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This week, Democrats decided to expend their quickly diminishing political capital in defense of a deported Salvadoran illegal immigrant named Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Garcia was deported to El Salvador some weeks ago; the Department of Justice initially admitted that his deportation was an “administrative error.” It turns out that Garcia had an order withholding removal to his home country, due to his claims that returning to El Salvador would risk his life. Nonetheless, the administration flew him to that country’s Terrorism Confinement Center, where he is apparently being held to date.

Initially, a district court judge ruled that Abrego Garcia’s removal was violative of due process, and that the administration had to “facilitate” his return to the United States. The case was elevated to the Supreme Court, which found 9-0 that while the executive branch likely had the power to order his deportation, it still had to follow court orders to “facilitate” his temporary return for due process reasons. The Trump administration, for its part, claims that it has already “facilitated” his release from custody — that they’ve asked Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele nicely to release him, and that Bukele has refused. Bukele sat in the Oval Office with President Donald Trump and said just that: “The question is preposterous: how can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States?”

Regardless of the legal wrangling over the case — and there is in fact a solid legal basis to the idea that the administration ought to temporarily return Abrego Garcia just to receive a court hearing, after which he can be deported right back again — Democrats have wrong-footed themselves yet again. This week, Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., decided to fly down to El Salvador to visit Abrego Garcia; other Congressional Democrats vowed to do the same. In their telling, Abrego Garcia is an innocent caught up in the mills of wrongheaded justice.

But Abrego Garcia is indeed a nefarious character. It turns out that aside from his illegal immigration status, Garcia’s wife accused him of “violently beating her multiple times” in a 2021 court filing, according to the Daily Mail. When he was originally arrested in 2019, arrest records show he was found with cash and drugs, as well as two other members of MS-13, while wearing gear associated with MS-13. And this is the person Democrats have tried to valorize.

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My, what a surprise.

More accuratenly, their Fighting The Wrong Kind of Oligarchy tour.

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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on April 16 fulfilled her past promise to declassify information related to President Joe Biden’s domestic counterterrorism strategy.

Dubbed the “Strategic Implementation Plan” (SIP), the 15-page-long document details the Biden administration’s findings and action plan to counter an alleged increase in homegrown domestic terrorism.

Gabbard released the documents in response to prompting from conservative groups like America First Legal, which expressed concerns about the Biden administration allegedly “censoring disfavored speech on the Internet by labeling such speech ‘misinformation,’ ‘disinformation,’ ‘hate speech,’ ‘domestic terrorism.’”

Coming in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol breach, after which the Biden administration claimed that domestic terrorism was the greatest terror threat the United States faced, the SIP represents the government-wide counterterrorism strategy.

UK Independent.

James Carville railed against Democratic National Committee official David Hogg for funding primary challenges against incumbent Democrats, suggesting Wednesday night that he “might” sue Hogg over the effort while calling the Parkland shooting survivor a “contemptible little twerp.”

Carville’s comments come after he called for progressives to distance themselves from the Democratic Party, calling for a “split” due to what the veteran Democratic strategist called “pronoun politics.”

Hogg, a 25-year-old gun control activist, who was elected the DNC’s vice chair, has sparked an intra-party uproar over his announcement that his political group, Leaders We Deserve, would be spending $20 million to challenge “asleep-at-the-wheel” Democrats in deep-blue districts.

I wish them both the best of luck.

Axios, a Voice of the Crust.

Democrats are rushing to organize trips to El Salvador as President Trump refuses to comply with a Supreme Court order to facilitate the return of a Maryland resident who was erroneously deported to the country.

Why it matters: It’s not just about one deportee, or even immigration policy, lawmakers say. “This is about a president of the United States defying the Supreme Court and wanting to be a king,” said Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.).

It’s not about any deportees, or ‘immigration policy’; they’re just the pretext. It’s about trying to make themselves look good, Trump look bad, and frustrating the results of a democratic election, for which ‘Democrats’ have never had much use.

Garcia and Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) are trying to secure GOP authorization to lead a congressional delegation to visit deportees at El Salvador’s Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT), Axios first reported Tuesday.

Thereby giving it some sort of ‘official’ coloration, to offset the undeniable authority Trump has as President.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) is leaving Wednesday to travel to the Central American country. Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) is also planning a trip, as Axios first reported.

Let’s all jump aboard the bandwagon, shall we? Virtue-signaling is not just for the proglodyte-in-the-closet.

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Newsom announced on April 4 he would ask trade partners to exempt California-made products from any retaliatory tariffs and seek to develop new “strategic trade relationships,” doubling down on his approach Wednesday after Trump issued a 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs while leaving in place the 10% baseline and increasing tariffs on China.

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Protesters disrupted a town hall meeting held by one of President Trump’s closest allies in Congress, prompting police to physically remove them and taser one.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican congresswoman from Georgia, attracted a crowd of more than 150 supporters to a community centre in suburban Atlanta while demonstrators rallied outside. A small group of protesters managed to enter the event, and at least three people were arrested including two who were tasered after they scuffled with police.

Greene, one of Trump’s most loyal and vocal allies, repeatedly said “bye” to people being escorted from the room and praised officers for their response.

“This is a town hall; this is not a political rally; this is not a protest,” Greene said.

Police said they had arrested a 40-year-old Atlanta man, a 45-year-old man from Dallas, Georgia, and a 28-year-old woman on charges including obstructing police and violating a city ordinance forbidding vulgar language in a public place.

Violence is always the first resort of Dramacrats.

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First they came for Mahmoud Khalil, and I said nothing because I thought it was a damn good idea. He is a citizen of Syria who came to America to get a college degree. After graduating he stayed in America to be a leader in a group dedicated to supporting Hamas by disrupting normal activities at Columbia University, threatening and harassing Jewish students. Hamas is an organization that deliberately seeks out and murders as many Jewish babies, infants, and toddlers as it can. They came to deport him. Not imprison him; not kill him. They came to give him a free plane ride back to his home country. For reasons unknown, Democrats are outraged.

Then they came for Kilmar Garcia (a.k.a. “Maryland Man”), and again I said nothing because it was a damn good idea. Mr. Garcia is a citizen of El Salvador who entered the USA illegally. He is also a member of a criminal gang known as MS-13. MS-13 murders people for fun and profit. An earlier attempt to deport Mr. Garcia was delayed by an immigration judge who was concerned that Mr. Garcia would be in danger if returned to El Salvador. This is due to rival gang enemies who wished him harm. They deported him anyway, perhaps by a paperwork mistake. Democrats are outraged again, for reasons unknown.

Next they came for others with MS-13 tattoos. Democrats are convinced that Trump is moving so fast to deport foreign gang members that innocent people must be getting swept up and deported by mistake. Democrats are particularly concerned for innocent people who happen to have tattoos that are gang-related. Apparently, Democrats have never spoken to anyone who knows anything about gang tattoos—you need permission to get a gang tattoo. It is a badge of honor that must be earned. If someone has an unauthorized gang tattoo, the gang will kill them. MS-13 has no American citizens as members. Wannabe members must earn membership by committing violent crimes. Deporting all MS-13 members appears to me to be a no-brainer. Again, for reasons unknown, Democrats are outraged.

Next they came for Tren de Aragua gang members. There is no dispute that they (1) entered the USA illegally, and (2) make their living by committing crimes. Democrats insist we slow things down to give each member a court hearing of some sort. Democrats are silent as to what evidence such people could possibly present at such a hearing that should prevent their deportation. Again, I am silent and my silence means approval.

This format, of course, echoes the “Als sie kamen” rhetoric of Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller about Nazi Germany, which proglodytes have perennially repurposed to complain about anybody anywhere holding them responsible for anything.

UPDATE: Jennifer Rubin tries this trick, as expected – Free Kilmar  One of the oldest ploys in the proglodyte ploybook is taking the moral high ground and dragging it into the mud, hoping that people will be fooled. The error here, which they think with enough handwaving you won’t notice, is that socialists, trade unionists, an Jews aren’t ipso facto criminals–although a lot of them seem to turn out eventually to be criminals–but illegal immigrants, jihadist, and drug cartel thugs /murderers are ipso facto criminals. As Scott Adams never tires of saying, analogies can illustrate your point but cannot prove it. Analogies can’t prove anything, because they deal with a different situation, however much it might be similar, and however much you might wish it did.

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A federal judge in Puerto Rico issued a scathing order last week accusing Democratic prosecutors on the island of plagiarizing nearly their entire 241-page complaint that blamed oil companies for causing global warming.

In the order Wednesday, district court judge Aida Delgado-Colon outlined how David Efron, the lead attorney representing Puerto Rico’s capital city San Juan, appears to have plagiarized a similar but separate complaint that 16 Puerto Rican municipalities filed a year earlier. A side-by-side comparison of the two complaints shows large blocks of text are copied word-for-word.

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A criminal referral against New York Attorney General Letitia James has been filed with the DOJ, alleging that James had “falsified records” to get home loans for a Virginia property that she claimed was her “principal residence” in 2023 – while she was serving as a New York state prosecutor.

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In an attempt to blunt the Trump administration’s culling of the federal workforce, a group of Democrats in Congress is proposing to protect federal workers despite facing a Republican majority and a recent court ruling in favor of the president.

In other words, they want to protect the Deep State/Democrat bureaucracy from the effects of democracy. You can’t make this shit up.

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Non-citizens voting illegally are a major portion of the Dramacrat ‘base’. That’s why they want an open border.

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The Department of Justice has charged a self-identified “queer scientist” in the firebombings of a Tesla dealership and the Republican Party headquarters in Albuquerque.

Jamison Wagner, 40, is accused of setting fire to multiple cars at a Tesla dealership on February 9 and vandalizing the facility with graffiti, including the words “Die Elon,” according to a federal complaint. Wagner struck again the following month, prosecutors allege, setting fire to the Republican Party office in Albuquerque and painting the phrase “ICE=KKK” on the building.

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My, what a surprise.

The granddaughter of Hillary Clinton’s mentor was officially charged with felony vandalism and trespassing after she “ransacked” the Stanford University president’s office as part of an anti-Israel demonstration last year.

Santa Clara District Attorney Jeff Rosen on Thursday announced the charges against Zoe Edelman, the granddaughter of Children’s Defense Fund founder Marian Wright Edelman, whom Hillary Clinton has called her “hero and mentor.” Eleven other suspects were also charged in the case.

Edelman was arrested after the office takeover last June, but the case has been in limbo for months while prosecutors decided whether to bring forth charges. Felony vandalism and conspiracy to trespass both carry potential jail sentences in California.

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A top House panel that oversees public land policies is investigating five green groups that brokered a settlement with federal officials in the waning days of the Biden administration, forcing family-owned ranches to vacate their leases on federal property over environmental concerns, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.

Under the January 2025 settlement between the green groups, owners of 11 multi-generational ranches, and the National Park Service, 12 of the 14 existing organic dairies and cattle ranches located across Point Reyes National Seashore in northern California will be abandoned by early 2026. The agreement was made possible by the Nature Conservancy, a Virginia-based group which financed the agreement and will pay the ranchers an undisclosed sum of money.

The settlement is the culmination of a lawsuit the green groups in question filed against the National Park Service in 2022. The lawsuit argued that the agency had illegally leased Point Reyes National Seashore property for commercial beef and dairy ranching “despite the significant harm that it causes to environmental, scenic, and recreational values.” Environmental activists have long attacked ranching, arguing it destroys surrounding habitats and produces carbon emissions.

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What if I told you that when federal district judges issue injunctions blocking President Donald Trump’s policies in a judicial insurrection, they were the ones breaking the law?

No, it’s not just because these judges are effectively usurping the authority of the president over the executive branch. It’s more clear-cut than that.

When Chief Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., issued an order demanding the Trump administration return reputed members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua to the U.S., he wasn’t just making immigration policy—he was violating a black-and-white rule laid down by the U.S. Supreme Court.

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The head of the nation’s largest health care union “has for years used the politically influential union’s funds to benefit himself, his family and political allies,” Politico reported after reviewing thousands of pages of financial records and interviewing more than 20 current and former union staffers.

George Gresham, president of the 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, spent more than $60,000 in union funds on hotel stays, meals, and transportation for his daughter to accompany him as a caregiver on business trips, according to Politico. The union also paid over $86,000 for Gresham’s flights to South Africa and $17,000 for his extended stay at a Bronx hotel—even though he owns a home nearby and earns a $300,000 annual salary.

“Whatever George needs, they find the money to do it,” one union employee told Politico, while a former staffer said that “it was clear I wasn’t supposed to ask questions about a whole bunch of stuff.” Another staffer said that, unlike Gresham, “our members don’t get an unlimited piggy bank where they can just tap it anytime they need something.” Nearly all of the interviewed staffers requested anonymity for fear of retaliation by Gresham and his allies, Politico reported.

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Democrat Hawaii Sen. Brian Schatz is blocking more than 300 of President Donald Trump’s nominees from swift confirmation votes despite previously criticizing efforts to stall nominations during the Biden administration.

Schatz’s blockade on hundreds of Trump nominees and at least nine bipartisan foreign relations bills comes as Senate Democrats are escalating opposition tactics against the Trump administration to appease their left-wing base. Schatz, a member of Senate Democrat leadership, previously criticized Republican Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s decision to place holds on military officials’ promotions as “obstruction” and “antithetical” to the Senate’s “advice and consent” responsibilities.

Schatz expanded his holds on Trump nominees to include individuals tapped to serve across 12 agencies, such as former New York Republican Rep. Anthony D’Esposito whom Trump appointed to a Department of Labor position, Axios reported.

Politico, a Voice of the Crust.

A new crop of Democratic candidates is trying to turn the midterms into a referendum on age and complacency in their party’s ranks.

In recent weeks, Jake Rakov, a 37-year-old former staffer to Rep. Brad Sherman of California, announced he is challenging his onetime boss, lambasting the 70-year-old, 15-term incumbent for not doing enough when the district was engulfed by wildfires. Progressive YouTuber Kat Abughazaleh, 26, is taking on 80-year-old Rep. Jan Schakowsky of Illinois, declaring that the party desperately needs to “change the establishment.” Saikat Chakrabarti, the 39-year-old former chief of staff to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), is going up against former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, saying, “we are living in a totally different America than the one she knew when she entered politics 45 years ago.”

And on Wednesday, George Hornedo, a 34-year-old who went viral on TikTok for his comments about a “party elder” discouraging him from mounting a Democratic primary bid in Indiana, announced he is running against eighth-term Democratic Rep. Andre Carson.

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Radical Democrat Jasmine Crockett, who attended elitist private schools in her youth, made the argument this weekend that the country needs illegal immigrants to “pick our cotton.”

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For decades, Democrats have been telling us that the climate apocalypse was just around the corner. If we didn’t adopt renewable fuels and energy sources immediately, we would all bake to death from global warming.

Democrats didn’t care about the jobs or economic growth they would destroy to appease their climate gods. “Learn to code,” they said.

Unfortunately for Democrats, the company making the most popular electric car in America is Tesla, owned by the Left’s newest bete noire, Elon Musk.

They hate Musk because he and his Department of Government Efficiency are cutting off the gravy train of federal funding of left-wing nongovernmental organizations—the taxpayer-subsidized entities that allow unemployed leftists to protest while you and I are at work and that provide jobs to otherwise unemployable grievance studies majors.

So, faced with a choice between saving the environment and opposing Musk, what did Democrats do?

Easy. Democrats decided to look out for themselves. Musk has to be stopped, no matter what it means for the environment.

Democrats went from ostentatiously buying Teslas as a symbol of their virtue to ostentatiously selling Teslas as a symbol of their commitment to the party. Whether buying or selling the car was worthwhile didn’t matter to Democrats; for them, everything about Tesla is performative.

The Dramacrat Party in action.

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Sen. Cory Booker’s (D., N.J.) marathon 25-hour speech last week broke a Senate speaking record. But his fundraising off that speech broke long-standing Senate ethics rules, a watchdog group alleged in a complaint filed Tuesday.

The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT), an ethics watchdog nonprofit organization, alleged that Booker violated ethics rules by using his record-breaking speech for campaign purposes. In a complaint filed Tuesday with the Senate Select Committee on Ethics, the watchdog group highlighted a series of campaign messages Booker sent to his supporters during and after his record-breaking performance on the Senate floor, including messages asking followers to “stand with Cory” during his speech by signing up for his email list and others that solicited contributions for Booker and the DNC from anyone “inspired” by his historic showing.

Booker’s use of his record-breaking Senate speech to raise money for his campaign is a clear violation of long-standing ethics rules that prohibit lawmakers from using their official position for campaign purposes, FACT said in its complaint. If Booker’s violation goes unpunished, the group warned, the Senate floor “will increasingly be seen as a campaign venue and treated as such.”

Political theater is what Dramacrats do best. Converting political theater to cash comes second. Ignoring rules that they find inconvenient is a permanent part of their character.

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Most of our readers are too young to remember the Vietnam War of a half-century ago, but those of us alive who held draft cards classifying us as 1A have a more personal perspective. In 1971, when I received my low draft number, all I could think was that perhaps I, too, would have to participate in the horror that was combat in that wicked war.

The Paris Peace Accords of January 1973—signed a month after I took my military physical—ended direct US involvement, although the US government continued to aid the South Vietnamese until their government and armed forces completely collapsed in April 1975. Today, Vietnam and the US are at peace with each other, but even today, unexploded US bombs continue to blow up and kill innocent people.

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“I don’t approve of violence, but…”

But, in fact, they DO approve of violence, or at least think that violence can be justified to achieve political goals in the United States.

I’ve written a number of pieces about how the left has embraced violence, arguing that there is nothing fringe about the riots, assaults, vandalism, and even murder that has been sweeping our country.

During the George Floyd riots, we saw every Democrat politician in the country literally kneeling in celebration of the riots, egging them on, musing about how the violence was justified, calling the takeover of our cities the “summer of love,” and attacking Republicans for not embracing the “mostly peaceful” burning down of our cities.

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Far-left, billionaire-funded NGOs—closely aligned with the rudderless and imploding Democratic Party—have been waging a psychological warfare operation against the American people. Framed as “grassroots,” the party of hate and violence—evident in their “Tesla Takedown” color revolution aimed at killing Tesla to pressure Elon Musk on DOGE—has been building momentum in recent weeks to segue into anti-Trump protests this weekend. The goal is to manufacture the illusion that Trump is wildly unpopular, leveraging a vast network of dark money-funded NGOs that supply rent-a-protesters to rallies nationwide.

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A dark web doxxing website targeting Tesla owners and allies of Elon Musk appears to be compiled from hacked data originally stolen from a massive ParkMobile app breach in 2021, according to records obtained by a data privacy group.

The site, known as DogeQuest, first appeared in March and publishes names, home addresses, contact details, and other personal information tied to Tesla drivers and Department of Government Efficiency staff. Marketed as a hub for anti-Musk “creative expressions of protest,” the platform has been linked to real-world vandalism and remains live on the dark web. Federal investigations into DogeQuest are already underway, the New York Post first reported.

“If you’re on the hunt for a Tesla to unleash your artistic flair with a spray can, just step outside—no map needed! At DOGEQUEST, we believe in empowering creative expressions of protest that you can execute from the comfort of your own home,” the surface-web DogeQuest site reads. “DOGEQUEST neither endorses nor condemns any actions.”

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Journalist Matt Taibbi is suing Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove for libel, after the California Democrat claimed during her opening remarks in a House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee hearing on Tuesday that he’s a “serial sexual harasser.”

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While Taibbi wouldn’t have been able to sue due to lawmaker protections under the Speech and Debate clause of the constitution, Kamlager-Dove was stupid enough to then post those claims on social media; both on X and Blue Sky.

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To look at the Pacific Northwest today one would never know that 25 years ago the region was an economic powerhouse at the forefront of technology and business innovation. At the time Portland and Seattle were known for constant rain as well as raining cash, and the “millionaire density” of the Seattle area was at historic highs. The tech boom and international trade with Asia had created a Silicon Valley of the northern coast.

Companies like Nike, Starbucks, Microsoft and Amazon established corporate offices and generated tens of thousands of jobs, and many of those jobs were considered high income. People can debate the overall effects of the population surge to the region; there are many who would argue that Washington and Oregon were better off when they were considered backwoods fishing and lumber states. That said, it’s undeniable that for a time the Northwest was one of the most desirable and lucrative places to live in the US.

That’s all gone now. The wealthy are leaving Seattle like it’s a leper colony and all that’s left are millions of broke activists, poverty stricken residents and illegal immigrants. Some blame the constant riots or the steady stream of welfare recipients. Others say that the draconian covid mandates caused people to jump ship. However, a primary factor in businesses (and money) leaving the city was the institution of a progressive “Payroll Expense Tax”.

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When was the last time that somebody (other than leftie fringers protesting Insufficient Socialism) firebombed a Dramacrat Party office? That there tells you everything you need to know about the difference between the two parties.

E.G.: ABC, CBS, NBC Scrub New Mexico GOP Arson Attack from All Major News Shows

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A surprising number of Americans approve of the rash of violence against Teslas amid Elon Musk’s work helping President Donald Trump with the Department of Government Efficiency.

Self-identified atheists, Democrats, young people, and supporters of the policies of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., are the most likely to approve of the violence and the least likely to consider it “domestic terrorism.”

Arsonists have hurled Molotov cocktails into Teslas and Tesla dealerships—not just in the U.S. but also in European countries like France and Germany—as protesters hold banners reading, “Burn a Tesla: Save Democracy.” Activists have also published a map claiming to show the location of every Tesla owner across the U.S. The website with this map turns the user’s cursor into a Molotov cocktail icon.

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The latest evidence of that is a 55-year-old Issaquah woman who was caught on video keying a Tesla and has been identified as fitness coach Kamelia Enzler, reportedly worth millions, according to MyNorthwest.com.

The March 20 incident, which took place at the Issaquah Commons in Washington, was captured on video and shared by journalist Jonathan Choe, quickly going viral.

Police say the vandalism stemmed from a road rage dispute, not a politically motivated attack on Tesla owners. Enzler is facing potential third-degree malicious mischief charges, though they have not yet been officially filed. The Issaquah City Prosecutor expects charges to be brought by Friday.

Some people just never grow up.

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What would you call an organization that collects money from the public and distributes it to organizations that fund riots that result in billions of dollars in damages, that transfer the money to bail out criminals who ultimately kill and victimize innocent Americans, that support terrorist organizations, and that pay for people that engage in domestic terrorism within the United States?

Certainly, you would refer to them by a variety of names. Yet you would at the very least call them criminals.

What I have described is a mainstream organization presently operating in the open in the United States that has not experienced any consequences for its actions in the decades that it has been in operation. It is not a fictitious organization pulled from the pages of a comic book. No, it’s real. It’s ActBlue, the primary Democratic Party fundraising juggernaut that collects billions of dollars in donations annually from the public, distributes the funds and retains a 3.95% processing fee.

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The Democratic Party nurtures Communist revolutionaries like 36-year-old Paul Kim, who was arrested this week after shooting and firebombing a Tesla collision center in Las Vegas, Nevada.

But you knew that.

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Conservatives tend to support freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to buy whatever light bulbs make you happy, and so on. Leftism tends to be based more on centralized control systems, and is more comfortable with censorship and government involvement in things like light bulbs and gas stoves. Political violence is a feature of the left, presumably because you sometimes need violence to get someone to do something that they normally wouldn’t do. Conservatives don’t need violence to get people to do whatever they want. Which is why it’s so hard to imagine JD Vance looking like Elizabeth Warren in this picture.

But it occurs to me that there may be another reason for the anger and violence on the left. Leftists believe that they are the smart ones, and the virtuous ones. And then they look at places that apply leftism, which are typically horrifying. The 20th century was a nightmare for them, as leftist leaders like Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Castro, et al. caused so much suffering and destruction. American cities have been governed by Democrat governors for decades, and are nearly without exception spiraling into dystopian hell-holes. People are leaving Democrat states and moving to Republican states en masse. If leftism is so smart and so virtuous, why does it consistently lead to such suffering and destruction? Why do people run away from it? If leftism is so smart and so virtuous, shouldn’t it work? At least sometimes?

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A Texas man who previously pleaded guilty to domestic violence is suspected of attacking three Tesla vehicles in a 4-wheeler ramming spree to protest Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

Texarkana, Texas police charged 33-year-old Demarqeyun Marquize Cox on Wednesday with allegedly ramming an ATV-style vehicle into a Tesla car and believe he did the same to two others, according to statements from the city’s police department. Cox allegedly wrote “Elon” on the other two vehicles he attacked, reflecting a nationwide trend of protests, arson and vandalism against the Trump administration adviser’s company.

I guess we don’t have to wonder at his ‘ethnicity’.

County records show Cox pleaded guilty to assault causing bodily injury in a domestic violence case in 2014. A judge gave him deferred probation and dismissed the case in 2015.

Your tax dollars at work … sort of.

Per Scott Adams:

“Did I coin ‘Dramacrats’? No, I did not. I stole that from a DM that I got, where somebody DMed it to me. But I love it. The Dramacrats. It puts it in perspective, ’cause I really do think that the Democrats are largely a theatrical production. And I mean that literally, in the sense that they are acting about how mad they are, they are acting about how much anything that they are talking about matters, and that’s all they have.”

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Got that right.

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California’s decline has grown so stark that even steadfast Democratic allies can no longer deny the truth: the state’s extreme left-wing policies have plunged it into chaos.

Aaron Levie, founder and CEO of Box, has joined the chorus of voices condemning the Democratic Party’s mismanagement of California, asserting that the party’s entire political apparatus demands a complete overhaul. Levie, who endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, made the pointed remarks during an interview with co-founder and former Lattice CEO, Jack Altman.

“We live in California. It should be like the greatest place on Earth on every dimension. How do you beat this weather? You’ve completely created the atmosphere of every major tech company,” Levie explained. You have Stanford, Berkeley, Caltech. You have institutions and all the venture capital. You’re sitting on this incredible asset and then literally you can’t make it affordable to live here. That’s just insane.”

Quillette.

Anyone who keeps an eye on US political discourse these days will be familiar with the epithet TDS, or Trump Derangement Syndrome, a term routinely used to describe the irrationality of President Donald Trump’s critics. The term frequently crops up in editorial writing, comment threads, social-media debates, and ordinary conversation: “Clearly suffering from TDS”; “Another victim of TDS”; “Typical TDS symptoms,” and so on. The implication is that the critic in question is afflicted by a pathology that makes objective analysis of Trump and his policies impossible.

The origins of the TDS accusation date back to what now seem like the placid years of the George W. Bush presidency. In a scathing 2003 article about Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean for the Washington Post, conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer wrote: “A plague is abroad in the land. Bush Derangement Syndrome: the acute onset of paranoia in reaction to the policies, the presidency—nay—the very existence of George W. Bush.” This virus, Krauthammer continued, “is spreading. It is, of course, epidemic in New York’s Upper West Side and the tonier parts of Los Angeles, where the very sight of the president … caused dozens of cases of apoplexy in otherwise healthy adults.”

Bush, of course, was widely (and wildly) vilified in those days. A cottage industry of books, articles, and punditry condemned his invasion of Iraq, his stewardship of the US economy, his response to the flooding of New Orleans, his deference to Machiavellian subordinates like Vice President Dick Cheney and Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and his shadowy ties to American and Saudi oil interests. Popular documentaries included Michael Moore’s 2004 polemic Fahrenheit 9/11 and even a 2006 “mockumentary” titled Death of a President, about Bush’s fictionalised assassination. By the end of his second term, a Gallup poll found that Bush’s approval rating had slumped to a lowly 25 percent. Bush Derangement Syndrome, it seemed, was highly contagious.

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Revolutionaries at the Soros-funded nonprofit Indivisible are scrambling to delete webpages after their cover was blown ahead of a planned color revolution targeting Elon Musk and President Trump. The rogue nonprofit is part of the same network that backed the BLM color revolution several years ago, which unleashed widespread chaos and destruction across the country. Indivisible’s mobilization call comes amid a surge in domestic terrorism, as far-left activists have firebombed Tesla vehicles, supercharging stations, and showrooms.

Natalie Winters, the co-host of Steve Bannon’s ‘War Room: Battleground’, wrote on X, “The wife of former U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves, who led the prosecution of 1,500+ Jan6ers, is on the Board of Indivisible. This Soros-backed group is the leading organizer of anti-Trump protests and violent Tesla acts. Deleted webpages reveal this connection.”

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Hordes of lunatics at an AOC/Bernie Sanders rally were recorded threatening violence and calling for President Trump to be tortured and murdered.

One attendee wielding a sign depicting Trump’s severed head was asked “are you calling for for his death?” and responded “I am yes, I believe it’s time the people straight cut his fucking head off.”

Another blathered about hanging Trump by his ankles from a lamppost until dead, stating “the only good fascist is a dead fascist.”

Another attendee stated that violence “is the only thing they’re going to listen to now,” adding that “I feel like we’ve done the rallies… if (violence) is what we need to do then that’s what we need to do.”

What a surprise.

Victor Davis Hanson.

While the media and the new Democrat Party grow hysterical over the Trump counter-revolution, they are missing some of the most revolutionary and insidious changes in American society of the last century.

Much has been written about the collapse of the old orthodox Democratic Party, along with the growing irrelevance and dysfunction of the legacy media, elite universities, and state and federal agencies. But their growing unattractiveness is all related and was not just the result of top-down development.

Rather, current Democrat Party radicalism, street theater, and violence were merely reflections of its own preexisting cultural antipathy toward the middle class. The party is now a pyramidal coalition of the very wealthy and professional classes comprising the capstone, resting atop a vast, expanding bottom of the subsidized and working poor, strapped pensioners and retirees, angry indebted students, 30s-something urban wannabees, impoverished immigrants—including perhaps 30 million here illegally—and, increasingly, trapped residents of a dystopian big-city America.

The collapse of the blue-state/blue-city model and those who work within and promote it reflects the radical environmentalism of the college-educated, as well as an array of high taxes, high crime, endless government regulations, housing shortages, massive homelessness, illegal immigration, critical-legal-theory prosecutors, ethnic and racial chauvinism, defund-the-police city councils, and, most importantly, chronic budget deficits and vast, unfunded pension liabilities and obligations.

Axios, a Voice of the Crust.

Top Democrats tell us their party is in its deepest hole in nearly 50 years — and they fear things could actually get worse.

If even the Narrative Media are worried, you know it’s bad.

UPDATE: Liberal group warns Democratic leaders over their strategy against Trump (Politico)

The Foundry.

The Left couldn’t defeat President Donald Trump at the ballot box. Now, their only hope seems to be defeating him at the courthouse.

More than 130 cases have been filed against the Trump administration since Trump’s return to office just two months ago. With the help of activist federal judges, the Left’s large-scale lawfare operation has caused some setbacks for the administration, which helps explain why its ire has been focused on these lower court judges’ use of temporary restraining orders.

Nevertheless, as the administration prepares for another active week in court defending the president’s powers and the president’s efforts to shrink the size of government and end DEI, it is not without its own court victories.

As of late, the Trump administration has earned favorable rulings regarding the dismissal of federal officers, employees, and contractors—part of Trump’s effort to “drain the swamp.”

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The Tesla-focused blog Not a Tesla App reported that following last week’s Q1 2025 All-Hands Meeting, Tesla quietly updated the Cybertruck’s webpage to include a new Sentry Mode feature that plays loud music as a deterrent against unhinged individuals—particularly Democrats—attempting to damage the vehicles.

The new feature appeared on the lower half of Cybertruck’s About page. The text reveals Sentry Mode will soon be able to play loud music when it’s triggered:

Enable Sentry Mode to monitor your unattended vehicle or trailer, and automatically activate the alarm, increase the touchscreen brightness, and play music at max volume if a threat is detected.

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Failed 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz was forced to embarrassingly walk back his unhinged comments about rooting for the death of Tesla Motors after realizing that more than a million Minnesota residents held shares of Elon Musk’s technology company through their state-run retirement accounts.

Burn the heretics! Unless the government, upon which all politically correct people depend, own their stock….

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If you tuned into CNN and/or MSNBC on Thursday morning, the message was clear based on their coverage of supposed “anger” at congressional Republicans over the Trump agenda and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and hits from the left at Democratic town halls: Blue wave incoming!

Nevermind these protests at GOP town halls — including one Wednesday night they were warm and fuzzy inside over out in Wyoming for Congresswoman Harriet Hageman (R) — have been stacked with the bluest of blue partisans and organized by far-left groups, including some with ties to George Soros.’

Porglodytes always go with mob rule off the bat. From lynching black people then to shouting down white people now, a mob is always a Democrat signature.

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And to clarify, that headline ran on OUR planet Earth. Not on an alternate dimension or some MCU-ish multiverse version of Earth, where all the bad guys have goatees. To paraphrase “Seinfeld,” that headline is 100% real — and it’s spectacular!

Tim Walz made the startling declaration on the podcast of the equally manly Gavin Newsom, the well-coifed governor of California.

The alleged masculinity of Tim Walz is such a black hole that normal people are afraid of getting too near and being sucked in.

And, of course, MAGA is the New Nigger.