The Left is beginning to panic about Tulsi Gabbard’s investigation into the massive election fraud in 2020.
They have good reason to. For the first time since then, I actually have hope that the fraud will be exposed for all to see. I would say that the evidence produced will be undeniable, but the left will always deny what they find inconvenient.
Just 2 months ago, Fulton County acknowledged that 315,000 ballots from the 2020 election weren’t properly certified.
A mere 11,779 votes determined the winner in Georgia.
But still, by the time Gabbard is done, a lot more people will believe what has been pretty obvious for a long time: that the election was not simply rigged by illegal rule changes and a massive effort to manipulate the process to produce an absolutely unprecedented number of votes (does anybody really believe that Joe Biden was so much more popular than Barack Obama that he got nearly 10% more votes than he without manipulating the process? Really?!), but outright stolen.
When the Justice Department Sued For the 2020 Fulton County Ballots It Was A “Big Shell Game” Over Who Had The Ballots Says The Head Of The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
Rigging the election is different than stealing it, although the two are so closely adjacent that it is difficult to see the difference. By “rigging” I mean stretching or breaking the law to change voting processes, usually with the excuse that COVID required extraordinary and illegal measures be taken to ensure that people could safely vote. In addition, Pravda upped the volume of the hoaxes, spent inordinate amounts of effort to attack Trump and hide Biden’s infirmity, and the establishment poured Zuckerbucks into Secretaries of State around the country to take control over the voting process.
“The most secure election in American history” was a lie.
By stealing, I mean actually altering vote totals to ensure Biden would win. And Tulsi Gabbard is about to prove that the latter happened. I am certain of it.
NEW: FBI executes search warrant on Fulton County Election Center, seizing contentious 2020 election ballots
For six years, the public has still not been allowed to inspect 145,000 ballots that six sworn affidavits say were counterfeit.
NEW: FBI executes search warrant on Fulton County Election Center, seizing contentious 2020 election ballots
For six years, the public has still not been allowed to inspect 145,000 ballots that six sworn affidavits say were counterfeit.
A judge ordered these ballots inspected years ago. Fulton County refused.
Excerpts from witness affidavits include:
Susan Voyles, 20-year election official:
“Pristine” ballots “difference in the texture of the paper” with “a different feel” and “no markings” and approximately “98% for Joe Biden.”
Georgia Democrat observer:
“Hundreds of ballots with no folds or creases. Perfect black bubbles. All for Biden.”
Another Georgia Democrat:
“All had perfect black bubbles and were all Biden. I heard ‘Biden’ over 500 times in a row.”
@VoterGa has been fighting in court for six years just to inspect these ballots.
Why was Fulton County so determined to keep them hidden?
The FBI raid in Fulton County is one of the key pieces of evidence. Despite the claims that the 2020 election was extensively audited and litigated, the opposite is the case.
Massive scandal:
Fulton County admits they “violated” the rules in 2020 when they certified ≈315K early votes that lacked poll workers’ signatures
“We don’t dispute the allegation.”
The SOS also found FC “violated Official Election… Processes”
The belief that this is so is almost entirely based on a propaganda campaign that equates dismissed lawsuits with actual litigation and examination. In almost no cases were actual ballots examined, and in many cases the evidence was locked away. Fulton County has gone to extraordinary lengths to hide ballots, and even tried to destroy them well before they legally could.
UNBELIEVEABLE! Fulton County (GA) clerk requested permission from a judge to DESTROY all of the 2020 election ballots and records that were still under protection with a court order. They literally attempted to persuade a judge to destroy evidence to cover up their crimes. The… pic.twitter.com/rC1HdvfwEo— The SCIF (@TheSCIF) January 30, 2026
UNBELIEVEABLE! Fulton County (GA) clerk requested permission from a judge to DESTROY all of the 2020 election ballots and records that were still under protection with a court order. They literally attempted to persuade a judge to destroy evidence to cover up their crimes. The clerk’s excuse was that the 2020 election ballots and records took up too much space in the election warehouse.
The election warehouse itself was bigger than a Home Depot. The truth is that this was their legal chance, with permission from a judge, to destroy the evidence and cover up the stolen 2020 election and get away with it.
In the end, the judge ruled that the 2020 election ballots and election records can NOT be destroyed. We wouldn’t have found any 2020 election ballots and records in the Fulton County FBI raid if this judge would have ruled any differently.
Fulton County has already had to admit that it counted hundreds of thousands of votes in an illegal manner, and basically said, “oops.” They certified election counts without ensuring the most basic legal standards were met, and there is lots of evidence that illegal ballots were counted.
This is Fulton County, Georgia
🚨 104,994 Ballot image Files were Electronically Manipulated with Duplicated Timestamps
“That indicates electronic manipulation — what we found is that the manipulation occurred up to several hours, even days later. That’s not supposed to happen.”
President Trump “lost” Georgia by 11,779 votes.
I’m not going to go through all the deficiencies here because that is not my point. I have been convinced for years that the election was stolen, but I have despaired that proof would ever be provided that could possibly convince many more people. People’s minds have been made up, and it will take incontrovertible evidence to change anybody’s mind.
138 voters registered at a commercial address in Georgia
Georgia Law says voters can’t be registered at a commercial address
David Khait “It’s blatant — These suspicious places where a ton of people are registered to vote from”
I believe that Gabbard is on the verge of providing that proof, which is why there is a massive campaign to discredit her. Not only are their hoaxes being concocted against her, but the media is now arguing that she shouldn’t be investigating because there is no evidence of foreign interference in our elections.
Karoline Leavitt knocked these responses out of the park:
Reporter: “Did President Trump, himself, ever ask DNI Gabbard to head down to Fulton County, Georgia?”
Leavitt: “I’ve seen a lot of the media in this room get very caught up with the semantics of why Tulsi Gabbard is… pic.twitter.com/qCRKTeCnMg— Julia 🇺🇸 (@Jules31415) February 6, 2026
Karoline Leavitt knocked these responses out of the park:
Reporter: “Did President Trump, himself, ever ask DNI Gabbard to head down to Fulton County, Georgia?”
Leavitt: “I’ve seen a lot of the media in this room get very caught up with the semantics of why Tulsi Gabbard is there…Election security is essential to national security. And as the Director of National Intelligence, it is a part of Ms. Gabbard’s role to make sure that American elections are free of foreign interference, and that American elections are safe and secure.”
Reporter: “Is there any indication that there’s foreign influence?”
Leavitt: “It’s the media who has said that there’s Russian interference in American elections. You guys have been saying that for many, many years. The people in this room, considering that you all said for many years that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump, you should all be VERY happy that we finally have an administration that is looking into that, and we’ll be happy to keep you posted!”
FFS. How many years have we been subjected to propaganding insisting the opposite?
Fulton County, which not so long ago wanted to destroy the ballots, is now fighting like mad to get them back from the feds.
Someday, hundreds of books will be written about how this election was stolen, and Gabbard’s investigation will likely feature prominently in those books.
No matter what evidence is provided, Democrats will insist that it was cooked up, and most Democrats will believe them. But there will also be millions of people shocked into realizing that they have been lied to, just as happened after the Biden collapse in the presidential debates.
Leftist protester types sometimes ask, “Why do I have to live on the same planet as Trump supporters?”
I find myself asking why I have to live on the same planet as people with this mentality. And how long can human civilization survive, with this mentality on the rise?
See the following. And trigger warning: It’s undiluted evil.
REPORTER: “What do you say to this folks who say well if you tax millionaires they’re going to leave the city? And the top 1 percent pays 40 percent of the taxes in the city.” UNKNOWN MALE: “Yeah.” REPORTER: “So what happens if they leave? What’s your response?” UNKNOWN MALE: “Well, that’s what I would say. It’s like we should take their business, and we run it like for our — like the city ourselves. [crosstalk]” REPORTER: “So if they take their business to Florida, you feel like you can make it — keep it here?” UNKNOWN MALE: “I mean, they — they can’t leave the building. They can’t like just bring their whole entire workforce to Florida, right? They can’t bring all of like the resources that they have to like build the business here to Florida, right? That’s a — that’s a whole thing. And that’s where you would even say like we’re building a real movement right. So like stop that. We’d also like make it illegal for them to like actually like leave, right? We would fine — like fine them to hell if they’re going to try to like abandon —” REPORTER: “Yeah.” UNKNOWN MALE: “— their property here, right? Because clearly people do need to work, right?” REPORTER: “Yeah, yeah, yeah.” UNKNOWN MALE: “People do need to like, you know make a living.” REPORTER: “That’s awesome.”
The Washington Post editorial board has a good piece up today about some new data put out by the Cato Institute. What the data is looking at is purchasing power. Over time, workers are caught in a balance between rising inflation and rising wages.
This data is used to calculate something called the “time price” which is the amount of working time needed to purchase a standard basked of goods. Here’s how the Post explained it.
The premise of the index is simple: how many hours do you need to work, compared to the month or year before, to be able to afford the “basket of goods,” which is a standard set of household items and services that comprise the Consumer Price Index used to calculate inflation.
The methodology describes “abundance” as the amount of the basket of goods that one hour of work can buy. So, obviously, abundance can be going up or down depending on inflation and wages.
Using this method we find that the overall story for US workers looks pretty good. Since 2006, abundance is up nearly 14 percent.
The “time price” is how many hours of work it takes to purchase the basket of goods. The “abundance” is how much of the basket one hour of work can buy. The story told by the index is a very good one: since recordkeeping began, “abundance” for average private sector workers comes out to a net increase of 13.8 percent.
That’s for all US workers, but breaking out blue-collar workers you find their “abundance” has increased even more, just over 18 percent. In the last year alone the index is up about 1 percent for all workers:
The index shows the average private sector worker saw prices rise by 2.7 percent from December 2024 to December 2025, while their hourly wages grew by 3.8 percent. This means workers could work 1 percent less to buy the same basket of goods. Put differently, workers could afford 1 percent more stuff.
But there is a catch. The increase in abundance hasn’t been a consistent line. The past five years have been tough thanks to high inflation.
Despite workers significantly increasing their purchasing power over the past two decades, the past five years have taken a toll. The self-inflicted pain of printing vast sums of money during the pandemic sent the annualized inflation rate to over 9 percent in 2022, far outstripping raises. While inflation is now mostly under control, it has taken time for the gap between wages and inflation to settle, and workers are only now just catching up after their losses during those inflation-heavy years.
Americans continue to rank affordability as a top concern and do not believe the government is doing enough to address the cost of living.
In short, the Biden years sucked and we’re just climbing out of that hole. Here’s the accompanying graph.
be fair, we’ve been headed in the right direction since mid-2022 but many people correctly sensed that buying power was still down relative to where they were pre-pandemic. There was a debate in 2024 about the “vibecession” with some on the left arguing the economy was doing well (Bidenomics!), but that people were being talked out of believing the good numbers by an eco-system of right-wing pundits. In other words, people stubbornly felt things were bad even though they really weren’t. That was the argument at the time. The chart above seems to offer a pretty strong rebuttal to that argument in the form of evidence that many workers were justifiably still feeling behind in 2024.
The irony here is that the downturn in abundance is the result of government overspending (and the pandemic) both of which caused inflation to surge. And yet, some of the people who’ve been capitalizing on the “affordability” message lately are socialists like Zohran Mamdani who seem eager to push for a lot more government spending (free buses, free child care, free everything!).
As I’ve been saying for a while now, Mamdani found the right message the problem is he’s not ideologically equipped to solve any of the problems he identified. On the contrary, he seems destined to make them worse. And if Mamdani can get elected, other dishonest Democrats can do it too. All it takes is a certain amount of shamelessness.
All the woke prerequisites—mass immigration, feminism, equality laws, etc.—are the inevitable fruits of capitalism. It pretends to make individuals “sovereign” after drawing them into the labor pool, while neutralizing their attempts at political organization.
In the 19th century, various thinkers on the right—most notably, Thomas Carlyle and Brooks Adams, a favorite of Theodore Roosevelt—argued that capitalism drives societies towards atomization, the breakdown of social bonds, mass immigration, nomadism, and the dissolution of meaningful differences between peoples. Adams argued that capitalism is hungry for “new blood;” not only for cheap labor around the world, but through mass immigration. He foresaw the inevitable rise of China and demise of Europe way back in 1895.
While Carlyle and Adams framed these developments in negative terms, they were “progress” to later champions of capitalism, such as Milton Friedman:
“The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another.”
Capitalism liberates the individual from the old chains of traditions, customs, rules, religions and so on; it forces them to be free in the face of consumer choice. Friedman always framed the consumer as “sovereign” and the market as the ultimate democracy, voting firms in and out of existence with their purchasing power.
The logic of woke, at its core, is precisely the logic of the “sovereign” individual. If I wish to identify as a woman, then who are you to tell me otherwise? The core of most woke doctrines, even those centered on race, boil down to a kind of individualist entitlement.
The invocation of historical injustices is usually a pretext to much more mundane outcomes that further the ends of the capitalist system: buy from this or that business, bake the cake for this consumer or that consumer, accept the insertion of this or that star into your Marvel superhero film, etc.
As long as it is this and only this, the system is fine with “woke.” If it becomes a genuine political force, then “woke” can and will be destroyed, which has, in fact, already happened you just haven’t noticed yet.
If we agree that capitalism facilitated both feminism and mass immigration, then let us consider the five-stage process by which it reproduces its social relations: 1. expansion of the labor pool; 2. increase of purchasing power; 3. enlargement of the total pool of atomized “sovereign individuals”; 4. “sovereign individuals” attempt to organize politically; 5. these attempts are contained or crushed using newly elevated bureaucrats.
Capitalism told women that being devoted to the family as a mother is a constraint, a vestige of the bad old world of tradition that needs to be consigned to the history books. Radical liberation comes instead by working for a corporation on a wage. Hence women were reborn, not as women, but as “sovereign individuals.”
Of course, if you double the labor pool you halve the labor costs, so it stands to reason why employers under a capitalist system would push for women to enter the workplace. In the 1970s, Friedman explicitly and repeatedly argued that women would reduce labor costs. The power of the family as an institution was duly crushed, and feminism won out.
However, women did not collectivize or organize politically; they simply became dutiful clients of power. Representation on executive boards and reproductive “rights” was enough, it seems, to satiate women as a political group. Any dissident threat feminism may have carried was thereby contained.
Friedman also argued for mass immigration, against trade union leaders. Here, unlike “women” as a political group, the dissident threat was real and could not be easily contained. The power of the trade unions was duly crushed, and mass immigration won out.
Trade unions were the attempt of the patient zero of this process—namely, white working-class men—to organize politically. That was tolerated for a period, and coopted to take down the old aristocracies, until such unions became a genuine rival and threat to the power of capital. They had to be destroyed themselves—just as Henry VIII eliminated Thomas Cromwell after he used him to take down the church.
Feminism and mass immigration were two “Thomas Cromwells” coopted to destroy any resistance from the forces of tradition. But as Bertrand de Jouvenel observed, whenever power uses newly elevated bureaucrats to crush rivals, it is only a matter of time before said newly elevated bureaucrats become rivals themselves who must be taken down.
While “feminism” by itself has only worked in the advance of capitalist interests, “woke” as a political phenomenon became a problem, especially when it turned to the pro-Palestinian cause, and the process by which it is being dismantled has already started in earnest.
Wokeness” is often seen as the product of radical Marxism imported to America from Europe. In fact, “woke” is a capitalist phenomenon that emerged in the U.S., which exported it to the vassals of its empire. The least woke places in Europe are represented by the former Soviet bloc; the most woke places are those most closely tied to the U.S., such as the UK and Germany, which is still under military occupation.
All the woke prerequisites—mass immigration, feminism, equality laws, etc.—are the inevitable fruits of capitalism. It pretends to make individuals “sovereign” after drawing them into the labor pool, while neutralizing their attempts at political organization.
In the 19th century, various thinkers on the right—most notably, Thomas Carlyle and Brooks Adams, a favorite of Theodore Roosevelt—argued that capitalism drives societies towards atomization, the breakdown of social bonds, mass immigration, nomadism, and the dissolution of meaningful differences between peoples. Adams argued that capitalism is hungry for “new blood;” not only for cheap labor around the world, but through mass immigration. He foresaw the inevitable rise of China and demise of Europe way back in 1895.
While Carlyle and Adams framed these developments in negative terms, they were “progress” to later champions of capitalism, such as Milton Friedman:
“The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another.”
Capitalism liberates the individual from the old chains of traditions, customs, rules, religions and so on; it forces them to be free in the face of consumer choice. Friedman always framed the consumer as “sovereign” and the market as the ultimate democracy, voting firms in and out of existence with their purchasing power.
Friedman also argued for mass immigration, against trade union leaders. Here, unlike “women” as a political group, the dissident threat was real and could not be easily contained. The power of the trade unions was duly crushed, and mass immigration won out.
The logic of woke, at its core, is precisely the logic of the “sovereign” individual. If I wish to identify as a woman, then who are you to tell me otherwise? The core of most woke doctrines, even those centered on race, boil down to a kind of individualist entitlement.
The invocation of historical injustices is usually a pretext to much more mundane outcomes that further the ends of the capitalist system: buy from this or that business, bake the cake for this consumer or that consumer, accept the insertion of this or that star into your Marvel superhero film, etc.
As long as it is this and only this, the system is fine with “woke.” If it becomes a genuine political force, then “woke” can and will be destroyed, which has, in fact, already happened you just haven’t noticed yet.
If we agree that capitalism facilitated both feminism and mass immigration, then let us consider the five-stage process by which it reproduces its social relations: 1. expansion of the labor pool; 2. increase of purchasing power; 3. enlargement of the total pool of atomized “sovereign individuals”; 4. “sovereign individuals” attempt to organize politically; 5. these attempts are contained or crushed using newly elevated bureaucrats.
Capitalism told women that being devoted to the family as a mother is a constraint, a vestige of the bad old world of tradition that needs to be consigned to the history books. Radical liberation comes instead by working for a corporation on a wage. Hence women were reborn, not as women, but as “sovereign individuals.”
Of course, if you double the labor pool you halve the labor costs, so it stands to reason why employers under a capitalist system would push for women to enter the workplace. In the 1970s, Friedman explicitly and repeatedly argued that women would reduce labor costs. The power of the family as an institution was duly crushed, and feminism won out.
However, women did not collectivize or organize politically; they simply became dutiful clients of power. Representation on executive boards and reproductive “rights” was enough, it seems, to satiate women as a political group. Any dissident threat feminism may have carried was thereby contained.
Trade unions were the attempt of the patient zero of this process—namely, white working-class men—to organize politically. That was tolerated for a period, and coopted to take down the old aristocracies, until such unions became a genuine rival and threat to the power of capital. They had to be destroyed themselves—just as Henry VIII eliminated Thomas Cromwell after he used him to take down the church.
Feminism and mass immigration were two “Thomas Cromwells” coopted to destroy any resistance from the forces of tradition. But as Bertrand de Jouvenel observed, whenever power uses newly elevated bureaucrats to crush rivals, it is only a matter of time before said newly elevated bureaucrats become rivals themselves who must be taken down.
While “feminism” by itself has only worked in the advance of capitalist interests, “woke” as a political phenomenon became a problem, especially when it turned to the pro-Palestinian cause, and the process by which it is being dismantled has already started in earnest.
Subversion works by importing an inverted moral frame and getting the target population to install it as its own conscience.” — Yuri Bezmenov’s Ghost on X
Even in the deep-frozen fastness of midwinter, events and tensions surge, and America awaits . . . Bad Bunny! You perceive that there is some message in the genderfluid Puerto Rican songster’s upcoming Superbowl halftime gig, but what is the message? A 180-degree counterpoint to the earnest bashing and mashing of giants on the field? The official annunciation of Reconquista? A thumb in the eye of President Donald Trump and the white supremacist horse he rode in on?
This bread and circuses routine is looking pretty played out. The bread, of course, is pizza, the Soylent Green of these seeming end-times, underwriting the nation’s romance with morbid obesity (and perhaps with degenerate sex). The circuses — last week’s Grammy Awards, the Winter Olympics tonight, Sunday’s looming Superbowl — give off an odor of utter cultural exhaustion. What will it finally take for Western Civ, and its avatar, the USA, to stop embarrassing itself before God and history, and find better things to do?
You have been following the Epstein papers, no doubt. The sordidness grows like a yeast infection in the body politic, and yet to date hardly one prosecutable crime? What gives with that? Last week’s release of the final super-batch of Epstein papers brought on a harvest of reputations, at least. The docs revealed Microsoft zillionaire Bill Gates conniving with the late (possibly) Jeffrey Epstein to turn pandemics and vaccines into a profitable enterprise, with a spate of email discussions years before Covid got sprung on the world.
Then, it just happened that Mr. Gates sponsored the Event 201 pandemic exercise in October 2019 (with Johns Hopkins and the World Economic Forum), around the same time that the first outbreaks of Covid-19 occurred in Wuhan China with the World Military Games, a sort of Olympics for soldiers. Many athletes from various countries (including the U.S., France, Germany, and others) fell ill with a respiratory infection.
Naturally, you wonder how long, exactly, was the Covid prank in the works and among whom? If Mr. Gates was involved with Johns Hopkins planning Event 201, wouldn’t you suppose he was also in contact with US NIAID, Dr. Anthony Fauci’s agency, and with Dr. Fauci himself? Dr. Fauci had a special talent for augmenting taxpayer funding of his activities with money from outside government, and Bill Gates certainly had a lot of it, plus an obsessive drive equal to Dr. Fauci’s for messing around with viruses. And 2019 was exactly the time that scientists at the Wuhan Virology Institute happened to be experimenting with corona viruses associated with bats. Whoops.
It happens that Rep. James Comer (R-KY), chair of the House Oversight Committee now looking into the Epstein matter, indicated this week that he was interested in calling Bill Gates to testify about his activities with Jeffrey Epstein. Wouldn’t it be nice to hear from Bill about his adventures in virology? Bill Gates is not a doctor or an accredited medical researcher, by the way. Virology is his hobby.
As a sort of tail on the donkey, an email written by Jeffrey Epstein in 2013 surfaced this week stating that Bill Gates said he caught a sexually transmitted disease from Russian girls and sought help from Epstein getting antibiotics to secretly dose his then-wife Melinda with. It blew up the Internet, but do you detect a whiff of a cockamamie story (no pun intended)? Bill Gates surely had the resources to virtually buy a doctor and have him prescribe whatever Mr. Gates wanted. In any case, Bill Gates’s long-running consort with Jeffrey Epstein has apparently sunk his reputation as a medical philanthropist, so expect him to look for another hobby as he skulks off into the gloaming of ignominy.
Lord Peter Mandelson, Baron of Foy, in Briefs, with Epstein Girl Then, there is the case over in the UK of Lord Peter Mandelson (Baron Mandelson of Foy), erstwhile UK ambassador to the USA, lately cashiered out of the job for his relations with Jeffrey Epstein. Photos emerged of Lord M less than fully clothed with others in Jeffrey Epstein’s troupe, also less than fully clothed. In the notorious 2003 birthday book, he wrote that Epstein was “my best pal.” He received payments from JE over the years and, in return, it appears, Mandelson, then working as a senior minister after the 2008 financial crisis, allegedly forwarded to JE confidential UK government emails, market-sensitive details (e.g., on EU bailouts for Greece, banker bonus taxes, and notes from meetings with US officials in Britain for JE’s investment purposes. Bottom line: Mandelson ruined. Ambassadorship terminated. . .resigned from the House of Lords. . .King Charles III reportedly looking to revoke his title (Baron of Foy), leaving him a mere commoner in ruin.
Next up (looks like): Bill and Hillary Clinton are called by subpoena to testify before Mr. Comer’s House Oversight Committee on Feb 26 and 27. They’ve got some ‘splainin’ to do about how Jeffrey Epstein helped them construct the fabulous engine of wealth known as the Clinton Foundation and its various spinoffs such as the Clinton Global Initiative, the Clinton Health Access Initiative, the Clinton Family Foundation, and the Clinton Presidential Library.
This followed a months-long tussle to get the Clintons to submit to in-person interviews under oath in closed session. The Clintons wanted to just hand in some written bull sh*t of their own and leave it at that. They were on the verge of being voted in contempt of Congress — like other political luminaries, Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon recently were, with months of jail time — when they gave in. Hillary got all snippy about it yesterday, demanding the hearing go public on TV so she could grandstand. Denied. Curiously, no one is rushing to the Clintons’ defense. You might suspect their many friends and associates smell blood in the water and nobody wants to get wet.
Speaking of things wet and bloody, the final super-batch of Epstein papers has revived rumors of a dastardly Satanic child abuse cult among the anointed. . . all kinds of horrifying activities, such as those represented in Tony Podesta’s art collection. Even the cuckoo story of PizzaGate is back up for review. I can’t state that I actually believe any of it, but the chatter is deafening so you are advised to stand by and see what turns up.
STOPPING WALL STREET FROM COMPETING WITH MAIN STREET HOMEBUYERS: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to protect the American Dream by making sure that large institutional investors do not buy single-family homes that could otherwise be purchased by families.
The Order directs key agencies to issue guidance preventing relevant Federal programs from approving, insuring, guaranteeing, securitizing, or facilitating sales of single-family homes to institutional investors.
The Order instructs key agencies to promote sales to individual owner-occupants through first-look policies (which give individuals and other non-institutional investors the opportunity to buy foreclosed properties before investors do), disclosure requirements, and anti-circumvention measures.
The Order directs the Secretary of the Treasury to review rules and guidance that relate to large institutional investors acquiring or holding single-family homes.
It directs the Attorney General and the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission to review acquisitions by large institutional investors for anti-competitive practices and prioritize enforcement against certain of those practices by institutional investors in the single-family home rental market.
The Order directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to identify potential large institutional investor involved in Federal housing assistance programs by demanding disclosure of ownership in single-family rentals.
The Order tasks the White House with preparing legislative recommendations to codify these policies so that large institutional investors do not acquire single-family homes.
PUTTING AMERICAN FAMILIES FIRST IN THE HOUSING MARKET: President Trump is working to make homeownership affordable again after years of Wall Street crowding out first-time buyers and young families.
For many, homeownership is considered the pinnacle of the American dream and a way to invest and build lifetime wealth.
However, high inflation and interest rates caused by the Biden Administration have put starter homes out of reach for millions, while large Wall Street investors have snapped up single-family homes in many communities.
Institutional buyers with vast resources outbid hardworking families, turning neighborhoods into investor rental portfolios instead of communities.
Large institutional buying and leverage have reduced the supply of homes for owner-occupants and driven up prices in many locales, making it harder for Americans to build wealth through homeownership.
This Order ensure that Federal housing programs prioritize families, not Wall Street, and sets the stage for legislation to ensure that large institutional investors do not acquire single-family homes.
People live in homes, not corporations.
DELIVERING ON PROMISES TO AMERICAN FAMILIES: President Trump has undertaken an aggressive agenda to tackle the housing challenges facing American families and make the dream of homeownership accessible again.
This Executive Order fulfills President Trump’s promise to “immediately [take] steps to ban large institutional investors from buying more single-family homes.”
President Trump has also directed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to purchase $200 billion in mortgage-backed securities to further drive down borrowing costs.
These targeted housing and affordability initiatives build on actions President Trump has already taken to put more money in Americans’ pockets.
Upon taking office, President Trump blocked all unfinalized Biden era rules, saving the average family $2,100.
He signed the Working Families Tax Cuts into law – delivering the largest tax cut in American history and increasing paychecks by over $10,000 for a typical family.
His America First, pro-growth, energy dominance, and deregulatory agenda has cut red tape, lowered inflation, mortgage rates, and gas prices, boosted GDP growth, and brought trillions in investments to the United States.
President Trump continues to focus on ways to provide more relief to Americans from the economic and financial mismanagement of the Biden era, so families can prosper and achieve the American Dream of owning a home.
New York Communist Muslim totalitarian mayor Mamdani will not pay for the piling trash and inoperable streets. In dictatorships like Cuba, Russia and China, the people are too frightened to protest. In New York City, the woke voters in the majority are too stupid and ignorant to protest. Many of them are Muslim and want a new Iran. They will put up with ANYTHING, so long as it’s not Trump or any other Republican.
The majority in New York City deserve what they’re getting, but they also (perversely) want destruction. As for the minority who voted Republican–they should get the hell out, and hasten the inevitable collapse of the Big Apple. Create great cities elsewhere. Democratic and nonleftist America, on our present course, will be splitting up. Get to freedom while you can. And buy weapons.
Donald Trump did not win the 2024 election because America suddenly became meaningfully more Republican.
He won because voters, many of them independents and crossover Democrats, many of them young, had lost trust in the system and believed he was willing to confront it. I’m the head pollster for Rasmussen Reports. In our final 2024 polling, 42% of Trump’s electorate came from independents and Democrats.
That is not a MAGA monoculture. It is a fragile coalition built on one thing: accountability.
Voters did not elect Trump to manage decline. They elected him to fix things that were not working. That is why DOGE mattered. For a brief moment, it validated what Americans, particularly younger voters, already believed: that the federal government is bloated, corrupt, self-dealing and largely insulated from consequences.
Under-40 voters, the most disillusioned cohort by many measures, were the most supportive of DOGE, the most open to arrests for corruption and the most likely to agree with the statement that “he who saves his country violates no laws” (57%).
Trump’s approval among voters under 40 briefly hit 60% almost exactly when Google search interest in DOGE peaked. That alignment should have frozen Republican politics in Washington in place.
Instead, DOGE was quietly sidelined, and Trump’s approval among younger voters has since fallen sharply into the low 40s. That is not coincidence. It is a signal.
Rather than doubling down on systemic accountability, the last few months have felt unfocused, with counter-signaling on affordability and jobs, infighting, the Epstein saga, renewed foreign entanglements and a governing posture that feels reactive rather than intentional.
Voters are noticing.
Despite Trump’s unsurprising personal approval rating today (net -7), the Democratic lead on the generic ballot has steadily widened to D+6. That should set off alarms. The November 2024 election was Trumpy, not Republican, and off-cycle special elections continue to reinforce that reality. Momentum, enthusiasm and turnout are not automatic for Republicans.
The Republican Party has not helped. Its legislative output is thin. Its ability to deliver tangible wins is questionable. Even the bare minimum — serious accountability investigations — has largely failed to materialize. There is no clear path to a 2026 victory if this continues, which is why what happened in Minnesota mattered so much.
Voters are noticing.
Despite Trump’s unsurprising personal approval rating today (net -7), the Democratic lead on the generic ballot has steadily widened to D+6. That should set off alarms. The November 2024 election was Trumpy, not Republican, and off-cycle special elections continue to reinforce that reality. Momentum, enthusiasm and turnout are not automatic for Republicans.
The Republican Party has not helped. Its legislative output is thin. Its ability to deliver tangible wins is questionable. Even the bare minimum — serious accountability investigations — has largely failed to materialize. There is no clear path to a 2026 victory if this continues, which is why what happened in Minnesota mattered so much.
Losing focus
The discovery of rampant alleged fraud in Minnesota was a gift. It offered a rare opportunity to shift the national conversation away from Republican dysfunction and toward something Americans overwhelmingly agree on.
Three-quarters of voters are angry about the level of waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has cited figures as high as $300 billion to $600 billion annually. That is not budget trimming. That is empire-fatal kleptocracy.
This was the moment for a full-scale, anti-blue-state fraud push. Follow the money. Subpoena everything. Make examples. Send every agency in, even the 80,000 armed IRS agents we should have fired. If fraud is that widespread, maybe austerity is not the answer. Maybe arrests are.
Instead, the focus shifted.
ICE was surged into Minneapolis. What could have been a systemic fraud investigation became a performative deportation spectacle. Predictable protests followed. Then escalation: more ICE presence, masks, tear gas, aggressive enforcement.
Within days, the headlines were no longer about uncovering fraud. They were about clashes, optics and ultimately the tragic shooting deaths of two protesters.
The ICE red meat might be cathartic for some. But politically effective, no.
Our polling has been consistent for years on this point. Americans want illegal immigration stopped. That is not in dispute. They want criminals deported. They want the border enforced. But they also want fairness, not brutality, and they recoil when enforcement looks indiscriminate, theatrical or excessive.
A plurality of Americans now say ICE tactics are too harsh, even while still supporting deportation in principle. That tension is not ideological. It is emotional.
What voters want
Americans do not just want illegal immigrants removed. They want the hiring magnet destroyed. They overwhelmingly support punishing companies that employ illegal labor. That policy outperforms Trump’s personal approval by nearly 30 net points. It is not even close.
So the obvious question follows: What is stopping this administration from going after the employers? Likewise, a federal E-Verify mandate is ridiculously popular. Why have Republicans been unable to pluck this low-hanging fruit?
Is it donor pressure? Fear of market volatility? Is Trump, the tribune of the forgotten voter, being restrained by plutocratic interests? From the outside, it increasingly looks that way.
There was a clean path forward. Keep DOGE front and center. Launch relentless investigations into blue-state fraud hubs. Hammer corporate lawbreaking and worker exploitation. Restore trust through accountability. Instead, the administration chose theatrics over results, and is paying the price politically.536
This can still be fixed, but only if Trump remembers why he was elected. Not to manage the system. Not to appease donors. Not to chase viral moments. Make the System Fear Consequences Again.
Americans are not asking for chaos. They are asking for justice.
Governments habitually lie. They lie so often that it is peculiar for governments to claim “authority” on anything other than falsehood. Before the Gutenberg press and general literacy, “authorities” announced self-serving lies in the public square. With the arrival of newsprint, “authorities” disseminated State propaganda as daily news. Radio and television revolutionized the mass manipulation of minds. The adoption of the personal computer, the rise of the Internet, the commercialization of pocket computers posing as handheld phones, and the sticky web of an ever-growing social media complex have made it possible for government “authorities” to reach inside every human brain and squish it into compliance. AI-powered machines now manufacture and disseminate lies faster than human-powered governments ever could.
Most people are only now realizing that — even in so-called “free” countries — government-sanctioned propaganda, censorship, and misdirection are pervasive and routine. To the surprise of citizens taught to “trust the authorities,” the unvarnished truth is a bitter pill to swallow: Governments regularly employ psychologically manipulative, and even exploitative, forms of information warfare against their own citizens. Politicians and generals tell lies to mobilize the American public for war. Economists and central bankers tell lies to justify money-printing that robs from the middle class and rewards wealthy elites. Government regulatory bodies tell lies about the safety of food and medicine before taking lucrative jobs inside the global food and pharmaceutical industries. The Chamber of Commerce calls the offshoring of blue-collar jobs and the importation of slave-produced crap “free trade.”
How can the word “authority” maintain any positive meaning when “authorities” are always wrong? At least since the First World War, scientific “authorities” have promised that human industry and mass commercialization would kill the planet in the “next few years.” After Trump thumped Hillary like a drum, Intelligence Community “authorities” concocted an elaborate scheme to frame the MAGA outsider as a Russian agent who threatened national security unless removed from office. When Bill Gates, Anthony Fauci, and the World Economic Forum sank the globe into mass COVID hysteria, health “authorities” promised that children would die unless they sat behind plexiglass-enclosed desks, their parents got experimental injections every few months, and every stranger wore at least three masks!
Since the Second World War, trust in “authority” has evaporated. Why? Perhaps because “authorities” routinely lie, keep secrets, and cover up crimes. Roughly three-quarters of Americans think the CIA killed President Kennedy. A top FBI official transformed a rather mundane Watergate scandal into a successful operation for taking down President Nixon after his landslide re-election victory. President Bush I pushed the “new world order.” President Clinton “did not have sexual relations with that woman.” President Bush II gave us endless war with few long-term successes. President Obama told us we could “keep” our doctors before doubling the cost of healthcare instead. Secretary of State Clinton was never prosecuted for keeping classified documents on an unsecured private server in her home, but President Biden made sure to send an FBI SWAT team to bust down President Trump’s doors.
Politicians, prosecutors, judges, and news media mouthpieces told us that 2020’s mass riots, arson, robbery, and murder were justified civil rights “protests” against racism. Those same “authorities” told us that J6 protesters seeking free and fair elections were “insurrectionists” and “terrorists.” Now those “authorities” tell us that anti-ICE insurrectionists terrorizing citizens and attacking federal agents are “protesting” for civil rights once again. When “authorities” describe riots as “protests” and protests as “insurrections,” words mean nothing.
Meanwhile, the average member of Congress enters office as a salaried “public servant” and exits office a millionaire! Inside every institution of “authority,” corruption is king!
A writer named Lucas Leiroz argues that revelations within the Epstein documents prove that “nothing legitimate remains in the Western world.” Predicting the “moral collapse of the elites,” he thinks the “systematic, organized, and ritualized” nature of their perversions and crimes constitutes nothing less than a civilizational “rupture.” Why? “When evidence emerges of extreme violence against children, of practices that go beyond any conventional criminal category, the discussion ceases to be legal and becomes civilizational.” The reason why people are fascinated with this scandal is that it undermines the legitimacy of so many powerful people in positions of “authority.” The very elites who have been exposed as monsters “continue to decide elections, wars, economic policies, and the fate of entire societies.”
Leiroz sees the Epstein scandal as the final straw for broad swaths of the public. “How can one continue to accept the authority of institutions that shielded this level of horror?” he asks. “How can respect be maintained for laws applied selectively by people who live above them?” Those are good questions. As “authorities” have been exposed as liars, the public has lost trust in them. Now that “authorities” have been exposed as “pedophiles, satanists, and cannibals,” the public is disgusted with them. When members of society “still retain some sense of limits” and members of the “ruling class” behave as if they were “outside the common human species,” the structures of power forfeit moral legitimacy.
Leiroz says, “After Epstein, nothing can continue as before.” In the months ahead, we will see whether he is correct. This much is certainly true: For three-quarters of a century, trust in “authorities” has steadily declined. Over the last couple decades, those “authorities” have proven to be frauds, grifters, and liars. Now many of these same “authorities” have been exposed as sick and depraved perverts whose actions are, as Leiroz describes, “vile and essentially evil.” How are ordinary citizens supposed to ignore “absolute evil,” while so many devils maintain positions of “authority”?
Melinda Gates reacted to the release of Jeffrey Epstein’s emails involving her ex-husband Bill Gates, including horrific allegations Epstein made such that Bill was attempting to dose her with antibiotics to fight an STD without her knowledge, by saying Bill and other Epstein associates “need to answer to those things.”
Bill Gates has openly acknowledged, repeatedly, that he believes the world is overpopulated and unspecified steps should be taken to do something about that. He’s trying to buy up farmland in order to control the food supply, and he advocated forcing medical experiments on the American population manufactured by government-subsidized companies with zero product liability.
Are you seriously surprised by evidence he tried to secretly drug his wife after knowingly exposing her to STDs? Bill Gates is a sadist and a psychopath.
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