Can't Read English? $5K Fine

 Apparently the State of Arkansas has had it with semi-truck drivers who are.........a problem.

Truck driver in Arkansas at a weigh station [reports] - They’re stopping ALL trucks - Everyone is handed a piece of paper - They must read it out loud - They must also write what they’re told to write “I was actually witnessing people in handcuffs that had been pulled in. I was like, what's going on? He goes, we've come across now that if you cannot read or write in English, that it's a $5,000 fine. And if you have a company in Arkansas that employs people that can't read or write in English, it's a $10,000 fine paid on the spot. If you cannot pay it, you're automatically arrested and lose your license”

There is a flaw here:  if these drivers cannot read/write English, how the Hell did they get a CDL-A?

First guess:  their employer "helped" them cheat on the test, somehow.

Second guess:  the trucker in the video garbled the story.

Hmmmmm.

 

Bessent Gets It

Don't really know much about this guy--Treasury Secretary Bessent-- but he gets it.

 ...Bessent also directly responded to former Vice President Mike Pence, who attacked him after his New York Economic Club speech where he said cheap goods are not the American dream. Pence is notoriously against using tariffs to achieve American economic objectives.

“I took some flak last week at the Economic Club [of New York] where I said cheap goods are not the American dream,” Bessent said. “Mike Pence came out and said ‘Secretary Bessent doesn’t know what he’s talking about.’ I would tell the former vice president that ‘let them eat flat screens is not an economic policy.’ People want to have good jobs, they want to own a home, they want to have dignity, they want to enjoy work, they want their communities to be sound, and we want affordability but bringing in a bunch of baubles and trinkets to satisfy people who are displaced isn’t the American dream.”...

*BOOM*!!

Pence is the Perfect Pubbie Twit, still muttering to himself that he should be President.

He won't be.

Brief US-Russia History Since ~1965

It's very brief!  Not some pretend long-history of typical propaganda.

 ...It would therefore be a big mistake to interpret Trump’s turnaround towards Russia in recent weeks as an overall change in strategy. Russia has been in the crosshairs of the British and then the Americans for over 120 years. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Americans gained huge influence in the economy and politics of the then weak giant empire by financing the Russian oligarchs and were never so close to their goal – the dismemberment of Russia.

President Putin completely slashed the political power of the oligarchs, thereby neutralizing US influence and the influence of the City of London within Russia. The Americans responded with NATO’s eastward expansion, which was contrary to the agreement and against which Russia resisted diplomatically for 30 years. Another manipulation by the US was the Georgian war, which it caused through its installed puppet Saakashvili and in which it failed. After that, the US played at friendship when Hillary Clinton and Sergei Lavrov met in Geneva and Hillary Clinton promised a new beginning, only to gather time and forces for the preparation of Maidan. This time the drumfire against Russia lasted over 10 years since Maidan and again the US failed to bring Russia to its knees economically, achieve regime change (e.g. with Navalny) and defeat Russia militarily. This time, the US’s involvement in the war, together with its NATO partners, was more direct than at any time since the Second World War. Nevertheless, they failed again....

Yah, well, Trump KO'd USAID, which is a significant blow to the "Kill Russia" crowd, which usually operated through the USAID--the front-group of the CIA--which was the front-group for the London-NYC axis of bankers and industrialists.  Oh, yes:  MI6 tagged along.

Maybe Putin will see Trump's erasure of USAID as a positive.

Egads! In Canada.....

Not tariffs.  More important than that.

Hudson's Bay Company is closing.  9,000 jobs gone.

Three hundred fifty-five year history!

Factoid of Interest

 

Wannabee President? Dangerous Loser

Yes, the Babylon Bee inspired the headline. 

Below is the picture of the cretin who is bound and determined to demolish the entire judiciary of the United States of America.  While we hope that he is not successful, we must state the obvious.  His corruption--unfortunately for US citizens/taxpayers--is very serious due to his location in D.C. 

Ordinarily, he protects the Deep State Spy-on-YOU Bunch (a/k/a the "Intelligence Committee") through perverse rulings in the FISA Court and his ruling which OK'd mass violations of the Fourth Amendment by the FBI, not to mention his fawning appointment of PERJURER Mary McCord to an 'amicus' slot in the FISA court.

(He may actually not be the worst.  Some babe named Howell is a serious contestant for that adjective.  But if things go spicy, he's likely to be one of those who learn--the hard way--the meaning of F.A.F.O..) 

All it will take is one of his BFF Tren de Aragua pals to rape another few 6-year-olds and/or murder a granny or two.  Both are likely consequences of Boasberg's act. 

But the daddies and/or husbands of the victims may not easily "forgive and forget."

 

 

Trump Calls a Spade a "Spade"

Another Christmas Day!

 President Donald Trump on Friday walked into the Department of Justice and labeled his courtroom opponents “scum,” judges “corrupt” and the prosecutors who investigated him “deranged.”...

Yup.  All true.

But this being Politico, they go right to their Extreme Lefty mode of reporting lying:

... Trump charged the DOJ with spying on his campaign, raiding his home, persecuting his “family, staff and supporters,” launching “one hoax and disinformation campaign after the other” and breaking the law “on a colossal scale,” making clear the glee he has taken in undermining the department’s typical independence and wielding it to achieve the White House’s objectives....

DoJ is not "independent" under the Constitution despite the evidence-free assertion by the writer.  AG reports to the President, not to the "news", nor to the corrupt courts.  

Want proof of that?  See Scum-Suckers Garland and Holder.

 ...“First, we must be honest about the lies and the abuses that have occurred within these walls,” Trump said. “Unfortunately in recent years, a corrupt group of hacks and radicals within the ranks of the American government obliterated the trust and goodwill built up over generations. They weaponized the vast powers of our intelligence and law enforcement agencies to try and thwart the will of the American people.”

Those days, Trump said, “are over, and they are never going to come back. He added that he would demand “full and complete accountability for the wrongs and abuses that have occurred.”

Like I said:  CHRISTMAS DAY AGAIN!!

HHS Terminating More Stupid Grants

Some are kvetching that RFKjr hasn't put Teh Vaxx people in prison yet.

But he is not sitting on his hands, either.

 "The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is abruptly terminating at least 33 research grants for projects studying why some people are hesitant to receive vaccines or evaluating strategies that could encourage vaccine uptake, Science has learned. An additional nine grants may be modified or cut back. Scientists who received these grants began to receive termination letters this evening.

A person with direct knowledge of the situation says NIH has also requested lists of projects involving messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines, which some vaccine skeptics think are unsafe because they believe, without evidence*, that the vaccines could modify DNA or cause various health issues. The agency is also seeking a list of collaborations between NIH researchers and international partners on any topic. ...ZeroHedge quoting Science

It's a start.

VA's Sanctimony Act

It's bad enough that VA employees think they are entitlted to their jobs, no matter how little they do.

Then we find this:

... Department of Veterans Affairs was unable to escape this sweeping agenda [DEI], with a study on how the induction of gender-transitioning hormone therapy might affect bone structure – a topic arguably difficult to tie to the patient outcomes of former service members....

DEI is the Herpes you get when Democrats rule.

And VA's sanctimony act shows its sores.

Zeldin Cancels "Gold Bar" Fraud & Theft Scheme

You can hear the pigs squealing all over America!

 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin notified National Clean Investment Fund and Clean Communities Investment Accelerator recipients of the termination of their grant agreements under the Biden-Harris Administration’s $20 billion “gold bar” scheme. This termination is based on substantial concerns regarding the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) program integrity, the award process, programmatic fraud, waste, and abuse, and misalignment with agency’s priorities, which collectively undermine the fundamental goals and statutory objectives of the award. 

Every day is Christmas since the inauguration!

What Actually DID Happen in Vegas?

 Maybe Trump & Co. will have time to get to this very large story, and maybe they won't.  It's the Mandalay Bay Massacre story.  And guess what?  The FEEBS are neck-deep in the coverup.

Others have done some digging and are willing to push the story forward.

 • John Pelletier is a well known corrupt POS in this town. Not only is he being accused of kidnapping a P Diddy rape victim by force, not only is he the same guy that got sent to Maui with a hefty raise to cover up for the fires there, but he was also the incident commander for the Las Vegas shooting. You know…that little “thing” where 59 people were murdered and the media dropped the story after only 2 weeks, because so many holes were popping up in the government’s story?

• What many people don’t know, is that the same corrupt Sheriff Joe Lombardo that let evidence walk off his crime seen, refused to name or investigate the 3 other people registered to Paddock’s room that night, and made up 3 different timelines until the casinos were pleased that they weren’t liable…..”won” Governor here, despite being hated and booed everywhere in public in a primary where over 40,000 people couldn’t vote due to a “DMV glitch.” (And yes the margin of winning between him and Joey Gilbert was less than that, and there was no redo or audit despite thousands of people including me petitioning for one.

That's just the beginning.....

Another Dumbass "Judge" Gets Smacked Down

This happens a lot, but the "news" doesn't run the stories.

 

An appeals court on Friday lifted a block on executive orders seeking to end government support for diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, handing the Trump administration a win after a string of setbacks defending President Donald Trump’s agenda against dozens of lawsuits.

The decision from a three-judge panel allows the orders to be enforced as a lawsuit against them plays out. The judges halted a nationwide injunction from U.S. District Judge Adam Abelson in Baltimore. ...

Adam Abelson=Dumbass "Judge."

 

Democrat Policy vs. Family: Family Lost

 There are two institutions the Democrats--that is, the Extreme Left--must eradicate for the success of their Utopian goals:  the Church, and the family.  Methods include substituting the State for "father," (see below chart), playing word-games with biology (see Tony Earl's deranged proposal) and shattering the bond between sex and marriage (see Western History ~1960-present.)  This essay covers it in detail.

They're doing very well on eradication of the black family.

 

Anecdotal. Portentious??

Peter files this report.

... I've heard from a number of contacts in the firearms industry that before last year's elections, most of their customers were conservatives or libertarians.  Since President Trump took office, they report many more liberal and progressive Democrats coming in to arm themselves. ...

Pheasant hunting?  Or the crazy Ukrainian-heritage bunch now living in the US?

(One of those lives in my area.  Flies a Ukie flag underneath the US flag (proper), but the US flag is upside-down.)

Shelly Wasserman's Hypocrisy

Wasserman, a hard-Left partisan, bitches about the Brady List.  But the irony is thick with this M.D.

... "It becomes a mushrooming effect where it really creates doubt in the public's mind," he said. "So the public wants clarity. The public wants a clean, transparent government, and there is nothing more sensitive when it comes to the justice system. We want sincerity, we want integrity."...

How many COVID "vaccines" did you force your office staffers to take, Shelly?  How many did you prescribe for your patients?  (And did they have reproductive problems after that, Shelly?)

You are in no position to yammer about 'transparency, sincerity, and integrity' so long as you ignored the real science about COVID--and Ivermectin.

No, You Aren't Entitlted to your Federal Job

The wailing and snorting at this "rally" is near-laughable.

They all seem to think that the world will end when waste, corruption, and fraud are removed from the taxpayers.

Maybe that's what they prefer?  Fine.  Self-deport to Brazil.

Just Like Home?!?

This one has a certain odor to it.

A 22-year-old Turkish national has been charged with first-degree reckless homicide after allegedly stabbing his girlfriend to death and living with her body for nearly a month.  ...

Decomposition odors are--ordinary--in Turkey? 

And they wonder why we can't just have mass immigration.....

+Seitz to March Around a Lot

The old "march around and whine and mewl" trick!  Now there's a threat!

Bishop Mark J. Seitz said in a press release that the March and Vigil in Solidarity with Migrants is meant to demonstrate opposition to "harsh rhetoric" against immigrants, the closing of the border to asylum seekers, and threats of mass deportation....

 ...bishops from the U.S., Mexico, and Canada will be in attendance.

"In recent days, I myself have lost friends who have chosen to self-deport back to immensely challenging conditions in their home country," said Seitz...

They can still send letters and postcards, Excellency.

... "Indiscriminate immigration enforcement, the denial of due process, and the pulling apart of families strike at our community and are grave attacks on human dignity. The threat of mass deportations is untenable and immoral and demands a credible response."...

So many lies, so little time!

1)  It is not "indiscriminate" because ALL illegal aliens broke US law.  2)  Want an "intact family" to stay together?  Then take your children with you when you leave.  3)  WHOSE "community"?  4)  Not only is that threat tenable, it is perfectly moral--if you agree that current US citizens have rights.  5)  YOUR 'credible response' should be to follow your pals to their own country and march around there.  See how far it gets you.

 

 

Wouldn't It Be Nice.....?

 A very short quote of the Beach Boys there!

But seriously, wouldn't this be nice?

...Democrats are threatening to shut down government by not supporting the Continuing Resolution (CR) measure that passed the House and is about to reach the floor of the Senate.  This threat is awesome, and we can only hope it happens....

Why should we hope this happens?

Glad you asked!!

... If the CR is not passed, the govt goes into “shutdown mode” at midnight tonight and all “nonessential” employees, as determined by the Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought, are laid-off....

"Nonessential" is about 90% of non-military.  Maybe IRS gets a pass to process refunds.

The rest?

Lay them off, and NO BACK-PAY..... 

Wouldn't it be nice?

FAFO? Or Karma??

You guys fight over which this is, FAFO or plain old Karma, for this Democrat Voter.

... The Post and Courier reports that in a bizarre incident that unfolded in North Charleston, South Carolina, a masked Trump hater vandalized and attempted to set fire to Tesla charging stations, only to end up setting himself ablaze in the process. The incident, which took place near a Mellow Mushroom pizzeria at 4855 Tanger Outlet Blvd., has left the community stunned and authorities searching for answers. According to witnesses, the masked individual, wearing a gray jacket or hoodie, spray-painted the message “(expletive) TRUMP LONG LIVE UKRAINE” near the bank of Tesla charging stations before proceeding with his ill-fated attempt to destroy the electric vehicle chargers. The man reportedly used beer bottles as makeshift Molotov cocktails, setting them on fire and hurling them at three charging stations. However, during this act of arson, the man inadvertently set himself on fire, with witnesses reporting flames spreading across his back....AOSHQ quoting Breitbart

It's not as simple as it looks when other Democrat voters do it, eh?

Where's the "Missing" Food?

More crybaby crapola from the "news."

 In 2021, then-President Joe Biden unveiled a $1.5 billion plan to provide nutritious foods to schools as they dealt with supply chain challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic....

You recall that the pandemic is over with, right?

 ...One Milwaukee farm has no fields, no tractors and no barns. And yet, Hundred Acre yields fresh produce like it sits on a hundred acres.

Since 2021, the lettuce, basil and microgreens grown inside the warehouse have made their way all across Wisconsin – even inside school cafeterias....

So what?

Biden set up some sort of 'preference' thing for warehouse-grown veggies, spending $1.5 million on "local" food subsidies.  That's $1.5 MILLION down the drain now that COVID is history. 

That's ending.  Now it will be just like pre-COVID.  The children will still eat, paid for by taxpayers.  No food is missing, quality is the same as it was before.

But the boutique stuff?

Gone.

Rainforest Chopped by Climate Globalists

 Not that long ago, the "rainforest" was a sacred cow.

No longer, if you are a Globaloney UN Climate Poohbah.

A new four-lane highway requiring the decimation of tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built to carry globalist elites to the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém.

The BBC reports the aim is to ease vehicle traffic to the city, which will host more than 50,000 people – including world leaders – at the U.N. sponsored conference in November...

Some people are more equal than others.

 

EPA: More Crooks and Liars

Another shocking finding.....

 

....Emails reviewed by Just the News show that Environmental Protection Agency regulators who helped craft the 2009 "endangerment finding" — which declared greenhouse gases could be regulated because they risked public health — were preparing to impose the regulatory powers of the endangerment finding even before the science was wrapped up.

The emails also show there was an open discussion inside the Obama EPA about trying to score a win for liberals in what was supposed to be a scientific process. “You are at the forefront of progressive national policy on one of the critical issues of our time. Do you realize that?” Georgetown law professor Lisa Heinzerling wrote then-EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson on Feb. 27, 2009. ...

A day earlier, Heinzerling estimated that the finding would be finalized in August or September 2009, but that imposing regulations like new car emission standards could occur ahead of the science being wrapped up....

 The history on this "endangerment finding" crapola shows the clear pattern.

... In October 1999, the International Center for Technology Assessment (ICTA), a D.C. think tank, submitted a petition to the EPA seeking regulation of greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. The request was denied...

It went to SCOTUS, which agreed with the Left, 5-4, so the EPA had to determine whether the science of 'airborne pollutants' was sound.  The EPA director issued a decision saying it was not 'sound.'

Then came Obozo.

... Lisa Jackson was selected to head the EPA. In 2012, Horner, who was then a senior fellow with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, discovered that EPA officials, including Jackson, were using pseudonymous alias email accounts. ...

An FOIA request for EPA's documents on this matter was--basically--stonewalled by the Crooks & Liars club there, but enough survived the redactions and withholdings to build a case that the EPA's "endangerment" finding was not 'science.'

Surprised?

 

USAID Shredding Documents. Big Deal?

Gee.  Wonder why this is happening.....

 

A senior official at the U.S. Agency for International Development ordered the agency’s remaining employees to destroy internal documents at the now-former headquarters in Washington on Tuesday, according to an email sent to staff, setting off a legal challenge on Tuesday.

Employees were instructed to destroy items in the agency’s “classified safes and personnel documents” on Tuesday at the Ronald Reagan Building,...

Sounds to me like some 'senior officials' should be in prison. 

UPDATE:  White House comments on the matter.

 White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly said it’s “more fake news hysteria.”

“The USAID building will soon be occupied by CBP,” Anna Kelly said.

“This was sent to roughly three dozen employees. The documents involved were old, mostly courtesy content (content from other agencies), and the originals still exist on classified computer systems,” she said.

“More fake news hysteria!” she added.

No, sweetcheeks, it is NOT "hysteria" when Government documents are shredded by a Government outfit which is notoriously anti-American and which has subverted dozens of foreign governments.

It is prudent skepticism.

Got that?

"Big Stock Market Drop"? Hardly

Several hundred points in a 41,000 Dow is NOT a "precipitous drop."  It's not even a "big" one. 

Only 38 years ago, there was a far worse one.

... In the "Black Monday" stock market crash of Oct. 19, 1987, U.S. markets fell more than 20% in a single day.

Black Monday was preceded by a bearish week in which the headline indexes gave up around 10% for the week....

So if the Dow drops about 8-10,000, you will have a "precipitous" drop.

Otherwise, carry on.

BadaBing! No Security Clearance for YOU!

Another definition of FAFO.

This from DNI Tulsi Gabbard:

 

Per @POTUS directive, I have revoked security clearances and barred access to classified information for Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Lisa Monaco, Mark Zaid, Norman Eisen, Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, and Andrew Weissman, along with the 51 signers of the Hunter Biden “disinformation” letter. The President’s Daily Brief is no longer being provided to former President Biden.

That list is also a list of those who should be indicted, charged, and tried for a large number of criminal offenses against the US and its citizens.  As we have learned, a little lawfare goes a long, long, way. 

Heh.

Bernie and His Band

 Most of you know that Bernie Sanders, who owns three homes, came to Kenosha to berate "millionaires and billionaires", along with attacking the laws of nature, justice, and American ideals.

Well, that's Bernie.  His table-pounding was covered locally.  But the "press" ignored another part of the rally.

The band he brought along?

... Thomas Gabel (aka “Laura Jane Grace,” his professional name) [sang] for the gathered crowd. It was not a great idea. Gabel thinks he’s a woman and, with that belief, comes a mind that permanently lives in a sexual gutter. Therefore, Gabel sang a graphic, deeply offensive song about the Biblical God as a sexual predator assaulting people....

Gabel is a certain type of person.

... People who are so-called “transgender,”.... Many... are sexual fetishists, who either get a sexual kick out of mentally having intercourse with their own “female” bodies (autogynophilia) or they’re exhibitionists or voyeurs...

Or Friends of Bernie.

... it’s one more important snapshot of what 2025’s Democrats really are:

They’re not the Democrats of old, who were normal, working- and middle-class people and patriots, but who misguidedly believed that bigger government would help them achieve the American dream. Instead, they are deeply sick people who despise American and Western institutions, especially Christianity, and want to destroy these institutions in the name of a fusion of Marxism, Islamism, and nihilism....

The author is not completely accurate.  They want Chaos--no matter how it is labeled.

Right there in Kenosha.

Some of the lyrics are at the link above.

Interestingly,  none of the local "news" outlets mentioned the singer, nor his lyrics.  Do you wonder why?

This Is What the CIA Brought to Syria

 For the record, I think we should close the CIA down.  Salt the earth.  And prosecute--as a traitor--Brennan, at the very least.

 Radical Islamic terrorists are rounding up Christians (CATHOLICS) and executing them in Syria.

Those would be the "radical Islamic terrorists" that the CIA supported in their overthrow of Assad.

SBA: Incompetent To the Power of 1,000

That's how to describe the SBA.

...DOGE announced on Saturday night that the Small Business Administration had loaned hundreds of millions of dollars to small enterprises during the COVID pandemic. Sounds fine, right? 

Except for the fact that the business owners in these cases were all 11 years old or younger:...

Oh, by the way:

... DOGE shared a post on X from Tuesday when it also revealed that in 2020 and 2021 the SBA issued 3,095 loans for $333 million to borrowers over 115 years old....

 Another case of COBOL-created mis-identifications?  Either way, those are separate from the Kiddie Loans.

Just how stupid ARE Government workers??

We're finding out.

 

 

Cutting Medicaid the Right Way

The handwriting is on the wall.  Medicaid spending must be cut.

The most likely way?  Work requirements.  

 ...To curb Medicaid spending, experts say, lawmakers may choose to add work requirements. Doing so would make it so people have to meet certain thresholds, such as 80 hours of work per month, to qualify for Medicaid coverage....

(Enter Tony Evers and thousands of paid demonstrators to object, scream and yell, and march around for the cameras.) 

... In 2023, the Congressional Budget Office found implementing work requirements could save $109 billion over 10 years.

Yet that change could also put 36 million Medicaid enrollees at risk of losing their health-care coverage, estimates the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. That represents about 44% of the approximately 80 million individuals who participate in the program. The estimates focus on adults ages 19 to 64, who would be most likely subject to a work requirement....

IOW, about 36 million people are getting taxpayer-paid FREE medical care for doing nothing.

That's not what the "press" will write, is it?

Government Bloat? Yup. Factor of 26.5

There is a lot of *stuff* going on....

[Sen] Rick Scott’s got the receipts: a 2% population bump in five years dwarfed by a 53% spending explosion. It’s a masterclass in government bloat—straight out of Econ 101, where fiscal restraint goes to die. And those COVID handouts? A sugar rush that juiced inflation and screwed us long-term. Brutal truth....

We agree that Trump's COVID handouts were partially responsible for the inflation, by the way.  Only hyper-partisans could disagree with that.  But "partially" means "partially."  The dead hand of Biden sealed the deal.

There's a lot to do!

The Voice of the CIA

Among other things, DOGE discovered that the CIA (a/k/a USAID) was spending lots of money on The Atlantic.

The results can be found at this link, where Vox Day quotes one of the CIA-written (?) -approved (?) essays.

Vox's commentary is a lot darker than it has to be, but he's dead-nuts on about the loss of Christianity and its effects on the West.

Is the CIA Involved?

News report:

 A Catholic priest who was abducted from his home on Tuesday was found slain on Ash Wednesday.

The Diocese of Kafanchan in Nigeria said Rev. Sylvester Okechukwu, 45, was kidnapped at about 9:15 p.m. Tuesday and found murdered the next day, according to the Catholic News Agency.

“It is yet to be determined why he was killed,” Rev. Jacob Shanet, chancellor of the Kafanchan Diocese, said. No announcement has been made of an arrest....

Is the CIA backing some bunch of [fill-in-the-blank] rebellious killers like they're doing in Syria?

Inquiring minds, and all that.

Smooth Move, Ukies!

 What a bunch of dumbasses.

 Today while walking my 3 year old daughter a group of “Slava Ukraini” protesters followed us around and shouted as my daughter grew increasingly anxious and scared. 

So says JDVance.

Scaring a 3-year-old.  And they claim to be 'civilized.'

Big Capital Starts Squealing

The silent partner of the Deep State, Big Capital, feels the pain and starts squealing like a stuck pig, which is not a co-incidence.

 

The Wall Street Journal has called for Donald Trump to be sued to prevent tariffs being imposed on Canada and Mexico.

The newspaper's editorial board wrote in very blunt terms that Trump did not have the power to order the tariffs without Congressional approval.

'He's treating the North American economy as a personal plaything, as markets gyrate with each presidential whim,' the WSJ board wrote.

'It's doubtful Mr Trump even has the power to impose these tariffs, and we hope his afflatus gets a legal challenge.'...

Sure.  Trump just threw a bunch of darts at a wall while he was blindfolded.  Never talked to anyone who might have earned a degree in law, or nothin' like that.

Only the Voice of Big Capital knows this stuff. 

Uh-huh.

DOGE: NaziTyrantRaaaacissssEEeeeeevil!!!. Maybe.

Somehow this story gets a headline.

 

A group of labor unions are asking a federal court to intervene and stop Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing the Social Security data of millions of Americans....

All the usual crapola about "privacy," something no Government labor union gave a s**t about when the FBI was feeding taxpayer information to Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden campaign lawyers.

Anyhow, here's the payoff line:

...Karianne Jones, a lawyer for the unions and a retiree group behind the lawsuit, said it is not fully clear what kind of access that DOGE might have to personal data about taxpayers. But she said the apparent scope and the lack of information about what DOGE is looking for mean the potential impact is "huge."...

Oh.

We don't know what they can get to, and we don't know what they are looking for, and we don't know what effect it may have, but............it's YUUUUUUGE!!!

Go back to 5th grade, sweetcheeks, make up stories about 'that other kid' and tattle to the teacher.  Pretty clear that that's your speed.

"Late Payment" Narrative Engineering

Another example of Narrative Engineering--this time in a DC rag.

6.6 percent of subprime auto borrowers were over 60 days past due in Jan.

It's the highest level since Fitch Ratings began tracking data in 1994

President Trump's tariffs are likely to drive up car prices even further

This highly misleading "story" was written with the purpose of attacking the tariffs--and it's a "story," alright.

Only after those bullets (and even more BS) do you get to the reality.  Here we go:

 ...Americans are missing their car payments at the highest rate in more than 30 years, data shows.

According to Fitch Ratings, 6.56 percent of subprime auto borrowers were are at least 60 days past due on their loans in January, the most since the agency began collecting the data in 1994....

Subprime borrowers, eh?  They are only about 10% of the car-loan market.

6.5% are 60 days, eh?

Generally, these loans are for more dollars than the value of the car they finance, usually because the borrower traded in a car for which they owed more than THAT one was worth.  Then, they pay 15++% for the loan.

Yet only 6.5% are 60 days past due?

Well, then, Trump is the bad guy, see?  

Surber Modifies Sen. Kennedy

You really ought to read Surber every day.

Here he quotes Sen. Kennedy of Louisiana:

 “When you trim fat, pigs squeal. That’s just the way the world works.”

Surber adds seasoning:

 

In DC, the pigs file lawsuits.

The Punchline Is at the End

It appears that Merck was falsifying data about its MMR Vax.

But that's not the best part!  A whistleblower told FDA that the Vax was near-useless.  

Here's how it ends:

 

...Krahling reported the alleged fraud to the FDA and eventually filed a whistleblower lawsuit against Merck for taxpayer fraud since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention bought the allegedly faulty vaccine for years. 

The case dragged on for many years. Ultimately, it was dismissed before trial. The judge said taxpayers weren’t defrauded because the CDC knew from the start about the potency issue and alleged misrepresentations— but bought the vaccine anyway....

CDC did not "buy" the faulty vaccine.  YOU did, you flyover-country peon taxpayer.

Trust the Government, they said.  It will be great, they said.  Nothing will go wrong, they said.

Typical Liberal Emo Crapola

 Someone named "Marie Harf" goes all emo because she does not have a real case.

 ...Liberal Outnumbered contributor Marie Harf offered a more sobering perspective on the consequences of Musk's aggressive cost-cutting measures, citing job losses among long-serving federal employees, including veterans.

'The government shouldn't be in the business of firing a veteran who served their country for 20 years and then having to fix it later. I don't trust that it will fix it later. I just don't,' Harf argued....

Does "veteran status" include a right to a permanent taxpayer-funded job?

No.  Not sorry, no.  It does not, and should not.  A permanent taxpayer funding is often "welfare."

There are millions of veterans working in private industry and there are "help wanted" signs all over the place.  They could have gone there--and still can!

But that's the emo line used by Harf and all sorts of local TeeVee "news" reporters, who are going all emo because there is no real case here.  Maybe they should all go and have a good cry someplace. 

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