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“California’s poverty rate has increased significantly, with disproportionate impacts on Black and Laninx residents” during the Biden years (2021-2024).  The California Budget & Policy Center reports (here) on the continuous disaster foisted on our formerly golden state by the double dummy Democrats who inhabit Sacramento at all levels.  And it is getting worse by the month as we hear from our know-nothing  governor.  With its policies of providing all kinds of social benefits to illegal aliens, thereby inviting more of them to come, the state has run up another deficit of over $12B this year.  This, of course, requires more taxes and fees that will mostly impact the state’s poor, thereby raising the poverty levels even more.  The terminally ignorant liberal constituencies (some comment here) have no idea what’s happening or what’s causing it.  They are focused happily on the lamestream reports that California has the world’s fourth biggest economy (contributed by Silicon Valley companies which employ a minimal workforce of highly paid employees that give rise to the large income gap among Californians generated by the exodus of middle class workers).

Birthright citizenship reporting again reveals the strong progressive tilt of our National Propaganda Radio.  As SCOTUS starts to hear arguments on the matter, the NPR Marxists go through all the tragic tales of not granting such citizenship to the offspring of illegal aliens.  With serious mien they intone the provisions of the 14th Amendment, citing its “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”  Not once do they mention that the post Civil War amendment was written to unambiguously grant citizenship to the South’s slaves freed by Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation.  The 14th was never intended to be a y’all come invitation to illegals crossing our purposely porous borders to provide legions of future Democrat voters through planned amnesties to the parents of newly born birthright citizens.  Again, the lamestream media makes sure that their audiences never hear any of this.

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69 responses to “Scattershots – 15may25”

  1. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    They were married in Greece . My Grandfather came to California alone in 1910 to establish a home for my Grandmother and their daughter who came four years later. They both were welcomed at Ellis Island, settled in California where they owned a farm and raised their family. They were never regarded as illegals.

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  2. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Ellis Island makes them legal in 1910.
    Not birthright. You f’ing putz.

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  3. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    My Grandmother never became a citizen, My Grandfather did in the mid 60’s when he was in his 70’s. They went to Ellis Island without contacting anyone in this country.

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  4. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    A typical po ol ponytail of ignorance utterance – ‘they went to ellis island without contacting anyone in this county’ Last time anyone checked ellis island is in this country and was staffed with immigration officials.
    WHAT A MAROON!!
    😉

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  5. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    No vlad cuddling going on and the EU/US secondary sanctions on vlad oil sales are next if he bitches out again. There is chatter about more longer range strike packages to ukraine too. What is recon for? Finding juicy targets.
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-restarts-black-sea-surveillance-for-first-time-in-11-months-as-peace-talks-collapse/ar-AA1F4oPU?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=ce4cad997b2b4bd98dbde60c5e5ae379&ei=179
    😉

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  6. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Tax filings reveal Biden cancer charity spent millions on salaries, zero on research”
    https://nypost.com/2020/11/14/biden-cancer-initiative-spent-millions-on-payroll-zero-on-research-report/

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  7. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Don
    My Grandfather and GrandMother came over here with no pre-arrangments. This was in 1910 and 1915. they entered the country then and never went back to Greece. Their children, including my mother were automatically citizens upon birth. This is what Trump wants to change.

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  8. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    True statement of the day:
    “Biden wanted Trump to die in prison. He hit Trump with 91 bullshit fake felonies totaling almost 1000 years in prison. If Biden had won, Trump would be dead in a jail cell.”
    – Mike Benz on X
    Of course, the truth is we are riding the tiger now. If the crazy people get back in power, it’s going to get pretty heinous for people in a hurry.

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  9. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    The eye of the Tiger,
    https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjmCqxvW/

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  10. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: Carla Hayden
    Well, she’s pretty obviously involved in Team Blue grooming shenanigans.
    From the Daily Mail:
    “Hayden is a registered Democrat and donated extensively to Obama’s campaigns and has an extensive history of donating to Democrats.
    She also pointedly denounced attempts by parents to remove books about sexual identity targeted at young people from libraries.
    Hayden wrote that librarians were ‘trusted people’ in the community and that it was important to have children’s books on sexual identity to offer them.
    ‘A children’s book, and that’s so helpful. I’ve had parents that I even work with, it just makes such a difference when you can share a book with a young person,’ she wrote.
    She urged individuals to go to school board and other public hearings to endorse using their tax dollars to support children’s books featuring topics like sexual identity.”
    I wouldn’t trust the librarians I run into with anything, they simply can’t help but push their politics onto the public. The truly odd thing is that their fascination in childrens’ books on sexuality only extends to the more exotic varieties. I’d love to hear a good reasoning behind that.
    Truth is, I expect this is mostly just a shot across the bow on the upcoming fights on copyright and it’s relationship to AI.

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  11. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “This is what Trump wants to change.”
    Lord help us.
    Your grandparents were not sent back to the Old Country. They were allowed in. They passed.
    That was La Migre in 1910. You dumb shit.

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  12. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul “You might actually prefer the Old Country” Emery | 19 May 2025 at 07:44 PM
    My Grandfather and GrandMother came over here with no pre-arrangments. This was in 1910 and 1915. they entered the country then and never went back to Greece. Their children, including my mother were automatically citizens upon birth. This is what Trump wants to change.

    Nobody said birthright citizenship gets to go on forever Paul Raymond.
    92 million in 1910 when your ancestors arrived. Around 335 million now.
    No lavish social services to drain the treasury then….Grammy and Grampy worked or starved. No chain migration where if you can crap out a copy of yourself on American soil you can drag the whole clan up and plop them down in the middle of the social services system. And there was at least an attempt to vet people for disease and moral character then…..now if you have a pulse in the eyes of the Progressive Vote Lobby or the Republican Cheap Labor contingent you’re in!
    Honestly Emery do you even think before you emote or is that the extent of your rhetorical abilities?
    Since “You seem to be struggling with “birthrignt citizens or citizenship. Perhaps this will assist you”....you should grab a copy of “Thidwick, the Big Hearted Moose” by Dr. Suess. It’s not an internet link so you can read it and since it’s Dr. Suess it’s not beyond your capabilities!
    It is a not unreasonable take on what’s going on vis-a-vis illegal immigration in the US right now!
    You should, as you say….“check it out”.

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  13. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Dr. Seuss to the rescue!
    I’m gonna guess our Librarian doesn’t have that title on the shelf… the good doctor has seen better days.
    Gender Queer is more popular nowadays.

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  14. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Gregory | 20 May 2025 at 11:52 AM
    Gender Queer is more popular nowadays.

    More’s the pity!

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  15. Scott O Avatar

    “This is what Trump wants to change.”
    No, Paul – that is not what he wants to change. He’s trying to stop the illegals who cross the border to drop a kid just so they can then claim that the kid is a citizen and so as the mother she gets to remain and then of course an alleged father, grand parents – hell the whole village ends up here.
    The original intent of the birthright citizenship was to clear up the problem of the descendants of slaves brought here against their will – nothing more.

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    scenes

    “Nobody said birthright citizenship gets to go on forever Paul Raymond.”
    It’s hardly worth the argument.
    Does psul know the legal details of this immigration from Greece? Probably not.
    Does psul know the legal details of a proposed change in birthright citizenship laws? Probably not.

    So psul is comparing a thing he doesn’t know much about to a thing he doesn’t know much about.

    ‘Gender Queer’ (and other beloved training manuals in the more esoteric forms of human relationship).
    Bummer that librarians became social activists, but books look to be a dying thing in any case.
    To keep the iron rice bowl full, you gotta feature creep the bejeepers out of a library. Community rooms, 3d printers, children activities, yoga class, warming center, cooling center, homeless wifi, Narcan in the lobby, RVs in the parking lot. I’ve seen them with coffee shops built-in.
    It would be a piece of cake to privatize the places, but then all the activist old ladies show up and yell. I see that the local County Librarian made $223k in pay/benefits in 2022, so there’s definitely a bit of room for savings.

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  17. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Paul is still embarassed.
    Let’s try filling in the gaps to the Emery family history, shall we?
    When Gramps first came to Ellis Island, La Migra let him in the front door… imagine that. Something akin to a Green Card, Permanent Residency. You’re here. You’re legal And you’re not a Citizen but if you have a child who is born here, they will be a citizen and if you want them to also be a citizen of the old country, that is beyond my ken but it is my understanding it’s often done.
    Grandma came later. She was also let in. Congratulations to her and to the family, and she was granted residency. Not citizenship.
    At some point, the adults in the family would have had to tell their Postmaster the names of the Greeks residing there, once a year. Not sure when it started but I think it stopped sometime in the 60’s or 70’s.
    Grandpa earned citizenship and took the oath in the ’60’s. Congrats!
    Grandma died a citizen of Greece, and that’s OK, too.
    If I got anything wrong, someone correct me.

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    scenes

    It’s funny how complicated immigration law was and is. I did like this clip from the Immigration Act of 1907:
    “All idiots, imbeciles, feebleminded persons, epileptics, insane persons, and persons who have been insane within five years previous; persons who have had two or more attacks of insanity at any time previously; paupers; persons likely to become a public charge; professional beggars; persons afflicted with tuberculosis or with a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease; persons not comprehended within any of the foregoing excluded classes who are found to be and are certified by the examining surgeon as being mentally or physically defective, such mental or physical defect being of a nature which may affect the ability of such alien to earn a living”
    Obviously, that’s been left by the wayside…
    but don’t pretend to understand the particulars. There always seems to have been a war been the elite (pro immigration) and reg’lar folks (against), including anti-Greek riots.

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