It's worse now than it was two years ago: Public Schools continue to fail us

 It hasn't changed. We're cranking out semi-literate cretins and no one cares, least of all parents.

If a riot is ever called for, it's not at a Tesla dealership: It's at your nearest local school board.

Parents, however, have been numbed into the stupor that the fringe-left indoctrination centers known as a "public school" is actually educating their children.

Which is totally untrue.

In school districts standing up against the INSANE idea that it's OK for fake girls to compete against/use the locker rooms/shower with the real thing, the state of Washington will hammer on such a district like a drum while completely ignoring the horrific academic outcomes that are par for the course.

They'll spend more money punishing school districts standing up against state-imposed tyranny than they will insuring that high school graduates in this state are required to actually know how to read, write and do math.

And what a sad priority THAT is.

In Oregon, for example, you get a high school diploma as if you actually learned something when, in fact, you literally, as Bill says, don't have to know ANYTHING to graduate, or, for the matter, even show up to class.

Two years ago, I wrote:

For years now, I've been pounding the internet over how horrific our public schools actually are.

Any public school in this state will typically have nothing to brag about. Frequently, the end product of a high school diploma is awarded to kids failing in all areas and subjects, and in many schools, even to kids who fail to regularly show up for class.

But they get pushed through anyway and in spite of the billions the taxpayers of this state waste on the education plant, we suck... and suck HARD.... academically. Our academic outcomes are embarrassingly horrific. But we continue to indebt taxpayers to follow the pattern of shoveling cash into teacher's pockets when far too often, their final product, which they are never held accountable for producing, are abysmal academic failures.

But man, you CAN count on them having undergone social engineering instead of academic competency.

Woodland schools, for example:

Right now, 49% of kids aren't at grade level in English. 65% aren't at grade level in math. 55% aren't at grade level in science. And whole 80% attend school regularly... while 83% graduate (17% drop out rate aside) but graduate with what? A worthless piece of paper that shows no competence or academic achievement.

How is that OK?

Well, leave it to Bill Maher to point out our reality and maybe, just maybe, you can recall this the next time you're filling out a ballot to enable schools to steal MORE of your money and waste it on teacher pay and benefits that most of us can't even dream of.

And if you want to see how much YOUR kid's schools suck, just head on over to the OSPI (Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction's) report card, where you can look up how much we such statewide, districtwide or school wide.

Prepare to be sickened.

Meanwhile, here's Bill laying it out, the reality our kids... and our society... face every day.

Another example of leftist scum in Congress. Meet fringe-left scumbag Rep. Jasmine Crockett

With leftist scum like this 304 elected to ANYTHING, is it any wonder leftists embrace violence when they allow scum like this in Congress? Is it any wonder not one single democrat, politician or otherwise, has condemned the leftist attacks on Tesla, the company, and the owners of those cars?

Hopefully, charges of assault will be files against this turd.

After all, aren't leftists fond of telling us "no one is above the law?"

https://x.com/LauraLoomer/status/1904547920608710822

So, how's the homeless issue going? The same?

I wrote the accompanying post initially two years ago. And now, here we are two years later, and nothing has changed. So many homeless are coming to our leftist homeless destination resorts that it's just become background noise.

The same can be said with leftists recruiting illegal aliens to stuff ballot boxes, increase the number of congressional districts (not to mention leftist Electoral College votes a given state will have, since the idea of limiting these districts and votes to citizens only is simply unimaginable to the left when they can gain political power on the backs and to the expense of actual American citizens)

These things don't happen in a vacuum.

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This is what happens when leftist cities make homeless destination resorts.

If you haven't heard this already, let me clue you in:

The more money places like Portland/Multnomah County and Seattle/King County waste on the homeless, guess what?

The more homeless you WILL have.

These leftists have no intention of solving the homeless crisis by wasting our billions. They WANT people dependent on government.

How do I know?

What part of these wasted billions have been or will be spent on rehab centers?

What part has been used to expand mental health?

When these governments provide this cost free/responsibility free housing and food and in Oregon's case, a serious effort to hand out $1000 a month to the homeless... for whatever THEY want (Lets call it what it is: the drug pusher subsidy act)... and they buy another motel or lease out another hotel for this free housing; are they, in any way, holding the homeless in these facilities responsible for getting mental health treatment or drug treatment?

Are they drug testing these people who're just gonna do fentanyl and tranq and or pot/alcohol in these free rooms?

Nope.

And how do they expect these failures to hold these people accountable to become anything but magnets for the homeless all over the western US?

Thoughts on Trump and Ukraine: not what you might expect.

Here's the reality:

Let me say at the outset I am anything but a leftist. An almost rabid Trump supporter, particularly given the alternative.

But in this case, the right is wrong.

Dead wrong.

Putin has repeatedly stated words to the effect that he wants to regrow the Warsaw Pact countries under his control.

At this point, at least 4 countries (Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia) are all former Warsaw Pact countries. And now?

They’re all NATO countries.

Abandonment of Ukraine, a country we swindled into giving their nukes to Russia in return for guarantees of their continuing sovereignty; an agreement, come to think of it, that Russia also signed (See Budapest Memo for details) would provide Russia with a major strategic advantage on their way to realizing Putin’s dream.

As a former Army officer who spent 6 years in the region, 3+ in Recon, Russia’s total occupation (or even partial occupation, which is essentially what’s advocated in the Trump peace plan) is a recipe for disaster.

Historically, appeasement of dictators, i.e., allowing Russia to keep the approximately 1/3^rd of Ukraine, including the Crimea, they currently occupy, sends exactly the wrong message to Putin, et al.

Let’s remember, RUSSIA INVADED UKRAINE at Biden’s request (when Biden PUBLICLY announced we would not commit US military forces on the ground that was tantamount to an open invitation to invade, which a grateful Putin was happy to accept) and not the other way around. And now?

Trump and his supporters on this issue want a “peace deal” that will reward Putin for it.

Meanwhile, Putin gets away with 10's of thousands of murders, 10's of thousands of war crimes, thousands of rapes, hundreds of billions in damages, 1/3rd of a country he invaded to destroy and the sure and certain knowledge that the US is his bitch.

You know... the same things we hung nazi leadership for?

Why DJT is getting played like this is beyond me.

Clearly, "never again" ended in 2022.

Look at a map. See the strategic position Ukraine has.

Going through with this will merely give Putin time to reorganize, rearm and retrain.

And when he invades Poland through Belarus? Then what?

Do we blow off NATO?

OF COURSE NATO should shoulder a great deal more of the burden. But nature and politics both abhors a vacuum and if we create such a vacuum, someone we may not like WILL fill it.

Many who want to hang Ukraine out to dry would love that as well, wrongly believing isolationism, as we also practiced in the 30s last century (and how’d that work out for us?) is the way to go. Many, militarily and historically ignorant, wrongly believe that THIS time, Neville Chamberlains “Peace in our time” approach will somehow work.

But is this where I point out that 11 months after he waved that piece of paper around, Germany invaded Poland? Or that Germany partitioned Poland with Russia, so they had a roughly 50/50 take of the spoils?

With Biden’s moronic PUBLIC proclamation that the US would stay out of it, that made it simply too much of an opportunity for Putin to ignore. (I’m not suggesting that was the wrong policy. I’m suggesting that TELLING HIM PUBLICLY what we would do in advance of an invasion effectively green-lighted said invasion) effectively, we broke it.

We own it.

Putin understands that America has a history of abandonment of allies when it takes too long or is considered to be too much of a burden for this country. He knew, like any enemy of the US knows, that if they just hang on long enough, we’ll declare some sort of victory and go home, even when, in places like Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, it turned into a an ignominious defeat.

Let’s face it: the reality is most on the right want Ukraine sold out because the aid situation to Ukraine was a Biden policy and far too many believe that since he started giving Ukraine aid, it MUST be wrong.

Well, even a broken clock is right twice a day. And in this case, the money he spent has resulted in a great many dead Russians that we will not have to kill.

I oppose this effort to check a box on the campaign promise list. Peace in Ukraine is a wonderful goal. But I GUARANTEE, based on historical experience that any peace achieved will merely be temporary.

Putin wants to turn all of Ukraine into the same serfdom Hitler wanted it for: agriculture and rare minerals.

Selling out Ukraine in a bogus “land for peace” scam won’t work any better in there than it did in Gaza. Appeasing dictators NEVER works for long, and you damned well know it.

Insanity has many definitions. One of them is doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different outcome. Sadly, this is Trump doing that.

I support Trump in most everything he does and is doing. But abandoning NATO and Ukraine is not the answer, any more than abandoning 1/3^rd of the United States to any invader would be the answer.

I urge anyone concerned with that situation to step back, leave their emotion and politics out of it, and look at the reality and strategic issues confronting us with a Russian dominated Ukraine.

What, for example, would be the situation if we had allowed Axis forces to keep 1/3^rd of the areas THEY conquered in World War Two in exchange for “peace?” What would have been the outcome if those we held accountable for their war crimes after VJ day in Nuremberg and Japan had, instead, been allowed to remain in power?  You know, in return for peace?

I shudder to think.

Many of us on the right blame Ukraine aid as a reason other needs within the US have gone unfulfilled. I disagree.

The border was a sieve because of policy, not money. Homelessness is horrific because the homeless are never held accountable for their decisions…. And we’ve wasted billions on the homeless with little to nothing to show for it, except for a voracious homelessness industry that is wasting horrific amounts of money for an ever worsening homelessness problem. And for the most part, the homeless ARE homeless because of the decisions they made that led up to that outcome. Public school education sucks for a wide variety of reasons that boil down to POLICY where pathetic academic outcomes are allowed, if not encouraged. (There’s a reason where we spend the most money per student but get the worst academic outcomes in the industrialized world, and money has nothing to do with it.)

For me, the question is what would be measurably and positively different in the US today if we’d never heard of Ukraine?

You know and I know, the answer is nothing.

So yeah, let’s abandon Ukraine. Let’s allow Putin to get away with the same crimes we hung nazi and Japanese war criminals for. Let’s reward this guy for the death, the rape, the murder, the destruction and his OWN war crimes as we then get to pay even MORE money to repair what Putin blew up because you know damned well there will never be any kind of reparations.

American volunteers have fought and died in Ukraine.  And if I could?

I’d be there fighting with them. But there’s little need for disabled veterans 69 years old. Knowledge notwithstanding, I’d be more of a hindrance than a help.

As I said, I support Trump. I’m never going to be a single-interest voter.

But he’s a man, not a god. And as a man he’s capable of making mistakes like any other man. And I seriously hope he doesn’t go through with this one.

Thoughts on the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 by Allen West, LTC, US Army, Retired.

 AUTHOR

Allen West

DATE

March 18, 2025

The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 (“Act”) allows the president to detain or deport the natives and citizens of an “enemy” nation with little, if any, due process. The Act is codified at 50 USC Chapter 3: Alien Enemies (also see the transcription of the original act at the bottom of this page).

When invoked by the President, the law states that “all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of the hostile nation or government, being males of the age of fourteen years and upwards, who shall be within the United States, and not actually naturalized, shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured and removed, as alien enemies.”

Under its terms, the Act can be invoked via a Presidential Proclamation on two bases:

Basis 1: “…whenever there shall be a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government,” or

Basis 2: When “any invasion or predatory incursion shall be perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the territory of the United States, by any foreign nation or government…”

There is a real constitutional crisis in the United States that is rooted in judicial political activism. We all understand that Marbury v. Madison (1803) established what is called judicial review, meaning that the SCOTUS and all federal courts have the power to declare laws and actions of the legislative and executive branches unconstitutional. This is part of our system of checks and balances in our Constitutional Republic among the three branches of government.

However, what happens when the judicial branch takes an activist role and based upon unconstitutional political ideology, seeks to undermine the actions of the legislative, and in this case, the executive branch? It has come to pass that a federal district judge by the name of James Boasberg, an Obama appointee, issued an order directing the executive branch to cease any deportations of criminal illegal immigrants out of this Country. Judge Boasberg even went so far as to demand, by unscrupulous order, that the flights be turned around in midair to return said single military age non-uniformed, non-state belligerent members of a terrorist organization back to the United States.

One has to ask, where was this “judge,” a term I use lightly in his regard, when one Joe Biden was violating the Constitution of the United States by way of Article IV, Section 4, and allowing the sovereignty of our Republic to be violated? It appears that Judge Boasberg believes, like one delusional leftist Democrat Congressional Representative, Jasmine Crockett, that illegally entering our Country is not a crime. But more disturbing and disconcerting, is that this judge, who is supposed to interpret the law, does not understand or comprehend, the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. It is quite clear, rather apparent, that Tren de Aragua and MS-13, both designated terrorist organizations, have made “predatory incursion” into the territory of the United States and have committed acts of violence against the American people.

These individuals are not US citizens and are not under any constitutional protections whatsoever. They are enemy combatants, no different from having ISIS, Al Qaeda, Hamas (another story when it comes to Mahmoud Khalil), Taliban, Hezbollah, Houthis, or any other designated terrorist organization invading, making predatory incursions, and threatening our Nation.

So, what is the basis of the insidious order issued by so-called judge Boasberg? Well, consider the source that it is the ACLU and other leftist groups supported by George Soros’ Open Society Foundation that are fueling this folly. It would seem to me that these organizations are guilty of providing material support and comfort to a terrorist organization by acting as a legal arm in filing these unconstitutional and frivolous lawsuits to impede the commander-in-chief from doing his constitutional duties. Aiding and abetting a terrorist organization as well as providing material support and comfort is a violation of U.S. law, namely, 18 U.S.C. 2339A and 2339B—criminalizes knowingly providing resources to designated foreign terrorist organizations or those intending to commit terrorism-related offenses.

The real question to this issue is simple: when will the US Attorney General bring federal charges against the Soros network, the ACLU, and Judge James Boasberg? No, I am not kidding, and to borrow a phrase from President Trump, it is just “Common Sense.” Furthermore, it is in keeping with U.S. law and constitutionality.

There is a clear message that has to be sent: supporting criminal illegal immigrants and terrorist organizations will not be tolerated any longer. And there is a reason why the Democrats have a 27% approval rating, this is a clear indicator.

Now, if a dumb ol’ retired Lieutenant Colonel who still jumps out of airplanes can dissect this and make it plain and simple to understand…why can’t the Attorney General of the United States do so? And take action to bring charges against said entities who are supporting Tren de Aragua and MS-13. We do not want them in this Country, and anyone who supports that notion is in violation of US Code, our Constitution, and just plain stuck on stupid!