Observations From the Back Row, with News and Views for March 26, 2025

By Rich Kozlovich

Eliot Pattison made it clear curing the problems of democracy is possible, but curing stupid.... well, that's another story as he says:

After four long years during which our democracy was under constant peril, one might say the November election cured that crisis, at least for now, returning the American voter and American values to center stage. Zealots of the Left, however, continue their tired chorus of accusation and cancellation. It is staggering how blind to election results and deaf to the voices of voters they seem to be. Wokeness may be in retreat but this core cadre, still including many in legacy media, continue their ranting about existential threats and trying to shame us into shedding crocodile tears over illegals. They have doubled down on their playbook even though its tenets have been hollowed out, proven false again and again.

He went to show the left embraces concepts they claim to be "truths" that are demonstrably false, and quotes  Benjamin Franklin saying:  

“We are born ignorant but one must work hard to remain stupid”.

Ignorance is the natural state, and we're all ignorant about a great many things because there's so much out there to learn about.  To be ignorant simply means we don't know.  But that's fixable by learning.   Refusing to learn, and refusing to believe what is known, and justifying untruths by making up things that are unknown is embracing lies, and that's stupid.  The left is now, and has always been, foundationally stupid, irrational, misanthropic, and morally defective.   The true moral foundation of leftism is hate, greed, envy, lust, with a love of violence, but hate is the foremost quality of leftism, and lies are the glue that binds them all together.  

Since WWII and the Bretton Woods agreement, which was based on the obvious conclusion the allies were going to win the war, and the after the war the only allied nation that wouldn't be broke was America.  So it was decided that America would open it's markets to Europe, to get them back on their feet, and eventually to the rest of the world, assure their defense relieving them of that burdensome cost, which they could ill afford, and patrolling the worlds oceans to prevent piracy.  Yes, piracy existed, and still does.  While Bretton Wood officially ended decades ago, the principles behind Bretton Woods became the foundational foreign military and economic policy from America's political community.  Well, Bretton Wood is over, permanently!  And now Poland is claiming if Russia attacked their defensive capability is so poor they could only sustain operations for two weeks or less, and they've openly asked for an American nuclear umbrella. 

Canadian politicians, and even Canadian citizens, have been shooting off their mouths how they hate America because of Trump's polices, but the reality is they always resented America. Get over it, that's reality.  And now they've come to a hard truth that no amount of rhetoric and chest beating can change.  They're freeloading days are over, "the gravy train has reached it's final stop", and are in need of another "sugar daddy", and think the European Union will lovingly embrace them.  Ya just gotta see the humor in that. The EU? 

Yes, the EU, which is already a dysfunctional hodgepodge of economically wobbly, over regulated, self-important bureaucracies desperately trying to keep the Germans from remembering they’re Germans. The EU, where the French still think they run things, the Italians operate on a three-hour-lunch workday, and the Eastern Europeans are wondering why they even bothered leaving the Soviet Union if they were going to get ruled by Brussels instead. And now, Canada—who fancies itself the Turkey of North America—wants in. The cold, harsh reality? It’s not Turkey. But its former prime minister? A turkey, from beak to tail feather.

And it gets worse, as bad as things are in Europe, they're view regarding Canada's eligibility? A solid "No"!   We don't need them, and they need us, desperately, including their defense:

Canada’s most significant economic contribution to the world is pretending to be more European than American while simultaneously relying on American capital, American trade, and American military protection. It thrives on a paradox: publicly scorning the United States—while privately praying that Washington keeps ignoring its antics. But now, with Trump back in office, the free ride is over. The United States is no longer in the business of subsidizing Canada’s socialized bliss, which is a polite way of saying “socialized purgatory”—though given the state of things, even Dante might have to add another circle for Canada’s bureaucracy. And hell has officially frozen over.

Canada is now going to hold an election, and the new Prime Minister, who wasn't elected, has ordered a "snap election", whatever that means, as I find Canada's Parliamentary political system as confusing as England's and Australia's.  A man who is so far left he has to turn to the right to look at Xi, so it will be interesting to see what happens.  

India is now trying to secure trade agreements around the world in preparation for sanctions, tariffs, and trade restrictions Trump may impose, which they and the rest of the world is outraged over, but one has to ask, if all those things are so terrible, they way has India been one of the world's worst offenders?   Why are they all so upset that Trump dares to do to them what they've been doing to America for decades? 

Let's try and get this right, there are seven foundational rules of geopolitics, and the first one is a combination of four factors, "geographics, demographics, economics, and that most elusive factor of all, the happiness factor", and the world isn't happy, it's going broke, and the demographics pyramid in many nations is all out of whack, including China. 

Turkey has hundreds of thousands marching in the streets outraged at Erdogan's arrest of the opposing candidate for President.  Will that work?  The Experts say no, and after they've been using rubber bullets, tear gas, water cannons, and arresting over a thousand people, which may be underestimated, the experts say it will peter out.   I say, we'll see, since the experts have been wrong about Turkey for years.  

Africa is always in a state of "unhappiness" and unending violence, instability, and corruption at levels that makes Washington look pure.  Mozambique's President and opposition leader claim they have an agreement to end the violence,  and Sudan is threatening "retaliatory" attacks against Chad and South Sudan, and South Africa is directly and openly calling for the genocide of whites.  And this is the arena both China and Russia are trying to inject themselves into? 

Australia has released it's budget for 2025/26, which is usually a precursor to holding new elections.  As I said, I understand their parliamentary political system as well as I do Canada's and England's, meaning... I don't have a clue.  This budget is heavy on defense spending to contend "with intensifying strategic competition, particularly from China".  Which I find interesting since their Asianification strategies are allowing such massive immigration from China that soon foreign born Chinese will have a major voice in their political system, and China makes sure to control those immigrants be threatening their families back in China, as has been done in the US with their "China police stations".  Australia isn't a good ally.  

 News and Views for Wednesday March 26, 2025

Africa

• Musk Exposes South African Political Leader Pushing for Genocide Against White Farmers -Elon Musk, a key advisor to Donald Trump, has once again spotlighted the openly racist and genocidal rhetoric of some of South Africa’s most influential politicians, along with the government’s blatantly discriminatory policies against white Afrikaners. In a post to his social media platform X, Musk—responding to a video where Julius Malema, the leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters’s party, is chanting “Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer” in front of a massive crowd—wrote: “Very few people know that there is a major political party in South Africa that is actively promoting white genocide.”......

Canada

• Carney’s Snap Election -- And Trump Saw It Coming - Mark Carney’s snap election is a globalist power grab disguised as leadership, continuing Trudeau’s agenda with a more polished image. But Donald Trump saw this coming -- and he may be the only one ready to stop it.  Mark Carney’s sudden rise to power isn’t a win for democracy -- it’s a globalist takeover in a Canadian suit. Recently installed as Prime Minister of Canada without a single vote, Carney now leads both the country and the Liberal Party just months before a federal snap election that he called. This isn’t about Canadian politics -- it’s about global control. ....

Democrats

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• Dem Admits: Party Doesn’t Have Plan for Progress - During portions of an interview with NPR aired on Monday’s broadcast of “All Things Considered,” Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) declared that Democrats “better shape up and put together a plan for progress, starting in the places that have fallen behind where people are voting for change simply because the economy is not working for them.” And that those voters voted for Donald Trump because they knew where they live isn’t great.......

• Let's Go Line-by-Line About How the Dems Are Totally Screwed Right Now - Demography is not destiny—an axiom that fell on deaf ears among the Democrats’ political strategist class. They were still enthralled with the notion of the Obama coalition being a path to a permanent political majority. After 2024, that coalition has been shattered, as young voters are now becoming more conservative and deeply ingrained in the Make America Great Again movement. Axios had a good one yesterday morning, going line-by-line about how screwed the Democrats are heading into the midterms. There’s a lot of bluster and talk, but there is no strategy, leader, message, or unity.....

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  "Tesla Takedown’ Movement Plots ‘Day of Action’ Against Musk - The “Tesla Takedown movement, which organizes protests against against Elon Musk and his role in the Trump administration, is gearing up for its biggest demonstrations yet with protests planned around the world this weekend on its “global day of action.”...........
• Rashida Tlaib Won't Condemn Acts of Domestic Terrorism Against Tesla -  As Telsa car dealerships have experienced violent attacks, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) refuses to denounce these acts of domestic terrorism.  Footages shared on Tuesday morning by the Daily Caller shows Tlaib, sporting a keffiyeh, greeting the reporter who has identified himself as Myles Morell, though she pivots to ask about how much he's being paid, since she claims that "I believe you should be paid a fair wage."...............
• In California, an anguished Dem base urges its politicians to be more crazy  -  The headline at SFGATE, a San Francisco news website, grabbed my attention: “‘Fear and anger’: California town halls are not going well for Democrats, either.”........the Democrat base has its priorities: It wants big government, even if that government is deeply corrupt and inefficient; it wants to destroy wealth creators in America, even if that means destroying the very industries the base once worshiped; it wants to keep gang bangers and terrorists in America; and it wants to continue the sexual mutilation of children.........
• Maxine Waters Breaks Down in Public, Spouts Bizarrely Wild Lies About Melania as Ignorant Crowd Eats It Up - Well, at least give California Rep. Maxine Waters this much: She’s consistent. Consistently bonkers, sure, but there’s at least some dependability there. Fresh off declaring that America was headed toward a “civil war,” the Democratic octogenarian told the crowd that if President Donald Trump was looking to deport non-citizens who are illegally in this country, he should look first at first lady Melania Trump — his U.S. citizen spouse — or her parents, both U.S. citizens themselves......
• Democrat Dimwitt Jasmine Crockett Physically Attacks Journalist for Asking a Question Regarding Her Sick Comments About Elon Musk and Tesla - Despicable Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) may have opened herself up to legal trouble after attacking a journalist for daring to question her about her violent remarks toward Elon Musk and Tesla. As The Gateway Pundit reported, Crockett spoke last Wednesday on a livestream organized by #TeslaTakedown, which has engaged in multiple actions designed to harm the company........ Downs is currently at Capitol Hill Police headquarters right now and will be filing a police report for assault. She adds that Burchett will be listed as well since he was a witness.............
• Crockett Calls Greg Abbott the “Hot Wheels Governor” in Low Blow of All Low Blows - Lately, our politics has gotten a little below-the-belt, but this comment right here from sitting U.S. Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett crosses a line I hadn't thought would be crossed even in this political climate.  Listen to the comment Crockett has for this guy ......Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who has been paralyzed since 1984:"So we out in these hot ass streets with the hot wheels governor who a hot ass mess" ..........
• Rep. Jasmine Crockett mocks Texas's wheelchair-bound governor Abbott as 'Gov. Hot Wheels,' then keeps digging - Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas is fairly new on the job in the House, but already being touted as the Democrats' great presidential hope for 2028.......  what kind of person makes fun of someone else's handicaps? Only a very indecent one. Then she put out this in the wake of criticism:......
• Jasmine Crockett's 'Hot Wheels' Narrative About Greg Abbott Just Imploded -  You knew this apology was never going to hold up. Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), the emerging face of the Democratic Party, who I hope becomes a permanent fixture, mocked Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, calling him “hot wheels” at a Human Rights Campaign dinner in Los Angeles last weekend. She has tried to deny that it was about Abbott’s wheelchair. .....
• MTG: Jasmine Crockett Had ‘Police Escort’ Through Halls of Congress - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) claimed that she saw Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) with a “Capitol Police escort” walking through the U.S. Capitol building after she reportedly tried to take a reporter’s phone over questions regarding the ongoing attacks against Tesla...............
• Jasmine Crockett Gone Wild: Texas Democrat Claws Her Way to Become Superstar of Broken Party - Jasmine Crockett was not a well-known name in 2023 or really, in 2024, but she is busying herself making headlines with her bombastic and controversial remarks, clawing her way to the top of a party left in complete shambles after the last presidential election............
• The Democrats Are the Party of Hate - Back in the Vietnam War era, many protesters on college campuses were proud Democrats who chanted slogans about “peace” and “love.” They flashed the peace sign and railed about the war and police brutality while professing support for “free speech.”  Never mind that the Vietnam War was escalated by a Democrat President and ended by a Republican President, these protesters claimed that they were “non-violent” and that the federal government, and especially Republican politicians, were trying to limit their freedoms............
• Liberals Are OK With Slavery - Liberals love to talk about the slavery of 400 years ago, which the Republican Party successfully abolished in this country, but when it comes to slavery today, it is a different story. And there is quite a bit of slavery today–mostly in Islamic countries, which for many centuries have been the prime centers of slave owning and slave trading, and in China.............. 
• Malicious Imbeciles - In our dawning Era of Common Sense, here’s some common sense. If you unchain junkyard dogs, you better be sure they won’t bite you in the rear. Democrats are being bitten in their collective behind lately. Not just once, but repeatedly. Siccing DEI and woke dogs on folk -- those not them -- is turning on them. It’s a big part of what’s devouring the ex-party of Jefferson and Jackson.......

 DOGE

• There's a DOGE Update on Dead People Getting Social Security- The Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk and a team of tech savvy young people, is cleaning up the Social Security rolls and clearing out ineligible recipients. More specifically, those who are deceased. President Donald Trump held a Cabinet meeting at the White House Monday and ridding the federal government of waste, fraud and abuse was a central focus. Musk attended and Attorney General Pam Bondi thanked him for finding fraud the Department of Justice plans to pursue for prosecution. ..........

Economics 

• How Mississippi eliminated the income tax - Mississippi has made history as the first state in the U.S. -- aside from oil-rich Alaska -- to pass legislation aimed at phasing out its income tax.  This monumental achievement, spearheaded by Governor Tate Reeves and House Speaker Jason White, marks a significant victory for the state. The newly passed bill outlines a plan to eliminate the income tax over the next decade, starting with incremental cuts and followed by a series of budget-driven "triggers."......... What happened next was both fascinating -- and, if you support income tax elimination, rather fortuitous.......

Education 

• Can Trump Really Abolish the Department of Education? - Since the department was established in 1979, it has thrown at least $1 trillion down the rat hole with little to show for it.  In a powerful letter, “Our Department’s Final Mission,” Secretary McMahon explained to her staff that “student outcomes have consistently languished,” alluding to NAEP scores showing that less than a third of U.S. students today are “proficient” in the core subjects of reading and math...........Despite the unconstitutionality of federal involvement in education............The Department of Education has been highly successful at what it was intended to do.  Established as political payback to teachers’ unions for support of Jimmy Carter.........

FBI

• New report: NYPD officer accused of spying for the Chinese…from the same building as the FBI field office - According to Shawn Cohen’s exclusive article at the Daily Mail, Zhu Jiang, a sergeant with the New York Police Department has been suspended without pay as he is reportedly under investigation for allegedly committing acts of espionage on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party. And…Zhu was apparently working out of the same building that housed the FBI’s local field office—yes, the same field office that refused transparency regarding its prosecution of J6 defendants, and allegedly withheld crucial documents related to the Epstein investigation. (I now have to wonder if there’s any connection between the CCP and this lawless FBI department.).............  

Immigration 

• Face the Nonsense, Again: Margaret Brennan’s ‘You Should Watch the News’ Moment - The exchange centered on Brennan’s insistence that the arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a doctoral student at Columbia and leader of CUAD, somehow raised troubling “free speech” concerns. Brennan seemed genuinely perplexed—and more than a little miffed—that the federal government would dare remove a foreign national who leads a group that has:

• Advocated violence,
• Obstructed Jewish students’ access to campus,
• Forced Columbia University into lockdown,
• And called for the overthrow of the West, including the United States.

Rubio calmly explained that Khalil is not a U.S. citizen and that his activities constitute grounds for deportation. When she doubled down, Rubio fired back: “You should watch the news.".......

• Trump, the Mullahs and Skin in the Game - Trump took out Qassem Soleimani for attacking the US Embassy. Who wants to be next?  You could call it the Donald Trump theory of international relations: getting skin in the game without sending US troops. That’s what you saw when President Trump offered Zelenskyy the deal to exploit Ukraine’s rare earth minerals. The Z-man was obsessed with getting US “security guaranties” – a promise to send US troops should Russia attack again in the future.  Trump rightly said, no. Instead, he offered to put US companies on the front lines, essentially making those civilians a tripwire should Russia dare attack.............. 
• 1,100+ Arrested Protesting Detention of Erdogan Rival - Turkey has arrested over 1,100 people since the Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu was apprehended on March 19, the country’s interior minister confirmed Monday  İmamoğlu is one of the most popular politicians in the country, a member of the opposite Republican People’s Party (CHP), a secularist party founded by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. He has for years been seen as a frontrunner in the presidential race against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, whose Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) has been in power for over two decades. The CHP made that challenge official by nominating İmamoğlu as its candidate for the next presidential election on Sunday; the election is currently scheduled to take place in 2028....... The detention has prompted hundreds of thousands of people to take to the streets in protest in Turkey’s largest cities, most prominently Istanbul, Ankara, and Izmir.........
• ‘Hamas Out!’: Palestinians Launch Rare Uprising in Gaza Strip - Hundreds of Gazans marched through the northern town of Beit Lahiya carrying white flags and chanting anti-Hamas slogans, according to videos posted from the scene, which showed participants calling for peace, press coverage, and the release of hostages............
• Hamas-Linked Georgetown Academic Faces Deportation Following MEF Report - Badar Khan Suri, a Fellow at Georgetown University’s Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Has Been Arrested and Faces Deportation Proceedings. This follows an article published by the Middle East Forum (MEF) exposing Suri’s repeated praise of Hamas terror and relation by marriage to a senior figure in the designated terrorist organization...........

Trump

• Trump Has Broken the Press - That probably isn’t news: the fact that Trump has broken the Democrats, including their reporters and editors, has been evident for quite a while. But it is remarkable that even abroad, Trump seems to create a force field that renders otherwise-normal people bonkers.....

My Take - In all fairness, that's simply not true that Trump broke the media.  It's a part of the story, but the real story is all about those alternative news sites that challenged the left, and the corruption of the Pravda media, exposing the lies they've been feeding America for decades.  It's taken about 20 years, but it was the alternative media, with all the citizen journalists, who broke the media.  Trump is just part of that story.

Voter Fraud

• Civil Rights Experts Worry Trump Exec Order Mandating Proof of Citizenship Will Block Illegal Aliens From Voting - "This measure discriminates against the most oppressed people in our society". President Trump’s new executive order requiring voters to show proof of citizenship has voting rights advocates concerned that it will prevent undocumented voters from voting.  “Our undocumented friends and neighbors already collect earned income tax credits and serve in prisons, now this will put another roadblock in their way of full and equal participation in our society,” complained Columbia Anacsota of the non-partisan immigrant rights group Muerte America.....

My Take - And they're undocumented why?  Because they're here illegally, and they have no rights, they have no right to vote, they're not citizens, and they have no right for a hearing to decide if they should be deported or not.  That's a "right" that's being created by corrupt leftist rogue judges.   If they're arrested and found to be here illegally, then their story is over, and should automatically be deportation.  Period.   

• Trump Requests ‘Immediate’ Declassification Of Materials Related To FBI’s Russia ‘Crossfire Hurricane’ Investigation - On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order requiring the FBI to immediately declassify documents pertaining to the 2016 Crossfire Hurricane investigation — which sought to determine whether Trump campaign members colluded with Russia during the presidential campaign. Trump noted that the media can now examine previously withheld information related to the probe after signing the order, but he questioned if many journalists would actually do so — as the findings would not satisfy left-wing journalists and reporters alike who have long believed the “Russian collusion” narrative to be true.............