Rufo on Trump

This is a memorable line.

...President Trump was a wrecking ball to American politics. This was salutary. It shook conservatives out of an old consensus and opened up new possibilities for public policy.  --Chris Rufo

The Old Grift has been partially taken down.  That was the one where Republicans promised to undo Democrat over-reach but never did it, because if they actually did it, there would be no crisis for a good shake-down of campaign dollars.

"Partially" taken down because it would take a minimum of 3 terms, maybe 5, to dismantle the D.C. behemoth.  Slapping EPA is nice.  Disbanding it is ideal.  Same with D o Education and HHS.  A fifty percent reduction in State and FBI is obviously necessary.  There are other agencies which deserve death, too.

The Old Grift Pubbies won't like that.  They have lots of vested interests in Big Government and the income opportunities for their friends, families, and stock appreciation from "lucky" purchases.

That was the value of Trump:  he clarified who stood with the citizens (the few) and who stood with The Government (the many.)

We should have more Trump.

Meme of Fourth

Grim took notice of the U/Chi poll finding that 28% of Americans think that they may have to take up arms against the Government.  And he has a meme which is not posted in jest.

Cannabis Causes Real Problems

A reporter for the London Daily Mail toured some of California reporting on the Mayor of London's visit.  The Mayor is interested in legalizing cannabis in London.

...Perhaps Khan would benefit from a chat with Dr Roneet Lev, an emergency doctor at Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego, who tells me: 'We've been seeing the problems for a while now: depressive breakdowns, psychosis, suicidal thoughts, all related to cannabis. The patients are regular people, not down-and-outs.

'I want people to know the truth about this drug. We've been sold a lie, that cannabis use is harmless and even has a multitude of health benefits. It is exactly the same as what happened with tobacco. The industry told the public it was good for their health at first, before it was proven to be deadly.'

In California, hospital admissions for cannabis-related complications have shot up – from 1,400 in 2005 to 16,000 by 2019. In California, and the other 18 states that have legalised cannabis, rates of addiction are nearly 40 per cent higher than states without legal cannabis, according to research by Columbia University.

A study published on Thursday suggested recreational marijuana users were 25 per cent more likely to end up needing emergency hospital treatment. And, according to data from the US Fatality Analysis Reporting System, the risk of being involved in a cannabis-related accident is significantly higher in states where the drug is legal....

Oh, yes, there's more!!

...Studies have shown that frequent ingestion of cannabis can increase the risk of serious mental illness like psychosis and schizophrenia, as well as insomnia, social anxiety disorder and suicidal thoughts....\

You will note that Wisconsin Democrats are trying to 'legalize' marijuana here, following the morons in Illinois and Michigan.  Apparently their voters like pot a lot.

Don't let that happen.

BLM Infiltrated J6

This adds up.

Internal email reveals day before Jan 6 riot, US Capitol Police intel unit warned "BLM from Baltimore" was bussing in rioters: "BLM/Antif will wear MAGA hats, wear camo,and attempt to blend in with MAGA crowd" so violence blamed on Trump supporters attending Trump rally

John Solomon reported that the CapCops were near-totally unprepared for the events of J6 despite multiple warnings from FBI.

Now we learn that BLM was also involved.

We know that Red China was supporting BLM in Houston (that's why the Chinese consulate there was closed by the US), so it's fair to speculate that Red China was involved in this, too, from Baltimore or some other convenient consulate/embassy.

But with only Solomon and Sperry digging into the events because the MSM will NOT, we may never know all of what went on.  The MSM has a narrative, dammit, and they're not letting go.

The Incompetent and Under-Equipped Capitol Cops

This report from John Solomon is exactly why Schiff put on his clown-show with Boopsie lying about events in the Presidential limo.

...Post-Jan. 6 review showed many upgrades were still not made and officers had expired shields and other equipment.

Those reviews also faulted Capitol Police management for failing to manage, schedule and deploy officers in the most strategic manner as the threats of violence grew more ominous in the days leading up to the riots. The building was significantly understaffed, some of the department’s elite riot units were deployed to other duties and those civil disturbance units that were activated couldn’t readily get their equipment because it was locked in a bus and the key could not be readily found, the after-action reports concluded....

... One of the most egregious failures that occurred in the days leading up to the Jan. 6 riots was that specific intelligence the FBI had given to Capitol Police deputy chiefs – including that bad actors planned to storm the Capitol, target members of Congress and blockade the tunnels leading to the complex – were never shared to the field commanders and officers or even Chief Sund himself. As a result, the tactical plan to protect the Capitol was not revised to address the emerging threats....

 ...The cycle of warnings followed by inadequate action and change has persisted even after the Jan. 6 tragedy. Last week, Papathanasiou issued a statement warning many promised actions have still not been fulfilled some 18 months after one of the darkest days in the Capitol building’s history.

"Congress needs to support and resource the USCP to meet the high threat environment we face every single day," he pleaded on the night Democrats launched prime-time hearings seeking to blame former President Donald Trump for the Jan. 6 episode.

Papathanasiou blamed Congress for reneging on some of its promises and add that  “front-line officers do not understand how” the Capitol Police leaders who failed to forward crucial intelligence remain in their positions....

Go to the link to find the PDFs of all the audit documents Solomon refers to here.

It's no surprise that Congress failed to keep its promises re updates, training, force levels, etc.  They lie all the time about everything.

It's also no surprise that Pelosi and Schumer want to bury this information--which is why they dragged out Two-Sugars to lie like Hell about events in the limo on January 6th.

Now they're busy financing World War III.  Heard about Sweden and Finland joining NATO?  About England's upcoming full mobilization?

You will, but it's not going to be a comfortable day.

Creds. It's All About Creds.

 

Confuses the Experts, Too

 

Putin Knows Chess

If you grow up in Russia, you will know chess.  Putin certainly does.

After threatening to do so for a couple months now, Russia has pulled the trigger on expanding the list of commodities for which it demands payment in rubles to now include grain exports, effective Friday per a government legal website.

So now grain, sunflower oil and extracted meal are the next to follow the March decision to charge clients from "unfriendly" countries - including major customers in Europe - in rubles for natural gas instead of the normative dollars and euros.

On top of this move, recently Agriculture Dmitry Patrushev announced that Russia's agricultural products will go to "friendly countries" only, and according to "who needs it most" - a hugely significant statement sure to continue sowing uncertainty and chaos for the global food supply....

.....mixed with a soupcon of Marxism, eh? 

Not likely that the NeoCon Globablists know too much about Grand Master plays.  It's not in their "Liberal-New-World-Reset" book.

The Challenge

Bai-Den & Covid Killing Small Biz

This news item is linked to another set of items.  While it begins with rent-payment woes, it goes on:

...As The Center Square previously reported, the survey found 51% of small businesses fear that rising prices could “force them to close their businesses within the next six months.” In particular, restaurant owners are concerned with 72% saying they are worried.

That concern is not new. An April poll from NEXT Insurance reported that many small businesses have considering shutting down because of inflation.

“According to a new survey by NEXT Insurance, small business owners across the United States are frustrated and stressed about inflation and the state of the economy,” the group said. “More than one-third have considered shutting down in the last 12 months. As prices continue to rise and supply chains continue to falter, many small business owners have been forced to work longer hours, raise prices, and even cut their own salaries just to stay afloat, our survey found. And a majority of small business owners believe the pain isn’t over".

With that in mind, the recent jump in fires/explosions at food-processing plants is easier to explain.  Margin, volume, and supply challenges since the pandemic and its lockdowns have been present, but they are not typically reported on by Teh Nooz, nor spoken about by ownership.

Remember that saying that 'Bankruptcy happens very slowly at first, then all of a sudden'?

Look a bit deeper into all those events.

Student Hosed by Jesuit University

Think twice before enrolling in a Jesuit school, friends.

A California law student is taking his school to court and accusing them of preventing him from continuing his education at another college over his refusal to get the Covid-19 vaccine. 

Ryan Driggs, who is representing himself in the case, is attempting to transfer from Santa Clara University's law school, where he is currently enrolled, reports the San Jose Mercury News. 

Driggs accuses the school in his lawsuit of preventing him from 'securing the economic advantages completion of his legal education would bring' by denying him access to his transcripts. ...

The Jesuits have every right to require The Vaxx for students, no matter how dangerous The Vaxx may be.  After all, dead students don't sue.  

The question here is whether they ALSO think have the right to refuse to release transcripts.  Are they the property of the Jesuits, or did the student's tuition payments make them 'joint' property, or free-and-clear the student's?

Lesson:  the Jesuits don't care about long- or short-term effects of The Vaxx and will hose you good if you defy them.  So why enroll there??

Food & Fuel Cost From Green Scum

We've all seen the green scum that forms on stagnant water.  It likes stagnant water because stagnant connotes 'immobile,' which is closely related to 'inactive' or 'supine' (or both). 

And many, many, "inactive brains" are in newsrooms and Congress.

Here's a 12 minute video which shows how the Green Scum is costing you untold dollars in fuel and food inflation because of Inactive Brains in Congress and Supine Brains in newsrooms.

By the way, Red China is the principal beneficiary of the Green Scum plague, but you don't have to go very far to find local grifters who are happy to capitalize on Scum.  You could also examine the stock portfolios of Congressional climate alarmists, but remember:  they bought the 'right stock' in advance.

Don't be a supine-brained victim.  Watch the video.

Revolutionary War in US?

Met a fellow a few weeks back who thought that a civil war here in the US was coming.

Maybe.

More than quarter of Americans - 28 per cent - said that it might 'soon be necessary to take up arms' against the US government, according to a new poll released Thursday. 

Here's the very interesting part:

Of those who felt that way, 37 per cent currently own guns, the poll found.  

 A better phrasing would be  ".....only 37% currently own guns."   While the usual gaggle of Left-O-Droning Karens tell you that 'Gun Owners Bad,' more than sixty percent of those thinking of taking up arms don't own any guns.  

Since only about 33% of the colonists supported the original Revolution, the Bai-Den Totalitarians are now on extremely thin ice--and this poll was taken before the White House admitted that they don't give a rotten damn if you can purchase gasoline or food.

As you might expect, the Democrats in that poll heavily oppose a revolution.  Of 'independents,' 35% agree that one may be necessary.  'Strong' Republicans marginally agree that a revolution may be needed.

Signs of the times.  How's your Go-Bag?

What Joe's Boyzzz Can Expect

The Government in Holland intends to forcibly close 30% of the farms there.

The farmers happen to have a lot of manure handy for just such an occasion,.

Here in America, we have certain sorts of metals in plenty.  It's becoming clear that Government people think they are immune from reaction.

They are not.

"Thoughts" of Elena Kagan, Crackpot & SCOTUS Member

 First a little background:

On Thursday the U.S. Supreme Court announced its ruling in the West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency lawsuit.  The Supreme Court cut back the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) authority to limit controls on climate change....

You probably heard about that. 

What you did NOT hear:  Justice Elena Kagan's opinion that this ruling will put the East Coast under water.

Yup.  That's what she said.

Frankly, I haven't found the downside there.

On Civil Disobedience

 Abp. Vigano, interviewed by Steve Bannon, reminds us of moral principles.

...Respect for authority is connatural to civilized man, but it is necessary to distinguish between obedience and servility. You see, every virtue consists of the just mean between two opposite vices, without being a compromise, but also as the peak between two valleys, so to speak. Disobedience sins by falling short, not wanting to submit to a good order of a legitimate authority; servility on the other hand sins by excess, submitting to unfair orders or orders given by an illegitimate authority. The good citizen should know how to disobey civil authority, and the good Catholic how to do the same with ecclesiastical authority, disobeying whenever the authority demands obedience to an iniquitous order.

Doesn’t such talk seem to be a bit revolutionary, Your Excellency?

Far from it. The anarchists and courtiers both have a distorted concept of authority: the former deny it while the latter idolize it. The just mean is the only morally viable way, because it responds to the order that the Lord has imprinted on the world and that respect the celestial hierarchy. We owe obedience to legitimate authority in the measure in which its power is exercised for the purposes for which authority has been established by God: the temporal good of citizens in the case of the State and the spiritual good of the faithful in the case of the Church. An authority that imposes evil on its subjects is for that very reason illegitimate and its orders are null. Let’s not forget that the true Lord from whom all authority comes is God, and that the earthly authority – civil as well as spiritual – is always vicarious, that is, it is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ, King and High Priest. Setting up the vicarious authority of rulers in the place of the royal authority of the Lord is a mad gesture and – yes – revolutionary and rebellious....

Frankly, we have always found +Vigano's statements to be just a bit 'edgy,' but never 'way out there.'  When you read the entire interview, you'll see why the Archbishop takes pains to describe the limits of authority and the limits of obedience.

Oh yah:  also remember to pray.

The "Liberal" World Order?

Oh.

In the olden days, Americans sacrificed for the sake of their salvation, their families, or for America.

Now, we're told to sacrifice for the sake of the "Liberal World Order"--which is the new "New World Order"?  Or maybe it's not the same as the "New" World Order?  Are they confused, or just trying to word-game their new reality?

Either way, peasant, STFU and cut back on all that eating and housing and vacationing and stuff.

Fr. Rutler on (Liberation Theo) Ideologues

The passage I'm quoting here is from Fr. Rutler's book Reflections of a Post-Modernist Catholic.  I'm taking out the single sentence which addresses 'theology,' because the passage applies elsewhere in spades.

A mistake, possibly the first mistake, of ideologues is not that they dwell exclusively in the realm of ideas.  The opposite is the case:  ideologues congregate everywhere but where ideas breathe free.  In true gnostic fashion, ideologues call everything an idea except an idea.  For one thing, they turn people into ideas of people.  If the man is their idea of a man, he can do nothing wrong:  his crimes are faux pas; his lies are witty; his stupidity is charmingly rustic.  But if the man is not their idea of a man, he can do nothing right:  his education is too frail or too fancy; his motives are too blatant or too byzantine; his moustache is too straggly or too stylish; and if he does not act superior, it is because is is inferior.......Intellectual opponents, then, are inhuman enemies of the ineffable idea.  There is no point to debate:  the plan is to conquer.  There was a time when debate was a way to make friends; it has become the opposite.  The fiery Edwardian debates followed by a round of spiked punch have become anemic 'dialogues' followed by a round of spiked punches.

By and large, "liberation theology" ideologues are dead, (but not without lingering influence in the corner office of the Vatican.)

But political ideologues?  They occupy every square inch of the current White House and acres of other offices in D.C., and what Fr. Rutler has to say about ideologues certainly fits them.

Lots More 2A Rights Restored!!

Wauck has the story.

SCOTUS overturns mag bans, assault weapons ban, and carry ban, tells appellate courts "Go back and redo in light of what we said in Bruen."

What this means: The 9th Circuit upheld CA's mag ban and HI's carry ban. SCOTUS overturned those rulings, and the 9th Circuit now has to apply text, history, and tradition to those anti-gun laws.

Same thing with MD's assault weapons ban. The 4th Circuit ruling upholding it has been reversed, and the lower court has to redo based on the actual text of the 2A. This spells doom for assault weapons bans.... --quoting Nat'l Ass'n for Gun Rights

Thomas & Co. knocked down the "two-step" theory used in dozens of gun-rights cases.  The second step was always the obstacle, because it endorsed the 'test' (like that of NYC) which--in practice--allowed the City/County/State to deny the applicant based on........whatever they damn well pleased.

Not good enough for a FUNDAMENTAL right.

Durham Succeeds!!!!

Another note from Surber:

..."Special Counsel John Durham has failed to beat the 5-year federal statute of limitations to indict any FBI officials/agents related to the fourth & final invalid application for wiretap warrant to spy on Trump adviser Carter Page OK'd by FISA court on June 29, 2017."...--quoting Paul Sperry

Surber remarks:

Well played, Bullshit Durham. Well played.

Surber is FAR too kind about Durham.

Words of Wisdom From Surber

This guy is wicked good.

... This time when Democrats secede, we should let them go....

Not enough space on the whole Internet to list the reasons.

Old Fool Pushing Hard for (Nuclear?) War. Why?

 There's a reason for this.

...the U.S. is moving troops from the 101st Airborne ‘screaming eagles’ into NATO allied countries on the western border of Ukraine.   This is the first deployment of the Army’s 101st Airborne Division from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, to Europe in 80 years.  As noted by base reporting, “Elements of 2nd Brigade Combat Team, and 101st Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, 101st Airborne Division, have been assigned to carry out the mission.”...

Also:

 ...Biden has announced that six U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyers are being moved into the Mediterranean Sea to provide air defense missions and the ability to launch cruise missiles well inland into Russia...

And:

... Joe Biden is sending “two additional F-35 squadrons to the UK, and station additional air defense and other capabilities in Germany and in Italy.”...

As Last Refuge notes, none of this is defensive.  It is all offensive.

The reason?

War is very good for incumbent Presidents.  Historically, the electorate has retained Presidents during war.

And Biden has not finished demolishing the United States.  He will need a second term during which he can finish reducing the population to utter poverty, prevent them from driving and heating and cooling their homes, and jail dissidents, no trial needed.

That's why.

Further reading:  The Russki perspective, including the prediction that the war will get intense in (you guessed it) 2024--an election year.  Whether it's about global hegemony, or only about WEF's "Great Reset," is irrelevant--if the nukes are flying.

UPDATE:  Wauck is not terribly worried.

Red China's Newest Bio-Weapon

As though fentanyl and Covid-19 weren't enough....

...After China’s booming export of fentanyl or its precursors to Mexican cartels, a new market has emerged for non-fentanyl synthetic opioids such as nitazenes, also known as benzimidazole opioids such as the synthetic opioid derivative ISO, which are 20 times more potent than fentanyl.

US authorities believe that these drugs are being manufactured in China and shipped to Mexico where they are then smuggled into the US. In March, Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody issued a warning against ISO, as law enforcement agencies advised that the drug might be responsible for the recent rise in overdose fatalities. “Isotonitazene is so strong that it can kill just by coming in contact with someone’s skin or being accidentally inhaled,” stated Moody....Captain's quoting Militant Wire

Having Joe Biden's open border is very good.  For the ChiComs and the cartels.

Not so much for Americans.

What Trump Gaveth, Biden Taketh Away

Last year's July 4th cookout cost 16 cents less than the one of 2020.  That's partly due to reduced demand--after all, our Democrat Diktators were still running 'lockdowns' wherever they could, and Biden's horrific energy-price increases hadn't had an impact.

Things changed.

Biden's 2022 Cost-of-Cookout (CoC)??

TEN DOLLARS HIGHER than last year's.

LET'S GO, BRANDON!!!

SCOTUS Smacks Down EPA!

Gee.  We just mentioned the evil EPA and its father.....

The Supreme Court dealt a major blow to President Joe Biden’s climate strategy, ruling that the Environmental Protection Agency has only limited authority to regulate carbon dioxide from power plants.

The ruling means that Biden will face huge obstacles to addressing climate change through executive branch action — on top of Democrats’ failure to get a climate bill through Congress.  --Politico quoted at PowerLine

Awwwww.

It's also damned good timing, as gas- and coal-fired plants are clearly a necessary, not optional, part of the electric power equation in this country.

Biden to KO Permian Basin Drilling?

It fits his pattern.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is considering labeling the United States’ largest oil field in violation of ozone pollution standards, threatening drilling operations in the region and, by extension, domestic oil production.

The proposed regulations take aim at the Permian Basin, the largest oil field in the United States, accounting for 95,000,000 gallons of gasoline per day or 40% of the oil produced domestically, according to the Texas Governor’s Office....

EPA.  Why Nixon should be Hell.

Oconomowoc BoEd: "Whoops!!! We Quit!!"

After the local Pravda branch of USAToday flogged half the story, the BoE in Oconomowoc gave up the fight.

...the district said the letter it sent in May to Schweitzer was in the capacity of her being the president of the Wisconsin chapter of No Left Turn in Education.

"While the recipient may also identify as a parent, the letter was clearly not sent to her in that individual capacity," the statement said....

Yah, sure.  Right.

Here's the surrender:

..."We consider this issue closed, and we do not anticipate any further comment on this matter...."

The rest of the story?  That comes from Rick Esenberg, who drilled the Ocon BoE with a letter explaining that they were wrong on every single aspect of their C&D demand.  (You will note that Pravda never provided you with a quote from Esenberg's memo to the Board.)

 "By declaring the matter ‘closed,’ the District appears to have dropped its threat to sue Alexandra for criticizing the District. It’s a shame the District continues to accuse her of spreading misinformation while refusing to explain what it might be or responding to our letter explaining the basis for her statements, but this is still the right outcome and the result we hoped for. Parents should be free to comment on their experiences with their kids’ schools," Esenberg said in the emailed statement.

They can't 'explain' it, Rick--as  you well know.  So they ran away.

Good.

GPS? Or Guardian Angel??

There are two ways to look at this story.

A confused GPS unit that led to a wrong turn combined with quick thinking from a We Energies utility worker saved the life of a Dane County grandmother about a month ago. ...

...On June 1, he was supposed to be in Monroe, but while taking backroads near Mount Horeb, his GPS recalculated, sending him about a mile off course, and  led him to the accident scene. ...

The GPS, eh?

Well, that's what the secularists would have you believe.  

We think that the woman's guardian angel 'recalculated' that GPS.

The Confusion of Muskego "Educators"

So there's an AP English offering at Muskego High.  Good!!  Shakespeare, Dryden, Eliot, Forster, Donne, Frost, Dickinson, Twain, Faulkner.....like that, no?

No.

...The reading list for a Muskego High School English class has become a national talking point after district leaders said staff had to reconsider their selection of a book that delves into the U.S. incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.

District leaders have denied interview requests and issued a vague statement about why the book, “When the Emperor Was Divine” by Julie Otsuka, isn't moving forward as part of the Accelerated English curriculum. ...

We agree that a book about Franklin Delano Roosevelt's (D) internal prison camps (let's not forget his camp for Italians!!) is a valuable bit of education.  In fact, that experience is being repeated now, with the imprisonment of Americans over a trespassing offense or the crime of "disagreeing with Nancy and Joe."

But that's HISTORY, not English.

This is clearly a well-meant but horribly misplaced item.  Some history teacher over there should step up and make it part of the history curric.

"Red for Ed" Blowback in AZ

Remember that "red shirt" teachers' protest in Arizona?

That worked out real  well for them.

...HB 2853 passed the Arizona state legislature last week in a party-line vote with only Republicans backing the effort to grant the state's Empowerment Scholarship accounts to all students. Pending the governor's signature, the bill will provide Arizona students of all income brackets with more than $6,000 annually in education scholarships that can be used to cover any sort of school-related expense, including private school tuition, school material expenses, and private tutoring....

Six grand is a little light, but it beats zero.

Wisconsin should be next on that list in February.

Folksy Tony Is Dissed!!!

Tony Evers is a pathetic little twit.

An appointee to the board that controls Wisconsin’s natural resource management policy who refused to leave office when his term expired cannot be removed from his seat without cause or confirmation of a new appointee, the Wisconsin Supreme Court decided on Wednesday....

Evers appointed somebody, but the State Senate has not confirmed that person.  So Walker's appointee remains in office and the DNR Board remains in conservative hands.  It's black-letter law, and the case was dismissed WITH prejudice.  (Another spectacular waste of tax money from Gummi-Bear Kaul.)

So here's Tony:

 ...Evers took umbrage with the court’s decision on Wednesday, issuing a statement accusing the high court and the state Republican Party of disrespecting the basic democratic function of the peaceful transfer of power and denying his qualified appointees the opportunity to serve the state out of partisan gamesmanship.

“Today’s decision continues to underscore the erosion of democratic institutions at the hands of Republicans in this state,” Evers said....

"Erosion of democratic institutions"?  That from a high-ranking member of America's New Stasi Party?

Shove it, Tony.

Scott Fitzgerald's Waste of Your Money

We've smacked Ron Johnson around for pissing away FORTY BILLION dollars on Ukraine.

But let's not forget Scott Fitzgerald, who toadied up to Kevin McCarthy on the same bill.

That's because Scott Fitzgerald--a military veteran--is happy to continue the war until the last Ukrainian is dead.

That may be soon.

...According to a report from Axios earlier this month, up to 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers are being killed or wounded each day, and it was reported this week that Ukraine has now suffered more casualties in the four months since Russia began its attack than there are infantry troops in the entire British Army.

Sam Cranny-Evans, research analyst at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), who is focused on C4ISR – or Command, Control, Communications, Computers (C4) Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) – noted the statistics on Tuesday.

He tweeted, “Big stat: #Ukraine has lost more troops, killed and wounded, than there are infantry in the British Army.”...

Congratulations, Scott!!!  You've sent FORTY BILLION TAXPAYER DOLLARS into a lost cause, and for no good reason at all. 

Does that make you feel good, Scott??

Elmo Now on Death-Watch

We regret to report that after Elmo took The Vaxx, he was hospitalized for acute myocarditis.

He may not survive.

But if he does, he'll never make Little Elmos; it is confirmed that he became sterile, too.

Tucker on FEEBS: He's Right; They're Dishonorable

Tucker went into a rant over the FBI's obviously-political arrests of various Trump supporters (or Biden detractors).

It's a long list.  Besides arrests and 'detentions' which were obviously political--as there were no criminal charges preferred or prosecuted--at least one of them was illegally executed, as the FEEBS didn't present a warrant before seizing a phone.

One of the political prisoners said that he 'didn't blame the agents.'

Carlson, to his credit, disagreed.  

These little Stasi-puppets should have resigned rather than become the secret police.  They didn't.  They broke their oath to preserve and protect the Constitution.  They committed adultery.

Instead, they're preserving and protecting Joe Biden.

Quite a comedown, and it won't be forgotten.

"KIA Boy" Out on Bail, Steals Another

Why would anyone live in Milwaukee County?

Criminal charges have been filed against one of the participants in the now-viral "Kia Boys" video after the footage showed a car that matched the description of a car reported stolen a few hours earlier.  ...

Since it's on video, the charge should stick.  If Milwaukee's DA and courts get off their collective asses.  Why do we say that?

...Hughes is also is being charged with bail jumping after being arrested on May 30 for an unrelated charge of operating a vehicle without owner's consent. ...

Another stolen car.

Isn't there some fraud statute that could be applied here--like taking a salary and not doing the job?

Meat-Puppet Kaul Sues Wisconsin

This happens to be the same tactic used in Texas.  And sure enough, the lawsuit is filed in Dane County.  So you can expect that the ooooooooooooollllllllllllllld law will be enjoined.

That will be temporary, of course.

It's a desperate ploy for votes for both Kaul and Evers; they think the vast majority of Wisconsin voters are fully in favor of abortion on demand (wrong) and that there's enough juice in the lemon to push them over the top in November (wrong again.)

This is the Democrat Party.  It may take a generation before it recovers from these cretins.  And that's fine.

Whose Flag Are You Saluting?

A friend of mine has mumbled about "corporatocracy" for several years.

He's not wrong.

BlackRock controls more assets than any other investment management firm on Wall Street, with about $10 trillion now under management. (Yes, that’s “trillion” with a “t.”)

BlackRock has used much of this wealth to seize control of sizeable minority stakes in numerous publicly traded companies, making BlackRock and its CEO, Larry Fink, the most powerful forces in corporate America. When BlackRock and Fink speak, Wall Street listens.

There is emerging evidence, however, that BlackRock’s influence is not limited to the corporate and financial spheres. After years of building political alliances and making a laundry list of strategic hires, BlackRock has managed to amass huge amounts of political clout within the Biden administration and U.S. Federal Reserve, allowing them to develop unprecedented strategic partnerships and, according to our new research, gain access to officials in the White House....

Tom Donilon, his brother, his wife, and his daughter--plus a mystery woman--all tight with Sparklefarts and/or Bai-Den, closely connected with the National Security Council and other agencies.

...BlackRock has other connections within the Biden administration as well. For example, Brian Deese, who is now Biden’s National Economic Council director, was formerly global head of sustainable investing at BlackRock. Wally Adeyemo, deputy secretary of the Treasury Department, previously served as chief of staff to BlackRock Chairman and CEO Larry Fink.

Speaking of Fink, he, too, appears to have met secretly at the White House. Visitor logs show that on February 8, 2022, just two weeks before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Fink met with Steve Ricchetti, the counselor to the president. Ricchetti served as chairman of Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign, and has been described as the “yin to the yang” of Biden’s other highly trusted advisor — Mike Donilon.

Why is the Biden administration frequently meeting with important players at BlackRock? Have other former BlackRock employees been in contact with current BlackRock staff? Have BlackRock’s financial interests impacted public policy? Has advance knowledge of the Biden administration’s policy decisions financially enriched BlackRock? Has classified intelligence on geopolitical events such as the war in Ukraine — and the Biden administration’s response towards Russia — allowed BlackRock to divest itself from riskier holdings?...

While "Who's making money and how?" is a good question, the ones we have here is "Does BlackRock shape US policy, foreign or domestic?" and "Does Biden Regime push its goals through BlackRock share-holdings?"  The latter is very significant.

Yes, that's what lobbying is all about.  But Fink's outfit is not a lobbyist.  It's positioned to push and pull its corporate holdings into doing what The Regime wants them to do--thus, to push/pull American consumers into doing what The Regime prefers.  Think "ESG".  And if you're not a fan of the World Economic Forum of "Great Reset" fame, you have another reason to question this cozy arrangement.

Question away!

The NO-Energy President

Has nothing to do with his personal flaccidity.

Just now Biden said: “We need more refining capacity” and “This idea they don’t have oil to drill & to bring up is simply not true.” In fact, Biden killed a refinery on May 14 and killed a 1M acre oil & gas lease in Alaska in May 12.

So it's back to beating up gas-station owners and making stupid noises about the gas tax.

It's what Democrats do.

New "Trump Is Cray-Cray" Female

Apparently some 23-y-o office clerk gave testimony today.

“My best friend’s sister’s boyfriend’s brother’s girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who’s going with a girl who saw Trump grab the steering wheel. I guess it’s pretty serious.”

Like, wow.  Like really.  Wow.

Coming Soon.....

 

Feed 'Em? Or Green 'Em??

The West has a dilemma.  Wanna bet on how it's resolved?

The European Union is divided on how to help poorer nations fight a growing food crisis and address shortages of fertilizers caused by the war in Ukraine, with some fearing a plan to invest in plants in Africa would clash with EU green goals....

When the EU and USA sanctioned Russia, the food problem became intense.

The EU has for weeks tried to help its poorer neighbours in Africa and the Middle East to weather the crisis by offering them fresh funds, while trying to convince them EU sanctions against Moscow and Minsk are not to be blamed for the food emergency.

At a summit of EU leaders later this week, the EU was planning a new initiative that would structurally decrease poorer nations’ reliance on Russian fertilisers by helping them develop their own fertiliser plants.

But at a meeting with EU envoys last week, the EU Commission explicitly opposed the text, warning that supporting fertiliser production in developing nations would be inconsistent with the EU energy and environment policies, officials said.

The production of chemical fertilisers has a big impact on the environment and requires large amounts of energy. However, they are crucially effective in boosting agriculture output....

Some of you will recall Congressional testimony about DDT. The Greens opposed DDT, making up wild stories about how it kills birds and other wildlife. Actual science never supported these lies, but Congress banned DDT anyway. When one Green "scientist" was testifying, a Congressman reminded him that a ban on DDT would leave tens of thousands of people in the Third World subject to malaria--a killer disease borne by mosquitos. The "scientist" remarked 'So what? They're just brown people.'

Nothing has changed, has it?  Bill Gates--and Adolf Hitler--would be proud.

Appeals Court Body-Slams Clinton Judge

The "Russia Russia Russia" election bullshit from Hillary remains active in the courts.

A Clinton-appointed judge tossed out a lawsuit in which a woman was (in effect) called a whore-for-Russia--and that she had 'left a conference' in the company of Gen. Mike Flynn.

She sued Stefan Halper (the REAL whore in this case) for his defamatory statement.

The judge tossed out the lawsuit.  That dismissal was appealed.  The Fourth Circuit had something to say about the Clinton judge:

..."We conclude that the court could not have properly concluded that Lokhova's complaint ... had absolutely no chance of success," the appeals court ruled in April in a unanimous 3-0 decision that reversed Brinkema's dismissal of the case and her order of a penalty against Lokhova for filing an allegedly frivolous lawsuit.

"We conclude that the district court abused its discretion in finding Lokhova's complaint frivolous and concluding on that basis that its filing violated Rule 11," the appeals court ruled. "The judgment of the district court — as reflected in its orders of May 5, 2021 and July 9, 2021 — is therefore reversed and the case remanded for further proceedings."...

That was a unanimous ruling. 

Now why, oh why, would a Clinton judge dismiss a case against a Clinton whore (Halper) in a case which could expose the whole Clinton sedition scheme?

Just askin'......

The Law Is So Oooooooold!

The Wisconsin statute that outlaws abortion (life of the mother exception) is not valid because it's old.

Huh.

(What about the other manslaughter offenses, written at the same time?  Never mind.)

BabyKiller lawyers will undoubtedly sue the State in a Dane County court and--if you're a betting man--you can safely bet that a Dane County judge will agree:  old is invalid.

Might even be an old judge who makes that decision.

Ron Johnson's Selective Inflation Problem

Sen. Ron Johnson has this little contradiction-problem.

Here, the Senator talks about 'printing money the US doesn't have' which 'causes inflation.'  That's true, of course.

But only a few weeks ago, Sen. Ron Johnson voted to spend FORTY BILLION DOLLARS on Ukraine (a lost cause)--which requires the US to print money we don't have, causing inflation.

And Zelenskiy wants more!

Zelenskyy is now calling for $5 billion dollars a month to pay his bureaucrats. That’s just for office personnel. That’s in addition to the $100 billion US and EU funds to keep the doomed military going.

This isn’t sustainable.

Ukraine has lost its ports and vast areas of land, leaving it a rump nation. They have zero chance of regaining territory.

 On balance, RoJo is better at representing Wisconsin than would be "Silver Spoon" Lasry or the clown sitting in the Lt. Gov. chair pretending to 'work,'

But Ron shouldn't be putting on a halo about 'printing dollars'.  He does it when he wants to, foolish or not.

The Best Approach to Lifesaving

Great meme here:

'Silver Spoon Lasry' Gets Whacked by Dems

Interesting.  Apparently all those anti-millionaire commercials Lesser Mandela is running had an effect!

...Democratic Party of Wisconsin conventioneers voting in a WisPolitics.com straw poll narrowly backed Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes over state Treasurer Sarah Godlewski for the party’s 2022 U.S. Senate nomination.

Barnes was favored by 121, or 32.4 percent, of the 373 delegates and registered guests who cast a vote for U.S. Senate in the straw poll, while Godlewski was backed by 119, or 31.9 percent.

Alex Lasry, on leave from his job with the Milwaukee Bucks, was third at 15.5 percent...

Well, SOME effect.  After all, Godlewski's a millionaire, too.  

Adjust your sights, Mandela!!

Whither NATO? Down the Tubes. Thank God!

 Col. Douglas MacGregor:

I think that NATO is weaker than ever. The unity you're seeing is a facade, at best. Macron was absolutely right, and he was not the first to make those statements. The United States does not have allies in Europe. It has military dependencies. There is one country in Europe that is capable of fielding significant military power and dominating the scene if necessary, and that is Germany. Germany, today, is what it was before World War II and World War I. It is the dominant power, regional power, and, to a large extent, an international power.

Weltwoche: Economically speaking... 

Macgregor: Yes. But it could become everything else overnight if it chose to do so. Nothing, fundamentally, has changed in that regard. 

On Sweden and Finland, I don’t think they are going to join, because I don't see much evidence that Turkey (which objects to granting membership to the two) is going to change its position. 

I have watched NATO from the inside and have seen it being extremely dysfunctional. Over and over again, the Europeans were never able to agree that any one European state would take the lead on much of anything. They never built the capabilities that were necessary to defend European interests. So, they defaulted to America's enormous investment in command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance. Europe was effectively defenseless without the United States. 

A series of American presidents have enjoyed that condition because we suffer in the United States from what I would call, “national narcissism.” It is flattering to us to think of ourselves as this great imperial power that protects and dominates everyone. I think that's going to change because, quite frankly, we don't have the funds or the resources to maintain this level of military investment in perpetuity. In fact, I think we're coming to the end of it. When we hit the end of it, you're going to see a massive withdrawal of U.S. forces from all over the world.

Weltwoche: Russia has been saying for years that it sees NATO’s enlargement as an existential threat. If the alliance is as weak as you say, Russia has nothing to fear, has it? 

Macgregor: Russia is not afraid of the Europeans and never was. Russia always saw the European states as entirely subservient to, and dependent upon, Washington. NATO is the United States-led alliance. As long as we are seen as the dominant power in Europe and unambiguously hostile to Russia, then, yes, Russia is going to view what happens under the broad title of “NATO” as an existential threat to Russia.

Class dismissed. 

HT:  Meaning in History

More "Never DISproved" on the '20 Steal

Actually, this is not "more."

It's been in print for quite some time, and we referenced it months ago.

But just as a reminder, here are a couple of grafs:

...There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs. Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans. The pact was formalized in a terse, little-noticed joint statement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO published on Election Day. Both sides would come to see it as a sort of implicit bargain–inspired by the summer’s massive, sometimes destructive racial-justice protests–in which the forces of labor came together with the forces of capital to keep the peace and oppose Trump’s assault on democracy.

 The handshake between business and labor was just one component of a vast, cross-partisan campaign to protect the election–an extraordinary shadow effort dedicated not to winning the vote but to ensuring it would be free and fair, credible and uncorrupted. For more than a year, a loosely organized coalition of operatives scrambled to shore up America’s institutions as they came under simultaneous attack from a remorseless pandemic and an autocratically inclined President. Though much of this activity took place on the left, it was separate from the Biden campaign and crossed ideological lines, with crucial contributions by nonpartisan and conservative actors. The scenario the shadow campaigners were desperate to stop was not a Trump victory. It was an election so calamitous that no result could be discerned at all, a failure of the central act of democratic self-governance that has been a hallmark of America since its founding.

 They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time. They successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears. They executed national public-awareness campaigns that helped Americans understand how the vote count would unfold over days or weeks, preventing Trump’s conspiracy theories and false claims of victory from getting more traction. After Election Day, they monitored every pressure point to ensure that Trump could not overturn the result. “The untold story of the election is the thousands of people of both parties who accomplished the triumph of American democracy at its very foundation,” says Norm Eisen, a prominent lawyer and former Obama Administration official who recruited Republicans and Democrats to the board of the Voter Protection Program....

That's never been DISPROVEN by anyone, has it?

And if that's not a conspiracy, nothing is.   No "theory" here at all.

The Dems Took a Pass On Abortion Legislation

Here's a little item which is significant on the abortion question.

“Throughout my career, I’ve been a consistent and strong supporter of reproductive justice, and have consistently had a 100% pro-choice rating with Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America. … And I will continue to defend this right by passing the Freedom of Choice Act as president.”  [President Sparklefarts] Nothing to sign; bill has fizzled. “After initially vowing to sign the Freedom of Choice Act, President Barack Obama quickly said it’s not his ‘highest legislative priority.’ That was in March 2009. Since then, it has scarcely been mentioned. A version of the bill was last introduced in Congress in 2007, and no new bill has appeared since.”

Two very savvy observers chime in:

“Apparently the Dems’ veto-proof majority from 2009-2011 still didn’t have enough votes to codify Roe. Or they just didn’t want to do it. Methinks the Dem support for abortion isn’t as deep as the media portrays it.”

Or maybe they wanted to keep their voters scared more than they wanted to give their voters what they promised.

The second comment is from Glenn Reynolds.  I think both are correct:  there are not umpty-thousand pro-abort demonstrators in Wisconsin, and nationally, the numbers are relatively small, too.  The MSM has done its best to obscure that by running tight-focused camera coverage which makes the crowds look large--but they aren't.  Violent, yes?  Large?  Not so much.

As to Reynold's observation:  of COURSE that's what they're doing.  You finance your campaign by threatening over issues, and you can't threaten something if it's a decided issue.  So you never decide it.

Why do you think they hated Trump?

He decided stuff. 

'In Retrospect....', He Said, Ruefully

Wikler is right.

...Democrats largely focused on federal politics....Democrats may have won the popular presidential vote in five out of the last six elections, but Republicans control 23 state legislatures while Democrats lead 14...

Yah, playing for the Totalitarian Victory wasn't too smart, was it, Benny?

...In Wisconsin, Democrats hold virtually every statewide office, including governor. Yet, waves of gerrymandering have left Republicans with close to a supermajority in the State Senate and Assembly. That means an abortion ban that was passed in 1849, when only white men could vote, is set to go back into force now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned. 'Because the structure of Wisconsin’s ultragerrymandered maps are so rigged against small-d democracy, we are going to have a law on the books that the overwhelming majority of Wisconsinites oppose,...

Funny, that.  "Small-d democracy" elected all those nasty, brutish, Republicans, Benny.  Then "small-d democracy" set up district boundaries, Benny.  So let's be honest here, Benny:  you don't want "small-d democracy."  You want Big City Rule, just like your national ambition to eradicate the Electoral College in favor of 'majority vote' would erase the voters in about 40 States from the elections.

And by the way, Benny:  Democrats only won FOUR of the last six Presidentials.

HT:  Althouse

Betting on Retail Stocks? Umnnnhhh.....

In the near-term (through at least the first half of '23, probably through all of '24), retail stocks are not really where you want to be.

...There could be an increase in distressed retailers beginning later this year, experts say, as ballooning prices dent demand for certain goods, stores contend with bloated inventory levels and a potential recession looms.

[…] The latest retail sales data shows where consumers are pulling back the most. Advance retail and food service spending fell 0.3% in May versus the prior month, the Commerce Department reported last week. Furniture and home furnishings retailers, electronics and appliances stores, and health- and personal-care chains all saw month-over-month declines....--CNBC quoted at Last Refuge

Not only that, but there is noticeably less foot-traffic in retail stores, meaning 'impulse buys' are not happening as often.

As a result of BidenFlation in food and fuel prices, customers bought six percent less items in the last quarter compared to '21.  We had mentioned that a major Midwestern car dealership (50++ outlets) took a THIRTY percent reduction in units sold y/o/y, too--but unlike Target, Kohl's, Abercrombie, and Wally-World, car-dealer margins are up and are likely to remain high.

For 'regular' retailers:  not so much,.

...Rising inventory levels are also on bankruptcy advisors’ radar because they have the potential to lead to much bigger problems. Retailers from Gap to Abercrombie & Fitch to Kohl’s have said in recent weeks that they have too much stuff after shipments arrived late and consumers abruptly changed what they were shopping for.

Target said earlier this month that it’s planning markdowns and canceling some orders to try to get rid of unwanted merchandise. As other retailers follow suit, profits are going to contract in the near term, said Joseph Malfitano, founder of turnaround and restructuring firm Malfitano Partners.

And when a retailer’s profit margins shrink as its inventories are reappraised — a routine practice in the industry — those inventories won’t be worth as much, Malfitano explained. A company’s borrowing base could fall as a result, he said....

But but but Biden got 81 million votes!

Uh-huh.

The Opportunity for Germany

The Chancellor of Germany has a tremendous opportunity here.

...The chancellor [of Germany] said the G7 leaders would discuss the current situation triggered by the war “and at the same time ensure that we stop man-made climate change.”...--quoted at Last Refuge

The US pushed NATO countries into a suicide pact by attempting to strangle the Russian economy through a boycott of Russian natural gas and petroleum.  That bright idea came to fruition when Russia agreed by slowly closing the valves on the pipelines.

This is Germany's opportunity to Go Green!!  Germany can now prove to the rest of the 'civilized world' that using carbon-based product for heat and electricity is NOT NECESSARY; that windmills, solar panels, and massive battery-complexes can do the job and save the world.

Biden should encourage Germany to take advantage of this gift, and expand it to Poland, Britain, France, and--in particular--to Sweden, home of Greta Thunberg.

Many great things are accomplished in adversity!!  Go for it!!

The Curious Case of Rachel Powell

Some animals are more equal.

This is just the 'good questions' graf....plenty more at the top of the story.

...Why was the woman, with no history of violence and up until 2020, had no interest in supporting Donald Trump at the Capitol with an ice axe and battering ram? How was she able to share such intricate details about the layout of the Capitol with people inside? And why does the media no longer care about her story? Should someone ask Ray Epps if he knows Rachel Powell?...

How many FEEB 'informants', Capitol Cop undercovers, and Friends of Nancy were there, anyway?

Demonstrations About Roe? Not Really

Sam Faddis is ex-CIA, which gives him knowledge of how revolutions work--and who's running things.  (After all, the CIA has run a lot of revolutions in third-world countries.)

Faddis chose to be on the side of real Americans after his retirement.  Now he writes to expose the reality.

...In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, we have already seen the mobilization of radical groups in our streets. These are the exact same groups that burned our cities in the run-up to the 2020 election. They are organized and dedicated and more powerful than ever.

Abortion is a pretext for these groups. Their real objective is the violent overthrow of the existing social, economic and political order. Our government is not acting to stop them, and, in fact, is encouraging this violence as a political tactic. This is not fantasy. This is not a conspiracy theory.

This is as real as it gets. This is what a real revolution looks like....

That's the concluding portion of an essay in which Faddis also runs through the 'revolutionaries' checklist'.  If you pay close attention, you'll notice that the same faces showed up for the 'mostly peaceful' riots during the Trump Administration.

They don't give a flying damn about Roe, nor the Democrat-run sh**-hole cities they're tearing up, nor the people IN those cities.  They care only about tearing apart the US.

The Democrats

Cadged from Eternal Sunshine

Democrats believe in four rules:

1. They are better than you in every way.

2. They are factually, morally and ethically correct about everything, all the time.

3. Their ideology is so infallible, it must be mandated, by force of law – or simply by force. Everyone must follow their dictates, no exceptions.

4. Any deviation from the first three rules is to be punished with destruction.

Michels Gets It Right

Tim Michels:

Illinois. What Can We Say?

You can rest assured that the Wisconsin Road Builders are green with envy.

...After the second hike on July 1, 2023, the gas tax in Illinois is expected to hit 45.2 cents per gallon. That doesn't include that state's 6.25% sales tax that is assessed on top of every dollar of gasoline purchased in Illinois, not just every gallon....

Not hard to notice that, either; just drive across the border and look at the signs.

More Edit-by-Deletion from Local Rag

It's not what the 'news' DOES tell you.

It's what the 'news' does NOT tell you.

...Lauren Windsor, a liberal activist known for her hidden camera exposés targeting Republicans, began videotaping Johnson after he got off a plane from Washington, D.C....

A 'liberal activist,' eh?  Well, that's HALF the story.

Lauren Windsor is an American advocacy journalist and political consultant.^[1] She focuses primarily on Wall Street reform, money-in-politics corruption, and climate change.  --Wiki

But then, no reporter at Milwaukee Pravda can tell an 'advocacy journalist' from a 'liberal activist'--for the same reason that a fish can't describe water.

John Chisholm: Consistent

If nothing else, John Chisholm (an Elm Grove kid with a Jesuit* education) is consistent.

He doesn't like to prosecute criminals.

Only in Democrat-run America, eh?

*We distinguish "Jesuit" from "Catholic" on this blog for a reason.

Seeing is Believing

Why Vittoria is better than Schutte, too.

Biden vs. First Amendment, Chapter 453

The Bai-Den Regime intends to crush free speech in all circumstances by any means necessary.

It's what Totalitarians (Statists) do.

So here's the latest chapter.

The Biden administration has just proposed a Title IX regulation that would redefine sexual harassment more broadly in schools and universities, to restrict speech that some courts have ruled is protected by the First Amendment. The new definition would discard the current definition used by the Education Department, which is based on a 1999 Supreme Court decision....

A clear and concise discussion follows that graf, demonstrating not only the malevolence of The Regime, but that the regulation is flat-out un-Constitutional on a few different grounds.  

There's a reason it's directed at colleges.  Right now, and for the next 20 years or so, college enrollments are going south.  Pulling Title IX Fed money will precipitate a financial catastrophe for many colleges; they're on the razor's edge today (except for State-supported ones who get their support at the point of a tax-gun.)  But even the State-supported colleges don't want to lose the revenues from sanctioned sport events.....

So the target is soft.  Totalitarians know it and will take advantage, just as they do with their social media sock-puppets who depend on Federal indulgence for their revenues and profits.

Soft targets.  Why do you think they're after your guns?

Whither the Chamber of Commerce?

Interesting speculation from Sen. Hawley here, pursuant to Dobbs.

...One other aspect of that that I think is going to be pretty significant: For years on the conservative side of the ledger, social conservatives have been told that they had to form an alliance with the corporatists, the neo-liberals, in order to get elected. You know we were told repeatedly: “Well, we got to make common cause because if you social conservatives want to have any chance of seeing Roe overruled you’ve got to have conservative judges and justices appointed, so you’ve got to go along with a globalist corporatist program.” I think that alliance is over today.

There’s no reason for social conservatives to go along with a corporatist agenda that frankly never had much support in the country and that you see conservative voters increasingly turning away from. So I think the globalist-corporatist agenda that has been a free rider in the Republican coalition for years now, I think is in serious jeopardy today because what use is that wing, it’s really not even a wing because it doesn’t account for hardly any voters in our coalition....

Ding-Dong, the Roe is Dead!, but Chamber of Commerce outfits like Chase Manhattan. Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Dick's and dozens of others have shown their hands--which are bloody.  

Howell's remarks also apply for Corporatists in Congress such as McConnell.

The political landscape in five years will be clarified and if Hawley is right, it will be very different.

Anent the Utilities' "Green" Plans

Instapundit's Steve Green asks the right question.

Was there ever a “green” policy that wasn’t grift, graft, or fraud?

Doh.

Ray Epps: The FEEBS' Man in 1/6?

The more you learn about Ray Epps, the more obvious it is that he's likely the FBI's plant in the 1/6 crowd.  There were a lot more FEEB informants, FEEB agents, and DC cops in there, too.

Apparently he was known to the CapCops--raising the possibility that he was Nancy Pelosi's man, not the FBI's.

Either way......never arrested, never charged......hmmmm.

Gwen Moore, Warmonger (!!)

Most people look at Gwen Moore as a mushroom-Democrat with utterly ridiculous eyewear.

She does very little in Congress, so who cares about her?

Russia does.  Why???

...Russia’s barbaric war on Ukraine—and before that on Syria, Libya, Georgia, and Chechnya—has exposed the Russian Federation’s viciously imperial character to the entire world. Its aggression also is catalyzing a long-overdue conversation about Russia’s interior empire, given Moscow’s dominion over many indigenous non-Russian nations, and the brutal extent to which the Kremlin has taken to suppress their national self-expression and self-determination.

Serious and controversial discussions are now underway about reckoning with Russia’s fundamental imperialism and the need to “decolonize” Russia for it to become a viable stakeholder in European security and stability. As the successor to the Soviet Union, which cloaked its colonial agenda in anti-imperial and anti-capitalist nomenclature, Russia has yet to attract appropriate scrutiny for its consistent and oftentimes brutal imperial tendencies....

"De-colonize" means "dis-assemble" the Russian Federation.  IOW, tear it apart into several little pieces.

Gwen Moore is a member of the Commission that wrote that, and that Commission is the Deep State voice of the US!

Well, it matches here eyewear:  utterly ridiculous.

Sure hope her constituents agree that sending their sons and daughters into war with Russia is exactly why they elected 'Eyeglasses' Gwen.

But I doubt it.