Garbage Hill: Dems Still Caterwauling Over Drug Runner Boat Strikes

By William Teach December 8, 2025 – 10:30 am

It’s wild how Democrats have tied their fortunes to defending foreign drug runners

Democratic lawmakers press for transparency over ‘double tap’ strike

Democratic lawmakers on Sunday continued to sound the alarm over allegations that military leaders called for a “double tap” strike on an alleged drug boat, intentionally killing the two survivors of an earlier attack.

Rep. Adam Smith (Wash.) called for accountability while Sen. Tim Kaine (Va.) demanded video of the strikes be released. Sen. Adam Schiff (Calif.) called the strikes “unconstitutional,” and Sen. Tammy Duckworth (Ill.) called the strikes “murder.”

“Everything that they’ve done has been illegal. It’s illegal under international law. It’s illegal under the Geneva Convention. And it certainly is illegal under domestic law,” Duckworth told CNN’s State of the Union. “It was essentially murder with that double tap strike.”

The boats are in international waters. And, actually, international law and the Geneva Convention kind of allow it.

They might as well be pirates, and they wear no uniforms. They’ve been designated as a terrorist organization. International law and the Geneva Convention allows for foreign fighters wearing no uniforms to be summarily killed. It’s why many Somali pirate boats are fired upon and even destroyed

The Pentagon has come under fire after reporting from The Washington Post alleged that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth authorized a deadly second strike to kill all remaining survivors on a Venezuelan boat allegedly carrying drugs in international waters. POLITICO has not independently verified the Post’s reporting.

Hegseth on Saturday defended the second Sept. 2 strike, saying the attackers were not fully neutralized. “From what I understood then and what I understand now, I fully support that strike,” Hegseth said at the Reagan National Defense Forum. “I would have made the same call myself.”

Still pitching that lying, anonymously sourced hit piece, Politico, which even the NY Times said was false?

Rep. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) on Sunday defended Hegseth, telling ABC’s “This Week” that a majority of Americans “support us blowing narco-terrorists out of the water in the Caribbean who are trying to poison Americans.”

Thing is, not all get blown up. The Coast Guard recently seized a boat with approximately $74 million worth of cocaine. And many other boats have been captured rather than blown up. The strikes, which occur at night, seem designed to scare off drug runners, while if it’s day they are seized and captured.

“I have way more sympathy for my friends, my cousins, my neighbors, those people who’ve been poisoned by these narco terrorists, people who’ve been skinned alive by these cartels that they bring people to the United States than I do for these narco terrorists,” Schmitt said.

And there is the issue: Democrats have decided to take the side of the drug runners and cartels rather than the American people, much like with illegal aliens/fake asylum seekers.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that he would support releasing the footage. His administration has repeatedly defended the boat strikes, which have killed more than 80 people since September, as an attempt to protect Americans from being killed by what he has called narco-terrorists.

There are around 7,100 monthly drug overdose deaths in the U.S. Mostly not from cocaine, more like fentanyl. So, 80 dead drug runners is meaningless. But, Democrats care more about them then Americans.

Hey, perhaps we could capture the boats and sell the cocaine outside of the US and use the proceeds to fund support for US veterans. Would Dems be OK with that?

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PRC Now Bans Use Of Reusable Plastic Bags

By William Teach December 8, 2025 – 7:00 am

They really want to increase the killing of trees in the People’s Republik Of California

California escalates its war on plastic grocery bags, banning even ‘reusable’ versions

Beginning Jan. 1, 2026, grocery, pharmacy, liquor and convenience stores in California will not be able to provide any single-use thin plastic bags or even “reusable” plastic film bags. (note: many stores will still be allowed to use them, like some restaurants and retailers. I’m sure they’re next on the hit list)

The updated law stems from Senate Bill 270, which was first introduced in 2014. It previously allowed the use of reusable bags — which were made of a thicker plastic.

Senate Bill 1053 now “eliminates the distribution of thicker film plastic bags.”

As opposed to “single use” bags, thicker plastic bags could be reused up to 125 times, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Recycled paper bags may be offered to shoppers in the Golden State, but they must be “sold for not less than 10 cents.” People on specific food programs may be available to get these for free.

I have many reusable bags for Lidl, since they do not have any others but paper. I have a few of those, but, do not like using them, no handles. And I use the reusable till dead. Then they go to the recycling center, because I may not be a Warmist, but, I do what I can for the environment. I also have a few cloth ones.

Over to that SF Chronicle link

It’s a win for environmentalists, who argue that the proliferation of thick plastic bags in the years since the ban has made the state’s plastic pollution worse. Murray said the heavy-duty bags “exploded” in California during the early months of the pandemic, when reusable bags were temporarily banned at some stores. In 2022, the tonnage of plastic grocery and merchandise bags discarded in California was 47% higher than the year the ban was passed, according to a CalPIRG report. 

Plastic pollution is bad, I agree, but, a lot of these bans are overdone, heavy handed, and are backed by the climate cult.

One reason for the jump is that very few of the theoretically reusable bags are actually brought back to grocery stores, said Judith Enck, a former Environmental Protection Agency regional administrator who’s now the president of advocacy group Beyond Plastics.

“There must be one person” who regularly reuses their bags, Enck said. But “most people” discard them after a single trip to the grocery store.

Bad PRC Comrades, very bad!

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Authorities Arrest Illegal Alien Who Stabbed Man On Charlotte Light Rail

By William Teach December 8, 2025 – 6:45 am

Weird this keeps happening

Arrest made after man stabbed in chest on Charlotte light rail

A man was stabbed in the chest Friday evening on the light rail in Charlotte.

Authorities said the incident occurred around 4:50 p.m. in the 1800 block of North Brevard Street in the Eastway Division. The condition of the victim, identified as Kenyon Doble, in court records, remains unclear.

On X, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) said they identified Oscar Solarzano, 33, as the suspect. Solarzano was arrested shortly after the incident and is in custody at the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office.

He faces charges of attempted first-degree murder, assault with a deadly weapon causing serious injury, breaking and entering a motor vehicle, carrying a concealed weapon, and being intoxicated and disruptive.

According to court paperwork, Magistrate Rebecca Howell ordered Solarzano held without bond, stating that he is in the country illegally and has been deported previously.

He was first booted out in 2018 under the Trump admin. Then crossed again in 2021 and booted by the Biden admin. And then he crossed yet again during the Biden admin. It would be interesting to know if he claimed asylum when he crossed and was given that conditional status, even though he 100% would not be eligible due to previous deportations, but, too many were flowing in under Biden to check.

(WRAL) His arrest warrant states that he entered a CATS railroad car and “contained things of value, with the intent to commit a felony.” The warrant also added that Solarzano was disruptive and intoxicated in a public place, and challenged the stabbing victim to a fight after cursing and shouting at others in the car using “unintelligible and slurred words.”

Nice guy. All the Charlotte news outlets smartly did not avoid or disguise the fact that Solarzano is illegally in the country, though, some skipped the info on him having been previously deports, as some Raleigh outlets did.

(Newsweek) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Saturday lodged a detainer on the suspect in Friday’s Charlotte, North Carolina, light rail stabbing, Oscar Solarzano. Official court documents reviewed by Newsweek and local police spell the suspect’s last name Solarzano, while the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and some federal officials write it as Solorzano-Garcia.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said in a Saturday statement, “Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee the county will honor the detainer since they have a history of not cooperating with ICE.” The agency has repeatedly called out “sanctuary” jurisdictions, criticizing some of not honoring detainers.

Mecklenburg County has been known as a sanctuary county, and certainly the main city of Charlotte has been one. However, North Carolina law requires all levels of NC law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement, nor can judges decide to release the illegals after a detainer has been filed. No governmental entity in NC can play those sanctuary games. Sadly, even in a Southern state like NC, they might have even with a violent illegal like Solarzano.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 7, 2025 – 1:03 pm

…is horrible carbon pollution driven fog, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Gateway Pundit, with a post on Biden being sharp as a tack.

It’s women wearing white week.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach December 7, 2025 – 10:04 am

Happy Sunday! Another great day in Returned America. The Sun will be shining, the birds are singing, and the Giants cannot lose today, so, no pain. This pinup seems to be AI (running across a lot of them lately), with a wee bit of help. Might be cheating a bit.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Jo Nova: Trump versus The Blob: The US warns Europe it faces civilizational erasure
  2. Whats Up With That?: Time to Stop Pretending Renewables Are Cheap
  3. American Greatness: What’s the Matter with Ireland?
  4. Bearing Arms: The Anti-Gunners Are Melting Down Over DOJ’s New Second Amendment Section
  5. Bustednuckles: Get them now for your Christmas dinner! (ewww, gross)
  6. Campus Reform: Colorado State University Christian student spat on, harassed by left-wing students for Christian chalking display
  7. Chicks On The Right: If You’re Tired Of “F-ing Racists,” Try This!
  8. Cold Fury: Memezapoppin’!
  9. Geller Report: Muslim Migrant Rapes Woman to Death On Church Steps After Nashville Freed Somali Rapist 16 Times
  10. IOTW Report: LA’s Mayor Proudly Announces a Coal-Free Grid That Can’t Produce Enough Power
  11. Jihad Watch: Germany: Afghan Muslim migrant gets lenient sentence because he stopped after stabbing his victim only six times
  12. Legal Insurrection: Sanctuary Policies Blamed After Another Charlotte Stabbing
  13. Liberty’s Torch: One Lemon Leads To Another Dept.
  14. Moonbattery: Syrian Thief in Austria: Stealing From Non-Muslims Is Permitted
  15. And last, but, not least, Pacific Pundit has “Fraudster, Tampon Tim Walz says people are driving by his house calling him ‘retarded’”

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014, so, most are hosted internally). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your Pinups for Vets calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me. I’ve also mostly alphabetized them, makes it easier scrolling the feedreader

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

Two great sites for getting news links are Liberty Daily and Whatafinger.

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LOL: CBP To Charge Illegal Border Crossers $5k As An “Apprehension Fee”

By William Teach December 7, 2025 – 7:00 am

Oh, this is definitely going to cause Apoplexy Category 5, but, can they do anything legally but caterwaul?

US Border Patrol to charge illegal migrants with $5K ‘apprehension fee’

The US Border Patrol warned Friday it will be imposing a $5,000 “apprehension fee” to all illegal migrants caught in the country.

The penalty was approved under President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” and is in addition to other fines already levied against some illegal immigrants taken into custody, Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks said in a Friday statement on X.

Banks said that any migrants “age 14 or older” who entered or were brought into the US “without inspection” will be slapped with a $5,000 fee.

“This message applies to all illegal aliens—regardless of where they entered, how long they’ve been in the U.S., their current location, or any ongoing immigration proceedings,” Banks said.

Well, in fairness, charging illegals/fake asylum seekers who came in prior to the passage of the BBB might very well violate Article I, Section 9, Clause 3 about ex post facto laws. Or it may not, since ex post facto is mostly about criminality of some sort, and has ruled in favor of retroactive taxes. For instance

The majority further opined: “Laws of a retroactive nature, imposing taxes or providing remedies for their assessment and collection, and not impairing vested rights, are not forbidden by the Federal Constitution.”

Of course, the last ruling was in 1923. And, really, retroactively applying taxes/fees should be forbidden.

First article

Earlier this year, officials said that they would be charging migrants with deportation orders who refuse to leave with a $1,000 fine for each day they overstayed.

In late August, the Wall Street Journal reported that around 21,500 fines had been issued — totaling at an estimated $6.1 billion.

But, how much has actually been collected? Regardless, both fees are designed to 1. deter illegals/fake asylum seekers from coming to the U.S. and 2. to get them to voluntarily leave, especially the $5K.

Meanwhile

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 6, 2025 – 1:16 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon bicycle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Green Jihad, with a post on the EU banning Russian gas imports.

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Democrats Asked Who Comes First, US Citizens Or Foreign Drug Runners

By William Teach December 6, 2025 – 10:30 am

If only each and every Democrat could be asked the question

Democrats reveal whether they believe US citizens or drug boat traffickers are more important

As scrutiny mounts on the Trump administration’s use of force in its targeting of suspected cartel members in the Caribbean, lawmakers on Capitol Hill were asked whether they believe U.S. citizen victims or drug traffickers are more important.

Republicans, such as Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mont., said the answer is easy.

“I can’t speak for anybody else, but my top concern is American citizens, their lives, their health. So, for me, it’s an easy choice. Kill drug dealers, save Americans,” said Sheehy.

First, it’s not so much “drug dealers” as “foreign drug runners running drugs in international waters”, because I would be against whacking drug dealers here in the US on legal grounds. Second, I certainly understand that many GOP folks are against the blowing up of drug runner boats, just like many are against capital punishment. They have their reasons, and they’re usually well thought out, well reasoned, factual, and based on the Constitution. We’re going to have to disagree on that. But, when you get to Democrats

Democrats, however, had less black and white opinions on the strikes.

“Look, I fully support doing whatever we can within the legal means to make sure that we’re stopping drug trafficking,” said Rep. Johnny Olszewski, D-Md., adding, “We should absolutely be concerned about the victims of drug trafficking and people who have lost their lives to drug violence.”

“We support all efforts to [interdict], arrest, hold people accountable who are trying to smuggle drugs into this country. However, we have a rule of law, and we have rules of engagement for a reason. And so, we need to make sure that we have full transparency in terms of how these strikes are happening,” Olszewski went on.

He added that “if the reporting is true, it’s very likely” that the administration’s drug boat strikes are “in violation of our laws and may in fact be a war crime.”

Yeah, he keeps going on and on, when it really should be a simple answer. Nor does he offer what those laws are. It’s simply mealy-mouthed TDS. You can bet if it was Biden, or Kamala, doing this, most Dems would say nothing, just like when Obama was blowing people up in the Middle East and Africa, including a few American citizens.

Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., pushed back on the question, saying, “Is this going to do anything to truly help them?”

“Cocaine’s still flowing, the demand is still there,” Smith said, adding, “You see a drug dealer on the street, that’s a bad person. That person is selling drugs. Let’s say they’re selling actual fentanyl, not the cocaine that we’re hitting here. Would you support allowing anyone to execute that person who wants to on the spot? … You want to be tough on drug dealers. Drug dealers are bad people. Why do we need due process? Why do you need probable cause?”

Blah blah blah

Meanwhile, Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., answered, “We have to do our best to disrupt drug distribution. Also, we have to invest in drug health care and drug education, et cetera. We have to do all the things. The real question is, how do you do it right?”

Pressed on whether the government should be prioritizing drug victims above the traffickers, Reed responded, “I’ve commented and thank you for asking,” before walking away.

If you’re a drug runner you’re a terrorist, and should be blown up, much in the way Thomas Jefferson went after the pirates of the Barbary Coast. Blowing the boats up (I wonder if this will move onto drug running airplanes?) is more about sending a message to future drug runners that “this could be you. Don’t do it.” There are certainly legalities for and against blowing the boats up, so, I guess it depends on your side. Instead of taking the time to interdict, putting Coast Guard and military members at risk, then arrest, then incarcerate, blowing a few up is a deterrent.

More:

(Washington Examiner) It is not a coincidence that the six congressional Democrats released a video urging active military members to “refuse illegal orders” just days before billboards saying the same thing went up outside of U.S. Southern Command in Florida and Fort Bragg in North Carolina. Nor is it a coincidence that just days after that, media outlets aligned with the Democratic Party falsely reported that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth ordered Navy SEAL Team 6 to launch a second lethal strike on two “survivors” from a drug boat not totally demolished by an initial missile strike.

These events are not random. They are all part of a coordinated campaign by the Democratic Party and its media allies to undermine President Donald Trump, sow dissent, and divide the country. These are the same tactics we saw them deploy for the Russia collusion hoax, for the attempted destruction of Justice Brett Kavanaugh hoax, and for the Ukraine impeachment hoax.

The reality is that Trump’s military campaign against drug cartels in the Caribbean is overwhelmingly popular and is good policy. Somewhere between 60% and 70% of the public approves of Trump using military force against drug traffickers in the Caribbean, and Democrats are desperate to undermine this support. The fact that they put their political fortunes ahead of the interdiction of drugs that kill tens of thousands of their fellow citizens is telling as to their moral priorities.

It’s one thing to have a principled opposition to the strikes, it’s something entirely different because of unhinged politics and TDS. To take the side of foreign drug runners bringing drugs that kill Americans into the U.S.

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NY Times Thinks Government Should Force Real Estate Site To List Climate (scam) Effects

By William Teach December 6, 2025 – 7:15 am

Funny how this happens so darned often with the doomsday cult

What Zillow Won’t Tell You

When Zillow, the country’s largest real estate site, added information to property listings last year disclosing flood, wildfire, heat and air-quality risks, it was following its own research: More than 80 percent of home shoppers consider climate risk in their decisions. The data allowed families to weigh these risks before signing a mortgage.

Last month, the scores disappeared from the listings.

The real estate brokers and agents behind the California Regional Multiple Listing Service, one of the largest housing databases in the country, had complained about Zillow’s climate scores. Zillow partly depends on C.R.M.L.S. to supply its listings, and it removed them from every home on the site.

Climate change has always been a battle on two fronts: physical and informational. The physical impacts are unmistakable — extreme heat, stronger hurricanes, deadlier wildfires, chronic flooding. But the informational battle has been intense, as well, with decades of deliberate efforts to cast doubt on settled science and remove it from public view. Now the “information war” has come to real estate, where the consequences of unknown risk can be particularly severe.

As I noted back on the 2nd, the actual listings are way, way down the page, so, do most people even make it down and actually look at the data? And there are still links to First Street, where cultists can subscribe for $37 a month.

For home sellers and buyers in such high-risk zones, the difficult reality is that climate risks need to be both conspicuous and priced into listings. Consumers can insist that climate-risk scores return to Zillow, and in the meantime, use the platforms that still provide them, like Redfin, Realtor.com and Homes.com. Those companies are facing similar pressure from C.R.M.L.S., and hearing from buyers now matters.

They can pay the $37 a month

States can also strengthen disclosure laws so that a home’s flood or wildfire risk isn’t something buyers discover only after a disaster. As Susan Crawford, a climate adaptation scholar and writer, suggests, the government should fully fund a modernized flood mapping program that shows not only today’s risk, but how flooding is expected to change. Finally, real-estate platforms must stop fighting the facts and start preparing people for the dangers that already exist.

So, force websites to provide this information so the small number of Warmists who care can see it, instead of paying $37 a month.

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Unhinged Democrats Want To Pretty Much End Government’s Immigration Enforcement

By William Teach December 6, 2025 – 7:00 am

They think this is about “dignity”, and, this isn’t something supported by a few of the moonbat wackos

Dem-backed ‘dignity’ bill could strip ICE of detention powers, erase immigration enforcement, critics warn

After more than 120 House Democrats signed onto a bill from a top progressive lawmaker to seek what they define as “dignity” for federal immigration detainees, critics sounded the alarm that the legislation could forever transform how illegal immigrants are treated in the U.S.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., is spearheading the Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act, along with fellow Evergreen State lawmaker Rep. Adam Smith, the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee. They say it would curb the “shocking surge” of allegedly wrongful detentions and inappropriate conditions, particularly at jails run by private companies under government contract.

Critics vociferously objected to that suggestion in exclusive comments to Fox News Digital Friday.

“This legislation isn’t aimed at improving conditions for migrants navigating the U.S. immigration system. It would instead end the federal government’s ability to enforce immigration law entirely,” members of the Day 1 Alliance, the main trade association representing longtime federal and state contractors in the criminal justice and immigration spaces, warned.

The Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act would lead to the repeal of mandatory detention for those captured by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to a summary posted by Jayapal, and create a presumption of release, imposing a higher burden of proof to detain primary caregivers and “vulnerable populations.”

These same illegals would then just disappear into the U.S. again once released, but, really, the idea here is simply to make it so difficult for the government to detain and deport illegals that it wouldn’t be worth trying. Much like how cops wouldn’t even show up to take shoplifting statements in California and Washington due to their newly passed laws. Why would the cops bother when the perps would be immediately released and never convicted?

In apparent response to Democrats being iced out of ICE centers earlier in 2025, including a case in Newark, New Jersey, where Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., was accused of accosting officers, it also would mandate that the Department of Homeland Security admit members of Congress to detention facilities for unannounced inspections.

Because it’s apparently difficult for the dilettantes in Congress to have a staffer schedule an inspection.

She showed up unannounced demanding information, and interfered. She looks pretty good for someone who just got pepper sprayed, right?

Ooops.

As Tricia McLaughlin, Assistant Secretary DHS, notes:

She was in the vicinity of someone who *was* pepper sprayed as they were obstructing and assaulting law enforcement. In fact, 2 law enforcement officers were seriously injured by this mob that
@Rep_Grijalva joined.

Presenting one’s self as a “Member of Congress” doesn’t give you the right to obstruct law enforcement.

She should be arrested for interfering.

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