The Morning Rant – Buck Shots (7/25/2022)

Insect Farming? Be Very Afraid

The left’s war on western civilization is unceasing, and along with its efforts to eradicate carbon-based energy, it is also now hell-bent on eliminating traditional food production.

This whole bug-eating thing isn’t just a novelty or a joke, the global villains in charge of the World Economic Forum really do want you to replace meat and beans with insects as a protein source.

From the World Economic Forum’s “Davos Agenda 2022.”

Five reasons why eating insects could reduce climate change [WEFORUM – 02/09/2022]

1. Edible insects can produce equivalent amounts of quality protein when compared to animals.

2. Insects require less care and upkeep than livestock.

3. We’re actually running out of protein.

4. Insects are part of a virtuous eco-cycle.

5. You can start small and work your way up.

What could possibly go wrong with industrial-scale insect farming?

As I battle invasive fire ants and Japanese beetles in my own yard, I fear the consequences if insects that were genetically modified for higher protein content at the Wuhan Institute of Insect Farming were to escape.

It’s weird how the same Whole Foods demographic that’s so terrified of “Frankenfoods” is also pushing us to eat industrially farmed Frankenbugs. Maybe they’re working up their business plans for a chain of “Whole Insects” that will only sell sustainable, organic, locally sourced bugs.

NeverTrump And Their Gullibility For “Big If True” Anti-Trump Stories

I was about to quit reading Powerline before Steven Hayward gave John Hinderaker and Scott Johnson a “him or me” ultimatum regarding Never Trumper Paul Mirengoff and his endless “They got him now!” posts. Seriously, why do faux-conservatives like Mirengoff and the Hot Air team retain respectability in polite circles when they endlessly post accusations and delusional wishcasting scenarios that they want to be true, but consistently prove not to be true?

I can think of at least one prominent conservative website that I used to read regularly for breaking scandals involving Democrats, but I quit reading it after too many “big if true” type posts turned out not to be true. That site is derided by polite conservatives. That would be fine, I suppose, but those same polite conservatives have no issue with the MSM and Never Trumpers jumping on board all the “big if true” anti-Trump stories that fizzle out.

Speaking of Powerline, I know they catch some grief around here for occasionally being a little wobbly on a stray issue or two, but when it became evident that Trump was going to win the GOP nomination in 2016, John Hinderaker was the first “respectable” conservative I read who published a piece stating that of course he’d vote for Trump over Hillary. As a Cruz/Perry/Walker type of Republican who doubted Trump would govern conservatively, I was very much a Trump skeptic. It was brave of Hinderaker to write that column, and I believe it was an important milestone in getting the preference cascade going that allowed Trump to beat Hillary by bringing together both MAGA voters and traditional Republican voters.

Pscircling back to the Never Trumpers and their incurable case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, this meme applies as much to them as it does to Democrats.

UK’s Conservative Party “Power Stance”

I’m no expert on British politics, but I do know that the Tories are looking to replace Boris Johnson as Prime Minister. Apparently, he is paying the political price for putting his country under house arrest for Covid, while at the same time exempting himself from the Covid sharia he imposed on others. Or something like that. No one actually seems upset about his Covid lockdowns, just that he exempted himself. He also supported Brexit, but then proceeded with a radical green agenda. I guess his philosophy was that EU bureaucrats shouldn’t be allowed to impose eco-communism on Great Britain. Only native-born Britishers like himself should be allowed to destroy the country with eco-communism.

Anyhow, to strike an assertive leadership pose, Conservative party politicians have adopted a power pose, with their legs far apart and their arms hanging by their sides. With a battle for the party leadership going on, the “power stance” is back.

Rishi Sunak Proves That The Conservative Power Stance Lives On [HuffPo UK – 7.13.2022]

The stance has been around for several years.

Why do Tories keep standing like this? [Metro – 4/30/2018]

I guess it’s part of their heritage.

Speaking of the power stance, this is a good moment to give you a little peek behind the curtains here at Ace of Spades. When the Co-Blogger Barbershop Quartet performs for Ace, he has started requesting that we stand in the Conservative Power Stance while singing. We perform much more confidently now.

Have a great Monday!

(buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com)

posted by Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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