WHAT "Cost of Tariffs"?

 Cadged from Ticker.

The increases lie in services--which are NOT imported, thus NOT subject to tariff.

Note that the DECREASES lie in goods--some of which ARE subject to tariff.

So despite the lies screamed at you by Lefties (and the Chamber of Commerce RINOs), the tariffs simply did not increase your cost of living.

This is something the "highly-trained professionals" in the MSM--or even the locals--will NOT report.  They prefer to ululate with Harley and some beer-critter over the imaginary problems.... 

 

DEI Liar Falls Upward into Sewage Crisis

Some things are just so obvious.....

 

Somalis DEMAND More Taxpayer Money

More chutzpah than Netanyahu has!

The US taxpayer (for the next 30 years or so) will be paying for the $9BILLION frauds committed by this community of grifters, frauds, thieves, and ass**les.

The US response to this should be immediate deportation.  "Don't bother to pack anything, you're on this C-130, and you get a parachute.  Buh-Bye!!" 

CIA Retracts Reports (Admits Politicized Lying)

This is not the first time--nor the last--that CIA is a proven lying machine.  The only question is "What ELSE did they lie about?"

... The CIA announced on Friday that it was retracting or revising nineteen different intelligence reports, dating from 2015 through 2023 — spanning the Obama administration, the first Trump presidency, and the Biden administration. The politicized assessments — many of them focused on DEI-related issues — included pronouncements by the CIA about white women, motherhood, violent extremism, LGBT issues, abortion, and others well beyond the remit of the agency's mission....

Whoever wrote and/or ordered publication of those lies reports should be fired and  pension revoked.

No,  that won't  happen. 

Crying In Their Beer, Lakefront Is

This guy is going to get a very rude surprise in about a year.

.. The [tariff] ruling has created more uncertainty for some American businesses, including Lakefront Brewery in Milwaukee.

Russ Klisch, president of Lakefront Brewery, said the tariffs enacted by Trump early last year led to Canada stopping its purchase of their beer.

"You're talking a couple hundred thousand dollars — four, five hundred thousand that went to Canada that we don't have any more sales," Klisch said.

That loss accounts for about four percent of their revenue.

Klisch calls the Supreme Court's ruling a positive for exporters, but he doesn't expect Canada to resume buying their beer anytime soon. Rebuilding the relationship will take time.

"They're still upset with us. It'll take a while," he said....

Longer than you think, pal.  Trump plans to dump the three-party (US, Canada, Mexico) trade agreement and establish bi-laterals instead.  And Canada, which has opposed everything Trump wants, will be on the very short end of that deal.  They will remain "upset."

One more thing, pal:

Trump's replacement, a 10% tariff....

 ...presents another potential challenge for Lakefront Brewery, which imports aluminum and barley....

So like Harley*, which is  also wailing crocodile tears over the cost of IMPORTED aluminum and steel, you cannot find DOMESTIC aluminum to purchase?

Are you kidding us? 

*Harley had to find someone to blame for their horrible sales and earnings report.  You remember Harley, don't you?  They have an all-electric motorcycle that nobody wants to buy.  They also decided that the under-40 generations are of no interest to them at all--so they never developed an affordable bike.

Yes, their Chair-yutz was a Hard Green Lefty.  They are very good at cash-burn.

On IEEEPA Decision, Read This!

 The tariff decision was disappointing in some ways, but note that a far more important question is raised by Gorsuch.

... There is a question about whether Congress even has the power to delegate its constitutional powers. Prior rulings that it can do this is what empowered the gigantic leviathan state we now live in. Some people want to overturn that system of congressional delegation of the powers the Constitution grants solely to it.


Gorsuch wants to know why the liberal justices want to read this and only this statute of being incapable of granting the president congressional powers, while permitting every other statute to delegate equal powers to the president. He seems to want to go further and overturn the entire system of Congress granting the Executive law-making power so it can churn out Infinite Laws, and mocks the majority for keeping that system in place while finding a violation only with Trump's use of congressionally-delegated power....

Congress will resist that because (as we have often said here) Congress does NOT want responsibility for the laws they pass.  That is exactly why they push off the decisions to "experts."  Congress knows that many of those decisions will inflict a lot of pain on a lot of taxpayers--and will be offensive to people who have a Christian moral compass--so they point to the "experts", shrug their shoulders, and ask for more money for their next campaign.

That's not cynicism.  That's experience speaking. 

One more thing:  Trump's kvetching does not help Trump.  But it does underline the hypocrisy of previous SCOTUS decisions (the EPA's authority, e.g.)  He kvetches precisely to highlight the problem. 

Hypocrisy?  Damn straight.  Kavanaugh sees it, just like we all do:

... In his dissent, Kavanaugh mocks the Roberts majority for upholding Biden’s lawless vaccine mandate for government employs while arguing that a law giving the president authority to regulate—and even fully ban (equivalent to an infinite tariff)—all imports somehow doesn’t give him authority to levy non-infinite tariffs....

In my real life, I've often asked others "What does Common Sense have to do with (fill in the blank)?".  That applies to government regulations AND private-company asininities.

Should we accuse Roberts et al of political chicanery here?

Maybe.  But Roberts lost all his creds on the Obozo "Tax" ruling.  He should have been tarred and feathered then, but he is too convenient a fool for Congress to take him down. 

Tariffs Under IEEPA? Nope.

 Trump lost a big one today at SCOTUS.

You can read the deets here.  At the very end of the post, the author states the obvious:

 

...this ruling places responsibility squarely back where it belongs: with Congress. Lawmakers who prefer to outsource politically difficult trade decisions to the executive can no longer hide behind statutory ambiguity. If Congress believes tariff authority should be available in emergencies, it can say so — explicitly....

Hilarious!  The author expects Congress to take responsibility for something!!

It is to laugh, and laugh, and laugh.... 

Pp. Leo vs. SSPX Gets Spicier

 We are ambivalent about SSPX; here in Milwaukee there are plenty of Extraordinary Form (Old Rite/Usus Antiquior) Masses available without going to the local SSPX chapel.  

That said, it is clear that Pp. Leo's machine is determined to put the smackdown on SSPX which--by all published accounts--is simply not a threat to the Church.  In fact, it could be argued that amity between SSPX and Rome will be a very good thing because it will result in doctrinal clarifications sorely needed in the wake of Vatican II.

In the latest skirmish, the Cardinal responsible for negotiating with SSPX over ordination of two new Bishops laid down some utter stupidity.  Bp. Schneider responded.

... Bishop Athanasius Schneider declared that Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández’s claim that Vatican II’s texts cannot be modified is “completely wrong.”...

 ...During an Monday interview with Moynihan, Schneider defied Fernández’s claim that Vatican II texts cannot be “corrected,” clarifying that the only texts that cannot be changed are the “Word of God,” the Bible, and “proclaimed dogmas,” although a dogma may be clarified by a pope or a council.

Moynihan pointed out that Vatican II was declared a “pastoral council,” and Schneider affirmed that Pope John XXIII himself clarified this....

Pp. Leo should consider replacing + Fernandez as his negotiator.  That Cardinal comes with some serious baggage and as is obvious from the above, doesn't know what he's talking about.  Of course, it is possible that +Fernandez faithfully represents the views of Pp Leo,which would be a grave escalation of this problem.

...Father Davide Pagliarani, the Superior General of the SSPX, announced today that the SSPX will move forward with episcopal consecrations on July 1, noting that a doctrinal understanding between the SSPX and the Vatican is currently “impossible” especially since Fernández claimed “the texts of the Council cannot be corrected, nor can the legitimacy of the liturgical reform be challenged.”...

There is a group of Progressive apparatchiks in the Vatican who have made it their life's mission to stomp out the Usus Antiquior.  Both Pp. St John Paul II and Pp. Benedict XVI have refused to do so, (as did Pp Paul VI in a limited fashion.)  All three had very good reason to do what they did, and those reasons have not changed.  But like with the Deep State here, the cockroaches survived and continue their mission no matter what.

Fernandez is playing the Clinton 'what is is?' word-game here.  While the 'legitimacy of.....reform' in and of itself cannot be challenged, the real question is "What is 'reform'?"--a question which +Fernandez does not want asked, because the answer leads back to doctrine--something that the Second Vatican Council did not address, nor touch.  Therefore, Fernandez attempts to slam the door with egregious.......ahhh.....stupidity (we shall not say 'lies' yet) in hopes that the fog will confuse people.

It does not, Eminence.  Ever since the Clintons, we in the USA have seen BS for what it is.

Drop it. 

More on the topic here.  Morrison also sees the termite/cockroach problem, as did Benedict XVI--whom he cites.  

Buying High Yield? Think Twice!

 The 'private credit' market is showing signs of serious trouble, and if you're buying the stuff, you want to look again.  Hard.

 The private credit boom is facing a new test after Blue Owl Capital permanently restricted withdrawals from one of its retail-focused debt funds....

...The biggest portion of the sale came from a semi-liquid private credit fund marketed to U.S. retail investors called the Blue Owl Capital Corporation II, which will stop offering quarterly redemption options to investors...

IOW, it's like Hotel California there.

Who else pushes these investments onto their retail investors?

KKR, ARES, Apollo, and Blackstone.

Kinda cements what we've thought about those outfits for a long time...... 

Cold in GA. REALLY Cold

No wonder this story nuked social media.

...While President Trump visited The Varsity restaurant in Rome, Georgia, stopping to connect with locals amid discussions on the economy, election integrity, and upcoming midterms, the unnamed patriot approached with his award in hand.

“That’s a Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award, but I don’t want Biden’s name on it. So can you help me out?” the man asked President Trump.

Trump grinned, examined the document, and replied, “Yeah? You want me to cross it off?”

He then added his own authentic handwritten one with a Sharpie.

“Mine’s not an auto pen. His is. This is an auto pen. See that?” Trump said, highlighting the nature of Biden’s mechanical signatures.

“You think he signed it? He didn’t sign that… Crazy man,” Trump added, while signing the certificate. “Okay, now you have a real lifetime achievement award.”...

With Biden's "signature" it was only scrap paper. 

US Manufacturing Is NOT Dead

 As usual, the Wall Street Journal Hate-Trump Rag finds a way to hammer tariffs.  They do it with trickery and deceit.

Alan Tonelson has been on the manufacturing beat for a few decades.

 

...U.S.-based industry added 5,000 jobs on net – its first monthly increase since November, 2024.

Second, revisions were negative.  December’s initial estimate of 8,000 manufacturing jobs lost month-on-month was unchanged, but November’s downwardly revised figure of 2,000 was boosted all the way up to a 10,000 drop – the worst since an identical sequential plunge last August – and October’s downwardly revised 9,000 decrease remained unchanged.

Third, due to the annual benchmark revision released today by the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistic (BLS), the manufacturing jobs record compiled so far by the tariff-heavy second Trump administration looks even better than that of its predecessor than it had before these latest numbers came out....

Tonelson does not wear rose-colored glasses.  But he also provides a startling comparison:

 ...Not that manufacturing’s employment performance under Trump 2.0 has been anything to brag about.  But as of the previous jobs report, between last February (the first full month of President Trump’s second term) through December, manufacturing payrolls were down by 71,000.  During the same period during the pre-tariff-y Biden administration in 2024, such job loss totaled 93,000 – and that with massive subsidies for green manufacturing.

Yet the benchmark revision cut the number of manufacturing jobs created between March, 2024 and March, 2025 by 98,000 – a mainly Biden administration period.  As a result, the manufacturing jobs decline during the first eleven months of Trump 2.0 was downgraded from 71,000 to 81,000.  But the reduction during the final eleven Biden months was upgraded all the way from 93,000 to 179,000.  

In other words, although the Trump 2.0 performance looks a little worse, the comparable Biden performance was nearly twice as bad, and so far has been more than twice as bad as that of the second Trump administration....

 The standard manufacturing-measure indexes for January are very strong, reflecting Trump's 100% deduction for capex; look for much stronger manufacturing employment numbers in the next 6 months.

Milwaukee Electric Tool v. Feds.....

Milwaukee Electric Tool (a/k/a/ Milwaukee Tool, a/k/a/ METCO) was slapped up by the Feds.

 U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued an enforcement action against a Wisconsin-based manufacturing company last year, which persons familiar with the matter say could foreshadow criminal charges against the company or its employees for tariff evasion.

The company, called Milwaukee Tool, is headquartered in Milwaukee but is a subsidiary of Hong Kong-based Techtronic Industries,...

... Customs and Border Protection launched a federal investigation into Milwaukee Tool last year after the Trade Alliance to Promote Prosperity filed a complaint alleging that the company was transshipping products manufactured in China to the United States through Taiwan and Vietnam, the coalition told the Washington Examiner....

That may not be the end of it.

 ...Department of Homeland Security officials tell the Washington Examiner that, based on the withholding of information, it is likely that the Trump administration is pursuing a broader, cross-department investigation into Milwaukee Tool in the hopes of bringing criminal charges before a grand jury.

"If there's nothing out in public, I would be leaning that it's headed in that direction, probably, because there's definitely going to be fines involved for violations of all the paperwork, everything to do with State Department and Commerce and what you're supposed to be filing, but there could actually be a potential criminal action in this case," one source, granted anonymity to discuss department operations, explained. "If the DOJ is on it, then that investigation takes no less than a year before they decide to bring it to a grand jury to move on it."...

Hmmmmm. 

The Wildly-Contrasting Takes on Rubio

 The VEEP traveled to Europe and made a speech.

One take--a hate-filled screed, is this one.

Another, which quotes the VEEP rather than writing poisonous editorials, is this one.

Choose wisely. 

RIP Rush

 Rush was another Shakespearean Man:  lots of good combined with lots of flaws.  May God have mercy on his soul.

 

Cracking Down on Illinois' CDL Fraud

 If you've ever driven on the tollway in Illinois, this will confirm what you thought.

 A Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration review of Illinois’ non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses (CDL) found that almost one in every five was issued illegally, according to a Feb. 17 statement by the Department of Transportation.

Non-domiciled refers to foreign nationals living in the United States who have a legal home in other countries. “Illinois has 30 days to come into compliance and revoke the illegally issued licenses—or risk losing $128 million in federal highway funding,” the department said. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is part of the Transportation Department (DOT)....

 Illinois is not the only State that grants Cereal-Box prize' CDL's.

 ...On Jan. 8, DOT announced that 54 percent of North Carolina’s non-domiciled CDLs reviewed by the FMCSA were issued illegally. The department threatened to withhold almost $50 million in federal funding if the state failed to revoke these licenses.

In December, DOT threatened to cut $24 million in federal highway funds for Colorado for “slow walking a purge of illegally issued truck licenses.” A nationwide audit conducted in October found that around 22 percent of the state’s non-domiciled CDLs were issued illegally.

Also in December, California sued the Trump administration after DOT withheld $33 million in federal funding over the state’s alleged failure to comply with English language proficiency requirements for truckers....

It's a start. 

 

Do You Pay 90% of Tariffs? Nope.

 The WSJ (hates Trump, loves Globalists) grabbed a NY Fed study and came to a conclusion which is highly dubitable:  that the US consumer pays 90% of the Trump tariffs.

Breitbart disagrees.

...First, we have the foreign-subsidiary problem. “U.S. importer” is a location, not a nationality. Many importers of record are U.S.-incorporated subsidiaries of foreign multinationals. If a tariff hit shows up as lower margins in the importing entity, the burden may land on the foreign parent’s consolidated profits and on foreign shareholders. Fed Governor Stephen Miran has made the definitional point directly: trade data can be misleading because “U.S. importers” can be U.S. subsidiaries of foreign companies. The Fed’s framework doesn’t observe who owns the importer’s residual profits. It observes that the remitter is on U.S. soil. That is not “Americans paid.” It is “a U.S.-registered entity wrote the check.”

This matters because it means the “U.S. side” bucket is not even cleanly “U.S.” in an economic sense. It is the legal remitter. The leap from remitter to “Americans” is a leap over ownership. ...

There are also tax/regulatory matters which impact the formula--none of which favor the WSJ's declaration. 

But let's make it easier.

...Since Liberation Day, commodities less food and energy—the CPI category most directly exposed to import price pass-through—has risen at an annualized rate of less than half a percent. That is not what 90 percent consumer incidence looks like. ...

Somebody is taking a hit, but it is not the American consumer. 

Who are "The Terrorists" Again??

Another Big Lie perpetrated by _______________ (fill in the blank.)

 US policymakers, particularly under the current Trump administration (as of February 2026), consistently describe Iran as the world’s leading or foremost state sponsor of terrorism. This characterization has been a cornerstone of U.S. policy toward Iran for decades,.....[since 1984]...

Really?  Is it Iran?

No.  Really NOT.

 ...the overwhelming dominance of Sunni extremist groups in the perpetrator data suggests that roughly 90% or more of identified terrorist attacks between 2004-2023 were carried out by groups or individuals with ties to Sunni extremist ideologies, particularly Salafi jihadism. Based on the available data from 2004-2023, approximately 85-95% of terrorist attacks in the State Department reports were carried out by Sunni extremist groups or individuals. The top perpetrator groups each year (Taliban, ISIS, Boko Haram, al-Qaeda affiliates, al-Shabaab, TTP, etc.) were all Sunni. In other words, these are groups with no affiliation or support from Iran. In fact, these groups view Shias, not just Iran, as heretics and target them. ...

The Sunnis are found in Saudi Arabia, not Iran.

So who could possibly have lied about Iran so consistently and so continuously?

Inquiring minds, and all that...... 

"Greenie" Evers: Wrong on EVERYTHING CO2

Tony Evers stamped his widdle feets and declared that he will join with Gov. Brylcreem Sparkle Beach to continue fighting against CO2.

He'll never be accused of understanding reality.  That is a requirement for elected Democrats, you know.

First factoid:  the catalytic converter in your car  was mandated in order to convert CO (dangerous gas) into CO2.  Why?  CO2 is beneficial.  

That was then.  But along came Obama's EPA.......

Tiny-Brained Tony will "fight climate change".  Good luck with that, dipso.  

... This chart, showing the 10,000 years of temperature changes since the end of the last ice age confirms this truism. Here we see quite large temperature swings much greater than what has been observed in the last 150 or so years. Each one of those moves up or down were caused entirely by natural forces. Those promoting the notion that man’s actions are the primary driver of recent temperature changes require that you believe that these natural forces suddenly and inexplicably ceased functioning at the beginning of the 20th century and that human emissions are now responsible....

And we thought educators knew something about history.  Wrong.  

Finally (for the sake of brevity), we note that Greenie Evers' passion for killing off CO2 will have another effect:  a great reduction in crops.  A reduction in crops means that the cost of food will go up.  Some people will not be able to afford "eating".  But that doesn't bother Greenie Evers.  Typical Democrat:  sacrificing humans is a GOOD thing.  

(What is it about killing people for these Democrats?  They love abortions, "transing" people--who then kill; wars (see Ukraine, e.g.)...and in one special case, killing off old people with Covid19 as your weapon of choice.)  That gets the votes of AWFLs.  Someone should do a study, ya'know?

Plenty more peer-reviewed actual Science at this link.  Tony won't read it, but you should. 

 

ANOTHER Trans Killer

If we were a Mommy to a trans, we'd be thinking about buying a bulletproof vest.

This time, the "trans" killed one of his children, then killed himself--all while pretending to be a woman.

Loyal Democrat voter, too. 

How Many to Throw Out??

 Some very good news for soon-to-be-dropkicked-outta-here:

ICE plans on having 92,000 detainees in a number of facilities around the country--mostly converted warehouses.

 ...The planned mega-centers will include medical care, dental, recreation areas, law libraries, courtroom space, cafeterias, and scheduled phone calls....

Not bad.  Not like the comforts of home, but then THEY ARE NOT AT HOME.

...ICE is currently holding about 75,000 people, up from 40,000 when President Trump took office a year ago. The new target is 92,600. Last week, ICE Director Todd Lyons told the Senate Homeland Security Committee that 1.6 million illegal aliens have final deportation orders— of whom half, roughly 800,000, have criminal convictions. That’s 800,000 convicted criminals, outward bound. ...

No matter how earnestly you scan 'Da nooz' on the TeeVee, or even in pixel-land, you never saw that number, didja?  Huh?  DIDJA??

Think the Left-O-Wandos will continue their scream-mode for long enough to get rid of 800K criminals?

Or will even the MSM tire of the eleventy-decibel whine? 

"Liberation Theology," Indeed....

The Catholic Church south of the US border is known for its "liberation theology," a demi-heresy pushed largely by Jesuit and Franciscan 'scholars.'

 

...The term originated among Latin American Catholic theologians in the 1960s, and it has increasingly been used to describe similar approaches in other parts of the globe. It often engages in socio-economic analyses, and emphasizes social concern for those marginalized due to their social class, race, ethnicity, gender, etc....

 ...Its roots can be traced to precursors like Catholic Action and the influence of the Second Vatican Council, which inspired new approaches to addressing systemic poverty and inequality in Latin America.^[4][5] While its theological framework centers on interpreting the Gospel through the lens of the oppressed, liberation theology also drew from broader socialist and anti-imperialist movements....

 ...The movement's theoretical foundations draws heavily from Marxist social analysis, particularly its critique of structural inequality and class oppression. While liberation theology does not adopt Marxism wholesale, its use of concepts like class struggle and the critique of global capitalism has led to significant controversy within the Church. Pope John Paul II and the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, led by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI), criticized the movement for what they perceived as excessive politicization and alignment with communist ideologies....

Any fair reading of the above tells one that "Liberation Theology" and Catholicism are two very different things.

Well, as it turns out, "Liberation Theology" liberated the libido, too. Surprised?  The worship of any false god (in this case, wealth/Mammon) inevitably leads to the worship of ALL false gods--including Lust.

Look what Liberation Theology did to Central and South America's babies: 

 

Tony Evers vs. Biogenic Carbon Cycle

Our Governor, an ignorant demagogue, vows to fight for the End of CO2.

His pig cow ignorance cannot be forgiven, especially in Wisconsin.  

But that's Tony!!  Ignorant, proud of it, and anti-cattle.

Unlike Tony, many Sconnies can read and understand this essay, which makes it clear:  Tony is an old fool. 

 

New NFL Propaganda Piece

Since the NFL's embarrassing loss of viewers during the last SuperBowl game, things have been a bit ugly in NFL HQ.  Not only did about half the SuperBowl audience tune to another halftime show (run by patriots and for patriots), a good portion of those people never returned to the game for the second half.

This makes advertisers unhappy.

So, to counter the bad news, NFL starts beating its drums about NEXT season--in foreign countries.  NFL says this will be a Big Success, ya'know. 

You can tell this was a "Come here and hear our plans" interview.  IOW, the reporter is a boot-licker.

The reporter did ask one good question:  will the NFL increase the number of games?

Notice how it was brushed aside:

... “The possibility of an 18-game schedule requires more work — it requires alignment and negotiation with the players union — but that opportunity to bring more regular-season football, and in turn the opportunity to play beyond this current number of international games, is something that we’re certainly considering,” O’Reilly said....

IOW, 'We will take the money and to Hell with the players and their silly little injuries.'

We began writing about NFL Greed last year, and we predicted that it will bring about a significant drop in ratings--and further, that the NFL's move to "subscription" broadcasts will backfire.  This international crapola will also backfire.  NFL will never replace soccer, but WILL alienate fans in the US whose teams are gone for a weekend--and the TeeVee doesn't carry the game unless one pays extra.

Oh, well. 

 

 

Aliens Are Real

 Obama tells us that "aliens are real."

He lied when he said he has never met one.

 

Measles DOOM! DOOM! DOOM!!!!

Based on the 24X7 coverage of three (now four) measles cases in Wisconsin, you'd think measles is worse than CoVid19!!!!

Or sumpin'sumpin'

Laughable.  Almost everyone north of 60 years old had measles, or knew a neighbor or classmate who had measles.  Lots of kids were told that--since Johnny has measles--go play with Johnny so you catch 'em, too.

They were told this by their murderous, perfidious mothers!!!

DOOM DOOM DOOM DOOM. DOOM, I say!!!

You will be forgiven if you think this blanket-massive coverage has something to do with Big Pharma's advertising dollars, or Big Pharma's habit of paying bonus dollars to MDs who slam that vax into kids.

Because that sort of stuff NEVER happens.

Or sumpin'sumpin. 

The Ever-Pertinent Christopher Lasch

 When Lasch's book came out, there was a great deal of excitement.  The book, whether directly or indirectly, supported the claims of PJ Buchanan, and--later--Donald Trump.  It was certainly part of the thinking behind Codevilla's essay of 2011.

The echoes rattle through the Epstein affair, 15 years after Codevilla's paper and 30+ years after PJB's Convention speech.  

 ...What the Epstein files expose, above all, is the social and moral estrangement of American elites from the people they claim to govern.

Epstein was not merely a predator who gained access to power. He was a node within a closed world of wealth, influence, and immunity. The scandal is not that powerful people behaved badly in private—history shows many such examples—but that they did so with a confidence rooted in the belief they were insulated from the consequences of their behavior.

They moved through a transnational elite culture that had largely severed itself from ordinary moral constraints, legal accountability, and civic obligation. That culture did not merely tolerate Epstein but normalized him.

This echoes the point Christopher Lasch made decades ago, long before private islands and hedge-fund philanthropy became familiar symbols of elite excess. In his 1994 book “The Revolt of the Elites,” Lasch argued that the modern American ruling classes had stopped seeing themselves as stewards of a shared national project. Instead, they increasingly saw themselves as a mobile, globalized caste, educated in the same institutions, moving through the same cities, governed by the same tastes, and primarily accountable only to each other. Citizenship was seen as a minor inconvenience. Nationhood and patriotism were just sentimental relics from less enlightened times....

 If  you think--for one second--that the Trump Revolution will put a stop to the Cloud People's arrogance, immorality, and total corruption, you are wrong.

Merely turn to any 10 pages of the Old Testament...... 

Victimology 101

Click to embiggen.  

 

The Lying Headline in Newsmax

We've always been leery of Newsmax.

Here's a good reason:

 US Military Prepping Iran Operations That Could Last for Weeks: Reuters

That's the headline.

Yes, Newsmax has plausible deniability by referring to Reuters.  But we all know, based on decades of experience, that it will not be "weeks."

We will be lucky if it is less than a decade. 

Another war brought to you by Miriam Edelman, her house-puppy Donald Trump, and a cast of psychotics like Lindsey Graham and Teddy Cruz, plus a cast of thousands of Greater Israel Zionists 

Not our ranch, not our horses...... 

The Cost of "Green" in Wisconsin

The first WE kill-bill we got was 2 months back.

 People around southeast Wisconsin are expressing shock over dramatically higher WE Energies bills, with some customers reporting increases of more than $300 compared to previous months. TMJ4 News’ social media has been flooded with complaints from frustrated customers sharing their experiences with the utility company's latest billing cycle.

"My WE Energies bill is becoming a car payment," Angela said on Facebook....

WE's charge per KWH has TRIPLED since 2000, almost all due to the Green Goddess Cult hired by Obama in the EPA.

Thank Trump for cancelling the language which enabled that.  But--so sorry--you will have to forget eating a few times per month to pay the Obama/EPA "CO2 Tax."

Windmills and sun-catchers...........oh my. 

Notice that TMJ4 didn't dig around for reasons?  Notice that the WE spox babbled about "cold"?

The Sacred Narrative must be protected..... 

Who Is Maria Dorsey?

Maria Dorsey is another of the Milwaukee County judiciary members who likes to set people free.

She set Anthony Erving free.  Erving was charged with a MACHINE GUN violation, but that's no big deal, is it?

So Maria Dorsey gave him a $5K cash-bond walk.

Erving did not cough up the $5K.

Then he killed his girlfriend.

Ask Maria Dorsey what the Hell her problem really is.  

 

Potomac River Sewage Crisis

 Just let the headline roll around in your head.

 The ongoing Potomac River sewage incident is shaping up to be one of the biggest in U.S. history, some experts say....

You know that river.  It borders D.C., the home of a certain pizza restaurant......along with Congress.  Then there's northern Virginia, where boys freely go into girls' shower rooms.........

Need we go on?? 

Ultra-High-Level Lefty Lawyer Ruemmler Bails Out.....

 As you might expect, the MSM leaves out 95% of her resume.  All we're told is that she was a 'special pal' of Epstein and she worked for Goldman, Sachs.  (To us, the Goldie connex is reason for suspicion all by itself....)

PowerLine filled in the blanks...

Kathryn Ruemmler has one of the most gold-plated resumes of any lawyer in America. She was an associate counsel to President Clinton, an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the District of Columbia, and the deputy director of DOJ’s Enron Task Force. She was a partner in Los Angeles-based Latham & Watkins.

In 2009, Ruemmler joined the Obama Administration as principal associate deputy attorney general. She then became President Obama’s White House Counsel. In 2014, she apparently was considered for the Attorney General post vacated by Eric Holder, but withdrew her name from contention and instead joined Goldman Sachs, one of the world’s most profitable businesses. In 2021 she became Goldman’s Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel, and serves as a member of Goldman’s Management Committee....

That's her actual resume.

The MSM reports?

They mention Goldman.

Wonder why that is? 

 

Anti-Zionist = Anti-Semitic??

 According to two Jewish witnesses, being anti-Zionist is identical to being anti-semitic (anti-Jewish).  As we all know, Zionism is a political concept, not a theological one.  But confusion is what's desired here.

 ...Boller seemed to question making Zionist theology an exception to the First Amendment.

After further exchange, Boller eventually asked forthrightly, “So by not being a Zionist, does that make you an antisemite?”

Frankel responded, “I don't think you need to be a Zionist to support a country  that defends itself and is free and religious in a hostile neighborhood.”

The panel was moderated by the committee’s chairman, Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick.

Boller asked again, “So is anti-Zionism antisemitism?”

Patrick said, “Hold on one second, Carrie.”

But Frankel didn’t hesitate. “Yes, it is,” he shot back.

“It is? “ Boller responded. She asked for at least a third time, seemingly for good measure, “Just to be clear, is anti-Zionism antisemitism?”

Frankel: “Yes.”

Frankel would be joined by Yeshiva University President Rabbi Ari Berman, who would also insist that being against Zionism was antisemitism. These Jewish leaders share similar pro-Israel views with American evangelical Christian Zionists like Paula White-Cain, also a member of Trump’s Religious Liberty Committee, who believe that the modern state of Israel founded in 1948 fulfills biblical prophecy.

And it is their mission to help see this prophecy through....

Boller--a recent convert to Catholicism--was dismissed from the committee following this exchange.  Dan Patrick claims that Trump fired her. 

Another Trump Deportation Win

Making his record in responsible courts something like 30-5.....

 

A federal appeals court in San Francisco granted a stay allowing the government to proceed with terminating Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for immigrants from Nepal, Honduras and Nicaragua.

The reliably liberal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order freezing a lower court ruling that would have vacated Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem’s decision to end the protections.

The court found the government was likely to succeed on the grounds that the DHS decision was not "arbitrary or capricious," suggesting that the decision-making process was rational....

When you lose the 9th Circus..... 

Layoffs, Yes. Job Losses? Nope.

Wolf Street looks at the real numbers, gives the lie to the FooFooDust pumped out by the "Press."

 

Amazon and Alphabet – and other tech companies – keep announcing serial layoffs and buyout-encouraged departures. But they’re still hiring too.

Alphabet’s global headcount on December 31, 2025, reported in its 10-K filing, rose by 7,497 year-over-year, was a hair above where it had been at the end of 2022, when these layoffs started, and only a hair below peak headcount at the end of 2023.

So why these "layoff" announcements?  Part of the reason may be here: 

...But in the two years 2020 and 2021, its headcount had surged by 60%, as it hired helter-skelter and in massive numbers people who worked remotely, amid stories that began circulating of people having two or three full-time remote jobs and pulling in huge amounts of money while skiing or whatever. Exaggerated or not, what was clear is that there would be a lot of sorting out and cleaning up to do afterwards...

Oh.  They found that some of their peeps were not-exactly-faithful spouses??

Heh. 

Comer & Jordan, Sittin' In a Tree.....

 Just like Jim Jordan before him:  all hat, no cattle........thus, he's perfect for House Oversight.

 

...Representative Ilhan Omar is one of the most sanctimonious corrupt Democrats in congress, and she’s loud and proud about it because she understands how to engage in financial fraud safely. Just do what everyone else is doing but do it bigger, that way there’s no way her peers can approach it.

Someone in DC gave House Oversight Chairman James Comer the familiar tap on the shoulder and told him they don’t investigate their own Uniparty tribe. So, Comer drops his planned review of Omar’s corruption and shifts it to the ethics team....

Oversight has long been the Bastion of Bullsh*t.  

Nothing has changed. 

He Was Right

 

Hey, Wheatland! Good Luck With That....

Wisconsin Energies--through a subcontractor--wants to put a Zillion-watt battery pack in Wheatland, WI.

 

Controversy in Kenosha County, as dozens of residents showed up to speak out against a proposed battery energy storage facility....

 ...Back in January, the town's plan commission unanimously voted against the proposed project by Robin Battery Storage.

The next day, the town says they were sent a letter from Robin Energy saying they were withdrawing their application.

Now, there is concern the group is looking for another way to call Wheatland their new home....

Yup.  Robin Battery--along with its partner-in-Green Goddess Worship, WE, will go to the State Public Service Commission, get the permit there, and shove that Green Weenie where the sun never shines.

How do we know?

Looked at your Green Weenie electric bill lately?  That's "your" Public Service Commission.