As the border crisis goes from crisis to catastrophe, I was struck by a pic that Breitbart News used to headline this article:
Simple question: Who paid for all those t-shirts?
I really, really think we should be told — and not just the name of the organization itself, but also where it gets its funding.
Of course, that would require some actual, you know, journalism. So don’t hold your breath.
This is part of a much larger personal story, but I just want to share with you something I said a long time ago. I’d just launched a major new marketing program involving supermarket customers, their buying and their support for that new program. Three days after the program’s launch, I went to look at the store sales figures to see how it had all shaken down.
The IT department had lost all the data. Worse still, they couldn’t tell me when they’d be able to show me any data, going forward.
In a rage, I stormed into the CFO’s office and told him what had happened. If anything, his shock was greater than mine. He’d seen my sales projections, my gross profit projections and likely market share gain — but all that was gone. I looked at him, and said, “It is really difficult for me to come to terms with such gross incompetence and profound indifference of its consequences. I cannot begin to understand how such incompetence even exists in a huge corporation like ours.” He looked at me, and nodded. Then I said, “In fact, if I were a paranoid person — which I’m not — I would actually ascribe negligence on this scale to sabotage.” And I turned and left.
I have had the same reaction to this situation in south Texas.
Law enforcement officials are seeking a “Mexican male” in connection with a shooting that left five people dead in Cleveland, Texas, Friday night, Fox News reports.
The San Jacinto Sheriff’s Office received a “harassment” call and responding deputies found four victims shot to death and an eight-year-old boy critically wounded. The boy was transported to a hospital, where he died.
All of the victims are believed to be from Honduras, according to San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers.
Capers said his office received the “harassment” call at 11:31 p.m.
Capers said law enforcement is actively searching for the “Mexican male subject” believed to be the shooter and have “a copy of his consulate card.”
He said the Mexican man “has been known to shoot his .223 in the front yard, which is evident from the shell casings in the front yard.”
Capers believes the suspect has fled the area.
And this update:
San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers indicated Francisco Oropesa, the Mexican national who allegedly shot and killed five people in Cleveland, Texas, on Friday, has eluded police and “could be anywhere now.”
The FBI is warning people to stay clear of the 38-year-old suspect if they spot him, FOX News reported: “Reminder, if you see him DO NOT approach him. He is armed and dangerous. If you have a tip about his whereabouts call the San Jacinto County Sheriff’s Office at 936-653-4367.”
On Sunday, FBI special agent in charge Fred Smith said police and agents have just been “running into dead ends” in their search for Oropesa.
He added, “Right now, we have zero leads of him.”
And the last little cherry on top of this shitcake:
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials provided updated information on the suspected killer of five Honduran migrants. Officials report that an immigration judge first ordered Francisco Oropeza Perez-Torres, 38, to be removed from the United States on March 19, 2009. ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations officers deported the migrant to Mexico later that month.
Subsequent to this, Oropeza illegally re-entered the U.S. and was removed, once again, in September 2009. He was removed two more times in January 2012 and July 2016.
In January 2012, a Texas court in Montgomery County (which neighbors San Jacinto County where the alleged murders took place) convicted the Mexican national for driving while intoxicated. The court sentenced him to an unreported period of incarceration.
So this murderous asshole has been deported before, not once but four times. On his last entry into the U.S., he somehow got hold of an AR-15 rifle (despite all the fucking laws that exist to prevent felons and illegal aliens from possessing guns), with the depressingly-foreseeable outcome.
Between Immigration, local law enforcement, the Justice Department and the FBI, there has been not just one cockup, but a multiyear succession of cockups which eventually ended in the death of an entire, innocent family.
So, to go back to my original story: at what point do we stop ascribing this disaster to gross incompetence, and start thinking about actual sabotage — a deliberate undermining of our immigration laws and the legal system?
By the way, a week after my meeting with the CFO, the head of IT was ignominiously fired.
Do not expect anything like this, though, to happen to anyone in government or the legal system.
Maybe I’m being just a simple-minded Texan here, but when you see this situation occurring:
Tens of millions of Pakistanis have been forced to flee their homes and more than 1,000 are dead as devastating flooding threatens to drown an area the size of Britain, experts warned. One third of the country faces going under and entire villages have vanished, with dramatic footage capturing hotel collapses, helicopter rescues and narrow escapes among desperate residents. Foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said this morning from his home in flood-ravaged province Sindh, south-eastern Pakistan: ‘Around me is just water, water and more water. There’s not much dry land to be found. We’ve suffered a devastating monsoon [with] floods from the sky that have been going on since the end of June. It is a catastrophe on a scale that I have never seen before.’
And add it to this situation:
Astonishing pictures show a medieval village that was submerged by a reservoir a century ago and has now reappeared as a result of falling water levels.
The pictures come as droughts and hosepipe bans were being declared across the UK after weeks after weeks* of no to little rainfall.
…wouldn’t it make more sense for Britishland, at least for a year or two, to pause the importation of Pakistanis and replace it with importation of Pakistan’s water surplus?
*the proper grammar being “week after week” or, if multiple weeks, “month after month”, but let’s not get sidetracked.
Oh yeah, about that “open border” foolishness (as espoused by the Biden Maladministration)? Here’s a nice situation:
On Wednesday, the Richmond Police Department announced the arrests of Guatemalan nationals 52-year-old illegal alien Julio Alvardo Dubon and 38-year-old illegal alien Rolman Balacarcel Ac for allegedly plotting a mass shooting at the city’s July 4th celebration.
Note that these two criminals seem to have had absolutely no problem getting the necessary equipment:
That is when police raided Dubon’s residence to find two rifles, a handgun, and 223 rounds of ammunition.
…so let’s have MORE gun control, of course.
Never mind deportation — both are multiple border-jumpers. Just fucking shoot them when they try to escape.
Musk’s electric car company wasn’t the only Silicon Valley giant to make the move and is unlikely to be the last. Bloomberg reports that Hewlett Packard made the shift after citing the difference in real estate expenses between the Golden and Lone Star states, with Oracle Corp also making the move. If other major companies also make the decision to leave Silicon Valley, it could spell disaster for the area — especially given how income and employee numbers are split. If just Google, Apple, Meta, Amazon, and Cisco left Silicon Valley would lose 20% of its employees and billions of dollars in GDP. High taxes and living costs may soon drive companies and workers away from Silicon Valley, and towards cheaper states with Texas a regular target.
Frankly… no.
I have no desire to have those woke asshole corporations come to my beloved Texas, and change our way of life — already in some danger thanks to their predecessors — into something that more resembles California’s. And change it they will, make no mistake, because they will come with shitloads of money: money that will buy them politicians and local government officials, and their wokist, Green attitudes will gain a foothold — or, I should say, a stronger foothold — when in fact few Texans outside Austin want that crap to change their lives.
Here’s a little warning to liberal Californians: EVERYBODY HATES YOU. I mean really, really hates you. Your insufferable liberal smugness and superiority, your ability to drive up affordable local real estate values fueled by the proceeds of your bloated California property prices, your liberal mindset and your insistence that everywhere you move must change into what you just left behind — all that and more does not endear you to the locals. So do not act surprised when your appearance is not only not welcomed, but treated with dismay or even outright hostility.
I remember chatting to a guy in small-town Idaho who had moved there to escape all the expat Californians in Colorado (seriously), and was horrified to learn that said insects were now starting to infest his new home town. When I asked him why they would move there when there was absolutely no real industry to attract them, he just snorted and said, “Retirees.”
I wish you could have seen the expression of loathing on his face and heard the utter hatred in his voice.
It may come as some surprise to Californians, but most people don’t actually care if in their little towns there are no vegan restaurants, cute little gourmet bistros that sell kiddie portions at adult prices, yoga studios, Lululemon outlets and all the unnecessary shit that Californians seem to regard as critical to their precious “lifestyle”. And by the way: there aren’t going to be a lot of charging outlets for your precious Priuses and Teslas, so don’t complain about that when it can all be solved by leaving that shit behind and buying a Ford F-150. In fact, that’s a perfect analogy for the changes that you have to make if you want to be accepted: ditch the attitude and go native, because nobody cares how you did things in California, even if you feel that it’s so much better and can’t stop telling people that.
And by the way: if you do move out of California and relocate to America, one of your first actions should be to buy a fucking gun (preferably several) and a truckload of ammo. And if that course of action causes you to recoil or feel uncomfortable, then you may want to just keep on driving through Arizona, Texas and Tennessee until you get to Massachusetts or New York, where they feel the same way about those icky guns as you do.
Bloody hell, just the thought of Google moving to Plano makes me want to start looking at real estate in east Tennessee or rural Idaho.
I think I’ll go to the range.
Apparently, Border Patrol agents captured 23 “migrants” criminals making their way over the border. Even worse, these happened to be not ordinary “migrants”, oh no; these were actually on the so-called terrorist watch list.
What followed was this query:
Fox News reports from a Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB) obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request that Border Patrol agents apprehended 23 migrants whose names matched the list. The apprehensions occurred between January 20 and December 27, 2021.
Former U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner and Chief of the Border Patrol, Mark Morgan, told Breitbart News that the report from Fox News raises serious questions.
“The real question we need to be asking this administration is, what did you do with the 23 people from the Terrorism Screening Database you took custody of?” Morgan said during an interview. “Their arrest would have triggered further investigation by the FBI and other law enforcement entities.”
“Did you release some or all? he asked. “Did you remove some or all?”
My hope is that they were “removed” by taking them out back and shooting them dead, but I’m almost certainly wrong. Unfortunately.