▶️ JB SHURK: GLOBALISM IS TOTALITARIANISM
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JB SHURK: GLOBALISM IS TOTALITARIANISM
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onsider these recent news stories from Europe and North America:
(1) Germany’s government is considering a new law that would allow its spy agency to investigate and block citizens from buying homes if the would-be owners hold political views that conflict with the government’s official policies. In effect, political dissent would disqualify a person from owning a home.
(2) London Mayor Sadiq Khan is pushing for a government-run “disinformation unit” to investigate and silence online criticism of the mayor’s policies.
(3) British police are doing more to crack down on citizens’ “politically incorrect” speech than they are to prevent Islamic rape gangs from targeting women and girls.
(4) Under the guise of “protecting the children,” unelected queen (some say) European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has announced the rollout of Europe’s mandatory digital IDs which will eliminate online privacy, anonymity, and, eventually, all public dissent to official government policies.
(5) North American and European intelligence agencies continue to downplay the threats from Islamic terrorism and overstate any threats from “white supremacy” and “right-wing extremism.”
(6) For the nineteenth time, Ukrainian hold-over president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has submitted legislation to Ukraine’s hold-over parliament to extend a decree of martial law, which suspends elections, bans opposition parties, prohibits media organizations from criticizing government policy, and empowers the government to conscript men into military service and confiscate civilian resources for the war effort.
(7) In support of secret “gender transitions” at taxpayer-funded schools and taxpayer-funded “gender reassignment” surgeries, Nova Scotia Education Minister Brendan Maguire lambasted Canadian parents who believe that they “deserve rights over” their children. Maguire made it clear that Canadian citizens have no parental rights.
(8) In France, 60% of voters believe that “a replacement of the French population by non-European populations” is occurring right now. 66% see this as bad for France.
(9) In the Netherlands, city governments have extended censorship rules to include bans on public advertisements for meat and hydrocarbon energy (derisively referred to as “fossil fuels”).
(10) In Idaho, a wannabe kidnapper (Democrat) exercising power as a state senator told parents, “When your children walk into our classroom, they become ours.” Democrats are now comfortable saying out loud that kids belong to the State.
(11) New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has initiated a “racial equity plan” that prioritizes “black and brown New Yorkers” over citizens with white skin.
(12) Thug (some say Democrat) Congressman Jason Crow of Colorado says he and his Democrat colleagues are compiling “lists of people” in the Trump Administration whom they plan to target, harass, and imprison after regaining political power.
(13) The Southern Poverty Law Center; a Democrat-supporting front group posing as a civil rights organization, has been indicted for fraudulently financing racial unrest in the United States (including direct funding to the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi parties) in order to manipulate Americans into believing that racial hatred in the United States is a major threat.
(14) Republican Senator Ron Johnson has released an investigative report confirming that Biden Administration health officials purposely ignored and buried “overwhelming evidence of harm” from the experimental COVID injections falsely labeled as “vaccines.”
(15) After two thugs ambushed and beat a seventy-seven-year-old man walking down a Seattle street, Marxist (Democrat) Mayor Katie Wilson Wilson ignored the attack and instead argued that neighborhood security cameras put illegal aliens at risk. In other words, the mayor would prefer to protect criminal illegal aliens from prosecution and deportation than protect American citizens from harm.
(16) One day after failed former vice president, Kamala Harris, endorsed communist (Democrat) Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass for re-election because she had supposedly “fixed” the homelessness crisis in her city, homeless Californians started a major fire under the 110 freeway that will render it indefinitely closed. As one American commented online in reaction to the news, “Contemporary progressivism is trying desperately to intervene when parents want to educate their kids but refusing to intervene when mentally ill adults live on the streets and constitute a risk to themselves and to their communities.”
(17) In California, socialist (Democrat) gubernatorial candidate Katie Porter admits illegal aliens breaking into the United States represent “one of the only ways California has been growing in recent years.” As another online commenter concluded, “Replacement theory confirmed. Make conditions untenable for citizens forcing them to flee the state. Illegal immigrants fill the gap. Marx 101 in real time.”
(18) Foreign agent (Democrat) Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal is openly calling for immigration enforcement officers to be prosecuted and for illegal aliens to receive monetary “reparations” for their “trauma.” In other words, as one disgusted American commented online, “Fund the criminals, lock up the law enforcement.”
What do all of these stories have in common? They represent a pervasive trend across the West in which governments treat citizens as meaningless pawns in a globalist “New World Order” game.
Citizens across the West overwhelmingly oppose the mass migration of foreigners into their countries. However, Western governments not only ignore the wishes of their citizens but also censor and criminalize their public opposition! Globalist governments cover up illegal alien crimes (including rapes and murders) by hiding crime statistics and shaming citizens for noticing. Globalist governments would rather disable security cameras on the streets and label online discussion as “disinformation” than admit foreign nationals are responsible for massive crime surges in Europe and North America. Western governments are actually aiding and abetting illegal alien criminals! This fact alone should astonish any rational citizen.
Unfortunately, citizens have ever-fewer ways to resist the actions of their governments. Online censorship laws restrict what people can see and say. Governments intimidate citizens into silence by threatening arrest, the confiscation of their assets, or regulatory punishments that make it much more difficult to lead a normal life. Viewpoint discrimination has been rebranded as “fighting hate,” and unsurprisingly, globalist governments increasingly designate opposition to their policies as a form of “hate.” Dissent, in other words, is now a crime. We are now headed down a dangerously totalitarian path in this century. Two things will come from it:
First, as the digital gulag expands around citizens, globalist governments will become only more brazen in enforcing dictatorial powers. The introduction of mandatory digital identifications combined with the rollout of central bank digital currencies will create the perfect virtual cage in which to trap and manipulate Western citizens. As Europe and North America adopt communist China’s social credit score system, globalist governments will be able to punish citizens in real time for anything they say or do. Oppose illegal immigration? Maybe you lose access to your digital currency account for a week. Oppose illegal immigration a second time? Maybe you lose your digital savings permanently. Perhaps your digital savings are even redistributed to an illegal immigrant living next door. While European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen claims the West’s new digital prisons are being built “to protect the children” from online predators, they’re really being built to protect the predatory government from citizens.
Second, as citizens come to realize that there remain no peaceful ways to resist the actions of their governments, they will conclude revolutionary resistance is the only way to secure their liberties. This is the violent road down which most Western nations are now traveling.
Government bureaucrats enforce their will and call it “democracy.” Government bureaucrats censor the voices of citizens and call it “democracy.” Government bureaucrats tell outrageous lies to citizens and call it “democracy.” Government bureaucrats treat foreigners as friends and citizens as enemies.
There will be a point when the average Westerner living under globalist tyranny will finally say, “Enough.” If globalism won’t stop killing citizens, citizens will be forced to kill globalism. ✪
▶️ GOVERNMENT SPENDING IS COMPLETELY OUT OF CONTROL
GOVERNMENT SPENDING IS COMPLETELY OUT OF CONTROL
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n March 31st, the U.S. crossed over a financial metric that should scare the heck out of all of us. On that day, our country’s debt exceeded 100% of GDP for only the second time since WWII. We now join debtor nations like Greece, Italy, France, and Canada as horrible stewards of our country’s economy.
High government borrowing raises the economic risk that interest costs will crowd out investment for everyone and make our system more vulnerable to shocks. The political risk is that it limits policy flexibility and fuels conflict over taxes, spending, and long-term obligations.
High debt may be the single most powerful factor holding young people back from achieving the American dream; whether in education, credit, housing, or starting a family. The debt monster has truly come to devour us, and we’re becoming more oblivious each day as this scary metric becomes our new normal.
However, bad as federal debt is, state debt, in many ways, is even worse. Few realize there’s another primary threat to America’s future, and that’s how state-level debt is the gasoline driving the growth of progressive states and enabling their anti-American behavior.
Progressive political thought, translated into action, can best be understood as the lack of restraint; most notably in Blue states which have two powerful levers at their disposal; taxation and the ability to create unlimited debt. It is through these two avenues that progressives “buy” the loyalty of all those useful idiots required to remain in power and dispense largess.
Ten states run major deficit budgets, and the total debt is in the trillions nationwide:
- California: $520 Billion
- Colorado: $23 Billion
- Illinois: $172 Billion
- Maryland: $45 Billion
- Massachusetts: $95 Billion
- Michigan: $65 Billion
- Minnesota: $25 Billion
- New Jersey: $240 Billion
- New York: $410 Billion
- Oregon: $20 Billion
- Pennsylvania: $75 Billion
Democrats run all ten of these Blue states, which also correlates closely with states experiencing rampant fraud, graft, and corruption.
It’s not enough, though, to look at a state’s total debt. The Debt-to-State-GDP Ratio is the most important. High risk is generally defined as above 20%. Illinois, New Jersey, Connecticut, Hawaii, Kentucky, Massachusetts, and New York make that list.
High risk must necessarily include Pension/OPEB liabilities > 25% of GDP. OPEB refers to “Other Post-Employment Benefits,” which are retiree benefits other than pensions. The most important is retiree health care.
With Pension/OPEB added in, the list of states in the high to extreme category expands to Illinois, New Jersey, Connecticut, Hawaii, Kentucky, Massachusetts, and New York. The numbers show an average debt per citizen of $18,800, with Connecticut at $26,400 and Kentucky at $13,300.
Meanwhile, the big Red states have very different numbers, lest you think I’m cherry-picking. For comparison, Florida’s average debt per citizen is $2,500-$3,000, depending on how you count; Texas is $4,500, and Ohio is $5,300. Quite the contrast, isn’t it? Blue states’ taxation doesn’t help.
The best way to view taxation is as the total percentage of a person’s income that all levels of state government exact from the individual. Here’s our list of the Top 10 +1 Highest-Tax-Burden States:
- Hawaii: 13.3%
- New York: 12.39%
- Vermont: 11.1%
- New Mexico: 10.75%
- Maine: 10.01%
- Illinois: 9.92%
- Maryland: 9.7%
- New Jersey: 9.52%
- Oregon: 9.46%
- Rhode Island: 9.29%
- California: 9.0% (which is number 12 on the list only because of the Prop 13 effect)
Now for the lowest five:
- Alaska: 5.06%
- Tennessee: 5.64%
- New Hampshire: 6.14%
- Florida: 6.33%
- Wyoming: 6.42%.
See the pattern? Washington State is not on the list for a single reason: Income tax is constitutionally illegal (although Democrats are trying to change that). However, all the other usual suspects make the list.
These debt and taxation practices have serious political and societal effects. The best way to describe this is to imagine your family budget. You have money coming in, going out, debts to pay, and savings and/or investments.
Traditionally, Americans took a dim view of debt. The predominant traditional 1950s view was that taking on family debt was acceptable only for essentials like a home or a car, and was otherwise seen as risky, shameful, or a sign of poor self-discipline. Interestingly, this is exactly how the government viewed debt as well, until it didn’t!
Views on debt shifted dramatically beginning in the 1960s, when rising incomes, expanding consumer credit, aggressive bank marketing, and the normalization of credit cards transformed borrowing from a last-resort necessity into an accepted—and even encouraged—part of middle-class life. I wonder how many might wish for a do-over?
Governments were quick to follow suit at every level. They began taking on far more debt once they realized that borrowing allowed them to expand services, build infrastructure, and meet ever-rising public expectations without immediately raising taxes, making debt the politically easiest way to satisfy voters while avoiding short-term backlash. It was also easy to see what was, perhaps, the biggest takeaway: You could buy votes for “free.” (at least for that politician’s life in office!)
States with high debt and high spending (predominantly on social programs) fell into a trap of their own making. Government programs, almost always poorly managed and even more poorly conceived, always grow faster than anticipated.
At the federal level, Medicare benefit payments rose from about $541 billion in 2011 to $829 billion in 2021, a jump that exceeded many earlier-decade baselines and reflects faster enrollment and higher per-person spending than projected. Federal projection models (CBO and CMS) have repeatedly revised near-term and long-term Medicare cost forecasts upward as utilization, prices, and program design changes (for example, growth in Medicare Advantage and Part D spending) emerged faster than expected. In 2024, Medicare costs topped $1.18 trillion.
With this exponential growth rate, Medicare alone will eventually bankrupt the country. Multiply this specific threat by all the other local, state, and federal programs, and you quickly realize that we are all aboard a runaway train. The engineer, with his hand on the throttle, is a madman with no regard for the trainwreck that inevitably must follow. Democrats especially, but Republicans as well, all have their fingerprints all over this debacle.
The spending at the Federal Government is bad, but the taxing and spending in Democrat-run states is a more imminent disaster waiting to happen. We can’t trust the politicians to fix this without the people (you and me) making it untenable for said politicians to ignore this reality any longer.
God Bless America! ✪
▶️ IT’S TIME TO ABOLISH PUBLIC SCHOOLS
IT’S TIME TO ABOLISH PUBLIC SCHOOLS
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look at how public schools operate vis-à-vis businesses shows the government has no right to be involved in the education sector. As an ardent supporter of abolishing public—or, more accurately, government run schools, I recently came across an article by Chad McLeod, an educator, consultant, and founder of Sociis Education, who makes several important points that highlight the differences between how businesses and public schools are managed. McLeod writes:
Imagine if America’s favorite businesses had to operate by the same rules as your local public school. Starbucks would open every morning to a crowd of customers assigned by ZIP code. Managers wouldn’t be able to choose their market or tailor their product to the people most likely to buy it. And if the espresso machine broke, the manager wouldn’t just replace it. They’d apply for a grant, form a committee, hold a public hearing, and eventually buy a replacement from a state-approved vendor—at triple the price—sometime around next spring.
He then adds schools typically serve students who live within a specific geographic area. Obviously, there are no rules that restrict businesses from attracting people from any ZIP code.
While McLeod makes many salient points, I need to add one: the damage teacher unions have inflicted on public schools. If a business fails to fulfill its mission, it loses customers, may have to fire some employees, and eventually goes belly up. But due to teacher union mandates, the vast majority of government-run schools cannot fire incompetent teachers, and schools don’t close for poor performance.
To be sure, the great majority of our educators range from acceptable to excellent. However, as former GE CEO Jack Welch stated, the bottom 10 percent of any field should be replaced. In a similar vein, Eric Hanushek has asserted eliminating the bottom-performing 5 percent to 7 percent of teachers would enable our education system to rival Finland’s world-class system.
An example of the problem’s breadth emerged in a 2012 lawsuit in California. During the Vergara trial, it was revealed that only 2.2 of the state’s 300,000 teachers (0.0008 percent) were dismissed for unprofessional conduct or unsatisfactory performance in any given year. This compares with 8 percent of private sector employees dismissed annually for cause. Applying the 8 percent figure to teachers would mean that about 24,000 of the lowest-performing teachers in California should be let go each year.
When discussing unions, it’s important to note that there are significant differences between those in the private and public sectors. These differences aren’t just technical—they shape how negotiations affect workers, employers, and the broader community. As Americans for Fair Treatment explains, in the private sector, unions and employers operate under a mutual understanding that if demands get too high, there’s a real risk the company could go bankrupt.
This risk ensures that both sides negotiate with more caution, striving to strike a balance that keeps the company afloat. In theory, the mutual need for financial survival should keep everyone in check.
However, in the public sector, unions negotiate with government entities, people who, in many cases, the unions helped put in power. Additionally, bankruptcy isn’t an option; because governments can’t simply go out of business. This lack of a financial breaking point reduces pressure on public sector unions to moderate their demands. As a result, agreements are often more generous than those feasible in the private sector, and ultimately, it’s the taxpayers who foot the bill.
Government involvement in schools has a dubious history. As the late Cato Institute scholar Andrew Coulson noted:
“Shifting the reins of educational power from private to public hands would, they promised, yield better teaching methods and materials, greater efficiency, superior service to the poor, and a stronger, more cohesive nation.”
In the 1830s, education reformer Horace Mann viewed public schools as a “crucible of democracy.” He sought to have the state take over schools and raise taxes to fund them. Mann even predicted that if public schooling were widely adopted and given enough time to take effect, “nine-tenths of the crimes in the penal code would become obsolete,” and “the long catalog of human ills would be abridged.”
Clearly, Mann was dead wrong. Almost 200 years later, our nation, with its massive education bureaucracy, is more divided than ever, crime rates are high, and we have more “human ills” than we can handle. And taxpayers fork over about a trillion dollars a year in the process.
While Mann’s utopian goals obviously didn’t come to fruition, they did create a link in people’s minds between the “institution of public schooling and the ideals of public education” that, sadly, still exists today. But the status quo is simply unacceptable.
Government removal from education could not happen overnight, but a 12-year phase-in would be workable. Let the kindergartners be the first group to leave, and add a grade each year through grade 12, so the conversion would be complete in 13 years. That way, every child now enrolled in a public school could complete their K–12 education the old-fashioned way. Also, that amount of time will be needed to help existing private schools prepare for the influx of students they will receive and to give new school operators time to plan for full-scale privatization.
This will be a tough sell, to say the least. The bureaucrats and teacher union bosses will do everything they can to preserve the status quo, and it will take time for many Americans to see the light.
One question the naysayers are sure to ask is about poor people who can’t afford their children’s education. The answer is that we will do for schooling what we do for food. If a family demonstrates it can’t afford groceries, we provide a SNAP or EBT card as a subsidy. Similarly, we can assist impoverished families by subsidizing their children’s education. Everyone else pays their own way—just as they do for food.
As the 250th anniversary of our country’s independence from England approaches, it’s time for the government to get out of the education business and, at the same time, save taxpayers oodles of cash. We must disentangle ourselves from a massive, one-size-fits-all, centralized government education complex and its unions. Let full educational freedom ring!✪
▶️ GENERAL MIKE FLYNN: WHAT IS CULTURAL MARXISM?
GENERAL MIKE FLYNN: WHAT IS CULTURAL MARXISM?
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ultural Marxism refers to a strand of Marxist thought which shifts the focus from classical economic/class struggle (workers vs. capitalists, as in Marx and Engels) to cultural and social institutions as the primary arenas of conflict and revolution. It views Western culture, traditions, family, religion, norms, and institutions as tools of oppression that must be critiqued, deconstructed, and transformed to achieve a more egalitarian society.
✪ Origins & Core Ideas
Cultural Marxism draws from:
- Antonio Gramsci (Italian Marxist): Emphasized “cultural hegemony”—the idea dominant cultural values (bourgeois, Christian, traditional) maintain ruling-class power. Revolution requires intellectuals to challenge this through education, arts, and media (“long march through the institutions”).
- Frankfurt School (Institute for Social Research, 1920s Germany): Thinkers like Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, and others developed “Critical Theory.” They blended Marxism with Freudian psychology, seeing mass culture, authoritarian personalities, and Enlightenment rationality as sustaining domination. Many fled Nazis to the U.S. (e.g., Columbia University). Marcuse later influenced 1960s New Left with ideas on repressive tolerance and liberation via marginalized groups.
- Broader influences: György Lukács (class consciousness via cultural critique), and later extensions into critical race theory, feminist theory, queer theory, postcolonial studies, etc.
Unlike Soviet-style economic Marxism (nationalization, proletariat uprising), this variant sees culture as the superstructure to capture first.
Oppressor/oppressed dynamics expand beyond class to race, gender, sexuality, and identity. Critics argue it promotes political correctness, relativism, and identity politics to erode traditional cohesion and enable power redistribution.
Proponents of the ideas rarely self-label as “cultural Marxists”—they frame it as critical theory, social justice, or progress.
The term is contested: Detractors (often left-leaning) call it a far-right, antisemitic conspiracy theory that exaggerates Frankfurt influence, smears Jews (many early members were Jewish), or attributes all progressive change to a plot.
Defenders note it describes observable intellectual lineage and institutional shifts, not always a secret cabal—similar to how classical Marxism evolved.
✪ Where It Is Strongest In The United States
Its influence is most evident in elite academia, particularly humanities, social sciences, education schools, and “studies” departments (gender, ethnic, cultural). Surveys and reports show left-leaning dominance:
- High concentrations of self-identified Marxists or critical theorists in sociology, literature, and education.
- DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) offices and mandates often embed oppressor/oppressed frameworks; one analysis found large universities averaging dozens of such staff.
- Free speech concerns: Conservative students report higher self-censorship; curricula emphasize critical theory descendants (e.g., CRT, intersectionality).
✪ Other areas:
- Media, entertainment, and arts: Cultural critique shapes narratives around identity, systemic oppression, and deconstructing norms (e.g., Hollywood, newsrooms).
- K-12 education: Influences via teacher training, curricula on social justice, gender/sexuality topics.
- Corporate/government: DEI/ESG policies, HR training, and some federal initiatives echo identity-based equity over colorblind/merit approaches.
- Non-profits/foundations: Funding streams support related scholarship.
It is weaker in STEM fields, trade sectors, military (despite some pushes), most state/local governments outside blue areas, and rural/suburban heartland. Polls show broader public skepticism toward extremes (e.g., gender ideology in schools, defund movements). Influence grew post-1960s via campus radicalism entering professions, accelerated by 1980s-90s postmodern turns and 2010s social media/corporate adoption.
In summary, “cultural Marxism” captures a real evolution in leftist thought and institutional capture in knowledge-producing sectors, even if the label invites debate over intent, scale, and conspiratorial framing. Its strength correlates with elite cultural nodes rather than uniform national control. Counter-movements (e.g., classical liberal pushback, state-level reforms on DEI) highlight ongoing contestation. ✪
▶️ DATA CENTER FREAK OUT
DATA CENTER FREAK OUT
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ata centers are big buildings full of machines which process what we do on our phones and computers. AI requires even more computing power, so manHowever, t companies are eager to build more data centers.
The usual suspects are freaking out.“We must stop it!” says Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “Slow it down!” demands Senator Bernie Sanders.
Data centers do indeed use lots of power, and water to cool them down because their computers generate heat. One center can consume as much power and water as a small town.
“Uses resources like a madman!” say the protesters. Last year, protesters blocked or stalled at least 48 data center projects. One protester fired 13 bullets at an Indiana politician’s home because he supports data centers.
Now AOC and Bernie Sanders have introduced a new bill which will pause new data center construction. That’s just dumb.
“If our economy was allowed to develop at the speed of Bernie Sanders, we would be significantly worse off,” says Paige Lambermont of the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
“If we slow down, other countries are not going to. You’re going to be getting the authoritarian Chinese version of AI rather than the United States innovators’ version of AI.”
She downplays fears about rising electricity prices. So far, “it’s raised prices nowhere,” adds Lambermont. “Prices in Virginia are rising more slowly than some other places, even though more data centers are in Northern Virginia than anywhere else.”
The Institute for Energy Research found “no statistically significant relationship between data center concentration and faster increases in electricity rates.”
Still, as demand for AI increases, there will be price increases. But that’s mostly because short-sighted politicians have limited our use of the most efficient fuels, like natural gas and nuclear power, favoring wind and solar power.
“If we hadn’t done that,” says Lambermont, “we probably would have between 100 and 200 gigawatts of slack capacity in the power grid already.”
Part of the problem: Government rules which say only the government, or a government-approved business, may produce and sell power. And government’s monopolies move unbelievably slow.
Microsoft now suffers from that because it struck a deal with Constellation Energy to reopen the nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island.
The renovated plant will be able to produce power next year, but our Government won’t allow Microsoft to use that power until other utilities build powerlines in other states … often hundreds of miles away. Government rules hinder so much progress.
A company could avoid burdensome rules by building a plant for itself, off the grid. Elon Musk did that, setting up gas turbines to power his supercomputer in Tennessee. “If you’re Elon Musk, you can build your own,” notes Lambermont, “but most people can’t afford to build a gas or nuclear plant.”
Even if they could, why would they invest billions when the next politicians in power might be socialist luddites?
“No one wants to invest (billions) in something that the next presidential administration could come in and say, ‘Actually, it’s been illegal the whole time,'” sighs Lambermont.
Some in Congress now want to make building off-grid power easier. “You can do new and interesting things if you’re running your own thing and making your own rules,” says Lambermont. “That’s pretty much how every major technological advance we’ve had in other areas has come about. It’s never been the government that comes up with the advancement. It’s usually private actors doing interesting things and trying to figure out what works. … (Data centers) are resource intensive, but so are most productive things we’ve done in human history.”
Usually, productive things happen only when the Government gets out of the way. ✪
▶️ EXPOSING THE GREAT GREEN GRIFT
EXPOSING THE GREAT GREEN GRIFT
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s much as $16 trillion has been spent worldwide to defeat global warming. It could have been twice that and it would never be enough because the climate hustlers need to keep the dollars rolling in to line their own pockets. Now we finally have an Environmental Protection Agency chief who’s exposing the racket.
Testifying last week before a Senate committee, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin told lawmakers that the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, a $27 billion stash which was created through the Biden Administration’s Inflation Reduction Act, is a total con. His office found that money that was supposed to have some environmental benefit has been funneled “to former Obama and Biden officials” as well as loyal Democrat donors
“The conflicts of interest that we saw … the amount of self-dealing, the unqualified recipients … (the) Climate United Fund CEO was a special assistant in the Office of Management and Budget during the Obama-Biden administration … they received $6.9 billion,” said Zeldin, who, as a rational skeptic of the climate narrative, is finally the right man for the job.
He also told the committee that a Biden-Harris climate adviser served on the board of the Coalition for Green Capital, joining in 2023 while the organization was applying for Federal funds. He reported, as well, that the Power Forward Communities chief executive ran Fannie Mae during the Obama-Biden Administration.
“If we had 10 more minutes,” said Zeldin, “I could just go through conflicts of interest.” One assumes it might take more than 10 minutes. The global warming scare has been an ongoing grift, a bursting slush fund for the political Left for some time.
▶️ 2 Minutes 18 Seconds
After the hearing, Zeldin continued his most-welcome broadside, posting on X that he was “done with the likes of AOC, Al Gore, John Kerry, and the rest of the lying cabal that make stupid climate predictions, plunder tens of billions of tax dollars, enrich their well-connected allies, and are committed to strangulating out of existence entire sectors of our economy.” He finished by declaring, “The GREEN NEW SCAM is DEAD!!!”
We hope so. We’ve been trying to kill it for nearly three decades, and at times it felt we were nearly alone. We weren’t. We’ve had allies whom we relied on. However, the overwhelming storyline that had become widely accepted as undeniable fact was a fire hose of misinformation, exaggerations, implausible assumptions, scientific fraud, tall tales, and outright lies that overshadowed the truth.
Now it feels as if it’s about to break. People are beginning to realize that the entire scheme has had no connection to the climate and is inextricably connected to aggregating political power, social dominance, and piles of money for the left. Our hope is that within a few years, we’ll never have to write about global warming again because justice and reason finally caught up with the shakedown. ✪
▶️ THE MAPS ARE MOVING
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THE MAPS ARE MOVING
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nly a few short weeks ago House Democrats were riding high. They had spent tens of millions to win a Virginia referendum that promised up to four new seats. President Trump was struggling in the polls. The path to a House majority looked plausible.
Yet in the span of roughly two weeks, a combination of aggressive Republican redistricting and a pivotal Supreme Court decision has dramatically altered the battlefield. What was once a Democrat advantage has become a steep uphill climb. Republicans are now positioned to gain as many as 10 to 14 House seats through map changes alone; enough to transform a narrow 217–212 majority into something much more durable.
✪ The Supreme Court Spark
The turning point was the Supreme Court’s ruling in Louisiana v. Callais. The decision effectively curtailed the use of race in drawing congressional districts under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. For Democrats, who had long relied on VRA protections to create majority-minority districts in the South, the ruling was a gut punch. For Republicans, it was an opening.
Southern states with Republican trifectas moved with remarkable speed. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a map that could eliminate four Democratic seats. Alabama called a special session to redraw its map with the goal of flipping two Democratic districts and giving the GOP all seven seats. Tennessee targeted the lone Democratic stronghold in Memphis. Louisiana, South Carolina, and even Mississippi began exploring ways to eliminate their remaining Democrat representatives.
✪ Republican Redistricting Surge
Here’s a clear breakdown of the Republican-led redistricting efforts and their potential impact:
Democrats have tried to mount a counteroffensive in states where they still hold power, but their efforts have been more limited and face greater legal headwinds. In California, voters approved Proposition 50 last year, a Democrat drawn map designed to net the party five additional seats; though the map is now under legal challenge following the Supreme Court’s Louisiana v. Callais decision.
Virginia appeared ready to deliver one of Democrats’ biggest victories when voters approved a redistricting referendum on April 21 which could have given the party as many as four new seats – potentially 10 of the state’s 11 districts. However, that victory is now in serious jeopardy after a Virginia judge ruled the referendum invalid just one day later, nullifying the results. Efforts in New York to flip the state’s lone Republican seat were blocked by the Supreme Court, while proposed maps in Maryland and Illinois have either been rejected by Democrat lawmakers or paused over legal concerns. Utah remains a rare bright spot for Democrats, where a court-imposed map could add one seat. Overall, Democrat gains have proven far more fragile and uncertain than the aggressive Republican advances in the South.
✪ Bottom Line
Republicans currently hold a clear structural advantage, especially across the South, where they control the process in multiple states, while Democrat gains are more limited and face greater legal uncertainty (particularly in Virginia and California). Virginia remains the single biggest near-term variable for Democrats. If the court overturns the referendum, their path to a House majority becomes significantly harder.
A potential 10-to-14 seat Republican gain would be significant. In a chamber this closely divided, it could mean the difference between a fragile majority and comfortable control heading into 2028.
Yet, the devil is in the details (including election-related malarkey). Even the most skillfully drawn maps can be overwhelmed by national political tides. If the economy weakens, if President Trump’s approval ratings remain low, or if a major scandal erupts, some of these newly Republican-leaning districts could still flip. Conversely, a strong Republican environment would amplify the advantages of these new maps.
For now, the momentum belongs to Republicans, but the situation remains fluid. Multiple maps face lawsuits, Virginia’s fate is uncertain, and candidate recruitment and national conditions could still reshape the battlefield. ✪
▶️ SEATTLE CHOOSES DECLINE
SEATTLE CHOOSES DECLINE
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nybody notice how Seattle is rapidly becoming another West Coast example of what not to do?The city just lost another big business that up until now, had been seen as inseparable from the city, Starbucks, which moved 2,000 jobs to Nashville, Tennessee, and shelled out a $100 million investment to center its activity in that state; enough to actually move its entire operation there. The move is expected to cost Seattle $720 million in lost tax revenue.
This follows Seattle’s Mamdani-like mayor, Katie Wilson, who called for a boycott of the company to support union agitators; which apparently turned out to be the last straw for Starbucks. This, following the city’s 9% wealth tax on those making $1 million; unchecked bums and crime lowering the quality of life; and so many other businesses leaving the city to head out to places like Tennessee that it would not have been a promising market with growth potential anyway.
Here’s what was going on at Starbucks headquarters just five months ago:
Too bad about the Pike’s Place heritage and all that. Being a business, Starbucks needed to go someplace where it could actually grow and profit, so now the Mermaid will flourish in the rocky green hills to Tennessee where the local government does not hate, demonize, and curse successful businesses.
The reaction from Wilson to this fiasco was pretty putrid:
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“I think the claim that millionaires are gonna leave are state are, like, super overblown, and if, you know, the ones that leave, like byeee… “ (giggles)
It’s redolent of California political ward boss Lorena Gonzalez, who told Elon Musk who had been threatening to move Tesla to Texas over California’s COVID restrictions: “F*** Elon Musk.” to which Musk replied “Message Received” followed by a pullout.
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They don’t seem to understand what a disaster the company exits are. For Seattle and its environs, it follows the loss of most of Amazon, which took most of its operations out of Seattle and whose CEO packed up and moved to Florida last month. Most of Microsoft, which went back to Redmond; Payscale, which packed out for Boston; Boeing, which ended up in the lobbyist’s paradise of Arlington, Virginia; and the 2,000 small fry businesses that closed shop since 2020 in Seattle alone. As the Lefties like to say, this is ‘not sustainable.’ Yet they keep acting as though it’s business as usual, even as their cities decline as a result. Speaking from California with all its cutbacks and budget deficits, things are going to get really bad from this exit. Yet this idiot mayor seems to think this is the way to govern her once-great city; choosing decline and calling it shinola. Too bad they don’t pay attention to the city that created that choice word — Detroit.
Yes, decline is a choice. ✪
▶️ WHAT ALL AMERICANS CAN LEARN FROM CLARENCE THOMAS
WHAT ALL AMERICANS CAN LEARN FROM CLARENCE THOMAS
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ustice Clarence Thomas has continued to leave a lasting legacy on the U.S. Supreme Court and American history writ large. And on Thursday, he did it once more. While his intellect and writing have become some of Thomas’ most defining qualities, they are but a few of the many reasons Americans adore him.
The 77-year-old Thomas hit a major milestone by becoming the second-longest serving justice in U.S. history. The Georgia native surpassed Justice Stephen J. Field for the record on Thursday, which came several days after overtaking Justice John Paul Stevens as the third-longest serving justice.
Thomas was sworn in on Oct. 23, 1991, and has served in his current position for more than 34 years. He would surpass Justice William O. Douglas as the longest-serving justice should he continue to serve until May 2028.
Thursday’s record marks a significant achievement for Thomas, whose life story is as remarkable as his career on the nation’s highest court.
The Bush 41 appointee was born into poverty in Pin Point, Georgia, at the height of segregation. As a young boy, his mother sent him and his brother to live in Savannah with their grandparents; both of whom would be instrumental in shaping the man America knows today.
While raised in the Catholic Church, Thomas would go on to fall away from his upbringing and Christian beliefs in early adulthood. Left scarred by the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., he turned to left-wing orthodoxy and became a radical throughout his college years. It was only after returning from an unruly riot at Harvard Square in 1970 did he ask God to “take hate” out of his heart and begin his long “crawl” back to the Faith.
In the years that followed, Thomas would work under Republican Jack Danforth during the latter’s time as Missouri attorney general and later as a U.S. senator. The Georgia native was ultimately tapped to serve as the assistant secretary for Civil Rights at the Department of Education, where he briefly worked before being appointed chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. President George H.W. Bush later appointed Thomas to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, where he served one year before being nominated to SCOTUS in 1991.
Since arriving at the Supreme Court, Thomas has been instrumental in furthering an originalist approach to constitutional interpretation. That is, interpreting the Constitution as it was written at the time of its adoption and declining to “legislate from the bench” as past Supreme Courts have done (see Roe v. Wade).
Thomas’ concurrence in Printz v. United States (1997) in defense of Americans’ Second Amendment freedoms is stark example of how his jurisprudence set the stage for future originalist decisions. The reasoning he put forward in Printz was arguably foundational to the Supreme Court’s recognition of a personal right to “keep and bear arms” in its 2008 D.C. v. Heller decision. The Bush 41 appointee got the chance to further underscore this right several years later in his majority opinion in NYSRPA v. Bruen (2022), in which the court upheld Americans’ right to carry firearms outside the home for purposes of self-defense. Thomas wrote for the court:
“The constitutional right to bear arms in public for self-defense is not ‘a second-class right, subject to an entirely different body of rules than the other Bill of Rights guarantees. We know of no other constitutional right that an individual may exercise only after demonstrating to government officers some special need. That is not how the First Amendment works when it comes to unpopular speech or the free exercise of religion. It is not how the Sixth Amendment works when it comes to a defendant’s right to confront the witnesses against him. And it is not how the Second Amendment works when it comes to public carry for self-defense.”
The justice also authored notable opinions in the Supreme Court’s recent SFFA v. Harvard (2023) decision that affirmative action policies are unconstitutional; the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022) decision which overturned Roe; and the U.S. v. Skrmetti (2025) decision upholding laws protecting minors from “trans”-obsessed weirdos.
In addition to his infectious laugh and light-hearted persona, the man is widely known for his kindness and compassion to those around him. Even his liberal colleague Justice Sonia Sotomayor previously praised him for being “the one justice in the building that literally knows every employee’s name,” and who “not only … knows their names, he remembers their families’ names and histories.”
However, perhaps most admirable of all is Thomas’ unflinching courage in the face of dishonest smear campaigns designed to destroy him and those in his orbit. Americans not only witnessed this bravery during his gruesome 1991 Senate confirmation, but in the years since, in which he has never wavered when it comes to doing the right thing.
The Justice most recently displayed this fortitude during a speech at the University of Texas.
Addressing attendees, Thomas highlighted how many people in Washington, D.C. often pay “lip service” to America’s founding principles, only to then buckle when the going gets tough. More importantly, however, he encouraged listeners to reject such cowardice and be bold when faced with adversity in their own lives:
“Channel the courage of the men who faced down a king and signed [the Declaration], or a president who led the nation in a civil war rather than permit this house to be divided by the great contradiction of slavery,” Thomas said. “Take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure, and with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, let us mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.”
If readers take anything from this man’s extraordinary life and achievements, it’s that praise and glorification from the “popular” crowd are no substitutes for honor and decency; that to do what is right when faced with unrelenting pressure not to is worth it; and that, with God, traversing the storms of life is possible.
Justice Thomas has embodied and lived these principles throughout his life and record-setting career. Americans everywhere would be all the wiser to follow in his footsteps. ✪
▶️ DON SURBER: A TEAM WORTHY OF 1776
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DON SURBER: A TEAM WORTHY OF 1776
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n a fashion remarkably similar to our Founding Fathers, Trump, Musk and their fellow Patriots in this current administration have also pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred honor.
As I noted earlier, the five richest men in America signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776. They actually had fortunes and sacred honor to pledge. The signing was August 2, 1776, when 50 of the 56 delegates to the Continental Congress put their John Hancocks on the declaration—including John Hancock.
The sixth richest man was an otherwise engaged General George Washington.
For the first 50 years including five presidencies, these men midwifed a nation like no other in the world because it was founded on the promise of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They nursed it through its infancy.
The Founding Fathers faced the hangman for treason if they failed. Trump assembled a team to restore the republic. They face imprisonment if they fail. They are led by a man who faced the same fate.
Lyndon Baines Johnson entered Congress nearly penniless in 1937. He died 36 years later with a net worth of $113 million in today’s dollars. Trump’s net worth fell by $1,200,000,000—$1.2 billion—one-third of his wealth—in his first term.
Worth every penny because 47 is better than 45. Trump’s team could time travel 250 years back and still win freedom from the British Crown.
Ben Franklin was indispensable. He was a publisher who fought for a free press. He invented the lightning rod, invented bifocals and the Franklin stove.
Elon Musk builds cars that drive themselves, retrieves rockets, bores tunnels beneath cities and turned Twitter from a liberal propaganda machine into a global town square.
Scott Bessent is the Alexander Hamilton of this revolution. Obama used the IRS to go after his political opponents. Bessent uses his powers as Treasury Secretary to go after narcotic traffickers and the terrorist Iranian regime. The use of tariffs as a tool in diplomacy is one of the most Trumpian ideas of all. Bessent has defended tariffs admirably on the TV news channels.
Marco “Polo” Rubio is a man jack of all trades, master of all. Rubio’s success and loyalty should not be a surprise. Needing Florida, Trump got Rubio to seek re-election. Many are convinced that had Trump not moved to Florida, the ticket would have been Trump/Rubio.
Hung Cao and his family escaped Vietnam as Saigon fell. Later, his father took a job in US AID that had the family move to Niger. He said, “In 1979, when the Shah of Iran fell, my family and I were living in Niamey, Niger. The U.S. Marines that protected us that night in case of an evacuation stood over us and said ‘nothing will happen to you tonight. Not on my watch.’ In that moment, I wanted to be a hero like them which is why I dedicated a lifetime to serve in the military.” The retired Navy captain is now the acting Secretary of the Navy.
Stephen A. Miller won his first battle 20 years ago when as executive of the Duke Conservative Union, he dared to defend the Duke lacrosse players against the media mob who wanted to railroad them because media pundits saw them as privileged white boys. However, Miller proved correct, which is why the media will never, ever forgive him.
Tulsi Gabbard is the spy who loves America. She follows the footsteps of Ric Grenell and Condoleezza Rice as chief of the spies. How about making her the Nathan Hale of Samoa—except for the execution part?
Then there is the turncoat.
Benedict Arnold’s left leg suffered wounds in the Battle of Quebec, the Battle of Ridgefield, and the Battles of Saratoga. His horse was shot and killed and landed on that unlucky leg.
Fox News fired Tucker Carlson. He cried all the way to the bank with the $15 million to $20 million a year Fox paid him until his contract expired.
JD Vance is our modern day Thomas Jefferson. I asked Grok to re-write the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence in JD Vance’s style:
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people—the working men and women of this country, the factory towns, the hollows, the forgotten places that built this nation—to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with a distant and arrogant ruling class, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to this separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness—not the happiness of Wall Street bankers, university administrators, and coastal elites, but the kind of happiness that comes from a good job, a strong family, a safe community, and a country that puts its own people first.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object—to enrich the few at the expense of the many, to hollow out our heartland, and to replace our people with a new underclass—evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government and to provide new Guards for their future security.
God bless them all. God bless America. ✪
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