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Wow, the guy in the department that exits to stop this kind of thing gets caught doing the very thing he was supposed to be stopping? Holy crap

I simply can't wait for my next mandatory Insider Threat training provided by DoD.

Supreme Court allows Trump to end Biden-era parole for 500,000 immigrants

https://wcyb.com/news/nation-w...a-homeland-security#

The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that President Donald Trump can end a Biden-era parole program that granted 500,000 immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to temporarily live and work in the United States.

The brief order noted that two liberal justices - Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson - dissented from the decision.

The Trump administration filed an emergency appeal earlier this month after a lower-court order kept the program in place.

U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani ruled that mass parole terminations could not happen without each case being reviewed.

Adios, motherfuckers.

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U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani ruled that mass parole terminations could not happen without each case being reviewed.

Were there any such individual reviews for half a million people trying to get in? (Rhetorical.)

I'm OK if they keep the anti-communists among the Cubans and Venezuelans. They will tend to vote conservatively and educate others against leftist indoctrination.

More gold bars recovered from the wreck of the democratic party.

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The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that President Donald Trump can end a Biden-era parole program that granted 500,000 immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to temporarily live and work in the United States.

The brief order noted that two liberal justices - Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson - dissented from the decision.

What part of "temporarily" do Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson not understand?

Devon Ericksen with another thoughtful X post...

Devon Eriksen
@Devon_Eriksen_

One thing I love about having the left as an enemy is that they cannot resist telling on themselves.

Here we can plainly see that the real motivation behind the leftist emphasis on "tolerance" is not that they wish to practice it, but that they require it for what they wish to do.

Their battlecry does not translate to "I love and accept all of humanity unconditionally". It translates to "You must love and accept all of humanity unconditionally, for I am about to do something which will outrage or disgust you".

This is the motivation behind the argument of "you have received some finite amount of tolerance for one thing, therefore you must extend infinite tolerance to everything".

In any conflict of interest, the left will always side with the person or thing that causes the most harm to civilization.

Because the left is composed of people who want air cover for their own civilization-harming acts.

I realize this a radical notion for some, but the universe does not actually exist as a binary choice between {current thing}, and {other, opposing current thing}.

It does not care how humans align themselves into ideological groups, embrace certain customs, shun others, and feud with opposing groups.

All it does is contain hard coded consequences, which differ, not based on the tribal alignment of the custom, but on the custom itself.

For example, smoking may be right-coded, but it makes you smell like dead farm animals and gives you cancer.

Because the universe does not care how based and redpilled, or how woke and tolerant, something is. It only cares (metaphorically) about what the specific effects of things are.

This means that I don't have to tolerate sacrificing infinity infants to Moloch just because someone else tolerates me eating waffles for dinner, with hot sauce on them.

The left does not automatically own my allegiance simply because I am an iconoclastic weirdo. I align more with the right, because I do what the right does, which is look at each individual thing and decide whether, and in what amount, it is good or bad for civilization.


https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/s.../1928532102443610114

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Anti-Trump Defense IT Specialist Arrested For Attempting to Provide Classified Information to Foreign Government Because He Did Not “Agree or Align with the Values of This Administration”

Nathan Vilas Laatsch, 28, of Alexandria, Virginia, was arrested today in northern Virginia, and will make his initial court appearance in the Eastern District of Virginia tomorrow.

I caught a co-worker putting classified in his brief case to take home. When I told a Security person about the incident, he said that he had been caught several times but management did nothing about it. I found out later that he went to Europe without filing an itinerary.

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Originally posted by 12131:
Anti-Trump Defense IT Specialist Arrested For Attempting to Provide Classified Information to Foreign Government Because He Did Not “Agree or Align with the Values of This Administration”

Nathan Vilas Laatsch, 28, of Alexandria, Virginia, was arrested today in northern Virginia, and will make his initial court appearance in the Eastern District of Virginia tomorrow.

I caught a co-worker putting classified in his brief case to take home. When I told a Security person about the incident, he said that he had been caught several times but management did nothing about it. I found out later that he went to Europe without filing an itinerary.

When I worked for the Department of the Interior my boss told me of a fed.gov employee who pulled a handgun on his supervisor, inside the main Interior building in DC (when handguns were, at the time, 100% illegal in DC), threatening to kill the supervisor. That fed.gov employee was still employed, drawing a fed.gov salary five years later.

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When I worked for the Department of the Interior my boss told me of a fed.gov employee who pulled a handgun on his supervisor, inside the main Interior building in DC (when handguns were, at the time, 100% illegal in DC), threatening to kill the supervisor. That fed.gov employee was still employed, drawing a fed.gov salary five years later.

Someone in my office called our union rep and told her he wanted to kill a supervisor. He often displayed aggression both to customers and co-workers. He ran over a customers dog while on their driveway. He damaged property with his vehicle, thus damaging the vehicle. These are all offenses employees understand are fireable offenses. It was a few years before he was forced to separate from the Post Office, though it wasn't considered a firing.

Fire everyone involved, then have the USDOJ help those discriminated against bring a federal civil rights suit under 42 USC 1982, 1985 and 1986 against each individual involved.

Trump's Parlous Gambit

“The modern politics of division have become a banally hectoring faux morality play put on by the theater kids for the other theater kids.”
—El Gato Malo on X

James Howard Kunstler
May 30, 2025

While Jake Tapper leads the Mea Culpa Chorus singing Kumbaya in a minor key, absolutely nobody is fooled that the grotesque psychotic deformities of US politics can be reduced to a few White House factotums lying to the news media about “Joe Biden’s” cognitive abilities. For one thing, the news media was not lied to. The news media (including Jake) lied to the nation, consistently, flagrantly, mendaciously, for years, and most of all they lied about the gigantic racketeering operation that government had become in the age of Anything Goes and Nothing Matters.

Cases-in-point, as reported by Alex Krainer, the $93-billion barfed out of the Department of Energy between the November election and January 20 to scores of hastily-formed NGO gangs with no business model or record of competency. . . and the staggering $375 billion spread around similarly out of the EPA from a slush fund run by John Podesta (as Senior Adviser to the President for International Climate Policy and Clean Energy Innovation).

That was pure grift, you understand, and it was how the Democratic Party kept its activist troops of the so-called “marginalized” paid and happy. As it happened, the “marginalized” who dwell on the edge of society — and also just beyond the set of agreements that define reality — are out-numbered by the rest of us, who voted against the tyranny of the margin and their hallucinations. And so now, the country goes through a convulsion attempting to readjust to reality — for instance, the unhappy fact that all that money was unreal, mere bookkeeping entries by dishonest accountants.

One reality we struggle with is the doleful fact that there is no work-around for the nation’s monumental debt. Since it can’t possibly be paid off, there are two stark paths for it: default and ruinous deflation (that is, money vanishes and the nation goes broke); or a futile attempt to inflate it away with more fake money creation (you’ll have money, but it’s increasingly worthless, so you’re effectively broke). Either way, you’re broke. In the meantime, the remorseless interest that has to be paid on $36.2-trillion squeezes out everything else we’re supposed to care for as relates to the common good.

Every broke-ass family or individual person knows how debilitating money-worries can be. And since unpayable debt is the common denominator across all of Western Civ, this perhaps explains the gross, suicidal mental disorder displayed lately by leadership all across Europe, North America and Anglo-Oceania. Europe, especially, exhibits behavior that is completely cuckoo — inciting war with Russia, inviting in murderous hostiles from foreign lands, and sadistically policing their own citizens.

The exception is Mr. Trump, a businessman-outsider to government trying to pull off an escape from the deadly debt quandary. It’s probably impossible, but he is trying nonetheless. It has three main features: 1) to readjust trade relations that, in theory, would restore industrial production across the land — a bootstrapping operation to kick off “growth.” 2) to engineer a severe re-set of the money system that would effectively amount to defaulting on debt but somehow without the feature of disappearing money. At best, this would induce some kind of fall in living standards, but mostly among the small sector of financial buccaneers who thrive on swindles and the Boomers living on investment accounts (figment wealth), who are now dying off anyway — which is to say, Great Depression Lite. And 3) the least understood feature of Trumpism: to decouple the USA from the resource scarcity in the rest of the world, and the consequent strife it’s inducing, and withdraw into a sort of Fortress North America that can somehow carry-on self-sufficiently while everybody else collapses.

As big pictures go, this is a pretty wild one, stupendously ambitious, risky, and perhaps improbable. But what do Mr. Trump’s domestic opponents have to offer? To go back to their asset-stripping operation with its insane sideshow of race-and-sexual hoaxes and hustles? Let’s face it, the Democratic Party has utterly shot its wad. If it tries to start another civil war, it will have its ass handed to it. Despite all the desperate, rear-guard lawfare underway now, the party is already withdrawing into the political thickets to hide while it considers some drastic reorganization of its purpose and personnel. It may skulk there for many years, just as it did between James Buchanan (1857) and Grover Cleveland (1885).

And despite his daunting agenda, Mr. Trump at least presents a sense of confident determination to get the country righted in some fashion, to recover a sense of purpose and enterprise after years of feckless, dissipative drift into the hallucinatory madness of the Left. You must give him a chance. There is no one else right now with no other way.

https://www.kunstler.com/p/trumps-parlous-gambit

Trump may be engineering a good strategy to extricate us from the insane national debt. And we are in the very early days of Phase 1, so I expect we'll see other aspects carefully revealed at the opportune time.

One theory is the inflationary de-leveraging of the debt, which will take a few decades. The Federal Reserve and the Treasury will, according to the theory, work in concert. The Fed will manipulate the bond yield curve (their legal mandate) to keep the interest rates below inflation. Scads of dollars will be printed or electronically created, which fuels inflation. This allows the Treasury to finance debt at interest rates below inflation, and pumps up tax revenues with inflated dollars. The government unwinds the debt, but at the expense of savers and those with long term capital gains (e.g. family home).

Note that this is not stagflation, nor a typical inflation. In those cases the interest rates are kept higher than inflation in order to reduce inflation. In this scenario, interest rates will go up but remain less than the inflation rate. In nominal dollars the economy expands.

Couple that with actual growth from revived domestic industry, and some form of currency anchoring via gold or CBDC or crypto. Trump is removing the USA from global organizations that hoover cash from us.

I believe there is a larger strategy in play, and it has a fighting chance to prevent our collapse.

Another and quicker, albeit not a permanent nor perfect solution would be to revalue or redenominate in an exchange of “old” dollars for “new” dollars (i.e. 10 “old” for 1 “new”). This has been done many times before in other countries (Germany 1923, Hungary 1927 & 1946, France 1960, etc). Lop off a zero and move a decimal point.

It would on the surface, make things appear to be less expensive by having a smaller number used for pricing of items (ex: loaf of bread at 29-cents instead of $2.90 per loaf; gasoline at 39-cents per gallon instead of $3.90 per gallon, etc.).

Contracts would have an addendum for the “new” value. There might even be a general forgiveness or amnesty of debts to a certain extent. Naturally, wages would have to be adjusted accordingly and this might get folks a bit upset. Eventually when there are no increase in the prices of goods and services, this self-hypnosis would give the appearance of economic stability to the citizenry.

I am not an economist; I took Econ 201 & 202 (Macro and Micro Economics) in college over 50 years ago, so don’t hold me to this. But I did major in History and economics has been a driving force within history. This is just my guess as to what could happen.

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Another and quicker, albeit not a permanent nor perfect solution would be to revalue or redenominate in an exchange of “old” dollars for “new” dollars (i.e. 10 “old” for 1 “new”). This has been done many times before in other countries (Germany 1923, Hungary 1927 & 1946, France 1960, etc). Lop off a zero and move a decimal point.

It would on the surface, make things appear to be less expensive by having a smaller number used for pricing of items (ex: loaf of bread at 29-cents instead of $2.90 per loaf; gasoline at 39-cents per gallon instead of $3.90 per gallon, etc.).

Contracts would have an addendum for the “new” value. There might even be a general forgiveness or amnesty of debts to a certain extent. Naturally, wages would have to be adjusted accordingly and this might get folks a bit upset. Eventually when there are no increase in the prices of goods and services, this self-hypnosis would give the appearance of economic stability to the citizenry.

I am not an economist; I took Econ 201 & 202 (Macro and Micro Economics) in college over 50 years ago, so don’t hold me to this. But I did major in History and economics has been a driving force within history. This is just my guess as to what could happen.

That would absolutely send the global economy into a worst case scenario.

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That would absolutely send the global economy into a worst case scenario.

Well, that would cause a “global reset” now wouldn’t it, and that’s what they (the globalists) keep saying they want.

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Another and quicker, albeit not a permanent nor perfect solution would be to revalue or redenominate in an exchange of “old” dollars for “new” dollars (i.e. 10 “old” for 1 “new”). This has been done many times before in other countries (Germany 1923,...

I don't think the Weimar Republic is the economic model we want to follow...

Germany 1923: Hyperinflation, Hitler's Putsch, and Democracy in Crisis Hardcover – September 26, 2023
by Volker Ullrich (Author)

From the New York Times best-selling historian comes a gripping account of the crisis of the Weimar Republic, when hyperinflation and political upheaval threatened to unravel a new experiment in democracy.

As the great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig confided in his autobiography, written in exile, “I have a pretty thorough knowledge of history, but never, to my recollection, has it produced such madness in such gigantic proportions.” He was referring to the situation in Germany in 1923. It was a “year of lunacy,” defined by hyperinflation, a political system on the verge of collapse, and separatist movements that threatened Germany’s territorial integrity. Most significantly, Adolf Hitler launched his infamous Beer Hall Putsch in Munich―a failed coup that nonetheless drew international attention and demonstrated the Nazis’ ruthless determination to seize power.

https://www.amazon.com/Germany...ocracy/dp/1324093463