California Weighs Doubling Taxes to Pay For Single-Payer Health Care System That Would Cover All Illegal Aliens

Democrats; every morning we wake up and wonder what they will do to us next. TD

                                                                          Square Grouper

Def-Con News  "California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) last Monday proposed a budget that would give all illegal aliens health coverage.

"In 2021, California began covering illegals over the age of 55.

"Now Newsom wants ALL illegals in California to have health coverage, and Californians may see a tax increase of roughly $12,250 per household.

"Fox Business reported:

California lawmakers unveiled a new bill at the beginning of the year that would establish a single-payer health care system – an ambitious plan that would be funded by nearly doubling the state’s already-high taxes.

"A new analysis from the Tax Foundation, a non-partisan group that generally advocates for lower taxes, found that the proposed constitutional amendment would increase taxes by roughly $12,250 per household in order to fund the first-of-its-kind health care system. In all, the tax increases are designed to raise an additional $163 billion per year, which is more than California raised in total tax revenue any year before the pandemic.

"Under the bill, the top marginal rate on wage income would soar to 18.05% – well above the median top marginal rate of 5.3% and the state’s existing rate of 12.3%. There would be an 18-bracket system, with higher taxes kicking in for individuals earning more than $149,509.The highest rate would apply to those who earn more than $2,484,121.

"California would also expand the payroll tax paid by employees who earn more than $49,990 in annual income if they work for a company that has more than 50 workers. Walczak noted the plan could deter small businesses from expanding by inadvertently creating a tax cliff. For instance, if a company that had 49 workers earning $80,000 each hired one additional employee, they would suddenly create a tax bill of more than $90,000.

"Finally, the state would also adopt a new 2.3% gross receipts tax (GRT) on qualified businesses minus the first $2 million in annual gross receipts, at a rate more than three times that of the country’s current highest GRT.

"Is this not insane? At what point will Californians say, ‘Enough is enough,’ and revolt?" . . . 

No, Jeffrey Toobin, Biden Is Not Putting Harris On The Supreme Court

 Mollie Hemingway

The real reason Kamala Harris won’t be nominated to the Supreme Court is that she simply isn’t up for the job.

. . ."The media and other Democrat Party activists are re-upping the campaign they ran last Supreme Court term to bully Breyer into retiring. Because the Democrat Party’s policy failures at home and abroad have become so disastrous that not even the corrupt corporate media can cover them up anymore, the Republican Party has a chance to re-take control not just of the U.S. House, but also the U.S. Senate, which handles all presidential judicial nominations. As a result, getting Breyer to retire so Biden and Senate Democrats can select Breyer’s replacement has become something of an existential necessity for the left.

"Toobin offers the conventional wisdom with his first two suggestions. Jackson and Kruger are both established judicial activists so political that radical group Demand Justice has them on their list of suggested Supreme Court nominees.

"But Toobin’s “longshot” suggestion is silly.

"Harris is simply not a serious pick. Remember that anyone Biden nominates would have to get through the Senate. Currently the Senate is tied with 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans. Harris, as the president of the Senate, is tasked with breaking tie votes." . . .

Federalism 101: A state’s authority over its citizens

 American Thinker

. . ."Thus, the United States was created not by “the people” but by the states. The United States is a federation, a federal state. Its powers are those that the states delegated to it in the text of the Constitution. The entire federal government is one of the “enumerated” powers.

"This is the fundamental element of the structure of American federalism which Sotomayor apparently slept through in law school. The federal government possesses only those powers granted it by the federal Constitution, whereas the states possess all powers not granted to the federal government nor forbidden by the state constitutions. Hence the state of Colorado, for example, is a sovereign state just like France or Germany, except to the extent that some of its sovereign power has been forbidden by its own constitution and some of it delegated to the United States federal government by the United States Constitution.

Wokeness Hits the Upper Echelons of the Air Force

Quite simply, regardless of the outcome, it is important to stand up for reality, even if it means sacrifice.

 Mark Jarrett  . . . "In 2018, a female Special Tactics Officer entered Special Tactics training, where she quit in the first week of dive training.  She was then not selected for continued
training.  In 2019, she returned and retook the course and did not pass again, but higher leadership dictated her selection for Special Tactics officer training.  She then went through more training while continuing to quit.  She quit in dive training, but the leadership had her retake a more relaxed version of the course.  She then quit in the solo land navigation portion of her tactical training.

"She encountered the physical differences between highly athletic men and women being tested to their limits.  In one event, "she just physically couldn't flip the tire," the instructor said.  "The team handed her a kettlebell and she just kind of walked behind the team for the rest of the iteration."  The officer herself reportedly wrote, "I believe the change in standards invalidated me with a majority of my team ... the cadre [instructors] 'rioted' when they found out the PT test was changing back to lesser standards."  Despite her repeated desire to quit — Air Force Special Operations leadership would not allow her to find a different career path.  Instead, she began working directly for the commander of Air Force Special Operations Command — where she wrote a report and an Equal Opportunity Complaint resulting in investigation of everyone who interacted with her.

"Now, according to the memo, she will return again to retake the Special Operations Course, with instructions from above, that she will graduate, whether or not she meets standards.  As of now, an investigation into this matter is being conducted by the Air Force inspector general.

"What I want to elucidate is how this episode is representative of how wokeness often works and how it was resisted." . . .

Wait...So the FBI Lied About the Ending of the Texas Synagogue Hostage Situation

 Townhall   "British national Malik Faisal Akram took four people hostage at Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas. It lasted over ten hours. It had a good ending. All four hostages are alive and escaped injury. Akram is dead. Yet, we have new developments on how this whole saga ended. At least one was released, the other three were later released as well. That’s what was Initially reported.  Now, it seems like the rabbi created the situation in which the hostages were able to make a break for it. In other words, the FBI lied again. Our friends at Twitchy had the breakdown:"

Incredible: "When I saw an opportunity where he wasn't in a good position, I made sure that the 2 gentlemen who were still with me, that they were ready to go... I told them to go. I threw a chair at the gunman and I headed for the door, and all three of us were able to get out." https://t.co/wJBRKoeKxn

— Yair Rosenberg (@Yair_Rosenberg) January 17, 2022. . .

. . ."The FBI already has egg on their face for suggesting that this attack might not have been related to anti-Semitism. Right, because synagogues have always been random targets for hooligans—said by no one ever. The FBI is sure Trump colluded with Russia, which was a Democrat-funded circus act grounded in zero evidence but not so sure that a leftist who tried to kill the entire GOP congressional baseball team in 2017 was politically motivated. The bureau also refused to investigate the horrid sexual abuse allegations lobbed against Larry Nassar by scores of American gymnasts possibly because they were too busy manufacturing fake evidence to support the shoddy Russian collusion myth. It’s clown town over there." . . .

FBI Admits It Doesn't Track Antifa Violence - The Political Insider  

Upon questioning by Rep. @NancyMace, the FBI admitted that they don't calculate or track violence committed by far-left Antifa radicals. pic.twitter.com/pQ8gy5U3SJ

— MRCTV (@mrctv) October 1, 2021

Common Sense Addressed to the Inhabitants of America

 America Out Loud

"I’m going to start out with a hard truth nobody in elected office is allowed to say, but that is nonetheless true: had there been an insurrection on January 6, 2021, it would have been 100% justified – far more so than when leftist rioters burned down buildings and fought with the police and National Guard, trying to get into the Capitol Building on January 6, 2017. Leftwing politicians and our media seem to have forgotten that more than 200 people were arrested, and six police officers were injured, around the Capitol Building in a riot on January 6, 2017.

"One difference between January 6, 2017, and January 6, 2021, is that in 2017 Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House at the time, called up several thousand police reserves and the National Guard to keep people out of the Capitol Building, whereas in 2021 Nancy Pelosi did not do a damned thing. Another difference is that 2017 saw more than ten times as much damage as did 2021. Another difference is that the police did not kill any of the rioters in 2017, whereas in 2021, a police officer shot and killed an unarmed Air Force veteran named Ashli Babbitt. Another difference is that in 2017 none of the protesters were really prosecuted, whereas, since 2021, the FBI has been working very hard to prosecute anyone and everyone near the Capitol Building, whether they broke the law or not.

"Nancy Pelosi had, incidentally, been told by the FBI that there would be a riot on January 6, 2021 (there are indications that the FBI may have had informants helping to foment one). She still did nothing – and that was by choice.

"The biggest difference between January 6, 2017, and January 6, 2021, is the way Democrats and the press covered both incidents. Democrats championed the rioters in 2017 – some were directly involved. In most cases, the SAME Democrats who supported an ACTUAL insurrection in 2017 are the loudest people calling January 6, 2021, an insurrection, today.". . . 

Let’s honor Martin Luther King Jr. today by rejecting critical race theory

  Washington Times

CRT the latest descendent of Cuban Marxism

"Having fled communist Cuba as a political refugee, I grew up in a school system that created a false reality through Marxism. 

"The Castro regime tried to mold us to become what Che Guevara called the “new man and woman” — who could reform their “individual consciousness” to shed their traits of greed, egotism and selfishness to embrace a “collective spirit.” 

" Fidel Castro based his Marxist revolution on hate by leveraging upon grievances. As part of that, he waged class warfare, destroyed monuments, policed language and revised Cuban history to undermine our progress with the goal of creating a “classless society” where there was no oppression.

"As Castro pushed his false reality of Marxist ideas on Cubans, Martin Luther King Jr. asked Americans to replace hate with hope and instead join him in an attainable goal — living in a society that judged people by their character, not the color of their skin. 

"Today, just as in the Cuban Revolution, a small but influential segment of the population wants to force others to accept their false reality by putting race in the front row of all human interactions in the form of critical race theory, which is now infiltrating primary education. 

"A fresher descendent of Marxism, CRT evolved from critical theory that originated from the Frankfurt School of Germany and came to Columbia University. Like critical theory and Marxism, which oversimplified society into two groups, oppressed and oppressors, CRT goes one step further, dividing society into Black and white." . . .Gelet Martínez Fragela

5 Things To Tell Someone Who Harasses You For Going Maskless

 Washington Watch

Further, a recent study from the UK found that unvaccinated children are safer from COVID than even vaccinated adults of any age. Kids don’t need to wear masks or even get vaccinated. I’m certainly not going to make my kid wear a mask out in public. As a vaccinated adult, my kid is better protected from COVID than I am.

"There is technically a statewide mask mandate in New York state, yet I’ve refused to wear a mask since it went into effect. On Wednesday, for the first time in weeks, I was briefly harassed for going maskless in a grocery store . The person who bothered me for my maskless state didn’t escalate the situation after I talked back to him, but I was ready for it. As omicron is likely to spark new COVID restrictions, you might find yourself in a similar situation, and I’ve come up with a few things you can say if it happens.

"These mask shamers think they’re doing the right thing because they’ve been told to mask up. However, these religious Covidians probably forgot that even their messiah, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said that the “typical mask” you can buy wouldn’t protect you from COVID. He never said this publicly, but we know this from an email released as part of a FOIA request last year.

“ 'Masks are really for infected people to protect them from spreading infection to people who are not infected rather than protecting uninfected people from acquiring infection,” Fauci wrote on February 5, 2020 . “The typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through the material.' ”. . .

YouTube Kicks Bongino Off for Slamming Masks; Same Day, CDC Admits Cloth Masks Offer Less 'Protection' (ijr.com)  "An illustration of how the ever-mutating coronavirus has been accompanied by ever-mutating rules regarding who can say what came last week when a conservative commentator was punished for his talk about masks on the same day federal officials nibbled away at past comments in support of cloth masks. "On Friday, commentatorDan Bongino was hit with a suspension from YouTube, apparently for calling masks “useless.” "YouTube did not reveal which words triggered the one-week suspension, according to the U.K. Daily Mail. Bongino was also demonetized for 30 days, the Daily Mail reported, meaning his videos won’t collect revenue from advertising. "YouTube’s COVID-19 policy bans content criticizing masks, according to The Hill." . . .

Joe Biden's Georgia speech backfired more than he ever could have imagined

 NY Post   " It is startling when two speeches within 24 hours, neither much heralded in advance — the second wouldn’t even have been given without the first — leave you knowing you have witnessed a seminal moment in the history of an administration, but it happened this week. 

"The president’s Tuesday speech in Atlanta, on voting rights, was a disaster for him. By the end of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s answering speech on Wednesday you knew some new break point had occurred, that President Biden might have thought he was just crooning to part of his base but the repercussions were greater than that; he was breaking in some new way with others — and didn’t know it. It is poor political practice when you fail to guess the effects of your actions. He meant to mollify an important constituency but instead he filled his opponents with honest indignation and, I suspect, encouraged in that fractured group some new unity. 

"The speech itself was aggressive, intemperate, not only offensive but meant to offend. It seemed prepared by people who think there is only the Democratic Party in America, that’s it, everyone else is an outsider who can be disparaged. " . . .

"Most wince-inducing: “Will you stand against election subversion? Yes or no? . . . Do you want to be on the side of Dr. King or George Wallace? Do you want to be on the side of John Lewis or Bull Connor? Do you want to be on the side of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis?” 

" If a speech can be full of itself this speech was.

" From the floor of the Senate the next day came McConnell’s rebuke. It was stinging, indignant to the point of seething. He didn’t attempt to scale any rhetorical heights. The plainness of his language was ferocious. Biden’s speech was “profoundly unpresidential,” “deliberately divisive” and “designed to pull our country further apart.” “I have known, liked and personally respected Joe Biden for many years. I did not recognize the man at the podium yesterday.” Biden had entered office calling on Americans to stop the shouting and lower the temperature. “Yesterday, he called millions of Americans his domestic ‘enemies.’ ” That, a week after he “gave a January 6th lecture about not stoking political violence.”

CNN Skewers Biden’s Voter Suppression Lies. Yes, CNN.

 Legal Insurrection

“New York is one of the most reliably Democratic states in the United States and New York requires people to request absentee ballots, just like the new Georgia law does.”

"Very few people were impressed with Biden’s divisive speech about the Democrat “voting reform” bill in Georgia this week. It was full of insults that weren’t even historically accurate.

"In an amazing development, CNN’s Erin Burnett called out Biden on the air.

"Transcript via CNN:

BURNETT: On the side of right or the side of racism, that’s what’s being presented. Even the second ranking Democrat in the Senate, Dick Durbin, said Biden ‘went a little too far in his rhetoric’ in that particular comment. And a right versus wrong simplistic view here is a problem. First of all, because more people voted than ever before in the last election.

So to just broadly talk about voter suppression may miss that very crucial point. And take vote by mail as one example. Here’s what Biden said this week criticizing Georgia’s new law.. . .

WATCH @CNN's @ErinBurnett absolutely blast @JoeBiden over his false claims about Georgia's election integrity law:

"Let's take a look at early voting. Georgia, the new law that's Abraham Lincoln versus Jefferson Davis, allows for 17 days of early voting. New York only has 9. pic.twitter.com/Tc4O9Rj0op

— Honest Elections Project (@honestelections) January 14, 2022

Mass Formation Psychosis. The Madness of Crowds. And The End Of Progressive America.

 Legal Insurrection   "Until a few days ago, I had never heard the term “Mass Formation Psychosis.” There’s a phenomenon when something gets hot that all sorts of experts announce themselves on Twitter, when their expertise is about 24 hours old and an inch deep." . . .

Left unabated, a society under the spell of mass formation will support a totalitarian governance structure capable of otherwise unthinkable atrocities in order to maintain compliance. A note: mass formation is different from group think. There are easy ways to fix group think by just bringing in dissenting voices and making sure you give them platforms.  It isn’t so easy with mass formation.  Even when the narrative falls apart, cracks in the strategy clearly aren’t solving the issue, the hypnotized crowd can’t break free of the narrative.  This is what appears to be happening now with COVID-19.  The solution for those in control of the narrative is to produce bigger and bigger lies to prop up the solution.  Those being controlled by mass formation no longer are able to use reason to break free of the group narrative.

 Read this full article here: Mass Formation Psychosis. The Madness of Crowds. And The End Of Progressive America. (legalinsurrection.com)

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CommoChief | January 9, 2022 at 11:36 am Given that we have a segment of the population who are slavishly devoted to the idea that 1. Covid is the plague and Fauchi is the savior 2. Jan 6 was an insurrection

The Cult of Covid

 "The danger of the COVID cult is that it is not small nor is it outside the mainstream. The COVID cult has become the mainstream and normal people have become the fringe, fighting for a return to sanity."

COVID has become a worldwide cult - American Thinker   "Merriam-Webster defines a cult as “a small religious group that is not part of a larger and more accepted religion and that has beliefs regarded by many people as extreme or dangerous;” and “a small group of very devoted supporters or fans.” The keyword in these definitions is “small.”

"Most human beings may have their quirks and their follies, but they are not so open-minded that their brains fall out. Normal people simply do not want to follow individuals, no matter how charismatic, who promise miracles in return for all of their money and earthly possessions, nor do they want to have their lives completely controlled. Or at least, that once was true.

"It would seem that this is no longer the case. Millions of people around the world appear to have joined a cult based on COVID. They are wearing masks to show their obedience, although masks may not be effective and have been shown to cause emotional and mental problems.

"They are rushing to be vaccinated, although vaccines could be driving COVID mutations. The father of mRNA vaccines, Dr. Robert Malone, has been warning against universal vaccination.

"People have been told to be terrified of the latest COVID variant, Omicron, and they are duly shaking in their shoes. But Omicron generally is so mild many don’t realize they have caught it and there have been very few deaths.

"The cult mentality was on full display when the newly elected governor of Virginia, Glenn Youngkin, issued an executive order allowing parents to opt out of school mask mandates. Youngkin did not forbid anyone to mask their child. He merely ordered that no one can be forced to mask their child.