Oregon. You don't wanna know

Guess what all the people in this pic have in common.

 

The clue is the small green logo barely visible in the bottom-right corner of each pic: they're leftists in Oregon, busted for meth.  They're smiling because they couldn't care less--the Democrat rulers of that beautiful shithole always release them with no charge, cuz...Dems iz compassionate, comrade!  

For those of you who don't keep up with events outside your reach: five years ago the Dems who totally rule Oregon took the policy of the Democrat Partei [sic] to its logical conclusion and legalized ALL addictive drugs.  "Cuz why should duh gummint have any concern about whut yew put in your own body to get off, eh?"

Easy answer: addiction makes addicts steal and kill to get money to buy more of the drug they demand.  And it doesn't bother 'em a bit that someone else suffers for their pleasure.  Got it? 

Pushers of the faaabulous law bleated dat dis wud make everything bettah!  Crime would drop, cuz...um...reasons.  An' wif all duh money duh state wud save by NOT prosecuting druggies or paying to put 'em in jail for a few months, duh state cud pay fo' drug counseling and "treatment," eh?

And like magic, hundreds of "drug counseling and treatment centers" were instantly created and accredited by the state.  To the surprise of no one, every one of these centers were run by leftists, many of whom were relatives of state lawmakers.  Cuz dems iz, like, reeeeally compassionate, eh?

Getting paid $100 per client per day had nuffin' to do wif it.

So how many druggies sought "treatment" at the taxpayer-funded facilities?

A few dozen.  And did crime by drug addicts drop?

Hahahahahaha!  It got worse.  Lots worse.  So after 18 months even the stupid Democrats who rule Oregon (and continue to rule it to this day) gave up, and repealed the law legalizing all addictive drugs.  Oh wait...they didn't.  Instead they let citizens vote on it, in a "referendum."  Cuz dat way duh Dems couldn't be accused of being anti-drug!  They'd simply accept the "will of duh pipo," eh?

So...can we learn anything from this?  (If you're a Dem in Minnesota you may need to consult a Somali "Learing Center" [sic] to grasp it.)

The answer is No:  Oregon is still ruled by "smaht but moronic" Democrats--and always will be, because the leftist druggies of Portland far outnumber the conservative rural citizens.

And here, finally, rational people see the fatal weakness of "democracy:"  The drug-addled morons, and their left/liberal enablers, will always vote Democrat, so the Dems will continue to rule Oregon.  

Two hours after the gunman was at the dinner, commenters were bleating "Dis beez FAKE!"

Two hours after the gunman at the White House Correspondents Dinner, the X account at this link had about 200 comments.

If you want an indicator of how deranged Democrats are, consider this: 

At least 40 wrote some variation of "Dis beez FAKE!!!" 

Dozens of other X accounts contained about the same percentage of "Dis beez Fake!" comments.  Wow.  Then you go back and see that the same percentage claim Trump was NOT actually shot in Butler, PA. 

Here's a different X account, with the same percentage of Democrat deniers.

The Democrats have several layers of denial--a kind of "defense in depth:"

• "None of it happened--it was all fake."
•  "It may have happened, but was staged by Trumpies to distract us from Iran.
•  "If it happened, it was only due to the incompetence of Trump's Secret Service.  Would nevah have happened if that excellent woman who headed the SS when Trump faked being shot in the ear at Butler had still been running it!
• "Trump will blame Iran, then use this as an excuse to bomb Iran again.
• "Totally staged by Trump to help his pathetic poll numbers.
• "How could someone living in California know about the lack of security in a space where high security would be expected?"
• "It shouldn't have been possible to get a gun into a secure venue like this.  So it must have been allowed in--which proves it was staged." 
• "False-flag to try to blame Iran."
• "Staged to distract from Trump's and the military's total failure in the Strait of Hormuz."
• "Staged to win the Rethuglicans a few more votes in the mid-terms."

And my favorite in terms of insanity: "Americans will eventually discover that the Jews are behind this, because they oppose the ceasefire with Iran."
   
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For all those in the media who (understandably) dived under tables to avoid being shot: Hope you were scared to death.  I'd hope the experience just might cause you to reconsider the scathing contempt in all your reporting about our military and cops, by recalling how you all felt at that moment, and that the fear you felt in those moments might change your world-view a tiny bit.  

But of course it won't: tomorrow you'll be right back to "Trump BAD, Iran, leftists and illegal aliens Guuud!"

You Democrat-fellating, Trump-hating "journalists" are unhinged, irrational.  But on some deeply-buried level you KNOW the truth, which is that you're tools of the Democrat Partei who haven't a clue about how the world really works--which is, without cops, some deranged asshole like Luigi Mangione, or the guy who shot Charlie Kirk, or the career criminal who fatally stabbed Iryna in the throat from behind as she sat on a streetcar won't hesitate an instant to kill you too--even if you're an "elite" "journalist."
  But because only one thing matters to you and your comrades--blocking everything Trump tries--you'll continue to support the Islamic regime in Iran, and Chuckie Schumer, and AOC, and Hakeem Jeffries, and socialism, and Chyna--because the only thing that matters to you dumb bastards is winning power for the Democrat party.
   It's the common thread that motivates all of you, and you know it.  More than that: doing eve everything you can to destroy Trump makes you feel virtuous, both because you hate him, and because defeating his policies at every turn wins power for your Partei.

You're giving your country away with both hands, but you're too blinded by TDS to see it.  

Democrat Gavin Newsom wants to be president; has given almost a billion tax dollars to leftist orgs

For young Americans: Democrat California governor Gavin Newsom is slick, oily, corrupt and a brazen liar and hypocrite--which makes him VERY popular among Democrats.  He's the leading candidate to be the party's presidential nominee in two years.

Newsom pushed the "train to nowhere"--a $120 billion white elephant originally touted as running from LA to San Francisco and Sacramento. (For young Americans that's the state capital.)  

Originally touted as 450 miles, it was obvious to all that the actual cost would easily be double what the backers had touted cost, so they cut the planned route back, again and again.  Now it's just 175 miles, between two towns you never heard of. 

But if you're not a conservative from California you don't care about any of that.  By contrast, you might care about the fact that Newsom has given almost a BILLION taxpayer dollars to leftist organizations working to destroy the United States.

City Journal is how journalism is supposed to work: factual, non-hysterical.  They investigated Newsoms lavish gifts--to organizations working to destroy the U.S. by opening the border and importing illegals with HIV.

My edited version of their much longer piece:

During biden's term an unprecedented wave of "migrants" entered the U.S. across the Mexican border.  The flooded in in mobs of 20,000 at a time, having been assured they'd be allowed to stay.  Many of the "migrants" paid drug cartels up to $7,000 apiece to be guided to the U.S.

At various times American authorities estimated that over 130,000 "migrants" were crossing into the U.S. each month--and not just from Latin America but every nation.

While Texas and Arizona tried to stop the flood, the Newsom regime in California welcomed it.  City Journal found that governor Gavin Newsom gave almost $1 billion to an army of nonprofits with the goal of getting more migrants to enter the U.S.

The groups have led massive street protests against ICE.  While they claim to be “humanitarian” or bleating for “immigration justice,” many are in fact left-wing activist groups determined to transform America’s demographics and win more political power for Democrats.  What's outrageous is that the Newsom regime is using tax dollars to fund it all--as he's running for president.

The expenditures have been enormous.  Since Newsom took office, California has granted massive contracts for migrant-related services: more than $250 million to Catholic Charities; $85 million to Jewish Family Services; $12 million to Centro Legal de la Raza; $23 million to the Immigration Institute of the Bay Area; and more.

Many nonprofits benefiting from these funds are shockingly radical. 

According to its own materials, Al Otro Lado is anti-borders and openly hostile to the American nation.  In one video the group shows off books from its library, such as Undoing Border Imperialism, that “remind us that the U.S. is [sh*t].” The organization is currently suing the Trump administration to prohibit the government from turning away certain migrants at the border.

Another taxpayer-funded group, Oasis Legal Services, helps “queer and trans immigrants navigate immigration relief and benefits.”  (The group denies that it encourages the entry of immigrants.)

Adam Ryan Chang, Oasis’s executive director, says his “superpower” is “homosexual audacity.”  He describes his work with the nonprofit as part of a broader left-wing campaign of “liberating” the “LGBTQ+ community.” In a recent annual report, the group boasted about representing migrants with HIV. In 2024, the report said, “one in six of new clients is living with HIV and the rest are all at significant risk of contracting HIV.” In 2025, the proportion increased to one in five.

See, what we need is to pay taxpayer dollars to import more people with HIV into the U.S.

Once unauthorized people have crossed the border, Newsom has sought to ensure that they don’t get deported.  Since the beginning of his term he's given over $100 million to nonprofits that fight deportation orders—sometimes even for clients with criminal convictions.

One of the most prominent anti-deportation nonprofits is the Immigrant Defenders Law Center, or ImmDef, which has been given at least $6.7 million in taxpayer dollars since Newsom took office. The group portrays the United States as an oppressor, claiming the Trump administration has a “white supremacist” agenda.  The org has explicitly called to “abolish the immigration prison system” and to “abolish ICE”—which, in effect, would abolish the border.

ImmDef is open about its radical goals.  In 2023  its CEO, Lindsay Toczylowski, listed one of her group’s goals as “getting people out of ICE prison.”

That's their privilege.  But why should taxpayers be forced to pay 'em?

Once illegal immigrants are in the United States, ImmDef provides legal representation to fight deportation orders, including for those with criminal convictions. ImmDef is explicit about this: it has adopted a “merits-blind universal representation model” and provides “post-conviction relief” to illegals convicted of criminal offenses.

It’s impossible to know how many illegal-alien criminals have been kept from deportation by ImmDef and other taxpayer-funded groups because of a California law prohibiting a defendant's immigration status from being revealed even in a criminal court without a judge’s permission.  But there are alarming hints.

In 2023 the taxpayer-funded San Diego County Immigrant Legal Defense Program, which has worked with ImmDef, used county funds to provide immigration legal services to 34 noncitizens convicted of crimes such as drug trafficking, money laundering, and acts of “moral turpitude.”  The program insists that such migrants made up a “very small share” of its caseload.

Meantime, Democrats apparently want to scrap any reforms and dramatically expand legal protections for unauthorized migrants. Assemblymember Mia Bonta, wife of the state's Democrat attorney-general Rob Bonta, is working to extend state-funded legal aid to all illegal immigrants fighting deportation.

The final part of Newsom’s pro-illegal machine is the activist element, designed to resist federal authorities challenging California’s status as a “sanctuary state.”

Last summer pro-illegal protesters launched anti-ICE demonstrations around the country, most notably in Los Angeles, where the riots cost the city $32 million and led to hundreds of arrests. Throughout the city agitators burned cars, looted stores, shut down the freeway, and threw rocks, bottles, and fireworks at law enforcement officers—all, effectively, to stop Trump from deporting illegal aliens.

Activists framed the protests as spontaneous and grassroots, but behind the scenes a web of powerful organizations drove the narrative.  At the center of this web is the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights Los Angeles (CHIRLA) has been given $110 million in taxpayer dollars just since Newsom took office.

CHIRLA is an activist outfit that can get people into the streets. The group coordinates the L.A. Rapid Response Network, which tracks ICE raids and takes “direct action to shut down detention centers.” 

At the height of the unrest, CHIRLA’s executive director, Angelica Salas, spoke at a street protest, telling crowds “We are going to stop Trump’s terror campaign against our community.  We will not stop fighting.”

CHIRLA later claimed its protest tactics are “rooted in non-violent advocacy, community safety, and democratic values.” 

The Central American Resource Center of Los Angeles, an immigrant-services nonprofit, was reportedly “heavily involved” in the demonstrations.  The Newsome regime has given this group $18 million by the Newsom administration since 2019.

When we asked the governor’s office for comment on this story, a spokesperson denied that the governor's office was “funding criminal activity or bypassing public health law.”

Who benefits from the governor's administration giving hundreds of millions of dollars to left-wing organizations?  Certainly the foreigners who entered the U.S. and obviously want to stay.  But also benefiting is the vast army of nonprofits, lawyers, activists, and bureaucrats who make money from defending illegals—and keep politicians like Newsom in power. 

The web of non-profits not only bring illegal aliens into the U.S. but also maintain the flow of funds to left-wing activists who would like to see America burn.

Source: City Journal 

The experts think they're right, but I have my own opinion:

 

Source: PowerlineBlog 

The week in pictures

Everything below is from PowerlineBlog.  Great collection!

 

Dexter is a U.S. congress-creep from the Peoples' Republic of Oregon.  I originally wrote that she was a moron, but a group called Morons of America said this was an insult to them and threatened to sue.  Not having a taxpayer-funded slush-fund to pay off lawsuits, I've amended my post.

 

 

 

 

For young Americans: On 13 February 2021 Joe Biden--a demented vegetable and life-long politician whose party stole the 2020 presidential election--nominated the man on the left (Richard Levine, demanding to be called "Rachel") as Assistant Secretary of HHS in charge of Health--presumably including mental health.  This move was HUGELY cheered by all Democrats as perfect, because in Dem-world trannies are always the best-qualified for any position.

And in case you think this was just an accident, the bald cross-dresser on the right (Sam Brinton) was appointed by the bribem regime to be in charge of federal nuclear waste.  As with Levine, all Democrats hugely cheered this vital appointment, because when you want a stable, well-grounded person in a post of some responsibility, Dems know cross-dressers are the solid choice for Dem presidents.

Mark this pic well, because "Media" organs are busily but quietly erasing both from the history books.  In another 8 years no trace that bribem appointed 'em will remain.

 

The woman in the pic above is the mayor of Seattle, a "progressive activist" (communist) named Katie Wilson.  Wilson's sole substantive accomplishment prior to winning the mayor's race was to co-found the area's "Transit Rider's Union"--a non-profit which has glommed onto tons of tax dollars and in the last 3 years before the election was paying her $73,000 a year--which is nice work for a non-profit, eh?

Wilson is on the left of every issue in Seattle.  And because the city council is totally leftist-ruled, all leftist policies are quickly and efficiently adopted.  As a result, the city is becoming even more of a leftist paradise. 

 

 

Below: How the U.S. Left (NY Times) takes a great idea and kills it by going woke.  If you're a parent, ask you highschool kids if they can guess what a "blind audition" is, and whether it might allow hiring committees to choose the best musician.  If they get that one, ask em what sort of group might want to END blind auditions.  

 

 

 

Below: "Biden's 34 months?  No problem.  Trump's 2 months?  Impeach!" 

How to destroy the U.S. in a single generation

How many of the things below have you personally witnessed?

• Groups claiming U.S. women are being exploited by men.
• Groups trying to convince you that U.S. men are bad for...well, for everything...and therefore men should stop objecting when they see people trying to destroy our country.
• Groups claiming minorities are being exploited by whites, and that "the U.S. has always been raaacist."
• Groups trying to convince whites to feel guilty about themselves for...everything.
• Public school staff and the Media urging teens and pre-teens to believe they were "born in the wrong body," and that the only solution is to have hormone "therapy" and sex-change surgery.
• Groups insisting that anyone who objects to "hormone therapy" and sex-change surgery on teens and pre-teens is a stupid, hateful bigot.
• Groups insisting that socialism (communism) is FAR better than free markets.
• Groups insisting that "no human is illegal," so we must allow anyone to enter the U.S. and vote in our elections (i.e. open borders).
• Groups insisting that requiring photo-ID and proof of citizenship to register to vote is somehow "voter suppression."
• Groups insisting that requiring that mail-in ballots must bear voter signatures that actually match those on file, and witness signatures, is somehow "voter suppression."
• Groups insisting that nations that seem to want to defeat us don't really want to do that--(you just imagined it)--and thus that taking military action to oppose such nations is simply "Rethuglican hate" and a waste of money.

Now: how many of the above things have you personally witnessed?  If you think about it, you'll realize the same people are pushing ALL the policies and mandates above.  They're Democrat policies slobberingly parroted by the Democrat-fellating Mainstream Media.

Question is, do ya think the people pushing all these policies and demands are doing this by coincidence--by accident? 

If you believe that, I've got some ocean-front property in Nebraska I'll sell ya, cheap!

(For young Americans living on either coast: Nebraska is a U.S. state in the center of the U.S.--what the "elites" call "flyover country."  It's totally land-locked, meaning no ocean-front property.) 

MASSIVE welfare fraud in California, part # 456,934

"City Journal" is one of the good guys: honest, non-hysterical, rock-solid.  If you wanna know what's going on with the corrupt Dem shitholes, you need to read these folks.

Wait, my bad:  Cuz if you're a Democrat you do NOT want to know what's going on.  Or else you cheer the massive theft, just as Dems today are actually pushing up-scale elite women to steal from Whole Foods and other big companies.  "No problem," right?  And gummint is just like a big company, eh?  Ahh yes, of course.

Amusingly, reality will sort this all out, sooner than you might imagine.  If you're under 40 you'll almost certainly get to live it.  Spoiler: you won't like it.  And you can thank Democrats and RINOs.

SO...thanks to decades of Democrat one-party rule, California is one of the most corrupt states in the nation--and that's saying something.  Thanks to corrupt Democrat policies, billions of taxpayer dollars are being lost each year to brazen, obvious fraud.  That is, easily detected, easily prosecuted.  But the corrupt Dem state refuses BOTH to investigate fraud, to prosecute, AND to change policies to make it harder for grifters to steal. 

Average Democrat: "NOOoooo, dis not true!  Dis jus' a right-wing conspiracy story!  Dey jus' wanna make life harder fo' duh po' pipo!"

Except it IS true.  And you ain't seen nuthin' yet.  Twenty years from now people will be writing books about how obvious the massive, organized fraud encouraged by stupid Dem welfare programs was, and they'll be amazed that conservatives put up with it.

Problem was, we didn't have a choice, because Democrats are in the majority in all the Dem-ruled shithole states, so "anything goes" if they want it.

Democrat rulers--and corrupt leftist judges--have been able to shut down EVERY effort to stop it.  And with that, here's an edited version of the City Journal piece.  They go into more detail, so you're encouraged to read the original here.

Few programs are more troubled than California's $30 billion grift-fest called the "In-Home Supportive Services Program," paid for by federal Medicare and Medicaid funds, re-labeled as "Medi-Cal." 

IHSS has become one of the largest fraud programs in the U.S, with about $12 billion every YEAR being stolen by grifters.  

The program sounds compassionate: rather than putting elderly people in state hospitals, why not pay people to care for *their* disabled and elderly *family members* at home, eh?

Sound faaaabulous!  But like ALL gummint programs, grifters quickly found out how to exploit (i.e. defraud) it.  The Dem rulers created "rules" that enabled massive fraud.

A growing cadre of whistleblowers has confirmed that IHSS has become a way for criminals to get rich quick.

We interviewed a former California law-enforcement official who worked on Medi-Cal fraud cases.  Our source says the biggest source of fraud is “overlords” who buy homes and stuff them with sickly Californians, cut off from their families, to pocket taxpayer money. 

And of course the corrupt Dem-ruled state doesn’t care. Fraud is almost never punished: few cases are ever pursued, and the few that are are routinely downgraded by corrupt leftist California judges from felonies to...time served.  Favored  offenders are let off with community service.  And not a single stolen dollar is ever recovered.

The corrupt bastards never even TRY to recover stolen taxpayer money--cuz that might reflect badly on Democrat rulers.

Edited interview:

City Journal: How widespread is IHSS and Medi-Cal fraud?

Source: It’s been happening for decades.  The problem is that even when we press charges, judges just plead cases down to nothing.

CJ: What level of fraud gets investigated or prosecuted?

Source:  When I tried to get the FBI to investigate an alleged theft of $500,000 (under the bribem regime), they said that wasn’t enough for them even to look at.
   Leftist judges always end up plea-bargaining fraud charges down to misdemeanors, then giving offenders community service.  *They never go to jail*--because the judges sympathize with IHSS providers.
   
CJ: What makes the IHSS system so vulnerable to fraud?

Source:  Because the system doesn't have any checks for fraud.  They simply trust that fraudsters are telling the truth. 

CJ:  Are there any meaningful background checks for IHSS providers?

Source:  No. (Editor’s note: California Dems bleat that they require background checks for IHSS providers--and yet allows those with criminal records to get "exemptions" for all but the most heinous crimes.)

CJ: What do large-scale fraud operations look like?

Source: There’s one person—I always call them the overlord—who buys or rents 15 or 20 houses and turns them into IHSS homes.  He divides the space up and even puts ten people in the garage. 

CJ: What happens to people in these homes?

Source: Once you end up in one of these homes, they take ownership of everything.  The overlord gets access to the victim's bank account and gets power of attorney. They hold your cellphone so your family can’t contact you. You have families reaching out, saying, “I can’t reach my grandpa. Every time I go over there, they don’t open the door.”
   In one case fraudsters sold a victim’s home, stole the victim’s money, and kept the victim in poor condition. 

CJ: What has happened to the overlords?

Source: An IHSS fraudster who went to prison kept collecting IHSS payments through a family member. 
   No effort is ever made to recover money stolen from taxpayers.  No one bothers to try.  By the time anyone notices it's too late to bring a case.

CJ: What is the most common type of IHSS fraud?

Source:  Ghost billing: Fraudsters either bill for services that weren’t provided, including billing for people who died or are no longer in their care.
 
CJ: What role do doctors play in IHSS fraud?

Source: You have doctors who are billing for supposedly seeing 75 patients in one day.  That’s impossible. There’s no way a doctor can see 75 people in a day. 

CJ: Why isn’t fraud caught earlier?

Source: Even if a patient’s Social Security number is being simultaneously used by IHSS and a skilled nursing facility, the facility won’t be notified. Staff aren’t going to tell the patient, “Wait a minute. Somebody else is using your Social.” The databases don’t talk to one another. We can only connect the dots after the fact a year into the fraud. 

CJ: Couldn’t IHSS’s system flag something simple, like ten recipients at the same address?

Source: Yes but for some reason they don’t have those kinds of checks set up.  The only people who really know who’s in the house are the social workers, but they don't rat out the overlord because it isn't their job.

CJ: What happens if fraud is identified? Is the money recovered?

Source: My contact at IHSS explained that they send the fraudster a bill and say, “You owe us this much.”  But there’s never any follow-up or prosecution.  You'd think they'd at least kick the fraudsters out of the system, but they don’t.

CJ: Would unannounced visits help uncover more fraud and prevent elder abuse?

Source: Yes. 

CJ: What other changes would you recommend?

Source: The background checks seem insufficient. Disqualifying people who have any felony conviction would seem an obvious place to start. 

Source: City Journal

https://www.city-journal.org/article/california-in-home-supportive-services-program-ihss-fraud
 

In Detroit, thieves are stealing brass from...whut?

If you're like most Americans, you don't keep up with much that's outside your immediate reach, so you probably never knew that for several years in U.S. Dem-ruled shithole "cities" thugs were stealing copper wire from streetlights and stoplights and selling it as scrap metal.

The moronic bastards were even stealing christmas lights to sell the copper wire.

Thieves are still stealing copper in streetlights--widespread.  You just never hear about it, because the lying national media refuses to report it. 

In California's central valley--lots of farming and irrigation--Hispanic gangs began stealing irrigation pumps just for their 20 pounds of copper wiring.  The pumps were typically half a mile from the farmer's house, and near the road, and the theft would only take minutes.

Also in California lots of buildings in small towns have brass markers noting the historical significance of buildings.  Thieves discovered they could pry the markers off the buildings in just a couple of minutes and sell the brass for a few bucks.

The latest trend in theft comes to us from the Dem-ruled shithole of Detroit--a.k.a. thug-central--where thieves are stripping brass fittings off of fire hydrants--which makes the hydrants unusable until discovered and repaired. 

Democrat: "You conservatives are just doin' this for clickbait!  It can't be that bad!  Cut these po' inner-city druggies some slack!  How bad could this possibly be?"

SO..."couldn't be that serious," eh? According to Detroit's black fire chief, thieves have disabled 75 hydrants on one part of town--in just 48 hours.

Welcome to Democrat-ruled America, citizen. 

Source: local TV station--ignored by the Networks 

https://www.wxyz.com/news/region/detroit/thieves-destroy-nearly-75-detroit-fire-hydrants-to-steal-metal-parts-putting-lives-at-risk 

A resident of Tehran on life there--and hopelessness

Following is from someone claiming to be living in Tehran.  It was posted on "Iran international."

It's hard to describe what things feel like here in Tehran.  Bad, yes, but perhaps weird and unreal are more accurate.  Everyone is wondering How did we get here?  Followed quickly by "What happens next?"

In ten months we have lived through a huge protest, a deadly crackdown and two wars. 

Trump is claiming victory, but the rulers in Tehran—whoever they are right now—claim Iran has won.  And sadly U.S. Democrat politicians are saying the same.  Regardless, people here are exhausted--completely spent, at least for now.

The economic disaster has been visible for months. Layoffs are spreading, prices rising daily.  People joke that at least the shops are full of goods, because no one can afford to buy them.

Last year I wrote that when people in Iran speak about the future they usually mean tomorrow.  Now even that time horizon has shrunk.

Belief in a better future is a coping mechanism.  But now no one sees any chance of the future being better in our lifetimes.  People don't want the Islamic regime to survive—perhaps even more harsh and unified than before--but without guns we can't resist the murderous basij and IRGC.

President Trump says Iran’s capabilities have been obliterated, and “regime change is complete." We haven't seen it even begin.  The mullahs, the IRGC and the basij thugs appear firmly in control of the streets.  Every night they stage loud displays of celebration—part rally, part carnival—proclaiming victory and implicitly daring anyone to disagree.

Even if the parties agree on peace terms, ordinary citizens of Iran aren't on the U.S. agenda.  Even Trump has said he isn't demanding regime change.

Almost no one outside Iran seems to notice how isolated we have become.  The mullahs are sealing off the country, one rule at a time.

People still go through the motions of life, but most Iranians have stopped hoping.

Source.

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202604215404

Predicting the future re: Iran

As expiration of cease-fire nears, Iran refuses to send negotiators to Pakistan 

Trump wants Iran to agree not to build an atomic bomb, to surrender the 950 pounds of highly enriched uranium needed to make one, and to stop building ICBMs. 

The mullahs have refused all three demands, and  Trump has said bombing will resume if they continue to refuse.

But the mullahs, generals and IRGC thugs ruling Iran don't believe they're in any danger from that threat, because they believe Trump won't follow through.  From watching U.S. Democrat leaders like Chuck Schumer and Chris Murphy on TV, and seeing total agreement from our Media, the thugs ruling Iran believe the Democrats will succeed in getting the courts to force Trump to withdraw U.S. forces from the area, leaving the Islamic regime in power.

So all the mullah have to do is "run the clock out:" They see Trump's approval numbers plummeting, so their plan is to drag out negotiations for another month or so, and U.S. Democrats will force Trump to withdraw. 

And unfortunately I think they're probably right. 

Chuckie Schumer and all top U.S. Democrat pols are blasting Trump.  When an Iranian propagandist tweeted that 26 Iranian ships had gotten through the U.S. blockade (a lie), Democrat senator Chris Murphy posted on X "Awesome."  The Dems are actively rooting for Iran to win.

Every single day the Democrat-fellating Mainstream Media broadcasts stories about Americans wailing about how AWFUL the price of gasoline is--even though it's lower than it was under bribem.  Cuz NOW it's a big deal, eh? 

So Trump is feeling pressure to make any sort of deal.  The Media say he's "desperately searching for an 'exit ramp.'"  And now he says he's extending the ceasefire.

I think that offer sends exactly the wrong signal to the mullahs because it'll encourage them to redouble their delaying efforts.  And eventually Trump will have just two options: either order the massive bombing that should have started today, or the Democrats will force him to withdraw.

Iranian citizens aren't allowed to own guns, so they can't overthrow the heavily-armed thugs of the IRGC and basij--something that was horribly proven when those groups executed 40,000 Iranian citizens at point-blank range on January 8th thru 10th.  And without an armed civilian overthrow, we can't force the IRGC and basij to surrender, so the war ends in a stalemate. 

So the mullahs will be left in power--and the Democrats will gloat and crow that Trump's war wasted a billions of dollars and accomplished absolutely nothing--deliberately failing to note that we destroyed Iran's ability to further enrich uranium to build an atomic bomb.
 

Mainstream Media: "The U.S. is losing to Iran, badly! Doom and defeat are imminent!"

I'm watching NBC and the other treasonous, anti-Trump, pro-Iran Mainstream Media organs bleat about what they think the U.S. should do, with Iranian leaders threatening to unleash new "cards" on the battlefield.

Funny shit.  Here's what to do: Announce "We totally understand that the Islamic rulers of Iran are unwilling to surrender, since that would result in them being torn limb from limb.  We fully appreciate that dilemma.   So even though we'd like to have an end to this, because we can't change their minds, we welcome their sending out more thousands of their loyal troops to take on the U.S. military.  After all, that's worked SO well for you in the past."

"Lather, rinse, repeat.  We're prepared to do this until you either run out of loyalists or decide to stop sacrificing your supporters.  Your call.  Just keep in mind that the more people you sacrifice in your selfish attempt to maintain power, the worse for you when your people take over.  But hey, we're fine either way you wanna go."  

NY Times: "Some experts say most of the beaches on east coast will be gone in 25 years"

Ahhh, the New York Times!  The leading voice of the U.S. left.  Every Media outlet slobbers that the Times folks are reeeeally smaht!  Totally honest and unbiased!  So...here's what they published: 

 

"Some experts say most of the beaches on the east coast of the United States would be gone in 25 years."  Note the date that was published: September 18, 1995.  We're now over 30 years later, and last time I looked not a single beach has vanished.   

Moreover, the Times says beaches "are already disappearing at an average of 2 to 3 feet a year."  So now they should be chopped by 60 to 90 feet, eh?  Anyone notice that?

The reporters and editors at the Times know as much about atmospheric physics and thermodynamics as my dog.  So they find some leftist PhD looking to make a name for itself by offering up a scary scenario, which the Times is eager to print.  Dem party jumps on it, and Barack Obozo green-lights an EPA RULE forcing half the coal-fired generating plants in the U.S. to either be extensively altered or closed.  Electricity prices skyrocket. 

Years down the road, Democrat politicians and the Media blame Trump for high electricity prices. 

But you can trust the Times.  Really.  And their faaabulous "experts."

"Mom, what's a 'contradiction'?"

 

Boston faces $40 million deficit this year, so female Dem mayor gives $500 "wellness allowances" to...

Boston has a current-year deficit of almost $50 million.  So what does the corrupt, stupid female Democrat mayor Michelle Wu do?

 

This is how Democrats stay in power in Dem-ruled shithole cities and states--by giving away taxpayer money to favored groups.  In this case "wellness allowances for LGBTQs--99% of whom vote Democrat.  

This is insane.  If you'd known the future in 1990 and had told people this would be THE strategy of Democrats, and that in just 36 years cities that couldn't pay their costs would be giving $500 "freebies" to queers, no one would have believed it.  And yet here we are.

Worse yet, all the polls are predicting that *because Trump had the balls to stand up to the terrorist Islamic state of Iran and end their atomic bomb program, Dems are almost certain to win control of at least the House in November, and possibly the senate.

Lesson for Democrat pols: keep giving taxpayer money to queers and trannies, and voters will reward ya with even more power.  

Source.

Ever heard this at a Democrat rally?

 

It wouldn't surprise me!

 

Where the EU, U.K. and U.S. seem to be headed

My dad was in the international oil business, and for 18 years my American parents lived in London, 100 yards from Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park.  If you're familiar with London you know that area.

I visited many times, and loved it.  Sadly, what was once "Great Britain” has become a Muslim caliphate. Islam has a long history of conquest, and they're clearly determined to rule the U.K.--and all of the EU.

U.S. Democrats: "Nonsense, deplorable!  How can yew possibly believe that?  After all, after 9/11 even Republican G.W. Bush repeatedly assured us "Islam is THE religion of peace," right?  Why would he have said that after 9/11 if it wasn't true, eh?  So you're just a paranoid conservative who hates brown pipo!"

I watch most of the EU nations becoming Muzz-ruled, and marvel at the utter stupidity of their citizens--who clearly know nothing of history--and apparently have no desire to learn.

Because from the outset, Islam has always been an engine of conquest disguised as a religion.  The Koran itself says when Muslims take power, citizens of conquered nations have just three choices: either convert to Islam, or pay a special tax--the "jizya"--on non-Muslims, or...be killed.

If you don't believe it, look it the fuck up.

It seems unlikely that just 80 years after WW2 most Europeans (Euro-peons) have become too stupid to live.  Instead the problem seems to be that with the electorate evenly divided between conservatives and idiots, European politicians have chosen to support Islam to win election.

So EU politicians are quietly sacrificing their native populations to the invaders.  And if you don't believe that you're clearly either uninformed, or too stupid to breathe without assistance.  Seriously.

74 members of the U.S. House and 25 senators are firmly in the pro-Muzz, pro-paleswinian camp.  It's how they vote, every time.  That's why the Dems have blocked every effort to reinstate funding for DHS.

The Lying Mainstream Media (Democrat fellators) have spun this battle as "conservatives hate brown pipo!"  But that seems to be a deliberate, cunning move to get Hispanics and blacks to support Democrat policies designed to advance Islam.

And the amusing part for me is that if Islam takes over all of Europe and the U.S, it won't hurt me a bit:  My life has been far better than I could ever have imagined, and I don't have kids, so when the rulers of the Democrat party turn everything to shit--as they inevitably will--it won't affect me a bit.

But if you're young, or have kids, it will sure as hell affect you and yours.

Of course you don't believe that, because you believe lying pieces of shit like Chuckie Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Hakeem Jeffries, Cory Booker, AOC, Liz Warren, Chris van Hollen, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Ayana Presley, Gavin Newsom, J.B. Pritzker, Zohran Mamdani and dozens of other Democrats, and all late-night talk-show hosts, all of whom absolutely assure you that open borders and socialism are faaaabulous.

If you studied a bit of history you'd learn that they're brazenly lying.  But you can't be bothered.  Too busy, eh?

Did you hear?  Tay-tay has a new album!

Did you hear?  Netflix has a great new series! 

Did you hear?  Democrat Chris van Hollen said the U.S. is 'losing badly' against Iran! 

Have you seen the price of gas?  It's higher than it's evah been before!  An' all because Orange Hitler wants to be a king!

You may have heard some propaganda from the Trumpies that Iran was working on an atomic bomb.  That's just silly!  Pure fear-mongering.  The Trumpies throw out numbers like "60% enrichment" to make gullible people believe anything they say, cuz it sounds sciency.

Did you hear?  Jake Tapper says Putin helped Trump steal the 2024 election from the faaabulous Kamala! 

Did you hear?  All the "cool kidz" are flocking to a new social media app called Blue Sky!  It's the coolest! 

Did you hear?  Nancy Pelosi says Trump fired Christy Noam and Pam Bondi cuz he's intimidated by strong women! 

Did you hear?  Democrats say they'll impeach Orange Hitler again after they win the midterm elections in November!

It never ends.  Enjoy the Dem shit-show.

What does today's Democrat party support?

 

A brief review of modern politics in California

For decades California voters were roughly equally split between the two major parties.  But because Dems owned the big labor unions--which totally support the Dems, and could get the Dems to give 'em tons of plums like forcing all employees in fields having a union to belong to that union and pay hefty dues--that brought great riches to the Dem party leaders, and the vast campaign wealth allowed the state to gradually tip to Dem control.

Then starting around 1970 we began seeing huge waves of "migrants" entering the state across the southern border.  Most of those who gained citizenship voted Democrat.

Then Democrats in congress got a faabulous idea on how to get far more votes: they passed a law with a provision called "motor voter," which demanded that everyone who applied for a driver's license would automatically be registered to vote.

But since you didn't have to show proof of U.S. citizenship to get a DL, Republicans objected that if this bill became LAW it would result in tens of thousands of non-citizens being automatically registered to vote--which, of course, was the goal.

So Democrats piously added a provision that non-citizens could "opt out" of registration by telling the brilliant employees at the DMV "I'm not a U.S. citizens so I don't want to be registered to vote."

Of course as anyone with an IQ over 80 could have predicted, virtually no non-citizen knew they had to announce to the DMV person that they didn't wanna be registered to vote cuz they weren't U.S. citizens.  Hmmm....

And guess how many DMV people--all Democrats, of course--advised all applicants that they had to check a tiny box on the back of page 3 of the app if they didn't wanna be registered.

The result appears to be that about 900,000 non-citizens were registered.  We have a good estimate of that because court clerks mail summonses for jury duty based on voter rolls, and about ten years after motor voter they were get back thousands of responses with the box checked "I decline to serve because I'm not a U.S. citizen."

Wait...in that case how did they get on the voter rolls?  Of course: motor voter automatically registered 'em.

So the state is now totally Dem-ruled, and will never change back.  But the Dems weren't satisfied, so state lawmakers passed a law changing the rules for state elections for all offices 

Like all states, California's primary system let each political party nominate a candidate for the fall general election.  Since the Dems had a 60-40 advantage in voters (thanks to the corrupt motor voter law), that always ensured a win.  But top Dems realized that if their candidate was known to be a corrupt, woman-assaulting loser (like Eric Swalwell), their advantage advantage in voters might not be enough to win: enough voters might stay home to hand the election to the Republican.

So they came up with a plan to make their lock on power even tighter: they passed a LAW changing the rules for primary elections.  So now, instead of the top vote-getting candidates from each party facing off, from now on the general election would be between the two candidates getting the most votes *regardless of party.*

For all practical purposes this meant both candidates would be Democrats.  So if one was found to be a crook before the election, the Dems would still win.  

That's brilliant--some real Chinese communist party thinking.

SO...a dozen candidates had filed for governor, and just two Republicans.  And because lots of low-income white residents are disgusted with Gavin Newscum, many didn't vote.  So according to a poll by "Berkeley IGS (March 9–15), the two top vote-getters were Republican Steve Hilton
at 17%, and Chad Bianco at 16%.

Swalwell was tied with the ghastly, moronic Katie Porter at 13%.  Billionaire socialist Tom Steyer--who wants taxpayers to pay off student loans and give free sex-change surgery to illegals, so is a perfect match for the party--was around 11%.

So the Partei [sic] needed to get some Dems to drop out.  So when Swalwell's accusers appeared, the Partei didn't have their fellators in the Mainstream Media spin the story into oblivion, but simply shrugged and allowed top Dems to admit they'd known for years that Swalwell "had a problem."

As a result the latest SurveyUSA poll (April 8–10): shows socialist Steyer at 21% and Steve Hilton
at 18%.  Mission accomplished!

Newly-elected female governor of Virginia signs bill joining the NPVIC

Ever hear of a thing called the NPVIC?

Chances are you haven't, and if so it's because a) the thing is a huge threat to our nation; and b) because the Mainstream Media has said almost nothing about it--because it hugely benefits the Democrat Partei [sic].

Here's what's up: Way back in 1789, when our Founders were struggling to create a viable nation, everyone was captivated by the novel notion that "the majority rules.'  The Founders loved the idea, but congress members from the smaller states realized that in a "pure Democracy" (based only on population) the high-population states--new York, Virginia and Pennsylvania--would always be able to control the presidency.

To adopt the new "Constitution" it had to be ratified by two-thirds of the 13 states.  So to get enough of the low-population states to ratify, the Founders hit on a brilliant compromise: the Electoral College, in which the high-population states got more electoral votes via their greater number of representatives in the House, but now all states got the votes of both their senators, which gave the smaller states fractionally more influence than if electing the president was based solely on the popular vote.     

SO...that compromise worked nicely for about 220 years.  Yes, there have been two elections where the system mandated by the Contitution resulted in the election of the man who lost the popular vote, but still...eight presidents have come from Virginia, while seven came from Ohio, five from New York and four from Massachusetts.  Those states account for over half of our presidents, so as the founders guessed, population is important.

But Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska and New Hampshire have each produced one president, while tiny Vermont has produced two.  So the compromise seems to have worked pretty well, in that many of our presidents have come from less-populated states.

But for decades, Democrats have been grumbling about the electoral college system--the compromise that enabled our Constitution to be adopted.  But since it was mandated by the Consitution itself, they knew they'd never be able to get two-thirds of the states to ratify an amendment that would cause even more presidents to come from the high-population states.

Then finally, in 2006 a couple of cunning Democrats realized: "Constitution?  That outdated rag you MAGA morons call 'the supreme law of the land'?  It doesn't apply to us, so we've found a way to change it to anything we like."  And they claim they've found a way to utterly, totally nullify the Constitution's *mandate* for electing presidents, instead handing the office to the winner of the national popular vote--which the Founders explicitly rejected, to get enough small states to ratify the new Constitution!

It seems outrageous: How can the Democrats claim they have the power to utterly reverse a *fundamental principle, mandated by the Constitution,* without having to go thru the difficult process of amending it?

Enter the NPVIC--"National Popular Vote Interstate Compact."  The Dems cite Article 1, section 3, clause 9, which reads as follows:
>>No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State...">>

Democrats: "SEE, citizen?  It's right there!  It's such a huge power that the Founders put it in their precious (though outdated and useless) document!"

If you missed it, I understand: "Compact" is referred to only in the negative, implying that states can enter into "compacts" with other states, and that the only thing needed is the consent of congress.

Now you'd *think* that if the Constitution *unequivocally specifies* that our president is to be chosen by the electoral college, it would take a constitutional amendment to replace that with the winner of the popular vote.  But the cunning Dems claim that since the Constitution clearly recognizes "compacts" between the states, contingent only on "consent of congress," and never attempts to limit the *scope* of such compacts, a compact to elect the president by the winner of the national popular vote would be constitutional if approved by a one-vote majority in both chambers of congress.

Now: the Democrat shitheads have ruled the Virginia legislature for decades, and were salivating to join the compact.  But they knew the previous Repub governor would veto.  But now that the Dems in VA have elected the corrupt communist Abigail Spamberger [sic], on March 2nd the state legislature passed the bill and she immediately, eagerly signed it.  So VA has joined NPVIC.

Moron say: "Dat jus' Virginia.  Why yew so upset, bro?"

Because I pay attention.  The NPVIC laws passed by each corrupt Dem-ruled state say the compact will automatically go into effect when states with 270 total electoral votes have signed on.  With Spamburger's signing, states with a total of 222 EVs have joined the compact.  So they're 48 EVs away.

And Dems say they're on track to win in Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

All those states are ruled by Democrats, so it's just a matter of time before the rulers are brave enough to pass the bill and the gov to sign it into law.

So if supporters can get just 48 more EVs, the "compact" says the U.S. president will be selected by the winner of the national popular vote.

For those keeping score at home, the five states listed above have a total of 61 electoral votes.

From a purely legal standpoint, this brazen scam violates a well-known provision of contract law that says if a contract specifically says the parties agree that neither will do [something], one party can't come in later and say "By interpreting the word 'is' in a certain way, clause 134 b (3) allows us to do exactly the thing we explicitly agreed was prohibited on page one."

And normally the Dem subterfuge would fail on that basis alone.  And in any case, the winner of the presidency has only lost the popular vote twice in our history, so it might be years before the NPVIC would be tested.  Problem is, historically the Supreme Court has rarely been willing to take cases that haven't yet caused damage, so might decline to rule on the constitutionality of the "compact" before an election where the winner of the electoral college vote lost the popular vote.

Unfortunately there's another, rarely used principle called "fait accompli," which holds that some things are to hard to unravel and change.  The court would invoke this to uphold, say, massive vote fraud stealing an election if the justices felt ordering the party that benefitted from the fraud to vacate the office and the victim to be installed.

For those who claim this could nevah happen: See "claims of massive fraud in 2020 election."