When Conservatives Refuse to Play Along, the Dems and Regime Media Lose

Posted by Kurt Schlichter at Townhall 

One of the delights of the last couple of months has been watching the Democrats and their regime media adjuncts running their decades-old political playbook and seeing them completely outflanked by the Trump administration running its modern playbook. Check your calendars, guys. It’s 2025, and what used to work doesn’t work anymore. You guys haven’t changed, but we Republicans have. The fact that we are no longer reacting as you expect and demand us to, along with the revolution in media that has allowed us insurgents to evade the regime media gatekeepers, has made all your old go-to moves utterly useless. We’re winning, and you’re losing. It’s beautiful, man.

Take the ridiculous Signal onanism of last week. That pseudo-scandal is gone now, except in the dank recesses of the collective colon of MSNBCNN, where the regime media left attempts to wring a few more nutrients from it before it passes completely. 

Why did what they portray as the biggest scandal of all human history sputter into nothingness in less than a week? Putting aside that no one outside of Washington, DC, or Twitter cared about it – I drove almost 2,000 miles across the country last week, met dozens of people, including military folks, and never once heard it mentioned – there’s another reason it vapor-locked. We Republicans refused to play along this time, and our refusal to do so killed it. 

You see, one feature of the 20th-century model of politics was that the Democrats could invent a scandal, and the Republicans would treat it as a scandal instead of laughing in their pinched, fugly faces. They deserve mockery – all the sissy whining about national security from these femboys and Chardonnay-guzzling crones would be hilarious if it wasn’t so pathetic – but our role in the old order was to play along. The paradigm where the Democrats and the regime media reinforce each other in an operation to collect a Republican scalp – insert Elizabeth Warren joke here – depended on Republicans doing just that. The norms said we had to take this stuff seriously. The norms said we had to nod along in agreement that whatever the Republican target did was oh, so very bad. And the norms said we then had to offer up that Republican for sacrifice.

They win, we lose, rinse, lather, repeat.

Except this time, we said, “No.” We gave them nothing except mockery. We didn’t pretend that their phony outrage was anything but such bad performance art that it was probably eligible for a USAID grant. Fire somebody? Apologize? Nah. Get bent.

And because we didn’t cooperate, the whole thing just sort of faded away. Our cooperation is the key to perpetuating the scandals. They can’t win unless we help them win, and we’ve chosen not to help them win anymore.

Now, not everybody in or around the GOP was on board. We still have a few soft Republicans who don’t know what time it is and feel some bizarre compulsion to police fellow Republicans at the behest of the Democrats. Some of them never feel so good as when they can wag a soft, girlish finger at one of their own, while it makes them extremely uncomfortable when Republicans are putting up win after win. Most of the tofu-spined caucus was in the allegedly right-wing media this time. Most of our politicians, except Democrat-complicit Senator Roger Wicker (who can pose and buster because he's sadly not up again until 2030), have gotten the news: You don’t go against the family, Fredocons. 

Oh, you could see some of the other GOP establishment submissives just aching to get out there on camera and complain about Pete Hegseth, Mike Waltz, and all the rest of them. They wanted to do it so bad they could taste it – strange new respect is a hell of a drug – but somewhere, in their reptile minds, they understood that that would be political suicide. Their next election is not six years off, and if they got suckered by the Democrats as Wicker did, they would be on a political one-way rowboat trip out to fish in the middle of Lake Tahoe.

And properly so. The complicity of Republicans in the Russian collusion hoax, where they took seriously a Democrat/regime media operation to neuter President Trump, led to disaster. The whole fake scandal was ridiculous on its face, yet you had old-school Republicans joining in and nodding solemnly that they “needed to get to the bottom of this” even when there was manifestly nothing to get to the bottom of. You had Attorney General Jeff Sessions allowing himself to be bullied into recusing himself, which led to the Mueller witch-hunt that totally denied us the presidency we had won.

We’re not going to accept idiocy from Republican politicians anymore, and they’ve apparently gotten the message because you didn’t see a lot of them out there in front of the cameras explaining how this minor kerfuffle was the worst thing that ever happened in the history of ever. Most of them now understand that their political survival depends on them not betraying us. Those are you who first got into politics when Trump came down the escalator might not remember, but we have vastly fewer of these invertebrates today than we had 15 years ago. We also now have a president who does not give a damn what either the Democrats or the regime media think. That leaves the Democrats with exactly nothing to deploy but increasingly shrill and profanity-laden caterwauling. At one time, that would’ve cajoled us into cutting our own throats. Now, it just makes us giggle. Is Eric Swalwell babbling on about security breaches? That’s just an opportunity to revisit the Fang Fang Bang Bang. And when Hakeem Jeffries promises to keep crying about how somebody needs to be fired, and no one is fired, it reiterates their utter impotence. 

They look weak and ridiculous, mostly because they are weak and ridiculous.

One of the great things about Donald Trump is that, to the extent he knew the alleged rules of politics that were in effect before him, he didn’t care. He doesn’t feel compelled to be bound to norms; his only purpose is binding Republicans. He was preceded by other legends who showed us the way, including Andrew Breitbart and Rush Limbaugh. But remember that Donald Trump is really the avatar of a movement of patriotic Americans who are tired of being abused, who are tired of leadership that is weak and feckless in the face of people who hate us, and who are completely done with the idea of gentlemanly decline.

The bare minimum for Republicans is to not help the Democrats and the regime media, to the extent those two groups differ, defeat us. We will no longer play our assigned roles in the old kabuki dance that always ends up with Republicans shafted and Democrats skating on accountability. Hey, Dems, I’ll see your Signal chat and raise you 13 dead Americans in Afghanistan and no one getting fired.

They don’t get to win. Give them nothing except mockery and contempt.

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Democrats Have a 'Plan' for the Mid-Terms

posted by Derek Hunter at Townhall 

I write all the time about how gullible the Democrat Party’s base is, but only because it’s hilarious that it works. I don’t really care that they scam people out of their money – if you’re dumb enough to give Democrats anything, that’s on you – but it is worth mocking in the hope that people considering giving to them will see the con for what it is and put their wallets back in their pockets.

The latest strategy for separating suckers from their cash is to insist Democrats have heard the concerns of their voters and are refocusing their attention on fixing what went wrong last year. It’s as big of a lie as you’d expect.

Under the subject line, “We asked for your feedback, and now the report is in,” the Democratic National Committee hilariously pretends previous emails they’d sent out begging for money under the guise of “survey questions” were serious. 

They wrote, “Over the past two weeks, our team sent around a feedback form asking supporters what they’d like to see the DNC do and what changes or initiatives they’d like to see us prioritize. More than 30,000 people took the time to share their feedback. We’ve analyzed the data and compiled the top results — and here’s what we found.”

I whole 30,000 people in a nation of 330,000,000? Wow.

Hilariously, the “data” they shared was in the form of a chart that is absolutely incomprehensible and meaningless. Under the header, “What should Democrats do?” the answers they’ve charted were: 

“Build a stronger, more visible comms strategy” – like controlling 95 percent of the media just isn’t enough. 

“Transform how we engage with young voters” – which means about as much as just saying “win elections” would.

“Strengthen outreach with rural communities” – yes, send a trans army to rural America that will win you votes.

“Hold more town halls and listening sessions” – tell me you have no idea what voters care about without saying you have no ideas what voters care about.

“Increase investment in protecting voting rights” – this is only an issue to the most radical leftists who really think voter ID is what’s costing them victories.

“Recruit and support more Democratic candidates” – are there a lot of races across the country Democrats simply don’t participate in? (The answer is no.)

That’s it, those were the “results.” 

What’s most hilarious is that they were all on a bar graph showing what percentage of Democrats picked them as their top issue, and all of them charted between 20 and 30 percent. You don’t have to be a math major or even use your calculator to notice that six answers pulled over 20 percent, which would mean Democrats listed the top concerns of at least 120+ percent of those surveyed. 

As someone who purposefully clicks on some of these “surveys,” I can assure you the answers are not registered anywhere and are strictly a fraud explicitly created to convince people that their party cares what they think. They do not. 

When given the option, I always choose the “No, I don’t care what Republicans and Trump do” answer to see if it impacts their grab for cash at all, and it never, ever does. All clicks lead to “Pitch in to the DNC and help elect Democrats nationwide,” which is exactly what happens when you click on the bar chart referenced above. 

It takes a special kind of stupid to think the Democratic National Committee is listening to its voters or gives a single damn what any of them think.

The email ends, “We are so grateful for your feedback. We’re committed to doing more to effectively reach more voters, clearly communicate the work we are doing, and ensure that voters know we are the Party that shows up for them year-round — not just right before Election Day. Now, we’re sharing these results with DNC Chair Ken Martin and are actively working on incorporating this feedback into our strategy.”

If they weren’t doing these things before, what the hell were they doing? Actually, I know what they were going: lying to the public about everything in the hope of suckering a majority to vote for them. That’s not something they’re going to stop doing since it is all they do. It’s impossible to feel sorry for anyone dumb enough to fall for any of it.

Canada Embraces European Suicide

posted by J.B. Shurk at American Thinker 

Installed Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will likely retain his office following the country’s snap election on April 28.  His Liberal Party is riding a wave of anti-Trump, anti-American mania ignited by the U.S. president’s imposition of tariffs and emasculation of boy-band-backup-singer Justin Trudeau.  Given that Carney is a globalist central banker who will use the “global warming” hoax to further diminish Canadians’ national sovereignty and private property rights, it is dreadfully ironic that the Liberal Party is benefiting from recent patriotic fervor up north.  

As a patriotic American who despises the federal government’s encroachment on the individual states’ sovereignties and Americans’ individual rights here at home, I can certainly appreciate Canadians’ love for country and regional pride.  I just think Mark Carney and the Liberal Party are incapable of providing true patriotic stewardship when they openly push for the abolition of national borders and the advancement of global government.

Such is politics.  Populations often get caught up in the emotions of the moment and make poor choices that echo discordantly for decades.  After 9/11, I wanted payback at any cost.  Had I been wise enough to realize that those costs would include the Patriot Act, the abrogation of the Fourth Amendment, airport pat-downs, Homeland Security censorship, twenty years of war, chaos in the Middle East, mass migration into the United States, trillions in debt, thousands of servicemembers killed or wounded in action, and two generations of veterans struggling with PTSD, perhaps I would have better appreciated the price of vengeance.  

Sometimes what we think we want isn’t what we want at all.  I have a feeling a fair number of Canadians will relearn that lesson once Carney is empowered to claim a globalist mandate that only weakens Canada more severely.

Why will so many Canadian voters get this election wrong?  A big reason is that they have been fed lies about their nation’s relative strength and sovereignty all their lives.  I have had conversations with Canadians from all walks of life (many of whom are reasonable, rational, knowledgeable people) who know little to nothing about how much the United States subsidizes Canada’s economy.  They are under the illusion that they are members of an open, free market system.  They do not realize that their economy functions by virtue of unidirectional trade barriers and a closed banking system that permit Canadian products to flow into the United States while restricting American products into Canada.  Canada primarily operates as a pass-through country for other nations that wish to import goods into the United States while taking advantage of Canada’s more favorable trade terms with America.  Canadians also fail to realize how much the United States provides for their national security.  This lopsided trade arrangement and gratis military protection have allowed Canada’s government to pursue wildly expensive pet projects — such as destroying the country’s industrial self-sufficiency in the name of “fighting global warming.”  Canada’s economy is much more socialist than most Canadians understand, and without American patronage, it would collapse in its current form.

There is also ample reason to suspect that globalist central banker Mark Carney intends to take advantage of Canada’s impending economic troubles.  For international socialists who believe national borders impede globalist goals, every crisis is an opportunity to advance their one-world-government agenda.  The man-made “global warming” hoax is the most prominent example of a made-up crisis functioning as a gateway for implementing global control mechanisms over individual decision-making.  Everything we do, after all, involves molecules containing elemental carbon, so if Marxist globalists can successfully impose a carbon-rationing system upon planet Earth’s inhabitants, they will simultaneously succeed in imposing a global governing system upon Earth’s inhabitants, as well.  

Rather than responding to President Trump’s calls for actual free trade between our two countries by taking advantage of Canada’s abundant natural energy resources and deregulating Canadian industries, Carney will most likely use this period of economic turmoil as an excuse to impose even more “green energy” regulations while more closely aligning Canada with the fragile economies of socialist Europe.  By doing so, he will make Canadian businesses even less competitive and more dependent upon government handouts.  Canadians, in turn, will become poorer and more dependent upon government handouts, too.  Government dependency is the hallmark of every socialist system and a prerequisite for widespread Marxist globalism.  Canadian voters will misdirect their patriotic spirit toward Mark Carney’s Liberal Party and put a man in charge of their country who will ultimately leave their nation poorer, less free, less independent, and less secure.

It’s such a shame.  Old Europe remains stuck in the past and will only drag Canada down with it.  There is a reason why the virus of Marxist socialism is so virulent on the other side of the Atlantic: despite its populist presentation, socialism is thoroughly aristocratic in nature.  It is a system that elevates a small number of people to positions of power who then make decisions for everyone else.  It rejects vigorous competition, democratic debate, self-reliance, privacy, and individual freedom.  It creates privileged institutions that protect privileged classes of “elites” who expect to govern in perpetuity.  As monarchies crumbled across Europe following the death and destruction of WWI, surviving aristocratic families found in socialism a familiar form of feudalism wrapped inside a politically fashionable rebranding.  The European Commission is simply the nobility’s latest attempt to resurrect a kind of Carolingian dynasty capable of ruling over all of Europe.

In their knee-jerk reaction to assert independence from the United States, Canadian voters will run into the open arms of snotty European aristocrats who hold North Americans in low regard.  Installed Prime Minister Carney has declared that Canada’s long-standing military and economic “relationship with America” has come to an end.  He has even suggested that Canada might join the European Union.  “Nothing is off the table,” Carney insists.

Consider how suicidal Carney’s stated intentions are for Canadians.  The European economy is a joke.  It has been suckling from versions of America’s Marshall Plan for eighty years.  As with Canada, the European Union is the beneficiary of ridiculously lopsided trade deals that allow European products to reach American consumers while restricting American producers from selling in Europe.  American households have subsidized European households since WWII.  At the same time, the United States has shouldered the burden of providing military security for most of the continent.  Europe’s capacity for self-defense is so degraded that all its bluster against Russia is meaningless without America’s backing.  Rather than taking advantage of U.S. financial assistance by investing in energy production, industrial growth, and commercial innovation, European socialists have built an expansive welfare system that encourages government dependency.  Simultaneously, they have wasted enormous resources fighting “global warming” lunacy.  Americans have essentially financed Europe’s predatory bureaucracy, “climate change” delusions, and oppressive socialism.

Europe is not an emergency life raft that can save Canadians from their sinking boat.  It is a heavy anchor that will drag Canada down until it drowns.  As British politician Paul Weston points out, “Islam will politically control much of Western Europe before 2050 as a result of rapidly declining native demographics.”  The European Commission not only annulled Romania’s recent presidential election because the “wrong” candidate won but also promises to prohibit other politicians from obtaining high office for being insufficiently supportive of Europe’s socialist empire.  The German government locks up writers and politicians for expressing inconvenient truths, heavily censors citizens’ social media, and is determined to ban any speech that government agents deem a “lie.”  Under the United Kingdom’s two-tiered system of “justice,” white men now face harsher criminal penalties than everyone else.

If Canadians want freedom and independence, they should cling tightly to America.  Integrating with Old Europe is national suicide.

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Brad Schimel vs. Susan Crawford: The Key Issues at Stake in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court Race

Sarah Arnold reporting for Townhall 

The Wisconsin Supreme Court election is in full swing, carrying significant implications for state policy, national politics, and key social issues—especially given Wisconsin’s status as a crucial swing state. With so much on the line, both local and national figures are paying close attention. The battle between Republican former Attorney General Brad Schimel and liberal candidate Susan Crawford is set to be one of the most expensive judicial races in history.

Tuesday’s election will shape key issues such as abortion, transgender policies, redistricting, and broader political influence over healthcare and education. The two candidates hold sharply opposing views on these matters, making the race a pivotal battleground for the state’s future direction.

On abortion, Schimel has been very openly pro-life. As an attorney general, he defended the state’s restrictive abortion laws, including a law that requires women seeking an abortion to undergo an ultrasound. He has also voiced his support for efforts to limit abortion access in the state, especially in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

On the contrary, Crawford, a staunch pro-choice candidate, has publicly advocated for abortion access and has opposed any efforts to restrict access to the procedure in Wisconsin. 

Regarding voting rights, Schimel has previously supported voter ID laws before casting ballots in an election, which Crawford has been critical of. While Schimel believes such laws would prevent voter fraud, his liberal opponent claimed that such measures disproportionately affect communities, such as people of color, students, and the elderly. 

Another significant difference between the two is redistricting in Wisconsin. 

Schimel has supported the existing redistricting maps, which benefit Republicans, and, as attorney general, he defended them against Democratic legal challenges. In contrast, Crawford advocates for a nonpartisan redistricting process, arguing that the current system harms democracy and prevents fair representation.

In a recent debate, Schimel and Crawford were pressed on their views regarding transgender rights, a hot-button issue nationwide. The candidates were asked explicitly whether transgender individuals should be granted legal protections. Earlier this month, Schimel’s campaign released an ad featuring a woman expressing concern, stating she’s “not OK” with what she describes as the “radical agenda” of Crawford’s donors.

“Let transitioning male teachers use my girls' bathrooms at school? Allow boys to compete against them in sports? Giving puberty-blocking drugs to children without parents' consent?” the woman said. “That's who Susan Crawford sides with, and I'm not OK with any of it.”

Crawford’s team fired back with an ad accusing Schimel of dishonesty, asserting that Crawford is a "former prosecutor, a practical judge, and a devoted mom" who has consistently stood up for children.

Greenland Furiously Making Snowballs In Preparation For American Military Invasion

Greenland Furiously Making Snowballs In Preparation For American Military Invasion

NUUK — Vice President JD Vance was met with a cold reception early Friday when he arrived in Greenland to find a grand army furiously making snowballs to defend against an invasion from the United States.

Amid rising tensions, the vice president had to scale back his initial plans to visit the towns of Nuuk and Sisimiut, instead spending all his time at Pituffik Space Base, where he connected with soldiers on the ground to learn the true nature of Greenland's growing war machine.

"We've seen them throwing snowballs at snowmen for snow target practice," reported 821st Air Base Group Commander Mark Redding. "It's a very bold show of force. We can't match their snowball technique."

According to intelligence reports, Danish Armed Forces at the Joint Arctic Command oversaw the recruitment of Greenlander natives to mass-produce as many snowballs as they could, with current estimates placing their snowball supply in the millions.

"We will fight to the very last man!" said Commander Inuk Jensen. "We're even hiding rocks in some of these snow balls. So... you know... watch out!"

According to historians, this level of saber-rattling among the citizens of Greenland had not been seen since the uprising of 1814, when a militia of brave fishermen constructed fish catapults to rebel against Norwegian rule. "Few peoples can match the ferocity of Greenlanders," said historian Ingrid Bengtsson. "Any hostile force will be met with swift retaliation. Most of it being snow and fish-related."

At publishing time, World War III was officially declared after Vice President Vance was ambushed and pelted with a dozen snowballs.

World’s Largest Oil Refining Company Halts Venezuelan Oil Purchases Following President Trump Tariff Announcement

Sundance reporting for CTH 

Last week President Trump announced secondary tariffs of 25% against any nation who purchases oil from Venezuela.  The approach was in response to the Venezuelan government refusing repatriation of their criminal gang members and organized narcotraffickers.

India operates the world’s largest oil refining company Reliance Industries, and facing the possibility of 25% tariffs against India, Reliance has cancelled oil purchases from Venezuela.

NEW DELHI, March 26 (Reuters) – India’s Reliance Industries (RELI.NS), opens new tab, operator of the world’s biggest refining complex, will halt Venezuelan oil imports after the United States announced a 25% tariff on nations buying crude from the South American nation, three sources said on Wednesday.

The Indian conglomerate, which last year obtained approval from U.S. authorities to purchase oil from the sanctioned producer, imports an average of 2 million barrels of Venezuelan crude every month, according to LSEG data.

[…] The three industry sources with knowledge of Reliance’s purchasing plans said the company would stop buying Venezuelan crude due to the tariff threat.

[…] Loading of Venezuelan heavy crude at the country’s main oil ports has already slowed this week following the tariff announcement. (more)

Jasmine Crockett Has a New Reason Illegal Immigrants Can't Be Deported, and There Are Some Issues

 Jasmine Crockett Has a New Reason Illegal Immigrants Can't Be Deported, and There Are Some Issues

Bonchie for RedState.com

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AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin

The freshest face of the Democratic Party, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), found another camera recently, and she made an interesting claim about deportations. Speaking in what looks like one of the back rooms in the House of Representatives, the controversial (putting it lightly) congresswoman railed against the current administration's approach to illegal immigration. Using the euphemism "undocumented folk," Crockett claimed that deportations should stop because illegal aliens pay "$100 billion" in taxes a year.

This is an argument that has become more popular lately, and it deserves a proper critique because you're going to be hearing it a lot from Democrat politicians.

CROCKETT: To be clear, undocumented folk contribute approximately $100 billion in taxes. They pay into social security, and they don't get to draw down on it. So stop, again, allowing them to divide us and to demonize them.

Since she mentions Social Security, let's start with the obvious. How does an illegal immigrant manage to pay into that program without committing fraud? Social Security numbers are only given to citizens and permanent residents. So is the argument that criminality is fine as long as you contribute taxes along the way? Because that sure seems like the argument. 

It's the specific number Crockett cited that caught my eye the most, though. In context, how much is $100 billion in taxes? To answer that question, you have to consider how much the United States federal government spends every year. In 2024, fiscal outlays totaled around $7 trillion dollars. That means illegal immigrants contribute just 1.43 percent toward total annual expenditures. That already doesn't sound like a lot, but when you consider that illegal immigrants make up 6.25 percent of the population (using the commonly accepted estimate that there are 20 million of them in the country), then their contributions become even more minuscule. 

But wait, there's more. That $100 billion number Crockett is citing is actually from a 2022 study conducted by the Institution on Taxation and Economic Policy, and it includes state and local taxes paid as well. So the above percentage I cited is actually much less on the federal level, and when you dig deeper, illegal immigrants only contribute around $25 billion to Social Security. How much does that entitlement cost taxpayers a year? The answer is a whopping $1.7 trillion, meaning illegal immigrants pay for just 1.47 percent of Social Security. That is the supposedly massive, irreplaceable contribution to the program that Crockett and other Democrats are asserting should override immigration laws. 

I could stop right there, having already thoroughly debunked Crockett's talking point as viable, but there's another aspect to consider. That is, how much illegal immigrants cost. While they are broadly disqualified from various welfare programs, dozens of loopholes have allowed outlays to happen anyway. For example, in 2023, it was estimated that the federal government spent $66 billion on illegal immigrants for medical care and various entitlements like food stamps. That doesn't even count how much it costs to house, clothe, and feed those who are being detained at various Customs and Border Patrol facilities.  

In short, Crockett's math doesn't begin to add up. The federal government is likely spending more on illegal immigrants than they are contributing to the federal government, and you can bet the same is true of state and local governments, many of which are left funding shelters and other programs as people in need fill their communities. To suggest otherwise is not only to abscond from the facts but also to dismiss illegal behavior, which alone should carry weight no matter what taxes are paid. Consider this talking point dead. 

Editor's Note: This article was updated post-publication for clarity. 

Due To Tough Economy, Professional Tesla Bomber Forced To Take Second Job As Bernie Rally Attendee

 Due To Tough Economy, Professional Tesla Bomber Forced To Take Second Job As Bernie Rally Attendee

Economy·Mar 31, 2025 · BabylonBee.com

PORTLAND, OR — Even people with the most secure jobs in booming industries reported feeling the widespread financial squeeze, with one local Tesla bomber forced to take a second job as a Bernie Sanders rally attendee.

Devin Hansbrough, a successful Tesla dealership firebomber, said that while gigs for George Soros and various NGOs have been steady, they aren't enough anymore. He now works a side job being paid to attend Bernie rallies to pull in extra income.

"Every little bit of money helps," he said. "I had my biggest month of bombing Teslas ever in March, but with how expensive everything is these days, it just made sense for me to pick up a part-time job going to Bernie rallies just to make ends meet. Fortunately, I enjoy both jobs, so it's not too much of a hassle."

Hansbrough explained that he now supplements his nightly bombing raids on Tesla locations with weekend trips to Bernie Sanders's public appearances. "It keeps me busy," he said. "I'll wake up around noon in my parents' basement, spend a few hours making Molotov cocktails, do some surveillance on the next Tesla dealership I've been given directions to vandalize, torch some Cybertrucks, and plan my travel to Bernie's next speaking engagement to pick up another paycheck. It's not a bad gig, plus it helps me pay for my soy lattes and avocado toast."

Hansbrough said that the added compensation from the Sanders campaign was helpful to pay for firebomb materials. "Gas prices are getting better, but it's still an expense," he said.

At publishing time, Hansbrough had contacted the Sanders campaign to let them know he would miss this weekend's rally due to being arrested on charges of domestic terrorism related to last week's Tesla bombing.