Tom Holman Says Mass Deportations Will Start In SCC

By William Teach December 13, 2024 – 6:45 am

The question is, should they?

Mass Deportations Will Start ‘Right Here In Chicago,’ Trump’s Border Czar Says

President-elect Donald Trump’s hand-picked “border czar” said his mass deportation efforts will “start right here in Chicago” as he threatened local officials to open the city and its county jail to the will of federal immigration agents.

Tom Homan — the former acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — addressed a friendly crowd of local Republicans Monday night at a Christmas party run by the Law & Order PAC at Biagio Events and Catering, 4242 N. Central Ave.

Homan told attendees they’d see an influx of federal immigrant agents after Trump is sworn in, warning he would prosecute Mayor Brandon Johnson if he continued to “harbor and conceal” asylum seekers.

“Do not impede us,” Homan said after taking to the “Trump-Vance 2024”-flanked podium to a DJ remix of “Bad To The Bone.” One person shouted “F— him,” about Johnson, as the crowd erupted in support.

“Because of his actions, we’re going to be arresting a hell of a lot more people than our priorities,” said Homan, telling Johnson and other Democratic officials to “get the hell out of the way.” He added that he’d sue sanctuary cities that don’t cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Many Democrats are starting to realize that Holman and Trump are dead serious about getting fake asylum seekers out, starting with the criminals

Illinois governor says ‘violent’ illegal immigrants should be deported, open to meeting with Trump officials

The Democratic governor of Illinois, J.B. Pritzker, says he agrees with one part of border czar appointee Tom Homan’s historic mass deportation campaign under the incoming Trump administration.

Pritzker was responding to comments made by Homan at the Northwest Side GOP gathering that happened Monday evening,  according to FOX 32 Chicago, where he threatened to deport millions of undocumented immigrants. The move would impact tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants in Chicago and Illinois.

“Violent criminals who are undocumented and convicted of violent crime should be deported,” Pritzker said at an unrelated news conference, the local station reported. “I do not want them in my state, I don’t think they should be in the United States.”

Holman went as far as to say “Your mayor sucks and your governor sucks” of Sanctuary City Chicago, and to say Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson should come to the table to help. Doing mass deportations in a city like SCC will set a tone, and tell the fake asylum seekers, and especially the gang members and criminals, that the Trump admin is 100% serious. And it would let those trying to come and falsely declare asylum, or just cross the border illegally, that they will be booted.

Really, while it will be great to start with Chicago, Holman needs to go to all the small towns who did not want the illegals/migrants and had them foisted on them by Democrats. Towns that do not vote Democrat and do not want them. Clear them out town by town.

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Who’s Up For A “Geopolitical Winter Due To Trump?

By William Teach December 12, 2024 – 4:39 pm

I have to wonder: do the EU citizens agree with all the climate targets scams, knowing that they are the ones will bear the burden?

EU’s climate chief warns of ‘geopolitical winter’

The planet is heating up, but the geopolitical landscape is freezing over, European Union climate chief Wopke Hoekstra warned in an interview with POLITICO.

Donald Trump, a fossil fuel evangelist and climate heretic, is back. Across Europe, far-right, anti-green crusaders are rising. And in Brussels, Hoekstra’s own center-right political family is questioning the EU’s climate ambitions.

“We clearly have entered a geopolitical winter,” Hoekstra said in his office in the European Commission’s Berlaymont headquarters describing “tremendously challenging geopolitical times” that “will get worse before it gets better in the years that we have ahead of us.”

Good grief. “Fossil fuel evangelist and climate heretic”? And then the media, here and in Europe, wonders why the trust in them is so low and why people think they are activists, not journalists. I’ve seen more even handed treatment from climate cult groups. I’m going to have to do some sort of climate related TDS graphic.

Hoekstra is not a new figure to Brussels, having taken over as EU climate chief in 2023. But he was recently reconfirmed for his role at the Commission, the EU’s executive branch, starting a new term on Dec. 1.

For the Dutch commissioner, who oversees international climate negotiations for the EU as part of his job, the next few years are likely to be a bumpy ride as he tries to convince the rest of the world to accelerate efforts to cut planet-warming emissions.

“We’re truly making progress in tackling climate change and implementing measures here, but Europe alone cannot save the day,” he said. “The way the heating of the Earth works is that climate change is indiscriminate. It doesn’t matter where CO2 is being pumped into the air. It affects the whole planet.”

Didn’t he take a fossil fueled flight to Azerbaijan for COP29?

Huh. Anyone think he flew coach?

One stick the EU is about to impose on the world is a carbon border tax, which will charge importers a levy on emissions-intensive goods starting in 2026. The move has drawn fierce criticism from countries such as Brazil, India, China and South Africa, which also sought to discuss the issue at last month’s COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan.

And you know who will pay the price? The peasants in the EU. Have fun.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 12, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is a world turning to desert encroaching on structures, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Bunkerville, with a post on Biden giving Iran sanctions relief right after Trump was elected.

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What’s Up With The Drones Over New Jersey?

By William Teach December 12, 2024 – 10:30 am

This story has gone from something tiny to but within days

More than 3K mystery drone sightings reported to FBI

Federal investigators have received more than 3,000 reports of drone sightings since beginning an investigation this month into unexplained objects hovering over New Jersey, a top FBI official said at a Congressional hearing Tuesday.

The reports coming in from the public included sightings of both fixed-wing and rotary drones, Robert Wheeler, the assistant director of the FBI’s Critical Incident Response Group, said during a Homeland Security subcommittee hearing on security threats posed by drones.

Wheeler said investigators are still unclear on “the particular specifics” of the alleged drones.

“We don’t know the people responsible behind that and that’s what we’re working on,” he added.

Then we have

(NJ.com) Between 12 and 30 drones were spotted following a Coast Guard lifeboat off the Jersey Shore Sunday night, a Republican lawmaker said during a Congressional hearing Tuesday on mysterious drone sightings over the last month.

Smith also said an Ocean County Sheriff’s officer saw 50 drones moving over land from the ocean at Island Beach State Park over the weekend.

Interesting. My parents live somewhat near there, and they have a friend who lives even closer. None saw them, but, there plenty of videos of the drones then and during the previous month

Then you have the Experts! chiming in on what they can be

  • Theory: Local drone hobbyists set off a panic.
  • Theory: The drones are tied to defense contractors or the U.S. military.
  • Theory: A startup company is testing new drone technology.

Those are a lot of drones for hobbyists or a startup company. And some of the drones are reported to be huge, small car sized. The US military or defense contractors could make sense, because, no one is intercepting them or shooting them down! No military jets, no military combat helicopters. Nothing. Or, they could be, as some suggest, Chinese or Iranian, and we saw what Biden did when a Chinese spy balloon flew over the entire US, including military bases. Nothing.

Now, imagine if Trump was in office and Democrats ran the House: he would have been impeached for dereliction of duty. They would have done the same after the Chinese spy balloon. Why is the government yapping and holding hearings when they should shoot a couple down to find out WTF they are? They are flying over military bases in NJ, among other sites. You have Naval Weapons Station Earl near the northern coast, but, not actually on the water, which is a big research center, which reportedly has anti-ballistic missile weapons. Shoot one down so we know what they are and whose they are.

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Hotcold Take: Climate Crisis (scam) Makes HIV Inequities Worse For Black Americans

By William Teach December 12, 2024 – 7:15 am

Having watched this issue for decades, and the way lefties think, I can seriously see someone sitting around saying “black people have HIV, let’s drag in climate doom”

Climate Change Is Deepening HIV Inequities for Black Americans

As Hurricane Ida’s fierce winds ripped panels off of rooftops across New Orleans in September 2021, health workers and HIV activists braced for the aftermath. With power cut and roads blocked by debris, prescription refills and patients would be lost and forgotten in the storm’s chaotic wake across the South.

And with record-breaking hurricanes like Helene and Milton leading to hundreds of deaths and missing people earlier this fall across the Southeast, there is increasing fear that people living with HIV are losing the supportive services they need to stay alive because of climate change.

You know how they can stay alive? Do not have risky, unprotected sex with someone who has, or might have, HIV/AIDS, particularly within the gay male community. It’s literally one of the easiest diseases to not get.

Nationwide, half of people with HIV are living in places that are extremely vulnerable to extreme weather and climate disasters, according to a new analysis of federal disaster and health data from the Center for American Progress (CAP), a progressive policy think tank. Of the 48 counties that are most vulnerable to climate disasters and have high rates of HIV, 35 have an above-average share of Black residents.

And there you go, the hyper-Progressive CAP started this with their article. Weirdly, almost every one of these areas is Democratic Party run.

At the same time, a new study by Tulane University in New Orleans found that former racial segregation policies like redlining continue to impact these health outcomes today. Those living in once redlined neighborhoods across New Orleans experience 15% longer delays in accessing HIV-related care. Louisiana, where about 80% of people living with HIV are Black, has the nation’s third-highest rate of new cases.

New Orleans is run by Democrats, is in a low lying area, with some areas below sea level. Perhaps the city should be less concerned with climate (scam) doom and more concerned with why HIV is raging through their black population. The mayor is black, and 4 (maybe 5) of the 7 city council members are black. Why are they not telling their people the truth?

Morris Singletary, the founder of HIV education nonprofit The Pozitive2Positive Initiative, said this shows how the social factors that determine health outcomes, like racism or access to housing, “lead from one harm to another, to another, to another.”

None of that has any bearing on the weather or people having risky, unprotected sex.

With climate change intensifying the frequency and severity of natural disasters for people living with HIV, these events present significant health challenges dependent on several things like economic status and geography.

Weather disasters are not getting worse, and people living with HIV is mostly a self-caused disease. If you climb to the top of your roof on a rickety ladder and fall, that’s on you. The weather has nothing to do with it, nor does raaaaacism.

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Illegal Alien Supporters Protest In Albany

By William Teach December 12, 2024 – 7:00 am

Say, have these New Yorkers considered paying for the illegals themselves? Or letting the city of Albany pay for them?

Protesters attempt to stop removal of hundreds of migrants from public-funded housing

Activists and several elected officials gathered outside New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office in the Capitol in Albany on Monday to protest the closure of two hotels housing several hundred migrants in the state’s capital region.

New York City has a “right to shelter” law, requiring the city to provide shelter for anyone who asks for it and has no other options.

Protest organizers said they were advocating for Hochul to intervene to prevent the migrants’ eviction and to provide new state funding to shelter the migrants.

Speaking during the protest, Angelica Perez-Delgado, president of the pro-migrant nonprofit Ibero-American Action League, said, “Our need right now is to ensure that people in our hotels are not evicted. We need leadership and money from Gov. Hochul right now to fund at least six months of housing and related services.”

It’s a non-profit: let them pony up for the hotels. Why should the citizens of New York pay? The citizens of NYC have paid billions. Let Albany suck it up

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been behind many of the moves to crack down on services for migrants, saying, “We have been wasting taxpayers’ money for far too long.”

Funny how his tune has changed, eh? Perhaps the Biden-Harris regime siccing the DOJ on him wasn’t the best idea. Adams plans to close 25 shelters by May.

California’s ‘Super Sanctuary’ Refuses to Help ICE With Mass Deportations

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors has voted to prohibit the use of its resources and funding to support federal immigration agents in carrying out deportations.

On Tuesday, the San Diego County board approved the measure with a 3-1 vote, while Supervisor Joel Anderson was absent.

The county is set to limit the use of its jails, county buildings and personnel in assisting federal immigration enforcement agents.

I wonder how well this will work: the more rural/suburban folks in SD County tend to be more Republican, so, might the members of the SD Sheriff’s Office use their own phones to call ICE when they have an illegal in custody? This order will not apply to any local police departments, as the county has no control over them on this. Also, will the Supervisors reconsider when the Trump DOJ comes after them or others for blocking ICE, for non-cooperation, when it comes to gang members (MS-13 and others), murderers, and rapists? Violating 8 US Code 1324 is a federal criminal violation.

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Surprise: Climate Cult Won In Washington By Not Talking About Climate

By William Teach December 11, 2024 – 3:00 pm

It certainly helps when you do not have climate doom hysterics caterwauling, freaking people out, eh?

Climate advocates finally won in WA. How? By not talking about climate

Midway through the $16 million political campaign this fall to defend Washington’s far-reaching climate change law, University of Washington professor Aseem Prakash noticed something very unusual.

“They weren’t talking about climate change,” he said. “Climate change is the purpose of the law, and they weren’t focusing on that, at all.”

It’s true, and pretty remarkable. A review of the 10 television and digital ads that made up the crux of the “No on I-2117” campaign shows that the word “climate” was never uttered once by the farmers, mothers, firefighters, a rocket scientist or Bill Nye the Science Guy, who all appeared in the ads.

Nor did words like “climate change” or “global warming” ever appear.

Ah, so, it is more about misdirection, much like the Inflation Reduction Act?

So this time around, two things changed. One is that lawmakers wrote the Climate Commitment Act so that some carbon fees were reinvested in visible infrastructure projects around the state — such as in transportation. And two is that the campaign focused heavily on that spending, dropping any talk about saving the planet or stemming climate change.

Prakash said it was genius. Focus groups and polling have shown that the mere mention of the phrase “climate change” can reduce support for a government project or program by double digits, he said.

“The reason is the words ‘climate change’ are a trigger for some, they can ignite a culture war,” Prakash said. “The words also raise the issue that the benefits can be global, and therefore out of sight to the average voter.”

In other words, they know that bringing this stuff up is like listening to a Scientologist or member of Heaven’s Gate. Pure cult and drives people away. Regardless, it will be fun when the people who voted for this realize their taxes, food, gas, housing, and overall cost of living is going up.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 11, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…are horrible fossil fueled power boats, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is American Greatness, with a post noting that rescuing California requires challenging crony environmentalism.

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Is Syria Already Going Down The Road To Being An Islamist Extremist Country?

By William Teach December 11, 2024 – 10:30 am

The leaders who deposed Assad and forced him to flee to Moscow made noises about being respectful and not extremist, but, already

Report: Syrian Rebels Execute Opponents, Impose Sharia, Threaten Kurds

Syrian rebels who overthrew the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad on Sunday are reportedly executing their opponents, imposing Islamic sharia law, and threatening non-Muslim minorities, including the Kurdish population in the north.

Videos are circulating on social media showing Syrian rebels killing people associated with the regime — some of whom may have been part of the state security services, and others who appear to have been ordinary employees.

The New York Times reported Tuesday:

Islamic State forces on Tuesday killed 54 people in the Homs region in central Syria who had been part of the Syrian government’s military and fled during the collapse of the Assad regime, according to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, a British-based monitoring group. The killings highlight the chaos in Syria as various rebel factions operate in different regions.

One video also shows thousands of smashed bottles of liquor at the duty free store of the Damascus airport, where Islamist rebels apparently enforced the Islamic ban on alcohol by force, as Islamists did in Lebanon in the 1980s.

How much further will this go? Time will tell. Will they dive down into being a fundamentalist nation like Iran? Or further like Afghanistan? Will they be a threat to the region like we see from the Palestinians and Houthi? Will they be more open like many of the Gulf nations?

Western nations should softly work to make inroads with Syria, limiting their Islamist impulses, driving them from China and Russia and Iran.

Meanwhile, the Times is also reporting

Fierce fighting was underway on Tuesday between rebels supported by Turkey and U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led forces near Kobani, a town in northern Syria with historic and symbolic significance for American involvement in the region.

The fight illustrates how, even as rebels try to build a government after taking Damascus, armed groups with competing interests are still fighting for territory and power, trying to fill the vacuum left by a collapsed regime and, in this case, pitting proxies of the United States and Turkey against each other.

So, our NATO ally is working against the interests of the U.S., trying to kill Kurds. Why is Turkey still in NATO?

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The Climate Cult Is Changing Tactics Because Trump

By William Teach December 11, 2024 – 7:00 am

The NY Times is super excited about this. Let’s see what the doomsday cultists are doing. It must be that they’re all going to stop using fossil fuels, go meatless, stop buying fast fashion, and make their lives carbon neutral, right?

How the Climate Movement Is Changing Tactics After Trump’s Win

With about a month and a half left until the Trump administration takes over the White House, I called Bill McKibben, a journalist, author and activist, to ask where the climate movement goes next.

The outlook for the movement that McKibben has helped lead for more than three decades may seem grim. Donald Trump, who has called global warming a “scam,” is likely to reverse many of President Biden’s climate policies. Trump is expected to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, dismantle regulations and target Biden’s signature climate bill, the Inflation Reduction Act.

But the climate movement also plans to spend the next four years hunkering down at the local level. McKibben’s newest organization, Third Act, a nonprofit group for climate activists older than 60 that he started about three years ago, is highlighting the push for change at the community and state level. Over the past 18 months, they’ve begun a new strategy: attending the meetings of obscure state agencies or commissions that hold a lot of power over the energy transition.

Um, how does that have anything to do with Trump? Did they know he was going to win 18 months ago? #TDS

Youth climate groups have also said they’re pivoting from a national to a local stage, pushing for state-level laws like the Climate Change Superfund Act in New York, which could hold polluters accountable for climate change.

Well, really, that’s where it should be. All powers not directly assigned to the federal government are reserved to the States and The People. And, hey, we need experimental groups for every experiment. Though, we have the People’s Republik Of California already. But, there needs to be more than one.

It’s still too early to tell how Trump’s win will affect the climate movement, but McKibben said these were “uncharted waters.” While some parts of the movement are refining their economic arguments, other climate leaders hope to center their message on people that have been disproportionately affected by environmental harms or climate disasters. As I reported today, the youth climate movement has largely reframed itself as the youth climate justice movement.

They’ve been doing that for the last 15 years, so, nothing new. So, what, exactly, are the plans? Seems like a lot of ado over nothing. No need for an article except that the climate cult requires a certain amount of space in every NY Times edition.

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