How the Dem-fellating shills at CBS tried to discredit the story of Hunty bribem's laptop

Recently a few egotistical leftist TV "journalists" at "60 Minutes" decided they really ran that show, not their bosses.  Astonishingly, they were fired.  The dismissal emails are...amusing, and the exchange reveals a LOT about how biased the leftists in the media are.

Got me thinking:  When powerful demons (disguised as human) brazenly lie, cheat and steal--and get away with it (as they always do)--good, honest, moral, hard-working people are dismayed, and often console themselves by saying "Eventually the truth will be known."

I get it:  We'd all like to think the brazen liars and cheats and scammers and killers won't get away with it forever.  It's a coping mechanism, and without it I suspect we'd see a lot more drug overdoses.

Problem is that it often takes so many years for the truth to finally come out that the demons are never held to account for their orchestrated lies.  Moreover, if enough years have passed, most people tend to believe the story can't possibly be true--because it doesn't seem possible that such a huge, brazen lie could have been hidden for so long," eh?  The lie would surely have been discovered within a year or two.  "Just impossible to have kept it hidden for this long."

All that seems very logical...but it's all utter horseshit.  And to show ya I'd like to give you a VERY well-documented example from just six short years ago, so you can see for yourselves how lying, America-hating demons can get away with brazen lies for years.  (And possibly forever.) 

This particular "Op" to cover up the truth was carried out by Lesley Stahl, with the full support of the CBS propaganda outlet "60 Minutes."  Lesley's mission (and that of CBS) was to make voters reject a story that broke just three weeks before the 2020 election, about a laptop left at a repair shop by joe bribem's crack-addict son Hunty. 

In the fall of 2019 a man walked into a computer repair store in Wilmington, Delaware, asking if the owner could repair his dead laptop.  The customer  claimed to be Hunter Biden, and filled out a repair ticket with a phone number that matched one of Hunty's.

The shop owner--a life-long Democrat--repaired the laptop, and called the number on the ticket to tell the laptop's owner his computer was fixed and to pick it up.  Each call went to voicemail, and though the shop owner left several voice messages, no one ever picked up the laptop.

Per the terms of the repair contract, and state law, after 60 days the laptop was considered abandoned, so the shop owner took possession.  In examining the files on it, he found hundreds of pics of a man who was apparently Hunty smoking crack with young women, often nude.  

Okay, odd but no big problem: consenting adults, probably outside the U.S. so no U.S. laws broken, right?

But the laptop also contained something far more disturbing: hundreds of emails suggesting that Hunty had been Joe's bag-man when Joe was Obama's VP, raking in tens of millions of dollars in cash and costly gifts, seemingly for bogus reasons.

The shop owner--a life-long Democrat--was scared, because it suggested the bribem family was totally corrupt.  And by late 2019 Joe was starting to look like the probable presidential nominee for the Democrat party. 

As a long-time resident of Delaware, the owner knew calling Delaware cops would be useless: they were all bribem loyalists.  But there was a chance the FBI was honest. 

So he contacted the FBI and told 'em the story.  They person he talked with seemed totally bored.  "Thanks for calling."  But a few days later, in December of 2019, two FBI agents showed up at the repair shop.  After hearing the story they took the laptop--and the repair ticket.

Remember that date: December of 2019.

The shop owner waited, expecting to see headline news any day.  But not a peep.  Nothing.  But the shop owner knew what he'd seen--hundreds of pics of Hunty smoking crack with whores--and hundreds of emails describing sleazy "deals" with China, Russia and others.

The owner initially thought the reason the news hadn't broken was that the FBI was carefully building a case, but after months of nothing, by June of 2020 he realized the FBI had decided to hide the story.

But the owner had something the FBI didn't know about: a copy of the laptop's hard-drive.

Whoops.
Whoopsie.

SO...a life-long Democrat finds what seems to be solid evidence that the nation's recent VP--and the likely Democrat nominee for the 2020 election--is thoroughly corrupt, and he's turned that evidence over to the FBI, and...it seems that they've chosen to bury the story.  

This seems unbelievable to average Americans, until you read transcripts of emails between top FBI and DOJ officials under Obozo, conspiring to prevent Trump from winning the 2016 election--published by the Department of Justice later.

So, fearing that an FBI coverup was a bad sign for the future if not exposed, in mid-2020 the shop owner gives a copy of the drive to a Trump advisor/attorney.

The advisor gives a copy to Miranda Devine, editor of the New York Post.  The Post authenticates several of the emails, and three weeks before the 2020 election, on October 14th, the Post gets ready to run the story.  But before running it they call the bribem campaign to tell 'em about the forthcoming story and ask for comment.

Campaign staff says "this is nonsense."

Now let's review: the campaign knows the story is true: that Hunty abandoned a laptop at a repair shop, and that the Post says it has lots of pics and possibly incriminating emails on it.  It's not clear if the campaign knows the Post has a copy of the laptop's hard-drive. 

SO..."The election is in just three weeks!  How can we get voters to ignore this story?" 

Bribem "senior advisor" Tony Blinken (who bribem would later name Secretary of State) called former CIA acting director Mike Morell, asking him to draft a letter to be signed by dozens of retired intel agents (all Democrats), saying the story about the laptop "has all the classic earmarks of a Russian 'information operation'--that is, that it was a fake, a plant by Russia, designed to make Biden look corrupt and so throw the election to Trump." 

Within days the letter has been drafted and signed by 51 former U.S. intel agents.  And then within hours of the Post publishing this as their cover story, every Mainstream Media outlet has posted--NOT the story of the laptop, but its story about the 51 former intel agents discrediting the story.

Not a single Mainstream Media defense story mentions that not one of the 51 signers has examined the laptop,* so have no idea what it contains.

Within hours of the Post's publishing the laptop story on their front page, censors at pre-Musk Twatter blocked the NY Post's account, to prevent the Post from publicizing the story.  Twatter also deleted user posts mentioning it.

Six days after the Post broke the laptop story, and just 12 days before the election, CBS's Lesley Stahl interviewed Trump for the network's top "newz show," "60 Minutes." 

In one exchange Stahl repeatedly insists that the reason the media aren't covering the story is that the Post's story about the abandoned laptop “can’t be verified,” and that "reporters don’t report unverified information."

Trump insists that it CAN be verified, and asks Stahl why she thinks it can’t be.  Her answer: “Because it can’t be verified.”

But of course it could have been--because the FBI had had the laptop for ten MONTHS.  And months after the election, when it was obviously too late, the Washington Post DID verify that the laptop and its emails were authentic.

To this day most Democrats have either never heard about Hunty's laptop, or else believe the cover story bleated by the bribem campaign that it was a Russian "op."  No one ever asks "Why would the Russians want pro-military Trump to win instead of brain-dead liberal bribem?" 

Now watch how cunningly Google's "AI" propaganda-bot spins the story about Stahl's interview when asked "When did leslie stahl claim the story of hunter's laptop was fake?"

Google AI replied: "Stahl never claimed the story was definitively fake, but rather insisted it "can't be verified."  During the interview...Stahl replied, "Sir, let me tell you something. This is 60 Minutes, and we can't put on things that we can't verify". 

Except "60 Minutes" could have done any of a dozen things to verify the story: they could have asked the FBI if it had in fact seized a laptop from a specific computer repair shop in Wilmington.  If so, when was it seized?  They could have interviewed the owner of the shop.  Could have interviewed Post editor Miranda Devine.  They cunningly chose not to do ANY of those things, all of which would have shown the utter, total corruption of Joe Bribem--the man the media wanted to make president.

Again, months after the election, and months after bribem was installed as prez, both the Washington Post and the NY Times admitted that the story about Hunty's abandoned laptop was true.  It was just another case of the Democrat-fellatiing Media protecting a Democrat candidate. 

Mission accomplished, again. 

How a corrupt Cuban conglomerate started by the Castros owns 40% of Cuban economy

Yesterday Secretary of State Marco Rubio appeared before a congressional committee--and blew the lid off one of the longest-running scams in the world.

Cuba is supposed to be a socialist/communist country, right?  Rubio revealed the truth:

"Cuba is actually not controlled by the government. Cuba is controlled by a military holding company named GAESA. GAESA owns virtually everything, and not a penny of that money translates over to the public treasury.

WOW!  The U.S. Left did NOT like that, and immediately went into damage-control mode.  Shills popped up on every website: "Dis not true!  Dis FAKE news!  A lie to make duh leaders of ouah glorious communist state look bad!!"

Except it's totally true.  Take a look:

From "How the 'elites' in a supposedly "socialist" country ended up owning everything, via a stealthy conglomerate run by the military"

By Luis Flores, February 21, 2026

Cuba is supposedly a socialist country where the means of production belong to the people.  If so, how is it possible for a military company to
  * control 40% of the national economy
  * accumulate $14.5 billion in bank deposits
  * not publish financial statements
  * avoid paying taxes, and 
  * not be accountable to the National Assembly?

The conglomerate is called GAESA (Grupo de Administración Empresarial S.A.).  Translates "Group for Business Administration," which sounds totally benign, eh?  "S.A." is an acronym used by almost all businesses.  So from the outset, the owners are saying this is a business.

Except it's run by what we'd call the Defense Department--the civilian overseers of the military. 

Wait...in a country that constantly claims to be socialist, how does a "business" owning 40% of the economy exist?  And yet it does: the largest economic conglomerate in the country, running tourism, banking, commerce, ports, telecomms, fuels—is run by Cuban military, NOT as a state-owned enterprise subject to public control, but as a regular business that's not required to disclose ownership or profits.

GAESA's legal form was specifically chosen so it wouldn't be accountable to the Cuban people.  The people aren't allowed to audit its books, even though the empire is controlled by a branch of the socialist government--the military. 

So where do the enormous profits go, eh?  They won't say.  And don't ask.

And there you have the dirty secret of communist governments: citizens must sacrifice while the rulers reap the profits.  Always.

GAESA was created by Raúl Castro, Fidel's brother and head of the armed forces.  For 26 years it was headed by his son-in-law, and is currently overseen by his grandson.  And again, it owns or controls companies that account for at least 40% of Cuba's economy. 

Internal documents of GAESA were leaked in 2025 and analyzed by the Miami Herald and economist Pavel Vidal Columbia University.  They proved what many had long suspected:  Its total income was 3.2 times greater than the total government budget.  It controlled 95% of financial transactions in foreign currency in the country.  And Cuba's reserves of foreign currency were NOT in the country's central bank, but in GAESA's accounts.

How the monster was born

GAESA became a vast empire after the collapse of the former USSR, which had been giving Cuba between $4 billion and $6 Billion every year in various subsidies.  When the USSR dissolved, those subsidies ended, forcing Cuba to buy oil, food and most medicine at world market prices.

In other words, like so many socialist client states, duh faaabulous socialist Cuban government had never been able to support itself.

Without Russian food imports, Cubans suffered from higher prices--and hunger.  But Raúl Castro, then Minister of the Armed Forces, had a Plan--not to feed the population, but to enrich himself and his lackeys.

He tasked General Julio Casas Regueiro to create a holding company to generate foreign currency for the Armed Forces.  This would be based in Gaviota, which had been a vacation site for Cuban and Soviet military personnel since 1988.

By the late 90s GAESA-owned companies were making profits equal to 80% of the budget of the armed forces.  Soon the military no longer depended on the State.  Instead the socialist government started to be dependent on the military.

From 1996 until his death in 2022, GAESA was run by General Luis Alberto Rodríguez López-Calleja, son-in-law of defense minister Raúl Castro.  During those 26 years the conglomerate evolved from a modest currency operation to dominate entire sectors of the economy: tourism, retail, banking, port logistics, telecommunications, construction, import/export, and foreign-currency "remittances" (money sent to Cuban families by Cubans working overseas). 

A decade ago Bloomberg described him as the man in charge of "the largest business empire in Cuba, a conglomerate of at least 57 companies."  So it's not like this hasn't been known for years.  It's just that no one of Rubio's rank has mentioned it.  And of course the corrupt, socialist U.S. media ignored the story...until it couldn't. 

How GAESA came to control...everything

The map of GAESA's holdings is essentially the map of Cuba's economy.  The "crown jewel" was Gaviota S.A, which owns 121 hotels, 20 marinas, the airline Aerogaviota, the car-rental company Transgaviota, the agency Gaviota Tours, and more.  In the first quarter of 2024 this vast empire accounted for 72% of GAESA's total revenue.

Interestingly, the Gaviota hotel empire had a profit margin of 42%—almost four times the global average for that sector. 

"Wait, that has to be a typo, right?  How could the socialist Gaviota empire achieve a profit margin almost four times higher than the same sectors in the rest of the world?  Easy: Because the communist government of Cuba dictated all wages, the empire was able to pay hotel workers...wait for it...$11 a month. 

Starting to see how cunningly it all worked?

The hotel investment arm of GAESA ("Inmobiliaria Almest") has assets of 56.5 BILLION Cuban pesos.  But despite these vast assets, it still received 668 million from the government, and paid just 2 MILLION in taxes.  So from a citizen standpoint it's a money hole, eating 666 million MORE than it paid.  Totally normal for state-owned, state-run entities in Cuba.

In 2016 GAESA took over Habaguanex, the company that managed over 300 tourist facilities in Old Havana.  "Stroke of a pen," eh?

A GAESA company called CIMEX owns more than 41 companies operating supermarkets, 668 gas stations, currency exchange shops, and more. The leaked documents revealed astonishing figures: $3.4 billion in revenue and $1.2 billion in profits.  For the math-challenged that's a profit margin of over 35%.  Astonishing.

In 2016, GAESA took control of the Banco Financiero Internacional, which processed 95% of the country's import/export transactions. 

In short, GAESA was designed by Raúl Castro to enable his family to control the wealth of Cuba.

How GAESA captured every dollar Cubans overseas sent back to their family

Many Cubans living overseas abroad send money to their family in Cuba.  GAESA encourages this, because it keeps the dollars, exchanging them for a special government currency called "Freely Convertible Currency."  

When remittances collapsed by 70% in 2020 compared to 2019, GAESA opened over 85 stores that only accept dollars.  Prices are up to four times higher than a Walmart in the U.S, with profit margins exceeding 240%. 

The design was brilliant in its wickedness: every dollar sent to Cuban families from relatives living abroad ultimately ends up in the accounts of GAESA.  Meanwhile the communist government was asking international forums to pressure the U.S. to lift the embargo "because the Cuban people are suffering." 

GAESA not only owns and operates hotels, it also has foreign partners that pay GAESA a fee to operate its hotels.

Meliá Hotels International (Spain) is the largest foreign operator in Cuba, with between 33 and 38 Gaviota hotels under management contracts of 25-30 years.  Iberostar operates 20 hotels and is building a 42-story skyscraper costing €200 million.  Blue Diamond Resorts (Canada) manages 36 properties and more than 10,000 rooms.

Empty hotels, hospitals without medicine

The leaked documents show that between 2021 and 2023, a bit under 3% of all government investment went to agriculture.  Health care got two percent.  By far the biggest use of government funds was spent on hotel construction--36%.  

Over 15 years GAESA invested $24.2 billion in hotels —nearly 14 times more than the $1.75 billion allocated to public health. 

But hotel investment isn't just a matter of insane priorities.  Instead, building more hotels is a money laundering mechanism, with inflated contracts awarded to companies owned by the conglomerate.  Cuba is full of nearly empty hotels, and yet the conglomerate keeps building more. Whether any new hotel makes a profit is irrelevant, because the main goal has already been achieved.

The leaked documents reveal that despite its vast profits, in 2024 GAESA paid just 920 million pesos in tax--while somehow receiving 9.26 billion pesos from the state budget as "investment"--ten times what it paid in taxes. 

When Comptroller Gladys Bejerano was asked about this, she publicly stated she had no jurisdiction over GAESA--and was soon fired.

Last October--with shortages of everything growing worse--the regime proposed a "fiscal and monetary adjustment to reduce inflation and the deficit."  But the proposal doesn't mention GAESA--an entity that controls 40% of GDP.  So any sacrifice will be borne by ordinary Cubans, not by the generals.

You may have heard that Cuba has run short of oil to power electrical generation.  Economist Emilio Morales and Juan Antonio Blanco found that in 2024 and 2025, 60% of the oil Cuba was getting from Venezuela wasn't used either for electricity generation or transportation, but instead was re-exported to Asian markets by a GAESA company called Cubametales.  The money from those sales ended up in bank accounts in tax havens. 

To transport that oil, for more than a decade GAESA operated a at least nine tankers, registered under shell companies in Cyprus, Panama, and Liberia to evade international sanctions.
 
In February of this year [2026], after Venezuela stopped shipping oil to Cuba following Maduro's extradition to the U.S, Cuba's nine international airports were forced to close due to a lack of jet fuel.  This temporarily cut tourism—GAESA's biggest revenue stream.  Air Canada suspended flights to Cuba until May--significant because Canadians are Cuba's top tourist group.

In the streets of Cuba garbage accumulates, because the garbage trucks have no fuel. Hospitals are operating at half capacity.  And GAESA, the conglomerate that has amassed more money than the state, has not contributed a single cent to alleviate the crisis.  Instead the Cuban government gives the conglomerate ten times more money than the latter pays in taxes on its vast income.

This is the story that the Cuban dictatorship does not want American voters to know--the story of a military conglomerate that seized the economy of an entire nation, that gets more money from the regime than it pays in taxes.  A cartel that sold the oil that should have provided light to Cuban homes, and that sent its executives to operate offshore businesses with diplomatic immunity while the population lived with 18-hour blackouts.

Those were decisions made by the owners of GAESA—capitalist decisions made by an elite that claimed to be socialist.

Source: U.S. State Department

Source 2: Cuba 

In San Francisco, "Hondos" control the drug trade

In San Francisco Honduran rule the fentanyl market
  --extensively edited from an article in City Journal

San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, 3 a.m: The sidewalks are littered with trash and human feces. Addicts are slumped over, barely conscious.  Homeless encampments line block after block.

Drug dealers are everywhere.  Most are "migrants" (to use the careful, dainty nomenclature of the Democrat media and politicians) from Honduras--"Hondos"--who now control the local drug trade.  Night after night they turn the Tenderloin into a lucrative drug market.  And the Democrats who rule that city do nothing.

The Dem-ruled city’s drug policies--always called "progressive" by the local Democrat-fellating Media--have allowed drug gangs to take over an entire neighborhood in downtown San Francisco, tightening Democrat rule, poisoning the down-and-out and bringing Third World conditions to one of America’s wealthiest cities.

In the Tenderloin, the Hondos rule.

In a radio interview in 2022 then-San Francisco mayor London Breed slipped, saying “a lot” of the city’s drug dealers were Honduran.  As anyone could have predicted, her comments sparked a backlash from Latino activists who denounced her remarks as “xenophobic and racist.”  She was soon pressured into a public apology.

For the slow-witted: Democrat pols should know better than to blame foreigners for selling drugs in their cities.  Just not done, citizen!

But Breed was right:  Gangs of migrants, primarily from Honduras, supplied by Mexican cartels, run fentanyl sales in San Francisco.  Even the Democrat-fellating San Francisco Chronicle admitted that in 2023. 

Last year even the Harvard Law Review wrote that “nearly all” low-level fentanyl and meth dealers prosecuted by the feds were “Honduran men without legal status in the United States.”

For slow readers "without legal status" means illegal alien invaders.  But of course duh Hahvahd Law Review can't say it in those words, cuz too many Americans would understand it.

JJ Smith is a lifelong San Francisco resident who owns a café in the Tenderloin.  His brother died from a fentanyl overdose.  Since then, Smith has documented life in the Tenderloin and has tried to help get addicts into treatment.  He says the situation is worse than ever. 

He knows the Hondos well.

In 2023, Smith said that he saw a group of Hondos selling drugs in front of a school. He approached them and said they shouldn’t sell there.  They responded by beating him, including cutting him on the top of his head with a machete.

That same year Smith says he saw a “Hondo” hack another man to death with a machete.  The killer was never arrested or prosecuted, and is still selling drugs on the street.

Dealers say Mexican drug cartels send the Hondos to San Francisco where they quickly start selling product. 

Rational, thoughtful people (never Democrats) quickly realize something's wrong here:  Since every local knows about the open-air drug sales, the cops surely do too.  And if so, since it's both illegal and hugely destructive, why do city leaders--all Democrat--allow it to continue?

Great question.  My guess would be the same answer as in corrupt Dem-ruled eastern cities going back a century: payoffs, a.k.a. bribes.  But the unholy alliance between illegal "activists" and the Democrat-ruled Media has now made bribes unnecessary: Dem pols know any effort to crack own on sale of illegal drugs will have a thousand  violent foreign and minority-U.S. demonstrators in the streets in hours--something Dem pols aren't willing to endure.
 
In short, because of the so-called “progressive” policies of all Dem rulers.  For years Dem-ruled cities have ignored drug sales, and that seems to be fine with Dem voters.  The pols refuse to cooperate with ICE, making it almost impossible to deport illegal-aliens caught selling drugs.

Same for trying to remove homeless encampments  or ending giving free needles and syringes to IV drug users.  So this is the predictable result of deliberate choices by Dem rulers (though City Journal is careful not to say that).

The San Francisco police department gave us a copy of its orders on immigration enforcement. Officers aren't allowed to ask anyone if they're a U.S. citizen, and are barred from honoring ICE "detainer" requests. 

JJ Smith says arrested drug dealers are back on the streets within hours, usually with no fine or charges. 

Predictably, Democrat tolerance of drug dealers has helped drive an explosion of overdose deaths. In 2023 the city’s rate of overdose deaths was more than double the national average. 

In 2023, then-mayor Breed declared a state of emergency and asked the federal government for help, and federal officials began arresting drug dealers. 

You might think this sounds like progress, but so far the handful of Hondos deported for selling drugs have quickly returned to the city and are back on their usual corners.  In 2023, Jairo Mendoza Erazo, a Honduran, was deported after pleading guilty to a fentanyl charge. By early 2024, he was back in San Francisco and was arrested again, allegedly in possession of both cocaine and heroin. In another case, Anderson Medina was arrested and deported in 2023 after he and an accomplice were allegedly found with more than 350 grams of fentanyl. In 2025, he was reportedly arrested again—two blocks from the site of his arrest two years earlier in San Francisco.

The Harvard Law Review concluded, "A free trip home with no prison time is no deterrence.” 

In 2024 Daniel Lurie ran for mayor as supposedly a "moderate Democrat, promised to restore order to the embattled city.  He took office in January of 2025, but despite a flurry of press releases, nothing has changed.

San Francisco has devoted billions to cutting homelessness and drug sales.  It hasn't worked, because he doesn't dare allow cops to cooperate with ICE, or help deport illegals.  And deported drug sellers still immediately come back.  Without any punishment or penalty, there's no incentive to NOT sell drugs.

https://www.city-journal.org/article/tenderloin-san-francisco-drugs-gangs?skip=1 

Yet another incredibly creative video for Pratt

American Leftists can't meme...because they've never had to: they've always had the Mainstream Media doing all their work FOR 'em, so pro-Democrat news was all anyone saw.  And most of the time that was all the Democrats needed to win again and again.

The Mainstream Media constantly sneer at conservatives.  They're all Democrat-fellating, anti-White assholes, so virtually every story they run trashes Trump and the GOP.  With that level of control, our side has had to find another way to reach voters.  

At last, as if by divine intervention, the recent emergence of low-cost AI video-creating tools, combined with vast creativity of people seeking an end to Democrat/socialist madness, have created dozens of AI videos supporting Spencer Pratt.  One is below. 

 

The significance here is that Pratt didn't make ANY of the dozens of brilliant AI videos supporting him.  Instead every one was made by unpaid creators, working alone at their own expense.  The common thread is that all were totally sick and tired of Democrat corruption and shitty policies. 

Sadly, when you realize (duh) that every dumb-shit Democrat who voted for the even-farther-left socialist Nithya Ramen will vote for Bass in the general election, Pratt can't win.  But at least he offered Angelenos a clear alternative to the constant, corrupt rule by the Democrats.

Four giant social-media companies settle a lawsuit by a small school system

Breathitt County, Kentucky, is a rural haven, still fairly uncorrupted.  You can be excused for thinking nothing that would happen there would be of national interest, eh?

The school system noticed a big drop in student performance, which they believed was due to students spending a big chunk of class hours on their phones, consuming an endless flood of attractive garbage posted by every social media outlet (all owned by the big tech companies).

So the small school district (1,500 students) sued the big tech companies, seeking $3 million in "actual" damages and $60 million in punitive damages.

Astonishingly (to me, at least), a week ago the four giant multi-billion-dollar defendants settled the case before trial.  Documents released last week show giant Meta agreed to pay the school system $9 million, SnapChat and TikTok agreed to pay $8 million each.  Google agreed to pay $2 million.

Why is this modest settlement significant?  Because it's what lawyers call a "test case"--because the tech giants obviously didn't target only Breathitt County: their marketing has long targeted every kid in the country.  

By settling for less than $10 million apiece, the companies showed they'd rather pay a small amount (to them) instead of going to trial.  Question is, why did they settle?

Obviously all the tech giants already have vast in-house legal departments, so going to trial would have cost only a couple of million in extra legal fees, and could have resulted in a win for the companies.  Instead the companies named above chose to settle--meaning they'd probably concluded there was a good chance they'd lose in court, in which case a jury could have ordered 'em to pay the full $63 mill sought by the plaintiff school system. 

If this case were a "one-off" (one of a kind), the companies would issue a press release saying they'd chosen to settle to be good corporate citizens, or something similar.  But that's most assuredly NOT the case here:  Breathitt was just the first of several virtually identical cases.  Next in line for trial is the Tucson Unified School District, which has about 40,000 students--25 times more than tiny Breathitt County--and is suing for over a Billion dollars.

For the companies the problem is that company documents either leaked or uncovered during the discovery process show all the defendants deliberately targeted school kids,  encouraging 'em to use their apps during school to pass notes and keep up with what classmates were doing.  So the companies were clearly seeking to pull app users away from studying during school time.

Documents also show the companies knew that getting students hooked on their apps would likely make 'em customers for life.  Nice.

SO...where does that leave us?  Well there are over 13,300 school districts in the U.S.  If the tech giants settle on roughly the same terms as they did with Breathitt ($18,000 per student), a horde of lawyers will descend on all the small ones, encouraging 'em to join a class-action suit.  If we assume the tech giants will settle for about the same terms as they did with Breathitt, $27 million times 13,000 is a HUGE number.    

Oh, and for those who may think this is "fake newz:" it's from the NY Times, and since the Times constantly sucks up to the tech giants, this is an "admission against interest."  Hmmm... 

Source: New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/us/social-media-schools.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nlA.O8dQ.wDv5pf0EaONV&smid=url-share 

In 2020 the U-Cal system ended the use of the SAT and ACT. How'd that work out?

Six years ago--so in 2020, at the apex of wokie intimidation--the University of California ended the long-standing practice of requiring that applicants take either the SAT or ACT test.

This was because minorities complained that a) standard testing was raaacist; and b) that rich kids could afford pricey test-prep courses, which enabled 'em to do better on those tests..

The underlying theory was that kids who got good grades in school were probably all about equally smart, so a totally fair system would admit the same percentage of blacks and hispanics as their percentage of the population.

So how'd that work out, eh?

From the first class admitted under the new rules, professors recognized that a lot of members of the incoming class lacked the basic math skills needed to do college-level work.  Profs were having to spend time teaching middle-school math.

Now hundreds of profs at UC have signed an open letter urging the U-Cal system to return to using either or both of the standardized tests, at least for students wanting to major in math or science.

Problem is, the Cal board of regents will do whatever the wanna do.  If they wanna keep new  admissions 15% black and 22% Hispanic, they can easily create free remedial math courses taught by undergrad teaching assistants, so professors don't have to do it.  

You couldn't get a better experiment on the results of "woke" admission policies: without some sort of broad-based testing it's impossible to know if an applicant has the necessary skills to handle college.  But minority groups that pushed to abolish testing argue that this is better for them.  Wait..."more fair."  Yeah, that's what they meant.  

More demon violence you never heard about

The 19-second surveillance video below will make you sick to your stomach--if you're even remotely normal.  It's cut from a longer video, almost certainly because the city-owned transit agency (Miami) refused to release any more of it.  I suspect the agency had to be sued to force it to divulge this much.

An unarmed, defenseless woman is sitting in one end of a transit vehicle.  Only two other people are in the car: a muscular black male--identified by police as 25-year-old Joshua King-- and someone at the very opposite end.

Without provocation the black male walks up to woman and begins beating her face with a series of roundhouse punches, then begins kicking her visciously.  Throws her head-first into the wall of the car.  Continues beating her until the video ends. 

The demon was released the next day--no prison, no punishment--due to "mental issues."  He was supposed to be "monitored," but no officials seemed to know how that was to happen.  The judge theoretically "released him to the care of his parents, who live in Tallahassee, but that's far from Miami, and no one was monitoring the demon.  The judge didn't seem concerned that the demon would be back on the street until--if ever--his parents managed to get to Miami to pick him up.  

 

Now the surprise:  This happened on September 4th, 2020--almost six years ago.  But as with almost all such brutal attacks, you never heard a word about it--because the Lying, Scum-sucking, shit-eating, criminal-loving Mainstream Media was determined not to tell you.

CBS in Miami didn't report it until 26 days later, after word got around that they'd ignored the story.  And of course the network didn't see fit to tell you.

This kind of thing--and worse--happens several times a week in the U.S, almost always black males beating defenseless whites--usually women.

Just three days ago in Atlanta, in the middle of the day, 25-year-old John Elijah Matthews--a black male--fatally stabbed 66-year-old Margaret Swan on Atlanta's transit system. Surveillance footage shows the demon walking up to the seated woman and standing next to her.  Seconds later he pulls out a knife and stabs her in the throat.

She screams and tries to stand up as the demon continues stabbing her.  Surveillance footage shows him holding her head with one hand as he continues stabbing her with the knife in his other hand.

We don't have to live like this.  

Oh wait...we do...because of vicious blacks, and leftist judges and corrupt leftist liberal district attorneys who refuse to prosecute, or plea-bargain ghastly crimes like this one down to nothing.  So again and again the attackers--the monsters, demons--are back on the street in a day or two, to attack again.

Caught on video fatally stabbing 66-year-old woman

 

Rest in peace, Margaret. 

https://x.com/i/status/2061124975759614310 

 

Three fatal problems

If you're under 30, chances are you've never heard the phrase "Don't shoot the messenger."

The concept (though obviously not the exact phrase) seems to have first been noted by the Greek historian Plutarch, who wrote that when a messenger brought word to his Armenian king of an advancing enemy army, the furious king ordered the messenger executed.

The idea (obviously) is that no one likes the person who brings bad news--even though the messenger clearly has nothing to do with creating the bad news he brought.

So it is that I address you this morning (2 June, 2026) concerning three things you desperately don't want to hear--but desperately NEED to know.  If you refuse to listen and heed (act)--and most of you will indeed refuse--most of your children will be doomed to miserable lives.

(Of course this isn't universal:  children of the "connected" will continue to live faaabulously; the doomed ones are children of the "unconnected.")

To answer your unspoken question:  If you have to ask, you're not connected. 

The first problem is the U.S. national debt.  As I've warned for years, what began as a minor matter has constantly gotten worse--*as was inevitable, given the corruption and stupidity of the morons and corruptocrats you consistently elect to run things.*

To re-state that: If the lying, Democrat-fellating Mainstream Media had told your parents the truth back in 1963, this debt problem could have been avoided.  But the Media gleefully ignored warnings and reality to support the Democrat Partei [sic], so they carefully, deliberately hid the problem from your parents.

I use 1963 because after JFK was assassinated, Americans were so stunned--totally shell-shocked--that Dem voters (the majority of all voters) were willing to support whatever the corrupt Lyndon B. Johnson (Kennedy's VP, now elevated to prezzy by JFK's assassination) demanded that we do.

But why should we be concerned about any of that, eh citizen?  Cuz since the past obviously can't be changed, dere's no sense in trying to, y'know, blame any one party, right?  Cuz it's whut duh 'Meriken pipo wanted, eh?

If you thought that was good reasoning, you've proven a crucial point: See, the first goal of the Media is to get you to support Democrat policies, even if those can easily be predicted to destroy the country.  The second goal is to prevent you from ever examining which party's policies caused the dire straits we're in--cuz if you knew that, you'd never vote for another Democrat, nor for 70% of so-called Republicans (most of whom are socialist plants--RINOs).

So the first problem is our constantly-growing national debt.  I've covered that extensively in other posts so won't repeat here.

The second problem is Islam.  The Media coos that Islam is "The" religion of peace, and that Muslims would love to peacefully co-exist with non-Muslims.  Problem is that's utter horseshit: The Koran itself--Islam's holy book--says their goal is to conquer the world.  And to achieve that they've developed an elaborate system of justifying lying to non-Muzz.  

If you're unclear on this it's because you're not plugged into daily news from the UK and Europe, both of which are rapidly being taken over by Muzz.

Oh, y'say that's just a "right-wing scare story," eh?  So try this: what's the capital of the UK, and its largest city?  And who's the mayor of that city, eh?  If you know, say it out loud so we know you're not just bluffing.

How many of you know that he's held that office for over a decade--a record long time?  How does he keep getting re-elected, eh?  Of course: because London has record-low crime, including knife murders.

Just kidding: record HIGH crime, and virtually all knife murders are committed by Muzz.  But Londoners are willing to tolerate a handful of knife murders because the Brit economy is doing so well, right?  Right?

Just kidding again.  Body-cam footage has just been released of half a dozen cops arriving at the scene of yet another stabbing of an 18-year-old white non-Muz, stabbed over a dozen times by a Muzz, who casually stands there, unrestrained by cops.  Victim moans that he's been stabbed.  Cops ignore him--one literally says "I don't think so, mate."  Cops keep standing around, chatting, as the victim's lungs fill with blood and minutes later he dies at their feet.

In today's UK that's totally acceptable.  The cops are doing exactly what they've been ordered to do by the Muzz mayor.  But of course that's far away from us in duh U.S, eh?  Nuffin' to do wif us here, right?

So who's the mayor of the largest U.S. city, eh?  A Muslim communist.  How about the second largest?  A Musliim communist, Brandon Johnson.  How about the third largest?  A former card-carrying communist, Karen Bass.

So what was that about "Nuffin' to do wif us here"?

If you have a high enough IQ to breathe without assistance, you should have gotten the point.

Third problem: illegal invaders in the U.S.  After foreigners enter the U.S. illegally, rules imposed by Democrats demand that they all get free housing, food and medical care.  In Dem-ruled states they even get free college tuition!  And now thousands of Democrat/socialist protesters are turning up at ICE facilities DEMANDING that not one of 'em be deported.

If the results weren't so ghastly the hypocrisy would be amusing: Obozo boasted that he was "the deporter-in-chief," and the Media applauded.  But now that a Republican is prezzy, suddenly deporting illegals is "duh worst thing EVAH!"  The Media has constantly pushed the meme that it's AWFUL to deport deez po' pipo, who are merely "fleeing from oppression" in dere home countries.

Wait, are y' sayin' their home countries are lawless, corrupt shitholes?  Gosh, where have we heard that before, eh?  Of course when Trump said it, the Media screamed bloody murder, but when illegals imply it to be able to stay here, no one in the Media bothers to note that Trump was right.

So now that bribem and congressional Dems have allowed somewhere over 11 million new invaders in, why should any American be worried, eh?  After all, "your" Media constantly assures you that "undocumented Americans"--the Media never uses the term "illegals"--murder American citizens at a lower rate than U.S.-born males do, right?  So it can't be a big deal, eh?  

The Dem-fellating Media uses similar "logic" to dismiss evidence of massive welfare fraud, both by illegals and by foreigners given "temporary protected status" by Democrat presidents Obozo and bribem.

And to add insult to injury, leftist/socialist judges have RULED that once TPS is granted by a Dem prezzy, it can't be ended by a later president!

Is that cool or what?  If a Dem prezident does something, find, but if a Republican tries to un-do it, the same courts rule "Yew cain't doodat!"

SO...are there other problems that will kill us?  Of course, like leftist judges DECREEING that requiring either proof of citizenship or photo-ID to vote is illegal.  Or Democrats in congress--with the help of 20 or so RINO plants claiming every day on TV that "Iran has defeated the U.S." and trying to force Trump to surrender to Iran.

These morons have no idea what 60%-enriched uranium means.  They wanna kill Israel, and impeach Trump for his support of that nation.

If you're a Democrat you don't agree with any of this.  You can't refute it, but simply deny it's true.

The hoot is, I don't care how any of this turns out, because I don't have kids, and have enough money to be able to live well for the rest of my life regardless of anything likely to happen in DC.

But if you have kids--wait, if you're a Democrat you're more likely NOT to have kids, since you believe the Dem horseshit that CO2 causes Grobal Worming.  And of course American kids use more carbon fuel than other kids, so have a HUGE "carbon footprint."  So most of you are fine having either zero or one.

In that case nevermind.  Without kids, you're in the same position I am: we don't have a direct interest in how things turn out cuz we don't have kids who'll be affected, eh?

In that case, disregard all.  Re-elect the ghastly communist Karen Bass as mayor of LA.  Elect the equally corrupt, ghastly Xavier Becerra governor of California.  Elect the equally ghastly and corrupt current governor, "Greasy," as prezzy.

"Turtles all the way down," citizen.  And when it blows up--as it must--it's no skin off my teeth.  If you're a Democrat, your vote ensured the result I've described.  You couldn't be bothered to do your own research, instead eagerly believing whatever utter horseshit the Dem-fellating Mainstream Media fed ya.  Just couldn't be bothered, eh? 

"Dad, what do 'B.C.' and 'A.D.' mean?"

Wokie demands can be either dictatorial or subtle.  Here's one of the latter:

If you're over 50 or so you may recall that historical dates used to have one of two suffixes: "B.C." or "A.D."  Ring any bells?

If you have kids in highschool, ask 'em if they know what those abbreviations mean. 

Starting in the 1990s academic and educational institutions replaced those terms with "BCE" (Before Common Era) and "CE" (Common Era). Wiki explains "This transition occurred gradually... as modern history (i.e. wokies) prioritized inclusive, secular terminology that removes direct religious connotations.

Translation: academics stopped using "B.C." and  "AD" cuz wokies said it wasn't "inclusive enough" for our Chinese or Muslim friends.  Maybe not to Jews either--beats me.

The never-spoken "reasoning" is that Christ was (and is) no different from any other historical figure, and thus there's no reason to base dates around his birth.  I get it.

What you don't get is what a deft, effortless defeat the wokies inflicted on Christianity.  By forcing the end of the use of "BC" and "AD"--without a whisper of disagreement (because the wokiez din' wanna look like religious rubes, eh?)--"woke" historians and academics relegated Christ to the category of "just another guy."

Now, it can come as no surprise that every religion wants "their figure" to be divine, the one true son  or prophet or intermediary.  And obviously from our vantage point 700 or 2000 years later, there's a lot of room for disagreement about the details from centuries earlier.  

All we can do is try to compare the predictable results of various religions.  And if you do that, Christianity fares very well in terms of encouraging good outcomes.  

Of course academics could have done the same thing, but none was willing to do so cuz dey wanted to look woke instead of unsophisticated. 

Advisor to the new Ayatollah: "Iran will not allow the U.S. to continue to block the Strait"

Adviser to Iran's grand poobah says "Iran will not allow the U.S. blockade to continue."

In a post on X, adviser Mohsen Rezaei said "The Strait of Hormuz is under total control of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and we will not allow the U.S. naval blockade to continue.  It was fine when WE started the blockade, but that's because we own the Strait.  The patience of the Islamic Republic of Iran has its limits."

The U.S. Secretary of War replied "We invite Iran to continue to bark at the moon, and launch whatever you have against U.S. forces at any time.  That's worked so well for Iran in the past, and we look forward to continuing to match both wits and forces with the Islamic Republic."

"Also, there's no need to be patient on our account.  Feel free to bring it any time you like." 

Scary new virus sweeping thru 20-year-olds in Los Angeles

Los Angeles parents devastated by mysterious new disease striking their kids: "Pratt virus."

 

Democrat parents are beside themselves with grief.  Liberal doctors prescribe multiple doses of the NY Times, NPR, LA Times, several times a day.  But recovery will only be possible if the city stays in the capable hands of Karen Bass and the all-Democrat city council, who have the demonstrated skill to lie, cheat and steal--which suits the Dems just fine.

Demon threatens president. Media ignores it. Imagine if roles were reversed

 Yet another demon self-identifies.  But will never be charged, cuz...leftist judges.

 

Can you even imagine the screams of outrage if a white person had screamed EXACTLY these same lines about barack hussein obozo?  Or joe bribem?  The Lying Media would have been reporting it on the front page for weeks, reporting every thrilling court filing against the threatener.  But with this bitch?  Crickets.  Just another day ending in Y. 

This is the Democrat-imposed System working exactly as intended

You've ever heard the name "Rhamell Burke"--and never will again.

Burke--black, long rap sheet, psych case--killed a 76-year-old white man by pushing him down a flight of stairs in the shithole rabbit warren known as New York Shitty.  But since Burke's victim wasn't your dad or grandfather it don' mean nuffin' to you, so no big deal, eh?

I mean, pipo in New York Shitty get killed ebryday, right?  So what's one more or less, eh?  Besides, it's all Trump's fault!  Even though the mayor is a fucking Uganda-born Muslim communist, and the governor is an insane marxist female who lies as easily as the rest of us breathe, somehow it's all Trump's fault.  Yep yep yep.

So as you probably guessed, there's more to the story of Rhamell Burke killing the 76-year-old white guy:  a month earlier Burke had attacked a couple on the subway.  The couple got off the subway to escape the insane attacker, but Burke followed them.  Fortunately the couple encountered a group of cops, who promptly arrested Burke and took him to Bellevue Hospital for evaluation.

He was discharged an hour later.  No cops were notified.  The obviously insane black man was release back onto the streets--no punishment, no detention.  And just five weeks after being released, Burke killed the 76-year-old.

Now here's the twist: He was released in less than an hour because the "wokie" leftist female refused to press charges against him...because she said she "didn't wanna be responsible for putting a black man in jail."

Isn't that precious?
 
The System is working exactly as intended by the Democrats.

Oh, y'say you don't believe that?  In that case show us what part of the script was NOT deliberately imposed by Democrats.

• white female attacked by black man, refuses to press charges because "woke" (i.e. convinced by "suicidal empathy" to refuse to help get the obviously crazy Burke off the streets;
• Dem-run psych hospital in Dem-ruled NYC releases the guy less than an hour later, without any intervention: no treatment, no case opened. 

We don't have to live like this.  Wait...the Democrats have quietly arranged American society so we DO have to live like this--while at the same time bleating that they did NOT demand these conditions.  Nope nope nope!  Perish the thought!  It's absolutely, totally, completely NOT their fault.  Reeeeallly.

Horseshit.  It's totally their fault.  The Democrats are the ones who scream that you can't put crazy people in institutions--and you REALLY aren't allowed to put crazy black men in mental hospitals, cuz...reasons!  "Guuuud reasons!  Reeally!  Dat beez raaacism!  Trust us!"

Compare this killing to the murder of the 23-year-old blonde refugee from Ukraine--Iryna Zarutska--who was stabbed to death without warning--or even any interaction--by a black man on a streetcar in Charlotte--who was found "unable to stand trial" by reason of insanity.

This is the Democrat-ruled System working exactly as intended by the Democrats.  If you don't understand that it's totally intentional, you're too damn dumb to breathe without assistance.

Democrats: "Dat's a lie!  We nevah intended dat innocent wi-pipo shud be killed!  Nevah!  We just ordered dat yew cain't put nut-cases in mental hospitals!  Cuz dat jus' not FAIR, citizen!  Nutters have sybil rights too, y'know!  Dey has'ta be allowed to walk the streets jus' like ebrywun else!"

"Cuz yew cain't be sure a nutter will hurt someone, right?  An' if a few doo shove someone down a flight of stairs, or repeatedly stab a young woman in the throat from behind, dat's a small price to pay to allow duh totally harmless nut-cases to be free, eh?  An' yew better agree wif us or else we'll call yew a "right-wing extremist" and get yew fired.

"We all gud now?  Yew bettah say yes."

I say again: We don't have to live like this. 

Under Obozo, federal law prevailed, but with Trump as prezzy, state laws win. Hmmm...

Democrat-appointed judges have fucked this country beyond belief.  And the Left/Democrats are laughing their asses off at how easily they're winning.  

In the latest example: The courts have long ruled that the federal govt has jurisdiction over immigration.  But 12 years ago Boston's Dem-ruled city council, like those in many Democrat-ruled shitholes, passed a *city ordinance* ordering police not to cooperate ‌with federal immigration enforcement.

Last September the federal Department of Justice sued Boston and Democrat mayor Michelle Wu over that city law. 

Two days ago an Obama-appointed federal judge (Leo Sorokin) in Boston threw out that lawsuit [the phrase Reuters used; dismissed?], RULING that the federal DOJ lacked legal grounds to sue.

Now, I understand the legal theory that the federal government can't compel states to help enforce federal law.  Don't agree with it, but I understand the theory.  But at least per Reuters (total leftists), shithole leftist judge Sorokin didn't cite that.  Instead--again according to Reuters, which we can't rely on for accuracy--he RULED that the DOJ lacked legal grounds to sue.

Reuters went on to say the DOJ "failed to demonstrate it had legal ​standing to challenge the measure," and "could ‌not show ["how"?] any ruling in its favor would remedy the harms the federal government alleged it was suffering."

Note the cunning use of "alleged:"  The communists sons of whores at Reuters constantly deny that there's ANY harm from unlimited illegal invasion because they know that claim resonates with their leftist readers.

The DOJ lawsuit claimed some provisions of the city law impeded federal immigration enforcement, which again the courts have agreed is the sole province of the federal government.

According to Reuters, Sorokin bleated that even if he blocked the city law, Boston cops still wouldn't be allowed to cooperate with ICE because of a DECREE from the leftists who dominate the state's highest court.

This is what the military calls "defense in depth:"  Shitty, pro-illegal-invader Democrat laws layered on top of laws, all the way down.  Sorokin: "See, even if I were to overturn the city law, plaintiffs wouldn't get the result they seek because there's yet another decree from a state court!  See, deplorables?"  

Let's pause and review, eh?  The courts have long held that immigration enforcement is a federal responsibility.  But the dipshit Sorokin RULES 
>>"In Massachusetts there is simply no source ​of authority empowering Boston police officers to ​do what the United States would like them to do.">> 

Hey asshole: There's a thing you apparently either didn't hear about in Constitutional Law or simply ignored:  It's called the "supremacy clause," and it says whenever a state or city or county or bullshit law conflicts with federal law, which shall prevail?

Dat right, asshole: federal.  And back when your fucking emperor Obozo ruled everything, and Arizona was getting utterly fucked by a tidal wave of Obama-encouraged illegal invaders, the state (under a brave female Republican governor) was arresting the sons of whores.  Obozo ordered his DOJ to sue that state, DEMANDING that state cops NOT help round up illegal invaders.  Cuz...um...Democrats wanted 'em to keep invading.

So it's yet another double-standard: valid Federal law limits immigration, but when unlimited invasion helps Democrats, the Dems sue to prevent states from enforcing the law--and leftist judges rule FOR the feds.  But when the DOJ under a Republican prezzy sues, Democrat judges RULE that federal law suddenly does NOT prevail.

The Democrats control most federal courts, including most of the circuit courts of appeal.  Lifetime positions.  Can't be removed.  And the crowning touch: When a lawsuit looks like it'll favor Republicans, delay delay delay via endless appeals, until the Dems re-take the presidency. 

Meanwhile, about that vaunted "peace agreement" the Media claims has been agreed to

As an ex-Air Force pilot I'm watching the shit-show of "negotiations" with the Islamic regime of Iran with great amusement.

I'm usually a Trump fan, but in this case both Trump and all his cabinet and negotiators are being played for fools.  And because the Media wants to destroy Trump (and the GOP), in every case the Media has described the situation as "The U.S. and Iran have agreed to a peace deal," despite the fact that that's an utter lie.  

Only deep down in the articles do the Media reveal the details of what they always call "the deal:" The mullahs demand

• to control the Strait;
• to charge tankers a million dollars per trip;
• to keep their thousand pounds of 60%-enriched uranium;
• to continue enriching uranium and building larger ballistic missiles, and
• billions from the U.S. in reparations.

In other words, the mullahs haven't agreed to a single one of Trump's demands.  It's absurd: they've been militarily destroyed yet claim they're winning, so they're demanding concessions from the U.S.  

And then if Trump declines this bullshit, the Media will wail and scream that Trump "backed out of the deal."  And "Trump chickened out again," using the Democrats' cutely acronym 'TACO.' 

The Iranian regime reminds me of teens with an attitude, continuing to scream trash at the cops even after they're cuffed and in the back seat of a patrol car.  Totally delusional.

Oh wait, that's right:  the mullahs are counting on the leaders of the Democrat Partei to demand that the U.S. give 'em whatever they want.  They'll eagerly demand Trump give the mullahs anything they want, accept defeat for the U.S.--just to defeat Trump.

This is insane.  Trump needed to re-start the bombing a month ago.  No more useless ceasefires that do nothing but waste time and make the world believe the mullahs are winning.  Bomb all the bridges and IRGC bases.  Take out every boat, all in two days.  

Then announce, on TV: "Wanna go another round?  Cuz we'll eagerly oblige.  But if you ever decide to get serious about surrendering, and accepting every U.S. term without any conditions, we'll talk.  But not before."

Sadly, this won't happen, because Trump's negotiators have been beguiled by the Iranians into thinking a peace deal is just days away, "only missing a few small details," eh?  How long have we heard that?  It's utter horseshit.

The U.S. shouldn't accept ANY conditions.  The terms are like the end of WW2: surrender unconditionally or we're keep killing you.  

War is destructive and expensive, but when one can't accept the terms of the other, the alternative is unending misery.  If the leaders of "your" Democrat Partei had been in charge in 1941, Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan would still be ruling their empires today.  Would you dumbshits like that?

Dumocrats: "Duh situation wif Iran beez NUFFIN like WW2!  The Islamic regime only wants to take a li'l bite of duh world, an jus' charge a "toll" of a modest million bucks per ship to use *their* waterway.  Dat totally reasonable!  Would only increase the price of oil by a dollar a barrel!  An' that's totally guuud, cuz we need oil to be more expensive to reduce consumption, cuz Grobal Worming!
    "Sure, a few right-wing extremists have posted unconfirmed stories saying duh regime has killed a few menacing demonstrators there, and may have hanged a few others, but why should that be our problem?  After all, look at all the innocent immigrants murdered by Trump's ICE army here, right?
   "Rethuglicans are still claiming Iran was working on an atomic bomb, even after the regime totally denied those claims, saying all dey wanted to do wuz use uranium to make nuclear electricity!  An' since dey not working on a bomb, why should we demand they give up whatever enriched uranium they have, right?

Does any of that Democrat "logic" strike you as utter horseshit?  Yet that's what congressional Dems like Schumer and AOC and Hakeem Jeffries and Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib and all the rest are pushing.  One wonders whether any of 'em are so stupid that they actually believe any of the things they're claiming.  

Yes, war is expensive and deadly.  Question is, what's likely to happen if the Dems succeed in forcing the U.S. to surrender and agree to the demands of the Islamic regime?  Would today's Democrat "leaders" have been happy to stay out of WW2?  

Democrats: "We keep telling ya, duh situation wif Iran is NUFFIN LIKE WW2 Germany or Japan!" 

Fascinating: A new movement may be sweeping thru China: "Lying flat"

This post is long, but it could be a huge deal.

It's (extensively) edited from a 22-minute video apparently narrated by a young Chinese male.  As with all stories about China, viewers/readers are advised to be skeptical, as the CCP are masters at putting out propaganda to lull the west--and there's no question that this story is reassuring to western viewers.

It describes what the narrator claims is a rapidly spreading movement among young, educated Chinese who have concluded that Chinese system--imposed by the CCP--is rigged against them.  They've noted that the only young people who are living well in China are the children of either communist-party elites or successful businessmen--the "connected." 

By contrast, for hard-working children of un-connected parents, urban life is so expensive that they despair of ever owning a home (for example). 

Watching the video I was struck by the stunning parallels to life for millions of young Americans.  Democrat politicians in big cities keep increasing their taxes, the big Dem-ruled cities remain crime-ridden and dangerous, and many young Americans seem resigned to a certainty that nothing will ever get better, because the System is simply too corrupt.  As you read the transcript, whenever you see "China," substitute "America" and see if it rings any bells.  And with that preamble...
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Something is spreading across China that the Communist Party never expected:  Not a virus or protest or a political movement with leaders that the security apparatus can identify and arrest, but something quieter--something moving through Chinese society like water, finding every gap, every space where control doesn't quite reach.

And despite all the surveillance cameras and internet filters and neighborhood committees and the Party's vast, sophisticated apparatus of social control, it's already spread through 100 million private conversations.  And the CCP has no idea how to stop it--because to their surprise, you can't arrest an idea.

It's the decision made by millions of ordinary Chinese people to just stop trying--to stop chasing dreams the System has made impossible for ordinary citizens.  

This movement has several names, because it's emerged almost simultaneously in different communities, each expressing the same idea in slightly different language.  It describes a truth everyone in China recognizes.  And since there are no leaders the Party can arrest, the CCP doesn't know how to counter it.

The word that started it all is "tangping," which is Mandarin for "lying flat"--someone who has
stopped moving.  It's a symbol for stopping one's participation in the exhausting, all-consuming effort Chinese society has demanded of its young people for decades. 

It started in 2021 when a young man posted an essay explaining his decision to stop working beyond the minimum necessary to survive.  No more career ambitions, no dreams of marriage or children or owning a home.  No consumption beyond basic needs.  All dreams redirected toward internal peace. 

The post went viral with a speed that shocked everyone.  Within days it had been shared millions of times. Within weeks it had generated a nationwide conversation.

The Communist Party deleted any social media posts containing telltale phrases, and state media posted articles condemning it.  The Party directed officials to lecture young people about the importance of continuing to work hard for the good of the nation.

But hundreds of millions of young Chinese already knew what the poster said was true.  And once the idea was uttered, the censors couldn't delete all the posts. 

Equally crucially, the CCP couldn't change the reality that made the idea resonate so strongly with tens of millions of ordinary citizens. 

To understand what's driving this movement you need to understand what life is actually like for a young person today.  A typical 26-year-old university graduate in a second-tier city, with a degree that cost his or her family everything, is competing for jobs that don't pay enough to cover rent.  The young person sees housing prices that have risen so far that home ownership has become impossible for young people who aren't "connected."  

The numbers are staggering:  In 2023 "youth unemployment" ["youth" isn't defined] in China hit a record high of over 21%--at which point, in a reaction typical of all totalitarian regimes--the CCP simply stopped publishing the data.

[Does that ring any bells, reader?  Crime stats?  The number of Americans killed or inflicted with crippling injuries by the bribem-mandated clot shot?  Mayorkas bleating that "The border is totally secure" while admitting 10,000 illegals a DAY?  It's classic, universal in dictatorships.]

As with all dictatorships, when statistics become embarrassing, the rulers just stop publishing them.  

But obviously the young people whose lack of a job the statistics were measuring didn't disappear.  Hundreds of millions are still there, educated, digitally connected, globally aware, and acutely conscious of the gap between what the Party promised and what it's actually delivered. 

China's education system spent decades telling students that if they studied hard enough,
competed hard enough, sacrificed enough of their childhoods to the brutal examination system, they'd be rewarded with a prosperous career.  

So as anyone could have predicted, their hard-working parents poured everything into those goals, working themselves to exhaustion to get their children the golden degree.  Grandparents gave their life savings.  Children gave up play, sleep, and childhood itself in pursuit of the educational credentials the Party assured them were the ticket to a great future. 

And indeed, the young became fabulously educated.  In every global academic competition, Chinese students ran rings around the average western college grad.

[Here in the States the Democrat party simply offered everyone student loans.  And studying hard wasn't required--students were encouraged to get degrees in "African studies" and "women's studies."  But the result was much the same: graduates unable to find good jobs.  In the U.S. it was because the degrees were in useless fields.  In China--with 1.4 billion people--it was because there were 100 brilliant PhD applicants for every good job.  Any more bells ringing yet?]

But then graduates discovered those credentials weren't enough--because now that so many millions had them, the economy hadn't created enough high-quality jobs to absorb them all.

And there was another problem, because while the Party had promised a meritocracy, the system actually produced something very different: the best jobs somehow went to children with the right family connections, relationships with the right officials.  [Ringing any more bells yet?]

"Lying flat" was the spark.  After that came "bai lan"--Mandarin for "let it rot."  If lying flat was passive withdrawal, "let it rot" is more pointed in its rejection.  It implies that the system itself is corrupt--a lie at its core. 

Young people concluded that the appropriate response to a rigged game is not to play harder, but to refuse to play. 

The idea spread through the youth culture with a speed that alarmed CCP officials.  Like "lying flat" earlier, it appeared in memes and social media posts before the censors realized what it meant.  Young people chatted about no longer pretending to care about a system they no longer believed in.  Young professionals spoke of working at jobs they hated, of doing the minimum required to not be fired--not because they were lazy but because they finally realized that in a system where advancement depended on connections and family, working harder was pointless.

Young people described choosing not to buy something because consumption felt like
cooperation with a system that consistently lied to them.

Finally came the most telling expression of this movement: fed-up young people have begun leaving big cities and returning to their villages because urban life has become so expensive--and so relentlessly consuming of time, energy and mental health. 

They're documenting this return on social media, and getting tens of millions of views before CCP officials order the censors to delete the posts.  Since the content isn't overtly political and doesn't criticize the Party by name, the rulers didn't realize the idea was spreading until too late.

When skilled, university-educated young people voluntarily choose to live in the relative poverty of small villages over the excitement of city life, they're making a statement that might give the CCP pause.

[Just kidding: like U.S. Democrat leaders, the CCP rulers never worry: they're always absolutely sure that whatever they're doing must be perfect.] 

If any member of the CCP understands the message of young people leaving the big cities, it scarcely matters because the Party is clearly unable to change the conditions driving the movement.

The "lying flat" movement shows that millions of young Chinese have decided striving is pointless.  That the upward mobility the party promised is only available to children of connected families.

This is a legitimacy crisis--not the kind that comes with tanks in the street and protesters chanting for democracy, but the kind that comes when millions of young people stop believing, stop pretending that hard work ensures success when the evidence of their daily lives tells them it doesn't. 

The Party doesn't know how to respond to this because there's no protest to disperse, no leader to arrest.  No organization to infiltrate and prosecute. 

The economic implications for the CCP are enormous.  For 60 years or so, China's growth has depended on 1) a large, young, hardworking population willing to accept wages and working conditions workers in other countries would reject. 2) high savings to provide the capital for
investment; and 3) consumption growth, driven by a middle class that believed its future would be better.  All three factors are now in doubt.

Another huge factor is that more young Chinese are deciding not to have children, possibly because of the high cost, but also due to the same fundamental disillusionment.  The population of China has actually dropped for the last four years--only by a tiny percentage, but still....And as in all countries committed to supporting retirees, a drop in population forecasts hard times.  [Bells, anyone?]

The huge population growth that powered China's economic miracle for years has stopped.
And the generation that should be forming families, having children, buying homes and driving consumption has decided--in enormous and growing numbers--that under communism, a family is a liability. 

[The narrator claims "This is not a problem that can be solved with a stimulus package or a new 5-year plan. This is a structural crisis rooted in a fundamental disconnect between what the system promised and what it delivers."  I think that's naive: all the Party needs to do is give people a modest payment for each child, for, say, five years.  Democrats in the U.S. who rigged the welfare system to reward single mothers found that millions of girls started having more kids.]

[I assume all Americans know that the "total fertility rate" for white American women (less than 1.4) has been far below the replacement rate (2.05 or so) for over 15 years, right?  Ahh, y'say you didn't know that?  I'm...shocked.  Not.]

Beijing's response to "lying flat" has been the only kind it knows: censor any posts discussing it, condemn the movement as "counter-revolutionary," order officials to promote the virtues of hard work and roll out more propaganda campaigns touting the wonders of communism.

So social media posts are scanned for banned phrases, and any detected are deleted.  Of course none of that changes the lived reality that triggered the movement.  Every young person who saw CCP propaganda urging hard work and sacrifice looked at their own life and saw the gap between the propaganda and the reality with perfect clarity.

So finally Beijing tried a different approach. Officials began to admit that young people faced real challenges, and announced New Policies to address youth unemployment, build more affordable housing and so on.  But as far as can be determined, right now the movement is still spreading. 

One problem for the CCP is that the "lying flat" generation is the most educated in Chinese history.  University enrollment rates--in single digits for their grandparents generation--are now nearly universal for urban young people.  

They've grown up with smartphones and at least some internet access, thus have been exposed to the full range of human possibility.  They have higher expectations, so their disappointment is more acute. 

Education was always touted as the great equalizer.  Instead, [as in the U.S.] the costs
keep rising and the returns keep falling.  A generation that was repeatedly assured that
education was the key to success has discovered that most high-paying jobs are given to children of Party members. 

The CCP's control mechanisms were built for an era of top-down information flow where controlling the broadcast meant controlling the message.  But with the internet, even one as heavily censored as China's, information can be shared horizontally at a speed censors can't totally stop. 

And the party knows it.  Internal CCP documents show the Party is concerned about the spread of what officials call "nihilistic thought" among Chinese youth. 

The CCP's power rests not just on coercion, but on a Narrative of China rising--the narrative that if people are willing to sacrifice and unite under the Party's leadership, China will rule the world--a role the Party tells them is theirs by right, but has so far been denied to them.

When young people take up lying flat they're rejecting that narrative.  That rejection tells the CCP that they don't believe the story the party is telling about China's future, and that they're no longer willing to sacrifice for the Party's Narrative.  That's the most serious threat the movement poses.

Source:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WToi9eLNXFM 

Dem-fellating rag posing as "newz site" does a hit-piece on Paxton, fawns over Talarico

There's a Democrat-fellating website called "The Hill," always quoted by the Lying Mainstream Media.  If you doubt The Hill sucks Democrat cock, read their fellating piece on the lunatic POS Dem candidate for the U.S. senate from Texas, James "there are six sexes" Talarico.

Ken Paxton’s (R) win in the Texas senate primary on Tuesday exhilarated Trump and the MAGA base, but the victory also electrified Democrats, who say their candidate, state Rep. James Talarico, can win. 

Talarico is a charismatic state representative who has quickly become a rising star in the Democrat party.  They say he's "uniquely positioned to appeal to not only his base but also independents and moderate Republicans."

See, it's crucial to convince voters that "independents and moderate Republicans" support this goofball.  Inference is that only "extreme" Rethuglicans would vote against him, eh?  "Bandwagon effect:" duh kool kidz support ouah "moderate" Democrat!  Only extremist Rethuglicans support the Republican!  And of course you're not an "extremist," right citizen?  Of course not!  Yew clearly think for yourself!  

And Democrats say Paxton’s baggage — from his legal troubles to his impeachment by the Texas House in 2023 — have them feeling emboldened as they enter the general election. 

Billionaire investor Mark Cuban--former owner of the Dallas Mavericks--told The Hill “I think he has a great chance.  He has uniquely attracted both Democrats and most importantly independents.”

Notice the repeated use of the "bandwagon" pitch:  "All duh cool, thoughtful, successful independents support dis uniquely charismatic candidate, so yew need to get on board, eh?"

Minutes after the primary vote was called for Paxton, Talarico put out his first general election video, calling Paxton “the most corrupt politician in America.”

“If we the people can come together to defeat the most corrupt politician in America, we can defeat this entire corrupt system,” Talarico says in the video. “We can start unrigging this economy. We can start raising our pay, cutting our taxes, lowering our costs. We can finally get ahead. It’s time to come together: the people vs. Ken Paxton.”

Immediately following Paxton’s defeat of longtime incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R) in the primary, the nonpartisan Cook Report changed its rating on the Senate race in Texas from “likely Republican” to “lean Republican,” a meaningful shift for Democrats.

Talarico has led Paxton in nearly every poll.  A YouGov survey last month had Talarico ahead by more than 8 points.

Endless appeals to the "bandwagon effect:"  "All duh kool kidz totally love ouah candidate, especially after he said dere are six sexes!  An' yew totally kool, right?  So yew know who to vote fo', right?"

Democrats praise Talarico's calm demeanor, at a time when politics feels increasingly chaotic. They point to his comfort with discussing religion and quoting Scripture, as well as what one strategist described as his ability to “talk like a normal person.”

Strategists [unsaid: "Democrat" strategists] also point to demographic shifts that are making the state more competitive.  Recent polling shows Democrats improving with young and nonwhite voters, including Hispanic voters.   

Recent national polls indicate Trump may have lost support from Hispanic voters, particularly as gas prices and food costs remain high. A New York Times/Siena poll showed Democrats leading Republicans among registered Hispanic voters, with 54 percent support to Republicans’ 24 percent. 

Democratic strategist Anthony Coley says Talarico can capitalize on the dissatisfaction from voters. “The national environment right now is so dour against the Republican Party,” he said.  "National conditions tend to favor the Democrats in this race.” 

Coley and other Democrats pointed to the Texas Senate race eight years ago, when Democrat candidate Beto O’Rourke lost to Republican Ted Cruz by 2.6 percent, the closest statewide race in decades.  It showed Democrats they could compete in Texas.  

One Democratic strategist said “He has a better chance than Beto did.  He understands he’s going to be on the air as much as possible, which is something Beto didn't do.”

Yeah, that dipshit cuck Beto only got on the cover of Vanity Fair, and all the dipshit Media absolutely fawned over him.  If only he'd managed to get 'on the air' more, eh?  He would have won by a huge margin!

Hours after Paxton’s win, Trump sought to define Talarico.  Echoing other Republicans, the president portrayed Talarico as a vegan, saying the Democratic candidate “dislikes meat.”  Talarico has publicly said he is not vegan.

Another cunning lie from the Dem-fellating Mainstream Media: In 2022 Talarico was videoed saying his campaign was proudly vegan, cuz guud pipo needed to be vegan to fight grobal worming.  And that helped him get elected to the state senate.  But now, seeking to win a state-wide election, he doesn't wants voters to believe that happened.  He can't claim that, but like magic, the Lying Mainstream Media makes the denial FOR him.  Nice!

Republicans have also shown a video interview with Talarico in 2023 where he was asked to name something he loved other than friends and family. He replied “I love the trans children who showed up yesterday at the state Capitol to advocate for their humanity."

Since most Texas voters seem skeptical about the tranny craze, "strategists" looked for a way to discredit that video.  Easy: Let's blame Republicans for noting it!

Democratic strategist Rodell Mollineau said Republicans have a history of making hay out of Democrats’ comments, saying “The MAGA Republican playbook calls for taking Democratic candidates’ strengths and turning them into weaknesses."

Ohhh absolutely, cupcake.  Because this video also exists, it's hard to plausibly deny that he said it, but Dem "strategists" know they can still get voters to ignore the video just by saying "Doze Rethuglicans wanna turn Dem candidates strengths into weaknesses."  Yep yep yep. 

Now here's the twist:  The Dem partei [sic] loves Talarico.  He's their perfect candidate.  And Paxton is likely corrupt.  So the Dems have a great chance of getting within 20,000 votes in November--easily close enough to steal. 

Now: given that no court in the country dared to hear evidence of massive Dem vote fraud in 2020, does anyone believe any real investigation would be done if the same thing happens this November?

And after reading the total hit-piece from the Hill quoted above, does anyone believe they're not totally Democrat-fellating?

Source: The Hill

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5898191-talarico-challenges-paxton-texas/