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GOOD QUESTION

I should have responded to this question earlier because one of you asked it and it’s a good question. Namely why hasn’t the owner of the marijuana farm been arrested for using child labor or for employing illegals? And like I said it is a great question.

And it reminded me of a few things in my past . When I first started traveling to San Francisco, and to let you know how long ago that was, the federal per diem was $30/day, in Union Square you would literally have to pass through a series of prostitutes to get to your hotel, but it wasn’t dangerous. Just a lot of no I don’t want a party. In a year or so that was gone. Almost all federal employees stayed in an hotel, the name of which I don’t remember, because the rate was $16/nite and they were connected to a diner that had the best pancakes I have ever had.

Anyway I was also involved with prostitution at a circle in DC. There was an OPM training facility at that circle and on a few occasions I was accosted by prostitutes again asking if I wanted to party. Of course I always said no, but the point of this rant is that arresting the johns proves very effective. At the place in DC I was talking about, one of supposed hookers approached me as I was heading to the parking lot to get my car and told me to just keep walking. She was obviously a cop trying to make sure that I didn’t get caught up in a program to arrest the johns. She needn’t have worried because I’ve never been with a prostitute in my life But as one you may know, a prominent DC radio personality was arrested at that very location,

So what’s my point? One way to solve the illegal crisis is to start arresting the employers. As long as we continue to silently let employers of employ illegals is a green light for them to continue to do so. We need to arrest and prosecute them. Whenever police set up a sting to arrest johns, prostitution declines, and I believe the same would occur if ICE arrested every employer where they arrest illegals.

A COUPLE OF THINGS

Yes I’m still alive and as always I haven’t ranted recently because I think almost everything going on is self explanatory and that’s not what this blog is about. However there are a couple of things I want to comment on.

First as I have been saying for a while, all the nonsense about illegals being law abiding, tax paying individuals. Now they broke the law to enter the country and if they are paying taxes they can only do that if they steal someone’s SSN which is also a felony. And I saw today that in some places with either illegal owners or sympathizers, if they pay in cash, they aren’t charged sales tax and you got to believe that they generally pay in cash. The exception being government debit cards.

Now the reason I bring this up again is because in the last few days I’ve seen several posts etc. that others are saying the same thing and I’m happy to see it.

Next, I’m glad to see that Schitt is potentially going to be indicted. This asshole should be indicted on so many things and mortgage. He’s dirty and along the whole intelligence community and the Magoo FBI and DOJ hierarchy. Listen, as I have said previously, I don’t care if they ultimately get acquitted by a biased jury. Make them pay millions for attorneys and for Schitt challenge any immunity claim by challenging the legitimacy of his supposed pardon. Hopefully some will go to jail but at least make them pay legal fees.

FOLLOW ON

I came across two articles explaining why Trump didn’t release the Epstein files. Either one could be true. I have seen the one involving the intelligence community before but I tend to believe O’Reilly. Take your choice. Either could be true.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-said-epstein-files-could-destroy-people-bill-o-reilly/ar-AA1IlFcA

COINCIDENCE?

I think not. Does it strike you Iike it did me as a little too cute that after Bondi et al tanked on Epstein they came out that Comey and Brennan are under criminal investigation? Look at the new shiny object over here.

Now don’t get me wrong, I’m all in on prosecuting these two scumbags and Clapper and others as I have said previously. I just think it’s not a coincidence that they happened to come out now. And I doubt that anything will come of it because it never does.

MAJOR DISAPPOINTMENT

Today Bondi, Patel and Bongino gravely disappointed me. They put out a statement saying that they didn’t have a list of Epstein’s clients and they would not be pursuing charges against anyone else. And also that Epstein committed suicide.

Now those of you who have been following my nonsense, I have previously demonstrated that he couldn’t have killed himself like they alleged.

But more importantly they definitely know some of the people involved in his crimes. My first thought was that they must be protecting Trump but as I have said previously there is no way that’s true. And if it were true, there is no way that the Magoo administration wouldn’t have either prosecuted him or at least leaked the information.

So where does that leave us? The only answer that I can come up with is that there are people on the list that Trump needs for his agenda. Otherwise I can think of no reason to protect the perverts. And I am seriously disappointed in this continuing cover up.

ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL

One of you asked me earlier if I was going to rant about the BBB and I said maybe but I thought most everything that could be said has been said and I don’t want to regurgitate what’s available to anyone on the internet. And then I changed my mind and said yes because I have a couple of points I want to make.

First I want to comment on a point I have previously discussed. Trump 2.0 is much better for having the Magoo disaster between his terms. It gave him the chance to evaluate the lessons learned from his first term. This time he knew the swamp and he surrounded himself with actual people who were dedicated to his agenda and he supported them so they know they can decimate the Dems in hearings because they know that he has their backs and they have his.

He now knows how DC works and can play hardball. If you’re a Republican, the last thing you want is for Trump to call you out for being against his mandate.

Now the second thing that I want to comment on is the Senate Parliamentarian. I’m pretty sure that you have heard about her blocking several cost cutting provisions from the BBB. I’ve seen that she blocked $500 billion in savings.

So how does this happen? First what is the parliamentarian? It is a position that usually decides various parliamentary issues concerning Senate rules. Most of you are probably aware of Roberts Rules of Order. The senate rules are much more complicated. So the parliamentarian is there to sort out these issues.

Now the reason that I am dealing with this position because of something called the Byrd rule, , named after the Grand Cyclops of the KKK which pertains to reconciliation bills. So that a filibuster can’t stop a budget bill from passing, the rule allows budget bills to pass the Senate on a simple majority.And if I remember correctly, only two reconciliation bills can be passed in one year. Which is why Trump wanted one BBB so they can still do another reconciliation bill this year. If you remember several republicans wanted to break down the BBB into two separate bills. Trump wanted just one so that he could get everything done and not have to wait on a second bill to accomplish what he had promised to us.

The reason I bring this up is because the Parliamentarian blocked several important provisions saying they weren’t budget related. I don’t know how something cutting government spending isn’t budget related. So here’s the issue. The parliamentarian is appointed by the Senate majority leader and serves at his pleasure. The present occupant of that office was appointed by Harry Reid so you can imagine just how apolitical she is. Many wanted Senator Thune to repeal the rule that requires the senate to abide by her decisions on what’s in and out of a reconciliation bill. And I commend him for not doing that because as I’ve said before, be careful it doesn’t come back to bite you in the ass in the future. No what I want is for Thune to fire the present person and replace her with a neutral person before the next reconciliation bill comes up. I wouldn’t mind a right leaning individual to counteract the leftist there now. I guarantee you that if the BBB was a democrat initiative, she would not have cut anything out.

AMERICA 250

As I have mentioned previously, I continue to be amazed at the things I have experienced in my life. I’m sure that you will be amazed to look back at your life and realize how amazing it has been

In April of 1976 I left the faculty at Florida and moved to the DC suburbs to take my job at the NRC. And as a result, I was in DC for the bicentennial and was on the National Mall for that celebration. It was awesome and ended with a laser light show. One of you may have also been there because she was born and raised in the area but I didn’t know her or work with her until many years later. Actually considering that she is 14 years younger than me and I was 28 at the time I expect that she wasn’t,

I would love to be back there for 250 but I couldn’t actually get around given my present physical condition. I wil clearly be watching as there is no doubt that Trump will make it spectacular.

THE FED

Jerome Powell needs to be fired. He is the only thing holding back massive economic growth and basically only in the real estate sector. He refuses to reduce interest rates basically because he has TDS. It is ridiculous and he needs to be fired.

There is a question about whether Trump has the authority to do it, but I would take that chance if I were Trump. But not until after the Big Beautiful Bill is passed. No need to complicate things before that. At this point, contrary to some of you who thought I was crazy, ( You know who you are.)inflation is at all time lows and the market is at all time highs in spite of the tariffs.

Powell has stated that he doesn’t want to lower interest rates because he is afraid of inflation, which as I just said is at all time lows. He is just trying to hurt Trump because Trump has exposed his in competence.

The reality is that the only sector of the economy that is not booming is real estate, and that’s because of high interest rates. Many people like you and me are sitting on significant amounts of equity and are not using it because of interest rates. Get rid of Powell and release the entire economy.

Maybe we should abolish the Fed all together but given my previous rant about not looking to the future on changes to the status quo, I would not do it because I can’t imagine the damage that another Magoo could do in control of interest rates.

IT’S NOT OVER

The Supremes issued a decision today that seriously curtails the power of district court judges to issue nationwide injunctions and essentially limits those courts to the issues and parties before them. I saw John Yoo today talking about how this decision has basically decimated the power of these leftist judges. And I thought that that was a little disingenuous because these activist judges will try to get around the decision by declaring class actions and making the class nation wide. This already happened in one case. I don’t remember which one, but he certified a class and declared a class action even before the government had a chance to reply to the complaint.

I have handled a class action and that’s not how it’s supposed to be done. So I think that we will see a spate of improper class actions. Imagine a judge certifying a class that consists of all illegal aliens. He could then impose an injunction preventing the government from taking any action against them until the class action has been litigated which would take years.

And what makes this even more scary is that Tarlov said on the Five that this is what they planned to do and have already filed several class complaints after the Supremes issued the decision.

EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE

Anthony Bernal who was Jill Biden’s workplace husband has now been subpoenaed to testify about Magoo’s mental competency and who actually approved use of the Autopen. Now this is another case of the left not looking forward to what could happen if they mess with rules.Harry Reid eliminated the need for 60 votes to confirm political officials and Circuit Court judges and below. Then Cocaine Mitch extended it to Supreme Court Justices and Trump got to put three people on the Supreme Court.

Then Magoo waved executive privilege for some of Trump’s inner circle and the result was that a couple of Trump’s people went to jail for refusing to answer questions that they thought were privileged. Now if you remember I said at the time that I didn’t understand how one president could wave executive privilege for a different president and I still stand by that, but what’s good for one president is good for the next. Bernal was set to testify until Trump revoked his executive privilege and then refused so got subpoenaed. He was apparently planning to claim everything he was asked was privileged. When that was removed, he refused to cooperate willingly. Once again the Dems never look to what the future outcome might be when they mess with precedent.