Typical AOC moment.

 

How bad are leftist controlled cities?

Bad enough that CNN's Fareed Zakaria indicted democrats as his snap shot/indictment of the left shows Washington State OUR future as every allegation he makes against fringe-left-controlled cities also represents an indictment against fringe-left controlled states.

As leftist scum in Olympia continue taxing us into oblivion with their progressive train wreck economics, the fiscal insanity of the left will damage/destroy every corner of our state.

And they don't care, because they'll do it with a smile, all in the name of their phantom "equity."

 

Washington’s democrat-controlled government proves what we’ve known all along: They don't care about a Constitution

For anyone paying attention, we all know three things:

1. Washington does not have an income tax, which is forbidden by this state’s Constitution, without a vote of the people (required to amend this state’s Constitution.)

2. Leftists in this state have lusted for an income tax for decades, comparable with Bill Clinton’s lust for interns, and their demands will result in the same outcome: the people of this state getting screwed.

3. They call this the millionaire income tax… but we all know that limit is only temporary and, sooner or later, that floor will be reduced to nothing and we’ll ALL have to face an unconstitutional state income tax, forced on us by a leftist legislature that views this state’s Constitution as their own, personal roll of toilet paper, mirroring their fellow fringe-left deities at the federal level.

The democrats running this state’s government run the gamut from scum enabling child kidnapping and gender mutilation, to the thug running the Senate who shares the muslim view that children should be used for sex. (Yeah, I’m talking about you, democrat majority leader Senator Jamie Pedersen.)

“Kids over 13 have the complete right to make their own decisions about their mental health care. Parents don’t have a right to have notice, they don’t have a right to have consent about that.”

“If they’re old enough to get pregnant, they’re old enough to make their own decisions about what happens with their bodies, and parents do not have the right to change that.”

- Washington State Senate Majority Leader Jamie Pedersen, (D - Seattle) intelevised clips airing prior to a Senate-led effort to strip out parentalnotification provisions adopted by the 2024 Parents Bill of Rights initiative.

Any political party’s politicians that support these and other far-left extreme views concerning children without any effort to remove the source of that nazi mentality isn’t going to be constrained by a paltry Constitution… either at the national, or the local level.

The elected scum controlling state government have proven their disdain for the constituency of this state. Everything from electing a convicted felon to the House (merely drugs, theft and firearm convictions - Tarra Simmons, D-23)) to trashing the citizen-approved Parental Bill of Rights, passed by the voters of this state in 2024; they show a total contempt for those they would govern.

Their latest effort?

To ram an (10 time rejected at the polls) income tax down our throats WITHOUT THE VOTE REQUIRED BY THE STATE CONSTITUTION.

Why no vote? The same reason we are not allowed by these same leftists to have a voice in anything on their agenda at either the state or local level: they hate the idea of the people, which the state Constitution falsely claims hold all political power saying "no.":

Washington State Constitution, Declaration of Rights - Article 1, Section 1

"All political power is inherent in the people, and governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, and are established to protect and maintain individual rights."

They do not give a rat’s ass about our rights. If they did?

They wouldn’t be pissing on this state’s Constitution to ram this tax through, and lie about it.

The leftists are engaging in class warfare, by starting with a millionaire income tax (it’s claimed) that will, when it fails to result in their avaricious revenue demands being met as millionaires (including pro-athletes… Seahawks, anyone?) get out of Dodge to avoid these horrific taxes resulting from the leftist inability to control their spending.

This state does not have a revenue problem. In fact, just last year, these same scum jacked up our taxes what… $12 billion?

But even THAT isn’t enough.

The ONLY reason they want this income tax is for achieving the leftist dream of actual income-redistribution.

Stalin would be proud.

They are provably incapable of reducing spending to levels within a budget. So, they load up this state's budget like yet another Christmas tree and then suddenly claim they're not getting nearly enough blood out of the rock they're squeezing.... so, voila!

Counting on a fringe-left Supreme Court to make up the required excuses to bypass black and white ink on a piece of paper to allow this abuse of that document... and the people of this state.

Meanwhile, yes, this is yet another proof that the left doesn’t care. They don’t care about us. They don’t care about children (So, has Pedersen been having sex with the children he believes can form their own judgment? Will his next move be to get rid of this state’s confusing, but present statutory rape laws?)

I frequently say:

“They (we) have the government we deserve.”

But in cases where the party in charge is running roughshod over this State’s Constitution as if it was their own personal roll of toilet paper?

I’m willing to make an exception.

No one deserves a provably criminal government.

And no one is above the law.

Unless, of course, they’re illegal aliens, convicted democrats they elect, or state senators with a child sex fetish.

Then?

All bets are off.

The tariff issue: how did we get here?

The problem isn't the tariffs per se'. The problem is that, essentially, the Court indicated money was wrongfully taken under IEEPA and, the US now finds itself in a position that all of that money resulting from that application will have to be refunded.

No, the Court didn't say that. But if money was, effectively, taken from any of us, what would we do to recover that money?

My guess is by the end of next week, hundreds, if not more, of lawsuits will be filed to get that money back, which will have to be repaid, not to mention legal fees and interest.

Further, my question, unanswered, is if this solution is so easy, then why didn't the President use those laws instead of the IEEPA which does not have the word "tariff" anywhere in it?

Not to mention, where was all that high-priced legal talent when it came to finding ways to implement tariffs? Did ANY of them foresee this outcome? If they didn't, why didn't they? If they did, did they say anything to Trump about it? If not, why not?

Did the President ignore those warnings? Did he even see or hear them?

The devil is in the details, as this decision clearly shows.

But I seriously doubt it's as simple as many claim.

I would hope it is... but if it was all that simple, then why use an authority that was iffy at best to begin with?

Probable political fall-out over Trump’s Supreme Court tariff defeat

As a retired political consultant, I do, occasionally, prognosticate on Trumpian political portraits.

I predicted early on, for example, that Trump would defeat Hillary in 2016 when no one I could find or read agreed with that assessment.

The Supreme Court decision is/will be a major hit on the President. Essentially one of his main platform planks, his reliance on the unlawful application of a Federal law (International Emergency Economic Powers Act, known as IEEPA) will cost, initially, somewhere in the vicinity of $175 billion to, most likely, be required to be returned to the countries/companies which paid the money in question.

Trump, for his part, claims he has work arounds to, effectively, bypass the Supreme Court. Those options, however, seem dramatically more limited than what he had been doing before.

It has to be kept in mind that while this will be a major hit to the revenue tariffs were bringing in (roughly $30 billion monthly), This decision does not eliminate all tariffs, just those implemented citing IEEPA those implemented citing IEEPA.

IEEPA tariffs represent about 55% of all current tariffs collected in FY 2025.




It is essentially impossible for the US to keep these funds as a result of the USSC declaring the collection of this money to have been unconstitutional

It will take some time, of course, to unwind the clock of this portion of tariffs, but the sources of the payments themselves will not be difficult to determine.

Further, there is a probability that the payments themselves will have to be returned with some level of interest added to the costs, along with the legal fees/costs/expenses incurred by the prevailing parties.

Which sets the table for the current snapshot.

But what of the actual political fallout? What impacts will this cause in the midterms?

Recently, the left, which lacks in most political areas of interest, had been hoisted on their own petards of supporting illegal aliens, to include murderers, rapists, robbers and the like; by funding the protests as well as the bail demands for many illegals arrested for criminal acts, particularly in the fringe left cities such as New York, LA and Portland.

ICE detainers are frequently ignored. Murders, rapes, robberies and assaults have resulted. Many illegals are simply let go, back our on the streets to continue their crimes.

So-called “sanctuary cities” urge fellow leftists to riot and engage in various types of violence and obstruction in an effort to end or reduce ICE and related law enforcement agencies from fulfilling their sworn duty to apprehend and deport the illegals infesting us.

Out of control spending and massive, business-crushing tax increases have resulted in more and more businesses closing down and/or leaving these states. Portland’s downtown finds the value of many of their high rises sinking lower than yet another Willamette River sewage spill, with massive vacancy rates and a 70% devaluation in value.

They continue to stay in lockstep with their insane positions on fake females competing against the real thing and free entering women’s rest room and locker room facilities. They find themselves seemingly unable to even define what a woman actually is.

They continue their opposition to a requirement to prove American citizenship to vote in our elections, even though members of Congress are required to use picture voter ID to vote on legislation… and even though CNN polling indicates that 71% of democrats support voter ID.

Their insistence of sticking with the wrong end of these and other 80/20 equations made it increasingly likely that there would be little to no leftist resurgence in the mid-terms.

Until now.

NOW, they have been handled a legitimate issue reinforcing their oft-stated perspective that Trump refuses to obey the laws governing this country.  They will now begin a slightly different approach, wherein they rightfully CAN call his judgment into question, given his overwhelming defeat on the tariff issue.

Also, they can apply that test to anything he does, question his decisions on anything (since, even if Trump cured cancer, they'd complain about the shape and numbers of test tubes he used in the process.) and this time, have some legitimate reasoning for their positions.

In my decades of political work, there’s an axiom that has repeatedly proven true:

"If you’re ‘explaining?’ You’re losing.”

This defeat blew up the news cycle like a small nuclear warhead.

On this issue, it IS difficult to avoid the “how could he do this” question.

How is it possible that none of the legal talent he has didn’t question the legality of using a law that lacks any mention of the word “tariff” in it?

If they didn’t mention it, they should be fired.

If they DID mention it and he ignored them?

This crushing, 6-3 defeat. where even the alleged conservative members of the Court tossed him under a bus, is legitimate fodder for campaign commercials and the blame-game.

ALL politicians count on the notoriously short memories of the voters. Right this moment, most GOP pols are praying for that short memory with the onset of the midterms. Meanwhile, it’s a bet that leftists are not already writing the commercials they run wherein they call into discussion the President's judgment as well as the judgment of those who had supported Mr. Trump’s efforts.

But now, GOP incumbents out in the field are likely to find themselves on the receiving end of questions they do not want to be asked.

And will likely have a very difficult time answering.

Does this make the midterm flip more likely? Maybe. It certainly doesn’t help.

A competent ad campaign makes that more likely.

In my experience, the GOP has been “not bad” in getting power.

But they have a terrible time keeping it. Typically, as a result of their own failures, such as Majority Leader Thune failing to take action on the SAVE Act

And one of their major pitches just took a very solid, very bad hit.