Are there any decent Democrats in this country?

If so, then why are they still Democrats? TD

Pro-Hamas Protests Funded by Biden's Own Political Donors (breitbart.com)

. . ."Politico reported Sunday (original links):

Two of the main organizers behind protests at Columbia University and on other campuses are Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow. Both are supported by the Tides Foundation, which is seeded by Democratic megadonor George Soros as well as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and it in turn supports numerous small nonprofits that work for social change. (Gates did not return a request for comment, and Soros declined to comment.)

Several other groups involved in pro-Palestinian protests are backed by a foundation funded by Susan and Nick Pritzker, heir to the Hyatt Hotel empire — and supporters of Biden and numerous Democratic campaigns, including $6,600 to the Biden Victory Fund a few months ago and more than $300,000 during the 2020 campaign.

"The fact that Democratic Party mega-donors are behind the antisemitic protests may also spur Jewish voters — roughly 70% of whom vote Democratic — to consider changing their votes in 2024." . . .

. . ."The university also hosted a “Resistance 101” training in March which included a speaker from the Canada-based group, Samidoun. The group has publicly celebrated the brutal Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel." . . .

DNC Prepares for Violent Pro-Hamas Protests; Sarah Arnold

Pro-Hamas Students Reportedly Trained by Left-Wing Groups Nine Months Before College Protests (townhall.com)  . . ."According to a Wall Street Journal report, many of the pro-Hamas agitators have been consulting with groups such as National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) and Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network for up to nine months. The protestors were reportedly trained on how to encourage college students to join in on the demonstrations and planning such turbulent events." 

Former Obama Education Secretary Attends Encampment with Radicals (breitbart.com)  "Arne Duncan, former President Barack Obama’s Secretary of Education, was photographed at an anti-Israel encampment next to a Chicago alderman who has received criticism for speaking in front of a burned American flag." . . .

I'm sure Obama fanboy Stephen Colbert will adore Duncan and Bill Ayres.

AF Branco Townhall

Americans Overwhelmingly Describe Trump As Strong Leader, A Stark Contrast of What They Think About Biden

"With just months until the presidential election, Biden has to decide whether he should condemn the pro-Hamas protests or turn a blind eye in hopes of securing their vote." 

Sarah Arnold (townhall.com)   "Americans have overwhelmingly voiced who they feel can confidently lead the United States back to health— and it’s not good news for Democrats. 

"A new Economist/YouGov poll found that the majority of Americans believe former President Donald Trump is a strong leader the U.S. needs, while President Joe Biden is one of the weakest presidents they have seen. 

"Fifty-eight percent of respondents view Trump as the most robust presidential candidate, while 35 percent see him as “very strong.” Meanwhile, only 42 percent of likely voters say Trump is a weak leader, with 32 percent saying he is “very weak.”

"On the contrary, a massive 64 percent of respondents view Biden as a weak president, with 45 percent of Americans saying the 81-year-old commander-in-chief is “very weak.”

"Biden has failed to show up for the nation on several fronts including foreign policy and the southern border, resulting in Americans have increasingly lost confidence in his ability to turn the country around. 

"For instance, the nationwide pro-Hamas college campus protests have become an issue for the president’s second-term aspirations. 

"Republicans have accused Biden of being weak and unwilling to take a stronger, more forceful stance on the pro-Hamas students terrorizing the university’s Jewish communities. 

"The protestors have continuously said they are not afraid of Biden, given his lack of crackdown on crime and illegal immigrants entering the U.S." . . . 

Has Leftist Lawfare Created the Police State Yet?

"The message to Joe Citizen is clear: “If we can take down these people, including a U.S. president and billionaire and anyone who supports him, just imagine what we can do to you.' ” Greg Salsbury*

Ric Grenell exposes Jack Smith as the king of sleaze - Monica Showalter  "Ric Grenell, President Trump's former ambassador to Germany, and Director of National Intelligence, knows a thing or two about Jack Smith, having lived in Europe when Smith was active in prosecuting war crimes in The Hague.

"Now that Smith has been caught tampering with evidence in his case against President Trump, Grenell's put out a devastating series of tweets about Smith's history of dishonest behavior.". . .

. . ."But it's unmistakeable that Smith moves crooked and he's been caught way too often. It's helpful that Grenell is speaking out since no one else has the kind of information he has and the press is ignoring the story. There seems to be quite a dirty backstory to Smith and his sleazy doings against President Trump. Keep an eye on anything else Grenell may be posting because there could be more bombshells. Based on the behavior thus far seen, Smith needs to be yanked from the Trump case immediately."

President Trump Calls For Jack Smith to be Arrested After Special Counsel Admits HE LIED TO THE COURT About Classified Docs Seized from Mar-a-Lago   . . ."Jack Smith admitted he lied to the Court about the classified documents seized from Mar-a-Lago in a motion filed late Friday night.

"Special Counsel Jack Smith on Friday evening responded to Trump’s co-defendant Walt Nauta’s motion to extend a deadline for disclosures in the classified documents case.

"Recall that Walt Nauta, a former White House employee and Navy veteran who worked valet for Trump and served as a personal staffer at Mar-a-Lago was indicted along with Trump last year.

"In a motion filed late Friday, Jack Smith admitted the FBI messed with the boxes containing “classified” documents they seized from Trump and can’t be sure the order or the placement of the documents." . . .

*Has Leftist Lawfare Created the Police State Yet? - Greg Salsbury

. . ."Could it be that the average non-leftist citizen now feels both powerless and terrified to object to any of these injustices? They see the brutal treatment meted out to President Trump, his associates,  and his legal team, on the one hand, versus the reverence for a president whose family has inexplicably received millions of dollars from foreign sources and for violent protesters who have magically escaped jail time, or of crack-using, tax-dodging Biden family members." . . .

Democrats should fear ‘lawfare’ tactics being turned against them | The Hill

. . ."Unhinged partisan politics is quickly propelling our nation down the path of the normalization of the weaponization of law to take out a political opponent — a path that is destructive to all.

"New York Times columnist David Brooks said the quiet part out loud recently while on left-of-center “PBS Newshour”: “if you look at democracies in decline, then it is a pattern that people in office use their power to indict and criminalize and throw in jail the people who were in office before them of the opposing party. And so we are a nation, democracy in decline.”

"While he may have been trying to project such unethical and illegal behavior onto Trump and the Republicans, it perfectly defines what the Democrats are now trying to do to Trump.

"As I write this, the Biden White House, the Democratic National Committee, Democratic politicians, most of the mainstream media, most of academia and most of Hollywood seem thrilled that Democratic district attorneys, attorney generals, special counsels and judges such as Alvin Bragg, Letitia James, Fani Willis, Jack Smith, Arthur F. Engoron and Juan Merchan are seemingly working as one to bankrupt Trump, keep him off ballots, wound his campaign — or send him to prison." . . . 

Prosecutor Jack Smith Admits to Tampering With Trump Evidence - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics   . . ."In other words, two years after I pointed out that the photo of documents spread all over the floor in Mar-a-Lago meant that they had been deliberately mishandled by someone or someones trying to frame Trump — to convey the impression that Trump was guilty of mishandling the documents — mishandling of documents once again hits the headlines.

"This time, the allegation is directly about Trump’s obsessive prosecutor, with the Western Journal article saying this:

Smith has revealed that at some point after boxes of documents were seized from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, the order of the documents changed, which the court did not learn about until now.

The revelation was contained in a new court filing….

The filing admitted the current order of documents in the boxes does not match scans that were made earlier….

POWERFUL: Former Atheist Leader Shares Christianity With Richard Dawkins, and the Room Erupts

 POWERFUL: Former Atheist Leader Shares Christianity With Richard Dawkins, and the Room Erupts – RedState

While Hirsi Ali may have some things left to figure out, I wouldn't dare nitpick her words. Spiritual maturity doesn't happen overnight, and it is clear her conversion is genuine. To see her speak with such grace despite the pushback she was getting from Dawkins was inspiring.

"With all the insanity in the world, it's easy to lose sight of what truly matters. Former "New Athiest" movement leader Ayaan Hirsi Ali provided a powerful reminder when she shared her conversion to Christianity with Richard Dawkins. 

"Dawkins is an infamous atheist who has mocked Christianity as "nonsense" for decades, along with other figures like the now-deceased Christopher Hitchens. Originally from Somalia, Hirsi Ali left her home country in her early 20s and dedicated her life to fighting for the rights of women subjugated by Islam. That led to her being put on an Al-Qaeda hit list, as well as being targeted legally by Muslim groups. At one point, she was sued for discrimination for pointing out that Islam's Muhammad married a six-year-old when he was 53. She ultimately won that battle despite the court chastising her use of language. 

"For years, Ali was a thought leader and lecturer in atheist circles, having rejected religion due to her experiences with Islam. That all changed in late 2023, though. In an essay, she shared her fear of what she described as the global rise of Islam and authoritarianism, concluding that Judeo-Christian values were the only possible defense. That led some to question whether her conversion was purely pragmatic and political. 

"Ali put those questions to bed in her exchange with Dawkins. Even as he continued to trash Christianity during their conversation, she spoke with humility, and shared a powerful testimony of salvation." . . . 

Final thought from this post:  "While the above poster  may not have bought the argument, I think Hirsi Ali is correct. What we are seeing on college campuses and in society more broadly is a crisis of purpose. Having rejected Christianity, people are left desperately trying to fill the void in their lives with something else. Atheism and "reason" were never going to be enough, and the far-left's joining of Islam with oppression ideology has provided a new shiny object." 

Lawfare Is Too Kind a Word

 Daniel Jupp - Jupplandia (substack.com)

A Constitutional Republic following the US Constitution dismisses these fraudulent cases before they ever get this far. Only a functional tyranny allows them to proceed. 

"I can’t recall the first time I heard the word ‘lawfare’, and I don’t know who came up with it. It seems like a neologism coined recently, but it may have older origins. After all, this is not the first time in history that a judicial system has been deeply corrupt. It’s just the first time in history that a judicial system has been deeply corrupt against an illegally ousted President of the United States of America who is still alive while almost everyone accepts the process of that corruption as completely normal.

"I saw a widely circulated, well respected Substack the other day saying what a wise friend of mine has said for a long time. My friend, who is a lawyer by profession, has long argued that the cases being conducted against Trump are so unjust, so prejudicial, and so patently ridiculous that the proper response is to refuse to comply with them in any way. He’s said that Trump should refuse to attend these courts, should hole up somewhere in a potentially sympathetic State (such as Florida) and dare the corrupt system to forcibly remove him from that bolt hole." . . .

"There are no Democrats who aren’t tainted by this, either in government posts or legal professions, and it is a taint which encompasses ordinary Democrat voters too. All of them have accepted and supported, have cheered on, the total corruption of the law to punish and harm a man they hate. Having failed to ever find real crimes he is guilty of, they have simply decided that ordinary actions are criminal ones, so long as Donald Trump did them."  Full article

Barack Obama’s Legacy: A Fundamental Shift Towards Weakness and Wokeism

 From wokeness to weakness with His Wackness - AFNN  "Barack Obama's presidency was marked by a promise of fundamental transformation for America, and indeed, he did. Mostly for the worse. His actions and decisions reflected a significant shift in ideals and international relations. One notable incident was Obama's decision to return the bust of Winston Churchill, a famous British leader, from the Oval Office. This act symbolized Obama's disapproval of colonialism, represented by the British Empire, and his homeland in Kenya, a former British colony.

"The return of the Winston Churchill bust was more than a symbolic gesture; it underscored Obama's vision of a post-colonial (new) world order and his commitment to addressing historical injustices. By acknowledging the complexities of colonial legacies and their impact on global relations, Obama signaled a departure from traditional diplomatic norms and a demonstrated willingness to criticize historical truths

"This shift in international relations mirrored Obama’s broader approach to governance, which emphasized inclusivity, diversity, and social justice. His presidency coincided with a growing awareness of “systemic inequalities” and historical “injustices,” prompting calls for change and reform across various sectors of society. His efforts made race relations worse, said the Boston police “acted stupidly” and said Trayvon Martin could have been his son…. He fueled racial tensions like no time since 1968 in America and is directly responsible for the “defund the police” and “Black Lives Matter” pseudo-religious cults we see today. 

Moreover, Obama’s presidency created its own domestic challenges, including the economic stupidity of “too big to fail” and “cash for clunkers.” His presidency focused on maximizing political polarization, and social unrest. Barry Sotero’s lasting legacy is that of decaying moral values and destroyed international relations. His decision regarding the Winston Churchill bust symbolized his idiotic approach to undue historical injustices and global colonialism. While Obama’s vision of transformation and progress was supposedly well intentioned, the fruits of his presidency are proving unhealthy for the Nation. …READ MORE…

Antifa can't cope [with] a banana

  Don Surber (substack.com)  

These demonstrations are an excuse to get out of class that likely is funded by some George Soros group. College administrators and faculty don’t mind. Fewer tests to grade. Never underestimate the lethargy of American leftists."As they side with the people who raped, tortured, murdered and then mutilated the bodies of young Israelis on October 7, the intifada antifas at UCLA are crying because people are bringing bananas to their demonstration at UCLA.

"Linda Mamoun posted a video of a woman eating a banana and taunting the crowd.

"Mamoun tweeted, “There was a protestor in the liberated zone at UCLA with a potentially fatal banana allergy. Counterprotestors invaded the encampment and saw all the no bananas warnings. The next day they came back waving bananas like settlers waving machine guns & smeared bananas everywhere.”

"Like settlers waving machine guns, so go the Days Of Our Lives.

"The reaction on Twitter was as one might expect. Cam posted a picture of a man in a banana suit and said, “But I identify as a banana. That’s not very inclusive of you.”

"And of course, there is a clip of a banana skit by Monty Python that’s appropriate for the occasion.

Bleu Cheque tweeted, “Oh no, not a banana! That’s totally the same as 10/7.”

"And therein lies why these protesters deserve absolutely nothing but disrespect and harassment. The protesters deliberately ignore what began this war. Palestinian soldiers invaded Israel unprovoked and not in uniforms and proceeded to violate most of the rest of the rules of war in their bid to destroy Israel (Jewish and Muslim citizens alike)." . . . Substack 

Here’s How We Know The Climate Crisis Is Not About The Climate

  Issues & Insights (issuesinsights.com)

"Nor would our elites have feted Thunberg and treated her as an authority who must be revered while she ranted and scolded and screeched. Pope Francis would not have admonished America for its “irresponsible” Western lifestyle and Bill Nye, no science guy but an engineer and an actor, would have never said that voting (he means for U.S. Democrats) is the best option “if you want to do one thing about climate change.” 

Democratic States Deploy Greta Thunberg Drones To Lecture People Who Go Outside | Babylon Bee

"Carbon dioxide is a pollutant, the Environmental Protection Agency says. It’s been drilled into us for more than 30 years that we have to cut our CO2 emissions if we don’t want the world to end too soon. But we know that the climate scare is in no way related to protecting the sky. The data tell us so.

"Over the last three calendar years, 2021, 2022, and 2023, “​​​​no country has reduced its carbon emissions more than any other major nation on a per capita basis,” the Committee to Unleash Prosperity tells us.

“ 'Even though our GDP is about 50% higher than China’s, our per capita emissions are roughly the same,” says the group.

"The data also tell us that though China’s emissions grow every year, “ours have come down every year over the last decade.”

"Yet the U.S. is continually singled out as the worst greenhouse gas offender, while China – and India – escape the wrath of the klimate kooks, from Greta Thunberg to Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to actor Leonardo DiCaprio, who actually “praised China’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.' ” . . .

Hamas and Joe Biden meet the law of unintended consequences

 As usual, a wealth of intelligent wisdom from the writers at American Thinker. Opposing this is the dangerous lack of intelligent thought in both college people and this President, perhaps all since birth. TD

Mark C. Ross - American Thinker

"Regardless of any particular details, the pandemic of Hamas-inspired campus unrest has pushed news of Trump’s hush money trial down to well below the fold.  It has also put Biden’s presidency in a most uncomfortable spotlight."

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"Regardless of any particular details, the pandemic of Hamas-inspired campus unrest has pushed news of Trump’s hush money trial down to well below the fold.  It has also put Biden’s presidency in a most uncomfortable spotlight.  I seriously doubt that such was the intent of the organizers of these events.

"Various explanations are being proffered as to who is behind this and why this is happening.  Some conservative commentators are pointing their fingers at the classical Marxist demand to replace traditional oppressive authority with their own.  Jihadis are inclined to tout the rising tide of Islamic supremacy.  College culture in its modern, snowflake-coddling sense is also a prime suspect.  I just can’t fail to notice any spontaneity in all of this.

"George Soros, the archetypical James Bond villain, cannot escape consideration — but where necessary, he’s pretty good at covering his tracks.  Others are also under suspicion — and all their motives are fairly similar: destabilization of the existing “order.” 

"Antisemitism seems to be the ostensible motive...but is it really?  Even before Hitler, there just weren’t that many Jews in the world.  Yeah, they tend to revere education and knowledge and are more than willing to exploit such accomplishments for material benefits.  But so what?  Lots of folks have very similar ideals.  What may be behind antisemitism is that Jews don’t look very different from Gentiles — hence, the Third Reich was compelled to make them wear yellow stars of David.  Human decency being what it is, the king of occupied Denmark wore one as well.

"Colleges are certainly the focus of this phenomenon.  Initially, the administrations took a hands-off position — which allowed things more fully to develop.  They mistakenly tried to avoid bad optics...which was obviously inevitable.  In my student days, things got so bad that Governor Reagan had to call in the National Guard to shut things down.  The campus, however, wasn’t touched at all.  We just burned down the Bank of America that was across the street.  The university was our home." . . .

"Americans are slow to anger, but once provoked beyond limits, they save the world, and hopefully, America."

 Camp Intifada: Students for Theocratic Authoritarianism - Clarice Feldman  ..."Nevertheless, too many of the affected colleges and universities have failed in their mission to protect a safe learning environment for their students. The reasons are many, including reliance on foreign donations, particularly from Hamas-supporting Qatar, faculty rolls stuffed with anti-American and anti-Israeli ideologues, the DEI staff and humanities departments’ opposition to Jews and Israel, the large number of full-freight paying foreign students who do not share Western values, and the always present faculty and administrative psychological inability to handle conflict."

Will protesting students face consequences? - Mike McDaniel 

. . ."In January of 2024, American Thinker posted Terrorist attacks in America: for what are they waiting? It was my take on the kinds of attacks we’re virtually surely facing in the near future. In February, I posted a book review of Kurt Schlichter’s The Attack, which mirrors my predictions while expanding on them. The book is a novel, an oral history of three days of nationwide terror attacks, attacks in which American college students willingly participated:" . . .

. . . "That, and so many of these “student protestors,” particularly those whose parents are forking over $100,000+ a year for supposedly prestigious degrees, have seldom, if ever, faced consequences for their antisocial rhetoric and blatant crimes, such as taking custodians hostage, which in sane states is known as kidnapping. Universities “negotiate” lunatic demands rather than simply having demanders arrested and expelled. “Protestors” seizing and damaging university buildings demand to be fed gourmet and vegan fare and universities witlessly agree. Even on the occasions protestors are arrested, they’re immediately released without bond, and they’re not prosecuted. Why wouldn’t they engage in “an orgy of blood and violence?” They believe they’re untouchable, the moral arbiters of their age. The “moral” causes, about which they know nothing, excuse anything they do." . . .

UPDATED: Sheryl Sandberg’s documentary reveals what pro-Hamas protesters want you to forget (substack.com) 

All this is just fine with the pro-Palestine scarf people with their chants. "Hey-hey, ho-ho! Blahblahblahblah...:

 

"When pressed, a not-so-small percentage of the students participating in the pro-Hamas rallies on college campuses have been unable to name either the river or the sea that border the area they demand be under Palestinian control. Still others have bought into the lies spread by pro-Hamas groups that the atrocities inflicted upon innocent Israelis on Oct. 7 never happened. 

"But the most vile protesters of all are those who are well aware of the brutality perpetrated by members of Hamas and their Palestinian accomplices on that fateful day and call for the elimination of the Jewish state anyway…READ MORE…" . . .

How 'Let's Go Brandon' became code for insulting Joe Biden

 Colleen Long; AP News  

"How did Republicans settle on ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ as a G-rated substitute for its more vulgar three-word cousin?"

. . ."It started at an Oct. 2 NASCAR race at the Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama. Brandon Brown, a 28-year-old driver, had won his first Xfinity Series and was being interviewed by an NBC Sports reporter. The crowd behind him was chanting something at first difficult to make out. The reporter suggested they were chanting “Let’s go, Brandon” to cheer the driver. But it became increasingly clear they were saying: “—- Joe Biden.”

"NASCAR and NBC have since taken steps to limit “ambient crowd noise” during interviews, but it was too late — the phrase already had taken off.

"When the president visited a construction site in suburban Chicago a few weeks ago to promote his vaccinate-or-test mandate, protesters deployed both three-word phrases. This past week, Biden’s motorcade was driving past a “Let’s Go Brandon” banner as the president passed through Plainfield, New Jersey.

"And a group chanted “Let’s go, Brandon” outside a Virginia park on Monday when Biden made an appearance on behalf of the Democratic candidate for governor, Terry McAuliffe. Two protesters dropped the euphemism entirely, holding up hand-drawn signs with the profanity." . . .

Still buying that far-left trope about “diversity being our strength?”

 BareNakedIslam (barenakedislam.com)

Do not fear being labeled an ‘Islamophobe.’ I'm sure Winston Churchill was once accused of being a ‘Naziphobe.’

"Islam is NOT a religion of peace, nor does Islam mean peace. Islam means submission.

"Most people are simply unaware that Islam is NOT  just another religion but a totalitarian political cult-like ideology, which compels its followers into blind obedience, teaches intolerance, brutality and locks all Muslims and non-Muslims in a struggle deriving directly from the 7th century  nomadic, predatory, Bedouin culture.

"Islam means “submission” to the will of Allah and the teachings as depicted in the Qur’an which include jihad – the genocidal slaughter of infidels by the sword, killing by beheading, intolerance of other religions, as well as forcing submission to Islam. The ultimate goal of jihad is the domination of Islam over the entire world.

"In Islam, one is considered “moderate” if one supports the goals of jihad, if not the tactics. Those who totally reject the violent teachings of Islam are considered apostates of Islam and as such, are condemned to death. Moderate Muslims are peaceful “in spite of Islam,” not because of it. The “religion of peace” is a concept the West is eager to embrace – all in the name of political correctness – refusing to believe that a major world religion poses such a devastating threat to humanity." . . .