If you ever want to understand why legacy media is hemorrhaging credibility faster than a leaky stimulus package, watch what happens when it tries to weaponize arithmetic against common sense.

Recently, ABC News decided to present what it clearly believed was a jaw-dropping exposé: roughly $40 million spent to deport more than two million illegal immigrants in 2025.

Cue ominous music. Cue furrowed anchor brow. Then, cue the implication that fiscal apocalypse had arrived in the shape of an ICE bus.

Instead, the internet did what the internet does best. It grabbed a calculator.

Forty million dollars. Two million deportations. That is about $20 per removal. Twenty dollars. You cannot Uber someone to the airport for that.

And yet the presentation suggested scandal.

For years, Democrats and their allies have insisted that illegal immigration is “cost-positive.” They have painted a portrait of a parallel workforce that magically expands GDP, fills labor gaps, and somehow does all this while simultaneously qualifying for means-tested benefits, subsidized education, emergency healthcare, housing assistance, and a buffet of state-level entitlements.

It is a neat trick. The kind that only works if you never total the receipts.

The Federation for American Immigration Reform has repeatedly estimates that illegal immigration costs American taxpayers well over $100 billion annually when federal, state, and local expenditures are included. Even if one disputes the exact number, the categories are indisputable: public education, Medicaid, emergency medical care, incarceration, infrastructure strain. These are not ideological abstractions. They are line items.

Yet here comes a headline implying that $40 million is a grotesque extravagance.

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Where do I start, people? Democrats are trombone players with a pager, waiting for a band to call. They have NO shot. Or two shots: slim and none.

Trump is crushing these feckless clowns who keep screeching about Epstein files that keep outing them. How does it feel to kick your own ass, daily?

The economy is booming.

Inflation cooled in January, dropping price increases to their lowest level in nine months, new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed. The lower-than-expected reading defied fears of a tariff-induced hike in overall costs.

Prices rose 2.4% in January compared to a year earlier, according to the Consumer Price Index.

Inflation stands at its lowest level since May, but it remains nearly a half-percentage point higher than the Fed’s target rate of 2%.

Affordability remains a concern for many Americans as the political calendar turns closer to election season.

The data arrived days after fresh hiring figures showed stronger-than-expected job growth in January, even though an updated estimate released at the same time indicated a near-paralysis of the labor market last year.

Almost every Democrat-controlled state is in the midst of massive fraud scandals. CA has been getting money from DEAD PEOPLE.

No wonder the live ones are leaving.

And in the battle of the governors, FL picked up a big win.

What is the cost for CA in losing Zuckerberg. I know he is weird, but his money is green. I’m sure DeSantis welcomes one of the world’s richest citizens to his state.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/real-estate/mark-zuckerberg-becomes-latest-california-billionaire-relocate-florida-amid-tax-concerns

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Let’s play “Spot the Desperation”. It’s an easy game. Just listen to Democrats discuss any topic, and see if you can…spot the desperation.

Trump is a racist, again. This time because of a video that depicted Democrats as animals. Democrats jumped at the chance to paint Trump as a racist, when the Obamas were depicted as apes.

Trump didn’t play the video, but it play AFTER a video that Trump’s team did play. The hoopla over the incident lasted exactly 1 minute and 13 seconds, before it lost steam.

Hakeem Jeffries wanted to make sure to register his dismay at President Trump doing nothing, and dropped an f-bomb in one of his comments.

Dollar Store Obama is worse than Joe Biden when it comes to acting tough.

After the “Trump is racist” tactic failed, Democrats moved on to criticize Trump RX.

Lifelong grifters like Elizabeth Warren who championed for lower prescription drug prices poopooed on Trump RX calling it a “Trump vanity project”. 

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The decimation of the Left is so dramatic, I’m amazed they can keep hanging on.

I have never seen a bigger reveal of lying skanks in my lifetime than I have over the past year…

The @guardian are now dissembling because in their attempted hit on

@TulsiGabbard, they relied on the word of the CIA operative "lawyer" Andrew Bakaj, who worked for Hillary and Schumer on the Hill and represented the Vindmans in the fake Ukraine impeachment. 

Bakaj has now walked back the whole story.

The British intelligence-ran Guardian are now having to "correct" i.e. retract.

https://x.com/Rasmussen_Poll/status/1954306715111010684

Obama ordered the Dec 8, 2016 PDB (Presidential Daily Brief) not to be released. He ordered a fabricated intel report created on Dec 9, 2016.

On Dec 16, 2016 he's already out publicly promoting (below) the fake version that is still being written for release on Jan 6, 2017

The question being asked about Obama is did he really fund half of a secret Dominion/CCP Huawei data center in Belgrade Serbia using our CIA Black Budget funds? Someone is likely sure to be asking him this under oath very soon

Overblown rhetoric can be entertaining, but when it becomes your primary message, your credibility becomes the punchline.

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The conservative movement has become a lucrative marketplace, and like any marketplace, it attracts con artists. Candace Owens has been outed. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been outed. And now we come to Steve Bannon.

This is how Leftism actually works. It is selfish, self-serving, and devoted to the worship of self. The god of Leftism is idolatry. Every Leftist either openly or secretly wants the spotlight, the reverence, and the power that comes with it. Principles are props. Loyalty is transactional. When you understand that, the parade of so-called Republicans who spend their lives attacking Republicans starts to make sense. Ana Navarro. Joe Scarborough. Michael Steele. The list is long, and the pattern is obvious. They did not drift away from conservatism. They were never anchored to it in the first place.

Steve Bannon was no exception. He was a con man then, and he is a con man now. I said this years ago, after interviewing him at CPAC, when we discussed issues facing the Black community. His comments had all the markings of a Leftist worldview: abstract, self-referential, and curiously detached from reality on the ground. Few people listened at the time.

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The unsealed testimony referenced comes from Georgia State Senator Burt Jones and others, revealing direct instructions from Governor Kemp to halt investigative efforts into alleged election fraud.

Source:

https://badlands.substack.com/p/grand-jury-testimony-from-senator

Let’s pause and absorb that.

The governor of a swing state, in the most contested election in modern history, explicitly instructed law enforcement not to investigate fraud allegations. That alone should trigger congressional hearings, media frenzies, and special prosecutors.

Instead, it triggered silence.

Why?

Because silence protects the narrative. And the narrative is the only thing holding the official story together.

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Observations:

Tom Massey is a menace. He needs to be primaried, then voted out.

Steve Bannon has been outed. His relationship with Epstein is documented.

Rep Henry Cuellar of TX voted for the SAVE Act. Fetterman broke ranks in the Senate.

Southwest Airlines is “woke”, and they need to be made to understand that America is done with it.

Asher Vann was awarded $3.2M because he was accused of a hate crime that never occurred. A Black mother lied.

All of the “Epstein victims” at the hearing were adults when they met Maxwell and Epstein

Ilhan Omar called Pres Trump a pedophile, since racist has fallen flat.

Leftist nurse, Stephanie Krueger threatened to harm conservatives, when they are under anesthesia.

Apple News is 95% leftist

Everywhere you look is bad, when you look Left.

Leftism is both sides of a bad penny. 

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Democrats are a never-ending soap opera. They have deviants, scam artists, crooks of all types, and lots of spies.

Some of their spies work for the Russians, the Chinese, and some work for our friends in the EU, even Israel.

Democrats are rarely who they say they are. When you consider all that happens with them, things that make absolutely NO SENSE, it leads you back to them trying to destroy America.

No real American would want to do this. No ally would either.

I absolutely love the Epstein reveals. Not to kick a dead donkey, but I just have to. The fact that Donald Trump called foul on Epstein in 2006, and that’s what the Epstein dump revealed about him, but all the Leftists who got caught in the Democrats’ Epstein dragnet.

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When you consider what the cabal likely did in introducing Bad Bunny to the world, and what the NFL did in playing its part, it might remind you of a few things.

Covid

Climate change farce

The 2020 coup of Trump

J6

Get the picture. All those stories had a moral imperative.

With Bad Bunny, people reacted to a moral story presented by a celebrity amplifier.

Political parties treat demographics like beachfront property. For decades, one parcel was considered secure investment. Now the tide shifts.

This segment is about demographic strategy and political recalibration.

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There is a strange ritual in America. A man buys a jersey with another man’s name on the back, a man he has never met, and then proceeds to argue with strangers about that man’s greatness as if he raised him from birth. We understand this in sports. It is tribal. It is harmless. But now we’ve taken the jersey mentality and strapped it to politics.

Enter Bad Bunny.

Bad Bunny was selected for success, likely by a cabal. He won the first Grammy ever for a foreign language album. How did he get on the radar of the selection committee. It certainly wasn't for his disgusting music.

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