Tuesday, August 4, 2026

You Simply Cannot Give Power to Lunatics

The American Spectator   

"And just like we will eventually come back to a reality this country once embraced, which is that there can be no bread broken or accord made with the Francesca Hongs and Zohran Mamdanis. You have to deny power to the lunatics. This is neither negotiable nor avoidable. It’s a lesson we seem doomed to repeat the hard way, and we will invariably learn it again soon."

Spaniards Horrified To See Their Country Turning Into Minnesota | Babylon Bee

"And in less than five years, Cuba’s population has declined from 11 million to less than nine and a half million. Just as Venezuela, Cuba’s protege communist paradise, ran off a quarter of its own population in a decade.

"To live like that is lunacy. Cuba won’t for very much longer; it can’t.

"And yet the lunatics are somehow not discredited.

"We’re watching the Democrat Party come apart at the seams. As David Catron noted on Monday, James Carville says he won’t be in the same party as Hasan Piker, and that’s a noble sentiment, but it’s too late. Polling indicates the Democrats can’t stop Francesca Hong, a committed — well, in one sense; in another she’s uncommitted, and this is a problem — lunatic running for governor of that state whose Twitter/X feed contains some of the most insane, hateful drivel imaginable. Just recently, Hong dropped a post on X which accused the patrons of the Wisconsin staple Culver’s Restaurants of genocidal racism based on her own feelings and perceptions without any concrete substance to them, which generated national buzz, and yet the Democrat voters of that state don’t seem to be coming off her. She’s going to win her primary unless something massive changes. 

"And Piker just descended on Wisconsin to stump for her. Which doesn’t appear to be a scandal among the party’s voters. 

"Piker is also stumping for Abdul El-Sayed, who is now as much as a 15-point favorite over the more establishmentarian Heather Stevens in the Michigan Senate race. El-Sayed comes from an accomplished academic background and has apparently made a lot of money based on the properties he and his wife own, but we don’t know how he managed it. He’s an avowed DSA socialist whose speeches and pronouncements contain open rejections of the American founding and way of life, and it doesn’t seem to bother Michigan Democrat voters in the least.

"Because Michigan Democrats, like Wisconsin Democrats, are now made up of a majority of lunatics who think that abandoning American culture, economics, and politics and putting people like Francesca Hong and Abdul El-Sayed, not to mention Darieliza Avila Chevalier and Zohran Mamdani, in positions of power will create something better.This isn’t stupidity. It’s lunacy. It’s pathological, because we already see, in the decline in Western Europe and the destruction in Cuba, what those belief systems create.

"And we see something else, which defines it as lunacy — namely, an utter refusal to recognize that these things do not work." . . . More...


Anthony Fauci Hurt America's Children ... and Her Future

 "The damage the once-vaunted Fauci did to society's most vulnerable was incalculable."

Joseph Ford Cotto - American Thinker

. . . "In 2022, he told CNN he was happy to testify before any congressional committee. He said he had nothing to hide and that everything he did could be explained. On July 29, 2026, under subpoena before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, he invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times. Fauci refused nearly every question about origins, gain-of-function research, and the policies he supported.

"Fauci accused Chairman Paul of obsession and claimed the hearing existed only as a humiliation ritual. Democrats on the panel rushed to his defense. They praised his 50 years of federal employment, called the session a political trap, and attacked the Donald J. Trump administration instead of asking hard questions.

"One senator said the hearing was designed to ensnare a man who put Americans' health first. Another warned that scrutinizing Fauci would chill future public servants. Unsurprisingly, neither came close to holding Fauci accountable.

"This is the same Democratic Party that once deified Fauci, treating his critics as heretical to the sacred cause of public health.

"In May 2020, Kamala Harris, then a senator from California, thanked God for Fauci on national television and cast him as a truth-teller who put people above politics. Countless other influential blue politicians, alongside lefty pundits and progressive physicians, essentially rendered Fauci above reproach. Meanwhile, they castigated Americans who dared question the shutdowns." . . . More...


Megyn Kelly UNLOADS in Epic Rant on “Ignorant Fool” Minnesota Lynx Coach Cheryl Reeve Over Transgender Locker-Room Claims

Reeve later wore a “Trans Kids Belong” shirt during Sunday’s game against the Indiana Fever, whose guard Sophie Cunningham has publicly defended sex-based protections for women’s sports. 

-"You don't know anything. You're an ignorant fool. You should take a seat and stop speaking about this... Why don't you take two minutes and listen to Riley Gaines' account of what it was like swimming against Lia Thomas."

Megyn Kelly unloaded on Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve Monday, calling the longtime WNBA coach an “ignorant fool” who needs to “take a seat” and stop lecturing America about transgender athletes invading women’s sports and spaces.

"The blistering segment came as Reeve continued pushing the radical claim that “biological men” are not showing up in girls’ locker rooms and that the real priority is protecting “trans kids” while finding “common ground” to keep males in female categories.

"“It is not the case that we have, quote, biological men in girls’ locker rooms,” Reeve said Saturday. She argued that the debate unfairly portrays transgender women as predators and insisted that “every kid has a right to sports.”

“I come from a space of inclusion,” Reeve told reporters. “The narrative that I think is problematic is to suggest that transgender athletes are the biggest problem in women’s sports. This is what’s bothersome. There is a faction of people in our country that are making this a massive issue.” . .

. . . Kelly continued:

“There are biological men in women’s locker rooms. Why don’t you take two minutes and listen to Riley Gaines’s account of what it was like swimming against Lia Thomas in the NCAA championships?

“Why don’t you just take two minutes and listen to the testimonial of one of our most famous athletes who is outspoken on this issue? It absolutely is happening.

“Ask any member of the UPenn women’s swim team from two years ago who were told they needed to get therapy when they said they did not want to change into their bathing suits in front of an intact male.”

Kelly concluded by blasting the vague demand for “inclusivity,” asking: “Inclusive of whom?”     More...

WNBA Coaches Stumped As To What The ‘W’ Stands For | Babylon Bee Parody 


. . . The confusion came after coaches were asked if they support recent comments by players expressing concern over the trend of men playing in women's sports leagues.
""We're not biologists," White said. "Nor do we know what words mean. So that ‘W' could stand for just about anything. We're inclusive here at the WNBA; we don't want anyone to feel left out. Wombats... wallabies... Wu Tang Clan... everyone can play here."
"The coach doubled down on the confusion, giving a list of more potential things the "W" might represent. "Witch. Walter White. Wakanda… whatever it is. Maybe it's literally 'Whatever.'" . . .

[General George Brinton] McClellan: The original Fauci

"How serendipitous; reading all the character studies on Mr. Fauci, my thoughts went to Bruce Catton's book, Mr. Lincoln's Army, wherein he details the self-absorbed thoughts of this young general propelled into the national spotlight." [For which he was emotionally unprepared]. 

 J.R. Dunn - American Thinker   

 . . . "has there ever been a previous American as narcissistic as this guy? Well, difficult as it is to believe, there actually was. His name was George B. McClellan, and he was the commander of the Army of the Potomac during the first years of the Civil War."

. . . "That’s right. The entire government -- President Lincoln, the cabinet, and Army chief Gen. Winfield Scott -- all waited anxiously to hear what McClellan had to say, unable to come to a decision or make a move without his go-ahead. And beyond that: ”The people call upon me to save the country -- I must save it and cannot respect anything that is in the way... I have conversation after conversation calling on me to save the nation."

"It goes on like this page after page, one blast of rampant egomania after another. It’s too bad there was no mass media at the time. He’d have had more to write Ellen about.

"And when he wasn’t polishing his halo, he was dropping absolute contempt on everybody he was working with. Winfield Scott, who had served the country for over fifty years, was a “perfect imbecile” and a “traitor.” His nickname for Scott was “Dunky,” which means exactly what you think it does. McClellan worked to undermine Scott with some success – he forced him into retirement in November 1861, taking over as general-in-chief and doing a worse job than Scott had ever done.

"He tried to do the same with Lincoln, whom he dismissed as a “baboon’ and “gorilla.” At one point he told his wife that he had been advised by many people to “take the army and march on Washington.” (Now we know where Mark Milley gets his ideas.) He topped this off by running against Lincoln in 1864, failing in that, too.

"As the song goes, those were different times. So it’s hard to say whether George McClellan actually outdoes Anthony Fauci in the demented, over-the-top narcissist race (at least he didn’t kill as many people). But to my mind, running for the presidency clinches it. Come on, Tony. Go for it. 2028 is right around the corner."  More...

The Dumb, Arrogant Liars Who Are Also Journalists

Shall we say, "Yellow journalists"....."Fauci’s COVID lies expose corporate news as propaganda."

The Dumb, Arrogant Liars Who Are Also Journalists - American Thinker 

"Together, the Russia Collusion Hoax and the Reign of COVID Tyranny proved just how monstrously dishonest mainstream “journalists” really are.  There is nothing too preposterous for them to present as “truth” if doing so advances their preferred political narrative."  

. . . [Fauci's] lies were profound, and because mainstream news institutions refused to . question anything he said, his lies were the only bits of information allowed to circulate in the public sphere.  So-called “journalists” not only repeated verbatim exactly what the government’s chief medical bureaucrat claimed to be true but also cheered social media platforms for censoring competing points of view.  “Reporters” working for The New York Times and CNN were enthralled by Fauci’s perceived professional prestige and institutional authority.  Why?  Because they are enamored of their own perceived professional prestige and institutional authority.  They worship glory and accolades; they are slaves to appeals to authority; they care nothing for the pursuit of truth.

Bing

This is why so many “journalists” jumped to defend Fauci’s honor after his embarrassing refusal to say anything truthful.  MSNOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell insisted that the dishonorable doc had “done more in service to this country than…the entire current United States Senate combined.”  CNN’s Jake Tapper pretended that he wasn’t having dinner parties with Fauci while the rest of America was kept in lockdown and isolation.  And CNN “media analyst” Brian Stelter continued to ignore how both Jake Tapper and Dana Bash developed unethical personal relationships with Fauci while CNN’s “journalists” portrayed the health bureaucrat’s lies as unquestionable “truths.”

"If you need a reminder of just how sanctimonious and authoritarian mainstream media mouthpieces were during the Reign of COVID Tyranny, watch this video montage of Jake Tapper and other hysterical fearmongers demanding that Americans submit to the COVID police state and do everything Fauci required of them.  In that video, Fauci menacingly tells Americans, “Now is the time to do what you are told.”  Around that time, CNN’s quack medical expert, Dr. Leana Wen, argued that the “unvaccinated” should not be “allowed” to leave their homes." . . .    More...

The Modern Iteration of Yellow Journalism  . . . "In a leaked video from 2019, Amy Robach expressed frustration that her network suppressed a bombshell sex trafficking story about Jeffrey Epstein, despite her having conducted an interview with accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre and possessing corroborating evidence. Robach stated that ABC executives refused to air the piece, allegedly due to concerns about losing access to interviews with high-profile figures such as members of the British royal family." . . .

MSNBC's Ali Velshi: "This is mostly a protest. It is not generally speaking unruly."

Now why would MSwhatever want Velshi to say this? TD


Mostly Peaceful: The Birth of an Excuse – Commentary Magazine 
 . . . "The journalists who attempt to explain away or justify the violence that erupted during some protests do so because they believe the cause is righteous. As E. Alex Jung of New York magazine argued, “the entire journalistic frame of ‘objectivity’ and political neutrality is structured around white supremacy.” How can a good journalist do anything but promote a narrative sympathetic to protestors supposedly fighting it? Needless to say, such justifications and excuse-making would never happen if pro-life or pro–Second Amendment protestors turned to looting and violence." . . .

Adam Schiff Demanded AI Parody Ads Be Banned After He Invented Fake Trump Quotes and Called It Parody

"Schiff invented Trump demanding Zelensky "make up dirt on my political opponent" – then added that Trump threatened to repeat the demand eight times so Zelensky would "listen good." Trump said none of that. Not a word."




"Adam Schiff invented fake Trump quotes before a live congressional hearing and called it parody.
"Now he's introduced a bill to ban exactly that.
"The man who put the mob boss dialogue in a president's mouth before a national audience – and called it parody – wants to define what parody is allowed.
"The Parody Defense That Launched a Career
"Here's what happened in September 2019, and don't let anyone pretend it was complicated.
"Schiff sat in the chair of the House Intelligence Committee during a nationally televised hearing with acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire.
"He opened with a performance.
"He read what he framed as the "essence" of Trump's call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky – except none of it matched the transcript the White House had released the day before." . . .
What triggered this sudden concern for election integrity.
Spencer Pratt – yes, the reality TV star running for Los Angeles mayor – ran AI-generated ads where Mayor Karen Bass appeared as the Joker and Pratt appeared as Batman fighting crime alongside her.
California voters loved it.
Schiff and his allies are furious.
GOP gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton also ran AI ads targeting Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris, and Democrats are apoplectic about that too.
Notice the pattern. . .     More... 

Monday, August 3, 2026

15 ways New York gets worked over if Mamdani wins

 The People's Cube - Political Satire

"Oleg Atbashian is an American writer and graphic artist. He was born in June, 1960, in Cherkassy, Ukraine, which was then part of the totalitarian Soviet Union. His writings present a view of America and the world through the prism of his Soviet experience. He is the author of Shakedown Socialism and the creator of a satirical website, ThePeoplesCube.com, which Rush Limbaugh described on his show as “a Stalinist version of The Onion.” His essays and satires have been translated into many languages and his graphics reproduced in various publications around the world.

"Raised in a communist dictatorship, he grew up believing in Marxism and in the communist future. From 1983 to 1986 he worked as a propaganda artist, creating visual agitprop for the local Party committee in a Siberian town. Observing the hypocrisy and corruption of the socialist system, however, he gradually reexamined his Marxist upbringing. Having returned to Ukraine in 1986, he joined the opposition movement, lending his apartment to dissident gatherings and collecting signatures in defense of Soviet dissidents." . . .

Dark Angel


15 ways New York gets worked over if Mamdani wins - The People's Cube - Political Satire  


"And just like that, COEXIST bumper stickers disappear, replaced with GENOCIDE bumper stickers."



Just spotted on I-95 headed to Florida. Catturd ™


. . . "Since left-wing activists have removed Oleg’s page from Wikipedia, its content has been moved to other alternative projects by volunteer anonymous public editors, to whom I extend my gratitude: . . ."

California’s minimum wage to skyrocket more than $10 above nationwide pay as Newsom praises hike

 NY Post

"Governor Gavin Newsom announced Friday that California’s statewide minimum wage will increase to $17.40 per hour beginning January 1, 2027.

"The rate is higher than any current statewide minimum wage in the nation and nearly two-and-a-half times the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.

"The increase is already automatic under California law, which adjusts the minimum wage annually to keep pace with inflation.

"Newsom, who is expected to run for president in 2028, contrasted himself against President Trump in announcing the increase.

“'For years, Donald Trump and Republicans have blocked efforts to raise the federal minimum wage while handing tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations,” the governor said in a statement.

“'California has chosen a different path — one that rewards work, grows the economy, and puts working families first. We believe if you work hard, you deserve a decent paycheck. They think $7.25 an hour is enough. We don’t.”

"Many California healthcare workers already saw another scheduled increase on July 1, pushing minimum wages to between $19.28 and $25 an hour depending on the type of facility.

"Newsom has had a history of trying to push wages up. He and fellow state Democrats helped push for a $20 per hour minimum wage for fast food workers, which reportedly has devastated some companies." . . . More...

Bill Maher Makes His Audience Gasp Simply by Reading the DSA Platform Out Loud

  RedState  

"I think they want to seize the means of production," he quipped. "Now maybe you missed that in school, or missed school altogether, but that's communism. That's communism, which we tried, and it doesn't work."

"Some prominent figures on the left have been slowly realizing for a while now that the Democratic Party they once knew has gone completely off the deep end. Add Bill Maher to the list.

"Maher has commented in the past about how the left pilloried him from here to hell and back for the crime of breaking bread with President Trump. How they've refused to engage him in meaningful conversation. It was just weeks ago that he called out the Democratic Party for being taken over by communists. 

"Not merely playing footsy with them. Letting them infiltrate the opposition party.

"On a recent episode of his show, the longtime liberal host decided to prove the point by simply reading the Democratic Socialists of America’s (DSA) platform and some choice quotes from its rising stars and allies out loud.

"Line after line, the language tracked uncomfortably close to classic communist rhetoric about seizing private property and the means of production. It's material we've pointed out on these very pages time and again. But material that Maher is finally coming around to recognize on his own.

"'Donald Trump has told one trillion lies, but when he says the Democratic Socialists of America are actually communist, that's not one of them. And it's not hard to prove it, just by quoting the DSA and their candidates," he forewarned. "It gives me no pleasure to have to do this."

"'Not a week goes by where I don't read about some newly chosen, exciting new face in the Democratic Party. And then when that face opens its mouth, the Communist Manifesto or some other crazy s*** comes out," he continued. "Again, let's just read the quotes." . . .

. . . "I'm not voting for anyone who thinks the wrong side won the Cold War, or cheers for the Intifada like it's the World Cup. It's so ironic, from the people who obsess about colonization. You know what's being colonized now?" he asked. "The Democratic Party." . . .  More...

Sunday, August 2, 2026

Fauci's Diaries Are A Media Scandal

"The media’s generous treatment of Fauci allows them to avoid confronting what the diary reveals about the press itself."

 Brianna Lyman - The Federalist  

"The very people who were supposed to scrutinize Fauci’s handling of the pandemic were privately trying to protect, impress, and maintain access to him."

Uncle Paul's Parodies


"Anthony Fauci’s newly released diaries include explosive revelations about how he lied publicly about the Covid fatality rate, the lab leak theory, school closures, and vaccines (among other things).

"Yet according to the propaganda press, the biggest takeaways are that Fauci disliked President Donald Trump, worried about threats, and really liked being famous. But perhaps that framing is no surprise: The diary entries don’t merely implicate Fauci for perpetrating the greatest coverup and attack on American freedoms through his “science.” They also expose that the same propagandists who pretended to be objective journalists while covering Fauci and the pandemic were the same people soliciting Fauci’s advice on how to interview Trump administration officials, managing Fauci’s public image, and trying to befriend him.

"So naturally, the propaganda press has to cover the diaries in a way that minimizes the serious revelations and signals to readers that the story is nothing too concerning.

"The New York Times’ Sheryl Gay Stolberg headlined her piece: “Fauci, in Private Diary, Reflected on Covid’s Origins and His Own Fame.” Stolberg opened by recounting a January 2020 entry from Fauci in which he said the virus could have jumped from animals to humans and that the Wuhan wet market accelerated the spread of the virus. She then explained that Sen. Rand Paul released the diaries “as part of his investigation into whether the virus might have leaked from a laboratory and whether, as Mr. Paul claims, Dr. Fauci lied to Congress about it.” After acknowledging why Paul released the entries, though, she quickly told readers there was nothing important in those entries.

“The diary does not provide the smoking gun the senator is seeking,” Stolberg opined. “Rather, it echoes past disclosures showing Dr. Fauci wrestling with a fast-moving crisis as scientists’ views evolved.”

"But the “smoking gun” evidence is there for anyone willing to open his eyes to see. Take, for example, Fauci’s testimony before Congress that “the seasonal flu that we deal with every year has a mortality of 0.1 percent” and that “[t]he stated mortality over all of this when you look at all the data including China is about three percent. It first started off as two and now three.” He added the virus is “10 times more lethal than the seasonal flu.” Yet privately, Fauci said the “case fatality rate” was “more like 0.2-0.3 % rather than 2.0%,” as reported in these pages by The Federalist’s Shawn Fleetwood." . . . More...

Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. 

9/11 Families Have a Surprise Waiting for Mamdani If He Shows Up at Ground Zero –

 Teri Christoph- RedState 

 "If Mamdani does show up and try to steal the show, the families have a plan: they will turn their backs to him en masse to return the disrespect being shown them and their loved ones by his presence." 

The 25th anniversary of 9/11 is just over a month away, and the families of those murdered in the World Trade Center are making plans for a dignified remembrance of their loved ones on this painful and solemn occasion. 

There's just one problem: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani insists on being there despite the growing chorus from the families telling him to stay far away. They'd rather not have a practicing Muslim and avowed socialist mar the day that belongs to them and their memories – feelings that are completely understandable. 

Here's what I wrote about this a few days back in a VIP article:

While Mamdani has never publicly endorsed the 9/11 attacks, he has suggested that FBI surveillance helped drive Anwar al-Awlaki – an American-born radical Islamic cleric who became a leading propagandist and operational figure for al-Qaeda – into the terrorist organization. 

This isn't a guy who should be anywhere near Ground Zero.

It's important to note there are several ceremonies in the works, including a slate of events sponsored the New York City government and the big one at Ground Zero where the families gather and the names of the fallen are read. While Mamdani, in theory, has the right to be at the former, he seems determined to also be at the latter. He wants his smug face all over the event, even if it means additional pain for the families on an already horrific day.

A petition started by the families, who are encouraging all interested parties to sign on, has garnered nearly 67,000 signatures so far. The petition raises concerns about Mamdani's "public positions, associations, and responses to rhetoric" that appear antithetical to the goals of the 9/11 remembrance.


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Jew York, still?

 Greg Crosby 

. . ."If anything happens to Benjamin Netanyahu while he's in our country, you can place the blame on Mamdani. He has given the green light for violent actions to occur."

"The Islamist commie Mamdani is flexing his antisemitic chops once again. This past week the New York mayor announced his intention to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he ever entered New York. Of course he has no legal authority to do that, but it's his way of sending a message to his Jewish-hating base that he would if he could. I'm sure if he could he would roundup all Jewish New York residents and ship them out to a concentration camp too. I have no doubt.

"It's absolutely amazing to me that New York elected this antisemite as mayor. At first all the pundits were saying that Mamdani's election is not a harbinger of the country at large. New York is extremely left-wing, they said, so don't worry about this proliferating across the country at large. That's what was said during his election, and since then it has proliferated into other jurisdictions and states. You see, if this kind of hatred isn't contained, it spreads. History has proven this time and time again.

"Commie Mamdani is looking to remake New York to suit his constituency. Recently he proudly unveiled a map of New York which highlighted ethnic neighborhoods in the city. It included places like Little Palestine, and yet totally ignored historic Little Italy and other well known Jewish and Irish immigrant areas.

"The map, titled "New York City Immigrant Enclaves," highlights 30 areas across the five boroughs, ranging from Koreatown in Manhattan to Little Pakistan in Brooklyn and Little Yemen in The Bronx. Another signal to his Islamic base that his goal is to eliminate ethnicities that he doesn't particularly care for.

But this desire to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu isn't a new idea with him. It was a promise he made during his campaign for mayor. He said he would order the New York City Police Department to arrest the Israeli Prime Minister as soon as he stepped foot in New York. Even though legal experts warned him that he would have zero authority to do so, Mamdani said last week he was actively consulting with city lawyers to find a way he could legally arrest Netanyahu." . . . More...