On the eve of the release of new inflation numbers, the elite publication Axios claimed that President Biden and Democrats were riding \u201ca wave of good news.\u201d The publication insisted that, \u201cInflation’s fury has cooled. Gas prices are down. Democrats have racked up legislative successes, including last month’s passage of a landmark climate, health and tax package.\u201d<\/p>\n
The caveat was the August Consumer Price Index, which was due out that same day, \u201ca new data point for the political weather.\u201d Well, it turned out to be another higher-than-expected inflation number, leading to a market decline, a loss of 1200 points.<\/p>\n
The White House celebrated the \u201cInflation Reduction Act\u201d after news broke that the consumer price index rose 8.3% in August from a year ago.<\/p>\n
Over on CNBC, a guest claiming inflation had peaked was joking about using ayahuasca, a hallucinogen. The channel has\u00a0hailed<\/a>\u00a0the \u201cpsychedelic renaissance.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Is this what explains the modern-day bias of the news media and their notion that people won\u2019t notice the lies emanating from the White House?<\/p>\n At an\u00a0America\u2019s Survival<\/a>\u00a0conference in 2017, Dr. Tina Trent explained how the movement to legalize drugs now wants to make “mind-expanding” drugs more available, even mandatory, in order to erase traditional Christianity and transform consciousness through “New Age” practices.<\/p>\n Ayahuasca has been in the news because the reigning NFL MVP, Aaron Rodgers, took a series of trips to Peru during the off season and consumed \u201cthe medicine\u201d in the form of a psychedelic tea drink. NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said this didn\u2019t violate the league\u2019s anti-drug abuse policy, even the drug\u2019s psychoactive component, DMT, is illegal in the U.S.<\/p>\n DMT\u2019s psychological effects\u00a0include<\/a>\u00a0\u201cintense visual hallucinations, depersonalization, auditory distortions and an altered sense of time and body image.\u201d<\/p>\n Interestingly, one version of the global warming (now climate change) theory originated with marijuana advocate Carl Sagan, who was also an astronomer. Before he came to believe the Earth was inhabited by a spirit called Gaia, Sagan was\u00a0writing<\/a>\u00a0about the virtues of dope and \u201cthe cannabis experience.\u201d He explained, \u201cI do not consider myself a religious person in the usual sense, but there is a religious aspect to some highs. The heightened sensitivity in all areas gives me a feeling of communion with my surroundings, both animate and inanimate.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n The U.N.\u2019s Environmental Sabbath program advised kids to hold hands around a tree and meditate. The purpose, through dope or meditation, is to become \u201cone\u201d with trees, rocks, and dirt.<\/p>\n Now, a new Gallup Poll has found that more Americans smoke marijuana than cigarettes.<\/strong><\/p>\n One of those consumers was Nikolas Cruz, the Parkland Florida mass shooter who plead guilty to murdering 17 people in 2018 and told police about extensive drug use, including marijuana, and \u201cdemons\u201d in his mind.<\/p>\n His trial is now ending its second month, in order to determine whether he is sentenced to death or life without parole.<\/p>\n If someone wants to stop \u201cgun violence,\u201d one place to start is enforcing federal laws against marijuana. But Attorney General Merrick Garland prefers to order FBI agents to surround the My Pillow guy and seize his company phone.<\/p>\n A former drug addict who converted to Christianity, Mike Lindell understands this aspect of the war against the West and runs a\u00a0program<\/a>\u00a0to help people with drug problems.<\/p>\n In the midst of \u201cthe Great Reset,\u201d marijuana and now psychedelics have become the \u201cSoma\u201d for our own Brave New World.<\/strong><\/p>\n With Aaron Rodgers talking about the \u201cself-love\u201d generated by the tea from Peru, look for more young people to follow his example into the gutter, as they contemplate the value of their gender studies graduate degrees and write off their federal student loans.<\/p>\n However, after signing a three-year $150 million contract extension, Rodgers\u2019 team the Green Bay Packers lost its season opener to the Minnesota Vikings, 23-7. Commentators blamed the defeat on the loss of a talented wide receiver to another team, rather than any possible lingering mental health effects of the hallucinogenic.<\/p>\n Recognizing the stakes in this global conflict, WNBA star Brittney Griner was sentenced to nine years in a Russian prison for bring marijuana into the country. She hopes to be exchanged for the Russian arms dealer and former Soviet military officer Viktor Bout, the legendary \u201cMerchant of Death\u201d who is serving\u00a0a 25-year sentence<\/a>\u00a0in U.S. federal prison.<\/p>\n Bout was lured out of Russia, where he was living openly, and arrested in a sting operation in Thailand by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Some of the weapons Bout was selling were for communist Colombian terrorists in the FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias) to use against Americans.<\/p>\n The communist FARC has been shipping drugs to the U.S. for decades, with a senior FARC commander\u00a0extradited<\/a>\u00a0from Colombia in June of this year for a trial on charges of \u201cleading a continuing criminal enterprise and participating in an international cocaine manufacture and distribution conspiracy.\u201d<\/p>\n While the DEA tries to bring drug traffickers to justice, Joe Biden\u2019s open borders policy makes their job far more difficult, with cocaine and fentanyl flowing into the United States, the latter made possible by Chinese chemicals provided to the drug cartels.<\/p>\n This is also a problem, however, that affects some on the right side of the political spectrum.<\/p>\n In federal documents concerning his arrest and detention in regard to his imprisonment as the face of the January 6th \u201cinsurrection,\u201d, the QAnon Shaman, 33-year-old Jake Angeli (born Jacob Anthony Chansley),admits<\/a>\u00a0he was the person photographed at Vice President Pence\u2019s chair on the Senate dais, face painted, carrying the spear and wearing a horned helmet. He claims \u201ca profound spiritual experience\u201d through mind-altering drugs, given to him initially at the age of 11 by his father, that included mushrooms and peyote.<\/p>\n Such characters are hardly \u201cpolitical prisoners.\u201d\u00a0 Like Hunter Biden, a drug addict who illegally purchased a gun without disclosing his habit and has not been prosecuted, these people need rehab and prison.<\/strong><\/p>\n Conservatives can\u2019t complain about rising crime rates if they endorse soft-on-drugs policies. At the same time, they must take into account billionaire homosexual “conservative” activist Peter Thiel’s financial interest in the marijuana and psychedelic-research industries and his political contributions to GOP Senate candidates Blake Masters (Arizona) and J.D. Vance (Ohio).<\/p>\n With \u201ctranshumanism\u201d becoming a popular topic, perhaps the transformation of human beings into drug-addled and drug-crazed zombies bears some scrutiny.<\/p>\n