Crazy Behavior on Memorial Day (posted 5/25/26)

More than other holidays, Memorial Day always has some contradictory tension within it.  Just as some funerals have a “celebration of life” intermixed with the mourning, Memorial Day is both an upbeat three-day weekend marking the beginning of summer, and a somber remembrance of those whose sacrifice makes all of our happy seasons possible.

Once upon a time, Memorial Day was an occasion for all Americans to set aside their petty grievances and politics, and patriotically honor our war dead.  And you can call me an optimistic dreamer, but I still think that’s the case for the vast majority of us.

But the far-left has got to far-left, 24/7, and 365.  Hence a few telling headlines about a couple of insane Democrat candidates on this holiday weekend.

First up was everybody’s favorite Nazi-tattoo enthusiast, Maine Senatorial candidate Graham Platner, whose entire past on social media seems to have consisted of the grossly offensive and the sexually perverse. 

He’s lately come under fire for a video he recorded in 2019, during which he mocked an American soldier who received a Purple Heart after being wounded in a firefight with the Taliban in 2012.  Platner enjoyed the video, stating, “This video never gets old.  Dumb [mf-er] didn’t deserve to live,” and going on to call the soldier a “[stupid] mouthbreather” and mocking his “fat ass wheezing” after he’d been shot four times.

When a reporter asked him if he wanted to apologize for his creepy criticism of his fellow soldier (Platner did four combat tours himself), Platner offered a defiant non-sequitur in his defense: “Any attempt to say I disrespect veterans is slanderous and offensive.  Do you know how many of my friends have Purple Hearts?” 

Um, what?  So you’re saying that mocking an American soldier as a wheezing, stupid, mouth-breathing, dumb MF’er is…respectful?  And because you have friends with Purple Hearts, you felt like it was appropriate to say that another Purple Heart recipient didn’t deserve to live?

Yikes!  Though I never thought I’d be offering media coaching to a communist Nazi – did I not mention that he’s also called himself a communist? – he can have this advice for free: 

If someone offers you the chance to apologize for past comments that make you look like an evil scumbag…you should take that chance, and apologize, and then shut your mouth before you say something else stupid.  Like criticizing rape victims, or rhapsodizing about how you get aroused by the smell of a porta-potty.  (Yep.  Those are other actual things this genius actually said.  Great job, Democrats!)    

But lest you think Platner is the only creepy leftist running for office this year, let me introduce you to Mai Vang, a leftist Sacramento city council member who is running for Congress.  The daughter of Hmong immigrants, Vang is doing her best to undermine the stereotype that Asians are really smart.  She definitely doesn’t seem to have gotten the hang of this whole “assimilation” thing.

Because Vang has bragged about repeatedly refusing to say the Pledge of Allegiance, and she routinely turns her back on the American flag when other council members say the pledge.

On the bright side, at least Mai Vang is no Fang Fang, in that as far as we know, she has not lowered herself to sleeping with Eric Swalwell (shudder) on behalf of the Chicom government.

On the other hand, she is reportedly in a dead heat with her Democrat incumbent rival, and at least slightly ahead of her Republican opposition.  Because: California!  (Great job again, Democrats!)

I would be remiss if I didn’t comment on my favorite enjoyable read of the last week.  I’m speaking, of course, of the “autopsy” of the 2024 campaign that was put out by the Democrat National Committee and it’s boss, Ken Martin.

Martin had earlier shelved the report, but after a lot of internal criticism, he finally released it…and then backpedaled away like JB Pritzker at a salad bar.  You know things are bad when the leader of your party releases your party’s take on your party’s most recent presidential performance this way:

“I am not proud of this product; it does not meet my standards, and it won’t meet our standards.  I don’t endorse what’s in this report, or what’s left out of it.” 

Holy moly!  That’s the guy who commissioned it!  And that’s the PR “sizzler reel” introduction to it!  I thought that the document could not possibly be that bad, and figured that maybe it told some uncomfortable truths that the Democrats naturally didn’t want to face up to.  But NOPE!

I sat down to read it.  Annndd…then I saw that it was 192 pages.  So I read a summary of it, and coverage of it, and reactions to it.  And it actually did live down to my expectations, given the absurd idea that a thoroughly disingenuous organization like the DNC would even pretend to be putting out an autopsy of their last campaign, when they never undertook the much more urgent task of doing an autopsy of their last President. 

Because the miserable term of Joe Biden was the perfect representation of the old fable, “The Emperor’s New Casket.”  

Sorry.  I meant “clothes.” 

Or did I?

Either way, in this case, the only ones who thought the old guy was either clothed or alive were his sycophants and leftist co-religionists.  Meanwhile, the rest of the nation played the role of the truth-telling little kid in the original tale.  We all stood there and pointed, as Joey Gaffes tripped over his fourth sandbag of the day, saying, “That’s guy’s as dead as Julius Caesar!” 

Anyway, we usually see the word “autopsy” in one of two situations: when we are curious to learn how someone has passed, especially when there might be mystery involved, or when foul play is suspected in someone’s demise. 

And neither mystery nor foul play was involved in the spectacular implosion of the late Cadaver, and his understudy the Cackler.  The reason that Joe couldn’t go on and finish the campaign became hilariously obvious in that infamous debate, which to my mind was an amusing new take on the famous Monty Python “Dead Parrot” sketch.

In this version, Trump played the role of John Cleese, the leftist media and Democrat party played the role of the dishonest shopkeeper who sold Cleese a clearly deceased parrot, and Biden had the starring role of the Parrot.

I mean, you can’t picture Trump using the stuffy British verbiage of, “This candidate has ceased to be.  He’s run down the curtain, and joined the choir invisible.” But put it into Trumpy, American English, and the similarities are uncanny.

Biden: (swaying at the podium, looking down, giving a final death rattle/mumble) …finally beat Medicare… (dies)

Leftist Meretrix (LM) posing as a neutral moderator: What’s your response, Mr. Trump?

Trump (looking at the top of Biden’s liver-spotted, hair-plug-infested skull as he’s slumped over the podium):  What?  What do you-?  He’s dead.

LM: What are you talking about?  He’s only resting.

Trump (incredulous):  Resting?!  Before he was Sleepy Joe. Now he’s Flatline Joe.

LM:  Your childish nicknames are offensive.  Show the President some respect.

Trump: Show him–  Someone should be PAYing him their respects.  He’s as dead as Rosie is fat!

LM: That sexism is very insulting!

Trump: You know what’s really insulting?  Running a dead guy for president.

LM:  He is NOT dead.  He’s just gathering his thoughts.

Trump:  Gathering…? He barely had any thoughts when he was alive!

LM:  He’s just pining for Scranton.

Trump:  I knew you losers were the fake news, but you’ve got to be kidding me.  Look.  (Trump leans over to Biden and yells.)  “HEY JOE!  Hunter’s here.  He got his laptop back, and he’s got a big bag of cash for you.  You know where it’s from?  CHI-NA!”  (He lifts Biden’s dead, empty head up, and then lets it drop back to the podium.)  He’s gone.

Flop-sweating Biden aide, from just off stage:  He’s got a cold!

Trump:  He’s gone.  And we couldn’t do nothing about it.

LM: What are you talking about?

Trump: I’m doing that scene with DeNiro in Good Fellas, when he finds out Joe Pesci got shot, instead of getting made.  Boy, that was back when DeNiro was a great actor.  Before he turned into a crazed, Trump-hating lunatic.  He’s got TDS!  They call it Trump Derangement Syndrome.  Worst case I’ve ever seen.  Sad.

Biden aide: He’s just tired from his trip to Europe!

Trump (shaking his head):  You mean the trip he took two weeks ago?  (to the moderator) Do you believe this?  I’m busy making America great again, 24 hours a day.  “Twenty-four/seven,” we call it.  And this guy sleeps for 10 hours on Air Force one, wanders around Europe for a couple of days, poops on the Pope, and then stumbles back up the staircase into the plane…

LM: He reassured our allies–

Trump: He fell UP the stairs, sweetheart!  Not just once or twice, either.  He kept falling, and bouncing from side to side.   (Trump mimics a staggering octogenarian.) Bing, bong.  Bing, bing bong.  He just kept falling.  I’m telling you, people were laughing at him.  The Europeans were laughing!

Biden aide: He took some cold medicine, and that makes people drowsy!

Trump: On, come on!  That’s what you want people to believe?  He doesn’t have a cold, he’s got rigor mortis! (He turns to the moderator, raising both hands in frustration, playing to the camera.)  First it’s “Russia Russia Russia,” and now it’s, “He’s on cold medicine!  He’s sharp as a tack!”  (He turns back to Biden’s corpse, and shakes it by the shoulder.)  “Is that it, Sleepy?  Is it the cold medicine?” 

Biden’s lifeless body slowly leans to the side, then falls to the floor in a graceless heap.

Silence in the studio.  The moderator coughs quietly, as every Democrat campaign hack in the green room fights the urge to vomit.  Finally, one small, choked voice says, “I guess we’ve got to replace him.” 

Democrat Hack (DH) 2: With who?!  The election is in, like, a hundred days.

DH 3:  You know who it’s got to be.

DH 4 (horrified): Don’t say it!

DH 3:  She’s a black woman.  The base would crucify us if we didn’t—

DH 2: Shut up!

DH 3: Who would you put up?  A white male?!

DH 4: Maybe a gay one?

DH 1: Not Pot-hole Pete?!

DH 4: Is that gay slang?  Because I don’t like gay slang.

DH 2: Shut UP!

DH 3:  Gay doesn’t beat female AND black! (Swallows hard.)  It’s got to be Kamala.

DH 2: I’m going to be sick!

DH 4: If she says anything about “seeing what can be, unburdened by what has been” I’m going to (shudders) buy a gun, and then kill myself with it.

And, scene.

Anyway, I don’t want to spoil the ending of the DNC “autopsy” for you, so I’ll just tell you the best part. 

They don’t even MENTION the two most catastrophic political blunders of the last century: hiding Biden from the public while they tried to drag his demented arse across the finish line until the 11th hour, and then installing the most off-putting, least articulate DEI hire with a ten-cent head in the history of politics in his place. 

I’m not making that up.  They did an autopsy on a terrible campaign without mentioning the two electoral boat anchors at the top of the ticket! 

It’s like trying to tell the story of Washington’s crossing of the Delaware without mentioning the boat. 

Or telling about Lincoln’s assassination without mentioning Ford’s Theater, or the gun, or John Wilkes Booth! 

It’s hard to predict how the GOP could hold on to the House majority.  But it’s also hard to see how this year’s version of the Odd Couple – starring the Nazi and the America-hating Hmong! – is going to do much better than last year’s “The Emperor’s New Casket.”

Great job, Democrats!  I’m sure that you would like to echo the head of the DNC, and say, “We’re not proud of this product.” 

And, in a little Memorial Day miracle, we all agree.

Que Mala/Crockett ‘28!

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Dems Have Been Lying About Racism & Conservatives Again… Unexpectedly! (post 5/22/26)

As a party that has exploited racial grievance for many years, the Democrats have been having a tough go of it recently.  The fact that American society has made a great deal of progress re: race over the last 50 years or so has created a supply-and-demand problem for race mongers on the left. 

There is simply not enough real racism to allow them to play the race card convincingly enough to bully anyone who is not already indoctrinated into their vision of an evil Amerikkka.  You can see that in their sad line-up of recent candidates of proposed African-American martyrs to white racism.   

A century ago – when the Democrats themselves were in charge of white racism (!) – they had Emmett Till, and scores of similarly innocent black folks beaten, harassed and even lynched by evil whites.  And you know they’d like to champion the cause of, and profit from,  similarly righteous black victims today.

Unfortunately, the best they can do is try to canonize black criminals, who died in the process of committing crimes.  Trayvon Martin was beating a Hispanic guy’s head into a concrete sidewalk and had already broken his orbital bone and given him a concussion by the time he got shot.  Michael Brown held up a convenience store, and when questioned by a cop, beat him and fought for his gun until the cop shot him in self-defense.  Jordan Neely was a violent recidivist who was threatening a subway car full of innocent citizens when Daniel Penny put him in a defensive chokehold that accidentally resulted in his death.

If innocent black folks were constantly being killed for no reason by racist white monsters, Martin, Brown and Neely would NOT be anybody’s choice for the poster boys for innocent black victimhood.  But that’s all that leftist racial grifters have to work with. 

So they pretend that Martin was the innocent kid in his grade school graduation picture, and that Brown put his hands up and said, “Don’t shoot,” and that Neely was a benevolent Michael Jackson impersonator just minding his own business.   

To add to the Dems’ humiliation, the recent revelations about the long-running grift of the Southern Poverty Law Center have driven the point home in a darkly hilarious way.  The SPLC money train was so threatened by the lack of evil white racism that the racial arsonists on the payroll were facing the horrifying reality that they might actually have to go out and find honest work! 

And they were way too lazy and unskilled for that.  So they managed to round up a pitiful collection of the tiny remnant of KKK mouth-breathers, and a few more who were willing to cosplay as KKK members if the money was right.  And they paid them millions of dollars to scare gullible liberals, so that the SPLC fund-raising scam could continue.

But just when they thought they might have beaten the dead horse of racism back to life, the SCOTUS ruling getting rid of racist gerrymandering threatened their stranglehold on power yet again.  Immediately, one Dem politician and MSM talking head (but I repeat myself) after another sounded the alarm: “If we can’t draw tortuously convoluted district lines to ensure a heavy black majority, there won’t be any black members of Congress left!  Because: RACISM!”

Let me count the creepy, slanderous assumptions underlying that insult.

First, it assumes that blacks will only vote for black candidates – i.e. that blacks are racists – since it assumes that those gerrymandered black districts will always send black pols to Congress.    

 As with most lies, there is some truth in this.  Because every group has some racism in it, and most groups have a bias for people who are like them, racially or otherwise.  Military vets are predisposed to vote for other vets; blue collar workers or farmers for blue collar workers or farmers, etc.  So most blacks have traditionally voted for black candidates too, all things being equal.

Inconveniently for this argument, Trump got millions of black votes in his presidential campaigns, more than any other GOP candidate in the last century or more.  But if you Dems want to insist that black voters are monolithically racist against all non-blacks, okay.

Second, this claim assumes that whites will not vote for black candidates. 

Ahem.  May I call to the court’s attention a certain B. Hussein Obama, the twice-elected black president who would never have won without the votes of tens of millions of (judgment-impaired) white voters?  (In fact, tens of millions of voters who voted for Obama twice went on to vote for Trump multiple times.  Which by itself destroys the Dem narrative about the supposed bone-deep racism of MAGA.)

Or other black candidates who have received the majority of white votes in their districts, whether they ultimately won or not?  Like Tim Scott (SC), Larry Elder (CA),  Herschel Walker (GA), JC Watts (OK), Michael Steele (MD), and many others.  Some of those were great candidates and some were lousy, but all of them got a majority of the white vote.

As did Byron Donalds when he won a House seat in the free state of Florida in 2016.  And he’s the front-runner to be the next Governor, which means that he’ll win millions more white votes.    

In fact, the wrong-ness of the anti-white racial grifters on the left can be most clearly – and hilariously! – seen in Memphis and Virginia.  In the racially gerrymandered, heavily black district of Memphis, black Dem voters have been electing and re-electing, for the last 20 years… wait for it… white Jewish doofus Steve Cohen! 

And what did Cohen do as soon as SCOTUS fixed the racist gerrymander, which meant that he’d have to appeal to a more diverse electorate in November?  He withdrew from the race! 

The delicious, schadenfreude cherry on top of that just-desserts sundae is that the initial new front-runner for that House seat was a black female GOP candidate!  Now that there is going to be a vigorous primary, she might not be the eventually nominee. But how sweet would it be if the Democrat “black representative” (who is white) is replaced by the GOP “white supremacist representative” (who is black) in Tennessee 9?!

Phony Democrat race-baiting was also evident last November in Virginia.  There, the vast majority of supposedly racist conservatives voted for the black candidate instead of the white one.   

And spoiler alert, the vast majority of supposedly black-supporting leftist white voters voted for the whitest woman this side of Liz Warren (#wemustneverstopmockingher) and against the blackest woman this side of Lawrence Taylor (Winsome Sears). 

And the whitey won!  So hooray for non-racist Democrats!  (Sarcasm very much intended.) 

The reality is that despite the Democrats claiming that all voters are motivated by race above all, that is not even remotely true.  The Dems themselves would be thrilled to have white Steve Cohen stay in his seat, instead of a black female conservative, which gives their game away.

Voters on both sides of the political spectrum vote based on a variety of prioritized factors, with race coming pretty far down the list for most of us. 

I can’t speak for all conservatives – although what a utopia this country would be if I did! – but I have two priorities that are far above all others: I want conservatism and electability.  Thus I’ll always vote for the most electable conservative in every primary or general election. 

Beyond that, I don’t care nearly as much if they’re black or white, male or female, straight or gay, ugly or attractive, tall or short, fat or thin, rich or poor, sick or healthy, Christian or Muslim or atheist, or anything else.

Which is not to say that I wouldn’t use some of those other factors as tie-breakers, especially in primaries, where two candidates might appear to be similarly conservative and electable.  In that case I would prefer a Christian over an atheist or Muslim, because I am a Christian and trust a Christian ethical worldview more than a Muslim or atheist one (I’d be a pretty lousy Christian if I didn’t!) 

I’d also lean toward an attractive candidate over an ugly one – because most voters would probably vote for the former over the latter, all else being equal – and a rich one over a poor one – because a more well-financed candidate has a better chance, all things being equal.

After that, I’d probably have preferences in some of the other categories, too.  I’d rather have someone young than old, thin than fat, and healthy than sick – because the former indicate a candidate with a better statistical chance of being able to serve longer and at the peak of his/her powers. 

But again, it’s all about conservatism and electability.  I’d MUCH rather vote for an old, black, fat, atheist, gay, female conservative than a young, white, thin, Christian, straight male liberal!  

Because no matter how often leftists pretend that we’re all voting based on race, ideology and electability are much more important.

Which is yet one more proof of how diminished racism has become in America today.  So, sorry lefties, but race baiting isn’t going to work on most of us anymore.  You’re going to have to find legitimate, positive reasons for Americans to vote for you. 

And I’ve seen your candidates.  So…

Good luck with that! 

Que Mala/Crockett ‘28!

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The Curley Effect is Ravaging California (posted 5/18/26)

As a public service to readers of this site, today I’m doing another installment of “Political Terms Everyone Should Know, with Martin.”  

This idea arose partly because of my well-known, public-spirited, all-around-great-guyness, and partly because I am still learning new things that I would like to share. 

For example, I recently discovered that there have been at least 11 World Wars so far.  Yeah.  Ilhan Omar taught me that.  She also taught me that Somalis played many crucial roles in building this country.

Such as when Ahmed Washington crossed the Delaware to set up some Learing Centers and then immediately start billing the Continental Congress for tutoring services to non-existent little jihadi patriots.  Or when Abdi Revere made his famous midnight ride, to warn the Learing Center fraudsters that ICE and Nick Shirley were headed their way for a surprise raid.       

Okay, it’s Monday morning, so I had to start with a little levity.  But I really have been learning actual, interesting political concepts lately.  On Friday I introduced the concept of “clock setting,” which refers to the idea that the time you choose as the start of a series of political events makes a huge difference.

For example, the Dems who attempted the corrupt gerrymandering of purple-state Virginia’s map to produce a 10-1 deep blue majority would appear to be unethical partisan hacks.  But they set their clock to start when Texas Republicans had gerrymandered their state earlier, which made it seem like the VA Dems were just fairly responding to Texas’ original offense. 

But then I pointed out that in the years leading up to 2026, Democrats all over the country had already gerrymandered blue states very heavily.  Which set the clock back earlier, giving an apparent rhetorical advantage to the GOP. 

In the last several days, I learned another new political term, and it’s one that has answered a very vexing and long-term question I’ve had over the last several decades.  It looks like the Dems have intentionally been destroying the big blue cities they govern, and I couldn’t understand why they’d do that.

They must know that if they don’t prosecute crime, give untouchable teachers’ unions free reign, and raise taxes on the most productive citizens, crime will skyrocket, educational quality will plummet, and the most intelligent and productive citizens will flee the city.  What are they thinking?

I considered that it might be stupidity, or it might be total disdain for the normies who make a city work, both of which are pretty common in single-party Democrat cities.  But the fact that those strategies are clearly degrading public services and quality of life would seem to be suicidal for a bunch of pols who are famously concerned with their own welfare above all else.

But now I have an answer: The Curley Effect!

Named after Boston’s horrible Mayor James Michael Curley (1874-1958), who served four terms as mayor between 1914-1950, the term describes a kind of “politics of exclusion.”  Curley combined class warfare and corrupt patronage schemes to demonize and squeeze money out of the richer and more productive Bostonians so that they would leave the city, while simultaneously redistributing the spoils – in the form of patronage jobs, fake jobs and various welfare benefits – to his poor Irish constituency.

While this caused stagnation, decay and population flight from the city, it made Curley more popular with his supporters.  Each productive citizen who left was one less vote against Curley, and thus a net vote for him.  So the worse things got in Boston, the better things got for Curley.

Curley’s Boston experienced the kind of “urban doom loop” now being seen in Seattle, Portland, Chicago, and New York City. 

And LA.  Good lord, LA!

Statistically speaking, it looks like California voters will probably re-elect Karen Bass as LA Mayor and elect either Xavier Becerra or Tom Steyer as Governor of CA.  This while there are two very reasonable and competent GOP candidates in those races – Spencer Pratt and Steve Hilton, respectively.   And being “reasonable and competent” puts any candidate about three standard deviations above any of the hapless Democrats in those races.

But the Curley Effect has been doing its corrosive work in California for decades now, and the state has been bleeding successful, sane and productive citizens – presumptively GOP voters all – while drawing in the opposite. 

The debates have been a humiliating bloodbath for the Dems, so much so that if they were fights, they’d have stopped them, and in a sane world, the Dems would have quit mid-debate and slunk away in shame, never to be heard from again.

But this isn’t a sane world.  It’s California.  So even though every reasonable observer agrees that Hilton and Pratt have been wiping the floor with their opponents, the Curley-adjacent Dems are still at least slight favorites to win. 

I’m so jaded and tech-defective that some of the campaign outings have seemed like AI deep fakes, or Babylon Bee parodies.  I’ll give you two examples.

A week ago, a truly insane ad ran against Spencer Pratt.  When I first saw it I thought it must be a joke.  But no!  It was a real ad, from the AFL-CIO.  It features a parodic, ominous voice-over style we all recognize from sleazy, third-rate attack ads.  (“Congressman Jackson wants to allow Satanists to use your tax dollars to pay for sexual assaults on your house pets.  Vote for Congressman Williams, and tell Congressman Jackson to keep his Satanist buddies’ hands off your schnauzer!”  Paid for by Williams Committee for Stopping Satanist Dog Assaulters.)

This is a real transcript of the ad, which I swear I am not making up.  But I’ve added my own bracketed suggestions of what a typical CA citizen might think, in reaction to each line.

 “Spencer Pratt opposes using taxpayer money to build brand new houses for our unhoused neighbors…”

[What?!  You mean “smelly schizophrenic drug users?” I can’t even afford the sh*tbox I’m renting for $4K per month, and now I’ve gotta buy new houses for smelly schizophrenic dopers?]

“…saying ‘it’s time for the homeless to get help or get out!”

[YES!  I don’t even need the “get help” – just “get out!”  Preach it, Pratt-man!]

“Pratt thinks LA needs thousands more police officers rather than more social workers.”

[You mean actual cops, who might be able to shoot a tatted-up MS-13 member before he cuts my head off with a machete?  Instead of a blue-haired, nose-ringed liberal arts grad who can lecture me on the cultural significance of a Spanish murder-ballad set to jarringly upbeat ranchero music while a tatted-up MS-13 member methodically saws my head off with a machete?!]

“…and he thinks public employee unions should have less power, not more.”

[So maybe Rowdy Randy Weingarten can keep my kid’s schools closed for 7 years instead of 2 years, the next time the sniffles come around?]

“LA is on the right track, and needs to stay the course.”

[On the right track?!  The RIGHT TRACK?!!  If this is the right track, I’d hate to see the wrong track!  Oh, I get it.  The wrong track is Gavin’s $10 trillion super train that should be finished in time for my great grandson’s high school graduation in 2085.  GTFO, Democrats!] 

Good lord.  That’s an actual ad!   Pratt might have a chance after all.

But Karen Bass isn’t content to let the AFL-CIO speak for her.  She’s got her own voice, and her own thoughts.  And boy are they insane!

Here’s Bass on a matter of crucial public interest: the dental appearance of meth users.  Once again, I swear I’m not making this up.

In an interview on May 12th, the actual Karen Bass said these actual words into a microphone, which she knew was on:

“How many people who are unhoused that you meet have no teeth at all?  Why?  Because meth rots your teeth.  You can’t succeed without teeth!  So there needs to be comprehensive health care provided to them.”     

Holy cats.  Where does one begin?

How about here: So you don’t think someone can succeed without teeth, Karen?  Well have you ever heard of a little guy I like to call…George freakin’ WASHINGTON?!  That guy had dentures made of ivory, animal teeth and various cabinet-grade hardwoods, and all he did was lead the best damn country in the world! 

Also, when considering all of the hardships that typically accompany long-term meth fandom, do you really think that unsightly teeth ranks anywhere in the top 10?  Where would you position that, Karen?  Right above “gangrenous open wounds go septic,” two up from “the voices in my head say to punch the MS-13 member with the bloody machete right in the face,” and right below “fruit-fly lifespan?”

Until now, I’ve always thought that the stupidest possible idea involving giving perks to criminals was stocking prisons with complete weight sets, so that when the predatory recidivists get out, they’ll all be prison ripped. 

But that was before I witnessed the wisdom of the Bass-master, and her Mensa-level brainstorm to equip our meth-fueled delusionaries with a full set of choppers.  Because until now, the worst they could do to us was defecate on us, jab us with a dirty syringe loaded with a bouillabaisse of toxic infectiousness, or sic their tragically abused pit bull mixes at us when we’ve let our guard down.

But now they can bite our faces off too, with teeth that we pay for.

Well done, Los Angelenos!

All I can say is that if California voters elect any of these Dems as Governor or LA Mayor, they’ll be doubling down on Curley. 

And if God doesn’t then send a cleansing cavalcade of fires, floods, earthquakes and locusts, He is going to owe an apology to Sodom and Gomorrah.  And possibly Pompei, Hiroshima and Mogadishu, too.

Que Mala/ Crockett, ’28!

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Fair Arguments and Clock Setting (posted 5/15/26)

I don’t know if it’s a placebo effect, but in the week since I found out that my magic body is absorbing a part of a broken spinal disc and I might not have to have surgery after all, I’m feeling better every day.   And with my returning health has come the ability to write more; I’ve already got enough good topics for three columns next week.

First up, though, regular readers know that I have an ongoing, long-term discussion and debate on all things political with a good old lefty friend of mine.  This week he raised the question of the gerrymanders, expressing the opinion that SCOTUS and the Virginia state supreme court wrongly made it easier for the GOP to gerrymander in their favor, and harder for the Democrats to do the same.

Of course I explained – using logic, facts and wit – that he was 180 degrees wrong.  Inexplicably, he has not yet rushed to agree with me.  But after our most recent exchange, I came across a very good piece on gerrymandering on the American Thinker website.  It’s written by Jeremy Egerer, and titled, “The Real Problem with Gerrymandering.” 

My take on the subject has been that it’s a sleazy process, but in the real world, it’s hard to imagine a more moral system replacing it.  Because after every census, districts have to be re-drawn, and the party with a majority of the legislature naturally does the re-drawing.  And it’s more than we can hope for to ask fellow fallen humans to redistrict perfectly fairly, without giving at least some advantage to their party. 

But Egerer makes an impassioned plea to the better angels of our nature, warning that gerrymandering is clearly cheating, and will almost certainly result in a race to the bottom, with increasingly draconian cheating that ends in an even more polarized and low-trust society than we have today.  We’re on that path now, for sure. 

Egerer points out that taking many voting integrity measures – requiring ID, counting only citizens in the Census, getting rid of massive mail-in and ballot harvesting – would help a lot. He also called for each state to create bi-partisan commissions to redistrict in a fair way.  I’m cynical enough to see that as unlikely – I’ve rarely seen a “bipartisan commission” that didn’t devolve into an exercise in blame-shifting or a return to partisan bickering.  On the other hand, the article points out that both CA and VA had recently created just such a commission, and in both cases the results were maps that were much fairer than you’d expect.

Of course, in the last 6 months both of those states blew those maps up, and pushed through a partisan gerrymander that was as abusive and corrupt as you’d expect from hacks like Newsom and Spanberger.  So…yeah.

However, the article also introduced me to a term that I’ve never heard before, but which I’ll probably be using a lot in the future: “clock setting.”  It’s the tendency of most people in arguments to tell the story beginning at the point that makes them look the best.  Example:  Two guys in a bar are arguing about something, and things get heated enough that Guy A insults Guy B’s mother; then Guy B throws his drink in Guy A’s face; then Guy A punches Guy B. 

And yada yada yada, they both end up in the hospital.

Ask Guy A what started the fight, and he says it started when Guy B threw his drink in his face.  Ask Guy B the same thing, and he’ll either say that the fight started when Guy A insulted his mother, or when Guy A punched him.  Each guy “sets the clock” (i.e. starts the story) in a way that makes him look like the aggrieved party, and the good guy.

The same thing happens in arguments about war and politics.  Pro Hamasniks wail that the evil Jews started genociding them on 10/8/23.  (Never mind that that’s utter BS, since the IDF has killed by far the lowest ratio of civilians to combatants in the history of warfare, modern or ancient.) In other words, Hamas fans set their clock right AFTER hundreds of evil Hamas thugs raided into Israel, tortured, raped and slaughtered 1200 unarmed civilians, and took hundreds more as hostages to be brutalized and often killed. 

And THEN the Jews started being mean to Hamas for no reason!  

And when the Jews tell the stories of their battles with the hostile surrounding countries, they similarly start their stories at the point when jihadis attacked them, without all of the preliminaries from the previous years/decades/centuries/millenia.

Similarly, both sides of the gerrymandering debate conveniently set their clock/start their story so as to make themselves the retaliators rather than the instigators.  Even such wise gentlemen as my lefty friend and I (!) did the same thing in our emails. 

He took the Dem line that VA was righteously responding to TX’s prior action (which was hideously unjust), and I gathered the stats from five blue states and five red states to argue that prior to this year, the Dems had much more unfairly gerrymandered than the GOP had, and thus the recent red state gerrymanders were just leveling the playing field against the Dems, who cheated first, and cheated way more (disenfranchising  22% of conservatives on average, compared to the GOP disenfranchising 11% of libs on average). 

Okay, of course I made the better argument, and I’ve got truth, justice and the American Way on my side.  Expectedly!

But I think we can all profit from remembering the concept of clock setting.  It can help us consider an argument in a more full and fair context, and it can also reveal to us the bias and ideological blind spots in our own arguments.  Maybe most crucially, it might also help us recognize that at some point we need to agree to re-set the clock, so that old arguments and grudges can’t continue to poison the present and future. 

For example, I think many of our racial tensions arise from wildly different times to set the clock.  The most vitriolic black activists start the clock during Jim Crow, or before the Civil War, or even – for the most historically illiterate, who can be conned by a huckster like Nikole Hannah-Jones – in 1619.  Most conservatives tend to start the clock around the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of the mid-1960s, since those ended institutional discrimination, and happened before most Americans living today became adults, if they were even born by then.

Starting the clock too long ago is always going to be a hard sell, and an impediment to society-wide buy-in.  For black activists to ever be paid reparations for slavery, they’re going to have to convince millions of people whose ancestors arrived in America after slavery had already been abolished that they should pay people whose great-great-grandparents came of age after slavery.

Spoiler alert: that is never going to happen.

However, often the best counter-move against someone setting the clock back very far is to set it back even farther.  So when some condescending grievance study major lectures us about how we stole some land on the Eastern seaboard from the Iroquois and must give it back, we can point out that the Iroquois stole it from the Potawatomi, who stole it from the Shawnee, all the way back to the prehistoric Mound Builders. 

So no, Elizabeth Warren, you can’t claim Boston, you phony old cracker! 

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Three Instructive Tales (posted 5/11/26)

This will be a column of random observations that I’ve gathered over the last week or so, in between various distractions, including learning that my body is engaged in absorbing a broken-off piece of my own spine. (That sentence will make more sense if you read my short column from yesterday.)

These observations fall under the umbrella of “a lot of mainstream Democrats have apparently lost their minds lately.” Exhibit A would be the way they’ve gotten behind Graham Platner in the Maine race. Sure, he loves Hamas, hates Jews, and is a far-lefty. But that’s par for the course, and is not a problem for too many Dem voters.

The detail about Platner that surprised even me is the extent to which his having a Nazi tattoo has not been a problem for him! After years of falsely claiming that every conservative voter is a Nazi — and getting hysterical about that totally non-existent issue – the Dems chose a guy who actually branded himself as a Nazi. Permanently. On his skin!

And I’m not talking about a Nazi tattoo like the tattoos on Pete Hegseth, which the Left pretended were Nazi tattoos. (Spoiler alert: they were both traditional Christian tattoos, and had as much to do with Nazism as Liz Warren has to do with American Indians.) (#wemustneverstopmockingher)

No, Platner’s death’s head ink is a specific, famous iconic image worn by the SS (the elite group of Nazi fighters in World War Eleven). And while many of his supporters desperately accepted his weak claim that he had no idea of his tat’s origin, that lie fell apart when several witnesses reported that Platner had proudly invited them to see his “totenkopf,” which is the actual German name for the SS “death’s head” image.

It also didn’t help that Platner kept the tattoo for many years…right up until he decided to run for high office. Which is not something that someone who sincerely regretted getting a tattoo many years ago would do.

The Democrats don’t care. If he could win a Senate seat for their side, they wouldn’t mind if he had “Heil Hitler” tattooed on his neck, like Dewey Crowe on Justified. (Best tv series ever!) They’d just have a PR team remind him to wear button-up collars when he’s on camera.

Whenever I see Platner, I think of the end of Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds. After the murderous Nazi Hans Landa has made a deal to betray the Germans in exchange for a kind of witness protection in America, Brad Pitt’s character Aldo Raine takes him into custody.

In Raine’s famous final speech,he makes clear that he “can’t abide” the fact that Landa will take off his Nazi uniform and escape consequences for his past. So Raine says, “I’m gonna give you something that you can’t take off,” and carves a swastika into his forehead.

Am I saying that Platner should have a swastika carved into his forehead? In the words of Que Mala, “We should have that conversation.”

Okay, just kidding. But I also can’t abide that the Dems’ self-serving venality might allow him to escape the consequences of his creepy past.

Can we at least force him to wear an SS cap during debates and public appearances, just so that even the most checked-out voters can be reminded of who he is?

Speaking of creepy Aryan leftists, I loved seeing Liz Warren humiliate herself over the sudden bankruptcy announcement by Spirit Airlines. Of course, she blamed the bankruptcy on Trump.

Unexpectedly!

Higher fuel prices caused by the Iran war certainly didn’t help Spirit. But as usual, history and facts are not Lizzie’s friends. Because Spirit had been on the verge of bankruptcy twice in recent years, before Trump won his first game of Whack-a-Mullah.

Most importantly, Spirit was about to merge with Jet Blue two years ago in a move that could have saved them, when the Biden administration stepped in and stopped the deal. Grandma Squanto was one of the prime cheerleaders for the interference. She called the government’s intervention “a Biden win for flyers,” since the merger “would have led to fewer flights and higher fares.”

Whitey Wampanoag truly speaks with forked tongue. Because you know what REALLY leads to fewer flights? (Kinison filter begin) AN AIRLINE THAT GOES OUT OF BUSINESS! OH!! OHHHHHH!! (Kinison filter end)

But still Warren finds a way to blame Trump for Biden’s decision, which she celebrated.

She’s so shameless, her fake Indian name should be “Running Bare.”

Finally, as regular readers might know, I am a Midwesterner by birth, and I still have a fondness for that part of the country. Most Midwesterners are sensible people; most are conservatives, and blessedly free from the political manias that afflict both coasts. There are still a lot of Democrats there, but they tend to be the old-school types: they might like unions, and they vote blue because their parents and grandparents did. But they don’t think boys can become girls, or that communism is a good thing, or that America is a racist, bigoted hell hole.

Unfortunately, there are exceptions. Plenty of corrupt, crime-ridden blue cities mar the plains (I’m looking at you, Chicago), and plenty of Dem pols still make a living off of exploiting the gullible and dim (I’m looking at you, JumBo Pritzker). And there are some far-left, hate-driven whackos, too.

Because: fallen human nature.

Which brings me to Minocqua Brewing Company, of Minocqua, Wisconsin. It is owned by a malicious leftist named Kirk Bangstad, whose TDS is such that he has posted a long-standing promise to serve free beer on the day that President Trump dies.

The day after yet another violent leftist tried to kill the president at the WH correspondents’ dinner, Bangstad doubled down on evil, posting, “Well, we almost got #freebeerday.” After bemoaning the idea that a member of the “Resistance needs to work on their marksmanship,” he was also open to another explanation common to the mouth-breathing conspiracy theorists, i.e. that Trump had faked an assassination attempt to get positive press coverage.

But either way, he’s not the type given to any moral self-reflection. “Regardless, we stand at the ready to pour free beer the day it happens.”

I don’t think there’s much to say about such a person, other than I hope that all good people shun his execrable business, so that it goes belly-up as soon as possible. And then that he has a dark night of the soul that leads to his remorse and repentance.

Already, though, one useful moral lesson has been taught by the Minocqua Moron. Because a man named Brian Kellar took a new job as a senior vice president for an upper-Midwest health system at the end of March. He apparently found Bangstad’s political wickedness attractive, because he bought one of their “FDT” t-shirts touting the pro-assassination beer giveaway.

And then – because nothing says “senior management material” like moving to an area where most people voted for a president and then proudly publicizing your desire that that president be murdered – he posted pictures of himself wearing it on his social media and Bangstad’s hateful homepage.

Annnnnddddd… Kellar got canned from his new, high-profile job, before he could even get settled in to his fancy office. Thus proving the ancient maxim, “When first thou FA, then shalt thou FO.”

Here endeth today’s lesson.

Que Mala/Crockett, 2028!

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Personal Update (posted 5/10/26)

I’ll post a regular column tomorrow, but I’ve got a short personal post today. 

Regular readers will remember that I’ve had a really painful pinched nerve in my neck that I’ve been trying to get figured out over the last two months.  After a bunch of tests and physical therapy, I was finally able to get a clean MRI, and then see a surgeon on Friday. 

He told me that a substantial piece of one of my spinal discs has broken off – the one between C6 and C7, for those spinal anatomy fans out there – and was lying against the nerve that travels across the back and down my left arm.  He described the surgical option for removing it, and it was not the worst-case scenario, which would have involved going in from the front through the neck, and fusing two vertebrae.  He said that this chunk could be accessed from the back of my neck, and if the surgery goes well, I wouldn’t need a fusion.

Because he mentioned surgery as an option, I asked him what the other option would be.  He said that because I’ve made a lot of progress with PT – my pain is much less intense and constant than it was in March, and I’ve been able to sleep much better – I could just continue that.  Then he said, “Of course, absorption would continue, and you might be able to avoid surgery.”

My wife and I looked at each other, and I said, “Come again?  Absorption?”

And he explained that my body will break down and absorb the broken-off piece of disc.  As if that’s something that everybody knows.  Like, your blood circulates, your pupils dilate in light, and YOUR BODY CAN EAT YOUR OWN BROKEN SPINE PARTS!  OH! OHHHHHH!!

Sorry.  I can’t help slipping into Sam Kinison mode when I hear something like that. 

I also slipped into a little Forrest Gump, too.  I asked the doctor, “Do you mean I have a magic body?!”  And my wife elbowed me in the ribs, and the doctor patiently explained that that’s something that all human bodies can do. 

Okay, it didn’t happen exactly like that.  And I did chastise the doc that maybe he might want to lead with the news that my body can absorb dysfunctional parts of itself.  But that was the gist of it. 

So I’ve got another appointment six weeks from now with the surgeon.  In the meantime, I’m continuing PT and hopefully continuing my progress, and if all goes well, my magic body will rid me of this troublesome broken spinal disc over the next 6 months or so.  And I won’t have to undergo a spinal surgery that I had not been looking forward to! 

Thanks everybody, for your prayers and questions about how I’ve been doing.  And as long as I’m making a personal post, I should mention that today is my wife’s birthday, on Mother’s Day.

I met her almost 40 years ago, when she was a 21-year-old slip of a girl, and now she looks like she’s 29 or so.  She’s been a great mom and an excellent wife, and she gave birth to two great daughters, which is an amazing magic trick on par with absorbing one’s own defective spine. 

I mean, it’s not a competition or anything.  But I think she’s winning.

As am I!

So happy Mother’s Day to all of you mothers who are reading this, and happy birthday to my Scandinavian Smokeshow!  

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More Great News on Other Fronts (posted 5/4/26)

On Friday I wrote about all the good things that have been happening in our courts lately. But several other groups of feel-good stories are happening, the first of which revolve around bad people doing bad things, and reaping what they sow.

For example, three members of an ultra-creepy, bullying family in Minneapolis were behaving like thuggish creeps at an anti-ICE coven meeting — er, protest — last month. Turning Point USA reporter Savanah Hernandez was reporting on the Satanic goings on, so the unholy trio – dad Christopher Ostroushko, mom Deyanna and daughter Paige – attacked her.

The daughter blasted away with a whistle inches from Hernandez’s ears, while a mob began shoving and hitting her, knocking her to the ground and screaming obscenities. Conveniently, video showed all three Ostroushkos at the front of the pack, doing the assaulting.

Or, as the left calls it, “peacefully protesting.”

In past years, these kind of crimes happened in great numbers in lawless blue cities and states – you may remember the months of antifa riots, BLM riots, Michael Brown riots, George Floyd riots, etc. – and the perpetrators were generally given slaps on the wrist, in the rare case that they faced any consequences at all.

But this time, the FBI opened an investigation within hours of the videos surfacing, and last Wednesday a grand jury handed down indictments against all three on a variety of charges. And their reactions were textbook violent lefty cry-bully: they lied their arses off, and whined that they are the real victims.

Dad – a bald guy with a permanent sneer which makes him look like a large, angry thumb — said that he was only defending his wife and daughter, and claimed that Hernandez was the aggressive one that day. You know, the way that a lone, petite woman will often become very aggressive when surrounded by a frothing mob of dozens of screaming leftists. It’s a tale as old as time.

He said, with a straight thumb-face, “We are absolutely not violent people. In fact, we tend to shy away from it.”

Unfortunately for him, the video showed the opposite. So now dad is complaining about the “non-stop backlash” his family has experience since being smeared by that lying video; they’ve gotten hundreds of calls, texts and social media messages every day, and they’ve lost their jobs.

It’s gotten so bad that he says, “It’s a little overwhelming and makes me second-guess even living in this country, to be honest with you.”

To which the only compassionate response has to be, “HA! HA HA! HAHAHAHAHA!!”

I hope his family will stay in this country…for long enough to serve a federal sentence. After which they should definitely get the hell out.

Speaking of terrible people unexpectedly facing accountability, six thugs who were peacefully protesting in LA last year – by trapping cops in a patrol car under an overpass and homicidally raining rocks and bricks down on it – just pled guilty to a raft of federal charges.

They had the stunned and stupid looks on their faces that you’d expect to see on the faces of stupid people who had been watching hundreds of thousands of leftist co-religionists get away with similar crimes for years, and are only now realizing that the Cadaver in Chief has been replaced by the Orange Man.

And Orange-y don’t play.

I imagine the same realization started sinking in for many in the Somali community as a series of coordinated raids were carried out on the Learing Center and dozens of other pirate-adjacent fraud centers throughout Minnesota last week. And for hundreds of others in LA, where dozens of phony hospice-care, Medicaid-draining scams were apparently operating out of every strip mall, store-front, outhouse and dog house within a 50-mile radius.

After years of watching a soul-crushing parade of open, systematic flouting of the law in blue cities from coast to coast, it is SO refreshing to see a wave of accountability starting to sweep across the Augean Stables of corruption that Democrats – and corrupt Republicans too – have set up, and profited from!

The final group of stories that I hope will cheer you up this Monday morning revolve around the theme of dysfunctional, wrong-headed leftist policies collapsing in hugely satisfying ways.

Where better to start than in NYC, where Mamdani is 100 days in, and already his socialist promises are blowing up in his face on a daily basis? First the “warmth of collectivism” resulted in a bunch of homeless people (whom Mamdani had promised to allow to remain on the streets) freezing to death. Then the free buses had to be put on hold, because: duh! Then he announced the first “free” government grocery story will take three years to build, and will cost 10 times what a comparable Whole Foods or other grocery store would cost.

Then he made the creepy ad for tax day – the one where he walked up to the camera, tapped the glass and smirked, saying, “We’re taxing the rich!” and then announced a new tax on rich guys with unoccupied luxury apartments. He specifically called out billionaire investor Ken Griffin, whose apartment he stood in front of, so that the mobs with pitchforks will know where to meet for the lynching.

Annnnddddd… Griffin announced that he might not go ahead with a planned $6 billion NYC building project.

It’s all so stupid! During his time in New York, Griffin has paid the city around $3 billion ($2.3 billion in taxes, and $700 million in charitable giving), with all of the new jobs and downstream spending and tax revenue that goes along with that kind of economic activity. And Griffin had already moved himself and his company to Florida from another failing blue city (Chicago) in 2022.

All of which makes the optics of Mamdani’s gleeful stunt so perversely self-defeating. It’s telling that the smug leftist mantra is, “Tax the rich!” rather than, “Help the poor!” Because they are motivated by envy, and are clearly willing to hurt the poor, if doing so will allow them to hurt the rich.

Ironically, their policies only succeed at the former. Because Griffin – and many other financially successful people – clearly don’t need greedy leftist cities as much as those cities need them. As we can see from the capital and population flight from CA, NY and IL to red states in recent years.

Which brings us to Mamdani’s humiliating press conference last week, where he announced that NYC is in a catastrophic financial crisis. Unexpectedly!

NYC has a 3.88% income tax (added to NY state’s top income tax rate of 10.9%), and a 8.8% sales tax. The city’s budget for 2026 is $119.7 billion – more than the entire state budget of Florida! – and it is STILL not enough. Mamdani’s socialist schemes are going to require billions more from the state – a demand which even Kathy “Wicked Witch of Albany” Hochul is smart enough to greet with, “How about NO!” – as well as billions more in taxes from the richest New Yorkers.

When those people leave – in about 5…4…3… — that money is going to be gouged out of the middle class saps, many of whom voted for Mamdani, thus buying a ticket for FO-ville.

In other words, New York has a metastatic spending problem, which they’ve idiotically misdiagnosed as a revenue problem.

And that condition is similarly afflicting Seattle and their far-left, professional useless person mayor. Katie Wilson speaks like a teenage girl (multiple “likes” riddle every paragraph), and was still being financially supported by her parents when she was elected last November at age 43. She supports government-run grocery stores, and she recently walked picket lines with Starbucks workers and urged people to boycott the company. Coincidentally, Starbucks has been closing stores and shrinking their presence in Seattle, while they just announced a $200 million investment (and 2000 new jobs) in Tennessee.

So naturally, when Wilson was asked last month to respond to the flight of successful people from her city, her answer was AOC-esque: “I think the claims that millionaires are going to leave our state are, like, super overblown. And if – the ones that leave, like, bye.”

Yes. Two “likes” and one “super” in that deep answer, which was given (to cheers and laughter) at a local university. Because of course it was.

Overall, we have reason to be optimistic. In addition to the short-term edification to be gained from watching these leftist experiments work themselves out – if by “work themselves out” I mean “unravel” (which I do) – longer-term gains should follow.

Whether they’re in New York, LA, Chicago, Seattle or Portland, leftist economic plans don’t work. And they’re not going to start working now…so conservative alternatives should become more attractive as leftist failures compound.

Now if we can just manage to hold onto the House in the mid-terms…

Que Mala/Crockett, 2028!

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Great News on Many Fronts! (posted 5/1/26)

The last 48 hours have been full of more good political news than I know what to do with. In fact, so many good things are happening that I’m going to divide them into different categories, just to try to keep them all straight. I already know that I won’t be able to cover them all in this column, so I’m going to have more good news stories again on Monday.

My three categories are good judicial rulings, bad people reaping the consequences of their bad actions, and foolish leftist policies crashing and burning in hilariously entertaining ways.

*Today I’ll focus on the good judicial rulings.

Most of the solid rulings involve gerrymandering, as you might guess. I wrote a column on gerrymandering last week, and if you haven’t seen that one, please check it out. In it, I mentioned that gerrymandering is open to abuse, that both sides do it, and that while it always looks a little fishy, it might be the least unfair way to deal with delineating congressional districts.

Natural population shifts require that House district borders be re-drawn after every census, and the task of adjusting those borders has traditionally been controlled by the party that holds a majority in a state legislature. Asking that any party draw completely neutral borders – and in so doing, give up their legitimate advantage by virtue of their having won a majority –

“elections have consequences” has to be one of the oldest truisms in politics – is unrealistic, to say the least.

I proposed that a rough way to assess how close a party comes to a fair redistricting is to compare the percentage of the presidential vote the minority party got, compared to the percentage of the House seats they hold. I chose 5 red states and 5 blue states to compare, and showed that in the blue states the Dems gave themselves an average advantage of 22%, while in the average red states the GOP gave themselves an average advantage of 11%.

So while both parties give themselves an advantage when they control redistricting, the Dems are twice as bad about that as the GOP. Unexpectedly!

Which is why the Virginia redistricting vote two weeks ago was so obnoxious. About four years ago, purple-state Virginia voters had set up a largely non-partisan body to take redistricting out of one party’s hands, and the result was one of the fairest House district border maps in the country. The state went for Que Mala by about 5%, and their holding 6 out of 11 House seats mirrored that percentage.

Then, of course, after campaigning on a promise not to gerrymander, creepy Abigail Spanberger immediately proposed a ballot measure to gerrymander, and produced a very biased change to 10 Dem House seats to only 1 GOP seat. And then she and Hakeem “Dollar-Store Obama” Jeffries and many other House Dems gloated and taunted the GOP about their underhanded victory.

Annnnndddd…the first great judicial move of the week was made by a VA state judge, who declared the ballot issue unconstitutional. The Democrat VA state Supreme Court immediately took up the case, and in their questioning of the lawyers, seemed to indicate that they will likely reject the new, gerrymandered VA House map.

Sure, it was an obvious and easy call. There were two obvious legal requirements that the Dems violated, involving the timing and the method by which they rammed the matter through. But how many times have we seen partisan leftist judges and courts blatantly disregard the law in order to achieve their desired political outcome?

(Off the top of my head, in Roe v Wade SCOTUS “discovered” a constitutional right to abortion that nobody had seen in the previous 200 hundred years, and did the same thing re: gay marriage in Obergefell. Not to mention the 100 Obama or Biden judges who have ruled that Trump isn’t allowed to make executive decisions just because he’s the Chief Executive, and that

Biden could reverse all of Trump’s previous executive orders, but that Trump can’t reverse any of Biden’s or Obama’s executive orders, etc.)

So if the VA Supreme Court does reject the illegal Democrat gerrymander, they will have proved that a Democrat court can follow the law, even when it goes against the wishes of Democrat politicians. But even better, they will have set the table for Spanberger, Jeffries and the Dems to receive an epic, hilarious, karmic arse-whipping.

Because Ron DeSantis responded by LEGALLY achieving an equally lopsided gerrymander in Florida. But since he’s been the best damn governor in these United States, and has turned Florida from purple to deep red, he had already set the table with GOP majorities dominant enough that he could move quickly to put forward a redestricting bill, have it debated and passed by both houses, and then sign it into law himself.

All completely by the book, and in the span of four days!

Man, I hope that we can someday have that guy as our President!

But wait. There’s more! On Wednesday, SCOTUS handed down a long-awaited judgment on a case involving the Dems’ long-standing perversion of one aspect of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Sidebar: I think my view of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 are typical of most conservatives’ views: they were good and necessary pieces of legislation. (They were passed with a higher percentage of GOP votes (80ish percent) than Dem votes (70ish), and only after the GOP could break a 70+ day filibuster by Democrats, by the way.) They ended the racist legal schemes of the Democrats’ Jim Crow laws.

Annndddd…then they were transformed by those same Democrats into an anti-white and anti-Asian discriminatory racial spoils system that inflamed racial tensions, and resulted in Dems winning more House seats than they legitimately would have, had that racial grift not been in place for the last 60 years.

And SCOTUS ended all of that on Wednesday! By ruling that two racially gerrymandered House districts in Louisiana had violated the non-discrimination rules in the Constitution, SCOTUS opened the door to other red states redrawing non-racist district borders. Initial analyses suggests that this ruling could possibly result in the GOP picking up 10-12 House seats.

It’s important to note that these gains would come NOT from the GOP reversing the anti-white racism of the Dems and beating them at their own racist game. The gains would arise from our finally stopping the Dems from cheating, and would thus require that all candidates more fairly and effectively appeal to all voters, regardless of race, if they want to win elections. Which is as it should be.

So of course the shameless Dems who were gloating about their gains from gerrymandering just one week ago, are now protesting about their losses from gerrymandering. Hilariously enough, they have fewer House seats to gain from their own

additional gerrymandering attempts, since they had already drastically gerrymandered CA, IL and other blue states years ago. Sweet, sweet irony!

In other good news, SCOTUS also slapped down a power-abusing Dem state official in deep-blue New Jersey for having illegitimately gone after prolife centers. NJ Attorney General Matthew Platkin had issued subpoenas in 2023 to pregnancy centers, trying to force them to turn over to the state all information about everybody who had ever donated to or supported their efforts – a clear attempt to bully those groups and intimidate and prevent citizens from supporting them.

Shockingly enough, that was too much even for the three leftist SCOTUS justices, and the court unanimously rejected Platkin’s heavy handed tactics!

In purple Pennsylvania, their own state Supreme Court has ruled that devious Dem election officials have to make voting records public.

Observant readers may have noticed that the elite left has been doing everything possible to enable voting fraud, and hinder attempts to uncover it, stop it. and punish those responsible. Whether its through ballot harvesting, massive mail-in voting or fighting all attempts to mandate voter ID, the left loves itself some shady voting practices.

So it should be no surprise that for five years, Democrat officials have been resisting efforts by election integrity groups to get access to the records that document the votes cast in the 2020 election. (You may remember that election as The Most Honest and Legitimate Election in the History of Elections Ever™.)

In Pennsylvania, the state system retains Cast Vote Records (CVR), which are basically the receipts of votes cast at each election location and voting machine. These records would allow citizens to verify the legitimacy of elections. So the PA Democrat machine would prefer that citizens be prevented from seeing those records.

Unexpectedly!

Once again, the court ruling against the Democrats and for transparency (but I repeat myself) was unanimous!

Finally, and at the risk of counting my chickens before they are hatched, there are yet more encouraging signs coming out of SCOTUS, this time during their questioning of lawyers in a group of cases involving leftist lower court judges’ rulings that Trump shouldn’t be allowed to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians and Syrians.

Theoretically, in such cases a president grants many thousands of foreigners the right to stay in America temporarily, because some natural disaster or dire event in their home countries makes it unsafe for them to remain there. In reality, in such cases a (usually Democrat) president grants many thousands of foreigners who would likely vote Democrat the right to come here “temporarily,” and then repeatedly extends the deadline for them to leave, until they are eventually granted citizenship and become a part of a permanent Democrat voting majority.

And America as we know it ends, with both a bang and a whimper.

In the current cases, Obama granted Haitians TPS in 2010 due to an earthquake, and he granted Syrians TPS in 2012, due to a civil war in Syria. The Haitians were supposed to go back home in 18 months, and the Syrians in a year. If you’ll check your calendar, you’ll find that it is now 2026, and they’re all still here. And a bunch of Democrat lawyers and judges are arguing that it would be a crime against humanity for Trump to end their TPS and force them to do what Obama promised he’d force them to do over a decade ago.

Look, I don’t blame anybody for wanting to come to America, which is the greatest country in the world. (Though I don’t understand why any leftists would want to allow that, since they constantly insist that America is a corrupt and evil fascist state, full of racist and sexist theocratic homophobes and transphobes. How could they subject the poor Haitians and Syrians to that kind of nightmare?!)

But saying that you’re giving someone the chance to stay here temporarily when everybody knows that you intend for them to stay here permanently is a lie. (See: The 10 Commandments.)

Speaking of lies, it’s obvious what the Democratic politicians and judges are doing here. They say that it’s perfectly fine for Obama to unilaterally – without any legislation, or approval from the Congress or the people – grant millions of people “temporary” status with the stroke of a pen. But it would be an unconstitutional crime against our sacred democracy for Trump to revoke that “temporary” status with an identical stroke of his pen.

Those judges and politicians are hypocrites, and it will be another great result if SCOTUS hands them yet one more humiliating defeat.

Have a great weekend, and brace yourself for even more good news on Monday.

Que Mala/Crockett, 2028!

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Get the Popcorn: The Southern Poverty Law Center is Going Down Like the Hindenburg! (posted 4/29/26)

Before yet another assassination attempt on the president, I had been planning to write about the Southern Poverty Law Center scandal, which is a gift that I had already thought was going to keep on giving for quite some time. But as more details have come out about the latest would-be assassin, it looks like he is yet one more example of a leftist who chose violence after believing the kind of creepy poison put out by the SPLC and its dishonest brethren.

The SPLC is a great example of how deeply corrupt and infuriatingly influential the leftist propaganda ecosystem has become in America. It’s a travesty that such a such a transparently abusive and dishonest operation should have maintained its undeserved “credibility” for as long as it did. Billing itself as a sort of moral and political fact-checker, the SPLC claimed to investigate and identify dangerously hateful groups and individuals.

But somehow, those dangerous groups always seemed to be associated with right-wing conservatism. (Or, as nearly every Dem and MSM talking head calls it, “right-wing extremism.”)

Unexpectedly!

For decades, their lists of dangerous hate mongers have routinely included mainstream, non-violent and non-hateful conservatives groups and individuals – Dr. Ben Carson, various Christian and pro-life groups, respected center-right and conservative media figures, etc. At the same time, they have bent over backwards to studiously ignore and NOT list much more extreme leftist radicals like antifa, pro-trans or anti-white groups.

A record like that is self-refuting on its face. Yet even now, if you use the most common search engines, while you’ll find admissions that the overwhelming majority of SPLC targets are right wing, you’ll also be given the most ridiculous claims to justify that bias.

For example, “This [political imbalance] reflects SPLC’s focus on hate‑based ideologies, which in the U.S. are predominantly right‑wing.” After you do a spit-take from that factoid, you’ll read that, “Hate‑based ideologies in the U.S. historically emerge from white supremacist, nativist, and religious‑nationalist movements—each right‑aligned.” Before you can say, “What about antifa or BLM?” you’ll be lectured that, “Left‑wing movements in the U.S. rarely organize around racial or religious hatred, which is SPLC’s primary criterion for inclusion.”

All of which is obviously a toxic mix of Adam Schiff, horse Schiff and bull Schiff. BLM is chock full of vicious whitey haters, and the jihadi-adjacent members of the Squad and many of the Muslim politicos in Dearborn, Minneapolis and elsewhere hate Jews as much as BLM hates whites and La Raza hates gringos.

And in spite of Marxism/socialism/communism’s nominal atheism, that ideology clearly functions as a religion for those without a traditional religion. So the claim that leftist hate groups don’t “organize around racial or religious hatred” is as baseless as the rest of the SPLC’s silly assertions.

But what the evil grifters at SPLC lack in truth, logic and integrity, they more than make up for in political cunning. Because they’ve always known that the institutional left didn’t want an accurate taxonomy of political hate in our nation. They wanted a biased fact-checker whose phony “reports” they could hide behind and use as justification for stigmatizing and censoring conservatives.

And that’s what they’ve clearly been doing, for decades. Much of the big tech censorship of conservative voices was based on such dishonest reports. Search engines and social media shadow-banned conservative podcasts and news outlets, and stories that were harmful to the left – that the Steele report was a Dem-funded fraud cooked up to hamper Trump’s first term; that the Muller report was going to be full of damning findings that would land Trump in prison; that Hunter Biden’s laptop was a Russian hoax, etc.

As an optimist, I see a huge silver lining in the fact that the SPLC had to manufacture and/or pay for supposed right-wing hate groups and their activities. The left needs cartoon villains on the right, both to justify their own hatreds, and to agitate and fund raise off of their supporters. And because there isn’t enough actual hate and racism in the country to justify their wild claims, they had to make up or exaggerate most of the reported racism.

Recidivist criminals who died in the process of committing multiple crimes — like Michael Brown and George Floyd — had to be reinvented as martyrs to racial injustice. Trayvon Martin had to be re-written from a violent, petty criminal who was bashing a man’s head into concrete when he was justifiably shot, into a saintly figure; his Hispanic would-be victim had to be transformed into a “white-Hispanic” “attacker.” Normal, mainstream conservatives had to be turned into raving fascists, so that the thuggish cosplayers in antifa could valorize their own fascist violence.

In fact, the two most significant attempts in the last decade to re-write history — through a combination of exaggerations, omissions and outright lying – were Charlottesville and January 6th. And the former – deliciously! — turns out to have been largely a creation of the SPLC, and its perverse funding of the KKK in a phony attempt to pretend that a tiny band of fringe whackos was actually a gigantic gathering of an ominous, racist conservative force.

How hilarious is it to consider that a leftist propaganda boiler-room operation named a faux grass-roots gathering “Unite the Right!?” Especially when it featured the Klan – which was always a creation of (and wholly owned subsidiary of) the Democrat left from its inception – and which was funded by the leftists at the SPLC.

Again, when I’ve argued with lefty friends over Charlottesville – they generally bought the SPLC hype about an earth-shaking attack on America by the “greatest threat to democracy” (i.e. “white supremacists”) ever – I’ve pointed out that even after many months of nationwide white nationalist hyping of what was billed as the largest gathering of right-wing bigots in decades, they were only able to draw a few hundred sad sacks.

In a nation of around a third of a billion people!

And that’s before accounting for the fact that at least half of that tiny band was only there because they were being secretly paid to attend by the SPLC!

At the risk of sounding like the lefties who have never heard a Nazi-to-GOP comparison they didn’t love, I did actually think of one authentic National Socialist connection when I first heard that the SLPC had been paying some sad little “Grand Wizard” Klan leaders to rally in Charlottesville.

If you’re not really into World War Eleven history (HA! That Ilhan Omar is a genius, isn’t she?), you might not be familiar with this story. But as a straight white guy over 40, I am contractually obligated to think about WWII – along with the Roman Empire and college and pro football – at least once per day. So I learned about this incident years ago:

On September 1st, 1939, the Nazis officially kicked off WWII by invading Poland. But they didn’t want to look like they were just aggressors invading Poland. So on the last night of August, they fabricated a precipitating cause.

At around two dozen spots along Poland’s border with Germany, small teams of SS operatives “assaulted” small German outposts including a radio station, a forestry station and a customs house. They dressed the bodies of concentration camp victims in Polish uniforms, and left them at the attack sites.

Then, the next morning, German troops rolled across the border, as the official German press announced that they were only responding to the grave threat posed by the Polish aggressors.

Sound familiar?

Hopefully, as the dishonest conniving of the SPLC is brought to light in coming months, many well-intentioned lefties will reluctantly begin to contemplate the same question confronted by some good Germans, as WWII gained momentum:

“Is it possible that we’re the baddies?”

Spoiler alert: YEP!

Am I betting that this will, at long last, cause most lefties to see the light? Sadly, no.

But hope springs eternal, in the breast of a cautious optimist!

And in the meantime, we’ll all get some sweet schadenfreude from watching SPLC con artists squirming through a trial in which they have to explain why they steered their donors’ cash to the Grand Kleagle of the KKK, Local 231.

Que Mala/Crockett, 2028!

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The Democrat Elite Hate Democracy (posted 4/24/26)

If you’re like me – and what a great world this would be if everybody was – you were very irritated throughout 2024 by two constantly repeated talking points from Democrats and media talking heads (but I repeat myself): “no one is above the law,” and “we are fighting for democracy!”

Both phrases, of course, were false. Because: elite Democrat talking points.

By “no one is above the law,” Dems meant, “No Republicans – and especially Trump — are above the law.” And by “the law” they meant, “whatever we can falsely claim that the law is.”

On the other hand, the Dems created an immense scaffolding of double standards to exempt themselves and their minions from being subject to our laws. They’ve shamefully done everything possible to ensure that EVERYONE on their side is above the law.

Did Hunter Biden film himself breaking many laws against the use of drugs and prostitutes? Did he also launder millions of dollars from the Chicoms and corrupt Ukranian oligarchs – not to mention from “selling” those execrable paintings of his – in violation of various laws? Did “president” Biden accept at least 10% of those illegal funds? Did various Biden family +

members also illegally profit from their political connections to the Cadaver in Chief?

Obviously, in all cases. And rather than insisting that any of those lawbreakers face legal consequences, Joey Gaffes gave them all pardons on his way out the door. Just to be doubly sure that all of them remained above the law.

Of course the most glaring examples of this creepy double standard is the 15-20 million illegals whom the Biden administration illegally welcomed in! All Dem elites constantly argue that illegals should be above the law. They shouldn’t be held responsible for the crime of sneaking in, of working illegally, of driving illegally, of receiving all forms of welfare (except emergency medical services) illegally, or of committing additional violent crimes.

ALL of them should be above the law, and you’re a xenophobic racist if you disagree.

For a long time, “no one is above the law” was the most infuriating Democrat lie to me. But in recent weeks, the “we are the defenders of democracy” has taken top honors. Or, I guess, top dishonors.

The Democrats are obviously doing their best to routinely thwart the democratically expressed will of the people. How could they not, when they’ve consistently taken the “20” end of so many 80-20 issues?

The vast majority of Americans want biological males to be kept out of female bathrooms and locker rooms, and prevented from competing against females in sports. Similarly large majorities want to require voter IDs in elections, and for our border to be closed, and for all violent illegals to be deported. In all of those cases, though, the Dems have done everything possible to oppose the democratic process.

For decades, the Dems have happily used the courts to give them by judicial dictat what they could not win at the ballot box, from school busing to gay marriage to over-regulation to governmentally-approved racial discrimination against Asians and whites. They’re doing the same thing now, cheering every partisan local judge who tries to stop Trump from carrying out the duties of the executive, on whatever flimsy legal reasoning those hacks can find.

Trump’s stunning second election should have given the Dems pause. He won a lopsided victory in the electoral college, and even won the popular vote. If the left actually revered “democracy,” they wouldn’t have immediately tried to delegitimize his victory and oppose every single Trump action. Yet that is exactly what they’ve done.

But the most outrageously dishonest example of recent Democrat hypocrisy has come from the way they’ve handled the issue of gerrymandering congressional voting districts.

To grant the obvious point, gerrymandering is not illegal, and the practice has been around for centuries. Part of the reward of holding an electoral majority when reapportionment happens is to be able to draw borders that will help your party’s prospects in future elections. But that power is obviously open to abuse, and in our messy democratic system, there has usually been an unwritten, gentleman’s agreement that both parties will not abuse the system completely, giving themselves electoral advantages far out of proportion to the partisan breakdown of their state’s citizenry.

But you may have noticed that there are few gentlemen – or gentle-ladies, or gentle-he-shes – left in congress these days. And thus we find the Democrats in blue states doing everything they can to corruptly gerrymander the GOP voters’ voices out of existence.

Before any lefties in the audience can argue that both parties do it, I’ll point you to some actual facts. I’ve chosen 5 of the most prominent Democrat states, and 5 of the most prominent GOP states (some because they are contemplating gerrymandering now).

Here are the GOP states:

Texas – went for Trump over Harris in 2024 by 64%-34%; House seat percentages are 66% GOP to 34% Dem

Tennessee – went for Trump over Harris in 2024 by 64%-34%; House seat percentages are 89% GOP to 11% Dem (8 of 9)

Ohio – went for Trump over Harris in 2024 by 55%-44%; House seat percentages are 66% GOP to 33% Dem

Missouri – went for Trump over Harris in 2024 by 59%-40%; House seat percentages are 75% GOP to 25% Dem

Florida – went for Trump over Harris in 2024 by 56%-43%; House seat percentages are 71% GOP to 29% Dem

You can detect the bias toward the party in power by considering how much their opponents’ House seat percentage under-represents the opposition party’s share of the presidential vote. 40% of Missouri voters were Democrats, yet Dems only held 25% of Missouri House seats, a deficit of 15%. In Florida, 43% of voters were Dems, but only 29% of the House seats, a deficit of 14%. Ohio was closer, with a 11% Dem deficit (44% of the voters, but only 33% of the House seats). TN is trickier, because with only 1 of 9 House seats going to Dems, the deficit is 23% (34% of the vote to just 11% of House seats). Texas had actually zero bias, as 34% of both the vote and House seats belonging to Dems.

Here are the Dem states:

NY – went for Harris over Trump in 2024 by 54%-43%; House seat percentages are 73% Dem to 27% GOP

IL – went for Harris over Trump in 2024 by 55%-43%; House seat percentages are 82% Dem to 18% GOP

CA — went for Harris over Trump in 2024 by 62%-38%; House seat percentages are 74% Dem to 26% GOP

MA — went for Harris over Trump in 2024 by 61%-36%; House seat percentages are 100% Dem to 0% GOP (9 of 9)

NJ — went for Harris over Trump in 2024 by 52%-46%; House seat percentages are 75% Dem to 25% GOP

Of these 5 Dem states, MA repeats the TN anomaly: with only 9 House seats, the 100% Dem seats creates a 36% GOP deficit. The other four states produce GOP deficits of 16% (NY); 12% (CA); 21% (NJ), and, with the worst bias (25%), Illinois.

The math is clear: the 5 Dem states were around twice as biased against the GOP (averaging 22%) than the GOP states were against the Dems (12%). And that doesn’t count the recent, corrupt CA gerrymander, which added a double-digit increase in the existing GOP representational deficit in CA.

To top that off, the Dems’ ridiculous lies about evil White Witch Spanberger’s gerrymander proposal for Virginia are even clearer, given these numbers. When confronted about the transparent corruption in VA, Dems claimed that they were only redrawing their districts because Texas did their gerrymander – which they called “an illegitimate, partisan power-grab” –first.

But consider the numbers. Before the recent gerrymanders, both Texas and VA had basically evenly matched House seats and presidential vote parity. But when Texas’ gerrymander was done, the TX GOP was expected to gain 2 House seats, for a 5% advantage over the Dems. By contrast, the VA Dems were set to cut the 5 GOP House seats to only 1, creating a 36% advantage over the GOP.

So if gerrymandering for partisan advantage is corrupt, the Virginia Democrats are 7 times as corrupt as the Texas GOP, just as the 5 Dem states are twice as corrupt as the GOP.

The Dems may not get away with their attempted disenfranchising of Virginia voters, since a state judge declared it unconstitutional, citing several illegal aspects of that stunt. Hopefully a few judges in VA will be more honest than the national Democrats are.

But regardless, the gerrymandering debate shows that the Democrats are lying about their respect for democracy as much as they were lying when they pretended to believe that “no one is above the law.”

And it reinforces another constant in Democrat politics:

Whenever Dems are accusing the GOP of some form of corruption, you can bet your last dollar that they are actually more guilty of it themselves.

Que Mala/Crockett, 2028!

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