Of COURSE He Did!

 Reported by Politico, re-reported by Surber:

 House Intelligence Committee ranking member Jim Himes (D-Conn.) is pushing Senate leadership to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act during the lame-duck session rather than waiting until Democrats gain control of both chambers in January....

They want to continue the We Spy On YOU!! act.

 ...Himes acknowledged that the legislation is “controversial” and said it is “always challenging” to push it through Congress when it comes up for renewal because of bipartisan concerns that the warrantless surveillance law inadvertently sweeps up American data....

"Inadvertently" my ass.

They want to beef up that 640,000 number which Jack Smith gave them--which is a rookie number--to include everyone in the country.  This is not partisan.  This is Deep State protecting itself, and don't ever forget it. 

 

Please Define "Republican Principles"?

 The usual parade of twits, losers, and preeners popped out of the sewer this week.

Romney, Pence, Haley.......all rejected by voters, and some rejected by the Republican primary voters, too.

Only one not here?  Paul Ryan, who abandoned his home town Janesville for New York City bright lights and big money as soon as he could.  

... Since the disaster of this year’s midterm elections, a bunch of extremely tedious Vichy Republicans have called for a return to principles, which is apparently just a set of negative references: Something something Putin something something.... Don Bacon

 ...Return to Republican principles, and make sure that companies have access to plenty of cheap imported non-citizen labor? Deporting illegal immigrants too hard is a violation of Republican principle?...  Nikke Haley

And finally, the Nepot Corporate Rapist:

 ...Trump coddled enemies, which is bad; for example, he went to war against Iran, which is bad. And criticizing allies or pursuing our own national interest when we don’t share goals with other nations doesn’t amount to “abandoning” them, a point that would be too obvious to make in a discussion with anyone but Mitt Romney...

Actual Republican Principles?  How about looking at Ripon, 1854?

... they were Republicans, the very first Republicans said, because they refused to live in a country in which some men were citizens, but some men were slaves and some men were effectively aristocrats who lived by having others do their labor. In a republic, men would be independent of mind, morally upright, and fed by the work they did with their own hands....

Not "except for roofers, maids, and yard-workers."

Oh, well. 

 

Trump's Truly Stupid About "Iowa Gas"

 Second time we've seen this come up, so we're calling him out.

 ...They didn’t like the fact that gasoline went up. Because I had it down at a low in Iowa — it was $1.85 … a gallon, $1.85 a gallon. And when you look at $1.85 and you go up to three-and-a-half, $4, that’s still lower than Biden, lower than Obama. But the war was blamed for that, and they didn’t like the war, I think, mostly for that reason. ...

The $1.85 price is for 80% ethanol (corn whiskey) blend, Donald.  Of COURSE it's cheap in Iowa.

But it's not 'regular' gas; you are strongly discouraged from using it in small engines.  It gives you lousy fuel mileage and not-quite-good engine performance.

Maybe you should stop focusing on making money and the Permanent Wars in Ukraine and Iran and learn something about Flyover Country, Donald. 

Jus' sayin' 

A Warning for WI Dems

The Wisconsin Democrat (DSA) Party wants to institute State-paid "Medicare" for illegals.

Fine.  But here's a warning from Colorado, which did exactly that.

 Colorado Democrats and immigration activists cheered after Gov. Jared Polis (D.) signed a signature 2022 health care law providing coverage to children and “pregnant persons” living in the United States illegally. Four years later, Polis, now a lame duck, is calling to gut the Cover All Coloradans program in his final budget proposal in an attempt to address the state’s spiraling Medicaid costs, and left-wing groups aren’t happy....

 ...Polis released his budget on the eve of the midterm elections—one day after the legally mandated deadline to do so—and proposed $600 million in state Medicaid cuts. He called Medicaid’s growth “unsustainable” and told reporters it was on track to “crowd out everything else, including education.”...

Huh.  Choose one:  Cover the illegals, or pay the teachers.

We know how THAT will turn out. 

 

Did Microsoft Use AI To Update Outlook??

Microsoft's Outlook email system has been down for almost 24 hours and is likely to be down for another 24--or more.  

It's not an attack, says Microsoft.

Well........there's room to speculate that MS used Claude AI to write update code....

Heh. 

How Somalis Handle Problerms

If you're surprised at this story, you are an idiot.

 A Somali-born historian who researched the role of Rep. Ilhan Omar's father in the bloody regime of dictator Siad Barre found his trip to Minnesota canceled this week, allegedly due to the potential for clan violence....

 ...Ali Gaashaan, the president of the Somali Hero Awards, denied Ingiriis's version of events in texts to the DCNF. Gaashaan said that he "has never heard threats of violence against any critic" of Omar....

BUT: 

...Presented with a report by Alpha News detailing online threats by a man tied to Omar, Gaashaan alleged that Alpha News and the DCNF have "an extreme right-wing agenda." Asked why Ingiriis's participation in the event was canceled, Gaashaan did not reply....

Time for Trump & Co. to eject all of them.  Helicopters. 

"Friends & Family" Deals at White House.....Ugly

 If you haven't noticed that Trump is "all about the MONEY," you haven't been paying attention.

But it's only during TrumpTwo that it has clearly become a very serious problem.  For openers....

...In May, Secretary of State Marco Rubio sent President Donald Trump and top Cabinet members a classified memorandum detailing the relationship between the Huangs and the intelligence indicating that Alice Huang was a Chinese spy. The White House directed the Commerce Department to put Alice Huang’s Megaspeed on the entity list of companies that pose national security concerns. Lutnick refused this request in May; he refused a second attempted crackdown order from Trump in August; and on Nov. 5, Lutnick reportedly stonewalled Trump again. And evidently, this wasn’t because Lutnick knew too little. Rather, the Commerce Department spent months last year conducting an investigation into Megaspeed and specifically whether it was illicitly smuggling Nvidia chips into China, only for Lutnick’s direct underling, Jeff Kessler, to invite Nvidia to reach out to Commerce about the case, bringing the department’s inquiry to an effective end. ...

The Washington Examiner is NOT a Salon/Democrat/DSA outfit, by the way.  

It is further reported that both Massie (R-KY) and Khanna (D-CA) dumped Invidia stock just before this story broke.   Hmmmm.

There are rumors that Don Jr. is also grifting millions by investing in companies which--suddenly--are landing large Government contracts. 

I think prison is a good remedy for this.

Side-Note:  are the renewed attacks on JDVance connected to these.....ahhhhh.....eruptions? 

Schimming Keeps His Job, Ignores the Elephant....

You'll notice that Brian Schimming, chair of the Wisconsin Republican Party, intends to keep his job; he does not utter the words "War on Iran" (nor "War in Ukraine") when placing blame for the demolition of Republicans in Wisconsin.

 ...Schimming acknowledged that the national political climate and voters' concerns about kitchen-table issues contributed to the GOP's losses. He says the party has learned lessons it can carry into the next election cycle.

“Certainly, making sure that you're staying close to kitchen-table issues that voters have. I think it’s easy to nationalize some issues in some elections. I think that was certainly the case this time,” Schimming said....

Schimming made the rounds; he spent some time with the insufferable RadioMouth "ME!! ME!! MEEEE!!!" O'Donnell and did the same thing; no mention of Wars of Choice.

But we all know better. 

MPS: 'Less Kids, So Gimme Mo' MONEY!!'

 The Milwaukee Public Schools are educating less than half of the eligible children in Milwaukee, and the decline in student numbers is long-standing.

But at the same time, MPS has increased its tax levy--by a lot--as demonstrated by no less than Mayor Cavalier Johnson (!)

 

...Milwaukee Public Schools $320.2 million in 2023; $414.8 million in 2024, increase of 29.5%...

That increase is BEFORE the schools' $252 million referendum allowing $60++million/year in additional property-tax revenue.

Meantime, 

...Going back only six years to the 2020-21 school year, MPS reported an enrollment of 62,595. This year, MPS' enrollment is down to 53,922 -- a 14% drop over that six-year period.

More than a third of that decline happened over the past year, as MPS reported a 5.8% enrollment decline from the 2025-26 school year....

The repeal of Act 10 will not significantly affect taxes in Milwaukee, because MPS "management" never took health insurance and pension matters off the table; that is, the Teachers' Union in Milwaukee still gets whatever they want.

Next?

They'll get more from taxpayers in Altoona, Neenah, Two Rivers, and Elkhorn.  Their (D) pals now running the State budget ripoff game will see to that.  

It's like your utility bills.  No matter what you do to minimize the cost, the cost keeps going up.  It's the Democrat Party Way.

Religion of Peace: "Kill the Infidel!!"

 Apparently "peace" has alternate meanings in the Muslim world.

 

An Egyptian man who converted to Christianity faces the death penalty after leaving Islam.

As LifeSiteNews previously reported, Said Abdelrazek stands accused of promoting ideas and beliefs that are allegedly “harmful to national unity and social peace” as well as “showing contempt for Islam and challenging its fundamental principles.” However, human rights organizations, including Amnesty International and Coptic Solidarity, report that he is being unjustly persecuted for his conversion to the Christian faith....

Egypt says he's a terrorist.

The Coptics (Christians) say "terrorism" is not the reason; it's his conversion to Christianity. 

How Much Did Tiffany Burn?

 Interesting observation from KellyAnne Conway on the recent debacle.

... KELLYANNE CONWAY: We should talk about it again and again because it won’t stop unless people recognize there’s never been cheaper, less expensive to reach a voter Laura, and we never spent more money doing it.

And you know again in this town, coming candidates often lose, but consultants always win. They skim 1,520% off the top “legally.”

But you’re not reaching people where they are. We have screens, social media, streaming.

Nobody’s home watching these TV ads and by the way, come to billions of dollars on fire. And if you keep running that same ad, in my living room, now I’m angry with you.

You’re irritating me as if I didn’t hear you the first 50 times. So there’s a lot to unpack there....

 We are on "social media" X now and then.  Have never seen a Tiffany ad there.  But we saw his ads a bazillion times on local teeeveee.  But we're not the target that the Pubbies needed.  That target was the young and disaffected--and they live on social media. 

Or at least, that's what it SHOULD have been. 

 

Illegally-Here RN Employed by Jesuit School

Does it surprise you to learn that the Jesuits employ this woman?

 A San Francisco professor and nurse has been held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for almost two months, with former students urgently demanding her release.

University of San Francisco assistant professor Dr Ann Lawani, 39, was arrested at her home...

Naturally, the Left, the Press, and the Aggrieved Wealthy Mommies (AWFLs) went nuts.  But as usual, ICE had its reasons.

 ...The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Lawani, from Nigeria, overstayed a visitor visa and had received a final order of removal in 2013.

'She received due process and was issued a final order of removal on August 6, 2013,' the DHS told ABC10.

Whoops!!  Whoopsie!!  

"I forgot to leave when ordered to do so" or "I ignored the order because you'll never catch me and screw yourself!"  is not a legally-compelling case, sweetie. 

Buh-Bye! 

It Has Arrived!

 

Tucker's SCARY SCARY Fable

 We're half-fans of Tucker Carlson.  His interviews of certified Crazies are.....not a good thing.

Nor is this silliness:

 

Americans’ collective credit card debt soared to yet another record high on Tuesday, climbing 4.2% from last year to $1.29 trillion in total, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s latest household debt report.

The average credit card balance per consumer now stands at $6,678, up 2.4% year over year, a separate quarterly credit industry insights report from TransUnion found. The number of people with credit cards also rose 2% to 178 million, and the average interest rate on a new credit card is 24%, according to LendingTree data....

 

OMG!!!  CALL OUT THE ARMY!!!!  DOOM!  DOOM!!!! DOOM!!!!!!

 

Careful readers will note that inflation over the last year has been about 4%, meaning that the DOOM DEBT INCREASE Tucker writes about is..............nothing at all--and the "average" debt is LESS than inflation for the same period--which, to anyone with common sense, is good news.

We are NOT fans of credit cards.  But they can be useful.  Tucker's silliness?  Not always useful. 

Hey, David!! Governing Is Hard!!

David Crowley is going to find out that governing is a lot harder than throwing bullshit at the plebes.

 More from Crowley on doing away with the Electoral College: “This is an opportunity for us to get with it to the times of where we are, to where if you win the popular vote, if you win the majority of those votes, it should go towards that individual who won that state.”  --Scott Bauer

 So Crowley appears--APPEARS--to be saying that he does NOT support doing away with the Electoral College.

Unfortunately for Crowley, both his Ass'y and Senate leaders (vicious women, by the way), think exactly the opposite.  And one of them let him know, in no uncertain terms, that he should STFU, Sit the F Down, and let HER tell HIM how things are going to go.

Maybe the best thing Crowley will get from his election is a better job for his wife. 

Shakespeare Coulda Told You About Barnes' Suit

This will be a pleasant diversion before the (D) quad-fecta (Ass'y, Senate, Gov, and SCOWI) completely demolishes the State of Wisconsin....

 A former candidate for Wisconsin governor filed a defamation lawsuit against Journal Sentinel, Inc. on Tuesday, Nov. 10.

Former Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes is disputing the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's reporting in two articles published on July 30, the same day he dropped out of the race for governor....

 Hmmmm.  Why would the J-S defame a Lefty?  They're on the same side of EVERY policy matter, right?

 ...The lawsuit also indicates a Journal Sentinel political reporter had previously been involved with Barnes. When the campaign discovered this, it was disclosed to The Journal Sentinel and acknowledged. The journalist was removed from the story, and the lawsuit states that they were told other reporters would "re-report" portions of the story. The lawsuit states it was published later that day.

"The Journal Sentinel did not disclose the conflict to its readers. The public was not told that a reporter who participated in reporting on Barnes’s sexual relationships had herself maintained a sexual relationship with him," according to the lawsuit....

Cosgrove, and later, Shakespeare:

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

It is absolutely delicious to see the J-S taken down on a maxim written in 1697. 

 

Our Democrat-Bishop-Warmongers (!!)

A story you did NOT learn in your US History classes.

Yes, you knew that Wilson double-crossed the voters (just as Trump did) about WWI.  Here's the part you didn't learn:

... After the election, Cardinal Gibbons ignored the pleas of Pope Benedict XV to bring an early end to the European war. Instead, the Primate of America threw his support, and that of the American Catholic hierarchy, behind Woodrow Wilson’s war to “make the world safe for democracy.”...

 The Democrats have been perverting "safe for democracy" since 1916--and the US Bishops have been perverting the Faith to support Democrats ever since.

Great. 

Bones of St Nicholas (Santa Claus) Destroyed. Hmmmm.

Not widely reported in the USA, for some reason or another.....

 

French police have arrested a suspect who allegedly stole and burned the bones of St. Nicholas, bishop of Myra, from a basilica in Lorraine on Oct. 28....

 ...The police immediately opened an investigation into the incident. The alleged theft occurred at the Basilica of Saint-Nicolas-de-Port in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department of Lorraine, according to the Brussels Signal.

French police identified the suspect, who has not publicly been named...

Not named by the utterly-PC French cops.

That raises...........suspicions..........right?

St Nick is also known as Santa Claus. 

ONE Cardinal Has--ahhhhhh---Manhood

 This Cardinal has been through the ChiCom mill, so he has courage.  No Fear!

 Cardinal Joseph Zen, bishop emeritus of Hong Kong, in a blog post last week, reflecting on the fruits of the Second Vatican Council, called on Pope Leo XIV to put a stop to the Synod on Synodality and condemned the initiative’s “hidden agendas” on LGBT ideology, female “ordination,” and clerical celibacy.

In his blog post, translated into English on November 6, Zen argued that the Second Vatican Council has not been sufficiently fruitful, namely because it is under “constant attack” by those trying to use it to justify reforms contrary to the faith....

 ...Zen called on Pope Leo to put an end to the Synod on Synodality and these hidden agendas, as well as sending Cardinal Mario Grech, the secretary general of the Synod of Bishops, and Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, S.J., who was the General Relator of the Synod, on a “long vacation,” and remove Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández as prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith....

Sharp contrast to some other Cardinals (one from the USA) who make ineffective legalistic bleating noises while collecting gifts from the Faithful who hope to see orthodoxy restored in Rome.

Pray for Cdl. Zen.  The ChiComs are not his only enemy, and the enemies in Rome are actually more deadly. 

JDVance the Evil Evil??

Harsanyi's bafflegab about JDVance's economics is--fortunately--contradicted by all the major economic indicators.  The principal problem with the Trump economy is Bidenflation, combined with Trump's penchant for deficit spending--and The Wars.

The Wars are exactly why Harsanyi is compelled to harm Vance.  Harsanyi is a Russia-hater (see the first war) and he is a special pleader for the country benefiting from Trump's second war.  Vance was an early opponent of the War on Persia, and remains so today.

You need look no further than the masthead on his publisher to know about Harsanyi, but knowing that he was a GWB Administration figure helps.

But for real economic facts--including the SUCCESS of the tariffs in re-shoring industry to the US--look at the body of work of Tonelson.  It is noteworthy that Tonelson shares Harsanyi's like for the War on Persia--but Tonelson will not make up lies about Vance

Medicare For All.....and National Bankruptcy, Too!!

 Ticker 's been foaming at the mouth about this forever.  But he's been right about it forever, too.

.... Last fiscal year (ending September 30th) CMS spent $2.733 trillion, up 9.98% (there's that 10% number!) from last year.  Prescription drug spending was up an astounding 22%.  Physicians are whining that their payments are actually down in inflation-adjusted funds which may be true but physician spending in Medicare was up 6.99% last fiscal year which is wildly higher than published inflation.  So who's stealing the money?  The government is spending it and the doctors are not getting it -- someone is stealing it.

Medicaid spend was up 8.2% -- again, wildly above inflation.  That's only part of it since Medicaid pays roughly half at the federal level with the states having to post up the rest.  Who is stealing the money?

This is the very same "Medicare for all" provider set and government funding set that the Democrats will now put forward as "the answer" and try to find a way to force into law.  But doing so will take the balance of the roughly $5.5 trillion in medical spend last fiscal year, the $3 trillion of it that is not currently federal, and force it onto the federal balance sheet.

May I remind you that the additional $3 trillion will all be deficit spending because that is more than all personal income taxes and eight times the total of corporate income tax.  In other words no, "tax the rich" is a lie unless you intend to more than double the current tax rates.

Now perhaps you can try that, but if you don't manage to pull that off then you have an immediate 13% inflation rate....

 Watch this play out.  Democrats will enact "Medicare for All" and are likely to corral the votes necessary to override Trump's veto. BUT....they will not enact it until very late in Trump's term, meaning that they get to brag right through the '28 Presidential election (assuring a (D) President's election" before the roof collapses and the whole cabin goes down the river in the flood.

It's gonna be very ugly. 

To The Screechers.....

Yes, the "righty" screechers.  You know who you are.

 

A Warning About Social Media

If you think that a nom-de-plume like "Dad29" is a cover, put that out of your high-trust mind right now.

Also, if you think that, since you do NOT use social media for political rants, but you did purchase a MAGA hat, you are in the clear, put THAT out of your high-trust mind right now because you are one of 640,000 peeps on whom Jack Smith has 'the goods,' and Jack Smith does not have the only copy of that spreadsheet.

Specifically on social media:  

...What I discovered in this experience was that DHS, and by extension DOJ/FBI and the January 6 investigators, had direct administrative level backdoors into all social media platforms.

Overlay the Twitter files now, and then expand your thinking….

In their quest to prove that I owned a Red Ferrari, traveled to Michigan and had a hit-and-run accident, these investigators outlined to me how the United States Government, through their DHS authority, has employees, agents and contractors with open portals into all social media platforms.

Yes, the federal government is inside the mechanics of the systems (Twitter, Facebook, Meta, Instagram, Google, YouTube, WhatsApp, Zello, etc) and they have administrative access in real time to monitor, review, extract and evaluate everything, soup-to-nuts....

There is a 99/99% chance that those permissions remain active today; and a 99.5% chance that the information will be fed (by a friendly) to some Congressional committee run by DSA types.  The Deep State people never changed stripes just because Trump was elected three times.

Watch your 6.  We'll watch it for you when we can.  Share eyeballs. 

Dems to Voters: "Please Hold...."

 There's a reason for this statement.

 On Friday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” Rep. Johnny Olszewski (D-MD) said that he “would much rather be focused on lowering the cost of living, addressing those pocketbook issues”, but they’ll take up articles of impeachment against Secretary Pete Hegseth if he doesn’t resign or get fired....

The reason for that prioritization?

The Democrats have No Friggin' Idea HOW to "address pocketbook issues."  None. 

THE Political Maxim and Suzie Wiles

Discussing the firing of Suzie Wiles, the Treehouse reminds us of Politics 101:

 ...We said from the outset Wiles would likely be a problem because she’s donor-centric, a typical Republican.  Democrats chase power, Republicans chase money.  Democrats use money to get power; Republicans use power to get money....

Look at Wisconsin.  Tiffany had $bazillions (as did Michels in the past) and had Republican majorities; Crowley had some money, but not much.  In the end, Crowley got what the Democrats want:  power.  They will be collecting money for the next four + years. 

...The Wiles Inc. focus on money, including direct benefits to her family, is now the weapon DSA congressional committees will use to target Trump.  Every financial angle used to attack Trump tracks to the poor decision-making of Susie Wiles. However, at the end of the accountability path – the buck stops with President Trump....

Treehouse also reports that Bongino lost the battle with Wiles over the Epstein stuff, and Tulsi had to be very, very, very circumspect around that woman. 

Justice Thomas Speaks

 

Government Work: Watching OnlyFans

Apparently Trump's purge of Federal "workers" is not nearly enough.

 

People in Washington, D.C., consume pornography on OnlyFans at high rates during the workday, according to Max Anderson, CEO of OnlyFinder, whose company published a report on OnlyFans spending....

 ...“People who work in D.C. are heavily using OnlyFans inside the boundaries of the District of Columbia during the workday, and then their usage drops off a cliff when they go home to the suburbs at night,” Anderson told the DCNF.

“The data certainly supports that D.C. workers are heavily using OnlyFans during the workday,” Anderson told the DCNF....

Well, OK.  Perhaps another group of users are the lawyers who infest that town like lice.

Would you be surprised?? 

For Moron With Bad AI "Skillz"

 Some twit claimed that PMI variances are significant from month to month, therefore Trumponomics was sketchy.

Here's a graf which is NOT monthly, but which demonstrates that m-t-m variances are not significant at all.

 

Does DeSantis Care About H-1B?

 DeSantis says the H-1B imports are part of the reason for the Blue Bomb.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, whose state largely was impacted only nominally by Democrat and Democrat Socialist gains in the 2026 midterms, says the problem was that Republican senators wouldn't act.

He specifically cited their refusal to address concerns about the H-1B visa program. That was set up ostensibly to allow foreign workers into the U.S. if there was no one available domestically with a particular expertise.

In reality it is a pathway for huge corporations to hire tens of thousands of foreigners to work at lower wages and replace American workers....

Maybe DeSantis actually cares.

But, for those of you who are newbies (or just dense), it is commonplace for politicians to borrow a line from The Godfather:  "Nice place you have here.  It would be too bad if......"

So maybe DeSantis is looking for some of that sweet, sweet, Microsoft/Google/Oracle campaign money.

Keep your eyes open. 

"Just Spend It!!"--Signed, David Crowley

 The State of Wisconsin's taxpayers are in for a real treat.  /sarc  The new Governor will find a way for the State to pay for this.  Live in Bayfield County?  Suck it up, buttercup.

 Weight loss drugs and who is paying for them took center stage during Milwaukee County's budget battle.

So many employees are taking GLP-1s; it's costing the county millions....

Eleven million dollars is how much Milwaukee County spent this year on employees using GLP-1 medications with insurance....

GLP meds can cost as much as $1,300.00/month.

 ...The rising price tag is prompting leaders to search for ways to lower the cost.

"We cannot let Milwaukee County be financially responsible," Supervisor Shawn Rolland said.

Rolland authored an amendment to increase county employees' copays for GLP-1 medications from $40 to $150, and only offer it to people who have diabetes....

That is to say, if GLP is a medical necessity, the County will pay some of the cost.  If you're a fatty hoping to look good in the bar scene?  Nope.  

... Following an hourslong debate on Thursday, the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors voted against the amendment....

..."The amount that we're putting forward to GLP-1 could be paying for our transit system, our park system," Wasserman said.

Wasserman said he expects the county's cost for medication to increase up to $15 million next year...,

Priorities, Dr. Wasserman.  Priorities. 

 

MKE to Spend $1 Million ++. Who Benefits??

 The Democrat Socialist bunch has its own favorite money-receptacles.  You just don't know who they are, yet.  And the DSA's priorities are totally screwed up (surprised????)

A day after Wisconsin regulators approved a sixth rate hike in six years for We Energies customers, the Milwaukee Common Council voted unanimously to pay for a study about taking over the utility....

... The Milwaukee Common Council voted unanimously 15 to 0 on Friday, Nov. 6 to allow borrowing for up to $1.35 million for a feasibility study about taking over We Energies....

This is the result of typical hair-on-fire rhetoric totally devoid of reason and logic.  IOW, it's a DSA thaaang.

A couple of rational points here:

1)  Conway, of WE, knows the history of such ideas.

..."In every single situation is these cities, they spend hundreds of thousands of dollars. In this case, the City of Milwaukee is looking to spend about $1.3 million to study if they should take over their local utility," Conway said. "And in the end, they're going to find that it's going to probably cost billions and billions of dollars. And then when they go to voters, voters are likely going to reject it." ...

IOW, that $1.3 million of BORROWED money will land in someone's pocket, and they will tell the DSA exactly what the DSA wants to hear.  But the people who have to pay that bill?  They will not be enthused.

2)  Further, and more important:  WE has a lot of customers who do not live in the DSA hell-hole of Milwaukee.  One way or another, they too will have a vote.    

So we repeat:  who are the DSA's favorite money-suckers?  You'll know soon! 

By the way:  if the City is going to borrow $1.3 million, why not spend it on FIRE TRUCKS??? 

Port Washington, MS, and Oracle's Data Center

This will be interesting, since the Mayor of Port Washington basically jammed the monster Oracle data center project down the throats of his voters,.......hmmmmm.

 

Microsoft is ‌winding down an arrangement ​to rent ⁠AI computing from Oracle...

 ...Microsoft has been ‌turning off rented ​computing capacity from Oracle in recent ⁠months after declining to renew the contract, according ‌to the report.

Over time, the computing capacity Microsoft was renting became less valuable as it ‌no longer met the ​company's evolving needs, the report added....

Oracle's bond rating took a hit last summer over its commitments in data centers.

"Developing", as they say. 

The MOST Frightening Result.....

 Democrats have all sorts of 'plans and objectives' for their new-found power.

The most frightening one?

 ...Democrats now control the governor's office and both legislative chambers in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, Wisconsin, and Nevada. Already terrifying, right? If those five states sign on to a deal already on the books in 18 states and Washington, D.C., they would send their electoral votes to whoever wins the nationwide popular vote — even if their own voters chose someone else. 

That deal, the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, already covers 222 electoral votes. Axios notes that it “only kicks in when participating states collectively control at least 270 electoral votes,” and that these five new Democratic trifectas “could bring the total to 283.” ...

Practically speaking, that means that New York, California, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Illinois will elect Presidents.  All the other States, including Wisconsin, can suck wind (or whatever.).

Wisconsin's Ass'y and Senate leadership are radical Leftists--DSA adjacent--and Crowley is a patsy.

Pay attention.  Action will be required. 

 

What Else Is Crowley Hiding??

It's only $4.5 million, right?

 ...The Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors reluctantly adopted a $1.5 billion budget for 2027 at its meeting Thursday.

A $4.6 million budget error hung over the meeting, and County Executive David Crowley's administration did not disclose that mistake until Wednesday -- one day after Crowley was voted in as Wisconsin's next governor....

Can't wait for Crowley to play games with a REALLY big budget ($111 BILLION), can you?? 

Al Gore STILL Costing You Money

Funny how Al Gore's self-enrichment scheme was never a subject of a Congressional investigation, eh?

Profiting from fake "Environmental Disaster" warming cooling "change" is the name of his game.

And it will cost you.  A lot.

 ...After more than 10 hours of discussion, the Public Service Commission passed We Energies' rate increase with modifications to the utility's request.

While final numbers are still being calculated, the rate increase will be less than what We Energies originally requested back in the spring.

That original rate hike could have cost the average household more than $260 more a year....

All for part-time, highly inefficient, sun-catchers and windmills. 

By the way, that "$260/year" number is bogus.  The "average customer" will cough up $300-$400 more. 

 

How Dumb IS MPS' Casellius?

 Brenda Casellius is not a 21-year-old fresh-out-of-college gal.  She's a highly experienced education veteran.  One would expect that her general knowledge (the meaning of red/green traffic lights, how to do laundry, the effect of gravity) of how the world works is better than average, too.

But maybe it's not.  Commenting on the huge disparity in bids for demolition of a burned-out school building, Casellius had this to say:

..."We worked with our insurance company, and so the insurance company was working to pay for that funding. So, that wouldn't have been a loss to the district, just so that the public knows that 4.7 was the negotiated rate with the insurance company to pay that," Cassellius said. ...

Umnnhhhh.....

Does Casellius think that insurance companies get their money when it falls from trees?

The District--and a lot of other entities--will pay more in premiums for a long, long, time, to make up that $4.7 million.  Yes, it would be a cost to the District.

Further, there is NO excuse for looking at a FOUR MILLION DOLLAR difference in bids on a ~$5 million job and passing it off to "the insurance company."  

But that stance--that total lack of curiosity--showed up in MPS a couple of days ago, when the CFO (!!!!) appears to have OK'd a fraudulent money transfer for around $500,000.  

It's easy when it's Other People's Money, ain'a, Brenda?? 

Trump's Policy Effects

Leaving aside Bibi's damned war, let's look at what Trump has done for the US.  Note WELL:  the "establishment" Republicans will NEVER admit these positives; worse, the DSA now in power will claim them as their own.

 

GDP grew 3.4% in Q3, beating forecasts and up from 2.2% in Q2

 The Atlanta Fed expects 3.4% growth again in Q4

 Business investment is up 9.4%, the biggest jump since 2020

 Consumer spending is up 3.8%

 Layoffs are near record lows, with weekly jobless claims at just 194,000

 Consumer confidence jumped 7.5 points in October

 Poverty has hit a record low

 Median income is the highest on record

 Citizens rather than non-citizens are getting more of the new jobs

 Mass immigration has stopped

 Violent crime posted its largest annual drop, and the murder rate is tying a multi-decade low

 Tax fraud, waste and abuse are ending

 MAHA is delivering real change, lower prices and fixing the system.

 Trump’s Golden Age:

 For the first time in 26 years, the U.S. outproduces Japan in steel

The first new U.S. iron ore mine in 50 years, feeding a planned $15 billion Iowa steel mill

The first new primary aluminum smelter in 50 years, in Oklahoma, which will double U.S. primary capacity once online

The first U.S.-assembled Volvo excavators are rolling out of Pennsylvania, and John Deere is moving excavator production home

Potash was named a critical mineral, with a $1.26 billion DOE loan commitment for a new Michigan mine and a USDA-backed Utah project

Rare earth magnets at scale for the first time in a generation, with a $1.2 billion South Carolina plant breaking ground

Critical minerals reshored, ending 100% import dependence on 15 strategic minerals

The first ever complete AI chip supply chain

Manufacturing construction starts are up 20.2%

Machine-tool orders are up about 37% year to date, the strongest first half since the series began in 1998

The manufacturing PMI is the strongest since 2022

$18 trillion pledged to restore America’s ability to produce at home

U.S. oil output tops Saudi Arabia and Russia

Power plant builds are up 68.5%

10 new LNG terminals will double export capacity by 2030

10 new AP1000 nuclear reactors

Nuclear goes from 100 to 400 GW, quadrupling nuclear power by 2050, with restarts underway in PA, MI and CA

Look at Brent crude & WTI after the midterms. Both are already down nearly 10%. Its obvious Trump was being intentionally sabotaged with Brent crude (City of London financial elites) and gas prices. (source)

 Oh, well. 

Grim Speaks for Many

There's a copy of an X meme at the top of his entry.

Then this:

...I find my commitments to anarchy, Stoicism and outlawry are comforting. Anarchism as far as possible: if the government didn’t matter so much, control so much, these would be passing storms of no importance. 

Stoicism: Since the mechanisms are so far beyond our control, we should not worry over them. 

Outlaw: I’m going to do what I want anyway. They’re going to have to kill me to stop me. Then I won’t care. ...

You might see him on his bike, waving an AR..... or a big honking broadsword.

 

 

Trump's Not-Little Lie

We expect politicians to lie, but give a lot of slack to politicians who tell "little" lies, bragging about 'economic wonders' or promising Sparkles, Rainbows, and Free S**t.  

But BIG lies?  Trump knew his "30-days' war" was sinking his ship, so he issued a BIG Lie:

...President Donald Trump’s 11th-hour election appeal saying he would end this nation’s almost $4 billion annual commitment to Israel...

Except the money will still be flowing, and worse than that:

  ...As The New American reported during the summer, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the NDAA with the notorious Section 219 (formerly Section 224), which would all but merge the U.S. and Israeli militaries. That would give the insignificant nation, which is of no importance to the average American, virtual control of the Pentagon and U.S. military policy....

...The two militaries would cooperate on “missile and air defense technologies,” as well as cyber-defense, electronic warfare, and artificial intelligence.

The measure gives Israel — notorious for hostile espionage against the United States, its main benefactor — unprecedented access to U.S. national-security secrets....

Yes, it gets even worse!

 ...As if that isn’t bad enough, Freeman explained, the measure gives Israel power over a significant political issue: jobs. “By expanding or starting new co-production facilities like it already has in Mississippi and Arkansas, the Israeli government could boast of providing jobs on U.S. soil, thereby securing allies among members of Congress who represent the districts where those jobs lie...

IOW, they could purchase 100% of Congress instead of only 70%.

Just call us "Israel West," and re-re-name it to the Gulf of Mexico America Israel.

 

 

DeSantis: Another War-Lover

This is not hard.  We always knew DeSantis is enthusiastic over Bibi's War.  

Here he is, telling Fox News why the Pubbies got nuked:

...DeSantis called it “probably the political worst-case scenario for a midterm election.” He said many Republican campaigns misread what voters cared about. Of some of the Republican ads he saw, he said, “they really were fighting yesterday’s battle.” He listed inflation, mortgage rates, and gas and grocery prices as the concerns that drove voters. ...

Notice what's missing from the "concerns" list he offered?

Yup. 

Another Pointed Summary....

 Childers--who is a Trumpist of the First Water....

... You know what would’ve been a terrific sales pitch? Save Congress because it’s been so important and effective. But this lazy and unproductive GOP Congress gave the base nothing to show up for. If anything, they constantly aggravated us....

 ...the House stayed out for nearly eight weeks during last fall’s shutdown, took a five-week August vacation, then canceled two more weeks in September to go campaign.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you can’t cry about how the republic is on the line and then take a recess. Voters noticed. They didn’t switch sides or rebuke anybody. They just stayed home. Why save this Congress?...

But Speaker Rep. Johnson had SUCH NICE HAIR!! 

Sums It Up, Mostly

 Last Refuge opines:

 ...In the aggregate the MAGA movement, like the Tea Party that preceded it, was neither Democrat nor Republican.  A person only needed to look at the issue(s) of borders, immigration, illegal aliens, H1B’s etc., to notice the outcome was the same with the D or R.  The same was true for American jobs and the insufferable march to a ‘service driven economy.’  The movement that supports Donald Trump was never Democrat or Republican; it was/is a coalition of historically unrepresented voters, essentially a third party.

Trump’s supporters represent a third party in a two-party system.  This was always problematic. Professional Democrats, leftists writ large, hate Donald Trump. The Professionally Republican also dislike him immensely....

Allow me to highlight the real problem here:

 A person only needed to look at the issue(s) of borders, immigration, illegal aliens, H1B’s etc., to notice the outcome was the same with the D or R.

Yup.  Clinton and both Bush 1 & 2 sucked.  Obama REALLY sucked.

And--in Term 2--Trump sucked, too.  Why?  Because he forgot who elected him.

And because he thought that he elected himself. 

Here's a somewhat more vitriolic take. 

Aycha Sawa, the Former.....

 Gee.

Milwaukee Public Schools loses $450K in a phone swindle.

Then Milwaukee Public Schools appoints an "interim CFO."

So..........the obvious...........what the Hell happened to Aycha Sawa?  

N.B.:  ONLY Channel 58's Ajay Bayatpour asked the question on-air.  He didn't get an answer; other reports indicate that the question was asked and Non-Answered by the Superintendent in Milwaukee.

How could this be?  Every heavy-hitter Democrat endorsed Sawa.  She has degrees!!  She has a credential!!  She has Union backing!!!  

We would suggest that every one of the above is the problem.....