Sedition? Six Congressional Democrats Urge US Troops to Defy Orders From Trump UPDATE: Trump Responds

 Legal Insurrection

This administration is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community professionals against American citizens. Like us, you all swore an oath to protect and defend this Constitution. Right now, the threats to our Constitution aren’t just coming from abroad, but from right here at home.

The Gateway Pundit

I find this type of broad & unclear language to our service members to be a nod & wink to commit sedition. Without clear specifics on what orders they’re telling our service members to ignore, this is absolutely illegal & will cause real harm to our country. I call on… pic.twitter.com/BiO6G9XyBb

— Wendy Rogers (@WendyRogersAZ) November 19, 2025

Scott Jennings Calls Out Democrats for Telling Military to Defy Trump: ‘These People Live in an Alternate Reality’  . . . "Jennings sees this for what it is, but for some reason, Mark Halperin kept trying to excuse it by asking what about it was illegal. That’s hardly the point."

 Transcript

Jennings: How is the president pitting the military against American citizens, I don’t know what they mean by that, A. B, what are the illegal orders? What are they talking about? It’s like they live in an alternate reality. They live in a movie. They live in a TV show where something that they claim is happening is not actually happening in reality. I don’t know what illegal activity they’re talking about but I do know what illegal activity they’re recommending. And they’re trying to get people in the chain of command to disobey the commander in chief which would be a terrible idea.

Halperin: But they’re saying don’t obey illegal orders which is…

Jennings: What orders?

Halperin: But I didn’t hear them advocate breaking the law.

Jennings: Well, I think they’re trying to influence members of the military to start to determine all orders are illegal orders just because they don’t like Donald Trump. That’s the way I took it.

   . . . " The prescription the members offer is nothing short of insurrection: refuse so-called ‘illegal’ orders from President Trump.

“You can refuse illegal orders,” they say.

“No one has to carry out orders that violate the law or our Constitution,” they add. “Your vigilance is critical, and know that we have your back.”

. . . "One could consider this move treasonous.

"Just imagine if Republicans had attempted a similar move during the Biden administration. One could count on them likely receiving a visit from the FBI.

"But we all know nothing will happen to these Democrats because the rule of law only applies one way." . . .

Unethical (And Ignorant) Quote of the Month: NYC Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani

Ethics Alarms “I believe this is a city of international law.”

—Zohran Mamdani, on ABC News, saying that he would do everything in his power to enforce warrants from the International Criminal Court….which have no authority in the United States, just like the Court itself. He added,  “and being a city of international law means looking to uphold international law.”

"Gee, do you think this guy is a globalist? The problem is, as usual, Mamdani doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Everything within his power is nothing. An international warrant has as much legal force in the U.S. as Confederate money or a Bazooka Joe comic.

"New York City is not a city of international law, and the Communist mayor saying that he “thinks” it is means about as much as him saying, “I am the Lizard King!” or “I believe in the Tooth Fairy.” Cities cannot individually decide to enforce ICC warrants or international law; these are national policy decisions, and New York City as well as the states are bound by U.S. policy.

"Oh yeah, this is going to work out real well."

Speaking of Mamdani: Mamdani's Version of Iran's Gay-Erasing Blueprint Now Comes to NYC

. . . "First: Zohran Mamdani is many things, but stupid isn't one of them. Ignorant, yes, to the nth degree; poorly informed and deeply indoctrinated, also yes. But he's not stupid. He seems to have hit on a way to appease two constituencies that couldn't be more different.

"Second: Mamdani owes the Islamic community. Big time. His campaign was heavily funded by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR. They spent a lot of money getting this guy into office, and you have to wonder why; it seems a bit of a stretch to think that they would support a guy who was as pro-gay and pro-transgender as Zohran Mamdani - unless they saw this possibility coming.

"Third: This is the Iran model. Yes, really. In Iran, you can be executed for being gay, but you can be diagnosed with "gender-identity disorder" and altered surgically. Some may point out that being gay in Iran is a crime, whereas being transgender is seen as a medical condition, but Iran discriminates harshly against transgender people, even after alteration. Could Mayor-elect Mamdani's more radical Islamic supporters be hoping for just such a thing in New York?"

A Mass Islamic Rally Calling for Infidels to Convert; Right in the Heart of NYC

 "A worried friend sent me this Instagram from David Michael Lynch. I cannot figure out where this rally--rather this call for infidels to convert to Islam--took place. It looks very much like the rather aggressive displays by Islamists all over the UK; like the mass street Islamic prayer services in NYC which, in the past, have purposely blocked traffic and pedestrians.

"I am not sure whether it took place after or before Mamdani was elected. The prayer leader is calling for Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx to repeat the words that non-Muslims must recite in order to be converted. Strange, he does not mention Staten Island.

"Does anyone know where and when this rally took place? Looks like it might have been in Manhattan.

"Oh, more good news. A Brooklyn yeshiva was vandalized with Nazi graffiti after Mamdani was elected. Will this only get worse? Will it escalate to property destruction, bombings, stabbings?"

Voters Back ‘Military Action’ Against Drug Boats, Leftist Narco Regimes: I&I/TIPP Poll

  Issues & Insights  

"Trump is already said to be prepared to strike military and cartel assets in Venezuela, an especially sensitive move after a Russian official recently claimed his government was sending air defense missiles to Venezuela, and might send offensive strike missiles as well."

"American military attacks on boats in the Caribbean and Western Pacific carrying illicit drugs have created a furor in the media and within the Democratic Party. But that’s about as far as the rage goes: Most Americans support the actions and, if they fail, back further action against the governments that support the drug cartels, the latest I&I/TIPP Poll shows.

"The online nationwide poll, taken from Oct. 28 to Oct. 31 by 1,418 adults, has a +/- 2.8 percentage point margin of error.

"I&I/TIPP asked respondents: “The U.S. military has been destroying boats in the Caribbean and Pacific carrying illegal drugs from Venezuela and Colombia that are blamed for many American deaths. Do you support or oppose these air strikes to stop shipments of illegal drugs, including fentanyl and similar narcotics?”

"Support was strong across the board, with 60% favoring the policy “strongly” (37%) or “somewhat,” while just 28% opposed it either “strongly” (16%) or “somewhat” (12%), and another 12% saying they weren’t sure.

"Republicans were strongest in backing the policy, with 82% saying they support it, and just 9% saying they oppose it. Independents and third-party members were also strongly behind the policy, with 50% supporting and 35% opposing.

"But even the Democrats didn’t oppose it. They split evenly, with 45% in support and 45% in opposition." . . . More...

Terry Jones is an editor of Issues & Insights. His four decades of journalism experience include serving as national issues editor, economics editor, and editorial page editor for Investor’s Business Daily.

“By the Numbers” | Left and Right Religious Affiliation

 Religio political talk  

"So while all Democrats or Democrat voters are not “atheists” or God haters, neither are a majority of Muslims Jihadists. In a short, spliced up version of the must watch OG video, Raheel Raza discusses the non-violent aspect s of the Muslim faith that support the inner circle of Jihadists. Whether knowingly [intending to] or not."

…"Given the values and beliefs held dearest by the Democratic Party, it is hard not to agree. Radicals have gradually pushed it further left, which has also been shifting the goalposts of society in a more secular direction ever since the Progressive Era of the late 19th century. 

"The Democratic Party has fully embraced feminism and its natural descendent, the LGBT movement. Both have propagated the idea that men and women are indistinguishable. This justifies the party’s attempts to mix and match the roles of the two sexes in society. They are opposed to the Christian idea that man and woman were made distinct from yet complementary to one another. 

"By destroying marriage and the distinctions of the sexes, the party helped craft sexual activity into a vital expression of choice and liberation. These are the party values over the Christian practices of restraint and modesty. It has removed the incentives to abstain from sex and promoted perverse sexual behavior. In doing so, it has helped to normalize sexual depravity. 

"The idol of abortion also affirms the desire of the Democratic Party to exempt society from taking responsibility for its actions. By dehumanizing children as “parasites” and framing abortion as a right, the party encourages people to blame others for their decisions to have sex. This is despite Christians asserting that all life is sacred and formed by God upon conception. 

"Intersectionality has had a similar effect. The party has adopted a caste system based on what someone is or claims to be rather than who someone is or what they have done. This places those deemed “victims” over those deemed “oppressors,” while Christians view all humans as made with equal value by God. 

"All of this derives from one source: pride. The Democratic Party lives and breathes on its prioritization of the self. …

"Clay Travis has a blunt response to Barack Obama’s claim that he “doesn’t know” what motivated Charlie Kirk’s murder. In just two minutes, Travis summed up what every angry American is feeling right now."  MSNOW will own any assassination of President Trump

“You can’t call the president of the United States Adolf Hitler for 10 years… you cannot say that anyone who voted for Trump or advocated for him like you, me, Riley, and Charlie Kirk are Nazis, and then when someone tries to kill us, suddenly say, ‘We condemn this violence.’ You caused it!”

“Look at me right now! You caused this! When you tell people that someone is Hitler, you are telling crazy people: go kill them. And I’m sick of pretending that is anything other than what they are doing. … Charlie Kirk bore the brunt of that left-wing violence.”

Protection Racket Media Circles the Wagons Around Epstein Pal Stacey Plaskett

 "The Washington Post also noted that six Epstein accusers sued U.S. Virgin Islands officials, including Plaskett, “alleging that they helped and benefited from Epstein’s sex-trafficking enterprise in the U.S. territory."

Jeffrey Epstein Texted with House Democrat While She Questioned Ex-Trump Lawyer    . . . "Thousands of pages of emails, texts, and other documents from Epstein’s estate were released last Wednesday by the House Oversight Committee, uncovering shocking communication between the convicted predator and Del. Stacey Plaskett (D) of the U.S. Virgin Islands as she prepared to question Michael Cohen, Trump’s ex-lawyer-turned-critic. 

"Epstein appeared to be watching the congressional hearing in real time, texting Plaskett that she looked “great” and informing her that Cohen referred to Trump’s former assistant, Rhona Graff, while he testified against his former boss." . . . 

Hakeem Jeffries Turns Into a "Sputtering Mess" When Grilled on Dem Lawmaker’s Jeffrey Epstein Texts  "House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY-8) struggled to offer a coherent response when a reporter questioned him on why Democrats should be trusted on the Jeffrey Epstein story when a member of his own party was caught texting with the disgraced sex predator during a congressional hearing in 2019.

"For a brief background on that, RedState reporter Nick Arama covered the story of Democrat Del. Stacey Plaskett, who the Washington Post revealed was texting Epstein in real-time during the hearing and steering her questioning of an anti-Trump witness at his behest." . . .

"One intrepid reporter opted to confront Jeffries on the matter, however."

"Why should Americans trust you and House Democrats on the Jeffrey Epstein files when one of your own—Congresswoman Plaskett—was found to be texting with Jeffrey Epstein during a hearing, getting information from him, using that in her questioning during a congressional hearing, at one point he tells her 'good job'?" the reporter confronted. Hakeem's non-answer answer should be taught in Deflection 101 poly-sci classes." . . .

Protection Racket Media Circles the Wagons Around Epstein Pal Stacey Plaskett  "Jeffries and his party genuinely thought they had something here. Now they will have to answer questions at some point about manufacturing a false narrative. And it's probably going to get worse for them, not the President.

Michelle Obama rages against Americans who are unwilling to ‘grow up’ and vote for a woman

 Olivia Murray   

"The Democrats? They voted against the black woman, and she lost. In fact, the group that voted against Republican Winsome Earle-Sears at almost 100% was…black women (96%)" 

Broc Smith

"See also, “Michelle Obama: One of America’s most pathetic people” by Andrea Widburg.)

"According to Michelle Obama, “we ain’t ready” for strong, female leadership, and if we dissent and argue that we are, then “we lying.”

"While speaking at an event in New York on Friday, Michelle told an audience that she would most certainly not be running for office in the near future, because Americans as a whole are not “grown up” enough to want a woman in a position of leadership. Here’s what she said, via an article at Breitbart:

Obama cited Kamala Harris’s loss to Donald Trump in 2024 as her evidence of the country’s sexism, saying Americans have ‘a lot of growing up to do.’

‘As we saw in this past election, sadly, we ain’t ready,’ she told an audience at Brooklyn Academy of Music while promoting her new book, The Look. ‘That’s why I’m like, don’t even look at me about running, because you all are lying. You’re not ready for a woman. You are not.’

‘You know, we’ve got a lot of growing up to do,’ she continued. ‘And there’s still, sadly, a lot of men who do not feel like they can be led by a woman, and we saw it.’

"Now, I happen to agree entirely with that sentiment—I think only men should be allowed to hold office, one of the original intentions of the founders—but my personal opinions are beside the point. But what isn’t beside the point is this: The problem with Michelle Obama’s identity politics game is that it’s completely unsupported by facts and reality.

"Many Americans are ready and willing to put women into office (admittedly, not me, if I can help it). In fact, tons of Americans just voted to put a woman—and not just a woman but a black woman, like Michelle, and like Kamala—into the governor’s seat in Virginia, and guess what…they were Republican and conservative voters, including men. The Democrats? They voted against the black woman, and she lost." . . . More...

THE ESSEX FILES: The Cost of Speaking Truth in Women's Sports

 RedState  

"Anderson knew the risks when she walked away that day. "It definitely hurt," she said of the backlash. "But it never hurt enough to get me to stand down." That's the quiet courage Title IX demands." . . .

Oregon girls' track and field athletes Reese Eckard and Alexa Anderson did not stand on a medal podium
next to a trans opponent. (Courtesy of America First Policy Institute)

"When Alexa Anderson and Reese Eckard stepped off the podium at Oregon's girls' state track championship in May, they weren't staging a tantrum. They were taking a stand. Third and fourth place in the high jump after years of grueling practice, the two Tigard High School seniors refused to share the moment with a transgender athlete who had cleared the bar for fifth. 

"In that quiet act of dissent, they exposed the raw fault lines in the push to redefine fairness in women's sports. Anderson, now a freshman at the University of South Alabama, earned her bronze medal the hard way. Four seasons of early mornings, sore muscles, and quiet determination led her to that podium. Yet officials, after forcing the protesters out of the championship photo, promised to ship the medals to the school. 

"They didn't. Not for months. Only after Anderson and Eckard sued the Oregon School Activities Association, alleging a First Amendment violation, did the medals arrive, quietly forwarded to their lawyers at the America First Policy Institute. U.S. District Judge Youlee Yim You's recent denial of the OSAA's motion to dismiss underscores the case's merit. 

"The association had argued against claims of selective censorship, pointing to allowed displays of Black Lives Matter slogans and pride flags at events. Anderson has seen it firsthand: Shirts, pins, and banners celebrating those causes drew no ire during her high school career." . . . 

She is a hero! Alexa Anderson walked away from the medal podium at the Oregon State Championship to protest a male athlete. In response to this she was threatened & received death threats. The Oregon HS sports league won’t give her medal to her!

Michelle Obama Says We're Not Ready for a Woman President, and She's Both Right and Very Wrong –

 RedState  

"A leader should be chosen to get the job done, not check an identity box. Until Democrats get that identity ultimately means little, a female president is a far-off prospect." 

"America has yet to elect its first female president, while other countries have seen the role come and go for various women. 

"The left would have you believe this is all because of sexism, which... of course they would. They need people to believe that our society runs on a toxic mix of misogyny and testosterone. Every male elected to office is a slap in the face to the Left, unless that female is a Republican, in which case, being awful to a woman is suddenly in vogue. 

"According to Fox News, Michelle Obama has watched as America has passed on two female candidates now, Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris, and has concluded that America just isn't ready for one: 

. . . "As we saw in this past election, sadly, we ain’t ready," she said on Friday." . . .

"Try to stop your eyeballs from rolling out of their sockets, if at all possible. 

"Obama's woe-is-women nonsense is just that: nonsense. Firstly, if she wants to blame men, I'll remind her that 46 percent of women turned out to vote for Trump over Harris. If even women didn't want her by a large margin, then this had to be a bit deeper than "America sexist, America hate woman." Harris was just a bad candidate, a bad politician, and need I remind you, not chosen by Democrat voters to be their 2024 candidate.

"And as for Clinton, she was just as bad, but I don't think people truly understood that, thanks to all the media glossing she got. She was incredibly off-putting, physically frail, and had a record of failure that couldn't be spun. 

"But if Obama thinks men refuse to elect women, I'd point her to all the women who are currently holding office at every level of government as evidence that she's full of it. 

"But it does leave the question. Why hasn't America elected a woman as president in its history? 

"Republicans are fine with women as leaders, and if someone like an American version of Margaret Thatcher came along, I'm pretty sure you'd see half the country pull the lever for her. The thing is, most Republicans wouldn't care that she was a woman. They'd elect her because she's a good leader with a solid plan and the wherewithal to carry that plan out. Someone with the wisdom and wit to fight for the right thing."  . . .

Do we have no women Democrats like Golda Meir of Israel, Lady Thatcher of Britain, Giorgia Meloni of Italy (and famously herding Joe Biden)?  Have Democrats nobody better than the likes of AOC, Rashida Tlaib, Jasmine Crockett, an occasional purple-haired leftist and some congresswoman who takes verbal orders from Jeffrey Epstein. The Tunnel Dweller

Nolte: Fake Media Now Blame ‘Right-wing Plot’ for BBC Scandal Fallout

Breitbart   "In today’s episode of You Can Never Hate the Media Enough, I give you the corporate media’s latest disinformation campaign to blame a “right-wing plot” for the recent scandal fallout at the far-left BBC." . . .

. . . "Now, in a sane world, the corporate media would be thrilled with this result. After all, the BBC tried to rig a presidential election with an outright fabrication and the subsequent resignations prove the corporate media have high standards and that this sort of thing will not be allowed, right?

"Well, we do not live in a world where the corporate media are sane, and we have not lived in that world for decades, if ever, so…

"Instead of presenting the BBC scandal as healthy accountability or just leaving it alone and moving on, the usual degenerates in the corporate media see it like  they see everything nowadays: as a partisan political battle, so they refuse to suffer the loss like media professionals and are instead responding like the leftist hacks they all are. So, yeah, these resignations aren’t about accountability at the BBC. Oh, no, It was Russian Collusion; I mean, Hunter’s laptop is fake; I mean, the border is secure; I mean, Joe Biden is sharp as a tack, I mean, it was a right-wing coup at the BBC!"  . . .

 . . . "It’s just another look at how truly hateful and hopeless the regime media are.

"Trump has led the charge to hold the corporate media accountable, and there is nothing elite liars hate more than accountability, sunlight, exposure, truth, and ridicule.

"Additionally, Trump has threatened to sue the BBC for one billion pounds if he’s not satisfied with a full retraction and apology by Friday. Let’s hope he’s not satisfied and the suit goes forth and the result is an actual right-wing coup." . . . Full article here.

Former BBC Chief Rejects the Idea of Any Compensation for Trump Over Misleading Jan. 6 Edit

" 'I don’t think we should agree to any money being paid to Donald Trump. You’re talking about license fee payers’ money, you’re talking about public money. It would not be appropriate," Hall said in an interview on Sunday." 

Why Free Buses in NYC Could End Up Backfiring Horribly

"Mamdani clearly understands that transportation affects job prospects, influences public health, and helps shape the cost of living. Many of his proposals are creative and worthwhile. Nixing bus fares is an exception."  Slate

Rich Terrell

Slate: Zohran Mamdani: Why his plan for free buses is a bad idea.  "After winning the Democratic mayoral primary held two weeks ago, Zohran Mamdani is in the spotlight, as is his policy agenda for New York City. From reforming food truck permits to expanding library access, many of Mamdani’s plans are excellent. Alas, eliminating bus fares—his flagship transportation proposal—is anything but. Should Mamdani somehow cobble together the hundreds of millions of dollars required annually, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority would have many superior uses for the money.

"Tallinn, Estonia, stopped charging residents to ride public transportation in 2013, as did Kansas City, Missouri, in 2019. Michelle Wu, the progressive mayor of Boston, promised during her 2021 campaign to “Free the T,” and upon taking office spent city money to eliminate fares on several MBTA bus lines. Two years ago, as a New York Assembly member, Mamdani himself helped secure $15 million from the state budget to temporarily stop charging riders on five MTA bus lines.

"Without question, there are advantages to letting passengers board for free. Total ridership typically rises when no one has to pay. Assaults on bus operators may decline because passengers are not swiping a card or handing over cash, and the boarding process can be faster (although this seems not to have happened during the MTA’s fare-free pilot, potentially due to a jump in riders). Because many bus passengers have low incomes, eliminating fares is fiscally progressive, disproportionately benefiting the less wealthy.

"But prior fare-free deployments provide some cautionary lessons." . . .   More...

Sorry, socialists, there's no such thing as a free bus: Video

William F. Buckley, Jr. and Tucker Carlson

 The American Spectator

 "It is time for us to expel Carlson, Fuentes, and their ilk from the conservative movement. We can do it, just as Buckley expelled Welch and the John Birch Society: by logic and reason. The proofs are entirely clear. Carlson et al. are not conservatives but they are a pernicious influence on those whose beliefs are truly conservative."

 

"The late William F. Buckley, Jr. must be credited as one of the people who established modern conservatism in the United States. He had a weather eye for what or who could help or hurt the movement.

"In the early 1960s, Robert Welch, founder of the John Birch Society, labeled former president Dwight Eisenhower, former secretary of state George C. Marshall, and many other leading Republicans as communists. He, and the Birch Society, claimed that every federal agency had been taken over by the communists. After many debates and much correspondence with Welch, Buckley led a movement to expel Welch and the John Birch Society from the conservative movement and he succeeded.

"Buckley did so with logic and reason and at great risk to himself and to his then-new publication, National Review. It was, he judged, a risk worth taking and he succeeded. He made the Birch Society anathema to conservatives.

"We cannot know how Buckley would have dealt with Tucker Carlson but it is a safe bet that he would have driven Carlson and the rest of his gaggle out of the conservative movement, as he did with Welch and the Birchers.

"It is now up to us to expel the loudest anti-Semites from the conservative movement. They aren’t conservatives: they are, quite simply, bad people who use the conservative brand to conceal their racism and anti-Semitism.

"We know who they are and so do they. They range from Tucker Carlson (who my friend Mark Levin calls “Qatarlson” for his sympathy and emulation of the rhetoric of the Qataris who back Hamas) to people such as Nick Fuentes, who was recently given a friendly interview by Carlson.

"In 2021, Carlson gave an impassioned defense of the white supremacist “great replacement” theory which holds that whites are being replaced by people of color. More recently Carlson has described Ukrainian President Zelensky, who is Jewish, as “sweaty and rat-like,” “shifty,” and “dead-eyed,” which are common anti-Semitic tropes." . . .

"This isn’t about “cancel culture.” It’s about ridding the conservative movement of the people who don’t believe what conservatives believe. After all, in the interview with Fuentes that Roberts felt compelled to defend, Carlson savaged evangelical Christians, whose support for Israel suggests they suffer from a “brain virus.” Carlson exclaimed, “I despise Christian Zionists more than anyone else on earth.” Given that around 29 percent of Trump’s voters are white evangelicals, does that sound like a winning formula for conservatives?" . . .  More...