Surprise: Democrats Now Favor Socialism Over Capitalism

By William Teach August 17, 2026 – 10:30 am

Do they actually know what Socialism is per Political Science 101? Or what it actually means for Modern Socialism? Are they willing to give up their own money, or, do they want to make their own money and have money taken from Other People to pay for all the free stuff?

Dems now favor socialism over capitalism by this overwhelming amount: new poll

Democrats now overwhelmingly have a more favorable view of socialism than capitalism, according to a shocking new poll.

Nearly 60% of party members support socialism compared to 18% who view it negatively, while just 32% have a favorable view of capitalism compared to 50% who see it as negative, according to the CBS News/YouGov survey.

The poor marks for capitalism among Democrats get even worse when narrowed down to those who have a college degree, with 71% of that group favoring socialism compared to 16% viewing it unfavorably, the poll showed.

The disturbing findings come as Democrats are engaged in a so-called “battle for the soul” of their party.

Democratic Socialists of America-backed and allied candidates have had a series of breakthrough victories in Democratic primaries across the country throughout the 2026 election cycle.

Will the be good with the Government taking over their own small businesses? Running their big businesses?

When asked to describe the free market, an overwhelming 66% of respondents said it was good for the US economy, compared to 34% who called it bad.

Yet on a policy level, there are signs that even Republicans are supportive of certain policies historically associated with socialism, such as price controls.

Economists generally oppose price controls, arguing they can disrupt supply and demand, which can lead to consequences such as shortages of certain goods or services.

How is massive government intervention in healthcare and higher education working out? But, of course, things like price controls, rent control, and more are not the point. It’s all the other things that comes with Modern Socialism, starting with Government controlling your life and restricting your freedom. And then just the ultra-Crazy, like no borders, no police, no prisons. A lot of the support is from Millennials and Gen Z, who were indoctrinated into this belief.

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Climate Cult Looking To Indoctrinate Kids On School Playgrounds

By William Teach August 17, 2026 – 7:15 am

Didn’t the original Russian commies talk about getting the kiddies early?

The movement to remake school playgrounds as urban climate oases

Stepping into the schoolyard at the Adolph S. Ochs public school in Manhattan’s bustling Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood, you’re greeted by a canopy of trees. Painted sea turtles and birds adorn the pavement. Summer school kids run along the track encircling the green turf field, tossing balls back and forth. Other kids shoot hoops or decompress in the shade. After walking down nearby Ninth Avenue in the blistering heat, one finds it noticeably cooler here.

This schoolyard wasn’t always like this. Eleven years ago, it resembled many other city playgrounds: an open, unshaded expanse of black asphalt.

Now, it’s among 420 schoolyards across 26 states that the nonprofit Trust for Public Land says it is helping to transform from barren blacktop into welcoming oases for schoolchildren and local residents.

In late July, TPL hosted a two-day summit in New York City, bringing together school district leaders, landscape architects and environmental advocates from across the country to learn more about reinvigorating schoolyards. Keynote speakers extolled the benefits of nature-based play and keeping schoolyards open to the public when school isn’t in session.

Now, I’m happy to say that this is a good idea, replacing asphalt with grass. Having trees.

But these designs aren’t driven just by aesthetics and opportunities for play. Climate change is exacerbating dangerous heat waves and increasing the frequency of downpours in some cities. Green-roofed gazebos and rain gardens to catch storm runoff can let schools help their neighborhoods mitigate difficult weather conditions.

These people.

At schoolyards such as the one at Adolph S. Ochs, asphalt playgrounds can worsen flooding and overwhelm the city’s drainage systems. Switching out blacktop for porous pavement allows rain to seep through rather than pool on the surface. A green gazebo roof, acting as a sponge, absorbs rainwater and reduces the flooding risk. On 90-degree days, unshaded asphalt surfaces can surpass 140 degrees, but shaded surfaces have been found to be at least 30 degrees cooler than those without protection from the sun.

Oh, hey, they just discovered the Urban Heat Island effect, which, while man-caused, is not global nor doom.

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Is NICE About To Crack Down On NYC?

By William Teach August 17, 2026 – 7:00 am

This would make Mamdani and the rest of the unhinged moonbats very unhappy

(VNY) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the tip of the spear in President Trump’s mass deportation dragnet, has targeted specific communities within the five boroughs and flooded them with agents in recent days.

According to the immigrant advocacy group New York Immigration Coalition, the federal agency’s enforcement operations have increased across southwest Brooklyn and Cypress Hills, Upper Manhattan, and Staten Island. Make the Road New York warns that ICE has increased enforcement across northern Queens, from Elmhurst to College Point.

The warnings echo a threat from White House border coordinator Tom Homan in early May, when he said that if New York enacted legislation limiting cooperation with ICE, the administration would “flood the zone” with more ICE agents than New Yorkers had ever seen. The remarks came as Gov. Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers were advancing the Local Cops, Local Crimes Act, then pending legislation and now state law. The law bars local governments and law-enforcement agencies from entering into or maintaining 287(g) agreements, which authorize participating local officers to carry out specified federal immigration-enforcement functions for ICE.

Signs of the increased activity have been plentiful in recent weeks. Videos taken across the five boroughs made the rounds on social media in July, showing masked and armored federal officers on the streets, in larger groups than had previously been observed. One particular clip from Upper Manhattan went viral, showing one such agent spraying an elderly woman who was protesting, with no apparent justification. The protester, 72-year-old Linda Wolff, is now suing the officer.

They are definitely doing it different than previous operations. Can’t wait to see how many illegals with criminal records who were being protected get busted.

Meanwhile

She pleaded guilty to a drug charge. Then she visited Mexico not knowing she couldn’t return

At her trial, there’s no question that Angela Hernandez signed a form acknowledging that she could be deported after a criminal conviction. An interpreter certified that they had translated the whole form and her attorney was confident Hernandez understood it.

But the California Supreme Court said in a ruling handed down Thursday that it’s not enough to check a form’s boxes — a defendant has to “meaningfully understand” the legal consequences of a plea deal. “Were it not for these errors,” the court found, “there is a reasonable probability that she would have rejected the plea offer and either attempted to negotiate a plea with less dire immigration consequences or taken her case to trial.”

Hernandez was charged with two drug offenses in Kern County in 2013. She was a citizen of Mexico but had been a legal permanent resident of the U.S. for 19 years. She was 55-years-old at the time of her arrest, with a father, husband, kids and grandkids in the U.S.

She was here for 19 years, yet, didn’t bother learning English, something we see quite often with people legally and illegally present in the U.S.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 16, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon bike which Everyone Else should be forced to ride, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Powerline, with a post on “Chinese Funding Anti-Semitism?”

It’s blue week

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach August 16, 2026 – 9:00 am

Happy Sunday! Another wonderful day in Returned America. The Sun is shining, the geese are geesing, and the NY Giants were somewhat respectable during the preseason game Saturday. This pinup is by Vaughan Bass, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Green Jihad: Thousands Of Dutch Farmers Protest EU Nitrogen Rules In
  2. Climate Change Dispatch: Climate Groups Stall Endangerment Finding Fight, Hoping To Run Out The Trump Clock
  3. Jo Nova: Trump’s race to launch Nuclear Microreactors changes everything – (An Australian led team built one in just 150 days)
  4. Not A Lot Of People Of Know That: Whitehall is turning England into tinderbox
  5. Watts Up With That?: California’s ‘Sustainability’ Bureaucracy Takes a Big Sip from Napa Valley’s Iconic Vineyards
  6. 357 Magnum: Do People Not Know of Flesh-Eating Bacteria in Florida Waters?
  7. American Greatness: How Hamas’ Attack on Israel Is Transforming American Politics
  8. Bearing Arms: Giffords Freaks Over Lack of DOJ Appeal in NFA Case
  9. Blazing Cat Fur: Quitting Canada: Why I am moving to the United States
  10. Chicks On The Right: Mass Fraud in Massachusetts: Mayor Uses COVID Funds for Personal Gain
  11. Cold Fury: You GO, girls!
  12. Diogenes’ Middle Finger: We Don’t Hate These People Enough.
  13. Gates Of Vienna: An Allahu Akhbar Moment in Toulouse
  14. Geller Report: Governor Abbott Drops the Hammer: Texas Airports’ Special Muslim Footbaths “Illegal,” State Funding Now on the Chopping Block
  15. And last, but, not least, LMAO has “Kamala Buys a Mansion in Malibu and . . . Coincidence?”

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?

As a sidebar, it’s wild how man blogs I’ve seen die over the years for different reasons.

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

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Judge Rules TPS For Somalis Can Be Ended

By William Teach August 16, 2026 – 7:00 am

I’m still not sure why this is so difficult, being that the 18 month renewal period had already ended, and the Supreme Court basically said that the Executive Branch has control, not the courts, but, whatever

Trump scores major immigration victory as judge clears way to end TPS protections for thousands of Somalis

President Donald Trump scored a major legal victory Friday after a federal judge cleared the way for his administration to terminate temporary legal protections for thousands of Somali nationals living in the United States.

U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs in Boston lifted a stay that had prevented the Department of Homeland Security from terminating Somalia’s Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation, citing a June Supreme Court ruling that sharply limited judicial review of similar administration actions.

The decision allows the Trump administration to move forward with ending TPS for Somalia, potentially exposing affected migrants who lack another lawful basis to remain in the U.S. to deportation.

Burroughs, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, had previously blocked the termination from taking effect in a lawsuit brought by four Somali nationals and two advocacy groups, including African Communities Together.

But

In Friday’s ruling, Burroughs said the plaintiffs had presented a compelling case but concluded that the Supreme Court’s decision constrained her ability to continue blocking the administration’s action.

Burroughs wrote that she was “bound … to view things through the Mullin prism,” referring to the Supreme Court case.

“Plaintiffs have made a convincing showing that they will suffer irreparable harm if the injunction is withheld … and the balance of hardships and the public interest also favor Plaintiffs, given that the government has made no showing that maintaining TPS status for the duration of this litigation would impose an undue burden,” she wrote.

I fail to see the problem with sending them back. When Trump is out there slamming Somalia, the Democrats and their pet media are telling us that Somalia is great! I mean really, really great, and everyone should move back (notice the date). So, why can’t they go home?

Oh, and the thing is, the most recent 18 month time period for TPS for Somalis ended March 17,2026. No administration is under any obligation to renew TPS. Hence, time to go.

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Germans Have Climate (scam) Action Fatigue

By William Teach August 15, 2026 – 4:56 pm

I guess they’re tired of being told Doom! is coming and they should give up their money, life choices, and freedom, while the people forcing this on them are living the fossil fuels high life

In Germany, record heat meets climate action fatigue

When Lars Werner of the “Last Generation” climate activist group glued himself to the road four years ago to protest for greater climate action, Germany had not yet seen 12,500 heat-related deaths (the 2026 toll, so far), or record temperatures across Western Europe, and fully loaded ships were still navigating the Rhine without difficulty.

“Of course, I could say ‘I told you so,’ because it was foreseeable and comes as no surprise whatsoever,” Werner told DW.

Uh huh. Except, the climate cultists were talking about in 2050 and 2100, because the weather is finicky

But so far, the federal government has remained astonishingly quiet. Despite the crisis, it has still not convened a “heat summit.”

“It is utterly irrational for the federal government to resort to tinkering with regulations — such as lifting the Sunday ban on truck traffic — in the hope of somehow scraping by without implementing a comprehensive climate protection policy for the long or even short term,” said Werner.

More and more in government are bowing out of placating the doomsday cult

Only a few hundred protesters turned out for a demonstration outside the chancellery in Berlin a week ago. It was a far cry from the protests in 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, when hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets to demand climate action.

A recent study by the Bertelsmann Foundation found that 80% of people in Germany are worried about climate change, and more than 50% want to see more government spending on climate protection. But that doesn’t mean they’re take to the streets.

It might have been popular briefly, but, they wanted theoretical action. Once actual real world action happened all the little peasant level cultists realized that they were the ones forced to pay the price.

“Then there is the competition for attention; the COVID pandemic and the war in Ukraine pushed the climate issue out of the spotlight, and current economic concerns also play a major role,” said Haunss, adding that many of those who took to the streets against climate change a few years ago are now focusing on different topics.

Real world.

German Environment Minister Carsten Schneider of the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) now wants to amend the constitution, the Basic Law, to make heat protection a joint responsibility of the federal government, the states, and the municipalities.

However, the larger coalition partner, the center-right bloc of the Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU), is skeptical of the plan and has cited “legal concerns.”

The Warmists basically want it cult Beliefs embedded in their Constitution. More and more are tuning out, though.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 15, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is an Evil fossil fueled truck, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The American Conservative, with a post on “‘Woke 1’ Never Really Went Away”

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Why Is AOC Doing Costly Egg Freezing When She Still Owes Student Loan Debt?

By William Teach August 15, 2026 – 10:30 am

The same people who are bad with spending your forcibly taken tax money and not that good with their own money

AOC’s student debt unpaid as she embarks on costly egg-freezing journey

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has made at least $174,000 annually for nearly eight years as a member of Congress, but like many of her “Squad” colleagues, she has yet to put a substantial dent in her student loan debt, according to House financial disclosures.

The Bronx and Queens Democrat has owed between $15,001 and $50,000 in federal student loan debt since her election to the House in 2018. That’s the same amount she owes now, according to her August disclosure, where lawmakers report ranges for debt and income.

The “Tax the Rich!” pol reported less than $81,000 in total assets.

Recently, Ocasio-Cortez has suggested that she’d been saving up for some time instead to freeze her eggs, a process that can cost between $10,000 and $20,000 per cycle.

Yeah, well, she seems to have no problem having cars and a nice apartment in DC and NYC and all the clothes and eyeglasses and jewelry and so much more. We all know the graft money is there, she’s just better at hiding it. Though, it is interesting that someone with a degree in economics is probably only paying the minimum on the student loans. Not that she understands economics to start with

The “Squad” Democrat has consistently backed student debt cancellation. During former President Joe Biden’s term, she even pushed the 46th commander-in-chief to cancel as much as $50,000 in debt per student borrower. But she’s not the only US lawmaker who’s still holding student loans.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) has held up to $50,000 over the past eight years in student debt — despite her net worth ballooning for a time to as much as $30 million due to her husband’s winery and venture capital businesses.

Why would she want to repay a debt when she can try and get the government to do that?

Early in his term, Biden expressly rejected writing off up to $50,000 in outstanding student loan debt, earning AOC’s ire.

“Entire generations of working class kids were encouraged to go into more debt under the guise of elitism. This is wrong,” she said in February 2021. “Nowhere does it say we must trade-off early childhood education for student loan forgiveness. We can have both.”

This is the Democrat way: give easy loans for college, then have the colleges Democrats run raise the costs, then not teach the Yutes how loans work and how to pay them off, offer degrees that are mostly worthless in the jobs market, heck, push the kiddies to get them, and then tell those same Yutes to demand the government pay those loans off.

Good questions. But, really, members of Congress will almost never go after each other, regardless of Party, when it comes to the Money.

Do have to throw some respect to AOC for getting a bit thicker, rather than taking Ozempic and looking like a hollowed out person like so many celebs.

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Puerto Rico’s Water Crisis Is Caused By Ineptitude And Climate Doom, But All Ineptitude

By William Teach August 15, 2026 – 7:15 am

It’s always some sort of Blamestorming from the cult

With Puerto Rico’s water crisis, climate change meets ineptitude

Last week in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the water taps ran dry.

The Caribbean island experienced its driest July on record, with more than 60% of the territory — more than 3 million residents — facing drought conditions according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.

In fact, PR has a history of droughts. That’s a condition based on where it is located.

Large trucks filled with potable water have been sent throughout the island to help residents, with the sick and elderly given preference.

But this dire water situation didn’t just happen overnight or even over the course of the past few months.

“For decades, communities have lived without fair access to water resources, and experts have repeatedly warned that the lack of infrastructure maintenance and poor watershed management would lead Puerto Rico to the water crisis it faces today.”

So, pretty much incompetence. Poor planning. Bad government. I wonder how much money went into graft, waste, and fraud rather than the infrastructure, especially as the population of PR has grown, as has the tourist industry?

“The challenge comes from two key issues,” Gossett Navarro said. “One is an ongoing challenge that we’ve had for decades related to infrastructure and then there are the challenges that get exacerbated by the climate crisis … we’re struggling with a drought and it’s making the infrastructure issues even worse.”

Sigh.

It’s currently estimated that approximately 60% of water that travels through Puerto Rico’s geriatric pipes is lost due to leaks and other infrastructural issues, Navarro mentioned.

So even when it does rain, and a percentage of that water lands in accessible reservoirs, citizens are only able to use a fraction of that fraction.

That’s not ‘climate change’.

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