LA School Superintendent Raid Update: He's an "Undocumented Immigrant" and He's Being Investigated for Stealing School Funds

—Disinformation Expert Ace

You may remember a post yesterday evening about the LA School Superintendent whose home and offices were raided by the FBI. People were guessing what the probe might be about.

Well, he's an illegal alien who has been working in the US for 20 years, and on top of that, he sure seems very, very rich for a public " " " servant " " ".

This article does not say he's being investigated for embezzlement of school funds but the facts sure do suggest that.

Embattled Alberto Carvalho's multi-million dollar real estate portfolio revealed as LAUSD corruption probe rumbles on

LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho has an extensive real estate portfolio, with more than $6.3 million in properties across California and Florida, The California Post learned.

The revelation comes as the embattled schools chief is dealing with federal officials raiding his office, Los Angeles home, and a Miami property tied to the investigation. The raids are tied to allegations of fraud and corruption, a source told The Post.

They're using the word "corruption," which can mean a lot of things, but I think it's clear they mean misappropriation of public funds and/or kickbacks from contractors. A high-ranking school official has a lot of juicy, rich contracts to spread around, you know.

Carvalho owns at least six homes in Florida's Broward County and one in Los Angeles along with his wife, Maria. The schools head used to be Miami-Dade County Public Schools' Superintendent for more than a decade before joining LAUSD in 2022.

His main 3-bed, 3-bath San Pedro home is worth about $1.6 million, according to Zillow. The multi-floor single-family home is around 2,000 square feet.

Carvalho's most valuable home, according to Zillow, is his 5-bed, 4-bath Miami Shores home. It's valued at $2.4 million and has 3,576 square feet of space. He also owns two Miami condos worth around $1.4 million combined, per Zillow.

The LAUSD schools head earns $440,000 per year, and signed a new four-year contract last year.

Three more homes in Fort Lauderdale come in at around $1.3 million combined.
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The investigation is reportedly tied to a failed AI company called AllHere, which created a chatbot program for LAUSD with Carvalho at the helm, the program was later pulled.

Ah. So he diverted taxpayer funds to pay himself for a failed AI chatbot program.

Unbelievable. This is the kind of blatant self-dealing that Republicans almost never attempt, not because we're saints, but we know that we, unlike protected Democrats especially of the Oppressed Minority variety, would be instantly punished.

The home at the center of the Miami raid belongs to Debra Kerr, one of the leaders of AllHere.

More: He came here at age 17 as an illegal alien.

I don't know when, or if, he got his immigration status fixed.

Born in Portugal as one of six children, Carvalho was the only of his siblings to graduate high school. He came to the United States at age 17 as an undocumented immigrant.

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While Carvalho keeps his personal life largely private, the Miami Herald reported that he was married to Maria Florio Borgia Carvalho and the couple has a daughter.

Carvalho has also been outspoken on immigration issues.

At a September 2025 news conference, he said students and families should be protected from "immoral, unethical and illegal actions" while referring to ICE raids in LA, describing an "unbearable lack of humanity."

In July 2025, he criticized ICE agents for allegedly urinating on the grounds of a Pico Rivera school, calling it a "new level of despicable insult."

Carvalho faced scrutiny before arriving in Los Angeles.

In 2020, while school superintendent in Miami, the district's Office of the Inspector General reviewed a $1.57 million donation made to a nonprofit he chaired, the Foundation for New Education Initiatives. The office questioned the timing and oversight of the contribution, asking that the donation be returned.

Weird how he keeps directing taxpayer money towards entities he controls or owns.

In 2008, Carvalho, then a senior Miami-Dade school official, was linked to a series of suggestive emails with Miami Herald reporter Tania deLuzuriaga while he was married. The emails included flirtatious messages such as "Will you be completely offended if I jump into your arms the next time I see you?" and expressions like "Love, love, love you. xoxoxo." The messages surfaced publicly after he was named superintendent, and he denied having an affair.

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In 2025, former LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner and several students sued the district, alleging that approximately $77 million in Proposition 28 funds intended for arts and music education were misused. The LAUSD denied wrongdoing and said it is clarifying compliance with state requirements.

Update: Kash Patel Fires 10 of the FBI Agents That Eagerly Acted as Joe Biden's Secret Police

—Disinformation Expert Ace

The NY Post:

FBI fires 10 involved in Jack Smith's classified docs probe of Trump

By Josh Christenson

The FBI has dismissed 10 agents and analysts involved in former special counsel Jack Smith's classified documents prosecution of President Trump, a spokesperson for the bureau confirmed Thursday.

On Wednesday, it was revealed that subpoenas were sent to Kash Patel, who now serves as FBI director, and Susie Wiles, now Trump's White House chief of staff, during the 2024 campaign.

Patel told Reuters, which first reported on the subpoenas, that agents had sought his phone records "using flimsy pretexts and burying the entire process in prohibited case files designed to evade all oversight."

If you recall, these rogue agents previously claimed that their targets could not be warned by the phone company that they were being wiretapped, claiming that they were "flight risks" who would flee the country if they knew the feds were on to them.

Under questioning, various malefactors were forced to admit that no, they never really thought Republican Senators were "flight risks" at all.

An FBI official told The Post that it wasn't "just phone records and subpoenas -- but a massive targeting operation" that likely involved more than just the two Trump administration officials.

A spokesperson for the FBI Agents Association said in a statement that it "condemns today's unlawful termination of FBI Special Agents, which -- like other firings by Director Patel -- violates the due process rights of those who risk their lives to protect our country."

Fuck you. We should seize all of your retirement money.

When Congressmen Began Chanting "USA! USA!," Deportable Treasonous Jihadi Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib Began Shouting "KKK! KKK!"

—Disinformation Expert Ace

The NY Post, again:

Vance blasts Omar, Tlaib for 'talking loudly' at State of Union: 'nails on a chalkboard'

By Steven Nelson

Vice President JD Vance blasted Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib for "talking loudly the entire time" during President Trump's Tuesday night State of the Union speech -- saying he had to restrain himself as he sat over the president's shoulder in the House chamber.

Omar (D-Minn.) and Tlaib (D-Mich.) heckled Trump throughout his annual address -- with Omar shouting her opposition to his mass-deportation drive in Minneapolis and Tlaib at one point turning to Omar and appearing to say "KKK! KKK! as other attendees chanted "USA! USA!"

"They're sitting next to each other, and they're talking loudly the entire time," Vance said during a stump speech in Wisconsin urging voters to re-elect incumbent Republican Rep. Derrick Van Orden.

"It's just nails on a chalkboard. They're talking. They're interrupting. The president was completely unfazed by it," Vance said.

He also faulted the Queen of Government Graft Nancy Pelosi for not standing up to applaud Trump's call for the outlawing of insider trading by Congressmembers. You'd think that would be an obvious slam-dunk, but no, congresspeople love their graft and insider trading.

"My hope for all of you is that you find somebody who loves you as much as Nancy Pelosi loves insider trading, because then you will have a very good life indeed," Vance said.

Even Democrats are "uncomfortable" with Ilhan "Omar" Nur's and Rashida Tlaib's third-world behavior.

Washington Examiner investigations editor Sarah Bedford said there is frustration within the Democratic Party over the "unhinged way" some members protested Tuesday's State of the Union.

President Donald Trump called out Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) on Wednesday for their heckling during his speech, suggesting they "should either be institutionalized or deported." Following this annual speech, Bedford said there is "discomfort" within Democratic circles over how some members appeared as Trump spoke at the Capitol.

"That's not something the Democratic congressional leadership wanted to see from their members, there was a sort of admonition from House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries [D-NY] for just everyone to cool it, don't make us look dumb, and it feeds into the narrative that Donald Trump has about congressional Democrats when he stood there at the podium and called them crazy and said they're impossible to work with and they're irrational," Bedford said on the Hugh Hewitt Show, guest-hosted by Kurt Schlichter.

"Then in some ways, a few of them sort of proved Donald Trump right by screaming at him and refusing to stand for the notion that the government should support American citizens over illegal immigrants," Bedford said. "They sort of played right into Donald Trump's trap, so optically, it wasn't a very good night for Democrats."

In case you were unsure, a black female Democrat politician confirms that even asking Democrats to stand to show their support of American citizens is, in fact, racist.

I know that was weighing on many of you. At least now you have an answer, though I'm sure that answer is bitter to your racist brains.

Rep. Janelle Bynum (D., Ore.) described President Donald Trump's request that lawmakers stand if they believe the first duty of government is to protect American citizens as "racist" and said the moment made her "uncomfortable."

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When asked what she thought about Trump's question, Bynum said, "I think you can agree with the 'what,' like standing up for American citizens. But I disagreed with the 'how.'"

"There's thinly veiled racist language, anti-immigrant language in what he was asking and that was uncomfortable," she continued.

Bynum wasn't the only Democrat to slam Trump's address. Rep. Robin Kelly (D., Ill.) made light of Trump's presentation of military awards, including the Medal of Honor, to veterans during his address. "It was like an award show, 'You get a medal! You get a medal! You get a medal!'"

Trump honored five military members with awards for their service, including two Medals of Honor. Army chief warrant officer Eric Slover, who was wounded as a helicopter pilot in the raid to capture Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, received the nation's highest award for valor in action. So did 100-year-old retired Navy Capt. Royce Williams, who Trump said had a "legendary dogfight" with seven Soviet pilots during the Korean War. Trump also gave out two Purple Hearts and one Legion of Merit award.

The patriotism!

And a GOP-aligned group is already running video of the Democrats' disgraceful third-world conduct in campaign ads.

The television ad marks the GOP's first effort to use the moment to build momentum for Republicans campaigning across the country ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The 30-second video is set to play all year nationally as part of a seven-figure ad campaign focused on immigration, according to Politico. It will particularly target key states Michigan, North Carolina, and Georgia, where Republicans are defending vulnerable incumbents, and eying possible pickup opportunities to hold on to their narrow majority in the House and Senate.

"Democrats are for illegal immigrant criminals. Republicans are for you," the ad states.

The quote plays off a successful ad strategy during the 2024 election, when Republican Political Action Committees commissioned an ad that read "Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you."

Another Harvard Professor Exposed as Friend of Epstein

—Disinformation Expert Ace

As I mentioned earlier -- but which you might have missed because I added it as a late update -- the WEF's President and CEO resigned after the board began to investigate him for his "three dinners" (uh-huh) and extensive correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein. Despite kindling this friendship in 2018-2019 -- nine or ten years after Epstein's conviction for soliciting a teenager -- he claims he had absolutely no idea at all that Epstein was associated with any scandal.

On to the newest Harvard professor exposed.

We already knew that Harvard's Larry Summers, who was also Obama's chief economic advisor, was a close pal of Epstein's. He resigned from the school a few months back.

Now we find out aHarvard math professor was also a FoJ.

Harvard math professor Martin Nowak -- once dubbed Jeffrey Epstein's "inside man" at the university -- has been put on leave after college bosses learned "new information" about his links to the convicted pedophile.

University bosses' bombshell decision comes after ex-Harvard president Larry Summers, also scrutinized over his relationship with the financier, announced his resignation.

Nowak, who was gifted $6.5 million by Epstein to create the now-closed-down Program for Evolutionary Dynamics (PED), will be the subject of a fresh probe investigating whether he breached the university's conduct policies, according to a letter first revealed by the Harvard Crimson on Wednesday.

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Nowak's links to Epstein are well-documented.

The ex-Wall Street financier visited PED offices at least 40 times between 2010 and 2018.

Nowak gave Epstein "unlimited access" to school grounds, supplying a keycard and a passcode, according to a 2020 review carried out by the university.

Huh. Giving a pedophile a backstage pass at a college. What could go wrong?

Damning Department of Justice-released emails revealed Nowak's plans to visit Epstein's infamous island.

One such correspondence from 2012 featured JetBlue flight arrangements between Boston and St. Thomas.

An email from February 2014 contained the subject: "Does JE want Martin Nowak to visit him on the island March 1?"

Nowak has denied having any knowledge of Epstein's crimes.

Boy that sure sounds familiar.

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Summers and his wife, Elisa F. New, reportedly enjoyed their honeymoon on Epstein's private island -- and they flew on his infamous "Lolita Express" jet.

Also on board the flight was Epstein's madam, Ghislaine Maxwell.

"Mr. Summers and Ms. New spent their honeymoon in St. John and Jamaica in December 2005, which was long before Mr. Epstein was arrested for the first time," a spokesperson for Summers told the Crimson last November.

The spokesperson stressed that Summers and his wife were on Epstein's island "for less than a day."

Summers and Epstein also spoke about women, fundraising and politics in communications that have since been released.

You know, the "elite's" eagerness to break bread with this man could be explained away as something non-sexual. non-pedophilic if we had any claims that Epstein was just some kind of Svengali-like tornado of charisma and intellect.

But I never hear that. I just hear that he really liked jailbait.

And if no one can offer an innocent reason for seeking his company, I have to assume they just like jailbait too.

Biden's Corrupt and Soviet FBI Wiretapped Key Political Opponents Kash Patel and Suzie Wiles (Trump's Chief of Staff)

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Weird how all of the targets of Biden's FBI just happened to be political opponents he wanted dirt on.

This is Nixon Squared. And the leftwing media insists this is all perfectly normal, and that Trump is The Real Authoritarian Here.

Phone records belonging to FBI Director Kash Patel and White House chief of staff Susie Wiles were subpoenaed by the bureau back in 2022 and 2023 as part of a "massive targeting operation" undertaken by the Biden administration, The Post has learned.

The subpoenas were issued when both Patel and Wiles were private citizens, as special counsel Jack Smith probed President Trump's handling of classified documents and his alleged efforts to interfere in the 2020 presidential election.

An FBI official told The Post that the information was contained in files found at the bureau's headquarters in Washington, DC -- similar to the "Arctic Frost" disclosures unearthed from apparent burn bags last year.

"It's not just phone records and subpoenas -- but a massive targeting operation," the official noted, indicating the use of both technical tools and human intelligence. Several FBI employees were fired Wednesday related to the discovery.

The existence of the subpoenas was first reported by Reuters.

Patel and Wiles' phone records were found in files labeled, "Prohibited," according to the outlet.

"It is outrageous and deeply alarming that the previous FBI leadership secretly subpoenaed my own phone records -- along with those of now White House chief of staff Susie Wiles -- using flimsy pretexts and burying the entire process in prohibited case files designed to evade all oversight," Patel said in a statement.

The FBI director noted that he recently barred bureau employees from labeling files "Prohibited."

Purported "burn bags" related to the "Crossfire Hurricane" probe -- the FBI's investigation into alleged links between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia -- were also discovered by the bureau last year.

In official parlance, "burn bags" refers to containers that hold sensitive documents that are meant to be destroyed after a certain period of time.

Will Chamberlain points out there's more to the story -- the FBI asked Suzie Wiles' lawyer to secretly tape record her calls, and he did.

@willchamberlain

Everyone's buried the lede here.

It's not just that the FBI subpoenaed Kash and Susie's phone records. The FBI surreptitiously recorded a phone call between Wiles AND HER LAWYER! Even worse, the lawyer KNEW the FBI recorded the conversation, and didn't tell Wiles!

Disbar him, charge Jack Smith and his seditious Soviet FBI agents, and wiretap Chris Wray.

Thanks to Chuck Martel.

Bill Gates Is Very, Very, Very Sorry He Inadvertently Consorted With a Convicted Child Trafficker and Banged Russian "Dates" Procured by Jeffrey Epstein
UPDATE: President and CEO of the WEF Resigns Over Epstein Ties

—Disinformation Expert Ace

You wouldn't believe how sorry he is about the "mistake" he made in becoming BFFs with a guy who just got convicted of soliciting a 14-year-old girl.

It's a real Oopsie Moment, all right, and he promises he'll #DoBetter now that Epstein is dead.

One of two Russian women Bill Gates admits having affairs with during his 27-year marriage was helped financially by Jeffrey Epstein -- who used the sordid secret to try to blackmail the billionaire Microsoft co-founder.

Gates tries to portray these women as, I josh you not, a "nuclear physicist" and a "bridge player."

But they were kept women, paid for by Jeffrey Epstein. I think the "nuclear physicist" was chiefly concerned with splitting the Nut Atom. (To borrow a joke from Empire of Jeff, I think.)

Gates' surprising mea culpa Tuesday was a questionable attempt to cleanse his image over his friendship with Epstein, which ex-wife Melinda French Gates largely blames for destroying their marriage.

"I did have affairs, one with a Russian bridge player ... and one with a Russian nuclear physicist," the billionaire told staff at a town hall for his Gates Foundation, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Gates admitted the affairs while maintaining that he did nothing "illicit" with his now-dead pedophile pal.

However, rumors of the fling with the bridge player, Mila Antonova, first emerged over her own ties to Epstein -- ones featured heavily in damning exchanges in the Epstein files.

Antonova was also an acquaintance of notorious Kremlin spy Anna Chapman, with a photo capturing them strolling near Wall Street before Chapman, the daughter of a former KGB officer, was booted out of the country.

Gates was 53 when he was first pictured with Antonova, who was in her 20s, at a national bridge event in Washington, DC...

However, one of Gates' main advisers and confidants, Boris Nikolic, introduced her to Epstein in 2013 -- when he'd already convicted of child-sex offenses -- as she sought help getting money to start an online business to teach people how to play bridge.

Epstein also paid Antonova so she could attend a programming camp as part of helping her pursue a career in software development, she told the Wall Street Journal in 2023, when she had initially refused to confirm the affair with Gates.

This sounds like he was paying money so that she could develop interests that could help her get close to Gates.

"Epstein agreed to pay, and he paid directly to the school," she explained at the time. "Nothing was exchanged. I don't know why he did that. When I asked, he said something like he was wealthy and wanted to help people when he could."

However, he appeared to have a far more sinister motive -- and try to force Gates to pay him that money and more under the threat of exposing his cheating to his then-wife.

A Gates spokesperson previously claimed that Epstein "tried unsuccessfully to leverage a past relationship to threaten Mr. Gates."

In a July 2017 email released by the Department of Justice, Epstein also made a string of allegations against Gates, branding his one-time friend "so cheap" for the way he'd treated his mistress.

"After I sent her that note she said she had little money, couldn't afford air conditioner, was living on a friends couch. Really needed money. I sent her some," he emailed Boris Nikolic.

"Your friend Bill is nuts," Epstein continued in the typo-filled rage. "His former girl. Can't afford air con. Can't afford to travel to bridge.The richest man in the world is so cheap, his former bridge girl and toy, lives on a friends sofa."

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Gates, meanwhile, has repeatedly expressed regret at his involvement with the late pedophile, and insisted he had no involvement in any of his wrongdoings.

"I did nothing illicit. I saw nothing illicit," Gates said in the town hall meeting Tuesday, according to the WSJ. "To be clear, I never spent any time with the victims, the women around him."

We'll see. Why would you purposely develop a friendship with a man just convicted of soliciting an underage girl, if not for a shared interest?

Do these billionaires just donate to left-wing causes like environmentalism so they have an excuse to ditch their wives, attend conferences, and score some Russian kept woman mish?

Answer: Mostly.

In some minor Epstein news, Epstein blamed then-Prince Charles for former Prince Andrew being stripped of his trade envoy job. Which he allegedly used to deliver UK state secrets to the pedophile financier.

Jeffrey Epstein blamed "Charles" on the day Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor lost his UK trade envoy job.

On 21 July 2011, the day it was announced that the former prince would step down from the role, Epstein wrote: "I assume he knows that this is Charles doing."

Finally, Bill and Hillary Clinton will finally be questioned about their contacts with the known and notorious pedophile and whoremonger.

They will, as usual, blend perjury with strategic obfuscation.

It depends on what the definition of "underage" is.

House members are eyeing a new phase in their monthslong investigation into Jeffrey Epstein: A race to produce results that match the stunning Epstein fallout across the globe and satisfy an electorate clamoring for accountability.

This week's interviews of Bill and Hillary Clinton -- who are scheduled to testify to lawmakers under subpoena and behind closed doors about their relationships with Epstein and his convicted co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell -- could be a pivotal moment in this effort.

Bill Clinton has maintained that he was an acquaintance of Epstein's but stopped communicating with him at least a decade before his arrest in 2019, and he has not been accused of wrongdoing.

His spokesperson Angel Ureña posted on social media in 2019 that the former president traveled on Epstein's plane four times internationally in 2002 and 2003, but that Secret Service details were present "on every leg of the trip." Hillary Clinton has said she has no memory of meeting Epstein at all. A spokesperson for the Clintons did not respond to a request for comment.

But the Clintons' depositions before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee come as the recent arrests in Britain of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, and ex-ambassador to the U.S. Peter Mandelson, have only intensified the pressure on Congress to produce similarly dramatic impacts closer to home.

That means both Clintons will be put under a microscope for any potential transgression, whether it relates to the late financier's sex trafficking conviction or not.

"Obviously, the committee wants to see some people be held accountable," said Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) in an interview in advance of the high-profile depositions. The former president will testify Friday, and the former secretary of state Thursday, both in Chappaqua, New York.

Roughly 19 committee members are expected to be on hand for the depositions, and Comer said he suspected questions to focus on what interactions the couple had with Epstein -- in the White House or elsewhere.

"I think what you're seeing in Britain is, the charges against Prince Andrew and the former ambassador weren't sex-related crimes. They were more with respect to treason and selling secrets and things like that," he explained. "We were just fascinated how Epstein was able to surround himself with so many high-profile government figures, not just in the United States, but in other countries, so I think there will be a lot of questions."

Good afternoon!

Update: Like I said, these people just arrange left-wing conferences to pork prostitutes.

The Morning Rant: The Biggest Boondoggle In History?

—CBD

The maniacal push for total conversion of our transportation network to EVs is part of the now-discredited and equally insane Global Warming/Climate Change power and money grab. At its heart it is two things: the first is raw, naked power. The elites want to control us, and transportation is a huge part of the modern world. The second is the degradation of our standard of living. EVs are inherently shorter range, more expensive, and more difficult to recharge on the go, so that will keep us closer to home...that mythical 15 minute city!

Sounds like socialism to me, because it is. And like socialism, it is failing because of that pesky little thing that guides civilizations' economic decisions....the market. Or Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand," which is merely the sum of all of the billions of individual decisions made by us for our own benefit.

But central planning, one of the tenets of power-mad socialists, ignores those individuals and instead decides what demand for goods should be. For economics geeks there is even a law -- Say's Law -- that suggests that supply can drive demand. But real-world evidence says that is mostly incorrect, and the socialists don't understand that law anyway.

So the mad push for EVs by automobile companies assumed that if they built those cars, no matter how expensive and inconvenient and dangerous (Lithium battery fires for the win!) they are, American consumers would buy them because...uh...reasons!

Those "reasons" can be distilled into one thing...worship at The Sustainable Organic Church Of The Carbon Apocalypse, which is Buck Throckmorton's brilliant term for the factless faith in EVs, renewable energy, a carbonless future, and unicorns!

Sadly, this hysterical conviction has spread to the C suites of our automobile manufacturers, and they fought the immutable laws of economics for years, until they simply ran out of other people's money...mainly their investors'!

Are EVs The Biggest Boondoggle In Human History?

hen Stellantis last week announced it was writing down $26 billion, the CEO of the car company that now owns Chrysler, Antonio Filosa, said it was “part of a decisive process we started in 2025 to once again make our customers and their preferences our guiding star.”

Which begs the question: What was Stellantis’ guiding star before if not its own customers?

For that matter, who or what has been guiding General Motors (which announced a $7.6 billion writedown last month), Ford ($19.5 billion), and other automakers that’ve written down a total of $140 billion in just the past three years?

Anyone who has followed the auto industry over the past decade knows the answer. All of these losses are the result of automakers chasing the phantom known as “zero emission” cars.

There is some welcome news here. What the experience with the EV debacle shows is that consumers are still in the driver’s seat – no pun intended.

It's simple really. Free markets are successful for exactly that reason, and command economies will always fail because it is almost impossible to predict and guide demand through supply. I say "almost," because of course demand for EVs can be created by destroying the market for alternatives, but that is an economy-crushing behavior, and one that we see being played out in other countries.

Experimenting with people's economic lives rarely turns out well, and America's astounding economic success is a result of mostly avoiding that temptation!

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. If you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow us it would be much appreciated!

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

The Morning Report — 2/26/26

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. Turning to the international scene, with the situation in Iran still fluid, if not volatile internally and with two American carrier battle groups now stationed within striking distance of the Mullahs, the big story is what happened right in our own backyard:

Four passengers of a Florida-registered speedboat killed by Cuban border guards were all born in the communist island nation but lived in the US, the Cuban Embassy said Wednesday night.

Cuba’s interior ministry claimed the country’s law enforcement opened fire on the boat after it entered their waters for an “armed infiltration” attempt.

The vessel was carrying a total of 10 “armed” people who Cuban officials claim “intended to carry out an infiltration for terrorist purposes.”

The Interior Ministry alleged assault rifles, handguns, Molotov cocktails and other weapons were found onboard the speedboat.

Four of the passengers were gunned down by Cuban border troopers in a shootout.  The six injured survivors were identified as Amijail Sánchez González, Leordan Enrique Cruz Gómez, Conrado Galindo Sariol, José Manuel Rodríguez Castelló, Cristian Ernesto Acosta Guevara, and Roberto Azcorra Consuegra, according to the embassy.

The embassy additionally identified one of the deceased as Michel Ortega Casanova.

An eleventh Cuban national, Duniel Hernández Santos, was also arrested “within national territory,” though it’s unclear if he was on the boat with the other purported infiltrators. . .

. . . When asked for comment about the citizenship of those aboard the speedboat, the State Department referred The Post to earlier comments made by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Rubio had vowed that the US would “find out exactly what happened” and “respond accordingly.” 

He downplayed Cuba’s initial version of the attack, saying the US would find its “own information on this.”

“We’re not gonna base our conclusions on what they told us,” he said.

Rubio conceded “it is highly unusual to see shootouts in the open sea like that. That’s not something that happens every day.”

Now that the Maduro regime has been decapitated and Venezuela has at long last a chance to eradicate the cancer of socialism/communism and restore its society and economy once again to freedom and prosperity, thanks to President Trump's vigorous reassertion of the heretofore long moribund Monroe Doctrine now the DON-roe Doctrine, America's national security has been bolstered.

In any case, with Maduro gone and the red menace on the wane all over Latin America, Cuba itself at long last has a chance to throw off the nearly seven long decades of misery and oppression of the Castro regime, thanks to President Trump. They know it, we know it and for sure this President knows it.

Record U.S. oil and gas production lowered world prices at the expense of Russia and the Middle East. Interrupting embargoed oil shipments from Venezuela and Iran has weakened Chinese influence and nearly strangled Cuba. . .

. . . Efforts to strangle the Cuban and Iranian governments will starve their respective anti-Western surrogates and their own terrorist efforts in Latin America and the Middle East—once more to China’s chagrin.

So, are the Cubans merely lashing out due to the aforementioned analysis by lurker extraordinarie Victor Davis Hanson, owing to the President's focus now on Iran or can the Trump State and War Departments handle multiple situations simultaneously. And is what Havana is declaring bullshit or are we engaged in any covert activity in and around Cuba? Their economy and government are now in a very precarious situation now that their supply of oil has been effectively cut off with the collapse of the Maduro regime.

Cuba has been and remains a lynchpin for our rivals and enemies to attempt to destabilize us. How incredible would it be to see the statues of bas reliefs of Marx, Lenin and Castro sledgehammered and dynamited off of every Cuban government building, just so we can see Barack Obama weeping at the sight of it.

Speaking of the Bay of Pigs, we had and still have the braying of pigs, that is the Democrat/Leftists in reaction to President Trump's tremendous State of the Union Address on Tuesday night. And as CBD and I discussed on the latest episode of the podcast, linked here and in the sidebar as well as available on the usual outlets listed at the bottom of this post,

Their vile behavior might very well be their undoing come the November midterms and perhaps into 2028, please God.

Of course that remains to be seen but if they continue to elevate illegal aliens, thugs, grifters and other assorted vermin above the American people as no doubt they will, that alone could and must wipe them out electorally, not just in the next two election cycles but for all eternity. Yes, eradicating tyranny abroad is a good thing, but can we please eradicate it here at home first and forever?!

I have a dream today!!!

Have a great day.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• The Interior Ministry alleged assault rifles, handguns, Molotov cocktails and other weapons were found onboard the speedboat. (Maybe it was Antifa! - jjs)
  Four ‘armed’ speedboat passengers killed by Cuban border guards lived in the US, officials say
  
• "On the morning of February 25, 2026, a violating speedboat was detected within Cuban territorial waters."
  Deadly Gun Battle Off Cuba’s Coast — Florida-Registered Boat At Center Of Clash

Daily Tech News 26 February 2026

—Pixy Misa

• The first transatlantic fiber-optic cable is being pulled up after nearly forty years. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  TAT-8 went into operation in 1988 and then failed in 2002 and was deemed uneconomic to repair. Which not surprising since it could only carry 280 megabits per second - 40,000 phone calls, and an aggregate speed about half that of my home internet.
  
  As the name suggests there were seven prior TATs, with TAT-1 being provisioned in 1956 and carrying 35 simultaneous phone calls. Six subsequent TATs ended with TAT-14 which could handle 9.3 terabits per second - enough bandwidth for everyone in America to be on the phone to someone in Europe simultaneously.
  
  Even that was not enough and it was retired in 2020. Total transatlantic bandwidth today is somewhere in the low petabits.

Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - February 25, 2026 [TRex]

—Open Blogger

Good evening Horde. The time has come for very random mid-week shenanigans of the post-cafe overnight variety.

Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Good will offerings of amusing puns are happily accepted. Pants are optional. Giraffes are excused. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors.

[Top photo: Texas State Capitol Dome, Austin, Texas]

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VW Blackhawk?

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The F-4 seems to be a favorite of the Horde:

I know what you are going to say. What about the F-14? Ok. Here you go:

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Are you wise in the ways of the US Navy's Carderock facility in Maryland? They have a lot of water.

This tour of the indoor ocean involves a little math in the context of wave amplitude, but the scale of the place is impressive with or without math.

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This is remarkable - World War I on the western front - daily time lapse:

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There's a lot going on here:

pic.twitter.com/OHQtXB8rR6

— NO CONTEXT HUMANS (@HumansNoContext) December 23, 2025

Hat tip: Biden's Dog

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Computing the optimal road trip across the U.S.

What's the most efficient way to see the US?

Criteria:

- The trip must make at least one stop in all 48 states in the contiguous U.S.
- The trip only makes stops at National Natural Landmarks, National Historic Sites, National Parks, or National Monuments.
- The trip must be taken by car and never leave the U.S.

The author and his wife compiled a list of 50 major U.S. landmarks - one in each state excluding Alaska/Hawaii and including D.C., and two in California. The used a computer optimization tool to map it all out.

The complete trip around the U.S. takes 13,699 miles of driving. Assuming no traffic, this road trip will take about 224 hours (9.33 days) of driving in total. The author estimates the trip will take at least 2 to 3 months to complete. You can start anywhere on the route as long as you follow it from then on.

Click on the link for the 50 landmarks. The link also has the Python optimization code if you want to make your own trip with your own criteria. With AI, you probably don't even need to know how to work with Python code.

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The Pittsburgh police scanner keeps giving. Thank you people of Pittsburgh!

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Dos Gringos for the big ONT finish:

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Written correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Are you lurking ?? Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Giraffe MMA Cafe

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Not giraffes

This cold has me flat on my back.

Smol. Also smol.

Not smol.

Cat is 20 years young. Joe Scarborough just emailed me to call this "the most cogent, most aware, best version of this cat, ever, and f*** you if you disagree."

Bear and cub.

Puppy needs to calm the hell down.

Fetch the stick.

Sheep does not go easy on the baby. Head-butts will be given freely to all.

On to the giraffe MMA.

Sparring by male giraffes has been commonly reported since its first description in 1958 and is believed to play a role in establishing male dominance hierarchies. However, despite being often documented, quantitative investigations of sparring behaviour are currently lacking. Here, we investigate the factors affecting the frequency, duration and intensity of sparring bouts in a population of giraffes Giraffa camelopardalis giraffa living on a private fenced reserve in Limpopo, South Africa. We show that sparring bouts were most frequently observed in young adults, and between males that were more evenly matched in size. Sparring bouts between males of similar body size were also characterised by being of high intensity and of short duration. Taken together, these results support the suggestion that sparring functions principally to provide maturing males a means of testing their competitive ability without escalating to full-scale fights. Additionally, mature bulls intervened on young adults possibly to disable any winner effect achieved by the latter, with the most dominant bull being responsible for the majority of interventions. For the first time, we also show that individuals displayed strong laterality when engaged in sparring: individuals consistently preferred delivering blows from either their left or right side, and these preferences dictated the orientation of sparring bouts (whether head-to-head or head-to-tail).

Quick Hits

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Outstanding: One of the women who was terrorized, along with her children, by Don Lemon and his femcel/incel antifa pals is suing him for intentional infliction of emotional distress.

And unlike the last time he committed Gay Crotch Battery on an innocent victim, he doesn't have CNN's malpractice insurance backing him up and paying the victim off.

[TMZ:] A woman who claims to have been attending service during the Minnesota church protest covered by Don Lemon last month is now suing Lemon and other protesters, saying she suffered severe emotional distress as a result of the incident.

In court documents, obtained by TMZ, Ann Doucette claims she was attending a worship service at The Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, on January 18 ... when she alleges Don and others "unlawfully interfered" with her ability to "freely exercise her religion in a private place of worship." ...

Doucette is suing for an unspecified amount, claiming she suffered "severe emotional distress, fear, anxiety, and trauma" as a result of the protesters' conduct.

Doucette claims Don acted with the group of protesters, and that one protester admitted on social media to assisting Don with "logistics and local contacts in support of the operation."

Gay communist Jihadi Theater Kid Zohran Mamdani's "low-cost state-run grocery stores" got a try-out as a private communist party gave the concept a test-run by opening a "free grocery store" pop-up.

The "free grocery store" was exactly as you'd expect it to be.

It wasn't a Mamdani Mart, but it was a good indication of what the socialist grocery stores that Comrade Mayor promised to bestow upon New York City will be like. Last week, the cryptocurrency outfit Polymarket opened, for five days only, what it billed as "New York's First Free Grocery Store." And so the triumph of socialism was on full display in the Big Apple, right? Well, socialism certainly was, but "triumph" wasn't exactly the word.

Fox News reported Thursday that "in a busy stretch of restaurants and boutiques in the West Village, hundreds of New Yorkers queued up outside a pop-up shop offering free groceries."

That's right: the first glory of socialism that New York's First Free Grocery Store brought to Gotham was long lines. As one of the last sclerotic rulers of the declining Soviet Union, Konstantin U. Chernenko told the Politburo in 1985: "Comrades, it is not unusual for one type of merchandise or another to disappear from shop counters, goods that are often the easiest to make and the most needed on a daily basis."

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And so in New York's First Free Grocery Store, the demand far outstripped the supply, and the lines were Soviet-length....

New York's First Free Grocery Store hit the wall of reality quite early in the day. One woman recounted: "I literally got here at 9:00 ... and basically what they said is that they ran out of tickets." A man said: "They told me that they ran out of tickets. I couldn't get no more food.... I couldn't get access to the store." A beleaguered security guard shouted just after 9 a.m.: "Let's go people, let's go. Go home. Do not linger, do not look, do not watch. Please go home." But ultimately, they will not. Aside from the gulags, the line is the most distinguishing feature of socialist life.

If Mamdani holds true to his promise and opens his low-cost grocery stores, we will see all this again, and likely with greater intensity and hotter tempers. Socialism is beautiful, comrade!

Democrats literally want no illegal aliens deported, ever.

"A Tough Immigration Case," Byron York (a good reporter) writes.

But is it? Democrats think so. York points out they're leaving out most of the story.

A TOUGH IMMIGRATION CASE. Two U.S. senators and two members of the House from Arizona are pressing the Trump administration to intervene in the deportation case of a restaurant owner in the Phoenix area. As sometimes happens in these stories, there has been a lot of heart-tugging rhetoric. But sometimes a heart-tugging story is not exactly what it seems.

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Now she is fighting deportation. She has on her side Sens. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and Reps. Greg Stanton (D-AZ) and Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ). Last September, when she was in detention, the lawmakers wrote to President Donald Trump asking that he release her.

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So why was Yu held? She was held because there is more to her story than the Democratic lawmakers said. The following is from a number of news reports on Yu's case.

After entering illegally with the aid of a human smuggler in 2004, Yu applied for asylum in the U.S. on the basis of her desire to escape China's one-child policy. In 2005, she was denied asylum and given a final order of removal by an immigration judge. That indicates that Yu was given full due process and should have left the country voluntarily or been deported at that time.

But Yu did not leave, and she was not deported. The news reports say that Yu appealed her order of removal several years later, in 2013, and lost. She appealed the order again in 2016 and lost again. Still, more legal process did not change her status.

In October 2024, when Joe Biden, not Donald Trump, was president, ICE arrested Yu and sent her to a detention center in Prairieland, Texas. In January 2025, Yu, still in detention, married U.S. citizen Aldo Urquiza, with whom she worked at her restaurant...

So what to make of all this? First of all, U.S. authorities should have deported Yu two decades ago, when her asylum claim was denied and she received a final order of removal. Failing that, they should have deported her 10 years ago, when she lost two appeals of that order of removal. But the authorities did not act on either occasion.

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On the other hand, can anyone deny that Yu has treated U.S. immigration law with contempt for more than twenty years? First, she crossed illegally into the U.S. Then, having been denied asylum, she defied a final order of removal. Then, in 2013, she defied the loss of her appeal of that removal order. Then, in 2016, she defied another loss in another appeal of that removal order. Finally, in custody and with removal looming, she married a U.S. citizen, who immediately began petitioning authorities that his immigrant wife should not be deported.

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So Yu has options. They are not the options she wants right now, but if nothing else, her case proves there can be a price for defying American law for more than two decades.

Arrest in Terrorist Attack on Boise ICE Office: It's an AWFUL
Plus: FBI Raids LA School Superintendent's Home, School District Offices

—Disinformation Expert Ace

They say it's a woman but they talk a lot of horse-shit about sex now.

Federal prosecutors are calling an Idaho woman's alleged decision to steal an ambulance and crash it into a Meridian building leasing office space to immigration officials a "brazen, dangerous, unprovoked, premeditated attack," according to newly released court records.

In a 15-page affidavit, investigators outlined the evidence that local and federal law enforcement agencies collected against Sarah George, 43, of Boise, before arresting her Monday. Over the course of five days, officers located surveillance footage, financial records and social media posts that they say prove George purchased gasoline cans and lighter fluid, filled them with fuel and stole a Canyon County ambulance before crashing it into the Portico North building with the intention of setting it on fire. T

he building, owned by St. Luke's Health System, included office space that was being leased to the Department of Homeland Security, which includes Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Posts on George's Facebook page had "adverse political positions" against the agencies, the affidavit alleged.

Oh really, this ugly AWFUL has a FaceBook page where she shares her deranged mentally-ill political opinions? I never would have guessed.

Assistant United States Attorney David Robins, in the District of Idaho, said the attack wasn't random. He wrote in a motion arguing that George should be held "in custody" that based on the woman's social media posts, the attack was over her "perceived grievances" of law enforcement.

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"The defendant's devil-may-care attitude towards the extreme public risk can hardly be overstated," Robins wrote in his motion. "She stole an ambulance -- a tool by which first responders save lives -- and damaged it while trying to destroy it. By attempting to burn the building, she showed no regard for the potential occupants (e.g., night workers, janitors, first responders) and the mortal risks she inflicted.

She then approached the parked ambulance and drove off wearing a dark beanie and face covering, according to the affidavit.

You can't hide ugly.

Gee, I wonder what her husband thinks about all this.

Just kidding. She looks like my less-attractive testicle. Not the one I send people pictures of.

That photo is, I believe, from a cop's bodycam camera as he pulled her over for a traffic stop. He realized "Holy shit, this looks like Ace's 'not my bad side' ball! Must be the terrorist!"

I need to stop sending that to everybody. Especially family members.

He recognized her from a store's surveillance camera video, showing her buying the gas cans used in the attack.

She's a real gem:

According to the affidavit, investigators found a social media post allegedly made by George the morning of Feb. 18 depicting an AI-generated image of the White House on fire with the caption, "If it can be destroyed by truth then it should be destroyed; it was built in lies anyways."

No but seriously what's her husband think?

God spare us the wrath of ugly, unfuckable femcels who have nothing to contribute to the world except for deranged social media posts about Trump.

BAFTA Tourettes Incident Pits the People Who Cancel Over #Racism Against the People Who Cancel Over "Abelism"

—Disinformation Expert Ace

The BAFTAs are a low-rent knock-off of the Golden Globes for the UK only.

A film had been nominated for an award, called I Swear. It's about a Tourette's syndrome advocate, who happens to be afflicted with Tourette's himself. The movie shows him being beaten up and otherwise suffering because the Tourette's causes him involuntarily to curse or otherwise say inappropriate, offensive things.

(I think he may be a commenter here.)

Two Americans, Michael B. Jordan and Deroy Lindo, were presenters at the awards show. They had to import two Americans because Britain only has like six "stars" and they were all busy filming Poroit episodes or Doctor Who.

These two Americans are black. Black people were presenting awards in front of man suffering from Tourette's. A man who frequently gets beaten up because his brain unconsciously decides what would be the worst possible thing he could say in a situation, and then makes him say it.

So what do you think he shouted at the black men?

Answer below, but it's not bleeped out at all, so have a care about playing it. The text headline tells you the answer, though.

CNN: The Economy Is Doing Pretty Well, Just as Trump Claims.
Too Bad It's a Boomcession That Is Leaving So, So Many People Behind.

—Disinformation Expert Ace

I suppose a grudging admission with lots of defensive Democrat Talking Point caveats is still an admission.

CNN Fact Check: Trump told the truth when he said the economy is solid. (But sad about the boomcession!)

President Donald Trump made a passionate defense of the US economy during his State of the Union address Tuesday night.

"Inflation is plummeting, incomes are rising fast. The roaring economy is roaring like never before."

Hyperbole aside, he's right: America's economy is strong. But Trump is missing the point.

Ah, he says the economy is strong, but he's... missing the point.

What?

Affordability, not economic strength, drives voters to the polls. Most Americans don't care a lick about GDP, CPI, PCE or any of the other acronyms or data points that show the economy is on the right track. They care about their job security and those financial fears that keep folks up at night: figuring out how to to pay for groceries, housing, health care, car payments, college and child care -- all of which keep getting more expensive.

But inflation has fallen from Biden's 10+% to 1.7% over the past three months.

As for "worrying about job security:" Americans have felt insecure about their jobs since the seventies. This is not a Trump thing. This is a secular shift in the economy that happened after the 1960s boom and continues to happen.

This hack then compares Trump to Biden -- without revealing that CNN vigorously echoed Biden's false claims of presiding over a strong economy.

"I inherited an economy that was on the brink. Now our economy is literally the envy of the world."

There's a problem with that strategy, though.

Want proof? That last quote wasn't from Tuesday's speech. That was from the 2024 State of the Union, delivered by former President Joe Biden, whose party lost the election eight months later.

Yeah but who caused the inflation? Is Trump lying that that is a hangover from Biden?

Trump's message, at least on paper, is largely correct. Jobs, wage growth, consumer spending and inflation under Trump look pretty decent or have been mostly stable. The stock market is near a record high.

"On paper," he's right. I mean, if you look at the facts.

But if you look at liberals' feeeeeeelings -- the true determinant of Truth -- then it's a different story.

The US economy grew 2.2% in 2025, very much in line with the last three years of robust economic growth. The economy slowed down more than expected at the end of the year, but the longest-ever government shutdown stymied growth that should be made back this quarter.

Last year wasn't a great year for the labor market by any stretch. But unemployment remains low, and stronger-than-expected hiring in January suggests 2026 could be a much better year for job creation.

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Trump on Tuesday blamed Democrats for the inflation crisis that sent prices surging more than 20% during Biden's term, a shock that Americans are still adjusting to.

Oh, so Biden did cause the rampant, remorseless inflation.

But still, Trump is lying or something.

The left has another way to denigrate the strong economy, aka "the boomcession" -- it's K-shaped economy, CNN's Democrat whisperers tell them. Meaning, some are going up, like the top stroke on the K, and some are going down.

Let's ignore the fact that most see their fortunes rising -- that's what a strong economy means -- and focus on those who are remaining flat.

In fact, CNN wants you to become Junior Reporters and write to them explaining your own Tales of Boomcession Woe so that they can put those quotes together and write a downer economic story.

They're literally blegging internet randos to send them quotes they can knit together for a pre-fab story.

Where do you land in the K-shaped economy? Do you think that will change in 2026?

By Alicia Wallace
Feb 18, 2026

How do you anticipate your household financial situation will fare in 2026 and beyond? We'd like to hear from you.

There's a widening gap between the haves and the have-nots in the United States, and economists are increasingly sounding the alarm. Income inequality has expanded in a short timeframe, and various economic indicators -- including rising delinquency rates -- are flashing a warning sign.

The "K-shaped" economic recovery may be working for some Americans, but not all.

LOL.

The boomcession, don't you know.

Democrat "Counter Event" To the SOTU Is, Literally, a Zoo of Lunatics

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Hakeem Jeffries apparently told his animals that they should not heckle or scream during the SOTU, because it would make them look bad.

They did not listen. Deplorable, deportable foreign Islamofascist traitors Rashid Tlaib and Ilhan "Omar" Nur never stopped squawking and shrieking throughout the speech.

The degenerate Al Green was forcibly ejected from the Speech for his constant disruptions. He was also ejected from last year's speech.

I don't know why the two Muslim sows were permitted to stay.

But fifty Democrats boycotted the speech. Instead of attending, they staged various communist clown shows.

As WLT Report previously reported, nearly 50 Democrat lawmakers opted not to attend President Trump's State of the Union address.

Instead, many of them attended their counter State of the Union event.

Dozens of Democrats attended their own State of the Union Address, called the "People's Address," located at the National Mall.

To begin the event, Democrats welcomed on stage the Portland ant-fascist frogs to dance on stage.

Trump Directs and Films the Main Political Advetisement for the Midterms

—Disinformation Expert Ace

I personally thought the speech started well but then got tedious and meandering. Then again, I know the economy is doing pretty well. Thanks to the propaganda Nazi media, most citizens don't.

Many observers, including Democrat spinners, think it was effective.

Trump needed to sell strengths on economy, border. He did.

Ahead of President Donald Trump's State of the Union address, he promised he'd discuss how we are a country "that's now doing well with the greatest economy we've ever had."

That's what he needed to do, and overall, he did.

"Our nation is back," Trump said at the start of his speech Feb. 24, marking the secure border, reduced crime, falling inflation and improving economy. "The state of our union is strong."

During his roughly two-hour address, the president stayed mostly upbeat and on message (for Trump).

His theme was "America at 250: Strong, Prosperous and Respected," with the country's 250th birthday and the midterm elections just months away, and polls showing Americans are concerned with the direction of the country.

"Tonight, after just one year, I can say with dignity and pride that we have achieved a transformation like no one has ever seen before, and a turnaround for the ages," Trump said. "We will never go back to where we were just a short time ago."

In the past year, he has delivered on some of his top reelection campaign promises, chief among them securing the southern border and reviving the economy.

Yet, there remains a disconnect between how things are improving and how voters are feeling.

Trump's job was to make them feel at ease. He remains defensive on affordability, however, putting the blame during his speech for remaining problems squarely on Democrats.

No matter how much fault the Biden administration holds for the economy's struggles in recent years, voters now consider it Trump's economy. He needs to own it.

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Trump may not have stellar approval ratings (who does in their second term?), but congressional Democrats are suffering far worse.

A Wall Street Journal poll from January found that voters think Republicans in Congress are best able to handle major issues facing the country, including immigration and the economy. When it comes to border security, Republicans outpace Democrats by 48% to 20%. In regard to immigration in general, the GOP still holds an 11-point advantage.

Even with other key issues, like inflation and the economy, Republicans have a 6-point edge.

Other polls confirm the unease with Democrats. A recent Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll found that more Americans trust Trump (33%) over Democrats in Congress (31%) to handle the country's major issues.

I didn't realize why Trump kept attacking the Democrats for not standing. I thought he was just grousing.

I didn't know he was building towards his campaign message for the midterms. He was conditioning them to not stand, so he could get the perfect video for campaign ads.

First, they refused to stand to honor the Ukrainian immigrant butchered on a Charlotte train by a Democrat released from jail a dozen times by other Democrats.

Wednesday Morning Rant

—Joe Mannix

This is not going to be a SOTU post. I managed to stay awake for it - and it was very good and I recommend you watch it if you missed it (or at least watch the conclusion) - but it's too late to write anything about it that will be worth reading.

While "government efficiency" is usually viewed as an oxymoron and said with one's tongue firmly planted in his cheek, it does exist in some cases. Where the thing in question is something that the citizens of the country might want or - even worse - need, the wheels of government tend to grind very, very slowly. These things are also how most people interact with the government and so it is the most common perception. There is, however, an opposite scenario.

When the thing is for the government's own benefit, it can move quite quickly. When the thing is for the government's own benefit and bad for the citizens, it can move in the blink of an eye. It's all about motivation. For a prime example of this, we can cast our eyes north and look at Canada, and specifically at Canadian medicine. Medicine, after all, is something people tend to want and need - and in Canada, it's mostly state-owned.

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

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