Today's quiz question regarding Clark County Prop 12 and 13.

During a discussion I was involved in concerning these propositions, an idea was floated by someone smarter than I.

Why not ask the state to turn over Larch Mountain Correctional, apparently no longer in use, instead of requesting the already crushingly overtaxed people of Clark County to fork over even more of their hard-earned cash?

I don't know the current condition of Larch. But it would seem to me (and the person suggesting this alternative) that it would be a great deal cheaper to update a closed prison than it would to pay for the cost of massive new construction.

The reality? The jail expansion as envisioned will only result in an increase of 220 beds. And when this project goes way over budget (as the vast majority of government projects inevitably will) then what?

The idea that $366 million, before the inevitable cost overruns, will only result in an additional 220 beds?

That's $1.66 MILLION PER BED at current spending levels, a number bound to increase on a per-bed basis.

And that is insane.

An attempt to have the state donate Larch Mountain to Clark County would save most of the money the county is trying to get from an already over-burdened tax paying populace, a burden that will be substantially worse after the next democrat-controlled legislative session.

Thoughts?

This militant muslim invasion.

 As a country, there's a certain reality we must face... sooner rather than later.

Most sentient beings in our country see our future playing out in France right now.

France is the prototype for our country as the nazis of the left become islamist's useful tools.

Rioters burn down Limoge, France City Hall.

We've already seen what the islamist-terrorist sympathizers do in Congress. We've seen it in increasingly radical towns taken over by muslims sharing the Shia vision of militant domination; towns where they now view our Constitution and laws as just so much toilet paper.

The effort is to achieve conquest by using our own rules against us.

Corruption runs rampant. The burden on our society is horrific.

In watching all of this play out, I'm reminded of the Tarantula wasp (aka tarantula hawk (Pompilidae))

For those unfamiliar with this species, it's a type of wasp that has a paralytic sting. It's also known for having the second most painful sting to humans (tarantulas generally aren't available for comment) second only to something called the "bullet ant." (Yes, I was today years old before I'd heard of a "bullet ant.")

This wasp preys on tarantulas. They find their target, the crawl all over it, as the tarantula itself seems helpless to defend itself; sting it, drag it to a hole, lays a single egg on the spider's abdomen.

The egg pupates within a couple of days and proceeds to eat the tarantula, paralyzed but otherwise unaffected, alive. (video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq8916ZbjfE)

The above scenario is what we see happening in Spain, the UK and certainly in France.

And it also appears to be what we're seeing here in our country.

We see the statement of the problem playing out in front of us today.

The questions? What are we going to do about the democrat-islamist partnership. Democrats have voted terrorist supporters into office repeatedly and now they may do it in the Senate.

And once the decision is made to resolve the question, will we have the will to carry it out?

Do they really want someone with ties to the muslim brotherhood in our government?

We see it happening right now, today. The past is prescient. And if we do not learn from it, I fear we'll relieve it and we'll have no one to blame but ourselves for allowing it to happen.

Because, you know.... diversity.

How's that working out for them in Europe?

Ending the problem of drinking and driving.

Each year, thousands of Americans (and others) are killed/maimed by drunk drivers. And yet, as a country, we do nothing about it that actually works.

Most recently here locally, this is one of the results of this nation's obvious indifference to our plight.

In this instance, according to the accompanying the article from the Vancouver, WA Police Department, one pedestrian died at the scene and another died a few days later.

The DUI driver was charged with DUI, Vehicular Homicide, Vehicular Assault, and Reckless Driving'

He'll get a few years and a fine, if that. Run someone over/hit another car and kill someone with your car? It's "vehicular manslaughter."

Pull up next to them and use a gun? It's murder.

The outcomes are the same.

To me, there's no difference. Also, to me, I support making it illegal to drive after you've drank ANY alcohol... and you should be tried for attempted murder if you do.

We message everyone: "Do not drink and drive," and then we make it legal to do the very thing we tell people NOT to do. And thousands die every year as victims of DUI drivers while we continue to do nothing about it.

Obviously the sentences are not nearly enough to provide a deterrent.

Make the BAC 0.00. ANYTHING over that level would be considered DUI.

1. ONE DUI without accident? Lose your driver's license for life. Confiscate and sell the driver's vehicle. Take proceeds and put them into a DUI victims fund. 364 days in jail.

2. DUI WITH accident? See above. Five years in prison, DUI driver must pay ALL costs, reimbursing insurance as well, even if that requires seizure and sale of all assets.

3. DUI WITH injury? Both 1 and 2, increase sentence to 20 years.

4. DUI WITH death(s)? Both 1 and 2 and life in prison.

As a country, we either want to END DUI or we don't.

At this point?

It's pretty clear we don't.

Upset about the public execution of Hasan? Why?

Wrong.                                                                                                                                        

For far too long, accountability on those rare occasions it has been applied, has lacked the impact of a video game reset.

There is no question of this traitor's guilt. He murdered 13 of us and wounded 33 others.

In one brief moment, he destroyed or permanently impacted 44 lives.

THAT is "sick and unacceptable."

Your response is similar to that of your typical leftists who want to confiscate our guns... because they declare WEAPONS are "sick and unacceptable."

The punishment for murder lacks the impact of reality. Non-televised executions have all reality of a video game war scene to the participants.

ALL executions should be televised. ALL of those convicted of Murder 1 should be executed.

There's nothing "sick" or "unacceptable" about it.

That reality hit home in Singapore, where the law is that if you use a firearm in the commission of ANY crime, whether you shoot it or not?

You're executed.

If you even CARRY a firearm during the commission of a crime? Without even showing it? You get a life sentence.

As a result, gun crime is essentially unheard of.

Why? Consequences.

No one will force anyone to watch this. I will be watching... I would volunteer to take him out myself. And I will be thinking about the lives this scumbag so admired by the left destroyed or permanently altered.

And there's nothing "sick" or "unacceptable" about it.

The message is clear: You don't want to pay for what you've done?

Then don't do it.

Fixing our public schools:

Under leftist control, public schools are a disaster. I don't know if Oregon has an equivalency to Washington State's OSPI report card, which details the academic outcomes of our schools.

But I'm sure it's a nightmare if such an online report exists.

This is the current copy of the latest reports on academic outcomes here in Washington.

You'd have to be insane or masochistic to send your kids to a state school system that has no requirements to get a worthless high school diploma in order to somehow protect the sensibilities of minorities who fail to perform.

Meanwhile, Oregon continues to punch out fringe-left programmed semi-literate cretins like movie tickets, just like Washington (which just fell behind MISSISSIPPI in academics - schools that spend roughly $6000 LESS per student than we do) and then, leftists ask for a "plan to fix it," as if 1. they were clueless that it's broken and 2. WHY it is broken.

Plan to fix all public schools:

1. End social programming.

Kids go to school for one reason only: academics. Social programing, insane gender issues, mainstreaming mental illness, teaching children to hate their country, hate law enforcement, hate the rich, hate internal combustion engines, hate immigration law enforcement, hate those advocating for actual biological science when it comes to being born male or born female while hating the police should ALL be prohibited.

2. Focus ENTIRELY on academics.

English. Math. Science. Government/Constitution. Shop. Music. Athletics. Home Economics.

This country ranks 31st in the world for academic outcomes. China spends $4200 per student. Our country averages $15,000 to $17,000 per student. "China generally achieves higher foundational test scores and STEM output." In Washington State, the number is $19,341 per student.

To call our academic outcomes here in the Washington Soviet “abysmal” is the understatement.

"China scores significantly higher in international metrics like PISA (Programme[sic] for International Student Assessment), particularly in mathematics, reading, and science within participating regions like Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang. The system emphasizes rote memorization, repetition, and foundational mastery.

United States students typically rank lower on standardized international math and science benchmarks compared to top-performing international cohorts, focusing more on conceptual understanding and student-centered engagement."

We rank lower. You know, on the things that matter most?

There's zero excuses available for ANY country to do better for their students than THIS country... and the issue is NOT money or so-called "underpaid teachers."

3. Hold teachers accountable for their outcomes.

Teachers have been mailing it in for years... decades. Demand accountability for what they produce.

Nationwide, there's horror stories. Baltimore, for example, spends $23,147 per student. Academically, they are among THE worst schools not only in the country, but in the entire 1st world.

It begins and ends with the combination of curriculum and those teaching it.

Try and hold teachers accountable for their end-product (you know, like all the rest of us are held accountable for ours?)

End teacher strikes, which are illegal and extortion. If teachers go on strike, lock them up.

If teachers don't like the pay, benefits, retirement? Then quit and go pump gas. But acting like failed teachers who are far more concerned with offending the sensibilities of those who refuse to do the work over those who actually make an effort, is a nonstarter.

Your value as a teacher is in direct proportion to the product YOU produce.

4. Hold STUDENTS accountable.

END the insanity of providing worthless pieces of paper that many students did NOT work for.

Implement reasonable academic standards to not only graduate, but to pass on to the next grade.

If a student can't read, how does that get better by moving them to the next grade so they can fall behind even more?

Holding failing students back provides some incentive to do the work, an incentive completely absent today because there are no requirements needed to move on to the next grade or even to graduate.

5. Stop blaming parents.

That's the favorite past time of teachers and their fringe-left acolytes.

It's NEVER the teacher’s fault. It's ALWAYS the parent's fault.

To hear them tell it.

I had two high schooler's graduate from Hockinson High School, one with a 3.6 and the other with a 3.1.

They did the work. As parents, we WERE involved. We checked their homework. We helped them to study, gave them tricks and pointers. We were proud of their academic achievement.

And neither one of them could pass the Clark College math placement test. (one has a 4-year degree now from WSU-V. The other did 2 years in college)

Explain it to me like I'm a 6-year-old.

The responsibility for those outcomes rests ENTIRELY on those who taught the subjects and graded the papers.

Not the parents.
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There may be, and most likely are, other steps that can be taken. But what Oregon schools are doing now simply does not work. And it's insane to continue to do the same thing, over and over, while expecting a different outcome.

We can do better. Leftist intransigence while the sky actually IS falling is a critical element in the disaster that is not only Oregon’s educational outcomes but those of the entire United States.

We can fix it. But as always, it boils down to this single question: Do we have the will?

A few words concerning the WNBA discriminating against men, i.e., defining what a woman is.

A few words concerning the WNBA discriminating against men, i.e., defining what a woman is.

Under federal employment law, they can't exclude/discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, age, disability, genetic information or gender.

They have to be an equal opportunity employer.

Limiting it to women only would be a civil rights violation.

If it were THAT simple, chances are they'd have already done it to put an end to this discussion.

"Under the laws enforced by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), it is illegal to discriminate against someone (applicant or employee) based on their race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), national origin, age (40 or older), disability, sexual orientation, gender or genetic information."

That is the main reason the conference the WNBA held concerning male players resulted in nothing.

In short, the WNBA has no choice in this matter, their protests and "unnamed sources" notwithstanding.

Has the left become a death cult?

Is it OK in their view to murder/assault those who disagree with them politically?

Leftists celebrated Charlie Kirk's assassination for weeks. Many of the more obviously sicker leftists are STILL celebrating the slaughter of Kirk to this DAY.

Message: it's perfectly OK to spill the blood of those who don't agree with US.

Many on the left have assigned their version of sainthood to Tyler Robinson, who's on trial for destroying Charlie Kirk's life because Kirk allegedly said things he (and the vast majority of the left) felt were "hateful."

This puts the majority of the left into an awkward position.

They cheerfully support the murder of a man based on what he has said which THEY view as hateful.

The awkwardness comes into play simply because the vast majority of today's left, not just in this country, but around the world, live on hatred themselves.

The left will attack, verbally and all too often physically, those who do not align with their view. And they will even either slaughter or make a serious effort to slaughter those they do not agree with or approve of.

Insurance executives, presidents, members of Congress, Supreme Court Justices... American citizens by illegal aliens... children...

All are on the left's approved target list.

We've seen that with the Kirk assassination. We've seen it with efforts to murder the president. We've seen it with efforts to murder Justice Kavanaugh. We've seen it with the mass shooting that nearly killed Rep. Steve Scalise. We've seen with leftist support of terrorists in politics; Congress... the Senate AND House... The election of political thugs as a result of the community short memory... (NYC comes to mind)

We've seen it with the slaughter of babies as the Clancy trials show and others have also done... Most recently this August in North Dakota where a mom (Kalley Erhart) murdered a 3-year-old and an 8-month-old, while her 1-year-old survived.

None of the fringe-left women supporting Clancy have demanded justice for her victims. Nope. The focus is all on poor, confessed perpetrator, admitted murderer Lindsay.

The left is increasingly pushing an envelope to justify their determined efforts to spill the blood of those opposed to their world view.

How much political violence do we need? Where and how is the line drawn? How do we put a stop to it?

The same can obviously be extended to islamic violence. Europe is the template. Flashes of that cult attempting to ignore or Constitution are already taking place.

We all know this. But what, and when, do we act?

Or do we simply stand here while the tarantula wasp (tarantula hawk) crawls all over us, looking for the place to sting and the site to plant the egg that will eventually eat us alive?

My concern isn't for me so much as it is for our children and our children's children.

Do we put an end to this insanity now, in its infancy? Or do we wake up one morning and realize, sadly, that it's too late?

I don't have the answers. But these and other questions need to be answered... and soon.

Washington teacher greed strikes again: Seattle teachers vote to go on strike over "respectful pay' (top salary=$142,000) and smaller classes (Class size averages 14.46 per class)

As every sentient being in the State of Washington knows, the McCleary budget was merely a scam to overpay underworked teachers who, based on OSPI report card statistics, were already overpaid as it was.

Now, proving once again there is no end to teacher greed, Seattle teachers have just voted to go on strike.

The demand to be paid MORE (so-called "respectful pay") for doing LESS (the usual smaller class room size scam.)

Here's the top salary schedule for Seattle:

Top salaries:

Bachelor’s: up to $122,271/year (~$58.78/hour) at Step 4

Master’s: up to $139,106/year (~$66.88/hour) at Step 5

PhD: up to $142,523/year (~$68.52/hour) at Step 6

That's not bad for a 183 day/7 hour per day work year

Here's the Seattle Student/Teacher ratio, according to OSPI:

Students: 50,948

Teachers: 3,523

Classroom Average Size (Students/Teachers): 14.46

It's illegal for teachers to strike in the State of Washington:

"Yes. Washington law does not grant teachers—or any public employees—a legal right to strike, making teacher strikes unlawful under RCW 41.56.120 and confirmed by the Attorney General’s 2006 opinion."

But since unions own the legislature and he courts like the 13th Amendment was never ratified, no striking teacher is held accountable for, effectively, pissing on the law of this state like an illegal alien crossing the border... something else leftists totally support.

Republican Senate passage of the McCleary budget scam caused property taxes to explode, but academic achievement has continued to fall year over year... which any blind idiot could tell would happen... just like THIS blind idiot (me) knew they would.

If *I* knew it, then how come legislative morons DIDN'T know it since the McCleary pay scam required NO improved teacher performance?

And as teachers in Seattle have just proven, there's no end to teacher greed even though the academic achievement they provide has been exceeded by, for example, Mississippi... at a paltry $6000 per student per year LESS.

Money isn't the issue. If it was, SPSD and most every school district would be punching out geniuses like movie tickets instead of functionally illiterate "graduates."

Thoughts on the midterm...

Well, I'd say the left is.... what was that phrase in '24 Harris's people used.... "nauseously optimistic?"

I believe the left could have done better if they had stuck with gradualism... but they seem to have got too greedy, too fast.

Instead of taking the tarantula wasp approach, they've lurched to the far left HARD. And the faces of the left have not done well for them.

The leftist fringe is thrilled. But militant progressivism is failing more than it's succeeding in places where it counts the most.

New York City has turned into a 24/7 punchline. Seattle has become a disaster. Portland as well. 

Washington's income tax scam isn't helping them.

Leftist impatience and their inability to control their hatred is problematic.

Increasing unemployment as major businesses leave for greener (i.e. redder) pastures (Texas, Florida) combined with restrictions on landlords guarantees increased homelessness. Leftist failure after spending billions (Multnomah county spent over $700 million on the homeless with the result equaling a 61% INCREASE in homelessness) is an issue. Leftist failures to hold people accountable for criminal activity, leftist inability to address fentanyl or tranq use... open air drug use... defunding police (Portland just whacked $21 million from their police) is the sort of thing which does not equal great planks for a political platform.

Exhaustion from race-based crime, gangs, theft, drive-by shootings, shoplifting... leftist failures to address those types of issues...

Fringe-left candidates from Platner in Maine to a jihadi in Michigan, tens of billions in fraud on government programs, obstruction by leftist cities and states on getting rid of illegals, even those convicted of murder...reopening borders, more murder of Americans, rape of Americans, drive by shootings of Americans... these issues SHOULD keep the GOP in charge of both Houses.

The bumper sticker: Vote GOP. The other guys are insane, is a fact-based observation.

In fact, Perez, our Congresswoman, is attacking the GOP candidate for trying to outlaw abortion, something he can't do in Congress any more than she can legalize it in Congress... a fake promise also made by the Pole Dancer, come to think of it.

And, I believe the abortion issue hasn't got much punch in Washington State, Any more than it had in Florida in 24.. where an abortion initiative failed with a 57% yes vote (needed 60% under Florida law) and Trump won Florida with 56.09% meaning the majority voted yes for abortion and then for Trump in large numbers.

Footage from now multi-story homeless camps in Cali for example... FOUR STORY homeless structures... the visuals of leftist government can be very effective if used properly.

Add trans issue involving children, terrible schools, forced urbanization, ramming the waste of light rail down our throats... Those KINDS of issues should tilt it right if handled properly.

It boils down to turnout. But then, the GOP has the themes I believe they need. The question remains, do they have the will to use those themes effectively?

They've blown it before. Will they blow it again?

The new democrat nazi party.

For months, I've referred to the democrats as the party of Nazi Platner. I've claimed they're antisemitic. I've observed they'd vote for Himmler if he had a "D" after his name. I've claimed they run on hatred. Here's a proof from within the actual democrat party itself, Michigan being the most recent, obvious example.

The Jewish democrat Attorney General for the state of Michigan will be avoiding the democrat nominating convention.

Why?
From an interview on MSNOW:

"Myself and other Jewish electeds are subjected to a barrage of antisemitic threats. And that's been happening literally since my first day in office." - Michigan democrat Attorney General Dana Nesset

Michigan, of course, has muslim strongholds such as Dearborn, where bigoted jihadi scum control every aspect of government.

"(These threats) started long before October 7. Um but, in addition to that, you know, what we've seen of the democratic party, as of late, in here, Michigan, is that we're not seeing the same kind of civil discourse that we used to be able to have..." - Dana Nessel

"(We used to) have a diversity of ideas and opinions that that are, you know, respected." - Dana Nessel

Q: "Is your party doing enough to address those concerns, Madame Attorney General?"

"Yeah, I would say, absolutely, they're not. And I would just point to the example we have, 5 members of the democratic party, who have been charged with antisemitic acts of violence; sorry, of vandalism and harassment and threats to other, umm, democratic officials, um, some of whom are Jewish. Including an attack on the, uh, Jewish Federation of Detroit... so those people, are still permitted to come to the convention!" - Dana Nessel

".... it's baffling to me that while these charges are pending, they are going to be allowed to be there, despite, um, you know, these credible charges against them." - Dana Nessel

There are other examples of leftist insanity in this video, including their latest nazi flavor of the week, Hasan Piker. But when an Attorney General of a state, who happens to be Jewish, refuses to attend her own party's nominating convention out of fear for her safety?

The first outward political sign of democrat antisemitism as a party policy was Kamala Harris picking a buffoon for her vice presidential running mate' Tim "No Balz" Walz over the obvious, more quality choice of the governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro.

The selection of Walz, which most sentient beings on the planet recognize was a total and complete disaster; over a politically strategic governor of a Blue Wall state, (Minnesota, Walz's state, was never a threat to go any color but blue) was reduced to one reason and one reason only: Shapiro is Jewish.

It's obvious that there's no selection the cardboard cutout of a democrat presidential candidate COULD have picked that would have saved the inexplicably moronic choice of the vacuous, clueless moron they ultimately installed after the undeniable truth of 4 years of lies concerning the mental state of Joe Biden forced their hand.

But instead of throwing cold water on democrat hatred to cool it off, they learned nothing from their bigoted insanity and continue their road to displacing the NSDAP (Nazi Party - Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) as the most recent example of the ilk in modern day American politics.

It's a matter of time until the democrats begin to resurrect the German American Nazi Bund, the Hitler support group, which, from 1936 to 1941 showed full-throated support for the Nazis and their policies.

Their actions, alignment with radical islamic jihadis in our country, policies more and more frequently shown as representative of today's modern democrat (and for those who disagree with that assessment, where is the wave of outrage that should have long since came crashing down on these terrorists?) are reminiscent of Germany in the 30's where Hitler was viewed as a tool who could be controlled, just like jihadis in our country are viewed by democrats.

The increasing clarity is made simple by democrats allowing these terrorist wannabes to have a seat at the table. And democrat rank and file remain silent in their enthusiasm for nazi policies and their increasing alignment with jihadi terrorists.

The saga of the WNBA, Enes Kantner Freedom and Royce White.

 Matt Walsh lays it all out in this post "White said he'd be "unstoppable" in the women's league — and says a discrimination suit is coming if he goes undrafted."

WNBA basketball... which is worthless as a sport regardless, given that any big city high school boys team would destroy the WNBA Champs... was never worth watching and now has devolved into a racist, back supremacist soap opera... will now get the opportunity to put up, or shut up.

Men claiming to be women is a joke. No amount of mutilation/butchery/chemistry changes biology.

Trans women are men.

Trans men are women.

The WNBA has turned into a thug factory, where racist, bigoted black women believe because of the level of melanin in their skin, they're entitled to assault white women, and then express dismay at consequences; a not altogether foreign concept among younger blacks these days.

And leftist white women, including Caitlin "whites have privilege" Clark agree with black women as victims.

Now, at least two MEN, both former NBA players, have left the closet and are acknowledging their feminist side by demanding to be drafted by the WNBA in their upcoming draft, including Enes Kantor Freedom and Royce White.

Clark, for her part, has credited black women for building the WNBA, apparently both leaving out massive NBA subsidies that allow the league to exist as well as leaving out the part where those same women have built it into a debacle losing $40 to $50 million per year, most recently in 2024.

The woke WNBA (just another reason to ignore those clowns) has come out in full-throated support of fake women, but has with rare exception (Griner) not had to deal with the issue of men in their locker rooms.

Now they will have to.

Both Kantor and White are light years ahead of the best WNBA players in skills and abilities. And the WNBA has neatly painted itself into a corner where they MUST translate their support for the fake women's movement into action where now they MUST draft men posing as fake women.

White, for his part, has indicated he'll sue if he's not drafted. And if he and Kantor ARE drafted, then the end result will be an all trans basketball league where women will, once again, be hoisted on the petard of their own making.

A league with Kantor and White in it would be the harbinger of things to come and might finally, FINALLY drag the league into profitability instead of their continued existence being the punchline in a joke that's getting old.

I would dare the black supremacist women to attempt their thuggery on these two guys.

Today's episode of democrat hypocrisy: Senate democrats refuse to vote for Voter ID to vote WITHOUT requiring citizenship.

Every senate democrat voted to oppose a clean voter ID amendment, an amendment that would NOT have required proof of citizenship to vote.

Leftists have built a castle of lies for their excuses (none that reach the level of "reasons") over their opposition to the SAVE Act. The main reason, which some leftists have addressed, is they realize they can't win without the continued counting of illegal votes.

Many of those opposed have falsely claimed that requiring proof of citizenship is akin to that old democrat fav of "poll taxes." They claim that because there's no provisions for actually PAYING for people to get their own proof of citizenship the SAVE Act is "unconstitutional."

(My solution, stated repeatedly, is to require SAVE Act levels of ID for EVERYONE to receive ANY federal aid for ANYTHING.

Does anyone reading this realistically believe that even full on welfare recipients wouldn't find a way to make that happen?)

It isn't, of course; but then, to be a leftist requires a high degree of gullibility, self-delusion and ignorance.

The irony of members of the party that implemented poll taxes complaining about them now is difficult to overstate.

As always, we know why leftist pols oppose a proof of citizenship requirement to vote. Simply stated, as they have said, it will make it "impossible for democrats to win."

Which is correct, of course, but then, democrats don't CARE how they win, as long as they win... as they've proven once again.

The bill in question was to "invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to the consideration of S.5271, the Help America Vote Bill."

The motion required 60 votes... all democrats present voted "no."

Has Trump blown the call on Iran?

Here's their (Iran's) win profile:

Some version of the regime that was in place remains in place.

The terrorism arm of that regime, the IRGC, not unlike Hitler's SS, remains in place.

The muslim terrorist minority remains in charge.

In time, they believe (rightly) that Trump will both be gone (ASAP if you're one of the leftists infesting this page) either by the completion of his term, natural causes or, the preferred method of the left, assassination.

At some point, a fringe-left moron ala Biden/Obama could be elected. When that happens, the terrorists now running Iran will go back to business as usual. As a result, they will either buy or build a nuclear weapon while WE write "strongly worded letters."

Americans have frequently proven we're possessed of the attention span of a gnat.

These people are taking the long view, as so many of our opponents do, having learned from the outcomes of Afghanistan where we wasted troops and billions, only to simply walk away and hand it back to those we, allegedly, set out to destroy. All they have to do is stall and make enough promises to placate America to remain in control, knowing sooner or later we'll cave.

Both politics and wars are outcome-based business. The outcome here, as the outcome in Afghanistan, accomplishes nothing without total regime change, (And yes, I know we HAD "regime change" in Afghanistan. But we also had Iran (and others) providing massive aid to the insurgents.) Had we done what we should have from the start, mainly stopped Iran (or anyone else) from providing aid to those insurgents, we may have had a different outcome.

This agreement appears to merely kick the can down the road while those in Iran who have wreaked so much murder and destruction, are not held accountable for their actions in any measurable way, beyond replacing those leaders killed in the bombings... replaced in large part by those just as militant in their hatred and sworn duty to provide "Death to America(tm)" as those they're replacing.

The still relatively-intact IRGC (because we allow them to exist) would not allow any others.to take power.

To illustrate these concerns, try super-imposing this exact, same, template over either nazi Germany or Imperial Japan in 1945.

To defeat our enemies in World War Two, we knew what we had to do. (The Potsdam Declaration comes to mind.)

Imagine for example, if we had stopped attacking the nazis in Germany in late 1944, say around the Battle of the Bulge days (mid December 1944), and left the nazis controlling Germany and their conquered lands in charge and just walked away... like we appear to be doing now. (And people should remember that the Germans were also busy trying to build atomic weapons.)

This is what Germany would have been allowed to keep:

This is what Japan would have been allowed to keep:

And yes, I totally get that WW2 was "different."

That these countries actively engaged in invasion and occupation of foreign countries as opposed to using surrogates to extend their political/religious control over other geographies in their region is the primary difference, but their aim is the same: complete control over that real estate in the region while combined with the destruction of countries Iran sees as obstructions to that dominance.

The MODE is the same. The only thing different is the means.

As a country, along with our allies, we refused to settle for anything less than total victory, and as a result, for the past 81 years or so, neither country has been able to engage in a war of conquest.

To suggest that believing the current agreement, as I understand it, will in any way deter Iran from either pursuing nuclear weapons OR engaging in terroristic hegemony is the height of foley.

There is only one way to achieve that goal: the complete eradication of the current political/military leadership of Iran and the elimination of the IRGC as any kind of effective force to carry out Iran's aims for regional dominance... Exactly like Germany and much of Japan.

Nothing short of that will do.

And this seems to be light years away from achieving that goal.

If one sees victory as merely a military exercise to inflict maximum damage on military targets to TEMPORARILY negatively impact those capabilities through the IRGC's destruction, then yes... it amounts to a victory by TEMPORARILY reducing those capabilities, ala Germany's war-fighting capability post Treaty of Versailles... because, for the most part, Germany remained unoccupied/unsupervised after World War One.

Had Germany been occupied post-World War One, there likely would not have BEEN a World War Two.

And World War Two was the result of that short-sighted insanity.

Failing to achieve absolute regime change... failing to hold those involved with terrorism, war crimes and reparations for the destruction Iran caused in the region guarantees a resurgence of similar efforts in the future... much like it would have been had we allowed World War Two to end without total occupation of the Axis Powers by effectively rewarding them with continuing dominance in Germany and Japan... Allowing those with similar views to continue both military and political dominance in Iran guarantees a resurgence of the same attitudes, visions and efforts to achieve the same impacts the pre-attack regime utilized.

In the long term, this effort appears to have solved/accomplished nothing.

As I've stated, if we know Iran will violate this "agreement," (and they will) then WTH is the point?

I supported Trump's efforts here. But I also see this as a miserable outcome compared to what we should have to show for this. 

Sadly, I have to agree with the leftists on this.(Iran)

Many readers may recall my prior concerns over Putin playing Trump.

During the campaign, if memory serves, the claim was made that Trump would end the war in Ukraine.

Many on the right were more than happy with the idea that Putin should be rewarded for invading a neighboring country and came up with all kinds of excuses to justify their support for the invasion... none of them adequate to hand Vlad a free pass for engaging in the exact, same variety of activities we hung a few hundred nazis for after the war.

You know, the deliberate slaughter of civilians, rape, theft, acts of war, murdering POW's, etc.

The problem with Trump's Promise was the lack of realism involved. Much, I fear, as this peace deal with Iran evokes.

The United States was more than willing to sacrifice 1/4th to 1/3rd of Ukraine to check that particular box on the campaign promise list. Unfortunately, they failed to consult Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy before floating that particular balloon... which Zelenskyy rightfully popped.

History has repeatedly taught us that placating invaders NEVER ends well.

It merely feeds their appetite. One of the larger, most recent examples is that Hitler fellow.

Efforts were made to placate him, and he promised his territorial ambitions were satisfied by yet another example of the Ukrainian betrayal, i.e., forking over Czechoslovakia after German "absorbed" Austria.

The then Prime Minister of England, a rube by the name of Chamberlain, even waved around a piece of paper, indicating he was sure he had "achieved peace in our time."

Chamberlain was played like a violin, along with the rest of Europe, who failed to pay attention to what was actually going on in Germany with segments of the population that Hitler was not particularly enamored of. Had he done so, England's PM might have taken a different view, PARTICULARLY after Stalin, who had just finished slaughtering a large number of the Soviet military's leadership in what became known as "Stalin's Purge(s)"agreed to a nonaggression pact... which green-lighted Germany's invasion of Poland, as long as the German's gave the Soviets half the spoils.

How'd that work out for them?

Segue to today's Iran, responsible for the death and maiming of tens of thousands of American military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan.

How are they responsible?

They provided the insurgency with a great deal of the wherewithal to accomplish that goal.

Now, the US under Bush knew that was happening. It's hard to ignore when the labels in the boxes said "Made in Iran" on them.

The problem?

We didn't do anything about it. 

And that was a failure on the part of the United States of catastrophic proportions. The government of Iran is operated by a substantial minority of the country, the terrorist variety of islamic militants who, in one form or another seem to be infiltrating the US now.

For several decades, their anthem has been "Death to America."

And they've been busy achieving that aim for years.

And, for our part, idiots running this government have responded by handing over pallets of American cash, which a grateful Iran used to INCREASE their spread of terrorism and destabilization, particularly in the Middle East; as well, as the ongoing expansion of their nuclear programs.

So, since Trump was inaugurated for his second term, various efforts have been made to at least end the expansion to fruition of Iran's nuclear ambitions.

To a greater or lesser extent, those efforts failed.

The ONLY way to end that effort with anything approaching permanence, is regime Change.

Those governing Iran over the past several decades, must be hunted down and removed. Their radical islamic military arm (aka, the IRGC) must be hunted down and obliterated, much like most of Germany's Schutzstaffel (aka the "SS") after the conclusion of World War Two.

Both Putin and the leadership of the Iranian Government/IRGC are precisely as guilty of Crimes Against Humanity as the German leadership that the Allied Powers strung up not long after the war in Europe concluded.

Both Russia and Iran must be held accountable for their criminal acts. Both Russia and Iran must pay reparations to those they destroyed.

Failing to do so would have made no sense at the end of World War Two.

Failing to do the same NOW makes even less sense in 2026.

Sadly, I have to agree with the leftists on this.

There is only one way to realistically end this: Regime change.

If this stands and the same scum who started this in Iran, slaughtering thousands of protesting Iranians in the process, remain in charge?

We will have spent thousands of their lives and billions of our dollars...

... for nothing.

And then what? When we find out, as we inevitably will, that they're pissing on this treaty... what then? When they continue their efforts to engage in worldwide terrorism, what then? When they hang a few thousand Iranians moronic enough to believe in us, again... what then?

If we were GOING to start this... we MUST finish it. And this scam finishes nothing.

Historically, once again, the "bad guys" did what they had to do to remain in power. They out-waited us. Vietnam. Afghanistan. Iraq.

That's the way it's been since the Korean War.

Iran is stalling. And the reality is?

We KNOW they're stalling. Why are we doing this? What's the point?
I fear that Trump is getting played. And I also fear that in a relatively short time, we'll have to do it all over again, except, perhaps, maybe THIS time, we'll do we needs to be done.

Imagine that. Democrats largest fund-raiser CEO of ActBlue repeatedly takes the 5th.

The head of perhaps the largest fringe-left fund-raising scammers in America, ActBlue, REALLY "acted blue" by invoking her 5th Amendment rights against self-incrimination at a House hearing.

Odd that they'd be so concerned over the "convicted felon" in the White House while electing a convicted felon and RE-electing a convicted felon while funding a criminal enterprise designed to fund democrat campaigns.

The money quote?

"Your board chairman said, 'ActBlue accepted up to 38 MILLION contributions in 2024 that had the signs of foreign origin.'"

Another beaut:

In a memo to staff: "If an otherwise legitimate donor uses a fake name, we would want to accept their donation."

The technical term for that is called "money laundering."

This is not the first time ActBlue has been called out. In the past, this organized crime ring has been accused of donor verification loopholes:

The House Committee on House Administration, chaired by Rep. Bryan Steil, accused ActBlue of accepting online contributions without requiring the card verification value (CVV) or billing address, and of allowing donations from prepaid cards, which could be used to launder foreign or illegal contributions.

Fraud and Identity Theft: Whistleblowers and journalists reported cases where elderly or first-time donors—often with fixed incomes—made large sums via ActBlue without their knowledge, sometimes using “dummy” accounts sceneinamerica.com. The Treasury flagged hundreds of suspicious transactions, and the House Oversight Committee cited “potentially fraudulent and illicit financial activity”

Anonymous Giving Patterns: Steil’s FEC data review found disproportionate donations relative to donors’ net worth, frequent small transactions (e.g., hundreds of $2.50 donations from the same person), and unusual giving from certain demographics.

Some of these things have been known for years. Particularly the multiple $2.50 donation scam.

Now, obviously, every democrat funded by ActBlue will now return the illegal monies they received from this (or any other) criminal enterprise. Right?

And they will now refuse to accept ANY ADDITIONAL money from this criminal enterprise in the future. Right?

Fat chance.

The Party of Platner, their nazi, misogynist, veteran-hating, mad texter scammer candidate for the US Senate in Maine, who otherwise wouldn't be hired to run an elevator, will not be phased by these crimes.

Their faux outrage over electing "a convicted felon" when they do the exact, same thing aside; don't count on any demand for accountability from this campaign fraud factory any time soon.

As I have oft-stated: to be a leftist requires one to be a hypocrite.

And as the left remains silent in their complicity, let's remember: If they were called "ActRed?"

The leftists in government would tear them apart, brick by brick.

Much like they'd tear Platner apart if HE claimed to be a Republican.

Not the only question is when will this criminal organization be indicted and how many years in prison will little Miss 5th Amendment get?

Leftists and RINOS try to shut down the military on Iran

Bad move. Memo: death to America is NOT just a bumper sticker.

I get that your terrorist supporting fringe-left base is pissed at you. But EVERY president, including your fringe-left god Obama, has warned of the Iranian threat... and even 60 Minutes has indicated they have weapons grade uranium.

So tell me, Congresswoman... if a nuke goes off in NY harbor... because you wanted us to stop going after the scum who've made no secret of their desire to destroy us... what then? After the mushroom cloud goes up?

Because frankly?

The resignation of everyone voting to handcuff this president simply would not make up for it.

And we know the surviving leftists will, of course, blame Trump, because in their delusional world, Iran doesn't MEAN it. After all, they're just making noise, and besides, Iran hates Jews so why would we slow them down?

And as always for the leftist haters, NO ONE, including YOU, OR Joe Kent offers ANY viable alternative. And continuing to hand over pallets of cash like Obama and Biden did?

That ain't gonna cut it.

See, it's easy to talk shit here as the ignorant, non-serving, Trump hating leftist scum commenting here are wont to do. But until you and those like you offer any viable alternative, then what? never even HAD a nuclear weapons program until Trump.

Right?

I get that neither you nor your staff read these comments.

But on the off chance SOMEONE in your office puzzle palace does, by all means, enlighten us.

If not what we're doing now, then what, precisely, do you offer as a viable alternative?