Common Sense Is Highly Contagious — Except Among Dems

 Issues & Insights  

Democrats are even touting incomparably dense and unqualified Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is currently abusing taxpayer money to join the mysteriously rich socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders on a “fight the oligarchy” tour, as their next presidential candidate.

"At a town hall meeting last week, Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez — one of the few moderate Democrats left in the world — made a perfectly common-sensical statement: “Americans believe that only U.S. citizens should be determining the outcome of American elections.”

"She was greeted with a torrent shouts, boos, and profanity, signs that said “shame” from her constituents, and was ushered out of room for “security reasons.”

"After President Donald Trump called for a “revolution of common sense,” it spread like a virus – except among Democrats, who appear to have a natural immunity.

"Trump has been implementing his common-sense agenda at a breakneck speed, whether it’s restoring order at the border, protecting taxpayers from waste and fraud, insisting that foreign policy focus on what’s best for the U.S., dispensing with DEI, transgenderism, and other leftist projects that defy common sense, protecting parental rights. 

"The most important thing Trump has done, however, has been to make it safe again for everyday Americans to express common-sense views.

"That illegal immigrants should be sent back to their home countries. That borders should be secure and streets safe. That it’s OK to buy reliable, affordable gas cars. That vast amounts of government spending is wasteful. That there are only two genders. That discrimination is never acceptable, no matter how you dress it up. That companies should focus on serving consumers, not anti-capitalist zealots. That violence for political ends is never justified.

"Major corporations are rejecting DEI, now that it’s safe to admit what they knew all along – that it increased strife among workers, alienated customers, and didn’t help their bottom lines. Likewise, corporations are abandoning the uber-woke “environment, social, governance” investment ideology for the same reason.

"Female athletes increasingly feel empowered to reject the dangerously misguided idea that they should have to compete against men suffering gender dysphoria.

"Even Hollywood seems to be catching the common-sense bug." . .  .

Rep. Elise Stefanik tells Post she’s in ‘strongest position’ to defeat NY Gov. Kathy Hochul as she mulls 2026 run

NY Post  

Stefanik also singled out former Gov. Andrew Cuomo — the clear leader in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary — and said she would immediately roll back the law allowing non-citizens to obtain drivers’ licenses, as well as lefty bail reforms, adding that Hochul “doubled down” on the worst decisions made by her predecessor. 

"Rep. Elise Stefanik believes she’s “in the strongest position to defeat” Gov. Hochul and become the first Republican leader of New York state in nearly 20 years, as she inches closer to a 2026 challenge.

:In an exclusive interview with The Post, Stefanik (R-NY) confidently rattled off several “Day 1” priorities for a potential term — tax, education, crime, immigration and energy — before taking a shot at the unpopular liberal governor.

" 'Unlike Kathy Hochul, who was defeated after one term in Congress, we have a record of winning — not just Republicans but winning independents and a fair percentage of Democrats,” she sniped" . . .

. . ."Asked what her platform would look like, the “born and bred” upstate New Yorker ripped several of Hochul’s policies — including her recent refusal to fully ban masks worn by anti-Israel demonstrators who have harassed Jewish New Yorkers.

" 'This is an area where Hochul has absolutely failed. Albany and New York Democrats have failed to protect Jewish citizens, not just Jewish students, but Jewish families across this state,” she said, noting how Harvard University President Claudine Gay was forced to resign after telling Congress that calls for the genocide of Jews were permissible on her campus — depending on the “context.”

“Kathy Hochul and Democrats, they have refused to condemn, they have refused to institute policies and actually ensure that we have rule of law and protection for Jewish individuals, and they’ve refused to condemn antisemitism,” she added." . . .

Democrats were Roosevelt, Truman and JFK; now they are AOC, Maxine Waters, Crockett and Tim Walz

The party vested in the failure of America and Israel 

 “Californians are realizing that the @CA_Dem left them and sanity behind. You’re not alone. Choosing law and order, freedom, and common sense is the right move!”  Sheriff Alex Villanueva 

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

..."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."...

Former L.A. County Sheriff Ditches Democrat Party: ‘Joining the Party of Faith, Family, and Freedom’   "Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva revealed that he was leaving the Democrat Party, after being a registered Democrat for more than 40 years, and joining the Republican Party.

“As of today, I’m leaving the party of paid protests, purple hair, and pronouns, and joining the party of faith, family, and freedom,” Villanueva said in a video posted to X.

 During the COVID-19 pandemic, Villanueva refused to enforce a directive to close beaches over the Fourth of July weekend. In July 2021, Villanueva also stated that he would not use the department’s “limited resources” to enforce a mask mandate, noting that it was “not backed by science.”

“Forcing the vaccinated and those who already contracted COVID-19 to wear masks indoors is not backed by science and contradicts the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines,” Villanueva wrote at the time.

Why these Democrats are defecting to the Republican Party | Vox 

"Each of the state lawmakers have their individual reasons. West Virginia Republican Party chair Elgine McArdle said in a statement that Pritt had realized that the “Democratic Party of today is not the Democratic Party that our parents grew up with.” Cotham said that she was bullied by her Democratic colleagues and that the Republican Party is a better fit for her values, even though she’s previously sided with Democrats on many of the most divisive issues, including abortion rights and LGBTQ rights. Thompson said that he’s felt pushed out of the Democratic Party because its stance on certain issues is incompatible with his religious views. LaCombe did not offer up his own reasoning."

 The Democratic Party has a man problem - Washington Examiner   

"Explanations are aplenty for the Democratic Party’s precipitous decline in popularity. Many on the Left have blamed “messaging,” conveniently enough, as if their deeply unpopular ideas would suddenly turn popular if they were “messaged” correctly. Others have criticized the party’s lack of commitment to its core ideas — or to any ideas at all. Still more have accused the party of being overly committed to too many preposterous ideas of the cultural variety." 2/25 

D-DAY NORMANDY WW2 - Then and now

Ignacio Veutro Productions  "On the morning of D-Day, in the first waves there were photographers who disembarked alongside the the infantry and specialist engineers, putting their lives at risk to show the whole world this historic moment

"The photographic record they left, made it possible to show the harshness of the events and the heroism with which the protagonists faced the situation

"At Omaha Beach, Easy Red Section, several brave photographers landed, including Robert Capa, Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Robert L. Sargent and Captain Herman V. Wall "In memory of all the people who fought and they left their lives for a better world". . .

Comments:

Thank you for this video. I have seen quite a few then and nows from many different channels all with good and not so good ways of transitioning. This is a good example of how important it is to transition BACK to original clip as it adds to the impact. Some don't and It loses a lot of the effect.

"There is a reason they are referred to as the greatest generation of our time. They faced unbelievable odds and witnessed horrors like they had never seen before. Yet they continued to charge forward. Many of them were just boys as young as 16,17, and 18 yrs old. A lot of them lied to the military recruiters at the time of their enlistment. Many signing up to go to war right after the attack on Pearl Harbor. These boys became men on that day. Many with vengeance on their minds and patriotism in their hearts. May God bless everyone of them. Because without their sacrifice the world would be a very different place today. God bless them all and God bless America. May we never forget."

And they fostered the generation that slowly began the end of Jim Crow and black/ white separation. TD

Democrats embrace the f-bomb

Democrats embrace the f-bomb 

"Profanity, once seen as taboo in politics, has been increasingly common to hear from lawmakers and candidates on both sides of the aisle over the last few years, in line with a broader societal uptick in the acceptance of profanity across the last few decades." 

. . ."Democrat Nathan Sage last week launched his campaign by decrying that farmers have been “f‑‑‑ed over” and vowing to “kick corporate Republican [Sen.] Joni Ernsts’s a‑‑” in the midterms. 

"A spokesperson for the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) hit back, arguing that Democrats “seem obsessed with saying ‘f‑‑‑ing’ and ‘a‑‑’ as the strategy to win back the voters that rejected them in 2024.” They pointed The Hill to examples of sitting congressional Democrats leaning on the language lately." . . . 

Ilhan Omar Repeatedly Curses at Reporter Who Asked Her a Simple Question

Trump has said a lot of things to reporters but I don't recall "F*ck Off" being one. Hats off to Ilhan Omar for a new low. https://t.co/b29B1ZbqKl

— Jillian Michaels (@JillianMichaels) May 1, 2025

. . . " 'This woman has no class, no gratitude to America, and no honor. Truly a disgrace to the US Congress," Turning Point USA's Charlie Kirk posted on X."

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.