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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.

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