Thursday, August 21, 2025

Democrats rage at Trump’s every move but offer no real alternative—only fury, obstruction, and failed policies voters have already rejected.

 Victor Davis Hanson  

"Nothing seems to destroy him—not the raid on his home, not 93 lawfare indictments, not efforts to strike him from state ballots, not two impeachments, not even two assassination attempts. Instead, all that only made him stronger—and thus more hated." 


"The Pavlovian Left goes berserk at the mere prospect of each new Trump initiative.

"Its escalating reactive venom and hysteria are calibrated to the success of Trump’s latest policy.

"Yet the new hard-left Democratic Party offers no counter-agenda to explain its furor.

"Still less do Democrats attempt bipartisan efforts to craft shared legislation.

"Take foreign policy.

"Democrat senators trashed the recent Trump-Putin Alaskan summit as a failure. Then they became depressed when, just days later, an entourage of European leaders and President Zelensky of Ukraine suddenly flew to the White House.

"The Euros praised Trump for offering some sort of negotiated pathway to peace after over three years of war and some 1.5 million dead, wounded, missing, and captured on both sides—on Europe’s doorstep.

"So why did Democrats object to such negotiations by Trump?

"Was the reason that no such thing occurred during the Biden administration, when Putin invaded Ukraine, after his earlier invasions during the Obama era?

"What is the left’s alternate plan? The old Biden idea of supplying Ukraine with enough money and arms to keep fighting and dying, but with no path to either victory or a negotiated peace?

"Would they prefer a fourth, fifth, or sixth year of war, or an additional one million casualties?

"The more Trump pressed almost all NATO members to pay their promised two percent of GDP on defense, the more Democrats grew irate over Trump’s overseas influence.

"NATO members now want to raise defense spending to five percent of GDP and gush that Trump is “Daddy.”

"Democrats steamed at that, since Europeans are supposed to hate Trump, not admire him for rebooting NATO.

"Would they prefer the old, disarmed NATO?

"Under the Biden administration, over 10 million illegal aliens flooded the country, sometimes 10,000 a day at the southern border.

"More than half a million criminals swarmed in.

"Yet now there is essentially zero illegal immigration and over 100,000 criminal aliens deported. A million who entered illegally have voluntarily gone home.

"Yet the left has fought the enforcement of immigration law tooth and nail.

"Do they believe that it is lawful and moral to break immigration law but immoral and illegal to enforce it?

"What is their solution?" . . .  More...

Morano on OAN TV: ‘Trump & Zeldin have been the most consequential dismantlers of the entire climate agenda’ since it’s inception . . .

Climate Depot   ...‘I’ve been on the climate beat for over 25 years & I have never seen anything like this’

https://www.terrellaftermath.com/

Tonight, on Real America w/ @DanNewsManBall - https://t.co/6d9CFQdR0L Founder Marc Morano @ClimateDepot - Do you agree with President Trump's plan on American energy independence?

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Ann Coulter   

"Given the Democrats' history of cheerfully inflicting harm on young men, I now realize it's appalling that Trump got only 75% of their vote."


"Democrats are panicking over the fact that young white men hate them.

"In the 2024 presidential election, whites were the only demographic group that gave Donald Trump a majority of its votes, as has been the case for every Republican presidential candidate since 1964. This rather important statistic is known by exactly zero Republicans.

"I wonder if Japanese political consultants get as excited about how many white votes they get as the GOP is about their non-white votes. How about consultants for the African National Congress? We've GOT to figure out a way to increase our white vote!

"Despite conservatives' 30-year obsession with winning over black voters (not to mention Jared Kushner's deep insights into the black psyche), in 2024, Trump "surged" to a pathetic 15% of the black vote.

"The only really surprising thing about last year's election is that Trump won white men under 20, with about 75% -- the highest percentage of any demographic by race and age. Gen Z and millennial white men were practically pikers compared to the 18- and 19-year-olds, giving Trump a mere 67% of their vote.

"Alarmed by young white men's poor "allyship," the Democratic National Committee recently rolled out a $20 million program to win over these selfish louts, who do not leap for joy at a party that wants them dead.

"Plan A: Send a fat, Latina lesbian to hold pizza parties with frat boys. Result: four fraternities invited; zero acceptances.

"Plan B: There is no Plan B. Consequently, every liberal is brainstorming ideas to appeal to young white males. In The New York Times this week, authors Robert Putnam and Richard Reeves propose appealing to young men's innate yearning for honor, self-reliance and heroism by bringing back the Boy Scouts.

"Whatever happened to the Boy Scouts, anyway? Oh, I remember! The Democratic Party vaporized them."

 "One of the exhibits in my Museum of the Democrat Party shows a troop of Boy Scouts taking the stage at the 2000 Democratic convention -- and getting loudly booed by the delegates. It seems the Supreme Court had recently declined progressives' demand that the group allow gay men to take young boys on overnight camping trips". . .

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

No Surprise: 88% of Students Confess They Pretend to be Left-Wing Just to be Left Alone

Ace of Spades

"It's not a surprise, but I'm glad there's confirmation. We can only roll back this evil once it is acknowledged.

On today's college campuses, students are not maturing -- they're managing. Beneath a facade of progressive slogans and institutional virtue-signaling lies a quiet psychological crisis, driven by the demands of ideological conformity.

Between 2023 and 2025, we conducted 1,452 confidential interviews with undergraduates at Northwestern University and the University of Michigan. We were not studying politics -- we were studying development. Our question was clinical, not political: "What happens to identity formation when belief is replaced by adherence to orthodoxy?"

We asked: Have you ever pretended to hold more progressive views than you truly endorse to succeed socially or academically? An astounding 88 percent said yes.

These students were not cynical, but adaptive. In a campus environment where grades, leadership, and peer belonging often hinge on fluency in performative morality, young adults quickly learn to rehearse what is safe.

The result is not conviction but compliance. And beneath that compliance, something vital is lost.

Late adolescence and early adulthood represent a narrow and non-replicable developmental window. It is during this stage that individuals begin the lifelong work of integrating personal experience with inherited values, forming the foundations of moral reasoning, internal coherence, and emotional resilience.

"Of course, this is the whole point: You can only mold impressionable minds, not older, more mature minds whose beliefs and political leanings are already set.

"Get 'em while they're young, says the Groomer Cult." . . .

Adam Schiff, Facing Criminal Investigation, Forms Legal Defense Fund UPDATED, Thur; 8/21

 


. . . "The whistleblower also claims that his/her concerns about the criminality of such actions were blown off by “unnamed members” of the group that Schiff reportedly assembled:" . . .
Adam Schiff, Facing Criminal Investigation, Forms Legal Defense Fund
 "After failing to convince the Senate to convict Trump, Schiff went on to serve on the one-sided January 6 Committee, which protected then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and again held secret hearings in which witnesses had few due process rights. The committee later destroyed its documents to cover up its work.
Newly declassified FBI reports allege that Schiff and Swalwell knowingly leaked classified information 
. . . "Nevertheless, Schiff and Swalwell are unlikely to face prison for their alleged wrongdoing. That’s because the limitations period for what they allegedly did is five years from the date of discovery. Someone in the DOJ, who must surely have known that leaking classified information to the media does not have constitutional protection, wanted to ensure that these men and their staffers remained free."

Matt Gaetz Interviews Ed Martin: Did Adam Schiff and the January 6th committee mishandle or even destroy key evidence?  Video

On Monday, Just the News broke the news that a Democrat whistleblower told the FBI in 2017 that Adam Schiff okayed leaking classified documents with the intent to harm President Trump.   . . . "This same Democrat whistleblower told the FBI agents from the agency’s St. Louis office again in 2023 that he personally attended a meeting at which Schiff authorized leaking classified information. The FBI brass did nothing. Chris Wray did nothing. The FBI under Chris Wray allowed these criminal acts to take place. Chris Wray has a long record of allowing the bureau to engage in criminal acts under his direction."

UPDATED: Bed, Bath, and Beyond Takes a Shocking Stand and Outright Nukes Gavin Newsom's California

 RedState   

"In a rare move for a major corporation, home furnishing brand Bed, Bath, and Beyond woke up on Wednesday and chose violence. In a scathing statement, the company announced it will not be opening any stores in California, explaining that the state's overregulation and tax structure make it too risky. "


 . . . "All of this was preventable. California is a textbook example of what happens when you give left-wingers total control and let their hubris run wild. Yes, long-standing industries and foundational successes that started long before the Newsom era continue to keep the state afloat, but that won't continue forever. You can, in fact, push things too far, and we've seen examples of that over recent years. For example, In-N-Out Burger, a California staple, is choosing to do its latest expansion in the Republican South, including moving its headquarters. Meanwhile, Newsom is having to get on bended knee and beg oil companies not to abandon his state, and there are a lot more companies in other sectors looking to get out as well, from healthcare to technology. 

"Bed, Bath, and Beyond, and these other companies pulling no punches and making these decisions represents a major shift. Corporations usually tread lightly when it comes to California because they don't want to face repercussions from the vindictive Democrats in charge, but with the cost-to-benefit ratio swinging heavily in favor of just telling the state to pound sand, times are changing. 

"It's sad because California is such a beautiful state with so many great people still living there. There are parts of the state that are a literal paradise, and Democrats have turned them into crime-ridden, overtaxed areas where normal people can't even afford to live because a 50-year-old starter home will cost you a million dollars. It doesn't have to be that way forever, but it will be if voters there don't change course. Unfortunately, things will probably have to get worse before they get better before that happens."  Full article...

UPDATE: Gavin Newsom's Social Media Team Now Making Fun of Assassination       If Trump had died, the laughter would be uproarious



Trump predicts the ‘Typhoid Mary of Disinformation’ will soon get the ax at MSNBC

 Am""erican Wire News 

In March, Trump called for Wallace and her conspiracy-mongering lesbian colleague, Rachel Maddow, to be ousted over their ghastly remarks about 13-year-old DJ Daniel, a brain cancer survivor whom he presented with an honorary Secret Service badge and was a guest at his speech to a joint session of Congress."


. . . "Trump’s prediction came as he shared a post depicting the former Bush White House Communications Director as a clown and noting her “Typhoid Mary” nickname with the caption of “Nicole Wallace is afraid of losing her job. Get her a waaambulance.”
"The president was also referring to Wallace being “thrown off” the ABC daytime gabfest, where she had a brief stint as a co-host from 2014-2015, whining that she learned from Variety that she’d been fired.
" 'I loved the job. I had no plans of quitting. I think I thought that I would learn somewhere other than Variety that I’d been fired. It shattered my naivete about television. Listen, it’s all fair. I wasn’t wronged by anybody. But I was surprised to learn in the press about their decision not to bring me back,” she told the showbiz outlet at the time.
"During Friday’s coverage of the Trump-Putin meeting, Wallace took numerous swipes at Trump, at one point seeming to suggest something homosexual about it.
' “There’s a lot of touching,” she said. “I don’t know that we always see him touching Melania as much as he touched Putin today.”
"Trump has previously criticized the “Typhoid Mary of Disinformation” and, in a 2020 post to Twitter, later rebranded as X, he ripped her as a “3rd rate lapdog for Fake News MSDNC” while also bringing up her short career at “The View.”
"In March, Trump called for Wallace and her conspiracy-mongering lesbian colleague, Rachel Maddow, to be ousted over their ghastly remarks about 13-year-old DJ Daniel, a brain cancer survivor whom he presented with an honorary Secret Service badge and was a guest at his speech to a joint session of Congress." . . .

California-Chosen Rep. Eric Swalwell Threatens To Doxx Masked ICE Agents If Dems Regain House

 Legal Insurrection  

"You hear that, ICE agents? If Democrats come back to power they will dox you so cartels can go after your families and try to put you in prison."

 "I have a secret confession to reveal about California Congressman Eric Swalwell. I’ve never told anyone this.

"I confuse him with Adam Schiff.

"The only way I can remember which is which is through visualization." . . .

"Got it – Fang Fang.

"Now that we have the right person.

"I have a question.

"I guess I’ll skip the question.

"On August 16, 2025, Swalwell threatened that if Democrats regain control of the House in 2026, they will “unmask” ICE agents who wear masks to conceal their identities to protect them from from gangs and antifa-types.

Hamas Agrees to Ceasefire-Hostage Release Deal With Israel

American Greatness   "Hamas has agreed to a new proposal for a ceasefire-hostage release deal with Israel." . . .

Autopsy finds 6 hostages were shot multiple times at close range in last 48-72 hours |Sep 1, 2024

"The “comprehensive two-stage plan” was based on a framework advanced by US envoy Steve Witkoff and presented to Hamas by Qatari and Egyptian mediators, according to the BBC.

It would see Hamas free around half of the 50 remaining Israeli hostages – 20 of whom are believed to be alive – in two stages during a 60-day temporary truce. During that time, there would be negotiations on a permanent ceasefire and an Israeli troop withdrawal.

"The Egyptian and Qatari mediators reportedly met with Hamas representatives Sunday in Cairo, and presented them with the plan.

"In a post on Facebook Monday, Hamas leader Basem Naim said Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups had agreed to the deal: “The movement has submitted its response 💚 approving the new mediators’ proposal,” Naim wrote in Arabic. “We pray to God to extinguish the fire of this war against our people.”

"The deal was reached ahead of a major Israeli offensive to occupy Gaza City and just hours after President Donald Trump said Hamas needed to be “confronted and destroyed,” Axios noted.

“ 'We will only see the return of the remaining hostages when Hamas is confronted and destroyed!!!,” Trump posted on Truth Social Monday morning. “The sooner this takes place, the better the chances of success will be. Remember, I was the one who negotiated and got hundreds of hostages freed and released into Israel (and America!). I was the one who ended 6 wars, in just 6 months. I was the one who OBLITERATED Iran’s Nuclear facilities. Play to WIN, or don’t play at all!”

"The plan is reportedly “98 percent similar” to the last U.S.-backed proposal, but the deal fell though when Hamas refused to sign on.

Hamas said at the time that it would only free the remaining hostages if Israel agreed to end the 22-month war. But Netanyahu said that would only happen once Hamas was disarmed and released all the hostages.

"On Sunday, more than 200,000 Israelis took to the streets to demand Netanyahu not launch the new offensive in Gaza, and instead sign a deal to bring back the hostages. It was the biggest anti-war protest since the beginning of the war, according to Axios.

"The Gaza War began in response to Hamas’ surprise attack in southern Israel on 7 October 2023. The terrorists killed about 1,200 people—mostly civilians—in the attack, and took another 251 hostage."

Jewish educator fights back when confronted at Auschwitz for waving Israeli flag  From the comments to this post:

Ms.Korchak should be very proud of herself!! She has guts and the wherewithal to stand up for her religion & the state of Israel.

Social media has been teaching people misinformation about Jews & Israel for years, now. It is time for human beings that don’t hate Jews & Israel to fight back with words & counter terrorism information.

Am Israel Chai!!!

Trump’s Secret Weapon Deserves a World Record

The American Spectator; Deroy Murdock/  

"Here, revealed at last, is President Donald J. Trump’s secret weapon: The man has cojones the size of the Las Vegas Sphere."

. . . "Trump does not pick the easy fights. Too many Republicans are happy to cut a tax or two, sign a few proclamations, and call it a day. Why challenge the Left? They might push back. Political fights? Oooh, messy. No, thanks. Let’s be friends.
"This battered-wife approach (“The Left beats me because they love me”) defined such GOP invertebrates as Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, both presidents Bush, and too many governors and state lawmakers to count.
"Unlike these weaklings, Trump does not avoid battles. He dominates them with Gatling guns ablaze. Even more so in his second term, Trump is compiling victories as Democrats fail to foil a Republican who is unburdened by general, unfocused fear.
"Trump’s takeover of Washington, D.C.’s police department is just such an initiative. Most Republicans would lack the courage to confront Democrat Mayor Muriel Bowser. Only Trump would imagine running the DCPD via his Justice Department.
"Trump’s move so floored Bowser that she sounds conciliatory and even hopes that the City Council will ditch D.C.’s sanctuary-city status. This is as close as Democrats get to eating out of Trump’s hand.
" 'Over 160 illegal aliens have been arrested, including known gang members and those with additional charges: assault, kidnapping, burglary, larceny, commercialized sexual offenses, smuggling illegal drugs like heroin, and more,” a White House official told the Daily Caller on Monday. “Last night 22 multi-agency teams were deployed throughout all 7 districts in D.C. There were more than 1,950 participants in last night’s operations.”
"The results already are in.
"According to a Monday morning D.C. Police Union X post, “DC crime since the announcement of federal control versus the 7 days prior:”
Robbery: Down 46%
Assault with a Deadly Weapon: Down 6%
Carjacking: Down 83%
Car Theft: Down 21%
Violent Crime: Down 22%
Property Crime: Down 6%
All Crimes: Down 8%
“Turns out you can just start arresting criminals and scare them out of victimizing innocent people,” Senator Mike Lee (R– Utah) observed via X. “Did the DC Council know that was an option?” . . . More...

Tuesday, August 19, 2025

On Russia Collusion the Scaffold of Lies Has Fallen

The American Spectator   

"What began as a desperate campaign tactic — Russia! Hacking! Pee tapes! — has now collapsed into the most damaging political hoax in American history."

Toon added by TD

  "There comes a moment in every decaying republic when the lies no longer hold. The slogans fade. The headlines rot. The euphemisms curdle. And those who built the scaffold of deceit find themselves suddenly visible — exposed to a people no longer interested in pretending.

"We have reached that moment.

"What began as a desperate campaign tactic — Russia! Hacking! Pee tapes! — has now collapsed into the most damaging political hoax in American history. It was not just a dirty trick. It was a coordinated operation to reverse the outcome of a presidential election using the organs of the state, the megaphone of the press, and the cowardice of institutions.

"And now the receipts are in.

"Tulsi Gabbard, in her improbable but timely role as Director of National Intelligence, has declassified documents proving that Barack Obama and his senior officials knowingly overrode actual intelligence to invent a narrative of “Russian collusion.” This wasn’t politicization. It was fabrication. The intelligence state was not used to serve the republic — it was used to sabotage it.

Treason in a Tailored Suit

"There is no polite word for what occurred. It was, by the plain definition of the term, treason: an attempt to remove a duly elected president by illegal means. Not with tanks, but with leaks. Not by gunfire, but by talking point. 

"And it worked — for a time. Trump’s presidency was hobbled from the outset. Every decision, every appointment, every foreign engagement was filtered through the manufactured cloud of Russian suspicion. The people who concocted it assumed they would never be found out. That they would leave behind only the stain, not the fingerprints.

"They miscalculated

The House Built on Deceit

"The Russia hoax was never meant to stand alone. When it faltered, it was reinforced — by media hysteria, impeachment theatre, COVID absolutism, mail-in voting, and the moral hallucinations of a culture that began to insist that men could give birth and toddlers could choose their gender.

"It was all scaffolding—designed to obscure, distract, and deny the most basic truths.

"This wasn’t just about removing Trump. It was about removing the possibility of any future president like him: populist, nationalist, untamed, and, most importantly, unapproved. The system would not survive another breach of its illusion of consent.

"So the media became not watchdogs but collaborators. They parroted. They promoted. They punished dissent. And when the lie began to unravel, they pivoted — to Epstein, to January 6, to anything that might move the eye from the exposed gears of the machine.

"But Truth Returns

"And yet the scaffold of lies has fallen. Not with a bang, but a shuddering collapse

IDF prepares for ‘decisive defeat of Hamas’

JNS  

“At the end of the day, we will have to penetrate inside Gaza City, and I think that everyone who stays there will be considered a militant. Otherwise, he would have gone. He knows the threats, he knows that we are coming in with large forces,” Knafo said."


Following the Israeli Security Cabinet’s decision to prepare for a final, large-scale military takeover of Gaza City, the war against Hamas is entering its most decisive phase. The impending operation, which will reportedly involve an estimated 80,000 soldiers, is aimed at dismantling the last major stronghold of the terror organization, which continues to hold 20 living Israeli hostages and the bodies of 30 additional hostages.

Former senior Israeli defense officials have stated in recent days that this high-stakes offensive is a necessary and long-overdue step to achieve the war’s ultimate objectives. They argued that the success of the mission will hinge not just on military force, but on Israel’s ability to project determination and to strategically separate the civilian population from Hamas’s control, thereby forcing the terror group’s collapse as a regime and power broker in Gaza.

Shalom Arbel, a former senior member of the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) who served extensively in Gaza, told JNS that Hamas, guided by a long-term jihadist Islamist ideology bent on Israel’s destruction at all costs, operates like a ruthless real estate dealer, constantly making a cost-benefit analysis.

" 'Hamas operates on the basis of its satanic agenda, which is the doctrine of the Muslim Brotherhood,” said Arbel. This ideology views the Land of Israel as Islamic territory that “must be returned to Islam. Now that doesn’t mean that this must be within five years or twenty years. This is a long journey from their view, until ‘redemption.’ It’s an eternal journey.”

“ 'Hamas, in my acquaintance with it, conducts a daily situation assessment and calculation of its steps, and looks for the steps that will most bring it closer to this goal,” Arbel said. “Its goal is to bleed Israel, exhaust its power socially and nationally and militarily,t o cause it economic damage.”


"However, if Hamas “sees that Israel is determined—even if it’s not fully realized, but that Israel is getting close [to seizing all of Gaza]—it will carry out what is called loss minimization and will raise a flag and say, ‘Stop, let’s negotiate.’ It will not want to lose everything,” Arbel assessed." . . More...