[Powerline] The Alternative for Germany (AfD) is a right-wing populist political party whose members fiercely oppose the elitist, globalist agenda now favored by leftists around the world.
On Friday, the morning after news broke of New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s indictment of former President Donald Trump, AfD member of the Bundestag Petr Bystron stood before his colleagues to deliver remarks on the state of U.S. politics and the September explosion of the Nord Stream Pipeline for which he holds the U.S. accountable.
Although I must say that Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh offered the most compelling explanation I’ve heard so far for the sabotage of the pipeline, I don’t profess to know who is responsible. But I wholeheartedly agree with the rest of Bystron’s words.
His comments created quite a stir in the parliamentary chamber and show that Republicans aren’t the only ones noticing the Democratic Party’s abandonment of traditional American values. The left’s descent into insanity has become too big to hide.
The speech is in text form at the link. Hat tip to Powerline Blog.
[American Greatness] We are in a Jacobin Revolution of the sort that in 1793-94 nearly destroyed France. And things are getting scary.
The Democratic Party vanished sometime in 2020.
It was absorbed by hard-left ideologues. They were bent on radically altering, or hijacking, existing institutions to force radical, equality-of-result agendas that otherwise do not earn majority support.
The American people want affordable power and fuel and energy autonomy. They do not want a Green New Deal that results in dependence on the Middle East.
They want fiscal sobriety, not a permanent stagflationary economy marked by bank failures, soaring interest rates, crony capitalism, and subsidies for those who choose not to work.
They know no country can exist without a border, much less while offering blank checks to foreign cartels that kill 100,000 Americans yearly.
They demand realist deterrence abroad, not the current woke military whose erosion is spelling the end American credibility and global stability.
Racialists are eerily embracing discredited Neo-Confederate notions of racial chauvinism, discrimination, segregation, and the old-one-drop rule of racial obsession. They are turning America toward a Balkanized war-of-all-against-all.
To implement such an unpopular program, the new Left must radically alter our institutions.
So the "Democrats" periodically threaten to pack the courts, end the filibuster, destroy the Electoral College, and override the states’ prerogatives to establish balloting laws.
They deny the committee assignments of the House minority leader. They engage in stunts like tearing up the State of the Union address on national television. With impunity they mob the homes of Supreme Court justices to leverage their decisions.
This revolution is run by elites and is a top-down operation.
University deans all but prompt students to disrupt invited campus speakers. District attorneys release violent arrested criminals without bail. Woke generals call their Chinese counterparts to warn them against their own commander-in-chief.
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The Democratic Party vanished sometime in 2020.
Lost me right there. It was much, much earlier than 2020. IMHO, Franklin Roosevelt was an outright communist and Lyndon Johnson followed in Roosevelt's footsteps. The best I can say about Carter is that he was more of a blithering idiot than anything else. Dunno about Clinton either but my impression is that he was more interested in his own sexual gratification than any particular ideology. But if you want to talk about today's far left, it started no later than with Baraq Obama and possibly earlier.
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Watching Fox News right now as the Tennessee Legislature endures the disruptions and behaviors that are the hallmark of the coming attractions the Marxists plan for this summer. No Justice, No Peace as a chant and attitude makes its return! Justice actually means what ever they want, and the chant just dresses up extortion as political rhetoric.
[The Blaze] There is no love lost between former national security adviser John Bolton and former President Donald Trump, yet Bolton still cannot bring himself to pretend that Democratic Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has a strong case on his hands.
Bolton went on CNN Tuesday to discuss the indictment within hours of fellow Trump critic and U.S. Senator for Utah Mitt Romney stating, "The New York prosecutor has stretched to reach felony criminal charges in order to fit a political agenda."
Having previously claimed that Trump "does not represent the Republican cause that I want to back," Bolton indicated he was vexed by the toothlessness of the indictment.
"Speaking as someone who very strongly does not want Donald Trump to get the Republican presidential nomination, I'm extraordinarily distressed by this document," Bolton told CNN host Jake Tapper. "I think this is even weaker than I feared it would be. And I think it's easily subject to being dismissed or a quick acquittal for Trump."
[FoxNews] Females have different ADHD symptoms than males, doctors say.
The number of people diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is climbing steadily in the U.S. — especially among women, a new study found.
While cases have risen across all age groups, the spike has been most significant among women.
The share of females between the ages of 23 and 49 years of age diagnosed with the disorder nearly doubled from 2020 to 2022.
To reach these findings, investigators from Epic Research, a health analytics firm based in Verona, Wisconsin, analyzed data from 3,389,383 patients who were diagnosed with ADHD between 2010 and 2022.
Since 2010, the rates of ADHD have tripled overall, the study found — but the share of patients taking prescribed medications for the disorder has remained consistent.
Males have historically been more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD, but the study findings indicated that the gender gap has been closing over the past 12 years.
"The ratio of males to females diagnosed with ADHD decreased nearly five-fold during that time, from males being 133% more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD than females in 2010 to 28% more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD in 2022," Epic Research stated in a discussion of the study findings.
SYMPTOMS VARY BETWEEN FEMALES AND MALES
Previous studies have shown that females with ADHD tend to have very different symptoms than males — which could prevent them from getting evaluated and diagnosed.
"Data for ADHD tends to skew heavily toward school-age males," Dr. Joseph Galasso, a psychologist at Baker Street Behavioral Health in New Jersey, told Fox News Digital in a phone interview. He was not involved in the new study.
Girls tend to "fly under the radar," as their symptoms tend to be internalized.
"Boys tend to be more active, with overt behaviors that lead to earlier diagnoses."
On the other hand, he said girls tend to "fly under the radar," as their symptoms tend to be internalized.
Instead of hyperactivity, ADHD can look more like depression or anxiety in females, he added.
Possible reasons for increase in ADHD among women
Overall, women tend to receive ADHD diagnoses later in life, often during their 30s or 40s, as WebMD reported.
This doesn’t surprise Dr. Galasso, who pointed out that the many stressors and demands of adult life could compel women to seek help.
"As women begin careers, have children and juggle other pressures, it may become harder to maintain life with ADHD," he said.
Additionally, ADHD may have been confused with other mental health challenges, resulting in many cases going undiagnosed until later in life.
Symptoms of ADHD can mimic those of stress and anxiety.
"They may come to realize that it hasn’t just been stress or anxiety they’ve been dealing with," said Dr. Galasso.
Another factor that could contribute to the increase is that it’s easier to access a psychiatrist or psychologist to receive care, he said.
Also, patients have become more informed about the disorder overall.
"I have patients who come to my practice and have pretty much already diagnosed themselves," the doctor said.
"They might have trouble concentrating at work, have memory problems or struggle to focus, or are just really stressed out. And they’ve done their research and have an idea that it could be ADHD."
FUTURE STUDIES ARE NEEDED
Dr. Jackie Gerhart, chief medical officer at Epic and a family medicine physician based in Wisconsin, said that in future studies, she would like to look at the mode of delivery of ADHD services — specifically, whether telehealth is associated with the number of new ADHD diagnoses and the share of patients who were prescribed medication.
"Telehealth helps increase access to mental health care, so it’s possible that patients who didn’t previously have a diagnosis of ADHD were able to receive the diagnosis and care through expanded telehealth access," she told Fox News Digital.
"It would be interesting to study whether telehealth services are used differently by male or female patients," she added.
More than eight million American adults are thought to have ADHD, but some studies have shown that up to 80% of them are unaware they have the disorder, per WebMD.
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I suspect half the people on Adderal are "start up entrepreneurs" whose business experience consists of reading last year's issues of Wired.
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Well, the end-goal of feminism is for women to be like men...
And so if boys are getting ADHD, well, by gosh and by golly, girls have to have it, too! Equality!!!
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Middle age women anxious about the future who feel they lost a step. Sure are a lot of 30+s who act and dress like late teenagers.
College students. Back when, I was given detail about which office to visit and how to play symptoms, if I so desired, to get Adderal. Nevermind, in the same municipality, the Designer Clinics the population could visit, for a small fee of course.
We mentioned yesterday screen time changing thought patterns, and 'Teachers' have been pushing ADHD on boys for a while now. Teen girls, with their too much screen time worried about whether they are the subject to the latest anti-social media school gossip is about them. Think victim of mean girl bathroom social gossip club, but thousands of followers.
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Attention deficit? Nothing like a good, old fashioned spanking to get a kid's attention.
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I'm just too poor to pay attention...
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My daughter was "diagnosed" with ADHD in the 3rd grade. She was and still is very smart and learns fast. I asked if there was an accelerated program she could enroll in. I was told there weren't any because they didn't want the children who didn't qualify to feel like they were dumb. They wanted me to treat her with ritalin. I felt like telling them where to go. She was just bored, not ADHD.
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^ School can be awfully boring.
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^ Bored of education...
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School can be awfully boring.
Abu especially when it's geared to the slowest learners.
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Inclusion and equity, doncha know.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[American Greatness] We are in a Jacobin Revolution of the sort that in 1793-94 nearly destroyed France. And things are getting scary. 
[The Blaze] There is no love lost between former national security adviser 
