SPOX KJ-P on debt-limit negotiations: “I’m assuming (Biden) will be updated momentarily by the team”

Karine Jean-Pierre says she's "assuming [Biden] will be updated momentarily" on debt limit negotiations: "The president is all over this" pic.twitter.com/RIuZk3Zg7l

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 20, 2023

H/T RNC Research

The death of “The City by the Bay”

San Francisco upscale mall shoppers greeted with “gifts” in elevators

San Francisco, previously a destination vacation spot for Arizonans longing for urbane elegance, high-end shopping, spectacular restaurants and live theater performances, is no more. 

It has fallen prey to its far-left politics, with democrats Gov. Gavin Newsom and Mayor London Breed running governments that would be the envy of Karl Marx. Newsom, who has spent California into bankruptcy, refers to his wife, Jennifer, mother of 4 of his children, as “First Partner” rather than First Lady so as not to offend the state’s large homosexual community. Mayor Breed has announced her latest scheme, launching what she terms, Housing for All, a strategy to fundamentally change how San Francisco approves and builds housing. Among her priorities is implementing what she calls “Mayor’s Roadmap to Downtown San Francisco’s future,” seemingly unaware that San Francisco was previously known for its vibrant downtown. Kuleto’s, the unparalleled Italian Restaurant in the Villa Florence Hotel, closed after thirty years as has the hotel, which was plagued by homeless addicts blocking the doorways amid hypodermic needles and piles of excrement on the sidewalk. 

The San Francisco Standard headlines its report, “Downtown San Francisco: Human Waste Increasingly Found in Westfield Mall Elevators, Staff Say.”

Desperate to distinguish herself, Breed dedicates a page to informing that “she is first African-American woman mayor in San Francisco’s history.”  She is not the first female nor is she the first black, but those traits, over which she has no control, are paramount to her.

Biden’s DHS chief Mayorkas brazenly lies through his teeth & UPDATE

Insults Americans as he claims “We have seen the effectiveness of our approach” at the southern border, as thousands of illegal aliens slither through every day creating a massive and costly national crisis

MAYORKAS: "We have seen the effectiveness of our approach [at the southern border] pic.twitter.com/kyp7ELDI5g

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 10, 2023

H/T RNC Research

UPDATE:

This morning, May 11, 2023 NBC News reports: “After more than 11,000 migrants were caught crossing the southern border on Tuesday, the Biden administration is now preparing a memo that will direct Customs and Border Protection to begin releasing migrants into the United States without court dates or the ability to track them, according to three sources familiar with the plans.”

This is a direct quote. Seeing Red AZ does not use the word “migrants” to describe illegal alien invaders.

Biden’s DOE crackdown on dishwashers follows gas stoves halts

Uninvited Biden invades our kitchens

Claiming it will save American households money, this is the Department of Energy’s statement on the latest restrictions intended to hobble American’s personal purchasing decisions. When the word “stakeholders” is hauled out, beware. We are also told that the dubious “goal is to align U.S electric motor energy efficiency standards with expected European standards.”

The far-left DOE’s Jennifer Granholm, who was confirmed with a less than an enthusiastic senate vote of 64-35-1,  recently received blowback from critics after she testified before the Senate in support of a plan to fully establish an all-electric vehicle fleet in the U.S. military by the 2030s, leading many observers to wonder if the Biden administration believes politics trumps national security. This is the statement by Christine Wormuth, Secretary of the Army, who claims “climate change threatens America’s security.”

Berkeley educated, DOE secretary Jennifer Granholm announced she expects “the new standards for electric motors, coming into effect in 2027, to save consumers up to $8.8 billion in utility bills over the ensuing 30 years of shipments and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 91.7 million metric tons — an amount roughly equivalent to the combined annual emissions of 20 million gasoline cars.”

Many of us will not be here to verify their claims, and there are no supporting facts to bolster them, but democrat’s slippery talk is cheap.

Declining ratings for Oscars have an underlying cause

The Deseret News’ Hanna Seariac has done a masterful job of exposing the declining viewership of the previously not-to-be-missed Oscars. Her report is titled, “Are the Oscars and other awards shows increasingly just for the elites?”

Left-wing political views espoused by Hollywood celebs have done nothing to engender a wider audience base. So caught up with their status, they appear to forget that the audience is made up of people who are feeling the brunt of Bidenflation and struggling to stay afloat, making ongoing payments, keeping their growing kids dressed, paying medical bills, putting meals on the table and gas in the car. Movies provided a rare diversion.

This Wikipedia list provides amounts paid to highest-grossing actors, cautioning that the “factual accuracy is disputed.”

Hanna Seariac’s report provides an in-depth reflection on the out-of-touch movie industry. We highly recommend you read her review. TCM is free and plays classics.

Biden admin increases illegal surge, as education takes a deep dive

Today we take our readers directly to a recent FOX News report, headlined,  “WATCH: Karine Jean-Pierre gets agitated when pressed on her claim illegal immigration down 90% under Biden.” It was followed by this bold-face sub-headline, “Fiscal year 2022 ended with 2,378,944 migrant encounters, highest ever recorded.”

Dems believe Americans are fools, don’t pay attention to facts and are easily duped. Illegal immigration to the U.S., the extent of which cannot be fully known due to the millions who boldly evade federal Border Patrol agents, rose at a faster rate in the first nine months of Joe Biden’s tenure than any time in the Border Patrol’s 97-year history.

Yahoo News reports, “The large majority of the Border Patrol’s encounters took place at the Mexican border. Over the past decade, between 30,000 to 50,000 people have been encountered illegally crossing the southern border each month. That number dropped to below 20,000 at the start of the pandemic, primarily as the result of a Trump administration order that any child, adult, or family who illegally crossed would be sent back to their home country rather than taken into custody.”

That rationale is not part of the dem mindset, which views illegals as future democrat voters. It is inconsequential that we are losing our country to the invaders.

This recently released National Review report, “American Students Fail in Civics and History Testing,” should be of major concern to every American. How can future generations feel a compulsion to honor and protect a nation they know nothing about? Liberals are destroying our education system, which will, in turn leave our nation in shambles.

Teacher’s unions influence in democrat politics is broad and well financed. The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) has 1.7 million dues paying members, and the National Education Association (NEA) has more than 3 million paying members. That’s well over half of Biden’s popular vote margin of victory over former President Trump — a hefty chunk of the electorate. According to the NEA, one out of every 39 voters lives in a household with at least one NEA member.

Open Secrets displays the hefty amount of money spent in 2023 on teacher’s unions by educrat lobbyists. What do they get in return for the cash payouts? It won’t just be a shiny red apple.

Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, is a labor leader with a law degree, and member of the AFL–CIO. She is the former president of the United Federation of Teachers. And, of course, she is fashionably married to another woman.

Biden friendly networks ignore Hunter’s daughter Navy Joan Roberts

They follow the lead of grandparents Joe and Jill who disregard their 4-year-old granddaughter, omitting her from the family count

If you are committed to truth, numerous Internet publications deliver the news the alphabets networks ignore. Topping the left’s list is the ongoing sleaziness of known cocaine addict Hunter Biden, who, while carrying on an unsavory romance with his dead brother Beau’s widow, found time in 2018 to father a child with Lunden Roberts, a graduate of Arkansas State University — who for a time worked as a stripper.

Prolific inseminator Hunter Biden initially denied being Navy Joan Roberts’ father. That charade came to a halt when Lunden Roberts filed a petition for paternity and child support after a DNA test proved he was, in fact, the child’s father. Not the most stable of men, Hunter married his most recent wife, Melissa Cohen Biden within days of meeting her. They have a son together. He and his former wife, Kathleen, have three grown daughters.

In September, Hunter Biden asked to have Roberts’ child support payments reduced because his financial circumstances had undergone a “substantial, material change.”

Lunden Roberts’ lawyer asked Circuit Court Judge Holly Meyer on December 27, 2022, to allow her daughter to take Biden’s last name, arguing that she would benefit as the name is “now synonymous with being well educated, successful, financially acute and politically powerful.”

Papa Hunter responded by asking the judge to stop his young daughter from using his last name.

Biden’s daughter with Roberts was born in 2019. He initially denied the baby was his, despite a court-ordered test clearly establishing his paternity. The Biden family does not publicly acknowledge the child. President Biden has repeatedly claimed — as recently as last week — that he has just six grandchildren, omitting the blonde four-year-old girl from the list.

It’s official…Tucker and Fox split

APRIL 28, 2023 UPDATE: Viewers are abandoning the network in Tucker Carlson’s former time slot…down 56%

Fox News Media’s statement can be read here.

The loss of Tucker Carlson’s show — frequently the top-rated show on cable news — often surpassing 4.5 million viewers per episode, will negatively impact the network, since many viewers tune in specifically for Carlson. Watch for Fox’s ratings to plummet and advertisers to demand more affordable rates.

The show premiered in November 2016, and took over the desirable 8:00 pm EST time slot in 2017.

This unique and hilarious segment was his finale, although Tucker didn’t know it:

This was Tucker Carlson Tonight’s last moment.

Eating pizza with the hero delivery man who stopped a car jacker.

I can’t think of a better way for the greatest cable news show in history to end.
pic.twitter.com/cfzNZ6QY4l

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) April 24, 2023

Sen. Sinema forgets she’s now an Independent, secures large, early dem war chest

Proving democrats rarely change their stripes, The Washington Examiner headlines its report “Kyrsten Sinema pulls $1M through Democratic software behemoth ActBlue despite party switch.”Arizona U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who claimed to have left the democrat party in December 2022, when she registered as an “independent,” has hauled in approximately $1.3 million in combined campaign and political action committee donations during the first quarter of 2023 through ActBlue, the radically leftwing democrat fundraising political action group.

Sinema began her political career as a Green Party candidate, a fact she now obscures. For a memory jogger, read “Kyrsten Sinema’s devious metamorphosis,” which we posted in 2018. Nothing has changed except the recently honed, superficial facade.

Regardless of their campaign-related moderate portrayals of themselves, both Sinema and Ruben Gallegos are committed leftist democrats running for the U.S. Senate. Gallegos, proving he is on top of current issues relating to Arizonans, keeps an outdated webpage devoted to COVID-19 Resources.

As democrats, they are both united in their support of barely cognizant Joe Biden, who at age 80 claims he is running for reelection to another four-year term in November 2024.

In order for Republicans to have a solid chance at an upset of the status quo, we need to align behind a single candidate with a winning message and viable chance of winning. Defusing our votes and donations sets us up for loss. The most recent senate race had five GOP primary candidates. Blake Masters, who seemed to forget Arizona’s large retirement population as he focused on abortion instead of the border and the economy, lost to incumbent democrat Mark Kelly, a Second Amendment restrictionist.

Egos need to be set aside as first-time candidates acknowledge the hard fact that a desire to be a U.S. Senator doesn’t always translate into votes. Races at this level are expensive. Open Secrets headlines its recent report, Kyrsten Sinema’s campaign rakes in money from Wall Street, big banks and prominent Republicans. On the surface, this makes no sense. But politics is like an onion, with seemingly endless layers to peel.

AZ U.S. Senate race could be a crowded, expensive brawl

Since Arizona’s 1912 statehood, Arizona has had only thirteen senators, six democrats and seven Republicans. Carl Hayden, a democrat territorial sheriff, was later elected to the senate for a then-unprecedented 43 years, retiring at age 91. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema recently interjected a new component to that mix when she left the democrat party on Dec. 9, 2022. Leaving no room for misinterpretation, Sinema filed her statement of candidacy with the Federal Election Commission as a registered Independent December 15, 2022 — though, like Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) and Angus King (Maine), she still caucuses with the democrats and remains a decisive vote in their current 51-49 majority.

Hovering in the shadows as Sinema sucks the democrat oxygen from the impeding senate race is dem U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego, who launched a challenge to Sinema in January. His presence is not good news for democrats who rightfully fear a split vote, benefiting GOP candidates. His Hispanic surname will be an automatic asset among that voting demographic.

Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb, a Republican, is expected to announce his candidacy for Arizona’s U.S. Senate race this week. Carl Hayden aside, being sheriff of Pinal County (link to U.S. Census Bureau demographics) is not widely regarded as a requisite for a U.S. Senate seat. In anticipation of his senate campaign, in 2020, Sheriff Lamb wrote a paperback book, “American Sheriff: Traditional Values in a Modern World,” noting that he is a descendant of Pilgrims.

Senate races are expensive. This link has facts and graphs detailing the exorbitant costs of a U.S. Senate race, based on Federal Elections Commission data. Whether Lamb can raise the necessary funding is the looming question. The Wall Street Journal recently noted that former GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake is now considering a senate run.