'...kept out...', by Frank-Lee, via imgflip.com. democRATs and RINOs know this, so the obvious answer to why they refuse to build a wall is...they want us all dead.
Originally conceived of as ONE article, this all began as a story about a food delivery person killed by a member of MS-13. Then we heard about something else happening to a different driver, and then the family in Texas was murdered. You can find that first part of this now two part article HERE.
So, as we started to say, before we were so rudely interrupted…by life…there is an obvious love affair between democRATs and MS-13. Just as with blmantifa (or antifablm, if you prefer), MS-13 are used by the alt-far-left to terrorize Americans. And other criminals are obviously welcome to help out too.
The Biden Usurpation has pretty much destroyed the once booming Trump economy. It wasn’t difficult to do, and it was intentional. The left are NOT incompetent, as some on our side claim, but rather are in fact VERY good at being evil. So good in fact that some people still believe democRATs care about America and Americans.
Things have gotten so bad that despite fewer orders being placed because of the poor Bidenflation economy, well-meaning folks are still flocking to gig work (delivering food, groceries and other items to people) and further dividing up the lack of orders into ever smaller ‘pieces of the pie’.
Being as vague as possible while still being honest, having lost, at least for now, our own prior position due to the Biden regime’s attacks on people who are not globalist commies like themselves (people who paid us well to do work for them), we had been living off of savings for months, so to stem the bleeding we too have dabbled in gig work as well.
“Right now I’d do anything for money. I’d kill somebody for money. I’d kill you for money. Hahaha, ah no, you’re my friend…I kill you for nothing.”– Chico (Chico Marx) to Harpo (Harpo Marx) in ‘The Cocoanuts’ (1929).
Yes, the screenwriters actually came up with character names for Groucho (Mr. Hammer) and Zeppo (Jamison; a name he also used in ‘Animal Crackers’, the next year…well, specifically, Horatio Jamison in that) but couldn’t think anything up for the other two brothers and used their regular stage names instead (and all four brothers were called their stage names in 1931’s ‘Monkey Business’, and in 1949’s ‘Love Happy’ Harpo was).
Okay, back on topic. Better to do something now when you don’t have to, than to wait until it is required. That is what adults do, even a 10-year-old cartoon boy. And we didn’t resort to murder, even for free.
Anyway, Title 42 ended Thursday, May 11, 2023. democRATs and MSM insist President Trump put Title 42 into place, but it was actually passed…GASP!…under FDR in 1944, as part of the Public Health Services Law.
The left counters that Title 42 has been “rarely used” since then. That doesn’t change the fact that it was still Law. Then leftists switch to saying that Trump abused Title 42. Not as much as illegal aliens (and democRATs) abuse the immigration system.
What is/was Title 42? An emergency law allowing the government to prohibit illegal aliens from entering the USA in order to prevent the spread of communicable diseases.
How do we know they have contagious diseases?
Do you think ‘country burglars’ (what illegal aliens actually are) go to see doctors regularly? Really?!
They are certainly more of a danger to society than a gun owner is. Why? Illegal aliens are ‘super spreaders’, and in more ways than one. BEFORE Title 42 ended, we had illegal aliens coming into the USA from over 50 different countries!
We are NOT bordered by 50 countries! We are bordered by TWO countries: Mexico and Canada. So how are they getting to Mexico and Canada to illegally enter the USA? Super-spreading!
But, according to the alt-far-left (including RINOs), our border does not matter. Which border does? Ukraine’s border, of course. That one they continue to find excuses to throw money at.
On Monday, April 24, 2023, a 30-year-old named Oscar Solis, who is an actual member of MS-13, and who had moved to Florida after his release on parole from prison in Indiana, was arrested by the Pasco County Florida Sheriff for the murder of Randall Cooke, who was delivering food on behalf of an unknown restaurant via Uber Eats at the time of his death on Wednesday, April 19, 2023.
And we said “on behalf of” because, contrary to popular belief, those who work gig jobs are NOT employees of those companies, but are in fact independent contractors (aka 1099 workers). They install an app on their phone, and when they log in they are sent ‘offers’, which they are free to accept or decline at their own discretion.
Sure, companies encourage drivers to take all offers, but it is NOT required, and in some cases it is downright silly to do so. We’ll probably discuss this in detail soon, but for now most drivers say that a $1 or more to 1 mile ratio is what you look for, because below that you are losing money since drivers use their own car, gasoline and time.
So $10 total (including what the app pays directly, and in tips from the customer) for 8 miles would be good, but $5 total for 11 miles would be ‘upside down’ and cost you money in the long run (oil changes and other maintenance aren’t free).
Cooke was a 59-year-old husband and stepfather who unfortunately decided to accept an ‘offer’ that took him to gang-member Solis’ home on what was meant to be his last delivery of the night (he had texted his wife he was heading home after dropping it off), but it instead turned into his last delivery ever.
Security camera footage shows Cooke going to Oscar’s front door. Randall had only decided to sign up to make deliveries so that his family could live in an ocean-side area as his wife and stepdaughter wished to do.
Meanwhile, Solis had failed to register as a convicted felon when he moved to Florida (which violated his parole).
Police believe that Solis forced Cooke inside, then murdered Randall before dismembering his body and putting the pieces into garbage bags. Later, he received help taking those bags outside to garbage cans.
For the record, the user agreements of the delivery companies prohibit drivers from going inside a house or apartment, so please never do that voluntarily, even if you think it might be safe. You never know who is waiting around a corner with bad intent.
Police found blood and a wedding ring, both belonging to Cooke, inside Oscar’s home, then days later found the trash bags containing Cooke’s remains.
Solis’ many crimes before this brutal murder include a slew of drug offenses, aggravated battery (the difference with regular battery being these are more serious injuries requiring medical attention), repeated burglary charges, assault on prison staffers, stabbing another inmate while in prison, and resisting arrest.
In other words, Solis is a solid democRAT citizen. And not that it should matter, but we will note it anyway, Solis is hispanic and Cooke was White.
Not to be outdone, around the same time, another Florida hoodlum, Joseph Killins…yes, KILLins, was charged with two attacks on women. The 38-year-old Killins is not known to be a member of MS-13, but apparently hates delivery drivers almost as much as Solis.
On Tuesday, April 18, 2023, Killins used a gun to kidnap a woman who was working on behalf of a restaurant through the DoorDash app, then made her drive (using her own car) to another area while committing sexual battery on her and with the likely intent of raping (if not also of killing) her.
Luckily, this victim, listed only as a 20-year-old hispanic woman, had been talking to someone on the phone when Killins approached her and she was tracked down by her family using a phone finding app. Killins shot his gun at them, hitting a woman in her 20’s before he fled.
The next day, Wednesday, April 19, 2023, Killins, who, for the record, is black, repeated his actions (minus the car part) with another hispanic woman, this time in her early 40’s, before stealing her backpack and fleeing. Police found him 4 miles away at a hotel and arrested him.
And we said Killins “hates delivery drivers” because sexual battery is a crime of violence, NOT a crime of sex.
Now those stats we promised earlier. According to ‘Industrial Safety & Hygiene News’ (ishn.com), the most dangerous job in the USA is logging, with 56 deaths in 2018 (or 111 per 100,000 workers).
Delivery drivers ranked 7th, with 966 deaths that year (at a rate of 27 per 100,000). The list includes the top 25, and police officers rank 22nd, with 108 fatalities (and a rate of 14 per 100,000 workers).
According to ISHN, working as a police officer is 4.1 times more dangerous than the average job, and again, the rate of deaths per 100,000 workers is almost twice as high (27 to 14) for delivery drivers.
So if you get good service, please tip the delivery people. They risk more than restaurant staff or even police. And please make sure your location address is clearly visible and, at night, well lit. Thank you!
You can start checking back here again. We have some hard-hitting stuff coming up, and you won’t have to wait 3 weeks between to read them either.
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As of right now, President Donald John Trump (aka 92, because 45 + 47) appears to have the Electoral College votes (EV since it isn’t an actual college) needed to secure the 2024 Presidential election. After a much needed but entirely too brief nap, Wisconsin has been called by a reliable source, which puts Trump over the 270 needed (of 538 total).
This is after they tried to steal his businesses and property, throw him in prison and even (TWICE, that we know of…so far) kill him.
The unfinished earlier version of this story mentioned how some sources had already called the race, such as the completely unreliable and totally gutless Faux Snews (with Paul RINO Ryan running things, rather than the more than 7 years deceased Roger Ailes who would still do a better job), but at the time of that writing, Trump had just 248 of the 270 needed (and the 312 we predict he will end up winning).
The New York Times (aka New York Slimes) are alt-far-left-communists, but they have the absolute best election coverage, never calling too early or too late (and you know we like things ‘Just Right’ here), so we always have their auto-reloading page open on election night and into the wee hours of the next morning, while watching the “Real America’s Voice” streaming channel. At least until emergency nap time.
In addition, Trump was then ahead in: Michigan (15 EV) by 294,976 with 19% left to count, Wisconsin (10 EV) by 122,835 with 10% left, Nevada (6 EV) by 54,401 with 26% left, Arizona (11 EV) by 31,223 with 42% left, and Alaska (3 EV) by 27,994 with 45% to be counted, so he needed any ONE of those to put him past 270, and Alaska hasn’t voted democRAT for POTUS in 6 decades, which even their NEW ‘ranked-choice’ communism shouldn’t prevent, although that IS what it is intended to do.
Fun Fact: Any time democRATs alter how we vote, it is to make it more difficult or confusing, even if that isn’t how it appears at the time of introduction.
One person, one vote, on paper, in person, with valid state-issued ID AND signature matched. How hard is that?! And if we aren’t going to match signatures, as we didn’t during the 2020 election theft (yes, it was, stop being an election-theft denier), then why do the local board of elections (aka bored of elections) keep them on file…? Gotcha, leftists!
Anyway, Kamala (pronounced like Camel with an A at the end, because fuck her, figuratively) was ahead in only ONE state left to be called: Maine with a 51,099 lead and 29% left to be counted…for the 2 at-large EV left to be decided (Maine and Nebraska each have 2 at-large EV, plus 2 district EVs for Maine and 3 for Nebraska). So, basically, she had to win every EV left, while being very behind in almost all of them.
And since she was refusing to concede, by her own definition, that makes her an election denier. Gotcha again, leftists!
Just as President Trump came out to claim victory, pre-nap, they (NYT) finally called Pennsylvania, which added 19 Electoral College votes to his total, giving him 267 of the needed 270. That is when, despite coffee, we decided it was safe for some quick shut-eye.
Besides napping, just where have we been? Grieving. But we are back now. And they would have been SO happy with this outcome!
As good as the results are, democRATs and lamestream media (aka leftstream media, aka mainstream media[SIC]) have repeatedly told us, none of that matters. Most of all the nap.
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No, what actually matters is the ‘popular vote’, which is why the United States has NEVER, not even once, elected a President that way, EVER! And Trump is SO unpopular that he is leading that by 5,091,811 votes there…so suck on that, bitches.
Jokes aside, Trump would have done this to Usurper in Thief (aka ‘Resident’) Joe Biden too. You can partially thank non-White patriots for this result, as 15% of blacks, 40% of hispanics and 39% of other non-White races voted for Trump, which are all higher than Republicans running for POTUS normally get. And to those folks we say, welcome home!
There is other good news for America too. Republicans have won the U.S. Senate, as with 7 seats left to be decided in the 100 seat chamber, they had already won 51 and lead in 5 others (2 by slim margins).
Also, with 70 U.S. House seats left to be decided (out of 435), Republicans need just 25 to control that chamber. Plus, we also still control 27 of 50 state Governor seats.
Now, if we can just keep the RINO’s from fucking things up like they did in 2017 when they blocked the MAGA agenda in the House, then Paul Ryan handed the House over to Nancy Pelosi (she of the perverted husband) by running an intentionally bad campaign!
To save America, we in MAGA (Make America Great Again) need to adopt the Cobra Kai motto: Strike first. Strike hard. No mercy.
That is NOT a call to violence! We start by prosecuting all those involved in the 2020 election theft AND in the cover-up of same, then move on to the vetting, hiring and training of actual Americans to locate and remove illegal aliens from the USA.
Oh, and we finish the border wall. Combined, those would be the greatest job creation program in history. Make it so!
And to Drat Smudge of the Smudge Abort…we are enjoying every bit of your mental pain you twisted evil piece of leftist shit.
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This afternoon, Sunday, July 21, 2024, to the surprise of everyone who had been saying he wouldn’t do it…and ONLY to them…, Joe Biden (and his body double) announced he (they) will not run for his (their) first term as U.S. President, after successfully stealing the 2020 election from Donald Trump (yes, they did), who is now seeking his 3rd term (second served).
President Trump was leading on the evening of Tuesday, November 3, 2020, when the DC Uniparty (aka original DCU, made up of democRATs and RINOs; Republicans In Name Only) realized they were going to lose and stopped counting in states, counties, cities and districts that they controlled. Then, magically, when they restarted counting hours to days later, Trump was suddenly losing. Ditto MAGA candidates for U.S. Senate (one was John James in Michigan), U.S. House, and others too.
Just four years earlier, on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, they tried to prevent Trump from becoming President by delaying the announcement of election results in Pennsylvania. Then after 90 minutes or so, when they couldn’t figure out how to steal it and with even the New York Times election website showing fewer votes to count than Trump was leading Hillary Clinton by, they finally declared him the winner of PA, and therefore the Presidency.
Fast-forward to 2020 and, thanks to communist Chinese ‘the covid’ and the newly invented ‘mail-in ballots’ (where they just sent them to every address, including vacant lots, and to everyone, including dead people and illegal aliens), rather than ‘absentee voting’, that requires a request, proper ID (including date or birth, last 4 of SS#, and a signature which is verified upon receipt at the Board of Elections), and a chain on custody, PLUS electronic voting machine fraud, the election was quite easy to steal.
Effectively, the alt-far-left-communist-democRATs got their assassination after all, only 8 days late. It just ended up being the Joe Biden presidential candidacy instead of his opponent.
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Thomas Matthew Crooks, a full-fledged adult at age 20 despite what some others are claiming, was the one with the gun, but let’s not pretend he was the mastermind behind trying to kill President Trump on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania, at a MAGA (Make America Great Again) rally after their lawfare attempts to get rid of him failed. The DCU may want to sweep Crooks and the entire event under the rug via rigged ‘investigations’, but we won’t let them.
In another blow against democracy[SIC], which is actually two wolves and a sheep voting on what is for lunch, as opposed to our Republic (where sheep have 2A rights), with the democRAT Primary having ended June 8, 2024, with Joe Biden being the winner, the so-called elite will now introduce the illusion of a modified selection process and then select the democRAT candidate.
democRATs really are the least ‘democRATic’ party ever.
This is all a result of Barack Obama grabbing control of the democRAT party from the Clinton’s in 2008 and never letting go, ever. He was even the first president to leave office and purchase a home in the Washington, DC, area. He then installed Biden to continue his own planned destruction of the United States by orchestrating the 2020 election theft, and now he has decided it was time for Joe to go.
Some supporters are trying to shift to the cackling shrew Kamala ‘heels up’ Harris, who in 2020 stole the Vice Presidency (yes, she did). But others are scrambling to join the race, and the first of those is current U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D is for dip-shit, West Virginia), but he won’t be the last.
The bottom line is that leftists will do anything to stop the MAGA movement and to take out the founder and current leader, President Donald Trump, and complete their destruction of the USA. We can’t let them do that either.
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Sometimes, this stuff really does write itself. The left are now vacillating between glee over their own actions, expressing regret over the fact that they didn’t succeed, and also trying to pin their attempt on us, even via memes.
Just as we predicted too, oh when was that again…wow it was way back on Saturday when we wrote it and Sunday morning when we published it and started working on this one.
Staunch-alt-far-left-communist-democRAT-groomer-extremist-grifter-indoctrinating-gaslighting-Alinskyite-fringe-election-theft-denying-globalist-stochastic-terrorist-hate-speecher-election-stealing-gun-grabbing-sun-deniers and the existential threat America faces today, are taking turns:
1) celebrating their attempted assassination of President Donald Trump, soon to be known as ’92’ (45 + 47), just 2 days before the Republican National Convention started in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 2) being bummed out that they failed to kill him. 3) trying to claim that the shooter was one of us, which to them makes us responsible for their actions.
Let’s take the last one first, just to be semi-confusing. The claim is that Thomas Matthew Crooks, a grown man of 20, was both a registered Republican and a Nazi.
There is a picture of him wearing a ‘Demolitia’ t-shirt from the ‘Demolition Ranch’ channel on YouTube, and some on the left are claiming it is an indication Crooks is a Nazi, AND that this proves he is one of us (despite us not being Nazis).
As we have explained before, the view that the political spectrum goes from (L-R) communist to democRAT to so-called moderate (actually just unwilling to make a decision), then Republican followed by Nazi is a myth (not a mister).
Nazi is an abbreviation of National Socialist, and ALL socialists are left wing, PERIOD!
The only difference between a National Socialist and a Communist (aka Global Socialists) is the scope of their leftism (National vs Global). Those same two groups fought each other over Germany about 100 years ago, with the Nazis ‘winning’, and the rest is history (not her story).
So the actual political spectrum (this time R-L), is MAGA Conservative, Conservative, conservative (lower case c), Republican, RINO (Republican In Name Only), so-called moderate (seriously, get off the fence!), old-school blue dog Democrat (there might be one left somewhere), democRATs, socialists (including the national socialist aka Nazi kind), then communists, followed by dead communists (and the more of those, the better off we all are).
What does indicate some level of derangement is paying $37.45 for that t-shirt.
We don’t believe ‘Demolition Ranch’, which we had never heard of until now, is Nazi, but even if they were and even if Crooks was, it would just make them leftists, which disproves the leftist attempt to conflate us with them.
One mental midget on Reddit (perhaps the most leftist jerkle-circ on the interwebs) said “So I’m Guessing Trump wasn’t enough of a nazi for him?”, with a reply of “Thats my guess”, and a reply to that of “In 2021 he [Crooks. –MG] was registered as a Republican. He voted in the fall of 2022 for the last time.”
And with that we move to the second part of that last one of 3 things, which is the left claiming to have found Crooks’ voter registration which lists him as a Republican.
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It isn’t as if certain states, thanks to the democRAT-RINO (Republican In Name Only, aka not actual Republicans) alliance, don’t allow democRATs to register as Republicans so they can fuck with Republican Primary results by choosing candidates for us.
Listen, we could go tomorrow (we’d do it today, but it is Sunday, and they are closed) and change our voter registration to democRAT, but that would never EVER make us an actual democRAT, because we would never EVER vote for communists or push communism. And that is lost on those 3 pole-smokers on Reddit.
[See, we told you we started this Sunday. We left that because rewriting it would be brutal. –MG]
Also, those documents, as well as pictures and now video (thanks to ‘deep fake’ technology) can be manipulated. We’ve seen video clips of actors in movies they weren’t in, complete with their real voice!
To further prove being a registered Republican means nothing, we have two words for you: Paul Ryan.
And we also have another two words for you: Mitch McConnell.
Plus, there is that old saying, “Actions speak louder than words.”, which in this case translates to an assassination attempt that…here it comes…wait for it…Morrisonesque ‘pregnant pause’ ending now…trumps a piece of paper (voter registration form). Or a picture.
So, when you hear someone discussing a “public-private partnership”, just realize that THAT is socialism.
Who did ‘not see’ that coming?
Since we don’t have anyplace else to stick it, when we mentioned the difference between a Republic (us) and a democracy[SIC] yesterday, we gave the recent UK election as an example, and we forgot to mention the recent French election.
Almost every election in France follows the same formula: the Right wins the first round, then the alt-far-left-communists always have a second round so they can join up to prevent the Right from saving France. And as an added bonus, they get a minority government (based on vote %), just like the UK has now!
The left know they fucked up, and just made it more likely Trump will win, but they are still giddy over their failed attempt, with lots of jokes about ‘just missing’, as well as lots of happiness that the attempt was finally made.
There is one more charge (#4) being leveled though, and honestly, we did think about it during the last article, but just like ‘using a sniper’, we figured the left would never go there. That allegation is that Trump set this all up for sympathy votes.
Here is one example, also from the most leftist place on earth (Reddit), the title of the comment being “AITAH to think it was a set up that Donald Trump was shot for sympathy vote?” and their illogical reasoning was “After watching the video, it seems like it was a way to get sympathy from voters. How far would he go to get votes?”
YES! Let that sink in. They think Trump let himself be shot, and allowed a person behind him to be murdered, somehow knowing he would survive AND that it would just be one death, and all to win an election.
The reason they think that is because THEY would do it if they were him!
What the left fails to understand, and we have to make certain they eventually ‘get it’, is that they have awoken the sleeping giant. By attempting to assassinate the founder and current leader of the MAGA movement, they will attract people to MAGA, which isn’t what they wanted, but it is what they got.
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