There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. —Soren Kierkegaard. "…truth is true even if nobody believes it, and falsehood is false even if everybody believes it. That is why truth does not yield to opinion, fashion, numbers, office, or sincerity–it is simply true and that is the end of it" – Os Guinness, Time for Truth, pg.39. “He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.” – Blaise Pascal. "There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily" – George Washington letter to Edmund Randolph — 1795. We live in a “post-truth” world. According to the dictionary, “post-truth” means, “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” Simply put, we now live in a culture that seems to value experience and emotion more than truth. Truth will never go away no matter how hard one might wish. Going beyond the MSM idealogical opinion/bias and their low information tabloid reality show news with a distractional superficial focus on entertainment, sensationalism, emotionalism and activist reporting – this blogs goal is to, in some small way, put a plug in the broken dam of truth and save as many as possible from the consequences—temporal and eternal. "The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." – George Orwell “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” ― Soren Kierkegaard
As Bernie Sanders was speaking at Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration on Thursday, a number of people in the crowd broke into a chant of ‘tax the rich.’
The stupidity on display here is appalling. Do these people really believe that their lives will improve if the government forcefully takes more money away from other people? Do they think the New York City government is going to take money from others and give it to them? Do they honestly believe that if ‘the rich’ are forced to pay more in taxes, it is going to fund programs that will benefit them?
‘Tax the rich’ chant breaks out as Bernie Sanders swears in NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani
A raucous chant of “tax the rich” broke out as Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders blasted the wealthy and called out “hatred and divisiveness” before swearing in fellow democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani as New York City mayor.
“At a time in our country’s history when we are seeing too much hatred, too much divisiveness and too much injustice, thank you for electing Zohran Mamdani as your mayor,” Sanders said outside City Hall.
He then argued that Mamdani’s socialist agenda, including free buses and taxing the rich was not “radical,” sparking the chant.
After Sanders administered the ceremonial oath of office to Mamdani, the new mayor addressed the crowd, saying he planned to govern “expansively and audaciously.”
For too long, he argued, New York belonged to the “wealthy and well connected,” but no longer, Mamdani vowed.
See the video below:
'TAX THE RICH': Mamdani's inauguration crowd erupts when Sen. Bernie Sanders calls on "the wealthy and large corporations" to pay "their fair share of taxes."
The rich people and corporations that Bernie insists are not paying their ‘fair share’ already pay the lion’s share of taxes in New York and the rest of the country.
If ‘the rich’ are pressed to pay more in New York City, many of them will simply leave, or find new ways to shelter their wealth. If we had a functioning education system instead of the political indoctrination system it has become, more people would understand this simple point.
New York City is about to learn a painful lesson in basic economics.
Florida Congressman Byron Donalds is calling out the radical left for blocking the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act and the do-nothing Republican-controlled Senate.
The SAVE Act passed the House in April by a narrow margin of 216–208, with Republicans unified in support and only four Democrats — Reps. Ed Case (HI), Henry Cuellar (TX), Jared Golden (ME), and Marie Perez (WA).
The legislation, championed by Republicans, would require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register and vote in federal elections.
The bill aims to amend the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) of 1993 to require documentary proof of citizenship for federal elections.
Under current law, voters are not required to present proof of citizenship — such as a passport or REAL ID — when voting in elections for President, the U.S. House, or the U.S. Senate.
What the SAVE Act Does
The SAVE Act is a sweeping election integrity measure designed to restore confidence in U.S. elections. Among its key provisions:
Proof of Citizenship Required: States would be prohibited from processing voter registrations unless applicants provide documentary proof of citizenship, including:
A REAL ID–compliant driver’s license
A U.S. passport
A certified birth certificate paired with a government-issued photo ID
Mandatory Voter Roll Cleanup: States would be required to actively purge noncitizens from voter rolls using federal databases such as the Department of Homeland Security’s Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system and Social Security Administration verification tools.
Fast-Track Compliance: States must establish voter eligibility verification programs within 30 days of the law’s enactment.
Federal Data Sharing: Federal agencies would be required to provide citizenship data to state election officials within 24 hours of a request, at no cost.
Criminal Penalties: Any election official found knowingly registering noncitizens could face federal criminal charges.
DHS Enforcement: The Department of Homeland Security would be tasked with investigating and potentially deporting any noncitizen found to be unlawfully registered to vote.
Despite overwhelming public support for citizen-only voting, Senate Democrats have vowed to kill the bill.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer openly admitted on the Senate floor that not a single Democrat will support the SAVE Act, claiming it threatens the Democratic Party’s political future.
Schumer outrageously labeled the bill “voter suppression” and even compared it to Jim Crow laws.
Schumer ranted in April:
“The kind of legislation, the kind of executive orders, which are so jaundiced, so slanted on the side of one party, are the antithesis of democracy.
On the one side, Donald Trump recently issued an executive order that will coerce states to prevent millions of Americans from voting.
On the other, Republicans in Congress are pushing the SAVE Act, one of the most destructive, dangerous voter suppression bills in recent memory. It is very reminiscent of Jim Crow. That’s what Republicans want to do.
They want to not only restore Jim Crow in the south, they want to have Jim Crow spread from one end of this country to the other.
It will not happen. It will not happen. Let me be clear. I will not let this noxious bill, the Save Act, become law. Every Senate Democrat, every single one of us is united against it. They need 60 votes. The SAVE Act is dead on arrival.
I’d like to say it louder so my friends in the House and in the right wing over here can hear. The SAVE Act is dead on arrival. Democrats.”
Democrats know their grip on power relies on open borders and lax voting laws that let non-citizens flood the polls.
Enter Utah Senator Mike Lee, who fired off a tweet demanding action: “The SAVE Act, which requires proof of citizenship to register and vote in federal elections, passed the House in April. The Senate should send it to President Trump’s desk for signature ASAP. Do you agree?”
Congressman Donalds didn’t hold back in his response, blasting the Republican-controlled Senate’s inaction and calling for drastic measures to put America first.
“The SAVE Act ensures ONLY US CITIZENS can vote in US elections,” Donalds declared.
“LAST YEAR: @HouseGOP PASSED The SAVE Act, but Senate Dems blocked us. 264 DAYS AGO: @HouseGOP PASSED The SAVE Act again, but it’s held-up in the Senate. I agree with @SenMikeLee—It’s time to PASS THE SAVE ACT NOW!”
The SAVE Act ensures ONLY US CITIZENS can vote in US elections.
LAST YEAR: @HouseGOP PASSED The SAVE Act, but Senate Dems blocked us.
264 DAYS AGO: @HouseGOP PASSED The SAVE Act again, but it’s held-up in the Senate.
Last month, President Trump demanded again that Republicans terminate the filibuster to reopen the government and send bills to his desk to secure elections as Republicans seek to end the stalemate on Sunday.
Trump: The Democrats are cracking like dogs on the Shutdown because they are deathly afraid that I am making progress with the Republicans on TERMINATING THE FILIBUSTER! Whether we make a Deal or not, THE REPUBLICANS MUST “BLOW UP” THE FILIBUSTER, AND APPROVE HUNDREDS OF LONG SOUGHT, BUT NEVER GOTTEN, POLICY WINS LIKE, AS JUST A SMALL EXAMPLE, VOTER ID (IDENTIFICATION). Only a LOSER would not agree to doing this!
In a later post, the President said again, “TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER!”
Trump has repeatedly called on Senate Republicans to invoke the “nuclear option” and terminate the filibuster and pass voter ID requirements, ban mail-in voting, cashless bail reform, end transgender insanity in women’s sports, end taxpayer-funded benefits for illegal aliens, and more. “I wouldn’t have been in favor of that a long time ago, but you know, the Democrats are going to do that, and most of you will admit the Democrats are going to do that. So why aren’t we doing it?” he said.
However, Senate Majority Leader John Thune and a handful of other Senators told reporters they will go against Trump on this, making the 50 votes necessary to terminate the filibuster impossible. “It’s just not happening,” said Thune, who made it clear he’s unwilling to vote to terminate the filibuster.
Cartoonist and political commentator Scott Adams has delivered a devastating breakdown of how the Democratic Party is a criminal organization.
Adams, who is suffering from advanced stage 4 prostate cancer and may be facing his last Christmas, delivered the blistering rebuke on his daily podcast Coffee With Scott Adams.
His comments, which were later shared by President Trump, brought together everything from money laundering to the party’s repeated election fraud.
Here is a transcript:
If I said that the Democrats are a criminal organization, the entire entity, now I don’t mean every voter, you know, voters probably are just, you know, going blah, blah, blah, everybody’s bad, Democrats have some problems, Republicans have some problems, but I prefer the Democrats.
So most voters, I think, are blissfully unaware of just how much crime is happening. But if you look at it collectively, you’re just some of the things. So you’ve got thousands, if not millions, of NGOs, and we know now that the NGOs are essentially money laundering operations.
So those would be mostly Democrat criminal organizations, or at least, you know, they’d be involved in something that would be, I think you would call it money laundering. We know that these SNAP funds were massively stolen, and that that was primarily by Democrats.
We might find out that Act of Blue is a criminal organization, I think we will. Some people say that our elections were rigged primarily by Democrats, that would be crime. You could argue how proven that is or not, but in my opinion, I think the rigging of elections is just a fact.
I think it leans heavily toward the Democrats. Not that no Republicans have cheated, but probably there’s a pretty big difference in scale. Then there’s everything in California. Basically, it seems like every dime that California gets, it just disappears.
You know, the fire recovery money didn’t go to the people who were recovering. The bullet train never happened. The money for the homeless didn’t help anybody. So pretty much everything in California is even worse than Minnesota. It’s all criminal. To me, it looks criminal.
Then you’ve got this whole operation where the Democrats find ways to fund teachers, who are all Democrats, and then they donate to Democrat people. So you’ve got some, you know, some kind of circular money laundering thing.
Then you’ve got the main Democrats who pulled the Russia collusion hoax. You’ve got the Clinton… What was that big Clinton initiative that was probably just a money laundering thing? Yeah, the Clinton Foundation. Thank you. So pretty much every major story that involves gigantic fraud seems to be Democrats.
Now, just to be clear, I’m not giving Republicans a pass. Maybe they’re just better at it, right? You know, it’s hard to believe that all the crime is just on one side of the political aisle. That would be weird, right? But am I wrong? Am I in a bubble? Am I in some kind of a bubble where I’m only seeing the Democrat bad behavior?
You know, I hear lots of accusations about Trump personally, but that stuff tends to be all transparent and public. You know, he’s not hiding it. You know, it’s in the news. You can tell he did this with crypto. You can tell he did this with whatever. So you can disagree or not like what Trump does, but that’s still not Republicans. That would be something you don’t like about Trump.
So am I wrong that this is so, so imbalanced toward Democrats? That if you said the Democrats are at least as a party, not the individual voters, but it seems like a criminal organization. And I mean that without any hyperbole.
Watch the clip below:
Scott Adams breaks down all the ways the Democratic Party is a Criminal Organization.
Money Laundering via NGOs Theft of SNAP Funds ActBlue as a Criminal Entity Election Rigging Misappropriation of California Public Funds Circular Money Laundering in Education Funding Russia… pic.twitter.com/NQi0p7AyYO
An underreported story from the past week was Fulton County’s damning admission that a staggering 315,000 votes (at least) that were cast in the 2020 election were submitted unsigned – ergo, unauthorized, and hence in violation of the law.
In an election that was decided by a measly 11,000 or so votes in the Peach State, that figure represents twenty-eight times over what would have been needed to swing Georgia’s sixteen electoral votes from Biden’s column to Trump.
Again, one could make the case that 2020 was the most razor-thin election in history because Biden’s alleged margin of victory in the three states that mattered most to winning that race – Georgia, Arizona, and Wisconsin – was 0.23% (11,779 votes), 0.30% (10,457 votes), and 0.63% (20,682 votes), respectively.
Between those three states, 42,918 votes, or a meager 13.6% of the total unauthorized votes from Fulton County, prevented Donald Trump from reclaiming the White House, unleashing the parade of horrors that marked the last four years of the Biden regime.
According to the Federalist, which reported on this stunning admission, “David Cross, local election integrity activist … filed a challenge with the [State Election Board] in March 2022. Cross alleged that Fulton County violated Georgia election rules in the handling of advanced voting ahead of the November 2020 election, counting hundreds of thousands of votes even though polling workers failed to sign off on the vote tabulation “tapes” critical to the certification process. And Fulton County admitted to it.”
The same article goes on to say, “Georgia election rules require that election officials have each ballot scanner print three closing tapes at the end of each voting day. Poll workers must sign these tapes or include a documented reason for refusal.”
Because the tapes were not legally certified, David Cross attested, “Fulton County had no lawful authority to certify its advanced voting results to the secretary of state. Yet it did.”
What this represents is something millions of Americans, above all the President himself, have known for the last five years – a dramatic breach of public trust and dereliction of duty by Georgia state officials that has put the integrity of America’s electoral system in doubt.
The question of 2020, however, goes much deeper than simply a problem of election integrity, though it is that in spades.
Similar to the autocratic reaction of Democratic lawmakers to COVID, the bipartisan response to 2020 by leading members of the Uniparty, on both sides of the aisle, drove a dagger through the heart of American justice and raised pivotal questions about whether we can still call ourselves a free society.
If 2020 had simply remained a mere “political dilemma,” one that resulted in the terrible outcome it did, but without the attached lawfare, it would have been bad enough.
The country still would have gone through the hellfire of the last four years, but at least if Democrats permitted Donald Trump and Republicans to hash out these problems in the public square, with honest inquiries and working collaboratively to shore up the security of these systems, the end result would not have been as bad.
Of course, that was not what happened – far from it.
Instead, not only did Democrats (and their fellow travelers in the Republican establishment) prevent public discussion of the results of the 2020 race – completely pillorying a fundamental right under the First Amendment – but they went a hundred steps further and began prosecuting – persecuting, with not only steep civil but criminal penalties – anyone who would so dare raise the question in public conversation.
Therefore, the story of the last four years was not just one of electoral incompetence of the highest magnitude, but a complete stampeding of the First Amendment and Due Process of Law.
The President and his legal team got on the phone with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger et al. to inquire about exactly what had been uncovered and admitted to, five years later, by Fulton County.
The President, at the time, wanted to ensure that electoral procedures were adequately followed.
That is a perfectly reasonable inquiry in any election, but especially one in which the results were so close, and many unprecedented changes were made – rules were openly flouted, being one of the more shocking ones – under the pretext of “covid” and (in more radical corners) “racial justice” (the devastating results of critical race theory put into practice).
It was because of all those procedural changes (of dubious constitutional legitimacy) that Joe Biden, who was an invalid while in office, somehow garnered more popular votes – despite being the least popular president since the advent of the Gallup Poll – in American history.
Indeed, one could make a very strong case that it would have been a dereliction of Donald Trump’s own duties, as president of the United States, had he not made the inquiry – a margin call, let’s call it! – into the electoral procedures of the most tightly contested states in 2020.
The President has a constitutional prerogative, expressly stated in the text of Article II, to take care that the nation’s laws be faithfully executed.
This means, at minimum, that during an election, particularly one that takes place during a once-in-a-century global pandemic, that he should take precautionary measures to ensure that changed electoral procedures were done 1) lawfully, and 2) in compliance with longstanding, historically supported legal protocol.
But because Georgia, at the time, was feeling massive public pressure to kowtow to Democratic-supported interest groups, including Big Tech companies and Deep State actors, who wanted to expeditiously hand the proverbial baton over to Biden, at which point the thousand year Woke Reich might commence for good, expurgating MAGA from history for all time (that indeed, without exaggeration, was the plan), Brian Kemp, Brad Raffensperger, and crew, in an ersatz and slipshod manner, wound up sweeping the systematic fraud under the rug, democratic accountability be damned.
Even today, Fulton County’s Board of Elections’ legal representative, Ann Brumbaugh, despite admitting to the fraud, was uncanny in her nonchalant dismissiveness to it.
As the Federalist again reported, Brumbaugh described the illegal certification as “a violation of the rule.”
But further says, “since 2020, again, we have new leadership and a new building and a new board and a new standard operating procedure. And since then, the training has been enhanced. … But … we don’t dispute the allegation from the 2020 election.”
Perhaps that unbelievable admission – which, again, was not for a mere dozen or so votes, but representative of nearly 6.5% of all the votes cast in Georgia in 2020 – might be excusable, maybe, if the election reached some kind of peaceful resolution and nobody was arrested for simply asking questions about its outcome.
But that of course is not what happened, and we all remember it. What happened was that anyone who would so dare raise gentle inquiries about what happened – honest election workers like Tina Peters, demonstrators like those who objected peacefully at the Capitol on January 6th, even the President of the United States – were slapped with the full fury of the law.
And that fury came not only in the form of just civil penalties, which itself would have been an historically anomalous, radically disproportionate response to the so-called “crime” – but criminal prosecutions!
In the state of Georgia alone, Trump and his 18 “co-conspirators” were charged, incredulously, under a Racketeering statute – RICO, the same instrument used to combat organized crime – to have their reputations smeared as dangerous criminals, simply for doing the bold and courageous thing of standing by the president by probing whether 2020 was or was not conducted fairly – as history would prove it certainly was not.
Your correspondent is afraid many conservatives, even today, too cavalierly ignore the ramifications of what it means to have the First Amendment’s protections, foremost of all being the rights to speak one’s mind freely and assemble peacefully to contest government decisions, made into mincemeat by the government.
They do not grapple with the earth-shattering ramifications of that occurring.
Adding further mockery to the whole sham, the closest thing to a puppet president, reminiscent of the old Soviet leaders so regularly observed in the twilight hours of that communist regime, installed over administrative operations.
Joe Biden, the face of the manufactured apparatus that illicitly ousted Trump from power, for they could not stand what he represented, is the most egregious affront to justice this country has ever seen.
He also stands as an affront to democracy, in its original and true meaning.
As history has vindicated, of which this Fulton County revelation is but the latest (and far from final) iteration, Biden was the face of an illegitimate political regime that forced itself back into power, by any means necessary – up to and including (especially) cheating, because it could not stand Donald Trump, it could not stand a genuine democratic counterresponse, nor could it stand the Constitution – and the God-given natural rights enshrined therein.
So, it had to trample over all three; kickstarting a terrible precedent that, if allowed to percolate without a decisive correction to the historical record (with Biden officially designated as illegitimate, much as the Vatican used to do with a cadre of anti-Popes), may well threaten to sink our Republic for good.
Nothing short of a complete and total invalidation of Biden’s fake presidency – and a restoration of the first term and election that Donald Trump was denied, will suffice.
For that is a Big Lie which can prove fatal to these United States notwithstanding a powerful prophylactic that corrects the historical record once and for all.
For those who have been watching the antics of a flailing Democrat Party since Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, who now is caught up in a billion dollar fraud scheme that has developed in his state, ever since they lost the 2024 presidential race to President Donald Trump, this might not be a surprise.
But to those who adhere to the left’s faith program that all is good in the Democrat Party and it is just a whisker from victory, it might me.
It is CNN’s chief data analyst that has confirmed the Democrat Party’s approval has declined, and pollsters now are finding that they’ve never seen it “in worse shape.”
Harry Enten’s conclusion? “Lower than the Dead Sea.”
A report in Newsweek said, “Maintaining a strong approval rating will be of utmost importance to the party as it heads toward the midterm elections. The GOP has a slim majority of 219 to 214 in the House of Representatives and holds a 53-47 majority in the Senate so Democrats are looking to pick up key seats and gain control of Congress.”
Enten said, ‘Democrats in the minds of the American public are lower than the Dead Sea…”
He cited polling from Quinnipiac University that has “never found Democrats, at least those in Congress, in worse shape than they are right now.”
In October, the Democrats were at plus 22, but now they are at minus 6, a plunge of 28 points, he said. Some of that was from negative perspectives from independents, but it’s also coming from Democrats themselves, he said.
One bright spot has been a couple of Democrat election wins in this off-off-year, such as the New York city mayor’s race.
The Newsweek report detailed: “The Quinnipiac University national poll of registered voters found that 18 percent approved of the way the Democrats in Congress were handling their job—73 percent disapproved, which according to the pollster is a record low job approval rating for them.
The assessment contacted 1,035 self-identified registered voters nationwide form Dec. 11-15. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.
American commentator Benny Johnson concluded, “Holy smokes it’s so over. CNN just dropped devastating news for Democrats”
Republicans pointed out, “Polling shows even Democrats hate Democrats!”
If the new congressional maps enacted by Texas Republicans stand until 2026, which it appears that they will, Rep. Jasmine Crockett would likely be out of a seat.
To everyone else, this is pretty much a win-win; I’m going to assume that this includes Democrats, who must be tiring of her antics by now, particularly given her lack of substantive support to the party’s caucus in the lower house. For Crockett, it’s a big lose — because not only will she be out of the corridors of power, but out of ways to spend the taxpayer’s money, as well.
And boy, does she spend it. That’s why her Senate run is so important to her, and soon to be loathed by the Democrats. Not only does it put the left’s one big potential upset of 2026 out of reach for them, most likely, but it also means that Crockett’s profligate spending — while she had a three-grand lien on her condo, no less — is going to be front-page news for a while.
So, in case you missed it (no shade; keeping up on all things Jasmine-related has shaved at least 5 IQ points off my poor, addled brain), Rep. Crockett announced Monday that she was running for GOP Sen. John Cornyn’s seat in the upper chamber.
“Trump, I know you’re watching, so let me tell you directly,” Crockett at her announcement event, according to CNN. “You’re not entitled to a damn thing in Texas. You better get to work because I’m coming for you.”
Actually, the environment is probably one of celebration rather than anxious celerity on the part of state Republicans. Unlike the usual Democratic saber-rattling about turning Texas purple, this time they looked like they actually had a shot. A divided GOP is likely to mean that Cornyn doesn’t emerge from his own primary as the nominee, with state Attorney General Ken Paxton leading the way in polls.
Paxton is a little bit more MAGA but a lot more controversial than the other Republican challengers, and while he does well in a GOP primary he’s not necessarily the candidate you want to go into a general election with.
On the other hand, pretty much every character issue you can bring up about Paxton goes out the window the moment Crockett gets the Democratic nomination — which she instantly becomes the favorite for. Paxton could be accused of the most abhorrent thing you can think of — do it on live TV, even — and he’d still be considered a near-lock to win the general election.
To that end, too, Crockett has shoved the one candidate who’s remotely electable out of the running — former U.S. Rep. Colin Allred — leaving Crockett to duel it out with James Talarico, a progressive state representative who once said during a floor speech that “God is nonbinary” and somehow managed to dodge the ensuing lightning bolt from the empyrean.
But let’s not talk about the gift that is Crockett’s statewide unelectability. Let’s instead take a look at the gift that is Crockett’s finances for a moment.
According to Fox News, the Dallas County Clerk’s website shows that Crockett — who makes $174,000 a year in her position as a congresswoman — is currently behind on her payments to the Westside Condominium Association by $3,047.79.
The unpaid lien notice dates from over a year ago.
Crockett, as of the Dec. 3 report, “is in default in her obligation for payment of assessments and has failed and refused and continues to fail and refuse, despite demand upon her, to pay the Association assessments and related charges properly levied against the Property,” a statement on the county clerk’s website reads.
This comes, Fox News noted, after Crockett “raised eyebrows over her Federal Election Commission filings that showed she spent nearly $75,000 of donor money on luxury hotels, transportation and security this year in cities across the U.S.”
“Crockett’s filings show luxury hotel and transportation expenses in Martha’s Vineyard, Chicago, New York City, Las Vegas, San Francisco and Los Angeles, among other major cities, despite representing Texas’ 30th Congressional District, which includes Dallas.”
Crockett also spent about $50,000 on security, which is rich when you consider her position on policing the little people.
“The defund movement seeks to actually bring about healing and finally invest in our communities to make them safer, addressing the root causes of crime and by allowing the professionals to do their respective jobs,” she said in 2021. “Defund is about finally being smart on crime. Defund is about lightening the load for our offices of all things they didn’t sign up for. Defund is about finally being fiscally responsible when it comes to policing in this state.”
Now you know why she wants to hold onto her seat. So, too, do the Democrats.
“The more we learn about Jasmine Crockett, the more clear it is that she’s the worst possible candidate to run for Senate in Texas,” a longtime Democratic strategist told Fox News. “Recent weeks have shown she’s just not ready for primetime.”
She’s also just not ready to pay her own bills.
Say what you will about the Soviets: At least the politburo had the decency to wear schlubby looking clothes and pretend to be part of “the people.” The modern New Dems can’t fathom that.
They think about one thing and one thing only – themselves. That leads some to overspend, while others work to replace our time-honored culture with their own personal psychosis. Regardless, it’s all about them.
Let’s hope that the people of Texas realize what an embarrassment she is and send her packing. Not before she clears the field in the primary, though.
“A remedy must be obtained from the people, who can by the elections of more faithful representatives, annul the acts of the usurpers.” —James Madison (1788)
Washington Post anti-Hegseth story is biased with bad sourcing; news at 6: War Secretary Pete Hegseth did not say “kill them all” upon seeing shipwrecked drug smugglers clinging to the wreckage of their decimated speedboat, but readers of The Washington Compost were meant to think he did. Hegseth says he did order the initial “lethal kinetic strike” against the speedboat in question on September 2, but the order for a follow-up strike — intended to clear wreckage from the waterways, not to kill survivors — was given by Admiral Frank M. “Mitch” Bradley. Even The New York Times was unwilling to play along with WaPo’s story, going so far as to exonerate Hegseth of the second strike. Two details should have made it clear to all Americans that this story was fraudulent: it came from The Washington Post, and it relied on anonymous sources.
Tennessee’s special election tea leaves: In recent weeks, a special election in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District garnered increasing national attention as polling indicated that a radical leftist Democrat was seeing surprising support in a deep-red state. The seat was vacated by former Rep. Mark Green this summer. Tuesday’s election results show that Tennessee remains strongly red, as Republican Matt Van Epps easily defeated Democrat Aftyn Behn nearly 54% to 45%. Van Epps’s margin of victory is less than Green’s in 2024, which raises concerns among some Republicans that this is an omen for the GOP’s prospects in next year’s midterms. However, there is an important caveat: This was a special election, which generally sees lower voter turnout than national elections.
House investigates Walz: There is growing criticism of Minnesota Democrat Gov. Tim Walz’s abysmal handling of a massive fraud scandal involving the state’s Somali migrant community. The House Oversight Committee announced it has opened an investigation. “[Governor] Walz was warned about massive fraud in a pandemic food-aid program for children, yet he failed to act,” Chairman James Comer explained. “Instead, whistleblowers who raised concerns faced retaliation,” he added. “Because of Governor Walz’s negligence, criminals — including Somali terrorists — stole nearly $1 billion from the program while children suffered.” The Treasury Department also announced it has opened its own investigation into the scandal to determine whether any of these taxpayer funds went to the terrorist organization al-Shabaab.
Trump warns of land strikes on drug cartels: It’s not just drug-trafficker boats in the Caribbean Sea that are targets for potential U.S. military strikes. On Tuesday, Donald Trump warned that “very soon,” U.S. missile strikes will target drug-trafficking operations on land in some South American countries. “We’re going to start doing those strikes on land too,” Trump explained. “The land is much easier, much easier, and we know the routes they take. We know everything about them. We know where they live. We know where the bad ones live, and we are going to start doing that very soon.” While not going into any detail, Trump added, “Anybody that’s doing that and selling it into our country is subject to attack, not necessarily just Venezuela. I hear Colombia is making cocaine. They have cocaine manufacturing plants, and they sell us cocaine.” Rather than backing off following dubious claims of “war crimes” after a recent boat strike, Trump is doubling down, sending the message that he will give no quarter to drug cartels.
Illegal immigrant on a California CDL kills American newlyweds: William Micah Carter and his new wife, Jennifer Lynn Lower, were killed in late November in Oregon after Indian national Rajinder Kumar jackknifed his 18-wheeler and blocked both lanes of the highway. Tom Lower, father of the bride, said the couple had been married for 16 days. Kumar entered the country in 2022 by crossing the unsecured southern border in Arizona. That same year, the Biden administration sued the state of Arizona to stop it from using shipping containers to fill gaps in its border wall. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s California gave Kumar work authorization and a commercial driver’s license in 2023. Today, Kumar has been charged with criminally negligent homicide and is being held in an Oregon jail. ICE has placed a detainer for Kumar with the local jail, which is unlikely to be honored due to Oregon’s sanctuary policies.
Afghan migrant charged with threatening suicide bombing in TX: Mohammad Dawood Alokozay has been charged by the Justice Department for a TikTok video in which he threatened to bomb the Dallas area, ranted against “infidels,” and revealed that the Taliban was dear to him. Alokozay, an Afghan immigrant, admitted that he was the man in the video. When another TikTok user asked Alokozay why he had come to the United States, he said it was to carry out a suicide attack on Americans. Attorney General Pam Bondi reported that Alokozay was admitted to the U.S. under the Biden administration. The Islamic attack on National Guardsmen by an Afghan migrant last week has renewed public attention on the issue of unvetted migrants. Tuesday night, a Delaware undergrad student, Luqmaan Khan, was arrested on accusations of a premeditated attack on the University of Delaware Police Department.
Trump doesn’t want Somalis: In response to the growing scandal involving Somali immigrants in Minnesota defrauding taxpayers via government services, Donald Trump criticized Gov. Tim Walz but focused on Somalia, calling it “barely a country” where “they just run around killing each other.” He also blasted Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, observing, “For years, I’ve watched her complain about our Constitution.” Expanding on the issue, Trump stated, “Ilhan Omar is garbage. She’s garbage. Her friends are garbage.” He added, “These aren’t people that work. These aren’t people that say, ‘Let’s go, come on. Let’s make this place great.’ These are people that do nothing but complain. I don’t want them in our country, I’ll be honest with you.” Furthermore, “Somebody said, ‘Oh, that’s not politically correct.’ I don’t care. I don’t want them in our country. Their country is no good for a reason. Their country stinks.”
Dells donate money for Trump accounts: Building on the Invest America Act platform, Michael and Susan Dell are contributing $6.25 billion from their charitable funds to invest in 25 million American children 10 and under. Dell’s contribution adds $250 per child to Trump’s plan, approved by Congress earlier this year, of $1,000 each in an investment account. To be eligible, families must live in zip codes where the median income is less than $150,000, which should cover 80% of kids 10 and under. Another bonus to these accounts is that anyone can donate to them: parents, grandparents, friends, etc. If you start an account for a two-year-old now and annually add $250 until they turn 18, they’ll end up with about $8,000, assuming a 7% annual return. If you leave the money in the account for the person’s whole life until they’re 65 without contributing a dime, they’ll have $3,500,000.
Judge orders ICE to stop warrantless arrests in DC: Obama-appointed Judge Beryl Howell issued a stern decision on Tuesday, telling the Trump administration to stop the warrantless arrests of illegals that she says is a practice in the District of Columbia, despite the administration’s claims to the contrary. Howell’s 88-page opinion explains that the term “alien criminals” is not PC because being in the country illegally is not a crime but a civil violation. Howell’s injunction stops the administration from arresting alien criminals without a warrant unless escape is believed likely. Howell also took issue with Homeland Security’s policy of making arrests on “reasonable suspicion,” insisting that illegals can only be arrested by the legal standard of probable cause. Once again, Democrat-appointed judges seem much more concerned with the legal rights of illegal aliens than the welfare of American citizens.
Headlines
Holiday shopping turnout jumps to 202.9 million people during Thanksgiving weekend (CNBC)
Trump doubles down on voiding Biden autopen actions (Fox News)
Trump admin to withhold SNAP funding from 21 blue states if they don’t provide data (Washington Examiner)
Over 90% of college students think “words can be violence” after Kirk assassination (Christian Post)
Canada euthanized a record 16,499 people last year (PJ Media)
Humor: MRI confirms President Trump has incurable advanced-stage patriotism (Babylon Bee)
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“The stage is set, and I do believe that Tennesseans are determined to claw back decency, self-respect, and common sense from the most corrupt and dangerous president in American history.” That’s according to Albert Arnold Gore, former sidekick to traitor John Kerry, and now apparently the self-appointed arbiter of “decency, self-respect, and common sense.”
Gore was among the high-profile leftists that Demos rolled out in Tennessee to rally mostly urban Nashville constituents in Tuesday’s special congressional election.
He and other Demos have been promoting that strategy in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District for weeks.
The 7th District election was to fill the seat of my friend Mark Green, who resigned to pursue a business opportunity in what has been a very conservative district.
The Republican candidate was Matt Van Epps, a state commissioner who is a distinguished West Point graduate and former SpecOps combat helicopter pilot and Air Mission Commander. His opponent was an unaccomplished leftist, Aftyn Behn, a Tennessee state rep and professional “community organizer” from Nashville — a city she previously declared she “hates” in a state she claims is “racist.”
Behn is the archetypal “emotionally incontinent idiot” Demos field to rally their core constituency of emotionally incontinent idiots. She advocates gender confusion and supports men competing in women’s sports.
For weeks, Democrats and their Leftmedia publicists have churned the headlines that this special election was going to be “razor thin” and their leftist candidate would prevail.
For some district background, in November 2024, with Donald Trump on the ballot, Mark Green defeated his Democrat congressional opponent — the disgraced former mayor of Nashville, Megan Barry — with 60% of the vote. In November 2022, Mark also defeated Democrat nominee Odessa Kelly with 60% of the vote.
Clearly, in recent-year regular election cycles, this has been a 60-40 district. But part of that district is in Nashville, where Demos like Gore effectively rallied their disgruntled base.
The result was an Epps victory margin of nine points, six points less than Green’s recent victories. However, while a point nine election spread would constitute the “razor thin” margin Demos predicted, a nine point spread is not that.
Democrats threw everybody and everything they had to turn this district, but they still lost big.
Today, some leftist publications are still promoting the GOP jitters after the election, as if it were a point nine spread. Indeed, there are lessons here, including the fact that Trump has a lot of cleanup to do on the “affordability” issue.
Michael Swartz: The Inflationary Bite of Electric Bills — Regardless of which factor gets the most blame, the reality is that high electricity prices are here to stay unless the underlying issues are addressed.
Emmy Griffin: College, or Expensive Elementary School? — UC San Diego is admitting students who don’t have a basic understanding of math. Young adults are literally paying for courses they should have mastered already.
Tim Walz Covered Up Billion-Dollar Somali Fraud Scheme? — Gov. Walz’s administration stands accused of ignoring red flags, retaliating against whistleblowers, and allowing taxpayer dollars to vanish into fraudulent operations.
Connecting the Dots Between Islam and Evil Actions — Larry Alex Taunton delves into the reasons behind the Western scholarly community’s difficulty in understanding the intrinsic connections between Islam and violent actions perpetrated in its name.
“If Europe suddenly wants to fight us and starts the war, we’re ready right now.” —Russian President Vladimir Putin
You’ll Own Nothing and Be Happy
“Why you may not want lower prices as much as you think you do.” —Washington Post headline
Belly Laugh of the Day
“I actually think that the mainstream news still does a very good job of just presenting facts.” —Barack Obama
Who Wants to Tell Them?
“Democrats want to lower healthcare costs for families. We want to make healthcare cheaper, more effective, more accessible. … Republicans, meanwhile, are a total mess when it comes to healthcare.” —Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
“Time has run out on Republican inaction. They have done nothing over the last 60 days but stumble, fumble, and bumble as it relates to addressing the healthcare crisis that they’ve created.” —House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY)
For the Record
“They want Pete Hegseth prosecuted for war crimes because he’s defending the homeland from narco terrorists but didn’t even call on anyone in the Biden admin to resign when they droned eight innocent Afghani children.” —Greg Price
“We’ve been told for decades the US military must go everywhere and do the impossible all over the world. But the red line for permanent Washington is using the military to destroy narco terrorists in our own hemisphere.” —Vice President JD Vance
Shot/Chaser
“Don’t blame the entire Somali community for the deeds of some bad actors.” —Minnesota Star Tribune headline
“But I bet you blame all whites for the 1.4% of the U.S. population were who were slave owners.” —Ann Coulter
Re: The Left
“Is it too much to ask that immigrants love America and its system of government? That’s a question that President Trump has been asking, with an especially high level of vitriol, in the wake of the horrific shooting of members of the National Guard in Washington, D.C., the day before Thanksgiving.” —Rich Lowry
“It speaks to how depraved the Democrat Party has become that they are more angry at President Trump for deploying the National Guard … than they are at the foreign national terrorist from Afghanistan.” —White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt
“There is a direct connection to the constant demonization of our men and women in uniform and in law enforcement and the assassination of one National Guardsman and the grievous wounding of another who is clinging to life by a thread.” —Gary Bauer
“Critical race theory proponents lump people into groups based on their skin tone. They claim that black people are the victims, while white people are the oppressors. Yes, their worldview requires believing that the woman who was set on fire [in Chicago] was the oppressor. It’s easier to ignore this story than explain that absurdity.” —Victor Joecks
Makes You Think
“You can get a plumber to your house in the middle of the night within an hour. But if you go to the ER, you could wait six hours. Why? The federal government never tried to make plumbing affordable and accessible.” —Bert Kellerman
ON THIS DAY in 1805, William Clark, Meriwether Lewis, and their intrepid band of about 30 explorers reached the Pacific Ocean. They left the St. Louis area in May 1804, charged by President Thomas Jefferson to explore and document the American continent.
A new Rasmussen Reports and Heartland Institute poll found that a slim majority of likely voters ages 18 to 39 want a democratic socialist to win the 2028 presidential election.
The survey of 1,496 likely voters showed 51% favored a democratic socialist victory, while 36% said they opposed that outcome and 17% were unsure.
The survey was conducted from Oct. 31 to Nov. 2 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points at a 95% confidence level.
Among young Democrats, support for a democratic socialist president stood at 82%. Among young Republicans, 65% opposed the idea.
Independents were split, with 37% supporting and 31% opposing.
The underlying data shows a complex picture.
Family influence appears strongest among those who back democratic socialism.
Fifty-four percent of the respondents said their parents or guardians held favorable views of democratic socialism when they were growing up, and 27% identified those same family members as the most influential force shaping their worldview.
Education also plays a notable role.
Fifty-two percent of respondents recalled teachers or professors who were favorable toward democratic socialism, and 22% described those educators as “very favorable.” Only 26% said their teachers or professors expressed unfavorable views.
Media consumption habits round out the pattern.
Seventeen percent of young voters said online videos or podcasts were the primary influence behind their support. Ten percent pointed to books.
Smaller shares identified grandparents, print or digital news, and television. A limited number said church leaders or teachers were their most important influence.
Previous Rasmussen polling showed that younger voters also supported economic proposals favored by democratic socialist lawmakers, including rent freezes and government-run retail options.
The demographic distinctions in the data are sharp.
Support is strongest among the youngest adults, with 57% of voters ages 18 to 24 backing a democratic socialist candidate. Support drops to 46% among those aged 35 to 39.
Women show slightly higher levels of support than men across the under-40 group.
For conservatives and President Donald Trump, the findings indicate a potential need for long-term adjustments in GOP strategy regarding younger voters.
Data suggest that gaining support among younger Americans may require policies or messaging that reflect the economic conditions influencing their political attitudes.
“Seditionist 6” member Elissa Slotkin predicted an incident with the National Guard in DC one month ago.
This is sick and looking more and more like another Deep State color revolution against the American people.
The Deep State went on full attack during President Trump’s first term and manufactured a color revolution in this country to remove President Trump from office. The media, Big Tech, COVID, BLM riots, and more culminated in the stolen 2020 Election. It was planned and produced by the Deep State. It was evil, corrupt, and an attack on the people of America again.
There are indications that this is happening again.
Elissa Slotkin, the new Senator in Michigan, who was awarded the 2024 win in a very close race, is also a “former” CIA member. She is one of the “Seditionist 6” who called for members of the military not to protect the American people if ordered by the Trump Administration. (see transcript below)
Seditionist Elissa Slotkin spoke at the Brookings Institute a month ago, predicting an incident involving National Guard. She estimated that it would take place in around two weeks from when she spoke.
Seditionist Maggie Goodlander’s husband Jake Sullivan is closely associated with Brookings. He is the protege of former Brookings President and the Clintons’ buddy Strobe Talbott. Jake Sullivan was Hillary’s closest aide, and Biden NatSec Advisor, who also worked with Obama.
Seditionist Elissa Slotkin spoke at the Brookings Institute a month ago, predicting an incident involving National Guard. She estimated that it would take place in around two weeks from when she spoke.
As a CIA officer, the idea that intelligence officers could be asked to target Americans turns my stomach, and it would shift us into a modern-day surveillance state. Turning the federal government against Trump’s enemies goes hand in hand with his use of force in American cities, both federal law enforcement and the military. As of today, the President has attempted to deploy more than 7,000 National Guard members across five cities, including right here in Washington.
In August, the administration ordered the creation of two new National Guard units, a standing quick reaction force that can deploy anywhere in the country, and then separately, National Guard units in all 50 states focused on quelling so-called civil disturbances. At this point, Trump has been very clear about his intent.
At Quantico, speaking as Commander-in-Chief, he instructed his military brass to use cities as, quote, training grounds. And many times, he’s floated the idea of invoking the Insurrection Act so that military units can raid, detain, and arrest Americans. The President has already deployed ICE and other federal law enforcement to these same cities across America. In some cases, these federal officers are playing fast and loose with their tactics, which sooner or later could lead to a deadly escalation.
The videos out of Chicago are shocking. Federal agents pulling their weapons on highways, firing tear gas into neighborhoods right before a Halloween parade, injuring and even killing civilians. Many are mast, not wearing uniforms and driving unmarked cars. For those of us who served abroad, it feels like another country.
Matter of time before things get worse. By my estimation, we’re about two weeks away from a bloody incident that spirals out of control. This is just the incident that Trump wants to justify more force coming in.
Slotkin is a protege of creepy John Brennan who has reportedly been subpeonaed in a court in Southern Florida for his actions against President Trump and the American people in Trump’s first term in office.
Slotkin was also a proponent of bringing Afghans to the US after Biden’s surrender to the Taliban in 2021.
She could have predicted what in fact actually happened back in 2021 couldn’t she? when she was a big part in creating it!!! pic.twitter.com/IkBq0aFJDg
The man who attacked National Guardsmen in DC only a few days ago was from Afghanistan and is also related to the CIA. One of those he attacked, a young American woman, is dead. She died protecting her country from radicals who hate this country and are trying to destroy it.
The Afghan migrant and father-of-five accused of ambushing two National Guard troops in the US capitol was brought into the country by the Biden administration because of his prior work with the CIA & US government. He drove to DC from Washington state. https://t.co/KDeK6E9izNpic.twitter.com/3vL7XFLXTu
Even before January 1st, when the City of New York will be controlled by the newly elected mayor, Zohran Mamdani, someone who grew up in that world already figured out that the deceptive path being carved out by Muslims, who aspire to attain elected office, is to bill themselves as would-be saviors of Western society.
Mosab Hassan Yousef, better known as Son of Hamas, has an uncanny way of getting down to business and seeing through all the carefully crafted campaign speeches, revealing the exact winning strategy which, in this case, catapulted Mamdani to the top political role in the city that never sleeps.
While speaking about the “Red-Green Alliance,” during his recent appearance on the Will Cain Show, Yousef was asked how these two diverse groups can be aligned? One is steeped in Woke and Marxist ideology while the other in a tribal Muslim philosophy whose goal is complete world dominance. Each is championing totally different outcomes.
Perhaps, the only commonality amongst them is that nothing good or productive will result for mankind if either of them should achieve their objectives.
Nonetheless, coming from that mentality, Mosab has figured out that Mamdani, and others like him, claim to be a type of redeemer who will save the city from all its ills. It wasn’t that difficult to spot, because, as he puts it, the “Reds” paved the way for the “Greens” to swoop in and take the reins, creating the perfect climate for such a takeover.
Because most Americans have little or no understanding of this dangerous alliance, and what it means for a freedom-loving society, they are unaware of the anti-Western direction which is at their core beliefs. Mosab says, “All they can offer is tyranny and dictatorship.”
It is not in their nature to be transparent or to represent the people who put them into office. In fact, their goal is complete destruction of the status quo which would include the 250-year American culture, as well as the end of other societies which have, up until now, not represented a dominant Muslim force.
Mosab’s problem with the incoming mayor is how he represented himself, “using the Muslim and socialist cards.” Had he introduced himself as someone who identified more as an American, despite his being foreign born, Yousef would have seen it differently. But given his conflicting ideology, that is in opposition to the spirit of New York, Mamdani’s promises to save what he has characterized as a failing city, cannot succeed. That is because these two failing philosophies have never worked to better the lives of people, anywhere they have been tried.
Mosab reminds us that New York, even with all its problems, is the most advanced city in the world and doesn’t need fixing from someone who doesn’t share its culture, sensibilities and way of life. This is what Mosab finds so perplexing. He asks, “From what exactly will Mamdani save New York?”
Sure, it’s an expensive city in which to live, but will the ideals of Marxist socialism improve the cost of living? Who will pay for a better system to be implemented? Because someone will have to finance all of the free services he promised.
Mosab points out that since Mamdani identifies as a Muslim, why doesn’t he first go to build those nations which are riddled with their own problems and inequities?
That’s an easy answer. Because building and improving is not the endgame for Mamdani or others like him who have invaded – the word he uses, America in the hope of making it into their image.
All too familiar are Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, who have nothing positive to say about the American culture or way of life. To hear it from them, they reside in an ugly, racist nation which is Islamophobic. Everything always comes back to those same accusations.
In order to atone for such sins, the type of America they hope for would much more resemble Qatar or Saudi Arabia, where women are relegated to a second-class status and every city would hear the Muezzin’s call to prayer five times a day.
It is this type of world that Mosab Hassan Yousef escaped – one where boys had no chance to dream about a family and successful career or where girls could choose whatever they wanted to become, without the permission of others.
It is because Mosab is familiar with this oppressive existence that he is able to easily see where all this is leading. Those warnings must be heeded, because if they aren’t, the America which has been a shining beacon to so many, will cease to be entirely.
The Red/Green Alliance is the death knell for the country which started out by building a written constitution to protect personal freedoms and rights. When it failed to live up to those ideals, it was held to accountability by citizens who recognized the injustices and quickly sought to remedy them.
America is far from perfect, but it is a model which has worked for so many people that it still remains the coveted land where one can live the closest thing to a dream life. The possibility of upward mobility is still attainable, and if someone is willing to work hard, there is no limit to what can be achieved.
But those things can only be accomplished by a corporately held covenant which values democracy, liberty and the ability to make personal choices without forcing others into compliance.
Without mutual respect for each individual, society cannot offer a good solution for its people, because their safety and preferences are not guaranteed.
That is why foreigners who do not share the principles of Western nations cannot walk in and claim to be a mystical messiah whose recycled ideas of inequity are the magic pill that will enhance life for each person. Such a doomed prescription offers no opportunity to rise to the top nor does it provide a way to financially excel as the result of hard work and self-determination.
These are the pitfalls already seen by one who rejected a way of life which only sought to keep its people in bondage and subservience. It’s the old story of a wolf in sheep’s clothing. But in this case, anyone looking for a savior might want to look above to the Almighty – not to a Democratic Socialist named Zohran Mamdani.
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In the recent elections across New York City, Virginia, and New Jersey, Democrats won with authority. New York City saw record turnout, the highest since the late 1960s, and voters chose a self-described socialist as mayor. In Virginia and New Jersey, Democrats captured large margins across the board, buoyed by strong youth turnout and shifting coalitions.
What’s striking isn’t simply geography—it’s the mindset. Voters in traditionally blue areas are now voting from a belief that government is the ultimate problem-solver. It marks a cultural transition from valuing freedom and responsibility to expecting authority and control. That change says more about the nation’s spiritual condition than its political one.
Younger, college-educated, urban voters led the way. Exit polls show overwhelming majorities under 30 aligning with Democratic candidates, citing the cost of living and housing as their biggest concerns. They ignore that it is Democratic Party policies on illegal immigration that drove those economic issues.
Moral character or personal conduct no longer weigh as heavily. In Virginia, one candidate who had once wished death upon an opponent still sailed to victory. The reaction? Indifference. It’s as if people have accepted that outrage, division, and even hostility are normal parts of political discourse. The louder and more aggressive the rhetoric, the more “authentic” it feels.
The danger is that this kind of moral dullness doesn’t stay in politics. It bleeds into the culture itself.
The deeper question is spiritual. When citizens look to government as their provider and protector, they trade in freedom for dependency. Every time the state expands to “solve” life’s struggles, it fills a void once meant for faith, family, and community.
Socialism thrives when people believe government is their savior. Communism follows when faith in God disappears altogether. What we are seeing in these elections is not just political realignment, it’s spiritual surrender.
The greatest threat to liberty isn’t oppression; it’s apathy dressed as security. When the people no longer discern between good and evil, right and wrong, truth and propaganda, they invite tyranny wrapped in compassion.
So, is this a glimpse of what’s to come?
Possibly. The pattern is clear: educated urban voters embracing state control as moral progress. The irony is that those who fear “fascism” are ushering in the very system that suppresses freedom. When government replaces God, it redefines morality, truth, and justice to suit its needs.
The moral of this story is simple but sobering: freedom demands faith, and faith demands discernment.
A people who depend on government for everything will eventually lose everything—including their freedom.
2 Corinthians 3:17 sums it up: “Where the Spirit of the LORD is, there is freedom.”
Otherwise, the darkness of tyranny absorbs the souls of mankind.
The news of the day and how it affects you as a Christian. It’s the Friday News Round-Up and Comment broadcast. Here’s a sample of what host Jim Schneider presented for listeners:
–The longest government shutdown in our history ended with the stroke of a pen by President Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday evening. He signed a spending package into law that will fund the government through the end of January.
–Members of Congress collected more than $20,000 apiece during the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, as millions of Americans went without pay and essential services. The White House estimates that the shutdown inflicted roughly 15 billion dollars in weekly economic damage with 60,000 private sector jobs lost.
–Leftists, including some elected officials, reacted with rage Monday after 8 Senate Democrats caved to Senate Republicans by agreeing to vote to end the lengthy government shutdown. Despite voting against the deal, Chuck Schumer is emerging as the top target for not containing the defections.
–Paychecks to federal workers reportedly will be going out tomorrow.
–Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said that the full SNAP benefits would be restored by Monday, November 17th.
–Rollins said that SNAP benefits are ripe with fraud and abuse.
–Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem handed out $10,000 bonus checks November 13th to thousands of frontline TSA officers who stayed on the job during the government shutdown.
–Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania surprised CNN’s Dana Bash as he explained how much crueler the political left has treated him compared to those on the right.
–New York City Mayor Elect Zohran Mamdani spoke unapologetically about his Muslim faith and Democratic socialist roots during his victory speech on election night.
–In the wake of the victory by Mamdani, Muslims are claiming New York for Islam.
–The city of Ithaca, New York, made history this week by electing a 20 year old member of the Communist Party USA to public office.
–Progressive candidate Katie Wilson was elected as the 58th mayor of Seattle.
–So far there are 47 members of Congress that are not seeking re-election.
–Representative Jasmine Crockett believes President Trump may potentially play with the voting machines for the mid-term elections.
–The New York Post is reporting that an NYPD exodus is already underway with a surge of officers quitting in the month leading up to Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral win.
“Another good source of information about what the Democratic Socialists of America believe is the DSA Political Platform put together in 2021. It’s worth reading in its entirety, but here are some quotations from the document” – Gene Veith
The election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City is not the only reason to take the Democratic Socialists of America seriously.
He joins Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and House Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) as prominent DSA members in prominent offices. But, as Olivia Reingold points out, the DSA has growing chapters across the country–one of the largest being in northwestern Arkansas–and is doing the groundwork to field candidates in local, state, and national elections.
The media is turning out anodyne descriptions of Democratic Socialism, which the BBC claims “has no clear definition but essentially means giving a voice to workers, not corporations.” Actually, Democratic Socialism does have a clear definition. According to Oxford Reference, an objective source, “Strictly speaking, socialism advocates social ownership of the means of production and is therefore committed to the overthrow of capitalism as an economic model, while maintaining a commitment to political democracy.”
Basically, Democratic Socialism is a sect of Marxism that believes communism can be brought about by political means without violent revolution, though the sources linked above say that the Democratic Socialists don’t rule out violent revolution. But their immediate tactic is political means. That is, winning elections.
So since this movement is shaping up to be a viable option for American voters, we should educate ourselves about its policy positions.
Reingold gained access to some DSA internal documents that outline what candidates must commit to in order to gain a DSA endorsement:
Candidates will receive support based on whether they organized for Sanders in the past, support “Palestinian liberation,” and are willing to “openly and proudly identify with DSA and Socialism.” A different resolution specifies over a dozen prerequisites for endorsement by the DSA, such as “the abolition of the police and the U.S. empire,” “return of land to indigenous communities,” and “the right of all people to freedom of movement.”
Here is the required position on Israel:
The candidate must support the BDS [Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions] movement [eliminating all investment in Israel] and the creation of a single, secular, integrated, and democratic Palestinian state in the whole of historic Palestine, and must oppose any measure which would legitimize the Israeli state, transfer funds or arms to the Israeli state, or restrict the right of any person to organize for a free Palestine.
Another good source of information about what the Democratic Socialists of America believe is the DSA Political Platform put together in 2021. It’s worth reading in its entirety, but here are some quotations from the document (bolds in the original, with my comments italicized and in brackets:
—A new political order through a second constitutional convention to write the founding documents of a new socialist democracy. [Our existing “ossified constitution” should be replaced. There should be no “undemocratic institutions” such as a Senate or an Electoral College.]
–Extension of voting rights to non-citizens who otherwise meet durational residency requirements for voting.
–Defund the police by rejecting any expansion to police budgets or scope of enforcement while cutting budgets annually towards zero.
—Freedom for all incarcerated people. [That includes rejecting “‘alternatives to incarceration’ that are carceral in nature, including problem-solving courts and electronic monitoring and coercive restorative justice programs.”]
–Repeal local ordinances that criminalize people involved in the sex trades, drug trades, and street economies; that criminalize homelessness; and that criminalize squatting and other productive occupation of unused housing.
–End the legacy of colonial violence against indigenous people through repatriation, and call for the US adherence to existing treaties and statutes upholding indigenous rights and sovereignty.
–Social ownership of all major industry and infrastructure.
–Free abortion on demand.
–Allow trans minors to access gender affirming care without parental consent.
–End the repression of sex workers and fully decriminalize sex work nationwide.
—End the state recognition of the gender binary and enforcement of heteronormativity.
–Decommodify survival, so no one’s life depends on their ability to work or to pay.
–End all deportations and enforcement actions, immigration detention, private prison contracts, and deputization of local police forces.
–[A series of demands regarding foreign policy call for withdrawing from NATO, closing all foreign military bases, and normalizing our relationship with socialist nations such as China, North Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela.]
To me, though, the most telling revelation about the beliefs of the Democratic Socialists of America came out in Zohran Mamdani’s victory speech: “We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about.”
That is to say, in his mindset and that of his supporters, government will concern itself with everything. Government will take care of everything, no matter how large or how small. That, my friends, is the definition of totalitarianism.
Last week, Muslim socialist Zohran Mamdani won New York City’s mayoral election. In the days following, a Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) official sought to characterize Mamdani’s victory as a “political and ideological revolt against the American establishment.”
The executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) Ohio chapter described the election of New York City’s new socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, as both a “coup” against the Democratic Party elites and a “referendum” on Palestinian and Lebanese “resistance,” framing the victory as a political and ideological revolt against the American establishment.
Khalid Turaani made the remarks on Lebanon’s Mayadeen TV the day after Mamdani’s election, according to a video released by MEMRI. The comments cast the win as a revolt against the U.S. political order and a symbolic triumph for anti-Israel movements, echoing his claim that the result punctured the party hierarchy.
“I believe [Zohran] Mamdani represents an opposition to the entire American deep state,” Turaani said. “Through this historic victory, which is unprecedented in modern times, Mamdani has defeated the traditional Democratic Party.”
Turaani also referenced Senator Chuck Schumer, calling him a “Zionist” and a “Jewish New Yorker.” He cited Senator Schumer’s refusal to endorse Mamdani as more evidence that the socialist’s victory is an attack on the Democratic establishment.
Turaani additionally tied Mamdani’s victory to the conflict in Gaza. He characters New York City as “an extremist Zionist fortress of support for the Israeli occupation state,” calling Mamdani’s election a “referendum over the Palestinian and Lebanese resistance.” There is some truth to this, Breitbart notes. Post-election polling reportedly showed that 83% of Mamdani voters cited Palestine as their primary motivation.
You can view his these comments in the video below.
CAIR is a dangerous player in American politics that many intercessors are likely already familiar with. The organization was one of Mamdani’s largest funders according to Breitbart, contributing $120,000 to the mayor-elect’s campaign. It has also come under fire from Republicans, some of whom have called for federal investigations over CAIR’s alleged funding of terrorist organizations.
If an organization like CAIR is celebrating Mamdani’s win, that’s not a good sign. Let’s pray against the influences of radical Islam on our nation, and let’s continue to pray for Israel!
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What will the loss of hundreds of thousands of law-abiding citizens mean for New York City? It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to answer that question. When large numbers of law-abiding citizens leave any area, conditions get worse. And when conditions get worse, that motivates even more law-abiding citizens to leave. Meanwhile, the election of Zohran Mamdani will make the Big Apple a magnet for criminals, gang members, radical Islamists, economic parasites, far left political activists and those that have entered this country illegally. New York City has entered a horrifying death spiral, and there is little hope that this death spiral can be reversed any time soon.
Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers are prepared to bolt from the Big Apple if socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani wins Tuesday’s mayoral race — potentially setting the stage for the largest population flight in US history, an alarming new poll warned early Monday.
Around 765,000 people of the 8.4 million residents who call New York City home are preparing to leave, with about 9% of New Yorkers sharing that they would “definitely” leave the city if Mamdani is elected the 111th mayor, the Daily Mail reported, citing a survey conducted by J.L. Partners.
We have never seen anything quite like this before.
If those residents were to leave, it would be equal to the population of Washington, DC, Las Vegas, or Seattle fleeing the city.
Another 25% of New Yorkers — about 2.12 million — said they would “consider” packing up and leaving.
But it isn’t just the sheer number of people that are threatening to leave that is the issue.
One of the reasons why New York City is one of the most important cities on the entire planet is because of the vast amount of wealth that is located there.
Now that Mamdani has won, wealthy New Yorkers are freaking out because he believes that capitalism is “theft”…
A lot of ultra-wealthy residents are threatening to flee, and that is a major problem, because the top 1 percent of all income earners pay close to 50 percent of all the taxes…
The top 1 percent of earners in New York pay around half the city’s income taxes.
With a significant proportion of them departing the city’s finances would collapse and there would be less money to pay for Mamdani’s policies, which involve subsidizing various parts of the city’s economy.
New York City is already facing an absolutely massive budget deficit next year.
So how will Mamdani be able to pay for all of his new social programs if ultra-wealthy New Yorkers start leaving in large numbers?
And how will Mamdani be able to maintain order if police officers start leaving in large numbers?
When Mamdani was asked about this, he openly acknowledged that the city is facing a “retention crisis”…
Socialist mayor-elect of New York City Zohran Mamdani said Friday that he is not concerned about backlash from law enforcement following his election victory and reiterated his plan to have social workers carry out certain duties currently done by law enforcement.
During a visit to Puerto Rico, Mamdani was asked if he was “worried” about backlash from the “law enforcement community.”
“I’m not worried about the backlash. What I’m worried about, frankly, is the continuation of a retention crisis that we’ve seen only deepen during the course of this campaign,” Mamdani said.
Mamdani is a smooth talker.
But there is no way that he is going to be able to talk his way out of this mess.
Every single day more New Yorkers are relocating, and one of the most popular destinations is Florida…
Election anxiety in New York City has turned into a real estate windfall in South Florida.
Developer Isaac Toledano, CEO of Miami-based BH Group, told Fox News Digital that his company has closed more than $100 million in signed contracts from New York buyers in just the past few months – about twice last year’s volume.
“I think the election accelerated how people make decisions,” Toledano said. “I think people are nervous [for] what’s coming, how it’s going to affect their lifestyle, the quality of life, taxes, potential of crime [or] no crime.”
‘We are seeing interest from New York City intensify because of the election,’ Dina Goldentayer, a Douglas Elliman agent in Florida, told the Daily Mail.
‘The city’s area codes 917 and 212 are popping up now almost as much as they did at the height of the Covid pandemic.
‘Most of the calls are from buyers, many Wall Street execs, looking in the $20 million to $30 million range. Specifically for waterfront houses or oceanfront condos.’
The weather in southern Florida is so nice for most of the year.
Needless to say, it would certainly not be my first choice.
Up until just recently, many long-time New Yorkers never imagined that they would leave.
But now everything has changed.
It has been pointed out that voters that have lived in New York City for less than 10 years are the reason why Mamdani was victorious…
We are seeing similar patterns all over the nation.
In fact, it is being reported that this month we saw “a record forty-two Muslim candidates elected to public office across the United States”…
They told us the plan. Now we’re watching it unfold — in real time.
This week, terror-linked Islamic organizations are celebrating a stunning milestone: a record forty-two Muslim candidates elected to public office across the United States, the most significant wave of Muslim political victories in American history.
According to the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) own data, the newly elected officials span at least nine states — New York, Virginia, Michigan, New Jersey, Maryland, Washington, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina. The list includes five mayors, four state legislators, two judges, and dozens of city council, county, and school board members.
The electorate has been transformed by decades of mass immigration.
This is something that many of us have been ranting about for a very long time, but there is no way to turn back the clock now.
Those that wanted to “fundamentally transform” America have largely succeeded, and now a 34-year-old Islamic communist that wasn’t even a U.S. citizen a decade ago is going to be the next mayor of New York City.
The largest city in the United States is about to descend into a state of complete and utter chaos, and everyone can see that this is a story that is not going to have a happy ending.
‘Stand Your Ground’ Under Attack Emmy GriffinThe Wall Street Journal makes a specious case for allowing an aggressor to attack and possibly kill you — and its timing sure seems suspicious.
Trump Takes on ’60 Minutes’ Douglas Andrews In a lengthy and wide-ranging interview, the president went toe to toe with the “news” network that had recently coughed up $16 million to him.
This Just In: Blue States Vote Democrat Nate Jackson Socialism with a smile is still socialism, and that’s bad news for the whole country, even if it happens in blue areas like New York City, Virginia, and New Jersey.
The ‘Democratic Socialist’ Harbinger Thomas Gallatin With Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral victory in New York City and polling of national Democrats, the socialist threat to America’s future is significant.
The Courage to Stand Alone Mark Alexander Occasionally, there are those on the Left who demonstrate the courage to do what is right and speak the truth — to stand against the gale-force winds trying to crush them into silence.
Workers Think Dems Are ‘Weak’ and ‘Woke’ Brian Mark Weber Socialism and identity politics may be appealing to half of New York City voters, but that’s not enough to save the party nationwide.
Woman Kicked Out for Confronting Man in Locker Room Samantha Koch Does Gold’s Gym hate women? And why is American culture so thoroughly fascinated with — instead of appalled by — men pretending to be women?
Bill Gates’s Climate Epiphany Jack DeVine An influential public figure just changed his mind on a controversial topic — and had the courage to admit it. How refreshing is that?!
Dick Cheney: Rest in Peace Douglas Andrews For better or for worse, he was at the center of the storm during the past half-century, and he was perhaps the most consequential vice president in American history.
Oh SNAP — More Judicial Diktats Nate Jackson Senate Democrats are keeping the government closed, and Donald Trump is not a king. Nevertheless, two district judges claim the authority to open the spigot for food stamps.
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What Is Christian Zionism? Thomas Gallatin Tucker Carlson claims it’s a “brain virus” and a “Christian heresy,” and he says that those who hold to this theological understanding are his least favorite people.
Michelle Obama Still Has a Chip on Her Shoulder Emmy Griffin The former first lady is selling yet another book while bitterly claiming, “We didn’t get the grace that I think some other families have gotten.”
Pelosi to Retire After Doing Lasting Damage Nate Jackson The San Francisco congresswoman led Democrats for two decades out of her four in Washington, where she did immeasurable harm to our Constitution and country.
Will TDS Ever Subside? Michael Smith President Trump’s actions are directed toward the Jeffersonian concept of righting ourselves by abolishing the shadow autocracy to which we have become accustomed.
QUOTES Dumb & Dumber “We have a president who is looking to rip up the very fabric of this city.” —Zohran Mamdani, a Muslim socialist who was just elected mayor of New York City — the site of the worst Islamist terror attack of all time “But as Eugene Debs once said, ‘I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity.'” —Zohran Mamdani, immediately and purposefully invoking the name of the Socialist Party of America’s five-time presidential candidate “We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about.” —Zohran Mamdani Bizarro World “This election proved again that democracy works and voters know how to course correct. People are frustrated with rising costs and they’ve had it with mean politics. They want leaders who solve real problems like affordability and bringing the country back toward the middle.” —former Ohio Gov. John Kasich You’ve Been Warned “A Democrat is going to be elected in 2028. … There’s going to be a Democratic House and a Democratic Senate. The Democratic president is going to announce a special transition advisory committee on the reform of the Supreme Court. … They’re going to do some blue-ribbon panel of distinguished jurists, and they are going to recommend 13 [justices]. And a Democratic Senate and House are going to pass it, and the Democratic president is going to sign it. … I would bet a lot of money that that’s what’s going to happen. A lot!” —Democrat strategist James Carville Demagogue “We’ve got masked ICE agents pulling up in unmarked vans and grabbing people, including U.S. citizens, off the streets on the suspicion that they don’t look like real Americans.” —Barack Obama “I worry about a Supreme Court that, so far at least, has shown no willingness to check this administration’s excesses, even when those actions break legal precedent and seem to defy the bedrock principle that no one is above the law.” —Barack Obama “It’s like every day is Halloween. Except it’s all tricks and no treats.” —Barack Obama Lack of Self-Awareness Awards “We have to be able to disagree without calling each other nasty names or demonizing each other.” —Barack Obama campaigning in Virginia on the same stage as Jay Jones, who wanted to kill his political opponent “Nothing I dislike more than the politician that sits there and lies to you.” —California Gov. Gavin Newsom Braying Jenny I “He’s just a vile creature, the worst thing on the face of the earth. … Because he’s the president of the United States, and he does not honor the Constitution of the United States.” —Rep. Nancy Pelosi on Donald Trump Village Idiot “I don’t know of a greater criminal in history.” —actor Harrison Ford on Donald Trump Projection “The question is, why are Republicans continuing to keep the government shut down?” —House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries Theater of the Absurd “Donald Trump has spent more time talking to Hamas and the Chinese Communist Party than he has in talking to Democrats on Capitol Hill to end the Trump shutdown.” —Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, whose party shut down the government “One of the reasons that President Trump is refusing to negotiate is because he likes the fact that the government is closed because he thinks he can exercise king-like powers. He can open up the parts of the government that he wants. He can pay the employees who are loyal to him. I mean, this is a leader who is trying to transition our government from a democracy to something much closer to a totalitarian state.” —Sen. Chris Murphy Chameleon “I remain committed to protecting the rights and dignity of transgender Americans.” —Rep. Seth Moulton (“I have two little girls. I don’t want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete. But as a Democrat, I’m supposed to be afraid to say that.” —Seth Moulton, Nov. 2024) What Could Possibly Go Wrong? “I think we should reduce [the] voting age to 16.” —Kamala Harris (A trip down memory lane: “What else do we know about this population, 18 through 24? They are stupid. … They make really bad decisions” —Kamala Harris, May 2014) Race Bait “This is a white man’s document and it looks like it.” —The Nation justice correspondent Elie Mystal on the U.S. Constitution Braying Jenny II “Americans have no culture except for multiculturalism. … These crusty white people need to learn how to embrace it.” —podcaster Jennifer Welch “We cannot lose our democracy to these f***ing dorks. I mean, Stephen Miller is the worst. … And then you get to JD Vance, who is a failed drag queen. … He’d be so much cooler if he’d just come out.” —Jennifer Welch Lack of Self-Awareness Award “People perceive me as this sort of lefty figure. I think I’m more conservative than people think.” —leftist comedian Stephen Colbert World’s Smallest Violin “We didn’t get the grace that I think some other families have gotten.” —Michelle Obama Delusions of Grandeur “[Joe Biden] I think was one of the most successful presidents in the last century. … And I will defend that to my grave.” —Gov. Gavin Newsom
“Harmony, liberal intercourse with all Nations, are recommended by policy, humanity and interest. But even our Commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand: neither seeking nor granting exclusive favours or preferences; consulting the natural course of things; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of Commerce, but forcing nothing; establishing with Powers so disposed; in order to give trade a stable course.” —George Washington (1796)
Schumer shutdown — let’s talk: Now that the Democrats swept the elections they cared about in blue states, they may be ready to make a deal to reopen the government. In an insulting and factually incorrect letter to the president, Senate Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries demanded an in-person meeting to “end the GOP shutdown.” Of course, Schumer and Jeffries know that they caused the shutdown and that Donald Trump has little to do with any negotiating for reopening the government; the people they need to be talking to are House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Republican Leader John Thune. Directing the letter to President Trump while asking for a “bipartisan meeting of legislative leaders” strikes a balance, allowing them to appear tough on Trump while acknowledging that he isn’t the person they need to convince. In any event, it seems the longest government shutdown in history is finally nearing its end.
Jewish FDNY commish turns in his notice: On Wednesday, the day after socialist Zohran Mamdani won New York City’s mayoral election, Fire Commissioner Robert Tucker tendered his resignation. Tucker, who is Jewish and held the position for just over a year, did not offer an explanation for his decision, though he thanked Mayor Eric Adams for the opportunity to serve. According to a source, Tucker, who is a longtime supporter of Israel, found Mamdani’s anti-Israel animosity troubling, noting that his view “does not align with the new mayor.” It appears that Tucker is the first of a number of New Yorkers who are looking to leave the city now that Mamdani is taking control.
Minneapolis chooses loony leftist over Somali loyalist: Apparently, there’s a limit even to what leftists afflicted with suicidal empathy can tolerate. Omar Fateh, a Somali loyalist who held campaign events in Somali and opened events with “As-salamu alaykum,” failed to unseat incumbent Jacob Frey, who gained national attention for weeping over George Floyd’s gold casket. The election, which was called at midday on Wednesday, was the strongest showing yet for Frey, who won over 50% of the ranked-choice vote in the first round without needing a second round. Fateh had strong support from the Somali community, including “Squad” member Ilhan Omar. Fateh briefly received the endorsement of Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor party, but it was rescinded due to procedural failures. Elsewhere in Minnesota, St. Paul elected Kaohly Her, formerly of the Minnesota House of Representatives, who falsely claimed earlier this year to be an illegal alien.
Some sanity in VA: Democrats had significant success in Virginia on election day, with Abigail Spanberger winning the governorship and Jay Jones picked to become attorney general despite his fantasizing about murdering a Republican. However, there was one surprising election result in the commonwealth that few predicted. The transgenderism-promoting incumbent on the Loudoun County school board, Arben Istrefi, who had voted to keep Policy 8040, which allows students to use the restrooms and locker rooms of their “gender identity” and requires the use of “preferred pronouns,” lost his reelection bid. Istrefi was unseated by Amy Riccardi, who ran on highlighting how the gender-confusion issue is hurting students while noting that the rest of the school board is “using your tax dollars to violate the law and push ideology.” The trouble for Loudoun County is that the majority of its members remain supportive of trans ideology.
Heritage president apologizes: Controversy has swirled at The Heritage Foundation following President Kevin Roberts’s disparaging comments aimed at conservatives who criticized Tucker Carlson over his supportive interview with the reprehensible Nick Fuentes, leading to the resignation of his chief of staff, Ryan Neuhaus. On Wednesday, Roberts finally offered an apology … sort of. Addressing staff members, Roberts said, “I made a mistake and I let you down and I let down this institution. Period. Full Stop.” He then claimed he was willing to resign but felt a “moral obligation” to fix the mistake. “I made the mess, let me clean it up.” Roberts also sought to explain that he should have been clearer over his comments about never canceling “our friends,” noting that there is a “limiting principle.”
Moulton the chameleon: Any Democrats who learned from their shellacking in the 2024 election are rapidly unlearning those lessons in the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s ascendency. Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts broke with Democrat orthodoxy last year when he said, “I have two little girls. I don’t want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete. But as a Democrat, I’m supposed to be afraid to say that.” It turns out that Democrats really aren’t supposed to say that. Recently, Moulton appeared at a “No Kings” protest draped in a trans flag, and he’s engaged in a struggle session to prove that he has learned to value men in drag over his daughters’ safety. Moulton’s motivation is, of course, seeking power. He is set to run in the Senate primary against incumbent Ed Markey.
DHS sees another record low in border encounters in October: U.S. Customs and Border Protection encountered 30,561 migrants attempting to illegally cross the southern border in October. No illegals were released into the country during that time period. It’s the lowest October figure on record and 79% lower than October 2024 under Joe Biden’s disastrous open-border policy. The all-time monthly low was set in July, but the October numbers are still superior to any given month under Biden. CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott summed up the situation at the southern border, saying, “Our mission is simple: secure the border. … No excuses. No politics.”
Foreign agents look to influence conservative think tanks: Three of Washington’s top conservative think tanks — the Hudson Institute, The Heritage Foundation, and the American Enterprise Institute — have experienced a significant increase in foreign national lobbying interests. Meanwhile, left-wing and center-left think tanks have received less attention. This is primarily because President Trump currently resides in the White House, and foreign nations are eager to advance their interests. Unsurprisingly, one of the most aggressive nations is Taiwan, which has sought meetings with Heritage Foundation members over 30 times since Trump’s election. Interestingly, one nation that has not sought to increase its influence over conservative policymaking is Israel, which counters the claim of some online commentators like Tucker Carlson.
Apple blasts EU over its new digital competition laws: In the most recent skirmish with EU regulations, Apple is arguing that forcing it to allow smaller rival apps into its App Store will make its platform less safe for consumers. Whether it’s “less safe” or just that the tech giant doesn’t like healthy competition ought to be left up to the consumers. In recent years, the EU has passed two major laws to govern online platforms. The Digital Services Act requires platforms to follow certain rules on illegal or harmful content and advertising to minors, and the Digital Markets Act is designed to promote online competition. Tech companies can face hefty fines for violating either law. Apple Vice President Kyle Andeer sent a letter to the European Commission on Thursday, stating that, due to recent changes, “risks to users on our devices will inevitably increase.” Time will tell if Apple is right in claiming that the EU regulations have opened the door to financial scams, pornography, privacy issues, and other problems.
Headlines
Louisville plane crash: Death toll climbs; black box found (Cox Media Group)
Nancy Pelosi to retire from Congress after nearly 40-year career (NY Post)
Democrat Rep. Jared Golden won’t seek reelection in key midterm race (CBS News)
Kansas Republicans fail to get enough support to gerrymander congressional maps (The Beacon)
Charlie Kirk’s widow calls for cameras in courtroom at murder trial (NewsNation)
Medical schools boost nutrition education in response to RFK Jr. (Washington Examiner)
Humor: Zohran Mamdani horrified to discover he now has a job (Babylon Bee)
President Donald Trump’s tariffs were on trial at the Supreme Court yesterday, and if the justices’ questions and tone were any indication, he may be headed toward defeat. Trump has requested an expedited ruling that could come as early as December, but the justices could also delay until later in 2026.
“Three categories of tariffs are at issue,” explains National Review’s editorial board. “The worldwide 10 percent tariff, the retaliatory ‘liberation day’ tariffs aimed at closing trade deficits in goods, and tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China that aim to retaliate for fentanyl trafficking.”
To justify those tariffs, Trump and his administration point to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 (IEEPA). The big problem? As Chief Justice John Roberts succinctly noted, “The statute doesn’t use the word tariff.” Nor does it even use a synonym such as “duties,” “levies,” or “taxes,” and no previous president has used the law to justify levying tariffs. Trump argues that the law’s language about “importation or exportation” is broad enough.
“That does seem like it’s major authority,” noted a skeptical Roberts, evoking the “major questions doctrine” that Congress must specifically delegate its authority to the executive on matters with significant impact on the economy and society.
Justice Elena Kagan was even clearer, telling Solicitor General D. John, “It has a lot of actions that can be taken under this statute. It just doesn’t have the one you want.”
Another rub is that Trump skipped other laws that delegate some of Congress’s Article I power over taxes (tariffs are taxes — on Americans) because those other laws are more limited in scope. Instead, the president invoked an “emergency” to gain wide latitude. This is the same method of governance made “normal” by Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
Still, Justice Brett Kavanaugh seemed somewhat sympathetic to this argument, musing that if tariffs are not an option, “you’re taking away the president’s suite of tools.”
The administration even dismissed the tariff revenue as a motivator because, to win this case, the tax question must be minimized. The plaintiffs argue that only Congress has the power to tax. Trump’s team had to convince the justices that tariffs are more akin to an embargo than a tax, despite the fact that Trump has spent the better part of a year touting all the revenue his tariffs will bring in and all the great things that can be done with that money. “We’re making a fortune. We are taking in hundreds of billions of dollars,” Trump boasted over the summer in just one example.
Now? “These are regulatory tariffs. They are not revenue-raising tariffs,” insisted Sauer in arguments on Wednesday. “The fact that they raise revenue is only incidental. The tariffs would be most effective, so to speak, if no person ever paid them.”
The debate has shades of the ObamaCare mandate upon pain of penalty, which Democrats went out of their way to avoid calling a tax before Roberts infamously saved the law by — wait for it — declaring it a tax.
However, there’s an important distinction. Sauer elaborated, “If nobody ever pays the tariffs, and instead Americans direct their consumption towards American producers and stimulate the rebuilding of our hollowed-out manufacturing base, then the policy’s by far the most effective.”
That is indeed the foreign policy and economic objective, though it also prompted Justice Sonia Sotomayor to ask why the administration didn’t implement an embargo on foreign goods. On the contrary, Justice Amy Coney Barrett argued that tariffs are “weaker medicine than completely shutting down trade,” making it odd to allow embargoes but not tariffs.
What happens if the justices strike down Trump’s tariffs? Well, if that includes ordering a refund, “It seems to me like it could be a mess,” admitted Barrett. It could also undermine a key pillar of Trump’s foreign policy agenda, which he argues would lead to “the ruination of our Nation.”
“If we win, we will be the Richest, Most Secure Country anywhere in the World, BY FAR,” Trump wrote Sunday on Truth Social. “If we lose, our Country could be reduced to almost Third World status.” Gosh, it sounds so simple!
In reality, Trump’s implementation of tariffs has been, to borrow Barrett’s word, a “mess.” He raises and lowers rates seemingly on a whim to keep other countries at the negotiating table to reach what he views as a good deal. There’s a lot of merit to this approach, but markets and businesses certainly don’t love all the uncertainty.
Perhaps worst is that if Trump prevails in his core argument that the executive can do practically whatever he wants in the name of “foreign policy” and “emergency,” then we can expect the next Democrat president to wield that massive club on issues like climate change. Even Sauer admitted that such a scenario is “very likely.”
If there’s no limit here, asked Justice Neil Gorsuch, what would stop Congress from “just abdicating all responsibility to regulate foreign commerce, or for that matter, declare war?”
Ironically, a defeat at the Supreme Court could benefit Republicans. If tariffs are struck down and the economy stabilizes while price increases slow significantly, the GOP can capitalize on the “affordability” question that “justified” full-blown socialism in New York City. That said, Team Trump argues there are plenty of ways to keep the tariffs, so I wouldn’t bank on them going away regardless of what the Court rules.
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“I remain committed to protecting the rights and dignity of transgender Americans.” —Rep. Seth Moulton (“I have two little girls. I don’t want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete. But as a Democrat, I’m supposed to be afraid to say that.” —Seth Moulton, Nov. 2024)
Braying Jenny
“Americans have no culture except for multiculturalism. … These crusty white people need to learn how to embrace it.” —podcaster Jennifer Welch
Lack of Self-Awareness Award
“People perceive me as this sort of lefty figure. I think I’m more conservative than people think.” —leftist comedian Stephen Colbert
Friendly Fire
“Part of the worst creatures on the face of the earth are Hamas or like the leadership of Iran. … I wouldn’t describe our president [that way].” —Sen. John Fetterman in response to Rep. Nancy Pelosi
Re: The Left
“Here we are, two months after the assassination of Charlie Kirk and little more than a year removed from two attempts on President Trump’s life, and Virginia’s incoming chief law enforcement officer wants to shoot Republicans in the head.” —Nate Jackson
“The city that was attacked by radical Muslims 25 years ago has now elected a radical Muslim as its mayor — and one who didn’t hide it, visiting more than 50 mosques during his campaign.” —Nate Jackson
“The saddest part is he’d never have won were New York full of New Yorkers.” —Michael Knowles
Political Futures
“Many of our political allies believe that Mamdani will be the ‘kiss of death’ for the Democrats. That’s wishful thinking. It would be true if it were 1980, 1984, or 1988. It was less true in the 90s, and it’s not true today when 66% of Democrats have a positive view of socialism.” —Gary Bauer
“Many of the people unhappy with the Democrat Party are people like Mamdani. They’re to the left of the Democrat Party, and they want an even more left-wing Democrat Party. They want a party led by AOC, not Chuck Schumer. Do not fall into the trap of thinking that just because the Democrat Party is unpopular there is suddenly a huge majority of conservatives in the country now.” —Gary Bauer
Belly Laugh of the Day
“People in red states: please share all of the horrible, scary things about your state to warn people against moving there.” —Allie Beth Stuckey
Upright
“What Washington needs is a return to common sense. Common sense up here is illegal. I mean, you’ll look at some of the rules and the regs and the people in charge, and you’ll ask yourself, how did these people make it through the birth canal?” —Sen. John Kennedy
“I am baffled and frankly shocked at the attempts by some on the right to side against the Jews after October 7 and to blame the Jews for every bad thing that has happened in our country since. … What good is our movement if we can’t act any better than the radical left, which refuses to purge itself of the same kind of hate? … I humbly submit to all conservatives: it’s time we once again took out the trash.” —Scott Jennings
On a Hopeful Note…
“Our opponents are offering an economic nightmare — we’re delivering an economic miracle. … They want higher spending for government and illegal aliens — we want bigger paychecks for American workers and American families.” —Donald Trump
ON THIS DAY in 2024, grassroots Americans breathe a massive sigh of relief after Donald Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris. This day in history yielded more presidential election results: Abraham Lincoln (1860), Benjamin Harrison (1888), and Herbert Hoover (1928) were all elected.
How did an Islamist socialist who posed with an unindicted terror bombing coconspirator become elected to head a city of terror survivors, the “most Jewish city in America” and how did he defeat an Italian-American political dynasty in what was once an Italian-American city?
Because that New York City, the one people imagine from movies, no longer exists.
In 1989, the last year of Mayor Ed Koch’s administration, Jews outnumbered Muslims roughly 4 to 1. By 2013, the last year of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration, the number of Muslims had doubled and the number of Jews continued to drop.
And by the time Zohran Mamdani beat Andrew Cuomo, there were more Muslims than Italian Americans in NYC.
So much for New York City being the “most Jewish city” in America. Or “Italian city”. Like so many European cities, it’s been redefined by waves of Muslim mass migration.
There wasn’t an Irish candidate in the race because the number of Irish-Americans in what is considered “one of the most Irish city in America” long ago dropped below that of Muslims.
Never mind the Polish population represented by Curtis Sliwa which is even smaller.
New York City’s old ‘ethnic’ working class population is gone. Much of it fled the chaos and violence of the 1970s and 1980s. By the time Mayor Rudy Giuliani restored order by cracking down on crime, they didn’t come back. Instead they were replaced by college students, hipsters and third world immigrants who not only voted for Democrats, but for the far Left.
5 million residents were born outside New York City. Less than 4 million were born in the city.
While New Yorkers went for Cuomo, 50% to 38% for Mamdani, those who had lived in the city for 10 years or less went for Mamdani by 82% to 16%.
This reflects both external mass immigration but internal migration from other parts of the country. Another way to measure the foreign population in New York City is to look at the proportion of those to whom English is a second language. The number of non-English speakers has been steadily rising since 1990 and the number of English speakers declined from 63% to 52%.
It’s now almost even.
Much of New York City no longer even speaks English. That’s why Mamdani could campaign in Arabic.
While a lot of parts of the country, including Florida, complain about New Yorkers moving there, New Yorkers (while they still existed in NYC) complained about non-New Yorkers moving to the city.
This internal migration by non-New Yorkers sent prices soaring and fundamentally altered the character of the city from a tough working class and middle class city to a hipster paradise.
The college students who moved to the city and got jobs here were less likely to get married and form families leading to Manhattan becoming one of the largest (and certainly the densest) reservoirs of singles in the country. Combined with the growth in ‘single parent’ households among minority groups, the New York City of families has disappeared.
A majority of households in New York City are single now. The number of families continues to drop. While exit polls didn’t ask about marital status, single people tend to vote more liberal.
Pre-election polls showed Mamdani winning over only 16% of Jews, 28% among Catholics and 36% among Protestants. The only ‘religious’ group Mamdani performed were “Other” which presumably were boosted by his Muslim voter base. How does a politician lose religious people by decisive numbers and yet win a mayoral election? Religion has been declining as well. Especially among white New Yorkers.
The religiously affiliated are still a majority, but the numbers of the religiously unaffiliated have been rising sharply. Among those 45 years old and younger, the group that Mamdani won, the gap is 60% to 40%. The gap is narrower still, 55% to 45%, among those under 30, and among those under 25 years old, it’s split evenly. Among white New Yorkers, a majority are unaffiliated.
These were some of Mamdani’s best voters.
Paradoxically (or not so paradoxically) the lack of real religiosity among New York City’s Christian and Jewish populations is part of the reason why an Islamist won the mayoralty.
Mamdani’s defeat of Andrew Cuomo, Curtis Sliwa and Eric Adams, all personalities dating back to an older New York City, the city of the 80s and 90s, marked the defeat of old New York City by a ‘new’ New York City. This city has no character, no tradition and no roots. It’s interchangeable with every upscale gentrified city in America and all across Europe.
This Neo-New York could just as easily be London or Toronto. It has no past and no future. Like Mamdani, it’s not part of America, and is open to being colonized by any group with organization, determination and a mission. What was done to London is happening to New York City. It’s futile to ask why New Yorkers are letting this happen, like me, they no longer live there.
Did you ever think that you would see New York City fall this low? It would be difficult for me to overstate the seriousness of the crisis that the Big Apple is now facing. A 34-year-old radical Islamic communist that wasn’t even a U.S. citizen a decade ago has now become the mayor of America’s largest city. The mainstream media is calling Zohran Mamdani a “democratic socialist”, but the truth is that he is very much a communist. He is making all sorts of very expensive promises, and in order to give his followers what they want he is going to have to take enormous amounts of money from others.
Of course residents of New York City are already being taxed into oblivion.
When I see pundits talk about how the Big Apple will now be a “socialist” city, I just smile because it has been a socialist city for a very long time.
In fact, the previous mayor was a socialist, and Mamdani’s main opponent in this election was a socialist.
The socialists that call themselves “moderates” were freaking out because a communist that calls himself a “socialist” was leading in the polls, and now he has won.
Needless to say, conditions in New York City are about to get even worse than they are now.
Homelessness is out of control, many areas have been absolutely overwhelmed by migrants that have come into this country illegally, and violent crime is seemingly everywhere.
New York City is a very dangerous place in 2025. This is especially true if you are a woman.
Socialism is obviously not working, and so now New Yorkers have decided to give communism a try.
Good luck with all that.
If you live in New York City, it is time to get out.
Seriously, unless you have a really, really good reason to be there, you need to leave.
In the weeks ahead, there is going to be a mass exodus out of the Big Apple. According to the Daily Mail, many real estate agents were “being bombarded with calls” on Wednesday morning…
Real estate agents are being bombarded with calls this morning from panicked New Yorkers desperate to flee after Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral victory last night.
The most desirable destinations are said to be the city’s affluent suburbs and Republican strongholds across the Sun Belt.
Agents, from Westchester and Greenwich to Florida, Texas and the Carolinas, said they have seen a surge in calls from New Yorkers desperate to relocate.
We aren’t just talking about a few thousand people relocating.
A survey that was just conducted discovered that almost a million New Yorkers intend to move…
Nearly one million New Yorkers are prepping to flee the city after Mamdani’s win, according to a survey conducted by JL Partners for the Daily Mail.
Shortly after Zohran Mamdani was anointed the mayor-elect of New York City, he strode onto the stage of a cavernous, ornate theater, put his hand on his heart, smiled his signature smile and nodded to a socialist forebear.
“As Eugene Debs once said, I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity,” Mr. Mamdani said.
During his campaign, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani promised free childcare and buses, 200,000 new units of affordable housing and city-owned grocery stores, funded by raising taxes on corporations and the wealthy or borrowing.
Why not make everything free?
Wouldn’t that be great?
In the real world, goods and services are never free.
Somewhere along the way, someone has to pay for them.
As he delivered remarks in a speech sprinkled with Arabic, his supporters, many draped in the colors of his campaign, shrieked and shouted his promises back to him.
“Together, New York, we’re going to freeze the …”
“Rent!” the crowd responded.
“Together, New York, we’re going to make buses fast and …”
“Free!” the crowd intoned.
“Together, New York, we’re going to deliver universal …”
“Child care!” the crowd said.
Why not free ponies for everyone too?
If we are living in a magical fantasy land where everything is free, let’s not stop with bus fare and child care.
Of course the truth is that Mamdani will never be able to deliver on all of his promises.
Mamdani and his supporters want more government services; Albany, which controls the city’s taxing and borrowing power, will focus instead on sustaining existing ones.
Hochul is contending with a $4.2 billion deficit, almost four times last year’s gap. Federal cuts to health care and food stamps will fall hardest on New York City, where Mamdani faces a $5 billion hole in next year’s budget.
Welcome to reality bud.
New York City is going to have a really difficult time even continuing the existing socialist programs that his predecessors put in place.
So those that are expecting a communist utopia are going to be bitterly disappointed.
But for the moment, Mamdani and his comrades are greatly celebrating.
In fact, the Democrats swept pretty much everything on Tuesday night.
On Wednesday morning, President Trump publicly acknowledged that things did not go well for Republicans…
President Donald Trump conceded that the Democrats’ electoral sweep up and down the ballot across the country on Tuesday night spelled bad news for his Republican Party.
“Last night, it was, you know, not expected to be a victory, it was very Democrat areas, but I don’t think it was good for Republicans,” Trump said during a breakfast meeting with GOP senators at the White House on Wednesday morning.
“I’m not sure it was good for anybody,” Trump said. “But we had an interesting evening, and we learned a lot, and we’re going to talk about that.”
Mamdani’s victory has made it even more likely that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will make a run for president in 2028.
Can you imagine what this country would look like if she actually won?
In this political environment, I think that she would actually have a chance.
Over the past several decades, both political parties have shifted way to the left.
In fact, there are a lot of prominent “conservative” pundits out there that have a tremendous amount in common with Zohran Mamdani at this point.
I wish that it wasn’t true, but it is.
Jokers that have seemingly lost their minds are all around us, and the clowns are now running the asylum.
Oceans of ink have already been spilled on the election of Communist Muslim Zohran Mamdani as the mayor of New York City. That this will be an appalling outcome for NYC is certain. The only question is, how long before the real crap hits the fans. Already so many folks are preparing to leave. Here I offer just a few brief political points about this expected, but tragic, result.
One issue that can be mentioned right away is how New Yorkers seem to have a really bad memory. Bear in mind that just 24 years ago this was the same city that experienced the worst Islamist terror attack in American history. It seems the ‘never forget’ crowd are very forgetful – or really do not care any more.
As to voters, one main group voting for Mamdani were young women. A staggering 81 per cent of Gen Z females went for the Muslim. Interesting – and frightening. But other demographic figures are just as important. The strategy of the left in America, as in the UK and Australia, is to flood the nations with migrants – either legal or illegal – who will almost always vote for the left to return the favour.
One important media report said this about the matter just before the election:
Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign is powered by a South Asian political machine with ties to a Pakistani radical Marxist political movement — and foreign influence may have provided the tipping point in his primary victory, research shows.
For years, Washington has been alarmed about the prospect of foreign meddling in U.S. elections stemming from online disinformation. Yet what if the foreign interference that policymakers so fear actually ends up playing out not in dark recesses of the internet — but in broad daylight on the streets of New York City?
The immigrant-rights nonprofit Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM) — and its political arm, DRUM Beats — have built what insiders call the most effective field operation in city politics in recent memory. (The term “Desis” describes those of Indian subcontinental birth or descent who do not live on there.) https://nypost.com/2025/11/03/us-news/how-a-foreign-political-machine-tips-the-scales-for-mamdani/
Another report begins this way:
In my early analysis of what made Mamdani the nominee, I noted that there was high turnout by the Pakistani and Bangladeshi Muslim settler population in New York City combined with really low turnout and enthusiasm by traditional Democrats who weren’t exactly enthused by Cuomo et al. The 5% of New Yorkers who voted in the primary were very much a minority. This was a campaign driven by Mamdani’s fellow Indian Muslims in occupied Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Not even in the United States.
More and more people are pointing to Mamdani’s fake social media engagement coming from bot farms out of Pakistan and India rather than from actual New York City social media users. The X feed is flooded with random promotion of Mamdani coming from accounts that otherwise had few likes or views suddenly ballooning into the tens and hundreds of thousands. This is not organic engagement, but manufactured hype driven by enemy foreign nations rigging a US election. https://www.frontpagemag.com/mamdanis-campaign-was-made-in-pakistan/
And then you have George Soros and his son Alex bankrolling his campaign with millions upon millions of dollars. All this adds up to some very skewed voting results. Here is one write-up on this from several months ago:
Socialist Zohran Mamdani has declared billionaires shouldn’t exist, but it’s unlikely he’d be the front-runner to become the Big Apple’s next mayor if it wasn’t for one — far-left kingmaker George Soros, financial records reviewed by The Post show.
Mamdani recently told NBC News’ “Meet the Press, “I don’t think that we should have billionaires, frankly” while doubling down on his plan to jack up property taxes on “richer and whiter neighborhoods” if elected mayor.
But in less than a decade, Soros’ ultra-woke grant-making network Open Society Foundation has indirectly funneled a combined $37 million to the Working Families Party and at least other nine left-wing groups whose endorsements and get-out-the-vote groundwork played a pivotal role in helping Mamdani upset ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic mayoral primary, the foundation’s records show.
And then consider this alarming set of statistics about the voters:
Voting by American-born New Yorkers: -40% for Cuomo -31% for Mamdani -25% for Silwa
Voting by foreign-born New Yorkers: -62% for Mamdani -24% for Cuomo -12% for Silwa
Wow – those are some telling numbers. Christian apologist Laura Zifer said this about the figures:
It’s time to dispense with non-assimilating immigration!
Yesterday, New York City voters handed their future to a Muslim socialist—thanks largely to foreign-born blocs who enjoy America’s freedoms but refuse to embrace her values. They chose to impose on our largest city the same socialist dogma that has repeatedly destroyed freedom and prosperity everywhere it’s been tried. This is not progress—it’s betrayal. When people flee tyranny only to rebuild it here, we are no longer importing refugees; we are importing ruin.
Natural law says every nation has both the right and the duty to defend its moral order. A country is not just a plot of land; it is a covenant of shared virtue, a moral community that must preserve the common good. When people enter our borders with no intention of assimilating, scorning our laws and mocking our Constitution, they corrupt the very justice that gives this nation life.
From natural law (and plain common sense), several truths stand out:
–Government exists to protect moral and cultural unity. Allowing foreign ideologues to govern our cities destroys that unity.
–Citizenship must be built on loyalty, gratitude, and love for the principles that define our nation. Those who reject those principles have no natural right to shape them.
–A sovereign people has a natural right to self-preservation, which includes the power to decide who may join its civic family.
She offered some proposals to remedy this situation. They include:
If we still have the courage to act, here are a few ideas for how we might restore order and preserve liberty:
–Every immigrant must learn and speak English fluently.
–Each must demonstrate a real record of hard work, entrepreneurship, or craftsmanship that adds value to America.
–All must study the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.
–Citizenship should be earned by passing a demanding, English-only citizenship exam that ensures understanding of American freedom and duty.
This is not hatred of foreigners—it’s love of truth, love of justice, and love of country. If America is to survive, we must once again expect assimilation, not apologize for it. We must guard our freedom with moral courage, not surrender it out of cowardice disguised as tolerance.
Finally, see this shocking video of Arzoo Malik, Zohran Mamdani’s intern, who is calling for a Holy War through Jihad and martyrdom: “This is all jihad, this is all ibada, and this is all counted for by Allah. How committed am I to this? What am I willing to sacrifice for this noble cause?” https://www.instagram.com/reel/DL5rDmzxsp5/?hl=en
Yet some ‘moderate’ conservative voices are saying that we should relax and let this play itself out. They say Mamdani’s socialist policies will cause much harm, and they will eventually backfire on him. There is obviously some truth here – socialism never works. But that is not all that must be said here, so I do not think these rather optimistic views will get us very far.
For example, those who rightly say his economic policies will not work are completely missing the point: he is not just a socialist, but he is also a Muslim. Those just looking at his dangerous economic policies say nothing about the fate of the Jews in NYC and elsewhere, and how this is another massive win for the Islamists seeking to take over NY and America.
One simply has to look at London and other major English cities to see how this is playing out. As is rightly said, immigration without assimilation is invasion. Muslims all over the West are slowly but surely taking over cities and territories, often just by means of demographics (we are aborting our future generations while Muslims are having large families).
And Mamdami is so very bad in so many ways, not just in terms of disastrous economic policies. For example, he has already sent Trump and ICE a strong warning. He says he will have them all arrested if they break any of his rules: “My message to ICE agents and everyone across this city is this, everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate the law, you will be held accountable.”
The point is, mayors DO have a lot of power and can do a lot of real damage and promote a lot of real evil, and people can suffer greatly as a result. One simply has to look at other Democrat-run cities like Chicago, Detroit, Minneapolis, Portland and LA, to name but a few.
Christians can and should do two things here: they need to pray daily for Mamdani – I do. And they need to pray for NYC and what is happening there. Also, they need to educate themselves on what is really going on, not just with Mamdani in particular, but with the reality of what socialism and Islam really are.
Stay tuned for future articles on this election result where I will concentrate more on various biblical and spiritual considerations.
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