THE MORNING RANT: Buck Shots - 4/14/2025

Democrats Will Never Forgive Laken Riley for Being Murdered By an Illegal Alien

When Joe Biden and Alejandro Mayorkas opened the southern border to an invasion of hardened criminals such as Jose Antonio Ibarra, it was fully understood and embraced by the left that those criminals would commit heinous acts of crime against law-abiding Americans. Laken Riley was one of those victims. Even after murdering Ms. Riley, Ibarra remained a hero to the left. In fact, President Biden actually apologized to Ibarra for using the term “illegal” to describe him.

Unfortunately for the Democrats, most of the nation was aghast at Ms. Riley’s murder, and legislation was introduced in her honor by Congress mandating that illegal aliens accused of most felonies and violent crimes must be detained. Because of the notoriety of the Laken Riley murder, some Democrats broke rank out of political expediency and voted for the conservative legislation.

Buyer’s remorse is starting to settle in on Democrats who broke rank, however. The base of the party still champions Laken Riley’s murderer, Jose Antonio Ibarra. Democrat Rep. Jahana Hayes went on CNN to express her regret for supporting legislation to lock up violent illegals.

It is clear that Democrats will never forgive Laken Riley for being murdered by one of their precious illegal aliens.

This Is Why I voted for Donald Trump

On a lighter note, this is why I voted for Donald Trump…

“Trump to lift water curbs to 'make America's showers great again'” [Reuters – 4/10/2025]

"In my case, I like to take a nice shower, take care of my beautiful hair," Trump said during a signing ceremony in the Oval Office. He said he has to stand under the showerhead for 15 minutes under the current regulations, which he called ridiculous.

Now can we please do something about the ventless, no spill always-spill gas cans that the scientifically illiterate bureaucrats at the EPA have inflicted on those of us who use power tools.

This is also why I voted for Donald Trump…

“Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency; White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted” [Science.org – 4/11/2025]

President Donald Trump’s administration is seeking to end nearly all of the climate research conducted by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA), one of the country’s premier climate science agencies, according to an internal budget document seen by Science. The document indicates the White House is ready to ask Congress to eliminate NOAA’s climate research centers and cut hundreds of federal and academic climate scientists who track and study human-driven global warming.

The entire premise is false. There is no human-driven global warming. “Climate science” is not science at all, it is simply the use of US taxpayer dollars to propagandize for global command and control of all human activities, and subject those same taxpayers to lives without liberty.

It is bad enough that NOAA has lost its way in pursuit of global climate-communism, but it’s even more preposterous that NASA is wasting taxpayer dollars on climate propaganda. NASA is so lost and politicized that it’s no longer even capable of launching a person into space, having to rely instead on Russians and private companies. As best I can tell, NASA is now little more than a federal landlord leasing out launchpads to those capable of doing what it can no longer do.

A Climate Update from the Bureau of Imaginary Problems

We are repeatedly told that it is a hard and fast, indisputable, scientific fact that the oceans are warming because of the carbon-based lifestyle of people such as you and me. Only climate deniers would deny the harsh reality that the ocean temperatures are rising.

I guess I’m a “climate denier” who also happens to be correct - ocean waters in the southern hemisphere are getting colder, nor warmer.

Scientists have observed an unusual cooling trend in the surface waters of the Southern Ocean, contrary to predictions and modelling.

”…contrary to predictions and modelling.” These were the same predictions and models which stated that only an abolition of personal freedom under global communism could save the planet from apocalyptic warming.

Like any carnival barker who gets busted for promoting a fraud, the climate hustlers just keep changing their sales pitch, but the underlying fraudulent product they keep pushing remains unchanged. The climate hoaxsters are now claiming that of course the ocean waters are cooling…because of global warming!

“We found that the Southern Ocean cooling trend is actually a response to global warming, which accelerates ice sheet melting and local precipitation,” says Earle Wilson, an assistant professor of Earth system science at the Department of Earth System Science at Stanford University in California.

Rather than admit that “climate scientists” keep producing faulty models, Stanford University is furiously spinning to adjust the incorrect models and keep the climate hoax going. Anything else taught at Stanford should be considered just as fake as its climate science. Falsus in unum. Falsus in omnibus.

The 73-Minute Recession

For as long as I can remember – until the Biden economy – a recession was defined as two consecutive quarters with negative economic expansion. But when that actually happened during the Biden maladministration, a recession was never declared, and the media suddenly changed their stylebooks on how to define a recession so as not to cause political harm by reporting the truth.

But with Donald Trump back in the White House, the “R word” is being thrown around by all the normal fools in media and finance. Goldman Sachs, which has prospered under the uniparty’s globalist, America-last agenda, is terrified that Donald Trump might be successful. Therefore Goldman has suddenly redefined the term “recession” to be a mid-day stock drop that might be harmful to Wall Street and to hedge fund hotshots.

Goldman Sachs declared a recession last week that lasted all of 73 minutes before the stock market rebounded and the recession was called off by Goldman.

“Goldman Calls "US Recession" At 12:57pm; 73 Minutes Later Rescinds Recession Call” [Zero Hedge – 4/09/2025]

If Machines Are Making American Workers Unnecessary, Why Do We Need All That Cheap (and Illegal) Foreign Labor?

Isn’t it puzzling that “free market libertarians” who do chest-bumps and grave dances to celebrate American industrial workers losing their jobs are also passionate about importing off-the-book labor to do “the jobs that Americans won’t do.”

The disturbing end point for this “libertarian” passion for the elimination of labor expense, despite the ongoing need for human labor, is a return to the “peculiar institution” that western nations finally abolished in the 19th century. Principled Free Traders are already quite open about their enthusiasm for the use of overseas chattel labor in the name of increased corporate profit and lower consumer prices. What is the principle that allows free trade libertarians to be comfortable with foreign slavery but not domestic slavery? It seems like a slippery slope. Decent people understand that slavery is an abomination anywhere on this planet, and that anyone using the term “capitalism” while supporting the use of foreign chattel labor is a threat to actual market capitalism, where labor must be a negotiable input.

And by the way, if robots and machines are replacing factory workers, why are the free traders so desperate to have all that manufacturing done overseas rather than here in the U.S? We all know the reason why, of course. Even with automated manufacturing, there still needs to be all sorts of blue-collar jobs to support such plants. The America-last free traders recoil in horror that there might be any jobs created for the “deplorable” class of Americans.

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posted by Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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