Minimum Wage Wipes Out Jobs in California

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Not everything Democrats do is ineffectual. Consider minimum wage hikes — via Yahoo Finance:

Carl’s Jr. is staring down the potential loss of dozens of California locations after a franchisee and its affiliates filed for bankruptcy protection — blaming the state’s staggering minimum wage. …

Friendly Franchisees Corporation CEO and Founder Harshad Dharod said the state’s $20 minimum wage in the fast-food sector contributes to the chain’s financial distress ahead of bankruptcy filing under subsidiary Sun Gir, according to Restaurant Dive.

Fast food franchises cannot stay solvent while paying teenagers $20/hour to flip hamburgers. No one expects them to. The objective of ever higher minimum wage is to saw off the bottom rung of the ladder, resulting in more government dependence and thereby more votes for Democrats.

Carl’s Jr. isn’t the only victim:

California’s high fast-food minimum wage has spelled trouble for other fast-food operators…

Researchers found that the minimum wage hike has cost the fast-food sector 18,000 jobs since it went into effect in April 2024, representing a 3.2% decline in that sector compared to fast-food sectors in other parts of the country.

Imagine how many jobs Gavin Newsom et al. could wipe out if given power at the national level.

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Emerging From NYC Sewer in Dead of Night

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Looks like Zohran Mamdani could be importing more supporters. The New York Post reports:

A crew of oddballs was filmed emerging from a Brooklyn sewer hole early Friday morning in a strange scene that left New Yorkers questioning their motives.

First, someone removed a manhole cover from McDonald Avenue at about 2:00 am.

Things quickly took a bizarre turn when somebody emerged from the sewer with a flashlight in hand – and then another, and another, and another appeared until seven people were milling about the roadway.

Some appeared to be wearing waders and boots, and they began stripping their apparently filthy clothes off right there on the sidewalk and piling their stuff into a trio of waiting cars.

If they really are Mamdani supporters, they may not have originated in the sewer, but deeper down in hell. Or maybe they are Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Nothing is too weird to happen in New York.

Given NYC’s dramatic history of Islamic outreach, let’s hope they didn’t leave anything down there.

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Boston Prepares for Pride Month With Monkeypox Vaccine

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Pride Month is almost upon us. The City of Boston knows how to prepare:

Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) and partners at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health are monitoring an uptick in mpox cases in Boston and are encouraging at-risk individuals to get vaccinated. There is no widespread public health threat from mpox at this time, but at-risk residents, including gay and bisexual men and other men who have sex with men are encouraged to protect themselves and their communities by getting vaccinated.

“Mpox” is the moonbat euphemism for monkeypox. As Athena Thorne suggests, liberals associate monkeys with blacks and therefore consider it racist to call monkeypox “monkeypox.”

This year, BPHC and the Mayor’s Office of LGBTQIA2S+ Advancement (MOLA) are partnering together to offer mpox vaccinations at the Pride flag raising at City Hall on June 1, 2026 on the 3rd Floor Mezzanine from 1:00-4:00pm.

If Michelle Wu and her fellow kooks running Boston really want to prevent the unnecessary spread of nasty diseases, they would stop promoting sexual deviancy at public expense and replace the Mayor’s Office of LGBTQIA2S+ Advancement with something more constructive. But instead they hype Pride Month, which encourages degenerates to have indiscriminate sex with each other, with predictable consequences for public health.

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Two-Tiered Justice in Colonized Italy

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In Europe, how hard the law comes down on criminals depends on which groups the defendant and victim represent. Gateway Pundit offers an example from Italy:

[Today] Italian prosecutors formally requested a life sentence for Cinzia Dal Pino, a 65-year-old businesswoman from Viareggio who ran over and killed Said Malkoun with her SUV after he stole her bag.

Malkoun, 47, whose nationality authorities could not confirm because he had given false information during previous arrests, had no fixed address and no valid residence permit, and supported himself through theft.

His lifestyle and immigration status place him squarely in the camp of the “oppressed.” Don’t mess with oppressed or you risk the wrath of the establishment.

In contrast,

The incident comes just two weeks after the reverse occurred: a vehicular attack on Italians by a North African, in which no life sentence was sought, underscoring how the legal system protects illegal aliens and Islamists at the expense of ordinary Italian citizens.

On May 16, Salim El Koudri, a 31-year-old Italian citizen of Moroccan origin, drove his car at high speed into pedestrians in Modena, injuring eight, four critically, including two women who lost their legs. He then exited the vehicle and stabbed a bystander before being subdued by civilians.

This is a textbook Muslim tactic.

Counterterrorism analyst Giovanni Giacalone of the David Institute for Security Policy stated that El Koudri’s method “is the classic Islamic State ‘lone wolf’ approach, already used in numerous attacks in Europe and the United States by ISIS supporters.”

Nonetheless,

Italian authorities classified the attack as a mental-health incident within 36 hours, despite investigators subsequently finding terrorist videos on El Koudri’s phone, internet searches related to vehicular attacks, and anti-Christian emails he had sent to the University of Modena in 2021 containing the words, “You Christian bastards, you and your Jesus Christ on the cross, I’ll burn him.”

The “mental health” hogwash is to protect El Koudri from appropriate consequences. The death penalty he richly deserves or even a long prison sentence would prevent him from spending the €40,000+ he reportedly expected to receive for his crime.

Cinzia Dal Pino needn’t bother trying the mental health stratagem; as an Italian, she lacks favored status.

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Gavin Newsom Introduces 100% Taxation

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One of Obama’s several autobiographies is entitled Dreams from My Father. His father floated the idea of 100% taxation. This dream could come true in Democrat-dominated California.

The Hill reports:

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Wednesday said he will impose a 100 percent tax on state residents who receive money from the Trump administration’s new $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund meant to compensate those who feel they were wrongfully prosecuted by the government.

Governor Greasy will confiscate the money with relish:

“One thing that I think we’re going to try to do … is tax 100 percent. Anyone from California that receives any of those funds, we want to tax 100 percent of those proceeds. And that’s an action the state of California can take,” Newsom said. “It’s an action we look forward to taking.”

Democrats object to the fund on the grounds that it could compensate those unjustly persecuted following January 6. They call it a “slush fund” — which is rich coming from Newsom, who has his own controversial funds.

Via Fox News:

Among the programs that faced scrutiny was a $25 million California legal fund created to combat what Newsom described as “legal warfare” from the Trump administration. California Republican Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones later deemed the fund a “slush fund.”

Newsom also faced scrutiny during California’s 2021 recall campaign over the state’s use of no-bid COVID-19 contracts. A Kaiser Health News investigation found California awarded billions of dollars in emergency contracts to firms tied to donors, political allies and well-connected insiders.

Taxing at the rate of 100% is an idea sure to catch on among other Democrats. Being progressives, they will progressively apply it more broadly. At least it is better than executing CEOs.

As for what Newsom et al. would do with the loot, City Journal offers a possibility:

California is spending millions of dollars on a program that provides free solar panels, refrigerators, and windows to “low-income” farmworkers, including illegal immigrants.

It is believed that providing illegal aliens with free solar panels will please leftist weather gods.

Meanwhile, California faces a $2.9 billion budget shortfall that is predicted to rise, despite the highest income taxes in the nation. Not even 100% taxation could keep up with Democrats’ profligate waste of other people’s money.

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Down on the Democrat Farm: Chris Rabb

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Looking back on the horror that unfolded in countries like Russia and China when communists took power, we console ourselves that it couldn’t happen here. But it could and will, if it is up to some of the new crop of Democrats.

The Washington Free Beacon shines a light on Chris Rabb, who has called for the death penalty for corporate CEOs:

“The gangs some of the above culprits lead are far more devastating to a much broader and larger group of Americans than the Crips or Bloods ever will be. So, they’ve got [sic] be taken down on behalf of hard-working, tax-paying American families,” wrote Rabb, a socialist running for the open House seat in Pennsylvania’s Third Congressional District, one of the most Democratic districts in the country.

Rabb won the Democrat primary in this white minority Philadelphia district.

By “above culprits,” he is referring to the heads of corporations. Rabb doesn’t like it that they make so much money.

“I’ve changed my previous stance in opposition to the death penalty and now think that it should be administered more frequently and swiftly than ever,” added Rabb, the founder of the activist website Afro-Netizen.

Just not against criminals.

Other Rabb positions that have endeared him to progressives are direct cash payments based on race, abolishing ICE, socialist grocery stories, and a “Palestinian right of return” that would eradicate Israel.

Rabb recently called to “free” Mumia Abu-Jamal, a black nationalist who murdered Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner in 1981, the Washington Free Beacon reported. If elected in November, Rabb’s district will encompass the street corner where Abu-Jamal killed Faulkner.

This is comparable to having Rabb’s fellow up and coming Democrat, the obsequiously pro-Islamist Brad Lander, represent the site where the World Trade Center once stood.

“Evil people always support each other,” said communist gulag survivor Alexandr Solzhenitsyn. “That is their chief strength.” This wouldn’t surprise him:

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) and fellow “Squad” members Summer Lee (D., Pa.), Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.), and Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) endorsed Rabb, as have Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D., Md.) and 2028 presidential hopeful Rep. Ro Khanna (D., Calif.). And Rabb has campaigned with Hasan Piker, the extremist social media influencer who has praised Hezbollah and said that “America deserved 9/11.” …

Piker recently said Brian Thompson, the UnitedHealthcare CEO who was allegedly murdered by Luigi Mangione, was guilty of “social murder,” a Marxist concept that blames capitalists for social ills that befall the working class.

Imagine a government run by Luigi Mangione, and you can see how communists have managed to run up such a high body count.

If they manage to get Mangione off, he might exploit his rock star status among moonbats to follow Rabb into politics. He would fit right in with a list of rising Democrats that includes James Talarico, Mai Vang, Brad Lander, Graham Platner, Maureen Galindo, Shelby Campbell, and Raymond Chandler.

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Why ICE Agents Wear Masks

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In case there is anyone out there who really doesn’t understand why ICE agents have to wear masks (LEFTIST LANGUAGE ALERT):

American Greatness reports on the riot Wednesday night:

“I’ll kill your whole f-cking family! Your whole f-cking family is dead!” the agitator yawped. “Your children, your wife—all dead!”

“I have your face, motherf-cker,” the agitator bellowed. “You’re dead, dead!”

Background:

Anti-ICE demonstrations have escalated outside the Delaney Hall ICE facility in Newark in recent days, with violent agitators assaulting federal agents amid contested claims of substandard living conditions and massive hunger strikes within the facility. Local Democrat officials have actively encouraged the ongoing agitation, including U.S. Senators Andy Kim and Cory Booker, as well as Governor Mikie Sherrill.

As for the massive hunger strikes,

During the White House cabinet meeting Wednesday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told President Trump that only a small handful of detainees had gone on a hunger strike because they were denied ethnic food.

This story might have a happy ending:

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche confirmed Thursday that the anti-ICE agitator caught on tape in New Jersey threatening an ICE agent and his family will be brought to justice. …

“I promise you, we will find him, and when we find him, we will arrest him, because it is a crime not only to threaten law enforcement, but not surprisingly, to threaten their family, as well,” he said.

It doesn’t matter that local authorities in deep blue New Jersey would side with the scumbag. Threatening an ICE agent is a felony under federal law (18 U.S.C. § 111).

Doxing threats need to be regarded as serious. Mexican cartels have offered bounties on ICE agents. Moonbat terrorists have targeted their children.

Meanwhile, liberals screech on television that the ICE agents protecting the USA from foreign invasion must be the bad guys because they wear masks to protect their identities. California even passed a law against it, although this was blocked by a federal ruling.

If Democrats take over at the federal level, the illegal aliens and their lowlife allies win.

On a tip from patthedog.