Category: Politics

So, the Supreme Court shot down parts of The Voting Rights Act as being unconstitutional.  The act basically made it so majority minority congressional districts cannot really be altered very easily.  Basically, I read it as “the other side of the tracks, the inner city or mostly black areas got a seat.”  So those protections are gone now, and I think it’s a good thing actually, but likely not for the same reasons you might think.

I am not ok with removing a majority black district’s representative when the district will be sawed up like an example I give below.  I do think it’s actually good long term, because as things are currently, you essentially created a fiefdom.  Once that member got elected, they serve 40 years and essentially do nothing for the district.  Then, as a result, falls into a state of disrepair.  The other members won’t care about it, and the guy representing the seat may not even live there!  In one such example, there is a blighted area near Watt and I-80 near the light rail stations.  It’s a drug, gang, crime, and human trafficking haven.  It’s been that way for probably 50 years.  Think the representative cares?  I don’t. 

However, here is the part I do not agree with and do not like.

States have now decided to re-district their lines again.  The mostly black districts are being whacked 3 or 4 ways.  The intent here is just to wipe them out.  Louisiana paused their primary election.  Tennessee has taken 60% black Memphis and carved it up 3 ways. All seats are now Republican in Tennessee, net +1.  South Carolina and Alabama appear to be on the similar path, could they wipe out both Democrats in Alabama?  Seems to be tough.  Plus 1 in South Carolina probably happens.  Louisiana is likely another plus 1. I don’t think they can carve up New Orleans.  Texas, California, and New York could do the same as well, now that the voting rights act is gone, likely not this year though.  Note: CA & TX redid their maps and made each party likely to gain 5 seats a piece.

I do not believe that our system of government intended for the lines to be redrawn more often than once a decade, since districts are drawn after the census.  You should not be dividing up big cities or stretching districts to include swaths of rural areas.  This dilutes the vote for both parties.  Think about it, where I live, no Republican will get close to winning statewide.  My congress seat is overwhelmingly Democrat, ditto with my state rep and state senator.  No reason for me to pull the lever.  It’s the same in red states. They essentially took the word “election” out and replaced with controllable seat.  It also needlessly dilutes the vote. California, like Texas and New York has lots of registered voters from the other party.  Check out what Virgina was trying to do; redraw every seat to be safe for the blue team.  Tennessee is now safe for the red team. 

In closing, I actually think it’s odd that this practice has taken over. It used to be you basically kept the district lines the same, maybe you added or lost a seat and re-jiggering happened.  Then there was a push for independent committees to do it.  Now it’s rig this thing so no one will lose, and the other party will be locked out.

The Chief

Editor’s Note: I have found here in Idaho that the vast majority of Democrats have registered as Republicans. They run for office as Republicans but vote with the few Democrats in the Legislature. The really odd part is that average Republicans are often ok voting for Democrats (or RINOs if you prefer) as long as the blessed “R” is next to their party designation on the ballot. My current “Republican” State Senator voted to allow boys to use girl’s bathrooms, opposes Idaho’s profile laws, votes for every spending increase, and opposed educational vouchers and other conservative bills. He has a good chance at re-election because he is getting lots of support from Political Action Committees run by large national and international companies. Oh, last election, my “Republican” Senator’s yard signs were often seen with signs supporting Kamala Harris and a ballot measure for Ranked Choice Voting. This what being a “Big Tent” Republican looks like in the real world.

Eric Swalwell is a Congressman from Alameda County near the Bay Area.  At the age of 45, he was regarded as a rising star in the Democrat Party.  He had recently picked-up big-time endorsements in the race to be the next governor of California.  While folks on the far right will not admit it, when the California Teachers Union endorses you, it’s your race to lose.  In recent polling, he was comfortably in the top two to advance to the runoff.  Even the mentally challenged will tell you no Republican is winning against a Democrat in the general election. 

Swalwell had everything going for him.  The left loved him as he ran the impeachment process of President Trump.  This guy was going to be the next governor and likely would have been a highly touted candidate to run for the presidency.

Then it all came crashing down.

On April 10, 2026, the San Francisco Chronicle published a story in which a former Swalwell staffer claimed that Swalwell, 17 years her senior, had sexually assaulted her on more than one occasion, including when she was too intoxicated to give consent. A few hours later, CNN published a story in which four women alleged sexual misconduct by Swalwell, including a former staffer who said he raped her. Politico also reported that a former Swalwell employee signed a non-disclosure agreement pertaining to employment discrimination when they left his office. Although the agreement was not related to sexual harassment, it directly contradicted Swalwell’s previous claims that no one on his staff signed an NDA.

The California teacher’s union pulled their endorsement, 21 of his colleagues pulled theirs as well.  Some of his colleagues are calling for him to leave Congress.  A resolution is being put out to expel him from Congress!

This past Sunday he ended his campaign to be governor. Later, he announced his resignation from Congress.

Stick a fork in Swalwell. He is done. 

I am not one to dance on someone’s grave, but Swalwell came off as an arrogant douche bag of a human being.  Turns out he is exactly what he accused Donald Trump of being.  One thing I do question is the timing of these reports.  He is suddenly getting major traction in the governor race and wham, these reports drop simultaneously.  The fall from grace has been startling, in a span of 48 hours his political career is ending.  He will likely be expelled from Congress.  There are rumors of the District Attorneys in California and New York are sniffing around these allegations and he could face criminal charges.

Swalwell went from rising star to persona non-grata over a weekend. 

The Chief

Editor’s Note: I was on the road yesterday when this was sent to me yesterday morning. Subsequently the story blew-up in the media. I give the Chief two scalps since the guy in Texas quit too.

I haven’t seen a Democrat cancelled this fast since that black guy on the Board of Equalization was tossed under the bus by then Governor Jerry Brown many years ago.

Also, candidate Katie Porter is believed to have her fingerprints on Swalwell’s resignation. Katie Porter and influencer behind Swalwell allegations “don’t have a relationship to speak of,” campaign says – CBS News

As William blogged, the No Kings protests happened again last weekend.  Sure, there was a decent turnout, but the protestors are paid.  These events are financed by a billionaire in China.  Oh, and billionaire George Soros threw in 72-million dollars as well.

A network of about 500 groups with an estimated $3 billion in combined annual revenues is behind the coordinated nationwide “No Kings” protest Saturday, including communist groups who are using the day to call for a “revolution,” according to a Fox Digital News investigation. 

According to a copy of the permit for the “flagship” march in St. Paul, Minn., Indivisible, a national well-heeled Democratic political advocacy organization funded by billionaire George Soros, is the lead coordinator for the protest.

But Fox News Digital has also identified key participation by a network of radical socialist and communist organizations funded by Neville Roy Singham, an American tech tycoon and avowed communist living in China.

500 groups with $3B in revenues are behind the #NoKings protests and communist call for ‘revolution’

Let us be real for just one minute. No grown adult will wear a silly costume and make a silly sign to stand on a street corner for a whole day; unless they are being paid!

However, let me go a step further to try to explain to those whackos what a king really looks like.

Jack Dorsey (former Twitter owner) literally booted Trump off his platform.  It made it next to impossible while he was running for re-election to get his message out to the under 45 crowd.

Who is the king again exactly?

Covid “pandemic” led to Gavin and Co.  Didn’t get the shot?  You were called a name and your life made miserable. 

Owned a restaurant?  Closed, or worse; simple take out only.  Choose to be open for full service, you were shamed online, and fined or cited by the City/County. 

Didn’t have an “essential job” then sit your butt at home and watch TV, we will get you $1000 per week, plus stimulus money.  You wonder why after 3 years of lockouts no one wants to work.

Owned a rental?  Oh, your tenant does not need to pay and you are forbidden from evicting them.  Oh, the mortgage payment you owe is still due.  Seems fair right?

Your kid’s school went from in person to virtual, but you had to report to work, so you had to assume junior was still taking his classes online.  Interesting how many school districts “lost track” of numerous numbers of students.

The dental offices and some doctors’ offices were closed, and people wonder why we have a bunch of unhealthy, overweight folks on this earthly plane?

We kept open bars, liquor stores, and weed dispensaries.  Read that sentence again.  This is why countries like Russia make fun of us.  It’s a health crisis but we prioritize, drinking, and smoking.  Oh, go ahead and throw gambling in there as the Indian Casinos were exempted too.  Good thing our priorities were straight!

We are still feeling the effects of this.  State workers still get to work mostly from home.  Our downtown in Sacramento looks abandoned except for the “unhoused masses”.  It’s quite sad.

In the examples above you had an unelected bureaucrat who made the call to shut down businesses in the county over “data.”  Dr Peter Beilenson was the King in chief to lock our home county down.  He was later outed as a racist for called Chinese people “yellow people” on multiple occasions. 

Dr Aimee Sisson was in charge of red Placer County. Once the county had enough of the lockdowns and re-opened, she tucked tail and went over to Yolo county (far more blue) and infested that county with lockdowns.  The good news for her is those folks will listen to a king, as thinking for themselves is a lost art in Yolo County.

That is what a king looks like!

Black Lives Matter riots

One thing that really stood out was the sheer number of electeds and District Attorneys who pledged allegiance to this crew!  NO charges were filed, and folks were allowed to; loot, riot, and destroy anything they saw fit!  On some news channels it was actually encouraged!  By not even attempting to stop the madness, businesses were closed, destroyed, or shut down.

Again, Kings.

In closing, I’ll say this.  Trump is not perfect; it has been detailed on this blog.  But how can he be considered a king?  These folks detailed above literally destroyed people’s lives and livelihood.  We are still feeling the damage and likely will for several more years. 

If you want to know what a real king looks like; take a gander at Vladimir Putin.  Elections are rigged in Russia.  Political opponents jailed or “investigated” (sound familiar?).  Starts a war in Ukraine and immediately conscripts folks from the parts of Russia not friendly to him.  Look at the now dead Ayatollah in Iran.  He gunned down thousands of protestors a couple months ago.  Iran has reportedly killed over half a million of their own people just to keep control of the country. Look at Kim in North Korea, he kills opponents, purges his military every so often and starves his own people.

Yet these kooks want to call Trump a king??????

The Chief

Tomorrow is Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week. Tomorrow is when the Church commemorates Jesus’ triumphant procession into the city of Jerusalem. If you recall, a few short days later, the same crowds that welcomed him went from shouting “Hosannah” to “Crucify Him”. “We have no king but Ceasar.”

In like manner, crowds of atheists are gathering today to proclaim that they have no king but Ceasar. The State is their god. OK, really their god is their belly, but the State is the almighty power that provided them with blessing and uses its power to curse their enemies by redistributing their wealth, cancelling them, removing their children, and debanking those that oppose the tyranny of the State.

Yes, these guys claim that they are protesting President Trump but that is not true. They hate America. They hate Christianity. They hate Western Culture. They hate themselves. And lastly and most of all, they hate God in the Heavens. They are advocates of full-throated rebellion against God. They hate anyone that worships God. They hate God’s economic system—capitalism. They hate those made in His image—think transgenderism, homosexuality, abortion, euthanasia, transhumanism, etc. They hate God’s Law—think equality under the law, capital punishment, equal weights and measures, family, loving your neighbor, secure elections, and secure borders, etc.

Oh, these anti-capitalist/anti-government rallies are funded by billionaires and foreign governments—think George Soros, China, etc. They masquerade as spontaneous gatherings, but it is a carefully crafted and coordinated campaign to subvert America. Oh, it also just happens to be their national campaign to attempt taking Congress away from the feckless Republican Party and plunging the country into witch-hunts and endless impeachment resolutions which are designed to allow the ascendancy of Communism.

So, if you happen to be driving down the street today and see the paid campaign to undermine America by folks proclaiming they have “No King” remember that is not true. They just don’t want to be ruled by God, same story since the Garden. The truth is they have No King But Caesar and anyone that dares to weaken the power of the State is their enemy.

Photo above Senate majority leader John Thune

Folks, I get the arguments against the SAVE Act. Yes, it should be a matter left up to the States, but what are we to do when the States fail to do their job? Just wring our hands and say, “Oh well.”

Let’s be honest and say Minnesota is corrupt and California is corrupt as hell; and so are many other States. Are we simply expected to pretend to be impotent and let the large Liberal States drag the rest of us the rest of the way into Communism and Socialism. We’ve been heading that way since FDR so please don’t make this a choice between freedom and tyranny. We are a long way from freedom, but it seems every year it gets a bit farther out of reach.

Most of what the Federal government does is unconstitutional. I get that, but to invoke the idea to oppose the SAVE Act because it is an over-reach seems like a cop-out to me. We are over the cliff and on the verge of loosing the Republic if we don’t force the States to limit voter participation to American Citizens. If States won’t do that voluntarily then only the Federal Government can compel them to do what is right. That’s just reality. Only when both political parties agree to this premise can a State level solution be pursued. The Liberal States don’t want to limit voting to citizens because their biggest constituent group is foreigners that are here illegally. This was Biden’s immigration strategy all along. Anyone saying differently is a liar.

Guys, we have a small window of time to get our country back or it will be lost forever.

But why the SAVE Act? Did you know it is piggybacked onto the 1993 motor vote law? Yep, I hate that law too, but … The motor voter law has been litigated. By changing its requirements, the hope is to avoid a protected amount of litigation which would be the case if the SAVE Act was created out of whole cloth. What good would it be to pass the law and then have it blocked by a Federal court judge?

The biggest obstacle to passing the SAVE Act is Republicans, specifically John Thune. Thune was opposed to the idea and still is. He signed on to support the measure only after 49 Republican Senators got on board with it. Thune did not do this to lead but to obstruct. By signing on to the Act and being the highest-ranking Republican, he gets to call the shots as to when, where, or if, it ever has a chance to become law. He will either block it or shake-down the rest of his Senate colleagues to extract concessions on swamp goodies to allow a vote. Thune is purposely screwing-over the country by blocking the SAVE Act. As usual, he is turning the Constitution into a suicide pact.

Congress is a hopelessly corrupt organization whose job is to fix nothing because if they did, they would have no crisis requiring them to be elected to fix anything. When out of power, Democrats are always the champions of immigration, but when they control the levers of power, they never fix the issue. If they did then they couldn’t fundraise on the issue and campaign against the other party for stopping their solutions which are actually and purposely nonexistent. Didn’t you notice that they never introduce a bill to fix their issues, they just point fingers at other side once they lose power. Ditto for Republicans, just different issues.

Before you ask why I am praising this merry band of whackos, maybe ask yourself the same question.  Folks, politics have taken a wild turn in the last 12 years.  Actually, make it 20 years!  The Tea Party started all of this with the rise of “Republican” political types who simply voted NO on everything… ala Ted Cruz.  I use air quotes because I do not think these types are actually Republicans, they must regurgitate the talking points on the TV.  Then came Donald Trump, and the rise of the politician who actually did what he said he would do!  It was also the rise of the MAGA movement, which I struggle to define as MAGA folks are all over the place and are typically only single-issue voters.  President Trump winning and the rise of his supporters also gave rise to whackos on the Left side of the aisle. 

I call their movement MEGA.  As in MEGA sized government.  They have their supporters. 

I recall the day when Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco, was a left-wing whacko; however, the names above make him look almost sane.  I think that is the whole point of his candidacy for President. 

I work with someone who openly declares the above group needs to be voted out and shut up.  This could not be more stupid, but when you can only repeat what info Sean Hannity gives you, I’m not surprised.  Crockett is a nut, AOC is usually spouting off garbage that is not remotely true, and outside her enclave of New York City, she is basically unelectable.  Omar loves defending Somalians who are ripping off our government; it’s actually quite laughable.  None of those mentioned so far would bit’sllowed in the Democrat party years ago, but like the GOP, they have changed and not for the better. 

Mamdani on the other hand is a totally different brand of crazy. One who may well take down some Democrats in New York and possibly nationwide.  Mamdani ,during a heavy snow fall, did not open the warming centers in New York City. As a result, 19 homeless people froze to death.  Maybe this is their way of handling the homeless now that their plans have mostly been exposed as a grift.  Mamdani has now gone after the governor of New York, in essence, with a threat of a large property tax increases if she doesn’t levy a tax on billionaires.  Folks, a tax on property will be devastating to New York City.

Check it out…

In 2026, the average annual property tax in New York City is approximately $10,311, with an effective tax rate of about 1.90% for a typical home. While New York State’s average effective rate is 1.45%, NYC often has a higher tax burden, with median bills often exceeding $6,500-$12,000 depending on location and property type.

Increasing that will cause a large number of people to leave the City, not to mention the exodus already taking place.

Mamdani’s ideas, as stated above, make Gavin Newsom look like a moderate in comparison.  Heck, all of the above electeds are starting to make Gavin look and sound reasonable.  As a result, I would suggest to fellow Republicans, keep those electeds in power.  Depending on the tea leaves you read, the election and control of Congress may hang in the balance…. Why not give us an edge based on the comments made by these crazies?  Heck, I would toss a camera and a microphone in front of each of them daily to get their latest political takes.

Silence them at your own peril.  The target of these political types are the broke, uneducated, criminal types, and illegal aliens.  Not a group I would want to ally with.  My prediction, Mamdani spends New York City into a fiscal cliff of epic proportions in a couple years!  Tie the milestone around the necks of the far Left!  Heck even the center Left. I want to make known just how whacky these types are.

The Chief

PS my rational is because we have some whackos on our side as well.  The fewer on our side the better.  Oh, having the Broad Squad wearing “Fuck ICE” buttons and yelling “K.K.K.” at the State of the Union speech last night was really classy as well.