Friday, May 22, 2026

A Time Of Choosing For America’s Moderates And Liberals

"These self-styled moderates and liberals can no longer afford the luxury of Trump Derangement Syndrome if they want to prevent a full-blown Marxist America."

Steve McCann   

"The current demeaning and demonizing of America’s wealthy elites and threats to confiscate their wealth and undermine their societal status will be expanded to include virtually the entire cadre of moderates and liberals who do not swear allegiance to the party."


"The 2026 mid-term and the 2028 presidential elections may well decide the fate not only of the United States but of those who self-identify as left-of-center moderates and liberals and who also make up the bulk of America’s current ruling class.

"Blinded by their Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), far too many within this myopic but significant segment of the electorate still foolishly suppose that there remain various alternative political entities that encompass their “centrist” views, such as the Democrat and Republican parties of twenty years ago. But it isn’t true. At this point in our nation’s history, virtually all the alternatives that existed a few years ago are gone.

"Self-identified moderates and liberals will have to choose between two alternatives: either they will continue to myopically ally themselves with the American Marxist movement, as personified by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), who are unabashed disciples of Marxism, and abet them in bringing democracy in America to an end. Or they will abandon their juvenile addiction to TDS and “wokeism” and assemble a pro-democracy alliance with conservatives and the America First movement.

"There are no other choices, as there is neither the time nor the national infrastructure to create a major third-party alternative to the Democrat party, a party on the cusp of being permanently captured by the American Marxist movement.

"Over the past four decades, the majority of America’s self-identified moderates and liberals have gradually aligned with these collectivists due to a few similarities in political philosophy. However, in 2015, that arms-length relationship evolved into a full-blown open alliance solely based on an unbridled and mutual hatred of Donald Trump.

"Thanks to their inability to think independently and their acceptance of so many ludicrous concepts over the years, the old-time Democrat party moderates gullibly believed that when Trump was no longer in office or the face of a movement, the United States would be able to return to their version of “normal,” at which point the Marxist movement would again fade into the background of the American political spectrum.

"But that is not going to happen. The Democratic Socialists and their collectivist allies, whose sole reason for being is to stealthily transform the nation into a Marxist/socialist “paradise,” will not allow that fantasy scenario to play out, as they now have in hand the means that would allow a relatively small cadre of radical revolutionaries to take over the United States." . . .More

The Media War on Israel

 The American Spectator  

"The problem is, we are being fed these allegations from a source that has repeatedly told us lies in the past. If the New York Times wants to be a voice for the Palestinian people or for victims of sexual violence, it has already done them a grave injustice through its untrustworthy reputation."



"The New York Times coverage of Israel’s wars has established a new precedent in journalistic integrity: publish stories as soon as possible, let them go viral, then discreetly apologize when the stories prove to be false. 
"Take, for example, the explosion at the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City on Oct. 16, 2023. Palestinian authorities blamed the explosion on Israeli air strikes, and the Hamas-run Palestinian Ministry of Health reported 500 people dead. The following day, the New York Times posted “At least 500 people were killed by an Israeli airstrike at a Gaza hospital, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.” Other outlets followed suit. “Hundreds feared dead or injured in Israeli air strike on hospital in Gaza, Palestinian officials say,” reported the BBC.
"After a thorough investigation, the hospital explosion was confirmed to be caused by an Islamic Jihad rocket that misfired in a barrage intended for the civilian populations of southern Israel. But by the time the facts came out, the narrative had already been set. 
"But there’s more. In July 2025, the New York Times published a photo of an emaciated toddler on its front page as proof of an Israeli-facilitated famine in Gaza. As it turned out, the boy suffered from a preexisting genetic disease unrelated to the war. The Times did issue a correction, but it was published on its public relations X account, seen by less than 100,000 viewers, and not on its website or main account, followed by over 55 million users. Over the past two years, I’ve also reported on how widely circulating claims of genocide and famine in Gaza have been fabricated by biased NGOs, politicians, and media outlets as part of a campaign to slander Israel.  
"News, therefore, is not being reported; it’s being shaped and fabricated through biased narratives, and the consequences are dangerous.
"The most recent jab at Israel is Nicholas Kristof’s opinion piece published in the New York Times on May 13. Kristof unveiled alleged horrific sexual abuses committed against Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons. This followed a similar report from Faisal Ali at the Guardian a year earlier on alleged sexual abuses of Palestinian detainees. 
"Kristof’s piece was hard to read, filled with emotionally driven accounts from sexual abuse victims. It claimed that there is a pattern of widespread sexual violence against detained Palestinians by the Israeli military, intelligence agencies, Jewish settlers in the West Bank, prison guards, and specially trained rape dogs. But even in the most cringeworthy moments, I recalled reading uncomfortable pieces from the Times before, only to find out days or weeks later that the content had been recalled or debunked." . . .  More...

Stephen Colbert helped ruin late-night comedy | Opinion

 USA Today

"Ultimately, Colbert’s departure is no loss for American culture. To borrow an expression from sports, this is a case of addition by subtraction. The nation needs unifying voices more than it needs more polarization in comedy shows."


"Picture two multimillionaires, supposedly grown men, blurting out vulgarities and throwing somebody else’s furniture off the top of a building in a major city. This might be cause for intervention from the police or perhaps counseling services. Instead, this was part of a going-away stunt by ousted CBS late-night host Stephen Colbert, along with his predecessor, David Letterman.

"Colbert used to be a successful comic, but over time his attitude, ratings and career all spiraled downward, largely because of his political anger.

"Colbert’s run on CBS ended on May 21. He spent much of his waning airtime berating his employer, congratulating himself and bringing on high-profile guests to flatter him. Those guests included former President Barack Obama and comedy hosts from rival networks, who spent much of their time psychoanalyzing their preferred target: President Donald Trump.

"CBS announced last summer that Colbert’s show was getting canned. CBS attributed the cancellation to a financial decision. Various media outlets reported that Colbert’s show was very expensive to produce and losing upwards of $40 million per year. The host raked in a reported salary of $15 million annually. The cost-cutting was plausibly linked to CBS’ parent company Paramount’s merger with Skydance Media. It’s also worth noting that CBS’ Colbert cancellation came just days after he gave a blistering on-air critique of his network’s decision to settle a lawsuit with Trump that stemmed from reporting by “60 Minutes.” . . . More...

Calls for Jimmy Kimmel to get 'canceled' spike online after he urged viewers to stop watching CBS over Stephen Colbert

UPDATE: David Letterman Sowed the Seeds of Late-Night Television's Demise


. . . What those on the left aren't talking about is the [Colbert] program's bloated production costs and the fact that Colbert made a conscious decision to tell half of the country to go you-know-what ourselves. Well, nobody on the left had been discussing the latter. Earlier this week, Variety — Hollywood's news organization of record — had a dimly lit lightbulb moment:" . . .

. . . "Near the end of his run on The Late Show, Letterman wandered more and more into partisan grumpy old man stuff. Nobody on our side of the aisle ever thought he was conservative, but he also wasn't making it a point to offend us. That changed in the last couple of years before he left late-night television. He began giving the implied finger to half of his potential audience. Conservatives on social media were a combination of disappointed and angry because so many of us had been fans of his work up until then.

"I can't help but believe that Letterman's embrace of leftist partisan vitriol emboldened Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel when they made the choice to be emotional political advocates rather than humorous talk show hosts. Kimmel's weepy breakdown after President Trump was elected again in 2024 remains perhaps the most pathetic spectacle in the history of late-night TV." . . . 

I remember Letterman's line, "Republicans; we got nothin'."

Thursday, May 21, 2026

Pete Hegseth Torches Legacy Media: 'Your Politically-Motivated Animus Nearly Blinds You'

Jennifer Oliver O'Connell

"The hardened hearts of our press are calibrated only to impugn. I would ask you to open your eyes to the goodness: the historic success of our troops, the courage of this president, and this historic moment for a deal that could end the Iranian nuclear threat."


"At the Department of War's Thursday update on Operation Epic Fury, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth compared the legacy media to Pharisees. Hegseth received this illuminating comparison while listening to his pastor preach on Sunday, and explained it thusly:

"This past Sunday, I was sitting in church with my family. And our minister preached from the Book of Mark, the third chapter. And in the passage, Jesus entered a synagogue and healed a man with a withered hand. The Pharisees came to watch, and as scripture reads, they came to see whether he, Jesus, would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse him. You see, the Pharisees, the so-called and self-appointed elites of their time, they were there to witness, to write everything down, to report. But their hearts were hardened. Even though they witnessed a literal miracle it didn't matter. They were only there to explain away the goodness in pursuit of their agenda. As the passage ends, the Pharisees went out and immediately held counsel against him, how to destroy him." 

"Hegseth drew a parallel between the Pharisees' agenda in finding fault in Christ Jesus' actions and the legacy press' fault-finding with the American soldier as they work to execute the aims of Operation Epic Fury. 

"I sat there in church and I thought: Our press are just like these Pharisees. Not all of you. Not all of you. But the legacy, Trump-hating press. Your politically-motivated animus for President Trump nearly completely blinds you from the brilliance of our American warriors. The Pharisees scrutinized every good act in order to find a violation. Only looking for the negative."

"Hegseth couched the animus of the press as being only toward President Donald Trump, but as this week has shown, there is an equal, if not more deranged form of animus lodged at Pete Hegseth as the Secretary of War. This, despite the fact that Hegseth and his generals have waged multiple campaigns that have fulfilled intended goals and that were executed with precision. " . . . More...


Jennifer Oliver O'Connell
(As the Girl Turns) is a contributor at Redstate and other publications. Jennifer writes on Politics, Pop Culture, and the American story, with occasional detours into Reinvention, Yoga, and Food. You can read more about Jennifer's world at her As the Girl Turns website

Virtual Tour of the Titanic "2024 Version" Complete Tour; more than you thought you would see

 Felloutislife   "In this video, we go through a virtual tour of the White Star Line Titanic from Belfast. RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early morning hours of April 15, 1912, after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, more than 1,500 died, making the sinking one of modern history's deadliest peacetime commercial marine disasters. RMS Titanic was the largest ship afloat at the time she entered service and was the second of three Olympic-class ocean liners operated by the White Star Line. She was built by the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. Thomas Andrews, chief naval architect of the shipyard at the time, died in the disaster.

"The wreck of Titanic was discovered in 1985 (more than 70 years after the disaster) during a US military mission,[10] and it remains on the seabed. The ship was split in two and is gradually disintegrating at a depth of 12,415 feet (2,069.2 fathoms; 3,784 m). Thousands of artefacts have been recovered and displayed at museums around the world. Titanic has become one of the most famous ships in history, depicted in numerous works of popular culture, including books, folk songs, films, exhibits, and memorials. Titanic is the second largest ocean liner wreck in the world, only beaten by her sister HMHS Britannic, the largest ever sunk; however, she is the largest sunk while in service as a liner as Britannic was in use as a hospital ship at the time of her sinking. The final survivor of the sinking, Millvina Dean, aged two months at the time, died in 2009 at the age of 97."


Stephen Colbert Exits Stage Left In an Orgy of Self-worship

John Nolte: Breitbart  

"Tonight is Colbert’s final show. No guests have been announced. Who knows what he has planned? What I do know is that 99 percent of America doesn’t care and that while he might not literally drop his pants and masturbate to a statue of himself, in the figurative sense we should expect nothing less."


"The reason Stephen Colbert has never been funny is that he is incapable of making fun of himself. Even during his tenure on Comedy Central’s Colbert Report, he only mocked people on the right, specifically Fox News hosts.

"Colbert not only lacks a true sense of humor, any hint of warmth, or the appeal of a guy you’d want to have a beer with (I’d have a beer with Jon Stewart), but also is void of anything approaching humility.

"There is no one Stephen Colbert loves more than Stephen Colbert, and the orgy of self-worship he’s putting his tiny audience through during his final week hosting The Late Show is more proof of that and more proof of why CBS lost tens of millions per year on this insufferable dick.

"Colbert is so poisoned and sick with pride that he cannot even begin to acknowledge that he turned the Late Show into a failed money pit. Instead, his self-worship demands he pretend to be a political martyr at the hands of President Trump, when there is zero evidence that Trump caused his show to lose some $40 million per year and get itself canceled.

Wednesday night was Colbert’s second-to-last show, and the self-worship was off the charts. “[D]uring the second-to-last episode of the CBS late-night talk show, the host finally revealed his answers to his iconic ‘Colbert Questionert.’”

"Now get a load of this look-at-me guest list, per the Hollywood Reporter:

Former CBS Evening News anchor John Dickerson also stepped in to administer the segment, introducing each of the famous guests. Billy Crystal, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Josh Brolin, Martha Stewart, Mark Hamill, Jim Gaffigan, Jeff Daniels, Tiffany Haddish, Evie McGee Colbert, Amy Sedaris, Ben Stiller, Aubrey Plaza, James Taylor, Robert De Niro and Dickerson then each took a turn sitting behind Colbert’s desk, diving “into the depths of Stephen Colbert,” Dickerson said." . . .   More...

At least we didn't have to watch Seth Meyers' performative entry including kissing Colbert on his head

On eve of Colbert's final show, Variety suddenly wonders if host's left-wing politics went too far

What's next for Trump and Baby Ayatollah?

 


"Fox News senior strategic analyst Ret. Gen. Jack Keane assesses President Donald Trump’s ultimatum to Iran and highlights the strategic leverage the United States holds on ‘The Story.’ "

Bad Ideas Never Die; Price Controls Lead to Shortages ; "Capping prices would reduce incentives to continue or restore production."

 Power Line 

"The ignorance on display is enough to make you want to cry. Or maybe to require a test of basic economic literacy as a qualification to serve in government. Or, better yet, to vote."

                      If you believe in price controls, you will not understand this chart: 

price controls graph - Search Images

"Price controls are in the Hall of Fame of bad ideas. They have an unbroken record of failure, stretching back literally thousands of years. And yet, they remain alluring to people with no knowledge of either history or economics, or–probably more relevant–to failing governments.

"There was a time when Britain’s government was known for a certain level of financial sophistication. No longer:

[British Chancellor] Rachel Reeves is pressuring supermarkets to cap food prices in an attempt to limit inflation unleashed by the Iran war.

"The Iran war has nothing to do with it. The inflation rate on grocery prices in the U.K. is lower than in mid-2025, and the world has plenty of oil. A temporary disruption of a single channel of transportation will have no impact on gas prices beyond a couple of months:. . . "

Only a Fool or a Politician Would Cap Food Prices - FEE  . . . "Indeed, large supermarkets are a marvel of the modern age, on a par with wonders such as the Internet. We have a cornucopia of goods available, allowing us to buy almost anything we could want in multiple variants, from around the world. These are provided to us via the automatic responses of thousands of economic agents to thousands upon thousands of prices, in a web of interactions far beyond the ability of any human mind or machine to duplicate. Tampering with that process is so obviously potentially harmful that only a fool, or a desperate politician, would contemplate it.

"If the government caps the prices of supermarket products, that will make those products unprofitable for the supermarket to stock and also mean that consumers have to pay less for them than their economic value, the consequence being that they will sell out and not be available. Why would I, as a consumer, want key products to be unavailable in supermarkets?"

Disgraced Jew-baiter Thomas Massie Humiliated by 10 Point Loss

 Nolte: 

At the same time, never did I believe I would live to see the day when a sitting congressman could say something straight out of the Jew-baiting Ku Klux Klan handbook and not be roundly condemned. Hopefully, the House of Representatives will censure him before he prances out of office in a Stephen Colbert-style cloud of self-celebration.

"After losing his primary to former Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein, incumbent U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) is about to have a lot more time on his hands to hate Jews and pretend he cares about Jeffrey Epstein’s victims.

"While it’s glorious that this self-regarding narcissist lost, even more glorious is that he got himself humiliated by a ten-point margin — ten points55 to 45 percent, with 99 percent of the vote counted.

"Wait, there’s more…

"If you want to understand President Trump’s ability to deliver votes, the math is pretty remarkable." . . .

. . . "Personally, I want to thank Massie for making his defeat all the sweeter with these opening lines from his despicable concession speech: 

Massie: "I would have come out sooner but I had to call my opponent to concede and it took a while to find him in Tel Aviv"

More...

Mosque Shooting Revives Scrutiny Over 9/11 Ties, Imam’s Pro‑Oct. 7 Remarks

 Breitbart To post more on this would be to make a case for the actions of the murderous shooters which must be condemned. They were no better than Hamas was that Oct 7th except they had no chance to rape their victims and cook infants alive. We must believe the worshippers at the mosque hated those atrocities. TD

"Lallia Allali, wife of Imam Taha Hassane of the Islamic Center of San Diego, post this horrific image to her Facebook profile. The graphic shows a Jewish star murdering babies with “the devil is killing” at the bottom."

. . . "The Union-Tribune later described the post as “a graphic and deplorable antisemitic image,” writing that after confirming the repost, “we accepted her resignation and removed her from the list of board members and contributors on our website.”

"The University of San Diego similarly announced that Allali had stepped away from teaching, stating: “While individuals have the right to express their views on their personal accounts, they do not reflect the views of USD leadership nor any official position of the university.”

"Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean and global social action director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, sharply condemned the post at the time, calling it a modern “blood libel” and describing the imagery as “despicable and deplorable.”

Part I: The Politicization of the Federal Courts During the Second Trump Presidency

 American Greatness   

The ideological concentration of injunctions in five jurisdictions is not accidental. Activist legal organizations deliberately file in districts where they know sympathetic Obama or Biden appointees sit. The ACLU, SPLC-affiliated groups, and the network of progressive legal nonprofits have essentially mapped the federal judiciary for political opportunity, identifying which judges will reliably deliver the results their donors demand. 

"Many rank-and-file Republicans and political commentators have expressed shock at the unprecedented lawfare being employed by the Democrat Party and its political allies against President Trump during his second term. Over 700 lawsuits have been filed against the Trump administration, and the number of executive orders impeded/blocked by Democrat/left-wing activist judges currently exceeds 200 (full and partial).

"This is Part I of a two-part series that examines the politicization of the federal judiciary by the Democrat left and the crisis it presents for our constitutional republic.

A Constitutional Crisis Unlike Any Before

"When President Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025, carrying one of the most decisive electoral mandates in modern American history—winning the popular vote, the Electoral College, and commanding congressional majorities—the American people had spoken with clarity. They voted for border security, executive accountability, bureaucratic reform, and a rollback of the radical progressive agenda that had reshaped federal policy during the Biden years.

"What greeted that mandate was not the loyal opposition of a democratic republic but something increasingly difficult to characterize as anything other than a judicial insurrection: a coordinated, systematic campaign by Democrat-appointed federal judges to nullify the results of a free election through the mechanisms of the courtroom. The scale, speed, audacity, and ideological uniformity of the resistance was—and remains—without precedent in American constitutional history.

"This analysis examines that resistance from a traditionalist constitutional conservative perspective: one grounded in the original understanding of the separation of powers, the proper role of Article III courts, the democratic legitimacy of the executive branch, and the republican principle that elections must mean something." . . .

Case Studies in Judicial Overreach:

  1. Judge James Boasberg and the Alien Enemies Act Contempt Trap
  2. Judge Brian Murphy and the Vaccine Schedule Takeover
  3. Obama-Appointed Judge Blocks Immigration Court Reform
  4. The Forum Shopping Ecosystem

"Concluding Thoughts:  Part I ends here. Part II will cover Democrat lawfare coordination, the Democrats’ deployment of foreign judges and the associated cultural disconnect, the issue of democratic (small d) legitimacy, the Sotomayor problem, and remedies for the problem."Full article...

A Democrat Called for Imprisoning American Zionists – Her Party Blamed the GOP

The Federalist Papers 

 "She did not emerge from nowhere. She emerged from a political ecosystem that has made anti-Zionist rhetoric increasingly normalized within Democratic coalition politics. Jeffries knows this. His statement does not engage it."

Would AOC fake-cry for Jews who are locked up by Democrats?


"A Democratic candidate for Congress proposed turning a Texas immigration detention facility into a prison for Americans targeted by their religious identity. She is still in the runoff. Her party condemned the words and moved on to blaming someone else. "This is not a fringe story. It happened in a real primary, in a real congressional district, and the candidate is still on the ballot. Key Facts
 • Maureen Galindo, a sex therapist and housing activist, is the Democratic primary runoff candidate in Texas’ 35th Congressional District.
 • Galindo posted on Instagram that she would convert the Karnes ICE Detention Center “into a prison for American Zionists and former ICE officers for human trafficking.” 
 • Her post continued: “It will also be a castration processing center for pedophiles, which will probably be most of the Zionists.” 
• House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries stated: “This vile language by her is disqualifying and has no place in American politics, and certainly not in the Democratic Party.”
• Jeffries and DCCC Chair Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-WA) issued a joint condemnation, but in the same statement blamed Lead Left PAC, a group whose metadata PunchBowl News linked to a Republican fundraising platform. Who controls the PAC has not been independently confirmed. 
 • As of publication, Galindo has not withdrawn from the runoff. 
She Made the Ballot
"Galindo is not a protest candidate who filed to make a point and lost. She competed in a Democratic primary in a real congressional district and advanced to a runoff. That process has filters. Party structures, endorsements, voter engagement, candidate vetting. Every one of those filters passed her through.
 "The runoff means Democratic primary voters in Texas’ 35th chose her as one of the top finishers. That is not a fringe outcome. That is the system working as designed, and the system chose her. 
The PAC Deflection
"Jeffries and DelBene’s joint statement condemned Galindo’s words, but pivoted immediately to Lead Left PAC. The PAC is described as having metadata linked to a Republican fundraising platform, though who controls it has not been confirmed. The implication was that Republican money had amplified or manufactured this candidacy. 
"But Galindo posted those words on her own Instagram account. No PAC authored them. The question of who funds her campaign is legitimate and worth investigating separately. It does not explain the post, and it does not answer how she advanced in a Democratic primary. "What Accountability Actually Looks Like Jeffries called the language “disqualifying,” but Galindo remains qualified to run. Words have meaning only when they carry consequences. The DCCC has tools at its disposal. It can withhold support, coordinate with district party organizations, and communicate clearly that the condemnation is not performative. "None of that is on the public record as of this writing. The condemnation was issued. The race continues." . . . – The Federalist Papers Source: Just The News, May 2026 Source: Just The News, May 2026

Around the world, and especially here at home in the Democrat party, the Islamo-leftists’ fanatic hatred for Jews is creating a very scary 1938 vibe
. . . "I was born 16 years after WWII ended. Growing up, I naively thought that the worst of antisemitism had been permanently purged from the Western world, and certainly would never take root in America. I’m stunned by how wrong I was." . . .