The political and <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/congress-must-hold-hearings-biden-administrations-daniel-greenfield/">terrorist arms </a>of the American Left are in sync.

<blockquote>
	
		A few weeks after the Buffalo mass shooting, another domestic terrorist attack occurred in the upstate New York city. CompassCare, a pregnancy care clinic guiding new mothers away from abortion, was firebombed by the pro-abortion hate group, Jane's Revenge. The group has been linked to the firebombing of at least&nbsp;two other pro-life&nbsp;offices and organizations last month.

	
		Its threatening graffiti included the warning, "If abortions aren't safe, then you aren't either."

	
		"We demand the disbanding of all anti-choice establishments, fake clinics, and violent anti-choice groups within the next thirty days," the Jane's Revenge communique threatened. "We are forced to adopt the minimum military requirement for a political struggle."
</blockquote>


	Since then the abortion domestic terror group has claimed responsibility for more attacks. And Senate Dems appear to be <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3528926-democrats-call-on-google-to-look-into-searches-ads-tied-to-misleading-clinics/">working in tandem</a> with it.

<blockquote>
	
		A group of Democratic senators and representatives called on Google to look into search results and ads tied to “anti-abortion ‘fake clinics’” amid a recent report that showed their prevalence in 13 states with so-called “trigger laws” that would almost immediately ban or severely restrict abortion should Roe v. Wade be overturned by the Supreme Court.

	
		Thirteen senators and eight representatives&nbsp;signed a letter&nbsp;to&nbsp;Sundar Pichai,&nbsp;the CEO of Google parent company Alphabet Inc., dated Friday in which they&nbsp;highlighted a report&nbsp;by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) that showed that in 13 states with&nbsp;trigger laws, searches for “abortion pill” or “abortion clinic near me” showed clinics that did not provide those services 11 percent of the time.
</blockquote>


	CCDH, as I've noted in the past, is <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/11/british-muslim-cia-operative-and-author-i-posed-daniel-greenfield/">a ridiculous organization</a>.&nbsp;

<blockquote>
	
		The Center for Countering Digital Hate is a British leftist group run by Imran Ahmed, a former adviser to future London Mayor Sadiq Khan, now operating out of Washington D.C.&nbsp;CCDH Senior researcher Sophie Wilkinson used to write pieces for&nbsp;Vice&nbsp;and&nbsp;The Guardian. Samples include "I Posed as a Man Online for Sex", "Slutdropping: the Dancefloor Move That's Bringing Women Together", and, “I Got My Faeces Tested to See If It's 'Super-Poo'”.
</blockquote>


	Absolutely the folks that Senate Dems should be relying on for intel, instead, they want Google to get rid of pro-life pregnancy centers from its search results.


	This is the same agenda as their domestic terrorist allies are following, except they're using Big Tech allies to do the destroying.

While Abortion Activists Vandalize Pro-Life Clinics, Senate Dems Want Google to Ban Them

The political and terrorist arms of the American Left are in sync.


	
		A few weeks after the Buffalo mass shooting, another domestic terrorist attack

While Abortion Activists Vandalize Pro-Life Clinics, Senate Dems Want Google to Ban Them

Senator Bernie Sanders, a socialist parasite who has never had a career or gainful employment outside politics, <a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/lawmakers-say-the-us-needs-a-standard-charger-usb-c-eu">has thoughts </a>on how Apple should make its phones.

<blockquote>
	
		Following European Union lawmakers reaching a deal to&nbsp;force all smartphones and tablets to have USB-C charging ports by 2024,&nbsp;a group of senate democrats are looking to implement a similar mandate in the U.S.
</blockquote>


	Government mandates usually work out well.

<blockquote>
	
		The letter,&nbsp;which was addressed to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, was penned by Ed Markey (D-MA), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Bernie Sanders (I-VT).

	
		“The EU has wisely acted in the public interest by taking on powerful technology companies over this consumer and environmental issue,” the senators wrote. “The United States should do the same.”
</blockquote>


	If consumers want USB-C charging ports, they can buy Android-based devices. Apple is notorious for selling ridiculously overpriced devices and finding a thousand ways to gate customers in so that they're buying $2,000 monitor stands or some other nonsense. That's why I would never buy or use Apple. But clearly a whole lot of people want Apple devices. And they're willing to pay premium prices for them. If Apple were an actual monopoly, there might be an argument here. But Apple is just a company that made a lot of money by betting on the willingness of consumers to buy anything with an Apple logo on it.&nbsp;


	There's no reason why Apple can't have a proprietary charging port on its devices. And the only purpose of this little game is to have lobbyists descend on D.C. with big checks on behalf of Apple and companies making chargers to see who can hand out the most bribes.


	Such a standard, if implemented, would wipe out Lightning ports on new devices, but would also have unknown effects (probably bad ones) on the development of future ports and devices.


	Bernie Sanders, in any case, is particularly ill equipped to comment on the issue. He barely seems able to use the phone he has and doubtfully understands the difference.&nbsp;

Bernie Sanders Wants to Tell Apple How to Make its Phones

Senator Bernie Sanders, a socialist parasite who has never had a career or gainful employment outside politics, has thoughts on how Apple should make its

Bernie Sanders Wants to Tell Apple How to Make its Phones

Edward Luce has <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/2e667c3f-954d-49fa-8024-2c869789e32f">a splashy piece</a> about a lunch with Hillary Clinton at which nearly nothing of substance is said. The only tangible takeaway is that Hillary remains obsessed with the 2016 election that ended her political career.

<blockquote>
	
		Luce asks, "whether things would have turned out differently had Clinton, not Trump, won in 2016. Her answer makes it clear she thinks the January 6 2021 storming of Capitol Hill to stop Joe Biden’s certification would simply have happened four years earlier. 'Literally within hours of the polls closing in 2016, we had so much evidence pouring in about voters being turned away in Milwaukee and not being able to vote in Detroit,'&nbsp;she replies."
</blockquote>


	This is an obvious non-sequitur, at least on Luce's part, since the reply he quotes has Hillary pushing 2016 election denial all over again.&nbsp;


	Would there have been as much outrage over a Trump loss in 2016? I doubt it. Hillary Clinton seemed like the inevitable candidate, a virtual incumbent, and Trump seemed like a longshot. There have been outrage, but little shock. The response to 2020 was in no small part because there was now actual shock at the table. Trump was no longer a longshot, he had become an incumbent, people had seen what was possible and were shocked and angered at seeing it undone.


	Hillary appears to conflate the two in the usual machine wash cycle of election outrage that she is seemingly unaware of her own hypocrisy.


	Later Hillary states of the expectation that she would win.

<blockquote>
	
		“It’s really remarkable how often I’m told stories like that and how often I’m reading something like a work of fiction set in modern times and 2016 is a traumatic event — it’s almost eschatological,” Clinton says. “It is a break in history. It’s such a piece of unfinished business.”
</blockquote>


	It certainly is for her.


	And to Hillary, describing the end of her political career as&nbsp;eschatological and a break-in history is a kind of spiteful consolation price. Unable to win, she can still take down the country with her.

If Hillary Clinton Can't Win, She'll Take America Down With Her

Edward Luce has a splashy piece about a lunch with Hillary Clinton at which nearly nothing of substance is said. The only tangible takeaway is that Hillary

If Hillary Clinton Can't Win, She'll Take America Down With Her

This is a Southern Poverty Law Center survey. And I wouldn't be posting SPLC content if it wasn't spectacular. <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/news/2022/06/01/poll-finds-support-great-replacement-hard-right-ideas#partisanship">And it is spectacular</a>.


	Overall, 49% of people said they believe gender ideology has corrupted American culture, including 34% of Democrats, 72% of Republicans, and 45% of Independents.


	The magic happens when you break down the numbers by age and gender. Among younger Democrat men, a group that the SPLC survey defines as under 50, the numbers are dramatically different than among baby boomers.


	Only 20% of Democrat men over 50 agree that "gender ideology has corrupted American culture", but 47% of younger Democratic men agree.


	Only 41% disagree.


	The numbers are better among Democrat women, but there's still a sharp age split.


	Only 26% of older Democrat women agree, while 37% of younger Democrat women do.


	The numbers get progressively worse for lefties on the question of transgender indoctrination of children and whether it's a threat to children.


	40% of young Democrat men agree that there's indoctrination of children and 42% agree it's a threat to children.


	Compare that to only 2% of older male Democrats.


	34% of younger Democrat women see indoctrination going on and 27% agree it's a threat to children.


	I can't emphasize this enough. These numbers are coming from the demographic that is supposed to be the future of the Democrat party. And 30% to 40% of that&nbsp;demographic is rejecting gender identity politics.&nbsp;This is spectacularly bad news for the Left which decided that transgender identity politics is the future.


	The numbers under the hood, especially among young male Dems, are seriously bad. And a reckoning is coming.

42% of Young Male Dems Believe Transgender Movement a Threat to Children

This is a Southern Poverty Law Center survey. And I wouldn't be posting SPLC content if it wasn't spectacular. And it is spectacular.


	Overall, 49% of

42% of Young Male Dems Believe Transgender Movement a Threat to Children

These results from a Southern Poverty Law Center survey (yes, I know) are really something.


	While the SPLC predictably plays up the Great Replacement Theory stuff, its <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/news/2022/06/01/poll-finds-support-great-replacement-hard-right-ideas#partisanship">own survey </a>testifies to the catastrophic collapse of feminism.


	46% of younger Democratic men, defined as anyone under 50, say that feminism has "done more harm than good."


	41%, a minority, disagree.


	That's in contrast to 94% of Democrat men over 50 supporting feminism to only 4% opposed.


	This is a catastrophic narrative failure.&nbsp;


	Baby Boomer support for feminism has turned into majority opposition among Gen X and millennial men.


	A second survey question&nbsp;asks&nbsp;whether men should "be represented and valued more in our society."


	63% of male boomer Dems disagreed while only 28% agreed. Among younger Dem men, 60% agree and only 29%&nbsp; disagree.


	This is a vast generational and gender chasm.


	Younger male Democrats resent the impact and influence of feminism on their lives. They see themselves being shut out of colleges and jobs, and face instant economic and social destruction at the hands of the #MeToo movement.


	And those are just the Democrat numbers.

Majority of Democrat Men Under 50 Say "Feminism Has Done More Harm Than Good"

These results from a Southern Poverty Law Center survey (yes, I know) are really something.


	While the SPLC predictably plays up the Great Replacement

Majority of Democrat Men Under 50 Say "Feminism Has Done More Harm Than Good"

Biden is on top of skyrocketing<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/06/17/biden-gas-white-house/"> gas prices</a>.

<blockquote>
	
		“Not only is there not an extant solution, but nobody thinks there’s going to be a compelling solution,” an outside economic adviser to the White House said. “They’re fighting about narrative rather than fighting about substance, because realistically, what are they going to do?”
</blockquote>


	What to do?


	1. Drop energy taxes


	2. Stop announcing that you want to wipe out fossil fuels in the next decade while insisting that companies should invest in more production


	3. Stop blocking and sabotaging oil and gas leases


	Those are things Biden doesn't even need to do, but just to stop doing. But of course he's not. The problem is coming from inside the house. The White House.


	When you keep playing arsonist, then you need a hell of a narrative to explain why all the houses burning down isn't your fault.

"Realistically, What Are They Going to Do?” Biden Adviser on Gas Prices

Biden is on top of skyrocketing gas prices.


	
		“Not only is there not an extant solution, but nobody thinks there’s going to be a compelling solution,”

"Realistically, What Are They Going to Do?” Biden Adviser on Gas Prices

Under the Left, America really is going down the same road as Venezuela.&nbsp;


	This <a href="https://archives.frontpagemag.com/fpm/what-happens-when-socialists-run-out-money-daniel-greenfield/">was one</a> of <a href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2016/06/a-socialist-les-miserables-in-venezuela.html">my favorite stories</a> out of the failed socialist state.

<blockquote>
	
		The Socialist government tried to solve its money problem by printing more money. But it wasn’t able to pay for the money it wanted to print because of the inflation which officially did not exist. 
		 
		Venezuela needs 10 billion bank notes in its new inflationary economy, more than America, and it can’t pay for them.&nbsp;

	
		Venezuela’s central bank (under socialism, everything is centralized) can’t pay for the paper to print all the worthless money. And none of the companies that might sell the socialists the paper will take its worthless paper money in exchange for their paper. There’s no point in printing anything less than 50 bolivar notes because they’re worth less than the cost of the paper. But putting Obamanomics in action, Venezuela ordered billions more bills: more than the United States and Europe have combined.
</blockquote>


	Biden is starting to run into the same problem.

<blockquote>
	
		Biden officials are taking a second look at whether the federal government could send rebate cards out to millions of American drivers to help them pay at gas stations — an idea they examined months ago before ruling it out. Aides had found that shortages in the U.S. chip industry would make it hard to produce enough rebate cards, two people familiar with the matter said.
</blockquote>


	We'd like to mass produce some more money, but we can't get the chips.


	Call it a 'market signal' or the 'invisible hand of the market' slapping the checkbook out of Biden's hand.


	This is why a switch to a digital currency will be convenient. Then you can just create more money without having to actually print it. Ask Venezuela where the minimum wage is half a Petro.&nbsp;


	&nbsp;

Biden Admin "Can't Print Money" Due to Chip Shortage

Under the Left, America really is going down the same road as Venezuela.&nbsp;


	This was one of my favorite stories out of the failed socialist state

Biden Admin "Can't Print Money" Due to Chip Shortage

Least surprising news ever. Obviously.


	This is why smart travelers take burner phones to China that don't log into any of their existing accounts and one of the worst user data hacks in America happened when an employee accessed root out of China. But this is evidence from the inside that TikTok is just <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilybakerwhite/tiktok-tapes-us-user-data-china-bytedance-access?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4">another data trap</a>.&nbsp;

<blockquote>
	
		For years, TikTok has&nbsp;responded&nbsp;to data privacy concerns by promising that information gathered about users in the United States is stored in the United States, rather than China, where ByteDance, the video platform's parent company, is located. But according to leaked audio from more than 80 internal TikTok meetings, China-based employees of ByteDance have repeatedly accessed nonpublic data about US TikTok users — exactly the type of behavior that inspired former president Donald Trump to threaten to ban the app in the United States.

	
		The recordings, which were reviewed by BuzzFeed News, contain 14 statements from nine different TikTok employees indicating that engineers in China had access to US data between September 2021 and January 2022, at the very least. Despite a TikTok executive’s sworn&nbsp;testimony&nbsp;in an October 2021 Senate hearing that a “world-renowned, US-based security team” decides who gets access to this data, nine statements by eight different employees describe situations where US employees had to turn to their colleagues in China to determine how US user data was flowing. US staff did not have permission or knowledge of how to access the data on their own, according to the tapes.
</blockquote>


	Why would anyone expect anything else? This is how Chinese companies work. The locus of control is always going to be with their own people and the idea that Americans would be allowed to act as gatekeepers over Chinese execs was always implausibly absurd. Americans working for TikTok are there to take orders from China. Not the other way around.

<blockquote>
	
		In 2019, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States began investigating the national security implications of TikTok’s collection of American data. And in 2020, then-president Donald Trump&nbsp;threatened&nbsp;to ban the app entirely over concerns that the Chinese government could use ByteDance to amass dossiers of personal information about US TikTok users. TikTok’s “data collection threatens to allow the Chinese Communist Party access to Americans’ personal and proprietary information,” Trump wrote in&nbsp;his executive order. TikTok has said it has&nbsp;never shared user data&nbsp;with the Chinese government and would not do so if asked.
</blockquote>


	A Chinese company isn't going share data with its own government in a system where the options are...


	1. Share the data


	2. Go to prison, be executed, have your organs harvested and your corpse displayed at one of those human body exhibits traveling America


	... sure.

<blockquote>
	
		There is, however, another concern: that the soft power of the Chinese government could impact how ByteDance executives direct their American counterparts to adjust the levers of TikTok’s&nbsp;powerful “For You” algorithm, which recommends videos to its more than 1 billion users. Sen. Ted Cruz, for instance, has&nbsp;called&nbsp;TikTok “a Trojan horse the Chinese Communist Party can use to influence what Americans see, hear, and ultimately think.”

	
		Project Texas’s narrow focus on the security of a specific slice of US user data, much of which the Chinese government could&nbsp;simply buy from data brokers if it so chose, does not address fears that China, through ByteDance, could use TikTok to influence Americans’ commercial, cultural, or political behavior.
</blockquote>


	The algorithmic secret sauce is bad enough when it's in the hands of lefty Big Tech corps in America, imagine what China's overlords can do with it. And probably;are.


	Why is TikTok is abrasively leftist and dedicated to promoting political extremes? Likely, because the Chinese are doing what the Russians were actually (as opposed to the Russiagate nonsense) which is amplifying the extremes in order to cause chaos in America and find likely recruits among the political extremes.


	TikTok is a cultural weapon aimed at America and the trigger will always be in Bejiing.&nbsp;

TikTok Lied to Senate, China Controls the Data, Americans Don't

Least surprising news ever. Obviously.


	This is why smart travelers take burner phones to China that don't log into any of their existing accounts and one

TikTok Lied to Senate, China Controls the Data, Americans Don't

The abortion draft decision leak was so shocking in part because there is a good deal of collegiality among Supreme Court justices.&nbsp;


	Conservatives and lefties may decry it, but in fairly typical D.C. fashion, they tend to be pretty good friends, no matter who nominated them. Take the&nbsp;Ruth Bader&nbsp;Ginsburg&nbsp;and Antonin Scalia friendship that inspired numerous op-eds and <a href="https://www.npr.org/2016/02/15/466848775/scalia-ginsburg-opera-commemorates-sparring-supreme-court-friendship">even an opera</a>.

<blockquote>
	
		"We were best buddies," Ginsburg wrote after Scalia died on Saturday. The two first served together in the early 1980s on the federal circuit court in Washington, D.C., from which each was chosen to be nominated for the Supreme Court.

	
		They served together on the high court for more than 22 years, from when Ginsburg joined Scalia on the court in August of 1993, until Scalia's death.
</blockquote>


	Now that the lynch mob is out for Justice Clarence Thomas again, these remarks by Justice Sotomayor<a href="https://thehill.com/regulation/3526826-sotomayor-praises-clarence-thomas-he-is-a-man-who-cares-deeply-about-the-court-as-an-institution/"> are interesting</a>.

<blockquote>
	
		Supreme Court Justice&nbsp;Sonia Sotomayor&nbsp;spoke highly of colleague Justice&nbsp;Clarence Thomas&nbsp;during an event on Thursday, saying, “He is a man who cares deeply about the court as an institution.”

	
		Sotomayor, who is liberal, acknowledged during remarks at the American Constitution Society that while she often disagrees with the conservative justice, she believes that “we share a common understanding about people and kindness towards them”
</blockquote>


	The American Constitution Society is the liberal counterpart to the Federalist Society so she's not exactly speaking to people who like Thomas.

<blockquote>
	
		“Justice Thomas is the one justice in the building that literally knows every employee’s name, every one of them. And not only does he know their names, he remembers their families’ names and histories,” she said.

	
		“He’s the first one who will go up to someone when you’re walking with him and say, ‘Is your son okay? How’s your daughter doing in college?’ He’s the first one that, when my stepfather died, sent me flowers in Florida,” she added.
</blockquote>


	This isn't exactly the first time around. This is <a href="https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/sotomayor-shares-life-and-career-advice-during-abas-inaugural-equity-summit">from last year</a>.

<blockquote>
	
		As an example, Sotomayor explained that people find it odd that she considers Justice Clarence Thomas a friend, even though their judicial philosophies are so different. But she said there are few men who have a “kinder heart” than him. When someone in her family died, he sent flowers. And when she has been sick, he checked in on her.

	
		“I see in him the basic caring about people that I have,” Sotomayor said. “We are both committed friends and committed family members.

	
		“And so, in seeing that good in him, there is no reason for me to take our personal disputes and translate it into our personal interactions. We work together. We have to work together for the rest of our time on the court.”
</blockquote>


	This year, Thomas is much more in the eye of the hurricane. So while Sotomayor has talked about Thomas before, there's a certain defiance or court solidarity in doing so now. While I don't particularly care for institutional solidarity in D.C., arguably one of the country's biggest governmental problems, it points again to how big of a violation the draft leak was.

“Justice Thomas is the one Justice in the Building That Literally Knows Every Employee’s Name"

The abortion draft decision leak was so shocking in part because there is a good deal of collegiality among Supreme Court justices.&nbsp;


	Conservatives

“Justice Thomas is the one Justice in the Building That Literally Knows Every Employee’s Name"

Name the really bad actor who wants to be governor by <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/15/matthew-mcconaughey-lobbies-up-for-gun-push-00040099">attacking the Bill of Rights</a>.

<blockquote>
	
		Matthew McConaughey is not leaving&nbsp;his emotional pleas&nbsp;for tighter gun laws up to chance and the appeal of his celebrity. He’s turning to K Street too.

	
		Following a spate of recent mass shootings including the massacre last month in his hometown of Uvalde, Texas that killed 19 schoolchildren and two teachers, the award-winning actor has retained a team of lobbyists at D.C. firm Avisa Partners to represent him in the nation’s capital.
</blockquote>


	Isn't that what all celebrities who feel strongly about something do, hire a team of lobbyists?


	Avisa&nbsp;Partners is a <a href="https://www.legistorm.com/organization/summary/160536/Avisa_Partners_US_Inc_.html">strange choice</a>.&nbsp;

<blockquote>
	
		Avisa Partners, founded in France in 2010, is present in Paris, Brussels, London, Berlin and now Washington. The group brings together under one roof an ecosystem of professionals in the fields of competitive intelligence, public affairs, international relations, cybersecurity and digital communications. Avisa Partners is a flagship European firm on the issues of online influence, the fight against misinformation, and the fight against counterfeiting.&nbsp;
</blockquote>


	What you really want is a French firm with a background in "competitive intelligence" lobbying American elected officials.


	Avisa's client list seems heavy on telecoms and financial companies. They're usually corporate lobbyists rather than culture warriors. But they're there for the GOP access. And we're seeing the usual transactionalism of the swamp in action here.

<blockquote>
	
		Noe Garcia, a one time aide to former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist; John Procter, a former Pentagon press secretary; and Mike Rubino, a Trump administration alum, were retained to help coordinate McConaughey’s meetings in Washington for the whirlwind trip.
</blockquote>


	What's&nbsp;it gonna take to drain this swamp? Especially when some of the folks claiming to want to drain it,<a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/avisa-partners-expands-to-united-states-and-names-eric-bovim-us-ceo-300929324.html"> go swimming</a> in it instead.

<blockquote>
	
		Avisa Partners, a global firm specialized in managing sensitive matters, today announced it has expanded beyond continental&nbsp;Europe&nbsp;and named&nbsp;Eric Bovim&nbsp;as CEO of its U.S. operations. Bovim will lead Avisa Partners U.S. from&nbsp;Washington, D.C.

	
		Bovim, a former foreign correspondent for Reuters in&nbsp;Madrid&nbsp;and an international strategic communications consultant who launched his first company in 2007, joined Avisa Partners in mid-September to set up the company's&nbsp;Washington DC&nbsp;operations. Bovim will oversee the expansion of Avisa's presence in the U.S. market, which already accounts for 15% to 25% of the Group's revenue.
</blockquote>


	Fusion GPS is just the tip of the iceberg. These guys are everywhere.

Matthew McConaughey Hires French Firm to Lobby Against 2nd Amendment

Name the really bad actor who wants to be governor by attacking the Bill of Rights.


	
		Matthew McConaughey is not leaving&nbsp;his emotional pleas&nbsp;

Matthew McConaughey Hires French Firm to Lobby Against 2nd Amendment

Socialists say the darndest things.


	"Oil companies set oil prices. Nobody else does," Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said.


	Markets. How<a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/what-democrats-dont-get-about-gas-prices-165009966.html"> do they work </a>anyway?

<blockquote>
	
		“The left thinks oil companies set oil prices,” says Dan Dicker, founder of&nbsp;The Energy Word&nbsp;and author of “Turning Oil Green.” “That’s just false. Oil companies don’t set prices. If they did, they wouldn’t have let oil prices go negative in 2020.”
</blockquote>


	Supply, demand. Those are just words.&nbsp;


	Let Tim Robbins explain it.


	<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="456" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xGn55BRyDSk" title="Team America - Corporations (with hmm..)" width="551"></iframe>


	It doesn't matter how much oil is available and how much people want. Companies just magically set prices based on darts they throw at a giant greedy dartboard.

<blockquote>
	
		In 2020, for instance, the sudden COVID pandemic caused such an oversupply of oil that&nbsp;the price briefly turned negative, meaning producers couldn’t sell their product and had to pay for storage. That didn’t last long, but low prices for most of 2020 wrought havoc in the industry, forcing cutbacks that persist to this day.

	
		That oil oversupply was great for motorists. Gas prices fell to a low of $1.87 in 2020. But Exxon posted a gargantuan $22.4 billion loss, the largest in its history. That’s why Whitehouse and Khanna compare 2021 profits to pre-pandemic levels of 2019, two years earlier: using the normal year-over-year comparison would force them to acknowledge even greedy oil companies lose money when the market turns against them.
</blockquote>


	You don't have to applaud oil companies, I don't, but Biden and the Democrats keep claiming that inflation is a worldwide problem and then they blame companies for raising prices while insisting that they know what<a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3525379-white-house-scrambles-to-solve-gas-price-surge/"> they're doing</a>.

<blockquote>
	
		Speaking to reporters Wednesday afternoon, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell noted that the Fed can’t do much to affect energy and food prices, however, noting that they are largely set by global commodity prices.&nbsp;
</blockquote>


	&nbsp;

"Oil Companies Set Oil Prices. Nobody else does," Senator Whitehouse.

Socialists say the darndest things.


	"Oil companies set oil prices. Nobody else does," Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said.


	Markets. How do they

"Oil Companies Set Oil Prices. Nobody else does," Senator Whitehouse.

SOS. <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-15/us-recession-risk-hits-72-by-2024-as-fed-hikes-rates-to-curb-inflation">Stuck on stupid</a>.

<blockquote>
	
		The administration is casting around for outside-the box fixes to show they’re fighting for hard-pressed households, from a windfall tax on oil profits to commitments by retailers to cut prices if China tariffs are removed.
</blockquote>


	The out-of-the-box fixes all involve trying to get businesses to cut prices as if the problem is happening at that level.


	Can Biden and his people really be this ignorant of basic economics? The answer appears to be yes. The stuff they're putting out there is what they believe, which makes them even more dangerous. Instead of cutting spending, they're convinced that rising prices are some sort of corporate conspiracy.

<blockquote>
	
		A key Biden ally in the Senate this week&nbsp;proposed&nbsp;a new federal tax on oil-industry profits.&nbsp;The White House has been asking big retailers to commit to cutting their prices if the president&nbsp;lowers some China tariffs, and pushing them for details on how quickly that might happen,&nbsp;according to people familiar with the matter.&nbsp;“This is typical outreach to understand how a potential policy decision could affect stakeholders,’’&nbsp;a White House official said.
</blockquote>


	There's nothing typical about it. Just the typical stupidity of socialists who don't understand how anything works. It's an interconnected economy. Telling Amazon and Walmart to cut prices in exchange for more Made in China junk doesn't work. Not when it has to be delivered on trucks burning fuel and packed and delivered by workers whose hourlies keep going up. And not when businesses are no longer able to price long term costs.

<blockquote>
	
		The effort has been unsuccessful so far, with businesses citing a lack of understanding of what’s driving inflation, the people said.&nbsp;
</blockquote>


	That's a polite way of saying the obvious.

Biden Keeps Pushing Price Controls Instead of Controlling Federal Spending

SOS. Stuck on stupid.


	
		The administration is casting around for outside-the box fixes to show they’re fighting for hard-pressed households, from a

Biden Keeps Pushing Price Controls Instead of Controlling Federal Spending

If you don't take a vaccine, you'll be forced out of the military. HIV positive? You're an <a href="https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/06/08/hiv-status-will-no-longer-automatically-disqualify-troops-deployment-retention.html">oppressed minority</a>.

<blockquote>
	
		Most HIV-positive troops will no longer face involuntary separation or be barred from deploying as a result of their condition under an update to the Pentagon's policy on HIV status.

	
		According to a memo released by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Tuesday, commanders no longer will be allowed to involuntarily separate troops with asymptomatic HIV. They also may not restrict them from deploying or bar any currently serving enlisted personnel, cadets or midshipmen with HIV from seeking a commission as an officer.

	
		On Wednesday, Lambda Legal attorneys who represented Army National Guard Sgt. Nicholas Harrison in the case praised the Pentagon for dropping what they called a "discriminatory policy."

	
		"Because HIV disproportionately impacts LGBTQ+ people and people of color, this discriminatory policy is not only outdated, but is also a serious equity issue that has had a significant impact on communities that already face many other systemic barriers to accessing the full range of opportunity in America," Kara Ingelhart, a senior attorney at Lambda Legal, said in a statement.
</blockquote>


	The military is no longer there to defend the nation or win wars. Not to the lefties who now use it purely for identity politics posturing.


	The military is becoming a testbed for woke virtue signaling while undermining military readiness and national defense.

Woke Military Brass to Deploy HIV Positive Personnel

If you don't take a vaccine, you'll be forced out of the military. HIV positive? You're an oppressed minority.


	
		Most HIV-positive troops will no

Woke Military Brass to Deploy HIV Positive Personnel

If a pro-life group had declared war and was attacking numerous abortion clinics, it would be Page 1 news and about the only thing the media would be talking about. But much like the Kavanaugh assassination plot, the media covers up leftist terrorism, violence, extremism, and the Biden administration's complicity in them.


	In&nbsp;<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/congress-must-hold-hearings-biden-administrations-daniel-greenfield/">Congress Must Hold Hearings on Biden Administration’s Domestic Terror Ties</a>, I wrote that, "A few weeks after the Buffalo mass shooting, another domestic terrorist attack occurred in the upstate New York city. CompassCare, a pregnancy care clinic guiding new mothers away from abortion, was firebombed by the pro-abortion hate group, Jane's Revenge. The group has been linked to the firebombing of at least&nbsp;two other pro-life&nbsp;offices and organizations last month."

<blockquote>
	
		"Its threatening graffiti included the warning, "If abortions aren't safe, then you aren't either."

	
		"We demand the disbanding of all anti-choice establishments, fake clinics, and violent anti-choice groups within the next thirty days," the Jane's Revenge communique threatened. "We are forced to adopt the minimum military requirement for a political struggle."
</blockquote>


	The violence, and the Biden administration and media silence, have continued.


	As <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/open-season-pro-abortion-terrorist-group-vows-to-ramp-up-violence-against-pro-life-pregnancy-centers/">Caroline Downey reports</a>, Jane's Revenge is trying to harder to get noticed even as the media and Biden officials try to avoid talking about it.

<blockquote>
	
		Pro-abortion terrorist group Jane’s Revenge, which has claimed credit for a string of recent&nbsp;attacks on pregnancy centers&nbsp;across the country, on Tuesday declared “open season” on pro-life organizations as the Supreme Court ruling in&nbsp;Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health&nbsp;draws closer.

	
		Jane’s Revenge took responsibility for the last week’s attack on a CompassCare pro-life Christian pregnancy facility in&nbsp;Buffalo, N.Y., in which it firebombed the office, shattering glass and torching the interior. They left the ominous message that’s been spray painted at the scene of other attacks across the country: “If abortions aren’t safe, then you aren’t either.”

	
		The terrorist group also owned up to other recent incidents of intimidation in “Madison WI, Ft. Collins CO, Reisertown MA, Olympia WA, Des Moines IA, Lynwood WA, Washington DC, Ashville NC, Buffalo NY, Hollywood FL, Vancouver WA, Frederick MA, Denton TX, Gresham OR, Eugene OR,&nbsp;Portland OR, among others.”
</blockquote>


	And still nothing about this campaign of domestic terrorism from its allies in the media and the Biden administration.&nbsp;

Abortion Group Vows to Continue Terror Attacks Against Pro-Life Centers

If a pro-life group had declared war and was attacking numerous abortion clinics, it would be Page 1 news and about the only thing the media would be talking

Abortion Group Vows to Continue Terror Attacks Against Pro-Life Centers

A <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/05/bring-grandma-killing-governors-justice-daniel-greenfield/">little refresher</a> on the <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2022/05/monster-who-sent-infected-patients-nursing-homes-daniel-greenfield/">gruesome history</a> of Rick 'Rachel' Levine, Biden's assistant health secretary.

<blockquote>
	
		A state senator from Franklin County has called for the immediate resignation of Pennsylvania Health Secretary Dr. Richard 'Rachel' Levine, saying his actions were a major factor in the large number of covid-19 cases and deaths in the state’s nursing homes.

	
		Wolf’s Secretary of Health, Dr. Richard (Rachel) Levine, had transferred&nbsp;his own mother&nbsp;out of a nursing home and to a hotel.

	
		To date, state figures show that nursing homes residents have accounted for 2,529 of the state’s 3,707 reported covid-19 deaths. That is a pattern that has been echoed in most states across the country, however.

	
		In a policy guidance issued in March, the Health Department stated, in part:&nbsp;“Nursing care facilities must continue to accept new admissions and receive readmissions for current residents who have been discharged from the hospital who are stable to alleviate the increasing burden in the acute care settings. This may include stable patients who have had the covid-19 virus.”
</blockquote>


	Nero made his horse a senator, Biden made Rick's drag act an admiral because demeaning America is almost as important to the Left as killing Americans.


	Now Biden and Rick are <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/15/biden-plan-transgender-youth-health-care-00039844">threatening</a> Americans for daring to oppose the grooming and mutilation of children.

<blockquote>
	
		“I have no room in my heart for hatred and I have no time for intolerance, but we don’t live in a world where everyone feels that way, and this administration understands that more action is needed,” HHS Assistant Secretary for Health Admiral Rachel Levine, this first openly transgender senior administration official, said in a statement.
</blockquote>


	Some of Rick's victims might have room in their hearts for hatred. How many of the grandmothers and grandfathers who died in Pennsylvania left behind grieving family members who weren't even allowed to attend their funerals?


	Meanwhile, Biden is going to war, not on Russia or China, but American families. As usual.

<blockquote>
	
		President Joe Biden on Wednesday will order his health agency to begin efforts to ban conversion therapy and expand access to gender-affirming treatment after a slew of state attempts to limit transgender health care, particularly for children.

	
		An administration official said Biden will sign the order surrounded by LGBTQI+ kids from Texas and Florida who “have been personally impacted” by those policies. One of the children, who organized student walkouts over the “Don’t Say Gay” bill in Florida, will introduce the president.
</blockquote>


	While Biden abuses children, most Americans are groaning under the crushing weight of his inflationary spending policies.

<blockquote>
	
		“We’re prepared for what Biden throws our way,” DeSantis, a potential 2024 presidential contender, said during a press conference this month when he criticized a federal policy that would require schools receiving food and nutrition aid to include anti-discrimination language around gender identity. “We’re fighting on that, don’t worry.”
</blockquote>

“I Have No Room in My Heart for Hatred," Says Biden Admin Mass Murderer

A little refresher on the gruesome history of Rick 'Rachel' Levine, Biden's assistant health secretary.


	
		A state senator from Franklin County has

“I Have No Room in My Heart for Hatred," Says Biden Admin Mass Murderer

Here's what the mayoral race in Los Angeles looked like <a href="https://patch.com/california/los-angeles/real-time-results-los-angeles-mayoral-election-2022">after the polls closed</a>.

<blockquote>
	
		There will be a runoff race for the mayor of Los Angeles between billionaire real estate developer Rick Caruso and Rep. Karen Bass in a race defined by voter frustration over homelessness and crime.

	
		The Associated Press declared the race headed to a runoff election because there aren't enough remaining ballots to be tallied that would tip the race. Caruso jumped ahead of the field in the race for mayor Tuesday. As of Wednesday afternoon, Caruso leads Bass by 16,371 votes.

	
		Early returns consisting of mail-in ballots have Rick Caruso with a noticeable lead over Rep. Karen Bass in the race for mayor. With 822,545 countywide ballots counted (580,358 vote-by-mail and 242,187 vote center ballots), Caruso garnered 42.14 percent of the vote while Bass trailed with 36.95 percent as of Wednesday afternoon.
</blockquote>


	Incredibly, a whole bunch of mail-in ballots <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-06-14/bass-pulls-ahead-of-caruso-in-latest-vote-count-for-l-a-mayor">showed up </a>for Bass.

<blockquote>
	
		&nbsp;Rep. Karen Bass pulled ahead of rival Rick Caruso in the primary election for Los Angeles mayor on Tuesday after a surge of vote-by-mail ballots boosted the congresswoman and several other progressive candidates.

	
		Over the past week, a flood of late-arriving mail ballots propelled left-of-center candidates in races for mayor, city attorney and multiple council seats.
</blockquote>


	What are the odds?

<blockquote>
	
		The results of the mayor’s race — the first open seat in nearly a decade — has seesawed since election night. Caruso initially came in first, with a five-point lead. But Bass gained ground in subsequent updates.

	
		On Tuesday, results showed that she has received 41% of the vote to Caruso’s 38%.
</blockquote>


	We know how this works. Count the votes. See how many are needed. Find the votes. It's an old game, one as old as democracy itself.


	Lefties voting by mail normally vote early. We know exactly what a "flood of late-arriving mail ballots" that largely goes to leftists means.


	Is it even possible to have an honest election in LA? Probably no more than in Philly, Chicago or any other major city.


	&nbsp;

LA Mayor's Race Shows How Mail-in Ballots are a Fraud Machine

Here's what the mayoral race in Los Angeles looked like after the polls closed.


	
		There will be a runoff race for the mayor of Los Angeles between

LA Mayor's Race Shows How Mail-in Ballots are a Fraud Machine

GOP Flips 85% Latino House Seat in South Texas

Time for some more talk about how Republicans are a "threat to democracy". And then maybe Soros can help buy up some more Latino radio stations.

GOP Flips 85% Latino House Seat in South Texas

Water finds its own level and so does Bottoms. And that happens to be a job with a failed administration.


	Not all that long ago, the former Atlanta mayor was <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2020/12/failed-mayor-atlanta-under-investigation-demands-daniel-greenfield/">turning Biden down</a>.

<blockquote>
	
		Joe Biden implored Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms to accept a job heading the Small Business Administration earlier this week, a lesser position she rejected after he characterized it as “only the first step” for her during his presidency, according to people familiar with the discussion.
</blockquote>


	Now she's <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/06/15/keisha-lance-bottoms-biden-cedric-richmond">coming on board</a> after all.

<blockquote>
	
		President Biden&nbsp;is tapping former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms to replace Cedric Richmond as one of his most senior aides, bringing a Democratic rising star and former VP contender into the White House at a critical juncture, Axios has learned.

	
		Why it matters:&nbsp;As director of the White House Office of Public Engagement beginning in the coming weeks, Bottoms will immediately have access to some of the most high-level planning and strategy sessions in the West Wing — and to the president himself.
</blockquote>


	So she can do for America, wha<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/07/racist-mayor-keisha-lance-bottoms-daniel-greenfield/">t she did for Atlanta</a>?

<blockquote>
	
		When Black Lives Matter racists took to the street demanding police defunding, Bottoms claimed that she had already been&nbsp;defunding the police&nbsp;for years. Atlanta jail’s was going to be shut down and turned into a community center. Police defunding, like all pro-crime policies, always gets results and it was no different in Atlanta where murders&nbsp;shot up 60%.&nbsp;

	
		Shootings went up 51%, while rapes and aggravated assaults rose by&nbsp;double digits&nbsp;after arrests dropped by&nbsp;over 40%.&nbsp;
</blockquote>


	Bottoms <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/06/19/keisha-lance-bottoms-blames-crime-increase-on-gop-reopening-plan-access-to-guns/">tried to blame</a> Gov. Kemp for reopening Georgia.

<blockquote>
	
		Atlanta Mayor&nbsp;Keisha Lance Bottoms&nbsp;says her city is besieged by crime because Republicans in the statehouse jumped the gun on ending Georgia’s COVID-19 restrictions.

	
		Bottoms, a Democrat,&nbsp;told MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle&nbsp;that lax gun laws and young people with too much free time have added to a 50 percent increase in murders from before the pandemic — but she said Gov. Brian Kemp’s controversial April 20, 2020,&nbsp;move to ease lockdown restrictions&nbsp;was also a main culprit.

	
		“Remember in Georgia we were opened up&nbsp;before the rest of the country, even before the CDC said that it was safe for us to open so our night clubs and our bars remained open so we had people traveling here from across the country to party in our city,” Bottoms said during the Friday interview.
</blockquote>


	And so Bottoms went from being touted as a potential Biden VP to getting a job in a dead end administration. But it helps<a href="https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta-mayor-fined-37000-illegal-campaign-contributions-during-2017-mayors-race/D2QF5LPVWZBEJP7JABUIKHO4JQ/"> pay the bills</a>.

<blockquote>
	
		&nbsp;Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms agreed during a state ethics commission meeting Thursday to pay a fine of $37,000 for irregularities in her campaign finances during the 2017 mayor’s race.

	
		The settlement comes after a long investigation into both candidate’s campaign contributions during the race nearly four years ago.
</blockquote>

Failed President Brings in Mayor of Failed City as a Senior Aide

Water finds its own level and so does Bottoms. And that happens to be a job with a failed administration.


	Not all that long ago, the former Atlanta mayor

Failed President Brings in Mayor of Failed City as a Senior Aide

The Left isn't stopping at insisting that men are women, and anyone can be any gender. The <a href="https://abc7ny.com/happy-bronx-zoo-elephant-person/11958046/">next frontier</a> is 'speciesism'.

<blockquote>
	
		Happy the Elephant is not a person, the New York state's Court of Appeals ruled in a 5-2 decision Tuesday, meaning the Asian elephant will continue to reside at the Bronx Zoo, her home for the past 45 years.
</blockquote>


	If two judges ruled that the earth is flat, emphasizing this Et 5 judges rule it's not is burying the lede.&nbsp;


	As we've seen in the past, completely insane leftist views once they gain traction can entirely take over as opposition to them collapses. That's how we got transmen.

<blockquote>
	
		The ruling that Happy is not a person, in a legal sense, and therefore not entitled to a fundamental human right, rejects the animal-advocacy organization's argument that she is being illegally detained at the zoo.

	
		The New York Court of Appeals disagreed, though it said Happy was entitled to proper care. 
		 
		"Because the writ of habeas corpus is intended to protect the liberty right of human beings to be free of unlawful confinement, it has no applicability to Happy, a nonhuman animal who is not a 'person' subjected to illegal detention," the decision said. "Thus, while no one disputes that elephants are intelligent beings deserving of proper care and compassion, the courts below properly granted the motion to dismiss the petition for a writ of habeas corpus, and we therefore affirm."

	
		The Nonhuman Rights Project wanted her moved from a "one-acre prison" at the zoo to a more spacious sanctuary. 
		 
		"She has an interest in exercising her choices and deciding who she wants to be with, and where to go, and what to do, and what to eat," project attorney Monica Miller told The Associated Press ahead of the oral arguments. "And the zoo is prohibiting her from making any of those choices herself."
</blockquote>


	Happy didn't actually her lawyers any of this. She's not making any choices beyond the mundane ones. Nor does the NRP actually want&nbsp;her to. If Happy is a person, shouldn't she be a citizen with the right to vote? And what if she votes for the elephant party?


	While the jokes write themselves, they stop being funny once they become real.


	The Court of Appeals should never have even heard this case. The fact that it did shows that 'speciesism' is <a href="https://newsroom.wcs.org/News-Releases/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/17549/NRP-Continues-to-Misuse-the-Writ-of-Habeas-Corpus-Potentially-Risking-the-Health-and-Welfare-of-Happy-An-Elephant-at-the-Bronx-Zoo.aspx">gaining traction</a>.

<blockquote>
	
		With this appeal, NRP continues to misuse the writ of habeas corpus to advance what they have called ‘a state-by-state, country-by-country, long-term litigation campaign.
</blockquote>


	And two Court of Appeals judges,&nbsp;Jenny Rivera and Rowan D. Wilson,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nonhumanrights.org/media-center/statement-court-of-appeals-decision/">issued dissent</a>s.


	“When the majority answers, ‘No, animals cannot have rights,’ I worry for that animal, but I worry even more greatly about how that answer denies and denigrates the human capacity for understanding, empathy and compassion,” the opinion from Judge Wilson reads.


	The Wilson dissent is completely insane. And quite dangerous.


	It begins by comparing black people to animals.

<blockquote>
	
		"The Wildlife Conservation Society, formerly known as the New York Zoological Society, has operated the Bronx Zoo for well over a century.&nbsp; In 1906, it placed Ota Benga, a member of the Mbuti people, on display in the Zoo’s monkey house, behind iron bars."

	
		"The majority at “the writ of habeas corpus is intended to protect the liberty right of human beings ,” and that habeas corpus is unavailable to Happy as a matter of law because she is “not a ‘person’ subjected to illegal detention”, though knowing full well hat the writ was vigorously used to challenge the detention of slaves when, under law, they were deemed chattel, and to challenge the detention of women and children who at that time, though not chattel property, had no legal existence," Wilson insists.

	
		"Finally, given what the information Happy has submitted reveals about how she experiences the world as an elephant and about her environment at the Bronx Zoo, has Happy made a prima facie showing of possible unjust confinement that grants her a full hearing to decide the merits of her habeas petition?&nbsp; She has.&nbsp; If we accept all of the information as true, Happy is a being abilities.&nbsp; She has self with highly complex cognitive, social and emotional awareness, social needs and empathy.&nbsp; She also comes from a wild, highly social species whose bodies and minds are accustomed to traversing long distances to connect with others and to find food.&nbsp; Happy has established a prima facie case that her confinement at the Bronx Zoo stunts her needs in ways that cause suffering so great as to be deemed unjust."
</blockquote>


	It's insane and it's thoroughly worked out. The people behind this are not about to stop.

2 New York Court of Appeals Judges Rule an Elephant has Human Rights

The Left isn't stopping at insisting that men are women, and anyone can be any gender. The next frontier is 'speciesism'.


	
		Happy the Elephant is not a

2 New York Court of Appeals Judges Rule an Elephant has Human Rights

An interesting question with<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/13/how-doj-took-the-malware-fight-into-your-computer-00038932"> troubling implications</a>.

<blockquote>
	
		The Justice Department is increasingly seeking and receiving permission to secretly reach into Americans’ computers to delete malware — a shift officials say reflects a growing embrace of aggressive and creative tactics for combating a surge in cyberattacks.

	
		Botnets — armies of hacked computers used to power everything from email spam campaigns to denial-of-service attacks that take down websites — pose a major threat to internet security, as do mass malware infections.
</blockquote>


	A botnet coordinates a large number of hacked machines to launch attacks. Those botnets are often being run by foreign operations in China and Russia with likely state links. Fighting them has national security components, but the growing casualness about this particular tactic is troubling.

<blockquote>
	
		In the past year, federal prosecutors and FBI agents have increased their efforts to defeat botnets and contain malware outbreaks by directly removing malicious code from infected computers, without the knowledge or authorization of those computers’ owners.

	
		“We have gotten more comfortable, as a government, taking that step,” Adam Hickey, a deputy assistant attorney general for national security, said in an interview at the RSA cybersecurity conference in San Francisco.
</blockquote>


	No part of that quote sounds good.

<blockquote>
	
		After identifying infected devices, the government asks a court for permission to send commands to those devices that will cause the malware to delete itself. Essentially, the FBI uses the malware as a point of entry to the infected computers — it doesn’t need to hack the computers itself, because it’s piggybacking on someone else’s hack. These operations rely on intelligence that the bureau gathers about the botnet in question, including, sometimes, the passwords necessary to control the malware. A court’s permission is necessary, at least for devices in the U.S., because accessing them constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment...

	
		Whereas in the past it was hard for prosecutors to justify intrusive actions to their superiors, Hickey said, it is now harder for them to justify not taking those actions and leaving a botnet intact. “We’ve gotten to this point where we’re like, okay, if we’ve tested [our code], if we’ve worked with the manufacturer, if we’ve done everything we can to ensure there will not be collateral damage, why would we just leave the malware there?”

	
		These changes have not just been driven by an increased comfort with reaching into people’s computers. Companies whose products are being abused are now more likely to share what they know with the government, according to Hickey. “They don’t have the authority to get a search warrant,” he said, “but they know that we will do that.”
</blockquote>


	And that growing comfort level is exactly the issue.


	Slippery slopes begin with convenient rationalizations and then end with a downhill luge ride into casual abuses of power. There's a reason why the Fourth Amendment exists and its current application. Once the feds are able to casually piggyback their way into someone's machine, what else might they do? Once the loophole has been established that they're not breaking in, just exploiting an existing breach, and that it's justified in dealing with the work of a foreign adversary, where does it go next?

Should the FBI Be Able to Hack Your Computer to Fight Botnets?

An interesting question with troubling implications.


	
		The Justice Department is increasingly seeking and receiving permission to secretly reach into

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