Please remember something: Elections are a consequence, not a cause.
Radicalized Democrat totalitarians cannot destroy a free people without their consent.
The basic questions here: Do people want to be free, or not? Do they want to live, or not?
The Democrats are now so explicit about their desire to wreck everything we have that giving them an electoral victory is a collective act of suicide.
Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason
For nearly two decades, Lesney Products ruled the world’s pockets and playrooms. Born in a bombed-out London pub garage after the war, this British firm turned die-cast metal into pure childhood gold, selling hundreds of millions of tiny cars under the Matchbox name and building a monopoly so complete that “Matchbox” became the generic word for toy car itself, the way “Hoover” meant vacuum cleaner. Their factories in Hackney and Kentish Town ran round the clock, their sales curves only pointed skyward, and their executives believed, with total conviction, that no one could ever touch them.
Then in 1968 an American toy giant called Mattel launched something called Hot Wheels, and Lesney’s leadership looked at the garish candy paint jobs and laughed them off as cheap gimmicks unworthy of a serious British toymaker. It was the single costliest laugh in toy industry history. Because while Lesney was admiring its own paint quality, Mattel had engineered thin, low friction wire axles that let their cars scream down plastic tracks at speeds Matchbox toys could never dream of, while Lesney’s thick, slow axles left their beloved die-cast cars barely able to roll across a carpet. Kids didn’t care about authenticity or detail. They cared about speed, and speed was the one thing Matchbox refused to give them.
What followed was not a slow fade but a rapid unraveling, as market share evaporated seemingly overnight, debts piled up faster than any recovery plan could address, and a company that once defined an entire toy category collapsed into bankruptcy within a decade of that fateful boardroom laugh. This is the story of how one arrogant miscalculation about a piece of bent wire ended a British manufacturing empire, and what the fall of Matchbox reveals about the brutal cost of underestimating your competition.
Lost Industries
Feelings are valued, they’re celebrated, more than rational thought is. People with deeply emotional political feelings are certain they have winning arguments. Let’s engage them.
You hate Trump so, so much? Well, that settles it.
And you feel that criminals shouldn’t languish behind bars, even after committing two or however many crimes? Oh, your feelings reflect true justice.
In your heart, you believe that about 15 million people (twice the population of New Jersey) living in the U.S. illegally deserve sanctuaries from immigration enforcement, ones defended by street protestors. . . and they should be given benefits not available to American citizens . . . and their criminal history shouldn’t be held against them? Golly, your kind heart has won the day!
A political approach based on feelings tends to be antithetical to one based on thought. Everywhere from New York dinner parties to Minneapolis streets to California faculty lounges, the feelings approach wages a weepy war to redefine American government.
They’re demanding more now: more apologies, more influence, more guaranteed income. They feel the need for nothing less than a new type of government.
You might have heard of one episode in the founding of American government. It occurred in a brief 1787 exchange between Philadelphian Elizabeth Powel, then the country’s most politically influential woman, and Benjamin Franklin, a Pennsylvania delegate to the Constitutional Convention. Powel asked Franklin whether the delegates to the convention were giving the country a monarchy or a republic. Franklin’s cautionary reply became famous: “A republic, if you can keep it.”
In today’s terms, Franklin’s “keep it” bequest could be deemed at-risk. The feelings crowd is now pushing for a socialist republic, which of course would soon become all socialist, no republic. Through angry performances on streets and campuses, they’re campaigning for reverting the American republic that has survived for 239 years to a Russian model that collapsed after just 74 years.
“Progressives” call this progress.
Democrats, Democratic Socialists, and closet Marxists love the feelings-vs-thoughts debate because their partner media always declare the feelings are winning it. Those of us on the other side can only use reasoned thought and language to fight the battle. And while doing so, we’re characterized as coldly intellectual or just plain mean.
Here’s a realistic way to understand this battle. Forget party labels; it’s actually about capitalism versus socialism. Though socialism is fatally flawed and a serial historical disaster, it can never be killed. It’s the Freddy Krueger of utopian dreamers.
Have you ever tried to defend capitalism, especially to a Felicia Feelings-type leftist? Capitalism is actually a tough case to make to meager intellects, especially in an era when critical reading is overwhelmed by critical TV viewing.
Leftists have come to see capitalism as a relic of the nineteenth century, a scheme still run by an evil consortium. The well-read few among them attribute capitalism’s creation to ruthless corporate barons like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and some railroad tycoons. The larger number whose reading list leans toward holiday fables think of capitalism as the product of America’s Ebeneezer Scrooges.
And they maintain a rosy view of socialism by ignoring twentieth century history. Pay no attention to those socialist regimes behind the curtain, Dorothy!
The regimes are all failures. The big one, the failed empire, was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The Western Hemisphere model is Fidel’s socialist revolution in Cuba, still working on making that revolution airtight and still delaying the free elections he promised in 1960.
Then there was Venezuela. Pity the voters who in 1999 thought Hugo Chavez’ socialist “economic justice” would enrich them. In 2016, they began seeking protein justice by stealing zoo animals. Buen provencho!
The efficient complex of capitalism is today represented in simple images, the establishment favorite being greedy, scowling businessmen. How many TV programs and movies have you seen that portray business characters favorably? Villainous business storylines outnumber pro-business storylines by at least four-to-one. though the margin seems larger than that, especially in big productions.
Greedy corporate executives and sinister investors provide archetypal fiends. They’re popular villains among the audience of arrested-development adults who find heroes in comic book figures. A capitalist monster movie won an Academy Award for Michael Douglas for his portrayal of Wall Street baddie Gordon Gekko.
You’d think that a big-budget movie would be made about globe-conquering currency manipulator George Soros, “the man who broke the Bank of England.” In character and behavior, he resembles a villain in a James Bond movie. He could be Dr. No No-Bail.
But leftist media mostly ignore Soros or cast him as just a kindly billionaire who taps into his fortune to elect Democrat prosecutors and judges with a compassionate style of law enforcement. That prosecution laxity is approved by city voters who’ve never been mugged.
And how have deep-feeling politicians been evaluated by the deep-feelings media? Special care had to be taken with one political lifer.
That doddering fellow was shown poignant appreciation by the newspaper of record. Endorsing Joe Biden in the 2020 election, The New York Times cooed “time and loss have softened his edges.” It observed that Biden “speaks the language of suffering and compassion with a raw intimacy, making deep emotional connections across lines of race and class.” Columnist Jamelle Bouie remarked that the Democrats’ convention framed Biden as a leader “who seeks to provide and protect, while also showing empathy.”
After Joe’s election, the Times hailed Biden’s victory with “the people have chosen empathy.”
Can you hear the soundtrack behind the Times’ screenplay there? It’s a thousand surging strings, a Barry Manilow symphony.
As the Biden basement era progressed and America’s population boomed through its southern border, empathy remained a major priority. CNN described Biden as a leader who is “all empathy, wearing his heart on his sleeve.” As the network’s viewership kept declining, the remaining couch dwellers heard the president reassuringly described as the “comforter-in-chief.”
Do you need a hankie? Maybe an airsickness bag? Let’s move on with feeling to his hyper-emotive would-be successor.
Following her democratic anointing, Kamala’s presidential campaign focused significantly on the subject of “joy,” proposing increases in national joyfulness, and being championed by Joy Reid (the most hatred-oriented comedian ever).
And Kamala’s speeches featured one memorable statement of her belief in several joyous variations. Here’s a montage of her most famous statement.
And recall Kamala’s VP running mate Tim Walz — quickly, before he disappears into a think tank that discourages thinking. (He’s still somehow the Governor of Minnesota.) Walz entered 2024 presidential campaign rallies waving his hands like a giddy cheerleader. Equally disturbing, he was apparently managing his state’s 10-figure — possibly 11-figure — fraud by immigrant Somali entrepreneurs the same way: by happily waving his hands.
Walz at a 2024 Vice-Presidential debate: “Donald Trump makes the people I care about afraid.” Now, that is emotion-only politics. The relevant point isn’t just what saps in Minnesota feel; it’s what Governor Walz feels about their feelings.
A triumphantly successful politician can even feel deeply about the hard facts of economics. Then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had those feelings of empathy for ordinary Americans (folks unable to make $130 million in stock market gains as she and her husband / stock partner had by legislation-driven whiplashes in the stock market).
Pelosi emphasized the breadth of her ordinary-Americans empathy in a 2009 Capitol Hill press conference, tugging heartstrings and challenging census accounts by emoting, “Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package, five hundred million Americans will lose their jobs.”
The deep feelings of The New York Times, Biden, Harris, Walz, Pelosi and fellow compassion machines continue being exercised in the service of causes once called “liberal” (though censoriously illiberal), now called “democratic socialist” (though the Marxists in that closet can hardly wait to come out), and on the currently hip trajectory (soon to be revealed as the reanimation of Lenin’s corpse).
Capitalism isn’t supported by pseudonyms. It doesn’t have the nitwit optimism of socialist promises. No, capitalism has just waged a quiet, incredibly successful global crusade against poverty for over two centuries. You can try your best to present evidence of this improvement in human society to a campus mob or an elegant garden party, but you should temper your expectations.
Tell them anyway: Capitalism has been the economic system eradicating poverty worldwide. It doesn’t reinforce poverty as socialism/ communism does. Capitalism inherently functions to encourage the virtues of human character, rather than magnifying human weaknesses commune-style. (Just ask a former member of a commune or kibbutz.) Capitalism is the political philosophy of a healthy, productive society, contrasting dramatically to socialism’s lament of losers.
Socialists are unable to understand how humanely capitalism works. They’re too busy explaining how their system has never been tried properly and ignoring that it’s enforced by dimwitted bureaucrats. And ignoring California.
The United States nears this year’s midterm elections with the very real possibility that these closet Marxists calling themselves Democratic Socialists will win a national foothold from which to destroy the republic. The bad news is that their deep-feeling broadcasts might defeat the rare national product of healthy traditional values and education. The good news is that people with those values and education can still fight back, and a poorly educated generation might learn worldly reality.
David Bittinger, John Kass News
President Donald Trump said he doesn’t care what the polls and the “fake news” are showing: he is confident the Republicans are going to shock the world — and the Democrats, in particular — and perform much better than expected in the 2026 midterm elections. The president struck an optimistic tone while rallying for the GOP in Vandalia, Ohio on Saturday evening. He said Republicans will be just fine, as long as conservatives don’t stay at home on Election Day.
“They’re in for a big surprise. It’s very simple: You gotta get out and vote. You gotta get out. You gotta vote for these guys,” Trump urged. “If you do that, we’re gonna win and we’re gonna win big.” Trump then lifted his right arm and gestured to the reporters at the event, whom he accused of working with the “Dumocrats” to rig the election. “And we’re gonna shove it up their ***, okay?” Trump declared.
The feisty comment drew a big roar from the MAGA crowd. It came as the president bashed some of his favorite targets, from CNN star Kaitlan Collins to ex-Vice President Kamala Harris to progressive Texas Senate candidate James Talarico (D). Trump mocked “Talafreako” for being a “vegan all his life,” only to pivot and start going to barbecues “all the time” to cynically appeal to Texans. “What they don’t show is he goes to the back of the tent every time and he’s throwing up all over the place,” Trump quipped. “He’s not for meat.”
As for Collins, Trump kept his feud going with the anchor by calling her out — a move which prompted some hearty boos from the crowd. “She’s such an unhappy person,” Trump said. “She’s a young, nice person, but she never smiles. She’s a very unhappy person.”
Trump then lifted his right arm and gestured to the reporters at the event, whom he accused of working with the “Dumocrats” to rig the election. “And we’re gonna shove it up their ***, okay?” Trump declared. The feisty comment drew a big roar from the MAGA crowd. It came as the president bashed some of his favorite targets, from CNN star Kaitlan Collins to ex-Vice President Kamala Harris to progressive Texas Senate candidate James Talarico (D).
Trump mocked “Talafreako” for being a “vegan all his life,” only to pivot and start going to barbecues “all the time” to cynically appeal to Texans. “What they don’t show is he goes to the back of the tent every time and he’s throwing up all over the place,” Trump quipped. “He’s not for meat.”
As for Collins, Trump kept his feud going with the anchor by calling her out — a move which prompted some hearty boos from the crowd. “She’s such an unhappy person,” Trump said. “She’s a young, nice person, but she never smiles. She’s a very unhappy person.”
Trump’s stumping in Ohio comes as pretty much every major poll shows the Dems ahead of Republicans on the generic congressional ballot. The Dem lead comes even after CNN chief data guru Harry Enten reported liberals “despise” party leaders like Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY). To make sure the Democrats don’t flip Congress, Trump made a simple plea to the crowd: “If you don’t mind, please pretend that I’m on the ballot.”
Sean James, Mediaite
Iranian Regime national tv Channel One hacked about an hour ago. During a broadcast of Khamenie speech, a red crosshair appeared over his face and chanting of Women. Life. Freedom. There was writing to the side saying “Rise up. Join us”. Also 4 photos at the bottom of the screen of young people killed and additional writing: “The blood of our youth is dropping from your paws”.
Also, there was a huge banner in the middle of Tehran highway today that read: We are no longer afraid of you. We will fight.
Also, attempted attack on IRI ambassador in Denmark. Her bodyguard was stabbed. Diplomatic Security intervened before the attacker could stab the ambassador.
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Carney and Burnham are Dumb and Dumber.
Commie Canada and the dis-United Kingdom should be renamed the “Dumb and Dumber” of the British Commonwealth.
King Charles III’s North American prime minister, Mark Carney, ran to The New York Times last week to talk about his military combat preparations against the United States in the event that President Trump crosses Lake America and liberates Canada from its delusional leaders. What a showboating dunce. The U.S. singlehandedly sustains Canada’s economy and national security, yet the tiny central banker huffed and puffed in a hilariously Napoleonic display of fake strength.
In the same interview with the failing Times, Con-man Carney outlined his intent to integrate Canada’s economy with that of China and the European Union and to replace the U.S. Dollar with a China-linked global reserve currency. Rhetorically defending Canada’s sovereignty while insulting his U.S. benefactor, Little Mark Carney explained how he would subjugate his socialist nanny-state to Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping and unelected European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Mark is the global mascot for “educated” idiots everywhere.
Not to be outdone by not-so-Great Britain’s Canadian cousin, U.K. Prime Minister Poindexter (er, I mean Andy Burnham) informed the United Nations General Assembly last week that his government was constructing yet another speech-police organization (this one given the august name, “National Centre for Information Defence,” which should not be confused with the “Research, Information, and Communications Unit,” the “Government Communication Service,” the “Counter Disinformation Unit,” the “Defending Democracy Taskforce,” the “Information Threats and Influence Directorate,” the “Rapid Response Unit,” the “National Cyber Force and Social Cohesion Taskforce,” the “Media Monitoring Unit,” or any of the other information-control agencies already mobilized across totalitarian Britain) to protect the British people from scary thoughts and words. Burnham blamed the Russians for spreading “a narrative of decline, stoking division, and sowing despair” in the U.K. (and definitely not Westminster’s promotion of decline, division, and despair!) and promised to counteract this “information warfare” by censoring Britons’ public speech and feeding his collapsing country a steady diet of State-sanctioned propaganda. In order to beat back the Russians, Dilapidated Britain must have its very own digital Iron Curtain! Two cheers for democracy! Hip hip…who cares.
The British people are screwed. On average, their government grants settlement or citizenship to an illegal alien every single minute. These foreign nationals receive more welfare from British taxpayers than ever before. The third-world invaders (I mean, “newcomers”) use Britain’s streets as public toilets. Rather than securing the kingdom’s borders, the Home Office hands out a nine-page booklet informing mostly-Muslim men of military age that it is illegal to rape women and children while they conquer the islands. In the last two years alone, the number of illegal immigrants (and future citizens!) arriving by boat has exceeded the size of the entire British Army! But if these outrageous facts disturb you enough to publicly express your feelings on social media, you will most likely join the roughly 65,000 Brits who have been arrested for “speech-related offenses” over the last five years. Foreign invasion? Good! Free speech? Very bad!
Apparently, the British police state also plans to imprison anyone who would rather not fight WWIII against the Russian Federation. During a recent episode of former cabinet minister Jacob Rees-Mogg’s “State of the Nation” on GB News, one leftist-globalist commentator in favor of mass conscription argued, “We would have to lock a few people up…some of the pro-Russian voices, people saying there isn’t a threat, don’t fight for your country, don’t go to war for Burnham, we’ll have to lock ‘em up.” Rather than responding with horror at the suggestion that his fellow Britons should be imprisoned for opposing a catastrophic war, Rees-Mogg pedantically replied, “Well, we suspended habeas corpus during the Napoleonic Wars…indeed, yes.” In another interview, Rees-Mogg nonchalantly remarked that British citizens have a “duty” to “die” for Britain in a war against Russia.
In Burnham and Rees-Mogg’s Britain, the only way to “defend democracy” is to imprison anyone who disagrees with the British Establishment and to sacrifice everyone else to the killing fields! The British Isles might as well be renamed the “Gulag Archipelago.”
Interestingly, GB News — which leans conservative — discovered last week that Britain’s media regulator, the Office of Communications (Ofcom), had covered up data showing that viewers trust GB News more than the BBC. GB News, in fact, is ranked above all other networks with regard to viewpoint diversity and impartiality. British authorities apparently did not want the public to know these inconvenient truths because the BBC is treated as an objective, trustworthy, and premier source of news (fact check: false!). In an effort to control the public’s perception of the BBC, Ofcom restricted what information the public was permitted to know. P.M. Burnham takes the “defense of information” very seriously!
How seriously? Burnham and the British government force citizens to pay for the BBC’s awful dreck whether they watch it or not! Every household in the U.K. must fork over a £180 license fee to the BBC each year. Because more households are refusing to pay the license, the government is considering the imposition of a mandatory £11-a-month Internet tax in order to keep the BBC’s fake news funded. The BBC says that the “fee is essential for maintaining the quality and diversity of public broadcasting in the UK.”
What does “quality and diversity” look like at the BBC? Two “reporters” just did a major exposé describing how women who don’t polish their nails perpetuate “white supremacy.” No joke! “Nail art’s historical and creative roots are linked back to black, Latino, and Asian communities and the suggestion that bare nails are now a sign of high status could stigmatise bold manicures,” the BBC “reports.” “They are often called elegant or tasteful, and these are often usually euphemisms that perpetuate white supremacist standards of beauty.” Yes, Burnham, force Britain’s working-class to pay for this race-baiting propaganda posing as hard news!
Earlier this year, British authorities announced that YouTube and other social media platforms would be forced to manipulate their algorithms and push BBC “news” to the top of feeds in order to counter “disinformation.” In other words, Whitehall steals money from British citizens to pay for State-run TV and then forces them to watch it. During the Cold War, we called that Soviet-style propaganda. Yet if you ask the fake “reporters” at the BBC, Canada’s publicly-funded CBC, or America’s NPR or PBS, all these propagandists would insist that they have nothing in common with the Soviet Union’s Pravda or the Russian Federation’s RT (Russia Today) News. In the West, State-funded media are somehow not State media. Does that sound more like propaganda or breaking news?
Britain’s State-imposed “narrative control” is utterly totalitarian. Dismissing the “narrative of decline” and “despair” in Britain as a “corrosive narrative…which bears no resemblance to reality” and a “distorted and untrue narrative about Britain,” P.M. Burnham casts all public dissent as “far-right narratives.” As military historian Professor Michael Rainsborough mocks, “The problem isn’t the problem, the problem is the people noticing the problem.” Rainsborough points out that right after Burnham rebranded “decline” as “disinformation,” the prime minister laid out a “10-year plan” to fight inflation, housing costs, hopelessness, inequality, and division. “The narrative of decline,” in other words, “bears no resemblance to reality, although reality apparently requires a 10-year plan.”
Both Canada and Britain are failing. The public has noticed. Carney and Burnham wish to whitewash reality with fake “narratives.” The worse things become, the more difficult it will be for their ministries of truth to succeed. Expect the BBC to blame Trump, Putin, and “white supremacy.”
J. B. Shurk, American Thinker
“Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, handling accurately the word of truth” (2 Tim. 2:15).
The Holy Spirit protects you from false doctrine, but that doesn’t eliminate the need for diligent Bible study.
For the next few days we’ll consider several benefits of Bible study. Today we’ll address the broader question of why Bible study is necessary at all.
Perhaps you know believers who think Bible study is unnecessary. Bible reading, they say, is sufficient because we have the Holy Spirit, who teaches us all things. Often they cite 1 John 2:27 in support of their view: “As for you, the anointing [the Holy Spirit] which you received from [God] abides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you; but as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you abide in Him.”
That passage, however, isn’t implying that Bible study or Bible teachers aren’t necessary. On the contrary, John was exhorting his readers to abide in what they’d already learned (v. 24) and shun only those teachers who deny Christ and try to deceive believers.
The Holy Spirit is the believer’s resident lie detector, granting discernment to shield him or her from false doctrine. Although a Christian may be temporarily confused by false teachers, ultimately he can never drift into apostasy or deny Christ. If anyone does depart from the faith, his departure is proof that he was never a true believer in the first place (v. 19).
The Spirit protects you from error, but you must fulfill your responsibility as a student of the Word. Even a man of Timothy’s spiritual stature needed to study the Word diligently and handle it accurately (2 Tim. 2:15).
I pray that the psalmist’s attitude toward Scripture will be yours as well: “O how I love Thy law! It is my meditation all the day” (Ps. 119:97).
Suggestions for Prayer
-Thank God for His precious Word.
-Ask Him to give you a deeper love for its truths.
For Further Study
-Read Titus 1:7-16 and 2 Timothy 2:2.
-What skills must an overseer have regarding God’s Word?
-Why are those skills necessary?
-Do those skills apply to church leaders only? Explain.
-Are you skilled in handling God’s Word?
John MacArthur, Grace Community Church
There’s generally a strategy to the madness; you just have to wait until it starts to become visible. The anniversary of October 7, 2023, massacre is right around the corner.
Hamas-led attacks on Israel on 7 October 2023, which killed about 1,200 people and involved mass shootings, hostage‑taking, rapes and horrific assaults on civilian communities.
As noted in the end of this article about the French protests, “student organizations are nevertheless calling for protests to continue, with the movement now looking towards Tuesday’s National Day of Action.”
EUROPE – Around 400 of France’s 3,700 secondary schools were closed on Friday on the orders of police prefects, with many schools switching to online lessons.
Education Minister Edouard Geffray urged parents to intervene, warning that young people were putting themselves at risk.
“Children are in danger on the streets,” he told BFMTV. “Parents must, quite clearly, take action and tell their children not to go [to the blockades].” The protests began over staffing, funding and school conditions and have spread rapidly across the country.
The Interior Ministry said 1,027 secondary schools were affected on Thursday, including 222 that were blockaded. Around 30 university campuses were also blocked.
It said 1,949 people were arrested on Thursday alone, mainly in connection with violence, unlawful gatherings and attacks on people in positions of authority. (read more)
suspect the U.K is only a few days from having a much worse set of crises on their hands.
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Sundance, The Last Refuge
Robert B. Bluey• September 26, 2026
When Nick Freitas walks down a city street in the opening scene of his new documentary, recounting his days as a Green Beret, most viewers might think he’s somewhere in the Muslim world. I certainly did.
He’s in Britain. And the transformation he documents there, driven by decades of mass Muslim migration and a political class unwilling to demand assimilation, is one Americans ignore at their peril.
Freitas, a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates, joined me on “Midterm Report” to discuss “The Immigration Crisis That Will Destroy the West,” a film he made with The Heritage Foundation and The Blaze. It features Heritage experts Mike Gonzalez, Nile Gardiner, and Lora Ries.
Asked how a nation is demoralized and destabilized, Freitas has a simple answer.
“In the simplest terms, you give it an identity crisis,” he told me. “And I think we’re suffering that in the West in general, and we’re starting to see it become a significant problem in the United States.”
Freitas embarked on the project because he cares deeply about his own country’s future. He decided to visit Britain given its shared heritage with the United States.
In the United Kingdom, mass migration from Muslim countries has tested the country’s traditions and reshaped its culture.
“I’m not talking about differences in dress or festivals or food,” Freitas said. “I’m talking about diametrically opposed views on the fundamental components of what builds a high-trust society.”
Those components, he explained, are political, social, theological, and economic. When migrants arrive with “no genuine interest in assimilating,” he warned, the result is “ultimately destructive.”
Nowhere is that clearer than in Britain’s grooming gang scandal, the film’s most heart-wrenching segment. Freitas said the overwhelming majority of the men who organized the abuse were Pakistani. Yet British police were reluctant to pursue them because they feared being called Islamophobic.
“That should just absolutely baffle us,” Freitas said. “But on the other side, we should start to recognize how far America has gone down this path.”
In its promotion of the film, Heritage is blunt about the stakes: What mass Islamic immigration did to Britain could happen here if Americans don’t act now.
Freitas said America can change course, and he believes it starts close to home. His advice: Vote in primaries, where he estimates only 7% to 8% of voters participate. And parents shouldn’t assume their local public school reflects their values, even in a conservative community with good teachers.
“The teachers don’t select the curriculum,” he said.
Instead, Freitas urges parents to teach their kids the real history of the United States, ensuring they pass that inheritance to the next generation. That, he said, is the surest way our country doesn’t follow the Britain’s path.
As a former Virginia delegate who spent 10 years in the General Assembly, Freitas is closely watching this year’s midterm elections.
Early voting began Sept. 18 and will continue through Election Day on Nov. 3. Virginia voters will decide the fate of three constitutional amendments after they received approval in two consecutive sessions of the General Assembly, as required under state law.
Question 1 would amend Virginia’s constitution to expand abortion access throughout pregnancy and eliminate the need for parental consent. Question 2 would replace the current constitutional definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman with language guaranteeing the right of two adults to marry regardless of sex. Question 3 would restore voting rights for felons.
Freitas urged a “no” vote on all three constitutional amendments.
“The Left feels no obligation to be open and honest about what they’re trying to do,” Freitas said.
>>> A RARE MOVE BY A VIRGINIA BISHOP AHEAD OF ELECTION DAY
Freitas warned about the long-term consequences for Virginians if the amendments pass, equating it to what’s already happened in Britain.
“They selectively enforce the law,” he said, warning that Democrats would go after Christian pastors while leaving mosques and imams alone. “That’s what they do all the time.”
He added, “This is a question of whether or not they are eventually going to be able to sue you as a Christian pastor because you don’t want to sanctify a gay marriage.”
The film’s message ultimately comes down to Freitas’ plea to value “the truth over comfort.” Britain didn’t. America still can.
Robert Bluey, Daily Signal
For more than six decades, the Cuban regime has been the leading sponsor of radical leftism and Third Worldism in the United States.
The State Department is exposing the full history of Cuban espionage and subversion in our country.
The American people deserve to know.
ransomnote: After reading the report Rubio linked, CUBA | THE CAPITAL OF 21st CENTURY COMMUNISM (PDF), I realized that the concluding paragraph (see last paragraph indented below), was likely written for people like me who did not realize just how weaponized CUBA has been. As a failed nation, I did not see its profound success in tormenting America in its endless endeavor to destroy us.
By the end of the State Department’s (well-written) report, I had the distinct impression of Cuba as a forwarding operating base – the equivalent of a stationary aircraft carrier – docked near America, protecting, recruiting, supplying and collaborating with every enemy America has had, and will have.
Cuba is home sweet home to foreign intelligence agencies, some with multiple offices in Cuba, conducting cyber attacks, electronic disruption, intelligence collection etc. along with terrorist training and the cultivation of Antifa, No Kings rallies etc., while saturating our government, universities with their ideology. The money, the recruting via ‘tourist visits’ offered to college students. The Democratic Socialists of America are among Cuba’s proudest accomplishments, because they can use it to function as a ‘legitimate’ social effort – no more hiding behind terrorist organizations like the Black Panthers, the Weathermen etc.
Our intelligence agencies say that Cuba’s intel people are top flight, largely because they are ‘true believers’ with some lasting in our government for 30 to 50 years. Lives spent attempting to destroy the United States, while working and drawing a pension from…the United States.
I think CUBA’s success fielding attacks on America explains why few nations find it cost effective to own and operate their own air craft carriers. Why bother? Fly terrorists into CUBA for training, fly them to Africa or the Middle East for additional training, insert them into the US under ‘exchange’ programs and ‘freeing the oppressed.’ Harbor terrorists escaping the US to Cuba’s terrorist ‘haven’. Karen Bass is alumni of the nation’s efforts to rot the US from within, but she’s just one of the countless insurgents, whether armed or ideological, which Cuba is proud to sponsor.
LAST PARAGRAPH Exerpted from the report:
“To mistake Cuba’s poverty for harmlessness is to misunderstand the threat entirely. Its material weakness was never the measure of its danger. Its power was always ideological, subversive, and parasitic – and it has proven remarkably durable, outlasting the Soviet empire that helped build it and grafting itself onto every new enemy of the United States that has arisen since. Today it serves as the connective tissue of a broader anti-American coalition, a staging ground where the ambitions of Moscow, Beijing, and Tehran converge with the radical movements operating inside our own border
Secretary of State Marco Rubio
