May 16, 2026
I.D. Required - for a Campaign Event
Timothy Birdnow
The hypocrisy is simply breathtaking.
So Stooper Cooper doesn't open his events to the general public, just those he authorizes, but he wants voting to be unrestricted, with anyone from anywhere being able to walk right in and vote.
People at his level in society are not that thick. He knows exactly what he is doing.
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Say Goodnight Cassidy!
Timothy Birdnow
Here is a fine essay on the trouble Louisiana's Republican RINO Bill Cassidy - one of the cretins who voted to convict President Trump during his impeachment - is facing in the land of Carville.
As the essay points out, Cassidy is operating from the old model which avoided any accountability. Before the rise of the internet, before podcasts and blogs and Fox News and Newsmax and talk radio, this model worked well; govern as a brown-noser to the Democrats and get the media to love you, then turn hard-right as election time nears and drape yourself in the flag and Ronald Reagan. Then as soon as you win you revert to the anal kissing and flip your constituents the bird.
It used to work and money covered up your sins.
It was a sweet gig! You enjoyed money, power, fame, prestige. You got invited to the swankest parties. You had people hanging on your every word. And you knew that once in you would always have a great source of revenue one way or another. It was a golden ticket.
I've long argued that the Establishment GOP has always sought to keep Congress on a knife-edge, to keep the two parties near parity, because they then can argue that the public dare not turn out the RINO's lest they lose control of Congress - or fall farther behind. So for decades we've had to hold our noses and vote for clowns like Cassidy and Cornyn lest the Democrats take those seats. Meanwhile the GOP Establishment can play footsie with the Democrats and enjoy the perks of being the Big Man in D.C. And in fact many Republicans prefer to actually be in the minority - less work and better press. They want the goodies but not the responsibility that goes with it.
Christ took our stripes so we didn't have to. That is the model for leadership; doing the hard things, taking the arrows of the enemy, so the People do not have to. RINO Republicans aren't leaders; they are self-seeking scoundrels who use their positions for their own benefit and come home to blow smoke rings to the public at election time. Many would never return to their home states at all if they had their druthers.
The truth will out and especially now that we have the means to remind everyone. You can't keep playing the same con game on the same people forever.
So the "honorable" Mr. Cassidy is now facing early retirement and he is no doubt frantic to hold on, as almost every scumbag in D.C. seems to be. Nobody wants to lose that gig. The fact is if these were leaders, if they were truly serving the public, they would want to quit, want to go home. It would be too much work and too much trouble. The fact that so many are so desperate to stay in the swamp is proof they have no business representing the public in government. They do not serve the public - the serve themselves.
Say goodnight Cassidy!
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Out with the Old
Timothy Birdnow
Anyone remember the British spy show "The Prisoner"? "I am the new Number 2":
Tonight, at my direction, brave American forces and the Armed Forces of Nigeria flawlessly executed a meticulously planned and very complex mission to eliminate the most active terrorist in the world from the battlefield. Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, second in command of ISIS globally, thought he could hide in Africa, but little did he know we had sources who kept us informed on what he was doing. He will no longer terrorize the people of Africa, or help plan operations to target Americans. With his removal, ISIS’s global operation is greatly diminished. Thank you to the Government of Nigeria for your partnership on this operation. GOD BLESS AMERICA!
President DONALD J. TRUMP
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DEI Doing Just Fine
Timothy Birdnow
DEI is alive and well at Penn State despite orders from the Trump Administration to put an end to this sort of indoctrination.
All law students have to attend a racial sensitivity course, meaning they have to study DEI thinking. These are the future lawyers, judges, and politicians.
But then, what did we expect from the school that gave us Michael "Hockey Stick" Mann?
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I Don't Know Much about Art...
Timothy Birdnow
Maybe deep down most people feel impressionism is actually crap.
It is funny and I read the criticisms which were heaped upon the allegedly AI generated piece with not just a little agreement. Does that say something about the public? Does it say that a lot of people are just stuffed shirt poseurs? Or did they actually critique this thing honestly and is that then an indictment of Monet and the art critics who immortalized him?
I suspect many people in their hearts feel impressionism is crap and was a con by mediocre talents.
Impressionism was the beginning oof the collapse of art which has now come to complete fruiting in our degenerate and decaying society. We've gone from beauty and meaning to kindergarten crayon scribbles and an almost worship of ugly or overblown artwork which does little but make a lot of money from the pretentious.
Artwork mirrors the soul of a society. Ours has degenerated into a cesspool, and that started with the impressionism of the nineteenth century as the Western mind became unmoored from God and from any sense of our place in the cosmos.
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Baghdad Barack
Timothy Birdnow
Obama sounds like Baghdad Bob!
Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf was dubbed "Baghdad Bob" by Westerners. al-Sahhaf was the information minister for Saddam Hussein during the Second Gulf War and he was famously nutty. He would brag about how the Iraqi forces were destroying the American military. By the end he was telling journalists that the Iraqi Republican Guard had pushed American forces out of the entire country as the sound of gunfire and bombs could be heard in the background; U.S. forces were just blocks away.
We now know Iran has twice the range on their missiles as they told us they had. We know by THEIR OWN ADMISSION they have enough enriched uranium for 11 nukes and who knows how much plutonium. We know they were working on an implosion trigger. All this happened under Joe Biden's watch, the Obama mini-me. And all of this happened because of Barack Hussein Obama's ridiculous bribe to get them to not do this research.
The man is either a monumental fool or even a bigger liar than Jimmy Carter.
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The Kitten Torturer
Fauci doesn't belong in prison, he belongs in a psych ward.
Timothy Birdnow
Anthony Fauci is literally a guy who tortures kittens. I kid you not.
Gateway Pundit dishes:
A shocking new investigation by White Coat Waste (WCW) has uncovered how Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) quietly shifted controversial kitten experimentation from a shuttered U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) lab into the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) own internal laboratories in Bethesda, Maryland, after President Donald Trump’s administration shut down the USDA’s infamous "kitten slaughterhouse” exposed by the watchdog organization in 2019.The newly obtained records, obtained by WCW through Freedom of Information Act requests, show that in 2021, under Dr. Fauci, NIAID scientist Dr. Michael Grigg, a collaborator with the now-closed USDA lab, resurrected the kitten experimentation protocols inside NIH intramural laboratories, where they remain active through at least December 13, 2026.
For decades, the USDA’s Beltsville, Maryland, facility bred and killed cats for toxoplasmosis parasite experiments led by scientist Jitender Dubey.
WCW uncovered how Dubey’s lab bred thousands of kittens for painful and deadly taxpayer-funded testing.
Dubey and his staff traveled to China and other foreign countries to visit wet markets and purchase cat and dog meat, which would then be fed to kittens back at the USDA lab in gruesome cannibalism experiments.
WCW detailed the disturbing project in an exchange with Republican Rep. Eric Burlison during a House Oversight hearing last year and highlighted how Dubey was even inducted into the USDA Hall of Fame.
This guy is one sick twisted individual. If he had been in Germany during the forties he would have given Joseph Mengele a run for his money.
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The Ultra Man
Timothy Birdnow
(No, I'm not speaking about the Japanese monster fighting alien from the late '60's.)
Here is an essay on the disappearance of the MK Ultra documents that makes some excellent points. It's odd that President Trump is pushing for the decriminalization of psychedelics for medical purposes at a time when the documents about government experiments with psychedelics were taken from the political watchdog by the people who ran criminal experiments with these drugs on the American People. The timing is - interesting.
MK Ultra was real. Whitey Bulger - the crime Kingpin of Boston - was a petty hood when he was put into the MK Ultra program in prison. He came out a criminal mastermind who wiped out the Mafia (with the help of the FBI) and dominated all criminal activity in the city. (Bulger spoke in horror of what they did to him in his "training"; he was truly terrified of the "treatments".)
Then there was Ted Kaczynski, the "Unabomber", who went on a murderous rampage with explosives and who lived in a shack in the deep woods of Montana; he was at Harvard on a scholarship and one of the conditions was he participate in he MK Ultra program. Kaczunski killed three people and injured 23 with his bombs, which he mailed to people he believed had it coming - academics, business executives, etc. There were many others as Congressional investigations proved. One wonders how many monsters this program created?
There is even a suspicion that Charles Manson had been a subject in the program. If nothing else his parole officer was in the same building where they were doing MK Ultra research, a rather tantalizing clue.
For those who do not know, MK Ultra was a research program by the CIA to experiment with mind control. They used LSD and other psychedelics, as well as hypnosis and behavior modification to attempt to make the subjects believe what they wished and to do as they were conditioned. It is most likely they were trying to create sleeper agents who would commit murders or assassinations or other crimes at the behest of the CIA on command.
So it's odd that these documents would disappear, especially at this time.
Read the whole essay.
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May 15, 2026
Green Car'd
Timothy Birdnow
Go woke go broke we like to say. But it's true, and not just over DEI; "renewable" technology turns a large fortune into a small one very quickly.
those toy cars are expensive and impractical and were only made because governments subsidized them and used CAFE standards to make them appealing to car companies. (The way that works is car companies have to meet CAFE fuel standards and can't if they want to make vehicles they can sell, so they make things like EV's which count towards their CAFE standards and bring down the MPG of their cars overall.)
So Hoda, the venerable old Japanese giant, ran with EV's and now finds itself losing money.
"Green tech" is the fast track to poverty.
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Dam Bombers
Timothy Birdnow
So was this the Iranians, the Chinese, or local Leftists who want to sow chaos in America?
Mrs B@attackdogXYesterday, Divers doing a routine maintenance check at the Converse Reservoir Dam in Mobile, AL discovered an underwater grenade type IED.
The FBI bomb squad had to be called in to safely detonate it.
The Reservoir and Dam are critical infrastructure, and this is being called "an unprecedented threat"
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has been made aware of the situation.
The Left is in the process of a sea change in tactics. Where once we had a cold war with them now it is becoming a hot war, with attempts on Trump's life as well as the murder of Charlie Kirk and other lesser-knowns attempts on opponents of the radicals. The next logical step for them would be to start blowing up dams and water treatment plants and power stations, Hospitals, police and fire stations, etc.
I truly believe the hot civil war is just about at hand.
So why was this thing not exploded? The perpetrators probably were mining multiple targets and hoped to detonate all of them at once to shock the American People.
AS I say, it could well be the Iranians or the Chicoms even, or the Russians (less likely to me but you never know). Of course we are in tis pickle because Mr. Biden let lots of Iranians into the country through his open borders policy. But if it's not them it's the Antifa people, the radical Left.
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Cuba Rejects U.S. Aid
Timothy Birdnow
So the Communistas of Cuba are rejection a hundred million bucks from the U.S. in humanitarian aid just because they don't want to be seen knuckling under to President Trump.
What was the catch? The assistance would go directly to the Cuban People, being distributed by the Catholic Church - the government would have no control over it.
So typically Communist.
Mexico’s TV Azteca reported in March that humanitarian aid they sent to Cuba was taken by the Cuban government and sold in government stores for American dollars; it never reached the people it was intended to help. But that's what Communists do; people are expendable, the state is the beneficiary.
I know what is happening to Cuba is harsh, but it is better to suffer the pains of a surgery than die a slow, horrible death from cancer. Communism is the cancer killing Cuba.
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What's in a Word? Are Race Car Drivers "Athletes"?
Timothy Birdnow
Well, they AREN'T!
An athlete is doing something that can get them out of breath; it is aerobic by it's very nature, in my humble opinion. Race car drivers, jockeys, bowlers, pool players, golfers, curlers are not athletes. They are very skillful but I wouldn't call them athletes.
If they are athletes so too are video gamers, ping-pong players, tiddly winkers, cornholers, horseshoers, suffle-boarders, and any other game player. We don't call them athletes by and large so why do we call race car drivers athletes?
May as well call high school mathletes "athletes" because they could get tired from using a compass or a slide rule.
In fact those chicks who run around with ribbons or competitive cheerleaders are more athletes than race car drivers.
This may not be an earth-shattering issue but it is a sign of our times; an unwillingness to call a thing by it's true name. Confucious said that to restore a nation you must "first true the language". We have degraded our language for a long time in this fashion, and while this may be a harmless issue in this case other things are not so harmless - like "marriage equality" for homosexual unions or "abortion rights" for murdering unborn babies or "gender affirming care" for cutting of a little boy's penis or a chopping the breasts off a girl.
George Carlin once did a bit about the misuse of euphemisms. As he pointed out, we will soon be calling rape victims "involuntary sperm recepticles".
Using language to obfuscate becomes a habit and until we improve the precision of our language it will be ripe for weaponization and abuse.
So while this might be a minor thing it speaks to a culture that essentially lies to itself.
Jeff Gordon's reply to Stephen A Smith was:
"But at the same time, clearly he doesn’t know a whole lot about the sport, and he doesn’t know what it takes to be an athlete in motorsports. There’s no doubt about the mental fatigue it takes to be in the car for hours, the competitiveness and things that make drivers true athletes,” the NASCAR legend added. "It’s just in a different sense of how a stick-and-ball sport is perceived as an athlete.”
But mental fatigue is NOT athletics; you get mental fatigue playing chess. And you can be competitive while playing any game; if a lot of money was involved in Chutes and Ladders you would find "athletes" in the "sport" who stressed about it. Professional poker players certainly do; do we call them athletes?
Kyle Larson had this to say:
"I just accept that they won’t understand, because they will never be able to strap into a race car that goes 200 miles an hour. If they did, I don’t think they would be able to make it a lap without feeling like they’re going to die."
Again, nobody is questioning the skill of the drivers, nor the degree of difficulty involved in driving over 200 mph on a track full of other cars, nor the tension that leads to elevated heart rates. But it is not a sport nor are they athletes. It's a contest and they are players. World of difference.
We live in a world that prefers delusion to the truth.
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Trumpanomics is Working
Timothy Birdnow
Some economic news that should at least give us some warm fuzzies.
First home prices are up.
While in my opinion this is not exactly GOOD news it does indicate a recovery in the economy; housing prices have been dropping the last few years.
The median price of homes rose by 2.4% last year, a decent increase. What that means is the biggest investment most people make just gained a lot in value. And it means that those seeking to upgrade can now afford to do so as their houses are worth enough to let them close the sale of their home at a profit rather than a loss and thus to flip to a newer place without draining their funds.
It also reflects growing consumer confidence in the U.S. economy as buyers are willing to spend more.
The downside is housing in now more expensive and will consume a larger share of the average American's budget. And we all remember the housing bubble and subsequent crash; is this a bubble or is it genuine growth?
The article states:
"The April jobs report showed stronger-than-expected hiring, reducing recession risk. This likely helped fuel a pop in housing demand. Pending home sales hit the highest level since February 2023 last month, rising 2 percent from the month before—the largest increase since March 2025,” Redfin said.
But I wonder if Fannie and Freddie are not doing what they did back in the days before the Housing Bubble popped. I know they were back at work with the same policies that drove the crash, at least when Biden was in office. Not sure how much that has changed since Trump came in; hopefully a lot.
Still it is a sign of an economy that is faring well.
In other good economic news retail sales have risen for the third straight month despite the rising prices as a result of the Iran war.
Sales rose by 0.5%. Naturally economists (almost all economists are liberal Keynsians these days) predicted they would be down.
Trumpanomics works and it will explode once this war is settled and the realignment is in position. We just have to make sure the public understands it's working now and will only get better in the future. That is a tough task since the media and the Democrats keep claiming the economy is in tatters when in fact it's raining soup and we don't have enough bowls to catch it.
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MALLA, MALLA, We Be Free!
We need to return to the pre-sixties laws so America will remain American. As our Northern Tier Editor Dana Mathewson knows - many blue states look increasingly like Third World hellholes with folks who are not and never will be American running around the place.
Timothy Birdnow
Godspeed Rep, Ogles and Tubberville!
MALLA is an idea long overdue.
It was Ted Kennedy who spearheaded the 1965 changes to the immigration policies of the country that opened the door to and in fact favored Third World immigrants and eased border restrictions. Ted and the Democrats knew back then a bunch of aliens would help them attain power and they sought to undo the work of Eisenhower and Truman to kick illegal aliens out of the country (to the tune of almost six million). So a drunken libertine and possible murderer has been befouling this country, even now long after his gin-pickled carcass was sunk into the cold, cold ground (I wonder if Kennedy's body is still well preserved; all the alcohol in it should have guaranteed it remain in prime shape, like Lenin's body was preserved in Moscow by the Soviets.)DETAIL: The 83-page bill is co-sponsored by Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN) and Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), and has received backing from several other House Republicans, such as Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Ralph Norman (R-SC), Keith Self (R-TX), Mary Miller (R-IL), Eli Crane (R-AZ), Barry Moore (R-AL), and Morgan Luttrell (R-TX). The "Assimilation Act” seeks to "GUT the Hart-Celler Act of 1965” and "scrap provisions of the Immigration Act of the 1990s,” according to Rep. Ogles. Specifically, the bill seeks to slash net migration 85 percent, end birthright citizenship, end the H-1B visa program, impose stricter asylum standards and character tests, introduce mandatory e-Verify along with a "National Interest Standard,” as well as English language and American civics requirements. It also aims to end chain migration, the diversity visa lottery, and tighten public charge rules. The bill was announced on Thursday after months of preparation.
We need to return to the pre-sixties laws so America will remain American. As our Northern Tier Editor Dana Mathewson knows - many blue states look increasingly like Third World hellholes with folks who are not and never will be American running around the place.
I especially hope Tommy Tuberville winds up running for President some day; he's a true patriot and a man who knows how to win. God bless him!
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Reforms and the Democrat House of Cards
Timothy Birdnow
The GOP is introducing several bills to stop foreign donations to American political campaigns and foreign meddling after the Actblue scandal exposed millions of dollars going to the Democrats.
I am curious to see how the Donkey Party tries to spin their opposition to these common-sense reforms.
At any rate Here are the details:
To close those potential loopholes for fraud, the Campaign Finance Transparency Act would require political donations made via credit or debit card to include a CVV/CVC number, billing zip code, and a name that matches the name of the donor.
It would also prohibit political contributions via prepaid gift cards and require platforms to report all political donations, not just those over a certain dollar amount.
Contributions made from donors without a U.S. mailing address would require document verification to ensure that foreign actors are not using American identities to funnel money to preferred political candidates.
The other two bills sent to the House floor – the Preventing Foreign Interference in American Elections Act and the Stop Foreign Funds in Elections Act – aim to prevent foreign money from influencing how U.S. elections are conducted and what proposals make it to the ballot.
"Foreign nationals cannot be allowed to influence American elections,” Steil said. "That’s why I introduced the Preventing Foreign Interference in American Elections Act, which bans foreign nationals from donating to electioneering activities. This includes voter registration, get out the vote efforts, and ballot harvesting.”
In 2024, foreign billionaires moved money through nonprofit "dark money” groups like the Sixteen thirty Fund to support progressive ballot initiatives related to abortion access and automatic voter registration in multiple states, including Ohio, Arizona and Nevada. Such activities are currently legal at the federal level.
It is highly unlikely these things will pass in the Senate, but then at least we have this as a bludgeon with which to beat the vote stealing hippies in the Democratic Party. It's going to be difficult to defend voting against keeping foreign money out of American politics.
MAGA is systematically dismantling the Byzantine complex system of fraud and deceit and money laundering the Democrats have created, and it is defunding them while at the same time the retributive gerrymandering is taking away the ill-gotten power the Donkeys stole over the years by racial gerrymandering. The House that Barry Built is increasingly appearing to be a house of cards, and it is falling.
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May 14, 2026
The Counter-Revolution Against Gay Marriage
Timothy Birdnow
The counter-revolution may well be beginning.
It took over forty years to reverse Roe V. Wade; we can probably reverse the horrible SCOTUS decision that created homosexual marriage out of nothing at all but it will take a long time.
We are now the insurgents and have to fight issue by issue against every victory the Left has won over the last half century.
Oh, it's not "marriage equality" its a fundamental redefinition of the meaning of marriage, one wholly unique in human history. And the legal reasoning was dreadful, with the primary argument being Conservatives hated gay people. That was it, that was the bulk of their reason for making it the law of the land.
Gay people are entitled to dignity and kind treatment (as entitled as anyone else; if they are picking fights and being jerks they should be treated like everyone else who picks fights and acts like a jerk) but redefining the meaning of marriage was, is, and will remain a step too far. If two men can marry, why not first cousins? Parents and children? Why not multiple marriages; that was in fact the way it was done until Christianity finally killed the practice of polygamy. Why not a boy and his dog? Why not a mortician and a corpse? With the rise of AI why can't a person marry their ChatGPT? Desire or a feeling of a state of marriage is not the defining characteristic of the meaning of marriage. It is a very specific thing.
All Ford F150's are pickup trucks but not all pickup trucks are Ford F150's. And certainly not all cars. When you talk about a Ford F150 you are referring to a very specific kind of vehicle.
Now homosexuals are free to covenant privately in any way they wish and nobody is saying they are not free to do so. In fact there have long been gay couples who felt they were in a very special relationship. But it is no more marriage than a guy who goes online to become an ordained minister in the Church of the Holy kumquat is a priest before God and the Holy Catholic Church.
A healthy society needs norms and moral standards and unfortunately our society is losing those and that is in no small part caused by the redefinition of marriage and the assaults on marriage by the leftist in our Western World.
And it certainly is a bad idea for gay couples to allowed to adopt children. but even though a majority are likely not the fact remains these kids need both sexes to raise them and while single sex couples can do it this is hardly the ideal. I would add homosexuals tend to suffer from a lot more psychological problems and substance abuse and that makes it problematic to raise healthy, well adjusted kids.
I don't favor singles being given children either. Nor ex cons. Nor people with mental illness. Nor should he elderly get them except under special circumstances. (I am getting up there in years and have some health issues so I would think being given adoptive children would be a dreadful idea, even though I would love and cherish them and try to raise them properly.)
Raising children is not a right except where those children are your own but even then if you are unfit it's STILL not a right. If you are mentally retarded, or have schizophrenia, or are a sociopath, it's not a good idea for you to be raising kids.
At any rate making gay "marriage" a legal right will have a profound and detrimental impact on our society and we need to reverse it or we will pay a terrible price. Mark my words.
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Good Bye LaBayamessa: That's How the Cuban Cookie Crumbles
Timothy Birdnow
According to this article in the Epoch Times (requires registration) Cuba admits it is completely out of diesel and fuel oil.
From the article:
Cuba’s energy and mines minister said on May 13 that the country has completely run out of diesel and heavy fuel oil, and that its power grid has entered a "critical” state, as Havana faces its worst rolling blackouts in decades amid a U.S. blockade that has strangled the island of fuel.
"We have absolutely no fuel [oil], and absolutely no diesel,” Energy Minister Vicente de la O Levy told a news conference covered by Cuba’s state-run media. "We have no reserves.”
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Hundreds of Cubans protested in the streets of several neighborhoods on May 13, blocking roads with burning garbage and chanting, "Turn on the lights!” and "The people, united, will never be defeated.”
The minister said the country had not received any oil imports since December until Russia sent 100,000 tons (about 700,000 barrels) of crude last month.Cuba was heavily reliant on Venezuelan oil, supplied by the Maduro regime, but that supply was stopped after he was ousted and replaced by interim leader Delcy Rodríguez. Mexico also stopped sending oil, under pressure from the United States.
And while Cuba is struggling with keeping the lights on and the trucks moving it finds itself in a huge energy bind regardless:
The Cuban capital is also suffering from food and medicine shortages.
The minister said the grid was operating entirely on Cuban-produced crude oil, natural gas, and renewable energy.
Solar Power Not Helping
Cuba has installed more than 1,300 megawatts of solar power over the past two years, but de la O Levy said the grid’s weakness meant it had to limit its input to avoid dangerous fluctuations.
The minister said the nation was in the final phase of a project to install large battery systems to stabilize the grid, allowing it to use more solar energy.
So the vaunted "renewables" are a flop, are they? The sad thing is Cuba is a MAJOR producer of sugar cane and they could follow Brazil's example and turn that into ethanol. (Brazil mandates that fully 25% of all fuel be ethanol, and they produce a lot of electricity by burning pure ethanol.) The only problem is the sugar cane is needed to feed the people; most Cubans survive extensively on sugar as their economy is incapable of producing food for the public. Even so, the Communist model has resulted in an industry collapse of sugar production in the island nation.
A nation that can't feed it's own people dare not use food for fuel.
This can't go on and either the regime will have to cry "uncle" and beg Trump for relief or the People will have to rise up and overthrow the Communists.
So what should happen to Cuba? Maybe we can get Puerto Rico to go in and administer the country for a while. Granted, Puerto Rico is run by Democrats under a different name so it wouldn't be much help. Forget I mentioned it!
Better, let El Salvador do the work Americans Just Won't Do. They've done a great job of cleaning up their own little slice of hell in the region.
Naturally the United Nations blamed the Trump Administration for Cuba's woes. They issued this statement:
"Cuba has been subjected to energy starvation by the United States, a condition in which the lack of fuel cripples the functioning of essential services required for a dignified life,” the experts said. "This unlawful blockade is not only disrupting daily life but also undermining the enjoyment of a wide range of human rights.”
But in the end this is what happens under Communism. We are just helping their regime to collapse under the weight of it's own contradictions.
Uh, in Cuba you don't have "human rights" - you have privileges that are extended by the State and can be revoked at any time.
When the lights go out for good and the trucks no longer run Cuba's government will collapse. It is inevitable.
Cuban troops have attacked American interests overseas for decades, going back to Angola and probably earlier. They helped fight the U.S. in lots of places over the years, including in Africa and the Middle East and especially in other Latin American countries. They attacked an American flagged ship recently, killing 4 people and wounding 6 others. There were large numbers of Cuban soldiers in Venezuela protecting Maduro. They've been all over Latin America, everywhere they believe they can foment revolution. It's well past time we put a stop to this.
Donald Trump isn't a man to kick the can down the road and he can walk and chew gum at the same time. He's serious about finally fixing this problem and he's going to do it. If the Cuban government cared about it's people it would try to make a deal with Mr. Trump now but they will never do that because that would show weakness to their own people. So they will prefer to let them starve.
It's a horrible thing, but then Communism always is.
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Proof There was a Plot inside the Capitol Police to Allow Mayhem on J6
Timothy Birdnow
So, did the Democrats engineer the J6 incident? Not only did they but it had a specific goal of removing the Capitol Police head, according to a whistleblower, and he's got the evidence to prove it.
FTA:
"…Evidence reveals that the violence, deaths, injuries, and aftermath of January 6th were not the result of mere intelligence failures or incompetence,” the whistleblower wrote, "but may have stemmed from intentional acts by insiders seeking to remove then-Chief of Police Steven Sund and consolidate control over the USCP and its intelligence functions.”
The whistleblower letter, written by a senior law enforcement official with firsthand knowledge of events in the department prior to, on and after Jan. 6, alleged that senior Capitol Police leaders conspired with Democrats in Congress to create the conditions for a Jan. 6 disaster — and the nearly immediate firing of Sund.
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"It shows there’s some coordination, some consultation taking place in advance,” Sund told Veritas Regnat in an interview. "Think about it. About 48 hours after this text is sent, she [Pittman] is given my job.”
"The way I remember it, she was described as being giddy.”— Former U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven A. SundThe report says the goal of promoting Pittman was especially egregious given her relative lack of experience compared to other senior Capitol Police officials. Her apparent planned elevation to chief was engineered by key Democrat officials in the House and Senate, the whistleblower said.
A screenshot of the letter is posted in the article.
More from the article:
The primary evidence of foreknowledge is a phone message allegedly sent by U.S. Capitol Police Sgt. Lawrence J. Cook, 42, to his superior, Deputy Chief Gallagher. Sources said this message had been in the possession of the now-defunct Jan. 6 Select Committee led by Reps. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.).
The message was again discovered in December 2025 by an investigator for the GOP-controlled House Select Subcommittee on January 6, led by U.S. Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.).
"I assert that Sergeant Cook’s January 6th message fundamentally alters the understanding of responsibility for January 6, presenting what I believe is direct evidence of a conspiracy involving USCP personnel and Democratic staff,” the whistleblower wrote.
A senior congressional source also confirmed to Veritas Regnat the existence and content of the communications between Cook and Gallagher.
Sources said just prior to Jan. 6, Pittman was not happy at being assigned to handle the rumored threat that an airliner would be crashed into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Based on an anonymous message broadcast over air-traffic control frequencies in New York, the threatened act of terror was said to be in retaliation for the assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike on Jan. 3, 2021. The threat was eventually deemed not credible.
‘Excited’ to take overWhile Pittman was apparently hassled and unhappy about the terrorism-related duty assignment, she felt she had something big to look forward to on Jan. 6, sources said.
A text message sent from Cook to Gallagher at or prior to 9:30 a.m. stated that Pittman was "excited about taking over for Sund today,” the whistleblower wrote.
Sund said, "The way I remember it, she was described as being giddy.”
The first breach of the Capitol’s outer perimeter by protesters occurred at 12:53 p.m., more than 15 minutes before President Donald J. Trump finished speaking at the Ellipse, and at least 3.5 hours after Cook allegedly sent his message to Gallagher.
You get the picture; internal politics played a part in the J6 frameup, along with Democrat duplicity.
I doubt we'll ever get the full story on J6, how it was engineered by the Democrats and a cabal of disgruntled Capitol Police but it clearly was engineered. This was essentially a coup attempt but not by the people at the Capitol that day - it was a coup by the "loyal opposition". It was a coup to disgrace President Trump and his supporters, even while the Demofats had ostensibly won the election. They needed something to shut everyone's mouths about fraud and election theft.
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Criminal
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I doubt this was just incompetence.
Libs of TikTok@libsoftiktokBREAKING: 8% of the criminals on ankle monitors in Cook County, Illinois are MISSING.
They lost track of 243 criminals including 21 murderers and 13 attempted murderers.
Insane
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Irony Impaired
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Irony is completely alien to the Left:
So they cancelled the speaker because he opposes cancel culture.
You can't make this stuff up.
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