Getting into Harvard because you're Black

"I got into law school because I am black.

As many black professionals think they must, I have long suppressed this truth, insisting instead that I got where I am the same way everybody else did. Today I am a professor at the Yale Law School. I like to think that I am a good one, but I am hardly the most objective judge. What I am fairly sure of, and can now say without trepidation, is that were my skin not the color that it is, I would not have had the chance to try.

For many, perhaps most, black professionals of my generation, the matter of who got where and how is left in a studied and, I think, purposeful ambiguity. Some of us, as theysay, would have made it into an elite college. or professional school anyway. (But, in my generation, many fewer than we like to pretend, even though one might question the much-publicized claim by Derek Bok, the president of Harvard Uni-versity, that in the absence of preferences, only 1 percent of Harvard’s entering class would be black.) Most of us, perhaps nearly all of us, have learned to bury the matter far back in our minds. We are who we are and where we are, we have records of accomplishment or failure, and there is no rational reason that anybody—employer, client, whoever—should care any longer whether racial preference played any role in our admission to a top professional school.

When people in positions to help or hurt our careers do seem to care, we tend to react with fury... We bristle when others raise what might be called the qualification question—“‘Did you get into school or get hired because of a special program?”’—and that prickly sensitivity is the best evidence, if any is needed, of one of the principal costs of racial preferences. Scratch a black professional with the qualification question, and you’re likely to get a caustic response, such as this one from a senior executive at a major airline: ‘‘Some whites think I’ve made it because I’m black. Some blacks think I’ve made it only because I’m an Uncle Tom. The fact is, I’ve made it because I’m good."

Given the way that so many Americans seem to treat receipt of the benefits of affirmative action as a badge of shame, answers of this sort are both predictable and sensible. In the professional world, moreover, they are very often true: relatively few corporations are in a position to hand out charity. The peculiar aspect of the routine denial, however, is that so many of those who will bristle at the suggestion that they themselves have gained from racial preferences will try simultaneously to insist that racial preferences be preserved and to force the world to pretend that no one benefits from them. That awkward balancing of fact and fiction explains the frequent but generally groundless ery that it is racist to suggest that some individual’s professional accomplishments would be fewer but for affirmative action; and therein hangs a tale...

I was disturbed rather than excited by this vision of law schools circling the wagons, as it were, to defend their beleaguered minority students against racially insensitive remarks... there would still have been outrage—not as much, but some— had the interviewer asked only what I called at the beginning of the chapter the qualification question.

I suspect this because in my own student days, something over a decade ago, an interviewer from a prominent law firm addressed this very question to a Yale student who was not white, and the student voices—including my own—howled in protest. “‘Racism!”’ we insisted. ‘‘Ban them!” But with the passing years, I have come to wonder whether our anger might have been misplaced...

(It is useful here to dispose of one common but rather silly anti-affirmative action bromide: the old question, ‘‘Do you really want to be treated by a doctor who got into medical school because of skin color?” The answer is, or ought to be, that the patient doesn’t particularly care how the doctor got into school; what matters is how the doctor got out. The right question, the sensible question, is not ‘“What medical school performance did your grades and test scores predict?” but “‘What was your medical school performance?’”’) But irrelevance and boorishness cannot explain our rage at the qualification question, because lots of interviewers ask questions that meet the tests of boorishness and irrelevance.

The controversy is not limited to outsiders who come onto campus to recruit. In the spring of 1991, for example, students at Georgetown Law School demanded punishment for a classmate who argued in the school newspaper that affirmative action is unfair because students of color are often admitted to law school on the basis of grades and test scores that would cause white applicants to be rejected. Several universities have considered proposals that would deem it “racial harassment”’ for a (white?) student to question the qualifications of nonwhite classmates.* But we can’t change either the truths or the myths about racial preferences by punishing those who speak them.

This clamor for protection from the qualification question is powerful evidence of the terrible psychological pressure that racial preferences often put on their beneficiaries. Indeed, it sometimes seems as though the programs are not supposed to have any beneficiaries—or, at least, that no one is permitted to suggest that they have any.

And that’s ridiculous. If one supports racial preferences in professional school admissions, for example, one must be prepared to treat them like any other preference in admission and believe that they make a difference, that some students would not be admitted if the preferences did not exist. This is not a racist observation. It is not normative in any sense. It is simply a fact. A good deal of emotional underbrush might be cleared away were the fact simply conceded, and made the beginning, not the end, of any discussion of preferences. For once it is conceded that the programs have beneficiaries, it follows that some of us who are professionals and are not white must be among them. Supporters of preferences must stop pretending otherwise. Rather, some large segment of us must be willing to meet the qualification question head-on, to say, “Yes, I got into law school because of racial preferences. So what?’’—and, having said it, must be ready with a list of what we have made of the opportunities the preferences provided.

Now, this is a costly concession, because it carries with it all the baggage of the bitter rhetorical battle over the relationship between preferences and merit. But bristling at the question suggests a deep-seated fear that the dichotomy might be real. Indeed, if admitting that racial preferences make a difference leaves a funny aftertaste in the mouths of proponents, they might be more comfortable fighting against preferences rather than for them.

So let us bring some honesty as well as rigor to the debate, and begin at the beginning. I have already made clear my starting point: I got into a top law school because I am black. Not only am I unashamed of this fact, but I can prove its truth.

As a senior at Stanford back in the mid-1970s, I applied to about half a dozen law schools. Yale, where I would ultimately enroll, came through fairly early with an acceptance. So did all but one of the others. The last school, Harvard, dawdled and dawdled. Finally, toward the end of the admission season, I received a letter of rejection. Then, within days, two different Harvard officials and a professor contacted me by telephone to apologize. They were quite frank in their explanation for the “‘error.’”’ I was told by one official that the school had initially rejected me because ‘‘we assumed from your record that you were white.” (The words have always stuck in my mind, a tantalizing reminder of what is expected of me.) Suddenly coy, he went on to say that the school had obtained ‘additional information that should have been counted in your favor’’—that is, Harvard had discovered the color of my skin. And if I had already made a deposit to confirm my decision to go elsewhere, well, that, I was told, would “not be allowed’ to stand in my way should I enroll at Harvard.

Naturally, I was insulted by this miracle. Stephen Carter, the white male, was not good enough for the Harvard Law School; Stephen Carter, the black male, not only was good enough but rated agonized telephone calls urging him to attend. And Stephen Carter, color unknown, must have been white: How else could he have achieved what he did in college? Except that my college achievements were obviously not sufficiently spectacular to merit acceptance had I been white. In other words, my academic record was too good for a black Stanford University undergraduate, but not good enough for a white Harvard law student. Because I turned out to be black, however, Harvard was quite happy to scrape me from what it apparently considered somewhere nearer the bottom of the barrel.

My objective is not to single out Harvard for special criticism; on the contrary, although my ego insists otherwise, I make no claim that a white student with my academic record would have been admitted to any of the leading law schools. The insult I felt came from the pain of being reminded so forcefully that in the judgment of those with the power to dispose, I was good enough for a top law school oe because I happened to be black.

aturally, I should not have been insulted at all; that is what racial preferences are for—racial preference. But I was insulted and went off to Yale instead, even though I had then and have now absolutely no reason to imagine that Yale’s judgment was based on different criteria than Harvard’s. Hardly anyone granted admission at Yale is denied admission at Harvard, which admits a far larger class; but several hundreds of students who are admitted at Harvard are denied admission at Yale. Because Yale is far more selective, the chances are good that I was admitted at Yale for essentially the same reason I was admitted at Harvard—the color of my skin made up for what were evidently considered other deficiencies in my academic record. I may embrace this truth as a matter of simple justice or rail against it as one of life’s great evils, but being a member of the affirmative action generation means that the one thing I cannot do is deny it. I will say it again: I got into law school because I am black. So what?"

--- Reflections of an affirmative action baby / Stephen L. Carter

How ignorant. Doesn't he know that affirmative action just exists to level the playing field?!

One left wing cope to reconcile the paradox Carter identifies of claiming that affirmative action simultaneously means certain groups are getting in based on lower standards but also doesn't mean members of those groups who do get in are less capable is to claim that affirmative action just removes bias so those groups are being evaluated the same as the "majority". Quite how affirmative action is so precise as to perfectly balance the supposed bias out without biasing it in the other direction is never specified, of course.

You can tell this was published in 1991 because he doesn't consider the possibility that medical school performance / tests can be influenced by affirmative action too.

Links - 11th May 2026 (2 - Euthanasia in Canada)

'Healthy' 26-year-old man killed by MAiD for 'mental illness' - "A 26-year-old Ontario man has been euthanized by medical assistance in dying (MAiD) despite his doctor describing him as "young and healthy." Kiano Vafaeian died from MAiD on December 30, something his mother, Margaret Marsilla, announced in a Facebook post on Tuesday, stating the doctor who approved his euthanasia, found a "loophole" to kill her son. Vafaeian received MAiD in Vancouver by a now household name in MAiD — Dr. Ellen Wiebe, referred to as "DR DEATH #2."... Vafaeian had previously tried to apply for MAiD in 2022 for diabetes and visual impairment. "Four years ago, here in Ontario, we were able to stop his euthanasia and get him some help. He was alive because people stepped in when he was vulnerable and not capable of making a final, irreversible decision," wrote Marsilla in the Facebook post... Vafaeian was 23 years old at the time, he had diabetes and had lost his vision in one eye — and he had no job, girlfriend, or plan for the future... Vafaeian was still euthanized at the end of 2025 due to "mental illness." As Marsilla wrote, "This approval occurred despite euthanasia for mental illness being banned until 2027."... "The actions of DR ELLEN WIEBE reveal a pattern of coldness and disregard for vulnerable human life that I can no longer stay silent about, just that scary smile shows her entitlement for taking peoples lives….." "This is not healthcare. This is a failure of ethics, accountability, and humanity." "No parent should ever have to bury their child because a system — and a doctor — chose death over care, help, or love," Marsilla wrote."

Mark Hemingway on X - ""Ontario’s euthanasia regulators have tracked 428 cases of possible criminal violations — and not referred a single case to law enforcement, say leaked documents.""
Wesley Yang on X - "It was always going to end up like this -- a rapid cascade down the slippery slope to state-sanctioned medicalized murder done with absolute impunity. All assurances to the contrary were always going to be falsified and there would be no accountability mechanism after all of it was disclosed."

Marlene Robertson🇨🇦 on X - "For all the dumbass maga in the back:  MAID is a voluntary, regulated medical procedure with very strict eligibility rules.   It applies to those over 18 and who are mentally competent.    It’s an option when you have a grievous and incurable medical condition that is causing intolerable suffering and pain."
Kelly on X - "I’m about as far left as you can get… but we do have problems with MAiD in Canada. How do I know? It was “offered” to me in lieu of care. I’m disabled, I was alone, my conditions expensive. Yes I was allowed to say “No”, but no alternative care was offered. That’s coercion."
Tellingly, OP goes on about "Nazis" in its bio

Coddled Affluent Professional on X - "In Canada, you can get euthanized more quickly than you can get an MRI."

Disabled Canadians ‘Often’ Offered Euthanasia Unprompted, Advocate Tells MPs - "Canadians with disabilities are being offered medical assistance in dying (MAID) when accessing health care for regular health concerns, a disabilities advocate told a parliamentary committee on Oct. 8.   “People with disabilities are now very much afraid in many circumstances to show up in the health care system with regular health concerns, because often MAID is suggested as a solution to what is considered to be intolerable suffering,” Krista Carr, CEO of Inclusion Canada, told the Parliamentary Finance Committee on Oct. 8.  When asked for more details by Conservative MP Garnett Genuis, Carr said she hears complaints “weekly,” and the disability community wants the repeal of Track 2 MAID, which applies to people whose natural death is not reasonably foreseeable... The Liberal government introduced MAID in 2016 after a Supreme Court ruling found that the absence of such a program violated the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The program has since been expanded and is set to include individuals with mental health conditions by 2027.  The program drew further controversy in 2022 when military veterans said they had been offered MAID by a Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) agent after approaching the department for support. VAC responded by saying all the incidents involved one agent who “is no longer employed with the Department.” There have also been cases of individuals seeking MAID due to financial hardship, including a 54-year-old man in St. Catharines who suffered from chronic back pain and feared becoming homeless in 2022. He applied for MAID but changed his mind after receiving community support."
Weird. Left wingers told us this would never happen. And they still insist it's not happening, and that those who are euthanised are all terminally ill and would die soon anyway and only religious extremists have concerns about euthanasia

Where does Sarah Palin go for her apology? - "Canada, whose lawmakers, celebrities, and influencers often boast about their “free” healthcare and stringent anti-gun laws, recorded an astonishing 16,499 MAID suicides, or legalized doctor-assisted suicides, in 2024, following 22,535 such requests that year.  In 2023, there were approximately 15,500 MAID suicides.  To put things into perspective, 2023’s recorded figure gives us a per capita rate of 37 MAID suicides per 100,000 people. During the same year, the United States reported 17,927 firearm homicides, resulting in a per capita rate of five gun-related murders per 100,000 people. Even if you combine 2023’s firearm homicides with all other gun-related deaths from that year, including suicides (27,300), law enforcement-related shootings (604), accidental shooting deaths (463), and what the CDC calls “undetermined circumstances” (434), that gives us a rate of only 13.7 gun-related deaths per 100,000 people, compared to Canada’s rate of 37 MAID suicides per 100,000.  Put another way, a Canadian is nearly three times more likely to die by MAID than an American is to die by a gunshot, whether intentional or not.  How’s that for perspective?... the number of Canadians lining up to commit suicide is increasing each year, and not by just a little, but exponentially.  There is a broader conversation to be had about Canada’s culture of despair. But the more urgent and troubling issue is the one where, as Palin warned all those years ago, medical professionals within a “universal healthcare” system are evidently encouraging patients to consider death as an alternative to medical care, even when the patients themselves have expressed no such desire to die... In 2018, a patient with a degenerative neurological condition at a London, Ontario hospital secretly recorded staff offering him suicide, despite his repeated requests for home care support. In 2022, a paraplegic Paralympian and veteran was offered MAID by a Veterans Affairs Canada caseworker when she requested a wheelchair ramp for her home, with the worker suggesting suicide as an alternative to feeling “desperate.” A separate internal Veterans Affairs investigation confirmed four similar incidents between 2019 and 2022 where the same employee offered suicide services to veterans seeking help for post-traumatic stress disorder or disabilities, not end-of-life care.  In 2023, a Vancouver woman seeking psychiatric care for chronic suicidal ideation had a clinician describe the MAID process in detail without her prompting, which the patient felt undermined her suicide prevention efforts. In 2019, a man in British Columbia was approved for MAID amid family concerns that it had been suggested while he was vulnerable in the hospital for suicidal ideation. In 2024, a Montreal woman with spina bifida was offered MAID twice by hospital staff during unrelated treatment, and a woman from Nova Scotia was asked about MAID before breast cancer surgery despite not being terminally ill.  Another disabled woman was suggested MAID by her physiotherapist while seeking help for a bruised hip. If you think this is bad, know it will get much worse, especially as Canada prepares to broaden its already generous MAID qualifications to include people with mental health problems. This is in addition to separate proposals to make MAID suicide services available to “mature minors,” that is, patients under the age of 18 who are “found to have the requisite decision-making capacity,” as well as infants under one year old in cases of “severe deformities.”  Even without the proposed expansions, we know that things will get worse in Canada because we know what happens in modern societies where secular understandings of convenience and quality of life inform medical and lifestyle decisions. Just look at what Europe did to children with Down syndrome — it aborted them into near-extinction... Remember, Canada is a country that, until relatively recently, had fewer MRI machines than Pittsburgh. It’s also a country with a median healthcare wait time of an astonishing 28.6 weeks. Why wouldn’t Canada try to ease the pressure on its healthcare system by encouraging the chronically ill, the elderly, and the mentally unstable to commit suicide? If a government is seeking a way to manage an already unwieldy budget, it might naturally consider removing those who contribute little but consume a great deal — the crippled, the infirm, the feeble, and the mentally impaired.  It has always seemed odd that Palin’s warning was met with ridicule and mockery, dismissed as complete lunacy, the suggestion that a board overseen by nameless bureaucrats would eventually invent for itself the power to decide who should and should not have access to government-run medical care.  Governments operate on a limited resource: money. What do all businesses do when an asset incurs more debits than credits? They cut that asset. Governments are no different. It’s only logical that Canada is pushing for the liquidation of those whose mere existence is a drain on the treasury; it would be surprising if it weren’t."

James Rosen on X - "A fascinating examination of medically assisted suicide in #Canada by ⁦@BecketAdams⁩ ⁦@washexaminer⁩. Most striking are the accounts of instances, secretly recorded, where patients pleaded for care while authorities pushed them toward suicide."
Erik Lindberg on X - Can confirm. I was in the hospital with pneumonia and one of my doctors suggested that if I needed a ventilator that I just refuse it and pass on because it was easier. I had quite an argument with him. He was sure that I would be better off dead than deal with the discomfort of being intubated."
Left wing logic: if a medical professional suggests euthanasia, there's no coercion and there's nothing wrong. But if a medical professional suggests losing weight, that's fat shaming and unethical

Rushing to death in Canada’s MAiD regime - "A recent federal consultation explored extending MAiD to those who lack capacity via advance directives, an approach Quebec has already adopted, despite its criminal status under federal law.  Despite its compassionate framing,  investigative journalists and government reports reveal troubling patterns where inadequate exploration of reversible suffering – such as lack of access to medical treatments, poverty, loneliness, and feelings of being a burden – have driven Canadians to choose death. As described by our former Disability Inclusion Minister, Canada’s system at times makes it easier to access MAiD than to receive basic care like a wheelchair. With over 60,000 MAiD cases by the end of 2023, the evidence raises grave concerns about Canada’s MAiD regime...
In the same-day or next-day MAiD report, Mrs. B, in her 80s, after complications from surgery, opted for palliative care, leading to discharge home. She later requested a MAiD assessment, but her assessor noted she preferred palliative care based on personal and religious values. The next day, her spouse, struggling with caregiver burnout, took her to the emergency department, but she was discharged home. When a request for hospice palliative care was denied, her spouse contacted the provincial MAiD coordination service for an urgent assessment. A new assessor deemed her eligible for MAiD, despite concerns from the first practitioner, who questioned the new assessor on the urgency, the sudden shift in patient perspective, and the influence of caregiver burnout. The initial assessor requested an opportunity for re-evaluation, but this was denied, with the second assessor deeming it urgent. That evening, a third MAiD practitioner was brought in, and Mrs. B underwent MAiD that night.  The focus should have been on ensuring adequate palliative care and support for Mrs. B and her spouse. Hospice and palliative care teams should have been urgently re-engaged, given the severity of the situation. Additionally, the MAiD provider expedited the process despite the first assessor’s and Mrs. B’s concerns without fully considering the impact of her spouse’s burnout.   The report also has worrying trends suggesting that local medical cultures—rather than patient choice—could be influencing rushed MAiD. Geographic clustering, particularly in Western Ontario, where same-day and next-day MAiD deaths occur most frequently, raises concerns that some MAiD providers may be predisposed to rapidly approve patients for quick death rather than ensuring patients have access to adequate care or exploring if suffering is remediable. This highlights a worrying trend where the speed of the MAiD provision is prioritized over patient-centered care and ethical safeguards.
 Consent has been central to Canadians’ acceptance of the legalization of euthanasia and assisted suicide. However, some cases in these reports point to concerns already raised by clinicians: the lack of thorough capacity assessments and concerns that individuals may not have freely chosen MAiD.  In the waiver of final consent report, Mr. B, a man with Alzheimer’s, had been approved for MAiD with such a waiver. However, by the scheduled provision date, his spouse reported increased confusion. Upon arrival, the MAiD provider noted that Mr. B no longer recognized them and so chose not to engage him in discussion at all. Without any verbal interaction to determine his current wishes or understanding, Mr. B’s life was ended.  In the same-day or next-day MAiD report, Mr. C, diagnosed with metastatic cancer, initially expressed interest in MAiD but then experienced cognitive decline and became delirious. He was sedated for pain management. Despite the treating team confirming that capacity was no longer present, a MAiD practitioner arrived and withheld sedation, attempting to rouse him. It was documented that the patient mouthed “yes” and nodded and blinked in response to questions. Based on this interaction, the MAiD provider deemed the patient to have capacity. The MAiD practitioner then facilitated a virtual second assessment, and MAiD was administered...
As early as 2020, the Chief Coroner of Ontario identified cases where patients received MAiD without well-documented capacity assessments, even though their medical records suggested they lacked capacity. Further, when Dr. Leonie Herx, past president of the Canadian Society of Palliative Medicine, testified before Parliament about MAiD frequently occurring without capacity, an MP dismissed her, advising Parliament to be cautious about considering seriously evidence under parliamentary immunities that amounted to malpractice allegations, which should be handled by the appropriate regulatory bodies or police.  These dismissive comments stand in stark contrast with the gravity of assessing financial capacity, and yet the magnitude is greater when ending life. By way of comparison, for my father, an Ontario-approved capacity expert conducted a rigorous evaluation before declaring him incapable of managing his finances. This included a lengthy interview, collateral history, and review of financial documents—yet no such rigorous capacity assessment is mandated for MAiD."

Man, 26, euthanised in Canada because he was diabetic and blind - "A “vulnerable” young man with no terminal illnesses has died by euthanasia in Canada.  Kiano Vafaeian, 26, had type 1 diabetes, partial blindness and depression, but was approved for the government euthanasia scheme despite his mother Margaret Marsilla’s protests... British medical bodies have raised significant concerns about the definition of “terminal illness” and safeguards to prevent coercion in the current bill. In November, a poll found more medical professionals oppose than support the draft legislation.  The fastest growing category of Canada’s assisted dying is not those with a terminal illness, but those labelled “other”."

HHS official blasts Canada for organ donations from MAID - "Deputy Health and Human Services Secretary Jim O’Neill condemned Canada’s permissive physician-assisted suicide program for ill patients, which he said has crossed ethical boundaries by increasing deceased organ donation rates...   O’Neill and Health Resources and Services Administration chief Thomas Engels have said that they are trying to revive trust in the American Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network after multiple troubling reports of organs nearly being harvested from live patients in several states, including Kentucky and New Jersey.   But O’Neill said that Canada’s program was uniquely problematic compared to even the most egregious stories in the U.S...   The Canadian Medical Association Journal published a paper in 2024 outlining a “substantial increase in deceased donation” in Quebec during the first five years of the MAID program.  From 2018 to 2022, the number of deceased donors who died by physician-assisted suicide increased from 4.9% in 2018 to 14% in 2022.    A broader study of Canada, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Spain, published in the American Journal of Transplantation in 2022, found that 286 people across the four countries donated their organs after physician-assisted suicide. Nearly half of those donors, 136, came from Canada."

Canada couldn’t treat a sick woman. So it offered her assisted suicide - "Canada’s healthcare system used to be a source of pride for my country. It was regarded as one of the world’s best examples of a publicly-funded insurance system, free at the point of use, ranking highly for accessibility, care, compassion and the treatment of major and minor illnesses.  No longer. In 2024, the influential Commonwealth Fund survey placed Canada in seventh place out of ten developed countries, with a particularly poor score for access to care. In January, the Canada-based CD Howe Institute gave the country’s healthcare system an even gloomier diagnosis: it was placed ninth out of 10 countries, with all provinces and territories falling below the international average for overall healthcare performance.  Now the world has begun to notice. Story after story has emerged of patients failing to receive the treatment they require. But none is quite so chilling as that of Jolene Van Alstine... Her condition is treatable – said to involve complex surgery to remove her remaining parathyroid gland. But no doctors in Saskatchewan are able to perform it. Her case could have been moved on to a surgeon in a different Canadian province, but she needed to get a referral from an endocrinologist – and none of them are reportedly taking new patients.  This is where the story takes a truly sinister turn. Van Alistine sought approval for MAID, or medical assistance in dying. Worse, she was actually approved for medically-assisted suicide. Her husband, Miles Sundeen, told Global News that “she doesn’t want to die. She’s expressed that”, but he understands her position “after watching her suffer for this length of time”.  Perhaps aware at how horrific this would look – a woman who says she cannot receive the treatment she requires instead being approved for assisted suicide – the MAID approval has since hit a roadblock. “Ironically that option,” according to Toronto Sun columnist Joe Warmington, “which looked like it could be utilised as early as Jan 7, 2026, has now stalled as a result of Saskatchewan MAID officials telling Jolene that her earlier approval has been pulled because of a bureaucratic error in which just one doctor signed off on it.” (Two independent Canadian medical practitioners are required for mandatory sign-off.)... Cynics have suggested that Beck is using Van Alstine’s illness as a means of attacking socialised medicine in Canada. He doesn’t need to. When a country blindly defends a public healthcare system that won’t do everything in its power to treat a sick patient, and that patient feels they must take the awful option of medically-assisted death, then the system itself is equally sick."

Dei Civitas on X - "Canadian healthcare is so great that a Saskatchewan woman has asked for MAID on January 7. Because no doctor is willing to arrange a surgery to deal with her pain. So an American has to step up and offer to fly this poor woman out of that land of communism and death known as Canada, and get her treatment in the US.  Think about this. The Canadian government is willing to kill this woman, but can’t be bothered to heal her."

Kelden Formosa 🍁 on X - "There is a Jewish nursing home in Vancouver that didn't want MAiD performed within its walls because it was traumatizing for the elderly Holocaust survivors who live there. Ellen Wiebe snuck in and performed a MAiD procedure anyways."

Some of Canada’s latest MAID recipients: An obese woman and a grieving widower - "A severely obese woman in her 60s who sought euthanasia due to her “no longer having a will to live” and a widower whose request to have his life ended was mainly driven by emotional distress and grief over his dead spouse are the latest cases to draw concerns that some doctors are taking an overly broad interpretation of the law. The anonymized cases highlighted in the latest report from the Ontario Coroner’s MAID Death Review Committee include people whose conditions were declared “grievous and irremediable” — incurable — and their deaths reasonably foreseeable because they refused all forms of care or had stopped eating and drinking... In all three deaths, hopelessness, isolation and loneliness were driving factors... Mr. C had problems eating, and gait and mobility issues. He felt he couldn’t engage in meaningful hobbies. A neurologist confirmed his condition was incurable, however several members of the 16-member death review committee questioned whether an essential tremor fully met the legislative threshold for a grievous and irremediable condition, noting that an essential tremor “rarely progresses to cause severe disability” or incapacity. Psychological stress can also exacerbate symptoms of essential tremor. Some committee members worried Mr. C’s request for MAID “appeared to be primarily motivated by social withdrawal, grief and hopelessness,” which they believed may have been potentially reversible. “It’s very sad. This poor man. I’m concerned that if he had still been in a relationship his essential tremor would be less bothersome,” said Dr. Ramona Coelho, a family physician and committee member. While he was experiencing trouble eating, his basic activities of daily living weren’t significantly impacted. “These kinds of cases highlight and validate what the disability community has been trying to point out: MAID is a risk to their right to life,” Coelho said. Mrs. A, who had morbid obesity, was isolated and mainly housebound. She had high blood pressure, diabetes, severe shortness of breath, and chronic pain. MAID assessors said her condition could potentially improve with medical treatments such as government-funded bariatric surgery, as well as disability and social supports. However, she refused all care. She hadn’t been to her doctor or diabetes clinic for several years and had stopped taking her medications. Her “re-engagement” with the health system appeared to be primarily for accessing MAID. “The MAID assessors determined her death to be reasonably foreseeable due to Mrs. A’s decision not to pursue additional treatment,” the report reads. But Coelho believes the woman was in a state of neglect. “And that to me, that is patient abandonment. ‘Oh, you want to die? Sure, you can die.’” “I can understand how it can sound like it’s compassionate. It’s what she wants,” Coelho said... “But does that make you eligible for MAID,” Coelho said. “If someone comes to my office and said, ‘I want MAID’ and has had no workup, I will say, ‘I’m here for you, I’d like to explore your suffering. But I cannot say in good faith that you’re eligible for MAID.’” “When we agreed that MAID would be legal, we said we would give it to people who met certain criteria,” Coelho said. Mrs. A also showed signs of catastrophic thinking and “profound psychological and existential suffering.” Both MAID assessors documented that she didn’t have suicidal thoughts. However, loneliness, isolation and psychosocial suffering overlap with suicide risk factors, said psychiatrist Dr. Sonu Gaind, a professor of medicine at the University of Toronto. “We’re clearly providing MAID to some people who have all the risk factors for being suicidal, especially placing those who are lonely and most marginalized at risk,” said Gaind, who does not sit on the death review panel. “And then we’re sanitizing it with false reassurances to society from the white lab coat that the person is not suicidal.” The third case involved Mr. B, a man in his 60s who was living with cerebral palsy in long-term care. He stopped eating and drinking six to eight weeks before his first MAID assessment... Mr. B was experiencing “profound psychosocial suffering and loneliness due to limited social relationships and isolation from the community — a lifelong experience,” according to the report. He worried that he would become more dependent as he got older. Cerebral palsy is an incurable condition, and Mr. B had lost weight and was in an “advanced state of decline,” including signs of kidney failure, because of his decision to stop eating and drinking. However, his suffering was “mainly psychosocial and existentially oriented,” the report reads. Some members worried that “self-facilitated decline” by not eating or drinking, instead of condition-driven decline, could undermine MAID safeguards “and create pathways for circumventing eligibility criteria.”... Of 4,356 reported MAID deaths in Ontario in 2024, most, 88 per cent, met all legislative requirements, according to the report. About 602 required further in-depth review; 281 of those went on to require an investigation."
Damn far right Christian extremists who oppose MAID! They need to be sacked for political interference
Left wingers claim that even one unjustified police shooting is unacceptable because the state is supposed to protect people and is violating its duty. But there's no problem with state killing

The Liberals’ $10-a-Day Childcare Disaster

The Liberals’ $10-a-Day Childcare Disaster (aka "Suffer the Little Children: The Liberals’ $10-a-Day Childcare Disaster")

"In March 2021, the Justin Trudeau government committed Canadian taxpayers to spending $30 billion over the next five years to provide parents with $10-a-day childcare. Proponents claimed this huge expense would dramatically reduce the stress and financial burdens on hard-pressed Canadian families while improving the lives of their young children and encouraging more mothers to get into the workforce. With that initial funding period having come to an end, it’s time for a report card on Ottawa’s plan to bring low-cost daycare to the masses.

Mom and Dad better sit down. The news isn’t good.

From coast to coast to coast, parents have expressed extreme frustration with how difficult it is to find a subsidized daycare spot for their kids. Waitlists once measured in weeks or months now stretch to years. In some places, officials admit children will likely be in public school by the time a place opens up for them. Adding inequity to this frustration, parents denied a subsidized spot face the prospect of spending $50 to $60 per day for market-based childcare while their lucky neighbours may be enjoying the same service at a fraction of the cost thanks to generous but hard-to-access government subsidies.

Meanwhile, daycare operators say they can’t pivot to meet the pent-up demand because of bureaucratic restrictions that limit their flexibility and discriminate against private-sector initiative. Evidence further suggests that the quality of care offered to children in subsidized care is suffering, as childcare centres trim their budgets to meet new government requirements.

In short, after five years things are getting worse, not better. More parental stress, longer waitlists, greater inequity, unhappy operators and an apparent decline in care standards. And many of these issues seem most acute in British Columbia.

Outside Quebec, which runs its own system, B.C. ought to be the best-situated province when it comes to delivering on Trudeau’s vision of heavily subsidized, not-for-profit, government-controlled daycare. That’s because B.C. had a big head start on everyone else. In 2017 the NDP won the provincial election on the strength of an explicit promise for province-wide $10-per-day daycare. A year later that policy, called ChildCare BC, was officially launched. It would be three more years before Ottawa got around to creating its own national version of this B.C. innovation.

Last month, however, B.C. premier David Eby’s NDP government announced it was halting further expansion of ChildCare BC – which runs parallel to the federal program – in order to implement a “stabilization period”. With expenses skyrocketing and parents complaining about the unfairness of a system that works more like a lottery than a coherent social policy, the Eby government has hit pause on its signature innovation...

The problems facing Trudeau’s $10-per-day childcare promise are evident both in government statistics and on-the-ground tales of parental woe...

The proportion of parents who told Statcan they had problems finding a space for their child rose from 36 percent in 2019 to 46 percent in 2023 to a shameful 50 percent by 2025.

Another way to evaluate access is to examine the size and persistence of waiting lists. In 2022, 19 percent of children aged 0-5 not in childcare were stuck on a daycare waitlist. In 2023, that was up to 26 percent. And by 2025, it was nearly 31 percent. Delays are particularly long for children under one; last year Statcan reported that 56.5 percent of infants not in childcare were on a waitlist...

Even provinces that have succeeded in lowering fees are failing on access. In December 2023, PEI’s Liberal government crowed in a press release that it would “achieve $10-a-day regulated childcare two years ahead of [the] national target.” Yet the very next month, daycare owner Wendy Foote sat before a legislative committee and said she was often forced to turn away “sobbing parents” as there were no spaces available at her facility. “I hear horror stories every day working in centres; people calling and begging for spaces,” Marianne Ellis, senior program manager with childcare operator Chances, told the same committee. “Honestly, there [are] people that have been on [a wait list since]…before they were even pregnant, and they still don’t have a space by the time the child is a year old.”...

In Orillia, some facilities have temporarily closed their waitlists because they’re so long that any kids added to it will likely be in public school before a spot opens up.

Childcare access has similarly deteriorated in Manitoba, another province that boasts of meeting its CWELCC fee goal. A poll last year showed the average waitlist for Manitoba families was 17 months, even after excluding families who never got a childcare space at all. The same poll showed that 52 percent of families had to delay a parent’s return to work because childcare was unavailable, up from 41 percent in 2016, before the federal Liberals launched their national childcare program...

Declining care quality is another problem. The goal of charging parents $10 per day for a service with a market value of $50 to $60 in most major cities requires significant government intervention. Along with the subsidies provided to childcare centres to lower their fees comes a web of bureaucratic controls. In some provinces, childcare has essentially become a government-controlled enterprise in which individual operators no longer control their finances or day-to-day operations. The alternative – foregoing government subsidies – is a difficult choice for many childcare centres, as parents now expect to pay fees dramatically below market rates.

Childcare centres participating in the government system have responded to this financial and managerial squeeze in various ways. Many are trimming their expenses by reducing staff numbers, providing fewer toys and games, eliminating field trips, ending flexible pickup hours, cutting out snacks and lowering staff salaries and benefits, thus reducing many of the things that contribute to high-quality care.

Anya Kerr, who runs childcare centres in Alberta and Ontario, explained in an industry group news release that “the unique needs and expenses of centres in remote areas cannot be met” under the existing system. As Kerr put it, “We’ve already had to make cuts to our quality programs, services for families, and nutrition costs, which goes against our founding philosophy. With the proposed changes, we will have to lay off staff who are needed to support inclusion of special needs children and make further cuts to our programs.” She added that many parents have offered to support these additional programs through private donations. But CWELCC is designed to prevent parents from paying more. “If none of the key goals of the system are being met, it is a failure for all Canadian families,” Kerr concluded.

According to the Association of Canadian Early Learning Programs (ACE), an Alberta-based childcare operator group that represents 1,700 operators, including Kerr, with 163,000 daycare spaces, “Funding can fall short by as much as $900 per child per month when quality programming, adequate staffing, inclusion supports, and fair educator compensation are factored into operating costs.” ACE, which has repeatedly drawn attention to the negative impact of government control on childcare quality, said in a statement last year that CWELCC has had “devastating consequences for accessibility, quality, and parental choice.”

In Alberta, daycare operator Sarah Hunter told Maclean’s she feels “handcuffed by the constraints” of her agreement with the government. She described working 13-hour days, foregoing any salary since she opened her daycare three years ago, and being forced to turn away children with special needs because she could not afford the additional staffing expense. “Sacrifices loom large,” Hunter said, “whether that involves cutting food, art, or music programs, or mass layoffs of educators – which means fewer and fewer people caring for more and more kids.”

As the evidence of CWELCC’s many flaws and failures piles up, even vocal proponents of non-profit, government-controlled childcare are admitting the federal rollout has been problematic. This admission generally follows one of two themes. The first is that the country is experiencing a minor bump on an otherwise virtuous path. An op-ed by members of the pro-daycare organization Prosperity Project, for example, claims “the $10-a-day program isn’t perfect, but…with a few tweaks it could help even more families in the coming years.” Similarly, a study by the left-wing Atkinson Centre for Society and Child Development admits that, “Low fees are driving demand which can not be reasonably met, leading to compromises with quality,” but figures this can be remedied with yet more government funding and control.

The second theme is most often heard in Ottawa. There the preferred message is that the problem lies with the provinces, and in particular Conservative-led provinces...

The experience of B.C., however, undercuts Trudeau’s jibe that Conservative premiers are at fault. It also raises serious concerns about the federal program’s future, given Carney’s apparent half-hearted support. Not only does B.C. have an eager and pliant NDP government, but, as mentioned above, the province had a three-year jump on the rest of the country with its ChildCare BC program. It was also first to sign an official CWELCC agreement with Ottawa. And yet the daycare crisis seems worse in B.C. than anywhere else.

According to Statistics Canada, in 2025 B.C. had the country’s most expensive average daily daycare costs (see accompanying chart below). Further, while 50 percent of Canadian families using childcare report difficulty finding a space, in B.C. that figure is a staggering 68 percent. A recent report by the think-tank Cardus reveals that B.C. is so desperate to put a positive spin on its failing program that it now includes for-profit childcare facilities in its statistics regarding new space creation, even though for-profit operations are not eligible for any provincial or federal funding meant to create new spaces.

In his province’s February budget, Eby imposed a moratorium on further expansion of the $10-a-day ChildCare BC program. “After hearing from operators that current funding models limit their flexibility to support high-quality, inclusive care, the Province will pause enrolment of new providers,” reads a backgrounder for the 2026 Budget. Beyond the program’s ballooning costs, the backgrounder further notes that it needs “more equity,” a reference to complaints from many parents about the current system’s obvious unfairness.

To recap, ChildCare BC centres offer parents daycare that costs exactly $10 per day; other operators in the province participating in the federal CWELCC program receive subsidies meant to lower their fees, but without having to hit the $10 benchmark. Since ChildCare BC has space for just 6 percent of the province’s children, anyone fortunate enough to land a spot in one of these hard-to-find centres has essentially struck it rich – and may suffer guilty feelings because of it...

A closer look at the implementation of B.C.’s program reveals why it can’t meet demand: it has alienated the entrepreneurs who are essential to creating new spaces. Amanda Worms is a daycare operator based in Kelowna, B.C. who operates three private for-profit centres and two non-profits serving approximately 400 children. In an interview with C2C Journal, she explains that the problems originate with the NDP government’s new Operating Funding Model (OFM) which delivers subsidies to ChildCare BC operators.

The OFM is “fundamentally flawed,” Worms says. To limit the program’s overall cost, government funding comes with strict controls that prevent childcare centres from paying staff more than what appears on a government-created wage grid – even if existing staff had higher salaries prior to the new system. This means some childcare centres have been forced to reduce the wages of long-tenured staff or let them go in order to hire cheaper, less experienced replacements. Such a situation “doesn’t say a lot for quality for children,” Worms says. She adds that parents with children who have special needs have also been let down, as special needs funding has been “obliterated” in the drive to get fees down to $10 per day.

Echoing concerns raised by ACE and daycare operators in other provinces, Worms explains that government payments don’t accurately reflect her actual costs, particularly for toddlers. It’s a one-size-fits-all model imposed by politicians who “don’t have any understanding of operations,” she says. In her experience, the provincial government has zero interest in listening to entrepreneurs who have operated successful childcare centres for years. An industry that was once relentlessly innovative is now being strangled into submission by bureaucracy.

Daycare operators are “essentially government employees at this point, without any of the benefits at all,” adds Worms. “Everyone’s just hoping to survive.” This sort of result is hardly a surprise when government intrudes into the marketplace. Public control is fundamentally incompatible with entrepreneurial activity.

The bigger surprise in B.C. is how inequitable childcare has become while under public control by an NDP government. Remember, the concept of cheap childcare was sold to Canadians as the means to help families most in need and at the same time encourage more mothers to enter the workforce. In practice, B.C.’s daycare mostly helps families at the top of the heap and mothers who were already working...

Their modest taxes are helping to pay for $10-per-day childcare that they can’t use. And as recounted in an earlier C2C Journal article, in 2024, UBC researchers had to abandon plans to study the effects of $10-per-day childcare on low-income single mothers after they could only find 13 such families actually receiving the benefit. The vast majority of the spaces were in the hands of middle- and upper-income families, well motivated to get their share of government goodies.

Meanwhile, evidence of government mismanagement and waste abounds. In 2020, an $8.25-million childcare centre at Vancouver Island University was announced, with an opening target of 2023. Construction was just getting underway in 2024 when it was halted due to cost overruns. Remediating and restoring the now-cancelled site cost another $500,000. Net new spaces: zero. Keep in mind, CWELCC’s preference for not-for-profit operators means the system is generally unable to access private-sector capital to add new capacity. Rather, it must rely on cumbersome – and occasionally hopeless – government processes.

As for red tape, last year, B.C.’s Auditor General looked into the government’s ability to build new childcare centres in health-care facilities such as hospitals, where they are desperately needed. The result was particularly dismal. “The Ministry of Education and Childcare had not worked effectively with health partners (Ministry of Health and/or regional health authorities) to implement the ChildCare BC commitment to increase capacity in health authorities,” the report concludes. If two branches of the same government are incapable of coordinating between themselves to create childcare spaces, why would anyone expect those outside government to be able to navigate the same bureaucratic brambles?

When $10-per-day daycare was introduced in 2021, proponents argued it would free new mothers from the drudgery of parenting and spur their entry, or re-entry, into the workforce. Some even claimed heavily subsidized daycare would actually “pay for itself” as additional federal and provincial tax revenue from these mothers’ extra income would cover the subsidies’ total cost. Five years later, it is possible to test those claims.

The C.D. Howe institute recently put the federal CWELCC program through a rigorous cost-benefit analysis. Its conclusion: rather than paying for itself, the pricey program has generated a net loss of $16 billion. (Because the cost-benefit analysis is based on 2025 data, the overall cost is estimated at $25 billion.) The reason for this staggering loss is tied to the essential unfairness on display in B.C.: the families making the greatest use of heavily-subsidized daycare are not the families who really need it.

As the C.D. Howe report reveals, the bulk of CWELCC benefits are going to “households already using regulated childcare, particularly high-income families, [who] were simply able to substitute government-subsidized care for the market-priced care they were already paying for.” Rather than lifting up low-income families, the report concludes Ottawa’s childcare program is simply providing “a financial windfall” to well-off families who were previously using market-rate childcare.

As for the promise of more mothers in the workforce, “Maternal workforce participation has increased only modestly,” the report finds. Child development outcomes are similarly characterized as exhibiting “minimal to no additional gains.” In short, low-income, single-earner families who could most use subsidized daycare can’t get it. Why? Because richer folk have taken the bulk of the spaces. The end result is no increase in working mothers and no gains in child development for at-risk kids.

Meanwhile, childcare providers and entrepreneurs who have spent years and risked their own savings to provide this important service to families have essentially had their businesses expropriated by government, which does not have the necessary knowledge or ability to run childcare competently.

Fine-tuning the CWELCC boondoggle is unlikely to help. The best solution to this expensive failure is to blow up Ottawa’s entire childcare policy and start over. Rather than continue with an extremely expensive universal model, the C.D. Howe report suggests governments prioritize measures that help “low-income, less-educated, or single-parent households with preschool-aged children.” And this is best accomplished, it says, with “an income-tested, refundable tax credit similar to the Quebec model to increase flexibility and support families using non-subsidized care.” 

A version of the Quebec tax credit model, it bears mentioning, was included in the Conservative Party’s childcare platform during the September 2021 federal election under former leader Erin O’Toole. This was the election in which Trudeau successfully defended his universal, $10-per-day childcare promise he’d rolled out earlier that year. The Conservative plan would have offered much greater support for families at the low end of the income spectrum, while improving parental choice everywhere. And it would have been significantly cheaper."

 

Links - 11th May 2026 (1 [including Vegans])

Meat Consumption and Cognitive Health by APOE Genotype - "These findings suggest that higher meat consumption than conventionally recommended may be associated with benefits in a genetically defined subgroup comprising approximately one-quarter of the global population."

Meme - veganimallover: "Always refer to animals as "he" "she" or "they/them" not "it." An animal is someone, not something. Language is important. Recognize their sentience and please remember to not refer to animals as "it." #animals #animalsofinstagram #animalsarefriends #animalsareawesome #animalsarethebest #someone #someonenotsomething #he #she #they #them #sentientbeings #animalshavefeelingstoo #animalshavefeelings #animalshavesouls #animalshaverights #animalrights #animalequality #justiceforanimals #veganfortheanimals #veganimallover"

Restaurants drop plant-based meats from their menus, citing high costs, low demand - "Globally, the most pronounced surge in plant-based meat consumption took place between 2018 and 2020... Online listicles on where to find such dishes in Singapore mapped out the category's rapid expansion at the height of its popularity... "Particularly in China, during COVID, (demand for plant-based meat) peaked dramatically because of swine fever in China," he said.  "(So) for a period there, the ground pork alternative protein called OmniPork was competitively priced. But as soon as the price of pork came down after COVID, and the swine fever got resolved to a degree, then the interest in plant-based (meat) declined significantly." Yet even at its peak, plant-based meat accounted for only a small fraction of overall meat sales in Singapore.  According to analysis by the Good Food Institute Asia Pacific (GFI APAC) – a Singapore-headquartered non-profit think tank focused on alternative proteins – plant-based meat made up just 0.056 per cent of total meat sales volume here in 2020, even as global investment surged.  By comparison, plant-based meat represented about 1.4 per cent of total meat sales in the United States that year – roughly 25 times higher than Singapore on a percentage basis... Experts said Singapore's experience reflects a mix of structural and cultural factors.  For one thing, many plant-based meat products tend to perform better in burgers than in Asian-style dishes, which often involve preparation methods such as stir-frying, said NTU's Prof Chen... Experts also said the early boom was driven in part by heavy marketing and rapid industry uptake – momentum that faded once novelty wore off.  This is especially so when improvements in taste, texture and cost competitiveness do not keep pace with expectations, or justify higher prices, they added.  "The category moved from novelty-driven trial to repeat-purchase reality, and that's where it got tested," said Dr Elhajjar.  At the same time, some consumers drawn by perceived health benefits have become more aware that such products can be highly processed, with additional components used to bind the plant proteins so that the end product more closely mimics animal meat, said Prof Chen.  This can temper the appeal especially when fresh fruits and vegetables are readily available, the experts added.  Economic pressures have also mattered. During cost-of-living squeezes, non-essential items priced at a premium are often among the first to be cut, experts said... Growth has also continued in some regions like Europe which remains the world's largest market for alternative proteins and is expected to grow for a third straight year, Bloomberg reported in June 2025."

Jeff Probst Weighs In After Vegetarian Survivor Contestant Eats Meat - "After Survivor 47 castaway Kyle Ostwald blindly bet on a plate of chicken wings during a food auction featured in the Wednesday, November 6, episode of the reality competition series, he decided to eat the meat despite years of being a vegetarian. (Kyle’s competitor Sam Phalen offered to buy the wings off him, but Probst, 63, said no sharing or trading would be allowed.)   The moment sparked backlash among some fans..   Probst, who has hosted Survivor since it premiered in 2000, insisted during Wednesday’s episode of his “On Fire With Jeff Probst” podcast that contestants with dietary restrictions “know what they’re getting into” when they apply to be on the show.   “They know that we’re not going to change our show to accommodate anyone, in the same way we didn’t change anything when [Survivor 43 contestant] Noelle [Lambert], who had a prosthetic leg, was on the show,” he said, noting that he had “no advice” for contestants who can’t eat certain foods. “She still had to get up the same challenges over the same giant ball, all that stuff. That’s how we view the game.”...   Kyle noted during the auction that he’d previously switched from veganism to vegetarianism solely because of his Survivor aspirations. Prior to the chicken wings incident, he broke down and ate a piece of crab during a deleted scene"

Billie Eilish Fails To Impress With Enforced Vegan Concert Food Policy In London - "The songstress' decision to make only vegan foods available at the vendors' stands did not sit well with her fans, who had paid a significant amount for her concert ticket.  Billie Eilish has remained a prominent voice in veganism advocacy as she took a stand against the inhumane treatment of animals for meat production years ago. The 23-year-old treated her fans to an entirely plant-based menu at the concert featuring meals like peri-peri haloumi wraps, corn naan, chipotle tacos, pizzas, and pancakes. All meat-based meals have been duly removed from the menu... Eilish also took the fans on a brief journey through veganism, environmental care, and how everyone on her tour is playing an active role in protecting the environment and animals. The crew reportedly also eats only plant-based meals on tour.  An eco village has been set up at the arena to educate show attendees on climate change and its impact on the environment. The Daily Mail confirmed that fans purchasing her concert merchandise must also note that it is made from sustainable products... Eilish has an exception to her veganism. She understands that people can wear shoes made from leather, eat honey from bees, and even ride horses, but that is about as considerate as she can be."

Meme - "r/vegan
"Based"
"I'm not vegan but I was deeply impressed by this all- vegan restaurant! Can't say I'm ready or willing to give up my bacon but I guess I can't talk trash about vegan food anymore lol"
"Hi Jim, thanks for the kind words, but having an animal abuser praise my restaurant feels a bit like getting a compliment from Hitler or Jeffrey Dahmer or something. F*** off, bloodmouth""
Why people don't like vegans

The great vegan slump: Market for plant-based food shrinks nearly £38million as analysts say meat-free firms are in a 'rut' - "The market for plant-based food as shrunk almost £38million as analysts say meat-free firms are in a 'rut'.  Industry experts believe that a struggling economy mixed with a saturated market has seen sales of meat-free products fall dramatically.  It's not just the small businesses that are struggling as three major companies in Quorn, Linda McCartney's and Birds Eye Green Cuisine top the list in the biggest fall in losses... Helen Dewdney, also known as The Complaining Cow, previously told MailOnline that many people are now abandoning veganism after realising that the lifestyle is much harder to maintain than initially thought.  She told MailOnline: 'I think many people thought it would be easier than it is to find alternatives and still have a varied diet.  'Many are looking to just reduce their meat intake and become part-time vegetarians or vegans which in turn means that food outlets serving only a vegan menu are seeing fewer and fewer customers through the doors.'... Last year, Meatless Farm — one of the UK's leading faux-meat retailers — went into administration.  It sold £11million worth of plant-based mince, burgers and chicken in 2021 but struggled as demand for meat-free products slowed.  And in August, it was revealed that vegan brand Beyond Meat saw sales slump by almost a third as it struggled with the downfall in demand. Earlier this year, the British fast-food chain, The Vurger Co, which used ingredients such as tempeh, soya and Beyond Meat to make its creations, confirmed it permanently closed its doors.   It joined the likes of Veggie Pret, with Pret A Manger announcing in February that its last three vegetarian-only stores would be converted into standard outlets that sold meat.  The move brought an end to the concept that was introduced eight years ago and is another sign that veganism's popularity is dying out. At its peak, there were 10 stores serving only vegetarian and vegan options across the UK which included salad bowls and falafel sandwiches.  In 2022, Pret closed three-quarters of their veggie-only stores as it said it was offering meat-free options at other sites and didn't need the standalone outlets.  Neat Burger, backed by Leonardo DiCaprio and Lewis Hamilton, closed half of its London sites last December while a vegan restaurant in Cheshire has been forced to start serving meat because it has too few vegan customers"
From 2024

Sorry I’m Just Another Person Here — governmentbee: analog-machine: tlbodine: ... - "Motherhood denied. Breaking the mother-calf bond is fundamental to all forms of dairy farming."
"“I can’t be vegan, I love cheese”  Dairy industry is as evil as meat. No less harm for animals. Does it look natural that calf can’t drink milk so you can taste your piece of cheese?   GO VEGAN."
"WRONG  That calf is wearing a nose tag. Nose tags are put on calves so that they are able to stay with their mothers longer, but are unable to nurse. They don’t NEED to nurse as they get older, they just get greedier and pushier and will bash up the cow’s udder and bruise it with their noses.  This nose-tag is so that calves can stay with their mothers, their mothers can remain pain-free and healthy, and nobody is stressed.  Educate yourselves you ignorant fucking tarts."
"…really? You don’t think it might have anything to do with the milk being stolen for human consumption? At all? Not even a tiny bit?"
"Militant vegans can fuck right off"
"Based on fur texture and face shape, that calf is at least six months old, probably older.  Calves can survive without actual cow milk even at three months, though older is better (calves weaned that early are usually fed a sort of formula for another couple months).  Also, nose tags like that one don’t go through the cow’s septum.  They basically work like those fake septum rings for humans.  In addition to weaning the calves, another use for nose tags is protecting non-lactating cows.  Sometimes weanlings or even adult cows will suck on themselves or other non-lactating cows; this can cause internal teat scarring bad enough to prevent that teat or teats from ever working.  I’ve seen this happen, and it’s ugly, probably at least somewhat painful, and, if bad enough, would lead to the cow being slaughtered at a very young age because she can’t produce milk, has chronic mastitis, and/or can’t be milked with automatic milking equipment.  So, nose tags actually prevent animal cruelty.  Also, calves will suck on anything remotely oblong (and attempt to eat literally anything), even if they are being adequately fed or overfed.  Often they will suck on other calves’ ears, and, since ears are longer than teats and cows have upper as well as lower teeth in the back of their mouths, many calves get bites on their ears, which often become severely infected.  I’m not sure if nose tags would work there, because physics—a non-toxic but bad-tasting ear paint would be better—but yeah, letting a calf put anything it wants in its mouth is not always a good idea."
"This was the funniest argument about false cruelty I have read.. Thank you."
"I love this for 2 reasons: Most people don’t realize that in farming areas agriculture/horticulture/animal husbandry is part of public school education from as early on as 7th grade. (Though I remember dissecting cow eyes in 4th grade science sooo) I assure you fifteen year old farm kids know more about what constitutes animal cruelty in farms than thirty year old vegans with, or without an agenda.   Also that if you really want good quality beef/pork/eggs/milk/etc you don’t abuse your animals. Ever. That’s not the point and if you want to make any kind of money off your career choice, you are going to treat those creatures better than you treat yourself. You’ll call a vet five times for an infection in your herd before you visit the hospital for a missing foot on your own leg.   So. Yeah. Watch out, because we’re getting internet access these days. We’re on tumblr too."
"P.S. The immigrant workers farming your supermarket produce have no health care or legal protection, and the Bolivians farming your 365 Organic Quinoa can’t afford to eat it. But PLEASE won’t someone think of the poor baby cows who won’t get off the tit?!"
"Also this is a LOT nicer than what mother cows do to calves that won’t be weaned. You know what mother cows do to calves that won’t wean? kick them in the head. Now I don’t know about vegans, but I’d rather have a nose tag that discouraged me from injuring my mother (because calves that don’t wean tend to chew on udders and make mother cows bleed) rather than being kicked in the head.
Source: I grew up on a fucking cattle ranch. I have seen chickens skeletonize a mouse I KNOW SHIT."

A Disney World Curse? Suicide Deaths Rise - Disturbing Cases Rock The 'Most Magical Place On Earth' - "A number of deaths reported at Walt Disney World in Florida over recent months have drawn public attention and online discussion, raising questions about safety at one of the world's most visited tourist destinations. Authorities have confirmed that several of the incidents involved suspected suicides or medical emergencies... Since October 2025, at least six deaths have been reported across the wider Walt Disney World property"
From January

Meme - *Halloween*
"TODAY'S YOUR FAVOURITE HOLIDAY! WHY THE LONG FACE?"
"SHE'S DEFROSTING TOMORROW!"
*Mariah Carey in Christmas outfit*

Zeek Arkham 🇺🇸 on X - "The difference between the right and left?  We can accept someone regardless of their political views. Dolly Parton leans to the Left, but we can put that aside and think she’s awesome. Plenty of other celebrities might not share our views, but we can see past it all.  The Left rains down hatred on anyone who might not think like them. Chuck Norris is a horrible person because he might have leaned right. Oba Femi (the WWE wrestler) named Elon Musk as someone he looked up to as a measure of success and the Left is turning on him, despite him not putting his political views out there.  It’s cult-like and hive mentality. It’s unhealthy and insane. Yet, they tell everyone we’re the party of hate and intolerance."

Celia on X - "Found Turkish delights at the Wroclaw Christmas markets, & I was reminded of the time my daughter was desperate to try them after reading The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. She took one bite and said, with horror, “Edmund traded his soul to the White Witch for THAT!? ASLAN DIED FOR THAT!?”"

The Only Olympics Worth Watching. (sex themed events)

Army major investigated for songs joking about soldiers all dying - "A British Army major faces punishment after recording a song that ridicules the state of the armed forces.  The lyrics of Dying in the First Wave mock Britain’s military for being “a little bit s---” and predicts soldiers will all die “in the first wave” of a war.  It was recorded by an officer attending a training course in Shrivenham, Wiltshire, designed to prepare soldiers and Royal Marines for promotion to the rank of major.  The Telegraph understands the song enraged Army chiefs, and attendees of the 26-week course were threatened with failure by senior commanders until the songwriter was found.  A second song was then released, apologising for saying the Army didn’t have “enough kit on air, land and sea” and accusing military bosses of having “no sense of humour”. It is understood the Army is investigating, with the songwriter reportedly threatened with a formal warning for “bringing the military into disrepute”.  MPs and veteran officers described the investigation as “mean-spirited” and said the song was part of a long tradition of “morale-raising self-deprecation”. The row comes as Sir Keir Starmer faces repeated criticism over the state of the Armed Forces, which are facing a £28bn black hole in its budget over four years. The Army has shrunk to its smallest size in more than 200 years."

Bonnie Loo says ex still owes her six-figure sum, was living with 'soulmate' female friend when they were dating - "Loo, 29, opened up about her boyfriend of two years, whom she broke up with earlier this year... Loo shared that her ex was very close to a female friend, who is working in the industry, and discovered that while they were dating, he had been cohabiting with her for a while.  “It was a little triggering for me because I only found out about this through my friends. They would ask me if I was kept in the dark, or if I was lied to,” she said.  During an interview on Just Swipe Lah, Loo further revealed that she followed the woman on Instagram and instinctually knew that she was living in her ex’s condo after seeing some of her photos.  However, her ex denied it after she jokingly asked him about it.  Her friend then did some internet sleuthing to find photos of the condos in his residence, and it matched what was in the woman’s photos.  Then, her ex sold his house and eventually told Loo that he was going to live with the woman because she was renting him a room for cheap.  Loo also found out, through her ex’s mum, that he had been sharing a room with the woman, instead of just being housemates.  In addition, when the ex was meeting his friends, he would sometimes tell Loo that it wasn’t convenient for her to attend, but the female friend would be present instead... Both the ex and his female friend said they were “platonic friends” but also “soulmates”."

Right-wing misinformation on Facebook is more engaging than its left-wing counterpart, research finds
i.e. the left can't meme

Meme - Larry Sharpe: Winnie the Pooh: "the left can't meme"
Winnie the Pooh in tuxedo: Daniel Baryon @apeirophobic: "Right wing memes are short and sweet because they ask you to appeal to kneejerk assumptions which have already been deeply coded into your mind by social propaganda. By contrast, leftist memes are tasked with breaking your social brainwashing, which requires complexity and nuance"
Sid Meeder: "The communist talking about brainwashing and propaganda. The left can't meme because they have no self awareness and chose to not live in reality with the rest of us."
Alex Caron: "This is a perfect explanation of the new American left. They have such incredible amounts of contempt for anybody that thinks different from them. If you have to tell people that you are superior, then you're not. The people that are constantly bragging about how smart they are are usually the ones trying to compensate for something. If you need to convince people that your jokes are funny, there's a chance that your jokes are not that funny."
Jason Feigles: "Truthful/informative or not, memes are supposed to be funny, not a lecture. That is why the left can't meme."
The left insist on shoving their agenda everywhere. Producing a good product/respecting the structure/intentions of the form are secondary to pushing propaganda

New EU Alert: Having A Sense Of Humor Is Proof You Might Be A Far-Right Terrorist - "The European Union (EU) released a non-satirical report this week offering that humor, including the sharing of memes, could be a sign your peer is a “far-right extremist.”  In partnership with the Radicalisation Awareness Network, an EU-funded group involved with “countering violent extremism” through “surveillance and security,” the European Commission published an 18-page report titled “It’s not funny anymore. Far-right extremists’ use of humour.”  “Humour has become a central weapon of extremist movements to subvert open societies and to lower the threshold towards violence,” the report states. “Especially within the context of a recent wave of far-right terrorist attacks, we witness ‘playful’ ways in communicating racist ideologies. …This paper scrutinises how humour functions as a potential factor in terms of influencing far-right extremist violence.”... A significant portion of the EU’s humor document discusses memes and how they are supposedly indicative of right-wing extremism. According to the EU, the far-right “put[s] a lot of time and energy into meme production” to “spread their ideology.”... In recommendations for approaching such identified extremism, the commission argues for the deplatforming of accounts from social media. There is no direct reference to left-wing extremism and whether individuals who promote radical ideas on all sides of the political aisle ought to face consequences."
I'm old enough to remember when the left praised humour as a tool of resistance by the underdog and mocked the right for being humourless

2 students in China help elderly woman who fell onto ground, now face compensation claim of over S$40K - "Two students who helped an elderly woman after she fell are now facing a lawsuit of over RMB 220,000 (S$40,000) in damages.  The incident took place on the afternoon of 15 March 2025 in Putian, Fujian.  It has since sparked debate about responsibility and the potential consequences of stepping in to help...   The elderly woman sought RMB 224,307 (S$41,000) from the students.  The claim includes medical expenses for 12 days of hospitalisation, nursing care fees and mental distress damages, among others."

Meme - Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil: "One study estimated that being exposed to Ramadan in utero reduced the test scores of six-year-old Muslims by up to about 1 IQ point."
This won't stop Muslims from sharing misinterpreted stories about the benefits of fasting, even though fasting is defined in the literature differently from skipping lunch and not drinking water
Clearly, the drop in IQ is due to Islamophobia

Meme - "Timothee and Tom Holland both auditioned for 'Spider-Man' in 2017, but Tom's ballet background ultimately led to him being selected."
@disruptions on IG @disruptions_: "guess that art from is still very much alive after all"

Ashton Forbes on X - "It's looking increasingly likely that Max Blumenthal, son of top Hillary Clinton official Sydney Blumenthal, fabricated the fake story about Israel killing Charlie Kirk, and used Joe Kent's wife and Candace Owens to spread it. Everything leads back to him."

Meme - HustleBitch @HustleBitch_: "How would you describe these moments between Erika Kirk and JD Vance last night?"
M2 @Amer1can_Barbie: "Widow here happy to explain... When my husband passed away I was a shell of a person - I describe that first year after he was gone as mostly an out of body experience - I was doing things like taking our son to school and working, but I was not was present in body only..just going through the motions and trying to process my grief on the outer edges of life's regular demands. When the men he worked with who loved him and would have happily laid down in traffic for him - hugged me it was exactly like this. A full and complete embrace. It was like a breath of life that gave me enough strength to make it through another day... remember on the day of his funeral - as each one of those men - his bothers in arms - showed up and hugged me like this - it was the thing that gave me the strength to endure that day. So, when I see Erika hugging the men who miss her husband as much as she does, I can feel it- and am so grateful she has these moments of reprieve from the crushing heartache of losing him. Hope this helps"

Meme - "Africa: *shantytown*
World: *donates 1.4 trillion*
Africa: *shantytown with SUVs*"
Damn colonialism! The world needs to send even more money!

Links - 10th May 2026 (3 - Hating Elon Musk)

Joel Berry on X - "The beautiful thing about X is that false Leftist narratives, ones the media used to pick up and run with until the truth came out sometimes weeks or even years later, can now be shot down in 30 seconds."
Jesse Kelly on X - "This is exactly why Elon Musk fields as many death threats as Donald Trump himself. The communist requires total control of the information space. If even an inch of daylight gets through, his world of lies can come apart. Elon buying X was perhaps a mortal wound for them."

Thread by @mualphaxi on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Biggest unforced political error of all time? Biden banned Elon Musk from the WH EV summit and then credited GM , “you electrified the industry… you led” “…when Biden made this remarks, Tesla delivered 115,000 EVs in the US… GM produced just 26” Reap what you sow. To that point Elon had exclusively voted for Democrats. And in one moment he suddenly saw that the bosses of the Democratic Party hated him, wanted to destroy him, and that they were puppets of the corrupt UAW union. Even Biden’s staff couldn’t get him to recognize Tesla. “Eventually Musk began to feel not just frozen out by the White House but also persecuted by it.” Gee I wonder which 7 ridiculous federal investigations would lead him to think that?"

Elon Musk Declares ‘Cisgender’ a Slur on Free Speech Twitter
Of course left wingers claim he's a hypocrite. Weird. Left wingers used to claim that freedom of speech wasn't the same as freedom of reach, and that private companies could do whatever they want. Those who use the term (in a non-targeted way) aren't even being banned (as they would've been with Old Twitter) - just having that tweet deprioritised

DogeDesigner on X - "𝕏 is the #1 news app in Brazil on the AppStore. Alexandre de Moraes is trying to suspend the only source of truth in Brazil."

Marco Foster on X - "Jennifer Welch: “l just think it’s really important to remind everybody all the time that Elon Musk is a fucking immigrant that doesn’t pay taxes who is a parasite off the American taxpayer”"
Matt Walsh on X - "The leftist mind in a nutshell. A white immigrant billionaire who makes rocket ships and electric cars is a “parasite” but an unemployed black Somali immigrant who scams the welfare system is an integral contributor to American culture who we must welcome and praise at all times."

Joe Rogan Podcast News on X - "AOC: "Elon Musk is not a scientist, he’s not an engineer, he’s a billionaire conman.""
Yatharth on X - "John Carmack: Elon is definitely an engineer. He is deeply involved with technical decisions at SpaceX and Tesla. He doesn’t write code or do CAD today, but he is perfectly capable of doing so.
Robert Zubrin: When I met Elon it was apparent to me that although he had a scientific mind and he understood scientific principles, he did not know anything about rockets. Nothing. That was in 2001, by 2007 he knew everything about rockets – he really knew everything, in detail. You have to put some serious study in to know as much about rockets as he knows now. This doesn't come just from hanging out with people.
Eric Berger: Elon is the chief engineer in name and reality.
Josh Boehm: Elon is both the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer of SpaceX, so of course he does more than just some very technical work. He is integrally involved in the actual design and engineering of the rocket, and at least touches every other aspect of the business. Elon is an engineer at heart, and that’s where and how he works best.
Garrett Reisman: He’s obviously skilled at all different functions, but certainly what really drives him and where his passion really is, is his role as Chief Engineer. That’s the part of the job that really plays to his strengths.
Tom Mueller: Elon and the Propulsion department are leading development of the SpaceX engines, particularly Raptor.
Kevin Watson: Elon is brilliant. He’s involved in just about everything. He understands everything. If he asks you a question, you learn very quickly not to go give him a gut reaction. He wants answers that get down to the fundamental laws of physics. One thing he understands really well is the physics of the rockets. He understands that like nobody else. The stuff I have seen him do in his head is crazy. He can get in discussions about flying a satellite and whether we can make the right orbit and deliver Dragon at the same time and solve all these equations in real time. It’s amazing to watch the amount of knowledge he has accumulated over the years."

A. Zap — The cruelty of racist white men. - "Does anyone else remember when Elon was like "if anyone knows how to end world hunger for 6 billion USD, I'll fund it" and UNICEF was like "we're going to spend a month to make a plan to end world hunger for 6 billion USD and Elon is going to fund it" and Elon was like "actually, nah" and then bought Twitter instead? I think that was one of the worst things I'll ever see in my life." <

br>"I still think that should be the thing for which he's the most famous. It should be brought up every time he's mentioned. In any news article, any interview, any history book. "Elon Musk, who was offered a chance to end world hunger and turned it down." Put it on his fucking gravestone."
Left wingers are delusional as usual and rewrite history to justify their hate, stupidity and spitefulness.

Meme - Warren Redlich - Chasing Dreams 🇺🇸 @WR4NYGov: "Total global government spending in 2024 is approximately $42 trillion USD. Elon's net worth is 1% of that. If Elon's net worth would solve all these problems, why haven't the world's governments solved them already? Don't tell me governments are good for society."
Harry Eccles @Heccles94: "Elon musk's personal wealth could: Solve world hunger, twice on earth, twice Provide access to clean water for everyone Vaccinate all children worldwide for a decade, eradicate malaria + TB, with change. Reforest the Amazon Don't tell me billionaires are good for society"

Pop Base on X - "Billie Eilish calls out Elon Musk for not using his wealth to aid humanity and resolve global issues: “f***ing pathetic p***y b**** coward”"
Libs of TikTok on X - "Hey @billieeilish, Elon Musk literally offered the UN’s World Food Program $6 BILLION if they can publicly lay out how they will solve world hunger. They couldn’t come up with a plan. Go take your tantrum somewhere else."

Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández on X - "Any school teacher has more work ethic in their pinky finger than Elon Musk has in his entire body. Make. Billionaires. Pay. Their. Fair. Share."
Sawyer Merritt on X - "Imagine the thing you choose to critique Elon Musk on is work ethic 😂
Elon Musk:
• Works 80–120 hours per week during peak periods
• Jobs created (direct + supply chain): ~600,000
• Salaries paid out by his companies: ~$110 billion
• Taxes he paid in just 2021: $11 billion (largest tax bill for an individual in history)
• Value created for shareholders: Trillions
• Drives hundreds of billions in economic impact
• Brought human spaceflight back to America (SpaceX)
• Helps paralyzed patients control computers with their thoughts, giving new meaning to their lives
• Created Starlink, enabling people to access internet anywhere
Elon’s wealth increases because his companies build products and services people love, companies that generate hundreds of billions of dollars in economic value in the U.S. and around the world. He isn't buying yachts, expensive houses or cars. He's continuously pushing his chips into the middle of the table and creating companies that are changing the world. His wealth is tied up in those companies, thus he only pays big tax bills when he sells stock, which is rare."

Meme - Elon Musk @elonmusk: "Shame on Sky News for this utterly misleading headline. Anyone pushing this false narrative deserves complete contempt. Epstein tried to get me to go to his island and I REFUSED, yet they name me even before Prince Andrew, who did visit."
Sky News @SkyNews: "Elon Musk and Prince Andrew named in latest Epstein files release"
Readers added context: "Context needed. While both names appear, the circumstances are vastly different. Elon's name appeared as a possible schedule item and question only. Prince Andrew appears on Epstein flight logs and settled a related civil case regarding sexual misconduct."

Meme - Anonymous @YourAnonCentral: "Immigrants choose to live in the US, they are the actual Americans."
Elon Musk @elonmusk: "Remember to vote tomorrow in New York!"
Anonymous @YourAnonCentral: "Fuck off you aren't even American"

Andy Ngo on X - "A trans leftist in Buffalo Grove, Ill. was arrested on March 14 for allegedly attacking a newly constructed Tesla service center near Chicago. Erin L. White, 27, has been charged with felony criminal damage to property and criminal trespass. White is at least the third known arrested trans person who has allegedly attacked Tesla property recently following calls from leftists for domestic terror attacks as revenge against @elonmusk and Trump."

Meme - M.A. Rothman: "Democrat Rep Melanie Stansbury brought a poll to try to prove that DOGE and Elon Musk are unpopular but the poll inexplicably adds up to 110%... I'm 123% sure this poll is garbage.
HOW DO YOU RATE THE WORK OF ELON MUSK AND DOGE?
67% Disapprove 38% Approve 5% Don't Know"

Jeffrey A Tucker on X - "My heart truly goes out to @elonmusk . He bought this platform to counter censorship and it worked, fundamentally changing public culture just in time. He still doesn't get credit for that. He saw an existential threat from the then-existing regime and tried to make a difference. He spent countless hours and enormous human energy putting together DOGE and discovering vast scandals in government. He believed he could make a difference. Then media and the political machine began to eat him and smear him, and he saw Congress essentially dismiss all DOGE efforts, and he was blocked in myriad ways. I worry that his efforts will stand as a warning to other businesspeople: don't try to improve the world and stay out of politics. He has been punished for trying to do the right thing."

Collin Rugg on X - "JUST IN: Joe Rogan shuts down Senator Bernie Sanders after he tried slamming Elon Musk for donating $270 million in the 2024 election.
Sanders: "[Elon] spent $270 million to elect Trump as president. I think that's absurd that any one person."
Rogan: "What's the most someone donated towards the Harris campaign?"
Sanders: "They spent a lot of money on her."
Rogan: "They spent $1.5 billion in the course of a couple of months.""

Meme - "LOOK, SON! THOSE PEOPLE WHO CUT THEIR SON'S DICK OFF THINK ELON MUSK IS GOING TOO FAR"

Meme - @amuse @amuse: "DRIVE-BY MEDIA: The disgraced New York Times turned a private diagnosis and treatment of a medical condition publicly acknowledged long ago and turned it into a fake news story claiming Elon Musk was abusing prescription drugs while advising the president. Their 'source' had no idea Musk had stopped the treatment long before that point and never bothered to corroborate the false claim."
"NEW YORK TIMES CAUGHT PEDDLING FALSE CLAIMS ABOUT ELON MUSK. The billionaire previously disclosed his medically supervised treatment for depression using Spravato (ketamine) on X. The New York Times, unaware that Musk had stopped taking the prescription medication, falsely reported that he was still undergoing treatment with Spravato. Hundreds of doctors and thousands of patients report positive results from the treatment."

Nick Sortor on X - "🚨 FAKE NEWS ALERT: NYTimes put out a HIT PIECE on @ElonMusk accusing him of excessive drug use while he was in the Trump White House Elon has now COMPLETELY debunked that smear piece, releasing a full, comprehensive urine test. Which was negative ACROSS THE BOARD, of course This was yet another attempt to destroy a powerful Trump ally, and scare other powerful patriots from working closely with the administration. They also want the American public to believe the Trump administration is run by a bunch of incoherent drunks and drug users, degrading trust in the admin. They pulled a similar stunt with Pete Hegseth, making baseless claims of frequent alcohol use. Stay frosty. Ops are everywhere."

Some Tesla owners sue Elon Musk’s company for damaging their reputation - "A group of Tesla owners in France is suing Elon Musk's car company, alleging its vehicles have become "far-right totems" that are harming their reputation, according to the law firm representing the group. The group is seeking to terminate their lease contracts and recover legal costs at the Paris Commercial Court"

Meme - Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson: "Let's be clear; Trump is trying to incite his mob to violence. Again."
Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson: "Kill Tesla, Save The Country. Elon has a weak spot. Attack. *burning Tesla cybertruck*"

Riley Gaines on X - "Tesla terrorist was released due to ADHD diagnosis and lack of access to "gender-affirming care". So basically, a doctor’s note is now a get-out-of-jail-free card."

Tesla on X - "Earlier today, there was a media report erroneously claiming that the Tesla Board had contacted recruitment firms to initiate a CEO search at the company. This is absolutely false (and this was communicated to the media before the report was published). The CEO of Tesla is Elon Musk and the Board is highly confident in his ability to continue executing on the exciting growth plan ahead. – Robyn Denholm"

Tesla Owner Repents And Vows To Vote Democrat After Having Car Torched | Babylon Bee - "Brandon told reporters that he would be more politically careful with his next car purchase and was looking into something reliable and practical like a Volkswagen. At publishing time, liberal activists were encouraged by Brandon's testimony to continue their acts of violent terror in the fight against fascism."

Andy Ngo on X - "The DOJ has charged a far-left queer activist over the arson attacks on a Tesla store in Albuquerque and the office of the Republican Party of New Mexico. Jamison Wagner, 40, an electrical engineer whose LinkedIn said he works at @SolaeroTech Technologies, allegedly attacked the Tesla store on Feb. 9 and left Antifa messages urging for Elon Musk to be killed. On March 30, Wagner allegedly set the Republican office on fire and sprayed the message, "ICE=KKK." He was a featured "scientist" for leftist group @500QueerSci . He's charged with two counts of malicious damage or destruction of property by fire or explosives. Leftists and Antifa have been escalating calls for deadly political violence as revenge against President Trump and Musk."

Meme - "The tards out firebombing Teslas are the ones with Coexist stickers on their cars -Mental illness"

David Shapiro on X - "So, you want me to believe that the people destroying personal property, painting swastikas, and fire-bombing businesses are the good guys?"

Meme - *Burning Tesla Cybertruck with Swastika*
"Oh, saving the planet was last week's roleplay prompt. This week we're resisting Hitler."

Meme - 2023: Soyjak: "Look at them overreact and refuse to buy Bud Light"
Now: Soyjak: "I'M BURNING EVERY TESLA TO THE GROUND!!"

Jimmy Failla on X - "Democrats have gone from mandating electric cars to setting them on fire and they wonder why nobody takes them seriously."

ELON CLIPS on X - "Elon Musk: We also need to have empathy for civilization as a whole.
“Gad Saad talks about suicidal empathy. There's so much empathy that you actually suicide yourself. We've got civilizational suicidal empathy going on. I believe in empathy. I think you should care about other people, but you need to have empathy for civilization as a whole and not commit to a civilizational suicide. The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy. The empathy exploit. I think empathy is good, but you need to think it through and not just be programmed like a robot. Weaponized empathy is the issue.”
The Joe Rogan Experience, February 28, 2025"
Left wingers quote mining the hell out of this would make creationists proud

Elon Musk: The Phony Free Speech Absolutist
Weird. Left wingers used to tell us it wasn't a violation of free speech if the government wasn't doing it, and that freedom of speech wasn't the same as freedom of reach (if you use "cis", your visibility is limited, but you can still post). Turns out that only applies when it's left wing censorship

Brendan Carr on X - "@SpaceX 2023 FCC: Claims that Starlink is not capable of providing high-speed Internet to thousands of people as the reason for revoking an $885M award to the company.
2024 FCC: Claims that Starlink provides so much high-speed Internet that the word monopoly should be tossed out there."
Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 on X - "'If he charges prices judged as too high, he can be prosecuted for monopoly; if he charges prices lower than those of his competitors, he can be prosecuted for “unfair competition”; and if he charges the same prices as his competitors, he can be prosecuted for “collusion.”'"

Meme - How it started: Elon Musk @elonmusk: 'Anyone caught promoting propaganda will be suspended from X.'
How it's going: Elon Musk: 'Apparently, people's pet cats are being eaten'
Left wingers don't know what "apparently" means

Meme - Renson Seow: "Did you know that the SpaceX private spacewalk set a record for the furthest a woman has been from Earth? No? Well that's because the media are biased liars."
"farthest woman from earth"
"BUSINESS TODAY: 'Boundless horizons': Two women astronauts set a new record for the furthest flight in history"
ABC News: "Guinness World Record for longest plank time broken by 58- year-old woman"
Guinness World Records: "Indian woman sets record with world's longest hair measuring over two metres"

Meme - Space Sudoer @spacesudoer: "So now the FAA even has problems with Starship's new heat tiles. They're concerned about 'public safety', even though the ship will splash down in the middle of the ocean where there are no people. Am I the only one who feels like they're making shit up to get in SpaceX's way?"
"The FAA requires a license modification if an operator proposes a change that is material to public safety. A change is material to public safety if it alters or affects the following: class of payload; type of launch or reentry vehicle; type or quantity of hazardous material; flight trajectory; launch site or reentry site or other landing site; or any system. policy, procedure, requirement, criteria, or standard that is safety critical. A proposal to conduct a return to launch site for the booster, if the FAA has not previously evaluated and authorized it for prior flights, is a change that is material to public safety. A change of a vehicle's thermal protection system (TPS) may be a material change if the TPS is a safety critical system or component that could affect public safety." The FAA responding to NSF"

Musk says FCC risked lives in hurricane by rejecting SpaceX Starlink award - "SpaceX executive Elon Musk took aim at the Federal Communications Commission by claiming that it could have “saved lives” in Hurricane Helene if it had not rejected an $886 million award to Starlink last year. “Had the FCC not illegally revoked the SpaceX Starlink award, it would probably have saved lives in North Carolina,” Musk wrote on his social media platform X on Wednesday. He added, “Lawfare costs lives.”... FCC denied Starlink the funding last year over doubts in the company supplying fast enough speeds. One of the FCC commissioners called out the 2023 vote as “political” in his dissent of their decision. “Today’s decision mirrors many of the same missteps that the Biden Administration is making in its implementation of other, multi-billion-dollar infrastructure initiatives. The Biden Administration is choosing to prioritize its political and ideological goals at the expense of connecting Americans. We can and should reverse course,” FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr wrote at the time. FCC reportedly rejected the claims that their Starlink vote was “politically motivated.”"