Here we are again. Another deadly act of political violence, and once again the mainstream media wants absolutely nothing to do with it. Why? Well, because it destroys the lie they’ve spent years selling. They still want the few viewers they have left to believe the greatest threat to “democracy” is the white male Trump supporter in a red MAGA hat. Meanwhile, so much of the political rage, instability, and violence keeps coming from the left.
President Trump has been targeted again and again. Charlie Kirk was assassinated. A slew of trans shooters have left bodies in their wake. And after Charlie’s murder, plenty of deranged leftists were so comfortable in their hatred that they celebrated his death in public and wound up losing their jobs over it.
The Dem Party is so broken.
This is the same movement that lectures the country about joy, tolerance, and compassion while running on pure hatred, bitterness, censorship, and violence. And now, according to the allegations in this case, a woman was murdered by a left-wing former coworker who was angry over her support for President Trump and saw her as “racist.”
The media won’t touch the story because they helped build the climate that made this kind of hatred feel righteous in the first place.
This was the targeted killing of a Trump supporter by a former coworker who hated her politics and had been hostile toward her before the murder. And the press, which never misses a chance to spin every story into a lecture about how dangerous the right is, suddenly has nothing to say.
🚨 BREAKING: Mainstream media REFUSE to cover news about a Trump supporter killed by an ex-coworker who expressed animosity over political beliefs.
Christine Jones, 61, was on her way to work when she was fatally shot in a parking garage in Madison, Wisconsin.
Diamond Wallace, 31, who had previously been fired and had slashed Jones’ tires, reportedly accused Jones of being “racist” and was upset that she supported President Trump.
Wallace is charged with first-degree intentional homicide and possession of a firearm by a felon.
The mainstream media are silent on this case because it doesn’t fit their narrative.
The media isn’t quiet because this case doesn’t matter. They’re quiet because it cuts straight through their narrative that Trump supporters are the real threat. The media wants you to believe the left-wing hatred and violence you’re watching unfold is just background noise, ignore it and move on.
And then you get to the part that makes this whole thing look even more twisted. Because alongside the political hostility, there also appears to have been a personal grudge simmering underneath it all.
It turns out that Christine Jones reported Diamond Wallace for being lazy at work.
“Wallace had additionally previously accused CAJ of being racist and had expressed animosity towards CAJ for being a Trump supporter,” the complaint says. “Hotel staff further reported that Wallace blamed CAJ for her termination and had threatened her after she was terminated. In speaking with CAJ’s daughter, it was learned that CAJ had previously complained about Wallace for laziness at work prior to Wallace’s termination from the hotel.”
So it looks like this started as workplace resentment and then turned into political hatred and then murder. Christine Jones wasn’t just dealing with an unstable coworker. She was dealing with someone who saw her through all the negative media spin, where supporting Trump is enough to mark someone for death.
That is why the media’s silence about this case is so jarring. The press doesn’t want to look too closely because the facts are so incredibly inconvenient. This story doesn’t help them keep selling the lie about who the “real threat” is in this country. It exposes something so much darker and a whole lot closer to home.
Remember COVID? It’s now like it never happened. Then it was Ukraine. What’s Ukraine? Then ICE — just weeks ago. Now ICE is forgotten — unless they’re assisting you at airport security shut down by the very people screaming about ICE just weeks ago. Now the call to arms is No Kings. In weeks, or days, it will be forgotten.
Leftism is so shallow. Everything it shrieks about, or stomps its feet over, goes away so quickly. Their causes evaporate overnight. This shallowness makes leftism such a dishonorable–and disappointing– adversary. These people have not adopted a wrong ideology. It flatters them even to call them Communists or fascists. They are not ideologues; they have no ideas, because they exert no cognition. Fighting leftism is like fighting cotton candy.
Just think: If Donald Trump had not decided, a decade ago, to invest his multiple millions and decades of media presence not just to rescue America, but Western civilization itself, then the proponents of moral and intellectual cotton candy would have crushed us by now. What’s wrong with this picture? The least worthy have gained ground they never should have won. They never should have qualified for the battlefield. Jefferson, Madison, Franklin and all the others, wise and sharp as they were, would be confused and horrified by the caliber of the buffoons and freaks flooding the land of the free and home of the brave, drip by pitiful drip.
Crushing this insanity should be the easiest thing in the world. Maybe once we truly grasp the absurdity of it all, that’s how we will finally win.
Contrast capitalism with the “warmth” of socialism. Socialism rewards pull and connections over ability — while stealing and looting the money and property that only individuals of ability can create. Socialism takes wealth for granted and then relies on guilt, coercion and smug faux moralism to redistribute wealth to the “needy” meaning, in practice: to the politically powerful.
“Capitalism demands the best of every man—his rationality—and rewards him accordingly. It leaves every man free to choose the work he likes, to specialize in it, to trade his product for the products of others, and to go as far on the road of achievement as his ability and ambition will carry him. His success depends on the objective value of his work and on the rationality of those who recognize that value. When men are free to trade, with reason and reality as their only arbiter, when no man may use physical force to extort the consent of another, it is the best product and the best judgment that win in every field of human endeavor, and raise the standard of living—and of thought—ever higher for all those who take part in mankind’s productive activity,” wrote Ayn Rand in “For the New Intellectual.”
It’s hard to fathom any system more unjust, and more set up for failure on its own terms than socialism. The means of “persuasion” for socialism isn’t facts, data, numbers or results. It’s all about FEELINGS. But the feelings are the emotions of immature and ignorant, unproductive twerps, not the feelings of decent and reasonable people whose emotions are uplifted by achievement, character and competence. Socialism is the waste product of humanity, except for the fact that even waste products can sometimes be converted into something useful, like fertilizer. Socialism serves no purpose whatsoever: other than destruction.
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Iran said it wants peace negotiations. Then it promptly shot down two U.S. military helicopters. Wow, do you think the Iranian dictators could be liars? I believe President Trump will take the next steps and pulverize and incinerate whatever is left of that regime. Whatever it takes, and everything should be on the table. The U.S. has been too weak on Islam for too long. Islam is a death cult with the goal of annihilating life on earth. I say give them what they want — but don’t let them take us with them.
Sixty years ago, I first gazed out on the Strait of Hormuz from the Musandam peninsula of Oman. I was there as private secretary to my godfather, Selwyn Lloyd, who had been Britain’s foreign secretary during the Suez Crisis.
The previous evening our host, Sultan Said bin Taimur, the ruler of Oman for nearly 40 years, commented gloomily: ‘When two fish are fighting in these waters, the British are behind it.’
I estimate that I must have made at least 250 visits to the Gulf states in the intervening six decades. The key question which would surely now be asked by the ghosts of my former Middle East interlocutors – from Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger to King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Zayed Al Nahyan, the first president of the UAE, and the visionary Sultan Qaboos of Oman – is this: who will emerge as the real winners and losers from the present Hormuz crisis?
The Americans are already big losers in terms of reputational face and folly. The zigzags of Donald Trump’s strategic pronouncements make no sense from day to day. The bombastic boasts of the War Secretary, Pete Hegseth, have turned him into the Comical Ali of this conflict. The Pentagon’s spokesman is now saying ‘the situation is fluid’, which is hardly a convincing cry of victory after three weeks of fierce fighting.
Despite America’s errors, the Iranians are bigger losers. The Spectator’s leading article last week was right in its fierce condemnation of the horrors of the Ayatollah’s evil strategy but wrong to be sanguine about what might follow it.
The most likely outcome is Iran will be militarily and economically ruined for decades. This is a win for the Israelis, but trouble for almost everyone else. Iran itself will have a changed regime, yet possibly without real regime change. But sooner or later, whoever is in charge in Tehran will have to learn to live with the neighbours – the Gulf states, where Britain’s interests are still great.
Here, the winners and losers scoreboard is sure to prove complicated. Poor little Bahrain and arrogantly rich Qatar will go downhill as the price for their subservience to Trump’s America.
Cash-strapped but oil-rich, Saudi Arabia (‘the big enchilada’, as Nixon called it) will remain inwardly strong but outwardly more cautious. Its special relationship with the United States – effectively these days with the Trump family – has been tarnished and weakened. My Saudi friends are furious but impotent. They loathe the Iranians but will only sabre-rattle at them. The UAE has been hit harder than it admits. It has been the target of more than 2,000 Iranian missiles and drones, whose debris has damaged oil storage depots, hotels and banks. Dubai, the emirate for expatriates, is suffering a crisis of confidence. Yet despite a reverse charge of the bling brigade, it will stagger flashily on with the declining status of a lesser Monaco of the Middle East – a sunny place for shady people.
The true heart, strength and soul of the UAE is Abu Dhabi, which accounts for more than 80 per cent of the country’s land, over 90 per cent of its massive oil reserves and 40 per cent of its local Emirati population. Throughout the hostilities, my son, -William, who lives and works in Abu Dhabi, has been doing the rounds of the sheikh and merchant family majlis (coffee gatherings). He reports a robust resilience among the sons and grandsons of the region’s original Bedouin desert fighters.
Sheikh Zayed’s son, Sheikh Mohamedbin Zayed (MBZ), whom I know well, is largely the reason for the country’s relative stability. When the first Iranian missiles struck, he gave an eloquent interview, combining menace for the Iranians, compassion for the wounded, reassurance for the expatriates, gratitude to his fellow Emiratis and hope for the future. ‘The UAE is a role model,’ he said.
‘I promise everyone we will emerge stronger than before.’ If MBZ can pull off his goal of making Abu Dhabi the safest and most attractive jurisdiction in the region, his already mega-rich emirate could become the primary beneficiary of global or regional instability. Another dark horse to watch in the race for post-war success in the Gulf is Oman. Arguably the most perceptive article by an Arab author since the war began was in last week’s Economist under the headline: ‘America’s friends must help extricate it from an unlawful war.’ It was by Badr Albusaidi, Oman’s foreign minister, who mediated the last round of apparently promising nuclear talks between America and Iran.
The Albusaidis are the Kennedys of their country, occupying seven cabinet posts. But, unlike the JFKs and RFKs, the Albusaidis follow the Omani tradition of rarely putting their heads above the parapet. Why intervene now? Because for strategic, diplomatic, geographical, political and economic reasons, Oman is likely to emerge as the new jewel in the crown of tomorrow’s Gulf.
Its Switzerland-style neutrality for many years has paid off. Over the past few weeks, Iran has fired only two or three token missiles in its direction. An Omani economic boom is coming anyway thanks to the imminent completion of long-planned rail and pipeline infrastructure links to Saudi Arabia and the UAE. These have been encouraged by the new ruler Sultan Haitham, author of the government blueprint ‘Oman Vision 2040’, which aims to bring in $50 billion in foreign direct investment.
To do this, the Sultan needs help. MBZ and other Gulf leaders may need to swallow their irritation over Oman’s history of fence-sitting. But if Abu Dhabi and the Gulf Co-operation Council decide to embark on an economic reconstruction programme when hostilities cease, Oman – in co-operation with Abu Dhabi – would give tomorrow’s Gulf a great future. But be careful about such predictions. Experienced travellers in these desert sands remember what Lord Curzon said when he was foreign secretary in 1923: ‘The Arab world is a university where the student never takes his degree.’
And many heartfelt thanks to all of the followers of the Artful Dilettante !
In light of our present last day’s evil world, My eyes will remain focused on Almighty God with ALL my heart (Phil. 4:4)! The God of ETERNAL RIGHTEOUSNESS; the One who reigns FOREVER and EVER; the One who holds ETERNITY in His hand as a grain of sand; the ETERNAL God of EQUITY, JUSTICE, AND TRUTH (Psalm 119; Isa. 6:1-3; Hab. 3:17-19; Rev. 4-5)! The ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS God of ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS LOVE, (John 3:16-17;1 John 4:10)! For in Him alone is ETERNAL Victory! In Him will I trust! In Him will I rejoice and in Him will be my ETERNAL joy! For this demonic sin-cursed world is NOT my home; for my ETERNAL country is Almighty God’s ETERNAL presence in which I dwell and abide FOREVER (Psalm 119:57; Matt. 28:20; Eph. 1-2; Heb. 11:13-19; Rev. 22:1-5)! I read the Bible and believe it! And do you know what the Bible tells me? That Jesus WINS! And my beloved… He WINS big-time! FOREVER and EVER and EVER BIG TIME!
Beloved, I read the Bible and believe it! And do you know what the Bible tells me? That Jesus WINS! And my beloved… He WINS big-time! FOREVER and EVER and EVER BIG TIME (Psalm 110:1, Isa. 9:6-7, Dan. 2:44-45; 7:13-14; Heb. 1:2-3; Rev. 1:17-18; 11:15, 22:1-5)! So try to steal that, Satan! Try to steal that world! Try to steal that Congress! Try to steal that godless and lawless America! Try, try, try…. but you NEVER FOREVER and EVER can nor will! That my beloved is called ETERNAL Victory and too, too many fools (conservatives to progressives commies) do not want to see it nor believe it (Eccl. 12:13-14, Matt. 7:13-14; Rom. 1:16-32)! In the end, my friends, those who deceive themselves and scoff at the Almighty ETERNAL plan and calling ETERNALLY destroy themselves and will end up in the Lake of Fire with their Master Lucifer FOREVER and EVER (Matt. 25:41;46; John 3:16-17; Eph. 2:1-2, Rev. 20:10-15; 21:27; 22:11,15)! Our theme at the IFB has been continually just that! The Kingdom of Heaven is indeed at hand, and no Devil, Anti-Christ, 10 horns/toes, unrepentant raging inhabitants of this fallen planet earth, etc., etc., can EVER, EVER, EVER stop the ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS reign of Almighty God!
Our theme at the IFB has been continually just that! The Kingdom of Heaven is indeed at hand, and no Devil, Anti-Christ, 10 horns/toes, unrepentant raging inhabitants of this fallen planet earth, etc., etc., can nor will EVER, EVER, EVER stop the ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS reign of Almighty God; (Zech. 14; Isaiah 11, Rev. 1:17-18, 19:11-21)! And my friends, that is the ETERNAL GREAT consolation and hope of all Almighty God’s blood-bought saints to rejoice in the Lord always because He is indeed the ETERNAL Victor (Jer. 17:7; Lam. 3:24; Rom. 5:5; 8; 15:13; Eph. 1:18; Col. 1:27; Titus 1:2; 2:13, 1 John 3:1-3; 4:4)! And, in the end, EVERY single knee that has ever been created, whether it be angels (obedient or disobedient and fallen) or mankind (redeemed or unrepentant), will bow before the ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS Savior, King, Judge, and Lamb FOREVER and EVER and EVERMORE!
Beloved, the very One who destroyed death and neutered and ETERNALLY defeated Satan by His RIGHTEOUS victory at the cross and resurrection after the ETERNAL coup and execution of Himself (the Prince of Life), is seated NOW at the Right Hand of the Father FOREVER and EVER (Psalm 110:1; Heb. 1:2-3, Rev. 1:17-18; 5)! And, in the end, EVERY single knee that has ever been created, whether it be angels (obedient or disobedient and fallen) or mankind (redeemed or unrepentant), will bow before the ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS Savior, King, Judge, and Lamb FOREVER and EVER and EVERMORE (Psalm 2; 110; Isa. 45:23; Rom. 14:11; Phil. 2:10-11, Rev. 5, 11:15)! So, in light of the end of our American Republic and as the dawn of a new darkened America arises, if you personally do know the Lord Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, redeem the time as children of light and ambassadors for the Lord, for His bride is at hand! Beloved, fix your eyes, hearts, and minds on Him and on all of His ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS promises for you in Christ!
So in light of the end of our American Republic and as the dawn of a new darkened America arises; if you personally DO KNOW the Lord Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior; Beloved, may I greatly encourage all of us to redeem the time as His children of light and His ETERNAL ambassadors; for indeed our Lord is at hand for His bride (Matt. 5:13-16; 2 Cor. 5:17-21; Eph. 5:16-17; 1 Thess 5:1-5)! Beloved, fix your eyes, hearts, and minds on Him and on all of His ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS promises for you in Christ (John. 14:1-3; 1 Cor. 2:2, 2 Cor. 1:20; Eph. 1-2; 5:16-17; 6:10-20; Col. 1:27; Heb. 13:8; 1 John 4:4; Rev. 1:17-18)! For indeed we will be ETERNALLY set FREE from this world’s darkness and prison hold (Matt. 11:28-30, John 8:32-36; Eph. 1-2; Phil. 4:6-7; 1 John 4:4)! Jesus is coming for His bride indeed and ALL things exceedingly show forth that His Trumpet blast is at hand and the Four Horsemen of the Day of the Lord about to ride (Matt. 24:1-4; 2 Thess. 2:3-12, Rev. 6)! Hear, consider, humble, and believe my friend, in ALL that Almighty God has done for you in Jesus Christ! For, in the end, Jesus will ETERNALLY win in RIGHTEOUSNESS, and we want to make sure that you are on the ETERNAL winning team of redemption and not ETERNALLY condemned in your sins!
If you DO NOT personally know the Lord Jesus Christ as the Bible so simply and clearly teaches, then may you finally humble yourself under His ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS loving hand and receive Him into your hearts (John 1:12; Acts 16:28-31, Rom.10:9-13; 2 Cor. 5:17-21; 1 John 4:10; 5:12-13; Rev. 3:20; 22:17-21)! You have absolutely no future in this world my friend and to think so is to be foolish and delusional (1 Cor. 1:18). Our days are but a vapor and then what after that (Psalm 39:5; Eccl. 1-12; Isa. 2:22; James 4:14)? Hear, consider, humble, and believe my friend, in ALL that Almighty God has done for you In Jesus Christ! For, in the end, Jesus will ETERNALLY win in RIGHTEOUSNESS and we want to make sure that you are on the ETERNAL winning team of redemption and not ETERNALLY condemned in your sins (John 3:16-17; 36; Rom. 3:23; 6:23; 8:26-39; 10:2-4; Eph. 2:8-9; Rev. 22:1-5)!
The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand, beloved, and NOTHING in FOREVER will EVER EVER stop His Kingdom from coming! Phil 4:4!
Bruce Springsteen, 76 years young, last week kicked off his new tour with a now-old ritual: histrionically denouncing President Donald Trump — the one thing all right-thinking people can agree on, right?
“We are now, to many, America the reckless, unpredictable, predatory rogue nation. That is this administration’s and this president’s legacy,” lectured The Boss.
Yet the Baby Boomer’s bluster brings up a crucial question for the entire left, from establishment Democrats to the wokest socialists: After Trump, what?
For now, the prez is their entire raison d’etre.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s every media appearance centers on painting Trump as a would-be dictator — because he wants to expel illegal migrants, because he favors voter ID, because he wants to pay TSA agents.
Having an agenda Dems dislike is so, so authoritarian.
Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom, for now the frontrunner in the ’28 Dem primaries, endlessly preens from his pulpit about Orange Man Bad — even as he mounts a (deeply embarrassing) social-media strategy premised on imitating Trump’s voice and tone.
That same focus persists down the line: Every real White House contender, every major Democrat in Congress, every high-visibility prog politico acts as if Trump will be with us forever.
Why?
Because on every front that matters, Dems have nothing else.
They faced a massive repudiation in Trump’s 2024 victory: on immigration, on the economy, on extremism on gender and race — yet the wider party hasn’t dropped any of its unpopular positions, but only (mostly) stopped talking about them.
Democrats in Congress defunded DHS, creating weeks of chaos to symbolically punish ICE.
Dems’ “populist” Senate hopeful in Maine, Graham Platner, calls any skepticism about radical gender ideology an “invented culture-war scare.”
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu argues that “every single human has the legal right to come to the United States and seek asylum or shelter and those policies have been in place for a long time.”
Yes, the coalition that ushered Trump into office in 2024 is far from stable.
But not, the same data show, back to the Democrats — and small wonder.
The party has no economic plan beyond “tax the billionaires,” plus permanently open borders to welcome a flood of illegal labor that depresses low-skill wages.
That’s why Trump, who’ll never run again, remains the defining issue of the midterms for Democrats.
And if it works in November, they’ll dig in deeper afterward: Rally ’round a third pointless impeachment, them maybe a fourth
So Trump will define their 2028 efforts — with the GOP nominee surely painted as purely a puppet of the Mar-a-Lago Menace in deranged conspiracizing throughout 2027.
Serious MAGA definition creep will be incoming as well. Everyone who doesn’t stand to the left of Hakeem Jeffries will get the label, from neocons to independent-thinking Democrats like Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman.122
Get ready for Vance is even worse! or Rubio’s the real radical! and They make Trump look moderate! too.
Yes, the GOP will face its own challenges building a post-Trump coalition, but at least its factions will be rallying around what the party should stand for.
Democrats will still be rushing to tell you what they’re against, because the only thing they’re all for is vacuous Trump-hate.
Pam Bondi was President Donald Trump’s second choice for attorney general, and she never quite fit. Bondi often looked uncomfortable in the top prosecutor role, fumbling her way through and failing to meet the demands of a Department of Justice with a mandate to bring the criminals in the corrupt Biden administration to account.
The frustration from the MAGA movement has been mounting for many months. The president’s patience had worn threadbare with an attorney general who — for many reasons — never did deliver on one of Trump’s biggest campaign promises: justice for the people caught in the crosshairs of the left’s political lawfare campaign.
So the president gave Bondi the “Great American” sendoff on his Truth Social platform Thursday and sent his second choice AG packing.
“Pam Bondi is a Great American Patriot and a loyal friend, who faithfully served as my Attorney General over the past year,” Trump wrote Thursday, saluting Bondi for the DOJ’s work in bringing the nation’s murder rate to the lowest level in 125 years.
Maybe Bondi was stuck in an untenable position for what the job entailed, but her biggest problem, one government watchdog says, was her inability to run a tenacious prosecution operation that would send a clear message to the leftist lawfare crowd. Of course, she did herself no favors with the Epstein Files mess.
“I’m not saying Bondi didn’t want to do that, but it certainly didn’t happen,” Mike Howell, president of the Oversight Project, told The Federalist Thursday afternoon in an interview on the Vicki McKenna Show. The conservative organization investigates and litigates to expose and root out corruption in government.
“Look, she got subbed in after Matt Gaetz went down and I think there was an understanding that she really wasn’t that type of lawyer or operator but she would have a cast surrounding her [so she could] be a spokesperson for the agency,” Howell said. “But over time it just became clear that there weren’t enough people who were actually committed to doing the mission and that was borne out by the lack of results.”
Bondi released a statement Thursday pledging to “work tirelessly” to transition control of the AG’s office to her Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, whom Trump tapped as interim AG for the time being. She said she’s moving to “an important private sector role” where she will “continue fighting for President Trump and this Administration.”
“Leading President Trump’s historic and highly successful efforts to make America safer and more secure has been the honor of a lifetime, and easily the most consequential first year of the Department of Justice in American history,” Bondi wrote on X.
Her conservative critics disagree. Democrats said “good riddance,” with a straight face accusing Bondi of leading a corrupt department while they shrugged off the cesspool of corruption at Merrick Garland’s DOJ.
Speculation on who will ultimately replace Bondi was running rampant Thursday. Blanche appears to be a leading candidate, although his conservative credentials have come under scrutiny. Fox News reported that Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin is in line for the post.
Howell said the next AG must be run by a “vicious operator” if there is any hope for accountability.
“You need somebody who is not going to care what the liberal press thinks of them, what the rank and file of these departments and angencies will think of them, and how they’ll be framed as an institutionalist,” he said. “No, you need someone who is there primarily to get the job done and roll up their sleeves.”
A guy like Gaetz, who approaches his job with a “burn the ships” mentality, Howell said.
Or perhaps an attorney like Jeff Clark, a former legal warrior in the Trump administrations who has been raked over the coals in the left’s ceaseless lawfare campaign against Trump’s allies. Clark recently joined the Oversight Project as vice president of the nonprofit’s litigation team. His mission: to “de-weaponize” government.
“We like Jeff a lot and we’re happy he’s here, so I won’t be heartbroken if he stays here. But that is exactly the type of person we put in charge of our legal efforts and I would do the same if I were president of the United States,” Howell said.
Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.
I’m reluctant to post a video as the average Freeper will respond with an angry, “I don’t watch videos!!!” Sometimes with an excess amount of exclamation points. More than three indicates you’re on the verge of smashing your head into the keyboard until it bleeds.
This video is the most in-depth explanation of the world economic system, dollar hegemony and why we can’t reduce the deficit and why that won’t hurt the value of the dollar. It discusses the impact of American debt on the hollowing of industrial capacity and the impact on wages and lifestyle. We really can’t discuss these things without a common understanding of how the system works and how dangerous it would be to tamper with it. Without understanding of the whole global system having an opinion on this or that aspect is like an ant describing an elephant’s toe.
Feckless blue states are spending like there is no tomorrow, but tomorrow will come, and they’ll be demanding red state money to pay their debts.
I begin by presenting three trends. One might even call them inevitabilities, and one might argue they’re not trends at all, but present realities that are intertwined and will tend to collapse in on each other, inevitably leading to the third inevitability.
The first trend is a Congress of feckless fools:
I’ll get to Lippencott’s final question momentarily, but our Congress does seem unable to accomplish anything of consequence, such as the SAVE Act, which will make election fraud not necessarily impossible, but more inconvenient for the Democrat party, which arguably cannot win an election without massive fraud. A paralyzed Congress can’t even pay the Department of Homeland Security at a time when the danger of a massive terrorist attack within our shaky borders is at an all-time high. Democrats don’t care. If thousands of Americans die, they’ll blame it on Trump, with the help of their media propaganda arm.
While Congress does little to benefit America or Americans, its members excel at giving their power to unelected bureaucrats who, through rulemaking and nonsensical interpretation of congressional language and intent, run the bureaucratic state, which rules by ever-increasing rules and regulations.
The ATF was recently caught prosecuting Americans for possessing braced pistols, even though the prior ATF decision criminalizing them was rescinded. Congress could, by doing what it supposedly exists to do—legislating—resolve that once and for all, but it can’t even pass the SAVE America Act, which has as much as 90% public approval. Circa April 2026, apparently, 100% approval is required to pass anything, and it’s doubtful Congress could be roused to act even then
Congress has become feckless to the point of immobility, unable, even unwilling, to act in the public interest. A Republican majority cannot govern unless it has a 60-vote majority in the Senate, and even then, there are always three or more “Republicans” ready to thwart pretty much every Republican policy and law.
Democrats previously argued that only the popular vote was legitimate. They said that until Trump won not only the Electoral College by a wide margin, but also the popular vote. Now, it turns out that they believe that they have a secular mandate to rule regardless of what the people say. Therefore, Democrats have the right and duty to thwart any attempt at Republican governance, or to outright rule, until they can rig the next election and seize power.
The second trend is multiple blue states rocketing toward bankruptcy, with the expectation that the American people will empty their wallets to bail them out. This comes from a combination of profligate deficit spending, massive fraud funneled through Democrat NGOs and other fraudsters, and unfunded pension obligations that could bankrupt some nations.
In New York, both New York City and the state are in deep financial trouble. The NYC retiree health care fund alone has only 5 cents of every dollar promised, amounting to at least $100 billion in unfunded retiree health care liabilities. Unfunded health care costs and pensions amount to around $260 billion.
What about the state’s debt? The best estimate for the entire state—local and state—is $798 billion. That’s the highest per capita in the nation.
How is Islamist/Socialist Mayor Zhoran Mamdani planning to address this looming fiscal train wreck? He plans to dramatically raise taxes and raid the city’s Rainy Day fund and retiree health care trust fund. That’s the 5 cents set aside to pay those obligations. This in a city where the cost of living, cost of doing business, regulations, and sky-high taxes are already chasing out a substantial portion of its tax base.
What’s that you’re saying? That’s insane? Of course it is, but Mamdani was elected on the promise of all manner of free stuff, financed by other people’s money. Free stuff like free day care for municipal workers. All 330,000 of them? Nope. Forty.
He’s remodeling a 4,000-square-foot site for $10 million. Sure, that could buy a great many new, very nice, 2,000-square-foot homes in most red states, but this is NYC, among the most expensive real estate anywhere. The estimated annual operating cost for just 40 kids is $2.3 million. It will surely be much higher, but that comes to about $57,500 per kid per year. Private day care in NYC costs half that.
Even better, the fiscal year begins July 1 with a projected $5.4 billion budget deficit. Mamdani, a guy who has never had a real job or made payroll, is the one New Yorkers elected, and he’s giving it to them good and hard.
That’s awful; California is worse—much worse.
In a recent Loyola Marymount University poll, nearly 48% want an unspecified socialist as Los Angeles mayor. That, given a choice between a “moderate, business-oriented Democrat” and a “conservative political outsider.”
Considering that California’s likely imposition of a “billionaire tax” has already chased many billionaires out of the state, with others on their heels, and added to the tens of thousands of productive, tax-paying Californians already fleeing, California’s tax base is rapidly depleting.
And Los Angelenos want Zohran Mamdani’s twin?
I won’t bother to get into the fine details of unfunded pension liabilities and the hundreds of billions lost to fraud and waste of all kinds. I’ll merely report that of all the wasteful, insane blue states in America, California is number one, with more than $1.5 trillion in unfunded liabilities.
As of 2020, there were 82 separate public pension systems in California. More than 4.4 million people were members of those systems. Imagine what’s going to happen when that $1.5 trillion comes due, and 4.4 million Californians and their families are stiffed. Oh, it’s worse.
Not a single state, red or blue, has a fully funded pension plan. Wisconsin’s is best at 56% funded, while New Jersey’s—surprise!—is worst at less than 18%.
Are you beginning to see trends falling in on each other, leading to a crisis that’s becoming easier to imagine? What crisis? A second civil war.
When California and New York—let’s ignore the rest for the moment—come begging the Congress of the brokest country in history to bail them out, there will be hard choices. The residents of red states that aren’t bankrupt aren’t going to want to be taxed into universal poverty to bail out the arrogant, socialist snots that hate them and want them dead. Blue states, and not a few Republicans, will argue we’re all Americans, one big salad-bowl family, so fork over for Uncle Abdul the Islamist, Aunt Sally the drug addict, and little Jamal the five-time felon, and all our homeless, insane, deviant cousins, all the people used to others bankrolling them, and all the honest blue-state people dragged down by them.
Sane Americans—people who have always worked, paid their taxes, and supported their families and communities—are going to point out this was no surprise. Those blue-state politicians have seen it coming for decades, and they spent themselves into oblivion anyway. Their constituents serially voted for them and fed at the government free-stuff teat. They got what they wanted, good and hard, and they’re going to want to give it to sane, responsible Americans.
As Hemingway said, there are two ways to go bankrupt: gradually, then suddenly. But it was no surprise; they had plenty of warning and chose fiscal disaster.
When blue-state America learns its citizens’ standard of living is going to crater to pay for the preventable stupidity of people who hate them—people who will keep spending other people’s money—red states are going to secede. Even rumors of secession will be enough to drive blue states—and Congress—to mobilize against red states. It won’t be for a noble cause like abolishing slavery. It will be to seize the money and property of fiscally responsible Americans. They, like all socialists, will want to make everybody poor and miserable.
Red-state Americans aren’t going to go for that, and our military, our police, federal agents—the works—will have to choose sides. It won’t work out the way Democrats think.
It’s probably—possibly?—not too late. But who will force blue states to live within their means? Is that legally, constitutionally possible? Our do-nothing Congress might admit there’s a problem. They’re great at talking, awful at useful action. Don’t get me started on forcing Congress to live within our means. That’s another article—a book, really.
I’m old enough that I likely won’t be around when the trends collapse. But people I care about will. We’re in the “gradually” phase. Now we get to see whether “suddenly” is inevitable
I believe Trump means it when he says we’ll pull out of Iran within the coming weeks. Remember, the people who used to say this was impossible were the same ones who profited off the endless wars fueling the pockets of defense contractors, career politicians and the like. “It will take decades to defeat Iran. Now make billions of dollars in contracts with us.” Ridiculous.
Iran cannot be “nation shaped” into a “democracy” — which isn’t what we want, anyway. In a perfect world, every country would be a republic, where individual rights were sacred and the sole function of government is to uphold them. A democracy can elect a Hitler, or a Maduro, or a Castro, or an AOC … what the hell good is that for the cause of freedom?! We have to get America back to that point before we could credibly serve as a role model for any other country. Not that it’s our job to be a role model, but by taking care of ourselves we will be a great role model, just the same. Trump moves us in that direction, while the Democratic Party (and its enabling RINOs) are moving us toward all-out totalitarian rule, where the government is nothing but a bunch of sinister mobsters. Look at Hillary Clinton’s evil, sneering, hateful face — that tells you all you need to know about any of our career politicians.
Allow President Trump and our new and improved military (bereft of drag queens serving a political, not military, purpose) to do their job. The reports I choose to believe indicate that Iran is getting pulverized by the U.S. We could do much worse to them than we’ve already done, and everybody knows it. Long live American military might, provided that America restores its role in the world (and for its citizens) as a republic dedicated (both in principle and practice) to upholding the rights of man — the rights to life, individual liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That’s all. And that’s EVERYTHING.
A new report on the goings-on within President Donald Trump’s close circle of advisors revealed that White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has allegedly urged the group to be “more forthright with the boss” about the realities of his war with Israel against Iran.
Wiles was concerned that the president’s aides were offering him a rose-colored outlook on how the war was being perceived among Americans, too often telling Trump what he wanted to hear, according to TIME Magazine, which cited several White House sources and a senior administration official.
According to the official, Trump has begun many recent days by viewing videos gathered by military officials that show only battlefield successes in the Middle East. Trump has told his advisors that eliminating the alleged nuclear threat posed by Iran, which he had previously claimed had been “totally obliterated,” could be a defining feature of his presidency, the official told TIME.
In the third week of the war, it was Wiles’ responsibility to share surveys by Trump pollster Tony Fabrizio that showed the war’s increasing unpopularity with the president at one such meeting, TIME reported. The surveys reportedly referenced the skyrocketing price of gas, stock market volatility and the millions of protesters who had taken to the streets in opposition to the conflict.
The longer the war lasted, the more difficult it would be for Trump and Republicans at large to fare well in November’s critical midterm elections, Wiles reportedly told the president. Prospects for the GOP were already looking grim before the onset of the war, with Democrats flipping more than two-dozen seats across the U.S. since Trump’s reelection while Republicans flipped none.
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