I expect many of those “thousands of dollars paid to Patel” were paid in slave labor or sexual services.
U-Visas are also abused by illegal aliens themselves. It is universally known by illegal alien women that they can obtain a U-Visa and a fast track to a green card by reporting their husbands or boyfriends for domestic violence. I know of a woman from China who did this after marrying an American man, getting to the U.S. , divorcing him and claiming domestic violence to get a green card based on abuse instead of marriage.
I know for certain Mexican women share the domestic abuse to green card trick with each other widely. I’ve often wondered if the “perpetrators” were part of the scam ie. wife gets a green card, they “reconcile” and get the rest of the family gets legal resident status under her status. Until recently, there was very little danger the accused would be deported for domestic violence.
You missed it, the trafficking part anyway, because it’s not anywhere in the indictment. I’m not clear what Chris’s thinking is in these last two posts.
The context is clear. This was the exploitation of a stream of illegal aliens seeking U-Visas. There would have to be a constant supply of migrants to make it profitable.
I used to think it was complicated. It is not. 100% of everything to be explained can be explained if you can figure out how to follow the money. Other than literally insane people, I have yet to find an exception. Sad.
Bingo, Doc! They can't all be that stupid or insane, so the rest that pretend to be, for the money, are more commonly known as "democratic leaders" or in laymen's terms, "whores."
Thank you, Chris, for your tireless efforts to rip the covers off the corruption. I read this post immediately after listening to 2+45 hour Tucker Carlson podcast about the complete sordid Epstein history from when he was first hired as a math teacher at the most prestigious high school in NYC as a 2 year college drop out. Hired, BTW by AG Bill Barr’s father (head master of the school) who himself was a former CIA agent who secretly wrote fiction books about rulers whose primary focus was pedophilia and sex slavery. The constellation of Regime elites that orbited in Epstein’s gravitational pull is mind boggling. The coverups of his crimes are incredibly corrupt. We tend to think the national and international levels are where ALL the corruption is. Your post, sadly, shows us the corruption exists at every public and private level of America. That cancer has metastasized through every body politic. When we really look, without pretense, we are truly a third world nation, we just don’t know it yet. Heartbreaking.
That fact that “average Joe’s and Jane’s” are sick of the corruption can be seen in how the internet has blown up with ridicule and memes for the CEO and his mistress HR lady caught in the “kiss cam” at the Cold Play concert.
I think that Organised Crime influence (literally) reached The White House during Prohibition. And the OSS & The very real Italian Mafia did fascinating things WWIIish & beyond, with Dulles. Top down, corruption seeps, call it the Truckle Down Effect (sic,). Here in Oz the influence peddling is manifest at Fed, State & Local Gov levels. One could say it is formalising. Truly, late stage hegemony sags into "systems"...
Right on the bull's eye regarding J. Edgar Hoover and the Dulles brothers. With Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano and the OSS one should at least add "the Jewish Mafia" and the American Zionist Society (of which Lyndon B. Johnson's mother was a prominent activist in the 1930s) to the obscure history of the founding of the CIA (and Mossad and MI6, the other two heads of the same devil)
The information on Epstein’s background and history has been around now for years. It’s yet another example how “asleep at the wheel” people have been for a very long time. And now the ‘normies’ are being subjected to the horrors of the Epstein Files and the extent and reach of his ‘activities’. My, my!
Oh, there are so many ways to exploit illegals for your own purposes, and the last admin and the deteriorating Dem-Marxist party know every last one of those ways. They don't give a crap about these people, and the more they don't care about them and their welfare as they constantly proclaim, the louder and more obnoxious they become in their self-righteousness.
Thank you Chris for the unique way you have of removing the masks that hide who the actual reptiles are so we are all able to see it.
I've mostly agreed with the idea that there's a uniparty and the Republicans are no better, but President Autopen opened the border and suspended enforcement of the immigration laws, while the Republicans seem to be actually creating change. Border crossings are way down, and serious arrests are being made. We have a long way to go, but it looks like the Republicans are discovering a little bit of fortitude. Murkowski and Collins aside, they defunded Planned Parenthood and NPR. I'll take it.
But traditionally the Republicans are not noted to be the ‘party with a spine’, or as we say down near the Mexico US border…they lack serious “cojones”. Yes, they defunded Planned Parenthood/NPR/PBS, and tore the bottom out of the C*A controlled USAID programs, but they have a long way to go.
In general I’m not very trusting of anything “the government” is doing, either right or left side of the same ass, at any given time. But that’s just me.
A lot of the ICE raids are going after illegals engaging in ID theft to get stolen Social Security numbers and other stolen credentials. Many of them are also filing fraudulent tax returns with a lot of fake dependents and deductions to get a big refund and then scram.
Many illegal immigrants originate from corrupt dysfunctional countries, and they know that people with authority allow the rigging to take place. The migrants must feel right at home playing the game, that is, until ICE begins to do its job as intended.
The protesters are likely paid misfits and are players in the dirty, dirty game turning the US into a 3rd class country. I repeat myself, progressives in their compassion and indignancy of moral superiority are actually vested in regressing us into a "third" world country. The bust up in California of the pot enterprise is spectacular in our ability to try to shame the malcontents.
The “progressives in their compassion and indignancy of moral superiority” have no f**king clue that this is what their actions are pushing this nation towards. The majority of which are older, geezer/boomer white women with a few men scattered in the crowd.
(I am one, so I think I have the credentials to diss my fellow demographic group.)
At these No Kings/Indivisible Rally’s/Protests and the recent “Good Trouble Rally” last Thursday to “honor the 5th Anniversary death of former Congressman George Lewis (D-GA)” the majority of the protestors were “older privileged white women and men”. Walking around carrying these totally stupid signs. Here in California, they were the majority group at the “rally” they had at neighborhood park in San Diego, near where I live. There were only two older black women in the crowd, that I could see. (But then again, San Diego isn’t over flowing with black people. Lots of Latinos, Asians, yes. They were not in the crowd.)
I imagine if you asked any of these folks, how would they like to host an illegal migrant or their family at their homes for a few months to “help them back on their feet” after “being taken off all their benefits or had a family member brutally picked up by ICE”, they would not be so “bleeding heart”, as they say. That’s the hypocritical nature of these so called “protestors”. And when one calls them out on it they flip out! And if on social media or texts…they “block” you. Cause that’s all they got…the power to ‘block’ one from any opinions or views contrary to their own!
I am a Geezer White Woman (72 😉) but I am nothing like these woman or their husbands. I am a “recovering Dem” of 15 years! (But not affiliated with any political party). I lost a few older super Dem so called Liberal white friends (men and women) at the beginning of the Scamdemic. They were insane, and this was before the Jabs came out! When the Jabs came out and I said I wouldn’t be getting an experimental injection, they flipped out and called me an “anti-vaxxer”. Yes I am and proudly so!
Now they are totally out of it, they suffer from some debilitating disease or chronic condition and their minds are shot. And they don’t even link it all up to the Jabs.
I'm 66 and fit the geezer white woman demographic, as do they. I have no problem with "anti-vaxxers," but they do. I remember the eight of us were sitting outside of a restaurant after the Covid restrictions were starting to lift. They, the women and their husbands, were adamant that anyone who didn't get the vaccine should be denied health care, deserved to die, blah, blah, blah. I didn't say anything because there was no point. They only watch MSNBC and CNN and I'm sure at least one of them receives the daily Democrat talking points e-mail because she sounds exactly like those "news" channel people. They also, of course, think that Tom Homan is Satan for rounding up all of those all of those innocent little illegal alien families and sending them to the Allegator Alcatraz Concentration Camp (their words). I could go on, but you get the picture. Thank God that, for the most part and outside of a rant here and there, we talk about our dogs.
I recently had a break up with a man I had been dating for over a year. When we met I knew he was Lefty, Liberal Dem because on our first date he had to bring up DJT. (It happened to be the day DJT was ‘convicted in NY’ and it popped up in his Apple iWatch.) I specifically asked him to not talk about politics and The Donald.
He complied. We even managed to get through the election in November without any comments about DJT.
But then he brought it up in November (right after the election), and we broke up. We “patched” things up over NY’s Eve, and he took a vow to take a break from all “MSM news”, and just watch sports. And it worked out. We went on several trips together, I visited him twice in NoCA where he lives, and we enjoyed each other’s company.
We did ok until June, then he went to see his liberal lefty Dem younger brother in Asheville, NC. He went kind of dark on me for ten days.
It turns out over the 10 days, he and the brother watched Legacy Media/MSNBC/CNN for most of their waking hours. He felt “out of it” around his brother’s Liberal Dem friends and his Liberal Dem cousins who they went to visit, because he “wasn’t up on all the bad things DJT was doing to our country” since being elected, because he had not been watching “the news”. While there he got totally re-triggered, re-brainwashed and propagandized over those 10 days of media consumption.
Our ‘deal’ was to not talk about politics nor DJT. And it worked pretty well for the last 6 months. But when he came back he was a totally different person. He couldn’t stop taking about it. I reminded him of our deal and he didn’t even f**king care about my feelings, our relationship, or anything. He referred to me as a “Trumper, right winger and a Republican” (of which I am NONE of those things), because I didn’t agree with him about his feelings and thoughts about DJT and that “people were being harmed under the Trump regime”.
When I tried to offer up an alternative view, I was automatically put into the “enemy camp of Trumper, right winger”and so on. That I “didn't care about these poor people who were losing their healthcare” (and government handout benefits”) or “the poor” or the “migrants (illegal) who were being ripped from their families by ICE.” There was no swaying him whatsoever.
So now he’s amongst the ranks of the geezer, white privileged liberal Dem types, who stand on the street corner once a week in Napa, CA, waving stupid, lame signs, or after the Good Trouble Rally last week, parading through the streets of downtown Napa waving their pathetic signs. He feels this is “voicing our concerns about the tyrannical DJT’s “regime” and making a difference”. And these are his “like minded” (although delusional) people.
To say the least we are now officially broken up, beyond repair. And it’s all due to his totally brainwashed and propagandized MSM “talking points” thinking.
Oh a PS: Of course he had to throw in the comment that “Trump’s Regime” and his “tryrannical ruling of the country” and how he is “treating the poor and disenfranchised “ is the same as the “Hilter’s Nazi Regime treatment and persecution of Jews and the Holocaust in WW2. (And he’s a Jew, by blood but not a “practicing Jew” of the Jewish faith.)
That sucks and I am sorry. He suffers from binary thinking, in that if you are not a D you must be an R (and vice versa). I keep asking what happened to the "question authority" Democrats. They have all become progressives. I never get an answer. I am neither because I don't trust the Government. I don't hate it, I just don't trust it. A government that can give you everything you want can also take it away.
Speaking of follow the money....I find it odd that DOGE didn't follow it call the way to the corrupt politicians' pockets. Surely this information is known.
But then again, Sheldon Whitehouse's wife was caught red handed with millions in usaid funds for her new green deal climate friendly company that picked up some trash on the beach. One or two mentions in the news and poof!! Gone. But no more Sheldon lisping on TV about orange man anymore.
At least these people are just being exploited for their labor, just like they'd be in the old country. Think of the 300k or more children that have disappeared over the past 4 years. Only a few have been found. My guess that the rest are dead from various forms of abuse, mostly for sex, but also for body parts, like adrenochrome, which the elites need to be young. Such evil.
It’s likely that these 330K children you speak of were “just being exploited for their labor” as well. On there way to being ‘Los Desaparecidos”. Just a different ‘kind of labor’.
The hits just keep on coming. So many narratives of the Democratic Party and the legacy media (but I repeat myself) are crumbling. Today we have Tulsi Gabbard validating another “conspiracy theory” of the “extreme right”: that the entire Russian collusion story was a hoax, that Obama and company knew Trump’s 2016 win was not due to Putin but claimed it anyway. Oh, to be a fly on the wall in the Obama residence today!
But sadly the people you speak of here (especially the older lifelong Dems) are firmly entrenched in the “Legacy/MSM” narrative. That’s all they consume, that’s all they know. They have been throughly and totally propagandized and brainwashed. I have an ‘up close and personal view’ on this. It’s scary.
True enough. Lots read the NY Times and listen to NPR and think they’re getting a mostly objective view of the news. But sooner or later, the truth will out.
their ‘daily diet’ of the NYT, NPR, PBS, MSNBC & CNN. They will never see any ‘truth’ come out of those outlets.
What we are experiencing now (at least in my age demographic from say 50-80) is a serious divide in reality. It’s like we are living in ‘parallel universes’…that are distinctly different.
Nothing new under the sun… way back in 02 I saw this sort of thing, in my town. My wife and I had been looking to upsize from our starter home for couple of years. There was a nice house with a large yard about a mile from our current home that my wife had had her eye on since it was built. It was on a main feeder road into the old downtown district. The neighborhood had five homes each sitting on several acres with a large creek serving as all the lot’s back boundary. All the homes were a decade old and well maintained. A picture perfect location to raise a family, or so it appeared.
The home my wife and I had our eyes on had been for sale a year before but was priced too high for our budget, but it did not sell so we kept our eye on it.
I drove past it every day going to work. I often went to work early and got home late, because of this I noticed something odd.
Every morning a 6:00 sharp a 14 passenger van would pull into the driveway and back up to the front door. Every night around 11:00 the same van would pull in and back up to the front door. During this period the yard was poorly maintained. It was quite obvious since every other property was neat as a pin. My wife and I speculated that it was now a rental. This went on for months till one day my wife happened to meet the owner to the house next door. When she said that she had always loved the house and would love to buy it but it was off the market. The gentleman said,”you should talk to the owner, he might surprise you.” Then he gave her the owner’s phone number. “Right off the top of his head”, she told me that night.
We called, he was very interested in selling, named a price substantially lower than the previous listing price. We began the buying process.
We had toured the home when it was listed so we were familiar with the house, and it was being rented month to month, so we hadn’t revisited it.
I kept seeing the van and the weirdness of the situation stayed at the top of my mind. We had secured a loan and were drawing up the contract when I said to the owner I need to walk through the house to see the home’s condition. The owner was reluctant but agreed to go with me the next day.
My wife had a meeting that day and couldn’t come so I said I would take our camcorder and tape the walk through for her. A fateful decision that opened up a scene that I never thought I would see in this country.
The house that I had walked through before had been prime. Cleaned, polished, decorated, like a showplace. The one we entered that day was the same house, but after an apocalypse.
The first thing was the smell that hit you when you opened the door.
Body odor, grease, rotting garbage, and old blood slammed into my nose and made my eyes water, the owner a step behind me retched and fled back out the door. I continued with the camera running. By the door was a pile of greasy shoes. The pile was two feet high and held dozens of shoes, roaches crawled in the daylight there. The dining room with the Venetian columns and trayed ceiling we had liked so much was now completely filled with home made bunk beds stacked three high. Mattresses made of dirty shipping foam lay on them. Garbage bags with clothes and personal items hung from the 2x4s the beds were made from. There were 9 beds there, the tile floor that I knew to be white were now deep grey and black. The two bed rooms down the hall each had six beds, the carpets hopelessly stained. The bathroom was a cess pit.
The kitchen was half an inch deep in fermented grease. The top of the line downdraft stove was covered with grease and ramen noodles, the garbage bags piled by the sink were filled with the plastic wrappers of the cheapest ramen brand, on the stovetop was a five gallon cookpot and a battered wok. The living room had six of the bunks, the accompanying trash bags too. There was a loft overlooking the living room, there was a dirty sheet nailed to the railing of the overlook and the ceiling. I went up the stairs to what had been a media room to find three of the bunks, only two high here, there were some sad attempts of decoration in this room, plastic flowers no doubt once part of a funerary spray tied to the raw wood of the 2x4s. Women lived up here. The attic door was open revealing small nests made of old rags and plastic on the plywood flooring, too small for adults, a wheelless plastic toy truck in the middle of one pile.
All this from one sweep of the camera. On the bookshelves lay an aluminum pan like you would get take-out in. Inside it, a candle, a blacked spoon, and dozens of burned out matches.
The owner was stammering at the bottom of the stairs, wide eyed, shocked. I looked at the alcove in the wall where in happier times a LCD projector sat, now held something I wish I hadn’t seen. It was a picture, with black candles flanking it. It was a hooded figure dressed in a black robe, like a religious icon, but instead of a face there was a crowned skull.
I turned awkwardly crossing myself and went down the stairs. I had to finish the video, I went to the master bedroom. There was only one bed, a real one with a mattress placed in front of the giant bayed window. It was messy but not like the rest of the house. It was this room that the smell of an abattoir had rushed out the front door when we first walked in.
“Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ “ whispered the owner, now far too pale and visibly shaking as he stared at the back wall of the room. I too was looking, through the black and white view finder.
Hooks, very large hooks, like the ones used to hang porch swings. There were four of them. Two were screwed into the juncture where wall met ceiling about seven feet apart. The other two were screwed into the juncture where the wall meets the floor directly below the first two. The wall between was in dire need of new sheet rock. There were dents, and gouges in the wall. There was also a myriad of spots and splatters on the wall, like a monochrome Jackson Pollock. Then I removed my eye from the view finder. It wasn’t monochrome at all.
I bought the house at half price, including a professional cleaning, new carpets, new drywall in the master bedroom,and a new roof.
I also contacted several three letter agencies. They were sympathetic, told me not to worry, these things happen.
They are not supposed to happen here. According to the history books 600,000 Americans died back before the internet solely to clear up this matter. So much for history books.
I will never use the euphemistic term that has forcefully replaced the correct term for this. The correct term is slavery. Those that practice this ancient evil are “slavers” or slave merchants. The other terms are mealy mouthed whispers in the fog, and not fit for the mouths of honest people.
Well this house is built on an old roadbed, which is better than our previous house which was built on an old crossroads. So, yes one day the miller will retire, the road went to a grist mill that was swept away in a flood back in the 1930’s.
Illegal immigration is exploitative at all levels. The immigrants get exploited by the cartels, by their sponsors when they have one, by fake relatives for unaccompanied minors, and by US businesses and politicians. Democrats look the other way at the cavalcade of crimes so they can exploit these people for votes and Congressional districts. It’s a dirty business all the way around. The moral thing is to stop it.
I guess I’m just naive. Maybe it’s growing up and living in the Midwest. I could never imagine running an operation like these. Who even thinks of something like this?
A running theme in this matter seems to be, armies of the overworked and underpaid to provide "eating out." Why can't Americans cook and serve our own food, rather than snap a selfie with a restaurant plate? A shift in this phenomenon would cascade benefits in every sphere.
Yep. I grew up in a family where my blue collar dad provided for us all (mom, three kids) with almost no OT. My mom worked a few hours a week and saved the money for sudden expenses (a new washing machine).
We had a working class house in an affluent town, a vacation home, multiple hot rods, a in-ground pool, a speed boat, orv’s for each of us for summer and winter, two vacations a year (separate from vacation house), etc.
We had that because we did and built everything ourselves. We ate out on vacation only. We entertained at our house. It was work hard, play hard, very tight, very civilized family, which is probably why I wouldn’t think of exploiting people like this.
Anyway, yeah. Save your money. Cook your own meals. You’ll be healthier. Your standard of living will increase. The economy will be healthier with workers in factories instead of restaurants. And you can take selfies with your home cooked meals and post them for us.
Chris, I’m late again to the table here but this is very important reporting and I thank you. Recently my son bought an investment property in Florida and he was interviewing a lawn care company and the man explained he was now very busy because “all the illegal Mexicans got deported.” I suspect many of them self-deported. There is a quiet transformation taking place and the general public has no idea. Thank you for this vital information about the criminal abuses of these hard working people.
Meanwhile in my homeland England, illegal immigrants housed in hotels and receiving free food, cell phones, health care and income are running delivery services for the likes of Uber Eats and Deliveroo and others. The deliver companies are supplying them with e-bikes and the necessary means and communications equipment to accept calls at the hotels where they are housed, carry out deliveries and get paid. Aside from the obvious illegality both by the companies and the illegal immigrants, people are ordering food from these operations not knowing that the man who delivers it is very likely to be an illegal immigrant from one of the high risk Muslim groups responsible for the astonishing increase in sexual assaults, attempted rapes and rapes in England. Obviously for women or children who are home alone this is a particularly dangerous situation.
Illegal immigration turns out to be the Democrats’ peculiar institution 3.0. Like slavery and Jim Crow before it, illegal immigration serves the dual function of providing a cheap, exploitable labor force and census numbers that increase political power without accountability to additional voters.
Holy crap how did I miss this one?
"Exploitation, official dishonesty, fake crime for pay, human beings trafficked across borders."
Just a day ending in "Y" here in America!
🎯 to both you, SC, and to Mr. Bray! Some would call this slavery if they had an honest bone in their body.
I expect many of those “thousands of dollars paid to Patel” were paid in slave labor or sexual services.
U-Visas are also abused by illegal aliens themselves. It is universally known by illegal alien women that they can obtain a U-Visa and a fast track to a green card by reporting their husbands or boyfriends for domestic violence. I know of a woman from China who did this after marrying an American man, getting to the U.S. , divorcing him and claiming domestic violence to get a green card based on abuse instead of marriage.
I know for certain Mexican women share the domestic abuse to green card trick with each other widely. I’ve often wondered if the “perpetrators” were part of the scam ie. wife gets a green card, they “reconcile” and get the rest of the family gets legal resident status under her status. Until recently, there was very little danger the accused would be deported for domestic violence.
How you missed it, is on account of information overload! Can't be everywhere, all at once. And you're certainly not alone in this either. 😁👍
You missed it, the trafficking part anyway, because it’s not anywhere in the indictment. I’m not clear what Chris’s thinking is in these last two posts.
The context is clear. This was the exploitation of a stream of illegal aliens seeking U-Visas. There would have to be a constant supply of migrants to make it profitable.
I used to think it was complicated. It is not. 100% of everything to be explained can be explained if you can figure out how to follow the money. Other than literally insane people, I have yet to find an exception. Sad.
Bingo, Doc! They can't all be that stupid or insane, so the rest that pretend to be, for the money, are more commonly known as "democratic leaders" or in laymen's terms, "whores."
Recall Lucius Cassius: “Cui bono?” It’s all you ever need to ask.
The love of money is the root of all evil
I always come back to this. Because of who said it, I believe it is the ultimate truth.
The true ideologues among them are usually just being manipulated by the grifters.
Thank you, Chris, for your tireless efforts to rip the covers off the corruption. I read this post immediately after listening to 2+45 hour Tucker Carlson podcast about the complete sordid Epstein history from when he was first hired as a math teacher at the most prestigious high school in NYC as a 2 year college drop out. Hired, BTW by AG Bill Barr’s father (head master of the school) who himself was a former CIA agent who secretly wrote fiction books about rulers whose primary focus was pedophilia and sex slavery. The constellation of Regime elites that orbited in Epstein’s gravitational pull is mind boggling. The coverups of his crimes are incredibly corrupt. We tend to think the national and international levels are where ALL the corruption is. Your post, sadly, shows us the corruption exists at every public and private level of America. That cancer has metastasized through every body politic. When we really look, without pretense, we are truly a third world nation, we just don’t know it yet. Heartbreaking.
That fact that “average Joe’s and Jane’s” are sick of the corruption can be seen in how the internet has blown up with ridicule and memes for the CEO and his mistress HR lady caught in the “kiss cam” at the Cold Play concert.
I think that Organised Crime influence (literally) reached The White House during Prohibition. And the OSS & The very real Italian Mafia did fascinating things WWIIish & beyond, with Dulles. Top down, corruption seeps, call it the Truckle Down Effect (sic,). Here in Oz the influence peddling is manifest at Fed, State & Local Gov levels. One could say it is formalising. Truly, late stage hegemony sags into "systems"...
Right on the bull's eye regarding J. Edgar Hoover and the Dulles brothers. With Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano and the OSS one should at least add "the Jewish Mafia" and the American Zionist Society (of which Lyndon B. Johnson's mother was a prominent activist in the 1930s) to the obscure history of the founding of the CIA (and Mossad and MI6, the other two heads of the same devil)
The information on Epstein’s background and history has been around now for years. It’s yet another example how “asleep at the wheel” people have been for a very long time. And now the ‘normies’ are being subjected to the horrors of the Epstein Files and the extent and reach of his ‘activities’. My, my!
Including Pam Bondi sitting on evidence of Epstein's trafficking in FL for years. https://www.writeintoaction.com/MEMO%20to%20Jeff%20Sessions%20sent.html
Whitney Webb is the go-to for Epstein. One Nation Under Blackmail. 🎯
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Oh, there are so many ways to exploit illegals for your own purposes, and the last admin and the deteriorating Dem-Marxist party know every last one of those ways. They don't give a crap about these people, and the more they don't care about them and their welfare as they constantly proclaim, the louder and more obnoxious they become in their self-righteousness.
Thank you Chris for the unique way you have of removing the masks that hide who the actual reptiles are so we are all able to see it.
The Republicans are no angels and are equal players in this ‘Bread & Circus’ control drama we live in everyday.
I've mostly agreed with the idea that there's a uniparty and the Republicans are no better, but President Autopen opened the border and suspended enforcement of the immigration laws, while the Republicans seem to be actually creating change. Border crossings are way down, and serious arrests are being made. We have a long way to go, but it looks like the Republicans are discovering a little bit of fortitude. Murkowski and Collins aside, they defunded Planned Parenthood and NPR. I'll take it.
But traditionally the Republicans are not noted to be the ‘party with a spine’, or as we say down near the Mexico US border…they lack serious “cojones”. Yes, they defunded Planned Parenthood/NPR/PBS, and tore the bottom out of the C*A controlled USAID programs, but they have a long way to go.
In general I’m not very trusting of anything “the government” is doing, either right or left side of the same ass, at any given time. But that’s just me.
A lot of the ICE raids are going after illegals engaging in ID theft to get stolen Social Security numbers and other stolen credentials. Many of them are also filing fraudulent tax returns with a lot of fake dependents and deductions to get a big refund and then scram.
Many illegal immigrants originate from corrupt dysfunctional countries, and they know that people with authority allow the rigging to take place. The migrants must feel right at home playing the game, that is, until ICE begins to do its job as intended.
The protesters are likely paid misfits and are players in the dirty, dirty game turning the US into a 3rd class country. I repeat myself, progressives in their compassion and indignancy of moral superiority are actually vested in regressing us into a "third" world country. The bust up in California of the pot enterprise is spectacular in our ability to try to shame the malcontents.
The “progressives in their compassion and indignancy of moral superiority” have no f**king clue that this is what their actions are pushing this nation towards. The majority of which are older, geezer/boomer white women with a few men scattered in the crowd.
(I am one, so I think I have the credentials to diss my fellow demographic group.)
I'll take the boomer baiting from another boomer. But frankly, I'm tired of Gen X and Millennials blaming me for everything.
At these No Kings/Indivisible Rally’s/Protests and the recent “Good Trouble Rally” last Thursday to “honor the 5th Anniversary death of former Congressman George Lewis (D-GA)” the majority of the protestors were “older privileged white women and men”. Walking around carrying these totally stupid signs. Here in California, they were the majority group at the “rally” they had at neighborhood park in San Diego, near where I live. There were only two older black women in the crowd, that I could see. (But then again, San Diego isn’t over flowing with black people. Lots of Latinos, Asians, yes. They were not in the crowd.)
I imagine if you asked any of these folks, how would they like to host an illegal migrant or their family at their homes for a few months to “help them back on their feet” after “being taken off all their benefits or had a family member brutally picked up by ICE”, they would not be so “bleeding heart”, as they say. That’s the hypocritical nature of these so called “protestors”. And when one calls them out on it they flip out! And if on social media or texts…they “block” you. Cause that’s all they got…the power to ‘block’ one from any opinions or views contrary to their own!
Yep, and same.
My geezer boomer white women super-Democrat friends who post on FB all day about evil Trump are all married, and their husbands are just like them.
I am a Geezer White Woman (72 😉) but I am nothing like these woman or their husbands. I am a “recovering Dem” of 15 years! (But not affiliated with any political party). I lost a few older super Dem so called Liberal white friends (men and women) at the beginning of the Scamdemic. They were insane, and this was before the Jabs came out! When the Jabs came out and I said I wouldn’t be getting an experimental injection, they flipped out and called me an “anti-vaxxer”. Yes I am and proudly so!
Now they are totally out of it, they suffer from some debilitating disease or chronic condition and their minds are shot. And they don’t even link it all up to the Jabs.
I'm 66 and fit the geezer white woman demographic, as do they. I have no problem with "anti-vaxxers," but they do. I remember the eight of us were sitting outside of a restaurant after the Covid restrictions were starting to lift. They, the women and their husbands, were adamant that anyone who didn't get the vaccine should be denied health care, deserved to die, blah, blah, blah. I didn't say anything because there was no point. They only watch MSNBC and CNN and I'm sure at least one of them receives the daily Democrat talking points e-mail because she sounds exactly like those "news" channel people. They also, of course, think that Tom Homan is Satan for rounding up all of those all of those innocent little illegal alien families and sending them to the Allegator Alcatraz Concentration Camp (their words). I could go on, but you get the picture. Thank God that, for the most part and outside of a rant here and there, we talk about our dogs.
I recently had a break up with a man I had been dating for over a year. When we met I knew he was Lefty, Liberal Dem because on our first date he had to bring up DJT. (It happened to be the day DJT was ‘convicted in NY’ and it popped up in his Apple iWatch.) I specifically asked him to not talk about politics and The Donald.
He complied. We even managed to get through the election in November without any comments about DJT.
But then he brought it up in November (right after the election), and we broke up. We “patched” things up over NY’s Eve, and he took a vow to take a break from all “MSM news”, and just watch sports. And it worked out. We went on several trips together, I visited him twice in NoCA where he lives, and we enjoyed each other’s company.
We did ok until June, then he went to see his liberal lefty Dem younger brother in Asheville, NC. He went kind of dark on me for ten days.
It turns out over the 10 days, he and the brother watched Legacy Media/MSNBC/CNN for most of their waking hours. He felt “out of it” around his brother’s Liberal Dem friends and his Liberal Dem cousins who they went to visit, because he “wasn’t up on all the bad things DJT was doing to our country” since being elected, because he had not been watching “the news”. While there he got totally re-triggered, re-brainwashed and propagandized over those 10 days of media consumption.
Our ‘deal’ was to not talk about politics nor DJT. And it worked pretty well for the last 6 months. But when he came back he was a totally different person. He couldn’t stop taking about it. I reminded him of our deal and he didn’t even f**king care about my feelings, our relationship, or anything. He referred to me as a “Trumper, right winger and a Republican” (of which I am NONE of those things), because I didn’t agree with him about his feelings and thoughts about DJT and that “people were being harmed under the Trump regime”.
When I tried to offer up an alternative view, I was automatically put into the “enemy camp of Trumper, right winger”and so on. That I “didn't care about these poor people who were losing their healthcare” (and government handout benefits”) or “the poor” or the “migrants (illegal) who were being ripped from their families by ICE.” There was no swaying him whatsoever.
So now he’s amongst the ranks of the geezer, white privileged liberal Dem types, who stand on the street corner once a week in Napa, CA, waving stupid, lame signs, or after the Good Trouble Rally last week, parading through the streets of downtown Napa waving their pathetic signs. He feels this is “voicing our concerns about the tyrannical DJT’s “regime” and making a difference”. And these are his “like minded” (although delusional) people.
To say the least we are now officially broken up, beyond repair. And it’s all due to his totally brainwashed and propagandized MSM “talking points” thinking.
Oh a PS: Of course he had to throw in the comment that “Trump’s Regime” and his “tryrannical ruling of the country” and how he is “treating the poor and disenfranchised “ is the same as the “Hilter’s Nazi Regime treatment and persecution of Jews and the Holocaust in WW2. (And he’s a Jew, by blood but not a “practicing Jew” of the Jewish faith.)
That sucks and I am sorry. He suffers from binary thinking, in that if you are not a D you must be an R (and vice versa). I keep asking what happened to the "question authority" Democrats. They have all become progressives. I never get an answer. I am neither because I don't trust the Government. I don't hate it, I just don't trust it. A government that can give you everything you want can also take it away.
Speaking of follow the money....I find it odd that DOGE didn't follow it call the way to the corrupt politicians' pockets. Surely this information is known.
But then again, Sheldon Whitehouse's wife was caught red handed with millions in usaid funds for her new green deal climate friendly company that picked up some trash on the beach. One or two mentions in the news and poof!! Gone. But no more Sheldon lisping on TV about orange man anymore.
At least these people are just being exploited for their labor, just like they'd be in the old country. Think of the 300k or more children that have disappeared over the past 4 years. Only a few have been found. My guess that the rest are dead from various forms of abuse, mostly for sex, but also for body parts, like adrenochrome, which the elites need to be young. Such evil.
It’s likely that these 330K children you speak of were “just being exploited for their labor” as well. On there way to being ‘Los Desaparecidos”. Just a different ‘kind of labor’.
The hits just keep on coming. So many narratives of the Democratic Party and the legacy media (but I repeat myself) are crumbling. Today we have Tulsi Gabbard validating another “conspiracy theory” of the “extreme right”: that the entire Russian collusion story was a hoax, that Obama and company knew Trump’s 2016 win was not due to Putin but claimed it anyway. Oh, to be a fly on the wall in the Obama residence today!
But sadly the people you speak of here (especially the older lifelong Dems) are firmly entrenched in the “Legacy/MSM” narrative. That’s all they consume, that’s all they know. They have been throughly and totally propagandized and brainwashed. I have an ‘up close and personal view’ on this. It’s scary.
True enough. Lots read the NY Times and listen to NPR and think they’re getting a mostly objective view of the news. But sooner or later, the truth will out.
Not likely if they keep up
their ‘daily diet’ of the NYT, NPR, PBS, MSNBC & CNN. They will never see any ‘truth’ come out of those outlets.
What we are experiencing now (at least in my age demographic from say 50-80) is a serious divide in reality. It’s like we are living in ‘parallel universes’…that are distinctly different.
Teflon walls, Papaya! You’d slide right down. Listen closely: crickets...
Nothing new under the sun… way back in 02 I saw this sort of thing, in my town. My wife and I had been looking to upsize from our starter home for couple of years. There was a nice house with a large yard about a mile from our current home that my wife had had her eye on since it was built. It was on a main feeder road into the old downtown district. The neighborhood had five homes each sitting on several acres with a large creek serving as all the lot’s back boundary. All the homes were a decade old and well maintained. A picture perfect location to raise a family, or so it appeared.
The home my wife and I had our eyes on had been for sale a year before but was priced too high for our budget, but it did not sell so we kept our eye on it.
I drove past it every day going to work. I often went to work early and got home late, because of this I noticed something odd.
Every morning a 6:00 sharp a 14 passenger van would pull into the driveway and back up to the front door. Every night around 11:00 the same van would pull in and back up to the front door. During this period the yard was poorly maintained. It was quite obvious since every other property was neat as a pin. My wife and I speculated that it was now a rental. This went on for months till one day my wife happened to meet the owner to the house next door. When she said that she had always loved the house and would love to buy it but it was off the market. The gentleman said,”you should talk to the owner, he might surprise you.” Then he gave her the owner’s phone number. “Right off the top of his head”, she told me that night.
We called, he was very interested in selling, named a price substantially lower than the previous listing price. We began the buying process.
We had toured the home when it was listed so we were familiar with the house, and it was being rented month to month, so we hadn’t revisited it.
I kept seeing the van and the weirdness of the situation stayed at the top of my mind. We had secured a loan and were drawing up the contract when I said to the owner I need to walk through the house to see the home’s condition. The owner was reluctant but agreed to go with me the next day.
My wife had a meeting that day and couldn’t come so I said I would take our camcorder and tape the walk through for her. A fateful decision that opened up a scene that I never thought I would see in this country.
The house that I had walked through before had been prime. Cleaned, polished, decorated, like a showplace. The one we entered that day was the same house, but after an apocalypse.
The first thing was the smell that hit you when you opened the door.
Body odor, grease, rotting garbage, and old blood slammed into my nose and made my eyes water, the owner a step behind me retched and fled back out the door. I continued with the camera running. By the door was a pile of greasy shoes. The pile was two feet high and held dozens of shoes, roaches crawled in the daylight there. The dining room with the Venetian columns and trayed ceiling we had liked so much was now completely filled with home made bunk beds stacked three high. Mattresses made of dirty shipping foam lay on them. Garbage bags with clothes and personal items hung from the 2x4s the beds were made from. There were 9 beds there, the tile floor that I knew to be white were now deep grey and black. The two bed rooms down the hall each had six beds, the carpets hopelessly stained. The bathroom was a cess pit.
The kitchen was half an inch deep in fermented grease. The top of the line downdraft stove was covered with grease and ramen noodles, the garbage bags piled by the sink were filled with the plastic wrappers of the cheapest ramen brand, on the stovetop was a five gallon cookpot and a battered wok. The living room had six of the bunks, the accompanying trash bags too. There was a loft overlooking the living room, there was a dirty sheet nailed to the railing of the overlook and the ceiling. I went up the stairs to what had been a media room to find three of the bunks, only two high here, there were some sad attempts of decoration in this room, plastic flowers no doubt once part of a funerary spray tied to the raw wood of the 2x4s. Women lived up here. The attic door was open revealing small nests made of old rags and plastic on the plywood flooring, too small for adults, a wheelless plastic toy truck in the middle of one pile.
All this from one sweep of the camera. On the bookshelves lay an aluminum pan like you would get take-out in. Inside it, a candle, a blacked spoon, and dozens of burned out matches.
The owner was stammering at the bottom of the stairs, wide eyed, shocked. I looked at the alcove in the wall where in happier times a LCD projector sat, now held something I wish I hadn’t seen. It was a picture, with black candles flanking it. It was a hooded figure dressed in a black robe, like a religious icon, but instead of a face there was a crowned skull.
I turned awkwardly crossing myself and went down the stairs. I had to finish the video, I went to the master bedroom. There was only one bed, a real one with a mattress placed in front of the giant bayed window. It was messy but not like the rest of the house. It was this room that the smell of an abattoir had rushed out the front door when we first walked in.
“Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ “ whispered the owner, now far too pale and visibly shaking as he stared at the back wall of the room. I too was looking, through the black and white view finder.
Hooks, very large hooks, like the ones used to hang porch swings. There were four of them. Two were screwed into the juncture where wall met ceiling about seven feet apart. The other two were screwed into the juncture where the wall meets the floor directly below the first two. The wall between was in dire need of new sheet rock. There were dents, and gouges in the wall. There was also a myriad of spots and splatters on the wall, like a monochrome Jackson Pollock. Then I removed my eye from the view finder. It wasn’t monochrome at all.
I bought the house at half price, including a professional cleaning, new carpets, new drywall in the master bedroom,and a new roof.
I also contacted several three letter agencies. They were sympathetic, told me not to worry, these things happen.
They are not supposed to happen here. According to the history books 600,000 Americans died back before the internet solely to clear up this matter. So much for history books.
I will never use the euphemistic term that has forcefully replaced the correct term for this. The correct term is slavery. Those that practice this ancient evil are “slavers” or slave merchants. The other terms are mealy mouthed whispers in the fog, and not fit for the mouths of honest people.
horror! I hope there was an exorcism included in that professional cleaning! not even kidding.
I had the house blessed by my priest, other than a nightly “traveler” through the dining room every night at 9:33, no worries.
whew! glad to hear. Hope the "traveler" will know soon it can move on.
Well this house is built on an old roadbed, which is better than our previous house which was built on an old crossroads. So, yes one day the miller will retire, the road went to a grist mill that was swept away in a flood back in the 1930’s.
Chris, speaking of ICE, and California's continuing leadership, your favorite mayor continues to impress:
https://nypost.com/2025/07/18/us-news/la-mayor-karen-bass-spread-alleged-hoax-claiming-ice-tried-to-forced-an-illegal-to-self-deport/
Illegal immigration is exploitative at all levels. The immigrants get exploited by the cartels, by their sponsors when they have one, by fake relatives for unaccompanied minors, and by US businesses and politicians. Democrats look the other way at the cavalcade of crimes so they can exploit these people for votes and Congressional districts. It’s a dirty business all the way around. The moral thing is to stop it.
I guess I’m just naive. Maybe it’s growing up and living in the Midwest. I could never imagine running an operation like these. Who even thinks of something like this?
You give me courage for my own naive idea.
A running theme in this matter seems to be, armies of the overworked and underpaid to provide "eating out." Why can't Americans cook and serve our own food, rather than snap a selfie with a restaurant plate? A shift in this phenomenon would cascade benefits in every sphere.
Yep. I grew up in a family where my blue collar dad provided for us all (mom, three kids) with almost no OT. My mom worked a few hours a week and saved the money for sudden expenses (a new washing machine).
We had a working class house in an affluent town, a vacation home, multiple hot rods, a in-ground pool, a speed boat, orv’s for each of us for summer and winter, two vacations a year (separate from vacation house), etc.
We had that because we did and built everything ourselves. We ate out on vacation only. We entertained at our house. It was work hard, play hard, very tight, very civilized family, which is probably why I wouldn’t think of exploiting people like this.
Anyway, yeah. Save your money. Cook your own meals. You’ll be healthier. Your standard of living will increase. The economy will be healthier with workers in factories instead of restaurants. And you can take selfies with your home cooked meals and post them for us.
It’s “Morning in America, and Time to Wake Up”! 😉🙄
Chris, I’m late again to the table here but this is very important reporting and I thank you. Recently my son bought an investment property in Florida and he was interviewing a lawn care company and the man explained he was now very busy because “all the illegal Mexicans got deported.” I suspect many of them self-deported. There is a quiet transformation taking place and the general public has no idea. Thank you for this vital information about the criminal abuses of these hard working people.
Meanwhile in my homeland England, illegal immigrants housed in hotels and receiving free food, cell phones, health care and income are running delivery services for the likes of Uber Eats and Deliveroo and others. The deliver companies are supplying them with e-bikes and the necessary means and communications equipment to accept calls at the hotels where they are housed, carry out deliveries and get paid. Aside from the obvious illegality both by the companies and the illegal immigrants, people are ordering food from these operations not knowing that the man who delivers it is very likely to be an illegal immigrant from one of the high risk Muslim groups responsible for the astonishing increase in sexual assaults, attempted rapes and rapes in England. Obviously for women or children who are home alone this is a particularly dangerous situation.
Illegal immigration turns out to be the Democrats’ peculiar institution 3.0. Like slavery and Jim Crow before it, illegal immigration serves the dual function of providing a cheap, exploitable labor force and census numbers that increase political power without accountability to additional voters.