What Happened to the "Smurfing" Investigation?

 Back in March, Cong. Steil requested some records for the purpose of investigating "smurfing" by ActBlue, a Democrat money-laundering op.

Since then you haven't heard a word, have you?

There's a reason for that.

Complaint filed to @FEC on US Congressman Mike Johnson and his Treasurers, William Vanderbrook and Lisa Lisker, who have been caught Smurfing $5,808,595 into Johnson's campaign committees....

Oh!  

If Bernegger is correct, it looks like BOTH parties (read:  the Establishment) are doing the dirty with smurfs.

Thus the sound of silence. 

Shooting Up New Year's Day!!

 Shooting bullets into the air is a regular feature in Milwaukee on New Year's eve.

Channel 12 captured the sound AND provides the police call-log.  Reading that log tells you that moving out of the area between 35th St and 2nd St., and between Burleigh and Wisconsin Ave. is a very good idea.

Yes, there are outliers on the South Side (again, east of 35th) and even on the far NW side.

But your intuition is correct:  "the 'Hood" is not safe. 

Some of the Truth on Obozocare Welfare

 As we mentioned a few days ago, the MSM repeats lies told by partisans.  These are "Lies by Omission"; they do not tell ALL of the truth because SOME of the truth serves their partisan purpose.

So it goes in this story on Obozocare from Fox6:

 Enhanced tax credits that helped subsidize the cost of Affordable Care Act health insurance for more people expired as the calendar turned to 2026. ...

That part is true.

... The new year's sticker shock is another factor in the fight over affordability,...

(The reporter could have said "...fight over welfare...." because that's what Obozocare really is.  Instead, the reporter fell into the trap of using partisan terms, which always distort the discussion.  And if you don't like the term "welfare," you now understand this digression.)

The story continues with a quote from a woman whose premiums will go up.  Unfortunately, the quote lacks very important context.  We know that the increased subsidies (welfare) went into effect in '21 due solely to Covid.  So when did this woman begin her Obamacare coverage?  Before or after the '21 increase in welfare?  That matters, because if it was before, she knew damn well what would happen after Covid.  

The reporter then quotes the Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner's office to the effect that premiums are going up--by a lot--for certain small, selected classes of Wisconsinites.  Again, the context of "pre-" and "post-" Covid is woefully lacking, but even then, as we mentioned a few days ago:

... The much larger premium payments showcased by media outlets are outliers who comprise less than 0.1% of the U.S. population, are nearly old enough to receive Medicare, and have incomes that exceed four times the federal poverty level....

But in fact, all those people, both the one interviewed AND the mythical "Waukesha County" residents, are still on welfare, as taxpayers pick up EIGHTY-THREE PERCENT of their Obozocare cost.

Somehow, that fact was not mentioned in the story. 

Trust the MSM???

Hell, no. 

Lindsey & Schumer: On the Take From Ukraine

 Reported here as "millions" placed into banks for  their benefit. (Start at 35:00)  $19 MILLION for Lindsey, $26 MILLION for Schumer.  The money goes through Baltic banks.

There are another 2 dozen Senate and House members who are also on the take. 

That explains a HELLUVALOT, no? 

Archdiocesan Lawyer Coaches "Refugees" in Milwaukee

Surely the Highly-Trained Professional "Reporters" will follow up on this.

Right?

Right?

Little Barbie Graham tells "refugees" how to avoid/evade ICE agents.  Right to remain silent, don't follow ICE directions, refuse to show documents, refuse to say where you're actually from, right to a lawyer, where to get a FREE lawyer, refuse to sign anything until lawyer shows up, .....yadayadayada

Of course, Barbie does not question the reality of "refugee" status; what she's doing is encouraging perjury ON TOP of the crime of illegal entry if they are not really "refugees." 

We suggest that Abp. Grob disavow this and fire Barbie forthwith.  You see, Catholics pay for her semi-insurrectionist yammerings whether they want to or not, because the Archdiocese levies a tax on parishes which the parish MUST pay.

You send money to your parish, you're paying for Little Barbie. 

 

Ow, Canada!

 The Big Green Goddess ruling Canada is going to cause problems.  For them.

 

...For the past few decades Canada bought into the carbon scam and enacted climate change goals into law for carbon pricing, alternative energy production, industry and manufacturing costs.  These mechanisms to control “climate change” are nuts in the big picture.

In order for Canada to position their economy to be in alignment with the rest of North America (USA and Mexico), Carney would have to reverse years of legislated rules and regulations.  That is not going to happen, and Canada will always be at a disadvantage because of it....

Whoops!!  Whoopsie!!

Even more interesting:

... It’s a moment of existential crisis for Canada, a senior Carney government official told POLITICO. Waiting out the Trump administration isn’t an option, the official said, arguing that what’s happening in the United States reflects a generational shift — not a temporary disruption

(Quoting Politico)

That Canadian official is probably right, meaning that the Hard Left in the USA will have to take drastic action to clamber back into the driver's seat here. 

"Highly-Trained Professionals"......They Get PAID for This???

 Saw pretty much the same thing on Fox6 last night.

 Jaw-dropping journalism.

"Are you committing fraud?"

"No."

"I believe you!"

Oh, yes, there's more.

 CBS attempts to discredit Nick Shirley by showing there were actually *FOUR* children at ABC Learning Center the day he visited…

But what CBS ACTUALLY did was PROVE HIM RIGHT.

Babysitting 4 kids while the federal government pays you for 40 KIDS is FRAUD.

This place has taken almost THREE MILLION DOLLARS in subsidies over three years.

And to top it off, they asked the owner if he was committing fraud, and he gave the most unconvincing “no” in history.

Video at the link. 

Will Vos De-Junk-Food SNAP??

Below we asked if Vos will enshrine natural law into Wisconsin Statutes.

Here's another tough question for Robin (not asked by any "reporter" in his little lickspittle sessions):

Will he De-Junk-Food Wisconsin's Food Stamp program?

 ...Starting New Year's Day, some food-stamp recipients around the U.S. will be banned from using the government nutrition assistance to buy candy, soda and other foods. 

Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, Utah and West Virginia are the first of at least 18 states to enact waivers prohibiting people enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, from purchasing certain foods....

Let's re-phrase the question in terms Robin understands:

How much money can Robin extract from Pepsi, Coke, and The Retailers to keep taxpayers paying for crap-"food" while calling it "nutrition"?

There.  Now you understand how Robin works. 

"Assisted Living" Frauds Are Next

 When Somalis say "assisted living" they mean "Assist Somalis in Living Very Well."

 Minnesota continues to pay millions of dollars to assisted living facilities owned by a man indicted for money laundering in the state’s massive Feeding Our Future fraud scandal, uncovering what may be a 15th program exploited for Medicaid fraud....

Raising your eyebrows?  Here's more red meat:

... Data shows suspicious patterns in Minnesota’s assisted living sector, with payment rates growing 10 to 15 times faster than other Medicaid programs, even as enrollment has only doubled.

The concentration of facilities in smaller suburbs appears disproportionate to the population. Minneapolis, with a population of nearly 430,000, has 169 assisted living facilities. But Brooklyn Park, with 84,000 residents, has 181 facilities — more than Minneapolis, a city five times its size. Brooklyn Center, with just 30,000 residents, has 106 facilities, compared to 83 in St. Paul, which has a population of 307,000....

Nothing here that is totally unreasonable--yet.  But there's a lot of smoke in the room, ain'a?

Now, then:  if some enterprising reporter drops in to see how many people are being "assisted" aside from the owners........well........... 

Will Vos Confirm Natural Law?

Robin Vos called several reporters to talk about .......well........not much, really.  He did produce an interesting statistic about Wisconsin's population decline forecast.  There was some blather about legalizing pot and the tax sitch.  But the idea of defining "two sexes" in Wisconsin Statute?

Not brought up.

 

Only two sexes, boys or girls, will be recognized in all administrative rules, regulations and public policies for North Carolina starting Thursday.

The Legislature by veto override of first-term Democratic Gov. Josh Stein established the law on July 29. Sections have previously been enacted, and the main piece happens with the start of the new calendar year. North Carolina is the 18th state to define and recognize only men and women...

Notice that the law required an override of the (D) veto?

Robin doesn't have the balls (see what I did there?) to go for this. 

HOW MUCH for "Refugees"??

Looks like the same old same old Spend-a-Lot routine.

 ...[T]wo Republican senators [are] pledging to vote against the bill for Labor and Health and Human Services due to its inclusion of $5.69 billion for refugee assistance services....

Why?

 

...The amount is less than the $6.3 billion that HHS’s Administration of Children and Families, which runs various refugee and asylee support programs, received in fiscal years 2024 and 2025.

But it is still three times higher than funding levels prior to Joe Biden's presidency...

(Catholic Charities and Lutheran Social Services would be hardest hit if Lee and Paul prevail.)

Screw that.  Cut it back to $1BN even; they will have to make do, just as we do when buying beef. 

 

Good Vetoes From Trump

 You will notice that the Propaganda Central operation (AP/Scripps) wrote the headline for this story.

 President Donald Trump issued the first vetoes of his second term on Tuesday, rejecting two low-profile bipartisan bills, a move that had the effect of punishing backers who had opposed the president's positions on other issues....

Both were wastes of taxpayer money.

Good to see that Trump will veto money-wasting no matter whose party gets banged in the process.

This is what we voted for. 

The US As Kleptocracy

 Sam Faddis thinks it's all over.

 ...The investigation into what happened in Minnesota is really just beginning. Already, we hear that the same kind of operation was ongoing in other states around the country, including Ohio and Washington. The true scope of all this can still only be imagined.

What is clear already is that big chunks of this country are now transforming before our eyes. Our system now exists for the purpose of providing a means by which individuals and organizations can loot the public treasury and enrich themselves at your expense. We, too, now live in a kleptocracy....

At some point in time, this will produce one of three results:  1)  The US goes BK.  2)  The taxpayers revolt in a deadly and horrific fashion.  3)  The FedGov gets a lot smaller very fast, with Congress admitting that it is far too big and overseeing a return to Deliver the Mail/Defend the Shores mode.

Congress will NEVER go to Option 3.  And Option 1 will lead directly to Option 2. 

Buy.  More.  Ammo. 

Doom and Gloom on Car Loans? Nope.

 In another effort to propagandize "unaffordability", the MSM has launched a Doom and Gloom disinformation lying campaign about car loans.  As usual, the locals ran the story without evidence of its accuracy.

 Americans are missing their car payments at the highest rate in more than 30 years, data shows....

Watch the trickery and deceit in the next quote:

... According to Fitch Ratings, 6.56 percent of subprime auto borrowers were are at least 60 days past due on their loans in January,...

1)  If you're "subprime" your credit history is terrible.  So going 60 is NOT a surprise.

2)  Many of these "subprimes" are peeps who have fled the country due to ICE crackdowns.  They are NOT going to make payments any more.  Surprised??

From the Fed report:

  ...Generally, non-captive auto finance loans are more likely to be to borrowers with relatively lower credit scores and also are more likely for used cars. Loans from these companies have seen the most pronounced rise in delinquency rates in the past few years and are notably above their pre-pandemic levels....

Refer back to notes 1) and 2) above.

Yes, there's more.

...A recent report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York also found more borrowers falling behind on their car payments. In the fourth quarter of 2024, the share of auto loans among all borrowers that transitioned into serious delinquency — 90 days or more past due — rose to 3 percent, the highest level since 2010. ...

Really? 

The second chart in this article cannot be easily reconciled with that statement.

What does The Hill (et.al.) NOT mention?

 ... Used car prices have since declined from the peak, potentially leaving some borrowers underwater on those vehicles and creating potential repayment challenges. At the same time, the decline in auto prices could imply that the more recently originated vintages of auto loans may fare better as those loans age....

.....unless the borrower leaves the country, of course. 

Finally, this:  when you look at the Fed's charts, you will notice that the biggest increase in delinquencies happened during the Biden "YOU WILL NOT WORK" days of '21-'23.  The rate of increase since then has fallen.  If you are baffled by this, you got a PublikScrewel "Leaning" Edyoomakshun.

In brief:  the sky is NOT falling.   

Tony Evers' Next Big Headache

It was rumored that Tony Evers would quit his job--that his Chief of Staff does, anyway--after the budget passed.

He's overdue (beyond 'ripe') and is probably going to have a good reason to dump the position into someone else's lap:

...Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services Jim O’Neill announced the agency has paused child care payments in Minnesota due to alleged child daycare fraud. . . 1. I have activated our defend the spend system for all ACF payments. Starting today, all ACF payments across America will require a justification and a receipt or photo evidence before we send money to a state. ... (quoted at AOSHQ)

ALL States, including Wisconsin.

What are "ACF payments"?  Glad you asked!!

 The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) funds state, territory, local, and tribal organizations to provide family assistance (welfare), child support, child care, Head Start, child welfare, and other programs relating to children and families.

That's a Helluvalotta Fed money dumped into this State.

Tony swearsies that the Wisconsin welfare systems are 'clean,' which is why he refuses to give the Feds data on the illegals here.  

He's betting his reputation on it, such as it is......

So let's have The Evidence, Tony! 

ObozoCare Premium-Cost Lies

 Below, we note the misinformation lying by the MSM (all repeated locally without evidence) about 'affordability' of food affecting The Poor.

Here we note the misinformation lying by the MSM (all repeated locally without evidence) about ObozoCare premium increases. 

 ...ABC’s David Muir repeatedly claimed that health insurance premiums were going to “skyrocket” unless Republicans went along with Democrats’ plans to renew the enhanced Obamacare subsidies.

In fact, Obamacare recipients paid an average of $74 per month for health insurance during 2025, and when the enhanced subsidies expire in 2026, they will pay just $159. The reason this figure is so low is because the original Obamacare subsidies will remain. Under these, taxpayers bear 83% of the premium costs, while Obamacare recipients pay an average of just 17%.

The much larger premium payments showcased by media outlets are outliers who comprise less than 0.1% of the U.S. population, are nearly old enough to receive Medicare, and have incomes that exceed four times the federal poverty level....

Muir was not alone in his lying.  He won't have to sell off his $7 million shack in Finger Lakes:

 

Food "Affordability" Woes? Not for SNAP Bros

 Among other mis-information lies spread around by the MSM last year, we have this:

 

PolitiFact claimed that a Republican bill to reform Food Stamps “would bar increases to monthly SNAP benefits” for “inflation” and “in effect become cuts.”

In fact, the Republican bill barred presidents from increasing SNAP benefits above and beyond the rate of food inflation, like Joe Biden did for the first time in the history of the program.

As detailed by the Government Accountability Office, the Biden administration raised SNAP benefits by “21 percent compared to the previous inflation-adjusted” amounts without adequate “economic analysis,” “disclosure,” or “documentation.”...

Really?

So SNAP (Food-Stamp) peeps got a TWENTY-ONE PERCENT increase in free food--yet we hear complaints about "unaffordability" from them? 

US Troops in Ukraine??

 It's possible that the Prime Minister of Poland is lying--or that someone lied to him.

But.......

Prime Minister Tusk, a globalist mouthpiece, has indicated the United States has agree to station American troops on the Ukrainian border with Russia,...

Will we have to call the White House and remind Trump of his campaign yapping??  

"MO' Welfare!!!" Say WI Democrats

 Humorous line from the Hard Left.

 ...Senate Minority Leader Dianne Hesselbein (D-Middleton) said she was confident Democrats' message will resonate with voters because it will revolve around affordability.

"I would say the biggest problem facing Wisconsin is rising costs," she said.

Hesselbein said Senate Democrats will focus on three areas, in particular: lowering prescription drug costs, expanding the homestead tax credit and providing free breakfast and lunch in public schools....

Gee.  The Biden Disease (Inflation) became "affordability."

So let's make it worse!!

Trump is already lowering prescription costs, but not to worry!  The Hard Left will take credit for it, and then raise taxes to pay for their own "lower" costs.  

And the old "No Such Thing" rule?  That's right:  they'll put "Free Lunch" on the table because they're buying votes with your money.  Again.

The Wisconsin Pubbies may actually decide to fight, which would be a shocking change.  But it can't be too hard.  Only 30% of Wisconsin residents have children in school, meaning the other 70% will be paying MORE.  

The Democrat plan?  You will pay more for "free lunch" for someone else's kids.  You will pay more for someone else's prescription drugs.  And then you will pay more to cover someone else's property tax, too! 

The real 'affordability' problem is in your Democrat tax bill. 

Kudos to Fox6

Fox6 actually ran a story about the SomaliFraud in Minnesota last night.

They won't put it on their website, but we'll credit them for acknowledging the existence of what will be the single largest Fraud on the US Government in HISTORY discovered to date. 

Think they might follow up with investigations of Wisconsin's day-care, Medicaid/Autism, and Food Stamps programs?

Don't bet on it.  Fox6 rolled over on following up on Tony Evers' fake email address.  They'll roll over again. 

Emmer (R-Somalia) the Fraud

Breitbart runs puffery, too.

 Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN), the House Majority Whip, has issued a letter to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz demanding answers and immediate action following allegations of large-scale fraud involving Somali-run, publicly funded daycare and healthcare centers.....

Ooooooohhhh!!

The very same Emmer told his St Cloud constituents to sit down and STFU a few years ago when they inquired about reducing the flow of Somalians being dumped into St Cloud.  Said there was nothing he could do about it.  Too bad, so sad.

Another Paleosaurus Hypocrite in Congress.  Why does Breitbart love him? 

60 Convictions in MN? How Many Expulsions?

 The AG brags that 60 fraudsters were convicted in Minnesota.

 ...Bondi praised citizen journalist Nick Shirley’s reporting, which showed Americans “the scale of fraud” taking place in Minnesota under Gov. Tim Walz (D).

“[@NickShirleyy’s] work has helped show Americans the scale of fraud in Tim Walz’s Minnesota,” Bondi said. “@TheJusticeDept has been investigating this for months. So far, we have charged 98 individuals — 85 of Somali descent — and more than 60 have been found guilty in court.”...

How many of "Somali descent" have been stripped of citizenship and deported?

How many years will the rest be serving in a penitentiary?

 

Truth Bomb

 Childers lets us know that the FedGov has new rules for FedGov contractors:  your hiring better NOT be DEI--or you are committing fraud against the Government.  Audits are underway for Google and Verizon.

Heh.

 

"Tel Aviv Mark" Levin Goes Ballistic

 The Screamer is bound and determined to alienate a large swathe of US citizens.

Too bad that he is alienating them away from Israel, rather than toward, eh?  

Levin obviously approves of Israel's unlimited-war scheme designed to create "Greater Israel" and to shove native Palestinians, some of whose families have lived there for far more than 2,000 years, into the sea.  Remember that "Israel" has only been a state since 1948, and it began with the Stern Gang's terrorism.

 

 

Will the Somalis Rid Us of Welfare?

Jeffrey Tucker does lots of research.

 

...The political scam of what’s called the welfare state is nearly a century old, and is only now being fully exposed in a way that the people can grasp. It’s taking from you to build bureaucracy and buy votes with a humanitarian gloss. That’s pretty much the whole thing.

Another especially striking feature of what’s unfolding now gets to the heart of a truth known in the literature but hardly spoken about at all in the media. Namely: such a system is only politically viable so long as demographics are relatively homogenous. The tax-paying people do a Rawlesian “behind the veil” mental experiment and come to believe, more or less, that the people they are supporting with their tax dollars – whether administrators or recipients – are like themselves, members of the family; there but for the grace of god go I. They too would like a “safety net,” in the event of an emergency.

Once you mix things up with random people who are NOT like the paying population – different language, religion, ethnicity, national origin – who also seem to be gaming the system, you breed resentment that ends up overthrowing the entire machinery. This is why welfare states in heterogenous societies cannot last. Again, this is well known among scholars of the subject. ...

"Welfare" has gone through a few rough patches in the US, roughly every 20 years.  The '60's--following the riots--brought us the Welfare Queen, followed by "reforms."  Clinton famously signed legislation demanding that welfare recipients either work or get off welfare.  It didn't do much to change anything and there have been minor bursts of loud unhappiness about "welfare" following that reform.

But there has never been so large a theft as engineered by the Somalis.  They stole money from Medicaid, from AFDC, and from HHS' 'education' programs; the total in Minnesota alone is likely in the 10++BILLION range.  And similarly lucrative theft schemes are being uncovered in Ohio and Washington State as we type.  (There are no investigative "reports" in Wisconsin.  Highly-Trained Professional Reporters are remarkably quiet.)

Anyhow.....

Will this be The One that finally brings about what St. Paul said:  'They who will not work should not eat'?

He was a Christian, ain'a?  Amazing how Catholic Charities never seems to refer to St. Paul, eh? 

Did Vos Kill "No Tax on Tips"?

 Seems that Robin Vos has decided to take a long nap.

 The state’s No Tax On Tips legislation cleared the Assembly Committee on Ways and Means Thursday.

The legislation, Assembly Bill 38, would end the state income tax on qualified tips....

That was in September.

A look at the history on AB38 since then produces a nearly-blank page.  Some committee reported on sumpin'sumpin' and Robin Vos has not moved the bill.

But remember that Robin is a HERO according to Jay Weber. 

(R) Emmer: Just Another P.O.S. Politician

Don't be fooled by all the "Emmer Demands Investigation/Prosecution" crapola.

He told his constituents to stop being RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACISSSSSSSSSSSS about the Somali invasion a number of years ago.  He further stated that he was "powerless" to stop it.

OK, Emmer.  You're a Certified Piece of S**t. 

It's Unreliable and Expensive. So YOU Pay For It

 The Somalis are thieves, and not too smart about it.  They should take lessons from "green" energy promoters--who are used-car salesmen with better hair.

 

...[E]xplicit government subsidies in the form of tax expenditures for the entire energy sector totaled $64.1 billion. This was more than all other domestic industries. ...

The total fossil fuel-related tax expenditures came to $2.6 billion in revenue losses for the federal government in fiscal year 2025. 

By comparison, the total amount of federal tax money subsidizing renewable energy, electric vehicles and energy-efficient equipment in fiscal year 2025 was $57.9 billion, which exceeds the total for fossil fuels over the entire fiscal year 1994-2025 period...

Before you cite "studies" done by ideologues who favor "green" energy which claim 'trillions of dollars in "subsidies" for fossil fuels'.....

 ...Estimates like those of the International Monetary Fund’s $7 trillion figure, Tice explained, rely on a “flawed methodology” utilizing interpolation — estimating unknown data points between known data points — and “implicit” subsidies. These are costs of health and environmental damages that activists claim come from the use of fossil fuels. Since the companies don’t pay for these costs, the activists argue, they are a de-facto subsidy. 

Implicit subsidies are based on a concept in economics called externalities, which are unintended costs to third parties uninvolved with the use or production of a product. Tice points out that the externalities applied to calculations of oil and gas subsidies are highly subjective, and he argues the scope is so wide that it renders the numbers meaningless. ...

People in Wisconsin are paying THREE HUNDRED PERCENT of 2000's rates for electricity due to "investments" made in sun-catchers and windmills.  Further, Wisconsin Electric is planning to fund a massive battery-backup facility, and they will put the cherry on top of their Wasted Money Parfait by paying for new transmission lines feeding "AI" centers.

The Somalis only stole $10 billion--or maybe $20 billion.  They don't get it. 

It's White Man's Fault

Tampon Tim points to White Men as the problem in Minnesota.

...Today, 73% of Somali households have at least one member enrolled in Medicaid, and 89% of Somali families with children participate in at least one welfare program. ...

White men.  Sure.  No doubt.   /sarc

Trump is right.  Throw them all back to the den of thieves they came from. 

Want Asylum? Go Elsewhere.

Makes perfect sense.

 The Trump administration is actively pursuing a new immigration strategy where courts are being asked to dismiss asylum claims without hearings, and instead direct asylum seekers to third countries to pursue relief. This approach is backed by agreements with nations like Uganda, Honduras, and Ecuador...

Naturally, the screeching is at Eleventy, saying that this "undermines" the US asylum system.  That makes no sense, which should not be a surprise to anyone.

 ...A senior administration official, speaking to the media, emphasized that asylum is not meant as a means for migrants supposedly in need of safe harbor to pick out a new homeland of their choice, stating, “Asylum was not designed to provide people a backdoor way to get to a country of their choosing.”...

I hear that Honduras is a great spot this time of year. 

 

26% Inflation in Four Years!

Unnoticed by "highly trained professionals" in various Milwaukee newsrooms:

 The budget was under $90 billion.... and now it is over $114 billion in just four short years!

$24 BILLION increase on a $90 billion base?

That's 26% inflation.  

Robin Vos IS the "affordability" problem--along with his co-conspirator Tony Evers. 

Truth

 If  it keeps up this way, there will be major problems with "civility."

 

"Highly Trained Professional"? Nope. Motivated Amateur

The local "news" outfits yappity-yap about having "highly trained professionals" in their buildings.

In Minneapolis, the "highly trained professionals" REMAIN 'in the buildings'--so motivated amateurs go find and publicize real news.

 ...Nick Shirley was just put on NATIONAL TELEVISION as his Minnesota Somali fraud video blows up to nearly 100 MILLION views

Nick is giving a HUGE shoutout to David - the man in the video who helped find $110 MILLION in fraud in one day

"A KINDERGARTENER could've figured out there's fraud going on!"

"It's just the tip. There are BILLIONS in fraud in Minnesota right now!" 💯

"If you drive around Minneapolis, you will see day care centers, autism centers, transportation companies that have snow piled up like they haven't moved in months, and buildings with 14 and 22 health companies!"...

But but but but he has no TRAINING!!! 

Did We? Or Did We Not?

Here's an interesting tidbit.

...The United States had knocked out "a big facility" last week, Trump described somewhat vaguely, in apparent reference to a drug facility on the Latin American coast. 

"They have a big plant or a big facility where the ships come from," Trump said, though he did not explicitly identify the exact location or even country attacked. "Two nights ago we knocked that out." ...

Looks like we did.

 ...Some analysts have highlighted the below explosion reported by local Venezuelans, given the timing fits (Wednesday, Dec. 24).

The local reporter's commentary reads according to (machine) translation, A new large explosion was reported from the Industrial Zone of the San Francisco municipality, Zulia state, in the early morning of this December 24....

That's a logical extension of sinking drug-runners, so it's not entirely shocking.  Are US troops (or CIA contractors) on the ground there?

Good question. 

"Americans Won't Do"? B.S.

 Nice essay here with The Rest of the Story on the line "Jobs Americans Won't Do"--which line lie is pushed by the Greed Gang, and facilitated by both Democrat and Republican "representatives."

 ...Stevie was good and patient.  He has that ability to measure with his eye.  And so he was a very good drywaller, making a respectable wage with some benefits.

But about a decade later, he came back to my shop, needing work.  He explained that his business had been taken over by mostly Hispanic workers, who worked as sub-contractors and were paid not by the hour, but by the number of sheets of drywall they hung.  No benefits, of course.  Their work may not have been great, but it was acceptable.

In all likelihood, many if not most of these new drywallers were illegal aliens.  And in a one-decade cycle, drywalling became one of those jobs Americans just won’t do....

He has more examples, from roofers to CDL-holding drivers frauds.

You get the picture.  So does the essayist:

....I truly believe that the president is doing all he can do, but now it is time for Congress to step up to the plate and call a halt to all immigration for 25 years.  If there is a dire refugee crisis somewhere, then refugee camps can be set up outside the United States that can act as true temporary safe havens for genuine refugees.  If there is a group of refugees who seem like a good fit into our culture, Congress can go into session, carve out and exemption, and pass it.

But perhaps Congress as envisioned in the Constitution is just one more job Americans won’t do.

Well said. 

Zelenskiy Still Playing Games

 Trump surely understands that Zelenskiy is attempting to play him.

 

Ukraine’s president, Volodymr Zelenskyy, said Monday that he has asked for up to 50 years’ worth of security guarantees for Ukraine during his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump at the weekend....

Only 50?  Why not 250??

Moving on:

... Zelenskyy told journalists that he said a meeting with Russia would only be possible after the president and European leaders had agreed on a framework peace deal for Ukraine....

There is the laugh-line.  The EuroWeenies are dead-set against any "plan" which does not include US money and troops.  So far, Trump has understood that the US population is simply NOT interested in throwing away any more cash, and definitely not putting US forces in that area.  (The US population is opposed by the Military-Industrial Complex, of course.  That is the real battleground here.)

At some point, hopefully soon, Trump will give up on his "I can Make Peace Happen" Quixote persona  and pull our cards off the table.  We have Venezuela to deal with--in our hemisphere.  Entertaining this two-bit tin-pot twerp is really a waste of time. 

Puerto Rico Affirms Natural Law!

This is encouraging!

 Puerto Rico Governor Jenniffer González Colón has signed a new law that officially recognizes unborn babies as “natural persons” from the moment of conception....

Right at Christmastime, too! 

Why the Dallas Cowboys Never Win the Big Games

 We'll remind you that the Dallas Cowboys are the favorite team of James Wigderson--another very pleasant guy who followed Cruz and Sykes into near-obscurity.  This from their official X account:

 

How EuroCrats "Think"

 Cadged from Surber:

 

Bush and Putin: the REALStory

 Once again, Last Refuge comes up with stuff that utterly derails The Narrative of the Warlords.  It took a FOIA or several plus many years to get this.

A 2001 "restricted" meeting between Bush and Putin:

... Putin raises the idea that Russia could eventually join NATO. He says Russia feels “left out” by NATO enlargement. He points to an older fact most Western publics were never meant to internalize: the Soviet Union applied to join NATO in 1954. He argues the reasons for rejection no longer apply. He suggests, almost clinically, that perhaps Russia could be an ally — “European and multi-ethnic,” comparable in character to the United States....

Remember that Putin also asked the NATO question with Clinton--and was told to GFY.

Compare that to what you've been told to believe by the Military-Industrial Complex and its camp-followers in Congress (yes, those are prostitutes.)

And by the "news" organizations which--by the way--did NOT file FOIA's to obtain these notes.

There MUST be an Enemy, by God, and we'll manufacture one if necessary! 

"Stop Trump" Morphing to "Stop Vance"

 Yesterday we quoted a Last Refuge analysis which pointed out that there is a clear "Stop Trump" gang out there, composed largely of Wall StreetPubbie/Democrat/Deep State/Globaloney types.

So what to our wondering eyes should appear? Harsanyi in all his.....ummmnnhhh.....glory.

... Few politicians beat on strawmen with more frequency than Vance. And, in this case, the red herring is the word "deplatform." It insinuates a form of censorship, which no notable person is demanding.

Speaking out against those who normalize odious lies and indecency, as Owens and Carlson do, is a way of exercising free expression. This offends Vance, who sees the problem differently. ...

Here Harsanyi licenses slamming JDVance for the unforgivable crime of NOT condemning Owens and Carlson to Hell without further discussion.  Period.

Harsanyi may or may not be a Member in Good Standing of the Democrat Party, and he may not even be a WallStreetPubbie.  But he is a Globaloney type, dedicated to the proposition that those who Criticize Israel are NOT to be tolerated.

Why?

Because Israel.  There is no other reason. 

Harsanyi--like many propagandists--presents the Binary View:  you can be with us totes, or against us totes.  There is no in-between.  If nothing else, it proves that Harsanyi is not familiar with most of Shakespeare's characters, which happen to reflect humanity perfectly.  Watch how he corkscrews into that binary in the last sentence below:

...Vance does offer some perfunctory condemnation of bigotry, before contending "(a)lmost no Americans are antisemitic" — which is definitely a big relief. Only around "99% of Republicans, and I think probably 97% of Democrats," the vice president contends, "do not hate Jewish people for being Jewish."

However, he adds, there is a "real backlash to a consensus view in American foreign policy" and "we should be able to say 'we agree with Israel on that issue, and we disagree with Israel on this other issue.'"

Again, for Vance, Israel supporters are the problem. ...

And to Harsanyi, America First supporters are the problem.  Because Israel?

Harsanyi has been around long enough to know better.  Claiming to be a 'democracy' while openly and brazenly shoving 100's of thousands of people out of their homes for the sake of forming "Greater Israel" is gross propaganda.  Did Gazans vote to get shoved into God-Knows-Where?

Are there some evil Gazans?  No doubt.  Did Netanyahu's extremely effective internal security operations find them and bring them to trial?  Nope.  So Netanyahu did it the easy way:  mass obliteration of homes, stores, and places of worship, and may the Devil take the hindmost. 

Requiring the US to support that activity is arguably the most egregious form of chutzpah ever seen.

Supporters of such "democracy" are the problem, Mr. Harsanyi.

Can you at least admit to that? 

 

 

An Attempt To Help Ted Cruz

.......out of his ignorant take on "Israel."  (Granted, it fills his campaign coffers.)

Here's commentary from Rupert of Deutz on the link between manna and Christ:

 ...When the Lord had said to the sons of Israel, “Behold, I will rain bread from Heaven for you,” Moses and Aaron said to them, “In the evening you shall know that the Lord hath brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, and in the morning you shall see the glory of the Lord.” (Exod. 16, 4 and 6-7) … (this) invites us to consider that that manna, which was given to the sons of Israel when they had come out of the land of Egypt, and were marching for the promised land, was a figure of the Word of God, which took on the flesh through the Virgin, and came to feed us that believe in Him, … The interpreter of this similitude is not just any man, but the very One who said, “I am the bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the desert, and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that if any man eat of it, he may not die.” (John 6, 48-51)...

Hopefully, the red-highlighted text will illuminate Teddy.  

We doubt that it will penetrate the dark recesses of the minds of Levin and Little Benny, but who knows?? 

"Stop Trump" Begins Consolidating--Around DeSantis

If you can't see this, you're either blind (forgivable) or willfully blind (NOT forgivable.)

 ...the domestic opposition to President Trump is the ideological left in combination with the Wall Street right.  Currently the EU/U.K opposition to President Trump is in alignment with goals and objectives of the Sea Island group and the professionally republican.

Just as the Biden/Obama agenda included the targeting of President Trump for removal (Transition Integrity Project – originating group) in early January 2017, so too did another UniParty stop Trump operation begin in January 2025.  We saw the latest iteration surface in the odd (at the time), narrative surrounding Qatar -vs- Israel.

The ideologically similar GOPe elements within the Sea Island network, tech and traditional Republican party, are all aligned due to opposition to Trump policy. They continue their efforts to divide elements from the larger MAGA network.

The use of the Qatar vs Israel wedge is clear within the billionaire tech/political group, and essentially distillates to 2028 positioning, JD Vance -vs- Ron DeSantis.

The battle was clear last week at TPUSA with the alligator emojis leveraging all the pressure they could toward the organization.  The Ellison, Weiss, Shapiro goal was to steer Turning Point to support DeSantis.  However, Erika Kirk endorsed JD Vance.

Now the alligator emojis, blind orcs for the Ellison agenda, hate TPUSA....

( The alligators also hate Tucker.  We've read multiple attacks on him in several different "conservative" forums--and then read even more attacks on him  We're no fans of Qatar, nor of Fuentes, but geez Louise... )

Pence is part of the alligator-emoji bunch, but realizes that the day of well-coiffed fork-tongued Old Pols is past.  So he's consolidating the "think tank" bunch into his own grift (AAF).  The departing staffers (and Board members) simply cannot stand right-thinking populism at the Heritage Foundation.  We use "right thinking" in the theological/philosophical sense, IYKWIMAITYD. 

We add this:  watch the Stop Trump activity on the fiscal front, too.  They began with deriding tariffs as counter-productive, useless, antique tools.  When that attack failed (it did), they moved to somewhat firmer ground in attacking the debt--something that Trump has not adequately addressed.  If you never could describe "pathological", before, just read some of that stuff.  See, it's the Brits!!  So says LaRouche, so say......three others.

 

Merry Christmas!!!

Here's a marvelous realization of the coming of the three kings by Healey Willan.  Recall that the text shapes the music in all great works.  Here's the text:

 "Who knocks tonight so late?"
the weary porter said.
Three kings stood at the gate,
each with a crown on head.

The serving man bowed down,
the Inn was full, he knew.
Said he, "In all this town
is no fit place for you."

A light in the manger lit;
there lay the Mother meek.
This place is fit.
Here is the rest we seek.

Come, come. They loosed their latchet strings,
so stood they all unshod
"Come in, come in, ye kings,
and kiss the feet of God."

The piece begins with a quiet, straightforward question sung in D minor, answered--as if by angels--in the higher voices.  Then back to the narrative, with a musical "bow" as the serving-man bows to the kings, telling them they really don't want to stay here or, for that matter, in any place in Bethlehem.   The music 'walks' with the serving-man as he leads them through the gates of the compound.

Then the angels--the high voices--return, telling of a Light; the Kings (lower voices) declare the place to be fit and 'restful' (as the Prince of Peace is present).  They end that declaration in the key of D Major, the classical music key of joy.

Then the music begins a slow ascent (to the heavenly) with the angels commanding them to "Come In!"; you can hear the 'command tone' in the brief phrase and its repetition.  

Why must they enter?

To kiss the feet of God--musically realized with a dramatic, suddenly quiet, descending line (to the feet) and a marvelous 8 voice repose on "God."

So should we all.

Merry Christmas! 

New Christmas Books Released

 Found at Revolver:

Deep State Lindsey and Israel

 Lindseeeeeeeeeey!!!! Graham (Warmonger-SC) spilled the beans on why Israel is useful to the US.

... The South Carolina senator claimed on Sunday that U.S. aid delivers “tenfold” returns in intelligence, counterterrorism, and advanced technology, and that Israel’s security role provides capabilities the United States could not replicate on its own. He made his comments to reporters in Tel Aviv during his two-day visit to the Middle East.

According to Graham, Israel is among America’s most valuable strategic partners militarily, economically, and morally....

Translation:  Israel spies on US citizens on behalf of the Deep State and its members--such as Linnnnndseeeeeeeeeey!!!--and a number of other treacherous jackwads such as McConnell, Hildebeeste Clinton, the Senate and House versions of Intel Committees, the US military, the FEEBS and the CIA.  There are a lot more, by the way.   

Using foreign spies is exactly the way the Deep State tangled Trump.

The more we learn about Israel, the less there is to like. 

The Establishment vs. Heritage Foundation

 Lots of yapping today about Heritage Foundation staffers bailing out and going to a Mike Pence outfit.

Notably, most of the coverage focuses on the "anti-Semitism" foo-foo dust pushed by the likes of "Jerusalem First" Benny Shapiro and "Tel Aviv" Mark Levin, not to mention AIPAC.  That is the narrative they prefer.

But that's not the real story.  In reality:

...Chapman [one of the quitters] said the ordeal pushed a large group of Heritage employees who had been eyeing the exit doors to cement their decisions to leave.

"We were approached by a lot of the leadership of the three different institutes three or four weeks ago, and they told us that they and their teams were already at the point where they were ready to leave the Heritage Foundation, but that Tucker Carlson stuff and Nick Fuentes stuff was sort of the straw that broke the camel's back," the AAF president told reporters. "I think the infamous video really put everyone over the edge."...

The President of Heritage, Roberts, was betrayed by his assistant who wrote Roberts' speech on the Tucker/Fuentes interview.  After the ululations from the (already-departing) staffers, Roberts honorably refused to throw Tucker under the bus by cancelling him.

Honor is not honored by Certain People, as Roberts is learning.

Mike Pence is as greasy a politician as ever existed.  He betrayed the families of Indiana with his gay "marriage" crapola, and betrayed Donald Trump while being #2 in Trump's Administration.

If that's the kind of guy those staffers want to work for, Heritage and Roberts actually won. 

 

Respecting the Illegals

 The new President of the US Bishops has asked that illegals be treated with respect in accordance with their inherent human dignity.  OK, Excellency, how about this from DHS:

 ...Illegal aliens who voluntarily leave the country using the CBP Home app before the end of the year will be offered a financial incentive of $3,000, along with government-funded travel back to their home country.

Those who opt into the programme will also have any outstanding civil penalties or fines related to overstaying or failing to depart waived, effectively wiping the slate clean if they comply with the self-deportation process....

That's for the illegals who are 'hard-working' and did not accrue criminal convictions.

As to the criminally-convicted:  they will get all the respect that they deserve.

OK, Excellency?