Dynamic duo

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Dug himself into a hole this time, the idiot (but at least his arrest wiped the smile off his face)

2 arrested in Colorado Tesla attacks face federal charges for use of incendiary devices

DENVER (TNND) — Two men in Colorado face serious federal charges after a series of violent, destructive attacks on a Tesla dealership in Loveland that involved incendiary devices, Molotov cocktails, and disturbing acts of vandalism.

Cooper Jo Frederick, 24, from Fort Collins, was arrested on March 14, following an extensive investigation into multiple attacks on the Loveland Tesla dealership, located at 1606 N. Lincoln Avenue. The charges against him are as shocking as the crimes themselves: the use of explosives or incendiary devices during a felony, possession of such devices, second-degree arson, and criminal mischief.

Frederick’s arrest comes after a March 7 incident, where he is accused of igniting an incendiary device and hurling it at the dealership, narrowly missing several parked vehicles. The device landed between two cars, creating a fire that put lives at risk, Loveland police said. A quick-thinking officer on the scene was able to extinguish the flames before any serious injuries occurred. Rocks were also thrown damaging both the building and multiple vehicles.

This wasn’t an isolated event. Over the last two months, Frederick had targeted the Tesla dealership multiple times.

But Frederick isn’t the only one facing charges. A second individual, Lucy Grace Nelson, a 42-year-old transgender woman who also goes by Justin Thomas Nelson, is facing charges for separate but equally disturbing acts of violence at the same location. Nelson’s criminal spree started on February 11 when he was allegedly caught spray-painting "Nazi cars" on the Tesla building’s front windows, using a vulgar expletive. On February 24, police said they found Nelson’s car packed with gasoline, Molotov cocktail materials, and wick material, mirroring evidence found from earlier incidents. Nelson was charged with malicious destruction of property and was released on a personal recognizance bond from federal charges.

Here’s more on “Lucy” — don’t you love (Loveland?) her?

Trans Tesla arsonist who threw Molotov cocktails at cars lives with mom and calls himself ‘baby’.

The only good news, if you can call it that, for these two is that they’re probably destined for a federal, rather than a state prison, where the population comprises, generally, fewer prisoners convicted of violent crimes, and security is better. Their sentences may be longer, particularly if they’re convicted of domestic terrorism, but their time behind bars will probably be less eventful.

Or so I’ve heard; thankfully, I have no personal knowledge of either type of institution (yet).

I understand evil; I don’t understand how the British people can submit to it so meekly.

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Hungry Yet, UK? British Government Going After Fishes and Farms

Perhaps this explains it: Democracy is just a vestige of Western European civilization.

Britain’s changing names: How variations of Muhammad became the UK’s favorite name over the past 30 years.

Whatever the cause, the assault on the people by their leaders is accelerating. Freeze ‘em, starve ‘em, then arrest them.

First, knock out the farmers:

Fewer people, fewer greenhiuse gases. Win!

Any time a progressive says they're looking for 'new ways to deliver' anything, gird your loins particularly when they're not busy chattering away about it. This means they're up to no good, sneaky style.

The Land Use Framework, which states that 9% of England’s farmland will need to be taken out of production for climate goals, is "flying under the radar" for many farmers.

The Land Use Framework, which was launched for consultation at the end of January, seeks a new strategic approach to managing land use in England.

As part of it, the government is looking at new ways to deliver housebuilding, nature goals, energy infrastructure and entire new towns.

The framework states that 9% of England’s agricultural land will need to be taken out of production to meet environmental and climate targets.

Then, having set the country on the path to the total elimination of domestic energy production, destroy the fisheries industry by demaning that all internal combustion engines be ripped out and batteries installed. How will those batteries be charged? Don’t ask awkward questions, peasant. Oh, by the way, did we mention that we’re also after your pleasure craft? Pleasure is reserved for you new betters, don’t you know. You’ll be allowed row boats, bt, unfortunately, you’ll be too weak to propel them.

Labour is implementing stricter net zero measures on fishing boats, canal barges and pleasure craft, The Telegraph can reveal.

Under the maritime decarbonisation strategy, boat owners will be forced to swap out diesel engines, petrol generators and wood-fired stoves for electric motors, batteries and extra shore power hookups.

There will also be tax rises on marine fuel, with new boats required to be entirely electric.

Maritime bosses branded the Government’s plans “completely and utterly impractical”.

Richard Gregson, the owner of Worcester-based Classic Yacht Brokerage, said: “It’s complete nonsense to have net zero on yachts.

“The technology for electric engines on small boats isn’t really there. The amount of diesel a yacht burns in a year is negligible, and even if the diesel engines were replaced it would be offset by the making of electric batteries.”

Any complaints about this or any of our policies? Don’t you dare open your mouth.

Parents arrested after complaining about daughter's school in WhatsApp chat

A couple who complained about their young daughter's primary school on a WhatsApp group were arrested in front of the child and locked in a police cell for 11 hours.

Six police officers descended on the home of Maxie Allen and his partner Rosalind Levine and arrested the pair on suspicion of harassment and malicious communications in front of their "terrified" three-year-old Francesa. As reported by the Mirror, the youngster was seen sobbing in CCTV footage that captured the moment cops led the mum and dad away.

Hertfordshire Constabulary dropped the charges against them following a five-week probe and Mr Allen has since branded the actions of police "dystopian" and a "massive overreach". The Times Radio producer also accused Cowley Hill Primary School in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, of trying to "silence awkward parents".

'Totalitarian Insanity': J.K. Rowling Is AGHAST As Nursery School Boots a Toddler for 'Transphobia'

This will please Elon

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The U.S. Government-owned property at 8 Lindsay Drive, priced at $7.150 million, is reported pending.

I wrote about this property when it was first listed in February:

From debtor, to deadbeat, to the deficit reduction program

February 28, 2025 Chris Fountain

The former owner, one Ahmed Iftikar, paid $9.625 for the place in 2007, but let’s put “paid” in quotes, because at least according to the government, Mr. Iftikar was using other people’s money to finance his spending. That’s always a wise tactic when dealing in real estate or boating, I’ve found.

Our Democrats must be kicking themselves: "We came so close!"

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French Right-Wing Leader Marine Le Pen Sentenced to Prison, Banned From Elections

PARIS—A French court convicted Marine Le Pen of misusing European Union funds, banning her from the next presidential election in a ruling that shakes the country’s political landscape.

Judges handed down a sentence Monday that bars Le Pen from seeking public office for the next five years, upending France’s political order and thrusting her far-right party into limbo. Le Pen also received a four-year prison sentence. Half of that term was suspended, judges said, adding that she could serve the remaining two years by using an electronic bracelet or other alternatives to jail time.

Bonchie: The nuts and bolts revolve around a charge of "embezzlement," claiming that aides to Le Pen conducted party work while also being paid to do EU parliamentary work. Not being an expert on French law, I'll allow someone else with more knowledge to explain. 

And:

Here’s a thread from Instapundit that is entirely relevant if you’ve consoled yourself that our own liberty is being protected by the constitutional scholars at Harvard. Okay, you weren’t doing that, but it serves as a refresher as to why you weren’t:

HARVARD LAW FACULTY SAYS TRUMP IS A THREAT TO THE RULE OF LAW; Harvard Law Professor Adrian Vermeule takes them to the woodshed.

Where were the letter’s signatories when federal prosecutors took the unprecedented step of bringing dozens of criminal charges against a former president, who also happened to be the leading electoral opponent of the then-incumbent president? Where were the signatories when Jeff Clark, Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, and other lawyers were disbarred or threatened with disbarment, and indeed prosecuted, for their representation of President Trump? Was this not a threat to the rule of law? Where were the signatories when radical activists menaced Supreme Court Justices in their homes, or when a mob hammered on the doors of the Supreme Court itself? Where were the signatories when the Senate Minority Leader shouted to an angry crowd outside the Court that “I want to tell you Gorsuch, I want to tell you Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions”? Were these not also literal threats to the rule of law?

Plus: “As I recall, Professor Tribe, one of the signatories, urged President Biden to renew the eviction moratorium even after the Supreme Court clearly stated it was unlawful. Was this a breach of the rule of law?”

From Hollywood, to Yale, to town's near you: the self-deportation program is working flawlessly

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Fentanyl dealer arrested, deported, and the media sheds a tear

All our worst celebrities are leaving the country, loudly, and just yesterday a gaggle of Yale professors announced their pending departure. As it turns out, it’s not just the witless who sense it’s time to leave; our newest residents from south of the border recognize it too.

Last week the lady shown above was seized and scheduled for deportation, and the White House celebrated that event by posting a cartoon of the arrest. The media’s wailing and gnashing of teeth was a terrible thing to witness:

White House posts tasteless AI image of alleged Fentanyl dealer sobbing in handcuffs

Earlier this month, Virginia Basora-Gonzalez, 36, was reprimanded and taken into custody by US Immigration and Customs officials in Philadelphia as a result of a joint operation with the US Marshals Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Official White House tweet

I don’t think “reprimanded” means what the Irish Daily Press thinks it means, but that aside, the paper’s editors are as clueless as their American counterparts when it comes to understanding what’s going on here: Trump doesn’t care if the sensibilities of bedwetters are hurt; he’s aiming for the nerves of Biden’s invitees, and it’s working.

Here’s another one:

But wait, there’s more! The Daily Caller’s Mary Rooke explains why:

…. t’s not just memes they are upset about. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visited the infamous gang prison in El Salvador, reportedly wearing a $60,000 Rolex watch, which made the left and their cronies in the legacy media outraged.

The Economist wrote about the trip: “Kristi Noem flaunts a $60,000 Rolex watch while filming a tough-on-crime promo inside one of the world’s most notorious prisons.” At the base of it, Noem’s critics claim it’s “cruel” to wear a nice watch in a video where she details the Trump administration’s plan to end the illegal immigration crisis in the U.S. by utilizing El Salvador’s prisons.

But here’s the payoff:

Just 24 hours after The Economist published their piece, The New York Times reported that videos like Noem’s, among other Trump administration initiatives, are responsible for an uptick in self-deportations among illegal immigrants in the U.S.

“[R]ecent border crossers are much more likely to consider departing. I interviewed several young men from Venezuela who are among them. They see footage of shackled migrants shuffled onto deportation planes. They watch the videos of more than 200 Venezuelan men, accused by the Trump administration of gang affiliation, being flown to a mega-prison in El Salvador,” the outlet reported. “Rather than risk subjecting themselves to that ordeal, they want to leave on their own terms.”

Self-deportations are happening everywhere, including from Springfield, Ohio.

“A family in Chicago recently left for Mexico, according to their lawyer. People have abandoned Springfield, Ohio — the town where Trump claimed Haitians were eating their pets — employers there told…

— Vince Coglianese (@VinceCoglianese) March 28, 202

Who could have predicted that criminals don’t care about a watch because they understand if they stay in the U.S. illegally, their future will be spent inside a highly guarded El Salvadorian prison? The point of these videos, whether it’s the White House’s ASMR illegal immigrant arrests, flights to El Salvador, or Noem standing in front of locked-up gang members, is to have illegal immigrants leave the country on their own accord. It saves the Trump administration time and money that should be spent on other issues.

Self-deportation has been a pipe dream among Republicans for decades. But now, with Trump in office, it’s actually happening.

It’s not cruel to highlight the deportation of gang members or fentanyl dealers. It’s the most effective marketing tool the Trump administration has. Americans voted for this when they sent Trump back into the White House. They weren’t looking for a Mitt Romeny-style Republican to lead us out of the immigration crisis. They wanted a bully working on their behalf to make America safe again.

The more Democrats try to sympathize with these criminals; the more voters will look for Republican candidates who will support them over illegal immigrants.

Leftism: a religion of peace

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well, they’re certainly trying to

Grumpy Old Leftist in Idaho Turns Pro-Tesla Protest into Hit-and-Run Crime Scene

A 70-year-old Meridian man faces aggravated battery charges after allegedly striking a counter-protester with his vehicle during dueling demonstrations outside a Tesla dealership Saturday.

Christopher Talbot was arrested after police said he made an obscene gesture toward a 49-year-old man and then hit him with his car during protests at the dealership on Franklin Road. The incident occurred on March 29 around 1 p.m. amid tensions between protesters opposing Elon Musk's political activities and a larger group supporting the billionaire businessman.

About 30 protesters attended the "Tesla Takedown" demonstration organized by groups called Troublemakers and The Disruption Project. At the same time, close to 200 counter-protesters mobilized by the Idaho Liberty Dogs appeared in support of Musk and the dealership. 

According to the Meridian Police Department (MPD), the victim had been driving a truck displaying pro-Trump flags and had just parked and exited his vehicle when Talbot allegedly struck him. The victim recorded Talbot's license plate before driving himself to a local hospital, where he was treated and released for non-life-threatening injuries.

The original protest targeted Musk's involvement in the Department of Government Efficiency, nicknamed DOGE. Organizers claimed on social media that "Elon Musk is destroying our democracy, and he's using the fortune he built from Tesla to do it. We are taking action at Tesla to stop Musk's illegal coup."

[30 vs 200 — poor choice}

It's a tragedy, but why were US taxpayers paying 40% of the total world aid in the first place?

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The Myanmar quake is the first major disaster to suffer the brunt of Donald Trump's devastating cuts

The impact in the aftermath of this earthquake is likely to be severe. Trump's decision to shut down the US Agency for International Development was already reported to have decimated US aid operations in Myanmar. Its global impact is hard to overstate. American aid had provided 40% of developmental aid worldwide.

Let them look to their neighbors for help; China, for instance, is already in the country, and has been for years, pouring billions into Myanmar’s military to protect its mega-billions in investments. They can redirect some of that to helping save lives, rather than destroy them. And Europe? Where’s Europe?

March 4, 2025: China Steps Up Military Aid to Myanmar’s Junta

China views the military government Myanmar as the only force that can hold the country together and protect China’s economic interests there. Even as the junta loses ground, China has continued to provide military assistance, ranging from jets to unmanned systems. In this issue brief, Zachary Abuza and Nyein Nyein Thant Aung analyze China’s aid to the Myanmar military and how it has impacted the battlefield, especially the rapid increase in drone warfare over the past year by both the junta and the opposition.

Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi recently pledged $3 billion in assistance to the junta, to include earmarked funds for a census and “elections” as an off-ramp for the junta. The assistance will ideally give the military a seat at the table in any post-coup government and a return to what constitutes the antebellum constitution. ….

Chinese aid to the military government is not new. Until the democratic transition in 2015, China was the primary backer of the junta in military, economic, and diplomatic terms. The establishment of the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor in 2018 as part of the Belt and Road Initiative solidified China’s economic dominance in the country. China has sold Myanmar’s military a range of weaponry both before and after the coup and is one of the primary sources of aviation assets and artillery. China also has been a key supplier of information technology, including jamming and interception technology, Huawei’s Smart Cities suite of CCTVs, and other tools that have assisted societal repression and weakened the NUG’s urban guerrilla operations. Since the coup, which China did not fully endorse, Beijing continued to sell an estimated $267 million in weaponry, trailing only Russia ($406 million).

Bonus material: Like the Ukrainians and the Houthis, Myanmar’s rebel forces are using cheap drones to defeat million-dollar sophisticated weapons. I hope the DOGE Boyz are looking at our own military-industrial cabal and taking note of this.

The opposition’s adroit adaptation of drones – primarily commercial models retrofitted for military use – has reshaped battlefield dynamics and prompted the SAC to adjust its drone usage. Opposition forces leverage cost-effective, widely available drones to minimize combatant risk while maximizing strategic flexibility. These platforms, though non-military grade, enable precision strikes, surveillance and swarm tactics, with operators requiring only days of training. During Operation 1027, opposition forces dropped 25,000 munitions by drone, and the Three Brotherhood Alliance swarmed remote outposts. In response, the SAC has belatedly imported, produced, and deployed a range of smaller quadcopters and hexacopters that can drop munitions, as well as Russian and Chinese-made kamikaze drones.