The Democrat Party: "Nothing but a glorified gang, given its grotesque record of fraud all over the country."

The Democrat party is the world’s largest criminal organization  

"Fraud, crime, theft, corruption, hypocrisy, gaslighting, projection, power. These are just a few of Democrats’ favorite things. They use them like they use American citizens and illegal aliens. Indiscriminately and in the service of their own power."

 . . . "Where did all the moolah go? To pay for certain special interest groups and the future votes of “undocumented immigrants.” And, of course, through graft, money-laundering, and kickbacks, much of it also ultimately ended up in the pockets of “Democratic” politicians. How do you think so many ended up with net worths in the tens of millions of dollars or more in a few short years whilst making $175,000 or so annually? It’s a good — if remarkably evil — gig if you can get it. And keep it.

"The Democrat party feeds off the American taxpayer like a wolf gorging on a freshly killed carcass. It could not survive without graft of staggering proportions, with a hefty dose of cheating thrown in. It banks on Americans being too generous, too tolerant, or too ignorant to seriously push back -- all the while libeling and slandering the roughly 50% of Americans who dare to question or disagree with them. (“Racist, bigot, homophobe, misogynist, Islamophobe, fascist, Hitler!”)

"Today’s Democrats are skilled at using Munchausen Syndrome by proxy, now called Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another (FDIA), in that they claim to be helping the allegedly ill, downtrodden, or “marginalized” even as they fabricate— or even deliberately cause — the very problems they profess to be solving." . . .

 The Only People Dumber Than Tim Walz Are The Media Sycophants Who Shilled For Him   

"There is no version of the story in which Walz escapes culpability. He was governor while the fraud flourished. Either his administration was grossly incompetent at best, or it deliberately looked the other way — but neither possibility [jibes] with the glowing national profile that Walz has enjoyed in recent years after being catapulted to the spotlight when then-Vice President Kamala Harris tapped him to be her running mate in 2024."

Gavin Newsom

Jan 5   

Tim Walz is a man of character, strength, and compassion. He has served Minnesota with heart and dignity. Minnesota -- and America -- is better off thanks to his lifelong public service. Wishing him all the best in this next chapter. Thank you," . . . Brianna Lyman

Minnesotans Should Own Their Fraud . . . "The scandal is pressuring Minnesota’s fully woke, fully DEI governor Tim Walz to drop his reelection bid. Walz, along with a bevy of state officials, including the fully BLM attorney general Keith Ellison and that laughingstock lieutenant governor Peggy Flanagan, who, around Christmas, wore a hijab to a Somali market in a show of solidarity with a community wherein massive fraud is being perpetrated, are either ideologically blinded gross incompetents or -- dare we say -- culpable in some way, which doesn’t exclude incompetence but means it isn’t the distinguishing characteristic.

The dangers of ignorance! Zohran's lefty radicals, chosen by New York.

 "He attempted to pass legislation that would strip Jewish nonprofits of their tax-exempt status if they supported Israel. Yes, you read that right"…JPost

Zohran Mamdani’s brain trust is full of young, privileged lefty radicals with little government experience — who could one day lead NYC 

. . . "A strong collective of Zohran Mamdani’s core brain trust are 30-somethings or even younger Gen Zers with little to no experience in government — but long histories of radical left-wing politics, a review by The Post found.

"Mamdani’s front-runner status in the Big Apple mayoral race puts these untested youths — who variously have ties to billionaire George Soros, grew up in swanky homes and went to posh private schools — a stone’s throw from the levers of power." . . .

Wolf in sheep's keffiyehs: Zohran Mamdani's antisemitism with a smile 

"This week, New York City sent a message — and for Jews, it’s chilling.

"Zohran Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist and anti-Zionist State Assemblyman from Queens, just won the Democratic Primary in a landslide. But this isn’t a local political story. It’s the story of how antisemitism, cloaked in social justice language and weaponized by extremist ideologues, has gone mainstream in America. And now it's winning.

Let’s be honest about who Mamdani is — and what he stands for:

What Zohran Mamdani stands for

• He has refused to condemn Hamas after its October 7 massacre of Israeli civilians, blaming Israel for the massacre on October 8, before it even retaliated. 
• He refused to support Holocaust remembrance legislation." . . .

. . . "In the days since Mamdani’s win, antisemites online have only grown more emboldened. I’ve seen people openly posting “The intifada has been globalized,” telling Jews to “leave New York,” and even saying “Hitler would have loved this.” This is the climate Mamdani has helped create — one where genocidal slogans are no longer fringe, but viral. Like many grifters these days, he surfs on the algorithmic waves of antisemitism." . . .

Where Did Those Rent-a-Mob Protests for Maduro Come From? Here Are the Receipts

 Victoria Taft  

Jan. 3, 2026 — U.S. military forces capture Maduro. Within minutes, the same network activates with graphics, slogans, protests, like a switch flipped on. This wasn’t solidarity. It was a long-running relationship, tested, rehearsed, and ready.

"For the past 22 years I have watched, written about, broadcast, and cross-referenced the groups, messages, and protests by the left in Portland, Oregon. For a long time, before the Occupy Wall Street movement, I was one of the few in Portland talking about the derivations of these groups on my blog and the radio. Before the category-killing Antifa movement subsumed the anarchists and BLM activists, these groups always came from one place: the ANSWER Coalition. This anti-war, anti-Israel, anti-capitalist, anti-anything-opposed-to-America organization gave cover to the wildest and most extreme groups in Portland. Earth First!, Animal Liberation Front, Earth Liberation Front, and anti-Semites, the Wobblies, and any group with a fist in their logo found a home in the ANSWER Coalition. Republicans were not invited.

"When ANSWER discovered I was outing them in public, they removed the individual groups from their website. Apparently, they didn't want anyone to know they were associating with terrorist organizations. But—what ho!—the group, which stands for Act Now to End War and Stop Racism, began right after the al-Qaeda attack on the United States in 2001, in fear that the U.S. would retaliate for that whole flying airplanes into the Pentagon and New York skyscrapers thing.

"Whose side are they on, anyway? 

"Not yours. 

"Just take a look at their last few months of activity that I screenshotted from their website:" . . .(See above and others herein)   More...

New Yorkers: Be Afraid, Be Vigilant, but Gird Your Loins for Battle

 Phyllis Chesler:  "This Is a Fight We Cannot Afford to Lose"

"One such woman wears "Free Luigi" buttons. Another is thrilled that the song "Bread and Roses" was sung. A third strongly shares Mamdani's verbal commitment or rather promise to make the "rich" pay more for the "poor."

"This may have been among the worst New Year's of my life.

"The only thing missing was Leni Riefenstahl’s camera to capture the symbolic pageantry of this second inauguration, a record of the grandiose promises made and cheered.

"NYC's new mayor is an out-and-out Islamist even more so than a democratic socialist. This is what the Red-Green alliance looks and sounds like. On Mamdani's very first day in office, he jettisoned the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism/anti-Zionism and lifted preexisting restrictions on boycotting Israel.

"Excuse me? How will doing so improve housing and childcare in NYC? Then again, Mamdani is a smooth, ambitious, and charismatic figure--and he knows exactly to whom he is pandering.

"The loudest and longest ovation Mamdani received was when he referred to the Palestinian communities in Bay Ridge Brooklyn as if they were forgotten, under represented, or the victims of "Islamophobia" (a false concept but no matter). He failed to describe them as having been among the loudest and most visible of Jew and Israel haters in the city. What he said, exactly, was this: "Palestinian New Yorkers in Bay Ridge will no longer have to contend with a politics that speaks of universalism and then makes them the exception."

"Unless I missed it, Mamdani said nothing about the rise in attacks on Jews in our once fair city; he did mention pastrami on rye and having enjoyed lox and bagels in his formative years--as if such food is all that Judaism is about. Harmless enough. Nothing else to see here.

"But if, or rather when, the mayor fails to deliver on all his pie-in-the-sky promises, he has two ready-made scapegoats to blame and to feed to the rage of the masses: The millionaires, the billionaires--and the Jews.

"Our new mayor said nothing about the massive looting, the street- and train-based violence, or the fetid encampments that have sprung up like poisonous mushrooms. All he mentioned was something rather Orwellian about dealing with mental illness. Mamdani will "create a new Department of Community Safety that will tackle the mental health crisis and let the police focus on the job they were signed up to do." And how, Sir, do you plan such a "tackle"? Given that there are no medications or therapies that can turn around schizophrenia and other serious forms of psychiatric illness?" . . . More

More voices of young women; the same voices that cheer for the murderers of Jewish families, assaulting Jewish students attending college classes, adore Luigi Mangione for killing a father and husband.

Phyllis Chesler, Ph.D., is an Emerita Professor of Psychology at City University of New York. She is a best-selling author, a legendary feminist leader, and a retired academic and psychotherapist.

UPDATE: Standing for Israel and the Jews: A Brave New Feminist Group; Mainly Christian and British: 

"So in October 2023, I reached out on social media to all the Jewish women I knew, to offer them my love and support. I looked for tiny signs from other feminists that they supported Jews, and tried to gather them together. I spoke up in feminist circles. I went to the first march (actually more of a shuffle) against antisemitism. I have never felt so welcome – or so horribly humbled and embarrassed by the gratitude Jewish women expressed for what, to me, is a basic act of humanity and feminism.

"I will stand shoulder to shoulder with Jews forever. I do not want to live in a world where Jews are not safe. Hence, I am a Zionist. I stand with Israel."

Zohran Mamdani’s new NYC tenant advocate called to ‘seize private property,’ blasted homeownership as ‘white supremacy’

NY Post  

“Without landlords how to do you build and maintain housing? You think the government is going to do it? Look at NYCHA [New York City Housing Authority complexes],” said Humberto Lopes, founder and CEO of the Gotham Housing Alliance.  “You put a system in place to destroy landlords. Why are you s–tting on us?,” he said.

"Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s newly appointed tenant advocate called to “seize private property” and blasted homeownership as a “weapon of white supremacy” in a series of pro-Communist social media posts.

"Cea Weaver, Mamdani’s new director of the city Office to Protect Tenants, made the statements and urged her followers to elect more Communists in several lecturing posts on her now-deleted X account that were unearthed by internet sleuths.

“ 'Seize private property!” she said on June 13, 2018.

“ 'Private property including any kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy,” she said then.

"Weaver also pushed to “Elect more communists” in December 2017 — when a Harlem street corner was being renamed in honor of former Manhattan Rep. Vito Marcantonio, who was a Communist.

"She also unloaded on law enforcement in a May 2020 rant that came during the furor over the death of George Floyd.

“ 'The Police Are Just People The State Sanctions To Murder W[ith] Immunity,” she posted.

"Weaver, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and former campaign coordinator for Housing Justice For All, also served as an adviser to the Mamdani campaign in 2025.

"The Post featured her as part of a group of young lefty progressives in Mamdani’s brain trust.

"She was a key player in lobbying the Democrat-run state Legislature to tighten the city’s rent stabilization laws in 2019, making them more pro-tenant." . .  . More...

HHS Axes Insane Biden Policy That Paid Daycare Centers Without Verifying Attendance

How can Democrats be so degraded they prefer and defend this form of government?

 RedState 

 “Paying providers upfront based on paper enrollment instead of actual attendance invites abuse,” said Health and Human Services Deputy Secretary Jim O’Neill. “In Minnesota, we’ve seen credible and widespread allegations of fraudulent daycare providers who were not caring for children at all. The reforms we are enacting will make fraud harder to perpetrate.”

"The more the onion gets peeled back, the more it looks like the Democrat Party has been heavily invested for years in perpetrating fraud via daycare centers. First, it was the mostly Somali-operated "learing centers" in Minnesota, and, now, it looks like upwards of $19 billion in taxpayer money was sent by the Biden admin to daycare centers without first verifying that children were actually attending the centers.

"As we've learned from Nick Shirley's fantastic coverage from Minnesota, there's apparently a booming market of "ghost centers" that have the signage and the storefronts, but not so much the children. Shirley visited several centers that looked like legitimate operations from the outside, but were revealed to be ghost care businesses operating without children, despite receiving taxpayer funding for child care services.

"It turns out that taxpayers have actually been sending gobs of money to daycare centers across the country that weren't required to confirm attendance records – and it's all thanks to former President Joe Biden. According to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Administration for Children and Families, Biden implemented a series of rules in 2024 "that required states to pay providers before verifying any attendance and before care was delivered."

"On Monday, HHS announced it was rescinding the Biden-era rules and rolling back "provisions in the 2024 Child Care and Development Fund rule that weakened oversight and increased the risk of waste, fraud and abuse in federally-funded state child care — including programs now under investigation in Minnesota." . . .  More

Roll out the red carpet! The California Post to launch on January 26

NY Post  

“People are tired of legacy media, they want change, and that change starts on January 26.”  The California Post will be available on web at californiapost.com, in your app store, print and all social channels " . . .

"A new era of common sense and accountability arrives in California on January 26.

"That is the launch date of the California Post — the brand new, seven-days-a-week digital and print newspaper for the Golden State.

"The sister publication to the New York Post brings all the hard-charging, plain-spoken journalism of The Post to the West Coast.

"In announcing the date, California Post editor-in-chief Nick Papps said, “It’s time to hold the powerful to account and start fighting for hard-working Californians.

"“The California Post will be a game-changer across news, sports, opinion and entertainment,” Papps said." . .  . More...

The Toppling of Villains Has Begun in Earnest. It Must Continue.

The American Spectator  

"So it’s OK for the Cubans to exercise imperialism over Venezuela but not for the U.S. to do it?"

                                              Maduro Challenged The WRONG Man  

. . . "What I predicted was that the ruling regimes, both Iran and Venezuela, would go by the boards, and the benefits coming to everybody in America not affiliated with the Democrat Party would be manifold.

"Iran, I noted, is going to collapse on its own, mostly because the ayatollahs are so incompetent at the basic functions of government that they’ve allowed the reservoirs which supply water to the 15 million people who live in and around Tehran to go almost completely dry. And with a pretty rough drought hitting that country, they’re now talking about moving Iran’s capital and relocating — assumedly by force? — most of the population elsewhere. (RELATED: Unmasking Iran’s Hidden Footprint in the Americas)

"This is quite possibly the single most pronounced confession of governing failure in world history. Especially in light of all the money wasted by the Iranian regime on utterly idiotic things like Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, and a nuclear program that American and Israeli airstrikes reduced to ash last year. The desalination plants and water pipelines Iran desperately needs could easily have been built over the course of the past couple of decades, and everyone knows it. (RELATED: Trump’s Declawing of Iran Is Reshaping the Middle East)

"Which is why they’re in the streets in Iran again, and this time it’s serious enough that the head ayatollah in charge is apparently making travel plans…

Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has a back-up plan to flee the country should his security forces fail to suppress protests or desert, according to an intelligence report shared with The Times.

Khamenei, 86, plans to escape Tehran with a close circle of up to 20 aides and family, should he see that the army and security called on to quell the unrest are deserting, defecting, or failing to follow orders.

“The ‘plan B’ is for Khamenei and his very close circle of associates and family, including his son and nominated heir apparent, Mojtaba,” an intelligence source told The Times.

Beni Sabti, who served for decades in Israeli intelligence after fleeing the regime eight years after the Islamic revolution, told The Times that Khamenei would flee to Moscow as “there is no other place for him.”

Nationwide protests triggered by economic hardships have gripped cities across Iran, including in the holy city of Qom, over the last week.

Protesters accuse anti-riot forces — made up of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the Basij militia, the police and the army — of using violent means including live fire, tear gas and water cannons to suppress the demonstrations.

The forces are under the total command of Khameini, who is the supreme source of power in the Islamic republic, overruling the army, courts and media. He relies on the IRGC to enforce his bidding as a central source of power.

The escape plan will be activated should Khamenei feel his security forces are not following orders. Desertion and defection are not easily undertaken, with Khamenei protecting loyalists, controlling key appointments and their safety, according to a psychological profile of the leader done by a western intelligence agency and seen by The Times.

But the same assessment said Khamenei was “weaker, both mentally and physically” since last year’s 12-day war with Israel. He has barely been seen in public and, notably, has not been seen or heard from during the last several days of protests. For the duration of war, Khamenei holed up in a bunker, avoiding the fate of several other high-level IRGC officials and feeding his “obsession with survival.” . . .  More...

 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. Scott is also the author of The Revivalist Manifesto: How Patriots Can Win The Next American Era, and, more recently, Racism, Revenge and Ruin: It's All Obama, available November 21. 

Warm Individualism or Cold Collectivism?

 

TGIF: Warm Individualism or Cold Collectivism? | The Libertarian Institute

. . . "In Europe, where collectivist anti-fossil-fuels “green” policies have been enacted in the name of combating a conjured-up climate emergency, many people get dangerously cold in the winter. So far, this hasn’t happened on a large scale in America, where the climate collectivists have not been as adept in imposing their lethal program as their European counterparts. Freer markets keep people warmer in winter.

"Zero-sum thinking, which is at the heart of socialism, also has a knack for creating a frigid attitude toward one’s fellow man. When you believe that one person’s gain is another’s, perhaps your loss, you don’t view your successful neighbor with warmth. The victims of Stalin’s collectivist famine in Ukraine in the 1930s, some of whom were driven to cannibalism to survive, probably did not regard their neighbors or even their family members benevolently. Envy, suspicion, and hostility were characteristic of other places where ostensibly well-meaning rulers condemned selfishness and imposed various forms of collectivism. The death toll beggars belief. Some remain in denial about it. We can be certain that those catastrophes did not befall those tens of millions of innocent victims because they were deprived of a chance to vote on which clueless bureaucrats would administer society’s central plan, as Mamdani and his “democratic” socialist followers suggest." . . .

 The warmth of collectivism comes for NYC  

"If it sounds ominous, it's because it is. We Americans like to make our own destiny, chart our own course. The only "warmth" in collectivism is when we all gather around the last lump of coal, hoping it lasts through the night as our leaders take refuge in their mansions. Or the warmth that comes from the flesh of those being burned at the stake for crimes against the collective."

Critics say Mamdani’s vow to swap ‘rugged individualism’ with ‘warmth of collectivism’ has sinister undertone  

"Zohran Mamdani is a dangerous communist who is likely to DESTROY NYC through his dedication to communist ideology. Let’s be clear: COMMUNISM HAS FAILED everywhere it has been tried. NYC will be no different,"[Rep.Lisa McClain] asserted in a post on X."

 "New York Has ENTERED a Point of No Return... | Kevin O'leary"

The “Warmth of Collectivism” Is a Dangerous Fantasy

 American Enterprise Institute - AEI   

"Every collectivist project begins with promises of warmth, care, and justice. It ends with scarcity, repression, and power concentrated far from the people it claims to serve." 

. . ."Collectivism is not a metaphor. It is a governing philosophy with a long and bloody record. In the twentieth century alone, regimes organized around collectivist principles – whether socialist, communist, or their hybrids. – were responsible for the deaths of at least one hundred million people. That figure is not polemics; it is the consensus of serious historians. Mao’s China, Stalin’s Soviet Union, Pol Pot’s Cambodia, Castro’s Cuba, Kim’s North Korea, Chávez and Maduro’s Venezuela – the list is not obscure, and the outcomes are not ambiguous.

"When Mamdani speaks of the “warmth” of collectivism, he is not offering a novel moral insight. He is recycling the oldest fantasy of modern politics: that coercive systems can be redeemed by benevolent intent, and that the concentration of power becomes humane if wrapped in moral language.

"The American constitutional order was built in conscious rejection of that idea. It begins with the premise that individuals possess inherent dignity and moral agency, and that power – especially when centralized – requires limits, friction, and accountability. Liberty was never understood as isolation from others, but as the precondition for moral responsibility within a plural society. That framework is not cold. It is sober – and hard-earned.

"Mamdani’s formulation relies on a false dichotomy as crude as Ayn Rand’s, just inverted. Individualism is caricatured as selfish, antisocial, and morally barren. Collectivism is romanticized as humane, solidaristic, and just. Neither caricature survives contact with reality.

"American individualism has never meant atomized isolation. It has always existed within a dense web of mediating institutions: families, religious congregations, unions, charities, neighborhoods, and voluntary associations. Markets operate within this moral ecosystem. They are not a substitute for community; they are a mechanism that allows diverse communities to flourish without coercion. Calling this tradition “rugged individualism” is not analysis. It is a smear.

"By contrast, collectivism does not generate warmth. It centralizes responsibility—and in doing so drains moral life of choice, obligation, and meaning. Care becomes bureaucratic. Solidarity becomes mandatory. Dissent becomes selfishness. The individual is treated not as a moral agent, but as raw material for a collective project.

"This is not abstract theory. It is the lived experience of societies that have subordinated the person to the collective in the name of justice or equality.

"Defenders of Mamdani’s rhetoric will inevitably gesture toward Scandinavia. But the Nordic countries are not collectivist societies in the ideological sense Mamdani invokes. They are market economies with strong property rights, high levels of social trust, robust civil society, and cultural norms that long predate their welfare states. They succeed not because they rejected individualism, but because they rely on it – tempered by social cohesion that cannot be legislated into existence." . . . More warmth here...

The Thugs and the Ignorant: A Combination to be Feared

Before ouster, Maduro's thuggish and illegal behavior chronicled in two decades of U.S. documents

Issues & Insights: What we're reading:  Democrats Act Like Stupid Maduro Hypocrites…

Trump-Hating Democrats Make Fools Of Themselves – American Thinker

"If they get their way, what's Trump supposed to do? Send Maduro back?"  Are they saying Trump needs to take him back? . . .  The Maduro era is coming to an end and while it's not done yet, it's going to be done. Freedom is coming and Venezuelans are going to remember who their friends were." 

Chris Van Hollen Was Singing a Different Tune on Maduro Just Last Year

"Gonzalez has, you know, won comfortably here," Van Hollen continued. "And so this is clearly an effort to deny the will of the people. Maduro lost.""He is trying to cling on to this claim of legitimacy that he won, when all the evidence shows otherwise," Van Hollen said. "So this is why Secretary Blinken did...the right thing, recognizing the real winner here, Gonzalez. And this is why the United States is now going to use its leverage and influence to push for negotiations to transition to the truly elected leader, Gonzalez. We know Maduro and his cronies do not want to go quietly into the night. The United States needs to work with our partners and allies in the region to ratchet up the pressure on behalf of the Venezuelan people."

Watch Chris Murphy’s Face When Dana Bash (Yes, That Dana Bash) Calls Him Out for Being a Maduro Hypocrite – Twitchy

Furious Dems Float Retaliation Over Trump’s “Insane” Venezuela Attack – Axios

FLASHBACK: Just Before Leaving Office, Biden Raised Bounty for Nicolás Maduro to

"The United States has said that Mr. González is the president-elect of Venezuela and has urged Mr. Maduro to step aside.

"The Biden administration also announced that it was extending protections for roughly 600,000 Venezuelan migrants living in the United States with temporary protected status. The measure allows those who apply to stay for an extra 18 months.

John Kirby, a spokesman for the National Security Council, said the decision to raise the bounty on Mr. Maduro was part of “a concerted message of solidarity with the Venezuelan people,” meant “to further elevate international efforts to maintain pressure on Mr. Maduro and his representatives.”