Almost Every Democrat Votes Against Bill Funding Veterans

By William Teach June 26, 2025 – 6:45 am

No one is surprised, right?

House narrowly passes military construction, veterans funding bill

The House cleared its military construction and veterans spending bill Wednesday, almost entirely along party lines — the first annual government funding measure to be approved in a contentious budget season.

What happened: Republicans muscled through the spending bill in an 218-206 vote. Nearly all Democrats opposed the bill, with only two breaking ranks to help pass it.

Partisan divide: Democrats are at odds with President Donald Trump’s budget proposal, which seeks deep cuts in domestic spending while keeping defense spending at the same level as this year — while using Republicans’ megabill to layer on an extra $150 billion for the Pentagon.

Democrats have criticized Republicans for moving ahead with the military construction bill — which deals with the sliver of the Pentagon budget that includes the armed services’ infrastructure projects — before the administration has sent Congress a full defense budget proposal.

You know, the thing that is specifically mentioned in the Constitution. Defense? And taking care of veterans? Why wouldn’t they want that?

They’ve also slammed policy provisions in the bill that limit funding to cover abortions and gender-affirming care at the Veterans Affairs Department.

These f’ing people.

…Supports President Trump’s effort to end veteran homelessness

Protects Second Amendment rights for veterans

This bill will directly benefit the 45,000 veterans in our District, as well as their families. I urge my colleagues to pass this legislation, which reflects our values, strengthens our defense, and ensures we never waver in our duty to those who’ve sacrificed for our freedom.

Will the Democrats try and stop this in the Senate, use the filibuster?

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Trump Admin Tells Government Scientists To Apply Science To Their Science

By William Teach June 25, 2025 – 3:00 pm

You have to know that this has sent the government scientists into apoplexy

White House office tells agencies to apply ‘Gold Standard Science’ to depoliticize research, restore trust

The White House Office of Science and Technology on Monday directed federal agencies to implement “gold standard science” principles to depoliticize science and restore public trust, Fox News Digital has learned.

White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios sent guidance to federal research agencies Monday morning, incorporating President Donald Trump’s executive order on “Restoring Gold Standard Science.”

Fox News Digital exclusively obtained the guidance sent to federal agencies.

ZOMG, no politics in science! How horrible!

President Trump, in May, signed an executive order to restore “Gold Standard Science” as the cornerstone of federal scientific research.

“Gold Standard Science” is “reproducible, transparent and falsifiable,” according to the order.

It is also “subject to unbiased peer review; clear about errors and uncertainties; skeptical of assumptions; collaborative and interdisciplinary; accepting of negative results as positive outcomes; and free from conflicts of interest.”

The executive order reinstated “the scientific integrity policies” of the first Trump administration and “ensures that science is no longer manipulated or misused to justify political ends.”

So many government scientists and those feeding at the federal trough won’t know what to do.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 25, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible ice cream made from milk from planet killing cows, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Pacific Pundit, with a post on CNN saying how friendly Iranians were while chanting Death To America.

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Hard Left Socialist Muslim Zohran Mamdani Wins NYC Democratic Primary

By William Teach June 25, 2025 – 10:30 am

It was amazing that the better choice in the primary was Andrew Freaking Cuomo

Andrew Cuomo Concedes to Socialist Zohran Mamdani in NYC Democratic Mayoral Primary

Former New York Gov Andrew Cuomo (D) conceded to New York State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani (D) after Mamdani took the lead in New York City’s Democratic Mayoral Primary.

Cuomo told his supporters that tonight was “not” their night and added that “tonight was Assemblyman Mamdani’s night,” according to the Hill.

“He put together a great campaign, and he touched young people and inspired them and moved them and got them to come out and vote,” Cuomo added.

Per the outlet, Cuomo’s concession came after “Decision Desk HQ projected the race would head to a ranked-choice count.”

Mamdani has a pretty decent lead, but, shocking (not really), they say it will take days for the final count. He’s pushing every far left idea that you can think of, including city own grocery stores. Just like in Russia!

Takeaways from New York City’s mayoral primary: Mamdani delivers a political earthquake

Zohran Mamdani delivered a political earthquake Tuesday in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, riding progressive demands for change in a city facing an affordability crisis to the brink of a stunning victory. CNN

Democratic voters rejected a scandal-plagued icon of the party’s past, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Instead, they backed a 33-year-old democratic socialist who energized young voters and progressives with a campaign that could come to represent the first draft of a new playbook.

And the NY Times

A New Political Star Emerges Out of a Fractured Democratic Party
The emergence of Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, is likely to divide national Democrats, who are already torn about what the party should stand for.

Um, he hasn’t even won the mayor’s job yet. There’s lots of squeeing from the media. The NY Post says it’s a bad earthquake

Socialist Zohran Mamdani’s stunning victory over three-term ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in Tuesday’s mayoral primary is a “political earthquake” that will pressure the national Democratic Party to move further left, political analysts told The Post.

Dems who got trounced by President Trump and the GOP last year will have to pay more attention to the views of progressive, younger voters who propelled Mamdani’s candidacy — as well as struggling working class voters — as they prepare for midterm congressional elections, strategists, pollsters and union leaders said.

Now it’s time to see if he can win the general

If Mamdani wins, people are actually more worried about him turning NYC into London, not so much his Progressive views. A place where there are grooming gangs, Islamists forcing their women to cover up and telling Americans to cover up, creating no go zones and Sharia courts, and so much more. A place where Jews are not welcome. NYC would be unrecognizable.

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Huh: Warmist NY Embracing Nuclear Power

By William Teach June 25, 2025 – 7:00 am

Might have been helpful if NY had kept their existing nuclear plant open

New York Again Embraces Nuclear Power With Plans to Build New Plant

New York is planning to build a nuclear power plant capable of producing enough electricity for as many as a million homes in an as-yet-unnamed upstate location, Gov. Kathy Hochul said on Monday.

Ms. Hochul said the plant, which would produce half as much power as the Indian Point complex north of New York City that was shut down four years ago, would help avert the “rolling blackouts” that have plagued some other states. She did not say how much the project would cost or how long it would take to complete but said that New York would seek investment from the private sector.

The governor said that safety would be “at the forefront” of the state’s planning and that the new plant would meet rigorous environmental standards.

“This is not your grandparents’ nuclear reactor. You’re not going to see this in a movie starring Jane Fonda,” she said, referring to “China Syndrome,” the 1979 movie about a nuclear meltdown.

Well, it’s nice that she’s embracing nuclear, but, how long will it take to actually build it? Where will it be built? Will it be providing stable, reliable energy to the big moneyed people who donate to Democrat in NY, who are annoyed by the unreliability of all that green crap? And who do not want to see all the solar panels and wind turbines despoiling their view.

Tech giants like Amazon, Google and Microsoft have begun investing in nuclear power to help meet soaring electricity demand from their A.I. data centers. States like Illinois, Montana and Wisconsin have lifted longstanding bans on the construction of new nuclear plants. Texas this month approved a $350 million fund to build new reactors.

That’s a sharp turnaround from a decade ago, when New York, Michigan, Pennsylvania and California were beginning to retire their older reactors, a move that many lawmakers now say was a mistake.

I really don’t hate to say we told you so. We Skeptics may not have your same cult beliefs, but, we could have agreed on developing lots more next generation nuclear power plants to replace coal, and, eventually, natural gas plants, which would have been good for air quality, the environment, and would release lower “carbon pollution.” Hell, even many leading Warmists who haven’t quite crossed into cultists believe in nuclear power.

The effort to build new nuclear power plants is likely to face opposition from some environmental groups, who would prefer that the state focus on building wind and solar power and who dismiss nuclear power as too costly.

Of course they will, but, most do not want solar and wind near their own homes.

State Senator Liz Krueger, a Democrat, raised a number of concerns about Governor Hochul’s plan in a statement. “Is it the most cost-effective use of our clean energy dollars,” she asked. “Can the radioactive material be disposed of in a satisfactory way?”

“I have yet to see any real-world examples of new nuclear development for which all of these questions can be answered in the affirmative, and I am skeptical that I ever will,” Ms. Krueger wrote.

She’s a card carrying member of the climate cult. Hey, I suggest we make her whole district in NYC switch to solar and wind. She’s good with that, right?

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Bummer: Local Economies Reeling From Fear Of ICE Raids

By William Teach June 25, 2025 – 6:45 am

It’s a real shame that businesses that are dependent on illegal immigrants are having such problems

Local economies under pressure as ICE crackdowns create climate of fear

Lupe Lopez’s Latino market in Newark, California, has been a shopping and social hub for decades — until recently.

Now the aisles are often quiet, the parking lot near empty, she said. Neighboring businesses are no different, she added: Restaurants, party and clothing stores, and even the big-box retailers seem to be emptier since the Trump administration ramped up its mass deportation campaign, raiding businesses across industries and targeting day workers in retail parking lots.

“The fear is felt in every aspect — no one is doing a party, no one is going anywhere,” the 68-year-old said of her customers. “The shelves are just untouched.”

From California grocery stores to chicken chains in suburban D.C., businesses that serve large immigrant populations are reporting shifts in consumer behavior — fewer in-store visits, lower receipts and more delivery orders — that threaten to drag down local economies, according to interviews with business owners, as well as spending data.

If your business model depends on illegals, you’re doing something wrong. They just figured that the illegal would be forever, and never really under any pressure for violating America’s borders. No one cries when another business has issues, such as Blockbuster, which made a huge mistake in not purchasing Netflix. And some other issues. Businesses get themselves into issues, which sometimes they cannot recover from. No one is getting all squishy.

Lopez says deportation fears are affecting who comes into her stores, noting that some of her undocumented customers are sending their U.S.-born children to pick up groceries. Even those here legally are afraid to be out during the day, she added, and many people carry their passport with them in case they are stopped.

“If this doesn’t stop, I feel it’s going to break our economy.”

Maybe do things to attract customers who are legally in the U.S.? Anyhow, it is a long, long article based on emotion, but, as the saying goes, we are a nation of Law, not Men. Meanwhile

Florida sprints ahead with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ immigration detention center project

Florida’s headline-grabbing push to create “Alligator Alcatraz” — an immigration detention center deep in the Everglades — happened swiftly, with little apparent notice to state legislators responsible for paying for it or to local officials who will have it on their doorstep.

It also may prove to be one of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ most aggressive moves during his six-plus years in office. Citing the governor’s emergency powers, the state’s emergency management director told Miami-Dade County that it was taking control of an Everglades airstrip now owned by Miami-Dade County and located mainly in Collier County in order to begin building the multimillion dollar facility. (snip)

Not much was known publicly about the plans for the detention center until Attorney General James Uthmeier — DeSantis’ former chief of staff who was appointed to the job in February — talked up the idea of “Alligator Alcatraz” on social media last week. The chosen site is a long airstrip that was built as part of a massive project abandoned in 1970 amid environmental opposition.

By Monday, the Department of Homeland Security said it had signed off on a plan to house up to 5,000 people in Florida who are either arrested by state law enforcement or brought to detention centers by federal immigration authorities. DHS said in a statement that it planned to tap into a Federal Emergency Management Agency shelter program to reimburse the state the estimated $450 million a year it will cost to run the remote detention centers.

LOL. Have fun there, illegals.

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Dems Join With GOP To Block Dems Idiotic Impeachment For Iran Bombing

By William Teach June 24, 2025 – 3:23 pm

Look, we can, as a coworker says, debate whether bombing Iran was the right or wrong thing to do, whether the consequences were worth it. What we can’t debate is that it was 100% legal, per the War Powers Resolution of 1973

128 Democrats join House GOP to block progressive’s bid to impeach Trump

The House of Representatives voted along bipartisan lines to quash a lone progressive lawmaker’s bid to impeach President Donald Trump Tuesday afternoon.

Lawmakers agreed to table the measure in a 344–79 vote. A vote to table is a procedural mechanism allowing House members to vote against consideration of a bill without having to vote on the bill itself.

The resolution was offered by Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, who was infamously ejected from Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress earlier this year for repeatedly interrupting the president.

A majority of House Democrats joined Republican lawmakers to kill Green’s resolution, a sign of how politically caustic the effort appears to be. Just 79 Democrats voted to proceed with the impeachment vote, while 128 voted to halt it in its tracks.

The title of Excitable Al’s resolution was

Abuse of Presidential Powers by Disregarding
the Separation of Powers—Devolving American
Democracy into Authoritarianism by Unconstitutionally
Usurping Congress’s Power to Declare War

Will Al try to retroactively impeach Biden and Obama for bombing place like Syria and others without the approval of Congress? Wasn’t Obama flying to South America or something when he started a war in Libya? Anyhow, I’m sure those 128 Dems were thinking it is idiotic and really bad optics to try and impeach Trump for bombing Iran with their “Death To America” chants, and wanted no part in general election opponents brining it up.

 

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 24, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Outside The Beltway, with a post wondering if Trump’s Iran strike was legal. (FYI: as I’ve said before, I don’t always agree in full with articles I post)

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Huh: UK Ministers Won’t Put Levies On Streaming Services Because They Are Scared Of Trump

By William Teach June 24, 2025 – 10:30 am

Is this a case of pure Trump Derangement Syndrome, or something real?

UK ministers ‘too scared of Donald Trump’ to back levy on TV streaming giants

British ministers are “running scared” of Donald Trump in their refusal to force US streaming services to fund more UK-focused shows, the director of the BBC’s Wolf Hall has warned.

Peter Kosminsky said a “supine and terrified” government was worried about anything that might upset the “bully in the White House”.

He said programmes that spoke truth to power were needed amid global tensions and political division. However, he said important UK dramas were “under threat as never before”, with the BBC and ITV struggling to fund shows and cautious about productions that did not appeal to audiences outside Britain.

Kosminsky is calling for a 5% levy on streaming companies – to be spent on UK-focused television – and said a similar surcharge had been adopted by 17 other countries.

But he accused UK ministers of being afraid to follow suit because of the US president’s threat to impose huge tariffs on films made outside the US.

“We’re running scared of Donald Trump and his tariffs,” he said in a speech last week, reproduced in Radio Times.

Wow, now that is a whole mishmash of crazy. There are plenty of UK focused movies and TV shows on streaming services, though some, like the newest Doctor Who, were pure garbage. What Kosminsky really wants is to put the levy on streaming services which are producing content people want to watch and use that money to produce content at the BBC that people do not want to watch.

He added: “If you care about public service broadcasting, if you care about the BBC, ITV and Channel 4, I would beg you – get out there and campaign for the government to stand up to the bully in the White House and protect the 100-year tradition of public service broadcasting in this country, of which we are rightly proud, before it is lost for ever.”

Do British citizens care? Especially the younger ones? They have way more problems with the government importing too many people who refuse to assimilate into the UK.

Worth reading that whole story, which includes

Violence against women and girls in London has increased sharply and remains “endemic”. Homelessness and rough sleeping are up. Violent offences in London are up 35 per cent on a decade ago. Knife-crime surged by over 20% in the last year alone, as gang violence has become a depressing, everyday feature of London life.

While ‘theft from the person’ fell across England last year, by 14 per cent, in London it rocketed by 41 per cent. Robberies are also up 10 per cent. ‘Moped-enabled crimes’ are booming. Pickpocketing is up 38 per cent in a year.

Londoners surely do not care about the whines of the public broadcasters. And those around the nation are seeing this same thing grow.

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Climate Cult Wants People To Use Old Phones

By William Teach June 24, 2025 – 7:00 am

I wonder if these cultists are using dumb phones themselves

Old phones are the new climate heroes as users ditch new tech and save the planet without knowing

The global mobile industry has managed to cut its operational carbon emissions by 8% between 2019 and 2023, despite a massive surge in data usage across the world, official figures have claimed.

The GSMA Mobile Net Zero report found mobile data traffic grew fourfold during this period while mobile connections increased by 9%.

In contrast, global emissions rose 4% during the same window – but the report makes it clear: the pace of progress must double if the sector is to align with net-zero targets by 2050.

Why must it? Why must the rest of us be forced to join the ravings of doomsday nutjobs?

One area needing urgent attention is Scope 3 emissions, which stem from supply chains and manufacturing and account for over two-thirds of the sector’s footprint.

Another growing area of focus is circularity. Consumers are showing rising interest in sustainability, with 90% of those surveyed by the GSMA saying they value device longevity and repairability, and nearly half indicated they would consider purchasing a refurbished phone next.

Bugger off. Mind your own business.

Since refurbished devices produce 80–90% fewer emissions than new ones, this trend could play a role in emissions reduction, as the second-hand phone market, now expanding quickly, is expected to hit $150 billion by 2027.

You go for it, Warmists. Practice what you preach. Get out of our lives.

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