Edgy Stephen Colbert Has Band Played Licensed Music To Cost CBS (so he thinks)

By William Teach May 22, 2026 – 10:30 am

Well, hey, way to burn that bridge, Stevie. Think this will help with future big employers?

(Rolling Stone) During the final episode of The Late Show, host Stephen Colbert purposely used copyrighted music during a segment, a move that could potentially cost his former bosses at CBS a lot of dough if the music was unauthorized, and the usage were to end in a lawsuit.

“Peanuts is a powerful brand and corporation in and of itself. Anyone illegally using that music is going to have to pay through the nose,” he said, before addressing his band leader, Louis Cato. “Louis, Louis! Is the band right now playing the same Peanuts music I just said people were being sued for, for using without permission? Is that what you’re doing?” The band was indeed launching into the familiar Vince Guaraldi song. “Oh no, I hope this doesn’t cost CBS any money!” Colbert said.

LOL, that’s totally a funny gag, Steve-O, costing your employer potentially millions….oh, wait, does he know they can hold the final paychecks of himself and the band members after this stunt in lei of the potential cost of playing that music? That they can garnish those wages and any future residuals? That they can sue to recover the money that the employ cost them while he was still and employee?

As for the band, did Steve-a-doodle consider that they weren’t making the $15 million a year like he was, and could now have much harder times getting jobs, with future employers knowing that they willfully engaged in behavior that cost their employer lots of money? Good job, Steve-a-rooney! But

So, it was potentially all just a scam from Colbert? Huh. Surprise?

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UN Backs Wacko World Court Opinion On Climate Doom

By William Teach May 22, 2026 – 7:15 am

It’s really long past time that the US stops giving money to the United Nations. All the people attending this took fossil fueled flights and then rides in fossil fueled limos

UN backs historic climate crisis ruling, despite US attempts to stop resolution

climate cowThe UN has voted 141-8 to adopt a resolution backing a world court opinion that countries have a legal obligation to address climate change, with the US – which is the world’s biggest historical emitter – among the small group opposing it.

The UN secretary general, António Guterres, said Wednesday’s general assembly vote, in which 28 countries abstained, underscored that governments are responsible for protecting citizens from the “escalating climate crisis”.

“I welcome the adoption of the General Assembly resolution on the ICJ’s advisory opinion on climate change – a powerful affirmation of international law, climate justice, science + the responsibility of states to protect people from the escalating climate crisis,” Guterres said in a post on X.

Yeah, yeah, I remember when he took a long fossil fueled flight to Nepal, then a fossil fueled helicopter flight to near Mt Everest for a quick climate cult photo op

The resolution, brought by the Pacific island Vanuatu, affirms a July 2025 advisory opinion by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that states are obligated to reduce fossil fuel use and tackle global warming.

Vanuatu has 17 airports, and relies on fossil fueled ships to bring in goods.

The US joined Saudi Arabia, Russia, Israel, Iran, Yemen, Liberia and Belarus in opposing the resolution on Wednesday. Cop31 climate summit host Turkey, India, and oil producers Qatar and Nigeria were among those abstaining.

Australia, Germany, France and the UK were among the 141 voting in favour of the resolution.

The ones voting for the resolution use quite a bit of fossil fuels themselves, and many are fossil fuels producers. I remember when France and England talked Obama into attacking Libya to keep the oil flowing.

“The resolution includes inappropriate political demands relating to fossil fuels,” the US deputy ambassador to the UN, Tammy Bruce, said. Washington saw no basis for requiring the secretary-general to report on the legal issues raised, Bruce added.

Why do they always miss the opportunity to note that all these countries, and all their representatives at the UN, use lots of fossil fuels?

Before the vote, Odo Tevi, the Vanuatu ambassador to the UN, said: “We should be honest with one another about why this matters … It matters because the harm is real and it is already here, along our islands and coastlines, for communities facing drought and failed harvests.

How did Tevi get to NYC for the UN meeting?

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Elected Democrats Hold Rally Against Illegal Alien Bill

By William Teach May 22, 2026 – 7:00 am

Have you ever noticed that Democrats do not tend to hold rallies for regular old Americans? For the middle and working classes? Mostly for criminals and illegals

WATCH: Democrats rally at Capitol against GOP’s immigration enforcement funding bill

House and Senate Democrats gathered on the Capitol steps Thursday in opposition to Republicans’ funding bill for immigration enforcement.

Democrats tried to draw a sharp contrast by highlighting how the White House proposed including $1 billion for security for the White House complex and President Donald Trump’s ballroom. Republicans are abandoning that proposal, but Democrats said Congress should be focused instead on making life affordable for everyday Americans.

House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, for his part, said “immigration enforcement in this country should be fair. It should be just, and it should be humane.”

It should stop illegals from coming into the U.S. It should end the whole scam of asylum, which has been abused. It should stop bringing in all these 3rd worlders from 3rd world nations and the Islamists on TPS and as “refugees” who never leave and never assimilate, who steal money and demand America change for them.

It should control those coming in on visas and refuse to extend those visas. Come on a 4 year student or work visa, then you leave. They don’t get to bring in tons of their relatives. There’s video of these unhinged illegal aliens supporters who care more about the illegals than the Americans in their districts and states

Meanwhile

Official warns US could halt immigration, customs processing at ‘sanctuary city’ airports, sources say

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne ?Mullin privately warned that authorities could stop processing international travelers ?and cargo at major U.S. airports in “sanctuary cities” that have declined to cooperate with the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, sources told Reuters.

Mullin, who publicly made the ?threat in April during a Department of Homeland Security funding dispute, privately ?told travel executives last week that the department could ?opt to stop customs and immigrations processing of international travelers at airports in cities ?such as Denver, Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, Newark, Seattle and ?San Francisco.

I’m not sure to what point. This wouldn’t really help, unless someone can give a good reason.

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LA Times Is Upset Trump Rolled Back The Absurd AC Standards

By William Teach May 21, 2026 – 4:06 pm

During both the Obama and Biden admins there were lots of new standards that made AC way more expensive, and made them less affordable for the middle and working class. Trump is having none of that

Older AC and fridge chemicals amp up climate change. Trump just rolled back limits on them

President Trump on Thursday announced that grocery stories and air conditioning companies will be allowed to keep using high-polluting refrigerants for longer than they would have under a law he signed during his first administration.

“This was a tremendous burden, a tremendous cost,” said Trump, surrounded in the Oval Office by executives from supermarket chains including Kroger, Fairway, Neimann Foods and Piggly Wiggly. “It was making the equipment unaffordable, and the actual benefit was nothing.”

The move loosens rules meant to restrict hydroflourocarbons, a class of climate-damaging chemicals used in cooling equipment. HFCs are known as “super pollutants” because their impact on climate change can be tens of thousands of times greater than carbon dioxide during their shorter lifespans.

In the move Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency extends the deadline for companies to comply with a 2023 rule transitioning refrigerators and air conditioners off HFCs and onto new cooling technologies. Reducing these chemicals and moving to cleaner refrigerants has long been a bipartisan issue.

Um, what law did Trump sign that caused the rule put out by Biden’s EPA? Weird that there is no link to it and it is not named. And, I’m not going to bother looking. The LA Times made the assertion. But, if it was a law Trump signed, the unhinged Warmist EPA surely misused the law to pass this rule.

Trump is also proposing exemptions from a rule requiring leak repairs on large-scale refrigeration systems.

The administration framed the changes as part of its effort to bring down high grocery costs. EPA administrator Lee Zeldin said the actions will save $2.4 billion for Americans and safeguard 350,000 jobs.

“Americans who wanted to be able to fix their equipment were instead being required to buy far more costly new equipment and that just doesn’t make any sense,” said Zeldin.

Most of the “replacements” for HFCs, which I will 100% agree are greenhouse gases and bad for the ozone, as well as decrease air quality a bit, are highly flammable and a lot more expensive, require full replacement of equipment, which is itself not cheap. And those costs get passed on to consumers. In fact, attempting to ban HFCs goes easily back to 2016, when the global elites moved to eradicate them without viable, affordable replacements.

The weird thing is how none of those elites nor regular old Warmists are giving up their own AC units.

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Totally Impartial Media Laments Tonight Being The Last TDS Infused Colbert Show

By William Teach May 21, 2026 – 10:30 am

It’s been so entertaining!

There’s a reason it was always called “mindless late night entertainment.” You used to put it on, enjoy some movie and TV stars who had new movies/TV shows coming out, authors, animals, bands who just released a record, comedians. There was barely any politics, and what little there was was light-hearted. People fell asleep in their chair or bed to it. Relaxed and enjoyed. That changed to simply be propaganda shows for Democrats, with tons of elected Democrats appearing, reporters (making themselves the news), every celeb having to talk politics. And became full Orange Man Bad in 2017. 50% of the audience immediately disappeared, and even most Democrats had no interest in hardball politics starting at 1130pm. And now

What ‘The Late Show’ meant to America, to NYC, and to the Trump resistance

A late-night TV show is more than the sum of its parts. “The Late Show” certainly was.

First with David Letterman, then with Stephen Colbert, “The Late Show” was an amusing and comforting ritual for viewers; a treasured stage for comedians; a coveted platform for politicians and authors; and a reliable marketing vehicle for CBS.

But they never used to be a platform for politicians. In the very rare occasion they were on it was kept bipartisan. I remember Al Gore being fun during an appearance when he was VP, hadn’t started running yet. There was nothing partisan. He had fun with a $500 ashtray meant for government planes, why they were necessary, trying to smash it, and subtlety showing how government was wasting money.

The interviews made news. The monologues made sense of the news. The comedy bits made the whole world feel a little less bleak.

Only to the vastly left wing news. Most Americans tuned out, as the ratings showed.

But now it’s all going away. CBS is closing the curtain on “The Late Show” on Thursday night. Citing broadcast TV’s financial woes, the network is giving up on an admittedly expensive late-night format and letting Colbert take his talents elsewhere.

Many critics see it as a form of capitulation to President Donald Trump, who has bristled at Colbert’s acerbic criticism and sought to silence him. Some “Late Show” fans believe Trump effectively canned Colbert and the show.

That theory is inescapable because Colbert was such a vocal part of the anti-Trump resistance, both in the late 2010s and again recently.

And this helped CBS lose $40 million to $50 million a year. Advertisers fled, seeing little return on their advertising dollars, and those left were treated to lower than normal advertiser rates. CBS and other networks, and streamers, will cancel shows in a heartbeat when shows are making money but less than expected.

Judging from some of the viewer comments and emails I’ve read, the fans who are mourning the end of “The Late Show” are also mourning the end of shows like it — communal spaces that have been around for as long as they can remember.

They may be mourning it, but, they weren’t watching, and, did CBS need to lose all that money to have a moonbat communal space? All Colbert had to do was go back to being “mindless late night entertainment for all” and it could have succeeded.

Colbert and his allies have noted that CBS didn’t try to salvage “The Late Show” by, say, dramatically cutting costs or changing the format.

Colbert could easily have shifted the content of the show. He didn’t. That’s on him and his people. Expect tonight’s last show to be utterly unhinged. But, it will mean nothing, because he’s preaching to the unhinged choir. The Credentialed Media will dutifully post what happened, and, then within a few days the show will be completely forgotten. No one will miss it, no one will care.

Really, though, this is when it all started going downhill. No one wanted this propaganda shit, even normal Democrats who were all in on the COVID “vaccine”

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Portland, Oregon Has Raised A Billion Dollars To Stop Climate Doom

By William Teach May 21, 2026 – 7:15 am

So, we can expect $200 million to be spent, with the rest disappearing into the pockets of NGOs, friends and family of politicians and bureaucrats, and money getting fed back into the coffers of politicians?

How one Oregon city has raised a billion dollars for climate change

In the last seven years, the city of Portland, Ore., has built a community solar project to reduce emissions and lower energy bills for 150 low-income families. The city has distributed more than 20,000 free air conditioning units to help vulnerable households prepare for heat waves. It has funded energy efficiency retrofits for 3,100 homes. And 2,000 people have been trained in the renewable energy and construction fields.

Best Buy has window AC units running from $1200 for a 1500 square foot to the upper $100s for small room units. Does anyone else think Portland spent 3-4 times that cost for the units (cough graft cough)?

These projects have all been made possible due to an innovative billion-dollar climate fund. The Portland Clean Energy Fund is a first-of-its-kind racial, social and climate justice fund aimed at helping the city’s most vulnerable residents adapt to climate change while also reducing carbon emissions.

A 65% majority of voters passed the measure in 2018, and in 2019, the city began levying a 1% retail sales tax on large corporations within Portland city limits — think Target, Walmart, REI.

Unlike a sales tax, which is paid by the consumer, the companies pay the city a small percentage of each sale; for example, a $100 purchase means the city earns $1.

So every large corporation simply raises the cost of items so they make the same profit, right, hence, the consumer actually pays. And, along with all the other crazy crap in Portland, it just meant they had another reason to leave. Walmart has closed all of its stores. Target closed multiple stores, leaving 3. Many other companies, including supermarkets, have left. And, sure, crime, theft, Progressives, were primary.

Since the fund began, it has garnered about $1 billion and is projected to reach $1.6 billion by mid-2029.

Well, you voted to pay more, Portland residents who overwhelmingly vote Democrat, no complaining when you have to keep leaving the city to buy goods.

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Trump Signs EO Making It Harder For Illegals, Terrorists To Access US Banking Systems

By William Teach May 21, 2026 – 7:00 am

It’s another method to discourage illegals from coming to the US and incentivize illegals/fake asylum seekers to leave. But, there’s another big reason to this

Trump Moves to Tighten Banking Access for Non-Citizens

President Donald Trump is moving to tighten access to financial systems for non-citizens in the U.S. amid his Administration’s broader crackdown on immigration.

On Tuesday, Trump signed an executive order, titled “Restoring Integrity to America’s Financial System,” that would require banks to treat a customer’s immigration status as a factor in evaluating potential financial risk.

The new order directs the Treasury Secretary and federal financial regulators to issue guidance to banks on identifying customers whose profiles or transactions potentially indicate risks like money laundering, terrorism financing, and labor trafficking in line with the 1970 Bank Secrecy Act. Those changes are intended to “account for the risks foreign consular identification cards pose to the integrity of the United States financial system,” the order said.

The order describes “red flags and typologies” associated with suspicious activity. Among these are repetitive cash withdrawals, the use of shell companies to conceal true account ownership, and the use of certain platforms for “off-the-books” wage payments.

You can see this is aimed a lot at the amount of scam money being sent overseas, particularly to Somalia, by legal and illegal aliens (FYI, alien in federal law means “not a US citizen”)

The move could make it more difficult for non-citizens, especially undocumented immigrants, to access financial services, even for legitimate reasons. The Administration has aggressively clamped down on both legal and illegal immigration in the U.S. It has detained and deported people en masse, including some with lawful immigration status; increased scrutiny for visa and citizenship applications; and restricted immigrants’ access to public services. Large-scale immigration raids have ignited protests across the country, which have ended in the killings of several Americans by federal agents.

Good.

The fact sheet claimed that “gaps in customer identification practices have allowed terrorists, drug traffickers, money launderers, and other criminal networks to exploit U.S. financial institutions to move illicit funds and evade law enforcement,” citing documented Chinese-linked money laundering networks.

The White House also pointed to cases of banks extending mortgages, credit cards, and loans to undocumented immigrants and employers underreporting wages for undocumented employees, arguing that associated “costs are passed on to American consumers in the forms of higher fees and interest rates.”

Why would a bank give a loan to illegals who face deportation? Many here on work and school visas have trouble getting loans from any institution other than very specialized ones. Many go for leases because their visas are for 3 years.

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Surprise: One Of Austin Shooters Is An Illegal Alien

By William Teach May 20, 2026 – 3:08 pm

I said there was a high chance of this the other day, but, I think on Twitter only

Austin shooting spree: 17-year-old suspect charged with 6 felonies

The 17-year-old connected to the shooting spree that took place across Austin this past weekend had his first court appearance Tuesday.

The backstory:
17-year-old Cristian Mondragon has been charged with six felonies. The charges include: (snip)

In court, it was revealed Mondragon is not a U.S. citizen and currently has an ICE hold.

He was also on probation through the juvenile justice system and has a juvenile detainer. (snip)

Authorities said the 17-year-old, Cristian Mondragon-Fajardo, had an active warrant for stealing a firearm from the same store where the 15-year-old allegedly stole another gun Saturday. Investigators believe the suspects stole more than four vehicles during the spree and may have switched vehicles multiple times.

So, an illegal who should have already been deported for being a criminal. Can’t wait for more news that shows he came in during the Biden years and is a gang member who should never have been let in to start with (beyond being an illegal, of course).

Unsurprisingly, there are only 3 stories, all locals including the above, on Google news for the past 24 hours that mention he’s an illegal. There is nothing at CNN, NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times, ABC, CBS, NBC, etc and so on about the Austin shooting for days, and certainly not the kids’ name or that he’s an illegal. They essentially memory-holed the story when it looked like the shooters could be illegals and they couldn’t use the narrative of “guns bad”.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 20, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is a river that will soon be full of sharks due to ‘climate change’, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Geller Report, with a post on Jew hating Thomas Massie losing.

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NC GOP Looking To Pass Constitutional Amendment Limiting State Taxes

By William Teach May 20, 2026 – 10:30 am

Obviously, Democrats are against keeping taxes low for NC citizens

NC House to try again on constitutional amendments targeting income, property taxes

North Carolina House lawmakers are expected to try again Wednesday on a pair of proposed constitutional amendments after votes were delayed Tuesday.

One of the proposals seeks to permanently cap the state’s income tax rate at 3.5%. The other aims to regulate how quickly local governments can increase property tax rates.

Supporters say Republican-backed tax cuts in recent years have helped the economy grow, and that enshrining tax cuts into the state constitution will make them harder for future legislatures to undo. Critics say that by targeting two major sources of revenue for state government, as well as cities and counties, the amendments would go too far in limiting revenue and could force cuts to schools, police and other government services. (snip)

The income tax cap proposal has already cleared the Senate. That proposal, which would cut in half the state’s maximum possible income tax rate from 7% to 3.5%, passed 30-18 early Tuesday, with every Republican in support and every Democrat opposed.

Democrats do not care about police, except in their own neighborhoods. They do care about schools and government services, because that’s where their voters work. And being able to allocate way more money than needed means their friends, family, and donors get a piece of that pie. NGOs get their money for doing 20% of the work.

The biggest thing here is not the income tax rate, it’s the raising of taxes in counties run by Democrats which is the issue, as many are looking to raise taxes, particularly the property taxes, which is less than optimal after homeowners already saw them skyrocket post-COVID as their property values jumped 2.5 times. Perhaps counties and cities (both Wake County and the City Of Raleigh are looking to raise property taxes, for instance) should learn to spend money wisely. To tighten their belts just like in private companies. And keep an eye on their money

Chair of Durham PAC charged with embezzling more than $74,000 from committee
According to court documents, Cassandra Shana Stokes, the former chair of the Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People, was charged with embezzlement and fraud in connection with a State Bureau of Investigation case into fraud allegations involving the PAC.

Dems will say “It’s only $74K, what’s the big deal?” Republicans will say “If I stole $74K directly from you, would you be OK with that?”

Original article

Critics say the move could leave North Carolina unable to respond adequately in the future to natural disasters, economic recessions or other emergencies. They called the proposal a move to trick voters this November into thinking the amendment will lower their taxes immediately. It won’t, since lawmakers already plan to lower the income tax rate to 3.49% next year regardless of whether the amendment passes with its proposed 3.5% cap.

North Carolina is legally required to have a balanced budget, with no deficit spending, so any drop in revenue must be made up by either making cuts or raising revenue, such as through taxes.

Make cuts. How much could be saved be reducing fraud, graft, and waste? Terminating all the non-necessary and redundant positions?

While the House postponed its vote Tuesday on the property tax amendment, its members voted unanimously for another bill that would partially close a loophole for affordable housing developers to be exempted from paying property taxes. That measure faces a final vote in the House Wednesday before heading to the Senate.

Rep. Erin Pare, R-Wake, is its main sponsor. She said too many apartment developers and others have been allowed to qualify for the tax breaks due to a recent court ruling, called the Blue Ridge case, and so she’s proposing this new law to clarify who can or can’t qualify. If her proposal had been in place last year, she said, Wake County alone would’ve collected an additional $11.4 million in revenue.

And there’s the “affordable housing” scam in play, for which Governor Stein is making a push again. There’s an “affordable housing” apartment complex nearby that is anything but, and tons of expensive vehicles in the parking lot, with market normal rental prices. But, the developer gets their tax breaks.

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