Four House Democrats remove themselves from Trump impeachment resolution

Nodrog Snave.(One suspects Gordon Evans)

Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner  "Schakowsky and Nadler did not respond to requests for comment.

"But Nadler’s legislative director sent out an email to fellow Democratic aides on Thursday, asking for staffers to let each other know when their boss signs onto a bill or resolution in the future." . . .

House Democrat's rogue Trump impeachment push sets off internal furor  "Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.) has set off an internal furor among House Democrats with his unsanctioned efforts to impeach President Trump, Axios has learned.

Why it matters: In addition to many House Democrats seeing the push as both premature and counterproductive, some are also chafing at Thanedar's tactics in drumming up support for his impeachment articles.

• Four House Democrats who were briefly listed as co-sponsors have all since withdrawn, with some saying they wrongly believed leadership was supporting the measure.
• Sources told Axios that Thanedar also signed at least one colleague on as a co-sponsor based on a vague one-on-one conversation without notifying their staff.

State of play: Thanedar announced Monday that he is introducing seven articles of impeachment against Trump.

• The charges against Trump include obstruction of justice, abuse of power, bribery and corruption and "tyranny," mostly based on the president's iron-fisted consolidation of power in his second term.
• His announcement came just hours after Thanedar drew a primary challenge from state Rep. Donavan McKinney as part of persistent efforts by Democrats in his district to oust him.

What they're saying: House Intelligence Committee ranking member Jim Himes (D-Conn.), asked whether Thanedar's efforts are being taken seriously by leadership, told Axios, "I don't think so."

• "There is a long, long, long way to go before the concept of impeachment is on the table," he added.
• Said House Judiciary Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.): "The fact that people have withdrawn ... suggests people wanted to think through, collectively, the timing of it."

Trump goes trolling with an AI-generated image of himself as pope and the left has a cow

 

Rich Terrell

Monica Showalter   "Sometimes, Trump is just playin' around.

"And when he does, the left has a cow -- and then he kicks back and enjoys it.

"You'd think they'd know enough not to take the bait by now ... but they don't.

"So now we have this:" (Right)

. . .  MAKE THE VATICAN GREAT AGAIN! pic.twitter.com/IKCQbDic24

— Joey Mannarino 🇺🇸 (@JoeyMannarinoUS) May 3, 2025

Democrats are their own parody:  Katy Perry declares herself pope after reading the Bible for 11 minutes

"In a stunning turn of events that has left the Catholic Church reeling and Twitter ablaze, pop superstar Katy Perry has declared herself the new Pope, citing an intense 11-minute session of reading a Bible verse as her divine qualification. The announcement, made via a glittery Instagram Live stream, has sparked global confusion, theological debates, and a surge in sales of her 2013 hit, Roar.

“ 'I was just vibing with my morning smoothie, flipping through the Bible app, you know, as one does,” Perry explained to her 200 million followers, dressed in a bedazzled mitre she claimed was “thrifted from Etsy.” “I read John 3:16 for, like, 11 minutes straight, and I felt this cosmic energy. The Holy Spirit DM’d me and was like, ‘Girl, you’re Pope now.’ So, here I am. Pope Katy I, reporting for duty!' ” . . .   Genesius Times 

The Politicized Mind: How the University Lost Its Way

 Roger Kimball; American Greatness  

If real change is going to come to academic culture, criticism must be ceaseless, pointed, and deep. It is not enough to expose the students and professors shouting “Death to Israel” at places like Columbia University. The academic culture that breeds and rewards such figures—and their name is legion—must be exposed for what it is: a thoroughly politicized rejection of the principles that inform liberal learning.

Tunnel Wall

"Academia is once again in the news. Donald Trump’s recent commencement address at the University of Alabama, where he said that America’s “next chapter will not be written by The Harvard Crimson, it will be written by you—the Crimson Tide,” sounded one leitmotif of the new, Trump-inspired populism that is washing over the academic establishment. Trump’s announcement that he was seeking to remove Harvard’s tax-exempt status sounded another.

"These days, whenever the public’s attention is roused by academia, the oculus of media scrutiny turns up references to my book Tenured Radicals, first published more than 30 years ago but subsequently expanded and updated several times.

"Given the renewed interest in academic culture, I thought I would adapt a few thoughts from the introduction to the most recent edition of the book.

"Academic life, like the rest of social life, unfolds within a frame of rules and permissions. At one end, there are things that one must (or must not) do; at the other end, there is the rule of whim. The middle range, in which behavior is neither explicitly governed by rules nor entirely free, is that realm governed by what the British jurist John Fletcher Moulton, writing in the early 1920s, called “Obedience to the Unenforceable.”

"This middle realm is a place governed not by law or mere caprice but by virtues such as duty, fairness, judgment, and taste. In a word, it is the “domain of Manners,” which “covers all cases of right doing where there is no one to make you do it but yourself.”

"A good index of the health of any social institution is its allegiance to the strictures that define this middle realm. “In the changes that are taking place in the world around us,” Moulton wrote, “one of those which is fraught with grave peril is the discredit into which this idea of the middle land is falling.” One example was the abuse of free speech in political debate: “We have unrestricted freedom of debate,” say the radicals, “We will use it so as to destroy debate.”

"The repudiation of obedience to the unenforceable is at the center of what makes academic life (and not only academic life) today so noxious. The contraction of the “domain of Manners” creates a vacuum that is filled on one side by increasing regulation—speech codes, rules for all aspects of social life, efforts to determine by legislation (from the right as well as from the left) what should follow freely from responsible behavior—and on the other side by increased license.

"More and more, it seems, academia (like other aspects of elite cultural life) has reneged on its compact with society. One of the great ironies that attends the triumph of political correctness is that in department after department of academic life, what began as a demand for emancipation recoiled, turned rancid, and developed into new forms of tyranny and control. As Alan Charles Kors noted in an essay from 2008,

…"under the heirs of the academic Sixties, we moved on campus after campus from their Free Speech Movement to their politically correct speech codes; from their abolition of mandatory chapel to their imposition of Orwellian mandatory sensitivity and multicultural training; from their freedom to smoke pot unmolested to their war today against the kegs and spirits—literal and metaphorical—of today’s students; from their acquisition of young adult status to their infantilization of “kids” who lack their insight; from their self-proclaimed dreams of racial and sexual integration to their ever more balkanized campuses organized on principles of group characteristics and group responsibility; from their right to define themselves as individuals—a foundational right—to their official, imposed, and politically orthodox notions of identity. American college students became the victims of a generational swindle of truly epic proportions." . . .  More here...

Murder, they wrote? Democrats try to incite violence in another 'summer of love'

Evil has its strong grip on this nation. TD

 Eric Utter   

"Not to be outdone, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) appeared on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show,” where, when asked how people should be reacting to the arrests of rogue judges, he responded by stating: “The people need to manifest their outrage about these assaults on judicial independence.”

Broc Smith

"Democrats would root for tooth decay over oral hygiene and Snidely Whiplash over Dudley Do-Right.

"Something about them is clearly not right.

"To wit: California Democrats have yet again blocked efforts to strengthen protections against underage sex trafficking, this time in the form of a bill to make it a felony to purchase 16- or 17-year-olds for sex.

"But, hey, who are we to judge if a California Democrat — or someone from a “marginalized” group -- wants to purchase a 16 or 17-year-old for sex?

"Meanwhile, Minnesota Democrats killed an amendment to a crime and public safety bill that would have required law enforcement agencies to report illegal aliens to ICE when they are arrested for a violent crime. In doing so, they ignored the desperate and pitiful pleas of a man whose mother was brutally murdered and beheaded by an illegal alien on the streets of a Minneapolis suburb in the middle of the afternoon.

"At this point, one is tempted to say, “What the eff? I mean what the effing eff?” But that would be for nought. Democrats gotta Democrat, right? I mean, the party wanted to enslave blacks a couple hundred years ago, and now wants to free violent criminals.

"Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker recently told a group of Democrat activists and donors in New Hampshire that he wants to see “mass protests” against the Trump administration." . . .

"Democrats and progressives root for the fire as opposed to the fire department. They quite literally support evil over good. If violence in the streets and/or presidential assassinations are what it takes for them to stay in power, they then say, “so be it.”

"They are an existential threat to the “democracy” they purport to want to save.

"They must be defeated."

PROSECUTE MAYORKAS. FOR MURDER.

 Ann Coulter   

"Granted, Mayorkas did not trick banks into making money. But what he did is still against the law. He’s got to answer for the hundreds of thousands of American deaths he caused, intentionally and maliciously."

"As soon as President Donald Trump left office in 2021, we had to endure four years of liberals concocting preposterous court cases against him, gleefully taking his mug shot (how did that work out?), enforcing petty misdemeanors as if they were violent felonies, and treating standard politicking as if it were a RICO conspiracy.

"This, we were told, was to vindicate the principle that no man is above the law. (At least Democrats had finally found somebody they were willing to prosecute.)

"And speaking of men who behave as if they’re above the law, I give you Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Biden’s secretary of homeland security, and, uh … oh, yes, the biggest serial killer in U.S. history.

"Trump’s got to prosecute him for murder. Whether as an accessory to murder, a murder co-conspirator or felony-murderer, Mayorkas is responsible, under various state and federal laws, for every American killed by an illegal alien he let into our country, exactly the same as if he himself had personally raped and strangled little girls, sold children into sex slavery, trafficked Fentanyl, loaded up on Mezcal before smashing into a family of five, or been called “Maryland man” by the media.

"Is this a creative use of the law? Let’s look to Democrats as our guide.

"Soon-to-be-indicted New York Attorney General Leticia James charged Trump with fraud for overestimating the value of his properties to sophisticated financial institutions, whom she imagined simply accepted those estimates at face value before handing him multiple millions of dollars." . . .

Bernie Sanders: The Socialist Who Scammed America; Talks like he’s broke, lives like he’s Bezos.

The American Spectator  

"Trump sold success. Sanders sold virtue, and then quietly cashed in. The left loves to accuse Trump of being a fake and a phony, but their hero is the real trickster. The revolution doesn’t fly private. And maybe, just maybe, it’s time to stop pretending it does."

Donkey Hotey

" "It’s been a busy few weeks for Bernie Sanders, traveling around America on his Fighting Oligarchy tour. The message is clear: billionaires are bad, the economy is rigged, and the people must be empowered. Crowds roar, fists raised in solidarity. The same speeches. The same outrage. The same thunderous applause. The same garbage.

"While Sanders decries wealth inequality and corporate greed, he zigzags across the country in the ultimate symbol of elite privilege: a private jet. Not once. Not in an emergency. Just this past quarter, his campaign spent more than $220,000 on private air travel, an expense completely at odds with the populist, working-class image he’s spent decades cultivating. (RELATED: Bernie Sanders and AOC Go Hunting for Oligarchs)

"And that’s just the start.

"This is the man who once made a career out of attacking “millionaires and billionaires.” Then, when he became a millionaire, he quietly dropped one of those words. Now it’s just the billionaires who are the problem. His wealth, you see, is different. It’s justified. Sanders wrote a bestselling book, after all. However, if we’re being perfectly honest here, book sales alone don’t explain the numerous houses, private jet travel, and a campaign bank account that bleeds like a hedge fund.

"The man who preaches frugality lives like the system’s biggest beneficiaries. If that feels hard to square, you’re not alone. As Michael Bloomberg once remarked: “The best-known socialist in the country is a millionaire with three houses.” Sanders didn’t deny it. That’s because he couldn’t. He simply muttered something about one of the homes being a summer camp on Lake Champlain. Apparently, in Bernie’s weird world, lakefront property doesn’t count if you don’t call it a mansion.

"It’s a pattern that’s become impossible to ignore. The senator from Vermont isn’t just out of touch; he has become a parody of his own populist message. The lavish lifestyle. The ever-shifting definitions of who qualifies as a threat to democracy. In 2016, the problem was anyone who was wealthy. In 2020, it was just the ultra-wealthy. In 2025, it’s everyone who can afford a lifestyle he obviously enjoys but pretends not to." . . .

Broc Smith

Would Terry Moran ever condemn Biden's calls for Trump to be killed?

 

Rich Terrell

"Before the Trump Interview: The Worst of ABC’s Moran  . . ."In his coverage of Trump, Moran has called Trump a “Fuhrer,” and accused him of “stirring racist fears,” with his “Neo-Nazi ways.”

"In sharp contrast, Moran has been soft-hearted in his coverage of Democrats and progressives. In 2009, Moran gushed: “Barack Obama is the first president since George Washington to be taking a step down into the Oval Office.” In 2019, he hyped Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign: “Will America feel the Bern?” adding that the Vermont Senator has “made democratic socialism cool for millions of voters.”  

"The following are just a few of the most obnoxious takes from Moran (via the MRC’s archives):" . . .

 Video:President Trump stands against ABC's Terry Moran in his 100 day interview

TRASHING CONSERVATIVES:

 Trump’s Hold Over GOP Is Like the “Fuhrer”  

Trump “Stirring Racist Fears” 

 “Women Will Die” Because of Supreme Court Roe Abortion Ruling

Biden “Hit Hard” In His State of the Union Address

“A lot of Democrats over the past few weeks have been panicking. I’ll bet the vast majority of them feel better tonight. Because the President did hit hard….This was the old time religion, the middle-class, working-class, labor-Democrat agenda. And he reached for it again and again and again, both in terms of the values. That line, ‘you can’t love your country only when you win.’ The best line of the speech. Fair play and decency are bedrock values in the middle-class. No matter who people voted for, the notion that you don’t love your country if your guys lose doesn’t sit well with them. And then right across that economic agenda, hitting again and again and again, middle-class, middle-class values.”

— Correspondent Terry Moran during ABC’s live coverage of the State of the Union address, March 7, 2024.

Joe's call for Trump to be assassinated

 Below: Correspondent Terry Moran during ABC’s live coverage of Senate impeachment trial, January 22, 2020.

Much more here.

Chuck Schumer splits the atom and discovers ‘chaos’ is a five-letter word

 Olivia Murray  

. . ."Thank goodness we have people like this influencing and directing our national finances and policies!"

Broc Smith

 "Well, we’ve finally surpassed the 100th day of the Trump 2.0 administration, and Chuck Schumer thinks he’s on to something. Here’s a quote from his yammering monologue on the Senate floor yesterday:

I think if you asked Americans to pick one word that describes Donald Trump’s economy and how he’s handling it, it would be one word, a five-letter word: chaos. Another five-letter word is Trump. Chaos equals Trump. Trump equals chaos.

"Well, here are some other five letter words that seem to be a better fit for the “chaos” in the economy:

"Chuck, as in Chuck Schumer, who has facilitated more than thirty years of chaos, and who layers cheese on raw burger:

"Nancy, as in Nancy Pelosi, who’s participated in economic chaos for almost forty years. 

"Obama, as in Barack Obama (or Michael—I mean “Michelle”), a student of Alinskyite chaos, whose eight years of wickedness laid utter waste to healthy race relations and reoriented the course of the federal government to the much more rapid adoption of socialism and communism." . . .

Gov. Newsom Steps In After Democrats Block Bill Cracking Down On Child Trafficking

 Daily Caller

"Newsom previously advocated for bills in 2023 and 2024 expanding punishments for child sex traffickers after state lawmakers were hesitant to pass them."

"California state lawmakers sparked pushback from their Democratic governor on Tuesday after blocking a proposed policy allowing harsher punishments for child sex traffickers.

"The State Assembly’s Democrat-controlled Public Safety Committee rejected a policy making it a felony to purchase 16 and 17-year-olds for sex. Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office spoke out in support of the bill shortly after — marking the third time Newsom has stood against some in his party pushing a degree of leniency on human trafficking.

“ 'The law should treat all sex predators who solicit minors the same — as a felony, regardless of the intended victim’s age. Full stop,” Newsom’s office told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

"Democratic Assemblymember Maggy Krell introduced the bill, which would require automatic felonies for trafficking 16 and 17-year-olds instead of allowing prosecutors to choose between a felony and a misdemeanor. Legislators opposed the trafficking portion of the bill while advancing a provision that would criminalize loitering with the intent to buy sex.

"Democrats raised concerns in a Tuesday hearing that the trafficking charge could be used unfairly against LGBTQ people and those in interracial relationships, Politico reported. Public Safety Committee Chair Nick Schultz called human trafficking a “tricky issue for the Democratic caucus” after the hearing.

“ 'We have to talk about sexual exploitation in our communities, getting tough on it and ensuring that we are detecting and deterring that sort of conduct,” Schultz said. “But we also have to have smarter, more balanced policy solutions.”

"The legislature will reportedly hold a hearing to consider Krell’s language on child trafficking in the fall.

"Schultz and Krell did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the DCNF." . . .

Dan Goldman: Democrats shouldn’t make antisemitic visa holders into ‘martyrs’

 Jewish Insider  

"The New York congressman said that his party needs to be focusing more heavily on the hostages, rather than the detentions of antisemitic campus activists."

 "Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) warned that some on the left are focusing too heavily on individuals who have espoused antisemitic views and are being targeted by the Trump administration for deportation, and that Democrats should be directing more attention towards the Americans still held hostage by Hamas in Gaza.

" 'We are seeing, because of Donald Trump’s overreach, that people who have espoused antisemitism are becoming martyrs, and that scares me,” Goldman said at a Jewish Democratic Council of America conference in Washington on Thursday. “Because we should be talking about the five American hostages in Gaza who have been there for a year and a half, who were abducted by a terrorist group and are deceased in four of the cases, unfortunately, but one, Edan Alexander, remains alive.” . . .  The rest is behind a paywall.

You Won't Believe What Rubio Found In Biden's State Department Files

 PJ Media  

"After the cabinet meeting, Trump told the press in attendance to ask "respectful" questions. Despite all of these big announcements, the very first question asked was about whether or not Trump and Rubio would bring the infamous "Maryland dad" home from El Salvador. You can't make this up. This is why the fake news is dying." 

"If you haven't watched one of Donald Trump's cabinet meetings, I highly recommend it. They're a treasure trove of updates on what's going on in the country straight from each cabinet member without the filter of the fake news, and they're often pretty entertaining. They're also run by Trump himself, not the first lady. As a matter of fact, I was getting ready to run a few errands when the one on Thursday took place, and next thing I knew, it was an hour later.

"Yesterday's cabinet meeting was a mix of celebrating the Trump administration's first 100 days in office and revealing just how awful the Joe Biden administration truly was. One of the most shocking revelations probably came from the last speaker of the day, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who revealed that Biden was keeping files on United States citizens, monitoring their social media profiles, and attempting to identify "purveyors of disinformation."  

" 'It wasn't widely reported, or maybe it was — we had an office in the Department of State whose job it was to censor Americans," Rubio began. 

"(For what it's worth, assuming he's talking about the office formerly known as the Global Engagement Center, I did actually cover it here on April 16: A HUGE Win for Free Speech: Rubio Shuts Down Controversial State Department Office.) 

"But what he said next is what really shocked everyone. Not only was the Biden administration keeping files on U.S. citizens, but one of those people was sitting there at the table, a member of the actual cabinet. "And by the way, I'm not gonna say who it is — I'll leave it up to them — there's at least one person at this table today who had a dossier in that building of social media posts, to identify them as purveyors of disinformation. We have these dossiers. We are going to be turning those over to these individuals...and they'll decide whether they want to disclose it or not.

" 'Was it me or Elon?" Vice President JD Vance asked, causing the room to burst into laughter." . . .  

Remembering Atrocities--But Only If We're Armed to the Teeth

Phyllis Chesler  

"Brave little Israel, mighty military might though it may be, finds itself living in an exceptionally dangerous neighborhood. How it conquers endemic barbarism matters not only to the Jews, but to all who are watching."  P.C. 

It is impossible for anyone to see this and not to believe that God did not directly lead these people -who became the Hebrews--the Israelis' into His promised land!!! As back in the ancient times--still today, God is in absolute control of this Nations' destiny and Israel will always exist!!! God will always have a remnant!!! Christians will be held accountable in their support for Israel!!!

"Last night, I watched a very moving moment in Israel's Holocaust Day program. There she was, a tiny woman who'd survived Hitler, accompanied by her blessedly large family. Everyone was asked to rise for the singing of Hatikva, Israel's national anthem--and so Mogadi (Esther) Unger rose, slowly, out of her wheelchair, and sang each word clearly and out loudly.

"I was unexpectedly moved to tears. Watch and listen for yourselves.

"For years now, I have struggled with the Jewish remembrance of our martyrs, including the six million who were murdered by Nazis in the Shoah.

"Haven't we been commanded to "remember to forget" Amalek--and yet, here we are, remembering the evil Amalek-like hatred that led to the mass murder of our people when we were at our most vulnerable.

"Is honoring our dead excessively a way of distracting us from the grim realities we continue to face in our lifetimes as Jews continue to be defamed, attacked, kidnapped, and murdered everywhere, anywhere, including in our own Homeland? Perhaps we are honor-bound to do so, just not excessively? 

"To some extent, as dangerous as Holocaust denial is, Holocaust memorialization may also function as a form of denial.

"How can remembering the Holocaust be a form of denial? Because in this instance it may also allow us the luxury – and the consolation – of assuming that the "worst" has already happened. Alas, this may not be true.

"With Holocaust denial rampant among Islamists and Western intellectuals, the celebration of Holocaust Memorial Day becomes more than an affirmation of the truth of the tragedy. It is also an act of defiance and moral clarity.

"In the Arab and Islamic media, Israel and Jews are labeled and portrayed as vermin and child-eating monsters. Islamists see no contradiction between caricaturing Jews in the vilest way and yet protesting, often violently, the fairly innocuous Danish cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed. Appeasers in the Western intelligentsia are quick to sympathize with Islam's injured "honor" in this matter.

"Western leftists have used the Holocaust to suit their own political purposes. Some have said that the Jews are exploiting the Holocaust in order to collect reparations money and that they have used the Holocaust to justify the creation of an "apartheid" state.

"They have also put forward their own version of Holocaust denial. Jews, they claim, are worse than Nazis, and Israel is perpetrating a "Holocaust" upon the Palestinians – the same Palestinians who send human bombs on foot, now on gliders, to murder Israeli civilians. The attacks on Israel are constant, its list of alleged crimes routinely expanded to include "ethnic cleansing," "forced transfers," and supposed "human rights violations."

"In 2006, I published the following:

“ 'Jew-haters are creating a situation in which another Holocaust-like mass murder of Jews may be possible. Indeed, in my view, it has already begun, certainly not in America and not yet in Europe – but in Israel. Today, Jews who live in the Jewish state – a nation that was initially envisioned as the solution to the ceaseless persecution of the Jews – are far more endangered than those who live in the Diaspora." . . .