We already knew this

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Another 'Conspiracy Theory' Turns Out to Be True: Welfare Offices Hand Out Voter Registration to Illegals

It sure is strange how so many supposed 'conspiracy theories' turn out to be true. The gas stove ban that wasn't happening, until it was (unless you're special, like Kamala Harris) comes to mind.

At the beginning of May, the Biden-Harris campaign mocked Speaker of the House Mike Johnson for introducing legislation that would prohibit illegal immigrants from voting in federal elections. It wasn't necessary, the campaign said, because it's already against the law for illegal immigrants to vote in federal elections. The AP dutifully carried water for the administration too, saying illegals voting in federal elections was merely a 'Right-wing talking point.'

Well, guess what? Welfare offices across the country are handing out voter registration forms to illegal immigrants.

That thing the media and the Biden-Harris campaign swore was illegal and wasn't happening.

From the NY Post:

Welfare offices and other agencies in 49 US states are providing voter registration forms to migrants without requiring proof of citizenship, leading Republicans and conservatives to call for swift federal action to stop the handouts.

Every state but Arizona — which recently passed a law barring the practice on state but not federal forms — gives applicants for either welfare benefits, driver’s licenses, or in some cases, mail-in ballots voter registration forms without demanding proof of citizenship.

There is currently no requirement on federal voting forms to provide proof of US citizenship, though it is illegal to falsely claim one is a citizen or for a non-citizen to cast a ballot in a federal election.

But millions of migrants with humanitarian parole, refugee or asylum status are eligible for benefits that would bring them to the offices where voter registration takes place.

Eleven million (or 23, or 30, take your best guess) illegal aliens are now in the country. They already count when apportioning seats in Congress, so the more of them cluster in Democrat states, the more Democrat congressmen are spawned. Now they can vote, and with the increasingly-likely success of the effort to effectively eliminate the electoral college (if you weren’t aware, CT is among the states, all Democrat, that have signed the National Popular Popular Vote Interstate Compact), the future looks bleak. Trump’s vow of a “massive deportation”, by the way, is pretty much hot air: most countries, having rid themselves of their surplus population won’t take them back, and we can’t deport illegals to their home countries if they won’t be admitted. Which, of course, has been the plan all along.

Looks like he’ll fit in perfectly with the current White House staff — Ride 'em, cowboy! (UPDATED)

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White House promotes Biden official who compared police to slave patrols, wants to abolish ICE

Tyler Cherry is now serving as the associate communications director at the White House

In past tweets, Cherry has called for abolishing ICE and likened modern policing to slave patrols

Tyler Cherry was promoted last week as an associate communications director at the White House, after more than three years at the Department of Interior working for Secretary Deb Haaland [as the Department’s principal deputy communications director and senior spokesperson]. The promotion brought renewed attention to some of Cherry’s past incendiary posts. 

"After more than three years at Interior working for Secretary Deb Haaland, Cherry started last week as an associate communications director at the White House," Politico reported this week.

Tyler Cherry sparked controversy last year after social media posts surfaced in which he blasted law enforcement and promoted "Russiagate."

"Praying for #Baltimore, but praying even harder for an end to a capitalistic police state motivated by explicit and implicit racial biases," Cherry posted in 2015 amid riots that were sparked following the death of Freddie Gray, a Black man, in police custody in Baltimore.

"Apt (sic.) time to recall that the modern day police system is a direct evolution of slave patrols and lynch mobs," he stated in a separate post months later.

In 2018, Cherry called for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Homeland Security Department agency tasked with preventing cross-border crime and illegal immigration, to be abolished. 

Cherry was also posting support for "Palestine" on social media in 2014 during the Gaza War in which Palestinian forces, led by the radical Iran-backed terrorist group Hamas, launched hundreds of rockets into Israel, sparking a forceful Israeli response that involved airstrikes and a ground invasion.

I’m more upset that this communist, race-baiting, open border advocate has been collecting a salary at the Department of the Interior for the past three years; it’s a good illustration of who Biden’s handlers brought in to run the government during their (single, I hope) term.

Mr. Cherry’s friend, senate staffer Aidan Maese-Czepopski is no longer employed by his boss, MD Senator Ben Cardin (D), but I’m sure he remembers him with fondness, as do we all. Here’s Aidan in action in a Senate hearing room last December:

UPDATE: The Free Beacon named Czepopski a “Man of the year” last December, and their announcement of that award is pretty damn funny. Writing credit was given to its entire staff, and, judging from the avalanche of bad puns, I can imagine the fun they had collaborating on its composition; I suspect beer was involved.

December 29, 2023

When we envision the United States Senate in all its majesty—the Great Triumvirate of Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John C. Calhoun—we picture distinguished gentlemen waxing eloquently from the floor of the main chamber, what the late senator Robert Byrd referred to as "hallowed ground." But it's in the committee rooms where the sausage gets made—and it's often not pretty. For it is here that senators pound out legislation, launch intrusive probes, and try to sneak in backdoor amendments all while climbing that greasy pole.

And woe to the Senate staffers who behind the scenes work tirelessly round the clock. One, in particular, was getting slammed at work. His name is Aidan Maese-Czeropski, who worked on Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin's (D.) staff. On one occasion, Maese-Czeropski and an unidentified male companion entered the Judiciary Room (possibly through a rear entrance) and engaged in what can only be described as a late-night cramming session. We know this because they took a video of themselves, which then got posted online. Needless to say, it was a real eye-opener.

Now there is a twist to this story: Maese-Czeropski also turns out to be the staffer who confronted Ohio Republican Max Miller to say, "Free Palestine," according to the Jewish congressman. But that, in itself, was not the firing offense. What eventually got Maese-Czeropski canned, we are to presume, was his indiscretion in using a Senate hearing room to ram through his own legislation—rather than, say, some storage space deep in the murky bowels of the Hart Office Building.

We could go on, but you get the thrust of it. Not to mention the irony: Had Maese-Czeropski engaged in such activity in Gaza, Hamas would have torn him apart. (No, not in that way.)

So for his cheeky behavior that will likely leave an indelible stain on the U.S. Senate and make that most magisterial of deliberative bodies the butt of jokes for years to come, we crown Aidan Maese-Czeropski as Washington Free Beacon Man of the Year.

No surprise here

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alternative mode of transportation

Poll: Nearly Half of US EV Owners Regret Purchase

Nearly half of American owners of electric cars want to switch back to traditional cars powered by internal combustion engines, according to a consumer survey released by McKinsey and Co. earlier this month.

The consulting firm surveyed consumers in multiple countries: the U.S., China, Germany, Norway, Australia, France, Italy, Japan and Brazil. Between all of those countries, 29% of electric car owners want to return to driving internal combustion cars, with 46% of surveyed American electric car owners wanting to do so.

This surprised the consulting firm, cutting against received wisdom about people’s switch to electric.

The survey asked owners about the primary reason leading them to want to switch back. The responses were the same ones we've been hearing about ever since the EV mandates began rolling out. The largest percentage cited a lack of charging infrastructure. Nearly as many said that the vehicles are too expensive to purchase and maintain. Others said that planning long trips was too difficult or that they were unable to recharge their vehicles at home.

Current economic conditions both in the United States and abroad are also impacting people's decisions when it comes to whether or not to purchase an EV. Everything is too expensive for many people these days, including vehicles and electric utility costs. (Not to mention food and everything else.) Driving up their costs further just for the privilege of having an EV simply isn't an option. A significant percentage of the drivers who were surveyed said that they planned to "downgrade" to a less expensive vehicle when making their next purchase regardless of which type of car they currently own.

Of course, in some countries, owners have learned to set charging worries aside

The stars come out; who?

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Spoiler alert: It didn’t work

Fox News is out with an opinion piece questioning the wisdom of Biden’s dependence on aging Hollywood celebrities’ to fund and promote his campaign ( “Celebs shower Biden with campaign cash, but could undercut 'Scranton Joe' image”). I make no pretense of being current with modern culture — in fact, I’m clueless — but I look at the “celebrities” endorsing the man and recognize fewer than half their names. In that respect, I’m probably closer to an unemployed steelworker in Pittsburgh than are the Democrat campaign managers who are running Ol’ Dendables’ reelection bid, in that neither that steelworker nor I is going to look up from the morning media blast and say to himself, “Oh, I see that Lin-Manuel Miranda and Shonda Rhimes are endorsing Biden; I guess I’ll vote for him, too.”

Biden’s website declares that “2024 will be a choice between two very different economic visions for America: Donald Trump, who sees the world from his country club at Mar-a-Lago, and President Biden, who sees the world from kitchen tables in Scranton.”

Here’s who Biden promises will be joining ordinary Americans at their kitchen tables:

  • Sara Bareilles, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Ben Platt

  • Jimmy Kimmel,George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Barbra Streisand, Jack Black, Jason Bateman, Kathryn Hahn and Mindy Kaling

  • James Taylor, Steven Spielberg, Shonda Rhimes, Lenny Kravitz, Wendell Pierce; and

  • Political hacks Gavin Newsom, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff.

  • Andre Braugher, Ryan O’Neal, Norman Lear, Matthew Perry, Raquel Welch, Suzanne Somers, Cindy Williams, David Crosby, Jeff Beck, Sinead O’Connor, Pee-Wee Herman, Jimmy Buffett, Lisa Marie Presley

Pretty unimpressive, except for that last group; if they show up, I might be persuaded.

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How badly does the administrative branch of government want to bury Musk? Here are just a few examples.

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You didn’t know that we’ve added a fourth branch of government to round out the three our racist, white supremacist founders established? Oh, you poor, nieve citizen, you.

Political Insider:

When Elon Musk purchased Twitter, the Biden administration was none too pleased. Mainstream media was also apoplectic with this purchase, rightly concerned that the free speech absolutist at the helm would allow counter voices on the platform, making it exponentially harder to drive the national narrative.

When asked if Mr. Musk’s purchase and the man himself should be investigated, President Joe Biden said it wouldn’t be a bad idea to “look into” Elon Musk, and when pressed about how that could be done, President Biden said:

“There’s a lot of ways.”

And indeed there are.

  1. Department of Justice (DOJ) pursuing criminal charges on alleged undisclosed personal benefits related to Tesla

  2. DOJ Civil Rights Division suit against SpaceX for alleged employment discrimination against foreigners

  3. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) demands X to turn over all internal communications related to Elon Musk

  4. FTC requesting X turn over a list of journalists who had access to X’s records

  5. Securities and Exchange Commission investigating Tesla for “forward-looking” statement regarding self-driving software

    US Fish and Wildlife Service reviewing alleged environmental damage caused by SpaceX rockets

The EPA, Fish and Wildlife, “The Office of Commercial Space Transportation” (who knew?)and the FAA (?!) have repeatedly stalled Space X’s program by demanding environmental impact studies for both the Texas and Florida launch sites, approving them, and then revising their requirements and ordering new ones. Just this past May 13, the FAA issued a new demand for new environmental statements for the already-approved launch site on Cape Canaveral; the site has served that purpose for literally decades, but why not another study? Why not another delay to give Boeing a chance to catch up?

Here’s one, possibly the most ridiculous example of what’s going on:

SpaceX had to capture a seal, put headphones on it, and play the sounds of sonic booms, then, presumably, ask it to show on the doll where the rocket hurt it. The feds wanted to know if seals were suffering PTSD or immediate harm from sounds of rocket launches. Why just seals? Whales and pufferfish have feelings, too. 

According to Musk, the seal population has increased around the launch zone, so maybe the sonic booms are a boon to seal sex.

Jews for Palestine, Queers for Hamas: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

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Actual Palestinians beg to differ:

A brief history:

In 2016, Hamas militants executed one of their own commanders, Mahmoud Ishtiwi, for allegedly having sex with another man. Ishtiwi's allegiance to the group was clear: Just two years prior, he had overseen 1,000 soldiers and an assortment of attack tunnels. But not even his loyalty could save him after they lodged accusations he had engaged in homosexual activity. Prior to executing him with three bullets to the chest, Hamas reportedly tortured him by whipping him, hanging him from a ceiling for hours, and cranking loud music into his cell in order to deprive him of sleep.

Last year, in the West Bank, 25-year-old Ahmed Abu Marhia's severed head was found on the side of the road after he was murdered for being gay. The killer videoed the execution and shared it on social media. 

When it comes to "Queers for Palestine," what's richly ironic is that many LGBT Palestinians seek asylum in Israel—the same country these stateside protesters are rallying against. 

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Queers for Palestine" is about as convincing as "minks for fur coats.

And those dimwitted minks aren’t alone:

Not a dry eye eye in the house

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Does building on a temporary sandbar make sense? Who cares?

California’s wealthiest global warmists flock to pay millions for doomed weekend beach houses

Prices for beach houses in Stinson Beach - an enclave in Marin County along Bolinas Bay - have increased five-fold from $688,000 in 2000 to $3.7million in May this year, figures from Zillow show. In the past year alone home values have risen 40 percent.

It comes despite the fact county officials have repeatedly warned rising sea levels could swallow the community's beaches and damage properties. 

Forget, for a moment, the hypothetical threat of rising sea levels, and look at the picture of Stinson Beach, above. That’s nothing but a sandbar between Stinson and Bolinas, and sandbars shift and erode, regardless of sea level, because the ocean’s waves carry incredible force when they smash into the shore, and move sandbars about in entirely predictable ways: currents sweep along the shore, picking up sand in one location, and when their energy/capacity for carrying that load dissipates, they drop drop it — further down the beach or back in deeper water — and move on down the beach, hungry for more. (A clear explantation of how barrier islands are formed and destroyed can be found here, at “The Conversation”.)

If fools and tech-angels want to rush onto vulnerable seashores and spend their pocket money on temporary beach houses, that should be their business, but when they use their political power to force middle-class taxpayers to bail them out, that’s everybody’s business, or it should be.

Taxpayer-funded relief programs for these poor stars, politicians and cyber-billionaires take many forms, but here’s how one operates at Stinson Beach:

In an effort to prevent flooding from taking over the area, officials have implemented a series of measures, including building sea walls, elevating homes above the ground, expanding sand dunes, and moving buildings out of dangerous areas. 

Although rising sea levels have taken over the beach, homebuyers are still keen to take the risk, Bird said. 

These buyers aren’t “taking the the risk” for themselves; they are shifting it into the wallets of people who could never afford to join the cottagers as homeowners, or even expect an invitation to one of their whine and cheese parties. So brave, so courageous, so hypocritical.

UPDATE: I saw a headline just now referring to “Eco-Hypocrites”, and it occurred to me that “Ecocrites” would work very nicely as a label for these horrible people. So I think I’ll use it going forward. (Ooops! I just went looking, and found a reference to the term dating back to 2007, per the Urban Dictionary. Oh, well, it does sum up the character of these people, so if I can’t take pride of coinership, I can still use it.)

Profiles in courage

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New Jersey school district apologizes for offending Muslim group with question about ISIS terror group in quiz

'The question was offensive and contrary to our values of respect, inclusivity, and cultural sensitivity'

And this brave educator’s response:

"First, I sincerely apologize on behalf of the school district. Such incidents are unacceptable and do not reflect the standards we uphold for our educational community. We understand the deep concern and disappointment this has caused among students, parents, and the broader community. It is also important to recognize that one question does not define our entire school community."

… “It is crucial to emphasize that our schools are committed to fostering safe and respectful environments for all students, regardless of background, belief, race, or religion. We have a process in place for reviewing curriculum materials and have already initiated a review of this software, [and we will] continue to "provide cultural sensitivity training to all teachers and staff."

The complaint that caused the school district’s superintendent to lose his bladder control came from the group, “Teaching While Muslim”, “Working to actively include social justice, anti-racist, and anti-Islamophobic curricula and educators in our schools.” Here’s one of the site’s milder current posts: