The LGBT movement is being consumed by 'pro-Palestine' activists

 Zachary Faria, Washington Examiner

"The LGBT movement is currently being consumed by the antisemitic “pro-Palestine” movement, to the point that even the biggest champions of the former now find themselves as targets of their left-wing base.

"Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was booed at a New York City “Pride” parade on Sunday by the gathered left-wing activists. On its face, this would seem like the kind of crowd that would be most accepting of Schumer. As Schumer told his hecklers, “I was the first senator to ever march in this parade, in 1999. And I haven’t missed one yet.” No element of the Democratic Party coalition has a bigger ally in Schumer than the LGBT “community.”

"But the Democratic Party is being overrun by the Palestinian movement, and Schumer is a Jewish Democrat who criticizes Israel but doesn’t openly celebrate or defend Palestinian terrorism the way the party’s activist base does. This is especially true in New York City, where communist Islamist Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s endorsed candidates dominated the city’s primaries last week. As one Mamdani ally said, “Palestine is on the ballot” in New York, and Schumer’s long support of the LGBT movement isn’t going to help him anymore.

"You could argue that booing Schumer is just the result of generic dislike of the Democratic establishment, but you can’t argue the same thing for Scott Wiener, the state senator who is the favorite to fill Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) seat in Congress. Wiener's greatest hits include reducing criminal penalties for knowingly exposing someone to HIV, turning California into a “sanctuary state” for the medical mutilation of “transgender” children, putting male prisoners in women’s prisons, and inadvertently aiding the sex trafficking industry by decriminalizing loitering with intent to commit prostitution. Wiener did all of those things under the pretense of helping the LGBT “community.”

"That was not enough to protect him, though, as he was harassed away from a transgender march by antisemitic activists screaming at him and accusing him of having Israeli handlers." . . .

Communism’s deadliest failure wasn’t the gulags

See below why Ukrainians welcomed Germans as liberators. But then...

Communism’s deadliest failure wasn’t the gulags "This video shows how communist regimes killed on a massive scale, with famine causing the greatest loss of life. It traces the collapse from forced collectivization in Soviet Russia to Mao’s Great Leap Forward in China, where state control over food turned shortages into catastrophe. Labor camps, purges, and mass killings added millions more deaths. The result was one of history’s deadliest political experiments, with consequences that reshaped entire countries. This video shows how communist regimes killed on a massive scale, with famine causing the greatest loss of life. It traces the collapse from forced collectivization in Soviet Russia to Mao’s Great Leap Forward in China, where state control over food turned shortages into catastrophe. Labor camps, purges, and mass killings added millions more deaths. The result was one of history’s deadliest political experiments, with consequences that reshaped entire countries."    Video.

The term "Kulaks" I see as comparable to those Democrat Socialists such as Bernie Sanders and his followers call "oligarchs"; people who by their skills make a nation prosperous and well-fed. The case can be made today for Jews in Israel being considered "Kulaks" in their relation to Hamas. Ask many Columbia University students or whoever you see with their arm around Greta Thunberg. TD

More than you might want on the gulags - YouTube

Nearly half of Maine voters say Graham Platner 'too extreme' as poll shows race with Sen. Susan Collins tightening

 NY Post 

  "A whopping 61% of respondents said that Collins would do a better job of bringing federal dollars to Maine, while just 34% said the same of Platner." 

Uncle Paul's Parodies

"WASHINGTON — Almost half of likely voters in Maine’s closely watched Senate race view Democrat hopeful Graham Platner as “too extreme,” a new poll has found.

"The New York Times/Portland Press Herald/Siena College survey also found that only 44% would describe Platner as having “good character” compared to incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (66%), and just 45% agree the Democrat “has the right kind of moral values” compared to Collins (61%).

"The poll still showed Platner leading Collins 49% to 47%, with 3% saying they didn’t know who they would support or declining to answer.

"Platner, 41, is endorsed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and backs policies such as a single-payer healthcare system, packing the Supreme Court, and a wealth tax.

"However, his campaign has been dogged by a series of scandals, including physical abuse of a former girlfriend, sexting other women while married, making offensive comments on Reddit and getting a tattoo of a notorious Nazi SS symbol.

"Platner has denied both being violent towards past girlfriends and knowing that he had a Nazi tattoo, though multiple former flames have released messages in which they describe the tattoo to confidants before its significance was publicly known." . . .  More...

Newsom’s Calculated Embrace of Mamdani’s Socialism ; Newsom is California's self-inflicted wound

"California’s governor is recasting himself as a champion of wealth redistribution, betting that the road to the Democratic presidential nomination runs through the party’s activist left."

The American Spectator  

 "As Gavin Newsom’s governorship enters its final chapter, his eyes are no longer fixed on Sacramento. They are fixed on Washington. More specifically, on the White House. Like Sauron’s obsession with the One Ring, Newsom’s political focus has narrowed to one overriding object of desire: the presidency. That is the only way to understand Newsom’s latest economic manifesto, released Friday under the banner of a national billionaires’ tax. Newsom does not want to be seen standing with California billionaires against the left. This was not merely a policy paper. It was positioning. Newsom is pushing for a federal minimum tax targeting billionaires and anyone with a net worth exceeding $100 million. He wants to eliminate what the tax code currently permits: the ultra-wealthy borrowing against their stock portfolios, living off those loans tax-free, and then passing the underlying assets to their heirs with the embedded gains never taxed. He wants to overhaul inheritance law before what economists project will be the single largest generational transfer of wealth in American history — an estimated $124 trillion passing between generations over the next two decades. And he wants Washington to establish a national public equity fund, effectively giving every American a financial stake in the profits generated by artificial intelligence. In plain English, he wants Washington to tax, redistribute, and socialize more of the American economy. Under Newsom’s proposal, Washington would not merely regulate successful industries. It would claim an ownership interest in them. Silicon Valley entrepreneurs would build the companies, investors would risk the capital, and the federal government would arrive later demanding a share of the upside in the name of economic fairness. Bernie Sanders should be thrilled. Elizabeth Warren should be smiling. And Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s newly elected mayor and national face of democratic socialism, should recognize a politician sprinting to ..."

The rest is behind a paywall, but this is sufficient warning...

UPDATE: So much for 'affordability': LA voters raise their own taxes, again 

 "It was the year of “affordability.” Or so we thought.

"Earlier this month, LA County voters chose to pass Measure ER, a 0.5% sales tax increase that ostensibly will last for five years and will apply to almost everything you buy.

"So… congratulations, you’ll now pay more?

"The Board of Supervisors put Measure ER on the ballot and said the money was needed to fund local health care services." . . .

George Soros funneled staggering $103M into midterms so far

 NY Post  

"His native Hungary passed “Stop Soros” laws in 2018, forcing the magnate to move his Open Society Foundation’s European operations elsewhere."

"Billionaire Democratic kingmaker George Soros and his son Alex spent a staggering $102.8 million in the midterm election cycle — making the family chief architects of the party’s seismic shift toward the radical left.

"With the November elections still more than four months away, George Soros could shatter his own spending record of $128 million set during the last midterms four years ago, when he was the biggest single donor.

"Money talks, and Soros money says the most insidious, unconstitutional, costly tax hikes in American history are on the table,” said Douglas Kellogg, state projects director for Americans for Tax Reform.

"Soros is a “wannabe Bond villain,” responsible for the radical takeover of the Democratic Party, he added.

"Only a fraction of this cycle’s contributions — $793,800 — were made in the 95-year-old mega donor’s name, a review of publicly available Federal Election Commission data reveals.

"Almost all of the money — $102 million — was funneled through the Democracy Political Action Committee, the super PAC Soros launched in 2020, which acts as the family’s main political arm, obfuscating efforts to know which radical candidates the clan is propping up.

"Of that, a little over half, $52 million, came from George Soros through the private corporation Geosor under his name and the other half, $50 million, from Fund for Policy Reform, a nonprofit which lists Alex Soros as director in tax filings.

"And that’s without counting the family’s main organization, the Open Society Foundation — which funds efforts to decriminalize drugs, open the border and abolish the police — and its lobbying wing the Open Society Action Fund, which is even more obscure as it doesn’t have to disclose political spending because it’s registered as a nonprofit claiming to do mere advocacy work.

"In previous election cycles, the Open Society Action Fund’s cash flowed to groups backing lefty stars like “Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and embattled pal Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), but its tax filings for 2025 aren’t yet available." . . .   More...

Socialism is only a symptom. Republicans can’t risk ignoring the real problem

Fox News  

And any political movement that ignores that reality does so at its own peril.

"The left isn’t embracing socialism. It’s rejecting the status quo.

"The political world woke up after Tuesday’s election asking the same question: Is the Democratic Party lurching toward socialism?

"Maybe.

But that’s not the question that matters.

"The question that matters is this: Why are more voters willing to give socialism a look in the first place?

"Because if Republicans answer that question incorrectly, they risk making precisely the same mistake Democrats made in 2016." . .  .

Mamdani is a Communist and a Jihadist. He Should Not Even Be Allowed in the US.    

. . . "Democratic Socialist’ is akin to ‘National Socialist’ or ‘Democratic Republic of….’ in former Soviet client States. It is a figleaf polite term for grotesquely extremist politics.? . . .

What I find threatening are the voices cheering for Bernie/AOC/Mamdani are the youthful, female choruses that we heard applauding Hamas rapists and child murderers. Included are those who adore killers of family men, leaders of Christian and Jewish support groups, and your ubiquitous useful idiots, being paid to carry pre-printed signs for causes they cannot explain. TD    One such person doing what she does...

When the American Dream Dies, Socialism Rises - Brian C. Joondeph

. . . "If policymakers wish to counter socialism’s growing appeal, lectures about its historical failures will not be enough.

"The more persuasive response would be restoring the conditions that once made the American economic model so compelling: affordable housing, accessible education, rising real wages, and genuine upward mobility.

"When opportunity expands, faith in markets follows.

"But when opportunity fades, socialism begins to sound less like a warning — and more like a solution."