BBC: Gabbard says declassified report 'exposes' Obama administration"US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has released a previously classified report which she says points to a "treasonous conspiracy" to undermine the results of the 2016 presidential election.
"The House Intelligence Committee document takes issue with the conclusion, reached by numerous intelligence reports including one by the CIA, that Russia sought to help Donald Trump in that election.
"Gabbard appeared at the White House on Wednesday and said the report reveals "egregious weaponisation and politicisation of intelligence".
"Democrats said the White House is trying to distract from the ongoing controversy surrounding its decision not to publish files relating to Jeffrey Epstein.
" 'It seems as though the Trump administration is willing to declassify anything and everything except the Epstein files," Democratic Senator Mark Warner said, adding that a bipartisan Senate report had backed the CIA's conclusions about Russia favouring Trump. . . ."
. . . "By coincidence or otherwise, Comey's FBI chose not to look deeper.
" 'Witnesses told us that the FBI has never comprehensively reviewed thumb drives 1 through 5," the hitherto classified appendix read.
"Meanwhile, in a footnote, the appendix also noted that the question of accessing the thumb drives resulted in multiple meetings, one on Sept. 20, 2016, and another on Oct. 20, 2016, attended by FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, White House Counsel W. Neil Eggleston, and others.
"Why would White House counsel meet with the FBI regarding thumb drives already known to contain Obama's emails? Then, why would the FBI choose not to review the drives?
"Grassley called it an "extreme lack of effort and due diligence" on the FBI's part. The senator also characterized the "Comey FBI’s negligent approach and perhaps intentional lack of effort in the Clinton investigation" as a sharp contrast with its "full-throated investigation of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax."
"Likewise, many users on the social media platform X saw the Obama emails as the key to understanding why, in the words of Sean Davis of The Federalist, the Comey FBI "deliberately sandbagged the Clinton investigation and refused to take basic investigative steps that would’ve revealed how seriously Clinton compromised national security.' " . . .
By the end of our conversation, one truth was unmistakable. America has entered a period where hatred is mainstream, and political violence is no longer unthinkable.
"The numbers were shocking. The implications, worse.
"In a recent conversation on my show News Sight, Patrick Basham laid out findings that expose a political culture edging toward something darker than polarization. His words stayed with me long after our broadcast aired on October 7.
"Basham, the director of the Democracy Institute, has spent decades studying political behavior on both sides of the Atlantic. He is measured, data-driven, and careful with his language. Which is why what he said was so striking.
"Reflecting on the Institute’s fresh polling data, he told me, “It’s a sort of quite terrifying, or at least unnerving, result. Just across the board, such a large minority admit to a pollster that they have hatred in their heart for those who hold opposing political views. But that said, we get to the nub of the issue, which is that a majority of Democrats admit that they hate at least some people who hold opposing views.”
"The choice of words in the poll was deliberate. “We use the word ‘hatred,’ ‘hate,’ because we didn’t want to say ‘dislike’ or ‘strongly disagree.’ That’s just too tame today,” Basham explained. “This poll was taken in the days after Charlie Kirk’s assassination. We wanted to identify how intense the sentiments were. And we were not shocked that a majority of Democrats would acknowledge quite openly that that is how they felt about political opponents.”
"This hatred did not emerge overnight. Basham traced its roots through the Trump era. “It’s probably not shocking when you consider over the last decade what Democratic voters have openly, explicitly, overtly said about Trump and about those who support him,” he said. “A healthy or unhealthy slice of Democratic voters really do view themselves as better people than their Republican peers, and there is a willingness to take that further.” . . .More...
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"I looked at the people. They’re not representative of this country, and I looked at all the brand new signs paid for. I guess it was paid for by Soros and other radical left lunatics," he said.
. . . "Not a word of what President Trump said is untrue. He does, in fact, work his a** off like no president we have ever seen in our lifetime. These protesters were perfectly content with a man whose brain had dissolved into a puddle of mush being walked around very rarely in public like "Weekend at Bernie's" for four years, yet can't comprehend a man working tirelessly to make the country better.
"They were okay with the country being run by autopen. They were pleased as punch when the last king implemented mask and vaccine mandates, and tried to get people fired for their personal medical decisions. And they were thrilled when that same king repeatedly tried to jail his political opponents.
"Biden or whoever was running the country the previous four years was the true "king."
As for the signs - well, RedState ace journalist Jennifer Oliver O'Connell has a tremendous rundown of some of the "rebels without a clue" who attended this past weekend's rally.
For me, and I know this is a little more subtle than the other placards worthy of mockery, this sign is one of my favorites. A protester claiming King Trump is "criminalizing protests" ... while they're standing freely on a public street ... protesting.
" 'I looked at the people. They’re not representative of this country, and I looked at all the brand new signs paid for. I guess it was paid for by Soros and other radical left lunatics," he said. "It looks like it was worth checking out."
"The demonstrations were very small, very ineffective and the people were whacked out. When you look at those people, those are not representative of the people of our country."
"He's right. They're not. They're a small swath of people who don't want to accept the election results. Mostly white. Mostly Karens. Mostly cat ladies. A group that can't admit their leftist movement is in the minority, while MAGA is the overwhelming force in this country right now." . . .
. . . "What they are actually protesting, of course, has nothing to do with kings. It’s just another mass outbreak of Trump Derangement Syndrome. As Brit Hume phrases it on X, “The ‘No Kings’ rallies are mostly a protest against a man who sought power three times through democratic elections and enacted his major agenda item by majority vote of democratically elected members of Congress. Some King.” Batya Ungar-Sargon expands on his point as follows: “The Left isn’t protesting a king but their fellow Americans. They aren’t standing up for democracy — they are protesting against it.” They seem to have forgotten that Donald Trump was democratically elected less than one year ago with a popular majority." . . .
Vance isn't wrong here. This absolutely is not something the Democrats want to address, and there's only one reason why. They can't square the circle on political violence because it exposes what they and we know about the far-left fringe of the Democrat Party.
"As I wrote earlier on Saturday, Vice President JD Vance was on hand to deliver remarks to an enthusiastic crowd of Marines at the United States Marine Corps' 250th Birthday Celebration event at Camp Pendleton in California
"But he managed to find time before arriving at the base to give his thoughts on the latest revelations involving Zohran Mamdani - the man whom the Democrats are championing to become the next mayor of New York City.
"In case you missed the latest, here's Bonchie to bring us up to speed on Mamdani seeming in recent days to drop any pretense of being something other than an aficionado of radical Islamist thought:
Today at Masjid At-Taqwa, I had the pleasure of meeting with Imam Siraj Wahhaj, one of the nation’s foremost Muslim leaders and a pillar of the Bed-Stuy community for nearly half a century. I was also joined by CM @dr_yusefsalaam of Harlem. A beautiful Jummah. pic.twitter.com/4kcN4CGlUk
calls Siraj her mentor.
In case you thought it couldn’t get worse, Siraj Wahhaj’s son, Siraj Wahhaj Jr ran a jihadi compound in New Mexico where he trained kids to commit terrorist attacks.
He and his associates were arrested and jailed for LIFE for training kids on a compound in New Mexico to kill Americans. Authorities said they stockpiled weapons and planned to commit mass murder in the name of Islam. The remains of dead children were also found on the compound.
These are the people who are backing Mamdani. This is who’s trying to take over New York City. More...
"By 2022, Mahmood had taken these ideas further, equating Abraham Lincoln’s Civil War policies with Adolf Hitler’s inspirations, portraying America as the progenitor of genocidal regimes. These views, nurtured in elite academic circles, were not fringe. They became intellectual fuel for a younger generation raised to see Western civilization not as liberator but as oppressor."
Legal Insurrection: . . . The New York Post was quick to call him out: Lefty NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani gleefully campaigned this week with a notorious, gay-hating Brooklyn imam who is an unindicted co-conspirator in 1993 World Trade Center bombing and who has been linked to other terrorist activity in the United States — including urging “jihad” on the Big Apple. . .
"In the absence of such repentance, we have been prayerfully advancing towards a future for faithful Anglicans, where the Bible is restored to the heart of the Communion."
"The Church of England is facing a seismic schism, with the conservative Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (Gafcon), representing nearly 40 million members—ten times the UK’s Anglican population—declaring itself the authentic Anglican Communion.
"Gafcon announced it has severed ties with progressive factions, accusing them of abandoning biblical authority and pursuing a “revisionist agenda.”
"The group stated, “We cannot remain in communion with those who forsake the inerrant word of God.”
"1. We declare that the Anglican Communion will be reordered, with only one foundation of communion, namely the Holy Bible, “translated, read, preached, taught and obeyed in its plain and canonical sense, respectful of the church’s historic and consensual reading” (Jerusalem Declaration, Article II), which reflects Article VI of the 39 Articles of Religion.
"2. We reject the so-called Instruments of Communion, namely the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lambeth Conference, the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC), and the Primates Meeting, which have failed to uphold the doctrine and discipline of the Anglican Communion.
"3. We cannot continue to have communion with those who advocate the revisionist agenda, which has abandoned the inerrant word of God as the final authority and overturned Resolution I.10, of the 1998 Lambeth Conference." . . .Entire article here...
"Beijing’s message could not be clearer: the Communist Party will tolerate religion only when it serves the state. For millions of underground Christians in China, that means worship itself remains an act of defiance."
"China’s persecution of Christians has reached alarming new levels. In a series of overnight raids across multiple cities, police detained at least 30 pastors and church leaders, part of what religious rights groups are calling the largest coordinated assault on underground Christianity in decades.
“The US has called for the release of 30 leaders of one of China’s largest underground church networks who were reportedly detained over the weekend in overnight raids in various cities.
“Police in China detained dozens of pastors of one of its largest underground churches over the weekend, a church spokesperson and relatives said, in the biggest crackdown on Christians since 2018.”
The detentions, according to NBC, came just days after Beijing expanded export controls on rare earth minerals, a move that has already heightened U.S.–China tensions. Secretary of State Marco Rubio condemned the arrests, calling them yet another example of the Communist Party’s hostility toward Christians who refuse to submit to state control.
“This crackdown further demonstrates how the CCP exercises hostility towards Christians who reject Party interference in their faith and choose to worship at unregistered house churches.” . . .
"Blue and gray soldiers raced westward during the first week of April 1865. After spending forty-one weeks around Petersburg, Robert E. Lee hoped the Army of Northern Virginia could leave its adversaries behind. Ulysses S. Grant’s strategic and personnel decisions enabled his armies to intercept Lee multiple times until finally cornering the Confederates at Appomattox. Much has been written about this final clash in Virginia and the work of federal, state, and private organizations has made it one of the most interpreted and accessible Civil War campaigns. Borrowing from these efforts, I have created a tour guide that overlays the routes of both armies onto a modern map.
"Calkins spearheaded the creation of the Lee’s Retreat Driving Tour, a self-guided route that roughly follows the Army of Northern Virginia from Petersburg to Appomattox. Civil War Trails maintains this self-guided route today and the organization has placed additional wayside exhibits along the many roads taken westward. Check out their online brochure here. The American Battlefield Trust has substantially increased the preserved battlefield acres, particularly in Dinwiddie County, around Sailor's Creek Battlefield State Park, and at Appomattox itself.
"The hundred-mile journey is an absolute must for anyone with an interest in the Civil War and this updated map should enhance the great public history work already done for the Appomattox campaign. Download the full map as a pdf here.
"(Update) The numbers listed on the map correspond with a suggested order of visiting the sites, as originally designated by the first Lee’s Retreat maps.In order, they are:
Personally, I have never understood why conservatives should care about liberals’ accusations of racism, which are at least as dumb as their other smears. But for some reason, those particular lies have been effective.
"Heather Mac Donald optimistically declares “The end of the race hustle.” Heather’s article is long, and data-rich. I recommend reading it all. She credits President Trump with being uncowed by the Left’s accusations of racism, and offers hope that race-baiting no longer works:
For decades, pointing out that any action, public or private, had a black target or fell disproportionately on black people was sufficient to discredit that action, regardless of whether it was couched in terms of race or had a racist intent.
Want to fire an employee? Good luck if that employee is black; such a dismissal would be presumptively racist. Tempted to criticize a government official for alleged incompetence or unethical conduct? If that official is black, think twice, since blackness is used as a shield. Try to jail a serial violent offender, such as Brown Jr., who happens to be African-American? That would contribute to racial inequity.
"Is that description overdrawn? Maybe, but it describes a strong current in the reality that we have been living in.
"Criminal justice, in particular, has been badly compromised by race ideology:
The idea that racial disparities in arrest and incarceration rates reflect discrimination and not disparities in criminal offending has been a staple of Democratic policymaking for years. The “systemic criminal justice bias” conceit has led district attorneys across the US to stop prosecuting and stop seeking jail terms for a host of crimes, simply because penalizing those crimes would have a disparate impact on black criminals.
"The “systemic bias” claims are false, but they have impaired public safety across America.
"Education is, of course, another area where racism has reigned supreme. So what is Heather’s basis for thinking the era of race-baiting will soon be behind us?" . . . More...
The Times Gives Mamdani the Obama Treatment "TheNew York Timesapparently thought better of the original headline gracing its ostensibly straight-news coverage of the blowback that followed when New York City mayoral candidate Zoran Mamdani encountered, for perhaps the first time, an issue relating to Israeli security on which he had no opinion:the necessity of Hamas’s disarmament.
" 'Mamdani Faces Islamophobic attacks After Comments About Hamas,” read theoriginal headline of Emma Fitzsimmons’s article. Subsequently, Mamdani faced only unspecified “attacks” that were presumably as vague as his “comments” about the barbarous terrorist sect.
"TheTimeswould have been better off scrubbing the item entirely. " The rest of this article is behind a pay wall, but you know what is relevant. TD
If MSNBC falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, does it still make a sound? Nope. Time for this national embarrassment to end…one household at a time.
. . . "All of this could have been avoided—and sanity on Capitol Hill restored much more quickly—if not for the cheerleading and promotion of the past 10 days by America’s linear equivalent of the Al-Jazeera network…MSNBC…egging on Schumer and organizers of “No Kings.” Unions like the radical American Federation of Teachers and the SEIU are like little kids jumping up and down in the background of local TV reporters doing standups at gang shootings; they crave the cheap publicity almost as much as they hate President Trump.
"Giddy MSNBC “anchors” like Rachel Maddow, Michael Steele, and the ratty-looking weekend host Alex Witt, who has been popping up all week, have been breathlessly reporting on the “massive” rallies supposedly taking place.
"Even Lawrence “The Prince of Darkness” O’Donnell and his distaff counterpart Nicolle Wallace could not hide their churlish delight that “No Kings” will supposedly be a political black-eye for President Donald J. Trump, only days after he stunned the world by negotiating a historic peace agreement between Israel and the vile Hamas terrorists who launched the now-infamous October 7th attacks.
"Like carefully choreographed Busby Berkley musicals from the Depression era 1930s, MSNBC’s “stars” listed above have been augmented all this week by such B-team bit players as notorious race baiter Rev. Al Sharpton and John Heilman, best known as a barnacle on many MSNBC panel shows…always with a sophomoric, negative spin on anything Donald Trump says or does. (This is the same collection of carnival sideshow attractions whose solid record includes hyping—right up until their “poignant” concession statements—Hillary Clinton’s inevitable victory in 2016 and the “historic” 107-day campaign of the buffoonish Kamala Harris.)" . . .
NY PostOne long-time Bronx cop said anti-cop pols can reap what they sow. “If this is what these politicians want, let them have it,” the cop said. “Let it burn down and then they’ll want us back.”
"A notoriously violent two-block stretch of Brooklyn is fighting crime — by not calling uniformed cops, The Post has learned.
"A sliver of Brownsville in the NYPD’s 73rd Precinct was transformed into a “police free zone” last week as part of an city-funded experiment called the Brownsville Safety Alliance that initially was only twice a year but now runs four times annually, organizers said.
"And it’s an initiative that’s received praise from anti-cop, mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani, an official with the group that runs it told The Post." . . .
"A notoriously violent two-block stretch of Brooklyn is fighting crime — by not calling uniformed cops, The Post has learned.
. . . "In response, the IDF has begun striking in the area to eliminate the threat and dismantle tunnel shafts and military structures used for terrorist activity," it continued.
"Israel has responded by striking areas in the north and south of the Gaza Strip.
"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office says he has instructed the minister of defense and other security heads to "act forcefully" in reaction to the attacks." . . .
Hamas tries to give their useful idiots in the Western world a talking point so they can continue to wear their trendy Hamas scarves. TD
"Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban, appearing on the panel, responded: “Can’t be found. Yeah, can’t be found anywhere.” Maher added that Hamas is “shooting everybody,” calling out what he described as “the asymmetry of what goes on.”
"The exchange occurred on Friday, in a show which featured actor turned politicianArnold Schwarzenegger, journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin, and Cuban. The episode is listed on HBO Max and summarized by entertainment outlets covering the broadcast."
"After we liberate Palestine, we will not tolerate the grave of a single Jew or a single Hebrew word – We will eliminate any trace of them; Palestine is a bride and her dowry Is blood; We welcome our martyrs with joy. “
"Only the West wants two states solution. Pals don’t want. Israel once wanted too, but NO more, as we now know their final agenda. " . . .
Campus liberals want to defend the oppressed; When Israelis are being murdered and driven out of Muslim territories, will Western leftists then fight for the Jews? We await the promise on the Book of the Revelation and Yahweh*. TD
Jeffrey Lord: "As the old wisdom has it: What goes around, comes around."
"And one can hope New York City voters — who have a seriously good, non-bigoted alternative choice in former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo — will make that emphatically clear on election day."
"Just look what has happened to London since electing a Muslim mayor. With Mamdani, you get Marxism together with his Islamic extremism."
"Here is the headline from Fox News that is focused on one Zohran Mamdani. Mamdani is currently leading in the race to be New York City’s next mayor. The headline: “Mamdani stands by promise to arrest Netanyahu if he comes to New York City.”
"The New York Timesheadlined: “Mamdani, if Elected Mayor, Pledges to Order N.Y.P.D. to Arrest Netanyahu,” with the subtitle, “Zohran Mamdani expanded on his vow to arrest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying it would show that New York ‘stands up for international law.’”. Well now.
"If a New York City mayor, Mamdani, does in fact do this, would it not be time for the United States government to arrest Mamdani?
"After all, no one is above the law. And there is nothing in the law that gives an American mayor the authority to arrest a foreign head of state for simply doing his duty as head of state. Which, in this case, and like his head-of-state peers from around the world, means showing up in New York City to address the opening session of the United Nations. If Mr. Mamdani doesn’t like it, perhaps it’s time for the U.N. to consider moving itself to a more welcoming American or foreign city. (RELATED: Zohran Has Two Daddies)
"The Times story reports:
Mr. Mamdani had said earlier in the mayor’s race that he would arrest Mr. Netanyahu. In the interview on Thursday, he did not back down and offered new specifics, affirming that he would order the police to make the arrest upon Mr. Netanyahu’s arrival in the city. “This is something that I intend to fulfill,” Mr. Mamdani said.
“This is a moment where we cannot look to the federal government for leadership,” Mr. Mamdani said. “This is a moment when cities and states will have to demonstrate what it actually looks like to stand up for our own values, our own people.”
"So let’s take Mr. Mamdani at his word.
"It’s time to “look to the federal government for leadership.” Which, based on the logic of the would-be Mayor Mamdani’s position means that the federal government, which is decidedly charged with arresting Americans who break federal law, should swoop down on the New York Mayor’s Gracie Mansion residence or City Hall (if he is elected!), slap the cuffs on him and send him to the New York hell hole known as the Rikers Island prison.
"Once there, the arrested Mayor Mamdani would find himself in the company of inmates who specialize in violence of all manner of types. The very same types he is threatening to surround an arrested Prime Minister Netanyahu with. Not to mention the type of violence Mr. Netanyahu’s Israeli constituents have to deal with routinely from Palestinian extremists.
"To say the least, at a minimum, this threat reveals the would-be mayor of New York City, Mamdani, as a decided antisemite." . . . More...
"For Zohran Mamdani and his Islamist-Marxist allies, peace will bring no peace to the Middle East without the end of a Jewish presence in the region. Does he feel the same way about the five boroughs of New York?"
"Thomas Jefferson and John Adams hinted at the incompatibility of America’s republican virtues with the values of Muslim nations after meeting with the Islamic ambassador about the Barbary states’ inclination to make war upon nations that did them no wrong, after they were informed it was a requirement of the Quran."
"Mamdani is on record despising the NYPD, calling them an enemy of citizens, including the "queer" population. He's repeatedly called for defunding them, even though he lies about that now."
Whom should we fear more: Democrat candidates or their voters? TD
. . . “Today at Masjid At-Taqwa, I had the pleasure of meeting with Imam Siraj Wahhaj, one of the nation’s foremost Muslim leaders and a pillar of the Bed-Stuy community for nearly half a century,” Mamdani wrote on X of the Friday encounter.
“A beautiful Jummah,” he wrote, referencing the weekly prayer."
Remember, children, if you stand against this imam, you must give up your beautiful scarf. TD
