100-Year-Old Veteran on Live TV: We Fought WW2 for Nothing, Britain Less Free Than in 1945

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Professor David Betz was among those responding to the turn of events, calling Penstone’s remarks “heartbreaking” and the response from the television hosts “patronising” and “simply infuriating”.

 Alec joined the Royal Navy after he promised his father, he would not serve in the trenches because of the horrors he witnessed in World War one.  Below: the very definition of "Arctic".

'A centenarian Royal Navy veteran took full advantage of an appearance on live television to express his sorrow at the state of modern Britain, saying he and his comrades fought for freedom that has been frittered away, eliciting what critics called a “patronising” response by show hosts.

"Royal Navy and Arctic Convoy veteran Alec Penstone told Britain’s ITV breakfast show “the sacrifice wasn’t worth” what the country has since become, mourning the loss of freedom he and his friends fought and died for.

"Appearing on Good Morning Britain on Friday for a segment on the upcoming Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day on November 11th, Penstone was asked what the events commemorating fallen troops from the two World Wars meant, and what his message to the country now is. Far from the feel-good sentiments the piece had evidently been set up for, 100-year-old Penstone remarked: “I can see in my mind’s eye those rows and rows of white stones.

“ 'All the hundreds of my friends, everybody else, who gave their lives. For what? The country of today. No, I’m sorry, the sacrifice wasn’t worth the result that it is now.”  . . .

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'What We're Up Against': Leavitt Highlights Media's Skewed Coverage of GOP During Schumer Shutdown

Katie Jerkovich

"The legacy media are clearly involved in a propaganda war against Republicans over the Schumer Shutdown, with the numbers showing overwhelmingly positive coverage for the Democrats compared to the GOP.

"In a post on Thursday on X, media bias tracker Newsbusters reported that outlets like ABC, CBS, and NBC have been completely carrying the water for the Democrats since they closed the government on October 1. And it's not even close. 

"They noted that "on statements favoring Democrats," there have been 83 from the alphabet news outlets. In contrast, there were only 12 favorable statements for Republicans on those same networks.

"The Trump White House reacted to the analysis, with Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt sharing the results on her X account.  She wrote, "This is what we are up against!" . . .

 NEW STUDY: 87% of government shutdown coverage on ABC, CBS, and NBC favored Democrats.

This isn't journalism it's propaganda. https://t.co/gR5sTzibzy

— MRC NewsBusters (@newsbusters) November 5, 2025

The Biggest Winner of This Year’s Elections: Gavin Newsom

 Ellie Gardey Holmes   

 "Gavin Newsom just can’t help himself. He can’t quit claiming that he grew up underprivileged and in virtual poverty.

"This is despite the fact that he grew up as the surrogate son of billionaire Gordon Getty. All throughout his 20s, thanks to his bond with Getty, Newsom played the part of a playboy socialite from the upper crust of San Franciscan society. As a young man, Newsom also reaped the full benefits of Getty’s energetic intervention in launching his political career.

"Yet on Saturday, Newsom again trotted out his tale of woe and financial struggle during his childhood — something his political advisers have reportedly told him not to do. (RELATED: Gavin Newsom Plots Memoir to Recast Personal Scandals)

"In an appearance on the All the Smoke podcast, Newsom spoke of how his mother struggled while working several jobs to financially support him and his sister. Newsom has long pointed to his mother’s several jobs to portray himself as coming from a working-class background, even as his father, William Newsom III, worked as an attorney for the Getty family before becoming a state appellate judge. In his work for the Getty family, William Getty managed the Gordon P. Getty Family trust, which had a total value of $2 billion at the time. (Newsom’s parents divorced when he was young.)
" 'My mom was 19, pregnant, and divorced a few years later, with two kids,” Newsom said on the All the Smoke podcast Saturday. “Came from no money and just hustled. You know, worked hard, grinding every single day. Two and a half jobs, no bulls**t.”

"Newsom continued, “It was also about paying the bills, man. It was just like hustling, and so I was out there, kind of raising myself, turning on the TV, just getting obsessed. I was sitting there with the Wonder Bread.”

"Following conservative laughter at Newsom’s comments, a spokesman for the governor told Fox News, “Anyone with more than an inch of curiosity would know that Governor Newsom was raised by his mother after her divorce from his father when he was a toddler. He has talked about moving between two different worlds, but he was raised by a mother who worked three jobs at one point — secretary, waitress, and paralegal.”

"In my book, , I chronicled just how much Newsom’s life was shaped by his privilege, even as his father was apparently disinclined to provide adequate child support to the young mother of his two children." . . . More

The Biggest Winner of This Year’s Elections: Gavin Newsom   

And now, with just three more years to go, he is in his strongest position ever. Come 2028, we may see Gavin Newsom splashed across Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC as the president-elect of the United States.

‘Arctic Frost’ Should Spell The End For Judge Boasberg, Jack Smith, Merrick Garland

 Daily Caller

Broc Smith

. . . "News broke Wednesday with a series of revelations that outlined the Biden DOJ’s efforts to financially map, surveil and harass what amounts to the entirety of the conservative movement. They came as a result of a whistleblower sending Sen. Chuck Grassley internal documents related to Jack Smith, the Merrick Garland special counsel whose mission was to imprison Donald Trump.

"The documents lay out how nearly 200 subpoenas led to 430 individuals swept up in Smith’s surveillance efforts. Senators, Super Pacs, members of the media, media companies themselves. Even TPUSA was targeted. The RNC was targeted. Apple Computers was targeted!

"Attorney General Garland signed off. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco signed off. FBI Director Chris Wray signed off.

The judge at the center of it all: Judge James “Injunctions” Boasberg of the DC Circuit Court. The same judge liberals have been running to every time they need to judicially stymie Trump’s agenda. The same judge, in fact, who gave disgraced FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, who forged FISA warrants to surveil Trump, just a year probation for the crime.

“This was a concerted effort to ‘process is the punishment’ all of us, smear and ruin reputations, and invent fever dream justifications for possible crimes that didn’t exist. J Edgar Hoover could only dream of building something at this scale,” said Rachel Bovard, a VP at the Conservative Partnership Institute, which was also targeted in the dragnet.

"Words truly cannot express how deep this rabbit hole goes, and how lucky we are this administration did not get another four years. God knows what they would have done given another term with this power and access to this information.

"As a result of Smith’s legal demands, Chris Wray’s FBI had wiretapped almost as much as 20% of the Senate GOP’s phone lines.

Sen. Ted Cruz is calling for Boasberg’s impeachment. Sen. Eric Schmitt is calling for “Watergate-style hearings on this for MONTHS.”

"We need more than that though. We need indictments and convictions. We need Boasberg rendered utterly destitute and jammed into the same conditions as the J6 rioters.

"Think I’m joking? I decidedly am not. Boasberg has demonstrably done more to upset the Democratic process in America than any rock-throwing, MAGA-hat-wearing Trump voter ever did on J6.

"If justice is still balanced in this country, he’ll see a cell. Garland and Wray as well. If Roger Stone and Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro can go to jail, so can they." . . .

DOJ Can Charge Judge James Boasberg over Spying Scandal, Say Ex-Trump Admin Official Mike Benz, Federalist Co-Founder Sean Davis - Tennessee Star

Dems Throw An Anti-Trump Temper Tantrum — Does It Matter?

  Issues & Insights  

Nevertheless, these election losses do matter – and it’s something Trump and his fanbase can’t ignore. 

"If Republicans had any hopes of scoring surprise election victories on Tuesday, they were absolutely crushed. The loss was sweeping.

"In New Jersey and Virginia, the Republican candidates did worse than Donald Trump just one year ago. And in Virginia, Democrats picked up at least 10 seats in the state legislature. New York elected its most radical mayor in its history. Californians voted by an almost 3-to-1 margin to redraw the state’s districts to squeeze out five more seats for Democrats.

"All of these elections had one thing in common – they were akin to a primal scream about President Donald Trump.

"After 10 months of nonstop, fact-free shrieking — that

• Trump is wrecking the economy (the latest GDPNow estimate from the Atlanta Fed shows the economy growing 4% last quarter),tariffs would spike inflation (prices rose 3% last month, which is lower than almost any month during the Biden administration),
• the world would devolve into chaos (Trump has resolved more global conflicts this year than Biden or Obama combined),
• democracy is threatened (a claim this week’s elections disproved),
• and that Trump is gutting the federal government (spending is up almost across the board),

— voters in these states turned out to vent. Congratulations.

"But so what?

"It’s no surprise that Republicans lost these elections. Since 2000, only four Republicans have won statewide elections in Virginia. In New Jersey, only two have done so. Anyone with half a brain — and who was likely to vote for a Republican — had already abandoned New York City for less socialist climes. Other cities that elected Democratic mayors this week haven’t seen a Republican in the mayor’s office in decades. (It’s been 153 since Atlanta had one.) California is a hopelessly one-party state.

"And the sad truth is that the people in those areas will suffer from the inept, corrupt, radical leaders they’ve elected.

"Plus, the more Democrats hyper-focus on Trump, the more of a disservice they do to themselves. After all, Trump won’t be on the ballot in 2028, and all their claims about the country devolving into an autocracy will be a laugh line. They will have nothing to offer voters, other than hatred of Trump." . . . More...

Gotta love this Israeli-produced parody of Mamdani

BareNakedIslam

"As we know, every great parody is based on the truth. Israeli satire show “Eretz Nehederet” airs a sketch mocking NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani."

Dearborn's Democrat rep in Congress

Did you know that in Dearborn, Michigan, Muslim girls can get beheaded and nobody says a thing?    "RAIR FoundationIn November 2021, Abdullah Hammoud made history as the first Arab-American and Muslim elected as mayor of Dearborn. Just a year later, in 2022, he elevated Issa Shahin to become the city’s first Muslim police chief. Shahin is the 47-year-old son of an Egyptian father and Albanian mother, married to a Jordanian-American woman. He now controls Dearborn’s law enforcement arm.

"Together, Hammoud and Shahin represent a historic shift: both of Dearborn’s most powerful offices, political and police, are held by Muslim men deeply tied to a very controversial Islamic community. And that fact matters, because under their leadership, a troubling pattern has emerged. Non-Muslims are punished for reckless words, while Muslims are shielded when they chant open incitement." . . .

Maybe Karine should give up on this book

Silvio Canto, Jr.

"Watching former Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre promote her book is hard. It's obvious that no one is buying her arguments. Did she really believe that the public would buy accept that stuff about President Biden being in top form? Or are we watching yet another person who spent so much time in the "bubble" that she couldn't see what all of us were seeing?

"The latest stop in the book tour did not go well. Let's check that out:

"Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was grilled on Tuesday about her new book and decision to leave the Democratic Party.

"Podcaster Van Lathan spoke with Jean-Pierre about her decision to leave the Democratic Party as well as her new book, "Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines." 

"During her book tour, Jean-Pierre said the title's reference to a "broken" White House referred to the Trump administration, not the Biden administration. 

" You know, I saw that you said that when you meant a ‘broken’ White House that you don't mean the Biden White House, that you mean the Trump White House. Nobody believes that," Lathan said. 

" 'Well, because the book was written to be in the moment," Jean-Pierre responded. "When you read the book, you'll see that I'm talking about what's happening right now and meeting the moment. I mean, people didn't believe that because they want a tell-all, right? I think people… they assume the book was going to be I'm telling secrets, and I'm not. The book doesn't have secrets in it. The book is literally talking about my experience."

"Jean-Pierre argued the book had far more depth in terms of talking about the current moment in the country.

"There was nothing in your opinion that was broken about the Biden White House?" Lathan pressed further. 

"Even liberal hosts are not buying it. It didn't go well again because people are not stupid. Everybody could see that the former President had lost his fastball. He was struggling to answer questions. Eventually, everything hit the fan when the nation saw him on TV debating President Trump and looking horrible.

"KJP may have been a loyal team player. However, you can't let your loyalty isolate you from the reality that we were all seeing. I think that her book would have been better received if she had been more honest about her failures and the media's willingness to cover things up.

"As for leaving the Democrat Party, honestly, who cares? It doesn't make her more sincere. It's just a cheap excuse to look "independent" when she was not.

"So good luck, KJP. Maybe there is another book that you can work on, because this one is not working for you."

At least the Babylon Bee found opportunity for humor in the NY mayor's election

New York’s Elderly Jews Torn Between Man Who Would Kill Them For Being Jewish And Man Who Would Kill Them For Being Elderly

"NEW YORK CITY, NY — The elderly Jewish community is reportedly at a crossroads this Election Day, torn between a man who would kill them for being Jewish and a man who would kill them for being elderly.

" 'Mamdani wants me dead for being Jewish," said Estelle Goldberg, a rabbi's wife. "But Cuomo would shove me in a nursing home infected with COVID and refuse to admit me to the hospital."  

"It's a tough choice." . . .

Zohran Mamdani Horrified To Discover He Now Has A Job  

"NEW YORK, NY — In the wake of his overwhelming election win that signalled a dramatic political shift in the United States, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani was reportedly horrified to wake up this morning and discover that he now had a job.

The Ugandan-born socialist won a landslide victory on Tuesday over former Governor Andrew Cuomo, Republican Curtis Sliwa, and common sense, only to come to the stunning realization that he would now have to work.

"I didn't think this through," Mamdani reportedly told one of his aides. "I was all excited about the campaign and wanted to win, but I got so caught up in the competition that I didn't stop to think that I would end up, you know, having a job. This is terrible."

Promising handouts and government-provided living necessities built a tremendous following for Mamdani, though he now found himself in the unenviable position of not being able to just sit at home and do nothing like his supporters. "I didn't know I would have to like… do stuff," . . .

When Mamdani speaks, everybody better listen

 Zohran Mamdani Just Delivered One of the Most Horrifying Quotes Ever From a Politician – Twitchy

Did You Catch the Scariest Part of Mamdani’s Victory Speech? 

“We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about.”  Why is there standing water on your lawn?

The Kids Have Delivered Mamdani, but the Adults Will Be Required to Handle the Results to Come – RedState

 . . . "Mamdani is the youngest mayor of the city in a century, and it is his contemporaries who have driven him into office. That is to say, those with the least amount of political experience and wisdom were swayed by the promises of this wunderkind. The people with a sparse voting record that matches Mamdani’s lack of a professional resume have placed him in charge of the biggest city, and disaster only looms.". . .

 . . . "What these voters fail to do is look deeper into these issues. If these heart-swelling policies are so wondrous, did any of them ask why these have not been implemented before? Have they not considered that the buses and subways will become rolling homeless shelters? Did none of them see the city-operated grocer that recently failed in Missouri? And what about the application of pragmatism to these proposals?

Mamdani has frequently been shown to have fractured interpretations of fiscal policies. He plans to raise $9 billion by hiking taxes on billionaires, saying the municipal rate is still lower than most other cities'. He chooses to omit that this exists on top of an existing state tax, meaning the rich face higher rates. Analysts have used this same subterfuge by claiming examples of other hikes on the wealthy have proven successful elsewhere, but they are using statewide examples applied to proposals confined to a city.

His promise of free childcare up to five years of age, with providers paid at the same level as teachers, is so expensive that his campaign estimates costs could run as high as $20,000 per child, and $6 billion to operate. This would constitute two-thirds of the new tax revenue he plans to rake in – for just one of his programs. Now factor in that the city has been operating with a budget deficit of $5-7 billion the past few years, and these plans look even more ridiculous.

Explosive report claims a network of charities connected to [oligarch] George Soros funneled $40M to support Zohran Mamdani's political rise in tax-dodging scheme | Daily Mail Online

107 SECONDS TO PARADISE

 Ann Coulter

"The Democrats’ problem is that their base and the media (also their base) are insane. About a third of their voters are of the “no English” or face-tattoo variety. At some point, nearly every Democrat is forced to do something repellant to normal people to impress their cretinous voters."

The Z Man

"With Zorhan Mamdani sailing toward victory in New York City’s mayoral race, I’m reminded that I still haven’t reviewed Kamala Harris’ book “107 Days” long after the raw excitement of her book tour.

"I’ve read the entire book, except for the part after the title. Her thesis is that the only reason she lost to Donald Trump is because of the brevity of her campaign. Yes, if only voters had seen more of her!

"In fact, Kamala lost because she’s a callow, arrogant imbecile with zero judgment, Cro-Magnon-like stupidity, entirely unwarranted regal arrogance and a gobsmacking difficulty speaking simple English. Even 107 seconds might have been too much exposure to that.

"Mamdani’s runaway popularity disproves her thesis but confirms mine, which is that the less time a Democrat is in the public eye, the better off he is, whereas the more time a Republican is in the public eye, the better off he is.

"Andrew Cuomo thought he was nailing Mamdani at the last mayoral debate, when he said, “You wouldn’t even know how to kill a bunch of nursing home residents with COVID!” Wait, no — that’s not what he said. He said:

"“You have never had a job. You’ve never accomplished anything. There’s no reason to believe you have any merit or qualification for 8.5 million lives. You don’t know how to run a government, you don’t know how to handle an emergency,” and so on.

"Yes, exactly. That’s why the betting markets currently give Mamdani better odds of being the Democrats’ 2028 presidential nominee than Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, Gov. Jared Polis of Colorado or Gov. Phil Murphy of New Jersey, among others.

"On the other hand, actually becoming mayor is about to blow any chance Mamdani had of securing the nomination. Ideally, people would vote electronically the moment after Democrats settle on a candidate, before any questions can be asked. (Kamala seems nice.) That’s why liberals keep moving up the date of early voting." . . .

‘Activists from elsewhere’: Chancellor says Iran-linked agitators fuel protests

 Fox News

"The chancellor of Syracuse University revealed his belief that pro-Hamas, anti-Israel protests were encouraged and potentially orchestrated by Iran while speaking on a panel this week in Washington, D.C. 

"Chancellor Kent Syverud spoke on a panel Tuesday alongside the chancellors from Vanderbilt and Washington University in St. Louis and described the protest activity that took place on his college campus as well as other universities across the country. 

""When things happened that I really believe were encouraged from Iran," Syverud explained to the audience. "[The protests] did not have the involvement of very many, if any, of our own students."

"Syracuse’s top official also discussed the difficulty of holding individuals, including students, accountable because of the use of face masks or coverings intentionally used to shield identity. 

" 'People were using masks to avoid accountability for what they were saying and doing," Syverud added, noting that people in masks could have been "activists from elsewhere."

Anti-Israel agitator sentenced for hate crimes against Jewish protesters

Erased But Not Forgotten: Vandals Destroy Milan Mural Honoring Shiri Bibas and Her Sons in Chilling Antisemitic Attack  

. . . "The attack on Palombo’s mural is more than vandalism. It is a warning — that Europe’s oldest hatred, once thought to have been consigned to history, is again defacing its walls and consciences. The attempt to erase the face of Shiri Bibas is an attempt to erase accountability, to efface the line between victim and aggressor.

"Yet amid the desecration, one truth endures: remembrance cannot be destroyed. As long as artists like Palombo continue to paint, and as long as free societies refuse to look away, the erased face of Shiri Bibas will remain not a void but a mirror — reflecting what the civilized world must never forget."

New York’s Deal with the Devil

 

Mamdani

Here’s where big Wall Street firms are moving as NYC looks poised to elect a socialist mayor   "As Wall Street faces the prospect of left-wing firebrand Zohran Mamdani becoming the city’s next mayor, a fast-growing business hub down south is beckoning.

"Dallas — whose grab bag of major business moguls has included Ross Perot, Mark Cuban and Jerry Jones — has more recently become a major draw for big financial firms that were born and raised in the Big Apple.

"Goldman Sachs is building an 800,000-square-foot, $500 million campus in Dallas. It’s set to open in 2028 and consolidate over 5,000 employees. Last year, the mega bank hired Robert Kaplan, the former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, as its vice chairman." . . .

New York’s Deal with the Devil    "New York is poised to make its own Faustian bargain—selling its soul for “free” perks and socialist promises that will cost the city far more than it can ever afford to pay." 

. . . "Socialism, communism, Marxism, and leftism—whatever you call it—are fantastical, millenarian ideologies. It promises that which cannot be achieved and replaces religion, faith, and constant striving with shallow earthly comforts. In the end, of course, it delivers nothing of the sort. Indeed, in the end, it is far more likely to deliver hell on earth than anything remotely approximating paradise." . . .