Some Final Screwed Up Posts From 2025

As a great year closes out, the last week brings some really strange views from our liberal friends.

As I sit here, Army just pulled out a nailbiter against Connecticut (42-16), my Texans are beating up on the Chargers, and Mike Ford is now officially one year closer to popping smoke. Happy Birthday Mike.

But over this laid-back week, I was doing my usual pursual of the propaganda of America’s enemies. What I saw showed the gaslighting of the left has gotten even more crazed. First, from The Texas Tribune, a Lone Star State rag. Constantly we are lectured illegal aliens are only doing the “jobs Americans won’t do anymore” and not harming US workers. Not true.

“Construction can’t continue”: South Texas builders say ICE arrests have upended industry

McALLEN — One morning in mid-November, Mario Guerrero, the executive director of the South Texas Builders Association, was checking a group chat when a video of federal agents detaining people from a construction site popped up… 

…The raids and the specter of more to come have struck fear in construction workers, causing many to stay home. ICE agents have arrested more than 9,100 people in South Texas — nearly one-fifth of all such arrests in the entire state since Trump took office…

…He said he believed law enforcement should do their jobs but was disturbed by the fact that ICE agents were operating without arrest warrants — which they are legally allowed to do — and detaining people who have proper authorization.

Mr. Guerrero, ICE is “detaining” people, not arresting them, a basic part of an investigation. You have a possible suspect, you detain them, i.e., stop them for a reasonable time and determine if they are the suspect. If they are not (or are not wanted for another crime) you release them. Got it?

At a recent meeting of construction business members, Mr. Guerrero was angry they cannot get illegal labor for construction. He was adamant they needed “immigrant labor,” i.e. illegal aliens for their construction site. And even said illegal aliens do not suppress wages in the industry:

…People have left messages on social media accusing him (Mr. Guerrero) of wanting to exploit cheap labor. He strongly pushed back against that accusation, adding that entry-level laborers are paid the equivalent of $15 per hour.

You’re saying $15 an hour is not low. Well, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average entry-level construction labor is $16-$18 an hour, mid-level workers make $20-$25 an hour. Per Salary.com, the average starting wage is just under $18 an hour, with the majority making $19-$23 an hour. So fifteen bucks an hour does seem a little low to me.

Also, many of these workers are paid “under the table” so the employer is not paying Social Security taxes and other expenses. Sometimes they stiff the employees knowing they have little chance of recovering pay. I know, I’ve taken reports from people who were defrauded by contractors who used illegal labor.

Yes, illegal labor is suppressing the wages of American citizens and actual immigrants. Before they went off the cliff, the Democratic Party opposed illegal immigration as it lowered union pay. The 1984 Democratic presidential nominee, Walter Mondale, even protested with Ceasar Chavez in opposition to illegal labor, as they knew it suppressed wages.

Not to be outdone, the Washington Post is shocked, shocked I tell you the Trump administration is going to house illegal aliens pending deportation. Oh the humanity.

ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses

The Trump administration is seeking contractors to help it overhaul the United States’ immigrant detention system in a plan that includes renovating industrial warehouses to hold more than 80,000 immigrant detainees at a time, according to a draft solicitation reviewed by The Washington Post.

Rather than shuttling detainees around the country to wherever detention space is available, as happens now, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement aims to speed up deportations by establishing a deliberate feeder system, the document says. Newly arrested detainees would be booked into processing sites for a few weeks before being funneled into one of seven large-scale warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people each, where they would be staged for deportation…

You are shocked why? Yes, we’re arresting undocumented Democrats, aka illegal aliens, and sending them back home. After getting them off the streets of America, they cannot immediately be sent to the airport. They have to be checked to see if they committed other crimes, biometric data obtained, etc. That takes time, and more importantly, we cannot release them expecting they will return for deportation. We all know how well that worked out under Obama/O’Biden.

The Post doesn’t seem to want us to process these people for exit. They call the facilities “inhuman” and “treating people like cattle.” I spent over two decades in the Army and I was treated like cattle more than once. I lived in conditions much worse than an air-conditioned warehouse with a bed, hot food and other facilities. More than once I was transported around in a towed trailer called a cattle car. And unlike these people, I’m an American serving my country.

The article questions if we can build these facilities. The Post may want to refresh their memory. In 1991, the US deployed over 500,000 service members to Saudi Arabia for Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm. As one logistician said it to me, “We built a city the size of New Orleans in the middle of the desert in less than four months.” Impressive.

They may also recall in 1980, Fidel Castro sent us 120,000 people, many good, many bad. He emptied out his prisons and mental hospitals in the Mariel Boat Lift. We handled them in four military bases. Difficult, but not impossible. Yes, the Washington Post is horrified we are actually returning home millions of Democratic voters. Oh well.

Not to be outdone, a Facebook friend posted this from a seriously deranged woman, excuse me, a “noted internet influencer” (insert snicker here) Monte Meder. Hearing this makes me wonder if she has ever read any history of the Holocaust. From her video:

“…I want to remind everyone that Auschwitz was not in Germany, it was in Poland. And what the Germans were able to do was take away Jewish citizenship and then claim for nation security reasons they were getting rid of ‘criminal, illegal undocumented people. And they started this on September 15th of 1935 with the Nuremberg laws, where they stripped Jews of citizenship and anyone who’s grandparents were Jewish…”

https://youtube.com/shorts/pf45mXxfRs4?si=-c4uwM-4bmuYvFi3

 

This woman really is really clueless, and reading some of the comments of her followers, so are a large number of people out there. From a legitimate source, Encyclopedia Britannica:

Nürnberg Laws, two race-based measures depriving Jews of rights…approved by the Nazi Party at convention in Nürnberg on September 15, 1935. One, the Reichsbürgergesetz (German: “Law of the Reich Citizen”), deprived Jews of German citizenship, designating them “subjects of the state…”

…The first supplementary decree of November 14, 1935—one of 13 ordinances elaborating these laws—defined Jews as persons with at least one Jewish grandparent and declared explicitly that “a Jew cannot be a citizen of the Reich…”

An incredible non-sequitur. The National Socialists did strip Jews of citizenship and processed into one of the greatest mass murders in history. Their property was stolen, they were experimented on in the camps, worked constantly and then gassed to death. That has nothing to do with what is happening in the United States.

First, how are we stripping illegal aliens of their citizenship? We cannot strip the citizenship of Mexicans or El Salvadorians from them, as they are not subject to our laws of citizenship.  It’s practically impossible to strip Americans of citizenship. Ms. Meder, show me a law that allows this, and when it was passed?

We set our immigration laws generations ago, and it defines illegal aliens. The people we are removing are not, have never been, and in many cases have no desire to be Americans. They are citizens of other nations who have entered without authorization and are straining our public services, education and legal system, and medical facilities. Many are depressing wages for citizens and often committing horrific crimes.

But to the point, we are not funneling people into concentration camps. We are processing illegal aliens for return to their homes. So Ms. Meder, your screed is many things, but it has no connection to the truth. I suggest over the rest of the holidays you read history and law.

I would add from Sunday morning’s Legal Insurrection,  Democrats are sure they are winning back men and rural voters with… Zohran Mamdani in New York. Should go over like Tim Walz and the Harris campaign “I’m a man” TV ads. Watch the video, it’s classic.

Well, I’ve rambled a bit, but there was a lot of information. Santa brought me a bottle of 12-year-old scotch and 14-year-old bourbon. I see them and a cigar in me very near future. Happy New Year one and all, and here is to an even better 2026.

Michael A. Thiac is a retired Army intelligence officer, with over 23 years experience, including serving in the Republic of Korea, Japan, and the Middle East. He is also a retired police patrol sergeant, with over 22 years’ service, and over ten year’s experience in field training of newly assigned officers. He has been published at The American Thinker, PoliceOne.com, and on his personal blog, A Cop’s Watch.

Opinions expressed are his alone and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of current or former employers.

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