Yes it is, and that's the point

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And:

$5B in ‘questionable’ rental assistance under Biden revealed — including to thousands of ‘deceased tenants’ and non-citizens: HUD report

Published Dec. 30, 2025, 6:00 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON — A US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) report found more than $5 billion in taxpayer funds went to “questionable” rental assistance recipients during the final year of the Biden administration — including to around 30,000 “deceased tenants” and “thousands” of potential non-citizens, The Post can reveal.

HUD officials said a “large concentration” of the suspicious payments went to New York, California and Washington, DC, with dead recipients getting at least some funds in all 50 states — in what federal officials are calling widespread abuse of taxpayers’ dollars under the Biden administration.

And:

NPR: Oct. 18 2022: Pandemic-related fraud totaled billions. California is trying to get some of it back

$22 billion conservative estimate, but …

Outside experts think the real jobless fraud figure in California is far higher than $20 billion.

"I believe the number is closer to 32.6 billion," Haywood Talcove, CEO of the government division of LexisNexis Risk Solutions says.

Talcove gets to that higher figure, in part, by looking at federal Labor Department audits that show California averaged a high jobless fraud and "improper payments" rate in the three years before the pandemic. "And it didn't go down during the pandemic, it only went up," Talcove says. "So you easily get to that $32.6 billion number."

Indeed, the latest U.S. Labor Department audit report in September shows that the California EDD's "improper payment" rate in just the first six months of the pandemic was 36.6%. What percentage of that was outright fraud or mistakes is unclear but most believe the majority was the former.

Nationally, the total amount of unemployment insurance fraud is staggering. The U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General earlier this year told Congress that "at least $163 billion in pandemic UI benefits could have been paid improperly, with a significant portion attributable to fraud."

The emphasis from federal and state officials was on pushing that money out fast — $5 trillion in all to help ease the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression. That speediness also meant many claims weren't verified.

That’s just fraud. Then you get to pure waste: a few trillion here, a few trillion there, and pretty soon you’re talking about real money.

Commerce Secretary Saved Taxpayers $21 Billion With One Move

No idea where this was recorded or what, really, it's about, but it's a slow real estate week, so ...

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Of course, these ladies could always find work for Vanity Fair posing as faux Trump administration officials

Coming our way? Hell, buddy, it’s already here

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I don’t know whether this X-poster is British or American, but anti-disirregardless, twelve American states have already gone where Britain and the EU are headed, and more are sure to follow as the dreamer/socialist generation replaces the know-nothings boomers.

ChatCPD

Here’s a clear summary of the key laws and mandates in California and other U.S. states that phase in requirements for zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) sales — effectively limiting new internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle sales over time — including specific years and percentage targets. Many of these come from state adoption of California’s Advanced Clean Cars II (ACC II) regulation:

📍 California (Advanced Clean Cars II)

California’s Zero-Emission Vehicle mandate (approved by the California Air Resources Board):

Percentage of new vehicles that must be zero-emission (ZEVs):

  • 2026 model year: ~35% ZEV sales requirement.

  • 2030: ~68% ZEV sales requirement.

  • 2035: 100% zero-emission new car sales — effectively ending sales of new ICE passenger cars and light trucks.
    (These percentages include battery EVs, plug-in hybrids, and hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles, with limits on PHEVs to meet the ZEV definition.) SEMA+1

Notes:

  • The policy was designed to phase down ICE sales rather than abruptly ban them; plug-in hybrids still count toward early ZEV percentages though their proportion is capped. Zev Transition Council

  • Used ICE vehicles can still be sold after 2035. SEMA

📍 Other States (via ACC II Adoption)

Many states have formally adopted California’s ACC II sales requirements — meaning their mandates mirror California’s ZEV sales percentages through 2035:

Examples of states adopting ACC II with the same schedule:

  • Colorado, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington — these states require increasing ZEV shares in line with California’s schedule, culminating in 100% ZEV new sales by 2035. Zev Transition Council

Washington (specific example):

  • 100% of new passenger vehicles sold must be zero-emission by 2035, starting with regulations affecting model year 2026. Alternative Fuels Data Center

📍 Other State Targets (Not ACC II, but Notable)

Some jurisdictions have their own goals (non-binding or different frameworks):

  • North Carolina (goal): 50% ZEV share of new passenger vehicle sales by 2030 (policy tied to EV registration goals). Work Truck Online

These aren’t formal ACC II percent mandates but represent additional state policy targets.

📌 How the Phase-In Works (Typical Path)

For states adopting California’s ZEV sales mandate:

Model Year / YearZEV Sales Requirement

2026~35% of new vehicles must be ZEVs SEMA

2027–2029 Incrementally rising share (e.g., ~43% by 2027 per enforcement plans) AP News

2030~68% ZEV sales required SEMA

2035-100% zero-emission new sales Zev Transition Council

📌 Context & Legal Status

  • The EPA under President Biden originally granted a waiver to allow California’s ZEV sales mandate — but recent congressional actions have sought to block enforcement of these rules (potential legal challenges and changes in federal policy are ongoing). Reuters

  • Federal-level mandates differ — there’s no U.S. consumer law forcing EV purchases, but federal emissions performance standards effectively push automakers toward higher EV shares, with specific percentages proposed for 2027, 2030, and 2032 under EPA rules. NADA

Trump, bless his black heart, has moved to undo some of this by, for instance, revoking the special exemption granted California to exceed national EPA emissions requirements, but executive orders can be overridden far more easily than federal legislation, and Republicans are showing no sign of enacting much, if any of Trump’s reforms, and may lose the theoretical power to do so after the 2026 elections.

California still controls the road, however: other states have enacted their own laws requiring them to follow California’s requirements, so as California goes, so goes (or there goes) the nation. And California Democrats have disenfranchised Republicans and handed complete control of the legislature and Congressional delegation to its most extreme far-left fringe; don’t look for that situation to change.

And related, here’s a fun bit of hypocrisy:

Civil discourse died a long time ago, and that's too bad. But ....

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Besides, he does look like a retard

A quick trip down Memory Lane:

Or more recently ….

If not this year, soon. Then New York, and then a national rollout

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They won’t stop at California, of course

March 01, 2021:

Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders propose 3% wealth tax on billionaires

POINTS

  • Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Bernie Sanders and other Democrats on Monday proposed a 2% annual tax on wealth over $50 million, rising to 3% for wealth over $1 billion.

  • The Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act would aim to close the U.S. wealth gap, which has grown wider during the Covid pandemic.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren explains her 'Ultra-Millionaire' tax proposal

A slew of Democrats on Capitol Hill — including progressives Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. — on Monday proposed a 3% total annual tax on wealth exceeding $1 billion.

They also called for a lesser, 2% annual wealth tax on the net worth of households and trusts ranging from $50 million to $1 billion.

The Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act aims at reining in a widening U.S. wealth gap, which has been exacerbated by the Covid pandemic.

"The ultra-rich and powerful have rigged the rules in their favor so much that the top 0.1% pay a lower effective tax rate than the bottom 99%, and billionaire wealth is 40% higher than before the Covid crisis began," Warren said Monday in a statement.

About 100,000 Americans — or, fewer than 1 in 1,000 families — would be subject to a wealth tax in 2023, according to Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, economists at the University of California, Berkeley.

The policy would raise at least $3 trillion over a decade, they found.

Warren called for the tax revenues to be invested in child care and early education, K-12 education and infrastructure.

Aside from Warren and Sanders, other co-sponsors of the legislation include: Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I.; Jeff Merkley, D-Ore.; Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.; Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii; Edward Markey, D-Mass.; and Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii. Reps. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash.; and Brendan Boyle, D-Pa., are also co-sponsors.

What I don’t see in these money grabs is any provisions for refunds when that unrealized “wealth” drops in value, the way Elon Musk’s did in 2020, when Tesla’s Valuation Dropped $40 Billion In A Day.

I’m sure that’s just an oversight.

So, why does she hate us? From a negative net worth in 2019 to $30 million in 2024; America, the land of opportunity, especially for Somalis and their husbands!

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“It’s all about the benjamins, baby”

When she first took office in 2019, the left-wing “Squad” member declared a net worth between negative $25,000 and negative $65,000, claimed to own no assets and only carrying student and car debt.

Rags to riches

‘Squad’ member ilhan Omar faces mounting questions on sudden wealth amid Minnesota welfare fraud as hubby’s $30M firm quietly scrubs names from website

Omar (D-MN) went from nearly broke to being worth up to $30 million in just a year — as a massive, up to $9 billion fraud scheme involving the Somali community in her district unfolded right under her nose in Minnesota.

Close to 90 people have been charged so far, including at least three with direct ties to the lefty Squad member, though she has not been charged.

It was Somalia-born Omar — who was seen in a resurfaced video last month dishing out food in a restaurant now at the heart of the scandal — who introduced the legislation critics say paved the way for what the feds have called the largest fraud of the pandemic.

The Jimmy Choo wearing socialist introduced the MEALS Act in Congress in 2020, relaxing oversight of government sponsored children’s meals programs during the pandemic, which critics say allowed fraudsters to claim they served millions of meals without verification, while pocketing millions of dollars in government subsidies.

But at least she appears to have invested her purloined funds wisely, using it as seed money for her new (third) husband’s business venture:

Shortly after the scheme played out, Omar’s husband, political consultant Tim Mynett, launched Rose Lake Capital in 2022, a venture capital management firm.

The company saw its reported value go from nearly zero in 2023, to between $5 million and $25 million in just a year, and somehow claims to having already amassed $60 billion assets under management.

Rose Lake Capital, which touts its “deep global networks built from on-the-ground work in more than 80 countries,” had less than $1,000 in assets in 2023, according to Omar’s financial disclosure.

Yet despite the reported windfall, the business’s only address is a WeWork in DC, according to its LinkedIn page.

Between September and October — when federal prosecutors announced charges to eight more individuals, including six of Somali descent, for their roles in the welfare scheme — the names and bios of Rose Lake Capitals’s nine officers and advisors were removed from the website. None of them were charged in the fraud.

These names include lobbyist and former Obama Ambassador to Bahrain Adam Ereli; former Senator and Obama Ambassador to China Max Baucus; DNC Finance Chair associate Alex Hoffman; former DNC treasurer William Derrough and former ex-CEO of Amalgamated Bank Keith Mestrich, who once described Amalgamated as “the institutional bank of the Democratic Party.”   

But wait, there’s more!

Meanwhile Mynett’s other business, a California winery that previously faced fraud allegations and was declared a failed venture in 2023, was suddenly worth between $1 million and $5 million in 2024 — a windfall of 9,900%.

The winery, eStCru, at some point around 2022 promoted a line of wines with names like “Blockchain” and “The Devil’s Lie,” with a prestigious California winemaker who said she abruptly stopped getting paid in early 2023. The business was only worth between $15,000 and $50,000 in Omar’s financial disclosure that year, making the sudden windfall the next year even more puzzling.

It, too, is listed as operating out of a WeWork, and doesn’t appear to actually sell any wines anymore, according to extensive internet searches.

Despite the high worth placed on the business, its website is a broken link, the phone number is disconnected and the last social media post for the winery dates back to 2023.

Mynett did not return The Post’s messages, and both his businesses’ numbers were not working.

Chronology of a grifter, bigamist and immigration fraudster:

  • 1982 — Born in Somalia;

  • 1991 — Went to refugee camp in Kenya;

  • 1995 — Came to United States as a refugee, becoming a citizen at some later point;

  • 2002 — Took out a marriage license to marry Ahmed Hirsi (AKA Ahmed Aden), but did not marry him except in a Muslim ceremony; they had two kids;

  • 2008 — Parted from Hirsi; a Muslim divorce, not recorded, took place;

  • 2009 — Married Ahmed Elmi [her brother] while still married to Hirisi;

  • 2011 — Parted from Elmi, with a Muslim divorce;

  • 2012 — Reunited with Hirsi and had a third child;

  • 2017 — Formally divorced Elmi (after being elected to the legislature);

  • 2018 — Married (re-married?) Hirsi and was nominated for Congress.

  • November 2019 Divorced Hirsi

  • May 2020 — Married her campaign manager Tim Mynett

Go DEI and DIE; First, Fiscally, then physically

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Back to 1975

The Tim Walz of Labor: Zohran Mamdani Taps Biden Labor Secretary Who Presided Over Mass Fraud in California for Top NYC Post

Julie Su oversaw California’s labor agency as $31 billion in fraudulent unemployment claims were paid out, leaving a nearly $20 billion hole in the state’s jobless fund

December 19, 2025

New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani (D.) on Friday announced that former U.S. acting labor secretary Julie Su, who presided over mass welfare fraud as California labor secretary, will join the New York City government as the city’s first deputy mayor for economic justice.

"Welcome to a New Era, Julie Su!" Mamdani wrote on X. "As former U.S. secretary of labor, Julie played a central role in fighting for workers, ensuring a just day’s pay for a hard day’s work and saving the pensions of more than a million union workers and retirees."

Su, who served as former president Joe Biden’s acting labor secretary for two years, has been controversial since her time overseeing California’s Employment Development Department, where she presided over an estimated $31 billion in fraudulent unemployment payouts. During the state’s pandemic lockdowns, Su froze checks on unemployment claims and failed to stop payments to suspicious accounts, leading to an estimated $31 billion in fraudulent payouts. Her tenure left California’s unemployment insurance fund in a nearly $20 billion hole.

…. During Su’s confirmation as U.S. labor secretary, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R., La.) questioned Su’s competence in light of the fraud that occurred under her watch. "Julie Su has an extensive record of partisan activism and promoting policies that undermine workers to the benefit of politically connected labor unions," Cassidy said. "A qualified Secretary of Labor needs to successfully handle negotiations, manage a department properly, and refrain from partisan activism. I haven’t seen evidence of Julie Su’s ability to do any of those three things."

"There's a reason Julie Su's nomination failed to earn support from Democrats or Republicans. Throughout her tenure at the Department of Labor, she prioritized partisan activism over American workers and their families," a spokesman for Cassidy told the Washington Free Beacon on Friday. "Julie Su is a perfect fit for the Mamdani administration."

When asked about Su’s history, Mamdani said, "I’m aware of the deputy mayor’s record, and I’m very excited to have her."

"I can say that in looking at our deputy mayor’s record and looking at how she stood up for workers across the country, it is a moment of incredible excitement for myself and the entire team to have her," Mamdani said.

“Excitement” I can believe.

And then physically:

Okay, she’s never actually been a fireman, but she’s a woman, a lesbian, and a master fraud overseer, and isn’t that enough? Besides, don’t New Yorkers deserve a Kristne Larson “He got himself in the wrong place if I have to cqarry him out of a fire” Larson of its own? Of course they do: they voted this madness in.