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On January 7, 2019 Gavin Newsom became the governor of California. In November of that year President Trump urged Newsom to make a greater effort to prepare the state to deal with its frequent wildfires and warned that "if California doesn't get their act together there will be a disaster of major proportions. Don't expect the federal government to bail you out." Armed with an AP "fact check" pooh-poohing Trump's warning, Newsom disregarded the risk. Though voters had approved $2.7 billion in bonds to increase the state's water storage capacity back in 2014, none of this money was invested in...

The historic "special relationship" between the United States and the United Kingdom is being threatened by Elon Musk's open criticism of the UK government's toleration of "Asian grooming gangs." The scandal has been underway for decades as Muslims have been treating infidel youngsters as the sex slaves the Quran says they should be. Girls as young as 12 years old are enticed by gifts of candy, food, taxi rides, and drugs. They are gang-raped until they are "too old"--usually around 18 years of age--and then discarded. Current Prime Minister Keir Starmer headed the Crown Prosecution Service during most of this...

The US House of Representatives passed the Laken Riley Bill. The 216 Republicans present were joined by 48 Democrats in voting for the bill. All the opposing 159 votes were cast by Democrats. The legislation requires the Department of Homeland Security to detain illegal immigrants who have committed crimes other than illegally entering the country. Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn) argued for the bill, saying "the tragic and preventable murder of Laken Riley serves as a stark reminder of the consequences of failed leadership. The Laken Riley Act is a direct step toward ensuring that criminal illegal aliens are swiftly...

German Vice Chancellor and Economy Minister Robert Habeck called "incoming President Donald Trump's expectation that we will devote 5% of our GDP to our own national defense is unrealistic. Look, prior to 1945 we spent far more than 5% on our defense, but were still battered into submission by the combined might of Russia and the US. For the next 45 years Germany was occupied by foreign troops--Russia because it hoped to eventually dominate us and the Americans because they didn't want Germany to be absorbed into a communist empire." "So, why should we spend anything on our own defense?"...

As President Biden prepares to vacate the White House accolades are pouring in for his performance. Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) asserted "he will go down as the greatest president we ever had. You know, I was the one who secured the Democratic nomination for him in 2020. That was one of the greatest accomplishments of my career. I think President Biden himself would admit he isn't a great orator, but he sure was a great doer of things while in office." "He did the big things that Trump would never have done," the Congressman pointed out. "He saved the nation...

True to his Party's belief that crises are opportunities to advance the interests of Democrats, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif) has used the state's wildfire disaster to launch a campaign website. "So far there has been a lot of finger pointing about who's to blame for the magnitude of the fire damage being done in our state," Newsom complained. "What is needed is an honest assessment of the facts. We're calling on folks to help out by donating funds to ensure that those of us who have been diligently governing the state do not suffer undeserved blame." The Governor insisted that...

California legislators are authorizing $50 million of taxpayer funds to help resist efforts by the incoming Trump Administration to deport persons who entered the United States illegally. State Sen. Budget Committee Chair Scott Wiener (D-San Fran) said "California faces two massive challenges. First, horrifically destructive wildfires in Los Angeles have rendered thousands of residents homeless. Second, an incoming federal administration has vowed to deport immigrant Angelenos." "Clearly, we lack the funds to do much about the damage that the fires have done," Wiener admitted. "However, the fires are a only a local problem of a transitory nature. The deportations that...

In an interview on CBS's "Sixty Minutes," outgoing FBI Director Christopher Wray admitted that "China has penetrated America's water treatment plants, electric grid, and other critical civilian infrastructure, and is lying 'in wait' for an opportunity to cyberattack at a time and place of its choosing." Most Americans have been led to believe that the FBI is a crackerjack outfit that is protecting the country against subversion. At least, that is the story promulgated by the mainstream media, TV shows, and movies. If the Chinese have subverted America during his watch why does Wray seem so relaxed now that he...

A polar vortex sent a wave of very cold air over much of the US for the next few days. This includes Washington, DC. By inauguration day below freezing temperatures were expected near the Capitol where the ceremony is traditionally held. This forecast persuaded President-Elect Donald Trump to move the ceremony indoors. "On such a joyous occasion I don't want to see people have to run a guantlet of cold and snow just to be present at this historic moment," Trump said. "Expecting the tens of thousands of law enforcers, first responders, police K9s and horses, and hundreds of thousands...

Now, after billions of people around the world have been injected with Pfizer's covid vaccines, the company has released a list of the "side effects" of its product which includes: blood thrombosis, acute kidney injury, acute flaccid myelitis, positive antisperm antibodies, brainstem embolism, brainstem thrombosis, cardiac arrest, heart failure, cardiac ventricular thrombosis, cardiogenic shock, central nervous system vasculitis, neonatal death, deep vein thrombosis, brainstem encephalitis, hemorrhagic encephalitis, frontal lobe epilepsy, foaming at the mouth, epileptic psychosis, facial paralysis, fetal distress syndrome, gastrointestinal amyloidosis, hashimoto's encephalopathy, hepatic vascular thrombosis, herpes zoster reactivation, hepatitis immune-mediated, interstitial lung disease, jugular vein embolism, juvenile...

Newly pardoned Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif) lashed out at President Trump's pardons for 1500 individuals convicted for their participation in the alleged insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, calling them "obscene and grotesque. Our democracy hung by as thread that day as a mob of MAGA extremists trespassed into the Capitol building forcing 100s of frightened members of Congress, myself included, to flee in fear for our lives." Newly pardoned Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md), condemned "the unjust release of domestic terrorists who tried to overthrow our government is despicable. If it weren't for the shooting of one...

President Trump used his authority to strip the security clearances of those who can't be trusted from the 51 former US intelligence officials who signed a letter warning that Hunter Biden's laptop was a Russian disinformation campaign. The 51 said "our national security experience made us deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case." As a matter of fact, there was no evidence that Russia was in any way connected with Hunter's laptop. The FBI had already verified it was really Hunter's laptop in 2019, although this information was not publicly revealed until after Joe...

During the presidential election campaign, the progressive-leaning organization Sixteen Thirty Fund (1630) gave money to Retire Career Politicians (RCP) so it could support Robert F. Kennedy, jr.'s campaign for president. Oddly, the money continued to flow even after RFK had dropped out of the race. Now, 1630 is giving money to Protect Our Care (POC) which is running the Stop RFK War Room effort to keep Kennedy from becoming Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). A spokesperson for 1630 explained "it's all about thwarting Trump. Surveys showed that as a candidate, Kennedy was taking more votes...

The first victory in President Trump's battle to deport criminal aliens was achieved by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid in Boston. The focus was on apprehending persons who illegally entered the US who are also criminals--gang members, murder suspects, and those with prior convictions. Over 300 arrests were made. A later raid in New York City netted pedophiles, gang members, and a suspected terrorist. Over 500 arrests were made. A planned raid in Chicago was preceded by an ABC News Chicago broadcast offering illegal immigrants advice on how to evade detection and arrest by ICE agents. Acting deputy...

Gov. Phil Murphy (D-NJ) says "we will buy as much mifepristone as we can get our hands on so every woman who needs a chemically-induced abortion can get it. As the Supreme Court ruled, each state can craft whatever policy on abortion it wants to. I believe every woman is entitled to obtain this drug at no cost to herself regardless of where she lives. So, our state's policy will be to serve as the last hope for women living in places that have more restrictive policies." "Though the 1873 Comstock Act prohibits the mailing of anything that could cause...

On Wednesday, January 29 an Army Helicopter collided with an American Airlines plane trying land at the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Within a few hours of the crash, Rep. Norma Torres (D-Calif) was able to determine that "President Trump bears the full weight of responsibility for this tragedy. The fact that this crash came so quickly following the Senate's confirmation of the appointment of Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense is a telling sign that Trump's cabinet nominees are dreadfully unqualified for the jobs to which they are being appointed." "I am sorry to say that this tragedy is...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) asserted that "Trump and his agenda is wrong in every way it could be wrong. All his ideas, policies, and nominees for the cabinet are out-of-step with America's values and needs. His notion that freedom of speech should not be regulated will expose the masses to dangerous misinformation. All of the safeguards devised by President Biden to spare them from hearing or seeing this misinformation are to be swept aside under the Trump regime." "His craze to deport undocumented newcomers just because they are criminals violates the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) that we Democrats thought...

In a brazen attempt to discredit President Trump's executive order that all Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives mandated by the Biden Administration be ceased, the Air Force top brass removed a video of the Tuskegee Airmen and a video about Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASPS) during World War II from from the Air Force Academy's curriculum. Unsurprisingly, this outrage didn't go unnoticed. Incoming Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth called it "a lame effort to slander these valiant airmen and women for political purposes. President Trump's opposition to DEI is not based on racism or sexism. It is based...

One of Donald Trump's campaign promises was to combat the erroneous assertion that a person's sex could be changed. Now that he is President, Trump has issued an executive order "designed to protect children from being seduced by this delusion. Across the country, medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child's sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions. This dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation's history, and it must end." "Accordingly, it is the policy of the United States that...

Many residents in the Hispanic and black communities of New York City came out to cheer as ICE agents hauled away dozens of the immigrant gangsters who have been terrorizing them. "Get them the hell off the street so people don't have to walk in fear," said Evelyn Brown, a Bronx resident. "We have been begging the police to help protect us from these thugs, but haven't gotten it. That's why we voted for Trump. Now that he's in it only took a few days to get some action." Trump's "immigration czar" Tom Homan explained "we were able to take...