Tell Me It Isn’t So

Is this the Democrats' endgame? Open the borders, flood the country with illegals, give them the right to vote, 85% of which will vote Democrat, pack the courts, make PR and DC states to add four  Democrat senators and five seats in the House, turn the red enclaves blue with immigration, more and more social programs to control our health and maintain government dependency, disarm the general population, create a socialist utopia and the elite ruling class will live like the very kings they supposedly protest against. Seems inevitable that we will go the way of Europe, failed empires destroyed by liberal socialist policies, complacent citizens, and unfettered immigration. If so, it lends a new dimension to diabolical. 

War By Any Other Name

My, my, how war has changed for the naive Western nations. An expectation of zero casualties for one. The Geneva Convention also states that “attacks on civilian objects are forbidden” and constitute war crimes. Even our Democrat politicians, in particular the reprehensible Ro Khanna, have suggested that Trump should be prosecuted. Really?  Iran has been attacking mostly “civilian objects” with impunity. But by these standards, virtually all of our efforts in World War II could be classified as war crimes. And to suggest that Middle Eastern countries that support terrorism are not routinely committing war crimes is absurd.  There are no rules in war, and the sooner civilized nations realize that, the less the chance that we will lose our civilization to the heathens that don’t play by those same rules.  

A Haunting Premonition

We are seemingly becoming a corrupt socialist bent nation, fostered by the Democrats’ agenda, and not realizing its dire consequences.  Progressive income taxation, sales tax, state tax, property taxes, wealth taxes, licensing fees, payroll taxes, capital gains taxes, cap and trade taxes, whose revenues are doled out without the consent of we the people, disproportionately distributed to government employees and people who game the system, those choosing not to better themselves. The waste is unfathomable. This country was founded on taxation without representation, and yet here we are. If the dye is indeed cast, and this great republic of ours slides into the abyss of socialism, history will view us as spoiled, entitled ingrates that didn't appreciate what we had. It 

What Is Happening To Us

It makes me suicidal. Maybe homicidal is more appropriate. All these Democrat bumper sticker simpletons protesting funding ICE and the war in Iran, and bitching about gas prices when our tax dollars are being vacuumed up by fraud and Democrat programs that amount to nothing more than redistribution. Meanwhile, Blumenthal from Connecticut led the Senate, raking in $80 million in the stock market in just the last year alone on only a relatively handful of trades. He even beat Pelosi’s tally, which ranked 5th. Tell me again why I have to pay taxes to support this level of banana republic shenanigans.

And on the heels of this rant, did you hear out of Chicago, where a Louis Vuitton store was attacked by a vehicle that drove through the front door, criminals looted the store to the tune of $700K in merchandise, and in their escape killed a man on his way to work whose wife gave birth to their first child the next morning. You can’t make this stuff up. The criminal mastermind was a four-time offender with warrants out for his arrest, a former gang member recruited into Chicago’s “peacekeeper program,” where “justice impacted” individuals are paid to be community mediators to reduce crime. This particular “peacekeeper” was being paid $150 a day by the city to fight crime. Uh-huh. But even more egregious was when reporters dug deeper and discovered that this program is a $1 billion enterprise in which non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the number one lobbying group in Chicago, coincidentally, receive government grants to fund these programs. Distributed after they skim a significant percentage, sometimes as much as 90% off the top. As Mike Slater opined, this is not an aberration. This is exactly how the Democrats want these programs to operate. More money is funneled to Democrat donors who kick back money to political campaigns, keeping the Democrat apparatus in power and the money flowing. Everybody gets rich gorging themselves at the taxpayer trough. It’s disgusting. And we wondered why the democrats were so vehemently opposed to Elon Musk and DOGE, and now Vance, with his newly formed department, is to root out fraud and abuse.  Our republic is rotting from within, and it is appalling how many bureaucrats are benefiting from the decay.

Misplaced Partisanship

I read recently that Social Security is expected to be insolvent by 2032, with potential solutions including raising taxes and cutting benefits to seniors. How infuriating is that?  If we eliminated all the entitlement programs for illegal immigrants and eliminated fraud and abuse in government programs, we could pay for Social Security in perpetuity and eliminate our national debt virtually overnight. Aren’t any democrats seniors? You would think not so, judging by the number of unhinged, gray-haired, white folks attending every preposterously moronic No Kings rally.

My Bad

I usually don’t condon body-shaming, intelligence-questioning or harsh language, but

can you believe the beaver-toothed, Botox-filled New York Governor Hochel telling conservatives: “Just jump on a bus and head down to Florida where you belong, okay. Get outta town. You don’t represent our values.” Apparently, their values supposedly are increased taxation, open borders, gender confusion, and an ever-growing welfare state. Conservative New Yorkers apparently didn’t get the memo, but this may be the best advice Governor Hochel has ever offered her Conservative constituents.  Socialism anyone? A real genius public relations ploy, heading into the 2026 elections. Her political chops, let alone her intelligence, have to be questioned.

Taxing Us Silly

It is shocking the number of states proposing tax increases… even after posting huge gains over the last few years, with the stock market run and increased tax revenue from rising salaries and property values. And the usual suspects: California, Washington State, New York, and Rhode Island… blue enclaves. And the progressives are good with that?  NY is proposing an increase in its already exorbitant state income tax. This tax-the-rich, Bernie Sanders socialist mantra is gaining traction. It’s class warfare. Not good. Mike Slater opined on Breitbart this morning that we are voting stupid people into office (Spanberger in this case) because we allow stupid people to vote. In days of old, we didn’t allow stupid people to vote; now everyone can vote, he lamented. We have spoken about this innumerable times. The Founding Fathers only wanted landholders to vote because they had skin in the game. Why is a property owner's vote counted equally to that of an unemployed, apartment dweller on welfare?  Two sets of priorities, one based on what they can get from the other man’s labor.