The Next EV Problem Is Even Bigger

It's now as plain as the sun in the sky:  electric vehicles (EV's) are a serious drag on the market.  No one is buying them.  Ford found out, Tesla found out, Volvo found out........and the list goes on.

The Virtue-Signal Suburban Twits who bought some of those things are going to have a very nasty surprise coming up, too.  Let's take Rivian, for example.  They're almost at the point of bankruptcy and collapse.  It's likely they will be history before 12/31/24.

OK. So?

So.......if you own a Rivian, and you have an occurrence 3 years from now that requires Rivian parts, where are you going to get those?

Hmmmmm?

Tammy Loves Those Illegals

Baldwin supports the Illegal Invasion and the businesses of child- and sex-trafficking, plus Deadly Drug Importation.  You wonder who's paying her off, no?

...The Senate voted along party lines 51 - 48, with Sen. Lisa Murkowski voting 'present,' to kill the first article against the Homeland Security secretary. Over an hour later, the second article was squarely voted down 51-49. ...

Thus confirming Tammy's love for the cartels, drug-deaths, and The Invasion.

And she has the nerve to run an ad about her "work" to end drug trafficking.

The Gun Question Channel 4 Did NOT Ask

We are amused by the propaganda.

Channel 4 ran a "360" on the topic of "smart guns."  These are weapons which are disabled unless a certain person uses them.

You will note that the reporter did NOT ask the most important question:  DO THEY WORK EVERY TIME?

See, guns are used for defense of self and others, and for defending the country from..........say..........tyrants.

On the question of "self-defense," that gun better work the second you need it, right?

Does it?  Ryan Jenkins doesn't ask the question.

But we have a hint for you:  does your smartphone activate when your thumb is wet?

Clown Gallagher's Loyalty? Ukraine

Gallagher, who betrayed his constituents, will soil the halls of Congress for one extra day.

To send $60 BILLION to Ukraine, of course.

How We PO'd Iran

Actually, how England made the US their cat's paw so that the US would be the primary Bad Guy and England would try to look innocent.  Here Wauck quotes Jeff Sachs:

..."In 1953, Iran had a democratically elected and popular prime minister named [Mohammad] Mosaddegh.

The British secret service, MI6, and the US CIA teamed up to overthrow the Iranian government and to install a police state—why?

Because Britain wanted control over Iranian oil to continue.

Britain had been essentially the imperial power of the region.

Then came a democratically elected government after World War II that had the audacity to think that maybe that oil had something to do with Iran, not just with Britain.

And so, the Brits and the Americans said, 'Time to overthrow this guy. We don't allow people to have their own thoughts about their own country's interests.'*

That is one of the first of what became dozens and dozens of US regime change operations.

It's notable because MI6—and the British imperial behavior—was the mentor of the CIA on how to do it....

And here all this time you thought that the 1776 thing was supposed to separate the US from Britain.  That "special relationship" fawned over by various Presidents is special, indeed:  we get to make enemies on behalf of England.

And pay for it, too!!

*Note that The Blob/Deep State is nothing if not consistent.  You, too, are not allowed to have your own thoughts about your own country's interests.

Rep. Massie IS a Problem

Massie, who thinks he's the smartest man in the land, joined with MTG's resolution to oust Speaker Johnson.

When that happens, other Republicans will resign their House positions, as did Gallagher.  That will leave the Democrats in control of the House, just as they are in control of the Senate.

...When the U.S. Supreme Court reinstituted Donald Trump on the federal election ballots of the five leftist states who removed him, the high court noted that disqualifying a person from presidential office could only be done by congress, not by the individual states....

Massie knows this, as does Gallagher (Ryan's butt-buddy).  You can bet good money that Ryan is pulling all the strings he can (as is McCarthy) to roll that plan forward.

MTG?  Her dalliances with McCarthy are not a secret.  There's a reason for everything.

 

What Else Does FISA Renewal Contain?

We'll have to go back to smoke signals and/or face-to-face comms.

... Under current law, the government can compel “electronic communications service providers” that have direct access to communications to assist the NSA in conducting Section 702 surveillance.

In practice, that means companies like Verizon and Google must turn over the communications of the targets of Section 702 surveillance. (The targets must be foreigners overseas, although the communications can—and do—include communications with Americans.)

Through a seemingly innocuous change to the definition of “electronic communications surveillance provider,” an amendment offered by House intel committee (HPSCI) leaders and passed by the House vastly expands the universe of entities that can be compelled to assist the NSA.

If the bill becomes law, any company or individual that provides ANY service whatsoever may be forced to assist in NSA surveillance, as long as they have access to equipment on which communications are transmitted or stored—such as routers, servers, cell towers, etc. That sweeps in an enormous range of U.S. businesses that provide wifi to their customers and therefore have access to equipment on which communications transit. Barber shops, laundromats, fitness centers, hardware stores, dentist’s offices… the list goes on and on.

It also includes commercial landlords that rent out the office space where tens of millions of Americans go to work every day—offices of journalists, lawyers, nonprofits, financial advisors, health care providers, and more.

The amendment even extends to service providers who come into our homes. House cleaners, plumbers, people performing repairs, and IT services providers have access to laptops and routers inside our homes and could be forced to serve as surrogate spies.

None of these people or businesses would be allowed to tell anyone about the assistance they were compelled to provide. They would be under a gag order, and they would face heavy penalties if they failed to comply with it.

That’s not even the worst part. Unlike Google and Verizon, most of these businesses and individuals lack the ability to isolate and turn over a target’s communications. So they would be required to give the NSA access to the equipment itself or to use techniques or devices (presumably provided by the NSA) to copy and turn over entire communications streams and/or repositories of stored communications, which would inevitably include vast quantities of wholly domestic communications.

The NSA, having wholesale access to domestic communications on an unprecedented scale, would then be on the “honor system” to pull out and retain only the communications of approved foreign targets. (Let that sink in.)

HPSCI leaders deny that the administration has any intent to use this provision so broadly. Supposedly, there is a single type of service provider that the government wants to rope in. But they didn’t want anyone to know what that service provider was so they hid the real goal by writing the amendment as broadly and vaguely as possible. But no worries, Americans! The administration isn’t actually going to USE all the power it just persuaded the House to give it.

I cannot overstate how mindblowingly irresponsible that is. I don’t think *any* administration should be trusted with an Orwellian power like this one. But even if *this* administration doesn’t plan to make full use of it… (Go ahead and fill in the blank.)...

Not too distant future......

Buy.  More.  Ammo.

Re-Thinking Van Orden (R-WI)

Rep. Van Orden gave an interview to Wisconsin Right Now explaining his vote(s) on FISA.  As you recall, he voted for moving it to a final vote, then against it.

Huh?

Turns out he has a good explanation which also makes the (R) members of the Rules committee look like fools or knaves, maybe both.  (See a list of those fools/knaves at the end of this post.)

Van Orden's complaint is this:  the Rules Committee moved the renewal with a search-warrant requirement, BUT that warrant requirement came into play whenever there was a "US person" as a subject.  The definition of "US person" covers anyone living (or merely being) in the US--which includes, by regulation, illegals, known terrorists who entered illegally and are in Brookfield (e.g.), etc.

IOW, the warrant requirement passed by Rules Republicans would significantly burden Intel were they looking at a known terrorist who is in telephone contact with anyone else in the US, or in a terror-sponsoring country.

In other words, Van Orden was absolutely correct in his votes.  And he's also not stupid:  he acknowledges that the FBI, CIA, NSA, (et al) will violate the law any time they damn well please no matter what the law says, and no matter the Fourth Amendment.  His remedy for that:  find 'em,  prosecute them, and jail them.  (Our remedy would take a lot less time and only call for a helicopter.)

As to Rules Committee Republicans, stupid or knave or both:

Burgess, Reschenthaler, Fischbach, Massie, Norman, Roy, Houchin, Langworthy, and Scott.

A Picture for the Stupid

 And by "stupid" we mean Congress.

The Expensive and Useless FBI

 You will notice that the FBI has been pushing its "We're Really Good Guys" stories in the local and national press (and through its bought-and-paid-for propaganda partnership with Dick Wolf and CBS.)

That's because the "Good Guys" crap is the shiny object covering for their politicized thrust and their uselessness against KNOWN threats.

...The FBI knew in advance of the Pulse Nightclub shooter (Omar Mateen) and were tipped off by the local sheriff. The FBI knew in advance of the San Bernardino Terrorists (Tashfeen Malik). The FBI knew in advance of the Boston Marathon Bombers (the Tsarnaev brothers) tipped off by Russians.  The FBI knew in advance of the Parkland High School shooter (Nikolas Cruz). The FBI knew in advance of the Fort Hood shooter (Nidal Hasan), and the FBI knew in advance of Colorado grocery store shooter Ahmad al-Aliwi Alissa.  The FBI took no action.

The case of the first recorded ISIS attack on U.S. soil was in Garland, Texas in 2015.

The FBI not only knew the shooters (Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi) in advance, BUT the FBI ALSO took the shooters to the venue and were standing only a few yards away when Simpson and Soofi opened fire.  Yes, you read that correctly – the FBI took the terrorists to the event and then watched it unfold. ...

Speaker Johnson rewarded the FBI with a nice new office building in the budget.  You wonder how much bigger that building could be if the FEEBS imprisoned (or shot-on-sight) Trump supporters and/or Latin Mass Catholics.

You might find out soon!  There's an election coming up.

Another Tranny: Sex Assault + Murder

These are people with grave mental disorders.

A transgender woman who identified as a vampire has been convicted of sexually terrorizing a 16-year-old Wisconsin girl with learning difficulties - while under investigating for a strangling a man to death in her home.

Adam 'Sabrina' Hetke, 35, has already been jailed twice for sex offences against women dating back to 2007, and police warned that she had a 'high probability to reoffend' when she was released in 2016.

But she was free to scare the young teen into jumping out of her bedroom window after following her home from a Waukesha gas station with a knife and sexually assaulting her in July 2021....

 ...Just weeks before the sex assault, Hetke allegedly admitted strangling a man to death in Milwaukee, after telling a friend: 'I killed him. God can't bring him back but I can because I'm the devil.'...

They do commit a lot of murders, don't they?

The Real Meaning of "Clean Energy"

Wisconsin Electric has announced another rate-hike request.  If they get it, you will be paying about 25% MORE for electricity than you were paying in 2020.

Almost all of that increase is due to WE's embrace of "clean" energy:  sun-catchers and windmills, plus the accumulated 'stuff' needed to put those up.

So now you know the real meaning of the term "Clean Energy."

It cleans out your pockets.

And yes, we told you so.

Thomas Locuta, "Infinite" Causa Finita Est

 Christopher Manion found the quote from Thomas:

“By sin, man loses a twofold dignity, one in respect of God, the other in respect of the Church. In respect of God, he again loses a twofold dignity. one is his principal dignity, whereby he was counted among the children of God, and this he recovers by Penance, which is signified (Luke 15) in the prodigal son, for when he repented, his father commanded that the first garment should be restored to him, together with a ring and shoes. The other is his secondary dignity, viz. innocence, of which, as we read in the same chapter, the elder son boasted saying (Luke 15:29): “Behold, for so many years do I serve thee, and I have never transgressed thy commandments”: and this dignity the penitent cannot recover” (Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica II, Q.89, A3)....

So go the dreams of Cdl. "Kissy" Fernandez to make his invention of "man's infinite dignity" a "must-believe" for actual Catholics. 

We'll take Thomas Aquinas, thanks anyway, Eminence.

Next!

You're Paying This Dummy

 She has a nice fat salary at NPR.  Don't be a "Donor."

 

 

Biden's Beloved: Bureaucrats

 

Whose "Infinite Dignity" Is More Infinite?

The current Pope is sympathetic with "migrants." 

Coming from Russia-allied Belarus, hundreds of "very aggressive" migrants carrying ladders and wielding rocks and tree branches stormed the border of Poland on Wednesday, but were repelled by security forces. Belarus has long been accused of "weaponizing" migrants by encouraging them to travel to Belarus only so they can be pushed into Poland and Lithuania. ...

Oh.

Is that the "migration" that Franny1 approves?  Does that showcase the "infinite dignity" of the migrants?

How about the "infinite dignity" of the people who are citizens of Poland, Franny?  Or the "infinite dignity" of National Guard troops attacked in Texas?  Or that of US taxpayers?

Which "infinite dignity" counts more?

Another Tranny, Another Crime

The Nashville school shooter was a tranny.  Same with the shooters in Colorado Springs, Denver, and Aberdeen.

So is this woman:

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has indicted Kyle Benjamin Douglas Calvert, a 26-year-old Alabama resident who identifies as transgender/nonbinary, on federal terrorism charges related to his alleged detonation of an explosive device filled with nails outside the Alabama Attorney General’s Office...

These are people with extreme mental illness and should have been institutionalized.

Oh, well.

The Joe Biden "-Shun" Platform

Biden's platform of The Three "-Shuns":

Invasion.

Abortion.

Inflation.

So simple a caveman could do it.

Ha'aretz: Israel Lost Already

This is an ISRAELI newspaper.

...Incredible article in Haaretz: "Israel Has Been Defeated – a Total Defeat. The war's aims won't be achieved, the hostages won't be returned through military pressure, security won't be restored and Israel's international ostracism won't end"...

Not that Speaker Johnson and the other blindlings in D.C. care, any more than they care about the obvious defeat of the Ukraine kakistocracy.  They'll send your money and maybe your children.

Because.

For the Remaining Idiots

 

Some Are Traitors.

Van Orden, who likes to pick on his junior staffers/pages, and Gallagher, who walked out on his District to pick up a nice fat job.....

You can add Steil and Grothman to the list of traitors to the 4th Amendment and to their constituents. 

And--by the way--Van Orden, Grothman, and Steil went the John Kerry Route:  "I voted AGAINST it before I voted FOR it. "   

And the bastards think you're stupid enough to buy that load of crappy-crap-crap, too.

We think that people should be spying on them from the time they leave their heavily-guarded little Capitol office until the time they return.  They should be followed, and videos should be shared widely.

Despicable jackwads.

Lefty SCOWI Judge Quitting

 Ann Walsh Bradley will bail out of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Good.

But PLEASE, GOD:  DON'T LET KELLY RUN AGAIN!!!  O J Simpson could defeat him.

BLS Leaking Advance Data to.......ahhhh.........

Knowing in advance what the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)' inflation calculations are--a few days in advance of the official release--is a massive advantage.

So you won't be surprised to learn that BLS is leaking that info to "Superusers" such as BlackRock and Vanguard.  That way, they can short or buy, and maybe even short while investing YOUR money on the opposite side.  Goldman Sachs is good at that, and they're certainly not the Lone Ranger in that regard.

And who knows?  That info could also have been leaked to brokers and "advisers" to such scumbags as Nancy Pelosi, Chuckles Schumer, any number of Biden Crime Family members, and--for that matter--to slime like Mitch McConnell.

You're not on that list?

What a shame.  

"You Can Fool Some of the People......"

Lincoln had it right.

Notice that the 2023 numbers differ from the 2024?

"You can't fool all of the people all of the time."

Your Defender

If you think the Department of "Defense" is ready to defend you......think again.  Yes, you read that caption right.

How Many Ways to Lie? Plenty!

Oh, yah.  Biden and his entire Blob are in grave danger and they know it.

But they'll continue to Lie Like Hell hoping that you won't catch them.

...according to the BLS, the only reason PPI was even positive in March is because of services, where the biggest source of upside was the "index for securities brokerage, dealing, investment advice, and related services, which rose 3.1 percent." In other words, everyone was rushing to open a brokerage account...

Gotta have a brokerage account so we can withdraw the money needed to f'n EAT!!

Sure.  That was it.

Or maybe..............just maybe................it wasn't.

 ...But what about what really increased in March, which as we have shown previously, was gas prices which rose just over 6% based on, well, how much the average gas price rose across the US in March!

Oh, really??

Well, not according to the way the Sponge-Brain-Shits-Pants regime tells it.

Why?

Because............."Seasonal Adjustment!!"

See?  You were wrong even though you were right.

Fitzgerald, Grothman, Gallagher.....

Some "Republicans" deserve the title "slimebucket."

Fitzgerald, Grothman, Steil, Tiffany, and VanOrden are among that crowd.  They want to let the FBI and NSA spy on you without a warrant.  Because if the FBI and NSA cannot spy on you, Putin will invade Ohio, see?

By the way, Fitzgerald, Grothman, Gallagher, Steil, Tiffany, and VanOrden exempted themselves from warrant-less spying.  They're superior.  You are not.

Note, too, that the Mouth of the South is in the same bucket of slime.

ADDED:

You'll hear a lot of bullshit about this vote--and we mean "BULLSHIT."

Here's a good 'splainer, from Politico.

... “I was planning on voting no on the reauthorization. I didn't get a chance to do so. The people who prohibited me from doing so should suffer a consequence,” Van Orden said in an interview after the second closed-door meeting. “They shouldn't have that platform, and ... the ability to disenfranchise my constituents.”...

Van Orden pinky-swears that he was going to 'vote against' the reauthorization.  Sure, Derek.  Go beat up a few of your interns while you're waiting for another chance to grandstand.

...Johnson angered his conference at two key moments during the third round of the surveillance fight: First, he prevented a vote on an amendment from Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) that would block data brokers from selling consumer information to law enforcement. The proposal had sparked fierce pushback from Intelligence Committee Republicans, and leadership instead had offered a potential stand-alone vote this week.

But the second, and potentially bigger, moment came when Johnson indicated he opposed a bipartisan amendment that would require a warrant before searching foreign data collected by the surveillance program for information related to Americans. Johnson’s position was first reported by POLITICO on Monday and swift backlash quickly followed, with some arguing Johnson had tipped the scales and created an unfair process....

The first graf above tells you everything you need to know:  Johnson approved a "work-around" which essentially left S702's Spy-On-YOU!! provisions intact.  The second PO'd the Democrats, too.  Not a very smart move.

See, Johnson is another scared little Pubbie Bunny, just like Sen. "Quip" Kennedy (LA) and Cong. Jordan.  Lots of mouth, but not a single testicle.

Screw 'em.

But they will screw you first!!

...with or without authority, the Gang-of-Eight, Office of the Presidency (Executive branch), Legislative Branch, and every institution within the DC system, all collectively accept the FBI, DOJ, NSD, DNI and DHS will still use the database.

From that perspective, reauthorization of 702 only seeks to make lawful what the IC will do unlawfully without it....

 

Yoo-Hoo!! Tammy!! Where ARE You???

Little Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) doesn't like your car.  Or your pickup.  Gives you too much mobility or sumpin'sumpin.

So when the Biden Federal Highway bureaucrats create a new rule designed to eliminate internal-combustion engines--like the ones in your car and pickup--Tammy will NOT vote against it.

Three Senate Democrats crossed the aisle on Wednesday to vote against a plank of the Biden administration’s electric vehicle (EV) agenda.

Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Jon Tester of Montana voted with their Republican colleagues to nullify a Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) rule that critics have characterized as an effort to reduce the number of gas-powered cars on America’s roadways. Independent Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who typically caucuses with Democrats, also voted in favor of the nullification resolution, bringing the final vote tally to 53-47....

 No Tammy in sight.  Only Democrat Senators who give a flying damn about their constituents vote against this crap.

But that doesn't include Tammy.

Bond Vigilantes Coming Out

 Had to happen sooner or later.

...when the Treasury sold $39 billion in a 9-Year 11-Month reopening moments ago, all hell broke loose.

Stopping at a high yield of 4.560%, this was not only almost 40bps higher than last month's 4.166% and the highest since October, it also tailed the 4.529% When Issued by a whopping 3.1bps, a surge compared to last month's tail of just 0.9bps, but also the highest tail since the 3.7bps in Dec 2022 and also the third largest tail on record!...

(A "tail" is bad news, signifying a lack of buyers.)

What you learned:  US Treasury bonds--at least, the 10-year--are not finding eager buyers as you can see from the rest of the posted article.  That means that bond buyers think less of US credit.

That's Biden's $$bazillion spend-splurge.  Not only inflation, but a future as debt-slaves. 

Thanks Joe!

To Congress, You're Just S**t

Well, of course!

The House of Representatives is finalizing a bill to continue their FISA warrantless spying on American citizens....

...Rep. Thomas Massie reported on Monday that Congress gave itself a carve out in the reauthorization of the FISA 702 warrantless spying bill.

The FBI will have to notify Congress and seek consent before violating the privacy of a member of Congress.

But the rest of America is on its own. The FBI can abuse your rights at anytime....

 In other words, no change. 

Tucker Throws Down Against Ben Shapiro

Shapiro and another Daily Wire mouth have made noises about Tucker.  

So Tucker decided to present a distinctly non-Shapiro viewpoint.  You can discern the outlines of the predictable response in this not-related-but-related post from PowerLine.  More here, where the essayist conflates "anti-Semite" with "someone who disfavors Zionism."  That's dangerously close to the new standard of "Anti-Semitism is saying something Jews don't like."

This should be fun.

MacGregor Sees Doom

We're not ready to join him in a bunker..........yet.

But Col. MacGregor, nobody's fool about the Middle East AND about military affairs, is no optimist.  Seems that the 'cease-fire/peace' talks between Netanyahu and Hamas have collapsed.

So in the video cued up at Wauck's place, MacGregor and another US tanker review the sitch.

It ain't pretty.

How Government Fixes Stuff

 This is a short reminder of How Government Fixes Stuff.

...current students are finding major issues as they wait to see if they'll be getting federal aid. There are delays because of changes to the Free Application For Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) process.

The Department of Education did a complete overhaul of FAFSA. Because of that, the 2024-2025 application came out late, and there have been headaches ever since....

 ...The Department of Education revised the application from 100 questions down to about 40. It was supposed to be easier, but a number of technical issues popped up....

... in years past, applicants could make corrections later, but so far, not this year."At this current time, students and parents who submitted the form actually can't make any corrections,"...

As usual, when Government "fixes" something, it winds up broken.

But you must remember that Government is composed of Our Betters.  

Got that? 

They're watching you.........