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Eight Startling and Uncomfortable Ways the Democrat Party Emulates the Nazi Party.  The Democrat Party has been a stain on the nation since its founding in 1828 by a virulently racist president, Andrew Jackson.  It was the party of slavery and the Confederacy, it initiated racial segregation by legislating and brutally enforcing Jim Crow laws.  It unabashedly aligned with and supported the Ku Klux Klan for over nine decades, thus promoting antisemitism, religious persecution and xenophobia.  Over the past sixty-years the Party has embraced and promulgated cultural Marxism which espouses the transformation of traditional American culture and society.  The Party has succeeded in undermining the family structure and religious freedom as well as mainstreaming abortions up to the point of birth and what was once considered deviancy.  The Democrat party's two most exalted figureheads are the fervently racist Woodrow Wilson who set the Party on the path of undermining the Constitution in order to remold the United States into a "modern administrative state" (i.e., socialist) and Franklin Roosevelt who was enamored with and utilized Fascist principles in his "New Deal" thus permanently embedding them in the Party's psyche.

Trump's 12-Year Term.  [Scroll down] We can hope that the Democrats — at least the sane ones — have learned their lesson these past four years. [...] Many of their leaders and pundits blame their messengers:  if only Harris and Walz weren't flawed and uninspiring. [...] They even blame their customers:  if only the American people weren't so dumb and deplorable.  They blame everything except the one thing that is fatally flawed:  their actual message!  Their message — their product — is not just flawed at the margin, it is toxic.  It is anti-American.  It is what caused the Democrats to lose and will always cause them to lose.  It is why even principled liberals like Bill Maher say they are crazy.  Think about it, Democrats.  You couldn't beat someone you tried to make into a convicted felon.  You couldn't beat someone found liable for sexual abuse.  You couldn't beat someone accused of paying off a porn star.  You wanted Donald Trump because after beating him down, you thought he was the only Republican you could possibly beat.

Tim Walz Wants Us to Feel Sorry For Him Because He Has to 'Pay Bills'.  Failed Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.) is trying to gain sympathy after a devastating loss by crying about the struggles of managing bills and responsibilities he faces as the country's "poorest" vice president candidate that Americans face daily.  Walz shed light on how it felt to be the least richest person to run alongside a presidential candidate despite making over $100,000 annually, while most Americans bring in far less than that.

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Walz is like Elmer Fudd with an attitude.

Van Jones Drops Truth Bomb About Trump That Is Going to Drive Dems Crazy.  The cluelessness of the liberal media and the Democrats has been something to see since the election.  They're still trying to figure it out and wrap their minds around how President-elect Donald Trump won.  One of the few people who gets it is CNN's Van Jones.  As we reported, he explained how Trump got the rise of new media and made use of that, that the legacy mainstream media was the "fringe" and the "fringe" was now the mainstream.

Actors and Singers Make Comedic Political Analysts.  Leading up to the election, some celebrities promised they would leave the United States in the event of another Trump victory.  Barbra Streisand, Cher, Sharon Stone, and Ellen DeGeneres are among them.  Ellen is in Cotswold, but we're still waiting on news from the others. [...] Even though we don't actually care either way if Miley Cyrus leaves the country, the threat to move is usually disingenuous and likely meant to get attention.  And even when it's not, it doesn't really matter at all.  These millionaires can still keep multiple properties across the United States and return whenever they wish.

Libertinism Is No Virtue.  For the vast majority of human beings, it is essential to live within a chaste, monogamous relationship, stable and inviolable, in which one is valued highly by one's spouse.  This essential fact is not a "lifestyle choice"; it is innate and rooted in our nature as caring, loving, self-restrained human beings.  For those individuals who recognize the virtue of monogamy, a society in which persons switch partners every year, or month, or evening, must appear disgusting and cheap.  The lifelong devotion of a monogamous couple takes on a value that many in our society cannot even imagine. [...] Fortunately, there are tens of millions of decent, moral individuals in America.  This silent majority works hard, raises families, knows the difference between right and wrong, and recognizes the cultural drift at work in our society.

What Next for the Democrats?  Donald Trump won the popular vote by millions plus a strong electoral college majority by several dozen.  He turned the Senate and kept the House.  How was this done?  Several reasons include declining general economic prospects, family economic despair from inflation with additional pressures from a lower standard of living, and criminal violence on streets.  Unchecked illegal immigration displaces American citizens from workplaces, causing stagnant and even declining real wages.  It crowds out citizens for housing, food assistance, and medical care.  Illegal aliens include terrorists and violent and nonviolent common criminals.  Democrats lost their advantage in the culture with young males, among normal women who don't appreciate misogynistic and predatory men occupying female-protected spaces or competition in sports, and among the working class, including minorities, without college education.

To Move Forward, Democrats Must Oust Obama.  In granting Trump the White House through an electoral college landslide and popular vote, American voters also made it clear that they were fed up with leftist ideology.  This includes allowing criminal gangs to bring poisonous fentanyl over the Democrat open borders, to those do-nothing Soros prosecutors and the crown signature jewel of the Marxist Obama left that eviscerated merit and used racism to awarded American resources:  DEI. [...] It is the vehicle that perpetuates the racist idiocy of acolytes of Barack Obama, people like Ta-Nehisi Coates and Robin DiAngelo.  It has fed the culturally corrosive and discredited theory of the "1619 Project," authored Nicole Hannah-Jones and embraced by other race hustlers at the Marxist New York Times.  It helped weaken military cohesion.  Now many corporations are pulling back from DEI policies, from Walmart to Toyota and more.  And good old-fashioned merit might be ready to make a comeback.  Because on November 5, the America people said "No."  Common sense defeated left wing racism.  And President Barack Obama's third term in office — through his senile meat puppet Joe Biden — came to an end.

A Tale of Two Parties.  Much has been written about why the Democrats suffered such a devastating loss in the election, but I'm inclined to place great weight on the views expressed by Adam Mill in Chronicles Magazine, who argues persuasively that the Democrats' decision-making process doomed their chances, a process unlikely to soon change.  "Democrats don't have leaders, rather they have 'facilitators' who balance the many competing demands of their disparate coalition, leading to a rigid script of talking points," he argues.  To keep on message is the key autocratic aim of the party, so any "single deviation from the script endangers the entire enterprise."  This explains as well as most theories why Kamala Harris's rare public interviews devolved into bafflegab word salads.  Why in the absence of good sense, the party left the border open, supported pornographic books in public school libraries, "fought for abortion of viable fetuses up until birth, and demanded free sex surgeries for illegal immigrants in custody."

How we know it was a landslide.  [Scroll down]  But there is not enough energy left to do a Resistance 2.  Even Antifa is sitting this one out.  Mayors are preparing to help the Border Patrol send their illegal aliens back to Mexico and Canada.  We have gone from NFL players kneeling during the national anthem to doing the Trump Dance.  Shouts of USA, USA, USA have replaced F··· Joe Biden.  Trump's picks have made many a Democrat a Nervous Pervis.  The Washington Post ran a column that said Kash Patel is "a dangerous and unqualified choice for the FBI."  Al Capone said the same thing about Eliot Ness. [...] Obama's lost his touch.  Kamala never had a touch.  But fear not, Democrats, because you have a leader.  Joe Biden.  And he just boosted President Trump's popularity into the stratosphere with that pardon of Hunter, the first son and first bagman.

You're Very Weird.  We've built cultural systems in which weird, awkward, unhappy people have taken the authority to pronounce upon the behavior that is to be considered weird and bad.

It is difficult to believe any business owner is dumb enough to alienate her best customers over politics.
Beauty salon owner rips Trump supporters as 'hateful' and 'misogynistic.'  Now she says her clients are 'dropping like flies.'  A beauty salon owner blasted supporters of President-elect Donald Trump as "hateful" and "misogynistic," and now she's saying her clients are "dropping like flies."  Seems the hubbub, according to the New York Post, stems from a now-viral TikTok video from Tiffney Prickett, owner-operator of Voiage Salon in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.  [Profanity-laced quotes omitted for the sake of website standards.]  It's unclear why a business owner in a red state like Idaho took it upon herself to rip Trump supporters, but as you might expect, the backlash was brutal.  In a subsequent video, Prickett had the following to say, according to the Post: "So this is me suffering the consequences of my own action.  I just had a client send her husband into my salon and demand a refund for gift cards — pre-purchased — because of my stance that if you support a racist, homophobic, misogynist rapist, and you're OK with those things because you supported them that you are in fact those things.  And she was so offended by that, he said she did not feel comfortable coming to my salon anymore."

Get woke and go broke:
Idaho Salon Owner:  Customers 'Dropping Like Flies' After I Called Trump Supporters 'Racist'.  An Idaho beauty salon owner said she is seeing customers "dropping like flies" after calling supporters of President-elect Donald Trump "racist, homophobic, and misogynistic."  Tiffney Prickett of Voiage Salon in Coeur d'Alene said she is "suffering the consequences of my own action" in a TikTok video posted days after the November election, saying that one of her longtime clients demanded a refund after she went on an anti-Trump tirade:  [Three advertisements]  "So this is me suffering the consequences of my own action.  I just had a client send her husband into my salon and demand a refund for gift cards — pre-purchased — because of my stance that if you support a racist, homophobic, misogynist rapist, and you're okay with those things because you supported them that you are in fact those things," Prickett said.  "And she was so offended by that, he said she did not feel comfortable coming to my salon anymore."  [Another ad.]  Prickett added that the client she lost had been coming to her for 15 years and was "very good" to her.  [Another ad.]

America's Tipping Point.  As we look through the "death by a thousand cuts" of woke American culture...
  •   transgender surgery performed without parental consent
  •   men competing in women's sports
  •   abortion near and after birth
  •   "Climate Change" and Earth worship to replace Jewish and Christian values
  •   Critical Race Theory
  •   lawlessness in inner cities
  •   unrestricted illegal immigration
  •   and a hundred more
...we see that the "overstory" was political correctness:  "Everyone is entitled to their opinion, even if they're 100% wrong.  I don't want to be thought of as racist, sexist or intolerant."  But now,
  •   when your son comes back from spring break to announce he's a woman in a man's body
  •   you lose a promotion to a totally unqualified person based on gender and skin color
  •   your restaurant is forced to replace its gas stoves
  •   you're told you will have to drive an electric car when there are already brownouts in your state
  •   the media tell you Biden is at the top of his game, Kamala Harris is winning in the polls, the economy is the best it's ever been, and elections are safe and secure
  •   and a thousand more,
a new overstory has emerged:  "common sense."  You now say, "I'm fine with other people holding crazy ideas, but if it hurts me, my family, or my country, I'm not putting up with it anymore."

The Fumes of the 2024 Election.  To paraphrase Churchill, the 2024 victory is not the end of the beginning of the radical left, but the end of the beginning of the effort to do so.  There is no more stomach for spaghetti-arm Antifa rioting, BLM-inspired looting, and pampered foreign students spouting anti-Semitic venom while breaking their hosts' laws.  Israel has proved the feared Hezbollah and death-to-Israel Iran were paper tigers and blowhards.  The exhausted public has little tolerance left for toppling statues, renaming iconic buildings and streets, DEI venom, transgendered chauvinism, lectures from bicoastal grandees on why we must buy EV cars, throw away our gas stoves, flash our pronouns, study Professor Kendi, worship the moronic Ta-Nehisi Coates, or listen to the claptrap of sanctimonious Pete Buttigieg and Alejandro Mayorkas[.]

Nothing Cool About Democrats' Woke Religion.  Democrats are freaking out about their loss of social prestige.  They expected the public to defer to the wishes of noted climatologist (snark!) Greta Thunberg as she dictates to farmers across the globe what they can and cannot do with their private lands.  They expected fearful citizens to obey the pandemic-loving Anthony Fauci's every command.  They expected women to vote for Kamala Harris because Taylor Swift endorsed her from a pyrotechnic-lit stage.  They expected blue-collar workers to reject President Trump's "America First" agenda because Robert De Niro wasted the last eight years playing an angry, old man with a single line:  "F··· Trump!"  They expected Green Day's hatred for MAGA voters to keep the "cool kids" caged on the Democrats' soul-crushing plantation.  Celebrities flooded the 2024 pop-culture space with anti-Trump histrionics, cringeworthy temper-tantrums, and a glut of Democrat party endorsements.  The public tuned out all the noise and voted for Trump anyway.

Report: 'Lost and Rudderless' Democrats See AOC As 2028 Presidential Contender.  A new report has surfaced suggesting Democrats are feeling "lost and rudderless" following the election.  So much so that a list of presidential contenders for 2028 includes the name Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).  If nothing else, The Hill column ranking potential Democrat contenders for 2028 shows that the resistance party has little to offer on the bench when it comes to knocking off the Republicans.  In fact, polls show Vice President Kamala Harris is far and away their preferred candidate.  Trump shellacked her despite Harris having every conceivable advantage in the media, exposing her as a thoroughly unlikable person.  But they think Harris can somehow rally in four years?  Far behind her in second place are California Gov. Gavin Newsom and the equally absurd possibility, "Paternity" Pete Buttigieg, current Secretary of Transporation and former mayor of South Bend, Indiana.

Democrat Pitches Secession Where New York, 3 More States Would Join Canada to Resist Donald Trump.  A Democrat state lawmaker in New York is calling for a coalition of northeast states to secede from the Union and join Canada because President-elect Donald Trump is returning to the White House.  State Sen. Liz Krueger (D-28), who is also floating a scheme to withhold upwards of $300 billion in federal taxes, defended her ideas in a conversation with Politico.  "It's not unreasonable to think outside of the box," Kreuger, chairwoman of the Senate Finance Committee, told the outlet.  In September, Kreuger spoke with City and State New York.com about a four-state secession from the union if Trump won, where New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Connecticut would join Canada[.]

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[#1] It's "not unreasonable to think outside of the box," if you keep those thoughts to yourself.  [#2] The majority of the voters in those four states will not vote to secede.  Most people don't want to rock the boat.  It would be far easier, quicker, safer, and simpler to help the few hundred disgruntled Trump-haters to renounce their U.S. citizenship and move to Canada — permanently.

When EVerything Green Starts to Turn Brown.  In the United Kingdom, the ruling Labour party is in a bit of a pickle.  A petition demanding [the recall of] the reviled Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer had 2.7M signatures and counting (2,824,368 right now) after less than three days of being active.  [Tweet]  The man truly has been a disaster since the first picture was taken of him smiling outside of 10 Downing Street.  People have had enough and this is the first step to removing him.  It's been very popular.  Besides Labour being jack-booted, totalitarian thugs in the literal sense... [Tweet] ...and potentially catastrophically ignorant about 'where food comes from' thanks to their dangerously blind ideological devotion to climate cult beliefs... [Tweet] ...they're finding out their Green schemes are tripping them up in other ways.  For one thing, Labour's climate-related NetZero aspirations and associated arbitrary goals are running against an immutable force known as 'reality.'

How the Democrats Lost Their Base — and Knew It All Along.  For decades, Democrats relied on their coalition of diverse, working-class, and young voters to carry elections.  However, in the Trump era, that coalition began to fracture.  By the time Harris inherited Joe Biden's shaky mantle, the party's grip on its base had loosened significantly.  The cracks had been forming for years, but in 2024, they split wide open.  Voters who once delivered decisive Democratic victories either stayed home or, more surprisingly, voted Republican.  What makes this loss even more striking is how predictable it was.  Internal Democratic polling revealed grim realities early on.  Harris's campaign never showed her leading Trump, and despite public polls briefly suggesting otherwise, her advisers never bought into the optimism.  They weren't fighting to win; they were fighting to mitigate a looming loss.  This wasn't just a bad election cycle — it was the culmination of deep-seated issues the party had long ignored.

The 2024 Presidential Election Landslide.  The 2024 election is a turning point in US history.  It was an epic battle between good and evil.  Was Trump's loss in 2020 providential to set the stage for 2024?  Since the 1960s, the Democratic Party has shifted from the one our grandparents knew to the Marxist left — a party that is aloof, condescending, and separated from the American people, opposed to an America founded on self-sufficient individualism, ingenuity, and exceptionalism.  It will be a long slog to excise this cancer that has infiltrated our country as leftists sought to turn America into a Marxist third-world dictatorship.  The Marxist left and its RINO counterparts are destroying our country with their failed policies, often driven by corruption, which are detrimental to the interests of the American people.  The people want limited government in accord with the Constitution, Bill of Rights, the rule of law, and subservience to the will of the people.  Now is not the time for reconciliation and forgiveness.

Jaguar Decides to Burn Its Brand to the Ground With New Confusingly Woke Ad Campaign.  After Bud Light contracted Dylan Mulvaney, a "transgender influencer," for an ad campaign that blew up in the company's face, you'd think other major corporations would learn some lessons.  To be fair, some did.  Others, not so much, and that includes Jaguar.  [Advertisement]  The "luxury" car brand has decided to set itself on fire with a new confusingly woke ad campaign.  What's conspicuously absent?  Any mention of cars.  [Tweet with video clip]

Leftists Pledge to Load Up on Supplies Before Biden Leaves Office, Buy Nothing 'for the Next Four Years' to Tank Trump Economy.  Leftists have a master plan to ensure that President-elect Donald Trump's economy tanks:  They are not going to buy anything.  Leftists across the country are still reeling from Trump's historic comeback victory, which saw him sweeping all seven swing states, garnering 312 electoral votes and also winning the popular vote after making historic gains in traditionally blue areas.  There was a sizable shift in the electorate and a clear mandate for change, but some leftists ardently disagree and have a plan to tank what everyone anticipates to be a strong economy under Trump's leadership.

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[#1] This boycott-everything campaign will go entirely unnoticed because so few people hate Trump to that extent.  [#2] What kind of people would want to intentionally crash the U.S. economy because their candidate lost an election?  [#3] The loony lefties won't be eating fresh fruits and vegetables, or milk, or bread, or beer for a long time.  They will still have to buy gasoline once in a while, and will still support the electric company and the municipal utilities.  Many or most of them probably subscribe to cable TV or movie streaming services.  And I'll bet the guy who runs the local tattoo parlor isn't going to starve.  [#4] This is kind of nonsense is cooked up by someone — probably a girl — on the loony left, who then puts it on social media without thinking it through and considering the feasibility or the ramifications for as much as half a minute.  Only a public school student would blurt out a half-baked scheme like this, without retracting it immediately.  [#5] If you hate Donald Trump that much, it would be much simpler to leave the country and live among your fellow socialists.  Zimbabwe comes to mind, or maybe Cuba or Vietnam.  Start packing.

Democrats, heed the lesson of the 2024 election — stop being so weird.  A lot of you people sound nuts.  It is unsurprising that a Donald Trump campaign ad featuring the tagline "Kamala is for they/them.  President Trump is for you" was effective in the 2024 presidential campaign. [...] Now, one suspects most normies aren't only turned off by "they/them" because it's grammatically mystifying or scientifically dubious.  For many, "they/them" represents the 14,000 confused children who have been mutilated by "gender-affirming care."  For others, "they/them" represents thousands of girls and women who are forced to compete with boys and men on the field.  For most, though, "they/them" is probably just a microcosm of all the weird cultural fads the Left has been trying to normalize and force-feed society.  Normies tend to reject social science quackery.  Americans are generally happy to make accommodations for alternative lifestyles.  That doesn't make this stuff less bizarre or extreme.  And the speed at which the Left has demanded everyone treat these unhinged notions as the norm is mind-blowing.

Leftism Is a Death Cult.  One of the first things a cult does is it creates its own, distinct identity.  It is imperative that this identity be recognized as something "breaking off" or "rejecting" the traditions of societal culture, of their parents, of the "established church," so to speak.  And while all religions forge their own distinct identities, it is done in their respective pursuits of a greater truth.  The cult, on the other hand, forges this separate identity for the sake of the separate identity in and of itself.  The trans movement is a good example of this.  The trans movement claims to have discovered new genders and new sexualities.  They haven't.  There are two genders, and they are biologically fixed and non-interchangeable, a fact that needs reiteration to all the "Science Is Real" yard sign dopes.  The true motive behind the trans movement's insistence on imaginary genders isn't sincere conviction or an open-mindedness towards new ideas, but rather a sophomoric rebellion towards The System, or The Man, or whatever other force of "tradition" they blame for their unhappiness.

The Great 'Splainin' Cometh.  The Woke Democrats of recent times were our Jacobins, and the election of November 5, 2024, marks the kick-off of America's Thermidorian Reaction.  The crazies have been overthrown and our country awaits a restoration of norms in culture and law.  No more sexualizing of children, no more flood of criminal mutts across the US border, no more furtive censorship of public speech, no more creative lawfare, no more women on the battlefield, no more "anti-racist" racism in the workplace, no more intel takeover of everyone's private life... you get the picture. [...] The voters, subject to years of trips laid on them, were eventually able to see through all this induced psychodrama as to how they were being manipulated, and on November 5, they finally revolted.  Their quandary was probably epitomized by the absurdity of watching men in women's sports — spiking volleyballs on the girls' heads, bashing them on the lacrosse field, humiliating them in the swim lanes — and, more to the point, being helpless to do anything about it, because the officials in-charge under "Joe Biden" said it must be, no matter what you think and feel about what you are seeing.

What the Election Really Lost — and Won.  This wasn't just about whether Kamala Harris or Donald Trump won or lost.  It was about a clear rejection of divisive, impractical, and sometimes destructive ideas that have reshaped the fabric of our society in ways that feel fundamentally out of step with the values of the vast majority.  Critical Race Theory, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and wokeism — concepts rooted in division and categorization — were put to the test.  These frameworks, promoted as mechanisms of fairness, often result in stifling conversation, shaming dissenters, and creating divides where unity could have taken root.  This year, Americans chose not to double down on identity-driven narratives but to reclaim a spirit of unity that transcends the labels we've been so quick to assign to one another.  Cancel culture and the weaponization of public opinion were also rebuffed.  Americans are tired of watching as voices are silenced, careers are destroyed, and people are ostracized for straying from an approved narrative.

Why It's Too Late for Democrat Postmortems.  Propaganda was invented to serve only one purpose:  to divide.  It divides us by the repetition of a lie:  that some of us are more special than "those people over there."  The supremacy of propaganda convinces some of us that we know better than those people over there — and if we can just get rid of those people over there, we can suddenly cure all of our problems.  This is communism, leftism, supremacy, bigotry, and propaganda in a nutshell.  And the more any tyrants stress their population, the more that population is brain-injured to begin to believe it.  Democrats can't tell this truth about themselves to themselves or to the population.  They can't even approach this truth because it is so venal.  This venality must blame others to survive.

Casey Won't Admit Defeat, But Here's Why He Lost.  The three-term senator now spams supporters daily, begging for $5 contributions to fund recounts against Republican Dave McCormick, whose narrow victory most media outlets have already confirmed.  The collapse of Casey's careful political balancing act offers a masterclass in how not to navigate America's shifting electoral landscape.  Commonwealth Foundation polling captured this decline in real time:  Casey's favorability ratings cratered from 50% to 44% between the second and third quarters of 2024, while his favorable-to-unfavorable margin shrank from a comfortable 14 points to a precarious 3.  These weren't just numbers — they were warning signs of an expired political brand in free fall.  Casey's attempts to distance himself from the Biden administration's energy policies proved especially damaging.  His belated concerns about the liquified natural gas (LNG) pause couldn't erase his support for job-killing initiatives like the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, the Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals (FRAC) Act, and the Keystone Pipeline cancellation.  Pennsylvania voters, facing soaring energy costs, saw through this performance just as they'd rejected Kamala Harris's similar attempts at moderation.  Casey's stance on inflation proved equally tone-deaf.

How the Democrats Bud Lighted their brand.  Last spring, a marketing grunt at Bud Light sent TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney, a trans woman, custom cans of beer featuring her [sic] picture.  As intended, Mulvaney posted about the beer on social media, igniting a firestorm and a boycott of the brand.  Men revolted.  Bars stopped serving it.  Bud Light lost its status as the top-selling beer in America; it's only back up to number three today. [...] The Democrats realized too late that they had Bud Lighted their brand.  You can't be openly hostile to men for two decades and expect to retain the male vote.  And judging by Trump's gains with both genders, you also can't be incapable of defining what a woman is and expect women to believe you care about them, either.  Whether the left realizes it or not, the Bud Light moment was the beginning of the end of their long-standing grip on the culture.  It lost them 23 percent of their market share and still hasn't recovered.  Trump's recent win is more evidence.  He won decisively, a collective middle finger from an America tired of being lectured.

Texas Democrat [Will Resign] After Criticizing Left's Trans Policies.  After Republicans won races statewide, especially in South Texas, the chair of the Texas Democratic Party, Gilberto Hinojosa, said he plans to resign next year after serving 12 years in the role.  Hinojosa and Texas Democrats have criticized Republican policies, including border security measures implemented by Gov. Greg Abbott.  After Nov. 5, Hispanic voters in South Texas made history by flipping nearly all border counties red, voting for President-elect Donald Trump by large margins.  They also voted for Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Republicans who were elected for the first time after leaving the Democratic Party, The Center Square reported.  Some news outlets, pundits, and pollsters at one point claimed Cruz's Senate race was so close that he might lose.  He won by nearly nine points, by larger margins than he did in 2018.

Top Story at the Washington Post Today Advises Liberals on How to Move to Another Country.  The liberal Washington Post is out with a story today about how to leave the United States and live in another country.  It's one of their top stories for today.  As the Gateway Pundit recently pointed out, we have been down this road before, but the people who claim they want to leave rarely follow through and actually do it in the end.  Threatening to leave the country because Trump won the presidency seems to be some sort of rite of passage on the left.

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Somebody (other than me, of course) should set up a slush fund to pay the moving expenses of disgruntled socialist Democrat snowflakes when they "threaten" to leave the country.  Their expenses should be paid under these conditions:  [#1] They sell all their real estate in the U.S.,  [#2] They renounce and revoke their U.S. citizenship, and  [#3] They move to a country at least one thousand miles from the nearest U.S. state or territory.  As I've said before, this is what Liberia is for.

Democrats Are In Deep Trouble.  How could this possibly have happened? is the question newspapers, television hosts, and Democratic pundits are asking.  It actually isn't a hard question to answer.  The Biden/Harris administration had an indefensible record, and Kamala Harris didn't seriously try to defend it, absurdly presenting herself as the candidate of change, while at the same time unable to identify a single respect in which her administration would be different from Biden's.  Voters were unhappy about inflation, about the economy in general, and about the border.  The Democrats, having created these problems, had no solutions to offer.  Instead, they tried to tell voters that their concerns were imaginary.  Also, Kamala herself was a lousy candidate.  But the reality is worse than that.  As the dust settles, I think Democrats will realize they are in a deeper hole than they thought.

America Failed Kamala.  [Scroll down]  It cannot be that Harris failed.  DEI hires can never fail, only be failed.  Nothing is ever their fault, only that of the systemic racism of the electoral college, the legacy of oppression in Berkeley and the unfair double standard of being expected to state coherent policy positions.  The Democrats also don't need to consider how they had managed to alienate a swathe of the American public so broad that it included crypto bros, the Amish, Latino men, Chassidic Jews, the tech industry and the rust belt, the black barbershop and the gay bars of Miami.  All they need to do is accuse them of being racist sexists or sexist racists who should be ashamed.  Telling the American public that they are bad people for not supporting you is not a winning strategy, as Harris, Biden, the Obamas and the rest of the Democrats found out when they pivoted to accusing Republican voters of being garbage Nazis who want women to die.

Adios, commies!
Trump's historic comeback leads to staggering 1,514% surge in Americans looking to move abroad: study.  Democrats are finally doing something about migration.  Donald Trump's historic re-election to the White House led to a staggering number of Americans taking the left's meltdown one step further by looking to relocate abroad this week.  Since the president-elect's comeback victory became official on Wednesday, the number of related Google searches jumped 1,514% percent, according to VisaGuide.World.

'Ridiculously Uneducated': Man Blasted for Saying He Is 'Leaving the U.S.' for Hawaii After Trump's Election Win.  A man who is apparently unhappy about President-elect Donald Trump's victory said he is leaving America and relocating to Hawaii, a statement that has brought him all kinds of criticism.  MRC-TV on Friday highlighted the video showing the young man making his statement about fleeing the country.  "Okay, so since Trump won the election we're cooked, yup!" he told viewers.  "I'm gonna be leaving the U.S. and I'm gonna be moving to Hawaii.  So, we'll see how it goes and I'll update you guys," he added:  [Tweet with video clip]

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Wait!  Don't tell him yet.  Wait until he has already moved.  It's very expensive to move to Hawaii, or live there, or even visit.

'Incredibly Triggered' Joy Reid Calls for Democrats to Shun Trump-Supporting Family Members.  Joy Reid is as racist and TDS-deranged as they come.  In her arrogance — which in part consists of never being wrong, complete lack of self-awareness, and blind selfishness — she regularly espouses division, but suggesting the Democrats break ties with loved ones during the holiday season, is abominable, which in Reid's case, means "normal."  I was only surprised — and not all that much — by this "mental health expert" amplifying the insanity in public.  We're talking about family members shunning other family members who don't agree with their beliefs, and vote according to how they vote.  Suggesting that it's perfectly OK for political differences to trump love of family is nuts.  Including psychologically.  If conservatives did the same, would that be OK?  Would it be OK for half the country to cut ties with family members over their political views, and the other half to cut ties with them over theirs?

With malice toward all.  In his second inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln told Americans they must have malice toward none and charity toward all. [...] With the re-election of Donald Trump, many Normal Americans of good will are not quite that generous, but are coming close.  We have to be kind toward and accepting of the people who not only called us Nazis, fascists, haters, garbage, insurrectionists, domestic terrorists, racist, sexist, every sort of "ist" or "phobe," people who canceled us, tried to bankrupt us, jail us even kill us.  People who threw open the borders knowing the economic havoc it would cause, knowing they were unleashing vicious criminals, and welcoming and funding terrorists.  People who flooded America with drugs and who condemned children and women to sex trafficking.  People who want to abolish the Constitution the better to abolish us.  People who wouid do worse if they could.

Well, I'm sure that will work out well for them.  See, four years ago, folks in my line of work took a step back and tried to understand why Trump lost.  Many people figured fraud.  Others figured Trump was just too unlikeable.  Others came up with other ideas.  At the center of it all, though, was a belief that something went wrong.  A lot of the blame went toward specific individuals who some felt helped facilitate a steal or toward various parties in the Trump campaign.  I'm convinced at least part of it was people just feeling some kind of way about COVID and a summer that saw cities burn and simply blaming the incumbent, as they tend to do.  But no one blamed the American people as a whole.  Yet that's happening right now.

Not what Trump was — but what Harris wasn't.  I received a Facebook message written by an old friend whom I went to high school with back in the Midwest. [...] My friend's comments accentuated the fact that wealthy liberals (especially in the D.C. area) have for so long been isolated from real America that they don't know what most Americans are feeling these days.  For the last three-plus years, we've dealt with the Biden-Harris Administration giving their blessing to boys in the girls' locker room, regular folks having to buy only half a tank of gas to have enough money left over to buy lunch, or reading about unvetted immigrants killing and raping our citizens while feeding at the government trough.

Ex-MLB Star Roger Clemens Slams Liberals who Threatened to Leave US if Trump Won.  Former New York Yankees Starting Pitcher Roger Clemens celebrated Trump's historic 2024 election win by wishing good riddance to the leftists who vowed to leave the country if Trump becomes President.  Back in 2016, countless liberal celebrities and deranged leftists promised that they would move to Canada if Trump was elected President.  Here's a few of the celebrities who said they'd leave but, unfortunately, are still here:  [Illustration, not shown here.]

NBC Panel:  Maybe Conducting a Bait-and-Switch Coup Was a Bad Election Strategy.  [Scroll down]  Actually, I'd be surprised if we see too much scrutiny of that decision.  Not that it isn't richly deserved, but mainly because it would expose too many Democrats as complicit in a corrupt cover-up of Joe Biden's cognitive incapacity.  Democrats forced Biden to retire after that cover-up became obvious in the June 27 debate with Donald Trump, after rigging their primaries to ensure that Biden didn't need to campaign and potentially expose it earlier.  Rather than use the convention to select the replacement nominee democratically, they instead rushed to anoint the arguably-worse Kamala Harris as the candidate.  And they did that because Harris herself and the entire White House was complicit in the cover-up.

Recapping the slimy 'celebs' who said they'd flee America with a Trump victory.  I'm starting a list, just to make sure that we don't forget anyone, containing the names of the "celebrities" who promised to off themselves or flee the U.S., in the event of a President Trump victory.  Well, for what are they waiting?  Have at it you jackasses, time to get going! [...] First up is Rob Reiner, who said he'd "set himself on fire" if Trump wins.  Perhaps he'd be so inclined to stage it in Washington D.C., maybe at the Internal Revenue Service building, burning it down too? [...] Next we have Stephen King, who declared that if Trump emerges victorious, he will throw himself in a "woodchipper." [...] Then there was Bette Midler, who shared a picture to social media that showed a bottle of champagne next to a bottle of drain cleaner, with two sticky notes attached signaling which bottle to drink, contingent upon the outcome. [...] As far as those who feel like they'll need to flee now that Trump is headed back to the White House, we can just assume it's those on the Epstein and Diddy lists, and they'll be in the market for a place in a non-extraditable location.  Good riddance.

Trump Derangement is the Stupidest Political Phenomenon of My Lifetime.  The dismal cabal of hysterical adult children that makes up the alleged American cultural "mainstream," the responsible people you see on television and in the op-ed pages — Anne Applebaum, Tom Nichols, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Adam Kinzinger, Liz Cheney, Joe Scarborough and his idiot wife, Jonathan Capehart, Max Boot, Jen Rubin, David French, Bill Kristol, Ruth Marcus, Nicolle Wallace, Dana Bash, and on and on, all of them completely interchangeable, one set of asinine talking points with a series of different faces sewn on the front — has spent the last year or ten descending into a urine-soaked psychotic tantrum.  They don't know anything, they don't understand anything, they don't say anything of value, they don't contribute anything, ever, and their voices are ubiquitous.  Living in this media environment is like living in a place where the air is made of manure.  They have absorbed no lesson.

Marianne Williamson:  The Democratic Elite Should Resign.  People are feeling hopeless out in America now.  In my opinion, Donald Trump offers false hope.  He'll name a pain, but he will not name a policy that's going to fix it.  But people will take false hope over no hope.  And the Democratic Party offered no hope.  Instead of talking about these things, what the Democratic elite did was this:  They just decided on an agenda.  We weren't even supposed to discuss what an agenda might be.  They suppressed a presidential primary.  They felt, in their smug arrogance, such a sense of entitlement:  They would choose Joe, then they would choose Kamala, and they would suppress any candidate or any conversation about the wider issues that could have provided a compelling alternative — a compelling vision — for the American people.

Pop Some Popcorn, Sit Back, and Watch the Democrats Tear Each Other Apart.  Democrats don't bother with mundane means of execution like circular firing squads.  Following a defeat that the entire party believed couldn't happen, Democrats created a mass extinction event — a dinosaur-killing asteroid — that hit prominent party luminaries from every direction all at once.  There's already blood on the floor, and there won't be much left to "autopsy" if any Democrats actually wanted to examine the reasons why they lost.  "Instead of saying, 'How can people vote for Donald Trump,' we should be asking 'Why do people vote for Donald Trump'... what did he do right and what did we do wrong," Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.) told Axios.  Forget the firing squad, Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) wants to nuke the party starting with "well-paid consultants."  "Will the big-money interests and well-paid consultants who control the Democratic Party learn any real lesson from this disastrous campaign? ... Probably not," Sanders said.  Sanders said that the "working class is abandoning the party after the party abandoned them."  C'mon, Democrats!  Listen to the socialist!

Democrats Retreat from Transgender Extremism After Trump Win.  Democrats have quietly begun to distance themselves from more extremist elements of transgender ideology in the wake of Donald Trump's return to the White House, fearing the issue will further alienate voters.  Speaking with the New York Times, New York Rep. Tom Suozzi (D) said Democrat calls to push the party left will alienate the voters they desperately need to stay relevant.  "The Democrats have to stop pandering to the far left," he said.  "I don't want to discriminate against anybody, but I don't think biological boys should be playing in girls' sports.  Democrats aren't saying that, and they should be."

Kamala Harris's Democratic Betrayal.  [Scroll down]  As I wrote in these pages months ago, she was a candidate without convictions.  Despite her party endlessly pronouncing that they are the guardians of democracy, she was elevated to the presidential slot without winning a single primary or caucus — the first such nominee in decades.  I was shocked by the democratic backsliding in the party — which began by insiders hiding President Biden's frail state until late into the summer, then deposing him, and then anointing a successor without even the "mini-primary" some party elders had advocated for.  But maybe I shouldn't have been surprised.  One of the most consistent beliefs I've encountered working in and around politics is anti-populism:  a belief that the people are fundamentally untrustworthy and need to be guided by elites.  This is how vast swaths of professionals working in think tanks, academia, and elected office think about Americans.  Had Americans had an opportunity to pick a presidential nominee for the Democratic Party, it wouldn't have been Kamala Harris.

Ten big losers that weren't on the ballot.  Yes, the Democrats lost, but it was much bigger than that.  There are other important losses that will impact future elections.  [#1] Lawfare proved impotent in taking out a candidate.  In fact, every new iteration of lawfare dug the losing hole deeper.  All of the accusations, show trials, and prosecutorial misconduct were for naught.  For the cases that remain open, the next 75 days will be interesting. [...] [#3] Celebrity endorsements lost.  Influencers did not influence.  [#4] Basement campaigns lost.  It has been shown that avoiding the media and hiding from interviews and public appearances is not a winning strategy.  [#5] Ballot manipulation and voting irregularities lost.  We now know that with the right candidate and message, we can outvote cheating.  That is huge.  Large numbers of conservatives voted early and stymied the Democrat's ability to plan how many late votes were needed. [...] [#9] Lies lost.  The economy is not great.  The border is not secure.  Crime is not down.  January 6 was not an insurrection.  President Trump will not be a dictator, nor will he put his opposition in jail.  There is not enough room here for all of the lies.

Has the Left Learned Anything from the Election?  It's a worthwhile exercise to study the Left's positions now that they've lost the Presidency.  A major factor in their loss is that they ignored the people.
  •   The Left (which includes the legacy media) paid no attention to the desperation of the people when they cried out about the economy and inflation.  Kamala Harris made some pathetic promises in her campaign to help the people, but at that point, I think that no one believed her.
  •   The distress of citizens about having illegal migrants dumped in their cities all over the nation were discounted.  Whole communities of these migrants were collected and relocated to cities that were ill-equipped to house, school, and employ them.
  •   The country might be moving past its obsession with race and ethnicity, but the Left hasn't realized it. [...]
  •   Appealing to specific groups, such as blacks and Latinos, fell flat. [...]
  •   People could see Trump's playful side demonstrated at his rallies and couldn't reconcile his demeanor there with the image of a dictator; after all, dictators don't have much of a sense of humor.  The garbage truck and Trump's orange vest probably sealed the deal.

Unsolicited Advice for the Left.  [Scroll down]  To everyone sick and tired of celebs, actors, musicians, and has-beens endorsing brainless meat-bags like Senile Joe and Cackling Kamala, I say:  Let's buy them airplane tickets so they can leave.  I'd gladly pay for Bruce Springsteen to move to Guatemala.  What would you pay to help Bette Midler move to Botswana?  Or help George Clooney to move to Georgia?  Or facilitate Anderson Cooper relocating to Istanbul?  Let's offer these idiots — and any certified Lincoln Project members — free tickets to all the socialist or autocratic hellholes they're trying to turn America into.  I mean, who wouldn't sacrifice a paycheck to help Rachael Maddow or Hillary Clinton breathe free in the Middle East?

So much for national unity, a peaceful transfer of power, and accepting the outcome of the election.
Kamala Campaign Manager Vows to Kneecap Trump Presidency.  Shortly after Vice President Kamala Harris called President-elect Donald Trump to concede the 2024 race for the White House Wednesday afternoon, failed campaign manager Jen O'Malley Dillon sent an email to staffers about next steps.  "Just a few moments ago, the Vice President connected with President Trump to concede the race.  In the call, she told him that she would work with President Biden to ensure a peaceful transfer of power," the email states.  "She also made clear that she hopes he will be a President for all Americans."  "I don't have words to express the gratitude I have for everyone getting this email.  You left everything on the field.  You built a first-rate, historic Presidential campaign in basically 90 days.  You navigated things that no one has ever had to navigate, and likely no one will ever have to again," she continued. [...] After thanking staffers for their work on the short campaign, a result of forcing President Joe Biden out of the race in July, the email states it's time to "protect America from the impacts of a Trump Presidency."

Trump's triumph sends major message.  It's the working class and middle America that run our country.  The American people have spoken and spoken clearly that Donald Trump is their choice for president.  They sent a clear message to the coastal elites that it's the working class and middle America that runs this country.  Vice President Kamala Harris ran a worthy effort in a short period of time and certainly did better than President Joe Biden would have done.  There will be a lot of second-guessing, particularly around her failure to pick Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro as her vice presidential running mate but the blue wall so collapsed that even that decision would likely not reverse this outcome.  Americans were unhappy with the course of the country.  The voters believed that they were worse off under Joe Biden, whom they blamed for inflation.  They wanted a border that was closed and a leader who would again project strength not weakness.

They still don't get it.  Eight years after Donald Trump was first elected president of the United States of America, the elites remain mystified that such an anomaly could occur. [...] 'I went to CPAC as an anthropologist to understand Trump's base', wrote a 'distinguished professor' earlier this year, breezily unaware of the offence such pseudo-scientific studies might cause to those being studied.  That's another thing they still don't get: how creepy they seem to ordinary people.  They still don't get that people might have their reasons to vote for Trump.  They still wring their un-toiled hands over 'the mass psychology of Trumpism'.  They still send their psychological experts to study how this most curious of peoples can 'justify their beliefs in the face of disconfirming information'.  Yes, they still swaddle in fancy academic dialect that belief they're unwilling to state out loud:  'These people are dumb as s···.'  They still view the Trumpist masses as uniquely susceptible to demagogic trickery and manipulation.  As tragic inhabitants of a 'dark fantasy' who seem to struggle with 'the difference between fact and fiction', as a writer for the Atlantic put it this week.  They are still that contemptuous.

From 'Clingers' to 'Garbage' — Why the 16 years of Vilification?  Statisticians tell us that the new non-clinging Democratic Party finds its greatest support from those who earn less than $50,000 and those who make considerably more than $100,000.  These are the rich/poor bookends that surround the reformed Republican party in between.  So, in terms of generalized income and earnings, the left is now the party of the well-to-do professional and credential class and the rich, along with the subsidized poor.  The Republicans, by contrast, are increasingly represented by the middle classes.  The Democratic top dogs are most likely to embrace agendas that never garner 51 percent of public support — vast reductions in gas and oil to lessen "climate change," open borders to welcome in the world's needy, the government promotion of a third, transgendered sex, abortion on demand without restrictions, the reifications of various critical (race/legal/penal/modern monetary) "theories," and radical changes in the current system (ending the Senate filibuster, the Electoral College, the nine-justice Supreme Court, the 50-state union, etc.).

Desperate New York Governor Kathy Hochul Says if You Vote for Republicans in NY You're Anti-American.  New York Governor Kathy Hochul recently appeared on MSNBC and said that if you vote Republican, you're anti-woman and anti-American.  It has been amazing in this election cycle, how Democrats have become so comfortable insulting and degrading their fellow Americans for the crime of disagreeing with them.  Their deranged rhetoric makes them look very desperate, like they know they're losing.  New York Republican Lee Zeldin posted the video on Twitter/X:  [Tweet with video clip]

Vile Democrat Governor Says Voting for Trump-Supporting Republicans Makes You 'Anti-American'.  New York state Governor Kathy Hochul (D) said voting for Republicans who support former President Donald Trump in this election makes you both "anti-woman" and "anti-American."  Hochul made the comments during an appearance on MSNBC on Saturday.  The Democrat governor discussed how she has been able to tie Republicans to Trump, something that, in her sheltered view, is a plus for fellow party candidates in the coming election.  "It gave me a chance to tie the Republicans running in these seats — the incumbents — closer to Donald Trump, and remind everybody if you're voting for these Republicans in New York, you are voting for someone who supports Donald Trump," Hochul said.  "And you're anti-woman, you're anti-abortion, and basically you're anti-American," she added.  "Because you have just trashed American values and what our country is all about over and over and over."

America's Adversaries are Rooting for Kamala Harris.  Although America's ferociously anti-Trump media refuses to admit it, there is a powerful group of people who cannot vote in the U.S. presidential election but are rooting for Kamala Harris to win:  the leaders of China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, terrorist groups, and other U.S. adversaries.  America's adversaries took full advantage over the past three years of a sharp decline in American global influence and deterrence.  This resulted in new wars and massive terrorist attacks, including Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a surge in provocations and threats by China against Taiwan and in the South China Sea, the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre against Israel, a new 7-front war against Israel, a dangerous increase in Iran's sponsorship of terrorism and major gains in its nuclear weapons program, a huge increase in North Korean missile tests, 11 million illegal migrants crossing our southern border, and other threats.

Is the Media Getting the Message Yet?  The short answer is yes.  But they don't yet understand what it means.  After years of watching trust in the news media slide down so much that POLITICIANS are now more trusted than journalists, it is dawning on executives and some journalists that people dislike them... they really really dislike them.  But they don't yet understand why.  They see the distrust of Americans as an indictment of Americans.  We are irredeemable, deplorable, Nazis, and garbage.  [Tweet]  That sentiment is not directed merely at Trump supporters; it's aimed at every dissenting voice regardless of ideology.  It is of course aimed at conservatives in the main because support for Trump is proof positive that you are a garbage person.  But if you look more closely you can see that any deviation from the Narrative makes you suspect.

Kamala Harris and the Dems can't lead the country if they hate half of it.  Vice President Kamala Harris, her surrogates and media handmaidens spent three days putting a comedian's ill-chosen words in Donald Trump's mouth.  Now they are pretending the sitting president didn't call Trump supporters "garbage" and, even if he did it's irrelevant because Harris is the one running for president.  Double standards, much?  They keep insisting that Trump and his supporters are Hitler, Nazis, fascists, semi-fascists, deplorables, bitter clingers, and now, "garbage."  That's half the country they're defaming — millions of voters.

Trump's nine-word zinger explains why Biden's 'garbage' gaffe should disqualify Harris from the White House.  Donald Trump hit back at President Joe Biden for calling his MAGA supporters 'garbage' with a spectacular nine-word zinger.  'You can't lead America if you don't love Americans,' said Trump speaking to a crowd of supporters at a Rocky Mount, North Carolina, rally Wednesday.  'And you can't be president if you hate the American people,' he continued.  Biden likened MAGA supporters to trash while discussing comedian Tony Hinchcliffe's joke about Puerto Rico being a 'island of garbage' during Trump's Madison Square Garden rally in New York.  'The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters,' Biden said about Trump on a fundraising zoom on Tuesday evening.

It's Not Just Trump They're Calling A Nazi.  It's You.  Democrats are closing their campaign of "joy" this election by desperately smearing their political opponents as fascists hellbent on igniting an American Third Reich.  It's the same tired playbook from a political party that's been projecting its own authoritarian impulses onto Republicans for years, and they ramp up the projection every time the GOP threatens the leftist regime's grip on power.  Case in point:  Former President Donald Trump held a sold-out rally in New York City's Madison Square Garden Sunday night after surviving two assassination attempts and a lawfare crusade designed to bankrupt and imprison him.  After efforts had failed to illegally thwart Public Enemy No. 1's return to the ballot, Democrats and their deputy surrogates in the press hysterically depicted the Manhattan rally as a racist convention for a wannabe dictator.  Apparently Trump forgot to play autocrat when he was first elected president eight years ago.

Democrats In North Carolina's Helene Disaster Area Block Emergency Early Voting Locations.  The havoc wrought by Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina brought disaster to homes and families, but that has not stopped Democrats from blocking the approval of emergency early voting sites in the heavily Republican area.  The refusal to act forced the GOP-led state legislature to intervene.  Democrat-run local elections boards in McDowell and Henderson counties have failed to approve additional early voting sites in the disaster-stricken area, despite increasing calls for more access to voting.  Both counties voted for Donald Trump in 2020.  "Ensuring the right to vote is upheld for western NC citizens devastated by Hurricane Helene should be a non-partisan issue," western North Carolina native Clay McCreary said, according to The Carolina Journal.  McReary is North Carolina political director of Restoration of America, an organization that has been advocating for additional voting opportunities in the disaster area.  "We simply cannot allow the people of western North Carolina who have lost so much to lose their voice in the political process."

Speaking of Abortion.  What were they thinking after they shoved "Joe Biden" into the abyss, like an old refrigerator over the edge of the landfill, and afterward settled — instantly it appears, with no process at all — on Kamala Harris to lead the party to victory in the fall election?  I will tell you:  they were not thinking at all.  The collective mind of the Democrat elite was a vast vacuum devoid of thought, mass, or light, like a corner of deepest space, lacking even a particle of cosmic debris to evoke the existence of existence.  Such mindlessness was the consummate expression of a party that for eight years worked every angle of political mental illness toward the loss of its mind, driven by whatever dark energy seeks escape from truth, life, and God — whatever is opposite of creation and being.  What you are witnessing is a colossal act of being un-born.  The party put out a call to the universe and the universe ordered... an abortion of the Democratic Party!  You are reminded again:  be careful of what you wish for.

Believe them when they tell you who they are.  [Scroll down]  From the Catholic perspective, there are some things that are always wrong, and Catholics are forbidden to support them.  Catholics may never support a candidate, program, or a law that promotes abortion, the redefinition of marriage, euthanasia, human cloning, or embryonic stem cell research.  We refer to these as "The Five Non-Negotiable Disqualifying Factors."  A candidate who supports one or more of these has disqualified himself as someone for whom a Catholic may legitimately vote.  While not formally listed, I believe that transgenderism should be included in this list.  Voting for someone who supports these evils represents participation in grave and intrinsic moral evils.

Meet the Groups Funding Harris:  Abortionists, Pornographers, and Trans Activists.  Journalists across the political spectrum regret that interviews with Kamala Harris shed precious little light on her views or the policies she intends to implement if elected president.  However, some of society's most noxious forces — including abortionists, those who support transgender surgeries for minors, and pornographers — plan to shape the direction of a Harris-Walz administration and have donated more than $100 million dollars to ensure the pair take power next January.  The abortion industry alone has dedicated tens of millions of dollars to its business interests, and candidates who support them, in the 2024 election.  The nation's largest abortion business, Planned Parenthood, dedicated $40 million to promoting pro-abortion candidates in eight swing states:  Arizona, Georgia, Montana, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

People Leave In Droves Once the Free Bruce Springsteen Concert Ends and Kamala Harris Takes the Stage.  Kamala Harris held a 'rally' in Atlanta, Georgia with Barack Obama, rapper Jay-Z, Bruce Springsteen and other Communists on Thursday evening.  Springsteen trashed Trump as he took the stage at James R. Hallford Stadium near Atlanta.  "He does not understand this country, its history, or what it means to be deeply American," Springsteen told the crowd of Trump. [...] According to Deadline, Bruce Springsteen performed "The Promised Land," "Land of Hope and Dreams" and "Dancing in the Dark."  He sounded terrible.  [Tweet]  People started funneling out shortly after the free Bruce Springsteen concert ended.  The best part was watching people leave the arena in droves as Kamala Harris shouted, "It's time to turn the page!"

Is it too late in the game for the Democrats to replace their substitution?  Ordinary people who don't closely follow the game of politics never knew that Kamala Harris runs only to the left.  As a Senator, she ran further to the left than Bernie Sanders, according to non-partisan statistics.  She wanted an unprotected border.  She proposed taxpayer-funded "gender affirmation" surgery for male convicts so that they could play in women's prisons.  She favored abortions performed anytime, anywhere, and by anyone, up to at least birth. [...] Fast forward to this year's season.  Kamala missed the preseason, and missed the regular season too, but here she is in the playoffs.  The Finals even.  It's all courtesy of a second Democratic trick play that dumped the Democrat's hard-left, but unplayable, starting quarterback out of the lineup, out of the stadium, and onto the street corner like an empty 81-year-old beer bottle.  Note that in a classic case of psychological projection, or maybe just dishonest hypocrisy, it's the Democrats who chant that Republicans are a "threat to democracy" even as the Democrats themselves disregard the preferences of their own Democratic fans in both 2020 and 2024.

Trump's Secret Ingredient:  Authenticity.  The core of politics is public service, yet most politicians have no connection with, relation to, or understanding of the public.  They'd rather swim with sharks than meet and greet regular people.  But they are compelled to do it during the election cycle.  They possess a disdain for regular people.  When Hillary Clinton said Trump-supporters belong to a "basket of deplorables," she was reflecting the opinion of most politicians.  When they alter their accents or smile permanently while meeting with voters, this isn't just trying to pretend to be regular.  It is also an attempt to conceal their disdain.  [Three video clips.]  This is a swamp of deceit, pretense, and duplicity.  On the opposite end of the spectrum stands President Donald Trump.  Even his most vicious critics and haters will admit he is authentic.  On Sunday, Trump was at a McDonald's outlet in Pennsylvania, serving customers meals and even making fries.

Trump Is Right.  There Is an 'Enemy Within' the United States.  Think about it: is there anything Democrats aren't lying about?  The answer is no.  Is there anything Democrats could tell the truth about that would help them win an election?  That answer is also no.  Outside of small pockets in the northeast and California, there isn't anywhere in the country where people will cheer for the genital mutilation of children, and most of those who do are parents who've passed the point of no return by supporting what amounts to the chemical castration of their children.  Once you've gone there, no matter what comes to light afterwards, you have to convince yourself you did the right thing, otherwise, how could you live with yourself?  The rest of the support for that idea are people unaffected by it but in desperate need of a cause to give their lives meaning or people who see political advantage to being a scold who corrects how everyone else talks and uses pronouns.  Miserable people, really.

The Best Laid Schemes of the Ruling Class Have Turned to Ashes.  Biden and his campaign were unable to offer any coherent solutions to the issues plaguing the country while Trump, pointing to the success of his four years in office could and did repeatedly.  By June of 2024 Trump was leading Biden in virtually every poll.  As Trump surged, desperation set in, and Biden was essentially told he had to debate Trump.  It was an unmitigated disaster for Biden and the ruling elites.  Convinced that Trump could easily win in November, they forced Biden to drop out of the campaign.  Whether it was revenge for the de facto coup or doing what he was instructed, Biden publicly endorsed Kamala Harris on his way out the door.  Thanks to decades of worshipping at the altar of tribalism and DEI, this public endorsement by Biden ensured Kamala's nomination.  The party hierarchy could not summarily reject her.  The Democrats and their ruling class allies were stuck with an unaccomplished, vapid, fatuous, and Marxist-indoctrinated candidate.

Democrats! If one of your loved ones is murdered by an illegal migrant, will you wake up?  One of the most disgraceful moments in Kamala Harris's interview with Fox News's Bret Baier was when he brought up several of the young women murdered by criminal migrants who have entered the country illegally since Biden and Harris took office.  There have been many, many, more Americans raped and/or murdered, children abused and molested, by these criminal illegals who have crossed our border but Baier focused on just a few.  He asked Harris if she owed the parents of those victims an apology for [so irresponsibly] opening the border to tens of thousands, and maybe even millions, of like-minded thugs.  Oh, no, no, no.  She won't go there.  Kamala does not apologize.  She admitted no culpability for the thousands of crimes committed on Biden's and her watch. [...] This is a woman who cares not one iota for individual, vulnerable Americans.  If she cares about anything at all, it is not the American people.  She is a classic Marxist; people are irrelevant, ideology is everything.  Either that or she is the most cold-blooded person ever to seek the office.

The Editor says...
Really?  Even more cold-blooded than Hillary Clinton, Lyndon Johnson, or Woodrow Wilson?

Freak-Out: Kamala Voters in MI Panicking, Threaten to Leave the US If Trump Wins.  Canada sure seems to be a popular destination for Americans who suddenly find themselves in a position where leaving the United States is a good idea — at least in their fevered imaginations.  The problem is, these people, who are almost exclusively creatures of the loony left (yes, I know that's a redundancy) almost never follow through on their threats. [...] It's kind of a shame, because if all of the unhinged lefties who routinely threaten to run off to Canada at every presidential election actually did so, not only would the mean IQ and average mental health of the United States both increase dramatically, but elections would suddenly become slam-dunks for conservative candidates.  Now, Canada would have to absorb all these wild-eyed panicky nuts, but Canada already seems to have a surfeit of such people.  Interestingly, Canada is already producing welcoming instructional videos for would-be émigrés.

The Editor says...
There were reports of people "threatening" to leave the country if Trump was elected in 2016, but I've never seen a follow-up report about someone who actually did leave.  And if someone hates Donald Trump that much, good riddance!

So many snowflakes.
TDS And The Media's Agitation Of Mental Disorders.  America has a mental health problem.  The Boston Globe reported this week on a "mental health crisis in Rhode Island schools."  A Lafayette, Louisiana, news outlet reported on a "mental health crisis" in the state's jails.  In the upper Midwest, a handful of American Indian tribes claim social media is causing mental health problems among tribal children.  Worrisome as these and other reports are, things could get exponentially worse.  One analysis of what may lie ahead comes from former ABC News Political Director Mark Halperin.  During an October 15 interview with Tucker Carlson, Halperin was asked how Democrats might react in the event Donald Trump wins a second term.  "I think it will be the cause of the greatest mental health crisis in the history of the country," predicted Halperin.  He was not being snarky or facetious.  Halperin said he was "100 percent serious," and went on to say, "I don't think it will be a passing thing that, by the inauguration, we'll be fine.  I think it will be sustained, unprecedented, and hideous, and I don't think the country's ready for it."

Who is out of step?  The Fox News audience is full of the 79% of Americans who think that the USA is on the wrong track.  Many, if not most, of the people watching Fox plan to vote for the candidate whom Harris calls a loud-mouthed lunatic.  Her audience had a pretty good idea of what she thinks of Trump but very little idea of what her "turn the page" policies might be.  She may think it was helpful to direct us to her policy positions on her website, but doing that was another dodge of saying anything specific about her plans.  Harris's tone was belligerent at times.  She seemed angry that MAGA people do not want to march to her future unburdened by the past.  She loves to tell her rallies that she will not go back.  In her interview with Baier, however, she was talking to people wanting to Make America Great Again and people who reject former President Obama's vision to transform America.  I did not notice any attempts to connect with conservatives.

Foreign interference in our election:
UK Labour Party Paying Staffers to Campaign for Kamala Harris.  The panic on the left is international.  U.K. Labour, which is collapsing before our eyes a mere few months after winning a massive majority in the Parliament, is engaging in a massive election interference program here in the United States.  When Russia spent a few hundred thousand dollars on grossly ineffective ads aimed at stirring up trouble in 2016, the world went wild.  The ruling party of the United Kingdom is literally sending foreign agents to the United States to help the Kamala Harris campaign.  So far nobody is making a stink about it.

Black Community Leaders in Michigan Blast 'Arrogant Democratic Party Out of Touch With the Electorate'.  CBS News spoke to some leaders in the black community in Michigan today about the election and did not get the responses they were probably expecting.  This is just more proof that Kamala Harris and the Democrats have a very real problem with black voters this year.  Some of these men may not be excited about Trump, but they are also certainly not impressed with Kamala Harris.

The Democrat Party's Testosterone Deficiency.  It appears that the slow-witted political operatives behind this season's production of "Harris/Walz:  Lights, Camera, Cackle" have finally figured out that they have a serious "man problem" — as in no man with a modicum of testosterone running through his veins would dare be caught bearing the brand of the "trans"-hyping, willy-chopping, child-sniffing Democrat party.  Congratulations, pals and gals (and xals) — glad you're waking up to the reality that you've created an ideological movement that caters chiefly to Kens who dress up as Barbie, advocates for legalizing pedophilia, and a lot of people who would very much like to speak with the manager.  Silver-tongued political pundit Scott Jennings made this point last weekend on CNN: "Working-class men, whether black, Hispanic, or white, consistently do not believe the Democratic Party and specifically Kamala Harris are going to do a thing for them."  That's right:  men of every color understand that Democrats are out to get them!

The Cringiest Political Ad in History Is the Mount Everest of Unintentional Comedy.  A new ad on behalf of Kamala Harris called "Man Enough" was released Friday, and it's easily the most cringe-worthy you'll ever see.  It just might win the election for Donald Trump.  [Advertisement]  [Video clip]  "I'm a man," says a white man in a cowboy hat.  "I'm a man," says a black guy lifting weights.  "I'm a man," says the caricature of a bearded motorcycle club guy, and so on.  As several more "masculine"-looking guys claim to be "a man," you get the feeling there's a punchline coming.  There isn't.  The stand-ins for real men are all actors, and they are all unintentionally funny representations of what liberals think "men" are.

The Plot to Manage Democracy.  The shift to legal warfare was foreshadowed in the lead-up to the 2020 race.  One notable case involves the Transition Integrity Project (TIP), an election initiative launched in 2019 under the auspices of a different group, Protect Democracy, founded by a team of lawyers who had served as White House counsels under Obama.  The project, explained one of its founders, Ian Bassin, grew "out of concern that the Trump administration may seek to manipulate" the 2020 election.  The initiative gathered roughly 100 influential people, including leading Democratic officials, like Hillary Clinton's campaign chief John Podesta, and members of the media and NGO world, to wargame potential scenarios resulting from a contested election.  In one scenario, Podesta, playing the role of Joe Biden, refused to accept a Trump election victory and threatened to seize control over several West Coast states and secede from the rest of the country unless congressional Republicans agreed to demands, including the elimination of the Electoral College.  The move was sufficiently egregious to provoke criticism from other participants in the wargame.  And yet, according to the TIP report on the event, Podesta's secession gambit, far from a flight of personal fancy, was carried out "with advice from President Obama."

The impenetrable arrogance of the left media.  As the 2024 presidential campaign edges to a close, the arrogance of the left, especially those in the media, is escalating to a fever pitch.  The best example of their tone-deaf hysteria is Martha Raddatz's attempt to humiliate J.D.Vance over what she called lies about FEMA and Tren de Aragua.  People like Raddatz never learn from their egregious, foolish mistakes.  She tried to assert that the reports of FEMA failures were false when everyone with a pulse has heard the hundreds of horror stories from the victims on the ground.  She tried to stop Vance from speaking, so determined was she to push the government-promulgated lie that FEMA has been on the job.  She really stepped in it when she brought up the overtaking of "several apartment complexes" by the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua in Aurora, Colorado, cities in Texas, and Wisconsin.  Raddatz suggested that commandeering these "few apartment complexes" was just a minor annoyance.  She tried to stop Vance from speaking again by saying "I know exactly what happened."  But she hasn't a clue and she clearly has not given the issue any thought.  She has no empathy for the hundreds of people who live in those apartments suffering under these thugs from Venezuelan prisons.  They are not a problem in her neighborhood so it's not a problem.  Therefore, Vance and Trump must be lying.

Nobody Fights for a World Economic Forum Flag.  One of Barack Obama's first initiatives as president was to undertake an "apology tour" around the world so that he could rub salt in old wounds and provide America's enemies with planeloads of rhetorical ammunition (and pallets of cash).  In deriding President Trump's MAGA movement, Joe Biden has repeatedly insisted that America was never that great and never lived up to its promise.  Globalist mosquito John Kerry flies around the world to praise the virtues of one-world government and bemoan America's stubborn constitutional safeguards for individual rights such as free speech.  Having bought in to the gospel of Howard Zinn, those who hold the reins of power in Washington, D.C. are some of the most anti-American zealots on the planet!  That contradiction has produced this odd historical moment, in which people who largely dislike America run the U.S. government and people who love America largely despise the U.S. government.

Veterans don't buy the media's anti-Trump narrative — and Harris pays the price.  Kamala Harris has a problem with veterans.  They overwhelmingly support her opponent — favoring Donald Trump by a lopsided 61% to 37%, according to the latest Pew Research Center survey.  For years, civilians have been sold a narrative that just isn't true.  Democrats and liberals in the media invested heavily in trying to portray Trump as a leader at odds with America's men and women in uniform.  But veterans themselves never bought the story — they've been one of the Republican's most steadfast constituencies.  Trump won about six out of 10 veterans in each of the past two presidential elections, and he's on track to match that performance this year.

The Strange, Mythological Campaign of Kamala Harris.  Harris as vice president in a 50/50 Senate has proven the decisive passing vote on more deadlocked bills than any other vice president in history — all thirty-three of them proudly progressive legislation.  She has done more to ensure left-wing government at the national level than any prior vice president.  [Advertisement]  Indeed, Harris, as both a California state official and its senator, and as vice president, has for some thirty years championed almost every issue dear to the left — Medicare for all, an end to private health care plans, banning fracking, mandatory EV requirements, unrestricted abortion, wealth taxes, income and inheritance tax hikes, defense cuts, price controls, open borders, ending the border patrol, stopping all deportations, opposition to a border wall, mass amnesties, free transition surgeries for illegal aliens, and mandatory buyback of semi-automatic firearms.  In most of these cases, Harris not only voiced support but did so proudly and emphatically in front of hard-left constituencies.  She has declared that she is a radical and woke.

Barack Obama's 'You Ain't Black' Moment Backfires on Kamala.  With the polls starting to show a shift toward Trump, the Harris-Walz campaign is showing signs of desperation.  They're not just sending Kamala out to do softball interviews; they're sending past presidents like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama to seal the deal for her.  On Thursday evening, Barack Obama was in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, tasked with the job of boosting black voter turnout for Kamala Harris.  More specifically, Obama's goal was to help Kamala win over black men, who are increasingly leaning toward Trump.  Obama's messaging was, to say the least, insulting.  Like Joe Biden's "you ain't black" moment in the 2020 campaign, Barack Obama used race and gender to shame black men for not supporting Kamala.

'Our Democracy' Marks 'Their Duplicity'.  Presently, we are embroiled in a presidential campaign.  It is the apex of political messaging, as both parties and their well-heeled allies bombard the electorate with varying promises, claims, smears, and deceits.  [Advertisement]  One of the Democrats' and their "Never Trump" cohorts' favorite narratives is that the GOP candidate, former president Trump, is divisive and that he must be defeated to allow the Democrat nominee, Vice President Harris, to unite the nation.  To believe this, one must concur with the Democrats and Never Trumpers on two counts:  first, Mr. Trump, his MAGA supporters, and the GOP are divisive; and, second, Ms. Harris and the Democrats are not divisive but rather a unifying political force.  [Advertisement]  [Unrelated video clip]  For purposes of this piece, let us stipulate Mr. Trump and his MAGA and GOP supporters are "divisive," if only for the simple reason they dissent from the Democrats radical, extreme, and dangerous agenda; and, moreover, unapologetically champion the populist and conservative principles and policies they believe will promote and protect the liberty, prosperity, and security of our free republic.

Kari Lake's Democrat Senate Opponent Ruben Gallego Admits His Father is a Convicted Mexican Drug Trafficker.  Arizona Democratic Congressman and US Senate Candidate Ruben Marinlarena-Gallego just about cried last week when a reporter rehashed his "connection to drug cartels" after Kari Lake accurately reminded voters of Gallego's family ties.  Notably, he did not deny having what the reporter described as a "connection to drug cartels" or that his father "works for the cartels."  Instead, he proceeded to smear his Trump-Endorsed opponent, Kari Lake, and cry victim.  "My father, who abandoned my family, is a convicted drug dealer," Gallego admitted in the teary-eyed performance.

Democrats Have Only Themselves To Blame For America's Growing Tribalism.  Amid the aftermath of the catastrophic Hurricane Helene, Americans have been reminded that the federal government's prioritization of some citizens over others extends even to disaster relief, given recent revelations of FEMA's emergency management blueprint to "instill equity as a foundation of emergency management."  Not that we should be surprised:  The Biden administration constantly claims white supremacist domestic terrorists are the greatest danger to our republic, while the FBI warns that the top domestic violent extremist threat is "racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists, specifically those who advocated for the superiority of the white race."  Left-wing corporate media have insisted that the 2024 presidential election is, at its heart, a battle over whether America will return to an alleged white supremacist, misogynist past.

How does the Left do it?  The Left repeatedly demonstrates through its words and actions how much they despise the country and her citizens, even their own constituents.  And yet some people still support them. [...] They tell you they're going to raise your taxes.  They tell you they're going to continue to flood the country with vast numbers of illegal immigrants who siphon off taxpayer-funded resources and rob, assault, and murder Americans.  They tell you they're supporting radical Islamists who are threatening to nuke Israel, Europe, and America.  They demonstrate how they're censoring your speech. [...] They brag about sending millions of dollars overseas while Americans suffer from catastrophic storms.  They also brag about replacing American voters with immigrants who are more likely to support them.  They tell you that they support taxpayer-funded sex changes for convicted criminals and illegal immigrants[.]  They tell you that parents should not have influence over what their children are taught in school.  They show you they consider Catholics to be domestic terrorists by placing agents and informants in churches.  They pass laws prohibiting schools from informing parents of their children's "gender transition[.]"  They boast about forcing Americans into expensive, inefficient, dirty, and dangerous electric vehicles that most of us can't afford and don't want.

A Tale of Two Hurricanes and Presidents.  [Scroll down]  Of course, there is no money for hurricane victims, particularly those in the red portion of western North Carolina.  Would government resources be more readily available if the flooding was in the Research Triangle of far bluer Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill?  Where's the money?  The cupboard is bare for Americans but for other countries, the cupboard is overflowing.  Here's where the money went over the past week.  $8 billion to Ukraine.  $8.7 billion to Israel.  $567 million to Taiwan.  As with most things Biden and Harris, America last, everyone else first.  DHS Secretary Mayorkas, "warns FEMA doesn't have enough funding to last through hurricane season."  Of course not.  DHS is tapped out providing food, hotel rooms, debit cards, and sex change surgery for illegal aliens.  Where was candidate Kamala Harris during the hurricane?  "She was campaigning in Las Vegas over the weekend," reports Newsweek.

Devils Prey On Angels.  [Scroll down]  Are they really that evil, their neighbors, their teachers, their fellow citizens?  The answer is in Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee, where they've exposed their hatreds and made unwilling martyrs of one's neighbors, friends and family members; treated them like debris to be bulldozed out of the way, with troops frozen on the ground, helicopters sitting idle and those who seek to help threatened and their supplies stolen.  For what purpose, other than to deny life-saving supplies to the stranded? [...] To understand the depths of the hostility to American freedom, one can count the many such Alamos in their brief, but deadly history; Ruby Ridge, Waco, Fast and Furious, Bundy Ranch, Maui and now Asheville.  At all but North Carolina, there was an effort, however grudgingly, to pick up the deceased.  Now, they don't even have the decency to make that effort.

Red Wave? 63 of 67 Pennsylvania Counties Have Shifted Republican Since 2020.  The massive crowd for Trump's return to Butler, Pennsylvania this weekend may be a sign of something bigger.  The Keystone State has moved significantly to the right over the last four years.  The combination of economic hardship brought on by the Biden/Harris administration and the hard work of conservative activists like Scott Presler has flipped a majority of Pennsylvania counties to Republican.

What Kamala Harris Posted Shows She Doesn't Care About Hurricane Helene Victims.  There is no way the vice president's team posted this on social media.  They cannot be this stupid, can they?  Well, it appears that you learn something new every day from this circus.  Hurricane Helene dumped more than 40 trillion gallons of rain as she made landfall, creating a swath of destruction across the southern United States.  It's one of the deadliest storms to ever hit the country, claiming at least 200 lives with hundreds more still missing.  [Advertisement]  The response has been slow.  Countless hurricane victims are without electricity or water access, an issue expected to last weeks.  Kamala announced that $750 checks will be issued to these people who've lost everything.  This insulting offer comes on the heels of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's announcement that they don't have enough funds for hurricane season because they siphoned off cash to help illegal aliens.  With Israeli airstrikes rolling through Beirut, the Biden-Harris administration announced that $157 million will be allocated for humanitarian assistance.  What about here, guys?

Who Is Going to Vote Democrat?  At least 40% of Americans who vote this year are almost sure to vote for Harris/Walz and other Democrats down ticket. [...] But who is it who votes for Democrats?  That's my main question.  [#1] Low-information voters.  Some multitudes aren't terribly interested in politics, but they vote anyway.  They're not much better than the non-voters (maybe even worse) because they don't know or care much more than the totally apathetic.  There is some practicality to this.  Life is difficult at the best of times, and people (should) work hard to succeed.  This does limit our time to study history, become knowledgeable in civic affairs, and truly investigate and research candidates to decide who would be the best for the country.  Kamala Harris is putting a lot of faith in this coterie of voters.  Her far-left past needs to be hidden because most Americans aren't radical, at least not as radical as she is.  So, she repeatedly lies about her record and hopes the Democratic media can cover for her, reach these low-information voters, and convince them she's the "moderate," and Trump is the "extremist."  It will undoubtedly work for millions because they'll vote for her.  They don't study, they don't read, they don't think, they don't know.

The Architect of the Lawfare Against President Trump.  Today we'd like to introduce you — or possibly re-introduce you — to a man named Norman Eisen.  Eisen, a Brookings senior fellow, Obama's former White House Ethics Czar and Ambassador to Czechoslovakia during the "Velvet Revolution," has been behind the ongoing Lawfare that has targeted Trump throughout his presidency, through the Biden Regime and into the present date.  Eisen, who was also the co-founder of Leftist non-profit CREW or Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, has been one of the key architects of the Lawfare attacks on President Trump and he continues to lead the behind-the-scenes efforts to push ongoing legal actions against Trump to this day.  Eisen played a lead role in the pre- 2020 election war games which just happened to predict a remarkably accurate contested election scenario that ended unfavorably for Trump.  Eisen is also the author of the highly influential color revolution manual, the Democracy Playbook and was one of the primary forces behind the first impeachment of Trump.

After Giving Hundreds Of Billions To Ukraine, Kamala Harris Announces Those Who Lost Everything From The Hurricane Will Get 750 Bucks.  Kamala Harris kindly offers $750 to Americans who have lost their homes due to flooding from Hurricane Helene.  The development comes as the Biden administration is now bragging about providing 67 Starlink satellites to impacted communities.  For reference, the United States has sent well over $100 billion to Ukraine.  [Video clip]

Kamala Harris Partied with Hollywood Celebrities in Wake of Hurricane Helene Devastation.  Vice President Kamala Harris returned to her natural habitat over the weekend — Hollywood, where she partied with celebrities and studio executives as millions of Americans elsewhere continued to deal with the deadly devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene.  "Oh, it's good to be home!" Kamala Harris reportedly exclaimed to the crowd gathered for a Harris-Walz fundraiser at the JW Marriott in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday afternoon.  Her prioritization of Hollywood stars over the millions victims of Hurricane Helene has resulted in a negative news cycle for her campaign.  Former President Donald Trump is set to visit storm-ravaged parts of Georgia on Monday and will assist with the distribution of relief aid.

Kamala Harris Doesn't Care About White People.  Natural disasters like Hurricane Helene, a category 4 storm, are of course going to cause massive damage and devastation no matter what.  But it didn't have to be as bad as it has become in the absence of timely federal aid from the Biden-Harris administration. [...] Setting aside the failure to prepare ahead of time for the massive flooding the hurricane would bring to these areas, why has it taken so long for Biden and Harris to address the disaster, and why have they done so in the most cursory, dismissive ways?  Asked by a reporter on Monday why he and Harris weren't in Washington over the weekend coordinating and commanding the emergency response, Biden responded, shockingly, "I was commanding.  I was on the phone for at least two hours yesterday and the day before as well."  That retort, "I was on the phone for at least two hours," while Americans are drowning and starving in massive floods, should go down in our history as one of the most callous and shameful things ever said by an American president.  But at least Biden said something.  As of Monday afternoon [9/30/2024], Harris hadn't said a word.

Netflix Faces Surge in Cancellations After Reed Hastings' $7 Million Donation to Kamala Harris.  Netflix experienced a dramatic spike in cancellations after its co-founder, Reed Hastings, publicly revealed a $7 million donation to support Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign.  According to a Bloomberg report, the streaming platform saw a nearly threefold increase in cancellations in the United States following Hastings' endorsement of Harris and his large donation to a super PAC backing her presidential bid.  In July, Hastings took to X (formerly Twitter) to announce his endorsement of Harris, which led to a wave of backlash, particularly from conservative supporters of former President Donald Trump.  They quickly called on their followers to cancel their Netflix subscriptions in response to Hastings' endorsement and donation.

Hurricane Victims [are] Getting the Maui/East Palestine Treatment from Biden and Harris.  As local first responders are still pulling bodies from the devastation that Hurricane Helene left, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are doing what they do best for Americans in need: ignoring them.  [Advertisement]  [Tweet]  As Harris takes time posing for fake photographs and Biden works on his cadaver tan on Rehoboth Beach, Del., Donald Trump, who — reminder — isn't the president, is coordinating with Elon Musk to get Starlink internet access up and running for people who have no cell service and no way to tell their loved ones that they are still alive.  [Tweet with video clip]  The easy answer would be to assume that the gruesome twosome of Biden and Harris doesn't care about Appalachian [yokels], but I think the answer is much more simple:  they hate Americans.

The Harris Campaign Is Straight-Up Delusional.  You have to wonder what world the puppet masters controlling Kamala Harris live in.  It's not our world.  It's not the universe of normal people. [...] Campaigns regularly trumpet their endorsements, with Democrats getting particularly excited about the ones from various unions.  That went south for Kamala not long ago when a poll of Teamster members showed that she came in third in the preference race among the working-class guys who drive things for a living, right behind Trump and herpes.  The Hoffa union's leadership, which had regularly endorsed Dems over the last few decades, decided not to make any national endorsement.  That was pretty bad, but fear not.  Through its internet minions, the Harris campaign proudly announced that it had obtained the coveted endorsement of the IRS workers' union.  Yeah, they bragged about it.  How does someone convince him, her, or xirself that the American people will be eager to throw their support to the candidate that the IRS likes best?

Hey, this election is not about your precious feelings!  If you want to talk seriously about a threat to democracy, then talk about an administration that:
  •   Refuses to physically protect to its political opponents;
  •   Routinely characterizes its opponents as "threats" to the nation;
  •   Calls for a "bullseye" to be put on its opponents;
  •   Pressures media outlets to censor news and opinions they don't like;
  •   Hides the encroaching senility of the Democrat President, acknowledges it only when they get caught, and then replaces him behind the scenes with a woman who helped hide his senility to begin with and has never won a Democrat delegate in her life — while they still keep the senile President in the office of "Leader of the Free World" even as they acknowledge that he's too senile to run for that office;
  •   Seeks to put skin color ahead of merit in hiring and college admissions;
  •   Frequently compares their opponents to Nazis:
  •   Repeatedly overreaches in legal matters to the point that their court record on challenges is abysmal;
  •   Refuses to follow Supreme Court rulings, and slams the Court as "illegitimate."
In other words, talk about the Democrats.

New Campaign Ad Torches Democrat Colin Allred for Supporting Boys in Girls' Sports.  Things are getting spicy in the Texas Senate race, where Democrat Colin Allred is looking to unseat Republican Ted Cruz.  Democrats have been trying for years to turn Texas blue, and Ted Cruz stands in their way every six years.  Cruz is a favorite target of the left because he is an outspoken and stalwart supporter of freedom — he drives them insane, and it's fun to watch.  Allred is in his third term in Congress, representing Texas's 32nd Congressional District.  During his time in DC, he joined fellow leftists and voted against the Protection of Women and Girls Act of 2023, which would have strengthened Title IX protections and ensured a "level playing field" for women's and girls' sports.  A hard-hitting new ad from the pro-Cruz Truth and Courage PAC asks:  What kind of man does that?  [Tweet]

Walz Education Appointee Calls for the Overthrow of the U.S..  Brian Lozenski, an associate professor of urban and multicultural education at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minn., was appointed by Governor Tim Walz's state education department to help write the statewide "implementation framework" (similar to a curriculum) for Minnesota's new "ethnic studies" standards.  It now emerges that Lozenski has called for the "overthrow" of the United States.  Lozenski is no outlier.  On the contrary, he has been the leading voice advocating the addition of a radical version of "ethnic studies" to Minnesota's social-studies standards (citizenship and government, economics, geography, history, and now ethnic studies).  Lozenski is also the key organizer and thought leader for the radical leftist advocacy groups that Governor Walz has effectively put in charge of rewriting Minnesota's social-studies standards.  While Lozenski's call for the overthrow of the United States is the clearest expression of his radical stance to date, it's hardly surprising.

Unhinged Democrat Goes Nuclear at House Hearing.  Rep. Stacey Plaskett, a Democrat who represents the at-large congressional district of the Virgin Islands, went on an unhinged rant at a House hearing Wednesday, held by the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, where she called Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) her "white male counterpart," Elon Musk "a far-right conspiracy theorist," and former President Donald Trump "would-be Führer."  [Advertisement]  Plaskett, a ranking member of the select subcommittee, said the purpose of the investigative body is to "test out conspiracy theories, prop up those stories that the far-right wishes to push into the American psyche, and to lay the groundwork for a dictatorial government led by Donald Trump."  "X, formerly called Twitter, is going to call me a racist.  They're gonna call me a disrespectful black b···· because I have said words against the chairman, my white male counterpart on this committee, [that] I'm a tool of the woke agenda!" Plaskett claimed on the House floor.  [Tweet]

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Fake Presidential Race.  Donald Trump was recently the victim of yet another assassination attempt.  Apparently.  The same people who believe the first attempt, in Butler Pennsylvania two months ago, was staged, naturally believe this one was fake, too.  And they both might very well have been.  After all, everything they do is seemingly scripted.  No improvisation allowed.  But the response is what really grabs my attention.  As I've noted, those on the Left who are skeptical of the Trump assassination attempts aren't skeptical about anything else.  They believe in Russian collusion.  They think "Climate Change" is a tremendous threat to us all.  They accept the transgender lunacy.  And despite the vast majority being White themselves, they are fully on board with the anti-White agenda.  So they're certainly predisposed to accept things at face value.

158 House Democrats voted against deporting sex offenders.  The U.S. House passed a bill last week to deport and make inadmissible criminal foreign nationals convicted of domestic violence and sex-related offenses, including sex crimes against children.  It passed with bipartisan support but with the majority of Democrats, 158, voting against it.  The bill would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act "to provide that aliens who have been convicted of or who have committed sex offenses or domestic violence are inadmissible and deportable."  This includes stalking, child abuse, child neglect, child abandonment, violation of protective orders, including credible threats of violence, repeated harassment, and conspiracy to commit a sex offense as grounds for deportation, according to the bill language.

Kamalaworld and the Catholic Vote.  In a major break from tradition, Kamala Harris says she's "too busy" to attend the Catholic Al Smith Dinner; the story, via an item at the New York Post: [...] There are many points here, relating to Harris and Catholics, the Catholic Church, the progressive agenda, and votes.  First off, let's look at Harris's well-known and oft-reported distaste for "Catholic" in general.  The "Catholics for Harris" effort — one of many false electoral starts in Kamalaworld, has already been roundly criticized, if not derided, as another inauthentic Harris idea: [...] Matters such as infanticide and the denigration of marriage — that is, between a man and a woman — are the bottom line for a large swathe of Catholic voters, and Harris is pretty clear in her current happy, joyful, "whatever" phase of policy innuendoes, that she does not want to attend a Catholic dinner that may poke fun at her known prejudices and hard left proclivities.

Kamalism Will Destroy America.  The 2020 riots showed Kamalism in action.  The regime's paramilitary operation, BLM and Antifa among others, sparked the fire that lit the riots; the regime's intellectuals justified them; corporations and foundations funded them; the media covered them over; politicians fanned the flames; and the regime's justice apparatus, including Kamala herself, freed law breakers.  Even the military got into the act, denying Trump needed resources.  According to Kamalism, it's fine for boys to compete against girls in school sports.  A child can have an abortion or sex change without parental consent.  And it is somehow impossible to know what a woman is.  This is all obviously insane.  But it gets worse — much worse.  Under Kamalism we usher in millions of illegal immigrants with cultures different from our own and then insist on not assimilating them.  The regime's military is increasingly focused on racial and gender quotas at the expense of military readiness.  Kamalism also wants to put an end to the traditional mother/father family.  Kamalism plays Americans for foolish children in need of close supervision, which can only be provided by their "betters": the destructive Left.

Wall Street's Appetite for ESG Plummets.  The three largest American asset managers' interest in pushing environment, social, and governance (ESG) policies has plummeted, according to a Thursday report.  BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard's support for environmental shareholders proposals dropped significantly.  State Street said it supported only six percent of environmental shareholder proposals in the first half of the year and only seven percent of social ones, which is a drop compared to 2023.  [Advertisement]  Vanguard said in August it did not back those resolutions, and BlackRock said it voted for four percent of the ESG proposals in the year prior to June, making a seven percent decline from a year before.  [Advertisement]

The same people who were wrong about all things COVID hate Trump and love Kamala.  This is the pivot-point moment.  The election's results will determine our future as a nation, so it seems important to break through their "TDS."  If we can elect Trump (and keep him alive so that he can take office), we have a chance to redeem our country and get back on a positive track — a monumental task, to be sure.  I am equally certain that if we elect the K-puppet, we are doomed to lose our culture, freedom, and ultimately, our great nation, which will be destroyed and become a failed banana republic communist autocracy.

Mad to the Max.  If anything like civil war ignites in this country, the sides will not be the political Red and the Blue but the sane and the insane.  Now it happens, unfortunately, that the insane are driving the engine of government. [...] You can tell they are insane because they are driven by a single motivation:  to remain in power for no other purpose than to escape responsibility for their many crimes against the people.  This is insane behavior because it depends on the proposition that reality does not matter, that reality is optional, that there is no such thing as truth, and if it happened to exist, to be a thing, it would have no greater value to the human project than its opposite, untruth.

Commies for Kamala?  Hanoi Jane Fonda Campaigning Door-to-Door for Harris in Michigan.  Hanoi Jane Fonda is back and she is campaigning for Kamala Harris by knocking on doors in Michigan.  Democrats and the media think this looks good for Harris.  You know they do because there are lots of news stories about it right now.  They don't understand that this actually repels millions of Americans who remember Jane Fonda's behavior years ago during the Vietnam War.

Jill Biden to Honor Cast Members of 'West Wing' TV Show.  Jill Biden is going to honor the cast members of the TV show 'The West Wing' at the White House on Friday to celebrate the 25 year anniversary of the show.  This is the same administration that couldn't even be bothered to honor Gold Star families by showing up at Arlington National Cemetery this summer and then had the nerve to criticize Trump for doing so.  This tells you everything you need to know about the Democrats.  This is who they really care about.  This is who they want approval from.

Democrat Voters See Own Party As 'Undemocratic': I&I/TIPP Poll.  Much of the noise coming from the debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris last week had to do with a media-driven narrative that Harris "won."  Maybe so.  In initial polls after the debate, Harris padded her lead.  But will the debate win be enough for the Democrats' own rank-and-file voters, who believe the party used an undemocratic method to select its nominee?  September's I&I/TIPP Poll suggests the answer is yes. [...] [A] troubling question has loomed over Harris' candidacy since it was announced in late July:  Was it fair or democratic to have a candidate who received no votes simply named by Democratic Party officials as the party's standard-bearer?  Would Democratic voters "get over it"?

Was Kamala Harris' Nomination Democratic?  Does It Matter?  It seems like all our October surprises are coming early this year.  On June 27, President Joe Biden's historically bad debate performance sparked panic in his party.  On July 21, Biden announced he was stepping down and throwing his support behind Vice President Kamala Harris.  By Aug. 2, Harris had secured enough delegate support to ensure her candidacy for the Democratic Party without winning a single primary vote.  Prominent Republicans immediately called foul.  Stephen Miller, a former aide under President Trump, posted: "Democrats just cancelled democracy."  J.D. Vance, Trump's newly-minted candidate for Vice President, called the switcharoo "anti-democratic."  Democrats responded to these charges primarily by deflecting and hurling counter-accusations at the GOP. Writers for the L.A. Times, the Boston Globe, and Slate, as well as Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, gave virtually the same response: the GOP has some crust, seeing as how Trump is a much greater subverter of democracy!  Which, of course, is no answer at all.

It's OK to Call Your Political Opponents Insane If They're, You Know, Insane.  The 2024 Democrats are in a dangerous state of mental unwellness.  That's not hyperbole, it's an obvious conclusion that can be arrived at after even the most cursory examination of their behavior.  I would like to make it very clear that I never used to be the kind of guy who dismissed those he disagreed with politically as stupid or crazy.  In fact, the decades that I have spent in the entertainment industry taught me how to get along with people who have differing viewpoints quite well.  Until recently, of course.  When they began acting crazy.  True, the point could be made that the Dems have always been a little nuts.  They believe that things that come from the government are free, after all, and have no cost attached to them anywhere.  There is a big difference, however, between merely having political beliefs that are just plain wrong, and what we see from them these days.  Democrats in the Biden-Harris era are fueled by rabid, animalistic rage that they use to dehumanize people on the Right.  That's their gateway to justifying any kind of aberrant, often violent, behavior towards us.  And they're marketing it as joy.

Nearly 500 Elected Officials Call for MORE Migrants to Be Admitted.  The Great Springfield Cat Controversy is a gift that keeps on giving to the Trump campaign.  Pundits and journalists don't see it, of course, because what counts as important is very different from what Trump and Trump-curious voters care about.  The intellectual class ridicules not just Trump but also people who are worried about the immigrant invasion of the US, but ordinary Americans feel for the people of Springfield and Aurora, CO.  [Tweet]

From Cats and Geese to Kissinger's 'World Order'.  It is obvious to me that our rulers are out of ideas and losing control.  That's what Trump in 2016 means; that's what the Bernie-to-Biden switcheroo in 2020 means; that's what the Biden-to-Harris switcheroo meant in July.  That's what the three-against-one debate on September 10 was all about.  Our rulers are desperately trying to hold their regime together as it crumbles into dust.

Eight Primary Forces That Threaten America Today.  The Challenge of Diversity:  There is little if any diversity tolerated in the nations that are our greatest threats — China, Iran, Russia, North Korea.  Diversity works in muti-cultural Singapore where the state tightly controls its citizens, and in Israel where the population is bonded by the common threat of annihilation.  But eroding public allegiance to the Constitution is slipping us into a more fractured culture.  Democrats shamelessly exploit racial and ethnic division and hateful gender wars.  One prominent Kamala Harris supporter, black lesbian Kelley Robinson, denigrates the Bill of Rights as merely "a little piece of paper."  Meanwhile, millions of illegal aliens who have flooded into our country in the past three years are disrupting the security and financial wellbeing of cities and local communities across the country.

More Than Anything, Survival of the Constitution Is on the Ballot in 2024.  The dividing lines between Republicans and Democrats are now more like ever-widening chasms. [...] The principles of conservative Republicans haven't changed.  In reality, it's the Democrats who have been creating the rift.  They have been undergoing a progressive makeover for a long time and what they consider to be the center is hanging out somewhere on a beach in Cuba.  If you had a time machine and went back to the early 1980s and brought Tip O'Neill to 2024, he'd switch parties and be a moderate Republican.  Heck, he'd be more conservative than Mitt Romney, Larry Hogan, or whichever squish is running Ohio these days.  There really are two Americas now, and one of them is filled with people who hate America.  Democrats have been rewriting American history in public schools for decades now, telling everyone they can that they're embarrassed by it.

Kamala's New Campaign 'Faith' Director Blasts America As 'Cult, Bloodthirsty, Imperial Beast'.  In the slimmest of chance that you needed a reminder that the Harris-Waltz ticket is the most radical presidential ticket in American history, you've come to the right article.  Harris recently hired a campaign director who has viciously attacked White Christians and claimed that America is an imperial "cult" and a "bloodthirsty beast."  Did I mention that the new hire is not only Kamala's campaign "faith" director but that she's also a Presbyterian minister?  Yeah.  So-called "Progressive" Rev. Jennifer Butler argues that "White supremacists" have "hijacked" the Christian faith — a "quality" that seems to fit perfectly with the Harris-Walz ad nauseam attack on White (and Black) conservatives.

Harris-Biden inner circle have almost no business experience — no wonder Americans are hurting.  In her one and only interview of the presidential campaign, Kamala Harris claimed she is "very proud" of the economy she and Joe Biden have presided over for almost four years.  Her rosy view of their management of inflation echoes Biden's tone-deaf boasts about what a great job he's done, while Americans struggle to pay for groceries.  "I'm very proud of the work that we have done that has brought inflation down to less than 3%," Harris told CNN last week.  Considering they inherited an inflation rate of 1.4%, and their reckless spending propelled it to a peak of 9.1% in June 2022, that's not exactly something to boast about.

The media and other Democrats couldn't care less about the little guy.  Democrats always say they support the little guy.  They're lying.  They rewrite Title IX rules to destroy womens' sports to benefit the miniscule percentage of men who pretend they are women.  They don't think anyone has the right to protest beefy men competing and harming women and exposing themselves in their locker rooms.  The only time they pretend to care about women is on unlimited abortion and their actual goal is to help Planned Parenthood.  They pretend they care about poor and minority children but they block them from going to better schools when their government run schools are failing them.  They don't care if that holds them back their entire lives.  They care more about teachers' union boss Randi Weingarten than they do about the children.  After all she donates to them and the children don't. [...] The Democrats don't care about the little guy any more than they care about womens' sports.  They care about power.  They would love for the electoral college to be abolished and the Supreme Court to be stacked.

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz Hate You.  Imagine running for President of the United States and not speaking with anyone.  Not "to," you have to do lots of "speaking to" people, but "with," as in having a conversation, an exchange.  Kamala Harris and Tim Walz have been trying that for the past month and a half but finally caved to the reality that they would have to speak with someone and choose the softest target they could find that the public would accept.  And the whole thing went about as well as you'd expect when the candidates hold the public in complete contempt.  Yes, that's right:  Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, and the entire left-wing establishment hold you, the American people, in contempt.  They treat you with a twist on the old saying about children — you are to be preached to, not heard.  You don't treat people you respect like they are unworthy of addressing you, having their questions answered, or talking at them like a condescending kindergarten teacher.  Yet, that's what these people do.

The Committee's Candidate:  Harris's Inconsistent Campaign.  [Scroll down]  "The powers that be": who are they?  In a way, that is the basic, fundamental question with which the cackling campaign of Kamala Harris confronts us.  Many commentators, including me, have noted the profoundly undemocratic maneuver with which The Committee erased Joe Biden and installed Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee.  After all, nearly 15 million people voted for Gibbering Joe in the Democratic primary.  He won, hands down because that same committee made certain that other candidates — including RFK Jr. — were shunted to one side.  They had done the same thing to Bernie Sanders years before.  "Democracy" for them is the name not of a political system but of a pleasing emotional shudder.

How Civil Wars End.  American political suicides occur when oblivious actors self-destruct, e.g., representatives Adam Kinzinger, Dan Goldman, Ted Lieu, Corie Bush, Liz Cheney, or Jamal Bowman.  Kamala couldn't sabotage her candidacy fast enough so she tapped fellow traveler Walz.  Filled with joy, Walz can't decide whether he's auditioning to replace Ellen DeGeneres or Richard Simmons.  Marx was correct: history repeats first as tragedy, then farce.  Kamala 2.0 runs against Biden's record, not Trump.  Her campaign plagiarizes the Theranos scam.  Democrats are too incapacitated to even remove Biden's name from their convention platform.  Unable to define women, they conceal their crowded antisemitic wing.  When Jon Stewart mocks your hypocrisy, it's over.  We are witnessing a combination of desertions, begging for mercy, and political mass suicides.  Kamala functions as Democrats' Jim Jones.

RFK, Jr.  Learns About Democrat Tyranny.  Kennedy, son of Senator Robert F. Kennedy who was assassinated while running for president in 1968, has been a lifelong Democrat advocating for all the standard leftist policies of climate change, bigger government, abortion on demand, etc., etc.  Then, early 2023, he announced he was running for president and sought to defeat Biden during the primary process.  That's when Kennedy learned about Democrat Party tyranny.  His Dems did everything they could to thwart him every step of the way.  The DNC refused his campaign, refused to allow him to debate Biden, and refused his name on primary elections to such an extent that, by Oct 2023, he was forced from the party.  Then, when he tried to run as an independent, the DNC filed numerous lawsuits to keep his third-party candidacy off the ballot.  The Dems have censored him on all the media outlets and on social media.  The Dems don't want his message out there and have worked diligently toward that end.  RFK, Jr. quickly learned that the Dems of his youth are not the Dems of today.

Vermont Department of Health urges public to avoid gendered words like 'son' or 'daughter'.  As the back-to-school school season kicks off, the Vermont Department of Health is encouraging school employees and others to refrain from referring to children as a "son" or "daughter" and instead embrace gender-neutral terminology.  In a Facebook post Wednesday, the department declared, "The language we use matters."  "When talking about family, it's important to use terms that cover the many versions of what family can look like," the department stated.  A picture accompanying the Facebook post featured a few examples of what constituted "inclusive language for families."

Democrats Are Freaking Out Over Republicans' Efforts to Stop Illegal Aliens From Voting.  While the Trump campaign, Republican National Committee, Republican governors and Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill work to keep illegal immigrants and non-citizens from voting in U.S. elections, Democrats are fighting against their efforts and threatening to shut down the government over voter integrity legislation.  [Tweet]  "A conservative-backed push for stricter proof-of-citizenship requirements for voting could complicate efforts to avert a government shutdown next month.  Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have acknowledged a stopgap of some kind, also known as a continuing resolution (CR), will be necessary to keep the government funded past Sept. 30," The Hill reports.  "But calls are growing among House conservatives to use that must-pass measure to force consideration of a partisan bill aimed at barring noncitizens from voting — laying the groundwork for a clash with the Democratic-led Senate, which would likely reject such a package."  The question is, why?  [Tweet]

Democrats Are Freaking Out Over Republicans' Efforts to Stop Illegal Aliens From Voting.  While the Trump campaign, Republican National Committee, Republican governors and Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill work to keep illegal immigrants and non-citizens from voting in U.S. elections, Democrats are fighting against their efforts and threatening to shut down the government over voter integrity legislation.  [Tweet]  "A conservative-backed push for stricter proof-of-citizenship requirements for voting could complicate efforts to avert a government shutdown next month.  Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have acknowledged a stopgap of some kind, also known as a continuing resolution (CR), will be necessary to keep the government funded past Sept. 30," The Hill reports.  "But calls are growing among House conservatives to use that must-pass measure to force consideration of a partisan bill aimed at barring noncitizens from voting — laying the groundwork for a clash with the Democratic-led Senate, which would likely reject such a package."  The question is, why?  [Tweet]

Chicago's DNC: A Cacophony of Fury, Hate, Whining, and Wretched Music.  "Any play that can be described in one sentence should be one sentence long," Edward Albee once said.  Best known for his award-winning 1962 play, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Albee could have said the same thing about last week's protests during the Democratic National Convention.  Here is my one-sentence description about those protests:  The participants, loudly, want to overthrow western society and capitalism, and they despise police.  Here's Act II of that play:  The themes include dislike of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, support for Hamas and Palestine over Israel in the Gaza War, enthusiasm for Marxism, and championing the LGBTQ+ agenda.

Goodbye, JFK Democrats.  President John F. Kennedy was a staunch anti-communist who fought against union and government corruption.  He was a pro-life Catholic.  He was laser-focused on faster growth ("we can do bettah") and saw sweeping tax rate reductions as a step toward achieving 4% to 5% growth.  Democrats are now for higher taxes:  They ignore and excuse union and government corruption and they don't even talk about growth.  It is all income redistribution.  They should listen to the words of wisdom of JFK circa 1960 to 1963.  In 1962, he famously declared: "It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now."  Sadly, today you could count on one hand the number of Democrats in Washington who believe that.  JFK called for a reduction in income tax and capital gains taxes.  Kamala Harris wants to raise every one of these rates — including doubling capital gains taxes.

A Death Cult's Worship Service.  Viewers of the four-day Democratic National Convention were treated to more than a political gathering.  They saw a spectacle that has been the equivalent of a four-day-long religious retreat. [...] Potential converts also were invited to visit a small chapel in the form of a van placed by Planned Parenthood.  There, disciples of the religion/political cult could observe the initiation rites deemed necessary for entrance into the realm of the 144,000 chosen of the left.  The Planned Parenthood high priests offered initiates the modern-day equivalent of cults promoting castration and child sacrifice in the form of free vasectomies and abortion pills.  Women got on stage and offered testimonies about the salvation abortion had afforded them.  Many of the female congregants wore white, a symbol of purity of mind and heart.

Tim Walz's Church Doesn't Like To Call God 'Him,' Supports Reparations And Pride Parades.  Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz attends a church that preaches beliefs related to gender, race and sexuality that many Christian denominations strongly oppose.  Walz, who is the governor of Minnesota, identified Pilgrim Lutheran Church in St. Paul as his parish during a 2020 briefing on the COVID-19 pandemic.  Materials published by Pilgrim Lutheran Church instruct parishioners not to refer to God using male pronouns, push congregants to support reparation funds, encourage them to celebrate Ramadan and include a modified gender-neutral version of the Lord's Prayer, among other liberal practices.  Pilgrim Lutheran Church is part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), a mainline protestant denomination that has been criticized by some conservative Christians for ordaining transgender and lesbian bishops as well as for its embrace of LGBT ideology.

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Walz's church sounds like Obama's TUCC.  So does Kamala Harris's church.  Lots of far-left politics, and not much theology.

Dem-dominated professions are untrustworthy.  [Scroll down]  It's noteworthy that journalism, another Dem-dominated profession, is viewed with suspicion by the public.  Clearly, it's a profession where misrepresentation, embellishment, lying by omission, and just blatant falsehoods permeate the town square.  Professions dominated by people affiliated with the Republican party are actually more useful in making America work.  By contrast, the professions dominated by Dems are, generally, brimming with busybodies who depend on member dues or government largesse — areas susceptible to dishonest pandering.  To summarize:  Dems tend to be dirty, no-good, lying scoundrels attracted to professions that don't generate much wealth or improve our lot.  Rather, they spread Dem disinformation, Dem disunity, and Dem discord.

Remarks on the DNC convention in Chicago.  [Scroll down]  Fabulously wealthy speakers demonizing wealth — pretending they are victims of racism and income inequality; pretending they are just folks — a party that lives on credentialism, contending that a poor kid who made it to Yale law School is not what we are; a candidate whose entire game plan is (a) to hide her policies (b) tout her experience while at the same time ignoring the fact that she's been in office for 3½ years and had a big role in the dire consequences which (c) it is claimed she will definitely fix if only she gets elected; hiding the party's agenda while peddling fluff and lies by the barrel; praising Biden who they just defenestrated and unpersoned.

RFK Suspends His Campaign, Endorses Trump.  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his 2024 presidential campaign and endorsed Republican nominee former President Donald Trump.  He announced that while he will remain on the ballot in "safe" states where Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris or Trump are likely to prevail, he will remove his name from 10 "battleground" states and he urged his voters to support Trump in those states.  "In the name of saving democracy, the Democratic Party has set itself to dismantling it," Kennedy, 70 said at a press conference in Phoenix, Arizona, Friday.  He claimed the DNC engaged in "continual legal warfare against both President Trump and myself."  Kennedy condemned the Democrats' 2024 primary as a "sham primary" that was "rigged."  He also condemned President Joe Biden's decision to drop out of the presidential race last month as a "palace coup."  "The same shadowy DNC operatives appointed his successor, also without an election,"" Kennedy said.

Robert F Kennedy Suspends His Campaign, Blasts the Democrat Party and Endorses President Trump.  Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr has suspended his campaign for president and endorsed President Donald Trump.  RFK Jr filed Friday to officially have his name withdrawn from the Pennsylvania ballot "as a result of today's endorsement of Donald Trump for the office of President of the United States," according to a brief filed by Kennedy's campaign attorney.  The candidate also filed to withdraw from Arizona Thursday evening.  RFK Jr. made the announcement from Phoenix, Arizona.  [Video clip]

The Culture of Death Returns.  It's clear the Democrat convention hasn't lived up to the buzzword their machine used.  Let's face it, when anger and negativity towards Trump becomes the focus, you can't call that "joy."  When they parade their important issues, these are not joyful.  The violence outside and implied violence toward those who disagree isn't either.  With the backdrop of the mobile van to give free live abortions and vasectomies, they move their emphasis to what is one of the most unusual single issues of all time.  Abortion.  Even the Happy Warrior Hubert Humphrey would have a hard time being happy at this kind of focus.

The Democratic Party was Never Democratic.  The Democratic party began in 1828 as a southern phenomenon to elect Andrew Jackson, famous for exploits in Indian wars.  Jacksonian "democracy" excluded certain races.  Jackson's Removal Act of 1830 focused on clearing the South of 50,000 remaining Indians to prepare for slave plantations.  The Trail of Tears, which herded 15,000 Cherokee west and killed 3-4,000, was not a voter registration drive.  Native Americans finally attained citizenship under Coolidge in 1924.  Democrats started the Civil War to prevent all Americans from enjoying citizenship. 800,000 dead later they surrendered.  In subsequent generations Democrats sought to undo their loss through Jim Crow and similar segregationist de jure and de facto lawfare techniques that continued past WWII.  Republican Abraham Lincoln freed Democrats' slaves.  School desegregation finally began under Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower.  He deported over a million illegal immigrants, rectifying another Democratic mess.  Republican Richard M. Nixon concluded Democrats' Vietnam fiasco.

Half of America Are Cult Members.  The great Rush Limbaugh used to call them "low-information voters," the tens of millions of Americans who believe the mainstream media and who aren't engaged politically.  For them, if they do think about politics, it's at the level of a meme, the conventional wisdom that "Republicans are greedy and Democrats care."  On Election Day their decision is based not on the Truth but on how much they drank in the disinformation of the Establishment.  Today, matters are much worse.  Today, we are not politically divided based on our attitude to simple concepts, such as whether or not government should "do more," or whether the liberties of the individual should come first.  Today, one of the nation's parties has utter disdain for the Constitution and is supported by voters who act more like cultists than autonomous adults.  The Democrat Convention in Chicago is Exhibit A.

The Democrats Truly Hate Us Normal People.  My bingo card didn't have the Democrat Governor of Kentucky going to the Democrat National Convention and suggesting that somebody rape someone in JD Vance's family, but you know, maybe it should have.  Here's an ugly reality that we have to accept.  The elite of the Democrat Party hates us.  It doesn't just dislike us.  It doesn't find us merely annoying and tiresome.  It certainly doesn't want to live and let live.  It wants to rule and let us die.  There is not a single bad thing that they wouldn't wish upon you.  We know because they keep telling us.  That sure sounds harsh.  So does suggesting that a member of your political opponent's family ought to be raped to make some dumb point.  These comments are not just mistakes or slips of the tongue.  There are too many threats, too many death wishes, and if they are mistakes, why do they always go in the same direction?  Why are they always greeted with wild applause?  It's tough to accept, but we need to listen to Democrats.  We need to believe them when they tell us they want us gone.

What about assisted suicides?
DNC Attendees Will Have Opportunities For Free Vasectomies, Abortions.  Attendees at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago will have the opportunity to receive free vasectomies and abortions blocks away from the proceedings at the United Center.  Planned Parenthood Great Rivers, which operates in parts of Missouri and Illinois, will park its mobile health clinic near the DNC on Aug. 19 and Aug. 20, according to The New York Times.  Medication abortions are reportedly available on both days, with vasectomies being exclusively offered Monday.

The DNC's proposed platform is a bizarre document.  [Scroll down]  The same party that's all in on men beating up women in sports venues promises that it opposes violence against women.  The platform also promises to protect abortion and to make it legal without limits in all states, as well as protect women's rights.  This all very weird because Democrats no longer know what a woman is.  Democrats promise to put more leftist justices on the Supreme Court, people specifically chosen for their "diversity."  "Racial equity" is a thing.  This means affirmative action and redistributing federal funds based on race in schools and to businesses.  The "LGBTQI+" community gets a shout-out for its courage, including a promise to keep that cohort, especially the mentally ill so-called "transgenders" in the military.  The Democrats also want to force others to pay for "transitions."

DNC Caucuses [are] Segregated by Race.  The DNC kicks off in Chicago on Monday to formally nominate Vice President Kamala Harris later this week, despite her never receiving one vote in the primaries.  In a move that's in no way surprising given how obsessed Democrats are with race, the DNC is segregating their caucuses.  Multiple posts shared to X show official DNC signs directing delegates to attend certain caucuses by race and at one time.  On Sunday, the eve of such a kickoff, the Breaking 911 account shared a list of several caucuses segregated by race and other criteria, including a vague "Ethnic Council Meeting."  There are also a "Black Caucus Meeting," a "Hispanic Caucus Meeting," an "AAPI Caucus Meeting," and a "Native American Caucus Meeting."  [Tweet]

When Kamala doesn't have rock stars at her rally, she can barely fill a room.  [Scroll down]  The problem for Democrats was that, in 2024, Trump was and is still drawing massive crowds.  Biden, without the COVID excuse, couldn't fill a room.  When Kamala, Obama, and Pelosi shivved Biden and Kamala stepped into his shoes, the Democrats needed to change that dynamic...or at least, make it appear that the dynamic was different.  And so it was that the media flooded us with stories of the long lines and filled stadiums for Kamala:  [Tweets]  What the Kamala line touters forgot to mention was that Kamala was essentially offering free musical performances by hot stars:  [More tweets]  And as with Hillary and Biden rallies, indications soon appeared that the campaign was forced to use the black curtains of doom down on the upper levels of the stadiums, even as the Pravda media focused on the crowd clustered closer to Kamala:  [More tweets]  The crowds, it seems, are a magic act if you're being nice and a con if you're not.  There is no grassroots Kamala supporter, only AstroTurf.

Kamala Has Democrats in Real Trouble.  Although it's arguable that [Kamala] Harris had some success with voters in deep blue San Francisco and California, she has always been extremely unpopular at the national level.  In 2019, she was eviscerated in the Democrat primary, withdrawing before a single state primary vote was cast. [...] This might have ended any potential for Harris to get near the presidency in any other sensible moment in American history.  But we don't live in sensible times.  Kamala Harris is a woman, you see, and though many Democrats can't readily define what that word means, they're steadfastly sure that it's a good thing and worthy of their votes for some reason.  She's also not white, and that confers additional merit somehow.  Therefore, her incredible unlikableness was ignored when Joe Biden faced "tremendous pressure" from Democrats to pick a woman "of color" for his running mate in 2020.

Report: Kamala Harris Snubs Teamsters Union After Populist RNC Speech.  Vice President Kamala Harris's presidential campaign has reportedly snubbed the Teamsters Union — which represents more than one million members — after the union's president gave a populist speech at the Republican National Convention (RNC) to court GOP lawmakers on pro-worker policies.  At the RNC, Teamsters President Sean M. O'Brien delivered a historic address and praised former President Donald Trump for inviting him to speak.  The goal of the speech, O'Brien said, was to make inroads in the Republican Party, which increasingly represents the nation's working- and middle-class.

New legal field seeks to confer 'rights' on inanimate objects.  [Scroll down]  Grant legal personhood to objects?  How about we grant legal personhood to young persons in the womb first?!  Might not an unborn child deserve "personhood" more than, say, a rock or a log?  If we answer that question with a "no," what does that say about us, and our future?  The flipside of rights is responsibilities.  What responsibility does a rock or log have?  If you think about it, if everything has rights, nothing has "rights."  What is really happening here is an attempt to replace our God-given natural rights with the pseudo-rights of nature.

Tim Walz's Church Doesn't Like To Call God 'Him,' Supports Reparations And Pride Parades.  Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz attends a church that preaches beliefs related to gender, race and sexuality that many Christian denominations strongly oppose.  Walz, who is the governor of Minnesota, identified Pilgrim Lutheran Church in St.  Paul as his parish during a 2020 briefing on the COVID-19 pandemic.  Materials published by Pilgrim Lutheran Church instruct parishioners not to refer to God using male pronouns, push congregants to support reparation funds, encourage them to celebrate Ramadan and include a modified gender-neutral version of the Lord's Prayer, among other liberal practices.  Pilgrim Lutheran Church is part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), a mainline protestant denomination that has been criticized by some conservative Christians for ordaining transgender and lesbian bishops as well as for its embrace of LGBT ideology.

My son, 19, was killed in Iraq serving in the military unit Tim Walz 'abandoned'.  When soldier Kyle Miller was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq on June 29, 2006, the man expected to lead them into combat was not there.  Tim Walz, who would go on to be Kamala Harris' running mate, left his Minnesota National Guard unit two months before it deployed — and some will never trust him again.  That includes Miller's mother who delivered a damning verdict on Walz's character, accusing him of taking the 'coward's way out' and 'running away' by opting to campaign for Congress instead of going to Iraq to face danger with her son.

Kamala Camp Begins Baselessly Smearing Veterans in Attempt to Cover Tim Walz's Stolen Valor.  Facing allegations that Kamala Harris's running mate, Tim Walz, dodged deployment to Iraq while serving in the National Guard, the Vice President's camp is baselessly smearing a veteran endorsed by former President Donald J. Trump's running mate, Marine Corps veteran Senator J.D. Vance."  Unearthed:  JD Vance supported a congressional candidate who egregiously lied about his military service and claimed he was deployed to Afghanistan when he never was," the Harris campaign declared on social media, accusing the candidate — J.R. Majewski — of "stolen valor."  The same smear campaign derailed Majewski's previously competitive congressional race in Ohio.

What America needs to know about Tim Walz of Minnesota.  During his first term as governor, Walz faced two major challenges:  The riots following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis and COVID-19.  He fumbled both.  As the Twin Cities burned for three days in May 2020, Walz froze, terrified of upsetting his party's activist base which sympathized with the rioters, for whom Kamala Harris raised money.  Walz hesitated to commit the National Guard — whom he dismissed as "19-year-old cooks" — but when they finally were deployed, the violence ceased immediately.  This concern for criminals over law abiding citizens has contributed to Minnesota becoming a high-crime state for the first time in recent history, with part one crimes, such as murder, aggravated assault, and rape, now above the national average.  Indeed, Minnesota's crime rates began climbing in 2018, when Walz took office and two years before George Floyd's death.

Ferguson speaks.  Democrat fortunes changed on Tuesday, but not in a good way for the Party Of Obama.  Bonehead Kamala picked Tampon Tim as her running mate.  On Sunday, Walz called JD Vance weird.  It was projection by Tiny Timmy.  He's the governor of Minnesota who ordered schools to stock tampons in the boys' room.  He extended LGBT Rights protections to pedophiles.  He embraced the transgender movement with a fervor that frightens stable people.  He's also the governor who fiddled while Minneapolis burned.  His bananas wife said, "I could smell the burning tires, and that was a very real thing.  I kept the windows open as long as I could because I felt like that was such a touchstone of what was happening."  She loved the smell of small businesses burning to the ground in the morning.  Walz's support of BLM was popular in 2020.  Four years later, maybe not.

The Harris Flop Would Be Scarier Than Her Flip.  [Scroll down]  So, for now, Harris and her new vice presidential candidate, Tim Walz, will smother all their cherished left-wing positions — at least until November.  The two left-wing chameleons will assume the temporary identities and policies of "moderates."  That is a de facto admission that they know that the public does not want any of their true agendas.  The temporary metamorphosis means that the leftist nominees superficially feign agreement with what most Americans support — energy independence, low taxes, limited government, strong defense, deterrent foreign policy, secure borders, legal-only immigration, and assimilation rather than woke/DEI tribalism.  Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are the most brazen and extreme examples of left-wing flip-floppers in memory.

One old guy's perspective on why we are where we are.  [Scroll down]  The democrats became the party of a college educated, laptop class, of elites that have nothing but contempt for those of the working or middle class.  They sneer at patriotism as being gouache.  Remember Obama's comments about clingers to God and Guns?  Hillary and her basket of deplorables?  Remember her telling coal workers she would put them out of jobs or telling people they needed to learn to code?  This was the time that the term "flyover country" came into being.  A whole swath of the country just not worth seeing or listening to.  A bunch of retrograde barbarians to be tamed and managed, not consulted.  The culture of the democratic party became that of San Francisco, Manhattan, Boston, and DC, its values those of university sociology professors, Hollywood and wealthy socialites.  Arrogant and exclusive and insulated by wealth.

Kamala chooses an old riot-loving, stolen-valor extremist for VP.  So, it's finally official, Kamala will join forces with the governor of one of the most failed and troubled states in America:  Minnesota.  [Tweet with video clip]   [Advertisement]  It's another humiliation for Joe Biden.  [Tweet]  Kamala, a 2024 candidate who wasn't chosen by the American people, has just teamed up with Tim Walz, a pro-George Floyd "Summer of Love" riot supporter, as her VP. All her selection does is shine an even brighter light on Kamala support for a bail fund that put "Summer of Love" rioters, murderers, and sex abusers back on the streets.  But that could be the least of Kamala's worries.  Mr. Walz boasts a resume full of failures that should complement Kamala's lackluster credentials perfectly.  To top things off, Walz is endorsed by crazy Bernie Sanders.  However, it gets worse.  Tim was not only a big Saint George Floyd fan, he was also Nancy Pelosi's dutiful sidekick, and is a pro-trans ghoul who wants to mutilate kids.  In other words, Mr. Walz is even more extreme than Kamala.

7 Crazy Things Kamala's Running Mate Believes.  Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris has chosen far-left Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her VP pick, snubbing popular Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a moderate Jewish Democrat whose support for Israel in the war against Hamas had ticked off the antisemitic wing of Kamala's party.  So Shapiro, at the behest of the Democrat establishment, was officially dumped in favor of a Bernie Sanders-aligned leftist. [...] Walz, who called Republicans "weird people," supports medically mutilating children.  In April 2023, Walz signed a law that turned Minnesota into a "transgender sanctuary state." House File 146 "prevents state courts or officials from complying with child removal requests, extraditions, arrests, or subpoenas related to gender-affirming health care that a person receives in Minnesota."  This gave state courts the power to take kids away if parents don't sign off on so-called "gender-affirming" surgical procedures, allowing the state to have temporary emergency jurisdiction over the child.  If a child runs away to another state to seek these services, Minnesota will not return the child.

Kamala Harris polling better than Donald Trump?  [Scroll down]  Why would the American people allow this to happen?  Sadly, it is a combination of things.  Ignorance of economics, history and Western civilization.  Indoctrination by schools, especially "higher education."  The mainstream media/Big Tech/Social-Media companies hiding the truth (and conservative thought/ideas).  The constant barrage of lies and hoaxes from Democrats, as well as their incessant projection and gaslighting.  The lure of a soft life while being taken care of by the state.  Mind-altering drugs.  And the proclivity to be lost in pornography, sports, games, social media, and mindless television shows.  And, of course, "progressives'" preposterous and dangerous assertion that if anyone doesn't vote for Kamala, that person must be racist and sexist.

Most Voters Oppose Men in Women's Sports, but Don't Know Kamala Harris Supports It.  Most voters oppose allowing transgender-identifying males to compete in women's sports, but only 36% are aware that Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, supports that policy.  Nearly three-quarters (72%) of registered voters think biological males should not be allowed to participate in women's and girls' sports, according to new national polling from Scott Rasmussen shared with The Daily Signal.  Rasmussen polled 1,000 registered voters on Monday [7/29/2024] and Tuesday.

Commentary about Kamala Harris.  Harris has previously advocated for abolishing ICE, comparing the agency to the KKK, and has supported allowing criminals, including the Boston Marathon bomber and rapists, to vote.  She has also called for a ban on fracking and offshore drilling, defunding the police, providing taxpayer-subsidized healthcare to illegal immigrants, and eliminating private health insurance.  During a 2020 Democratic primary debate, Harris stated she would ban the importation of assault weapons by executive order if elected president. [...] Biden was more lucid than Harris because beneath his senescence was in essence a smart man.  Shamala is not smart.  She is not bright.  She is not talented.  She is merely there.  Jill Biden had high praise for the depraved opening ceremony at the Paris Olympics this weekend, despite widespread criticism that the performance mocked the Last Supper.  If you find the depraved degeneracy of the Olympics opening ceremony to be vile and disgusting and worthy of our collective contempt then you're going to love a Kamala Harris administration.

The Looming Kamala Calamity.  Just a few of the taxpayer disasters that Harris has in mind are that health care is a fundamental right and "Medicare for All" should be the policy.  She also believes in economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work.  She favors family and medical leave, vacations, and retirement security for all workers, as well as "high-quality health care" administered by the federal government.  Harris also adheres to all the au-courant left-wing fashions.  As the Black Lives Matter riots were spreading like wildfire, she tried to set up a bail fund for those who were arrested. [...] She is a nightmare on taxes. [...] Harris, as the so-called border czar, has failed miserably. [...] Harris is notorious for rambling, often incoherently, when speaking.

Hurricane Kamala:  The Perfect Storm to Collapse The Democrats' Burning House.  It's easy to fall for the media's uber-hype and begin to imagine the unthinkable — that Kamala Harris can actually win.  The opposite conclusion is accurate.  She represents a perfect storm forming that will permanently collapse her party's burning house. [...] Kamala was the first to withdraw [from the 2020 primary race], leaving in early December 2019 without a single delegate.  She is voting booth poison and will destroy down-ticket races due to an inability to energize voters.  The second reason Kamala will never become president relates to Biden destroying her political future by appointing her his border czar, a scheme to sabotage her political future by making her responsible for the border he planned to erase.  Perhaps the most significant factor working against Saint Kamala of California is Democrats' dismay over being forced to accept a nominee lacking a single grassroots vote.  Don't underestimate the animosity this generated.  Democrats' base was trampled in the race to install Trump's next designated debate victim.

The media's focus on candidates shouldn't obscure the real issues in this election.  The media would have us believe that this race is between Kamala the Magnificent, on the one hand, and Trump the Dishonest and Vance the Weird, on the other hand.  This is a lie.  What matters is that Americans must decide on November 5 if we are a constitutional nation with traditional values or a communist nation with values exemplified in the 2024 Olympics' opening ceremonies.  In the second half of the 20th century, Americans mostly shared the same values:  They liked the Bill of Rights, believed in the traditional family, wanted a color-blind society, expected a sovereign border, demanded strong national security, and desired capitalist-style prosperity that would allow them to ascend the economic ladder.  Presidential candidates promised them these things.  This year, though, the candidates and their parties have vastly different visions for America.

Associated Press Celebrates Trans-Infused Olympics Opening Ceremony as 'Unprecedented Display of Inclusivity'.  After the exercise in debauchery seen in the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics, the Associated Press raced to praise the transgender-infused program.  The AP was agog over the program created by gay French artist Thomas Jolly.  Aside from the scores of obviously gay dancers, the large number of transgenders, and the dance scene suggesting a bisexual three-some sex encounter, Jolly was also condemned for a gross parody of the famed "Last Supper" painting that depicts the last time Jesus Christ met with his disciples.  Despite the widespread criticism of the bacchanalia of the opening ceremony's dance and fashion program, the AP was ebullient over the display.

Democracy in Name Only:  How Kamala Harris Became Democratic Nominee.  Like many commentators, I have described the sudden, almost magical elevation of Kamala Harris to the status of presumptive Democratic nominee for president as a "coup."  "What just happened," I wrote on July 23, "is essentially an anti-democratic coup.  Kamala Harris, who got no delegates — zero — when she ran for president in 2020 and was only chosen as Biden's running mate because he had promised to pick a black woman, is on the cusp of being handed the Democratic nomination for president of the United States."  How did that happen?  If you said, "It happened because of the machinations of the deep state," go to the head of the class. [...] Until the very morning of the day he announced his withdrawal, Joe Biden and his team were insisting he was in the race till the end.  His debate performance against Trump was a disaster, true, and his poll numbers were in free fall.  No matter.  He was going to tough it out.

Don't Misunderestimate Her.  Those who are looking forward to a Trump victory in the coming (s)election might not want to get too cocky just yet.  The sudden departure under-duress of obviously declining Joe Biden does not make it more likely that Trump will win.  Arguably, it makes it less likely.  People who aren't Leftists have a weakness.  It is their assumption that Leftists — there are no Democrats anymore — base their opinions and actions on evidence, logic and principles.  They do not.  They base them on feelings — and their only "principle" is that power (to impose their feelings) must be pursued by any means necessary.  We just witnessed that in action, although many appear to have missed it.  Biden did not step aside; he was shoved aside.  This is obvious, yet many seem to think the old grifter just changed his mind after weeks of publicly insisting — angrily, at times — that he was the nominee, that Leftists had voted in the primaries for no one else but him (which is true) and that he was not going to step aside.  There was no maybe.  There was certainty.  Until — just like that — there wasn't.  That doesn't happen except under duress.

Half of American Adults Say They're "Unlikely to Ever Have Kids".  Well this certainly doesn't bode well for the future of civilization.  Or, frankly, the benefit of humans in general.  According to a new Pew study released this week, the percentage of adults under the age of 50 who say they probably won't ever have kids has skyrocketed in recent years, jumping a whopping 10 points in the last half decade alone.  In 2023, the share of adults ages 18 to 49 who say they're now "unlikely to ever have kids" stood at a stunning 47 percent, up from 37 percent in 2018.  In fact, the number of people who say they probably won't ever have children is practically even with those who say it's "likely" that they will have kids one day (50%).

Democrats Bait and Switch Their Own Voters.  The Democrat party just perpetrated this fraud on its own voters when, after baiting them with an offer of Joe Biden as their 2024 presidential candidate, they sabotaged his candidacy, forced him to withdraw, and substituted Kamala Harris instead.  The Democrats did not allow their registered voters any opportunity to play a role in this selection process.  Here are the facts, and I encourage registered Democrats to verify this for themselves before they decide how to vote in November.
  [#1]   Joe Biden won all 56 primary contests and 3,905 delegates.  His opponent won no contests and only four delegates.  Kamala Harris did not even compete in the primaries.
  [#2]   After Biden's debate with Donald Trump, the Democrat party's power brokers, including Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Charles Schumer, and actor George Clooney, openly sabotaged his candidacy to force him to withdraw. [...]
  [#3]   The Democrat party brokers, with no input or consent from the 14,465,519 Democrats who voted for Biden, then selected Kamala Harris as their nominee.  This is, from where I sit, an outright bait and switch.

Kamala Harris's First Campaign Ad Touts Abortion, Trans Pride, Trump Lawfare, and Beyoncé.  The Harris for President campaign launched its first official video Thursday.  The drop came less than a week after the defenestration of President Joe Biden was completed and Kamala Harris anointed in his place.  The ad titled "We Choose Freedom" first aired on her social media channels and touts her as a "peacemaker" as opposed to the "fear and chaos" inferred on her opponent.

Democrats side with Hamas.  On Wednesday, the prime minister of Israel visited the United States to address Congress nearly 10 months after Palestinian soldiers broke a ceasefire, invaded Israel, raped and murdered 1,200 civilians, and kidnapped 240 others.  On top of these international war crimes, the soldiers were dressed as civilians.  Democrats snubbed Bibi.  Biden, Kamala and Blinken were too chickenshit to greet him and his delegation of Israeli former hostages and families of the hostages.  The U.S. government's official policy now is to abandon Americans held hostage by the Hamas kidnappers.  Half the Democrats in Congress refused to show up for his address.  Democrats had their little Nazi storm troopers burn American flags at Union Station and wave Palestinian and Hamas flags.

Trump campaign files FEC complaint against Harris over use of Biden's $91.5M war chest: 'Fraudulent'.  The Trump campaign accused Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday of engaging in "largest campaign finance violation in American history" in a complaint to the Federal Election Commission over her attempt to use political donations made to President Biden.  "Kamala Harris is seeking to perpetrate a $91.5 million dollar heist of Joe Biden's leftover campaign cash — a brazen money grab that would constitute the single largest excessive contribution and biggest violation in the history of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971," Trump campaign general counsel David Warrington wrote in a grievance to the FEC.

Anointing Harris Completes Divorce Between Dems, Working Class.  The Democrat Party did a lot more this month than just torpedo its own incumbent president and ignore the will of 14 million of its voters.  Both in process and result, the Democrat establishment has sent its only real connection to its past identity to the trashbin.  And in rushing to anoint Joe Biden's replacement rather than trust even a representative-democracy process, they have gone all-in on a radical new identity, based largely on radical identitarianism and hard-Left progressivism — and all-in on elitism.  That shift began during the Obama presidency, which came to power in the wake of an unpopular war and a financial crisis.  However, even then Democrat leadership knew it needed a connection to working-class Americans, and used Joe Biden to bridge that gap.  His 2012 convention speech, largely under-appreciated, hearkened back to those populist impulses and party identity — even as Obama himself shifted the party toward big corporate interests and Academia-driven Leftism.

'Defenders of democracy' staged a cover-up and coup.  Democrats love to brag about how they are defenders of "democracy."  Which is odd, because 2024 will be the first presidential contest in modern history featuring a nominee who wasn't chosen by voters.  Kamala Harris did not get a single vote in the primaries.  And the same cabal that propped up Joe Biden, that hid his ailments, that put the nation in a perilous position, that used him to push hard-left policies, that bypassed the electorate, now promises that Harris is the very best person for the job.  Why would anyone believe them?  Al Sharpton contends that Kamala's candidacy is a "grassroots" movement.  Which is laughable.  She has never displayed impressive political instincts.  There is not, and has never been, any organic movement championing Kamala Harris.

Black Lives Matter Criticizes DNC for 'Anointing' of Harris, Calls for Primary.  Black Lives Matter (BLM) issued a statement calling for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to hold a "virtual snap primary" and criticized the "anointing" of Vice President Kamala Harris as the party's presidential candidate, citing concerns about where she stands on certain issues.  In a statement on Tuesday, the group admitted that while President Joe Biden had not been their "preferred candidate," they could not "ignore the troubling actions of the Democratic Party," and called for the DNC to hold a primary throughout the United States before the Democratic National Convention took place in August.

Black Lives Matter says Dems are 'party of hypocrites' for 'installing' Harris sans 'public voting process'.  The left-wing organization Black Lives Matter is resisting the installation of Vice President Kamala Harris as the presumptive Democratic nominee and are calling on the Democratic National Convention "to create a process that allows for public participation in the nomination process, not just a nomination by party delegates."  In a statement Tuesday, the group, which rose to prominence in 2020 for organizing nationwide protests in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, said that "a 24-hour process of talking to party bosses is not democratic, nor is it a process Democrats should be proud of."  For weeks after his disastrous debate performance last month, internal party pressure mounted against President Biden to drop out of the race — though he resisted those calls and insisted he was "in it to win it."

Black Lives Matter Turns on Democratic Party After Kamala Harris Is Installed as Nominee.  Cosmic justice sometimes comes with a dose of irony.  Black Lives Matter, the insidious Marxist organization Democrats used to foment violence during the race-mongering madness of 2020, has issued a public objection to party leaders' swift coronation of Vice President Kamala Harris as their 2024 presidential nominee.  "Following the primary where millions of black voters weighed in, after one poor debate performance, the DNC Party elites and billionaire donors bullied Joe Biden out of the race," BLM said in a statement to Reuters.

When Democrats Incite an Assassination.  I monitor a lot of lefty chat rooms to see how the Marxist Borg is processing new information.  Wading through a sewer of fractured psyches is borderline torture, but it's helpful to watch the commie hive mind in action.  The hogwash that self-described "smart people" claim to believe would make you cry for the sorry state of public education.  After the assassination attempt on President Trump, I tiptoed back over to Club Xanax to see how that hellscape was holding up.  By far, the great majority of leftists were flipping out that the gunman had been unsuccessful.  Reading through such hateful sludge masquerading as higher-order thinking is a chilling reminder that these terrorists-in-training have no qualms about putting us in shallow graves, so that they might build their rancid "Utopia" right atop our bones.  They are sick people with sick thoughts who express support for some very sick things.  But what else would one expect from a crowd of kooks who think pedophilia is no big deal but that meat-eaters should be hanged for heating the planet?

The Idea of Changing Your Mind Confuses Democrats.  Ever change your mind on anything or anyone?  I bet you have.  Do you know why I'd bet that way?  Because you're a human being, which makes you capable of all sorts of amazing things, especially the ability to learn new things and adapt to that knowledge.  OK, maybe not ALL human beings have that skill — I'd tell Democrats to change their minds, but they shouldn't work without tools — but those with an IQ larger than their hat size certainly can.  This is why so many in the media seem to be confused by the idea that some people have changed their minds about Donald Trump. [...] People grow up, people change, and people see results they did not expect or even think possible and adapt to that reality.  Again, by people, I mean people who aren't committed, ideological, progressive leftist Democrats.

Barack Obama:  The Man Behind the Democrats' Biden Dilemma.  [Scroll down]  From 2008 to 2016, something extraordinary happened.  Little by little, Obama's presidency took its toll on his party.  He routinely made everything about himself and his own ambitions rather than doing things for the good of the party.  He never worked with his party to grow their majorities, and in fact alienated a lot of Americans with his policies.  It was so bad that, by the time the 2016 election came around, the party was all but wiped out. [...] Obama's policies decimated Rust Belt jobs in particular.  The blue collar middle class had had it with him and his team.  After two devastating midterm cycles and barely squeaking by in his own re-election, Obama left office as the head of a party that had suffered more losses than at any point in history.  And, it was when he was about to leave office that he decided to look at potential successors and decide that Hillary Clinton was the best pick.  He convinced Biden to stand down and endorsed Clinton.  After all, imagine how great his legacy would look if he hand-picked the first female president!  Voters, angry at Obama's arrogance and his policies, voted for the most unlikely of presidential candidates, Donald J. Trump.

Young, dumb, and full of Democrat party hate.  [Scroll down]  They're losing and they know it.  This is the only reason we're seeing the rift in their party now about replacing Biden.  If he were leading in the polls, or even close, they would ride that poor, tired, corrupt, senile old horse all the way to the glue factory if that's what it took to stay in power.  They can't win a fair election.  The funny part is they're too stupid to realize that poor old Scranton Joe Biden isn't their problem, their leftwing policies are.  Ordinary Americans hate them!  Inflation, open borders, inner city crime waves that go unpunished, transgender ideology, DEI incompetence, destroying the greatest military in the history of the planet for the sake of the world's most misguided social experiment.  We don't want any of it, yet they still tell themselves that Joe Biden is their problem.  Someone needs to tell Barack Obama.

How the media coordinated the failed assassination of Donald Trump.  The media have always portrayed Republican candidates as dangerous to some degree, but from the moment Trump announced his candidacy in 2015, he inspired a particularly rabid form of vitriol from the press.  The real-estate tycoon spoke to a forgotten constituency: working- and middle-class Americans in areas like the Rust Belt.  These were old and obsolete Americans, the kind of voters who embarrass even the GOP, and the ruling class had slated them for replacement.  These obsolete Americans were supposed to quietly fade away, slowly dying deaths of despair, until Trump gave them a voice.  This was Trump's unforgivable sin, and from the moment of his improbable victory, the press set out to destroy this rogue president.  The left has been calling conservatives racists, sexists, and homophobes for decades.

Bette Midler Suggests Biden Arrest Republicans, Allow FBI to Use Deadly Force to Regain Democrat House Majority.  Singer-actress Bette Midler, star of Disney's Hocus Pocus 2, suggested that President Joe Biden arrest Republican members of Congress and allow the FBI to use deadly force in order regain Democrat House majority.  "Now that Joe has total immunity, many are urging him to be GOP ruthless.  Here's a suggestion for implementing his new powers," Midler wrote in a Friday X post, sharing a screenshot from an opinion piece published by The New Republic.

The Coming Coup.  The first question to ask if speculating on an hypothetical leftist coup is this:  Are there a substantial number of people in the United States who would like to see an anti-American revolution?  It's hard to quantify, but there's certainly a sizable population, made evident by the noise they make.  During the Antifa riots, apart from the violence, there were chants: "No border, no wall, no USA at all."  During the recent pro-Hamas demonstrations on campuses and elsewhere, anti-American views were overt:  For instance, students at the University of Michigan participating in the protests were given pamphlets titled "10 anarchist theses on Palestine solidarity in the United States," which included a page that stated, "Freedom for Palestine means Death to America."  The slogan "Death to America" was chanted in nearby Dearborn, Michigan, during a rally on the last Friday of Ramadan.

New York Times Calls for Ban on July 4th Fireworks to Fight 'Climate Change'.  Liberal corporate media outlet The New York Times is arguing that Americans must be forced to give up fireworks during July Fourth celebrations in order to help globalists "fight climate change."  The NY Times called for a ban on fireworks in a recent article titled: "Enough With the Fireworks Already."  The left-wing newspaper argues that Americans must find a different way to celebrate their nation's independence.  Additionally, the article insists Americans should give up fireworks because dogs and wildlife are terrified of loud noises.

The Editor says...
"Dogs and wildlife" are not running this country, and fireworks shows generally don't take place in areas with a lot of wildlife.  Too much attention is already paid to the well-being of wildlife.  Fireworks are important.  The municipal displays of fireworks for everybody to enjoy shows us how much we have in common.

Our Third Battle for Independence.  Today's environment is deeply politicized.  Everything has become political.  Everything.  Politics pervades our sports, indoctrinates our schools, is injected in movies, maligns our military, slants our news, and even infects our churches.  Each holiday, there are tips for handling political discussions at family gatherings.  Some accept this as normal.  The problem with everything being political is that politics is a zero-sum game: there are winners and losers.  If politics is the apex of our beliefs and culture, unity is impossible.  A house divided will fall.  There must be a higher calling or priority for unity to exist and for the community to thrive.  Politics is the superficial manifestation of deeper beliefs.

Littered With Lies.  When it comes to the most important moral issues of our time, few entities have been on the wrong side of the truth more often than has the Democrat Party and their apologists. [...] One of the most lucrative lies for the Left is the idea that "systemic racism" still plagues the U.S.  This is a rather effective lie as well, as three-fourths of Joe Biden voters believe that America is a racist nation.  Of course, it makes it rather easy to paint a nation or an individual as racist when almost everything that exists can described as "racist."  For example, according to the Left, merely wanting peace and quiet is now "white supremacy."  Similarly, being fit is racist, the Electoral College is racist, math is racist, and even being born white is racist.

Gullibility 101.  We watch Washington D.C. like we'd watch a ship steaming way too fast toward a crowd on the pier.  Our nation's capital is so filled with corruption, ladder-climbing, and plain stupidity that it's embarrassing to watch.  This is America?!?  Yet the Democrats we know personally are not guilty of those sins.  Many are smart, hard-working, kind, educated people and yet they voted for the wasted shell in the oval office — a man who is not only suffering from dementia, but has never been very bright, or very good.  A lot of these lovely people appear to be planning to vote for him again.  How can that be?  How can even a third of our compatriots think Biden is okay?  I believe it to be one of the most startling paradoxes of our time.  These proud, sophisticated, overeducated folks are, unlike the power brokers of the party, simply naive.  They're hopelessly gullible.  How they can possibly be both — naïve and sophisticated — is beyond me.

Michigan governor warned Biden campaign her state is no longer winnable: report.  Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer told President Biden's campaign that her state was no longer winnable after Biden's disastrous debate performance last week, Politico reported Monday.  The news arose from a call between Whitmer and Biden campaign Chair Jennifer O'Malley Dillon.  Sources familiar with the call told the outlet that Whitmer expressed frustration that her name was being raised as a replacement for Biden in the wake of the debate.  She disavowed any effort to force Biden to drop out of the race, something a growing number of Democrats are pushing for.  Another source told Politico that she gave Dillon a general warning that Michigan was no longer winnable for Biden following his debate performance.

We are NOT all Americans.  No, "We" are not "still all Americans", not when half the population support "the fundamental transformation" agenda of the Democrat Party Communists, who seek nothing less than the eradication of the Constitution and the end of our republic, in order to usher in an authoritarian / totalitarian communist Super-State, complete with social credit scores, carbon taxes, and a cashless system whereby the entire population can be made to completely submit.  A large percentage of our population today are anti-God, anti-Family, anti-Life, anti-Liberty and anti-American Marxist-Maoist amerikkans doing everything within their capability and means to destroy traditional America and Her founding virtues and principles and everything She has stood for over the centuries.  There is no room for compromise with evil [...]

Put a Fork in Him.  [Scroll down]  Democrats and liberals did not stand up and work to deny Biden his reelection bid because they hate Donald Trump so much they could not believe he would survive the onslaught of the legal cases against him and his own indiscipline.  They believed he would sabotage himself as he did in 2020, and that would be what mattered.  They would be saved from their own weak candidate by the weakness of the opposing candidate.  The thing is, they never really had any substantive reason backed by data to think this.  Trump has never given any indication of being a weaker candidate than Biden in the eyes of the electorate.

Cast Away Illusions and Prepare for Struggle.  The hour is already very late.  We are ruled by a regime that deeply hates and fears the bulk of its own people, and is demonstrably willing to do whatever it takes to retain power.  A regime that characterizes its political opposition as "extremists" and "domestic terrorists," and uses its security services to surveil and intimidate even the most ordinary dissenting citizens, treating them as enemies of the state.  One that wields the law as a weapon, flagrantly showcasing a two-tier legal system as it routinely seeks to arrest, humiliate, and destroy its political enemies while shielding its friends and foot soldiers from accountability.  A regime that now holds hundreds of political prisoners.  That has turned the tools of its military counterinsurgency apparatus on its own people.  That colludes with the world's most powerful technology and media companies to establish vast systems of mass censorship, propaganda, and reality distortion.  That has successfully corrupted nearly every public and private institution with a distinctly totalitarian state ideology.

The trans superiority narrative.  The narrative is not merely a cry for "trans rights," but an in-your-face rejection of objective reality that begins before birth.  We are now told fetuses know in the womb they are trans, and mentally ill parents are encouraged to believe their infants have similar knowledge and must be transitioned lest they inevitably kill themselves.  "Do you want a trans son or a dead daughter?" supposed therapists and doctors demand.  What portion of the population "identifies" as trans?  That's a difficult question, largely because the only way to determine if anyone is trans is if they are willing to identify as such, and that identification is subject to immediate change.

War on a Thousand Fronts.  The left is at war with free enterprise.  Their entire administrative state is a control mechanism over our economy that punishes and destroys those industries and companies the left doesn't like while using our tax dollars to fund their families and friends' start-up ventures.  The left makes every economic sector a battleground companies have to survive.  And the left wages a personal war in our neighborhoods and homes.  They are in open conflict with everyone of Judeo-Christian heritage, assaulting our individual and communal beliefs and morals through a compliant media which denigrates anyone of faith.  The left has made battlefields of our peaceful churches and synagogues.  The left is waging war on every parent who wishes to have a say in what their children are taught in school.  The Democrat Party is making a war zone of every school district in America.  Recently, the left's war has expanded to be one waged against women and girls — against every woman and girl who wants fair competition in their athletics; against every woman and girl who wants personal privacy in public spaces in this country; and against any girl who simply believes they are a girl.

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If I had written a paragraph in the Fifth Grade that ended with "they are a girl," I would have had some difficulty getting into the Sixth Grade.

8 Signs That Extremists Are Taking Over Our Country.  Our nation is being radically transformed by people with extreme ideologies, and that should deeply alarm all of us.  According to Google, an extremist is "a person who holds extreme or fanatical political or religious views, especially one who resorts to or advocates extreme action".  Sadly, that definition accurately describes many that hold prominent positions of power in our society today.  In so many cases, individuals that have political beliefs that most ordinary Americans would consider to be very radical are going to extraordinary lengths to impose their views on all of the rest of us.

This Is Why Democrats Are Panicking About Joe Biden.  A new Suffolk poll of black voters in two crucial swing states has come out and to say the news is devastating for Joe Biden is an understatement.  We've talked about how Joe Biden has been losing significant support from black voters since 2020, and this new poll continues to show the same trend.  [Advertisement]  In Pennsylvania, Biden gets 56% of the black vote, with Donald Trump getting 11%.  Third party candidates Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cornel West, and Jill Stein collectively get 16%.  In Michigan, another must-win state for Joe Biden, he captures only 55% of the black vote, compared to Donald Trump's 15% with another 15% going to the third party candidates.  [Tweet]

Behold the Monster You Created.  My gut feeling is that your traditional liberal (the sophomoric yard signs and the Tesla, yes, but also the secure corporate job in the quiet, bourgeois neighborhood) feels uneasy with the crazed mobs spilling into the streets every time they don't get their way.  That sort of thing used to happen five neighborhoods away.  Then four neighborhoods away.  Then three neighborhoods away.  And that sort of unhinged rioting used to happen once in a generation.  Then once every few years.  Then once every few weeks.  Yet the suburban traditional liberal continues to vote Democrat because of abortion.  Or some nonsense about the rich paying their "fair share."  Or climate change.  Or any number of manufactured grievances designed not so much to solve a tangible problem than to make a certain class of educated voters feel righteous about themselves.

Be Prepared for Chaos.  I suggest you start preparing for a great deal of left-wing civic violence, supply disruptions (including food shortages) and widespread urban chaos.  I say this because it is my sense that the Democrats, deep state, and their media enablers are all in rough shape and have no other way out but to fall back on their usual criminal methods of retaining power.  I find it impossible to believe that President Biden will be the Democratic nominee, and if he is, that he can win.  What do the Democrats do?  They certainly can't substitute Kamala Harris for Biden; she's tanked in opinion polls even lower and faster than has Biden.  There are no nationally known non-geriatric substitutes in the wings, save for California governor Gavin Newsom, whose record for screwing up is at least as bad as Biden's.

Is an electric vehicle collapse inevitable?  [Scroll down]  A famous aphorism observes if the federal government were put in charge of the Sahara Desert, in no time at all there would be a sand shortage.  Here's why we have a charging station shortage:  ["]But internal memos from the Department of Transportation obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, as well as interviews with those who are responsible for overseeing the implementation of the electric vehicle charging station project, say the delay is in large part a result of the White House's diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.  'These requirements are screwing everything up,' said one senior Department of Transportation staffer who spoke on the condition of anonymity.  'It's all a mess.'["]  How is DEI — didn't earn it — screwing things up?  At least 40% of the money has to go to "underserved communities," which is brilliant because those are the communities least able to afford, or want, an EV, so they have no use for EV chargers.

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Oh but they do have one use for electric car chargers:  There's more copper to steal!

Summer Surprise:  The Looming Biden Replacement.  Anyone paying attention in 2016 and 2020 knows how little Democrats care about "giving voters a say" in the primary process.  As the Party has veered ever-leftward while prioritizing radical environmentalism, intersectionality, and a general Marxist economic disposition and disdain for this country and its history, the primary process in recent years has yielded a commanding advantage to hard-left socialists like Bernie Sanders as the crowded field of moderate candidates vied for the political center during the Democratic primaries.  To put it bluntly, neither octogenarian Bernie Sanders nor shrill socialist Elizabeth Warren would play in Peoria, or any of the vital swing states for that matter, and the DNC's awareness of that fact is ostensibly why they underhandedly rigged the 2016 and 2020 primaries against Bernie Sanders in the first place.  And hard-lined leftists like Sanders or Warren would have had a huge opportunity with an open primary in 2024, not only because moderate Democrats are disaffected with current leadership, but because there is an absolute dearth of "popular Democrats" to pick up the Democrat baton.

Are You Now "Far-Right" If You're a Conservative?  The Economist measured the ideology of Democrat and Republican congressional candidates since 1980 — and while the ideology of the average Republican elected has moved slightly to the right, the ideology of the average Democrat elected has gone at least five times as far to the left.  [Illustration, not shown here.]  The Pew Research Center published a study in October 2017 tracking the growing ideological divide in America since the 1990s.  And the main finding?  That while Republicans have moved a centimeter to the right, Democrats have moved a mile to the left.

Is This Really Necessary, Texas Democrats?  [Several tweets with video clips.]  These videos come from this weekend's Texas Democrat convention, in which the Party is putting forth its preferred image upon which it chooses to be judged as a political party.  I am probably not the only person to have noticed that a state political party pushing drag for kids, sterilizing and mutilating children, and backing Hamas is unlikely to appeal strongly to working-class people who are feeling an economic pinch.  It's an odd set of priorities at any time, but particularly in an environment where ordinary people are practically screaming that they are unhappy with the Democrats right now.  No doubt people in Austin are thrilled that the Democrats are fighting the "civil rights issue of our time," but once you get outside the wealthiest (and one of the Whitest) cities in Texas, the appeal likely drops off precipitously.  Austin is home of both the Texas state government (government employees being liberal) and the University of Texas, Austin (which is even more liberal), so you shouldn't be surprised to find that the city is very liberal compared to the rest of the state.

Democrats In Connecticut Refused To Fly The Blue Line Flag To Honor Murdered Police Officer But Instead Fly A Pride Flag At Half-Staff.  A largely Democratic Connecticut town council has sparked controversy after it refused to fly the "thin blue line" flag for a state trooper killed in the line of duty last week.  The Wethersfield Town Council voted down the request to raise the flag — traditionally flown to support police — claiming that to some people, it represents divisiveness and racism.  Council Member Rich Bailey (R) suggested the town raise the "thin blue line" flag over town hall in honor of Connecticut State Trooper First Class Aaron Pelletier, 34, who was killed by a hit-and-run driver during a traffic stop last week.  [Video clip]

MSNBC analyst urges the military to act to stop Trump's election.  Crazed MSNBC analyst Donny Deutsch recently urged the U.S. military to release an ad campaign against former President Donald Trump ahead of the upcoming presidential election. [...] What happened to the long-cherished American concept of separating the civilian government from the military?  Democrats' disdain for civilians combined with their control of the military.  That's what happened.  Deutsch has previously spoken of "the evilness of Donald Trump" and labeled him as nothing more than the "Chief Crime Boss."  In this particular appearance, he slandered nearly half of all Americans, stating, "If you vote for Trump, you're the bad guy."

Mocking the left's missteps.  The fascist far-left ruling class is fresh out of ideas, and Biden is in big trouble politically, polling right up there with fungal infections, in the words of Senator John Kennedy.  Spending is out of control, causing rampant Bidenflation that everyone feels and no amount of BS from the national socialist media can hide. [...] The story now is that the far left is panicking over this prospect, and Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) is calling for New York governor Kathy Hochul (D) to pardon President Trump.  In ostensibly a refreshing change from the past few years, the D-Minn. representative wants this "for the good of the country."  Everyone can see that this was a naked attempt to blunt the momentum generated by the Democrats' Soviet-style show trial.  After all, just when did they start caring about the good of the country? [...] They were never going to pardon President Trump.  That was just a phony ploy designed to deflect attention from their predicament, born of their lust for pure political power.  But it shows that they are out of rational ideas, and they're panicking.

Cancelling the election:  The facts.  Now that the trial results have blown up in the faces of the American Left, we have to ask, what will they try next?  The Manhattan (or the Atlanta, or the Florida, or the D.C.) show trial was supposed to be the ultimate anti-Trump weapon, the death-blow that would halve his electoral support and leave his MAGA followers reeling.  But this, needless to say, failed to happen.  Trump has raised a record-breaking $200+ million since his conviction.  Immediate polls revealed a wash: 26% were more inclined to vote for him, while 27% were less inclined.  This has remained the case since.  Polling in swing states remains in the upper 40s.  The ruling transformed his most avid supporters into howling banshees and his mild or lukewarm bystanders into open supporters.

No men are above the law, except theirs.  YouGov, an online polling service, found that while 68% of Americans said two months ago that a convicted felon should not be president, only 49% say so now.  Meanwhile the numbers for allowing felons to serve as president rose from just 14% in April to 34% this month.  The I&I/TIPP poll asked the most intriguing question:  "To the best of your knowledge, if the presidential election were held today, who do you believe most of your neighbors would vote for?"  43% said Trump.  31% said Biden.  Money talks.  Apparently it finally is speaking American because Harmeet K. Dhillon tweeted from an event, "Never thought I'd see the day that tech execs in SF would sell out a Trump fundraiser.  Wow!  Speaks volumes to how tired people are of Biden's failed leadership in our country, even in the deepest blue of places."

Will A Single Democrat Stand Up To The Democrat Party's Inauguration Of Third-World Politics?  Are Democrats so scared of their own that not one will dare stand up to their party's inauguration of America's third-world political era, or will the entire party ask for another Jan. 6?  Democrats just spent the last three years fearmongering that Donald Trump's White House return would mark the coronation of a forever dictator hell-bent on dismantling democracy to stay in power.  It's a message Liz Cheney summarized in her recent memoir:  "As a nation, we can endure damaging policies for a four-year term.  But we cannot survive a president willing to terminate our Constitution."  [Advertisement]  But the nation reached a new inflection point Thursday when the Democrats officially captured the top item on their policy agenda with the criminal conviction of their sworn opposition chief.  President Joe Biden has now become everything Democrats claimed Trump would be, with far more in common with Russian President Vladimir Putin.  Yet no major Democrats have come out to condemn the latest institutional stress test.  Instead, Democrats are "giddy."

Boycott New York.  [Scroll down]  Perhaps the smug, faux sophisticated, insufferably mean, even evil, New Yorkers will be shocked to find a future where tourism is dying.  Hopefully, they will be stunned to discover that they don't have to tip to score a table at a "hot," overly-expensive restaurant or bar, and that there is no more fun to "see and be seen" because nobody will be there to see.  Maybe they will be astonished to observe that there are no 'out-of-towners in theatres or museums, which means they will be forced to pay ever higher taxes.

In Its Pursuit Of Power, The Democrat Party Openly Allies With Jihadists.  Currently, Marxists and Muslims are perfectly aligned.  They believe in statism and complete obedience to the state, political violence, and murderous hatred for Jews and Christians.  To achieve power, they are willing (temporarily) to embrace the leftist obsession with race and homosexuality.  This alliance explains why Marxists have substantially increased Muslim immigration into America, spurred on by eight years of Barack Obama's pro-Iranian presidency.  American Thinker readers will recall that one of Obama's early acts was his "American apology tour."  Watching an American President bow before the Saudi Muslim head of state was sickening.  Obama, who many believe is Muslim, also swooned over the beauty of the Islamic call to prayer and put Islam, a bit player in America, into a position of preeminence in our history.  The Muslim anarchy that is on full display today is Obama's doing.  It was part of his plan to destroy Israel, the world's only Jewish state, with America following as the larger target.  The American left is fed and driven by hate.

They lie because they get away with it.  On Monday, we honored the million men who died defending our great nation and protecting our God-given rights.  Sadly, the current resident in the White House decided to honor instead a drug addict and armed robber who died in police custody.  His staff perpetuated the lie that George Floyd was murdered by a policeman — a lie upheld by a kangaroo court in Minnesota.  That's the power of the Big Lie.

Joe Biden spends his Memorial Day weekend celebrating George Floyd.  The Memorial Day weekend is on us, so quite a few people were surprised to see Joe Biden tweeting about this instead of our selfless servicemen who paid the ultimate sacrifice:  [Tweet]  George Floyd?  Who was never in the service, let alone someone who gave his life for his country?  He changed the world?  If one could call it that.  Most people don't see the riots and looting that followed his sadly predictable death with fentanyl in his system, complicated by his own decision to resist arrest as 'changing the world.'  Is Biden telling the public to take fentanyl and to disobey police orders?  As for act in his memory, what again is the old fool talking about?  Go rioting?  Go looting?  Expand DEI programs to unsustainable levels?  Accuse all cops of racism to the point of cops retiring at their desks?  Nothing good came of the death of George Floyd, a career criminal whose death, while a tragedy for him, was a pretty preventable one.  As for the public, his death and the radical response, driven to some extent by Cuban and Venezuelan agents, was a disaster.

Sen. Chuck Schumer Demands Immediate Amnesty for All Illegals.  Over several decades of illegal immigration, Democrats have claimed there are 11 to 13 million illegal aliens in this country.  It's far more than that, but however many there are, Schumer demanded amnesty for them.  That's not a surprise.  We have no idea who these people are, yet he wants them all to vote.  A recent poll showed that more than 88% of the illegals would vote for Democrats.  It would give these unAmerican, authoritarian Democrats a permanent electoral majority.  Chuck Schumer says Democrats want to pass an immigration bill because "we have a population that is not reproducing on its own with the same level that it used to."  Schumer then calls for amnesty for "all 11 million or however many" illegal immigrants in the U.S.

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[#1] Just taking Senator Schumer's statement at face value, he doesn't even know how many illegal aliens are here!  That's an admission of incompetence.  It is far more likely that he knows there are three or four times as many illegal aliens as he claims, and is duplicitously low-balling the number to sell his amnesty idea.  [#2] He wants immediate amnesty!  Right now!  What's the rush?  The only purpose for rushing through an irreversible and massive change like this is deception.  The election is coming up soon, and it's unlikely the Democrats will be able to manufacture enough extra ("look what we found") ballots to overcome the Trump victory this time.  [#3]  Mr. Schumer doesn't care if Americans reproduce as fast as they once did.  This isn't about reproduction, it's about signing up parasites for welfare payments and expecting them to vote for Socialist Democrats to perpetuate those payments — and the Democrats' power.  [#4]  If "we have a population that is not reproducing on its own with the same level that it used to," whose fault is that?  Which political party is pushing gender confusion, gender neutral behavior, normalization of homosexuality in the public schools, normalization of same-sex marriage, abortion at any stage of pregnancy for any reason, and over-population panic?  The Muslims are the only group that's really eager to reproduce, and they're only doing so to overwhelm the rest of us at the ballot box in another generation or two.

Over 40 Democrat Mayors Demand Biden Give Illegal Aliens Jobs and Work Permits, Claim They Will Boost Economy By $7 TRILLION!  Over 40 Democratic mayors and county officials have demanded that Joe Biden give jobs and work permits to migrants who have entered the U.S. illegally, claiming that new arrivals will add a staggering $7 trillion to the economy over the next decade.  In a letter signed by the likes of New York City Mayor Eric Adams, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and San Francisco Mayor London Breed, the Democrats plead with Biden to force the Department of Homeland Security to "leverage its authority to grant parole for longterm undocumented immigrants and our most recent arrivals to create a process for streamlined work authorization." [...] Nearly all of those who have signed the letter represent sanctuary cities, where Democratic officials protect illegal immigrants from deportation and often pay for their housing, food and other living expenses.

The democrats pretend.  The Democrats have depended on their thoroughly unconstitutional lawfare to take Trump out of the running but that plan is collapsing — in Georgia, in Florida, in D.C. and in Manhattan.  Not one of the indictments brought against him and his associates is legitimate.  Each one is feeble, and a glaring attempt at subversion of the law and his presidency.  That those who huddled together to come up with these phony charges thought they would stick and render Trump ineligible is a sad commentary on their character, their lack of respect for the Constitution, their knowledge of the law, and their abject fear of another Trump term given their knowledge of their own criminality.  So they pretend it cannot and will not happen, that he cannot possibly return to the White House.  They are in serious denial for in their heart of hearts, they know Biden is a shadow of his former self and his former self was nothing of which to be proud.

Biden Sends Condolences to Murderer of Americans.  Iran's murder of Sgt. William Rivers, Spc.  Kennedy Sanders, and Spc.  Breonna Moffett, three black servicemembers from Georgia, earlier this year was only the latest killing of Americans by the Islamic terrorist regime in Tehran in addition to the dozens already killed on Oct 7.  Iran had not only connived to murder an estimated one thousand American soldiers on the battlefield, but its assassins and agents had plotted to kill members of the Trump administration.  Last year, even the Biden administration was forced to sanction Iranian IRGC terror officials plotting assassinations in D.C.  In March, it was reported that the FBI was hunting for an Iranian spy targeting former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and other Trump administration officials.  But after Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, his foreign minister and an IRGC general died when their chopper crashed on a mountainside, the Biden administration joined Putin, China's Xi, the UN, Hamas, and other international villains in a global orgy of mourning for a monster.

Why the Biden Admin decided to honor the legacy of a man nicknamed 'The Butcher of Tehran'.  On Monday afternoon, the Biden Administration sent their condolences to Iran for the death of the Tehran regime's president, leading to lots of anger and confusion amongst Americans who believe that our country should defend the basic principles of our founding.  In tragic and revolting fashion, our government "expressed its official condolences" for the now-deceased Ebrahim Raisi, who was nicknamed "The Butcher of Tehran" for his role in overseeing the execution of thousands of political prisoners.  The U.S. Institute of Peace describes Raisi as "a pivotal player in the mass execution of thousands." [...] And it wasn't just the United States government that "expressed condolences" for the bad guys.  Almost the entirety of the U.N. membership roster and other transnational outfits, treated the death of Raisi as if it was an event worthy of sorrow.

Fewer than 24 of 400 Graduates at All-Black Morehouse College Applaud Biden.  [Tweet with video clip]  Please play the video in the Tweet above.  My first reaction was wow, what a dismal round of applause.  And that's still my reaction, now backed up by numbers.  Fewer than 24 of 400 blacks applauded Biden.  I did not plan to do two political posts in a row, nor did I have any idea that Morehouse College graduates would have this reaction or that Biden was even speaking at Morehouse College.  Biden has serious issues with Black voters judging from recent polls.  And judging from the reaction to Biden's speech to the graduating class of Morehouse College on Sunday, his support may be less than the polls indicate.

Biden's presidential motorcade drives through deep blue Atlanta neighborhood, but draws only sparse crowd.  President Joe Biden's motorcade drove through deep blue Atlanta this weekend to little fanfare, leading many to wonder about the enthusiasm for his 2024 campaign.  In 2020, the president became the first Democrat to win a presidential election in Georgia in 30 years.  The party also won both senate seats in the Southern state.  But the state's landscape has shifted significantly over the last four years, with recent polls suggesting former president Donald Trump is in the lead in the Peach State.

148 House Democrats Vote to Block Deportation of Illegal Aliens Who Attack Cops.  On Wednesday evening, the United States House of Representatives voted on the Detain and Deport Illegal Aliens Who Assault Cops Act, originally introduced by Representative Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ).  The bill's intent is to require the deportation of illegal aliens who assault law enforcement officers.  This value of this piece of legislation seems so staggeringly obvious that it should have been a unanimous vote, doesn't it?  Is there any reasoned argument against deporting illegal aliens who attack cops?  We might ask the 148 Democrats who voted against the bill. [...] What's not clear is what happens to aliens who are charged with a crime in the assault, as we should expect those individuals to stand trial and, if found guilty, to be imprisoned, but given the revolving-door nature of the prosecutorial apparatuses of too many of our major cities just now, perhaps immediate and unconditional deportation — which is in the legitimate purview of the federal government — is more efficient.

Biden's Incompetence Is Outstripping Voters' Fear Of Trump.  Last week, President Biden said he would withdraw military aid to Israel if it commenced military operations to go into Rafah and go after Hamas.  There were many reactions to this announcement because it seemed to perfectly encapsulate the incoherent Israel policy the Biden administration has been developing since Hamas' brutal attack last October that touched off the war in Gaza.  On one hand, the American people are broadly supportive of Israel and the moral justification for this war.  Lest anyone forget, Hamas is still holding American citizens hostage at this very moment.  On the other, the hard-left grassroots that are an important part of the Democrat Party's coalition are radically pro-Palestinian and eager to engage in street violence domestically to prove the point.  It's also worth noting that the hard-left shock troops aren't just emblematic of the party's activist heart — their efforts to destabilize colleges and worse are being funded by George Soros, the Tides Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and those that hold the purse strings for billions of dollars of funding for Democrats and their lefty causes.

Hundreds Gather for Anti-Illegal Immigration Rally in Boston.  A large rally against the open border policies of Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey and President Joe Biden took center stage in front of the state capitol in Boston.  Hundreds gathered for the May 4 morning protest, many of them veterans who underlined what local popular conservative talk radio host and rally host Jeff Kuhner called "the final betrayal."  He was referring to an amendment that Massachusetts Democrats recently rejected, which would have mandated that homeless veterans be given priority over illegal immigrants at state shelters.  State Republicans introduced the legislation after Ms. Healey, who has converted popular recreation centers, even an airport terminal, into shelters for unvetted immigrants, announced that she was next moving the migrants into the Old Soldiers' Home in Chelsea.  "You know why they aren't helping veterans?  Because they hate America," said Mr. Kuhner, who referred to Ms. Healey as a "modern-day Benedict Arnold."

The Democratic Party:  The Purveyor of Anti-Semitism.  The plain, hard fact that must now be understood is that one of America's two major political parties — the Democrat Party — has not only become the command central platform for today's outbreak of anti-Semitism; for those who came in late, anti-Semitism has always had a home on the left and specifically in the Democratic Party.  Recall that the party has always had race as a central component.  Founded by slave owners, as I have noted in this space previously, it was early on record as a staunch supporter of everything from slavery to segregation to — yes, indeed — the Ku Klux Klan.  As noted here previously, the party was a serious handmaiden to the "formation of the Ku Klux Klan, which, according to Columbia University historian Eric Foner[,] became 'a military force serving the interests of the Democratic Party.'"  According to "University of North Carolina historian Allen Trelease's description," the Klan was specifically the "terrorist arm of the Democratic Party."

America's Jenga Tower of Power.  A majority of Americans believe that mail-in ballot fraud tainted the 2020 election, but most state and federal officials continue to pretend the results were aboveboard.  A majority of Americans wish to put an end to mass illegal immigration, but the Department of Homeland (in)Security continues to do nothing to protect our borders from foreign invasion.  A majority of Americans are worried about rising inflation, but the federal government continues to print and spend money and issue costly regulations.  A majority of Americans oppose widespread government surveillance programs that intrude upon their privacy, but elected officials continue to give the Intelligence Blob full access to Americans' most sensitive records and communications, in total disregard for the Constitution's protections against warrantless searches.  A majority of Americans distrust mainstream news sources, but prominent news organizations continue to push ideological propaganda at the expense of truthful and objective reporting.

Pennsylvania Democrats Cast over 60,000 Protest Votes against Biden, Spelling Doom for Re-Election.  Tens of thousands of Pennsylvania Democrats have cast protest votes against President Joe Biden in the battleground state's primary, according to reports.  More than 60,000 write-in votes from Democrats in Pennsylvania could spell doom for Biden's re-election campaign, the Washington Examiner reported.  The group Uncommitted PA is taking credit for the development.  The organization launched a protest aimed at getting 40,000 "uncommitted" votes in the Democrat primary.

It's Going to Take Some Serious Fraud to Help Biden Win.  [Scroll down]  People are not thrilled with all that Bidenomics, and Bidenomics is what is killing him.  Notice how they no longer talk about "Bidenomics?"  All that reassurance that we are thriving is not convincing anyone.  Expect Biden, instead, to spend a lot of time talking about abortion, since 75% of voters think it is either a very important or somewhat important issue, and it is about the only issue out there where he has an edge.  For how many people is this the single issue?  I have no idea.  Too many, but probably not enough to save Biden.  The economy and immigration are the top two issues for people — the only ones breaking into double digits.

FJB's worst nightmare.  [Scroll down]  This lawsuit may backfire as loudly as trying Donald Trump for such things as taking out a loan and paying it back, according to James Bovard whose latest book is Last Rights:  The Death of American Liberty.  Bovard wrote in a column in the New York Post, "Congress never intended to give equal opportunity to felons and ex-convicts when it enacted the 1964 Civil Rights Act.  "Permitting federal agencies to become regulatory dictators is a travesty of the Constitution and common sense.  "Crime could be one of the defining issues in this year's presidential election.  "If Republicans highlight the EEOC Sheetz lawsuit, Biden could sweat far more the next time he wanders in to do a campaign photo op at one of its stores."  Trump doesn't need to do that to win because Democrats are going out of their way to kill their own chances.  Using the courts to kill Donald Trump was well planned and coordinated by the White House.  Unfortunately, the planner appears to be the incompetent Kamala Harris fresh off her job as border czar, which saw the largest invasion American history.

A Warning to America.  The liberal establishment aims to destroy America so that a society more conducive to oligarchical collectivist rule can be engineered upon its ashes.  Meanwhile, it consolidates authoritarian control.  The means of accomplishing these objectives are not secret.  The video below spells out most of them in under 2 minutes.  Tactics include:
  •   Open borders and illegal immigration
  •   Rampant crime and unsafe cities
  •   Election insecurity and interference
  •   The educational indoctrination of children
  •   The asymmetrical weaponization of justice
  •   The destruction of private property rights
  •   Inflation and debt
  •   Destruction of the nuclear family and parental rights
  •   DEI and the new racism
  •   Moral and societal decay
Those at the wheel do not mean us well.  If they remain in control, this country is doomed.  [Video clip]

The Climate-Alarmist Movement Has A Big PR Problem On Its Hands.  The whole "net-zero by 2050" narrative that cranked up in earnest in early 2021 has now become a public relations problem for the climate-alarm movement, according to a senior official at the United Nations.  Chris Stark, the outgoing chief executive of the UN's Climate Change Committee (CCC), said as reported by the Guardian:  "Net zero has definitely become a slogan that I feel occasionally is now unhelpful, because it's so associated with the campaigns against it.  That wasn't something I expected."  As seems to always be the case among the globalist sponsors of this government-subsidized rush to saddle the world with unreliable power grids and short-range electric cars, the conversation among the leaders of the movement immediately moves not to perhaps reconsidering the approach to address public concerns, but to rejiggering the narrative.

Marxist Health Officials Want You Committed.  One of the more insidious features of Marxism's manipulation of language is its stigmatization of opposing points of view as some form of mental disorder.  Opposition to "gay marriage" is said to be a "sign" of homophobia.  Distrusting Islamic terrorists who celebrate 9/11 and shout, "Death to America," is a "symptom" of Islamophobia.  Wanting the federal government to secure our borders and enforce existing immigration law "reveals" underlying xenophobia.  Not wanting biological men to force their way into ladies' locker-rooms and showers suggests that a person "suffers" from dreaded transphobia.  Notice that all these purported psychiatric disorders are categorized as "phobias," or more plainly, as "irrational fears."  Marxists routinely use loaded medical language not only to demonize or disgrace their foes but also to transform any political disagreement into something that it is not. [...] You could say that Marxists are committed to the lie that opposition to Marxism rests on irrational fear.

Schumer Getting Rid of Mayorkas Impeachment Could Affect Democrats in November and Beyond.  It was quite a memorable week for the Senate.  With what narrow control the Democrats have, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was able to spare impeached Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas from a trial.  Although Mayorkas was impeached by the House in February, Schumer and his fellow Senate Democrats successfully dismissed the articles of impeachment.  In doing so, it's not merely Mayorkas who is affected, but also vulnerable Senate Democrats up for reelection in 2024.  The Senate map is looking particularly favorable to Republicans, especially in comparison to 2022.  Among the "Toss Up" races are Ohio, where Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown is running for reelection against Republican Bernie Moreno.  Just like his fellow Democrats, Brown fell in line.  Moreno has been vocal in calling out Brown, releasing statements on Tuesday and Wednesday.  In response to Brown referring to the impeachment effort as a "distraction," Moreno reminded that "Since Joe Biden took office, nearly 10 million people have invaded our country due to the open border policies of Biden, Mayorkas and Sherrod Brown.  It isn't a 'distraction' to demand accountability for the drugs, crime, death and destruction brought into this country because of these policies."

Marg bar, masks, and mania.  Last weekend, as Iranian missiles descended on Israel, some Americans were standing with terrorism.  Social media featured a Chicago group happily being taught Persian phrases for "Death to Israel!"  They even asking how to add "Death to America!"  [Tweet with video clip] [...] Almost everybody in that video is masked.  I count at least nine.  We're four years past COVID.  Most Americans long ago figured out — even when our "public health experts" were still urging quadruple masking while showering home alone — that the masks could go.  But, on my morning subway ride, I still notice a hardcore "faithful remnant" still clinging to masks, "science is science" tote bags, and even gloves.  What I find strangest, however, is that: most of them are twenty- to thirty-something women.  That observation is reinforced by walking through an urban campus when school's in session.

Betrayal and the Democrats.  Let me be blunt.  The worst of our betrayers are found in the Democrat party.  They are betraying America right now and have been for years. [...] This is a group of leaders committed to upending all of our institutions.  This is a group of leaders who have agreed to seek power above all, while reaping corrupt, unearned, ill-gotten gains.  While foisting huge debt on the American public, they preen in the public eye, proud of their fame, proud of their deceit; in their small-souled thinking, they are doing it for the revolution.  All while, they are not comprehending the destruction they are foisting on the world of others.  Delusionally, they believe this is for the greater good, for a Utopian vision only they, because they're so smart, can see.  One by one, they are upending the blocs of the governing agreements we once had as a nation:  They have contempt for the Constitution any time it constrains them.  They willfully change the meaning of clear pronouncements, proclaiming elasticity when it's needed to forward their ideas.  They censor, and no longer champion free speech.  They hide their evil deeds.  They want to disarm law-abiding Americans, while allowing violent criminals to go free to wreak havoc again.  They want a defenseless population to rule.  They criminalize people for not agreeing with them.  They go after anyone who effectively counters them and are doing so regularly using the Justice Department and the FBI (the new Stasi).  They have, and are, spying on their political opponents with the technology available through the Patriot Act.  They do this on a massive scale, to anyone in power who is against their ideas.  Even against ordinary citizens who align with the center-right.  They intimidate individuals and groups simply because they outwardly disagree with their policies.  They have instituted Soviet-style show trials to imprison their political opponents and have unleashed the horrid practice of lawfare on the country.

Tim Scott:  Trump Trial 'Injustice' [is] Driving Black Voters to GOP.  Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) told Breitbart News exclusively on Monday afternoon that the trial that Democrats are dragging former President Donald Trump through in New York is only driving more black voters away from Democrats — like President Joe Biden — and toward the Republican Party and Trump.  "There's no doubt that when you see a nearly 75 percent increase in black men wanting to support President Trump, that's not an insignificant increase," Scott told Breitbart News as Trump sat in a New York courtroom facing criminal charges from District Attorney Alvin Bragg.  "That is a gargantuan step in the right direction.  Why?  Because the Democrat stronghold on power is being broken by people who say, 'This isn't fair, and I want an America that is fair, and if they will do it to him, they will do it to me.'[...]"

Biden Held a Rally in His Pennsylvania Hometown and Barely Anyone Showed Up.  Joe Biden traveled to his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday but did not get the reception he might have hoped for.  Photos of Biden's event appeared to show just a few dozen people in attendance for a campaign speech in which he unveiled plans to increase taxes on the super-rich.  Meanwhile, images from Trump's rally in Pennsylvania over the weekend showed thousands of people in attendance who had come to see the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.  [Tweet]  According to CNN, which often operates as an unofficial mouthpiece of the White House, Biden was seeking to push his own version of "economic populism."

When 'Divide and Conquer' Unites and Enrages.  In two previous essays, I have discussed popular nullification in the context of the American people rejecting the State's propaganda and withdrawing their respect for the rule of law.  As the U.S. and other Western governments continue to engage in a cognitive war against their own citizens, an increasing share of Western populations will conclude that their own institutions have been secretly targeting them as enemies.  Because the World Economic Forum, the United Nations, and other globalist bodies have chosen to spread falsehoods (first they panicked about "global cooling" before pushing the more terrifying "global boiling," after all) in a calculated campaign to sow public fear and drive public policy, authority figures have forfeited the public's trust.  As Western governments and their international coalitions (e.g., the World Health Organization) respond to the public's rejection of their authority by imposing new censorship and surveillance rules on society, the fracture separating the governing from the governed will widen into an unbridgeable crevasse.

Kansas governor vetoes bill banning transgender treatments for minors.  Kansas Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly has vetoed legislation that would have banned gender-affirming care treatment for minors.  "This divisive legislation targets a small group of Kansans by placing government mandates on them and dictating to parents how to best raise and care for their children," Kelly said in a statement Friday, announcing her veto.  "I do not believe that is a conservative value, and it's certainly not a Kansas value."  She added that the bill goes against parental rights and that the government should not be in "between a parent and a child who needed medical care of any kind."  The bill would have banned hormones and transgender surgeries for those under 18.  Kelly vetoed similar legislation the prior year.

Democrats Will Champion Despicable Pedophilia Within Five Years, or Less.  [Scroll down]  Today, transgenderism is all the rage in progressive precincts.  Democrat President Joe Biden named Richard Leland Levine Assistant Secretary of Health, in 2021.  Richard had earlier taken to wearing women's attire and rebranded himself "Rachel."  In its laudatory profiling of troubled Levine, Wikipedia consistently referred to him as "her" and "she."  Rather than conveying reality, Wikipedia's editors prioritized progressive attitude, and presented a false account.  Future students may consider Wikipedia information for analyses.  If so, they will be misled and their conclusions skewed.  Historical accuracy will be a casualty.  In June 2023, Biden invited hundreds of mentally maladjusted wrong-dressers to a White House event celebrating "Pride."  Photos of topless and painted transgenders cavorting on the White House lawn went viral.  A beaming Biden looked on and pronounced the twisted frolickers "courageous."

Dance Team Forced From Seattle Show Because Uniforms Were Offensive — They Depicted the American Flag.  On Tuesday, I reported on the Seattle-area 11-year-old girl who wasn't allowed to form a faith group even though her school welcomed a Pride group, a "Green" team, and many other clubs.  Is it something in the water that turns so many residents of Washington into America-hating, left-wing zealots?  The Evergreen State is once again in the news as the Borderline Dance Team was forced out of the Emerald City Hoedown in Seattle Saturday, not because their act was profane, not because they broke the rules — but because their uniforms depicted the American flag.  Evidently, the symbol of our country is too much for these wokesters.  I'm guessing there wouldn't have been a problem if the team wore Palestinian flags.

Words Aren't Enough.  With Trump seeming to be unbeatable in the 2024 election, the Democrats have begun a scorched-earth policy of laying landmines on every conceivable path he might take.  Having declared that he would fire a great many bureaucrats, they're working on making that much harder to do.  The lawfare they've invested millions of dollars to prosecute is turning out to be a failed enterprise and like a cornered animal, they're attacking everything Trump.  But they're also exposing themselves to millions more people.

Everything We Thought We Knew About Elections Is Changing.  Have you noticed lately that we can't rely on the past to guide us through this election?  Changes are definitely happening.  For one thing, we appear to be in the process of a major racial realignment, in which black and Latino voters are shifting to the Republican Party.  Joe Biden's 2020 advantage among black voters has declined by over 20% in various polls.  We're also seeing younger people undergoing the same shift.  Things have changed so dramatically that it's likely to affect how Democrats campaign.  We're already seeing it happen.  Last week, we learned that an influential data scientist had warned major Democratic donors in a confidential memo not to register young and black voters ahead of the 2024 election because they're likely going to vote for Donald Trump.  "Indeed, if we were to blindly register nonvoters and get them on the rolls, we would be distinctly aiding Trump's quest for a personal dictatorship," Aaron Strauss warned in the memo, citing recent polling showing Trump's strength with unregistered voters.

How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.  Could Doom Joe Biden.  Across the street from the famed Mexican marketplace on Los Angeles' Olvera Street, with steaming tacos and an all-female mariachi band playing the renowned "Cielito Lindo" for the crowd on Cesar Chavez Day, the event had all the trappings of a Democratic candidate's GOTV rally.  But with a bishop, a former Border Patrol supervisor and an anti-vaccine mandate Latino sheriff speaking as well, it could have just as easily been a Republican rally.  Neither was true.  Saturday marked third-party candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s relaunch of "Viva Kennedy," his Hispanic outreach program that harkens back to the first ever Latino vote campaign launched by Kennedy's uncle, John F. Kennedy, during the 1960 presidential race.

The Editor says...
[#1] The Socialist Democrats are going to lose in November, if either Joe Biden or Kamala Harris is their nominee.  The Democrats would benefit from Kennedy's entry into the race, because he wouldn't win, but he would serve as the news media scapegoat.  [#2] The only people who would vote for RFK Junior are those who think Joe Biden isn't far enough to the left, and those who harbor irrational hate for Donald Trump and don't mind paying for that hate with five-dollar gasoline and ten-percent inflation.

Panicking Democrat Congressman Calls on RFK Jr.'s Running Mate to Leave the Race.  Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s decision to select entrepreneur Nicole Shanahan as his running mate sent Democrats into a panic and justifiably so.  Instead of opting for a centrist or moderate conservative to forge a strong unity ticket, Kennedy chose a radical leftist, which could only make the ticket more attractive to progressives who don't want to vote for Joe Biden.  The pick would also certainly alienate conservatives who were considering backing Kennedy in November as an alternative to Donald Trump.  The panic and desperation continue.  Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) is urging Shanahan to consider stepping aside because he's concerned that the independent ticket will be a spoiler for Biden and result in Donald Trump getting elected.

Nobody is buying into the net zero madness.  Are consumers really ready for the magnitude of changes necessary for a green transition?  Already, the vast ambition of net zero envisages most people switching their gas central heating to electricity and their petrol cars to bicycles and electric cars.  The ultimate challenge will be the wholesale conversion of electricity from coal, oil and gas to renewables — all without a satisfying answer to the question of what to do when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow.  So far, governments have concentrated on doing what should be the easier areas of transition.  They have considerable influence and control over energy markets, and have increased their interventions in them.  We've seen more subsidies, tax breaks, windfall taxes, regulations, managed prices and bans than ever in the quest to tip electricity generation towards wind and solar power away from fossil fuels.  The energy industry has consented, or at least acquiesced, to these changes.

Gen-Z Revolts Against Democrats.  It is no surprise that a new Gallup poll shows a growing number of Gen-Zers and millennials are becoming increasingly frustrated with the failure of 'Bidenomics' as they struggle with the cost-of-living crisis.  We didn't need a poll to reveal the frustrations of youngsters working two or three jobs just to afford rent, auto payments, and avocado and toast.  The writing has been on the wall, especially on social media feeds of TikTok and X:  [Four tweets with video clips]  The new Gallup poll of 18-29-year-olds validates the Biden administration, which seemingly cares more about illegal aliens and the LGBTQQIP2SAA community (not sure what all those letters mean), is quickly losing the young vote. [...] The Biden administration understands they desperately need Gen-Z and millennial support to win in November.  They are trying everything in their power to buy votes by bailing out youngsters with student debt (despite the Supreme Court ruling).

Does this mean it's okay to mock Pete Buttigieg?
Pete Buttigieg mocks Americans who don't want electric cars.  Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg made fun of Americans who don't want to buy electric cars, claiming they're the same as people didn't want to adapt to cell phones in the 2000s.  It comes as at least eight states run by Democrats like Buttigieg are planning to ban non-electric vehicles by 2032.  Buttigieg was speaking on Fox News Tuesday afternoon when he was asked about a downturn in sales of Teslas and electric vehicles despite Biden's administration pushing them.

DNC Activist Warns Democrats to Stop Registering Young Voters.  The Washington Post has an article about Democrat data scientist Aaron Strauss, who helps direct progressive spending at the firm OpenLabs, warning his peers that registering young people to vote, young people of color specifically, is helping Donald Trump.  The data shows that when Democrats help register young voters, they end up registering people who will vote for Trump.  Now they are considering not even holding voter registration drives in target markets because they align with Trump.

A GOP Landslide in November.  The Biden Democrats have opened the southern border to about eight million illegal aliens, many of them military-age single males.  Assume only half of those aliens are males and one in a thousand are in terrorist sleeper cells infiltrated by Al-Qaeda, ISIS, or Iran.  That adds up to 4,000 attackers spread all over the country, which is 200 times greater than the twenty that Al-Qaeda planned for its attack on September 11, 2001.  Instead of thousands of deaths, the casualties could be hundreds of thousands.  That death toll would overshadow the body blow to American cities from millions of unscreened "migrants" whom Democrat governors and mayors are subsidizing with free housing and free money.  The answer from Biden Democrats to the terrorist threat is to ban the terms "Islamic terrorist" and "jihadist" from intelligence reports at the Pentagon and the FBI.

FDNY firefighters forced to remove flag honoring 9/11 heroes after lefty pol questioned if it's a 'political symbol'.  Fire Department brass ordered an East Village ladder company to remove its "red line" American flag honoring the squad's six brothers killed on 9/11 — after a neighborhood resident complained it was "fascist" and a local lefty pol questioned whether it was a "politically charged symbol."  The shocking order came March 22 after a man claiming he was a staffer for Democratic Manhattan Councilwoman Carlina Rivera confronted firefighters at Ladder Co. 11, sources said.  The man pedaled up to the East 2nd Street firehouse on a bicycle and told firefighters he worked for Rivera and that the councilwoman's office "complained" to the FDNY three days earlier about the flag — which features a red stripe in tribute of firefighters injured or killed in the line of duty.

NY Firefighters Forced to Remove Flag for 9/11 Heroes After Leftwing Questioning, Backlash Saves Day.  We've seen a lot of bad stories this weekend that seem to have a common theme: people on the left seem on the march to try to stomp on everything that they don't like or find problematic, including things like the White House forbidding religious displays on an Easter egg design contest and proclaiming Easter Sunday "Transgender Visibility Day."  Now comes another story that's also a sign of leftists seemingly trying to stomp on something incredibly important.  Apparently, someone complained about a flag that firefighters had on one of their trucks at Ladder Company 11 in the East Village.  The company had a flag with a red line in it honoring six of their brethren who were killed on 9/11 as they bravely tried to save people.  [Tweet]

Americans Don't Like DEI.  Woke capitalism is one of the strange phenomena of our era.  I understand why government agencies might go in for DEI (Didn't Earn It), since government at all levels is mostly in the hands of liberals and government employees, by their nature, are inclined to social engineering.  But why corporations should sign up en masse for this left-wing nonsense is beyond me.  It is beyond most Americans, too.  Rasmussen asked more than 1,200 Americans whether they are familiar with DEI and whether they think it has a positive or negative impact on companies.

Not Sure Democrats Could Be Any More Evil.  There is no bottom for Democrats to hit, so if you've been waiting for one of them to stand up and express outrage about anything related to any of the damaging policies they push, don't hold your breath.  Murdered Americans at the hands of illegal aliens?  Yawn.  Random women being punched in the face by thugs and goons on the streets of New York?  Whatever.  Are Americans unable to fill their gas tanks or afford groceries?  Who cares?  You morons don't know how good you've got it anyway, ingrates.  That's the attitude of Democrats, at least, and they mean it.  They hate you.  Seriously.  Hate them back.  Not like you need more evidence or reason, but there was something that happened this week on MSNBC that was particularly illustrative of what's wrong with Democrats.  No, it wasn't the firing of Ronna McDaniel, though that was bad enough.  It was about the border.

The War on Easter.  Almost as inevitably as Santa Claus arriving in department stores and town squares or the appearance of garland and ornaments beside Halloween costumes, there appears the annual debate over the "war on Christmas."  The question is whether Christmas is being obliterated from the public square, with "Merry Christmas" replaced by "Happy Holidays," the banishment of carols from school choruses, or the generic coffee cups at Starbucks.  I have two different questions:  Is there a war on Easter?  And has Easter lost?  Let's be honest.  Easter in America is increasingly culturally invisible.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility.  For those of you who celebrate this sacred day, Happy Easter.  For those who don't, most Americans appreciate that it is the holiest day of the year for you and treat it with civilized respect.  To the President who claims he is a Catholic in good standing, it's just another day to poke his fingers in your eyes.  Yes, the White House is hosting the traditional easter egg rolling event, but it has banned all religious symbols at the event, and in a proclamation dated, "in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-four" announced that this day, March 31, is "Transgender Day of Visibility."  (Can you honestly say transgenders have been invisible in this Administration or generally in our country these days?)  It strikes me that it is so deliberately offensive to Christians it's puzzling.

Biden proclaims Easter Sunday as 'Trans Day of Visibility'.  President Biden has sparked outrage by declaring this Easter Sunday will also officially become Transgender Day of Visibility.  The White House doubled up backlash as it also banned religious imagery in submissions from children of military families taking part in the traditional Easter Egg Roll event, as critics branded the moves an 'attack on Christianity.'  Former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy led the charge, as he mused 'I wonder how (Biden) came up with that date' by having Easter Sunday clash with the transgender tribute day.

It is safe to say that no such restrictions are in place when the White House celebrates Muslim holidays.
White House Prohibits Children from Submitting 'Overtly Religious' Art for Easter Egg Roll.  President Joe Biden's Democrat administration is taking flak for prohibiting children from submitting Easter eggs featuring religious artwork for a contest.  The event, which is part of the White House's annual Easter Egg Roll, is called "Celebrating National Guard Families" but will not allow submissions to feature symbols related to the holiday that Christians celebrate all over the world, the Daily Caller reported Friday.

Democracy By Deception.  The communists seek out foreign or international organizations to do what they know the people will not accept.  It's just another ruse as they lead us down the path to digital prisons.  They demonstrate that it's the free will of the people that they abhor, that vexes them in their agendas, so, while screaming for "democracy" they practice totalitarian rule.  The open border is to get them new voters for their agenda that a vast majority of Americans reject.  In their minds, that just means they have to go around those who disagree, because they brook no resistance.  The people want a secure border.  They want their veterans to be taken care of instead of illegal aliens.  They want fiscal responsibility that will lead to an end to inflation.  They want a budget that does not devalue their currency.  They want their children to grow up without being force-fed communism and abnormal sexuality from kindergarten on.  They want to be left alone to raise their families and enjoy the fruits of their labor, but the communists will never allow that, so they must be defeated and driven back into the holes from which they've sprung.

The Democrat party is a Potemkin village.  Nothing has revealed the shallow, empty façade of the Democrat party like the rather obscene fundraiser held Thursday night at Radio City Music Hall.  Joe Biden's campaign is going so badly that Barack Obama and Bill Clinton were resurrected from the shadows to bolster Biden's sinking polling numbers.  Whoever is running the campaign apparently thinks people are so stupid that getting those two former presidents on board will fool voters into thinking Biden is not the failed, demented, callous man he is.  So along with Obama and Clinton they gathered up some reliably lefty performers like Queen Latifah, the quite unappealing Lizzo, and a few others with whom most people are unfamiliar to put on a show.

Newspeak:
US Intel Agency Wants To Ban Terms 'Radical Islamists' and 'Jihadist' Because They're Hurtful to Muslim Americans.  The United States' top intelligence agency wants to ban its spies from using "biased language," including the terms "radical Islamists" and "jihadist," saying these words "are hurtful to Muslim-Americans and detrimentally impact our efforts as they bolster extremist rhetoric," according to a language guide published internally.  The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), which is responsible for handling the country's spy apparatus, seeks to ban a range of common terms because it says they offend Muslims and foment racism against employees.  In addition to terms describing Islamic terrorists, ODNI instructs employees to avoid phrases such as "blacklisted," "cakewalk," "brown bag," "grandfathered," and "sanity check."  "Blacklisted," for instance, "implies black is bad and white is good," while "cakewalk" is said to refer "to a dance performed by slaves for slave owners on plantation grounds."

Obama Defends Biden After Protesters Disrupt Biden-Obama-Clinton $25 Million 'Grassroots' Fundraiser in New York City.  Activists protesting in support of Hamas — and one against nuclear war with Russia — repeatedly disrupted a $25 million Democrat fundraiser featuring Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City Thursday night.  Through their disruptions, the protesters took control of the event, forcing Biden, Obama and Clinton into an extended discussion about what the protesters wanted them to talk about as the Democrats are facing an internal war of their own this election year between the party's old pro-Israel base and their new pro-Hamas base.

Protesters paying up to $500K a ticket heckle Biden, Obama and Clinton at Radio City.  President Joe Biden's appearance at a $25 million Radio City Music Hall fundraiser with former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton descended into chaos as the trio of presidents being interviewed by Stephen Colbert got interrupted by protesters.  A handful of pro-Palestinian protesters shouted down the presidents, with one woman telling Biden 'you have blood on your hands,' as another loud guest warned of a nuclear war with Russia:  'you're out of your [...] minds.'  The event was supposed to be a star-studded evening with major donors, with some tickets costing as much as $500,000.

The Editor says...
A "grassroots" fundraiser doesn't sell $500,000 tickets.

One more thing to boycott:
Paris Hilton video is new focus of Bud Light-style outrage.  [Scroll down]  After viewing the ad, activist group One Million Moms (OMM) published a story on its website with the title, "Hilton Attempts to Glamorize Sin." [...] One Million Moms writes that it believes Hilton is advocating an agenda with the commercial.  "Hilton is attempting to normalize the LGBTQ lifestyle with its liberal advertising choices," the organization wrote. "The hotel chain is obviously pushing the LGBTQ agenda with this commercial, which depicts individuals, couples, and families, all in obviously gender-confused roles."  The petition states, in part, "Your commercial featuring a homosexual couple and men in drag offends me, and it also offends many other conservative consumers."

RFK Jr.  Can't Keep Up 'Moderate' Facade While Celebrating Violent Radical Cesar Chavez.  Time Magazine once named Bobby Kennedy's son as one of its "Heroes for the Planet" for his environmental activism as an attorney with New York's Riverkeeper Inc.  Today, Time publishes stories about what a crackpot its "hero" is for raising red flags about Covid vaccines rushed onto the market that have not proved "safe" and "effective," as their manufacturers promised.  But despite finding an area of common ground or two with Americans outside of the elitist politics bubble, Kennedy remains a liberal to his core — so much so that he's hosting a celebration for one of the more brutal socialists to come out of the Marxist movement.  The independent candidate for president — who earlier this year left a Democrat Party his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, would not recognize — is hosting a Cesar Chavez Day event to "celebrate the life and legacy" of the socialist co-founder of the National Farm Workers Association predecessor of the United Farm Workers.

America's Stunning Embrace Of Paganism Signals The End Of This Country As We Know It.  It's hard to survey the state of our country and not conclude that something is very wrong in America.  I don't just mean with our economy or the border or rampant crime in our cities, but with our basic grasp on reality itself. [...] But even less contentious issues are now up for grabs, like mass rape.  After Hamas terrorists filmed themselves raping and murdering Israeli women on Oct. 7, boasting about their savagery to a watching world, vast swaths of the America left still cannot bring themselves to condemn Hamas.  The same progressive college students who insist that the mere presence of a conservative speaker on campus makes them "unsafe" are unable to condemn one of the worst instances of mass rape in modern history.  Some even declare openly that they stand in solidarity with the Hamas rapists.

RFK Jr Picks Soros Advocate Nicole Shanahan as His VP Running Mate.  In an apparent move to stir up greater support from the hardline leftists in the progressive movement, RFK Jr has announced 38-year-old Nicole Shanahan as his Vice-Presidential running mate.  The move appears to be an effort to appeal to the Bernie Sanders, ecology-centric, radical leftist, earth-saving environmentalist wing of the Democrat base voter.  Positioning the ticket to carve out a younger voting bloc and stir interest amid the Sanders/AOC crowd.  Shanahan had previously donated $4 million to the SuperPAC supporting Robert Kennedy Jr and given thousands of dollars to the Soros funded progressives in politics and activism circles.  Shanahan was previously married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin, one of the wealthiest men in the world; the financial windfall from their divorce funded her ability to contribute heavily to far-left causes.

The Great Divorce: 3.7 Million Have Fled Counties That Voted For Biden.  If you want to know what the country thinks about President Joe Biden's agenda, look at how they vote.  Not at the ballot box.  But with their feet.  Earlier this month, the Census Bureau released data on "net domestic migration."  This tracks where people are moving between counties in the country.  Last year, the 10 counties that gained the most through net migration had one thing in common — they were conservative counties that voted for Donald Trump in 2020.  At the other end of the spectrum, all 10 counties that saw the biggest negative net migration also have one thing in common — they all voted for Biden in 2020.  That includes two blue counties located in red states — Miami-Dade County, Florida, (where Biden beat Trump 53% [to] 46%), and Dallas County, Texas, (where Biden got 65% of the vote).

The Editor says...
Dallas County used to be a good place to live.  But many people are headed for the suburbs, and the suburbs are in neighboring counties.  That's the beauty of the internal combustion engine, which will only be available while common sense prevails.

The red pill of Obamacare.  Joe Biden is flailing in the polls, trailing President Trump in all the swing states, and likely to lose in November.  Inflation, illegals, crime and wokesterism are among the best-known reasons for the shift.  But how many are aware that the nightmare of Obamacare is still with us, too, and likely driving Biden's poll numbers down?  As the man in this video below notes, the soaring cost and inflexibility of the mandate has made him say 'goodbye' to voting Democrat:  [Tweet with video clip]

The Democrats Have Crossed the Bridge into Unabashed Nazism.  In March of 2023, I wrote an article detailing eight inescapable and disturbing ways the Democrat Party emulates the Nazi Party of 1927-34 in their underlying ideology and, more importantly, tactics.  Subsequently, Mr. D. Parker further detailed eight additional indisputable similarities.  All but two of these sixteen commonalities (irrational obsession with race, and state/private ownership of all means of production) also apply to the proponents of Communism.  Nonetheless, there had been no basis to emulate the crudity of the American Left and label them Nazis as there was one bridge they had yet to cross: unabashed and overt antisemitism and acquiescence to repeating the Holocaust while mindlessly setting the table for an inevitable global conflict.  That bridge now has been crossed and the time has come to call out these reprobates for what they are:  Disciples of National Socialism or Nazis.  A date that will live in infamy in the annals of Judaism's three-and-a-half millennia, October 7, 2023, has also exposed the Democrat party and the American left's hitherto unknown depths of antisemitism and de facto support for the underlying beliefs of Hamas, whose declared sole reason for existence is the elimination of Israel and the slaughter of all Jews.

Pew Research: more than half of insane leftist women are literally insane.  In 2020, Pew Research released the results of a study that revealed more than 50% of "liberal" women between the ages of 18 and 29 had been diagnosed with a "mental health condition" by a professional; for men of that same age and political orientation, that number was over 30%.  When compared to "conservatives" and "moderates" of the same age and sex, "liberals" took the crown for most mentally ill. [...] Who would have ever guessed that the people who have self-destructive tendencies and most often embrace self-harm — tattoos, piercings, and cutting — had a lurking mental health issue?  Who would've thought that people celebrating human experiments of sexual and physiological mutilation, many of those on children, weren't the most stable and healthy individuals?  Could anyone have possibly anticipated that the people who think this is appropriate for children, weren't the sanest and most stable voters?

Kathy Griffin New York Comedy Show Crashed by Trump Fan Caravan.  Left-wing comedienne Kathy Griffin has never concealed her contempt for former President Donald Trump or the tens of thousands of people who support him across the country.  The feeling has always been entirely mutual.  That fact was proven yet again over the weekend when dozens of protesters descended on her show in Huntington, Long Island, to let her know just how they feel about her.

The racial realignment is a humiliation for white liberals.  In the aftermath of the George Floyd killing in the summer of 2020, a sea of middle-class white protesters in my former hometown of Denver ritualistically writhed and moaned face-down on the grass for nine minutes in a park.  It's difficult to believe in hindsight that such creepy and transparent virtue-signaling ever took place.  But middle-class white liberals were in a tailspin at the time.  The often contradictory codes of "woke" social etiquette had knotted their brains; they were simultaneously confused and fighting mad, and above all, they were desperate to appear to be standing on the "right side of history." [...] These folks have come to mind frequently in recent weeks as a spate of newly released polls on minority voter preferences suggest unprecedented levels of minority support for — gulp — former President Donald Trump and his Republican Party.  Indeed, if these surveys are to be believed, American politics is undergoing a racial realignment unseen since the passage of the Civil Rights Act.

Why Biden Is Bleeding Non-White Voters.  For decades, the Democrats have depended on the overwhelming support of minority voters to keep their party electorally viable.  Even when they nominated candidates with spotty civil rights records, like Joe Biden, the Democrats could count on at least 90 percent of the Black vote and about 70 percent of the Latino vote.  Now, however, polls suggest that neither the President nor his party can take these votes for granted.  The latest New York Times/Siena College poll, for example, found that Biden's lead over former President Trump among non-white working class voters has plummeted to 6 points (47-41).  In 2020, Biden led Trump by nearly 50 points among these voters.

Democrats Vote Against Bill That Would Stop Biden Admin From Flying Illegals to American Communities.  Every single Senate Democrat voted against a bill that would have stopped the Biden Administration from chartering more than 32,000 illegal immigrants from their countries to various American communities.  Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) called out Democrats on Friday night after they opposed legislation that would protect American tax dollars from being spent on flights for hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens to be flown to cities across the country.  "Make no mistake here.  President Biden has secretly been flying hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens in foreign countries into blue-city airports," Hagerty said from the Senate floor.  "Just last year alone, in 2023, it was reported that some 320,000 illegal aliens have been flown in using this method."  [Tweet with video clip]

Massachusetts Governor Calls Illegal Immigrant Raping Teenage Girl 'Unfortunate'.  As the border crisis continues to worsen, it almost seems like each week brings another tragedy to light illustrating the impact that the problem is having on American citizens.  Just weeks after the murder of Laken Riley at the hands of an illegal immigrant, another story out of Massachusetts has people wondering when the government will finally do something about the problem at the southern border.  A Haitian migrant was arrested for raping a 15-year-old girl at one of the hotels being used to shelter illegal immigrants and asylum seekers coming over the border.  Gov. Maura Healey, a Democrat, chimed in on the situation, and her comment reflected a disturbing level of callousness about the story.  When asked by a reporter about the incident, Healey called it "unfortunate," indicating that "from time to time, things will happen."

Americans [are] Still Fleeing Blue States, Moving to Texas and Florida.  Americans are still fleeing Democratic run states in their droves and moving to more conservative parts of the country, the latest census data shows.  Over the year 2022 to 2023, Los Angeles County in California, Cooky County in Illinois and Kings County in New York all experienced population declines of 119,000, 58,000 and 55,000 respectively.  Miami-Dade County in Florida came fifth in the list, potentially because of the high prices caused by Florida's skyrocketing popularity.  The main beneficiaries of domestic migration were Polk County in Florida, Montgomery County in Texas and Pasco County in Florida with gains of 26,000, 25,000 and 24,000 respectively.

Do Rank-and-File Leftists Realize They're Being Scammed by Their Ruling Class?  Ruling class leftists are a complete fraud.  This is on top of all their other issues, but everywhere you look, they are busily scamming society.  Sure, they want to control and run our lives, but it's worse than that.  Their actions are based on cynical false premises.  They feign concern over guns, but that's only because they don't want anyone to have the ability to resist them.  They're perfectly happy with guns around them when needed for their protection.  Ruling class leftists are always feigning concern for global cooling, global warming, climate change, or whatever is the buzzword this week.  But they still buy beach houses with the supposed rise in the oceans, and they still fly around to conferences when they could easily help "save the planet" by conducting their business over Zoom.  And they supposedly want to redistribute the wealth, but they are only taking it for themselves.

PETA Pressures Jill Biden to Switch Eggs for Potatoes at Annual White House Easter Egg Roll.  People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is pressuring Jill Biden to forego eggs this Easter but instead use potatoes for the White House's annual Easter Egg Roll event.  In a statement, PETA wrote, "Ahead of the annual White House Easter Egg Roll, PETA sent a letter to Dr. Jill Biden today asking the first lady to modernize the celebration by replacing eggs with dyed Easter potatoes."  "Children love animals and would be sad to learn that the eggs used for fun and games at the White House come from tormented hens whose lives are spent in cages that afford them less space than a standard sheet of typing paper," added PETA.  The White House has yet to respond to PETA's request.

PETA Demands White House Officials Switch 'Eggs For Potatoes' At Annual Easter Egg Event.  People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is urging the White House to swap chicken eggs for potatoes at their annual Easter Egg Roll this year.  The controversial organization wrote in a letter to First Lady Jill Biden that it wants to "suggest an appealing way to modernize the White House Easter Egg Roll," which is set for April 1st on the South Lawn.

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The PETA people apparently don't know Easter Eggs are candy, or plastic capsules full of candy, not chicken eggs.  Since they apparently don't know this, I am encouraged, because it means the PETA people don't have children!

Washington Governor Jay Inslee [is] Poised to Kill Free Speech.  The governor of Washington is poised to sign a bill that ends free speech in certain counties — and the rest of the state probably sometime thereafter.  Recently passed by the Washington state legislature, this measure creates a "bias incident hotline" to the State Attorney General's Office.  You read that right:  American citizens in the northwestern state will soon be able to turn in their friends, neighbors, family members, or even strangers for not only physical "hate crimes" but also expressions of "bias."  Substitute Senate Bill 5427 is now on the governor's desk.  Its supposed purpose is "supporting people who have been targeted or affected by hate crimes and bias incidents."  To that end, it establishes "a reporting hotline" and sets up a mechanism for "tracking hate crimes and bias incidents" that will be overseen by the Washington state attorney general's office.

Poll: Majority of Democrats Oppose Certification of 2024 Election If Donald Trump Wins.  Fifty-seven percent of Democrat voters would oppose Congress certifying the 2024 election if former President Donald Trump wins, a Rasmussen Reports poll sponsored by the National Pulse found Monday [3/11/2024].  The poll asked likely voters:  "Some Democrats in Congress have said that if Trump wins this year's election, they will vote against certifying the election results because of Trump's role in the January 6, 2021, Capitol riots.  Do you support or oppose Democrats refusing to certify the election results if Trump wins?"  57 percent of Democrats would oppose certification.  Nearly two-thirds of "liberals" said they would oppose certification.

Poll: Insurrectionist Democrats Oppose Certifying Election if Trump Wins.  Coming to us from the "you can't make this stuff up" files is yet another story of the insanity currently enveloping the political debate surrounding the upcoming elections.  If there's one thing that the Democrats are absolutely sure about and plan to campaign on until November, it's that Donald Trump committed insurrection on January 6, 2021, when he attempted to prevent Congress from certifying the election of Joe Biden.  (He didn't, but we've been over that too many times already.)  But according to a new poll from Rasmussen, they are almost equally sure of something else.  If he wins this November, that election should clearly not be certified.  And a solid majority of them feel that way.  How people manage to make it through the day with this level of cognitive dissonance remains something of a mystery.

Rob Reiner's Fascist 'God & Country' Doc Grosses Pathetic $60K Worldwide.  Producer Rob Reiner's anti-Christian smear, God & Country:  The Rise of Christian Nationalism, limped out of theaters after grossing a hilarious $60,464 worldwide.  Basically, that's fewer than 7,000 tickets sold in a country of 350 million.  That's fewer than 7,000 tickets sold, even after producer Rob Reiner got all kinds of free media from countless corporate media outlets.

Why would anyone vote for Biden?  Let's look at some of the damage he has done since he took the oath of office on January 20, 2021.  [Numerous examples omitted for brevity.]  Therefore, with all of the above as his record of performance in office, why would anyone vote to give Biden another four years?  Let's examine the types of people who would pull the lever for him in November.  If you are on the public dole and looking for more government largesse, you'd vote for him.  If you're a college student with a significant loan outstanding, you'd probably want Biden to force taxpayers to handle it for you.  If you're a member of a street gang known as Black Thugs Matter, or Antifa, you'll vote for the guy who condones all of your riots, burnings, and lootings of cities whenever a white cop enforces the law against violent blacks who resist arrest, resulting in their serious injury or death — that is, unless the cop is the one killed.  Whom else can Biden count on to help re-elect him?  Those pro-abortion activists who want women to have the right to kill the fetus in the womb, or even after birth, if she decides at the last minute that she doesn't want the inconvenience of raising a child.

House Passes Laken Riley Act — 170 America-Hating Democrats Vote Against Bill.  The House of Representatives on Thursday voted 251-170 to approve H.R. 7511, dubbed the 'Laken Riley Act.'  170 House Democrats voted against the Laken Riley Act.  Democrats hate Americans.  The bill requires ICE to arrest and detain illegal aliens like Laken Riley's murderer until they are removed from the US.  "Democrats don't care about your safety," House Republicans said.

If Trump wins in November, expect a real insurrection from Democrats.  The reaction by Democratic Party politicians and pundits to the Supreme Court ruling on March 4, 2024 — voiding the effort by Colorado to throw Donald Trump off its ballot — reveals some very fundamental realities that must be faced by all Americans.  To put it bluntly:  These Democrats have no intention of accepting a victory by Donald Trump in the upcoming election, even if he should win by a majority so vast that no amount of election rigging can disguise it.  The first reaction to that decision was a major tell.  Jean Griswold is the secretary of state of Colorado who had taken Trump off the ballot, claiming he was an insurrectionist even though that was merely her opinion as Trump has not only never been convicted of that crime, he has not even been charged with it. [...] Spurred by her blind hatred of Trump, Griswold's refusal to deal with reality here is disturbing, to say the least.  First, the court made it very clear, unanimously, that the states don't have this authority when it comes to federal elections.  That she as a lawyer could not recognize the plain legal arguments here that were agreed to by even the most radical leftists on the court indicates how blind she has become to reasonable disagreement.

The CDC Ignores the Causes of Syphilis.  From a high of 450 syphilis cases per 100,000 people in the forties, the cases dwindled to the point that some believed the illness would be effectively eliminated in America at the turn of the twenty-first century.  However, this disappearance did not happen.  The low rate of under 32,000 syphilis cases in 2000 figure spiraled to more than 207,000 in 2022.  The problem is not going away.  The reasons are not all medical.  Like so many things associated with the CDC these days, the centers are introducing cultural and leftist factors into the equation that could be costing American lives by failing to address causes.  For example, the center reports that the crisis is especially affecting "pregnant people" and their babies.  The use of the term "pregnant people" is a telltale sign that the CDC is introducing woke ideas in its medicine.  Accompanying this designation is the acceptance of the promiscuous lifestyles and practices that favor the spread of syphilis.

The Left-Right Divide is Not Bridgeable.  To cite a few samples:  How are we to bridge the gap between those who believe men can become women and women can become men and those who don't believe this?  Between those who believe men menstruate and those who believe only women menstruate?  How are we to bridge the divide between those who believe "colorblind" is a racist notion and those who believe "colorblind" is the antidote to racism?  How are we to bridge the divide between those who believe Israel is the villain and Hamas is the victim and those who believe Israel is the victim and Hamas, which openly states its dedication to annihilating Israel and its Jewish inhabitants, is the villain, morally indistinguishable from the Nazis?  How are we to bridge the divide between those who believe young children should be brought to drag queen shows and those who believe this sexualization — and sexual confusion — of children is morally detestable?  How are we to bridge the divide between those who believe reducing the number of police will reduce violent crime and those who believe reducing the number of police will increase violent crime?  How are we to bridge the divide between those who believe in suppressing free speech if they deem any given speech "hateful" or "misinformation" and those who believe in free speech?  Every one of these positions is mutually contradictory.

Democrats Promise Fraud and Insurrection.  [Scroll down]  We all know the true fight happens when they try to delay the election, or they wind up losing the election, despite all of their efforts.  If they lose, they have promised to settle it in the House of Representatives, refusing to certify the election.  The very same thing they called an insurrection.  The very mention of it should bring those charges.  In fact, were I to offer counsel to anyone running for office, I would have them say to their opponent that "Your party has promised to engage in insurrection if Trump wins, that, by your own definition, is insurrection.  It is a threat to democracy and so are you."

United Methodist Church slashes budget to smallest in 40 years after mass exodus from denomination.  Go woke, go broke:  Church Edition.  The UMC is going to have its smallest budget in 4 decades thanks to its unbiblical stances. [...] The three-year $346.7 million budget for the General Conference is the smallest budget they've had since 1984.  This shouldn't be shocking since nearly 25% of the UMC churches in the US have left the mainline denomination in the last few years.  The last time the General Conference met, way back in 2016, the budget approved was over $600 million, making this a 43% decrease in budget.  So, nearly 1/4 of churches and nearly 1/2 of the money is gone.  Add to the 7,700 churches that have left another 2,000+ churches that have essentially died out and financially gone under, and the UMC is in a disastrous state.  It might not survive a few more years.

It's up to us.  I don't know how legally to keep the Idiot Left out of office, but disaster follows wherever such people run things.  Pretending to be worried about offending the few, they lose concern for the many.  Well, we the many are the ones who make the world work.  Push us out altogether and the structure collapses.  Then the leeches and parasites have no one and nothing to pick at, pick on, or pick over.  We bitter clingers have definite ideas about where all this is headed, but we don't know when the end's going to come and we're concerned in the meantime for our progeny.  Our weapons at this time are prayer and unified action — at voting time to ensure voting procedures are followed; in the legislatures to head off idiotic legislation; in the schools to confront distortions about America and U.S. history; in the media to ensure that resisting voices are heard against the cacophony of leftist spin; in the streets to confront the bullying tactics of Antifa, BLM, and others; in Washington to take on the Lying Left where its insidious effects have the greatest reach.

Omar and pals sneak off to Cuba.  When someone comes to America, land of the free, as a refugee, presumably to escape some awful homeland, does it seem funny that such a person then jumps on a flight to Cuba to advocate for its superior model? [...] The secrecy is strange, here, given the brazenness with which Cuba supporters have shown for cutting sugar cane and praising socialism on their illegal trips to Cuba in the past.  Michael Moore certainly didn't keep his trip to Cuba secret, nor did pop tart Beyonce, prancing at the Malecon to make a lucrative video, nor did Barack Obama, doing the wave at some stadium with Raul Castro, Cuba's military dictator.  Why keep it under wraps when Joe Biden and Barack Obama have both loosened travel restrictions on the communist island hellhole to permit free travel?  And if the aim was to meet with Cuba's civil society dissidents, most of whom have been imprisoned in the Castro oligarchy's dank, filthy, dungeons anyway, why keep that secret?  Cuba jails its civil society members.

Could October 7 Bring Down the Squad?  By November last year, Democratic Rep. Summer Lee realized she had to mend fences with Pittsburgh's Jews.  Since the October 7 atrocity in Israel, Lee had started to sound like she was on team Hamas — and Jewish leaders were taking notice. [...] Episodes like this have led the Jewish communities in Pittsburgh and others in Pennsylvania's Twelfth District to seek an alternative to Lee in her upcoming primary.  And Lee is not the only one facing such a backlash.  Now, for the first time since the 2018 swearing-in of its inaugural class, the Squad could be shrinking, as its defamation of Israel after October 7 has repelled old-school liberals and centrist Democrats.  The more well-known Squad members, such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley, are running unopposed in their primaries this year.  Ilhan Omar is facing three challengers in a race she is largely expected to win.  But three newer members of the Squad — albeit from the JV team — are facing serious, well-funded Democratic primary opponents who could knock them from their seats.

France Teeters on the Brink.  Upon first seeing videos of the European farmers' recent protests, I, along with many others across the Atlantic, was deeply impressed.  Like Canadian truckers on steroids, these supposed hayseeds gave the world a lesson in determination, ingenuity, courage, and organizational skill beyond the wildest dreams of the appalling bureaucratic yahoos who lord over them and seek to drive them to extinction.  Rumors of French President Emmanuel Macron avoiding Paris hinted on possible lasting effects for the better.  In their protests, the farmers also displayed several of the highest of human character traits, including an admirable level of restraint against violence, and even a wicked sense of humor.  It was inspiring and hilarious all at once.  Watching them block roadways to major cities for weeks, simply "off-roading" in their tractors when confronted by the so-called authorities, was awesome.

Biden's woke sec of state Antony Blinken scolded staffers over 'problematic' language like 'manpower'.  Biden administration Sec. of State Antony Blinken told staffers at the State Department not to use "problematic" terms such as "manpower," "mother," and "father" in a memo.  According to a memo from the State Department obtained by the National Review, in early February, Blinken told staff about the dangers of "misgendering" as well as using terms that "can be problematic" such as "manpower" as well as "son/daughter" and "husband/wife."

86% Of Americans Say Biden Too Old For Another Term:  Poll.  Concerns about President Joe Biden's age while he seeks re-election appear to be escalating with the release of a new survey that followed a special counsel report that found the commander-in-chief had memory problems.  Eighty-six percent of adults said Biden, who is 81, is too old to serve a second term in the White House, according to an Ipsos poll unveiled on Sunday.

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That leaves 14 percent who think Biden is capable of serving another four years.  Who are these people?  They must either hate Trump a lot, or hate Israel, or they like to see homeless bums and unskilled illegal aliens everywhere, or relish the idea of five-dollar gasoline.  Or maybe they get all of their news from MSNBC.

Democrats should worry that Americans' five-second attention span is lengthening.  For California's governor, Gavin Newsom, it was a huge surprise to hear from a shopper at Target that the policies that sound good to him have negative consequences, and voters know it.  In New York City, DA Alvin Bragg's and other politicians' policies mean that illegal aliens who beat police officers were instantly released from jail.  Don't expect any lasting repercussions since the perpetrators skipped town.  But still, for Democrats, there's nothing to see here.  The event has been scrubbed from political memory, but voters are noticing.  Two years ago, California lawmakers passed an equity law for electric bills in the state, accelerating the fact that electricity rates are up 127% over the last ten years, even as California experiences rolling brownouts.  Voters are angry, but Democrats, having skated past consequences for so long, are merely perplexed.  Trump is being attacked on every front, especially in New York.  Democrats were certain that they could destroy him and move on.  The fact that Republicans are pushing back by choosing Trump as their chosen candidate in 2024 tells you that people will no longer say, "I guess stuff happens," and move on.

Leftists Disconnected From How Things Work Are Destroying Everything.  Virtually the entire left in this country has zero connection with anything having to do with creating anything, growing anything, building anything, or risking anything.  They spend their days pushing paper in offices or selling cappuccinos, if they work at all.  Not only are few of them farmers, but few are truckers, lumberjacks, steel workers, plumbers, electricians, or entrepreneurs.  Few have ever had to balance paying a credit card bill versus making payroll.  Few ever risked their money and invested sweat equity to start a business.  The left today is largely government employees, students, college-educated white women working inside large corporations, Wall Street, academia, the cabal of NGOs, the media, the 40 million who suckle on the government teat through programs like SNAP, and the 47% of the country who either pay no tax or get "refundable tax credits".  Few of those people do anything remotely productive for the economy.

Europeans are pushing back against green policies and immigration.  Something rather amazing is happening across Western Europe, although American media outlets really would like to pretend that nothing is happening at all.  The sea change is that ordinary people are pushing back against green policies that will destroy farming (and also destroy the food supply) and against the endless immigration that's intended to wipe out Europe's ancient populations in favor of entirely new populations from the Muslim world and Africa (both Muslim and non-Muslim regions).  The farmer protests began last year in the Netherlands when the government announced that it intended to cut livestock farming by 30% to prevent "greenhouse gases."  It was a pure "you vill eat ze bugs" moment, and the farmers protested vehemently.  Indeed, they protested uber-conservative Geert Wilders right into a parliamentary majority, although the wacky parliamentary system means he hasn't been able to form a coalition to lead the government.  Because those policies are not limited to the Netherlands but have spread across Europe (where post-WWII socialism provided a ready landing pad for environmental madness), the same farmer protests are now in other European nations.

Hell Must Be Empty.  Ever since Obama's presidency, Democrats have demonized police officers and lionized criminals.  They lied about "hands up, don't shoot"; maligned cops as Klan members with badges; and instigated race riots throughout the country.  They excused criminal behavior, cut bail requirements, reduced felonies to misdemeanors, and celebrated unethical prosecutors who have used their powers to lock up police officers for spurious charges while treating violent crime as some kind of race-based civil right.  Barack Obama and Eric Holder (the corrupt attorney general who regularly abused the law to protect friends and target political enemies) set the country down a dangerous path, where criminal gangs are psychologically empowered to target law enforcement officers for assassination and municipal politicians are so desperate to prove their soft-on-crime bona fides that they release violent criminals from jail in order to make room for unjustly indicted cops.

Vegan Fast Food Restaurants Are Learning Economics 101 — The Hard Way.  Poor PETA.  This news must have them so dejected.  The fake meat fad failed, and vegan restaurants aren't far behind them.  Even vegan eateries in the UK are falling on hard times or shutting down completely.  After giving the vegetarian fad a test-drive, many have discovered that it an unsustainable way to live.  Some of the early adopters have scaled back to a part-time reduction in the meat they eat.  (Which is also bad news for vegetarian-only restaurants.)

154 Democrats Oppose New Criminal Penalties for Illegal Aliens Leading Border Agents on High-Speed Chases.  A majority of House Democrats voted against legislation this week that would impose new criminal penalties for illegal aliens leading Border Patrol agents on often deadly high-speed chases.  On Tuesday, just 56 House Democrats joined 215 House Republicans to pass the "Agent Raul Gonzalez Officer Safety Act," which would establish new criminal penalties for illegal aliens and others driving vehicles who try to evade Border Patrol agents within 100 miles of the United States-Mexico border.  "We appreciate House Republicans' efforts to secure our lawless and chaotic border, protect the men and women on the frontlines, and make our communities safer," Hector Garza, Vice President of the National Border Patrol Council, said in a statement.

Why is no one wondering how the Trump trials have such idiotic jurors?  [Scroll down]  Exactly what would the ideologically biased prosecutors in each of the absurd lawfare trials of President Trump be looking for [in prospective jurors]?  That is an easy question.  They would be looking for Trump-haters, people who watch MSNBC and The View, for example; people easily led and relatively ignorant of American history and current events beyond leftist talking points.  They would know nothing about the fact that Trump led the U.S. to energy independence that made our gas prices low and brought in huge profits to workers' 401(k)s because we had enough oil and gas to sell to other nations.  They would not know that Trump brought peace to the Middle East.  They would most likely buy into the climate change hoax.  They would be persons who leapt to be vaccinated with the wholly experimental mRNA jab that has caused thousands of deaths (perhaps more), especially of young people.  They would be people who wanted to jail the vaccine-hesitant.  In short, they would be people who are easily manipulated by the media and easier still by clever and deceitful lawyers intent upon destroying Trump.  They would be sheep.

All Their Stupid Ideas Can be Reversed and We Will Make the Deserts Bloom.  [Scroll down]  We are divided into forerunners, innovators, early adopters and late adopters and it holds true for digital products, politics, vacations, and health decisions, across the board.  You cannot overturn it, you cannot say, "people must like this and do this because I am willing to spend a few billion to brainwash them."  No.  Because some renegade soul will say, "I want to move to the country and raise heritage beef rather than swan around New York, London, Paris, Munich going to night clubs and working for a multinational where I destroy the weak and help the strong."  And then all of a sudden there are handfuls of people hiving off the swarm and starting their own thing.  And then, presto, like last year, 66 percent of Americans would, if they could, move to the country or a rural subdivision and become more independent of the murderous cabal that forgot the marketing curve.  That this is the exact opposite of what the U.N./W.E.F. want — which is to force people into fifteen minute prison cities with rural areas left to carbon sinks — is just another example of reality flowing like water around fascist-erected obstacles.

Can the left peacefully coexist with us?  The Biden administration is tearing down any obstructions to the illegal invasion.  The flood is overwhelming shelters and hospitals while the left is falling all over itself to offer taxpayer-funded freebies to encourage even more to come in.  And on top of it all, the law states that the National Voter Registration Act prevents every state from requiring people to prove that they are U.S. citizens to vote.  It should be obvious by now that the fascist far left will do anything to stay in power, while it accuses the pro-freedom right of planning to do anything to stay in power.  How do you peacefully coexist with people perfectly willing to lie and violate the law to stay in power?

How many conservatives read Politico, and would do what Politico recommends?  Zero!
Politico Urges Trump Supporters to Skip His Historic Rallies.  The Democrat Party has done everything they can to ruin President Donald Trump.  The junk lawsuits couldn't stop him.  The insurrection lies couldn't stop him.  The 14th Amendment smears couldn't stop him.  The FBI spying and lies couldn't stop him.  Lawfare charges by crooked District Attorneys.  Threats of 700 years in prison for manufactured crimes.  Stealing over $250 million from his business for paying off business loans.  Brutal harassment of his family.  None of this stopped President Trump from his mission to save America from the Marxist horde and the power hungry elites.  Now, the left has a new tactic.  Politico today is now urging Republicans to skip Trump rallies.  They don't think its fair that tens of thousands will come out for Trump when Old Joe can only garner a few hundred supporters to come out and see him — and many of those are paid supporters!

Survey: Two-Thirds Of Elites Say There's Too Much Freedom In America.  The nation's ruling class holds deeply authoritarian opinions widely divorced from the rest of the American electorate, finds a survey out this week.  It found nearly 60 percent of American "elites" think there is too much individual freedom in America.  Meanwhile, nearly 60 percent of registered voters have the exact opposite opinion, reporting the United States has too much top-down control, limiting liberty.  The study, titled "Them Vs. U.S," defined the American "elite" as "having a postgraduate degree, a household income of more than $150,000 annually, and living in a zip code with more than 10,000 people per square mile."  Such people account for about 1 percent of Americans.  The study also examined a sub-sample of the 1 percent who graduated from Ivy League schools or other name-brand institutions such as Northwestern, Duke, Stanford, and the University of Chicago.  The study from the Committee to Unleash Prosperity found ruling class opinions on climate policies were particularly harsh and despotic.  More than two-thirds of the 1 percent support rationing vital energy and food sources in an attempt to control the globe's weather.  That number jumped to nearly 90 percent among the Ivy Leaguers.  Around two-thirds of normal registered voters, however, oppose rationing vital resources.

Rep. Barbara Lee [is] Kicked Out of Committee Hearing for Spouting 'Communist Propaganda'.  It was a routine meeting of the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.  Chairwoman Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.) was conducting a hearing on U.S. relations with Cuba when Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) interrupted the hearing to speak about her desire for the U.S. to reestablish relations with the island nation.  Salazar was having none of it.  Lee is not a member of the Committee, and according to long-standing House rules, there would have to be a unanimous vote of Committee members to allow her to speak.  "Today, I exercised my authority as Subcommittee Chairwoman to not allow an off-Committee Member to spread communist propaganda during my Cuba hearing," Salazar wrote.  "Members are not entitled to join any Committee proceedings without full consent of the Committee Members."

Democratic Congressman Tells GOP to Pass a Bill Removing the Statue of Liberty.  I predict that freshman Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) will have a long, illustrious career in politics.  He certainly has a flair for the dramatic and is very big on "gestures."  This is a prerequisite to be a Democrat in Washington.  After all, how else can you show that you really, really, really care about an issue without making some absolutely ludicrously, useless melodramatic gesture?  Mr. Fox shows promise in this regard.  He's demanding that Republicans introduce a bill to take down the Statue of Liberty. [...] As usual, Democrats have conflated legal with illegal immigration, lumping them together as if there's no difference.  It's OK because the media does the exact same thing.

This shows how little the Ballot Box is respected by Socialist Democrats:
Volinsky's Anti-Israel Org Wants NH Democrats To Write In 'Ceasefire' On Ballots.  President Joe Biden has competition for his 'meaningless' write-in campaign.  Former Executive Councilor Andru Volinsky is asking his fellow Granite State Democrats to skip writing Biden's name on their ballots and instead take part in his anti-Israel write-in campaign called "Ceasefire."  Announced Wednesday with a Zoom press conference, Ceasefire is Volinsky's campaign pushing New Hampshire voters to write in the word "Ceasefire" on their ballots in Tuesday's Democratic presidential primary.

Shaman performs pagan ritual over World Economic Forum leaders at Davos Summit.  An Amazonian shaman on Wednesday performed a pagan ritual over a panel after the members discussed "Climate and Nature" at the World Economic Forum's (WEF) 2024 meeting in Davos, Switzerland.  [Tweet]  After a discussion on how to "enable a net-zero, nature positive" future, a woman introduced as Chief Putanny from the Yawanawá tribe of the Amazon gave a brief address asking for help in "healing the planet."  She presented herself as representing "the voice of nature" and "the voice of the forest" and concluded, "When we are all united in our hearts and thoughts, our Mother Earth will listen to us."

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The earth is not anybody's mother.  The earth is not in need of healing, and even if that were the case, a tree-hugging pagan isn't going to do any good.  This whole episode demonstrates that the WEF is led by misguided fools.

President Biden's 'Top Priority' for a second term?  What would President Biden's top priority be should he be awarded a second term in office?  Well, according to his campaign manager, the president is "adamant" to "restore Roe."  Yup.  Quentin Fulks, Biden's principal deputy campaign manager, recently told Kristen Welker, host of NBC's Meet the Press, that abortion would be the commander-in-chief's "top priority" if he is returned to the White House.  Frankly, that surprises me.  I would've thought his top priority would be to continue trying to lock up his political opponents.  Or to stay up past 8 pm.  Even if you are "pro-choice," making abortion the "top priority" is macabre at best.  How about stopping the flood of illegals coming across our southern border, and the fentanyl and human trafficking that a porous border allows?  After all, fentanyl alone kills 100,000+ Americans each year.  How about trying to prevent or curtail foreign wars?  Or attempting to reduce inflation and taxes to make life more affordable and pleasant for millions?  How about addressing the unsustainable and soon-to-be devastating $34 trillion debt?  Or the fact that China is bidding to take over the world?

Lawmakers and others are 'secretly' plotting a military mutiny if Trump is elected.  Constitutional norms are falling all over the place, but it's the left that's doing it.  Shorn of his eccentric rhetoric, Trump governed in the grand tradition of 20th-century American presidents:  strong national security, focus on the economy, an eye to energy independence, etc.  It is Biden who has broken every norm in American history:  destroying the border, destroying energy independence, and arresting political opponents.

What Was That About a Deep State?  Check Out These Plans to Deal With Trump If He Wins.  Joe Biden and the Democrats truly take the cake.  Biden is down in the polls to former President Donald Trump, who is the leading GOP candidate.  So they're doing all they can to play up the "threat to democracy" from Trump.  Now I have no doubt whoever was leading would immediately become "Hitler" to them, because that's how they do things.  That's their only play, given Biden has such a horrible record.  He has no real accomplishments on which to run.  According to an NBC report, the powers that be are already trying to work to put Trump in check.  People talk about the deep state.  Check out what they're saying here, it's something else.  They're worried that Trump may win so the unelected people want to thwart how the elected representative of the people might exercise his power.

The Antisemitism of South Africa Should Not Surprise.  When a person takes the lead in demonizing people of his own ethnicity for no rational reason, and mires himself in the same pigsty where the Rashida Tlaibs, Ilhan Omars, and Ocasios wallow, that is not normal.  Normal people do not do that.  Irish-Americans don't.  Mexican-Americans don't boycott Mexico.  Italian-Americans don't attack Italy.  Black Americans, like civil rights heroes Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, do not lead battles for the women of Congo who face a national epidemic of rape, nor challenge Black Lives Matter over the millions that have gone to buy the BLM Communist founder Patrisse Cullors four houses, one more than Commie Bernie's three.  It so much "makes no sense" that it makes perfect sense.

How Democrats Sold Out The Working Class.  Far from holding together their New Deal coalition of farmers, urban laborers, the working poor, and others who benefited from public investment, the Democrats today are increasingly becoming a party of upwardly mobile professionals and creatives.  The party has shed much of its traditional working-class base, which has started to show up in its legislative priorities.  As one example, the party is fixated on erasing student debts held largely by the top half of the income distribution while doing little to rein in administrative bloat and abusive practices by the nation's colleges and universities, who are among its most loyal supporters.  The white working class exodus from the party has been particularly severe, putting states like Ohio — which former president Barack Obama won twice — out of reach for the party.

The unelecting of a president.  Biden's problems are more serious because he has a chance to finally be elected president without mass fraud in 6 states.  He is being done in by bad policy.  Black Democrats resent his placing illegal aliens ahead of them.  The AOC crowd resents his support of Israel in particular and Jews in general.  The university crowd resents not having the $1.6 trillion they borrowed written off by the feds.  Jim Clyburn owns the South Carolina Democrat Party by virtue of its large bloc of black voters.  He has made its primary the Democrat kingmaker, crowning Obama in 2008 when he was behind Hillary, Hillary in 2016 when she was behind Bernie, and Biden in 2020 when he was behind everybody.  2024 may end that streak — and Biden is running almost unopposed.

Only a Tiny Fraction of Voters in Swing States Care About Climate Change.  Joe Biden has talked about climate change endlessly since taking office, but a new survey shows that most voters in swing states do not care about the issue at all.  This would only be surprising to the left, but most people are not thinking about supposed climate change when they're struggling to pay for basic items like food, heating energy and gas for their cars.  Besides the economy, people across the country are also deeply concerned about issues like crime and the mess Biden has made at the southern border.

They Hate the Military.  The Democrats of the past 50 years are certainly not our parent's Dems.  At one time, all Americans (even Dems) honored military members.  Today's Democrat holds extreme antipathy towards the military going back at least to the 1960s.  Recall that John Kerry rose to prominence by slandering the military.  Jimmy Carter, a Naval Academy graduate himself, drastically gutted the Armed Forces.  Bill Clinton and Hillary loathed service members.  One Clinton appointee, Sara Lister, even called the Marines "extremists" — most likely because Marines love and defend the United States and she didn't understand such commitment.  Then, Obama did everything he could to demoralize the military by promoting homosexuality in the ranks and allowing women in combat arms.  Decades of denigrating the military and intentionally subverting its combat effectiveness was a prelude to the Biden regime's open attacks on the military.

You and I Live in a Different Universe Than Democrats.  I have written about this phenomenon before, and it's not just my impression.  The Skeptic Research Center has done several studies on how accurate perceptions of the world are, and their findings are robust:  the more you trust the media, the less accurate your view of the world; the more liberal you are, the less you understand your political opponents and the less likely your perception of the real state of the world is correct.  From this data, I don't assume that conservatives are any smarter or more likely to have the correct policy positions — the former proposition is almost certainly not true, and the latter is my personal belief but not proven by this particular evidence.  Conservatives have made some disastrous policy choices over the years, too.

NY Dem Rep. Yvette Clarke Says the Quiet Part Out Loud About Illegals:  "I Need More People in My District Just for Redistricting Purposes".  As New York collapses under the weight of Joe Biden's broken border and a neverending stream of illegals stretch resources, at least one NY Dem is celebrating what it means for her politically.  New York City Mayor Eric Adams shared that the city is supporting 110,000 "asylum seekers" who have arrived since April 2022 with up to 10,000 more coming per month.  In September, Adams told a crowd at an Upper West Side town hall meeting, "Let me tell you something, New Yorkers.  Never in my life have I had a problem that I did not see an ending to.  I don't see an ending to this.  This issue will destroy New York City.  Destroy New York City," and "The city we knew, we're about to lose."  But Congresswoman Yvette Clarke (D-NY) sees an upside in illegals flooding American cities and said the quiet part out.  More illegals means help for redistricting purposes.

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In other words, she doesn't care what the flood of illegal immigrants costs this country; she only cares about how it can benefit her political career.

A Case Study in Stage 4 Trump Derangement Syndrome.  Robert Reich is a case in point.  He was Bill Clinton's secretary of labor, and he's currently a professor of public policy at Berkeley — giving him two TDS risk factors.  He recently published an article in The Guardian entitled "Here are 10 new year resolutions for saving American democracy." [...] So, with
  •   the world approaching WWIII;
  •   political polarization tearing America apart;
  •   fiscal policies making economic collapse inevitable;
  •   institutions charged with protecting our Constitution instead destroying it;
  •   crime turning our cities into a year-round rerun of The Purge;
  •   a president taking bribes from China, Ukraine, and Russia;
  •   Congress stuffing its pockets via insider trading;
  •   homelessness and drug addiction making our sidewalks look like a scene from The Walking Dead; and
  •   South America trying to move into North America for the free housing and medical care,
Robert Reich considers our biggest threat... Donald Trump.

Anti-Intellectualism and the Left.  Every societal issue, such as unfettered illegal immigration, record unchecked spending, and disastrous U.S. foreign policy, involves proof of how the Left is incapable of higher than the most rudimentary thinking.  What do they think will result from the millions of military-age men of questionable intentions crossing into our country?  How much more money will be taken from ordinary Americans to pay for the policies of this administration and how will the relentless, out-of-control spending binge affect the value of our currency?  How has this administration kept America or her allies safe?  Talk about not seeing the forest for the trees.  The Left, I'm convinced, does not possess even the tiniest vestige of critical or any other kind of thinking.

The Democrat party: who are they?  Just who are the members of the Democrat/socialist/communist (D/s/c) Party?  How do their beliefs differ from those of normal Americans? [...] D/s/cs tend not to be overtly religious.  Their political beliefs are their faith, and in true communist style, there can be no greater power than the Party, which is their secular faith.  This largely explains their increasingly overt hostility toward, and persecution of, Christians.  This too is projection.  They see Christians as deadly threats, so believe Christians feel the same and will act on those feelings.  Thus has the FBI been surveilling Catholics who appreciate the Latin Mass, branding them "Radical Traditional Catholics."  Thus were innumerable Christians arrested for trying to attend church during Covid lockdowns.  Essential to understanding them is knowing many of them think themselves morally, intellectually, and politically superior to normal Americans.  They're the self-imagined elite.  They really do denigrate the denizens of "Flyover Country" — their term — that vast, cultural wasteland between the enlightened coasts where Deplorables live their pathetic, uninformed, meaningless little lives.

There Was a Time When Governments Tried to Make Their People Better.  The Biden regime seems hell-bent on celebrating and subsidizing the worst tendencies of human nature:  not only every conceivable manner of perversion, but resentment, envy, the privilege of protected classes rather than advancement on the basis of merit, and so much more.  It is not hard to suspect that Biden and his henchmen have some vested interest in encouraging Americans to become worse people, harder to get along with and more difficult to deal with.  What could more effectively justify an authoritarian crackdown than a population that is as obstreperous as it is immature?  One outcome of all this will be that Americans will become worse people than they used to be.  A government can't expect to celebrate mental illness, demanding that everyone take it as normal on pain of ostracism, deplatforming and worse, and exalt skin color and gender over competence and expect that Americans will continue in large numbers to value being rational, competent, and capable.

The Real Reason Trump is a Threat.  The 45th president of the United States, Donald John Trump, is a particular kind of president, out of all the previous presidents in modern history, and a specific kind of threat to established political organizations.  He is not a threat per se to voters, or to Americans, but rather to the current political party system.  But there is a fascinating reason why this is so, and I'd like to suggest that it stems from the most powerful element of America itself, including its founding:  individualism. [...] This is the precise antagonism to progressive Left ideology, because everything they stand for is based on group behavior, group consensus, group solidarity, and group thinking. [...] Take a look at the the Constitution:  it is signed by individuals, in individual signatures representing individual commitment.  So is the Declaration, and so is the Federalist.  Yes, these signers also had roles in business enterprise, or may have held official office, but institutionalism then was mostly a formality; it carried no ubiquitous institutional power.  They acted first and foremost as individuals.

Liberals destroy society.  I see in the papers that Kanye West went off his meds.  TMZ reported, "Kanye West is apparently in the grips of a serious mental health episode.  That's the only conclusion to draw from his furious rant, attacking his ex-business partners, Donald Trump and, of course, Jewish people."  Hates Trump.  Hates Jews.  Blames others for his problems.  His beliefs are so mainstream Democrat that he could be president of Harvard.  Given his propensity for marrying women with large doctor-inflated chests, maybe he also believes that children should be allowed to get plastic surgery.  Maybe he believes boys can turn into girls (and girls into boys) using magic elixirs and surgery, a medical alchemy that for doctors and hospitals turns children who cannot cope with puberty into gold.  West's politics once were called liberalism but the word liberal became so toxic that its adherents adopted the name progressive. [...] The blowback has begun.  People are walking away from this nonsense.

Latino Democrats Tout Migrants as Their Constituents.  Democratic Latino politicians are demanding President Joe Biden protect the interests of foreign migrants, regardless of the huge civic and pocketbook damage to unhyphenated Americans, Latino-Americans, and legal immigrants. "We are here to protect immigration as it is," Rep. Nanette Barragan (D-CA), told an audience of legislators, activists, and media at a December 13 rally beside the Capitol.  The rally called on President Joe Biden to deny any significant concessions to GOP negotiators in the debate over his demand for $14 billion in emergency funds to accelerate and hide his migration flood, and funds for wartime aid for Israel and Ukraine.

Poll: About 20% of Democrats Want Donald Trump Executed, Exiled, Jailed for Life.  Some Democrats wish the worst for former President Donald Trump, even though his presidency successfully created prosperity for the nation's citizens.  Before the Chinese coronavirus came to the U.S., the Trump administration built the world's most prosperous economy, according to White House archives:
  •   America gained 7 million new jobs — more than three times government experts' projections.
  •   Incomes rose in every single metro area in the United States for the first time in nearly three decades.
  •   Unemployment for women hit its lowest rate in nearly 70 years.
  •   The DOW closed above 20,000 for the first time in 2017 and topped 30,000 in 2020.
  •   Jobless claims hit a nearly 50-year low.
  •   Lifted nearly seven million people off of food stamps.
Despite the accomplishments, many Democrats hold Trump in contempt.

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Regardless of Donald Trump's many accomplishments, one fifth of the baby-killing socialist democrats want to see something bad happen to him, far beyond merely losing the next election.  This is proof that [#1] not everyone should vote, [#2] too many people believe everything the talking heads on TV tell them, and [#3] civil war is not far away.  If they hate Donald Trump that much, they probably hate his supporters, too, and they won't listen to facts.  This country is beyond repair.

Tyrannical trannies fall out of fashion.  An entertainer named Dylan Mulvaney decided a couple of years ago that he would be more entertaining if he "identified" as a woman. [...] This rehashed drag show made Mully many millions. [...] But it did less well in selling beer.  Bud Light sales are down by billions, as is their stock price.  Beer-ologists think the damage to the brand is permanent. [...] Conventional "wisdom" is that this incident will be taught as a marketing malpractice case study in business schools, the point of the study being "don't offend your customers."

Biden Administration Considers Breaching WA's Snake River Dams to Save "Imperiled Salmon Species".  I recently theorized that the EPA is doubling down on the destruction of this country, as Biden's poll numbers are collapsing and woke bureaucrats seek to use what power that they have in the time still remaining to them.  The same is true for the rest of the administration, as evidenced by the fact that a leaked document shows an agreement for the federal government to spend $1 billion replacing four functional hydroelectric dams along Washington's Snake River with green energy alternatives.  ["]The U.S. government is willing to help build enough new clean energy projects in the Pacific Northwest to replace the hydropower generated by four controversial dams on the Snake River, according to a leaked Biden administration document that is giving hope to conservationists who have long sought the removal of the dams as a key to restoring depleted salmon runs.["]

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When your lights go off and stay off, and your phone quits, and the gas station can't pump, you won't care about any stinking salmon.

Blacklisting is no longer enough, now the goal is justifying mass murder.  It seems the rising effort of many — mostly on the left but not entirely — to blackball and censor their opponents in the past decade is no longer satisfied with these ugly goals.  Now it seems the goal is to justify mass murder and the rape and torture of women and children.  We can see this by what happened during a city council event in Oakland, California yesterday.  When one Jewish council member, Dan Kalb, attempted to add language condemning Hamas to a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, he was greated by boos and an unrelenting stream of locals not only opposing his amendment but denying that the mass murder by Hamas had even occurred, that it was instead committed by Israeli troops, and that anyone who dared disagree with them was a "white supremacist."  The video below provides a quick selection of this hate and ignorance:  [Video clip]

More Media Malpractice.  One of the major reasons why Americans are divided and hostile toward each other is that we live in alternate universes.  Not literally, but functionally.  We have all seen the polls that show Americans have been losing trust in the MSM for a long time.  Only 36% of Americans say they have a "great deal" or "fair amount" of trust in the MSM, but this fact hides an important distinction: the majority of Democrats trust the MSM, while Republicans have given up on getting anything remotely close to the truth from the MSM.  Republicans have earned their distrust not just because they are often lied about and can't help but notice this fact, but also because they are literally unable to avoid getting the majority of their news from MSM news sources, while consciously exposing themselves to alternative points of view.  Democrats rarely do.  They automatically distrust alternative or conservative media and tend to trust without question what they hear from the MSM. This is not because they are universally stupid or uninterested in the news, but because they are inclined to trust the "misinformation" narrative.

The American Dream Isn't Dead, But Democrats Are Trying To Kill It.  The American Dream is a shot at success, success of any level.  There's a reason almost all innovation and invention comes from the United States, and it's not dumb luck or coincidence.  Sadly, however, much of that reality is lost on Americans, and the leaders in innovation and invention are immigrants (of the legal variety) who come here with a better understanding of what the American Dream is compared to natural-born citizens.  Much of the outside world sees the US as the land of opportunity it is, while people growing up here see it through the lens of the left-wing educational complex, which tells everyone the country is a bastion of oppression and [decay].  Our culture is rotten.  White kids are taught they've got all the advantages because of their skin color, and they're monsters because of it.  That their parents were just this side of slave owners, and everything in life was the result of "white privilege," not hard work.  Hate yourself; either join the progressive fight, or you're the enemy.

Joe Biden Snubs 'Almighty God' in Thanksgiving Proclamation.  President Joe Biden omitted any reference to Almighty God or Divine Providence Thursday in his annual proclamation of the quintessentially American feast of Thanksgiving.  In his own 1863 presidential proclamation instituting Thanksgiving as a national holiday, Abraham Lincoln urged his fellow Americans to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November "as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens."  Even in the midst of the civil war, Lincoln recalled the many blessings and bounties bestowed on the nation, attributing them all to the Almighty.

Stating that which was already obvious...
Disney Report Warns Investors Social Goals Take Priority over Profits.  The Disney Grooming Syndicate's annual SEC report tried to bury its foundational problems in the word salad of all word salads.  Thankfully, That Park Place saw right through it.  The key takeaway from the report is that Disney, as required by law in these filings, is warning investors that its social goals are more important than profits.  "There is in such things a statement of the various 'Risk factors' the company may encounter," explains That Park Place, "all in the obligatory legal way to avoid people later saying 'You never warned us about this!!'"

Has the Left Finally Blown It?  This November marks the date when the mask was torn off to reveal the true face of the Left.  The fact that they tore it off themselves makes it even better.  This revelation of course involves Israel, the Gaza War, and the leftist anti-Semitism that has festered unacknowledged for generations.  The poster girl for all this is Susan Sarandon. [...] Sarandon's trademark schtick has been one she inherited from Jane Fonda, the "socially conscious" left-wing Hollywood harridan.  Last week it turned around to bite her.  Addressing a pro-Hamas rally while dressed like a bag lady, Sarandon made an obtuse, imbecilic, and unforgiveable remark concerning Jews and Muslims that doesn't really bear repeating.  The industry reacted swiftly.  Within hours Sarandon was dumped by the United Talent Agency.  This is a first.  You can look as long as you like to find another leftie rabble-rouser discarded by Hollywood and you will not succeed.  Let this be the first of many.

Biden Officially Attempts to Remove God from Thanksgiving with 2023 Proclamation.  Since the first Thanksgiving on Plymouth Rock and its subsequent establishment as a day of thanks on Oct. 3, 1789, the recipient of that thanks on behalf of the United States of America has always been God.  But in keeping with the destruction of everything good and virtuous in this nation, this year, God has been removed as the recipient of thanks on Thanksgiving.  On Wednesday, President Biden released his Thanksgiving proclamation for 2023.  For the first time in American history, the proclamation completely omitted any reference to God or faith.  [Tweet]

DHS Chief Mayorkas Warns Agents Not to Misgender Border Crossers, but Ask Their Preferred Pronouns.  President Joe Biden's border chief is now ordering border guards not to presume the correct sex and corresponding pronouns for illegal migrants.  "We just obtained [Customs and Border Patrol agency] documents directing personnel to only use woke language when encountering individuals invading the United States," a tweet from the Oversight Project at the Heritage Foundation reads.  The order from border chief Alejandro Mayorkas directs border guards to ignore the biological distinction between the two complementary sexes.  Instead, officers must submit to the political claim that each person's "gender" is more important than their biological sex and so must allow people to sneak across the male/female border under the disguise of "transgender" pronouns.

Why Governments Have Replaced God with Global Warming.  [Scroll down]  You might have noticed, for instance, that the U.S. government has spent the last seventy years building nuclear silos in "flyover country" while fortifying a small number of secret bunkers for high-ranking apparatchiks and their friends.  Any attack on our intercontinental ballistic missile chambers would require so many devastating enemy strikes for "success" that the middle part of the country would be utterly annihilated.  Thus, it is the official policy of the federal government to sacrifice the vast American middle in a barrage of mushroom clouds, so that a tiny slither of coastal elites might live to worry about carbon emissions and internal combustion engines.  What sane person would agree to that arrangement?  Easy answer: none.  The government must therefore spend all its time and resources convincing otherwise rational individuals to voluntarily embrace absolutely irrational things.

Where is the loyalty of some of our congressmen?  Voters can easily know if a candidate is born outside the U.S., but it is not so easily known if he holds dual citizenship.  There is no requirement for members of Congress to publicly disclose that, but with several of them pursuing polices against U.S. interests, their allegiance to our republic needs frequent reaffirmation.  Ilhan Omar (D-Minn., 5th District) and Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash., 7th District) were both born outside the U.S.  Given their anti-American antics, this question naturally arises:  is dual citizenship clouding their judgement about what's best for America?

Oregonians are Sick Of Drug Decriminalization 3 Years Later.  [Video clip only.]

If You Oppose Tyranny, You're on the FBI's AGAAVE List.  Isn't it amazing that so many hippy-dippy teenagers who "fought the man" during the '60s and '70s grew up to be more authoritarian than anything they experienced in their youth?  Isn't it surreal that so many of them produced children who embrace authoritarianism as a quasi-religion?  Just what kind of counter-culture creates generations of government bureaucrats who instinctively demand that Americans do exactly as they're told?  The same people who once fought to have their voices heard now insist on silencing all dissent.  The same people who used to see mainstream culture as antithetical to authentic art now demand that only one "politically correct narrative" ever be expressed.

The Power of Love.  According to the left, which now controls most public schooling along with media, corporate culture, and politics in America, there is no difference between men and women.  Those very words, "men" and "women," must be eliminated and replaced by something like "person" or "womyn."  According to those on the left, men and women are interchangeable entities, equal and even identical in every respect.  Any biological differences that do remain can be removed by denying again and again that they exist to the point that no one dare point out that women are biologically and psychologically intended to nurture children or that men are better suited for some physically demanding and dangerous occupations.  The inconvenient truth that most men are physically stronger than most women is suppressed so that the "rights" of transgender athletes — many of them male but simply professing to be female — can be supported.

Owners of Miss Universe file for bankruptcy following diversity drive that allowed trans women to compete.  The Thai owner of the Miss Universe pageant has filed for bankruptcy a year after buying the pageant and pushing to make it more inclusive.  JKN Global Group purchased Miss Universe, which was co-owned by Donald Trump from 1996 to 2015, for $20 million (£16.4 million) in 2022.  Under the group's ownership, the pageant has permitted mothers and married women to participate in the contest for the first time from this year, as well as transgender women.  Funding for JKN's purchase was raised through bonds, but the Bangkok-listed firm has since loaded up on debt and on September 1 missed a repayment deadline of around $12 million.

Bill Gates Explains Why He Can Own 4 Private Jets While You Will Be Confined To '15 Minute Cities'.  Bill Gates has the right to fly around the world on his fleet of four private jets while normal people are forced to live in 15 minute cities without freedom of travel, according to Gates himself, who told the BBC he is exempt from normal rules.  Gates claimed that because he continues to "spend billions of dollars" on climate change activism, his carbon footprint isn't an issue. [...] Earlier this year, Gates flew around Australia on board his $70 million dollar luxury private jet lecturing people about climate change and ordering them to stop flying on planes.  Gates, who has declared that the energy crisis is a good thing, owns no fewer than FOUR private jets at a combined cost of $194 million dollars.  A study carried out by Linnaeus University economics professor Stefan Gössling found that Gates flew more than 213,000 miles on 59 private jet flights in 2017 alone.

Revolt Brewing in White House Over U.S. Policy Toward Israel.  It's no secret that many younger members of the Biden administration are not happy with the president's policy of demonstrating strong support for Israel.  Dozens of State Department members signed a "dissent cable" taking issue with the president's decided tilt in favor of the Israelis.  Now, there's a growing revolt in the White House as many junior aides are griping about the pro-Israel bias of the president.  "It has created great moral anxiety," said one senior administration official.  "But no one can say it because we all work at the pleasure of the president and he's all in."

Democraticide.  Democrats are losing the Gaza War because of four women:  Larry Omar, Moe Tlaib, Curly AOC and Shemp Pressley.  They are the biggest anti-Semite recruiters in the Democrat Party since Nathan Bedford Forrest formed the KKK.  It would be childish and demeaning to call them the Squaws, so I will follow the crowd for once and call them the Squad.  They rolled into Congress after the 2018 election and played identity politics to the hilt.  One was black, one was Hispanic, one was Palestinian and one was married to her brother.  The New York Times celebrated this as the future of the Democrat Party.  So did I, man.  So did I.  On August 8, 2019, NYT ran a piece by Barbara Ransby under the title, "The Squad Is the Future of Politics.  You can credit social movements for that."  Oh I do credit the social movements for that.  Yes indeed, I do.

One In Five Democrats Side With Hamas:  I&I/TIPP Poll.  When it comes to the Israel-Hamas war, Americans have made a clear choice: a significant majority support Israel, not Hamas, while an even larger majority now call antisemitism a "serious" problem, the latest I&I/TIPP Poll reveals.  But a shockingly high 20% of Democrats say they support Hamas in the current conflict, despite reports of blood-curdling barbarism committed against innocent Israeli men, women, and children.  Just over half of Democrats say they support Israel.  Amid the backdrop of the Oct. 7 attacks against Israel by the terrorist group Hamas, I&I/TIPP asked Americans this question: "Generally speaking, in the Israel-Hamas conflict, do you side more with Israel or Hamas?"  The national online poll of 1,400 adults was taken from Nov. 1-3, with a margin-of-error of +/-2.7 percentage points.

Was October 7 an Earthquake for the Democrats?  Now [the average] Joe is starting to see that that Democrats aren't really the party of social justice or tolerance.  They are the party of anti-Semites and terrorist sympathizers.  Leaders in his party are quite happy to excuse the beheading of babies and the gang rape of women for the right cause.  As Joe clears the sleep from his eyes, he is seeing that members of his party will gladly accept evil as "a means to an end."  Would his party endorse true evil to achieve other ends as well?  At the next Democrat political event, will a now wide-awake Joe notice
  •   The pink-haired woman who had an abortion at eight months and 29 days — and is proudly celebrating it with her t-shirt?
  •   The person who looted his local department store — in the name of social justice?
  •   The Antifa thug who assaulted an elderly man on his block — to protest fascism?
  •   The drag queen who grooms children at the local library — in the name of tolerance?
  •   The socialist that wants to take away our God-given freedoms — to change the weather?

Democrats and racists.  The Democrat party is comprised of racists.  It is anti-Semitic, anti-white, and anti-Christian.  In recent weeks, they have revealed that they will not stand up for Israel and her Jewish population.  Democrats consistently vote against anything that could even remotely be considered anti-Hamas.  They won't even censure members who openly stand with known terrorist organizations.  Need it be noted that Hamas is a terrorist organization that has openly sworn not only to destroy Israel and every Jew they can get their blood-stained hands on, they have also sworn to destroy America, Christians and all "infidels," meaning non-Muslims?  There are enemies in the very guts of American life, like tapeworms devouring any source of national nourishment.

The Hamas Wing of the Democrat Party Now Numbers 45.  It's quite an eye-opener.  A vote was taken in the House on Thursday to sanction Hamas terrorists and their supporters.  45 Democrats said no to that resolution.  Name 'em and shame 'em.  I call them the Hamas Caucus.  [Tweet]  The resolution is for new sanctions on Hamas' international backers and a policy of opposing Iran's nuclear program 'by any means necessary.'  The Squad and its fellow travelers voted against that.

Consequences of American Communism.  My position is quite clear:  this nation is done for. [...] It should be obvious that nearly two-thirds of this nation cannot stand to live with the other third.  There is no compromise on pedophilia, illegal immigration, corruption, spending the people into poverty, controlling the use of gas stoves and etc., but bigger issues are on the horizon and the federal government will not be able to deal with them.  The federal government has become a form of mafia that doesn't put one moment's energy into what the people or the nation want or need.  They see profit for themselves and make laws to satisfy those who will pay them off.  That's a nation with an expiration date and that date is rapidly approaching.

When History is Rewritten, Look Out.  We operate under a changed military doctrine, which finds us fighting today's war with yesterday's tactics.  Today's war is for truth itself, and we are losing badly.  Crowds of people fight from the opposite sides of our streets.  They battle us in our houses of worship, our universities, and even in the halls of Congress.  Events worldwide can be tied to just a few central players trying to orchestrate the end of Western civilization.  Scenes from all over reveal those seeking an end to the modern world as we know it.  Are you appalled when tens of thousands here and hundreds of thousands worldwide effectively call for Israel to surrender?  Some are actually calling for the Jews' annihilation right here in America, in our schools and other institutions.  It resembles 1939 Germany.

Pro-Palestinian left splits Dems on Israel attack; resolution on Hamas clears without unanimous vote.  Congressional Democrats are trying to distance themselves from the party's far-left House members who have taken an aggressive pro-Palestinian stance, highlighting the growing divide in the party over the Middle East conflict.  More than a dozen House lawmakers, all but one of whom are Democrats, opposed a resolution condemning Hamas' deadly terrorist attack on Israel and reaffirming U.S. support for the Jewish nation.  That group included members of the "Squad," some of whom have weathered intense criticism for anti-Israel sentiments.  "The collection of members that voted against the resolution are typically not supportive of anything related to Israel," said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Shultz, a Florida Democrat who is Jewish.  "It's one thing to oppose Israel or any nation based on policy, but everyone should be against slaughter."

Biden's White House Will Not Revoke Visas of Pro-Hamas Foreign Students.  President Joe Biden's White House has no plans to revoke the visas of those foreign students engaging in demonstrations across United States college campuses in defense of the Islamic terrorist organization Hamas and its attacks on Israel.  After a number of Republicans urged Biden's State Department to revoke the visas of pro-Hamas foreign students who hold F-1 visas, National Security Council (NSC) spokesman John Kirby said the administration will not do so.

House Passes Resolution Condemning Hamas For 'Unprovoked War On Israel'.  The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a resolution in support of Israel on Wednesday following terrorist attacks on the country by Hamas that began on Oct. 7.  House Resolution 771, titled "Standing with Israel as it defends itself against the barbaric war launched by Hamas and other terrorists," condemns Hamas for beginning an "unprovoked war on Israel" and accuses them of "slaughtering Israelis and abducting hostages in towns in southern Israel, including children and the elderly."  After the House elected Republican Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana's 4th District as its speaker following a three-week deadlock over the position, the resolution was quickly brought to the floor under a motion to suspend the rules, which required a two-thirds majority to approve. [...] Those who opposed the resolution included Democratic Reps.  Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Cori Bush of Missouri and Jamaal Bowman of New York — some of whom have been criticized by Democrats for their apparent support for Gaza and criticism of Israel's response to the attacks.  One Republican, Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, voted against the resolution.

The Inevitable Fracturing of the Democrat Party.  The Democrat Party is not a homogenous entity, but an amalgamation of various left-wing factions now overwhelmingly dominated by its smallest and most radical element, the avowed anti-Semitic and racist American Marxists.  However, the largest group and underpinning of the Party are the credulous, patronizing, and narcissistic liberals who, in their naiveté, willfully allied themselves with any group virulently opposed to conservatives and Republicans.  While living in their cocoons among the likeminded, they chose to ignore the Marxist's inexorable infiltration of the Democrat Party as well as their declared intention to transform America into a socialist "paradise" which will devour these same liberal elites.  With so many on the Left celebrating the premediated slaughter of women, children, and the elderly in Israel, many of these gullible fools have been shocked at the vast number of young people that have been indoctrinated and the depth of anti-Semitism that has its home in the Democrat Party.

The Day the Delusions Died.  We disagree about politics, [Thomas] Sowell argues, because we disagree about human nature.  We see the world through one of two competing visions, each of which tells a radically different story about human nature.  Those with "unconstrained vision" think that humans are malleable and can be perfected.  They believe that social ills and evils can be overcome through collective action that encourages humans to behave better.  To subscribers of this view, poverty, crime, inequality, and war are not inevitable.  Rather, they are puzzles that can be solved.  We need only to say the right things, enact the right policies, and spend enough money, and we will suffer these social ills no more.  This worldview is the foundation of the progressive mindset.  By contrast, those who see the world through a "constrained vision" lens believe that human nature is a universal constant.  No amount of social engineering can change the sober reality of human self-interest, or the fact that human empathy and social resources are necessarily scarce.  People who see things this way believe that most political and social problems will never be "solved"; they can only be managed.  This approach is the bedrock of the conservative worldview.

Stop Being Shocked — Once and for All.  [Scroll down]  The more we listened to freshly minted universal experts, the more we were struck by the increasing lunacy of their pronouncements on every topic under the sun, always backed by "studies" and "science" — where COVID-19 came from, how many genders there are, which skin tones and personal experiences qualify a person for protection status and which do not, whether it was OK for a Syrian dictator to bomb and gas 500,000 of his people, whether the U.S. should ally itself with a Holocaust-denying medieval theocracy, whether the president of the United States was secretly a Russian agent, whether large American cities should let drug addicts and violent schizophrenics get high on the streets and steal stuff — and more.  Indeed, over time, we were struck by how little the ideas themselves seemed to matter; what so many people seemed most attached to was power.

US Palestinians, Muslims fear a return to post-9/11 Islamophobia.  As the Israel-Hamas War rages and the crisis in Gaza deepens, Taher Herzallah said he has exchanged frantic messages on social media with his family members who are trapped in Gaza.  Their description of the situation is grim.  He said they've told him they have no food, electricity, water or fuel.  "When I spoke to them ... they were basically saying, 'We think this is it, we will not survive this one,'" he said.  "You can only imagine what that feels like for Palestinian Americans who are getting these stories from their families right now."  Herzallah said his concerns for his family thousands of miles away have also been compounded by a growing fear for the safety of his wife and children here in the US, as reports of attacks against people perceived to be Muslim or Palestinian surface across the country.

Nearly half of Biden voters want government to regulate speech.  According to recent polling by the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, nearly half of President Joe Biden's supporters believe the government should clamp down on objectionable speech.  That's right, among individuals intending to vote for Biden in 2024, 47% think "the government should regulate or restrict the expression of views considered discriminatory or offensive."  Considered "discriminatory or offensive" by whom, exactly?  Sadly, the results weren't a whole lot different for supporters of Donald Trump, 35% of whom purport to believe the government should exercise this control.

Pro-Israel Dem's Foundation Gave $1 Million to Group With Palestinian Terror Links.  Pro-Israel Democratic representative Daniel Goldman's (N.Y.) charitable foundation gave over $1 million to a group that bankrolled a progressive organization linked to Palestinian terrorism.  The Richard W. Goldman Family Foundation, a family foundation where Goldman served on the board until at least last year, has donated $1.2 million to the New Venture Fund (NVF), a major left-leaning, dark-money group, according to Fox News.  The NVF donated $38,000 to the Alliance for Global Justice for "environmental programs" in 2021 and $210,000 in 2020, according to the Washington Examiner.  The alliance was recently dropped from Paypal, Stripe, and other fundraising platforms due to its sponsorship of the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, an Israel-designated terrorist group.

Left-Wing Jewish Leaders Shocked To Discover Their Liberal Friends Support Hamas.  Jewish liberals said they feel betrayed by many of their friends on the left who have come out in support of antisemitic ideas since the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks carried out by Hamas, The New York Times reported.  Rabbis, Jewish political leaders and Jewish voters said they felt abandoned by the political party they once aligned with, and called the sudden turn a "betrayal" and "beyond shocking," according to the NYT. While some Jewish members of groups like Jewish Voices For Peace and IfNotNow said that they wanted Israel to announce a ceasefire, they were horrified by the number of political "allies" who called for Israel's complete destruction or who claimed that the nation deserved the Hamas terrorist attacks.

Colin Allred's Bizarre Capitol Police Threat Towards Reporter.  RedState reported Wednesday on the bizarre exchange between a reporter and Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas) as they walked down a hall in the Cannon House Building where Allred actually threatened to call the Capitol Police on the citizen journalist because he was questioning the taxpayer-paid Congressman on taxpayer-funded federal property. [...] Allred is in his second term as a Congressman and should understand at this point that you need to be able to explain and defend your record when asked to do so.  The repeated failure of a politician to respond to such questions is an indication that they're either not proud of it and/or want to keep voters in the dark.  Taking the additional step of calling on the police to try and get rid of them is an indication they don't think they are answerable to the people.  That is not a good look [...]

The Cult of Personality Will Destroy This Country.  We like to blame what Elon Musk calls the 'Woke Mind Virus' for most of our ills, and surely 'defund the police,' 'open the borders,' 'make it legal to poop on sidewalks,' 'decriminalize crime,' and other loony woke ideas are causing great harm, but understand that the 'woke' represent a very small percentage of the public.  The woke like to pretend that the word 'woke' is something the political right highjacked, but that has no real meaning.  Let me define the term.  Woke is the ability to see oppression where it does not exist.  The woke then wish to eliminate oppression, even where there is none, leading to all kinds of horrendous policies.  Ask yourself how it is that policies supported by a small fraction of the public — not even supported by the majority of the party pushing them — are rapidly becoming the laws of the land.

Two birds with one stone!
Cher says Trump's reelection would drive her out of US.  Cher is vowing to exit the United States if former President Trump wins the 2024 presidential election.  "I almost got an ulcer the last time," the "Believe" singer said of Trump's time in the White House, during an interview with The Guardian published Wednesday.  "If he gets in, who knows?" Cher said.  "This time I will leave [the country,]" the Grammy Award winner declared.

The Editor says...
[#1] As Regis Philbin used to say, "Who kez?"  [#2] Trump has already served four years as president.  Why hasn't she left already?  [#3] Where would she go?  What country is so much better, in her eyes?

Transgender art school professor calls Israelis 'pigs' and 'savages' in social media post.  A transgender associate professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago posted on social media that Israelis are "pigs" and "savages," prompting alarm and anger from observers.  On Instagram, Professor Mika Tosca wrote: "Israelis are pigs.  Savages.  Very very bad people.  Irredeemable excrement. ... May they all rot in hell."  Tosca's post also argued Israel is engaging in "propaganda" and is responsible for "crimes against humanity" recently and in decades past.  The post was made in the wake of deadly terrorist attacks against Israel by Hamas that killed more than 1,100 civilians, including women and children.

Atlanta cancer doctor put on leave after post celebrating Hamas' 'glory'.  An Atlanta cancer doctor has been put on leave after sharing a pro-Hamas Facebook post, where she celebrated the "glory" of the terrorist group and wished for "no peace on stolen land."  Dr. Abeer N. AbouYabis, who works for Emory Winship Cancer Institute, took to Facebook this week to wish "glory to all resistance fighters" on her account, which has now been made private.  "I needed to say it LOUD," she wrote in the poetic-style post. [...] She has since been placed on leave from her prestigious position, the institute confirmed to the New York Post.

NYC doctor fired over pro-Hamas post cheering Israelis getting a 'taste of their own medicine'.  A New York City emergency room doctor has been fired for controversial posts online that applauded Hamas' massacre at a music festival in southern Israel, saying the attacks gave Israelis "a taste of their own medicine."  Dr. Dana Diab — an emergency room physician with Lenox Hill Hospital and Brookdale University Hospital & Medical Center, according to NYC Health + Hospitals — shared a video of the heinous Oct. 7 attack on her Instagram Stories.  "Zionist settlers getting a taste of their own medicine," she wrote, according to a screenshot shared by Stop Antisemitism on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Monday.  A second snap showed Diab's Instagram profile, which has since gone private — where the physician boasted over 600 followers and had a Palestinian flag emoji in the bio section.

Boston City Councilwoman Backs Hamas Terrorism.  Democrats, it is time to clean house.  Or, I should qualify that:  it is long past the time you should have cleaned house.  But rather than kick out the extremists, you Democrats have pretended that they are simply excitable social justice zealots who are a bit hyperbolic, but otherwise perfectly normal political allies. [...] The Democrats' current problem isn't a few people who are off the reservation; there is a wing of the Democrat Party that actively embraces terrorism and justifies the current wave of terror in Israel and even violence against "colonizers" in the United States.  My guess is that about 20% or more of Democrats — mostly the younger generation — are perfectly fine with political violence.  [Tweet]

Rashida Tlaib Reportedly Ignores Reporters Asking Her About Falsely Blaming Israel for Gaza Hospital Blast.  Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) reportedly ignored journalists on Capitol Hill Wednesday pressing the congresswoman about her now-debunked statement blaming Israel for the deadly blast at a Gaza hospital that killed hundreds of Palestinians.  Initial reports, derived from the Hamas terrorist group and media organizations operating within its jurisdiction, claimed the strike on Gaza City's al-Ahli Baptist Hospital was carried out by Israel.  As the reports spread across the web, Tlaib rushed to social media to condemn Israel.

The Nobel Foundation Should Ask Paul Krugman For Its Award Back.  'The war on inflation is over," wrote Paul (Nobel Prize-Winning-Economist) Krugman last week in a post on X.  "We won, at very little cost."  The only thing missing was a giant "Mission Accomplished" banner.  But like the unfinished Iraq war that George W. Bush bragged about from the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln, the inflation battle is far from over.  Krugman's reputation as an economist, on the other hand, should be put in a body bag and shipped to Sweden, along with his Nobel Prize money.  Krugman was mocked for his claim about inflation, and for good reason.  To show how we'd allegedly won the war, he had to strip out food, energy, shelter, and used cars.  In other words — most of the stuff that people spend money on day to day.

Where There is No Respect for Life, Evil Flourishes.  The loss of respect for life has also begun to dramatically infiltrate the American ruling elites and the overall society as over the past two decades the following, previously unthinkable, changes have occurred within the United States:
  •   Unfettered abortion up to the point of birth and post-birth infanticide has become a policy position of the Democrat Party.
  •   Euthanasia is openly discussed and supported by an ever-growing (73%) segment of the population.
  •   Sexually confused teens are being coerced into mutilation and permanent disfigurement in order to appease the gods of transgenderism, accompanied by an unabashed campaign to legalize pedophilia.
  •   A significant plurality of Americans is demanding the censorship, imprisonment, and persecution of their political adversaries while they, and recent Islamic immigrants, are openly supporting and justifying the slaughter of Jews by Hamas.
  •   Tribalism has been mainstreamed and with it the belief that certain ethnicities or races are inferior to others and also responsible for society's ills, therefore, they are deserving of disrespect, abuse and discrimination.
The path the United States is presently traveling will inevitably lead to the darkening shadow of unfettered evil descending upon the land leading to national self-destruction.

The Problem Of Totalitarians Using Our Freedoms Against Us.  Like most Americans, I was shocked by the vicious inhumanity that the coward terrorist group Hamas carried out in Israel last weekend.  Unfortunately, organized evil is neither unique nor surprising.  The Nazis were equally evil across Europe, as were the Japanese at Nanking, Stalin with Ukraine, and Mao with his own people.  Sadly, evil happens, devils exist, although, thankfully, they are rarely celebrated.  But "rarely" doesn't mean never, and the most shocking thing last week wasn't the evil Hamas perpetrated but, rather, the extraordinary support it has received.  Not only is Hamas's evil finding exuberant support in places like Iran and Qatar where you might expect it, but there were tens of thousands of Muslims — and their liberal comrades — in places like New York, Detroit, and Washington out en masse vocally demonstrating their support for these monsters.  And it wasn't just on the streets, in places like Harvard and Yale and NYU, you had students and professors and organizations blaming Israel for Hamas's inhumanity.

Disney Hiking Prices on Theme Parks as Much as 21 Percent as Attendance Falters.  As if visiting a Disney theme park wasn't already outrageously expensive, the Walt Disney Company is once again hiking the price of admission to Disney World in Orlando and Disneyland in Anaheim, with certain passes skyrocketing by as much as 21 percent.  Disney is also jacking up the price of parking in Orlando from $25 to $30, or 20 percent.  The eye-popping increases, which take effect immediately, represent Disney's latest attempt to juice revenue amid faltering financials that have left the once invincible company in disarray.  Long a reliable cash cow, Disney parks are showing signs of serious vulnerability, with mounting reports of weak attendance as families dealing with the crushing effects off Bidenflation opt to stay home.

How Hard Is It to Condemn Atrocities?  After Hamas terrorists murdered 260-plus mostly young people enjoying a "peace" concert near the Gaza border and slaughtered families in their homes, normal people were utterly outraged and sympathetic to the Israeli victims.  Others — mostly university professors, progressive activists and "journalists," and even some members of Congress — couldn't bring themselves to condemn the violence.  Some even excused it. [...] Even if you have no sympathy for the Jewish victims, despise the Israeli government and its treatment of Palestinians, and have no problem with Hamas extremism, it's still wise to offer a statement acknowledging that murdering and kidnapping ordinary people is horrific.  Otherwise, you sound like a terrorism-supporting barbarian.  It's hard to, you know, complain about the very real suffering of ordinary residents of Gaza when you make clear that you have no real problem with civilian suffering as a general principle.

Leftists Want the Same Massacre to Happen Here.  Understand that our foreign and domestic enemies not only eagerly support the frenzy of rape and murder we saw in Israel but that they want it repeated here in America.  When they talk about "the consequences of colonialization" or complain that Israel has defended itself, they are normalizing mass atrocities by their purported allies against their actual enemies.  Their enemies in Israel are Jews — men, women, and children — and here, their enemies are normal Americans — again, men, women and children.  Denial simply empowers these monsters, and attempts by the goo-goos to appeal to our enemies' morality, or to point out facts and argue in good faith, will end in abject failure.  What matters to our enemies is that we suffer and die.  Nothing less will satisfy them.

Sen. Fetterman: "You all should need to know that America is not sending their best and brightest to Washington, D.C.".  Yes, he said this  [Tweet] [...] Dude literally has an iPad next to him to help him remember what to say!

Surprise: Consumers tired of companies preaching at them.  [Scroll down]  The list, sadly, is long and undistinguished of businesses that have chosen to lecture us instead of sell me the sharpest razor, the freshest cookie, the tastiest beer, or the funniest movie they can make — and all with pride that it's the BEST product they can produce.  If I have to be lectured to change my ways to suit a business's standards, I guess I'm not worthy enough to purchase such sacred goods, and that's where the calculus breaks down in their equation.

Even Now, Democrats Are Having a Hard Time Breaking Up With Their Terrorist Pals.  Yesterday, we focused on just a couple of Democrat ne'er-do-wells who have a deep and abiding affection for terrorists like the Hamas cowards who attacked Israel last weekend.  More than enough time has passed for all of the other Democrats in the country to separate themselves from and disavow the likes of the execrable Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, the two most prominent terrorist appeasers in Congress.  There has been some of that here and there, but not enough to convey a sincere break from the evildoers of the world.  As we've discussed a couple of times this week, the Democrats have been in denial about Islamic terrorists almost since the dust from the fallen twin towers settled after 9/11.  They're obviously having a difficult time reorienting themselves.

'The Squad' Idiots Should Be Sent to a Country They Actually Like.  As we have discussed here a few times, Democrats often struggle with identifying who the real bad guys are in a conflict.  Sure, they had a moment of clarity after 9/11, but that was all too fleeting.  They have spent most of the two-plus decades since running interference or being flat-out apologists for anyone with a suicide vest.  For the longest time, the Democrats at least managed to keep the most virulent anti-Semitic voices among them out of national office.  When Minnesota sent Keith Ellison to Congress in 2007, he would at least try to be coy about his true feelings.  Then Ellison was succeeded by Ilhan Omar, and all Squad hell broke loose.  The second month she was in office, Omar began letting her anti-Semitic, anti-Israel freak flag fly.  By the next month, Omar had stepped in it so much that then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi knew that she had to address it.  Granny Boxwine didn't have the fortitude to directly admonish Omar for some reason, and instead issued a general condemnation of anti-Semitism that felt as sincere as a drunken declaration of love during a wedding at the Elvis chapel in Vegas.

Bernie Sanders Accuses Israel of War Crimes, Goes Easy on Hamas.  Here we go again with the one-sided condemnations of Israel, which was viciously attacked by Hamas on Saturday.  The assault claimed the lives of hundreds of Israelis, many of whom were civilians deliberately targeted by the organization's operatives.  After striking back, Israel began facing criticism from the left for defending itself.  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) recently issued a statement echoing the same claptrap coming from his contemporaries.  In his statement, Sanders criticized Hamas for its murderous rampage through the streets of Israel.  "The gunning down of young Israelis at a music festival is an image the world will not soon forget," he wrote.

Rashida Tlaib Has No Comment When Asked About Hamas Beheading Israeli Babies.  On Tuesday morning we learned that the bodies of 40 babies slaughtered by Hamas had been found in the southern Israeli town of Kfar Aza, some of them having been beheaded.  Throughout the day, mainstream journalists and Hamas sympathizers accused Israel of having made it up, and claimed it was propaganda.  However, the CBS News and CNN eventually reported on the horrific discovery, and President Biden referenced it in his address to the nation.  Fox News' Hilary Vaughn asked Rep. Rashida Tlaib, who was visibly emotionally distraught while talking about migrant children being separated from their parents at the U.S. border in 2019 and called it "traumatic" and "inhumane," about Hamas beheading babies and burning children alive, and she had nothing to say.  [Tweet]

Democrats support Palestinians over Israel, GOP overwhelmingly stands with US ally: 2023 poll.  More Democrats in the United States support Palestinians living in Gaza and the West Bank than Israel, the closest U.S. ally in the Middle East, according to a 2023 poll.  Democratic sympathies for Palestinians has increased over the last decade, and a Gallup poll published in March 2023 found their affinity toward the Palestinians finally eclipsed their support of Israel, 49% to 38%.  The attitudes from March reflected a continued decline in Israeli support, from 40% to 38% and an 11-point surge of support for Palestinian people, from 38% to 49%.

Everywhere, there's a growing public revolt against net zero.  The headlong rush to net zero carbon emissions by 2050, pursued for so long by democratic governments across the globe regardless of cost, has finally hit the buffers of voter resistance.  Mainstream politicians of the left, right and centre still mouth their consensual net zero platitudes but they are rowing back from the policies required to achieve it at some speed, not least here in Britain.  It has at last dawned on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak that a population already reeling from a vicious cost of living crisis does not need to be lumbered by the extra burden of the expensive and intrusive green agenda of a political elite which will not itself suffer any hardship from it.

Democrats' extremism, incivility, gaslighting precludes civil response.  Many people wonder why today, as opposed to even the recent past, the political parties can no longer be civil to — or even tolerate one another.  Well, the reason for that is that the Democrat party has become so extreme and moved so far left that it is no longer possible for a sane person to agree with them.  Today's Democrats bear little resemblance to those of the Truman or even Kennedy eras.  They are not just economic Marxists believing in equality of outcome, but cultural Marxists who wish to deny and/or destroy all that came before them, including the very concept of men and women.  Not content with even this, they boldly attempt to impose their ideas — and will — on everyone else.  They want equity of beliefs and values, as long as those beliefs and values are their own.  It is one thing to believe in somewhat bigger government and higher taxes, quite another to believe that baby-killing should be enshrined as the law of the land and that men can become women just by saying so.

What We're Up Against.  A corps of people like Twitter's former head of Trust and Safety Ella Irwin, so certain of their tolerance and love of freedom that they are able to convince the richest man in the world who staked his wealth on your job, that they'll carry forth his vision.  Then at the first chance they get, they slap down a conservative documentary.  It's not that they're necessarily hypocrites or liars.  They genuinely believe they are champions of free speech even as they suppress differing opinions.  The warp in their character is not just a staggering lack of basic self-awareness, but they assume their opinions equal truth, and any deviation is not just falsehood, but hatefulness.  And they're permitted to condemn what (and who) they deem hateful, which means you.

The Death of the Library.  As the Marxists ram their equity ideas into all institutions, libraries are a critical target.  Consequently, "progressives and leftists must put public libraries at the top of [their] organizing agendas."  To that end, they will offer resources to essentially transform libraries into indoctrination centers instead of places of learning.  The president of the American Library Association, Emily Drabinski, is a "self-described Marxist lesbian who openly posts 'in support of sexually exposing children, union-led political strife, socialist politicians, and libraries pushing explicit and far-left material on unwilling taxpayers.'  In one 2021 lecture ... she stated that 'queerness includes the subversion of those kinds of normal family types' meaning husbands, wives, and children."  In 2012, Fred Lucas wrote, "[L]ike many national organizations, the American Library Association has long been captured by the Left.  It postures as a champion of free speech rights, but in fact it twists the ideas of censorship and free speech to meet the ideological requirements of left-wing activism."

Radical Democrats' greatest fears are religion, truth, honesty, and integrity.  Our nation's first president, George Washington, predicted what could happen.  His fears described how an unprincipled group of men and women would take over a political party and subvert the Constitution.  Radical "activists" including communists, socialists, Marxists, progressives, LGBTQ++, and haters of religion and family, have adopted the Democrat party as their vehicle of choice.  They have coalesced with naive political leaders and the media.  They are now using this power to destroy America's culture.  Deviant thinking seeks to replace absolute truth with ever-changing concepts of identity, whims, and moods.  News organizations, social media, and politics have knowing or unknowingly spread their identity to create a godless culture.

Senate Forces Fetterman to Wear Big Boy Pants, Passing a Formal Dress Code.  Our seemingly long national nightmare is over:  Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) will no longer be able to dress like a homeless crackhead at work.  After Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) made a unilateral decision to relax the unwritten dress code to accommodate Pennsylvania's most notorious outpatient, his colleagues decided to get it in writing. [...] Schumer is acting as if he's happy with how everything went, but this was a pretty swift and stinging rebuke to his solo overreach.  A good friend of mine who works in the Senate told me last weekend that, "Everyone hates this."  The youngest member of the United States Senate Convalescent Home, Fetterman has been playing the sympathy card in order to have the rules bent for him almost from the moment he was sworn in last January.  He's gotten away with it thus far because the Democrats are so desperate to hang onto their one-vote majority.  It's probably a safe bet that a lot of them were never OK with his antics, and now they're on record.

In Praise of the New Dress Code for Democrats.  With the abandonment of its longstanding requirement for coats and ties, a new, much lower standard of decorum has been set for the United States Senate, which we as conservatives (a/k/a normal, healthy people) naturally deplore.  This was done to accommodate the sloppy tendencies of Senator John Fetterman, who prefers to dress in hoodies, shorts, and tennis shoes.  No doubt Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer needs to keep every Democrat senator happy enough that they toe the Party line without protest.  However, as upsetting as the idea of this new, slovenly Senate may be, there is a subtle upside that becomes apparent if we stop to consider why it is that we normals expect our nation's leaders to be reasonably well-dressed as they perform their official duties.

Trudeau and the Canadian parliament gave a standing ovation to a Nazi.  No matter how you slice it, it's a shocking story:  The Parliament of Canada, from Trudeau on down, gave a standing ovation to a WWII-era Nazi who is a veteran of the Waffen-SS.  However, when you consider how the left operates and its constant situational ethics, the story begins to make sense. [...] But once again, leftist ethics are entirely situational.  They don't even acknowledge having to hold their nose when faced with the devil's bargain of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend."  So, the party that once didn't care about the Nazis and then hated the Nazis now loves a Nazi and gives him a standing ovation.

More Than One-Third of Democrat Voters Think Americans Have 'Too Much Freedom'.  According to a recent RealClearPolitics poll, more than three out of 10 Democrat voters think the people of America enjoy "too much freedom."  Imagine that: a substantial percentage of the Democrat Party — AKA: the party of "tolerance" and "inclusion" — wants to deny free speech or censor the First Amendment rights of people who don't believe as they believe.

Fetterman's Slovenliness Represents Demise of Objective Social Standards.  The U.S. Senate, once known as the "world's greatest deliberative body," will now permit its members to grace its chamber floor wearing whatever clothes — no matter how casual or unprofessional — they happen to fancy on any given day.  Following Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's, D-N.Y., decision earlier this week to have the sergeant-at-arms cease enforcing the Senate's long-standing dress code, senators might be forgiven for trading in their traditional Brooks Brothers wares for that most chic of modern haberdashers:  the local homeless shelter.  There is one reason and one reason only for Schumer's distasteful change in policy:  The brain-damaged and cartoon-villain-resembling junior Democratic senator from Pennsylvania, John Fetterman, insists on it.  In addition to his imposing stature, lingering physical health issues stemming from a 2022 stroke, and mental health issues for which he admitted himself into a hospital earlier this year, the hoodie- and shorts-wearing Fetterman has become known in the nation's capital as perhaps the first U.S. senator to ever dress for the job like a bona fide slob.

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A civilized society expects certain public figures to present themselves in a manner that reflects the dignity of the positions they hold, whenever they make a public appearance.  Huntley and Brinkley come to mind, as well as Bob Barker and Tom Kennedy.  Our elected representatives at the state and national level should also be expected to set a high standard for personal appearance and conduct.  Until recently, this seemed to be universally understood and didn't have to be stated.  These days, the people who show up for jury duty have to be reminded to dress appropriately, and some of the millennials at church look like they're just stopping by on the way to the lake.

Zelensky and Trudeau Give Soldier Who Reportedly Fought for Nazi Germany a Standing Ovation.  The Canadian parliament, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky have been reported to have given a standing ovation to a reported former member of a Nazi military division.  Following addresses to the parliament in Ottowa on Friday from both Trudeau and Zelensky, the Speaker of the House of Commons Anthony Rota prompted a standing ovation as he honoured a "veteran from the Second World War who fought for Ukrainian independence against the Russians and continues to support the troops today even at his age of 98."

Justin Trudeau and Ukraine President Zelenskyy Honor Nazi Veteran During Canadian Parliament Session.  Yaroslav Hunka, a 98-year-old immigrant from Ukraine, was introduced by Anthony Rota, Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons, as "a Ukrainian-Canadian war veteran from the Second World War who fought for Ukrainian independence against the Russians" and "a Ukrainian hero and a Canadian hero," ignoring the horrific fact that Hunka served in the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, a Nazi military unit whose crimes against humanity during the Holocaust are well-documented.

Is the Left Happy That They Got Their Wish?  The Left demanded official recognition of multiple genders, the green-lighting of biological males competing in women's sports, the mainstreaming of risqué drag queen shows often before audiences of minors, and the preemptive smearing of anyone who believed that sexuality is biologically determined rather than fluidly socially constructed.  And the result?  Corporate pile-ons and trendy transgendered advocacies have ruined Bud Light, once American's premier beer brand.  The once beloved but now woke and arrogant Disney Corporation is bleeding audiences, customers, and subscribers.  Due to its provocative arrogance, Disney managed to become all but despised by half the nation.  Ditto other woke major corporations from Target to the Los Angeles Dodgers.

They're Pushing Us Because They Assume We Won't Push Back.  We are transitioning into what might be called the Post-America period.  All the pillars of a free Republic are under attack.  Forces are surging from all sides, led by Progressives who sense they have us on the run. [...] Everything the Destroyers (Progressives, Liberals, or even simply the Left) do depends on you giving up.  They cannot actually take anything from you.  You must give it up willingly.  All the signs make them feel they can accomplish this monumental feat of brinksmanship without you fighting back.

They Want You Dead.  We live in a civil society where the Rule of Law was to be our universal bedrock guarantee even as it dissolves right before our eyes through government actions and inactions.  Thousands are dying in the streets through unrestrained violence and drug use.  In Chicago, they're even trying to schedule gang wars and shootouts at a specific time of day!  Politicians' mouths move, words come out, but their actions reflect their partisanship, not their citizenship.  Too few see the venom of the Left as revealing their real endgame.  President Trump wasn't responsible for any of this.  Trump was like a truth elixir that revealed what was always there for others to see.  The Left was/is working like subterranean termites eating away at our foundations.

Education Secretary says he doesn't 'respect' parents thinking 'they know what's right for kids'.  Education Secretary Miguel Cardona took a jab at certain parents who are standing up for their children's education by stating that he does not "respect" people who are "misbehaving in public and acting as if they know what's right for kids."  Speaking about what he views as attacks on education during an interview Friday with The Associated Press, Cardona said, "I've never seen it where it is now," and that we used to be able to "have healthy conversations around what's best for kids."  Parents are increasingly expressing concerns regarding their children's education and attending school board meetings to voice their opinions, but Cardona said he does not think highly of such people.

Sen. Fetterman Attends Meeting With Zelensky in a Shirt and Gym Shorts.  The Senate wardrobe controversy shows no signs of slowing as Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), continues traipsing around the Capitol building looking more like a hobo jumping trains across the country than a United States lawmaker.  In this episode of "Low Fashion in High Office," Fetterman was seen walking into a Senate closed-door meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky looking as if he just left the bowling alley.  This comes days after the Senate eliminated its dress code to accommodate Fetterman, who suffers from clinical depression.  Of course, aides, employees, and other congressional peasants, some of whom might also be suffering from clinical depression, are still required to wear formal business attire.

Democrats Discover A New 'Threat To Democracy' — The U.S Constitution.  We've been cataloging how the left has taken to labeling every candidate it doesn't like and every policy it opposes a "threat to democracy."  But even we were surprised to see the U.S. Constitution itself added to the list of these threats.  MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell said over the weekend that: "The Constitution has some profoundly anti-democratic, which is to say anti-democracy components, like the Electoral College and the two senators per state, for example."  Mind you, this aired on Sept. 15, just two days before Constitution Day, which this year marked the 236th anniversary of its signing.  O'Donnell was talking to Jamelle Bouie, a New York Timers [sic] columnist, who after nodding his head in agreement with O'Donnell, added that "I think we've witnessed over the last couple years especially with the attempt to overturn the election, the ways that the constitution, its rules, can actually be used against what Americans think identify as a Democracy."

Fetterman is a slob, and Schumer is an embarrassment.  It's official:  Democrats make everything worse.  It was a sentiment long felt by many in the country, but after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's (D-NY) recent decision to nix the Senate's dress code and, in turn, obliterate the regard, respect, and dignity of the office, Schumer and the Democrats erased any doubt about ushering in societal rot and the nation's decline.  It's an embarrassment, and every Democratic politician should be ashamed.  And that includes Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), believed to be the impetus for Schumer's decision to eliminate the dress code.  But the prestige of the Senate shouldn't be lowered because Fetterman is a slob.  The people of Pennsylvania elected him, believing he could perform the duties necessary to be a senator.  His health problems aside, none of that excuses his inability to put on a suit and tie for a job he was elected to do.  Schumer and every other Democrat and left-winger are enabling Fetterman's laziness and slovenly behavior under the guise of compassion and understanding.

Mark Levin's The Democrat Party Hates America.  Once again, Mark Levin has done a great service to the Republic by writing a fully documented, highly pointed book on a topic of vital national interest.  Published today by the Threshold Editions imprint of Simon & Schuster, The Democrat Party Hates America is required reading for anyone who follows politics in America.  That most assuredly includes those who identify as Democrats, though most will shun the book because it is too much of a challenge to their sense of self-worth and virtue.  For the few who have the courage to read it, the book will be a revelation.  I make no secret that I was born into a family of active Democrats, and until reality intruded well into adulthood, I shared that political attachment.  I have since regarded it as a mistaken affiliation, but after reading this book I now have a sense a shame.  If it is widely enough read, and I predict that it will be a runaway best-seller, the book will change the way the public understands one of our two major political parties, forever tainting the Democrats for the racism, hypocrisy, lack of principle, and sheer ruthless pursuit of power at any cost that have permeated their party throughout its history.

Special needs US Senator allowed to dress like a slob.  The big tough pull-a-gun-on-a-black-jogger Senator from Pennsylvania is not as tough as you might think.  He's apparently threatened by suits and ties.  He's so delicate that Chuck Schumer had to change the rules of Senate decorum to accommodate the special needs guy. [...] The Senate is the world's greatest deliberative body.  It is worthy of respect as an institution, while at the same trime its members may not all be so worthy.  It's not unlike the military, in which the rank is saluted, not the person holding the rank.  There used to be rules [...] But Fetterman is too sensitive and fragile for such ominous sartorial intimidation as is even business casual, let alone a genuine suit and tie.  Fetterman's ever present handler is the giveaway that he is walking the tightrope of sanity and could fall off at any moment.

Chuck Schumer axes Senate dress code following criticism of Fetterman's hoodies: report.  Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has axed the dress code that requires legislators to wear professional attire on the Senate floor months after Sen. John Fetterman was slammed for wearing a hoodie.  Schumer (D-NY) quietly directed the Senate's sergeant at arms to stop enforcing the dress code that mandates male senators wear a jacket and tie and female senators a dress or other businesswear on the floor, Axios reported Sunday.  The change in policy comes after Fetterman (D-Pa.) was bashed by conservatives for wearing a hoodie, gym shorts and sneakers to the chamber.  Many called his casual fashion choices disrespectful.

Navy Puts The Kibosh On Digital Recruiting Program After Discovering Enlistees Aren't Into Drag Queens.  The U.S. Navy confirmed on Tuesday it has discontinued an online recruiting initiative featuring an enlisted drag queen that was aimed at bringing new sailors into the service.  In May, The Daily Caller revealed that the Navy brought on Yeoman 2nd Class Joshua Kelley — an active-duty drag queen who goes by the stage name Harpy Daniels and identifies as non-binary — to be a "Navy Digital Ambassador."  The Digital Ambassador Pilot Program, which ran from October 2022 to March 2023, was reportedly "designed to explore the digital environment to reach a wide range of potential candidates" for military recruitment.  In a letter sent to Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., on Tuesday, Erik Raven, the under secretary of the Navy, confirmed that the branch's Digital Ambassador Pilot Program "will not be continued."  "The Navy learned lessons from the pilot program that will inform our digital engagement and outreach going forward," Raven wrote.  "Our digital outreach efforts will maintain the important distinction between Sailors' official activities and their personal lives."

Boston's mayor declares 'heat emergency' for high-80s summer day.  The reputation of "politician" precedes any civil servant, so right off the bat, I hold a less-than-flattering bias against those entering government (to put it mildly); it's a "guilty until proven innocent" prejudice, but I will say, it's evenly applied.  Then last week, Michelle Wu, Boston's hardcore leftist mayor, opened her big mouth and showed (again) just how right on the money one can be when you operate under the assumption that ineptitude and uselessness are shared traits amongst elected officials.  On September 7th, Wu declared a "heat emergency" saying temperatures were expected to reach into the... ready for this?  The nineties.  (Turns out, Thursday the 7th peaked at 89°F and Friday reached 88°F.)

A blunt and chilling (but accurate) appraisal of where our government schools are taking us.  Despite its formal name, there is nothing at all democratic about the political party that controls the White House, the Senate, almost all government bureaucracies, almost all educational and cultural institutions, and the vast majority of major corporations.  Antonio Gramsci laid out the strategy that has been successfully implemented, and now The Party is ready to fully implement its plan for hegemony.  The first Trump presidency set them into a panic, which may provide the saving grace, as they are overreaching before "the masses" (us) have been full demoralized, propagandized, and relegated to ineffectuality.

Twilight Of The Democrats.  It may be true that, on paper, Biden revived the economy, but the reality most voters experience is different.  Prices are up 16.9% since Biden took office, real wages are down 3%, mortgage rates are at their highest in 22 years, and credit card debt has reached a new peak.  It's likely that the constant flow of money to Ukraine only worsens Americans' fears that the president is mishandling the economy.  With hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars going overseas, 500,000 Russian and Ukrainian troops killed or wounded, and no end in sight, the conflict has become the kind of nightmarish "forever war" that voters once associated with Republicans.  For many years, Democrats insisted that they were the party of diplomatic solutions; today, they are eagerly sending depleted uranium rounds and internationally banned cluster munitions to Ukraine.

Story About 'Dismantle Police' Dem Who Got Carjacked Takes Another Wild Turn.  We reported how Shivanthi Sathanandan, the Second Vice Chair of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, said in a Facebook post that she had been carjacked and beaten in front of her young children in the driveway of her Minneapolis home. [...] Sathanandan thanked the police in her Facebook post about the attack.  That seemed to be a big change of heart, given that she had previously called for the dismantling of the Minneapolis Police Department in 2020 during the BLM riots. [...] Some questioned whether the story was real, raising questions about things like the blood on her face in the picture. [...] However, there was also an unconfirmed report that she complained about the response time of the police, that it took five minutes for them to arrive, which seems like a pretty good response time for a city police department.  But imagine being upset about response time when you advocated to get rid of the police three years ago.

Here's another reason not to drink it:
Bill Gates Just Bought A Whopping 1.7 Million Shares Of Anheuser-Busch.  If you needed another reason to hate Bud Light, here you go.  Bill Gates is putting some serious chips on the beer making a comeback after he bought a whopping 1.7 million shares of the anti-American brand's umbrella company.  The 67-year-old Microsoft founder purchased the Anheuser-Busch shares through his Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust during 2023's second quarter.  Gates' newly-acquired shares have a market value of approximately $95 million, according to TipRanks.  The billionaire's investment comes as A-B is still dealing with the pain from its disastrous partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.

Pete Buttigieg is just a symptom of a vastly larger crisis.  It is, perhaps, somewhat ironic that we tackle this subject on Labor Day, an occasion when we ostensibly celebrate those who exert themselves and labor to keep the economic machine of our capitalist democracy grinding onward, allowing citizens to contribute to the general advancement of the country while working toward what was historically considered "the American dream."  Those who toil, raise families, build careers, and hope to pass something on to the next generation were traditionally revered.  That lifestyle has always included goals that involved eventual home ownership, but we also developed a culture where personal transportation and mobility were critical, leading to a culture where personal car ownership was among those objectives.  But now everything has changed.  And there is no better example of this than our supposed Transportation Secretary, Pete Buttigieg, adopting a position where Americans should be ushered away from owning their own cars, be they gas-driven or even electric.  Everyone should be using public transportation as much as possible.  Well... not "everyone," of course.  But most certainly you.

Climate change is almost nobody's top priority.
Half of Britons [are] too worried about [the] cost of living to consider climate change.  More than half of British people are too concerned about the cost of living to worry about climate change, a new poll suggests.  An Ipsos UK survey found 52 percent of Britons are too consumed by sky-high living costs to consider the environment, while 51 percent would like to do more to help but cannot afford to.  It comes as Rishi Sunak is under pressure to mitigate the impact of the Government's net zero drive on households already hit hard by the cost of living crisis.

James O'Keefe exposes Jersey school board officials admitting 'Trumpish' looking parents targeted.  Investigative journalist James O'Keefe has released bombshell police bodycam footage showing New Jersey school board officials colluding with the police to target "Trumpish" school board hearing attendees.  According to O'Keefe, head of O'Keefe Media Group (OMG), the footage offers "the most riveting and fascinating psychological case studies into what school board officials, superintendents, and cops are saying, thinking, and believing about you."

What squirrely priorities these people have!
Pentagon Officials Worked To Finalize Climate Plan During Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal, Emails Show.  In the midst of the Biden administration's disastrous military withdrawal from Afghanistan, top Pentagon officials were working to get the Secretary of Defense to sign a major climate change initiative, according to emails obtained by The Daily Wire.  In the two weeks between the fall of Kabul to the Taliban on August 15, 2021, and the final U.S. military flight out of Afghanistan on August 30, Pentagon officials were scrambling with the White House to finalize the Department of Defense Climate Adaptation Plan, a document that declares climate change a major national security risk.  The emails indicate frustration from climate change-focused Pentagon officials at the difficulty of getting the plan signed — but that ultimately their determination to focus on climate change even during the Afghanistan withdrawal paid off.  Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin signed the climate initiative on September 1, just six days after 13 Americans were killed by a Taliban suicide bomber.

L.A. Mayor Bass:  Lack of Consequences for Crime Isn't Causing Retail Theft, 'Things Like This Happen' if There's Profit.  On Friday's broadcast of "The Issue Is," Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass stated that the issue of retail theft in the city has "nothing to do" with a lack of consequences for crime in the city and "things like this happen" when there are profits.

America's Red Guards.  In August 1966, communist leader Mao Zedong commenced "Red August," a campaign amidst the wider Cultural Revolution to wipe away the "Four Olds" of Chinese society: old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits.  He infamously used university students, and other younger children, as foot soldiers to carry out mass beatings and destroy important cultural and historical institutions.  The outsized rule of juveniles and young adults in the subsequent massacres perpetrated by the Red Guards was not at all unique.  In Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, children were also enlisted as foot soldiers, prison guards, and executors of public shaming of non-compliant adults.  The weaponization of children and adolescents is a marked feature of left-wing movements across the globe.  The American Left has ensured that children occupy an increasingly active role in our country's political and culture wars.  Childhood no longer exists outside the realm of conflicts between adults.

The Liberal Echo Chamber.  [Scroll down]  I have encountered very few progressives who don't define another person's entire friendship worthiness by whether that person buys into the big progressive tenets, such as abortion, gender fluidity, race/ethnic-based quotas, etc.  If a conservative doesn't align with a progressive on those (and other) issues, then that person is not merely "wrong," they are evil and therefore not worthy of respect and civil treatment.  This all comes to mind after I received my latest copy of my college alumni magazine, Boston University's Bostonia.  Published three times a year, Bostonia is an eclectic mix of local Boston happenings as they apply to the school/alumni, maybe a few general interest articles on food or art, and always — always — a hyper political piece espousing a popular progressive stance.  This piece, which is usually the cover feature, is written not to persuade an undecided reader with a balanced presentation of all the relevant angles, but instead is written from a pointed progressive angle, assumed to be correct with a definite air of "If you don't accept all of our assumptions and hypotheticals at face value, then you're obviously a mental inferior."

"Identity politics" is a euphemism for tribalism.  Identity politics is where a person decides not who he is, but what.  The person decides whether his defining trait is a straight white guy, or a hip Black dude, or a soccer mom, or a gay person, or a church-going Christian, or a gun owner, or an environmentalist, or whatever.  A person can and usually does have many of these traits at once.  But identity politics operates on the notion that just one or two of his traits define him.  Many people go along with that notion.  That's because once a person has decided upon a defining trait, he's eligible to join the tribe of that defining trait.  He gets to be a regular at the political equivalent of Cheers.  That's a problem.  Because the tribe does the thinking for its members, they vote as the tribe instructs them.  Dissent is frowned upon.  If you want to be a member of the tribe, you carry the tribe's water and you drink their Kool-Aid.  These tribes thrive on the internet.  The purpose of the internet tribes is social to some extent, but mostly it's to preach the tribe's political catechism.

Making Racism Cool Again.  In this country, you can defend Lenin and Stalin, or hang a picture of Che Guevera in your office, or hang a Chairman Mao ornament on your Christmas tree (as Barack Obama did during his presidency), or say that Aztec human sacrifice shouldn't negatively impact anyone's view of the Aztecs.  But if you defend segregationists or the Ku Klux Klan, then the people who treat Lenin, Mao, and the Aztecs with kid gloves will unite to end your career.

AOC, 'squad' spent $1.2M in campaign cash on private security despite calls to defund the police.  Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her eight-comrade "squad" of anti-cop lawmakers have shelled out more than $1.2 million in campaign funds on private security since taking office, records show.  Leading the way is Cori Bush (D-Missouri), who has reported spending more than $730,000 on private security — including $75,000 she funneled to her own husband — and Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), whose $272,000-plus tab includes security upgrades at her district offices.  Bush's campaign spending on security predates her 2021 arrival in the House of Representatives.  Since she first ran for Congress in 2019, she's paid $736,748 for security services.  Among the benefactors of her donor's largesse was St.  Louis-based Peace Security, a pro-gun, right-wing private security firm that racked up $380,947 despite reportedly promoting the Second Amendment — in sharp contrast to Democratic socialist Bush's anti-gun campaign messaging.

The Real Democrats.  I worked nine years in a mine in a small town in Idaho, and almost all the men with whom I worked were Democrats.  We often disagreed on many philosophical points, but they were all solid family men, who worked hard, and took good care of their families.  I have concluded that these were the real Democrats, and that they have been lost in the common narrative.  Today, some Democrat leaders have gone out of their way to make America weaker, not stronger.  Most of the things Democrats support today make little sense to anyone.  Even groups of Democrat economists support programs that are obviously not good.  We are told that some Democrats support abortion right up to the time of delivery, and some even support killing the child after he is born.  This was not true for traditional Democrats.

Comparing the Tactics of the Dems to the Nazis is No Longer Seen as Unreasonable.  So far, we've documented 24 startling and uncomfortable ways the Democrat Party Emulates the Nazi Party.  We've done a lot so far and unfortunately; two factors see the task stretching off into the distance.  The very disturbing problem we face is that the combination of current events and research reveals even more similarities making the task a never-ending process that seems to go on forever.  It's to the point of having a sense of dread at the thought of researching these facts, knowing that more commonalities will crop up. [...] The bad news is that with a century-long difference in technology, today's left is turning out to be far worse than the Nazis in some respects.  There is nothing more terrifying at this point than the thought that history is repeating itself and will make the Nazis look tame by comparison.

Does Gravitas Matter Anymore?  One of the things that today's Democrats hate most about Donald Trump is that he has gravitas in spades.  Without regard to ruffling feathers or metaphorically using the wrong fork for dinner, President Trump took command in every situation and never lost sight of being focused on the good of this country.  Although his style undoubtedly enraged his political opponents and liberal media antagonists, what angered them even more was his effectiveness.  In all fairness, Bill Clinton had some degree of gravitas, far more so than Carter or LBJ.  But Obama ("Mr. Apology Tour") had none and Biden has less than none.  If Biden can't complete his current term, does Kamala Harris have even a scintilla of gravitas?  It's like the Democrats don't even care about style, personal weight, individual credibility or anything of the sort.  All the Democrats and their media allies care about is pandering to their special interest supporters, bribing the loyalty of new voting blocs with tax-funded giveaways and spouting the appropriate word salad sound bite for the next liberal news cycle.

Are Greens Overplaying Their Hand?  The "climate crisis" is the purported justification cited as to why we all need to change our behaviors — and there can be no deviation.  Citizens are expected to acquiesce to their whims simply because they shout "the world will end in five years", as Greta Thunberg did in 2018.  In many respects, Green extremists feel the public should submit to the same way they bowed to two-year COVID masking and lockdown diktats.  But their list of demands has gotten overbearing.  So much so, in fact, that one must believe they will soon overplay their hand and face considerable public backlash.  Indeed, they already have in many instances, but it's worth taking a look at just a few of their recent irksome moves that have made news.

Just How Far Left Has the Democrat Party Gone?  One thing that has bugged me to no end is the calling the Republicans the "Far Right" with absolutely no objection.  Democrats fall into two categories: profoundly comfortable sheep in ignorant bliss, and the stunningly stupid, led about by people that in most other civil societies in the world would be called the "Far Left". [...] People in the center-right spectrum of American politics have not changed radically their views and beliefs in the past decades.  That cannot be said of Democrats, and as anyone paying attention these days should agree, from this day forward should be referred only as the "Extreme Left".

Is that a strike against him or a resumé enhancement?
Socialist scholar Cornel West owes $500,000 in taxes.  Socialist professor and presidential candidate Cornel West wants "massive investments" including "free college tuition" and "Medicare for All" as part of his presidential campaign.  Just don't expect him to chip in on the bill.  According to the Daily Beast, and confirmed by West, the Union Theological Seminary professor owes over half a million dollars in taxes.  The Green Party candidate has "more than $500,000 in outstanding federal tax liens lodged against him in two states" dating back to 2005, according to the liberal news outlet.

Emily Drabinski, president of the American Library Association doubles down on tweet admitting she's a 'Marxist lesbian'.  The president of the American Library Association, who began her tenure in July by declaring herself a 'Marxist lesbian' when she was elected, now faces staunch criticism by conservatives and states are cutting ties with her group.  In April 2022, following her election to her current post, Emily Drabinski, 48, tweeted (and has since deleted): 'I just cannot believe that a Marxist lesbian who believes that collective power is possible to build and can be wielded for a better world is the president-elect of @ALALibrary'

Democrats Have a Third Party Problem, and It's Not Going Away.  In 2016, Democrats ignored Green Party candidate Jill Stein for the entire general election.  After all, Stein was pulling down less than 2% of the vote — no need to worry, right?  As it happens, Stein took more votes than the difference between Clinton and Trump in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin.  This handed Trump a narrow victory in all three states and the White House.  In 2024, Democrats have vowed not to let that scenario repeat itself.  But it's not going to be easy.  Joe Biden is being challenged from the left by academic, author, civil rights icon, and celebrity leftist philosopher Cornel West and on the right by West Virginia's gadfly moderate Sen. Joe Manchin and the No Labels Party.  West has excited a segment of the left that has been bitterly disappointed by Joe Biden's performance on issues like civil rights, income redistribution, the climate, and voting rights.  So far, he's not pulling much support.  But he's running at 4%, and it's a good bet he won't be pulling many Republican votes from Donald Trump.

Senate Democrats Kill Republican Amendment to Only Fly the American Flag Over Government Buildings.  Senate Republicans recently introduced a measure which would forbid the flying of any flag except the American flag over government buildings.  Only ONE Democrat voted for it and it missed passage by just one vote.  The Democrats voted against this for obvious reasons.  The LGBT lobby wields a massive amount of power in the Democrat party, and Senate Democrats know who their masters are.  Congratulations to Senator Joe Manchin for being the sole Dem vote.

This may be the best explanation for Disney's self-destruction.  [Scroll down]  Disney's credibility is shot.  People may still love the park rides, food, and overall experience (though it's not for everybody).  They may still love the "vault" of Disney classics.  They may still have fond memories of Walt's old nature programs and thoroughly American risk-taking ventures.  But when people hear the name Disney these days, they're far more likely to think "gay activism" than "family."

The scariest poll you'll see this summer.  A majority of Americans — and an overwhelming number of Democrats — no longer support First Amendment protections for free speech.  The government should restrict "false" information online, even if doing so blocks people from "publishing or accessing information," 55 percent of Americans said in a large poll released Thursday.  Only 42 percent disagreed.  The antipathy to free speech represents a sea change in attitudes in just five years.  It is driven by a powerful new hostility to First Amendment rights on the left.

GOP lawmakers slam Biden administration's proposed clamp down on home water heaters.  Water heaters could soon be subject to much more stringent efficiency requirements if a recent Department of Energy proposal that has been criticized by Republican lawmakers goes into effect.  In a draft rule unveiled Friday, the Biden administration is seeking to compel most electric water heaters to deploy heat pump technology and gas-fired ones to use condensing technology.  It comes months after the Biden administration ignited a firestorm over feared stove top regulations, after Albany lawmakers enacted a controversial first-in-the-nation gas stove ban in New York.  "Today's actions — together with our industry partners and stakeholders — improve outdated efficiency standards for common household appliances, which is essential to slashing utility bills for American families and cutting harmful carbon emissions," Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm said in a statement.

Media Can't Understand Why Biden Is So Unpopular (After Everything They've Done For Him).  Over the weekend, CNN ran a segment titled "Why isn't Joe Biden more popular?" noting that only one president in modern times had a lower approval rating at this point in his first term.  That president was Jimmy Carter.  CNN pointed to an analysis by poll aggregator FiveThirtyEight, which finds that 57.6% disapproved of Jimmy Carter 915 days into his term, while 55% disapprove of Biden.  At this point, Trump had a disapproval rating of 52.6%. Biden is also far more unpopular than George H.W. Bush (36% disapproval), who went on to lose his reelection bid to Bill Clinton, and Lyndon Johnson (33% disapproval), who decided not to run for reelection.  To say this is baffling to the mainstream media is putting it mildly.  For years, they've been scratching their heads to understand why Biden has been underwater with voters.

Getting Biden Wrong.  From listening to Republican TV and reading Republican publications, I have learned that Joe Biden is a sleazy, mendacious, and demented chief executive.  He has weaponized the entire Justice Department and the IRS against his real and suspected political opponents, thrown open our southern border to drug cartels, and reduced our armed forces and international posture to shambles.  Moreover, Joe has a gangster son with whom he has engaged in illegal business ventures; and it's entirely possible that the cocaine recently found in the West Wing of the White House came from son Hunter, who is a drug addict as well as many other bad things.  Joe also keeps falling off platforms and saying ridiculous things, when he's not weirdly sniffing the hair of little girls and hurling obscenities at his staff or reporters who dare to ask substantive questions.  If this information, which the MSM usually tries to hide from us, is intended to convince me that Joe is thoroughly unfit for his office, I no longer need convincing.  Biden seems to be far and away the most incompetent, unprincipled, and verbally incoherent president of my lifetime, going back to the 1950s.  It would be hard to think of any president who has disgraced his office to the same degree or who has unleashed more problems on this country.  All the same, almost half the voters (and I know many such people) believe Biden or his handlers are doing a great job managing this country; and even those who think he may be growing cognitively incompetent love his policies and would like to see them continued.

Former DNC Head Donna Brazile Absurdly Calls Biden the 'Moderate' in 2024 Presidential Race.  One of my favorite parts of the veritable cornucopia of political absurdities is the total inability of politicians, political advisors, and political pundits to realize that half of the country, if not more, not only doesn't buy what they're selling but also laughs at their willingness to publicly humiliate themselves.  Let's call it a complete lack of self-awareness.  On Sunday's edition of ABC's This Week, former Democrat National Committee (DNC) Chairwoman Donna Brazile laughably claimed — with a straight face, no less — that Joe Biden is the moderate in the 2024 presidential race.  No, really.  Never mind that Biden, regardless of which puppeteers pull his strings at any given time, is arguably the most radical president in American history.

Democrats' Profound Problem: Everyone's Mad at Joe Biden, at Home and Abroad.  Domestically, despite cooling inflation, just 30% of Americans say they agree with Democrats' economic policy, while 42% prefer the Republicans' approach.  With the economy consistently ranking as the most important issue for voters, Americans' pessimism — coupled with Biden's consistently low approval ratings on the economy — figures to be a considerable problem as he seeks a second term.  Moreover, Hispanic voters — a critical Democratic constituency — are angry at the perceived leftward shift of today's Democratic Party.  Compared to 2018, the 2022 midterms saw a 10-point jump in Hispanic support for the GOP, according to exit polls and Edison research.  In fact, the research shows that Hispanic support for Democrats in 2022 was the lowest it has been since the 1990s.

Costco Unleashing the 'Death Star' on Bud Light.  It's the logo that Costco shoppers dread: when the "Death Star" appears next to their favorite item, indicating that the discount retail giant won't restock once current inventory has sold out. [...] Now the Death Star has been spotted adorning the price signs for Bud Light, which was the most popular beer in America back in the olden days of [...checks notes...] a couple months ago.  If you think that's a bad sign for Bud Light sales, you're wrong.  It's much, much worse.

Costco places 'star of death' on Bud Light cases — suggesting it won't restock beer.  Speculation that Costco is preparing to empty its shelves of Bud Light stirred after what some shoppers call a "star of death" appeared on cases of the beleaguered beer following its ill-fated tie-up with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.  Social media users shopping at Costco posted images showing an asterisk — which customers have branded a "star of death" or "death star" — had appeared on the price display above shelves stacked with cases of Bud Light.  The asterisk is thought to be an ominous sign that Costco either doesn't intend on restocking the shelf with the item in question.

Climate change is just about the only change progressives don't like.  [Scroll down]  Here, too, it seems odd that the one thing these leftists won't take on faith is the existence of God.  They purport to believe wholeheartedly in Dr. Fauci, global warming, Bidenomics, open borders, the Russia-collusion hoax, and that the 2020 presidential election was the most secure in history.  They believe people can change genders on a whim and that men can menstruate.  (That's putting the "men" into "menstruation!")  They think males should be able to breast/chest-feed infants.  They believe the Wuhan flu could not have come from the Wuhan lab where they were experimenting with coronaviruses.  They believe the subsequent lockdowns and mask mandates were effective.  They believe China is, in fact, a role model, and that a one-world government should be our goal.  They believe crime should be legalized, the unborn are simply non-viable tissue masses, Ukraine is defeating Russia, 9/11 was an inside job, the government has our best interests in mind, Biden is a nice man -- and that Jan. 6 was an "insurrection!" but the 2020 riots were "mostly peaceful."

Maybelline faces furious backlash after using men, including one with a full beard, to promote its new lipstick line.  Cosmetics giant Maybelline has been slammed for using men, some with full beards, to promote its new product lines.  The brand had makeup artist Ryan Vita, a 'Maybelline Partner', promote a new lipstick in two promotional videos shared to its Instagram page.  In another post last week, makeup artist Zak Taylor was also used to promote a new summer product the brand had launched.

Anheuser-Busch: Buy Bud Light, or We'll Fire Some Idiot Peasants Like You.  The dethroned king of beers has fallen on hard times.  Its short-lived dalliance with fake woman Dylan Mulvaney and implicit endorsement of the Left's efforts to force us all to accept the trans madness has not only cost Bud Light its position as America's top-selling beer, but the Drag Queen of beers isn't even in the top ten anymore.  Bud Light is now the 14th-best-selling beer in the United States, and fairly soon, Anheuser-Busch executives will look back fondly at the days when it was as high as 14th place.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Utopia.  The Left craftily calculated that they could use our beloved institutions against us.  In their view, all things are simply tools for the advancement of the agenda.  Why not repurpose education for indoctrination, commerce for control, entertainment for reprogramming?  Well, in all candor, our institutions, beloved or not, are nothing more than tools.  Now they are broken tools, after being employed in a manner never intended.  There are only two options for a broken tool, mend it or cast it away.  DEI is quickly becoming a pariah term in the world of investing.  The people have spoken, to Bud Light, to Target, to NASCAR, to the NFL, and others.  We will see if they listen.  Citizens are voting with their feet, loading up U-Hauls to flee California, Oregon, New York, and Illinois.  The value of university degrees which aren't STEM-related is dissipating like the morning dew.  Incensed parents are wearily retaking school boards, to shoulder a task thought safely in competent hands.  The alphabet agencies are currently sprouting whistleblowers like flowers in spring, telling tales of the two tiers of "justice."  Each institution will be reformed or written off, depending upon degree of damage and cost of repair.

Colonialists Ben and Jerry Lose $2 Billion in Market Cap After Boycott.  The parent company for the left-wing colonialists known as Ben & Jerry's has lost $2 billion in market cap after the colonialists hypocritically smeared America on the Fourth of July.  Looks like Ben & Jerry's is becoming "The Bud Light of Ice Cream."  The New York Post reports that shares of Unilever, Ben & Jerry's parent company, "slid 0.8% Thursday after closing down 0.5% the previous day." That equaled a market cap drop from $130.2 billion to 128.5 billion.

Transgenders: The Real Numbers.  It's clear at this point that transgenderism was a bridge too far for the Left.  That little pink battleship has hit the reefs of open hostility and is slowly being battered to pieces by waves of indignation, disgust, and contempt.  Bud Light is circling the drain.  Target is hysterically trying to avoid the same fate.  The Dodgers' Los Angeles "Pride Day" has cost them rhe affection of many devorred fans.  Girl athletes, having got over their shock at, for the first time in their lives being backstabbed by their institutions, are at last standing up to bogus "females" trying to infiltrate their sports.  Laws protecting children from LGBT exploitation, with particular emphasis on transgenderism, are being passed or proposed in Florida, Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, South Carolina, and elsewhere. [...] The claims being made by activists are bogus on their face.  There aren't 750,000, there aren't 75,000, there aren't 700.  In truth. there are thousands of adolescents bent on making pests of themselves, as adolescents have done for decades, if not millennia.

Is the NBA Going the Way of Bud Light?  Over the past several months, we've seen corporations take big financial hits for embracing wokeness.  Disney took a massive blow to the bottom line after going woke, while Target and Ben & Jerry's have seen their market values tumble following far-left stands.  But the, umm, gold standard for the "go woke go broke" model is Bud Light, whose fortunes continue to tumble after it partnered with Dylan Mulvaney for a marketing stunt.  The sports world is notorious for embracing wokeness in recent years as well.  Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League have recently been under fire for pride month antics, and let's not forget how MLB moved the All-Star Game from Atlanta based on lies about Georgia's voter integrity law.  But the godfather of wokeness in both sports and business is the National Basketball Association (NBA).  The NBA embraced wokeness when embracing wokeness wasn't cool, and Outkick's Clay Travis asserts that the NBA's downward slide over the past few years is a slow-burn version of what's happening with corporations like Bud Light.

New Map Showing Most Popular Beer By State Spells Even More Bad News For Bud Light.  Recent data analysis conducted by grilling website cookoutnews.com for the Fourth of July holiday revealed surprising trends in beer preferences across the United States, presenting a challenge for once-dominant brand, Bud Light.  In the map compiled by cookoutnews.com, depicting state-by-state beer favorites, Bud Light and other Anheuser-Busch offerings were conspicuously missing.  Notably, not a single state displayed a preference for Bud Light during the Fourth of July festivities.

These are the same people who want to outlaw "disinformation" on the internet:
CDC accused of 'blurring politics and science' over advice that suggests trans women can safely breastfeed.  US health officials were criticized today for advocating that trans women can breastfeed — without highlighting the health risks to the baby.  Several information pages on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website appear to endorse 'chestfeeding' — a term used to describe feeding an infant milk directly from the breast by trans and non-binary parents.  One section, titled 'Health Equity Considerations', claims 'an individual does not need to have given birth to breastfeed or chestfeed.'

Why Do Democrats Feel It Unjust for Politicians To Validate America?  Two leading African-American Democrats have in the last three weeks obligingly confirmed the cynicism of their party's approach to core racial issues.  President Obama was speaking in a podcast with the closest the contemporary Democratic Party has to the late dirty tricks activist, Saul Alinsky, David Axelrod, who was a political strategist for Mr. Obama for many years.  In response to a question of Mr. Axelrod's designed to incite a rebuttal of racially optimistic opinions expressed by prominent minority Republicans, Mr. Obama said that the "hopeful message" delivered by the Republican African-American senator from South Carolina and candidate for the presidential nomination, Tim Scott, must be "undergirded with an honest accounting of our past and present...  There's a long history of African American or other minority candidates within the Republican Party who will validate America and say everything's great and we can make it." Bingo.  Yes, there are many people who would validate America, and there are a great many more who would ask — what is wrong with that?  The validation of America is not a reprehensible or racially disrespectful act.

Lefties Begin Denying Service to Trump Supporters.  Depending on your point of view, the Supreme Court's Friday decision in 303 Creative v. Elenis was either a great moment in American jurisprudence or a day that will live in infamy.  There are accusations floating around the MSM that a piece of evidence referenced by each side was falsified.  Alongside that story, there are whispers of attorneys being disbarred over the matter.  That didn't take long, did it?  But even before that, leftists were quick to stand up in outrage and state that the ruling gave them the right to refuse service to conservatives, notably Trump supporters.

The Editor says...
Just put up a sign in front of your business, making it clear that Trump supporters aren't welcome, and see how it goes.  You'll quickly discover that most of the "81 million" people who allegedly voted for Joe Biden don't really exist.

Ben & Jerry's [publishes] July 4 tweet demanding 'stolen' Native American land be returned to the Lakota.  Furious ice cream fans are promising to boycott the iconic Ben & Jerry's brand, accusing the company of 'going woke' following a July 4th tweet in which it said that it was 'committed' to returning 'stolen' lands to indigenous peoples.  The brand, which was founded by longtime Bernie Sanders allies Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenwood but has since been sold to British multinational Unilever, tweeted the message to its 494,000 followers.  'This 4th of July, it's high time we recognize that the US exists on stolen Indigenous land and commit to returning it,' the company's official account wrote before suggesting Mount Rushmore should be handed back to its original owners.

Fighting for survival in the belly of the beast.  Did you ever feel that the two major political parties are involved in a personal vendetta, similar to turf wars between organized crime syndicates?  Republicans and Democrats seem to be fighting their own private wars, mostly to gain political points for each party, while the masses of people they supposedly represent are merely insignificant pawns in a power-hungry chess game between omnipotent oligarchs.  Keep in mind that those elected officials almost never disagree with the party-line policies they embraced when running for office.  That's because they want support when it comes time for their reelection.

Democrats Baseless Lies Are Responsible For Today's Divisiveness.  For as long as I can remember, the Democratic Party has claimed to be a champion for all Americans, particularly for the working class, minorities and for those who are considered marginalized, oppressed or downtrodden.  But somewhere between fighting to keep slavery alive (Andrew Johnson); deliberately reducing the number of black civilian employees from the federal workforce and airing a film that glorified the Ku Klux Klan at the White House (Woodrow Wilson); throwing Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II (Franklin Delano Roosevelt); promoting a culture of government dependence, poverty and fatherlessness (Lyndon Johnson); creating racial tension by declaring cops racist — leading to further destruction of our inner cities, while mocking legitimate concerns of disgruntled blue collar midwesterners frustrated by decreasing wages, lack of employment opportunities — and an opioid epidemic hollowing out their communities (Barack Obama); the intentional failure to enforce our country's immigration laws, contributing to a four decade high of inflation by spending trillions of taxpayer dollars on Democrat pet projects that mostly help special interest groups, referring to roughly half the country as violent extremists and weaponizing the Department of Justice — to throw his leading political rival in prison (Joe Biden); it seems fair to say the Democratic Party has fallen well short of being a champion for anyone, except for its own desperate attempt to stay in power at any and all costs.

Harris Hosts Lavish Pride Event At Her Home, Emceed By Woke Drag Queens.  Vice President Kamala Harris celebrated the end of Pride Month by hosting the rainbow flag at her home to celebrate the Left's progressive LGBTQ agenda -- emceed by none only than a drag queen.  This week, Harris partied with a score of alphabet people and several drag queens at an event in collaboration with GLAAD — formerly known as the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation — at her Washington, D.C. home.  Not only was her emasculated husband Douglas Emhoff in attendance, Sasha Colby, the Season 15 winner of "RuPaul's Drag Race, entertained the backyard soirée filled with Leftists and anti-morals, pro-child indoctrinating activists.  Colby told the crowd that being transgender is her "power," adding that the Biden Administration will do everything they can to fight for transgender so-called "rights."

Good riddance Pride Month.  A simple search of Pride month celebrations brings up a plethora of disturbing images — especially disturbing because of children's attendance and participation in hypersexualized events seemingly targeting them.  The perversion of this time is discouraging, but let's not forget there are millions standing in the gap.  Despite what the internet or television shows us, all is not lost — they'd just like us to think it is.  They are still out there — regular moms and dads working hard every day, teaching their children biblical values and morals, keeping childhood a sacrosanct time of innocence and safety, imagination and hope.

Two Minutes of Pride.  My very upscale, very safe, very woke suburb held its annual Pride Parade a couple weeks ago, both conducted and attended by privileged people who have never known oppression and never will.  They likely couldn't name a single historical activist (other than Harvey Milk, maybe) or tell you what happened at Stonewall, and they certainly aren't keen on comparing the status of the LGBTQ++ crowd here in white supremacist America against, say, their status in the remoter regions of the non-West BIPOC world.  Needless to say, I don't attend the event.  Sandwiched as it is between the Women's Suffrage Parade and the Abolish Slavery Parade, I find the Pride parade to be just another cookie cutter rerun of today's activists fighting their ancestors' causes.

The hill we will die on.  In the decades during which I have followed politics and social issues, I have seen passionate disagreements among Americans.  The Vietnam War was the focus of massive protests.  Legalized abortion, after Roe v. Wade, was followed by bombings.  Racial integration was accompanied by murders by racist militants.  Unenforced laws, including immigration and retail theft, have left us feeling betrayed by our government.  The list goes on.  Somehow, we survived.  Then came the transsexual movement, complete with "drag-queen story hours" for young children.  Some of those children have become the victims of surgical mutilation.  This has occurred in the context of politicians and educators telling us we have no right to know what our children are being taught in school.  We are being threatened with loss of custody of our children if we do not "affirm" their "gender identity," if that identity does not conform with their biological sex.  Recently, during a so-called "pride march," the chanting marchers sang out, "We're coming for your children."  Even if this was chanted supposedly in jest, it was about as funny as joking that they would rape our mothers.  I doubt that all those who chanted this did so merely as a taunt.

Apparently no elected official realizes how stupid this is.
State of New Jersey Suing School Districts That Require Parental Notification if a Child is Gender Transitioning.  Three school districts in the state of New Jersey require parental notification if a child begins transitioning their gender.  As a result, they are being sued by the state.  This is outrageous and shows that concerned parents who have been showing up at school board meetings in recent years had every right to be worried about where things are going.  Imagine such a monumental thing happening to your child and the school you fund with your tax dollars hiding it from you.

Corporate America Doesn't Hear Anybody.  [Scroll down]  But the people are listening and are fed up.  Bud Light still shows no signs of recovering, nor does Target.  Threats against Target which the media tried to blame on conservatives actually came from LGBTQ+ groups, claiming betrayal of that community.  Major League Baseball, while not eliminating "Pride" events, has scaled back on them.  There was a huge protest at the LA Dodgers "Pride Night" event where the Dodgers were honoring a hate group that denigrated and mocked Catholicism.  The silent majority appears to be finding its voice.  We are learning that we can impact the bottom line of corporate America.  And that may be the only way to make them listen, that they should concentrate on business and not politics.

Becerra threatens states and medical providers with loss of Medicare dollars if they don't provide genital mutilation surgeries.  Despite two circuit courts ruling against HHS regulations seeking to compel genital mutilation surgeries by health care providers, HHS Secretary Javier Becerra threatens to find ways around the judicial restraints.  [Tweet with video clip]  Is there any other life-altering, irreversible change that the federal government wants children to be able to decide on by themselves?  Is there any other such life-altering, irreversible decision that the federal government wants to compel medical providers to carry out, in penalty of losing Medicare funding?

What the Left Has Left for America.  The present-day Left bears little resemblance to the old civil-libertarian, integrationist Democratic Party that existed from the 1960s through 2000.  The antecedents to its current madness were once previewed in the old party's extremist wing of campus radicals of the 1960s and 1970s.  They were accentuated by Black Lives Matter and Antifa during the Obama years, forged during the COVID lockdown and George Floyd riots, and polished during the era of Trump derangement syndrome.  On almost every issue, Democrats have repudiated their prior reverence for the Supreme Court.  They distrust individual liberty and free expression.  They now worship the money and clout of corporate America.  Racial ecumenicalism and integration are seen as passé.  There is little need for borders to protect vulnerable American workers, given the advantages of inviting in millions of poor illegal immigrants without audits.  Democrats have transmogrified into a Soviet-style socialist binary of rich and poor, run by an elite nomenklatura that dictates its orders to its foot soldiers of the underclass.  An entire new left-wing vocabulary — clingers, deplorables, irredeemables, dregs, chumps, ultra-MAGA, semi-fascists — has come to express their hatred of the middle class.

Most local government officials are nuts.  Actually, I am exaggerating a bit.  It is likely that it isn't most, since in general local government officials in smaller towns are not nuts, but the larger the municipality, the more likely it is that the elected official is a loon with an ideological axe to grind.  Your small-town mayor?  Chances are most people know him or her, and if they screw up they will get booted.  But as the cities get bigger the more likely it is that the person is elected through the efforts of activists and unions, and the more likely they are to be ideologically motivated nincompoops.

Box Office Analyst Estimates Disney Lost $890 Million on [its] Last Eight Theatrical Releases.  The Walt Disney Co. is estimated to have lost a stunning $890 million on its last eight studio releases, including The Little Mermaid and Elemental, according to a box office analyst.  Disney could see even more red ink since these titles are all destined for the Disney+ streaming service instead of other streamers, like Netflix or Amazon Prime Video, where they could generate additional revenue.

The Political Left Is Simply Gross.  The latest example of this is sad story of the sub crushed by the immense pressure down by the Titanic.  People died, people you've never heard of and wouldn't have had they not died tragically.  Yet, for reasons known only to them, some human beings (a term I use loosely) have decided the world needs to know they're awful people who deserve being ostracized; a shunning — and deserve any and every bad thing that comes their way.  How do you know families are grieving and things, "What were the political donations of these people?" to determine whether or not you're willing to be a decent human being about it?  That happened over at The New Republic this week.  The left-wing birdcage liner is typical of the left, basing their concern for other humans on their political beliefs. [...] Questioning the rationale of going to the bottom of the ocean to look at a rotting shell of an old ship is one thing, implying to an audience that it's ok that these people suffer because their politics is disagreeable to you is something else.

'Someone's got to go to prison'.  Our despicable and corrupt AG Garland will defend the criminals who are making our cities unlivable just as the equally corrupt Alejandro Mayorkas of DHS will continue to import millions of migrants from around the world no matter how devastating the damage to those same cities and to our economy.  These America-hating officials are only continuing the Obama-approved agenda of taking America down a few pegs.  Now they are in full destruction mode as are the Democrats in Congress.  Not one of them has broken with the party on immigration, on the irresponsible spending that will bankrupt us sooner rather than later, or on the cruel idiocy of transgenderism.  They have elevated their beloved LGBT activists above veterans, above the nuclear family, above all religious faiths.  They have made us a morally corrupt nation on its face, a gross insult to all law-abiding, America-loving citizens.

Crybullies and Beyond: Four Additional Ways the Left Resembles Nazis.  [#4] Democrats and Nazis demand complete compliance - you will comply or else.  You've probably seen the famous picture from Nazi Germany in 1936, with one man later identified as August Landmesser standing with his arms crossed, as the crowd raised their arms in unison in the Nazi salute.  Today's Leftists are similarly demanding that you submit to their agenda.  You're a 'domestic terrorist' if you refuse to shop at Target.  They are in your face with their agenda and if you don't comply, they complain crybully style to the nation's socialist media.  This is how it all starts; they indoctrinate your children behind your back and do whatever they can to be as invasive in your life as possible.  And then when you push back, they suddenly become the victim.  Then when you don't fully comply with their demands, they label you a 'domestic terrorist.'  But somehow, we're supposed to ignore all of this because it might hurt the feelings of the leftists.  Never mind that they've been lying about this for more than 90 years and still haven't come up with a cogent explanation as to why National Socialism was 'far-right'.

It's Not The 50-50 Country that the Woke Want Us to Think It Is.  [Scroll down]  When My Pillow founder Mike Lindell publicly supported Trump in 2020 and funded investigations into elections shenanigans that preceded Biden's occupation of the Oval Office, Bed, Bath & Beyond dumped the widely-popular (and, I can personally attest, quite comfortable) bedding brand.  By 2023, the once popular big box chain was Bed Bath & Begone.  When Goya CEO Robert Unanue, voiced support for President Trump in 2020, the left announced a boycott.  But the conservative counter buycott increased Goya sales into late 2020 — even in Democrat counties.  This was following a 400% increase in purchases during early 2020's lockdowns.  A 2022 Cornell University study of the Goya boycott aftermath argued boycotts' damage to companies "may be overblown."  Yet, by June 2022, Goya was expanding, doubled its Chicago facilities, selling in 10 more states, and donating millions of pounds of food to the needy.

Coors Light refuses to pull out of sponsoring Denver Pride Parade despite potential backlash from customers.  Despite intense backlash recently over rival Bud Light's partnership with LGBTQ and transgender star Dylan Mulvaney, Coors Light is remaining the title sponsor of the Pride parade in Denver.  Anheuser-Busch, which makes Bud Light, has lost $27 billion in value due to a campaign with Mulvaney that upset conservatives.  Then the company upset progressives too after failing to support Mulvaney through the backlash.  Molson Coors, which is headquartered in Golden, Colorado, about 15 miles west of Denver, is standing by, with the parade remaining 'The Coors Light Denver Pride Parade' set for Sunday.

Bud Light: 'Please Drink Our Beer Again, You Oafish Hicks'.  Bud Light just ended two months of social media silence with a new online ad designed to win back boycotting customers by portraying them as "bumbling fools," according to one Twitter critic, and as "buffoon-ish whites," according to another.  The beer brand's sales have plummeted almost 30% since a brief social media campaign featuring he-who-shall-not-be-named, followed by ham-fisted reversals. [...] Bud Light stepped in it so deep that they might be in a black hole of marketing, where no matter what they do — even remaining silent — will be read negatively.

Silent Majority Pushes Back.  Understanding who your customers are is smart business.  Starbucks outlets are toning down Pride Month celebrations, according to several reports this past week, though the coffee chain's top executives deny it's official policy.  Pixar's film "Elemental," which features Disney's first nonbinary character, flopped over the weekend.  Moviegoers "iced" it, says the Hollywood Reporter, producing the lowest opening weekend box-office take in modern Pixar history.  Oops!  All this is happening during the most controversial Pride Month in years.  Why the controversy?  Pride is departing from its original, noble goal of combatting discrimination against gay and lesbian people.

Disney's 'Elemental,' which features 'non-binary' character, flops in opening weekend.  Pixar film "Elemental," which features the studio's first "non-binary" character, according to a voice actor for the film, earned only $29.5 million in its opening weekend.  It was the lowest opening weekend ever for Pixar, The New York Times reported Sunday.  That was despite creative direction from Pixar, one of the most famous studios in the entertainment business, and support from Disney, which owns Pixar.  Outlets around the country took notice of the movie's dismal performance.

Disney's new $200-million Pixar film did a belly flop on opening weekend.  It could be the worst flop ever for a Pixar film.  [Tweet] [...] [P]arents don't want to pay a hundred bucks to take their kids to a animated sermon from woke moralizers.  I should really start betting on company stock whenever I see the term "historic" in headlines followed by anything woke.  I knew two months ago that this movie was gonna bomb, but somehow the people controlling billions of dollars at Disney don't!

Wickes: Affirm alphabet ideology or no paint for you.  Why why why would anybody who is responsible for the economic health of their company expend considerable effort to insult his customers?  This is about as stupid as stupid gets.  Just as trans people going to Wickes are just looking for paint, so are the people who think that female-identifying men should stay out of girls' locker rooms.  It's not like they are sporting the Nazi flag; they are trying to protect women's spaces, which last I checked was an uncontroversial position until about 30 seconds ago.  What is striking about this controversy is how sincere the COO of Wickes is, and how willing he is to harm his employees despite the fact that the company will do nothing to change the debate except perhaps amp up the discord just a bit more.

When are enough Americans going to realize our government is a criminal enterprise?  The intensity with which the left is shoving LGBT issues down our throats, as if these "communities" are oppressed minorities which they certainly are not, has to raise the question:  Why does the LGBT community adopt pride, the seventh deadly sin as their mantra?  It's an in-our-face affront, the intent to make those of us who oppose the sexual grooming of children cower in fear of their cancel culture.  But in fact, almost no one discriminates against these folks, they bend over backwards to let them live their lives as they wish.  The Biden administration's slavish treatment of them is pathetic; [...] All this is just more of the left's cultural Marxism that seeks to destroy the nuclear family and all Judeo-Christian values.  The Democrat party, as currently constituted, is an evil entity, on a mission to destroy America and everything it once stood for.  There is simply no other explanation for what they've done to our once great nation.

Support For Transgenderism Is Cratering.  Support for gay marriage continues to climb steadily over time, according to Gallup survey data, while public support for transgenderism appears to be cratering.  A new Gallup poll out Monday reveals an overwhelming majority of Americans believe biological sex should define participation in athletic competition.  Sixty-nine percent of the 1,011 adults surveyed between May 1-24 said athletes should only be allowed to compete on teams that match their birth gender, up from 62 percent just two years ago.  Even 64 percent of participants who reported knowing a transgender person said sports leagues should be segregated based on sex.  Another 55 percent of Americans told Gallup that it is "morally wrong" for individuals to attempt a gender transition, up from 51 percent in 2021.  While 7 in 10 Democrats thought otherwise, a majority of Democrats, 48 percent to 47 percent, still believe biological males should stay out of women's sports and vice versa.

Major League Baseball panics, tells teams to kill Pride logos.  Anheuser-Busch teamed with a female-identifying man to promote its Bud Light beer to cowboys, truck drivers, suburbanites, NASCAR fans and more.  It lost some $27 billion in corporate value, and analysts predict the brand never will regain its customer base.  Target plunged head-first into promotions of transgender clothing and other LGBT ideology even for children, and lost some $15 billion in value.  One analyst called the losses, triggered by pushback from American consumers against the "woke" ideology, "staggering."  Now, it appears, Major League Baseball is trying to avoid any such collapse.

Starbucks Boots PRIDE Decor From Stores Halfway Through PRIDE Month.  An activist group accused coffee retailer Starbucks of dialing back the LGBTQ-themed decor — with two weeks still left to go of PRIDE month — but Starbucks is denying the claim.  According to a Twitter thread shared by Starbucks Workers United (@SBWorkersUnited) — "Starbucks Partners coming together to create a better workplace" — management in a number of Starbucks franchises have opted to tone down PRIDE displays all across the United States.

Conservatives Are Winning the Culture War Over Transgender Ideology.  With all the chaos that has permeated the cultural arena over the last decade or so, it's easy for conservatives to get discouraged.  Things have truly gone off the rails, with a level of depravity that was once thought to be unthinkable becoming mainstream.  At the forefront of that has been the battle over transgender ideology.  Children are being pumped full of puberty blockers, and in some cases, being physically mutilated by surgeries, all under the ridiculous guise of "transitioning."  Nothing is sacred for the far-left, not even the health and well-being of children.

Liberal mainline United Methodists see more than 5,000 congregations leave amid arguments over sex, gender.  The number of congregations departing the United Methodist Church (UMC) exceeded 5,000 last week as the second-largest Protestant denomination in the U.S. continues to fracture over theological disagreements, mostly pertaining to human sexuality.  The number of churches that have been given the green light by their annual conferences to disaffiliate increased from approximately 4,600 early last week to 5,321 as of Friday, according to UM News.  The number of churches leaving the UMC has surged in recent years, with approximately 2,000 congregations being approved to disaffiliate in 2022 and more than 3,000 this year.

California Bill Would Charge Any Parent Who Doesn't Affirm Transgenderism With 'Child Abuse'.  A recently amended California bill would add "affirming" the sexual transition of a child to the state's standard for parental responsibility and child welfare — making any parent who doesn't affirm transgenderism for their child guilty of abuse under California state law.  AB 957 passed California's State Assembly on May 3, but a co-sponsor amended it after hours in California's State Senate on June 6.  Assembly Member Lori Wilson, D-Suisun City, wrote the bill and introduced it on Feb. 14.  State Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, co-sponsored it.  Wilson's child identifies as transgender.  Originally, AB 957 required courts to consider whether a child's parents were "gender-affirming" in custody cases.  Wiener's amendment completely rewrites California's standard of child care.

Why LGBTQQIAAP2S+ is losing.  I have no idea what most of the letters stand for in LGBTQQIAAP2S+ and neither do its adherents because it is hard to keep up with the ever-changing founding principles of this religion.  Well, it was built on sand, wasn't it?  I do know that gay pride month 2023 has been a huge loser for LGBTQQIAAP2S+ Marxism despite its status as a media-approved political movement that is funded by Corporate America and promoted by the government.  Boycotts of Bud Light and Target are taking hold and showing Corporate America the price it could pay for peddling LGBTQQIAAP2S+ instead of their products.  LGBTQQIAAP2S+ has turned Americans off.

Biden speaks at White House Pride event: 'Bravest and most inspiring people I've ever known'.  President Biden hosted a "Pride Month 2023" event on the White House lawn Saturday, decorating the area with rainbow motifs and the "Progress Pride flag."  The event, hosting performers and speakers representing LGBT causes, acclaimed the Pride community as "the bravest and most inspiring people" and an "example" for the US and the entire world.  "Outside the gates of this house are those who want to drag our country backwards, and so many battles yet to be braved.  But today, we're not here to be strong.  We're not here to be courageous.  Even though for so many of you, just coming to this event is an act of bravery," said First Lady Jill Biden.

Colorado councilwoman who advocated for reparations blown out in reelection contest.  A councilwoman in a Colorado district lost her reelection bid by a wide voter margin, only a month after a video of her advocating for reparations was shared on social media.  The vote tally for the election in District 9 showed incumbent candidate Candi CdeBaca lose to challenger Darrell Watson on Tuesday night, with Watson getting 60.71% of the votes while CdeBaca trailed far behind at 39.29%.  CdeBaca's 21.42% margin loss marked one of the biggest blowout losses in the last 10 years, according to KDVR.

Cracker Barrel Participates in the Pride Month Wave, Suicide Watch May Be Imminent.  Welp, you hate to see it, but I suppose it is inevitable.  Any time a rock-ribbed, "Christian" conservative corporation expands its offerings to markets in purple and blue cities and states, the progressive mafias that run those areas will ultimately get them to kowtow to their cultural priorities, rather than the other way around. [...] Cracker Barrel is not hiding its goals to become more inclusive.  They even have a "diversity and inclusion" tab on their website.

Cracker Barrel slammed for 'woke' rainbow rocking chair honoring Pride Month.  Southern-based fast-food chain Cracker Barrel was blasted for going "woke" by some of its biscuits-and-gravy-eating customers after posting an image of a rainbow rocking chair to celebrate Pride Month.  Aside from serving oversized portions of country staples, the chain is beloved for the Tennessee-made rocking chairs that line the porches at all Cracker Barrel trinket-filled Old Country Stores.  Thus, the chain honored Pride Month in June with an Instagram photo of a rocking chair with each wood slat painted a different color of the rainbow in nod to the Pride flag.

Biden to Announce New Book Ban Czar at White House Pride Event.  President Joe Biden is set to reveal a series of LGBTQ+ initiatives, including appointing a new Education Department Office of Civil Rights official to be a point person on "book bans."  Biden announced the administration's actions during a joint press conference with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Thursday.  The White House had planned to host what White House Domestic Policy Adviser Neera Tanden referred to as "the largest Pride celebration in White House history" on the South Lawn of the White House on Thursday, but postponed to Saturday due to air quality concerns caused by wildfires in Canada.

Democrats abandon the blue-collar worker in favor of 'social justice' warriors.  Up until two years ago, it would only take 12 hours for coal mined deep in a labyrinth operation 60 miles from here to go from that underground mine, through a high-tech cleaning procedure, and be loaded on a barge or rail car and brought to the Cheswick Generating Station, a coal-fired power plant, to light communities along the Allegheny River for generations.  That efficient process came to an end in September 2021 when owner GenOn Holdings announced the then-51-year-old facility, one that environmental groups had in their sights for years, decided to retire the plant.  The company cited "unfavorable economic conditions, higher costs including those associated with environmental compliance, an inability to compete with other generation types, and evolving market rules that promote subsidized resources."

Megyn Kelly: How Could Anyone Vote For A 'Party That's In Favor Of Letting Minors Chop Off Their' Body Parts?  Megyn Kelly asked how anyone could vote for Democrats, which she described as the "party that's in favor of letting minors chop" off their body parts after left-wing politicians tried to stop the passage of bills banning transgender surgeries on minors.  During the Sirius XM "The Megyn Kelly Show" podcast on Tuesday, the host was speaking with guest conservative radio talk show host Jesse Kelly about New Mexico Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan signing a bill to "permit minors to access 'cross-gender care' and abortions without parental knowledge or consent."  Jesse talked about his new book "The Anti-Communist Manifesto" and said, "We're not going to share a society and shouldn't share a society with people who believe my 14-year-old son should chop his penis off and pretend he's a woman."

Will The Left Finally Admit It's Driven By Mental Illness?  For decades we've wondered what causes the Democrats and progressives to ignore facts, flog blatantly false narratives, take irrational policy positions, engage in megaphone politics, censor, bully and project their corruption and bad faith onto their opponents.  Could they really be as unbalanced as they appear to be?  Turns out they are.  At least that's what the science says.  And we know how much the left loves its science.  A research paper published in March tells an interesting story.  "Understanding left-wing authoritarianism" explores "relations to the dark personality traits, altruism, and social justice commitment."  In an interview last month with PsyPost, a psychology and neuroscience news website, the authors said they had "introduced a new contribution to the literature on dark personality traits, coining the term dark-ego-vehicle principle."

Will Wokeness Be Our Demise?  People infected with wokeness blame racism, white supremacy, homophobes, misogyny, religion, climate change, capitalism, etc. when things don't go their way.  They insist that a human is a man when biology proves, through DNA, anatomical bone structure, and genitalia she was born with, that the human is female.  And vice versa.  Woke has become a medical industrial money-making vehicle for transgender surgeries and lifelong hormones, starting in early childhood.  Body dysmorphia is a mental condition for which treatment is needed.  Just like anorexia.  Both may be fatal.  The woke want to spread their ideology.  They attempt to control language through invented words and phrases.  They impose rules for others to use:  pronouns, of their choice, for example.  If the pronouns they claim are not obeyed to their satisfaction, they may threaten violence due to trigger words, which they call verbal violence.  Or they may announce that someone hurt their feelings, and that person is therefore evil.

Navy Secretary Touts Ships as 'Beacons' for 'Diversity, Equity and Inclusion'.  The Navy Secretary touted its ships as "beacons in every port of call" for "diversity, equity, and inclusion," in a message to the force celebrating Pride Month.  In the message to the force, Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro highlighted Harvey Milk, the first openly-gay candidate to be elected to state office in California, who was also a lieutenant junior grade.  In 2016, then-Navy Secretary Ray Mabus named a ship after Milk. [...] "Diversity, equity, and inclusion," or DEI, has become a term encapsulating programs and trainings based on critical race theory, which has its roots in Marxism, according to Christopher Rufo, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

[Here are] All The Major Clothing Brands Selling Pride Outfits To Toddlers And Kids This Month.  Major clothing brands are kicking off Pride Month with LGBT-themed clothing marketed to children and toddlers, despite backlash against Target's Pride collection for children.  Target has lost $9 billion in market value in just one week after announcing a Pride collection that features LGBT-themed clothing for children, as well as a chest binding swim top and "tuck-friendly" bathing suit.  Although some stores have relocated their Pride displays, Target CEO Brian Cornell has stood by the company's commitment to transgenderism, calling the backlash against the clothing collection "gut-wrenching."  But Target is not the only iconic American clothing company offering Pride-themed clothing in June that comes in child, toddler or even infant sizes.

The Culture War Has Moved to a New Phase.  More recently, InBev hired some younger woke American marketing executives who found all this embarrassing.  In their efforts to revamp the Bud Light brand, they engaged Dylan Mulvaney, a famous transgender activist, in a marketing campaign.  As of today, it looks like this move may have forever changed the dynamic between the liberals running most huge American companies and their consumers.  A few things touched a nerve with the Bud Light/Mulvaney incident.  First, Mulvaney isn't just a left-wing political activist.  Mulvaney specialized in marketing to young kids.  Using Barbie dolls and singing songs about being a young girl were squarely in Mulvaney's wheelhouse.  There's something seriously wrong with that; almost any normal person would agree.  Second, soon after the controversy erupted, the beer marketing head who set it off was seen in an online video trashing Bud Light's fratty marketing campaigns of the past and, by direct inference, trashing their very customers.  The Bud Light drinkers of America had had enough.  This was their brand, something that helped define them.  And now the lefties couldn't leave even that alone.  Not only that, but the corporate chieftains didn't care enough about them to stop it.

Conservatives Have Found Their Power.  Americans of most political stripes, but especially with conservatives at the helm, launched significant boycotts of both Bud Light over its partnership with biological male Dylan Mulvaney and Target over its new swimwear line that includes "women's" options made specifically to allow biological men to "tuck" their definingly male features away.  The result:  massive losses for both companies.  Bud Light's reputation has been tanked, with plenty of anecdotal evidence of the boycott's success via photos of untouched rows of the suds in grocery and convenience stores, at sporting events, and pretty much everywhere the beer is sold.  Beyond the photos, there's hard data to prove the success of boycotts against the Anheuser-Busch brand.  At the end of May, Bud Light sales marked their sixth consecutive week of dropping sales.  24-packs of the product are selling for as low as $3.49.  What's more, a promotion to try boosting sales has made Bud Light essentially free (via rebate) in some locations.  All told, Bud Light's now-regrettable decision to celebrate Dylan Mulvaney's first year as a "woman" has cost its parent company some $19 billion after shares dropped roughly 14 percent.

The Party's Over.  The red fascists masquerading as our Democrat political party have obliterated the home of Truman, Kennedy, and LBJ.  What remains is a shell, a Trojan Horse packed full of crazy-eyed warriors prepared at every moment to commit murder and mayhem to advance their power.  There is no polite answer to the armed killer at your door.  In too many places, the police have been depopulated and terrorized.  Our prosecutors have been emasculated and suborned.  Even our armed forces are being hollowed out and rendered unfit for combat.

Stores, Stores Everywhere, and Not a Place to Shop.  Hey, does anyone know if they sell Bud Light at Target?  I need to make a beer run.  But seriously, folks, consumers who are not particularly rainbow-minded will run out of places to shop if this keeps up.  Either more stores are betting on their ESG scores over consumer traffic or people are just getting more attuned to the prevalence of the new normal not only in society but also in retail.  Shoppers can add Kohl's to the list of entities where they would never be caught dead, right behind Bud Light, the Dodgers, and Target.  [Numerous tweets]  Upon hearing the news that Target had joined the rainbow wave with wild abandon, many shoppers heaved a sigh of relief that they could still get the necessities, notions, and noshes they craved at everyone's usual go-to store, Walmart.  But alack and alas, the news has come to light that even that box store behemoth is on the proverbial bandwagon.

Bud Light Just Keeps on Digging.  It's one thing to intentionally create what was arguably the worst marketing decision in history but it's a whole different ballgame when a company doubles and triples down — while simultaneously trying to win back formerly loyal customers who can't stop buying the company's product fast enough.  I'm talking about Bud Light, of course, which has now lost roughly 30 percent in sales since hooking up [no pun intended] with a 26-year-old man pretending to be a teenage girl — Dylan Mulvaney — who first gained notoriety on TikTok, as he chronicled his first "365 days of womanhood." Mulvaney's act is disgusting, yet at least a few folks in the Bud Light marketing department bought it — hook, line, and sinker.  As the boycott against Bud Light grew stronger, and more costly to Anheuser-Busch InBev, the panicked beer maker put out a statement announcing that the Mulvaney fiasco wasn't really a campaign at all, while laughingly saying "only one can" featuring Mulvaney was produced.  Not to nitpick, but who [...] cares if it was one can or a million cans?  The number of cans was irrelevant.  The fact that Bud Light risked decades and countless millions of dollars building brand loyalty, only to throw it away in the name of "woke," not to mention, via the Mulvaney character, was insane.

Disney blasted for allowing mustachioed employee to wear dress, makeup.  Conservative critics are once again slamming Disney for shoving "woke" agendas down the throats of children — this time by allowing an apparently male employee to wear a costume dress and makeup.  A viral video — which has racked up nearly 7 million views on TikTok — shows the mustachioed "Fairy Godmother's Apprentice" welcoming a young girl at Disneyland's Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique in Anaheim, California.  "So, my name is Nick, I am one of the Fairy Godmother's Apprentices," said the employee, who's seen wearing blue and purple eyeshadow to match their uniform dress.  "I'm here to shop you around and make all your selections for the day."

Why not?  There's nothing left to lose.
Bud Light To Sponsor Pride Parades Despite Ongoing Boycott.  Bud Light and its parent company Anheuser-Busch are sponsoring at least three different upcoming Pride events despite backlash over the partnership with Dylan Mulvaney, a social media influencer who identifies as transgender.  Bud Light is listed as a sponsor on the Cincinnati Pride Parade website.  Planned Parenthood and the Cincinnati Children's Hospital, which medically transitions minors, are both also listed.  Meanwhile, in St. Louis, Missouri, where Anheuser-Busch is headquartered, the company is listed as the presenting sponsor of the St. Louis Pride Parade.  A sponsorship packet explains that there are only four "presenting sponsor" slots available.  The "Rainbow" sponsorship tier, located below the "presenting sponsor" tier, requires entities to pay $25,000.  Bud Light is also listed as a "Diamond Sponsor" of Stonewall Columbus, which organizes and hosts the annual Columbus, Ohio, Pride Parade.  The "diamond" sponsorship tier requires companies to donate $20,000, a document from the organization specifies.

Left-wing extremism linked to psychopathy and narcissism: study.  Left-wing extremism is linked to toxic, psychopathic tendencies and narcissism, according to a new study published to the peer-reviewed journal Current Psychology.  "Based on existing research, we expected individuals with higher levels of left-wing authoritarianism to also report higher levels of narcissism," the authors wrote.  As result of the new data, study authors Ann Krispenz and Alex Bertrams have coined a new term for such psychological behavior: the "dark-ego-vehicle principle."  "According to this principle, individuals with dark personalities — such as high narcissistic and psychopathic traits — are attracted to certain forms of political and social activism which they can use as a vehicle to satisfy their own ego-focused needs instead of actually aiming at social justice and equality," they told PsyPost.

Corporate America Has Launched A Religious War.  It's Time To Choose Your Side.  Bud Light enlists a trans ladyface minstrel to sell beer.  Target hires a trans Satanist to design LGBT clothes for kids and starts selling "binding" and "tucking" swimwear.  North Face launches a marketing campaign featuring a creepy drag performer hocking LGBT gear to children ages 2 to 7.  The Los Angeles Dodgers gives an award to a demonic hate group whose sole purpose is to blaspheme and profane the Catholic faith.  All this, and June "pride month" hasn't even begun.  What's happening?  Why did so many major corporate brands decide to go all-in on promoting an aggressive, radical LGBT agenda that just a few years ago would have been considered totally unacceptable in civil society?  Is this a psy-op?  Is it real?  What happens next?  The short answer to these questions is that we've entered a new phase of the culture war, and in some ways have transcended "the culture war" completely.  What we're in now is better described as a religious war — one that's been launched by corporate America against all of us, and therefore demands we all choose sides.

How to Destroy a People.  Wokeness is not about "rights" — it is about favoritism on a colossal scale.  It is about transforming America into a Marxist totalitarian state based on a coalition of groups antagonistic to traditional American identity.  And so, ultimately, it is about destroying America as we have known it for over 200 years.  The special consideration that these groups demand comes at the expense of ordinary citizens — those decent, hardworking, family-oriented citizens who now find themselves forced to the back of the bus.  Ordinary Americans pay the higher taxes necessary to fund the privileges that marginal groups now claim; ordinary folks are expected to nod in agreement as their children are subjected to woke brainwashing; ordinary people are told they must swallow the idea that the needs of homosexuals, transgenders, transvestites, criminals, illegal aliens, environmentalist radicals, communists, atheists, and anarchists come first — in education, hiring, culture, politics, and the news.  There is little space or funding left for everyday Americans, who are told that they are less important and "outdated" and even "hate-filled" just because of their noble beliefs in Christianity, self-responsibility, decency, and goodness.

America's Dangerous Shortage Of Free Thinkers.  Our country has become a conformist society where free expression is rewarded with the swing of a truncheon.  We're on a road that leads to repression, and we are not far from the destination.  This nation owes its existence and its never-seen-before prosperity to free thinkers.  The founders were men of the enlightenment.  They stand in stark contrast to our ruling class of today, a corrupt and depraved cabal of politicians, state media, institutional leaders, militant activists and corporate executives that is hurtling us into an era of darkness.  In the 2020s, the only "truth" is what the narrative, invariably fabricated by the worst people who have ever held power and influence in this country's history, says it is.  We see those yard signs, the ones that proclaim their occupants' unwavering grand tolerance and thirst for diversity.  But we know that those who put up those signs are the most intolerant, limited thinkers among us.  They don't believe in diversity of thought.  Their objective is to force conformity to their way of thinking while immodestly displaying their superior virtue.

Fetterman Staffer Caught Sharing List of 'Puppet' Journalists.  Fetterman special assistant Luke Borwegan cites MSNBC anchor Joe Scarborough, "Pod Save America" hosts and former New York Times reporter Kara Swisher as his "puppets."  [The next paragraph is omitted for brevity, and also because it's full of F-bombs.]  "I only pick reporters who we know will paint the narrative the way we want," he continued.  "So it's like, when John checks himself in for depression, we tell one reporter in particular because they will hit the facts that we want them to."  "They're just like puppets, though," Borwegan said.  And if that wasn't bad enough, Borwegan shares that Fetterman supports "overturning the Second Amendment."

Only four Democrats have this much common sense.
Four House Democrats join Republicans to save the truckers.  Save the truckers!  Save the supply chain, too.  The Biden administration's goal of eliminating gas-powered trucks hit a speed bump Tuesday when four House Democrats crossed party lines and voted with Republicans to pass a resolution to reject a Biden administration environmental regulation that targets heavy-duty vehicle tailpipe emissions.  The resolution was introduced by Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) as a companion bill in April to one that Senator Deb Fischer, a Republican from Nebraska, introduced in the Senate two months earlier.  The vote was 221-203.  Nehls is a member of the Transportation Committee's Highways and Transit subcommittee.  Nehls said Washington bureaucrats are on a climate justice crusade.  Biden's EPA is out of control.

Men's Health says men might be "gynosexual" if they are attracted to women.  Or, you know, just normal men.  Permit me to introduce you to the latest in intersectional gender trans bingo: The "gynosexual."  The number of actual sexes has kind of been fixed at two for a while (not "gender," that's a grammar term), and you'd think it would be hard to come up with all that many combinations and permutations when dealing with only two, but why should reality be an impediment to your delusions?

'Special assistant' to John Fetterman brags about media 'puppets' and the senator's duplicity.  On Tuesday night, James O'Keefe released the footage from his latest sting, and it's just as embarrassing and [scathing] as you'd expect.  Luke Borwegan, special assistant to Pennsylvania's John Fetterman, got caught running his mouth about the senator's two-faced politicking and the media's willingness to collude with and uphold a system of propagandism. [...] Now, it's not like we weren't aware that the mainstream media is nothing more than an extension of the Democrat party, and that party and its most high-profile ideologues hate America, her citizens, and her heritage, but it's always surreal to hear it out loud.  What's even more surreal though, is that the media manipulation about which Borwegan boasted, actually works; I'm utterly guilty of diminishing the influence the media has on the American public.

Dodgers Re-Invite Anti-Catholic Drag Group To Pride Night, Issue Apology to LGBTQ+ Community.  After "much thoughtful feedback from Los Angeles' diverse communities" the Dodgers have decided to re-invite the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to its 10th annual LGBTQ+ Pride Night.  They also issued an apology to the drag group, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and their friends and families.  The decision to reincorporate the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence comes less than seven days after the team chose to remove the group from the event.  Los Angeles was initially set to give the group an award as part of its Pride Night celebration.  The "Sisters" of Perpetual Indulgence use "go and sin some more" as their motto, and frequently dress as Jesus, Mary and other religious figures.

Harris-Harvard poll: liberal corporate media is radically out of touch with the views of Americans.  It's not just that corporate media rejects Americans' views.  They don't permit those views to be heard.  To start:  Majorities of Americans say it's *false* that Trump colluded with Russia.  The the Steele Dossier is also "false."  In other words, they view the story the US media aggressively centered for 3 years as a hoax and a fraud, yet NBC and CNN won't even air this view.  Americans also believe that the materials on the Hunter Biden laptop are real, and are not and never were "Russian disinformation."  So again, Americans view the claim that the US corporate media and CIA spread for weeks before the 2020 election — to help Biden win — as a fraud.  Majorties of Americans also believe:
  •   Hunter Biden engaged in criminal influence peddling using his father's name.
  •   The FBI is not investigating these crimes.
  •   Joe Biden participated in Hunter's illegal influence peddling and profiteering schemes.

Anheuser-Busch, Bud Light's Parent Company Pledged to Purge Its White Male Employees in This Promo Video.  Anheuser-Busch, the parent company of Bud Light, has pledged to purge its white, male employees in an effort to have a "more diverse and inclusive environment," according to footage found on the company's website.  The company has seen its sales collapse since the disastrous Dylan Mulvaney advertisement campaign which wiped billions off the firm's value, and chased millions of customers away.  In the video, one employee of Anheuser-Busch explains, "we're still 40 percent women, and 60 percent men, still predominantly white:  so there's still work to be done."  The "work" to be "done" is apparently replacing white male workers with alternatives.  [Video clip]

What Is Wrong With These People?  Imagine literally being upset about your state government preventing you from physically removing the genitals from your minor child.  It's difficult to do, I know, because the very idea of butchering the body of a child is foreign to you, but there are a lot of people wildly upset by just that idea.  Just as there is a slice of the public, small as it is, demanding Bud Light completely destroys itself in the name of "tolerance." Then there are the wealthy white liberals who, as if it were a sexual fetish of theirs, demand they and their children, and by extension everyone's children, be indoctrinated into the idea that they are responsible for things done by people who aren't them that happened long before they were born.  You really have to wonder what [...] is wrong with these people.

Karine Jean-Pierre slams bans on trans treatment for minors: 'These are our kids, they belong to all of us'.  While appearing at the 34th annual GLAAD Media Awards over the weekend, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre insisted that trans kids are "our kids" and "belong to all of us" in response to what she called "anti-LGBTQ+ legislation."  Speaking with the website Jezebel at the event on Saturday, Jean-Pierre, who identifies as "queer," talked about the importance of representation and visibility for young people.  She also insisted that there needed to be more moments to "call out" Republican legislation for the sake of trans children.  "There are more than 600 pieces of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation out there.  A few hundred of them are anti-trans community, and that matters because we have to call that out.  And we've never seen this level.  It's historic in the number of pieces of legislation," she said.

Disturbing Democrat Trans Cult Thinks It Owns Your Children.  Despite the very public pushback against them in recent years, the predatory Democrat Trans Cult is still in full force, mobilized, and coming for your children.  These people are relentless and operating under the mistaken impression that they're compassionate.  The coastal bubble Dems are all on board with the push to normalize conversations about sexuality between 8-year-olds and any random adults they interact with during the day at school.  In their telling of the story, every other third-grader in America is trapped in the wrong body and agonizing to be liberated by a compassionate public educator.  This is just one more thing that was made worse by the evil touch of Hillary Clinton.  Ever since Granny Maojackets published It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us back in the '90s, Democrats have felt justified in claiming that parents really can't handle raising their own children and that such things should be left up to the nation's teachers.

Why Are There so Many Militant Democrats?  For many years I have pondered why there are so many militant "ground troop" Democrats.  These are the local people who constantly fight for liberal causes and are perpetually miserable as has been observed and discussed by many authors, citing just one here, but any internet search will reveal dozens more.  These are the white people who contribute to BLM and march in their protests.  These are the transgender activists (and probably not transgender themselves) who assaulted NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines when she spoke out opposing the inclusion of transgender athletes in women's sports.  I differentiate these people from elected Democrats who have figured out how to "game" the system and obtain great wealth by assuming a liberal stance.  Do they really believe the socialist propaganda that they espouse?

Is Sanity Returning?  I'm referring to the firestorm rejection consumers are giving to Anheuser-Busch (AB), specifically to buying and drinking Bud Lite. [...] AB's executives, Hollywood celebs, academia, TV networks, Big Media, Big Tech, most large corporations, and most government agencies have collectively decided they know what's best for you, know exactly what you need, and have proceeded to shove it down our throats while forcing their political insanity onto society.  You must hate President Trump — Check; every TV network and celebrity continually echoes that mantra.  We will teach racist ideology to your children, and you'll learn to love it — Check; Democrat-controlled school boards cram Critical Race Theory (CRT) into every school curriculum.  Demand gun control/gun confiscation — Check; every mass-shooting is not because the shooter is deranged or mentally ill; no, it's the gun's fault and Dems demand guns be confiscated.  Americans must have and support open borders to flood the country with illegals and change the voter base — Check; Biden and Dems have refused to control the border, resulting in five million (but who's counting) illegals in slightly over two years (thanks, Joe).  America needs a weakened military more focused on White rage than defeating our enemies — Check; all service branches are struggling to recruit new members.  So, given the large numbers of idiotic, woke businesses and lunatic government/military agendas, Anheuser-Busch managed to outstupid them all.  AB used a girly-man transgender to advertise Bud Lite (BL) to the average working man.

Disney+ Subscriptions Plummet by 4 Million as Studio Keeps Pushing Transgender, Drag Queen Content.  Disney+ subscriptions experienced a steep drop off during the first three months of 2023, with the woke streaming service losing a whopping 4 million customers globally.  Overall, Disney's streaming business continues to bleed money with no sign of profitability in sight.  While most of the Disney+ losses resulted from the end of the Hotstar deal in India, the streamer posted an unexpected loss of 300,000 subscribers in the U.S. and Canada as more consumers wake up to Disney's relentless push of transgender and drag queen content in its entertainment for children.

It's the Bud Light of churches.
193 Parishes Ditch the United Methodist Church.  I've told this story before, but it bears repeating here.  Once upon a time, I wanted to be an Episcopal priest.  The diocese in which I was living rejected me.  In retrospect, I probably would have made a rotten minister, so that choice in and of itself was probably not the worst decision anyone has ever made.  But as it turned out that my spiritual fitness was not in question.  For a few weeks after being rejected, I was depressed.  Ordination had been something I had wanted since college.  But one Sunday, an older "supply," or substitute priest, took me aside and told me not to take it personally.  I found that to be a little glib.  After all, I had been told I was unworthy to serve God, and that's the kind of thing someone takes personally.  But he continued, "Right now, the diocese is not accepting straight, white men for the ordination process.  But if you hang in there, you might have a chance in a few years or so."

The government doesn't want to talk about your actual concerns.  Gallup periodically asks Americans to declare what they think is "the most important problem facing the country today."  Rather than offering multiple choice answers, they leave it open for respondents to say whatever they like, matching the answers to a number of related categories. [...] ["]The single most common answer was "the government," or "poor leadership," at 18 percent.  Fourteen percent said the economy in general, and 9 percent said inflation or high cost of living.["] [...] Keep that list in mind and consider what news stories are generating the most buzz in the media.  Then consider what the President and congressional leaders are spending their time talking about.  We are repeatedly assured that some sort of "transgender genocide" is going on and we should all be fighting about transgender issues. [...] We're told that the country simply can't move forward without addressing systemic racism and reparations.

Karine, Kamala and the Killers.  "Our hearts go out to the trans community as they are under attack right now."  That was Biden White House press secretary Karine Saint-Pierre, several days after Audrey Hale murdered Evelyn Dieckhaus, 9, Mike Hill, 61, William Kinney, 9, Katherine Koonce, 60, Cynthia Peak, 61, and Hallie Scruggs, nine years old and the daughter of Covenant Presbyterian pastor Chad Scruggs.  By any standard, this mass murder, committed in the run-up to "Trans Vengeance Day," was an act of terrorism.  Biden press secretary Karine Saint-Pierre did not name or condemn Audrey Hale, a woman who thought she was a man.

The Hellscape of the Administrative State Functionary.  Let's be clear here, they created that debt, for promising to solve problems and then not solving them.  Everything they do fails.  Their media is only working because they censor and subsidize, but every week, another propaganda outfit bites the dust.  That's why they are miserable. [...] Our new class of monster reductionists, who get all their prestige and money from delimiting the lives of others, have been living under a tsunami of threat ever since Trump and Brexit, or as it is known, "the worst decisions ever made".  This requires that all future elections be stolen.  It is impressive how lockstep they remain.

The Left Is Making Terrorism by Criminals the Norm.  Recent events are further demonstrating with undeniable clarity what many of us have been pointing out for years:  That the Left will not be satiated with mere electoral wins or political dominance; they will not constrain themselves to "traditional," mainstream American political tactics.  On the contrary: The Left is not only capable and willing, but all too eager to use terrorism as its standard political tactic.  Ultimately, leftists not only want to win elections, but want to see us dead.  This is more than apparent in light of the leftist response to recent high-profile killings.  Following the death of black man Jordan Neely after being restrained in a chokehold by a Marine for threatening passengers on a New York City subway, the reaction from the Left was to immediately paint this as another instance of racism against blacks.  Forget the dozens of charges, including for attempted kidnapping of a minor, that Neely had accumulated throughout his life.  Forget the fact that he could easily have harmed any of the passengers on board the subway if not for the Marine's intervention.  For leftist politicians and their allies in the mainstream media, the most important thing is that Neely, more than a decade ago, impersonated Michael Jackson.

NY Governor says there's no right to self-defense.  It's hard to find any other interpretation of Gov. Kathy Hochul's latest statement about the death of Jordan Neely; the mentally disturbed New York man who died after being placed in a chokehold by a Marine veteran on a NYC subway after allegedly threatening passengers.  Hochul's been taking heat from progressive activists for not immediately condemning the veteran and convicting him in the court of public opinion, as well as for her first statement after the incident, in which she vaguely spoke about "consequences for behavior".  It was unclear whether Hochul was talking about Neely or the veteran, but in her attempt to clarify her earlier remarks she also made it clear that she doesn't think self-defense is ever justified.

Women's Clothing Brand Anthropologie Features Male Model, Gets Slammed by Customers.  Women's clothing brand Anthropologie posted an ad Thursday featuring a male model clad in dresses to its Instagram account.  The company ended up disabling the comment section for the post after its customers slammed the brand, vowing to never purchase Anthropologie products again.

A Grand Alliance to Overcome the Elite Betrayal of America.  Instead of Western democracies uniting with Communist Russia to fight the fascist dictatorships, we have merely to unite a critical mass of Americans who want to save their nation from an elite that has declared war on their way of life and their future.  This isn't as hard as it seems for two reasons.  First, because most Americans don't want to live in a degenerate culture.  They don't want to live in a culture that has devolved to cater to society's lowest, most abnormal, deviant, hedonistic, psychotic, sociopathic, dishonest, crooked, lazy, defiant, bizarre, militant cohorts of individuals, regardless of the fact they've become politically organized and demand equality of outcome in every imaginable context.  Most Americans understand the inherent necessity and benefits of nuclear families, hard work, and immutable standards for achievement and recognition.  There is a deep, latent unity among Americans.

Bar Patrons Standing for National Anthem Sparks Outrage: 'The Most Dangerous Situation'.  At Rainbow Oaks Restaurant — just an hour outside of San Diego — a TikTok user shared that she had faced the most "dangerous" situation she had ever been in.  At noon, while she was eating her stack of pancakes, about a dozen people stood up for the Star-Spangled Banner being played on the bar's TVs.  As first reported by Fox News, the TikTok user who goes by the screen name @Paulinaappa_0 recorded the patriotic display and included the caption:  "By far the most dangerous situation I've ever been in #godblessamerica #getout #illegal #whitepeoplethings."

The Editor says...
If that's the most dangerous situation you've ever been in, you've had a wonderful life.  If you are so easily frightened by our National Anthem (of which there is only one), you should not vote.

National Anthem Sung at Restaurant Sends Wokesters into Paroxysms of Fear.  A viral TikTok video of Southern California restaurant customers standing and singing the Star-Spangled Banner caused many America-hating trolls to post how triggered they were, writing things like "this seems like a horror movie" and "I would be scared for my life."  The seemingly unremarkable footage is only 14 seconds long but has over 3.5 million views and almost 600,000 likes as of this writing.  The account holder, @paulinappa_0, captioned the post with the ridiculous statement, "By far the most dangerous situation I've ever been in."  If that's true, she must not have ever left her house.  She also added the tags #godblessamerica #getout #illegal #whitepeoplethings.

First, Posit a Counter-Factual....  One of the hallmarks of Leftist methodology is to assert blatant falsehoods as real and then act on them — with the fierce urgency of now! — as if they were true.  At first dismissed as too absurd to take seriously, this approach has proven highly successful.  The triumph of relativism and the concomitant loss of belief in even the most fundamental verities has resulted in the complete emasculation of the culture — and don't expect newly defeminized women to take up the slack.  The Left's squadrons of vicious, shameless lawyers take as their operating principle:  "we can make the argument that...," the argument being wholly imaginary.  But who's to call them on it?  They may win some and lose some, but every win goes in the permanent win column and every loss can always be relitigated later.  And they're getting bolder.

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland Testifies It's Better to Get Rid of Jobs in USA, Live in Poverty and Save the Planet.  Around 15 years ago CTH outlined the inclusive goal of the progressive movement, modern Democrats as they were evolving, was to deconstruct the U.S. economic system so that Americans would be forced to live in government-controlled poverty.  Essentially reduced to circling a campfire, eating sustainable algae cakes and picking parasites off our family members.  Most people understandably scoffed and said we were being hyperbolic.  However, what we were highlighting was the natural conclusion of a visible ideology and set of policies.  The modern democrat ideology is based on a worldview that feudalism is superior, and Democrats are elite in their global magnanimity (defined as their virtuous self image).  Fast forward a decade+ later, and there is Joe Biden's Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland, explaining why it is better for the health of the planet if Americans lose their jobs, lose their economic sustainability, starve in feudal poverty, as the virtuous government ships all the dirty jobs to China and retains their clean pro-climate agenda.  In Haaland's defense, it should be noted that this has been the policy of Canada for quite a while.

The Editor says...
Before you wreck the U.S. economy to "save the planet," I have a few questions:  How do you know your actions will prevent anything?  How do you know climate change isn't inevitable?  How do you know carbon dioxide is harmful?  How many environmental disaster predictions have come to pass in the last 50 years?  Shouldn't the primary goal of the Executive Branch be to assure that the United States thrives even when no other country does?

Bud Light's Demise at the Hands of Credentialed Woke Millennials.  Early in my professional career, an experienced colleague shared with me a bit of advice. [...] It is the golden rule in business, for which there are no exceptions or substitutes, and it can be summed up in three short words:  know your customer.  Yet this lesson apparently isn't taught at The Wharton School of Finance, where Bud Light marketing VP Alissa Heinerscheid earned a Master of Business Administration degree, and where tuition and supplies alone will run you $250K for its two-year MBA program.  Under her leadership and direction, the brand has been irreparably destroyed for the simple reason that she believed herself to have a mandate to sell the customers what she wanted to sell them rather than give them what they would want to buy.

Conservatives Lost the Culture War and the Trump Agenda Is the Only Path Forward.  Immigration, trade, war, and crime.  Being right on these four issues propelled Donald Trump to the presidency in 2016 against all odds.  The intervening seven years have changed nothing.  The only way a candidate from the Right can possibly win the presidency in 2024 is by campaigning on limiting immigration (build the wall), increasing tariffs, getting out of Ukraine, and restoring law and order (especially in regards to elections and the opioid crisis).  These are the core issues for the center-Right coalition needed to win national elections.  No supposedly conservative politician with aspiration for higher office should ever make any public statement without hammering at least one of these points.  Journalist asks about Social Security?  Talk about why we need to stop giving money to Volodymyr Zelenskyy.  Democratic opponent brings up climate change?  Talk about why we need to build the wall and make Mexico pay for it.

The Editor says...
No.  Changing the subject is what Socialist Democrats do when they're losing an argument.  If your baby-killing Democrat opponent brings up climate change, make him prove that carbon dioxide is harmful (it isn't), and that the polar ice caps are melting (they aren't), and the sea level is rising so fast that millions of people will have to move in a few years (nope, just look a New Orleans).  Ask your Socialist opponent if he arrived at the debate in an electric car.  Probably not, but if so, ask him if he knows about the little kids who work in lithium mines to make the batteries for electric cars.  Whatever the subject, beat them down with indisputable facts.  Win the debate.  The Socialists are not your friends.  They are wrong about everything, so there is no need to change the subject.

What leftist insurrection?  Nothing to see here!  Gallup found that 46% of state government employees identify as Democrat and 24% as Republican, the rest as independent (most likely to conceal partisanship).  Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook and Twitter employees and leadership donate almost exclusively to Democrats.  In the 2022 midterms, Twitter employees donated 99% to Democrats.  The NEA teachers' union in 2020-2021 donated $374 [million] to political — i.e., Democrat — causes, making 32% of its expenditures.  Nine percent of its support went to direct assistance for its members.  It is quite apparent that the left comprises half the electorate, progressive politicians, the federal bureaucracy, the media, and the education system.

What is a Democrat?  I am a Democrat, and I think you, as an average American, are an idiot.  You let me get away with everything.  I can tell you I'm going to do something unethical, criminal, unconstitutional, or unprecedented, and you seldom try to stop me, or call me out on it.  I control the news cycle and my loyal press puppets repeat whatever I say without question.  Every time you get any attention complaining about me, I just do something else to distract and reset the news again.  I write most of the news by feeding the talking points to my puppets.  Haven't you seen the video proof?  I also rewrite history by simple repetition.  "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."  That's what I do.  I lie big, loud, often and repeatedly to accuse you of any variety of unspeakable things, most of which I'm doing myself.  If you challenge me, I'll ruin you.  I'll make up a lie, then release the puppets.  Maybe I'll make a call to your employer, or your local prosecutor's office.  Either way, you'll be too busy to bother me again.  Just ask Michael Flynn how it works.

Employers reveal why Gen Z is the hardest generation to work with.  Despite many of them having only just entered the workforce, Generation Z — those born from 1997 onwards — is already getting a bad rap at the office.  According to a recent survey of 1,300 managers, three out of four agree that Gen Z is harder to work with than other generations — so much so that 65% of employers said they have to fire them more often.  One in eight have let go of a Gen Zer less than one week after their start date, the study found.  The results ring true with managers across the US and in various industries, who report that young hires have been difficult to deal with, particularly when it comes to language.

What is a Democrat?  I am a Democrat, and I think you, as an average American, are an idiot.  You let me get away with everything.  I can tell you I'm going to do something unethical, criminal, unconstitutional, or unprecedented, and you seldom try to stop me, or call me out on it.  I control the news cycle and my loyal press puppets repeat whatever I say without question.  Every time you get any attention complaining about me, I just do something else to distract and reset the news again.  I write most of the news by feeding the talking points to my puppets.  Haven't you seen the video proof?  I also rewrite history by simple repetition.  "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."  That's what I do.  I lie big, loud, often and repeatedly to accuse you of any variety of unspeakable things, most of which I'm doing myself.  If you challenge me, I'll ruin you.  I'll make up a lie, then release the puppets.  Maybe I'll make a call to your employer, or your local prosecutor's office.  Either way, you'll be too busy to bother me again.  Just ask Michael Flynn how it works.

You can't win if you don't fight.  The firing of the elitist woman marketer behind the Dylan Mulvaney can of Bud Light came on Friday night, a week too late to save the brand.  Bud then fired the fellow who hired her.  Get woke, go broke struck again.  Rasmussen Reports found 54% of Americans support the Beer Barrel Boycott.  That includes the 40% of beer drinkers who won't buy Bud Light again.  The departure of the marketer comes after a week of liberals assuring us that those silly conservatives won't hurt Bud Light. [...] The 30% drop had nothing to do with the boycott?  That's like saying the bucket of water had nothing to do with the Wicked Witch of the West's meltdown.  But experts say.  Experts also told us the vaccine would stop the spread of covid.  CDC Director Rochelle Walensky told Congress last week the vaccines don't stop the transmission of covid.  Say, I'm beginning to believe everything in Washington is not on the up-and-up.

When They Say 'Made for Modern Audiences,' This Is Who They Mean.  [Scroll down]  Yet, all of these creations that focus on this "modern audience" fail, or at the very least, pave the way for audiences to care less and less about the product in question.  One of the chief examples of this is any products attached to Disney, which has so embedded itself with leftist messaging that every single one of its brands is bleeding fans.  The issue has gotten so bad that Disney was forced to eliminate thousands of jobs, including one of its top executives.  But a more recent and viral example is Bud Light.  After taking on transgender influencer and activist Dylan Mulvaney as one of its representatives, Anheuser-Busch suffered a blowback unlike any beer has in recent history. [...] The "modern audience" is themselves.  That's who they're making these things for.  They're so high on their own supply that they believe the very core of any product is worth ignoring, and in fact, worthy of disdain.  They feel they can escort in a new generation of people just like them through normalization.

Bed Bath & Beyond files for bankruptcy after sales collapse dooms home retailer.  Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Sunday after a years-long decline in sales doomed the home goods retailer.  In a statement on Sunday [4/23/2023], the company said its Bed Bath & Beyond and buybuy BABY stores will remain open "as the Company begins its efforts to effectuate the closure of its retail locations."  Sixth Street will provide the company with $240 million in debtor-in-possession financing, which will allow the company to continue operations during its wind-down process.

The Editor says...
Bed Bath & Beyond went broke after alienating Trump voters [1] and after discontinuing the sale of MyPillow products for political reasons.  [2] [3]

Republicans Wide-Open Door to Win in 2024.  Democrats have left the back door off the hinges with working-class, middle-class, and even suburban voters as they have morphed into the party of the front-door rich and elite.  Their policies increasingly reflect this new dynamic and, media tropes aside, Republicans can pounce on this wide-open opportunity with aggressive, disciplined messaging encompassing plenty of strategic punching back.  The media is working overtime to bury this truth about the Democratic Party, but with every election, the Republican Party is becoming the de facto party of the middle class, working class, and working minorities, while the Democratic Party is increasingly the party of wealthy white elites.

Just When Dem Debates Would Have Been Interesting, DNC Says There Will Be No Debates.  Well, this is disappointing news.  The Washington Post reported Thursday that "the national Democratic Party has said it will support Biden's reelection, and it has no plans to sponsor primary debates."  It's understandable:  the Dems have a president, of sorts, and so they're counting on the power of incumbency to help their superannuated kleptocrat get over the top again.  However, it's also immensely disappointing, because after years and years of Democratic presidential debates being dreary displays of candidates trying to out-socialist one another, 2024 Democratic primary debates would have actually had something to offer.  Biden has two challengers, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Marianne Williamson.  When Kennedy announced his candidacy on Wednesday, USA Today reported that RFK immediately had the "support of 14% of voters who backed President Joe Biden in 2020," according to a USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll.  Williamson had 5%, and another 13% were undecided.

Ted Cruz Spills the Tea on Backroom Democrat Campaign to Replace Dianne Feinstein.  When last we left you on the subject, Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) was explaining as only he can how the claims from Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) about how they allegedly can't get judicial nominees through the Judiciary Committee due to Feinstein's prolonged absence while battling the shingles virus just isn't true.  The "handful" Kennedy says Republicans on the committee won't let through "are from the loon wing of the Democratic party."  In classic fashion, Kennedy also noted that Biden's more radical nominees apparently think the U.S. Constitution is a battleship and maybe obtained "their law license from Costco."  "And Sen. Feinstein's absence stops Sen. Durbin from ramming those nominees through," Kennedy went on to say.

White House: 'Bizarre' That House Republicans Want Billions of Unspent COVID Funds Returned to Treasury.  White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Friday it was "bizarre" that House Republicans want to rescind unobligated coronavirus aid funds to the Treasury Department.  Fifty to sixty billion dollars in coronavirus taxpayer funds are unspent, according to FreedomWorks.  President Joe Biden suspended the coronavirus national emergency in April.  "Would he [Biden] be interested in reviewing whether there is some of that [COVID] money that could be returned to Treasury?" a reporter questioned Jean-Pierre during the White House press briefing.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries Says Men in Women's Sports is an Issue 'That Doesn't Exist'.  House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries claimed today that men in women's sports is an issue 'that doesn't exist.'  He said this after House Republicans passed a bill to protect girls and women in sports with zero votes from Democrats.  The whole country is talking about this issue.  For Jeffries to claim that it doesn't exist is a blatant lie.  [Video clip]  Note how Jeffries talks about 'trans kids' as if that is a totally normal thing.  It isn't.

The Useful Veneer of the Aging Democrat.  This new Democratic Party believes in defunding the police.  It supports the George-Soros-funded state and city district attorneys.  These prosecutors seek either to release violent criminals without bail or reduce their felonies to misdemeanors.  Critical legal and race theories are their creeds.  So they argue that crimes have little to do with individual free will.  Criminals are not deterred by tough enforcement of the laws.  Instead, "crime" reflects arbitrary constructs of a racially oppressive hierarchy.  They believe the "woke" revolution of using race and gender in lieu of a meritocracy should dominate government and corporate boardrooms.  Racial separation in graduations, dorms, and university programs are needed reparations.  Big Tech is their ally.  All the better when it partners with government, especially the FBI and CIA, to suppress "misinformation" and "disinformation."  They believe gender is socially constructed.  Thus transitioning biological males can and should compete in women's sports.

Zero Democrats Vote For House Bill To Protect Women's Sports.  The House of Representatives passed legislation on Thursday to protect women's sports leagues by banning male athletes who identify as females from competing.  The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023 would amend Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 such that recipients of federal financial assistance which operate sports leagues cannot "permit a person whose sex is male to participate in an athletic program or activity that is designated for women or girls."  The legislation passed with 219 affirmative votes, all of which came from Republicans, and 203 negative votes, all of which came from Democrats.

Fetterman returns to Senate duties and proves himself totally incapable of discharging them.  Senator John Fetterman deserves our compassion for his struggles with the after-effects of his stroke.  But compassion is not a sufficient basis for keeping a seat in the United States Senate in the hands of someone incapable of discharging the duties thereof. [...] But what about compassion for the people of Pennsylvania?  I suppose the response is that they voted for him even when his disability was obvious.  Perhaps so, but thanks to the vast changes on voting — essentially eliminating Election Day in favor of universal absentee voting — many who voted for him had no exposure to his debate performance or other indications of his real health.  Democrats can't wait to be rid of Dianne Feinstein, who is also incapable of performing her duties.  They know that in California, her replacement will be further to the left.  There is no such guarantee in Pennsylvania, where Democrat Governor Josh Shapiro would appoint a replacement who would then run in 2024 for the remainder of Fetterman's term.  In what could be a bad year for Democrats, the GOP could pick up the seat.

John Fetterman Chaired a Senate Subcommittee Hearing, and Could Barely Read His Scripted Remarks.  Two things stood out to me about his comments.  As bad and halting as they were, even with him reading from a script, it might still be better than Joe Biden, who can't even spell "eight."  Imagine when we have to think about that, that both are in such poor condition that they shouldn't be there but the people who claimed to love them let that happen.  They're just being fed things to read at this point.  That's not good for the people of Pennsylvania or the people of this country when we have to consider who is in worse condition.  Yet Sen. Stabenow (D-MI) is just nodding and smiling like a clown, pretending there isn't any problem.

2.6 Million Fled Counties That Voted For Biden.  Last week, we commented on recent population data showing that people have been fleeing urban areas, noting that these are mostly Democratically controlled, and we pointed out that people have also been moving from blue states to red.  But we wanted to go deeper and get more precise numbers.  So, we matched Census net migration data from mid-2020 through mid-2022 for all the nation's 3,000-plus counties (or their equivalents) and compared that with how these counties voted in 2020.  Our working assumption is that the results of the incredibly divisive 2020 election would be a good barometer of the devoutly held political views in those counties.  What we found was striking: There has been a vast migration out of counties that voted for Joe Biden into those counties that voted to reelect Donald Trump.

The Editor says...
Yes, move to Texas if you like, but leave California thinking behind.

All of a sudden, Fetterman is back on the job in the Senate.  As Democrats wrassle with what to do with incapacitated Sen. Dianne Feinstein, suddenly the comparably health-challenged Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, is well enough to come back to the office, wearing his shorts and hoodie.  [Tweet] [...] Based on the pictures, does this look like a guy who's beaten depression?  He's not exactly coming to work in triumph, all rested and ready, in his best work clothes ready to work. [...] His face looks strained and mirthless.  His physical gestures look forced and exaggerated.  He appears to be someone who remains depressed, given his appearance, which signals he doesn't really care about either himself or the public he should be trying to persuade. [...] He's obviously debilitated, he's obviously not well, and yet he's suddenly back on the job as if nothing ever happened.  Either someone was forcing him into this or he's done it himself, or perhaps both.

Republicans Sound Off After Video of John Fetterman's Return to Senate Go Viral.  Sen. John Fetterman made his return to Congress on Monday afternoon [4/17/2023], but video and photos of his appearance quickly went viral and led to new concerns from Republicans. [...] Fetterman gave his first interview earlier this month after being discharged, sitting down with CBS News, and something about the Pennsylvania Democrat's demeanor immediately became apparent to observers.  "In his first interview since leaving Walter Reed National Military Medical Center," the Western Journal noted, "Fetterman's inability to keep his eyes forward is an indication that he's constantly reading from a captioning screen, translating interviewer Jane Pauley's questions and possibly even cuing him on his own answers."  It wasn't clear that Fetterman was reading from anything, but he certainly appeared to be averting his gaze toward his right side as if to be looking at something.  [Video clip]

John Fetterman's First Subcommittee Hearing: A Train Wreck in Slow Motion.  Senator John Fetterman (D-Pa.) has finally returned to Capitol Hill, having spent most of his tenure as a U.S. senator at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center being treated for clinical depression.  Fetterman was discharged on March 31.  While it's good that he's progressed with mental health issues, we haven't forgotten about the lingering cognitive impairments that became a major issue of the campaign, as it was clear to anyone that this man wasn't fit to serve in the U.S. Senate. [...] Video from the hearing is difficult to watch.  We all know much of these hearings are scripted, but Fetterman sounds like he's reading from his prepared remarks for the first time and doesn't seem to understand what he's saying.  I'd feel bad for him if it wasn't his fault he was in this position in the first place.

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At least he's not dead, which I was willing to believe just a few weeks ago.

Even the Lying Democrats Can't Play Make-Believe Forever About Fetterman.  A quick look around at what's going on in Washington reveals that the Democrats aren't a really healthy group of people. [...] The Fetterman case is one of the more baffling ones I've ever seen, and I've witnessed all sorts of bottom-feeding antics from the Democrats ever since I first began my journey as a conservative activist almost 40 years ago.  The Democrats were so desperate to flip a longtime Republican seat that they went all in on a recovering stroke victim.  If Fetterman had any decent human beings around him, they would have encouraged him to focus on his health and make sure that he completely recovered.  Unfortunately for him, he was surrounded by Democrats.

Tim Kaine: It's OK For The FBI To Put Informants In Churches.  Virginia Democrat Sen. Tim Kaine gave the FBI his approval to investigate Catholic parishes in his own state on Monday.  When asked by a local ABC affiliate about the FBI's Richmond division infiltrating Catholic communities to spy on the church for alleged extremism, Kaine called the revelations a misunderstanding.  "I think the key is communication," Kaine told ABC13.  "If the FBI has a concern like that, then go to the church leaders and say, 'Hey look, we have a concern and we don't want your members to get unwittingly caught up in something.'"  Former FBI Special Agent Kyle Seraphin blew the whistle on the agency's Richmond office investigating the Catholic Church with undercover informants in February.  The FBI, Seraphin wrote, "would like to protect Virginians from the threat of 'white supremacy,' which it believes has found a home within Catholics who prefer the Latin Mass."  "The document assesses with 'high confidence' the FBI can mitigate the threat of Radical-Traditionalist Catholics by recruiting sources within the Catholic Church," Seraphin warned.

The Revenge of Moriarty.  [Scroll down]  But there are real men, and they've had enough.  Their backlash against Anheuser-Busch and Bud Light for disrespecting them, and women, in favor of a freakish clown has been so furious, the woke corporation doesn't know what hit it.  In the two weeks since the Mulvaney tribute, shares of the Bud Light parent company have dropped nearly four percent from $132.8 billion to $127.13 billion.  In a desperate attempt at damage control, the company has rushed out a new patriotic, manly ad featuring horses and the "spirit of America."  Because their executives still think men are stupid and easily distracted by a shiny object.

He looks like a slob because that's what he is.
Dazed and Confused Fetterman Returns to Capitol Hill After 2-Month Absence Looking Like a Slob.  Democrat Senator John Fetterman (PA) on Monday returned to Capitol Hill looking disheveled and confused after a prolonged absence during which he received treatment for severe depression.  Fetterman, 53, spent two months at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center receiving treatment for clinical depression.  The dazed and confused Senator looked like a slob as he arrived to Capitol Hill.  This is the same guy who was supposedly sponsoring bills from a psych ward.

Progressives [are] Not Interested in the Good of the Country.  Progressives, be they politicians, the rabid rank-and-file voter or the embarrassingly biased legacy media, are light-years removed from caring about the overriding good of the country.  They care only about grabbing and retaining power, by any means necessary.  Whether it's rigging elections, pandering to fringe voting blocs, lying outright about economic and foreign policy issues, rewriting history, turning every single negative domestic occurrence (train derailments, school shootings, severe weather, product shortages, etc.) into an anti-Republican cudgel, progressives always look to gain political advantage and put their opposition in a negative light.  What's best for the country as a whole is never a consideration for them.

The Business of Wokeness is Bad Business.  A couple of weeks ago, millions of Americans awoke to news that Bud Light had sponsored Dylan Mulvaney, a man who has become famous by pretending to be a ditzy teenage girl.  Suddenly, if you bought a Bud Light, you found yourself financing and promoting the radical transgender ideology that demands that chemical castration and surgical mutilation be normalized in order to affirm the delusions harbored by thousands of gender-dysphoric children and adults across America.  On the surface, it was a move so boneheaded that many wondered if it was an April Fools gag, given the timing.  But it was genuine, with Bud Light's parent company, Anheuser-Busch, initially defending the business partnership with Mulvaney.  While those responsible for it probably expected some conservative backlash, the bipartisan response has been overwhelming and brand-shattering, with sales falling dramatically and Anheuser-Busch having shed around $24 billion in market capitalization over just 13 days.

For once in your lives fight back!  [Scroll down]  But then, ending mask mandates was as easy as every employee refusing to wear a mask, every customer refusing to put them on.  The Vaxx was easily defeated by people rationally refusing to take an experimental vaccine for a virus that was less deadly than the flu.  Right, none of that happened either, so, once again, when it would only take rational refusal, the idiots, the sheep, the fools will determine my fate, cost me my freedom by their stupid and insipid response to government proposals and demands.  I, like you, am living in a society that will not stand up against the sexualization of our children, the sexual abuse of our kids in their schools where they are not supposed to be learning about sex, but about math, history and science.  They will not stand up against a harmful injection of poison that causes sudden death under extreme physical exertion.  They will not stand up against drag queen story hour in libraries.  If they will not stand up to protect their children, their own lovely offspring, there's no chance they will stand against the digital slavery of the CBDC.

Laughing at the Lies of the Left.  [Scroll down]  Leftists have also perfected the practice of completely inverting historic facts.  Absolving the fact that Democrat President Woodrow Wilson premiered the racist movie, Birth of a Nation, in the White House in 1915, reviving the KKK and resegregating the federal workforce.  The sides supposedly 'switched' at some point for some unknown reason, except that the far left has always judged people by skin color and other immutable characteristics and has always advocated gun confiscation, so we have a sad trombone sound on that claim.  They've also tried to switch sides on national socialism and fascism except that has been proven wrong multiple times.  Denying the fact that the National Socialist German Workers' (NAZI) Party was always a socialist workers' party.  This is even though many leftists parrot their founding principle:  Common Good Before Individual Good (Gemeinnutz vor Eigennutz in the original German) that they inaugurated in connection with May Day as their labor code.

Kamala Harris fails to meet Nashville survivors, marking new White House low.  Amid Tennessee's turmoil, Vice President Kamala Harris took a surprise trip to Nashville on Friday to meet with just-expelled state lawmakers, the state's Democratic caucus and gun control advocates — but not with survivors of the victims of the mass shooting that prompted the political drama. [...] Which event is more awful, after all:  the murders or the expulsions?  Meanwhile, the White House has yet to invite the two hero cops who stopped the massacre from being far worse by charging in to take Hale down.  And it's ignored the grieving families of the victims.  (Is it simply because Covenant was a Christian school?)

Will Robert Kennedy Jr.  Expose the Democrat Party for Exactly What It Is?  Given the current state of politics in this country, which will likely get far worse before it even has a chance to get better, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s announcement last Wednesday that he will seek the Democrat Party nomination for president in 2024 hardly caused a ripple in the media.  The 69-year-old anti-vaccine activist and scion of one of the most famous American political families filed a statement of candidacy with the Federal Election Commission.  While RFK Jr.'s campaign to challenge Joe Biden — or whomever — for the Democrat nomination might be a long shot, as my colleague Nick Arama reported, there are already signs that the Democrat vanguard is afraid of this guy.

Brandon's CAFE Standards To Drastically Increase.  This is going to make vehicles a great deal more expensive, making it harder for the working class and middle class afford vehicles, even used ones.  Of course this is being pushed by rich folks who do not have to worry about all this.  Oh, and many of them, like Joe Biden, are not even driving compliant vehicles[.] [...] Automakers know the customer base.  They know what people can afford, and have already been pushed too far since the start of COVID.  Will their own banks start doing 7 years plus loans as business as usual?  This will destroy leasing for the average American, and making financing costs too high for most to afford.  This couldn't possibly be the next step in forcing the peasants out of their privately owned vehicles and onto mass transit, could it?  Nah, that would be a crazy thought.  [Tweet]

Biden considering cracking down on gas cars after stripping EVs of tax credits.  The Biden administration is weighing an aggressive proposal to implement the tightest-ever federal regulations governing tailpipe emissions in an effort to boost electric vehicles.  The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to announce the new standards, which will impact cars manufactured between 2027-2032, next week during a ceremony in Detroit, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, citing officials briefed on the proposal.  In a statement, the EPA confirmed the standards are designed to incentivize consumers to purchase electric vehicles (EV).

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When they say, "incentivize," they mean "force."

How Could a Democrat Voter Learn the Truth?  Most Democrat voters don't realize that leftist idealogues have hijacked the Democrat party, actively pushing traditional Democrat politicians out.  They don't yet understand that the Democrat party they knew doesn't exist anymore.  Almost all of the major news organizations work together to lie to Democrat voters and feed them misinformation constantly.  Corrupted government entities like the FBI and the DOJ, and the leftists running all social media, have worked together to censor and silence any dissenting voices.  The goal is to create a false reality in the eyes of Democrat voters and shield them from the truth.  This is vital to ensure their continued support on Election Day.  Most Democrat voters I talk to up here are comparatively normal, although deceived and misinformed.  Most of them don't seem to like leftists very much, though.  Many of them can't identify with their own party anymore and feel like displaced persons politically.

Report: Democrats [have been] Ordered to Stay Quiet on Trump Indictment.  House Democrat leadership staff have reportedly been telling offices that they do not have to weigh in on former President Donald Trump's indictment, as one member said there is a "high risk" of him "becoming a victim."  Despite there being some Democrats who were overjoyed at Trump being arraigned on Tuesday, Axios reported that a Democratic leadership aide said, "House Democratic leadership staff has been counseling offices that there's no expectation for them to weigh in publicly."

Hillary Clinton: 'It's Time To End Free Speech in America and Become More Like Europe'.  Speaking at an event at Columbia with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Hillary went on an unhinged anti-American, anti-free speech rant to a stunned crowd.  "When you have a media company that is like Facebook and like other platforms who do not care what lies they traffic in as long as they get ad money, you have consequences," she said.

Hillary Clinton Goes on Bitter Anti-American Rant with Nancy Pelosi.  Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi held an event at Columbia where the two top Democrats attacked the principles at the very core of American liberty.  Clinton, still bitter over 2016, went on an anti-American, anti-free speech rant.  Remember, Hillary and her team carefully crafted a false narrative about Trump and Russia and personally pushed it out to the media.  Clinton was one of the first to alert the world to the fake Alfa Bank story via her Twitter account and through the media.  Hillary Clinton personally approved of the decision to lie to the media and the American public and to falsely smear her political opponent.

White House Hosts Roundtable On 'Affirming Transgender Kids'.  Senior officials in the Biden administration hosted a roundtable at the White House about "affirming transgender kids" last week on "Transgender Day of Visibility." [...] The roundtable hosted by the Biden administration occurred days after a 28-year-old woman who identified as a man killed three children and three adults last week at The Covenant School, a ministry of the conservative evangelical Covenant Presbyterian Church in Nashville, Tennessee.  The attack came weeks after Gov. Bill Lee (R-TN) endorsed legislation that bans sex change procedures, such as mastectomies for girls who believe they are boys, as well as hormones and puberty blockers purporting to transition a child to the opposite sex.  Another bill signed by Lee prohibits sexually suggestive drag shows in public or near children.  The industry surrounding transgender surgeries is expected to reach a $5 billion valuation by the end of the decade, according to a recent report from Grand View Research.

Even If You Hate Trump, You Should Be Standing With Him Now.  Now that Donald Trump has been indicted, everyone who loves America as a free society, no matter where you may be on the political spectrum, should be standing with him.  There are many reasons why this simple fact has been obscured today, not least of them being Donald Trump himself. [...] Now that he has been indicted, however, all those considerations must take a back seat to the fact that Donald Trump is the man whom the authoritarian Left hates and fears more than anyone else, and is determined to destroy.  The Leftist establishment is so avid to destroy Trump that it has not hesitated to take the wrecking ball to Americans' trust in our most respected institutions.

Who is pulling the puppet strings in Washington, DC?  [Scroll down]  Now for Senator John Fetterman (D-PA), who was sworn in early this January but had hardly attended a day in the Senate.  Fetterman has suffered from heart issues since 2017 and in 2019, he collapsed while presiding over the Pennsylvania State Senate.  Last May, Fetterman suffered a stroke due to a clot caused by his irregular heart rhythm but hid this crucial information from the public while running for the Senate.  [Video clip]  But like Biden, it was obvious to even a casual observer that all is not well with Fetterman.  His performance during the debate made it obvious that he was unable to comprehend and respond to questions.  This was also observed by NBC reporter Dasha Burns.  Yet the media joined hands to suggest that questioning Fetterman's health is an act of ableism.

The Left now has a demonic new aim:  to make ordinary people poorer.  We are living through the most startling political realignment in more than 100 years.  Never since the advent of modern socialism in the early 20th century has the Left openly advocated making ordinary people poorer, thereby leaving those on the Right to defend the spread of mass prosperity.  The debate (if this tendentious chorus of unanimity can be called a debate) on net zero has entirely shifted the ground on which modern political discourse has been based.  This role-reversal is especially clear in the features that were once most characteristic of Left-wing and Right-wing allegiance:  it is the radical young who now tend to be most adamant that the freedoms and comforts that come with widespread disposable wealth should be prohibited, while the traditionally conservative older generation is left to fight for what used to be the Left-liberal doctrine that higher income and the independence it brings should be spread as widely as possible.

How crazy have leftists become?  Just look at Nebraska.  But today's Nebraska Democrat party has been captured by a group of radical extremists who are completely disconnected from Nebraska voters and values.  I call them the Nebraska Jacobins.  During the French Revolution, the Jacobins were the most radical and extreme members of the French Assembly.  The Jacobins set up two religions: the Cult of Reason and the Cult of the Supreme Being.  Today's Jacobins have set up the Cult of Net Zero Carbon and the Cult of Transgenderism.  Both are divorced from reality.  The longtime chairwoman of the NDP is Jane Kleeb.  Mrs. Kleeb is best known for her opposition to the Keystone Pipeline.  If it had been built, many rural Nebraska counties would have received millions in property tax money.  More importantly, the U.S. would have lower oil prices and energy security.  The primary beneficiaries of stopping the Keystone pipeline are OPEC and Russia.  Those people are not our friends.

Now the Biden Administration is Coming for Our Cheap Light Bulbs.  The Biden administration is obsessed with climate change and they don't care how much worse they make life for average Americans.  They have already gone after gas stoves, gas cars, and even air conditioners.  Now they are coming after incandescent light bulbs.  Anything that's cheap, convenient, and liked by millions of Americans lands on their radar eventually.  There is just no end to it.

Democrat Party's Prosecutorial Abuse Crusade to Rig 2024 Election Has Only Begun.  There are 19 months between now and Election Day 2024.  Trust me, what the Democrats have in store to rig the 2024 presidential election through prosecutorial abuse has only just begun.  To begin with, you have to remember just how vile and depraved the Democrat party has become.  To appease their demonic base, Democrats like Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi openly advocate for child mutilation, gay porn in elementary schools, mentally ill men invading the girls' locker rooms, and exposing little kids to the kind of depraved drag queens who want to expose themselves to kids.  What's more, to hold on to a U.S. Senate seat, Democrats were willing to kill John Fetterman.  Additionally, Democrats have openly aligned with the rioters, murderers, and cop killers in Antifa and Black Lives Matter.  Democrats are so eager for power and to replace Americans with more compliant illegal immigrants, they are willing to flood our country with the poison of fentanyl and enable sex trafficking, including the trafficking of children.

Joe Biden: 'Transgender Americans Shape our Nation's Soul'.  Transgender Americans "shape our nation's soul," according to President Joe Biden, who made the assertion Thursday [3/30/2023] as part of a White House Proclamation on Transgender Day of Visibility.  The proclamation came mere days after a transgender shooter allegedly murdered six individuals at a Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee.  A proclamation from the Biden White House celebrates the "Transgender Day of Visibility," deeming transgender individuals the "bravest people" the president apparently knows.  They are people who "have too often had to put their jobs, relationships, and lives on the line just to be their true selves," the proclamation reads, deeming gender confused individuals as those who "shape" America's soul.

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[#1] Individuals have souls.  Our nation does not have a soul.  [#2] Transvestites and homosexual activists have no trouble with "visibility" and don't need the help of the White House in that regard.  [#3] Transvestites pretend to be something they're not.  It's not an act of bravery.  That's the opposite of a person trying to be his or her "true self."  [#4] Joe Biden is a chronic liar, and in this case, he didn't even include a little truth to make it believable.

Democrat Rep. Jamaal Bowman SCREAMS at Republicans as They Leave House Chamber.  Democrats want your guns.  They've turned ALL of our cities into violent [places] and now they want YOU to give up your only protection!  These people are just crazy.  Representative Jamaal Bowman of New York screamed at Republican lawmakers as they exited the Capitol building on Wednesday evening [3/29/2023].  Rep. Bowman was captured on video screaming "They're cowards!  They're all cowards.  They won't do anything to save the lives of our children at all.  Cowards."

Overcoming America's Political Paralysis.  Why are some Americans having such a hard time figuring out what is happening to our country?  And for those who do see, why are so few taking action?  One in four Americans say they know someone who died from the COVID vaccine, and 50% now have less trust in government health experts.  Sixty-seven percent say they "weren't surprised" hearing that COVID came from a Chinese lab.  Most voters agree that the FBI has been weaponized by the current administration, and 61% believe that government agents helped provoke the J6 riot.  Ninety-one percent think bail should be set for criminals who may be a danger to the community.  Fifty-four percent think Biden is lying about his family connections to China.  Fifty-five percent of Arizona voters say issues in Maricopa County likely affected the 2022 results.  Sixty percent think climate change is a false religion, not scientific fact.  Most Americans now have zero trust in their government — the way it responds to health crises, the fairness of our law enforcement agencies, or its ability to conduct free and fair elections.  We think our president is a puppet of China.  So why does life seem to continue as normal?  In other countries, when elections are stolen or Social Security benefits are taken, it means rioting in the streets.  Why do we put up with policies pushing climate change and wokeism that make zero sense?  Who could entertain the idea that children can be given sex change treatments when just a few years ago, they were expelled from school for taking an aspirin without permission?

Germany Rebels Against EU Ban On Petrol Cars.  Germans want to save the climate.  They're just reluctant to take the potentially painful steps this would require.  A growing backlash over climate-friendly policies is now hitting the German Greens, putting wobbles into the country's three-party ruling coalition.  Not only has Germany been causing a ruckus at the EU level in recent weeks by mounting a last-minute blockade to a proposed ban on combustion engines, but the country is also facing a domestic political fight over phasing out gas and oil heating systems, as well as pushing forward the coal exit.  [A]ll those disputes are linked to fundamental disagreements between the Greens and their two coalition partners, Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the Free Democratic Party (FDP), over how the EU's climate-protection targets should be implemented and what consequences and costs this will have for industry and citizens.

The problem with trying to understand Democrats.  As a former member of the Democrat party, I still stay in touch with many of its members who are my close friends.  However, one thing that strikes me is that my friends are almost universally in denial of what the current administration has brought upon this once great nation in just two years of being in office.  The reality of a soaring crime rate in our nation's cities, runaway inflation that was once termed "transitory," our disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan — which served as the catalyst for Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine, all seem to elude them, as if it never happened.  When presented with any hard evidence or facts, they are not only in denial, but typically push back with emotion minus facts as if they live in an alternate universe where they can pick and choose the "facts" that fit their own party's narrative.

American Tyranny?  Perfectly Normal.  Abortion is a clear example of normalization.  It became a hot topic decades ago, talked about in news, on social media, in Hollywood (desensitization phase).  Terms were revamped (language control phase).  Now it's "women's health," not "abortion," "pro-choice," not "pro-abortion," "fetuses" and "clumps of cells," not "babies."  Over time, killing one's own child was no longer untenable, but a normal part of society, even seen as a woman's right.  Using these same tactics, homosexual and transgender behavior once recognized as "abnormal" (3%) has also been mainstreamed.  Again, it was gay rights everywhere — the news, entertainment, parades (phase 1).  Again it was language appropriation, where behavior outside the norm can no longer be called abnormal, where a man with a male physique who says he's a really a woman cannot be called delusional (phase 2).  Indeed, words like "abnormal" or "delusional" are now hate speech.  If you dare speak these words, you'll be ostracized by groups, labeled a homophobe, a hate-monger.

It is clearer every day which party is radical, extreme, dangerous, and flat out crazy.  It is sad that only 74% of registered voters believe that parents have more rights to choose major, life-changing medical surgery than school officials. [...] Who are the 26% of voters who believe the parents have no right to know?  Probably the same sliver of people who believe that biological males should compete with girls in sports and that people with penises should be able to invade girls' privacy in public restrooms and expose themselves in their locker rooms.  They are most likely within the same slim minority of people who think it is O.K. to abort children throughout all nine months of a pregnancy and even to let a baby just lay there and die if he or she is nevertheless born alive in a botched abortion.

Democrats Blow Their Tops Over New Parental Bill of Rights.  The new Republican majority in the House of Representatives recently forwarded a national "parental bill of rights," and it's causing quite a stir on the left.  On Thursday [3/23/2023], the floor debates on the measure began, and Democrats blew their tops in expectably hysterical ways.  After all, who knows better how to raise a child than a childless woman in her mid-30s like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?  [Tweet]  It's just incredible how little respect Democrats have for basic rights, of which a parent's right to know what a child is doing is obviously one.  Like it or not, kids have legal guardians under American law, and for good reason.  That guardian is charged with protecting their children, and they are entitled to know whether a school is "transitioning" a student or even affirming claims of transgenderism.  Parents are also entitled to know about their child's sexuality.

The Age of Conspiracy.  Going forward there are likely to be three kinds of conspiracies history must deal with:  1) the cons, 2) the heresies that turn out to be wrong and 3) the heresies that turn out to be right.  The way to spot the "cons" is to follow the money.  From this point of view it is actually climate change ironically that looks most vulnerable.  Heresies that turn out to be wrong tend to get empirically weaker over time, while heresies that are ultimately right become gradually more accepted.  The lab leak Covid origin theory may prove an example of a conspiracy that eventually proves true.  What used to be called "conspiracy theories" now characterize the way left/right, democrat/republican sides routinely regard each other.  What's worrisome is that both sides have hung up the phone.  In a sense nobody cares about fixing the model any more, just getting even.

Maryland wants to treat murderers like children.  A Democrat mayor of Washington, D.C., dozens of Democrat senators and representatives, and a Democrat President all thought it was a bad idea for the District to pass a law that reduced sentences on some violent crimes in the capital city.  It would have made the Democrats look soft on crime and encourage criminals at a time when voters are demanding action be taken to reduce the soaring crime rates in major cities around the country.  Despite this, a Maryland House of Delegates member introduced on legislation in February to raise the minimum age suspects must be before a prosecutor can charge them with felony murder, a murder committed in the course of another violent felony, applied to the person committing the murder and to any accomplices in the other crime.  Delegate Charlotte Cruchfield introduced the Youth Accountability and Safety Act, which neither holds youth accountable nor keeps them safe.  What it does do is treat adults like children and makes murder easier to get away with in Maryland.

The left hates the word "woke," which is why we must use it more often.  [Scroll down]  It appears woke made a reappearance in the public dialogue in 2016 after the police shooting of Michael Brown in 2016, but by 2020, conservatives had adopted and co-opted the word.  People who are woke — this is my take — are rigidly beholden to far-left political beliefs and they will use mob action to enforce their viewpoints.  "Politically correct," a term that emerged from the left, was similarly co-opted by the right, so liberals dropped it years ago.  The word woke is a much more serious problem for the left, which is why libs, in a futile effort, are trying to reclaim it, or at least neutralize its meaning.  After all, woke is an unpleasant word with only four letters and just one syllable, it is better suited for our contemporary sound bite and pithy headline culture, compared to the more cumbersome "politically correct."  Over the past week leftist journalists, an intellectually incestuous lot, pushed back.

House Democrats anoint 'so-called' member of Congress to sabotage hearings, trash whistleblowers.  Now that Democrats are in the minority in the House and unable to abuse their power as easily as they have for the last two years, they are resorting to shameless lies to sabotage oversight hearings and trash whistleblowers and other inconvenient witnesses.  As queen of this disinformation operation, they have anointed a little-known Democrat named Stacey Plaskett, who is not even a full-fledged member of Congress.  Plaskett's favorite adjective is "so-called," which is ironic since she is a so-called member of Congress.  She does not have voting rights as the "at-large" delegate for the US Virgin Islands.  Yet she is a ranking member of the Select Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Federal Government, the first time a nonvoting delegate has occupied such a lofty post.

Delaware Voters Overwhelmingly Oppose Gas-powered Car Ban.  Without legislative action, Delaware state agencies are reviewing banning gasoline-powered cars and trucks, and banning natural gas and propane hookups to new buildings.  Both actions are discussed in "Delaware's Climate Action Plan."  Regulatory action has already started forcing vehicle manufacturers to stock 35% of electric vehicles (EV) in Delaware in only three years, eventually allowing only EV sales.  Drivers will not be able to register a new gasoline or diesel-powered vehicle in Delaware by 2034.  A survey conducted by Ragnar Research in February 2023 found that 73% of Delaware voters opposed the gasoline and diesel-powered vehicle ban, with only 18% supporting the ban.  Follow-up questions showed 60% strongly opposed while 9% strongly supported the ban.

Biden Says Opposing the Mutilation of Children Is 'Close to Sinful'.  Old Joe Biden appeared on Comedy Central's The Daily Show Monday night, where the guest host Kal Penn [...] asked him about same-sex marriage and boys who want to become girls and girls boys.  In response, Biden struck a moral tone, suggesting that support for same-sex marriage and the genital mutilation of children in pursuit of delusions and fantasies was simply the decent position to take, and [indeed], Lunchbucket Joe didn't see why it had to be any more complicated than that.  As we have all come to expect by now, Biden lied when he told a story that he has told before about his alleged "epiphany" on same-sex marriage.

Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly calls for censorship of social media companies to prevent bank run: report.  Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., asked during a meeting about the bailout of Silicon Valley Bank whether social media could be censored to prevent misinformation going out that could lead to a bank run, according to reports.  Michael Shellenberger, an independent journalist who reports on the Twitter files and has contributed to Fox News, reported that Kelly asked the Federal Reserve, Treasury Department and Federal Deposit and Insurance Corp (FDIC) about censorship measures during the meeting on Sunday.  Republican House members on the call confirmed with Shellenberger's publication, Public on Substack, that a Democratic senator asked about censoring social media companies, including Rep. Thomas Massie, R-KY, though Kelly's name was not specifically noted.

Is Mark Kelly the Most Dangerous Man in the Senate?  Until today, I would have told you that West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin was probably the dumbest, or maybe even the most dangerous man in the Senate. [...] But then along came Mark Kelly.  Red-pilled California activist Michael Shellenberger's Public substack grabbed an exclusive on Monday about a weekend conference call concerning the SVB bailout.  There, Kelly "asked representatives from the Federal Reserve, Treasury Department, and the Federal Deposit and Insurance Corporation (FDIC) if they had a way to censor information on social media to prevent a run on the banks."  Kentucky Republican Thomas Massie was also on the call and told Public, "I believe he couched it in a concern that foreign actors would be doing this but he didn't suggest the censorship should be limited to foreigners or to things that were untrue."  So the way Kelly sees it, Americans sharing facts are a danger.  This guy ran as a moderate — and got away with it, too.

They Are Intolerant, Divisive, And Anti-Liberty — Call Them Leftists, Not Liberals.  Democrats have moved so far to the left in recent years that they should no longer be called "liberals," unless the true liberals among them start to stand up to the leftists who have taken over.  The term is misleading, giving the impression that Democrats support individual freedoms and accept people of different viewpoints, when increasingly they do not.  The word "liberal" gives yet more power to those who seek to take more of our liberties.  Right-leaning publications often use the term "liberal" when "leftist" would be better.  On the other hand, left-leaning newspapers such as The Washington Post and The New York Times like to use the word "liberal" to describe their own illiberal political views.  It obfuscates how Democrats and their media allies have become more extreme, supporting censorship, authoritarianism, and racial division:  Twitter staff who denied conservatives their right to free speech and eagerly complied with censorship demands from the federal government were described by the Post as milquetoast "liberal employees."  MSNBC says those pushing the tyranny of wokeness are just naughty-sounding "liberal rascals."

Groups like AARP, ACLU push harder for Biden admin to increase immigrant, prison voting ahead of 2024.  Another so-called "conspiracy theory" appears to be coming true — this time, regarding voting and the 2024 elections.  A coalition comprised of more than 50 left-wing organizations — including AARP, the ACLU, the Freedom From Religion Foundation, the League of Women Voters, and the NAACP — is pushing the Biden administration to increase voter registration and turnout among new immigrants and those who are currently in federal custody awaiting their trials ahead of the all-important 2024 elections.  The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights published a progress report titled "Strengthening Democracy," in which it calls on federal agencies to "work quickly to do everything they can" to make good on their commitments to President Biden's 2021 Executive Order on Promoting Access to Voting, which the coalition describes as "a visionary EO that has the potential to make registration and voting more accessible for millions of Americans, including many communities historically excluded from the political process."

Eric Swalwell Suggests Banning Fox News From Troops Overseas.  Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) appeared to suggest United States military serving overseas should be barred from watching Fox News.  Swalwell made the comments speaking on MSNBC with host Katie Phang on Saturday.  Phang asked Rep. Swalwell if there should be any sort of "congressional oversight, regulations, some type of gatekeeping" regarding Fox News, after Tucker Carlson aired previously never-before-seen footage from the events of January 6, 2021.  "I'm wondering a lot about Americans and the disinformation and the misinformation that was pumped out of Fox News.  Have there been any discussions in Congress about, maybe, congressional oversight, regulations, maybe the FCC getting involved," Fang asked.  Swalwell responded by claiming he did not "want to get into the business of telling troops what they can and cannot watch" before suggesting exactly that.

What Will Become of Joe Manchin?  [Scroll down]  The most unlikely scenario is Manchin runs for president.  As a moderate blue senator from a red state, he has no natural constituency.  The likelihood of him winning either party's nomination is about the same as holding the Winter Olympics in the Sahara desert.  This is likely just a tease to increase his visibility back home.  Joe could try to defend his Senate seat, but there are problems.  One of them is West Virginia Republican Governor Jim Justice.  Justice, who is more popular than Manchin and wealthy enough to self-fund his campaign, may jump into the race.  In a recent poll of registered voters, Justice received 52% of the vote versus 42% for Manchin, with 5% undecided.  Manchin's other problem is the perception that he is out of step with West Virginia voters.  In 2016 he endorsed Hillary Clinton for president despite her dislike of coal and other fossil fuels and her "deplorables" commentary about Trump voters.

Media distortions: What's really going on in [the] effort to silence Fox News.  Reading the breathless — and increasingly unhinged — reports in the left-wing media, you might think that Fox News is staggering against the ropes and about to crumple to the canvas for the final, bloody count-out after 25 years on the air.  "Fox News is in serious hot water," squealed CNN last month, reporting on a "smoking gun" that had supposedly just been unearthed in a billion-dollar lawsuit that "represents a serious threat to the channel."  As has become the rule, the truth is dramatically different from the dishonest stories these people are telling you.  In fact, the truth is pretty much the exact opposite.  Fox News today is thriving like never before.  Week in and week out, Fox News beats its cable news "competitors" CNN and MSNBC, by massive margins.  In the rankings, Fox News programs routinely monopolize the top 15 or so slots for the most watched cable news shows.  Last Friday, for instance, MSNBC's top-rated show came in 15th place — meaning 14 Fox News programs beat MSNBC's highest-rated show.  Over at CNN, life is even more humiliating.  They are lucky if, on any given day, they have a single program break into the top 25 cable news shows.

The 76 congressmen who demand unlimited illegal immigration.  Recently a large group of US Congressmen signed a letter to Joe Biden, demanding that he make it easier for illegal aliens to enter and stay in the USA.  The signers are ten US Senators, sixty-six US Representatives, and one non-voting delegate from Washington DC.  Below is a list of the seventy-six voting delegates who signed the letter. [...]

If Leftists Hate America So Much, Why Don't They Leave?  Why aren't the fascist far-left leaving the country they loathe?  People usually don't try to transform and then destroy that which they love, so why aren't they just leaving? [...] Why haven't the authoritarians of the fascist far left packed their bags and set off for greener collectivist fields, leaving the rest of us alone?  Why are the tyrannical ten percent sticking around when it's nothing like their authoritarian floor model, the big shiny communist nation of China, with its "socialism with Chinese characteristics" that they love?  How can they stomach dealing with a nation where people are just allowed to say or write whatever they want and defend themselves with — dare we say it — guns?  How do they live in a nation where people are just allowed to have gas stoves, lawnmowers, and chainsaws?  Where the government in its infinite wisdom cannot penalize the people for wrongthink?  Where all of that liberty-induced stress puts a strain on their already fragile psyches?

'Report' Finds Resumes That Include 'They/Them' Are More Likely to be Overlooked.  A report from Business.com finds that there is discrimination against "non-binary" people.  At least, non-binary people believe there is discrimination.  "Over 80% of nonbinary people believe that identifying as nonbinary would hurt their job search," the report finds.  Also, 51% believe their gender identity has "affected their workplace experience."

United Airlines Touts All-LGBTQ Flight Crew; Customers Not Amused.  United Airlines took to Twitter this week to proclaim that an all-LGBTQ+ crew had just completed a flight from San Francisco to Sydney.  A video inside the tweet showed two employees unveiling the image of a koala bear — wearing heart-shaped sunglasses — waving an enormous LGBTQ flag on the side of the aircraft.  The airline may have been surprised to learn that for many passengers, safety trumps diversity.  Although there were a few who applauded this momentous occasion, for those more concerned with reaching their destination in one piece, it landed like a lead balloon.

Prized Biden Nominee Is So Terrible That Democrats Are Looking to Blow up Her Nomination.  The Biden administration does not exist in the same reality the rest of us exist in.  That was perfectly illustrated by the renomination of Gigi Sohn to an open spot on the FCC.  Sohn was first put up for the spot during the last Congress, but due to a variety of problems, including a scandal in which she donated to Sen. Raphael Warnock (who sits on the committee that would approve her), the contentious selection did not make it through.  In a sane world, that would have been enough to scuttle Sohn's chances, but the White House renominated her anyway in January.  According to a new report (Axios), though, the far-left radical is so terrible that Democrats may still blow up her nomination.

Disney Gets Desperate, Punishes People for Talking Negatively About Its Live-Action 'Peter Pan' Monstrosity.  Disney is guilty of many things, but chief among them is its inability to learn from its mistakes.  In fact, it seems more adamant about buckling down on them.  Among these mistakes are its inability to make a movie without having it check certain social justice boxes.  Race swaps, feminist messaging, and woke overtones are a plague within every modern Disney movie and television show.  These political inclusions drag down box office numbers and viewership levels by leaps and bounds, and yet the House of Mouse can't stop mainlining radical leftist politics into its system.  The other thing it can't stop doing is attacking its would-be customers and blaming people's dislike of its latest releases on some sort of moral failings like sexism, racism, or homophobia.

What's Next for Wokeism?  Twenty-five years ago, I told a friend that we would likely bear witness to the acceptance and even protection of several abhorrent social or political practices.  That came true, but it didn't stop there. [...] During the 1980s and 1990s, the social norms listed below were largely unacceptable; eventually the practices became mainstream through the strident promotion by activists and ineffective pushback by traditional institutions:
  •   Open homosexuality, coupled with the very public promotion of the lifestyle
  •   Gay Marriage
  •   Transgenderism
  •   Sex by consenting children with young adults
  •   Open Borders
  •   Anti-Capitalism
  •   The acceptance of recreational drug use as acceptable behavior
  •   Rampant crime and reduced punishment
  •   Society no longer requires work to live
  •   Single-parent constructs as equal to two-parent families
Take a moment to reread this list.  Nothing surprises us anymore.  History teaches us that radical social change usually ends badly, even for progressives.  All of the above continues to have a significant stigma for many Americans.  There is general agreement that promoting negative moral or societal values can and usually will have a deleterious effect on society.  With no national debate, the redefinition of our country has almost been achieved.  Today, our ability to be shocked must surpass a very high threshold.

Ted Cruz Chews up Merrick Garland and Spits Him out at Senate Judiciary Hearing.  Presumably, Garland meant "DOJ" rather than "marshals" in that last sentence there, but he was clearly flustered.  He was also being deliberately obtuse.  He knows Cruz is asking about the decision to prosecute, not to arrest — two different functions.  Yet he's trying to lay the responsibility squarely at the feet of the U.S. Marshals, rather than the DOJ.  Unfortunately, "We can't prosecute if they don't arrest," doesn't fly here.  The U.S. Marshals operate under the direction of the Attorney General.  While he may not be "on scene" making immediate arrest determinations, to imply that Garland and the DOJ play no role in the decision to arrest (and prosecute) those who violate this statute is horse hockey.  [Video clip]

Hawley Goes Off On Biden Nominee Who Refuses To Own Up To Her Social Media Posts.  Republican Missouri Senator Josh Hawley grilled the Biden administration's national Archivist nominee on Tuesday over her overtly partisan tweets.  In a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security Committee Tuesday, Hawley took to task the nominee, Dr. Colleen Shogan, over tweets she wrote blasting Republican politicians and COVID policies.  Shogan locked her Twitter account when she was nominated to lead the National Archives and Records Administration, but Hawley obtained several of her posts anyway.  Exasperated after she repeatedly refused to answer for her statements, Hawley blasted Shogan for stonewalling.

The Fetterman Question.  Social media is awash right now with wild rumors about the condition of Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman, who has been hospitalized for depression — a hospitalization that will apparently last a month or longer.  We should await some facts or other kinds of confirmation before drawing conclusions about nefarious political calculations, but it is confirmed that his wife and children have fled the country to "avoid media attention."  I don't know much about treating what appears to be severe depression (a month in the hospital?), but common sense would suggest the presence of wife and family is instrumental for treatment and recovery.  No wonder there are rumors spreading.  But even without facts, we can draw two conclusions.  First, Fetterman was obviously not fit to serve in the Senate, and it was an act of cruelty for his family and Pennsylvania Democrats to make him remain on the ballot.  Second, our garbage news media refused to report this.

America Cannot Survive If Its Citizens Lack Pride.  I suspect that the people around me grow weary of hearing me say "when I was young."  That is, however, the only way I can gauge the times in which we live. [...] The past I remember is that of a nation that loved and took pride in its history, freedom, and treasured institutions.  Obviously, that is no longer true.  That wealth of national pride has been turned on its head.  While hubris has long been viewed as a serious character flaw, little is ever said about a deficiency of pride or what may happen to a society when pride becomes scant or nonexistent.  Pride in our history and system of governance, in one's accomplishments, and in one's home, property, and offspring are all ingredients for a healthy, prosperous, and civil society.  When there is no pride, things fall apart.  Where there is no pride in one's work, there is poor production or unemployment.  Where there is no pride in one's home, there is squalor and decay.  Where there is no pride in one's family, there is dysfunction.

Beyond Weird — Senator John Fetterman Wife and Kids Fled Country After His Hospitalization.  At first, I thought this story was fake.  Then I thought it was likely just a misinterpretation of events.  However, I was curious enough to just go look for myself, because there are quite a few people noticing it now.  Indeed, the initial reports were not wrong.  The background story of how Senator John Fetterman's wife reacted to the news of her husband's hospitalization for clinical depression is just weird.  Apparently, Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman's family did not go to Washington DC with him.

Minnesota Senate passes bills to restore felon voting rights, give licenses to illegal immigrants.  Two more bills are on their way to the governor's desk:  one to restore voting rights to felons when they leave prison and another to grant driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.  Current state law requires felons to complete their entire sentence before regaining the right to vote, including probation or parole.  HF28 will allow felons to vote whenever they are not incarcerated. [...] Republicans unsuccessfully attempted to amend the bill to prevent certain violent criminals and those convicted of felony voter fraud from regaining the right to vote until after serving their full sentence.

Scientists propose phasing out terms 'male' and 'female'.  Certain American and Canadian scientists have officially proposed that the scientific community phase out the musty old terms "male" and "female" from scientific language in order to avoid any appearance of "emphasizing hetero-normative views."  Instead, these "experts" want terms such as "sperm-producing" and "egg-producing" to be employed, as they say they're more inclusive.  They also approved the use of "XY individual" or "XX individual" as tolerable alternatives.

Dem Rep Handed Out Congressional Awards To Members Of Alleged Chinese Influence Operations.  California Democratic Rep. Judy Chu has handed out congressional awards to at least 10 individuals who belonged to alleged Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intelligence front groups, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation found.  Over the last decade, Chu has awarded certificates of "Congressional Recognition" to at least 10 individuals for a variety of reasons, including launching a non-profit, according to multiple sources.  However, at the time the awards were given, the recipients also belonged to a handful of organizations that were previously identified by China experts and U.S. government agencies as front groups serving a Chinese government "intelligence service," according to DCNF translations of related membership records.  Furthermore, many of the certificate recipients have at one point or another financially contributed to Chu's political campaigns, finance records reveal.

Keith Olbermann Calls For "Economic Civil War" To Institute Gun Control.  Keith Olbermann, generally considered a washed up "journalist" with a modicum of his former influence, is nonetheless a prominent voice of madness within the easily led leftist fold.  People like him should be considered a valuable litmus test for what the political left is really thinking, including the kinds of sentiments they rarely say out loud.  The subject matter of his recent podcast should raise some eyebrows among anyone concerned about constitutional integrity or the 2nd Amendment, as Olbermann proudly suggests that Democrat controlled blue states should engage in economic civil war with red states in order to destroy conservative support for gun ownership.

Minnesota Democrat lawmakers push ban on gas-powered lawn mowers, chainsaws to curb 'climate pollution'.  Two Minnesota Democratic lawmakers are proposing a pair of bills that would significantly impact the state's backyards and neighborhood ice rinks in an effort to combat climate change.  State Reps.  Jerry Newton and Heather Edelson, members of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, introduced legislation on Monday that would block the sale of common landscaping appliances like lawn mowers and chainsaws as well ice resurfacing machines such as Zambonis, requiring that only electric battery versions be sold in the state starting Jan. 1, 2025.  The ban on lawn and garden equipment would include any machine that uses "a spark ignition engine rated at or below 19 kilowatts or 25 gross horsepower."  Commonly used landscaping tools like lawn mowers, leaf blowers, hedge clippers, chainsaws, lawn edgers, string trimmers and brush cutters would all be prohibited by that definition.

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That also outlaws your backup generator, unless you have a really big one.  But then, why would really big engines be okay, if small ones are ruining the earth?

The Newsom Nuisance.  With a classified document scandal encircling him like a vulture waiting on a wounded animal to succumb to its injuries, Joe Biden's chances to be a presidential candidate next year are closing in on nil.  So who will be the Democrats' flagship candidate?  The smart money says it will be the foolish Gavin Newsom.  The California governor wouldn't be the only candidate, of course.  A lineup for the primaries is likely to include, at the least, current vice president and former U.S. senator from California Kamala Harris, as well as previous candidates Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, and U.S. Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.  Even former First Lady Michelle Obama appears in the betting lines.

Why Biden infringes on the right to bear arms.  Advocating that guns are the reason for increasing crime is a distraction from failing crime-control policies.  These policies are the reason crime has steadily risen: 1) a decrease in prosecuting violent crimes,  2) an increase in catch and release bail,  3) defunding cities' and towns' police forces,  4) an increase in early prison release, and  5) an increase in little or no jail time for violent offenders.  Those are the real reasons for increased violent gun related crimes, not law-abiding citizens' gun ownership.  The philosophy that the police and prisons are the reason for high crime is wrong and not the belief of mainstream America.  The Left would love for everyone to believe that guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens result in high rates of gun-related crimes.

How the Administrative State Subverts the Constitution.  The House of Representatives on February 2 passed a bill — H. Con. Res. 9 — opposing the "implementation of socialist policies" and "denouncing socialism in all its forms."  More than a hundred Democrats joined Republicans in a 327-86 vote on the bill, fittingly sponsored by Maria Salazar (R-Fla.), daughter of exiles from Fidel Castro's Cuba.  Fittingly, too, the bill quoted President James Madison, the father of the Constitution, who wrote that the United States "was founded on the belief in the sanctity of the individual, to which the collectivistic system of socialism in all of its forms is fundamentally and necessarily opposed."  How did we get to a state when it has become necessary to denounce socialism by legislation?

Twitter censorship is the modern-day red scare.  "The Democratic Party [is] the bedfellow of international communism."  Those words from Sen. Joe McCarthy captured the gist of the Red Scare and the use of blacklists and personal attacks to silence critics.  The Democrats this week appear to have taken up the same cudgel in labeling opponents and critics Russian sympathizers and fellow travelers in opposing government involvement in a massive censorship system.  The Red Scare is back and it is going blue.  I testified this week in Congress on the Twitter Files and how they suggest what I have called "censorship by surrogate" or proxy.  The files show dozens of FBI and government employees actively seeking the censorship of citizens and others for their viewpoints.  In my testimony, I warned that this was reminiscent of the McCarthy period where the FBI played a role in the establishment of blacklists for socialist, communists, and others.  I encouraged Congress not to repeat its failures from the 1950s by turning a blind eye to such abuse.

Hunter Biden, victim.  Conservatives wonder why Hollywood no longer makes original, family-friendly TV shows and movies.  The reason is the writing talent today is so thin that the movie and TV studios are reduced to playing to the LGBT crowd or taking old movies and slapping POC faces on the characters.  Sometimes both.  Audiences are bored by it.  They want to be entertained, not indoctrinated.

Disney's New Cartoon Makes Sure Black Kids Hate White Children As Well As America.  Disney's second season of the reboot of The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder are as WOKE and race-baiting as you can imagine.  In several scenes, the cast talks about how America was built on slavery and discover that certain important people, including the founder of their city was a slave owner.  The show even repeats the 'hands up don't shoot' lie which was debunked a long time by cops who said Micheal Brown never put his hands up before attacking a police officer and subsequently shot dead.  [Video clip]

Democrat Tim Kaine's Wife Denounces Declaration of Independence, Constitution as 'Fundamental in Enshrining Slavery'.  Anne Holton, wife of U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), denounced the Declaration of Independence and Constitution as "fundamental in enshrining slavery."  Holton made the comments as Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin's (R) new history standards were approved 5-3 by the Commonwealth's Board of Education, upon which she sits.  She said:  ["]To an audience as inclusive as our Virginia is, you cannot reference the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution as 'remarkable documents' without also acknowledging that they [are] fundamental in enshrining slavery, and limiting the protections that they provided only to white property-owning men.["]  Holton also served as Virginia's Secretary of Education under former Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D), who tanked his own campaign against Youngkin by making anti-parent remarks regarding the education of the Commonwealth's children.

100 Members of Congress Refused to Denounce Socialism - Here Are Their Names.  Republicans in Congress passed a resolution Wednesday condemning the ideology of socialism and the destruction it has wrought throughout history.  While 219 Republicans were united in their opposition, House Democrats were split, with 109 voting for the condemnation, 86 voting against it and 14 others voting "present."  According to the Washington Examiner, the final tally for the vote was 328-86, indicating a sizable chunk of Democrat opposition.

The Rise of Transgenderism Leaves Civilization Undefended.  If you're like me you've probably had it with being afraid of the sheer rise in power that the transgender movement has amassed in little over two years.  It has many people scared, truly scared.  Scared of saying (I'm going to say it):  Biological men can never be real women; men cannot have babies; referring to oneself as "they" is beyond grammatically infelicitous, it renders one a nonsensical and a conceptual non-entity; the transgender affirmation of adolescents, which means agreeing to visiting a host of atrocities on a child's body and plying it with irreversible drugs, is child abuse; trans women (biological men) have no business participating in (real) women's sports.  There I've said it all — at least as much as I care to for now.  Why are people scared of offending trans people?  Misgendering another person, I am told, is the worst offense you can commit against another human being — as bad as rape and murder.  No kidding.  How did a small minority of people get to command the language, protocols, norms and framing methods of an entire culture in so short a space of time?  Who handed all that power to them, and why?

When Joe Biden Declared War On Half the Country.  On September 1, 2022, in a nationally televised address, the nominal president of the United States, Joe Biden, declared war on half the country.  In a dark, threatening speech before an ominous red-and-black background and flanked by two Marines in full dress uniform, Biden declared that "Donald Trump and the MAGA [Make America Great Again] Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic."  For the first time in American history, a president declared that his primary political opposition was outside the bounds of acceptable political discourse.  The message couldn't have been clearer:  The establishment Left, entrenched in power in the United States but deeply afraid of losing that power, was intent on criminalizing political opposition.  Dissent from Biden's agenda and you could end up with the thought police breaking down your door at four a.m.  Probably more out of historical illiteracy than historical awareness, Biden's handlers chose the 83rd anniversary of Hitler's invasion of Poland and the beginning of World War II for Biden's profoundly disturbing and un-American speech.

The root of our problems as a nation.  When a six-year-old brought a gun to school and shot his teacher, the first thought was that it was an accident.  When upon further review it was announced that it was intentional and deliberate, a sort of shock wave went through the population.  This was not just another incident, not just another step along the road to perdition.  Society is no longer slouching toward Gomorrah.  Like the expanding cosmos, the headlong race toward the edge of the cliff is actually accelerating.  This was a quantum leap, an order-of-magnitude increase.  When one observes the breathtaking increase in moral degeneracy, one is reminded of the biblical warning that the beast, knowing that his time is short, is seeking to devour whom he may. [...] Society is becoming more and more disoriented, less structured in terms of norms, and, as an inevitable result, more dysfunctional.  Indeed, the definition of what is "normal" has become so vague as to have lost all practical meaning.  If everything is normal, then nothing is.  If everything is a matter of personal opinion, then facts become irrelevant.  If your truth is not my truth, nor mine yours, then there can be no social contract.  Dysfunctional societies must eventually collapse.  Whether from internal strife or external invasion, they cannot survive.

Who does Represtative Maria Salazar represent?  When a citizen is elected to Congress, they are conferred the title of "representative," with each "representative" elected to a two-year term "serving the people of their specific congressional district."  So it was disconcerting to hear Representative Maria Elvira Salazar, a Republican from Florida's 27th district, address the recently concluded World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, in her official congressional capacity and declare that she "represents" the millions of migrants presently inside the sovereign borders of this nation illegally.  Speaking as part of a bipartisan panel discussing "the reshaped legislative landscape in the United States as it relates to domestic and foreign policy," the crux of her remarks to the attendees was that she wanted to give "dignity" to illegal migrants that are living inside the United States."

How the Deep State Destroyers Threaten Your Way of Life.  The Destroyers know they have limited time to do their mischief before they're found out.  Once light shines on them, like cockroaches, they'll scurry to the darkest recesses they can find.  These people know that the clock is ticking, and it is getting harder and harder to hide the damage they are doing to us all. [...] I am a conservative writer, so my bias is toward traditional thinking.  This means I am cautious about making quick, radical changes.  That's why I'm frightened by what's happened to the Democrat party.  People I know have abandoned the far-left-leaning Democrat party as too extreme for them.  Growth comes primarily from immigrants and the young, who are blank slates for the Destroyers.

Dave Chappelle Says out Loud What Absolutely Everyone Is Thinking About Trans Activists.  [Scroll down] These kinds of protests by the radical trans lobby are nothing more than performance art and they always pick on a group they know won't fight back (again, minus our barricade-throwing heroine).  They are absolute phonies trying to stir up trouble where there isn't any.  It's just the left being the left — the supply of legitimate anti-trans crimes doesn't come close to meeting their insatiable demand, so they try to create it by taunting people not looking for a fight.  Their hope, of course, is that someone will finally snap and fight back, thus they'll be able to make the the claim that the trans community is being victimized.  Unfortunately for the perma-woke, Dave Chappelle's got their number and he's not afraid to say what we're all thinking:  Their ultimate goal is to garner publicity and to create controversy where there isn't any — and it's a tired schtick that's long since run its course.

At Davos, the Rev. John Kerry Signals His Place Among the Elect.  Before getting to the sillier part of his homily, allow me to explain what Neo-Puritanism is and why it has surfaced.  The concept is implicit in the very word "progressive."  In the last decade or two, that word has replaced "liberal" as self-definition among the Left.  On the Right, we shorthand the Left's shifting semantics into the more useful "woke," a word that on the Left originally meant someone who had awakened and seen the light.  At the risk of tautology, progressives, by definition, progress.  Unlike old-school liberals who could content themselves with a status quo, progressives move forward.  They refuse to rest, refuse to reflect.  That much said, few among them have any clue as to what their ultimate destination might be.

Twilight of the Democrats' gerontocracy.  As President Biden plans to launch his reelection campaign, he is whistling past a graveyard of recently discarded Democratic Party icons, who have either left the scene willingly or are being gracelessly kicked out.  Nancy Pelosi.  Steny Hoyer.  Pat Leahy.  Jim Clyburn.  Anthony Fauci.  Dianne Feinstein.  Their combined age is 500 — and until a few months ago, they were running the country.  Now they're shadows of their former selves, headed to the greener pastures of retirement, book deals or the backbenches of the House of Representatives.

The Dignity of the House of Representatives.  First, of course the fight for the speakership wouldn't have happened under Pelosi.  It wouldn't have happened under Stalin, Hitler, or Mao, either.  As my dad said about the Democrat party, the Bolsheviks never break ranks (or they're never allowed to).  For instance, a recent report says that less than 40 percent of Democrats approve of the Democrats' new House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries — but ordinary Democrats are never asked for their opinions.

Like Paul Revere, a Massachusetts Republican Sends Warning.  The fact is that progressives have been actively working to take over the Democrat party — city by city, and state by state — for years.  Even though progressives are never the majority anywhere, they've gotten their grubby little mitts on all the levers of power, corrupting voting laws and elections, instituting destructive policies, and securing permanent rule for themselves.  Places like California, New York, Illinois -- and sadly, Massachusetts — might be past saving at this point.  No wonder so many are leaving.  Progressives have finally succeeded in taking over the Democrat party at the national level, too.  They've shoved aside all the normal, moderate Democrats, like the kind you used to see.  Can you think of a current Democrat politician who doesn't stick to the progressive narrative, even when it's obviously ridiculous?  You always see them voting in complete lockstep, with no defections.  Look at the recent Democrat House Speaker votes.  Hakeem Jeffries; 212 — round after round.  It doesn't matter that Jeffries only has a 35% approval rating with Democrat voters.  Unfortunately, most Democrat voters don't yet realize what the progressives really are, and what they've done to the Democrat party.

Let the fearful and godless abstain from reproduction!
Birth Rate in Freefall as 1 in 4 Americans Puts Off Having Kids Due to Climate Fears.  I remember being on a golf course talking politics and a friend "jokingly" called me a "breeder."  I have four kids; he's chosen to forgo parenthood altogether.  After a moment of stunned silence, I realized two things:  one, that there are plenty of folks who think that having children is evil, and two, that this person was not in fact my friend.  He's not alone in his thinking though:  a survey by Veolia, an environmental utility firm, reveals that a quarter of respondents described "not being at peace" due to global warming and said they were "giving up long-term projects such as having children."  The poll should be taken with a grain of salt, however, as the Paris-based company posts other polls on their Twitter feed that all seem to arrive at similar conclusions:  that a majority of inhabitants of the earth spend their waking hours freaking out over the future of the planet.  [Tweet]

In Mexico, Joe Biden Promotes Plan to Make it 'Easier' for Migrants Trying to Enter the United States.  President Joe Biden promoted his plan Tuesday to make it easier for migrants to come to the United States after meeting with the leaders of Mexico and Canada.  "This has been the greatest migration in human history around the world as well as in this hemisphere," Biden said, speaking about the ongoing migration crisis after meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador during a summit in Mexico City.  But the president did not appear troubled by the volume of border crossings and migrants flooding into local communities in the United States, placing a burden on U.S. citizens and legal residents.

Poll: Only 35% of Democrats Hold Favorable View of Election Denier Hakeem Jeffries.  Only 35 percent of Democrats hold a favorable view of election denier Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), the House Democrats' new minority leader, a Sunday CBS/YouGov poll found.  Eighteen percent overall hold a favorable view of Jeffries, while 41 percent of respondents had never heard of him or his attacks on democracy.  Jeffries' favorability among the Democrats' intersection coalition was quite low.  Among independents, Jeffries held a 16-point favorability.

In Liberal Media, Never Is Heard a Discouraging Word About Hakeem Jeffries, Election Denier.  In the midst of reveling in the "debacle" of Republicans failing to promote House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy to speaker, some leftish media outlets broadcast celebratory stories on House Democrats electing Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., as their minority leader.  On Wednesday, NPR's "All Things Considered" did a story on McCarthy failing to win support alongside a story headlined "Looking back at a decade of GOP hard-liners in Congress."  But it also spent almost three minutes touting Jeffries as the first black lawmaker nominated for speaker of the House. [...] Meanwhile, to represent the view NPR refuses to consider, Kyle Martinsen of the Republican Party's messaging team sent around a memo on how all 212 Democrats voted for Jeffries despite the small problem that his "record of election denialism is well documented — and thoroughly unhinged."  Among the claims:
  [#1]   Jeffries declared the 2016 election was "rigged" and a "hoax," and that a "cloud of illegitimacy" hangs over then-President Donald Trump.
  [#2]   Jeffries called to "investigate [Trump's] so-called victory."  He insisted "history will never accept" Trump "as a legitimate President."
  [#3]   Jeffries said that "the more we learn about 2016 election the more ILLEGITIMATE it becomes."
  [#4]   Jeffries claimed Russia succeeded in "artificially placing" Trump in the White House.
  [#5]   Jeffries referred to Trump as a "fake president" at least 73 times.
Martinsen summed up:  "In total, Jeffries denied the legitimacy of the 2016 election at least 163 times."

Hundreds Of Protesters Greet Joe Biden in El Paso In His First Visit to Open Border.  Protesters greeted Joe Biden in El Paso today during his first visit to the open US Border.  Since Joe Biden took over the White House the southern border has been wide open to illegal aliens.  Over 5 million illegals have already crossed into the US during Joe Biden's watch.  Democrats are done with America.  This is the purposeful suicide of the country they despise.

Movie Attendance Collapses 48% over Four Very Woke Years.  Between 2018 and 2022, movie theater attendance dropped in half, and I do not want to hear any excuses about the pandemic.  People will go to the theater to see a movie that appeals to them.  Spider-Man: No Way Home proved this last year.  Top Gun: Maverick proved it this year.  Avatar: Way of the Water is proving it right now.  And those are just the blockbusters. [...] In other words, blaming streaming or the China Flu on the collapse of the movie business is anti-science, so please do shut up.

Lies for Me But Not for Thee.  "Do as I say, not as I do."  That obnoxious diktat uttered by obtuse authority figures everywhere is working overtime in the case of George Santos, the Republican Representative-elect from New York.  Santos is scheduled to take his seat next week. [...] Santos was exposed as a liar, someone who (I am looking for the right word) — how about "embroidered"?  Yes, let's go with "embroidered" — his history.  Actually, the emollient word Santos used when caught out was "embellished."  "My sins here are embellishing my résumé," he said in an interview with the New York Post.  "I'm sorry."  Among his "embellishments" was the claim that he held a degree from Baruch College.  In fact, as he admitted, "I didn't graduate from any institution of higher learning."  You might think, as I do, that that is a plus since most so-called "institutions of higher learning" are moral sewers and left-wing indoctrination camps whose chief achievement is corrupting the young.  Still, Santos should not have lied about this, just as he should not have said that he worked for Citigroup and Goldman Sachs when, in fact, he did not.  (Though, once again, asked to choose between two candidates, I'd be inclined to go with the one who never set foot in Goldman Sachs rather than the one who had worked there.)

The most revolting people of 2022.  [#1] Democrats:  Due to Biden's misgovernance, the U.S. has suffered high inflation, a crime an uncontrolled influx of illegal aliens, and the mass smuggling of illicit drugs.  The Democrats then passed a bill called the Inflation Reduction Act, which had nothing to do with inflation, but amounted to a high-spending version of the green new deal.  When they found time for it, they focused on Ukraine.  The Democrats used compromised government agencies to target political opponents.  Every rule that was once considered sacrosanct was and is being violated.  They are attempting to turn the U.S. into a one-party socialist dictatorship.  The Democrats from Nancy to AOC may feign empathy, but their sole focus is, was, and always be power and enrichment.

The Tyranny in America.  The Left lives to see absolute destruction of freedom.  Communists exult when liberty is tattered.  Progressives rejoice in limiting freedom.  It is the epitome of dictatorship whether it is a jab for a poison or a useless mask or the destruction of the sanctity of one's property.  This is the picture of tyranny.  The media who have sold their souls to Satan neither care nor want to learn the truth of the dire situations that beset the United States.  The fact-checkers are usually the handmaidens of the very sources of evil. [...] Identity politics, incitement to violence, tolerance for anti-white bigotry, heralding corrupt school systems and defending the most egregious acts by communists are all palatable to Joe Biden and company.

2022, Perhaps the Apex Year for an Era of Pretending.  For the past two years I can only encapsulate the entire social, political and socioeconomic dynamic that surrounds us by saying we are living in an era of great pretending.  Why?  Because nothing else adequately explains it.  A recession is no longer two negative quarters of economic growth.  Elections are no longer defined by votes cast, but by ballots counted.  Meanwhile, women are claimed to have penises and people will argue — strenuously and with commitment — that men can give birth to babies.  Simultaneously, vaccines are no longer about medicines to avoid viruses, and Americans have some moral obligation to fund the administrative salaries, pensions and expense accounts for a nation of European politicians, in a country that few taxpayers could find on a map.  We must pretend the occupant of the oval office is not a dementia patient, at the same time we must pretend the Dept of Homeland Security and FBI is not telling online speech platforms that identifying the dementia patient, as a dementia patient, means you are a domestic violent extremist.  The absurdity of the pretenses are off-the-charts.

Democrat Sen. Ron Wyden Spends Winter Break with Communist Leaders in Cuba.  The Castro regime's puppet president Miguel Díaz-Canel announced on Wednesday evening that he received a visit from Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR).  The announcement of Wyden's visit to Cuba occurred less than three weeks after a delegation of three Democrat congressmen traveled to Havana to meet with members of Cuba's communist regime between December 9 [and] 11.

Use These Five Easy Tricks to Identify the Marxist in the Room.  Look for communism masquerading as morality in the forms of:
  •   Black Lives Matter
  •   Critical race theory
  •   "Trans rights"
  •   Climate change
  •   ESG — Environmental, Social and Governance
All of these pretend to help the helpless, but in America, no one is defenseless.  The supposed "oppressors" here are straight white men. [...] Communism recruits its bellicose legions from supposed victim classes, many of which they create.  Democrats will tell black people that they are the victims of white racism, then conscript them to take to the streets.  Democrats then promise to right the wrongs of the "white racism" the black folks have endured but proceed to do nothing.  Why?  Because Democrats can't control prosperous black folks, only the angry "victims" of phantom white supremacy.  Also, what is there to "fix"?

Liz Warren's Disappearing Act.  [Elizabeth] Warren has made herself famous over the years decrying the supposedly malicious behavior of large financial institutions and creating all manner of investigatory boards to search for wrongdoing.  Her efforts have never actually accomplished anything productive for the average person.  She just gloms a lot of favorable coverage from the liberal media and draws a lot of underserved attention to herself.  Warren has mastered the art of public hand-waving and shrill histrionics, but it amounts to nothing of substance. [...] It's pitifully obvious that Warren and her liberal ilk have absolutely zero clue about any of this.  They don't know what financial challenges real middle-class people face on a daily basis, nor do they care in the slightest.  Her kindred spirit, Bernie Sanders, owns multiple homes, is financially independent, has gotten rich from public money, yet all he does is criticize, regulate, and over-tax the private companies that employ his constituents.  Greenies like John Kerry fly in private jets and rationalize it, while Gavin Newsome dines maskless in pricy French restaurants.

The Democrats' war on the family.  It wasn't that long ago when older men dressed as women twerking with children at city-sponsored parades or schools adopting unisex locker rooms or medical clinics exploiting gender dysphoria to pad their bottom line all would have been considered child abuse.  But today, Joe Biden, the Catholic who once stood by his religion, tweets, "Transgender equality is the civil rights issue of our time.  There is no room for compromise..."  As they say, one thing leads to another.  This swift and headlong lurch into androgyny started a while ago when the revolutionaries realized before you can deconstruct the West you've got to deconstruct Western notions of the family.  The Human Rights Campaign's Welcoming Schools program celebrates transgender youth and normalizes gender fluidity in kindergarten.  Planned Parenthood, when they're not doing their best to eliminate families, says "no worries," we're sexual beings beginning at birth.

Slate: spend Christmas "debunking" family's "conspiracy theories".  I am definitely in the camp of people who advise "avoid politics at the Christmas dinner."  As you might guess, I care a lot about politics and can have a difficult time doing this myself as the only conservative in my family. [...] Every year we are confronted with advice about how to convince your Uncle Joe that socialism is really a good thing or that he is a racist in need of reform.  I like to go through these articles just to find out what the narrative pushers are trying to convince the masses to believe.  Slate's version this year is a doozy.  As a "news and opinion" publication that is mainstream-adjacent, if not exactly MSM itself, it has taken up the task of convincing the average IQ Lefty that debunking the Hunter Biden laptop "conspiracy theories."  It does an especially poor job of it because the laptop itself is filled with conspiracy proofs.  There is pretty much no way to spin the laptop in such a way that anybody involved comes out looking good, so their argument boils down to "there is no proof that Joe himself was involved" in all the evil stuff revealed in it.  And besides, since there is no proof nobody should care.

From 'Free Speech' to Elon Musk.  Today, as evident by the treatment of Elon Musk's recent disclosures at Twitter, we have seen the entire Left do a complete 180 regarding Free speech government secrecy and collusions with big business.  Many people who may have been around back in the 60s and 70s, may be confused on this whole Elon Musk/Twitter kerfuffle. [...] What changes have we seen in such people, the ones who proclaimed to stand for integrity and an open governance since those turbulent days?  They have in fact done a compete 180 having turned themselves into a Nixon on steroids like clone of secrecy, vengeance, and retribution.  They have kept information from the public.  They have used the FBI, CIA, and IRS as well as highly partisan congressional "investigations," to punish and go after their enemies.  They have turned fair law into "lawfare."  They told Facebook, Twitter, and Google what information was to be held from the American people.  Those in charge within the high-tech Industry dutifully obeyed state orders and coordinated their efforts with the FBI.  The Left was now revealing its true beliefs:  the people have no right to such information, but only to the information approved by the government authorities who they now control.

Liberals don't want you to buy a home.  Those of you with some experience in the process of buying a home are likely familiar with the various complications and pitfalls that can await aspiring homeowners, particularly first-time buyers.  There are many factors to consider and most people need some help to ensure they're making the best deal possible.  But it can also be a very rewarding experience.  It's part of the American dream.  That's why I was a bit taken aback when I saw this article from Jerusalem Demsas at the liberal outlet The Atlantic.  The original title which I noticed while browsing through Memeorandum was "Don't Buy a Home. (Ever)."  The final title at the host's website was a bit more tame, reading, "The Homeownership Society Was a Mistake."  The author speaks of "the mythos that accompanies the American institution of homeownership."

Why Leftists Are so Miserable on Christmas.  [Scroll down] I think for some libs there is deep, hidden guilt during the holidays.  I know of several lefties who have thus far "Hunter Biden-ed" their way through life — meaning, they live off of mommy and daddy.  Imagine pretending you're "down with the cause" when you've spent your entire existence with a full fridge, located in a neighborhood where every driveway is home to a Lexus.  You show me an Antifa meeting, and I'll show you a bunch of rich kids who have never worked and whose parents never said no to them.  Yet they don their Che Guevera t-shirts and play the role of the revolutionary, knowing full well that when their little commie meeting is over, mumsy left some organic, plant-based meatloaf for them in the fridge back home.

America, We Can Choose Not to Tolerate Weirdos.  Somehow we got to the point where we're expected to just nod politely when freaks, strangeos, and perverts turn up in positions of great responsibility.  Well, that needs to change.  Whether it's some "non-binary" bondage mutant who oversees America's nuclear waste betwixt bouts of luggage larceny or an Army colonel who — and yeah, this happened — masks up as a leather sex puppy in uniform on social media and who, along with junior officers, also dressed as carnal canines, forms what I guess would be an erotic litter.  And then there's the everyday parade of creepy groomer oddities teaching our kids — actually, indoctrinating them — who are so proud of it that they go post videos of themselves bragging about the gender confusion and woke nonsense they spread.  Time to stop accepting the idea that we need to pretend weirdos are not weird.

L.A. Times Poll: 65% of Americans Oppose Biden's 'Catch and Release' into U.S. for Border Crossers, Illegal Aliens.  A majority of Americans oppose President Joe Biden's expansive "Catch and Release" network releasing tens of thousands of border crossers into American towns and cities every month, a new poll finds.  According to the latest Los Angeles Times/YouGov poll, 65 percent of Americans said Biden's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ought to be either detaining border crossers and illegal aliens or immediately deporting them to their native countries after they arrive at the United States-Mexico border.

The Anti-Fascist Fraud.  One hotly contested battle between current anti-fascism and common sense is K-12 education.  Anti-fascists paint parents and teachers concerned about pornographic books in school libraries as "literal Nazis."  Books like Gender Queer contain graphic pictures of sexual acts; however, according to the Left this book should remain in school libraries to champion Diversity and Inclusion.  If a parent holds the opinion that the sexualized material might be too graphic for minors, that parent is a fascist on par with Mussolini.  But what happens when the anti-fascists want to ban books?  Do they become fascist-anti-fascists or anti-anti-fascists?

Drag Queens are the Democrats' New Mascot.  Inviting a drag queen to celebrate respect for marriage is like dancing about architecture, to borrow a phrase.  Yet here we are:  Joe Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act flanked by Kamala Harris, Jill Biden, and gay drag queen story hour performer Marti Cummings.  Cummings is the symptom, not the disease.  There are always fringe people out on, well, the fringes.  Although we didn't use to invite them to the White House to celebrate what might be humanity's oldest institution.  It's niche entertainment, to say the least.  In fact, there's been such a rush to normalize this particular fetish — even make it "family-friendly" — that actual pedos are being glamourized.  Why the sudden and very official respect?  It has nothing to do with gay rights.  It has a lot to do with putting women in their place.  The Left is waging a war on women, on genuine femininity and all of its unique strengths.  And they do it, in part, by raising up obnoxious (and often just plain noxious) pantomime females as "real" women.

Joe Biden Signs Same-Sex Marriage Bill: 'Nothing More Decent, More Dignified, More American'.  President Joe Biden signed a bill making same-sex marriage legal nationwide on Tuesday, describing it as a victory for freedom in America.  "There is nothing more decent, more dignified, more American about what we are doing here today," Biden said during his speech at the White House before the signing.

Biden Invites Drag Queen Who Performs for Children to Attend 'Respect for Marriage Act' Signing.  President Joe Biden invited a drag queen who performs for children to the White House on Tuesday to witness the signing of the "Respect for Marriage Act," which enshrines same-sex marriage into law.  Drag queen activist Marti Cummings celebrated the invite on Twitter, and though he keeps his account private, the Libs of TikTok account shared Cummings' status.

Biden's EPA Prepares To Crack Down On Home Appliances.  The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed new rules on Friday that would restrict the use of refrigerators, air conditioning equipment and heat pumps that utilize hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).  The EPA's proposed rule would crack down on the manufacturing and importing of goods containing HFCs, which would restrict the use of HFCs in refrigeration units, air conditioning systems and heat pump equipment starting in 2025, according to an agency press release.  In accordance with the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, a global climate treaty that the Senate ratified in September, the agency intends to reduce the production and consumption of HFCs by 85% by 2036.

The Crumbling States of America.  Our union is crumbling, our borders are smashed, and our respect has been obliterated.  No one fears America therefore evil runs wild.  And with corruption embedded so deeply into the ability of the people to elect the persons of their own choice (i.e.  Maricopa County, AZ allowing 294k plus votes to be counted that had no persons attached to the ballot) the outlook seems dire.  What the circumstance requires is a fighter, a builder, and someone who stands up to our enemies and for our way of life.  In other words the exact opposite of what incompetent buffoons currently in charge offer.

Democrats Want to Abolish Prisons.  Following the midterm elections, Democrats gained two new members who have already been outspoken in their progressive beliefs.  Rep.-elect Summer Lee (D-PA) has openly advocated for socialist policies.  "Instead of 'thanking' Black women, Black voters, and especially, Black organizers... give us the investments we need and deserve, redistribute wealth, ends police violence, abolish the carceral state, commit to building Black directed political power... and reparations," Lee said.  Last year, Lee introduced a bill that would end cash bail in Pennsylvania.  She has insisted that the majority of those who are arrested don't pose a threat to society, therefore shouldn't have to go to jail just because they can't afford their bail.  In 2016, Lee classified Pennsylvania's system of bail as "a flaw in our system of justice" and "a threat to equal justice under the law."

House Democrats abruptly cancel Big Oil hearing where Elon Musk was scheduled to appear.  Democratic leadership on the House Oversight and Reform Committee abruptly canceled an upcoming hearing to investigate the spread of "climate disinformation" on social media platforms.  On Nov. 18, Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., chairman of the Oversight Subcommittee on Environment, wrote letters to four social media executives asking them to attend the hearing that had been slated for Dec. 14, according to documents obtained by Fox News Digital.  Khanna invited new Twitter CEO Elon Musk, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and executives of TikTok and YouTube to testify.  Committee Democrats blamed the hearing cancellation Thursday on a miscommunication.  They said leadership opted to hold a full committee hearing on Dec. 14 instead of the environment subcommittee hearing.

Newest congressional communist takes after Marx in more ways than one.  There's a reason that disciples of Marxism earned a reputation of being basement dwellers: they're losers.  From Marx himself to his modern protégés, they always have excuses for why they can't work, why the real world isn't fair, and why everything is always someone else's fault. [...] Enter: Maxwell Alejandro Frost.  He's the first Generation Z person to make it to Congress, and what will be his first order of business?  Well, he's aiming to rack up more debt in our names, and stiff-arm private property owners into compliance with communism — achieving Utopia justifies "despotic inroads". [...] Frost spent money he didn't have, and racked up debt, or just stopped paying his creditors, because he only worked as an Uber driver.  He knew it wasn't "right", but did it anyway.  But the left would have us believe we can count on him to make good choices in our best interests?  Give me a break.  How does this compare to Marx?  Well, according to FEE:  ["]From the time he [Marx] moved to England in early 1849 until the time of his death, Marx and his family lived in abject poverty.  Within a year of arriving in London, he was kicked [out] of his two-room apartment for failing to pay rent.  For decades after he was forced to use a fake name to hide from creditors. [...]["]

Border Patrol Union Blasts Biden, Tweets 'This Is Not Leadership, It's Cowardice'.  After President Joe Biden refused to visit the Southern border despite being nearby on a visit to Arizona — saying "there are more important things going on" — the Border Patrol Union on Wednesday took to Twitter to blast the president's handling of the crisis.  "Joe Biden created this massive, chaotic mess at our border with his policies," they wrote:  [Tweet]  Biden has not visited the border a single time during his presidency.  What are the "more important things" Biden had to do instead of dealing with the surge in border crossings?  Why, he needed to tour a Taiwanese chip manufacturing plant.  Meanwhile, Wednesday brought more sad news; a 38-year-old patrol agent was killed in a high-speed ATV crash that occurred as he was pursuing a group of migrants.  He was the father of two children.  Not that important, I guess.

Turns out I'm a 'RINO' After All.  During President John F. Kennedy's inaugural address on January 20, 1961, the new Democrat president famously proclaimed: "Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country," as he challenged all Americans to contribute in some way to the common good of the country.  Imagine the consequences if a Democrat running for any office in today's America were to make that same proclamation.  What would we hear — from Democrats themselves?  Unhinged charges of racism, white supremacy, attacks on equality, and demands for "racial equity" — and worse — would abound.  Hence today's Democrat Party bears little resemblance to the Democrat Party of JFK.  Sadly, the same can be said of the Republican Party of Ronald Reagan.

Disney's Gay Black Hole — where money goes to disappear.  The trend for Disney lately is to weave in gay scenes and themes in children's movies and then lose a few hundred million dollars when it flops on the big screen.  It's called grooming, but it's one nasty black hole for Disney where big bucks go to disappear.  Whether it's some drag queens in thongs twerkin' for the kids, or a gay couple shoving their tongues down each other's throats, grooming is in "full swing" for children of all ages.  In the new film, Strange World, the lead characters are two gender-fluid boys who are in love with each other, and the propaganda film is sinking down a dark $147,000,000 hole of losses and regrets, not counting promotional costs also sunk into it.  These sexual plots woven into movies by Disney to groom America's kids into thinking about sex, sex partners and trans-everything all the time are failing miserably.  Disney has come out of the closet, but it's not about equal rights, fair treatment or love, but rather it's about grooming kids while the parents look on in utter disgust, unless those parents are gender-fluid drag queens in thongs also.

Guess Who's Trying To Cause Problems With The Railroad Tentative Agreement?  This morning, in the post on Biden wanting Congress to vote to approve the Tentative Agreement, I ended with  ["][Biden] also wants, again, zero changes.  No adding this or that or the other from Democrats or Republicans.  Who's your bet on the first to attempt to attach ryders to the bill?  I'm going with Squad members.["]  This didn't take long  [Tweets from the Squad!]

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Four nefariously managed events meant to harm us.  [#3] Wokery, the Marxist campaign to disorder society in order to overthrow existing institutions and replace them with a utopian dictatorship of the intersectionally oppressed — also known as The Revenge of the Losers. [...] It laughs at the idea of redemption.  Its adversaries are never forgiven, only dealt additional punishments for asking.  The mystery here is how Wokery was incorporated into the operating system of the Democratic Party.  The answer is the party needed something to replace its erstwhile corpus of organized industrial workers, gone with the winds of Globalism, and so it valorized the various categories of the mentally ill, the permanently downtrodden, and sundry persons who had become economic hostages to its corrupt system of payments and grants.  High above that ragtag-and-bobtail of crazies reigned an aristocracy of the so-called cognitive elite, people of unquestioned virtue, college professors, the creative class, the credentialed echelon — super-busy signaling their good intentions to their vassals to keep them in line.

CNN Calls Freedom of Speech 'Nonsense' in Moronic Rant.  Did you know that freedom of speech is "nonsense?"  That's the word from CNN, which let a former CIA flunky spew falsehoods in an attempt to smear Elon Musk's management of Twitter.  As RedState previously reported, Musk is set to grant a "general amnesty" to formerly banned accounts.  There will be some exceptions if those accounts broke the law or engaged in targeted calls for violence, but a deluge of accounts that simply broke leftwing orthodoxy are set to return.  That has the clowns over at CNN shaking in terror, so much so that they are willing to boot basic constitutional principles in the process.  [Tweets]  Everything is about Vladimir Putin to these people.  According to them, he stalks the shadows like some bizarro Batman, ready to pounce at any moment with memes and "disinformation."  Of course, Robert Baer is in the same camp of flacks who insisted that Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation, and we all saw how that turned out.

Disney's first animated movie with a prominent gay character bombs.  In 2021, Disney greenlit Strange World, an animated movie about a family journeying through a mysterious land to save a resource that's losing its energy.  Bob Iger, who is returning to Disney to "save" it from Bob Chapek's sad tenure, was still on board in 2021, so he must have greenlit it.  That's a relevant fact because the movie bombed at the box office.  Coincidentally or not, the movie has an openly gay subtext as one of the main male characters crushes on another boy.  Before the movie opened, the media wanted audiences to know about the gay romance, probably under the mistaken belief that audiences would care:  [Numerous tweets]  My suspicion is that, while many parents don't want their kids to have thrust upon them even more pro-LGBTQ material than they're already receiving in school, a big reason for the box office bomb may be that most heterosexuals just aren't that interested in gay romance.  They can't relate to it, and they're not impressed with Disney making such a niche film.  Despite the left's relentless "gay, gay, gay" push, gays are, on average, no more interesting than any other people, and things that are of unique interest to them, such as same-sex relationships, don't change that fact.  But yeah, thinking about it some more, it's probable that the failure is mostly because Disney isn't supposed to be pushing children into a lifestyle that is unhealthy.  No matter how the LGBTQ crowd tries to dress it up, we know that they have more substance abuse, partner abuse, depression, and suicide than the general population — and that's true no matter how supportive the greater culture is.

The White House Issued Some Talking Points for the Family.  They Didn't Go Over Well.  Joe Biden is in Nantucket for Thanksgiving, staying at the home of one of his billionaire friends.  White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain tweeted out a "list of accomplishments" of the Biden administration that's part comedy part tragedy.  The comedy comes from Klain's purpose in posting the talking points:  to use when "that Uncle comes at you about POTUS."  [Tweet]  The tragedy comes from what Klain believes to be an "accomplishment."

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I have found that if you strike up a casual conversation with a leftist, he or she will inject race or politics into the discussion within 60 seconds.

Senate candidate Raphael Warnock, 2009: I'm "SICK AND TIRED" of hearing people criticize socialism.  Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock holds a slight lead over his GOP challenger, Herschel Walker, in a runoff election poll released Tuesday morning.  In a video from 2009, preaching from the pulpit, Warnock states he was 'sick and tired' of hearing people criticize socialism.  [Video clip]

West Virginia Hates Sen. Manchin Now.  Senator Manchin's dirty 'Inflation Increase Act' deal, its betrayal of coal country, army of IRS agents, and inflationary spending has paid off some of his backers and made Bill Gates very happy.  Gates was described as having personally lobbied Senator Manchin and Schumer in "anticipation of a rare moment in which significant federal dollars might be secured for the clean-energy transition."  Billions of those dollars, ripped out of the hands of truck drivers, veterans and small businessmen, will have been "secured" for Gates and his ventures.  The Microsoft founder was described as having "tapped into a relationship with Manchin that he'd cultivated for at least three years". [...] Now Manchin's dirty deal may cost him his Senate seat.  A new poll released Wednesday by Jackson County radio station WMOV 1360 AM and Oregon-based Triton Polling and Research found that U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin is vulnerable after his support for the Inflation Reduction Act.

White House Tries to Politicize Thanksgiving with Leftist Talking Points to Defend Joe Biden.  The White House on Wednesday distributed leftist talking points for predictably insufferable supporters of President Joe Biden to use for attacking Republicans during Thanksgiving family gatherings.  The list of talking points was shared by White House chief of staff Ronald Klain on social media.  "One last item for your Thanksgiving dinner: some talking points when 'that Uncle' comes 'at you' about the president," he wrote on Twitter.  The list tries to argue that Biden is actually "tackling inflation," even though the cost of a Thanksgiving meal is up by 20 percent from last year.  It also tries to denounce Republicans in Congress as "EXTREME" because of their position on protecting unborn children.

The Voting Morons.  We now have two mentally damaged individuals in high office in this country, neither able to function as an independent adult.  How did they get there?  By being elected... with the addition of other means.  But it was the votes that created a situation where those "other means" could work.  In other words, the moron vote played a large role.  Tens of millions of voters who can't recognize a mentally crippled individual when they see one.  Who witness electoral cheating in front of their eyes as clearly as that of a three-card monte dealer but don't see it for what it is.  Who simply can't make the connection between the close of critical pipelines and gas costing six bucks at the pump.

John Fetterman Is The New Normal.  Pennsylvania's still-recovering stroke victim and senator-elect, whose parents provided him with his main source of income for a considerable amount of his adult life, is the blueprint for America's future politicians.  Why bother proving your merit as a statesman when the system in which you're entrenched is calibrated to ensure your success? [...] Fetterman and his opponent, longtime daytime TV personality Mehmet Oz, had their one and only debate on Oct. 25 — literally two weeks before Election Day.  Why did it take so long for Fetterman and Oz to share the stage?  He was either hiding the fact that he was still in the early stages of recovering from a stroke and did not have full control of his audio-verbal faculties, as footage from the debate and pre-election interviews clearly indicate, or he was hiding the fact that his policy proposals are utterly insane and would only further exacerbate issues, such as violent crime, his constituents face on a daily basis.  Either way, at the end of the day, he hid important information from the people he wanted to trust him with power.  And it worked because he had access to a mountain of money, with $56,690,623 raised by Fetterman's campaign and $35,091,809 provided by outside groups, and benefited from a state election system that has effectively broken with the American political tradition by implementing a mail-in voting apparatus whose legality is dubious at best and threatens to turn formerly competitive states into post-political strongholds for the Democratic Party.

Maybe denial is the driving factor in the 2022 election outcome.  Democrat voters are not a monolithic bloc.  Yes, some are hard-core ideologues who swooned over Bernie Sanders.  Some are recipients of public assistance and dependent on Democrat party largesse.  Some are students and recent graduates majoring in insurrection.  But they're not all community organizers, and they don't all hate America.  Most are normal, center-left people who habitually vote Democrat. [...] But consider for a moment what the habitual Democrat would have had to acknowledge to vote Republican on November 8th:
  [#1]   That the President of the United States is a doddering mediocrity.
  [#2]   That the person (or persons) responsible for the policies and decisions emanating from the White House is a matter of conjecture.
  [#3]   That the administration's policies are blatantly extremist and being implemented with ruinous effect.
  [#4]   That proper stewardship of the nation's fiscal and energy resources is utterly lacking — to the point of precipitating a foreseeable crisis.
  [#5]   That large numbers of inner-city youth, trapped in broken homes or broken schools, are not being taught respect, self-control, or the difference between right and wrong.
  [#6]   That the freedoms, values, and checks and balances on which this country was founded are being left grossly unprotected.
  [#7]   That despite mounting challenges we are not presently capable of deterring our adversaries or defeating them on the battlefield.
Perhaps it's all too much to contemplate.  The habitual Democrat voter prefers to remain incongruously oblivious.

The 2022 Mid-Terms Exposed the Existence of Two Americas and the Overwhelming Importance of the 2024 Election.  Blue America is hell-bent on permanently eradicating the unalienable right of self-defense as codified in the Second Amendment as well as eliminating constitutionally protected freedom of speech and religion.  Its mindless determination to confiscate guns by any means possible and censor speech it does not approve of is unbound and unconstrained as it is willing to use government to enforce its will.  Red America is firm and unmoving in its belief that unalienable and constitutionally protected rights are non-negotiable and immutable.  The unabashed attempt at disarmament and censorship has had the effect of convincing over half of the American populace that these actions are a prelude to government's willingness to use force against the citizenry to strip them of all their rights including fair and impartial justice.

Are Lonely Wine Karens Ruining Our Country?  Exit Poll Reveals The Depressing Truth.  Americans expected Republican candidates to dominate the midterm elections.  Instead, they got a wave of disappointment thanks largely to lonely, unmarried women who broke heavily for the Democratic Party.  While exit polls show Republicans won married men and women voters by double digits and increased their share among unmarried men, the majority of single women (picture an ex-librarian who drinks boxed wine while listening to Joni Mitchell) voted for Democratic candidates.  Among unmarried women, 68% told CNN's exit poll they voted for Democrats over Republicans in the 2022 midterms, while only 31% said they voted for Republicans.

Another Stolen Election.  [Scroll down] Polls show that Biden suffers an approval rate of only 36% and that a large majority of Americans do not want Biden to run for reelection in two years.  How is this preference consistent with the vote count of Tuesday's election?  Consider also that the party in power loses representation in midterm elections, but despite the substantial turn away from Democrats revealed by CNN, this normal result did not occur on Tuesday.  Consider also public dissatisfaction with: record crime, record inflation with high food and gasoline prices, rising interest rates and falling home values, massive illegal immigration, forced indoctrination of school children with transgender theory and critical race theory, Biden's Covid vaccination mandates that caused health injuries, deaths, and destroyed careers, Biden's Covid lockdowns that destroyed businesses, jobs, supply chains and raised prices, Biden's "Russian" sanctions that disrupted energy supply and raised the price of everything. [...] Now, ask yourself, what is worse, a stolen US election or an American electorate so insouciant and out to lunch that they would keep a political party in office that is leading us into war with Russia and China, that hates white people and persecutes them, that has politicized the FBI and Department of Justice turning them into Gestapo agencies serving Democrat power, that fervently believes that parents are bad for children and should have no say in their education (brainwashing), that is demonizing normality and normalizing perversity, that ... I could go on and on.  Here was a chance for voters to register their dissent, and according to the vote results they failed to do so.  If the vote count is honest, then the conclusion is that we must write off the American people as beings too stupid to survive as a free people.  This is why I much prefer to believe that the election was again stolen.  What can be done about stolen elections?  Nothing.  Especially when a previously stolen election has left Democrats in control of the executive branch.  The executive branch is the police branch.  It is not going to enforce election or any law against itself.

Florida [is] bracing for [a] new influx of residents fleeing blue states after [the] Dems' election success.  Continuing years of scorching population growth, Florida is bracing for a fresh batch of disgruntled citizens fed up with spiraling crime and high taxes to move in from Democratic strongholds.  Figures obtained by The [New York] Post show that through August, a record 41,885 New Yorkers already swapped their licenses for the Florida version, a commonly used indicator of demographic trends.  That figure was 21,277 for California, 16,970 for Pennsylvania and 16,846 for Illinois.  Sunshine State observers said after Tuesday saw Democratic leaders re-elected or voted in — coupled with Gov. Ron DeSantis's landslide entrenchment — they expect the exodus to Florida will continue.

How Could John Fetterman Have Won?  Every Possible Answer Is Bad in a Different Way.  It's hardly even believable:  the stuttering, sputtering John Fetterman, a stroke victim who only rarely manages to utter a complete sentence, coasted to victory in the Pennsylvania Senate race.  Like Joe Biden, Fetterman is so clearly unfit for his new job that no sane person could possibly think otherwise; it boggles the mind to think that any Pennsylvania voter could have seen any of Fetterman's incoherent ramblings over the last few weeks, both in his debate with Dr. Mehmet Oz and in his campaign rallies, and thought, "That's the man I want representing Pennsylvania in the Senate."  But Fetterman will show up in the Senate in January — if someone can guide him to where it is — and all the explanations of why this ridiculous charade is set to happen are bad in different ways.

Pennsylvania Ballot Fillers Elected a Dead Guy.  The people who distributed, assembled, collected and then submitted all the Democrat ballots in Pennsylvania filled in the bubble for a dead guy.  Democrat Anthony "Tony" DeLuca died October 9th but was reelected to his state House seat on November 8th.  Go figure.

Pennsylvania, America's Capital of Stupid.  The distinction and trophy for 'Capital of Stupid' now rests with the citizens of William Penn's home with the election of Democrat John Fetterman to the U.S. Senate.  Why stupid you say?  What is wrong with John Fetterman?  It's simple.  Fetterman has never held a real private sector job in his life (he is currently lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania). He has enjoyed financial support from his parents most of his adult life.  He prefers hooded sweatshirts and arm tattoos to conventional business suits and claims to be for 'the little guy.'  Prior to becoming the lieutenant governor, his only other job was Mayor of Braddock, PA where he did nothing to improve the town's condition.  (It is thought that the town actually improved after he left office.)

America's Death Wish.  Let's get real: The American people are electing the pols they deserve, demagogues who mirror the woke prejudices of an increasingly propagandized people.  According to the media, "threats to democracy" constituted one of the top concerns of the people.  How lame.  Large segments of the American public clearly swallowed Joe Biden's self-serving malarkey on that subject whole.  Never mind that Biden was clearly referring not to authentic threats to democracy but challenges to regnant liberalism.  Biden is not afraid for democracy but afraid of it.  He desires a one-party state.  The relative success of the Democrats on Tuesday is a measure not of the public's rationality but of its submission to wokeness.  Those in the 18 [to] 29 demographic voted for the Democrats overwhelmingly — a tribute not to their wisdom but to their lack of it.  These voters entered the booth after receiving a warped education at colleges and universities swimming in wokeness.  It is nearly impossible to impress upon this generation the dangers of liberalism.  They simply shrug at any description of them.

Ron DeSantis understands that the culture war is a winner.  I have argued consistently that fighting against the "transgender" movement is a winner for conservatives.  Once people have children, they become very protective of them and do not want their son's weird, pierced, blue-haired kindergarten teacher to convince him he's really a girl and, oh, by the way, don't tell your mommy and daddy that.  Ron DeSantis's decisive victory in Florida indicates that the policy is a winner (with Glenn Youngkin's 2020 Virginia victory suggesting the same).

Deceased Pennsylvania State Rep. Reelected in Landslide.  A state lawmaker in Pennsylvania has been reelected to another term in office on Nov. 8 despite already passing away last month.  State Rep. Tony DeLuca, a Democrat, died at age 85 on Oct. 9 due to lymphoma.  The timing of his death was too late for election officials to change the ballots.  DeLuca had served as a representative in the Pennsylvania state legislature for 39 years.  He received more than 85 percent of the vote in the 32nd District in Allegheny County.  This accounted for nearly 14,000 votes on Election Day, and more than 7,000 votes via mail.  DeLuca had served on the House Insurance Committee and the Democratic Policy Committee.  His opponent, Green candidate Queonia "Zarah" Livingston, received roughly 14 percent of the vote.

Voters like Competence, Not Chaos.  Tuesday's [11/8/2022] results show how many voters are turned off by candidates who try to delegitimize past elections.  For years, Stacey Abrams discounted the legitimacy of the 2018 election she lost by a razor-thin margin — and Brian Kemp won his rematch against her handily.  Kemp and Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger burnished their images as responsible holders of power by defending the results of the 2020 election.  Fortunately for American democracy, swing voters (the ones candidates need to win elections) do not reward conspiracy theories that aim to nullify elections.  If "normie" voters like candidates who (legitimately) affirm the credibility of American elections, they also dislike crime and the appearance of lawlessness.  In New York, growing voter anxiety about crime helped make the governor's race far more competitive than in previous cycles; current tallies show Republican Lee Zeldin at 47 percent of the vote — the highest result for a Republican since George Pataki's 2002 reelection.

Pennsylvania Democrat State Representative Reelected Despite Being Dead.  A state lawmaker in Pennsylvania was re-elected on Tuesday despite passing away last month.  Early voting numbers Tuesday indicated that the dead Democrat had a sizable lead over the Green Party challenger.  It's not hard to see why brain-dead Fetterman won in Pennsylvania!  This is a big loss because it may cost the GOP control of the Senate.  But in Pennsylvania, they vote for the party and not for the person they want to represent them!  Late state Rep. Tony DeLuca won his seat in the 32nd District, triggering a special election to fill that seat at a later date, in one of the first state House races called Tuesday night by the Associated Press.  Early voting numbers Tuesday indicated that Mr. DeLuca, a Democrat, had a sizable lead over Green Party challenger Zarah Livingston.  Mr. DeLuca, the longest-serving member of the state House of Representatives, died last month at age 85 from lymphoma.

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If voters must be living when they cast a ballot, the candidate should face the same requirement on Election Day.

Watch: Bill Clinton and Kathy Hochul laugh about crime on NY subways.  The desperation of the Democrats heading into tomorrow's midterm elections can be observed in the way that they are trotting out every big name in their party in an effort to get out the vote at the last minute.  We've already seen Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton stumping for Democrats around the country, but now they've brought out The Big Dog.  (Also described by his wife as "a hard dog to keep on the porch.")  Bill Clinton was in New York this weekend, stumping for unelected Governor Kathy Hochul, who should have had one of the easiest races of any Democrat, even in the midst of a potential red wave.  Clinton took the stage and almost immediately seemed to inadvertently add to Hochul's problems by attempting a joke that will likely not be amusing to most of the Empire State's voters.  He began mocking her opponent's platform of dealing with crime and laughing about people suffering attacks in New York City's subway system.

The Pathetic Democratic Pantheon.  Over the last few months the four icons of the Democratic Party — Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Nancy Pelosi — have hit the campaign trail.  They've weighed in on everything from "right-wing violence" and "election denialists" to the now tired "un-American" semi-fascist MAGA voter — and had nothing much to say about inflation, the border, crime, energy, or the Afghanistan debacle.  In this, they remind us just how impoverished and calcified is this left-wing pantheon.  So why should we take anything they say seriously, given their own records — and especially given their mastery of projecting their own shortcomings upon others as some sort of private exculpation or preemptive political strategy?

The Occam's Razor Election.  We've now had three Democratic presidents in a row — stretching back to Clinton in 1992, then Obama in 2008, and Biden in 2020 — who all campaigned as moderates, but lurched sharply left once in office.  In other words, Democratic presidential candidates lie to us, over and over again, and then voters issue a restraining order at the first opportunity.  It's as though voters need reminding every other decade how bad Democrats in power can be.  "Swing voters," wise up.

Democrats Are Losing Voters They Took for Granted, Thanks to Misplaced Priorities.  Over the weekend, new data showed Democrats that minorities are migrating to Republican candidates in a historic shift, and the electorate sees them as focused on all the wrong things.  All Democrats had to do was not be crazy.  Biden inherited an economy in recovery and a nation looking to take a collective deep breath.  Instead, Democrats decided to destroy the economy and push transing the kids.  Voters noticed.

Hispanics Across Arizona, Florida, Texas Abandon Democrats: 'The Party Doesn't Care About Us'.  Hispanic Americans, gravitating to the nationalist-populist wing of the Republican Party, are turning on Democrats over the top issues in this year's midterm elections: Crime, inflation, immigration, and a corporate-backed woke social agenda.  Tim Alberta for The Atlantic traveled across Arizona, Florida, and Texas to find that Hispanics who had been voting for Democrats for decades have since turned on the party as it moves toward an economic and social agenda embraced by white college-educated Americans.  The move, as The Atlantic details, is coalescing working and middle class Hispanics into the fold with white non-college-educated Americans to shape the GOP base.

Biden's Delusional Comms Director Tells CNN Viewers: "What We're Seeing is Enormous Popularity for the Biden Agenda".  Joe Biden's delusional communications director told CNN viewers the Democrats are going to do well in Tuesday's midterms because Biden is popular.  CNN anchor Jim Sciutto pointed out that historically a first midterm election for a US president is usually a wipeout.  Biden's Comms Director Kate Bedingfield said while historically the House flips in a president's first term, Biden's agenda is enormously popular.  "Look, across the board what we're seeing is enormous popularity for the Biden agenda," Kate Bedingfield said.

Manchin's rebuke shows how toxic Biden's energy views are.  It's not often that a senator launches a brutal, frontal assault on a president from his own party.  It's even rarer when he does it just before a national election.  But that is exactly what West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin just did to Joe Biden.  At issue was Biden's recent speech attacking coal, a bedrock of the West Virginia economy.  Manchin was furious over Biden's promise to shut down all of America's coal-fired power plants.  That view might be red meat for Biden's audience of green-power advocates and rich California donors, but it is poison in West Virginia.  And it is those West Virginians who elected Manchin, the only Democrat still standing in a state that is now deep red. [...] President Biden's comments are not only outrageous and divorced from reality, they ignore the severe economic pain the American people are feeling because of rising energy costs. [...] Shutting down coal-fired plants is hardly a new position for Biden.  He said as much while campaigning for president.  But why return to that theme just before an election when high energy prices are already a political burden?  Some combination of Biden's usual foot-in-mouth disease, his quest for rich donors, and an effort to spur turnout among base voters.

Thank God For These Horrible Democrats.  A fish rots from the head down, but in the case of Democrats that head is empty, or at least has forgotten where it is.  Naturally, that head is on the scrawny neck of Joe Biden, a man so untrustworthy that it says "hello" you have to suspect he's leaving.  What kind of person thinks claiming "Ultra MAGA is a threat to the country" is a good strategy?  "MAGA" stands for "Make America Great Again," which if you're pretending to like the country is rather difficult to demonize.  Then again, Biden leads the party that has "America was never great" as a guaranteed applause line on the campaign trail, so nothing should surprise us.  In a last-ditch effort to save his worthless presidency, Biden declared the act of engaging in democracy to be a threat to it should the public dare vote against the wishes of Democrats. [...] The idea of declaring one of the two possible election outcomes to be invalid before any votes are counted should bother the people who claim to wake up screaming about "threats to democracy."

Why suburban women are flocking to the GOP: As simple as A,B,C.  To hear Democratic candidates, and the party's media cheerleaders, talk now, nobody ever supported defunding the police.  But, of course, Democrats across the board did just that, and GOP candidates, and honest media, have been replaying the video.  In a spasm of post-George Floyd mass hysteria, the political system, and in particular the governments of Democratic-run cities, made drastic cutbacks in police protection, installed revolving-door, no-bail arraignment systems and encouraged the proliferation of homeless encampments and open-air drug markets in many areas.  Unsurprisingly, the result was surging crime.  Around America, downtown businesses have closed, and people — especially women — have felt unsafe in their own neighborhoods.  Crime is now a major issue with the electorate, and even among black voters, the alleged beneficiaries of police defunding, only 17% support defunding the police, per a recent Grio/Kaiser Family Foundation poll.

Patty Murray makes an anguished face.  Some strange things have been happening here in the Pacific Northwest.  We've had a freakishly warm and dry October, for one, and just the other day Seattle apparently boasted the worst air pollution in the world.  That was thanks to the smog from all the nearby wildfires, though I'm pleased to report that more normal monsoon conditions have since returned. [...] But surely none of these oddities could compete with the news that Washington's five-term Democratic senator Patty Murray, 72, is in trouble against her 39-year-old GOP opponent, a self-described farm girl with the striking name of Tiffany Smiley.  Smiley is a political outsider whose husband Scotty was blinded by a suicide bomber while serving as a US Army major in Iraq.  Long considered a lock for Murray, the seat is now a statistical toss-up, with a new Trafalgar Group poll showing Murray up 49-48.  The rival candidates sat down (or in Smiley's case, stood up) for a televised debate the other day.  If ever there was a living portrait of the gulf between America's two main parties, this was it.

Democrat John Fetterman: 'I'm Actually Very Proud' to Have Helped Free Convicted Killers from Prison.  Pennsylvania Lt.  Gov. John Fetterman (D), running against Republican Mehmet Oz for the state's open United States Senate seat, says he is "actually very proud" of his record of helping free convicted killers from prison.  During a panel discussion in Erie County, Pennsylvania on Wednesday, Fetterman touted his record on the Pennsylvania Board of Pardons where he oversaw the release of 13 convicted killers from prison and placed members on the board who sought to end mandatory life sentences for convicted first- and second-degree murderers.

America Is On The Cusp Of A Fundamental Transformation.  No matter how bad Obama's actions while in office, nothing he did compares to Joe Biden.  Since being installed as president, Biden has done an insane number of things that simply make no sense from a rational perspective.  Literally the first thing Biden did was reduce the amount of energy available to Americans.  He canceled completing the Keystone XL Pipeline which would have brought more Canadian oil.  Soon thereafter, the administration threw up roadblocks to domestic oil production both offshore and on federal lands.  First, they curtailed new leases and "reviewed" existing ones.  Later, when they backed off from a complete ban, they instituted a virtual ban, which included increasing fees and other elements to make extraction more expensive for energy companies and everything more expensive for Americans.

Every Day is Halloween Now.  It wasn't all that long ago that the streets of major cities were filled with men and women wearing black masks over their faces.  The long Halloween of the lockdown, perhaps the longest on record, was just one of those costume changes in which all of society got a makeover.  But masks can be taken on and off.  Social dysfunction is a lot harder to fix.  The drug addicts lying in gutters are not just wearing a costume, they've become the costume.  Just as if we had worn the masks long enough, we might have become the masks.  Costumes are everywhere.  One day, Dr. Rick Levine chose to put on a dress and a long flowing blond wig and he became Rachel Levine.  The Biden administration decided to make Rick into a four-star-admiral and now he's Admiral Rachel Levine allowing him to wear an exciting new costume.  In a society where a man can become a woman by thinking it, he can also become a four-star admiral.

A Stunning Number of Americans Believe the Country Is 'Out of Control' Thanks to Democrats.  A look at the Democrat tote board reveals that this party's policies have resulted in more dead people.
  •   Democrats believe women should be able to kill their babies up to the moment of birth.
  •   The murder rate has spiked in Democrat-run cities where police are "de-funded."
  •   Democrats are willing to sacrifice your life at the altar of their global warming religion by depriving you of reliable, cost-effective energy.  Good luck heating your home this winter!
  •   They've required you to drive electric cars that don't work in the deep cold or when you're stuck in traffic trying to escape a hurricane.  Good luck with your evacuation plan!
  •   Democrats' policies have made food much more expensive, forcing some to choose whether to eat or spend on other necessities.
  •   Democrats have opened the borders, releasing vast amounts of fentanyl and meth into the country, killing more people than our wars.
The upshot is that Democrats are an existential threat to human life.  Maybe that's why nearly 80% of the people in a new CBS News/YouGov Battleground Tracker poll say that the country is "out of control."

No such thing as a 'Christian Democrat'.  This past week Matt Walsh posted the following comments on Twitter.  "The Democrats have settled on their closing argument:  'Vote for us so that we can castrate children, use your money to pay for abortions, and put pornography in the schools.  If you don't vote for us, then you are a Nazi and democracy will die.'  Fascinating political strategy."  In these few words, Mr. Walsh highlighted a sad and sobering fact:  The Democrat party is now so extreme that no serious follower of Christ can align with it.  There is no longer any such thing as a "Christian Democrat."

Mandela Barnes: 'Oil Is Destroying the World'.  Mandela Barnes, the Wisconsin Democratic Senate candidate, said in 2015 that he believes "oil is destroying the world" — an apocalyptic claim that conflicts with his more recent campaign promise to try to make gas more affordable for consumers.  "Oil is destroying the world in every possible way," Barnes, Wisconsin's lieutenant governor, said on Twitter in 2015.  The remark is the latest evidence of Barnes's extreme opposition to domestic energy production, which he has attempted to soften on the campaign trail.  The news comes as Democratic leaders have struggled with political fallout from rising energy prices, after years of demonizing and blocking domestic oil and gas projects.  Since launching his campaign, Barnes has emphasized his support for renewable energy and transitioning away from fossil fuels while also saying he wants to "lower gas prices" for consumers.

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Anyone with common sense should know that doing away with fossil fuels will not result in "lower gas prices."  A public official merely talking about eliminating fossil fuels can lead to higher gas prices.

John Fetterman's Hometown Paper Endorses Republican Oz for Pennsylvania's Next Senator.  Radical John Fetterman's hometown paper on Sunday endorsed Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz for Pennsylvania's next senator.  The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announced it believes "Oz is the better bet for Pennsylvania" for a variety of reasons, including concerns over the Democrat's lack of real work experience, maturity, and anti-fracking policies: [...] The endorsement comes after the two candidates debated on Tuesday.  The debate was widely seen to be a victory for Oz, who successfully highlighted Fetterman's radical positions of anti-franking, abortions up until birth, and soft-on-crime law enforcement policies.  Oz's betting odds increased 20 points after the debate.

Despite turbulent Senate race, Oz [is] better prepared to lead.  Mr. Fetterman's health — he suffered a serious stroke in May — is not the issue.  His lack of transparency, however, in refusing to release his medical records is troubling.  It suggests an impulse to conceal and a mistrust of the people.  All candidates for a major elected office should release their medical records, as did Mr. Oz.  If you want privacy, don't run for public office.  Mr. Fetterman's life experience and maturity are also concerns.  He has lived off his family's money for much of his life.  That has allowed him to do some good things, including mentoring disadvantaged young people and working to improve community policing and economic development in Braddock.  That work, along with his six-foot-eight frame, shaved head and tattoos, attracted national media attention.  Still, Mr. Fetterman, despite his hoodies and shorts, has little experience in holding real jobs or facing the problems of working people.

Fetterman: A Civilizational Train Wreck.  Did the Pennsylvania D/S/C Party, whoever runs it, the state puppet masters, seek the advice of the White House puppet masters?  Did whoever is actually running the country convince the PA D/S/Cs they could run Fetterman, just as they ran Biden, and in him, have their useful idiot?  Do they believe, after nearly two years of Biden and all the destruction they've used him to wreak, they can do the same with any mentally deficient candidate at any level?  Are they that desperate to retain control of the Senate?  Do they think a red wave may be within the margin of fraud this time?  Do they truly believe the American people, particularly Pennsylvanians, are that stupid?

Ten Reasons to Vote Democrat.  [#1] You like your leaders brain-dead and nearly as old as Methuselah.  Among the leaders Democrats have "voted" into office is our senile and incontinent president, Crusty Joe, 80 years old in a month and growing more deeply fried by the day; speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, age 82, soon to be deposed and, by the looks of her face, already far along in the embalming process; Senator Dianne Feinstein, 89, and rumored to no longer recognize anyone else in the Senate; and Pat "Leaky" Leahy, the 82-year-old president pro tempore of the Senate, whose nickname undoubtedly now has a double meaning.  If you think great-grandparents should run anything more complicated than a potato peeler, much less the most powerful country in the world, then vote "D" in a few days, and we'll all see what happens!

The Democrat party is evolving as a tool of the deep state.  Who is in charge of the Democrat party?  Democrat voters?  Supporters of politicians who vow to abolish socioeconomic injustices, but who instead tacitly perpetuate them so they can continue to promise to abolish them, in exchange for continued support at the ballot box.  Voters do not control the Party -- they are manipulated by it.  The media?  No.  Devoid of original thought they are the propaganda arm of the Party, promoting the Party narrative to give vent to their own personal grievances.  They merely amplify the Party agenda.  Democrat politicians?  Traditionally probably so, but that appears to be changing.  The Party has evolved, installing an unprincipled, senile president and an incompetent vice president, now touting a senatorial candidate who is patently impaired by post-stroke aphasia, and propping up a senile senior senator from California.  And it has no bright shining stars as potential future leaders.  It appears to be staffing its policy-generating apparatus with puppets.  If they can read the cue cards, they can run for office.

Have Democrats Lost Interest in the Working Man?  Perhaps the most telling example of the Democratic Party's abandonment of what used to be called "the working class" was the transparent effort of this regime to have the federal government illegally absorb a trillion dollars in college student loans this fall.  These are largely people earning six figures per year, a high percentage of them with advanced degrees.  These aren't the hardworking longshoremen, railroad engineers, and factory assembly line workers who used to form the core of the Democratic Party.  A lot of these college loan defaulters wouldn't know a lathe, conveyor belt, or arc welder from the background in their video games.  But blue collar workers' taxes (and their children's and grandchildren's taxes) will be paying off the masters degrees and doctorates of these latte-drinking vegans for the next 100 years.  How easily the Biden-Harris regime threw their old base overboard to take care of their new base.  The greenies and academics, the counter-culturists and bureaucrats.  These are the Democratic Party's base today.

Top 10 Reasons To Vote For Mandela Barnes In Wisconsin:
  [#1]   Barnes supports defunding the police.
  [#2]   Barnes trashed police officers in an appearance on a Russian propaganda network.
  [#3]   Barnes lied about being endorsed by police officers.
  [#4]   Barnes said police officers coming from suburban areas to work in Milwaukee are "like an occupying force."
  [#5]   Barnes said "police don't prevent crimes from happening."
  [#6]   Barnes downplayed the violent and destructive 2020 Wisconsin riots on at least seven occasions.
  [#7]   Barnes was a founding member and previously served on the board of an organization that seeks to defund the police, end gang databases, empty prisons, abolish private insurance, end fossil fuels, oppose voter ID, and make Wisconsin a sanctuary state.
  [#8]   Barnes wants to end cash bail. [...]
  [#12]   Barnes thinks it's "unfortunate" convicted felons are unable to vote from prison.

New Democratic strategy before the midterm elections: Deny crime exists.  As crime abounds in major cities and voters continue to cite violence as a top concern, liberals may have a new strategy:  deny it exists.  Democratic St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones tried this recently after the personal finance website WalletHub declared her city the most dangerous in the United States.  "We know the region as a whole is very safe," Jones said.  She also told the media, "I don't get my news from a place that does credit bureau reporting."  "WalletHub doesn't live here, and isn't here, but if they take random statistics from random newspapers, then of course," Jones said.  "You're only looking at a population of 300,000 people, so those rates are going to seem like it's violent."  But WalletHub did not "take random statistics from random newspapers."  Instead, it relied on data from the FBI, the Census Bureau, and Pew Charitable Trust, among other sources.

The Switcheroos of the Two Parties.  Our two parties have both changed, and that explains why one will win, and one lose in the midterm elections.  The old Democrats have faded away after being overwhelmed by radicals and socialists.  Moderates who once embraced former President Bill Clinton's opportunistic "third way" are now either irrelevant or nonexistent.  Once considered too wacky and socialist to be taken seriously, Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., the performance-art "squad," the radicals of the Congressional Black Caucus, and Senator Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and her hard progressive wing are today's Democratic Party kingpins.

Oregon Voters Say They've Lost Patience With Democrats.  After nearly four decades of Democratic control, voters in Oregon are ready for a change of leadership.  "I don't like the Democratic approach to anything that's happening," said Terri, who lives with her husband outside of Salem and dropped her party affiliation two years ago.  "I used to be a Democrat for 40 years."  Like many voters who spoke with the Washington Free Beacon, Terri is fed up with President Joe Biden and Oregon governor Kate Brown (D.).  She said both have attempted to woo progressives with policies that undermine public safety and contribute to record inflation.  "I want law and order.  I want people who have committed crimes to be prosecuted," she said before gesturing to her liberal friend seated next to her.  "We want help for those who need it — not help for everybody, like this administration is doing, just handing out money willy-nilly."  Her friend agreed.  That dissatisfaction is threatening Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tina Kotek's chances in Oregon, where voters rank crime and the economy as top concerns.

Every House Democrat just voted against parental rights legislation.  House Democrats on Thursday unanimously voted to block legislation that would have required informed parental consent before a school provides mental health services related to sexual orientation or gender identity to students.  In a 220-208 vote, the House rejected an attempt by Republicans to amend a bill that seeks to bolster mental health care for students, educators, and school staff negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.  Titled the Mental Health Matters Act, the legislation would award grants to build a pipeline of school-based mental health services providers and increase the number of professionals providing mental health services to elementary and secondary schools in high-need areas.  The Department of Education would be responsible for allocating those grants.

Violent Crime Is Driving a Red Wave.  Since crime is essentially a local issue, why does it hurt Democrats running for national or statewide office?  Because the Democratic Party has associated itself with the notion that "social justice" and "racial equality" require fundamentally changing policing and incarceration.  The problem, they say, is police, not criminals.  In practice, that means Democrats, especially progressives, favor weaker law enforcement, easier conditions for bail (even for those charged with violent offenses), and less funding for police officers.  That message was encapsulated in the slogans "defund the police" and "reimagine policing," which took hold in 2020 after George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis cop.  Not all Democrats embraced this self-defeating fad.  Joe Biden, notably, spoke out against it.  But progressives marched in lock-step, and their policies became the party's dominant message on crime.  Not just dominant, uncontested.

Masked Tim Ryan Holds 'Town Hall' with 'Super Excited' Crowd of 19.  On Tuesday, U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), the far-left extremist pretending to be a moderate, wore a mask and informed a throng of 19, "We're super excited about this race.  We are going to win it by more than people think."  Who is this "we" you speak of, Kemosabe?  Look at the video of this hapless event:  [Video clip]  How would you like to be two weeks out of a hotly contested and consequential election and have only 19 people show up at your "town hall"?

How Democrats Learned To Love Ignoring Voters.  Imagine a conference room full of Democratic operatives strategizing campaign themes and one says "hey, maybe we should layoff the Jan. 6 stuff and focus on issues that the vast majority of everyday Americans really care about?"  The first sound heard in response would be crickets.  The second sound would be of a pink slip hitting the table.  The third sound would be the revocation of a building security clearance.  The fourth sound would be the pinging of cell phones as the entire room simultaneously engages in ritualized contact info removal.  In other words, many Democrats are engaged in campaigns that are not being run by people who are — first and foremost — interested in winning but by people who are deathly afraid of saying the wrong thing, being socially ostracized, and seeing their future careers instantaneously evaporate in a woke cloud of revenge.

Unreliable and harmful clams.  [Scroll down] We are winning on multiple fronts.  Last weekend, PayPal said it would confiscate $2,500 from anyone who spread misinformation.  The backlash had PayPal back down within 24 hours.  Nonetheless, its stock tanked on Monday.  People are leaving and they should because PayPal will still steal your money if it deems you intolerant, which is their way of saying conservative.  DC comics is losing its gay Superman.  He's being sent to his doom as a spinoff comic that even fewer people will buy. 'Tis a sign that people have lost interest in LGBT.  Bros, a homo romcom, tanked at movie theaters.  Even gays don't want to see men kiss.  DeSantis beat Disney.  Florida schools will no longer groom kindergarteners for sexual perversion.  Disney World now will face local laws and pay local taxes.  Brandon Morse reported that Discovery, the new owners of Warner Brothers, is abandoning wokeness in favor of having audiences for its movies, TV shows and cartoons.  The first victim was a woke version of Batgirl.  The company ate the $70 million it cost to make the film because it had to protect the Batman brand.

Why Everything Is a Mess and You're Paying For It.  There's a reason inflation and the economy are the most prominent issues in voters' minds:  For almost two years, the cost of every last thing you buy has been going up at a pace that considerably outstrips the (nominal) growth in wages.  What that means is simple: Your standard of living is going down.  And the electorate correctly senses that our real problems have only just begun.  The consensus is that because inflation is continuing at a high if not ruinous rate, the Fed will continue to have to raise interest rates to suppress business activity and consumer demand.  That means we're in for a recession.  The only realistic questions among those willing to face reality are how deep and for how long.  Among the MSM, of course, it's impolite to say "recession," so you don't hear it that much (and won't until after November 8).  The only things it's polite to say are "abortion" and "January 6."

Nearly 80% Of Voters OpposeTransgender Procedures On Minors.  A new poll found that nearly 80% of American voters believe that minors should be required to wait until they are adults to pursue transgender procedures.  The national survey, conducted by Convention of States Action, in partnership with The Trafalgar Group, polled over 1,000 likely 2022 election voters in October.  When asked if they "believe underage minors should be required to wait until they are adults to use puberty blockers and undergo permanent sex change procedures," the poll found that 78.7% of all respondents comprising Democrats, Republicans, and non-partisan affiliations said they should "wait."  "The idea that young people have to be 16 to drive, 18 to vote, and 21 to drink, and yet can undergo life-altering medical procedures in middle school defies common sense, and the American people see that clearly," said Mark Meckler, president of the Convention of States.

Americans Shell Out Or Shiver While Biden Ships Our Energy Off To Europe.  A trend is emerging in the Biden administration's foreign policy, a perpetual obsession with supporting Europe above and even at the expense of U.S. needs at home.  In response to attacks on the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline system, Secretary of State Antony Blinken called the situation in Europe a "tremendous opportunity to once and for all remove the dependence on Russian energy."  Blinken went on to tout the ability of U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) producers to meet heightened European demand, conveniently forgetting it was the Biden administration's executive actions that stifled production capacity within its first 100 days in office.  Careful, Mr. Secretary, with too much premature boasting.  Blinken's naïve comments, practically salivating at the idea of saving Europe, indicate just how much the Biden administration does not want the war in Ukraine to end.  The conflict has become the administration's sacred cow, allowing it to cover up domestic political blunders and receive heaps of praise from European elites, perhaps the toughest crowd globally for the U.S. post-Trump.  What goes unsaid is that all this European love comes at the expense of the interests and bank account balances of American households.

Pelosi's 'Winning' Message To Voters: Quit Griping About Inflation.  To all those suffering from skyrocketing prices, struggling to make ends meet, going to food kitchens to feed their families, breaking the bank just to fill up their tanks, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has a message for you.  Quit your griping and vote Democratic.  That is the "new and improved" messaging that Pelosi thinks will win over voters in November.

The View Defends Felons Committing Voter Fraud in Florida.  Leave it to ABC's The View to take up the position that murderers, pedophiles, and other sex offenders deserve to vote and commit voter fraud.  That was the hill they wanted to die on Wednesday after body-camera video surfaced showing Florida law enforcement officers arresting individuals accused of illegally voting.  The cast didn't seem to know what the law was with one claiming they were illegally arrested and another claiming the Republicans were cheating to win.

Eight things that killed the Democrat Party.  The old Democrat Party is gone.  In its place is a radical Libertine Party, full of itself and full of radical sexual, cultural, and economic ideas that have all but killed their chances of ever getting legitimately elected again.

Rep. Cori Bush spent $500K in campaign cash on security while calling to defund the police.  A Democratic member of Congress who still supports the "Defund the Police" movement has spent nearly $500,000 in campaign funds on private security, according to a report Sunday [10/16/2022].  Federal Election Commission records show that US Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.), a former Black Lives Matter activist, shelled out more than $100,000 for "security services" during the third quarter of 2022, Fox News said.  The spending pushed Bush's campaign outlays on private security during the 2020-22 election cycle to more than $490,000, according to the outlet.  The security payments were first reported in July 2021 by Fox News Digital, and during an interview with CBS News that August, Bush — a member of the progressive group of progressive Democratic house members known as "The Squad" — vehemently defended the spending.

Biden wants high gas prices — he just doesn't want voters to notice.  Team Biden displayed some rare honesty Thursday, essentially admitting the prez is fine with high gasoline prices — he just doesn't want them to hurt Democrats in the midterms.  Rather than deny Saudi claims that Washington had only asked for a month's delay of OPEC+ plans to cut oil production, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby confessed: "We presented Saudi Arabia with an analysis" that showed OPEC "could easily wait" until its next meeting before its planned reductions.  And that next meeting is Dec. 4, after America votes.  Our own Michael Goodwin rightly and thoroughly flagged one outrage here:  This is a clear case of asking a foreign power to interfere in US elections, exactly the charge Democrats used to impeach President Donald Trump.  So let us beat home another obscenity:  This is further proof that no amount of American suffering will end President Joe Biden's war on gas and oil.

Jill Biden Gets Mercilessly Booed at Eagles Game During Coin Toss.  Jill Biden was in Philadephia on Sunday and she went to the Eagles game with Dallas at Lincoln Financial Field.  Biden was designated the honorary captain for the night and was standing at midfield during the coin toss when they flashed her picture on the big screen.  [Tweet]  That's when the booing erupted and let her have it.  It must have been pretty substantial from what the people were saying.  [More tweets]

Cuellar shocks TX-28 voters with loyalty to Pelosi, puts district second at campaign office opening.  Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar (TX- 28) said the quiet part out loud during a campaign office opening.  He pledged loyalty to Nancy Pelosi, promising his supporters that he would vote for her for Speaker of the House as his first action in his next term if he is re-elected.  Then, after that, his focus will be only on his district.  What an odd thing to say as an endangered conservative Democrat in a race considered to be a toss-up.  Rep. Henry Cuellar is the only pro-life Democrat currently serving in the House.  He is a border hawk and a vocal critic of Biden's border crisis.  He takes pride in being a moderate who works with Republicans.  The point is that he does not usually sound like a typical House Democrat.  Yet, he sure sounded like one as he opened a new campaign office in his district.

Elites suddenly realize they need blue-collar workers they derided.  "The problem with living under postmodernism," Dean Hunter Baker commented, "is that everyone is constantly tending the narrative instead of doing something useful."  It does seem that way, especially if you run in my circles.  But of course, plenty of people are doing something useful.  The world is full of those whose diligent and largely unsung work makes the lights stay on, the grocery shelves fill with food, the toilets flush and even the internet run.  They have been ignored, denigrated and even subjected to a species of economic warfare for the last several decades, but suddenly people are starting to notice that they matter.  It's what Joel Kotkin calls "the revenge of the material economy."  The material economy stopped being cool sometime in the 1990s.

Tulsi Gabbard Sounds Alarm on Clinton, Other Dems: If You Go Against Them, 'You're Dead'.  Former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii on Tuesday labeled the Democratic Party as a group dominated by ideologues who stomp out dissent for the sake of their power.  "I think the Democratic Party leaders, people like Hillary Clinton, people who've been in charge for a very long time, foment this kind of culture of fear and like, hey, if you go against us, like you're dead, you're on the [bad] list," she said during an appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast, according to one segment posted to Twitter.  "You have kind of the very loud activists who don't represent, I think, even the majority of the Democratic Party, but the AOCs of the world who are almost like these radical religious zealots, and they are idealogues and whatever they choose is the battle of the day, if you are against them on that, forget it.  You're done," Gabbard, who announced her departure from the party on Tuesday, said.

Voting in Arizona in 2022.  Though I am not partisan, and have always distrusted Republicans as much as Democrats, this year my choices are very partisan.  The Democratic Party has become very very corrupt.  The best thing Americans can do to clean up that party is to throw out as many of its elected officials as possible.  At that point the party will be faced with a stark choice:  shift gears, change leadership, or die (allowing a new party to replace it).  With any of these options, the voters would be provided with a new choice in future elections, coming from a different direction.  I am also making recommendations in connection with statewide and local propositions, several of which are hidden mines designed to eliminate what little election security we presently have.  Voters must know this.

This is what lawyers are for.
Journalist Called Child Protective Services on State Senate Candidate — for Celebrating Columbus Day with Her Daughter.  A leftist journalist called Child Protective Services on a Republican state Senate candidate and single mother because she teaches her daughter to celebrate Columbus Day.  Apparently, celebrating the man who made it possible for America to exist and for us to live here falls under the leftist definition of "abuse."  Self-described "Award-Winning Multimedia Journalist" David Leavitt called Child Protective Services (CPS) on Republican Virginia state Senate candidate and single mom Tina Ramirez for being pro-Columbus Day.  The drama began when Ramirez referenced PayPal's recent attempt to fine "misinformation"-spreaders $2,500.  Ramirez tweeted, "Only women can be pregnant.  Do I owe PayPal $2500 now?"  Leavitt replied with the highly rational comment, "Why are you celebrating torture, rape, murder, and enslavement?"  Ramirez, apparently realizing that Leavitt was referring to Columbus Day, tweeted, "I teach my daughter real American history.  I refuse to join the radical left's campaign to erase history."

Tulsi Gabbard leaves Democratic Party.  Former Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard announced she left the Democratic Party on Tuesday, denouncing the organization as an "elitist cabal."  Gabbard, who retired from the House of Representatives in 2021, attacked the institution in a nearly 30-minute video posted to her YouTube account.  She did not announce plans to join the Republican Party or adopt any other political affiliation, however.  "I can no longer remain in today's Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue & stoke anti-white racism," Gabbard said in an excerpt posted to Twitter.  She went on to call on other moderate Democrats to follow in her footsteps.

Tulsi Gabbard Announces She's Leaving the Democratic Party.  For several years now, former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has openly spoken out against Democratic leadership, first in 2015 when she was the Vice Chair of the DNC and made waves after calling for more debates between the Democratic party candidates for president because she (correctly) believed the system put in place by then-Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz was being rigged in favor of Hillary Clinton before the people even had a chance to cast their votes.  She left the DNC in protest in 2016.  Three years later, Gabbard threw her hat into the ring and ran for the party's presidential nomination herself, along the way criticizing the "powerful elitists" within the party who she continued to believe were squelching debate in favor of their preferred candidates.  Though she didn't win the nomination, Gabbard again caused a stir within party ranks when she effectively torpedoed then-Sen. Kamala Harris' presidential run by scorching her over her record as California's top prosecutor during a July 2019 debate.  Between that, and Gabbard's growing concerns over their obsession with "wokeness" and also what she felt were the party's increasing "warmonger" tendencies, it was only a matter of time before she decided to leave the party.

Americans Must Permanently Marginalize the Perpetual Adolescents of the American Left.  Currently in the United States, less than 8% of Americans identify as very liberal or essentially Marxist and another 11% identify as liberal.  Yet this small subset (19%) of Americans dominates the culture, entertainment, education, the federal bureaucracy and most importantly, the Democrat party.  In November of 2022, the 81% of Americans who do not identify with the left must begin the process of permanently defeating the radical left and their fatuous acolytes if the nation is avoid the precipice toward which it is headed.  The United States must not be destroyed by the American Marxists and their attendant gaggle of egotistical and perpetual adolescents; therefore, the counter strategy is to denigrate these buffoons by never missing an opportunity to call them out, and above all by ignoring their infantile tactics as they have no weapon other than words and idle threats.  In other words, treat them as the adolescents they are.

Democrats Are Afraid to Debate GOP Opponents.  Americans have long since come to expect debates between candidates for major public office.  For many voters, these encounters provide the only opportunity to see how competing candidates comport themselves in a venue that is nominally beyond their control.  In close contests, these debates can sometimes be crucial to the final outcome.  Yet, as the November midterms rapidly approach, many Democrats have been extremely reluctant to meet their Republican opponents face-to-face on a debate stage.  Indeed, in several high-profile contests, they have flatly refused to do so.

A massive indictment of the Democrat party.  The U.S. Constitution, by limiting federal power, is designed to protect the individual citizen from external coercion. [...] By supporting big government at the expense of the individual, Democrats threaten to transform America into a totalitarian nightmare.  President Biden has declared that the "most lethal elements" in our society are political conservatives.  In true Stalinist fashion, the DoJ, the FBI, and the media are being weaponized to go after Biden's political opponents.  Armed FBI agents raided the homes of Roger Stone, James O'Keefe, Paul Manafort, and dozens of other Trump-supporters, to say nothing of the raid on Mar-a-Lago.  "The FBI is now an organization solely focused on destroying the domestic enemies of the Democratic Party," said radio host Jesse Kelly.  The implication is that if you distrust Biden's government, you are considered a terrorist and must be hunted down.  Democrats will not hesitate to deprive you of your basic rights if it suits their purpose.  In their war on free speech, Democrats have attempted to silence anyone who denies global warming, criticizes Islamic terrorism, advocates a stronger military, or questions the validity of the 2020 election.

How Liberals Respond When You Try to Debate Them.  [Scroll down] It is my belief that this inability to discuss political issues is because my liberal friends look only at online sites that share their worldview; they watch only TV news that reinforces their worldview; they discuss politics only with people who share their worldview; and they often look at social media that make them think the liberal view on a topic is the only rational one to have.  This isolationism creates an echo chamber, where only one type of ideology is allowed in, and this forces liberals to think of conservatives as caricatures of what conservatives really believe.

Democratic candidate running in toss-up race called to end oil and gas 'immediately,' said 'shut it all down'.  A Democratic candidate for Congress from New Mexico is looking to walk back recently unearthed comments he previously made indicating he supported ending oil and gas extraction "immediately."  Gabe Vasquez, a former city council member of Las Cruces, New Mexico, said in 2018 he agreed with environmentalists who sought to get rid of oil and gas extraction "immediately" in favor of renewable energy.  As the November midterm elections approach, Vasquez has recently called the oil and gas industry "incredibly important to this district" not just for the extraction companies themselves, but for the small businesses that support the fossil fuel industry.z

Poll: Almost No One Wants Sexualized Smut in K-12 Classrooms.  A large majority of likely voters (77%) are at least somewhat concerned that school-age children get exposed to sexually explicit material that is not age appropriate.  Even 61% of Democrats and 50% who call themselves liberal fall into this category.  In all gender, race, and age categories except for voters 18-39, 50% or more say they are very concerned.  Oddly, likely voters in major cities are a bit more concerned than those living in small cities and suburbs.  Without exception, a majority of likely voters across race, gender, and age groups say they believe it is at least somewhat likely that sexually-explicit materials are available in public school libraries.

Gun Rights Make for Good Manners and Safe Nations.  If good fences make good neighbors, then surely, well armed citizens make for good manners.  Just as respect for another's privacy and personal boundaries paradoxically creates common bonds, the expectation that those around us are capable of standing up for themselves, or defending their own lives if necessary, establishes an equality among strangers otherwise possessing vastly different natural strengths.  The "woke" victimhood cult dedicated to confiscating guns steadily ignores this point.  "Woke" culture, such as it is, may be the most parasitic, selfish, and unimpressive shared creed to clog so many human minds.  It offers nothing original or enlightening, artistic or inspiring, but rather picks at the ordinary sores of Western civilization's profound accomplishments, preaching grievance and spreading acrimony, tunneling through society's rot much the same way dung beetles feed and breed in chambers of filth.  Since morals, customs, and proper etiquette have been jettisoned so that "woke" scolds may scream and bellyache to the world, these mental gnats believe that "good manners" are archaic social chains from another era, or worse, proof that a racist, patriarchal system of behaviors exists to keep women and minorities under perpetual control.  Nothing could be farther from the truth.

Amy Klobuchar Shamelessly Uses Hurricane Ian to [improve] Her Party's Advantage Ahead of Midterms.  There have been some just outright shameless takes when it comes to how Hurricane Ian is headed for Florida, where Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is in charge.  Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) went a particular step by incorporating it into the upcoming November midterms.  While calling into MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Tuesday morning, she used the hurricane as an opportunity to campaign for Democrats now just six weeks before the November 8.  Klobuchar herself isn't up for re-election until 2024. [...] As evidenced by the clip, Klobuchar is ranting about the need to elect more Democrats, in part because of an "abortion ban."  She also listed the supposed successes of a Democratically-controlled Congress, and the need to continue those successes.  "We gotta win this midterm.  We just did something about climate change, for the first time in decades.  That's why we've gotta win this, as that hurricane bears down on Florida.  We gotta win in the midterms.  We understand that," she breathlessly rushed out.  Democrats having "just did something about climate change" appears to be in the form of the misnamed "Inflation Reduction Act."

Most Americans Less Likely To Vote For Candidates Who Let Biological Males Compete In Women's Sports.  More than 60% of voters are less likely to back candidates who support allowing biological men to compete in women's sports, according to a September CRC Research poll obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.  Approximately 49% of voters are "much less likely" and 13% of voters are "somewhat less likely" to choose a candidate who is in favor of permitting biological men to compete in women's athletics, according to the poll.  About 86% of Republicans, 65% of Independents and 37% of Democrats said they were less likely to vote for a candidate who support transgender athletes.  Of the voters, 57% believe the transgender movement undermines "significant opportunities and essential protections for women," the poll showed.  Nearly 45% of Democratic voters and 69% of Republican voters believe this statement to be true.

Traitors: NBC News slammed after suggesting that the Feds should begin censoring text messages.  NBC News has proven yet again that 'mainstream' media outlets in America are nothing but propagandists for the deep state, which is exactly the opposite of the vision our founders had for a "free press."  NBC published a story exaggerating the issue of supposed "disinformation" going out via text messages, citing one campaign that nearly ended what the outlet described as "abortion protections" in Kansas to make its point.  In addition, the 'story' referenced a former Obama campaign official, Scott Goodstein, who "built the bulk text messaging apparatus for" the former president's 2008 campaign, who now claims that Americans are being inundated with text message "disinformation."

Remembering Hate Speech.  It has been a canard of the Left that "words matter."  We are lectured that "hate speech" leads inevitably to street violence.  So how ironic that the Left defames nearly half of America as dangerous "semi-fascist" extremists, white-raged and privileged, ultra MAGA, and guilty of all sorts of thought crimes from secession to civil insurrection?  And what is the result?  Does this constant demonization matter?  And what are the bitter fruits of such labors?  After all, what did Barack Obama long ago mean by "clingers" or once Hillary Clinton by "deplorables" and "irredeemables"?  What did Joe Biden imply by "dregs" and "chumps" and "semi-fascists"?  Or what did the FBI lovebirds really mean by smelly Walmart goers and "hillbillies"?  After a point, did not America get this monotonous message?  And what does Joe Biden really mean when he recycles his academic advisors' tired tropes of right-wing insurrectionists threatening the republic?

Muslims, Christians and Jews Unite To Demand Removal of Explicit Books From Dearborn, MI Public School Libraries.  How far are parents willing to let leftist educators go when it comes to the indoctrination of their children before they say "enough!"?  Will the Democrat lawmakers and leaders who are supporting the theft of our children's innocence pay a heavy price for supporting this radical "families last" ideology?  This weekend, a huge group of over 800 parents in the predominately Arab community of Dearborn, MI, came together to fight back against the sexualization of our children in public schools.  The huge crowd included Muslims, Christians, and Jews who are fed up with the sexualization of their children and are coming together to fight back.  Their goal is simple — Protect our children from the radical agenda of educators who allow explicit material on library shelves in public schools that can be accessed by students without consent from their parents.

Good!  And take your baby-killing employees with you.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Threatens to 'Exit' Republican-Led States If They Pass Pro-Life Legislation.  Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is threatening to pull his software company's operations out of Republican-run states if their policies do not align with his liberal worldview, specifically in regard to abortion policy.  Appearing on CNN Newsroom with Poppy Harlow on Friday, Benioff stated: "If you're not for equality and dignity, then this is something that I cannot work with, and then we're going to have to exit your city or your state."

Are Democrats Deliberately Choosing Impaired Candidates?  Once could be excused.  Twice is suspicious.  Three times seems like a strategy.  Are Democrats choosing infirm, intellectually challenged, feeble people to run for office so that they can be easily manipulated? [...] George Soros, the Obamas, Susan Rice, Valerie Jarrett, and many other wealthy, elite, no-borders, one-world Marxist climate zealots have an iron grip on the Democrat Party from bottom to top.  Are the elites deliberately choosing weak people so as to control them from behind the curtain?  We know they have done that with Biden, Kamala, and Fetterman.  Is this their new modus operandi; choose the weak who will bow to the strong because the weak are more palatable to voters than the strong?  After all, why run candidates with minds of their own when you can run a candidate who has a mind that can easily be hijacked for radical leftist causes?

New Poll Spells Disaster For Dems Who Backed Student Loan Forgiveness.  A majority of voters are saying they are less likely to support candidates running for office if they favor the Biden administration's student loan forgiveness plan, according to a Convention of States Action poll.  More than 55% of voters are "less likely" to back a candidate who is in favor of the Biden administration's student loan forgiveness plan, with about 31% saying they are "much more likely" to support those who backed the president's plan, according to a Convention of States' Action poll.  Among independent voters, 64.6% say they are "less likely" to choose candidates who back the forgiveness plan.  "We're seeing this reflected not just in the polling but on the ground as well with grassroots activists we talk to in every state," Convention of States President Mark Meckler said in a statement shared with Daily Caller News Foundation.  "Voters — particularly those must-win Independents — are appalled by Biden's plan and will respond at the ballot box.  This is looking like the sleeper issue that may have more impact in November than people suspect."

Biden and [his] Allies [are] Betting Voters Like Abortion as Much as They Do.  No matter who does abortion polling, it's clear that the Democratic Party platform and their agenda of abortion through all nine months, for any reason at all and with taxpayer funding, is a loser with most Americans.  Given all the recent stories claiming that Democrats are rising in the polls because of their support for abortion, a fact check is needed.  The math contradicts today's popular narrative because Americans don't want the radical abortion agenda pushed by Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer.  Case in point:  A Harvard Harris poll in June of this year found that not only did voters have tremendous concerns about the economy, Biden's overall performance and mental health, and runaway inflation, only 10% supported allowing abortion through all nine months, which mirrors other findings.  An NPR/PBS Newshour/Marist poll in May found that almost seven in 10 Americans support limits on abortion.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal Includes 9/11 Terrorists Among 'People Who Were Killed' that Day.  Far-left Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) included the 9/11 hijackers among "those who lost their lives" on that fateful day 21 years ago.  Though 2,977 people were killed in the attacks on September 11, 2001, Jayapal added an extra 19 to her commemorative death toll in a tribute on her Instagram and Twitter, bringing the number up to 2,996.  Jayapal deleted the tweet and edited her Instagram after the immediate backlash.  "Today, we remember the 2,996 people who were killed on 9/11 and all those who lost their lives while serving our country in the forever wars that followed," she initially tweeted.

The Reason Social Justice-Infected Shows Fail Isn't Racism, It's Actually Much Simpler.  The age of woke entertainment built its castle on the sand and with every new attempt to build on it, the castle becomes more and more unstable.  Studios reach for excuses as to why, and it typically involves blaming fans and viewers.  The list of social justice-infected movies and shows is a long one.  Ghostbusters 2016, Netflix's live-action Cowboy Beebop, Netflix's live-action Resident Evil show, She-Hulk, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and now Amazon's bastardization of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings with its "Rings of Power" show.  Each of these shows abused the source material, insulted the fans with awful accusations of bad character, and then wondered why audiences didn't show up to support it.

How Joe Biden Lost My Vote.  Joe Biden emerged from his speech last week "on the continued battle for the soul of our nation" like a squalling infant birthed from the loins of blue-check Twitter, bathed in the blood-red light of militant fascism.  He was finally their guy.  Gone was the empathy guy.  Gone was the unity guy.  Gone was the moderate guy.  Be mean, Joe.  Get them, Joe.  Get tough, Joe.  Tell them their participation in Democracy is a threat to ... Democracy!  Yes, tell them, Joe.  Tell the "MAGA Republicans" they're not welcome in their own country.  Tell them their participation is a threat to a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.  Tell them that Democracy means they have to sit down and shut up.  Tell the truck driver who travels coast to coast, working the graveyard shift, to bring freshly cut meat to supermarket shelves.  Tell the police officer, the waitress, the bartender, the cable guy, the grocery store clerk, the grandmother, the garage mechanic, the veteran who served in Afghanistan who now has been kicked out of the military for not taking the vaccine, the mother of two who now must home school her children -- that they are the violent extremists posing the biggest threat to the country they call home.

Are Democrats looking to provoke riots by arresting President Trump?  To try and head off a likely loss of the House of Representatives and prepare for the next presidential election, Democrats create situations which raise anxiety in citizens, and this increases the chances their candidate will prevail because voters know discord will then subside.  An example is Kathy Griffin's widely read statement:  "If you don't want a Civil War, vote for Democrats in November.  If you do want Civil War, vote Republican."  They make it very clear your life will only be peaceful if you keep Democrats in power, and they think that this is persuasive enough to tip elections. [...] In the past, Democrats fought a war inside the U.S., killing hundreds of thousands of Republican-backed Union soldiers in a grim civil war in order to keep humans as slaves.  Lately, legislation they filed shows they're for killing unborn babies right up until the moment before birth, or perhaps even after.  Most people would say owning slaves and killing babies is evil, so Democrats have shown what they were and are.

Biden's DOJ embraces bias and anti-religious bigotry.  Do you believe a baker has the right not to bake cakes for same-sex weddings?  Do you believe church daycare programs have just as much of a right as other such programs to apply for state grants?  Do you think pregnancy centers should not be forced by the government to tell pregnant women where to get an abortion?  If you support the First Amendment rights of any of these entities, then President Joe Biden's Department of Justice believes you're a bigot unworthy of associating with — or at least that is the message the department sends by protecting a senior DOJ official who attacked the nation's leading legal advocate of religious liberty.  The DOJ Civil Division's assistant director of commercial litigation is Eric Bruskin.  Last week, Bruskin labeled a reputable organization, the Alliance Defending Freedom, a "hate group" and told a former colleague online, "Are these beliefs you hold?  If so then it's time we end our professional association."

Meet Joe Biden's National Monkeypox Response Deputy Coordinator.  Dr. Demetre Daskalakis addressed White House reporters on Wednesday.  [Video clip] [...] The Biden Regime is full of perverts and weirdos.  Recall, Biden's Assistant Health Secretary Dr. "Rachel" Levine and his sidekick gender fluid pup handler Sam Brinton attended the French Ambassador's Bastille Day party together over the summer.

COVID Authoritarianism Paved the Way for Biden's Socialist Tyranny.  It seems as if the more Biden assumes the role of a dictator, the more inclined he is to proclaim himself democracy's "savior."  This kind of Napoleon complex is hardly unusual with Marxists.  Socialist regimes always arrive under the pretense of protecting the people, yet, as Lord Acton persistently warned, socialism remains "the worst enemy freedom has ever had to encounter."  White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said explicitly this last week that not agreeing with the majority "is an extreme way of thinking," while simultaneously accusing Trump-supporters of representing an "extremist threat to our democracy."  Anyone who doubts that majorities can be just as vicious as brutal dictators need only survey the aftermath of a torch and pitchfork mob.  Mob rule is democracy at its simplest and no friend to human liberty.  It is worth noting that after the elections of both President Donald Trump in 2016 and Prime Minister Boris Johnson in 2019, socialists, Antifa domestic terrorists, anti-Brexiteers, and other leftists took to the streets in huge mobs, clashing with police and chanting, "This is what democracy looks like."  Protest mobs have no illusions about what democracy means.

White House: Trump Supporters Are an 'Extreme Threat to Our Democracy'.  According to White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, Joe Biden considers Trump supporters an "extreme threat to our democracy."  "President thinks that there is an extremist threat to our democracy," Jean-Pierre said during Wednesday's press briefing.  "The President has been clear as he can be on that particular piece.  When we talk about our democracy, when we talk about our freedoms, the way that he sees it is the MAGA Republicans are the most energized part of the Republican Party.  That extreme — this is an extreme threat to our democracy, to our freedom, to our rights."

Bed Bath & Beyond Goes Broke.  "Go woke, go broke" is the slogan that keeps on giving.  The latest installment of woke, politically active retailers now facing financial ruin in the form of shuttering stores and mass layoffs is none other than conservative-hating Bed Bath & Beyond.  According to CNBC, the retailer announced this week that it will close down 150 namesake stores, as well as plans to hand out pink slips to a whopping 20% of its workforce, mostly in the supply chain and corporate sectors of the business.  The moves were announced ahead of an expected investor update on Wednesday in the company's seemingly desperate bid to stay afloat.  As you'll recall, BBB made headlines in early 2021 after it was confirmed by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell that the retailer had canceled his legendary MyPillow line at the same time he was involved with conservative activism on behalf of former President Donald Trump, specifically working on issues related to election fraud claims.

Bed Bath & Beyond stock tanks after cutting staff, closing stores, and floating share sale.  Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY) stock is getting smoked early Wednesday as investors get more clarity on the mess facing the struggling retailer.  On Wednesday morning, in an SEC filing and a press release ahead of an investor presentation, the company outlined plans to issue more stock, close 150 stores, and fire 20% of its staff as the retailer looks to stem the bleeding from a collapse in sales.  Shares of the retailer were down more than 21% as of the market close on Wednesday.

Kathy Hochul is keeping some creepy company in calling for dissidents to move to Florida.  New York's governor, Kathy Hochul, must have thought she was being clever by demanding the Republican citizens of New York to move to Florida if they weren't onboard with the wokester socialist way she was running her state: [...] Her state has already lost 1.5 million residents in the past decade, as the New York Post noted, and cannot afford to lose any more of them, given that those fleeing make up the largest portion of the tax base. [...] But she was hardly the first to engage in this leftist lunacy of ordering dissenting residents to live elsewhere.

And Now, the Left Moves to Normalize Pedophilia.  Many people have observed for years now that the total exclusion of morality from the public square, and the refusal to declare that any behavior was wrong in itself, would lead to the normalization of all manner of abhorrent behavior.  Such warnings seem almost quaint now, with drag queens in primary schools and toddlers being encouraged to undergo radical body mutilation.  In this insane environment, it is no surprise whatsoever that the Left is now pushing to make pedophilia as normal as a walk in the park.  The assault on traditional values is total and unyielding.  No quarter will be given.  The Post Millennial reported recently that "a professional counselor who works with incarcerated sex offenders defended pedophiles as a 'marginalized' minority in a recent YouTube upload, sparking criticism as clips from the video went viral on social media." Miranda Galbreath, who is a licensed sex therapist, posted a video which is, at least for now, unavailable.  It was entitled "Let's talk about minor-attracted persons."  In it, Galbreath advocates for the use of the term "minor attracted people" and claims that the term "pedophile" is a "judgmental, hurtful insult."  She says that pedophiles are "the most vilified population of folks."

Fetterman's Prior Remarks About Criminals Are Making Jaws Drop.  The Senate race shouldn't be at all close in Pennsylvania if people just take a look a John Fetterman and his radical ideas.  But some of his prior remarks on crime are now getting a lot more attention now that he's running for the Senate.  While styling himself as a working-class everyman, Fetterman lived off his well-off parents into his late forties.  Most people can't live off their wealthy parents, most of us have to earn a living.  Perhaps that's why Fetterman has such an affection for far-left politics because he hasn't had to live in the real world for most of his life with real-world responsibilities.

Did Biden Just Call for Warfare Against Republicans?  There it is.  He said it out loud.  Joe Biden thinks you're a fascist.  And the difference between this and the last epithet conservatives were called around election time is that this time Biden has an armed FBI and Antifa to act as his punishing squad.  Gladly.  Here's what the president told a Democratic Party fundraiser near the White House on Thursday.  "What we're seeing now is either the beginning of the death knell of the extreme MAGA philosophy.  It's not just Trump, it's the entire philosophy that underpins the — I'm going to say something — it's like semi-fascism," he said, according to a pool reporter.  "This is not your father's Republican Party.  This is a different deal."

Kathy Hochul's call for 5.4M Republicans to leave New York is dangerous and disgusting.  Gov. Kathy Hochul, who hasn't proven shy about issuing orders, had one for the state's Republicans this week — all 5.4 million of them: "Just jump on a bus and head down to Florida where you belong, OK?" she said.  "You are not New Yorkers."  If you can move beyond the frankly disgusting political partisanship and intolerance, her message is fiscally irresponsible, even dangerous.  The governor probably already knows this, but the state's extensive public sector is heavily reliant on personal income taxes paid by residents, and with nearly $14 billion in projected budget gaps over the next five years, it can't afford to lose any taxpayers, let alone 5.4 million of them.  The Empire State has already lost 1.5 million residents in the past decade, and there's no sign of that trend letting up.

James Carville: 'Majority' of GOP Voters 'Really Stupid' Evil Racists.  Democratic consultant and political commentator James Carville said in an interview with The Hill TV that the "majority" of Republican voters are "stupid" and "evil."  Discussing the brand of the Democratic Party, Carville said, "So much of what has happened to my party is we tend to get defined by some over-educated, totally doofus coastal elites that are out trying to write dictionaries or something unrelated to anybody's life.  And that kind of stuff has a tendency to be very sticky, to stick with people.  It is not who the party is.  They are a very small part of the Democratic Party."  He continued, "These people have the ability to irritate.  They have the ability to come up with really stupid things, like 'Defund the Police,' the three worst words ever in the English language, maybe.  And you know, 'Let's get rid of Abraham Lincoln.'  That takes a really smart person to come up with that. [...]"

Stop Calling Them Democrats. They're Communists.  We've been conditioned to believe that communism is just a myth, that it isn't real, or even if it is real, it only exists in faraway places like China, and anyone who mentions it is a conspiracist who deserves ridicule.  But let's review a few basics:
  •   They're raiding and jailing their political opponents.
  •   They're turning the FBI, CIA, and IRS against American citizens.
  •   They've come out against freedom of speech, religion, press, the Second Amendment, and other core American ideals.
  •   They've abandoned the rule of law, and now have one set of laws for themselves and another for the rest of us.
  •   They're deliberately trying to bankrupt us — sometimes directly (through shutting down businesses), sometimes indirectly (through wasting trillions of our dollars.)
  •   They're indoctrinating our children with radical ideologies.
  •   They celebrate infanticide.
  •   They're making secret deals with foreign entities against our interests.
  •   They're deliberately keeping our borders wide open to erase our national identity.
  •   They mandate groupthink and conformity and punish anyone who doesn't parrot their chosen narratives, however absurd.
  •   They're purging the best from our military and converting what's left into a tool of Wokeism.
  •   They've transformed our once-great American cities into crime-ridden hellscapes.
  •   They relentlessly stoke division between everyone and never miss the slightest opportunity to accuse someone or something of being racist, sexist, phobic, supremacist, etc.
  •   They constantly work to slander, cancel, and erase our Founding Fathers, American heroes, and America itself.  (E.g., they removed the statue of Theodore Roosevelt from the American Museum of Natural History.)
  •   They want to defund the police, release criminals from prisons and disarm the rest of us.
  •   They defend terrorists.  (Joe Biden: "Antifa is an idea, not an organization.")
  •   They've ignored the first principle of the Nuremberg Code, which was written in the aftermath of WWII, and which explicitly prohibits coerced consent for experimental medications.
  •   They've tried to corrupt elections on a national scale.
  •   They've openly stated their desire to abolish the family structure itself.
  •   They've threatened to abolish the filibuster, pack the Supreme Court, and dismantle the electoral college system.
  •   They're criminalizing normality on multiple fronts.
  •   They've taken down American flags and raised other flags in government buildings and city streets, symbolizing their stealth political takeover.
  •   Their leaders have literally kneeled to one form of the cause they actually serve in the Capital building.
This list could go on, yet they accuse us of turning against America.

Everything Is Worse and You Are Just Supposed to Take It.  You are asking for too much, you terrible person.  You want cheap gas and a functioning supply chain, air conditioning and not to eat bugs.  But most of all, you expect the elite to actually do its job, and for that, you are terrible.  And racist.  Bums litter our streets figuratively and — in ghastly form — literally.  Criminals run rampant unmolested by the gendarmes, who have been told — expressly and impliedly — to let the crooks be.  Our economy is sensational, groovy, glorious — except for the inflation and the hollowing out of your 401K.  Try to buy a house instead of renting — just try.  The globalist elite has failed in doing what we want, but it seems to be doing what it wants.  It is gathering power and payoffs unto itself, and that is precisely the goal.

The Creepy Weirdness Of Democrats Is Best Understood When They Talk About Law Enforcement.  Nothing captures just how bizarre and unearthly Democrats have become than when they get to talking about police and law enforcement.  (Their fixation with gender bending is a close second.)  It would honestly do them a lot of good to just stop discussing the issue altogether.  You can see it on their faces how hard it is to articulate simple concepts like, "criminals should be in jail," or, "police deserve respect."  They would rather complicate the issue by talking about the history of slavery, "disadvantaged communities," and — my favorite — systemic oppression.  All the data show that across the board, regardless of race, the overwhelming majority of police and civilian interactions are fine; that minorities call on cops for help at a far higher rate than whites; and that the chance of an unarmed black man being killed by police is next to nonexistent (and when such an incident does occur, it's because he was resisting arrest or attempting to flee in a life-threatening, high-speed chase).  But liberals refuse to leave it alone, instead writhing in pain as they try to find some existential problem with our law enforcement.

Rob Reiner [is] Ridiculed for Claiming Biden Is [the] Best President in Almost 60 Years.  Rob Reiner has made many wild and unsubstantiated claims on Twitter.  On Friday, he managed to top himself by declaring that Joe Biden is the best president in nearly 60 years.  The result has been widespread ridicule, with the term "Meathead" trending on Twitter late Friday. [...] In recent weeks, Reiner has been one of Hollywood's biggest cheerleaders for the January 6 show trial, ginning up enthusiasm for the ratings-challenged broadcasts and denouncing former President Donald Trump at nearly every opportunity.

Are the Woke Morally Superior?  Defeating Wokeism isn't merely a political, legal, or even cultural battle.  We must also address what ultimately fuels Wokeness on a personal level: a delusional sense of moral superiority because it's that moral superiority that is the vehicle for the left's real power grab.  Are the Woke, in fact, morally superior?  If you ask them, they certainly are. [...] The Wokesters' caricatures of us are delusional, although they can't see that.  Our world is much wider than the simplistic, grade-school worldview they've invented.  Ultimately, Wokeism is a con game — a grift they've deliberately engineered in order to gain political power.  It's a moral Ponzi scheme that succeeds only so long as there's someone left to accuse.  When no one is left to accuse, the scam collapses.

How Did Democrats Become So Out of Touch With the American People?  The republic is not in good shape.  Unforced foreign policy blunders, such as the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, embarrass America on the world stage.  Our homeland territorial integrity has never been more undermined, as a wide-open southern border permits an unprecedented flow of smugglers, traffickers and other miscreants.  Homicide and other violent crime, which skyrocketed in the 2020 "summer of love" riots, continue to spike; the New York City subway is unsafe, and Chicago is a veritable war zone.  Mobocracy runs amok; a sitting Supreme Court justice just faced a near-assassination attempt.  Inflation, now over 9% and smacking those lower on the economic ladder, is at a four-decade high; the national average for gasoline is well over $4 per gallon.

Texas Democrats Leave Convention Without Passing a Platform.  Last week's Texas Democrat Convention in Dallas ended without the party adopting a new platform, as not enough delegates remained to reach quorum.  Held biennially during election years, the convention is an opportunity for Texas Democrats to elect party leadership, gear up for the November election, and craft their party platform.  At least, that's what's supposed to happen.  Shortly after Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa was re-elected to lead the party for another four years on Saturday, attendees began to trickle out of the convention center.  When it came time to vote on the party platform, a point of order was called on grounds that there were not enough delegates present to conduct business — two-thirds of the body.  The point of order was sustained and, just like that, the convention ended without the party adopting a platform.

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The delegates at the state convention are the most active participants in the party.  If you can't even get a quorum at the state convention, your party has zero enthusiasm.

The Left Should Be Happy with Biden.  [Scroll down]  Strangely, leftists do not grasp that Biden's current record and unpopularity are due not just to his unmistakable cognitive decline.  The problem is not just his often-toxic personality, or his creepy habits of trying to shake the hands of invisible people or violating the private space of younger women.  Instead, the Biden Administration has become an utter failure because voters detest its agendas.  They recoil at $5-a-gallon gas.  They feel their lives are being destroyed by 9.1 percent annual inflation and supply chain shortages.  The public is tired of near record annual increases in murders and other violent crime.  They are sickened by the tsunami of dangerous drugs pouring across the border and unvetted millions of foreign nationals entering their country without their permission.  They are irate that the Biden cabinet never responds to these disasters.  Instead, the administration denies the crises even exist.  Or it blames its own self-created messes on the Russians, or Trump, or their own Democratic senators who balked at printing more trillions of dollars.

The Party of Affluent, Progressive Whites.  Back in 2002, Ruy Teixeira and John Judis published a book boldly proclaiming The Emerging Democratic Majority.  Demographics were destiny, said the authors.  The coloring of America would transform politics in the Democrats' favor for a long time.  In the 20 years since, no such majority has materialized. [...] Other than echo-chamber dwelling affluent, progressive whites, Latinos and working- and middle-class folk don't give a hoot about the phony January 6 insurrection.  Gun control isn't a push-button issue, either.  Abortion?  Plenty of Latinos identify as Catholic or, increasingly, fundamentalist Christian.  Abortion is a grave sin to them.  People of faith don't like to go crosswise God, something that better-heeled, secularist (read atheist) whites, consumed with their virtue-signaling and journeys of self-obsession, dismiss as caveman sensibility.  For these heathens, if a baby in the womb is inconvenient, well, kill the child, right up to the moment of birth.  That extremism turns off many Latinos.

Socialists Rising in L.A..  The Los Angeles chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America has emerged as the clear winner of the city's June 7 primary in the weeks since ballot counting began.  Five out of the nine candidates on the ballot for city office to earn the DSA's endorsement have either won outright (garnering more than 50 percent of the vote) or advanced to the general election with leads over their rivals.  The results reveal the expanding political might of L.A.'s socialist Left.  Los Angeles primaries usually see low turnout.  Well-organized groups with a solid ground game stand to do best.  This year, every registered voter was mailed a ballot, and 84 percent of ballots were cast by mail.  The city now permits ballot harvesting and unguarded drop boxes, and it doesn't check signatures.  The DSA took advantage of these rules, got boots on the ground, and reaped the rewards.

Poll: Democrats Believe America Is Systemically Racist and Sexist.  Most Democrats at least somewhat believe the U.S. and its institutions are "systemically sexist in favor of men," as well as racist, a Heartland/Rasmussen Reports survey released this week found.  Most Americans, 58 percent, said they are "very proud" to be an American — a sentiment held by 74 percent of Republicans, 55 percent of independents, and 44 percent of Democrats.  Democrats appear to be the least proud among the groups, as 29 percent said they are either not very or not at all proud.  Just 8 percent of Republicans and 17 percent of independents said the same.  The survey also asked respondents if they believe "America and most of its institutions are systemically sexist in favor of men."  While 62 percent of Republicans at least somewhat disagree, three-quarters of Democrats either strongly or somewhat agree.  Additionally, 71 percent of Democrats believe that the country and most of its institutions are "systemically racist".

Biden and The Destruction of Wisdom.  There used to be an agreed-on body of wisdom, which both Left and Right, Republicans and Democrats, generally accepted.  Heated arguments and invective centered on implementations and methods of solving problems, which at least both sides agreed were problems.  Both ideologies accepted a common core of wisdom, despite their radical differences in interpreting it.  Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and especially Biden's strange cabinet of loud Jacobin amateurs, reject the very hallowed knowledge upon which civilization is based.  In that sense the public has begun to recognize them as nihilist and anarchist.  Nearly two out of three Americans in some polls hold unfavorable views of the Biden Administration.  They fear that it is decoupled from both the past and reality, and quite capable of destroying their lives as they have known them.

The Left-Wing Circular Firing Squad.  [Scroll down]  They find there is zero limit.  If you're willing to vote for Democrats, there is no bridge too far.  Think of all the Democrats who sucked up to Ed Buck and Jeffrey Epstein long after it was known what they were.  Behind the scenes you kind of expect that, we're dealing with politicians after all.  But you'd think there'd be some point where, like cockroaches when the light is flipped on, they'd scramble because some part of them, probably very deep down, they recognize what they're pushing is a type of crazy that turns off normal people; a kind of crazy that won't sell.  That bit of self-awareness does not exist on the far left.  They are either unwilling or incapable of dialing it back.

Woke Berkeley law professor brands Senator Josh Hawley 'transphobic' for saying only women can get pregnant.  Berkeley Law Professor Khiara Bridges accused Sen. Josh Hawley of 'opening up trans people to violence' after the Missouri Republican pressed her to say that only women could get pregnant in a heated squabble during a Senate committee hearing Tuesday.  'You've used a phrase I want to make sure I understand what you mean by it.  You've referred to 'people with a capacity for pregnancy.'  Would that be women?' Hawley asked during a Senate Judiciary Committee on abortion rights.  'Many women, cis women, have the capacity for pregnancy.  Many cis women do not have the capacity for pregnancy.  There are also trans men who are capable of pregnancy as well as non-binary people who are capable of pregnancy,' Bridges told the senator.  [Video clip]

That Senate Abortion Testimony Just Got Even Wackier.  As we reported previously, the Democrats are making some interesting arguments during a hearing on abortion in the Senate.  That is to say, they're wandering into trainwreck territory with one of the witnesses they put on — Khiara Bridges, who is a law professor at UC Berkeley School of Law.  Bridges accused Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) of being transphobic because he asked if she meant "women" when she used the term "people with a capacity for pregnancy." The professor then said he was opening up trans people to violence by the nature of his question.  But she didn't leave it there, she went full-bore unhinged.

Biden's wealthy and clueless White House.  How does President Joe Biden, with pride, call oppressive gasoline prices "an incredible transition?" The same way his millionaire energy secretary tells hard-pressed Americans to solve their financial problems by buying a $60,000 electric car.  This White House is inhabited by revolving door careerists who got rich through decades of moving into a plum federal job, then out to a law firm/PR/lobbyist/consultant — and then back in again to burnish the resume.  It's called losing touch with middle America and everyday hardships.

Support for transgenders falls.  A poll by Public Religion Research Institute, a lefty lobbying group, found that Lia Thomas has had an impact on how Americans view allowing transgenders competing with women athletes.  Americans don't like it.  PRRI's polled found that Will Thomas changing his name to Lia and winning all the women's swimming trophies turned people off.  Four years ago, 50% supported allowing men who say they are women competing in women's sports.  Now that Americans have seen this firsthand, only 36% do.

Just how important is 'action on climate change' to the world's general public?  Over on LinkedIn, climate rationalist Bjorn Lomberg posted an interesting chart showing just how important global warming and climate change issues were to the world's public, citing a huge survey of 10 million conducted by the United Nations.  The chart is here:  [Chart] [...] Lomberg, who isn't a global warming skeptic as I am, is full of brilliant, listenable insights and practical workable solutions to the matter of climate change that don't destroy economies, leave nations smoking ruins, or force people to eat bugs. [...] Lomberg's article focuses on the costs not matching the benefits of climate change action — how the world can spend a trillion dollars a year on climate change measures and end up with a ... 1% ... drop in carbon compounds in the atmosphere.  The problems there are obvious.  His article, which is heavy academic lumber, is well worth pondering for that alone.

Monmouth Poll Compiles Top 22 Priorities of American People, Ukraine v Russia and J6 Committee Outcome Does Not Appear on List.  Monmouth University conducted another political poll of U.S respondents.  In addition to the plummeting approval of Joe Biden, the worst yet approval at 36% according to the survey, the respondents were asked to list their top concerns (Question #7).  The responses were recorded but did not come from a list presented by Monmouth.  They just compiled the results.  As stated, "what is the biggest concern facing your family right now?"  The results show the top priorities of Americans and the disconnect between the priorities of congress and the American people are stark.

The LGBT Hostile Work Environment.  On May 31, 2022, President Biden delivered to the American people "A Proclamation on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, And Intersex Pride Month 2022."  A presidential proclamation is a directive that grants to the chief executive of the United States certain powers of mandatory ceremony and observance.  The power of presidential proclamations is especially operative in enforcing mandatory observances in the federal military and civilian workplaces, as those are the domains over which the president holds direct constitutional authority. [...] Biden rages:  "An onslaught of dangerous anti-LGBTQI+ legislation has been introduced and passed in States across the country, targeting transgender children and their parents, and interfering with their access to health care.  The unconscionable attacks have left countless LGBTQI+ families in fear and pain."  The unconscionable attackers whom Biden's proclamation vilifies are otherwise known as the American people.  He is outraged at the diversity of viewpoint about the needs of children, and he attacks the American people in the strongest terms for resisting sexuality indoctrination of children.

There Are Two Fundamentally Irreconcilable Constitutional Visions.  It's been a momentous couple of weeks at the Supreme Court.  As usual, they saved the big cases for the end.  This year the big three were Bruen (gun rights), Dobbs (abortion rights) and West Virginia (administrative regulation of CO2).  All three cases were decided 6-3 along ideological lines.  These cases involved the most basic issues of what the Constitution is and how it is to be interpreted.  On those issues there is virtually no hope of one side ever convincing anyone from the other side.  There just are two fundamentally irreconcilable visions of how this should work.  The two visions can be summarized in just a few sentences each:
  •   Vision 1.  The Constitution allocates powers to the three branches of government, and also lists certain rights entitled to constitutional protection.  The role of the courts is (1) to assure that the powers are exercised only by those to whom they are allocated, (2) to protect the enumerated rights, and (3) as to things claimed to be rights but not listed, to avoid getting involved.
  •   Vision 2.  The Constitution is an archaic document adopted more than 200 years ago, and largely obsolete.  The role of the courts is to implement the current priorities of the academic left and then somehow rationalize how that is consistent with the written document.  If a right is enumerated in the Constitution but disfavored by the current left (e.g., the right to "keep and bear arms"), then the courts should find a way to uphold enactments that minimize that right down to the point that it is a nullity.  If a right is not enumerated in the Constitution, but is a priority of the left (e.g., abortion), then that right can be discovered in some vague and unspecific constitutional language ("due process").  And if the left has a priority to transform the economy and the way the people live, but the Congress does not have sufficient majorities to enact that priority, then the Executive agencies can implement that priority on their own authority, and the role of the courts is to assist the agencies in finding something in the tens of thousands of pages of federal statutes, however vague and dubious, that can be claimed to authorize the action.

Democrats don't want anyone to succeed.  The number one projection you hear from Democrats today is how Republicans are extremists who threaten democracy and individual rights.  But if one takes a close look at Republicans and the Right, their positions have remained consistent over the years — promoting small government, lower taxes, and individual responsibility.  It's the Democrats who have become the extremists by calling for bigger and more government every election cycle, more spending and more regulation.  And now calls for censorship by the Left continue to grow.  It's the stuff of socialism that's morphing into a kind of soft communism, which would explain the Democrats' affinity for all things China.  The final proof is the fact that the Biden presidency is really the Sanders/AOC presidency that totally controls the agenda primarily in the form of the Green New Deal.  It is nothing but big government socialism disguised as planetary salvation.

'The View' hosts face backlash for $14K a night luxury Bahamas getaway.  The rambunctious hosts of "The View" have had their share of controversy and scandals in the past year — and what better way to unwind from all the drama than with a $14,000-per-night luxury vacation?  Celebrating 25 years of the show, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sara Haines, Sunny Hostin and recurring guest Ana Navarro are currently staying at Baha Mar in Nassau, Bahamas, with alum Sherri Shepherd even dropping in.  The women have been recording their show from their luxury stay.  The resort is made up of three hotels:  Rosewood, Grand Hyatt and SLS.  According to The Sun, the Rosewood is the most expensive hotel of the three with the oceanside six-bedroom villa setting customers back $14,358 a night.

Delusional Democrats Advance 'Transgender Bill of Rights'.  A group of House Democrats made the politically questionable decision to advance a proposal they call the "Transgender Bill of Rights" on Tuesday.  Apparently, it's not enough that all signs point to them getting utterly crushed, destroyed, wrecked, and annihilated in the November midterms; these Democrats must want people to poke their party's smoldering corpse with sticks afterward. [...] Can these Democrats really be this willfully blind to the deep resentment Americans feel for being forced to "celebrate" a freaky, creepy delusional mental illness?  For example, recent polls have shown that U.S. voters overwhelmingly (61%) approve of Florida's Parental Rights in Education law and oppose "transgender" females competing against girls and women in athletics.

The Left-wing Insurrection Intensifies.  It's only insurrection when the other side does it!  For one and a half years, the Left and its media allies have peddled the narrative of a Republican insurrection.  Meanwhile, Democrats and their supporters burn federal courthouses, attack property rights and the rule of law, and now call the Supreme Court illegitimate after its ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson.  This isn't just a few fringe voices.  Prominent legal analysts and authors are calling the Court illegitimate.  The chair of the Democrat National Committee has pulled out the bullhorn to condemn the Court.  Writers at Teen Vogue, whatever one thinks of Teen Vogue, have also used their cultural clout and reach to spew their propaganda.  The "mainstream" of the Democrat Party and their allies are calling the Court illegitimate; they have joined the very far-left that have been saying this for decades.  Insurrection is a violent uprising against legal authority with the intent to overthrow it.  Of course, liberals won't openly admit that what they advocate is insurrection.  But that is, in essence, what the left is advocating.

Five Things The GOP Must Do To Win In November And Stay In Power.  Among other unforced errors, Biden and the Democrats have destroyed our economy, irrevocably damaged our national security by opening our borders, and have thoroughly deprived millions of Americans of their basic rights in an alleged attempt to protect us in an unwinnable battle against a Chinese virus.  One need not look any further than the devastating surge we're currently seeing in gasoline prices for evidence of the Democrats' complete implosion, and it seems clear the results they're achieving were indeed intentional.  As a result, and coming as no surprise to anyone other than Democrats themselves, Americans are vocally rejecting the Democrats' socialist, climate alarmist, and racist agenda.  In virtually every demographic that is tracked — including a remarkable renunciation of their policies from Hispanics, traditionally one of the most loyally Democratic groups in the country — Americans are abandoning Democrats in droves.

The Democrats' lies on abortion since SCOTUS' overruling of Roe v. Wade.  Lie 2: Most Americans support abortion.  Polls show almost nine in 10 Americans oppose Biden and Pelosi's extreme position of abortion on demand until birth.  A Trafalgar Group poll last month showed less than 12% of Americans support abortions to birth, while 57% believe abortions should be banned once an unborn baby's heartbeat can be detected at about six weeks.  Even among Democrats, only 19% think that abortion should be legal until birth.  Scientific advances showing us detailed ultrasound photos inside the womb, and allowing premature babies to survive at 25 weeks, have changed the equation.  Most Americans want reasonable restrictions with compassionate exceptions to safeguard the mother's life and in the cases of rape and incest — which Planned Parenthood's own research arm, the Guttmacher Institute, says is less than 1% of abortions.  What's more, a Rasmussen poll last month showed 48% of voters said they would approve of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, and 45% would disapprove.  Among Democratic voters, 33% said they would approve.

The Roe Decision Won't Save the Democrats.  The Democrats reacted with predictable hysteria last Friday when the Supreme Court handed down its decision overturning Roe v Wade.  We have since been deafened by shrill denunciations of the "MAGA Court," "extremist justices" and all things Republican.  Adding to the din President Biden brayed, "This decision is the culmination of a deliberate effort over decades to upset the balance of our law."  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared, "Make no mistake: reproductive freedom is on the ballot in November."  It is hardly a given, however, that this will save the Democrats in the fall.  Public opinion polls suggest that the Court and the voters are in agreement on abortion.  According to a recent Wall Street Journal poll, for example, "More American voters favor the idea of a 15-week abortion ban than oppose it."

Guns and Roeses.  [Scroll down]  These are, after all, the same people who refused to accept George W. Bush's narrow presidential victory in 2000 ("selected, not elected"); refused to accept Bush's win over John Kerry in 2004; rained hellfire and brimstone down on poor Sarah Palin, whose only crime was a surfeit of motherhood, and snarlingly turned on her running mate and their erstwhile favorite maverick, John McCain in 2008; and went bonkers over the surprise victory of Donald Trump in 2016, thus triggering the entire "Russian collusion" hoax that started with Hillary Clinton and eventually came to embrace the FBI, the intelligence community, the media, and the judicial system.  In the same way, having outlawed school prayer and, from that beachhead, having driven almost any expression of the Christian faith from the public square — the offending prayer in question read, "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and we beg Thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers and our Country," which the pestiferous Madalyn Murray O'Hair and her ilk somehow equated with the "establishment" of a religion — they have gone to the mattresses to expunge anything that smacks of Christianity, especially any proscriptions against the form of baby murder that goes by the sobriquets of "choice" and "women's health."  To wit: abortion.

California Lt. Governor Calls for Defiance of Supreme Court Decision.  The latest laugh riot comes from California Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis — yes, she is a Democrat — coming out with this amazing comedy routine that, even by the network on which it aired standards, namely MSNBC, was a tad over the top. [...] What stands out even above Kounalakis' open advocation of defying the law, which as a Democrat in California she is well-versed, as anyone who's taken a gander at the southern border can testify, is her odd dismissal of Supreme Court justice Clarance Thomas.  Is it racist?  Not really, but it is interesting.

Report: GOP Gaining 1 Million+ Voters as Democrats Bleed Support.  Tens of thousands of voters who helped Democrats install President Joe Biden in the White House are now happily switching to Republicans, voter registration analysis released Monday shows.  More than one million voters across 43 states have switched to the Republican Party in the past 12 months alone, ballot intentions compiled by the Associated Press (AP) shows.

Is the Green Agenda Being Forced Upon Us by Accident?  The Left hates oil and gas, beef (and chicken, and all meat), and coal [and concrete and air conditioning and DDT and nuclear power and CO2 and natural gas and styrofoam and plastic bags].  But millions of Americans don't believe the hysterical Leftist claims that these things are destroying the planet.  What to do about these folks?  A number of suspicious recent incidents suggest that some people have decided to take matters into their own hands and force compliance with the green agenda by leaving us no other choice.

Just 5% call abortion [their] top concern.  Abortion, the No. 1 concern in today's media and politics, ranks nearly dead last among areas voters care about as they struggle with paying daily bills, soaring inflation, and interest rate hikes, according to a just-released survey.  While the Supreme Court's decision overruling the 1973 Roe v Wade right to abortion has dominated today's network and cable coverage, the latest McLaughlin & Associates poll said just 5% of voters call it a top concern.  Just below abortion, at 1%, is reviewing the 2020 election, over which the media are also obsessing.

Debauchery and Grossness are Abundant at the Pro-Abortion Protests After the Fall of Roe v Wade.  This was the scene in Dallas after the decision to overturn Roe v Wade by the Supreme Court.  Looks like the sludge at the bottom of society's barrel was scraped as women, and even some soy-infused men, twerked in front of the capital.  [Video clip]

Joe Biden Just Told Us Who He Really Is.  [Scroll down]  What the Biden administration has done, however, since the draft majority SCOTUS opinion leak in early May is to fan the flames of outrage by encouraging radical activists on the left to continue "protesting" outside the homes of the Justices. [...] Further, in the speech Biden gave earlier, he noted his administration was going to use every tool in their power to do an end-run around the SCOTUS ruling, something also confirmed by DOJ Attorney General Merrick Garland.  As all of this sinks in, keep in mind that Biden and other Democrats (and their allies in the mainstream press) have been lecturing Republicans for the last year and a half since the Capitol riot about the need to "respect the courts" and to not "undermine democratic norms" in our society.  And yet what do they do in response to today's 6-3 decision?  Exactly what they've said their political opponents shouldn't — this from the same people who once gloated after the Supreme Court voted to uphold Obamacare that it was "settled law" so "deal with it."

Biden declares war on nicotine while giving addicts crack pipes.  As Americans grapple with sky-high prices at the pump, the worst rate of inflation in more than four decades, increasing crime, a wide-open southern border, a surge in fentanyl deaths, a baby formula shortage, a looming food crisis, a plunging stock market, rolling brownouts, and many other pressing problems, the Biden administration has set its sights on waging war on nicotine.  This week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it "plans to develop a proposed product standard that would establish a maximum nicotine level to reduce the addictiveness of cigarettes and certain other combusted tobacco products" and that it has "issued marketing denial orders (MDOs) to JUUL Labs Inc. for all of their products currently marketed in the United States."  For those keeping track, these anti-nicotine measures follow the Biden administration's proposal to ban menthol cigarettes, which was announced by the FDA in April.

Mainstream media urging voters to ignore inflation, focus on imperiled democracy.  Recent surveys have consistently shown that runaway inflation is the most troubling issue to most Americans.  This has led many talking heads and media outlets to express deep concern that historically high gas prices and generally rampant inflation might lead to significant Democrat losses in the upcoming midterm elections.  The horror!  To help prevent this, Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell, for example, informed her readers that it was a "wild fantasy" to believe that the GOP could lower gas prices.  Furthermore, in a Sunday opinion piece, she condescendingly warned voters to "think carefully about what they'll get if they cast their ballot based on gas prices."  By that she means evil Republicans who are pro-life and pro-Bill of Rights.  Rampell added, "The president does not have some super-secret special dial on his desk that can adjust gas prices, but many voters believe otherwise."  Yes, Catherine, I'm sure many voters think Biden has a "dial" on his desk that can adjust gas prices in real time.  (Not that he'd know how to use it if he did.)  In reality, most voters know that Biden killed the Keystone Pipeline on Day One, has rescinded or denied drilling leases, and has made it clear he is an implacable foe of the fossil fuel industry in every shape and form.  That is why gas prices have skyrocketed since he took office, and that is why voters are rightfully angry.

Tucker Carlson savages Republican politicians' disrespect for Americans.  Despite the media's covering for Biden, people have noticed raging inflation, a recession, lawlessness, broken borders, a tenderness for Ukraine denied to America, cultivated race-hatred, efforts to disarm law-abiding citizens, and the arrogance of the LGBTQ+++ crowd — and they don't like any of it.  It turns out that mean tweets aren't so bad when compared to a government that's hostile to its own citizens.  The Democrats' intentional mismanagement is so extreme that the party is losing Hispanics and blacks in droves.  In theory, this should be a golden age for Republicans.  It's not, though, and that's the fault of the Republican political class, few of whom seem to embrace conservatism or Americans.

The Democrats' Trump Obsession Will Do Them In.  In 2020, despite gaining control of the White House and the Senate, the Democrats suffered a net loss of 13 seats in the House and a comprehensive down ballot drubbing.  This was hardly a mandate for radical change.  Yet, upon taking office, President Biden immediately reversed former President Trump's successful energy policies and incentivized illegal immigrants to invade our southern border.  Meanwhile, congressional Democrats collaborated with Biden to pass inflationary spending bills and embarked upon an unconstitutional crusade to convict Trump of fictitious crimes against the state.  This ongoing effort to destroy Trump and all his works has long since taken precedence over any policy initiative that would benefit voters.  Consequently, Biden's job approval rating has now dropped below 40 percent in several major polls and the Democratic Party is losing the support of Independent and Latino voters.  An obvious manifestation of the latter phenomenon was the victory of Texas Republican Mayra Flores in last week's special election for the state's 34th Congressional District.  This was no accident.  The GOP invested heavily in this contest while the Democrats virtually ignored it.

Buyer remorse growing in Democrat ranks.  Last week, I lunched with a longtime friend, in a popular Orange County, Florida restaurant.  He is a 68-year-old professed JFK Democrat who had predicted a return to 1990's moderation at the time of Joe Biden's election.  The optimism of 18 months ago had disappeared.  "Yes, things are looking a bit grim," he admitted.  "My son is trying to find a new home for his growing family.  But there are none to be found in Fort Lauderdale, or anyplace close to his office in Broward County.  When I recommended Weston, he said, 'come on, Dad! have you seen the gas prices recently?'  He has a point."

A country its leaders do not live in.  Congress now has had more prime time committee hearings on the January 6th protest than it did on 9/11.  I am not sure just what the purpose of the January 6th hearings are.  Americans have turned their attention to inflation and recession.  But in Washington, where no one ever gets laid off and no one has to go to work if it snows, the show is the talk of the town.  The rest of the country has to work today.  DC closed for Juneteenth.  The great divide in America is not between lefties and righties.  The divide is between the governed and the government.

Queens DA Melinda Katz uses security detail 'as her personal car service': sources.  Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz used members of her taxpayer-funded security detail to help her move to her new million-dollar digs — potentially running afoul of ethics rules, The [New York] Post has learned.  The borough's top prosecutor was spotted wearing her gold DA's badge on her hip last week as she carried four boxes of belongings to a black Ford Expedition parked outside the Forest Hills house where she's been temporarily living since selling her former childhood home for $1.05 million in February.  She then climbed into the official vehicle and was driven about 1.2 miles by a pair of plainclothes NYPD cops to her new three-bedroom, 2-1/2 bathroom Colonial-style house, which city records show she bought late last month for $1.1 million.  The trip was one of four that The Post saw Katz, 56, and her detail make between her old and new homes Tuesday morning.

Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul Calls Pro-Lifers 'Neanderthals' After 20-Plus Violent Attacks On Pro-Life Centers.  Following a slew of violent attacks on pro-life pregnancy centers, New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) is inexplicably amping up the rhetoric against pro-lifers, calling them "neanderthals."  Hochul on Monday signed legislation to boost abortion "rights" and "empower" abortion providers in the Empire State.  "This is the United States of America, where freedom and liberty are supposed to mean something," the Democrat said.  "It's the rock upon which we were founded.  It is supposed to mean something.  Except in the eyes of some neanderthals who say, women are not entitled to those rights."  Earlier this month, a pro-life pregnancy center in Buffalo called CompassCare was firebombed; windows were broken, the structure's medical office was set ablaze, and the vandals added graffiti that said "Jane Was Here," a phrase used by a pro-abortion group called Jane's Revenge.

Van Jones Leaves CNN Anchors Stunned After Spitting Truth About the Democrat Party.  [Scroll down]  As Jones says, the modern Democrat Party is just "weird."  He brings up the idea of calling Hispanics "Latinx," noting that normal, middle class people have never met a "Latinx."  Nor have they met anyone who identifies with the acronym "BIPOC," which I had to google in order to find out what it means.  Apparently, "black, indigenous, people of color" didn't have enough identifiers already and needed more.  The left has so fractured the country that it's impossible to keep up with all the various groups they've created.  Further, those pushing such nonsense are, as Jones points out, predominantly over-educated and wealthy.  They are in no way connected to the normal struggles of everyday life, and their lack of religious observance has left them with no feeling of purpose.  In order to make themselves feel better, they've decided to create victim groups to "help."  That's how you get the stupidity that is "Latinx," a name with which essentially no Hispanic people identify.  [Video clip]

Michigan AG says 'drag queens make everything better,' suggests 'drag queen for every school': report.  Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel reportedly said Wednesday that "drag queens make everything better" and that there should be "a drag queen for every school" during an event in Lansing.  Nessel, who was the first openly gay person elected to statewide office in Michigan, made the comments during a civil rights conference while speaking out against what she describes as efforts to divide Americans, Craig Mauger of The Detroit News reported on Twitter.  "Drag queens make everything better.  Drag queens are fun," Nessel said, according to Mauger.  "A drag queen for every school," she added.

2024 Dems:  Biden 41%, Michelle Obama 16%, VP Harris 11%.  Despite a wave of negative news coverage and reports that Democrats are ready to junk President Joe Biden in 2024, he still leads all other potential challengers by a good margin.  In the latest Zogby Poll, provided to Secrets today, Biden's support among Democratic voters is 41%. His only weakness appears to be among younger voters.  Former first lady Michelle Obama, who has signaled no interest in running, remains in second at 16% followed by Vice President Kamala Harris at 11%.

Here's a Long List of Prominent Democrats Refusing to Accept Election Result.  Democrats on Capitol Hill are holding hearings this week to examine January 6, 2021 and their allegation President Donald Trump, along with Republicans on Capitol Hill, launched an "assault on democracy" by questioning or rejecting the results of the 2020 presidential election.  Conveniently, Democrats are failing to highlight their own "assault on Democracy" over the years.  The first example is Democrat Congressman Bennie Thompson, who is leading the January 6 Committee.  Thompson voted against the certification of the 2004 presidential election and refused to attend President Trump's inauguration.  [Tweets]  Democrat Congressman Jamie Raskin, who is also a leading figure on the committee, did the same and voted against the certification of the 2016 presidential election.  [Tweet]  Former Democratic Senator and current Vice President Kamala Harris agreed and repeatedly claimed Trump was an illegitimate president.  [Tweet]  Twice failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton still claims the 2016 election was stolen from her and fueled the despicable lie that President Trump wasn't elected, but installed by the Russian government.  [Tweet]  Current Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, who lost a previous race to current Republican Governor Brian Kemp, has never conceded the 2018 race.  [Tweet]

Are Our Rulers Losing the Mandate of Heaven?  We racist-sexist-homophobe Americans are pleased to see that Hispanics are trending strongly away from Democrats in the current Bidenflation.  And even blacks seem less than enthusiastic about Joe Biden.  But what about the real core Democrat supporters:  the credentialed, the educated women, the LGBTs, the folks parading in front of the homes of Supreme Court justices?  Are they starting to wonder about double-digit inflation a year into the Biden administration?  The only on-the-ground information I have is from a federal government retiree who's going to borrow her daughter's fossil-fueled car when she travels from D.C. to Philly in July.  For some reason she feels safer leaving her electric car at home.  And there's the gay acquaintance who doesn't eat meat and doesn't drive much.  He doesn't notice anything wrong on the economic front.  I guess that most liberal wokies are so cozily protected by their gubmint jobs, their inflation-protected pensions, and their taxpayer-subsidized urban lifestyles that they are completely insulated from harm.

Republicans: To Win the Midterms, Hit Black Lives Matter.  Most of us already know how we are going to vote in November.  "Use Your Head and Vote Red" is a good answer to the other side's "Vote Blue, No Matter Who."  We know in advance how the elections are going to turn out in hardcore Republican and Democratic states and enclaves.  We do not expect California or New York to elect Republicans, nor are Wyoming and Idaho likely to elect Democrats.  All the other races will, however, be decided by the swing voters who hold the balance of power, and it is to them we must appeal.  Sun Tzu noted in his Art of War that one should attack what the enemy cannot defend and defend what the enemy cannot attack.  This is why we must direct our complete attention to BLM and its ties with the Democrat party.

Nancy Pelosi makes repeat appearance on RuPaul's Drag Race:  This 'is what America is all about'.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) made a guest appearance on "RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars" this week where she told the drag queens they "inspired" her.  "My honor to be here to say to all of you, how proud we all are of you.  Thank you for the joy and beauty you bring to the world," Pelosi said as she stood clad in a bright yellow pants suit on episode 5 this week.  "Your freedom of expression of yourselves in drag is what America is all about," Pelosi told the contestants in what appeared to be a completely scripted exchange.  "I say that all the time to my friends in drag," she added.

The Management of Fanaticism.  One of the biggest hazards in the social change business is runaway virtue.  Ideology in the lives of true believers often becomes an end in itself and this becomes a problem for practical politicians who want to come across as radical but not insane, and are embarassed by the wide-eyed zeal of their adherents.  As Mao Tse-tung, who would use this fact to spawn and later suppress the Red Guards, observed, "there are not a few people who still regard odd quotations from Marxist-Leninist works as a ready-made panacea which, once acquired, can easily cure all maladies".  Armed with their newfound religion, they become angry and impatient with anything contrary to their all-consuming faith.  In the 21st century this has given rise to what popular culture calls the "Karen phenomenon".

Sorry, Democrats:  Other Opinions Exist.  This week, my company, The Daily Wire, premiered a blockbuster new documentary starring Matt Walsh.  Titled "What Is A Woman?", the documentary investigates radical gender theory and its peculiar hold on the elites in our society — and how the insane proposition that men can become women and vice versa has become so well-accepted that even normal Americans now live in fear of questioning it.  The film has been the single largest success in the history of The Daily Wire; hundreds of thousands of Americans have subscribed to view it.  Yet Rotten Tomatoes, the review aggregator for film and television, has not a single traditional review of the film.  That's because, according to the legacy and entertainment media, the film doesn't exist.  When the Daily Wire press team sent out invitations to reviewers to watch the film — knowing, of course, that the vast majority of reviewers are left-leaning and would undoubtedly pan the film — reviewers began responding with insults and declarations of preemptive hatred.

The Subordinate Citizen.  There are lots of reasons why the looming November midterms will likely see historic levels of pushback against the Biden administration, Democratic candidates, and the entire progressive agenda.  Take your pick of the many self-induced Biden disasters, among them hyperinflation, unaffordable gasoline, out-of-control crime, and foreign policy humiliations.  But one reason why voters are furious is rarely expressed.  Americans feel that ordinary citizens like themselves who follow the rules are treated more harshly by their own government than are both noncitizens and our own progressive elites.  And they are right, and they are angry, and we will hear from them very soon.

Pa. Democrat Congresswoman Goes Full Nazi, Says GOP Must Be 'Cleansed'.  Despite being an advocate of "civility," "decency," and "unity" in the past, Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.) has apparently been so radicalized by her caucus that she now says the Republican Party is "diseased" and must be "cleansed."  "This is, in my opinion, a diseased Republican Party.  And it needs to be cured and cleansed," Houlahan said on the Daily Beast's The New Abnormal podcast last month.  "So the stakes of having a Republican, as an example, in my seat are more than just policy differences.  They are democracy, in my opinion."  The GOP is "diseased" and must be "cleansed?" Where have you heard such rhetoric before?  It bears a shocking resemblance to the rhetoric of the Nazi Party.

Trump or DeSantis?  The Democrat roster is, by all accounts, dramatically uninspiring.  Biden, who speaks in tongues, is plainly beyond redeeming; the question is whether he will manage to survive the year, let alone stumble, lollop, and whiffle to the end of his first term.  Kamala Harris belongs in vaudeville or farce, given her talent for provoking laughter.  Both will have to be retired in favor of an electable candidate.  But who?  Pete Buttigieg is a perpetual embarrassment, in effect a political pothole.  Elizabeth Warren is a professional liar and fraud, as everybody knows.  Hillary is an overdone political brisket.  Gavin Newsom has destroyed his state, an enviable record for a leftie, but California, despite the hype, is not America.  Bernie Sanders is a geriatric commie with three tony residences, a typical dacha commissar whose appeal is mainly to the badly educated young.  Michelle Obama would be a celebrity candidate; the thing is, most Americans are not celebrities, and Camelot has lost its luster.

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Yes, but most Americans are not Deep State oligarchs, either; yet that's who will select the Democrat nominee, just as they did in 2020.  There was no popular demand for Joe Biden, yet there he sits in the White House, signing executive orders.

The dystopian state of our nation.  The illegitimate Biden administration is the worst thing that has ever happened to the United States.  He, his handlers, and his mind-numbingly incompetent Cabinet appointees have brought this country to its lowest point in modern history, domestically and internationally.  We are suffering a massive third-world invasion on our southern border.  The Russian incursion into Ukraine was incited by Biden and his cronies, the ones who get rich on war.  We were energy independent under Trump, but Biden put a stop to that on day one and so must go begging to Saudi Arabia and Venezuela for oil.  Meanwhile, the price of gasoline for Americans has doubled.  The Democrats are thrilled.  They have wanted this for a decade.  The new press secretary-reader thinks that because gas prices are high in other nations, we should be happy; we've caught up with the rest of the world.  But the greenies in this administration could not care less about the environment.  They are interested only in power and control over us all.  The "climate crisis" is as big a hoax as Russian collusion.  Like the "pandemic" and all its unconstitutional restrictions, it's all about power, control, and greed.

Woke San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin is recalled by voters in notoriously liberal city as murders soar 11%.  Ousted San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin remained defiant after citizens voted overwhelmingly to recall the progressive politician Tuesday, blaming billionaire Republicans and even the city's police force for the loss.  'The right-wing billionaires outspent us three to one,' Boudin said in a speech to supporters following news of the recall results, which saw more than 60 percent of San Franciscans fed-up with the city's crime-ridden state vote to recall him.  Boudin, 41, went on to assert that citizens had been 'exploited' by these groups, saying they 'took advantage an environment in which people are appropriately upset.'  'They created an electoral dynamic where we were literally shadowboxing,' Boudin, who narrowly won office in November 2019 as part of a wave of woke prosecutors who vowed to seek alternatives to incarceration, said.

Progressive San Francisco DA recalled by voters in one of nation's most liberal cities.  Voters in San Francisco have chosen to recall embattled District Attorney Chesa Boudin following a recall effort centered on his handling of rising crime across the city.  San Francisco voted to recall Boudin with 61%, compared to 39% who wanted him to stay as the district attorney, according to results at the time the Associated Press called the race.  Boudin was elected in 2019 with 50.8% of the vote and was sworn in as San Francisco's 29th district attorney on Jan. 8[,] 2020.

Democrat senator says it doesn't matter — to her — how high gas prices are.  If you want to know just how ignorant, aloof, and removed your rulers are from the everyday life you lead, look no farther than Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.). [p...] Talk about tone-deaf!  Does she know who her constituents are?  Does she care?  The poor gal had to wait "a long time" to "finally" get her expensive new electric vehicle (and drive it to her brownstone in a tony Georgetown neighborhood... or to wherever she lives in the Capital City).  But when she did [...], it "didn't matter" to her how expensive gasoline had become.  She added, "And so I'm looking forward to the opportunity for us to move to vehicles that aren't going to be dependent on the whims of the oil companies and the international markets."  The "opportunity" for us to move to expensive vehicles whose batteries cost around $10,000 and that may take hours to recharge?  Vehicles that aren't "dependent on the whims of the oil companies and the international markets"?  You can't be more ignorant or disingenuous than that.

Neither the price of electricity nor the price of gas matters to her, because she makes $174,000 a year.
Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow brags that it doesn't 'matter' to her how high gas prices are because she drives an electric vehicle.  Democratic Senator Debbie Stabenow said that record-high gas prices 'don't matter' to her because she has an electric vehicle as she urged Americans to by eco-friendly vehicles and decrease reliability on greedy oil companies.  Her comments came on the day the average price per gallon of gas in the U.S. reached a new high of $4.92.  In Michigan the average sits higher at $5.17 per gallon, according to AAA's tracker.  'On the issue of gas prices — after waiting for a long time to have enough chips in this country to finally get my electric vehicle — I got it and drove it from Michigan to here this last weekend and went by every gas station and it didn't matter how high it was,' the Michigan senator said.

Let them buy Teslas:  Electric car owner Stabenow says gas prices don't matter.  Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) said it "doesn't matter" how high gas prices go because she drives an electric vehicle, sparking backlash as gas prices in the United States climb to record highs with no short-term relief in sight.  Stabenow's remarks came during a Senate Finance Committee hearing Tuesday to discuss Biden's budget for the upcoming fiscal year.  When the subject turned to record-high fuel costs in the U.S., Stabenow chimed in:  "I do have to say, just on the issue of gas prices, after waiting for a long time to have enough chips in this country to finally get my electric vehicle, I got it and drove it from Michigan to here this last weekend and went by every single gas station, and it didn't matter how high it was," the Michigan Democrat said.

Why Donald Trump Should Not Run for President in 2024.  Nothing exemplifies the importance of the Trump presidency more than the chaos, mismanagement, ignorance and unmitigated failures of the fraudulently-elected Biden administration as the vast majority of the American people can see for themselves the stark differences between the two administrations.  Because of Trump's success during his term, the citizenry is primed to soundly defeat the Democrats in November of 2022 and reject their nominee in 2024.  Considering the paucity of viable candidates to replace Joe Biden, the Democrats and the left in 2024 will have to turn to either Bernie Sanders, Michelle Obama, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren or clones thereof or possibly a "woke" billionaire business luminary or even a puerile Hollywood celebrity.  All of whom, after four years of Joe Biden, cannot win a national election that is not beset with fraud and rampant cheating.

Matt Schlapp says Biden failures prove he's 'simply not up to the job'.  The wheels are completely coming off of the Democratic Party clown car as it spins out of control headed for the brick wall of the November midterm elections and to top it off, things are even worse inside a White House that has descended into dysfunction and disarray as it becomes more apparent to voters that the Biden administration is an abject catastrophe.  With the nation battered by record gas prices with no ceiling in sight along with the worst inflation in four decades, food and baby formula shortages, and a regime that burns through money faster than the proverbial drunken sailor on a foreign conflict where no American interests are at stake, things are looking increasingly bleak for a Democratic Party that is determined to tear down the nation and its institutions and which could be only five months away from the mother of all electoral bloodbaths.

Light up a joint anywhere you want — but menthol cigarettes are another matter.
NYC Mayor Adams vows to not be 'heavy-handed' on illicit weed sales: 'Enjoy yourself, light up'.  It's a green new day for weed dealers in the Big Apple.  Mayor Adams promised Friday to not take a "heavy-handed" approach toward those who sell marijuana illicitly in the city and gave New Yorkers his blessing to smoke more pot.  While New York legalized recreational weed use last year, the licensing system that's supposed to regulate cannabis sales isn't expected to kick off until late 2022 — and Adams said Friday afternoon [6/3/2022] that he doesn't see a need for cracking down on anyone caught dealing ganja out of stores or on the street in the interim.

A Democrat finally says out loud what they all think about the Constitution.  The Democrats have made it plenty clear over the years that they don't like the Constitution as written.  They hate free speech, a free press, religion that is free from government intervention, and most of all the Second Amendment and its clear recognition of every citizen's inherent right to bear arms.  Unable to change these principles, they opt for imaginary rights (e.g., abortion, same-sex "marriage") and dream of packing the Supreme Court to circumvent the intentionally cumbersome amendment process.  But they always pay lip service to the Constitution — that is, until Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) spoke openly about his contempt.  He is to be praised for his honesty.

The Editor says...
No, he is not to be praised, or even commended, for his honesty.  He swore an oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; [and] bear true faith and allegiance to the same."  He should be expelled from the Congress immediately, along with any other congressman who feels the same way.

Rhode Island Democrat, David Cicilline, [reveals what he thinks] About Constitutional Rights.  The Rhode Island representative refused to yield his time during the outburst, while discussing legislation related to "red flag" laws, that would allow the government and law enforcement to confiscate firearms from anyone deemed to be a danger to themselves or others.  Florida congressman Matt Gaetz attempted to insert an amendment to the legislation stating "Congress disfavors the enactment of laws that authorize a court to issue an extreme risk protection order, also known as Red Flag laws, in the States because such laws trample on an individual's due process and Second Amendment rights."  [Video clip]

Dem Rep. Mondaire Jones:  We Will Abolish The Filibuster, Expand The Supreme Court If Gun Control Is Not Passed.  Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-NY) said at a Thursday hearing on recent mass shootings that Congress would abolish the filibuster and expand the Supreme Court if the Democratic party's proposed gun control legislation does not pass.  "You will not stop us from advancing the Protecting Our Kids Act today," Jones said.  "You will not stop us from passing it in the House next week and you will not stop us there.  If the filibuster obstructs us, we will abolish it.  If the Supreme Court objects, we will expand it.  And we will not rest until we have taken weapons of war out of circulation in our communities.  Each and every day we will do whatever it takes to end gun violence, whatever it takes."  [Video clip]

Federal Agencies Celebrate Pride, Ignore Memorial Day.  While federal agencies have been tripping over themselves to pledge allegiance to LGBT activism, two couldn't be bothered to recognize the fallen troops who make our freedom possible.  Despite a governmentwide tweet-fest over Pride Month, the departments of Justice and Treasury managed to ignore Memorial Day altogether.  Thanks to social media, Americans are getting a good look at the main obsession of this administration, which has devoted more than 30 posts to LGBT extremism from its official accounts — but couldn't spare half that attention to the men and women who gave all.  Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who was probably too busy promoting abortion as the solution to our tanking economy, failed to mark either occasion.  U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland's team, on the other hand, showed complete disregard for our military by celebrating pride but overlooking Americans' ultimate sacrifice.

Air Force Cancels Drag Queen Reading for Children, U.S. Senator Calls It 'Completely Insane'.  The 86th Airlift Wing at Ramstein Air Base in Germany has announced it will no longer host a Drag Queen reading session for children at the base library after an advertisement about the event was posted to social media.  The cancellation has drawn criticism from LGBT activists who claim the cancellation shows disrespect for transgender people, according to a report in the military media outlet, Stars and Stripes.

Ri-i-i-ight.
'It Got Lost in the Mail': FDA Lost Baby Formula Whistleblower Report in Mailroom.  "I am here today to say to parents:  You aren't alone.  At the highest levels of Joe's administration, he and his team understand what you are going through.  They won't stop until every parent can get the formula their child needs."  That was FLOTUS Dr. Jill Biden on Sunday when the first shipment of desperately-needed baby formula arrived from overseas.  She says that President Biden understands — to be clear, he doesn't.  As far as we know, President Biden isn't bottle feeding any tiny tots in the Oval — don't patronize us.  But this very short soundbite is indicative of a scary pattern the Biden Administration seems to be stuck in: cause a crisis with incompetence; apologize for said crisis; claim to "understand."  See Afghanistan, inflation, and gas prices (Joe flies around in a 747 that we pay for, but somehow truly, deeply understands the pain at the pump).  Biden & Co. cause problems — then apologize.  And the formula crisis is no different.

Why Team Biden might be purposefully grinding down the middle class.  Inflation is running rampant.  The Producer Price Index, the most useful measure of general inflation, is up a whopping 16.3% from April 2021, per the Bureau of Labor Statistics.  That means that roughly $1 out of every $6 that people earn has been lost to inflation in a single year. [...] Inflation comes when you have too much money chasing too few goods.  The spending part provided the excess money, but the Biden team was right there helping to ensure fewer goods, too.  Gas prices going up?  Not only was Biden's spending program stimulating inflation, but at the same time Biden policies were reducing the amount of gasoline, diesel and heating oil those dollars could buy.  Biden went wild canceling pipelines, ending gas and oil leases, imposing stricter environmental rules and — in cooperation with big institutional investors — choking off the finances of people trying to produce new fuel supplies.

State Farm Exec Apologizes to Angry Agents, Says 'We Made a Mistake With Our Involvement' With GenderCool.  State Farm agents across the country fielded angry phone calls on Monday from customers who were either threatening to cancel their policies or who flat-out canceled them after hearing news that the company had partnered with The GenderCool Project to donate books regarding transgenderism and gender fluidity to schools in order to "increase representation of LGBTQ+ books and support our communities in having challenging, empowering, and important conversations with children Age 5+."  The story contained a January 22, 2022 memo from Jose Soto announcing the program.  By the close of business Monday, after the CEO reportedly heard from more than 2,000 independent State Farm agents nationwide (and probably a flood of customers), the company announced that it was ending its partnership with The GenderCool Project, as RedState first reported.  But how did this happen?  And did State Farm agents know about this partnership and agree with it?

Washington Dem socialist congressional candidate Rebecca Parson calls for breaking into empty homes.  Washington Democratic congressional candidate Rebecca Parson has a bold idea to get Congress to pass housing legislation: have a million people break into empty houses.  Parson, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, is running to represent Washington's 6th Congressional District.  In a video ad, she outlined what she and her followers can do if she wins.  "Imagine I proposed a Housing for All Bill in Congress, Then imagine you, me, and a million of our friends took action and occupied empty houses nationwide.  They couldn't ignore us," Parson says in the ad.  "No one has ever done anything like this," Parson continues.  "That's why it's going to work."

They Want You to Suffer.  In a sentence I've typed way too often over the last year, inflation continues to sit at astronomical levels, gas prices keep increasing, and the border is in shambles.  To make matters worse, over the past month, the stock market has crashed, eating away at people's retirements and investments.  Dreams that people had are now going to be on hold for years based on the hope that things will recover, and time isn't something you can get back.  The response from the White House in the face of so many of their self-inflicted wounds hasn't been empathy, though.  Not that such would mean much, but it would at least give people peace of mind knowing that their leaders aren't actively rooting for their destruction.  Unfortunately, that's exactly what appears to be happening.  These people want you to suffer.

Biden praises high gas prices as part of 'incredible transition'.  Out of touch as ever, President Biden celebrated record-high gas prices Monday, gushing that the pump pain was part of "an incredible transition" of the US economy away from fossil fuels.  "[When] it comes to the gas prices, we're going through an incredible transition that is taking place that, God willing, when it's over, we'll be stronger and the world will be stronger and less reliant on fossil fuels when this is over," Biden said during a press conference in Japan following his meeting with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.  The president then insisted that his administration's actions, rather than increasing the price of gas, had actually been able to "keep it from getting worse — and it's bad."  Only then did Biden pay lip service to millions of Americans who have found themselves spending thousands of extra dollars to fuel up their vehicles.

The Collapse of Trust.  Looking at the issues facing our country, there seems to be something pernicious for which we don't seem to know what to do to correct the downward trajectory that is shaking us to our core. [... For example,] Baby Formula:  The closing of the Abbott facility was a botched job.  Everyone knew that 40% of the formula produced in the U.S. came from a single plant.  We might forgive the failure of forethought in not diversifying our supply years ago.  But the complete breakdown of responsibility by the FDA and the President (through his staff) for not having raised the alarm as week by week the problems grew worse four months before the plant closing is hard to take.  There was a heads-up that this might happen back in September of 2021.  It would have been reasonable to commence planning for a shortage of baby formula right then.  Hungry babies in America are a new low for our country.  But it comes on the heels of one crisis after another.

Republicans Introduce 'Women's Bill of Rights' and Democrats Will Hate It.  On Thursday, Republicans introduced legislation dubbed a "Women's Bill of Rights" that Democrats won't like at all.  Why not?  Democrats claim to be advocates of women's rights and gender equality, so why wouldn't they support a "Women's Bill of Rights"?  Because the legislation proposed would enshrine into law protections for biological females — without including men who "identify" as women.

Hostin Declares All GOP Voters 'Biggest Domestic Threat' to America.  The rhetoric from ABC's The View has steadily grown more and more dangerous and possibly inciting, as co-host Sunny Hostin spent part of Thursday's [5/19/2022] show maligning all 74 million Republican 2020 voters by calling them the "biggest domestic threat" to the country after House Republicans opposed a Democratic-led effort against so-called "domestic terrorism."  Both she and co-host Sara Haines scoffed at concerns that slapping on labels could lead to a slippery slope.  After playing soundbites of GOP opposition on the House floor and Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) calling Republican representatives racist, co-hosts Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg dismissed the existence of Antifa and called the GOP the real terrorists.

Poll: Most U.S. voters oppose transgender policies, but many fear speaking up.  Most American voters oppose transgender surgeries and lessons for children, but more than a third fear speaking up about the issue, according to a poll released Tuesday [5/17/2022].  McLaughlin and Associates, which conducted the poll for the Christian evangelical Summit Ministries in Colorado, found that 90% of likely voters with an opinion on the issue believe gender-altering surgeries should be illegal for children.  The poll also found that 72% of voters do not believe schools "should teach about sexual identity and sexual behavior with elementary-age children," compared to 28% who believe it's an appropriate use of instructional time.

White House spox on stock market plunge, 'that's not something we keep an eye on every day'.  New White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has been thrust into a difficult position as she faces questions about record gas prices, staggering inflation and unprecedented shortages including baby formula, and on Wednesday, she was put on the spot over the stock market, a topic that she appeared to be ill-prepared to address.  On a day when the Dow Jones Industrial Average would plunge over 1,100 points, the biggest one-day loss since 2020, Jean-Pierre failed to demonstrate the sass and ability to think on her feet of her predecessor Jen Psaki and her mind-boggling answer won't likely calm the criticism that she has received during her first week behind the podium.

White House dismisses 1,160-point stock plunge as 'not something that we keep an eye on every day'.  The monster 1,160 point stock drop on the Dow Jones Industrial Average Wednesday, the highest drop since the advent of the pandemic in 2020 was kind of a ... nothingburger for the Biden White House.

Liberalism and the Problem of Evil.  Liberals have already written the script for America's decline and fall, and there is no suggestion of a democratic ending.  The people are the nation: that is what democracy looks like.  The people, at first, create the government they want; but at last, and by slow degrees, government creates the society it needs.  It is the fate of democratic societies that allow, by their own election, the assassins of freedom into the center of government.  Liberal democracy has become its own caricature, an imitation of its original promises now so distorted that it serves only to exaggerate its own deficiencies.  Liberals are trapped in their delusions with no way out.

Nancy Pelosi reveals the Democrat campaign for the midterms.  Over the weekend, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appeared on CNN's State of the Union to talk about the leaked draft opinion by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito that provides the rationale on why Roe v. Wade (1973), which legalized abortion nationwide, has to be overturned.  Pelosi began her exposition with the following:  ["]"Who would have ever suspected that a creature like Donald Trump would become president of the United States, waving a list of judges that he would appoint, therefore getting the support of the far-right and appointing those anti-freedom justices to the court"["] [...] Pelosi may have explicitly called President Trump a "creature," but the subtext of her remarks was that all those who voted for Trump are also sub-human.  Her fury is because she views them as impediments to her monopoly of power.  This was Pelosi's 'basket of deplorables' moment.  Pelosi in 2022 is in a similar position to Hillary Clinton in 2016.  She is so convinced of her moral superiority that she simply cannot fathom why popular opinion would be against her and what she stands for.  The sanctimonious Pelosi is convinced that she could never ever be wrong.  So she placates her ego by blaming her opponents and the voters as inferior beings.

Are you sure you want to call the Roe protests "the summer of rage?".  During the BLM riots that swept the nation in 2020 and beyond, critics of the violence and mayhem took to sarcastically calling that period the "summer of love."  Now a new wave of angry protests is erupting in multiple cities targeting the Supreme Court over its anticipated ruling that would mostly overturn Roe v. Wade.  The topic may be quite different than the BLM marches, but the tactics are already starting to look similar.  Protest organizers have already announced that they want this period to be a "summer of rage."  But is that really the way to win the battle for hearts and minds?  If I had the chance to ask these organizers one question, it would relate to what precisely they hope to accomplish, since the public has no leverage over the decisions of the court whether they hand down a ruling you approve of or one that you loathe.

The November 2022 election is going to be really hard to steal!
Baby formula crisis punctuates steep decline in support for Biden, Dems, with suburban moms.  President Biden and his Democrats were already in trouble with suburban women due to inflation, high gas prices and an agenda these voters say does not align with their priorities.  Then baby formula disappeared from store shelves.  Images of empty store shelves and stories of frantic parents searching for food to feed their infants, coupled with reports that the Biden administration is shipping pallets of scarce formula to the southern border to feed illegal immigrant children, now threaten to crater the party's already weakened support among suburban women.  "Democrats have seen a double-digit decline among their strongest groups, especially women who are already struggling to stretch a dollar," Republican strategist Ryan Girdusky told the Washington Times.  "But now they're trying to find food for their children."  Women were a pivotal voting bloc for President Biden and Democrats in 2020.  Exit polls show they backed Mr. Biden over Donald Trump 57% to 47%. But over the past few months, polls show women have soured on Mr. Biden.

Woke Hypocrisy:  A User's Guide.  Wokeism is not what it pretends to be.  It fools a lot of people by pretending to be about high ideals.  It pretends to struggle against injustice, overcome oppression, and so on.  But in reality, it's something very different. [...] They want two sets of rules — some for us, others for them.  For example:  Offending them is a terrible thing.  It's so terrible, in fact, that they've been trying to make it illegal to hurt their feelings.  Yet they can offend us all the time.  They insist that subjective feelings are profoundly important — important enough to write laws and even base entire societies on.  Yet our feelings are routinely ignored, minimized, dismissed, mischaracterized, or forcefully suppressed.  They justify everything they do based on their imaginary fantasies and utopian ideals, yet they dismiss everything we do because of the sinister aims they imagine we have.

Don't bring your blues to our red states.  Moving to a red state is a relief for blue staters, but if they cannot connect their blue state pathologies to voting for Democrats, they are again going to vote for the same party that gave them their blue state blues.  It is imperative that blue-staters recognize that escaping to a red state to avoid blue state problems will do them no good if they persist in voting for Democrats, who, at first opportunity, will vote for the same blue policies they left their blue states to avoid.  It is imperative that every blue-stater who is not Republican not vote Democrat if they enjoy red state living.  Don't bring your blue state liberal policies to your new red state.

Islamophobia: The Left Has It Backwards.  The left — the progressive, socialist, communist, God-hating, atheistic left — gets just about everything either wrong or backward, from cancel culture to the 1619 Project to racism to the environment to religion to family matters to abortion and pretty much everything else imaginable. [...] If anyone dares to criticize Muslims for their violence, misogyny, antisemitism, intolerance, religiously sanctioned lies, and selfish arrogance, the left rushes to the microphones, keyboards, TikTok, etc. to sympathize with the poor mistreated Muslims who practice a "religion of peace" and commiserate with them on how awful it is to be subjected to the horrors of Islamophobia.  It's stomach-turning at best, malicious at worst.  Islamophobia is an irrational racist hatred of Muslims and their "peaceful" religion.  Islam is a religion, not a race, but we'll leave that aside for now.  To be an Islamophobe these days is to be guilty of hating Muslims for no good reason.  So says the left.  It also demonstrates the left's complete lack of knowledge about the Greek and Latin roots of the English language.

'Liberal Logic' And Other Things That Don't Exist.  [Scroll down]  "Who believes this garbage" you may be asking yourself.  The answer is Democrats.  I've never seen a party focus like a laser exclusively on their own base to the exclusion of everyone else before.  No matter how alienating or irrelevant to the bulk of the country, Democrats only pander to the people whose support they already have.  You certainly don't want to lose your base, but with just your base you will lose everyone else.  How convinced are some empty-headed leftists when it comes to the doomsday cult the modern Democrat Party has become?  Watch this video of young women telling their fellow leftists not to have kids because the planet is being destroyed and they'll never live to see 30.  The Heaven's Gate cult has turned into Democrats of today — they're both convinced the world is coming to an end and they're castrating themselves in preparation for it.

Karine Jean-Pierre giggles when asked about White House point person on formula crisis.  Incoming White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked who is running lead on the baby formula crisis for the White House?  Her reaction was disturbing.  During a press gaggle on Air Force One, she giggled and said she doesn't know who that person is but she'd find out.  The reporters took the answer in stride.  Imagine if the previous president's press secretary delivered that answer (and giggle) to such an important question for so many families right now.  The baby formula crisis is real and it has a lot of moms in a panic due to the shortage of products on store shelves.  Imagine being one of those moms going from store to store searching for a canister of baby formula.  This woman can't even name someone working on the problem in the White House.

Goodbye Jen Psaki — no one condescends quite like you.  So long Jen Psaki!  As White House press secretary, you were indeed very informative:  every day you provided an example of how today's Democratic Party turns normie soccer moms from Greenwich into reality-denying attack machines sputtering insults and cheering on lawbreakers because they can't face up to the unpopularity of the far-left agenda.  As blathering Joe Biden retreated into the background and suggested to the world that America was in the hands of a man who should be shuffling around Sunset Acres in a bathrobe, Psaki became the face of an administration that is determined to head into the midterms like Thelma and Louise.

'Call a Doctor or Pediatrician' — Psaki When Asked What Parents Should Do if They Can't Find Baby Formula.  White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Thursday was grilled on the baby formula shortage created by the Biden Regime.  In 25 states, 40-50% of baby formula is out of stock.  In 5 states over 50% of baby formula is out of stock.  The Biden Regime is shipping pallets of baby formula to US border facilities for illegal aliens while American babies go hungry.

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The Leftwing Insurrection.  According to the propaganda narrative of the media, Donald Trump and the Republican Party foment insurrection and illegitimacy in American politics.  Only the noble left, with its commitment to democracy, can defend America and its institutions and rule of law.  This is hogwash and anyone free from the tyrannic propaganda of the media knows it.  In reality, the left peddles insurrectionist language and promotes the idea of American illegitimacy so as to endorse insurrectionist behavior — "in the name of democracy" though.  Joe Scarborough, one of the most annoying individuals to ever purvey television propaganda, has recently called the Supreme Court "illegitimate."  So have other liberal opinion writers.  And what does all this talk of Court illegitimacy bring?  Insurrectionist beliefs.  It is an announcement for haters of America to begin burning property and launching violent protests aimed at desecrating the rule of law in the United States.  It is the go-ahead for the army of Bolshevik street-warriors to assail American institutions and the freedom they uphold.

GOP Poised to Clean Up in State Legislative Races, Too.  Republicans are on a roll nationwide and it doesn't appear they'll lose that luck anytime soon.  Not only is the GOP maintaining its lead in the generic congressional ballot, but surveys from several key states show Republicans losing little ground to Democrats.  But if you really want to know what the political landscape in the states is, just look at what the other party is doing.  And Democrats — so optimistic when Biden took office — are now pulling back and regrouping, and lowering their expectations for gains in state legislatures, as the party suffers from its association with Joe Biden.

In Fort Worth, a sign that leftist cultural dominance may have peaked.  Fort Worth, Texas, is the county seat in Tarrant County.  Around 35% of its population is Hispanic.  In 2020, Tarrant County, along with other urban and/or heavily Hispanic districts in Texas, voted for Joe Biden.  Admittedly, he won by a tiny margin in Tarrant County, but that did seem to suggest a shift towards Democrats in a major urban area.  However, on Saturday, any pro-Democrat momentum seemed to have stopped dead when a conservative parents' organization was able to see all its candidates win in four suburban board elections.  Most people have one thing they know with absolute certainty and you cannot lie to them about that one thing.  For example, because my parents lived for decades in Israel and were soldiers in its War of Independence, that was my truth and, when NPR kept making statements I knew were untrue, that shifted me away from being a Democrat.  Likewise, my beauty-conscious mother, who'd been dazzled by Jackie Kennedy, was finally convinced that the media were not to be trusted when they kept insisting that Michelle Obama was a Jackie Kennedy-esque style icon.

Why Would Rural Americans Vote for Those Who Hate Them?  It never ceases to amaze me when the same politicians and pundits who spew vile rhetoric aimed at rural Americans all year long turn around and ask for those Americans' votes.  The New York Times (the titular "paper of record" that pushed Trump-Russia "collusion" lies while ignoring the Biden Crime Family's quid pro quo money-making in Ukraine) recently featured an opinion piece claiming that "Biden has already done more for rural America than Trump ever did."  Democrat lemmings quickly regurgitated the overrated rag's propaganda.  After feeling the tug on his leash from Old Witch Pelosi, the honey-trapped Congressman Eric Swalwell (whose dimwittedness made him a natural target for the Chinese Communist Party to compromise) laughably insisted that under China Joe's lethargic leadership, "we are all doing much better ... especially ... rural America."  As is only fitting for a regime requiring its own Ministry of Truth, Swalwell then instructed his (brain-dead) Twitter followers to share the Times story "to make sure we all understand."

US billionaires' demand for 'golden passport' schemes that sell citizenships to 'safe' countries for up to $6.5 million.  Soaring numbers of wealthy Americans are buying 'golden passports' that grant them citizenship to New Zealand, Portugal and other 'safe' countries over fears of impending civil war in their home country.  Henley & Partners, a firm that helps the wealthy shop around for citizenship across the globe, said sales to American nationals worth between $50 million and $20 billion have shot up more than 337 percent since 2019, Business Insider reported.  Countries involved — including Portugal, Malta, New Zealand and Austria offer citizenship or visas that lead to citizenship in return for heavy investment in the host national, and a visit of just a few days there each year.

CNBC Pushes Corporate Signaling as Companies Run Away From SCOTUS Abortion Issue.  This week — so far, at least — it appears that most corporations have wisely decided to remain taciturn about the flare-up regarding the Supreme Court being poised to repeal Roe v. Wade.  Now, before heaping praise too freely, surely the cause is that there is a major example of this kind of corporate misstep still percolating in the news.  Then, add to that the very unstable nature of the abortion debate itself, and it becomes more a case of looking to see which company is dumb enough to light the fuse from its public relations division.  Yet at CNBC, they seem mystified that there is a uniform silence from Wall Street to this point.

Biden thinks 'ultra-MAGA people' are extremists? He should look in the mirror.  President Biden is saying that "ultra-MAGA" people are the most extreme political party in recent memory. [...] Who are the extremists:
  •   The party that wants babies to be killed no matter what stage of pregnancy or the party that wants limits?
  •   The party that wants energy independence or the party that is seeking to destroy America by destroying the fossil fuel industry, despite no scientific evidence that fossil fuel consumption controls temperatures?
  •   The party that is for no bail or the party that believes that career criminals should be treated harshly?
  •   The party that wants to enforce immigration laws or the party that wants open borders?
  •   The party that believes that males should be able to compete with women or the majority of us?
  •   The party that believes that people should use restrooms and locker rooms based on how they feel or the rest of us, who think body parts and science should control what facilities we use?
  •   The party that wants to move toward socialism or the rest of us, who believe that capitalism has created the greatest country that ever existed?
  •   The party that believes that requiring photo IDs to vote is racist or the rest of us who understand that adults of all races can easily obtain a photo ID and that common sense tells us voter verification is important?
  •   The party that believes that children age five to eight should be encouraged to analyze their sexual identity or the rest of us, who believe that that is nuts and dangerous?

Disney Lost $63 Billion in Market Capitalization Since Going Full Woke in Florida.  The Walt Disney Co. has lost nearly $63 billion in market capitalization since it decided in March to embrace radical LGBTQ activism and declare war on Florida by opposing the state's Parental Rights in Education law.  Shares of Disney have plummeted 23.5 percent since the start of March, falling from $145.70.  Market cap is down $62.6 billion, from $265.3 to $202.7 billion.  For the past 12 months,Disney has seen its stock drop more than 30 percent, making it the worst performing stock on the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Democrats place American democracy in grave peril.  How ironic it is that this group of totalitarians call themselves Democrats and frequently talk about the importance of protecting democratic values.  But the self-righteous seldom have self-awareness.  Perhaps they are brazen and no longer care how they appear.  Perhaps they are doing what they usually do, doing exactly what they claim their opponents do.  The Democrats are the real insurrectionists who relentlessly gnaw at the root of democracy when they are about to lose electoral contests.  When the GOP campaigns during the midterms, the importance of ensuring that the U.S. continues to function as a Democracy must be placed at the center of its message.

Biden Sues Alabama, Claims Ban on Transgender Child Abuse Violates 14th Amendment.  The Fourteenth Amendment states that, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.  No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."  At no point in time does it state that states are not allowed to ban child abuse simply because a particular group tends to practice that abuse.  For example, states can be raping 7-year-olds even though Mohammed married a 7-year-old girl.  Biden and his hack running the DOJ disagree.  The DOJ has sued Alabama over Senate Bill (S.B.) 184 or the Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act.  The filing is filled with woke gibberish that makes lots of assertions without ever meeting a basic legal standard.

NPR Poll Puts Another Nail in Dems' Midterm Coffin.  Just how doomed are Democrats in November's midterms?  It doesn't take a statistician to read the writing on the wall — inflation sitting at 40-year highs, gas reaching an all-time high, a woke Democrat-education complex running amok, and an open border that's triggered drug, humanitarian, and public health crises — and see that the party in power of the executive and legislative branches is in trouble.  A new poll out from NPR and Marist shows just how bad Democrats are doing and among which groups their support is trailing GOP candidates by double-digits on the generic congressional ballot question that asks "If this year's election for Congress were held today, which party's candidate are you more likely to vote for in your district?"  Notably, the poll found 52 percent of latino voters would vote for a Republican compared to 39 percent who would choose a Democrat.

In 2020, Biden was a political juggernaut in Massachusetts.  A new poll shows voters have soured on him.  A lot.  In March 2020, President Biden swept through Massachusetts' Democratic primary with a come-from-behind Super Tuesday victory.  He later topped Donald Trump by 33½ percentage points here, his second-largest margin of victory in November.  Few places lean more Democratic than Massachusetts, according to political forecasters.  But even in this deep blue stronghold, Biden has fallen hard.  Just 46 percent of registered Massachusetts voters say they approve of the job Biden is doing as president, with about the same proportion giving him a thumbs down, according to a new Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll.  Of the 765 registered voters surveyed, just two more — 354 to 352 — said they disapproved.

Jill Biden Biography [is] a Total Flop, Sells 250 Copies in First Week.  Jill Biden's biography was a total flop and only sold 250 copies in its first week on the market.  According to far-left Politico, the dulling of the Biden White House isn't due to lack of talent in the press briefing room, but rather due to fulfillment of a central Biden promise: to beat Trump and make DC news boring again.  And because DC is boring, sales of Dr. Jill's biography:  "Jill:  A Biography of the First Lady" have been a little slow.  It has nothing to do with the fact that Jill Biden is tacky, uninspiring, cheated on her first husband with Joe Biden and now abuses Biden, an elderly man who is clearly suffering from dementia.

Democrats' Endless 'State of Emergency' Is Why They're About to Get Walloped.  When Trump was in office, COVID-19 was a crisis and every unmasked presidential appearance all but an act of potential genocide.  With Biden, it's time to turn the page, even as the death count has mounted.  With Trump sidelined, for now, and Biden plummeting in the polls, Democrats and the liberal media have returned again and again to the manufactured emergency to try and control the narrative.  Remember the Georgia voting law (ridiculously called Jim Crow 2.0)?  How about the viral images of border agents whipping Haitians seeking asylum?  (After the agents' actions were condemned by Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, it turned out they were merely split horse reins.)  Or how about one from the Trump era that is relevant again:  Russia paying bonuses for dead American troops?  (There seems to be no evidence this happened.)  Meanwhile, real emergencies like the border, Afghanistan, crime, and inflation were downplayed by the Biden administration and the MSM... until ignoring these problems became impossible.

Blacks complain about Biden's open borders, and Democrats' foundations silence them.  [Scroll down]  There's no thinking, no debate, no exchange of ideas that's going on in the left.  The left takes its talking points from the "program officers" of far-left money behemoths such as George Soros's Open Society Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Omidyar Foundation, or a few Silicon Valley-ish others.  That's why all of a sudden, borders must be open, gay marriage is no longer open to debate, transgender indoctination is de rigeur, and greenie nonsense and critical race theory permeate all fields of public policy no matter how tenuous the connection.  Anyone, including anyone on the left, who might just prefer a more nuanced interpretation of the proclamation or be concerned about cost-benefit analysis, is dubbed an instant bigot and all the foundation cash upon which the little magazine, or the university endowment, or the activist organization is dependent, is swiftly cut off.  That keeps them in line, and the "program officers" in firm control.

WaPo's Professional Doxxer, Who Outed Libs Of TikTok, Just Made Another Outrageous Statement.  For most leftists, particularly those who reside in the echo chamber of the mainstream media and under the protection of Big Tech censorship, self-awareness has never been a key component of their skill set.  The mindset apparently operates something like this:  I'm wonderful, only my opinions matter, all criticisms of me and my work are ill-founded.  And for that reason, the ends justify their means, no matter how reprehensible those means may be.  Last week, Washington Post reporter (please, let's stop calling her a journalist) Taylor Lorenz was the subject of widespread mockery as she was called out for some of the most outrageous media hypocrisy we've seen in years.

Attack on Democracy:  Democrats Still Believe Hillary Won in 2016.  If you insist that the 2020 election was stolen, you'll be accused of pushing "the big lie," inciting an insurrection, and attacking democracy.  But if you believe that Hillary Clinton was the legitimate winner of the 2016 election, that just makes you a Democrat. [... A]ccording to a new Rasmussen Reports survey, 72% of Democrats still believe that Russia "succeeded" in altering the outcome of the 2016 election, putting Donald Trump in the White House.  Despite thinking that Russia managed to alter the outcome of the 2016 election, Democrats insist that the 2020 election was the safest and most secure in history.  However, as Democrats are widely expected to lose their majority in November, a majority of Democrats (53%) believe it is likely that Russia will try to interfere with the 2022 midterms.

Politics Is Downstream from Culture, but What Is Culture Downstream From?  [Scroll down]  The struggle is not between the right and left.  It is between civilization and chaos.  Why are we still using Twitter?  Why are we still using Facebook and Google and all the rest of the engines of our own destruction?  Why are we still giving money to corporations that despise us and support the blood-drenched BLM?  Why did we let them close the churches and keep the liquor stores open?  Why did we wear those cloth masks? [...] Why did we let them steal the presidency?  Why do we let them imprison and abuse righteous protesters against that massive crime?

Can anyone spot the hypocrisy as progs fight for special tax status for Disney?  Democrats are fighting to destroy all fossil fuel companies in the U.S., which harms all of us, especially the poor.  They seek to destroy for-profit colleges.  They rail against the rich and big corporations[.]  But they are somehow outraged that anyone would threaten to take away special tax breaks from Disney, which owns ABC, because Florida doesn't want first- to third-graders taught about gender, which most Americans don't want, either.

Ten Democrats [are] joining Republicans in opposing Biden's plan to end Title 42.  Centrist Democrats and those up for reelection in November may have taken a hint from polls that show the public is upset with the administration's handling of the border and chosen to inch away from Biden.  More than half, 56%, of poll respondents oppose ending Title 42, according to an April 6 Morning Consult/Politico survey.  The results make Biden's decision his "most unpopular decision so far."  The conclusion of Title 42 could create an optics nightmare for Democrats months before voters go to the polls, as well as a national security concern.  Homeland security officials anticipate as many as 18,000 people a day could be encountered trying to enter the United States in the six weeks after Title 42 ends, far more than the several thousand encountered per day at present.

Ex-school official sues Virginia board over anti-racism training.  A former assistant principal is suing a Virginia school board, claiming that she was forced out of her job for a "slip of the tongue" during a mandatory "anti-racism" training based on Critical Race Theory.  Emily Mais, who was the assistant principal at Agnor-Hurt Elementary School, accused the school district in a lawsuit filed Thursday of pushing her out in fall 2021 after she mistakenly used the words "colored people" as she railed against the training session.  Though Mais apologized for the "slip of the tongue, "a teacher's aide, who is black, verbally attacked her in front of all training attendees, the lawsuit filed in Albemarle County claims.

Lifelong Democrat, Former Police Chief Changes Parties, Makes Run For Congress.  A former New York police chief and longtime Democrat says he is so disgusted with the contempt members of his party have for cops that he is running for Congress as a Republican.  Former Rochester Police Chief La'Ron Singletary, who is vying to represent the Empire State's 25th Congressional District, told The Daily Wire he can no longer support the Democrat Party because of its anti-police rhetoric.  "The demonization, the demoralization, and the defunding the police rhetoric from the Democratic Party, coupled with other ideologies the Democratic Party started to take on caused me to leave the party," said Singletary, 42. "The Democratic Party was no longer the party that I knew it to be, and no longer the party of my parents."

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Always beware of party-switching Democrats.  If they change parties, it's probably only for the purpose of getting elected.  Of course nobody wants to vote for an anti-police, tax-and-spend, baby-killing Democrat, so the easiest way around that is to abandon the Democrat label.

ABC's Scott Admits Dems Don't Talk About Defund[ing] The Police Anymore.  During This Week's "Powerhouse Roundtable" discussion on the soaring crime rates in major American cities and what should be done about it, there seemed to be agreement that the Democrats' "defund the police" agenda is dead.  Anchor George Stephanopoulos then turned to panelist and ABC congressional correspondent Rachel Scott and asked: "you don't hear defund the police too much on Capitol Hill, anymore?"  Scott confidently replied, "No, not at all, actually" and aside from the "handful of progressives over in the House" that want to defund the police, there hasn't been a peep from Democrat lawmakers about that wildly unpopular agenda.

Democrats have gone AWOL on their constituents.  When Hawaii Democratic Rep. Kai Kahele announced he would challenge then-Rep. Tulsi Gabbard to represent Hawaii's 2nd Congressional District, he attacked Gabbard for abandoning her duties as a member of Congress in favor of a long-shot presidential campaign.  Now, less than two years into his own first term, it is Kahele who is not showing up for work — at least not for the job taxpayers are paying him to do.

Georgia Restaurant Owner Tells Biden Supporters to Dine Elsewhere.  A Georgia restaurant owner posted a notice on the establishment's window slamming President Joe Biden and his "ignorant" supporters and attributed the rise in supply costs and shortage of workers for his restaurant to the policies implemented by the Biden administration.  The sign, posted outside of an Appalachian Grill restaurant in Cartersville, Georgia, was initially shared Sunday in a Reddit forum before going viral on several social media platforms.  The notice instructed Biden voters who have no regrets about their vote in the 2020 election to take their business somewhere else.

No one is hiding how pro-LGBTQ Disney's latest movie is.  Earlier this month, an LGBTQ+++ buzz started circulating regarding Disney's latest movie, Better Nate Than Ever.  American Thinker covered that groundswell of excitement here.  Given the collapse of Disney's reputation as it put its corporate weight behind fighting a Florida bill keeping sexual identity talk out of kindergarten through third-grade classrooms, one might think Disney and other leftists might have tried to downplay the overtly LGBTQ+++ theme in a "family" movie.  The opposite, however, is true.  Since Disney went to war against Florida parents, and videos emerged showing Disney executives boasting about using the company's platform and reputation to push LGBTQ content, Disney's standing with families has plummeted.  Earlier this week, almost 70% of Americans stated that they were less likely to do business with Disney.  That is a catastrophic number for a corporation.

Majorities see Biden's latest border order as huge mistake.  President Joe Biden's plan to lift Title 42, the pandemic edict allowing for the blanket expulsion of migrants entering the United States at the southern border, lacks support from not only Republicans but also the majority of independents and a significant number of Democrats across the country.  The administration announced April 1 that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would lift the Trump-era order starting May 23, allowing for the normal processing of refugee asylum requests inside the U.S.  The administration has repeatedly stated that the order is a "public health" measure meant to stop the spread of COVID-19, as opposed to what some left-wing activists have described as a cruel immigration restriction put in place by Biden's predecessor.

Inflation exposes the arrogance of the Biden Democrats.  Of all the Democrats' gestures of contemptuous indifference toward ordinary people, President Joe Biden's 8.5% inflation rate is the most provocatively insouciant.  Bidenflation, more than any of his many other culpable failures, will prompt voters to respond in November with a gut punch to the party's solar plexus.  One should not minimize the impact of other blows to public morale from outrages such as the cultural revolution against every traditional norm, the disgrace of U.S. capitulation to a ragtag army of medieval Afghan farmers, Biden's abandonment of national sovereignty at the Mexican border, or the performative diktats of his tinpot COVID bureaucrats.  All these contribute to our sour national mood. [...] Biden's decision to print money, enthusiastically backed by congressional Democrats, has produced the sharpest inflation spike in four decades.  This was entirely predictable and frequently predicted.

Sex-Change Surgeries for Kids:  A-OK With Biden.  The Biden administration recently sent a letter to the attorney general of each state, warning the top law enforcement officials that they could be violating civil rights law if they don't comply with "gender-affirming care" procedures for children.  But just what is this gender-affirming care promoted by President Joe Biden, and how does it affect kids?  Jay Richards, a senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation's DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society, says the term is a euphemism for giving hormones to children and, in many cases, performing irreversible surgery on them.  These hormones and surgeries have long-term consequences for a child.

"They Thought People Would Pay For CNN": CNN+ Is A Hilarious Failure.  It's not a shock to you or me that CNN+ is crashing and burning.  We could have told the CNN bosses this idea wouldn't work, and we could have told Chris Wallace that his move to CNN+ would be an epic disaster.  The writing was on the wall.  But the left lives in a clueless, out-of-touch bubble, especially the beltway liberals.  They are on a whole 'nother astral plane of cluelessness.  And now, as we suspected, the bottom is already falling out, and it was just rolled out.  Here come the job cuts.  Axios is reporting that investment and projections for CNN+ are expected to be cut dramatically in response to a low adoption rate, two sources tell Axios.

Huge Number of Americans Dropping Disney for Radical Position on Parental Rights Bill.  Disney is a powerful company but they may have just stepped in it big time with their position over a parents' rights bill that they falsely call the "Don't Say Gay" law in Florida.  The law doesn't say anything about "don't say gay."  Indeed it doesn't mention "gay" at all. [...] It's not hard to see why Americans — particularly parents — would be rejecting Disney if they have an issue with this law.  They're seriously hurting the brand that they have put out there for decades with this radical approach.  But it shows how radical they've become when it's more important to push that agenda than to pay attention to the concerns of the parents who are their bread and butter.

Don't New York Our Florida, Wyoming, Texas, Utah, Tennessee, Idaho, etc..  Driving around in our home state, Florida, we are seeing an inordinate amount of two things.  The first are license plates from blue states, especially New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Illinois.  States that are hopelessly progressive with all the attendant accoutrements like street crime with gun violence, exorbitant taxes and schools run by teacher unions advancing CRT.  In past years, Florida visitors are usually snowbirds who come south to avoid the frigid weather and hazardous driving conditions. [...] Now if these scapegrace northern interlopers aren't smart enough to see that Governor DeSantis is a compelling factor for why Florida is such a great state in which to live, then they should remain in their own troubled state.  If they burden us with their full-time presence they will undoubtedly vote for Charlie Crist to replace Ron DeSantis, who has a long history of doing exactly the wrong thing for Florida.  The last progressive candidate to run against DeSantis was Andrew Gillum who, days after losing the election, was found inebriated and unconscious in a Miami hotel room with another man who had overdosed on crystal meth that police found scattered on the bed and floor.  Gillum only lost by 90,000 votes [...]

One Funeral at a Time.  Since the middle of the last century, Ohio has been viewed as a bellwether for the mood of the American people.  Presidential campaigns have focused on the state, believing it is always the key to victory.  Only twice since the Second World War has Ohio failed to vote for the winner of the presidential election.  Interestingly, those two outlier elections were marred by credible allegations of massive vote fraud.  Putting aside the fraud issue, Ohio's centrality to the Dionysian theater that is American politics makes the 2022 Senate race worth watching. [...] One of the things that jumps out about the candidates is none of them have ever had what most people think of as a job. [...] Of course, in modern American politics the great disqualifier is ever having spent time in the dreaded private sector.  The political class will forgive just about anything, even extreme sexual deviancy, but they will never forgive someone for having done productive work among the Dirt People.  Central to the identity of the Cloud People is avoiding those gross smelly people called citizens.

The New Democratic Voter Outreach Strategy That Will Guarantee a GOP Victory in November.  The Democrats are enthusiastically embracing a new voter outreach strategy.  It's called "paid relational organizing," and it involves paying activists to talk to their friends, family members, and neighbors to convince them that Joe Biden and the Democrats are exactly what the United States of America needs in these troubled times.  As NROs Charles Cooke points out, this strategy may end up getting a lot of Republicans elected.

Democrats' 'Don't Say Gay' Gaslighting Is Driving the Middle Class to Republicans.  At the peak of the Critical Race Theory controversy in June of 2021, I was invited to Waukesha, Wisconsin to give a speech in front of a crowd of what was supposed to be a few hundred people about my thoughts on race and CRT in schools. 600 people showed up — double the number the organizers had expected.  This wasn't a Trump rally filled with politically active people; on the contrary, it was a crowd of concerned parents who wanted to learn.  They were your middle of the road, working-class Americans who had been witnessing their public-school systems actively work against them, and they wanted to understand why, and what to do about it.  While the event was centered around CRT and the hyper-racialization happening in the surrounding school districts, I quickly found out that their concerns were much bigger than race; they were worried about things they believed their children were being taught about gender and sexual orientation, too.  And they were not wrong:  Since then, these parents have showed me documentation of school assignments introducing gender ideology and what they see as inappropriate sexual content either given to or made available to their children.

Cops to Biden:  Keep your $30 billion in "please vote for Democrats" money and change your pro-criminal policies.  There are endless perspectives as to law enforcement tactics, historic violence, and police reform.  I read multiple articles daily regarding violent crime and policing, mostly from progressive publications creating ninety percent of the content.  The political and ethical divide is immense.  From progressives:  Police violence and tactics are in desperate need of reform.  Cops are routinely described as unethical and repressive; their primary purpose is to oppress minorities and the powerless.  The endless parade of articles about the failings of "all" cops properly set the tone for most media coverage.  They believe that stereotyping a million people in law enforcement based on the actions of a few is perfectly acceptable, it's indicative of larger concerns.  To progressives, most cops are the problem, not the solution.  From pro-police organizations:  They believe that President Biden and progressives are completely out of touch with the American public, including minorities.

Jen Psaki Threatens Parents Who are Blocking 'Medically Necessary, Life-Saving' Transgender Surgeries for Children.  White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki had a threatening message for parents and states who are standing in the way of gender reassignment surgeries for their children.  There will be consequences.  [Video clip] [...] Votes across the country are banding together to prevent aggressive White House overreach on transgender policies, including proposals that U.S. taxpayers foot the bill for gender reassignment surgeries.  On Thursday [4/7/2022], Alabama passed HB322 [by a vote of] 26Y [to] 5N, the nation's first bill in over 8 years that bans 'transgender' self-identification from being used as a pretext to enter an opposite-sex bathroom.  On April 3rd, Arizona banned 'gender reassignment' surgery for minors.

Defense Secretary Austin open to non-binary persons enlisting in the Armed Forces.  Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Thursday [4/7/2022] that he was open to allowing people who identify as "non-binary" to serve in the U.S. military.  He gave his stamp of approval to non-binary troops during questioning by Sen. Marsha Blackburn at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.  The Tennesse Republican asked Mr. Austin about recent reports that the Pentagon was quietly studying how non-binary troops could join the ranks.  While Mr. Austin refused to confirm the status of the study, the defense chief signaled that he had no qualms with non-binary recruits.

Reporters call for White House to 'simply ignore' Supreme Court decisions.  Some reporters are calling on President Biden to ignore Supreme Court decisions that they believe are politically motivated.  On Wednesday, the Supreme Court temporarily reinstated a Trump-era that limits the power of the states to block energy projects that can potentially pollute rivers, streams and other waterways.  In a split 5-4 decision, the justices overturned a lower court judge's order to throw out the rule until the Biden administration can implement a new rule which is expected in spring 2023.

The Constitution Creates a Republic, not a Democracy.  Leading Democrats advocate rule by their President through executive order without resort to Congress.  They favor elimination of the electoral college as "anti-democratic."  They favor adding to the number of justices on the Supreme Court those preferred by Democrats until they dilute the conservative majority and render the Court reflective of the will of Congress and no longer independent.  They support speech codes on college campuses to eliminate dissenting conservative views.  They support cancel culture and Big Tech censorship as a means of ensuring that voices dissenting from their orthodoxies are suppressed.  They support expansion of administrative state regulation to circumvent Congress so that climate change and social engineering initiatives may proceed at the will of the executive branch beyond the extent palatable to the American people.  In short in the struggle between state power and individual liberty, they favor biased application of state power (supporting it in violation of rights whenever they favor the ends, and opposing it whenever they oppose the ends).

Democrats Have Painted Themselves into a Corner.  [Scroll down]  The Democrats do not have a single reasonable leader that is acceptable to any major portion of real America.  Whatever moves they make or don't make will have little effect on the November election.  The destruction that Democrats have unleashed on America is mind-boggling.  Who would possibly imagine that doubling gas prices would gain votes?  Sanctioning Russia while simultaneously sanctioning our domestic energy industry is beyond insanity.  And it has been done with such rapidity that even voters with short memory can see it.  Inflation around ten percent according to the Everyday Price Index is hitting poor Americans in the wallet.

Biden Administration Decides Mutilating Children Is a Civil Right.  Some days, I go to write an article and it's dealing with a topic so egregiously insane that I almost feel like I'm covering satire.  Today is one of those days.  The Biden Administration, via the DOJ, has sent a letter to attorneys general around the country threatening to sue if states attempt to stop the mutilation of children in the form of "gender reassignment" surgery, hormone blockers, and other actions that change the natural development of a child.  In other words, Joe Biden and his degenerate underlings now view physically "transitioning" a child as a civil right, which tracks with the video the president put out on Thursday on the matter.  [Tweets]

It's Like Democrats Want to Be Crushed in November.  Who says we can't build bridges with the commie-loving, groomer-excusing, weather-worshiping race freaks of the left?  We both seem to agree on one thing — all good and patriotic Americans need to take action to ensure that this pedo-curious, race-obsessed band of Marxist weirdos gets [soundly defeated] next November.  Well, I think we agree on that.  I know I do, and I know you do — we want to see them suffer total repudiation and more humiliation than even a Bulwark staffer can get into.  But what is odd is that they seem to want the same thing.  After all, they are doing everything they can to drive every decent American away from the garbage Democrat Party.  Who knows why it is?  Maybe the Democrats have a death wish.

Eyes Wide Shut.  The cultural Left has managed to associate the Democratic Party with a series of views — on crime, immigration, policing, free speech, and, of course, race and gender — that are far from those of the median voter.  That's a success for the cultural Left but an electoral liability for the Democratic Party.  From time to time, Democratic politicians, like Biden in his State of the Union address on March 1, try to dissociate themselves from unpopular ideas such as defunding the police, but the cultural Left within the party is still more deferred to than opposed or ignored.  Their voices are amplified by Democratic-leaning media and nonprofits, as well as by party officials and activists.

Leftist Infiltration of the Police Will Lead To Tyranny.  When Joe Biden read from his State of the Union script about the unprecedented crime wave we are now facing (thanks to leftist policies), he stated:  "The answer is to fund the police."  At that, the Democrats in Congress leaped to their feet to applaud, however insincerely.  But after eight years of supporting the lies of Black Lives Matter Marxists and leftist elites — that American policing is systemically racist, cops are routinely hunting unarmed black men, and that the real answer to alleviating crime is to empty the jails and defund the police — their phoniness was palpable.  On crime and policing, most Americans correctly see the Democrats as fakes.  The Democrats are terrified because the poll numbers are coming in, and they are desperate to escape a righteous political reckoning in November.  Still, it would be a big mistake to believe that the radical Left hates the idea of policing altogether.  They have no problem with the police if they can control the mission.  In a way, the police are just another tool of the regime.

Biden backs green radicals even though Americans want U.S. energy.  Americans are frustrated with skyrocketing gas pump prices, but they disagree dramatically with President Biden on how to fix the problem.  A national survey just conducted by the Winston Group reveals a strong bipartisan majority of Americans prefer an "everything" energy approach — more oil drilling, more alternatives, maximum carbon free nuclear energy, and doing more to promote conservation.  Yet, President Biden, facing record high inflation and record low approval ratings, remains committed to his political alliance with radical green environmentalists. [...] Let's look further at what Biden has done.  As one of his first acts in office, he shuttered construction of the Keystone XL pipeline; it was President Biden who ended federal oil leases and it was the Biden Administration who begged Riyadh and Caracas to produce more energy instead of allowing U.S. energy producers to fill the energy gap and keep prices in check.

Biden, the Ersatz President.  Consider the major initiatives undertaken or proposed by the current Democratic regime:
  •   The dissolution of our border integrity, with intentional unrestricted illegal immigration.
  •   Ending American energy independence, curtailing fossil fuel exploration and production — astonishingly, before a viable replacement exists! — and imposing crippling restrictions on future fossil fuel energy industry activity.
  •   Supporting destructive BLM activities and riots, favoring defunding the police, eliminating cash bail and decriminalizing what liberals laughably refer to as "low-level" crimes like shoplifting, robbery and breaking & entering.
  •   Endorsing positions clearly opposed by the majority of the country, such as men competing in women's sports, the U.S. military paying for gender-change surgery, males being able to declare that they "identify as women" and enter female bathrooms and locker rooms, elementary-age children being taught and exposed to "alternative" LGBTQ lifestyles far before children have any natural understanding or interest in such matters, and so on. [...]
  •   Denuding our military of its equipment, mission and spirit by attempting to transform it into a mechanism for social change instead of a sharply honed, singularly aimed instrument of national security. [...]
This is the difference between a president concerned with bottom-line beneficial results and one who's concerned with laughably shallow meaningless activity that amounts to nothing, other than buying the favor and future votes of niche special interest groups.

HHS Becomes First Federal Agency to Fly 'Trans Pride Flag'.  The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Thursday became the first federal agency to fly the "trans pride flag," Axios reported.  HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra tweeted a photo of the "trans pride flag" outside the Hubert Humphrey building on Thursday morning, accompanied by a statement of support for the transgender activist agenda.

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If Hubert Humphrey were alive today, he would demand to have the flag taken down, or have his name taken off the building.

Only 3% Think COVID is the Most Important Problem Facing America.  Another data point for the preference cascade.  In Jan, 20% of Americans thought COVID was the most important problem facing Americans, in Feb it was 13%, and in March, it's down to 3%.  Tied with health care and lack of energy sources.  Inflation has gone from 8% to 10% to 17%.  The economy is at 11%.  Gas prices are at 4%.  Only 2% think that the wealth gap is an important issue.  Racism is down to 5%.  Russia/Ukraine is at 9%.  So some of this is a function of media coverage.  It can and will change.

Democrats Need to Be Destroyed.  [Y]ou'd be an idiot to believe anything coming out of the mouths of Democrats these days.  No "good faith effort" is going to make them honest, they are lying frauds out to destroy everything great in this country.  They're a Terminator for American Exceptionalism.  As such, they have no conscience, they can't be reasoned with, they must be destroyed.  Rush Limbaugh used to say he wanted to convince everyone over to conservatism, but he wanted a few liberals around still just to show people what they were like, otherwise no one would believe there were people that crazy.  That was a couple of generations of insanity ago.  What currently calls itself Democrats bears no resemblance to what once was "Democrats."

First Openly 'Transgender' Judge Appointed to California Bench.  California has appointed its first openly 'transgender' judge, announced Governor Gavin Newsom (D) on Friday [3/25/2022].  Judge Andi Mudryk, 58, who "transitioned" four years ago, is one of eight new appointees to serve on the Sacramento County Superior Court. [...] Social justice advocates throughout the state lauded the move as a victory for "diversity and equity."

Oscar winners are almost seven times more likely to suffer from mental health and addiction issues than other people, shows analysis.  Analysis by Paracelsus Recovery, a clinic that has treated dozens of celebrities, said 'fame should come with a health warning' after it emerged that two-thirds of actors who have won Academy Awards over the past 30 years experienced disorders.  Of the 60 performers who won either the Best Actor or Best Actress gong since 1992, 41 have suffered from a mental health issue — with depression, anxiety and substance abuse the most common problems.  Last night, psychotherapist Dr Paul Hokemeyer, a leading expert on celebrity mental health, said fame was often associated with 'fear, pain and loneliness', and major success can lead to impostor syndrome.

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Actors make a living by pretending to be something they are not.  (With the exception of Chuck Norris, of course.)  They relish the adulation of their many fans.  So it's no wonder the best actors and actresses suffer from mental illness.

It isn't 'fringe left' hurting Democrats — the fringe IS the Dems.  Democratic pundits, worried about the midterms and Joe Biden's terrible approval ratings, are sounding the alarm:  That dastardly "fringe" is hurting the party.  "This whole noisy, identity left" composing "15% of the party" has taken over (James Carville).  "The Democrats have to step away from the super wokeness" (MSNBC host Donny Deutsch).  But what's the distinction between super wokeness and ordinary wokeness when the party's oldest and most mainstream members are all pushing ideas that would have seemed outlandish in the Obama era?  Biden offered a Fed nominee who said she wanted to deny credit to the fossil fuel companies that power America, and tried to put an actual Marxist in charge of the currency.  Only 10% of the senators in the party spoke out against this.

The correlation between vaccines and the Ukraine-Russia war.  [Scroll down]  The new Democrats — the people on college campuses like Obama's friends Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn — were not anti-communist.  They were very pro-communist.  They opposed the Vietnam War for two reasons:  (1) As products of American academia they supported the Viet Cong; and (2) also as products of American academia, they opposed anything that would benefit what they were already viewing as an evil, imperialist, racist, sexist nation that did not deserve support. [...] And then, along came Trump and COVID.  The anti-war protesters from the 1960s and the 2000s despised Trump more than any other human being, ever ("worse than Hitler").  Additionally, the young'uns had absorbed the concentrated America-hatred of two to three generations of leftist academics.  They embraced COVID, not just because they're fearful people, but because they saw it as an opportunity to destroy Trump.  They also quickly realized that COVID was giving them the political and social power they'd always dreamed of so that they could break down and remake America.

Bloomberg columnist's tips for beating Bidenflation don't go over very well.  An out-of-touch academic, writing a column for Bloomberg Opinion, demonstrated just how out of touch the country's elites are as inflation hits every sector of the country. [...] The "advice" also included a recommendation to cut chemotherapy for one's dog as if that would solve the inflation problem for a loving pet owner.  Memo to Bloomberg columnist Teresa Ghilarducci of the New School for Social Research:  Poor people already know how to cut back.  It's called 'not having enough money.'  And as a hint as to how out of touch she was, Tweeters went to town on her.  Start with this one — anybody checked out the price of lentils?

Bloomberg Has Inflation Advice for Proles Making Less Than $300k a Year — Shut Up, Eat Lentils, Ride the Bus and Kill Your Pets.  You might wonder what the ruling class thinks of how inflation is hitting middle America.  For insight into their perspective, Bloomberg News just published some suggestions for all the unwashed masses — as defined as those who don't earn $300,000 per year.  The advice includes, shut up about the price of food, and eat lentils instead of meat.  Quit bitching about gasoline prices, and just ride the bus, and the coup de grâce, "If you're one of the many Americans who became a new pet owner during the pandemic, you might want to rethink those costly pet medical needs."  Yeah, they said that.  Us pesky proles and our pets are just mucking up the planet for the rest of them. [...] The elitist arrogance, in the "no one said this would be fun" approach, is quite remarkable.  However, it does show the snob-set no longer feel the need to filter their elitism.  The class gap has always existed, and whenever leftist policies are in place, that gap gets wider every second.

Latest Inflation Advice Goes From Insulting to Psychotic.  Inflation continues to slam the American people in ways not seen in over 40 years following the Jimmy Carter administration.  The February number clocked in at 7.9 percent, and there are no signs things are going to slow down.  Will we soon be at 10 percent inflation?  That's not a bad bet, at this point.  That reality has left poor and middle-class Americans scrambling as they have had to essentially absorb a massive pay reduction due to the increased costs of goods and services.  Of course, gas prices are also nearly double what they were when Joe Biden took office.  So, how is our intrepid media handling that?  Are they holding the powerful to account?  Nah, they are giving advice like this.  [Tweet]

Moderate Dem quits Congress in disgust, denouncing 'rainbows and unicorns'.  With the Squad, the greenie lobby, the teachers' unions, and the open borders industrial complex calling the shots in the Democratic Party these days, it's obviously no picnic to be a moderate member of the Democrats in Congress.  Which is why 31 of them are leaving, most fully aware that a red wave is coming.  But perhaps more importantly albeit less well known is that many of them angry at how the crazed Democrats have treated them.

With Push For Electric Vehicles, Democrats Pursue The Paris Hilton Strategy On Energy.  At record-breaking gas prices slapping families with a projected $2,000 in additional transportation costs this year, the switch to an electric vehicle may sound tempting — were it not for the nearly $60,000 price tag.  This plus the illogic of destroying U.S. energy independence from the most reliable an inexpensive sources makes Democrats' lack of concern about gas prices a version of Paris Hilton's famous Photoshopped T-shirt meme, "Stop being poor."

Congressional liberals press Biden to declare emergency and restrict fossil fuels.  Liberals in Congress are pressing President Joe Biden to invoke emergency powers to push ahead with Democrats' climate change agenda and to put new restrictions on fossil fuels, even while gasoline remains at its highest per-gallon price on record.  With legislation stalled in Congress, the nearly 100-member Congressional Progressive Caucus released a slate of policy recommendations Thursday for Biden to pursue, calling on him to use executive action to deal with a list of topics his "Build Back Better" agenda sought to address, including the development of more green energy technologies and placement of restrictions on new fossil fuel production.

The Atlantic warns that Nuclear War is a climate problem (and you thought bombs were OK?)  Despite sounding crazily disconnected from reality, Robinson Meyer is slightly less crazy than the cult people he's trying to reach. [...] Meyer has figured out that a No Fly Zone might lead to World War III, and he's trying warn the raptured throngs, that things might not work out so well.  Naturally, he's speaking in lingua-leftie.  But how, exactly do you scare someone in a climate cult?  Not with nuclear war, but with something catastro-double-awful-bad for the climate. [...] Ponder how far these people are from reality, even at the sensible end of the spectrum.

The Media Are Children Behaving Badly.  Some months back, which means over ten years ago now, I read a commentary about the official lies promoted by the Soviet government that was a complete reversal of historical fact.  The commentator bemoaned the fact that this has continued into current times and that so many of the youth had been so indoctrinated by these lies they were incapable of understanding the truth. [...] As I watch the world, read the news and watched as little of it as I did on TV in those days, which I don't watch at all now, I concluded that the lefties may be right about their intelligence.  Lefties are always trying to publish studies that show that leftists are so much smarter than conservatives.  Well... I'm not so sure they aren't right.  Why?  Because in order to bring reality into line with what they claim they believe must require an enormous level of mental ability and logical gymnastics.  All of which must be mentally and emotionally exhausting in order to make the insane things they say and do seem right.

Video of Dems Calling to Defund Police 'Suddenly' Cuts out at Committee Hearing.  The official Twitter account of the House Judiciary GOP released a video that suspiciously was cut off during a judiciary committee hearing.  [Video clip]

Biden's America:  The inmates are running the asylum.  How does one sanely describe what has happened to the United States since Joe Biden was inaugurated?  The nation has been effectively ruined by the policies of Biden's band of incompetents; every Cabinet member is a disaster, promoted for his previous record of failure.  Not one of them is qualified for the jobs they've been given.  They were each chosen for precisely the wrong reason:  their race, sex, or leftist/green activism. [...] Consider Cabinet members Jake Sullivan, Ned Pryce, Janet Yellen, and Anthony Blinken.  Each of them has a record of incompetence and failure, even criminality.  Sullivan was party to the fabrication of the Russia hoax.  Yellen, formerly of the Fed, now claims that the American people are economically in "good shape."  Biden and Pelosi both hilariously claim that government spending is not causing the worst inflation in forty years.  Pelosi even said it is "reducing our debt."  These are very stupid people.  They lie as they breathe.

Let Them Drive Teslas.  When [Vice President Kamala] Harris and Transportation Secretary Pete get together, it's Platitudicon.  As it was this week, when, as the reality of imminent historic gas price spikes was hitting Americans, the duo spent the day promoting electric cars, the Green New Deal and the Environmental Protection Agency's soon-to-be-tightened emissions standards.  When it comes to energy, the Democrats adopt a bizarre elitist disconnect:  Propelled by theological belief in end-of-days climate alarmism, they assume that Americans will join them in losing all sense of perspective and proportionality.  Despite the perpetual championing of electric vehicles, less than 1% of cars, SUVs and light trucks on the road in the United States are electric.  The average cost of an electric car is $55,000.  Even with layers of subsidies that artificially bring it that low, the average price of an electric car is around $19,000 higher than the price of an average gas-powered vehicle.  The average Tesla goes for around $75,000.

Only 40% of Democrats would defend USA.  88% would defend Albania.  Good news America.  If Putin invaded the USA, we will be rid of 52% of our Democrats.  That's the percent of Democrats who said they would leave America rather than fight to protect us.  A Quinnipiac poll showed we'd be rid of our RINOs as well because 25% of Republicans would leave America if invaded.  The same poll showed 88% of Democrats support defending a NATO ally if Putin invades.  Only 40% of Democrats support defending the USA.  The poll asked, "If you were in the same position as Ukrainians are now, do you think that you would stay and fight or leave the country?"  55% said stay and fight.  38% would cut and run.

Biden shares tone-deaf plan to ensure 'no one will have to worry about gas prices'.  President Joe Biden ridiculously promoted his green agenda and advised Americans to purchase massively expensive electric cars so they will unrealistically no longer have to worry about buying gas while deterring "tyrants like Putin" from using fossil fuels as a weapon.  "Loosening environmental regulations won't lower prices.  But transforming our economy to run on electric vehicles, powered by clean energy, will mean that no one will have to worry about gas prices.  It will mean tyrants like Putin won't be able to use fossil fuels as a weapon," the president tweeted.  "It should motivate us to accelerate the transition to clean energy," Biden declared according to The Driven.

Biden's Handlers Want Skyrocketing Gas Prices.  The EPA Just Revealed Why.  The Democrats are well aware of the old adage, "Never let a good crisis go to waste," and are busy applying it as gas prices spiral out of all control.  As PJM's Chris Queen discussed Monday, Transportation Secretary Pete "Mr. Mom" Buttigieg appeared to be fantastically out of touch when he responded to skyrocketing prices at the pump.  "Clean transportation can bring significant cost savings for the American people as well," asserted Buttigieg.  "Last month, we announced a $5 billion investment to build out a nationwide electric vehicle charging network so that people from rural to suburban to urban communities can all benefit from the gas savings of driving an EV."  It was a real "Let Them Eat Cake" moment for Secretary Pete, but there is a method to his madness:  the administration isn't just out of touch, it is actively trying to use this crisis to impose its green agenda.

Manchin, Tester:  Why is Biden asking hostile regimes to solve US energy problems?  Joe Manchin and Jon Tester have rebuked the White House this morning for playing footsie with Venezuela and Iran while stiffing the American oil industry:  [Tweet]  "Go back to the policies we've had before," Manchin tells CNN's Manu Raju.  "That's all we're asking for."  That's all most Americans want too — a return to the oil-production policies of the Trump administration that resulted in net energy independence.  Biden's EOs and other regulatory actions to restrict oil leases made it more difficult for US producers to keep pace with a post-pandemic growth curve, for one thing.  Biden's cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline made it more difficult to increase imports from Canada as a buffer to American production, too.

Why Should Deplorables Fight for Those Who Hate Them?  [Scroll down]  Maybe I'm wrong.  Maybe the wars of the future will all be fought by politically correct, "detoxified," androgynous know-nothings marching uniformly into battle because MSNBC, Google, and Teen Vogue tell them doing so will prove they are committed to fighting racism and global warming.  Maybe that gender-confused pipsqueak huddled in a "safe space" because he/she/they/it is afraid of being "triggered" by words or the carnage of free speech is just what the U.S. military needs when going mano a mano against the Russians.  I'm sure those pink [...] hat-wearing womynx are ready to jump out of a good airplane, parachute into chaos, and start slitting throats for good Ol' Uncle Sam (or is it non-binary Auxnt Sam now?).  Where are all the climate change warriors when their country needs them?  Come on, "gladiators," get to it! Go find out what it's like to fight something that's fighting back.  Let's move, wokesters!  Show the mean Russkies how dangerous you are with your ski masks, bike chains, and fondness for attacking people from behind.  All that burning, looting, and murdering in cities across the USA over the last few years had to prepare Democrats' wannabe soldiers for something, right?

One of the Loudest Democrats Demanding We 'Defund the Police' Used Your Money for Private Security.  Political activism involves having ten percent care for the thing you're concerned about and about 90 percent utilizing that cause to enrich yourself.  The "defund the police" movement that happened alongside the Black Lives Matter movement during the 2020 elections convinced a lot of blue-state leaders to "reimagine" what policing looked like in their city.  Criminals didn't go along with "reimagining" what being a criminal looked like and many of the cities descended into crime-infested hell holes with high homicide rates.  It was so bad that even the bluest of the blue cities, San Francisco, began to reverse course and demand their police force back.

A Black Guy's Defense of the Constitution.  Recently a leftist journalist from The Nation named Elie Mystal referred to the U.S. Constitution as "trash".  He appeared on The View last Friday to promote his new book "Allow me to Retort:  A Black Guys Guide to the Constitution".  This is the ideological battle in which we are engaged in America.  Mr. Mystal must be commended for having the courage, albeit delusional, to admit to the Country the progressive socialist leftist perspective on the US Constitution.  It is no different than Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe, when he asserted that "parents do not have a right to decide what their children are being taught".  The left in America is so emboldened that they no longer feel the need to hide their disdain for this Nation.  The question is, for we, constitutional conservatives, what shall be our response?

The Biden Inflation Octopus.  The Democrats will suffer historic losses in the November midterms. [...] The culprit for the political wipeout will be out-of-control inflation — and for several reasons.  First, the Biden Administration is in such denial of inflation that it sounds to Americans simply callous and indifferent to the misery it has unleashed.  Biden officials have scoffed at price spikes as "transitory."  Or they have preposterously claimed spiraling costs are a concern only to the elite.  They blame the Ukraine crisis.  Or they fault the out-of-office bogeyman, former President Donald Trump.  The administration assures us that consumer prices are only rising at an annualized rate of 7.5% — as if the steepest increase in 40 years actually is not all that bad.  Yet the middle class knows that inflation is far worse when it comes to the stuff of life:  buying a house, car, gas, meat, or lumber.

The Economic Balloon That May Finally End Progressive Leftism.  The Laws of Economics are as immutable as the Law of Gravity, but few leftists grasp this fact.  When it comes to the Democrats' energy policies, I believe this immutability will finally be the Democrats' downfall.  People are reaching a pain point that the progressives can no longer deflect onto others.  Based on the progressive left's detrimental influence on President Biden's energy policies, the resulting accelerated inflation and energy-cost rise are very visible to average Americans.  The administration acts as if there is no causal connection between the two.  But what can we expect from people who work from feelings and not facts?  Just like they are amazed when we defund police and don't jail criminals and then crime rates spike.  No connection.

Psaki Says the Quiet Part Out Loud.  Press Secretary Jen Psaki admitted on live TV that Putin makes his moves when we have weaklings in the Executive Office.  "You know I was at the State Department," Psaki told CNN.  "The president was the vice president the last time Russia invaded Ukraine.  This is a pattern of horror from President Putin and from the cronies around him." [...] A lot of us remember.  A lot of us remember you as the State Department's press secretary.  A lot of us remember Obama putting Biden in charge of America's role in helping Ukraine weed out corruption.  A lot of us remember Biden's angelic son Hunter sitting on the Burisma board during that time.  We remember this delightful photo of you with Putin's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.  Pink is not a flattering color on you, Psaki.  Same for me as well.  Lavrov is one of those cronies.

Joe Biden Claims Inflation Is an Imaginary American Psychosis That Does Not Exist in Reality.  It's an easy disposable line to say Joe Biden is clueless about things.  He stumbles with cognitive thought, has trouble putting thoughts into understandable sentence structures using words, makes frequent gaffes and generally struggles to communicate issues that are simple and not complex.  When the issues are complex, the cognitive impairment gets worse.  These are easy truths to hit him with.  However, there's a more concerning aspect once you listen to how genuinely he has been led to believe in things that are fundamentally false.  That's where the danger comes from.  In this prompted segment on COVID and the economy, Joe Biden references a perspective, a belief in current events, that has been seeded into his brain by Surgeon General Vivek Murthy.  I know it's hard to listen to him, but in this segment pay close attention.  Joe Biden believes, really believes, that a COVID induced mental psychosis is responsible for people convincing themselves that prices have gone up, that inflation is extreme, and that economic pain is real.  He has been told that inflation does not exist, so he believes inflation is imaginary.  [Video clip]

Jen Psaki's Preview of What to Expect at Biden's SOTU Shows How Delusional This Administration Is.  White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki made an appearance on ABC's "This Week," [2/27/2022] where she offered a preview of what to expect from President Joe Biden's State of the Union address, to be delivered this Tuesday.  [Tweet]  To close out her segment, host George Stephanopoulos brought up a stark reality that Biden is facing right now.  "Finally, the president is approaching his State of the Union in a pretty difficult political position right now, 37 percent approval rating, Democrats trailing badly in the midterm polling.  A majority in our recent poll out this morning even question the president's mental capacity," Stephanopoulos mentioned, highlighting the results of a new ABC News-Washington Post poll, which I also covered earlier.  "How is he going to turn that around on Tuesday night?  And how much has his State of the Union been changed by this war in Ukraine?" Stephanopoulos asked.  Psaki seemed to have only heard the second part of the question.  She not only didn't respond to how Biden is "going to turn that around," she didn't acknowledge the numbers Stephanopoulos had just brought up.

The Ruling Class Is A Far Greater Threat To Americans Than Russia Is.  There's no gentle way to say it, but the truth is that a lot of us hate our elites far more than we hate some foreign dictator.  It's a tough truth for the tough place our civilization is in — and surely, it's a difficult truth for our ruling class to see amid the glare of their self-righteousness.  From Western Europe to West L.A., we know we're governed by leaders in business, entertainment, and politics who hold scorn for our country, its history, its heroes, its people, and their religion.  They have the money and the power, too.  They can freeze truckers' bank accounts and mask children as young as three.  They can order Australians into internment camps and host drag queen story hours.  They can force vaccinations, close churches, arrest priests, bankrupt businesses, prosecute bakers, empty prisons, defund police, and sometimes even win votes.  One thing they can't have, however, is the moral authority to rule a civilization they despise.  They are the very thugs they claim to stand against; they have no legitimacy.

Democrat Congressman Suggests the Redistribution of Trucks.  In the wake of the Freedom Convoy in Canada, there's a convoy of American trucks heading to Washington, D.C. in time for next week's State of the Union address. [...] And now, one Democrat congressman has an idea that may or may not be a joke, but it's definitely a way to one-up Justin Trudeau.  Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) quote tweeted an article about the American convoy on its way to D.C. by saying, "Perfect time to impound and give the trucks to small trucking companies looking to expand their business."  [Tweet]  Yes, you read that right.  Gallego has suggested — possibly tongue-in-cheek, but who really knows these days — that the feds seize the trucks and redistribute them to other companies.

Failing cable news nets CNN and MSNBC poised for a bidding war over Psaki.  There is a certain symmetry to the notion that the spokesmouth for the failing Biden administration reportedly is being assiduously courted by the two failing cable news networks, CNN and MSNBC, both of which have endured near-catastrophic ratings declines in the era of Biden.  More Biden cowbell... yea, that's the ticket.

Dem support for Trudeau's protest suppression [is] nearly 4:1.  Aren't these the same Democrats who hailed obstructive protests in American cities during the spring and summer of 2020? Yes indeed, although one can say in some fairness that the wind blows through both parties a bit when it comes to who's protesting and how.  A new Trafalgar poll shows Democrats have become big fans of Justin Trudeau and his use of wartime emergency powers to shut down a non-violent but still obstructive truckers' protest over COVID-19 mandates in Canada.

Poll: Majority Of Democrats Back Trudeau's Crackdown, Freezing Bank Accounts Of Truckers.  A majority of likely Democratic voters support Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's use of emergency powers to crack down on Freedom Convoy protesters last week.  A new poll from Trafalgar Group and Convention of States Action and provided exclusively to The Daily Wire shows that 55% of likely general election voters disapprove of Trudeau's handling of the protesters.  Thirty-five percent approve of Trudeau's heavy-handed tactics and 10% said they were unaware of what was happening north of the U.S. border.  Trafalgar Group surveyed 1080 likely general election voters from February 18-20 after Trudeau brought federal, provincial, and local law enforcement into Ottawa to forcibly clear out hundreds of protesters and dozens of vehicles from Parliament Hill and surrounding areas.  The poll's margin of error is 3%.

The left is obsessed with extending problems.  I was thinking about racism in America and how we hear the complaints that America is racist, but we rarely hear solutions.  The same tactic is being used with COVID-19.  What happened when somebody tested positive?  Such people were sent home and told to stay away from other people.  They were not given a treatment plan.  I have said before and then more convinced now than ever, that this is part of the larger plan to divide us.  The ultimate goal of that plan is to have complete control over us.  You may say that there is a plan to combat racism because of the laws that require minorities to be considered or to be given special opportunities.  You might say that quarantining someone who tested positive is preventing others from becoming infected which in some weird way is a plan.  But neither of those are plans to end racism or stop COVID-19.  By using race as a determining factor in hiring decisions we are extending racism.  By not treating people with existing drugs or holistic modalities come up we have extended the life and run of COVID-19.

'You Will Know Them by Their Fruits'.  I believe that most Americans and I usually try to give most folks the benefit of the doubt.  However, it is increasingly clear we can no longer do that.  With every issue, with every passing day, there is more news (when the news is honestly reported) that shows us exactly who these people are.  They have anointed and installed themselves at the top of our government, from the Oval Office to each executive branch and its myriad government bureaucracies.  They have established a clear pattern of behavior and are no longer hiding their motives or their intentions.  Everything is on full display. [...] Leftists are leftists, whether in America, the Soviet Union, Vietnam, Venezuela, Cuba, or China.  They are easily identified.  We are increasingly able to discern the truth about who they are, and that hat they intend to rule over us or they will crush us and burn everything down around us.  There is no longer any question about it.

Why are the police we revere doing the tyrants' bidding?  The American left has made its contempt of our police abundantly clear for several years now.  Encouraging the BLM riots, excusing the damage done, decreeing no punishment for those who did billions of dollars in property destruction over the summer of 2020 was their coin of the realm.  Lacking common sense and any skill at predicting the consequences of idiotic policies, they have doubled down on stupid as cities like N.Y., Chicago, D.C., and L.A. rack up homicides committed by career criminals repeatedly let loose on an unsuspecting public.  On a daily basis, innocent victims are attacked, injured, or killed by violent perpetrators who have been released by cavalier lefty judges who have become self-appointed social justice warriors.  This explains the parade massacre in Waukesha, Wisconsin and nearly every other violent assault on innocent victims for the last year.  Our American left reveres criminals over law-abiding citizens.  There can no longer be any doubt about that fact.  The Democrat party is, quite simply, pro-criminal.

The Squishy Political Rise of the Beta Male.  There are certain "qualities" that this new class of "leaders" all possess.  They went to good schools.  They have multiple degrees.  They have most likely not spent a large part of their life in the private sector.  They probably had an Alpha male father.  They tend towards being on the thin side.  They eat healthily and exercise regularly.  They are at some level aware of their Beta status and therefore deeply insecure.  They socialize almost exclusively with people like themselves.  They don't yell... in public.  They have fixers who handle the dirty work.  They like well-worn paths and tracks.  They speak in jargon.  They don't think outside the box and, in fact, specialize in building boxes.  They believe in focus groups and task forces.  They treat staff poorly.  They over-react.  They truly believe themselves to be a new superior form of human and, therefore, should automatically be treated as such.  And because of all that, they know better.

That Backlash Against Democrats Everyone Predicted Has Arrived.  For years, Republicans have been predicting that Nancy Pelosi's embrace of the so-called "squad" would lead to a political backlash, and that backlash appears to have arrived.  Democrats are now lamenting the fact that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Cori Bush, and Ayanna Pressley have been allowed to define their party at such a high level.  From the Green New Deal to the "defund the police" movement, Democrat radicalism is becoming a major liability heading into the midterms, per Axios.  [Tweet]

The left is losing its war on parents.  This week, three members of San Francisco's Board of Education — Gabriela López, Alison Collins and Faauuga Moliga — suffered overwhelming defeat in a recall election brought by angry parents who felt they were more concerned with lefty politics than with children's welfare.  The parents' case was strengthened by the fact that they were, well, right.  Siva Raj, one of the recall organizers, said, "The city of San Francisco has risen up and said this is not acceptable, to put our kids last."  As COVID raged, the school board paid more attention to renaming schools — it wanted to rename Abraham Lincoln HS because its namesake didn't show "that black lives ever mattered" to him — than educating kids.  Again and again, the board placed woke politics before its actual job.  (Collins had even accused Asians of using "white supremacist thinking" to get ahead.)

Defeated San Francisco school board member says voters who ousted her are 'aligned with' White supremacists.  San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education President Gabriela López, who lost a recall election this week, said Thursday those who supported her recall are "aligned" with White supremacists.  López and two fellow board members — Vice President Faauuga Moliga and Commissioner Alison Collins — were all voted out Tuesday in a landslide, with more than 72% of voters opting to recall each of them.  "So if you fight for racial justice, this is the consequence," López tweeted along with a photo of a Washington Post headline that said she and the two other recalled board members were "seen as too focused on racial justice."

Even in San Francisco, Voters [are] Fed Up With Woke Incompetence.  San Francisco residents voted to recall three members of the city's school board on Tuesday — School Board President Gabriela López, Vice President Faauuga Moliga, and Commissioner Alison Collins.  The recall effort began in January 2021 after the school board voted to rename 44 schools in the area that honored various American historical figures, such as Abraham Lincoln and George Washington.  Leaders of the recall effort criticized the school board's focus on renaming schools while the schools remained shut down.  "The city of San Francisco has risen up and said this is not acceptable to put our kids last," said Siva Raj, a parent and one of the leaders of the recall effort, according to Fox News.  "Talk is not going to educate our children, it's action.  It's not about symbolic action, it's not about changing the name on a school, it is about helping kids inside the school building read and learn math."

Blue San Francisco throws out three Board of Education leftists by monster margins.  It wasn't even close.  San Francisco Democrats turned hard on three far-left Board of Education members who kept public schools on lockdown, focused on changing the names of storied old schools, and told Asians to [forget about] merit-based admissions to the few good ones. [...] As the [San Francisco Chronicle] notes, they were on the ballot because they could be on the ballot — the rest likely would have been thrown out too, were they eligible.  The city will hold new elections in seven months, but San Francisco voters couldn't wait even that long to let these particular leftists know.  The only word for this is 'bloodbath.'

San Francisco recalls 3 school board members: 'a clear message'.  San Francisco residents overwhelmingly approved of a vote Tuesday [2/15/2022] to recall three of the city's school board members, election officials said.  Critics, including San Francisco Mayor London Breed, argued the members — school board President Gabriela López, Vice President Faauuga Moliga and Commissioner Alison Collins — pushed progressive politics rather than act in the best interest of children during the pandemic, and voters agreed, according to the San Francisco Department of Elections.  "The voters of this city have delivered a clear message that the school board must focus on the essentials of delivering a well-run school system above all else," Breed said in a statement after the vote.  "San Francisco is a city that believes in the value of big ideas, but those ideas must be built on the foundation of a government that does the essentials well."

San Francisco Voters Overwhelmingly Back Recall of Progressive School-Board Members.  San Francisco residents overwhelmingly voted to oust three of the city's progressive school-board members on Tuesday.  It was the culmination of a year-long effort to reform the board, which has been accused of prioritizing social-justice politics over reopening schools and managing the district's troubled finances during the Covid-19 pandemic.  Returns started coming in around 9 p.m. in California, showing that more than 70 percent of voters supported recalling each of the three candidates:  79 percent voted to recall board member Alison Collins, 75 percent voted to recall board president Gabriela López, and 73 percent voted to recall board member Faauuga Moliga.

Scores of congregations quit United Methodist Church over gay clergy, same-sex marriage.  At least 130 congregations have quietly walked away from the United Methodist Church in a schism over the denomination's planned acceptance of same-sex marriage and homosexual clergy.  The breakaway congregations are keeping their church property thanks to a "conscience clause" enacted by the group's legislative assembly in 2019.  The United Methodist Church General Conference, the church's governing body, is expected this year to approve a separation plan that would create two denominations:  one affirming bans on gay clergy and same-sex marriage, and one permitting homosexual clergy and same-sex marriage.  That move has been postponed because of the pandemic and might be delayed again.

Amid the Canadian Trucker Protests, The Left Has Found the New 'F' Word.  The Left cannot manufacture anymore COVID panic porn.  We're all desensitized.  We're also sick of it.  Most if not all the panic scenarios never came to fruition.  Most if not all the so-called advice was science fiction.  So, with no place to go, the Left says the quiet part out loud regarding their true agenda.  They're attacking freedom.  It's their new "F" word[.]

Our Greatest Domestic Threat:  Pro-Government Extremists.  Though alarming and depressing, we can no longer avoid recognizing that America's greatest domestic threat is from pro-government extremists.  We rue that pro-government extremists caused immense destruction during their less-than-"peaceful protests" in 2020; and we witness the continuing damage caused by their neurotic, totalitarian response to a plethora of problems, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.  Indeed, what makes the pro-government extremists so dangerous is their far greater numbers than their anti-government extremist counterparts.  Their noxious ideology that the citizen is subordinate to the omnipotent state is incessantly "normalized" and propagandized by their corporate media comrades.  Worse, their pro-government extremism is being indoctrinated throughout American public and private institutions, including K-12 education, higher education, and the military.

Critics Rip Defense Department Over What It Claims Are 'Necessities' in [the] Military.  Critics ripped the Department of Defense on Wednesday for a woke tweet promoting the need for "diversity" and "inclusion" in the military.  The tweet linked to a news story about remarks Bishop Garrison, the senior advisor to the secretary of defense for human capital and diversity, equity, and inclusion, made to the Center for a New American Security.

Our Authoritarian Moment.  In The Authoritarian Moment, Ben Shapiro warns of the rise of censorship, voter fraud, fake news, and other leftist tactics for seizing control. [...] Unfortunately, progressives have had the advantage.  They are fervent, almost religious (or pseudo-religious) in their commitment to change.  They comprise a small, cohesive group similar to the Bolsheviks in revolutionary Russia, and, like those revolutionaries, they believe that the righteousness of their cause justifies any sort of behavior ("by any means necessary," as they say).  And, because they despise Middle America and its citizenry, they are motivated by the strongest of emotions:  hate.  Nothing like this can be said of ordinary Americans, who still believe in fair play and following the law, and that is why so many key institutions have fallen into the hands of progressives, including government, corporations, education, the federal bureaucracy (including elements within the FBI and IRS), entertainment and sports, and even the church.  As Shapiro has it, ordinary Americans are not focused on the culture war to begin with, and when they are, they are too polite to object.  They lack the fanaticism and ruthlessness of the left, and so the left has been winning.

Spice Company That Rejected Republicans Is Taking 'Get Woke, Go Broke' to New Lows.  We are more than familiar with the pitfalls involved with the corporate temptation to Get Woke.  In the case of Penzey's Spices, a gastronomic entity in Wisconsin, it is something else entirely as the head of the company seems remarkably obsessed with politics.  So much so that in an era when companies are struggling in the pandemic marketplace the namesake Bill Penzey is perfectly comfortable with driving away a core segment of his customer base.  Rather than tipping his hand at virtue signaling causes, or grandstanding on particular issues like Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream does routinely, Penzey's has a distinctly novel stance.  The company says Republicans need not click PURCHASE.  It is a daring move in this economy, but daring does not mean it is lucrative.  Nor smart.  He is now admitting to a significant loss of business.

The Truth About Biden's Fake War With Russia.  Biden tried to be FDR and failed at that.  Now he's settling for playing a senile elderly JFK.  If you watch 5 minutes of CNN or any cable news network, you might believe that we're on the verge of war with Russia.  That's what the same people who claimed that President Trump was working for Putin want you to believe.  Their new war with Russia is as real as Russiagate.  Democrats want to fight Russia to the last Republican.  They aren't about to fight a real war.  Their fake wars with Russia are an attack on Republicans.  Russiagate came after Democrats spent eight years giving Putin everything he wanted as Hillary toted a Reset Button from a swimming pool and Psaki posed in a sickle and hammer hat.  And that was just what we knew about.

Conservatives Must Stop Tolerating Commie Nonsense.  We need to be intolerant of stupidity, intolerant of delusions, and intolerant of those who want to change our country into a giant college run by the kind of people you avoided when you walked across campus.  When the first dude approached us and announced that he was now Gladys, our society defaulted to kindness.  Someone who is suffering gender dysphoria does not need to have more pain heaped upon him or her, and we had no desire as a society to compound that pain.  But tolerating this confusion was not enough.  The demand became to celebrate it and to pretend it was real.  But it's not real.  A man can never menstruate or give birth or ask for directions.  A woman cannot be a father or (generally) carry 120 pounds of weapons and gear or fully appreciate The Dirty Dozen.

Joe Biden: 'The Constitution Is Always Evolving Slightly'.  President Joe Biden met with Senate Judiciary leaders on Tuesday, reminding them that the United States Constitution was "always evolving" in his public remarks at the meeting.  "You know there's always a renewed national debate every time we nominate, any president nominates a justice, because the Constitution is always evolving slightly," Biden said, referring to his upcoming choice of a nominee to replace the retiring Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court.

Protests From Out of Nowhere.  After months of uninterrupted growth in state power, what we are now witnessing in the disputes rocking the Australian Open, Spotify, Marvel and the trucking world are spontaneous meeting engagements in the culture wars.  It's like a chain reaction of angry people setting off other angry people.  The singular thing about this development is that it would have been impossible six months ago.  A psychological barrier has been breached and a taboo has fallen.  The potential of this to create a cascade is considerable.

Laughing Psaki mocks Americans' concern over 'soft-on-crime' policies.  The nation's largest police union called out White House press secretary Jen Psaki for 'belittling Americans' concerns' after she said media outlets who run segments on 'soft-on-crime policies' are living in an 'alternate universe.[']  'I think it's wrong — very wrong — for Ms. Psaki to suggest that violent crime in our country is of no concern or to just laugh it off,' National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) President Patrick Yoes said in a statement.  Psaki was speaking about a Fox News segment during an appearance on the Pod Save America podcast last week when she questioned what 'soft-on-crime consequence' even means and insisted Americans care 'more about what's happening in their lives than what's necessarily happening in every cable news chyron'.

Psaki Mocks Violent Crime Concerns as 'An Alternative Universe'.  During a podcast interview over the weekend, While House Press Secretary Jen Psaki mocked people concerned about increasing violent crime as being in "an alternative universe."  "'Soft on crime policies.'  What does that even mean?  There's an alternate universe on some coverage.  What's scary about it is lots of people watch that," Psaki said. [...] "What does that even mean?"  It means an expontial [sic] increase in the murder rate thanks to prosecutors who want violent criminals out on the streets.

Is this why Psaki laughed off concerns about being soft on crime policies?  Jen Psaki quipped that those who are worried about 'soft-on-crime policies' are living 'in an alternate universe,' but it's little wonder why the White House press secretary is seemingly unfazed by the nation's crime wave: she lives in one of the safest, most expensive counties in America.  In the tree-lined suburb of Arlington, where many lobbyists, government officials and choose to raise their children, the average price of a single-family, detached home was $1,258,648 as of December.  And in 2020, Arlington County, Virginia was deemed the safest city in the U.S., according to national data compiled by Money Geek.

As police were abandoning East Precinct, Seattle officials drafted plan to give station to a Black Lives Matter group.  At the height of Seattle's racial justice protests in 2020, then-Mayor Jenny Durkan's administration drafted legislation to transfer the Police Department's East Precinct building to a Black Lives Matter activist organization and researched relocating the station's operations, newly released documents show.  That June, as cops lobbed tear gas from behind barricades, and protesters on the streets surrounding the precinct called for the Police Department to be defunded, Durkan's office behind the scenes briefly contemplated handing over the multimillion dollar property that had become the focus of the demonstrations.  Calvin Goings, the director of the city's Department of Finance and Administrative Services (FAS), emailed three memos and a draft resolution to Durkan on the afternoon of June 8, 2020 — at about the same time police were abandoning the East Precinct on Capitol Hill.

Is Democracy Dying or America Disintegrating?  A precondition of democracy is that the results of elections be recognized and respected, and if repeatedly challenged, this is a mortal threat.  And this is the present peril.  Yet, there are other preconditions, not only for democracies but for countries, that were enumerated in The Federalist Papers:  "Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people — a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs ... "  "This country and this people seem to have been made for each other, and it appears as if it was the design of Providence, that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren, united to each other by the strongest ties, should never be split into a number of unsocial, jealous, and alien sovereignties."  John Jay was describing the preconditions of a nation, a country, a people.  Do these preconditions still exist in America?  "One united people"?  "A band of brethren"?  A common ancestry, common religion, common language, common customs and manners?  That may describe the America of 1789.  Does it describe the America of 2022?

Salvation Army Silent on Impact of Race-Based Training on Fundraising.  Salvation Army chapters across the country saw a significant drop in donations in the weeks before Christmas because of fallout over a racially charged training curriculum, according to a nonprofit group that advocates "colorblind" policies.  Chapters in California, Massachusetts, and Michigan are among Salvation Army locations cited by Color Us United as affected by its campaign against training materials, called "Let's Talk About Racism," that include tenets of critical race theory and anti-racism teachings.  The church's national headquarters has yet to announce fundraising figures for 2021, but it is evident that financial contributions to The Salvation Army have been "tanking," Color Us United spokesman Christian Watson told reporters.  "It's very clear their numbers have been hit hard," Watson said of The Salvation Army during a virtual press conference Jan. 19.  "You can either chalk it up to COVID or economic turmoil, or you can do what we claim is the probable cause — and that is Color Us United's particular efforts against The Salvation Army's woke curriculum."

State Legislators Are Mounting A Stand Against "Critical Theory's Long March".  I know I've been repetitive on the loss of institutions at virtually every level of society.  But maybe it's also worth focusing not only on which institutions have been lost, but what remains and how much power what remains can have.  There is, of course, people power that exists outside institutions.  That people power in 2021-2022 is focused on the parents' movement to reclaim their children.  It's not just about Critical Race Theory, it's about whether children are children of their parents or of the state and teachers unions.  That people power also is manifesting itself in disgust with unscientific, irrational, harmful, and abusive lockdowns and Covid-related random acts of government abuse.  But there is an institution that remains, and it's starting to engage in a serious way.

Left Barely Masks Its Contempt for Parents' Involvement in Education.  [Scroll down]  Parents, however, are getting better at sifting through the education establishment's lies.  That's a good thing, because they're more brazen than ever.  The insistence, for example, by radical leftist teachers unions that students be force-fed toxic critical race theory nostrums over parents' objections illustrates how much credence liberals give to dissenting voices far more vividly than phony posts from party hacks.  Just one year ago, educational leaders, media elites, and leftist politicians were assuring parents that critical race theory was a complicated area of study only taught in law schools.  But with students banned from the classroom during the COVID-19 pandemic, parents got to observe firsthand the propaganda streaming into their living rooms via remote-learning lessons.  Immediately, the narrative changed from "There is no critical race theory in K-12 classrooms" to "If you don't like it, you're a racist."

Department of Agriculture issues comical food price inflation report and forecast.  Inflation is the political dynamite that explodes political support for an American president.  People directly experience their standard of living declining every time they buy food and fill up their gas tanks.  When people have to minimize or eliminate beef and other preferred foods from their diet, they experience creeping impoverishment and worry what lies ahead. [...] The average American who can no longer afford hamburgers for the kids, or who finds that those boxes of cornflakes last half as long as they used to, is not fooled.  People detest a decline in their standard of living.  It requires frequent sacrifices.  And after experiencing rises in incomes and rising consumption under Trump, they know who to blame.  No report from the USDA is going to change their minds.

If I had ever heard of this company, it would be one more place to boycott:
Company that Called Republicans Racist Loses Massive Number of Customers.  Penzey's Spices, the Milwaukee-based company that held "Republicans are Racist Weekend" sale on Martin Luther King, Jr.  Weekend earlier this month, is now dealing with a massive loss of customers and is now all but begging for new business.  "After starting the year with All Republicans are Republicans and following up with Republicans are Racists we've set a nice little Boycott Penzeys! surge in motion," Penzey's CEO Bill Penzey said in an email to customers Friday. [...] Penzey admitted that the "Republicans are Racists" email cost his business 40,005 subscribers, roughly three percent of the total.

Crying thyme for spice company after 'Republicans Are Racist' promotion backfires.  A Milwaukee spice company is peppering its remaining customers with requests to buy gift cards after its anti-Republican ad campaign left a bad taste in a lot of mouths.  Penzeys Spices, which sells its goods mostly online and via mail order, saw its sales plunge after it ran a "Republicans Are Racist" sale on Martin Luther King Jr. weekend.  On Friday, the company's namesake boss asked for help boosting the company's finances. [...] Penzey has never shied away from making political statements and for decades has used his company's catalog as a megaphone.  Penzey has taken aim at urban white flight, low teacher pay, the use of Native American iconography in sports, as well as former President Donald Trump.  After the 2016 election, Penzeys sent an email to customers, including Trump supporters, that declared, "You just voted for an openly racist candidate for the presidency of the United States of America."

Penzey's Spice Company Called All Republicans Racist, Then Lost 40,000 Customers in Two Weeks.  Just two weeks after a Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based spice company held a "Republicans are Racist" sale over Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, it is dealing with a massive loss of business and openly begging for new customers.  Penzey's Spices CEO Bill Penzey, who routinely uses his company's email list to send anti-Republican screeds, sent a newsletter earlier this month in which he accused GOP voters of fantasizing about killing African Americans.

Mazie Hirono Demonstrates, Once Again, Why Democrats Choosing Justices Is a Bad Idea.  Hawaii Democrat Senator Mazie Hirono can easily be considered one of the more radical and overdramatic leftists currently in office.  This is the same Hirono that decided to vote against the confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett by marching up to the Senate dias with arms folded and demanded they put her down as a "hell no" vote.  This is the same Hirono that became angered with Barrett for using the term "sexual preference" in relation to the LGBT community but was dismissive of Joe Biden saying it while he was running for president to the point of directly dismissing it.

DFL to allow illegal immigrants to participate in caucuses.  The Minnesota DFL Party announced Wednesday that illegal immigrants and felons who haven't completed their sentences will be allowed to participate in precinct caucuses.  Party Chair Ken Martin praised the move as a "historic rule change" that reflects the party's values.  "No Minnesotan should be denied the right to help shape the future of our party because of where they were born or because of mistakes they made in the past and have paid their debt to society for," he said.  "The DFL Party believes strongly in a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants and in re-enfranchising ex-felons who have paid their debts to society."  In Minnesota, felons can't vote until they finish their full sentence, including probation or parole, nor can non-citizens.  The DFL argued in various lawsuits that these rules shouldn't apply to caucuses because they are a violation of the right to freedom of association.

The left-wing dark money behind the push to kill the filibuster.  Sixty left-wing groups led by Fix Our Senate recently issued a letter demanding the Senate abolish the filibuster so "democracy legislation" will pass and the party now narrowly controlling Congress can rewrite all 50 states' election laws.  Two big secrets lie behind this push to kill the filibuster and, supposedly, protect "voting rights."  First, this lobbying campaign is driven not by grassroots groups of ordinary people but by left-wing megadonors and the AstroTurf groups they fund.  The second secret:  This scheme isn't about "protecting Democracy" because overwhelming majorities of our democracy's citizens support the state election laws that these deep-pocketed special interests want snuffed out.  This fight is about the 2022 and 2024 elections, which liberal activists fear will go badly for them unless all the dubious changes in election laws and practices they finagled in 2020 are repeated.

Poll reveals many Democrats wish to repeal natural law, imprison fellow citizens.  A poll conducted jointly by the Heartland Institute and Rasmussen Reports surveyed 1,016 "likely voters" in the United States on January 5.  The poll revealed...that a large percentage of Democrat voters would have made excellent Germans circa the 1930s and 1940s.  Specifically, it revealed that 59% of likely Democratic voters want the government to enact a policy mandating that unvaccinated Americans be confined to their homes at all times, except for emergencies.  (Conversely, 79% of Republicans and 71% of unaffiliated voters oppose such draconian punitive measures.)  Moreover, 45% of Democrats called for the government to round up citizens who are not vaccinated against COVID-19 and force them into "designated facilities."  (These same people, I'm certain, are — or would be — appalled at FDR rounding up Japanese-Americans and placing them in "designated facilities" during World War II.)  An even higher percentage of voters who have a "very favorable" opinion of President Biden were in favor of putting unvaccinated Americans into COVID camps.

Support For Pelosi and Schumer Led Congress Crashes By Half — Among Democrats.  Even Democrats are souring on Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer as leaders of Congress.  Last spring, Democrats had a 50% approval of the Pelosi and Schumer led Congress, but now it has dropped to 26%.

Stephen Colbert Says the US Senate is 'anti-Democratic' and Should Be Dismantled.  CBS's The Late Show host Stephen Colbert played sore loser on Monday's show when he suggested getting rid of the U.S. Senate, calling it an "anti-democratic" institution following the Democrats' failure to eliminate the filibuster.  Stephen Colbert was chatting with guest Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) when he made the bizarre suggestion.  "If you can't get rid of the filibuster... then what if we just get rid of the Senate?  And I'm 100 percent serious here.  It is the most anti-democratic institution next to the judiciary," he said.  "No one will drop a single tear," he added.  "I don't understand what possible positive purpose the United States Senate provides right now."  [Video clip]

It Doesn't Matter That Voters Hate Joe Biden If Democrats Can Rig Elections.  Democrats may fail at policy, but they've always been reliably competent at the game of politics, zeroing in on votes with great precision.  Have you noticed they haven't been themselves lately, though?  Even after taking a shellacking in statewide elections in Virginia and New Jersey last November, a moment when sane politicians typically learn from defeat, they instead doubled down.  In her usual well-reasoned manner, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., commented after the electoral bloodbath that Democrats were beaten, not because of the president's agenda, but because they hadn't done enough to "excite, speak to, or energize a progressive base."  Never mind that voters knew what was at stake — and clearly rejected it.  One would have thought that older and more seasoned politicians might have guided the young House member back to reality, but the ragin' Cajun himself, James Carville, only sparked her outrage in saying that "stupid wokeness" had cost the Democrats.

The Dems' Total War On Republicans Has Totally Backfired.  For the past year, Democrats up and down the leadership ladder have been on an endless campaign to portray Republicans as delusional out-of-touch anti-science hate-mongering conspiracy-peddling vote-suppressing anti-vaxxer insurrectionist racists.  The result has been a huge shift in party preference:  away from Democrats and toward Republicans.  Have voters finally wised up to the left's cravenness and radicalism?  Will this newfound awareness last?

Joey 2022: The Worse the Better.  [Scroll down]  So, if I was leading a rebel cabal deep within the FBI Special Task Force on Armed Insurrectionism — because where else would I be? — I would get AOCs elected to Congress; I would crash the economy with lockdowns and vaccination mandates; I would make sure that Fed Chairman Jerome Powell kept the money spigots on full bore; I would propose multiple trillion-dollar spending packages artfully described as stimulus, infrastructure, Build Back Better; I would propose to federalize elections to make ordinary people fear for their lives; I would nod-nod-wink-wink to George Soros to elect prosecutors that had no time for prosecuting when there were homes in Florida to be bought; I would totally bungle the retreat from Afghanistan; I would kill the oil-and-gas industry stone dead and increase gas prices by 50 percent; I would call the inevitable inflation "transitory;" I would set up a January 6 Commission to transform the stupid January 6 rioters into noble victims of injustice.  And, of course, I would call anyone who objected a "systemic racist."

Report: Black Americans Fleeing Democrat-Controlled New York, California.  Many black Americans are leaving New York and California to seek decent wages and affordable housing in southern states, according to a Washington Post article that ignores the federal policy of importing foreign people to fill jobs and homes in New York and California.  "There is a noticeable lack of black people in these cities that were once the mecca for black America, for people fleeing the Jim Crow South," the Post's reporter told an interviewer.  The Post reported January 14 on the southern migration, which is now reversing the historic "Great Migration" of black Americans from the South to northern cities during the 1900s.

Yes, Virginia, the January 6 'insurrection' exists.  But it's not what the left and the mainstream media have identified.  The definition of insurrection includes "actions taken against an established government" for the purposes of overthrowing the government and it includes violence.  By that definition, conservatives, constitutionalists, independents, and even many traditional liberals — a majority I call Normal Americans ("Normals") — cannot ever be guilty of that charge.  Why?  Because we are not trying to overthrow and replace our duly formed constitutional republic form of government.  Period.  We are defending that government against an outright attack by radicals who do want to replace it, and we are pushing back against the unelected bureaucratic and authoritarian administrative state that the left uses for power and control.  Normals have zero desire to collapse America, harm its economy, or enslave its people through Marxist control.  Radicals do.  Radicals have been engaged in a soft insurrection with occasional violence for 100 years.  Now, they're feeling Normals rising.

Democrats Avoid Campaigning on Biden's Floundering Build Back Better Agenda.  Democrat Congressional candidates running in GOP House districts are noticeably avoiding talking about President Joe Biden's floundering Build Back Better agenda, the Daily Beast observed on Tuesday [1/11/2022]. [...] While Democrats "frequently tout their commitment" to several of the bill's provisions — like prescription drug costs, child care, and "climate change" — many "don't explicitly acknowledge" Biden's $2 trillion in "social spending."

Democrats Support Punishing the Unvaccinated.  [Scroll down]  78%, of Democrats support COVID vaccine mandates, which would force people out of their jobs if they choose not to receive a vaccination.  Three-quarters have a favorable opinion of Dr. Fauci.  A majority of Republicans and unaffiliated voters oppose the mandate and have a dim view of President Biden's chief medical advisor.  In addition, a majority of Democrats support harsher measures for those who decide not to receive a vaccine that can't prevent transmission or illness: [...] If you want to know how far some of these biosecurity state cheerleaders will go, 29% would agree to take your children if you refuse to get the Fauci ouchie.  Oddly, only 54% of black Americans are fully vaccinated, but 63% support Biden's vaccine mandate in the poll.  The survey notes that President Biden's strongest supporters are most likely to endorse his COVID policies and the harshest punishments for the unvaccinated.

America's U-Haul Revolution.  Not everyone in Blue State America is moving to a far healthier Red State.  It only seems that way.  But enough are doing so to say, without a doubt, it is one of the most significant trends in America today.  A revolution of sorts.  It's long been known in demography and population economics that people leave areas known for authoritarian tyranny, stagnation, stultification, crime and excessive regulation in order to find the opposite somewhere else: economic freedom, dynamism, social diversity and good government.  It's a big reason why literally hundreds of millions of people around the world have expressed their desire to emigrate to the U.S.  But it's also true within countries, too.  Amid a backdrop of slow overall population growth, a problem in itself, comes the mass exodus of more than a million Americans moving largely from Blue States to Red States, expressing dissatisfaction with high taxes, rampant crime, lockdowns, vaccine mandates, excessive state government regulations, a politically stifling "woke" culture, and lack of economic opportunity and freedom.

LA Times:  It's necessary to mock the deaths of the unvaccinated.  In Orange County, California, Deputy District Attorney Kelly Ernby recently passed away due to complications from COVID. Ernby had been a vocal critic of government vaccination mandates and was herself unvaccinated according to her family and friends.  This led to the predictable, ghoulish end-zone dancing on social media that we regularly hear from supporters of mandates and immunity passports.  While most people in the media are compassionate enough (or at least politically sensible enough) to condemn such callous behavior, the Los Angeles times managed to find someone to take the opposite position.

The Left did us a great favor.  [Scroll down]  Actually, it's not Joe Biden, it's the ranks of the Karl Marx Book Club elites and grandchildren of the Yippies now occupying the White House, along with Obama, Rice, Pelosi, et al.  They have taken us to a place, and swiftly, that we never imagined before.  They are center stage revealing on an almost daily basis how truly wacky is the road to socialism with its accompanying demands for the masses to adhere to their demands.  They, after all, know better than we.  They know we will be better served with higher fuel and food prices, trillions more in national debt, prosecutors who no longer prosecute, millions of illegals crossing the southern border, depleted law enforcement ranks, solar and wind energy, fear of COVID, fear of global warming (climate change), placement of teacher unions in charge of public education and... well, the list goes on.

Who Are the Real Insurrectionists?  Recently, Democrats have been despondent over Joe Biden's sinking polls.  His policies on the economy, energy, foreign policy, the border, and COVID-19 all have lost majority support.  As a result, the Left now variously alleges that either in 2022, when they expect to lose the Congress, or in 2024, when they fear losing the presidency, Republicans will "destroy democracy" or stage a coup.  A cynic might suggest that they praise democracy when they get elected — only to claim it is broken when they lose.  Or they hope to avoid their defeat by trying to terrify the electorate.  Or they mask their own revolutionary propensities by projecting them onto their opponents.  After all, who is trying to federalize election laws in national elections contrary to the spirit of the Constitution?  Who wishes to repeal or circumvent the Electoral College?  Who wishes to destroy the more than 180-year-old Senate filibuster, the over 150-year-old nine-justice Supreme Court, and the more than 60-year-old, 50-state union?  Who is attacking the founding constitutional idea of two senators per state?

Biden beefs up efforts against Big Meat.  With inflation raising red flags for consumers across the country, the Biden administration is continuing its war on big meat processors that it claims are reaping record profits at the expense of consumers and smaller competitors.  The White House has released what it calls an action plan for "a fairer, more competitive, and more resilient meat and poultry supply chain" complete with a wide range of initiatives.  "In too many industries, a handful of giant companies dominate the market," President Joe Biden said in a Monday meeting to discuss the issue.

There Is No Radical Right, and There Is No Mainstream Left, Either.  [Scroll down]  Yet oddly, leftists claim the people's mandate in all their ends.  They claim it in their quest to overthrow the independent Supreme Court.  To do that, they seek to abolish the over 215 year-old requirement in the Senate that most matters pass with supermajority support in order to carry out their plan to pack the Court with leftist judges.  After using the supermajority threshold to their own advantage 327 times just last Congress, including at least nine times to block major bills, now leftists want a change.  Why?  Because too many Supreme Court Justices espouse what they say is an extremist judicial philosophy.  What is this philosophy?  That the Supreme Court should abide by the Constitution instead of making it up to enact laws too unpopular for the democratically elected Congress to pass.  It's the Constitution itself leftists seek to overthrow.  And our democracy along with it.  That's insurrection.

Six Basic Concepts Liberals Don't Get.  [#6] Reality is not fungible.  Liberals don't understand that we cannot exchange our reality for another one.  Understanding that truth comes from a recognition that we do not control the laws of nature or economics.  Reality is not fungible.  The laws of nature cannot be changed because they are inconvenient.  Truth is fixed, and facts are hard.  People do not have their own reality.  If they perceive the world other than as it is, they are not enlightened; they are deranged — or liberal, or both.  Conservatism tends to accompany the acquisition of wisdom.  Conservatives want the same outcomes as liberals but understand that simplistic solutions don't fix problems; they perpetuate them.  Choosing to accept reality and live according to the laws of nature leads to a prosperous and happy life.  Choosing to fight reality leads to a life of frustration and disappointment.  Perhaps that explains why liberals live in a perpetual state of unhappiness.

The Left's 'Ron DeSantis Is Missing' Conspiracy Just Blew Back on Them.  Democrats and liberal media have been trying to claim that DeSantis has gone missing.  Now, he's only missing in their minds.  But it's quite something to watch such desperate mania unfold like this.  They created a fantasy, completely out of whole cloth.  Not only did they claim he was missing; they even claimed that it was probably because he had COVID, based on no evidence at all. [...] In addition to the work and being with his family on Christmas, DeSantis also was doing something else this week that they don't care about either.  He was taking his wife to cancer treatment.  Yes, they're attacking a family who is having to deal with a serious medical illness.

Nobody likes Joe.  Inflation, violent crime, job competition from illegals, and the monstrous Afghanistan pullout are taking their toll on old Joe's president[i]al approval ratings. [...] Joe threw blacks, women, independents, Latinos, suburbanites, and others over the side in his bid to please the AOC crowd.  Gas prices through the roof.  Bye-bye energy independence.  Federal drilling halted in the name of 'going green.'  A major pipeline shut down at the flick of Joe's pen.  No parental input in education.  Critical race theory drummed into the heads of the young.  Schools closed.  What teachers' unions want, teachers' union get.  Coddle and pay illegals with bottomless funding while border towns pay extra for the surge, crime, and spreading of COVID.  Throw the poor out of their jobs with vax mandates.  Reintroduce inflation, brought on by Federal Reserve money-printing to pay for Joe's big government spending.  Whip up whitey-as-bad-guy rhetoric, defund the police, ignore violent crime even as turns every blue city into another Caracas.

Voters may dislike inflation, but Democrats don't.  20% of all dollars were created in 2020, and Democrats want to spend trillions more.  A recent poll found that one-third of Americans see inflation and household bills as their top concern, ahead of COVID.  Yet Democrats push for more spending and dismiss the issue of inflation as a Republican talking point.  It doesn't seem as if this strategy will pay off, but perhaps the government has so little incentive to control inflation that even a poll like that doesn't faze politicians.  When inflation rises, the government may collect more tax revenue, and Americans who derive their income from the government get a raise and are thus protected from the worst of inflation.  It's a win-win situation — as long as you're lucky enough to be in the government or paid by it.  Inflation isn't all bad really; it just depends on who you are.

Omicron upends the class politics of Covid.  Until Omicron came along, the official response to Covid served as an instrument of class warfare against blue collar workers and small businesses, on behalf of the tech oligopolists and selected big businesses such as Target, which were deemed "essential." Not coincidentally, blue collar workers and small businesses are the core of the GOP base, while Silicon Valley and the plutocracy are the cash cows and power base of the Democrats.  But the Omicron Variant has — at least for now — turned that class dynamic on its head. [...] The psychological identity of the Democrats' ruling class, the educated professionals, rests on their presumed intellectual and moral superiority over the basket of deplorables.  Bette Midler spoke for almost the entire Democrat elite when she slammed the West Virginia constituents of Joe Manchin as toothless illiterates.  They cannot be good unless their opponents (including most readers of the site) are bad.  And that badness includes vaccine hesitancy and Covid vulnerability.

Jim Jordan Says Brandon Has "Done Everything Wrong".  Jim Jordan, appearing on Fox News's "Sunday Morning Futures" program, had some harsh words for the Brandon Administration, which he said has "done everything wrong.["]  Beginning his remarks, he warned that "Elizabeth Warren seems to be hinting at price controls."  And what does that mean for the average American?  As he put it, "And we know what that will do.  That will only exacerbate the problems we see out there."  That is, of course, the opposite of what the average American wants.  As Jordan put it, "So, in simple words, I think the American people would like — they'd like safe streets, they'd like affordable gas, and they'd like freedom."  But, again, that's not what we're getting from Team Brandon.  "Instead," Jordan said, "what Biden's giving them is record crime, record inflation and Dr. Fauci."

Sorry Santa, you're too white, straight and male.  Santa Claus is too white, too straight and too male for most young people in the UK today, according to a poll.  The modern depiction of Father Christmas as an old white man with a big bushy beard who wears a red and white suit was made globally famous by Coca Cola's adverts of the 1930s.

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The rest of the article is not "family friendly" enough to be quoted here.  Here's a synopsis:  Perverts are in favor of spreading perversion.  Feminists spread feminism wherever they can.  Communists are in favor of destroying all traditions.  One might easily wonder if the "poll" cited in the article above was really just an incitement, to get all the left-wing fruitcakes to offer up their favorite suggestions.

Escape from Democratic governance.  Manhattan may not be the country's premier maximum-security prison, but New Yorkers sure are fleeing the state like their lives depended on it.  According to Census Bureau data released this week, no state lost a greater percentage of its population to domestic migration, or 1.5%, than the Empire State.  In all, 20 states lost population to other states in the 12-month period between July 2020 and July 2021, most of them controlled by Democrats.  The three biggest net losers, California (minus 367,299), New York (minus 352,185), and Illinois (minus 122,460) are all completely controlled by the Democratic Party.

White Men Are No Longer the Democrats' Most Pressing Electoral Concern.  Democrats face a mountain of issues.  They have an inflation crisis that voters seem primed to nail them to the wall over.  The supply chain crisis is still ongoing.  The economy is not well despite the endless propaganda peddled by the Biden administration.  Russia and China are flexing their muscles.  The southern border is a mess.  COVID is still not shut down.  And Build Back Better just got killed by Joe Manchin.  Now, moderate Democrats who cast their lot with the progressive wing and voted for the left-wing action items are saddled with this legislative fumble.  Meanwhile, Joe Biden's approval ratings are sinking faster than the Andrea Doria.

The White House's Vaccine Threats Aren't To Keep You Safe.  They're To Keep You In Line.  By now, you've likely seen or heard the latest coronavirus messaging from the White House, which President Joe Biden is scheduled to talk about again later on Tuesday.  The president gave the first doomsday message for the unvaxxed, COVID response chief Jeff Zients repeated it, and chief of staff Ron Klain doubled down on it, so the comments were no slip of the tongue.  This is the administration's official line.  "We are intent on not letting omicron disrupt work and school for the vaccinated.  You've done the right thing, and we will get through this.  For the unvaccinated, you're looking at a winter of severe illness and death for yourselves, your families, and the hospitals you may soon overwhelm," Zients said, one day after Biden made nearly identical comments.  This messaging is problematic for a multitude of reasons, not the least of which is its remarkable ability to further harden 50 percent of the country against the so-called "unity" president, who has shaped up to be leagues more divisive than his predecessor.  But buried under the latest "dark winter" threat is an admission from the Biden White House that its detractors have been right about its aims all along.  The contrast between the in-group and the out-group isn't that one is rid of the virus while the other isn't.  The difference is that one has "done the right thing."

Chuck Schumer's Tough-Guy Act Could Backfire Spectacularly in 2022 and Beyond.  On Dec. 17, Rasmussen Reports noted that 77% of likely voters were following the news about the BBB Act at least somewhat closely.  Only 38% support the legislation, while 45% are opposed.  Among Democrats, support declined to 62%, and a mere 34% of independents want the spending bill passed.  As the debate drags on, fewer voters seem likely to support President Biden's signature legislation.  In combination with other factors, it also seems to be pulling down the president's approval rating.  According to Rasmussen, as of Dec. 20, 41% of likely voters approve of President Biden's job performance while 57% disapprove.

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Two More House Dems Make Mad Dash for the Exits as Joe Biden's BBB Agenda Implodes.  With voter concerns sitting squarely on uncertainties about the U.S. economy on issues like worsening inflation, the ongoing supply chain crisis, and the gloomy jobs outlook, a number of House Democrats have apparently concluded it's best to get out while they can.  As of last week, the number was at 20 with the announcement that five-term Rep. Alan Lowenthal (D-Calif.) would be retiring at the end of his term.  But today, barely 24 hours after Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) dashed Joe Biden's hopes and dreams on the BBB bill, two more House Dems said in so many words that they're headed for the exits, too.

Spielberg's Politically Correct "West Side Story" Flops With Audiences.  Call it Woke Side Story.  Because there's woke, really woke, über woke, and then there's this:  not including subtitles for a movie's Spanish dialogue because you don't want to give "English the power over the Spanish."  That's exactly what director Steven Spielberg did, and why, in his recently released West Side Story, a "remake" of the iconic 1961 film of the same name.  Spielberg says, however, that it's not a remake but a "reimagining."  But no matter one's imagination, it's hard to conceive of the flick's debut this past weekend as anything but a flop — and expensive one, too.

Spielberg's 'Woke Side Story' Dives 68% at Box Office in Week Two.  All hope for Steven Spielberg's racially divisive West Side Story remake died in week two, plummeting 68 percent with a humiliating take of just $3.4 million.  After ten days in release, which includes two weekends, this historic box office bomb has grossed just $17.9 million. [...] Between production and marketing, this stinker probably cost close to $200 million.  As a result, Disney's going to lose a fortune.

Why Is the Left Worried Suddenly About the End of Democracy?  What is behind recent pessimistic appraisals of democracy's future, from Hillary Clinton, Adam Schiff, Brian Williams and other elite intellectuals, media personalities, and politicians on the Left?  Some are warning about its possible erosion in 2024.  Others predict the democracy downturn as early 2022, with scary scenarios of "autocracy" and Trump "coups."  To answer that question, understand first what is not behind these shrill forecasts.  They are not worried about 2 million foreign nationals crashing the border in a single year, without vaccinations during a pandemic.  Yet it seems insurrectionary for a government simply to nullify its own immigration laws.  They are not worried that some 800,000 foreign nationals, some residing illegally, will now vote in New York City elections.  They are not worried that there are formal efforts to dismantle the U.S. Constitution by junking the 233-year-old Electoral College or the preeminence of the states in establishing ballot laws in national elections.  They are not worried that we are witnessing an unprecedented left-wing effort to scrap the 180-year-old filibuster, the 150-year-old nine-person Supreme Court, and the 60-year tradition of 50 states, for naked political advantage.

Democrat Senator Ron Wyden Blocks Bill Banning Products Made From Slave Labor In Communist China.  Democrat Senator Ron Wyden (OR) blocked a bipartisan effort on Wednesday to advance a bill that would ban imports from communist China's Xinjiang region — where China is committing a genocide against religious minorities — that were made using slave labor.  "Wyden blocked a bill that would ban goods made with forced labor in China's Xinjiang region after Senator Marco Rubio [R-FL] rejected his request to add an unrelated extension of the child tax credit," Bloomberg News reported.  "The bill has broad bipartisan support and was on track for quick final passage by unanimous consent after having cleared the House by a voice vote."  Nike, which has lobbied Congress to weaken the bill, is the top financial contributor to Wyden.

Democrat Senator Under Fire After Speaking at Communist Group's Gala.  Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) spoke during a recent gala held by a communist group, hailing the event as a "remarkable occasion."  Blumenthal was present when the Connecticut People's World Committee, a branch of Communist Party USA, held an awards ceremony earlier this month.  He was introduced as a "special surprise guest."  "I am really excited and honored to be with you today and to share this remarkable occasion," Blumenthal said.  "You don't have to agree with anyone or everyone, with any party or any particular union or organization.  I'm here to honor the great tradition of activism and standing up for individual workers that is represented by the three honorees here," he added.  Blumenthal spoke for about six minutes.  "If you are not already part of the Communist Party, we invite you to participate and contribute and join," Lisa Bergmann, one of the event's hosts, said after the speech.

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Connecticut senator regrets attending communist awards show, believed it was 'labor event'.  Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) says he regrets his participating in an awards event hosted earlier this month by the Communist Party of America.  On Dec. 11, Blumenthal attended an awards ceremony hosted by Communist Party USA affiliate the Connecticut People's World Committee.  The lawmaker gave out three certificates from the Senate to winners of the "Amistad Award," honoring labor and social justice activism.  Blumenthal used the opportunity to promote the now-seemingly dead Build Back Better Act, as well as the Democratic party's efforts to pass elections legislation.  In an interview with the Hartford Courant, the senator said he believed he was attending "strictly a labor event."  "If I had known the details, I wouldn't have gone," he said.  Blumenthal was in attendance as event organizers actively encouraged viewers to join the Communist Party.

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Sen. Blumenthal insults us all by claiming he didn't know he was cavorting with communists.  He was making a speech but didn't know who he was talking to.  If that's true, he really is a useful idiot.  But of course it isn't true.

Companies Need to Learn From the Salvation Army Suffering From Their Wokeness.  [Scroll down]  One recent example of this signaling foolishness cropped up last month, involving the Salvation Army.  It was revealed that the church/charitable organization had produced an internal guide about racism, focused entirely on white privilege and what must be done to correct many ills as a result of systemic racism.  As I covered a few weeks ago, the claims by the group's PR division that they were not targeting whites — and they had not called for apologies for being racist — were completely false, based on the contents of the very guidebook they had produced.  Well, this is the time for corporations to take notice.  It's clear that pandering to the activists by telling the bulk of your donors that they are racist, as you ask them for continued support, is not paying off.  In just a few short weeks, we are seeing the direct impact this adherence to a woke agenda has had on the Salvation Army, as across the nation they are reporting that donations are not just lower but significantly down.  It is sad and amazing to witness, as a completely unneeded social activist agenda has led to severely depleted levels of support.

The Salvation Army pays a big price for its foray into wokedom.  In November, the Salvation Army officially went woke, declaring that, after soul searching, it was calling upon all White people associated with or donating to the Salvation Army to admit their racism and repent.  After an angry response from the public, the Salvation Army itself repented...of its wokeness and it walked back its message.  It was too late, though.  Local Salvation Army chapters are seeing 50% drops in both volunteers and donations.  Get Woke; Go Broke.

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Salvation Army Faces Holiday Shortages After Telling White Donors to Face Their Racism.  The Salvation Army asked for more than donations this year.  The Christian charitable organization asked all white donors to reflect on their racism this year.  Wow.  After a major uproar the Salvation Army backtracked over Thanksgiving weekend and released a statement refuting the claims of their racial demands.  The Salvation Army then removed its absurd "Let's Talk About Racism" guide following the intense backlash over a text last week that told white donors to "sincerely apologize" for their racism while hinting that Christianity is institutionally racist.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal 'excited and proud' to help Communist Party USA celebrate its 102nd anniversary.  The alliance of mainstream Democrats with communism is becoming obvious.  I am so old that I can remember when embracing the Communist Party was a political death sentence. [...] Senator Blumenthal's second term in the U.S. Senate ends in 2023, meaning he must stand for re-election next year in a year expected to be very difficult for Democrats.  Of course, Connecticut is so Democrat-friendly that he received 63% of the vote when he ran for re-election in 2016, so maybe he has nothing to fear.  He'll be 76 years old next year and is estimated to be worth well over $100 million thanks to his father's Wall Street career as a commodities trader.  (I wonder how the CPUSA regards the legitimacy of such wealth!  It's a good thing he didn't live in Cambodia under communist Pol Pot.)

The Turn.  You may be among the increasing numbers of people going through The Turn right now.  Having lived through the turmoil of the last half decade — through the years of MAGA and antifa and rampant identity politics and, most dramatically, the global turmoil caused by COVID-19 — more and more of us feel absolutely and irreparably politically homeless.  Instinctively, we looked to the Democratic Party, the only home we and our parents and their parents before them had ever known or seriously considered.  But what we saw there — and in the newspapers we used to read, and in the schools whose admission letters once made us so proud — was terrifying.  However we tried to explain what was happening on "the left," it was hard to convince ourselves that it was right, or that it was something we still truly believed in.  That is what The Turn is about.

Swing-District Iowa Dem 'Very Active' in Group That Wants to Abolish ICE, Establish Sanctuary Cities.  A swing-district Iowa Democrat is "very active" in a group that works to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), end the deportation of illegal immigrants, and establish "sanctuary" cities throughout the state.  State legislator Christina Bohannan, who is running to unseat Republican congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks, praised the Center for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa (CWJ) during a 2020 candidate forum, saying she is "very active" in the liberal immigration group.  Just months before the forum, CWJ called to abolish ICE, the federal entity responsible for immigration enforcement and terrorism prevention.  The group has also worked to stop illegal immigrant deportations and "keep ICE out of Iowa" by fighting against a 2018 bill that revoked state funding from "sanctuary" cities that intentionally fail to enforce federal immigration law.

San Francisco restaurant that ordered cops out is poster child for the local wokester idiocy.  [Scroll down]  They actually turned cops, who would have been paying customers, away.  Restaurants the world over are famous for welcoming cops to their establishments.  Some give free food or discounts.  This is how the cop-and-donut legends got started.  Others do it to ensure that cops will always come if there's a problem.  Customers find the presence of police comforting historically, the same way anyone would if there was a wildfire in the area and the fire truck decided to park in one's driveway, as happened to my sister during the big Bonsall "Lilac" fire a couple of years ago.  When she saw the gargantuan CalFire truck parked at her residence on the nightly news, even with the sky red and the front-yard palm tree on fire, she knew it was going to be OK, and it was.  It's natural.  But not to these guys.

The Counterrevolution and the Republican Party.  For nearly a year the Biden "presidency" — whoever they are — has subjected the United States to a destructive revolutionary agenda of unprecedented scope and virulence, all of it arising out of an irrational civilizational death wish for which there is no historical parallel.  No more than a small minority of Americans knowingly voted for this.  Given safety from reprisal, large majorities of the electorate would reject both the underlying unhinged beliefs and the ruinous policies and goals that have been promoted since Biden and his opaque gang took office.

Willie Horton and the Democratic Party's Greatest Fear.  Republicans call for high bail levels for proven violent repeat offenders and bail-jumpers; Democrats call for an end to bail, and for the virtual elimination of holding even dangerous prisoners until trial.  Republicans call for stiff and certain sentences for convicted violent criminals; today's Democrats call for never-ending second chances, and even for the elimination of prisons themselves, as in the meantime, impatient Democrat governors and judges routinely throw open the prison gates on the slightest whim. [...] Republicans warn against the cultural decline that has children more likely to be raised in a single-parent household than in a nuclear family unit; Democrats go so far as to champion single motherhood as an objective good, campaigning for ever more welfare programs to encourage such generational dependence.  Is it any wonder that our nation is suffering a massive crime wave?  Is it any wonder that overwhelmed and unsupported police are resigning and retiring in disgust and despair?

Americans don't care for corporate activism.  A new warning to woke CEOs:  Americans don't want corporations meddling in divisive political issues, and they perceive such activism as phony pandering.  There's also a huge gap between what consumers believe about woke activism compared with out-of-touch executives, according to a study conducted by the Brunswick Group, a management firm.  Amazon yanks a documentary about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.  EBay scraps Dr. Seuss books.  Disney fires actress Gina Carano.  Do consumers agree with these moves?  Brunswick found 63 percent of corporate executives "agree unequivocally that companies should speak out on social issues," but a mere 36 percent of voters agree.  Corporate brass also has "a highly inflated sense of how effective corporate communication has been on social issues compared to voters."

The Twin Pillars of Biden's Failure.  Everything has gone so terribly wrong for the Biden Administration, and in the ways that were widely predicted, that it is hard to believe Joe Biden could be perceived as a successful or at least potentially successful president if only he had avoided being such a tool of the Democratic extreme Left.  On the afternoon of his inauguration, he killed the Keystone XL Pipeline and curtailed fracking and offshore oil and gas exploration, and ordered the end of construction of the southern border wall.  The consequences have been over 200,000 illegal migrants entering the United States across the southern border most months and the rise in the price of gasoline from approximately $2 a gallon to $5 a gallon across the country.

It's Jefferson's Fault.  The removal of a statue of Thomas Jefferson from New York City Hall on November 22nd raises troubling questions.  That the statue had been there unmolested since 1833 reconfirms that ours is a harsh era of savage reassessments without the tempering influence of context.  Whose fault is it that Thomas Jefferson's statue is, for many Americans, no longer acceptable for public display?  Rejection of American heroes of the past is an essential element of Democrat revolutionary ideology.  One can only observe in astonishment as slaveholding Founding Fathers like Jefferson are strongly rejected on "moral grounds" by the very same Democrats who shout their approval of and support for abortion. [...] The Democrat party was founded by Thomas Jefferson in the late 18th century as the Democratic-Republican party as a foil to the Federalists.  Fundamentally, this new party was meant to ensure the rights of the states versus the federal government.

BLM is all about that holiday cheer, aren't they?  Normal people:  Despite the messiness of human nature and history, we have been blessed with a nation of abundance, learning, and freedom beyond measure, where people of all backgrounds can sit at the table as friends and neighbors.  BLM:  YOU PEOPLE ARE ALL LITERALLY HITLER.  DIE! DIE! [...] All BLM knows how to do is divide.  They won't acknowledge real history.  They want to get neighbors to hate each other so they can conquer the supposedly "stolen" land.

How to explain our garbage economy to your Biden-supporting aunt.  Wasn't President Joe Biden supposed to return us all to normalcy?  Just how did three free and wildly effective vaccines, multiple therapeutics, and Donald Trump banned from Twitter not only fail to fix the economy but actually make it worse?  This is an actual conversation you may have with well-meaning family over your Thanksgiving table, and it may confound not just deluded Democrats but ordinary folks who simply skim the headlines and remain baffled at their gas bills doubling and their favorite foods missing from the grocery aisles.

The Bleak Misery of a Leftist Thanksgiving.  For a leftist Thanksgiving must be the pits.  To be thankful...is there anything more antithetical to the left's worldview?  Imaginary injustice lurks behind every corner.  Unconscious prejudice taints every good deed.  Every wholesome tradition props up the "supremacy" of some unworthy culture.  No, no, who could be thankful for all that?  Dividing people for sport and insisting they feel miserable in their lives are the fuels that propel leftist power.  Something must always be wrong, and someone, somewhere, must always be blamed.  When life is seen as nothing more than a series of battles on the bloody path to "progressive" Utopia, every day must end in failure — and what kind of human being could possibly be thankful for that?

The New Blue Confederacy.  Why are progressive regions of the country — especially in the old major liberal cities (e.g., Chicago, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle) — institutionalizing de facto racial quotas through "proportional representation" based on "disparate impact"? Why are they promoting ethnic and racial chauvinism, such as allowing college students to select the race of their own roommates, calibrating graduation ceremonies by skin color and tribe, segregating campus "safe spaces" by race, and banning literature that does not meet commissariat diktats?  Why are they turning into one-party political fiefdoms separating the rich and poor, increasingly resembling feudal societies as members of the middle class flee or disappear?  What does it mean that they are becoming more and more intolerant in their cancel culture, and quasi-religious intolerance of dissent, on issues from climate change and abortion-on-demand to critical race theory and wokeness?

Utterly Delusional:  Pentagon Spokesman Says Climate Change Is Just As Much A Threat As China.  Given its massive military buildup, penetrations of Taiwanese air space with squadron upon squadron of top of the line fighter jets, continued industrial and military espionage, and island-building in the South China Sea, not to mention that it just built a range on which it can practice targeting US ships, you might think Red China poses the greatest threat to America and her interests abroad[.]  Not so, according to Pentagon Spokesman John Kirby (the same guy that was reticent to admit that dozens of families of American soldiers were stuck in Afghanistan).  According to that delusional Pentagon apparatchik, "climate change" is just as much a threat as Red China.

More on how the public feels about those massive payments to illegal aliens.  The other day, Ed Morrissey looked at a recent Trafalgar poll sampling the nation's feelings about massive reparations payments for families who were separated at the southern border.  That would be the result of a pending lawsuit that the State Department is reportedly considering a settlement on.  It's a payment plan that Joe Biden initially called "garbage," before deciding that he was actually perfectly fine with it after all.  But were Trafalgar's numbers an outlier?  After all, the national opposition to the payments reflected in that poll was pretty much off the charts, showing nearly 67% disapproval, with well over half "strongly" disapproving.

These People are Not Stable.  Oregon Governor Kate Brown recently dropped all reading, writing and math proficiency standards for high school graduation, because she claimed it was unfair to "people of color" for them to have to pass tests in order to graduate.  Expecting black, brown and latino students to comprehend math and write in coherent sentences is racist — or so goes the policy.  Governor Brown also mandated that masks continue be worn indoors and outside regardless of vaccine status.  Historically, there has been a solid argument that leftism is a mental disorder; at least the vast majority of those who espouse leftist worldviews do indeed appear to have some cognitive impairment the vast majority of non-leftist people do not relate to.  Slowly, as the years have progressed, it is now entirely possible to look at a person and predict their political persuasion.  This is Oregon Governor Kate Brown today:  [Photo]

The Ten Stages of Genocide Are Hitting a Little Too Close to Home.  [Stage 1] Classification:  Governments begin dividing people into "us" versus "them."  Hillary Clinton calls Trump-voters "deplorables."  Barack Obama disparages freedom-minded Americans as racists and rubes who "cling to guns or religion."  Joe Biden says America is plagued by "white supremacy."  Joint Chiefs chairman Mark Milley believes that the military must tackle "white rage."  Attorney General Garland thinks parents who object to government schools indoctrinating their children with racial Marxism and hyper-sexualized curricula are "domestic terrorists."  Black Lives Matter and Antifa rioters and looters are lauded as civil rights heroes, while Trump-voters who protest for election integrity are denounced as "insurrectionists," hunted down by the regime enforcers at the FBI, and left rotting behind bars with little in the way of due process.  Those who object to governments' totalitarian plans to spend hundreds of trillions of dollars and take control over free markets in order to combat the weather are ridiculed as "climate deniers."  Those who believe governments' authoritarian reactions to the China Virus have been more harmful to humanity's well-being than the virus, itself, are demonized as "selfish," "ignorant," and "anti-science" villains.  And now, even after denying that they would ever institutionalize "vaccine passports" as requirements for travel outside the home, governments are, in fact, remaking their nations into "papers, please" police states.

Six Takeaways From November's Remarkable Election Results.  [Scroll down]  The Democratic Party doesn't know who they are.  For a year and a half they preached "Defund the Police," but when that notion became problematic they tried to disown it as quickly as possible.  Their progressive wing thinks they have overwhelming mandates, meanwhile Democrat moderates know full well that their Congressional majorities are hanging by a thread.  Democrats deny Critical Race Theory is being taught in our schools, then brag about it being taught in our schools, sometimes doing it during the same discussion.  The only two things Democrats appear to be certain about are as follows:  1) They know they want to be the party of identity politics and divide us as much as possible, and 2) They want to spend exorbitant amounts of our tax dollars in exploiting those divisions.  Neither approach is a good idea, and last Tuesday's results proved it.

Jennifer Rubin, of the WaPo and MSNBC, calls on media to stop treating Republicans as 'normal'.  In a very crowded field, Jennifer Rubin stands out as possibly the most extreme case of Trump Derangement Syndrome among the former conservatives driven mad (in my opinion) by Donald Trump's presidency.  Her hatred of Trump and the party that now is dominated by him and his supporters is so extreme that she wants the media to stop treating it as a legitimate representative of the roughly half the populace that votes for it.  Yesterday [11/13/2021] on MSNBC, she called for new "rules" that would require the media to essentially treat Republicans as pariahs.  [Video clip]

Nikole Hannah-Jones Displays More Historical Illiteracy With Absurd Tweet About Hiroshima Bombing.  New York Magazine writer and founder of the "1619 Project" Nikole Hannah-Jones took to Twitter this week to offer her historically illiterate take on why the United States bombed Hiroshima during World War II.  In a now-deleted Nov. 6 tweet, Jones attempted to argue that the only reason the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city was due to financial reasons.  "They dropped the bomb when they knew surrender was coming because they'd spent all this money developing it and to prove it was worth it," she wrote.  "Propaganda is not history my friend."  Jones has since tried to backtrack on the statement, saying that "apparently we are at a time in my career where a tweet response with 100 likes is worthy of all kinds of explication and condemnations five days after I wrote it, even after I've deleted it.  But sure, ok."

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She's right about one thing:  Propaganda is not history.

A Deeper Divide.  If you think America was split back in 1861 over states' rights, you should see it now.  Every minority group is yelling wolf and that they won't take it anymore, the only one with their jaws shut tight as if by wire, the WASPs.  Never has America been more ferociously divided, with every movie and TV series showing white men as bloodthirsty criminals, lefty pundits on TV presenting a nation ruled by white supremacists.  Much of the media went slightly hysterical after a so-called conservative won the governorship in Virginia.  All the poor winner did was go against the indoctrination of children in the fine arts of racial hatred, homosexual pornography, and gender neutrality.  Virginia parents rejected critical race theory, which tells black children that white children are inherently evil.  Listening to some of the pundits decrying the Virginia election of a moderate, a visitor from Mars would think a Hitler-Stalin heir had just carried the state.  What actually won Virginia for the Republicans was the simple argument of whether parents have rights over what their children are being taught or not.

Americans Want This President Out.  No one should be puzzled by the poll's results.  Americans are weary of Biden's inflation, his border crisis and unforced foreign policy errors, a supply chain and a COVID promise that have both been broken, his failed energy policies, his undermining of policing and law and order across the country, his divisiveness and hard-left swerve, his "woke" military, a shaky economy, and his vaccine mandate, to name but a handful of his more notable failures.  Count us as being among those who wish to see Biden leave the White House as soon as possible.  But his replacement would be no better.  There's a reason Vice President Kamala Harris has an approval rating of 28, 10 points lower than the approval rating of her boss, the man Americans want to be rid of.

Treasury Department Nominee Says Biden Administration Purposefully Wants to Bankrupt Oil, Coal and Gas Companies.  Against catastrophic outcomes, we have been pointing out how the people within the Biden administration are not incompetent; they know exactly what they are doing, and they are destroying the U.S. economic system on purpose.  All of their economic damage is by design, it's a feature — not a flaw.  An example today is so demonstrative of that point, it's almost a parody.  Joe Biden's nominee for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), a branch of the Treasury Department that polices some 1,125 banks, is a communist ideologue named Saule Omarova.  She is directly from communist central casting and literally from Kazakhstan in the former Soviet Union.  Ms. Omarova graduated from Moscow State University in 1991, and Joe Biden nominated her for the OCC job in September.

My Fearless Predictions on What Happens Next.  Prediction One:  The Democrats won't get the economy on an even keel by 2024.  Democrats really need to crank up interest rates to curb inflation right now and flush all their stimulus and new entitlement plans away right now.  Any delay makes the inflation worse and puts the Fed in an impossible situation when it will really need to raise interest rates to kill inflation.  Just in time for the 2024 election.  Prediction Two:  The Democrats won't curb their CRT wokey crazies before 2024, and the American people will be fit to be tied by then.  In a way, I get why Democrats are saying that there's nothing to see here, no CRT in the schools.  They see their current woke initiatives as just noble activism that continues the fight against the age-old evils of patriarchy and racism. [...]

What I Saw At Our Southern Border.  Those in charge of our country are not interested in you or your grievances.  They're interested in one thing: fundamentally transforming this country and all but guaranteeing the demise of western civilization.  The shifting demographic of this nation will ensure that the United States of America as we know it will disappear.  Millions have invaded our country, possessing no allegiance to this nation or its history and as people with little in common are forced to live together, not even speaking the same language, cultural clashes will ensue.  Our government has ceased to perform its most basic function and we have simply been too lazy to notice or even care.  The total stand down at our border is symbolic of what is happening in the rest of the country.  The border, our nation's debt, the fracturing of our culture, and the decline in living standards are all tied together.  One trip to the border and you understand that the defund the police movement is simply an extension of the policy implemented at our borders.

Virginia Paves the Way for Trump's Return.  There has been a great deal of discussion of the widespread Republican victories last week, many of them belaboring the obvious.  Fundamentally, the United States is a political society based on personal freedom, a free market, and on democratically legislated and responsibly enforced laws.  The current administration's belief in virtually unrestricted immigration, higher taxes, authoritarian regulation — including COVID vaccine mandates, and a heavy redistribution of wealth from those who have earned it to those who have not — are all antagonistic to the ethos that the United States has had for all of its history.  In the circumstances, some sort of reversal was almost inevitable and is the off-year American electoral custom.  Those who were surprised by the Republican victory in Virginia and the near-dead heat in New Jersey had not recognized the extent of the affront to traditional democratic voters of the Sanders-woke-leftward lurch.

Must-see Tucker Carlson video about the cause of America's woes.  Biden is aware that he's failing, but rather than step away from the White House, he meekly does whatever his handlers tell him to do.  That's where security lies.  Unfortunately, his handlers are unchained ideologues.  A good government tries to benefit its people and ensure the greatest prosperity and happiness for the greatest number.  A government filled with ideologues is so focused on its utopian visions that it is willing to destroy the people to "save" them.  That's why, for example, that despite polls showing that over two thirds of Americans oppose reparations for illegal aliens, Biden's government is going forward with the plan.  For the ideologues, taking massive sums of money from struggling Americans to give to people who illegally entered our country is a means to achieve permanent Democrat political power and all the wonders it will bring.

Viewers [are] Complaining About Muted Crowd Noise On ESPN For Alabama-LSU Game, Possibly Due To Anti-Biden Chants.  The Alabama football team hosted the LSU Tigers for a Southeastern Conference contest at Bryant-Denny Stadium. [...] While many college students remain under the spell of their liberal and socialism indoctrination, the college football crowd is not the typical campus empty heads who are busy playing Hakki sack and smoking hemp.  These college sports fans tend to be red meat-eating Americans as their parents and alumni are.  They are not buying into fake news propaganda and it shows.  Chanting "F Joe Biden' has become a new patriotic American tradition.  It's not just at football games.  The phenomenon is growing and in just one month has spread to concerts, boxing matches, golf tournaments, marches, protests, and other public venues.

One Minute Before Midnight.  No one gets to tell you what your job is worth.  No one gets to tell you what you must allow into your body.  No one gets to tell you that you have no right to interfere with what they wish to "teach" your kids.  Period.  The Founders would alternately laugh and cry at this madness.  No one should be allowed to abridge your right to free speech, to defend yourself, or to believe and worship as you wish, and your conscience dictates.  No faceless, unelected bureaucrat should be allowed to essentially make laws that seriously impact your life.  And no one in power should be able to ignore, overturn or otherwise negate your vote.  (Those who preposterously pretend that there was absolutely no malfeasance in the 2020 presidential election are either complicit, ignorant, hiding behind a wall of deception, or insane.)

Why Progressives Ruin Democrats.  In 2019 Prince Harry and Meghen Markle, other celebrities, and CEOs flew private jets, which produce eight to ten times the emissions as flying commercial, and stayed in yachts at a Google conference in Sicily to discuss climate change.  In 2020, dozens of important policymakers around the world were caught violating their own covid regulations, and sometimes didn't seem to care.  When San Francisco Mayor London Breed was caught on video dancing at a packed night club without her mask on, she demonstrated no remorse.  Breed told a television reporter that she was just letting off steam and people should lay off.  Progressives wave away concerns of elitism.  Earlier this year, Democratic Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went, unmasked, to the swanky Met Gala, wearing a dress emblazoned with the words, "Tax the Rich," and surrounded by masked help, including a man subserviently holding the dress train.  Progressive "fact checkers" pointed out that somebody else paid for Ocasio-Cortez's $35,000 ticket, as though that made her behavior less elitist.

After last night.  The Virginia gubernatorial race was close — according to the most recent New York Times update this morning, the margin is now is 67,000 votes or 2.1 percent out of nearly 3.3 million votes — Glenn Youngkin appears to have beaten Terry McAuliffe beyond the margin of fraud.  Has Fox News called the race yet?  Every media outlet that calls races preceded Fox News in calling the race for Youngkin. [...] Youngkin's victory is in part attributable to the catastrophes of the Biden regime.  Steve Hayward anticipated the contribution of larger forces to the outcome in his New York Post column "Virginia goes right every time DC goes too far left."  McAuliffe recruited the leading figures in the Democratic establishment to come out on his behalf.  He called on Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Barack Obama, James Clyburn, Stacy Abrams, and teachers' union honcho Randi Weingarten to stir Democrats.  They succeeded in turning the race into a referendum on the Biden regime as well.

26 Democrats Ask Federal Agencies to Investigate if Texas Migrant Arrests Violate [the US] Constitution.  Democratic members of Congress are asking the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. attorney general to investigate whether arrests of migrants violate constitutional rights.  Over two dozen Democratic members have joined together to investigate "legal problems that have arisen out of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's border security initiative to arrest and jail migrants on state criminal charges" reports Austin's local CBS station.  Specifically, the 26 Democrats sent a letter asking the federal bureaus to investigate Abbott's "catch and jail" immigration policy.  The representatives claim the policy violates the U.S. Constitution because of violations of state law and logistical problems that have resulted from the thousands of arrests.

Just How Bad Was Last Night for Democrats?  All politics is local, and there is nothing more local than your children and your wallet.  If the Democrats were smart, they'd be waking up this morning and figuring that out.  Virginia is right in the backyard of Washington D.C. and the national politics were not enough for the Democrats to hang on to a state they won by 10 points one year ago. [...] The Democrats were hoping for a lot last night.  They were hoping to show January 6, Donald Trump, alleged voter suppression, and racism would absolutely bring their voters out to the polls yesterday.  They were hoping they could win a race without Trump being in office or on the ballot.  They hoped that division and othering the opposition while not admitting to very real problems with their governance wouldn't be an issue.

The Media's Desperate Attempts To Protect Biden Spectacularly Backfire.  "Let's Go, Brandon" became a popular online meme after an NBC reporter was shown interviewing NASCAR winner Brandon Brown as the crowd behind them unmistakably chanted "[...] Joe Biden."  In an attempt to gaslight viewers on behalf of Biden, the reporter's response to the serenade was to utter:  "Brandon ... as you can hear the chants from the crowd: 'Let's go, Brandon!'"  Suddenly, that phrase started showing up everywhere, on T-shirts, in headlines, and across the internet. [...] So, by trying to protect President Joe Biden from the embarrassment of "[...] Joe Biden" chants, the media created an even more popular saying — one that can't be censored but gets the message out just the same.  Except, then they did try to censor it.  By taking down Gray's "Let's Go, Brandon" video — on the ludicrous grounds that it was spreading misinformation about COVID vaccines — YouTube and Instagram apparently helped propel the song's popularity and drive it to the No. 1 spot.  At least, that's what Gray thinks.  The New York Post quoted Gray as saying:  "Cancel culture doesn't work anymore.  It only works on people who are scared ... all it does is help me out.  Thanks, YouTube!"

Democrats don't want to admit why Biden is failing.  The RealClearPolitics and FiveThirtyEight presidential approval trackers both say the same thing:  President Joe Biden has never been more unpopular with voters than he is right now, and he is growing more unpopular every day.  Asked to explain why Biden is so unpopular on Meet the Press today [10/31/2021], Democratic pollster Cornell Belcher noted that much of the slide in Biden's approval has come from young Democrats who "took to the streets and marched a year ago" and aren't interested in "roads and bridges."  "They were marching for justice and racial equality.  So we have to act on that."  Is that where Biden's support is slipping, though?  From Democrats who believe we haven't done enough about "racial equality"?  According to ABC News, Biden's approval rating has fallen furthest on three key issues:  "gun violence" (39%), Afghanistan (34%), and "the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border" (31%).

Portland Travel Group Says City Is Too Scary For Tourists.  Travel Portland is the name of group that promotes tourism to the city.  It describes itself as "a promoter and steward of this evolving city and its progressive values, which have the power to transform the travelers who visit us."  But Wednesday [10/27/2021] the group presented a report to the Portland City Council with some bad news.  The evolving city and its progressive values have become a big turn off to tourists.

PETA Urges MLB to Replace 'Bullpen' with 'Arm Barn'.  Animal rights organization PETA has called for Major League Baseball to "strike out" the word "bullpen" in favor of "arm barn" because, as the organization claims, the current term is a reference to a "holding area where terrified bulls are kept before slaughter."  "Words matter, and baseball 'bullpens' devalue talented players and mock the misery of sensitive animals," PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman said in a press release.  "PETA encourages Major League Baseball coaches, announcers, players, and fans to changeup their language and embrace the 'arm barn' instead."

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[#1] If you don't like baseball terminology (or America), don't go to the games.  [#2] The overlap between PETA people and baseball fans is near zero, so the baseball announcers could have a field day with derisive mockery of this suggested destruction of our language and traditions.

Joe Biden is hopelessly out of touch with voters' priorities.  Inflation is at its highest level in decades.  Store shelves are empty.  The southern border is in chaos.  Hundreds of Americans are still trapped in Afghanistan.  China just tested a hypersonic missile.  Employers can't find workers to keep their businesses running.  No wonder more than 60% say the country is going in the wrong direction.  But don't worry:  President Joe Biden has a "National Gender Strategy" that will turn everything around.  The document, released on Oct. 22, is every bit as ridiculous as it sounds. [...] The agenda in the document is, at heart, the same tired laundry list of new government programs that the Left has been trying to force on the nation for decades using other specious justifications.  Nowhere does the "strategy" address inflation or the border crisis.  The only time COVID-19 is even mentioned is when the document asserts that no one has suffered more from the pandemic than "women and girls of color."  And that's not even true — the data indicate that men are more likely to die from COVID.

Democrats are right to be scared of backlash against critical race theory.  In Virginia, parents have realized what's at stake.  Public school enrollment in Fairfax County, one of the wealthiest in the country, continues to drop, even though schools have returned to in-person learning full-time.  Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe is rapidly losing support, especially among voters with K-12 children.  And that's because concerns about public education and the backlash against leftist efforts to keep parents out of it are organic, no matter how much Democrats would like them not to be.

Pure Marxism:  McAuliffe Supporters Are Posting Signs Promising to "Keep Parents Out of Classrooms" as Campaign Winds Down.  Democrat Terry McAuliffe is currently in a tight race against Republican Glenn Youngkn in the Virginia gubernatorial race.  McAuliffe believes parents shouldn't be telling schools what to teach their children in the classroom.  And now as the campaign winds down McAuliffe supporters are allegedly putting out signs to "keep parents out of classrooms."  It's so over the top that it is almost unbelievable.  This would be something you'd expect to see in the former Soviet Union, not in Virginia!

Male Pregnancy:  The Greatest Miracle of All.  By now you may have heard of the left's latest insistence that we drop the expression "pregnant women" in favor of "pregnant people."  By using this phrase, they wish to emphasize that it is not only women who can conceive and carry children.  According to the woke, men can now also partake in the joys of pregnancy.  This is surely a remarkable position to take by those who routinely mock the virgin birth of Jesus as narrated by the New Testament.  As you may know, most of our science-oriented woksters think the notion of a woman conceiving by divine intervention is a completely ridiculous idea that could only be believed by a backward ancient culture.  And yet, these very same people have apparently no problem believing that a biological male can become pregnant.

The Evil Party.  From the eugenics in the early 20th century to Germany in the 1930s, nothing will dissuade a committed leftist from their objective. [...] In this country, they are in charge, but just barely.  A 3-seat majority in the House and a tie in the Senate they can break in their favor might as well be a landslide in their eyes.  They don't let decisively losing statewide referendums deter them from their objectives, why would they let slim majorities?  They fight to win, and when they lose they sue to overturn the will of the people.  Has there been a referendum in California they've lost they haven't sued over?  When Republicans have a clear majority, Democrats filibuster, shut down the government, and in states they flee to prevent legislatures from doing their jobs.  When even a fraction of that favor is returned — use of the filibuster — it's somehow a rekindling of Democrats' Jim Crow laws.  That is evil.

Moderate Democrats [are] all but extinct.  The Wall Street Journal wrote Tuesday [10/19/2021] that President Biden was making another attempt to salvage his stalled legislative agenda by meeting separately with progressive and moderate Democrats.  The next sentence was more telling:  The moderates were Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.).  The progressives were too numerous to mention.  If you get the impression there are only two senators holding back the great flood of government waste known variously as "Build Back Better and the "human-infrastructure" package, you've got the whole story — as told by the Washington press corps.  For my money, the much more interesting angle, and far more important to the future of America, is what's going on with the other 48 Senate Dems.  All apparently are on board with the most expensive piece of legislation in history and are happy to be called progressives.

People [are] 'Angry' About Border, Inflation, COVID, 'Ludicrous' Biden Policies.  Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) weighed in on the [...] "Let's Go Brandon" movement sweeping the country Friday [10/15/2021] in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News.  "Let's Go Brandon," replied the Lone Star State governor when asked about the viral trend from the 50 yard line at the University of Texas's Darrell K. Royal Stadium.  "Let's Go Brandon" is the newer, more family-friendly version of the anti-President Biden slogan which was born after an NBC reporter embarrassingly misreported a NASCAR crowd chant earlier this month.  "It is happening because of the disastrous policies that are implemented by Joe Biden," explained Abbott.

We Got Here Because of Cowardice.  We Get Out With Courage.  A lot of people want to convince you that you need a Ph.D. or a law degree or dozens of hours of free time to read dense texts about critical theory to understand the woke movement and its worldview.  You do not.  You simply need to believe your own eyes and ears.  Let me offer the briefest overview of the core beliefs of the Woke Revolution, which are abundantly clear to anyone willing to look past the hashtags and the jargon.  It begins by stipulating that the forces of justice and progress are in a war against backwardness and tyranny.  And in a war, the normal rules of the game must be suspended.  Indeed, this ideology would argue that those rules are not just obstacles to justice, but tools of oppression.  They are the master's tools.  And the master's tools cannot dismantle the master's house.  So the tools themselves are not just replaced but repudiated.  And in so doing, persuasion — the purpose of argument — is replaced with public shaming.  Moral complexity is replaced with moral certainty.  Facts are replaced with feelings.

Team Biden is out of touch with the misery its policies inflict.  President Joe Biden's chief of staff brushes off record-high inflation and the supply-chain crisis helping fuel it as "high class problems."  It's a stunning admission of indifference from a well-connected multimillionaire — but just the latest example of this administration's cluelessness about Americans' suffering from its failures.  "This," Ron Klain emphasized Wednesday [10/13/2021] in quote-tweeting Harvard economist Jason Furman, who wrote, "Most of the economic problems we're facing (inflation, supply chains, etc.) are high class problems.  We wouldn't have had them if the unemployment rate was still 10 percent.  We would instead have had a much worse problem."  Fine:  The rising cost of everything from groceries to diapers to cars is no problem for Klain, who's worth between $4.4 million and $12.2 million.

Democrat Dog and Pony Shows Come up Short.  It isn't hard to point out the failures of Democrats.  They're so numerous it would be difficult to compile a comprehensive list of them.  But two recent political gambits by congressional Democrats are falling flat on their face.  Biden's SCOTUS Commission and the congressional J6 commission have completely failed in their purpose of hiding their incompetence in managing anything larger than a fundraising dinner.  Democrats successfully managed to whip their base into a frenzy over the appointment of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.  It seems like ages ago now, but the #MeToo crowd that trashed Kavanaugh was nowhere to be found when Trump was able to nominate a second Supreme Court justice, Amy Coney Barrett, who was attacked for merely being a mother Democrats didn't like.

Perception is Not Reality.  Television ratings for sports, cable news, entertainment and children's programming are all nose-diving in direct proportion to the amount of agenda-driven ideology being pumped into the content.  No amount of denial, self-deception or spin among the left can change the fact that the public wholly rejects their nightmarish fever-visions for humanity.  What was once a subtle and nuanced bias in the media has become a sledgehammer of over-the-top propaganda, and the viewers are voting with their wallets and TV remotes to reject such indoctrination tactics.

White House Chief of Staff Is Not Worried About 'The Help' Dealing With Inflation.  If you are wonder whether the White House is concerned about the middle-class being impacted by massive increases in gasoline, high home heating costs, extreme food inflation and empty shelves...  Well, the message from White House chief of staff Ron Klain is very telling:  [Tweet]  Apparently feeding your family and making ends meet is a "high class problem."  The elitism and disconnect from the average American always shows up when you look at DC democrats writ large.  They always talk down to those they view as 'the help'.

Is America Becoming Rome Versus Byzantium?  There is now much talk of a new American red state/blue state split — and even wild threats of another Civil War.  Certainly, millions of Americans yearly self-select, disengage from their political opposites, and make moves based on diverging ideology, culture, politics, religiosity or lack of it, and differing views of the American past.  More conservative traditionalists head for the interior between the coasts, where there is usually smaller government, fewer taxes, more religiosity, and unapologetic traditionalists.  These modern Byzantines are more apt to define their patriotism by honoring ancient customs and rituals — standing for the National Anthem, attending church services on Sundays, demonstrating reverence for American history and its heroes, and emphasizing the nuclear family.  Immigration in fly-over country is still defined as melting pot assimilation and integration of new arrivals into the body politic of a hallowed and enduring America.  While red states welcome change, they believe America never had to be perfect to be good.  It will always survive, but only if it sticks to its 234-year Constitution, stays united by the English language, and assimilates newcomers into an enduring and exceptional American culture.

Backlash could force Democrats to rethink IRS 'snooping' provision.  Congressional Democrats, concerned over lukewarm public enthusiasm for their massive social welfare spending package, may be forced to modify a tax-raising provision that has prompted a significant backlash.  A plan to provide the IRS with access to individual bank accounts with balances as low as $600 may end up significantly modified or even dropped altogether amid opposition from lawmakers and trade groups who say it would infringe on privacy and create significant liability for financial institutions as well as add new costs for consumers.

There Are A Lot of Brandons.  The beauty of "Let's Go, Brandon" is how it not only captures the utter contempt that America has for our alleged president, who is currently polling about as well as Michael Moore would be among Golden Corral managers, but how it captures what is either unbelievable cluelessness among the media, or unbelievable mendacity.  Probably some of both.  NASCAR driver Brandon Brown [...] was being interviewed by NBC Sports reporter Kelli Stavast.  Now, NBC is [...] perhaps the most full of it of all networks even in a universe that, for some reason, includes CNN.  The crowd in the background begins a chant.  It's a chant that is sweeping the nation, heard at college football games, rallies, and wherever patriots are gathered.  It's not "Let's go, Brandon." [...] Everyone hates Joe Biden, and this spontaneous chant is a symptom of the disease infecting his poll numbers.

Revolt of the masses:  The left has overplayed its hand.  I think the left is realizing it has a tiger by the tail.  The people are getting uppity.  Parents are assailing school boards over critical race theory and transgender madness.  So much so that the Biden Justice Department is sending out the FBI to investigate whether, as the National School Boards Association bombastically charges, some parents are guilty of "domestic terrorism and hate crimes."  Boy, it's lucky for those BLM/Antifa rioters in 2020 that they refrained from badmouthing teachers and school officials while torching the cities.  Their "peaceful protests" might have been investigated.  Meanwhile, former Democratic Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, the Clinton bag man who is running again for his old job, stated, "I'm not going to let parents come into schools and actually take books out and make their own decisions."  He added, "I don't think parents should be telling schools what they should teach."  This stuff ticks off parents, and GOP candidate Glenn Youngkin is taking full advantage.  He is running ads accurately depicting Mr. McAuliffe as an authoritarian, anti-parent elitist.

De Blasio ruthlessly jeered at NYC Columbus Day Parade.  Mayor Bill de Blasio just discovered a whole new world of people who can't stand him.  Hizzoner was ruthlessly jeered at Monday's Columbus Day Parade, where several members of the crowd shouted obscenities and insults at him as he made his return to the yearly Italian American celebration.  [Examples omitted here for brevity, among other things.]  Last year, de Blasio sparked outrage from his fellow Italian Americans when the city public school system scrapped Columbus Day, replacing it with Indigenous Peoples' Day.  Also in 2020, de Blasio was excluded from New York's major Columbus Day event.  The head of the Columbus Citizens Foundation told The Post that the mayor was not invited to speak at the virtual event after the cancellation of the in-person occasion due to the pandemic.

McAuliffe Calls Parents 'Racist' and CRT 'Made-up,' but Refuses to Define It.  How hard up is Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe at this point?  He took a beating from his opponent, Republican Glenn Youngkin, in the last debate, particularly over the issue of parents having a say in their children's education.  McAuliffe got into deep trouble, saying, "I don't think parents should be telling schools what they should teach."  He then got into more trouble the next day trying to defend that indefensible statement when he said, "You don't want parents coming in, in every different school district saying this is what should be taught here and this is what should be taught there."

Dissident Rebels Adopt 'Let's Go Brandon'.  Comrades, the command and control authority are struggling to find a way to block "Let's Go Brandon", claiming it is a forbidden coded message from the rebel alliance.  Apparently people who value liberty and freedom have adopted the expressive term, and the innocuous nature of it makes it problematic to censor.  [Video clip]

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Justin Trudeau mocked after using '2SLGBTQQIA+' acronym.  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is being mocked on social media after he published two posts that mention the latest woke iteration of an acronym for people with different sexual identities — 2SLGBTQQIA+ — which some likened to an encrypted password or "headbutting the keyboard."  "People across the country are lighting candles to honour Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people who are missing or have been murdered.  We must continue to work together, raise awareness, and advocate to end this ongoing national tragedy.  #SistersinSpirit," the prime minister posted to Facebook and Twitter on Monday, referencing the Sisters in Spirit vigil, which honors women of specific racial or sexual identities who are missing or have been murdered.  The number and letter '2S' in 2SLGBTQQIA+ includes people who identify as "Two-spirit," referring to someone who identifies as having both a masculine and a feminine spirit.  It is used by some Indigenous North Americans to describe their sexual identity.

The Left hates self-sufficiency.  Classical Marxist socialism was based upon a presumed revolt of the working class.  Interestingly enough, in the more than 100 years since Marx, there has never been a single revolt of the working class in a capitalist country — not one.  Why?  Because in capitalist countries, the working class has it too good.  Workers have no reason to revolt.  In fact, in capitalist countries, workers aspire to improve their lot until they themselves become members of management or business owners.  And such economic advancement is readily available to all who are willing to work hard, devote many hours of time, save and invest money, and accept and mitigate risk.

If Politics Are Downstream From Pop Culture, Then What is FJB Telling Democrats?  Andrew Breitbart famously said that politics was downstream from pop culture.  Andrew's ability to engage any audience that generally didn't care about politics, while displaying the Machiavellian manipulators in a way that was brutally effective, made him an enemy to those who avoid sunlight.  What we are seeing amid college football games, and recently any venue where a large audience is assembling, is really quite remarkable.  The cultural shift within the modern political sphere was triggered by Donald Trump; his election was the biggest middle finger to the elites, and ultimately the scale of his support amid a global population that was disenfranchised is why they needed to eliminate him.  The leftist Marxist's have power.  However, their unquenchable lust for power, specifically showcased in their COVID-19 reaction, has put them in a place where they are in power but losing the cultural argument.

The Wife Beater In Chief.  [Scroll down]  This administration is openly pummeling the people it should be accountable to, and I fear the nation is being conditioned to believe that they deserve no better.  We are told by *President Husband that we shouldn't complain that he leaves the back door unlocked (to the southern border) every night.  Despite all the people who help themselves to our property, resources, and land.  He tells us that we are the ones who are the problem — simply because we want to sleep in peace and not be taken advantage of.  Another on his team — a guy running for Governor in Virginia — tells us we have no real right as a parent to know what our kids will be taught in schools.  Others within their fold want our kids to report on us if we say or do certain things that they deem inappropriate[.]  They gaslight us when we ask about national security and they demand unquestioned loyalty as it pertains to their judgement of which groups of radical Muslims they let in. [...] Speaking of gaslighting — they do this all the time!  They tell us that there is no such thing as inflation even though basic household needs like lumber and copper were over 400% higher in price since his arrival in the White House.

Democrat push to expand government, inject race alienates 2022 swing voters, polling shows.  Newt Gingrich, who crafted the Contract with America that upset Washington's political status quo a quarter century ago, has quietly been conducting one of the most extensive polling operations ever of swing voters ahead of the 2022 election.  His takeaway:  Democrats' big government, race-focused and America-disparaging agenda could bust the fragile coalition that put Joe Biden in power last November.  His polling, shared with Just the News, shows Americans overwhelmingly think the United States is the greatest county in history, prefer free-market capitalism to big government socialism, reject the premise of critical race theory that skin color is a predeterminant to success, and oppose defunding the police.  In other words, Democrats have overreached with an agenda that this week alone will put $4.5 trillion in government expansion on the table in Congress with a series of critical Biden agenda votes.

New York Times publishes redesigns of the American flag, Twitter mockery ensues.  The New York Times published an opinion essay on Tuesday that imagined new designs for the American flag, some of which emphasized divisions and decline in the country.  "The American flag is a potent piece of national iconography, but its design shifted frequently until the early 1900s.  What if it were redesigned today?  We asked artists and graphic designers to try," the Times wrote.  "Some are functional designs, others artistic renderings; some represent America as it could be, others how the artist sees the country now."  One design from Andrew Kuo shows a flag split into four rectangles with one square consisting of red and white stripes while the other three are solid blue, yellow, and green rectangles.  According to the artist the red stripes represent the past, the white stripes represent the future, while the solid colors represent "untapped potential," "repairing systemic racism," and "taking care of our planet."

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[#1] Obviously, the people who publish the NYT hate American traditions and want to destroy them all.  [#2]  I doubt if one American citizen out of ten thousand cares enough about "taking care of our planet" to alter the design of the U.S. flag to express such concern.

The Democrat party no longer shares values with Catholics.  For a half-century and more, [the Democrat party of the United States] has co-operated with those who were willing and often eager to undermine and eventually destroy the classical American family — that is, the married two-parent family, the social unit that, according to Catholicism, is the building block of any society.  When I was young (I'm very old now), marriage was thought to be the proper location for sex, for child-bearing, and for child-rearing.  Now, thanks to Democrats and their morally liberal supporters, marriage is often looked on as a charming antique. [...] Catholicism regards abortion as a kind of homicide — or as Pope Francis said recently, murder.  Democrats, diametrically opposed to the Catholic view, see abortion as nothing less than the exercise of a "fundamental human right."  Only the other day, every Democrat but one in the U.S. House of Representatives voted in favor of a bill that will, if it becomes law, give federal statutory protection to almost any imaginable abortion up 'til the moment of birth.  This diametric opposition of views is not limited to abortion.  It is also found with regard to homosexual practice.  Democrats consider this practice to be a fine and splendid thing, at least for those who are "born that way" — so fine and splendid, in fact, that it deserves to be at the center of a new and honorable kind of marriage.  Catholicism, on the other hand, considers homosexual practice to be a grave sin, a contrary-to-nature perversion.

Democrat Terry McAuliffe Makes Enormous Blunder at Virginia Governor Debate.  Last night [9/28/2021], Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin debated again as part of the race to be the next governor of Virginia. [...] During the debate, typical positions were staked out, but when the topic of what's being taught in schools came up, McAuliffe made an enormous blunder.  The clip is still going viral this morning.  [Tweet with video clip:  Terry McAuliffe:  "I don't think parents should be telling schools what they should teach."]  On what planet should parents not be directly involved in what's being taught to their children?  It is parents who elect schoolboards or elect the officials who appoint them.  Kids are not wards of the state, not yet anyway, and it's jarring to see someone who wants to be governor of a fairly large state pronounce that parents should have no say in whether educators feed their children garbage or not.  Youngkin should have this playing on repeat in every single ad he puts out over the next month before the election.

Glenn Youngkin Goes for the Jugular After Terry McAuliffe's Stunning Declaration on Public Education.  Though it's laughable that Clinton Democrat Terry McAuliffe keeps trying to portray himself to Virginia voters as a "woke" moderate with the all-important backing of so-called "leading conservatives" like Never Trumper Bill Kristol in the state's closely-watched gubernatorial race, what's not in any way funny is what he declared last night during his debate with Republican nominee Glenn Youngkin on the issue of public education and parents' roles in what their children are being taught.  As we reported earlier, McAuliffe and Youngkin were sparring over state education guidelines on transgender students, what's appropriate to teach children in public school classrooms, and if parents should be notified when lesson plans will include sexually explicit content when a visibly agitated McAuliffe told a persistent Youngkin that "I don't think parents should be telling schools what they should teach."  For those who missed the moment, watch:  [Video clip]

Liberal Parents Raise Young Child Without A Gender, Make HIM Wear Girl Clothes, Play With Girl Toys.  This is Zoomer.  Zoomer was born a boy.  How do we know?  Because he was born a boy, that's how.  Zoomer was also born with two liberal leeches attached to him.  These liberals were Zoomer's parents and refused to acknowledge Zoomer's born gender identity and instead called HIM they and them.  They also made Zoomer play with both boy and girl toys as well as wear dresses and male clothing, just in case Zoomer was a born drag queen or something.  At age 4, Zoomer figured out he was a boy and this was a big moment for his not-so-bright parents.  [Video clip]

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The War on Veterans.  Brown University, the prestigious Ivy-League college in Rhode Island, has an ROTC corps on campus, but they are not allowed actually on campus.  You read that right.  For whatever reason the future officers of America that come from Brown are not allowed to actually be on campus.  How about the town of Medford, Massachusetts?  The Socialist mayor of the large town north of Boston, Breanna Luengo-Koehn is putting forth legislation to stop war veterans "5-point preference" for civil jobs like Police departments and fire departments.  Luengo-Koehn is giving the 5-point preference to people of color citing "The preference for veterans is not compatible with our social justice agenda[.]"  When the veterans service officer for the town spoke up, he was removed from City Hall by police escort and is now on leave pending an ordered "Psychological evaluation[.]"  Oh yes, the crazy veteran narrative.  In 2009 and 2021, United States veterans were classified as a threat to national security by the Department of Homeland Security.  A leaked document from DHS in 2009 outlined veterans as "Susceptible to recruitment from right-wing extremist groups[.]"  It caused so much outrage that DHS Security Janet Napolitano had to apologize to veteran groups in a press conference from the White house.  Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi have gone to great pains to point out that 30 of the members of the January 6 trespassing event were veterans and government needs to do more to "Root out extremists in the ranks[.]"

Dem wants non-citizens to vote in NYC elections: 'If people have a problem, they should move'.  There can be no mistake that Democrats want to see as many illegal immigrants as humanely possible flow into the United States.  Common sense and logic dictate that there's no other answer as to why the Biden administration is allowing over 200,000 migrants a month to illegally enter the country.  With well over one million illegal immigrants having entered this year, and the total approaching two million, the question is why would this be a priority for the party?  Democrats seem hellbent on granting amnesty to those in the country illegally, with the belief that many of these unskilled migrants will vote blue, giving the party what would be a deciding influx of millions of new voters.  It may be decades before they lose another national election.  But some lack the patience for the political machinations to play out here and simply want to change the laws to allow non-citizens to vote.

Protesters Shout Down Al Sharpton's Press Event at Texas Border Bridge Camp.  The Rev. Al Sharpton toured the makeshift Haitian migrant camp situated under the local international bridge Thursday.  At the conclusion of his visit, Sharpton attempted an impromptu press conference.  His remarks were cut short after protesters shouted him down until choosing to leave the site.  In the video, a visibly frustrated Sharpton can be seen trying to speak to media.  Shouts from the crowd of mainly residents included the phrases "go home," "get out of Texas," and "our Border Patrol are heroes."  Attendees eventually crowded the reverend's entourage as they exchanged words — prompting a quick departure.

Cruz: South Texas Democrats Threatening to Leave Party over 'Open Borders'.  Wednesday [9/22/2021], during an appearance on FNC's "The Ingraham Angle," Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Democrats in South Texas, which he explained was a long-time Democratic Party stronghold, were weighing leaving the party over the Biden administration's handling of the U.S.-Mexico border.  Cruz also said that as long as the Biden administration refused to apply the law, the problem would worsen. [...] "Most of the local elected officials in South Texas are Democrats, and that's long been a Democratic area of the state," Cruz continued.  "I got to tell you, every elected Democrat I met with was so horrified by what's happening at the border.  They said to me over and over again, they said, Listen, if the Democratic Party is the party of open borders, count me out.  I can't support this."

Democrats Are Watching Helplessly as Their Influence Over Florida Is Destroyed.  Florida was once considered a battleground state, but whatever influence the Democrats had over the Sunshine State is swiftly disappearing as issue after issue plagues their efforts to gain momentum and their footholds are disappearing for the first time ever.  According to The Hill, Democrats are facing a myriad of issues such as a fundraising gap a mile wide when compared to the Florida GOP.  This is on top of the fact that the voter registration advantage that they've held for years has effectively been destroyed, going from 700,000 more registered voters in the state to just 23,551 over the course of 2008 to today.

Idle hands do the devilish Dems' work.  The hardest working states, as measured by WalletHub, are predominantly Republican.  The lowest 10 in the rankings are mostly run by Democrats.  Probably not a surprise since they were lavish with unemployment benefits and other work disincentives.  Democrat-run states and cities rarely score well in various quality of life ratings.  Notably, the U-Haul ranking of states by migration growth shows that people are fleeing blue states for red states, usually for economic reasons.  They intend to work hard and benefit from the fruits of their labor.  The dignity and sense of purpose that accompany hard work can be tied to long-lasting happiness — which conservatives enjoy more than liberals — versus the fleeting, instant gratification the ingordigious lefties pursue.

Politico: Biden's domestic agenda [is] near collapse — and Dems know it.  A trillion here, a trillion there, and sooner or later people start noticing the math doesn't add up.  Enough people have noticed this about Joe Biden's expansive and expensive domestic agenda to put the entire enterprise on the verge of collapse.  And Democrats know it, Politico reports, but are too torn to stop what appears to be inevitable: [...] As pointed out in my earlier post, Biden has suddenly gone from team leader to albatross in the midterm fight.  His approval polls have sharply tanked ever since the debacle in Afghanistan, making it even more difficult to get moderate Democrats behind Biden.  The big question now is whether Biden can rebound from it, or whether this becomes a Hurricane Katrina confidence-crisis cascade.  That may depend in large part whether national media outlets choose to keep providing Biden cover on the abandoned Americans in Afghanistan, but if hostage situations arise, that will become an impossible task.

Newt Gingrich has a plan for regaining Congress.  Newt Gingrich, the one-time history professor whose insights in 1994 about the American electorate helped Republicans gain control of the House for the first time in 40 years, thinks he's got a plan that will return Congress to Republican control in 2022.  His research has revealed that there are multiple unifying issues that concern all Americans and that Republicans are the ones with the more appealing platforms regarding those arguments. [...] According to Gingrich, there are 16 issues that bind Americans together.  Indeed, 85% of voters are in accord as to these issues, with only a left fringe opposing the majority viewpoint.  The most obvious issue is defunding the police, which Americans strongly oppose.  The most interesting thing Gingrich and his team discovered while working with Larry Kudlow, is that Americans haven't really bought into socialism, although they think they've been alienated from capitalism.  However, if you frame the two political systems by talking about liberty versus big government, people suddenly view them differently.

The Masking of the Servant Class:  Ugly COVID Images From the Met Gala Are Now Commonplace.  From the start of the pandemic, political elites have been repeatedly caught exempting themselves from the restrictive rules they impose on the lives of those over whom they rule.  Governors, mayors, ministers and Speakers of the House have been filmed violating their own COVID protocols in order to dine with their closest lobbyist-friends, enjoy a coddled hair styling in chic salons, or unwind after signing new lockdown and quarantine orders by sneaking away for a weekend getaway with the family. [...] But as is so often the case, the most disturbing aspects of elite behavior are found not in what they have prohibited but rather in what they have decided is permissible.  When it comes to mask mandates, it is now commonplace to see two distinct classes of people:  those who remain maskless as they are served, and those they employ as their servants who must have their faces covered at all times.  Prior to the COVID pandemic, it was difficult to imagine how the enormous chasm between the lives of cultural and political elites and everyone else could be made any larger, yet the pandemic generated a new form of crude cultural segregation:  a series of protocols which ensure that maskless elites need not ever cast eyes upon the faces of their servant class.

Democrats Continue to Lose Ground in Texas as Hispanic Voters Turn Their Back on the Left.  The blue wave that the left said was going to hit Texas continues to recede further and further back as numbers continue to show Democrats losing ground in the Lone Star State.  According to Texas Monthly, Starr County is turning red by leaps and bounds with Republicans showing up in droves and increasing their presence by the triple digits while Zapata County is seeing red for the first time in decades.

Left-wing ideologues on 20th anniversary of 9/11: The Capitol riot was worse.  Give it a rest, just for one day.  Saturday marked the 20th anniversary of the day Islamic terrorists brutally murdered nearly 3,000 Americans, some of whom were crushed by the collapsing World Trade Center towers while others fell to their deaths or were burned alive.  It was a somber occasion, leaving many as angry as they were sad.  However, not everyone treated the anniversary with the gravity it deserved.  Indeed, rather than pause their partisan activism for even 24 hours to mourn the dead, or at least allow the victims of the attacks to grieve in peace, certain left-wing activists continued this weekend to attack their conservative neighbors.  Some even saw the 20th anniversary as a perfect opportunity to draw a straight line between the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and 9/11.

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Amid Disasters at Home and Abroad, Biden White House Staffers Busy Choosing 'Magic Spirit Animals'.  They call them "public servants," although that usage is a bit quaint in this age of staggeringly corrupt, self-serving politicians, and it's good to know that Biden White House staffers are hard at work, doing everything they can to improve the lot of Americans and protect our nation and its allies.  Politico reported Tuesday that "some people in the Biden administration are huge Harry Potter fans" and are spending a lot of time choosing "magic spirit animals" for themselves.

Rep. Nancy Mace:  All House Democrats Voted Against Survey Of Weapons Left In Afghanistan.  Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) noted on Wednesday [9/8/2021] [...] that every Democrat on the House Oversight Committee voted against her proposal to survey the equipment and weapons abandoned in Afghanistan by the Biden administration.  Mace said she proposed an investigation of the national security implications of military equipment abandoned by the U.S. government in Afghanistan in her capacity as a member of the House Oversight Committee.  She introduced a legislative amendment to utilize "a very nebulous line dealing with $25 million" to "invest and look at what [military equipment]" was given up in Afghanistan.

The Biden Administration Announces an End to Its Legislative Agenda.  Effectively, the Biden Administration is signaling to all parties involved that it no longer has any interest in attempting to get legislation through Congress.  Instead, it will simply fight through the use of executive actions that are almost certainly going to be challenged in the courts and fail.  They cannot get even the most basic parts of their agenda through Congress.  Biden himself is so underwater in the polling and in the eyes of his peers that he has no political clout to speak of.  His policies are being stopped by Joe Manchin, a member of his own party, who is more concerned with his voters and his re-election chances than he is pushing the party's agenda.  And that, by the way, is a clear sign that the Democratic Party, not the Republican Party, is falling apart at the seams.  When your party is in power, you have some leeway to push the party agenda even if your voters don't like it.  But if you can't even get a single piece of your legislative agenda through Congress because of a member of your own party, you're in serious trouble.

Biden gets hostile welcome in NJ touring damage caused by Hurricane Ida.  President Biden on Tuesday [9/7/2021] traveled to New York and New Jersey to tour areas struck by deadly flooding from Tropical Storm Ida, but he received a hostile welcome from some North Jersey residents who heckled him and flashed middle fingers.  Biden repeatedly attributed the flooding that killed at least 50 people last week — 13 of them in New York City — to climate change as he pushed his $4.7  trillion infrastructure and social spending bills.  A Manville, NJ, man interrupted Biden's message by shouting, "Resign, you tyrant!" as he toured a devastated neighborhood.  A pool report said the heckler was standing with a Trump flag in his front yard.  Reporters positioned between Biden and the irate local said the president did not react to the taunts.  Other pro-Trump protesters had greeted Biden's motorcade along its route through North Jersey.

New Jersey locals heckle 'despicable' Biden as he tours neighborhood wrecked by Hurricane Ida floods.  President Joe Biden visited New York and New Jersey on Tuesday [9/7/2021] to view flood damage from Hurricane Ida that killed 52 in the Northeast — and had to endure angry hecklers as he sought to provide comfort to suffering families.  Biden also warned that the nation was now experiencing extreme weather in 'real time' and once again pitched his infrastructure plan as a way to rebuild, saying scientists are warning 'this is code red.'  Biden met with state and local leaders and planning to tour devastation in the area, just days after the visiting storm-ravaged neighborhoods near New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast.

Utility Workers In Louisiana Show What They Think Of Biden As His Motorcade Pass Them By.  President Joe Biden visited Louisiana to survey damage from Hurricane Ida, after almost a week of the deadly storm ravaging the eastern half of the United States.  The President met with local leaders, surveyed some of the storm's damage and delivered remarks in LaPlace.  He also participated in an aerial tour of some of the communities hardest-hit by the storm and met leaders in Lafourche Parish. [...] But what the mainstream media failed to show is the fact that Louisiana's citizens don't like Biden at all.  One video that was sent to us a few moments ago shows Louisiana utility workers doing the same thing that Biddeen did to the American people as Biden's motorcade pass them by.  [Video clip]

Louisiana Utility Workers Turn Their Backs On Biden as Motorcade Drives By.  [Another source for the video clip above]

It's a Movement:  Chanting Against Biden and They're Not Holding Back.  Demented grandpa is not a good look when it gets Americans killed.  The veil that the media had placed over Biden suddenly got ripped off for a lot of people and they saw what a deficient leader and human being he truly was — for a lot of people who may not have been looking closely before.  The media may try to spin for him in the future but it's going to be hard to stuff that genie back in the bottle, especially when he continues to fail to address the ongoing issues.

Biden's free fall.  Biden's approval ratings are in a free fall, with good reason.  Pluralities disapprove of the president's performance, based on the RealClearPolitics and FiveThirtyEight polling averages. [...] Here are a few reasons, in no particular order:
  •   The Afghanistan fiasco and the terrorist attack at the Kabul airport killing 13 American soldiers and at least 90 Afghans;
  •   Failure to end the COVID crisis despite the gift of safe and effective vaccines former President Trump provided him through Operation Warp Speed;
  •   The crisis on the southern border, which Biden brought upon due to his reversal of Trump administration policies;
  •   High levels of crime in major cities across the U.S. while at the same time his progressive allies promote far-left ideas like defunding the police and Critical Race Theory;
  •   A disappointing August jobs report due to the administration encouraging welfare over work — only 235,000 jobs were added to the economy in August, far off the estimates of 728,000 or more.; and
  •   Inflation and record debt due to out-of-control spending, which is getting pushback from even some in his own party.

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Florida diner that posted note refusing service to Biden voters is forced to close after it SOLD OUT of food.  The Florida diner where the owner posted a sign turning away Joe Biden voters after 13 US troops were killed in Afghanistan has had to shut its doors — because so many people called to buy meals for veterans that the small business ran out of food.  'I've gotten so many people calling me from all over the world, from Europe, trying to purchase meals for veterans, which I still haven't been able to organize,' said Angie Ugarte, who posted the sign in the window of the DeBary Diner in the central Florida city of DeBary.  'I think that the veterans will be fed for the rest of the year at the rate I'm getting donations.'

Biden's America-Last Administration:  U.S. Aid Will Keep Flowing to Taliban.  The war is lost, but no one is going to be held accountable and the same blinkered woke dopes are in charge.  In fact, the one whose very name is Blinken, the secretary of State, explained Monday how the Taliban could gain the "international legitimacy and support" that is obviously such a high priority for them, and explained that even if it didn't become the Leftist woke paradise of Blinken's imagining, the American money will still flow.  Of course.  It always does.  Blinken claimed risibly that henceforth, the America-Last administration of Biden's handlers would be guided by a concern for something that has never appeared on its list of priorities up to now:  "our vital national interests."

Dem Congresswoman Blocks Names of 13 Dead Service Members from Being Read on House Floor.  On the heels of what sounded like a disastrous meeting between President Joe Biden and family members of those killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul last week, GOP members of Congress said that one of their Democratic colleagues blocked the names of the 13 deceased service members from being read on the floor Tuesday [8/31/2021].  While members of one Gold Star family walked out of a meeting with President Joe Biden before he even got a chance to speak with them, one Democrat shut down Republican veterans who wanted to read off the names of those lost.

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The Democrats want this story to be stuffed down the News Media Memory Hole as soon as possible.  Any commemoration of the 13 service members would not help that effort.

A Baby Boomer Explains What's Wrong with Millennials.  If you're over 50, you might remember occasionally seeing small children throw temper tantrums in public, 25 or 30 years ago, and wondering what those kids would be like when they grew up.  Well, now you know. [...] [M]ost young people these days seem to desire two things above all else: to live in a socialist utopia and to become internet millionaires — completely oblivious to the reality that those two pipe dreams cancel each other out.  Entrepreneurship requires free markets, which is why there are no hipsters happily blogging away for six-figure salaries in Caracas or Havana coffee shops.  Clearly, we're talking about a bunch of overgrown preschoolers who have been so coddled and protected all their lives that they have no idea what it means to live in the real world and are frightened by their occasional glimpses of it.

Who will take the fall for Afghanistan?  One of the Marine Corps principles of leadership is to accept responsibility for your actions.  In most Western cultures, those who fail spectacularly then resign.  Traditional Japanese military culture demanded that those who failed commit suicide out of shame and honor.  In modern Democrat party political culture, there is no true individual responsibility for one's own actions, either in public or private life.  Everything that goes wrong is either someone else's fault or society's fault.  It's a victimology cult.  A hollow, ritualistic statement of "the buck stops here" is then usually accompanied by the non sequitur of blaming someone else.  This is what President Biden did yet again in recent days.

Not Incompetence:  Afghanistan and Globalism.  Democrats' actions are motivated by their goals.  If we understand their goals, then their actions should be clear.  Trump was the first serious Republican president who rejected globalism and believes in the nation-state — America First.  That's why Democrats not only hated him, but felt entitled to do anything and everything, legal or illegal, to stop him.  Democrats were laser-focused on removing Trump from office, by waging an unprecedented daily media campaign against him, using our Intelligence Community to spy on him, impeaching him twice, and even fraudulently winning the 2020 elections.  With Trump, globalists and socialists now fear his 75 million supporters.  They have become the new obstacle.  That explains the intense hate campaign to tarnish them as racists, "white supremacists," and dangerous insurrectionists against the state.  Democrats and their media are not looking for the truth or to dialogue with the Trump side over the pros and cons of globalism.  Democrats want to keep their goals covert because if they're open about their plan, the majority of Americans will reject it.

The Real Reason Democratic 'Moderates' Are Revolting Over the Biden-Pelosi Agenda.  The moderates don't trust Pelosi to keep her word on passing the bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure bill that passed the Senate two weeks ago at the same time as the House agrees to consider the budget bill.  It's a delicate dance that Pelosi is trying to choreograph, with the radicals not trusting her to deliver on the massive budget bill and the moderates not trusting her to keep her word on voting for the infrastructure deal.  Indeed, if the massive spending bill is passed by the House, many of the radicals wouldn't see the need for an infrastructure bill.  Conversely, the moderates don't want to be stuck voting for the hyperpartisan spending bill without the infrastructure bill.  It would be the kiss of death in swing districts, and it would be a major selling point for any of their Republican opponents.  Both groups feel they've been doublecrossed before.  Now, it's degenerated into a trillion-dollar game of chicken.

Afghanistan eats Joe and Nancy's pork.  On the night before Afghanistan collapsed, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and all the bigfoot Democrats were in the catbird seat.  Their $4.5-trillion stimulus package was in the bag with both houses of Congress, and all that was left was the vote.  Now things have changed. [...] The $1-trillion "infrastructure" bill, along with its Bernie Sanders-crafted $3.5-trillion "reconciliation" bill, are falling apart fast.  The Associated Press is making no bones about it.  Nancy Pelosi is begging her own moderates to play ball, and time is running out.  Nine Democrats are vowing to withhold votes, likely because they are hearing from voters, and Pelosi can afford to lose only three.

In Mandatory Training, CA Faculty Union Leader Says There's Nothing Good About 'White' Culture.  During last week's two-day mandatory "antiracism" training for members of the California Faculty Association leaders went just a bit further than many Critical Race Theory sessions — including laughing over the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.  The union, also known as CALFAC, is the exclusive collective bargaining agent for all faculty in the 23-campus California State University system, including lecturers, professors, counselors, librarians, and coaches.

Biden's epic Afghanistan debacle:  here's what it means for the Dems' progressive agenda.  How can anybody defend abandoning the strategically critical Bagram Airfield in the dead of night, gifting to our enemies untold amounts of armaments, and not preparing for the evacuation of tens of thousands of Americans?  How can anyone say it's OK for the French, Germans and British to send forces into Kabul to rescue their own people while U.S. troops are told to stand down?  Heads should roll, but under the insipid and gutless guidance (not leadership) of Joe Biden, they will not.  Instead, his Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Vice President Kamala Harris serve as props, standing literally if not figuratively behind the president as he struggles to answer questions from a suddenly inquisitive press corps.  The only remotely positive aspect of the epic disaster unfolding in Afghanistan is this:  all Americans — indeed, the entire world — have now seen the real Joe Biden, and will now question the president's credibility and capability.

A Call to Action.  [Scroll down]  Independents and moderates don't like this any more than we do.  They understand that Democrats destabilize our democracy when they flout the law, disregard the Constitution, or defund the police.  They see the hypocrisy in opening the border with no restrictions for COVID, criminality, or skills, yet closing it to Cubans or Afghans escaping real persecution.  They fear being silenced by the Army of the Woke or petty authoritarians using COVID to curtail their freedoms.  They're revolted by demands to end racism with racism and nullify all of education and history, achievement and progress in the name of white supremacy and privilege.  They justifiably recoil when activists co-opt their children's mental health with fanciful notions that something humankind has always taken for granted, is a choice along an ever-changing gender continuum.

The Afghanistan Debacle is Exactly What the Left Wanted.  There's not much to say that hasn't already been said regarding Biden's unconditional surrender to the Taliban, and it's only the first week.  Bookshelves will be filled with analyses of these events, and we won't understand their full ramifications for decades.  My two cents, for what they're worth, are that the left doesn't consider the fall of Kabul and the betrayal of our allies to be a tragedy.  Rather, this is deliberate foreign policy strategy, and it's right on track.  The pattern is clear for those who wish to see.  Simply put, the left thinks America is not only evil, but irredeemably so.  Hence, any policy, be it foreign or domestic, that weakens our nation-state should be pursued, the goal being that the nation-state will eventually corrode to the point of collapse.  They don't care that the hollowed-out dystopia will be long past its desirability for subjugation, so long as they get to be in charge.

DeSantis: Biden's 'Letting Afghanistan Burn,' 'Obsessed' with Taking Away Parental Rights and Forcing Kindergartners to Wear Masks.  On Wednesday's broadcast of the Fox News Channel's "Hannity," Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said President Joe Biden is "obsessed with having the government force kindergartners to wear masks all day in school" and "obsessed with taking away parents' rights" while he's allowing Afghanistan to fall apart.

CNN Analyst Argues Against Rescuing Americans Outside Kabul Airport.  You snooze, you lose.  Let 'em rot.  That was essentially the message CNN counterterrorism analyst and former CIA operative, Phil Mudd was sending the American citizens and Afghan allies that couldn't make it to the Kabul airport because they're too scared to risk going outside or live in other parts of the country.  His comments were so shocking that they even took Prime Time host Chris Cuomo by surprise during Wednesday's show.  Mudd's callous comments were preceded by him trying to downplay how much of a disaster President Biden's leadership had been.  He even suggested we wait two to three YEARS before we make a full assessment of what happened with the withdrawal.

The Dystopia Of Progressivism.  Welcome to the new America — the United States of Dystopia:  open borders, massive increases in government, reckless spending, crushing debt, demonized and defunded police, coddled criminals, cancel culture, identity politics, censorship, and socialism.  America is becoming unhinged.  Who should we blame?  One immediate candidate is the progressive wing of the Democrat Party, which now controls the beltway bureaucracy, the White House, most of Congress, and the mayors and councils of our urban ghettos. [...] And now the progressives want to change America by opening borders, defunding police, emptying jails, increasing debt, suppressing speech, and revising history.  Already, too many potential Democrats are crossing the border, irrespective of COVID, trafficking and, the fentanyl accompanying them.  But Cubans, unlike Central Americans, are not welcome since they tend to vote Republican.  Our cities burn and innocent citizens are shot, but the police who serve and protect must be demonized and jails emptied, because disorder is preferable to order whose maintenance is the first duty of sound government.  Suppressing speech is not progress.  Yet Leftists routinely defame their opponents as 'racist,' 'sexist,' 'misogynistic,' 'homophobic,' 'xenophobic,' 'fascist,' or 'deplorable,' using demagoguery reminiscent of Senator Joseph McCarthy to drown out speech with which they disagree.

Storm Clouds For Biden.  For the first time in quite a few years, prices for staple items are rising rapidly, and with the federal government borrowing and spending at a record pace that trend can only accelerate.  People aren't happy about it: this Fox News poll finds that 70 percent of respondents consider grocery and gasoline prices to be a hardship for their families, with 29 percent considering them a serious hardship.  Further, 79% say "the federal government's economic policies" are responsible for rising prices, with 49 percent considering them "very responsible."  To be fair, respondents also blame the coronavirus — not sure how that works — and "the regular ups and downs of the economy."  But as prices continue to rise over the next year, more and more fingers will be pointed at Joe Biden and the Democrats.

Autonomy for Red America, Part 1.  The events of 2020 revealed this leftist turn against free expression had reached the non-tech parts of corporate America, as well.  During the summer's Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots, millions of Red Americans watched in helpless horror as nearly every large company they'd encountered or patronized — including most of the most ubiquitous companies long assumed to be apolitical — rushed, in a moral panic, to signal their fealty toward BLM and the most radical racial politics.  In fact, the larger the company (and the larger their base of customers likely to oppose the corporate virtue signaling), the more likely they were to release denunciations of American society as rife with "white supremacy," and to make donations to radical racial, anti-white charities.  These decisions startled many who believed that large corporations were loath to insult the sensibilities of half of their customers, and indicated that, finally, political ideology had trumped the bottom line.  In other words, Red Americans saw that these companies no longer wanted their business.  More than seventy-three million of them voted for Donald Trump in 2020, in no small measure as a defiant protest against what they understood to be a threat to their way of life that is larger than politics.

Meet the White House's new vaccine 'influencer'.  Remember Pajama Boy, the onesie-clad man with hot chocolate who was hired by Obama White House allies to get young people to buy the Obamacare and its 'narrative'?  Well, now it's Benny Drama.  He's the new pop face of the Biden administration's bid to persuade the public to get vaccines. [...] When I first saw it, I wondered if it was some conservative parody.  But nope, it's real, complete with Jen Psaki in her general unpleasantness, serving as a foil for the act.  That moves us on to what it is — an ad for the Biden administration, targeted at young people, supposedly through satire.  But as satire, it falls flat because the Biden administration hiring a person like this is perfectly believable.

The White House Actually Hired This Freak To Socially Influence Kids To Get Vaccinated.  The White House has apparently hired an Instagram influencer who goes by the name Benny Drama.  Clad in a Thom Browne seersucker shorts suit, Kooper storms the White House to make some calls, deliver some coffee, and, of course, create some content.  After popping in to say a quick "Hey" to POTUS, Kooper goes on to assist White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki with a variety of tasks, including booking a nail appointment — not that she'd asked for one.  "It's called initiative," he says.  [Video clip]

Today's Democratic Party Has Evolved into a Progressive Politburo.  Recent political events that have unfolded over the past year have revealed a disturbing pattern of an identity politics-fueled progressivism, evolving from its once distasteful authoritarian impulses, towards a more sinister version, that increasingly exhibits totalitarian proclivities.  From the tactics used to coerce or extort corporate compliance with the policy preferences of progressives to the current struggle to inculcate public school children with the tenets of Critical Race Theory (CRT), in word and deed, progressive ideologues are mirroring the tactics used by the former Soviet Union to crush all political opposition and exact compliance with their divisive ideology.  The political tactics of progressive partisans, carried out and nurtured through the political institution of the Democratic Party and its subsidiary organizations, including the higher education establishment, the media, and now in corporations, have become overweening, ruthless, acrimonious, and unapologetically extreme.

Washington Post:  Biden's Migration Policy Is 'Politically Toxic'.  President Joe Biden's border disaster is "politically toxic" for Democrats, according to the Washington Post's editorial board. [...] In reality, the semi-open border policy is powered by the self-serving and very deliberate political alliance of progressives and investors.  That same alliance can also explain the Washington Post's narcissistic and minimal coverage of migration economics.  But that rational alliance is dangerous to the Democratic Party's traditional goals because the public is deeply opposed to wealth-shifting, wage-cutting economic migration.  One symptom is a deep internal split in the Democratic Party, which is largely hidden by the media's refusal to cover migration's pocketbook impact.

Congressional Dems' Own Polls Show Them Tanking.  It looks as if Democrats just now realized there's an election next year.  After months of repeated appeals from pollsters, consultants, and former officials, Congressional Democrats finally appear to be hearing the warnings that their party and their message is not resonating with voters.  But with the party still firmly in the grip of radical progressive politicians and donors, Democrats may have already sealed their fate for 2022.  According to a new poll commissioned by the party's own campaign arm, the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee, Democrats are trailing Republicans by 6 points on a generic ballot among likely voters in swing districts.  Those results, particularly on the economy, which 55% of respondents said they did not trust Democrats to handle, have rightly alarmed Congressional Democrats.  One Democratic member was quoted as saying that the numbers looked "pretty dismal," while Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) said bluntly "we're not breaking through."

Independent Voters Have Absolutely No Reason to Support Biden, and the Polling Shows It.  [Scroll down]  The problem for Joe Biden now is that the voters who went with the supposed safer and saner bet are no longer sure of their vote.  The proof is in the numbers that came out earlier this week.  Biden currently stands at 53 percent approval, which is too close to that 50 percent mark this early in an administration.  Both Politico and The Hill, in reporting on the poll, point to COVID-19 as the primary concern, but as my colleague Brandon Morse mentioned in the above link, the economy very likely has something to do with it as well.  Not to mention the reporting we're seeing coming out of various school districts where the independent voters are parents who are rejecting far-left critical race theory in their childrens' schools, the teachers' unions fighting to keep schools closed, and many other far-left cultural battles the super progressives of the Democratic Party are very vocally pushing.

A grandiose Rep. Cori Bush says the quiet part out loud.  We've all known about this quiet part:  It's the one that says that high-level leftists, the ones who want to take our cars, air conditioners, heating, health care, travel rights, and money, do not have to abide by their own rules.  Rules are for the little people and, when it comes to Bush's need for personal security guards while she's defunding your police, Bush is happy to explain why she's special.

Rep Cori Bush Throws Tantrum on Live Air Defending her $200k Security Force While Simultaneously Calling to Defund the Police.  During an interview on Thursday with CBS News, Democratic Representative Cori Bush went on one of the most insane rants on live air while defending her $200,000 security force while simultaneously calling to defund the police.  Over the past week, Bush has been sleeping outside of the Capitol to protest the end of the eviction moratorium due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  In response to the stunt, Bush has been called a hypocrite considering she has spent tens of thousands of dollars on private security while calling to defund the police.  During the interview with CBS, anchor Vladimir Duthiers urged Bush to respond to the criticism.

Biden to unveil stricter emissions standards for vehicles, exceeding Obama-era regulations.  President Biden will unveil sweeping new regulations on cars and trucks on Thursday, returning America over the next five years to the strict standards that the Obama administration had imposed but former President Trump walked back.  The proposed rules drafted by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation would tighten emissions standards to be more in line with aggressive measures established by California in 2019, but which Mr. Trump had blocked.  On mileage rules, automakers also will be required to raise their average miles-per-gallon score of their fleets by 3.7% starting with the model year 2023, which would include cars sold next year.  That standard also had been proposed by California.

Why Trump Still Terrifies the Democrats.  One of the residual effects of last year's chaotic election is the palpable fear of former President Trump that still haunts the Democrats. [...] The actual source of Democratic trepidation can be found in their lackluster performance in the 2020 presidential and congressional elections combined with Trump's clear intention to become very much involved in boosting Republicans in next year's midterms.  First, a reality check concerning the 2020 election:  Biden didn't win a popular vote landslide as the Democrats still claim.  According to Federal Election Commission (FEC) totals, he won 81,268,924 of 158,383,403 ballots cast.  In other words, 77,114,479 people voted for Trump or one of the third-party candidates.  That nearly 49 percent of the voters cast ballots against Biden, despite the unprecedented support he received from the media and Big Tech cannot fail to worry rational Democrats.

Democrats Panic as Latinos and Asian Voters Leave The Party.  While the Delta variant of COVID is making headlines, Joe Biden is attempting to shore up support from minority voters, a normally solid Democratic voting bloc, in advance of the upcoming midterm elections.  Biden and White House aides are meeting with key figures in the Latino, and Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, reports the Washington Examiner.  These are two demographics that Biden and Democrats have been warned they can't take for granted in 2022, says former Democratic consultant Christopher Hahn.  "I believe they did in 2020, and it almost cost him the election," Hahn told the Washington Examiner.  Hahn is the host of the podcast Aggressive Progressive.  Donald Trump made huge gains with Latinos and Asians in 2020.  And that swing, if it continues, threatens the Democrats' electoral prospects.

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If Latinos start voting Republican en masse, you can bet the Mexican border will be sealed up as tight as the Berlin Wall.

Wake Up, RINOs!.  The Democrat party has always had radical elements.  But up until 2001, the party had mostly kept them at bay.  In that year, surrendering to their insanity, they welcomed the guidance of radical leftists — and the purges began.  With primary challenges, the leftists began driving moderates from the Democrat party.  They even forced Joe Liebermann out of the party — and he had been their vice presidential candidate in the election of 2000.  A mere 20 years after that devastating election loss, the likes of Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Ilhan Omar are now the soul of the party.  The Democrats no longer share any meaningful common ground with Republicans.

Incompetence + Arrogance = Woke.  In the last 18 months, we have seen most of our major institutions go woke and spend considerable amounts of time, capital, and labor on what might be called "commissarism."  Yet in their zeal to rectify society in general and sermonize, virtue signal, pontificate, and perform to the public, many institutions are increasingly failing at what they were established to do.  Of course, public servants have long suffered the "Bloomberg effect" — focusing on misdemeanors to virtue signal competence as penance for failing to solve the existential crises.  If you cannot clear New York City of snow in a timely manner, then lecture the trapped on everything from global warming to the dangers of super-sized soft drinks.  Yet wokeism is a bit different since it now pervades our societies as a pandemic of its own.

The Three Horsemen of the Bidenapocalypse.  Catering to the party's far left has poised the Democrats over a cliff from which I see no soft landing.  Without backing off, they've lost the favor of the nation.  But backing off will fracture the party and cost it its most fervent leftist wing — indeed, its most strident supporters are already demanding more.  Biden's popularity sinks more every week and Harris's is not much better.  Rasmussen reports the latest poll shows that 47% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Biden's job performance.  Fifty-one percent (51%) disapprove.  The two polls on Harris's favorability last week show her disapproval ratings edged out the approvals as well.

Joe Biden's failing first crisis.  It's difficult to find many Americans who aren't frustrated with Biden.  A solid majority, 55 percent, told pollsters from ABC News they are pessimistic about the direction of the country in the next 12 months, with only 45 percent saying they are optimistic.  The survey represented a dramatic swing of 20 points since May, when two-thirds said they were optimistic.  The findings are stunning given that much of the media, especially the Times, has treated Biden with kid gloves for the first six months of his presidency.  But the protection racket can't hide what people see with their own eyes.  The inflation tax at the checkout line and gas station is inescapable, as is the two-year crime and murder surge around the nation.  On those two bedrock issues and so many others, the White House seems either incompetent or impotent.

Why Would Any Cuban-American Ever Vote for a Democrat Again?  [Joe Biden] doesn't listen to average people.  He and his ilk are much more heavily influenced by well-known celebrities and others who have spent their lives supporting the Castros.  A group of them crowd-sourced by a leftwing organization called "The People's Forum" placed a full-page advertisement in The New York Times on 22 July demanding that The Hologram end the Cuba embargo (while remaining completely silent on the government crackdown on the Cuban protestors):  [Tweet]  Check out some of the signatories:  Jane Fonda, Susan Sarandon, Daniel Ellsberg, Cornel West, Noam Chomsky, Oliver Stone, etc.  Socialists, Communists, radicals, fellow-travelers, reprobates, fools.  But then these are the people with and to whom Democrats socialize and listen, not regular people.  I would wager that the vast majority of them voted for The Hologram and The Cackler, too.

Now There's Absolutely No Doubt It's Over for Joe Biden.  The trend among likely voters in the Daily Presidential Tracking Poll is clear.  It appears the flip-flop on CDC mask guidance is rubbing Americans the wrong way.  For the last three days, total disapproval has been over 50%, and the approval index between those who strongly approve and strongly disapprove has been -13, -16, and -15.  These ratings accompanied announcements about requiring vaccines at the Veteran's Administration and other federal agencies.  This poll is a valuable tool to detect trends because it uses a consistent methodology to assess the feelings of likely voters.  Rasmussen picked up the daily presidential poll when Gallup abandoned it during the Obama administration.  Biden's approval rating has not been above water since February 15, 2021, when it was at 53%.

Irony, Absurdity, and Dishonesty — The Democrat Party's Playbook.  I have watched while the Democrat Party, its partisans in state-controlled media, and their ever-so-virtue-signaling but absurdly never-self-aware politicians have had just about everything they say and do "boomerang" on them and hit them square in the noggin.  I cannot have been the only guy to have observed this spectacle and have been, well... gobsmacked.  Please pardon me for the sarcasm inherent in the commentary, but the issues and actions presented are just over-ripe for it and are pristine targets for sarcasm and scorn.

Democrats Rank Biden Above Lincoln, JFK, and FDR.  You won't be too surprised to learn that Obama is worshiped by Democrats as the living incarnation of the messiah of hope and change, ranking higher than all of the presidents of the past, but you may be slightly more surprised to learn that Biden comes in second.  Yes, Biden has joined the ranks of the immortals, topping JFK, Lincoln, and even FDR, who once had his own cult of personality.  Bill Clinton breaks even with George Washington, but Biden is only second to Obama in this new grand revisionist history in which America was born out of slavery in 1619, the police came into being to catch slaves in 1962, and Biden is the second greatest American in human history.  When you hate America and its history, you really will believe anything.

Democrats No More.  In the old days, Democrats had predictable agendas, supposedly focused on individual rights, the "little guy," and distrust of the military-industrial-intelligence complex.  The Left, often on spec, blasted the wealthy, whether the "lucre" was self-made or inherited.  The old-money rich were lampooned as idle drones. [...] Almost every liberal cause was couched in terms of "The First Amendment" — whether it was the right of shouting obscenities, viewing pornography, or bringing controversial speakers to campus.  The Supreme Court was sacred.  Thanks to the holy, liberally packed court led by Chief Justice Earl Warren, enlightened, progressive justices supposedly restrained the harebrained ballot initiatives of hick right-wing populists.  Once upon a time, leftist congressional officials investigated the CIA and FBI nonstop. [...] Politicians like Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Bill and Hillary Clinton railed against illegal immigrant "cheap labor" that "drove down" American wages.  That was then; this is now.

Onslaught: Psaki Finds Herself Under the Gun on Covid Cases, CRT, Hunter Biden, Masks.  Following a day off due to President Biden's CNN town hall in Ohio, Thursday's White House press briefing gave us another welcome surprise as Press Secretary Jen Psaki found herself under the gun from not just Fox's Peter Doocy, but a variety of reporters on issues such as Covid cases inside the administration, Critical Race Theory, Hunter Biden's artwork, and masking.  Just as her colleague Weijia Jiang called out Hunter's sketchy arrangement on July 9, CBS chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes hammered home the fact that he's "going to be able to meet with prospective buyers at two art shows where his paintings are going to be on display" and thus asked Psaki if that would go against "the goal of keeping him in the dark about the buyers...to prevent even the appearance of undue influence."

Joe Biden and his administration are attacking us, and they're not even being secretive about it.  Rather than trying to subvert our truth-seeking journalism surreptitiously, the Biden White House is announcing their attacks as if it's a point of pride.  In fact, the White House is so proud of its anti-conservative offensive that Joe Biden's communications director Kate Bedingfield went on MSNBC this week to directly identify their target.  "There are conservative news outlets who are creating irresponsible content that's sharing misinformation about the virus," she said.  Bedingfield didn't say that conservative news outlets were lying or publishing falsehoods because we aren't.  Instead, she said our content is "irresponsible" because we dare to point out the contradictions, obfuscation, and misdirection presented by Dr. Fauci and other "experts" who expect Americans to follow them blindly and without question.  To the Biden White House, questioning their party line and reporting the whole story in order to let our readers make up their own minds is irresponsible.

Swing Country:  Rural Dems run from party.  A growing swath of House Democratic candidates says the party needs to radically improve its heartland appeal to have any hope of keeping power in Washington.  With control of the House and Senate on the bubble, many ambitious Democrats — from the South to the Midwest to the Rockies — are running against their own national party's image.  After four years of listening to President Trump, many rural voters are reflexively distrustful of progressive solutions to everything from the pandemic to infrastructure.  In a 3-min. ad for his Senate campaign, Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio never says he's a Democrat.

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This is not unusual.  I used to work at a TV station.  Part of my job was to watch commercial breaks as they aired, especially political ads, to be sure that the entire 30 seconds aired as scheduled, without any technical glitches.  I noticed years ago that political candidates rarely mention their party affiliation in their TV ads.

Axios: Anyone else notice Dems running away from their party?  Has the Democrat brand gotten so damaged already, as Axios' Alexi McCammond suggested this morning, that their incumbents have to run away from it?  It depends — mainly on location.  The first case in point, and perhaps the most obvious, is this three-minute campaign pitch from a man who contended at one point for Speaker of the House.  Note well what dog doesn't bark in this ad from Tim Ryan:  [Video clip]  As one can see, Ryan first put this out in late April — three months ago — in a bid for the Democratic nomination for the Senate seat in Ohio.  Ohio has gone sharply Republican over the last few cycles, and perhaps even more sharply populist.  However, McCammond notices that Democrats in other states are distancing themselves from the party's label, and more importantly from the messaging of its leadership.

Pausing a minute to consider the damage leftism does to America.  We are no longer in a world with people to the left and right of a normal center.  The Democrat party, in its effort to bring about Marxism without pushing purely economic myths, has embraced criminals, open borders, bureaucratic corruption, and out-and-out insanity about gender and race.  Those Americans who claim to be non-political, who don't like either party, who thought Trump was vulgar, who claim Joe Biden isn't really senile — they need to look around and decide if the result of letting Democrats take charge creates an America in which they want to live and that they want for their children and grandchildren.  And if they dislike the crime, population shifts, corruption, racism, and perversion, they need to get off the sidelines and act.

'Squad' member Cori Bush, a 'defund the police' advocate, recently spent $70,000 on private security.  Missouri Rep. Cori Bush spent nearly $70,000 on private security over the past three months as she advocated for defunding the police, campaign filings show.  Bush's campaign sent $54,120.92 in payments between April 15 and June 28 for "security services" to RS&T Security Consulting, a New York-based firm with a mysterious online presence, Federal Election Commission records released Thursday show.  The Democrat's campaign also paid $15,000 to Nathaniel Davis for "security services" over the same time period.  The $69,120 in security payments accounted for more than a third of Bush's $197,000 in campaign expenditures during the second quarter, the FEC records show.  It's also nearly double what her campaign spent on private security during the first quarter of 2021.

Why would any American oppose America First?  Why would any American hate America First policies?  Why would American politicians despise America First?  Why would someone born, raised, and rearing children in America not want America First?  What is wrong with putting the needs, wants, security, and future of your own country first, ahead of others?  Why would any American want to diminish the potential of their own country and thus its citizens and thus his family for the sake of elite globalists who ignore the average American at every turn?  Why put the globalists' ambitions ahead of hardworking families who only want better for their own kids than they had for themselves?

Election Day 2022 will be Independents' Day.  A July 7-8 Reuters/Ipsos poll, which reported only on independents who approved of Biden's job performance, put that approval at 44 percent.  If this negative trend with independents continues, Democrats could face strong headwinds in 2022 as they try to maintain their slim majorities in both the House and Senate.  The White House and congressional Democrats have focused on Biden's overall job approval numbers to bolster their case that the president and his progressive policies are popular with the public.  They're right that Biden remains just above 50 percent in most polls, a function of his Democratic base support.  Republicans, for the most part, were never with him.  What they aren't talking about, however, is what appears to be Democrats' looming problem with independents.

Immigration 'amnesty' could be career-ending vote for Senate Democrats:  Poll.  As the Senate, nudged along by West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, moves to include immigration for millions of illegal immigrants in an infrastructure bill, new polling shows it could be a career killer for several Democrats up for reelection next year.  Data provided to Secrets by the Federation for American Immigration Reform found most blame President Joe Biden for the border crisis and that a large majority believes that providing a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants in the legislation would only make the crisis worse.  One early draft of the infrastructure bill would put $150 billion to immigration policies, including the path to citizenship.

Leftists have a racist, divisive, and ultimately nihilistic view of America.  Congresswoman Cori Bush recently tweeted that July Fourth is a holiday celebrating White people's freedom only.  Her tweet is part of the radical left's effort to take over America.  It ignores that, while America struggled with slavery in its founding, it endured a horrific Civil War to end it and experienced a robust Civil Rights Movement to realize the Declaration of Independence's promises.  We are faced now with a choice between the vision of Karl Marx or that of the Declaration of Independence, Abraham Lincoln, and Walt Disney. [...] Bush, a former BLM activist, has revolutionary intentions.  Any fool knows that what she said is hogwash.  She is merely providing a smokescreen for Antifa's and BLM's rioting and violence.  Their blatant goal is to use violent revolution to overthrow the American government and install a communist dictatorship.  She is not alone.

Fleebag Texas legislators become figures of fun.  Texas's Democrat legislators, who dramatically fled the state to prevent a quorum on a vote for a voter-integrity law, had it all worked out beforehand that they'd be hailed as heroes for democracy. [...] Start with the flight:  They got on their flight together and posed for a group selfie, but forgot some important details.  One was that they weren't wearing masks, despite dictating it for others.  Two was that the private flight seems to have been paid for by a Lebanese hedge fund manager, which if true, makes it even more gamy.  Three, it was a private plane, and these people hector us on global warming.  Four, alert Internet sleuths spotted a big box of Miller Lite beer taking up one of the seats and drew their own conclusions.

Texas Democrats prove how little they think of democracy.  One of the things Democrats like doing when they win is to rub everyone's nose in that victory.  In January 2009, Republicans wanted to discuss Obama's stimulus package.  Obama couldn't be bothered.  "I won," he said.  Discussion over.  In 2021, although Democrats barely hold power in Congress, with a 50-50 balance in the Senate and a bare 9-person majority in the House, they plan to remake America.  However, when Democrats are the minority, they abandon the process entirely — which is what Texas Democrats did, running away on a beer-stocked, gas-guzzling private jet to kill a voting rights bill.  The background to the story is that the Texas Legislature, which currently has a Republican majority (18-13 in its Senate and 83-67 in its House), is poised to pass a voting reform bill.  As with similar bills across America, the point is to ensure that the people voting have a legal right to vote and are, in fact, who they claim to be.  The most contentious issues for Democrats are cleaned-up voting bills and, especially, photo ID.  The problem is that most Americans support photo ID.

Most Black People Oppose Olympic Protests Like Gwen Berry's:  I&I/TIPP Poll.  When hammer thrower Gwen Berry decided to protest the national anthem at an Olympic trials event last month, she raised the prospect that athletes will try to use the Tokyo Olympics to disparage their own nation.  If they do so, they will get precious little support at home.  The latest I&I/TIPP poll finds that the public overwhelmingly rejects athletes showing disrespect for the American flag at international games.  The poll found that 79% of the public say it's important "for professional athletes to publicly respect the American flag on the international level," with 60% saying it is "very important."  Just 16% of the adults surveyed think it's not important.

The Week In Review.  On the Fourth of July, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) stated via Twitter, "The Declaration of Independence says all men are created equal.  Equal to what?  What men?  Only white men?"  Not to be outdone, Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) tweeted the same day, "When they say that the 4th of July is about American freedom, remember this: the freedom they're referring to is for white people." [...] Throughout the week, Rep. Bush was repeatedly referred to as a member of "The Squad."  When did that happen?  I thought The Squad was four members:  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA).  Did the other four vote Bush in?  If so, was it unanimous?  Just curious.

The radicalization of the American elite against liberalism.  The elites, increasingly sequestered within one political party and one media monoculture, educated by colleges and private schools that have become hermetically sealed against any non-left dissent, have had a "social justice reckoning" these past few years.  And they have been ideologically transformed, with countless cascading consequences.

Explaining the Full Armor of God to an Ignorant Media.  When Ron DeSantis, Florida's conservative Republican governor and likely presidential candidate, said recently we need to put on the "full armor of God," the media looked at him like he was crazy — or from another planet.  But his supporters gave him a standing ovation.  As secular liberals, most of the press have no familiarity with the phrase, its origins, theology, or importance.  They are bigots against religion and unschooled in what used to be the norms of American life, churches, and culture.  The press and nearly our entire elite ruling class, in academia, sports, politics, media, business, and culture are biblically illiterate and have no idea what the Jar of Nar (John 12:3) refers to; where the road to Emmaus (Luke 24:13-35) led or who travelled on it; or even what happened in the garden of Gethsemane (Matthew 26:36-46).

Is America still a Great Power?  Looking at the state of America through the lenses of patriotism and conviction of destiny, the outlook looks precarious if America is to maintain its great power status.  The American Left, for example, has joined a global movement in the West centered in self-loathing or hatred of one's own country.  Thus, we see plans like the 1619 Project, which was designed from the outset to utilize the history of slavery in America to create a degraded narrative of America's founding and the shared history of its citizens.  This agenda persists with the continued disrespect to the American flag and our national anthem.

It's Official:  Patriotism Is Conservative — and Bad.  This has been building for some time now, but it's finally out in the open:  To be overtly patriotic and show public support for the American flag is now a sign of conservatism.  Not the longstanding traditional "good" conservatism of small government, fiscal discipline, and a strong military.  No, these days, to be a flag-respecting, America-first patriot is to reveal oneself to be a white-privileged, Trump-supporting, LGBT-phobic, terminally non-woke ignoramus of the lowest kind.  Rehabilitation from such a position is impossible in the eyes of the enlightened Progressive.  In the current social climate, to be patriotic is a permanent brand of both cultural illiteracy and personal ignorance.

Dems are losing the multiracial working class on basic lifestyle issues.  The Democrats have a problem:  They have run away from their core voters.  And they are beginning to notice and worry.  Lefty blogger Kevin Drum noted this recently.  He observes that Republicans have moved slightly to the right, but Democrats have moved way, way to the left on social issues.  Drum says he is "personally happy" about the Democrats' move left.  But he is worried, because while the Democratic Party has moved hard left, the voters it relies on to attain power haven't.  Thus, in the 2020 election, former President Donald Trump — despite being called a white supremacist and a Hispanic-hater by all the mainstream media — picked up black and Hispanic votes.

Tennessee and Georgia Need Real Republican (Conservative) Governors ASAP.  It has been said of the Democratic Party that its leaders and rank-and-file all act in unison despite whatever differences they might have.  This has become so extreme it appears to have morphed into a reconstituted Marxism under new "progressive" nomenclature like "anti-racist."  "Liberalism," as we knew it, barely exists anymore.  The opposite is said of Republicans who are and have been a collection of individualists, going off in different directions, often to their own detriment.  That's not entirely true.  The Republican rank-and-file increasingly tend to work together toward a common end, the preservation of liberty and capitalism.  It's an unfortunate number of their leaders that seems mired in self-interest and traditional backroom politics out of synch with their supporters.

Squad member says Fourth of July is about freedom 'for white people'.  Democratic Rep. Cori Bush disputed the Fourth of July's message of independence on Sunday, saying the holiday only represents freedom "for white people."  "When they say that the 4th of July is about American freedom, remember this:  the freedom they're referring to is for white people," Bush, a member of the left-wing "Squad," wrote on Twitter amid celebrations of the 245th Independence Day.  "This land is stolen land and Black people still aren't free."  "We know what our own freedom looks like," Bush wrote hours later in a follow-up tweet.  "End the slavery permitted under the 13th amendment.  End the War on Drugs.  End police violence.  End health care, housing, and education apartheid.  WE are the experts on our own liberation.  And we won't stop until it's won."

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The blacks want a separate Independence Day, a separate national anthem, trillions of dollars in reparations for slavery, no consequences for black crime, anti-white racism in public schools, anti-white discrimination, and centuries of "affirmative action" programs.  They stoke race-based resentment wherever possible, trying to permanently divide the country.

The Democratic Party is Naked and Afraid.  While the "defund the police" movement is unpopular with the American people, so too are other Democratic positions and policies.  A recent Rasmussen poll found that "a majority of Americans are against women having to compete against biological men in athletics."  Despite this, the Democratic Party continues to advocate for this unpopular policy.  In that same Democratic caucus conference call Representative Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) stated, "we need to not ever use the word socialist or socialism ever again."  I agree, because the Democratic Party isn't a socialist party today, but is more accurately defined by Marxism and totalitarianism.  But Spanberger's remark reinforces what I believe — America is still not a majority socialist, Marxist, or communist country.  America is still mostly conservative — the so-called "silent majority."  This silent majority is waking up, as evidenced by the increasing pushback against critical race theory, for example.

When Leftists Say They Love 'The Constitution,' They Don't Mean The Real One.  Earlier this month, a task force within the National Archives, which is responsible for stewarding our nation's original founding documents like the Declaration, released a report declaring its own rotunda, where the documents are displayed, to be structurally racist.  It called for "trigger warnings" around the displays as well as "reimagining" the rotunda to "dialogue" about the "mythologization" of the founding.  Many Americans are rightfully indignant at seeing their country and its founding principles belittled and ostracized in ways big and small like this.  Some are also wondering where it came from.  Why such a sudden and dramatic rejection of basic American ideals?  Can't we all agree on the Declaration of Independence?  This rejection of the American founding didn't come out of nowhere — it's been brewing and building for over a century.  Leftists who engage in this kind of faultfinding do have a constitution to which they proclaim fidelity, and which they believe should rule America.  It's just not the original Constitution.

Marvel celebrates July 4 weekend by having Captain America say American dream 'isn't real'.  Marvel Comics is celebrating Independence Day by having the iconic hero Captain America tell readers that the American dream "isn't real."  The first issue of "The United States of Captain America" by writer Christopher Cantwell sees Steve Rogers, the famous red, white and blue "Avenger," lament the nation's "white picket fence fallacy."

Is she watching the Antifa rioting when Trump was inaugurated, or the false flag operation on January 6?
Claire McCaskill starting 'new family tradition' of re-watching Capitol riot footage every July 4.  MSNBC political analyst and former Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill said Friday she and her family will start a new tradition this Independence Day by re-watching footage of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.  The Missouri Democrat said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that The New York Times's new video, "Day of Rage:  An In-Depth Look at How a Mob Stormed the Capitol," will become standard viewing at her family gatherings every July Fourth.  "We're going to start a new family tradition in my family," Ms. McCaskill said, according to a clip flagged by Grabien Media.  "On the Fourth of July and every Fourth of July going forward, we're going to watch that video that The New York Times put together of Jan. 6."

Obama and the Broken Nation He Made Come Of Age.  Barack Obama turns 60 over the summer.  The AARP cover with Barry posing next to a basketball and a shelf of bestselling non-fiction books he hasn't read can't be too far away.  Once the symbol of youthful hipness, the former boss of Hope and Change now lectures "young people" on what they should be doing.  His legacy is being carried forward by 78-year-old Biden and the 81-year-old Pelosi.  That's above the average age of 80 of the House Dem leadership.  The average age of the Biden cabinet is two years older than President Trump's cabinet.  The gerontocratic technocracy uses AOC as its younger foil, but she's been a stalking horse for Bernie Sanders who will hit the big 80 in the fall.  The big donors behind the American Left are even older with George Soros due to hit 90 the same month Obama gets to 60.

Democrats Get Some Really Bad News as Normal Americans Wake Up.  [Scroll down]  Meanwhile, on issues like illegal immigration and reparations (among other "social justice" crusades), there is no coming back for Democrats.  They've gone all-in and there's no stuffing the genie back in the bottle.  If they crack down on illegal border crossings, they'll lose their left flank.  If they continue the status quo, they lose the suburban center that previously killed Republicans in 2018.  Further, the pushing of racial essentialism and critical race theory is turning off a lot of people who see it as divisive pseudo-science.  Republicans are also most trusted on bread and butter issues like the economy and crime, which are things that more often than not decide elections.  Again, I don't see how the Democrats rebound on that front either.

Radical left crazies openly cheer cop killer on social media.  As if the things going on on the left couldn't get crazier, a slew of social media characters are posting cheer to man who cold-bloodedly shot a cop in the head in Daytona Beach, Florida. [...] The dynamic we see now though is not just comparable to Antifa and the Black Panthers.  It's actually one that is similar to that of spray shooters.  The maniacs do an awful act, and the Internet minions, often anonymous, cheer and egg them on, making them feel good about their crimes.  That happened with the freak who shot up the synagogue in Poway based on Jew-hate, and now it seems to be moving to cops.  The cheers are not only vile in themselves, making the criminal feel important, the other thing is that they have potential to prompt new attacks on cops as some new loser decides that he too can go from "zero to hero" with the copycat urge among this bunch is very strong.  That's how things work with spray shooters.  Now we see it with sworn cop-killers, it's a social dynamic.  Facebook does nothing to stop this so far as we know.

Buckle Up, Democrats.  The Biden Border Backlash Is Coming, and CRT Will Make It Worse.  While President Joe Biden may want to distract Americans from the border crisis and downplay the threats of Marxist critical race theory (CRT) and inflation, Americans know better.  Most Americans recognize the border crisis as a serious issue, blame Biden's policies for exacerbating it, and say Biden should return to former President Donald Trump's policies on the border.  Americans also worry about the threat of inflation and oppose CRT in schools.

Harvard poll: 80% see border disaster, want Trump closure restored, reject teaching critical race theory.  The Biden administration is failing big time with its inability to control illegal immigration, adding it to one of several issues that could doom Democrats if left unchecked.  In a new Harvard/Harris poll, an overwhelming 80% said that illegal immigration is a serious issue and one that needs more attention than what President Joe Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris are giving.  What's more, 68% said that signals from Biden's White House are encouraging illegal immigration, and 55% believe that former President Donald Trump's border closing policies should have been left in place.

Democrats — Not Republicans — Are The Radicals To Worry About.  Wikipedia has a long entry on the "radical right," but nothing on the "radical left."  Los Angeles Times reporter Jackie Calmes has a new book out subtitled "The Radicalization of the Republican Party."  CNN's Brian Stelter says that "Experts warn about the radicalizing power of right-wing media networks."  The list is endless.  Enough!  This is the mother of Big Lies!  Every day, it is the Democratic Party that is pushing an agenda more radical than yesterday.  Its agenda is comprised of critical race theory, defunding police, open borders, socialism, nationalized health care, a federal takeover of elections, extremist environmentalism, packing the Supreme Court, killing the filibuster, the Green New Deal, cancel culture.  None of these gets majority support in this country.  This isn't just a small slice of the Democratic Party, either.  Poll after poll shows that it is those who identify as Democrats who are way out of the mainstream.

Jen Psaki Contends the Remaining $1.6 Trillion In Unspent Pandemic Relief Funds Are 'Minimal'.  The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget is attempting to track the federal pandemic relief money as it gets spent.  According to their charts, out of the $900 billion authorized to be spent through administration actions, $700 billion has been allocated; out of the $5.9 trillion authorized to be spent through legislative actions, $4.3 trillion has been allocated, and out of the $6.3 trillion authorized to be spent through Federal Reserve actions, only $3.3 trillion has been allocated.  Even if we just stick to the administrative and legislative actions, that's about $1.8 trillion — not exactly chump change.

Mayor Bans Pledge Of Allegiance At Meeting, Attendees Recite It In Protest.  Silverton, Colorado, Mayor Shane Fuhrman announced that the Pledge of Allegiance would be banned at trustee meetings and faced nearly immediate backlash.  "Due to direct and indirect threats, inappropriate comments in and out of public meetings and general divisiveness and issues created in our community, we will not be reciting the Pledge of Allegiance during Town of Silverton trustee meetings," he announced during the June 14 meeting, Fox 31 News reported.  In response, attendees recited the pledge during the public comment period, FoxNews.com reported, causing the mayor to declare them out of order.

Colorado Mayor Bans The Pledge Of Allegiance At Board Meetings, Members Do It Anyway, Mayor Gets Triggered.  A dispute over the Pledge of Allegiance erupted in Silverton this week.  Mayor Shane Fuhrman suspended the practice of saying the pledge during board meetings — but Town Trustee Molly Barela questioned his power to make that change.  "Due to direct and indirect threats, inappropriate comments in and out of public meetings, and the general divisiveness this is creating in our community, we will not be doing the Pledge of Allegiance during town of Silverton board of trustee meetings," Fuhrman stated.  [Video clip]

Filtering out the riffraff:
Disney is 'pricing out loyal customers' by targeting more affluent families with $800 hotel rooms and $100 sandwiches.  Disney has been accused of pricing out loyal customers by targeting affluent families with $800 hotel rooms and $100 sandwiches at its theme parks, despite having scaled back its 'magic' since the pandemic began.  A family vacation to Disneyland — once the pinnacle of summertime for middle-class American families — will today set a family of four back more than $6,000.  With the average annual income now standing at $5,725 a month, this means a visit to the so-called 'happiest place on earth' is increasingly out of reach to the average American family.

Illinois city cancels July 4 parade over COVID-19 concerns but allows Juneteenth and Pride celebrations.  The city of Evanston, Illinois, located just north of Chicago, joined communities across the U.S. in celebrating their first in-person Juneteenth parade Saturday, but some have been left wondering why celebrations for the nation's Independence Day have been canceled.  The Evanston Fourth of July Association voted to cancel the town's Independence Day events earlier in 2020 and opt for a virtual celebration instead — citing concerns over the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.  "Based on concern for public health due to the unpredictability of the pandemic's impact, vaccination rates, and in cooperation with our local authorities, the Trustees... voted to cancel the Fun Run, Parade, Palatine Concert Band performance and Lakefront Fireworks show on July 4, 2021," the board wrote in a statement.

Evanston, Illinois holds 'Pride' and Juneteenth parades but cancels parade for Fourth of July.  Contempt for this country has been spreading from academia, where it first gained a foothold during the Vietnam War, to infect the commanding heights of our institutions.  The cities and towns that hist the most prestigious colleges and universities almost without exception are bastions of the left.  Berkeley, California, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Cambridge, Mass, and not least Evanston, Illinois, home of Northwestern University.  Evanston, Illinois made headlines recently by becoming the first city in the country to pay "reparations" to Black residents who lived there between 1919 and 1967, or who were descended from someone who did, and who "had been a victim of discrimination in housing because of policies or practices in the city in that time."  Now, it is dissing the founding of the country.

Illinois town holds Pride and Juneteenth parades, cancels July 4th celebration.  The town of Evanston, Illinois, is holding Pride and Juneteenth parades during the month of June, but canceling July 4 fireworks and Independence Day festivities.  The municipal government of Evanston had a grand announcement for its Juneteenth parade on Saturday.  While the theatrical performance will be virtual, the parade will proceed in-person as scheduled.  Residents are also invited in-person to attend post-parade celebrations outdoors for "an afternoon of art, music, food and community."

The tide is turning against the woke-liberal blob that misrules us.  The death of George Floyd has been used to push a vast array of unrelated racial policies, including the defunding of police and the teaching of left-wing critical race theory that blames every ill in society — even violence by blacks against other minorities — on "white supremacy."  In Baltimore, defunding police has led to an outright tax revolt among businesses, which see no reason to pay good money to a city that doesn't consider them worthy of protection.  Businesses in the historic Fells Point district have written the city, demanding the return of basic services like law enforcement and trash pickup before they pay any more taxes.  Meanwhile, at famed Thomas Jefferson High in Fairfax County, Va., a slate of parents opposed to critical race theory won election to the board.  One of those candidates, Harry Jackson, the first black man elected to the board, denounced how CRT is "teaching that white people are inherently racist."

Education Secretary Prioritizes Transgender Students Over Biological Girls, Does What Supreme Court Hasn't.  Americans can't say they weren't warned.  During his Senate committee confirmation hearing in February, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona affirmed his support for transgender athletes during a line of direct and intensive questioning by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.  Cardona stated, "I think that it's critically important to have education systems and educators respect the rights of all students, including students who are transgender, and that they are afforded the opportunities that every other student has to participate in extracurricular activities."  Cardona on Wednesday cemented his department's formal position on the matter, indicating that the U.S. Supreme Court's Bostock v.  Clayton County opinion extending workplace discrimination protections under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act to gay and transgender employees would likewise be applied by the Department of Education to gay and transgender students under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.

Hypocrisy of the Woke Dons.  If a thing goes without saying it goes even better when being said.  First, it should be said that the main, indeed usually the only real, target of the woke brigade is the democratic western world, primarily the U.S., the UK, and Israel.  The woke brigade claim to be attacking past and present manifestations of colonialism and slavery, but their accusations never extend to the slave trade of the Ottoman Empire, or to the oppression of the Rohingya by Burma, or Chinese crimes against humanity involving the Uyghur.  The woke attack is not only a diminution of the positive contributions of the West but has also affected the self-confidence of the West.  For example, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. ambassador to the UN since February 2021, has stated she had seen for herself how the "original sin of slavery weaved [sic] white supremacy into our founding documents and principles."  The U.S., she holds, is an imperfect union and has been since the beginning.

Why Flag Day 'Disturbs' Obama and the Dems.  Last week, the New York Times Editorial Board Member Mara Gay made the season's most notable Kinsley gaffe in her account on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" of a harrowing trip to New York City's eastern suburbs on Long Island.  "I was on Long Island this weekend visiting a really dear friend, and I was really disturbed," said Gay live on MSNBC, where she is a contributor.  "I saw, you know, dozens and dozens of pickup trucks with explicatives [sic] against Joe Biden on the back of them, Trump flags, and in some cases just dozens of American flags, which is also just disturbing because essentially the message was clear:  This is my country.  This is not your country.  I own this."  After Gay had finished recounting how she found "just disturbing" the sight of "dozens of American flags," co-host Mika Brzezinski chimed in, "Totally agree."

Ilhan, If You Don't Like It Here...  House Democrats released a statement on Wednesday night [6/9/2021] condemning Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-NY) for comparing the United States and Israel to an Islamic terrorist organization.  Only 12 Democrats condemned Omar, which is less than 6% of the total number of Democrats in the House of Representatives.  "We must have the same level of accountability and justice for all victims of crimes against humanity," Omar wrote on Twitter earlier this week.  "We have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban."  [Video clip]

Six possible reasons the Democrats want lockdowns forever.  A recent Gallup poll showed that most Americans think it's time to move on from the pandemic.  But not the Democrats.  Democrats say by a 71-29% margin that we still should not "live normal lives", but instead should "try to stay at home." That's despite the fact that the COVID death rate in America is down nearly 90%, the new cases are down about 65%, over half of Americans have been vaccinated (and over 80% of the vulnerable ones) by vaccines shown to be 95% effective, and even the redoubtable (or perhaps doubtable) Dr. Fauci says we can go out now.  So what gives?  I can suggest at least six answers to that question. [...] [#3] Maybe it's all tribal.  If conservatives think it's time to move on past COVID, then the Dems are obligated to think it's not.

Counter the Left's Race War with a Class War.  Think about it.  For the last year, Big Bossy has been telling us not to mask, to mask, to lockdown, not to lockdown, to wait for vaccination, to get vaccinated or else.  Because Science.  For the last year "our teachers" have refused to teach our kids, and now the first thing they want to do is to teach our kids Critical Race Theory.  The Bigs are pompous, incompetent, overpaid bigots.  And it's time we told them so.

NYT's Mara Gay:  Seeing Trucks with U.S. Flags 'Disturbing' — Calls for Separating 'Americanness, America from Whiteness'.  New York Times columnist Mara Gay said Tuesday [6/8/2021] on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that she noticed trucks with American flags and was "disturbed" by what she saw.  During a conversation about the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, Gay said that she also saw trucks with anti-President Joe Biden messages and Trump flags and advised that the message she got from the American flags was:  "This is my country.  This is not your country."

Democratic COVID-19 psychosis: 71% [are] not ready to get back to normal.  Despite 63.5% of all American adults having been vaccinated against the virus, 71% of Democrats want healthy people to stay at home as much as possible, according to a poll from Gallup.  This compares to 87% of Republicans who agree with the recommendation that people should now strive to lead their normal lives.  Forty-three percent of Democrats say their lives are not yet back to normal, as compared to only 24% of Republican respondents.  Apparently, Americans are also not willing to take off their face masks, which Dr. Anthony Fauci even questioned the effectiveness of early in the pandemic.  In a separate Gallup poll released Monday, 79% of respondents said they have worn their face masks in the past week, despite the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance saying face masks are no longer needed among those fully vaccinated.  The survey didn't break down the respondents between political parties.

Because They Got Away with Russiagate.  The Left's ideology actively promotes and preys upon paranoia, envy, and dependence. [...] But to believe its calumnies, one must abandon reason.  The Left believes there are more than 50 genders, but that it is you who live in an alternate reality.  The Left believes "climate change" will destroy the planet in nine years unless we adopt socialism, but it's you who live in an alternate reality.  The Left adamantly denied and censored reports COVID-19 may have escaped from a Wuhan laboratory, but it's you who live in an alternate reality.  The 2020 election was a perfectly pristine election despite elected Democratic Party officials (with the complicity of corporate robber barons) exceeding their powers to alter voting laws to tilt the field in the party's favor (they would say "fortified"), but it's you who live in an alternate reality.  The Left claims it loves America so much it wants to transform everything about it, but it's you who live in an alternate reality.

Exactly what Barack H. Obama would do:
U.S. Embassy to Holy See flies Pride flag: 'LGBTQI+ rights are human rights'.  The U.S. Embassy to the Vatican displayed a rainbow flag in celebration of Pride Month on Tuesday [6/1/2021].  "The U.S. Embassy to the Holy See celebrates #PrideMonth with the Pride flag on display during the month of June," the embassy tweeted.  "The United States respects the dignity and equality of LGBTQI+ people.  LGBTQI+ rights are human rights."  The tweet included a photo of the rainbow flag hanging outside the embassy, which is currently represented by Chargé d'Affaires Patrick Connell, ad interim, as President Biden has yet to choose a new ambassador since taking office.

U.S. Embassy to the Holy See delivers huge slap to American Catholics.  I'm not a Catholic, but I know that Catholic doctrine does not approve of homosexuality — something that is true for all of the traditional Judeo-Christian faiths.  Thankfully, modern religious doctrine does not require persecuting gays but it certainly doesn't include condoning deviations from the biological and religious norm of monogamous heterosexual relationships.  That's why the decision by the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See to fly a huge Gay Pride flag is a slap in the face to all practitioners of traditional religion in America.

Leftists Respond w/Rabid Hate to Justice Breyer's Call to Find "Common Ground".  [Justice Stephen] Breyer is saying what some Senate Democrats think, but don't actually dare to say, which is that if they really want to get things done, they could tamp down the crazy government takeover stuff like H.R. 1, drop the Jan 6 commission nonsense, and do the usual D.C. thing.  Breyer isn't worried about being primaried by AOC, he's getting as much of that treatment as the current stable of lefties can manage.  But they can still rabidly hate him on social media for dampening the fake narrative created by their media.  The attacks on Breyer, on Manchin and Sinema are part of an invisible civil war within the Democrats as lefties strive to purge any moderates and build a truly radical movement willing to do anything.  Except that voters already signaled that they don't want the Red Guard running things.  And I mean Democrat voters.  Bernie Sanders lost.  So did Elizabeth Warren.  Democrat voters picked Biden because he promised to be moderate.  Unsurprisingly he lied.

One year after the death of George Floyd, the psy-ops have triumphed.  A lot was made last week about Tuesday, May 25th being the first anniversary of George Floyd's death while in police custody.  For me, the most graphic indication of the impact of Floyd's death and its year-long over-the-top aftermath was provided by the photograph and videos of George Floyd's relatives last Tuesday outside the White House after they met with President Biden and Vice President Harris.  Right in front of the White House, family members and their attorney had their clenched fists raised and pumping in the air in a radical black power salute reminiscent of the Marxist Black Panthers of the late 1960s.

Cynthia Nixon is slammed for suggesting CVS should let people steal from store shelves rather than locking up goods.  Cynthia Nixon has been slammed for suggesting CVS should let people steal from stores rather than locking up goods like laundry detergent, claiming 'desperate people shouldn't be prosecuted'.  The former actress and failed New York gubernatorial candidate tweeted on Thursday that she had noticed her local CVS in SoHo had 'started' locking up 'basic items like clothing detergent.'  'As so many families can't make ends meet right now, I can't imagine thinking that the way to solve the problem of people stealing basic necessities out of desperation is to prosecute them,' Nixon tweeted.

Wayne Root:  The Game-Changer From My Exclusive Interview with President Donald J. Trump.  Before I get to the most important game-changer to come out of that interview, I'd like to get one thing out of the way.  Just having this interview proves how wrong Democrats, liberals and assorted Marxist fools are about America.  Most Democrats today are America-haters and national anthem kneelers.  They find only fault with America.  They see our history as negative.  They see our country as "racist."  They see an America that holds people down.  Their glass is always half empty.  My glass is always half full.  I love America.  I see American exceptionalism.  I see a country that lifts everyone up (at least everyone who wants it).  I see a country filled with opportunity and mobility.  I see the greatest country in world history, ever blessed by God.

Corporate Migration:  MSNBC Founder Demands Libs To Move To Red States.  The founder of MSNBC appeared on Morning Joe to propose a new, "radical" plan to turn red states blue by the relocation of left-leaning employees to conservative swing states by major corporations. [...] In the piece, which was explicitly partisan, Rogers said that "large corporations" ought to "support the Democratic Party" to ensure that the election fraud "narrative" and consequent voting reforms are shut down.  Stating a desire to bypass state legislatures and Congress, Rogers said he was inspired by the "great migration[s]" of black Americans from the South to the North starting in 1916.  He claimed the moves were occasioned by economic incentives and the desire to escape "[r]acism," while not mentioning that the racism in the South at the time came from Democrats.  In a post-pandemic world, Rogers claimed, it is easier than ever to have employees work online or "from home" while being relocated.  He advocated giving "incentives to people to move to Florida, to Texas, to North Carolina, to Georgia, to Arizona.

The Editor says...
The young and mobile workers already have incentives to move (away from Democrat-controlled states) to the states listed above.  If they move, it will likely be to escape the Democrats!

One-third of Americans [are] unwilling to spend $1 to fight climate change.  President Biden wants to spend in excess of $1 trillion to combat climate change, but more than one-third of Americans are unwilling to chip in a single buck.  A poll of 1,200 registered voters released Tuesday by the Competitive Enterprise Institute found that 35% were unwilling to spend any of their own money to reduce the impact of climate change, with another 15% saying they would only go as high as $10 per month.  Another 6% said they would be willing to spend between $11 and $20 per month.  At the other end of the spectrum were those who said they would part with between $901 and $1,000 per month on climate — they numbered 1%.

The Editor says...
Global warming / climate change / climate crisis is an issue that no thinking person cares about!  Only the Democrats care about it, and they only care because the talking heads on TV appear to be terrified about out-of-control hot weather ruining the Earth, beginning in only 20 years!  Maybe less!  Of course, they were saying the same thing 20 years ago, nothing happened, but the Democrats are still anxious about it.

Biden Administration Will Import Metals and Close U.S. Mines To Appease Environmental Wing of Party.  Every economic policy of the JoeBama administration benefits other nations at the cost of the U.S. middle class.  If you look at the Biden policy from a position of America's interests they get everything wrong.  However, if you look at Biden economic policy from a goal to weaken the U.S. and benefit other nations, they get everything right.  This is the exact same big picture dynamic that was present during the Obama era.  The Chicago crew of policy advisors simply hate America and everything she/we stand for.  That element of Obama's network hates 'colonialism', despises the industrial revolution, and abhors free market capitalism.  When Obama said "share the wealth" he wasn't speaking exclusively toward domestic socioeconomic policy; he was also pointing out that America needed to share wealth with other nations.  This is the ideological alignment between Barack Obama and Osama Bin Laden.

How Trump Derangement Syndrome Could Save America.  Donald Trump possessed a trait that the ruling elites ignored until it appeared he could actually win the presidency.  Trump could not only relate to and empathize with the unwashed masses, but he also thought, acted and spoke like many of them.  The possibility of having a man they perceived to be the composite of their stereotypes of average Americans occupying the White House infuriated the elites.  Trump, to them, was a doppelganger for the dimwitted rednecks from the South, the unkempt factory workers from the Midwest, the ill-educated residents of urban ghettos, the unsophisticated farmers and the vulgar over-the-road truck drivers.  Trump was also an existential threat to the American left and their decades-old blueprint for achieving political hegemony and transforming the nation into a socialist state.  After the decades' long infiltration of the bureaucracy and the education establishment that the ruling elites imperiously chose to ignore, and eight years of Obama, the left was convinced their ultimate goal was not only in reach but inevitable.

Critical Race Theory Backers: 'Our Constitution Should Be Burned'.  According to a handful of critical race theory proponents who want the controversial worldview to be taught in schools and dominate our society, reason must be rejected and the United States Constitution should be "burned."  You can see a clip of their discussion here.  In the clip, one of the CRT supporters calls for both the rejection of reason and the end of the American Constitution.  [Video clip]

Cruz Accuses 'Squad' Members of Acting as 'Press Secretaries for Hamas Terrorists'.  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Saturday accused the progressive "Squad" of acting as "press secretaries for Hamas terrorists," as he announced that he is introducing a resolution backing arms sales to Israel.  "Rep. [Ilhan] Omar accused Israel of carrying out acts of terrorism.  That is a vicious lie.  And to be honest, the Squad is acting more like the press secretaries for Hamas terrorists than they are like United States congressmen," Cruz said during an appearance on Fox News' "Justice with Judge Jeanine."  The Texas Republican was referring to a group of progressive women with a socialist agenda who became known as "the Squad," including Reps.  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.).  They have supported the "defund the police" movement, "Medicare for All," free college education, the "Green New Deal," and other socialist policies.

NYT Warns Dems:  BLM Is A Loser.  In a major story today the NYT seems to be warning Dems to back off the BLM hoax, because it's about to cost them dearly.  An unspoken subtext — because it cuts too close to the ideological heart of the left — could be that years of White Privilege and White Supremacist hate narratives from the Left are coming home to roost.  Riots?  Sky high murder rates?  It seems the NYT hasn't even heard of those aspects of the BLM phenomenon, but I'm betting everyone else has.

An aspiring congressional candidate unveils novel campaign slogan: 'Make crime illegal again'.  Washington state congressional candidate Matt Larkin is running on a tough-on-crime platform based on supporting law enforcement in an effort to "make crime illegal again" amid skyrocketing crime and failed liberal leadership in Seattle.  Larkin, a Republican who lost his bid for Washington state attorney general to the incumbent Democrat in 2020, plans to challenge sitting Democratic Rep. Kim Schrier for the seat representing the 8th District of Washington.  In an exclusive interview with Fox News, Larkin said that skyrocketing violent crime, rising homelessness and the growing number of assaults on police officers motivated him to jump into the race.

Poll: Overwhelming Majority of Voters Still Aligned with Trump Policies.  Republican voters believe former President Donald Trump represents what the Republican party needs to follow on a wide range of issues, according to a recent CBS News/YouGov poll.  For example, 89 percent believe in following Trump's example on economic issues, and 80 percent say we need to follow Trump's form of leadership.  Looking deeper, 88 percent say Trump's stance on immigration issues needs to be followed, and 73 percent of the respondents said the former president set an example on race issues.  However, when it comes to the left and the media, 69 percent said Trump set the example on how to treat the left, and 77 percent agreed with the way Trump treated the media.

Race, Gender, and Climate Change:  The Left's Holy Trinity.  We're living in a nightmarish combination of Kafka's The Trial, Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World, all rolled up into one tidy utopian package.  It's mind-numbing to see how many new causes and new victims ooze to the surface almost every day, often turning reason and science totally upside down.  You'd need a photographic memory to keep track, so it's understandable that many people — even some who consider themselves "woke" — get cancelled by the mob, completely unaware that they did or said anything wrong.  (In fact, they probably didn't.)  It will be an almost Sisyphean task to overcome the damage.  But there are signs that a growing number of people from across the political spectrum are starting to take action.  Liberal icons from past decades are standing up against the mob, concerned parents are confronting woke school boards, and newly inspired activists are standing up to elected officials at the city, county, state, and federal levels.  It's not getting much attention from the mainstream media, but that's to be expected.

History Suggests that America is Ripe for a Conservative Resurgence.  It doesn't have to be a Reagan.  It doesn't have to be Trump.  The Democrats are currently failing on a level not seen since the 1970s, and it stands to reason that Americans will make them pay for that, hopefully beginning in 2022.  All we need is someone who can tap into that patriotic vein of American exceptionalism and the boundless potential of the American individual, because if history is any measure, the hopefully short-term struggles with a President Biden may yield America's best days yet.

Does Biden Hate the Police?  You Have to Wonder with His Updated Proclamation.  Saturday concludes National Police Week of 2021.  While Biden had initially planned to fly the flags at half-mast today — which should be expected of him — he quietly changed his mind in an update to the original proclamation.  As Landon reported, this comes after the president had already canceled former President Donald Trump's plan for the "National Garden of American Heroes."

Rep. Cori Bush honors Ferguson activist known for heckling cops with 'pigs' chant.  Rep. Cori Bush, Missouri Democrat, honored in a House floor speech a deceased Palestinian-American activist known for heckling police as "pigs" and telling them he prayed for their deaths during the 2014 Ferguson protests.  Ms. Bush spoke "in memory of our brother" Bassem Masri, who died in November 2018 at age 31, praising him as "a Ferguson activist who was with us on the front lines of our uprising for justice following the police murder of Michael Brown Jr."  "So today we remember Bassem," she said in her Thursday speech.  "We remember his resistance in the face of militarized police occupation, as a St. Louisan and a Palestinian.  We lost him to a health crisis, but we remember his words today.  Until all our children are safe, we will continue to fight for our rights in Palestine and in Ferguson."

Energy Secretary Granholm just can't suppress her smiles over the gasoline shortages from the Colonial Pipeline shutdown.  Jennifer Granholm sure doesn't look too upset over the impact of the shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline on gasoline and other energy supplies. [...] Don't you realize it's good for you to learn to get along without fossil fuels?  Did you realize that if you drive an electric car, this wouldn't be a problem?  Watch as a reporter's question on whether the shutdown would "speed up" the transition to green energy yields utterly` inappropriate (and chilling, if you think about it) smiles from Granholm:  [Photo]  [Tweet]  Sacrifices are going to have to be made, and it's the little people who must make them.  Don't expect Granholm to take the bus to work or swear off private jets.  And don't call what's going on a "gasoline shortage"!  That's too reminiscent of Jimmy Carter.  Call it a "supply crunch"!

Liberal Attorney's Odd Notion That the First Amendment May Not Apply to Fox.  As we reported earlier, some in liberal media have been calling for restrictions on the free speech rights of Fox News.  These folks are about as far from "liberal" as you can be in terms of the classical meaning of the word.  Journalist Glenn Greenwald lit into GQ's Julia Ioffe for suggesting that Fox News' First Amendment rights should be curtailed.  "I cannot stress enough what a civil liberties crisis it is that the leading advocates of censorship in the US are liberal journalists:  the same people whose duty is to champion the First Amendment... demand its gutting," Greenwald continued.  "And look how much they worship and revere "authorities."

White House Occupant Reads Teleprompter, Desperately Attempting to Spin Horrific Policy Outcomes.  The White House occupant appeared today [5/10/2021] to deliver remarks on some key issues that are catastrophic to the long-term goals of the leftist administration.  First, let's be clear; there's no-way the Chicago control agents would allow the installed occupant to speak on any issue, publicly, that was not a direct and measurable threat to their long-term goals.  The remarks today by Joe Biden are carefully scripted to diffuse political damage that is pending as a direct outcome of the executed policies. [...] The bottom line is simple:  The Democrats can see a political backlash coming that is going to overwhelm them.  No amount of spin or manipulative talking points will change the outcome of the reality people are feeling.  Massive increases in gas prices combined with massive inflation is the exact policy outcome from Jimmy Carter.

Larry Kudlow:  The left is trying to destroy America's institutions.  Personally, I think Americans really still love the U.S. military and our police force no matter what the crazies say.  But between critical race theory, cancel culture, systemic racism, and the end of history, the left is trying to do great damage to our institutions, including, by the way, intimidating juries when it comes to police trials.

The Democratic Party finds a new but shaky faith in corporate free speech.  Of course, Democrats insist they are not attacking free speech, just combating "disinformation."  After all, they say, private companies have every right to control speech — unless you are, say, a bakery opposed to preparing a cake for a same-sex wedding, or a company contributing to political causes.  The current mantra defending Facebook's corporate speech rights seems strikingly out of sync with years of Democrats and political activists demanding the curtailment of such rights.  When Masterpiece Cakeshop in Colorado refused on religious grounds to make a cake for a same-sex wedding, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) denounced the bakery's claim of free speech:  "It was never about a cake — it's about making sure no one has a license to discriminate against LGBTQ+ Americans." [...] Notably, Warren felt that one company (Masterpiece Cakeshop) can be forced to speak while another corporation (Facebook) should be able to stop others from speaking.  When Facebook barred Trump, Warren declared:  "I'm glad that Donald Trump is not going to be on Facebook.  Suits me."  House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) also celebrated and added:  "Facebook must ban him.  Which is to say, forever."

Mickey Mouse Goes Woke and Customers Don't Like It.  The Walt Disney Corporation has ordered all headquarters employees to attend seminars that inject critical race theory, "systemic racism," "white privilege," and "white fragility" into their training.  The way that City Journal's Christopher Rufo describes what's contained in the whistleblower documents he received from several Disney employees suggests the training regimen is designed to elicit guilt and shame from white employees while falsifying history.  In truth, it's beyond belief.  Disney's theme parks may be known as "The Happiest Place on Earth," but you have to wonder for how long.

NYC veterans fume over parade lockout after pot-smokers get permit to march.  Mayor de Blasio is refusing to allow a group of military veterans to march on Staten Island on Memorial Day — after welcoming public pot smokers to puff their way down Broadway in last week's Cannabis Parade.  "It's a slap in the face," Jamie Gonzalez, 57, a Marine infantryman who saw combat in Iraq during Operation Desert Storm, told The [New York] Post.  Gulf War vets like Gonzalez were set to be given special honors in Staten Island's 102nd annual Memorial Day Parade this year to mark the 1991 conflict's 30th anniversary — until the city pulled the plug.

The Disney Corp. has taken a deep dive into race hatred.  Going back to the late 1920s, every single child raised in America has intersected in some way with products from Walt Disney:  We've watched the movies and TV shows, sung the songs, worn the clothes, and visited the theme parks.  Through it all, Disney stood for wholesome family entertainment.  That is no longer the case.  Disney is a hardcore leftists corporation that is pushing its politics on children and training its employees to be white-hating racists or self-loathing white people.  It's time to give up Disney.

New Jersey Police Officer Fired For Calling BLM Protesters "Terrorists".  We have been discussing the termination of public employees and others for their postings on social media or public displays.  The latest case is out of New Jersey where former Hopewell Township police officer Sara Erwin was fired recent over a June 2020 posting on Facebook in which she referred to Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters as "terrorists."  There remains an uncertain line of what political or social views are tolerated and what are barred on social media.  Indeed, Sgt. Mandy Gray was suspended and demoted for simply liking the June 2020 post.  Gray was the first female officer hired in Hopewell Township and became the first female sergeant in 2019, according to NJ.com.  Erwin insists that she posted the statement after she and her colleagues were faced with violent protests and family members who were traumatized by images on television of officers being attacked.

Anderson Cooper Hosts Jeopardy... Sets Record For Lowest Ratings Of Any Guest Host In Show's History.  Looks like Sony Pictures Television won't be asking Anderson Cooper to permanently take up the Jeopardy mantle any time soon.  The silver-haired CNN anchor pulled the least viewers of any guest host since Alex Trebek died of pancreatic cancer last November at age 80. In fact, Cooper scored the smallest audience of any guest host in the show's history.  According to ratings information obtained by The Wrap, with the 53-year-old Cooper at the helm, the long-running series dropped 7% from the week before when Green Bay Packers' QB Aaron Rogers stood behind the iconic podium.  Even Dr. Oz, who Variety columnist Daniel D'Addario accused of giving the show a black eye, attracted a bigger audience — putting up a 5.2 share in his first week to Cooper's 5.1.

We're Not the Crazy Ones.  Since a good pocket definition of "insanity" is "out of touch with reality," each side thus thinks the other is literally insane.  You can see this play out daily on social media, as both sides shake their heads in stunned disbelief at the other's inexplicable antics, which to them seem "crazy."  In this context, that's not merely a pejorative.  Given this state of affairs, how can conservatives be sure we're not the crazy ones?  How can we know our version of reality is correct, reflecting the world as it really is?  That's a legitimate question.  We conservatives tend to be naturally reflective and introspective, recognizing a moral and intellectual obligation to be honest with ourselves and avoid self-delusion.  Moreover, about half the country is now arrayed against us, including the corporate media, Hollywood, the sports world, legions of bureaucrats, and even many of our own (former) friends and family members.  Under such constant bombardment from the left, it's natural to occasionally question ourselves.

Austin voters approve proposition aimed at reinstating public camping ban.  Austin voters have approved Proposition B, which aims to reinstate the public camping ban that was reversed in July 2019.  The results were 57% to 43%, with the majority voting to approve the proposition.  The camping ban makes it illegal to camp in any public area not designated by the Parks and Recreation Department; to sit or lie on a public sidewalk or sleep outdoors in and near the downtown area and the area around the University of Texas campus; and to panhandle at specific hours and locations.

Austin, TX voters overwhelmingly reject propositions pushed by progressives.  There are signs that the left has created a backlash by overplaying its hand.  Even in a stronghold of the left like Austin, Texas, where in 2019 homeless people were allowed to erect their tents on city-owned land, including parks and sidewalks, thanks to the progressive-dominated city council.  All the problems any sane person would predict started happening immediately.  And that led to a voter initiative to reinstate the camping ban, Proposition B.

'If You Need Wokeness, Just Go Listen To NPR': James Carville Doubles Down On Democrats' Problem.  Democratic strategist James Carville doubled down Saturday on Democrats' wokeness problem that he says could cost the party dearly in 2022 and 2024.  Carville joined CNN's Michael Smerconish to discuss the issue, and he argued that the fixation on wokeness was preventing Democrats from reaching real people and costing them voters.  [Video clip]

CNN host W. Kamau Bell wonders if black people should still believe America is 'worth fighting for'.  CNN's "United Shades of America" host W. Kamau Bell wondered aloud during an interview Friday whether blacks should continue to believe that the United States is worthy of them shedding their blood to defend.  Speaking to SiriusXM host Dean Obeidallah, the two were discussing recent police-involved shootings of black suspects in the wake of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin being found guilty of murdering George Floyd during a trial last month.  In his comments, Bell first expressed sympathy for black families who have lost loved ones but then vented about what he appears to believe is a problem mostly unique to black suspects and police.

The Democrats' Increasing Struggle with Wokeness Is Just Another Sign of the Political Realignment.  Fox News is reporting that the Democrats' struggle with wokeness is expanding.  It started directly after the 2020 election with losses in the House that many purple district Democrats attributed to the radical proposals of the Squad, especially around policing and the summer riots.  These more moderate Democrats, responsible for the bulk of the blue wave in 2018, may be in for a startling comeuppance again in 2022.  The radical proposals are now coming from President Biden, and Americans are taking note.  Biden's 100-day approval numbers showed the only majority support his policies have gained are in response to COVID-19.  The administration's scores on race relations, taxes and spending, China policy, and gun policy are all underwater with Americans.

Working-class people of color hate the riots the lefty elite keeps cheering.  When Americans fight about race or culture, the fight is almost always really about social class.  And that shows up in today's discussions about riots and policing.  The Daily Caller recently sent a video correspondent to Brooklyn Center, Minn., scene of many police-shooting-related riots, and to Washington, DC, home of America's ruling class, and asked people in both places when and if rioting was justified.  The answers differed sharply.  In Brooklyn Center, where the destruction was visible first-hand, respondents (nearly all black men of various ages) overwhelmingly opposed rioting.  An African-American man in an "Army Veteran" hat commented:  "We're human, and we want to be treated with respect," but we also need to show "respect."

Joe Biden's 100 Days: partisan, negligent, and un-American.  Biden has refused to reach across the aisle while moving forward with more than 60 executive actions, including 40 executive orders — a modern-day record.  On his first day in office, Biden overturned President Trump's "Remain in Mexico" policy, which required asylum-seekers to apply before entering the United States.  This single change essentially created America's border crisis, the worst in two decades.  Some Biden actions targeted the life of the unborn, religious freedom, and traditional families, while others focused on gender identity and transgender military service.  The Biden administration was also quick to rejoin the Paris Agreement, which remains legally nonbinding for the world's leading polluters, such as China and India.  Then there's the issue of gun control, which Biden is weaponizing to bring more legal cases against firearms dealers and manufacturers, while expanding federal oversight of assault-style firearms.  Reframing the right to bear arms as a "gun violence public health epidemic," the Biden administration is treading all over the Second Amendment, which remains overwhelmingly popular among American citizens who believe in freedom and liberty.

'Worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War!' Can Biden really be this dumb?  Whoa!  Joe Biden thinks that that relatively mild, wholly unarmed breach of the Capitol was the "worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War!" How historically ignorant are his speechwriters?  They seem to have forgotten about the assassination of Lincoln, WWI, Pearl Harbor and WWII, the Kennedy assassination, 9/11!  Did they really think that line would resonate with anyone with a modicum of historical knowledge?  While the entire speech was banal, this was the most egregious spoken line.  That an American president would utter such an unspeakable lie is the measure of this man.  He is a fool.  Surely, he knows better but he and his handlers believe that most Americans are so dumb, so uninformed, they will accept such a lie as true.  That one line tells us everything we need to know about who Biden and the cabal running him are; they absolutely believe the American people are not only simpleminded but virtual toddlers who will believe anything they say.

Poll: Democrat-Led Cancel Culture Is A Big Turnoff For Voters In New Jersey, Virginia.  Swing voters in New Jersey and Virginia are fed up with Democrats pushing cancel culture, a new poll from the Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC) suggests.  The survey of 656 "high propensity persuadable voters" located in two districts in New Jersey and Virginia found that after RSLC digital advertisements targeted Democrats for promoting cancel culture, citizens were more likely to vote for Republican candidates.

The Democratic Party is Now America's Extremist Party.  The Democratic Party is now an extremist organ waging a fierce cold civil war to seize power and eviscerate America as founded and upend and erase its exceptional culture.  The party is saturated with Marxist sensibilities, ideas, and motivations.  Marxism is alien and hostile.  It's fundamentally anti-American.  Its worldview, strategies, and tactics are furnished in an endless stream by radical leftist academics, who have dominated our colleges and universities for decades now.  But the Democrats' destination isn't necessarily a Marxist state, not in its purest form.  It could be corporatism or fascism or variations.  Let's hope we thwart Democrats' aspirations so we never know.  As of the 2020 elections, Democrats have abandoned the middle ground.  They've been moving steadily left throughout the 2000s.  The Republican and Democrat parties traditionally sought to govern from the middle, a little right or a little left.  But the middle has ceased to serve the Democrats' aims.

Democrats Blaming Everyone but Themselves.  [Scroll down]  The current example is the demonization of law enforcement along with calls for police departments to be abolished, as the harpies of "The Squad" demanded in response to the recent death of Daunte Wright in Minnesota.  But police defunding only affects you and me.  While the Squad points a finger at us, their three fingers are pointing back at themselves, to the tune of the $32,000 they spent on private security for themselves while championing defunding the police.  Democrats tell us that law enforcement is evil, yet earlier this year Congress surrounded itself with a fortress of fences and troops.  We should be on our own in a cop-less world, the message goes, but not elected officials, confiscating our money via taxes to keep themselves safe.

Leo Terrell:  The far-left 'has declared war on white Americans and police officers'.  Democrats appeared to become more radical in their intolerance campaign against white people and cops this week.  At least two prominent black leaders spoke out about the Democrats' apparent disdain for white people and cops, likely to the dismay of Rep. Maxine Waters, who recently urged protesters to "get more confrontational."  The intolerance for white people and cops in general seems to have been a growing trend over the past year but Democrats really showed their true colors by condemning a police officer this week who many argue made the right move as he was forced to make a split-second decision to shoot a knife-wielding teenage girl to prevent her from stabbing another girl to death in Columbus, Ohio.

How do Democrats ever get elected to national office?  Cheating now leaps to mind, but, other than that?  Their policies fly in the face of the beliefs and values of a distinct and measurable majority of Americans.  But they don't even care about the poll numbers.
  •   Most Americans are adamantly against defunding the police, African Americans included.  Most Americans are against Democrat plans to pack the Supreme Court.
  •   Most Americans are against leaving their border(s) open and rewarding those who choose to come here illegally by giving them free goods and services.
  •   Most Americans are against the concept and practice of unlimited immigration.
  •   At least a slight majority of Americans realize that abolishing the oil, gas, and coal industries and enacting the Green New Deal will destroy their nation's economy and dramatically worsen their lives — and those of their descendants.  And:
  •   Most Americans do not believe man-caused global warming/climate change is an existential threat to their country or the planet as a whole.
  •   The large majority of Americans are against late-term and "after-birth" abortions.

Study: Young White Liberals More Likely to Have Mental Health Problems.  Evie magazine unpacked analysis of a Pew Research Center survey published last year, and subsequently arrived at the compelling possibility that science is telling us left-wing ideology and mental illness are correlated.  Andrew Stiles at the Washington Free Beacon drew attention Monday [4/19/2021] to the Evie magazine piece, published last week, showing the March 2020 Pew Research data revealed white liberals are more likely than other ideological/racial groups to have been diagnosed with a mental health disorder.

The Democrats' Divide and Conquer Policy is on Steroids.  Evidence of a "cold" American civil war has been playing out in the streets of America for the last year and the reality is it's been percolating for decades.  From the 1999 WTO protests to the hordes calling George Bush a Nazi to Occupy Wall Street, the hyperbole and violence have been ratcheting up for years.  The catalyst that put us on the path to today was Barack Obama's nomination.  Not because of Obama himself, but rather because of the cudgel Democrats crafted from his race.  Anyone who opposed Obama's policies was racist.  Suddenly, conservatives who reiterated policies they'd supported for decades were racists as was anyone who opposed Democrat policies.  But race was only the beginning.  If you opposed gay marriage:  Homophobic.  Opposed women in combat:  Sexist.  Supported the police:  Fascist.  Such was the beginning of the journey that brings us to America circa 2021.

Joe Biden's flavors of the weak.  As Joe Biden nears the end of his first 100 days, we can attest to the truth of Yogi Berra's dictum that "you can learn a lot by watching."  Americans have watched and learned that No. 46 set out to be the polar opposite of No. 45, and is succeeding wildly.  From border enforcement to Iran to taxes and so much more, Biden is defining himself as the ultimate NeverTrumper.  If Trump was for it, Biden is against it.  Everything else is detail.  Not surprisingly, the approach is proving to be popular with his own party and the left writ large.  But there are exceptions, with a recent poll showing the president's handling of the border crisis he created winning approval from just 29 percent of the country.  Ouch.

Poll: Most Americans Oppose Woke Corporations.  An NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll released Thursday [4/15/2021] found that a majority of Americans oppose woke corporations influencing everyday life.  The poll asked registered voters if they support or oppose American companies using their public role, position, or events to influence political, cultural, or social change.  The findings show that over half (58 percent) oppose any type of corporation using its power to influence any type of political, cultural, or social change across the country.  They also show that 35 percent did support the efforts by woke corporations, while seven percent were unsure how to answer.

Coca-Cola says it's 'time to find common ground' on voting measures after pressure from the Right.  Coca-Cola, whose CEO denounced the Georgia voting bill, is now striking a conciliatory tone after coming under pressure from conservatives.  The soda giant, which is based in Atlanta, was absent from a list of more than 500 corporations and individuals that signed a statement condemning any election legislation that would "restrict" voters from having "an equal and fair opportunity to cast a ballot."  The missive was placed as a two-page Wednesday [4/14/2021] ad in the New York Times and Washington Post, with the effort being organized by the Black Economic Alliance.  Coca-Cola said in a statement to the Washington Examiner on Wednesday that the company "had not seen the letter" initiated by the alliance but is "certainly open to hearing their perspective."  It said it has supported the right to vote and that it will assess how to support voting rights.

The strange death of the Democrats.  The Democratic party is dying.  That may be hard to believe since Democrats control both houses of Congress and won the last presidential election with a record 81 million votes.  But the exiguous margins of their hold on the House and Senate, with fewer than 51 percent of the seats in either chamber, tell another story, as does the desperation of their struggle to abolish the filibuster and federalize election law.  Those policy aims are of a piece with dreams of packing the Supreme Court — and packing the Senate too, by admitting tiny Democratic bastions as new states.  The left wing of the party even assails the constitutional principle behind the Senate itself, the idea of equal representation of the states.  Simply put, Democrats know they can no longer win by the old agreed-upon rules, constitutional or otherwise.

The Editor says...
Exactly.  And "the old agreed-upon rules" include:
    Don't steal the election with counterfeit votes and rigged voting machines,
    Don't rely on the news media to spread propaganda and suppress the truth,
    Don't flood the country will illegal aliens
    Don't just print money and pass it around to everybody, and
    Don't send the country into a panic over a virus that's not extraordinarily dangerous.

Disney workers now able to show off tattoos, wear gender-neutral costumes.  Disney recently updated its dress code for employees at its theme park, including gender-inclusive hairstyles and visible tattoos.  In a blog post, Chairman of Disney Parks, Experiences, and Products Josh D'Amaro said the company is making changes and "creating a place where everyone is welcome.  D'Amaro announced that Disney made the changes to remain relevant in today's workplace and create a culture of belonging. [...] The new policy allows for gender-inclusive hairstyles, jewelry, differing nail styles, varying costume choices, and appropriate visible tattoos.

The Editor says...
You go right ahead and pay $235 (and up) to get into the Disney amusement parks, so you can be greeted by a variety of ghastly tattoos and some confused young man who thinks he's Cinderella.  Is that supposed to be wholesome family entertainment?

Disney Adds New Core Value:  Wokeism.  On Tuesday, April 13, Disney Chairman Josh D'Amaro posted a blog on the Disney Parks website titled "A Place Where Everyone is Welcome," because apparently they weren't very welcoming before, despite having Gay Days for 30 years.  Right off the bat, you should have got the hint to grab a barf bucket for the spiel about "taking action to create meaningful change."  The announcement included a video and narrative to explain the new addition to the longstanding tradition of The Four Keys:  Inclusion.  The first four keys in which Disney has been built upon for more than 65 years are safety, courtesy, show and efficiency.  But, to no one's surprise, after a worldwide meeting with woke cast members and more than 100 total ideas brought forward for improvement, the honor of the fifth key was given to inclusion.  You still holding onto that barf bucket?  The emphasis on inclusion supposedly provides for "more representation and accountability" and instills more inclusive attractions, supplier diversity, adaptive costumes and inclusive products.  D'Amaro also encouraged showing off tattoos to "remain relevant in today's workplace, but also enable our cast members to better express their cultures and individuality at work."

9 of Hollywood's Biggest Acts of Hypocrisy:  China, #MeToo, Guns, Climate Change, and More.  When they're not making movies, TV shows, or albums, left-wing Hollywood elites can be found lecturing average Americans on how to live their lives.  Gun control is imperative, lockdowns are necessary, and burning fossil fuels is wrong.  Except when they do it, of course.  Hollywood hypocrisy comes in many flavors, and the varieties keep growing as more celebrities attempt to expand their social media reach (and their box-office bankability) through progressive activism.  Last movie was a flop?  Your Netflix sitcom got canceled after one season?  Career redemption can be yours if you worship at the altar of woke politics.

Who are the racists?  Who, again, is a racist?  We hear about racists a lot these days.  Racists are supposedly all over.  Might they be people like Bill Gates who believe that requiring the right answer and showing your work in math are an example of white supremacy and racism?  Or the majority of people who believe that all races are capable of getting the right answer and showing their work, and that in order to succeed, they must learn that the correct answer is the only right answer?  Is it they?  Or is it the party that continually claims that it is racist to require an ID to vote?  Or the other party that knows that every person old enough to vote is capable of getting a photo ID and must have one in order to follow all the rules that the government and businesses require?  The party that is willing to destroy minority businesses in Georgia and elsewhere with lies about voting laws?  Or the party that wants all businesses to succeed and believes that all people who are legally eligible have a right to vote?  The party that has continued to keep businesses and schools closed, that is especially harmful to the poor, minorities, and women?  Or the party that strives to get them open as fast as they can?

Biden's Chamber of Confected Hatreds.  It is all becoming absurd.  The group photograph of the Biden cabinet has 17 people sitting masked and socially distant despite the fact that they have all been vaccinated.  The idea that they might transmit or be afflicted by the coronavirus is simply goofy.  The cover of Vogue magazine is featuring a seriously overweight African American woman.  This is not Vogue and what is she doing there?  Police invade churches to remove socially distant unmasked mothers of newborn children.  CBS simply lies about Florida governor Ron DeSantis, is exposed, and then repeats the story.  A nerve-racking and obnoxious black-masked woman calls for "respect" and "dignity" in a grating voice from U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) — by which she means that he must not attempt to photograph from his cell phone desperately overcrowded conditions in holding facilities for unaccompanied minors illegally crossing the southern border.

Cancel Culture and Identity Politics are the Road to a One-Party State.  America is at war.  This time the enemy isn't on some distant battlefield or hiding in a barren cave thousands of miles away.  Instead, the enemy is not only here, but it's ruling over us.  That's the powerful message of David Horowitz's latest book, The Enemy Within:  How a Totalitarian Movement is Destroying America.  This isn't just a warning, it's the reality around us.  "Americans are more divided today than at any time since the Civil War," Horowitz writes.  "In the course of the anti-Trump wars, we have become two nations with little shared ground on the core issues that previously defined us."  And it's the Left that brought us to this state, not just in the last five years, but going all the way back to the fundamental strategy of its divisive politics.

Globalist dogma means the end of America, and for many that's the goal.  John Fonte has written an excellent article called "End Nationalism, End America."  For many on the left, that's the point.  They may dislike nationalism, but what they really can't stand is America.  Their target isn't the nation state; it's our nation state.  That's why they want to cede as much of our sovereignty as they can get away with to international bodies. [...] Left-liberals don't just dislike American culture, people, institutions, and mores.  They dislike our Constitution. [...] Ceding sovereignty to international bodies is a way to negate the Constitution.

We Have Met the Enemy.  The strange figures known as Wokists currently destroying America aren't just reprises of earlier enemies.  They represent something rather new.  The political cult of Wokism combines the worst aspects of every political cult in history.  Whether they realize it or not, Wokists themselves combine the lunatic loyalty of the Manson family with the hollow pseudo-joy of Jonestown residents, the racism of National Socialists, the inhumanity of Mao Tse-Tung, the bratty tantrums of Veruca Salt, the nihilism of Bakunin-style anarchists, the totalitarianism of Stalin's Soviet Union, the child torture and sacrifice of the Mayans, the derangement of Heaven's Gate followers, the sadistic violence of the Jacobins, and the ruthless control-freakism of the current Chinese Communist Party.  Now add to that noxious syncretic blend the Wokist use of powerful communication technologies to shape narratives and meta-narratives, destroy opponents, and recruit new converts, and you've got yourself a thing.

Biden White House Easter remarks included zero mentions of Jesus.  President Biden, a Roman Catholic, did not mention Jesus or Christ a single time in his Easter remarks on Monday [4/5/2021].  The nation celebrated Easter Sunday this past weekend, a time around America where Christians — such as Biden — celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.  Traditionally, the president gives an Easter address on that Sunday to commemorate the holiday and Jesus.  Biden's most recent predecessors, former President Barack Obama and former President Donald Trump, had each mentioned Jesus Christ in their messages.  Biden, however, broke this streak on Sunday in his remarks from the White House Blue Room balcony.

Mayor of North Las Vegas says he is switching allegiance to the Republicans as the Democrats have become 'card-carrying socialists' and 'elitists'.  The mayor of North Las Vegas has ditched the Democratic Party, accusing them of deserting work-class Americans and becoming the party of the 'elitists'.  John Lee, 65, who has been a Democrat since his first state election victory in 1994, said he was switching allegiance to the Republican Party as he can no longer abide the direction his former party is going.  Lee told Fox & Friends on Tuesday morning [4/6/2021] that the Nevada Democratic leadership was now dominated by 'card-carrying' socialists.

Failed Oregon Governor [...] Sympathizes With Antifa Murderer While Condemning Trump Federal Officers.  Appearing on Democracy Now with the haggard old hippy woman, Oregon governor Kate Brown (D) went on a bizarre tangent where she appears to side with the violent rioters who ravaged Portland for several months straight last year.  Brown shifted the blame to Trump, vowed to use local law enforcement to "eradicate" Trump "forces," and seemingly sympathizes with Michael Reinoehl, the antifa terrorist who murdered a Trump supporter in downtown Portland who later died in a shootout with the feds.

Joe Biden says, "getting vaccinated is a moral obligation."  It won't be long until he leaves out "moral"?
Donald Trump and Joe Biden's Easter Messages Reveal Everything You Need to Know About the Presidents.  Donald Trump and Joe Biden gave messages to Americans on Easter, the Christian religious holiday that celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ.  The 45th President of the United States gave the salutation "Happy Easter" and then decried that he lost the U.S. election. [...] Joe Biden, on the other hand, delivered an Easter Message that preached about the coronavirus, mentioning it 7 times, but failed to mention Jesus Christ even once.  "We share the sentiments of Pope Francis who said that getting vaccinated is a moral obligation, one that can save your life and the lives of others," Biden said.

DNC chair says party [has been damaged] by movements like defund the police.  The head of the U.S. Democratic National Committee has admitted the party's brand has suffered 'damage', and argued that Democrats could be more attractive to rural voters with better messaging.  'I think what we have to do as a party is battle the damage to the Democratic brand,' DNC chair Jamie Harrison, who ran against Senator Lindsey Graham in South Carolina last year, said on Daily Beast's New Abnormal podcast.  'I experienced it on my own race, Lindsey and his crew of dark money effectively labeled me as somebody who believed in defunding the police,' he continued.

Questions The Media Should Ask President Biden About His Call For Economic Sanctions On Georgia.  Given that the United States President has, for the first time in American history, called for an economic boycott and economic sanctions of a member state over dutifully and legally passed legislation, a reader passed along questions he'd like to see the White House press ask of the administration they claim to cover.  The questions refer to President Joe Biden's call for an economic boycott of Georgia over its decision to pass SB202, which will put into place mild election integrity reforms.  Q:  Seeing that over the past year, almost 50 percent of small, black-owned business in America have closed for good and seeing how African Americans make up 55 percent of Atlanta, 54 percent of Savannah, and 55 percent of Augusta (where The Masters is played), does President Biden still think calling for an economic boycott and punishment by private companies on all Georgia citizens is a good idea?  And will he now call for boycotts of The Masters, the Atlanta Braves, the Atlanta Falcons, and the Atlanta Hawks along with UGA & GA Tech football?  Why or why not?

The Editor says...
Hmmm... "The Masters."  An event that happens every year in Georgia.  Is that the next entity to be called racist, after being innocuous for decades?

The Democrat war against the white middle class.  The left in this country is engaged in an all-out assault on white, middle-class America.  Don't take my word for it.  Saul Alinsky, the official Marxist Democrat party tactician, wrote in Rules for Radicals that "organization for action will now and in the decade ahead center upon America's white middle class.  That is where the power is.  When more than three-fourths of our people from both the point of view of economics and self-identification are middle class, it is obvious that their action or inaction will determine the direction of change.  Large parts of the middle class, the 'silent majority,' must be activated."

Do you know any Biden voter who thought they were voting for this?
Joe Biden Displays Transgender Flags at the White House to Celebrate 'Day of Visibility'.  President Joe Biden will display transgender flags at the White House on Wednesday [3/31/2021] to celebrate Transgender Day of Visibility, according to an official.  White House Director of Political Strategy and Outreach Emmy Ruiz announced Biden would display the pastel pink and blue and transgender flag at the White House. [...] Biden also released a statement Wednesday to celebrate Transgender Day of Visibility.  "Transgender Day of Visibility recognizes the generations of struggle, activism, and courage that have brought our country closer to full equality for transgender and gender non-binary people in the United States and around the world," Biden's statement read.

Democrats Had Sharpest Decline in Church Membership.  In 2019, I noted that a majority of white Democrats had become non-Christian. [...] That was a Pew survey.  The Gallup survey for church membership now is even worse recording the sharpest drop in membership among Democrats.  20 years ago, 71% of Democrats were members of a church.  A decade later, in the Obama years, it fell to 60% and is now down to 46%.  That's the sharpest drop of any demographic group and a quite striking one.  While religious affiliation has dropped across the board, the collapse among Democrats is striking.

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What kind of a church would a lying earth-worshipping baby-killing socialist election-stealing gay-marriage Democrat attend anyway?  It would have to be a place where they'll tell you everything you want to hear and nothing that you don't want to hear.  Several come to mind immediately.

Bottom Line:  Democrats are Afraid of You.  I'm having a problem deciding whether the Biden administration is stupid or evil or just flat-out afraid of us Commoners.  And then I realized that it's all three.  Here's why.  Our liberal friends never imagined that a Trump could happen.  Nothing in their world prepared them for him.  So what happens when you are confronted by something completely unexpected?  You stop dead in your tracks. [...] Should Dems ignore Trump as a flash in the pan?  Should they figure he represented a few dumb deplorables?  Or should they treat him as an existential danger?  We know what happened.  The Dems chose Door Number Three and embarked on a mission to destroy Trump and everything he represented.

Communist Party USA Affirms Loyalty to Beijing.  It's the 1930s all over again.  American communists are now treating the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) with the same slavish reverence once reserved for Stalin and the mighty Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU).  The Communist Party USA (CPUSA), once shamelessly subservient to the CPSU, has now completely transferred its loyalties to the CCP.  On March 10, a high-level delegation from the CPUSA met with senior CCP officials in Beijing.  According to an article on the CPUSA website, the International Department of the CPUSA and the International Commission of the Central Committee of the CCP "held a bilateral meeting to celebrate and discuss the 100th anniversary" of the CCP.  Los Angeles-based Rossana Cambron, national co-chair of the CPUSA, and Houston, Texas, comrade Alvaro Rodriguez, the party's International Secretary, led the U.S. delegation.

The Democrat Party Has Declared War on America.  The American Left and its wholly owned subsidiary, the Democrat party, has declared war on America by openly and ruthlessly attacking American society, its norms and foundational principles.  While they previously had been somewhat restrained in their efforts to transform the nation, any pretense of subtlety has now been abandoned.  Consequently, their asinine and self-indulgent theories and totalitarian tactics are on display for all to see.  Yet this coterie of the credulous does not grasp the irrational absurdity of many of their cultural and societal pronouncements.  Now that they control Congress and have a questionably elected and addled dissembler in the White House, these jaw-dropping policies are center stage.  It is little wonder that an increasingly flabbergasted citizenry, as well as many nations throughout the world, are beginning to question what sort of future is in store for the United States.

The American Police State Is Now Forming.  The image of the new wall or fence with razor wire on top that now surrounds the Capitol has been floating across the screen of my mind since it was erected.  Was it erected merely as a response to the horrible events of Jan. 6, and the fear of a right-wing uprising against the anti-Trump Democrats?  Recently, this writer had a breakthrough and understood that this wall is actually an austere reminder that we have entered into a new phase of American history:  the American police state.  The bombast against Trump-supporters now nicknamed "domestic terrorists"; the marching of Guam national Guardsmen to the office of Marjory Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) as a demonstration of the legitimacy of Guam as a U.S. entity; the rapid overturning of and de-legitimizing of all Trump policies both domestic and foreign; the emplacement of a transsexual as a higher up in the Health and Human Services Department; the encouragement of a "re-imagining" of police work in our major cities; the non-enforcement of federal laws pertaining to border security and legal entry into the USA; and the racial messages about statues, American history, the teaching of American history, and the need to overturn American society and its traditions are not merely challenges and upheavals to be dealt with.

Why The Oligarchs Fear Christianity.  Gab has been banned from three different banks over the course of the past three weeks.  We operate a legal US business. [...] Gab is the test case for the oligarchs, they will soon start attacking churches and Christian organizations in the same way that Gab has been persecuted for nearly five years now.  Perhaps this secession will become geographic next.  Time will tell, but personally I'm mentally prepared for it.  We didn't choose this, the psychopathic oligarchs in the American regime did.  We will gladly embrace it and no longer associate with wickedness and their death cult of communism and critical theory.  They can keep their drag queen story hours, 87 genders, degeneracy, moral depravity, and endless chaos.  We choose our humanity, freedom, order, and Jesus.  This is, of course, exactly why those in power are attacking Gab.  Tens of millions of Christians are using Gab's services every month to unite and access an uncensored free flow of information that can't be found anywhere else on the internet.

The Culture Curators Want To Think For You.  Many intellectuals in the United States frequently toss around the word "dictatorship" or "dictator" about political parties they don't like, and with such abandon, it is now deemed normal in some circles to use the terms without irony, primarily when referring to the Republican Party.  In their zeal to dismantle conservatism, they miss the true dictator in our country.  They are our cultural curators.  The corporations, much of the media, the entertainment industry, major league sports organizations, academia and Silicon Valley all demand that we fall in line with how they think.  They want to approve of how we speak, what books we read, what movies we watch, what words we use, who we support politically, how we educate our children and what parts of history are acceptable to teach.  Many of these entities have gone from trying to appeal to a wide range of customers based on the products they sell or services they offer to social justice organizations, far removed from their core missions and their consumers.

Hoping to deny DeSantis re-election — and end his presidential hopes — Democrats launch operation 'Ron Be Gone'.  Democrats announced formation of "Ron Be Gone" on Monday [3/15/2021], a fundraising, advertising and organizing vehicle aimed at preventing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis from winning re-election next year.  A bonus, if they contribute to defeating DeSantis, would be imploding his prospects as a 2024 Republican presidential candidate.  Even the name, which sounds like a pest removal product, shows the depth of Democratic animosity toward the Republican governor.

It's time for Red States to start nullifying federal law.  Here are some of the issues that could be affected by the concept of nullification:  [...] [#4] Nullify the anti-police agenda.  During the Obama regime, his DoJ hamstrung city police departments all over the country with phony "civil rights" investigations, resulting in cities hesitant to arrest or prosecute violent thugs.  With anti-police activists surrounding Biden, his administration will do the same, thereby empowering leftist rioters in our cities.  The founders never gave the federal government a law enforcement role as they thought this responsibility best be carried out by local police and sheriff departments.  States should resist and ignore all federal anti-police regulations and DoJ harassment of local police departments.

New NJ law says cops can't notify parents when minor is caught with marijuana or alcohol in first offense.  Democrats are unyielding in their quest for a permissive society where there is little if any personal responsibility.  Nowhere is this more apparent than their preferred policies on the killing of unborn babies, and amid the current marijuana craze liberal politicians are borrowing from that campaign to mainstream weed.  Just as Democrats pursued laws allowing minors to have an abortion without telling their parents, New Jersey has legalized the consumption of marijuana, in all its forms, on private property and enacted a law restricting law enforcement from notifying the parents of minors who are caught with possession of weed or alcohol.  The most remarkable thing here being, perhaps, that tens of millions of Americans continue to support the party that pushes these destructive law

When a Handful of Crises Aren't Enough.  The Biden administration has enjoyed no honeymoon.  The cabal that addled Joe Biden fronts really didn't want one.  Bridge-building, comity, and compromise are passé.  What Ron Klain, Susan Rice, and a knot of plutocrats and "progressives" who pull Joe's strings want are crises.  Manufactured crises are just as good as the real deals.  They're opportunities not to be wasted.

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If the "Biden administration has enjoyed no honeymoon," it is entirely his fault.  The flurry of executive orders he signed on his first day in office effectively terminated any smooth transition he might have expected.

To defeat woke tyrants, the rest of us must treat them like the monsters they are.  Most Americans hate woke politics — and most minorities don't share "woke" priorities.  Indeed, according to pollster David Shor, woke excesses are causing black voters to flee the Democratic Party.  Despite endless charges of "racism," former President Donald Trump took the biggest share of minority voters of any Republican in my lifetime. [...] Only a tiny minority of consumers care about Mr. Potato Head's toxic masculinity, about "Aunt Jemima" as a brand or about the #MeToo aggressions of Pepé Le Pew.  Yet corporations, universities and governments rush to placate that minuscule slice of the population, trashing large chunks of our culture in the process.  It's happening not because anybody voted for it, but because a small but determined and vicious minority is bullying people to go along, relying on cowardice and groupthink to achieve ends that could never happen via majority vote:  How do you think Dr. Seuss would have done in a referendum?

Masks Are Just Part of the Socialists' Uniform.  In poll after poll, Americans have made it clear that they strongly oppose mass illegal immigration.  Ignoring their wishes, the Biden administration has set into place policies that have created a border crisis with no end in sight.  In poll after poll, Americans have made it clear that jobs and the economy are more important than recklessly combatting a global temperature change of a few hundredths of a degree over the next century in the name of "climate justice."  Ignoring their assessment, the Biden administration has killed off oil and gas jobs, increased the cost of gasoline at the pump, and handcuffed America's energy independence in the name of green dreams — strengthening the economies of Russia, China, and Iran while impoverishing millions of Americans.  In poll after poll, Americans have made it clear that they prefer increasing manufacturing and economic diversification at home to depending upon the supply chains and resources of an adversarial China.  Instead, the Biden administration has actively discarded the "America First" economic policies of President Trump and reoriented America back toward the globalist initiatives of the last half-century that benefit transnational banks and Wall Street traders while crippling Main Street businesses and making America vulnerable to her enemies.

Nevada Democratic Party Staff Quits En Masse after Socialists Win Leadership Roles.  Every Nevada Democratic Party staff member quit after Democratic socialists won party leadership roles, according to a new report.  Alana Mounce, the party's executive director, reportedly notified the newly elected party chair, Judith Whitmer, that she and other staff members were resigning, according to The Intercept.  The party's operations director, research director, communications director and finance director all resigned after the left-wing candidates of the "NV Dems Progressive Slate," which was run by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and the Left Caucus, beat out the Democratic Party's "Progressive Unity Slate" on Saturday [3/6/2021].

How the Nevada Democrat Socialists Ousted the Traditional Democrat Party and Why You Should Pay Attention.  My colleague Jeff Charles wrote a great article on how the Nevada Democrat Socialists of America (DSA) have taken over the Democrat Party in the state, and why the traditional leadership chose to resign. [...] How did they do it?  For starters, Nevada is a Union-heavy state.  With Las Vegas as the tip of the spear, the AFL-CIO with its dominant membership overshadows the majority of the Western territory.  Unions have always been socialist in their orientation (the collective above the individual), but with the COVID pandemic, "Future of Work" initiatives which have infected every corporate sector and government body, and collaboration with Labor organizations internationally, the DSA's agenda has shifted beyond pro-worker organization to all aspects of political power and shaping people's lives.  Be warned.  As we learned in California with the battles with the Unions over AB5 and Prop 22, the DSA has no interest in co-existence.  They will do whatever it takes to keep and secure power and force behind their agendas.  The primary one being turning America into a socialist country.

Saying 'No' to the Cancel Culture.  On the left, the tumbrels are rolling again, delivering former icons like Dr. Seuss, Pepe Le Pew, and other enemies of the people to the cultural guillotines for immediate beheading.  Their crimes: their decades-old sensibilities are out of touch with those of the seething, humorless and frankly not very bright scolds who currently inhabit the fever swamps of Twitter, Facebook, and the editorial pages of the New York Times.  Go ahead, laugh; what could be more ridiculous than discerning "rape culture" in the broadly drawn behavior of a French striped skunk who's been looking for love in all the wrong places since 1945?  But ham-handed attempts at seduction are no longer funny to the Madame Defarges of the social-justice warrior brigades, and so stinky little Pepe must be banished from Looney Tunes land.

Dr. Seuss shows leftists again blurring fantasy and reality.  What makes it simultaneously amusing and disturbing is that it treats Seuss's nonsensical worlds as real and extrapolates racial messages from them.  Here's the short version of the left's latest attempt to cancel all cultural touchpoints that don't mesh with Marx:  Dr. Seuss's works ended up in the crosshairs when a Virginia school district discovered that Learning for Justice, an education (i.e., indoctrination") site affiliated with the Southern Poverty Law Center, had declared in 2019 that Dr. Seuss's works are racist.  Once the school's story hit the news, the pile-on began, with every leftist rushing to condemn Seuss for making his Asian, Inuit, and African humanoid characters every bit as weird, misshapen, and ugly as his (presumably) white American humanoid characters.  Six Seuss works were pulled from Amazon and eBay because of their racial horrors and Biden ignored Seuss entirely on Read Across America Day, which is held annually on Dr. Seuss's birthday.

Poll: 65% of Fans Think Disney Has Lunged Too Far Into Wokeness.  Considering a Disney+ membership?  You may want to hold off.  The Daily Wire released the results of an exclusive poll conducted by Neil Newhouse of Public Opinion Strategies which found that 65% of Americans "believe that companies like Disney have taken political correctness too far."  Conducted between Feb 26 and March 3, the poll of 1,098 participants, including Republicans, Democrats, and Independents, set the bottom line:  "Corporate America's lunge into 'wokeness' and cancel culture might hit a bump in the road given public reaction to Disney's recent actions," concluded Newhouse.  Walt is probably rolling over in his grave.  The polling group also asked about Disney's cancel culture stab at Gina Carano.  As a reminder, Carano formerly starred in Disney's The Mandalorian but was axed back in February due to her "abhorrent" social media posts.  As per usual, most lefties supported Disney's decision to cancel Carano but conservatives saw right through the smoke and mirrors.

Use These 32 Questions to Determine Whether Someone Is a Liberal or a Leftist.  The great tragedy of our time is that liberals vote left.  Virtually every value liberals have held for a century is now held by conservatives and scorned by leftists.  Therefore, America, in serious jeopardy of being lost, will be saved when people convince the liberals in their life that the left, not the conservative, is their enemy.  This process begins by establishing whether a friend or relative is a liberal or a leftist.  If it turns out that he or she is a liberal, it is worth engaging in respectful dialogue on the issues of the day.  If the friend or relative is a leftist, you can probably only talk about innocuous subjects such as the weather (though not about global warming) or sports (though not about players taking a knee during the national anthem).  If you talk about the great issues of the day with a left-wing friend or relative, that could be the last time you talk to each other.  He or she is likely to unfriend you not only on social media but also in life.  Leftists generally do not dialogue; they dismiss.

Why Deadnaming Matters.  Richard Levine was born in 1957 in Wakefield, Massachusetts, an affluent suburb 20 minutes north of Boston.  He went to Hebrew school and had a bar mitzvah before heading to the very tony (very expensive) all-boys Belmont Hill School, where he played as a linebacker on the football team.  From there he went to Harvard undergrad before heading south for med school at Tulane.  While still in school, he married classmate Martha Peaslee; the couple would go on to have two children, one boy and one girl.  Richard's career got off to a running start with a residency and fellowship at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan.  From there he moved to Penn State Hershey Medical Center, where he established himself firmly as a leader in his field, building both an adolescent medicine division and an eating disorders clinic.  But even with a loving family and a meaningful career, something was amiss in Richard Levine's world.  Eight years after his move to Pennsylvania, the doctor began to see a therapist.  Another eight years after that, he publicly announced his decision to transition to presenting as a woman.  Now, a full decade after that announcement, Richard — now Rachel — stands as Joe Biden's nominee for the United States' Assistant Secretary for Health.

The Left's Campaign Against Self-Defense.  Last week, federal prosecutors offered an undisclosed plea deal to two lawyers who firebombed an NYPD van and drove around passing out Molotov cocktails to protesters at a violent May 2020 Black Lives Matter (BLM) protest in Brooklyn. [...] In the name of "social justice," politicians and the judiciary in many cities and states are bestowing moral rights on violent left-wing and anarchist groups.  District attorney Mike Schmidt, for instance, announced in August that he won't prosecute most of the 550 people arrested during the 75 days of mayhem in Portland last spring.  He said the leniency was an attempt to "create a forum" to express "collective grief, anger, and frustration" at the death of George Floyd and the history of abuses endured by people of color.  Worse, he said using the criminal justice system against them would "undermine public safety" for those "demanding to be heard." Schmidt, his Democrat cohort, and leftist sympathizers in journalism, law, and academia willfully ignore the fact that such misplaced clemency condones and encourages militant groups' violence, their disrespect for the law, and their anti-American agenda.

Top Pollster Says Pelosi, Dems' Every Move Makes Trump Even More Popular.  While establishment Republicans move to expunge Donald Trump from the head of the GOP, his massive voting base is expressing the opposite view.  According to pollster Jim McLaughlin, Trump is becoming more popular every time House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, President Joe Biden, and Democrats make a move to undo a Trump policy.  McLaughlin, who conducted the McLaughlin & Associates CPAC preference poll, found that many Americans are looking back at Trump's agenda and accomplishments and missing it. [...] "The more they attack his issue agenda and his people, the stronger President Trump gets," he said.  McLaughlin pulled these findings from his CPAC poll to make his point:
      ◦   Ninety-seven percent want Congress to do more to fight for their conservative agenda.
      ◦   Ninety-three percent said there was voter fraud that helped Biden win.
      ◦   Ninety-three percent said Biden doesn't have the mental capacity to be president.
      ◦   Ninety-six percent said the Washington establishment thinks they are better than ordinary people.
      ◦   Ninety-nine percent said we need to get the children back to school and open the economy.
      ◦   Sixty-three percent said they are angry/disappointed with the Republican National Committee.

Carlson: 'Dr. Seuss Was Not a Racist — Dr. Seuss Was a Preachy Liberal'.  During the Tuesday [3/2/2021] broadcast of his Fox News Channel program, Tucker Carlson addressed the controversy surrounding Dr. Seuss' children's books, which have been deemed "racist" but some on the American left.  Carlson warned if "cancel culture" was allowed to succeed with Dr. Seuss, America would be "lost."

Did "Defund The Police" Drive Non-White Voters To Trump?  If this is true, talk about backfire.  Former Obama campaign adviser David Shor argues yes.  Democrats thought that slogan would strengthen ethnocentric voting choices.  Instead, it forced non-white voters to choose ideology over demographics, especially among Hispanics — and rather than pull voters to Joe Biden by pandering, they drove them to Donald Trump instead.

Joe Biden [was] Asked When America Will Get Back to Normal.  Joe Biden was asked when things will go back to normal on Tuesday [3/2/2021] as he shuffled out of his presser.  Joe paused and told the leftwing reporters: [...] Maybe next year.  These Democrats are determined to kill America.

Americans tune out the Golden Globe Awards.  The television audience for Hollywood's virtual Golden Globes ceremony on Sunday [2/28/2021] fell sharply from last year's event, with preliminary estimates on Monday indicating that about 60 per cent fewer viewers tuned in to the widely panned award show.  Ratings data reported on Monday by The Hollywood Reporter and Deadline showed that only about 5.4 million Americans watched the three-hour telecast on the NBC network.  The preliminary figures do not reflect viewing on the American West Coast, but they nevertheless reflect a drop of nearly two-thirds from early audience estimates for the 2020 show.

Poll Shows Republicans Care About Issues, Democrats Just Hate Republicans.  A Echelon Insights poll shows that Republican priorities surround the big issues of the day, while Democrat concerns are focused almost solely on hating Republicans. [...] Starting with the most concerned, the top issues of concern for Republican voters are illegal immigration, lack of support for police, high taxes, left-wing media bias, the moral decline of the country, socialism, Antifa, China, late-term abortion, election fraud, tech censorship, and discrimination against Christians. [...] Starting with the most concerned, the top issues of concern for Democrat voters are — no joke — Trump supporters, white nationalism, systemic racism, gun violence, healthcare coverage, domestic terror, police brutality, discrimination against the alphabet people, sexism, voter suppression, student debt, and capitalism.

A short primer on the importance of our Second Amendment rights.  Joe Biden's had a lot on his plate.  First, he erased America's immigration laws by order government employees not to enforce them.  Then he destroyed the economy by attacking the oil and gas that are essential for modern life.  After that, he sowed some racial discord.  Next, he insulted our only ally in the Middle East while sucking up to "Death to America" Iran.  And that's just the shortlist.  But the people in charge haven't forgotten one of their most important missions:  To destroy the Second Amendment.

The Democrats' 'Woke' Equality Act:  Another Awful Idea That Would Radically Change America.  In principle, the law bars employment and other discrimination against LGBTQ workers.  In reality, it disenfranchises large swaths of American society, from religious institutions and women's rights groups to small businesses and nonprofits.  Legal legerdemain is key here.  The proposed law erases biologically based sex definitions and protections under the 1964 Civil Rights Act and replaces them with the phrase "sexual orientation and gender identity," a legal definition so broad as to be almost meaningless.  So if you believe in traditional marriage and sex roles, or don't agree there are 64 different genders (or even 112, as some assert), you now officially and legally become a bigot, for all that implies.

The Blue States Are Now the Beggar States.  Last week, I visited South Florida for four days, and what a shock:  Everything was open.  The beaches, the hotels, the restaurants (with some sensible safety and social distancing restrictions).  The classrooms are full.  The other strange thing about being in Florida was that people were happy.  They were playing tennis and golf.  They were going to work and getting on with their lives.  Florida is a Republican, can-do kind of place.  Then, there is New York.  Manhattan is a morose and deserted place to be.  It's as if it's boarded up.  People are living their lives afraid.  They are depressed, which makes the whole place depressing.  In Southern California, I experienced the same dreariness.  And it wasn't the weather, which was warm and sunny.  Restaurants were closed or highly restricted.  Stores were sparsely attended, and people were generally grimacing and standoffish.  They yelp in horror if you take off your mask, even for a moment.

Group: Biden gun control would 'criminalize' 105M law-abiding people.  As President Biden pivots to the highly charged issue of gun control, key groups are urging him to respect the 105 million law-abiding gun owners and target instead illegal use of firearms.  Today, a growing organization that represents those with permits to carry concealed weapons said that instead of limiting access to guns, the president should nationalize legal permitting and end the patchwork of state regulations that range from tight bans to no restrictions.  "While we can agree that there are several 'common sense' and long overdue changes needed to our nation's gun laws, we firmly believe that the path forward should be focused on supporting and protecting responsible, law-abiding Americans — not criminalizing and punishing them," said a letter to Biden from the U.S. Concealed Carry Association.

Why we need an inquiry into January 6.  [Scroll down]  Indeed, so quick was the construction of this narrative that the cynics among us speculated that the riot, if not exactly premeditated by anti-Trump forces, was at least foreseen as an exploitable possibility.  Something similar can be said about the deployment of the phrase 'our democracy'.  In this case, the first-person-plural possessive is very clearly intended to be exclusive, not inclusive.  No one wearing a MAGA hat or waving a Trump banner is included in that 'our'.  The thousands of loyalty-tested National Guard troops and the tall, razor-wire-tipped fence hastily erected to surround the Capitol communicated the same message.  It's Us vs Them, comrade:  talk about 'unity' and 'our democracy' but practice division and exclusion.  Nancy Pelosi called the Capitol 'the people's house', the 'citadel of democracy', but the armed troops and the fence bespoke a different reality.

Ag commissioner Fried orders offices to defy any order to lower flags for Limbaugh.  Florida's agriculture commissioner is challenging Gov. Ron DeSantis' plans to honor conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh.  Following Limbaugh's death from lung cancer last week, the Republican governor told a crowd of West Palm Beach supporters that he would celebrate Limbaugh's legacy by ordering state flags to fly at half-staff.  "When there's things of this magnitude, once the date of internment for Rush is announced, we're going to be lowering the flags to half-staff," DeSantis said during a campaign-style event at the Hilton Palm Beach Airport.

Biden's HHS Pick Advocates Sex Changes For Kids.  On Thursday, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee will hold a nomination hearing for Dr. Rachel Levine, President Joe Biden's pick for Assistant Secretary of Health at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).  There are plenty of reasons for the committee to be concerned about placing Dr. Levine in such an influential and powerful role. [...] Most alarmingly, Dr. Levine has advocated for sex changes for pre-pubertal people, otherwise known as "children."  A professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at the Penn State College of Medicine, Levine has given lectures in various settings since at least 2012 on how to perform sex changes and gender conversion therapy on children.  According to Levine, children ought to be given the latitude to choose their own gender.  Levine has advised adults to "try not to force them one way or other [sic]" and instead to follow the child's lead.

A Word About The Biden Return To 'Normalcy'.  Less than a month into Biden's term, let's take a look at America's return to "normal":
  •   Is it our standard-operating procedure to call, without evidence, those we disagree with racists and white supremacists?
  •   Is being obsessed with, and bowing down before, identity politics who we are?
  •   Is letting males compete with female athletes playing it straight in the U.S.?
  •   Is a militarized zone around the U.S. Capitol a long-standing American custom?  What about a political witch hunt disguised as an effort to root out domestic terrorists?
  •   Is it normal for an administration to snub Israel, America's only natural and traditional ally in the Middle East?
  •   Is it routine for the president's family to conduct "corrupt business dealings in foreign countries"?
  •   Is it normal for public schools to be closed across the country because the teachers unions in a real sense own the party in power in Washington?
  •   Is it a time-honored American practice for the media to snuggle up to that party in power and treat the president as a celebrity, even a savior, and refuse to sufficiently fact-check him?

A Fifty-Year History of Anti-Patriotism in the United States.  Patriotism is under attack.  The idea of the cultural Marxists on the left is to replace traditional patriotism with a different vision of the meaning of American nationalism from the vision that has obtained since 1776, although that traditional understanding and vision of the USA has gone through modifications over decades.  Unwillingness to say the Pledge of Allegiance or even to stand for the Pledge is not a first step in that direction, but part of an endgame toward a revised understanding of what America is and what its role is in history.  The readers of this article should not be surprised if legislation for a revised American flag is offered in the halls of Congress in the near future.

McConnell's Bitter Turtle Soup.  [Scroll down]  With parts of the country on lockdown, schools closed, and a volatile market making Americans justifiably nervous, Democrats and their Republican enablers decided that damaging President Trump (and pre-emptively torpedoing his return in '24) was still their most pressing concern.  That's a pretty sobering admission of just how popular President Trump's policies really are.  Congress is more afraid of him and the transformational change he represents than it is of a hostile China, a worldwide pandemic, a Cold Civil War here in the U.S., or the potential for a complete global economic collapse.  We are so far "through the looking-glass" now that Alice's Wonderland seems more believable.

Biden's biggest lie.  Since the precarious installation of our new leader, cancel culture has ratcheted up and grown even more idiotic and insidious.  Careless tales of white supremacy and Trump supporting insurgency have been tossed out like red meat to the wolf pack media by the "uniter" himself.  The force-feeding of school curriculums and guidelines created to shame a majority of the population for offensive melanin are in vogue and proliferating.  This "Us against them" rhetoric is not waning but accelerating under the Biden administration and it is becoming utterly exhausting.  I believe that most Americans, not just conservatives, want to live their lives in peace and free from ignorant scolds insistent on making everyone feel guilty and miserable.  News flash:  I have liberal friends who feel the same way.  There is a much smaller faction of troublemakers involved in the division of America than we think.  The problem is that the new occupant of the White House is one of them.

GOP senator files 2 bills to stop cancel culture.  Here's how Dems responded.  California, home to Hollywood, may be where cancel culture strikes loudest and most viciously.  But one Republican lawmaker in the Golden State hopes to strike back against an ideology that is poisoning honest political debate and ruining careers and lives.  State Sen. Melissa Melendez has filed two bills that would protect people based on their political beliefs — a seemingly odd thing for a country founded on providing that guarantee to its citizens.  One bill, the "Diversity of Thought Act," would amend California's Fair Employment and Housing Act to include political affiliation among those "specified characteristics," as the current law says, that protect people from random discrimination.

Delusional or Deliberate?  The great leftist disconnect from reality.  Jen Psaki, who serves as Joe Biden's Press Secretary, is an excellent choice in many ways.  She's comfortable appearing uninformed and unintelligent before the media.  She knows that they won't call her out and apparently doesn't care what the American people think.  On Tuesday, she offered a perfect example of that latter point.  Psaki is hosting weekly video briefings during which she answers questions people have submitted via Twitter.  At one minute and 21 seconds into the video below, Psaki reads out the question:  "What is President Biden doing for my small business?" [...] The lockdowns have decimated businesses in every Democrat-run state.  Considering how important small businesses are to the economy, this is a deeply serious issue.  So what's Psaki's choice for the most important thing — the "first and foremost" thing — that Biden has done for small businesses?  "He nominated a woman to lead the Small Business Administration": [...] And what else did Biden do for small businesses?  He signed a race-based executive order making money available only for minorities.  This is a woman disconnected from reality, working for an administration that's equally disconnected.  [Video clip]

Are Democrats Creating Two Americas?  About half the nation is on the naughty side of the Naughty or Nice list kept by score-settling Jacobins.  Per their ledgers, our side's crimes are many.  We support Trump.  We dare to exercise our free speech rights.  We question the honesty of the 2020 presidential contests.  We mock a pillar of the heathens' pseudo-religion, "Manmade" climate change.  We know that fossil fuel and the Keystone XL Pipeline are very good things.  We know that gender isn't plastic.  Real females deserve athletics free from faux female participation.  We know that babies in the womb are human beings.  We refute, as patent race-mongering, the harangue that America is an irredeemably racist land, which must be punished and deconstructed, and whose nonblack citizens must be Jim Crowed as an initial down payment on recompense.  Our stupendously greatest offense?  We're a law-abiding, patriotic, God-fearing, family-loving, and hard-working people.

Juan Williams Becomes Visibly Upset As Greg Gutfeld Rages Against The Media In Masterful Rant.  On Monday [2/15/2021], Juan Williams appeared visibly upset as Greg Gutfeld went scorched earth against the lying liberal media.  In fact, you can quite literally see Williams shaking his head and squirming in his chair as Gutfeld unleashed his masterful rant.  Gutfeld blistered the media for not being transparent when it comes to voter fraud allegations, saying that the media accuses conservatives of being "treasonous" if they even dare to raise the question.  He also hammered the left for their support of left-wing riots over the summer because they were done in the name of "social justice".  "Juan says that if you want to bury the lie of election fraud, then let's investigate it and make it more transparent," Gutfeld began.  "If people can believe that something was wrong with the election and not be accused of being treasonous.... Your side did it for 4 years!  So nobody is going to bury anything.  People are concerned that there's a problem with the election system, the same way that you feel about the justice system.  It was okay for your side to riot for months over the justice system.  But somebody gets ticked off about the election system and that's 'treasonous'," he added.

Eric Swalwell says God is a woman while discussing Trump impeachment trial.  Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., on Sunday [2/14/2021] suggested that God is a woman while discussing the impeachment trial against former President Donald Trump.  Swalwell, 40, made the comments during an appearance on MSNBC, explaining Democrats' decision not to subpoena additional witnesses.  "The choice was, do we chase those people — not knowing what they're going to say to the courts — for years.  Or do we go forward with a powerful, thundering case that we have," Swalwell said.  "And also, (Senate Minority Leader) Mitch McConnell was already telling us that he believed the challenge was a jurisdictional one."  Swalwell said calling witnesses wouldn't have changed Republicans' mind on voting to acquit Trump on the charge of citing Jan. 6's riot at the U.S. Capitol, even if the witnesses were "God herself."

Tucker Carlson Suggests Democrats Have Become 'More Vicious in Victory' — 'Power Makes Them Mean'.  Thursday [2/11/2021], FNC "Tucker Carlson Tonight" host Tucker Carlson speculated on the motivations driving congressional Democrats to pursue the impeachment of former President Donald Trump, which he described as "mad" and "irrational."  Carlson noted that even in victory, Democrats are continuing their relentless pursuit, which he argued was a product of gaining power.  He also questioned why some in the media are seeking to quell dissenting opinion, including Fox News.  [Video clip]

'A lot of cowboys out here': Rural California embraces lockdown defiance.  In Woody Clendenen's barbershop, a standard haircut costs $15.  Seniors get a discount for $12, and liberals are charged $40.  At least that's what the sign at his local Cottonwood shop in Northern California's Shasta County says.  His small business is donned with Trump 2020 gear, support to create the new state of Jefferson, and copies of the Constitution for customers to read or take.  He's got regulars who stick around just to talk politics and feel a sense of normalcy during the COVID-19 pandemic.  Most of them are maskless and aren't told to follow any health precautions when they're at Cottonwood Barbershop.  Though California's often considered one of the bluest states in the country, in the rural Northstate, most locals share a similar philosophy, embracing the independent spirit of the wild, wild West.

Chris Wallace's toxicity with Fox News viewers on display in charity auction.  The continuing prominence of Chris Wallace on Fox News both annoys and perplexes many of the channel's remaining conservative viewers.  And now we finally have a metric demonstrating the aversion toward Wallace by Fox viewers.

Liberal Columnist Accidentally Admits Diversity Isn't a Strength.  Los Angeles Times columnist Virginia Heffernan went viral last weekend because of an op-ed.  She wrote about her discomfort with her very friendly "Trumpite" neighbors.  They shoveled snow from her driveway without her even asking, making her "realize I owe them thanks."  But Heffernan wondered "how much thanks?"  To her way of thinking, she can't allow neighborliness to wipe away the alleged horrors of the Trump era.  "My neighbors supported a man who showed near-murderous contempt for the majority of Americans," Heffernan wrote.  "They kept him in business with their support." [...] The column was rightfully mocked by conservatives as petty, arrogant, and out-of-touch.  It illustrates how many liberals think they're superior to the "deplorables" simply because they have the "correct" beliefs.  Deplorables can demonstrate all manner of noble conduct, yet are still morally inferior to the ungrateful liberals they assist.

Restaurant gets death threats for not allowing server to wear Black Lives Matter mask.  The owner of a popular California restaurant says the eatery got death threats and was forced to close for not allowing a waitress to wear a Black Lives Matter mask on the job, according to a report.  The Girl and the Fig, a country-style French restaurant in Sonoma, received threats of violence after a former server, Kimi Stout, complained about the incident on local media, according to ABC 7.  "I would have absolutely abided by the mask rules if they had a sign up that said Black Lives Matter," said Stout, who left the job over the conflict, told the station.  "As a Brown queer fem person, standing up for the marginalized has always been important to me [...]" she said.

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Here's a handy tip about success in life:  If your job requires you to interact with the public, you will have a short and miserable career if you make an effort to look and act as abnormal, repugnant, and generally non-standard non-conformist as you can.  When you are ostracized as a result of your recalcitrance, you should not be surprised, and you should avoid rushing to the news media with your victimhood story, because it won't help your situation in the long run.

Activists push Democrats to give stimulus checks to 9M taxpaying noncitizens.  Democrats face pressure from immigration activists to provide pandemic relief checks to millions of immigrants who are illegally residing in the United States but pay taxes.  Behind the scenes, left-leaning advocacy groups and nonprofit organizations are pushing to get $1,400 checks, including in major pandemic relief legislation not only for the 2.2 million U.S. citizen children who were excluded from the two previous checks but 9.3 million adults who pay billions of dollars in federal taxes.  Altogether, the measure could cost the federal government $13 billion.  The National Immigration Law Center, Church World Services, and Service Employees International Union are leading efforts to whip Senate Democrats into adding language for the checks into the pandemic relief legislative package.  The move is not expected to succeed but could complicate negotiations within the Democratic Party in the coming weeks.

Biden's next big pipeline decision could deepen clash of greens and unions.  President Biden's pending decision whether to shut down the controversial Dakota Access oil pipeline could deepen early tensions between environmentalists and unions that endorsed him.  Biden's day-one order to revoke a permit for the better-known Keystone XL oil pipeline between Canada and the United States drew backlash from organized labor and some centrist Democrats who say the cancellation will kill thousands of construction jobs.  Now, liberal lawmakers, celebrities, and indigenous leaders have asked the president to shutter Dakota Access, which critics warn would trigger more backlash since the pipeline is already operational, unlike Keystone.  The Dakota Access pipeline has been carrying oil for more than three years from North Dakota to Illinois.

White House Supports Mavericks Scrapping The National Anthem Because America Fails 'Often'.  White House press secretary Jen Psaki expressed support for Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban's decision to remove the national anthem from the team's home games because they "feel [the anthem] doesn't represent them."  During the Wednesday [2/10/2021] press briefing, Fox News's Peter Doocy asked Psaki about the Biden administration's stance on Cuban's decision.  While the press secretary acknowledged that President Joe Biden is "proud to be an American and has great respect for the anthem," she also said he would support the Mavericks for calling out the frequent times when "we as a country haven't lived up to our highest ideals."  "He'd also say that, of course, that part of pride in our country means recognizing moments where we as a country haven't lived up to our highest ideals, which is often, and at times what people are speaking to when they take action at sporting events," Psaki said.

More about the injection of politics into sports.

Tom Cotton:  Joe Biden Is Keeping U.S. Closed for Americans, Leaving Border Open for Illegal Aliens.  President Joe Biden's administration is getting blasted by lawmakers, local officials, and critics for advocating lockdowns and restrictions for Americans during the Chinese coronavirus crisis while seemingly opening the nation's borders to illegal aliens who can flout Centers for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines.  As Breitbart News has extensively reported, the Biden administration has resumed the Catch and Release program wherein border crossers are apprehended and promptly released into the interior of the United States.  These border crossers are not required to test negative for the coronavirus before their release into American communities.

Why the Left Must Destroy a Patriotic American Ethos.  During the past year, we have witnessed an assault on our cultural heritage and history; the anti-American iconoclasm that gripped the activist economy throughout the United States is now a force of absolute desecration that will erase our entire history and heritage if given the chance.  First, they came for the Confederate monuments under the bullhorn of racism.  Quietly supported by mainstream conservatism, these same anti-American iconoclasts just as quickly turned against Lincoln, Grant, and other Union war heroes, much to the consternation of mainstream conservatives too blind, willfully or ignorantly, to see what the war against our art is about.  How did it come to this?  As many know, there has been a "long march" through our institutions by anti-American and anti-Western liberals who see themselves as the vanguard elect eradicating the sins of white Western Christian civilization.

Maxine Waters denies ever encouraging violence against Republicans.  We are currently being governed by a class of people who believe:
  •   Focusing obsessively on race, and classifying people solely by racial characteristics, is "anti-racist."
  •   Violent cadres of masked people attacking their political enemies, burning buildings, and engaging in violent censorship are "anti-fascists."
  •   People can change their sex at will because of their feelings, a subset of which is the assertion that men can have babies.
  •   Ending punishments for criminals (no bail arrests, decarceration, etc.) will end crime.
  •   Humans the power to affect the earth's climate, a dynamic system that has been changing endlessly for 4.5 billion years.
  •   A welfare state can survive an open border.
  •   Introducing millions of unskilled Latin American laborers into America will not have any negative effect on low-income people who are already in America, especially American Blacks.
  •   Forcing employers to pay above-market wages will result in more jobs, not fewer.
  •   A decrepit, corrupt, senile man who campaigned from his basement got more votes than any presidential candidate in American history.
  •   Violent riots across American cities, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage, are peaceful protests.
Given this departure from reality, should we really be shocked that Rep. Maxine Waters is denying that she ever called for violence against Republicans?  If you're a conservative, you're familiar with this video:  [Video clip]

Rep. Cori Bush under fire for defending riot at St. Louis city jail.  Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., is facing criticism for her reaction to a riot Saturday [1/6/2021] at a downtown St. Louis jail.  Inmates rioted over a variety of concerns, setting fires, smashing windows and throwing debris to the street below.  It took corrections officers almost eight hours to end the "extremely violent" disturbance.  But the Missouri congresswoman tweeted a statement of support for the rioters, saying she would work to address their grievances, which include safety fears due to the coronavirus pandemic.  "I want to talk to my constituents in the window," Bush tweeted, referring to the inmates.  "Their lives and their rights must be protected.  My team and I are working to ensure that the urgent needs of people who are incarcerated are not ignored."

Here Come the 'Climate Lockdowns'.  PJM's Jeff Reynolds reported on the proposed "climate emergency" legislation that would declare climate change a "national emergency."  If passed, it would give Biden sweeping powers and unlock billions in spending.  Since there is no "climate emergency" at the moment, the radical greens have to create one.  And the more dire and frightening they can make it, the more powerful they will become.  AOC and her cohorts in Congress will do their best but it's likely that the worst of the "Green New Deal" will never be enacted even with the declaration that climate change is a national emergency.  But suppose President Biden and other western leaders were to declare a "climate lockdown"?  In a climate lockdown, "governments would limit private-vehicle use, ban the consumption of red meat, and impose extreme energy-saving measures, while fossil-fuel companies would have to stop drilling."

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Even the most ardent Democrat — the most rabid baby-killing abortionist, the most heavy-handed union goon, the queerest LGBTQWERTY+ non-conforming transvestite — must surely wonder if he or she really voted for this assortment of draconian foolishness.  Does anyone really believe that "consumption of red meat" changes the weather so much that the U.S. economy must be strangled to fix it?  Does anyone really believe that if U.S. oil drilling stops, there won't be any oil exploration anywhere in the world (like the Middle East)?  Did any voter (living or dead) in November 2020 think he or she was voting for "extreme energy-saving measures" — whatever that may mean?

When (or If) Comes the Pushback?  The Bush-Clinton-Obama continuum of 24 years (from 1993 through 2015) cemented the bipartisan fusion administrative state.  Trump and his "Make America Great Again" agenda were its pushback.  The counterreaction to the populism of the Trump reset — or Trump himself — is as of yet unsure.  Joe Biden's tenure may mark a return to business as usual of the Bush-Clinton years.  Or more likely, it will accelerate the current hard-left trajectory.  Either way, it seems that Biden is intent on provoking just such a pushback by his record number of early and often radical executive orders — a tactic candidate Biden condemned.  On almost every issue — open borders, blanket amnesties, canceling the Keystone XL pipeline, promoting the Green New Deal, and hard-left appointees — Biden is touting positions that likely do not earn 50 percent public support.

Hot mic purportedly picks up Dems mocking Matt Gaetz for request to recite 'Pledge of Allegiance'.  Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee appeared to mock and ridicule GOP member Matt Gaetz after he requested the panel recite the "Pledge of Allegiance" ahead of a hearing.  Their comments were picked up by a hot mic, according to a video file of the Thursday [2/4/2021] hearing obtained by The Daily Caller.  "In the video, you can hear Tennessee Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen and an unidentified House Democrat appearing to joke about the request.  They were reminded by a staffer that their microphones were hot, according to the audio," The DC reported.  During the hearing, which pertained to new House rules, Gaetz, Florida Republican, requested the pledge be recited at the beginning of each hearing.

Watch: Nadler Refuses To Allow "Unnecessary" Pledge Of Allegiance To Be Recited.  It's no secret that many Democrats in Congress don't value the traditions of our great nation.  That includes the Pledge of Allegiance.  We already knew they hated the Star Spangled Banner after 4 and a half years of calling it "racist" thanks to Colin Kaepernick, but now they have set their sights on the Pledge.  On Thursday [2/4/2021], House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler shut down Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz's request to have the committee recite the pledge of allegiance at the beginning of hearings. [...] Surely after all of the talk of "unity" from former Vice President Joe Biden, Congressional Democrats would absolutely want to show how our country can unify, right?  Wrong.

Rand Paul Denounces Biden Transgender Sports Policy.  Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) challenged President Joe Biden's Education Secretary nominee on his statement it is "appropriate" to allow boys to compete in girls' sports by asking, "What planet are you from?"  During a confirmation hearing Wednesday [2/3/2021] of the Senate committee that oversees education, the Kentucky senator asked Miguel Cardona if he thinks it is "fair" to allow boys claiming to be transgender to participate in girls' sports, and about how it affects girls competing in these athletic events.  "I think it is appropriate," Cardona replied.  "It is the legal responsibility of schools to provide opportunities for students to participate in activities and this includes students who are transgender."

Trump Moves Out of the White House and into Their Heads.  You would never know that * is president.  DC's denizen can't move on.  They don't want to move on.  Look what they have to move onto, two years of utter failure with that desiccated old zombie at the helm screwing this up until an energized and woke wave of GOP candidates who want to burn the whole garbage Establishment down sweep into power in 2022.  When the Reddit Rebels took on the Democrat-donating hedge funders, that was the spirit of Trump.  And, like the awkward and clumsy counter-insurgents they are, our stupid Establishment tore off its smiley-face mask and stepped in to protect its own against the great unwashed who had so improbably managed to win, if only for a moment, the rigged game that is Wall Street.  How many people got woke that day?  And how many people got woke when * threw tens of thousands of Americans out of work as human sacrifices to the blue libs' angry weather goddess?  How many got woke when * announced he was making the all-purpose boogeyman of "racism" a cornerstone of his administration?  How many got woke when they saw the Democrat-subsidizing tech lords shut down the speech of anyone who dissents?  How many got woke when COVID suddenly started to vanish the second it stopped being useful?

Republicans tear into Biden's Press Secretary Jen Psaki and demand she apologize for mocking Space Force during briefing.  House Republicans have slammed White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki and demanded she 'immediately apologize' for 'demeaning' the US Space Force.  Alabama Rep. Mike Rogers and Florida Rep. Mike Waltz both hit out at Psaki Tuesday for what they described as a 'disgraceful' quip about the newest branch of the military where she joked it was 'the plane of today'.  Psaki also managed to ruffle more feathers in the briefing room Tuesday [2/2/2021] when she hit out at a Politico reporter accusing her of 'putting words in my mouth' over the White House's China strategy.

Bed Bath & Beyond Joins Fascist Crusade.  Left-wingers running major American companies are targeting their own customers in a fascist-style anti-Trump crusade.  The objective: to intimidate and silence conservatives.  The other day it was Loews hotels.  Run by the Democratic/leftist Tisch family, the company ostentatiously announced it would cancel a fundraiser for Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley at its Orlando hotel.  This because the Tisches were incensed that Hawley had the nerve to stand on the Senate floor and defend election integrity and the Constitution.  Now it is, of all places, Bed Bath & Beyond that has launched an attack on its pro-Trump customers.  The company has ostentatiously decided to stop carrying MyPillow products because they have it in for MyPillow founder and quite visible Trump supporter Mike Lindell.  And unsurprisingly, cross-match the corporate governing officers of Bed Bath & Beyond with Federal Election Commission (FEC) records and, lo and behold, one finds ... yes indeed ... a far-left Trump-hater in a senior position at the company.

John Kerry, Global Warming Ghoul.  Presidential climate envoy John Kerry stirred up a black cloud last week when he said the workers who lost their jobs over the administration's decision to shut down Keystone XL pipeline construction could just make solar panels instead.  At least he didn't tell them they should learn to code.  But it was a cruel comment nonetheless, and representative of the political left's careless destruction of livelihoods in service of their climate god.  At a news conference last week, Kerry said "what President Biden wants to do is make sure that those folks" who lost jobs "have better choices, that they have alternatives, that they can be the people who go to work to make the solar panels."  Unsaid yet clearly understood is the Democrats' contempt for calloused-hand working class Americans — these "deplorables" just can't make good decisions and need the guiding hand of government to help them avoid the briar patches and potholes of life.

Religious Leaders Have Mixed Feelings About Biden's Agenda.  Since Biden's inauguration on Jan. 20, religious leaders from major faiths have had to grapple with the administration's stance on a range of issues, often resulting in a blend of hope and dismay, the AP reported.  On issues like abortion, Biden has created angst amongst Roman Catholic Church and Southern Baptist Convention leaders, as the president has indicated strong support for abortion rights for women, according to the AP. [...] On issues of LGBTQ rights and religious freedom, Biden's expansion of LGBTQ nondiscrimination protections has united Catholics and Southern Baptists in opposition to the president's agenda, arguing it could infringe on the rights of religious groups who oppose same-sex marriage and the inclusion of gender identity, the AP reported.

Youtube rushes to hide the mass unpopularity of Biden Whitehouse.  It's all one giant Psy-Op.  The Whitehouse Youtube Channel for the most popular President ever elected is being unliked en mass.  Youtube kicked Donald Trump off the "platform", so hordes of fans are tuning into Joe Biden's channel instead, and they're not happy.  Joe Biden's inauguration video tally currently stands at 4,300 "likes" and 48,000 "dislikes".  Realizing the PR flop that this is, Youtube quietly unlisted the video to hide it from searches, but it's at this link.  In newer Whitehouse videos, the downvotes continue.  Clearly the Social Media controllers have a problem.  One week later, and Youtube don't just unlist the video's — the Swat team has started deleting the deporable votes instead.

Will they stop all their other nonsense if there is an "outcry?"  Are we all in a big shouting match now?
Biden admin halts plans to give Gitmo detainees COVID-19 vaccine ahead of Americans after outcry.  After a massive outcry, the Biden Defense Department paused plans to give the COVID-19 vaccine to about 40 Guantanamo Bay detainees, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, one of the masterminds behind the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.  While millions of Americans wait in line, The New York Times reported last week that Gitmo detainees and prisoners will be offered vaccines on a voluntary basis, beginning as early as Monday.  But the Pentagon halted those plans Saturday in the face of heavy criticism for prioritizing terror suspects ahead of American citizens, according to CBS News.  House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., pinned responsibility for the initial decision, which the Department of Defense confirmed Friday, on President Joe Biden.

A Tsunami of Hate.  All politics is divisive.  That's the healthy basis of our constitutional order: the freedom to disagree.  To suppress disagreement, to outlaw it — as many Democrats and their Big Tech and media allies — are demanding these days, is to end democracy as we know it.  The problem is not that we disagree.  We are not suffering as a nation from healthy disagreement.  We are suffering from a Tsunami of Hate emanating from the Democrat Party that seeks to demonize, criminalize and extinguish dissent from the 75 million supporters of Donald Trump.  It is now official Washington dogma that to question an election result — something the congressional Democrats have done in the face of every Republican presidential victory since 2000 — is now "insurrection" and "domestic terrorism," or the incitement thereto, and needs to be prosecuted and suppressed.

Be a tribe of one.  Suppose you're a die-hard Democrat.  What do you do about such issues as: [...] Environmentalism and immigration versus unions.  Do you side with trade unions — which are overwhelmingly Democrats — who understandably want good jobs for workers?  Or do you side with environmentalists — who are also overwhelmingly Democrats — who want to eliminate the oil and gas industry and the millions of jobs that accompany it, and illegal immigration advocates — who are overwhelmingly Democrats — who want to flood America with low-paid immigrants that may eventually vote Democrat but will drive down America's worker wages even further?

Pelosi slammed for 'inciteful' rhetoric after calling pro-2nd Amendment GOP lawmakers 'enemy within'.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's use of inciteful rhetoric shows no signs of abatement, as the California Democrat who previously referred to then-President Donald Trump as a "domestic enemy" called Republican lawmakers the "enemy within."  The reason for this egregious slander is because some GOP lawmakers want to carry a firearm — see Second Amendment.  Continuing to exploit the storming of the U.S. Capitol earlier this month with extreme hyperbole — it wasn't an attempt to overthrow government — for maximum political value, Democrats are working hard to demonize and dehumanize the GOP.  "I do believe, and I have said this all along, that we will probably need a supplemental for more security for members when the enemy is within the House of Representatives, a threat that members are concerned about in addition to what is happening outside," Pelosi said Thursday [1/28/2021] while speaking to reporters.

Trump Campaign Pollster:  Effort to Cancel Trump Is 'Backfiring'.  [Scroll down]  The effort to convict Trump in an impeachment trial suffered a grave setback after 45 Republican senators voted against holding the trial, meaning that it's unlikely there will be enough votes to convict the former president.  Convicting a president requires at least 67 votes, meaning 17 Republicans would have to join Democrats.  A number of Republican senators said it's unconstitutional and pointless to convict a former president.  "It's having no impact on his base, in fact, it's just solidifying them and making them angrier or more upset," McLaughlin said of the impeachment efforts.  "Because the people outside the Beltway agree" that it is essentially unconstitutional, he said.

Must Christians Submit to Evil Authorities?  As I study the many executive orders signed by President Biden in the last few days, two issues in particular concern me: a militant advancement of transgenderism and abortion.  Both are attacks on human dignity, misrepresenting even what it means to be human.  Promoting transgender experience advocates for a distorted view of personhood that denies the very biological DNA given by God, bending reality into a lie.  Abortion legitimatizes the killing of a human being when he is deemed an inconvenience.  Advocating for transgenderism and abortion are therefore the opposite of loving one's neighbor, let alone loving one's family or even loving oneself.

Biden's normal is abnormal.  The media is peddling the narrative that Chairman Xiden is bringing back normalcy.  Well, let us see what the media and the rest of the Democrats consider normal.  The new normalcy is impeaching a president and trying him after his term ends and he has gone home to Mar-A-Lago.  The new normalcy is arresting and prosecuting a man for making memes on Twitter.  The new normalcy is 25,000 National Guard troops in Washington on Inauguration Day.  The new normalcy is replacing a viewing audience for the occasion with 100,000 American flags.  The new normalcy is cries of deprogramming political opponents.  The new normalcy is banning reporters who ask tough questions at press conferences.  The new normalcy is not deporting criminals.  The new normalcy is making women shower with men in the military.  The new normalcy is attempts to expel duly elected opponents from the Senate.

Democrats Want a 'Return to Civility'; When Did They Practice It?  A 2020 Joe Biden campaign ad described the pending election as an "opportunity to leave the dark, angry politics of the past behind us."  After Biden's election, he, Democrats and media urge a "return to civility."  But when did the Democrats practice the very civility to which they seek to return?  Let's go to the videotape: [...] Former Rep. William Clay Sr., D-Mo., said President Ronald Reagan was "trying to replace the Bill of Rights with fascist precepts lifted verbatim from 'Mein Kampf.'"  Coretta Scott King, in 1980, said, "I am scared that if Ronald Reagan gets into office, we are going to see more of the Ku Klux Klan and a resurgence of the Nazi Party."  After Republicans took control of the House in the mid-'90s, Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., compared the newly conservative-majority House to "the Duma and the Reichstag," referring to the legislature set up by Czar Nicholas II of Russia and the parliament of the German Weimar Republic that brought Hitler to power.  About President George Herbert Walker Bush, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., said:  "I believe (Bush) is a racist for many, many reasons. ... (He's) a mean-spirited man who has no care or concern about what happens to the African American community. ... I truly believe that."

How to Deprogram Us.  A new buzzword on social media, cable news, and among leftist activists is "deprogramming."  Along with terms like "reprogramming," "de-Baathification," and "deplatforming," deprogramming refers to cleansing the incorrect mentalities of former Trump Administration officials — and even those who voted for Trump.  Note that deprogramming does not refer to elites who peddled the "Russian collusion" hoax for years, despite the abject absence of evidence.  Not long ago, two Washington Post columnists offered some solutions to the Trumpist threat.  One, Max Boot, wished to ban Fox News and other conservative stations from cable subscriptions.  The other, Eugene Robinson, suggested that there was a need to focus on mostly "white" Republicans to "deprogram" their thoughts.  Pro forma "diversity training" has already been upgraded to include coming clean about "white supremacy" and "unearned privilege."

Army investigating social media post by chaplain who asked if transgender people unfit to serve.  Army officials are investigating comments on social media by a Fort Hood chaplain who questioned whether transgender people are mentally unfit to serve in the military.  The chaplain, Army Maj. Andrew Calvert, wrote the comments under a Facebook post from Army Times, a civilian publication, about President Joe Biden's recent order to reverse the ban on transgender people serving in the armed forces.  "How is rejecting reality (biology) not evidence that a person is mentally unfit (ill), and thus making that person unqualified to serve," Maj. Calvert apparently wrote on Monday under the Army Times post.  "There is little difference in this than over those who believe and argue for a 'flat earth,' despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary."

Biden Administration Adds Forcing Female Soldiers To Shower With Men.  The newly inaugurated Biden-Harris administration is off to a rocky start with military men and women.  Serious affronts have come from Congress as well as the White House, adding insults to injuries with even more damage on the way.  It was bad enough when Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., insinuated during a CNN interview that most of the 25,000 National Guard soldiers deployed to guard the Capitol during the Inauguration were white males and probably Donald Trump voters, so they might be in the "class" of people who "may want to do something" to cause trouble.  Then we saw 5,000 troops banished to a cold parking garage with one electrical outlet, no Internet, two restroom stalls, and high risks of COVID.  Not since former First Lady Hillary Clinton treated uniformed White House social aides like personal servants have we seen such disdain for military personnel doing their jobs.  These affronts and reported plans to keep thousands of troops in Washington, D.C. without a clear mission were exceeded by President Joe Biden signing executive orders on his first day.

New Mexico Voted for Biden by Almost 11%, Now Leaders Are Alarmed by His Oil, Gas Suspension.  In November, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden was so popular in New Mexico that he captured more than 54 percent of the vote, giving him an almost 11 percentage point win over then-President Donald Trump.  But on the heels of a 60-day moratorium on oil and gas drilling on federal lands that has emerged from the new president's administration, Biden's popularity appears to be slipping.  On Wednesday [1/20/2021], acting Interior Secretary Scott de la Vega issued a 60-day ban on new permits on federal land, according to the Washington Times.

The Attempt to Install a One-Party Oligarchy is Predestined to Fail.  Scattered throughout the length and breadth of the United States are those who have experienced first-hand the tyranny of despotic rulers and repressive one-party oligarchies.  Today, many of us that came here as refugees are watching with bemusement and a mild sense of trepidation as the oblivious, self-absorbed, puerile wannabe autocrats in the Ruling Class are hell-bent on imposing their dysfunctional version of one-party dictatorial rule on a nation they apparently neither know nor understand.  The vast bulk of this cadre of self-styled intellectuals and societal elites are little different from those in various European nations.  They are not only beset with a severe case of narcissism but are among the most gullible and easily manipulated due to their overweening need to feel superior to those they perceive to be lesser fellow citizens.  This sense of superiority eventually manifests itself in an immutable belief that they are preordained to rule the unwashed masses.

Former Trump Adviser:  Biden's Early Priorities Uniting Country Against Him.  President Joe Biden's early priorities are uniting the country against him, an adviser to former President Donald Trump said Saturday [1/23/2021]. "Does any normal person right now in this country think the top priority is to make sure we don't deport criminal illegal aliens who've committed violent offenses against U.S. citizens?" Stephen Miller, who was for four years an adviser to Trump, said during an appearance on Fox News' "Watters World."  Miller also referenced Biden's executive orders canceling the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline and rejoining the Paris Climate Accord.  "Whose priorities are these?  They're the priorities of a narrow group of far-left special interests, who have jobs and wealth and security and who look down on everyday citizens who just want to live a better, safer, healthier life," Miller asserted.

1 in 5 Americans have confidence Biden can unite the country: poll.  Americans definitely aren't united on this question.  Just one in five Americans have "a great deal of confidence" in President Biden's ability to make good on his goal to unify the country, according to a new poll released Sunday [1/24/2021].  While 22 percent said Biden will unify the country, 24 percent remained highly skeptical, saying that they have no confidence "at all" that he will be able to do so, the ABC News/Ipsos poll found.  Thirty-five percent said they have a "good amount" of confidence Biden could unite the country and 19 percent said they had "not so much" confidence.

Katie Couric is 'ruled out' as permanent host of Jeopardy after asking Bill Maher 'how are we going to deprogram the cult of Trump?'.  Katie Couric recently sounded off on Donald Trump's impeachment and Twitter ban, before the one-term president left office.  And the acclaimed journalist is now facing backlash from the mostly 'conservative' audience of Jeopardy!, ahead of her guest hosting gig.  It came after she appeared on the first 2021 episode of Real Time with Bill Maher last week, where they discussed extremist beliefs in Congress, following the riot at the Capitol earlier this month.

Biden's Presidency of Disunity.  It is hypocritical for the Democrat party and their supporters pretend to care about the social cohesion of the United States.  Calls for unity are empty coming from a party that spent the last four years dividing people and will continue to do so for four more.  Radical education measures, especially pollution of United States history, and likely favors, for special interests await.

The Tech titans ignore incitement to violence against conservatives.  "Doxing" is defined as publishing on the internet private or identifying information about people with malicious intent.  People who are doxed have their lives destroyed.  Some are attacked so viciously they go into hiding.  It's therefore a dangerous incitement to violence that Don Winslow, a Russiagate conspiracy theorist, has released a video urging people to root out every single Trump supporter in America and target them for destruction.  Yet Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube have allowed the video to remain, with the Twitter version having over 4 million views and getting retweeted over 28 thousand times.  The video (which I won't link but you can find [elsew]here) shows footage of Trump rallies and explains that all of the attendees are "domestic terrorists."  These domestic terrorists, he says, are hiding in plain sight.

Now We've Got Them Right Where We Want Them.  The ruling class has taken an election, but they've substantially weakened their position in doing so.  It's time to take stock of our relative positions and move on.  So, what is the left's position now?  They lost seats in Congress.  Even more significant, they lost power in state governments.  These are the same state bodies that are going to reapportion congressional districts this year.  They've exposed their true nature to all Americans.  Through their actions over the last year, they've revealed themselves to be petty, vindictive, dishonest autocrats.  It is not an attractive look.  They've also exposed all of their covert operators.  The media, tech oligarchs, and faceless bureaucrats have taken sides — and now we know it.  Much of their power came from secrecy, which they no longer have.  All of this was sacrificed to drag a demented, racist has-been across the finish line.  President Asterisk enters office in the weakest position of any president in recent history.  We're not at the dawn of the left's ascendancy.  They have peaked.  They're spent.  I'm sure they're not done fighting, but their strategic position is not something to envy.  It's doubtful they can retain power.

The Phantom Inauguration.  Phantom pain is pain that a person feels in a body part, usually a limb, that is no longer there.  That's kind of how yesterday's Presidential Inauguration felt.  The limb missing was the lack of supporters and even protestors at the event.  BOTH are part of American democracy, and both were totally restricted from the Capitol Mall.  The Inauguration is an American tradition, but regular Americans weren't allowed to be a part.  How wrong is that?  How difficult could it have been to pull off an event that allowed people with 28,000 National Guard troops in place to keep the peace?  Fireworks are great to see... in person.  On television, who cares?  But the paternalistic attitude of Biden, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi urging people to stay home and then if they didn't, locking them out anyway, is very much reflective of the events that lead up to the inaugural, and the approach of this current administration.  The political elites are back, and they're all over making sure you know who is in, and who is out.  Democracy from a distance seems to be the mandate of this bunch.

Biden Inauguration Day: America's Dark Winter Begins.  There's not much healing in our future when:
  •   Biden less than two weeks ago compared Donald Trump and Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.
  •   A Democratic member of the House is obviously pleased that "that Congress is looking into creating an investigative commission to 'rein in' the media," meaning, of course, the few independent outlets that refuse to operate as the Democratic Party's marketing department.
  •   The inauguration will be infected by "a climate of fear and loathing" because the Democrats won't stop feeding the narrative that Trump and his supporters are deplorable insurrectionists.
  •   The bright lights of the media want to know "how are we going to really almost deprogram these people who have signed up for the cult of Trump," and are agitating for a "cleansing" of the Trump "movement."
  •   A political analyst from Democratic Party favorite MSNBC says "MAGA terrorists" — largely those on the right with whom he disagrees — are "much more dangerous" than Al Qaeda after 9-11, [...]
  •   And a cybersecurity expert insists "we're going to have to figure out the OANN and Newsmax problem," referring to a pair of cable outlets that are alternatives to the hard-left cheerleading regularly seen on the broadcast networks, CNN, MSNBC, and others.

Causes of the Great Rejection by Commoners.  [Scroll down]  Isn't it obvious?  Our ruling class lords live by jabbing ordinary Commoners in the ribs.  Because racism.  Because sexism.  Because homophobia.  Our lords give meaning to their lives by vaunting over the Commoners, because bigots.  The idea that ordinary Commoners have the right to live their lives according to their lights, their religion and their guns, just doesn't register with our lords.  The very idea!  The wants, the needs, the dreams of ordinary Americans just do not register with our rulers. [...] Obviously, Commoners can't be allies:  too deplorable.  They can't be oppressed peoples:  too white.  So they must be white oppressors:  QED.

Former Facebook Executive Advocates for Reeducation and Deprogramming to Protect The U.S. Totalitarian State.  They are no longer hiding it any more.  The leftists are publicly demanding that government intervene using the same tactics deployed against ISIS propaganda to target wrong-think by conservative American citizens.  [Video clip]

Rep. Jamaal Bowman:  Time to 'stop spreading the myth of American exceptionalism'.  Newly elected Rep. Jamaal Bowman said Monday [1/18/2021] that the U.S. Capitol riot provided Congress the opportunity to "stop spreading the myth of American exceptionalism" and seriously address systemic racism in the country. [...] "This is a new baseline," he added.  "And now we have to deal with the issue of White nationalism seriously in police departments, but also throughout all of America's institutions."  Mr. Bowman suggested that White supremacy played a role in law enforcement's response to the Jan. 6 violence at the Capitol, comparing it to the heavy-handed response to "peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters" over the summer.

If You Wanted Joe Biden, You Get Him, and You Don't Get to Complain.  You can't spend a year fluffing Biden as the only hope for the union and then act surprised when he does exactly what he said he would do.  This is a guy who stood on a debate stage and raised his hand pledging universal healthcare to illegal immigrants.  He's already trying to roll out an amnesty bill and he hasn't even taken office yet.  That bill includes a path to citizenship with zero new enforcement mechanisms or resources.  In a phrase, it's exactly what you'd expect. [...] The election is over.  The time to fret about Biden's immigration policies was before you voted for him.

GOP Committed Chemical Warfare by Not Wearing Masks Says Clueless Elected Official.  [Scroll down]  The Biden administration is going to make a feeble attempt of trying to bring the nation together and it will fail in spectacular fashion with comments like these being made. [...] The dirty li'l secret in Dem circles is that once the Orange Guy Bad boogeyman is off to Mar-a-Lago, the nincompoop radicals in the new Socialist Democrat Party will start to pressure Joe and Kamala to do every wacky thing that comes across their fertile li'l minds.  Biden, Inc. won't be able to stop them from raising Cain all over the media, being Don Lemon needs ratings, baby!  And what better way to do that than by allowing people to say their colleagues are committing chemical warfare by not wearing a mask?  I'm sure that this is just the opening salvo and some other crackpot theory that the raging left will bellow will be featured weekly and maybe even daily.

It's Breathtaking to Observe What's Going on in Our Country.  We got Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez now saying that she wants the social media companies to censor all conservative media.  We gotta clean up media by getting rid of conservative media.  We gotta clean up America by getting rid of conservatism, and she's asking that the media be the people responsible for making this all this all happen.  Which is not a surprise.  The media is no different than a Democrat, is no different than anywhere else you find a leftist. [...] Look at the record of achievement for Donald Trump in the first three years before the pandemic hit.  The economy alone, and they're destroying the guy, and they have to because they've got to destroy that legacy.  They've gotta destroy that record 'cause it's in direct contradiction to what the Democrats and Biden and all of them in the media are now promoting.

Frank Luntz Looks Visibly Disturbed When His Focus Group Proves People Still LOVE Trump.  Far-left political pollster Frank Luntz had his day ruined when he was forced to tell Fox News about the results from his latest focus group.  While Luntz was hoping that Trump supporters had jumped ship, that couldn't be further from the truth.  In fact, Luntz's focus group found that more than 91% of Trump's supporters would vote for him again (we think that number is much higher).  In addition, Luntz said that 78% of Trump voters believe that the election was stolen (as they should).  "91% of those who voted for Donald Trump on Election Day would vote for him again.  This is a poll that was done on Monday [1/11/2021], just 48 hours ago," Luntz began with a depressed look on his face.

Why the Right will Neither Forgive nor Forget.  Why did so many thousands of individuals choose to take time off from work, spend considerable resources, and inconvenience themselves in order to visit the nation's capital Jan. 6 for what is usually an unremarkable process of certifying electoral votes?  First, we must understand that conservative voters have endured not just the last four years of insults, berating, and unreasonable and childlike behavior out of the Democrat-led House and the Democrat senators as well as many Republicans that failed to support and often worked against President Trump.  They suffered eight years of flagrant trampling of the Constitution, irresponsible and reckless leftist polices and regulations, scandals and abuse, insults and divisiveness from the Obama administration and liberals in the legacy media and social media.

AOC: Country will heal with the 'actual liberation of southern states' from GOP control.  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., took to Instagram on Tuesday night and suggested that the states in the south need to be "liberated."  During an over hour-long livestream about the Capitol Hill riots and the ongoing efforts to impeach President Trump, the progressive lawmaker reiterated her call for GOP Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley to resign or be ousted by Democratic challengers for leading the opposition in the certification of President-elect Biden's victory.  She then pointed to "multi-racial" and "multi-cultural" grassroots organization in Georgia that led to Democrats taking control of the Senate as a sign that "southern states are not red states, they are suppressed states."

Tucker Carlson's frightening summation of what's happening in America.  [Scroll down]  PayPal suspended the account of a group that paid for Trump supporters to travel to Washington.  Rocker Ariel Pink's record label dropped him for attending the rally.  A flight attendant's union has demanded that all "insurrectionists" may no longer travel commercially anywhere in the United States.  And what's an "insurrectionist?"  According to a letter from congressional Democrats, "it is anyone who sympathizes with what happened on Wednesday."  Everyone should be afraid of this definition and its consequences.  People should push back but corporate America is piling on, instead.  People who control our money, health, and ability to travel are nailing anyone who questions the election.  Democrats are now trying to eject all congresspeople who asked to have an audit of the election.  Tucker points out that, beginning in 2000, Democrats routinely objected to Electoral College certifications, except that it wasn't "insurrection" then.

The Editor says...
Allow me to remind you of the definition of insurrection prior to last week:  It applies to the majority of the incidents described on this page.

Random House Dictionary, Unabridged, 1981, page 738.

Book Burners 2.0: Clinton-Tied Groups Push Joe Biden to Kill Free Speech.  Left-wing organizations are plotting to suppress dissent.  A coalition of extremely well-funded radical groups, many with direct ties to the Clintons, have signed an open letter to Joe Biden requesting that he host a range of federal government "solutions" to the problem of "disinformation."  From questions about the coronavirus vaccine to "climate denialism" to "lies about abortion," and more, these leftist groups are tapping into their well-known tyrannical tendency to squash dissent.  If readers have not yet caught on, "disinformation" is a dog whistle for speech that challenges left-wing orthodoxy.  By seeking to silence opposition, the leftist organizations are following in the footsteps of book-burners from the Nazis in Germany to Mao's Red Guards.

I refuse to remain silent.  [Thread reader] I haven't changed.  The Democrat Party has changed.  It's become a toxic combination of radical leftists and liberal elites (many in San Francisco and Hollywood) that have taken over my former Party.  Grandstanding Democrats and well-paid talking heads on TV don't seem to understand how many Americans feel left behind and ignored by their "leaders" in Washington.  They've hijacked the civil rights movement for money and corrupt political gain.  Instead of focusing on the real divisions dragging Americans down, we are fed a false narrative based on race-baiting, identity politics and widespread propaganda fed to the masses. [...] Today's Democrat Party embraces identity politics and victimhood.  I refuse to judge a man or woman by their skin color and I refuse to accept victimhood as my destiny.  Leaders of today's Democrat Party are more interested in cozying up to the coastal liberal elites than they are interested in representing America's hardworking men and women who want to provide for their families, make their communities better and live fulfilling lives.

Our only option is a steady Civil Rights movement to make it illegal, step by step, to do this to us.  [Thread reader] Every person on the left believes they just survived the parallel to the rise of Nazism in Germany and they defeated it.  They stopped it.  They believe all Republicans are 1950's white racists.  They feel empowered to live out their Civil Rights warrior fantasies.  They imagine themselves toppling Jim Crow and the Confederacy and the Nazi army in one swoop and every powerful authority is on their side. [...] They think we are the people in old 1950's photos angrily shouting at black school children.  We are not people to them.  We are symbols of what they feel morally driven to remove from the world.  The most powerful people who influence technology see us the same way.

Just What Were You Expecting?  [Scroll down]  What did you think would happen when you impeached, under false pretenses, a President who was the choice of close to half of America?  What did you think would happen when you spent each and every day denigrating 73 million Trump supporters, calling them "bitter clingers," "deplorables," who live in "flyover country," who go to work, pay their taxes and just want to be left alone?

Georgia state Rep. Vernon Jones announces he's joining Republican Party.  Former Georgia state Rep. Vernon Jones announced Wednesday [1/6/2021] that he will be joining the Republican Party.  Jones, a former Democrat representing the 91st District in Lithonia, Ga., said in a post on Twitter:  "Now more than ever, the Republican Party is in desperate need of leaders that know how to fight.  I know how to fight."  Jones caused a stir last year when he decided to resign from his position in the state's House of Representatives and commit to campaigning on behalf of President Trump, even speaking at the Republican Nationals Convention in August.  He later flip-flopped on his decision to step down, saying he would not kowtow to Democrats, but said he was not interested in changing parties.  Jones did not respond to Fox News' request for comment on what swayed him to change his mind.

I am appalled at the election of Raphael Warnock.  As an American who reveres our country, our founding, and our Constitution, I am appalled at the election of Raphael Warnock.  His beliefs, as declared over the course of decades, about this country, race, Israel, and a host of other issues are frightening. [...] Furthermore, as Democrats and the media, as well as a sizeable number of GOP officials in Washington and their pundits and media, condemn the president for fighting to the bitter end over serious election abuses — the worst of which are the constitutional violations in key battleground states strategically instituted by the Democrat Party and Biden campaign — precious little is said about the declared intention of the Democrat Party to gut the independence of the Supreme Court by packing it with leftwing ideologues, destroying the Senate by packing it with new Democrat senators from Puerto Rico and DC, killing the filibuster rule to ensure that all and any laws the Democrat wish to pass will come to pass, and destroying the electoral college.  If carried through, this will be the greatest attack on our Constitution and our republican system since the Civil War — when the Democrat Party led the Confederacy.  The media, of course, are all in with this.

Why I Am Joining The Jan. 6 DC March For Trump.  I am angry.  It's not a passing emotion brought on by a single circumstance.  This anger is a deep, painful, abiding anger created by a mix of frustration, despair, hopelessness, and injustice. [...] I'm angry because I've been playing by the "rules":  paying my taxes, being civil and tolerant of my neighbor, accepting without protest the election of past presidents I didn't support, and never threatening physical violence, using name-calling, canceling careers, using government goons to unlawfully spy to invent reasons for impeachment, or using media to misreport, misrepresent or otherwise create dissension and anger.  Yet the other side has carte blanche to do all this and more without condemnation, conviction, or retribution of any kind.

A Time For Choosing:  A Test For Our Souls.  There has been a force quietly at work in our country, in plain sight, that has gradually taken over ideological control of most of our institutions, businesses, media, and even our culture.  This force is Marxism and communism.  For those who have been following this story, there is no surprise here.  For those who have never heard of this, it sounds far-fetched and unbelievable.  This decades-long communist subversion of our nation came to a head in the 2020 election.  While before our major political parties didn't differ that much on a fundamental level, gradually one of the parties was subverted by communist groups.  During past elections, both parties would wave the American flag and sing the national anthem, but now one side genuinely believes America is a fundamentally flawed nation.  Over the summer, Marxist groups such as Black Lives Matter (BLM), which was founded by self-proclaimed Marxists who have hijacked genuine concerns over racism for political purposes, and the far-left Antifa group, were behind riots and violence.  These groups have direct ties to communist groups connected to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Why the Left Always Wins.  [Scroll down]  Deconstructivism is simpler to learn, easier to embrace, and tons more fun to practice than patriotic sacrifice.  The leftist has only to dilate on racism to other smug communitarians, COVID air-hug in delusional moral superiority, and his work is done.  Furthermore, the streets have been filled with kids looting stores, beating people up, even killing people, and the police don't care.  So much fun!  The alternative is a conviction to stand for God-given liberty, respect the law, bear arms, and from time to time refresh the tree of liberty with the blood of patriots.  Who's buying that — especially when your professor tells you people who believe that stuff are deplorable racists.

House Democrat's opening prayer ends with 'amen and a-woman'.  The 117th Congress kicked off with a fresh controversy Sunday [1/3/2021] when the Democrat delivering the opening prayer concluded by saying "amen," and then added "a-woman."  Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, Missouri Democrat, ended his prayer "in the name of the monotheistic god," then added what sounded like "Brahma," before finishing with "and god known by many names by many different faiths.  Amen and a-woman."  Critics, led by Republican lawmakers, were quick to point out that "amen" means "so be it," and does not refer to the male gender, while "a-woman" doesn't mean anything.

Proposed House Rules Seek to Erase Gendered Terms Such as 'Father, Mother, Son, Daughter'.  Leaders in the House of Representatives announced on Friday a rules package for the 117th Congress that includes a proposal to use "gender-inclusive language" and eliminate gendered terms such as "'father, mother, son, daughter," and more.  Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Rules Committee Chairman James McGovern (D-Mass.) announced on Friday that the rules package includes changes that would "honor all gender identities by changing pronouns and familial relationships in the House rules to be gender neutral."  A separate announcement from McGovern (pdf) said that the Democratic rules package will make "Changes [to] pronouns and familial relationships in the House rules to be gender neutral or removes references to gender, as appropriate, to ensure we are inclusive of all Members, Delegates, Resident Commissioners and their families — including those who are nonbinary."

House of Representatives rules may be stripped of all gender references.  Proposed changes to the rules of the House of Representatives would "honor all gender identities" by eliminating such specific terms as mother and father, son and daughter, and aunt and uncle.  Instead, only gender-neutral terms such as "parent," "child," "sibling" and "parent's sibling" would be allowed in the text of the House rules, according to the proposed changes.  The proposed changes — which also include the establishment of a House "Office of Diversity and Inclusion" — will be voted on after the House convenes Sunday for the new 117th Congress.  Another rules change would prevent Republicans from amending a bill at the last minute, the Washington Examiner reported.

Nancy Pelosi Bans 'Gender' Terms Like Mother, Daughter, Father, Son in House Rules.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Rules Committee Chairman James McGovern (D-MA) unveiled the rules for the 117th Congress on Friday, which contain "future-focused" proposals, including the elimination of gendered terms, such as "father, mother, son, and daughter."  "This package, which will be introduced and voted on once the new Congress convenes, includes sweeping ethics reforms, increases accountability for the American people, and makes this House of Representatives the most inclusive in history," said the House Committee on Rules in a statement.

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How to Steal an Election in Four Steps.  Note the scope of what has happened.  When government agencies fake the lethality of a disease, isolate people, impose lockdowns, and try to cause a recession, when they deceive via unconstitutional laws, fake polls, mail-in-voting, and rigged software, when the fraud enlists the Centers for Disease Control, the FBI and CIA, high-level plants within other agencies, state governors & attorneys general, the broadcast media, & social media — all to take down one man because he's the choice of the people — that's not "voter fraud."  It's an organized coup.  Are the Democrats that you know capable of this?  Could Pelosi, AOC, Swalwell and the rest pull this off?  Or are just politically-aligned order-takers, like our media and social media, from, likely, Soros and China, a pair that often work together because they share a common enemy?  Today's Democrats are controlled by far-left Alinskyites who produce tension & chaos, then blame capitalism, racism, & Trump.  Look what they did to us this year.  How many Americans did they isolate to sell the virus lie?  How much depression and loss of income did they cause?  How many breakups and divorces?  How many elderly people had to die alone to serve the Left's narrative?  They even suppressed the effective covid drug hydroxychloroquine for months — they kept medicine from people who needed it — solely because President Trump had said the drug was effective and they could not allow Trump to seem to be right about anything.  As noted, they suppressed the vaccine as well.  The party is no longer a political opponent; it is a US enemy and the most retrograde force in America.

The 2020 List of the 10 Worst Mayors in the Nation.  In celebration of a 2020 that desperately needs to come to an end, here is a list of the Top 10 Worst Mayors in the nation.  These mayors most definitely use Orwell's 1984 as their policies and procedures manual, if not their Bible.  It comes as no surprise that all 10 of the mayors on the list are Democrat (something about that political party), and that five of the 10 are mayors of West Coast cities (something about the Pacific Ocean).  Several of the mayors have overseen a mass exodus of people from their cities, and even their state in a 10-month period.  But most of all, every one of these mayors stand out as abject failures of governance, with constituents that literally despise them.

You're It.  The idea of Donald Trump as a cult figure is being used to defame and dismiss a patriot's sense of duty to the republic.  It's just another communist plot to keep those patriots on the sidelines while they continue their all-out assault on the republic through corrupt government practices, including the election. [...] Now, the Democrats have more aggressive tools at their disposal like BLM and Antifa and they have used them.  They have engaged in anti-white propaganda and racism in order to brand any patriot as a racist or fascist.  One can always count on the communists to accuse one of what they are themselves.  None of this is new.  It's the communist playbook by the numbers and they operate by it with no sense of self-awareness or blushing awkwardness.  Communists hammer the opposition and count on sympathizers in the press to carry their message, when that isn't enough, they send their brownshirts (Antifa) in to break some legs and set fires.  Members of their militant wing are never arrested, or, if so, quickly released.  I wonder how many Antifa and BLM were counting votes for the Democrats.  So, why is this any different from the Tea Party?  Why would the communists ever think that they could not do with today's patriot what they did to them?  The communists know they will get support from MSM and the weaklings in the Republican Party, because their success with the Tea Party has enabled all other excesses of government.

Ossoff, Warnock bankrolled by donors in New York and California.  The record-shattering fundraising hauls made by Georgia Democratic Senate hopefuls Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are being driven by out-of-state donors in liberal cities like New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, campaign filings show.  As Democrats try to claw back control of the Senate in enormously consequential run-off races on Jan. 5, Ossoff, an investigative journalist, and Warnock, a senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, each raised a stunning $100 million in the last two months, becoming the best-funded Senate candidates in history.  But 95 percent of that money is coming from outside of the Peach State, records show.

GA Dems Sound Alarm in Senate Race:  Running Out of Cash.  Imagine how fast they'd spend your money.  The two Democratic candidates for Senate in Georgia's Jan. 5 Senate runoff elections have raised more than $100 million each in the past two months, but their campaign managers were appealing on Monday [12/28/2020] for even more money — with a dire warning for liberals if it doesn't come through, according to NBC News.  That should be a dire warning for the rest of America of what could happen if they win.  According to NBC, the campaign managers for Democrats Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock sent a memo to potential donors "sounding the alarm" about the current state of the financial race.

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The Democrat donors probably aren't very excited about "Reverend" Warnock, who carries more baggage than a Greyhound bus, and would surely be a national embarrassment if elected to the Senate.

November 2020: The Good Points.  [Scroll down]  Traditional Democrats have no home in the new Progressive Party.  "Old line" Democrats were good people, real Americans.  JFK, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, even a Tip O'Neill.  You could disagree with them about the percentage of the top tax bracket or whether we needed yet another Federal bureau, but there would never be any question about whether they'd root for America in the Olympics or felt that Columbus Day was a real holiday.  They appreciated America's history and inherent goodness.  This is not today's Harris Progressive.  Joe the Plumber — an old-line Democrat — languishes in political no-man's land today.  He works hard, doesn't ask for a handout, maybe belongs to a union, wants to be left alone and wouldn't mind some Federal student aid so his kids could go to State U. Not a free ride, just some aid.  He voted for Trump and will every time.

Facebook Censors Ad Highlighting Raphael Warnock's Praise of Jeremiah Wright.  Facebook has censored an ad drawing attention to Democrat senate candidate Raphael Warnock's praise for far-left hate-preacher Jeremiah Wright, [...] The ad was bought by American Crossroads, a nonprofit linked to Karl Rove.  It highlights Warnock's praise for Wright, but was taken down by Facebook after it was "fact-checked" by Lead Stories, one of Facebook's approved third-party fact-checkers.  Lead Stories claims the ad "leaves out context," because it implies he was "communicating the same sentiment" as Wright.  But Lead Stories also admits that Warnock referred to Wright as a "preacher and a prophet."

More about Jeremiah Wright and the TUCC.

Keep calm, and keep drilling for oil and gas.  They claim to be science-based, but anti-fossil fuel campaigners are, at heart, ignorant and unserious.  To understand how, just witness the recent spectacle put on by The North Face, the clothing company known for its puffy jackets.  Perhaps inspired by the Summer of Wokeness, the outfitter decided it would make a statement on the issue of climate change.  With yet another tiresome act of vain virtue-signaling, The North Face snubbed one of its existing corporate customers, refusing for the first time to produce jackets bearing the company logo.  The reason?  Because this West Texas company is in the business of petroleum production.  Ah, but wait a minute — what are North Face jackets made of?  Surely, if you haven't guessed it already, you will not be surprised when you hear that they (like two-thirds of all clothing sold today) are made from petroleum products.  Thus, the geniuses in management at The North Face are effectively boycotting their own suppliers.  Brilliant.

Left Wing media Anchor, Katie Couric, Openly Says Trump Supporters need to be 'Deprogrammed'.  Former co-anchor of NBC's "Today" show Katie Couric ripped the Republicans in Congress who voted against impeaching President Donald Trump and certifying the 2020 presidential election results.  "And the question is:  How are we going to really, almost deprogram these people who have signed up for the cult of Trump?" Couric said during an appearance Friday night on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher."  [Video clip]

Democrat Rep. Steve Cohen Declares Troops Protecting the Inaugaration are Racist White Nationalists because they don't vote Democrat.  Rep Cohen on his concerns w/ the National Guard securing the Inauguration:  "The [National] Guard is 90 some-odd percent male; and only about 20 percent of white males voted for Biden ... there are probably not more than 25% of the people there protecting us that voted for Biden[.]"  [Video clip]

House Minority Leaders Caught On Call Urging House Reps to Kill Trump's $2000 Check Demand.  First no response from the Republicans on the most obvious and corrupt election in world history and now Congressional Republicans want to stop the President's wishes for providing more in COVID payments to the people.  Joe Biden manufactured 20 million or more votes in the 2020 election in November to steal the race away from record setter President Trump and the Republicans in the House and Senate say nothing.  Now this same group wants to prevent Americans from receiving more than $600 in payments in a COVID package?  These individuals are not for the people.

The American Left Has Now Fully Embraced Racism.  There is no issue more important to the future and soul of our nation right now than the leftist bigotry threatening the very concept of what it means to be an American.  On the medical side, Dr. Harald Schmidt, a supposed expert on ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania, told the New York Times that essential workers, not the elderly, should be the first to receive COVID-19 vaccines.  His reason?  "Older populations are whiter," he told the publication.  "Society is structured in a way that enables them to live longer.  Instead of giving additional health benefits to those who already had more of them, we can start to level the playing field a bit."  To be clear, the term "level the playing field" here means allowing people to die because of the color of their skin.  What's amazing about this is that just months ago to even question the efficacy of lockdowns meant to stop the spread of COVID-19 was met with accusations that one was killing grandma.  Now, it doesn't matter because grandma is probably white.

Dem doc: re-educate Trump voters, purge social conservatives from government.  Congressional Democrats back "Secular America," a group that has sent a 28-page document to the Biden transition team advising him to strip First Amendment rights from Christians who advocate traditional biblical positions on the sanctity of life, marriage, education, and the nuclear family, Harbinger's Daily reports.  The letter was titled, "Restoring Constitutional Secularism and Patriotic Pluralism in the White House:  Prepared exclusively by Secular Democrats of America PAC for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris Transition Team."  The document, presented by Reps Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and Jared Huffman, D-Calif., and endorsed by Rep. Jerry McNerney, D-Calif., states that an incoming Biden administration must "educate the American public," particularly those identified as the "religious right," on the need to keep their "religious dogma" to themselves.  The document calls for a purge of social conservatives from all levels of government, labeling them as "white nationalist" and "conspiracy theorists."

8,000+ Nursing Home Residents and 49 Criminals Died in Pennsylvania.  Guess Which Group Democrats Care About.  One of the most important and least discussed coronavirus subjects in this election was the decision by Democrat governors to infect huge numbers of nursing home residents by forcing nursing homes to accept coronavirus patients.  Governor Wolf in Pennsylvania and his health expert, Richard 'Rachel' Levine, were one of the worst offenders. [...] Let's compare and contrast.  8,047 nursing home residents dead isn't a crisis.  But 49 criminals dead is a death sentence.  These are Democrat priorities.  Free the criminals and kill the elderly.

Warnock's baggage at risk of weighing down Ossoff in other Georgia Senate race.  Democratic Georgia Senate candidate Jon Ossoff's losing electoral record has an advantage:  The filmmaker's been vetted.  The same can't be said of fellow Democratic Senate contender, Rev. Raphael Warnock.  Ossoff and Warnock's Jan. 5 runoffs will decide Senate control in the next Congress.  If both of them win, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will be able to break any 50-50 ties in the chamber.  Given Senate Republicans' current two-seat edge, it seems commonsense that Ossoff and Warnock campaign together.  The problem?  Ossoff, who was bested in another high-profile race in 2017, is at risk of being sandbagged by political dirt that's being heaped on Warnock.

GA Law Enforcement Officials Say Warnock, Ossoff Will Undermine Police.  Top Georgia law enforcement officials and groups are expressing "serious concern" with Jon Ossoff's and Raphael Warnock's Senate bids, claiming that the pair of Democrats will push to defund police and hinder officers' ability to serve.  Ossoff and Warnock have faced criticism over a number of anti-police comments.  Ossoff in June expressed the need to hold "entire departments accountable," arguing that police funding "has to be ... on the line" if officers violate his proposed use-of-force rules.  And in a series of 2015 sermons, Warnock accused police of operating with a "gangster and thug" mentality, adding that he was not surprised to see officers act like "bullies."  Georgia Fraternal Order of Police secretary Steven Gaynor told the Washington Free Beacon that the Senate hopefuls have done little to reassure law enforcement of their support.

Ossoff Campaign Staffer Donated to Bail Out Minneapolis Rioters.  A member of Jon Ossoff's communications team donated money to a Minneapolis group that bailed out violent criminals and championed the "Defund the Police" movement.  Ossoff campaign deputy press secretary Rhyan Lake in May donated to the Minnesota Freedom Fund (MFF), which posts bail for violent criminals and gained national prominence during riots following the death of George Floyd.  The nonprofit pledged to "support those protesting George Floyd's murder and generations of police violence" — it spent funds to bail out individuals charged with crimes including sexual assault and murder, and at least one who was accused of attempted murder of a police officer.

Rep. Tlaib:  Allah Has Given Us the Opportunity 'To Show The Power of Muslims in Georgia'.  Muslim leaders, including Reps.  Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), expressed the hope and expectation on Sunday [12/13/2020] that Muslim voters would be a deciding factor in the pivotal Senate runoff election in the state of Georgia early next month.  The early voting period begins on Monday.  Participating in an online "vote-a-thon" co-hosted by the Georgia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and Georgia Muslim Voter Project, Tlaib said:  "I hope that you realize just the opportunity here that Allah has given us to show the power of Muslims in Georgia."

Our political opponents are vicious, but they're also crazy.  Leftists live in a world of racial hatred, gender confusion, white self-loathing, religious loathing, American loathing, anti-Christian and anti-Semitic feelings, misogyny, misandry, homophobia, transphobia, and so much more.  Everything is defined by hatred for others.  It's impossible to live in a world imbued with hate and still be happy.  These -isms and -phobias get pushed onto young people in public schools and in institutions of higher leftist learning.  Many of these people, when they leave college or university, continue to bathe in this fetid broth of self-loathing and paranoia.

Georgia Democrat Raphael Warnock Called Israel An 'Apartheid' State Occupying Palestine.  Democratic Senate Candidate Raphael Warnock decried Israel as an "apartheid" state during a Palm Sunday sermon in 2015, railing against Israel's "occupation."  Warnock aimed his fire directly at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's opposition to a two-state solution in the Middle East, calling it "tantamount to saying occupation today, occupation tomorrow, occupation forever."  The phrase echoes the words of segregationist George Wallace who called for "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever."

A Message to Texas Democrat Terry Meza Who Doesn't Understand Home Defense or Texas for That Matter.  Telling a Texan to put down his guns in his own home when someone breaks into it is like telling a fish not to swim.  It's impossible for him to do.  Yet that's exactly what Texas State Representative Terry Meza is attempting to do, as she's introduced HB196 which would effectively prevent Texans from defending themselves in their own home until every other option has been exhausted.

Cuomo Given Award Named For Another Democrat Leader Who Killed And Got Away With It.  New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo received another award for his mishandling of COVID-19 in his state, which included making courageous decisions like keeping schools closed despite the science and directing positive COVID-19 patients into nursing homes, leading to thousands of preventable deaths.  Cuomo announced on Twitter Wednesday he would receive the Edward M. Kennedy Award for Inspired Leadership.  "I learned about humanity, leadership and putting people first from the great Senator Ted Kennedy," he tweeted.

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Yeah, putting people first.  Unfortunately, Mary Jo Kopechne is unavailable for comment.

Georgia Democrat Raphael Warnock Says He Didn't Praise Murderous Dictator Fidel Castro.  Here's Video Of Him Doing It.  Georgia Democrat Senate candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock praised communist Cuban dictator Fidel Castor, who is responsible for tens of thousands of brutal state murders, in a sermon in 2016[,] days after the dictator passed away.  A recently resurfaced video from 2016 shows Warnock behind his church's podium, giving a eulogy for the authoritarian to his congregation.  "We pray for the people of Cuba in this moment.  We remember Fidel Castro, whose legacy is complex.  Don't let anyone tell you a simple story; life usually isn't very simple.  His legacy is complex, kind of like America's legacy is complex," Warnock said.  [Video clip]

Durbin Admits:  Democrats Weaponized Wuhan Coronavirus Relief.  More than 100,000 businesses across the country have permanently shut their doors as a result of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.  Over the past nine months, Republicans and President Trump have repeatedly offered Democrats trillion dollar relief deals.  They were all rejected by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her colleagues in the Senate.  We knew this was for political reasons, after all, to them power comes before anything else, but we now have additional proof that they were playing games in an election year.

Democrats and their media enablers, the fancy-pants, hoity-toity party of grifters.  How to identify and characterize a Democrat?  They consider themselves to be so very much smarter than any Trump supporter.  To them, Trump supporters are morons, cultists, idiot rednecks.  They, on the other hand, are veritable oracles of wisdom.  They know so much more than we do.  Their candidates are so much more qualified to hold elective office.  Consider the lofty braininess of AOC, Ilhan Omar or Rashida Tlaib.  No Republican can possibly compare to those wise scholars of exactly... wait for it, exactly nothing, save their vicious anti-Semitism.  The squad is hardly alone in their infinite confidence in their own superiority.  How about Jerrold Nadler and Adam Schiff?  The mainstream media is chock full of such self-appointed luminaries:  Wolf Blitzer, Jake Tapper, Chuck Todd, Brian Stelter, Jim Acosta, Chris Wallace, Don Lemon, Rachel Maddow, et. al. to name a few.  Thomas Friedman of the NYT vividly comes to mind.  He long ago called Trump supporters cultists.

Seattle is about to go unthinkably left as liberal mayor announces she won't seek reelection.  Seattle's first-term Mayor Jenny Durkan announced on Monday that she won't seek reelection.  This almost ensures the unthinkable:  Seattle will drift even further to the left.  The news didn't come to me as a shock.  I have been hearing rumors for the last couple weeks that Durkan was reconsidering reelection after being rendered powerless by a City Council that repeatedly stands in her way.  After the last Council election, she was left with a majority of members who would never be her political allies.  At the same time, the mayor faced daily political pressure from the city's most vocal and fringe activists, pressuring her to adopt their dangerous plans, including defunding the police.  She attempted to curry their favor, allowing the notorious "Summer of Love" to continue with the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ).

Kelly Loeffler Asks Radical Raphael Warnock to Denounce Marxism, His Answer Tells You Everything.  During the Georgia Senate debate on Sunday night [12/6/2020], Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) nailed her far-left Democratic opponent Raphael Warnock with a lot of his questionable past and radical positions in a variety of questions.  Loeffler asked Warnock about his frequent praise for Marxism and the redistribution of income, and she asked him to denounce Marxism and socialism.  He previously had worked for a church which invited Fidel Castro to the church and praised him.  While he claimed to believe in the free enterprise system, he dodged denouncing the troubling ideologies.  How far left are you when you can't condemn it?  When you can't call out the evil it's done?  [Video clip]

Joe Biden:  Unity, Fraud, and Power.  This appears to be the most far-left presidential administration, if in fact it is inaugurated into existence on Jan. 20 of next year, in American history, and no one really believes the man putatively elected to lead it actually controls it at all.  And yet the country, which fairly decisively moved to the right — in legislative and other state-level races, in the House where Republicans captured more than a dozen seats, and in the Senate where only something untoward would have to happen in the Georgia runoffs for Republicans not to hold a majority despite having to defend 23 of 36 seats — is asked to unify behind it?

Georgia On My Mind.  In its not-too-distant past, the Democratic Party had two wings.  It was strongly anti-Communist, nationalistic, and many of its members were people of committed religious faith.  JFK believed in the creed of "American Exceptionalism" as much as Ronald Reagan.  Today's Democratic Party still has some old-style pro-union liberals who salivate over the prospect of expanding entitlements but what it doesn't have any longer is a conservative wing.  If it can be said to still have two wings at all they are a socialist wing and a socialist-lite wing.  Some of their leaders like Bernie Sanders, would openly nationalize our economy under direct government control and others like Elizabeth Warren, who would allow capitalists to create the wealth and then rob them of it.  This is why the runoff elections for the U.S. Senate in the state of Georgia are of supreme importance.  The disaster of electing Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock would be the absence of a conservative brake on the runaway train of left-wing policies.

The Hijacking of the 2020 Election and the Hate America Strategy.  There is a consensus that American society in 2020 is more polarized than at any point in the nation's history.  If Joe Biden is inaugurated as President thanks to an irrefutably fraudulent and choreographed election, then this polarization is irreversible and will ultimately lead to a permanent fracturing of the country as the central government will be deriving its power from usurpation and not from the consent of the governed.  The sixty-year crusade of the American left and its Hate America Strategy, conceived to facilitate the ultimate transformation of the nation, will have succeeded in ways they never could have imagined.

How Liberals Can Destroy Football with COVID, and Why They'd Want To.  Football has always been reviled by the left.  It is quintessentially American:  invented in this country; played by high-testosterone, masculine men; and operating almost entirely as a super-competitive meritocracy — i.e., the test of whether someone gets to play in the NFL is whether he can play, and play better than the other guy.  In the NFL in 2020, there's no time to humor racism or any other "ism" in fielding a winning team; there's only the all-defining imperative priority to put the best players on the field and "coach 'em up" to play the game well.  All of those attributes of the sport are precisely why it has been so popular in America; it has been aligned with American cultural norms and preferences for decades.  The sport's popularity is in fact proof that America as a whole is not racist — systemically or otherwise.  Americans don't root for their team or watch the NFL in huge numbers based on a team's compliance with racial hiring quotas; they root and watch because they appreciate the best playing the best using talents that most of us don't have, and deciding on a level playing field who wins a competitive game and who loses.

When the Ruling Class Needs to Steal Elections.  I think that the "oppressed peoples, allies, white oppressors" political formula is a cruelly exclusive doctrine that cuts out the great middle of America.  No ruling class with half a brain would go for a political formula like that.

The Ideology Now Running the Democratic Party Looks Like a Classic Cult.  Apart from deliberate projection, which is regularly used as a political tactic as per Saul Alinsky, there is the more classic and unconscious projection that happens among true believers of the same ilk.  Take a look at what happens when one of those believers is caught telling the truth about what he'd like to do to Trump voters:  DNC member David Atkins openly suggesting that 75 million Americans need to be "deprogrammed."  While Atkins wonders how anyone could be a Trump supporter, many of us wonder how a leftist who may have been initially attracted to feel-good ideas like "tolerance" and "diversity" could publicly advocate forceful "deprogramming" of 75 million of his fellow citizens (in refugee camps? concentration camps?) for the sin of disagreeing with him about a political candidate.  How does that happen?

Democrats Must Regret Messing with Texas.  Texas was won by Republican Presidential incumbent Donald Trump by 52% to 46%.  Trump won by more than 600,000 votes among almost 12 million votes cast.  Democrats spent incredible sums of money trying to turn the state legislative chambers of Texas blue and failed miserably.  Democrats targeted 22 races in hopes of turning at least nine to their side and flipping the chamber.  They got zero.  Wendy Davis also lost her congressional race despite being the Democrat standard bearer at one time for the governor's race.  The most shocking Democrat loss was Zapata County — just north of the Rio Grande Valley along the border — by 6 points, 53% Trump to 47% for Biden.  The county is 94% Hispanic.

The ungrateful left launches a war on Thanksgiving.  There has been a lot of talk among campus progressives in recent years about the need to "decolonize" Thanksgiving.  For example, the University of Oregon held an event titled "Thanks, But No Thanks-giving," the description of which read in part:  "Thanksgiving is, foundationally speaking, a celebration of the ongoing genocide against native peoples and cultures across the globe." [...] The Huffington Post recently suggested that Thanksgiving be cancelled due to its large carbon footprint.  Ironically, the coddled and entitled, like many students and professors on college campuses, are often the least grateful.  Those who seem to have everything are often the least thankful.  Rich, spoiled Hollywood types foam at the mouth (when they're not stuffing it with caviar and expensive champagne), railing against Trump and his supporters and/or a laundry list of supposed "systemic" injustices inherent to the country that has allowed them to get rich pretending to be someone they're not.  Meanwhile, those in "flyover country" with comparatively little are often deeply thankful for what they do have, and grateful to be living in the United States of America.

Joe Biden urges nation to 'forgo family traditions' on Thanksgiving.  President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday [11/25/2020] called on Americans not to gather with extended families for Thanksgiving, saying it was a "patriotic duty" to limit the spread of COVID-19.  Biden said during an at times campaign-like speech in Wilmington, Del., that he and his family were setting an example by not celebrating the holiday as a large group.

The Difficult Way Forward.  Republicans are still playing the old politics about governmental efficiency and improving the American people's lives.  The Democrats are trying to destroy America and assume unlimited power over the American people.  Republicans do everything within the confines of the Constitution and law.  The Democrats are lawless and recognize no standard or precedent.  We should not persist in thinking of today's Democrats as the American political party of old:  Andrew Jackson, FDR, Harry Truman, [JFK], etc.  It is a radical atheist revolutionary party, more akin to the Nazi Party of Germany or the Communist Party of the Soviet Union than the Republican Party of today.  The Democrats are utterly corrupt, power mad, and pitiless.  They are trying to destroy the institutions of its country and replace them with totalitarianism.  They do not wish to serve the American people, for whom they have nothing but contempt; they wish to enslave us.  We have to stop thinking that what we are experiencing today is still normal politics.  This is a war against evil and for national survival, nothing less.

Fighting Words.  Democrats are not democrats; they are totalitarians.  They have declared war on the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, the Electoral College, the Senate, the Supreme Court, the election system, and the idea of civil order.  They have called for the Republican President of the United States to be de-platformed and jailed.  Their obvious goal is a one-party state that criminalizes dissent.  To them, support for such basic necessities as borders and law enforcement are racist.  If you oppose their efforts to legalize infanticide, they will condemn you as enemies of women, and if you make videos of their confessions to selling body parts of murdered infants, they will — like Kamala Harris — throw you in jail.  Progressives are not progressive; they are reactionaries.  They are out to abolish liberal value systems and create a status hierarchy where race, gender, and sexual orientation define and confine you to an unalterable place in their new social order.  If you are white or male or heterosexual or religious — Justice Kavanaugh was all four — you are guilty before the fact.

Webster's New World College Dictionary, Third Edition, 1997, page 92.

"Burn It Down".  American cities are entering a period of chaos.  Protests and riots have dominated headlines, but beneath the surface, activists are launching an unprecedented campaign to overthrow the traditional justice system and replace it with a new model based on a radical conception of social justice.  In Seattle, where this campaign may be most advanced, activists have crafted a narrative about police brutality, mass incarceration, and punitive justice that leads to a natural sequence of solutions:  "abolish the police," "divest from prisons," and "defund the courts."  Over the past three decades, the city's radical-progressives have seized control of municipal government — with the notable exception of the criminal-justice system, which they see as the final obstacle to total control.  If they can dismantle it, activists believe, they can bring about their transformation of society.

New York Magazine Art Critic Seems to Advocate Genocide of Republicans.  As Townhall colleague Kurt Schlichter has been known to say, never forget they, that is the left, want you dead.  This is not hyperbole; it is becoming clearer by the day that the desire to consign roughly half of the nation to reeducation camps or mass graves is so prevalent on the left that when they do, as they say, "say the quiet part out loud," no one on the left is shocked.  There are no calls for toning down rhetoric or disavowals of the proposals.  Just a couple of days ago, a prominent California Democrat said that Republicans needed to undergo "deprogramming."  Presumably, this was to make us think, against all evidence, that socialism is a viable economic theory, that same-sex marriage is normal, and that giving little kids life-altering drugs and surgery to change their sex is good parenting.

Georgia Democrat Raphael Warnock Is Not Being Opposed Because of His Faith but Because He Is Anti-American and Has Bad Ideas.  In Georgia, the Democrats are running scared.  While they seem to have successfully stolen the presidential election thanks to the fecklessness of the Republican secretary of state Brad Raffensperger, who abjectly failed at virtually any part of his job that concerned election security, the GOP seems well-positioned for the coming runoff/special election.  David Perdue is about 100,000 votes ahead of Jon Ossoff.  The electorate is fired up. [...] [Kelly] Loeffler is something of an unknown.  She had a bruising primary that a real political party would never have let take place and which may have damaged her standing with supporters of her opponent.  And she has a telegenic, if somewhat smarmy, opponent in the Reverend Raphael Warnock.  Because of this race's visibility, Warnock is getting a good look in the bright sunlight and what is being seen is not very flattering.  [Video clip]

Biden to 'Racist' Trump Voters: 'Let's Heal'.  After four years of attacking President Donald Trump as "illegitimate," "fascist," "Nazi," "tyrant," "dictator," "racist," "anti-Semitic," "Russian stooge," "traitor," "grifter," "xenophobe," "sexist," "homophobe," "ignorant," "fat" and "lazy," Former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive president-elect, now says, "Let's heal." [...] Well, that's lovely.  But please forgive Trump supporters for not being in a mood to "heal." How bogus was the Trump-Russia collusion investigation that consumed most of the Trump presidency?  Neither Joe Biden nor Kamala Harris bothered to mention it during the campaign.  Ditto for Trump's impeachment.  Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and former FBI Director James Comey now admit that, knowing then what they know now, they would not have signed off on FISA warrants that were crucial to the investigation.

Georgia Senate Candidate Raphael Warnock, Continues To Spew Hateful Bigoted Comments.  The list of Georgia Democrat Raphael Warnock's hateful, racist comments continues to grow[.] [...] For those keeping score:
  •   Warnock defended anti-Semite and anti-American pastor Jeremiah Wright and praised Marxism.
  •   Warnock's mentor called for the "destruction of everything white" and argued white Christians are "satanic."
  •   Warnock signed a letter comparing Israel to apartheid South Africa.
  •   Warnick claimed that "Americans Must 'Repent' for Backing Trump and 'Worship of Whiteness.'
  •   Warnock called police officers "gangsters and thugs" and "bullies."
  •   Warnock cozied up to Fidel Castro in 1995.
  •   Earlier this year, Warnock was accused by his wife of running over her foot with his car after they got into an argument.
  •   In 2002, Warnock was accused of hindering a police investigation into child abuse.
  •   Warnock criticized the Second Amendment during sermons.
  •   He's also an Anti-Semite.  Just ask former Democratic New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikand:  [Video clip]

Ilhan Omar Tries to Explain Bible Scripture to Marco Rubio to Defend Raphael Warnock, It Doesn't Go Well.  [Scroll down]  One such comment that excited negative attention was [Rev. Raphael] Warnock saying during a sermon that "You cannot serve the military and God," as we reported earlier.  It's a comment that's not likely to go over well in Georgia which has a lot of military installations including military who like to think they serve both God and their country. [...] But of course that isn't scripture, nowhere does it say "You cannot serve God and the military."  Nor does it say "You cannot serve God and dmoney."  What the heck is "dmoney?"  The exact quote is "mammon" meaning riches or wealth.  Not the military.  So what are the GOP lying about, Rep. Omar?  They're quoting something wrong and disgusting that Warnock said.  That's not lying, that's correctly calling him out.  What she doesn't like is she knows it's an attack that's going to stick.  It also tells us something about Warnock that Omar is willing to go to bat for him.  That's not helpful for him in Georgia which isn't looking to move to the radical left or turn socialist.

Kelly Loeffler Demands Raphael Warnock Apologize for Saying You Can't Serve God and the Military.  Senator Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) has demanded her Democratic opponent Rev. Raphael Warnock apologize for comments he made in a 2011 sermon about God and the military.  Loeffler and Warnock will contest one of two Senate runoff elections in Georgia on January 5.  Republican Senator David Perdue will face Democrat Jon Ossoff in the second race on the same day.  A video of Warnock's sermon has resurfaced on YouTube and Loeffler shared a clip on Twitter on Wednesday [11/18/2020].

Pushing 'defund the police,' BLM turned its success into electoral disaster.  Black Lives Matter came up with the single most effective political slogan of the year.  While no one was likely to be overly impressed with Joe Biden's line "Build Back Better," and President Trump's "Keep America Great" or "Make America Great Again, Again" didn't have the resonance of the original 2016 version, BLM broke through the clutter with a catchphrase that was memorable, pungent — and utterly devastating to Democrats.  After a surprising Tory victory in the British parliamentary election in 1992, the pro-Tory tabloid The Sun famously boasted, "It's the Sun Wot Won It."  In the same spirit, it could be said that in this year's congressional election, "It's 'Defund the Police' Wot Lost It."

Trying to Think Ahead.  [Scroll down]  So why do they need bushels of Dominion votes in four Democrat cities — Milwaukee, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Atlanta — to win Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Georgia?  Why the thirty-year effort of the Dems to relax the rules on voting, from Motor Voter to the present vote-by-mail?  Why is it necessary to game the vote — even steal an election?  Why is it necessary to hound a duly-elected president with a Special Prosecutor and goose up an impeachment over a phone call, and blast him throughout the COVID-19 epidemic?  Why is it necessary to call your opponent's systemic racists 50 years after the civil rights acts?  Why is it necessary to censor social media, bearded @jack?  Why is it necessary to hide Hunter Biden's influence peddling?  I thought you guys already owned the future.  The answer is obvious.  People don't cheat unless they are about to lose everything, wife, house, job, children.  So, whatever brave front the Dems are putting on they know in their heart of hearts that the game is nearly up.

Impeachment backfired on Nancy.  Charlie Cook, Larry Sabato, and the rest of the cable news experts on American elections all agreed.  Democrats would add 10, 15, and maybe even 20 seats to their majority.  Hahaha.  Matt Vespa reported, "We have over a dozen races that have yet to be called.  Yes, some places are still counting those mail-in ballots.  In some races, they still have a long way to go.  Overall, this week has been terrible for House Democrats.  They were projected to pick up 10-15 seats.  They're probably going to lose 10[,] maybe more. [...]" [...] The progressive communists in their memo just did not get it.  No one cares what ice cream a rich old lady eats.  We have ice cream too.  There is nothing in her freezer the average American cannot buy.  Whilst progressives talk up the working-class concerns, the fact is they are the biggest elitists in the world.  They are out of touch.  They hate large pickups, canned beer, and guns.

Biden's Empty Words Won't Unify This Nation.  Joe Biden says he wants unity and promises to be a president that represents all Americans not just Democrats.  "Let's give each other a chance," he told his supporters at a rally in Delaware on Nov. 7.  "It's time to put away the harsh rhetoric.  To lower the temperature.  To see each other again.  To listen to each other again.  To make progress we must stop treating our opponents as our enemy," he said.  "We are not enemies.  We are Americans."  A well-scripted sentiment that's out of touch with our deeply divided nation as the Democratic Party and its media allies have spent the past four years calling Donald Trump's supporters racist — and every other repugnant smear you can think of.  That's not exactly a way to win over half the country and heal the nation.

The Editor says...
Where was all this soothing rhetoric when the Biden Voters were conducting the summer riots?

Calls for 'Unity' [are] Really Calls for Capitulation.  Political unity is an ugly, authoritarian idea.  No free place has domestic political unity, nor should it aspire to it.  What "unity" really means, of course, is capitulation.  America is once again being subjected to the inane brand of pseudo-patriotic sloganeering we saw during President Barack Obama's tenure.  Now, as then, the media will pretend that the moral fabric of the nation must be mended after Republican rule.  It's pretty transparent.  When Democrats win the presidency, we are treated to solemn calls for national restoration and political harmony, and to the expectation that, for the good of the nation, the opposition will embrace decorum and pass legislation they oppose.  When Republicans win elections, grown women put on knitted hats depicting their reproductive organs and stomp around Washington protesting, all to a hero's welcome.

'Unity' is the Carrot and the Schtick of Democrats.  Having gotten their way following a four-year long tantrum of "norm"-breaking sedition — despicable smears, the governmentally weaponized Russiagate lie, a sham impeachment, all aided and abetted by a disgracefully partisan elitist media — the latest schtick of the Democratic grifter class is "unity."  But unity isn't for everyone.  Taking their lead from that consummate con man, former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democrats' grifter class is proffering a return to the halcyon days when the "uniparty" ruled the swamp for fun and profit — theirs, not yours.  Of course, the Left isn't extending their olive branch to the true populists they've libeled and slandered as "Nazis."  This is a carrot shared only between elitists:  Democratic grifters are inviting their fellow GOP grifters to jump back into the swamp and scratch their backs for a buck.

Joe Biden's Majority Doesn't Work Full Time, Stay Married or Go To Church.  A week after the 2020 presidential election, one thing is obvious about the United States of America:  It is deeply divided. [...] But, according to the exit polls, there were some demographic groups that did pick Trump over Biden.  Who were they?  For starters, according to the network exit poll published by ABC News, there was the divide between people who worked full time and those who did not.  The exit poll asked the question:  "Do you work full-time for pay?"  Voters who said no went for Biden over Trump by 57% to 42%.  By contrast, voters who said they did work full time picked Trump over Biden 51% to 47%.  Why do people who don't work full time prefer Biden?  Why do those who do prefer Trump?  Is it a good sign for the long-term well-being of the United States that the popular-vote winner in our presidential election was preferred by those who do not work full time and not by those who do?

Democrat Raphael Warnock Repeatedly Praised Jeremiah Wright, Marxism.  Georgia Senate Democrat candidate Raphael Warnock has praised the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright on many occasions and praised Marxism as a way to "teach the black church."  During the 2008 presidential election, Warnock appeared on Fox News to defend Wright after it was discovered that then-presidential candidate Barack Obama had close ties to the reverend.  Warnock hopes to unseat Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) during the January Senate runoff election.  During his March 2008 appearance on Fox News, he told host Greta Van Susteren that Wright's legacy as a pastor was "social transformation that's been the hallmark of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's ministry."

Did someone mention Jeremiah Wright?

Tlaib lashes out at centrist Dems over election debacle: 'I can't be silent'.  Rashida Tlaib isn't apologizing for wanting to yank money away from bad police departments.  She has no second thoughts about her embrace of the Black Lives Matter movement, or for wanting to aggressively fight climate change.  House Democrats lost seats instead of expanding their majority, underperforming expectations across the board.  And moderates have pounced on liberals like Tlaib, the Michigan congresswoman, accusing them of handing conservatives a set of slogans and policies to scare voters.

No Truth, No Unity!  The Democrats live in a fantasy world.  It's a world in which higher taxes create jobs and prosperity, a world where central control of complex systems produces efficiency, a world where groveling weakness results in international respect and peace.  To those old and longstanding fantasies, they've added a couple of new ones: a world in which they can sow discord and division and reap acceptance and unity, and a world where the lies they tell will be trusted as the truth.  After refusing to accept the results of the 2016 presidential election and throwing a four-year temper tantrum, they're now calling on the county to accept the results of the 2020 presidential election and come together as a country.  On top of that they want us all to regard as true the results of an election they have worked so hard to steal.

WSJ: Democrats Lost South Texas Latinos Due to Shutdowns, Oil, And Abortion.  The chairman of the Texas Democratic Party said the red wave that moved through South Texas's Starr County was due to three issues critical to Latino voters in that area: pandemic shutdowns, oil industry jobs, and abortion.  According to a report at the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Sunday, the idea that Starr County would have 8,224 residents vote for President Donald Trump is mindboggling.

Democratic Senator Sparks Progressive Backlash After Refusing to Back Court Packing.  Democratic Senator Joe Manchin drew the ire of progressives on Monday night after he pledged not to vote against his own party on Supreme Court packing or ending the filibuster, even if the Senate were to be split 50-50 in the wake of Georgia's runoff races.  Appearing on Fox News, the U.S. senator from West Virginia said he would "not vote" with Democrats on those key issues if the Senate were split down the middle — effectively offsetting Kamala Harris' deciding vote as vice president.

Sen. Joe Manchin vows to vote against 'crazy stuff' if Democrats take Senate.  Sen. Joe Manchin is pledging to block major progressive legislative goals if Democrats retake the Senate.  Speaking to Fox News' "Special Report" Monday [11/9/2020], Manchin (D-W.Va.) made the promise while discussing the future of the upper chamber of Congress, and how the 100-member body was facing a down-the-middle split between Democrats and Republicans.  If Democrats are successful in their two Senate runoff races in Georgia in January, bills in the Senate could be moved by a single vote.  "50-50 [control] means that if one senator does not vote on the Democratic side, there is no tie and there is no bill," the West Virginia Democrat said.

Joy Reid's response to 70 million Trump voters came in a deranged rant that every Conservative should hear.  [Scroll down]  The unhinged rant that Reid would engage in should be preserved for prosperity and studied at a future date when America emerges from the post-Obama era where truth has been laid to waste.  A deranged anti-Trump rant that has taken place every single day on network after network for four years running, poisoning the minds of those easily manipulated by political hucksters.  "We have had four years of mass deaths," Reid spewed, there not being a trace of truthfulness in the claim. "240,000 of our fellow Americans have died and Donald Trump was vowing to kill another several million of us through herd immunity.  He didn't care about the dead."  For those concerned about the compromising of the integrity of our elections, such irresponsible rantings are having a crippling effect on our nation.  And Reid was just getting started with her baseless accusations and outright lies against a man whose greatest sin in her eyes may be that he's a white male.

The True Deplorables.  With the manufactured "news" that Pennsylvania and Nevada have been called for Joe Biden by news media, liberals celebrating the supposed victory of the purported 46th president took to the streets in euphoria and revelry.  It seems logical to assume that many of today's celebrants were also participants in the street protests four years ago when Donald Trump beat their gal Hillary.  Hillary Clinton made the fatal mistake of revealing the way she truly thought of half of the American population that supported Trump by calling them "a basket of deplorables."  And the next four years we witnessed the greatest revolt in our nation's history since the Civil War.  The half of the country that supported Hillary refused to accept the results of the election and have been protesting — often violently — ever since.

'Resist. Overturn.  Boycott.  Surveil.  Leak.  Impeach.  And NOW they tell us it's time to heal.'  Then-VP Joe Biden remained silent about national solidarity after Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016 and never asked the so-called Resistance to dial back their rage, former Utah Congressman Jason Chaffetz recalled.  "Never heard a peep from him about unity."  In an Op-Ed for the Fox News website, Chaffetz observed that Biden's convenient appeal for healing along with his claim that "the better angels of America are back" just constitute empty, meaningless rhetoric.  "And just like that, 'Resistance' is no longer in fashion.  The rules have been rewritten.  When Democrats hold power, we must be unified, and our opposition must be silent.  Not to be confused with the rules when Republicans hold power — which are that Resistance is as American as apple pie," Chaffetz explained about the apparent double-standard.

The Next 2020 Loser:  The Woke Utopia.  Earlier today [11/7/2020], we discussed how one of the biggest losers of the 2020 elections might have been the public's faith in the electoral process.  Continuing on with the list of also-rans, the editors at the Washington Free Beacon dug into some of the ballot issues that were decided this week, along with the identity politics driving various demographics to the polls.  Their conclusion is that one of the most damaged entities coming out of this race is the woke utopia envisioned by the Democrats' furthest-left agitators, which seems to have been roundly rejected by voters even as they threatened to end the Trump presidency.  And this effect was noted in some unlikely places such as California.

American Coup Victims Will Not Go Quietly.  This was a Coup.  It lacked, at least for the moment, the spilled blood often associated with a classic coup d'etat but make no mistake about it — this was a coup.  A record number of Americans fought an unusual number of hardships to make certain their voices were heard in the selection of our next president.  And, given the stark difference in the candidates' visions for America's future and the growing national divide, that choice was surely not made lightly.  So, when we on the right observed one "irregularity" after another on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, what we needed were answers and transparency.  What we got were evasions and coverups.  Keep in mind that we have endured over the past 4 years a seeming century's worth of dishonesty, hoaxes, threats, wild conspiracy theories and widespread corruption from those on the left.  Indeed, Liberals appear to have made sport of treating Donald Trump and his supporters much like a cat treats a litter-box.  And we got the message:  There is no limit to just how low they are willing to sink.

The left is again showing that it can't stand anyone who disagrees.  This year's presidential election hasn't provided the catharsis that many on the left were awaiting.  Instead of the hoped-for "Blue Wave," we have a still-too-close-to-call presidential election, while Republicans picked up House seats and appear to have held on to the Senate.  One response might be self-criticism:  to wonder how, after four years of single-mindedly trying to get rid of Trump and marginalize his followers, things didn't go better.  Instead, Democrats' thinkers seem to be asking themselves variations on "How can I live in a country where half the people supported Donald Trump?"  According to the Campus Reform Web site, professors around America were expressing anger and claiming to feel "genuinely unsafe, given the sheer number of people willing to vote for Trump."  Some canceled classes for the rest of the week, apparently because of the emotional strain.

The Democrats' Chickens Come Home to Roost.  Had the media been honest, the Democrats would have realized that their Pelosi-Ocasio-Bernie crazy talk about ending the filibuster, packing the courts, ending the electoral college, and making Puerto Rico and D.C. into states was scaring even Independents.  If there had been honest polls warning them of voter wariness of their socialism, leading Democrats would have been more coy, as Biden was during the campaign.  They would have moderated their boasts of what they planned to do, been more prudent and politic, reserving those plans furtively for after the elections.  Instead, the false polls bolstered their confidence.

Woke Faced the Voters — and Lost.  In a week of surprises, California's rejection of a ballot measure that would have allowed the state to resume its affirmative action program was among the most significant.  The measure, known as Proposition 16, wasn't defeated by shy Trump voters.  Polling showed Hispanic and other minority voters evenly split on the measure, and on Tuesday it was defeated in California's most Latino counties.  California's result is just one piece of the mounting evidence that voters on Tuesday threw a wrench in the progressive plan to leverage a "coalition of the ascendant" and an "emerging Democratic majority" to turn the country into a woke utopia.

A Civil War Is Already Happening, Inside the Democrat Party.  A civil war is brewing, but Trump supporters are not running into the streets to fight antifa.  Instead, the civil war has been brewing in the Democrat Party and now there are shots fired as moderates you have never heard of pay the price for the Squad's radical rhetoric. [...] Rather than comfortably retaking the Senate as anticipated, Democrats may find Mitch McConnell and Republicans maintain the majority.  Instead of Democrats adding to the majority in the House, Republicans have added up to 10 seats back to their caucus.  And the carnage in state governments across the country is palpable.  It will leave Democrats out in the cold when congressional districts are redrawn following the 2020 Census.

House Democrats Suffer a Catastrophe that Will Blow Up Their Party.  House Democrats went into Election Day supremely confident that they were going to put another nail in the Republicans' coffin.  They had outraised and outspent Republican candidates across the board.  They felt the issues of the pandemic response and Obamacare favored them. [...] But the polls were wrong.  They were very wrong.  So when reality hit Nancy Pelosi and her caucus this morning, they realized they hadn't gained a single seat in Congress.  In fact, as of noon Wednesday, Democrats had lost five seats and were trailing in several others.  What happened?  It turns out that the American people prefer to vote for candidates who aren't radical leftists hellbent on "transforming" the country.  Why this comes as a surprise to Democrats — who believe that many of their more outrageous proposals like the Green New Deal and Medicare for All are ready to be embraced by the electorate — is a mystery.

Biden Family Corruption Does Matter.  The New Yorker's famed film critic was an early observer of America's growing culture gap.  "I only know one person who voted for Nixon," she said.  "Where they are I don't know.  They're outside my ken.  But sometimes when I'm in a theater I can feel them."  Today, elites smell them.  That is what disgraced FBI man Peter Strzok actually said after a trip to Walmart, and he and his ilk recoil, naturally, from the plebian aroma.  But theirs is the nose of a sommelier, not a hunting dog.  It failed to sniff out the social movement that elected Donald Trump in 2016, and today it is missing the rage sweeping about half the country.  The fury comes from folks who don't subscribe to the New York Times, let alone the New Yorker, and who don't habituate yoga studios while carrying NPR tote bags, either.

Biden stumbles through another campaign speech:  "America is dead because of COVID-19".  Biden's America is a very dark place.  At least half of the country is populated with racist chumps, ugly people, labeled as such simply for voting for Donald Trump in 2016, according to Joe Biden.  During the final presidential debate, Biden told the audience that "We're about to go into a dark winter.  A dark winter."  He was talking about the president's plan for the coronavirus as we move forward in the coming months.  Biden's message is one of doom and gloom.  In comparison, Trump's message is meant to be an uplifting one, a message that will inspire voters.  He frequently tells rally audiences that the best is yet to come.

Eight hard questions for the Democrats.  [#1] Why are you opposing respected American traditions and Constitutional freedoms?  Why such anti-Americanism in your convention platform and in numerous acts and statements of policy?  Why opposition to the rights to assembly, to worship, to freedom of speech, to the right to bear arms, to the Electoral College?  Why support for open borders, for Medicare for illegal aliens, for abolishing ICE?  Why support for "defunding the police" and then support for violent rioting and looting?  Why support for packing the Supreme Court and for minting new "states" for political advantage?  You Democrats are even endorsing the enormities of the "transgender" movement, where people can supposedly change their sex by flipping a mental switch, and enter women's bathrooms or be transferred to women's prisons at will.

Trump will win again, then comes the hard part.  Unlike Hillary, Biden cannot credibly warn that Trump is a nutcase who will push the Red Button to annihilate the world.  Trump has been president for nearly four years and the world is more peaceful than it's been in decades.  The man has been nominated four times for the Nobel Peace Prize.  Trump has shown he's not a violent nut, while Biden has shown he is cognitively impaired.  Speaking of violent nuts, the media initially gave a lot of coverage to the "mostly peaceful protests" because they thought they hurt Trump.  Then they figured out that people not only don't like riots, they also don't like rioters — and nearly all the rioters are Democrats.  So the media cut back on their riot coverage.  But there are still riots, people know that, and people know that the rioters are Democrats.  Contrary to conventional Democrat "wisdom," minorities don't like the riots any more than the rest of America does — maybe even less since the riots are often in minority neighborhoods.  And they, too, know that the rioters — many of whom are privileged whites — are Democrats.  Many this time plan to vote against these rioters and their Democrat sympathizers.

Voting Against Evil.  There has never been a clearer divide between the two major candidates running for president when it comes to their spiritual essence.  The Republican incumbent, Donald Trump, never fails to utter the name of God in just about every campaign speech, while some Democrats blatantly removed His name from the Pledge of Allegiance at their convention this year.  Who can forget that at the 2012 Democrat convention the crowd booed when God and Jerusalem were put back in the Democrat platform?  In 2016, they heckled and jeered when a minister, Rev. Cynthia Hale, opened the convention with a Christian prayer for Hillary Clinton.  Bernie delegates screamed out his name instead of respecting the solemnity of the moment.  Joe Biden, the Democrat candidate, professes to be a Roman Catholic, yet like all the other faux Catholic Democrats like Nancy Pelosi, still approves abortion on demand up to delivery.  That is infanticide and pure wickedness.

Oregon's Public Health Authority Announces Covid Deaths While Dressed as a Clown.  In what has to be one of the most bizarre and mind-warping decisions of all time, Claire Poche, a senior official of the Oregon Health Authority gave a Covid update today while wearing a complete clown costume.  The makeup, the red tie, the polka dots.  The whole thing.  It's hard to even express how awkward this is.  [Video clip]

An Honest Ad From Your Democratic Party Spokesperson (Parody).  Here's your Democratic 'Spokesperson' with a brutally honest message for Americans about the great reasons to vote for Joe Biden and other wonderful Democratic candidates this November.  BlazeTV's Allie Stuckey demonstrated a kind demeanor that perfectly showcased her destruction of the values and principles upheld by the Democratic party in 2020.  "You know us as the party of love, tolerance, and compassion, but we're much more than that.  We're the party of science, and the science is clear," Allie said with a smile.  She then listed gender issues, abortion rights, and vaccines (which are only successful if created when Trump isn't president).  [Video clip]

The Democratic Party is the Dark Winter.  We have to believe that most Americans haven't cast off common sense [...] But for voters on the fence — as inexplicable as that is — let's evaluate what the Democratic Party is showing us about itself.  Biden's claim in the last debate that the U.S. is moving toward a dark winter, thanks to COVID, was revealing.  It exposed more than Biden's cynicism in trying to manipulate people's fear of the virus, it exposed an irony.  The dark winter tag speaks to the Democratic Party's condition, not America's.  Democrats are ominous.  Their worldview is antithetical to the American experience, and it's rotted.  Worse is that they're destructive.  We see it in their language and actions.  2020 is showcasing the Democrats accelerating descent into a mean-spirited, grudge-filled aggression toward traditional America — the America of the Revolution and the founding.

Ilhan Omar says Squad will influence Biden administration: 'A lot of our feedback was incorporated'.  Rep. Ilhan Omar said in a new interview that she's confident she and other members of "The Squad" will be able to push Joseph R. Biden to the left if he's elected president next week.  Speaking to "Axios on HBO," the Minnesota Democrat said she and other progressives such as Sen. Bernard Sanders and Reps.  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley were able to shape Mr. Biden's campaign platform and that they expect that influence to continue in a possible Biden administration.  "There has been a level of responsiveness ... to the policies that we are advocating for that we know will have not just a future in his administration, but a future in the upcoming administrations after his," Mrs. Omar said.

A Time for Choosing.  Here we are again, just days away from another presidential election in 2020, and the American people still find ourselves facing many of the same concerns, and challenges that Reagan warned us about fifty-six years ago.  Once again, the contrast between the two candidates could not be more clear.  One is a career politician (with mounting evidence that he improperly used his office as vice president to enrich his family), the other a businessman.  As President Donald Trump said at his RNC Speech, "This election will decide whether we will defend the American Way of Life, or whether we allow a radical movement to completely dismantle and destroy it."

Trumpism:  Then, Now — and in the Future?  [Scroll down]  Aside from fundamental changes in foreign and democratic policy, and renewed emphasis on class instead of race, Trumpism changed the political dialectic.  Of course, Trump could be crude, even at times bullying and profane.  But much of his braggadocio and vulgarity were designed as chemotherapy to kill the cancer of the administrative state and the lock-hold on permanent government by the revolving-door, bipartisan coastal elite.  The reasons why Trump just days after his inauguration faced a failed impeachment, or calls for his removal by the 25th Amendment, or even talk of a military coup, or the Steele dossier hoax that led to a $40 million, 22-month effort by progressives to destroy his presidency, his person and his family, were manifold.  But one cause surely was that Trump was orphaned from the hard-Left Democratic Party and the Republican establishment and seemed either to welcome the ostracism or not be fully cognizant of the cost that it entailed.

People are dropping the software company @Expensify after the CEO urged every customer to vote for Joe Biden.  David Barrett, CEO of the software company Expensify, is under fire after he sent an email to every one of his customers and urged them to vote for Joe Biden:  [Tweet]  SEE YA:  People are dropping the software company @Expensify after the CEO urged every customer to vote for Joe Biden[.]  According to Barrett, he didn't act alone and he had feedback from others at the company.

Too many Democrats are creepily suggesting Trump voters should be jailed.  Trump voters beware: your ballot could get you jailed after January 20, 2021.  If Joe Biden wins the presidency, and takes the oath of office with one hand on Abraham Lincoln's Bible (hopefully not Das Kapital or Kendi's How to Be an Antiracist), open season may be declared on any American morally obtuse enough to believe that 45 deserved four more years.  "Trump must be defeated ... and his enablers, and his supporters ... must be prosecuted and convicted and removed from our society," ranted the always hot-blooded Keith Olbermann.  The former MSNBC anchor traffics in caustic bombast, and this declaration was not very different from his usual huffy diatribes against Republicans.  But the notion of revenge is going mainstream.

Biden lectures us on character?  C'mon man!  There can no longer be any doubt that the Democrats put party before country, politics before ethics and virtue.  One only has to read Robert Reich or listen to his intellectual peer Keith Olbermann to know that the Democrat party has morphed into totalitarianism.  Democrats vow to punish their opponents if Biden is elected.  Reich recommends "truth and reconciliation" camps, taking his cue from South Africa.  How's that for tyranny?  It is well and truly frightening.  The left has been steering us in this direction for decades, and it must be stopped if America is to survive.

Joe Biden tweets out that America is 'an idea' and 'we've never lived up to it'.  How's this for the most offensive political ad of the year? [...] Note that this isn't from his enemies, his party, his creepy allies, something that occurred years ago, or some kind of foreign disinfomation, this is straight from Joe, put out there on Twitter to entice Americans to give him their votes, in his big final push to squeeze the last of them. [...] No wonder Biden hides in his basement.  The more he speaks, the less there is to like.

New Biden Ad Causes Uproar; 'America Was An Idea, We Never Lived Up To It'.  Joe Biden released a questionable new ad saying that America "never lived up" to it's ideals, and he's getting absolutely hammered for it on Twitter.  "America was an idea.  We've never lived up to it but we've never walked away from it before," the caption said above Biden's new ad.  Apparently hundreds of years of brave military heroes fighting for our freedoms... the 9/11 first responders, ending slavery and defeating communism isn't "living up" to greatness, according to Joe Biden.

Vile Scarborough:  You're 'Un-American' If You Vote for Trump.  While most left-wing journalists try to channel all their anger at President Trump, they will occasionally go straight to the punch and just start attacking people who support him.  On Tuesday morning [10/20/2020], the co-hosts of MSNBC's Morning Joe scolded American voters who dare, for any reason, to vote for Trump.  With Election Day exactly two weeks away, and millions of Americans already voting, co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski decided it was time to launch a brutal verbal assault against Trump supporters.  Apparently triggered by Trump speaking publicly about the Biden family's alleged corruption on Monday, Scarborough whined that it's unacceptable to vote for him for any reason.

Young American Woman Explains It All In Less Than One Minute:  The Reason Why We Are Voting for Trump is "We Can't Stand You!"  A young woman explained everything about this election in less than one minute.  If you can't stand Trump here is our reply:  ["]If you are liberal and can't stand Trump and can't possibly fathom why anyone would vote for him, let me fill you in.  We can't stand you.  You've done everything in your power by trying to destroy this country by tearing down our police, our borders, our history, systematically destroying our schools and brainwashing our kids into thinking socialism is the answer to everything.  Demonizing religion and faith and glorifying abortion, violence and thug culture.  And calling us racists...  We are voting for Trump because of you!["]

Democratic Civil War.  Donald Trump may still sit in the White House, but America seems increasingly submissive to the rule of the Democrats.  The Party now enjoys predominant influence over mainstream media, rising influence among wealthy elites, a stranglehold over education and entertainment industries, and the domination of the burgeoning non-profit world.  Remarkably the self-styled "party of the people" now accommodates the big Wall Street firms and tech oligarchies alongside the progressive, neo-socialist, activist base and an ever-diminishing remnant of traditional working-class voters.  This powerful coalition is also a fundamentally unstable one — a three-headed hydra whose heads, particularly after Trump leaves, will soon be biting each other furiously.  One faction, the corporatist elite, genuflects and even profits from the progressive mantra on climate, gender, and race.  Some, like former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, are so committed to gentry progressivism that he recently suggested those who don't get with the program could "face a firing squad."

The virus is all they've got and they're clinging to it.  President Trump's energy infects his supporters with optimism.  He loves America, they love America.  He brought the economy back from the brink, where the Obama/Biden administration had purposefully kept it.  He has successfully stopped the massive illegal immigration that was contributing mightily to the unemployment of American workers.  He has done more for our black Americans than any previous president:  opportunity zones, prison reform, funding our historic black colleges.  He has rebuilt our military, which Obama/Biden eviscerated.  He created the Space Force.  The man is a pro-American machine of patriotism and confidence in our future.  Everywhere he goes, thousands of equally pro-Americans show up in droves for a dose of his infectious exuberance.  He is to many of us the best medicine for loving our country among those who hate this nation as much as we love it.  As we all know, we live among people who are so mysteriously filled with hatred for this man who has rescued America from the Alinskyite designs of the left, from foreign wars, and from the economic dreariness of the Obama years, that they would rather see our country utterly destroyed rather than see President Trump re-elected.

Kelly Campaign Spokesman Calls Police 'Worthless [...] Pigs'.  The campaign spokesman for Arizona Democratic Senate candidate Mark Kelly referred to police as "worthless [...] pigs" on Twitter in August, a comment that could complicate Kelly's effort to distance himself from radical anti-police sentiment from the left flank of his party.  T.J. L'Heureux, Kelly's deputy press secretary, posted the message in response to a video that showed Chicago police clashing with protesters over the summer.  "You worthless [...] pigs," wrote L'Heureux on Aug. 17, directing the message to the Chicago Police Department's official Twitter account.

Ten Lessons from a Tumultuous 2020.  [#4] The Democrat party is now the fully owned subsidiary of the Marxist/socialist American left.  While the party hierarchy clings to the façade of moderation by trotting out the old faces from a bygone era, such as Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton, the party is now the vehicle to radically transform the nation into a hybrid Marxist/socialist state by any means either illegal or unethical.  It is also an entity that does not care about the poor, working class, or marginalized groups enough to place their interests above a political agenda.

Democrats' Anti-God Religion.  Even though Amy Coney Barrett seems to have avoided a much-anticipated religious inquisition from the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, the hearings have reminded us that Democrats over the years have pretty much established themselves as the anti-God party.  They booed him at their 2012 national convention, after all.  They had omitted reference to God from their platform in 2008, and when, in 2012, they tried to add it back, witnesses say about one-third of convention-goers booed.  Their social platform pushes against historic Christian morality at nearly every turn — on abortion, on same-sex marriage, on gender identity, on end-of-life issues.  And who is it that sues nuns and hassles religious schools and tries to pull down crosses on every little public patch of land they can find?

Will the Cultural Revolution Be Canceled?  Most Americans don't favor defunding police or instituting race quotas; they are wary of the costs connected with the Green New Deal and of allowing Washington to control local zoning.  Many are already voting with their feet, fleeing places that promote these ideas and seeking out areas aligned with more recognizable American values.  Over the past 20 years, virtually all the most progressive large states — New York, New Jersey, Illinois, and California — have suffered massive outmigration, while red or purplish states like Florida, Texas, the Carolinas, or Arizona welcome more and more Americans to resettle there.

Our Second Civil War:  Communism Collapsed Only to Revive.  [Scroll down]  The polls so far show that the Democrats, a party extremely heavily influenced by Marxism and the doctrine of state control, is about to take control of the federal government.  Under the guise of fighting racism, a largely fictitious problem among white people, freedom of speech has already been abolished.  Under the guise of fighting to protect the environment, much of the rights of private property — the bedrock of a free society — will be abolished.  The right of the citizens to own firearms, a right that dictatorships ALWAYS have to abolish, will be attacked ruthlessly.  In the end, only the criminals and the state will be armed.  But there is a deadly catch: the left in this country is not unopposed.  There are tens of millions, maybe hundreds of millions, of people who like the free society, just as it is.  There are millions of people who are well armed who do not like the idea and the reality of a federal government that will (in a Biden/Harris administration) openly side with the rioters and the looters and the people who shoot police officers.

Strangers in our Homeland.  America is the product of centuries of evolutionary political thought centered on natural human rights.  Radical leftists now assault this land its patriots love, turning it into a place they scarcely recognize.

Here's What Keith Olbermann Wants Done to Trump and His Supporters if Dems Win in November.  If Democrats win in November, they already vow to destroy one branch of government and transform the U.S. Senate into another House of Representatives, where a simple majority rules and "fickleness and passion" carry the day, to quote James Madison.  Predicting a Bolshevik-style victory for the Democrats, Keith Olbermann quit his job at ESPN and made a quiet return this month to political commentary on his YouTube channel.  In a classic Olbermann deranged rant, the former MSNBC host breathed fire and brimstone at President Trump and all of his supporters, who Olbermann wants "prosecuted, convicted, and removed" from society.

If the Democrats Are Really So Far Ahead, Why Are They Acting So Desperate?  It all started a few weeks back when Democrats first hatched this conspiracy theory that the president was stealing postal trucks and rounding up blue mailboxes to prevent people from voting.  Even by their insane standards, this was unhinged moonbat cuckoo crazy.  Then came all the dog-whistle "coup" winks we got from both Mr. Biden and his unbearable running mate about how you are not actually voting for another 47 years of the "Biden" administration.  It will be the "Harris" administration, wink wink.  Sen. Kamala D. Harris' disastrous performance during the vice presidential debate this week raises new concerns — concerns already raised when she was soundly rejected by Democrat primary voters earlier this year.  But that does not really matter.  All that matters now is that a vote for Joe Biden is not really a vote for Joe Biden, but simply a vote against Donald Trump.  That is — literally — all they have to offer.

The End of Covid Hysteria.  [Scroll down]  Fact is, most of the country is sick of the hysteria.  Most simply want to live their lives, intelligently with caution, and return back to what we all remember was a decent life. [...] And of course, the Democrat response has been "to not let this crisis go to waste."  Meaning:  let's try to hurt Trump's re-election prospects by blaming it on him, by shutting down Democrat-run states with harder lock downs.  It'[s] hiding behind "protecting the public" in order to hold down economic data so Trump can be blamed for a poor economy.  You might ask, what kind of people would do that?  Well, the modern Democrats would.  Let me say it loud and clear, the Democrat-media complex has attempted to use this crisis with hysterical responses to everything to hurt Trump.  Hurting the American people?  Who cares?  They don't care.  What kind of people do that in the middle of a pandemic?

On Trump and the virus.  President Trump was discharged from Walter Reed Medical Center a few days ago.  His messaging during this unfolding drama first drew criticism from those who claimed he should have been more transparent about every detail, every step of the way.  And the usual venomous bile and frenzied attacks came spewing from the the cackle of hyenas that is the White House press corps no less than #resistance goons like Ilhan Omar and Jennifer Rubin.  But why should they hold back?  They have all but stated publicly that they want the president dead, lo these four long years.  It would be dishonest of them at this point to wish him well.  We aren't just watching different movies anymore, as Scott Adams used to say — we need an analogy that goes far beyond that one.  The new norm the press has established is a baseline of fear and hysteria.  They live in a completely alternative intellectual, emotional, and psychological reality.

Pro-Antifa Communist Candidate Is Leading Ted Wheeler In Portland Mayoral Race.  You know you're in Portland when the current mayor who has chased out countless businesses and allowed Antifa and BLM terrorists to destroy the city on a nightly basis for over four months straight is somehow not far enough to the left to appease the voter base.  National laughingstock Ted Wheeler is now trailing in the polls for his re-election.  But not against a candidate that promises to crack down on the rioters, promote businesses, and actually fix the roads.  No, of course not.  He's losing to a candidate that's even further to the left than he is.  Plucky upstart Sarah Iannarone, who is best known for declaring "I am Antifa", now picks up 41% of the vote to Wheeler's 30%.

In rooting for the virus, the Left is just like Hitler.  The Left now actively roots for the virus to kill people they don't like, such as President Trump.  Drunk on their fantasy, they hope that his death is painful and humiliating and that his wife dies too.  They express their sick sentiments not just in the dark recesses of their troubled minds and not just over bad frou-frou coffee at Starbucks.  They boast of their wicked wish openly to the world. [...] These are the people who, simultaneously, are addicted to signaling their virtue by driving electric cars, banning plastic straws and turning our once-great cities into burning anarchy zones and vagrant toilets.

The Working Class vs.  Wokism.  Wokeness, with its accompanying white ethno-masochism, is merely the latest manifestation of an improbable ideology imprinted on the miseducated middle and upper classes.  The working class is spared this indoctrination by avoiding a crucial underpinning of wokeness, Critical Race Theory, which is served up in most Humanities departments, many law schools, and now even in some hard-science departments.  Popular culture offers examples of instinctively conservative working-class characters at odds with a college-educated, scold-filled, newly minted ideological certainty.  "All in the Family," "The Jeffersons," and "Roseanne" are just a few TV shows that displayed that that dynamic.  It's not only in the U.S. that you see working-class resistance to policies fashionable with the woke college educated.  According to polls, support for Brexit decreased with educational attainment.  More than just a reassertion on national sovereignty, Brexit was seen by many as a necessary step to restrain mass Third World immigration into Britain.

Hundreds Of Trump Supporters Gather In DC For #WalkAway Rally.  Hundreds of Trump supporters gathered in Washington, D.C. Saturday for a #WalkAway rally to support the president and celebrate those who have "walked away" from the "radical left."  "The purpose of this event is to get the silent majority to show we are not going to be silent anymore, we are going to stand up, we are going to fight for our country, we are going to fight against the radical left, because freedom in America is worth fighting for," Brandon Straka, founder of the "WalkAway" campaign, told the Daily Caller.

Democrats would destroy the presidency.  First, Democrats want to destroy the Electoral College because it failed to pick the candidate with 48% of the vote over the one who had 46% of the vote.  Then, Democrats want to eliminate the Senate as the deliberative body.  Democrats want to remove the filibuster, and end all discussion about anything, and add enough states to make the Senate permanently Democrat.  They also want to destroy the Supreme Court by adding enough justices — four at a minimum — to have their party control it.  The struggle ceased being between liberals and conservatives long ago.  It is all about power.  Obamacare was decided not along ideological grounds because there really is nothing liberal about giving health insurance companies billions in federals subsidies each year.  Their handmaidens in the press also eliminated journalism by abandoning objectivity.  Again, the idea is to silence all dissent.

Minnesota paper pulls story mocking Trump's COVID diagnosis, condemning liberals taking the high road.  A Minnesota newspaper has removed a piece from its website that mocked President Trump and first lady Melania Trump over their positive tests for coronavirus.  City Pages, an alternative weekly covering Minneapolis and St. Paul, published an article Friday headlined, "Let's laugh at all these very good 'Trump has COVID' tweets."  Editor-in-chief Emily Cassel led the piece by writing, "So President Trump and the First Lady have COVID. Man, anyone else just in a really, inexplicably good mood this morning?"  Publisher Mary Erickson described the article as "insensitive and in bad taste."

Trump haters rejoicing in his testing positive for COVID-19.  Some prominent Donald Trump-haters — including "The Wire" actor Dominic West and a former spokeswoman for Hillary Clinton — are openly rejoicing over the president catching COVID-19.  West, 50, told "Good Morning Britain" on Friday that he felt "joy" at the news of Trump's illness.  Ex-spokeswoman Zara Rahim, who has also worked for Barack Obama and Vogue magazine, said in a since-deleted tweet that she "hopes he dies."

Report: Trump's Hollywood Star Under Repair After Someone Dressed As The Hulk Wrecked It With Pickaxe.  A person dressed as the Incredible Hulk took a pickaxe to President Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame early Friday morning, rendering it unrecognizable and in need of thousands of dollars in repairs, law enforcement sources told TMZ.  The Hollywood-focused media outlet reports that law enforcement officials said that the Hulk-dressed figure delivered about $5,000 of damage to the Hollywood star, but no one has yet been arrested for the incident.

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Celebrating stars in the sidewalk is an obvious form of idolatry.  The existence of movie stars and celebrities is also idolatry.

Portland Group Plans Naked Bike Ride To Protest Amy Coney Barrett Nomination — Masks Are Required.  If you get enough people riding naked on their bikes through the streets, then Ruth Bader Ginsburg magically comes back to life and deranged leftists don't have to worry about Amy Coney Barrett being confirmed to the Supreme Court.  Or so goes the logic of one Portland (duh, where else?) group, who is putting on a naked bike ride event to protest, uhh, something.  Because it's Portland.

A Man vs.  The Movement.  This election is a contest between a man, Donald Trump, who believes America is good, and a man, Joe Biden, who is controlled by a movement that believes America is bad.  Or to put this another way, between a man who wants to preserve the American way of life and a man who will end up destroying it.  Republican leaders are too focused on policy.  This is not a policy election.  This is a regime decision; a way of life election.  One way of life, the traditional American way of life, is based on individual rights, rule of law, and a shared understanding of the common good.  Government's role is to create the conditions for freedom to flourish.  The other way of life I call "multiculturalism" or "identity politics."  This way of life assumes that society is made up of identity groups, all of which are oppressed by white males.  Government's role in this regime is to create equal income and power for each group.

Democrats can't smear Amy Coney Barrett.  [Scroll down]  In 1987, it was Robert H. Bork, nominated to the nation's highest court by President Reagan, who was a gentleman.  Democrats held all the advantages in that fight because instead of a gentleman, they had Sen. Ted Kennedy, a slovenly drunk menace to women.  Before the sun set, Mr. Kennedy strode to the well of the Senate to accuse Judge Bork of murdering women by denying them abortions — a darkly ironic slur given Mr. Kennedy's own sick history when it came to women.  Little more than a decade later came Miguel Estrada, a superlative jurist nominated by President George W. Bush to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals — a frequent stepping stone to the Supreme Court.  Democrats, led by present-day Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Minority Whip Dick Durbin, didn't like Mr. Estrada and blocked his nomination because, their staffers said, he was "Latino."  You know, "especially dangerous."  With each federal cours cage fight, Democrats got more and more unhinged from humanity.  More dishonest.  More ridiculous.

The Satanic Temple Is In Fact Emblematic Of The Leftist Worldview.  Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Satanism, and motherhood converged in the pages of the Huffington Post on Thursday [9/24/2020] when Jamie Smith, an attorney and mom, wrote that the death of the Supreme Court justice motivated her to join the Satanic Temple. [...] Of course, the No. 1 issue for Smith is abortion, or as she euphemistically calls it, "reproductive rights." Without Ginsburg's vote and voice on the court, Smith argues, "Roe v.  Wade is in imminent danger of being overturned not based on legal arguments or scientific reasoning, but because of religious objections to what is a safe and necessary procedure."  Therefore, Smith has joined the efforts of the Satanic Temple in bringing lawsuits that demand religious liberty for its members, elevating their open-ended tenets to the same level as firmly held religious beliefs.

Democrats Are Truly Sick People.  Individually, each piece of the progressive left is harmless; annoying but harmless.  As more of them assemble and coordinate, they become increasingly dangerous.  Protesters in the street are pointless and inconvenient but coupled with governors, mayors, and prosecutors who encourage and empower them, they embrace violence.  When your moral compass is broken and the people charged with protecting citizens publicly announce they're on your side, no matter what you do, or they won't pursue charges against you if you're arrested, what's the downside to taking all you can from a Target or beating [up] someone?

Biden Foundation Promoted Transgenderism For 18-Month-Old Babies.  The 2018 initiative, called the "As You Are" campaign, centered on a map tracking LGBTQ "acceptance stories" across the country.  It was spearheaded by Biden's eponymous foundation, which has been described as "further[ing] the work the Bidens did over eight years in the Obama administration and cement[ing] the former vice president's more than four decade legacy in public life."  Of the nearly 500 individuals highlighted, many were children under the age of 18, with one account even chronicling a "gender nonconforming" 18-month-old.  One mother submitted her story to the Biden Foundation about her six-year-old transgender child and saw it promoted by the group, despite declaring her daughter "gender nonconforming" since 18-months-old.

Biden Campaign to Appear Alongside Hanoi Jane.  The Biden campaign, which has bombarded President Donald Trump with attacks about his respect for U.S. soldiers, will be campaigning this weekend with Jane Fonda, a celebrity best known for fraternizing with enemy troops during the Vietnam War.  Democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris is set to join Fonda at a Saturday [9/26/2020] virtual event held by progressive advocacy group Supermajority. [...] Fonda traveled to North Vietnam in 1972 as part of an anti-war protest that saw her pose for photos with enemy troops on an anti-aircraft gun.  The photo sparked outrage among Vietnam veterans, earning her the nickname "Hanoi Jane."

Cotton: Biden Knows if He Revealed 'Radical Left-Wing' SCOTUS Nomination List 'He Would Lose the Election'.  In a Tuesday [9/22/2020] interview with Fox News Channel's "America's Newsroom," Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) sounded off on why 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is yet to reveal his list of potential nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court.  According to Cotton, Biden is stalling because he knows if he put out a list, "he would lose the election" after unveiling a list of "radical left-wing lawyers."

Can the Present-Day Democrat Party Govern America (with or without Joe Biden)?  The cabal fronted by Joe Biden is selling hatred of Donald Trump and his voters and prefers that voters not worry about their ability to govern should the Democrats win the Senate and install Harris-Biden.  This same cabal that would be charged with governing the nation has, for the past four years, marginalized, physically confronted and repeatedly accused the 63 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump of being not only racists but fascists and white supremacists as well as homophobic, xenophobic and among the vilest people on the face of the earth.  What will be their intentions for these rightfully incensed citizens?  Ignore them and hope they go away?  They will not.  Instead, the Democrat party cabal will continue to vilify half of the voters in 2020 thus potentially fomenting serious ongoing confrontations and retaliation.

Brace for Democrats to knock Catholics, again.  How much do Democrats hate Roman Catholics?  We're about to find out, once President Trump nominates, most likely, Judge Amy Coney Barrett for the U.S. Supreme Court.  No surprises here — the Democrats have a long, sordid history of anti-Catholicism.  And Judge Barrett understands the Democrats' rabid bigotry first-hand, from her first Senate confirmation hearing in 2017, when she was confronted by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the now 87-year-old Democrat doyenne.  "When you read your speeches," Feinstein told her, "the conclusion one draws is that the Dogma lives loudly within you.  And that's a concern."  Imagine Feinstein saying that to a Muslim.  You can't.

New York's Democratic socialists want a revolution — but does anyone else?  Fresh off of surprising upset victories in this summer's Democratic primaries for state Assembly and Senate, the city's Democratic socialists are targeting the City Council primaries next year, when 35 of the 51 seats will be without an incumbent.  The Democratic Socialists of America-NYC is planning to back a slate of council candidates who, if elected, would create a "socialist caucus" down at City Hall.  According to the strategy document obtained by The [New York] Post, one litmus test will be agreement to "defund the police" by 50 percent, slashing the NYPD's budget by $3 billion.

Don Lemon: 'Blow up the entire system' and eliminate the Electoral College.  CNN host Don Lemon proposed radically changing the U.S. political system to take power away from the "minority" vote in the country.  During the hand-off before his show Monday night [9/21/2020], Lemon debated fellow network host Chris Cuomo by arguing Democrats should push to eliminate the Electoral College, which would require a constitutional amendment.  Lemon said such a feat was possible if Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden wins the presidency and Democrats "stack the courts."

Ginsburg and Providence in American Politics.  Democrats are the partners of evil in American politics.  From the race-driven politics of slavery that erupted in the Civil War, through the politics of segregation, Jim Crow laws, and the KKK to the politics of race, abortion and gender, the Democrats and their allies in the media and the academia have been engaged in the politics of transforming America from a republican order based on faith, family, and "In God We Trust" into a European-style godless social democracy.

Dems have just handed court-packing as a big election issue for the GOP.  The dimmer bulbs in the Dem chandelier are openly stating their intention to pack the Supreme Court should the party win the Senate and the Oval Office.  This hands an opportunity to every GOP candidate for the Senate (incumbent or challenger) to put his or her opponent on the spot, and demand a public commitment to either reject or endorse the announced plan to expand the number of seats on the court and appoint an ironclad progressive majority. [...] Blind anger, such as the Democrats now feel over the prospect of losing control of the Supreme Court, makes people stupid.  They now are out on a limb, threatening to gut the Supreme Court as a backstop against tyranny.  I don't think a majority of voters want that.

No Rational Person Can Vote Democratic in 2020.  Reason No. 1 — Emotional Blindness: [...] Family voting history, upbringing, and the thought of, "I've always voted that way" plays a big part in peoples' voting decisions.  Many times, a party's actual policy stance runs directly counter to that voter's personal interests (such as devout Catholics supporting Democrats who favor abortion or Jewish voters supporting Democrats who back anti-Israel/pro-Palestinian legislation), but they vote for them anyway, because of a lifelong emotional attachment.  Today, the starkest example of destructive blind party loyalty is the rioting and anti-police violence perpetrated by domestic anarchist groups.  National Democratic politicians refuse to condemn their behavior.  Assassins cheer for police deaths and block the emergency room entrance and every high-profile Democrat remains silent, which effectively amounts to approval.  Yet every committed liberal voter will still vote for them after rationalizing it away.  That is the ultimate in hypocritical emotional blindness.

Dems Call Trump a Mass-Murdering Racist; His Poll Numbers Rise.  [T]he Democratic perception and characterization of Trump is that of a crass, ignorant, xenophobic, incompetent, mass-murdering racist.  How, they ask, can someone who put the "d" in deplorable not find himself universally rejected?  Or, as Peter Strzok, the fired senior FBI agent who led the Trump-Russia collusion probe, famously texted about the 2016 election, "Hillary should win 100,000,000-0."  How, Dems ask, can such an overtly racist president get a 36% approval rating by Black likely voters in a July Rasmussen poll?

Detroit Police Chief Unloads On Democrat Senator Who Called For Disarming 'Every Police Department': 'Absolutely Ridiculous'.  Detroit Police Chief James Craig slammed Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) this week after Markey called for disarming "every police department" of certain types of weapons and non-lethal munitions.  "Portland police routinely attack peaceful protestors with brute force," Markey tweeted.  "We must disarm these officers, and every other police department in America, of weapons of war, and enact a nationwide ban on tear gas, rubber and plastic bullets, and bean bag rounds."  "Weapons of war" is term that is frequently used by the political left to describe semi-automatic firearms.

City Manager Receives Paid Leave For 'Chickens Come Home To Roost' Post About Ambushed Deputies.  The Lynwood city council voted Tuesday [9/15/2020] to place City Manager Jose Ometeotl on paid administrative leave after he posted an Instagram photo of Malcom X, with the text "Chickens Come Home To Roost" over the image, in response to two Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies getting ambushed by an armed assailant over the weekend.  As a result of a city council vote, Ometeotl will now undergo an "internal investigation," officials said late Tuesday. [...] After Fox News Los Angeles reporter Bill Melugin posted a screenshot of the city manager's post to Twitter, Ometoetl made his Instagram account private, and the city distanced themselves from his post, saying it wasn't reflective of the council's beliefs.

Rasmussen Poll:  Black Lives Matter Riots Turning People in Riot Zones into Trump Voters.  The violent Black Lives Matter riots that rocked multiple American cities this summer have turned voters who live in those riot zones into Trump supporters, a new Rasmussen poll finds.  The latest Rasmussen Reports Survey found that 63 percent of voters who have seen violent protests in their community "strongly approve" of the president while only 35 percent don't.  The survey suggests that President Trump's strong "law and order" messaging is resonating voters who have had to deal with the riots.  It appears that the more racial unrest these voters see, the less open they seem to be toward the Democrats' racial grievance mongering.

Pennsylvania Sheriff Changes To Republican After Violent Riots: 'Democratic Party Has Left Me'.  Westmoreland County Sheriff James Albert announced this week that he has changed his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican following months of violent riots and attacks on law enforcement by leftists.  "It was a really difficult decision and I've thought long and hard about it, but I feel I stand for the ideals of the Republican Party platform more than the Democrats today," Albert said.  "I've been a lifelong Democrat, but a conservative Democrat at that.  I'm pro-life, a strong supporter of the Second Amendment, a lifetime member of the NRA and, today, I feel my ideals are closer to the Republican Party than Democrats."

Minnesota Police Group Withdraws Support for Democrats — Public Opinion of Joe Biden Marxist Movement Shifts.  An interesting report from One America News Network highlights a shift in Minnesota similar to the recent shift in Wisconsin.  Due to increased violence from Joe Biden's Marxist supporters, the Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Union has withdrawn their support for Democrat candidates and are now shifting to support Republicans.

Forget the Polls:  Massive Enthusiasm Gap Between Trump and Biden Bodes Ill for Democrats.  Although Joe Biden continues to lead President Trump in most national polls, the enthusiasm gap between the two candidates could not be more striking.  The situation is reminiscent of the 2016 race, only there is even less enthusiasm for Biden than there was for Hillary Clinton.  Trump draws huge crowds wherever he appears while Biden can barely muster a few dozen socially distanced quasi-supporters at his meager, tightly scripted events.  As American Greatness previously documented, massive grassroots pro-Trump boat parades have been a thing all year, although they have been mostly unnoticed or ignored by the national media.

Joe Biden Tries to Have It Both Ways on Anti-Police Violence.  Organized anti-police violence is escalating in Democrat-run cities in Democrat-run states.  Polling is showing that the Biden campaign is bleeding out over the issue of BLM and Antifa rioting and the inability of the Biden campaign to come out strongly against civil unrest because its core supporters are either in the streets or whipping up hatred to get other people to riot.  Over the weekend, two LA County Sheriff's deputies were critically wounded in what can only be described as an attempt at a targeted killing. [...] This attack was a logical and foreseeable consequence of the statements and actions and rhetoric of Democrat-elected officials across the nation stoking hatred of police and coddling the people who carry out attacks on police.  And those attacks and the anti-police violence is a feature of the Biden campaign.  Several Biden staffers have donated money to the fund that bails out violent rioters, particularly those who have assaulted police officers in Portland and Seattle.  Kamala Harris has encouraged people to donate to that fund.

The Left Sides With the Criminal.  [Scroll down]  Upon arriving at the scene, the police officers attempted to effectuate an arrest.  Blake resisted.  He apparently got one of the officers in a headlock and resisted two separate uses of a stun gun.  He then disobeyed officers' commands, walked around to the driver's side of an SUV, and reached inside.  A knife later was found on the driver's side floorboard.  This is the definition of a justified shoot, by all available evidence.  Yet former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., have chosen to side with an alleged rapist and against police officers who were attempting to do their job.

Who goes to war armed with rubber bullets?
Sen. Markey says all police must be disarmed of 'weapons of war' including tear gas, rubber bullets.  Sen. Ed Markey said Monday [9/14/2020] that U.S. police officers must uniformly be disarmed of "weapons of war," which according to the senator, include "tear gas, rubber and plastic bullets, and bean bag rounds."  Portland Democratic Mayor Ted Wheeler recently issued a ban on the troubled city's police department from using CS gas (also called tear gas) on demonstrators.  Every night for the past four months, police officers in Portland have come face-to-face with protestors and rioters demonstrating in favor of racial justice and police reform.  Often the clashes have become violent and have been connected to several deaths.  Several weeks ago, Wheeler was tear-gassed while marching one night with demonstrators.

Antifa and BLM, the Democrat party's stormtroopers.  The Democrats in Congress continue to block further aid to the catastrophically unemployed due to the virus.  As usual, Pelosi and her vassals in the House are abusing their positions of power, again in some demented logic to defeat the President.  With every fiber of their being, they believe most Americans are mind-numbed idiots.  They are counting on it, counting on us to ignore the fact that they have been advocating for all the rioting the citizens of democrat-run cities have endured.  They assume as well that we will all fail to notice their candidate belongs in a nursing home.  The Biden campaign finally released a statement, too little, too late, in support of law enforcement!

Satanists and Witches for Biden.  Like all progressive groups, The Satanic Temple came out in support of Black Lives Matter.  The Satanic Temple, which distinguishes itself from its rival, The Church of Satan, through its rigorously progressive politics while accusing The Church of Satan of libertarianism, put out a statement by co-founder Lucien Greaves that blasted President Trump and accused the police of randomly killing black people that could have come from any random leftist organization.  "I watched with dismay as, in reaction to the election of Donald Trump, the least qualified, least dignified, least competent president in all of U.S. history," complained Greaves, whose real name is Douglas Mesner, and who has been known to pose wearing goat horns on his head.  Steve Hill ran in a Democrat State Senate primary as the first Satanist to seek public office.  While he lost, the Satanist and Bernie Sanders supporter was able to secure over 10,000 votes from California Democrats.  Since then, Hill has participated in a Black Lives Matter rally and one comment noted the "solidarity between Black Lives Matter and Satanists."

The Atlantic says Democrats will not be able to concede in November.  On Sunday [9/13/2020], The Atlantic ran an article that suggests that if President Trump wins in November, Democrats will not be able to concede the election.  The article was written by Shadi Hamid, where he outlines an entire list of grievances in which the left would not accept a Biden loss.  Such an event, Hamid says, is the worst-case scenario.  The author indicates that Biden losing the election would undermine democracy.  He says that Democrats would not accept losing the electoral college vote as they did in 2016.  He said that they did not accept the results then and would not accept it now.  He continued saying that the violence and extremism that the left has been financing and promoting would continue.  He continued with the same left-wing radical lie that President Trump is to blame and that all of it would go away if Biden were to be elected.  I am sure it would, as would every freedom that we all enjoy every day.

I refuse to play Nancy Pelosi's Washington games.  Playing the game in Washington means dancing to the tune of party leadership, lobbyists, and major donors.  It means you don't play across the aisle.  It means doing as you are told.  It means you are perfectly fine with the status quo, even if that means voting on legislation that spends trillions of dollars of taxpayer money when you have less than 24 hours to review, let alone debate it.  It means staying quiet and abandoning your principles.  I refuse to play that game.

How to Steal an Election - Part II.  The very publication of the Transition Integrity Project (TIP) report and the subsequent news media reporting about it are components of psychological warfare within the broader information warfare campaign aimed at spreading demoralizing rumors to Trump supporters.  The goal is to break down and weaken support before, during and after election day.  Demoralized and unmotivated supporters do not make their support for their candidate public.  They do not campaign in neighborhoods or post yard signs.  They do not vote.  They do not volunteer at polling places.  They become convinced their hopes are a lost, and highly controversial cause.  They do not wish to be called a racist, or a hater, or identified with other fringe elements.  They stay at home and watch TV.  Having been psychologically conditioned (through the COVID-19 pandemic) to withdraw, isolate, and lock-down — on largely fiat orders of various government officials — many Americans will react to the "irregular" and extra-legal tactics of the Left.  The Left relies on this reaction to suppress voter turnout and use varying forms of terror, such as reprisals and the threats of reprisals, against those who do not cooperate or who challenge the projected accusations detailed in the TIP report.  The TIP report is careful not to engage in sedition.  They are a whisper away from advocating violence — but these are very sharp political operatives that are all lawyered-up, so they speak in code.

The Trump Scandal Absorption Level Has Been Reached.  [Scroll down]  We're being lied to on a daily basis.  We're being manipulated by a minority that, without the media, would be invisible.  This minority is literally so small that if the media were not sponsoring them, we wouldn't see them.  Now, as you know, psychologically, this sufficient works.  A lot of people on our side think that we are outnumbered — and the truth is, not only are we not outnumbered, they're not even close to outnumbering us.  Despite how you feel, despite how it might look.  And I'm talking specifically about the Marxist radical leftist.  Not the usual liberal Democrats that we know are out there.  I'm talking about the Antifas and the Black Lives Matters.  They are nowhere near a majority of in this country.  They are a tiny minority, and we're being told by CNN and the New York Times every day that the country has now made the move to Marxism.

President Trump may be battered by the waves, but he will not sink.  [Scroll down]  What ails the left is that leftists believe everything they think, and their thinking is characterized by pomposity and intolerance.  One has to look no farther than Twitter to be clobbered by the gross intolerance of Democrats.  They are rude, profane, wholly without manners or grace.  There are the vicious rioters in the streets whom the Democrats refuse to condemn, and there are the equally vicious boors who drive the contempt in which social media is drowning.  Those often anonymous haters hide behind their not so clever handles like schoolyard bullies who cry for their mothers if their true identities are discovered.  That's when they cry "racism," or "white supremacy," or "white privilege," even if, as most of them are, they are white.  There is nothing more absurd than watching a young white female carrying a Black Lives Matter sign shouting obscenities in the face of a black policeman to illustrate the depth of the left's vacuity.

Democrats have a plan: threaten their way into the White House.  A coalition of influential progressive groups — including the SEIU, AFT, Color of Change, Indivisible, MoveOn, and Demos — is organizing, the Daily Beast reports, for "mass public unrest": [...] There's a reason these "secret" plans were revealed in painstaking detail to a sympathetic outlet, one that would repeat fever dreams about "MAGA violence after election day."  It's the latest example of the left's campaign of extortion:  If you want the protesting, rioting, and murder wave to end, all you have to do is hand Joe Biden a landslide.  The organizations claim to be preparing for an election "without a clear outcome," or the possibility that President Donald Trump refuses to concede.  Of course, they have also worked to assure an ambiguous election night by pressing for a massive, disorganized switch to mail-in voting, even as public health experts say in-person voting is as safe as grocery shopping.

Dem Staffer Arrested by the Portland Police During BLM Riot, Dem Response Says It All.  Democrats are now trying to spin away any blame for the BLM riots after they unreservedly embraced the group and tried to downplay the actions as "peaceful protest."  Democratic leaders refused to properly address them or hold rioters accountable.  In fact, there have been multiple Democrats from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Rep. Maxine Waters and Rep. Ayanna Pressley encouraging calling for unrest in the streets.  On top of all that, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), the Democratic candidate for vice-president contributed to a fund to help bail out people arrested during the riots.  At least 13 Biden staffers also contributed to the fund.  They also encouraged others to contribute as well, helping the fund raise $35 million.  That enabled violent criminals to get out, including one who allegedly committed another assault, leaving a victim with a traumatic brain injury.

'Godless' and 'imposters': Priest unleashes on Dems.  A Catholic priest in America's heartland is going scorched-earth against any Catholic who would vote for a Democrat in the upcoming presidential election, slamming the political party and even leaders of the Catholic Church as "godless," "gutless" and "imposters."  "Here's a memo to clueless baptized Catholics out there:  You cannot be Catholic and be a Democrat.  Period," said Rev. James Altman of La Crosse, Wisconsin, in a new video.  "Their party platform absolutely is against everything the Catholic church teaches.  So just quit pretending that you're Catholic and vote Democrat.  Repent of your support of that party and its platform, or face the fires of hell."

Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of La Crosse responds to video of priest attacking Catholics who are Democrats.  The bishop of the Catholic Diocese of La Crosse is responding to a video of one of its priests attacking Catholics who are Democrats.  The video, posted to Youtube already has almost 400,000 views.  A video by Father James Altman, the Priest at Saint James the Less Catholic Church here in La Crosse, is causing mixed reactions by those who have seen it.  The video, posted by a right wing media outlet, called Alpha News MN, shows Father Altman making claims against the Democratic party.

The Democrats Pick the Criminal.  On Aug. 23, 29-year-old Jacob Blake, a black man, was shot seven times in the back by a white police officer.  The original video, which only included the last moments of the incident, gave no context for the incident.  But further video and police reports made clear what happened. [...] There was an open warrant on Blake for third-degree felony sexual assault; the alleged victim is the woman who dialed 911, and she apparently had a restraining order against Blake. [...] Upon arriving at the scene, the police attempted to effectuate an arrest.  Blake resisted.  He apparently got one of the officers in a headlock and resisted two separate uses of a stun gun.  He then disobeyed officer commands, walked around to the driver's side of an SUV and reached inside.  A knife was found on the driver's side floorboards.  This is the definition of a justified shoot, by all available evidence.  Yet Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris have chosen to side with an alleged rapist and against police officers attempting to do their job.

Donald Trump:  Joe Biden Will Appease Domestic Terrorists, I Will Arrest Them.  President Donald Trump on Tuesday continued campaigning against the violent radical left rioters in America's major cities, describing them as "domestic terrorists."  "Biden's plan is to appease the domestic terrorists.  My plan is to arrest them," Trump said as the crowd cheered.

The left's awkward lionization of Jacob Blake.  When we first learned that Kenosha resident Jacob Blake was offering his first interviews and sending out video messages from the hospital after being shot by the police in Kenosha, I noted a somewhat fawning tone to the media coverage he was getting.  This left me wondering about the other people involved in his story, particularly the alleged victims of his past criminal behavior. [...] Judging by the thousands of combined retweets and likes that message received, I didn't seem to be the only one raising these nagging questions.  None of these issues slowed down the rest of our major media outlets, however.

By Hailing Jacob Blake As A Hero, Democrats Have Marginalized His Alleged Rape And Abuse Victim.  Kamala Harris is the latest high-profile Democrat to meet with and pay homage to Jacob Blake and his family.  After speaking with them for an hour, Harris gushed to reporters that Blake Sr., known for ranting about "Jews" and "crackers" on social media, and Blake Jr., accused of drunkenly abusing a woman over the course of several years before finally breaking into her house and raping her, are "incredible."  Blake family attorney Benjamin Crump, a man for whom the term "ambulance chaser" was invented, issued a press release after the visit, providing more details about the kumbaya session. [...] Now would be a good time to remind ourselves why Blake Jr. finds himself in a position where he must "work through his pain."

Fostering massive social disorder is no way to protest.  It's increasingly obvious that far too many people out causing havoc in the name of Black Lives Matter are in fact just wallowing in the chance to bully people and break stuff, or worse.  And the ranks of Antifa, in particular, are packed with utter thugs (mostly white) who are devastating mainly black neighborhoods in towns like Kenosha, Wis.  Yes, many protesters try to stand up to the extremists:  In the videos of ruffians trashing restaurants and threatening diners up in Rochester, you see some people trying to stop the mayhem.  But they fail, badly — and so the cause is set back, badly.  And for that, all these movements' leaders are to blame.  The civil-rights movement understood that it could only succeed by appealing to the nation's conscience and ruthlessly policed its own ranks.  Black Lives Matter organizers seem to think otherwise — why else sit by as its followers harass restaurant-goers across the country?

Minnesota Senate candidate says 'crazy' urban liberals driving people to Trump, could flip state red.  President Trump could flip Minnesota — a state that has been blue since 1972 — because of a mishandled coronavirus response and continuing civil unrest in Democrat-run cities, GOP Senate candidate Jason Lewis said Saturday [9/5/2020].  The former congressman is battling incumbent Democrat Tina Smith in a Senate race that Real Clear Politics recently moved from "leaning Democrat" to "toss-up."  "It's sort of a microcosm of the entire country.  As the urban liberals become a little bit more crazy, it drives everybody else into Trump country and red country," Lewis said on "Fox & Friends Weekend."

O.C. Democratic leader faces backlash after sharing post praising Ho Chi Minh on Facebook.  An Orange County Democratic Party leader has learned the perils of sharing social media posts praising dead communist leaders.  On Sunday [8/30/2020], Jeff LeTourneau, vice chair of the county's Democratic Party, shared a Facebook post that glorified Ho Chi Minh, the former communist leader of Vietnam.  The post drew immediate criticism from politicians from both parties, including from those who represented Orange County's politically active Vietnamese American community, which was built on a bedrock of refugees from communism and the Vietnam War.

Antifa Effect?  Yes, the Rioting Is Starting to Impact the House Races.  Is Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and the violent far-left actually giving a massive in-kind contribution to Republicans this election cycle?  Maybe.  The non-stop rioting in the cities, especially along the Left Coast and now in Kenosha, Wisconsin is starting to show up in the polling.  It's the reason why Joe Biden had to come out of his bunker after the Republican National Convention; the event mentioned the rioting.  It's why CNN's Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon, who endorsed the violence, said it was now time to settle down because it was hurting Democrats.  Donald Trump is now leading with Independents by ten points, Black and Hispanic voters support for Trump spiked after the GOP convention, and the national race is tightening up.  Trump is tied with Biden in Michigan — and enthusiasm for Trump with his base is sky-high.  Joe Biden is not fairing so well with Democrats on that front.

Gaslighting America:  Democrats And Media Have Turned It Up To 11.  The Democratic Party and its communications office have been telling the country for some time now that night is day and up is down.  But, with the election two months away, the psychological manipulation of the American voter has accelerated.  As we've written the past two days, Joe Biden has condemned the riots that have been wrecking cities and killing people since the May 25 death of George Floyd.  We're glad he finally got around to it.  Yet he and his party are acting as if they've opposed the violence all along and it's President Donald Trump who has failed to come out against it.  But Trump, of course, has been denouncing the riots since they began.  Even when the media were determined to convince us they were "mostly peaceful."

A Clutch of Fools.  Our friends on the left pirouette from position to position, desperate to please the mob.  Consider a point of comparison:  Only a few years ago, a bunch of irresponsible people who took out mortgages they could never hope to afford eventually lost their houses in foreclosures.  People lost businesses, too.  That was, we were assured, a national tragedy, an indictment of capitalism.  But now the anointed mob is burning down homes and businesses, and progressives sniff that these losses are "just property."  Sometimes, property losses (those resulting from failure to pay a valid debt) are the cause of lamentation and the rending of garments, and sometimes property losses (those imposed by criminal violence) are no big deal.  A cynical man might suspect that such progressive posturing is not to be taken seriously.

Democrats are increasingly worried Trump's 'law and order message is resonating with swing state voters.  Democrats have told top advisers to the party's presidential nominee, Joe Biden, that President Donald Trump's "law and order" message and images of disorder during anti-racism protests risk undermining Biden in Midwestern swing states, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday [9/2/2020].  According to the report, Biden's campaign was caught off guard by unrest last week in Kenosha, Wisconsin, after the police shooting of Jacob Blake and violence between Trump supporters and counterprotesters in Portland, Oregon.

The Editor says...
I find it difficult to believe the Biden team was "caught off guard" by an event that happened ten days earlier.  The Biden campaign would never have mentioned rioting, but the rioters are obviously not Republicans, and the voters are paying attention.

Americans chant 'Death to America' in streets of Oakland.  A large group of demonstrators took to the streets in Oakland over the weekend to protest alleged systemic racism in part by chanting "Death to America," which drew a heavy negative response.  Several videos of the protests were posted online to social media, and a number of people expressed their disagreement — not with the act of protesting, but with the message.  "The left has created a monster that they have lost complete control of," Jason Howerton wrote.  "I never thought I'd see people chanting "death to America" in the streets of America."

Here are Joe Biden Supporters Chanting 'Death to America' in Oakland.  In the olden days, "Death to America" was something you would hear in Iran.  Not Oakland.  But this is who Joe Biden supporters are now.  Call it Antifa, Black Lives Matter, or a ham sandwich.  It's all the left, and Joe Biden is the empty vessel the left is using right now, as Nancy Pelosi/Bernie Sanders try to "Weekend at Bernie's" Biden all the way to the White House.  He, and they, own this.

Trump's Running to Save Us from a Race War Fomented by Democrats.  [Scroll down]  The left in this country — it's patently obvious now — they want this election to be, they want the current American circumstance to be black versus white, not left versus right, not male versus female, not straight versus gay.  They want it to be black versus white.  Immigrant versus native maybe, but as long as it has a racial component, that's what the Democrats are attempting to foment.  And Trump didn't buy it.  He didn't buy into it.  He didn't take the bait.  He didn't respond in kind.  All last week the president made clear that it's about people who are constructive, who are productive and generally happy.  That's us.  Versus people who are — let's face it — miserably unhappy.

Neighbors Allegedly Write Letter Singling Out Neighbor For Trump Yard Sign.  Fox News contributor Guy Benson on Saturday posted a letter allegedly given to a friend's neighbor because they "have a Trump sign in their yard."  "Thank you for proudly and prominently displaying your signs of political support!  These symbols make it impossible for us to ignore how you truly feel about us as your neighbors," said the handwritten note, which was signed "your neighbors who dare to be different."

The Editor says...
Sounds like the person who really dares to be different is the one getting all the flack.

The Chaos in Urban America Is Bad Now — But Can Only Get Worse With Biden.  People used to accuse Democrats of being "soft on crime."  Now, Democrat-run cities can't even properly identify crime, let alone punish it.  (Except, perhaps, the ultimate sin of defending your life and home from the mob).  The eccentric, oddball, strange and perverse crew of mayors that run these urban cesspools are intransigent in their refusal to fight crime.  President Donald Trump is increasingly at war with America's Democrat-run cities — but only because their mayors refuse to fight the war with the crime on their streets.  This week, the President announced that he was sending 200 federal agents to Chicago and Kansas City.  He has already sent U.S. Customs Border Security guards to Portland in an attempt to alleviate the lawlessness and chaos in that city.  At least he can still distinguish between legitimate protest and rioting.  Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, apparently, cannot.

Mass Exodus: People are Fleeing Democrat Cities.  We are in the midst of a mass exodus of Americans from Democrat-run cities, yet Democrats cannot seem to figure out why.  The reasons are easily explainable, but apparently not to average Democrats, who are apparently unable to discern the obvious. [...] Before we get to the exodus, here is a reminder of a few of their actions:
  •   Running with the Ukrainian impeachment hoax
  •   Refusing to condemn the Chicoms for withholding info about their virus
  •   Obstructing the federal virus response (having not made a single positive recommendation made by any #Dementiacrat members of Congress!)
  •   Completely politicizing the virus, shutting down Blue states and implementing arbitrary authoritarian policies, incentivizing the reporting of deaths as "virus-related,"
  •   Stoking the racist fires of BLM (not a single elected Dementiacrat has condemned BLM)
  •   Aiding and abetting rioting in the streets (including setting up bail money to rapidly get the few arrested protesters back on the streets for more rioting), running a God-free national convention, supporting the cancel culture that aims to destroy the Republic
  •   Implementing policies to send virus-infected elderly back into assisted living quarters to infect other elderly people
  •   Lying nonstop during their national convention while offering no positive solutions (only full-blown socialism), supporting defunding of the police nationwide
  •   Nominating two candidates who are compromised by Communist China (not one, but two Manchurian candidates in the truest sense)
  •   Making common cause with America's enemies at every turn (e.g., Communist China and Iran)
Worst of all, the Democrats have let BLM and Antifa run wild in the streets of Blue cities, destroying businesses and public property, defacing historical monuments, and causing an exodus of citizens from those cities (those who can do so are fleeing those cities in droves!).

Andrew Sullivan: 'These despicable fanatics, like it or not, are now in part the face of the Democrats'.  Andrew Sullivan's take on the danger posed to Dems by chaos in the streets is worth a read.  I don't agree with all of it but Sullivan seems to be making a genuine attempt to not be guided by talking points from either side of the aisle and it's interesting to watch even if it's not a completely successful effort.  Frankly, some of what he says seems to at least partly contradict other things he's saying but I guess that's what happens sometimes when you're reacting honestly and not just picking sides.  Mostly what comes through is his disgust at the rioting which Democrats have only belatedly realized could be a problem.

It's a little late now, isn't it?
Democrats worry about voter backlash in suburbs.  Democratic strategists are worried scenes of violence in Kenosha, Wis., and the "defund the police" debate could give Republicans and President Trump a boost with suburban voters.  The issue has come back to the forefront amid new incidents of violence, property destruction and protests this week after another unarmed Black man, Jacob Blake, was shot in the back by a police officer.  Some Democrats worry the continuing unrest could give Trump an opening with swing voters in Wisconsin and other key states that voted for Trump in 2016.

The Democrats Face the Inferno They Created.  The other day a puling Don Lemon, the infamous CNN anchor, [...] ripped the mask off the Democrat/leftist body politic when he opined that presidential candidate Joe Biden needed to speak out against the rioting currently destroying Democrat-run cities because the unrestrained violence was beginning to hurt him at the polls.  In uttering nary a word about the impact the widespread suffering and destruction was having on Americans, he starkly displayed the callous disregard Democrats have for this nation and its citizens. [...] Someone once said that if you give people long enough and listen carefully, they will always tell you who they are.  Lemon is telling us exactly who the Democrats are.  It was a staggeringly profound confession, whether he intended it as so or not.  Perhaps next he will advise Biden to advocate reopening the economy and the schools because trying to destroy the country in order to use impoverished and despondent Americans against Trump for political purposes was also costing him votes.

Virginia Democrats Pass Bill That Eases Sentencing for Assaulting Police.  The Virginia Senate passed a new bill that would weaken sentencing for assaulting a police officer, the Associated Press reported Wednesday [8/26/2020].  The bill would strike down Virginia's six-month mandatory minimum sentence for striking an officer and provide judges the discretion to lower charges to a misdemeanor in less severe cases.  Despite vehement opposition from Republicans, Democratic lawmakers fast-tracked the passage of the bill with a party-line vote.  Republican members argued that the bill undercuts police officers who are confronting a nationwide crime wave.

The Collapse of the Democrat Brand.  Democrats approve of burning cities, mass riots, and hundreds of beatings for those willing to wear Trump-branded clothing.  Surveys show that nearly half of leftists won't even be friends with Trump-supporters.  There are also countless examples of Trump-supporters blacklisted for incorrect political viewpoints.  None of this is congruent with a kind, tolerant, peaceful brand.  Perhaps the pinnacle of the left's false brand image happened at a Minnesota high school when students violently beat another student for carrying a Trump flag during a protest — against gun violence.  It's hard for someone to be likable when any level of disagreement is anathema to him.  The same applies to the Democrat brand.  Hollywood has resorted to rewriting existing superheroes to be more woke because it can't create woke heroes.  That's because there is nothing admirable about wokeness.  Children don't aspire to be perpetual complainers who thrive on destroying people for typos.  There is nothing likable about paranoid malcontents, who see racism and Russian assets everywhere they look.  Nobody wants to be a leftist because it sounds miserable, and multiple polls prove that Democrats are less happy than Republicans.

Like trapped rats, Democrats and other leftists are starting to get nervous.  No one believes in "President Biden," which is a generic idea without any policies attached.  Trump offers Americans a mirror of themselves and their highest aspirations.  That's a winner.

The Democrats Attack the Country; the Republicans Attack the Democrats.  Last week, we watched as Joe Biden and his increasingly radical party outlined their dark perception of the country.  They offered few policies and no solutions.  Their message boiled down to America is evil and rotten to the core, and Trump is a fascist who represents an existential "threat to our democracy." The Democrats also called Trump a racist, accused him of culpability for every single COVID-19 death in the country, and for the economic contraction that has led to a 10 percent unemployment rate.  As if the well-documented failures of the Postal Service over the last several decades have not already undermined it enough, Hillary Clinton blamed Trump for supposedly trying to sabotage it in an attempt to "steal an election."

Third night of RNC 2020 puts the onus squarely on Joe Biden.  Mike Pence put it on the line in his speech on the third night of the Republican Convention:  "You will not be safe in Joe Biden's America."  As he spoke, Kenosha was reeling from the violence of the past four days while rioters were trashing Minneapolis yet again.  The embrace of law and order was one of the key themes of the night, and Pence was at his most dramatic as he said, "The violence must stop, whether in Minneapolis, Portland, or Kenosha.  Too many heroes have died defending our freedoms to see Americans strike each other down.  We will have law and order on the streets of America."  He said that the men and women of law enforcement "are the best of us," and that "we will always stand with those who stand on the thin blue line."

What Will Replace the Police?  Ten Historical Examples.  Perhaps we have found the Democrats' Kryptonite.  Conservatives have noticed for quite some time that the left never showed adequate concern about far-left extremism.  The far left has greater numbers and, unlike the far right, is entrenched in major institutions like colleges.  The far left hopes to claim the anti-police violence as a historic win for its side.  Democrats can't claim that the Floyd protests had nothing to do with rioting.  Protests have become linked in Americans' minds with riots.  The organization seen as leading these demonstrations was Black Lives Matter (BLM), whose premier issue was defunding or abolishing the police.  BLM leaders like Alicia Garza never hid their intent.  Most BLM activists rejected talk of mere reform as too weak and compromising.  Attempts by skittish Democrats like Jim Clyburn to disown anti-police slogans can't undo the effect of many fellow Democrats' embracing of a group whose trademark demand is shutting down police.

Former DNC Head Donna Brazile Freaks Out On 'Fox And Friends,' Brian Kilmeade Cuts Away.  On Tuesday [8/25/2020], Fox News contributor and former Democratic National Committee chair Donna Brazile became irate on "Fox & Friends" when speaking with conservative pundit Tammy Bruce about the current wave of violence breaking out across America.  The moment became so heated that co-host Brian Kilmeade had to cut away.  The heated exchange began when Tammy Bruce highlighted the fact that few if any, Democrats have spoken out against the violence unfolding in cities across America.

RNC 2020 opening night ratings on C-SPAN blow away DNC viewership.  The opening night of the 2020 Republican National Convention blew last week's Democratic snoozefest out of the water, drawing in six times more viewers on C-SPAN's livestream.  Approximately 440,000 people tuned in to watch the first night of the virtual GOP convention on Monday, compared to just 76,000 views for the first night of the DNC, according to a Hill report.  While the Democratic gathering boasted speeches from big names such as former first lady Michelle Obama, who gave a rousing endorsement of Joe Biden and drew the ire of President Trump, far more people tuned in to see Donald Trump Jr., Nikki Haley and the gun-wielding McCloskeys bash Biden.

RNC 2020: Democrat Vernon Jones delivers blistering attack on his party.  Democratic Georgia state Rep. Vernon Jones bashed his party and declared his ardent support for President Trump in a speech Monday night at the 2020 Republican National Convention.  Jones, who was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in 2016, made waves in April with his endorsement of Trump.  During his RNC address, he railed against his party, saying it had become "infected with a pandemic" of intolerance, bigotry, socialism and anti-cop sentiment.  Dems have "a dangerous tolerance for people who attack others, destroy property, and terrorize our communities," he said.

Vernon Jones:  Democrats 'Infected' with Pandemic of Intolerance, Socialism, Anti-Police Bias.  Vernon Jones, a Georgia Democrat state Rep., said during the Republican National Convention (RNC) on Monday that the Democrats are "infected" with the "pandemic" of "bigotry, socialism, and anti-law enforcement bias."  Jones garnered national headlines after he came out in support of President Donald Trump.  He noted that a "lifelong Democrat" might seem like an odd picture at the Republican National Convention; however, he charged that the Democrat Party does not "want Black people to leave the mental Plantation they've had us on for decades."  The Georgia lawmaker charged that Trump is the "president that America needs to lead us forward."

Two conventions, one angry and miserable, the other optimistic and grateful.  The difference in tone between the Democrat and Republican conventions could not be more distinct.  The four days of the Democrat infomercial were characterized by misery and anger.  Not one of the Democrat speakers even smiled.  They made it clear, each and every one of them, that they hate this country.  Consider Michelle Obama's scowling face; every person who spoke exuded rage, fury that President Trump had survived the four years of their demented attempts to destroy his presidency.  Even before the election, higher-ups at the FBI, the DOJ and the CIA had hatched a scheme to prevent his victory.  Once elected but before his inauguration, they escalated their treasonous plan which was constructed out of a tissue of lies.  To this day, Adam Schiff continues to promote the many lies he has foisted upon the American people with the eager help of a despicable and immoral media.  This was a grievously corrupt group of people with power to abuse — and abuse it they did.  But they failed.  Yet they have not been deterred.

While Claiming To Champion Justice, Democrats Are Letting American Cities Burn.  The leaders of the Democratic Party think they are destroying America in order to save it.  Our nation's urban revival, of which New York City was the preeminent example, was one of the great successes of the last few decades.  Now this achievement is in danger as the costliest civil unrest in American history drags on, enabled by the deliberate fecklessness of Democratic leaders.  Nightly riots and assaults in Portland, massive organized looting in Chicago, and escalating violence in NYC and elsewhere are still ongoing as police are pulled back.  The destruction and pillaging have devastated local economies already wounded by the Chinese coronavirus.

Fight for America — voters must do this to stop socialism and anarchy.  Rioting.  Vandalism.  Bullying opponents into silence.  Calls to defund the police, abolish the Electoral College and remake America as a socialist country.  It's hard to believe what we're now seeing.  For months, the forces of Marxism, socialism and anarchy have terrorized our streets and threatened the values that make America the greatest nation in the world.  They have shown no signs of stopping, and many left-leaning politicians, members of the media and celebrities either tacitly accept their behavior or openly cheer it on.  Today, America has a choice of two paths.  We can embrace the foundational principles that created this nation of limited government and individual liberty.  Or we can veer down the path of those who trash those principles, who teach our children that America was illegitimate from the start, and who want to make the vast majority of Americans subservient to an all-powerful government.

The Democrats Ignored the Riots, but Republicans Won't.  The Democratic National Convention is over, and Democrats did not leave much to voters' imaginations.  The party faithful were likely enlivened by the speakers who sketched out a transformative vision for the future of the country.  Less ideological voters will probably appreciate the not-exactly-subtle efforts to contrast Joe Biden's character and comportment with Donald Trump's.  The party smartly shaped much of its pitch around the pandemic, which will likely be the election's most salient issue and one that does not favor the incumbent president.  And yet, there were many glaring thematic omissions throughout this nominating convention.  The ones that Republicans are most likely to exploit when the focus turns to the GOP next week are rising crime rates, lawlessness in American cities, and the Democratic Party's tacit acceptance of those intolerable conditions.

Criminal justice activist Donna Hylton, featured in DNC video, was convicted for role in grisly 1985 murder.  Donna Hylton was known as inmate #86G0206 for 27 years.  She was behind bars for her role in the grisly murder and torture of Thomas Vigliarolo, a balding New York businessman found stuffed inside a steamer trunk and left to rot in Harlem.  Hylton and six others let him die "in the most heinous circumstances," the prosecutor said at their trial in 1985.  On Thursday, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) hailed Hylton as one of "America's most impactful community leaders" and asked her to participate in a video reading of the Preamble to the Constitution during a televised portion of the convention.

The Sleight-of-Hand Convention.  I watched all of the convention, and the word "China" was not uttered until 10:57 p.m. on Thursday.  Nor did any of the Democrats mention the violence that has erupted in America's cities after the protests against the killing of George Floyd.  Biden talked about jobs, but the American worker made only guest appearances in the four days of programming.  If you are a Hispanic contractor or an Obama-Trump voter in the Midwest, was any of this convention relevant to you?  No doubt Biden's speech was affecting.  But the Democrats were awfully vague about what they plan to do if they find themselves in power next year.  Time and again, Americans have elected Democratic governments only to find themselves shocked and appalled two years later.  The Democrats campaign as a worker's party, but govern as a Bobo one.  It happened to Bill Clinton.  It happened to Obama.  Is there any reason to think a Biden presidency will be different?

On the Occasion of Not Watching the 2020 Democrat Convention.  This is not a Democratic Convention, but rather a convention of persons calling themselves Democrats.  There is no Democratic Party because there is nothing democratic about it in the most important sense of the word.  It is the antithesis of democracy.  They prattle about unity, but what each of the speakers really wants is obedience to the agenda of whatever unhappy soul is speaking at the moment.  They claim to unite in their singular vitriol and hatred of Donald Trump, but it is really their hatred of one another and us who do not obey that compels them.  Just listen to them canceling us and each other out for failure to embrace one another's orthodoxies.  Unhappy and unsmiling as they recite their recorded messages, it is clear that there is nothing that would make them less angry and more happy — even winning the presidency won't do that.  They want control, and they want power.  What they will do with power if they get it is not a pleasant prospect.

A Fake DNC Convention Ends With Real Nastiness.  [Scroll down]  "I'm proud to be a nasty, nasty woman," Julia Louis Dreyfuss gloated.  It's not just her own aspiration, but that of the party that invited her.  The Democrats want to play at being serious, principled folks bringing the country together, but they're proud to be nasty.  "I will draw on the best of us, not the worst of us," Joe Biden claimed, accepting his nomination after a convention filled with conspiracy theories about mailboxes, smears, and cheap shots.  That promise is coming from a politician who spent his career insulting voters, calling them fat and stupid, whose family is notorious for profiting from his political office, who palled around with segregationists and sexual predators, but whom three nights of celebrities and fellow hacks from across the political swamp spectrum now insist is really a kind, decent, and loveable man.  Biden's transformation after 47 years of nastiness is just as convincing as that of his party.  The Democrats insist that Joe Biden is a man of faith, even as their caucuses clip "God" out of the Pledge of Allegiance.

The DNC Tried to Do Comedy, It Was One of the Most Awkward Things I've Ever Witnessed.  The DNC has thankfully come to a close.  Joe Biden ended it with a teleprompter performance in which he did not forget where he was, so in that sense, it's being hailed as a success.  Of course, no matter what happened, the headlines were already written.  It was "optimistic" and "uplifting."  Rest assured, when the RNC happens next week, it'll be "dark" and "divisive" no matter what is actually said.  Of course, it wasn't all flowery language.  The DNC also had Julia Louis-Dreyfus of Seinfeld fame (I know she's been in other stuff, I just don't care) do a bit.  That led to some of the most awkward "comedy" I've ever witnessed.  [Video clip]  Of course, no Democrat joke session would be complete without insinuating that VP Mike Pence is gay, because that's the pinnacle of hilarity on the left.  [Another video clip]  You get it?  She changed his name to something it's not because that is slang in another country for being a homosexual.  Absolute comedic brilliance.  Note that Democrats are always allowed to get away with things that would be called "homophobic" if it came from someone on the right.

Joe Biden's DNC Acceptance Speech Gets 21% Lower Ratings Than Clinton in 2016.  Former Vice President Joe Biden accepted the Democrat presidential nomination Thursday, but his speech drew fewer viewers than Hillary Clinton did in 2016, according to preliminary data from Nielsen Media Research.

Hatred, Prejudice and Rage.  I am becoming increasingly optimistic about this year's election.  It seems obvious that the Democrats have gone far overboard, and are alienating huge segments of the electorate.  There is indeed a pro-arson, pro-looting faction, but it can hardly comprise a majority.  The Democrats seem to think that Trump hatred can drag even a pitiful candidate like Joe Biden across the finish line, but Americans have never been haters.  Not a majority of them, anyway.  And there is little evidence that Trump hatred rules the electorate.  On the contrary, the current Rasmussen survey of likely voters finds Trump with a 51% approval rating.

DNC Panel Features 'Mermaid Queen-King' Who Calls For the Abolition of ICE, Police, and Prisons.  The Democratic National Convention on Tuesday [8/18/2020] featured a panelist who identifies as a "nonbinary/gender transcendent mermaid Queen-King" and who called for the abolition of the police, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and prisons.  According to the panelist's Wake Forest University bio, J Mai is a "Black-Vietnamese, transgender nonbinary/gender transcendent mermaid Queen-King," who recently became a "licensed minister in the Progressive National Baptist Church."  J. Mai made the extreme comments during a DNC LGBTQ caucus meeting.  "Why can't folks imagine a world without the cops?  Why can't folks imagine a world without prisons?  Why can't people expand their imaginations to include community care, to include an abolitionist future?" the self-avowed "mermaid Queen-King" said.  J Mai stressed that she was talking about real abolition, not a watered-down version.

Democrats Sure Hate America.  In watching the Democratic National Convention one thing strikes me over and over again — Democrats really don't like this country and the people in it.  No, this wasn't news to me, but it was surprising to see them be so open about it; proud of it, really.  The opening night was a list of grievances, an endless stream of whiny leftists declaring how racist everything and everyone is.  Honestly, if I lived in a place where I truly believed its very existence was based on oppressing me, you couldn't keep me there.  I wouldn't stick around, and I surely wouldn't try to take it over.  I'd get [...] out of there and go someplace else.  Yet, Democrats claim to love the country while calling for "fundamental transformation" of it.

The DNC's Ratings Enter Dumpster Fire Territory.  The ratings for the first two nights of the DNC are in and they aren't very good.  Compared to four years ago, total viewership among the broadcast networks is down 42%.  Even among the hardcore audience of the cable news networks, the Democrats are running at a 16% deficit compared to 2016.

Is This Real?  Why Some Are Calling the DNC Outro Monday Night 'The Moment Trump Won Re-Election'.  This cannot be real.  Did two hours of watching the Democratic National Convention cause me to lose my mind?  President Trump was blamed by one woman for causing her father's death from COVID.  Yeah, she used his dead body to score political points, I'm sure that's what he — a Trump supporter — would have really wanted.  Bernie tried to get the progressive base excited for Joe; it wasn't convincing.  And then we have the loser brigade, some no-name Republicans who are throwing their support behind Joe Biden.  John Kasich is also doing that — forever cementing himself as the Benedict Arnold of the Republican Party.  Well, at least for this cycle, he's decided to fill the role.

DNC Night One — I Think the Democrats Want Trump to Win.  Well, the 2020 Democratic National Convention (DNC) kinda/sorta got underway on Monday night and we're still waiting to hear from the twelve people who aren't in political media who watched it. [...] One of the more perplexing things was the DNC giving a speaking slot to former Ohio governor and noted mailman's son John Kasich.  Kasich brings slightly less excitement than dryer lint to any gathering he graces but what was most amusing was that during the somnambulant lead-up to the DNC, the Democrats were acting like Kasich was a real big get for them.  He's a milquetoast squish Republican whom no Republicans like anymore, so he tucked tail and went begging for attention crumbs from the Democrats, which is the way of the spineless squishes.  After backstabbing his own party to score points with the Democrats and their flying monkeys in the media, Kasich then — as Matt details at Townhall — [betrayed] his hosts by disparaging Bartender of the Year Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Cuomo's Appalling DNC Speech, and Biden's Endorsement of It, Is an Opportunity for Republicans.  Night one of the virtual Democratic National Convention descended into cringeworthiness on multiple occasions.  It featured awkward State-of-the-Union response-style political speeches, interspersed with musical interludes and glorified Zoom meetings.  It was emceed by a Hollywood celebrity, at times giving off major telethon vibes.  I can't imagine a normal human voluntarily tuning in at the beginning of the program and making it through the entire two hours.  But if Republicans are tempted to point and laugh, they should humbly recall that their turn comes next week, and the strange, unprecedented format likely won't be any easier for them.  Democrats have the entertainment industry's most glittering creative talents at their disposal, and they came up with... that.  Some speakers were stronger and more effective than others.  A few were downright awful.  Some of the pre-packaged content was painful to watch.

Today's Democratic Party.  Today's Democratic Party is exemplified by John Thompson, who won a primary on Tuesday and is the DFL-endorsed candidate for the Minnesota House of Representatives in District 67A.  Earlier today he led a BLM harassment effort at the home of Bob Kroll, President of the Minneapolis Police Department's union.  As you can see, Thompson is a profane, violent lunatic:  [Video clips]  It is highly probable that John Thompson will be a member of the Minnesota legislature beginning in January.  This is today's Democratic Party.  If these are not the people you want running our country, you had better not just vote Republican, but contribute to Republican candidates and volunteer for their campaigns.

Black Congressional Candidate In Minn Screams At Kids In Front Of Their House, Calls Them Klansmen.  [Video clip]

Democrats' Celebration Of Coercive Government Policy Has Begun.  The socialist hootenanny, also known as 2020's virtual Democratic National Convention, is now one installment into its miserable four-day run.  What have we learned so far?  While delegates and speakers are in remote locations, Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez is in Milwaukee, the site he personally chose for the convention.  It is wholly suitable for the event.  The Wisconsin city might be the most socialist municipality in America.  "Milwaukee is the only large American city to have elected socialist mayors — and kept them in power for almost 40 years," says WTTW, a public (of course) television station in Chicago.  Voters have even elected socialist "state and local legislators and one congressman."

MSM Members Pan DNC: 'Feels Like One Long Ad on YouTube,' 'Please Talk Me Off the Ledge,' 'Unwatchable'.  Members of the mainstream media panned the virtual Democratic National Convention (DNC) on Monday for its similarity to a long infomercial and its boring and out-of-date feel.  Philip Lewis, front page editor for the left-wing Huffington Post, perhaps summarized it best in his tweet:  "The DNC so far feels like one long ad on YouTube you'd usually skip."  Charles M. Blow, a New York Times columnist, tweeted, "This is a good effort by the DNC, but you can already tell that a virtual convention is going to be tough."  There are three additional days of the DNC.

Wow, the Democratic Convention was a bizarre night of television.  The Democratic National Convention kicked off Monday night with all the glamour and excitement of a Zoom conference.  The Home Shopping Network produces more dynamic programming and is far better at pushing product.  Inexplicably, former "Desperate Housewives" star Eva Longoria Bastón served as host.  Wearing a white sleeveless sheath dress and a permanent expression of teary concern, Longoria Bastón repeatedly invoked the convention's theme, "We the People."  She should have demanded a script doctor.  "YOU are the 'we' in 'we the people,'" she said.  Also: "'We the people' means all the people, even those with whom we might not agree."  Fourth-grade social studies class is more sophisticated and less insulting.

How to shock your woke kin out of Marxism.  In reading historian Paul Kengor's stunning new book on the demonic roots of the socialist movement — The Devil and Karl Marx — I came across one small section of the book that has the potential to deprogram the young Marxists in your life.  No, it is not Karl Marx's early and openly expressed willingness to walk on the wild side.  "My soul is chosen for hell," Marx wrote as an aspiring young poet, one of his many publicly declared yearnings to embrace the satanic over-soul.  (Quick digression:  Had Marx been a better poet and Hitler a better painter, just think how different the world would be today.)  Nor is it Marx's cruel exploitation of the women in his life.  No, what will trouble the clueless Marxists you might know — and if they are not clueless, they are evil — is Marx's extravagant racism and anti-Semitism.  The anti-Semitism I knew about.  The racism I did not.

Stacey Abrams:  The Perfect Democrat.  When Stacey Abrams was running for Georgia governor, she had an impressive list of social changes she wanted to make.  People paying their bills didn't make the cut.  Abrams was $228,000 in debt during her 2017 campaign for Georgia governor, including $50,000 to I.R.S.  Despite that, she managed to loan her campaign $50,000.  She also owed $76,000 in credit card debt and $96,000 for Yale Law School.  Abrams claimed that family obligations and a misunderstanding of how credit cards worked as the reason for her financial mess.  This from a woman who is a tax attorney who wanted to be the vice president of the United States.  Abrams claims the concept of handling money seemed to escape her.  She wrote that when she was at Spelman College, she got her first credit cards but was unaware that they would be "yoked to something called a credit score."

Protest held outside New York bakery over MAGA cake, bakery says it is still making the design.  A protest was held outside of a New York bakery Thursday over a MAGA hat cake.  Coccadotts Cake Shop in Albany put a picture on its social media of a cake baked into the shape of a red "Make American Great Again" hat.  The cake was a custom-order.  The cake set off a wave of backlash when it was posted in late July.  Though it was quickly deleted after the negative response, protestors from the Black Lives Matter movement and those supporting the MAGA cake faced off in front of the bakery on Aug. 13.  According to video footage from the protest, the sides are seen arguing while police officers attempt to keep a barricade between the groups.

Riots should re-elect Trump.  Only a fool would rebuild because city hall let rioters destroy 150 buildings and cause a half-billion-dollars in damage.  In Seattle, the mayor let rioters take over a six-block area, ceding the nation's first gayborhood to anarchists.  The city council cut the police budget, which forced the city's only black police chief to resign.  There are no black people on city council.  So much for Black Lives Matter.  In Chicago, rioters crossed the line and trashed the stores along the Magnificent Mile.  This broke the long-standing Democrat rule of allowing criminals to do what they want in poor black neighborhoods, but leave the elitists alone.  New York also broke that covenant.  Turning the cities into urban wastelands forces residents to flee for the suburbs.  Only the most delusional Democrats believe those refugees will vote for Basement Biden and COMMA-la Harris.

Austin guts police budget to pay Planned Parenthood.  The Austin City Council voted unanimously Thursday [8/13/2020] to gut its police budget.  The Austin Police Department, which is already about 200 officers below full strength, will have its budget cut by one-third.  The city's murder rate is spiking but evidently that's of no concern.

Democrats Dance with the Devil.  No one realized how weak the mainstream Democrat Party had become, or how powerful Black Lives Matter and Antifa had become, until they destroyed downtown Minneapolis.  Until then, they had done little more than make nuisances of themselves. [...] The riots that started in Minneapolis quickly spread to Seattle, Chicago, New York, Portland, and dozens of other Democrat-run cities.  Local authorities didn't know how to react.  After all, the rioters were presumptive Democrat voters. [...] Black Lives Matter and Antifa seem to have thoroughly cowed the Democrat Party.  Whatever they wish, Democrats shall do.  You want us to defund the police?  Sure.  Paint BLM "murals" on city streets?  Hand me a roller.  Don't want us to prosecute rioters?  Wouldn't think of it.  Looting is payback for long-overdue reparations?  Well, yeah.  Okay.  Democrats must surely worry about the optics of bowing to the rioters' will.

Crushing the Barbarians Inside the Gates.  [Scroll down]  What obliterates the woke narrative is the simple truth that the constitutional American republic with its rights and obligations under law, the free market economy together with common sense and traditional values have driven more creativity and prosperity than any other system in human history.  President Trump appreciates that heritage and wants to build on it.  Joe Biden and the Democrat Party have embraced the woke agenda and the social media cancel culture, and have accepted the visible toppling and removal of America's historic statues and monuments and the expungement of virtue from its history in order to remake and transform the nation.  The choice in the November elections could not be more clear-cut and the consequences more profound.

Kamala Has Already Struck Out.  Many analysts believe that Kamala Harris will be America's most radical left political candidate ever.  She's consistently among the top two "most progressive" members of the Senate.  She has been called one of the most radical-left politicians today; pick any pet woke cause, and Kamala will be farthest left!  These policy positions are not only constitutionally problematic; they are also prohibitively expensive, with a price tag in the multiple billions of dollars! [...] What Kamala Harris offers in the veepstakes is a promise to promote a grab bag of assorted radical goals of every oddball progressive from Bernie to AOC to Obama and be an advocate for special constituencies — pro-abortion voters, instigators of the BLM movement's racism, gun control activists, and illegal aliens.

Franklin Graham warns Biden-Harris ticket 'should be a great concern to all Christians'.  Evangelist Franklin Graham, a prominent evangelical supporter of President Trump, is calling on Christians to take note of one issue presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris both adamantly support.  The son of the late Rev. Billy Graham notes, Biden-Harris "are labeled as the most pro-abortion presidential ticket in the history of our nation."  "This should be a great concern to all Christians," Graham, the president and CEO of Samaritan's Purse, tweeted.  "As a follower of Jesus Christ, I am pro-life [and] believe every life is precious to God."

Biden to Ensure His Presidency 'Addresses the Unique Needs of... Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Women'.  Former Vice President Joe Biden says that if he is elected president his administration will address "the unique needs of... lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer women."  "Biden knows that addressing the challenges faced by women and girls is more than just a campaign promise — it's an imperative if the Administration is going to succeed in its broader efforts to make sure the government and economy work for all Americans," says a page on Biden's campaign website.

The Editor says...
Promoting homosexuality is not "work[ing] for all Americans."

Are Today's Leftists Truly Marxists?  Marx is a hero to many labor union leaders and civil rights organizations, including leftist groups like Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and some Democratic Party leaders.  It is easy to be a Marxist if you know little of his life.  Marx's predictions about capitalism and the "withering away of the state" turned out to be grossly wrong.  What most people do not know is that Marx was a racist and an anti-Semite.  When the U.S. annexed California after the Mexican-American War, Marx wrote:  "Without violence nothing is ever accomplished in history."  Then he asked, "Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who did not know what to do with it?"  Friedrich Engels added:  "In America we have witnessed the conquest of Mexico and have rejoiced at it.  It is to the interest of its own development that Mexico will be placed under the tutelage of the United States."  Many of Marx's racist ideas were reported in "Karl Marx, Racist," a book written by Nathaniel Weyl, a former member of the U.S. Communist Party.

Why I Want Biden to Lose More than I Want Trump to Win.  Today's Democrats think the police are the enemy, not the rioters, who they like to call "mostly peaceful protestors."  Some Democrats have called law enforcement officers "storm troopers" and "secret agents."  When Donald Trump sent federal agents to Portland to stop the rioters from burning down the federal courthouse, the mayor of the city and the governor of Oregon were angry with the president — not the anarchists!  This is a party that invited Attorney General William Barr to a congressional hearing but wouldn't let him respond to their non-stop onslaught of attacks.  They accused him of corruption, of perjury of violating his oath and of betraying the Constitution.  And when he tried to respond, they constantly interrupted to say, "I reclaim my time."  In plain English that means we get to talk and call you names and you're expected to shut up and take it.  If that happened on the street, someone would wind up with a bloody nose.

Far-left Portland mayoral candidate can't bring herself to denounce violence.  I joked on Friday after Portland's latest nightly travesty that Mayor Ted Wheeler was destined to be challenged at the polls for his response.  But, Portland being Portland, it would be a challenge from the left, accusing him of being too pro-cop.  I didn't realize when I wrote that that it's already come to pass.  He just missed winning a clear majority of the vote in Portland's May election, finishing with 49 percent of the vote.  The second-place finisher was ultra-left Sarah Iannarone, who nabbed a respectable 24 percent in a crowded field.  A poll taken in late June found Wheeler and Iannarone effectively tied, with a third of Portland voters undecided.  Given that the six weeks since that poll was taken haven't been a model of tranquility for the city, God only knows how much of an anti-incumbent vote might be out there now.  Iannarone could be a legit contender.

Seattle City Council approves plan to defund police department, slashes jobs and salaries.  The Seattle City Council voted Monday to move forward with a controversial proposal that would begin the process of defunding the police department.  The 7-1 vote comes despite objections from the city's police chief, mayor and the Seattle Police Officers' Guild.  The plan would ultimately slash funding to the department but not the 50% some had sought.  Seattle currently has around 1,400 police officers, and the current plan would see about 100 cut.  It was also cut the police department's $400 million budget by about $3 million, according to KOMO.  Councilmember Kshama Sawant was the sole "no" vote because she felt the proposals didn't go far enough, while Debora Juarez abstained, according to MyNorthWest.com.

Democrat-Controlled Seattle Votes To Defund Police As Violent Crime, Far-Left Riots Surge.  The Democrat-controlled Seattle City Council voted late on Monday to advance a highly controversial plan to defund the Seattle Police Department as violent crime and far-left riots have rocked the city in recent months.  The Seattle City Council voted to remove approximately $3 million from the Seattle Police Department's budget, [...]

'Defund the Police' is a media fantasy.  If you've paid any attention to the news, particularly cable news, over the last couple of months since George Floyd's killing by police in Minneapolis, you might think "defunding" or "abolishing" the police is a widely held and even somewhat mainstream desire.  Gallup suggests this is untrue.  The vast majority of Americans of all races and ethnicities don't want the police to leave their communities.

Coronavirus negotiation 'makes me wonder' if Democrats want to tank economy:  Navarro.  White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said Sunday [8/9/2020] that he's beginning to wonder if Democrats are purposely stalling coronavirus stimulus negotiations to tank the economy in an attempt to make President Trump look bad.  "There is this theory, Chuck, that the Democrats would prefer to see the economy go into the tank for another 90 days because that harms the president," Navarro told Chuck Todd on Sunday in an interview on "Meet the Press."  "I hope that Capitol Hill hasn't become that cynical.  But watching these negotiations makes me wonder, because we've been willing to bend."  Talks have been stalled for weeks as Democrats have asked for more than $3 trillion in the relief bill while Republicans are looking for a narrower package around $1 trillion.

Trump boxes Democrats into a corner on help for the unemployed.  President Trump has given the Democrats a surprise thrashing, hoisting them on their own petard over stimulus payments in what must be the legislative jiujitsu of the year. [...] They had their chance to pass a stimulus bill that would have helped the unemployed, but for them, first-things-first:  They held that package hostage to the all-important need, for them, of bailing out mismanaged blue Democrat cites and their unions.  The little guy's $400 weekly unemployment check booster would have to wait.  Plus, multi-milionaire Pelosi pooh-poohed those checks as "an illusion" same as she did the news that workers were getting $1,000 raises during the Trump boom years, calling those "crumbs."

Fighting Leftists' Assault on American Small Business.  There is a war on small business right now in this country.  The battle lines are tied to the tenets of capitalism and free markets, which value property rights and private ownership of production, versus socialism and communism, which value "workers" and communal or state property.  When we think of property rights, land and home ownership comes to mind.  But it also includes the right to own and operate a business and be the beneficiary of the risks and rewards.  The Marxist goal is to deplete the ranks and efficacy of small business in America and have the remains subsumed by fewer and larger corporations, as well as government.  The next stage will focus on dividing the leadership and workforce in large corporations. [...] Right now the revolutionaries need the titans of industry on their side.  Non-cooperation is synonymous with blasphemy.  Evidence of this was the apoplectic response of the left's messengers when the CEO of Goya Foods did not sing their tune.

Too late!
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler Now Begs Criminal Antifa Terrorists to Stay Home So Trump Won't Use His Failed City in His Ads.  It's a toss-up but Democrat Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler may have squeaked out a victory against Democrat Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Democrat New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio as America's worst mayor.  Just two weeks ago Mayor Wheeler blamed President Trump and federal agents for the 50-plus days of BLM-Antifa rioting in Portland.  But that didn't work because it was complete nonsense so now Wheeler is begging BLM-Antifa rioters to stay away from Portland because Trump is going to use their violent acts in his campaign ads.

The Apocalypse Election.  I have written many times that those on the left, because they believe they are on the side of all that is right and just, are willing to commit any depravity and injustice to gain the power they need to remake America.  Most Americans, however, do not understand this about the Democrats.  People believe all Americans have only the best intentions and would never deliberately harm the nation and its citizenry merely to obtain political power.  Therefore, people can only look on with incredulity as Democrats blatantly strive to keep Democrat-controlled state economies on lockdown — and, with the help of teachers unions, keep most schools closed in an attempt to deliberately immiserate Americans and their families in the hopes their suffering can be used against Trump.  With schools closed its been estimated that as many as 20 million workers will not be able to return to employment because they lack childcare, not to mention the irreparable damage the children will suffer.  Combined with the lockdowns, this will only aid in ensuring a hobbled economy with which they can blame and batter President Trump to deny him a second term as president.

Amid Cancel Culture, Now Academics Have Their Next Target:  Pickup Trucks.  We have watched our society slide into a disturbing trend of permissiveness when it comes to assaulting and removing aspects of our culture.  Between evictions of historical monuments, the eradicating of entertainment properties and the condemning of commonplace practices, we have almost become conditioned to accepting these efforts.  Now we may be seeing the effects of this movement metastasizing.  The Wall Street Journal delivered a lengthy treatise that looks at a normal aspect of American life, one that almost nobody looks at as being a nefarious component in our existence, with contempt:  driving pickup trucks.

The Editor says...
If you don't like pickup trucks, you should stay away from Texas!

Polls and Debates — Summertime Blues for Democrats.  Democrats now support urban destruction, domestic terrorism, hating America, defunding law enforcement, closing schools, and a full-on endorsement of the Sanders/AOC Marxist agenda.  If Democrats truly wanted a Bernie revolution, he would be their nominee, rather than Joe Biden.  I wonder if Trump planned it this way, branding Sanders as "Crazy Bernie," goading the DNC into nominating a supposedly more moderate Biden.  Better corrupt, incompetent, and demented than crazy must have been the DNC reasoning, but now they are left with a big steaming mess and few options to clean it up.

Mazie Hirono, Pro-Antifa Democrats Walk Out of Hearing, Refusing to Utter a Single Word Against Their Violent, Racist Paramilitary Thugs, Antifa.  Kyle Shideler, an analyst for the Center for Security Policy and an expert in terrorism including the doctrines and tactics of Antifa, testified before Ted Cruz's panel of antifa violence yesterday [8/4/2020].  He says he was expecting the Democrats to demur about their paramilitary allies' violence — but he was shocked to find Democrats outright supporting antifa.

Monsters Galore.  Liberation movements, at least in this country, always begin with a great sweeping cause — giving the vote and the right to rise upward to nonwhites and to women — that justly enlists most nonwhites and most women, and, once those are achieved, the goals devolve down to things such as abortion and quotas, which are more problematic, and on which many good people divide.  On things such as these, there are enormous divides between the voters themselves and the interest groups that claim to speak for them:  In the primaries this year, Democratic nonwhites and women showed no interest whatever in voting for members of their own race or gender, and much more in supporting the people whose views they espoused.  Those who ran strongest on race and abortion — Kirsten Gillibrand and "Beto" O'Rourke, who fawned on an ethnic group that he didn't belong to — left the race with between a 2 percent and a zero percent rating.

Insights to Consider Before November.  Women are upset at Trump's naughty words.  They also bought 80 million copies of 50 Shades of Gray.  Not one feminist has defended Sarah Sanders.  It seems women's rights only matter if those women are liberal.  No border wall.  No voter ID laws.  Did you figure it out yet?  But wait... there's more.  Chelsea Clinton got out of college and got a job at NBC that paid $900,000 per year.  Her mom flies around the country speaking out about white privilege.  And just like that, they went from being against foreign interference in our elections to allowing non-citizens to vote in our elections.  President Trump's wall costs less than the Obamacare website.  Let that sink in, America.  We are one election away from open borders, socialism, gun confiscation, and full-term abortion nationally.  We are fighting evil.

Communist Party Leader Endorses Joe Biden.  Communist Party leader Bob Avakian has announced his support for former Vice President Joe Biden in the upcoming presidential election.  Avakian, the founder and leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party USA, told his followers in a statement on Saturday [8/1/2020] that they should vote for Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.

Will Democrats accept election loss?  New report says no.  For weeks, there have been news reports and commentary on whether President Trump will "accept" the results of November's election.  The president started it on July 19 when he was asked, on Fox News Sunday, "Can you give a direct answer you will accept the election?"  "I have to see," Trump said.  "I have to see.  No, I'm not going to just say yes.  I'm not going to say no, and I didn't last time, either." [...] So there is much discussion of Trump and the election results.  But there is another, equally pressing question:  Will Democrats accept the results of the election if Joe Biden loses?  A new report suggests the answer could be no.  The report comes from a secretive group called the Transition Integrity Project.  A bipartisan, anti-Trump organization, TIP was created last year by Georgetown law professor Rosa Brooks and historian and think tanker Nils Gilman, "out of concern that the Trump administration may seek to manipulate, ignore, undermine or disrupt the 2020 presidential election and transition process."

Revolutionary Communist Party Leader Calls on People to Vote for Joe Biden.  The leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party USA, Bob Avakian, has stated that we currently live under a "fascist regime" and, come November, if President Donald Trump is still in office, then people need to vote "against Trump by voting for Biden."  "We are confronted by — we are now being ruled by — a fascist regime," said Avakian in a statement on the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) website. "[T]his election is different. ... The question is not whether Biden and the Democrats represent something 'good,' or whether, in fundamental terms, the Democrats are 'better' than the Republicans.  Both of these parties are ruling class political parties, and none of their candidates represent anything 'good' in the most basic and essential sense.  Biden is not 'better' than Trump...."

Mazie Hirono walks out of Antifa hearing in a huff, Ted Cruz confronts her.  Democrat Senator Mazie Hirono got triggered after Republican Senator Ted Cruz pressed her to condemn Antifa violence.  Not only did Hirono refuse to disavow the left-wing savagery, but she walked out of Cruz's Antifa hearing in a huff.  Hirono's refusal to denounce the Antifa riots, looting, arson, and assaults is like the ostrich that buries its head in the sand, hoping this nullifies reality.  Hirono walked out after a testy exchange with Cruz, who was chairing a Senate hearing on the role that Antifa and Black Lives Matter extremists are playing in the alarming escalation of violence around the country.

'You're Welcome To Say Something Negative About Antifa Right Now': Ted Cruz Spars With Mazie Hirono At Senate Hearing.  Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz clashed with Democratic Hawaii Sen. Mazie Hirono at the end of a Senate subcommittee hearing Tuesday [8/4/2020] on antifa violence.  Cruz, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution, convened the hearing to discuss the role antifa and other left-wing groups play in ongoing riots in major U.S. cities like Portland. [...] "I think that I've covered the subject quite well," Hirono said as she left.  "OK, she declined to speak, so that is the position of the Democratic Party," Cruz shot back.  "I would note also that of the seven Democratic senators who spoke, not one of them apologized for or denounced multiple Democrats calling law enforcement officers Nazis, stormtroopers and Gestapo.  To be fair, I have not heard the word Nazi, but stormtrooper was Nancy Pelosi and Gestapo was another Democratic leader.  That was less than helpful."

Dem Senator walks out of Ted Cruz's Antifa hearing: 'I don't think you listen'.  Tensions flared at a Senate hearing on Antifa when a top Democrat walked out of the room declaring she couldn't sit through Sen. Ted Cruz's rhetorical speeches any longer.  The dustup occurred when Cruz, R-Texas, blasted Democrats for not condemning Antifa more directly for the violence and destruction that has taken hold in certain U.S. cities in the wake of George Floyd's death in Minneapolis.  But Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, said Cruz just wasn't listening during the more than three-hour hearing when Democrats said violence is not acceptable.

Mark Levin admonishes Democrats' treatment of Barr at hearing.  Conservative radio host Mark Levin said Democrats with a "radical, hardcore agenda" were "beating up" Attorney General William Barr during a House Judiciary Committee hearing last week.  "I've never seen a senior official of any administration ever treated like that," Levin said Saturday on Fox News's Watters' World, adding, "This hearing should have been how do we come together as a nation to put down rioters who were trying to overthrow the country.  Marxists, anarchists, whether they're Black Lives Matter or antifa.  But that's not how it works.  The Democrat Party is all in on this radical, hardcore agenda.  And so they're beating up on the attorney general."  Barr appeared before the House Judiciary Committee last Tuesday in a hearing that was often contentious as Democrats repeatedly cut off his responses by saying they were "reclaiming my time."  At one point, Chairman Jerry Nadler briefly denied Barr a five-minute break during the more than three-hour hearing, prompting the attorney general to call him a "class act."

Cancel Culture as a Religion.  What do religions do?  They have a belief system.  They have an orthodoxy, and if you don't conform to the orthodoxy you are a heretic.  Here in Seattle Spiked reports that the "Office of Civil Rights has come up with a 'race and social justice' curriculum which the city government's 10,000 employees must undertake." [...] This is what the Inquisition did.  This is what the Soviets did.  This is what the Maoists did.  This is what the Wokies are doing.

Was Karen Bass To Be Biden's VP Pick — Until The Daily Caller's Revelations About Her and Scientology?  As was reported here yesterday [8/1/2020] by my colleague Becca Lower, without warning the Biden Campaign announced that Joe Biden's selection of his 2020 running mate was being postponed for two weeks.  Also yesterday, the Daily Caller reported on leading VP contender Karen Bass's history of praising the "Church" of Scientology in Los Angeles, and its founder, science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard.  The "Church of Scientology" has a major presence in Los Angeles.  The industrial entertainment complex known as "Hollywood", especially on the "talent" side has many who advocate that clutching a couple of tin cylinders wired to a box and confessing all your impure thoughts is a path to inner peace.  That, and a couple hundred thousand dollars paid to the "church" for books, tapes, and "counseling" sessions with an "auditor" to guide you along on your path to salvation — at the standard hourly rate for such services by a "Church."

The Choice Before Us.  Back at home, left-wing radicals burn Bibles, assault and murder policemen and civilians, set fire to courthouses, vandalize and loot all manner of businesses.  On Friday [7/30/2020], thugs in Portland placed a pig's head on an American flag outside the city's Justice Center.  They put a policeman's cap atop it, doused it with a firestarter, and set it aflame.  The name of George Floyd, the career criminal who died in police custody at the end of May, was at first invoked mantra-like to justify or at least to explain this explosion of savagery.  Now, a couple of months later, there are still ritual invocations of his name but, really, you don't hear too much about Floyd.  The real agenda has come more and more to the fore.  Barack Obama summed it up when he said, in 2008, that he was after the fundamental transformation of the United States of America.  Cities like Portland give us a glimpse of what that transformation would entail.  The clips of the savages burning Bibles put me in mind of Heinrich Heine's solemn observation that Dort wo man Búcher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen:  "Wherever people burn books, they also end up burning men."  It may seem melodramatic, but here is the awful choice we face: the choice between the spirit of mayhem, burning pigs' heads, and burning Bibles, on the one side, and the traditional American spirit that cherishes the rule of law, free expression, and fructifying engines of prosperity, on the other.

The poisonous fruit of the public schools:
Nearly Half Of Young Americans Say It's Okay To Fire People Who Support Trump.  The Cato Institute just released a new report showing that 62 percent of Americans are inclined to self-censor what they say politically "because others might find them offensive."  Even moderate leftists report they feel increased fear of offending the offendable, while only the most "staunch liberals," as Cato described them, feel free to speak their minds.  The "very conservative" have been pushed deepest in the closet:  they are most likely to refrain from saying what they think politically, at nearly twice the rate of the "very liberal."  Buried deeper in the report, however, is a stunning data point that might be one of the most troubling current cultural indicators.  Forty-four percent of Americans younger than age 30 believe a company is correct in firing an executive because he or she personally donated to President Trump's reelection campaign.

Rubio hits Biden veep prospect Karen Bass as Castro regime sympathizer.  Trump campaign surrogates in Florida on Saturday attacked Rep. Karen Bass, a potential running mate of Democrat Joseph R. Biden, as a communist sympathizer who would try to bring the U.S. closer to the socialist governments of Cuba and Venezuela.  "If God forbid Joe Biden is elected president and Congresswoman Bass becomes vice president, she will be the highest-ranking Castro sympathizer in the history of the United States government," said Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican.  "I don't believe in the last six decades that there has ever been anyone considered for the vice presidency ... with this level of sympathy towards a Marxist regime."  Ms. Bass, California Democrat and chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, is on Mr. Biden's short list for his running mate.  The presumptive Democratic nominee said he plans to announce his selection next week.

Don't Be Surprised By Democrats' Radical Turn.  Much of today's political commentary is focused on the Democrats' hard-left swing, how it's now the party of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, or the party of The Squad, to which she belongs, or is under the influence of socialist Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and the Bernie Bros gang of militants.  This should surprise no one.  The seeds of radicalism were planted long ago.  Democratic strategist and Friend of Bill James Carville recently said he is "scared to death" for the future of the Democratic Party.  "Are we going to be an ideological cult?  Or do we want to have a majoritarian instinct to be a majority party?"

Democrats' Policies are Unfit for the Presidency.  The Constitution a president pledges to serve prescribes a government of strict limits, not the unlimited power to take what a person has earned and give it to other people for any desire under the sun.  One of the natural rights the Constitution is supposed to secure is to one's own property.  That's because what a person owns represents his life — his time and labor.  It can never be truly paid back after it is taken, because to take a person's property is to steal hours, days, weeks, years of his life that he will never get back.  It is to enslave him.  Democrats' entire plan for governance is a plan to abuse American citizens' natural rights to life, liberty, and property.  For health care or education or housing or any other material good to be a "right" requires that other people be forced into labor to supply such goods.  It is to proclaim a right to other people's work, which is to say their lives.  A right to control other people's lives is no right at all.  It is an abuse of power.  It is tyranny.  Pledges to accelerate tyranny, which equal treason against the Constitution, utterly disqualify a person and party from United States government.

We're at War.  Attacking Trump's Tweet in the NYT While the Democrats Foment Riots & Ruin to Defeat Him is Treason.  [Scroll down]  The people trying to destroy us stopped caring about the rules ages ago.  They faked Russian cyber-espionage against the Clinton Campaign to discredit WikiLeaks revelations about her corruption and incompetence.  They tried to frame Trump as part of their phony Russian plot.  They used the FBI to illegally spy on Trump's campaign.  They gave Robert Mueller power and an unlimited budget to destroy Trump and as many of his allies as possible.  They organized and promoted Christine Blasey Ford's perjurous hoax.  They tried to remove Trump from office for his patently reasonable attempt to get Ukrainian authorities to investigate Joe Biden's obvious corruption.  They've caused an economic catastrophe that could very well wind up being worse than the Great Depression, gaslit the entire nation into months of debilitating fear and panic, and caused the deaths of countless Americans by lying and withholding information about a virus that all the data literally says is less harmful than the flu.  They've fomented riots across the nation and caused the murder of American police officers and ordinary citizens alike by promoting the poisonous false narrative that American cops start their day fervently hoping they'll get a chance to kill someone who isn't white.  And that's just the egregious, defamatory and destructive mass deceptions the Democrats and their allies in the corporate press have perpetrated.

Insane: Seattle Moves to Abolish Entire Police Force.  Well, it may be time to deploy the military to Seattle after all because what local lawmakers are doing is nothing short of allowing the city to be engulfed in violence and anarchy.  They're moving to abolish the police.  It's not defunding.  It's a total dissolution.  Non-profit programs and "community-led activities" will replace policing.  Why?  Well, according to the resolution, the Seattle Police Department perpetuates racism and violence.  Oh, yes, and it's a vehicle of white supremacy.  It's typical 'woke' nonsense, and it's a cancer that's killing America.

From Alinsky to AOC: Will Communism Finally Win in America?  With last weekend bringing us violence across the country from "peaceful protestors" who believe America as we know it must be dismantled and capitalism should be replaced with a utopian system of "social justice" — sentiments not rejected but embraced by the Democratic Party and its presumptive presidential candidate, Joe Biden — we have to conclude that while we may have won the Cold War in Europe, here in America, it rages on.  Yes, America and her allies may have defeated the deadly totalitarian, Communist Soviet Union, but Communism is very much alive today.

Trump: Radical Left Wants To Leave Every City At Their Mercy, Incite Riots.  President Donald Trump lashed out at radical Democrats, calling them "sick" and accusing them of not loving the country in a speech he delivered Wednesday on restoring American energy dominance and the U.S. economy.  "The radical left wants to tear down everything in its way," Trump said.  "And in its place, they want power for themselves.  They want power.  Hard to believe — power.  They want to uproot and demolish every American value.  They want to wipe away every trace of religion from national life.  They want to indoctrinate our children, defund our police, abolish the suburbs, incite riots, and leave every city at the mercy of the radical left.  That's not going to happen.  That's not going to happen."  [Video clip]

No Holds Barred at the House Lynch Session.  [Attorney General William Barr] is strong and fierce, does not give an inch, does not get thrown off message, sticks to his guns, and sticks it to those who would take him down. [...] For the Democrats the hearing [7/28/2020] was "no holds barred."  No lie was off the table.  No insult was beneath them.  Under the guise of asking the Attorney General to answer questions, they rather used their allotted time to berate him, to berate President Trump, and to lie about the Antifa and other anarchist-driven riots that seek to undermine our Republic and to tear away our freedom.  They were not asking questions, and they did not allow Barr to answer them or speak when he tried.  Rather, they were like a parent on a tear against a child in big trouble, or a boss on a rampage about to fire his or her employee.

Seattle residents slam 'Defund the police' as 'radical experiment' during city budget meeting.  Hundreds of Seattle residents spoke up about proposals to "Defund the police" during a city council budget meeting on Wednesday [7/29/2020], according to reports.  The council is considering a plan that could slash the budget of the city's police department by 50 percent — resulting in layoffs for hundreds of officers — all as Seattle deals with the coronavirus outbreak and frequent riots and other unrest since the May 25 death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis.  While the "Defund the police" effort was initially popular in the city, opponents of the plan have been growing more vocal, Q13 FOX of Seattle reported.

Tick, Tick, Boom, Boom, Time's Up, Obama Goons?  Three fuses have been set and are now burning: (1) the explosive origin story of the Russia hoax, (2) the growing backlash against Democratic Party-endorsed Antifa domestic terrorism, and (3) the bottled up economy being shaken right now with one little thumb preventing a carbonated eruption.  They have the potential to redefine the final hundred days of this race in a way that the Democrats' electoral fraud cannot overcome.  It's a contest between a news media establishment that has gaslighted the American people regarding a Russia hoax of the Democrats' creation and all the Americans who have felt that their votes have been taken hostage since 2016. It's a contest between Democrat mayors turning American cities into war zones where Antifa insurrectionists can throw Molotov cocktails and bricks at police officers free from consequences and a growing number of Americans who finally understand that the socialists running the Democratic Party mean to keep going until the whole nation burns.

Don't Lecture Me.  We are indeed fortunate to have these liberals with us to enlighten us and show us the error of our unsophisticated, primitive thinking.  It's always such a pleasure to be lectured to by hypocritical liberals like Nancy Pelosi with her $24,000 refrigerator and $12/pint ice cream, living behind her security gates and consuming more energy than [who]-knows-what.  Or by Democrats like Al Gore and Barbara Streisand or just by 'regular' well-heeled Democrats who live in large houses, alone or just two people, in a 9- or 10-room 3000 sq ft+ home with a big screen TV in every room, central AC and a big, honkin' SUV or luxury car in the three-car garage.  This after watching them embark on a lifelong pursuit of monetary wealth and material possessions/snooty fashion.  Capitalism, tax breaks and profits for them, thank you, but socialism, spread-the-wealth, and high taxes for us detestable conservatives.

Are You Sure 'Vote for Joe Biden or We'll Kill You' Is the Best Campaign Pitch?  Supporters of a candidate with confidence in the politician's ability to win based on making the better argument don't usually use the heckler's-veto-on-steroids to coerce people to their point of view.  Yet that is precisely what Ronald Brownstein did in an article in The Atlantic.  The underlying tone of the article is:  "Vote for Joe Biden or the national temper tantrum will only get worse."  He accuses the president of positioning blue cities as a threat in order to rally voters to his law-and-order agenda.  A brief scroll of Twitter will show you that riots in cities like Seattle and Portland are absolutely a threat to safety and security.  No one needs President Trump to point it out.

The lunacy of the 'largely peaceful protest'.  The great conundrum facing the anti-American left at the moment is how to react to the violent protest ripping up various Democratic-run cities.  What is the preferred narrative?  The two main choices are 1) it's all peaceful protest, the 'right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances'? or 2) let 'er rip:  we're out there destroying stuff and hurting people because the country's falling apart and the sooner the better.  Just so, a contributor to the Oregonian, announcing his fears of an impending 'anti-democratic, racist police state', wondered whether he would find 'the courage to resist racism and fascism', by which I suspect he means a free, open, and democratic election in which a candidate he does not favor has the indelicacy to win.  For it should go without saying that the overriding criterion for choosing which narrative to plug is this:  which story will do the most damage to Donald Trump and Republican prospects in the November election?

Hello Liberals:  Your Politics Will Not Get You to Justice.  Back in June our beloved Seattle City Council passed Ordinance 119805 that forbad the Seattle Police Department from using pepper spray on mostly peaceful protesters as of July 26, 2020.  So the Chief of Police put out a letter to business owners and residents on July 24 that, sorry Charlie, "the legislation gives officers NO ability to safely intercede to preserve property in the midst of a large, violent crowd."  But no worries, a federal judge just blocked the ordinance for two weeks so, on Saturday night when mostly peaceful protesters rioted in Seattle, the police department was able to use "less lethal tools" to disperse the crowd.  But imagine if the mostly peaceful leftie protesters were white nationalists marching to protest in the face of woke Seattle that Blue Lives Matter.  I don't think that the Seattle City Council would be forbidding the use of tear gas or the less harmful pepper spray.  Imagine the outrage among the media and the Twitterati and the bellowing call for the police to regain control of "our streets."

The Establishment Has No Clothes.  No one earns accolades for living an upright life.  Mike Pence makes a rule that he won't be seen alone with a female not his wife in order to quash any possible perception he might act in an untoward fashion or even be tempted to, and he's ridiculed and calumnied for it.  When Drew Brees stands up for the American flag he's forced to apologize.  When Bari Weiss makes a stand for diversity of opinion within the pages of the New York Times, including running an op-ed from a popular U.S. senator, she's hounded out of her job.

Democrats Start to Worry Support for Portland Riots Will Help Trump.  The first signs of worry emerged early Monday [7/27/2020] as some opponents of Trump, surveying the damage after a weekend of nationwide riots, began to worry openly if supporting "peaceful protests" in Portland, Oregon, would hurt Democrats.  Led by former Vice President Joe Biden, Democrats have insisted that the riots targeting a federal courthouse and federal law enforcement officers in Portland are actually "peaceful."  They have been supported by media that downplays violence committed by the "protesters" and highlights anything the officers do to defend themselves or to disperse the crowd.  The Democrats have also demonized federal law enforcement for merely doing what local authorities have refused to do.

This is not news.  It is a lengthy and roundabout way of stating the obvious.
Liberals fuel cancel culture because they don't fear getting canceled.  Liberals once prided themselves on being open-minded.  In contrast, today's resurgent Left seeks to police opinion and ruin the lives of those who disagree with them.  Whether it's in the world of business or sports, on college campuses or within newsrooms, there has been a significant shrinking of discourse, thanks to efforts by so-called liberals to target those who disagree with them.  Now, a new poll provides some insight into why that may be.  Put simply, liberals are eager to cancel those who disagree with them because they do not fear that those same tactics will be used against them.  And they are right not to fear because non-liberals are not nearly as likely to be cancelers.

Dan Crenshaw: 'My suggestion to the American people is start listening to the Democrats'.  U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw urged Americans to listen carefully to what is coming out of the mouths of Democrats.  The Texas Republican warned that there is a lot at stake in November during an appearance on Fox News, adding that there is a "clear choice" for the 2020 presidential election and the difference between the parties "could not be more severe." [...] "Let's take them at their word — they want to destroy the things that bring us together, our common bonds, our founding, our love of country.  Why do they do that?  Whey do they say those things?" he asked.  "Because fundamentally they want to dismantle our country and its institutions — that's not my words, that's their words — dismantle our economic freedom, our border security, our energy sector, all of it."

Liberals are never scared to speak up.  Why are conservatives?  A handful of friends and I have spoken privately about the crippling anxiety apparently only experienced by independents and right-leaners when politics comes up in a social setting.  Right up until now, it was just a theory.  A new study confirms what we suspected all along:  Liberals really do feel like they can spew their thoughts freely, while everyone else quivers with fear that anything they say might offend.  The Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, published a study this week showing that overall, 62% of people in the United States believe that the current "political climate" keeps them from sharing their political opinions.  Broken down by ideology, however, self-identified liberals and "strong" liberals were significantly more likely to feel comfortable airing their opinions than centrists or conservatives.

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Marxists are bent on the violent overthrow of our government.  Socialists and Marxists proudly engage in violent insurrection every night in Seattle and Portland, among other places.  Violence and hate speech come from the political left, not the right.  Just ask Bernell Trammell.  Socialists have a propensity for physical violence.  It is therefore no surprise that those of us on the right refrain from expressing our views.

33 Tough Questions to Pose to the 'Woke'. 
  1. Do you think the same laws should apply equally to citizens, regardless of their political opinions, unless they favor the violent overthrow of the government?
  2. Or is it okay for whatever faction is more powerful to silence the expression of contrary ideas, insofar as they can get away with it?
  3. Should we make "hate speech" exceptions to silence people whose speech we really, really hate?
  4. Should small groups of people be able to dictate public policy without democratically passing laws?
  5. Even if they hold signs, attack public monuments, and claim that they're fighting "racism"?
  6. Do you believe that generally, people should be free to associate with whomever they wish, and hire whom they like?
  7. Or should the federal government scrutinize every private decision made by any citizen or business, to see if it has "disparate impact" on minority groups?
  8. Should members of minority groups be subject to similar laws regarding their conduct, or should they be exempt?
  9. Should white males be subject to discrimination, as a non-protected class, while others are protected from it?

Democrats' Draft 2020 Platform:  White People Are the Root of All Evil.  In 2020, it's definitely not "OK to be White" at the Democratic National Convention.  A draft of the DNC's 2020 Democratic Party Platform obtained by Politico shows a frequent focus on racial issues, with language that repeatedly accuses whites in America of benefiting unfairly from society at the expense of minorities.  The preamble to the platform reads:  "We will give hate no safe harbor.  We will never amplify or legitimize the voices of bigotry, racism, misogyny, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, or white supremacy."  Curiously, in the 15 times the document mentioned "whites," it doesn't capitalize the word the way it does Blacks, Latinos, Asian Americans, and Native Americans.  Every time "whites" are brought up, it's in a critical way.  Often, the platform vows to "close the gap" between white Americans and all other Americans — without providing solutions.

Report: Working Class Voters In Pennsylvania Are Wary Of Joe Biden And Democrat Policies.  One of the reasons Democrats went with Joe Biden is because they really want to win back Pennsylvania in November.  Some polls show Biden having a slight lead over Trump in the state, but there are plenty of voters there, many of them Democrats, who know deep down that Biden and the Democrats will be bad news for jobs, especially in the energy sector.

Portland City Officials Order Feds to Remove Protective Fence from Courts Building to Aid Rioters in their Ransacking.  Mayor Ted Wheeler and Portland, Oregon officials have made it clear whose side they're on and it's not the side of law and order.  For over 50 straight nights antifa-BLM rioters have ransacked the downtown and destroyed public property.  [Video clip]  When the leftist mob took aim at the Hatfield United States Courthouse that President Trump sent in federal agents.  Now Portland officials are ORDERING the federal government to remove it's protective fencing around the Hatfield Courthouse.

'Absolutely irresponsible': DHS chief calls Democrats' condemnation of law enforcement 'dangerous'.  Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf warned against a "dangerous" trend of demonizing law enforcement across the country.  As federal officers have clashed with protesters amid violent unrest in Portland over the past few weeks, Wolf said Sunday that there's been an inaccurate description of what agents are doing to control the situation and that calling the demonstrations "peaceful" is misleading.  Wolf said when he recently spoke with Democratic members of Congress, only one lawmaker, whom he didn't mention by name, asked him if his officers were OK.  "We're standing up for law and order," Wolf said on Fox News's Sunday Morning Futures With Maria Bartiromo [7/26/2020].  "And anyone who says otherwise is not being accurate.  I will say that the other side that wants to criticize law enforcement, what they don't do, they do not condemn these acts of violence in Portland.  I have talked with a number of Democratic members of Congress, and all but one, only one, have asked me about the health of my officers.  All they want to do is condemn law enforcement for doing their job."

The Problem in Portland Isn't the Law — It's the Lawlessness.  Despite the occasional looting, chaos, property damage, trespassing, rioting, graffiti, assaults, arson, and general mayhem, the media consistently assure us that Antifa "protesters" are "largely peaceful."  And since the majority of buildings in Portland, Seattle, and Denver haven't been looted yet, who am I to argue?  Of course, it takes only a sliver of the population to transform downtowns into a mess and create quality-of-life issues for thousands of law-abiding citizens.  And the mayors who surrender parts of their cities to left-wing "protesters" are tacitly endorsing lawlessness themselves. [...] If mayors do nothing to stop anarchists from tearing down federal monuments or from defacing, vandalizing, and attempting to burn down federal buildings, the feds have every right to dispatch teams of agents to restore order.

What Top Democrats Say About Federal Law Enforcement Help for Their Cities.  Democratic mayors and other leaders of some large cities have grown edgier in opposing President Donald Trump's push to use federal agents to quell violence, using terms such as "resist" and "fascist."  Some elected Democrats in affected cities have vowed to sue and even arrest federal agents as they criticize federal action to protect government property in Portland, Oregon.  For "Operation Legend," the White House has announced plans to send federal law enforcement officials to Chicago; Kansas City, Missouri; and Albuquerque, New Mexico.  Over the next three weeks, the Justice Department intends to expand the effort into Cleveland, Detroit, and Milwaukee.

Freedom to Deface.  Mayor Bill de Blasio has cancelled a graffiti-eradication program targeted at cleaning private buildings.  He is thus deliberately sending New York City back to its worst days of crime and squalor.  The symbolic significance of this cancellation is as large as its practical effect.  Nothing sent a stronger signal in the late 1980s that New York was determined to fight back from anarchy than the transit system's campaign against subway graffiti.  That campaign was based on Broken Windows theory, the most transformative idea in urban policy over the last 40 years.  Broken Windows recognizes that physical disorder and low-level lawlessness — graffiti, turnstile-jumping, and litter — telegraph that social control in a disordered environment has broken down.  That low-level lawlessness invites more contempt for public norms of behavior, including felony crime.

Democrats Project their own Character Flaws onto Republicans.  Democrats claim they support free speech, but then they label opposition speech as "hate speech" in order to suppress it.  Liberals tell white conservatives they cannot express an opinion on race and tell men they cannot hold an opinion opposed to abortion.  Democrats like to characterize Republicans as poorly educated religious nuts bitterly clinging to God and their guns.  Yet radical liberal activists, who support Democrats and are supported by them, have been the first to resort to violence in the recent Black Lives Matter "protests" that have often escalated into riots.

Not likely, unless you like high taxes, crowds, rampant crime, and snow.
Andrew Cuomo Knows What You're Thinking:  Let's Frantically Flee to 'Safe' New York.  Despite pandemic problems and — at least in the Big Apple — a surge of murder, apparently, The Empire State's the place to be.  During his Monday [7/20/2020] press conference, the governor declared a major victory in the fight against COVID-19, given a July 12th report of no coronavirus deaths.  The state hasn't been able to make that claim since March.  Andrew explained that NY's pandemic progress has taken the lead over other states, and so people are running into its safe arms.  But here's the rub:  He also said the throngs of refugees may cause a corona uptick.

America Held Hostage.  Things we thought were sacrosanct, the icons of our national identity, now are scorned.  We can pretend that this doesn't matter.  They're just statues, after all.  But they do matter.  Not for the pleasure they give the rioters so much as for the pain they inflict on patriots who love America.  Nor has it stopped with the vandalism.  We've gone to the next level, with the looting and rioting.  In the last month major cities have become unsafe, as rioters work out the logic of what "resistance" means.  American stores lost hundreds of millions of dollars, and merchants boarded up their stores for protection.  Nothing to see here, folks, said the liberal media, which gaslighted the looting and the boarded-up storefronts, and portrayed the riots as peaceful protests against an illegitimate president. [...] We're in the middle of a chicken game, where the Left tells us they'll let this go on as long as Trump is president.  The liberal media will ignore the riots, the liberal mayors will tell the local police to stand down, the liberal prosecutors will promptly release anyone arrested.  Try to defend yourself, and you'll find yourself prosecuted.

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DNC Milwaukee Convention Continues to Shrink — Latest Prediction of Only 350 Attendees.  The DNC Milwaukee Convention continues to shrink.  The latest prediction suggests possibly only 350 participants will attend their presidential convention in Milwaukee this year. [...] Democrats cancelled plans for a closing night speech at Milwaukee's Miller Park Stadium back in November 2019.  That was before the coronavirus.  But since the coronavirus the convention plans have been scaled down significantly.

Mayor de Blasio:  NYC Is Safer With Fewer People in Jail.  New York City mayor Bill de Blasio (D.) said Thursday [7/16/2020] that his city is safer and better with fewer people in jail, even as shootings and violence have spiked in the city this summer.  "We now have fewer people in our jails than any time since WWII and we are safer for it and better for it," de Blasio said.  But the city has experienced a dramatic uptick in crime this year.  According to the most recent NYPD crime statistics, violent crimes — including shootings, murders, and burglaries — have all skyrocketed.  Year-to-date shooting incidents in the city have increased by 61 percent, and the number of shooting victims has increased by 70 percent.

If America [Is] So Bad, You're Free to Leave.  Honestly, if the country is such a cesspool of racism, sexism, homophobia, oppression, brutality, and is fundamentally rigged against everyone not born with a silver spoon in their mouth, why the hell have you stayed?  It's not like you're in prison here, no matter how much you whine that it is like one.  You're out in the streets seemingly every other week "fighting oppression" over just about every way you can dream up to claim someone is oppressed, crying about the fascism of this or that without it sinking in that you're still free to whine about imagined fascism and if we really were a fascist country you'd be in jail or dead, why not get out?  You don't seem to have a coherent message beyond you hate it here, so leave.

Democrats Are Forcing a Civil War.  Americans believe that one can never be too rich, too thin, or too well armed.  And we are, indeed, well armed, with citizens who are beginning to see the game that is being played.  Many estimate that between 300 million and 700 million firearms are in the hands of the public.  If only 10% of those guns are brought to bear, it would mean a minimum of 30 million weapons deployed against Antifa and BLM.  No one wants to see bloodshed, especially gun-owners, who for the most part want to be left alone to protect their families, homes, places of worship, and places of employment.  Yet people are not going to stand by and watch America become another "socialist paradise."  Americans are going to fight back — this should worry the left, as every hunter is something of a sniper.

Biden's Green New Deal Is Just As Crazy As AOC's.  Joe Biden's $2 trillion climate change plan, released this week, was described by one liberal outlet as "the Green New Deal, minus the crazy."  We beg to differ.  Just look at Biden's plan to eliminate the internal combustion engine.  Biden says that on his first day in office, he will develop "rigorous new fuel economy standards aimed at ensuring 100% of new sales for light- and medium-duty vehicles will be zero emissions."  He hasn't said exactly when he wants new cars to be all-electric, but House Democrats have already established a timetable.  Their new climate change plan calls for mandating 100% "clean" vehicles by 2035.  Keep in mind that as of today, plug-in electrics account for 0.5% of cars on the road, and made up less than 2% of new vehicles sold in 2019.  And that's despite massive public subsidies that have cost taxpayers $5 billion in credits to — mostly wealthy — EV buyers.  Clearly, consumers are not that interested in plug-ins, which is why Biden and his fellow Democrats want to force electric cars on everyone in the name of climate change.

Leftist Protests, More Sacred Than Church Services.  For many Americans, the most painful consequence of the coronavirus lockdowns was closing down church services.  The grace and peace of Sunday makes it easier to make it through the week.  But our media and political elites are indifferent to that pain, or openly hostile. [...] Most regular churchgoers didn't want to fit into that secular-media stereotype of being so fanatically trusting in God's protection that they would gather unmasked in churches and share hugs and handshakes.  Church singers would disband their choirs for the duration.  They were willing to observe lockdowns as a public-health necessity.  But then came the "Black Lives Matter" protests clogging the streets to protest the death of George Floyd.  Suddenly, mass gatherings were not only allowed, they were praised and glorified on a global scale.  The coronavirus counters dropped off cable-news screens, replaced by "beautiful" protest scenes, live from the streets.

Seattle City Council Member Suggests Layoffs By Race If Police Budget Is Slashed, Chief Best Says No.  Last week Ed wrote about the push to cut Seattle's police budget by 50 percent.  In response to that, Police Chief Carmen Best released a video to her department warning that some budget cuts were probably coming.  "I will fiercly advocate that we focus on realistic, responsible solutions not political gestures or pandering or political posturing," Best said.  She continued, "I do not believe we should ask the people of Seattle to test out a theory that crime goes away if police go away.  That is completely reckless."  That phrase made news and was even tweeted out by the White House.

I'm Milwaukee's police chief.  Here's what 'defunding the police' might mean.  Our officers are also members of the community, have families, care about police-community relations and, like everyone else, want to go home safely to their loved ones at the end of their shift.  I have heard the outcries of racial injustice.  Generational wounds of oppression, racism and disenfranchisement have been reopened by examples of totally unacceptable and completely illegal police brutality.  These are real emotions and reactions that cannot be understated.  The byproduct of the past few weeks is great division and further discord.  It has turned into an "Us vs.  Them" mentality.  That must change.

De Blasio says he's got 'no respect' for NYPD union leader amid public feud and rising crime.  New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has had a contentious relationship with his police department practically since his first day in office, said Thursday [7/16/2020] he has "no respect" for an NYPD union president who has ripped him often in the past.  "The [Sergeants Benevolent Association] has only practiced division, they foment hatred ... they do not try to help us move forward," de Blasio said of the SBA during his daily press conference, the New York Post reported.  "They don't try to create anything good.  I have no respect for the leadership of the SBA," he added.

Defiant Portland mayor tells feds to 'stay inside' or 'leave' city, asks DHS to clean up graffiti.  Portland, Ore., Mayor Ted Wheeler lashed out at the Department of Homeland Security on Twitter Tuesday [7/14/2020], urging federal agents to "stay inside" or "leave" as the city faces its sixth straight week of protests and unrest.  "I told the Acting Secretary that my biggest immediate concern is the violence federal officers brought to our streets in recent days, and the life-threatening tactics his agents use," Wheeler wrote Tuesday evening.  "We do not need or want their help."

Beyond City Council Chambers and Newsrooms, Americans Still Back the Blue.  [Scroll down]  Frankly, I don't have much hope for the cities in the short term.  People keep saying "vote them out," but the people saying that mostly don't live in the cities.  People who do live in the cities mostly don't vote in their local elections.  Those who do vote in those elections are more and more denizens of the hard left who see city government as their instrument of revenge and path to their destructive fantasies about "transforming" America.  Most Americans don't want America transformed or reimagined.  If anything, they want its best pre-plague aspects restored — such as the vibrant economy we had and the historically low violent crime rates we took for granted less than six months ago.  The urban cancel culture leftists are far outside the American mainstream, but they dominate city elections and thereby own city council chambers.

'Hex racists': Witch joins effort to take out conservative students at University of North Texas.  A campaign launched to oust a conservative student club at the University of North Texas includes a petition, a campus president "looking into" the matter — and if that weren't enough, apparently a witch has joined the cause.  The president of the Young Conservatives of Texas chapter reportedly faces spells of some sort from at least one self-described witch and possibly more who have sided with progressives seeking to pressure administrators to ban the group.

Dem Rep. McEachin:  Racial and Environmental Justice 'Intertwined'.  During Friday's Democratic Weekly Address, Rep. Donald McEachin (D-VA) stated that Americans recognize more has to be done to deal with "two critical and intertwined issues in our nation:  the unfinished work of racial justice and the need for environmental justice to protect our communities."

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What is "environmental justice," and what does the environment have to do with race?

Seattle police chief says 'reckless' and 'political' 50 percent budget cut would lead to major layoffs for black officers.  Seattle police Chief Carmen Best on Friday accused the City Council of recklessness and "political pandering" by advocating to slash her department's budget by 50 percent, arguing that cutting funds to that extent would be asking citizens "to test out a theory that crime goes away if police go away."  "These 2020 cut scenarios by the Council are political gestures, however, not realistic or rational solutions.  SPD is absolutely committed to transforming the department and has already started the process.  But if we are asked to cut 50 percent of our department overnight, we will be forced into decisions that do not serve our shared long-term goal of re-envisioning community safety," Best wrote in a letter addressed to Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan on Friday [7/10/2020].

Two Important Questions for White Democrats in 2020.  The current rage for cultural Marxism, notably its critical race theory trope that America is "systemically racist," causes many problems for the Left and, in particular, its presumptive presidential nominee Joe Biden (a.k.a., "Joey Basement") as well as other Democratic office seekers. [...] The Left's proposed solution for America is a "fundamental transformation."  The specifics are hazy, but apparently it requires the imposition of socialism and/or Communism; the abolition of our actual history; the cancellation of individuals; the eradication of constitutional rights; and the destruction of prosperity.  Talk about a cure being worse than the disease, especially when the disease does not exist!  For white Americans, however, these adherents to the "1619" thesis would have us believe there is no cure.

Dukes of Hazzard stars say 'the politically correct generation has gotten way out of hand'.  Dukes of Hazzard co-stars John Schneider and Tom Wopat addressed the long-time controversy over the show's iconic General Lee car, saying political correctness has gone too far as protests mount over the Confederate flag that the famed vehicle features prominently on its roof.  Both stars defended the customized 1969 Dodge Charger used in the hit action and comedy show about cousins Bo and Luke Duke, former moonshiners who live in rural Georgia.  The car, named after Confederate General Robert E. Lee, has enjoyed its own popularity as much as the actors, becoming a crowd pleaser at fan and collectors conventions.

House Democrats Propose Budget Cuts to Park Police as Monuments Are Being Targeted by Mobs.  House Democrats on the Appropriations Committee proposed budget cuts to the U.S. Park Police as monuments and memorials are being targeted by mobs and protests continue to occur in the streets in the Washington, D.C. area. [...] The Park Police has seen a lot of action as protests became riots during the recent weeks of unrest the country has experienced in the aftermath of George Floyd's death.  The Department of Interior said at least 60 Park officers were injured during the riots in the nation's capital.

LAPD Scorns Nationwide Effort to Bring Them Down.  The nation seems to have turned on the law enforcement officers of this country overnight as protests and demonstrations morphed into riots and a demand to end police departments.  As leaders of major American cities, members of Congress and entire city councils have called to either abolish police or gut their budgets, the men and women in blue have bravely continued to do their best to keep people safe.  Protester and rioters, who have gathered en masse in cities and towns across the nation for more than a month, attack officers, light their equipment on fire, and even shoot at the police with near impunity as mayors and governors applaud.  "Don't be afraid of democracy," Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan (D) famously said to President Trump at the beginning of a weeks long occupation in the center of her city.  Several people were shot and two teens were killed in that zone after protesters blocked the police from entering while calling them "pigs" and insisting they be eradicated.

Crenshaw takes aim at Duckworth's patriotism, accuses her of supporting the 'destruction of America'.  Freshman GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw (Texas) took aim at Sen. Tammy Duckworth Wednesday, questioning the Illinois Democrat's patriotism after she suggested that there should be a "national dialogue" about whether to remove statues and monuments of the founding fathers.  Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL, was discussing voter outreach to veterans during a Trump campaign "MAGA meetup" event on Thursday when he took a swing at Duckworth, a combat veteran who lost both her legs serving in Iraq, accusing her of supporting the "destruction of America," The Washington Post first reported.  "I think a general message that the left stands for the destruction of America and the right doesn't probably works pretty well with veterans, even liberal ones, because even liberal veterans probably don't agree with that, unless you're Tammy Duckworth," he said.

The Winds of Woke.  Before Thursday morning [7/9/2020] I had not heard of Thomas Bosco, and I am willing to bet you haven't heard of him either.  He runs a café in Upper Manhattan. [...] Bosco seems like a noble small businessman making his way in a turbulent world.  There's a problem, though.  He once expressed an opinion.  Though Black Lives Matter signs are posted throughout the restaurant, and its owner identifies as "a liberal guy who supports almost every liberal cause I can think of," in early June Bosco told MSNBC that he voted for Donald Trump in 2016 and expects to do so again. [...] "The backlash was swift, as you might expect," writes Paybarah.  Neighbors denounced Bosco on Facebook.  Some vowed not to patronize the café.  Randi Weingarten, who as president of the American Federation of Teachers draws close to half a million dollars in salary and benefits, wrote online that it would be "hard to ever go back."  No more tips for the barista from her.  As for the drag queens, they are taking their glitter elsewhere.

Squad members push wide-ranging bill that slashes police funds, gives reparations.  Democratic Reps.  Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts announced the BREATHE Act on Tuesday — legislation that would radically transform the nation's criminal justice system by eliminating life sentences, retroactively expunging drug crimes, shutting down multiple federal agencies and permanently closing prisons and immigration detention centers, among other agenda items.  The bill also seeks to end gang databases, establish pilot programs for a universal basic income, and afford voting rights and "lifetime education" to all illegal immigrants and incarcerated criminals.

9 Radical Ideas in the Biden-Sanders 'Unity' Platform.  Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) released the policy recommendations of their "unity task force" on Wednesday [7/8/2020]. [...] Here are nine of the most radical proposals in the "unity" document: [...] [#3] "End cash bail."  The platform calls for eliminating cash bail across the country — a radical experiment in criminal justice reform that has only just begun in California and New York, with results that are deeply concerning.  The idea is to reduce inequities, but in practice the end of cash bail means releasing violent criminals to commit more crimes.  One suspect in antisemitic attacks in New York City late last year, for example, was repeatedly re-arrested after her releases.

Americans Defund Democrats in Statehouse Elections as Democrats Seek to Defund Police.  Americans significantly decreased contributions to Democrats running for state legislature seats in the second quarter as the Democrat Party has turned hard left, fundraising information announced this week shows.  The lackluster performance by Democrats at the state level could have broader national implications.  First off, state-level political trends sometimes forecast later looming national trends — "from the State House to the White House," the saying goes.

Biden Says Police Have "Become the Enemy" and Calls For Defunding the Police.  Joe Biden on Wednesday [7/8/2020] fully embraced the defund the police movement.  77-year-old Biden stumbled his way through an interview with health care activist Ady Barkan.  Ady Barkan was diagnosed with terminal amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in 2016 and speaks through a computer voice.  Biden went all in and caved to radical leftists like Ilhan Omar and AOC and said he "absolutely" supports taking away funding from police departments across the country.

New Yorkers 'no longer trust the police,' state attorney general says.  Two weeks of protests and unrest in New York City after the death of George Floyd only intensified the overwhelming distrust many feel toward the New York City Police Department, the state's attorney general, Letitia James, concluded in a preliminary report. [...] James also said at a press conference that after three days of public hearings, in which she heard from protesters and Police Commissioner Dermot Shea, the commissioner's testimony on the events was "at odds with the vast majority of the protesters who came before us."

Joe Biden, the Anti-American Candidate.  Sadly, the truth and reality of America are being broadly distorted by media and others on the left, and it's having impact.  According to a new Gallup poll, 63% of Americans say they are very proud or extremely proud to be American.  This is the lowest reading ever recorded since Gallup has measured it.  The first time it was done, in 2001, 87% said they were very or extremely proud.  Among Republicans, 67% say they are very or extremely proud.  However, among Democrats, it's only 24%.  Forty-nine percent of white Americans say they are very or extremely proud compared with 24% of nonwhite Americans.  The drop among nonwhites in recent years has been particularly sharp.  Just four years ago, 45% of nonwhites said they were very or extremely proud.

The Gangsterization of the Democrat Party.  Let's start with a series of rhetorical questions related to the upcoming presidential elections:
  •   Does a broken storefront add votes to the Democrats?
  •   Does a burning car add votes to the Democrats?
  •   Does a killed or wounded policeman add votes to the Democrats?
  •   Does a toppled statue add votes to the Democrats?
  •   Does an "autonomous zone" add votes to the Democrats?
  •   Does a demolished synagogue or a destroyed church add votes to the Democrats?
Simple human logic suggests that the answers to all these questions are negative.  Why do Democrats do all of this?  Currently, the majority opinion is solidly against the rioters.  Why did Democrats move from ideological gangsterism to a real one?  After all, this is silly, just silly.  Democrats have brought America into a post-Orwellian world, in which they demanded the presence of the police at a protest rally dedicated to defunding of police.  So many police officers, abandoned by their Democrat mayors, decided to go Galt.  Are Democrats complete blockheads or political duffers?

Tucker Carlson:  We Cannot Let Democrats Run This Country Because They Hate It.  Monday, Fox News Channel's Tucker Carlson opened his show by giving President Donald Trump's speech at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota high marks.  He then pointed to the Democrat backlash and concluded that Democrats and their allies in the media hate the country.  He alluded to remarks made by presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) to bolster that point.  Carlson then posed the question:  Could the left in America lead a country that it hates?

Know Your Enemy:  Undeniable Truths About the Left.  [Scroll down]  More and more people are becoming wise to all that is going on and that includes the average Democrat voter.  They see what their party is doing to this country and they are taking note.  These average working-class Democrats are just like the average working-class conservatives who only want to have a good job, savings, good schools for their kids, a nice house, and to live in a safe community.  They see their party becoming dangerously radicalized and I do not doubt that they are just as troubled about the direction of the country as we conservatives are.  These men and women may not voice their disgust , but do not be surprised to read a post mortem to the election that will show many Democrats casting a vote for Trump.  And I believe that will also be true of the Black community.

How San Francisco's Democrats made Jim Jones, and then made his memory vanish.  Do you remember that time the entire Democratic Party in California behaved like cultists, enraptured by Peoples Temple leader Jim Jones?  If you lived through the bizarre suicides of 918 people in Guyana on Nov. 18, 1978, it's hard not to remember where you were when you heard the news.  It would be like forgetting about the Challenger explosion or Sept. 11.  But collective amnesia over just who aided and abetted Jim Jones is much easier to explain.  The same influence used on Jones's behalf during his life helped after his death to erase the causes and candidates he supported.  "Such greatness I have found in Jim Jones's Peoples Temple," Harvey Milk gushed.  Yes, that Harvey Milk.  Willie Brown, later speaker of the California assembly and mayor of San Francisco, compared Jim Jones to Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi.  Dianne Feinstein joined the rest of the San Francisco board of supervisors in honoring Jones "in recognition of his guidance and inspiration" in furthering "humanitarian programs."

The Fierce Fight Over America's Ideals and History.  Americans do more than tolerate calls to live up to our highest ideals.  We embrace them.  Martin Luther King knew that when he spoke at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963.  "When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.  This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ... So we have come to cash this check."  Honoring that check brings together Americans of all political stripes.  Most think, rightly, that King's dream is the American dream.  They do not believe the dream itself is a fraud, an opiate for the masses.  They reject this frontal assault on America's history and basic values.  They see it every day on television and, more privately, when their children come home from school and say what they are being taught.

Cambridge walk-out:  Whole Foods employees boycott over facial mask policy.  It began three weeks ago with two Whole Foods employees being told they cannot wear Black Lives Matter face masks on the job.  The two employees in Bedford, New Hampshire were sent home for a violation of the company's dress code policy.  The employees were told to go home several times, it is reported, for violating store policy by wearing face masks and sneakers imprinted with "Black Lives Matter" and "I can't breathe."  One worker said they wore the apparel for two days before being told about the store policy.

Democrat Senator:  Founding Fathers And American Heroes Are 'Dead Traitors'.  Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) criticized President Trump's 4th of July speech at Mount Rushmore for focusing on the accomplishments of historical figures.  "He spent all of his time talking about dead traitors," Duckworth, a potential Biden vice president pick, told CNN in an interview.  In his speech, President Trump listed numerous historical figures and celebrities who played a large role in American history.  Among those listed were the founding fathers, the presidents of Mount Rushmore, Fredwrick Douglass, Ulysses S. Grant, Martin Luther King, Harriet Tubman, and Elvis Presley.  "Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values, and indoctrinate our children," President Trump said, as he highlighted the accomplishments of notable Americans.

Could IT Happen Here?  [Scroll down]  One reason Hitler wasn't taken seriously during the early 1930s was because the world media presented Hitler (and Mussolini) as caricatures to be laughed at more than feared. [...] Most law-abiding Americans shake their heads in disgust at what is happening.  Some view anarchist antics as more comical than threatening.  For instance:
  •   Weirdly designed pink [...] hats that look like props from a 1950s sci-fi movie.
  •   Garage door pull that had been used for months suddenly seen as a KKK noose.
  •   Bizarrely named autonomous zones that are declared separate countries.
  •   Young white girls yelling at older black cops that the black cops do not understand racism.

Spoiled 'self-hating white chicks' sing 'Ashamed to be an American,' illustrate what's wrong with BLM.  On Saturday [7/4/2020], a young, gay, anti-Trump white woman posted a TikTok video depicting her and another young white woman singing an anti-American rendition of Lee Greenwood's classic patriotic song, "God Bless the USA." [...] In short, she's a far-left zealot, and thus her views are completely detached from reality, as noted in the tweet above by black reporter and conservative commentator Jon Miller.  According to Miller, the two are "self-hating" in the sense that they hate the country where they grew up and now live seemingly comfortable lives.

Time for cancel culture to ditch the Kennedys.  If Abraham Lincoln and Christopher Columbus no longer pass woke muster in Boston, then it's time for the Kennedys to go.

Leftists Stomp, Dance on U.S. Flag Outside White House on July 4th.  Far-left "anti-fascist" and Black Lives Matters (BLM) activists stomped and danced on the United States flag Saturday as part of a Fourth of July protest in front of the White House in Washington, D.C.  The activists were caught on camera by Breitbart News stomping and dancing the Cha-Cha Slide on the flag.  A number of those in attendance appeared to be affiliated with Refuse Fascism, an Antifa group founded in 2017 to combat President Donald Trump's administration.  Others in the crowd were also seen wearing BLM t-shirts and identified themselves as supporters of the cause.

Democrats Are Fine With Watching America Burn.  For weeks, cities across the country have been overrun by leftist anarchists seeking to destroy the United States from the inside out.  Leftist mayors have not only stood by to watch but have openly endorsed criminal behavior.  After all, it's "for a good cause."  In Seattle, Mayor Jenny Durkan allowed leftist anarchists to take over a number of city blocks and called it the beginning of a "summer of love."  After multiple murders of black teenagers, Durkan still did nothing to shut the zone down and tied the hands of the police chief.  When 19-year-old Horace Lorenzo Anderson was killed, she didn't bother to call his father with the news.  She finally took action when rowdy protestors, led by socialist City Councilwoman Kshama Sawant, marched to her personal home.  In Chicago, Mayor Lori Lightfoot had the nerve to lecture President Trump on leadership as murders and shootings in the city skyrocket.  In Minneapolis, the city council voted to defund the police while using thousands of dollars of taxpayer money for their own private security.  In New York, Mayor Bill DeBlasio is slashing the NYPD's budget and allowing the mob to vandalize statues of George Washington and other important historical figures.

We must decide whether we want to save America.  America is in crisis.  Her destiny is on the line, and she will survive only if we still love her.  A battle rages in the streets, in academia, in the culture, and in the hearts and minds of the American people over whether America was and remains a good and great nation. [...] Don't believe for a second that the anarchists who have hijacked peaceful protests are conflicted on this issue.  They want to tear down the entire system, which they say cannot be fixed.

Going to National Parks Is Racist, Declares ABC News.  In the six weeks since a multiracial group of Minnesota cops killed George Floyd, America has learned all sorts of things about what caused the crime.  It wasn't just those cops' fault, you see.  It wasn't just the responsibility of the city of Minneapolis or even the state of Minnesota.  As it turns out, every white person in the world is responsible for Floyd's death.  That's why we now need to tear down any statue of any historical figure who was Caucasian, even the guy who signed the Emancipation Proclamation.  That's why any white person who voices a black character on a cartoon show needs to step aside now.  That's why we need to expunge that episode of The Golden Girls where they wore mud masks and the dumb one said, "We're not really black."  All of those things are racist.  All of those things made those cops kill that guy.  And we're just getting started.  Everything that white people enjoy is racist, because they're white people.  Even going to national parks is racist now, because most of the people who go to national parks are white.

National Parks Are Latest Target of Systemic Racism Claim in America.  Elements of the left are claiming now that America's national parks are built on systemic racism.  "The outdoors and public lands suffer from the same systemic racism that the rest of our society does," Joel Pannell, associate director of the Sierra Club, said in an ABC report, titled "America's Great White Outdoors."  The report called the parks "stubborn bastions of self-segregation."  "If we don't address this, and we don't see how all these things are interrelated, then we're going to risk losing everything," Pannell said.  "You're not going to have public lands to enjoy."

U. of Texas Law Prof Wants to Rewrite 'Racist,' 'Obsolete' Constitution.  University of Texas at Austin Constitutional Law Professor Richard Albert argued this week that the United States should revise the Constitution to remove "racist" and "gendered" language.  In the op-ed published by The Hill, Albert claimed that the Constitution suggests that only men can be elected president of the United States.  University of Texas at Austin Law Professor Richard Albert published an op-ed for the Hill this week in which he argued that the United States should revise the Constitution to be compatible with the progressive values of the modern era.

What a Great Time to Be President!  [Scroll down]  For President Trump, the present challenges are transformational.  To overcome them, he will continue to face fierce, unprecedented opposition from the Left who, even prior to Trump's election have engaged in lawless, seditious activities to undermine his campaign, his legitimacy, and hamstring his administration.  This leftist opposition is not dispositive of his ruin, however.  Indeed, as every leftist leader, organization, and institution sounds more and more like an MSNBC commentator, the American people will do to them what they have done to that ill-fated network:  Continue to tune them out.  After all, there is a reason left-leaning networks have fewer viewers than Fox, and liberal talk radio pales before the audiences of conservative radio:  Americans don't want to hear their country and themselves slandered as immoral and evil.  There are simply more Americans who want to hear that they and their country are good and decent and can accomplish great deeds.

Joe Biden Owns The Democratic Party's Insanity.  In New York City, shootings have skyrocketed over the past few weeks to levels not seen since what we refer to as "the bad old days."  Teenagers are being senselessly killed in our streets.  What is the Democratic Party's answer to this?  They are stripping a billion dollars from the $6 billion budget of the New York Police Department in a display of virtue signaling that will lead to bullet holes in black and brown bodies.  As Democrats across the country plot to defund the police and tear down statues of great Americans, as they cower to mobs that set up "autonomous zones" where people are raped and murdered, Joe Biden is hiding behind his mask.  Every single time a racist or bigot says they support Donald Trump, the media demands the president denounce them.  Why isn't that same media demanding Biden denounce the Jacobin mobs destroying our cities?

Breakdown.  [Scroll down]  [T]he Black Lives Matter movement is tweeting about police defunding, last weekend's gay pride marches, and NASCAR's Bubba Wallace, the subject of yet another hate-crime hoax.  DeRay Mckesson, an early BLM organizer in Ferguson, is retweeting about whether homophobes are secretly gay.  Activist Shaun King, who recently called for vandals to destroy stained-glass windows portraying the Baby Jesus and Mary, is retweeting that Mount Rushmore is an act of vandalism.  Ja'Mal Green, a Black Lives Matter organizer in Chicago who was arrested in 2016 for assaulting and attempting to disarm an officer, offered a $5,000 reward on Saturday for information on the killing of the one-year-old boy in Chicago, but coupled that offer with another call to defund the police.  Since then, Green has been tweeting about abortion rights and the extradition of President Trump to Iran.

Biden and Dems Are Set to Abolish the Suburbs.  President Trump had a great riff at his rally the other day in Phoenix.  It was all about "abolish," about how the Left wants to abolish the police, ICE, bail, even borders.  Trump's riff is effective because it is true.  The Left has gone off the deep end, and they're taking the Democrats with them.  Well, there's another "abolish" the president can add to his list, and it just might be enough to tip the scales this November.  Joe Biden and the Democrats want to abolish America's suburbs.  Biden and his party have embraced yet another dream of the radical Left: a federal takeover, transformation, and de facto urbanization of America's suburbs.  What's more, Biden just might be able to pull off this "fundamental transformation."

$1.5B in NYPD cuts not enough for AOC: 'Defunding police means defunding police'.  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Tuesday [6/30/2020] the proposed $1.5 billion NYPD budget slash didn't go far enough.  "Defunding police means defunding police.  It does not mean budget tricks or funny math.  It does not mean moving school police officers from the NYPD budget to the Department of Education's budget so the exact same police remain in schools," the self-described Democratic Socialist said in a press release about the budget deal between the City Council and Mayor de Blasio.  "It does not mean counting cuts in overtime as cuts, even as NYPD ignores every attempt by City Council to curb overtime spending and overspends on overtime anyways.  The fight to defund policing continues," she said.

Virginia Democrats Propose Reducing Charge For Assaulting Police Officers.  Virginia Senate Democrats are proposing the reduction of the charge of assault on a police officer from a felony to a simple misdemeanor offense.  The proposal, one of 28 championed by the Virginia Senate Democratic Caucus to reform the state's law enforcement systems, would get rid of the current law that considers an assault of a police officer a Class 6 felony and imposes a mandatory minimum term of confinement of six months.

DNC Official 2020 Position:  Celebrating July 4th Equals White Supremacy.  Under normal conditions one might expect to identify this moment as the official moment the rubicon of DNC insanity has been crossed.  However, it's 2020, therefore as soon as you think the boundaries of DNC stupidity have been reached, the DNC will bring out their stupid boundary stretchers.  In a tweet earlier tonight [6/29/2020] the DNC takes the official position that celebrating the fourth of July is the equivalent of celebrating white supremacy.

Seattle City Council Member Blames 'Capitalism's Brutality' for CHOP Murders.  [Scroll down]  I have no idea how someone like this ever gets elected.  I mean, I understand how Democrats get elected even if I have profound disagreements with them on policy and social issues.  But Kshama Sawant has shown herself to be an insane person for years.  She's actually suspected to have let protesters into the City Hall some weeks back before the CHOP was established on the streets.  She should be in jail, not rattling on Twitter about how capitalism is somehow responsible for lawlessness and murders.  Sawant's "movement" is failing like all socialist movements ultimately fail.  It's destroying businesses and it's costing people their lives.  The fact that the mayor of Seattle won't step in and stop this is an incredible breach of duty.  If Seattle's residents care anything about their own safety and prosperity, they have to change course and kick these people out of office.  Unfortunately, what seems obvious to outsiders is often lost on those living in these areas.  They are so eaten up with faux guilt and wanting to appear woke that they'll continue to vote for their own demise.  It's sad to watch.

These are dangerous times.  The left wants to force you to be silent.  That is why you need to speak up.  The liberty-minded majority has to speak up for freedom or it will be silenced forever.  That is not hyperbole.  Facebook and the authoritarian left have become more blatant about silencing the pro-liberty right to the point of directly influencing the upcoming election.  Katie makes the critical point that we need to step in and counter the efforts of those who would impose authoritarianism.  While we don't agree with every point she makes, she does emphasize that we need to leave the ad hominem attacks to the leftists.  We are on the right side of history.  The facts are on our side.  [Video clip]

America's Problem Is Systemic Liberalism.  Look through the endless woke tweets of your favorite hack journalist, pinko pol, or Hollywood half-wit, or even go up to some self-described liberal in your own life, and see if you can find one iota of deviation from any of the approved liberal dogma.  Good luck.  You won't find a smidgeon of nonconformity.  You won't detect a molecule of dissent. [...] You can't reason with them — appealing to reason is futile.  Systemic liberalism is the real poison in America's veins, not the fanciful notion pushed by bigots, charlatans, and demagogues, that the American enterprise is dedicated to invidious discrimination on the basis of race.

Who's the Real Party of the Rich?  [Scroll down]  How do we shed light on the party of the ruling class?  Where can we reliably compare and contrast the effects of Democrat and Republican policies on common Americans?  Since Washington, D.C. is a moral swamp where Deep State bureaucrats use all means at their disposal to destroy all adversaries to the ruling class, more can be learned at the state level.  Small businesses are in a sense the "canary in the coal mine" because they lack the resources and social connections to reasonably navigate burdensome regulations.  The owners of these businesses also tend to have an independent streak that does not sit well with many of the credentialed elites who regulate them.

'This is not Seattle': Oklahoma protesters hit with terrorism charges.  A district attorney in Oklahoma hit several protesters with charges of assault, rioting, and terrorism in connection to recent violent protests that took place in Oklahoma City.  Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater said on Friday [6/26/2020] that he chose to pursue the toughest charges against the rioters because he does not support the lawlessness that has taken place in some parts of the country, including the "police-free" region of Seattle known as the Capitol Hill Occupied Protests, or CHOP.  "This is not Seattle," he told the Oklahoman.  "We're not putting up with this lawlessness here."

Voting Isn't Enough to Combat the Woke Left.  Recently, I read with great interest James Lindsay's essay called "The Woke Breaking Point."  There, he invites his readers to ask friends and acquaintances "What would it take for you to say that the Woke movement has gone too far?"  This, he suggests, is a way to help people keep themselves honest:  if you consider in advance what state of affairs, specifically, would be "too far," then you will be able to recognize better the excesses of the totalitarian Left and more ready to resist them at the point when it becomes absolutely necessary.  Reframing the question, he writes:  "Ask.  When is enough, enough?"  To his credit, Lindsay recognizes that posing this question is a tricky rhetorical gambit.  "To get real about this, you shouldn't expect this conversation to go well," he writes.  "It might, of course, depending on the relationship, but it's very likely to be received defensively or with an assumption that you've lost your mind.  So here's some advice:  don't expect it to go well.  Don't expect them to come around.  Don't expect them to take you seriously.  Just get the question out there where they have to think about it."

Minneapolis Officials Calling to 'Defund Police' Spend $63G on Private Security.  Minneapolis City Council members who called to 'defund the police' amid the Black Lives Matter protests following the death of George Floyd have spent $63,000 on private security detail following death threats.  The private security detail is reportedly costing $4,500 a day in taxpayer's money.  The total spent over the last three weeks now stands at $63,000.  "The names of the people getting security details are not public," a city spokesperson told Fox News.

Seattle City Council Unanimously Votes to Repeal Drug Traffic and Prostitution Loitering Laws.  The Seattle City Council unanimously voted to repeal the city's drug traffic and prostitution loitering laws on Monday, sending the bill to Mayor Jenny Durkan for signing.  Two years in the making, the bill seeks to eliminate the ordinances helping police crack down on loitering by suspected drug dealers and prostitutes — ordinances that a lead sponsor of the repeal bill calls "manifestly unjust," The Seattle Times reports.

Shameless: Minneapolis city council votes to disband police — but pays $4500 a day for private security.  Protection for we, social workers for thee?  The Minneapolis city council seems determined to prove the hypocrisy of "defund the police," all the way to the point of satire.  Yesterday, the council voted unanimously to pursue a still-ambiguous plan to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department and replace it with a more politically correct "Department of Community Safety and Violence Prevention."  Would that include police, though — and if so, what's the point?

Is It Time For Americans To Start Talking About The Devil?  [Scroll down]  Don't get me wrong.  I'm not saying that all these anti-white radicals have consciously entered a pact with the Devil.  Yes, there are those Alinskyites who have deliberately sold their souls to Satan, but most radicals are unwittingly under his spell.  Think about it:  Do you ever wonder why it is so impossible to communicate facts and logic to an Open Borders zealot?  Try as we might we can never break the hypnotic hold that anti-Historical American Nation malice has on these people.  Do they not seem like they are operating under a kind of otherworldly spell?  Saint Paul warns us that Satan's minions often appear as "ministers of righteousness" exercising the art of soul murder by employing the language of goodwill.  In due course, today's ministers of righteousness are working overtime to ruin the lives of ordinary white people like Amy Cooper, Nick Sandmann, or Paula Deen.  They experience a moral thrill whenever they cancel, dox, and deplatform people whose only crime is being white.

Leftist Minstrel Show:  Self-abasing protestors mostly white, and blacks are starting to laugh.  Anti-racism protests, which form the backdrop of the violence, desecration and looting going on around the U.S., are starting to look just a little bit strange to some black people.  Made up almost solely of whites, they feature kneeling, self-abasement, calls for absolution, and vows of reparation.  There have been celebrities declaring they 'take responsibility,' Congress members bowing in Kente cloth stoles, ritual kneelings in the street, uplifted fists of ecstasy, and in one particularly ridiculous instance, thick, pasty white protestors dancing around a fallen Columbus statue as Indian drums beat, oblivous to the logic of their declaration, in that they best go back to Europe to atone.  They've actually become religious rituals for white people with no religion and in need of one, what with global warming not coming through on its promises of Armaggedon.

The Left's Idea of Bringing Us Together.  Earlier this month, former Defense Secretary James Mattis whined:  "Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people.  Instead, he tries to divide us."  Apparently, Mattis wasn't alive when Barack Obama was president.  His quest for unity started as a candidate, when he described Middle Americans as bitterly clinging to religion, guns and anti-immigrant sentiments — in other words, as fanatics, gun nuts and xenophobes.  In 2016, Hillary Clinton was the left's unity candidate — heaping calumny on the heads of "deplorables" (bitter-clingers 2.0).  Now comes Joe Biden, who said at an April fundraiser that Trump voters, "really support the notion that, you know, all Mexicans are rapists and all Muslims are bad."  So, if you're tired of illegals streaming across the border, Dems say you believe Mexicans are all rapists and if you're critical of the way Muslim countries treat Christians, to Dems, it's the same as saying, "all Muslims are bad."  Naturally, no one in the establishment media denounced this slander.

RNC ad puts a spotlight on Dem tactics that bolster 'Marxist' attack on America.  The Republican National Committee released a new ad this Tuesday designed to highlight how "left-wing anarchists are using chaos to destroy America" as Democrats watch sometimes with tacit approval and other times with beaming support. [...] [T]he video links the ongoing madness being perpetrated across the country by Black Lives Matter extremists — think police cruisers being burnt, police officers being run down, statues being toppled, etc. — with the incendiary rhetoric of Democrat political figures ranging from Nancy Pelosi to Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.

Victor Davis Hanson: 2020 Election Is Now an 'Existential Question,' 'Civilization' vs.  Its Destruction.  The protests and rioting that began with the killing of George Floyd in late May have morphed into something much more insidious in late June, to the point where issues that previously dominated the election landscape no longer matter so much, some conservatives are saying.  As anarchists and "protesters" tear down statues, declare autonomous zones, and deface public property in Democrat-run cities, it's "not about the icon on the statue, it's about humiliation and power," Victor Davis Hanson, an author and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, told Fox News's Tucker Carlson Monday night [6/22/2020].

The Editor says...
What will happen when Trump is re-elected?  The riots will continue.  What will happen if the Democrat (whoever replaces Biden) is elected instead?  The riots will continue unimpeded.

New Jersey ranked least patriotic state in America.  Thinking about holding your Fourth of July blowout in New Jersey?  Better think again.  The Garden State is the least patriotic state in the US, according to a new ranking released Monday [6/22/2020] by financial advice Web site WalletHub.com.  Measuring 13 metrics on military and civic engagement — including veteran residents per capita, percentage of adults who voted in the 2016 presidential election and rates of volunteerism — the study ranked Jersey dead last among the 50 states.  But flag-waving New Yorkers shouldn't get too smug, as the Empire State finished next-to-last in the ranking.

How a Conservative Commentator Turned the Left's Cancel Culture Campaign Against Itself.  The left-wing mob is recharged and totally insane.  They're back on this cancel culture nonsense.  They're tearing down statues of historical figures they view as problematic.  There is no reasoning with them.  They're the intellectual al-Qaeda of our time.  You don't negotiate with terrorists.  As Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, and Roosevelt are being targeted, two things are clear.  This has never been about Confederate statues, folks.  This has been centered on the Left's hatred of America and its history and the bizarre fetish to rewrite it through a woke paradigm where no nuance is afforded to anyone.  The far-left loony code of ethics, for lack of a better term, is retroactively applied here.  It's utterly insane.

"When the new battleground for civil rights is ice cream, it may be time to lay down arms."
The Activist Never Sleeps.  In the wake of last week's Supreme Court ruling on gay rights in the workplace, Andrew Sullivan asked what sounded like a reasonable question — when can proponents of a cause claim victory?  This, of course, is a rhetorical question, as Sullivan himself later admits.  The answer is "never," and it is as applicable to our current turmoil as to the Court decision.  Victory means the game is over.  That is not how activism works.  Activism is an industry whose only goal is self-perpetuation.  Activism provides livelihoods, social, and political power, and a sense of relevance.

Ben & Jerry's honors Juneteenth: 'Defund the police, defend Black communities!'  Ben & Jerry's isn't leaving the company's stance up for interpretation.  The beloved ice cream maker took to Instagram Friday to speak out about the importance of Juneteenth, which emancipated black Americans who remained enslaved two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.  "Defund the police, defend Black communities!" Ben & Jerry's captioned a brightly colored image of a black individual scooping ice cream.  "This #Juneteenth, it's more important than ever that we dismantle the racist and ineffective model of American policing.  Learn more about how defunding the police works and why we desperately need it."

The Editor says...
Whatever you do, please don't ever buy this company's products.  Unless you're a lying, statue-toppling, America-hating, baby-killing Democrat, of course.

Democrats Have Failed the Black Community for Too Long.  In recent weeks, Americans have watched radical leftist anarchists and Antifa thugs engage in extreme violence and murder that will haunt many people for the rest of their lives.  Fifteen innocent civilians and two police officers were shot and killed, hundreds of civilians were savagely and brutally beaten, and more than 700 police officers were injured nationwide.  Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of property was destroyed as businesses and communities in more than 42 states were devastated by arson, looting, and mayhem that activists quickly followed with a call to defund the police.  With each passing day, both of us asked ourselves the same question: where are the governors and mayors of these cities who took an oath of office to uphold the Constitution of the United States and keep residents safe from harm?  Instead of upholding law and order — also known as doing their jobs — they turned a blind eye to the violence while praising the demonstrations that the radicals were using as cover.

This Leftist Tantrum Is an Information Operation and Trump Is Winning It.  [Scroll down]  This still an information operation, not a kinetic one.  They want to convince us we are powerless, that everyone else supports their commie agenda, that we cannot win.  Their tactics are designed to create that impression and crush our morale.  These include the 24/7 media hype, the outright media lies, the movie stars with their dumb PSAs, the staged statue attacks, the corporate solidarity proclamations, the social media cancellations, and the craven kneeling by people who are supposed to stand up for us.  But another tactic, familiar to any student of insurgencies, is to provoke an overreaction by those in power in order to undermine its moral authority.  They want is to make us (including the president) think this is a kinetic operation, and get our side to make fundamental strategic errors by failing to recognize the true nature of the threat.  They hope that such a mismatch between perception and reality will then lead to gravely damaging blunders.

Are We Headed into Year Zero?  Describing the fallout from Stanford University's decision 30 years ago to banish Western civ, Stanley Kurtz has produced an in-depth report outlining how the goal of "[a]cademic history as currently written and taught ... is to undermine the public's sense of national or civilizational identity.  With nothing left to kill or die for, the world will presumably 'live as one.'"  David Randall at RealClearEducation remarks on the report's stark conclusions that abandoning the study of Western civilization "was the erasure of a body of knowledge that constituted the American identity.  To remove Western Civ was a body-blow against America's civilizational memory — brain damage deliberately inflicted[.] ... This brain damage makes it possible for Americans to be molded by woke tyranny's euphemisms of social justice, multiculturalism, and global citizenship."

How Sweet to Be a Democrat.  They seem to think it's game to engage in despicable acts and dare anyone to hold them accountable.  No matter how bold and in your face the act, no matter how crazy the statement or preposterous the proposal (think Green New Deal), they know they will not be seriously questioned or held to account, let alone disciplined. [...] They can do and say whatever they please, safe in the knowledge that they have the media in their pockets and that most younger people haven't been taught anything that's true or that matters and therefore have no way to sort truth from fiction.  They know that many — if not most — folks rely solely on emotion, not reason and evidence, to determine what is real and what is fake.  They utilize this knowledge and those people in their incessant quest for power at all costs.

Poll: Less than a quarter of Democrats are 'extremely proud' to be American.  Barely one in four Democrats say they are "extremely proud" to be an American, according to a new poll.  A new Gallup survey of 1,034 adults living in the United States found that 42 percent said they were "extremely proud" to be an American, while 21 percent said they were "moderately proud."  Among Democrats, only 24 percent rated themselves "extremely proud."

Harvard Professor:  "Defunding The Police Is Not A Solution And Could Cost Thousands Of Black Lives".  A Harvard university Professor has urged that defunding the police would cause more loss of life, citing figures showing that there are "450 excess homicides per year" when police are not able to do their jobs proficiently.  "Defunding the police is not a solution and could cost thousands of black lives," professor Roland Fryer wrote in an email to the College Fix.  Fryer has recently authored a research paper titled "Policing the Police:  The Impact of "Pattern-or-Practice Investigations on Crime," noting that police are less present when 'viral incidents' occur, meaning crime, including homicides increase... a lot.  "Our estimates suggest that investigating police departments after viral incidents of police violence is responsible for approximately 450 excess homicides per year" the paper reads.

Denver Board of Education votes unanimously to remove police from schools.  It sounds like there was plenty of tension at the Thursday night [6/11/2020] meeting of the Denver Public Schools Board of Education.  A vote was held on a proposal to remove all SROs (school resource officers from the Denver Police Department) from all public schools in the district.  After four hours of heated debate and public comment, the board voted unanimously to remove them.  The number of SROs on campuses is to be reduced by 25% immediately with all remaining officers to be given the boot by June of next year.  Going by the local CBS coverage of the meeting, the reasons given for the decision sounded as if they had absolutely nothing to do with anything that's been going on in the local schools and it was more about national politics than anything else.

The Kountry is Korona Krazy.  [Scroll down]  In Seattle, people calling themselves anti-fascists stormed a police station and took over a neighborhood.  They're extorting money from small local businesses in exchange for "protecting" them.  They expel the people they don't like from their little utopia.  Now they're threatening to form their own nation in downtown Seattle comprised of only people they like.  They call it Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, or CHAZ (how hip is that?).  This bit of socialist paradise is ruled by a homophobic criminal warlord who prances around with an AK-47.  The Seattle police chief wants to expel these criminals and return the neighborhood to the residents.  For that, Seattle libs want to cancel her.  In their eyes, the fact that she is a black and a woman is not enough; if she opposes people who trespass, loot, riot and steal in the name of a protest, then she's a racist.  The Seattle mayor is more woke than the police chief.  Unlike the police chief, the mayor supports the rioters.  Because the rioters hate America and she does too.

Mayor Walsh declares racism a public health crisis.  Mayor Martin Walsh is declaring racism a public health crisis and is aiming to transfer $12 million from the police overtime budget to help put his order in motion immediately.  Walsh said Friday [6/12/2020] there is a "new urgency" to erase racism in the city and added Boston's budget for the coming year will reallocate roughly 20% of the police OT allotment to programs for youth and other needs.  That will start with $3 million for the Boston Public Health Commission.  A new task force, chaired by former U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Wayne Budd, will also review police force policies and equity issues in the department.

Entire Florida city's SWAT team resigns after police chief kneels with protesters.  Officers of the Hallandale Beach Police Department were so angered by their chief kneeling to show solidarity with protesters that every member of the SWAT team resigned from those duties.  The officers did not resign completely from the police force, and will stay on duty.  Those who resigned specifically cited City of Hallandale Beach Police Chief Sonia Quinones kneeling with protesters against racism, hatred, and intolerance as the reason for their startling act.

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I would say kneeling with protesters was a startling act.

Pelosi presenting special US flag to Floyd family sparks outrage; 'an insult to our service members'.  Scores of Americans were outraged after seeing a picture of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) presenting an American flag to the family of George Floyd as though he had been killed fighting for the country.  The photo, which was seen posted on various social media sites, was confirmed as genuine by BizPac Review after locating it as part of a collection involving the family of Floyd on Pelosi's official Twitter feed. [...] Scores of people reacted negatively to the photo after seeing it reposted by another Twitter user.

Leftists Claim They Want Revolution, But They Underestimate The Conservative Majority.  Revolution is usually used to topple the ruling elite.  In this case, the target is the concept of constitutional freedom that is held dear by a broad well-armed sector of society.  What the liberals seek is a complete government executed civil war against conservative-minded citizens.  They will use the rule of law in an attempt to beat us down.  They will use the much-disdained law enforcement to enact their proposals.  And finally, when that doesn't work, they will utilize the military.  Make no mistake; they want us compliant.  They don't want us gone because we are the producers.  They underestimate the silent majority — we who are cleaning our weaponry, as we watch feral morons destroy things on TV.  The reason for our silence isn't that we're meek conservatives.  They haven't heard from us, because they haven't poked us, yet.  They will regret it when they do.

Parks Dept. employees spotted cleaning Coney Island bathroom with US flag.  A day before Flag Day, two city employees were spotted using the Stars and Stripes to mop the floor of a filthy Coney Island restroom, a witness told The [New York] Post.  Jose Gonzalez, a Guardian Angel who was on patrol on the boardwalk Saturday afternoon, said he saw two employees from the Parks Department wiping down a men's bathroom with a flag mop. [...] Gonzalez snapped a photo of the mophead.  "This is an absolute disgrace especially one day before Flag Day, an honored day that no one is discussing in New York City," said disgusted Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa.  "Clearly, we are not educating our citizens.  At a time when we are all divided, it's the flag that brings us together."  The city Parks Department did not immediately return Post calls for comment.

How President Trump Just Won Re-Election.  In the wake of the Floyd protests, the president has defended law and order.  He has defended business owners and police at a time when Democrats are claiming that reliance on the police is a form of "white privilege."  So when a violent criminal is breaking into my house and I call 911, that's "white privilege," and I should just let myself be robbed and murdered?  This is the crucial moment of the Trump presidency, but not in the way the media have framed it.  By standing his ground and resisting calls for change, the president will win another term.  Conservatives are watching Trump's response with intense interest because in defending law and order, he is defending us as well.  Conservatives know that they have nothing to apologize for.  It is the rioters, looters, and killers in the streets, including many young white radicals, who should be apologizing — and they should apologize from inside a prison cell.

Trump vs. Biden and our yearning for 'normalcy'.  Anyone who imagines "defund the police" doesn't actually mean defund the police should watch the viral video featuring Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey confronted on the issue by protest leaders.  Frey had been at all the protests, had sobbed at Floyd's coffin, held every correct progressive opinion — until activists asked him if he would agree to defund police.  "We don't want no police," an activist leader clarified for Frey.  When Frey couldn't agree, he was booted from the protests, as protesters hurled invective at him.  The trouble:  Police forces remain broadly popular.  Over 50 percent of Americans consistently say they have "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in police, with another 30 percent saying they have "some" confidence.  It isn't just white people, either.  Polls have found that as many as two-thirds of African Americans have confidence in the police; a HuffPost/YouGov poll last week found that 49 percent of black people oppose defunding the police.

Anarchy, Seattle, and All That CHAZ.  Three cities, all supremely liberal, represent an American descent into anarchy against which no one is standing.  After New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said he wanted to slash the police budget, the New York City Council is going about cutting $1 billion from that budget, about 16%. That will inevitably cause a reduction of police presence around the city and, with equal inevitability, result in an increase in crime.  President Trump has said that if Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and Mayor Durkan didn't restore order in Seattle, he would.  But he has done precisely nothing.  In Minneapolis, where George Floyd was killed in police custody on May 25, the city council plans to disband its police force entirely.  On Friday, the city council voted to replace the police with a "community-led public safety system."  What [...] is a "community-led public safety system"?  And then there's Seattle.

Gathering Is Essential — Unless You're Republican.  Destroying a business is tolerated, reopening one forbidden.  Democrats are bailing out rioters, and sending salon owners to prison.  Going to church is worse than trying to burn it down.  Protesting is a threat to public health, until experts declare your cause worthy enough.  These are the new, ever-changing rules of Democrats' America.  We'll forgive you if you have a hard time keeping up — but they won't.  After months shaming Americans who had the audacity to want to reopen their businesses safely as COVID-19 cases waned, social distancing is suddenly less important than "social justice," according to the media's health "experts."

Stereotyping for Thee, But Not for Me:  The Lawless States of America.  What athletes, actors, educators, most press and celebrities mouthing off about this don't get is that the rest of us don't want to pay to attend a sporting event, or spend time watching an awards show whose participants hijack it to make a political statement or gesture.  Find another platform and do it on your own time.  Kneel all you want, but not when the audience is captive.  The orchestrated show of Democrat-elected representatives, culturally misappropriating African tribal garb and kneeling, looked like a Saturday Night Live skit.  Between the pandemic shutdowns and the mass looting and arson, the rest of us, for the past three months have had many legal rights ripped from our arms, mostly in Democrat-run cities and states.  The protests have erupted in foreign cities; friendly and enemy states tsk-tsk or mock us.  And, it was all too easy.  Are we not better than this?

Black Americans Overwhelmingly Oppose Defunding the Police.  A new poll has found that black Americans overwhelmingly oppose rioters' demands of defunding the police.  The YouGov/HuffPost poll found that most Americans do want police reform, such as banning chokeholds, but defunding the police was the least popular policy they asked about.  "Self-described liberals support defunding the police by a 13-point margin," HuffPost reported.  "But nearly every other ideological and demographic group opposes it.  Democrats and Democratic leaners oppose it by a 4-percentage point margin, and Black Americans oppose it by a 20-point margin."

Why Americans Must Stand Up to the Left's Power Grab.  Parts of the movement started by widespread revulsion at the murder of George Floyd have metastasized into a power grab by hard leftists.  Their aim goes beyond dismantling the police — likely to have an early sell-by date — but targets the suppression of such tenets of liberalism as speech and property rights.  Conservatives who want to conserve the republic as it is need to gird up for this battle.  For a brief, ephemeral moment, the country came together in condemnation of Floyd's death in police custody in Minneapolis.  But a crisis is a terrible thing to waste, so those who want to change America root and branch, because they see it as an experiment not worth preserving, sensed an opportunity for their agenda.

Silence is Violence:  The Quest for Totalitarian Democracy.  When a movement says, "silence is violence," it is no longer democratic, but a totalitarian movement that opposes the very essence of choice — the right to be apolitical.  Mass movements with ostensible democratic goals start out toward benign change, but their successes only feed a hunger for greater political transformation.  Left to the streets, that hunger is attracted to the extremes as the extremists are attracted to it.  When the mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, who has passionately sided with the opponents of police brutality, is heckled out of a demonstration because he refuses to commit to the mob's demand to defund the police, that is shoving someone into the theater of the absurd.

Amazing! Trump Just Got Democrats to Defend a Criminal, Anarchist Mob.  Whether he meant to do it or not, Trump has gotten two prominent Democrats, a governor of a state and a mayor of a large city, to defend what can only be described as the unlawful actions of a violent, anarchist mob.  They hate Trump so much and are so fervent in their desire to oppose his every utterance they have gladly defended the indefensible.  All Trump had to do was make a common-sense condemnation of anarchy, theft, violence, and hooliganism in Seattle and Democrats reflexively attack him and defend the criminals.  So now the political lines are drawn.  Trump opposes and condemns the mob that has commandeered several blocks of a major American city as their own.  Prominent Democrats have defended the action and even praised it as patriotic.

Just In:  Minneapolis City Council Unanimously Votes to Replace Police with 'Community-Led Public Safety System'.  The Minneapolis City Council on Friday unanimously voted a resolution to replace the police with a 'community-led public safety system.'  Get out while you can!  The radical left is pushing to "defund the police" following the death of George Floyd.  By "defund the police," the left means replacing the police with Sharia patrol, Black Panthers, La Raza and other anti-Christian, anti-white social justice enforcers.

Amazon may stop streaming 'Dukes of Hazzard' over Confederate flag, report says.  Amazon is reportedly considering removing the immensely popular 1970s series "The Dukes of Hazzard" from its streaming library as it reviews its content offerings in the wake of racial tensions and protests happening throughout the US.  The TV series ran on CBS for seven seasons from 1979 until 1985.  It follows the adventures of Bo and Luke Duke, who create mischief in their fictional small town of Hazzard County, Ga.  The show has been criticized over the years, specifically for the boys' well-known car, The General Lee, which is emblazoned with a confederate flag on the roof.  As a result, Bloomberg reports that the popular streaming service is thinking about removing it so as not to court any controversy with the ongoing movement happening throughout the US. Amazon currently offers "The Dukes of Hazzard" both for free on its ad-supported streaming service, IMDB TV, as well as for sale on the Amazon store.

Seattle 'Autonomous Zone' Demands U.S. Citizenship for 11 to 22M Illegal Aliens.  Seattle, Washington's, Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) is demanding that all 11 to 22 million illegal aliens living in the United States be granted American citizenship using Seattle Police Department funding.  CHAZ, formed by anarchists, Antifa members, and Black Lives Matter activists, has released a list of demands that would shift Seattle Police Department funding away from policing resources and towards providing naturalization ceremonies to all illegal aliens.

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The CHAZ people have declared themselves a separate country.  What do they care about U.S. citizenship?

Has America ever had a more crazed mayor than Seattle's Jenny Durkan?  It's no longer big news that Black Lives Matter, Antifa, anarchists, sex offenders, and criminal opportunists seized a six-block area in Seattle's chi-chi Capitol Hill district.  The same people who protested against Trump's walls built walls around their Utopian paradise, the gun-haters armed themselves, and the ones decrying identification at elections demand identification for anyone seeking to enter the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (or CHAZ).  Most mayors would be horrified, but not Jenny Durkan.  She likes it.  According to Wikipedia, the Capitol Hill district is a densely populated area known for its counterculture and LGBT communities.  It's in sync with the 87% of Seattle's population that supported Hillary in 2016.  It's in this neighborhood that BLM has brought forth a new nation, conceived in hysteria and violence, and dedicated to the proposition that all black people are created better than everyone else (because only their lives matter).

Poll: 55% of Democrats Support 'Defund the Police'; 64% of Americans Oppose.  A new poll released Friday [6/12/2020] showed that 55% of Democrats approve of calls by the Black Lives Matter movement to "defund the police" — though 64% of the country as a whole opposes the idea.

Worse than the limousine liberal: 'Prius woke-sters' cheer chaos at personal risk.  In 1969, New York mayoral candidate Mario Procaccino went after his rival, the movie-star-good-looking incumbent John Lindsay, by deriding him and his supporters as "limousine liberals" — people who, in the words of a Procaccino campaign memo, "preach the politics of confrontation and condone violent upheaval in society because they are not touched by it and are protected by their courtiers, doormen and private police guards."  Procaccino's sound bite immortalized one of the more enraging figures in modern US society — the preachy, self-righteous, anti-capitalist but conveniently rich and socially prominent person who decries American injustice and gives lip service to the need for radical change without ever having to fear the consequences of the often-violent forces he supports.  Half a century later, in the midst of America's latest urban upheaval, we find a new American type — more interesting, perhaps, than the limousine liberal because she doesn't really have doormen or private cops to protect her from the threat to civil order she welcomes.  We might call her the "Prius wokester."

Chris Wallace says Biden, mainstream Dems running from defund police movement 'as fast as they can'.  "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace asserted Friday that calls from activists to "defund the police" are a "bridge too far" for most Americans.  "Joe Biden and mainstream Democrats are doing everything they can to run away as fast as they can from 'defund the police,'" Wallace told the "Fox News Rundown" podcast.  "Most people, myself included, [don't] fully understand what that even means.  "But I think most people, when they dial 911, when they're in an emergency, want the police to answer and to help," he added.  Wallace did acknowledge the need for policing reform and suggested the creation of a "national registry of bad actors," along with new limitations on so-called "qualified immunity," which protects officers from civil lawsuits for actions taken while on duty.

Protesters pulled down a statue, which landed on a bystander, and what happened next?
Rioters in Virginia would have their cops and abolish them, too.  With a person lying there bleeding with a split skull showing, did the anti-cop protesters call a hippie?  No, they called a cop.  Who showed the value of cops in this age of "abolish the cops"?  The cop who came was engaged in a pretty selfless act, given what the protesters say they would do to him.  He's the opposite of the bad cop in Minneapolis who triggered this round of unrest.  And he was showing them that even as they kept up their "defund the police" yellings.  Apparently, it took a cop to clear the protesting scrum because the protesters were all so busy gathering around the bleeding, maybe dying man, taking selfies with their cell phone cameras.  So much for empathy or solidarity.  This is the behavior of insects.  It reveals the essential childishness of this anti-cop movement.  Yell as they do to abolish the police, when they need a cop, they call one, and they expect one to come in to serve them.

The Media Suppresses Anyone Who Thinks Like You.  Understand this.  Tens of millions of Americans love and respect the flag.  Tens of millions of Americans despise the rioters.  Tens of millions of Americans support our police.  Tens of millions of Americans support President Trump.  You are not alone, no matter how much they lie by omission and otherwise to convince you that you are.

Multiple Studies Don't Back Up Any of the Black Lives Matter Talking Points.  Right now, we're on a defund the police kick, which has the end goal of abolishing all law enforcement from our society.  It's insane.  It's not popular.  And it will be a campaign issue — the ascendant left-wingers are slowly eating away the Old Guard in both the Democratic Party leadership structures, the base, and the various cultural institutions that have long been dominated by liberals.  On the latter, you saw how The New York Times crumbled to the will of these unhinged woke operatives.  The publication ran an op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), who argued that the military should be deployed to restore law and order in the wake of the unrest unleashed by the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis Police on May 25.  Progressive reporters revolted, said the op-ed put black lives in danger (total nonsense), and forced the editorial page editor to resign.  The 'words are violence' crowd is slowly taking over.  And they're totally insane.

Systemic Racism and Bigotry Are the Lifeblood of the Left.  [Scroll down]  The only racism in America that is systemic — deeply ingrained into the system — is on the left. It is so disgusting that it is hard even to speak about it.  It is shameful, and it exists for one reason only: for White leftists to grab votes, [...] How low will they grovel to get power?  They will kneel on the floor.  They actually will kneel on the floor, groveling for power.  Of course, as Nancy Pelosi just found, she kneeled so long that she could not even get back up.  You think she was kneeling to Jesus?  Nancy Pelosi is America's leading Catholic proponent of abortion — though Joe Biden, Andrew Cuomo, and a boatload of other Democrat Catholics would take great offense at Nancy Pelosi getting all the credit for funding the killing of fetuses, especially in the Black community. That Pelosi is kneeling to Jesus?  And who, pray tell, was Schumer kneeling to?  He claims to be Jewish, so he is not kneeling to Jesus. But wait!  It is a core tenet of Judaism that kneeling is forbidden except on Yom Kippur during the recitation of the Kohen service that occurred at the Holy Temple in Jerusalem during Talmudic times.  Otherwise, it is so fundamentally against Judaism to kneel that every Jewish child learns the story associated with Talmud Tractate Gittin 57b of "The Woman and Her Seven Sons."

'We Need to Have a Conversation'.  Recently, the ability to "have a conversation," let alone actually solve a problem, has shriveled like a piece of rotting fruit. [...] Some common ground needs to exist.  We need to operate on a mutual moral foundation.  Do we agree that murder is wrong?  Or is it only wrong when it's a white person killing a black person?  Is it okay when the black victim has yet to be born?  Is it wrong to steal?  What with cities refusing to prosecute thieves, private property may no longer be a community value.  With massive stealing during these riots, and no repercussions, it appears that some new nuances in our understanding of theft have happened without our notification.  When a Seattle city councilwoman can say, "I don't know why people are upset about looting," then what is there to talk about?  America was built on the common urge to create a free society, one in which the needs of the individual and the needs of a smooth-running community were in balance.  People shared a reverence for dignity and decency and productivity.  But what happens when a large and loud faction of the society sees no value at all in these things?  When people parade down the streets of a city in various states of undress, performing various deviant sex acts as they go?  When people are willing to just sit around and let others support them?  When demanding respect instead of earning it becomes the norm?  There's just nothing to say.

Crystal clear differences between the left and the right.  The crisis of the coronavirus-induced economic lockdown and now the violent protests in the streets have unleashed a depression-level financial crisis and unprecedented human suffering — especially in our inner cities.  These events have also exposed a Grand Canyon-sized chasm that now separates how the left and the right see America today. [...] [Example #11] The right wants to make America look like Florida and Texas.  The left wants the rest of the nation to look like New York and Illinois — which are crumbling from rioting, lockdowns, high taxes and an accelerating stampede of businesses leaving the state.

Defund the Police?  Do you lefties really understand what that means?  The point of the Metropolitan Police and our current municipal police departments is to remove the need — and the temptation — for male city dwellers to keep the peace themselves.  You will have noticed, wokies, that already, in the wake of the recent "mostly peaceful protests" that there are reports of "vigilantes" with bats patrolling the streets in the nation's cities that are upsetting the woke female mayor of Chicago.  Another thing you might think of, wokies, is that if the police aren't cracking heads in a shocking display of police brutality then the various gangs of helpless-victim minorities will be delighted to take up the slack.

We Didn't Hire Donald Trump To Be A Uniter.  For over a century, the left has been busily destroying American institutions as diverse as Professional Football, Education, Boy and Girl Scouting, the Judeo-Christian Ethic, and the Rule of Law, to name but a few.  We sent Donald J. Trump to stop as much of that as he could.  We didn't send him there as Newt Gingrich put it, to "manage the decline" of our nation.  We sent him there to drain the damned swamp, not to form alliances with the alligators now ruling there.  We don't want unity with the evil that is tearing America apart.  We Americans have absolutely no desire to unify with people whose mindset declares that it's OK to loot and burn innocent people's property; to allow biological males to participate in female athletic contests and share their locker rooms; to forbid worship under threat of fines and/or imprisonment; to use the full force of government to overturn the results of a Presidential Election.  No!  We do not want to unify with those people.  We want to soundly defeat them at the polls and roll back their immoral policies.

Minneapolis City Council Prez:  We Don't Have All The Answers On Who'll Be Responding To Crime Once We Disband The Police.  Does she have some of the answers?  I mean, it'd be good to have a few answers lined up before outright dissolving law enforcement.  This is the second time in less than 12 hours that a CNN anchor has asked her an eminently predictable question about how she plans to keep civilized society from breaking down in a city of 400,000 people only to have her punt.  At least she admitted here that she doesn't know; this morning her response was to mumble some dorm-room cant about how dialing 911 is a form of privilege.

Democrats' Calls to Defund the Police Are a Losing Bet at the Polls.  Democratic lawmakers, operatives, and commentators are calling for the defunding or abolition of America's police departments in the wake of officer Derek Chauvin's killing of unarmed black man George Floyd.  While the proposal is popular among the party's progressive activist wing and on Twitter, it faces a hard wall of resistance among the wider public.  A recent YouGov poll showed that fewer than 20 percent of Americans of all parties supported any cutting of police funding — a finding consistent with decades of polling.

Minneapolis City Council president: 'The goal' is a 'police-free future'.  The Minneapolis City Council president said the city is aiming to have a "police-free future" as it shifts to dismantle its police department following the death of George Floyd.  Council President Lisa Bender noted on Monday [6/8/2020] that the change will take time but said that the city is aspiring to change the department completely with the goal of eventually eliminating police altogether.

Why Do So Many Christians Vote Democrat?  Christians have the power to swing the 2020 election — and a responsibility to exercise this power in a way that upholds Biblical values and religious freedom.  Churches have been barred from holding normal public worship for nearly three months.  Restraints on churches have been most severe in Democrat-ruled areas.  Democrats claim they "clean up the messes made by Republicans," yet Christian oppression is strongest in cities like Chicago, Louisville, Madison and Holly Springs and in states like New York and California that are long-time Democrat strongholds.  Christians have a moral obligation to consider the horrific harassment of fellow Christians when voting in November.  Here are six recent examples of Christian persecution in areas ruled by Democrats that occurred in March, April, and early May: [...]

CNN Grills Minneapolis City Council President:  How Do You Stop Killers Without Police?  She Struggles To Respond.  CNN's Wolf Blitzer grilled Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender and Vice President Andrea Jenkins late on Monday afternoon over their city's push to defund and dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department and specifically pressed on how they would stop someone who was going around killing people.  Blitzer began by pressing Bender on what it means "to dismantle the Minneapolis police department," to which Bender responded in part by saying, "our community is ready to re-imagine public safety from the ground up to think holistically and to make sure every single member of our community is safe."

You Want Us to Join Your Pain?  You Must Join Ours.  Psychotherapy often begins with emotionally painful presenting problems.  Here are a few of the deep wells of pain that tens of millions of Americans deserve to be joined.  We are sick of your verbal abuse of calling us racist.  We are so nauseated by being guilty until proven innocent of racism that we could vomit.  So gagged by being called privileged, you can add bulimia to the presenting problems.  The most race-privileged people in American history are Barack and Michelle Obama.  We are angry at your multifarious criminality in persecuting our great president.  We are enraged by your schemes to nullify our votes, to disenfranchise us, to cheat us with fraudulent elections.  We are tormented by your relentless attack on the U.S. Constitution, on our right to bear arms, our free exercise of religion, and the enslavement you envision for our grandchildren in the banana republic you are building.  We grieve every life your evil abortion philosophy has ended.

Democrats, party of lawlessness, press to collapse police.  Eighteen state attorneys general — Democrats, of course — have petitioned Congress for "explicit authority" to investigate local police departments for evidence of abusive and unconstitutional action.  Mark this moment as an official calendar day of Democrats' quest to collapse the law and order structure of police departments around the country.  One need only look to the chaotic protests in the streets — one need only listen to the likes of Democratic leadership with their calls for resistance and cries for opposition against conservatives — to see what law and order means to the left:  That is, lawlessness.

The building cold anger throughout America.  America watches while radical leftists and aggrieved blacks riot, loot, and commit acts of violence up to murder in cities across the country.  And more galling than that is the lack of effort by responsible public officials to stem the mayhem.  Indeed, more than a few Democrat mayors and governors, when they are not actually encouraging the riots, make excuses for those participating in it.  One example comes from New York City where hundreds looters and rioters were arrested only to be released in hours, due to blue-city "bail reform."  Americans have see this before and have a gut feeling that few if any of these domestic terrorists will be punished.  Other pathetic examples are of the police and some National Guard officers "taking a knee" in front of protesters to show solidarity with them.  This is not going on unnoticed by what I'll call the "silent majority."  They are silent because the media does not report on them.  And if a reporter did ask, most would be reluctant to share their true feelings with the fake media, knowing what they said would be ridiculed and likely used against them.  So as with most things, the ironically called "informed opinion" is blind as to the pulse of America.  These ongoing demonstrations mixed with riots are an offense against decency and the rule of law.  This has countless Americans seething.  This includes independent voters and even many of run-of-the-mill Democrats, not all of whom are hard-core leftists.

Democrats know their time grows short.  Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr., in a recent podcast interview, said Democrats are making it easy for Republicans this November — that a conservative sweep, due to COVID-19 crackdown madness and George Floyd-inspired out-of-control rioting, is in the works and too bad, so sad, but that's the way the liberal cookie crumbles.  And he's right.  And Democrats have to know their time is short.  Why else would they tip so many loony card hands all at once?  It's desperado on full display.

Minneapolis City Council prez:  It's "privilege" to fear crime if we disband the police.  Put yourself in the shoes of black Americans, she says.  Imagine if you caught someone breaking into your home and feared that calling the police might endanger you more than confronting the burglar yourself would.  It's "privilege" to know that you have less to fear from the cops than the criminals.  Or so she insists.  Must be a lot of "privileged" nonwhite Americans out there, then.  I pointed to this result from a 2016 Cato Institute poll on policing in yesterday's post but it's worth repeating: "9 in 10 black, white and Hispanic Americans oppose reducing the number of police officers in their community — and a third say their community needs more officers the Cato survey found."

Wow! Minneapolis City Council President Says Calling the Police on Burglars "Comes from a Place of Privilege".  After nearly two weeks of violence, mayhem, and rioting in Minneapolis, the City Council on Sunday voted on their intent to disband the police department.  The wild proposal would invest in "community-led public safety" instead of police officers.  "We are here today because George Floyd was killed by the Minneapolis Police Department.  We are also here because, here in Minneapolis and in cities across the United States, it is clear that our existing system of policing and public safety isn't working for so many of our neighbors," Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender said in a written statement Sunday, obtained by the Appeal.  "Our efforts at incremental reform have failed."

Are States Going To Prosecute Their Rioters?  It Depends.  Footage of violent riots and rampant looting is coming out of nearly every major city in the U.S., but states vary wildly in their efforts to prosecute those responsible for the unrest.  While local police have had no issues arresting those engaging in violence, some jurisdictions have declined to prosecute them.  Others, however, such as Texas and Missouri, are taking a far more strict approach and partnering with the federal government to press charges.  Arguably the most relaxed reaction to rioters came out of St. Louis, Missouri, where local prosecutor Kim Gardner refused to charge nearly 40 people arrested for rioting.

Can this American version of the French Revolution bring change?  Welcome to the American version of the French Revolution.  The horrible killing of George Floyd sparked an important focus on race relations and justice in this country.  However, it is being lost to an emerging radicalism that challenges people to prove their faith by endorsing farce.  Politicians and commentators are outdoing each other to demonstrate fealty to this new order by attacking key institutions and values.  Politicians are calling to defund the police and commentators are calling for censorship.  Most moderate voices seem to be fading under escalating demands.  Take the idea to defund the police.  Once the mantra of the very extreme elements in society, it has now been picked up in Congress.  Democratic Representative Rashida Tlaib has said that defunding the police should not be brushed aside.  Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar declared, "The Minneapolis Police Department has proven themselves far beyond reform.  It is time to disband them and reimagine public safety."

The Democrats' Insane Vow to Disband Police.  Fake news media's campaign to demonize police and Democrats' vow to disband police departments are totally insane.  Can you imagine what gangs such as MS-13 would do to this country without police intervention?  America has over 33,000 gangs with over 1.4 million members.  For decades, Democrats have tried every dirty trick in the book to repeal our Second Amendment right to bear arms.  They claim that you should always call the police rather than defend yourself.  While still insisting that we surrender our guns, Democrats have begun defunding and disbanding police departments.  Antifa has boldly announced that it will begin invading the homes of white Americans.  Without guns or police, what are Americans supposed to use to stop anarchists from robbing, raping, and murdering their families?  Harsh language?

Portland bans cops from using loudspeakers to break up George Floyd protests.  The mayor of Oregon's biggest city is forbidding the use of special loudspeakers to break up George Floyd protests — and is expected to ban tear gas, too.  Portland ended a ninth straight day of protests Friday [6/5/2020] in a fog of smoke and ear-splitting sounds — intended to disperse thousands of demonstrators.  Law enforcement officials also threw stun grenades.  Protesters took down a fence outside the downtown jail and threw objects over the fence at officers, according to Portland police and the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office.

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Presumably, the protesters themselves will continue to use bullhorns, even when the police can't.

Washington Post:  Let's cancel all the cop shows on TV.  Writing at the Washington Post, author Alyssa Rosenberg has a unique solution for the problems with our policing:  Cancel all the cop shows on television.  She argues we need to do that because there's a "reactionary streak" behind the "surface liberalism" in these shows.

National Guard Members Look for Place to Stay After DC Mayor Kicks Them Out of Hotel.  Members of the National Guard on Friday were looking for a new place to stay, after D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser ordered that they leave the hotel they were staying at, according to an official.  The city had taken over the Marriott Marquis in downtown Washington, D.C. to use for the National Guard's coronavirus response mission, but many rooms remained vacant, so National Guard members deploying to D.C. as part of the civil unrest mission began staying there.

NBC News Publishes Op-Ed Saying Our American Flag Means Nothing.  NBC News published an op-ed blasting NFL star Drew Brees for criticizing football players who kneel during the national anthem.  The op-ed by Noah Berlatsky goes so far as to say that Brees' "biggest mistake" in defending the American flag was "believing" that it "means anything."  Brees has been hit with an unprecedented amount of backlash this week after simply saying that he does not agree with kneeling during the national anthem.  The New Orleans Saints quarterback said that he views the move as a sign of "disrespect" and shared the story of his military roots.

Poll: 56% Of Americans Believe Police Are Behaving Appropriately Or Not Being Aggressive Enough.  A new NPR-Marist poll found that 56% of Americans believe that the police are behaving appropriately or not being aggressive enough during the nationwide demonstrations after George Floyd's death.  The survey, which was conducted Tuesday through Wednesday, asked 1,062 American adults about police behavior in relation to the protests about George Floyd's death with a margin of error of +/- 4 percentage points.

Police Chief Forced Out After Offering Support For Armed Citizens.  It's hard to believe that we're now at the point where expressing support for a constitutional right can cause a public official to lose their job, but that Orwellian nightmare's come true in Lowell, Michigan, where police chief Steven Bukala was forced to resign just days after expressing his support for armed citizens who decided to patrol the downtown area while legally carrying firearms in an attempt to thwart any looting in the area.  The small town of about 4,000 people is located just a few miles from Grand Rapids, Michigan, where riots resulted in burned out buildings, looted storefronts, and the arrests of at least eight individuals on charges related to rioting or looting.  Shortly after the riots took place, the Lowell police department posted on Facebook about several individuals who were lawfully carrying in the small downtown area in an effort to prevent looting or rioting.

Members of Minneapolis City Council vow to 'dismantle' police department following George Floyd's death.  Minneapolis City Council members are expected to hold an emergency meeting Friday to vote on some of the first changes to the city's police department following the death of George Floyd, with some of the council's members vowing to "dismantle" the police department, according to the Star Tribune.  The council is working with the state's Department of Human Rights on a stipulated restraining order that would require some immediate changes to the police department.  The order would also set up a timeline for an investigation into whether the police department participated in racial discrimination over the last 10 years.

Fleeing The Collapsing Imperium.  [Scroll down]  Meanwhile, in Minneapolis, a white city council member is challenging the people of the city to put up with home invasions and break-ins for the sake of racial change: [Tweet] She, and other members of the city council, say they are going to dismantle the police department.  Not reform it — disband it. [...] If you are a Minneapolis home or business owner, the handwriting is on the wall.

Democrats give DOJ liars and conspirators a free pass.  Over the past few months, the media have subjected the public to a barrage of opinions about lockdowns, infections, and the value of a human life compared with the livelihood required to sustain it.  What qualifies as "common sense" changes by the hour; still, media influencers strictly police challenges to buzzy slogans meant to keep people afraid and at home.  Their cheap moral panic has turned the national discourse into a roulette wheel of grievance and threats that determines at random who is allowed to speak and on what terms.

Going All-In:  Minneapolis City Council Considers Disbanding Entire Police Force.  Once you understand the larger objectives, everything becomes a sequence of predictable events.  The term "community policing" has been used for several years by groups advocating for radical changes to law enforcement; however, behind the innocuous phrase is really a much more serious agenda.  If each community can determine the enforcement of law, then essentially all communities can eliminate the underlying law itself.  Remove local enforcement of law and the local community can independently assemble a social structure separate from all other binding contracts that frame a larger societal compact.

'Abolish the police!'? What happened when a major American city tried that a century ago.  Nothing better reveals the depth of the madness afoot in the land than the demands to defund or completely abolish the police. [...] Fortunately, there is a real-life experiment in complete withdrawal of police protection that occurred a century ago that is available to learn from.  The Boston Police Strike that began September 9, 1919 led to immediate looting and chaos as soon as the sun went down.  In August, Boston police had voted to form a union affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, but ran up against opposition from Boston Police Commissioner Edwin Curtis, backed by Massachusetts Governor Calvin Coolidge.  After attempts at compromise failed, the cops walked off the job at 5:45 PM.  In the language of the day, "hooliganism" broke out, with widespread looting.  The following day, the mayor of Boston asked Governor Coolidge to supply force of state militia, and he agreed.  But in the time it took to raise a force that eventually numbered 5,000, about 3 times the size of the Boston Police, looting increased on September 10, and continued for 9 days until the militia was able to quell it.

John Legend, Natalie Portman Other Celebs Sign Letter to Defund Police.  Singers John Legend and Lizzo, and actresses Natalie Portman and Taraji P. Henson are among the Hollywood celebrities who've signed a letter pushing the defunding all police departments in the wake of the police involved death of Minneapolis man George Floyd.  The open letter claims that in 2017, $194 billion was spent on the police by America's various governments even as police have "continued profiling, harassment, terror and killing of Black communities."

As in the 1960s, violent rioting hurts the most disadvantaged.  "America is burning.  But that's how flowers grow."  So spoke Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey.  "Riots are an integral part of the country's march toward progress."  So read a statement from the Democratic Committee of Fairfax County, Virginia, the affluent Washington suburb that has a population of 1 million.  "Please, show me where it says protesters are supposed to be polite and peaceful," asked CNN's Chris Cuomo.  He's apparently been too busy interviewing his brother, the governor of New York, to reread the First Amendment, which protects "the right of the people peaceably to assemble."  I take a different view.  I know how violent rioting, and that's what we've been seeing, despite media attempts at hiding it, can destroy a city and ruin the lives of its residents.

James Woods Sums Up Democrats' Hypocrisy Regarding Virus Vs.  Riots In One Tweet.  On Wednesday [6/3/2020], having watched rioters and looters burn and pillage through America as Democrat politicians refrained from condemning them, actor James Woods summed up the Democrats' hypocrisy in one tweet, writing, "Democrats were literally arresting Americans for opening their businesses, but now are silent as protesters burn them down.  You were fined for worshipping in your church, but now cheered for marching in screaming crowds."

Seven Thoughts on the Civil War the Other Side Wants So Badly.  [#3] The Democrats refuse to condemn the terror on our streets, but what's more important they refuse to put a stop to it.  This was the message Trump delivered to the nation's governors in a call on Monday [6/1/2020], the meat of which was immediately leaked to the legacy media by the Gretchen Whitmers of the world.  It doesn't appear any of them pushed back on Trump's statements that they ought to be seeking to dominate their own streets and getting those riots in hand.  Instead, they ran to their own friendly media and talked about Trump like he was unhinged when he told them what is obvious to the majority of the country.  And this comes after a full week of rioting, during which it should have become obvious to them that gaining control of their streets was their job well before Trump even got involved.  But what's even more obvious at this point is the current batch of Democrats doesn't want to put a stop to the rioting.

De Blasio 'proud' of daughter Chiara's arrest during George Floyd protests.  Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday [6/1/2020] commented on his daughter's arrest during a Manhattan protest over the police-involved killing of George Floyd, saying that it was a "surprise" to him, but that he's "proud" of her.  De Blasio, speaking during his daily City Hall press briefing, said his 25-year-old daughter, Chiara, did not inform him or first lady Chirlane McCray "of her intention to get arrested" — and he first found out through a press inquiry to his office.

Darkness Falls.  Savagery is spreading with lightning speed across the United States, with murderous assaults on police officers and civilians and the ecstatic annihilation of businesses and symbols of the state. [...] This particular form of viral chaos was inevitable, given the failure of Minneapolis's leaders to quell the city's growing mayhem.  The violence began on Tuesday, May 26, the day after the horrifying arrest and subsequent death of George Floyd.  On the night of Thursday, May 28, Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey ordered the city's Third Police Precinct evacuated as the forces of hatred, distinct from legitimate forms of protest, descended upon it for a third day in a row.  The building was promptly torched, sending a powerful sign that society would not defend its most fundamental institutions of law and order.  On Friday, May 29, Minnesota governor Tim Walz explained his reluctance to mobilize the National Guard as an unwillingness to seem "oppressive."

Now We'll See How the Snowflake Generation Handles the Barbarians.  The modern urban mayor is epitomized by Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, who has chosen not to crack down on the barbarians torching his city, but encourages them to keep the flames hot because "The symbolism of a building cannot outweigh the importance of life."  That laughable, sophomoric statement isn't going to save anyone or any structure.  That building is not a "symbol."  It has value to the person who owns it.  And that's the problem with Frey and the generation of snowflakes who are moving into positions of power and responsibility.  Quite simply, they don't believe in private property.  In fact, they see private property as a genuine evil.  So, of course, it doesn't matter if you burn it.  It's not worth protecting.  We saw this same attitude in Baltimore in 2015 when Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake expressed the notion that protesters should be given space to destroy.

In the History of Congress, the House Democrats' New Proxy Voting Is Radical.  Much of Congress' work takes place off the House or Senate floor.  Committees even hold field hearings around the country, and members spend time in their states or districts.  But since the House and Senate were established in 1789, their members have shown up to take official votes.  No crisis ever has changed that commitment.  Not when the Capitol was burned to the ground during the War of 1812, not the Civil War, not the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, or even the 9/11 terrorist attacks.  Nonetheless, on May 15, the House voted 217-189 to adopt House Resolution 965, which authorizes the speaker to designate a period during which one member may cast a vote for, and even "record the presence of," up to 10 other members.

Apparently, Democrats Really Are Worried about an Economic Rebound.  [A recent] story in Politico will add fuel to the fire to the GOP argument that Democrats are rooting against signs of an economic recovery before November.  Jason Furman, a top economist in the Obama administration and now a professor at Harvard, contends that "we are about to see the best economic data we've seen in the history of this country."  As the country gradually figures out how to function with the coronavirus, the sudden steep drop in economic activity will climb back up again.  In fact, it may be happening already, although it may not show up in economic statistics for a while.  The Wall Street Journal reports:  "Truck loads are growing again.  Air travel and hotel bookings are up slightly.  Mortgage applications are rising.  And more people are applying to open new businesses....  For the first time since the pandemic forced widespread U.S. business closures in March, it appears conditions in some corners of the economy aren't getting worse, and might even be improving."

The Specter of Socialism.  A specter is haunting America — the specter of socialism.  We have gotten a nasty preview of it during the Coronavirus epidemic.  We've experienced empty shelves, food shortages, limits on what you can buy, and also the attack on civil liberties, on freedom of assembly, on religious liberty, on privacy.  So we've endured on a temporary basis what, under socialism, we are likely to endure on a permanent basis.  Yet socialism has somehow entered the mainstream of political debate.  Suddenly, almost out of nowhere, we have these strange socialist characters — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Bernie Sanders — and a whole political party that seems magnetically drawn toward the socialist camp.  This development by itself is surpassingly strange, because socialism is arguably the most discredited idea since slavery.

Democrats Will Sacrifice America to Win a Presidency.  The Dems will not allow any semblance of normalcy to return until Trump and recalcitrant Republicans in the Senate agree to bail out Democrat-run states facing fiscal insolvency.  Democrat socialist policies have left states like California and Illinois with unsustainable pension obligations and exponentially growing deficits too dear for a shrinking tax base to sustain.  Buying votes ain't cheap. [...] Democrat governors, in particular Newsom (Calif.), Pritzker (Ill.), Murphy (N.J.), and Cuomo (N.Y.), are like terrorists, unwilling to release their states from lockdown unless they get their ransom.

Liberals Don't Believe They're Capable Of Doing Anything Wrong.  One thing you notice when having a conversation with a committed liberal is you'd have a more productive and honest discussion with a shoe. [...] You see this manifest itself in reaction to the reaction to the documents exposing how the Obama administration spied on the Trump campaign.  You also see it in the glee from leftists whenever they have the opportunity to report bad news about Hydroxychloroquine.  And we saw it again Friday when Joe Biden casually dropped a racist comment in a radio interview.  None of these people honestly believe they are capable of doing anything wrong because progressives don't believe anything can be wrong when they do it in the name of their agenda.  Lying isn't wrong if it's done in the cause of righteousness.  Theft isn't wrong if it's done for altruistic purposes.  Murder isn't wrong if it's a bad person killed.  Taken to their logical extremes you get the horrors of fascism and communism, but these people refuse to see that.  One person, or a few people, even a lot of people, harmed in the name of the "greater good" is not a tragedy.  It's a statistic.

No Matter Who Biden Picks, His Running Mate Will Be A 'Karen'.  Applying "Karen" as a pejorative is not as fresh as it might seem.  Some uses of the name to describe a spiteful, unpleasant woman go back maybe as far as three decades.  But the name has been more widely used as a cultural meme in recent months.  With apologies to those named Karen but aren't "Karens," a "Karen" in 2020 is, "an entitled, obnoxious, middle-aged white woman," says dictionary.com.  Wikipedia says a Karen "displays aggressive behavior when she is obstructed from getting her way."  She often wants to "speak to the manager" because it's her nature to complain, hector, and rage.  During the pandemic, we've seen Karens all over, screeching and nagging about masks, social distancing (both for and against it and on occasion taking both sides simultaneously), and any conduct she doesn't agree with.  A Karen is a tattletale and a snob, mean girl who got older but didn't grow up.  And her defining traits, bullying, a desire to subjugate others, and rank hypocrisy, fit snugly with progressive-left politics.

Democrats will pay price for hurting the economy in the election.  Democrats have defined themselves as the shutdown party and, in the short term, that has served them well.  The lockdown governors such as Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania and Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan have lofty approval ratings.  The Republican governors who have opened up their states are less popular.  Government power and restrictions have been popular during this time of crisis.  This is what liberals believe in.  In Congress, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has pushed a massive $3 trillion pork barrel spending package through the House that redistributes income to numerous left wing causes, like those overinflated pensions run by blue states, and it does not even pretend to assist the private economy.  This 1,800 page legislation mentions the economy less than five times. [...] Voters will see the chaos in cities led by Democrats, particularly New York and Los Angeles.  They will see people fleeing from blue states in the north to red states in the south, where businesses are treated like assets instead of criminals.  They will realize that Democrats are the party of welfare, high taxes, and more government restrictions on the private economy.

By any means necessary; How low will the left go?  Leftwing terrorist thugs like Antifa shout, bully and physically attack those with whom they disagree.  Their creed expressly includes "by any means necessary."  A radical group calling itself BAMN for "By Any Means Necessary" violently advocates affirmative action and elimination of the border.  Similar groups [exist].  But these fringe groups are not the real peril.  It's the mainstream left, even some mainstream Democrats, who now think they should and must win by any means necessary.  These mainstreamers aren't usually threatening physically, but they are threatening in ways that used to be out of bounds.  An example is the COVID crisis.  At a time when the country should be united in battling a pandemic, many Democrats are consumed with finger-pointing and politicking.

Deliver Us from Evil Democrats.  Despite 30 million Americans losing their jobs, domestic violence and suicides on the rise, Democrats and fake news media are terrifying Americans into believing the lockdown must continue.  These evil people are fully committed to using the coronavirus to stop Trump's reelection.  I scratch my head thinking, "Don't these wacko leftists realize that if they destroy America, their livelihood is destroyed as well?"  Democrats and fake news media's hatred for Trump and his voters and their desire to block him from making America great again, again, overrules logic. [...] Democrats and fake news media will sacrifice America if it means destroying Trump.  These people must be defeated.  Sadly, half the country still does not realize that Democrats and fake news media are tag-team partners in transforming America into a socialist/communist nation.

MSNBC: Americans are so 'freedom obsessed,' they are blinded to threats like virus or climate change.  An MSNBC contributor called out "freedom-obsessed" Americans and their aversion to big government amid the coronavirus pandemic.  Former New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas blamed Americans obsessed with the idea of freedom for creating a vulnerability in the country to threats like climate change, speaking in the topic during an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Wednesday [5/6/2020].

House panel investigating virus response is stuffed with anti-Trump militants.  A new coronavirus oversight panel assembled by House Democrats is being dismissed as the same old attempt to get President Trump, following the failure of impeachment or the Trump-Russia investigation to end his presidency.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently appointed a select committee on the coronavirus, to be chaired by Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina, a key ally of presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden.  The membership was stacked with early advocates of impeaching Trump, including California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters.  Republicans have so far avoided participation.  "A better name for this committee would be 'Committee of Oligarchs to Unelect the President' or 'COUP' for short," said Rep. Louie Gohmert, a Texas Republican.

Biden Enjoys Armed Protection While Fighting to Disarm Americans.  Democrat presidential hopeful Joe Biden is enjoying the benefit of armed protection while campaigning on a platform of disarming his fellow Americans.  On March 17, 2020, Breitbart News reported Biden began receiving Secret Service protection.  Not only does this mean he is surrounded by good guys 24 hours a day, but it also means he is protected with the very guns he is trying to take from average Americans.

The third wave of the left's attempted destruction of America.  We are currently in the third wave of the left's attempts to totally deconstruct America into the image of the leftist utopia.  There is no love of this country or its traditions or its Constitution among the left.  Remaking it into a radical ideological hellhole is leftists' only objective.  The impoverished and criminals are sacrosanct and must be preserved.  They enable the corruption and absolute power the left craves.  Two classes, the rulers and the ruled, constitute the society that the left requires.  This is absolute evil, and it is the way the world has functioned for centuries.  They have history on their side.  America has been the prime exception to this history.  Personal freedom and free markets have made this the greatest economy and the greatest civilization in the history of mankind.  We have defeated fascism and communism.  Without us, the world would be an unbearably horrible place to live.  It is only because we love God and freedom.  That's it.

Democratic Donors Are Terrified About the VP Pick Democratic Voters Actually Want.  A new CBS News poll has Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren running away with the vice-presidential nominating sweepstakes among rank-and-file Democrats.  But big donors to the party are pressuring Joe Biden not to take her on, believing, "He would lose the election."  It's one more indication just how far left the Democratic Party has lurched since 2016.  Bernie Sanders, Warren, Kamala Harris, Beto O'Rourke, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, and the "Squad" have brought radical, transformative, socialist ideas into the mainstream of the party, endangering the Biden's electability.

Bill de Blasio warns New Yorkers that 'the nice weather is very much a threat to us'.  The weather in New York City is going to be quite nice this weekend, which gave Mayor Bill de Blasio another reason to remind citizens about what could get them arrested.

Infamous 'Waitress Sandwich' Senator Chris Dodd Joins Biden's VP Search Committee.  Former U.S. Senator Chris Dodd, who is linked to corporate bailouts, lobbying for Hollywood, and alleged sexual assault of a waitress at a restaurant, is among seven individuals appointed to Joe Biden's Vice Presidential selection task force.  Dodd, the 75-year-old from Connecticut, will be joined by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Del., and former Biden counsel Cynthia Hogan.  Three other appointees will work specifically on vetting chosen candidates; Bob Bauer, husband to former Obama Communications Director Anita Dunn, Obama homeland security advisor Lisa Monaco, and law professor Dana Remus.

Biden and Dodd: a Stupidity Sandwich.  [Scroll down]  Almost 30 years after Bill Clinton's promise of a cabinet "that looks like America," the Democrats' decisions are being made by a 75-year-old prep-school graduate at a white-shoe law firm first elected to federal office in 1974.  I'm sure the Democrats don't need me to be irritated in their behalf, but this seems like an obviously bone-headed move to me.

The left's 'listen to the science' mantra is growing old.  Trump listened and that's the problem.  Our Democrat politicians and the members of the media who show up at those briefings uninformed, aiming only to entrap the President, haven't missed a paycheck or lost a dime.  The millions of small businesses that have been shut down, many of them permanently, do not seem to enter their minds.  They have embraced this virus as though they've won the lottery; it's another crisis they mean to exploit in every way possible.  Their essential talking point?  Blame Trump and claim he is ignoring science.  That they think they are convincing anyone with half a brain would be amusing if it were not so deadly serious.  Oh, they are convincing the uninformed, the headline readers, but our media is well and deservedly loathed by all thinking persons for good reasons.

Left's scornful response amid COVID-19 lockdowns will help re-elect Trump.  You'd think the left would have learned from its boneheaded mistakes after the astounding presidential victory of Donald Trump in 2016.  And boy, would you be wrong.  From Kentucky to Oregon, protests have been staged in recent days by angry Americans sick to distraction of corona lockdown.  Wielding placards and scowls, some of them riding safely in cars — and a tiny few brandishing firearms — they've converged on state capitals and public spaces from Michigan to Montana and New Hampshire to Pennsylvania, anxious to achieve one common goal: getting back to work.

Andrew Cuomo sneers at angry, locked-up out-of-work protestors to 'Get a job as an essential worker'.  [Scroll down]  Triply insulting, actually:  One, he's suggesting they can work but don't want to work, as if every out of work architect, or bus driver, or advertising account executive can jump in and take a job as a doctor, or else clean up cigarette butts on the hospital entryway floors as low skilled labor, neither of which is a serious or practical solution.  Two, he's suggesting that he has all these 'essential' jobs on offer and they're available to everyone who asks.  It's baloney.  Three, he's reminding the protestors that the work they do is unimportant, 'non-essential' as if having a job that pays money is non-essential, at least as determined by him.  How a proverbial advertising executive or plumber staying out of work helps the 'essential workers' from catching the coronavirus is kind of questionable.  Yes, some jobs involve work in close quarters, but the shutdown has pretty well shut down all jobs, as if nobody can adapt to social distancing conditions in some glassy high rise office or shop front store.

The Left Is Taking Pleasure From The Economic Crash.  [Scroll down]  Democrats realized lockdowns could be the transformational crisis they've been pursuing for decades.  There's a reason the lockdowns are being called a "free trial of socialism."  They're crushing the economy.  And this creates the perfect opportunity for the political left to move in and "save" advanced economies in the U.S. and elsewhere with socialist/statist/collectivist policies favored by Democrats.  Free-market capitalism, they'll tell us, just isn't working.  Indefinitely prolonged lockdowns might achieve exactly what Democrats have been attempting to accomplish for decades, that is overwhelm commerce and enterprise with taxes and regulation, claim that market economies have failed, and then set up their version of a socialist paradise.

1984 Comes to Life:  The Cult That Rewrites History — Part Two.  Progressives are not individualists; they seek to form a herd, and status among the collective is established by displaying love of conformity.  Therefore, group-think commitment to the "Accepted Group View" is vitally important to the Left.  You are dealing with people who are very susceptible to methods of controlling thought, behavior and speech.  These are people who are taught from the time they join 'the herd' to self-condition their minds; to believe whatever Big Brother is saying TODAY.  What Big Brother was saying yesterday, a week ago, or [...] a full year ago is irrelevant.  What Big Brother was saying a week or a year ago doesn't help shape the present moment, and doesn't help Big Brother maintain power and influence over public discourse.

Why Trump Will Win the Post-Pandemic Election.  It is by now obvious that the Democrats are determined to exploit the COVID-19 pandemic in a last desperate attempt to get the president.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has launched yet another Trump investigation, said his call to reopen the economy is "sinful," and colluded with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to block the GOP effort to pass financial aid without which even more Americans will lose their jobs.  Meanwhile, the nation's Democratic governors refuse to ease their job-killing lockdowns, despite indications that the spread of COVID-19 has already passed its peak.  The Democrats clearly hope that the resultant recession will cause Trump to lose in November.

Lemons into Lemonade:  Did President Trump Trick Dems into Going 'Full Authoritarian' during Virus Crisis?  As the saying popularly attributed to Napoleon goes:  "Never interfere with your enemy when he is making a mistake."  Like most modern American presidential elections, the 2020 election will be won by securing moderate voters, those who are undecided and not ideologically bound already.  Voters on the fence are unlikely to warm to the manner in which Democrats have used the Bill of Rights to clean their crevices during the toilet paper shortage.  Americans, regardless of political party, do not take kindly to curtailment of civil liberties that affect them directly and immediately.  Case in point:  liberals who went to buy firearms for the first time recently, only to wind up shocked and outraged at how laborious and slow their own party had made the process.  Already, lines at supermarkets seem to have knocked Bernie Sanders' 'friendly socialism' on the head.  Breadlines in theory are quite different from breadlines you actually have to stand in, checking your watch and grumbling.

Why Trump Will Win the Post-Pandemic Election.  It is by now obvious that the Democrats are determined to exploit the COVID-19 pandemic in a last desperate attempt to get the president.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has launched yet another Trump investigation, said his call to reopen the economy is "sinful," and colluded with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to block the GOP effort to pass financial aid without which even more Americans will lose their jobs.  Meanwhile, the nation's Democratic governors refuse to ease their job-killing lockdowns, despite indications that the spread of COVID-19 has already passed its peak.  The Democrats clearly hope that the resultant recession will cause Trump to lose in November.

Democrats introduce legislation to release detainees and stop ICE enforcement.  Democrats are introducing legislation that, if signed into law, would mandate the release of illegal aliens in detention and stop enforcement measures against a large number of aliens living unlawfully in the United States.  New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker and Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal introduced the Federal Immigrant Release for Safety and Security Together (FIRST) Act on Monday [4/13/2020].  While many Democratic members of Congress have urged the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for a rollback of enforcement measures amid the coronavirus pandemic, this bill marks one of the first instances where they are turning such concerns into legislative action.

Beware the Left's 'Degrowth' Movement.  It would be natural to believe that nearly everyone on the planet is horrified by the death and economic destruction wrought from the COVID-19 pandemic.  But some see the body bags and the shutdown of economic production as a weird kind of blessing in disguise.  These are the proponents of a radical and increasingly chic movement on the left called "degrowth."  This is the idea that economic growth and increased prosperity are the root CAUSE of massive ecological destruction and health pandemics.  The agenda is to shut down industrial production and industries like fossil fuels, automobiles and airline travel that contribute to global warming.  COVID-19 and the economy lockdown are seen as a kind of test run for the theory.  For example, professor Natasha Chassagne of the University of Tasmania and a disciple of this movement gushes that "we can draw many lessons and opportunities from the current health crisis when tackling planetary warming."

Over 200,000 Michiganders Sign Petition to Oust Governor Whitmer.  Michigan citizens have been flooding a petition at Change.org calling for the removal of Governor Gretchen Whitmer, accusing her of gross negligence and failures in handling the coronavirus pandemic. [...] Launched three weeks ago by John Powell, the petition has picked up steam in past days following the governor's extension of a stay-at-home order and raising penalties for non-compliance to a $1,000 fine and/or six months in jail.  In just the 24-hour period between Monday and Tuesday, the petition garnered more than 50,000 new signatures as citizens rush to express their displeasure with the governor, bringing the total number of signatories past the 200,000 mark.

'She has lied since day one': Michigan residents fed up with Gretchen Whitmer amid coronavirus crisis.  An online petition to recall Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer gained an additional 60,000 signatures in less than 24 hours as people in the state grow increasingly frustrated with the Democrat's handling of the coronavirus pandemic.  Sitting at 216,000 signatures as of Tuesday morning, the petition accuses Whitmer of deliberately trying to ruin the state's economy and overreacting to the outbreak of the coronavirus in the state.  The petition cites a laundry list of grievances, including "closing and banning various non essential business's and activities while leaving others open.  Further promoting the pandemic."

Auburn mayor's Facebook posts spark outrage; he says it 'has nothing to do with my job'.  A string of recent Facebook posts and comments by Auburn Mayor Bill Kirby criticizing the White House's handling of the coronavirus pandemic and other subjects came to a head Thursday night [4/9/2020].  The posts included profanities and heated exchanges with members of the community.  Kirby angered community members when his recent public Facebook post suggested supporters of President Donald Trump were akin to members of the Ku Klux Klan.  After a screenshot of Kirby's meme was shared in a Facebook group, people began a deep dive on Kirby's personal Facebook post history and uncovered a number of other questionable posts.

Does Liberalism Cause Mental Illness?  The great Zach Goldberg, the youngish Ph.D student who has been quantifying the explosion of "wokeness" in the news media and elsewhere over the last decade, has been looking through the raw data in the Pew Research Center's latest American Trends Panel Survey, and unearthed some interesting findings, which you can see here.  Top line:  liberals are more than twice as likely as conservatives to be found to have a mental health condition.

Virginia Governor Signs Law Ordering 'All Places' Open to Public to Let Transgenders Use Ladies' Rooms.  Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia, a Democrat, signed a law on Good Friday [4/10/2020] prohibiting "all places or businesses offering or holding out to the general public goods, services, privileges, facilities, advantages, or accommodations" from denying access to those things to people 18 years and older based on what the law calls "gender identity."  The law goes on to define "gender identity" as follows:  "The term 'gender identity,' when used in reference to discrimination in the Code and acts of the General Assembly, means the gender-related identity, appearance, or other gender-related characteristics of an individual with or without regard to the individual's designated sex at birth."  In effect, the new law that Northam signed prohibits businesses and other private organizations from denying the use of their ladies' rooms — or locker rooms, or dressing rooms — to adult biological males.

Over 80,000 Sign Online Petition Demanding Recall of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.  A Change.org petition demanding the recall of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) went viral on Saturday [4/11/2020], quickly shooting well past 80,000 signatures.  The online petition had about 60,000 names in the morning and, by the afternoon, had surpassed 80,000.

Democrats seem to be enjoying this authoritarian moment.  In Kentucky, Governor Andy Beshear has announced that if people attend Easter services, the police will photograph their license plates and summarily impose a 14-day quarantine on church attendees.  Governor Beshear is a Democrat.  The Kentucky governor is not alone.  In the city of Louisville, Mayor Greg Fischer has ordered his police department to write down license plate numbers of those who attend Easter services so the attendees can be locked down in quarantine.  Mayor Greg Fischer is a Democrat.  In Greenville, Mississippi, people who sat in their cars, with the windows rolled up, in a church parking lot to listen to their pastor give a sermon on the radio received $500 tickets.  These tickets weren't given just to the driver.  They were given to every person in the car.  Greenville mayor Errick Simmons is a Democrat.

Virginia lawmaker wants unemployment benefits extended to Peace Corps volunteers.  A prominent Virginia Democratic congresswoman is urging labor officials to make Americorp and Peace Corps volunteers eligible for unemployment benefits under the latest coronavirus relief package.  In a letter to Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia, Virginia 10th district representative Jennifer Wexton noted the recent recall of Peace Corps volunteers from the more than 100 countries where it runs programs.

Chicago Mayor Signs Executive Order Giving Coronavirus Benefits To Illegal Aliens.  Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Tuesday signed an executive order ensuring that all immigrants and refugees — including illegal aliens — are eligible to receive the city's coronavirus benefits.  The city of Chicago has launched several programs in order to help residents cope with the financial challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.  Such initiatives include a coronavirus Housing Assistance Grant program, an online resources program for students through the city's public schools, and a $100 million Chicago Small Business Resiliency Fund to help small businesses that are struggling.  Lightfoot's order Tuesday [4/7/2020]will allow illegal aliens to tap into all of these programs.

California governor planning coronavirus aid for illegal immigrants.  California Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state Legislature are working on a coronavirus aid plan for the state's illegal immigrants and others not covered by the federal government's $2.2 trillion relief package.  Newsom, a Democrat, disclosed the plans Tuesday [4/7/2020], according to The Associated Press.  "Californians care deeply about undocumented residents in this state," the governor, a former mayor of San Francisco, said.

Media mystified as America rallies behind President Trump during coronavirus crisis.  For decades, Americans have rallied behind their president in time of crisis, so it's no mystery that President Trump's approval ratings are up.  Except, that is, to anti-Trump obsessives — including much of the media.  "Who Are the Voters Behind Trump's Higher Approval Rating?" a New York Times headline asked last week.  That is:  Who could possibly think he's doing a good job — when no one at the Times does?

Democrats Introduce Measure to Extend Coronavirus Relief Check to Illegal Aliens.  Democrats on Friday introduced a measure to amend the $2 trillion CARES Act, extending the cash payment benefit to non-citizens, including illegal aliens.  Three House Democrats, Reps.  Lou Correa (CA), Judy Chu (CA), and Raúl Grijalva (AZ), introduced the Leave No Taxpayer Behind Act designed to amend the cash payment portion of the CARES Act — the $2 trillion emergency economic relief measure designed to help U.S. citizens who are facing economic hardship caused by the coronavirus pandemic — to extend to non-citizens.

House Democrats introduce bill giving coronavirus aid to illegal immigrants.  House Democrats introduced legislation Friday that would allow illegal immigrants to receive money from the coronavirus relief package.  California Rep. Lou Correa and two other lawmakers introduced the Leave No Taxpayer Behind Act that would amend the $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package, according to the Daily Caller.  "I was appalled to learn hardworking, taxpaying immigrants were left out of the $2 trillion CARES Act," Correa said in a statement Friday [4/3/2020].

Newsom is Giving Emergency Grants to Illegal Alien Small Business Owners.  On Friday [4/3/2020], a reporter from Telemundo asked California's Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom what emergency relief he would be providing for illegal aliens amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.  "No state in America does more to help residents regardless of their immigration status," the governor rightly assured the reporter.  Newsom first bragged about the state's healthcare coverage for illegal aliens before explaining how his administration is now helping illegal alien small business owners obtain grants while a large part of the American economy remains shut down.

President Trump Stands Tall.  The Democrats seem more interested in damaging President Trump politically than they are in taking care of the American people.  Speaker Pelosi tried to attach all kinds of extraneous, irrelevant addenda to the relief bill (support for Planned Parenthood, voting rights modifications intended to make things more favorable to Dems in future elections, money for NPR and the Kennedy Center, etc.), all of which delayed the bill — needlessly — for a week.  As millions of businesses close their doors and tens of millions of Americans lose their jobs, Pelosi and the Democrats continue to look upon the entire situation as nothing more than an opportunity for a power grab.  The bill went through in bi-partisan fashion a week later than it should have, and most, but not all, of the Democratic fat was trimmed out.  But it didn't have to be that way at all.

Democrats risk losing support from America's Hindus.  There is a growing realization in the Hindu American community that Democrats, who present themselves as warriors for social justice, do not believe in justice for Hindus.  They are even willing to whitewash crimes against Hindus in order to appeal to Muslim voters.  These concerns have grown sharply over the last few months.

COVID Confirms It:  Dems Don't Understand Economics.  From Sen. Bernie Sanders demanding that a coronavirus vaccine be free for all and that "profiteering" from it cannot be tolerated, to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who said "if everything we do saves just one life, I'll be happy," when he ordered the state to shut down, Democrats are demonstrating they don't know how an economy works.  This is as dangerous as it is maddening.  Though he is an open socialist, Sanders' rant is typical of most if not nearly all of today's Democrats.  Their view of profit is that it is an evil that must not be allowed.  This is at odds with what we know:  Profits are necessary to human lives.  When profits are not being pursued, an economy can never develop.  We can't all work for non-profit interest groups and expect to move forward.  How Democrats are unable to understand that the potential to earn profits is what drives companies to make lifesaving and life-enhancing drugs, as well as every other good out there, is a modern-day mystery.

Why Are Republicans and Democrats So Divided Over the Coronavirus?  Republicans have everything to lose if they don't get back to work.  We see our business, career, job as our calling in life, our baby.  It is who we are.  Taking that away from us is like death.  Democrats are made up of groups who don't see anything to gain by rushing back to work.  Some of them didn't work before this crisis.  Some are protected by union contracts and union pensions.  Some work for the government — and they have jobs for life.  Some have lived on a welfare check for much of their life.  Some want to be paid bigger checks for being unemployed than for working.  In the end, they feel they can stay home, take no risk and have the government pay them.

Death as a Political Tool.  If you've been paying attention for the last ten years or so in particular, you may have noticed in how many ways political leftists in this country love death.  Not their own, but the deaths of otherwise anonymous American citizens whom they've never met, care nothing about, and clearly consider deserving of sacrifice for their policy objectives. [...] The more people who die from coronavirus, the better the progressives think their chances will be in November.  They can rationalize that they aren't actually killing the victims; the illness is.  But as they seek to create discord and strife between the president and his experts, thereby making his efforts less effective and immediate, they obviously know that time is of the essence.  The longer it takes to get this under complete control, the more people will die, and they will blame Trump.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Upset Cash Relief Does Not Extend to Non-citizens.  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) expressed outrage on Thursday that the cash payment portion of the economic relief package, which the Senate unanimously passed Wednesday night, does not extend to noncitizens.  The Senate unanimously approved of the historic coronavirus emergency relief measure on Wednesday evening after days of partisan battles.  As many Republican leaders have stated, the passed bill remains virtually the same as the original bill Democrats rejected on Sunday.  It provides aid for small businesses, creates a lending aid program, and delivers cash assistance directly into the pockets of American citizens.

Pelosi, Democrats Are in the Business of Destroying American Lives.  Just for a moment, imagine substituting the name 'President Obama' in for 'President Trump.'  The man would have been hailed for a coronation with everything our Commander in Chief is doing to attack this worldwide pandemic.  President Trump is doing everything he can to stunt the spread of the coronavirus and restore confidence in what has been, under his watch, a flourishing economy, including the proposing of a quick and generous stimulus package in the last week.  Instead of supporting what was thought to be a slam-dunk, bipartisan move by the federal government, congressional Democrats are working in their sneaky, cockroach way to exploit the world crisis for their own ideology and agenda.

A Plague of Democratic Partisanship.  An overwhelming majority of Americans are worried about the financial effects of state and local measures imposed to slow the spread of COVID-19, yet the Democrats continue to dither over an economic stimulus bill.  A new Harris poll reveals that 91 percent of Americans are "increasingly concerned" about the economy.  Late Wednesday, the Senate finally passed an emergency relief package but only after overcoming a threat by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders to put a hold on the bill.  House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) says the lower chamber won't take up the measure until Friday, and the Democratic governor of New York has demanded additional allocations for his state before they pass it.  Despite the prominent role played by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) in hammering out the Senate bill, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Wednesday that it would be terrible for his state:  "I spoke to our House congressional delegation this morning, I said to them 'this doesn't do it.'  I understand the Senate theory and the Republican theory but we need the House to make adjustments."

The Moralizing Cuomo Brothers.  Mario Cuomo was given to flowery denunciations on many subjects, but not abortion.  There he would fall silent and simply say that he is "personally opposed" to it.  His sons don't even maintain that conceit.  Andrew and Chris are both personally and publicly supportive of abortion.  Recall Andrew's comment that pro-lifers don't even belong in New York:  "Who are they?  Are they these extreme conservatives who are right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon and anti-gay?  Is that who they are?  Because if that's who they are, and they're the extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York, because that's not who New Yorkers are."

We will remember Dems' stimulus holdup.  [Scroll down]  And then there are the Democrats on Capitol Hill, who took an opportunity to help those economically sideswiped by the outbreak and turned it into a partisan free-for-all.  According to The Hill, more than 200 House Democratic lawmakers held a conference call last week and "laid out a sweeping wish list of provisions" they wanted in the stimulus package, including highway spending and Social Security expansion.  Republicans claimed Democrats in the House were holding up the bill over such items as: collective bargaining power for unions, solar and wind tax credits, forcing airlines to adhere to stricter emissions standards and same-day voter registration.  "Tax credits for solar energy and wind energy.  Provisions to force employers to give special new treatment to Big Labor.  And listen to this — new emissions standards for the airlines.  Are you kidding me?" said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.  They weren't.  And they're only kidding themselves if they think the American people aren't wondering how these pols went from an economic stimulus bill to voter registration.  People are paying attention, especially those who are out of a job because of coronavirus restrictions on businesses.

Democrats Are Really Bad People.  It's not uncommon for must-pass bills to be treated like Christmas trees — with Members of Congress hanging their personal ornaments on it knowing an earmark for their district or state will not be noticed because the bill is so big.  These bills tend to be rushed through, usually in the last minute to fend off a shutdown, where lives are not at risk, so it's an easy game to play.  But Democrats have chosen to play this game with lives at risk, lives they are putting more at risk to win payoffs to their base.  The words necessary to accurately describe how opportunistic and disgusting the behavior of Democrats has been over the third coronavirus bill has been are not fit for a family audience.  Take every four-letter word you can imagine, square it, and create a few new ones and you'll be close to describing people who see one Republican Senator diagnosed with coronavirus and 4 others in self-quarantine because of possible exposure as "leverage."

Coronavirus Unmasks The Worst People In The World.  There are no benefits to the COVID-19 pandemic.  Let's get that out of the way now.  But it has shown many what a few of us already knew:  The political left is filled with the worst people in the world.

Clueless celebs slammed for cringe video promoting world with no borders during pandemic.  The stunningly privileged, wealthy and out-of-touch elitists who comprise Hollywood have reportedly sought to "lighten the mood" as the world burns by serenading America with a communist tune that calls for a world with no borders.  That tune is "Imagine," a ditty written by deceased rock legend John Lennon that he himself once admitted was a virtual rendition of the "Communist Manifesto."  "'Imagine,' which says 'imagine that there was no more religion, no more country, no more politics,' is virtually the 'Communist Manifesto,' even though I'm not particularly a communist and I do not belong to any movement," he once said, according to Far Out magazine.

No American Flags Present Because Democrats Are Running to be President of the World.  If you've watched the Democrat debates, or even just seen pictures, you will have noticed something:  There's not an American flag anywhere in site.  There's a reason for that.  This is because they are globalists first.  They all want to be the President of the United States, but that position is only important to them because it gives them access to American resources and control of the American people.

Joe Biden's Bizarre Outburst Is Everything That Is Wrong With The Democrat Party.  The Democrats are now the party of the Pumpkin IPA-sampling hipster, the woke tech tool, the militant diversity consultant, and the cat-fancying public school teacher whose husband went out to get her some Diet Coke when she was 48 and never came back.  Construction workers, cops, auto builders, truckers, soldiers — you need not apply.  You are not appreciated, much less wanted.  There's no place in the 2020 Democrat Party for real men, men who make things and who break things.  Today, none of the Village People could be a Democrat, not even the Indian — just ask Big Chief Warren.

Bernie's Solution to Full Employment.  The forces of militant ignorance are in motion again.  They are marching with Crazy Bernie Sanders and his spendthrift wife.  They are marching with Congressgirl Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the former bartendress.  They are rousing the drowsy forces of the Occupy Wall Street movement and the drowsy forces of the Occupy Washington movement, who have been recumbent for the past decade.  You remember them.  They were the utopian socialists and parasites who provided so much hope to the left-wing Democrats back in 2011 and 2012.  They slept in parks.  They hassled pedestrians.  They, occasionally, relieved themselves on parked automobiles.  I called them then, and I call them now, the moron vote.  They believed that health care should be free.  They were for free education, especially if, while experiencing the thrill of free education, they did not have to read a book or get out of bed before noon.  They were for a guaranteed annual income.

The Democrat Party By Definition.  To evaluate the Democrats, I am perfectly happy to do so by their own definitions.  First, anyone who calls himself a Democrat must be an extreme racist, for there is not one single person of color left in the race.  If Democrats had supported the people of color with their votes, they would have voted for at least one of them, but I'm sure it broke down on racial lines.  A Democrat must be viciously homophobic.  The one open homosexual they had running has been summarily pushed out of the race and forced to endorse the straight, white guy. [...] The Democrats support cultural appropriation, which is evident by the strong showing of Elizabeth Warren, who appropriated the role of a Native American in order to secure a college scholarship and obtain acceptance to a college. [...] The Democrats must be anti-Semitic, too.  In 2016, they combined to eliminate Bernie Sanders, a Jewish politician, from the nomination.  He admittedly did not have a chance, but that does not erase the anti-Semitism exhibited in the act.

Democrats Desperately Unhappy that America is Doing So Well.  If the goal of the previous administration was to increase poverty and racial tension, hatred of the police and of America, subversion of the rule of law, kicking Israel in the teeth, and making more people dependent on government than ever before, then Voila!  That's exactly what he accomplished.  By that measurement, I will concede that the Obama/Biden Administration was indeed successful.  Many including myself, don't believe the aforementioned outcomes were unintentional.  Nevertheless, Democrats must run against Trump's real and measurable accomplishments to have anything to run on at all.  After less than one term, we have seen a dramatic increase in the GDP, wages and employment, enforcing the rule of law, and in the confidence and prosperity of America.  All of this has been achieved against the backdrop of Democrats illustrating daily, what little regard they have for America and Americans.

Democrats are watching the speeding train head to the washed out bridge.  The party of racial diversity has only white candidates.  The party of youth has only old candidates.  The party's top candidate is an angry, spit-flecked, wild-maned old man who has been a Marxist his entire life, has never held a real job in the private sector, is now hypocritically reveling in the life of a millionaire and can't stop himself from praising grotesque dictators.  And here's the biggest laugh of all:  the Democrat party's only hope is a confused old man whose corruption is oozing into the open only because the Democrats wagered everything on impeaching President Trump.  It's very likely that, if the Democrats hadn't been bound and determined to impeach Trump, Gropey Biden's dirty dealings in Ukraine on behalf of his cocaine-snorting, alcohol-chugging, widow-shtupping, stripper-impregnating, deadbeat-dad son would have stayed in the shadows.

Super Tuesday exposes an age divide, a bad sign for Democrats in the general election.  Super Tuesday results have exposed the dramatic divide among age groups in their support for Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders, which could be a bad sign for Democrats in the general election, no matter who the nominee is.  Simply put:  Exit polls have shown that Biden's surge is being driven by overwhelming support among older voters, while Sanders has dominated among younger voters.

Vegan runner who is 'offended' by the smell of meat is slammed for asking neighbors to show 'empathy' by closing the windows while cooking.  An vegan runner has been given a short shrift after they asked their neighbors not to cook with their windows open because the smell of meat is 'offensive.'  The unnamed jogging-enthusiast, from Berkeley, California, was criticized online after their demand made it on to a Twitter thread by Best of Nextdoor, a Twitter account dedicated to neighbor-on-neighbor pettiness.  The runner, who admitted they found the smell of meat 'overpowering' when they go jogging at dinnertime, asked that their community show 'empathy for their plant-based neighbors' by closing windows while cooking, and only grilling vegetables on the BBQ.

The Editor says...
[#1] Who grills vegetables on a barbecue, in the absence of any meat?  [#2] If you're a one-in-a-thousand weird-o who doesn't eat meat, or doesn't do what normal people do, you're in for a lifetime of perpetual disappointment.  And it's entirely your own fault, so stop whining.

Pew Survey:  The Democrat Party Has a Serious God Problem.  Americans do not consider the leading contenders for the Democrat presidential nomination to be very religious, reveals a new survey from the Pew Research Center. [...] In a similar vein, Catholic League president Bill Donohue noted last October that the Democrat debate has grown openly hostile toward people of faith, which reveals itself in the candidates' severity in dealing with religious freedom issues.  It is clear that "none of the Democratic candidates wants to be tagged as religion-friendly," he declared.  The Democrats' growing antipathy toward religion is most evident in their attacks on "traditional religious exemptions in law," Donohue observed, which have existed since the nation's founding and up until recently were "considered uncontroversial."

'Berkeley of the East' seeks to ban fossil fuels as part of sweeping climate plan.  A small Maryland enclave known as the "Berkeley of the East" has devised a bold climate plan that would ban gas stoves, leaf blowers and water heaters, according to a report.  Liberal Takoma Park's action plan, which would also close gas pipelines and force gas stations to relocate, is designed to eliminate fossil fuels to help save the planet, The Washington Post reports.  The town of 17,000 just outside Washington, D.C., first burnished its liberal credentials nearly four decades ago by declaring itself a "nuclear-free zone."  The non-binding plan is expected to be adopted by Takoma Park's City Council on March 4.  But the Post reports that even in a city where, as one resident put it, "the political spectrum spans Bernie to Warren," there are detractors.

Bernie Sanders may have just lost Florida to President Trump.  Sen. Bernie Sanders, who has cemented his position as the 2020 Democratic primary front-runner, is still defending Fidel Castro, claiming as recently as this weekend that the late communist tyrant was not all that bad.  After all, the Vermont senator explained during a Sunday appearance on CBS's 60 Minutes, the murderous Castro regime had literacy programs.  And just like that, Sanders has made winning Florida and its 29 electoral votes a whole lot more difficult for the Democratic Party.  Anyone who knows anything about Florida politics knows you never, ever defend the regime responsible for why there are so many Cubans in the Sunshine State in the first place.  Yet, here is Bernie Sanders, the man with the clearest path to the Democratic nomination, doing exactly that.

Remember the 'NASCAR Democrats?' Neither do they.  [Scroll down]  But seriously, Democrats, thank you for trying.  For trying to understand normal God-fearing, freedom-loving Americans.  Because there are none of those Democrats left any more.  Democratic politicians today no longer even pretend to like America or American voters.  This is a major reason why Hillary Clinton lost in 2016.  And now they seem hellbent to repeat the same mistake this time.  They have embraced free health care for illegals, socialism, live-birth abortion and open borders.  Oh, and lynch Donald Trump!  Even the great NASCAR Democrat himself, Mark Warner, has fallen in with the Pitchfork Democrats out for the president.  Now their only hope for a sane candidate is that New York billionaire Mike Bloomberg spends enough of his $60 billion fortune to buy the Democrat nomination away from socialist Bernie Sanders.  The phantom "NASCAR Democrats," meanwhile, spent Sunday watching the season kick off with the Daytona 500.  And it was probably tough not to join the deafening cheers as Air Force One — ferrying Mr. Trump and first lady Melania to the race — tipped a wing to the rowdy racetrack as it touched down in Florida.

What Really Makes Democrats and Republicans Different.  The Democratic Party today embraces sharia-compliant females — à la Brooklyn's Linda Sarsour and Minnesota's Ihlan Omar — along with hyper-feminists and LBGT constituencies.  The Democrats also embrace expansive abortion rights and seem to be moving to the point of legalizing abortion up to the minute of birth.  New York State has legalized such a broad definition.  Ironically, Islamic countries and culture are notoriously restrictive with abortion and lethal to any LBGTs who fall into their hands.  So why would practicing Muslims, such as Mmes.  Sarsour and Omar, attach themselves to the Democratic Party?  How do the two of them reconcile Islamic culture's honor killing, repression of sexuality, and mutilation of women with the Democratic Party's acceptance of sexual deviance?  Likewise, how does the Democratic Party reconcile these ladies' embrace of a retrograde creed?

Report: Bernie Sanders Campaign Fears Ocasio-Cortez's Rhetoric Will Alienate Voters in Rust Belt States.  Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I-VT) campaign is reportedly unhappy with the stump speech Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) delivered in Sanders' absence on the campaign trail during the Senate impeachment trial and fears her strong rhetoric could alienate voters in Trump-won battleground states like Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, according to a report from Vanity Fair.  Ocasio-Cortez went on the campaign trail for her candidate in Iowa during the Senate impeachment trial, which kept Sanders locked down in the nation's capital, compromising his ability to campaign in the Hawkeye State ahead of its caucuses.

We are watching the Democratic Party burn up.  They are completely out of touch with the country around them, but they can't tell because they never see or read anything that doesn't reinforce what they are doing.  The best part is, the reason this is happening to them is inherent in who they are; in their world view.  They cannot coexist with an Internet.

Watch: Only 1 Democrat Indicates They Have a Problem With Socialist Being Nominee.  During the ABC News Democrat debate on Friday night, only one Democrat signaled that they had a problem with a socialist becoming the party's nominee to face President Donald Trump in November.  "Is anyone else on the stage concerned about having a democratic socialist at the top of the ticket?" ABC News host George Stephanopoulos asked.  Only Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) raised her hand indicating that she had a problem with it.  [Video clip]

Why Trump Keeps Winning.  [Scroll down]  Gallup goes on to point out that a huge percentage of all major demographic and political subgroups are content with the way their lives are going.  Significantly, this includes Independents, 89 percent of whom declare themselves satisfied.  In other words, most Americans are happy with the quality of their lives.  As long as that continues, Democratic show trials in Congress, tearing up a copy of the SOTU speech, and gratuitous personal slander will have little downside effect on the president's political fortunes.  In fact, according to yet another Gallup poll released Tuesday, his approval rating has now hit an all-time high of 49 percent.  As if to underscore the futility of the Democrats' attempt to oust President Trump, this new peak in his approval rating was reached during his Senate impeachment trial.

The two party system in crisis.  The immediate question facing the Democratic Party is what to do now that the Russian collusion investigation and the impeachment of Donald Trump both failed.  Should they enter into another high stakes confrontation or should they lower the stakes?  Each defeat, however subjectively glorious, exacts a price.  A sufficiently long losing streak can bankrupt any party no matter how much political capital they have.  The Democrat centrist wing is already broke, according to a New York Times op-ed by Elizabeth Breunig.  "The center cannot hold.  Bernie Sanders's strong showing in Iowa is a turning point in the battle between the party's establishment and the left wing."

The Suicide of the Left.  The American Left [...] has become a sewer of petulance, anti-Semitism, racism, socialism, and a Stalinesque political correctness.  This so discredits their candidates for office from the presidency on down, not to mention their allies in institutions ranging from the media to academia and beyond, that they will never be trusted with responsible governance again.  At least not until they stop behaving like a cross between a five-year-old with a temper tantrum (Pelosi), a communist-loving socialist (Sanders), and an identity-politics ideologue determined to divide and judge everyone and everything in America by race and skin color (Ocasio-Cortez and her "Squad").  Meanwhile, a triumphant President Trump, his polls surging after the impeachment witch hunt, the economy roaring, cruises to a potential landslide reelection victory as the Democrats self-immolate.

Democrats have a turnout problem.  The 2020 campaign season is off to an inauspicious start for Democrats.  Iowa's reporting debacle has left Democrats without a clear result in their first nominating contest, sowing suspicions as to whether there will ever be an accurate count.  Things reached an extraordinary point on Thursday, with Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez calling for the Iowa Democratic Party to recanvass its results.  Beyond the counting problems, Sen. Bernie Sanders's rise means Democrats are facing the prospect of running in swing states with a socialist at the top of the ticket.  Either that, or they will have to deny him the nomination in a way that will further inflame his passionate supporters, who already feel the 2016 primary was rigged against them.  But more ominous for Democrats is the mediocre turnout in the first nomination battle, which took place before anybody knew of the counting nightmare to come.

Democrats Sit Quietly As Republicans Cheer Women's Unemployment Numbers.  Democrats sat quietly as Republicans applauded the lowest women's unemployment numbers in years Tuesday night at the State of the Union.  President Donald Trump delivered the State of the Union address to Congress Tuesday night in Washington, D.C., where he said that the unemployment rate under his administration is lower than it has been for any administration in the history of the U.S.

A Week of Political Karma for the Democrats.  Donald Trump couldn't have scripted it better himself:  The Democratic Party's karma knocked them right on the head this week as their countrymen watched in disgust — some, admittedly, in delight.  After three years of deception, gaslighting, and public temper tantrums, these power-hungry partisans finally got their comeuppance.  An assembly of agents provocateurs, motivated by an insatiable amount of contempt not just for the president but for Americans in general, who gambled on a farcical impeachment crusade rather than build a persuasive policy case to win over voters this year, are ranting and pouting and tearing up stuff because... well, because they are losing.  If Nancy Pelosi could have thrown a pacifier from her Capitol high chair Tuesday night, she would have.

Three Glorious Days of Democrat Agony.  [Scroll down]  And then President Trump gave the best State of the Union speech pretty much ever, spending much of it listing real achievements that help real Americans while Nancy Pelosi fumed behind him, offering a running commentary to her invisible friend.  Trump played the Dems like Pete Townsend plays the guitar.  Among the things Trump got them not to applaud for were:
  •   Record low unemployment
  •   Record high stocks
  •   Fair trade
  •   Minority children not being stuck in failing government schools
  •   People fighting cancer
  •   Law enforcement
  •   Our military
  •   Killing terrorists
  •   Not killing babies
  •   America
  •   God
These may have been good looks on college campuses and in communist bookstores, but not so much in the United States.  The speech was masterful, and when Pelosi tore it up, she highlighted just how owned she was for the whole world to see.

SOTU: The unspeakable ungraciousness of the Democrats in Congress.  The American Democrat party has become something it was never meant to be: it has morphed into a radically fascist party of autocrats.  Certainly not all of them fall into this category but those who do not are cowards.  Clearly they are afraid of the tyrants who control the party so they sit quietly by in fear of losing their seats.  As we watched them all refuse to applaud the many successes of this administration and the members of the audience Trump celebrated, we should all realize that these people are not on the side of America or Americans.  As Pelosi so ungraciously ripped up her copy of the speech on camera, she proved, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the Democrat party is no longer pro-American, pro-freedom nor pro-democracy.  This SOTU speech was a transformative moment.  Now we know that only one party represents the American people.

"When the President Talked About 7 Million People Coming Off of Food Stamps — Congressional Democrats Hissed" — Ted Cruz.  Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) joined Sean Hannity following President Trump's historic State of the Union Address on Tuesday night [2/4/2020].  Senator Cruz scowled at the Democrats' behavior during the SOTU Address.  Democrats refused to cheer record unemployment rates, wage gains and foreign policy success.  Ted Cruz told Sean he could hear Democrats hiss the seven million Americans coming off of food stamps.

How rude!
Democratic women get to their feet to shout down Donald Trump on healthcare as divisive State of the Union address becomes a vocal floor battle.  Democratic women rose to their feet and shouted at Donald Trump during his State of the Union address when the president vowed to sign a bill that would lower the cost of prescription drugs.  'Working together, Congress can reduce drug prices substantially from current levels,' Trump asserted during his address Tuesday evening [2/4/2020] from the House Chamber.  'I have been speaking to Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa and others in Congress in order to get something on drug pricing done, and done quickly and properly. [...] This caused an uproar from Democrats, especially from female lawmakers, many of whom were dressed in all white to stand in solidarity with the women who fought in the 20th century suffrage movement.

A Great Night for Trump and the Republicans.  More than anything, the speech was a reminder of what an excellent record the president has to run on in November.  In both domestic and foreign policy, his achievements are essentially unarguable.  This puts the Democrats in a tough spot.  Through the first half of the speech, President Trump reeled off one item of good news after another:  Record low unemployment!  Lowest black unemployment ever!  Lowest Hispanic unemployment ever!  Rising wages, especially at the bottom!  Median net worth skyrocketing!  And so on.  The Democrats greeted all of this with stony silence.  When Trump announced that in the last three years, 10 million people have gotten off welfare, the Democrats looked as though they were ready to cry.  This comes across very poorly, I think.  Would it really cost the Democrats anything to look as though they are happy about a good economy.  I don't think so, but their hatred of the president is so all-consuming that their judgment is warped.

The Democrat Party is in Need of an Old-Fashioned Purge.  The DNC, Obama, and the MSM, after successfully guilting white America into voting for a "historic" (half) Black president who was "articulate and bright and clean", realized they were in trouble after they overwhelmingly lost the House in 2010.  This was the direct result of ramming his unpopular and entirely partisan passed Obamacare down America's collective throat, and resulted in the emergence of the TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party, and other anti-Obama organizations.  Obama, having lost much of the warm and fuzzy good-will that swept him into the presidency, and political capital, made the decision to jettison the idea of appealing to the country's white majority middle class (the people who Hillary Clinton would later describe as an "irredeemable basket of deplorables").  The Dems essentially said they are no longer interested in, nor will they any longer court the white male blue-collar union base that was the strength of the Dem party since FDR.

Project Veritas:  Warren staffer irked by focus on 'identity politics,' says 'this is why we lose'.  It's not easy being a straight male working on Sen. Elizabeth Warren's presidential campaign in Iowa, judging from the latest Project Veritas undercover sting.  In a hidden-camera video released Monday, a man identified as Iowa field organizer Angel Alicea for the Massachusetts senator complained about the office's emphasis on "identity politics" and trans-inclusive pronouns, adding that he was told by another staffer, "You're the only straight [person] here."

Democrats' Total Failure and Utter Humiliation Delights All Real Americans.  [Scroll down]  Let's face it — the Democrats in Congress have zilch to show their constituents next fall except videos of Adam the Anime-eyed Lollipop and Oompa Nadler losing in the Senate.  And their primary is a disaster of epic proportions and it's hilariously funny.  Here's how bad it is:  Beto the Furry fell out and the stupidity/insanity axis actually rose.  Just last week, Chief Sitting Bolshevik assured her baffled audience that she would allow a trans nine-year-old to pick her Secretary of Education.

Dr. Drew Pinsky hits Adam Schiff on homeless crisis in his own district: 'He's asleep at the wheel'.  Senate impeachment trial manager Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., is "asleep at the wheel" when it comes to his own district and is ignoring issues that matter, like the state's homeless crisis, Dr. Drew.  Pinsky said Thursday [1/30/2020].  Appearing on "Fox & Friends" with hosts Steve Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt and Brian Kilmeade, Pinsky said he started thinking that maybe he should run against Schiff because, every day he doesn't do something, three more homeless people die in the county of Los Angeles.  While Pinsky said he is "categorically not running" for Schiff's seat, he couldn't ignore the crisis unfolding in front of him.

Impeachment: Emblem of the Left's One-Step Thinking.  Success in politics has always required vision beyond the latest crisis and thinking beyond one's own most extreme instincts.  For Democrats and the left, a striking inability to accomplish either fundamental task has headed them inexorably toward a ditch.  Impeachment has become the emblem of leftists' shallow, one-step thinking:  We don't approve of, and refuse to accept, the results of an election that placed a despised villain in the highest seat of power.  And so, instead of taking stock of why this happened and formulating the arguments to try and win back the voters who abandoned us and delivered this unspeakable result, we will simply reverse the results of the election by removing Donald Trump from office.  This anti-intellectual approach among the leftist intelligentsia is ironic to its core, for the consistent complaint advanced by the left against the right is that constitutionalism is inherently anti-intellectual.

A fatal flaw in the liberal character.  I think most conservatives live in the moment way better than liberals.  "Liberal" is a sort of umbrella term; it encompasses leftist, progressive, and maniac.  Liberals live in a dimension of only two personal time zones: the present and the near future.  Conservatives consider a third element; we call it the past.  The liberal acknowledges a past that is only a craven reflection of reality; it is full of caricature and devoid of character.  Liberals focus on only two fronts:  what they want right now and what they want ten minutes from now.  It's this lack of self-perspective as part of a long history that restrains a liberal from taking the final step into ease with oneself, a necessary deed if one is to truly empathize with others.

The Democrat candidates live in Never-Neverland.  [T]hese Democrat candidates live by a set of alternative facts of their own invention that have no relation to reality.  They want to re-litigate the Vietnam War, the Iraq war and they seem to think President Trump has delivered us into a war with Iran when the opposite is true.  They all keep asserting that Trump has no strategy!  Of course he does, and anyone paying attention knows what it is.  America first!  Go ahead, be a dictator but don't hurt a hair on an American's head.  Or else.  He's no warmonger; he's brought Iran to its knees, exposed the mullahs as the weaklings they are and who are hanging on to power by a thread.  The Iranian people loathe them and want relief from their oppression.  Trump's tweet of support to them in Farsi was the most re-tweeted Farsi tweet in Twitter history!  What does that tell us?  That Trump has the pulse of the oppressed around the world and they know it.  They love him for his recognition and support.

Democrats Always Choose America's Enemies Over America.  [Scroll down]  Yes, I know it's a proud Democrat tradition stemming back to when your party started, and then ensured the communists won, the Vietnam War.  During the last decades of the Cold War, which the Republicans won, you sided with the Russians — for you younger Democrats, Russians only became bad to Democrats sometime in 2016.  Still today, if there is a Third World USA-hating potentate or terrorist leader, that dirtbag can count on you.

Not One Senate Democrat Joins Resolution Commending U.S. Military For Soleimani's Death.  With the support of 42 other GOP senators, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas introduced a resolution yesterday afternoon [1/9/2020] to commend the president for ordering "successful operations" in Iranian terrorist Qassam Soleimani's death and to honor the members of U.S. military and intelligence agencies who aided in the targeted killing of "a terrorist responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people across the Middle East, including 603 US service members."  Cruz hoped partisan divisions would be sufficiently and temporarily suppressed for the sake of commending the administration for destroying the mastermind behind the world's largest state sponsor of terror.  However, not one Democratic senator could marshal the courage to co-sponsor the resolution with him.

Trump's Iran Policy Isn't the Problem; Barack Obama's Was.  This week, President Donald Trump launched a global round of teeth gnashing when he ordered the killing of the greatest terrorist leader in the modern Middle East, Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani.  Soleimani was unquestionably responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Americans in Iraq and thousands of others throughout the Middle East — mostly Muslim.  His global terror network ran from South America to Europe to Africa to Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Iraq.  Soleimani was an unparalleled organizer and a pitiless murderer.  His death was richly earned.  But for many in the media and on the domestic and international left, Trump's action was precipitously "provocative."

Doug Collins:  Democrats Mourn Suleimani More Than Gold Star Families Who Suffered Because Of Him.  Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA) went off on members of the Democratic Party on Wednesday evening for their response to President Donald Trump killing Iranian terrorist leader Qassim Suleimani, saying that they are "in love with terrorists."  Collins made the remarks on Fox Business's "Lou Dobbs Tonight" with host Lou Dobbs, where the two discussed the recent tensions between the United States and Iran.  "Meanwhile the Democrats are tomorrow talking about constraining his authorities as the commander-in-chief, vis-a-vis Iraq," Dobbs said several minutes in the interview.  "How venal, how vapid can one party become?"

Borderline Treason:  Democrats continue to betray their country.  Democrats and their progressive allies, including in the establishment media, are continuing their "Great Betrayal" of the United States.  They tried to sabotage efforts by President George W. Bush's administration to support the U.S. forces fighting in Iraq against Saddam Hussein and Islamic terrorists.  Now, we are witnessing Democrats, both in Congress and vying to run against President Trump in this year's presidential election, treacherously helping the Iranian regime advance its 40-year war against Americans.  The leftist media is right by their side.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is readying her Democrat-controlled House of Representatives to vote this week on legislation to tie President Trump's hands in dealing with the blood-thirsty Iranian regime.  Speaker Pelosi is peeved that she and her Democrat congressional colleagues were not consulted first before President Trump ordered the killing of Iranian terrorist mastermind Qasem Soleimani late last week.  Too bad.  She should run for president if she wants to become the commander-in-chief.  In any case, she is a hypocrite.

Celebrity Doc Drew Pinsky Mulls Run Against Adam Schiff in California.  Celebrity doctor Drew Pinsky told the Hill Wednesday [1/8/2020] that he may eventually run for "Shifty" Adam Schiff's Democrat House seat because the California congressman has become too obsessed with impeachment to do anything about the people dying in his district.  "I wake up every day and drive through this town and I am morally moved where I feel like I have to do something," said the famed internist, whose full name is David Drew Pinsky.  "I was watching all the impeachment proceedings and I was going, 'Oh my God, our Congress is tied up and we're dying out here in California.  What are these people doing?'" he complained.  "I thought, '[...] I have to run for that office at least just to get him to start participating in the governance of this region.'"

Minuscule Turnout for Anti-Trump D.C. Protest.  Roughly six to seven left-wing activists are "rising up" on Capitol Hill Monday "to urge action to impeach, remove, indict and jail President Trump."  The event, co-hosted by 12 different leftwing groups, is being billed as a "daily gathering," attracting more than 230 Facebook RSVPs, with more than 1.4 thousand additional people "interested."

The Editor says...
It is somewhat interesting that the writer chose to spell out "1.4 thousand" rather than type "1,400."  A later update said, "Breitbart News witnessed approximately 10 more protesters join the uprising around 1:00 p.m. Eastern."  This probably means than an urgent call was placed and some labor union brought in a van filled with mercenary protesters.

U.S. kills world's most wanted terrorist, Democrats side with Iran.  U.S. forces targeted and killed one of the most powerful military leaders in the Islamic Republic in a swift airstrike on Friday.  However, some Democrats, as well as those in the mainstream media, weren't so happy about the news.  [Video clip]

McCrory: Democrats' Attacks on Trump 'Could Almost Be Speaking Points for the Iranian Regime'.  On Sunday's broadcast of NBC's "Meet the Press," former Gov. Pat McCrory (R- NC) argued Democrats' attacks against President Donald Trump after the killing Qasem Soleimani sounded like Iranian talking points.  [Video clip]

Dem Senator Chris Murphy Is a Frequent Speaker at NIAC Council, the Iranian Regime's US Lobby House.  On Thursday the United States killed General Qassim Soleimani, a top commander of Iran's al-Quds Force, in an airstrike at Baghdad's International Airport.  The strike also killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy commander of Iran-backed militias known as the Popular Mobilization Forces.  Seven people were reportedly killed in the airstrike.  Following the death of Commander Soleimani Democrat Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) lashed out at President Trump for assassinating the Iranian al-Quds terrorist leader.

Precision bombings in Iraq Expose the Democrats' Love Affair with Iranian Terrorism.  Precision bombing in Iraq killed the number-one terrorist in the world, far more dangerous to U.S. personnel and interests than Osama bin Laden was when he, a frail, isolated old man, was killed:  Qassem Suleimani. [...] Also killed, according to Iran, were General Hussein Jaafari Naya, Colonel Shahroud Muzaffari Naya, Major Hadi Tarmi, and Captain Waheed Zamanian.  Other reports include Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, an Iraqi paramilitary leader, who attacked American and Western embassies and was the founder of a group responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American soldiers in Iraq.  And there were reports late Friday that Shibi al Zaydi, leader of the PMU (Popular Mobilization Units, Iranbacked militias) was confirmed dead after another U.S. air strike.  Yet another strike eradicated six Shiite militia leaders near Baghdad.

This [is] not your daddy's Democratic Party any more.  [Thread reader]  That party is now completely demented.  Trump just killed the world's #1 terrorist thug after Iran killed yet another American & our embassy in Iraq.  Every top D candidate attacked Trump for it.

Democrats Hate Trump More Than They Hate Terrorists Who Kill Americans.  A U.S. airstrike killed the world's most violent and deadliest terrorist of the last 20 years on Thursday night, but in the eyes of 2020 Democratic candidates and lefty celebrities, the only important takeaway from this American victory is that President Trump is bad.  Trump's authorization of the killing of Iranian Revolutionary Guard terrorist leader Qasem Soleimani is a vindication for the thousands of wounded veterans, many with missing limbs from Soleimani's IED attacks, and the families of U.S. servicemembers Soleimani killed.  Soleimani approved the Tuesday attack on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad and was plotting to kill more Americans.  He was a central connection between Iran and terrorist organizations, including Lebanon's Hezbollah and Palestinian Hamas.  Yet some Democrats find it difficult to celebrate his death.

Congressional Democrats Rush to Side With Islamic Terror Chief.  What an evil party the Democrat Party is.  They don't even hide their contempt for America anymore.  General Soleimani was responsible for the murder of hundreds of Americans in Iraq, and was certainly plotting to kill more.  The Democrats should be applauding President Trump for taking out this butcher.  Instead, they are condemning him.  This reaction is just another reminder as to why no rational American should vote for the deranged Democrats in 2020!

There Is Something Fundamentally Wrong With Democrats.  It's odd how the political left cheers America's shortcomings and mourns its victories.  The United States killed the top terrorist on the planet Thursday, and Democrats were... upset.  Perhaps "upset" is too vague, they were a combination of angry and scared.  They were angry that President Trump ordered an air strike on Qassem Soleimani, a man responsible for the deaths of more than 600 American soldiers and thousands more wounded. [...] Weirdly, the people who use the word "justice" most often saw no justice in the death of a man who's been killing innocent people for their whole lives.  Ilhan Omar reacted the way someone would when their childhood hero passes away, then tried to fundraise off of it because anti-Americanism translates into cash on the left.  Rashida Tlaib warned about a "lawless President recklessly moves us closer to yet another unnecessary war that puts innocent lives at risk."  She expressed no concerns for the innocent lives Soleimani had taken over his career.

Ilhan Omar 'Outraged' Over Soleimani Killing, About 9/11 Not So Much.  The traitor class has been particularly vocal ever since Qasem Soleimani was killed.  The ever-winsome Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) tweeted Friday [1/3/2020]:  "We are outraged the president would assassinate a foreign official, possibly setting off another war without Congressional authorization and has zero plan to deal with the consequences."  Wait, what?  Soleimani was a "foreign official"?  Isn't Ilhan Omar aware that Soleimani was no staid and stolid Iranian "official" sitting bored behind a desk somewhere in Tehran, but was responsible for the deaths of over 600 U.S. soldiers in Iraq?  Yes, she does know, and clearly she doesn't care.

The Left Goes Over the Edge.  [For example,] Tlaib and Omar — This pair has proven inadequate to their mission, which was to make Jihadi terror look normal and all-American, preparatory to a flood of their type entering government on all levels.  Instead, somebody forgot to whitewash their connections to some of the vilest Jihadi outfits on the planet, including Hamas and the Moslem Brotherhood.  Quite apart from that, we have the fact that they're dirty in every other sense as well, with Tlaib awarding herself spare campaign funds and Omar...  Well, she turns out to be that kind of girl that can't touch anything at all without turning it inside out in eight separate dimensions.  At this point, it's not even clear what her name is, or what Somalian murder squad she's actually related to.  The two of them have managed to duck consequences so far, but it's still early days.

Newly-Elected Democrats Let Their Masks Slip, Revealing The Fascists Beneath.  There are no "moderate" Democrats.  All Democrats are dangerous to your life, prosperity and freedom.  They prefer churchgoers die rather than be able to defend themselves.  They want newly-prosperous frackers to learn to code.  They want you jailed for denying the climate cult or the fact that there are men and there are women and there is nothing else.

Greta Thunberg:  A Living Explanation of the Left.  What leftist in history would have ever imagined that to be a leftist, one would have to believe that men give birth or men have periods, or that it is fair to women to have to compete in sports with biological males who identify as females?  There are two primary reasons it is so difficult, if not impossible, to define leftism.  One is that it ultimately stands for chaos:
  •   Open borders.
  •   "Nonbinary" genders.
  •   Nonsensical and scatological "art."
  •   "Music" without tonality, melody or harmony.
  •   Drag Queen Story Hour for 5-year-olds.
  •   Rejection of the concept of better or worse civilizations.
  •   Rejection of the concept of better or worse art.
  •   Removal of Shakespeare's picture from a university English department because he was a white male.
  •   The end of all use of fossil fuels
  •   even in transportation (as per the recent recommendation by the head of the U.N. World Meteorological Organization).
  •   The dismantling of capitalism, the economic engine that has lifted billions of people out of abject poverty.
And much more.  The other major reason it is impossible to define leftism is that it is emotion-based.  Leftism consists of causes that give those who otherwise lack meaning something to cling to for meaning.

Abolish the Police?  The latest call to action from some criminal-justice activists:  "Abolish the police." [...] When I first heard this slogan, I assumed that it was a figure of speech, used to legitimize more expansive criminal-justice reform.  But after reading the academic and activist literature, I realized that "abolish the police" is a concrete policy goal.  The abolitionists want to dismantle municipal police departments and see "police officers disappearing from the streets."  One might dismiss such proclamations as part of a fringe movement, but advocates of these radical views are gaining political momentum in numerous cities.  In Seattle, socialist city council candidate Shaun Scott, who ran on a "police abolition" platform, came within 1,386 votes of winning elected office.  During his campaign, he argued that the city must "[disinvest] from the police state" and "build towards a world where nobody is criminalized for being poor."

Impeachment Celebration will be short-lived.  On impeachment day, the so-called somber attitude of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and her House Democratic colleagues was just a façade.  Pelosi wore black on impeachment day to try to convince Americans that she was "sad" about the proceedings; however, Democrats were downright giddy about impeaching President Trump.  Right after an article of impeachment was passed, House Democrats started cheering. [...] After both articles of impeachment were passed, without a single Republican voting in support, there was no stopping the rejoicing among members of the left-wing media.  Five liberal activists masquerading as journalists from the Washington Post enjoyed a festive meal with pints of beer and spinach dip.

Corrupt Democrats Pushing America toward the Abyss.  The last three years have seen a significant decrease in Democrats' overall power, most notably in the loss of the courts.  Instead of resulting in a moderating push back toward responsibility, the rejection by voters and loss of Democrat power resulted in primal rage and a further breakdown of accountability. [...] One would think a party that saw its political power in decline would tack toward the center instead of running toward insanity.  Democrats' belief in their cultural control and media support has instead resulted in the toxic byproduct of maniacal overreach.

This Time It Is Personal — for Us.  We despise the Left's obsession with Colin Kaepernick and the troglodytic multi-millionaire ingrate lemmings like him.  No Nike athletic shoes or outdoor jackets in our homes and no more NFL football on our TV.  We strongly and enthusiastically support building the Wall.  Why should we not be enthusiastic about sealing off a porous border (i) that allows the smuggling of deadly drugs including opioids that murder tens of thousands annually, (ii) that fails to keep out animals like MS-13, and (iii) that facilitates and even invites the most vile human trafficking in women and children for unspeakable perversions and quasi-enslavement?  We virulently oppose the Democrats' cynical effort to import millions of illegal immigrants so that, having failed for generations to persuade the majority of self-sufficient Americans who live here legally and know the score, they instead seek to change vote outcomes by importing millions whom they know will rely on Democrat welfare programs.  That was their formula in New Mexico and then in flipping California from the Golden State of John Wayne and Reagan to the Homeless State of Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff.

Will Dems Leave Their Irreligious Party?  The average Democrat I know does not believe that infanticide is a right nor do they accept the nonsense that there are more than two genders.  They do not believe that open borders that allow drugs and murderous gangs into our country should be our policy.  Those that have jobs do not approve of their wages taxed to give benefits to those who are here unlawfully.  They are also outraged that children are being subjected to progressive stunts like having drag queens read to them in public while exposing their crotches.  (Don't believe this?  Google it).  They do not approve of grown men being allowed to use women's bathrooms especially when they are being occupied by young girls.  Yet all of that is being pushed by the Democrats running for president in 2020.

Editorial shows why newspapers should die.  Hamiliton wrote, "A well-constituted court for the trial of impeachments is an object not more to be desired than difficult to be obtained in a government wholly elective.  The subjects of its jurisdiction are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust.  They are of a nature which may with peculiar propriety be denominated POLITICAL, as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself.  The prosecution of them, for this reason, will seldom fail to agitate the passions of the whole community, and to divide it into parties more or less friendly or inimical to the accused.  In many cases it will connect itself with the pre-existing factions, and will enlist all their animosities, partialities, influence, and interest on one side or on the other; and in such cases there will always be the greatest danger that the decision will be regulated more by the comparative strength of parties, than by the real demonstrations of innocence or guilt."  In other words, he knew impeachments would be political circuses and he decided to pitch the tent in the Senate, which is the one body of government where every state is equal.  That would prevent Virginia and New York from bullying the rest of the country.  Today, the threats are California and New York.

If you value human life, you must vote for Donald Trump.  I was once much more "progressive" than I appear to be now.  I was pro-choice, and I used to be a leading voice for the "you can't legislate morality" crowd.  But I don't hold that position anymore, for several reasons.  First and foremost, I have concluded that it doesn't make any sense.  I mean this literally.  There is no sense, no logic, no intellectual integrity, or moral consistency in this argument.  Legislation, if it is nothing else, is always based on morality.  Otherwise, there is nothing to legislate, and the entire process becomes meaningless.

All impeachment all the time.  Where does that get you?
Bottom Falls Out as CNN Ratings Hit 3-Year Low.  Far-left CNN, an anti-Trump, pro-violence, racist, fake news outlet that traffics in conspiracy theories, collapsed to a three-year low in the ratings during the week of November 25.

The Anti-Trump Resistance Is Really against the Deplorables.  The impeachment hullabaloo is clearly revealing the Left's virulent hatred of President Donald Trump.  The Trump Derangement Syndrome is blatantly on display for everyone to see, especially among the obnoxious Ivy League law professors featured last week in the media.  What should be equally obvious is that while Trump is the symbol, the real object of the Left's hatred is we — the average Americans whom Hillary called the "deplorables" and "irredeemables," and the ones that Barack Obama claimed "cling to their guns and religion and have antipathy to people who aren't like them."  Our values, our beliefs, our taste in music and food, our very existence offends the Progressives.

Sorry Joe, But It's AOC's Party Now.  [Scroll down]  Two-thirds of Democrats like socialism.  Biden might not think that his party isn't the party of AOC, but to those who call themselves Democrats today, AOC is their standard-bearer.  So why isn't this bigger news?  Why are Republicans routinely depicted as the party of extremists, and not Democrats?  For the simple reason that the press, the entertainment industry, and academia — the forces that shape and direct the national conversation — are far more leftist than they once were.  To them, talk of a government takeover of health care, free college, $40 trillion spending plans, is mainstream.  The more Joe Biden tries to pretend that his party isn't comprised mainly of radical leftists today, the more out of touch he appears.  Not to us.  But to those who identify as Democrats.

The Left Hates The Salvation Army.  That's All You Need to Know About the Left.  We all know some individuals who are so obviously good and kind that we are certain if anyone were to dislike them, that's all we would need to know about the person.  We would immediately assume he or she is a bad person.  To hate the manifestly good is a sure sign of being bad.  Such is the case regarding the left's hatred of The Salvation Army. [...] Yet, leftists — most especially LGBTQ groups, which spread a remarkable amount of hate in the name of "love" — seek to crush The Salvation Army.  They threaten and pressure whoever supports The Salvation Army.

The Inevitable Breakup of the American Left.  What makes up the American Left?  It is not a homogenous entity but an amalgamation of various factions now overwhelmingly dominated by its smallest and most radical element, the avowed Marxist/socialists.  However, the largest group and underpinning of the movement are the credulous, patronizing and narcissistic liberals who in their naiveté believe that the enemy of my enemy, conservatives and Judeo-Christian values, are their friends. [...] The current American mélange of activists and narcissists that began its ascendancy in the Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam War protests of the 1960's is now the dominant force in the nation's culture, education and governing class, with the radical element exercising de facto control of a major political party.

Two reasons why the left hates America.  A Gallup poll shows that while 74% of Republicans are "extremely proud" to be Americans, only 32% of Democrats and 23% of self-described liberals feel the same.  Why does the left hate America? [...] These leftists also would hate France, Canada, Japan or New Zealand if they moved there (as they often threaten to, but never do).  [Indeed], if they and their children were starving in the socialist utopia of Venezuela, they'd hate even that.  Wherever a leftist finds himself, that is where he hates.

Zorro in the White House.  [Scroll down]  One thing about their impeachment fetish:  it confirms what they've been all about from 2016, if not earlier.  They've stopped playing by American rules.  An election means nothing if you don't win it.  Respect for voters means even less.  Sabotage, mendacity, collusion, and insolence pretty much sum up their priorities.  They should be ashamed of themselves, but they long ago forgot what shame is.  So this is where we are.  In a very ugly mess.  If only this were about politics.

The Left Hates Thanksgiving, Gratitude, and Coexistence.  Thanksgiving brings with it three things:  turkey, family, and guides on how to win political fights with family members.  The latest entry in this popular proggie pastime is Lauren Duca of Teen Vogue who not only offers a guide to fighting with your family members, but urges future lonely proggies like her who face a future of hookups followed by cat hoarding, that refusing to fight at the dinner table is racist. [...] The woke crowd understands that niceness is racism.  Now enjoy your turkey.

New Poll Shows Voters Aren't Buying Into the Progressive Sales-Pitch for Socialism.  While soak-the-rich progressives lead the Democratic presidential field, a new poll released Tuesday [11/26/2019] shows voters remain skeptical of their socialist policies.  Just 12 percent of likely voters reported preferring a socialist economic system, according to a new Heartland Institute/Rasmussen poll.  Sixty-nine percent said they preferred "a free-market economic system."  When it came to the 2020 contenders, only 26 percent of likely voters said they would vote for a presidential candidate that identified as a socialist.  Fifty-percent said they would not.

They brought all this trouble upon themselves.
Vanity Fair's Impeachment Data Is Terrible News for Democrats.  The far-left Vanity Fair got its Trump-hating hands on some exclusive impeachment data, and it is all bad news for Democrats and their fellow coup plotters in the media.  The headline reads:  "Polling Suggests Democrats' Impeachment Push Could Alienate Key Voters."  The sub-headline reads:  "Data exclusive to Vanity Fair shows impeachment could be a losing issue for Democrats hoping to recruit Independents in 2020.  'Lots of people who don't like Trump who are still prepared to vote for him,' says one political science expert."

The Democratic Cold War on Christianity [is] Heating Up.  Black and Hispanic Democrats tend to be far more religious than the white Democrats who are driving the party's agenda.  Will this alliance hold as the party increasingly kowtows to vocal anti-Christian Marxists?  Will these voters start to defect as Democrats intensify their open war on people of faith?  These questions arose this week when the sad story emerged that Chick-fil-A would no longer support three mainstream Christian-based charities; the Salvation Army, the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and the Paul Anderson Youth Home, all under the auspices that they are anti-LGBTQ.

Michael Moore: 'I Am the Center.  I Am the Mainstream Now of the Democratic Party'.  Radical-left filmmaker Michael Moore said on an MSNBC panel discussion after the Democratic debate that his views now represent the "center" and "mainstream" of the Democratic Party.  He also said that "The majority of Americans agree with me and Bernie on all the issues," which makes the "center" of the Democratic Party somewhere to the left of Karl Marx.  "Bernie" is, of course, Senator Bernie Sanders, an avowed socialist and one of the top contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Support flips against impeachment as Trump approval rating jumps:  Poll.  A new poll shows support for the impeachment of President Trump has declined since public hearings have started.  The Emerson poll released Thursday [11/22/2019] found support for impeachment has dropped from 48% to 43% since October, while opposition to impeachment has risen from 44% to 45%.  Independents are key in the shift, with 49% opposing impeachment and only 34% supporting impeachment.  In October, 48% of independents supported impeachment and 39% opposed.  The poll also showed Trump's approval rating rising to a net positive.

After the Impeachment.  [Scroll down]  In contrast, the Resistance consists of influential power brokers.  They are the Democrats in the House majority, the media (including mainstream and cable television), Hollywood and entertainment celebrities, Deep State bureaucrats, radical judges/courts, university administrations, faculty and students, Antifa, Black Lives Matter, many liberal church leaders, numerous blog sites like Politico and Huffington Post, along with Drudge, who has gone over to the dark side.  The Resistance has seemingly unlimited resources, including multiple big-pocket funding sources as well as both offensive and defensive weapons they use without compunction:  media attacks, Twitter storms, boycotts, marches, and demonstrations in the streets, physical attacks and intimidation, rioting, and arson. [...] And, perhaps the most important difference is that for the Resistance, politics is their religion, which they live and breathe 24/7.

Pennsylvania Lawmaker Leaves Increasingly 'Purist' Democrat Party, Will Caucus With Republicans.  Pennsylvania State Senator John Yudichak announced on Tuesday [11/19/2019] that he will be switching his political affiliation from Democrat to Independent due to a disconnect with an increasingly leftward-moving party.  "As an Independent, I will continue to put people above politics," Yudichak said in a press release.  "I will continue to support Democratic ideas as well as Republican ideas when it is clear that they serve the greater good and help government work for people rather than the narrow interests of partisan 'purists.'"

Does the Left Hate America?  Here are six reasons to believe the Left hates America: [#1] No one denies that the international Left — the Left in Europe, Asia, Latin America and elsewhere — hates America.  Therefore, in order to argue that American leftists do not hate America, one would have to argue that on one of the most fundamental principles of international leftism — hatred of America — American leftists differ with fellow leftists around the world:  All the world's left hates the U.S., but the American left loves it.  This, of course, makes no sense.  Leftists around the world agree on every important issue.  Why, then, would they differ with regard to America?  Has any leftist at the New York Times, for example, written one column critical of the international Left's anti-Americanism?

Barack Obama and the Behar doctrine.  [Scroll down]  By packaging their hard-left agenda as "sensible," "fair," and "just," they can fool the American people into electing them.  "How we approach (manipulating the American people) will be important."  "Wait until you get elected and then take the guns away."  Wait until you get elected and then take away Americans' freedom of speech, religion, and right of assembly.  Wait until you get elected and then relegate American citizens to a government-run healthcare system.  Wait until you get elected and then open the floodgates on the Southern border.  Wait until you get elected and then do away with the Electoral College, effectively relegating the Presidency to leftist voters in New York and Los Angeles.  Again, make no mistake, Obama is not a moderate.  He still seeks to "fundamentally change" America, only wants Democratic candidates to hide their agenda until elected.

Mazie Hirono exists to prove conservatives right about Democrats.  Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii is a bit like failed 2020 Democratic candidate Beto O'Rourke in that she is living proof that there is at least a grain of truth to even the wildest allegations leveled against the Democratic Party.  "No one is coming for your guns," they said, "that is just a right-wing fantasy."  Then along came O'Rourke.  "Climate change is not a cult," they said.  Then along came Hirono.  The senator told supporters this week that they need to keep protesting so the Democratic Party can continue to be "committed to human rights, environmental rights, climate change — believe in climate change as though it's a religion (it's not, it's science)."  There are two ways to translate Hirono's comments.  You can take her seriously and interpret her words to mean:  We must treat climate change as seriously as people of faith treat religion.  You can also take her literally and interpret her words to mean:  Climate change is a cult and we are proud acolytes.

The Return of the Moron Vote.  It is slowly becoming clearer whom exactly the Democrats are zeroing in on as their key voting bloc for 2020.  It is not the youth vote, contrary to the received opinion. [...] Nor is the union vote likely to be targeted by the Democrats.  The union vote is nowadays relatively small and getting smaller all the time thanks to the Trump economy.  Nor is it the angry women's vote being targeted by the Democrats. [...] So who is it that the Democrats are going to focus on?  In 2020, what voting group will form the most stable, reliable bloc for them?  I think they will go with the core voters they have gone with year in and year out for the last 20 years.  They won the election for them in 2008 and again in 2012.  They will go for the voters whom I have been calling for years the Moron Vote:  that is to say, the voters who believe things that are clearly unbelievable to normal citizens.  In fact, I would say they believe in things that more and more Americans believe are clearly preposterous.

Democrats Hate America.  This won't surprise anyone who has been paying attention, but there is a stark difference between the parties:  Republicans love America, while Democrats can't stand her. [...] If you hate your country, there is a party for you!  You are a Democrat.  If you love your country, you have only one plausible home:  you are a Republican.  Never has this difference been so clear.

Kamala Harris Campaign Collapses Under Perception of Law and Order.  The Black Lives Matter movement that burst on to the scene in 2013 and 2014 poisoned the Democratic Party.  Harris is a delayed casualty.  Any hint of belief in law and order is now the kiss of death in the party.  The Left relentlessly attacks all law enforcers, from policemen to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.  These brave guardians are viewed with suspicion at best and hatred and revulsion at worst.  In a party where up is down, the criminals are celebrated as heroes while courageous defenders are cast as villains.  It is the same trend that has led Democrats to decriminalize many drug and theft crimes in their jurisdictions down to misdemeanors.  The result, to no surprise, is that these types of acts are becoming as common as jaywalking.  Lawlessness is now viewed as a civic virtue.  In some areas of California, you can walk into a Target and help yourself to your favorite DVD or a pair of designer jeans with no threat of being apprehended.

Elizabeth Warren:  Black Trans Women Are the Backbone of Our Democracy.  In case any of you are unfamiliar with this group, Black Womxn is "an organizing collective of leaders, activists, artists, writers, and political strategists from across the country in the fight for Black Liberation.  The last presidential election laid bare what many Black women, gender non-conforming, and non-binary, and queer folk know deeply; that this nation embraces white supremacy and its evils, even at the expense of itself."  Anyway, this organization has just given its endorsement to Sen. Elizabeth Warren.  Which is very nice for Elizabeth and certainly she has to express her gratitude for their vote of confidence.  But she took it a little too far.

Petri-Dish Leftists.  The intellectually ossified limousine liberals of the 1970s have spawned the petri-dish leftist, a more class inclusive but equally obtuse and incurious gaggle of statists.  This genus of regressives never leave the bubble of their leftist environs and salons; consequently, they have few encounters with non-leftist thought and no understanding of it, except perhaps cartoon level caricatures.  All in life is viewed through the intellectual prison that is the woke-broke prism of Leftist ideology.

Mark Halperin's 'How to Beat Trump' Sells 502 Copies in First Week.  Published Oct. 29 by Regan Arts, How to Beat Trump compiles comments from such Democratic strategists as Donna Brazile, David Axelrod and James Carville.  News of the book in August was met with widespread criticism, with the major networks saying they would not interview Halperin and even some of the book's contributors distancing themselves.

The Editor says...
The only way this book could be more useless would be if Hillary Clinton had written it.

How Did Democrats Get Here?  The ginned up hysteria over Trump's election has grown with Trump's triumphant successes with the economy and national security.  The Democrats' motivation for the fake impeachment crisis is obvious — they have no platform and no candidate that gives them a path to the White House.  What is less obvious is why three years of ugly, crude propaganda, threatened and actual violence, wearisome agitation and lies is playing so well to previously normal Democrats.  The Democrat Party has veered far left very fast, without any pushback from within the party.  Their voters have turned, seemingly overnight, from normal American citizens to a deranged mob after Trump's blood.

The Number of Democrats Showing Up at Trump Rallies Is Stunning.  On Sunday night [11/3/2019], Trump's campaign manager, Brad Parscale, released some very surprising data guaranteed to send a shiver up Democrats' spines.  Of the 16,432 voters who provided data, 27% were Democrats.  The significance of this is monumental.  I wonder what the percentage of Republicans attending Democratic rallies is.  I imagine it would be low to nil.  This tells us that a certain percentage of Democrats are looking at the weak field of candidates and are searching for an alternative.  I would guess many of them are turned off by the injustice of the current impeachment inquiry as well as the party's sharp left turn.  It might surprise Democrats to hear that not every Democrat supports impeachment or the vision of a socialist America.

Nancy Pelosi Worried 2020 Democrats Are Going Too Far Left.  Nancy Pelosi, who opened up an impeachment inquiry of Donald Trump in response to pressure from the far-left base of her party, has issued a warning to the Democrats running for president:  far-left proposals like Medicare for All and wealth taxes won't help them defeat Trump in 2020.  "What works in San Francisco does not necessarily work in Michigan.  What works in Michigan works in San Francisco — talking about workers' rights and sharing prosperity," she said at a Bloomberg News roundtable on Friday [11/1/2019].  "Remember November.  You must win the Electoral College." [...] She also warned about supporting the Green New Deal.  "There's very strong opposition on the labor side to the Green New Deal because it's like 10 years, no more fossil fuel.  Really?" she said.  Interestingly enough, Joe Biden caved to pressure and embraced the plan, despite the fact that he's supposed to be the "centrist" alternative to the crazies.

Latin loving quid-pro-quo lefties need to be fair to Trump.  When considering the apparatus of our government, the founders favored a distribution of power similar to that of the Roman Republic.  Benjamin Franklin captured their admiration of the early republic's virtue and its representative nature when responding to a question about what the constitutional delegates had crafted:  "A republic, if you can keep it."  Distressingly, the Dems don't want to keep it.

Kanye West's Conversion Could Be a Cultural Wrecking Ball.  Throughout the whole of [his] new album, [Kanye] West is in many respects deeply critical of modernity and cultural progressivism.  There are calls for a focus more on the family than on individual glory.  He seems to applaud Chick-fil-A, which in our age is tantamount to endorsing bigotry.  Social-media obsession should be exchanged for family prayer.  Fatherhood is characterized as a virtue.  Materialism is pilloried.  Calls for worshiping Christ redound to such effect that West's first Christian album is arguably more Christian than what most contemporary Christian artists could similarly muster.  But in the media rollout of West's album, it's worth paying attention to other statements he's made.  He's criticized abortion and believes that the African-American community is getting played by Democrats.

Why Republicans oppose impeachment:  Trump is even more popular with his base than Obama was.  Any effort to remove President Trump from office through the impeachment process is going to come up against a brick wall in the Senate, where 20 Republicans would have to defect to oust him.  That is likely to remain the case no matter what revelations come out of the Democrats' investigation for the simple reason that Trump remains extremely popular among the party's base — more so than even Barack Obama was at a similar point in his presidency.  Though the most recent Gallup poll finds Trump's approval rating down at just 39% among the adult population, among Republicans his approval rating is 87%.  At the comparable point in his presidency, Obama's performance won the approval of 77% of Democrats.

Trump vs. the barbarians at the gates.  American progressives, beginning with Woodrow Wilson, set out to destroy America as founded to undo the Constitution and to make the US into a totalitarian creation not unlike Mao's China, Stalin's Soviet Union, Castro's Cuba, Chavez' and Maduro's Venezuela. [...] The Left does mean to purposefully obliterate the cultural values that made this nation great.  They do mean to indoctrinate our young people with the myth of transgenderism, sacrificing the futures of countless children in the process.  They do mean to implement control over every aspect of our lives via the shallow myth of climate alarmism by instilling fear in the young.  They willfully intend to impose their socialist, soon-to-be communist globalism on us all.  That's their plan and they are sticking to it, no matter how obvious it becomes that Americans are not on board.

We need to fight for the values that made America great.  The left railed against our soldiers during the Vietnam War.  The left calls those who believe in a supreme being or the commitment of marriage uninformed and anachronistic.  They're now openly saying that churches that hold traditional values should lose their tax-exempt status.  The Left doesn't care about our enormous debt, pushes for socialism, and criticizes the Boy Scouts.  The Left thinks it's OK that our schools don't teach about the founding fathers or free markets.  They want you to think America was never great.  To a degree, the pressure from the Left is working.  Americans under 30 are less interested in joining the military.  Church attendance is at an all-time-low, participation in the Boy Scouts, even after allowing girls in, has shrunk, and many are choosing not to have families.  Socialism, the single most discredited idea of the last century, an idea that led millions into poverty and tyranny around the globe, has gained a foothold in one of our two political parties.

Washington Parish Sheriff Cites Second Amendment, Leaves Democrat Party.  Washington Parish is a rural parish of about 47,000 population in Louisiana.  The rural parish elections have been trending conservative; they have been gradually moving from traditional Democrat to Republican. [...] Sheriff Randy Seal was correct when he said the Democrat party left him.  There is no issue where this is more clear than on support for the Second Amendment.

AP-NORC poll:  Most Americans oppose reparations for slavery.  Few Americans are in favor of giving reparations to descendants of enslaved black people in the United States, a poll shows, even as the idea has gained momentum among Democratic presidential contenders.

California's legal weed profits going up in smoke.  Legal marijuana in California as a business was supposed to be a no-brainer.  How could it not be profitable in a liberal state pushing 40 million residents where some of the best weed in the world has been grown for decades?  But nearly three years after Proposition 64, the law legalizing the adult use of the drug, was passed, California cannabis producers are not seeing the windfalls predicted. [...] The California law gives local governments the right to regulate the pot shops so towns can prohibit them.  A whopping 80% of the state's towns and cities have turned legal pot shops down.

Insider Democrat 2020 fears chronicled by a sympathizer.  [Scroll down]  Today, Democrats rely on wealthy and prosperous professionals and dissatisfied minorities, whom the[y] court with preferences.  And they fear those left behind to whom they offer no identity group preferences (aka, white males) being roused from their alienation and turning out to support the many who champions their interests.  This makes me wonder if the usual suspects such as "Rock the Vote" will be quite as active in 2020 as they have been in the past, when turnout drives traditionally have benefitted Democrats.

Imagining Donald Trump's Future for America.  Anyone who thinks President Trump's victory is inevitable in 2020 is not paying attention.  The entire weight of America's profiteering elites is arrayed against him.  But what if he wins anyway?  What if enough voters realize they're being conned by the Democrats?  What if enough voters decide they don't want to feel like unwanted usurpers in their own nation?  What if men and women of all ethnicities realize that despite the unrelenting avalanche of lies coming from the Left, America is a welcoming and inclusive nation and that the only way a society can stay healthy is by rewarding personal initiative?

Booker: We Have to Conduct Impeachment in a Way 'That Brings Our Country Together'.  Impeachment as a way to bring the country together?  That's what Sen. Cory Booker said at Tuesday night's debate:  "So first of all, we must be fair," Booker said. [...] Booker's call for a "fair" process will get a rousing endorsement from House Republicans, who say the secretive and closed-door proceedings being run by House intelligence committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) are anything but fair.  South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg said Trump "has left the Congress with no choice" but to impeach him.

The Editor says...
The Democrat platform includes open borders, Obamacare, windmills and solar panels everywhere, high taxes, gun confiscation, homosexuality, atheism, activist judges, racial discrimination in the form of "affirmative action," one-part socialist government, and above all, abortion.  No part of the Democrat platform "brings our country together."

Ohio Swing Voters Outraged at Democrats' Lawless Impeachment Attempt.  They may not know it and they may not care but the lawless Democrats are losing swing voters with their latest impeachment attempt.  Democrats are hoping to impeach President Trump for making a call to the leader of Ukraine.  The entire process has been a lawless attempt to nullify the 2016 election.

The time has come for President Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act.  The lunatic, lawless Left is out of control.  The corporate-run media has become a CIA propaganda front that ignores reality while fabricating fake stories to destroy America.  The tech giants despise free speech for conservatives while demanding "equality" for transgenders.  And left-wing governors and mayors are openly advocating Antifa-style lawlessness and violence in America, as long as that violence is directed at conservatives and Trump supporters.

Nearly Hidden in Elizabeth Warren's Workers Plan:  A Vow to Give Back Pay to Illegal Aliens.  Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), currently the leading 2020 Democratic presidential candidate in many polls, has pledged to "fight" for illegal immigrants to be given back pay.  Many Americans may not realize this point, however — because this key detail in her "Empowering American Workers and Raising Wages" plan — which she released on October 3 — hasn't gotten much attention in the mainstream media.  The Warren workers plan declares that illegal immigrants will be eligible to receive back pay for previous work they did in the United States — and the progressive senator is apparently determined to make this happen by amending the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).

Catholic League Decries Democrats' Growing Hostility Toward Religion.  One message resounding loudly and clearly from the latest televised Democrat debate is how hostile the party has become toward people of faith, Catholic League President Bill Donohue said on Friday [10/11/2019].  According to Dr. Donohue, the Democrat candidates "fail the religion test" for falling over themselves trying to prove who is the most severe in dealing with religious freedom issues.

Republican Versus Democratic Occupations.  [Scroll down]  For example, sculptors, yoga instructors, floral designers, environmentalists, librarians, social workers, activists (that's actually a job title?), comedians and professional poker players don't just veer left, they are absolutely and unswervingly full-steam ahead leftists.  These people slop at the government trough in industries like academic administration, social science, "research," union organization, art, education and media production.  Notably, mental health professions are overwhelmingly dominated by Democrats, as the anti-Trump zealots require much more therapy than a faddish calmness app provides. [...] Human Resource executives are also firmly entrenched in the liberal quagmire.  In fact, their encouragement of victimhood does a disservice to the increasing numbers who teeter on the cusp of madness.

Nine Democrat Presidential Candidates Taking Part in LGBT Town Hall Marathon.  CNN and the gay rights advocacy group Human Rights Campaign (HRC) are hosting a marathon town hall with nine Democrat presidential candidates on Thursday in Los Angeles from 7:30 p.m. until midnight.  "The town hall, which will take place on the eve of National Coming Out Day, will mark the first time in history that a major cable news network will air a presidential event devoted to LGBTQ issues," the HRC website states of the event.

There is No Middle Ground with Today's Democrats or the Deep State.  Like a child with a box of matches, deranged Democrats seem to think they have their hands on a good idea.  Their thinking goes something like this:  "If we can't be in control, let's burn it all down, destroy norms, throw an epic political tantrum, hold the American people hostage!  That'll show the irredeemable deplorables to question their betters!"  The Democrats' sycophant propagandists in the corporate leftist media are barking and clapping away like circus seals, cheering them on.  Both sets of deranged people appear perplexed, however, that outside of their bubble within the Acela corridor people in real America, as Politico chronicled, think the idea of impeachment is absurd.  The corporate leftist media's reaction, from Chuck Todd's meltdown over the weekend to the Politico piece, is one of shock and disgust that people are not listening to their enlightened masters on this matter.

Poll: 'Transgender' Men Ads Lead to 8-Point Voter Swing to Republican Matt Bevin from Democrat Andy Beshear.  A conservative group notes polling data shows an eight-point swing in voters' shift to incumbent GOP Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin from Democrat candidate Andy Beshear after they view ads highlighting Beshear's support of biological men competing in women's sports.

The no civil war left behind act.  Why is it always foreigners who manage to unite all the politicians from both parties in Washington?  Illegal aliens — I mean "Dreamers."  Haitian boat people.  Olde Europeans.  Sudanese.  And now the Kurds.  It is never support for regular Americans that brings politicians from both parties together.  Even military veterans seem to offend half the politicians in Washington.  Democrats in Congress would give illegal aliens free health care before they would give it to our wounded veterans.  And don't get me wrong.  I've got nothing against the Kurds.  They seem like great people.  Brave, hardworking — a considerable step up from your average American college student today.  And they seem to be truly trying to shake off the yoke of tyranny, which at least half of Americans support.  But why do politicians drop everything they should be working on and come together to do something only for the "Dreamers," who, again, are illegal aliens?  Or for the Kurds?

MIT Researcher:  Swing Voters Repelled by 2020 Democrats' Medicare for All, Open Borders Agenda.  Swing voters are repelled by leftist policies from healthcare to immigration that 2020 Democrat presidential primary candidates have endorsed, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) reveals.  MIT researcher Alexander Agadjanian published his latest research in the New York Times, where he revealed that swing voters likely are six percentage points less likely to vote for a Democrat against President Trump in the 2020 election after learning of the leftist policy positions they have embraced.

Trump's Godfather moment.  I have never seen anything like the apparently crazed condition of Democrats.  I have watched players in World War II, the Korean War, the Berlin Airlift, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Israeli wars, the Cold War, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, and all the rest of it.  But never have I seen anything as wild and incoherent as the current Democrat stampede.  To me, it's a headlong rush to somehow Impeach Donald Trump — by an uncontrolled run to the left.  Any new "bombshell" seems welcome.  Any new accusation is instantly worked globally into the Democrat narrative.  Anything that seems derogatory.  Anything negative.  The wilder, the better.

New York Times Kavanaugh book bombs, just 3,120 sold, Amazon rank #6,795.  The latest book on Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a critical biography from two New York Times reporters that made new sexual assault charges that were immediately undermined, has suffered an epic sales crash, according to publishing insiders.  Expected to sell at least 10,000-12,000 in the first two weeks and propel The Education of Brett Kavanaugh:  An Investigation onto the newspaper's bestseller hardcover list, it has sold about a third of that in the first two weeks.  A publishing source provided the latest BookScan numbers, which can account for about 80% of sales.  That number is 3,120.  "If you add in ebooks — they may have sold a total of 4,000.  That's one of the most epic bombs in political publishing over the past decade," said the source.

Tourist-Shaming: A Snobby Way to Save the Planet.  More people are pursuing new experiences, broadening their horizons, reveling in nature's splendor, and familiarizing themselves with the world's cultures than ever before.  But to environmentalists, these figures bring displeasure.  Emissions from aviation have spiked to an almost incomprehensible volume.  Worldwide, flights produced 895 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2018.  To the upper-crust jet set, these figures bring discomfort.

The Editor says...
Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant.  Thousands of people have very good jobs in the airline industry.  Thousands of others make a little money every month after having invested in airline stocks.  Air travel does not wreck the earth.

The Dems are doomed.  After nearly three years since Trump's inauguration, Democrats have finally mustered up the courage to go full throttle into impeachment mode, proceeding from the president's whistleblower-stricken phone call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.  Zelensky stated at a press conference with Trump that when in talks with the president over Hunter and Joe Biden's Ukrainian scandal, he felt no pressure as it relates to United States aid to Ukraine.  Despite this overwhelmingly important factor, Democrats are proceeding full force with impeachment — and it couldn't be better for the president.  If the economy didn't seal it for the "on the fence" soccer moms, the humiliation of Democrats cannibalizing themselves with impeachment would flip voters like clockwork.

Democrats Have Given Up on the Common Good.  Joe Biden has had a hard few weeks. [...] Speaking recently at an LGBT event, the former vice president told the audience, "In prison the determination should be that your sexual identity is defined by what you say it is, not what in fact the prison says it is."  Put another way, Biden came out in favor of housing male convicts with women.  Watching Biden grovel before the woke mob is rather sad, but it's also telling about the evolving priorities of his party.  With practically the sole exception being healthcare, Democrats have given up on even trying to look like they care about issues that touch on the national interest or broadly shared concerns of ordinary Americans.  The liberal elite that funds their campaigns and televises their phony "debates" has lost all connection with the common good.

Democrats' Campaign Promise:  We'll Destroy America's Energy Sector, And Economy.  Eight of the remaining Democratic presidential candidates say they want to ban fracking.  Eleven others would limit the process or "regulate it better," says the Washington Post.  Could these politicians possibly be that ignorant of how ruinous their prohibition lust would be in the real world?  First, let's get it straight why the political left hates hydraulic fracturing.  It's not because it's an environmental threat.  They know it's clean process and has been both an ecological and economic boom, in no small part due to the increased production of natural gas, a cleaner alternative to coal for producing electricity.  No, the left loathes fracking because it is so efficient in taking fossil fuel out of the ground.

Another Trump hoax or a real investigation leading to impeachment?  The majority of Americans still do not favor impeachment.  However, more than two-thirds of Democrats do.  There are several reasons, however, to believe that this picture is incomplete and could change.  Impeachment hoax or not, there are three logical defenses for allegations from last weeks first impeachment hearing.

Democrat Censured for Voting with Trump 19% of the Time.  Bipartisanship Is Dead.  One of the more interesting news items this week was the revelation that Arizona Democrats were considering a censure vote against Senator Kyrsten Sinema for being too pro-Trump.  Apparently, voting against the president 81% of the time constitutes being a raging right-wing reprobate in today's liberal hive mind.

Adam Schiff, the Lady Macbeth of the House.  There are numerous people in Congress who should not be there for a variety of reasons:  ignorance, incompetence, uncompromising partisanship, lack of patriotism, a dark heart full of hate, and sheer moonbattery.  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, for example, is shockingly ignorant of American history, basic economics, and essential science.  Rep. Hank Johnson worried some years ago that the island of Guam might "tip over" because most of the population was on one side of it.  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, while watching the Mars Rover on Mars, asked where the flag that had been planted on the moon in 1969 was.  It is a long list, and it would be hilarious if such things were not actually spoken by people elected to represent their portion of America's citizens. [...] When one considers the countless crazy utterances of Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, and Elizabeth "Fauxcahontas" Warren, we enter new and nuttier territory.

The Democratic Party is still Barack Obama's party.  In the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, a whopping 78 percent of Democratic primary voters said they were satisfied that Obama's presidency did as much as was possible at the time in addressing the issues facing the country.  That's compared with 20 percent who said they were NOT satisfied, because more should have been done.  Even among self-described liberal Democrats in the poll, the numbers are essentially the same — 79 percent satisfied, 20 percent dissatisfied.

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Obama's favorable ratings are largely due to media bias in his favor:  Obama's admirers are probably unaware of his many scandals, bad decisions, and lies.

Censure Vote Against Kyrsten Sinema Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things.  Yesterday [9/18/2019], Arizona Republic reported that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) "is facing a censure vote from the Arizona Democratic Party," whose farthest left members feel Sinema has been too acquiescent toward President Trump's policies.  Dan O'Neal, the state coordinator of Progressive Democrats of America, claims Sinema has abandoned the Democratic stances she supposedly ran on.  Sinema was elected senator of Arizona in 2018, replacing Jeff Flake and defeating Republican candidate Martha McSally.  According to Arizona Republic, Sinema's voting record indicates that, while in the House (where she served from 2013 to 2018), Sinema opposed Trump's agenda 81 percent of the time; in the Senate, 46 percent of the time.  The Democrats cite, among other things, her vote to confirm Attorney General William Barr and her unwillingness to revive "net neutrality" rules as spots of contention.

Just as Iowa veers toward the Democrats, California comes to the rescue — for Trump.  California doesn't respect the laboratory of the states, let alone state sovereignty, at least from other states, so the people running the state have chosen now to make Iowa their target.  They're not only bigger, they're socialist, and socialism has always been about controlling others.  They just did it at about the worst time they possibly could have done it — when Iowa was swinging leftward.  That amounts to a gift to Trump, reminding Iowans what they are dealing with as they sign on with Democrats.  With enemies like this, President Trump doesn't need friends.

Jerry Nadler's Troubling History.  [Scroll down]  Even though Nadler had approved the FALN clemencies, his involvement with aiding the release of dangerous and deadly terrorists would be even more direct and hands on, and it would involve Susan Rosenberg and Judith Clark, [...] Rosenberg continued her major terrorist activity after her escape.  She was finally caught in 1984, hauling 730 pounds of bombs and several illegal weapons, and some of the cache of bombs had been used in several bombings in New York and Washington, including one at the Capitol in 1983, which did severe damage to the historic building.  In 1994, when Rosenberg was first up for parole, Nadler sent a letter to the New York Parole Board recommending her release, which they rejected.  As Bill Clinton's term was ending in 2001, Nadler made a direct pitch to him, and Rosenberg was freed in Clinton's final 15 minutes in office that January.  She now publicly praises other terrorists and murderers and also advocates for all prisons to be abolished.

Fans boo US Armed Forces enlistees for promising to obey President Trump's orders.  Soccer fans booed U.S. Armed Forces enlistees this week at a swearing-in ceremony that took place at a match between the Portland Thorns and the North Carolina Courage.  The fans were booing the fact that the enlistees had to at one point pledge to follow the orders of their commander-in-chief, President Donald Trump.  Agreeing to follow the orders of the president, by the way, is part of every swearing-in ceremony for every man or woman who joins the U.S. Armed Forces.

Climate Change and the Democrats.  Dream up a problem such as Climate Change, and I will guarantee you that it will be years before Climate Change is solved by technology.  Though when I ponder some of the solutions now being offered for Climate Change, it might be worth the wait.  Consider Congressgirl Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.  She has dreamed up a vast scheme.  She calls it the Green New Deal.  It envisages all our homes and office buildings and even factories being revised and rebuilt according to her green code.  Others are more moderate.  They would only wipe out the commercial airline industry, though the automobile industry could be next.  Already there is an ambitious plan afoot in our country to end the life of the plastic straw.  Oh, yes, there is another problem with Climate Change.  It is not a winning issue with the electorate.

Tlaib Calls for a 'Political Revolution' and Complete Transformation of Political System.  Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) called for a "political revolution" in America and expressed her desire to "completely transform" the U.S. political and economic system in a tweet posted Saturday [9/7/2019].

Dem Rep. Clyburn: 'Not Too Sure' the Bill of Rights Would Pass Today.  Sunday on MSNBC, House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) wondered if the Bill of Rights would pass in today's "climate."  Clyburn said based off of conversations he has all the time, he believes there would be "strong support against the Bill of Rights" among people who would like to see many of the guarantees "uprooted."

'Gasland' Filmmaker Has a Problem — and It Spells Trouble for Dem Presidential Candidates.  The filmmaker and activist Josh Fox has a problem.  And it's a problem that spells serious trouble for the dozens of Democratic candidates running for president.  Josh Fox is the self-proclaimed leader of a "grassroots" movement to "reclaim our country" and has been acclaimed by Hollywood elites for years.  He has won an Emmy, been nominated for an Oscar and three of his documentaries have been broadcast on HBO.  These documentaries included two "Gasland" anti-fracking films and a climate apocalypse movie.  If you believe Josh Fox and the media, these films are important and timely, reflecting grassroots concerns.  But Josh Fox has very publicly discovered that the grassroots really don't want to follow him or his ideas.

Adios, Think Progress.  Not too many years ago, Think Progress, the web site operated by the Center for American Progress, was one of the most prominent left-wing destinations on the web.  But more recently its traffic has declined and it has consistently lost money.  CAP tried to find a buyer for Think Progress, but apparently no one was interested in the money-sucking site, and now CAP has shut it down.

Progressive Website ThinkProgress Is Shutting Down Because Nobody Wants To Buy It.  ThinkProgress, a top progressive website operated by the liberal think tank, Center for American Progress, is shutting down on Friday after a 15-year run.  The decision was made after the site was unable to find a buyer.  The Center for American Progress (CAP) has tried to sell off the website after operating for years in the red, according to The Daily Beast.

Think Progress website, which led smear of Tea Party, shuts down.  We have not written a lot in recent years about Think Progress, the left-wing website owned by the Center for American Progress.  But back in the day, in the earlier years of Legal Insurrection, we wrote a lot about Think Progress and its efforts to smear the Tea Party as racist and violent.  Think Progress led an obsessive campaign to demonize the Koch brothers and Andrew Breitbart.  The false claim that Sarah Palin's electoral map was connected to Jared Loughner's shooting of Gabby Giffords was spread with the early help of Think Progress blogger Matthew Yglesias.

The Left's determination to destroy us from within.  It is not an exaggeration to say that today's Left is a scourge upon this nation.  No one who values civility and respect for our law enforcement men and women should cast a vote for any Democrat, anywhere.  They pander, promise, and lie.  They defend Antifa!  And now they openly and officially oppose our law enforcement personnel.  Every Democrat presidential candidate opposes ICE, the agency tasked with stemming the tide of illegal immigration.  All of them have implicitly admitted their contempt for our police and sanctioned violence against them.  They clearly value illegal migrants over citizens.

Hilarious lineup of commercials for CNN's climate hysteria town hall.  If one were going to predict which segments of the population would be least attracted to hour upon hour of haranguing over their immoral use of air conditioning, air travel and meat-laden diets, surely the target demographics of the commercials that followed Pete Buttigieg's 40 minute segment (in which he said, "it's kind of a sin" to not act on climate change) would be among them.  Zach Parkinson, Deputy Director of Communications Research for Trump 2020 captured the abusrdity in a tweet:  [Screen grab]

Poll: Increasing Immigration, Giving Illegals Right to Vote Most Unpopular 2020 Political Positions.  Increasing illegal and legal immigration to the United States is the most unpopular position a 2020 presidential candidate can take, as well as giving illegal aliens the right to vote, according to a new poll.  The latest Harvard/Harris Poll finds that 2020 presidential candidates who want to increase overall immigration to the U.S. — while the country already admits 1.5 million foreign nationals every year — are the least likely to win over American voters.

'Woke' Gestapo Demand Conformity.  It's important to remember, the left is out for blood.  They are not your friend.  If you refuse to conform, to get in line and shut up, they will happily destroy you.  This is what they do when they're out of power, just imagine what they'd do if they won.

Democrats Send Out Secret Weapon Hanoi Jane Fonda to Pennsylvania to Plead with Swing Voters to Dump Trump.  Democrats sent out communist sympathizer and treasonous Jane Fonda this weekend to knock on doors and push swing voters to dump Trump.  Fonda wore an AFL-CIO T-shirt for her canvassing campaign against President Trump.

Rejection of Moral Absolutes Plagues the Modern Left.  Many have implied that if President Trump has the opportunity to name Ginsburg's replacement, the battle that will erupt will make the Kavanaugh confirmation look like the Mayberry City Council debate on whether to hold a Founder's Day parade.  This shouldn't be the case — because, as long as Senate republicans have his back, there is simply nothing Democrats can do to stop President Trump from nominating and having confirmed any judge he wishes.  However, today's Democratic Party is as far from rational as it is from moral.

Democrats dump climate change debate, recognizing how badly it will bomb with voters.  If you want to win an election, yelling about global warming and blaming air conditioners, cars, plastic straws, and jets — while jetting in to do it — is probably not the best way to sell it to voters. [...] We all know what was really going on here:  Global warming may excite the Democratic Party's base, but it's an absolute loser of an issue to the broader base of voters, ranking down there at the absolute bottom of voter priorities according to polls, meaning, the audience for this one's likely to be composed of viewers mainly there to see if there are outrageous statements to tweet out.  With each crazy claim coming as each Democrat tries to outdo the next one, there's little doubt they'll repel voters.

The Left's Neverland.  Now, over 150 years after the Civil War, we find ourselves living in a world that has tucked reality away in a locked cupboard and our schools, our media, and many of our churches don't want it to get out.  We live in a TV-Internet-Smartphone world where our music is mostly canned, our connections with people are at least once-removed, and our children never look up.  The virtual has taken over to a point where people actually think we can alter history by removing statues and painting over murals, and they have to change history because Neverland has to have its own annals, its own chronicles.  Neverland is not America.  This explains why both Obama and Hillary could talk with such disdain about half of the population.  We aren't their people.  They were running to be president of Neverland, not of traditional America.

Vermont Is Going Insane.  Will the Rest of America Follow?  Vermont leads the nation in adults who behave like errant children and delegate leadership to infants.  Small wonder that Vermont uncritically embraced a 14-year-old candidate for governor.  Vermont is the forefront of the new utopian vision of which Ryszard Legutko has cautioned — this is the state where Black Lives Matter flags are flown at numerous schools, and textbooks are edited to teach children that Vermont is a white supremacist culture.  This is where young children halt public parades while no police or other authorities intervene.  In Vermont, this experiment now extends to sexual and gender identity decisions in early childhood, and genital-mutilating surgeries at taxpayer expense, which insurance companies are mandated to provide without age minimums.

Cosmic Injustice.  Mayor Michael Bloomberg used to sermonize to the nation about gun-control, global warming, the perils of super-sized soft drinks, smoking, and fatty-foods in his efforts to virtue signal his moral fides — even as his New York was nearly paralyzed by the 2010 blizzard that trapped millions of his city's residents in their homes due to inept and incompetent city efforts to remove snow. [...] New Yorkers in 2011 were worried more about the piles of snow on the sidewalks than they felt threatened by 32-ounce Cokes — while realizing that no snow blocked either the Bloomberg official or private residence.

Rep Dan Crenshaw:  In Hong Kong, Protesters Wave American Flags.  In America, Antifa Burns Them.  Texas Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw said American "antifascists" demand violence while Hong Kong protesters are "actually fighting fascists" in a Saturday [8/17/2019] tweet.  "In Hong Kong, antifascists wave American flags, demand freedom and actually fight fascists," he wrote.  "In Portland, 'antifascists' burn American flags, demand violence in the name of socialism.  Portland is a sad showing of where we are today.  All around."

Bill Maher Doubles Down on Wish for a Recession.  Real Time host Bill Maher doubled down on his desire for a recession Friday night [8/16/2019].  Maher has expressed his wish for a recession multiple times; hoping that an economic downturn would lead to President Trump losing his bid for a second term in the White House.  Maher first indicated that he was rooting for a recession on June 8 of last year, when he said "I feel like the bottom has to fall out at some point and by the way, I'm hoping for it because I think one way you get rid of Trump is to crash the economy.  So please, bring on the recession.  Sorry if that hurts people but it's either root for a recession or you lose your democracy."

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Who hates America as much as the man who would rather see the entire economy crash than to see his political foes succeed?

Stacey Abrams:  The Grift That Keeps On Grifting.  Stacey Abrams is trying very hard to stay relevant, despite the fact that she lost a gubernatorial race (but hasn't admitted it).  She is still making appearances before whatever media will talk to her and let her tell her sob story.  The best part is that the media will keep having her on out of a tremendous sense of guilt they feel for ignoring her and focusing on Beto O'Rourke.  But Abrams is a particularly fascinating grifter and is especially good at making sure she stays relevant and continues to raise money.  Objectively, it is something the Democrats should worry about.  It's something they should tell her to stop doing.  But, as a partisan, I hope she keeps on doing what she's doing.

Leaving the Democrats.  I have had a great life in the greatest country on earth.  All along the way, the Democrats have stepped on me, taxed me more, lied to me, called me names, and demand I give up my rights.  Democrats were the ones pushing environmental causes at the expense of humans and government takeover of healthcare.  They have mismanaged everything they get their hands on, and then blame others for their own deeds.  I watch them lie and cheat and twist words.  Democrats have alienated their own base to the point they have to argue for foreigners to come into this country illegally in order to vote for Democrats, mainly by calling those of us opposed to this "racist." [...] I am now called racist, homophobic, misogynist, and Islamaphobic.  A gun-toting, Bible-believing bitter clinger.  A deplorable.  A white nationalist.  Nazi.  I can't remember all of my Democrat party subtitles.

The Dems can't win in 2020 if they keep listening to Twitter.  Everyone knows that Twitter is a sewer.  It's also a terrible newspaper editor and a lousy campaign manager.  Paul Begala knows something about the last of those.  Begala has had his highs and lows as a campaign strategist — he once lost a student-government election at the University of Texas to an imaginary cartoon figure called Hank the Hallucination, but he went on to lead Bill Clinton's presidential campaign in 1992, so he's got that going for him — and he worries that Twitter is pushing Democratic candidates far to the left of where the party is.

Leftists doxx and threaten Dayton nurse who saved lives for appearing in picture with President Trump.  Here is an obviously warm-hearted lady who has literally saved dozens of lives in the most stressful professional setting imaginable, the terrible Dayton mass shooting, and for merely posing for posing for a picture with the visiting president, she gets threats, security, and her life upended.  She also got doxxed. [...] It's a mark of the left's insanity that they would go after someone like this, because up until now, such pictures with visiting presidents have always been routine, no matter who the president was, and people have always gathered around and smiled no matter what their politics.

Joe Biden:  There are at least three genders.  I confess that I can't hear the question being asked amid the din of the crowd, although Biden's answer is clear enough.  But in any event, it's a question that should be asked at one of the upcoming debates.  [Video clip]  Older, more traditional, working-class Dems — Biden voters, essentially — would likely seem puzzled by the question and say, "Two, of course."  Progressive answers would be more nuanced, aimed at reassuring trans activists that they believe gender is more fluid.  So why not get everyone on record?  Let the centrists in the field try to convince the left that gender is a binary thing.

'We're here to win': US democratic socialists move to center stage.  The last time the nation's largest socialist organization came together for its biennial conference, congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was serving tacos and cocktails at a bar in Manhattan.  Two years later, the Democratic Socialists of America have doubled in size and the young, Latina, democratic socialist from the Bronx who unseated a 10-term veteran to win her New York congressional seat has become a political force so visible she is known simply by her initials, AOC.

The Democratic Socialists of America Meeting Was Something Else.  Socialism is creeping in our country like never before.  A recent study indicates that millennials prefer socialism to capitalism.  The Democratic Party has gone so far left, they should be accused of plagiarizing Karl Marx's ideas.  But, if these recent videos from the Democratic Socialists of America conference are any indication of how quickly their ideas could be implemented, then the U.S.A. has nothing to worry about.  It appears the DSA crowd is too triggered by scents, sounds, and the wrong pronouns to actually get anything accomplished without some whiny progressive stopping the meeting to complain.  A newly formed group, Young Americans Against Socialism, posted the videos over the weekend.  You'd be forgiven for thinking the soundbites were a parody, but no, they are real.

Another ungrateful migrant creates a new 'narrative' for ingratitude.  Rep. Ilhan Omar was just an opening act.  Now, another ungrateful migrant has come out of the woodwork to tell us how awful we are and how ingratitude for being allowed to come here is the rightful state for migrants.  Calcutta-born Suketu Mehta, a bitter revanchist who would have been ripped to shreds as a fourth-rate, fourth world 'intellectual' by V.S. Naipaul (too bad he's not alive) puts forth the argument in the Washington Post that immigration is a reparation.  His piece is titled 'I am an uppity immigrant.  Don't expect me to be grateful."  Based on what he says, it's clear he views migration to the U.S. as an entitlement solely because America is so very, very bad — and as a lagniappe, because he's so very, very good.

Two Far-Left Progressives Qualify for Runoff Election in Nashville Mayoral Race.  Nashville is governed under a metropolitan form of government that includes the city of Nashville and all the other communities in Davidson County.  Nashville/Davidson County is an island of blue in a sea of Tennessee red.

These People Are Crazy.  Liberals are insane.  That's not news, at least to anyone who watched even clips from the Democratic debates this week.  They promised a unicorn that poops gold while paying for your health care and college, giving you a high-paying job and foot rubs at will.  If you completely ignore the reality of the hell on earth their socialistic policies would create, it sounded wonderful.  But you can't ignore reality with these people.  Any of them.  It's reality they want to "fundamentally transform."  To do that they're not only willing destroy what exists now, they have to destroy it.  Leftists are very open about this.  They want to "tear down" the system — health care, capitalism, etc., you name it.  By "tear down" they mean decimate.  Most people like their health care and support capitalism, and the country, so they're unlikely to willingly allow its "transformation" to something else.

Prince Harry Says People 'Don't Understand' Their 'Unconscious' Racism.  Progressive Prince Harry has said that people expressing "racist" behaviour do so because of their upbringing, but may not know they are acting in a racist way because they "don't understand" their "unconscious biases". [...] The inheritors of a thousand years of British aristocracy and tradition, the younger generation of royals has embraced social justice causes including man-made climate change and LGBT rights.

Jake Tapper Questions Rashida Tlaib About BDS, Israel's Right To Exist.  When I hear Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) speak, I can't believe she was ever elected to public office.  The Palestinian-American Congresswoman recently co-sponsored a resolution in the House with her great pal Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) to support the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.  Last week, she was one of 17 lawmakers to vote against a House resolution to condemn BDS.  She compared the BDS movement to the American boycott of Nazi Germany.  Tlaib spoke to Jake Tapper on CNN's "State of the Union" this morning.  Even Tapper was a bit ruffled by several of Tlaib's replies.

Nearly 150 Obama Officials Defend 'The Squad' In WaPo OpEd.  In an opinion piece for the Washington Post, 148 African American members of President Barack Obama's administration came together to explain why they support "The Squad," made up of Reps.  Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA).  According to the Obama alumni, President Donald Trump's "go back to where you came from" comments are unacceptable and racist.  Although they're bothered by the language Trump used, they use it as "jet-fuel" for their activism. [... But] Trump wasn't telling "The Squad" to leave this country as a way of being racist.  He was saying that America is the greatest nation in the world.  If someone can't respect our laws, our way of life and what we hold dear, they're more than welcome to leave.  They're more than welcome to live in a country that more aligns with their political and personal beliefs.

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[#1] If you hate America, you shouldn't have run for Congress.  [#2] You shouldn't go back where you came from, you should move to a socialist utopia, like Zimbabwe, North Korea, or Cuba.  After living in any of those places for a few years, you'd beg to get back into the U.S.A.

Why the Left So Despises Donald Trump.  The far-left faction of the Democrats, led by congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib, have with this big, very white, rigorously politically incorrect billionaire, what they believe, tactically and by uncontainable impulse, is the target of their political dreams.  Mr. Trump is the personification of every policy they hate and every human trait they despise; to them, he is a monster of ignorance, greed, bombast, bellicosity, and racist bigotry. [...] All four of them qualify as anti-Semites.  As has been widely mentioned, the president is doing what he can to help make these four the best publicly known face of the Democrats.

It's official:  Democrats dislike our country.  Liberals bristle when you suggest they have contempt for America, even when leading figures like New York Governor Andrew Cuomo openly says things like "America was never that great," or "Beto" O'Rourke saying that "This country was founded on white supremacy.  And every single structure that we have in this country still reflects the legacy of slavery and segregation and Jim Crow and suppression."  Now we have survey data from Gallup that ratifies this increasing Democratic hatred of our country.

Poll: Moderate Democrats Turned Off by Party's 2020 Open Borders Agenda.  The Democrat Party's open borders, mass immigration platform for the upcoming 2020 presidential election is turning off moderate Democrat voters, a new poll reveals.  For months now, Democrats running in the presidential primary have largely presented platforms promoting amnesty for all 11 to 22 million illegal aliens, free health care for illegal aliens, and the decriminalization of illegal immigration at the United States-Mexico border.  This open borders agenda, spearheaded by a select group of white liberals in the party's ranks, is causing a rift among Democrats.

Leftists' Effective Dirty Trick.  America's enemies within use churches, schools, corporate advertising, entertainment, fake news media and social networks to spread lies about Trump and our wonderful country.  Trump is pretty much a lone voice in the international arena standing up for America; exposing leftists' lies.  This is why I wholeheartedly support Trump exposing Democrat congresswomen Ilhan Omar, AOC, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib for the anti-American, antisemitic, racist, socialist and communist hate-filled traitors that they truly are.  How on earth did these four haters of America get elected?

NBC Poll — Wide Majority See Improved Race Relations Under President Trump.  Right there in a poll of eleven southern states conducted by NBC over two weeks we see the reason why the DNC, political leadership and media are whipping up false accusations of racial anxiety against President Trump.  The majority of those polled see improvements in race relationships, and their approval of President Trump is higher[,] and their view of the economy is more optimistic[,] and the number one issue is immigration.  All empirical points that help President Trump and simultaneously destroy the Democrat narrative.

The Squad Becomes the Untouchables.  When I first heard that Donald Trump went after Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (I had not heard of Ayanna Pressley), I immediately expressed gratitude that someone had the guts to push back.  These three congresswomen are unhinged, a fact further revealed a week earlier in the "testimony" of a brazen AOC and a half-sobbing, ready-to-burst Tlaib.  The depth of the radicalism of the AOC-Tlaib-Omar troika, in full display after only a few months in Congress, is difficult to express.  Perhaps worse, given the context of their current battle against President Trump over divisive language, is that few congressional freshmen in memory have been as out-of-the-gate acrimonious as AOC, Tlaib, and Omar.

Screaming Rashida Tlaib physically removed from 2016 Trump event.  A video resurfaced Saturday [7/20/2019] of Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib being forcibly removed from an Aug. 8, 2016 Trump campaign event in Detroit while screaming, "You guys are crazy!"  Footage showed two security officials holding Tlaib by her arms and guiding her toward the exit while she screamed at the crowd gathered for Trump's speech.  Tlaib was reportedly among at least 14 protesters removed from the event that evening.  The event, which took place at the Cobo Center in Detroit and was hosted by the Detroit Economic Club, took place just ahead of 2016 presidential election.  His speech that evening was reportedly focused on taxes, repealing Obamacare, and bolstering the economy.

The Democrats' 2020 Campaign Theme Is "You Americans Are Terrible".  [Scroll down]  They all agree that you are terrible because you don't know your place, which is behind a rock pushing it endlessly uphill for the benefit of people who hate you.  Remember Animal Farm from back when you were in school and they taught it as a chilling warning about socialism instead of as a how-to manual?  Remember the horse who got worked nearly to death then got sent to the glue farm?  Guess what?  You're the horse.  Your job is to work to generate taxes and feed the cities and defend the country while your betters clink Chardonnay glasses between bouts of redistributing the fruits of your labor to buy the votes of their slack Democrat political constituencies.

Throw Her Out.  [Scroll down]  It may be that CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC, PBS, The New York Times, and the Washington Post adore the Squad, their foul mouths, and their arrogant beliefs that they are going to change America from a capitalist economy built on freedom of spirit and freedom of thought, freedom of speech, and freedom to be great.  But there are scores of millions of others among us who are not mesmerized by them, nor are we fazed.  They are nothing.  They reflect isolated pockets of electoral support in a country of more than 300 million people.  Because the Left Media are enamored of them and want to work with them to change America, the members of the Squad get disproportionate air time, emboldening them to advocate increasingly radical proposals that would move America towards communism and the platforms whose roots in Stalinism Mark Levin so effectively has traced.  But that is not America.

Something Is Happening Across America And It Spells Big Trouble For The Democrat Party.  A +15000 shift for Republicans in a single Florida county is an example of what is taking place in counties throughout the United States as everyday Americans, sick of the 24/7 anti-Trump bias, the divisive class politics, the blatant anti-Americanism, have had enough and are preparing to deliver an even more powerful anti-establishment message to the D.C. and media elites that continue to try and tear down the very fabric of the nation.

Throw Her Out.  The four Congressional vipers now known as "the [Odd] Squad" came to Washington this January, swinging.  Two of them came swinging at Jews right away.  Rashida Tlaib is a Jew-hater with a long resume and Twitter history to document that hate, and with a filthy mouth to boot.  The "M-F" word she used to describe the President of the United States — my president, your president, and her president — instantly defined her as trash.  In this country, even if you do not like the president — even if you despise him to your utmost innermost core, as I despised and still despise Obama — he still is your president.  I never have used such a word to describe Obama.  Tlaib reflected herself as trash by speaking in such a way about the president of this country.  Ilhan Omar is a vicious Jew-hater, an anti-Semite.  I often describe her as a Nazi.  Not all Nazis murdered Jews or even touched Jews.  Some just lined the streets to cheer Hitler's passing motorcades.  Her litany of anti-Jewish tweets by now is legendary.

Trump and America Vs. the Commie Quad Squad.  In one sense, the Commie Quad Squad (CQS) has done us all a favor by flushing out the extremism of the Democratic Party for conspicuous public display.  House Leader Nancy Pelosi is quaking in her boots, realizing that it is getting increasingly difficult to hide her party's radicalism from American voters, many of whom still cling to the fantasy that the Democratic Party is predominantly pro-American.  Pelosi at least has the sense to know this extremism won't play well in national elections — even today — and she is struggling to cover it up.  Her feud with the CQS, to be sure, is about control of the party, but it's also her effort to allay Americans' fears that her party has lost its mind — and moral compass.  But the women of the CQS don't care.  They are so adamantly against the America that you and I grew up to love that they will not contain their animus.  And they're arrogant enough to believe that a majority of Americans shares their antipathy.

Trump Forces Democrats To Embrace [the] Most Extreme Members Of [their] Party.  In their first presidential debate last month, all but a few of the 20 candidates running for the White House pledged to give illegal aliens free health care and said crossing the border illegally should be just like getting a parking ticket.  Two 2020 hopefuls — Sen. Cory A. Booker and former Rep. Robert "Beto" O'Rourke — even traveled to the border to personally try to get foreigners into the United States.  And just last week, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was racist for "the explicit singling out of newly elected women of color" in her and three of her colleagues.  That tiff exploded into a catfight, with Pelosi once again dismissing AOC and the other members of what's now known as "The Squad" — Reps.  Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts.

Are Democrats Becoming the Anti-American Party?  This is something new.  This not your father's Democratic Party nor the party of America-loving JFK.  There has been a steady drift to the left since then and Democrats are turning on the very values that made America great.  The truth now is that if you hate your country you are more than likely a Democrat leader or a biased agenda-driven media figure.  Democrats railed against President Trump's "Salute to America" celebration on the National Mall invoking images of military dictators, blaming Trump's ego, and as usual playing politics with a holiday that should bring us together.

Trump took out the Odd Squad.  Paul Mirengoff of Powerline took enough time off bashing President Donald John Trump to bash the Washington Post for its adulation of the Odd Squad, Democrat Congresswomen of Color Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib.  Their sex and skin tone are all they have going for them because otherwise they are just run-of-the-mill communists like Beto and the rest of the fifth tier in the Democrat presidential marathon.  You need a gimmick — a shield — from criticism.  Ask the gay mayor how that works.

Auto Da Fe, 2019 Edition.  That a number of Democrats recently "came out of the closet" as America-haters shouldn't have surprised anyone.  Their party has given them a tacit nod for their behavior.  This can only have one of two meanings:  Democrat Party leadership has decided that the time has come to vie for permanent and absolute power; [or] That leadership has become so weak that the party's lunatics are comfortable in rebellion against it.  Yet at least forty percent of the electorate will vote for Democrats in 2020.

In Face Of Massive Border Crisis, Democrats Tell Americans Citizenship Means Nothing.  On Friday night [7/12/2019], a mob of protestors tore down an American flag outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Aurora, Colo., and replaced it with a Mexican flag.  Local police stood by and did nothing.  The next day, a gunman reportedly associated with Antifa attacked an ICE detention center in Tacoma, Wash., throwing Molotov cocktails and attempting to set fire to a propane tank.  He was reportedly killed by police in a gunfight.  The attack in Tacoma coincided with left-wing protests at ICE facilities all over the country, prompted by nationwide ICE raids targeting Central American families whom immigration judges have ordered to be deported after reviewing their claims.  If you're a Democrat seeking your party's nomination for 2020, what's your response to these events?  So far, nothing.

Victory! Pledge of Allegiance Reinstated In St. Louis Park.  Let's call this a nice win for the common-sense American.  Following a bizarre ban of the Pledge of Allegiance by the far-left/socialist St. Louis Park City Council, hundreds packed the council chambers and demanded the Pledge be reinstated.  Council members attempted to table the issue, likely hoping people would forget and move on.  THEY DIDN'T, and soon after, the council voted to reinstate the Pledge.  On a related side note, this took place in Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's district — the same Ilhan Omar who has long been attacking President Trump for his many America-first positions.

St. Louis Park City Council votes to bring back Pledge of Allegiance to meetings.  The St. Louis Park City Council will return to saying the Pledge of Allegiance prior to its meetings.  According to KSTP reporter Brett Hoffland, the council unanimously voted to return the recitation of the pledge at its Monday night [7/15/2019] meeting.  The pledge debate wasn't even on the agenda for Monday night, but that didn't stop a few hundred people from cramming into city hall to share their opinion on the issue, many coming from St. Louis Park and all across the state.

Influential Democrat:  Why Is Our Party Supporting Criminal Illegal Aliens?  One of New Jersey's most influential Democrats is expressing concern over the Democrat Party's broad support for illegal immigration and an open border.  George Norcross, considered the leading unelected Democrat in the state of New Jersey, questioned last year why the Democrat Party has taken the extreme positions of supporting illegal aliens, including those who commit crimes against Americans, and an open border.

Nasty gay piece shows where Democrats are.  If the election were held today, the Democrat ticket would be Kamala Harris and the gay mayor.  Michelle Obama's support of Harris, whom she views as a surrogate, clears the field for her topping the ticket.  Meanwhile, moneyed gay liberals are buying the veep seat for Alfred E. Neuman.  And why not?  Money talks.  And since black people and Hispanics provide 40% of the Democrat votes, why not let a woman of color head the ticket?  Plus they look nice.  That is important.  I had a boss who predicted elections based on hair.  She was very accurate.

Apologist Democrats are a sorry lot.  No matter how much outrage Trump sparked, he never said he was sorry.  You could argue that there were times when an apology was warranted.  (The McCain War Hero debacle in 2015 comes to mind).  But there is no arguing that Trump's strategy was a bold one.  And as the 2020 election nears, he is still the only individual steering clear of the words, "I'm sorry."  In fact, the Democrats are doing the complete opposite.  They apologize ... a lot.  They are sorry for the jokes they made, the positions they held, the tweets they tweeted, the pictures they posed for.  You name it, they're sorry for it.

Scalise: 'No Moderates Left; It's Literally Liberals Versus Socialists and the Socialists Are Winning'.  "It's ugly and getting uglier," House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) said Thursday [7/11/2019], commenting on the row between Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).  There are no moderates left in the Democrat Party, and liberal Pelosi is losing the battle with socialists like Ocasio-Cortez, Scalise told Fox News.

Pelosi vs. AOC: It's a Beautiful Thing.  These people all embrace varying degrees of an extreme progressive agenda including radical environmentalism; socialized medicine; socialism writ large, evisceration of gun rights; abortion on demand; health care and welfare for illegal immigrants; open borders; confiscatory personal- and corporate-income tax hikes; softness on Iran and terrorism; leftist judicial activism; wholesale end runs around the Constitution to secure their power, such as abolishing the Electoral College and allowing 16-year-olds and felons to vote; and so much more.

Whose Side Are They On?  The Southern border is a litmus test:  do they believe that the United States has a right to exist as a sovereign nation, or don't they?  For many Democrats, the answer evidently is No.  That goes for all of the Democratic presidential contenders:  I believe all of them have signed on to the notion of free medical care (along with many other welfare benefits, of course) for illegal aliens.  This isn't exactly treason — a word that is thrown around much too often these days — but it certainly amounts to selling out the interests of American citizens.  A startling example of the Democrats' disregard of the interests of American citizens is Congresswoman Veronica Escobar, who reportedly has sent her aides to Mexico to help illegal immigrants game the asylum system by pretending that they don't speak Spanish.  Why, exactly, would an important member of our government, accountable to the citizens of the United States, do this?

The Republic Is Collapsing:  The Time to Act Is Now.  As for the Democrats, they are not as suicidal in the many harebrained and socialist policies they advance as assorted commentators appear to believe.  The Party is gambling on the imbecile vote, the parasite vote, the illegal vote, the indebted student vote, the felon vote, the cemetery vote, the LBGT+ vote, the Jewish vote, the Muslim vote, the black vote, the Hispanic vote, the corporate vote and the broad liberal vote — lumped together a possible majority — to put them over the electoral top and ensure their future hegemony.

BET founder and longtime Democrat praises Trump, says Dem Party 'has moved too far to the left'.  Media mogul Robert Johnson has been a longtime Democrat but now says the party's slide to the left has turned him off.  The founder of Black Entertainment Television praised President Donald Trump in a recent interview despite his support of Hillary Clinton in the 2106 election, and complained that partisan politics have "become very wicked and very mean."

New York Democrat Pledges to Vote GOP Because [the] Democrat Party [is] Being Led by Insane Liars.  It's yet another story the far-left media refuses to tell.  The Democrat Party is imploding, torn asunder by radicalized anti-Americanism that was once on the fringe but is now running the Democrat agenda.

(Almost) Everybody Loves a Parade.  President Trump's July 4 "Salute to America" sounded perfectly normal to many Americans.  After all, the legacy American people have served in the military, respect it as a protector of our freedoms, and agree that the planes, tanks, technology, and equipment that we spend a mountain of money on are inspiring and visually compelling.  But the national freakout surrounding the event, said as much about the state of the nation, as the event itself.

A Tempest in Tempe.  Starbucks is in the news again.  No, not for adding even more goofy and overpriced varieties of coffee to their already ridiculous menu.  This time, it's for asking a half-dozen Tempe, Arizona, police officers to leave a Starbucks because their presence was making another customer feel "unsafe."  Hmm.  Unsafe?  Could the complaining customer's uneasiness have anything to do with outstanding warrants?

Starbucks employee asks police officers to leave because customer felt 'uncomfortable'.  Several police officers were asked to leave a Starbucks in Tempe, Arizona, by a barista who told them another patron did not feel safe in their presence.  The incident took place on July 4, Independence Day, just before the six Tempe officers began a long shift.  The barista told the officers they either needed to move out of the complaining customer's field of vision or leave completely because this patron did not "feel comfortable," according to ABC15 Arizona.  The officers, who had just purchased their coffees, opted to leave.

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It has been noted elsewhere that "Cake bakers have to serve everyone but liberal cafe owners can pick and choose who they will serve."

The Lost Left.  It's almost like half of America's political class set out to prove George Orwell correct in every particular.  Orwell, the author of 1984 and Animal Farm, the two most cogent takedowns of socialism ever written through the lens of fiction, famously said that "there is the horrible — the really disquieting — prevalence of cranks wherever Socialists are gathered together.  One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words 'Socialism' and 'Communism' draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist, and feminist in England."  In America, too, as it turns out, because the prevalence of cranks among today's Democrats, who are unquestionably socialist in their political orientation, last week became a critical mass.

They Called Our Industry The 'Enemy'.  Last week, from the Democratic primary debate stage, former Vice President Joe Biden said we were the enemy.  "Our enemy is the gun manufacturers, not the NRA, the gun manufacturers," Biden said.  Not a single candidate on stage that night, or the night before, condemned the remark.  Their silence is tacit agreement.  Not a single candidate had the courage to name the violent criminals as the problem or the fortitude to stand up to those who prey upon the vulnerable in our society.  Instead, they are blaming us as an industry and the law-abiding gun owners we serve.

Protests Erupt, Communists Burn American Flag Outside White House in Protest of 'Salute to America' Event.  Multiple protesters were detained in the nation's capital Thursday after a protest got out of hand, with communists burning the American flag outside of the White House prior to the "Salute to America" event.  The Revolution Club's Gregory "Joey" Johnson — who won the landmark 1989 Supreme Court case Texas v. Johnson on flag burning — announced his plans to burn the American flag in protest of the "Salute to America" event earlier this week.

Vice on Fourth of July: 'America Is a Constant Disappointment'.  Vice magazine has published timely Fourth of July advice for its liberal-minded readers:  "How to Celebrate the 4th of July When America Is a Constant Disappointment." [...] The article, by Leila Ettachfini, which was published last week but is still circulating widely on social media today, informs readers that America's failures did not begin with President Donald Trump.  Rather, as the first line declares:  "America has always been bad, no matter who the president is or was."

Dems Tlaib and Pressley slam Declaration of Independence as sexist and racist on July 4th.  Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) each spent part of their Fourth of July holiday trashing the Declaration of Independence as "sexist" and "racist."  The freshman congresswomen both promoted a Salon article titled "Fourth of July's ugly truth exposed:  The Declaration of Independence is sexist, racist, prejudiced" through their Twitter accounts.

U.S. Publications Celebrate Independence Day With Pieces About How Awful America Is.  There are 51 weeks of the year where it is not inappropriate to publish stories about how "terrible" America is.  The week of the 4th of July just isn't one of them.  Multiple prominent American publications did exactly that.

Obama DHS Sec:  Dem POTUS Candidates Pushing 'Unwise,' 'Unworkable' Plans for 'Open Borders'.  Jeh Johnson, former President Barack Obama's Homeland Security Secretary, warned Democrats running for president on Tuesday evening [7/2/2019] that calling for the decriminalization of illegal immigration will alienate a majority of Americans who oppose "open borders."  Johnson made his remarks after Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) on Tuesday vowed to "virtually eliminate immigrant detention" through executive orders.

Why the Left hates symbols of patriotism.  President Trump is throwing an Independence Day celebration today to honor the United States.  Predictably, the Left lost its mind in response to the event and decried the celebration as emblematic of a totalitarian regime rather than American democracy.  Appearing on Morning Joe, Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson described the event as a "combination of [a] Trump rally and Kim Jong-un-style military parade."  He bemoaned the fact that Trump's "obscene" celebration would "spoil the whole day."  The event, according to USA Today, will feature a military parade, flyovers, fireworks, and remarks from Pres.  Trump himself.

'Whatever It Is, I'm Against It'.  In a couple of days, we've gone from a celebrity saying a flag is bad, to a major corporation indulging that judgment, to presidential candidates and governors blithely confirming and cementing it.  In my view, though, the scariest part is not so much "how quick it has been," but that there has been no argument or explanation to speak of.  Upon the instant, professional progressivism has accepted the change as if it were taking orders from on high.  "The flag is in the bad column now?  Got it.  Will amend attitude and proceed accordingly."

California Democrats Push Bill Allowing Illegals Party Roles: 'They're Already Leaders'.  A bill proposed last week by California lawmakers could grant illegal aliens the ability to serve in Democrat Party leadership positions locally and statewide.  The new bill, SB 288, would allow them to be part of shaping the party's platform, including serving as state convention delegates and county committee leaders.

The Anti-Trump Circus.  We are now in the fourth year of an anti-Trump mania, and about reaching the point of caricature.  The Left should have learned something after the failed celebrity appeal to undermine the Electoral College, the initial articles of impeachment, the empty invocations of the Logan Act, the Emoluments Clause, and the 25th Amendment, the 22-month, $35 million Mueller investigation deflation, the periodical silly "bombshell" announcements of perennially wrong and comical Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the pathetic palace coup attempt of Andrew McCabe, the assassination chic from the likes of Madonna, Snoop Dogg, or Kathy Griffin, or the deification of the slimy prophet Michael Avenatti.  Not at all.  An entire new cast of carnival characters has arrived on the scene [...]

Democrats are Officially the Party of Derangement.  The Democrats' clown shows last week serve as the perfect illustration of just how nuts they have become.  Free everything for everyone — whether criminally invading the country or simply living beyond one's means — is now the policy of the Party.  Enforcing our laws is passé and viewed as bigoted while these self-righteous, dishonest ignoramuses fight each other for power.  Unfortunately, these progressive candidates get away with this nonsense because enough Democrats support their intolerant and totalitarian views.  They also get away with this by silencing opposing views.  When I spoke out against my town's Sanctuary City law, I was shouted down as a fear-monger and bigot by 100 crazy leftists who ignored the logic of my arguments to scream that Trump was destroying the country.

House Democrats to Introduce Bill for More Refugee Admissions from Central America.  As the immigration crisis at the border continues unabated with hundreds of thousands of migrants suffering and even dying on the treacherous trek through Mexico to the U.S. border, Democrats are blaming President Donald Trump and gearing up to introduce legislation to increase the number of refugees admitted to 100,000 a year.

Who's the Radical?  On Confidence and Common Sense.  I just heard a fellow on CNN say that Donald Trump has radicalized the Republicans.  Let's be clear on what is and isn't radical.  A well-patrolled border is not a radical policy.  An open border is a radical policy.  To believe in two genders is not radical.  To insert gender identity into Title IX is.  To praise Western Civilization as a legacy of political freedom and artistic genius is not a radical opinion.  To regard it as promotion of white supremacy is a radical opinion.  To love America as an exceptional creation is not radical.  To see America as founded on slavery and imperialism is radical.

Presbyterian church features drag queen reading story to children about LGBTQ icon Harvey Milk.  Last Sunday [6/23/2019], Dan Davidson briefly stepped out of his role as caretaker of Cincinnati's Mount Auburn Presbyterian Church and became "Sparkle Leigh" — dressed in drag with tons of makeup and glitter — to read a story to children during the service about LGBTQ icon Harvey Milk, the assassinated San Francisco politician who was openly gay, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.  Davidson wore a pink, flowing dress and a green curly wig, the outlet said, adding that the congregation clapped during "exciting parts of the tale."

Media wants Democrats to hide their socialism.  In the wake of the Democrat cattle call (aka "debates) this week, the New York Times ran two columns on Friday that called for Democrats to tone it down on their communism.  Granted these columns were by token Republicans but the message was clear.  David Brooks wrote, "I could never in a million years vote for Donald Trump.  So my question to Democrats is:  Will there be a candidate I can vote for? [...] Brooks objected not because he disagrees with the communists.  Indeed, in his very next paragraph, he wrote, "The progressive narrative is dominating in part because progressives these days have a direct and forceful story to tell and no interest in compromising it.  It's dominating because no moderate wants to bear the brunt of progressive fury by opposing it."  His complaint is not that he disagrees with the communist policy but that you cannot win with it.

St. Louis Park will no longer say the Pledge of Allegiance at City Council meetings.  The St. Louis Park City Council has decided to drop recital of the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag at its meetings, citing a desire to accommodate the city's newest and more diverse residents.  "I hope it's not too controversial," Council Member Tim Brausen said.  "Our community tends to be a very welcoming and increasingly diverse community, and we believe our citizens will understand.  I don't think we're going to be any less welcoming by not starting our meeting out with the standard ritual."

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The problem here is not that the socialists are eliminating a ritual; it is that they are eliminating our society's standards.

Minnesota city council votes to ditch Pledge of Allegiance, reconsiders after backlash.  A Minnesota city is reconsidering its decision to no longer say the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of city council meetings after facing major backlash.  The St. Louis Park City Council unanimously voted on June 17 to amend the procedure rules so that the pledge would no longer be said before the start of every session in an effort to serve a more "diverse community."

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Apparently the community is diverse because it includes some who respect the U.S. flag, and the republic for which it stands, and the community includes others who do not.  That's not a diversity that should be encouraged.  That's a precursor to sedition.

Radical Democrats seem to think it's shameful to put bad guys in jail.  A perfect symbol to show how far-left and crazy the Democratic Party has become is that it was an attack line in Thursday night's debate to say someone was a prosecutor. [...] The assumption was that being a prosecutor is a bad thing.  Apparently, for this primary electorate, that assumption may be correct.  And the lack of media surprise at this as a counterpunch also indicates that a prosecutorial background is a liability in today's Democratic Party.  This is nuts.  In general, prosecutors are the "good guys."  They make sure bad guys, indeed sometimes truly awful people, go to prison.

What Democrats want is not what their candidates are offering.  Democrats' top abiding concern about the qualifications of their presidential nominee is that he or she can beat, defeat, oust, destroy and/or obliterate this evil Donald Trump character who should never have defeated what's-her-name in 2016.  Hardly anything else matters.  It doesn't even matter if the nominee is a woman or man or minority of some kind.

Tim Ryan:  Democrats Have 'Lost All Connection' to Working-Class People.  Ohio Democrat Rep. Tim Ryan admitted that Democrats have lost touch with "working class people" while being questioned during the first presidential debate held in Miami, Florida.  After he answered a question regarding solutions to climate change, Ryan jumped to respond to a previous question on "real politics."  "We could talk about climate, we could talk about guns, we could talk about all of these issues that we all care about," Ryan told MSNBC's Chuck Todd.  "We have a perception problem with the Democratic Party."

New Poll:  Voters See Democrats as Extremists.  In case you missed it this week, 20 Democrats hopeful to take back the White House in 2020 participated in their first election debates.  Candidates were split on two stages between two nights, with each hour proving Democrats have officially abandoned any moderate position with a full embrace of the most radical leftist positions.  Whether it's destroying the private health insurance system, raising taxes on the middle class, providing "free" healthcare to illegal aliens or supporting abortion up until nine months, candidates made their positions clear.  But according to a new Rasmussen poll, the majority of voters believe the positions Democrats are taking land far to the left of their own beliefs.

Oregon farmers, truckers, loggers and senators rebel against Dems.  National media has been quick to cover Oregon Governor Kate Brown's militaristic response to republican legislators who have cut senate sessions and left town.  In an effort to save Oregon agriculture, transportation and natural resource industries from bearing the burden of a boundless cap and trade bill (Oregon HB 2020), 11 republican senators ditched the state capital to prevent a quorum in the chamber.  It was a stand made to force the far-reaching plan into a referendum vote rather than allow a super-majority legislature, packed with politicians lacking business experience, to set policy.

Democratic presidential candidates are scaring off Never Trumpers.  Big mistake.  Democratic presidential candidates keep raising the stakes, particularly on the economy, making the choice for Never Trump Republicans and independents increasingly difficult.  For purposes of this column, let's define Never Trumpers as people who are center to center right on policy, so there is a lot that Donald Trump has done as president that they like.  They nevertheless find his behavior, as president and as a candidate, abhorrent.  And his impulsive and erratic conduct of the nation's business, internationally and domestically, a threat to stability and tranquility.

A Jihad Basis for the Coup.  We are the last defenders of civilization.  Period.  The evidence now shows that Obama, Hillary, and John Kerry sold out.  We still don't know how many secrets Hillary sold to foreign powers for money, but thirty thousand emails are still missing.  Even conservatives tend to forget how deeply the Democrats hate this country.  We don't really want to know that, being normal, decent people.  The Democrats colluded with Stalin in the 20th century, and they never got over being exposed by Joe McCarthy.  They were the party of slavery and secession, and later, they supported the Klan.  Their record is morally abysmal.  As for Obama, he never showed any understanding of American moral values.  He is either very blind or on the wrong side.  Take your pick.

Why the Dems Will Never Win Back Trump Voters.  [D]uring this week's Democratic debates, the candidates will devote considerable effort to courting the "deplorables."  This will, however, be an exercise in futility because everything they believe about Trump's base is false.  Their view of this large and growing segment of the electorate is distorted by a myth concocted primarily by the media to explain away a deeply uncomfortable reality — that Trump possessed a better understanding of the public mood than did the professional political class.  They were unable to abandon their preconceived notions about Trump and his supporters, despite easily accessible contrary data.

Bill Clinton Loved McDonald's, Today's Democrats Protest It.  On the campaign trail in 1992, Bill Clinton famously stopped by a McDonald's during a jog.  Impromptu or not, it helped cement Clinton's image as a regular guy who understands budget-minded middle-class families.  Fast forward 27 years, and Democrats are once again making campaign stops at McDonald's.  But not to eat there.  No, no, no.  They are showing up to protest the fast-food chain for "corporate greed" and for not paying its workers a "living wage."

The Left does not hate Trump, it hates...  Trump stands for capitalism.  The Left seems to hate capitalism because it exposes leftists' own greed.  Thus, they hide behind fake generosity that gives away other people's money.  They hate capitalism because only capitalism levels the field, where today's rich can become poor (mostly through their own wrong choices) and the poor can become rich (mostly through their own right choices).  Thus, they give the idea that they hate free choice and the rights of people to choose their destinies.  Thus, what the Left hates is really you and me.

Communist Party, USA praises Democrats' policy shifts ahead of centennial celebration.  The Communist Party of the USA will celebrate its 100th birthday this weekend in Chicago, at a conference replete with questions about what the future holds for the organization when national Democrats already embrace some of its most coveted goals.  The talk in the run-up to the conference includes questions on whether Communists should embrace Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal proposal — a resounding "yes" — and whether China finally has succeeded with the socialist experiment.

This sounds like treason to me.
New Denver City Council Member:  I Will Usher In Communism 'By Any Means Necessary'.  Encyclopedia Britannica defines communism as a "political and economic doctrine that aims to replace private property and a profit-based economy with public ownership and communal control of at least the major means of production (e.g., mines, mills, and factories) and the natural resources of a society."  [Candi] CdeBaca, who is a democratic socialist, also drew intense criticism for saying that she will "usher" in communism "by any means necessary."

Which Do Democrats Reject More:  The American Flag Or Donald Trump?  Friday [6/14/2019] must have been one confusing day for Democrats.  The President of the United States had the good fortune to be born on Flag Day, June 14, which put the Democrats in a bit of a bind.  As millions of Americans honored Old Glory, as well as the 45th President on that day, what were the Democrats to do?  They may have felt compelled to honor one or the other just to avoid completely discrediting themselves, yet they clearly despise both Donald Trump and the American history and traditions symbolized by the Stars and Stripes.

Rep. Ilhan Omar slams 'bigoted' Trump administration for barring pride flag from foreign embassies.  Rep. Ilhan Omar, D., Minn., has accused the Trump administration of being "bigoted" amid reports that U.S. embassies have had requests to fly the rainbow Pride flag denied.  June is Pride Month, promoting visibility for the LGBTQ community, and U.S. embassies in Israel, Germany, Brazil, and Latvia made requests to the Trump administration to fly the flag on the official embassy flagpole in honor of Pride.  According to NBC News, those requests were denied by the State Department.

Democratic abortion policy is deeply unpopular, as yet another poll confirms.  A new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds that only 18% of Americans support third-trimester abortion, very close to the 13% result from an earlier Gallup poll.  A plurality of the country, nearly 3 in 10 Americans, believe abortion should only be allowed in cases of rape, incest, and to save the mother's life, followed by 23% who support legal abortion up until the end of the first trimester of pregnancy, or about 13 weeks.  The same share of Americans who support abortion up until the point of birth support making abortion illegal either without exception or only to save the life of the mother.  In short, Alabama's much-reviled abortion bill is just as popular nationwide as Democratic officials' abortion stance of choice.

Ilhan Omar Wants to Overhaul U.S. Foreign Policy From the 'Perspective of a Foreigner'.  Anti-Semitic Democrat Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, who blames the current crisis in Venezuela on the United States, wants a "Green New Deal" style overhaul of U.S. foreign policy.  Omar argues she is best suited to lead the charge for major foreign policy changes because she has "the perspective of a foreigner." [...] Omar sits on the House Foreign Relations Committee with a dangerous blame America first attitude.

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If you have the perspective of a foreigner, you should not pretend to serve U.S. citizens in the U.S. House of Representatives.

A Democrat Who Terrifies Other Democrats.  [Scroll down]  Democratic luminaries like Bobby Kennedy, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, John F. Kennedy, and Henry "Scoop" Jackson — all of whom in their time represented dark blue states.  Ami Horowitz, a noted documentary filmmaker, announced his candidacy this month and expressed sentiments with which all [of the] giants of the party's history would agree.  "The Democratic Party has become the party of socialism, open borders, and late-term abortions," he said.  "They've become so radicalized over the past several years that I feel compelled to try to bring some sanity into the discussion."

Climate Change is a Political Loser.  The global technocrats, for whom Climate Change has been one of those "crises" that progressives "never let go to waste," no doubt are wishing they could "dissolve the people" rather than change the government through democratic elections.  Persuading free citizens with arguments based on fact, or with appeals to their interests, is difficult when your "crisis" is nothing more than a politicized hypothesis based on appeals to authority, rigged computer simulations, and apocalyptic predictions laced with insults to the skeptics' intelligence and morals.  The politicians should have seen the signs of global warming's declining utility as an electoral scare-tactic.  In the U.S., "climate change" for years has ranked low on the list of issues voters are concerned about.

The Real Constitutional Crisis.  [Scroll down]  What's different today is the Democrats have bought into the idea of "no enemies on the left," which means they're prisoners of the most radical people on their fringes.  They hang out with Louis Farrakhan, and we're still waiting for them to condemn the Antifa rioters.  In 1992 Bill Clinton cut loose anti-white racist Sister Souljah, but since then identity politics and racism have gone mainstream in the Party and we don't see any Sister Souljah Moments from them today.  Like children playing with fire, they've bought into ideas that put them far outside the mainstream, and they're several standard deviations to the left of where they used to be.  Bill Clinton thought that abortion should be "safe, legal and rare," but that's not where the present party is.  We'll see you later-term abortions, and raise you infanticide, says Gov. Ralph Northam.  The very woke Beto O'Rourke seeks the blessing of Al Sharpton and endorses racial reparations.  As for the green new deal, if the world is going to end in 12 years, it's whoopee time and anything goes.

Americans don't want Congress to impeach, but Democrats aren't listening.  The American people are sending a pretty clear message to Washington:  They are sick and tired of the investigations into President Trump and don't want Democrats in Congress to impeach him.  But the Democrats aren't listening.

Obama Appointees in the Communist Orbit.  [Scroll down]  Joking about support for Communism is not all that funny in the Obama administration.  Obama's CIA Director John Brennan actually did vote for a Communist presidential candidate.  Brennan and Comey are two of the central players in the Russia Collusion Hoax.  Obama choose Communists and Marxists for the highest, most powerful positions in our land, including his closest political advisors, and his head of the CIA.  These facts are not in dispute.  Most are openly admitted by the people in question, as necessary damage control.  Our press chooses not to report them.  Professor Paul Kengor has extensively researched the Chicago communists whose progeny include David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, and Barack Hussein Obama.  Add the openly Marxist, pro-communist Ayers, and you have many of the key players who put Obama into power.

Why Australia's Conservatives Won.  Over the past few years, Labor has steadily drifted leftward, toward very progressive positions.  This was on full display during the election campaign.  Among other things, Labor promised to raise taxes (including on pensioners!), redistribute wealth, and implement radical energy and environmental policies to fight climate change.  Such positions may play well with affluent inner-city progressives who can afford higher taxes and for whom environmentalism seems to functions as a substitute religion (or, so it appears to me every time I visit my homeland).  But they do not resonate with the rest of the country, [...]

Lisa Smiley: Why Asians Should Leave the Democratic Party.  With grassroots movements such as "Blexit" and "Walk Away" sweeping the nation, several reliably Democratic voting blocks could be slipping away.  The Daily Caller's Lisa Smiley says that she believes Asians should leave the Democratic Party.  "Democrats have duped Asians into voting against our own self-interest," Smiley claims.  [Video clip]

Calls to jail Attorney General Barr grow from Democratic ranks.  In the days since the House Judiciary Committee voted to hold Attorney General Bill Barr in contempt of Congress, more and more Democratic lawmakers have opened the door to the possibility of arresting the Justice Department leader in a bid to force cooperation — despite party powerbrokers signaling opposition to such a radical step.  The committee last week voted to hold Barr in contempt for failing to comply with a congressional subpoena for Special Counsel Robert Mueller's unredacted Russia report and underlying materials, as President Trump asserted executive privilege to protect those same files from release.

The Liberal Hypocrites Who Want to Be Our Moral Betters.  The most recent attempts of the left to play the part of public virtue police recalls an almost infinite treasury of liberal hypocrisy:
  •   Demanding that private businesses (like Christian bakeries) be forced to violate their convictions of conscience by baking homosexual "wedding" cakes (though not critiquing Islamic or homosexual bakeries for similar practices) while defending other "private" businesses (like Facebook) censoring or de-platforming whomever they wish
  •   Insisting that the government be allowed to regulate the most nitpicking minutiae of private life, down to how many ounces of soda you can drink, while equally insisting that the same government should never interfere in "private" decisions about your body (like, say, a woman extinguishing the life of her offspring inutero)
  •   Lambasting the "violence" of "hate speech" (i.e., speech that dissents from leftist dogma) while assaulting restaurant patrons for wearing MAGA hats
  •   Demanding that American taxpayers freely allow aliens to illegally cross into their communities, and blasting those who disagree as "racists," while themselves choosing to live in predominantly white, low-immigrant areas; building expansive walls around their own homes; and steadfastly refusing to open their own properties to immigrants when asked

The youths in the Democratic Party are angry.  Sixty-eight chapters of the College Democrats are urging voters not to donate to the party's congressional-campaign arm after it instituted a new policy to protect incumbents from primary challenges.  The protesting students say that the change will deter young candidates and people from historically marginalized communities from running for office.  Their outrage isn't just noteworthy because they represent younger voters in the electorate — these young people are also some of the party's key organizers and activists.

Trump is not a dictator, Nadler is.  Our political system is being weaponized against itself.  I understand that [New York Democrat Rep. Jerrold] Nadler is upset about the refusal of the A.G. to participate in some kind of show trial he was arranging after 5 hours of Barr's testimony before the Senate, but to the extent anyone is acting like a dictator here it's unfortunately Nadler.  He has lost all perspective.  Nancy Pelosi then piled on as well calling the Attorney General a criminal.  You may or may not like Barr's demeanor, answers or his summary of the Mueller report, but he is no criminal nor does he deserve this kind of unrestrained disrespect.  It's really hard to understand why Nadler or Pelosi believe this kind of personal vitriol will be rewarded at the ballot box.

Ilhan Omar: The Left's Ideal American.  When President Donald Trump, the New York Post and others criticized Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) for describing 9/11 as the day "some people did something," Democrats responded in near-robotic unison.  Omar was under attack because of her religion and ethnicity, they said.  Her critics were inciting violence.  Some top Democrats evidently were queasy about having to defend Omar's remarks, and a few did not.  The party fell in line behind her anyway.  The upshot of the Omar controversy is that the Left is so committed to multiculturalism when push comes to shove, they have little choice but to downplay the terrorist atrocities of September 11, 2001.  That the left cannot come down firmly on the side of their own country regarding the worst terror attack in U.S. history seems a natural enough development, given their embrace of diversity as the end of all politics.

Ilhan Omar Praises A Communist And Terrorist As "One Of My Idols".  Rep. Ilhan Omar, who can't seem to stay out of the news for saying crazy things, had her latest "hold my beer" moment a few days ago.  This took place at a rally called "Black Women in Defense of Ilhan Omar."  What exactly they are defending her from except her own vile statements, I'm not sure. [...] If you watch the video, you see Omar tearing up as she describes Angela Davis as an "idol" and proclaims her an inspiration in her life.  Just who is Angela Davis?  She's a rabid anti-Semite, a communist who supported the Soviet Union, and aided a terrorist plot.  Davis was a member of the Black Panther Party during the 60s and 70s, where she purchased guns used to murder a judge.  She eventually fled and made it on the FBI's 10 most wanted list.

Thelma Nadler and Louise Schiff.  The electorate has had enough of collusion conspiracy theorists and Trump truthers.  This is reflected in the latest public opinion polls as well as the ratings of cable networks that continue to push the most implausible narratives of White House skullduggery.  CNN, for example, managed to lose more than a quarter of its viewers in April.

Hollywood is floundering.  This past Easter weekend at the box office was the worst in more than a decade.  The big studios with their mega-budget franchises (where would Hollywood be today without Marvel Comics?) increasingly have to resort to overseas profits to keep afloat.  Showbiz awards shows, which have degenerated into self-congratulatory displays of anti-Trump virtue-signaling, have been failing spectacularly, posting record low ratings year after year.  Trump Derangement Syndrome has caused celebs to publicly double down on their contempt for all those unwoke Americans in the flyover states, pushing audiences farther away than ever before.

Now we know for sure that Trump is the better man.  [Scroll down]  These are arrogant people who, like most leftists today, see nothing good in America worth preserving.  They are supremely confident that none of the nonsense policies being promulgated by the crazy gaggle of Democrat presidential candidates will ever affect them.  The widespread contamination of San Francisco's streets with human feces and discarded needles does not seem to bother Nancy Pelosi one bit, as she has opposed every possible solution.  She continues to encourage migrants from Central America to make their way to her sanctuary city.  As long as the border remains a thorn in Trump's side, the Democrats are willing to see the country invaded.  So what if the criminals among them maim and kill innocent Americans?  They won't likely be roaming about in their neighborhoods.

Should Natural Born Citizenship Be a Requirement for All Federal Elected Offices?  [Ilhan] Omar comes, as an immigrant, from a different cultural milieu, and she could not be expected to understand how Americans, given our culture and history, would interpret her statements.  Whether joking about the American view of terrorist organization al Qaeda, dismissing the notion that America is a "Christian" nation, or referring to the 9/11 terrorist attacks as "some people did something," Omar's apparent indifference to American culture and history has been showcased on multiple occasions.  It is fitting, albeit ironic, that Omar, a naturalized American citizen, by raising an accusation of dual loyalty and self-dealing against other Americans, has opened the door to a conversation about whether natural born citizenship should in fact be a requirement for the very office she holds.

Living in Leftlandia.  [Scroll down]  They live in La-la Land, in Leftlandia, saturated in fantasies filled with pots of gold at the ends of LGBT rainbows.  They never touch down. [...] They believe they can pretend to be a gender other than what they were born with and that if they can browbeat the rest of us into playing their game, that it will be true.  They even believe they can make up new genders no one's ever heard of before.  They might as well imagine themselves to be unicorns as far as reality is concerned, but they're not concerned with reality.

De Blasio's 'green' skyscraper idea is pure stupidity.  There's a concrete reason for Mayor de Blasio's notion to ban New York city's "classic glass and steel skyscrapers" — he's got rocks in his head.  Has any officeholder ever turned so viciously on his own town?  De Blasio's poisonous City Hall reign is distinguished by corruption, laziness and incompetence — but not by rank stupidity.  Until today.  He wants New York to be "first of any major city on the Earth" to make building owners "clean up your act ... to save energy."  De Blasio knows nothing about New York City because he has no love for it.  Unlike his every predecessor, he doesn't go to museums, concerts or restaurants.

Here are 5 reasons Trump will win re-election.  [#4] Democrats find themselves in the unenviable position of being in favor of illegal immigration.  The president continually outmaneuvers liberal leadership in Congress by recasting debates in unexpected ways.  The idea of shipping illegal immigrants into so-called "sanctuary cities" has exposed progressive hypocrisy on the matter.  If they refuse to help the feds enforce our immigration laws, well then, let them reap what they sow.  Plenty of swing voters who have a very positive view of legal immigration have a very negative view of illegal immigration, and that works in the president's favor.

Some Things to Ponder.  There's a push to change laws to permit both criminals serving time and ex-criminals the right to vote.  Guess which party is pushing the most for these legal changes.  If you guessed that it was the Democrats, go to the head of the class.  Bernie Sanders says states should allow felons to vote from behind bars.  Elizabeth Warren doesn't go that far but believes felons should have the right to vote.  Democrats want the criminal class to have voting rights restored because they could become a significant part of the Democratic base.  These are America's murderers, rapists, burglars, child molesters and drug dealers.  Over two million of these people are in prison.

Rep. Liz Cheney:  Speaker Pelosi Is Not In Control Of Her Caucus.  Congresswoman Liz Cheney said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is "not in control of her caucus."  Cheney made the comment in a recent interview, and suggested Pelosi has lost control in the first 100 days of the new Congress, "because the far-left radicals" have really set the agenda.  In outlining how House Democrats have shifted further Left, Cheney cited their "embrace of socialism," and refusal to bring the "born alive protection act to the floor" among other factors.  She also called on people to speak out against socialism.

Here it comes:  Rep. Tlaib blasts Dem leadership.  The first overt sign of the trouble that lies ahead for Nancy Pelosi and the Democrat leadership with the emergence of a radical Muslim wing of the party arrived Saturday [4/13/2019].  Following the discovery of a video clip of Rep. Omar referring to 911 as "some people did something," the blowback has been fierce, including in deep blue New York City, where the wounds of death and destruction (and lingering health issues among first responders) still are very painful.  Rep. Tlaib is not happy with what she perceives as inadequate support for her fellow Muslima in Congress, and extended the criticism on this specific issue by another Twitter user into a broader attack on the party leadership: [...]

Will The Democratic Party Faithful Ever Notice Their Leaders Are Crazy?  After almost two weeks of critical media coverage of Joe Biden's handsy history, poll after poll indicates most Democrats do not care.  The latest Quinnipiac poll — of California, no less — has the yet-to-announce Biden easily leading Bernie Sanders and favorite daughter Kamala Harris.  This poll also has Harris performing better among white liberals than nonwhite voters.  These findings are mostly news to the progressive elites at the top of Democratic politics and the establishment media.  The data suggesting the Democratic Party is an upstairs/downstairs coalition in which a small faction of disproportionately white progressives dominate a more diverse rank-and-file has been piling up in studies by More in Common, Pew, and Gallup.  In recent days, some in the media have finally begun to notice.

NY Dems Approve $27 Million In Tuition Aid For Illegals, Cap Tuition Aid For Gold Star Families At $2.7 Million.  Last week, the New York Assembly approved a bill that will provide $27 million in college tuition aid for illegal immigrants.  This week, a bill to increase college tuition aid for Gold Star families from its current level of $2.7 million was blocked.  State lawmakers think it's okay to provide $2.7 million for the children of deceased and disabled military veterans when they are providing ten times that amount for the children of illegal immigrants.

Ilhan Omar's outrageous write-off of 9/11's horrors.  How pathetic:  A member of Congress can't acknowledge what happened on one of the most horrific days in US history.  In a March 23 speech, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) complained of "the discomfort of being a second-class citizen" before claiming the Council on American-Islamic Relations "was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something, and [Muslims] were starting to lose access to our civil liberties."  Some people did something?  Wow.  What a way to describe the heinous surprise attack on America that claimed 3,000 lives.  Especially when Omar's focus was Muslim rights:  That made it all the more vital to note that the terrorists acted in the name of Islam — as self-described "jihadists" in a war against America, Israel and the West.  To call them merely "some people" is to deny a cancer festering in the world Muslim community.

My FDNY son's death on 9/11 was more than just 'something'.  What Congresswoman Ilhan Omar said about Sept. 11 was disgraceful.  She dismissed thousands of people being murdered like it was an everyday occurrence when she said "some people did something."  On 9/11/01 my son, firefighter Jimmy Riches was murdered along with close to 3,000 American citizens by Muslim terrorists.

Voters: On Illegal Immigration, the Democrats Are Nuts.  Do you think illegal immigration is a serious problem?  If you are like 67 percent of likely voters, you do.  If you think illegal immigration is a very serious problem, you have plenty of company — 47 percent of voters.  Of course, if you are running for president as a Democrat, you don't think illegal immigration is a problem at all.  Eight percent of likely voters agree with you.  Not only do none of the Democratic presidential candidates want to build the wall, some of them want to tear down barriers where they already exist.

Trump is Popping in the Polls.  Watch most cable or network news shows and the message is clear — President Donald Trump is unpopular, especially compared to the dozens of fresh faces attempting to challenge him for the White House in 2020. Some of the faces are not so fresh as three of the leading contenders — Biden, Sanders, and Warren are septuagenarians.  Despite the exonerating Mueller report, Trump is still on the ropes, about to be impeached, a Russian agent, and so on.  Trump is also a Nazi, racist, homophobe, Islamophobe, and sexist pig.  Nobody likes him.  At least that's what CNN says.  If this was truly the case, Trump should be polling in the low 30s at best, with most of the country giving him and his administration a thumbs down on performance and results.  Yet reality is far different.

Trump dinner draws only 10 protesters.  Kinfolk said President Trump, Californie is the place you oughta be, so he loaded up Air Force One plane and flew to Beverly.  Hills that is.  Dinner party.  Raising funds for Republicans.  Drew 170 to 400 guests who paid from $15,000 to $150,000 to attend.  And 10 protesters.  That's it.  In a state of 28 million native Americans and 11 million immigrants (27% of the state is foreign born), the Marxist fascists couldn't get more than 10 people to care about protesting Drumpf.

Why do the least-bright people rise to the top?  That the greatest nation on the planet has to suffer fools like Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell, Maxine Waters, Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, every anchor at CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS and NBC, Bill Maher, all the late-night not-comics, celebrities who pay to get their kids into colleges they would not be admitted to on their own merit, is a tragedy, the tragedy of wealth and success.  Our left bothers itself with mounting numbers of gender identities, intersectionality, non-sensical notions about race (they now support segregation), and the thoroughly idiotic obsession with climate change.  This is the plight of a wealthy nation.  The leftists have to invent things to be mad about.  There can never be happiness, gratitude for what our nation has accomplished and provided to the rest of the word.  No.  There can only be anger, dissatisfaction and rage against old crimes, slights and perceived offenses.

Hollywood: Do You Know Why You're in Georgia?  [Scroll down]  In other words, if you want the benefits of financial conservatism, then you're going to have to be at least content with conservative legislation on abortion and the like.  The same political worldview that has created an economic climate that allows for the creation of thousands of jobs and billions in revenue in the film industry is the same political worldview that protects life in the womb, believes marriage is the union of one man and one woman, believes that boys don't belong in girls' locker rooms, and so on.  These positions have proved quite politically popular in Georgia, and that is why the GOP is in power here.  Ignorant of such facts, for weeks now dozens of Hollywood actors and actresses have threatened the state of Georgia over a recently passed — but yet to be signed into law — pro-life "fetal heartbeat" law.

For Peace in America, We Must Return to the Rule of Law.  The Left has simply become evil.  That is not to say all registered Democrats or Democrat politicians are necessarily evil, but the national-level leadership of the party and their primary backers represent a genuinely evil, oppressive, authoritarian, and — not coincidentally — anti-Semitic program (under the thin veneer of vicious, rabid anti-Zionism).  They either represent this mindset outright (e.g., vice DNC chairman Keith Ellison, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, etc.) or are unwilling to summon the elemental courage to oppose these trends effectively in their own party (e.g., Pelosi, Schumer).  What is more, almost uniformly among their leaders — to include the likes of Pelosi and Schumer — they will stoop to any level of dishonesty and corruption in order to obtain or maintain power (e.g., the Stalinesque Kavanaugh "show trial" hearings, the vote fraud spectacles we saw in Florida and California this past midterm election, advocating for illegal aliens to vote, advocating lowering the voting age to 16, etc.).

Communism in Our Schools and in Our Politics.  The Democratic Party has been sliding more and more to the Left for decades.  Now there is no doubt in my mind that they have embraced communism.  The Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA) supported Barack Obama in 2012 and its leadership said it would vote for Hillary Clinton but did not officially endorse her in 2016.  "God" was booed at the 2012 Democratic Party convention.  The communist drift that has gone on in that party for decades seems fulfilled in the candidacy of Bernie Sanders and the ascendancy and election of a list of presidential candidates who have embraced the so-called Green New Deal, which is nothing less than a full-fledged plan for the government takeover of the entire economy, suggests the growing ascendancy of communism within our beloved USA. [...] Opposition to the Democrats must then be couched in a biblical, pro-Christ agenda to be valid.  Republican conservatism without justification in Christ is just another man-made, fallible doctrine destined to collapse, or to lead to sin and hopelessness.  Political aspirations will fail the country if not built on the foundation of Jesus Christ.

Tutoring Eric Holder on American Greatness.  While [Eric] Holder's dismissal of American greatness might seem surprising to the vast majority of mainstream Americans, it is central to the progressive organizing philosophy of grievance with American norms, American success, and promotion of racial division.  The progressive left has converted American industrial might in the 20th century to an example of environmental degradation.  The progressive left has converted American military superiority into tropes of imperialism.  The progressive left has used America's now 154-year-old institution of slavery as an excuse for modern-day violence and criminality.  Holder really means it when he says that America was never great in the first place.  He blesses us with his honesty, an honesty that exposes his rank radicalism.  His honesty illustrates to mainstream Americans what the age of Obama, Holder, Tom Perez, and Valerie Jarrett was really all about:  dismantling the totems of American greatness.

Democrats Display Transgender Flags Outside of Capitol Hill Offices.  The freshman class in the House have brought "firsts" to Capitol Hill, including a change of rules to allow Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) to wear a hijab on the House floor and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introducing the controversial Green New Deal resolution that has put socialism in the spotlight.  When Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) was sworn in in January, she was the first to hang a transgender flag outside of her office in the Longworth Office Building.

Eric Holder goes on MAGA-rant that takes a dark turn: 'Exactly when did you think America was great?'.  Former Attorney General Eric Holder fired a shot at America's past as he questioned the thoughts behind President Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan[.]  Holder declared that America's greatness "never, in fact, really existed" during an interview on MSNBC's "The Beat With Ari Melber" on Wednesday [3/27/2019].  The Obama-era attorney general, who has decided not to run as a Democratic presidential candidate for 2020 so he can focus on issues like partisan redistricting and criminal justice reform, was expounding on those topics when host Ari Melber asked about America's past.

A Brief Survey of 2020's Psychotic Democratic Roster.  There was a superb column at The Federalist on Wednesday [3/20/2019] by George S. Bardmesser:  "Every Time Democrats Talk, I Want to Vote for Trump Twice." [...] He was a reluctant Trump-voter but is now completely on board the Trump train.  Why?  Because the current crop of Democrat candidates are moonbats all, with the possible exception of Howard Schultz, who has yet to officially throw his hat in the ring.  Mr. Bardmesser addresses in passing the election of Mlles.  Ocasio-Cortez and Tlaib, and the presidential candidacies of Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, and Joe Biden.  Each of them, as that author points out, is a thorough socialist nutjob.  Each of them is trying to out-fanaticalize the others.  Each of them is absolutely clueless about the American people outside the far-left bubbles all of them inhabit.  Mr. Bardmesser neglects to mention the bizarre, phony, and disturbing "Beto" O'Rourke; Kirsten Gillibrand; and Andrew Yang.

The 'Burn It Down!' Democrats.  There are some Democrats out there in the sticks — a lot of them, in fact — who simply don't understand the constitutional order.  They believe that the United States is a democracy, John Adams et al. [notwithstanding], and, in fact, they often are confused by the frankly anti-democratic features of the American order, because they have been taught (theirs is a pseudo-education consisting of buzzwords rather than an actual education) that "democratic" means "good" and "undemocratic" means "bad."  But the Democrats in Washington are a different story.  Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris went to law school.  They understand the American constitutional order just fine.  And they hate it.

Concerned citizen calls out liberal city council who treat him with total contempt.  When left-wing politicians claim to be "for the people," they never mean it.  You see it every day in how left-wing politicians behave on the national stage and on the local stage.  Take for instance the disgusting contempt that the virulently left-wing, elitist members of the Seattle City Council displayed earlier this month when a local voter showed up at a "public comment" hearing to express his concerns about the state of American democracy.  From the get-go, members of the council seemed to ignore the voter, choosing to stare down at their phones and paperwork instead of turning their heads up and actually listening.

Stick a Fork in O'Rourke.  [Joe] Biden, despite his efforts to masquerade as the vanguard of what is now called progressivism, is politically sane and, if nominated, might hold his shaggy legions back from holus-bolus embrace of the many suicide potions being offered to the Democratic contestants.  To date, the most lethal intoxicants that have been extolled by some of the candidates are legalized infanticide, open borders, reparations to African and other minority Americans, nationalized health care, a fascistic and Luddite green policy, and top personal-tax rates above 70 percent.  So far, this cocktail, which is such an assault on the sanity of an electorate that it could reduce the Democrats to splinters, has scared off Michael Bloomberg, Sherrod Brown, and Hillary Clinton[.]

President Trump Notes "Strange" Candidate Platform.  In addition to promoting infanticide; eliminating borders and Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) and banning guns; the Democrats have all signed on to The Green New Deal, which advocates for:  raising taxes, paying people not to work, eliminating air travel, banning cows and rebuilding every structure in America to run on 'sustainable energy'.  The platform is now expanding to:  lowering the voting age to 16; eliminating the electoral college; placing term limits on federal judges; and adding more Justices to the Supreme Court to advance the aforementioned progressive values.

The Emerging Democratic Minority.  The biases of the media are so pervasive that there is little recognition of the steady disintegration of the Democrats, though it is occurring every day.  Rational and intelligent members of the center-Left write to me every week with new concerns about where the Left is going.  The Democratic National Committee's decision not to allow Fox News to put on one of their candidates' debates confirms the weakness of the party and of its leaders.  The process of atomizing society into smaller and smaller bearers of less and less widespread grievances, on each of which the whole movement of protest, uproot, reveal, and punish is in constant paroxysms of righteousness, is becoming louder and faster and more absurdly overwrought by the day.

Advantage is not a verb, but you get the idea.
Are the Democrats Advantaging the Republicans for 2020?  The Democrats have assumed much political risk with their policy proposals and tactics.  For example, I am a registered Independent who has voted for Democrats, including Kerry and Obama.  I can say with absolute certainty that I will never vote for a Democrat again because the party is now largely anathema to all I believe in.  I am certain that I am not alone in that determination and that cannot possibly bode well for the Democrat party in the next election cycle.

Because they hate America...
2020 Dems Avoiding Red, White and Blue Colors.  The Dem base consists of people who would rather burn an American flag than hug one.  These are primaries which means that the lefty fringe will be overepresented and red, white and blue will just trigger them.  Plus the hipster design studios they'll be relying on are stocked full of the same people.  Add on the fact that the rest of the base will lean heavily toward tribal demos and it's a sure thing.

Another Democrat cooks up a health care plan even crazier than Bernie's.  Is rabidly far-left rep.  Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) trying to become the Ilhan Omar of the health care industry?  Sure looks like it, given her new Medicare-for-All proposal to be unveiled in the House as a new bill today.  The "Medicare for All Act of 2019," put out by Jayapal, is so left-wing that even the left-leaning Axios says it makes Bernie Sanders look like a piker.

Chase Bank Denies Service to Conservatives.  It's hard to imagine how conservatives could be even more complacent than they actually are about what's being done to this country.  The schools our children are taught in are almost universally run by liberals who hate everything we stand for, but we don't demand that our representatives pull funding from state schools that behave that way.  Hollywood has become vocally, over-the-top hostile to Christians and conservatives, but we go see the movies anyway.  We still buy the papers and watch the cable news shows of networks that talk about us like we're Nazis because we don't agree with their liberal worldview.

Trump will 'win in a landslide' if Dems run on socialism, vegetarianism and reparations:  Mollie Hemingway.  The latest policy positions from Democrats seeking the White House may hand President Trump a solid re-election victory in 2020, the Federalist senior editor Mollie Hemingway argued Friday [2/22/2019].  A lot has changed since Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were the Democratic Party's standard-bearers.  Neither supported reparations for African-Americans, but now several candidates are embracing the proposal — including U.S. Sens. Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro.

Portland Listening Session Turns Into Extremist [Fiasco] As Activists Demand Police Force Be Disbanded.  Last week a Portland police lieutenant named Jeff Niiya was accused of colluding with right-wing protest group Patriot Prayer after a string of his texts were released to the public.  Lt. Niiya's job is to coordinate with protest groups coming to the city and the texts show him doing just that, i.e. chatting with Patriot Prayer's Joey Gibson about the group's intentions and planned movements.  As I noted last week, Lt. Niiya has previously been in close contact with a member of Antifa who became an outcast when other members of the group learned she'd be talking with police.  But the texts with Patriot Prayer were seen as something far more sinister by the far-left denizens of Portland.  That included left-wing city commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty who declared the texts were proof police were in "collusion with right-wing extremists."

Nebraska state senator compares American flag to Nazi swastika.  Nebraska state Sen. Ernie Chambers on Tuesday compared the American flag with the Nazi swastika on the floor of the legislature.  "I don't come here for this rag every day, and it's a rag.  That's all it is to me," said Chambers about respecting the flag.  "When you show a way to persuade Jews to sanctify and worship the swastika, when you show me that I'll come up here and stand while you all hypocritically pretend that rag is something that it definitely is not."

Gallup: Liberals outnumber conservatives in only 6 states, down from 9.  The number of states where liberals outnumber conservatives has dropped more than 30 percent, with just six now in that category:  Massachusetts, Hawaii, Vermont, Washington, New York, and New Hampshire.  According to the latest Gallup survey, in every other state but California, where conservatives and liberals split 29 percent to 29 percent, conservatives lead.  Nationally, those who identify themselves conservative hold a nine-point lead.

The GOP Is Trying A Bold New Tactic That Has The Democrats Terrified.  The Democrats, it seems, are finally being forced to confront the logical and foreseeable outcome of large numbers of Americans finally understanding what they stand for.

Gillibrand Agrees With Activist Saying Wall Cuts 'Indigenous People' Off From United States.  Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D., N.Y.) agreed with an activist's claim on Monday [2/18/2019] that a southern border wall cuts off "indigenous people" from being in the United States.  Gillibrand, one of a growing field of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, said while campaigning in Iowa that she agreed with Christine Nobiss's assessment of there being a "crisis" at the border.  Nobiss is a Native American and "Decolonizer" with Seeding Sovereignty, an activist organization with a self-described aim to "seed paths of personal, community, cultural, and energy sovereignty by amplifying voices of new leaders working to stop violence to womxn and Mother Earth."

Democrats Don't Want ICE Notified When Illegal Aliens Try to Purchase Guns.  As the debate over illegal immigration continues to rage, Democrats continue to prove they are proponents of open borders and lawlessness.  The latest example comes from Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz, who is berating Democrats for protecting illegal aliens who attempt to purchase firearms and fail a background check.

Democrats suddenly realize their Maduro-love is going to cost them Florida in 2020.  For years, Democrats have fallen over themselves to defend Latin American communist dictatorships. [...] They've always gotten away with it.  Until now.  They suddenly are realizing that the Maduro-lovers and Trump-resisters in their ranks, who happen to be some of their biggest "it" girls with the loudest voices — Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard — have supported Venezuela's detested Maduro regime in recent weeks ... and it's not just them.  Other Democrats are also in their tree — think of old dinosaurs such as Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who was all worried about the U.S. invading Venezuela, and Silent Ted Deutch representing south Florida in Congress.  Supporting a socialist regime just seems to come natural in the Democratic Party.  And for that, they're all kissing the purple swing state of Florida goodbye for the Democrats in 2020.

Abortion and the Politics of Self-Destruction.  President Trump has been a strong friend of Israel and has moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem.  Republican presidents have traditionally been pro-Israel.  Barack Obama made a deal to create a nuclear Iran, a country that wants to exterminate the Jewish state.  Yet, "American Jews tend to favor Democrat candidates, with 71% of Jewish voters choosing Democrat candidates and only 25% choosing Republicans since 1968."  Voting against their interests

Democrats' 'Sit-In' Is a Stain on Their White Coats.  The success of the State of the Union address is usually measured in standing ovations, but President Trump's 2019 speech is best measured by how often Democrats stayed planted in their seats. [...] [S]ince the white coats supposedly spoke for the average American, surely they must have applauded when the president told the success story of the American economy.  No.  You would be wrong to think so.  As the president recounted the historic lows in unemployment for blacks, Latinos and Asian-Americans, the Democrats could not be bothered to stand or even applaud politely.  There they sat.  When the president announced that "[u]nemployment for Americans with disabilities has also reached an all-time low," the camera panned across the white-coated exemplars of compassion and empathy to find them scratching their noses or pulling their ear lobes, looking for all the world like they could not care less.

Omar calls for defunding Homeland Security — 1 hour after insisting that TSA workers get backpay.  Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., continues her streak of controversial tweets, this time taking aim at the Department of Homeland Security.  In a tweet Friday night, the freshman congresswoman refers to President Trump as "Individual 1," and insists he doesn't have "public support" to "ram his hateful wall through Congress."  "Let's stand firm: #Not1Dollar to DHS," Omar then urges fellow Democrats. [...] But just an hour before calling for DHS to be defunded, as Fox News anchor Rob Schmidt points out, Omar tweeted her outrage on behalf of TSA workers in Minnesota who haven't received back pay due to the recent partial government shutdown.

Tell The Social Justice Warrior Mobs To Go Pound Sand.  I'm not going to pretend to be "better than that" because I am loving this Virginia clusterfest of liberal hypocrisy and I hope it never, ever ends.  Wreck-It ("It" being the VA Democrat Party) Ralph Northam may well resign by the time this column posts, and his allegedly Weinsteiny lieutenant governor Justin Fairfax may be just-inaugurated and just-tossed out not long after.  This is so great.  It couldn't happen to a couple of nicer hypocrites.

Bunch of White Women Dressed in White  not applauding during talk of record minority employment — not a good look. [...] Well, they didn't stand for the minority employment, but the women stood for record employment of women.  Seems kinda ... selfish.

Trump's SOTU reveals the angry ladies of the left.  Trump's SOTU speech was wonderful, factual and optimistic.  It was a celebration of America and the successes of the last two years.  No one would know it by the visible response of the ladies in white (allegedly an homage to women's suffrage), the mostly newly elected Democrat congresswomen.  The only part of the speech they sincerely applauded was themselves — more women in Congress.  For most of the rest of the speech, they sat on their hands, looking mad (Mazie Hirono), glum (all of them), petulant and dismissive (Kamala Harris), bored and studiously disinterested (Nancy Pelosi).  Pelosi, along with Schumer, the rudest person in Congress ever, seemed to be masticating something throughout the entire speech.  Her bizarre mouth movements are as annoying as they are distracting.

Northam provides latest shame for sanctimonious Dems.  Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam's political career is about to be aborted, although presumably the cracker Democrat is being "kept comfortable" in his final moments as the party elders hold "discussions" about the "tragic and difficult circumstances" in which he finds himself.  Oh wait, those were the very terms the erstwhile Social Justice Warrior had used only hours earlier to describe the infanticide that his party was enthusiastically proposing to legalize in the Old Dominion.  As Northam himself noted as recently as Thursday [1/31/2019], in the case of "severe deformities," sometimes a decision must be made, for the good of all parties, in this case the Democrat party.

A growing record of insanity.  It's hard to keep up with the tsunami of cultural and economic insanity thundering through a thousand outlets every day, but here's a try. [...] Sen. Kamala Harris, California Democrat, wants to end all private health insurance plans and put the government solely in charge.  She's not even bothering to falsely promise, as did President Obama, that everyone can keep their health plan and doctor if they like them.  She wants no escape.  Elizabeth "Pocahontas" Warren wants to seize and redistribute income from "the rich" and backs government control of corporations and "Medicare for all."  Meanwhile, Democrats are deploying the LGBTQ legal agenda to criminalize conservative religious views, using transgenderism as the spearpoint.  After enacting their radical, full-term abortion bill, New York legislators passed a law three days later enshrining the LGBTQ activist agenda and another bill criminalizing counseling for young people with unwanted same-sex desires.  Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York Democrat, signed both with fanfare.

Who Are The Deplorables Now?  Leftists are masters of projection.  They are constantly accusing the Right of the crimes they commit themselves.  Leftists think of everything in terms of race, yet they call conservatives racist.  Leftist feminists judge women by whether they meet male measures of success, yet they call conservatives sexist.  Leftists want the government to be able to control every thought, word, action, and dollar in the country, yet they call conservatives fascist.

Virginia governor story shows we don't need the media.  Big League Politics today exposed Democrat Governor Ralph Northam.  It ran a racist photo in his page in his yearbook at Eastern Virginia Medical School in 1984.  Not high school.  Not college.  Medical school.  Northam refused to shake the hand of his Republican black opponent in the lieutenant governor's race in 2013 after a debate.  Nevertheless, the media portrayed Republicans as racists in the 2017 gubernatorial race.

Governor Northam Must Go — But For The Right Reason.  As politics go, it is hardly possible to have a more disastrous week than Democratic Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has.  After openly attempting to rationalize — even normalize — the euthanizing of newborns, Northam placed himself firmly in the crosshairs of practically everyone who has a shred of humanity.  As a direct result of that moment of infamy — one can safely assume — someone dug into the governor's past and came up with his 1984 yearbook from medical school.  One photograph on his page in that yearbook will likely end the governor's political career.

Democrat Who Laughed Out Loud at Pledge of Allegiance will Deliver Dem's SOTU Response in Spanish.  On Tuesday [1/29/2019] it was announced that California Attorney General Xavier Becerra will deliver the Dems' State of the Union response in Spanish.  Schumer and Pelosi praised the incredibly corrupt California Attorney General with more Marxist doublespeak.

House Democrats to Strike 'So Help Me God' from Oath.  A draft of a new committee rules package expected to be approved this week would strike the phrase, "So help me God," from the oath witnesses take when they testify before the House Committee on Natural Resources.  Fox News says it received an exclusive copy of the committee's draft that places the phrase in red brackets, a sign the words are slated to be eliminated.

Identity Stalinism.  [T]he roar of racist rage from the great and good directed at an innocent Kentucky boy is all about implementing the Democrats' grand strategy, which is to assemble a coalition of the margins of American society:  immigrants, welfare mothers, tech billionaires, transgenders, hedge-fund guys, black church ladies, gays, Jews, the unmarried, movie stars, felons, and so forth and so on.  In contrast, the more similar you are to a Minuteman of 1776, the more likely you are to vote Republican.  The GOP appeals to Core Americans, the Democrats to Fringe Americans.  Mass immigration offers the Democrats good reason to hope to overwhelm their foes in the long run.  But merely listing the Democrats' constituent interest groups points out the main problem with their master plan:  Their various fringes can't stand one another.

The Left Doesn't Hate the US; It Hates Us.  When Barack Obama became president with full control of both houses of Congress, the left was ecstatic.  Some were proud of their country for the first time, blissfully unaware that most Americans had always been proud of America.  It was clear to Democrats that citizens had finally agreed to give them the opportunity and power to realize their dream of a "fair" America of equal outcome with an unchecked government elite making all decisions for everybody in a socialist utopia where everyone can have everything they want, and no decisions or policies could ever be wrong and thus ever reviewable.

Deleted Doc:  Dem Candidate Katie Porter Backs Reparations, Far-Left Agenda.  A document that was deleted from the website of a progressive group shows Democratic congressional candidate Katie Porter, who is running in California's competitive 45th district against Republican representative Mimi Walters, would immediately back a far-left agenda and legislation if elected to Congress, including creating a commission to study reparations for slavery.  The document was uploaded to the Progressive Democrats of America's website but was deleted after the Washington Free Beacon contacted the group over a similar document in relation to Harley Rouda, the Democratic candidate in California's 48th congressional district.  Before contacting the group about Rouda's answers, the Free Beacon downloaded responses by other candidates in the event the group scrubbed the files from the site, which they did.

Report of Abrams burning Georgia state flag resurfaces weeks before election.  A decades-old news article about Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (D) burning the state flag, which at the time included the Confederate battle flag, resurfaced on Monday [10/22/2018].  Abrams stood on the steps of the Georgia Capitol in 1992 and burned the Georgia state flag, which was viewed as a symbol of white supremacy due to its Confederate design, The New York Times reported.  She was a freshman at Spelman College in Atlanta at the time and now her role in the protest is being reexamined as she faces a close race with her Republican opponent, Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp.  The rivals are scheduled for their first debate on Tuesday.

Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams helped torch state flag during college protest.  The Democratic gubernatorial nominee in Georgia, Stacey Abrams, helped light a state flag on fire on the steps of the state's Capitol in June 1992, as part of a protest that her campaign on Monday night characterized as an effort to "overcome racially divisive issues."  The flag at the time incorporated designs from the Confederate battle flag, and Abrams, then a freshman at Atlanta's Spelman College, was one of about a dozen demonstrators involved, according to contemporaneous newspaper accounts and several social media posts that surfaced the issue late Monday [10/22/2018].

Burning with ambition and lunacy.  [Scroll down]  In Arizona, Democratic senatorial candidate Kyrsten Sinema got caught trashing her home state.  In a clip from her speech at Netroots Nation, she calls Arizona "the meth lab of democracy."  In another, she shares "things that you can do to stop your state from becoming Arizona."  Emails reported in The Washington Examiner reveal that she invited a feminist witches coven called Pagan Cluster to help celebrate International Women's Day and protest the Iraq war in March of 2003.  Later that year, she wrote about a Miami protest in which she was "singing and spiraling in the pagan's circle only 5 rows back from the police line."

Group Aided by Andrew Gillum Teaches Kids to Glorify Deadly Palestinian Terrorist Organization.  Dream Defenders, a radical organization closely associated with Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum, compiled an education tool for U.S. teachers that glorifies the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a deadly terrorist organization.  The project, which claims to be compatible with common core, pushes "rebellion" and educates students on the PFLP's goal, which is posted on Dream Defenders stationary and quite literally calls for "the destruction of the Zionist state."

Just when you think Kyrsten Sinema couldn't get nuttier, here comes the witchcraft.  As I wrote the other day, gaffe- and idiocy-prone Democratic candidate Kyrsten Sinema is shaping up as the Christine O'Donnell of the Arizona Senate race.  Everything is there but the witchcraft, an unguarded reference to which sank the inexperienced O'Donnell's campaign.  Oh, wait. [...] Like O'Donnell, who glibly told an interviewer she "dabbled" in witchcraft, Sinema dabbled, too — a lot.  Actually, she took a full deep dive.  Why would she invite a bunch of witchcraft practitioners to an anti-war event when there were so many others to choose from?  It sounds as though those were the people she knew.

Democrat Senate Candidate Caught LYING About Her Past.  Interestingly, Sinema wants no affiliation with the Democrats.  In her latest commercials she calls herself, "fiercely Independent".  The commercials imply that Sinema is not a Democrat.  I suggest they even possibly imply that she is a moderate Republican.

Democratic candidate implodes in Arizona.  "When Kyrsten Sinema began her rise in Arizona politics in the early 2000s, she was a Ralph Nader supporter and local spokeswoman for the Green Party who worked to repeal the death penalty and organized antiwar protests after the Sept. 11 attacks," the New York Times reported on September 24.  The story left out a radio interview in 2003 by Ernest Hancock.

AZ Dem Senate Candidate Said 17 Months After 9/11 That She Didn't Care If Americans Joined The Taliban.  In February 2003, appearing on a radio show hosted by a local libertarian activist the day before an anti-war event that was protesting U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, Krysten Sinema, who is running in 2018 as the Democratic Party's candidate for the Arizona Senate, told the host, Ernest Hancock, that she didn't care if Americans wanted to fight for the Taliban.  The exchange started with Hancock asking Sinema if she would oppose him joining the Taliban, saying, "Now you would say, maybe we do owe something to the world, as long as it's nice and sweet and peaceful and what you want to do."

The Left Is Totalitarian By Nature.  Leftism is not simply one opinion among many.  For the Left's votaries, it's closer to a religion.  It's not enough that one is himself a vegan, drives a Prius, doesn't own guns, rejects the traditional family, or anything else that goes with the lifestyle.  It is essential that everyone else does so.  Any deviations are "backwardness" and "divisive" or worse.  That's the whole point of the term progressive.  It assumes history is linear and self-correcting.  It takes for granted that there is something objectively correct about the leftist position, and that all reasonable people in time will adopt it.

After dismissing grieving angel moms, Schumer leads parade of Dems holding pics of furloughed fed workers.  Less than 24 hours after congressional Democrats snubbed a group of grieving "angel moms" who'd sought to speak with them about the ongoing border security/government shutdown fight, these same Democrats held a rally on behalf of another set of purported victims:  furloughed government workers.

Do the Math:  Trump's Wall Is $25 Billion, Illegals Cost $165 Billion.  Trump's push for "the wall" has turned ardent socialists into laissez-faire economists on the issue of illegal immigration — who cares if migration hurts America's most vulnerable?  We need aliens to grow the economy!  This flip-flop has made it clear to ordinary Americans:  the Democratic Party cares more about illegal aliens than it does the common citizen.

If President Trump were really a racist or a Nazi, then please explain these facts.  The Democrat Party has no real love for this country or its national security.  They champion the cause of illegals for one reason only:  voter fraud.  If voter ID laws were passed in 50 states ensuring that only eligible citizens could vote, they'd never win a majority.  As those Democrat politicians vacation in Puerto Rico on the taxpayers dime while the government shutdown continues, this truth is undeniable.  Now build that wall!

30 Democrats from 38 Member Hispanic Caucus Are on Tropical Retreat in Puerto Rico as Shutdown Continues.  Thirty Congressional Democrat are currently in Puerto Rico on a winter retreat as the government shutdown goes into its 4th week.  President Trump is working around the clock during the government shutdown trying to negotiate with Pelosi and Schumer to secure border wall funding.  The Democrats however, are partying at a beach resort in Puerto Rico on day 22 of the government shutdown.  This is the longest government shutdown in US history because Pelosi and Schumer refuse to compromise on a border wall — a wall they were in favor of only a few years back.

Dems fly to Puerto Rico on chartered jet, meet with lobbyists, see 'Hamilton' as shutdown drags on.  Despite a partial government shutdown with no end in sight, about 30 Democratic members of Congress traveled to Puerto Rico this weekend — with their families and lobbyists — for a winter retreat where they also planned to see a special performance of the hit Broadway show "Hamilton."  Those attending the Congressional Hispanic Caucus BOLD PAC gathering in San Juan also planned to meet Saturday with Puerto Rican officials to discuss ongoing cleanup efforts from Hurricane Maria, according to a report.

30 Democrats in Puerto Rico with 109 lobbyists for weekend despite shutdown.  Some 30 Democratic lawmakers left the government shutdown behind Friday [1/11/2019] on a chartered flight to Puerto Rico for a winter retreat with 109 lobbyists and corporate executives during which they planned to see the hit Broadway show "Hamilton" and attend three parties including one with the show's cast.  Those attending the Congressional Hispanic Caucus BOLD PAC winter retreat in San Juan planned to meet with key officials to discuss the cleanup after Hurricane Maria at a roundtable Saturday.  But the weekend is packed with free time for the members and their families on the trip.

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A "chartered flight" means they don't have to put up with TSA screening, like you do.  And what does the "carbon footprint" look like on this chartered jet?

Trump Has the Democrats Cornered.  No sooner had the Democrats taken back the majority in the House of Representatives than they proved their harshest critics correct — the party no longer concerns itself with the interests of the American people.  And by refusing to provide a dime for a physical barrier on our border, they did it in the starkest terms possible.  Led by far-left Nancy Pelosi, who held off a challenge to her leadership from the even farther left, the House Democrats promptly put themselves in the position of being seen taking the side of foreigners entering the country illegally over the security and economic prosperity of American citizens.  They reduced themselves to the absurd position that "walls don't work."

Dems becoming the party of drugs and thugs.  Democrats are the deplorable ones — for putting politics over the safety and security of the American people.  They know that our nation is in the midst of an opioid epidemic, with the drugs poisoning our citizens, destroying families and ravishing communities across the U.S. So doesn't it make sense to secure the porous southern border — by any means necessary — to stop the cartels from bringing fentanyl, heroin and other deadly drugs into our country?  Of course it does, but self-serving Democrats are more interested in scoring political points with their base by resisting the Trump agenda than protecting American lives.  It's no wonder voters hold such a low opinion of politicians.

One more place to boycott:
Red Lobster says Tucker Carlson's show 'no longer in line' with company values, pulls ads.  Red Lobster is pulling advertisements from Tucker Carlson's prime-time Fox News show amid an ongoing boycott against the conservative host for comments he made about illegal immigration and women's pay.  "Red Lobster's advertising buying guidelines reflect our core values and commitment to supporting programming that represents the highest standards of good taste, fair practice and objectivity," the seafood chain said in a statement Tuesday [1/8/2019].  "We reserve the right to make changes to our purchases when the dialogue is no longer in line with our criteria," the company said.

Red Lobster Hillary Cabal Targets Tucker Carlson.  The Red Lobster, which I thought was in the business of selling seafood dinners and lunches, is in another business altogether:  leftwing politics.  The company, owned by an outfit in San Francisco called Golden Gate Capital, is run by a slew of Hillary Clinton supporters who have decided to follow a prompting from an ex-Clinton staffer and make censorship their main product, joining the anti-free press jihad that has made it their business to silence conservatives in the media.

Red Lobster Faces Boycott, Mockery After Pulling Ads From Tucker Carlson.  Fox News has stood behind Carlson, dismissing the advertiser boycott movement as just another campaign waged by "left-wing advocacy groups, under the guise of being supposed 'media watchdogs,'" who "weaponize social media against companies in an effort to stifle free speech."  "It is a shame that left-wing advocacy groups, under the guise of being supposed 'media watchdogs,' weaponize social media against companies in an effort to stifle free speech," Fox News said in a statement.  "We continue to stand by and work with our advertisers through these unfortunate and unnecessary distractions."

Trump's Rhetorical Knockout Blow.  The president was clear, factually unchallengeable, and credible, and Speaker Pelosi and Senator Schumer looked and sounded like a waxworks animated illustration of the embalmer's art and her ventriloquist, the bearer of the broadest forehead since Pericles.  The president spoke of a national-security, economic, and humanitarian crisis, and they spoke of the federal employees who are about to miss a paycheck.

Did Trump win that wall speech?  Surely he did.  Twitter went hog wild, making fun of Pelosi's and Schumer's weird-looking appearance in their public rebuttal to President Trump's argument.  They could have done nothing, as would have been normal for legislative opponents for a presidential speech, but they couldn't stand the idea of President Trump getting that camera time.  They demanded, and got, airtime, too, presumably to flip the "narrative" by making President Trump appear "heartless," and having the last word to boot.  It blew up in their faces.

On a scale of one to ten, last night Trump was a seven and Pelosi/Schumer were a zero.  [Scroll down]  On substance, the two Democrats mouthed familiar talking points on the border:  the transparent lie that Democrats are all for border security but just not walls.  But their main focus was the 25% shutdown, which matters much more to federal bureaucrats than to the general public.  One thing that has got to worry the Democrats for the next two years is that their two leaders are dreadful as persuaders.  Just awful.  And, until they have their presidential nominee, the next highest pubic profile as spokesman is that of Alexandria OcasioCortez, who is a walking, talking exemplar of an ignorant know-it-all.  I give Pelosi-Schumer a two on substance and a negative two on style, with a net rating of zero.

Democrat Sen. Kyrsten Sinema Refuses to Take Oath of Office on Bible.  Newly elected Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema refused to be sworn in on a Bible, opting, instead, to place her right hand on a book of laws, including the U.S Constitution and the Arizona Constitution.  The book Sen. Sinema placed her hand on to be sworn in came from the Library of Congress, her office told the Arizona Republic.

Democrat introduces bill to remove words 'husband' and 'wife' from federal law.  Rep. Julia Brownley, D-Calif., is introducing a bill to rewrite federal laws with gender-neutral terms, codifying the progressive ideological tenet that distinctions between men and women are exclusionary.  Her bill, according to The Hill, would replace the terms "husband" and "wife" in federal law with the word "spouse."  "While the landmark Supreme Court decision ending the ban on same-sex marriage was a historic step in the right direction, there is still more work to be done to ensure that the LGBTQ community is treated equally under the law in all respects," Brownley said.

The New Kakistocracy.  The Democrats didn't bring in any new blood from their previous team of leadership — the one which frittered away their previous majority.  You've still got Steny Hoyer as the majority leader and James Clyburn as the whip, neither of whom are particularly good spokesmen for what they'd like to present as a youthful, hip, and energetic political movement.  For that presentation, by the way, on offer is the freshman class — the most prominent names in which are Ilhan Omar, a Somali Muslim from Minneapolis who it appears might be married to her own brother and whose only contribution to the national debate so far seems to be a radical hatred of Israel, and the comically ignorant Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whose façade of street-kid tough upbringing is as poorly constructed as her understanding of civics and economics.

Forget the wall — Democrats now hate the border itself.  It's a wonder that Democrats haven't staked out a negotiating position demanding the destruction of already-existing barriers along the US-Mexico border.  Their opposition to President Trump's border wall — or, more properly, his so-called wall — is now so total as to be nearly indistinguishable from opposition to any serious infrastructure at the border at all.

Our Exhausted American Mediocracy.  [Years ago,] Most Americans figured that those who lectured them on television, in op-eds, and throughout popular culture about guns, open borders, green mandates, fossil fuels, and the public schools, had the money, desire, and clout to live in desirable neighborhoods, sometimes behind walls, with ample taste for fine cars, jet trips, and private academies for their children.  The charge of hypocrisy against the elite was considered juvenile, given that exemptions were needed for the ruling class to serve us all the better.  How could Al Gore save us from our carbon emissions without his private jet?  How could Nancy Pelosi craft drastic climate change legislation without flying to a Kona resort over the holidays?  How could Eric Holder stop prejudice without a jet junket to the Belmont Stakes with his kids?  How could our Malibu elite nobly sermonize about their loyal gardeners and dutiful maids without walled estates?  How could Silicon Valley wizards pontificate about the evils of charter schools and the need for teacher unions, without private academies for their own?  And how exactly could the heads of our intelligence agencies and justice department officials track down the crimes of Donald Trump without committing greater ones themselves?

Rashida Tlaib's argument for impeachment boils down to 'orange man bad!'  America's newest and most anti-Semitic congresswoman, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., tweeted that she was just "#unapologeticallyMe" when she had a little public meltdown in calling to impeach President Trump Thursday [1/3/2019].  Yet when pressed by journalists on the Hill to comment on her late-night comments, she ran away from the reporters, relying on a staffer to shield her from the press and refusing to answer them.  I guess she's not quite so unapologetic.  The hangover of Tlaib's disgraceful first day ought to be denounced not just by the obvious suspects, but by Democrats themselves.  But then again, you break it, you buy it.  And boy, did Democrats just buy a whole lot of baggage.

Democrat hangs trans pride flag outside Capitol office.  A House Democrat said she's received an outpouring of support since she hung a transgender pride flag outside her Capitol office.  Virginia Rep. Jennifer Wexton, who was elected in November, hung the pink, blue, and white flag in the Longworth House Office Building next to an American flag and the Virginia state flag.  Lawmakers traditionally display the American and state flags, but can choose whatever flags they want.  Wexton's chief of staff, Abby Carter, confirmed to NBC News that Wexton displayed the flag as a statement about trans inclusion.

Dems debut their clown show strategy for the 216th Congress.  Now that voters have handed them control of the House of Representatives, Democrats are forced to reveal who they are to the national electorate, and it ain't pretty.  The party has more than its share of bizarre eccentrics, able to win a local election in a deep blue district, and they are feeling their oats.  They thrive on media attention, which they get because they are colorful and young and say radical things that excite progressive journalists.

Leftists "Make History" in Foreign Garb, Swearing Allegiance on a Quran.  Democrats say nothing about the anti-semitism of new congresspeople in the House as they take an oath which means nothing to them.  They are the face of the New Democratic Party.  Ilhan Omar is taking over the seat previously held by Rep. Keith Ellison.  The corrupt media and fellow Democrats portray her as a force against bigotry even though that isn't true.  She is an ardent supporter of anti-Semite, America hater Linda Sarsour and she backs the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions against Israel, despite denying it until she was voted into office.

The war on hope.  From the Boy Scouts to the Knights of Columbus, it's open season on anything that doesn't fit the cracked new world of socialism and sexual anarchy that "progressives" are fashioning for us all.  New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker and California Sen. Kamala Harris are in the running for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020.  They are writing off a significant portion of the Catholic vote even before their campaigns get underway.

Liberal Professor:  "Mowing Your Lawn" and "Acting Respectable" Is Racist.  You can always count on the social justice warriors to take an absolutely normal thing Americans do and turn it into some sort of offensive and racist act.  Is this how they try and keep themselves relevant?  The latest insane issue that's got the SJW's all up in arms is that it's racist to mow your lawn.  It's the ultimate in white supremacy to get out the lawnmower and mow.  According to these nutjobs, it's an aggressive action that says, "stay off my lawn".

Intersectionality at the Crossroads.  [T]he inconsistency between the views and associations of the [women's] march leaders and the useful idiots who followed their call was highlighted in recent weeks when the media were compelled to finally report what had been known for a long time but kept hidden from credulous consumers of their pap:  the Women's March leaders were linked inextricably to Louis Farrakhan, an anti-Semite, anti-homosexual, anti-white propagandist who spreads lies about slavery — ignoring the most significant role of Moslems in it even to this day.  And the press hid the fact that women like Linda Sarsour were all in for Sharia, the religious-legal system that more than any other punishes women, gays, and blacks.  Sharia creates the submission culture that keeps the poor at the bottom with little chance of upward mobility and society at such a low level of productivity that environmental protection and proper healthcare are unaffordable, and legitimizes slavery, which continues in places like North Africa.  Indeed, her anti-American point of view was known months before the march in 2017 but barely, if at all, covered by the mainstream media.

Gallup: Americans Say No. 1 Problem is 'Government,' No. 2 is 'Immigration'.  A new survey shows that the "top problem" cited by Americans is "government," and the second top problem is "immigration."  For contrast, among the issues seen as least problematic for Americans are "unemployment-jobs" and "gun control/guns."  In the survey, conducted by Gallup after the midterm elections, the polling firm asked Americans about the country's top problems and then listed those issues that were "mentioned by at least 3% of respondents."

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Gun control is at the bottom of the list, and global warming isn't listed at all.  Yet these are two of the Democrats' favorite topics.  From this, one can only infer that the Democrats are completely out of touch with the average American's concerns.

Trump should shut down the southern border AND the government until we fix our immigration system.  In 2006, Chuck Schumer, along with Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, voted for the funding of the Yuma Sector Wall, which after being built decreased the crossings in that sector by over 90 percent.  But that was then.  This is now.  Now the hard-left open border-types have seized control of the Democratic Party.  No one in leadership can be seen voting for building a wall:  it would be sacrilegious to the left and potentially a career-ending move.

Democrat Rep. Pramila Jayapal Steps Over Homeless in Seattle — Gallivants to Tijuana to Defend Illegal Foreigners.  Rep. Pramila Jayapal traveled to Mexico this past weekend to show her support for the illegal alien caravan members in Tijuana.  Pramila blamed Trump for the illegal alien crisis.

These are the most expensive ZIP codes in the country.  PropertyShark's annual list of the country's 100 most expensive ZIP codes, released last week, [...] looks at median closed sales prices across the US during 2018.  It found that California just might be more unaffordable than the Empire State:  The former has 82 entries in the top 100.  (Silicon Valley alone has an eye-popping 30.)  Meanwhile, San Francisco and New York are tied in terms of the priciest city, with nine ZIP codes apiece in the top 100.

Crazy, Woke.  There appears to be a direct correlation between how "woke" a liberal is and how crazy they are.  And every single day, liberals are becoming more and more woke.  The idea of being "woke" is, for the uninitiated (meaning "sane"), the state of being hyper-conscious and aware of everything liberals hold dear — mostly victimhood and the supposed societal structures that perpetuate it.  There's no real need to understand it, unless you're one of them you will never, ever, under any circumstances be "woke enough" to appease liberals.  Saying they're crazy is an understatement.  That being said, it doesn't mean we should ignore them.  After all, they do control two of the three cable news networks, all the broadcast networks, most newspapers, the entertainment industry, academia, and much more.

Eternal Darkness of the Leftist Mind.  Regular Americans are repulsed upon learning that abortionist Kermit Gosnell murdered thousands of babies after they were born by snipping the spine at the base of the neck.  Gosnell is America's biggest serial killer.  And yet, leftists (fake news media, Hollywood, and Democrats) covered for Gosnell.  Along with Obama, leftists support the murderous practices of partial-birth abortion and infanticide.  The same leftists who vehemently fight to protect their right to kill human babies before and after birth passionately protect animals and trees.

Alyssa Milano raises funds to help asylum-seekers while fire-ravaged Americans suffer.  Only weeks after thousands of Americans teamed up to try and help actress Alyssa Milano find shelter for her horses as the wildfires in California threatened her home, she chose to show her gratitude by asking the American people to donate their money to help asylum refugees.  "Some friends and I are trying to raise $100,000 today to help some people in the fight of their lives, seeking asylum at our southern border," she tweeted she wrote in a tweet last Thursday afternoon [11/22/2018] that prompted immense backlash.

The Anti-American Americans.  So here we are, at Thanksgiving, surrounded by a crowd of arrogant, ignorant, self-proclaimed superior people who proclaim, as was once declared about Vietnam, that the only way to save the country is to destroy it.  That the European welfare state is the proper model for us, and that our electoral choices are mostly wrong.  And evil. [...] In Obama's view, we're unworthy of him and his ruling class.  All 57 states' worth, I suppose.  If we dare vote for candidates they don't like, they feel entitled to change the results.  And it isn't just the usual suspects in the media and the schools; it includes the sorry case of the chief justice of the Supreme Court, Mr. Roberts, who now suggests that judges are fully empowered to undo the clearly expressed preferences of the American people, and that somehow criticism of them, not their outrageous rulings, was the inappropriate act.  It was deliciously satisfying to see him slapped down by Senator Grassley, an Iowa farmer who understands better than most how politicized the judiciary has become.  He knows how often our judges have somehow come to believe that we have a lot to learn from foreign laws and judges, an amazing development that would have us turn the obvious lessons of the past 250 years upside-down.  Just check out where our judges go during summer vacation, and what they do, and you'll see it.

Clinton, Abrams, Democrats Don't Accept Outcome of Georgia Governor's Race.  Democrat Stacey Abrams ended her run for Georgia governor on Friday [11/16/2018], but she didn't give an ordinary concession speech, accusing her opponent of centering his campaign around voter suppression and calling the outcome an "erosion of our democracy."  Abrams lost by nearly 55,000 votes to Republican Brian Kemp, but in a speech The Weekly Standard described as "contemptible," Abrams made erroneous and misleading claims about the results to essentially deem the entire race a fraud.

Democrat Losers:  Undignified and Dangerous.  What do Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, Stacey Abrams, and Bill Nelson have in common?  Each asked the voters for important positions of leadership and promptly proved themselves unworthy of those offices when the answer was "No."  It isn't necessary, of course, to revisit Gore's reluctant acceptance of reality or Clinton's querulous hypocrisy.  The tawdry details of those episodes are well known.  But the long-term harm they wrought on the republic merits consideration.  The extent of that damage was clearly demonstrated Friday [11/16/2018], when Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams finally admitted that the laws of mathematics could not be overcome by frivolous lawsuits.

Networks Silent as Dem 2020 Hopeful Compares ICE to KKK.  Under most circumstances, a sitting United States Senator and potential presidential candidate comparing a federal law enforcement agency to the Ku Klux Klan would be major national news.  However, after California Democrat and 2020 hopeful Kamala Harris did exactly that during a Senate hearing on Thursday, the broadcast networks decided it wasn't worth a single second of coverage.  During a contentious confirmation hearing exchange with Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Ronald Vitiello, nominated to become the permanent head of the agency, Harris grilled him about a tweet he sent out three years earlier labeling the Democratic Party "neo-Klanist."  Vitiello promptly apologized for the social media post and acknowledged that it was inappropriate.

American't: From Midterms to End Times.  Trump's 2016 victory will not MAGA; it was merely a stay of execution, a prolonging of the inevitable.  This should have been obvious in a country that could elect Barack Obama and then, like the Titanic having backed up to hit the iceberg again, re-elect him.  If it wasn't, it should be obvious now that the Democrats have seized the House in a Watergate-level rout. [...] But this isn't your grandfather's Democrat Party.  Voters this time empowered socialistic to socialist to closet-communist, sexual devolutionary, rabble-rousing, low-I.Q., no virtue, ignorant freaks who often encourage political violence by their Antifa-Brownshirt useful idiots.  So it's not your great-grandfather's America, either.  Digging into the electoral numbers also tells a tale.  Ninety percent of blacks, 79 percent of Jews, 77 percent of Asians, 69 percent of Hispanics and 59 percent of women voted Democrat — same as usual.

Kamala Harris Wants to Be Your President!  She Thinks ICE Is the KKK.  Kamala Harris compared ICE to the KKK during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing to consider the nomination of Ronald Vitiello to be the new director of ICE.  He has been serving as the Acting Director.  Vitiello had once referred to the Democratic Party as "liberalcratic" or "NeoKlanist" and Kamala brought that up to humiliate him.  He explained it was wrong to make those comments and he was sorry he offended people.  He wasn't referring to the KKK, he explained.  Kamala didn't care since she was leading up to something quite different.  The presidential hopeful wanted to make a comparison between ICE and the KKK.

The Lonely Mob.  President Obama authorized the extrajudicial killing of American citizens as a national-security measure; President Trump is an angry tweeter.  But it is the latter rather than the former that apparently presages the rise of a Falange Americana.  That is how you know that this is a fundamentally unserious point of view.

Democrats vs. the Constitution.  Having taken control of the House of Representatives, the Democrats face an enormous and perhaps insurmountable political barrier to achieving their agenda.  It's not the Republicans.  It's the Constitution.  "Kill the Constitution" would not be a winning campaign slogan for the Democrats, and you will rarely hear an American politician running against the Constitution as such.  But it is the Constitution and the American constitutional order — not Senator McConnell — that currently vexes them.

The Great Progressive Collapse.  Scott Wallace, the grandson of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's former vice president and Communist sympathizer Henry Wallace, was criticized for co-chairing a fund that gave liberally to anti-Israel organizations and to the virulently anti-Semitic and anti-Western British politician George Galloway.  His allies promoted him as a pioneer "on climate justice" and promised to expand Social Security and impose sick- and medical-leave plans on firms.  Ultimately, Wallace cost the Democratic Party a key swing district in the affluent suburbs of Philadelphia.

Battleground-state Dems who opposed Kavanaugh [were] all defeated.  Incumbent Senate Democrats in battleground states who opposed the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination appeared to have paid a price on Election Day, with senators Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Indiana's Joe Donnelly, Claire McCaskill of Missouri and Florida's Bill Nelson all suffering defeat.  In fact, every Democrat incumbent who supported Kavanaugh in states rated "toss up" by Fox News lost their race.  In contrast, the lone Democrat who voted for Kavanaugh, Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, won his race.

Democrat Stacey Abrams Admits Her Plans May Require Georgians to 'Turn Their Guns In'.  During a November 4 appearance on CNN's State of the Union Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (D) admitted that a possible outcome of her gun control plans could be that "people would turn their guns in."  She said other options might include "buybacks" and/or "grandfathering in" certain firearms, so current owners could keep them but be barred from selling them or transferring them to other individuals.

Gillum: Police Are Going 'Too Far' if They Pull Out Gun, Baton, Taser in Line of Duty.  Andrew Gillum, the Democratic nominee in Florida's gubernatorial race, said Wednesday [10/31/2018] that police are going "too far" if they have to pull out a gun, baton, or taser when approaching a potential suspect.

Why liberals laughed at a wounded veteran.  Conservatives rightly are getting on the case of Peter Michael Davidson of the SNL political hour for mocking a Navy SEAL's war wound.  The target was Texas congressional candidate Dan Crenshaw whose only crime is being a Republican.  Davidson is now as repulsive as Samantha Bee, who called the First Daughter the C-word, and Stephen Colbert, who called the president a homophobic slur.  No one lost their job.  They said this in scripted, taped remarks.  That means they spoke for their network and its corporate owner.

As the Caravan Approaches:  There Probably Will Be Blood.  If the Democrats succeed in eviscerating our southern border — and that is their plan:  DACA, catch-and-release, abolish ICE — they can overcome a century of their losing the support of Americans who once trusted them — blue-collar ethnic Catholics, union workers, married women, seniors.  Instead, they can win just by importing tens of millions of new voters unschooled in American values, clueless as to the Constitution, knowing and caring nothing of our culture and higher purposes.  Between suffering Illegals, encouraging cemetery turnout, and granting suffrage to felons, they can win back lost numbers.

Intra-party civil war engulfs Missouri Dems, dooming McCaskill re-election bid.  A week ago, [Claire] McCaskill's campaign released a radio ad distancing her from "crazy Democrats" in an effort to pick up some votes from the substantial majority of Missouri voters who chose Trump in 2016.  She seems to have seen the left wing takeover of her party and realized that her home state voters would be repelled by the "democratic socialism" and identity politics obsession that plays well in the Bronx and Berkeley, but which leaves most Missourians somewhere on the spectrum from indifference to anger.

It's Democrats, Not Republicans, Who Are The Extremists Today.  Every day in the run-up to the midterm elections, the mainstream news peddles the same message:  Republicans are extremists.  But look at the data, and you see that it's Democrats who are increasingly well outside the mainstream. [...] Here's a tiny sampling of recent headlines:  "How Republican Extremism Became Normalized."  "Yes, the Republican Party Has Become Pathological."  "Why Are Republicans Promoting Ultra-Right Extremism."  "The Proud Boys, the GOP, and 'The Fascist Creep.'"  What evidence is there of this, other than President Trump's often abrasive rhetoric, and the actions of a few crazed lunatics?

The Sad, Sad Culture of Progressivism.  If you've ever read anything written by any progressive over the age of forty, chances are pretty good that you've been exposed to a certain weary, self-indulgent, spiritually-agonized tone.  It is very recognizable, like the smell of decay that's characteristic of a swamp.  By comparison, leftists under the age of forty are likely to have more-or-less the same tone that they were born with — the high-pitched tone of an infant that is not getting its way.  Older leftists have usually run out of this youthful vigor, just like the rest of us.  They do not participate in Antifa riots on the streets.  They think about such youthful protests with a sense of nostalgia, remembering their wild, radical college days — whether they actually experienced them or not.

Time to flee Democratic Party.  With the female unemployment rate at 3.6 percent — the lowest in 65 years — women should be burning their pink hats not knitting new ones.  A well-paying job allows women to live life on their own terms, make their own choices and pursue their dreams — unbeholden to anyone.  Isn't that the bedrock of feminism?  Hence it's high time women stop thinking with their ovaries and start thinking with their pocketbooks.

Andrew Gillum's Comments On Law Enforcement Are 'Disgusting' And A 'Disgrace,' Says Florida County Sheriff.  Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey called out Florida's Democratic nominee for governor, Andrew Gillum, on "Fox & Friends Saturday" for his "disgusting" comments about law enforcement.  "Andrew Gillum has no idea what it takes to serve as a law enforcement officer," Ivey said.  "As such his comments about law enforcement officers and those that wear our badge, they're a disgrace.  They're disgusting."  Gillum appeared on the "Pod Save America" podcast Wednesday" and said "At the time that a law enforcement official has to go to a weapon, to a gun, to a baton, to a taser, they have already had to go too far."

When Democrats' tactics backfire.  Here are 10 big-ticket causes that have put Democrats largely on the wrong side of most Americans ahead of the midterm elections:
[#1] Support of sanctuary cities.  Most Americans, even Hispanics, oppose sanctuary cities.
[#2] Blaming "racism" for everything.
[#3] Silencing certain views.
[#4] Opposing border enforcement.  About 80 percent of Americans support secure borders.
[#5] Backing those who kneel for the American flag.
[#6] Impeaching President Trump.
[#7] Abolishing ICE.
[#8] Chasing Republicans out of restaurants.
[#9] The Kavanaugh chaos.
[#10] Illegal immigration caravan.

What's This?  Just The DNC Deputy At A Communist Parade Wearing A "I Don't Believe In Borders" Shirt.  For those paying attention, the intent of today's Democrat Party is clear.  It hasn't been the party of John F. Kennedy for a very long time.  Instead, it is the party of anti-Americanism, government slavery, and open borders that would see traditional America destroyed and absorbed into a globalist nightmare.

Feeling the urge to protest?  Then you're most likely a liberal woman.  If you're one of those citizens still with the conscientious stamina to follow the daily news flood (and you must be if you're reading this), you could be forgiven for thinking Americans protest pretty much anything and everything in existence — the National Anthem, guns, pipelines, flag, fake news, police, Congress, you-name-it.  We even have protests of protests.  It turns out, however, that only a small minority of us even consider protesting something.  Hard to believe probably.  But barely one-in-three Americans has ever even considered protesting something.

Not Guilty:  The Tea Party and Violence.  [W]ith the help of fake news media, Democrats/leftists have deceived many Americans into believing that Conservatives, Republicans, Christians, and Tea Party people are the hateful aggressors.  We are not.  We are the ones minding our own business.  Meanwhile, Democrats/leftists are demanding that we stop celebrating Christmas and Easter.  Democrats/leftists demand that teachers stop addressing students as boys and girls; deeming it hateful and discriminatory.  Democrats/leftists are demanding that they be allowed to kill babies even after they are born.  Democrats/leftists are demanding that schools assist students with abortions and sex changes without parental knowledge or consent.  Democrats/leftists demanded that prayer and Bibles be banned in schools, while mandating that LGBTQ lessons become mandatory in public schools.  LGBTQ lessons include instructions on [details omitted by The Editor].

Pelosi unveils just how bad a Democratic House would look.  Fact is, this is a real menagerie of the worst elements of left-wingery, people famous for their lockstep adherence to Pelosi's flying monkey commands, and famous only for the diversity of their idiocies.  These are people famous for making stupid and malevolent statements such as Maxine Waters, dolts who make specious, fact-free arguments such as Adam Schiff, lunatic machine pols such as Jerry Nadler, Benghazi liars such as Elijah Cummings, FARC terrorist-coddlers such as Jim McGovern, open borders advocates such as Raul Grijalva, and just garden variety left-wing irritants such as Nita Lowey, Carolyn Maloney, and Nydia Velasquez.

Three weeks before Election Day, Democrats bare their fangs.  Mark Salvas, the executive director of the county Democratic Party in Pittsburgh, Pa., lost his job last week.  The reason?  Long before he was hired, the Gulf War veteran and loyal Democrat had posted a picture of himself and his wife on Facebook, with two phrases superimposed:  "I stand for the Flag," and "I kneel at the cross."  Democrats came across this old post and decided it was "insensitive."  Even though Salvas believes that NFL players should be allowed to kneel in protest if they like, his expression of what he does is offensive.

Some people are really hard to like.  I really, really don't like progressives.  I don't like their raunchy language, their rude behavior, their physical vileness.  I don't like them interrupting lunch, or shouting down a speaker I want to hear, or lying to smear people they disagree with.  I don't like them pretending to be wounded in their souls when somebody says a word they disapprove of.  I don't like them murdering babies in the womb and calling it reproductive health.  I don't like their vindictiveness, their gathering at the homes of political adversaries and making lives miserable, their faking hate crimes and race crimes.  I don't like that they pay hoodlums, gangs, and other bad people to riot and destroy.  I don't like their assaults on American institutions.

Change the rules?  Why the Left is slamming the Senate and Electoral College.  Liberals who are unhappy with the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh are starting to complain that the Senate itself is undemocratic.  Liberals who are unhappy with Donald Trump as president are starting to complain that the way he was elected is undemocratic. [...] I just don't think it's a winning argument to say that the problem is these institutions, and rules that have been in place for more than 225 years, rather than the failure to prevail in debates and win elections.

What Do We Have In Common?  America stands at a precipice.  It's a moral precipice of our own making:  We're not facing any external existential threat, or any serious economic crisis.  Nonetheless, we're at each other's throats in a shocking and unique way. [...] A nation is a people united by history, ideals, culture, institutions.  But we've been steadily chipping away at each element of that nationhood.  Our history now divides us. [...] On the one hand are "red state" Americans, steeped in traditional Judeo-Christian principles and mores — Americans who believe that our rights are God-given, and that liberty must be balanced by traditional moral virtue.  On the other hand are "blue state" Americans, steeped in egalitarian principles and mores — Americans who believe that rights spring from government, and that inequality is a more pressing concern than individual liberty, and that systems of traditional virtue merely mask hierarchical power structures.

Yes, Women Can Lie.  [Scroll down]  Leftism is, and has always been, about trying to persuade the general public to accept as truth things that are objectively false, from Marxist economics ("It works even though it never has") to the New Soviet Man ("We can breed selfishness out of the human character") to Lysenkoism ("Genes are a myth!").  In current times, we should have shut that [stuff] down the minute leftists told us that asthma inhalers were a greater threat to the polar icecaps than the private jets of millionaires (let's not forget that the CFC inhaler ban was passed under George W. Bush — another example of Republicans going along with leftist insanity so as not to be slammed as Hitlers by the people who slam us as Hitlers anyway).  And now, it's become a litmus test that to not be condemned as a Hitler, one must accept that a man who thinks he's a woman "on the inside" is actually a full-fledged biological woman.  That's what the left does.  Like cult leaders, leftists are not content to believe their own nonsense.  They must force you to believe it, too.  Because that's how you know you've broken someone, that's how you know you can bend them to your will... when you can persuade them to see what isn't there, and accept as truth that which is objectively false.

Democrats' Arizona Senate Nominee Caught on Tape Bashing Arizona.  Yesterday [10/10/2018], we touched on the Arizona Senate race, wondering if a new poll showing Republican Martha McSally bouncing out to a six-point lead is an outlier or a trend.  The GOP has sought to highlight Democrat Kyrsten Sinema's past radicalism — she protested the Afghanistan war in a pink tutu, and her organization portrayed American soldiers as murderous skeletons inflicting "US terror" — as well as her biographical...shall we say, enhancements.  But in a blue-tinted year, with Democrats highly motivated, Sinema has held onto a modest lead.

The new and devolved Democratic Party considers you the enemy.  [Scroll down]  This leftist rage reached its full bloom with the false charges against Justice Kavanaugh of attempted rape and gang rapes.  I doubt that any rational person, even the Dems on the Judiciary Committee, believes that Kavanaugh attempted to rape Christine Blasey Ford or that he was involved in gang rapes.  The Democrats announced their opposition to Kavanaugh minutes after he was nominated by President Trump.  They demanded a seventh FBI investigation, which produced the same results as the first six FBI investigations:  Kavanaugh is squeaky-clean and innocent of the charges.  There are numerous examples of how these leftists view Americans who do not agree with them.

Kavanaugh:  What Have We Learned?  [#2] The Democrats have no ideas, no principles, just tactics.  If you were under the misapprehension that the Dems were acting on principle, they were more than happy to shatter that illusion.  Over and over, at every turn, they insisted that their treatment of Brett Kavanaugh was no different than what those evil Republicans did to Merrick Garland.  Even if you agree with that — and in order to make the comparison, you would have to quote a single Republican who ever accused Garland of organizing gang rapes — it's pretty stupid to admit that you're trying to destroy an innocent man's life for nothing more than revenge.  The Dems wanted payback, and they didn't care how they got it.  They didn't stop for one second to consider the ramifications of what they were doing.  They were unmoored by principle and heedless of scruple.  Attack, attack, attack.

Kavanaugh Foes Fill Senate Gallery With Sounds of the Insane.  I was in the Senate gallery this afternoon when Justice Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed.  You would have thought I was at an exorcism in an insane asylum.  Perhaps you were watching on television and heard the disruptions, though you certainly didn't see them.  The attenuated audio probably didn't catch the frightening, incoherent shrieking — including the lingering screaming and howling as they were being dragged down the hallways outside the gallery.  If there was any doubt that the opposition to Kavanaugh was unhinged, uncivil, disruptive, rude, and borderline nuts, my experience in the gallery made it clear.

Kavanaugh protesters anti-American, tilting toward mental illness.  It's one thing to exercise a First Amendment right to assemble and petition the government for redress — to "peaceably" gather together for a protest, as the exact language of this particular Bill of Right specifies.  It's another thing entirely to chase senators through the halls of Congress and pro-Kavanaugh politicos through streets of Washington, D.C. [...] Within the past few days, Resist Kavanaugh types have taken to the streets in select cities around the country, honing in especially on Republican senators' district offices and casting aside all cares of common sense to express, angrily and violently at times, displeasure with anyone supporting President Donald Trump's Supreme Court pick.

It's a Miracle.  Those pink-hat-wearing throngs are irate and motivated to vote.  But what [Senator Dianne] Feinstein and her Senate Judiciary Committee colleagues have done is remind so many other women that their husbands or brothers or fathers or sons could at any moment have their lives ruined by false (or at least unproven) sexual assault accusations, perhaps decades old, made by a woman with an axe to grind, whether political, business-related, personal or otherwise.  It goes without saying that many politically moderate men who were feeling unmotivated to vote next month have also been shaken out of a complacent stupor and seen the risk that the "guilty until proven innocent" Democrats pose to them, and to their fathers and brothers and sons.

We Must All Sacrifice for the Environment (But I meant you — not me!)  We laugh at those who object to some policy that seemed perfectly OK, when they thought it only applied to others.  We make fun of Al Gore proposing the end of fossil fuels, while jetting around the world in his private plane.  We chortle about politicians advocating gun control while surrounded by heavily armed bodyguards.  In truth, such hypocrisy is common, because the desire to control other people's behavior is human nature.

The 'Kavanaugh Effect' Gives GOP Hope for Mid Terms.  When it began, Democrats believed that the battle to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court would energize their voters to turn out for the midterm elections next month.  Instead, this latest poll from NPR/PBS/Marist appears to show that the Democrats' smear tactics have energized Republicans.

Even Democrats are noticing how their Kavanaugh stunts are poisoning their blue wave.  The left can be pretty amazing in its refusal to learn from history. [...] Its series of stunts around the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh — and the incredible one-sided bias of its media lackeys — is starting to suggest a conclusion for leftists similar to what the left dealt itself during the Clarence Thomas hearings at midterms:  a loss of nine congressional seats.  These people don't learn.  But some of them do notice problems going on.  The smarter ones in the lefty press are noticing falling Democrat fortunes in polls.

New poll suggests Heidi Heitkamp in trouble if she votes against Kavanaugh, hurting Democrats' chances of Senate takeover.  A new poll shows Republican challenger Rep. Kevin Cramer leading Sen. Heidi Heitkamp by a 10-point margin, with North Dakotans overwhelmingly in favor of confirming Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court.  Losing a race in North Dakota would make it significantly more difficult for Democrats to retake the Senate.  The poll, from Strategic Research Associates and North Dakota's NBC affiliate, shows Cramer opening up a 51 percent to 41 percent lead over the Democratic incumbent.  The poll also finds North Dakotans support the confirmation of Kavanaugh by a 60 percent to 27 percent margin.  Furthermore, the survey found that at 21 percent, more people rated Kavanaugh as their top concern than any other single issue.

Sen. Claire McCaskill Comes Out Against Kavanaugh.  Falls Behind in Polls.  Red-state Democrat Claire McCaskill is now losing in the polls after coming out against Judge Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court last week.

Poll: Josh Hawley Takes Lead Over Claire McCaskill After She Announces Opposition to Kavanaugh.  A new poll released by The Missouri Scout on Saturday [9/29/2018] shows that Republican challenger Josh Hawley has taken a two point lead over Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) in the Missouri Senate race just days after she announced she will be voting against the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.  Hawley leads McCaskill by a margin of 48 percent to 46 percent in the poll conducted by Missouri Scout over two days, from Wednesday, September 26 to Thursday, September 27.  McCaskill announced her opposition to Kavanaugh on September 19.

It's All Gone: The Democrats' Dead Ideals.  As the spurious case against Brett Kavanaugh disintegrates, splinters, and re-forms into a cacophony of whiny, irrelevant expostulations, it is instructive to step back and survey the field upon which this battle took place.  The ground is littered with dead and wounded ideals:  civility, dead; basic decency, dead; the presumption of innocence, gravely wounded, ditto for the idea of due process.  And this disgusting carnage is all on you, O ancient one, Dianne Feinstein, and your self-important, preposterous colleagues.  You were desperate to keep Brett Kavanaugh off the Supreme Court so you abandoned any semblance of decency and respect.  You travestied the processes of the United States Senate for the sake of a cynical grab at power.  I'd say that you should be ashamed of yourselves, but, like the thugs that you are, you have no shame.  You believe the acquisition of power is a magical antidote to shame.  You are wrong about that, and one can only hope that you will one day reap some portion of the obloquy you have sowed.  It is not yet clear what the snarling, incontinent attacks on Brett Kavanaugh will mean for him and his family.  Early indications are not encouraging.

What Does 'Credible' Mean?  Something is wrong with Christine Blasey Ford's story, and not just the fact that none of the people she named as witnesses to her alleged 1982 encounter with Brett Kavanaugh remember any such incident.  There is a conspicuous hole in Professor Ford's biography — some important details seem to be missing — and we don't know what the missing elements might be. [...] Over and over, TV news talking-heads and other pundits have used the word "credible" to describe Professor Ford and her accusation, but why?  What's so credible about her story?  Well, it's detailed and vivid, but the closer you examine the details, the more problems you encounter.  Beyond Judge Kavanaugh's emphatic denial that any such incident ever occurred, there is the obvious problem that Leland Keyser, a "lifelong friend" of Professor Ford, who was supposedly present at the 1982 house party, has said she's never even met Judge Kavanaugh.

Josh Hawley Opens Up 8 Point Lead Over Democrat Claire McCaskill Following Vicious Brett Kavanaugh Attacks.  The Democrat Party overplayed their hand with their vicious lies, accusations and smears against Judge Brett Kavanaugh.  And now the mob is going to pay for their evil stunts.  One month ago Claire McCaskill held a two point lead over Republican Josh Hawley in the Missouri Senate race.

We Are Finally Getting Rid Of The Treacherous Sissies Who Used To Control The GOP.  [Scroll down]  Kavanaugh is a boomerang that can come back and knock the Democrats out.  They counted on stripping off the suburban women's vote that had been going GOP.  But those suburban women have sons, brothers, and husbands whose lives can be ruined in an instant over some uncorroborated baloney from three decades ago if the Democrat's new rules go into effect.  A vote for a Democrat is a vote against due process, a vote against justice, and a vote against men.

New Poll:  Josh Hawley Jumps to Lead Over Claire McCaskill After She Announces Opposition to Brett Kavanaugh.  The trouble with Claire McCaskill is she keeps thinking her constituents live on the coast.  Republican Josh Hawley jumped to the lead against Washington Democrat Claire McCaskill in the latest Missouri Senate poll.  Josh Hawley now leads the Democrat Senator by two points.

Democrats Lose Advantage with Middle Class Americans While Political Gender Gap Collapses, Gallup Poll Shows.  The Democratic Party's advantage among American women suffered a six percent swing over the past year, according to a Gallup poll released Monday.  Women are still more likely to view the Democrats favorably than they are Republicans, but the difference has contracted.  A year ago, 35 percent of women said they viewed Republicans favorably.  Democrats had a 14 point advantage, with 49 percent viewing the party favorably.

Dear Moderate Democrats:  Your Party Has Completely Abandoned You.  I grew up in a small town in rural New England, which has long been a stronghold for Democrats.  My grandfather was a carpenter, and for many years as a boy, my father was, too.  Several of my family members are or used to be members of labor unions, and many of them have for years consistently and exclusively voted for Democratic candidates.  For much of my young life, their commitment to the Democratic Party had puzzled me.  The values I grew up in my small town were the same American values that have made this country exceptional for more than two centuries: self-reliance, hard work, and individual liberty.  Yet, come Election Day, much of my family and many of my neighbors would march off to the polls and pull the lever for candidates who seemed to embrace policies that are in complete contradiction to these ideals.  And the older I get, the greater the divide grows between what Democratic voters in small towns and cities across the country think they're getting from the politicians they vote for and the actual policies being proposed and implemented by Democrats.

Hello, Liberals:  Can You Spell F-A-S-C-I-S-M?  I'm a live and let live guy, or at least I pretend to be.  But our liberal friends don't believe in live and let live.  Politics is their religion, and politics is all about bullying.

The Descent into Progressive Madness.  The progressive street is leading fossilized Democrats into a sort of collective madness.  The dinosaurs of the party desperately seek relevance by sounding crazier than the new unhinged base that disrupts Senate hearings, loudly pronounces a new socialist future, and envisions octogenarian Maxine Waters as more the future of the party than is septuagenarian Nancy Pelosi.  The spectacle is right out of Euripides's Bacchae, as the creaky old guard of the polis, Tiresias and Cadmus, dress up in trendy, ridiculous ritual costumes to stumble along after the racing and frenzied young maenads in their lethal courtship of suicidal Dionysian madness.  Six-term senator Dianne Feinstein is running against a far more radical Democrat, Kevin de León, in California's general election.  (He added the accent and the "de" to his name in midlife, thereby enhancing his ethnic authenticity.)

Double-Double Failure for the Left's Fast Food Boycotts.  Democrats, initially spurred by California DNC chair Eric Bauman, are calling for a boycott of In-N-Out for its having donated $30K to the California GOP in 2017.  "[L]et Trump and his cronies support these creeps," he tweeted.  "These creeps," as he put it, are "a California institution that some hold with the same level of esteem as the Golden Gate Bridge and Joshua Tree," according to the Los Angeles Times.  That alone might run the boycott efforts into the brick wall of regional pride — and there's nothing more American than that.  But there's another, more thoughtful reason why Californians and reasonable people everywhere may dismiss the calls to boycott.  Ashley Reese of The Slot writes that she's "never been more insulted by a burger" in her life.  She should have known, she says, that this revelation was coming.  After all, she knew that In-N-Out "hid Bible scriptures on their soda cups and burger wrappers," and that "reeks of GOP."

Massachusetts City of Somerville Scrapping Columbus Day In Favor of 'Indigenous Peoples' Day'.  Somerville, Massachusetts is the same city where a leftist recently urinated on American flags at a veterans' memorial cemetery.  Now the city is kicking Columbus Day to the curb over political correctness.

Somerville Mayor Says City Will Observe Indigenous Peoples' Day, Not Columbus Day.  The city of Somerville is ditching Columbus Day for Indigenous Peoples' Day, Mayor Joe Curtatone announced Thursday [9/13/2018].  Somerville joins Cambridge and other places in New England like Portland, Maine and Durham, New Hampshire by choosing to recognize those who lived in the Americas before European colonization instead of Christopher Columbus.  "Columbus Day is a relic of an outdated and oversimplified version of history," Curtatone wrote in Facebook post.  "We all know there's more to the story than a nursery rhyme."

Even Democrats Want 'Mad Maxine' to Stop Impeachment Talk.  Fox News contributor Tomi Lahren called out "Mad Maxine" Waters over her repeated calls for President Donald Trump's impeachment.  The California Democrat has been one of Trump's most outspoken critics, and she continues to double down on her anti-Trump rhetoric.  Waters, who took heat earlier this year for urging her supporters to confront Trump administration officials in public, said in Los Angeles over the weekend that some Democratic leaders have asked her to stop talking about impeaching Trump.

Enemies Within.  Young corporate executives believe and pander to the left's negative view of America.  This is why we see corporate advertising supportive of lies such as that America is destroying the planet and that cops routinely murder blacks.  Leftists have instilled in our youths the lie that people around the world have too little because evil, greedy, and selfish Americans have too much.  This is why many youths believe that it is only fair that we open our borders to whoever wishes to enter.  And how dare we expect immigrants to assimilate, speak English, and embrace capitalism?  Youths believe that defending our borders against the invasion of illegals is racist and hateful.  Our kids have also been taught the lie that Christians, conservatives, and Republicans are haters obsessed with suppressing women and minorities.  Corporate executive operatives of the young enemies within movement believe that a majority of Americans share leftist disdain for their country.  This is why the NFL originally rallied behind [Colin] Kaepernick, leading the charge of pro football players taking a knee in protest against our National Anthem.

As In-N-Out boycott plan flops, Dem party chief dines alone, GOP feasts.  California state Democrats are distancing themselves from the state party's chief after he called for the boycott of a beloved burger chain after it donated cash to the state's Republican Party.  The political feud began last week when Eric Bauman, head of the California Democratic Party, called for the boycott of California-based In-N-Out over its $25,000 donation to the GOP.  Et tu In-N-Out?

Left-Leaning Fast Food Fans Lose Appetite After In-N-Out Burger Donates To California Republicans.  Cult fast food chain In-N-Out Burger is getting served after it was revealed the restaurant chain donated $25,000 to the California Republican Party. [...] The late CEO, Rich Snyder, was an evangelical Christian and supporter of Republican candidates, and current president Lynsi Snyder is also devout.  Like cult chain Chick-fil-A, In-N-Out doesn't make its founders' Christian values a secret, per se.  Customers just might be so focused on their Animal Style burgers that they don't notice the references to Bible quotes printed on the wrappers.  However, it's not clear that the company's current leadership is nearly as aligned with the Republicans as that of Chick-fil-A, a company that has backed organizations that restrict LGBT rights.

Democratic leader's call for In-N-Out Burger boycott meets its own resistance.  Anthony Grigore is a Democrat.  But as he waited Thursday at an In-N-Out Burger in El Segundo for his meal, Grigore made it clear party loyalty would only go so far.  Just hours earlier, the head of the California Democratic Party called for a boycott of the famed burger chain after a public filing revealed that the company had recently donated $25,000 to the state's Republican Party.  "Eating at In-N-Out is such a standard thing to do across California," Grigore said, dismissing the boycott idea as a bit silly.

Head of Calif Dem Party foolishly asks people to choose between party loyalty and In-N-Out Burgers.  Trump Derangement Syndrome blows up in the face of Democrats, once again.  California's far-left progressives dominate the Democratic Party and love to ban things.  Foie gras, plastic straws, and large containers of sugary soda are examples of food- and beverage-related matters.  But asking Californians to forgo In-N-Out Burgers is a bridge too far.  Late Wednesday night [8/29/2018], Eric Baumann, chair of the California Democratic Party, read an article in Los Angeles Magazine informing him that In-N-Out Burger had donated $25,000 to California's Republican Party.  He tweeted out a call for a boycott.

In-N-Out burger chain receives invitation from Alabama lawmaker amid calls for California boycott.  An Alabama state senator has invited the California-based In-N-Out hamburger chain to his state after some California Democrats called for a boycott of the chain over donations made to the state's GOP.  State Sen. Phil Williams, a Republican from Rainbow City, Ala., tweeted his invitation Thursday night [8/30/2018].

The Party Of Free Stuff And Illegal Aliens Is Not The Workingman's Friend.  Just this week the Democratic Party in Florida nominated Far Left Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum for Governor.  Gillum, an outspokenly progressive African-American, is the candidate of Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders and Far-Left billionaire Tom Steyer, founder of the "Need to Impeach" super PAC.  According to reporting by The New Yorker's Benjamin Wallace-Wells, Gillum's campaign platform calls for a steep corporate-tax increase to pay for a billion-dollar boost in public-education spending, a repeal of Florida's Stand Your Ground law, Medicare for all, and a fifteen-dollar-an-hour minimum wage, abolishment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the impeachment of the President.

Hollywood Elites Gush over Socialist Andrew Gillum's Victory in Florida.  Hollywood elites gushed over the victory of Tallahassee mayor Andrew Gillum in Florida's Democratic primary for governor on Tuesday, after the socialist-backed candidate scored an upset victory over his more moderate opponents.  Gillum, who received the backing of prominent socialist figures including Sen. Bernie Sanders and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, defeated Rep. Gwen Graham and former mayor of Miami beach Phillip Levine with 34.3 percent of the vote.  He was also endorsed and funded by left-wing billionaires such as Tom Steyer and George Soros.

The Party Of Free Stuff And Illegal Aliens Is Not The Workingman's Friend.  Democrats once passed themselves off as the party of the working guy; pro-union, pro-American manufacturing, pro-infrastructure and anti-communist, but today's Democratic Party looks nothing like the party of Franklin Delano Roosevelt or John F. Kennedy.  In the age of Donald Trump Democrats have become, not the party of the American working man, but the party Trump companies come backof free stuff and illegal aliens.  Leading Democrats, such as Senators Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio have called for the abolition of the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency — which would in effect open America's borders to the entire world.  Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders has long-advocated debt-free college and the Democrats' marquee congressional candidate, New York Democratic-Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has made free college and Medicare for all hallmarks of her campaign.

There Should Be a Trump Impeachment Vote — and Republicans Should Schedule It.  Not to put too fine a point on it, Democrats are not the ones known as the Stupid Party and so are well aware that a campaign centered on impeaching Trump is electoral cyanide.  As Democratic representative Eric Swalwell so eloquently put it, "[r]ight now, we're not in the majority, and so running on that, I think, misses the issues that people care about at home."  Translation:  "Don't mention the impeachment!"

DNC Goes Gender-Neutral, Demands Equal Numbers Of Men And Women On Committees.  The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has passed a rule during its summer meeting in Chicago, Illinois, that includes gender-neutral language in an effort to be more inclusive to the LGBT movement.  In addition, all committees must have equal representation of men and women, but those who self-identify as gender nonbinary will not be counted as male or female.  The rules, according to CNN, now say that DNC committees "shall be as equally divided as practicable between men and women (determined by gender self-identification) meaning that the variance between men and women in the group cannot exceed one (1)."

The Editor says...
Demanding specific percentages of men and women is not "gender neutral."  Pandering to "non-binary" homosexuals does not benefit normal men or women.

A Perfect Storm Threatens America's Survival.  Nothing defines this issue more than N.Y. governor Cuomo, who said America "was never that great."  Whaaat?  Is he referring to the country regarded as the hope of the free world that saved Europe and Asia from fascist tyranny, the country that has given the world transformative improvements in medicine, technology, music and the arts, the country that created the highest standard of living in the history of the world, the country that sacrificed over 300,000 of its men to end slavery, the country with a Constitution that defines the rights of the individual against progressive governments?  When obstruction and self-dealing become the primary goals and policy of one of the two major political parties instead of trying to make our country greater, you know there's a problem

Democrats Are Leaving Their Party in Droves.  Conservatives Should Pay Attention.  Nearly every WalkAway has a unique reason for leaving the Democratic Party.  Some of the most common reasons I've encountered are:
  •   The Democrat Party rejects Christian values.
  •   Liberal rhetoric on helping the poor does not match up with reality.  For instance, Democrat-run Los Angeles now has 55,000 homeless people living on the streets.
  •   The left frequently denounces the armed services, law enforcement, and the American flag.  Many military veterans are outraged by this.
There are countless others.  But the wellspring of the #WalkAway movement has less to do with policy than with the realization that Democrats and the left invariably use despicable methods to achieve their goals, and without remorse.  To the left, winning is all that matters.

Overthrow the Church of Leftist Guilt.  Democrats still need the vague feel-good vision of America to appeal to voters' patriotism — it's hard to run a country that you hate.  And so they use aspirational language effectively to campaign while hiding their overwhelming disgust with the nation.  They have never been proud of America.  They are only proud of what America could be if everyone capitulated to their demands.  Mainstream liberals do not advertise this fact loudly, but they don't hide it, either. [...] We should not be bullied by the embarrassed and penitent metropolitan congregation that believes that America is inherently flawed and expects the rest of the country to pick up the tab for our sins.

The media keep falling into the Trump trap.  Donald Trump has long demonstrated a knack for getting his political opponents to make fools of themselves.  Sen. Marco Rubio learned this the hard way on the 2016 campaign trail when he tried to out-Trump Mr. Trump.  New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and former CIA chief John Brennan got caught in the trap last week.  Mr. Cuomo took issue with Mr. Trump's campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again," telling an audience full of Democrats that "we're not going to make America great again — it was never that great."  The audience booed.  Mr. Cuomo was attempting to insult the president but wound up insulting the country and then spent several days walking back what he said.

Cuomo says America 'was never that great'.  Gov. Andrew Cuomo stunned the audience at a bill-signing ceremony Wednesday by saying America "was never that great" as he mocked President Trump's 2016 campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again."  "We're not going to make America great again," Cuomo said while signing a bill dealing with human trafficking.  "It was never that great.  We have not reached greatness.  We will reach greatness when every American is fully engaged."  Some audience members could be heard ooohing and groaning at Cuomo's comment.

CNN Commentator Agrees With Gov. Cuomo That America Was Never Great.  CNN commentator Angela Rye said on Wednesday night [8/15/2018] that she agrees with Gov. Andrew Cuomo's assertion that America was "never that great."  [Video clip]

"Never That Great".  New York governor Andrew Cuomo says that America was "never that great," and he's entitled to that view, but it would be interesting to know where the U.S. ranks in his personal list of great nations.  And it's amusing to imagine what the late Mario Cuomo, who so frequently praised America for the singular place that it is — "the greatest nation in the only world we know" — would have to say, especially in private, about his impulsive son's latest outburst.  Cuomo delivered his caustic observation at a bill-signing ceremony cum campaign pep rally on Manhattan's Lower East Side, and it might be a mistake to take it for much beyond what it was:  just another rhetorical drive-by shooting aimed at Donald Trump, the bête noire of New York Democratic politics.  But let's unpack it anyway.

Trump: How can Andrew Cuomo survive saying America was 'never that great?'  President Trump on Friday [8/17/2018] asked how New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo can "survive," after he took a dig at Trump's campaign slogan and claimed America "was never that great."

Andrew Cuomo Doesn't Understand Greatness.  Greatness, alas, eludes Andrew Cuomo, the misspoken son of an eloquent father who axed any chance of his own elevation with a few very ill-chosen words. [...] Cuomo's words recall his comments in 2014, when he said that pro-life adherents were "extreme conservatives" who had "no place in the state of New York," a rather harsh stance he was forced to walk back but which scratched a deep itch in the base of his party, one that had been festering there for some time.  Thirty-four years ago, his father Mario saw nothing great in the United States under Ronald Reagan, which he described solely in terms of its negative qualities, at the Democratic convention in 1984.

MAGA: Trump's bulletproof campaign slogan.  New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo this week joined the ranks of prominent Democrats who have shown that attacking President Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan isn't as easy as it looks.  Speaking in New York City Wednesday night [8/15/2018], Cuomo tried to make the point that America can always do better and needs to do more to stop discriminating against women.  But instead he said America was "never that great," prompting shocked gasps in the audience.

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Never That Great, Huh?  The United States exported baseball, rock 'n' roll, chocolate chip cookies, and almost every great classic movie to the world.  We helped eradicate yellow fever and created a vaccine for polio.  Americans won a share of the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 55 of the last 75 years.  Americans first trod on lunar soil, experienced the speed of sound, and explored the North Pole.  The U.S. armed forces helped liberate slaves, free Europe from the Nazis, and defeat the Evil Empire without firing a shot.  America rebuilt the places it destroyed.  Since Andrew Cuomo's birth, his homeland — he was actually born here despite his self-birther insistence otherwise — took in four times the number of immigrants as the world's second-leading destination point.  But for Andrew Cuomo, all of this does not translate into greatness.

NYT Editorial Board's Mara Gay: 'America Was Never Great' Is 'Honest,' Not a 'Gaffe'.  Mara Gay, a member of the far-left New York Times editorial board, believes Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) was being honest when he said America "was never that great."  She also agrees with the sentiment.  During a speech before supporters Wednesday [8/15/2018], Cuomo was very clear about why he does not believe America has ever been great.  After criticizing President Trump's "Make America Great" slogan, Cuomo laid out his reasoning.  "We're not going to make America great again.  It was never that great," he said, as his supporters laughed and gasped.

Cuomo backtracks, says 'America has always been great'.  New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, told reporters on Friday [8/17/2018] that "America has always been great" after he was slammed by President Donald Trump for saying this week that the country "was never that great."  Cuomo, whose name has been floated as a potential Democratic 2020 presidential candidate, qualified his comments in a conference call.  "The expression I used the other day was inartful, so I want to be very clear:  Of course America is great, and of course America has always been great — no one questions that," the governor said.

The Editor says...
If there is no question, why did you say it, Governor, as part of a speech that you wrote, or someone wrote for you?  Nice try, but it's too late to backtrack now.  Good luck with your career as a lobbyist.

Cuomo Was Never That Great.  One of the greatest contributions of the Trump presidency has been the President's uncanny ability to provoke people into revealing their hidden innermost selves.  He draws it out of them.  It is amazing, uncanny. [...] Look at what he has drawn out of Lisa Page, Peter Strzok, James Comey, Andy McCabe, Bruce Ohr.  It is unbelievable.  For those who wondered how deep the Deep State is — indeed, whether there even is a Deep State — look at what this President has uncovered. [...] And now, without doing anything we can identify, the President effectively has ended the elevated aspirations of New York's Governor Andrew Cuomo.

Andrew Cuomo's Office Backtracks After Governor Says America 'Was Never That Great'.  America "was never that great" and won't be great until all Americans share true equality, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday [8/15/2018] in a speech blasting Republican President Donald Trump and his slogan, "Make America Great Again."

Nice Ladies [are] Leaving the Democratic Party.  During and after the election, many women stopped buying what the Dems are selling.  They come from every generation, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, and region of America.  These women warm my heart because I have been waiting and hoping that ordinary Democratic voters would be revolted by their party's embrace of vitriol and violence.  It appears to be happening at last.  They are walking away from Democrat politicians, cultural and media icons.  The treatment of Trump and his voters has been a step too far.  Bottom line: these nice, normal women don't feel comfortable being members of a club full of haters.

Democrats Double Down on Identity Politics With Transgender, Muslim, Minority Candidates.  On Tuesday, Democrats in various states took up the identity politics banner, pushing candidates who fit the minority mold.  The August 14 primaries elevated transgender, Muslim, black, and socialist candidates, further cementing the Democratic Party's national radical identity politics brand.

DNC chief Tom Perez plays to tiny audience at mall — empty seats in front row!  Democrats claim they have the enthusiasm edge heading into the November midterm election, but an appearance today [8/15/2018] by DNC Chairman Tom Perez may leave many wondering if that's true.  Perez appeared at Plaza Fiesta, an "indoor Latin shopping mall" in Atlanta, stumping on behalf of gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.

Can Keith Ellison Turn Lawman?  Ellison represents Minnesota's 5th congressional district covering Minneapolis and inner-ring suburbs.  It is an increasingly far-left Democratic stronghold.  A Bernie Sanders supporter to the left of the Democratic party's left wing, Ellison himself represents the tilt of the 5th district's Democrats.  He is nevertheless a most peculiar candidate for the top law enforcement job in the state.  Allegations of domestic abuse involving a recent girlfriend of Ellison made news this past Sunday [8/12/2018] and continue to reverberate.  Ellison denied the allegations in a statement on Sunday afternoon.  It is difficult to anticipate how they will play out in the current environment, especially on the left, where such charges are more or less presumed true.  By Monday they had already been reported in depth by Elham Khatami in a Think Progress report.  Even if true, however, the charges would be the least of Ellison's disqualifications for this office.

Keith Ellison, Democratic Party Radical, Takes Primary for AG in Minnesota.  Media outlets began to call the Democratic Primary for Minnesota attorney general with just over 20 percent of the vote counted Tuesday night.  Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) has won in a landslide.  Ellison looks to have secured a comfortable majority of Democratic primary votes in a five-candidate field in which he had by far the most prominent public profile.

USA Today Op-Ed Writer: 'Abolish Presidency'.  In the latest episode of leftists attempting to ban everything they do not like, USA Today op-ed called for the abolishment of the United States presidency in a piece published Friday [8/10/2018].  "This is a man who openly conspired to cheat with the help of a hostile foreign nation in a federal election," said Tina Dupuy, offering no evidence for the ridiculous claim because, of course, there is none.

Democrats used to be for the middle class.  Not anymore.  Democrats were once known as the party of rural families, union members and the white working class.  It is now associated with the coastal elites, nouveau socialists, the "resistance" and all manner of identity politics.  The point is that Democrats have turned their backs on the voters who once lifted them to consistent congressional majorities and occasionally into the White House.  They may win in dozens of districts scattered across the country in the fall, it may even be a "blue wave" election.  But they still haven't come to terms with the fact that thousands of their former supporters believe that a wealthy, former reality TV star, casino mogul and New York real estate developer understands America's working class better than Democrats.

Antifa to Protest 'Alt-Right' in D.C.: Abolish ICE, No Borders, Close Prisons.  Law enforcement and city officials are preparing for protesters and counter-protesters to descend on Washington, DC, this weekend.  According to the shutitdowndc.org website, the Antifa side of the equation has purposes far beyond responding to the Unite the Right 2 demonstration set to take place on the Charlottesville, Va. rally anniversary on Sunday at Lafayette Park across from the White House. [...] The Antifa counter-protest website, calling the event "Shut It Down DC" and "Trans and Queer #ResistDance Against White Supremacy," states a much broader purpose and is supported by a long list of left-wing organizations, including Black Lives Matter, Anarchist Agency, Fredrick Socialists, D.C. Antifascist Collective, Millenials for Revolution, Occupy Wall Street, and Philly Antifa.

No Borders, No Nation.  Following the election of Donald Trump in 2016, the DSA [Democratic Socialists of America] has enjoyed spectacular growth, recruiting legions of outraged Berniecrats from the failed Bernie Sanders campaign, as well as hordes of "Resistance" militants from the Hillary camp.  The DSA, reportedly, has mushroomed from 7,000 members and 15 local chapters in 2000 to 44,000 members and hundreds of chapters in 2018.  It has seized the open borders/no borders cause, which until very recently was only seriously proposed by such elements of the extreme Left as the Communist Party USA, the Revolutionary Communist Party, and La Raza (The Race), the ultra-radical Mexican irredentist group that seeks to reclaim the American southwest as "Aztlan" or "Mexifornia."

"I'm Confused": Dem Senator Has No Clue that Illegals Break the Law When Crossing The Border.  On Capitol Hill, ICE official Matthew Albence has to explain to Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) that illegal immigrants break the law when crossing the border.  This woman is a Senator?

Freeing People from Left-Wing Lies.  A recent Pew survey shows that leftists are much more likely not to want to associate with people who don't share their political views than are conservatives.  Furthermore, leftists are more likely not to know any conservatives.  Look at the electoral map from 2016 — the blue areas are all tiny and tightly grouped.  Essentially, most leftist voters live in an intellectual bubble where the fake news media provide the propaganda, and their friends repeat, hence reinforce, the lies, making them seem credible.  This even impacts the fake news reporters themselves.

Vast Majority of Americans Won't Vote For a Socialist, New Poll Finds.  Seventy-six percent of respondents in a recent survey said they would not vote for a "socialist candidate," while 24 percent of those polled said they have no problem with the hypothetical candidate.  Those results conflict with Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez's prediction that young politicians like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — a dues-paying member of New York City's chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America — represent his party's "future."

Democrat who knelt during Pledge of Allegiance should resign.  A Connecticut lawmaker — a Democrat, of course — is facing backlash for kneeling, NFL style, during the Pledge of Allegiance during a recent Board of Selectmen meeting.  And well she should.  Now, she needs to resign and the story will be complete.  Selectwoman Melissa Schlag said she knelt at a meeting earlier this month to protest President Donald Trump and his Helsinki appearance.  But a selectman's meeting is a time for selectman business — for the people's business.

New poll shows Americans think Dem Party is pulling far away from mainstream USA, has leftists baffled.  As Democrats ramp up their rhetoric and unhinged hatred of President Donald Trump, it seems Americans are taking notice.  The majority of voters surveyed in a new poll conducted by NBC News and The Wall Street Journal declared that the Democrat Party is "out of step" with America.

Obama's Dying Vision:  The Only Card in the Democratic Deck.  What Democrats don't seem to understand is that Hollywood is not a "messaging" apparatus, nor is parading Trump-hating celebrities into the spotlight a winning substitute for a clear enunciation of what the Democratic Party stands for and whom it represents. [...] The truth is, the Democrats have no message.  There is no vision.  There is no agenda.  There is no Democratic counter to "Make America Great Again."  Nor is there a leader to voice such a vision and stamp it with his imprimatur if there were one.  And therein lies the rub.  Who is the leader of the Democratic Party?  Biden, Pelosi, Schumer, Perez, Ellison, Sanders, Clinton, Gillibrand, Feinstein, Warren, Durbin, Booker, Waters?  This is a motley crew, to say the least, and hardly visionaries, and nary a one who has an electable, national cachet that can inspire transformative change.

Latest Poll Finds Today's Democrat Party Scares the [...] Voters.  The latest NBC-Wall Street Journal poll finds that today's Democrat party scares the[...] voters.  With party leaders like Maxine Waters pushing violence and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pushing Socialism, Americans are turning away from the radical far left party.  More than 56 percent of voters find the Democrat Party out of step with American mainstream.

Dems Try To Deny What Their Party Is Fast Becoming.  Democrats have been very busy lately trying to tell the public that theirs is not an extremist socialist party.  But the public sees through the smoke screen.  Just a third now see the Democratic Party as mainstream.

Does the Republican Party have the guts necessary to win the midterms?  Trump won the nomination and the presidency on the voters' belief that this guy, at last, was someone who meant what he said on immigration.  He, and the Republican Party, can hold the House and the Senate if they focus the electorate's attention on the Dems' immigration lunacy, and then, secondarily, on the president's amazing economic results.  On immigration, the Dems' agenda has become a smorgasbord of electoral emetics that only needs to be served up to American voters to produce a collective gag that will be heard round the country.

"Occupy ICE" Finally Ejected from Portland, But They Left a Nasty Surprise Behind.  It happens every time a group of unwashed, miserable liberals gathers.  From the Dakota pipeline to numerous environmental movements, when leftists come together to demonstrate, you can count on a few things.  First, you can count on nothing happening.  Liberals love to march and rally.  But rarely do they have any real goals or objectives.  It's all about making a lot of noise for the cameras.  The liberal media will cover it like it's the most important event in history.  They never have anything meaningful to say or clear intentions once the excitement is over.  Do you know what "Occupy Wall Street" was really meant to achieve?  How about the "Women's March"?  Exactly.  These "movements" are nothing more than grownup temper tantrums.

Cory Booker Tells Supporters to 'Get Up In the Face' of Republicans.  I'm telling you, this is the result of some insane left-wingers getting their foot in the door of the Democrat party, and now everybody in the room is having to outdo the crazy.  Cynthia Nixon has been yanking New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to the left and now he's mumbling about President Trump being on a "jihad."  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ousted a longtime staple of the party and presumed heir to Nancy Pelosi, and he's now mumbling about reparations for illegal immigrants.  Now, you've got people like Maxine Waters screeching about taking to the streets to call for Trump's head and Booker encouraging them to "get up in the face" of Republicans.

Deliver Us to Evil.  So many have written about the left's meltdowns over the past years — meltdowns that include our mainstream media, or what I call the Democrat-media complex.  The left has been (correctly) called unhinged, serial liars, power-mad, angry, out of control, spite-filled, envious, spoiled, while constantly engaging in toddler-like tantrums.  The left has been exposed (correctly) as brimming with hatred for opponents, being filled with inane, oft-times insane beliefs.  These are the libertine #MeTooers who all knew that their heroes were sexual predators, are fully gender confused, and are unsurpassed hypocrites.  The left apparently now supports socialism, despises free enterprise, can't abide religious expression (hate god), can't handle other opinions or debate, believes so many things that simply aren't so, is trying to squelch the First Amendment as much as it can in institutions it rules, has embraced the invasion of America by illegal aliens and the replacement of the American voting population by said illegals, and supports the demonization of white males.  And that's just the short list.

Hollywood's Obvious Liberal Overtones Result in Box Office Flops, Rob Reiner Edition.  [Rob] Reiner's last six films completely flopped, including his latest, "Shock and Awe."  "Shock and Awe" earned a measly $45,856 at select movie theaters over the weekend along with withering reviews.  Liberal film critics blamed his heavy hand for the movie's woes.  Here's FilmJournal.com's brutal assessment:  "Shock and Awe" is "a plodding film with ill-placed, klutzy exposition and credibility-defying and/or colorless characters that are spokespersons for various predictable viewpoints."

Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Cuba put Democrats and their beloved S-word on the spot in Florida.  Two countries, which are closely watched by Florida's immigrant population, are getting absolutely hellish as a result of socialism:  Venezuela and Nicaragua.  Cuba already is an awful place.  Venezuela, which was so praised by [Bernie] Sanders in the past, is already well known, and no, we have not seen anything negative about it from either Bernie or Alexandria [Ocasio-Cortez].  Don't even imagine that either will bring up the horrors of Cuba — we already know they'll be touting Cuban relations.  The other festering boil of socialism is Nicaragua.  It's getting really bad there now; it looks as though an all-out civil war is getting underway; and yes, the news is starting to cover it.

Kansas congressional race attracts national spotlight.  But who is the star?  One day in July demonstrated the identity crisis facing Kansas Democrats as they seek to capture a congressional seat for the first time in a decade.  Roughly 2,000 people packed into a swampy-hot hall at the Reardon Convention Center in Kansas City, Kan., Friday night [7/20/2018] to hear U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, a self-described Democratic socialist, as he led a rally for Brent Welder, a Bonner Springs attorney mounting a campaign for Kansas' 3rd District on an unabashedly progressive platform.

Where Do 'Centrist' Democrats Turn in 2020?  Two of the three most prominent 2020 possibilities have long identified with the Democratic left, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, as have possible darkhorse candidates, Senators Sherrod Brown and Jeff Merkley.  Several others, like Senators Kamala Harris, Chris Murphy and Amy Klobuchar, while not aggressively ideological, have no strong connection to the Clinton-Obama centrist tradition.

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There is nothing centrist about either Hillary Clinton or Barack H. Obama.  The two of them are left-wing extremists who have only recently been overtaken on the left by Bernie Sanders and others who are flat-out socialists.

Here Are The 34 Democrats Who Voted Against Measure Supporting ICE.  Make no mistake; abolish ICE is still an issue the progressive Left wants to push.  More Democrats are joining the chorus that's rapidly becoming a litmus test for candidates.  At the same time, more than a few are more than aware that this isn't really a winning issue.  It's good for deep blue enclaves that elect democratic socialists, but not so much in Middle America and swing districts.

House Democrats vote 'present' on resolution supporting ICE.  Most House Democrats voted "present" Tuesday [7/17/2018] on a resolution aimed at forcing them to clarify whether they support U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, after some Democrats have criticized the agency's role in enforcing U.S. immigration laws.  The House passed a nonbinding resolution saying lawmakers support the "officers and personnel who carry out the important mission of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement."  A two-thirds majority was needed to pass it, and because Democrats voted "present" instead of "no," it passed easily in a 244-35 vote.

Yes, Democrats Are Now The Party Of Open Borders.  We've been seeing a lot of articles these days defending Democrats against charges that they are for open borders.  But recent events show that the party has, in fact, morphed into one that reflexively opposes virtually any attempt to secure the southern border.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough Bashes Trump Supporters.  A recent poll shows grassroots Republicans approve of Presient Donald Trump's performance in Helsinki, despite the best efforts of liberal Democrats and media pundits to trash the president for absolutely everything he did/does and said/says.  The Axios/SurveyMonkey poll asked,"Do you approve or disapprove of the way Trump handled his press conference with Putin?" Seventy-nine percent of Republicans approved.  "Who [...] are these people?" an incredulous Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," asked on Friday's show.  He and his ilk are stunned that President Trump would invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to the United States, when Trump's recent meeting in Helsinki was "called treasonous" by the elites.

Liberal filmmaker Rob Reiner's 'Shock and Awe' disappoints at box office with dismal opening weekend.  Liberal filmmaker Rob Reiner's Bush administration-bashing "Shock and Awe" was a disappointment during its debut weekend with an embarrassing box office intake.  "Shock and Awe" grossed only $41,000 on its opening weekend after being shown in only 100 theaters, according to Box Office Mojo.  "Shock and Awe" finished No. 34 overall, behind numerous movies that have already been in theaters for several weeks, according to the service.  Reiner's film lost to other movies that were played in a limited number of theaters, including "Eighth Grade," which was shown in only four theaters but managed to gross $252,284, according to the site.

The left is hemorrhaging, #WalkAway movement.  The left is hemorrhaging a lot of people lately.  It's not just boring, white, middle-class people, either.  It's losing demographics the left has considered its own for decades but who are now seeing the light and moving on. [...] This includes gays.  This includes blacks.  This includes Hispanics.  This includes women.  This includes young voters.  This includes, in short, everyone horrified by the violent, pugilistic, intolerant actions the left has promulgated in the last few years.  As one commenter put it, "I can't express a single different idea from my liberal friends.  I will instantly become the enemy.  I refuse that way of thinking, because it's NOT thinking."

The Democratic Party left me behind — and I'm not alone.  I am a Democrat who has spent the last two years often criticizing my own party and fellow Democrats. [...] Yes, there's grassroots energy in the Democratic Party, but party leadership is essentially bereft of ideas.  [2016] was the year I joined millions of Americans in losing faith in the ruling class of both parties and in many of our political institutions.  It was also the year this voter became increasingly frustrated that our national media outlets — cable, network and legacy news media — have self-bifurcated into stark pro- and anti-Trump factions.  The real divisions, as I see it, aren't between Democrats and Republicans, but between the political and corporate ruling class and the national media establishments that support them, on the one hand, and the rest of us.

Abortion Advocates Think Amy Barrett is a Member of a "Cult" Because She's Catholic.  The mudslinging against Judge Amy Coney Barrett, a possible nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, continued this week with abortion activists claiming she is a member of a "cult."  She is believed to be one of four candidates that President Donald Trump is considering to fill retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy's seat.  Particularly abhorrent to abortion activists, Barrett is a devout Catholic, a conservative and a woman.  Abortion supporters have honed in on Barrett's affiliation with People of Praise, an ecumenical Christian group that focuses on prayer, counseling, marriage guidance and acts of service for families in need.  Labeling the group a "cult," abortion activists claim Barrett is a "dangerous religious extremist" because of her affiliation with the group.

The Next American Revolution: #WalkAway.  Democrats who believe that they have a permanent hold on the African-American vote should take a look at how these voters view their position on immigration.  A recent Harvard-Harris survey found that African-Americans are the racial group most opposed to unlimited immigration.  Whereas 79 percent of whites want to prioritize legal immigrants based on what they can contribute to our society, fully 85 percent of African-Americans hold that view.  A party that advocates open borders and the abolition of ICE is going to get fewer and fewer of their votes.

Polls: No, Of Course Americans Don't Want To Abolish ICE.  "Abolish ICE" isn't a solution, argues my colleague Ed Morrissey at the Daily Beast today, it's a slogan.  Indeed, and that's being generous.  It started as a Twitter hashtag, per HuffPost.  As the phrase started showing up more online, desperate opportunists like Kirsten Gillibrand who are looking for an angle to shore up their left flank in the 2020 primaries glommed onto it.  Just like that, the hashtag #AbolishICE had become the slogan "Abolish ICE," which had in turn become a semi-serious policy proposed by a semi-serious U.S. senator.  And once it did, other supposedly serious 2020 contenders had to keep pace with Gillibrand by proposing it too.  Suddenly Democrats have a problem.  No one to the right of the DSA thinks "abolish ICE" will help claw back Rust Belt voters who flipped from Obama to Trump in the last election, but because it's gone from zero to "litmus test" overnight with Gillibrand's and Warren's help, the party leadership can only run so far from the idea without getting into trouble.

North Carolina Social Justice Activist:  Boycott July 4, Crash Other People's Cookouts.  In Raleigh and Durham, North Carolina, social justice activists are telling their followers to boycott the Fourth of July this year, not to buy hot dogs or fireworks, and even to crash other people's cookouts.  They say they refuse to celebrate until America addresses what they see as endemic racism; one referred to the current climate as "Trump terror."

Democrats leaving the Party in droves as #WalkAway campaign gains real momentum.  A movement to abandon liberalism and the Democratic Party has gained some serious traction after a video featuring a gay New York hairdresser went viral.  "Once upon a time, I was a liberal.  Well, to be honest, less than a year ago, I was still a liberal," Brandon Straka said in the video seen by some five million people on Facebook and YouTube that ignited the #WalkAway campaign.