100-Year-Old Veteran on Live TV: We Fought WW2 for Nothing, Britain Less Free Than in 1945

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Professor David Betz was among those responding to the turn of events, calling Penstone’s remarks “heartbreaking” and the response from the television hosts “patronising” and “simply infuriating”.

 Alec joined the Royal Navy after he promised his father, he would not serve in the trenches because of the horrors he witnessed in World War one.  Below: the very definition of "Arctic".

'A centenarian Royal Navy veteran took full advantage of an appearance on live television to express his sorrow at the state of modern Britain, saying he and his comrades fought for freedom that has been frittered away, eliciting what critics called a “patronising” response by show hosts.

"Royal Navy and Arctic Convoy veteran Alec Penstone told Britain’s ITV breakfast show “the sacrifice wasn’t worth” what the country has since become, mourning the loss of freedom he and his friends fought and died for.

"Appearing on Good Morning Britain on Friday for a segment on the upcoming Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day on November 11th, Penstone was asked what the events commemorating fallen troops from the two World Wars meant, and what his message to the country now is. Far from the feel-good sentiments the piece had evidently been set up for, 100-year-old Penstone remarked: “I can see in my mind’s eye those rows and rows of white stones.

“ 'All the hundreds of my friends, everybody else, who gave their lives. For what? The country of today. No, I’m sorry, the sacrifice wasn’t worth the result that it is now.”  . . .

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'What We're Up Against': Leavitt Highlights Media's Skewed Coverage of GOP During Schumer Shutdown

Katie Jerkovich

"The legacy media are clearly involved in a propaganda war against Republicans over the Schumer Shutdown, with the numbers showing overwhelmingly positive coverage for the Democrats compared to the GOP.

"In a post on Thursday on X, media bias tracker Newsbusters reported that outlets like ABC, CBS, and NBC have been completely carrying the water for the Democrats since they closed the government on October 1. And it's not even close. 

"They noted that "on statements favoring Democrats," there have been 83 from the alphabet news outlets. In contrast, there were only 12 favorable statements for Republicans on those same networks.

"The Trump White House reacted to the analysis, with Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt sharing the results on her X account.  She wrote, "This is what we are up against!" . . .

 NEW STUDY: 87% of government shutdown coverage on ABC, CBS, and NBC favored Democrats.

This isn't journalism it's propaganda. https://t.co/gR5sTzibzy

— MRC NewsBusters (@newsbusters) November 5, 2025

The Biggest Winner of This Year’s Elections: Gavin Newsom

 Ellie Gardey Holmes   

 "Gavin Newsom just can’t help himself. He can’t quit claiming that he grew up underprivileged and in virtual poverty.

"This is despite the fact that he grew up as the surrogate son of billionaire Gordon Getty. All throughout his 20s, thanks to his bond with Getty, Newsom played the part of a playboy socialite from the upper crust of San Franciscan society. As a young man, Newsom also reaped the full benefits of Getty’s energetic intervention in launching his political career.

"Yet on Saturday, Newsom again trotted out his tale of woe and financial struggle during his childhood — something his political advisers have reportedly told him not to do. (RELATED: Gavin Newsom Plots Memoir to Recast Personal Scandals)

"In an appearance on the All the Smoke podcast, Newsom spoke of how his mother struggled while working several jobs to financially support him and his sister. Newsom has long pointed to his mother’s several jobs to portray himself as coming from a working-class background, even as his father, William Newsom III, worked as an attorney for the Getty family before becoming a state appellate judge. In his work for the Getty family, William Getty managed the Gordon P. Getty Family trust, which had a total value of $2 billion at the time. (Newsom’s parents divorced when he was young.)
" 'My mom was 19, pregnant, and divorced a few years later, with two kids,” Newsom said on the All the Smoke podcast Saturday. “Came from no money and just hustled. You know, worked hard, grinding every single day. Two and a half jobs, no bulls**t.”

"Newsom continued, “It was also about paying the bills, man. It was just like hustling, and so I was out there, kind of raising myself, turning on the TV, just getting obsessed. I was sitting there with the Wonder Bread.”

"Following conservative laughter at Newsom’s comments, a spokesman for the governor told Fox News, “Anyone with more than an inch of curiosity would know that Governor Newsom was raised by his mother after her divorce from his father when he was a toddler. He has talked about moving between two different worlds, but he was raised by a mother who worked three jobs at one point — secretary, waitress, and paralegal.”

"In my book, , I chronicled just how much Newsom’s life was shaped by his privilege, even as his father was apparently disinclined to provide adequate child support to the young mother of his two children." . . . More

The Biggest Winner of This Year’s Elections: Gavin Newsom   

And now, with just three more years to go, he is in his strongest position ever. Come 2028, we may see Gavin Newsom splashed across Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC as the president-elect of the United States.

‘Arctic Frost’ Should Spell The End For Judge Boasberg, Jack Smith, Merrick Garland

 Daily Caller

Broc Smith

. . . "News broke Wednesday with a series of revelations that outlined the Biden DOJ’s efforts to financially map, surveil and harass what amounts to the entirety of the conservative movement. They came as a result of a whistleblower sending Sen. Chuck Grassley internal documents related to Jack Smith, the Merrick Garland special counsel whose mission was to imprison Donald Trump.

"The documents lay out how nearly 200 subpoenas led to 430 individuals swept up in Smith’s surveillance efforts. Senators, Super Pacs, members of the media, media companies themselves. Even TPUSA was targeted. The RNC was targeted. Apple Computers was targeted!

"Attorney General Garland signed off. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco signed off. FBI Director Chris Wray signed off.

The judge at the center of it all: Judge James “Injunctions” Boasberg of the DC Circuit Court. The same judge liberals have been running to every time they need to judicially stymie Trump’s agenda. The same judge, in fact, who gave disgraced FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, who forged FISA warrants to surveil Trump, just a year probation for the crime.

“This was a concerted effort to ‘process is the punishment’ all of us, smear and ruin reputations, and invent fever dream justifications for possible crimes that didn’t exist. J Edgar Hoover could only dream of building something at this scale,” said Rachel Bovard, a VP at the Conservative Partnership Institute, which was also targeted in the dragnet.

"Words truly cannot express how deep this rabbit hole goes, and how lucky we are this administration did not get another four years. God knows what they would have done given another term with this power and access to this information.

"As a result of Smith’s legal demands, Chris Wray’s FBI had wiretapped almost as much as 20% of the Senate GOP’s phone lines.

Sen. Ted Cruz is calling for Boasberg’s impeachment. Sen. Eric Schmitt is calling for “Watergate-style hearings on this for MONTHS.”

"We need more than that though. We need indictments and convictions. We need Boasberg rendered utterly destitute and jammed into the same conditions as the J6 rioters.

"Think I’m joking? I decidedly am not. Boasberg has demonstrably done more to upset the Democratic process in America than any rock-throwing, MAGA-hat-wearing Trump voter ever did on J6.

"If justice is still balanced in this country, he’ll see a cell. Garland and Wray as well. If Roger Stone and Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro can go to jail, so can they." . . .

DOJ Can Charge Judge James Boasberg over Spying Scandal, Say Ex-Trump Admin Official Mike Benz, Federalist Co-Founder Sean Davis - Tennessee Star