Saturday, August 23, 2025

The Light Shines On Another Obama Scandal

 Issues & Insights  

"Funny thing, Democrats tend to get away with gross misconduct because the media aren’t interested in demanding accountability from their heroes."

"Weren’t we assured that Barack Obama went “into and out of office with not a whiff of scandal”? Yes we were. Former Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen told us so, as did many others. But it wasn’t true. There are many, the most recent a claim that Obama, and then Joe Biden, pressured bank executives to deny services to conservatives. It’s a serious charge that, like the Russia hoax, makes Watergate look like a sandbox squabble.

"Here’s what we’ve learned: According to Fox Business, major bank executives said “they were under pressure by the Obama and Biden administrations to deny services to individuals and businesses for political reasons.”

"One executive said the “pressures were very, very real. When your regulator gives you a suggestion, it’s not a suggestion, it’s an order. The political stuff is very real, those pressures are real.”

This is known as “political debanking” and is “the involuntary termination of banking services to individuals and organizations based on their political or religious views,” says Todd J. Zywicki, a professor at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, who further “argues that access to financial services is a prerequisite for exercising constitutional rights.”

Zywicki’s March paper “traces the rise of political debanking from the Obama administration’s Operation Choke Point, which targeted disfavored industries under the guise of ‘reputation risk.’” It was expanded under Biden administration, during which “Melania Trump and Michael Flynn faced account closures for their political stances.”

Other “high-profile cases” included “the cancellation of accounts tied to Donald Trump Jr.’s events and the National Committee for Religious Freedom,” and “illustrate a growing weaponization of the financial system to suppress dissent.”  . . .

Hakeem Jeffries Threatens to Unmask ICE Agents: ‘Every Single One … Will Be Identified’

 The Jewish Voice 

"House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D) is seemingly threatening to unmask Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, many of whom work undercover operations, saying Democrats  will expose their identities “no matter what it takes.”


. . . "During a press conference this week, Jeffries claimed that Democrats would seek out the identities of ICE agents who work to enforce federal immigration law by locating, arresting, and deporting illegal aliens — often violent, convicted criminals." . . .

. . . "Jeffries’ comments and other inflammatory remarks by Democrats come as ICE agents have faced a massive spike in assaults at the hands of illegal aliens they are tasked with arresting.

"Last month, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revealed that ICE agents have suffered a 413-percent increase in assaults in recent months.

"Meanwhile, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) recently referred to ICE agents as “Trump’s modern Gestapo,” a reference to secret police deployed by Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist regime in Nazi Germany.". . . Comments below:

  1. Why are you not focused, Hakeem, on unmasking the illegal criminals in your state and cooperating in their expeditious deportation, instead of on the brave DHS employees trying to do their job? The majority of American Citizens are not with you and perhaps you will be voted out.


  2. Hakeem sir, Federal law says title 18 section 119 states that it is a federal crime to release or even threaten to release the Identity of ANY Federal employees private information with the intent to intimidate, harass or incite violence. So you sir have just broken a federal law, I believe you should do the American thing and turn yourself in, like you said we are not the soviet union and this isn’t the 1930’s.

  3. U.S. Congressman Threatens to Expose ICE Agents [who are] Facing Death Threats - TFPP Wire. . . "There’s no excuse—no justification—for a sitting member of Congress to threaten the safety of federal law enforcement officers.

    Hakeem Jeffries’ promise to expose ICE agents, knowing full well they’re under attack, crosses a line that no public official should ever approach.

    It’s not just reckless; it’s vile.

    ICE agents wear masks for the same reason undercover FBI or CIA agents would: to stay alive.

    These are men and women doing the job the American people demanded—enforcing immigration laws and protecting national security.

    They’re not hiding because they’re doing something wrong; they’re protecting their families from activists who have threatened violence.

    When someone like Jeffries uses his platform not to defend the rule of law but to put law enforcement in greater danger, he betrays the very public he claims to serve.

    These agents aren’t criminals—they’re Americans enforcing the law." 

  4. Hakeem Jeffries makes worrying threat against ICE agents as protesters interfere with operations   . . . "People are out there taking photos of the names, their faces, and posting them online with death threats to their family and themselves. So I’m sorry if people are offended by them wearing masks, but I’m not going to let my officers and agents go out there and put their lives on the line, and their family on the line, because people don’t like what immigration enforcement is," Lyons explained." . . .

  5.  Democrats don't want good moral character in immigrants  . . . "That’s why Normal Americans are so disgusted by Democrats who not only allowed anyone and everyone into the country during Biden’s Handler’s Administration, but are desperate to keep them all, particularly the worst of the worst criminals. For them, citizenship is a cheap carnival prize, a political token to be handed out to secure political power and money.

    "That’s why their heads are exploding over a recent Trump order to ensure all legal immigrants have “good moral character.” . . .

  6. Jeffries' Call to ID ICE Agents Sparks Uproar | Perigon 

    Protect ICE-Hold Jeffries Accountable! | Act for America



Friday, August 22, 2025

‘Fascist’ Is the Dumbest Political Insult in the World Today; ‘Fascist’ Is the Dumbest Political Insult in the World Today

 The American Spectator   "An interesting bit of history for you — when the Nazis took over Germany, one of the first things they did was to defund and disband local police forces…

"I’m not going to recite the whole thing, because it was banal and stupid on a level you good people shouldn’t be subjected to, but on social media Thursday after I noted the interesting fact that Washington, D.C. had gone a full week without a homicide, an obvious consequence of President Trump’s decision to federalize law enforcement there, I found myself subjected to the same treatment that Trump officials seem to be getting. Namely, this…See the video at the top.

"A deranged leftist entered the thread to first admit that the federalization of Washington’s police had produced results, and then to admit that DC’s black community seems very much to enjoy the heightened security of their neighborhoods — after all, robberies have been cut in half, carjackings by 5/6ths, and violent crime overall by 22 percent along with the sudden cessation of murders, and these are positive developments inuring disproportionately to the benefit of Washington’s beleagured black citizens who have borne the brunt of the longstanding lawlessness on the streets of the nation’s capital. 

"And insisted that this was “fascism,” and that with so many uniformed men with guns patrolling Washington, the city looks like Pakistan. (RELATED: The Spectacle Ep. 258: Democrats Don’t Want Donald Trump to Save DC)

" 'Then came the coup de grĂ¢ce, which was a suggestion that Trump invest in more community centers in D.C.

"It’s been said that the city’s police force is some 300 officers short of its full complement of law enforcement officials. So supplementing it with ICE, DEA, ATF, and FBI agents and — the horror! — National Guardsmen from several states around the country is actually something less than “fascism.” 

" 'Unless an effective law enforcement contingent large enough to impose law and order is “fascism.”

"An interesting bit of history for you — when the Nazis took over Germany, one of the first things they did was to defund and disband local police forces and roll them into the various security agencies of the Reich.

"That’s what fascism looks like from a law enforcement perspective, because a local police force can serve as a check on the power of a national government." . . .

Scott McKay is a contributing editor at The American Spectator  and publisher of the Hayride, which offers news and commentary on Louisiana and national politics, and RVIVR.com, a national political news aggregation and opinion site.

 Antisemitism Is Proliferating in Our Public Schools Jews face discrimination in many K-12 schools and colleges.  . . . "Davis is hardly an isolated case. A federal probe of the University of California, Los Angeles, found that the school acted with “deliberate indifference” to threats against Jews and violations of their rights during an antisemitic encampment in the spring of 2024.

"In a letter to UCLA leaders, Justice Department officials stated that Jewish and Israeli students at the school “were subjected to severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive harassment that created a hostile environment by members of the encampment,” including being “assaulted, verbally harassed, and physically prevented from accessing parts of the UCLA campus.” . . .

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born writer intimately familiar with Islamist and anti-Israel extremism, recently posited that a global “purge of the Jews” is underway. It’s an ideological insurgency with a clear goal: “Erase not just Israel ‘from the river to the sea,’ but the Jewish people from the moral map.” Many involved in public education are diligently striving to achieve exactly that.

How ironic and tragic that many of those cursing Jews as "Nazis" are actively calling for the elimination of all Jews. The very definition of Nazis. Tunnel Dweller.

 

2023: Gavin Newsom’s Top 5 Lies from the Fox News Debate

 ‍Reform California

“Gavin Newsom is running a shadow campaign for president, and this debate was his attempt to vault himself into the national conversation — and America was exposed to his record of failure and lie after lie on that stage,” said DeMaio.

“But Gavin Newsom is surrounded by enablers, political handlers, and California’s liberal media establishment who will tell him he did a great job in the debate and that he is the real winner,” DeMaio warned.

"DeMaio says the debate on Fox News is just the first step in a long-term fight to expose Newsom’s failures — and warn America what will happen to the country if they follow the extreme policies being used in California under Gavin Newsom.

"That’s why Reform California and Carl DeMaio are leading a campaign to expose and highlight Newsom’s failed policies and corruption — to warn the rest of the country and educate Californians. You can join the campaign at ExposeGavinNewsom.org."

Is This the Woman Who Held Up That Horrible Sign Attacking at Winsome Sears?

Townhall 

Gov. Winsome Sears
"Virginia Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears attended a meeting held by the Arlington County School Board to discuss their bathroom policy after a convicted sex offender was allowed to use the ladies’ restroom by claiming to be transgender. It drew a rally of pro-transgender supporters, some of whom had deliciously racist signs for Ms. Sears, the GOP’s 2025 gubernatorial candidate. The Democrats in Virginia at least have embraced their party’s Klan roots." . . .


. . . "Quote from the white, liberal, sign holder: “It was satire meant to provoke conversation around the absurdity of prejudice. If anyone thinks we are actually supporting separate drinking fountains based on race they are mistaken” . . . More...

Gavin Newsom's Imbecilic Response to Bed Bath and Beyond News Prompts Smackdown From Executive Chairman

Sister Toldjah

"RedState reported on Wednesday about the announcement from Bed Bath and Beyond executive chairman Marcus Lemonis that his company had no plans to open locations in California.

"We will not open or operate retail stores in California," Lemonis wrote

"In addition to pointing out that the decision wasn't "about politics," Lemonis went on to note that "California has created one of the most overregulated, expensive, and risky environments for businesses in America. It’s a system that makes it harder to employ people, harder to keep doors open, and harder to deliver value to customers."

"Other businesses in California have either scaled back, closed down, or left the state for similar reasons in what some political observers and business commentators have called a mass exodus.

"Lemonis's remarks were made amid an attempt at a comeback of sorts for the online home goods retailer after the original Bed Bath and Beyond chain shuttered its brick-and-mortar locations in 2023 and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Rebranded by owners Beyond Inc. as Bed Bath & Beyond Home, its first location opened this month in Nashville, and the company has plans to open hundreds more stores in the coming months.

"Instead of acting like a real leader who was eager to work with the company to bring much-needed jobs to his state, Newsom and his unhinged social media team have posted some pretty imbecilic - and rather revealing - responses on X.

" 'The company that already went bankrupt and closed every store across the country two years ago? Ok," Newsom said in one tweet.

"In another, he bashed former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's (R-CA) criticism of his reaction, writing that "Next, he’s going to announce that Blockbuster wants to move back to California too."

"His press office posted this: After their bankruptcy and closure of every store, like most Americans, we thought Bed, Bath & Beyond no longer existed.  We wish them well in their efforts to become relevant again as they try to open a 2nd store.

South African Journalist Learns Why You Should NEVER Argue With Douglas Murray!

JewishUncensored   "Jewish Uncensored is not just a Youtube Channel Its a Movement. We are dedicated to giving you the LOUD UNCENSORED TRUTH about Everything Jewish. From Inspirational speeches to breaking News stories Jewish Uncensored has it all. The Jewish People have been Persecuted for Thousands of Years and we will NOT allow that to happen ever again. Most recently the israel Hamas war in Gaza has brought the Jewish people a fresh new wave of antisemitism the likes of which we've never seen before. The situation is getting worse by the day, but we won't let that happen. NEVER AGAIN is not a slogan it is a Promise. And, NEVER AGAIN is NOW!"

Thursday, August 21, 2025

Neighbors hurl antisemitic slurs at father of Georgia woman killed working for Israel’s border patrol: video

 NY Post 

"A grieving father of an American woman killed while serving on Israel’s border patrol was verbally abused by neighbors who shouted antisemitic slurs [and called her death a "righteous murder"] and mocked him for his daughter’s death, according to the hurting dad and video." 

Rose Lubin was killed after a teenage “terrorist” stabbed
 her while on patrol in November 2023.

"Sgt. Elisheva Rose Ida Lubin, 20, was stabbed to death by a teenage “terrorist” while patrolling Jerusalem’s Old City in November 2023.  Lubin was a “lone soldier” living in Israel without her family after immigrating there in August 2021 and started her mandated army duty in March 2022 — more than a year before the Israel-Hamas war officially began.

"Her father, David Lubin, hasn’t known peace since his daughter’s untimely death.". . . 

. . . " 'You are calling yourself a k–e, you know what you are. You know what you are better than me. You are a corrupt politician with a daughter in the IDF that went there to kill, and has killed maybe in friendly fire because the Israeli soldiers kill each other all the time, and you know very well,” one of his neighbors, Anna Bouyzk, insisted as they argued over the meaning of the Jewish slur.

"Bouyzk and her husband, Mark, the co-founder of the bought-out genetics company AKESOgen, went on to insist Rose’s death was okay because “she was fighting.”  More...

"The young policewoman who was killed was an Atlanta native named Rose Lubin. She was not a soldier but rather a policewoman. About a month after October 7, 2023, she was on patrol in the Old City of Jerusalem when she was killed by a terrorist on a motorcycle. Interestingly, she was living in Kibbutz Saad by the Gaza envelope on October 7th, and she was instrumental in defending the town of over 800 residents from the Hamas army that tried to conquer the town and destroy its residents."

Related: Josh Hawley Mercilessly Grills Arab American Institute Leader About 'Long Live The Antifada' Meaning

(GALLUP) Democrats regain lead, but Americans dislike the party more than ever

 Sharyl Attkisson   "Democrats have regained a slim lead in party affiliation after Republicans led through most of 2023 and 2024, according to a new Gallup poll.

"The shift comes even as the Democratic Party’s image is at a record low and slightly worse than that of the Republican Party. Americans are also no more likely to say Democrats are better than Republicans at managing the federal government or bringing about the changes the country needs." . . .

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. . . Historically, the party that controls the presidency and Congress often loses supporters early in the first term, as has happened in multiple past administrations. Democrats’ current lead is built on soft support from independents, which could shift quickly if political attitudes change.

"For more information, read the full article here."

"Previously, Attkisson hosted a medical news magazine on PBS called “HealthWeek,” anchored and reported for CNN, and reported at several local news stations. She is a graduate of the University of Florida School of Journalism and Communications. Attkisson is a Fifth Degree Blackbelt Master in TaeKwonDo.

Bed, Bath & Beyond flees California, tells the world exactly why

Monica Showalter Bed, Bath & Beyond flees California, tells the world exactly why

 . . . "As they ignore, mock, and abuse businesses that are fleeing, the chief of Bed & Bath knew that the only avenue left was to state, Trump-like, the raw hard reality of why businesses such as his, and many others, are fleeing the horribly governed blue state." 

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   . . . "It follows from the statement last month issued by In-N-Out Burger's CEO, Lynsi Snyder, who pretty much said the same thing more informally.

"According to the New York Times:

Lynsi Snyder, the chief executive of In-N-Out Burger, has announced that she plans to move her family to Tennessee as the fast-food chain establishes a corporate office there, drawing a backlash in California, where her grandfather founded the company nearly 80 years ago.

“I’m actually moving out there,” Ms. Snyder, who was raised in Northern California, said on “Relatable,” a faith-based podcast that discusses culture, news and politics from a conservative Christian perspective. (In-N-Out prints Bible verses in small print on its packaging.)

“There are a lot of great things about California, but raising a family is not easy here,” Ms. Snyder, 43, said in the episode released on Friday. “Doing business is not easy here.”

"Unlike Lynsi, Bed & Bath's top executive wasn't gentle at all. Lemonis understood that California's ruling legislators need to be hit over the head with hard realities for any chance of getting them to listen, which in fact is very low. Notice from the New York Times account that Lynsi was trolled by anonymous trolls on the internet for stating she wanted to leave, (which sounds pretty manufactured actually), but we know that companies pulling up stakes have been mocked and abused for leaving the state. Recall how legislative powerbroker Lorena Fletcher bellowed the 'f' word at Elon Musk for moving his Tesla headquarters to Texas out of frustration at California's policies. He replied "message received" and left it at that.

"This CEO is different. He lays it right out -- the monster taxes, the monster regulations, the hostile climate for hiring. He said it was so bad he wasn't going to open any stores in California."...

Newsom: it's different when Democrats do it 

. . . "Newsom is among the most greasy, slippery politicians in America, and that’s saying something. Fortunately, he’s not nearly as smart as imagines and recently gave away the illegal immigration game." . . .

Bitterness, "Racism",and Joy Reid

A Fired MSNBC Star, Joy Reid, Says She Received ‘a Tenth’ the Pay of Male Colleagues . . . "Who Worked ‘Less Hours,’ Calls Herself Victim of Racism"  "The former host says her male colleagues benefited from the ‘Elon Musk presumption.’ "

Joy Reid’s Race-Baiting Rants: A Fool’s Errand in the Age of Woke Backlash  Listen to Joy here... "In a recent  video (ABOVE) from conservative commentator Mark Dice, titled “Joy Reid is Even More Upset Than Usual Because of,” the former MSNBC host is caught in yet another tirade that exemplifies her obsession with race and history. Reid, now relegated to podcasts after her prime-time show’s cancellation earlier this year, lambasts the Trump administration’s efforts to overhaul Smithsonian exhibits by removing what she calls “wokeness” and emphasizing positive American achievements. She accuses conservatives of trying to “clean up” history by erasing mentions of slavery, claiming, “They can’t fix the history they did. Their ancestors made this country into a slave hell, but they can clean it up now because they got the Smithsonian. They can get rid of all the slavery stuff.” But Reid doesn’t stop there; she dives into outright racial essentialism, asserting that “We black folk gave y’all country music, hip-hop, R&B, jazz, rock and roll. They couldn’t even invent that. But they have to call a white man the king because they couldn’t make rock and roll.” Even more bizarrely, she links modern technology like Morse code, telephones, and computers to African drum rhythms, declaring, “They took that same pulsation and rhythm and now they call it a computer, which is nothing but African drum.”  

Honestly, I'm shocked that Joy Reid said this in front of the world. The most racist, insufferable rant ever. Yet, there is no real backlash.

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...