February 21, 2025
Faces of Corruption
Timothy Birdnow
This is what corruption looks like.
‘Cashing In’: Biden’s Energy Sec Lands Cushy Gig At Major Utility Her Agency Boosted With Taxpayer Cash
The story says:
This is what corruption looks like.
‘Cashing In’: Biden’s Energy Sec Lands Cushy Gig At Major Utility Her Agency Boosted With Taxpayer Cash
The story says:
Former Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm is joining the board of a major U.S. utility company that received millions of taxpayer dollars from Granholm’s agency on her watch.
Granholm will be a board member for Edison International, a major utility holding company, and she will also sit on the board for Southern California Edison (SCE), a subsidiary of the holding company, Edison International announced on Thursday. SCE was part of a group of California-based entities that received $600 million in taxpayer cash from Granholm’s Department of Energy (DOE) in August 2024.
"Though they promised us something far different, the Biden administration revolving door looks to be still whirring fast enough to power a major city,” Michael Chamberlain, executive director of Protect the Public’s Trust, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. "Incidents of former powerful government officials cashing in on their government service by leaving to work for companies that had matters before the department while they were there is a major contributor to the precipitous decline in the public’s trust in government.”
Granholm will be a board member for Edison International, a major utility holding company, and she will also sit on the board for Southern California Edison (SCE), a subsidiary of the holding company, Edison International announced on Thursday. SCE was part of a group of California-based entities that received $600 million in taxpayer cash from Granholm’s Department of Energy (DOE) in August 2024.
"Though they promised us something far different, the Biden administration revolving door looks to be still whirring fast enough to power a major city,” Michael Chamberlain, executive director of Protect the Public’s Trust, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. "Incidents of former powerful government officials cashing in on their government service by leaving to work for companies that had matters before the department while they were there is a major contributor to the precipitous decline in the public’s trust in government.”
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Covidaclypse Now!
Timothy Birdnow
Mom,they're doing it agaaaaiiiinnnnn....
New coronavirus with potential to cause pandemic discovered in China
Not content with having screwed over the whole world before we are seeing them attempt to bring back the Covidacalypse.
Mom,they're doing it agaaaaiiiinnnnn....
New coronavirus with potential to cause pandemic discovered in China
Not content with having screwed over the whole world before we are seeing them attempt to bring back the Covidacalypse.
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New Palestinian Terror Attack
Timothy Birdnow
Bombs exploded on buses in Tel Aviv, proving the Palestinians haven't learned one blessed thing from their experiences in the war.
Buses Explod in Isreali Terror Attack
This on the heels of the Palestinians parading the bodies of dead Israeli children around as well as sending the wrong body back to Israel. It's time for Netanyahu to restart the war.
What is clear, what should be clear to everyone, is that the Pelsetinians and Hamas do not feel defeated. On the contrary, they seem to feel pretty good right now. Until someone knows they are beaten and gives up this thing will burn and burn.
Fortunately the buses that exploded were in the depot and nobody was injured. Several other bombs were found on other vehicles and disarmed.
Bombs exploded on buses in Tel Aviv, proving the Palestinians haven't learned one blessed thing from their experiences in the war.
Buses Explod in Isreali Terror Attack
This on the heels of the Palestinians parading the bodies of dead Israeli children around as well as sending the wrong body back to Israel. It's time for Netanyahu to restart the war.
What is clear, what should be clear to everyone, is that the Pelsetinians and Hamas do not feel defeated. On the contrary, they seem to feel pretty good right now. Until someone knows they are beaten and gives up this thing will burn and burn.
Fortunately the buses that exploded were in the depot and nobody was injured. Several other bombs were found on other vehicles and disarmed.
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Time to Buy Stock in Fedex
Timothy Birdnow
Trump plans to federalize the U.S. Postal Service, ending it's status as a semi-private corporation (it's not a private corporation; it is wholly owned by the U.S. govenrment and the President selects the board that picks the chairman).
President Trump will send a letter this week firing the board of directors and putting the USPS under the direct control of the Commerce Department - where it had been until the Nixon Administration "privatized" it in the early seventies.
The USPS now holds a monopoly on letter delivery. You get in big trouble if you put something in someone's home mailbox, for instance. The box beloengs to the service, or so they believe.
Moving it back to Commerce could be a way to set the stage for true privatization.
In point of fact we really don't need a post office any longer. In the old days it was needed; it was a huge undertaking to carry letters and parcels across country, and it really did require government to accomplish it. But now letters are nigh unto unknown as everyone e-mails or tests, and what business is transacted via post can be done by a private company just as easily. As for parcels, we have UPS and Fedex (who also does papers) so why do we need a costly USPS? It theoretically is funded by the sale of stamps but loses money every year and is often propped up with infusions of tax dollars.
And the people there treat you poorly. I just had to send a check to the IRS (who cheated me out of a lot of money, making me pay interest on THEIR mistake) and I tried to be friendly with the clerk. He was sour as can be; I would have thought he had a lemon in his mouth. Not pleasant at all; that's what you get when you have a monopoly and hire people based on DEI and not worry about customer service.
While it's a bit sad to see a 250 year old institution dissolved, it's not so sad as to warrant us to waste a bunch of money on it when perfectly viable alternatives are available. The Post Office is exactly what is wrong with modern America; a backward, overly bureaucratic institution that no longer serves a pressing need.
Time to buy stock in Fedex.
Trump plans to federalize the U.S. Postal Service, ending it's status as a semi-private corporation (it's not a private corporation; it is wholly owned by the U.S. govenrment and the President selects the board that picks the chairman).
President Trump will send a letter this week firing the board of directors and putting the USPS under the direct control of the Commerce Department - where it had been until the Nixon Administration "privatized" it in the early seventies.
The USPS now holds a monopoly on letter delivery. You get in big trouble if you put something in someone's home mailbox, for instance. The box beloengs to the service, or so they believe.
Moving it back to Commerce could be a way to set the stage for true privatization.
In point of fact we really don't need a post office any longer. In the old days it was needed; it was a huge undertaking to carry letters and parcels across country, and it really did require government to accomplish it. But now letters are nigh unto unknown as everyone e-mails or tests, and what business is transacted via post can be done by a private company just as easily. As for parcels, we have UPS and Fedex (who also does papers) so why do we need a costly USPS? It theoretically is funded by the sale of stamps but loses money every year and is often propped up with infusions of tax dollars.
And the people there treat you poorly. I just had to send a check to the IRS (who cheated me out of a lot of money, making me pay interest on THEIR mistake) and I tried to be friendly with the clerk. He was sour as can be; I would have thought he had a lemon in his mouth. Not pleasant at all; that's what you get when you have a monopoly and hire people based on DEI and not worry about customer service.
While it's a bit sad to see a 250 year old institution dissolved, it's not so sad as to warrant us to waste a bunch of money on it when perfectly viable alternatives are available. The Post Office is exactly what is wrong with modern America; a backward, overly bureaucratic institution that no longer serves a pressing need.
Time to buy stock in Fedex.
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The J6 lie
Timothy Birdnow
Couldn't have said this better myself!
Democrats will one day admit that J6 was a Leftist setup
I won't excerpt it; it requires a full read.
BTW I love Kevin Jackson; he's my favorite host on Salem News. I even like him better than Charlie Kirk or Dinesh D'Souza or Dennis Prage (all of whom I love).
Couldn't have said this better myself!
Democrats will one day admit that J6 was a Leftist setup
I won't excerpt it; it requires a full read.
BTW I love Kevin Jackson; he's my favorite host on Salem News. I even like him better than Charlie Kirk or Dinesh D'Souza or Dennis Prage (all of whom I love).
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Blackface at U. Hawaii
Timothy Birdnow
So Aunt Jemimah had to go but they can do this?
U of Hawaii Celebrates Blacks with RAcist Food
Surprised they didn't top off the evening with a blackface minstrel show!
So Aunt Jemimah had to go but they can do this?
U of Hawaii Celebrates Blacks with RAcist Food
Don’t forget now, Black History Month still isn’t over. At the University of Hawaii,
Black history and culture are being celebrated at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa with a series of events and collaborations throughout February.
Events include basketball and a special Black History Month Dinner next Tuesday featuring "fried chicken, baked mac and cheese, sweet potatoes and cornbread.”
Normally, associating blacks with fried chicken is regarded as thoughtcrime. But you can’t blame moonbats in Hawaii for resorting to vague stereotypes regarding blacks, who make up only 2.2% of the population. The important thing is that they bend the knee piously in accordance with their religion, cultural Marxism.
Black history and culture are being celebrated at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa with a series of events and collaborations throughout February.
Events include basketball and a special Black History Month Dinner next Tuesday featuring "fried chicken, baked mac and cheese, sweet potatoes and cornbread.”
Normally, associating blacks with fried chicken is regarded as thoughtcrime. But you can’t blame moonbats in Hawaii for resorting to vague stereotypes regarding blacks, who make up only 2.2% of the population. The important thing is that they bend the knee piously in accordance with their religion, cultural Marxism.
Surprised they didn't top off the evening with a blackface minstrel show!
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Plandemic II
Timothy Birdnow
Plandemic II; just when you thought it was safe to go back to your choir practice!
Measures already in Place for another Plandemic; Here's the Evidence
It's all about stopping Trump.
Plandemic II; just when you thought it was safe to go back to your choir practice!
Measures already in Place for another Plandemic; Here's the Evidence
Before Biden left the office of president, the Department of Health and Human Services awarded $590 million to pharmaceutical company Moderna to develop multiple modified mRNA injections for several "avian influenza viruses” including H5N1 and H7N9.
It worked for them before so they figure on trying it again perhaps. But it won't work now; everyone is wise (or most of us anyway.)It's all about stopping Trump.
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All the Queen's Men
Timothy Birdnow
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has a complette meltdown,comparing the Trump Administration's rescinding of approval for "congestion pricing" tolls on New York City roads to King George and the Democrats to the Patriots and George Washington.
Hockum Hochul ranted:
But this congestion pricing was not put up for a vote by referendum; it was imposed by a baron in Albany, and by the New York City Traffic Congestion Mitigation Commission, an unelected group appointed to find ways to screw the public. (BTW we're not talking about a buck or two but tolls of $9, small trucks $14.40, large trucks $21.60, motorcycles $4.50, taxis $0.75, and Uber and Lyft drivers $1.50.
This for accessing streets already paid for by taxpayer dollars.
And the claim is this has reduced congestion by 9%,but how much of that is just lost business to New York? Of course they will blame it on Eric Adams and Donald Trump.
Hochul vows to keep the cameras on and keep collecting the ill-gotten gains.
So if she does the state of New York should lose all their highway funding from the Federal government. There can and should be consequences.
Hochul needs to go sooner rather than later.
This woman hasn't the foggiest idea of what the Patriots actually fought for - it was the taxation by the crown done without any say by the colonists, just as New York is taxing people now with no say. SHE is the King's aid here, the Queen, not the other way around as she is painting herself.
I suppose she believes the patriots rebelled because they wanted higher taxes and more regulations then?
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has a complette meltdown,comparing the Trump Administration's rescinding of approval for "congestion pricing" tolls on New York City roads to King George and the Democrats to the Patriots and George Washington.
Hockum Hochul ranted:
"This is what we fought for. This is what people like Alexander Hamilton and others fought for: to set up a system where we are not subservient to a king or anyone else out of Washington."
"In the streets of this city, where battles were fought; we stood up to a king. And we won then. And in case you don't know New Yorkers, when we're in a fight, we do not back down. Not now, not ever. Because, who are we fighting for here? We're fighting for our residents, our commuters, our riders, our drivers, our emergency personnel."
"I'm here to say New York hasn't labored under a king in over 250 years," she seethed. "We sure as hell are not gonna start now.
"In the streets of this city, where battles were fought; we stood up to a king. And we won then. And in case you don't know New Yorkers, when we're in a fight, we do not back down. Not now, not ever. Because, who are we fighting for here? We're fighting for our residents, our commuters, our riders, our drivers, our emergency personnel."
"I'm here to say New York hasn't labored under a king in over 250 years," she seethed. "We sure as hell are not gonna start now.
But this congestion pricing was not put up for a vote by referendum; it was imposed by a baron in Albany, and by the New York City Traffic Congestion Mitigation Commission, an unelected group appointed to find ways to screw the public. (BTW we're not talking about a buck or two but tolls of $9, small trucks $14.40, large trucks $21.60, motorcycles $4.50, taxis $0.75, and Uber and Lyft drivers $1.50.
This for accessing streets already paid for by taxpayer dollars.
And the claim is this has reduced congestion by 9%,but how much of that is just lost business to New York? Of course they will blame it on Eric Adams and Donald Trump.
Hochul vows to keep the cameras on and keep collecting the ill-gotten gains.
So if she does the state of New York should lose all their highway funding from the Federal government. There can and should be consequences.
Hochul needs to go sooner rather than later.
This woman hasn't the foggiest idea of what the Patriots actually fought for - it was the taxation by the crown done without any say by the colonists, just as New York is taxing people now with no say. SHE is the King's aid here, the Queen, not the other way around as she is painting herself.
I suppose she believes the patriots rebelled because they wanted higher taxes and more regulations then?
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Patel Confirmed
Timothy Birdnow
Patel is in at the FBI.
Now we can get some real answers - and purge the people who weaponized it.
Patel is in at the FBI.
Now we can get some real answers - and purge the people who weaponized it.
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WaPo: We Don't need Troops at Border because Crossings are Down Thanks to Troops
Timothy Birdnow
The Washington Post, ever eager to look stupid, asks why Trump is sending the military to the border since it's gone quiet after the election.
Amazing myopia.
From Andrew Arthur at the Center for Immigration Studies:
To boil it all down it basically means deterrence works and is maintained through strength. Disarm and go home and the problem returns. This was the lesson of WWII and the Cold War, only it's just people and not governments (although governments clearly are involved here.) Why do we have troops in Germany still? As a deterrent to Russia. Just because Russia isn't threatening Germany doesn't mean the troops are superfluous (well, in that case they might be.) Border crossings are down because everyone knew we were going to deploy troops.
This isn't rocket science - except to the good people at Wapo.
The Washington Post, ever eager to look stupid, asks why Trump is sending the military to the border since it's gone quiet after the election.
Amazing myopia.
From Andrew Arthur at the Center for Immigration Studies:
A February 15 Washington Post article is headlined: "Soldiers are arriving at the border — but hardly any migrants are crossing”. The real focus is in the subheader: "Trump’s order to send troops to the border comes as the number of migrant crossings is plummeting. Residents in some border cities wonder what the soldiers will be doing”. It’s a classic example of the "Butterfield Fallacy”, but in short — the troops are there to help Border Patrol, and as long as they remain, the number of crossings will likely remain low.
[...]
My colleague Todd Bensman coined the term "Trump Effect” to describe the decline in illegal entries at the border during the beginning of the first Trump administration.
That effect was real, as CBP’s FY 2017 statistics reveal. Apprehensions that fiscal year hit a monthly high of more than 47,000 in November 2016, and then fell to fewer than 19,000 in February 2017 (Trump’s first full month in office) before cratering to just over 14,500 two months later, in April.
From there, entries began a steady ascent through FY 2018 before hitting a Trump 1.0 monthly peak of nearly 133,000 in May 2019. Trump’s DHS realized that it had a problem and began implementing the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), better known as "Remain in Mexico”, and other deterrence policies in response, which finally drove illegal entries down again.
Why didn’t the Trump Effect last? Because smugglers identified loopholes by sending migrants across and determining who got detained and who didn’t.
Single adults were detained, but adults travelling with children in "family units” were released thanks to a poorly reasoned 2015 district court decision, and word quickly went out that the only way to make it across successfully was to bring a kid with you.
Here are the stats: In April 2017, just 10 percent of illegal entrants were in FMUs. In FY 2018, 27 percent of apprehensions involved aliens in FMUs. Then, of the 132,856 Border Patrol Southwest border apprehensions in May 2019, 63.6 percent involved family-unit aliens.
Remain in Mexico worked because DHS returned aliens back across the border regardless of whether they were single adults or came in family units, essentially negating the pernicious impact of that 2015 court decision.
MPP worked in driving the family numbers down, bringing security to the border. Want proof?
There were 30,389 Southwest border apprehensions in February 2020 — the month before Title 42 took effect — and just 15.3 percent involved aliens in FMUs. Even that statistic understates MPP’s impact: Both the numerator (total apprehensions) and the denominator (FMU apprehensions, 4,610) decreased significantly from the prior May.
[...]
The U.S. military relies on what it calls "actionable intelligence”, information that "provides commanders and soldiers a high level of shared situational understanding, delivered with the speed, accuracy and timeliness”, to achieve success.
In the border context, that means keeping track of who’s coming between the ports, as well as gathering intel from Mexican partners on what’s happening on the other side of the line.
Border Patrol has the ability to compile such information, but migrant surges can strain its capacity to do so. The military will assist agents in surveillance and intelligence gathering, freeing those agents to make apprehensions.
That said, the very presence of soldiers and Marines on the border will act as a deterrent for would-be smugglers and illegal migrants.
[...]
Wall Street Journal editor James Taranto often references what he terms the "Butterfield Fallacy”, which he defined as "misidentifying as a paradox what is in fact a simple cause-and-effect relationship”.
He named it after an erstwhile New York Times reporter who repeatedly wrote articles questioning why incarceration rates were increasing even while crime was falling — apparently failing to grasp the correlation between jailing criminals and decreases in criminality itself.
Taranto explained: "The Butterfield Fallacy is rooted in ideological prejudice. The typical New York Times reporter does not like the idea of sending people to prison.”
Not to cast aspersions, but the Post appears to be suffering from the Butterfield Fallacy when it implicitly asks why Trump would send more troops to the border even as illegal crossings have fallen. The most likely answer is that those troops are a big part of the reason why few migrants are crossing now — and in turn why more deployments are likely on the way.
President Biden repeatedly claimed that he needed Congress to act to secure the border, but as I told Congress in March 2024, he already possessed all the power he needed; he just needed the will to use it. Biden didn’t have that will, but thus far at least, his successor does — including the will to send the Marines.
[...]
My colleague Todd Bensman coined the term "Trump Effect” to describe the decline in illegal entries at the border during the beginning of the first Trump administration.
That effect was real, as CBP’s FY 2017 statistics reveal. Apprehensions that fiscal year hit a monthly high of more than 47,000 in November 2016, and then fell to fewer than 19,000 in February 2017 (Trump’s first full month in office) before cratering to just over 14,500 two months later, in April.
From there, entries began a steady ascent through FY 2018 before hitting a Trump 1.0 monthly peak of nearly 133,000 in May 2019. Trump’s DHS realized that it had a problem and began implementing the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), better known as "Remain in Mexico”, and other deterrence policies in response, which finally drove illegal entries down again.
Why didn’t the Trump Effect last? Because smugglers identified loopholes by sending migrants across and determining who got detained and who didn’t.
Single adults were detained, but adults travelling with children in "family units” were released thanks to a poorly reasoned 2015 district court decision, and word quickly went out that the only way to make it across successfully was to bring a kid with you.
Here are the stats: In April 2017, just 10 percent of illegal entrants were in FMUs. In FY 2018, 27 percent of apprehensions involved aliens in FMUs. Then, of the 132,856 Border Patrol Southwest border apprehensions in May 2019, 63.6 percent involved family-unit aliens.
Remain in Mexico worked because DHS returned aliens back across the border regardless of whether they were single adults or came in family units, essentially negating the pernicious impact of that 2015 court decision.
MPP worked in driving the family numbers down, bringing security to the border. Want proof?
There were 30,389 Southwest border apprehensions in February 2020 — the month before Title 42 took effect — and just 15.3 percent involved aliens in FMUs. Even that statistic understates MPP’s impact: Both the numerator (total apprehensions) and the denominator (FMU apprehensions, 4,610) decreased significantly from the prior May.
[...]
The U.S. military relies on what it calls "actionable intelligence”, information that "provides commanders and soldiers a high level of shared situational understanding, delivered with the speed, accuracy and timeliness”, to achieve success.
In the border context, that means keeping track of who’s coming between the ports, as well as gathering intel from Mexican partners on what’s happening on the other side of the line.
Border Patrol has the ability to compile such information, but migrant surges can strain its capacity to do so. The military will assist agents in surveillance and intelligence gathering, freeing those agents to make apprehensions.
That said, the very presence of soldiers and Marines on the border will act as a deterrent for would-be smugglers and illegal migrants.
[...]
Wall Street Journal editor James Taranto often references what he terms the "Butterfield Fallacy”, which he defined as "misidentifying as a paradox what is in fact a simple cause-and-effect relationship”.
He named it after an erstwhile New York Times reporter who repeatedly wrote articles questioning why incarceration rates were increasing even while crime was falling — apparently failing to grasp the correlation between jailing criminals and decreases in criminality itself.
Taranto explained: "The Butterfield Fallacy is rooted in ideological prejudice. The typical New York Times reporter does not like the idea of sending people to prison.”
Not to cast aspersions, but the Post appears to be suffering from the Butterfield Fallacy when it implicitly asks why Trump would send more troops to the border even as illegal crossings have fallen. The most likely answer is that those troops are a big part of the reason why few migrants are crossing now — and in turn why more deployments are likely on the way.
President Biden repeatedly claimed that he needed Congress to act to secure the border, but as I told Congress in March 2024, he already possessed all the power he needed; he just needed the will to use it. Biden didn’t have that will, but thus far at least, his successor does — including the will to send the Marines.
To boil it all down it basically means deterrence works and is maintained through strength. Disarm and go home and the problem returns. This was the lesson of WWII and the Cold War, only it's just people and not governments (although governments clearly are involved here.) Why do we have troops in Germany still? As a deterrent to Russia. Just because Russia isn't threatening Germany doesn't mean the troops are superfluous (well, in that case they might be.) Border crossings are down because everyone knew we were going to deploy troops.
This isn't rocket science - except to the good people at Wapo.
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Mexico's Weapons Problems are Their Own Fault
Timothy Birdnow
The problem with Mexico's drug cartels and their weapons is not the fault of the U.S. but rather the fault of the Mexican government itself.
The Mexican government keeps trying to blame America for the proliferation of military-grade firearms in Mexico, but it's only to hide it's own fault in the matter.
From the article:
Read the entire article at The American Mind.
The problem with Mexico's drug cartels and their weapons is not the fault of the U.S. but rather the fault of the Mexican government itself.
The Mexican government keeps trying to blame America for the proliferation of military-grade firearms in Mexico, but it's only to hide it's own fault in the matter.
From the article:
"If you want to stop the trafficking of fentanyl to the U.S., if you want to stop the violence that’s leading to a lot of migration across the border, you’re going to need to stop the flow of guns to Mexico because that’s what’s leading to all these problems,” said Jonathan Lowy, an attorney representing the Mexican government in the case.
[...]
The truth is that Mexico’s drug cartels have, for many years now, equipped themselves with military weaponry stolen or bought from the stores of Mexico’s own corrupted military and similarly from the armories of corrupt officials in Central American and South American nations, which buy large amounts of older, hand-me-down military equipment from foreign nations around the world. That’s the force with which they substantially arm themselves today, after years of arms races to outdo one another.
[...]
The truth is that Mexico’s drug cartels have, for many years now, equipped themselves with military weaponry stolen or bought from the stores of Mexico’s own corrupted military and similarly from the armories of corrupt officials in Central American and South American nations, which buy large amounts of older, hand-me-down military equipment from foreign nations around the world. That’s the force with which they substantially arm themselves today, after years of arms races to outdo one another.
Read the entire article at The American Mind.
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The House that Liberals Built
Timothy Birdnow
The Left tried to blame the stabbing death of lesbian fire chief Rebecca Marodi, who managed the recent fires in California, on MAGA:
One claimed on social media. Here's more:
Yet no evidence was provided by any of these righteously indignant liberals that this was a result of Trump working up his radical base.
That's because it was a lvoer's spat. Police arrested one Yolanda Marodi, a 53 year old lesbian, for the murder. Seems Mrs. and Mrs. Marodi shared more than tthe same last name.
As usual it was the Left jumping to conclusions to hide the fact that one of their pet groups was actually the villain here.
Rahm Emmanuel said "never let a good crisis go to waste" and the Left is quite quick to jump on anything that may serve them politically. But one must ask; is not this sort of thing the fruits of THEIR philosophy? They decoupled morality from sexuality and both from society in general and now we have lesbian lovers stabbing their partners because they are angry and nobody ever told them not to do such things. I mean, freedom is letting it all hang out after all!
This is the society the Left has built.
The Left tried to blame the stabbing death of lesbian fire chief Rebecca Marodi, who managed the recent fires in California, on MAGA:
'Trump riled up his MAGA cult against California fire captain calling her "DEI hire — now she's been viciously murdered in her own home,"
One claimed on social media. Here's more:
"Fire Captain Rebecca Marodi was found with multiple stab wounds that police say indicates a desperate fight for survival. She served 30 years with California Fire — including leading the fight against recent Los Angeles fires that MAGA Republicans scapegoat women firefighters for."
"Humanity is on life support," said celebrity Elgin Charles. "Rebecca Marodi, a California based firecaptain, was targeted by right-wing extremists who touted her a ‘DEI hire’ and blamed her for the LA fires. She has been found stabbed to death in her home."
"The lesbian fire chief Rebecca Marodi got slammed by MAGATs, blamed for the Palisades Fires, and now someone has stabbed her to death. Police think she knew the killer, not sure why. Sure looks like an assassination," wrote feminist historian Max Dashu.
"Humanity is on life support," said celebrity Elgin Charles. "Rebecca Marodi, a California based firecaptain, was targeted by right-wing extremists who touted her a ‘DEI hire’ and blamed her for the LA fires. She has been found stabbed to death in her home."
"The lesbian fire chief Rebecca Marodi got slammed by MAGATs, blamed for the Palisades Fires, and now someone has stabbed her to death. Police think she knew the killer, not sure why. Sure looks like an assassination," wrote feminist historian Max Dashu.
Yet no evidence was provided by any of these righteously indignant liberals that this was a result of Trump working up his radical base.
That's because it was a lvoer's spat. Police arrested one Yolanda Marodi, a 53 year old lesbian, for the murder. Seems Mrs. and Mrs. Marodi shared more than tthe same last name.
As usual it was the Left jumping to conclusions to hide the fact that one of their pet groups was actually the villain here.
Rahm Emmanuel said "never let a good crisis go to waste" and the Left is quite quick to jump on anything that may serve them politically. But one must ask; is not this sort of thing the fruits of THEIR philosophy? They decoupled morality from sexuality and both from society in general and now we have lesbian lovers stabbing their partners because they are angry and nobody ever told them not to do such things. I mean, freedom is letting it all hang out after all!
This is the society the Left has built.
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Buttigieg Calls Out Dei
Timothy Birdnow
Rats are starting to desert the sinking ship.
Pete Buttigieg abandons previous support for DEI, compares diversity programs to 'Portlandia'
In a few years they will claim DEI was Donald Trump's signature policy and the media will help them convince the low information types it was all Trump's fault!
Uh, Buttigieg himself was a DEI hire; he was completely unqualified to be transportation secretary and was horribly incompetent when in that position. He was mainly hired because he's homosexual.
Rats are starting to desert the sinking ship.
Pete Buttigieg abandons previous support for DEI, compares diversity programs to 'Portlandia'
In a few years they will claim DEI was Donald Trump's signature policy and the media will help them convince the low information types it was all Trump's fault!
Uh, Buttigieg himself was a DEI hire; he was completely unqualified to be transportation secretary and was horribly incompetent when in that position. He was mainly hired because he's homosexual.
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Hochul Seizing New York
Timothy Birdnow
Oh, for the love of all things holy!
Kathy Hochul Will Not Remove Eric Adams From Office
She says instead she wants to impose "guardrails" on Adams to make sure he doesn't go corrupting.
Among her proposed "guardrails" are:
So,it's all about money and using New York taxpayer dollars to go after the Trump Administration as well as hamsttring the operations of the city.
I ask again; why didn't this get referred to Letitia James for prosecution under state law? I mean there ARE laws against corruption in New York, are thee not?
If she tries this Adams should sue Hochul, as should the Trump Administration.
You do notice these "guardrails" have little to do witth actual corruption and everything to do with politics and spending money.
This is a power grab by Hochul. It's time for Congress and the DOJ to start looking into the New York Governor, who I am certain has some seri
Oh, for the love of all things holy!
Kathy Hochul Will Not Remove Eric Adams From Office
She says instead she wants to impose "guardrails" on Adams to make sure he doesn't go corrupting.
Among her proposed "guardrails" are:
"Among the steps Hochul is set to announce are the creation of a new state deputy inspector general dedicated to just New York City; creating a fund for the City Council speaker, city comptroller, and public advocate to hire outside counsel to sue the Trump administration if Adams declines to do so; granting additional funds for the state’s comptroller to investigate city finances; and impose a rule barring the mayor from hiring the head of the city’s Department of Investigation without approval of the state inspector general."
So,it's all about money and using New York taxpayer dollars to go after the Trump Administration as well as hamsttring the operations of the city.
I ask again; why didn't this get referred to Letitia James for prosecution under state law? I mean there ARE laws against corruption in New York, are thee not?
If she tries this Adams should sue Hochul, as should the Trump Administration.
You do notice these "guardrails" have little to do witth actual corruption and everything to do with politics and spending money.
This is a power grab by Hochul. It's time for Congress and the DOJ to start looking into the New York Governor, who I am certain has some seri
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February 20, 2025
Waiter There's a Belch in My Ear
Timothy Birdnow
California just blew $86 million dollars to reduce the ravaging affects of cows burps!
https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_NR233A750004G048_12C3
This while the state's fire protection is decimated and it has no water.
It's odd; Gov. Newsom has begged for Federal aid to deal with the fire crisis, yet he is happy to blow money on cow belching, on lawsuits against the Trump Administration, on green energy, and other wastes. But he needs to dip into the pockets of Americans not under his jurisdiction, yessireee!
California just blew $86 million dollars to reduce the ravaging affects of cows burps!
https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_NR233A750004G048_12C3
This while the state's fire protection is decimated and it has no water.
It's odd; Gov. Newsom has begged for Federal aid to deal with the fire crisis, yet he is happy to blow money on cow belching, on lawsuits against the Trump Administration, on green energy, and other wastes. But he needs to dip into the pockets of Americans not under his jurisdiction, yessireee!
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Climate Lies at CBS
This from Tony Heller at Realclimate:
CBS News says Rio de Janeiro was 111F on February 17, 2025. The actual temperature was 95F, which was the hottest temperature of the month.
Rio de Janeiro recorded its hottest day in at least a decade when temperatures on Monday reached 44 degrees Celsius (111 degrees Fahrenheit) — about 145 degrees warmer than Bismarck, North Dakota — as residents flocked to the ocean to try to cool off.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Weather Calendar | Weather Underground
h/t Bob G
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No, Covid Did Not Move Gen.Z Rightward
Timothy Birdnow
This is only half right; the younger generation was pushed rightward IN PART by the LIES told about Covid, not the virus itself as the Atlantic scribbler seems to believe.
And the financial waste. And the strongarm tactics employed to compel compliance to arbitrary rules. And the high inflation caused by overspending to "save" us.
They saw that the old curmudgeons who doubted everything we were told about Covid were right and the "experts" who gave such stellar advice were monumentally wrong - in fact obviously lying.
Of course there are many other reasons why people moved to MAGA; illegal immigration is one example. Too many young Americans saw they had no chance at a good job as long as people who would work for much cheaper simply walked in and were given jobs. Oh, and the embarassment factor; look at the humiliations we faced with, say, the Afghanistan withdrawl. High gas prices didn't make anyone happy, either.
I could go on, but Covid was certainly in the mix and it did not rebound well for the Left. It was THEIR plot to remove Donald Trump, after all. It worked for a time but the public saw that Trump had been all that was holding the U.S. together. Four more years of Biden or a Biden clone would put this nation in a pine box.
In the end you can fool some of the people some of the time, all of the people all of the time, but not all of the people all of the time, as Abe Lincoln said (himself a rather crooked cue who tried to fool as many people as he could, but that's a story for another essay.) The Ruling Class got cocky; they tried to fool everyone all the time. They overplayed their hand and now everyone knows them for the liars they are.
This is only half right; the younger generation was pushed rightward IN PART by the LIES told about Covid, not the virus itself as the Atlantic scribbler seems to believe.
And the financial waste. And the strongarm tactics employed to compel compliance to arbitrary rules. And the high inflation caused by overspending to "save" us.
They saw that the old curmudgeons who doubted everything we were told about Covid were right and the "experts" who gave such stellar advice were monumentally wrong - in fact obviously lying.
Of course there are many other reasons why people moved to MAGA; illegal immigration is one example. Too many young Americans saw they had no chance at a good job as long as people who would work for much cheaper simply walked in and were given jobs. Oh, and the embarassment factor; look at the humiliations we faced with, say, the Afghanistan withdrawl. High gas prices didn't make anyone happy, either.
I could go on, but Covid was certainly in the mix and it did not rebound well for the Left. It was THEIR plot to remove Donald Trump, after all. It worked for a time but the public saw that Trump had been all that was holding the U.S. together. Four more years of Biden or a Biden clone would put this nation in a pine box.
In the end you can fool some of the people some of the time, all of the people all of the time, but not all of the people all of the time, as Abe Lincoln said (himself a rather crooked cue who tried to fool as many people as he could, but that's a story for another essay.) The Ruling Class got cocky; they tried to fool everyone all the time. They overplayed their hand and now everyone knows them for the liars they are.
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Spitting in the Ocean
Timothy Birdnow
Let me do the math; Biden hired 87,000 and now Trump has fired just 6700? And the left is complaining.
Trump FIRES Over 6,700 IRS Agents, Democrats FURIOUS & DEFEND The IRS
He needs to fire the whole nasty lot.
Let me do the math; Biden hired 87,000 and now Trump has fired just 6700? And the left is complaining.
Trump FIRES Over 6,700 IRS Agents, Democrats FURIOUS & DEFEND The IRS
He needs to fire the whole nasty lot.
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Farewell Great Britain
Timothy Birdnow
This is what Sharia looks like.
UK: Cops threatened survivor of Muslim rape gangs who spoke out on TV, tried to intimidate her into silence
Islam is spread through threats and intimidation after Muslims become more than 10% of any population. The non-Muslims compel compliance on their own.
As of 2021 6.5% of all Britain were Muslim. But the percentages are much higher in the cities, particularly London where the Muslims make up 15% of the population as of 2021 (and that number has no doubt grown larger). Birmingham, Dewsbury, Blackburn,Bradford, Luton, Leicester, Rochedale all have similar numbers.
And England and Wales are no longer majority Christian now and white Britons will be a minority by 2066 if current immigration trends continue.
It was said the sun never set on the British Empire - until it did. Now, bereft of empire, the sun is about to set on Britain itself. It will become a middle-eastern nation.
And in the process the politically correct are enforcing Sharia on the conquered peoples.
In the move Braveheart English King Edward "Longshanks" says of the Scots "if we can't drive them out we'll breed them out". Looks like that is exactly what is happening now, with the full complicity of the British ruling class.
This is what Sharia looks like.
UK: Cops threatened survivor of Muslim rape gangs who spoke out on TV, tried to intimidate her into silence
Islam is spread through threats and intimidation after Muslims become more than 10% of any population. The non-Muslims compel compliance on their own.
As of 2021 6.5% of all Britain were Muslim. But the percentages are much higher in the cities, particularly London where the Muslims make up 15% of the population as of 2021 (and that number has no doubt grown larger). Birmingham, Dewsbury, Blackburn,Bradford, Luton, Leicester, Rochedale all have similar numbers.
And England and Wales are no longer majority Christian now and white Britons will be a minority by 2066 if current immigration trends continue.
It was said the sun never set on the British Empire - until it did. Now, bereft of empire, the sun is about to set on Britain itself. It will become a middle-eastern nation.
And in the process the politically correct are enforcing Sharia on the conquered peoples.
In the move Braveheart English King Edward "Longshanks" says of the Scots "if we can't drive them out we'll breed them out". Looks like that is exactly what is happening now, with the full complicity of the British ruling class.
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Monsters
Timothy Birdnow
Hamas are true monsters. Netanyahu needs to restart the war.
Hamas Hold Public Celebration to Hand Over Babies in Coffins
Hamas are true monsters. Netanyahu needs to restart the war.
Hamas Hold Public Celebration to Hand Over Babies in Coffins
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