May 08, 2024
Dear Patriot,
The 1960 movie and book, “Where The Boys Are” was a racy, for the time, adventure of college girls and boys figuring out the world and relationships.
College kids are still trying to figure it out. Many young men seem to be finding the right direction. We hope many young women will also.
Today, we point you to a smorgasbord of news.
Will the girls find the boys on politics?
Election voter role results from North Carolina point to potential problems.
Teachers are ditching their highly partisan union.
Fake meat? No thank you.
Be careful what you message on all applications.
1- We are witnessing a hopeful electoral shift. Pray that eventually the girls will go to “where the boys are”!
Frat Boy Summer is this year’s backlash against an epidemic of arrogant, entitled women
QUOTE: Behold the “frat boys” unapologetically saving Old Glory, singing the national anthem, chanting “USA, USA, USA,” and rudely ridiculing the campus freaks who parade around in Hamas colors and barricade themselves in university buildings.
God forbid! They look like Trump voters.
This display of irrepressible masculinity erupting in Gen Z is an affront to the grand societal feminization project of the left, which has only itself to blame.
Frat Boy Summer is this year’s backlash against an epidemic of arrogant, entitled women who have been coddled all their lives and think they’re smarter and more important than they really are.
It is a manifestation of the growing political divide between men and women that has been evident in opinion polls for some time. There is a 10-point gap on most issues between men and women.
Young unmarried women, in particular, skew very left, while young men are becoming markedly more conservative.
The latest ABC-Ipsos poll over the weekend showed Donald Trump winning the under-30s by five points over Joe Biden, 48% to 43%. That was entirely down to Trump’s huge advantage with young men, 54% to 43%.
Young women favored Biden by three points, 44% to 41%, still a rather anemic vote of confidence considering all the “Handmaid’s Tale”-style propaganda being thrown at them about abortion and Trump’s beastly ways.
It’s a nightmare scenario for Biden, who has been counting on the youth vote to win him the election like it did in 2020. Hence his desperate pandering to Gen Z.
The president is splashing around billions of taxpayer dollars on student debt relief, relaxing cannabis legislation, championing “trans kids” as the greatest heroes of their generation and inviting gender-fluid young TikTok influencers to VIP events at the White House. This is not your granddad’s Joe Biden.
But none of it can close the growing ideological gulf between the sexes, which has its roots in the unjust treatment of boys and young men in recent decades.
2- This is the kind of information we need to ferret out in each state. There are many people working hard and fighting thickly entrenched state bureaucracies to get voting rolls that are accurate.
224K People Listed On NC Voter Rolls 'Missing' ID Numbers
QUOTE: North Carolina voter data lists more than 224,000 people with registration dates after January 2004 whose records are “missing” both the last four digits of their Social Security number (SSN) and a driver’s license identification number, according to public records obtained by The Federalist.
The 2002 Help America Vote Act (HAVA) required states to verify certain “information of newly registered voters for Federal elections,” according to the Social Security Administration. “Each State must establish a computerized State-wide voter registration list and verify new voter information with the State’s Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA).” These requirements went into effect on Jan. 1, 2004.
States must verify the would-be voter’s driver’s license number against the MVA database, but if an individual lacks a driver’s license then states must use the last four digits of his SSN, name, and date of birth. Notably, verifying a registrant’s SSN or driver’s license does not necessarily confirm his citizenship, since foreign nationals can obtain either.
The system is meant to ensure prospective voters are eligible. Yet in North Carolina, hundreds of thousands of registrations made it into the system without this verifying information, according to allegations from election integrity activists. “We now have hundreds of thousands of ineligible, duplicate, deceased and non-citizen registrants bloating our voter lists — the breeding ground for election fraud,” North Carolina Election Integrity Team President Jim Womack said in a statement to The Federalist.
Data obtained via public records request in April by Carol Snow, who is affiliated with the North Carolina Audit Force group, and reviewed by The Federalist appears to show that since January 2024, more than 4,500 additional voters were added to the rolls despite their records indicating no SSN or driver’s license identification number.
The North Carolina State Board of Elections released the records, which are formatted as a massive spreadsheet, to Snow on April 15. The Federalist filtered the data to count the number of active, inactive, and temporary (military and overseas) voters who are listed by the state as both “missing SSN” and “missing driver’s license [number].”
In November 2023, after Snow filed a complaint, the board of elections acknowledged that the old form’s lack of clear instructions requiring such ID numbers could result in HAVA violations. The board unanimously agreed to update the voter registration application to “ensure that it is clear that applicants must provide either their driver’s license number or the last four digits of their Social Security number when they register to vote,” NCSBE Public Information Director Patrick Gannon told The Federalist.
Womack told The Federalist the state has struggled to “maintain accurate voter lists or to adequately screen new applicants for those lists” due to what he describes as “overly restrictive legal interpretations” of HAVA and the National Voter Registration Act.
The Federalist also reached out to the Social Security Administration for more information but did not receive a response.
3- The less money for the teacher's union used to push crazy leftist policies, the better. There is no good reason to join this union and have the dues deducted from your paycheck. The union only cares about their political agenda. They do not care about teachers or students.
Teachers flee nation's largest union in a crisis of its own making
QUOTE: For the sixth year in a row, the National Education Association (NEA) faces a mass exodus of members. But the blame doesn’t lie with a shrinking student population or loss of funding, as NEA president Becky Pringle would have you believe. The NEA’s blatant prioritization of a radical political agenda at the expense of member representation is the true culprit, resulting in a loss of more than 12,000 members in 2023, per the union’s latest financial report.
Union membership rates have been on the downturn for decades. Unluckily for Big Labor, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Janus v. AFSCME (2018), which firmly recognized the First Amendment right of public employees to leave union membership behind, accelerated this downward trend.
The NEA’s strategy to retain members and, by extension, steady cash flow, relies on keeping teachers in the dark about the First Amendment rights affirmed in Janus. When the union isn’t mischaracterizing the ruling as a ploy to "take away the freedom of…working people," its state affiliates, such as the California Teachers Association, support legislation prohibiting employers from speaking to union members about their freedom of association rights.
During the 2023 school year, NEA funneled a whopping $176 million of dues revenue directly from teacher paychecks to the pockets of political candidates and ideological causes. Spending in support of the union’s political agenda constituted 34% of NEA’s 2023 budget, while a measly 8% subsidized "representational activities.”
4- We will eat our delicious beef the old fashion way…. from a cow, created by God.
Jeff Bezos moved to Fla. and invested $60M into lab-grown meat — then Ron DeSantis banned it
QUOTE: New Florida residents Jeff Bezos and his fiancée Lauren Sanchez announced a $60 million initial investment into sustainable protein, including “cultivated meats” — just before Gov. Ron DeSantis barred the sale of lab-grown meat in the Sunshine State.
DeSantis signed the legislation, called SB 1084, into effect on May 1, casting it as a bid to stop the World Economic Forum’s goal of forcing the world to eat lab-grown meat and insects, “an overlooked source of protein,” according to a news release.
Rather, “Florida is increasing meat production, and encouraging residents to continue to consume and enjoy 100% real Florida beef,” the governor’s office added.
DeSantis previously has blasted “the global elite’s plan to force the world to eat meat grown in a petri dish or bugs to achieve their authoritarian goals.”
The move comes about a month after the Bezos Earth Fund, chaired by the Amazon founder and Sanchez, announced a hefty investment into sustainable protein including plant-based, fermented, and cultivated meats — part of the organization’s larger, $1 billion commitment to expanding food production, Fortune earlier reported.
Florida, for reference, ranks 13th in the US in overall cattle numbers with a total herd size of 886,000 among 15,000 beef producers with total sales of $546 million, according to Fortune, citing the Florida Beef Council.
5- Some of you may be using the messaging service and it’s app called Signal. Signal is SUPPOSED to provide a degree of protection and privacy that other services do not. Chris Rufo explains how the President of NPR is involved in this company and warns users to be very careful what they say.
Signal’s Katherine Maher Problem
QUOTE: The encrypted-messaging service Signal is the application of choice for dissenters around the world. The app has been downloaded by more than 100 million users and boasts high-profile endorsements from NSA leaker Edward Snowden and serial entrepreneur Elon Musk.
Signal has created the perception that its users, including political dissidents, can communicate with one another without fear of government interception or persecution.
But the insider history of Signal raises questions about the app’s origins and its relationship with government—in particular, with the American intelligence apparatus. Such a relationship would be troubling, given how much we have learned, in recent years, about extensive efforts to control and censor information undertaken by technology companies, sometimes in tandem with American government officials.
First, the origin story. The technology behind Signal, which operates as a nonprofit foundation, was initially funded, in part, through a $3 million grant from the government-sponsored Open Technology Fund (OTF), which was spun off from Radio Free Asia, originally established as an anti-Communist information service during the Cold War. OTF funded Signal to provide “encrypted mobile communication tools” to “Internet freedom defenders globally.”
Some insiders have argued that the connection between OTF and U.S. intelligence is deeper than it appears. One person who has worked extensively with OTF but asked to remain anonymous told me that, over time, it became increasingly clear “that the project was actually a State Department-connected initiative that planned to wield open source Internet projects made by hacker communities as tools for American foreign policy goals”—including by empowering “activists [and] parties opposed to governments that the USA doesn’t like.” Whatever the merits of such efforts, the claim—if true—suggests a government involvement with Signal that deserves more scrutiny.
The other potential problem is the Signal Foundation’s current chairman of the board, Katherine Maher, who started her career as a U.S.-backed agent of regime change.
So what does all this mean for American users—including conservative dissidents—who believe that Signal is a secure application for communication? It means that they should be cautious. “Maher’s presence on the board of Signal is alarming,” says national security analyst J. Michael Waller. “It makes sense that a Color Revolutionary like Maher would have interest in Signal as a secure means of communicating,” he says, but her past support for censorship and apparent intelligence connections raise doubts about Signal’s trustworthiness.
For those who believe in a free and open Internet, Maher’s Signal role should be a flashing warning sign.
PRAY for divine intervention. PRAY for all children. PRAY for those fighting all types of election integrity issues.
SHARE the truth.