&#8217;s pretty simple. Instead of dumping money into &#8220;homelessness services&#8221; and nonprofits, all that was needed this whole time was a little willpower. 
The San Francisco Chronicle <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/11/10/news/san-francisco-clears-drug-addicts-and-homeless-out-of-downtown-ahead-of-biden-and-xi-jinping-summit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">obtained emails</a> from city officials that demonstrate how easy this has been to accomplish, all along. Christopher McDaniels, the city&#8217;s superintendent of Street Environmental Services, wrote an email back in September explaining every street that needs to be completely cleared. He wrote, &#8220;With APEC coming, I am concerned about historical encampments that are close to priority areas.&#8221; McDaniels&#8217; boss added, &#8220;we need to stay on top of the growing encampments; do we have a plan?” Within days, according to the Post, &#8220;certain areas — including the notorious intersections of Van Ness Avenue and California Street, Hyde and Eddy streets, Taylor and Ellis streets — were cleared of homeless tents.&#8221;
Reading all of this, it&#8217;s hard not to laugh a little bit when you think about the fact that San Francisco&#8217;s bureaucrats managed to make the city look presentable for the leader of communist China. It’s like if your wife makes a point of doing her hair and putting on make-up whenever the pool boy comes to clean the pool. It shows you where her affections lie. San Francisco has revealed itself in the same way. It also kind of makes you wonder how San Francisco might look if Xi Jinping ran it. Does anyone seriously doubt that it would look a lot better than it does under London Breed and Gavin Newsom?
But the most important point is that this proves what I&#8217;ve been saying for a long time, which is that these are simple problems to fix and the government can easily fix them. It just takes a couple of emails from some mid-level bureaucrats, and it gets done. Of course, these bureaucrats have not &#8220;solved chronic homelessness.&#8221; They have not prevented people from losing their homes, or doing drugs, or developing mental illness. But they have moved those people out of sight, and they&#8217;ve used force to do it. They have cleaned up the city, at least parts of it. It can be done.
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For now at least, San Francisco is doing what is necessary. This is a very good indication that, as it turns out, our cities do not have to be crime-infested cesspools. They do not have to be third world wastelands with zombified drug addicts walking around and taking dumps in the street. If San Francisco can make at least parts of itself look clean and livable in order to impress China, it can make the whole of itself clean and livable for the sake of its citizens — if it cared to. 
But the vast majority of the time, San Francisco doesn&#8217;t care to do that. The Left likes to say that &#8220;poverty is a policy choice.&#8221; That&#8217;s not true. Poverty is a fact of life, an inevitability in human civilization. Social decay, on the other hand, is a choice. That does not have to happen. It only happens if it is allowed to happen. Or perhaps in our case, made to happen. Who would have thought that, after years of giving drug addicts taxpayer-funded needles, devaluing the currency and outsourcing manufacturing to China, we&#8217;d end up with even more homeless people? Who would have thought that suspending the enforcement of pretty much every misdemeanor would lead to more public urination, more public drug use, more public robberies, and more public sex acts?
For more than a decade, Democrats&#8217; solution to this rapidly growing crisis has been to throw more money at the problem, and give themselves more power in the process. Certainly, this approach has worked out well for Gavin Newsom. But it hasn&#8217;t worked out for people living in San Francisco. It tells you a lot that the city&#8217;s leaders — like so many political figures all over the country — felt no incentive at any point to make their community better, more prosperous, and more beautiful, just for the sake of their own people. The welfare of their own people simply doesn&#8217;t motivate them at all. But when Xi Jinping and an army of CEOs are in town, then our leaders will spring into action. Now those are some people that politicians really want to impress.
What&#8217;s happening in San Francisco right now is the end of plausible deniability for all of these bureaucrats and elected officials. It&#8217;s now beyond any doubt that they are the reason for the managed decline we are witnessing in major cities. This managed decline is deliberate. But by the same token, it&#8217;s also reversible. And it can be reversed very quickly. El Salvador fixed its violent crime problem in a matter of weeks. Now we learn that San Francisco has always had the ability to end its homelessness epidemic in a matter of days. And when APEC is over, and the floodgates reopen in SoMa and the homeless druggies pour back in, that will be obvious to everyone — even people who have the misfortune of living in San Francisco.

APEC Leaders’ Meeting 2023 – Previews

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If you watch enough cable news, you start to realize there are a handful of bankable segments. These are segments that describe some outrageous behavior, which the media presents as shocking. They&#8217;ll all pretend to be very concerned by it. But in fact, this behavior happens all the time, and the media loves it when it happens, because it lets them fill air time on slow news days.
There&#8217;s maybe no more obvious example of this phenomenon than so-called &#8220;protests&#8221; by climate activists. Every time purple-haired climate nuts deface a historic work of art, or throw paint on the side of a building, it&#8217;s usually good for a quick 2-minute segment on cable news and a few viral posts on social media. &#8220;Why are those theater kids so upset with the Mona Lisa?&#8221;, befuddled panelists will ask themselves. &#8220;Why are the Oberlin sophomores at the Sunrise Movement surrounding that politician who&#8217;s just trying to get to his car? They sure are crazy!&#8221;
This kind of thing happens constantly. At this point, you can only roll your eyes when you see it.
And you&#8217;ve been seeing a lot of it lately. A few days ago, for example, climate activists <a href="https://apnews.com/article/just-stop-oil-national-gallery-climate-protest-venus-painting-3c403a36f14cb4ac2521ddf9d70f3654" target="_blank" rel="noopener">smashed</a> the glass protecting Velazquez&#8217;s Venus painting in London&#8217;s National Gallery. And before that, just a few weeks ago, protesters <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/08/24/climate-protest-arrest-dinosaur-natural-history-museum-smithsonian/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">glued themselves</a> to signs in the National Museum of Natural History in Washington. There are many more examples, but the point is, these climate lunatics act out and deface property all the time. And then there&#8217;s some angry news segments about it and then everyone moves on.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1260-fed-up-man-shoots-climate-activists-blocking-highway-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></h4>
This is the familiar cycle. Radicals who are fixated on climate change, almost all of whom are severely mentally ill, are treated as nuisances. In fact, we often pity them, because they obviously have no idea what they&#8217;re talking about, nor do they remotely understand how to persuade others to join their cause, and they are in general hopelessly deluded. 
But the truth — which no one wants to say out loud, for some reason — is that these climate activists are not simply nuisances. They are, instead, a mortal threat to sane people everywhere. They are enemies of civilization who endanger the lives of innocents. If you don&#8217;t believe that, or if that sounds too extreme, consider this story from 24-hours ago, which corporate media in the United States has not covered at all. As the Telegraph <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231108111056/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/08/paramedic-life-or-death-emergency-just-stop-oil-protest/">reported</a>, the group &#8220;Just Stop Oil&#8221; gathered at London&#8217;s Waterloo bridge, where they blocked an ambulance carrying a patient with a &#8220;life-or-death&#8221; injury. Here&#8217;s what that looked like:
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According to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231108111056/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/08/paramedic-life-or-death-emergency-just-stop-oil-protest/">the Telegraph</a>, in this episode, &#8220;An ambulance arrived with blue lights and sirens but was held up in traffic for ten minutes. The driver of the ambulance told The Telegraph: &#8216;I am responding to a life-and-death emergency — I am going to pick up a team from Guy’s hospital to save someone’s life at another hospital but can’t get through.'&#8221;
Apparently, this ambulance driver was on his way to another hospital on behalf of a patient whose lungs had stopped working, someone who needed urgent medical attention. So, as the Telegraph reported, the ambulance driver, &#8220;pleaded with police officers to let him through on multiple occasions as he became increasingly angry. Officers said they were working to let him through as quickly as they could as activists lay on the ground.&#8221;
In this case, as far as I can tell, the patient in the ambulance survived, thankfully. But ask yourself this question: Why haven&#8217;t you heard this story? How many reports have you heard about climate activists tossing paint in museums? Why is the media reporting about that, and not the people these climate activists nearly killed?
It&#8217;s worth answering that question, especially since, unfortunately, people have died during — and perhaps because of — these unhinged climate protests. Here&#8217;s one example, which also received zero attention from our media. A year ago this month, a cyclist in Berlin died after climate activists <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63517102" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prevented</a> her from getting to the hospital. As the BBC reported, the 44-year-old woman was hit by a concrete truck. And then, &#8220;The fire service says a specialist rescue vehicle was delayed by traffic because of a climate protest held by a group called &#8216;Last Generation&#8217;.&#8221; A senior Green Party figure condemned the climate protesters after the woman&#8217;s death, saying, &#8220;Anyone who risks the health and life of others loses all legitimacy and also harms the climate movement itself.&#8221;
What&#8217;s left unsaid here — and what really needs to be said — is that anyone who blocks traffic is &#8220;risking the health and life of others.&#8221; They are guilty of reckless endangerment at a minimum, and murder if someone dies as a result of their little blockade. It is little different, morally, from someone who goes outside and starts firing a gun into the air at random targets. Maybe they won’t hit anyone. Maybe they aren’t trying to hit anyone. But they are doing something incredibly reckless, with total disregard for the damage it may cause.
But that&#8217;s not how these people are being treated. Instead, with very few exceptions, police officers are allowing climate activists to blockade roads with total impunity. That&#8217;s been <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12728101/kenneth-darlington-panama-climate-change-protesters-shoot-dead.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">happening in Panama</a> for the past three weeks. As The Daily Mail reports, &#8220;Road blocks set up by protesters have caused up to $80 million in daily losses to businesses, according to Panama&#8217;s association of company executives, with schools closed nationwide for over a week and more than 150,000 medical appointments missed.&#8221; These protesters are blocking a major thoroughfare — the Pan-American Highway, roughly 50 miles west of Panama City.
The point of this &#8216;protest,&#8217; apparently, is that Panama&#8217;s government signed a deal with a Canadian company, giving them 20 years&#8217; worth of mining rights. Whatever the motivation is, these blockades are clearly putting people&#8217;s lives in danger. When more than a hundred thousand medical appointments are being missed, and businesses are suffering $80 million in losses per day, then you are engaging in a violent protest. There is no other way to frame it. When people miss medical appointments, they tend to get sicker. And some of those people might die. On top of that, store owners who lose money every day are going to be forced to make up the revenue in some other way, which might expose them to personal risk that we can&#8217;t possibly account for. This is what happens when the rule of law breaks down. This is why the rule of law is so important.
But, for whatever reason, authorities in Panama never did clear this blockade, at any point in the past three weeks. They allowed these protesters to prevent people from accessing medical care, from getting to their jobs, and from getting anywhere else they wanted to go. What happened next? 
Well, on Tuesday, a 77-year-old man named Kenneth Darlington — who&#8217;s apparently an American lawyer with dual citizenship — decided he had enough. He got out of his car, approached the blockade, and then shot two of the climate protesters dead. Here&#8217;s a clip of the moment leading up to the shooting:
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This is Kenneth Darlington. He had enough. <a href="https://t.co/lmgdRkTtPO">pic.twitter.com/lmgdRkTtPO</a>
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There are a bunch of news reports describing Kenneth Darlington&#8217;s actions as &#8220;horrific&#8221; and “shocking.” The New York Post, for example, had this headline about the incident: “American lawyer, 77, busted in Panama after gunning down two eco-protesters blocking highway in shocking video.” But that’s not really true. Yes, he did gun down two eco-protesters, but there’s nothing shocking about it, if you’ve been paying attention. What he did is obviously wrong, it’s murder plain and simple, and cannot be condoned. But shocking?
No, in fact, the only thing really surprising about Kenneth Darlington&#8217;s reaction is that he&#8217;s the first person to react this way, in the face of a completely unreasonable, sustained blockade of a road that thousands of people depend on for their livelihoods. We&#8217;ve seen suggestions that people have had enough of this kind of thing, to be sure. A few weeks ago, for example, a tribal cop in Nevada <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12462413/Nevada-tribal-cop-activists-truck-hit-review.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plowed through</a> one of these climate blockades, and made some arrests. For a very long time, Left-wing protesters have been harassing, accosting, intentionally inconveniencing and interfering with normal people trying to go about their day. They have obstructed ambulances and other emergency vehicles. They have vandalized and destroyed. They have intentionally added stress, hostility, and ugliness to the world.
To be clear, nothing I&#8217;m saying is intended to endorse Darlington&#8217;s actions. The point here is not to encourage anyone else to respond the way he did. I wish this hadn’t happened. I wish those people were never in the road to begin with. I wish that when Darlington pulled the gun, they had responded like sane people, and realized that they had pushed this man too far, and simply gotten out of the road, where they had no right to be in the first place. I wish it had played out differently, but it didn’t.
Instead, what I&#8217;m saying is that it was always inevitable that something like this would happen eventually. The Ruling Class can only suspend law enforcement for so long, and so arbitrarily, until a Kenneth Darlington appears and takes matters into his own hands. And now that this precise scenario has happened, I&#8217;m betting it won&#8217;t be the last time. People are increasingly fed up and exhausted. Even the response to this incident on social media shows that. These leftist protesters are intentionally pushing people to the brink. Regardless of your politics, you can hopefully agree: That&#8217;s not a smart thing to do. It’s especially a dumb thing to do on a highway.
Road rage incidents are pretty common all over the world. People get stressed out in traffic — unreasonably so — and often they lash out and do drastic things. This is why it’s a really bad idea to flip somebody off in traffic because you’re mad they cut you off or whatever. You don’t know who is in that car. You don’t know what kind of day they’re having. You don’t know what kind of life they’re having. You don’t know how on edge, how fed up, how completely and totally done with your bull**** they might possibly be. That’s not to say you deserve to have them pull up beside you and open fire, you don’t deserve to be killed for waving your middle finger around, but if that’s the response you get, it can’t be denied that you could have easily avoided it by making better choices in the moment. 
Now imagine blocking an entire road full of traffic, and effectively giving the middle finger to hundreds of stress out commuters all at once, who are just trying to get home from work, or get to wherever else they’re going. You’re asking for trouble.
There is an image of Kenneth Darlington making the rounds on social media. It became an instantly famous picture.
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An old man just shot 2 climate activists who were blocking a highway in Panama <a href="https://t.co/F0iDRyALfb">pic.twitter.com/F0iDRyALfb</a>
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You can see Darlington, standing there point the gun, right after he fired it. It’s a fascinating picture in many ways. A picture worth a thousand words, as they say. The most interesting thing about it is Darlington’s expression. He’s not screaming. He doesn’t look enraged. He doesn’t have the expression of a man who has gone totally insane. Instead he looks exhausted. He looks tired. He looks like a man simply fed up. There are a lot of people like that in the world today. People who just want to live their lives, and yet they find, every step of the way, forces intentionally trying to make their lives worse and more difficult. People who have watched the total breakdown of law and order, and who have been pushed to the brink, and over it, because of it. That’s not an endorsement of Darlington’s actions. It’s just an observation about the state of the world.
And it’s a state that has been engineered by the people in charge. Whether in Panama or the U.K. or this country, the authorities take a pretty lackadaisical, overly tolerant approach to Left-wing protesters engaged in these kinds of disruptions, or doing things even worse than blocking traffic. If they wanted to protect human life, preserve order, and prevent outcomes like this, you&#8217;d think they&#8217;d crack down on the people blockading highways, vandalizing artwork, et cetera. You&#8217;d think they&#8217;d make sure the Pan-American Highway wasn&#8217;t shut down for the better part of a month. But the authorities are not doing any of that — which can only lead you to the conclusion that they don&#8217;t want to preserve order at all.
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Conservative and Jewish college students testified before Congress on Wednesday on how their point of view has been silenced and how they have been threatened on campuses across the country. 
The hearing — which took place before the House Judiciary Committee — focused on free speech and anti-Semitism and featured current and former college students, including members of the conservative group Young Americans for Freedom (YAF). As conservative and Jewish students attempted to tell lawmakers of the harassment they’ve faced at universities, a group of anti-Israel activists <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-palestinian-protesters-heckle-jewish-students-during-campus-anti-semitism-hearing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interrupted the hearing</a> on multiple occasions before they were escorted out of the room. 
One conservative witness, Jasmyn Jordan, a University of Iowa student and the chairwoman of the Iowa YAF chapter, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/black-conservative-student-testifies-harassment-iowa-campus-says-college-empowering-leftist-threats" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that freedom of speech is not equal for conservatives and liberals on college campuses. 
&#8220;The first time I noticed this was when Iowa YAF hosted Kellyanne Conway as a speaker. In response, I was doxxed in a group chat of over 800 students and was falsely labeled as a Nazi, a token, a white supremacist, and a bigot,&#8221; said Jordan, who is black. &#8220;Some individuals even expressed that I made them uncomfortable and feared that I might commit a hate crime against them simply because I&#8217;m Black and hold conservative principles. These students believe that if you are conservative, you are hateful, support oppression, and only want to benefit straight White men even though such beliefs are untrue.&#8221;
Jordan added that on one occasion her group invited Daily Wire host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-devastating-ruling-for-the-trans-cult-matt-walsh-breaks-down-federal-courts-quashing-of-aclu-in-tn-trans-case" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Walsh</a> to speak on campus, but “students and faculty were willing to do anything to cancel the event just because they found Walsh’s speech to be offensive.&#8221; When Walsh arrived on campus for the speech, Jordan said one student spilled thousands of marbles on the floor to keep people from attending the event, attendees were spat on, and a band played loud music outside of Walsh’s speech attempting to drown him out. 
&#8220;Despite repeatedly meeting with the university administration, the rules are continually permitted to be broken by Left-leaning students,&#8221; Jordan said. &#8220;They are in fact coddled by our school. The university expresses affirmations and puts together support, solidarity, and celebration spaces.”
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&mdash; House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) <a href="https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1722287314011824482?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 8, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Another witness, Connor Ogrydziak, <a href="https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2023/11/08/conservative--jewish-students-testify-they-re-being-silenced-on-college-campuses">testified</a> about the threats and harassment his YAF chapter faced from radical leftists when they hosted Daily Wire host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/radical-indoctrination-factories-for-producing-ignorant-activists-michael-knowles-talks-leftist-takeover-of-elite-universities-at-cornell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Knowles</a> for an event. Just weeks after Knowles appeared at the University of Buffalo, the college’s student senate voted to amend its rules and no longer recognize the YAF chapter at Buffalo as a student organization.
“Regardless of what side of the political aisle you reside on, it should be common ground that no student deserves to be threatened, mistreated or silenced on campus due to their personal beliefs,” said Connor Ogrydziak who recently graduated from the university. “Conservative students currently face a relentless uphill battle for representation on campus.”
Ogrydziak also told the Judiciary Committee that YAF members were chased across campus and one board member was physically attacked after the group hosted former Republican Congressman Lt. Col. Allen West. 
“With silence from the university and charges not pressed by the Erie County District Attorney&#8217;s office, I&#8217;ve since been left to consider the precedent this sets for those who plan to protest future events on campus,” Ogrydziak said. “&#8230; If those were who were involved in this mob were able to result to fear tactics and violence without consequence, what is keeping a pattern of this despicable behavior from being set and executed repeatedly?”
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“It should be common ground that no student deserves to be threatened, mistreated, or silenced on campus due to their personal beliefs.”
Connor Ogrydziak outlines the censorship he and other conservatives experienced at the University of Buffalo. <a href="https://t.co/YyTOeeKL3Y">pic.twitter.com/YyTOeeKL3Y</a>
&mdash; House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) <a href="https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1722286429886099602?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 8, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Conservative Students Testify Before Congress On Leftist Harassment At Universities Across U.S.

Conservative Students Testify Before Congress On Leftist Harassment On Campuses Across U.S.

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