Some pundits--who don't pay attention to history--are telling you that the US Dollar is in "crisis" as opposed to the currencies of other countries.
B. as in Barbara. S. as in Streisand.
See the chart below. Note that the USD is hanging around its average level OF THE LAST 50+ YEARS.
Not all that The Donald does meets universal approval.
Buried deep in a story about the National Park System's refusal to take cash ("legal tender for all debts, public and private") is this revelation:
...In October 2025, The Defender reported that top figures in the Trump administration were rolling out policies that promote a technocratic system of global digital control, according to Technocracy News founder Patrick Wood.
The technocratic project, developed in the early 1930s and adopted by behind-the-scenes oligarchs, envisions a society controlled by elite technical experts who advocate for social engineering, the abolition of private property and scientific dictatorship, said Wood, author of “Technocracy Rising.”
That project is expanding, he said. Leaders in today’s technocracy movement include Elon Musk, Palantir founder Peter Thiel, President Donald Trump’s AI and crypto czar David Sacks, Vice President JD Vance’s mentor Curtis Yarvin, billionaire investor Marc Andreessen, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Michael Kratsios, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison....
Maybe, maybe not....
Regardless, either cash IS or IS NOT 'legal tender for all debts.....'. On that basis alone, the suit should be adjudged in favor of the plaintiffs.
The Green Bay Packers, Brewers,and Bucks should also be forced to take cash, by the way.
The Well-Coiffed ones will only say that the Epstein files "mention Trump" "thousands of" times.
CNBC's report is honest about that, but you have to get deeeeeeep into the story to find it:
... They included emails in which Epstein and others shared news articles about President Donald Trump, commented on his policies or his politics, or gossiped about him and his family....
Trump was (and still is) one of the most influential and wealthy people in NYC. Who KNEW that someone like him would be a topic of conversation?
Wait, wait!! There's more!!!
...Among the records was a spreadsheet, created just last August, summarizing calls that had been made to the FBI’s National Threat Operation Center or to a hotline set by prosecutors from people claiming to have some knowledge of wrongdoing by Trump.
That document included a range of uncorroborated stories involving many different celebrities, and somewhat fantastical scenarios, occasionally with notations indicating what follow-up, if any, was done by agents....
Read between the lines here. CNBC is admitting that a crapton of those "mentions" were uncorroborated tales and fantastical scenarios which the FEEBS--by and large--didn't bother to follow up on.
Huh.
The real tell?
None of those 'stories,' 'tips,' or 'fantastical scenarios' have been trumpeted (see what I did there?) by the NYT, WaPo, or MadCow. Not even Hakeem Jeffries has opened his yapper about them.
There's no there there.
Heh.
Sortor's remark is dead-on.
Imagine being so worthless that you spend your Saturdays singing songs in support of child r*pists while harassing shoppers at Target...
Video at the link. 100+ white Boomers sing silly songs, block aisles at Target. God help them if there's a fire and the have to get out fast....
Never mind the ignorant bleating from AWFLs and the Well-Coiffed Ones (MSM.) They don't read the law.
... The memo, sent by acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons and first reported Friday by The New York Times, states the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 “unequivocally authorizes an immigration officer to execute a warrantless arrest” of an “alien” that meets one of two criteria. Lyons’s memo outlines that immigrants subject to warrantless arrests include those whom an officer has determined are “entering or attempting to enter the United States in violation of any law … regulating the admission, exclusion , expulsion, or removal of alien” or who are both in violation of such laws and are “likely to escape before a warrant can be obtained.”...
Gee. 1952 legislation. By no coincidence, Eisenhower's "Operation Wetback" began in 1955. It ended shortly after it started, but the terms of the 1952 law applied then--and now.
More:
...“Authority under USC 1357 and of course reasonable suspicion are protected by the U.S. Constitution. Law enforcement uses ‘reasonable suspicion’ to make arrests, as allowed under the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Supreme Court has already vindicated us on this position,” McLaughlin added.
“The Immigration and Nationality Act authorizes immigration officers to ‘interrogate any alien or person believed to be an alien as to his right to be or to remain in the United States,'” Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in a September 2025 concurring opinion in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, in which the Court sided with the Trump administration, 6–3.
“Immigration officers ‘may briefly detain’ an individual ‘for questioning’ if they have ‘a reasonable suspicion, based on specific articulable facts, that the person being questioned … is an alien illegally in the United States,'” Kavanaugh continued...
So all those "civil rights" squealers are wrong. Again.
But that's not what they are rioting about, is it? Those deportees are the foo-foo dust being sprayed to mask the insurrections in Minneapolis, Seattle, L.A., and Oregon.
Chaos is the goal. Immigration? Just another handy excuse, like Zimmerman in FL., "St." George in MPLS, and Kyle in Kenosha. The organizers do not care about Jose, or Maria, or their children, nor do they care about the girls being trafficked or those dead from drug OD's.
They are not the objective.
The objective is Chaos. Laws, norms, civilization, and Right Order be damned.
Buy. More. Ammo.
Reid Hoffman created LinkedIn and made a large fortune.
He supports every. single. hard-Left. cause.
And he was mentioned 2,600 times in the latest Epstein files dump. You don't hear his name on Teh Nooz, of course. They will try to keep draining his checking account before they dump his husk into the mosh pit. Gates? He's already there.
How else, besides Epstein, could Hoffman (the one on the left) meet hot young women and get lucky??
Warming the cockles of my heart!
...The United Nations, long despised by conservatives, announced yesterday that it faces financial extinction. Yesterday, ABC News reported, “United Nations faces ‘imminent financial collapse’ without urgent action, UN chief says.”...
America's Best Friend is at the heart of this.
... [UN CEO] Guterres told member nations that the international war-making body will scrape the bottom around July, when difficult decisions must be made, unless overdue members cough up their arrearages.
By overdue members, Guterres was almost certainly referring to the UN’s sugar daddy, the United States. Apparently, we have gotten somewhat behind in paying nearly $2.2 billion in annual dues, plus another $1.8 billion owed for the UN’s laughable “peacekeeping missions.” It amounts to four billion total, which includes last year’s entire annual US membership fee. Nor have we paid anything so far this year, in 2026....
This will be fun to watch.
We had heard rumbles about the birth dearth in Red China. But nothing like this:
...Yesterday I came across a Web site called "Lei's Real Talk". She's a Chinese lady living in the USA who analyzes events and developments in China, and has developed quite a large following. I know nothing more about her than what she says on her Web site, but she presents carefully thought out and cogent analysis of China's real population in the video clip below. The kicker?
She thinks China's population might already be a third to a half less than what it officially claims....
You Tube at the link.
This makes the China Hawks' (Bannon, anyone?) position far less compelling, to say the least.
In New Richmond, of all places.....
...“There are concerns about a male student, possibly more, going into the female restrooms and being allowed to do such things,” a parent told the board at one point. “I have heard about that individual…”
School Board President Bryan Schafer stopped the parent in mid-sentence, calling that “rumors,” and demanding, “What is your concern about the policy?” The woman responded, “The concern is the policy is allowing males into female bathrooms, which is not proper, and it needs to be fixed soon. That is what I would like to see handled.”
Schafer responded that the district is “protective,” has strict privacy laws and must follow federal law. He said the issue needs to be placed on a future meeting agenda for the board to “take action and respond to the concerns.”...
"Vee aaahr just Following Orrderrrrzzz. Sit down and shut up. SCHNELL, Schweinhund!!"
Cute play: ".....not on the agenda. Can't do nuttin' until next month. Following orders the law".
What a tool he really is.
This Trump Administration means business.
FINALLY:
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is looking to recruit a new “top cop” to police nonprofits that “use and abuse” their charity status to dodge taxes, The Post has learned.
Bessent wants to appoint a new senior official at the Treasury Department to scrutinize the finances of charities that engage in excessive political activities, lobbying, or even fraud....
The squealing of the pigs as they are stuck will be a delight to the ears.
Only problem? This "top cop" will be busy and productive for about 25-30 years at the very least. That means that a (D) President or (D) Congress can (and will) shut it down.
You would have to be blind if you have not seen Aaron Lipski's face in the last year or so. He's the fire chief in Milwaukee--a big job--and a committed Lefty who comments on every. damn. thing. that happens, whether fire-related or not.
Here, he runs his yap about a change in City personnel which is mandated by the State Constitution.
... "If we’re going to stand on words like righteousness and religion and all that stuff, what about redemption and grace? (Procell) is the living embodiment of those things," said Milwaukee Fire Chief Aaron Lipski. "If you spend five minutes talking with him, he bears the weight of what he did wrong at the age of 15, every day of his life, every waking minute, and he has dedicated his life to trying to fix and change and help."...
Yah, well, Aaron, then set up a non-profit that hires the guy and have that non-profit "consult" with the City. DOH.
But that's not what Aaron is after.
So...........what IS he after? Should Mayor Corvair (Unsafe At Any Speed) Johnson be worried?
Yes, it is in MAINE, which apparently has more than a Bush compound and Tucker's place.
...Federal investigators have descended on Lewiston, Maine, in pursuit of more cases of Somali financial fraud and even allegations of gun theft charges and illegally hiring illegal migrants.
Some of the locations being probed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) are linked to Gateway Community Services CEO Abdullahi Ali, Democrat State Rep. Deqa Dhalac, and Dem. Rep. Yusuf Yusuf. Another location includes a property owned by Maine Immigrant and Refugee Services (MEIRS) founder Rilwan Osman, according to Maine Wire.
So far, officials have not suggested there is a link between the alleged migrant business fraud and local Democratic Party members....
The Maine politicians are not quite as sophisticated as the graft/corruption specialists politicians in Minnesota. That's why you see their names.
Don't have to post more than the headline for this one.
NFL Names First-Ever ‘Chief Kindness Officer’ to Promote Sportsmanship, Empathy, and Positivity
That'll work, right? Everyone in the NFL will now be a sportsman, empathetic, and positive.
Those are names which will become infamous.
It seems that Milwaukee County does not have a current health insurace contract. It has coverage--but it's a month-to-month extension of the old (expired) contract.
The Board is being hustled to approve the new proposal.
... Shock, confusion and concerns from officials at the Milwaukee County Committee on Finance meeting Thursday, after learning the county's current contract with UnitedHealthcare expired.
“How does this even happen?" said Steve Taylor, Milwaukee County Supervisor for the 17th District. "I mean this is 2025, this is crazy."
The healthcare contracts expiration, including their pharmacy benefits, came as a big surprise for Milwaukee County Officials who say they weren't informed of this until Thursday....
It gets worse. It seems that there is a "proposed contract" which is not very good for the County. And the County Board has to vote on it right quick. Who is trying to ram this through with its 'worst amendments' language? Did someone sit on the new proposal to force a quick vote??
...[County Supervisor] Taylor says now the County Board Supervisors are being rushed to make a decision on a proposed five-year healthcare contract.
"This five-year contract that we are going into is roughly a billion dollars," said Taylor. "It's healthcare for our employees using taxpayer dollars."
It’s a contract Taylor says raises a lot of red flags and the Milwaukee County Office of Comptroller says does not meet current standards.
"The amendments or the changes the outside of standardization that are in the 2009 contract, they are probably the worst I've ever seen," said [County Auditor] Folliard. ...
Who runs this zoo called 'the HR Department', anyway??
Arvis Williams is the HR Manager of Milwaukee County according to LinkedIn profile.
Jackie Russell is the Director of HR for Milwaukee County according to LinkedIn profile.
Tony Maze is Director, Benefits Administration for Milwaukee County according to ZoomInfo.
Hint to Andie Bernhardt at Channel 58: what are those 'worst I've ever seen' amendments? How much more will the new coverage cost compared to the last one? Who were the competitors for the contract? When did negotiations for the new contract begin? Who negotiated on behalf of the County?
Good luck finding Arvis and Jackie, Ms. Bernhardt!!
Until last week, the budget proposal included Department of Homeland Security funding for the next four years. But the Senate changed the budget bill--removing DHS funding entirely--thus the House has to re-vote on the amended bill.
Should the House approve, Trump signs off, and no shutdown.
DHS funding would be taken up separately. Rest assured that the Left will stall that funding for as long as possible.
Or will they? Enter the Establishment (see, e.g. Gingrich), which has inserted "stealth amnesty" language into the stew.
...The stealth amnesty got a big push forward on Tuesday night when Senate Democrats and Republicans agreed to delay passage of the 2026 funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security. The DHS bill is now being held back until Senate Democrats and Republicans can include a series of apparently minor changes that would create a huge bureaucratic barrier to the deportation of non-violent illegal migrants. ..
We are somewhat sympathetic to agriculture interests which have a unique problem that apparently calls for a large dose of immigrant labor, both temporary and near-permanent. We are NOT as forgiving about restaurants, car washes, (etc.) which can very easily find US citizen labor--for the right price.
Given that this is Government, the worst possible choices will be made and imposed upon us.
That's one way to do urban renewal.
...The IDF has finally fessed up to killing a minimum of 71,667 Palestinians since beginning its operations “against Hamas,” acknowledging that the Health Ministry’s casualty estimates are actually lower than the correct count. Israel has wounded at least an additional 171,343 people since its conflict began, and some assessments say the total number eclipses 500,000. ...
...The IDF’s own data show that 83% of those killed in Gaza were civilians. That means Israel now admits it has slaughtered nearly 60,000 innocents in response to October 7th, when Hamas killed under 825 noncombatants. American tax dollars funded the Netanyahu government’s atrocities every step of the way....
Based on the pictures of the rubble we see, this is not a surprise. The only surprise is that American authorities have not been keeping track and making it public--like, for example, to the taxpayers....
Brian Steil does not want any more Fake and Ghey elections.
Wisconsin Congressman Bryan Steil revealed Thursday, Jan. 29, his bill that could reshape U.S. elections.
The statement released Thursday says that the new bill, named Make Elections Great Again or MEGA Act, will "improve voter confidence, bolster election integrity and make it easy to vote but hard to cheat."
It highlights eight key reforms:
- Require photo identification to vote
- Require states to verify citizenship of individuals when registering to vote
- Implement stronger routine voter list maintenance requirements in states
- Require mail-in ballots to be received by the close of polls on election day
- Require states to use auditable paper ballots
- Ban ballot harvesting
- Ban ranked choice voting
- Ban universal vote by mail
Gee. Sorta like voting was from the founding until about 1980 or so.
Tony Evers will join a lawsuit to disembowel the bill as soon as his Widdle Feets allow.
Most of us have noticed that repeat felony offenders--even those with dead bodies on their record--seem to be back on the streets in Milwaukee very quickly.
There's a reason for that: they ARE. Very quickly. And they return to their habits of reckless driving, drugs, robbery, carjacking, ..........whatever. It's what they do.
Milwaukee County's District Attorney--and Milwaukee County judges--are the cause of this. And a few little old ladies have kept track.
Those numbers are terrible.
... judges gave lighter sentences than requested by prosecutors in 55% of the 335 reckless driving and police-fleeing cases they analyzed between May 1 and October 31, 2025....
.... The data reveals that probation was granted in 42% of all cases during the reporting period. Of the 214 cases involving repeat felons, 60 were still granted probation by judges....
... "Judges are the gatekeepers of what happens back into the community… A lot of cases result in probation for repeat felons… and so we challenged that — we don't want probation given anymore for a repeat felon," Lupo said....
Neither do we, or anyone else with common sense. But that "common sense" thing? It eliminates judges in Milwaukee County; they don't have common sense.
Carl Ashley goes for Mealy-Mouth-Bozo of the year with this response:
...Chief Judge Carl Ashley responded to the report in a statement.
"Judges must balance accountability, rehabilitation, deterrence, and public safety. Sentences are firm, fair, and guided by law - and meaningful change depends on an engaged community," Ashley said....
"Firm and fair"? Nobody thinks that, except you and the other blackrobe bozos.
(If you think that's bad, his daughter--also a sitting "judge"--is the laughingstock of the Milwaukee Police Department. Go ahead: just bring up her name in front of a cop. See what happens....)
Among the 20 million that Biden let loose on Americans.....
The Ozaukee County District Attorney's Office formally charged four men on Thursday, Jan. 29, in connection with a burglary investigation and tactical incident in the Town of Grafton. Three of the men are Colombian nationals....
They were not smart enough to hit Minneapolis, where they would have been protected by Frey, the Insolent Twit.
Notorious ambo-chaser Crump has bought his way in to the MPLS Mess.
He's the right guy, as Pam Bondi has a history of caving in to him at the drop of a hat.
Read the whole thing. Bondi stinks like hot sewage.
Here in Milwaukee we are subjected to the Minneapolis Propaganda every night on every local station. Apparently there is not enough news in the Milwaukee metro area to fill the 48 minutes they have.
You hear from Frey, the Insolent Twit. You hear from Walz--the future Major Fraud indictee. You hear from Ellison, another Future Indictee. You hear from various far-left lawyers and their professional-rioter clientele, both present and future. Soon you'll be hearing from one of Wisconsin's Most Leftist "Rights" Lawyers, too!! Boy o Boy, we can't wait...
But you did not hear this:
...St. Paul Police Federation President Mark Ross blamed state and local officials for the anti-ICE protest violence — saying that if highly trained cops were allowed to work with the feds, it likely would have prevented the killing of Renee Good and Alex Pretti…
“Had we been allowed just a little bit of coordination – not in terms of what ICE is doing, but if they say, ‘Hey, we need to go to this place to serve a warrant, we’re going to be out there a couple hours. We’re nervous that crowds are going to form and give us trouble. Can you come out and help?’ That’s something we can easily coordinate with a little bit of notice, and sometimes with hardly any notice, we can get out there quickly,” Ross said.......the leadership in our cities doesn’t want us communicating with the federal folks. And that disconnect has created some problems for everybody, and we’re stuck in the middle of it, and public safety is everybody’s responsibility,” he said.
“We want to be out there. We want to be keeping people safe, and it’s been really tough. We really feel like we’re in the middle of this, obviously, not by choice,” Ross added....
Yah. But that is counter to The Narrative.
So fuggedaboutit.
We won't copy/paste the whole thing, but you can click the link.
Border Czar Tom Homan gathered the press to update the nation on what has transpired in Minneapolis over the last few days. Homan made it perfectly clear: "We are not surrendering the president's mission on immigration enforcement."...
... "@POTUS promised the American people, including the residents of Minnesota, that he would work to ensure our communities are safe...this administration is absolutely focused on identifying removable aliens that pose a public safety threat and national security threats—and the numbers prove it."...
...We're not making this up folks: ICE is enforcing the laws enacted by Congress through a federal statute. That said, I am not here because the federal government has carried it's mission out perfectly[....] Nothing's ever perfect, anything can be improved upon.
The mission is going to improve because of the changes we are making.
I, along with others in the Administration have recognized that certain improvements could and should be made. That is exactly what I'm doing here....
Good.
Now let's see if the Insolent Twit Frey (and the co-conspirators Walz and Ellison) carry out their part of the bargain.
Trump gave this little bitch a chance to be a good Mayor.
Frey told Trump to pound sand.
...Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey declared on Tuesday that his city "will not enforce federal immigration laws" in the wake of a meeting with border czar Tom Homan.
Frey wrote, "Today, Chief O'Hara and I met with Border Czar Homan and had a productive conversation. I reiterated that my main ask is for Operation Metro Surge to end as quickly as possible. Public safety works best when it's built on community trust, not tactics that create fear or division."...
Trump offered to pull the op out of Minneapolis if Frey would cease his "sanctuary" policies and turn over criminally-convicted murderers, rapists, and terrorists who are here illegally.
Frey prefers to keep the murderers, rapists, and terrorists in Minneapolis.
This is precisely the model used in Czechoslovakia '48: the "pliers" move. Riots were arranged for in the streets, and officials in Governments (National, State, City) passed legislation sought by the revolutionaries. So Frey and Walz are doing exactly what the Communists did in Czechoslovakia to effect the Communist takeover.
Merely co-incidence, right?
It gets even thicker. A number of State AGs and lowly DA's are suing the Feds for made-up "crimes" and/or for general harassment purposes related to monetary grants, policies, etc. Note well: their "support" is very small and almost exclusively from AWFLs, aging male hippies, and paid "non-profit" figures. Mainstream Americans? Nope.
Do not visit Minneapolis. Do not visit Chicago. Do not visit Austin,TX. They will take your money and spit on you and yours.
Not surprising at all.
A federal appeals court on Monday blocked a lower-court judge’s restrictions on Immigration and Customs Enforcement tactics in Minnesota, handing the Trump administration a significant win as protests and legal challenges continue to surround federal immigration operations in the Twin Cities.
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an indefinite stay of a Jan. 16 order by U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez that sharply limited how federal officers could respond to protests tied to ICE activity in Minneapolis. The stay will remain in effect while the government’s appeal proceeds....
Looks more and more as if the Fed lower courts need Remedial Constitution 101 studies.
Here's a clear-eyed history of the Democrat-Farm-Labor Party in Minnesota. It will help you to understand where all the money is coming from (hint: Communists here and abroad) and how deeply ingrained this is in that State.
...Working from inside the Democratic Party, Hubert Humphrey helped engineer the merger. The Farmer-Labor Party was riddled with Communists. Humphrey knew it, but he had no trouble working with them. At the time he was a Popular Front kind of guy with no enemies to the left.
Packing the 1946 party caucuses, Communists promptly took over the DFL in Hennepin County (including all of Minneapolis) and in the state. Then Minneapolis Mayor Humphrey could not even get elected a delegate to the state convention. Communists picked up no fewer than 120 of the 160 Hennepin County delegates. In Minneapolis’s Second Ward, both Humphrey and his ally Arthur Naftalin (future Minneapolis mayor and father of Paul Butterfield Blues Band keyboardist Mark Naftalin) went down to defeat....
It got worse for Humphrey.
... Humphrey was nevertheless named a delegate at large to the state party convention, where he was to serve as keynote speaker. As Humphrey rose to speak, however, he was shouted down as a “fascist” and “warmonger.” In his meticulous 1984 biography Humphrey, Carl Solberg records: “A beefy sergeant at arms shouted at him, ‘Sit down, you son of a bitch, or I’ll knock you down.’ He was not allowed to finish his speech.” Solberg comments: “It was an outright coup.”...
However, things changed--temporarily.
... [Humphrey] organized a successful counterattack on the Communists to throw them out of the party. By 1948, the task was more or less complete and Humphrey was on his way to national prominence....
Then the inevitable reconquista:
...Now Minneapolis appears to be ground zero of the revolution fomented by the radical left and its shock troops among the Antifa/Black Lives Matter gang. They are idiot Marxists who substitute the categories of race for the categories of class in the service of the revolution.
Their local supporters are already embedded in our political institutions. Fifth District Rep. Ilhan Omar sits in Congress and comes to town occasionally to rouse the rabble. Former Nation of Islam hustler Keith Ellison burrows from the inside as Minnesota Attorney General. Tim Walz mouths the obligatory platitudes and shibboleths as nominal leader of the state. Amy Klobuchar — the most popular Democrat in the state — has gone along for the ride. ...
The Communists Party was very active in Milwaukee, too.
...The party was also very active in Milwaukee’s labor movement, particularly in the Congress of Industrial Organizations’ unionization drives of the 1930s and 1940s. Most notably, Milwaukee communists assisted workers with organizing the CIO union, UAW Local 248, at Allis-Chalmers in 1937....
Russia overplayed its hand in the post-war period, which is why:
...In November 1949, at its eleventh annual convention in Cleveland, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) expelled two member unions—the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America and the Farm Equipment Workers—for their alleged disloyalty to the CIO and support for the Communist Party. Within a year, an additional nine affiliates had been expelled....
George Meany--a genuine US patriot--ran the AFL and stomped out the CIO Communists--but the UAW's leadership right through Walter Reuther remained hard-Left, surviving only because the industries they organized were generally very profitable, thus being able to meet most of the UAW's demands.
You will note that there are some parallels here. Baldwin and Evers, also 'popular Democrats' are mouthing the obligatory platitudes, as is the Really Dumb Mayor of Milwaukee. Pocan of Madison and several other Democrats voice the (Communist) party line, duly transcribed by the "press." But Milwaukee's VERY strong Roman Catholic presence countered the Communist pressures effectively. Minnesota--particularly Minneapolis--does not have that strong a R.C. influence. That IS the difference--so far.
(By the way, Milwaukee's Labor Press was still going strong in the '60's and '70's. Fred Taylor was the publisher, and a very affable fellow. He didn't wear a hammer-and-sickle lapel pin, but......)
The resident lawyer at Grim's place found this.
Modern corporate training is built to produce a checkbox, not a mechanic. Modern consumer documentation is built to win a deposition, not to teach you anything. Modern “how-to” media is built to monetize attention, not to transfer skill. Those are three different poisons, but the lawyers are the one that made the first two mandatory.
And you can see the societal consequences everywhere. Repair literacy collapses. Trades become credential-gated while simultaneously deskilled. People lose the ability to reason from symptoms to causes. Everything becomes a black box serviced by a priesthood. Machines become disposable because maintenance is treated as unauthorized tampering. The consumer gets trained into passivity. The worker gets trained into compliance.
Having been subjected to "check-box" training, we can say this analysis is 100% correct. And that's not the worst of it; they didn't bring up HR practices which are far worse in long-term effects on companies and their customers.
Lesson? Find someone who learned by doing and using COMMON SENSE.
One of the good guys infiltrated the Signal chat-room of the insurrectionist scum in MPLS.
Somebody is paying a crap-ton of money to organize and maintain the network. That network includes teachers--no surprise if you're even distantly acquainted with the MN Teachers' Union types. They make WI teachers' union look like Ron Reagan backers.....
Would be a shame if..............ach...........nevermind.
We all know the facts. ICE is in Minneapolis because that city is a "sanctuary," meaning that City and State LEO's will not cooperate with ICE in removing dangerous illegal aliens--nor in removing illegals who were ordered to get the Hell out of the country but defied said order.
That means that ICE had to do the job alone, and as soon as that began, a national network of hard-Left insurrectionists, including Black Lives Matter and the Party for Socialism and Liberation, paid hundreds (thousands??) of Rent-A-Riot lowlifes to show up and create as much trouble as possible.
And they did.
Both Minneapolis AND Minnesota refuse to provide LEO assistance to ICE, meaning the number of ICE personnel had to be greatly increased in order to round up and deport the thousands of illegals living in the Twin Cities area.
The chaos surrounding the arrests resulted in two deaths, the second of which happened yesterday.
Fox6 Milwaukee got reactions from four Democrats and ZERO Republicans. Channel 12 carried reactions from even more Lefties. That was fast; we could surmise that the Lefties had their statements ready to go before the rioter was in the ambulance. (Don't bet against that.)
Either the Republicans are napping--which is their habit--or Fox6's "reporters" simply stacked the deck--which is not their usual style.
Schimming's "leadership" of the party.........well.......it hasn't been auspicious, has it?
Ace has a lot of fun with his blog.
... I think men should be tested for estrogen and if they have too much, like this pussy, they should be drafted into a special military unit. In war, they will be projectiles....
Bring Back the Trebuchet!!!
In the "Lefties Usually Always Lie" book--beginning with the Big Lie in Roe v Wade, we have another one. (We could go back further than Roe, but we would run out of numbers. Just think of Hitler's--or Stalin's--promises.)
...According to 39-year-old William Vermie, he was doing little more than standing on the sidewalk observing ICE agents detain an individual in his Minneapolis neighborhood on January 13th, when he got swept up by officers himself.
He ran straight to ABC News about the incident.
"They read me my rights and asked me if I wanted to answer any questions without a lawyer, and I said no," Vermie claimed in an interview. "And then they said, 'You'll have an opportunity to contact one later.'"...
That's called "LYING BY OMISSION." What did this Lefty Liar omit?
FACT CHECK. This individual was arrested for assaulting a law enforcement officer—a felony and a federal crime. All detainees have the opportunity to communicate with their family and lawyer.Oh. Well.
Never Mind.
Pp. Leo made the correct call here.
... By now it shouldn’t be surprising when Catholic clergy counter-signal President Trump. It happened first when Pope Francis attacked him for wanting to build a border wall in 2016. It happened in December of last year when Leo indirectly rebuked him for his peace plan in Ukraine, which he said would “break apart” the U.S.’s “alliance” with Europe. And it happened again earlier this month when three of the most liberal members of the American Church’s hierarchy pushed back on his foreign policy....
There's a reason that it would 'break apart' the US alliance with Europe: Trump wants to break it up. Europe--especially NATO--has been a major drag on the US; its globalism is stupidity on steroids, and a pain in the ass to boot. So when Trump decided to let Europe defend Europe, it was America First--a good thing.
But there's more!
Those three "liberal" (read: committed Leftists) Cardinals allegedly spoke up after Leo gave them the thumbs up. (Maybe he did; maybe he didn't. Leo ain't telling).
It is too bad that Leo & Co. do not like US foreign policy under Trump. Let us take a moment and weep./sarc
Now let's hear preaching about homosexual conduct (a vice) and artificial birth control (another vice.) You know: Catholic moral imperatives.
Otherwise, please sit down and shut up.
There are rules about this.
Green Bay Packers player Rasheed Walker was arrested at LaGuardia Airport Friday morning after he tried to check a bag that contained a handgun and ammunition, prosecutors said.
The 25-year-old offensive lineman was taken into custody just before 11 a.m. after telling a Delta Air Lines employee that his luggage contained a locked box holding his 9mm Glock pistol, according to a criminal complaint.
Port Authority police were alerted and responded to Terminal C, where they searched his bag and found the firearm and 36 rounds of ammo secured in the locked case....
Obviously, Walker had no malicious intent, or he would not have disclosed the location of the gun.
But that doesn't make any difference to the cops. They have to arrest him.
IN YOUR CHECKED LUGGAGE, DECLARED!!
The new Super of MPS sees a budget bloodbath coming.
.. "I just want to make sure you understand all of the implications of every decision you have to make," said Dr. Brenda Cassellius at Thursday's school board meeting. "I will also be bringing cuts -- deep, deep cuts -- into the district for contracting and central office and across the board."...
Hmmmmm.
The teachers' union--a very obnoxious bunch--is demanding a 2.6% raise, which will cost about $55 million. But the District already faces a $100 million shortfall, and you can be sure that Robin Vos told the Super that the suckers taxpayers are in Full Revolt Mood. If he didn't, he should, especially after the $250 MILLION fraud MPS perpetrated on Milwaukee taxpayers a couple of years ago.
Expect a teachers strike. And if the Super has guts, expect to see strike-breakers, too. That may be the only way to save MPS. If nothing else, a strike by the highest-paid and most-richly-benefitted union in the State will tell you that the Teachers' Union priorities are NOT the children in school.
Oh--and buy popcorn futures!
Too bad. She's good at singing, although past her prime by a bit.
Renée Fleming has withdrawn from two scheduled May appearances at the Kennedy Center, the latest in a wave of cancellations since President Donald Trump ousted the previous leadership...
There's always Minneapolis, Renee. They haven't burned down their symphony hall---yet.
Trump's plan is working. Deporting millions of illegals (criminals or not) means US citizens will get higher wages. That is already in progress, as overall wages are up about $1,200/year/person.
Another way to learn that? Read the Wailing and Ululations from restaurant trade-pubs.
...In an opinion piece for Restaurant Business posted on Friday, Jonathan Maze pointed to restaurants in the Minneapolis area being shut down off and on amid ICE operations, and how it affects business:
Fewer workers mean restaurants will once again have to compete for employees the only way they can, by paying higher wages. Wages over the next two years are expected to accelerate, according to Oxford Economics, from 3.7% this year to 5.6% by 2027. That won’t just affect restaurants, either. Because these food-producing industries will lose workers, too. And if they have to start competing more aggressively for workers, then that will lead to higher prices for meat or vegetables....
Not stated in that quote: the number of restaurants is going to shrink as the price of materials and labor increases into a price-sensitive market. We are seeing restaurant closings in MKE already, probably due to the fact that 'boutique' places--by design--do not have large customer bases. The next wave of closings will be related to self-deportations and price increases.
The money? It will be going to American citizens!
Certain pro-life (but TDS-afflicted) people will find a way to kvetch about this, too. We don't know how, but they will.
Vice President JD Vance announced on Friday that the Trump administration has executed a “historic expansion” of the Mexico City Policy to block the promotion of abortion abroad.
Vance made the announcement at the 53rd annual March for Life in Washington, DC, marking his second time speaking at the largest annual human rights demonstration in the world. The vice president said the expansion of the Mexico City Policy will now include “blocking every international non-governmental organization that performs or promotes abortion abroad from receiving a dollar of U.S. money.”...
Every. Single. One.
Since the Bolt sold mainly to State/Local governments run by worshipers of the Green Goddess, it won't be missed at all.
OTOH, the Envision is a nice crossover.
The Assembly and Senate in Wisconsin are going to approve two bills forbidding boys in girls' sports and boys in girls' locker rooms.
Will Tony Evers deny that boys and girls are different sexes?
...AB 100 and AB 102 had a hearing in the Senate earlier this month and both have since been approved by the committee. I look forward to getting both through the full Senate and onto the Governor's desk in the coming weeks....Hutton newsletter 1/25/26
By the way: where is the Conservative PR campaign about these bills??
Is RPW's Schimming holding forth in its Madistan club bar, having leisurely cocktails with campaign "consultants" who get paid very well to lose elections for SCOWI?
Just asking, Brian. Inquiring minds, and all that.
With Greenland under his belt, and Venezuela (plus Mexico, Cuba, Colombia) on notice, Trump has just put the flares in the air over 1) NATO, and 2) the United Grift Nations.
THIS IS WHAT WE VOTED FOR!!
Childers makes a good point.
... Like corporate media, BlueSky’s progressives were uncharacteristically muted about the arrests [of the church invaders in MPLS]. Those who did comment tossed around terms like “authoritarianism” and “perversion of justice.” But that predictable narrative is failing to grip, largely because America watched thousands of peaceful Capitol Hill tourists prosecuted in 2021-2024, while also watching the Summer of Love protestors released without charges— after torching federal buildings and occupying police stations.
It is therefore unsurprising that the majority of Americans remain unmoved by leftists’ predictable complaints about being shoved into police cruisers after raiding churches. It is also truly remarkable how the J6 persecutions have made lefty arrests politically possible. Funny how things work out. At this point, many Americans might even be described as enthusiastic about the latest arrests....
Childers also observed that with three cellphones now in the hands of the Feds, a lot more VERY interesting contacts and contact-timing will be unearthed. Can you spell E-L-L-I-S-O-N?
Heh.
Smith--acting just like Jack Smith--perjured himself.
It's right here, on tape, pointed out by someone who knows.
Yet the LeftyDummies (they all are) crow that THIS IS THE PASSAGE which proves Trump should have been impeached.
Trump 'believed' what he said. Can't be lying if he 'believed' it.
Looks like a lot of pro-life people never heard of Wisconsin. In this State, two SCOWI "justices" were elected based solely on their commitment to allow baby-killing. Nearly 100% of their advertising was about the abortion issue. And it won for them.
But that fact does not prevent pro-lifers from screeching that Trump is a big fat rat.
One has to wonder if some of these pro-lifers are actually anti-Trumpers with a convenient platform.
Trump has made life very difficult for Planned Parenthood (Medicaid funding cut), and he continues to do so with inconvenient probes into their finances. Remember that PP has to pay a lot of money to THEIR lawyers and accountants to defend their position(s.)
Trump has cut off the baby-parts-selling business totally.
Trump is asking questions about Mifepristone approvals from FDA.
Threatening Trump with Not Voting is ill-advised at best, utterly stupid and self-defeating at worst.
Don't do it.
Amid the obvious breakdown in the accuracy of referee calls and the growing suspicion that some games are "mysteriously" 'won' or 'lost'---coincidental with the NFL's partnership with online bookie operations---it now appears that the NFL will commit suicide even faster.
Whispers from Super Bowl LX production circles point to Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime show breaking barriers with a dress tribute to Puerto Rican queer pioneers and drag's defiant history. ...
It will take a while for NFL's revenue-stream to collapse, but football fans are not going to be hugging queers or exposing their children to Fancy-Dress Perverts.
What will Green Bay hotels and restaurants do? Half of their economy is built around 8-10 games.
The USA is no longer a prisoner of the World "Health" Organization.
FREE AT LAST!!
The Usual Suspects--SEIU, Democrat Socialist Party, Teachers' Union, and the UAW (!) are pushing for a Big March-Around in Minneapolis today at 4:00 PM.
Temperature will be -10 degrees.
We hope 10,000 of these scumbags turn out. Why?
Frostbite is a bitch.
After only 30 years in business, Berrada Properties managed to become infamous for its continuous failures in managing the upkeep of its rental properties. Perhaps Youssef thinks that Third-World standards should be brought here?
The City of Milwaukee has limited options--that is, the City cannot "fix" the plumbing and heating systems.
But Barrada's bankers must be getting very, very, nervous, because the City--after the usual courtroom stuff--can issue condemnation orders.
That drops the value of the property to near-zero, and if you're the bank holding that mortgage, you are in trouble.
Watch the action with the banks.
You're an illegal and you've had your immigration-court hearing.
The judge issued a "Get the Hell Out of Here" order, which you ignored because Joe Biden.
Then Trump came along.
... An ICE memo obtained by The Associated Press is directing federal immigration officers to use force to enter homes without a signed judge’s warrant, marking a "seemingly unconstitutional" reversal of longstanding practice. ...
The AssPress found "experts". Well, actually, ONE lawprof from Cardozo in New York City.
...Lindsay Nash, a law professor at Yeshiva University’s Cardozo School of Law...said there’s an "enormous potential for overreach, for mistakes and we’ve seen that those can happen with very, very serious consequences."...
"Potential". "Mistakes" "can happen" ..... Three ways of saying "I don't like this policy but can't find anything explicitly wrong with it."
Here's the reality (credit to AssPress for including it):
...Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin told the AP that everyone the department serves with an administrative warrant has already had "full due process and a final order of removal."
She said the officers issuing those warrants have also found probable cause for the person’s arrest. She said the Supreme Court and Congress have "recognized the propriety of administrative warrants in cases of immigration enforcement," without elaborating....
Shall we play "Expert" here? Why not? Can't be any worse than the clown-show AssPress brings to the party.
When Homeland Security says '.......officers also found probable cause......for arrest,' it means that the goblin in question continued his/her criminal enterprises even AFTER the final "Get the Hell Out of Here" order was issued.
And whaddya wanna bet that SCOTUS allowed those raids under those specific circumstances?
Yup. Another AssPress innuendo-and-rumor story. One "expert" on the side of Chaos, no "expert" who is on the side of Right Order........the typical B.S.
This is amusing.
... The new Milwaukee County Board proposal says this: Law enforcement needs written authorization before staging in Milwaukee County Parks...
Since it's Milwaukee, "law enforcement" actually means "ICE," the outfit that's hauling rapists, murderers, and drug-dealers out of the USA. Apparently this committee values the rapists, murderers, and drug-dealers more than the rest of the citizens in SE Wisconsin.
But you knew that already.
But there's a problem.
... "Many of the local chiefs have expressed concern about this, where even some have said: then we just won’t go into the parks, which is what [County Parks] Director Smith and the sheriff’s office do not want to happen, because we rely heavily on each other to keep all 160-plus parks and parkways safe," said Milwaukee County Sheriff Chief Deputy Brian Barkow....
Whoops! Whoopsie!!
So the Milwaukee County Board committee--in effect--just voted to keep Milwaukee County Parks UNSAFE.
That'll be a great tourism poster, eh?
The Walz/Democrat Insurrection in Minnesota makes perfect sense if you understand what ICE is doing--that is, removing illegals and their fraud-Democrat Party financing schemes just before the 2030 Census.
... what’s causing the crisis in Minnesota is the Democratic Party’s increasingly desperate effort to maintain its viability in the face of Trump’s populist challenge. A year ago, David Catron explained ... the reapportionment of House seats (and the related impact on the Electoral College) after the 2030 Census...
McCain quotes Catron's essay:
...The left-leaning Brennan Center for Justice, for example, estimates that California will lose four [House] seats and New York will lose two. Likewise, Illinois, Minnesota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin will probably lose one seat each.
Which states will gain House seats and Electoral College votes? Florida and Texas are likely to pick up four seats, while Arizona, Idaho, North Carolina and Utah will gain one each. It’s no coincidence that Democrat governors in blue states which stand to lose clout in Congress and the Electoral College oppose President Trump’s immigration policies, particularly deportation. Why? The Census Bureau counts people rather than citizens. That includes “unauthorized migrants.” …
Consequently, any state with a large population of illegal immigrants has a substantial political incentive to resist attempts by the Trump administration to deport them....
Doh.
Along with those losses, which are extremely significant, comes the severe diminution of Party coffers, which are currently being fattened by Somali-like frauds which kick back hundreds of millions to their patrons, which are 99.44/100ths Pure Democrat.
Got it?
It's existential.
McCain's essay goes into early US history--which is interesting--and comes out here:
...Like the New Englanders of the early 1800s, the liberal elites of the 21st century fear being frozen out of power. “The Blue Model of government,” as Ben Weingarten calls it, is fiscally unsustainable, especially because it inspires so many productive citizens to “vote with their feet” by moving to taxpayer-friendly states like Florida and Texas.
Consider this: In 1984, when Ronald Reagan won a 49-state landslide, Minnesota was the only state that went for Democrat Walter Mondale, a native son of Minnesota. That deprived Reagan of 10 Electoral College votes. Minnesota still has 10 Electoral College votes, but that’s likely to be reduced to nine after the 2030 Census. Meanwhile, the states of Texas and Florida, which had a total of 50 Electoral College votes between them in 1984, now have 70 Electoral College votes combined, and will have even more after 2030.
The Red states are booming; Blue states like Minnesota are fading, and the fight over deporting illegal immigrants is part of a frantic attempt by Democrats to hold onto power....
It is NOT an accident that Wisconsin's Election Commission (and its D-dominated judiciary) are doing their damndest to prevent fair elections and transparent audit-and-review of those. And if you object that "Robin Vos is doing the same thing," well, yes, he is, and for the same reason. Being the #2 banana in a 10-electoral vote State is a LOT more significant than being the #2 banana in a 9- or 8-vote State. Robin likes his perks, too.
Jamie Dimon is the Big Kahuna at JPMorgan Chase, a Big Kahuna Bank in New York City.
His Big Kahuna Bank issues lots of credit cards getting interest rates of anywhere between 15-30%. That's an excellent return, to say the least. Some would call it "Usury," but let's not get hung up there.
Dimon started screaming like a stuck pig about Trump's desire to max out credit card rates at 10%. Dimon predicted all sorts of maladies beginning with 'some people will not get (usurious-rate) credit,' then moving to 'the economy will collapse if people cannot get credit cards,' and going apocalyptic over the Rise of the Oceans and Baking of the Plains.
Well, maybe he didn't say that last thing.
Anyhow, why is Jamie really crying?
Trump-ism writ large. The Treehouse has the story.
...As noted in the beginning of the WEF panel discussion by Christine Legarde, the construct of global economics was built upon a foundation of interdependent trade dependencies. If nations are no longer reliant upon other nations for sourcing of goods and services, the global construct of banking and finance then begins to collapse.
Globalism in its economic construct is a series of dependencies. If those dependencies are severed, if each country has the ability to feed, produce and innovate independently, then the entire dependency model around globalism collapses.
Within the globalism model that was historically created there was a group of people, western nations, banks, finance and various government leaders, who controlled the organization and rules of the trade dependencies. The action being taken for self-sufficiency, in combination with the approach promoted by President Trump that each nation state should generate their own needs, then the rules-based order that has existed for global trade will collapse. ...
IOW, Jamie and his ilk--they are Legion--will become near-irrelevant. They will no longer make the rules, they will no longer be a necessary global evil.........and if you combine that with a cap of 10% on credit cards, Jamie and his cabal may have to live on compensation packages of far less than $50 million/year.
Awwwwww........
Another of the cases in which Milwaukee County twits allow dangerous people to party on with only a $500.00 cash bail.
.. According to a criminal complaint, Gerard Washington, 34, tried to hide an AR-15 in branches and foliage after fleeing from officers and crashing his car....
He (allegedly) attempted to strangle his girlfriend back in '23. But that's not serious, is it? So Kristy Yang let this animal run free with only a $500.00 bond.
You can look up Washington's case on CCAP.
One wonders what excuse Kristy Yang has for her action here, but then........oh, well.........it's Milwaukee County's court system.
The cost of 'data center' electricity will be shoved onto your electric bill if Democrats have their way.
Even worse, the Democrats are happy to add more Green Goddess (their false god) costs to you, too!
...Under the Republican-backed proposal, the Public Service Commission would be responsible for ensuring that no utility costs associated with serving large data centers are passed on to other customers. ...
Democrats copy/pasted the PSC's claims they cannot possibly do that math because they--the PSC--will be confused, or sumpin' sumpin'.
They raised the cost of electricity by THREE HUNDRED PERCENT in the last 20 years. Why? To sacrifice you to their Green Goddess. So 'confusion' over protecting lunchbucket Joe is nothing new to them.
And they want even more of your blood for her:
...The Republican proposal calls for all renewable energy for the data centers to be located onsite. Supporters say the provision addresses community concerns about large-scale renewable projects....
...Democrats argue the requirement would limit renewable options....
Yes. That's the point. Spreading Green Goddess sun-catchers and windmills all over the place is merely another form of pollution and--as we all know--it's also "maybe on, maybe off" power. So the data centers will also have to build their own reliable power sources (coal, gas, nuclear) which the Democrats want YOU to pay for.
By the way: AI is not all it's cracked up to be. This mad rush to put up buildings is .......nuts.
Last night's "news" brought triumphant squawks from the Coiffed Ones that 'US consumers are paying the cost of tariffs according to a [Kiel] study.'
Well, that 'study' has major flaws which the Coiffed Ones will not mention.
...Their key finding is a coefficient of −0.039, with a standard error of 0.024, significant only at the 10 percent level. For non-statisticians: this means the estimate is quite noisy. With 25.6 million observations in their dataset, achieving only marginal statistical significance suggests enormous underlying variation in the data. ...
...The deeper flaw lies in what happens when tariffs reduce imports, which is exactly what the study says occurred. The authors report import values and volumes fell by roughly 28-33 percent. This is where their methodology breaks down....
That's because exporters stopped selling the low-priced goods. Why? Because they could not take the hit to margins required by both maintaining their low price AND paying the tariffs.
Finally:
...the Kiel data only goes to HS6, a much broader category that might simply be “frozen beef.” In short, they are measuring tariffs with a ruler and prices with a yardstick.
This means when the authors assign a tariff rate to their data, they’re using an average across products that actually face quite different tariffs. Some sub-products within “frozen beef” might face 50 percent tariffs while others face 10 percent. The mismatch means their tariff variable is measured with error.
The consequence is predictable: when your key independent variable is noisy, statistical results get biased toward finding no effect. And “no effect” of tariffs on unit values is exactly what the authors interpret as “full pass-through to Americans.” ...
So are YOU paying the tariffs?
Not nearly as much as the Coiffed Ones want you to believe. Not even close.
