Six Humble Observations

 1.  The Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA or the Simpson–Mazzoli Act), passed by the 99th United States Congress....was signed into law by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on November 6, 1986.

Within four years....the problem reappeared and simply 'replanted' itself.

Best guess today?  Between 12 and 14 million....is considered a 'fair' number.  

In areas like Texas and California?  Combined?  Some folks figure 5-million in the two states.  

If you remove the illegals from the Census?  Both states would likely lose 5-to-6 House seats each.

2.  If you asked me to define a 'loser' in 1980.....it would  mean something totally different in 2025.  

3.  People who admit they have physical issues (over-eating, lack of energy, more  boozing) because of Trump-Delusionary-Syndrome (TDS)....will need a new defined medical term, and probably a rehab requiring a minimum of 3.5 years of help.

4.  I suspect if you asked 100 20-year old adults....have you ever watched a movie from the 1930s, 1940s, or 1950s....more than 60-percent will say 'no'.

5. Trump says he's now started interviewing candidates to replace the Fed Chairman.  Way ahead of schedule.

6.  People who seem happy.....around clock....365 days a year....I suspect are medicated on something.

Three Things

 1.  This socialist guy running as a Democrat for NY City's mayor position....has said he wants city-run grocery stores....which he details as zero-profit operations.  I've sat and pondered the idea.

First, you can figure to get the property leased for just three stores....you'd be talking about $20-million to lease-up and make the properties presentable. 

By the opening point....figure around another $20-million to fill the shelves.  

Then you say zero-profit.....just sales taxes.  Salary business?  I don't think he's ever run a business.

So I'll just say it....about 18 months later....the three will be a scandal situation where the city is sinking $1-million a week into operating cost for each store.

2.  I've watched about an hour of the Joe Rogan interview with Bernie Sanders.  

God.....Bernie comes across as a nutcase.  The way he sells the party?  I would have to consume half-a-bottle of Jack Daniels to get 'happy' with the Democratic message/brand.

3.  Just for the record....the NY City Dem primary......almost 57-percent of Dems voted against Mamdani (the socialist guy).  It's not a great number to base your campaign against.

2028?

I sat this morning....asking Grok of Twitter to list the top 15 Democratic politicians currently.

After a while....I came to this pondering....it's almost like a collection of comedians, being given a six-pack of Mountain Dew and performing for some comedy show.  

The list? 

Barack Obama - Former President.

Bernie Sanders - Senator from Vermont. 

Kamala Harris - Former Vice President. 

Hakeem Jeffries - House Minority Leader. 

Elizabeth Warren - Senator from Massachusetts.  

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - Representative from New York.  

Bill Clinton - Former President. 

Pete Buttigieg - Former Transportation Secretary. 

Gretchen Whitmer - Governor of Michigan. 

Jon Ossoff - Senator from Georgia.   

Adam Schiff - Senator from California.

John Fetterman - Senator from Pennsylvania.

Josh Shapiro - Governor of Pennsylvania. 

Gavin Newsom - Governor of California.

Cory Booker - Senator from New Jersey. 

The comical  side to 2028?  Either the Presidential candidate or the VP candidate....has to be either trans, a woman, or gay guy.  

My Theory On Putin, Iran, Ukraine, And Israel

 I have this theory.  Somewhere along summer of 2023....with the Ukraine-Russia war in a dismal situation for Russia....I think that Putin turned to his 'friends' in Iran and asked them to put the US/EU into a bigger bind....lessening support for the Ukraine....by getting a Palestinian-Israel civil conflict going.  Iran would sect its Hamas folks onto Israel.

It didn't take a lot of encouragement, and the conflict started up.

About six months into this....Iran began to realize that Hamas was in a terrible situation....so Iran encouraged it's second folks...Hezbollah to also get involved.  That also...over six months....went bad.

So the Mullahs then went to  nuke discussions, and this got Israel to another level.  

As Israel engaged...the Mullahs then turned to Putin and asked for military help....discovering that they were limited to mostly empty talk.

The military folks in Iran with almost no options now?  Yeah.

Adding to this....Putin has played every single card in his 'deck', Trump had a pretty long talk with Putin several days prior to the bombing. I'm guessing he laid out some cards....letting oil-plus-up card laying on the table (positive for Putin if he does nothing much) be shown.

Zelensky in all that lays there?  I'm wondering about that.  

Trump ended the Pakistan-India conflict.  He has the right 'cards' being played to end the Iran-Israel conflict.  And maybe he has the 'cards' to get Putin to a table. Nobel Peace Prize guys?   Yeah....they might be cornered....giving Trump the award.

Ten Things I've Learned

 1.  Journalism, in pure form....probably died somewhere around 2000 to 2005.  

2.  Probably in the 1980s....5-percent of folks could recognize propaganda.  Today?  It's between 30 and 50 percent of the population.

3.  I learned this AM....that the American College of Cardiology no longer recommends diet and exercise for weight loss.  Go straight to Ozempic.  I guess I don't need to dump fatty food, cookies or ice cream.

4.  The Emerald City 'invention' (seen in the Wizard of Oz)....was 100-percent BS, and no matter how much people bullshit about it truly existing....there is no such place.

5.   It's amazing how many journalists now pop up and admit Joe Biden was 'out' for four years.  It's like they were on vacation for the whole era, and never observed anything.

6.  It appears....virtually every 'big' construction project in LA....is currently on shut-down status because of a lack of manpower.  Some probably won't restart in 2025.  Cause?  ICE raids.

7.  Probably five-percent of the nation is mentally unstable.  The question is....do you just pause things and force yourself to accept nutcases in the yard or at the coffee shop?  

8.  Numbers-wise....California is figured to have 2.7-million illegal migrants....giving them 5 extra Congressional Districts. The way that the math works....this balances out to the twenty-lowest states with representation.   So you can grasp why it's detrimental not to arrest or chase-out any illegals from the state.

9.  If you pay close attention to five minutes of WNBA action....there's at least five 'walks'....which are never called.  

10.  I think the whole of Democratic Party, across the nation, are now committed to  comedy...duplicating Saturday Night Live.

Exploited Laborers?

This term....exploited laborers....has been on my mind for a week now.

Basically....each time you work a migrant-illegal into the mix....you are exploiting someone.  When you stop at the transmission shop,  and some 'Jose' from Venezuela does a $1,200 job for the 'boss'....the state and social security are not getting their 'cut' of the job.

Same deal when you buy coffee and muffins from the illegal lady at the donut shop.

Is this 1850ish?  Well...yeah, it is some form of slave-labor  that we just overlook...mostly because we got used to it.

The Democratic Party now handcuffed?  Well....yeah, that's another angle to this whole story.

Greater LA surviving off half-a-million exploited labor folks?  Same story in Vegas?

How you explain this in financial numbers?  You can't, and it just begs more questions.

Four Humble Thoughts

 1.  This US bunker-bomb attack on Iran.

US story.....12 x bunker-busters dropped.  Iran....entrance and exit leveled, but facility still existing.

For some reason I don't believe the Iran side of the story.  Facility was 90 meters below the surface....300 ft.  

My belief?  This was a pretty large underground facility.  There might be a section or two that didn't collapse.  But here's the thing....all those support personnel who were down there....are probably 'goners'....includes scientist/military folks.  Then you have probable radiation results going on. 

I  doubt that anyone really wants to dig down and save anyone.

2.  Retaliation from Iran?

Some ex-CIA analyst back in early 2025...said that there were around 1,000 Iranian 'agents' in the US and waiting on orders.  I felt part of this was BS....but now I wonder....if they were activated....what the targets would be?

3.  Some evidence that enriched uranium was removed from this bombed site....2 days prior?

Satellite imagery detail....just a convoy of trucks leaving.

Maybe they had some nuke warheads hastily prepared and removed for safety.  

4.  If China did drop in 100k fake driving licenses and million-plus absentee ballots for the 2020 election?

Before August, I expect Trump to  appoint a group (probably 3 Republicans and 2 Democrats, retired) to assess the evidence.

My question....if you've already done it once....why didn't they do it for 2024? 

As for the system working?  You'd have to dismantle every single  poll listing, and remake every single license in America....making it impossible to  accomplish things by November 2026.

But I end this with an odd question....if they helped Biden in this 2020 effort....what House/Senate/Governors.....did they go and help?  Is Newsom a product of this effort?