4th February 2025
Many ‘degrees’ are stuff you can actually learn on your own, and nobody is going to pay extra for your ‘degree’.
And a lot of bachelor level degrees are useful only to qualify you for some graduate program.
“I don’t want to Make a Difference. I want to Make Money.”
Posted in Think about it. | Comments Off on 10 Degrees That Keep You Poor Forever
4th February 2025
The New Republic, a Voice of the Crust.
I spent almost a decade covering the United States Senate. So, believe me when I tell you that I do not want to be a United States senator. Imagine having a job where your mere existence in the role is a symbol of democratic backsliding, where your leaders torture you by forcing you to watch five-year-old videos of your co-worker microwaving canned tuna, and where you literally hold the same title and standing as Tommy Tuberville—an anthropomorphized ChatGPT answer to the question of “What if we gave a supposedly important position of public trust to someone too ignorant to know the three branches of government and too incompetent in his previous role to beat Vanderbilt in football?”
But two weeks into the Trump administration—which is just as lawless, destructive, and inhumane as anyone who lived through the last one could have imagined—it is clear that Democrats on Capitol Hill are failing so spectacularly to confront a constitutional crisis (which their own political incompetence helped create) that I am willing to channel the anger coursing through my body and finally put my country before my own personal well-being.
Today, it brings me no pleasure to announce that I am launching an exploratory committee for a Senate run to replace the senior senator from my home state, Dick Durbin. And I think anyone of good conscience should join me in what’s known as “testing the waters” to run against their sitting members of Congress too. There is very little entailed; anyone can do it. All it takes is not accepting or spending $5,000, not saying outright that you’ve decided to run, and a dream that we can break through to some of the most feckless, dense politicians history has ever seen.
Posted in Democrats: Party of Plundering and Blundering | Comments Off on Primary Every Democrat
4th February 2025
World Health Organization member states will discuss cutting part of its budget by $400 million in light of President Trump’s move to withdraw the United States, its biggest government funder, from the agency, a document released on Monday showed.
Opening the agency’s annual executive board meeting, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also defended the agency’s work and recent reforms and reiterated a call for the U.S. to reconsider its exit and enter into dialog with the WHO about further change.
“We would welcome suggestions from the United States, and all member states, for how we can serve you and the people of the world better,” he said.
And especially how we can get better access to your taxpayers’ money.
Posted in Your tax dollars at work - and play. | Comments Off on WHO Proposes Budget Cut After U.S. Exit, Defends Its Work
4th February 2025
My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.
Posted in Your tax dollars at work - and play. | Comments Off on Biden Admin Quietly Funneled $3 Mil to Palestinian Government ‘Security Forces’ for Weapons Training—After Its Members Carried Out Attacks on Israelis
4th February 2025
First they came for your cars, then your gas boilers, travel, food and farms. Now the Net Zero nutters, using their preposterous and invented climate emergency scare, have medicines, anaesthetics and painkillers in their crosshairs. Moves are afoot to reduce the use of popular, cheap, safe and effective nitrous oxide in the UK and replace it with substitutes such as methoxyflurane, a gas long banndhat disputes climate Armageddon is of little intertest to political activists, but the rest of us might be interested to note recent findings that found any ‘global warming’ caused by gases used by anaesthetists was “negligible and cannot be measured or felt”.
Nitrous oxide, sometimes known as laughing gas, is in common use in dentistry and maternity wards. It is carried on ambulances and is considered a very safe and effective analgesic medicine. But the UK National Health Service (NHS) has made a very silly pledge to be carbon Net Zero by 2040. According to the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM), the use of anaesthetics, which also include isoflurane, desflurane and sevoflurane, has been identified as a “carbon hotspot“. The NHS Long Term Plan is said to highlight these gases “as an area for action” and the RCEM says consideration should be given to the use of alternatives “where feasible and safe to do so”. The Royal College of Anaesthetists recently reported that many practitioners had moved away from routine nitrous oxide use in general anaesthesia, including in previous “high-usage” areas.
Posted in The Hunt for Heretics and Sinners | Comments Off on No Laughing Matter as Net Zero Nutters Target Your Anaesthetics and Painkillers
4th February 2025
Last week Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) sent Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., President Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, a scathing letter accusing him of, among other things, “dangerous views on vaccine safety” and “false hysteria that vaccines cause autism.”
The letter included 175 questions that she said he should be prepared to answer at his Senate confirmation hearings.
But in her letter, she exposes her own ignorance of federal vaccine policy and the laws passed by her own legislative branch.
Posted in Think about it. | Comments Off on Meet The Original ‘Conspiracy Theorists’: Reagan & the 99th Congress Called Vaccines “Unavoidably Unsafe”
4th February 2025
In the wake of its general election beatdown, the party that’s dedicated to smashing America’s “white heteronormative patriarchy” has elected a lily-white, heterosexual man to its top position. Hitherto unheard-of Minnesota Democratic Party chair Ken Martin will be the new national “chairperson,” while skinny 24-year-old gun-grabber and general-purpose ignoramus David Hogg is among three vice chairs.
Posted in Democrats: Party of Plundering and Blundering | Comments Off on Inclusive DNC Chooses White Man to Save Party – and Gun-Grabber [“Camera”] Hogg As Vice Chair
4th February 2025
The Honduras Supreme Court has declared charter cities, including Prospera, unconstitutional.
The background: in the mid-2010s, the ruling conservative party wanted charter cities. They had already packed the Supreme Court for other reasons, so they had their captive court declare charter cities to be constitutional.
In 2022, the socialists took power from the conservatives and got the chance to fill the Supreme Court with their supporters, though this time it was routine and not fairly describable as “packing”. In September, this new Supreme Court said whoops, actually charter cities aren’t constitutional at all. They added that this decision applied retroactively, ie even existing charter cities that had been approved under the old government were, ex post facto, illegal.
Prospera’s lawyers objected, saying that the court is not allowed to make ex post facto rulings. But arguing that the Supreme Court is misinterpreting the Constitution seems like a losing battle – even if you’re right, who do you appeal to?
So the city is pursuing a two-pronged strategy. The first prong is waiting. Prospera is a collection of buildings and people. The buildings can stay standing, the people can still live there – they just have to follow regular Honduran law, rather than the investment-friendly charter they previously used. There’s another election in November, which the socialists are expected to lose. Prospera hopes the conservatives will come in, take control of the Supreme Court again, and then they’ll say whoops, messed it up again, charter cities are constitutional after all.
Socialism is why we can’t ever have nice things.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Prospera Declared Unconstitutional
4th February 2025
From a commenter on a podcast that I follow:
I was in the gym and asked my trainer, ‘What is the best machine to use to maximize my attractiveness to women?’ and without saying a word he just pointed to the ATM.
Posted in Think about it. | Comments Off on Quotation of the Day
3rd February 2025
Is fruit good for you or bad for you? Why is everybody bad-mouthing High Fructose Corn Syrup?
I am currently doing a ketogenic diet, and I move fruit, so I had Questions. This podcast gave me answers.
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on How Much Fruit Is Too Much? A Scientific Look at Fruit Like Never Before
3rd February 2025
Elon Musk says he and Trump are shutting down USAID (NBC News)
Elon Musk said Donald Trump agreed USAID needs to be ‘shut down’ (CNN) Perhaps the era of passing out taxpayer dollars to ungrateful foreigners is finally over.
Musk’s DOGE takes aim at ‘viper’s nest’ federal agency with global footprint (Fox News)
Rubio says Panama must reduce Chinese influence around the canal or face possible US action (Associated Press)
Trump reiterates threat to retake Panama Canal ‘or something very powerful’ will happen (CNN)
Rubio demands Panama ‘reduce China influence’ over canal (BBC)
Three things to know about Rubio’s first international trip (NPR) Come git yer Narrative, right here.
Agents ‘have started to pack up their desks’ as fear of FBI mass firings swirls (NBC News)
Turmoil inside USAID: DOGE reps take over offices, senior officials placed on leave (ABC News)
Paxton weighs Cornyn challenge as Texas GOP rift deepens (Jared Gans/The Hill) I’d vote for Paxton over Cornyn. Hell, I’d vote for a Democrat over Cornyn.
Musk Says DOGE Halting Treasury Payments to US Contractors (Bloomberg)
Trump Tariffs Threaten to Upend Global Economic Order (Alan Rappeport/New York Times) Trump specializes in kicking over the game board.
Trump administration taps controversial conservative journalist for top job (ABC News)
MAGA intellectual Darren Beattie will fill key State Department role (Ben Smith/Semafor) MAGA is the New Nigger.
FBI agents, officials asked to detail their work on Jan. 6 cases (Politico)
Trump to cut off all future funding to South Africa (Reuters) Reuters has to put the proglodyte trope “without evidence” in their report so that their readers will know what to think.
Trump Vows to Punish South Africa Over Law to Expropriate Land (Bloomberg)
Illegal Migrant Protests Ramp Up In US Cities In Response To Trump Deportations Great! That tells ICE who to deport first.
Musk Moves With Lightning Speed to Exert Control Over the Government (Wall Street Journal)
How Trump’s Dismantling Of USAID Marks A Seismic, Historic Shift In America’s Role In The World
GOP rep says he supports ‘purging’ of State Department (Lauren Irwin/The Hill)
CNN’s Bolduan Cues Up Latina Congresswoman to Gripe About ‘Terrorizing’ ICE Raids
Trump Election Boosted Hamas-Held Hostages’ Spirits
More USAID Staff Ousted as Trump Administration Dismantles Aid Agency
Trump used fentanyl to justify tariffs, but the crisis was already easing (Brian Mann/NPR)
NY lawmakers scramble to respond to Trump’s rapid fire of executive orders
Two weeks in, Donald Trump can’t stop talking about Joe Biden (Matt Viser/Washington Post) Reminding people of the Bad Old Days.
Key Trump Cabinet members refuse to acknowledge Trump lost in 2020 (Washington Post) Gee, I wonder why….
Trump’s Foreign Policy: What to Expect From MAGA 2.0
Playbook: Some unholy (trade) war (Jack Blanchard/Politico)
Trump, Musk wage two-front war as donor does president’s ‘dirty work’ (Washington Post)
Trump’s mobster media shakedowns (Lisa Needham/Public Notice) Just like a Democrat!
China Reportedly Preparing Trade Talks With Trump After Weekend Tariff Shock Got their attention.
USAID workers at Washington HQ told to stay home on Monday in unexpected, early-morning email (Lauren Kent/CNN) Feel free to stick your head in the oven if you feel like it.
Federal Workers Block Doors of Admin Building Over Elon Musk Data Breach (John Zangas/DCMediaGroup)
Trade war begins, as Trump leaves the world guessing (Felix Salmon/Axios)
Are America’s four main adversaries really in cahoots? (Joshua Keating/Vox) Doesn’t matter.
LA Times owner boosts RFK Jr. online, as writer says paper cut his critique (David Folkenflik/NPR)
Kash Patel Is a Warning Shot (David French/New York Times)
Celebrities Take Veiled Swipes at Trump During 67th Grammys That’s progress — they used to be blunt and obvious.
Trump Administration Closes USAID Headquarters (Wall Street Journal)
Musk On DOGE Cuts: “USAID A Ball Of Worms, No Apple. Must Get Rid Of Whole Thing”
What’s at risk when the federal government also is (Philip Bump/Washington Post) Philip Bump loses his shit.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Sounds ‘Five Alarm Fire’ Over Latest Elon Musk News (Lee Moran/HuffPost)
Democrats fume over weak early response to Trump (The Hill)
Behind DOGE’s Standoff at USAID: Desk Searches and Elon Musk Calling (Bloomberg)
Dem Sens Demand RFK Jr. Recusal From Vaccine Matters if Confirmed
Elon Musk Wants to Get Operational Control of the Treasury’s Payment System. This Could Not Possibly Be More Dangerous (Notes on the Crises) No, he just wants the truth about where the money is going.
McConnell: Trump pardons a ‘mistake,’ Jan. 6 ‘an insurrection’ (Sarah Fortinsky/The Hill) The Deep State speaks.
Musk Aides Lock Govt HR Workers Out of Computer Systems
Canada’s tariff list targets Republican states, Trump allies (Mickey Djuric/Politico)
The GOP Still Has No Legislative Plan (David Dayen/American Prospect) The plan is not to make more laws, but to get rid of the stupid ones we already have.
‘Trump will screw up’: Schumer plots the Democratic comeback (Burgess Everett/Semafor)
MSNBC’s Phang Accuses Trump of ‘Indiscriminate’ Arresting ‘Brown’ Immigrants
Trump Effect: US Manufacturing Surveys Signal ‘Expansion’ For First Time In 16 Months
Trump plans to invoke obscure 18th century wartime law in bid for mass deportations (Reuters) There’s a law for that….
Elon Musk Is Permanently Deleting Government Agencies (Andrew Perez/Rolling Stone)
Trump halts tariffs on Mexico as it rushes troops to border (Mary Beth Sheridan/Washington Post)
CEO Of Canada’s 2nd Largest Company Supports Trump Tariffs, Slams Trudeau
Live Updates: Mexico Reaches Deal With U.S. to Delay Trump Tariffs (New York Times)
Trump To Suspend Funding To South Africa Over Land Expropriation
Live updates: Trump pauses tariffs on Mexico, plans to speak later to Canadian leader (Washington Post) All it takes is a bit of firmness. New sheriff in town.
More Dangerous than Watergate – In case you missed it–or if you don’t subscribe to The Triad … (William Kristol/The Bulwark) Carl Bernstein must be on vacation.
Trump is sowing the seeds of an anti-American alliance (Gideon Rachman/Financial Times)
Hakeem Jeffries wants funding freeze ‘choked off’ in spending deal (Nicholas Wu/Politico)
Canada’s Auto Industry Faces Shutdown Threat Amid Tariff Shock
Trump Pauses Mexico Tariffs to ‘Achieve a Deal’
Secretary of State Rubio Made Acting Administrator of USAID
I’m a Federal Worker. Elon Musk’s Government Data Heist Is the Entire Ballgame. (Denise Cana/Slate)
Protest in downtown Los Angeles over ICE raids blocks 101 Freeway (CBS News)
Bill Kristol Admits The Quiet Part Out Loud: “The Deep State Is Far Preferable To The Trump State”
Musk: I’m Closing Entire Federal Agency Down Right Now (Matt Young/The Daily Beast)
NPR and PBS first target in MTG’s DOGE crosshairs (Katherine Tully-McManus/Politico)
Trump backs down on Mexico tariffs after Mexican president pledges border troops (David Edwards/Raw Story) ‘Backs down’ is a curious way to say ‘won’.
US to again withdraw from the UN Human Rights Council, stop UNRWA funding (Megan Messerly/Politico) The wins just keep on comin’.
From Pardons to Purges: Pressing Questions that Bondi and Patel Must Answer Now (Mary B. McCord/Just Security) MUST! THEY MUST! DO YOU UNDERSTAND? MUST!
Amid Trump Crackdown, University of Minnesota Becomes Latest School To Start ‘Reassessing’ DEI
Judge Considers Injunction for Trump Funding Freeze
‘Filled With Unmitigated Terror’ (David Dayen/American Prospect) Good, good….
The illegal alien criminals weren’t so hard to find after all
Elon Musk’s Attempt to Control the Treasury Payment System Is Incredibly Dangerous (Nathan Tankus/Rolling Stone) To the spenders….
Kinzinger to House Dems: ‘Get out there and do something’ about Musk (Tara Suter/The Hill)
CFPB halts work after Trump appoints Bessent as acting head (Tony Romm/Washington Post) Another win.
Trump admin zeros in on school choice, dismantling DEI (Rebecca Carballo/Politico)
Judge signals plan to further block Trump spending freeze (Politico)
Pronouns Are Being Forcibly Removed From Government Email Signatures (Dell Cameron/Wired)
Elon Musk is officially an employee of the US government – but he’s not getting a paycheck (Bryan Metzger/Business Insider) Hell, he’d probably pay for the privilege.
Ending USAID climate programs could increase security risks (Andrew Freedman/Axios)
Trump Advisers Weigh Plan to Dismantle Education Department (Wall Street Journal)
Trump’s hiring freeze creates ‘scary time’ at National Park Service (Heather Richards/Politico)
Trump To Withdraw US From UN Agencies That Whitewash ‘Horrific Human Rights Violations’
ACLU Sues Over Trump Ban on Asylum at US-Mexico Border
Dozens of Ed Dept Workers Put on Leave Over Trump’s Anti-DEI Order
Texas Gov. OKs National Guard to Arrest Immigrants More accurately, illegal immigrants.
E.P.A. Tells More Than 1,000 They Could Be Fired ‘Immediately’ (Lisa Friedman/New York Times)
Posted in Axis of Drivel -- Adventures in Narrative Media | Comments Off on Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
3rd February 2025
You’ll always hear the “my body, my choice” types hype up fantastical stories about women who were supposedly forced to give birth, in an attempt to make abortion a feminist issue.
They never tell you or care about the rights of women forced into killing their pre-born babies.
But one Louisiana teenager’s voice is finally being heard after a grand jury indicted the people responsible for coercing her into ending her baby’s life.
When the girl found out she was pregnant, she not only intended to keep her baby, but had planned a reveal party to celebrate, according to an interview given by the District Attorney of West Baton Rouge Parish.
Her mother, however, had different plans. She ordered abortion pills mailed by New York “doctor” Margaret Carpenter and forced her daughter to take them.
The girl was tragically rushed to the hospital, where she experienced a medical emergency and ultimately lost her baby.
It turns out, both the mother and the abortionist broke Louisiana’s state laws against forcing a woman to kill her pre-born child and distributing the pills from out of state.
Posted in Democrats: Party of Plundering and Blundering | Comments Off on NY Abortionist and Mother Indicted for Forcing Teen to Kill Her Pre-Born Child
3rd February 2025
Billionaires and Big-Tech companies are fleeing Delaware in such droves, Newsweek said the state faces an “exodus” of major corporations.
After reports over the weekend that Facebook’s Meta was considering moving its incorporation from Delaware to Texas, billionaire Bill Ackman tweeted he will move his financial management company out of the Diamond State.
“We are reincorporating our management company in Nevada for the same reason. Top law firms are recommending Nevada and Texas over Delaware,” Ackman wrote.
Posted in Think about it. | Comments Off on Bill Ackman, Dropbox Leave Delaware as Corporations Pull Out
3rd February 2025
President Donald Trump’s weekend tariffs on goods from Mexico, Canada, and China. He stated that these tariffs are necessary to “protect” Americans from “illegal aliens and drugs, including deadly fentanyl,” asserting that this “extraordinary threat constitutes a national emergency under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.”
By 10:23 ET, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum capitulated to Trump’s tariffs and decided to deploy 10,000 National Guard troops immediately to the Mexico-US border to halt the flow of fentanyl and illegal aliens.
Financial markets bounced on Sheinbaum’s headlines after a gloomy red morning across equities, currencies, bonds, and crypto.
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on US & Canada Unveil Possible Blueprint for Post-Tariff Partnership to ‘Disrupt & Dismantle’ CCP-Fueled Fentanyl Crisis
3rd February 2025
Vice President JD Vance has sparked discussion about the role of the Catholic Church and religious nongovernmental organizations in facilitating massive illegal immigration to the United States by bringing up Christian social teachings in a recent interview on Fox News.
As the Trump administration attempts to enforce the nation’s border laws, the vice president articulated the Christian principle of “ordo amoris”—or “order of love”—where priority is given for one’s family and neighbors above strangers from around the globe. The concept dates back to at least St. Thomas Aquinas.
“There’s this old school, very Christian concept that you love your family, then you love your neighbor, then you love your community, then you love you fellow citizens in your own country, and then after that, you can focus and prioritize the rest of the world,” Vance said in an interview with Fox’s Sean Hannity that aired Jan. 29.
Posted in Democrats: Party of Plundering and Blundering | Comments Off on NEWS Role of Religious NGOs in Facilitating Mass Unlawful Migration Draws Fresh Scrutiny
3rd February 2025
Nearly 8 in 10 U.S. voters agree with President Donald Trump that requiring photo identification to vote is a reasonable measure to protect the integrity of elections, Rasmussen Reports found.
Rasmussen poll results show that 77% of likely voters say requiring photo ID is a reasonable measure to protect election integrity. That’s up from 74% in 2021.
Only 17% say photo ID is not a reasonable measure, while 7% say they’re not sure.
Posted in Think about it. | Comments Off on Rasmussen: 77 Percent Say Photo ID ‘Reasonable’ to Vote
3rd February 2025
Columbia Business School professor Avi Friedman has resigned, citing the university’s decision to appoint a Hamas-praising professor, Joseph Massad, to teach a course on Zionism, according to a letter obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
In his letter, dated Jan. 29, Friedman called his resignation “months in the making” and “unavoidable” given the “events of October 7, 2023, and the university’s subsequent response.” Friedman said he found himself “making excuses” in defense of Columbia and its administrators in the wake of Hamas’s terror attack but “can no longer mask what has become inexcusable and systemic.”
“The university’s decision to appoint Joseph Massad to teach a class on Zionism represents a complete abandonment of academic integrity and unbiased scholarship,” wrote Friedman. “This appointment was no oversight—it represents a deliberate choice that aligns with the university’s ideology.”
Massad, Friedman continued, “stands as a celebrated figure in the intifada movement—a status that Columbia now continues to endorse.”
Posted in Dystopia Watch, Living with Islam: The world's most intolerant—and intolerable—religion | Comments Off on Columbia Business School Professor Resigns, Citing Pro-Hamas Colleague Joseph Massad’s Course on Zionism
3rd February 2025
Add Wikipedia to the growing list of media outlets that are ignoring the memo that Donald Trump won the election and liberals are no longer in charge.
In a revealing new report, the Media Research Center, the conservative news watchdog, said on Monday that Wikipedia has effectively blacklisted new sources that lean right, making it a liberal online encyclopedia based on left-wing media, including those well known for lying about Republicans and Trump and promoting conspiracy theories such as Russiagate.
The blacklisting MRC found was stunning. It said no conservative news sites made the fully trustworthy grade, while just 16% of liberal sites were blocked as sources.
Posted in Axis of Drivel -- Adventures in Narrative Media | Comments Off on Wikipedia Blacklists Conservative Sources in Favor of Left-Wing Bias
3rd February 2025
On Monday, WIRED magazine took it upon themselves to doxx several employees working for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
“If you’ve been wondering what Elon Musk and his lackeys are up to since taking control of the US government, look no further,” the magazine posted to X. “Our latest story names six 19- to 24-year-olds working with his DOGE organization, which now has access to sensitive federal systems.”
And so, in a Monday letter to Musk, US Attorney Edward Martin has vowed to protect DOGE employees, and pursue “any and all legal action against anyone who impedes your work or threatens your people.”
“I recognize that some of the staff at DOGE has been targeted publicly,” Martin wrote. “At this time, I ask that you utilize me and my staff to assist in protecting DOGE work and the DOGE workers. Any threats, confrontations, or other actions in any way that impact their work may break numerous laws.”
Posted in Axis of Drivel -- Adventures in Narrative Media | Comments Off on US Attorney Protects Musk Team As WIRED Doxxes DOGE Employees
3rd February 2025
The diversity, equity, and inclusion project, often seen as a major element of the so-called “woke” creed along with green fanaticism, keeps popping up as a possible subtext in a variety of recent tragedies.
In the case of the Los Angeles fires, Mayor Karen Bass, who cut the fire department budget, was warned of the mounting fire dangers of the Santa Anna winds and parched brush on surrounding hillsides. No matter—she junketed in Uganda. When furor followed, on cue, her defenders decried a racialist attack on “a black woman.”
Her possible stand-in deputy mayor for “security” was under suspension for allegations that he called in a bomb threat to the Los Angeles city council—a factor mysteriously forgotten.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on VDH: Ten Problems With DEI That Frighten the Public
3rd February 2025
ZMan is having fun.
a character in the Asimov novels called The Mule. This was a character called the “destroyer of worlds” because he literally destroyed whole worlds, but he also destroyed the conception of the world. In fact, his very existence was a threat to accepted understanding of the universe, because the universally accepted conception of the universe precluded the existence of The Mule.
This has been the issue since Trump arrived on the scene. The people atop the post-Cold War world and the post-Cold War world itself, were all based on the assumption that a political character like Trump was impossible. The days of populist, nationalist and picaresque political actors was done. The present and future belonged to the Davos persons, the boys and girls who were produced by and benefitted the most from the managerial ideology that dominated the West.
What Trump’s success in 2016 represented was the nullification of the managerial order because according to the logic of managerialism, men like Trump had no place in the system, so they could never be a threat to the system. Instead, they were marginalized to the fringes of managerial life, the place where things are made, fixed, and created to keep the mechanics of the world going. They had no place in the world where decisions were made by the great and the good.
Posted in Think about it. | Comments Off on The Destroyer of Worlds
3rd February 2025
Lets in all sorts of riff-raff.
Last week, Donald Trump signed a new executive order which attempts to end so-called “birthright citizenship” in the United States. During the signing ceremony, Trump declared that the United States is “the only country in the world that does this with birthright…”
This is untrue and the Washington Post, among other publications, was quick to declare that Trump “falsely claimed” that the US is the only country with birthright citizenship, also known as the legal principle of unrestricted—or “pure”—jus soli.
Trump would have been accurate, however, had he said that birthright citizenship is becoming rare, and that it is especially rare among those wealthier countries that experience positive net in-migration. [Letting in a lot of riff-raff]
In many countries, as generous welfare states attract growing numbers of migrants, the idea of unrestricted jus soli has become less popular.
Indeed, Europe no longer contains any states that offer birthright citizenship, and others have added new restrictions to what jus soli provisions they have.
Posted in Think about it. | Comments Off on Why the World Is Giving Up on Birthright Citizenship
3rd February 2025
Posted in Think about it. | Comments Off on Thought for the Day
3rd February 2025
Senior civil servants—permanent state employees—advising Britain’s elected home secretary would widen the range of targets for counter-extremism policy, all while downplaying the proven, lethal challenge posed by Islamist groups. While institutions often fail to prevent actual violence, ‘the blob’—the nickname given to the current crop of woke, publicly funded yet largely anonymous policymakers—has been revealed as keen to redefine thoughts and words as dangerous.
Last week Home Secretary Yvette Cooper denied incorporating an extensive and now-public rogues’ gallery of types of wrong-think (and worse) into policy. Yet it was she who in August 2024 commissioned a “Rapid Analytical Sprint” approach to extremism, prompting her advisers to cook up a hit list of problematic ideas. Security minister Dan Jarvis also briefed Parliament that, while he didn’t know which Whitehall materials had been made public by the think-tank Policy Exchange, he would still distance them from current government policy.
Regardless of precisely which draft of the report was leaked to authors Andrew Gilligan and Dr Paul Stott, it is clear that Whitehall chiefs are seeking to centralise greater power for the authorities. Extremely Confused: The Government’s new counter-extremism review revealed
Posted in The Hunt for Heretics and Sinners | Comments Off on UK Officials Draft a Hit List for Wrong-Think
3rd February 2025
Donald Trump returned to office issuing a range of executive orders that toughened up immigration enforcement. These include using the armed forces to facilitate deportations, boosting the number of troops at the border, and reinstating the Remain in Mexico policy, which requires asylum-seekers to apply in Mexico, while blocking those who trek to the US border. To the surprise of pundits, polls suggest robust public backing for many of these measures, not least mass deportations.
One clear reason is economic: Mass low-wage migration depresses wages, especially on the lower rungs of the labour market. Progressives would do well to come to grips with this reality, even as the Trumpians would be wise neither to overstep their mandate nor to limit their policy to showy and polarising deportation actions.
To see why, it’s worth examining the history. Between 1965 and 1995, the share of Americans who favoured lower immigration rates rose to 65%, up from a third. The shift in attitudes corresponded with a dramatic rise in low-skilled legal — and especially illegal — immigration. Migrant encounters at the US-Mexico border reached 1.64 million in 2000, more than double the rate in 1980 (the 2000 peak would be surpassed under Team Biden).
Posted in Think about it. | Comments Off on The Pro-Worker Case for Trump’s Deportations
3rd February 2025
“Indigenous knowledge,” a pseudoscience that posits Native Americans possess an innate understanding of how the world works, is thriving in California, where Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D.) administration has contended that “Western science” must embrace “the generations of knowledge held by Indigenous communities,” according to a Washington Free Beacon review of state documents.
Since Newsom entered office six years ago, the California state government has allocated hundreds of millions of dollars on programs promoting the idea, which the state also refers to as “traditional ecological knowledge,” and has leveraged it across several government functions, including wildfire mitigation, energy development, wildlife recovery, and land conservation, the documents show. The Newsom administration has made indigenous knowledge a central pillar of its climate agenda in particular.
The extensive taxpayer-funded indigenous knowledge efforts in California, which are detailed in an intricate web of state initiatives, reports, programs, and laws, highlight just how far a fringe academic theory has proliferated throughout Democratic Party-controlled governments. While scientists describe it as “dangerous” and a rejection of the scientific method, the Biden administration forced indigenous knowledge into agencies across the federal government, from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to the Department of Defense.
Posted in Your tax dollars at work - and play. | Comments Off on ‘Indigenous Knowledge’ Pseudoscience Thrives in Newsom’s Government
3rd February 2025
An Afghan migrant in Germany whose asylum application was rejected is violent and dangerous, but he can’t be deported because… Well, just because. As a result, the local authorities have to pay €40,000 a month for private security to guard him.
Posted in Living with Islam: The world's most intolerant—and intolerable—religion | 1 Comment »
3rd February 2025
The following video is a plug for an anti-migration French magazine called Frontières, narrated by one of its reporters, Jordan Florentin. It’s a hard-sell promotion, but this brief blurb contains some useful information, and the magazine appears to be worth looking at (for those who read French).
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on The Lucrative Migration Business
3rd February 2025
For Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the weaponization of the criminal justice system has always followed a certain Casablanca pattern. Like Claude Rains as the venerable Captain Louis Renault, it is simply a matter of “rounding up the usual suspects.”
Grassley released FBI whistleblower records on Thursday showing that an anti-Trump figure, former FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Timothy Thibault, previously found to have violated the Hatch Act was a key factor in pushing the election charges brought by former Special Counsel Jack Smith.
Grassley suggested that Thibault violated protocol in opening and advancing the FBI’s initial probe into the 2020 election without sufficient predication. The investigation, called Operation Arctic Frost, was opened on April 13, 2022.
Posted in Your tax dollars at work - and play. | Comments Off on Rounding Up The Usual Suspects: Grassley Releases Familiar Name In The Origins Of The Trump Investigation
3rd February 2025
New York Times, a Voice of the Crust.
Many Americans say they do not believe the Democratic Party is focused on the economic issues that matter most to them and is instead placing too much emphasis on social issues that they consider less urgent.
Asked to identify the Democratic Party’s most important priorities, Americans most often listed abortion, L.G.B.T.Q. rights and climate change, according to a poll from The New York Times and Ipsos conducted from Jan. 2 to 10.
The issues that people cited as most important to them personally were the economy and inflation, health care and immigration, the poll found. The kinds of social causes that progressive activists have championed in recent years ranked much lower.
Posted in Democrats: Party of Plundering and Blundering | Comments Off on Many Americans Say the Democratic Party Does Not Share Their Priorities
2nd February 2025
Canada’s Trudeau announces tariffs on US in retaliation for Trump’s tariffs (Reuters)
Global alarm, condemnation as Trump tariffs hit Mexico, Canada and China (Al Jezeera)
Canada hits back against Trump tariffs: ‘We will not back down’ (Politico)
With tariffs and threats, Trump turns on America’s closest allies (Washington Poop) Allies act like allies. Mexico and Canada don’t act like allies.
Elon Musk Plans to Take Over GSA Next—With Disturbing Plan of Action (The New Republic)
Trump administration directs 70% cut to internal OPM staffing, programs (Federal News Network)
Musk’s DOGE Accused of Seizing Sole Control of Essential Federal Databases (Truthout)
RFK Jr. confirmation could hinge on his embrace of false vaccine-autism link (Washington Poop)
The Republican doctor who could be a hurdle to RFK Jr.’s confirmation (NBC News)
RFK Jr. disparaged vaccines dozens of times in recent years and misled on race (Washington Poop) Straight-up character assassination.
Military Strikes On Cartels Inside Mexico “On The Table”: Hegseth
Trump Says Tariffs Are Coming on Computer Chips, Steel and More (Wall Street Journal)
‘He’s Such a P*S’: MSNBC Makes Reagan Airport Tragedy All About Trump
John Brennan’s Protests To President Trump Lifting His Security Clearances Are Absurd
Trump administration gives Musk allies access to Treasury payment system (Politico)
DOJ’s deletion of Jan. 6 records triggers legal challenge (Scott Macfarlane/CBS News)
Mexico’s President Claims She Has ‘Plan A, Plan B, Plan C’ In Response To Trump Tariffs
DOGE is ripping out the guts of government (Henry Farrell/Programmable Mutter) Good.
Education Department employees placed on leave for attending diversity training (Bianca Quilantan/Politico) The horror!!
U.S. Chamber: Tariffs Are Not the Answer (U.S. Chamber of Commerce)
Trump’s DEI purge targets federal workers who did not work in DEI (Washington Post)
End Appears Near for U.S. Aid Agency, Democratic Lawmakers Say (Karoun Demirjian/New York Times)
Mexican president orders retaliatory tariffs against U.S. (Reuters)
USA Today’s Report on Trump Blaming DEI for Air Crash Exposes Ugly Truth About SPLC
Stanton Leads 40+ House Democrats in Letter Calling on Trump to Immediately Rescind Tariffs on Mexico and Canada (Congressman Greg Stanton) Me! Me! Look at me!
Kristi Noem’s week-one blitz (Politico)
‘We Have No Coherent Message’: Democrats Struggle to Oppose Trump (New York Times) Except Orange Man Bad.
Trump Favors Blunt Force in Dealing With Foreign Allies and Enemies Alike (Peter Baker/New York Times) Very refreshing after decades of ineffective ‘nuance’.
NPR Helps MSNBC’s Chris Hayes to Trash Trump, ‘Attention Capitalism’
Memo to Elon: Know Your Boss (Jonathan Martin/Politico)
China to retaliate after Trump fires first salvo in trade war (Zia Weise/Politico)
Germany’s Pistorius pushes back on Trump’s NATO spending demand (Chris Lunday/Politico)
We do not know what exactly Elon Musk is doing to the federal government (Zachary B. Wolf/CNN) How lame is modern ‘journalism’…?
Education Officials Placed on Leave in Trump’s Sprawling Effort to Curb D.E.I. (New York Times)
DOGE Gains Access to Payment System Doling Out Trillions to Americans (Wall Street Journal)
Trump’s Tariffs May Complicate Efforts to Tame Inflation (Colby Smith/New York Times)
Some Hospitals Stop Transgender Surgeries On Children After Trump’s Order
GOP pollster says Trump voters ‘tired’ of being accused of racism (Sarah Fortinsky/The Hill)
Trump is waging war against his own government (NBC News) It’s not his government … yet.
The coup rolls on, but we will prevail. (Robert B. Hubbell/Today’s Edition …)
The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover (Vittoria Elliott/Wired)
Why Write About the Illegality of What Trump and Musk are Doing? (Samuel Bagenstos/Inside/Outside) Because you get paid to do so?
Top F.B.I. Agent in New York Vows to ‘Dig In’ After Removals at Agency (New York Times)
Musk on USAID: ‘Time for it to die’ (Politico)
More USAID staff ousted as Trump administration dismantles aid agency (Reuters)
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
2nd February 2025
New York City, Chicago and Boston are among the sanctuary cities collapsing after waves of migrants stormed across the open borders. Even cities that once boasted of providing sanctuary to illegal aliens from federal immigration enforcement are now running away from the name.
Sanctuary cities were always intended to be destructive. They were not, as many Democrats now wrongly claim, about providing safe harbor to refugees, but about bringing down America.
The sanctuary cities did not emerge in response to the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide or any actual genocide, but to provide support and sanctuary for Marxists fleeing the civil wars they had started in Latin America, and then later for Islamic terrorists after September 11.
Sanctuary cities were not about helping refugees, but about harboring America’s enemies.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Sanctuary Cities Were Always Anti-American
2nd February 2025
Senator Chuck Schumer is a lawyer, so presumably he is familiar with the provisions of 18 U.S. Code § 115.
In case he has forgotten—after all, there are a lot of statutes to keep track of—Edward R. Martin, Jr., the Interim D.C. U.S. Attorney, is in the process of reminding him.
Among other things, that statute holds that anyone who threatens a federal government official or their family with the “intent to impede, intimidate, or interfere with such official, judge, or law enforcement officer while engaged in the performance of official duties, or with intent to retaliate against such official, judge, or law enforcement officer on account of the performance of official duties,” shall be punished with a term in the slammer, the length of the sentence being dependent on the actual harm caused.
When the Supreme Court was hearing an abortion case in March 2020, Schumer showed up at a protest rally in front of the Court and shouted, “I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh: You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price.”
Perhaps Nicholas John Roske had that speech in mind in June 2022. It was then that he traveled from California to Maryland to pay the Kavanaughs a visit. It was not intended to be a friendly visit. In the dead of night, he took a taxi to their home. According to the court filing, he carried a suitcase in which was a “black tactical chest rig and tactical knife, a Glock 17 pistol with two magazines and ammunition, pepper spray, zip ties, a hammer, screwdriver, nail punch, crowbar, pistol light, duct tape, hiking boots with padding on the outside of the soles, and other items.”
When apprehended, Roske admitted that he had come to kill Brett Kavanaugh. I wonder what Chuck Schumer thought of that. It looks like Edward Martin is going to find out. On Friday, Martin announced not only that he was firing more than two dozen federal prosecutors; he also announced that he was opening an investigation into Schumer for his threats against two U.S. Supreme Court justices. For most mortals, issuing such threats would earn one a visit from the authorities.
Posted in Democrats: Party of Plundering and Blundering | Comments Off on Schumer Under Investigation While Trump Reshapes Washington
2nd February 2025
Trump signed an Executive Order to build an Iron Dome for America, which aims to defend the homeland “against ballistic, hypersonic, advanced cruise missiles, and other next-generation aerial attacks.”
And about fucking time, too.
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on Five Takeaways From Trump’s Plans to Build an Iron Dome for America
2nd February 2025
In the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s new policy against transgenders serving in the military, MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell gave an unchallenged forum to Delaware U.S. Representative Sarah McBride to trash Republicans for acting on the issue.
Posted in Axis of Drivel -- Adventures in Narrative Media | Comments Off on Andrea Mitchell Acts as Publicist for First Trans Member of Congress
2nd February 2025
Washington Poop, a Voice of the Crust.
The framers of the Constitution imagined Congress as the preeminent branch of government. But many Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill seem content to play second fiddle.
That hasn’t been true since Wilson (a Democrat) and FDR (a Democrat). Try to keep up, guys.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Donald Trump and the Incredible Shrinking Congress
2nd February 2025
YACBDP (Yet Another Corrupt Black Democrat Politician).
Be the first on your block to collect the complete set.
Posted in Democrats: Party of Plundering and Blundering | Comments Off on Congress Should Focus on ‘Reparations’ Not Sanctuary Cities; Chicago Mayor
2nd February 2025
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Saturday said it will stop e-mailing news organizations and reporters with updates about two plane crashes that occurred earlier this week.
Moving forward, the federal agency tasked with investigating transportation-related accidents and disasters said news organizations and reporters will have to follow the agency’s official account on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, where “all NTSB updates about news conferences or other investigative information” will be posted moving forward.
The NTSB did not say why it was choosing to post information about public safety matters exclusively on X, a private social media platform owned by technology mogul Elon Musk, who has curried favor with President Donald Trump in recent weeks. The Desk has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the government agency to learn more about the NTSB’s decision-making process in moving updates to the news media exclusively to X.d
Posted in Your tax dollars at work - and play. | Comments Off on NTSB Forces Reporters to Get Plane Crash Updates on X
2nd February 2025
They’ve hacked everything else in the U.S., so why would we be surprised to find out that patient health data collected by Chinese-made health monitors was being sent, via ‘backdoor’ to China.
Now China has access to Janet Yellen’s photos (god we hope there’s no nudes) and your blood pressure on a random Tuesday.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warns that Contec CMS8000, a widely used patient monitoring device, contains a backdoor that transmits patient data to a remote IP and downloads executable files, according to BleepingComputer.
Suddenly I don’t trust my iPhone….
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Widely Used Chinese-Made Health Monitor Using ‘Backdoor’ to Send Patient Data to Chinese IP Address
2nd February 2025
John Harold Rogers, 63, worked for 11 years as a senior advisor for the international finance division of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, the main governing body for the U.S. central bank.
A federal indictment alleged that Rogers began working with Chinese conspirators since at least 2018. The Chinese handlers worked for the Chinese intelligence and security apparatus and posed as graduate students at a Chinese university, according to the filing.
Rogers, in the collaboration, allegedly solicited trade-secret information that included proprietary economic data sets, China tariff deliberations, and briefing books for specific board governors. He also allegedly solicited internal discussions and forthcoming announcements from the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), a 12-member body consisting of the seven Federal Reserve board of governors, the New York Federal Reserve Bank president, and four of the remaining 11 Reserve Bank presidents that rotate on an annual basis.
Posted in Democrats: Party of Plundering and Blundering | Comments Off on Former Federal Reserve Adviser Arrested for Allegedly Passing US Trade Secrets to China
2nd February 2025
New York Times, a Voice of the Crust.
In its heyday, The Star-Ledger, New Jersey’s longtime paper of record, boasted the nation’s largest State House bureau, an enviable circulation and enough editorial clout to alter the trajectory of the region’s defining infrastructure projects and environmental preservation efforts.Reporters were well paid and often remained at the paper throughout the arc of their careers, imbuing The Ledger’s news coverage with institutional memory and gravitas, even as its thick, zoned editions were crammed with mundane dispatches from the state’s quilt of tiny towns and big cities.On Sunday, The Ledger’s nearly century-long run as New Jersey’s dominant newspaper will come to an end when it prints its final edition and shifts to an online-only format. Its editorial board will vanish, as will its clippable sports photos and pages of printed obituaries.
Posted in Axis of Drivel -- Adventures in Narrative Media | Comments Off on A Storied Newspaper Prepares to Print Its Own Obituary
2nd February 2025
“Follow the science” is a common chorus among progressives. But often they, not those they moralize against, are the real science deniers.
Take progressive prosecutors. Many, like George Gascon in Los Angeles, tout their soft-on-crime policies as “data driven” or “scientifically backed.”
Yet this is a complete hoax. These prosecutors cite studies that are misleading, non-replicable, non-peer-reviewed, or entirely disproven.
Posted in Your tax dollars at work - and play. | Comments Off on If Prosecutors ‘Followed the Science’ as They Claim, We’d Have Less Crime, Not More
2nd February 2025
ZMan:
The thing I am watching is the Musk takeover of the IT systems. The crazies are freaking out over this and maybe with good reason. The amount of collusion between the government, social media employees and the domestic terrorist doxing and stalking people is something that has never got much attention, but that could change. At least that is something the crazies fear. Then you have the billions that flow into underwriting the crazies from the government.
We now live in interesting times.
Posted in Think about it. | Comments Off on Quotation of the Day
2nd February 2025
fighting a class action lawsuit alleging it denied 1,000 people air traffic controller jobs based on diversity hiring targets, according to the New York Post.
The lawsuit, originally filed in 2015, resurfaced following a fatal midair collision in Washington, DC, that claimed 67 lives—the deadliest U.S. aviation disaster in nearly 25 years. Hours later, a small private plane crashed in Northeast Philadelphia, putting emphasis on the role of air traffic control.
At the time of the blackhawk helicopter incident, staffing levels were reportedly “not normal.” Andrew Brigida, the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit, criticized the FAA’s focus on diversity and inclusion, suggesting it contributed to the likelihood of such an accident.
The New York Post report says that the lawsuit claims the FAA, under the Obama administration, replaced a skill-based hiring system with a “biographical assessment” to increase minority hires.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Lawsuit Alleges FAA Denied 1,000 People Air Traffic Controller Jobs to Meet Diversity Hiring Targets
2nd February 2025
There are layers and layers to the story of the radical vegan transgender death cult known as “Zizians,” whose existence became newsworthy after two reputed associates of the cult, Teresa “Milo” Youngblut and Felix “Ophelia” Bauckholt, got into a shootout in Vermont that killed a Border Patrol agent on Jan. 20. In the first few days after the shootout, in which Bauckholt was also killed, the news accounts were mysterious. What were Youngblut, a Seattle native, and Bauckholt, a German citizen in the U.S. on a work visa, doing up in Vermont near the Canadian border?
Jessica Taylor (@jessi_cata), who knew Bauckholt in New York City circa 2022 and tried to warn him about the cult following of Jack “Ziz” LaSota, connected the dots early, but it was Andy Ngo who was the first journalist to follow up on Taylor’s information.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Real Murders, Fake Suicides: ‘Zizian’ Death Cult Fugitives Still at Large
2nd February 2025
Amanda Lefton, the former director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), went to work for a major offshore wind company after the agency boosted the industry and worked to limit offshore fossil fuel development on her watch.
Lefton spearheaded the Biden administration’s effort to build out 30 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity along America’s coasts by 2030 in her capacity as the leader of BOEM, playing a key role in the administration’s all-of-government offshore wind push from February 2021 to February 2023, according to her LinkedIn profile. She then went to work on green energy-related issues for Foley Hoag LLC — a major D.C. law firm — for approximately six months and then joined RWE, a major player in the offshore wind space, as the head of development for the east coast in July 2023.
This is hardly surprising given the incestuous relations between the Biden BOEM and the wind industry. On Ms. Lefton’s watch the agency helped rush the so-far disastrous Vineyard Wind project through. BOEM even waived the financial assurance requirements intended to protect the taxpayers from the costs of decommissioning the project when complete (while, in the Gulf, it was modifying those same requirements in an attempt to drive small oil and gas companies out of business),” Michael Chamberlain, director of Protect the Public’s Trust, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Former Deputy Secretary of the Interior Tommy Beaudreau, her boss during most of her tenure at BOEM, had previously represented Vineyard Wind. This revolving door has been spinning everywhere the Biden administration and the climate sector meet. The players remain the same, the only thing that changes is who signs the paychecks.”
“And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.” — Luke 16:9.
Posted in Your tax dollars at work - and play. | Comments Off on ‘Revolving Door’: Biden’s Ocean Energy Chief Went to Work for Major Offshore Wind Company After Admin Boosted Industry
2nd February 2025
The Salafi jihadist group Hurras al-Din, Syria’s official al-Qaeda affiliate, announced this week that it was dissolving, saying its goals were complete following the regime change that ousted former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
“[T]he sons of the Al-Qaeda Jihad organization rushed to support the people of the Levant and assist them in removing injustice from them until God permitted this Sunni Muslim people to triumph over one of the most unjust tyrants of the modern era,” Hurras al-Din said in a statement.
The group said al-Qaeda had ordered it to dissolve. “In light of these developments on the Levantine scene, and by an emir’s decision from the general command of al-Qaeda in the Levant organization, we announce to our Muslim nation and to the Sunnis in the Levant the dissolution of the Guardians of Religion Organization (Hurras al-Din),” the group said.
As long as Islam exists, ‘jihadis’ will be a problem. It’s been that way for 1400 years, and there is no indication that it will change. Whether our Ruling Class will continue prating how ‘peaceful’ Muslims are while ignoring the mass murder, or whether they will wake up and decide to do something about it, is an exercise left for the reader. (Exercise that doesn’t raise a sweat–my favorite kind.)
Posted in Living with Islam: The world's most intolerant—and intolerable—religion | Comments Off on Syria’s Al-Qaeda Branch Dissolves, Says Goals Completed by Regime Change
2nd February 2025
The Atlantic, a Voice of the Crust.
The Democrats are angry. Well, at least some of them.
For months, party activists have felt bitter about Kamala Harris’s election loss, and incensed at the leaders who first went along with Joe Biden’s decision to run again. They feel fresh outrage each time a new detail is revealed about the then-81-year-old’s enfeeblement and its concealment by the advisers in charge. But right now, what’s making these Democrats angriest is that many of their elected leaders don’t seem angry at all.
For all the people in Watts’s camp, the party’s response to Donald Trump’s first 12 days in office has been maddening at best and demoralizing at worst. After Trump issued pardons or commutations for the January 6 rioters last week, including the ones who attacked police officers, no immediate chorus of anger came from what is supposed to be the next generation of Democratic talent, including Maryland Governor Wes Moore, California Governor Gavin Newsom, and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, another 2028 hopeful, who is on tour selling a young-adult version of her autobiography, has told interviewers, “I am not out looking for fights. I am always looking to collaborate.”
Posted in Democrats: Party of Plundering and Blundering | Comments Off on Democrats Wonder Where Their Leaders Are
2nd February 2025
Several anti-Israel organizations that blocked major roadways in Washington D.C. last year were slapped with a class action lawsuit Friday by a legal group representing a traveler trapped in the traffic jam.
Left-wing groups, including Jewish Voice for Peace, the Palestinian Youth Movement and its fiscal sponsor, the Westchester Political Action Committee Foundation, among others, shut down access to several major roadways in D.C. on Feb. 1, 2024, for close to an hour. A total of 23 anti-Israel activists were arrested on charges of “crowding, obstructing or incommoding.” Three were also charged with resisting arrest.
The keffiyeh-clad activists chained themselves together in the middle of highways while others linked arms with PVC pipes, forming human chains to block roads. Many of the activists held signs that said, “From the River to the Sea, Palestine Must be Free,” and chanted slogans including “We Don’t Want No Jewish State” and “If We Don’t Get It, Shut It Down!”
Posted in Living with Islam: The world's most intolerant—and intolerable—religion | Comments Off on Anti-Israel Groups Slapped With Class Action Lawsuit for Orchestrating Traffic Blockade
2nd February 2025
Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass’s (D.) wildfire recovery czar, Steve Soboroff, advised Hollywood talent executives on a private Zoom call to wait to sell their properties. City investments in the Palisades neighborhood, he said, will allow them to “triple” the low-ball offers they’re currently receiving.
“Whether you’re broke or you’re old, don’t sell now, because in one year we’re going to be putting billions of dollars in your neighborhood of improvements,” Soboroff said Thursday. “You’ll get triple what these guys are offering you for now.”
It appeared at least some of the call’s attendees had their homes damaged or destroyed entirely in this month’s wildfires, while others were looking for ways to help.
Posted in Your tax dollars at work - and play. | Comments Off on LA’s Fire Recovery Czar Privately Tells Hollywood Execs to Hold on to Their Properties, Promising City Investments Will Triple Their Palisades Property Values
