Democrats Urge Democrats In Charlotte To Remain Peaceful Over Immigration Operations

By William Teach November 16, 2025 – 7:00 am

Will Democrats remain peaceful?

Border Patrol operations start in Charlotte as officials urge calm

Federal agents have started making arrests Saturday as Border Patrol deployments began in the city, a shift the Department of Homeland Security said was intended to “ensure Americans are safe and public safety threats are removed.”

Earlier in the day, local officials sought to reassure residents as the looming operations created anxiety across the region, emphasizing that the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department does not participate in federal immigration enforcement and urging the community to remain peaceful. (snip)

Community organizations reported a heightened presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and CBP officers across multiple corridors, including South Boulevard, Archdale, Arrowood, Central Avenue, Rosehaven and Sharon Amity, beginning early Saturday morning.

At his Latin bakery in east Charlotte, owner Manolo Betancur, stood watch with a whistle around his neck and a key in the door, ready to lock up. His bakery is a staple of the immigrant community, and earlier that morning, he said, federal officials swept through his parking lot as his staff prepared thousands of conchas, doughnuts for their customers.

Giving aid to illegal aliens in contradiction of federal law.

Mecklenburg County officials touched on this Saturday in its joint statement, saying the Border Patrol “operations are causing unnecessary fear and uncertainty in our community as recent operations in other cities have resulted in people without criminal records being detained and violent protests being the result of unwarranted actions.”

So what? If it was an operation against the Mafia or a gang Democrats would be fine with that (we hope they would, anyhow). These people are unlawfully present. Laws must be obeyed. Anyhow, it wouldn’t be Republicans going all fiery but peaceful, right?

Hey, weren’t we told that Charlotte and Mecklenburg County are not illegal alien sanctuaries? BTW, it is against federal law to interfere with federal immigration operations, illegal to protect illegals federally, and refuse to provide aid to federal law enforcement. It’s also against North Carolina law to operate as a sanctuary jurisdiction.

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Oh Noes: Climate Cultists Protest In Sweltering Heat

By William Teach November 15, 2025 – 3:00 pm

It really is so horrible, and it is all your fault

Climate protesters swelter in Brazilian sun outside COP30 summit

Thousands of climate protesters marched through the Brazilian city of Belem on Saturday in a noisy, diverse and peaceful display to demand more action to protect the fate of the planet and vent their anger at governments and fossil fuel industries.

A short distance away, negotiators reached the halfway point in the marathon COP30 climate summit which seeks to turn years of promises into action to halt rising global temperatures and deliver support to those most affected by a warmer planet.

So, they’re protesting for more taxes, fees, and government control of their lives? Idiots.

Out on the streets Indigenous people, young activists and civil society groups came together in sweltering temperatures, singing, playing musical instruments and waving banners.

“This is a place for us to march and draw up a roadmap for what needs to be done at this COP: a transition away from deforestation and the use of fossil fuels,” Brazil’s environment minister Marina Silva said, addressing the crowds.

I wonder how many took long, fossil fueled flights to Brazil? Anyhow, sweltering? The average temperature in Belem in November is 89F, with an average low of 75F. It’s in the jungle, and about 100 miles south of the equator. It got to about 84F today, with a heat index of 91F. You know, jungle. Near the equator. But, the Reuters article fails to mention this

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 15, 2025 – 1:52 pm

…are glaciers which will soon disappear from global boiling, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 357 Magnum, with a post on the BBC not being limited to TDS in their bias.

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GOP Looks At Passing Bill Making Changes To Obamacare

By William Teach November 15, 2025 – 10:30 am

Let’s be honest, big legislation like Obamacare is most likely never going away, just like other big things, regardless of there being no Constitutional authority for Los Federales to do things like Obamacare. The time to kill it was before it started, but, Republicans ran Mitt Romney. But, there are certainly ways to at least sort of make it work

House Republicans float bill mirroring Trump’s health care demands

Republicans on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee are circulating a bill that would mimic President Donald Trump’s proposal to redirect health insurance subsidies directly to individuals, according to a person granted anonymity to share direct knowledge of the private directions.

The legislation, previously introduced by Florida Republican Reps. Kat Cammack and Greg Steube, would give enrollees in the Affordable Care Act insurance exchanges the ability to elect to receive a portion of financial assistance from insurers directly in their tax-advantaged health savings accounts. Those HSA contributions would be in lieu of assistance that insurers would usually apply on the back end to the out-of-pocket health costs for low-income individuals.

Staff for Ways and Means Republicans are currently preparing a presentation for committee members to review the proposal, along with other potential policies to lower health costs, according to the person.

The bill would help Congress codify Trump’s recent calls on social media for congressional Republicans to redirect the “Billions of Dollars currently being sent to money sucking Insurance Companies” and send them “directly to the people.”

You can bet Democrats will be against this, even if it would help Americans who get their health insurance through the Ocare exchanges (and are forced to get the insurance or be taxed out the ying yang), because the insurers who donate to Democrats wouldn’t be getting their scratch my back cash.

The exhortations are already complicating nascent and fragile negotiations to extend the Obamacare tax credits before they sunset at the end of the year. Some moderate Republicans hope to work with Democrats on a bipartisan proposal that would pair an Obamacare subsidy extension with new limits sought by conservatives that both parties could live with

How about a plan to lower costs for Ocare recipients, which would likewise help with costs for those not getting their health insurance through Ocare, instead of subsidies? A plan which would give them better control?

In another development that casts doubt on compromise, Senate Finance Republicans have asked Brian Blase, a chief antagonist of the Obamacare subsidies to testify at a Wednesday hearing on the rising costs of health care.

Blase, who runs the Paragon Health Institute, was an architect of the dramatic Medicaid cuts enacted as part of the GOP megabill signed into law this summer. Senate Finance has also invited Douglas Holtz-Eakin, the president of the conservative American Action Forum, to testify at the hearing.

I’m shocked that Politico mentioned the big Medicaid reductions, because people had forgotten about that. Though, it’s at the end of the article, and most won’t make it there.

The Democratic witnesses include a health care expert and an individual who would be personally affected by the expiration of the subsidies.

That might not go so well for Democrats when the GOP asks the individual about how expensive their insurance is, how much the deductibles and copays are, and how much their premiums have risen over the years.

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CSM Upset That Trump Is Looking At The Climate Con While Xi Looks At Cash

By William Teach November 15, 2025 – 7:00 am

I don’t think the Christian Science Monitor is getting the right picture of this

Trump sees a ‘con’ in climate change. Xi sees cash.

More than 40,000 delegates from nearly 200 countries are getting down to work this week in the Brazilian city of Belém, on the edge of the Amazon rainforest, for what is looking like an increasingly forlorn task: to slow and mitigate the overheating of our planet. (scam)

And no nations matter more than two energy superpowers with diverging interests, and with increasingly divergent approaches to climate change: the United States and China.

U.S. President Donald Trump recently branded climate change “the greatest con job ever.” He has been scaling back former President Joe Biden’s green-energy subsidies, doubling down on America’s world-leading production of oil and gas, and he is ignoring the Belém conference.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping is making a very different economic bet.

I wonder what that could be

For while China remains by far the world’s largest emitter of the fossil-fuel gases driving global warming, Mr. Xi’s government has been investing hundreds of billions of dollars in solar and wind energy, storage batteries, and electric vehicles.

That technology is not just for domestic use, though it is already having an effect on emissions in China.

It is also for export, to generate the trade revenue on which China’s economy depends.

Crucially, that has begun giving less-developed countries in the so-called Global South something almost unimaginable a few years ago: a realistic path toward growth that need not rely principally on carbon-emitting fuels.

In other words, China is conning the climate cranks of the world and dumping all the solar panels, wind turbines, EVs, etc. Products with all sorts of spying and controlling software, while also earning influence in the South, especially Africa. If the CSM thinks Xi gives a crap about ‘climate change’, they should just shut down. Like Al Gore and so many Warmists Xi is using the scam as a cash cow.

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Unsurprising: Leftist Federal Court Puts Pause On Immigrant Truck Driver Rules

By William Teach November 15, 2025 – 6:45 am

We keep seeing this happening

Jashanpreet Singh is an illegal alien from India, who killed 3 and wounded 4 others.

Court blocks new rules limiting which immigrants can get commercial drivers’ licenses

The Transportation Department’s new restrictions that would severely limit which immigrants can get commercial driver’s licenses to drive a semitrailer truck or bus have been put on hold by a federal appeals court.

The court in the District of Columbia ruled Thursday that the rules Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced in September a month after a truck driver not authorized to be in the U.S. made an illegal U-turn and caused a crash in Florida that killed three people can’t be enforced right now.

The court said the federal government didn’t follow proper procedure in drafting the rule and failed to “articulate a satisfactory explanation for how the rule would promote safety.” The court said the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s own data shows that immigrants who hold these licenses account for roughly 5% of all commercial driver’s licenses but only about 0.2% of all fatal crashes, the court said.

Duffy has been pressing this issue in California because the driver in the Florida crash received a license in California, and an audit of that state’s records showed that many immigrants received licenses in California that were valid long after their work permits expired. Earlier this week, California revoked 17,000 commercial driver’s licenses because of that problem.

Idiotic. The rules require English proficiency, because, get this, signs are in English. Any drug or alcohol offense would see the CDL pulled. Also, issuance has been paused and the requirements will be tightened.

The new restrictions on these licenses would only allow immigrants who hold three specific classes of visas to be eligible to get the licenses. States would also have to verify an applicant’s immigration status in a federal database. The licenses would be valid for up to one year unless the applicant’s visa expires sooner.

I wonder how the judges will feel when an illegal kills someone they know.

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Surprise: The Kiddies Cannot Do Basic Math, Per Report

By William Teach November 14, 2025 – 3:00 pm

Maybe schools, run mostly by Democrats, with mostly Democrat teachers, should teach the basics and forget about the Woke, DEI, trans, and climate scam, among others

College kids’ math skills worse than ever, California finds — blame our pass-the-buck public schools

Marxism and SocialismWhat happens when a child is promoted, grade by grade, through America’s K-12 school system but can’t actually perform at grade level in reading, writing or math?

As the University of California at San Diego found, they get into college — and become someone else’s problem.

UC San Diego’s Senate-Administration Workgroup on Admissions released a startling report last week documenting a steep decline in college preparedness.

Between 2020 and 2025, it found, the number of freshmen with math skills below middle-school level “increased nearly thirtyfold” — with about one in eight of them unable to handle even the most basic high school math.

The university has had to add a new course devoted exclusively to teaching “elementary and middle school Common Core math subjects (grades 1-8)” — in addition to the remedial math classes it already had in place covering high school topics like algebra and geometry.

College students having to take courses in elementary school math? Should they be in college? Oh, right, Dem colleges want the kiddies to take out all those loans which help out the loan companies who donate to Democrats

How does any child graduate from high school not knowing how to do basic math?

How basic? In 2023, 13% of students who took a UC San Diego math assessment could not perform at first-grade level, and 25% of kids got the equation 7 + 2 = [ ] + 6 wrong.

This is terrifying — and the worst part is how inevitable the collapse has been.

Every year we watch as teachers’ unions get more powerful, test scores decline, and our states shovel more and more money into failed schools.

This is a Democrat problem. They run the schools.

This was a giant error, as Harvard University found: In 2024, it too had to add a remedial class for incoming freshmen who lacked “foundational skills” in basic high school math, after admitting them without a standardized measure of their readiness for college.

Harvard. Think on that. This is insane.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 14, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible snow made more likely because of heat moving the Arctic jet stream, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Not A Lot Of People Know That, with a post on EVs being taxed in France.

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40% Of Young Women Want To Leave The US Or Something

By William Teach November 14, 2025 – 10:30 am

These are mostly Liberal women, probably white, urban liberal women

As many as one in five Americans want to leave the country with women driving the trend, poll finds

As many as one in five Americans say they want to leave the U.S., with young women driving the trend, a new survey has found.

Polling by Gallup shows that 40 percent of women aged 15 to 44 said they would like to leave the country and move abroad permanently if they could. The figure is four times greater than it was 10 years ago.

A big spike in those expressing the desire to move out of the U.S. was first reported by the pollster in 2016, the final year of Barack Obama’s presidency and before Donald Trump’s first term in office.

Funny thing is, most never leave. They whine and complain and caterwaul and put on Handmaid costumes, but, don’t leave

However, the pollster noted that the desire to move was not entirely partisan, as the wish to leave continued to climb even after Trump lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden.

Under Biden, the desire to migrate hit 44 percent, where it has remained, possibly due to seismic political events, including the overturning of Roe v Wade by the Supreme Court in 2022.

That would be partisan. Nothing is more sacrosanct to Democrats than killing the unborn, because they are too lazy and irresponsible to practice safe sex and use contraception.

Choice of destination for these young women dreaming of a change of scene has stayed consistent, according to Gallup, with Canada remaining the top option. Eleven percent of those expressing a desire to migrate since 2022 cited their neighbor to the north as their ideal destination.

The other contenders were New Zealand, Italy and Japan, all of which were given 5 percent of the vote.

Yet, they don’t. How easy would it be to just go to Canada? And, who says Japan want them?

Whereas 40 percent of young women said they would like to leave the country, only 19 percent of young men said the same – a gap of 21 percentage points, which is the widest Gallup has recorded.

It’s the women. Probably the same ones complaining that men suck on TikTok and why can’t they find a good man on TikTok.

Liberal women the ‘least happy and loneliest’ in America, according to a new survey

Liberal women are more likely to report feeling lonely than their conservative counterparts, according to a survey.

New evidence in the 2024 American Family Survey, found that 37 percent of conservative women from the ages of 18-40 reported being satisfied with their life.

Only 12 percent of liberal women in the same group said they felt the same way, while 28 percent of moderate said they were satisfied. (snip)

He said: ‘We’ve seen in the research that conservative women tend to be more likely to embrace a sense of agency and to have the sense that they are not, in any way, the victim of larger structural realities or forces.

‘They’re also less likely to catastrophize about public events and concerns and more likely to think of themselves as captains of their own fate.’

It’s a nice way of saying they’re nuts. Anyhow, can they finally leave? That would free up resources, mean more available housing, fewer on government programs, reduce traffic, and so forth.

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Teachers To Be Required To Teach That ‘Climate Change’ Is All Your Fault In PRNY

By William Teach November 14, 2025 – 7:00 am

See, Democratic Science requires a one sided belief in the People’s Republik Of New York

State Ed says teachers must teach human causes of climate change

Students must learn about climate change and environmental stewardship, the Board of Regents has decided.

The topic has been required in high school science classes for years. But now it must also be taught in elementary and middle schools.

Surveys suggest it will be a rough transition.

Few elementary school teachers feel prepared to teach about climate change, and almost half of middle school science teachers tell students that humans haven’t caused climate change, according to national surveys published in 2022 and 2024.

At every level — K-4, middle school and high school — students must learn about the causes, impacts of and solutions regarding climate change. The curriculum must be implemented by the 2027-28 school year for middle and high school students, and by 2028-29 for elementary school students, the Board of Regents decided.

We know what the curriculum will read like, as the doomsday cult writes it. I wonder how well this will work in the vast areas of the PRNY which vote GOP? Will they abandon the state, further eroding the tax base and leading to even more Congressional seats being lost?

“I have gotten so many calls from students advocating for climate education,” said Regent Frances Wills. “It’s very connected to what kids are really interested in.”

OK, so, some youts complained, and, instead of doing their own reading, they are demanding that all youts be indoctrinated.

But teachers are not completely on board.

In a 2022 survey for the North American Association for Environmental Education, 37% of teachers agreed with the statement, “Climate change is a political issue that does not belong in the classroom.”

If you think about it, that’s a pretty big percentage, since the majority off teachers are liberals

Among urban teachers, 56% agreed with the statement, “There is too much emphasis placed on climate change when there are other issues to be addressed in education.” About a third of other teachers also agreed.

Climate doom is something that is mostly for affluent white liberals who rarely practice what they preach.

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