Tucker's guest shows a Vatican coin minted in 2022 under the regime of Franny1. (See minutes 1-5 on the video.)
It utilizes standard iconography (trinitarian--three figures) with a cross and, of course, the Vaxx.
The legend: A boy prepares for his first vaccination.
Franny1 was far, far, worse than you thought possible.
It appears that Cong. Steil (R-WI) will remain in his seat after the '26. But that doesn't stop the Hard Left (Democrat Party) from lying about tariffs. They filmed a Kenosha fireman crying about 'the cost of tariffs' hurting his 5-child fam. See, he can hardly afford to feed the kids.
He's knocking down around $75K/year with a gold-plated benefit program, and his wife is an RN meaning she's knocking down another $85++K/year. If they cannot afford food--compared to, say, someone trying to live on a mere $50K/year--we think that he ought to examine his other spending. How many cars? How old are they? How many square feet in his home? Jewelry? Parochial school?? So Many Expenses!!
But we digress in addressing his full-of-s**t monologue about "cost of tariffs." Why?
Simply put, there ARE no "costs of tariffs"--at least, that the 'poor, poor', fireman pays.
... I’m starting to feel especially sorry for all those who have claimed equally insistently that his tariffs are to blame for much of the damage. For just about every time a new official report on the state of the economy comes out, these claims get rudely debunked – with the latest example being today’s release on the consumer inflation gauge most valued by the Federal Reserve.
According to the new data for September on the Price Indexes for Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) inflation, there’s been no notable uptick in this gauge’s headline measure of consumer price changes, for the core measure (even more highly valued by the Fed), or for the PCE category where tariffs’ impact is most likely to appear....
After running through a few sets of numbers which show very little inflation (about 2.8 year-over-year), we get here:
... The case for tariff-driven inflation weakens even further in the PCE category which is most import heavy and therefore where such price changes should show up most prominently: durable goods. Here are the monthly numbers from February through September:
February 0.4 percent
March 0.0 percent
April 0.5 percent
May 0.0 percent
June 0.5 percent
July -0.1 percent
August -0.1 percent
September -0.1 percent
In fact, what these numbers show is recent deflation – that is, prices actually falling in absolute terms since June....
So where's the fire?
In that fireman's head.
By the way, we are NOT making a case for Steil. He--like his BFF Paul Ryan--has been MIA on red-meat MAGA issues, mostly because he needs a job and his district is razor's-edge balanced.
But you'd think that a fireman wouldn't lie, right?
Nah. He's a Democrat, and lying is what Democrats do.
Wolf Street--as usual--has the correct numbers, which just so happen to contradict the Demo-Lie Machine known as "the Press." (Also the Pubbie-Lie Machine, known as "the Press"--see the next blog post.)
This Democrat/Press lie is all about "layoffs." But Initial Unemployment Claims are the true tell.
The easy-peasy look is the below chart. Notice that Initial Claims are FAR LOWER NOW than at almost any year since 1972? Also notable: "Continuing Unemployment Claims" is ALSO down to levels just above those of the Covid years.
Doesn't look like a bad economy to anyone who can read history, does it?
The Demo/Press Propaganda Machine would prefer that you do NOT know this....
Wolf Street is a remarkable site. Why? Because he looks at actual stats from various sources.
The National Association of Realtors (NAR) claimed in its annual report on homebuyers, based on survey results, that the typical age of first-time buyers (FTBs) had spiked to 40 years in 2025, up from 37.9 years in 2024, and up from 33 years in 2021. This spike in the age of first-time buyers caused a lot of handwringing and heavy breathing in the media and social media....
The Realtors, eh? Gee. Could they have an agenda?? Jus' asking.....
...But the New York Fed, based on its Consumer Credit Panel/Equifax (CCP) data, has debunked this narrative of the surging age of first-time buyers. In August, it released a report with data through 2024.
And I reported on it, republishing the charts from the NY Fed, and I summarized:
“The average age of first-time home buyers has essentially not changed since 2012, and compared to the early 2000s, it has declined marginally.”...
That was through 2024. How about fresher data?
Glad you asked!!
...Per the New York Fed’s CCP, the average age of first-time buyers edged down in 2025 to 36.2 years and remains roughly unchanged since 2009, and lower than in 2008 and prior years (red line in the chart)....
Trump's boy Pulte would not like you to know all that stuff.
Chart at the link.
Yah, sure. Walz was "not involved" and invoked Sgt. Shultz's "I know nothing" lies.
...The “meals for starving children” fraud broke into the open on January 20, 2022 — almost four years ago — when 200 federal agents served a dozen or more search warrants related to an investigation of “Feeding Our Future,” a non-profit — who needs profits when fraud pays better? — entity involved prior to COVID in providing free meals to underprivileged children.
As a preliminary matter — the money involved is federal tax money. These programs a run by state governments, but they are funded with money from the federal government. So it is not the taxpayers of Minnesota who got ripped off — it was the tax payers across the country....
The Land of 10,000 Thieves? The Land of 10,000 Frauds?
How about The Land of Democrat Rule, where lying, cheating, and stealing ARE the Rule of Law.
This is germane:
...The way the program worked was that a “site” proposing to serve the meals had to be “sponsored” by a non-profit that was an authorized participant in a state’s program. The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) administered the state’s program and distributed money to the non-profits who were authorized participants....
The MDE promulgated a new History & Civics curriculum about 5 years ago which would make Howard Zinn blush for its anti-Americanism. Go ahead. Read through it. Now you know why MDE was an active and willing participant in what is The Single Biggest Fraud in US History.
By no coincidence, the fraud was run by an ex-teacher, Aimee Bock. Her 'right-hand man' ALSO did well, knocking down around $2 million while the racket ran.
This whole thing is still in motion; the fraud total estimates are up to a BILLION dollars.
YOUR dollars.
Most Americans know about foreign-born drivers illegally obtaining a CDL, allowing them to push 80,000-lbs. of steel and freight around US highways. Many times, these "drivers" cannot read English, and from personal experience, we can state that "rules of the road" are also foreign to them.
Why? Look to the Obama/Biden administrations.
These are not only Mexicans, either.
...[Cliff Bates] uncovered what he describes as a “new ecosystem” of trucking — powered by fraudulent CDLs, English-language-proficiency (ELP) loopholes, and a massive wave of non-domiciled foreign drivers — that he believes could permanently alter freight economics in the U.S.
“We’re living in a new ecosystem,” Bates told FreightWaves in an interview. “You’ve got foreign companies bringing in drivers who live in their trucks, don’t go home, make a fraction of what American drivers make, and undercut every rate.”...
Another individual examining the situation is Grace Maher.
... Maher said her concern is that national debate is fixated on Spanish-speaking or border-state drivers, when the more impactful trend is the rise of transient drivers from Eastern Europe, South Asia and Central Asia.
“This isn’t just about language, it’s not just guys coming across the Mexican border,” she said. “It’s drivers flying into Kentucky from Uzbekistan or Serbia, or into Chicago. That’s the part nobody is talking about.”...
The industry's numbers are bad. It's not just that tonnage is down; the collapse in rates (revenues) is very serious.
...Bates said he traces the problem back to a “perfect storm” of federal policies, including the 2016 Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration memorandum that told states not to place non-English-proficient drivers out of service, as well as the White House’s claim in 2021–2022 of creating more than 870,000 new CDL holders — without explaining who those drivers were. ...
...“The federal government’s own website showed almost half a million new drivers added during what’s supposed to be a recession,” Bates said. “It didn’t make sense — until you look at non-domiciled CDLs.”
A recent Department of Transportation audit revealed at least 200,000 such licenses have been issued nationwide. The proliferation of non-domiciled CDLs has coincided with an increase in trucking capacity across the U.S. Since the FMCSA permitted foreigners to obtain non-domiciled CDLs in March 2019, the industry has added more than 310,000 trucks to roads across the country....
Trump--and his boy Sean Duffy--are not helping at all.
...Bates said the Trump administration has since banned states from issuing new non-domiciled CDLs — but continues to allow existing ones to remain valid.
“Why are you willing to jeopardize American lives by leaving them on the road?” Bates said. “If you know they’re unsafe, ban them.”...
Trump & Duffy will have to answer to their malfeasance.
Obama and Biden? They won't answer to anyone for anything. They are Protected Class.
This guy screwed up.
A Florida college student allegedly ordered 1,500 rounds of ammunition to his dorm room, where cops later found a semi-automatic rifle stashed under his bed, according to police and reports....
Hell's Bells! 1,500 rounds is not nearly enough to sight it in, pal.
Didja run out of money or something???
This is Tony Evers, the WackyWimmins of SCOWI, Tammy, and What's-Her-Name with the glassses:
The Archbishop brings out JWT to chastise Trump for blowing up death-carriers.
... "As the moral principle forbidding the intentional killing of noncombatants is inviolable, it would be an illegal and immoral order to kill deliberately survivors on a vessel who pose no immediate lethal threat to our armed forces."...
First off, Excellency, there is a lot of room for debate about calling the drug-carriers "noncombatants." They are--in fact--"combatants" insofar as they are purveying lethal weapons (fentanyl, etc.) used to kill or maim Americans. No different than supply troops driving ammo-wagons to the front. That is the very definition of "combatant," even if they are not on a battlefield wearing Archbishop-approved uniforms.
Secondly, we see your weasel-word and raise you.
"....pose no threat to US armed forces....". Really? The 'Armed Forces' thing is a red herring and a smelly one, at that.
THEY POSE A LETHAL THREAT TO THOUSANDS OF OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN.
JWT happens to be built on the moral principles of self-defense, which includes defense of family (and neighbors.) We are morally justified in killing a home invader, or a thug attacking us--and/or our wives/children--on the street. We are allowed to use lethal force if we perceive the danger of "grave bodily harm or death" coming from said assailants.
Granted, the drug suppliers are not in our face, as in the case of a street attack or home invasion. But it is certain that they are bringing 'grave bodily harm or death', if not to us, to our children (God forbid) or to the children of our neighbors.
So. They are not "innocents." They are not "non-combatants." They ARE indirectly killing Americans--but that 'indirect' is modified by the fact that they are providing the necessary ingredient(s).
By the way, Excellency: what does Canon Law (and Thomas) have to say about "sedition"?
One more thing:
Did you shut down Masses and Confessions for the troops during Covid? Was that not an "illegal order"---at least in the eyes of the Church?
Your priorities, Excellency........need.........examination.
You have heard that CDC busted BigPharma's Vaccine-Money Machine.
What you did not hear about that meeting?
...The committee invited vaccine industry champions like Paul Offit and bowtied wonder Peter Hotez , but in a most cowardly fashion, they declined to come. ACIP also invited the so-called American Academy of Pediatrics —who never saw a vaccine they immediately fall in love with— and who also turned down the invitation....
That's curious, ain'a?
Why?? Did Big Bad RFK scare them so they had to run to Mommy's skirts and hide??
Yes, "affordability" is a made-up crock of ..........hooey.
But making up crocks of hooey is what Democrats do.
The "affordability" crock really consists of two MAJOR elements: housing/rent cost, and healthcare cost. There are MINOR elements, too, principally the cost of electric energy.
As to the MAJOR costs: they are Democrat-caused stinking piles of "hooey.".
1) Housing and rental costs are up because Biden and Obama before hm let TWENTY MILLION PEOPLE into the country. They have to live somewhere, and since many States provided a lot of free money for food and housing, well.......they rented at higher and higher prices. A knock-on: housing prices--as many of them purchased houses. Demand up? Prices follow. A minor but significant contributor? Regulation-caused cost increases.
2) Healthcare? Can you spell O-B-A-M-A-C-A-R-E?? Even some Democrats now admit that it is a disaster--exactly as it was designed to be. The real objective (Nationalized Health Care) never came into being because the voters would not stand for it, so the damn thing is stillborn but paying insurance companies for coverages that are...........bullshit. (Mandated pregnancy coverage for men, e.g.).
The MINOR cause? Energy prices. The Democrats got rich by pushing "green" crapola--windmills and sun-catchers which are damned expensive but only work part-time. Utilities bought that crap at the point of a gun and are charging you for it. REALLY charging you for it. So they are happy and will never tell you that you're being screwed by the "green/Democrat" bunch, because the utilities got theirs, too.
Side-note: when Biden came into office, the price of petroleum jumped. When Trump came in, the price has gone down--steadily.
"Affordability" is just another Democrat scam-text. They make s**t up and force-feed you the stuff if you're stupid enough to take it.
Some people are.
Well.......not just Biden's ICE, but his houseboy Becerra.........and probably his FBI.
An illegal immigrant from Somalia with a long rap sheet for fraud and apparent ties to Democratic politicians in Minnesota — including Gov. Tim Walz and Rep. Ilhan Omar — was arrested Friday as part of President Trump’s immigration crackdown.
Abdul Dahir Ibrahim was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and is being held at the McCook ICE facility in Nebraska, dubbed the “Cornhusker Clink” by the Department of Homeland Security, records show.
Ibrahim has an extensive criminal history and has had removal orders against him since 2004, according to Fox News....
2004!!
Prior to entering the US, Ibrahim was convicted of asylum and welfare fraud in Canada, the outlet reported.
In one of his rejected petitions for asylum, Ibrahim claimed his sister and her five children to be his spouse and his own kids, documents show.
The judge cited Ibrahim’s “complete lack of credibility,” in rejecting his petition....
Yah, well, a variant on that scheme worked for The Lead Bitch Omar, ya'know. She probably sold him the procedure manual.
Charles Benson used to be a decent reporter.
Now? He's Tammy Baldwin's poodle.
And when Tammy assembles a group of Wimmins Against Right Order, Charles better damn well hop to it!
One of those Wimmins is someone named Danielle Scampini-Linn. Her claim to fame? Exposing her three children to drag-queen story hours and bewailing the DOOM DOOM DOOM of climate change. That's why she is "amazing"--in more ways than one. Charles didn't mention that, because Tammy's Poodle, you know.
Also "amazing"?
Tammy did all the talking. The other three Wimmins--and Charles--were potted plants in the Tammy Show featuring the made-up B.S. called "affordability." But if you look at the very expensive clothing and jewelry Teh Wimmins wore, you're going to ask about "priorities." Their "affordability" crisis has a lot to do with where they spend their money. Dior and Gucci (and the diamond merchants) take a lot out of your cash-flow ya'know.
In a way we feel sorry for Charles Benson. He's on his last days as a reporter and he'll be going out as Tammy's Poodle.
(BTW, Tammy really ought to check into a decent hair stylist. Tammy doesn't have "affordability" problems.)
The fun? It's just beginning!!
...“When I see somebody like Ilhan Omar, who I don’t at all, but I’ve always watched her for years, I’ve watched her complain about our Constitution, how she’s being treated badly,” Trump vented during his cabinet meeting on Tuesday.
“Hates everybody, hates Jewish people, hates everybody. And I think she’s an incompetent person. She’s a real terrible person.”
The broadsides against Omar (D-Minn.) came while Trump was blasting Minnesota’s Feeding Our Future fraud scandal, in which roughly $1 [ed.: lots more than that] billion of taxpayer dollars was swindled away by fraudsters.
Trump noted how the massive theft revolved around Somali immigrants in Minnesota and vented that he doesn’t want them in the United States.
“They contribute nothing. I don’t want them in our country,” Trump told reporters....
Rumor has it that the Somali Fraud Machine in Walz's state stole EIGHT BILLION DOLLARS.
Deport them all. They have enough stolen money to survive back in Somalia, no?
No doubt some US Bishop will mewl, whine, and whimper about Trump's "tone." But Somalia is in need of Bishops. Hint, hint............
Gee. Almost as though the DC Circuit suddenly (unexpectedly??) understands Article Two.
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump was within legal parameters when he fired Democratic appointees at federal agencies and filled the positions with new board members.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit handed down a decision ruling that Trump did not abuse presidential powers when he removed Cathy Harris from the Merit Systems Protection Board and Gwynne Wilcox from the National Labor Relations Board....
... the appeals court majority ruled that “Congress cannot restrict the President’s ability to remove NLRB or MSPB members” because the two agencies exert substantial executive branch authority....
Lots more Trump victories will follow this. The DC Circuit's acknowledgement of Article Two broke the logjam.
"Mr. Silly" Tony Evers appears to have Oppositional Defiance Disorder.
He issues vetoes on common-sense legislation and makes up silly B.S. excuses.
How bad it it?
... Evers ... vetoed a bill that would've banned the use of government money to provide healthcare to illegal immigrants....
...State Sen. Van Wanggaard (R-Racine) responded to that veto, accusing Evers of allowing for the state to one day provide healthcare funding for undocumented immigrants.
"There is literally only one reason to veto this bill - you want illegal aliens to have taxpayer-funded health care," Wanggaard said in a statement. "This bill didn't take health care away from anyone”...
Note that Wanggaard did not challenge Mr. Silly's assertion that 'no illegals were obtaining free healthcare at this time'. Maybe they are--but Mr Silly's cabal won't release any information to the Feds. And--of course--the Legislature will not order its Audit Bureau to investigate. Wanggaard knows better than to poke that bear. Can you spell "D-A-I-R-Y I-N-T-E-R-E-S-T-S"??
...The governor also rejected a pair of education-related bills. One would have required school boards and districts to allow military recruiters in high schools; the other would have allowed student teachers to get credit for summer programs in place of spending a semester in a classroom....
Mr. Silly's military veto is just spiteful Leftiness The Left hates the military because its members are largely patriots. As to the summer-program veto, DPI would have had an option. There was no "requirement" in that bill. Mr. Silly then produced a laugh-line:
..."I object to potentially reducing the duration and rigor of student teaching," Evers wrote in his veto message. "Which is a critically important part of ensuring our future educators have the qualifications and experience to educate, empower, and inspire our kids." ...
Just like they do in the Milwaukee and Madison publkk screwels, Gov'nor??
Mr. Silly also vetoed a bill which would require owners of "comfort animals" to show an MD's prescription for that animal. At this time, landlords are required to allow "comfort animals" (which can include ANY bird or animal) into a tenant's quarters. Here, Channel 6 has done the spadework:
... Assembly Bill 366 would also have allowed housing providers to ask for proof of medical necessity with documentation, like a prescription. FOX6 Investigators previously highlighted the discrepancies in the process....
...Evers said he wants to prevent fraudulent representation but vetoed the bill because he felt it unfairly affects people with disabilities who have legitimate needs....
Pure O.D.D. Silliness. Evers--once again--vetoes common sense and joins the Federal Government in forcing landlords (another Public Enemy to Leftists) to accept property damage as part of their rental agreement. That's another good way to raise the cost of living; landlords will compensate by raising the rent.
Speaking of raising the cost of living......Mr. Silly goes there again!!!
...[Tony "Mr. Silly" Evers vetoed AB 450], which would have delayed the Department of Professional and Safety Services from enforcing building standards based on the 2021 International Building Code, passed both legislative houses with bipartisan votes before reaching the governor’s desk. The codes were published in August following a Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling this summer, and DSPS delayed enforcement twice following feedback from the building industry....
There is no better way to raise the cost of buildings (thus, rent) than to impose "international standards" on builders and/or owners of properties. The "affordability" issue in this country is an issue created by "expert" regulators (Statists) who demand "improvements" claiming "safety" or "environmental" needs require them. (For example, you are seeing HUGE increases in your electric bill due to "green" demands. Can you afford those new rates? Yah, well--Democrats made it happen.)
By and large, these requirements are dictated to lawmakers and regulators by special interests such as labor unions or manufacturers of "Green" crapola. That's the crowd that "Mr. Silly" Evers is playing to, because that's the crowd that pays Democrats the most. (Not to worry--special interest groups also pay Republicans a lot. The special interests will always get their way and to Hell with the common man.)
We all know better than to accept Mr Silly's Oppositional Defiance Disorder excuses. The good news? He will be gone soon, taking the REAL Governor--an ethics-challenged lesbian activist--with him.
The US Supreme Court issued a decision which should warn the WackyWoozyWimmins of the Wisconsin Supreme Court about their redistricting crusade.
The warning? DON'T.
A divided Supreme Court on Thursday came to the rescue of Texas Republicans, allowing next year’s elections to be held under the state’s congressional redistricting plan favorable to the GOP and pushed by President Donald Trump despite a lower-court ruling that the map likely discriminates on the basis of race.
With conservative justices in the majority, the court acted on an emergency request from Texas for quick action because qualifying in the new districts already has begun, with primary elections in March....
... The justices cast doubt on the lower-court finding that race played a role in the new map, saying in an unsigned statement that Texas lawmakers had “avowedly partisan goals.”...
IOW, redistricting is just fine if it is partisan. Too bad if there may be "racial" effects, too--because after all, the US Constitution requires that we be color-blind, but not free of partisan inclinations.
Just make s**t up!!
Affordable Care Act subsidies have been granted, without the required documentation, to 90% of fictitious applicants over the last two years, according to a damning government watchdog report released Wednesday.
The Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) preliminary findings of ongoing and covert testing of Obamacare found “fraud risks” in the federal ACA marketplace, specifically related to the healthcare program’s advance premium tax credit – a subsidy Democrats shut down the government over last month in a failed effort to extend the tax credit for three more years.
“The federal Marketplace approved coverage for nearly all of GAO’s fictitious applicants in plan years 2024 and 2025, generally consistent with similar GAO testing in plan years 2014 through 2016,” according to the government watchdog. ...
Easy as 1-2-3!!
That's your Government (filled with Democrat appointees!!) at work, robbing you blind.
In perhaps the best news of the year....
...The day before NATO convenes to discuss European security, America is in Moscow negotiating directly with Russia.
Without Europe. Without consultation. Without permission. [ED: Who the F does NATO think they are?]
Who is Washington sending to Brussels instead? Deputy Secretary Christopher Landau. The same official who wrote “NATO is still a solution in search of a problem” before deleting the post.
The message could not be clearer. Since 1949, NATO operated on one principle: collective decision-making. Thirty-two nations, one voice. That architecture died this week. ...
No, pal. It was dead a long time ago, but there was so much money involved--for certain interests and from US taxpayers--that the dead horse kept kicking for a while. Bush the Dumber and the Democrat Grift Machine never cared for that silly old G. Washington's advice about 'entangling alliances.' He's dead, ya'know??
Let Europe defend Europe. We have our own hemisphere to worry about.
Some has-been State Department twit is BIG MAD that Trump is not going to spend 24 months negotiating a 'peace deal' in Ukraine.
See, if it were the State Department, there would be approximately 125 personnel employed in the task instead of 3-4. And it would take State about 2 years to get it done--meaning that the pension credits clock would be running for quite some time. And let's not forget that after the "deal" is done, another 50 or so State employees would have to "monitor" events. Oh, yes!!! There will be a US Embassy in Kiev, too--meaning another 200-300 State employees.
You can see that the Striped-Pants Twit is thinking only of peace, right???
So he pisses and moans to a very sympathetic Napolitano, who was turned down for a court-reporter job by Trump several years ago on the basis of Bad Hair.
It seems that some Intertube Trump-haters think that when the Fed lowers rates, the rates on US bonds will drop.
Wrong. A thousand times wrong.
US bond interest rates are determined only by bond-buyers, not the Fed. If a bond buyer thinks he needs more interest to make up for perceived risk, he will refuse to buy the bond until he gets the discount he wants. That discount makes "the rate."
The Fed has nothing to do with that. The Fed's rate scheme has only to do with its own lending to banks--which affects rates offered to borrowers for such as cars, personal loans, and--indirectly--mortgages.
One could argue that there is a slight knock-on effect between lowering Fed rates and the US bond market, but finding and measuring that effect is beyond the scope of this post (and we don't really care, anyway.)
There are 10 signs that one belongs to a cult. You could refer to these as "Recognizing a Good Little Democrat" Or "How To Belong to the MSM." (Same difference.)
Absolute authoritarianism without accountability.
Zero tolerance for criticism or questions.
Lack of financial disclosure regarding the budget.
Wrong for leaving: A belief that former followers are always wrong for leaving and there is never a legitimate reason for anyone else to leave.
Abuse of members.
Isolation—Members are cut off from friends, family, and their previous support systems, and may be punished for leaving.
Excessive loyalty—There is an absolute, unwavering devotion to the leader or group, where skepticism is seen as disloyalty.
Demeaning outside life—The cult’s ideology devalues or dishonors the family unit and the outside world.
Love bombing—New members are initially showered with excessive attention and affection, which may be withdrawn if they question the group.
Ostracization for dissent—Individuals who express doubt or disagree with the group’s beliefs are ostracized or punished.
Not sure we can buy this in its entirety, but the author makes a good case against Bill Buckley's Interventionism.
After a short discussion of Murray Rothbard's disdain for interventionism:
...Rothbard alleged that the modus operandi of fusionism and especially National Review was to excommunicate the non-interventionist right from the mainstream of American conservatism. Little has changed. It appears that today’s attempted Buckleyite and neoconservative excommunications are less because of bigotry or conspiracism, but more because of foreign policy. ...
Hmmmm.
Buckley dissed John Flynn for Flynn's dislike of interventionism. Then:
...National Review also soon began to enforce an orthodoxy about American-Israeli relations. In an article in the November 1956 edition, defending America against the accusation that segregation would reflect on the nation internationally, Guy Ponce de Leon included a line that caught the eye of the University of Chicago’s Leo Strauss: “Even the Jews, themselves the victims of the most notorious racial discrimination of modern times, did not hesitate to create the first racist state in history.”
Strauss sent NR Editor Willmoore Kendall a letter defending the Jewish state as an exemplar of conservative principles, despite its politics at the time being dominated by Labor Zionists. National Review never allowed severe criticism of the state of Israel to grace its pages again. (James Burnham would argue at times that Middle East policy should not be oriented around it, but nobody was able to tell Burnham off.)...
Whaddya know? Israel! Next,:
... the excommunication of the John Birch Society is cited as the shining moment of Buckley’s career. There, we are told, conservatism excised the antisemites and the conspiracy cranks. Never mind that Ludwig von Mises was on the Editorial Board of the Society’s publication, American Opinion, and would defend Welch to Buckley. ...
Welch had the gall to campaign against the VietNam war. So....
...Burnham himself, who had held off from the first round of attacks against the John Birch Society, dedicated his column––Third World War––to attacking Welch for his position on Vietnam. The mastermind behind National Review’s foreign policy had never been a fan of Goldwater, always being more of a Rockefeller Republican. But the John Birch Society’s new stand against the Vietnam War (“Get US out!” their publications and billboards cried) bothered Burnham: "Its stand on Vietnam confirms, not for the first time, that any American who seriously wants to contribute to his country’s security and well-being and to oppose Communism will have to stay clear of the JBS.”...
(We concede that Welch was a slightly conspiracy theorist. But opposition to the VietNam war was not 'daft' at all; nor was it un-principled.)
... The magazine’s interventionist line was not limited to Vietnam. Later, the Manhattan Twelve—the alliance of Buckley, Burnham, Meyer, and other fusionist hawks—revoked National Review’s support for President Nixon. Their contention was that Nixon had opened talks with Communist China and was thus insufficiently hawkish. (Nixon’s failed price controls would come after the Manhattan Twelve issued their documents.) Skepticism of American involvement with Israel met similar punishment. Buckley’s rambling monograph In Search of Antisemitism would give ground for the media and neoconservatives to attack Pat Buchanan for his criticism of the Israel lobby in the United States. Even if one holds that Buckley did not intend to excommunicate Buchanan, he certainly laid the groundwork for the neoconservatives to finish the job. National Review’s “Unpatriotic Conservatives” condemned those members of the right who were skeptical of the American war in Iraq....
Well.........NR is near-death, if not already dead. They oppose JDVance because he dared speak ill of Israel's policies. And it is clear that the American public is sick to death of the Perma-War.
Maybe NON-intervention will win the day soon, as it had done from 1776 through about the time of TR and then, catastrophically, Wilson, Roosevelt, Ike, JFK/LBJ, and the Blob Headed By Bushies.
Let us pray.
Josh Kaul, Wisconsin's very own Pillsbury Doughboy, joined with 20 other Hard-Left AG's to sue Trump.
Why?
To ensure that all aliens get free food and healthcare subsidies.
You remember that the Hard Left (all Democrats) screeched that their shutdown was only about US citizens getting benefits. It was not.
...After months of Democrats asserting that "illegal" non-citizens don't receive government subsidies, Oregon is suing the Trump administration over changes to the nation’s food assistance program, arguing that new federal guidance unlawfully blocks certain groups of "legal" immigrants from accessing food aid. When Democrats mention "legal immigrants" they are referring to all asylum seekers....
... In the lawsuit, Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield and the other Democratic attorneys general said the USDA memo goes further than what Congress approved and effectively blocks many lawful permanent residents from the SNAP program even though they qualify under the law. Those include refugees, asylum seekers and people admitted under humanitarian programs once they obtain a green card and meet the program’s income and residency rules.
Their definition of "legal" non-citizens, however, is irrelevant. The federal government has broad authority to determine who is here legally and who gets access to federal subsidies including SNAP....
Well, it IS 'relevant', but not because it is correct.
...Progressives exploit subsidies as a way to lure migrants to the US and buy their votes once they become naturalized. The Democrat agenda is clearly to upend the demographics of the country in their favor. Why would native born Americans allow their money to be used against them as a means to steal their country from them?...
IOW, it is another phase of the Hard-Left's PowerGrab scheme.
To recap: First, Kaul and his ilk claimed that 'no benefits will flow to non-citizens.' Then--when the Feds determined that 'non-citizens' actually meant 'non-citizens'-- Kaul and his pasty-faced Lefty pals sued so that non-citizens will continue to get benefits.
Tell Josh to go to Hell next fall.
No wonder Patel said that Comey is not out of the woods.
FBI Director Kash Patel says the contents of the burn bags containing Trump-Russia documents discovered at the FBI building will be made public one way or another.
“You’re going to see everything we found in that room in one way or another, be it through investigation, public trial, or disclosure to the Congress,” Patel told The Epoch Times in an interview with reporter Jan Jekielek that will air Saturday. ...
Comey is a shitbag, just like Brennan is. And Comey's cadre at the FBI are also shitbags, as are the people who were Brennan's cadre.
Naturally, Congress will do its damndest to keep much of that material out of the public's eye, mostly because a lot of Congress members are part of the scheme.
We'll see whether their secret-keeping plan holds.
Here we go again.
The "MOST EXTREME COLD ON EARTH!!!!" is going to arrive in the Upper Midwest around the 15th of December.
You are DOOMED!!! DOOMED!!!, I say!!!
Gather the firewood and shoot-and-skin a couple of bears so you have coats. Dig 30 feet into the side of a hill for natural earth-warmth! Take provisions because you never know when all the stores will freeze shut. Lakes and rivers will freeze solid, so be sure to grab some bottled water.
All for a couple extra revenue-bucks on the weather segment of the Local Nooz.
It looks like "vetting" of Afghan refugees (CIA buddies) was problematic. Propaganda motives aside, it was a lot of guesswork--and still is.
One glaring omission from all of these stories? Mohammedanism as a factor. There's a reason for that, as we'll see below.
More than 5,000 Afghans brought to the US after American forces withdrew from the country got flagged for “national security” issues, Department of Homeland Security data obtained by The Post reveals.
In all, the feds uncovered “potential derogatory information” on a total of 6,868 people who came from Afghanistan as part of President Biden’s Operation Allies Welcome in 2021.
Of that number, 5,005 came up with a national security concern, while 956 people had “public safety” concerns and 876 were flagged for fraud, according to the data....
Well, that's a problem. Fortunately, that number got a lot smaller.
...While various US agencies were able to resolve many of the red flags, as of September there were still 885 people with potentially negative national security information – posing a possible threat....
(We are VERY suspicious about "reports" using 'potentially' and 'possible.' So the Grassley-leaked info looks to be an attempt at propaganda or--if you prefer--'less than totally honest wording.')
But there's something else.
...Even while compiling its report, the IGs office noted the feds charged two Afghan nationals, Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi and Abdullah Haji Zada, with planning an ISIS-inspired plot to try to disrupt the 2024 elections in Oklahoma City.
Tawhedi — who came into the US in 2021 on a Special Immigrant Visa and obtained two AK-47 assault rifles and 500 rounds of ammo in 2024 — pleaded guilty in June to providing material support for ISIS and faces up to 35 years in prison. Zada, 19, got a 15-year sentence. ...
IOW, Muslim extremists. Recall that the D.C. killer reportedly yelled "Allahu Akhbar" as he opened fire on the Guard members.
Official Washington is incapable of recognizing the tribal influence of religion on its adherents. Bush the Dumber was a classic example of that, as has been the US State Department vis-a-vis the slaughter of Christians Catholics in Nigeria. (Yes, they are CATHOLIC.) That's because the pro-forma "membership" in churches of the Governing Class of idiots is just that: pro-forma. Handy for getting elected, otherwise meaningless.
The Establishment simply cannot grok religious motives. The single curious exception is the 'religiously-motivated' Zionists in the Middle East, who are granted a free pass to eradicate non-Jews on 'religious' grounds, from areas in which they have lived for hundreds--if not thousands--of years.
Why is that?
A startling bit of news.
According to the AP, the Vatican had briefed the press to expect Leo to hold a “brief moment of silent prayer” at the Islamic place of worship known for its thousands of blue Iznik tiles. However, after being invited to pray by Imam Asgin Tunca in “Allah’s house”, the Pope politely declined. The Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) reported that Leo replied: “No, I am just going to look around.”
Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni later said: “The pope experienced his visit to the mosque in silence, in a spirit of contemplation and listening, with deep respect for the place and the faith of those who gather there in prayer.”...
Both Franny1 AND B-16 did pray at that mosque.
Hmmm.
We all know that Ukraine is THE most corrupt country in the West, if not in the entire world.
Earlier this month Ukrainian businessman Tymur Mindich, co-owner of Kvartal 95 the Ukrainian TV production company Volodymyr Zelenskyy founded before he became president, fled the country as the NABU (National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine) announced results from a widespread corruption probe....
Money given to Ukraine for subsidies was being skimmed from the energy sector by several high-profile government and business officials. The NABU probe and raids on offices to discover document trails of the officials is ongoing....
...I have personally seen these corrupt Ukraine characters (politicians and private sector oligarchs) in action, literally spending tens-of-thousands of U.S. taxpayer funds (in cash) at the Port of Montenegro while I was tracking them in 2023 and 2024. They were staying in massive suites at the Regent Hotel, expensive boats and exotic cars with each. So please, don’t try to sell me on the honorable Ukraine politician schtick....
Now for the slam:
...notice how quiet the U.S. Senate has been on this explosive story about Ukraine officials being caught skimming money. The Senate is quiet because almost two-thirds of the senators are taking money from the laundry operation [LIST HERE].It’s not just Ukraine officials making money from the massive EU/USA funding scheme. ...
Conspicuously absent from that list?
Ron Johnson.
Conspicuously ON that list?
Tammy Baldwin.
Draw your own conclusions.
Surber reminds us about Bill Kristol (mentor to Charlie Sykes):
ITEM 10: Bill Kristol tweeted during the surrender of Afghanistan on August 16, 2021, “Almost every Afghan refugee will turn out to be so much better an American than Charlie Kirk.”
Reminds me: is Sykes still vomiting Democrat blather someplace?
Never even heard of this bunch.
...Bollinger Motors — the Michigan EV startup once hyped for its boxy electric truck designs — has shut down operations, according to internal emails obtained by the Detroit Free Press.
The company's human resources director told employees that November 21 was Bollinger's final day in business....
...Bollinger burst onto the scene in the late 2010s with its retro-styled, battery-powered B1 SUV and B2 truck, both priced over $120,000.
But neither ever made it to production. ...
It joins a lengthening list of losers:
...Several car companies that made bets on EV pickups — including Lordstown Motors, Fisker Inc, and Nikola Trucks — have all collapsed before their consumer pickups hit US roads.
Meanwhile, Tesla's Cybertruck hasn't met lofty sales expectations, Chevy has had to slow Silverado EV production, and Ford is considering axing the F-150 Lightning. ...
Don't bet that FoMoCo will re-energize the Lightning, either.
We note that 1) Putin says he will NOT sign any deal with Zelenskiy because the little camo-man is not the legitimate leader of Ukraine; thus, 2) Zelenskiy said he doesn't like Russia and will not give up any territory (which was a component of the Trump 'peace plan.')
Following that, the EuroWeenie Coalition (all talk, no troops) attempted to sabotage the talks by releasing the content of a call made between Witkoff and the Russkies and they are ramping up measures against the Russians.
President Trump should recall any/all US troops in Europe, stop issuing taxpayer checks to NATO and the EuroWeenie coalition, and send them a note saying "Kiss Our Ass" with a CC to little camo-man.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
She figured it out and tells the tale. Maybe the local wives will catch on, too.
Nicole Shanahan — ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, former running mate of RFK Jr., and someone who personally signed nine-figure philanthropy checks — just went full whistleblower on the entire Silicon Valley “tech wife mafia” and how they were used. Her exact words (full clip attached): “I don’t think many of the tech mafia wives realize… they were used to set the groundwork for what Klaus Schwab calls The Great Reset. Their money especially was being conscripted through a network of NGO advisors, Hollywood, Davos, and their own companies. A really small group of people… completely blind to how their groundwork is being used to enable these Great Reset policies.”
Then she turns the knife inward: “These women find their meaning through philanthropic work. I really believed I was helping Black communities and indigenous communities rise up. But now the problems have gotten worse. Crime worse. Mental health worse. The whole model is broken. At the end of the day they always go: ‘But climate change.’ Social justice + climate change — it gets progressive women 100% of the time.”...
That, and abortion, which was the sole and entire focus of the last two women elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
Think her story will turn on the lights in the heads of the North Shore Nancys? Or the Wauwatosa Wimminfolk? The Brookfield Barbies?
Maybe. Prayer works.....
The National Lawyers' Guild (NLG) is a well-known Communist front organization which has infested the US for several decades. Here in Milwaukee, they are connected to the Usual Suspects, too.
Turns out that the Seditious Six were reading from a script likely written by an NLG member.
... The seditious six video urging military personnel to mutiny came from a script according to Ruben Gallego, a Democrat senator of the far left. But there’s more to this. The National Lawyers Guild (NLG), which is a communist front organization, issued a document about refusing illegal orders on November 11. A week later, on the 18th, the seditious video came out....
...NLG has now partnered with Win Without War to advertise seditious–adjacent behavior on billboards. Win Without War has multiple congressional liaisons on their “About page.”
You should know that the National Lawyers Guild has also been a supporter of Antifa, a terrorist anarcho-communist organization....
The likely author of the script is an interesting fellow. Claims to be published in several Jewish journals.
The NLG in Milwaukee has lots of ........ahhh...........interesting connections, too. Note that their masthead mentions Art Heitzer, who was a notorious troublemaker when he was a student at the Marquette Law school back in the '60's. Some things never change.
Other Milwaukee connections? Sure!! Casa Maria, Souls to the Polls, the American Federation of Teachers local at MATC, and (surprise!!!) Ryan Clancy--all "followers". NLG here also "follows" Voces de la Frontera and David Crowley, not to mention the old standard-bearer, the ACLU.
Other than finding ex-CIA personnel and other detritus serving as "public servants", nothing here should surprise you. If it did, you have not been paying attention.
Joe McCarthy was right, no matter how much the Professional Left Propagandists (read: MSM) hate him.
The objective of the Seditious Six and their thousands of active supporters is an overthrow of the Federal Government. How they go about getting to that goal is shown here, based on research from the US Army in the 1950's. It is also the operating manual for the CIA's "color revolutions" so you won't be surprised to learn that the CIA and its Deep State partners (State and FBI) provide elements and manpower to the cause. Illustration and accompanying essay can be found here.
Naturally, the Cabal does not expect any sort of armed-and-willing-to-kill resistance. It would be a shame if they encountered it, ain'a?
The "Catholic" Bishop of Charlotte, NC, has effectively suppressed the Old Rite Mass by shutting down its celebration in four parish churches and moving it to a single 350-seat chapel. The Mass typically drew 600++ of the faithful so that created a problem.
But it was NOT a problem for the SSPX. It was a boon.
...Jim De Piante, project manager for the new St. Anthony’s Church [SSPX], told LifeSiteNews its chapel has experienced slow but steady growth since Traditionis Custodes was published. The motu proprio, issued by Pope Francis, states that Traditional Latin Masses (TLMs) are not to be celebrated in “parochial” churches, and Bishop Michael Martin accordingly announced in May that the four remaining TLMs in the Diocese of Charlotte were to be suppressed and merged into one new chapel.
The suppression took effect October 2, when families packed the new TLM chapel in Mooresville to overflowing, numbering 625 people. However, the chapel, Little Flower, only seats about 350 people. Martin has admitted it is not meant to fit all the TLM-goers in the diocese.
Since October 2, the numbers attending the diocesan TLM at Little Flower has plummeted, averaging an attendance of about 370-400 over the past few Sundays. Meanwhile, attendance at the SSPX Mass at St. Anthony’s has grown, as numbers shared by De Piante show. By late October and early November, about 100 more people were attending St. Anthony’s than had been in early July....
Predicting this growth and a resulting new church was as difficult as predicting that rain will fall down.
The SSPX is not subject to that Bishop. Among other things, that means that the Bishop cannot extract a "cathedrata" (income tax) from that group. But the Bishop must recognize baptisms and weddings under a decree issued by none other than Franny1, and Catholics may attend Masses celebrated by the SSPX to fulfill their Sunday and Holyday obligations.
Too bad, so sad, Excellency.
The good news? Every other Bishop in the US reads the newspapers, too, and they can take a hint.
The usual crime continues both in City Hall and on the streets.
But amidst all that fog of war, we found another interesting number. A convicted criminal (ex-cop) came out of prison and re-offended, swiping $350K from a little old lady.
But between his first stay at Club Graybar and his upcoming second gray vacay, he was hired by Chicago's Department of Transportation.
... Pecora, who resigned from the police department shortly before heading to prison, has apparently continued his service to the city post-conviction. Municipal payroll records list him as a $51.41-per-hour “asphalt laborer” for the Chicago Department of Transportation. ...
For the math-challenged (read: Public School grads), that works out to just under $107K/year.
Not bad for slinging hot asphalt, eh?
Following the release of 60K+ documents last year, it is clear that the CIA cannot be ruled out of complicity in the assassination of JFK. Turns out that Angleton was also a ferocious Zionist. Coincidence?
A few tantalizing bits:
...Perhaps the main architect of that cover-up was the CIA spymaster James Jesus Angleton, who, despite being the counterintelligence chief presiding over what was supposedly the worst intelligence failure since Pearl Harbor, wound up deeply involved in the CIA’s official investigation into the assassination.
Though Angleton insisted that the agency was inattentive to Oswald and unaware of the purpose of his activities leading up to Dallas, it has since been disclosed through unclassified JFK assassination records that Angleton personally maintained a classified 201 intelligence/surveillance file on Oswald for the four years preceding Kennedy’s assassination, strictly controlling which officials inside the CIA were permitted to see it through compartmentalization.
Angleton’s deceptions to investigators are so numerous that 60 years later they are still being uncovered; in one notable instance only revealed this year, Angleton committed perjury before the House Select Committee on Assassinations, claiming he knew almost nothing about Lee Harvey Oswald before the shooting. In another, Angleton concealed the fact that Oswald had visited the Cuban embassy in Mexico City—a visit the CIA publicly claimed it only discovered after the assassination. As Jefferson Morley, author of The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton, explained, the counter-intelligence chief “preferred to wait out the Warren Commission rather than explain the CIA’s knowledge of and interest in Oswald’s visit to the Cuban consulate” in Mexico....
It is correct that Angleton was a raving paranoid. But that doesn't change the facts about the CIA.
Not off-topic, we find that Angleton was an Israeli asset, too.
... his legacy has been consistently venerated by Israel’s intelligence services. In his memoir, the former director of the Mossad, Meir Amit, famously described James Angleton as “the biggest Zionist of the lot,” adding that “his total identification with Israel was an extraordinary asset for us.” As Morley writes, “Angleton’s loyalty to Israel betrayed US policy on an epic scale,” probably allowing the Israelis to build a nuclear bomb using stolen materials from the U.S.-based Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC) facility at a time when it was the expressed policy of the U.S. government to prevent Israel from acquiring one. ...
Israel's first A-bomb was ready to go in '66 or '67, meaning that the JFK Administration was opposed to that development (as was Ike's.) Certainly helps to have JFK out of the way, then.
But there's more!!
Turns out that JFK picked all sorts of fights with "America's Greatest Ally", thus raising the question
...whether Israel may have had a role in or foreknowledge of the plot against Kennedy, who spent his final months battling the Israeli government over its nuclear program, its lobby power in the U.S., and the resettlement of Palestinians from the land the Israelis had expelled them from. ...
(You can expect this post to be suppressed for the above item.)
... [Author] Good also highlights how Angleton’s Israeli channel intersected with Lee Harvey Oswald. The Counterintelligence Staff officer assigned to read Oswald’s mail and collect it for the 201 surveillance file that Angleton maintained before the assassination was Reuben Efron—a committed Zionist who had lived in Israel, published on espionage in a World Zionist Organization–affiliated journal, and, as Jefferson Morley notes, sat in on Marina Oswald’s Warren Commission interview with no official role listed.
At the very moment a U.S. president was seeking to restrict Israel’s nuclear ambitions and limit the political power of its lobby in Washington, the CIA official in control of the Oswald file was secretly sharing intelligence channels, assassination communications, and off-the-books operatives with Israel—and lying to both Congress and potentially some of his own CIA colleagues about it. The government spent 60 years redacting those facts and Americans have a right to know why....
Indeed.
Maybe someone should ask Netanyahu.
BTW, it was Trump who released the documents. Some accuse him of being Israel's Good Servant, but if that were the case, why did Trump release them?
Based on the record of its graduates, this outfit bears close watching.
New Politics and New Politics Academy are part of a leftist PAC that is training leftist candidates from the military and other public service agencies like the spy agencies. Ask yourself why. They have recently gotten a large infusion in cash and five, perhaps all six, of the Democrats appearing in the military coup video, were trained by them....
...At least five of the seditious six were recruited and trained for office by “New Politics”....
Hmmm.
A brain-dead commenter here took up the New Politics Party Line and called Trump's deployment of USARNG personnel in D.C. "illegal." He knows the UCMJ and the Constitution backwards and forwards, having been a County Social Worker. More to the point, he--and a lot of others--take that Party Line as though it were a fact.
There are dangerous people running around loose......
We've seen a lot of stupidity from "experts." This one may win the prize for '25.
...According to a recent survey by Reviews.org, the average American now holds onto their smartphone for 29 months, a significant increase from the 22-month average in 2016. This trend is not limited to individual consumers; businesses are also holding onto outdated technology for even longer periods to delay the expense of device rollouts.
Experts claim that lost productivity and inefficiency are the unintended consequences of people and businesses clinging to aging technology. Cassandra Cummings, CEO of New Jersey-based electronics design company Thomas Instrumentation, explains that older devices were engineered when internet speeds were much slower, and they often struggle to keep up with the faster speeds available today. This can lead to networks throttling back their speeds to accommodate the slowest devices, resulting in entire sections of networks running slower than they would if all devices were up to the newer standards....
Oh, my!
...Najiba Benabess, dean of the business school at Neumann University, warns that rising prices and sustainability concerns are among the reasons “America’s gadgets are aging out,” but the focus should be on the resulting productivity slowdown, increasing repair and maintenance expenses, and limited access to software updates and efficiency gains. Small businesses, in particular, lose valuable hours each year due to lagging systems, creating what economists call a “productivity drag.” On a national scale, this translates to billions of dollars in lost output and reduced innovation. ...
Billions and Billions and Billions!!!!
Wonder why nobody ever heard of the Business School at Neumann U?
Slow devices.
