"But think about it: We are all paying the costs of urban blight and decay that Democrats have brought forth. We pay them in the form of larger housing subsidy costs, bigger welfare costs, deeper economic stagnation, and more widespread cultural rot."
"All the attention being thrown at New York’s mayoral primary race, won by socialist Zohran Mamdani, raises broader questions that deserve answers. Why do voters keep electing Democrats responsible for so much urban decline and decay? What will break the left’s stranglehold on our once great cities? Is the situation simply hopeless?
"Of the nation’s largest 20 cities, only two have Republican mayors – Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas. Republicans hold the mayorships of just 25 of the 100 largest cities. And that number is down from 30 in 2020.
"More mysterious is the paradox that, despite the fact that blame for empty stores, rising crime, and the exodus of people rests squarely on the shoulders of Democrats in most of these cities, voters rarely hand control over to Republicans.
"Look at the history of the 10 largest cities and despair. Los Angeles has had one Republican mayor since 1961. New York has had one and a half since 1969 (Michael Bloomberg had been a lifelong Democrat, but ran as a Republican in 2001 and 2005, and then left the GOP midway through his second term).
"Chicago has been electing Democratic mayors since 1931, and Houston since 1982.
"Phoenix has elected Democrats for 20 years (a Republican was twice appointed as an interim mayor).
"In Philadelphia, the last time a Republican was mayor was in 1948, and it’s been 24 years since San Antonio voters picked a GOP candidate for the city’s top office.
"The other three of the top 10 cities – Dallas, San Diego, and Jacksonville – have been notable exceptions, with each having a fair share of mayors from both political parties.
"Not only do voters in the nation’s largest cities keep electing Democrats, many of the ones winning elections today are more radical than their predecessors. Seven cities are today run by socialist mayors. Ten years ago, there was one." . . .read more
. . . "And given how poorly Jackson is performing, thereby demeaning the Court, blacks, and women, a wise Democrat would side with impeachment.
"It’s no secret that Joe Biden nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the United States Supreme Court because she is a black woman.* In other words, she was not chosen for her judicial acumen, but for her political identity.
"That goes a long way to explaining the absolutely lunatic dissent she issued to a Supreme Court order. That order stayed a California district court judge’s ruling blocking President Trump from ordering agency heads to produce plans for possible “Reductions in Force.” What makes Jackson’s dissent even crazier than its lack of any intellectual foundation is her open hostility to her fellow justices and the president.
"This all began when President Trump issued Executive Order 14210 (Implementing the President’s “Department of Government Efficiency” Workforce Optimization Initiative). In the order, President Trump stated that he wanted to begin a “critical transformation of the Federal bureaucracy.” He would do this “[b]y eliminating waste, bloat, and insularity...” More
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), one of the few willing to discuss the matter publicly, emphasized the importance of respecting the Constitution and rule of law as the most effective way to counter the Trump administration’s policies.
"Democratic members of Congress are facing an alarming surge of pressure from within their own ranks to escalate opposition to President Donald Trump—pressure that, according to several lawmakers, includes disturbing suggestions that they put themselves at physical risk.
"Multiple Democratic representatives, speaking on condition of anonymity, have revealed that parts of the party base are no longer content with political resistance alone.
"Instead, some constituents are openly calling for actions that could result in bloodshed or bodily harm to elected officials.
" 'One of the more shocking things I’ve heard from constituents is that our efforts aren’t enough,” an anonymous Democrat recently told Axios. “They want something drastic—something that grabs headlines—even if it means bloodshed.” . . .
JUST IN: House Democrats are now saying that their base is urging them to abandon law and order, embrace political violence, claiming that bloodshed is needed to stop President Trump. pic.twitter.com/MytVbPHHDJ
— Proud Elephant 🇺🇸🦅 (@ProudElephantUS) July 7, 2025
On April 18, White posted, “Kill them all, ICE is the new age gestapo, stop them.”
On April 29, White shared a video clip of Border Czar Tom Homan posted by an X user “America,” and commented, “Then understand that if your ICE agents don’t show proof of identity and a signed warrant, we will kill them.”
In late April, White posted multiple threatening and violent public comments in response to coverage of several ICE arrest operations, including an ICE arrest operation inside a Virginia courthouse that occurred in April 2025. White posted, “I can’t wait to put a bullet into this guy’s brain, but first his children.” (ICE) . . .
"Although Ibarra has already been convicted, the outcome of the mental evaluation could affect how the case proceeds in the courts, according to Trending Politics."
"The illegal immigrant found guilty in the high-profile murder of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley is now undergoing a court-ordered psychological evaluation—a legal development that could open the door to further court action, despite the overwhelming evidence presented at trial.
"José Antonio Ibarra, a Venezuelan national who entered the U.S. unlawfully in 2022 and was later released by federal authorities, was convicted last November of brutally attacking and killing 22-year-old Riley while she was jogging on the University of Georgia campus.
"The case, which stunned the nation, became a symbol of growing outrage over illegal immigration and the consequences of lax border enforcement.
"After the conviction, Ibarra’s attorney filed a motion seeking a mental health assessment, arguing that Ibarra’s competency should be reviewed.
"A Georgia judge granted the request, and Ibarra will now be transferred to a state-run psychiatric facility operated by the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities." . . .
Victor Davis Hanson . . . "The other one was a famous one in 1860, when Stephen Douglas, who had those famous debates in the senatorial race in Illinois against Abraham Lincoln, was the Democratic nominee against Abraham Lincoln.
"John Breckinridge broke off from the Democratic Party and had a Southern Democratic Party. And he took enough votes away from Stephen Douglas that got Abraham Lincoln elected president with—thank God—only 40% of the vote."
Victor Davis Hanson, a senior contributor for The Daily Signal, is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and host of "The Victor Davis Hanson Show." His website, The Blade of Perseus, features columns, lectures, and exclusive content for subscribers.
"The Democrats have chosen form over substance. The president gets things done while his opponents opt for dramatic arts.
"Two Democratic leaders have spoken longer than my verbose college roommate. Corey Booker spoke in the Senate for 25 hours. Hakeem Jeffries last week added nearly another 9 hours of Democratic talking, talking, talking. That Senator Spartacus and Congressman Magic Minute could talk for a day and a half is certainly impressive.Did their rhetorical tour-de-force performances actually accomplish anything? The answer is a solid no. Nothing changed on the ground—but that was never expected. They just wanted to go through the motions. Meanwhile, Donald Trump sent out a couple of messages regarding voting for his spending bill, and all but two Republicans in the House lined up. That’s the difference between performance and action.
"And this is the trajectory of the Democratic Party. When Barack Obama became president and was awarded a Nobel Prize soon thereafter, people noted that he had a very thin resume. Community organizer, local politician in Illinois and 2 years in the Senate. At the time, he reminded me of our college custom of adding every organization we ever visited to our yearbook list of activities. Think about Ike and his leadership in the battle against Nazism. Every president up until Bill Clinton had served in the armed forces. Many of them had been in politics for ages, like LBJ who was the dean of the Senate. With Barack Obama, the Democrats moved from substance to performative politics. And the country has suffered accordingly.
"AOC famously cried outside of cages used for holding illegal aliens. Did her tears accomplish anything beyond headlines and clicks? Much of what we did during Covid was performative: masks, six foot separations, closings of schools. None of these activities actually reduced the spread of the human-manipulated virus. Rather, it put in the minds of the public that its health leaders “were doing something” about the virus. If they had said that the best course of action was to let the virus run through the population while protecting those at risk, people would have been indignant: Do something! But everything they did—including the vaccines—had dubious effects on the actual trajectory of the pandemic. By shutting down society, the virus simply took much longer to become one of the many background bugs we face every year. The vaccines may have played a role in some of the later mutants that seemed impervious to multiple shots of mRNA drugs." . . .
"And, contra the idiot Dana Bash on CNN, it isn’t because of Trump budget cuts that the NWS didn’t get the word out. It turned out that the NWS had more forecasters working that storm than normal because they saw there was the potential for a big rain and flash-flooding event"
"We go through this virtually every time some tragedy hits. I don’t know about you, but I’m absolutely sick of it. And after what happened in the Texas Hill Country over the July 4 weekend, in which flash flooding claimed a death toll of at least 80 and probably more than 100, many of them children who were at summer camps along the suddenly swollen Guadalupe River, the epidemic of ghoulish behavior among the talking heads and operatives of the Democrat Party and the Left has gone entirely off the rails.
"What they want you to believe, in a fashion directly related to the immediate cries for infringement on your gun rights every time some deranged creep loses his cool and conducts a mass shooting, is that the hill country flash floods are President Trump’s fault. Why this is purportedly so is an exercise in magical thinking — the logic is little better than that MAGA has insulted the weather gods, and thus the children have suffered.
"And some of it is even worse than that. As the victims of the hill country flooding are mostly white conservatives, some of the river ghouls are having notable difficulty summoning up much sympathy for the dead and their families.
"The woman posting that last bit is a pediatrician from Houston who got herself rightly fired from the doctor’s office where she worked.
"I’m going to try to steer clear of most of that bile. It isn’t healthy to spend much time inside the heads of loons who are that irrationally hateful toward innocent people they’ve never even met. Suffice it to say that when your life is not spent trying to get into heaven, either because you don’t believe in God or because you worship at the altar of an ideology that promises to deliver heaven right here on earth, you lose all the behavioral speedbumps which would stop you from politicizing and pathologizing every event that can be politicized or pathologized.
"No, there is nothing Donald Trump or Kristie Noem could have done to stop the flash floods in Hunt, Ingram, Kerrville, and other towns in central Texas." . . .
"A pediatrician has been fired over a vile post suggesting that the more than 80 killed in the horrific Texas floods — including dozens of kids — were President Trump supporters who got “what they voted for.”
Dr. Christina B. Propst drew widespread scorn following the disparaging, since-deleted post under her old Facebook username, Chris Tina, according to Mediaite.
“May all visitors, children, non-MAGA voters and pets be safe and dry,” Probst wrote in the now-viral post.
horrific Texas floods — including dozens of kids — were President Trump supporters who got “what they voted for.”
Dr. Christina B. Propst drew widespread scorn following the disparaging, since-deleted post under her old Facebook username, Chris Tina, according to Mediaite.
“Kerr County MAGA voted to gut FEMA. They deny climate change. May they get what they voted for. Bless their hearts.”
"The Facebook post quickly went viral after a screenshot was shared by Libs of TikTok.
"Propst’s employer, Blue Fish Pediatrics, initially said the employee had been suspended — before announcing that “the individual is no longer employed” there.
“As we previously mentioned in our original statement, we strongly condemn the comments that were made in that post. That post does not reflect the values, standards, or mission of Blue Fish Pediatrics,” the company said." . . .
"ABC’s lead Sunday morning anchor is not letting facts get in the way of a political narrative, even after losing a $16 million lawsuit to President Trump and when bodies from a tragedy are still warm.
"Many other children who were at Camp Mystic have gone missing and are still unaccounted for.
"'Trump hassigneda “Major Disaster Declaration” for much-needed relief for Kerr County, while Coast Guard officials and Texas first responders have saved over850lives so far.
"However, Stephanopoulos seized on this tragedy during his Sunday ABC show and saw an opportunity to blame the Trump Administration for deaths from the flooding, alleging they cut funding to the National Weather Service (NWS).
“We’re also learning there were significant staffing shortfalls to the National Weather Services offices in the region,” Stephanopoulos stated." WATCH:
"This would be disturbing news if true. But unsurprisingly, it turns out Stephanopoulos was spreading an easily-debunked lie so that he could make Trump look like a villain again."
“ 'We’re also learning there were significant staffing shortfalls to the National Weather Services offices in the region,” Stephanopoulos stated.
"This would be disturbing news if true. But unsurprisingly, it turns out Stephanopoulos was spreading an easily-debunked lie so that he could make Trump look like a villain again.
"Not only was there no staffing shortfall, but there were EXTRA staffers on duty for the storms. What a whopper of a lie." . . .
Twitchy"No matter how many times this editor writes about the Left using some horrific tragedy to play politics and score cheap points, it still shocks and bothers us every time we see it, especially when the tragedy involves children. We suppose after all this time, we shouldn't be surprised when the Left is more than willing to dance on the graves of children if that means they can somehow blame Trump for whatever the latest tragedy may have been."...
White House Deputy Secretary Abigail Jackson responded to Stephanopoulos’s tall tale by sharing a story from Wired, which also confirms the National Weather Service and Trump did nothing wrong.“This is absolute fake news and even Wired knows it,” she wrote.
Let’s be honest, all politicians have the capacity to be really gross people. There is seemingly nothing they will not exploit to advance their own careers. For many, human decency was either sold out or never existed in them to begin with. Can’t we do better than people who exploit tragedy to get ahead?" . . . (more behind a paywall)
RedState "Jason Kelce is eviscerated by the left after a July 4th post."
"Man I love the 4th! One of the great days we all can set aside our differences in this country, and enjoy the one thing we all share in common. That we are American! Cheers to you oh beautiful America," he posted.
"It would seem like a patriotic, inoffensive July 4 post celebrating America on her 249th birthday and lauding the commonality we all share.
"Recently retired Philadelphia Eagles great Jason Kelce took to social media Friday to declare his “love for the 4th!” Nothing wrong with that, right?
"Man I love the 4th! One of the great days we all can set aside our differences in this country, and enjoy the one thing we all share in common. That we are American!
Cheers to you oh beautiful America.
"But nooooo, leftists didn’t like that. How dare you praise the country that is oh so evil, that wants to imprison everyone, that is worse than Iran, that is now a Donald Trump autocracy?
"Poor Kelce—the craziness came hard, and it came quick:
Almost immediately, he was ripped in the comments.
Kelce's post came hours after President Donald Trump signed the "big, beautiful bill," which seemed to be the catalyst for the backlash in the former NFL player's comment section.
"Set aside differences? One party wants to feed children. The other wants to feed brown people to alligators," one person wrote.
"Unfortunately Jason this is not real life for many. They signed the worst bill for so many Americans today just to rub it in our faces. I know it’s hard to understand, but so many will suffer," another added.
Another user called his post "tone deaf."
. . . "This isn’t an endorsement of Jason Kelce—his wild antics are not for everyone, and as the brother of Kansas City Chiefs star Travis, or Taylor Swift’s boyfriend, as some know him—he’s bound to take some incoming. But is it really fair to smash him over saying he loves July 4th, fireworks, and putting our differences aside for one day?"
. . ."Keep in mind, Mamdani has only been an American citizen for six years. Yet he pretends to be an authority on what America is and how it should be. It's an unseemly amount of arrogance from a man who has never even held a real job unless you count his failed rap career (no, I'm not joking). That he also falsely claimed to be black in a bid to get into Columbia University doesn't exactly speak well of his character either.
"Mamdani is a dishonest, antisemitic grifter who is so deranged that he defended members of Al Qaeda. He has no expertise. He has no abilities. He does not speak for America. He would be a disaster for New York City and the country, given the economic influence at play, and his Fourth of July post is yet more evidence of everything wrong with his candidacy." . . .
