May 04, 2026

Dems: "We DEMAND that neither the states nor feds can require voter ID!"

 

Ahhh, "AI"!  Soon ever American will believe anything said to be from it. 

 

From Powerline Blog. 


May 03, 2026

The latest Democrat/Media theory

 

New poll shows many Democrats now believe Lincoln's assassination was staged

The rift between the political right and left in the U.S. got even wider this week, as a new poll showed that a majority of Democrats believe the Lincoln assassination was staged.

Though long held to be an undisputed fact, a poll of Democrat voters found many say they now suspect President Abraham Lincoln wasn't actually assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, and that the entire incident was an elaborate hoax to win support for the president's embattled party after the long, costly Civil War.

"That whole situation was suspicious," lifelong Democrat Dean Stinson posted on social media. "Let's be honest here, things just don't add up.  First, do you know what John Wilkes Booth did for a living?  That's right — he was an actor. Actors literally spend their time playing roles.  Sounds like the perfect guy to pull off a staged assassination, right?" 

Source: our friends at the Babylon Bee 

 

Mainstream Media baffled as to motive of gunman; 47-page "manifesto" has no clues

 

May 02, 2026

Dem fraud Elizabeth Warren blocked $3.8 BILLION merger to save Sprit Air; it's now out of business

Last night at 3am, Spirit Airlines closed for good. Over 14,000 jobs vanished.  Over 30 smaller airports lost service.

In 2022 JetBlue offered to acquire Spirit for $3.8 BILLION.  Shareholders, flight attendants union, everyone voted yes. 

One person blocked the merger:  socialist moron senator (and fake native American) Elizabeth Warren.

Warren said no.  She wrote letters, pressured bribem's incompetent secretary of transportation Pete Buttigieg.  She pressured bribem’s DOJ to sue to block the merger, and finally in January of 2024 a corrupt leftist federal judge killed the deal.  Read her own damn tweet from 2024:


Warren thinks you're too dumb to discover her bullshit bleat from two years ago.

The moronic Warren bleated that the merger was "runaway airline consolidation," and that blocking the merger was "standing up for consumers."  But JetBlue would have put every Spirit airplane and crew into service, to make their $3.8 BILLION offer profitable, so not a single destination would have lost service.  Yes, eliminating competition on some routes only served by those two lines would have allowed JetBlue to increase fares, but now, because of senator Elizabeth Warren and bribem's corrupt DOJ, Spirit is gone, so there's no competition now anyway!  Warren's a moron.

Warren's main argument was claiming the merger would cost consumers $1 billion a year.  How that would happen isn't clear--like every Warren claim.  But the damage from killing the merger is quite clear:  In 2023 the airline employed 14,000 Americans.  Now zero.

And that’s just the people in Spirit uniforms.  Every airline job generates 3 more in support fields.

That's about 40,000 people out of work because of one woman’s moronic crusade against the market. 

When competition ends, surviving companies always increase their prices.  And sure enough, on the 90 routes Spirit was forced to abandon, fares are 14% higher:  Oakland to Newark jumped from $135 to $288.  Fort Myers to San Juan: $92 to $219. Kansas City to Newark up 66%.

So, Fauxcohontas, how does this save consumers money?

Lower-cost carriers on a route drop fares about 20%.  Southwest pioneered this in the 90s and saved Americans $68 BILLION over 20 years.

Warren didn't want Spirit's planes, pilots and flight attendants helping JetBlue, so she killed it. That’s what moronic socialist Dem politicians do.

Then with her unique arrogance she tweeted that Spirit’s collapse is “a Biden win for flyers.”

"A biden win," y'say.

She’s actually trying to take credit for 14,000 people losing their jobs tonight. 

This is how corrupt, moronic Democrats roll. 

Elizabeth Warren didn’t protect consumers from anything.  The 14,000 Americans who lost their jobs will go from working and paying taxes to welfare.  And Warren will blame billionaires, capitalism and Trump. 

Yet Warren calls this "a win."  In Democrat-world, down is up.

 

Source.

Democrat/Mainstream Media "defense in depth"

 

How many times have you seen this Narrative?  Fraudulent voter registration, illegal aliens voting in federal elections, stuffing fake ballots in unmonitored "drop boxes" Democrats DEMANDED be installed.

Mail-in ballots accepted even though there's no matching signatures.  Mail-in ballots with no witness signatures.  Mail-in ballots mailed to addresses the addressee left years earlier.

Dead people "voting."  "Harvesting" ballots received by nursing-home residents, with residents told to sign and being too out of it to know they hadn't filled out the ballot.  Druggies selling their ballots to Dem operatives for $50 bucks.

Ballots printed on paper that clearly isn't the same as that used on official ballots.  Alleged "mail-in ballots" being scanned by the hundreds, but not having a single fold crease.  (Hint: they have to be folded to fit in the envelope going each way.)

In scores of Dem-ruled precincts, more votes officially reported than the number of registered voters.  Tens of thousands of completed mail-in ballots from majority-Republican neighborhoods found dumped beside rural roads.

In California alone, almost a million non-citizens being automatically registered to vote because they didn't know they'd be registered when they applied for a driver's license, under the faaaabulous Democrat-rammed "Motor-Voter Act."  Only discovered when thousands summoned for jury duty (from lists of registered voters) checked "I can't serve because I'm not a U.S. citizen."

Tens of thousands of mail-in ballots supposedly cast by people known to have died years earlier, but never removed from voter rolls.  Dozens of Dem-ruled shithole states refusing to turn over their rolls of registered voters to the DOJ so those rolls could be examined for dead people.  Corrupt Dem judges ruling FOR the corrupt Dem states by citing the Constitutional clause that states shall devise their own election rules, but ignoring the OTHER Constitutional provision that only citizens can vote in federal elections.

(For those with no legal experience: there's a longstanding provision of law that says when two provisions of a contract or law conflict, that law or contract is to be interpreted in the most rational way.  So if the Constitution says "only U.S. citizens can vote in federal elections," and also that "states may devise their own rules for elections," a state can't allow non-citizens to vote in federal elections because that was explicitly prohibited.  And yet corrupt Dem judges have ruled the opposite.  Clear, obvious error.)

Trucks pulling up to a vote-counting center at 3 a.m. the morning after the 2020 presidential election and unloading dozens of boxes of ballots--which are later scanned and found to be 98% for bribem/harris.  You don't see this even in heavily-Dem shitholes--there are always more than two percent GOP voters.  Media: "We nevah heard about dis!  So it din' happen!"

I could do this all day.  You may have heard about one or two of these things, but because of air cover by the Mainstream Media you never hear about more, so you never see the Big Picture.  Which is: elections are totally riddled with fraud, in favor of Democrats.  And of course Dems just smile:  "It din' happen!  But if it did, it worked, eh?  If yew pipo are too stupid to stop it, yew deserve to lose!  Neener neener neener! 

"See, it's a law of Nature that smarter, stronger and/or better-organized animals win.  We're smarter and better organized than yew stupid conservatives, so we're destined to win!  Look at all the thousands of perfectly-printed posters for ouah May Day celebrations, eh?  Look at the hundreds of thousands of people who turned out--including tens of thousands of highschool students in cities like Chitcongo, where the teachers canceled classes and the school district provided buses to take the students to downtown to carry signs blasting Orange Hitler and praising communism!

"Conservatives actually defend our pro-communist demonstrations as free speech.  In return our followers kill your most effective people, like Kirk.  Perfect symmetry, eh?  It's worked for us since we killed Abe Lincoln.  See, we're willing to do whatever it takes to win, and you're not--which ensures we'll eventually win.  It's perfect--and you don't even see it.  And our allies in the Mainstream Media ensure that you never will.  

"This is actually fun for us: we love toying with you, especially because we're using the rights listed in your own stupid Constitution--rights you amusingly claim were granted by God!--to defeat you almost every time...and you're too dumb to see it.  

"Our Media supporters keep most of your supporters distracted with moronic television and movies and "awards shows" and fake news. 

"If you wanna see your future, look at the UK or France or Germany.  You think what's happening to them can't happen here, "cuz we're all Americans, and if a threat ever appeared we'll all pull together to defeat it, as in WW2." 

"Hahahahahahaha!  That ship sailed long ago, deplorable.  Today all good Democrats support Islam against Israel.  Today 91% of Democrats think Orange Hitler was wrong to prevent Iran from getting an atomic bomb.  In fact the same number believe Iran was NEVER trying to build at atomic bomb!  If that doesn't convince you we're winning, nothing will, since the mullahs admitted having a thousand pounds of 60%-enriched uranium--and there's no known use for enriching uranium past ten percent except building a bomb.  But our Media allies haven't mentioned that, so only physics majors know it.  

"Are we masters or what?  

"With the help of our Media allies we can spin ANY event to either blame Trump or at least get Americans to ignore the event.  Take the "incident" with Charlie Kirk:  Note that EVERY Mainstream Media outlet reported that "prosecutors admitted they were unable to match the fatal bullet to Tyler Simpson's rifle!"  So most Americans interpret that as proving po' li'l Tyler could NOT have shot Kirk.  

"What the Media carefully, deliberately don't say is that when a bullet fragments (as this one did) it's not possible to match rifling grooves to the rifle.  But how many people know that, eh?  Only gun experts.  But because of this story, almost every American believes "the bullet didn't match the accused shooter's weapon, so there's no evidence...."  

"Are we masters or what?

"This is like taking candy from a baby.  Look at how many TOP Democrat congress-critters have appeared on national TV saying 'The U.S. is losing BADLY in Iran,' eh?  This includes Chuck Schumer, Chris van Hollen, Hakeem Jeffries, Richard Blumenthal and others.  There's never any pushback, so at least half of Americans believe it.

"U.S. troops are called "pirates."  Democrats wail about the cost, claiming there was never a threat from the Islamic regime of Iran.  And Americans believe it.

"Shootin' fish in a barrel, comrade."  

May 01, 2026

Another bribem-appointed leftist female judge orders an illegal wanted for murder released

Judges appointed by Democrats are destroying this nation, by ORDERING criminal illegal aliens released into the U.S, again and again.

Federal sources say Bryan Rafael Gomez, an alien from the Dominican Republic wanted for murder in his home country, illegally entered the U.S. four years ago.  He was caught at the border but the bribem regime ordered him released into the U.S.   In April 4th of this year was arrested in Massachusetts. 

On April 26th a black female judge--appointed by the corrupt vegetable bribem-- ordered his release.  Rhode Island federal judge Melissa DuBose is also a lesbian, thus the ideal bribem appointee.

He was ordered deported by an immigration judge. 

On Tuesday, judge DuBose ordered Gomez be released from ICE custody, ruling that he'd been "unlawfully detained.”  The government argued that Gomez was subject to mandatory detention due to having an international arrest warrant for homicide. 

The corrupt (as in, ignoring law) lesbian ordered Gomez released, so he was, and is now roaming freely again.  And the judge's ORDER bars ICE from arresting him again.

Wow.  Thanks, Democrats--for the thousandth time. 

 

The face of the Democrat partei [sic]

This IS the Democrat leadership, and the partei faithful: 

 

Keep voting Dem and you'll keep getting this--forever.  But hey, as long as the victims are someone else's daughter or wife, who cares, eh? 

April 30, 2026

Democrat governor of huge state totally reverses course, hopes you won't notice

Almost always, reality eventually exposes stupid people--even if it takes years.  Much less often, the morons are caught on video utterly reversing their longstanding position after reality shows their policies were stupid.

Such is the case with the Democrat governor of New York:  Like every Democrat, Kathy supports increasing all taxes, to be able to keep bribing stupid Democrat voters to vote for her and her party.  In 2022 wealthy New Yorkers started leaving for Florida, and Kathy sneered:  "We don't need you.  Good riddance."

A few days ago Kathy changed her tune: "We need you to come back."  Ah well, eat shit, moron.  You were warned that constantly raising taxes would cause your residents to leave, but like all Democrats, you refused to listen.  Instead you sneered and said, in effect, "Good riddance."  But at last, reality starts to show you your policies (which are those of your party) were dumb.  

 

Stupid people running things.  Who could have guessed.

April 29, 2026

Guess what the national debt was in 2008

2008 is NOT ancient history.  If you're over 40 you were reasonably adult in 2008.  It's not like that was a century ago, eh?

In 2008 the U.S. national debt was just over ten trillion dollars.  Some conservatives saw the government spending way more than it took in, year after year, and warned:

This is dangerous and possibly fatal.  Anyone of at least average intelligence knows continually increasing debt cannot end well!  And the solution is obvious: stop spending more than you take in!

But of course no one in government paid any attention...because they wanted to keep spending billions on...stuff they wanted, stuff that would buy votes from morons.  If they spent more den duh total money duh gummint took in each year, so what?  "We kin spend as much as we want, cuz we iz duh rulers!  So SHUT UP!"

Today--just 18 years later--the national debt is...larger.  If you pay attention to what's actually happening, you know how much it is today.  So tell us.  Show your kids you're not just a moronic Democrat by telling 'em how much debt the U.S. has added in just 18 years. 

We're now $39 TRILLION in debt, adding debt at almost $7 BILLION every day.

Thanks to corrupt, moronic congresswhores, the national debt has almost quadrupled in just 18 years.  Government spending has added over $29 TRILLION to the debt in that time.

If this keeps up, we can expect...Oh, sorry!  Can't chat any longer, cuz that fabulously funny Jimmy Kimmel is on!  Can't miss him, eh?  Priorities, citizen. 

April 27, 2026

Leftist piece of shit blames Trump for the attack at the Correspondents' dinner

There's a really squirrely POS named John Stoehr, who runs a far-left propaganda rag called "The Editorial Board" on BlueSky.  Here's his piece on the dust-up at the dinner.  I've edited it to remove as much fluff as possible.
 

How did this happen? The administration is run by morons
Some early facts and thoughts about last night.

● A man rushed through security at the White House Correspondents' Dinner last night.  It was all caught on camera.  Most of the "news" is news about the spectacle of it all.

● The suspect was apparently armed "with guns and knives." He was tackled after running through security.  One security official was struck in the bullet proof vest.

● The president has already suggested he was the intended target. He believes his interests are the same as the country's.  

● Allen is reportedly unaffiliated with a party. That won't matter to the president and his allies. Even if he were a registered Republican who voted for Trump three times, they'd still blame "the left," meaning the Democrats. 

This is a masterpiece: a huge rule of propaganda is to get the lie into the public consciousness before anything else has made it, because without any contradictory information, most people will believe the first thing they read or hear, even if flatly, unequivocally contradicted later.  
   And in this case, we've found hundreds of posts from the attacker re-posting EVERY insane Democrat TDS talking point.  He was thoroughly radicalized by the Democrats and their Media fellators to hate Trump and Republicans.  Yet John Stoehr deliberately lies about the attacker's politics.  And without contradiction, most Americans will believe it to their dying day.

● There's a lot of chatter online about the moment being staged. The same chatter accompanied the Butler assassination attempt. But the simplest explanation is probably the best: this administration is run by morons.

● Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche was asked how the suspect was able to get guns into the Washington Hilton. He said he didn't know. That's what I mean by morons. The hotel was not secured by the Secret Service. Only the event was. It took place underneath the hotel in a massive ballroom. Allen broke through security on the floor above the ballroom. 

Ah, so he was stopped mere yards after the first of several checkpoints?  Doesn't sound like "morons" to me.  And if the SS had locked down the entire hotel, imagine the screams from the Left about how Trump was forcing all the paying hotel guests to be HORRIBLY inconvenienced, eh?

● Hakeem Jeffries says polls show Trump and the Republicans are facing an "extinction-level" midterm wipeout in the midterms.  The impulse will be to use last night as a chance to portray the president – and by extension America – as a victim of leftwing violence.  Give the House to the Democrats, they will suggest, and you give in to people who hate America.

Wow, where would anyone get such a crazy notion, eh?

● While that may be true, let's not overlook media power.  Journalists, who were already deferential to Trump, are going to act like they were also potential victims of political violence. They are going to make last night seem like "a turning point," or some such, which will cause lots of Americans to believe the attacker was violent, therefore siding with Trump.

Wait...this lying piece of shit bleats "Journalists...were already deferential to Trump"??  You can't be serious!  But of course he's talking to moronic Democrats who actually believe that shit.  It's like they're living in some bizarro-universe where every meaning is reversed.

● Remember that *the press corps is predisposed to giving Donald Trump endless benefit of the doubt.* [WHAT??]  That's why even though he's an old man, he was never given the old-man treatment the way that President Biden was.  Journalists have the incentive to play along with the GOP's bad faith.

Again, bizarro-world: Except for Fox, the press has never missed an opportunity to trash Trump over everything.  Upholding immigration law to deport illegals just as Obozo did?  The press didn't say a single word when Obozo or bribem did it, but NOW the press bleats that it's cruel, inhumane.
   Arresting communist killer Maduro?  Not a single word of approval, just scathing comments.    
   Taking out Iran's atom bomb program after saint Obozo gave 'em the green light to build one?  Same: just scathing comments about how awful Orange Hitler was to do such an awful thing.
   And what meaningful incentive does this lying sack of shit think "journalists" have to "play along with the GOP's bad faith"?


● Democrat Jamie Raskin suggests a strategy to counter the impact of last night's event.  He brought the focus back to where it belongs, on Trump's choices, the results of which have been political violence. The suggestion is that the Democrats oppose him for legitimate, good-faith reasons.>>

<<Democrats want unlimited immigration, open borders.  Time after time, they try to keep ICE from deporting even known rapists and killers.  They fawn over "sanctuary cities and states" which hide illegal criminals and refuse to honor "detainer" requests from the feds.  So the POS Stoehr claims this is a "legitimate, good-faith reason" to oppose Trump.  Same with cutting brazen government waste and fraud: Democrats sue to block ALL such cuts.  Hmm...>> 

● Last night had lots of TV cameras, so we got to see Trump's feebleness.  He struggles to get up from his chair as Secret Service agents rush to cover him.  He stumbles badly before being brought to his feet and ushered offstage. This is a president of titanic vanity.  A viral video of him falling to his knees under pressure would be beyond humiliation.>>

<<Wow, and yet never a word about *bribem's* feebleness or confusion, eh?  Even piece of shit Dem-fellator Jake Tapper NOW admits they all knew bribem was a vegetable, but kept quiet cuz...dey beez reeel honest journos, eh?  Gon' tell duh troof no mattah whut, eh?
  What horseshit.  The Mainstream Media is a pack of lying propagandists, and has been since their hero Walter Cronkeit ran things.

Commenter:  "As with Butler, we'll simply *never* know 100% of what happened."
  >>Significance: If the attacker is found to have parroted every Democrat talking point, and to have sent a long explanation of his derangement to his family, Dems know the best defense is to claim "We'll never *really* know what happened here, just as at Butler.  
   We're not even sure Trump was actually shot at Butler, eh?  Coulda been hit by flying glass from the teleprompter.  Or maybe the real target was the man killed in the bleachers, and Trump was just in the way.  Yeh, dat cud be it.  And of course every American has heard that the po' young man who was cruelly killed on the roof before he could get the due process to which he was entitled had actually registered as a Republican!  So SEE??" 
   When your side is clearly responsible for this attack, the best plan is to prep the opinion battlespace by bleating a truth (that we can never know *everything*) that soon morphs into "You can't trust the claims of pipo you don't trust." 
   Remember how bribem's chief of staff got 50 "former U.S. intel officials" to sign a letter saying the laptop was fake--a Russian "propaganda ploy" to try to discredit bribem just before the election?
   Did you see people on Dem websites claiming the guy who murdered Charlie Kirk--and admitted it to his family and tranny lover, and who wrote emails about hiding the murder rifle where it was later found--did NOT shoot Kirk?  Lie, lie, lie, and most Americans will believe it simply because many don't want to believe their side would do such a thing.

Commenter: "The majority of white Americans are profoundly gullible.  You see it everywhere; and white people believing that Trump was anywhere near anything like any kind of danger, well… the Board knows.
  >>Significance:  As John Stoehr wrote above, the Democrats need to trivialize this attack.
  >>"He wudn't akshully in any danger at ALL, citizen!  After all, he only had one shotgun and one handgun, and was facing hundreds of SS men *by himself!*  So there was no way he could have actually been a threat, SEE?  So SHUT UP about this!  It wuz NO threat at all!"

The same Stoehr asshole who runs that Dem-fellating rag writes:  
   "‪The press corps is going to make last night seem like "a turning point," or some such pivotal event in The Narrative that will arise from this moment, and the result will be that lots of Americans will end up believing the same thing, therefore siding with Trump."

Really, you lying son of a whore?  You piece of shit.  Exactly the opposite: Here's a CBS gal already saying there was NO danger at all: 



So which is it, piece of shit?  Incompetence by the SS, or no danger at all because the would-be killer actually shot an SS agent a whole floor above the ballroom?  Take your pick, shithead.  You can't have it both ways.

Manifesto of the leftist maniac who shot up the White House correspondents' dinner

...in which he explains his motives and targets.  (Edited to remove most of the deranged ranting/fluff):

I apologize to...all those who suffered before I was able to attempt this, to all who may still suffer after, regardless of my success or failure.

If I could have seen any other way to get this close, I would have taken it. 

Why I did it:
   I'm no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.

How did this deranged moron get this notion?  Oh, dat right: from duh Lying Mainstream Media, and from every damn piece of shit Democrat politician except for John Fetterman.  They push this every damn day, especially on the late-night propaganda-fests amusingly called "comedy shows." 

My expected rules of engagement:
    Administration officials (not including Mr. Patel) are targets, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest.
    Secret Service: targets only if necessary, and to be incapacitated non-lethally if possible (I hope they’re wearing body armor because center mass with shotguns messes up people who *aren’t*)
    Hotel Security: not targets unless they shoot at me.
    Capitol Police: same as Hotel Security
    National Guard: same as Hotel Security
    Hotel employees and guests: not targets

In order to minimize casualties I will also be using buckshot rather than slugs (less penetration through walls)

I would still go through most everyone here to get to the targets if it were absolutely necessary (on the basis that most people chose to attend a speech by a pedophile, rapist, and traitor, and are thus complicit) but I really hope it doesn’t come to that.

Again, where does someone who has no first-hand knowledge get these beliefs?  From leading Democrats, eagerly parroted without a word of criticism by the Lying Mainstream Media.

Rebuttals to objections:

1: As a Christian you should turn the other cheek.
    Rebuttal: Turning the other cheek is for when you yourself are oppressed. I’m not the person raped in a detention camp. I’m not the fisherman executed without trial.  I’m not a schoolkid blown up or a child starved or a teenage girl abused by the many criminals in this administration.

Again: he has no direct knowledge of any alleged Trump crimes, so again the question: where did he get this rhetoric?  Democrat politicians and their Media supporters.

Turning the other cheek when someone else is oppressed is not Christian behavior; it is complicity in the oppressor’s crimes.

Objection 2: This is not a convenient time for you to do this.
   Rebuttal: Whoever thinks this way need to take a couple minutes and realize that the world isn’t about them. Do you think that when I see someone raped or murdered or abused, I should walk on by because it would be “inconvenient” for people who aren’t the victim?

This was the best timing and chance of success I could come up with.

Objection 3: You didn’t get them all.
   Rebuttal: Gotta start somewhere.

Objection 4: As a half-black, half-white person, you shouldn’t be the one doing this.
   Rebuttal: I don’t see anyone else picking up the slack

Objection 5: Yield unto Caesar what is Caesar’s.
   Rebuttal: The United States of America are ruled by the law, not by any one or several people. In so far as representatives and judges do not follow the law, no one is required to yield them anything so unlawfully ordered.

Sincerely,  Cole “coldForce” Allen
“Friendly Federal Assassin” 

Ok, now that all the sappy stuff is done, what the hell is the Secret Service doing? 

Like, I expected security cameras at every bend, bugged hotel rooms, armed agents every 10 feet, metal detectors out the wazoo.

What I got (who knows, maybe they’re pranking me!) is nothing.  No damn security--not in transport, not in the hotel, not in the event.

The one thing I immediately noticed walking into the hotel is the sense of arrogance.

I walk in with multiple weapons and not a single person there considers the possibility that I could be a threat.

If anyone had done the unthinkable and stopped you, slammed your deranged, arrogant, entitled ass to the floor and found the weapons in your bags, you and your tribe would have screamed bloody murder!  "Dis beez oppression!

The security at the event is all outside, focused on protestors and current arrivals, because apparently no one thought about what happens if someone checks in the day before.

Really, you moronic dipshit?  Guessing you were surprised to find there were layers of security inside the hotel, eh?

Like, this level of incompetence is insane, and I sincerely hope it’s corrected by the time this country gets actually competent leadership again.

Like, if I was an Iranian agent, instead of an American citizen, I could have brought a damn Ma Deuce in here and no one would have noticed shit.

"Ma Deuce" is the Army nickname for a .50-cal machinegun.

This wacko is a total creation of Democrats and the Democrat-fellating Mainstream Media.  Every lie this moron believed came from them.  And yet when a friendly Democrat-fellating CNN interviewer asked the smug leftist Demcrat piece of shit congressman Jamie Raskin "Do you think Democrat rhetoric played any role in this?" without a moment's hesitation he bleated "What rhetoric?"

Smug.  Knowing he wouldn't be challenged.

Smug.  Smirking.  Protected.  Immune from consequences.  It's how all Democrats roll.  

And now they're bleating "Dis wuz staged by Trump."  Seriously.

Source. 

April 26, 2026

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.  

April 25, 2026

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
 

April 23, 2026

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