Broke, Woke & Crazy Folk 6/21: Chinese farmland in U.S.; Bloomberg Helps Biden; AI mayoral candidate; NY AG drops charges against protesters; Plus, if every Christian voted… and more

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Trending – Map shows Chinese-owned farmland next to 19 US military bases in ‘alarming’ threat to national security

From New York Post: China has been buying up strategically placed farmland next to military installations across the US, raising national security fears over potential espionage or even sabotage.

The Post has identified 19 bases across the US from Florida to Hawaii which are in close proximity to land bought up by Chinese entities and could be exploited by spies working for the communist nation.

They include some of the military’s most strategically important bases: Fort Liberty (formerly Fort Bragg) in Fayetteville, North Carolina; Fort Cavazos (formerly Fort Hood) in Killeen, Texas; Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in San Diego, California, and MacDill air force base in Tampa, Florida.

 

Also Trending – Texas grandmother jailed in alleged political retaliation wins at Supreme Court

From Fox News: The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in favor of a Texas ex-councilwoman who was thrown in jail in an act of political retaliation. Sylvia Gonzalez and her attorneys at the nonprofit Institute for Justice (IJ) sued Castle Hills Mayor JR Trevino and other officials, alleging they plotted to remove her from office as retaliation for criticizing the city manager, thereby violating her First Amendment rights.

A Fifth Circuit court tossed her case, saying she didn’t present required evidence to advance a “retaliatory-arrest” case that would show others had not been arrested after engaging in similar conduct. She had been arrested for allegedly trying to remove a document from a city council meeting that she claimed she did not realize she had in the first place, and the charges were eventually dropped.

 

RINO Alert – Bloomberg Helps Biden

Former New York mayor, billionaire entrepreneur and media magnate Michael Bloomberg contributed nearly $20 million to help boost President Biden in his 2024 election rematch with former President Trump, sources confirm to Fox News.

Bloomberg, a one-time Republican turned independent turned Democrat, wrote a massive $19 million check to the Future Forward PAC, known as the FF PAC, which is the leading super PAC supporting Biden’s bid for a second term in the White House.

And Bloomberg, who briefly ran unsuccessfully against Biden for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, also gave the maximum donation of $929,600 to the Biden Victory Fund, a fundraising committee that benefits the president’s re-election campaign and various Democratic Party committees.

 

Crazy Left – Wyoming mayoral candidate wants AI to run the city

From The Hill: A mayoral candidate is vowing to let an artificial intelligence chatbot make all governing decisions if he’s elected to lead Wyoming’s capital city, but the state’s top election official says that proposal violates the law.

Victor Miller, who is seeking the Cheyenne mayor’s office, said Wednesday on NewsNation’s “Dan Abrams Live” he plans to fully cede decision-making to a customized AI bot he dubbed “Vic” if voters choose him

 

 

Unhinged – Democrat Pramila Jayapal Chuckles While Discussing News Headline About Illegal Alien Raping Young Girl In NYC

From Daily Wire: Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) faced backlash online on Thursday after she chuckled during a television interview when discussing multiple news chyrons that networks displayed during a Biden immigration speech, one of which from Fox News referred to an illegal alien in New York City who violently raped a young girl late last week.

“There’s a lot of fear mongering,” Jayapal claimed during an MSNBC segment with Joy Reid.

Reid read chyrons that the three major cable news networks had on their screens as Biden held a press conference announcing that he was taking executive action to protect hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens in the U.S.

 

Unfiltered – Scott Presler: If Every Christian Voted, ‘We Would Never Lose Another Presidential Election’

From Breitbart: Conservative activist Scott Presler told Breitbart News that if every Christian voted in the United States, “we would never lose another presidential election.”

Presler, who spoke to Breitbart News on Sunday at Turning Point Action’s “The People’s Convention” in Detroit, Michigan, stressed the need for every Christian in America to register to vote.

 

Economy – Rite Aid Approaches 550 Store Closures as Bankruptcy Proceeding Continues:

From Breitbart: Court filings say Rite Aid is shutting down an additional 27 stores in Ohio and Michigan as the company grapples with bankruptcy.

Rite Aid closed more than 520 of its store locations after filing for reorganization in October, NBC News reported Thursday. Most of the closings have occurred in Pennsylvania and nearby states, while more than 100 shut down in California.

Rite Aid’s decision to file for bankruptcy came in October after “suffering declining sales and legal threats over its alleged involvement in the opioid crisis,” AFP reported at the time.

 

Education – Alvin Bragg’s Office Drops Charges Against Nearly All Columbia Protesters

From Daily Caller: Manhattan prosecutors dropped charges against almost all of the protesters arrested for occupying several campus buildings and participating in an encampment at Columbia University on Thursday.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office dismissed the cases for 31 of the 46 people charged with trespassing, attributing the decision to lack of evidence. The prosecutors told 14 other defendants that their cases would be dropped if they could avoid arrests over the next six months, according to NBC News.

Also – from The Daily Signal: The University of Arizona is now incorporating a class in which students are told to “live like a bug” in order to understand “marginalized” groups…

 

Health – High Rates of Loneliness Seen Among Bisexual and Transgender People

From U.S. News: Transgender and bisexual adults have rates of loneliness that are much higher than that of cisgender and heterosexual people, new data shows.

Federal health data on U.S. adults from 2022 finds the highest rates of self-reported loneliness among people who identify as bisexual (56.7%) or transgender (rates ranging from 56.4% to 63.9%), according to researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s compared to the 30.3% of straight people who said they often felt lonely, and the 32.1% of cisgender people who said they were lonely. Cisgender people have a gender identity that corresponds with the one they were assigned at birth.

 

International – US sanctions Mexican cartel on fentanyl, Yellen issues China guidance to banks

From Reuters: U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday announced new sanctions on leaders of a Mexican drug cartel involved in trafficking fentanyl and its pre-cursor chemicals into the U.S. as part of a broader push to try to stem the flow of the deadly synthetic opioid.

Yellen announced the sanctions against eight leaders of the La Nueva Familia Michoacana cartel during a trip to Georgia, a key battleground state in the Nov. 5 presidential election. In addition to fentanyl, Treasury said La Nueva Familia Michoacana traffics cocaine and methamphetamines into the U.S. and smuggles migrants across the southern U.S. border.

Two of the sanctions targets, Rodolfo Maldonado Bustos and Euchlides Chamacho Goicochea, were separately charged, opens new tab by a federal grand jury with crimes related to heroin trafficking, the U.S. Department of Justice office in Atlanta said. Both of the men are fugitives believed to be residing in Mexico, it said.

 

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