Chad Taylor

Good luck Seattle, you’re going to need it.

Yesterday in Berkeley, a man professing Christ as King had his cross ripped from his neck by what appears to be a Muslim man. He was punched roughly 15 times in the face. He never threw a punch himself, instead he struggled to retrieve his cross. He was then arrested.

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This is a big deal. Washington is one of the states on CMS's list. If Ferguson, Brown & Co keep syphoning taxpayer money to illegal aliens through Apple Health, they're going to cause major legal & financial problems for WA. They need to stop this misappropriation of funds NOW.

This is a banger!

The state of Washington State: - 15-year-old girl refuses to play basketball against 18-year-old man. -15-year-old girl is charged with bullying, harassment, intimidation and “misgender*ng” him.

Common sense won in state court today! OneAmerica lost. IL26-126/Require Voter ID will go forward with the title & short description we supported. We'll have the written order later today. Joel Ard & I, enjoying the win for a moment outside of Thurston County Superior Court.

Boss is on fire today

Senator Braun telling Chris Reykdal to his face that people don't trust him with their money is the only thing I needed to watch on the internet today.

Washington state already has the 4th highest grocery costs in the nation because of bad policies passed by Olympia Democrats! SB 5284 would increase the cost of groceries and goods even more! #WaLeg #pnw #taxes #groceries @Wa_HROC @WaHouseGOP @WAGOP youtube.com/shorts/71aWOb2…

Mental illness is rampant in Seattle. As the saying goes, the streets are the new asylums.

This is possibly the worst reporting I’ve seen this year. So many factual errors and biases. Let’s just begin with the OP lead-in: “Before this bill, schools had up to 48 hours to notify parents in certain situations.” This is false. I-2081 is CURRENT LAW, as of this moment immediate notification is the law. HB1296 sought to erase that and make it up to 48 hours. Republicans proposed an an amendment for immediate notification in committee, all democrats denied it. Later, the striking amendment on the floor did not contain this language, a Republican amendment for immediate notification was proposed to the striking amendment. It was finally adopted by democrats after a month of national backlash. So no, before this bill, which is right now, immediate notification is law. This understanding is fundamental to realize how HB 1296 undermines and erodes parents rights—and in many more ways than this one provision. After many requests, KIRO refuses to correct its article. Further, KIRO states schools have 45 days now to produce education records. This is false. Again I-2081 is current law. An amendment to HB 1296 returned it to 10 days from the 45 days the bill sought to increase it to. How do I know? They were my amendments on the house floor! Put this article down and try again. The bias and totally out of context reporting is insulting enough, but the pure factual errors are unconscionable.

We strongly disagree and stand firmly for parental rights. #waleg

Washington State Senate Republican Leader John Braun talks with @FoxNews' @johnrobertsFox about the assault on Parental Rights in Washington State. #waleg

Senate Republican Leader John Braun warns that Legislative Democrats are advancing mega taxes. These taxes would especially hurt the working class. We are adamantly opposed to raising the cost of living on WA families and individuals. #waleg @chronline: chronline.com/stories/john-b…

Memorize this. Bookmark this. Refer it to friends. Retweet it. Let the world know. The truth. The brilliance of Jeffrey Sachs. This is the score. The real deal. The bottom line. What the radical left proxy media sockpuppets never want you to hear or know. Verity. Brutal truth.

Americans waving Ukrainian flags: What exactly are you supporting?

Ten bad takeaways from the Zelenskyy blow-up 1. Zelenskyy does not grasp—or deliberately ignores—the bitter truth: those with whom he feels most affinity (Western globalists, the American Left, the Europeans) have little power in 2025 to help him. And those with whom he obviously does not like or seeks to embarrass (cf. his Scranton, Penn. campaign-like visit in September 2024) alone have the power to save him. For his own sake, I hope he is not being “briefed” by the Obama-Clinton-Biden gang to confront Trump, given their interests are not really Ukraine’s as they feign. 2. Zelenskyy acts as if his agendas and ours are identical. So, he keeps insisting that he is fighting for us despite our two-ocean-distance that he mocks. We do have many shared interests with Ukraine, but not all by any means: Trump wants to “reset” with Russia and triangulate it against China. He seeks to avoid a 1962 DEFCON 2-like crisis over a proxy showdown in proximity to a nuclear rival. And he sincerely wants to end the deadlocked Stalingrad slaughterhouse for everyone’s sake. 3. The Europeans (and Canada) are now talking loudly of a new muscular antithesis, independent of the U.S. Promises, promises—given that would require Europeans to prune back their social welfare state, frack, use nuclear, stop the green obsessions, and spend 3-5 percent of their GDP on defense. The U.S. does not just pay 16 percent of NATO’s budget but also puts up with asymmetrical tariffs that result in a European Union trade surplus of $160 billion, plays the world cop patrolling sea-lanes and deterring terrorists and rogues states that otherwise might interrupt Europe’s commercial networks abroad, as well as de facto including Europe under a nuclear umbrella of 6,500 nukes. 4. Zelenskyy must know that all of the once deal-stopping issues to peace have been de facto settled: Ukraine is now better armed than most NATO nations, but will not be in NATO; and no president has or will ever supply Ukraine with the armed wherewithal to take back the Donbass and Crimea. So, the only two issues are a) how far will Putin be willing to withdraw to his 2022 borders and b) how will he be deterred? The first is answered by a commercial sector/tripwire, joint Ukrainian-US-Europe resource development corridor in Eastern Ukraine, coupled with a Korea-like DMZ; the second by the fact that Putin unlike his 2008 and 2014 invasions has now lost a million dead and wounded to a Ukraine that will remain thusly armed. 5. What are Zelenskyy’s alternatives without much U.S. help—wait for a return of the Democrats to the White House in four years? Hope for a rearmed Europe? Pray for a Democratic House and a 3rd Vindman-like engineered Trump impeachment? Or swallow his pride, return to the White House, sign the rare-earth minerals deal, invite in the Euros (are they seriously willing to patrol a DMZ?), and hope Trump can warn Putin, as he did successfully between 2017-21, not to dare try it again? 6. If there is a cease fire, a commercial deal, a Euro ground presence, and influx of Western companies into Ukraine, would there be elections? And if so, would Zelenskyy and his party win? And if not, would there be a successor transparent government that would reveal exactly where all the Western financial aid money went? 7. Zelenskyy might see a model in Netanyahu. The Biden Administration was far harder on him than Trump is on Ukraine: suspending arms shipments, demanding cease-fires, prodding for a wartime, bipartisan cabinet, hammering Israel on collateral damage—none of which Westerners have demanded of Zelenskyy. Yet Netanyahu managed a hostile Biden, kept Israel close to its patron, and when visiting was gracious to his host. Netanyahu certainly would never before the global media have interrupted, and berated a host and patron president in the White House. 8. If Ukraine has alienated the U.S. what then is its strategic victory plan? Wait around for more Euros? Hold off an increasingly invigorated Russian military? Cede more territory? What, then, exactly are Zelenskyy’s cards he seems to think are a winning hand? 9. If one views carefully all the 50-minute tape, most of it was going quite well—until Zelenskyy started correcting Vance firstly, and Trump secondly. By Ukraine-splaining to his hosts, and by his gestures, tone, and interruptions, he made it clear that he assumed that Trump was just more of the same compliant, clueless moneybags Biden waxen effigy. And that was naïve for such a supposedly worldly leader. 10. March 2025 is not March 2022, after the heroic saving of Kyiv—but three years and 1.5 million dead and wounded later. Zelenskyy is no longer the international heartthrob with the glamorous entourage. He has postponed elections, outlawed opposition media and parties, suspended habeas corpus and walked out of negotiations when he had an even hand in Spring 2022 and apparently even now when he does not in Spring 2025. Quo vadis, Volodymyr?

Question: How many state employees have a taxpayer phone in WA? Enough to pay Verizon $18M in this budget cycle! Oh, now I get it...look at the nearly $700k Verizon has donated to political candidates! It's time to cancel my Verizon and find a phone carrier that doesn't play politics