What explains the utter heartlessness of the Democrat party as currently constituted?

Patricia McCarthy - American Thinker  

"No protests over their deaths materialize like they do for the likes of anti-ICE protesters Renee Good or Alex Pretti.  They are truly heartless.  They have betrayed their country for their quest for power."

"As anyone aware of current events surely knows, another young woman was murdered by an illegal immigrant with, yet again, a long criminal record but on the streets because sanctuary cities don’t believe in jailing the violent thugs Biden allowed to invade our country.  

"This time it was in Chicago, the victim, an eighteen year-old freshman college student, Sheridan Gorman.  

"Walking with friends in a part of the city the reprehensible Gov. J.B. Pritzker has vowed is completely safe, the killer, dressed in black and masked, fired as the girls fled, killing Sheridan.  She was shot in the neck.  This was yet another murder of a young American woman, one of many, at the hands of known violent illegal migrants who came into the country during the Biden administration, arrested over and over again, released onto the streets again and again to re-commit crime after crime with impunity.

"Curiously, (not really), not one Democrat will comment on her murder.  Pritzker blamed President Trump even though he is one of the Democrat governors who has refused to cooperate with ICE.  As a “sanctuary city” Pritzker has even refused to turn over Gorman’s murderer to ICE! He values his life over Sheridan Gorman’s.   

"Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson refused the opportunity to apologize to Gorman’s family.  Alderman Maria Hadden posted a video essentially blaming the victim for “startling” the man with a gun!  

"One has to wonder what her take would have been had Sheridan been black. This level of pitilessness is impossible to explain without concluding that the party of the American left today is brutally Marxist.  They embrace everything and anything that is against American traditional values. They truly hate those of us who love this nation.  Their plan, if they regain power, is going to be all about retribution, not the American people. They are vowing to criminalize President Trump and everyone in his cabinet, any lawyer who dared to represent him.  They have vowed to further impose communism with an Islamic patina on the United States.    

"One has only to listen to Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut to see how far gone his party is.

"He is on the record averring for his party that “The people we care about most are illegal migrants.” . . .  More...

Jury Finds Nine Antifa Members Guilty of Terrorism Charges in Attack on Texas ICE Detention Center

 The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

“Antifa is a domestic terrorist organization that has been allowed to flourish in Democrat-led cities — not under President Trump,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi."

BREAKING — Ngo Comment report: Verdict reached in the first-ever federal Antifa terrorism trial over the Texas ICE ambush where an officer was shot in the neck. All cell members have been CONVICTED. Antifa supporters had threatened witnesses during the trial.…   — Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) March 13, 2026

"A jury found nine Antifa members guilty of terrorism charges in an attack on an ICE detention center in Texas.

The nine indicted defendants: Cameron Arnold, a/k/a Autunm Hill, Zachary Evetts, Benjamin Song, Savanna Batten, Bradford Morris, a/k/a Meagan Morris, Maricela Rueda, Elizabeth Soto, Ines Soto, and Daniel Rolando Sanchez-Estrada.

Last 4th of July, nearly a dozen Antifa members dressed in black bloc and body armor descended on the Prairieland ICE Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas.

The terrorists fired off explosives, vandalized federal vehicles, and fired shots at police officers.

"A police officer was shot in the neck.

"The defendants were found guilty on riot charges, providing material support to terrorists, conspiracy to use and carry an explosive, and using and carrying an explosive, three counts of attempted murder of an officer, three counts of discharging a firearm during a violent crime, corruptly concealing a document and conspiracy to conceal documents.

“Today’s verdict shows the FBI remains committed to identifying, locating, and dismantling Antifa and its funding networks across the country,” said FBI Director Kash Patel. “Acts of violence against our law enforcement partners will not be tolerated, and we continue our work to protect communities across the country from domestic terrorism.”  . . .

Hollywood Leftists’ Awful Night: Time To Rethink The Oscars

Hollywood Leftists’ Awful Night: Time To Rethink The Oscars; Issues & Insights  

Hollywood Communists Suffer From A Perennial Plague. It Was On Display At The Oscars — Geoffrey Ingersoll, Daily Caller

Duvall slighted, Bardot snubbed? Politics may be hard to ignore — Greg Richter, American Thinker

Why Movies Suck: It’s The Spirit Of The Age — Andrew Klavan, The New Jerusalem Substack

How the Oscars Made Everyone Hate Them — Sasha Stone

Who Killed Hollywood? Or Did it Kill Itself? – PJ Media

. . . "It's the production crews who suffer most from Tinseltown's downfall, and by and large, they aren't woke Hollywood progressives. They're workingmen and women who tend to be far more centrist or even conservative than the stars and studios they work for. 

And Another Thing: I always liked Spade, but only recently learned that he's no Hollywood wokester, either. “I don’t want half the crowd tuning me out,” Spade told Variety in 2019, explaining why he didn't jump on the TDS bandwagon with the rest of the industry. "When people do things, I think it’s fair game to make a few jokes, and then you move on – not too personal, of course."

Some say the economics of streaming — particularly Netflix — are to blame, but as Carvey told Spade on the same podcast, "The amount of productions is dying, and so they have to do something so more production comes back, and that starts with negotiating with the union and also subsidizing the industry tax breaks to compete with Romania."

California and L.A. stopped competing for big-ticket productions, which is why studios decamped to Georgia, the U.K., and, yes, even Romania. But there's more to the story than just California's business-hostile environment driving filming out of state.

Whether filmed in Los Angeles or Timbuktu, Americans increasingly won't buy what Hollywood sells." . . .

Colbert's 'Lord of the Rings' Gig Reveals Ugly Hollywood Truth  . . . "Colbert is one of the most divisive figures in entertainment. He’s spent a decade attacking President Donald Trump and every major right-leaning figure. Night after night. Week after week. Year after year.

"If you’re running a film studio, would you hire someone to pen an expensive project knowing his presence would keep people far away from the theater?

"Of course not. Yet someone OK’d Colbert’s writing gig." . . .

Vince Vaughn Slams 'Agenda-Driven' Late Night TV   

. . . "Raw, unplanned banter is missing on too many broadcast shows, they argued.

“People rejected it because it didn’t feel authentic. It felt like they had an agenda. It stopped being funny, and it started feeling like I was in a f***ing class I didn’t want to take,” Vaugn added, noting the subsequent ratings droop across the late-night landscape wasn’t an accident. “I’m getting scolded.” . . .

The People Around Cesar Chavez Knew What He Did and Said Nothing

"The canonized legacy of Cesar Chavez is collapsing under revelations that recast a sainted activist as a deeply flawed—and possibly predatory—man the Left can no longer easily defend." VDH

The People Around Cesar Chavez Knew What He Did and Said Nothing

"Victor Davis Hanson reflects on arriving for college at UC Santa Cruz in the early 1970s and how he immediately faced the strong, uninformed opinions of student activists influenced by Cesar Chavez, the prominent American labor unionist and political activist. Hanson, whose family owned a raisin farm, had real agricultural experience, so when some of his college peers tried reprimanding him for eating table grapes in his dorm room, he educated them, explaining that they were home-picked raisins and proceeded to question them about their activist beliefs."

Cancel Cesar Chavez, Whether the Allegations Are True or Not  "Cancel culture is back in the news, this time over long-gone United Farm Workers founder and leader Cesar Chavez.

"He survived and thrived among leftist thought leaders and liberal politicians because he was an icon of the organized farm labor movement for decades. He even received his own holiday in California, Barack Obama created a national monument in his name, and the Navy plastered his name on a WWII Liberty ship.

"Now, all of that has come crashing down." . . . More -

A massive bombshell report from the New York Times has cast a pall on that legacy.

Who Was Cesar Chavez—and Who Will He Become? › American Greatness  

"Despite the rhetoric, most of the table-grape growers of Delano in the central San Joaquin Valley whom Chavez fought were not so easily caricatured as evil billionaire corporate predators. Most were successful family-run farms and packing houses, founded in the Depression by tough first-generation immigrants who came with nothing from Sicily, Croatia, and Serbia."

Trump ends TSA hostage crisis; "Democrats hate ICE so much that they only drink warm beer now. Bud Light, of course"

 Don Surber  

"They hate ICE because it is effective in deporting illegal aliens. Democrats like illegals because the border jumpers bring Democrats votes and drugs and federal dough."

"Don’t click the video quite yet, which is of Senator Cory “Spartacus” Booker giving a speech at the Newark Liberty International Airport in his hometown.

"Here is how the Star-Ledger of Newark reported it:

N.J.’s Cory Booker accuses Republicans of ‘holding TSA hostage’ amid massive airport delays

U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) ripped Senate Republicans for holding the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) “hostage” amid the partial government shutdown.

The partial government shutdown has been affecting the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, causing massive security delays at airports across the country. This is because Senate Democrats and Republicans have disagreed on approving spending for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for more than a month.

Booker said on MS NOW’s Morning Joe that Democrats have proposed a deal that would fund TSA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Coast Guard. But Senate Republicans have rejected the legislation seven times without funding for ICE, Booker said.

He also bashed President Donald Trump for deploying ICE agents to U.S. airports to help TSA security screenings.

"OK. Now look at the video.

"What do you notice?

"No one is there. There are no lines. There are no people waiting to board their plane to Iran or wherever they are headed. There are just a few gendarmes milling about, perhaps guarding the senator.

"This is about ICE, not TSA. Republicans fully funded ICE through the end of Trump’s second presidency. Unable to screw ICE directly, Democrats tried to hold TSA agents hostage by refusing to pay them.

"After a few weeks of this nonsense, Trump finally sent ICE in to help and the result was a return to a calm, cool, clean scene at the nation’s airports.

"Nevertheless, Spartacus made an ass of himself, telling a few reporters at the Newark airport, “Donald Trump has brought chaos into our airport in New Jersey. This is his way of doing things. Chaos, cruelty and corruption that is visiting upon us now: It’s Donald Trump. Won’t fund the TSA and has brought ICE to our airport here.

" 'Get ICE out of our airports. It’s not good for our customers. It’s not good for our flyers.” . . .More

Americans’ Miserable Airline Experience is Absolutely Because of Democrats

William Sullivan - American Thinker   

"Democrats may not be so lucky.  They are betting that they can pull off a Hail Mary strategy that relies heavily upon the ignorance and stupidity of millions of Americans.  And sadly, there are some signs that it’s working."

Well, that did work vis a vis Hamas v Israel. Remember Greta and Code Pink? 

"There are reports saying that Elon Musk is offering to pay TSA employees’ salaries to help ease the financial pain of the government shutdown that is seriously impacting the Department of Homeland Security. 

Regardless how much money the man has, this is an incredibly altruistic gesture. 

Now, you can certainly count me among those who believe that the TSA is one of many government agencies which should have never existed at all.  But, given that it does exist, and that often good and dedicated human beings enter contracts with the federal government with the promise of income for their labor, it would be decent to want them to be paid for what they do when they go to work.  And, arguably, the fact that these agents typically earn less than the national average income means that they cannot afford these kinds of prolonged disruptions in their pay.

Additionally, given that the government has promised this service to the American people in exchange for taxpayers’ dollars, there is no downside to a private citizen ensuring that the job is done when the government has failed, right?  Paying his fair share, and all that?

Nevertheless, we are left wondering to what lengths Democrats will go in order to prevent Elon Musk from doing this. 

After all, the pain is the point when it comes the Democrats’ most recent government shutdown.  Democrats want Americans to be miserable, and want them to associate their misery with the Trump presidency and Republicans. There is no other conclusion that makes any sense.

They want Americans to think otherwise, of course.  They’re out there with the scripted attacks, suggesting that they’re ready to fund the government, including the TSA – with the caveat that the Republicans submit to their demands to carve out constitutionally legislated funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE." . . . 

Remember Obamas 2017 shutdown? 

Obama’s vindictiveness worsening impact of shutdown

"However, the Obama Administration is going out of its way to take unreasonable and unnecessary steps to block public access to parks and monuments that isn’t warranted by a government shutdown. For example, open air parks and national monuments, places without doors or gates, where people are allowed to visit 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, have been barricaded off. In addition, none of these D.C. memorials were closed during the last

government shutdown in 1995-1996 under the Clinton Administration. The Obama Administration’s closing of these sites is not something they are required to do; it’s something they are CHOOSING to do. The Obama Administration wants the effects of this government shutdown to be as painful as possible."

The Big List of Obama shutdown outrages * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

"Loudon noted that Jeff Reed of American Family Radio put it like this: 'The sad reality is … Obama sent more guards to keep WWII vets from entering their memorial than he sent to Benghazi.'"

Victor Davis Hanson Levels Gavin Newsom's Vile Rhetoric As the CA Governor Chooses to Fight Dirty

Townhall 

 "Moreover, Hanson mocked Newsom for the erratic body movements he uses while speaking, comparing him to Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz."

"Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson said Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom constantly expresses himself inappropriately during a Tuesday episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”

"Newsom has boosted his public profile by crudely attacking President Donald Trump and conducting interviews to promote his memoir amid speculation that he will mount a 2028 presidential bid. On his Daily Signal show, Hanson highlighted several recent examples of Newsom’s conduct that he found objectionable.

"'Just think of what he said the last few days, last few weeks. He told the European leaders that they basically need to take their knee pads off,” Hanson said. “In other words, they crouch down before Trump and perform a foul sex act upon him. That’s what he said.”

"Newsom in January displayed knee pads that he sells on his website while at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, claiming they were designed for leaders who were “selling out” to the Trump administration, CNBC reported.

"Hanson also criticized Newsom’s team over his press office’s March 16 X post containing a cartoon image of YouTuber Nick Shirley asking to see the children at a daycare. The post came shortly after Shirley published a video in which he claimed to document over $170 million in taxpayer fraud in California.

"And then his team, when the brave young kid who was trying to expose all of the fraud and help the taxpayer comes to California, he tweets out that he’s a — with pictures as if he’s a sexual predator,” Hanson said, referring to Shirley.

"'And he’s tweeted out that he’d like to hit Trump in the mouth. He’s gone to a group of accomplished black people and said that they’re no smarter than he is, he’s no smarter than they are,” he added.

"Newsom received backlash in February after telling a black mayor he related to him because he only got a 960 on his SATs and couldn’t read during a promotional event for his book.

“I mean, every time he opens his mouth, he says something either foul, vile, mean, stupid, self-incriminating,” Hanson said. . ..   More

Trump vs. Newsom: Who said it better?  

. . . "The real issue here: The Newsom crew is shallow, silly, unoriginal, inauthentic and detached from the issues Californians care about.

" 'While crises fester, Newsom tweets, trolls and asks if we miss Joe Biden yet. (No one does.)

"Trump’s tweets and quips work for him because they reflect who he is. Like the guy or not, he’s real, genuine, authentic.

"'Newsom’s missives flop because they’re phony, derivative, banal, inane.

"Besides … if Newsom really wanted to mimic Trump, he wouldn’t just tweet. He’d get down to business and govern.

"To borrow from Elvis, has the gov ever caught a rabbit?"

Mojtaba Khamenei regime executes champion wrestler as Iran intensifies brutal crackdown during war

 Human rights activists call for international sports boycott after Saleh Mohammadi's execution alongside two other protesters in Qom

Iran regime hangs 19-year-old wrestler Saleh Mohammadi for protesting regime | Fox News

. . . "Pashaei told Fox Digital on Thursday that "My heart is broken for this young wrestler. Anyone who still shows sympathy for the Islamic Republic should understand — this is only a small glimpse of its brutality."

"'He added, "Before the internet was shut down, I spoke with one of Iran’s national wrestling team coaches. He warned me that Saleh’s case was critical. We were both deeply worried. I did everything I could — speaking to the media, raising awareness — but I could not save him. This regime is built on executions, fear, and hatred. It does not change. The International Olympic Committee and global sports bodies failed."

CNN reporter surprised ICE agents at Atlanta airport are easing TSA wait times

 NY Post 

 “They are patrolling the outside areas of the airport, keeping people safe, interacting with some of the people as they walk by, but for the most part they have this defensive posture where they’re sort of just walking around and making the parameter is safe,” the correspondent added."

A CNN reporter was left stunned after security checkpoint wait times dropped from hours to minutes at a major Atlanta airport following President Trump’s deployment of ICE agents to assist unpaid TSA agents.

"Senior national correspondent Ryan Young reported in disbelief that the presence of unmasked immigration agents at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport sparked a dramatic shift, with travelers zipping through security after weeks of grueling lines amid the partial government shutdown.

"'Wolf, I almost can’t believe I’m able to say this, the times have dropped off tremendously this morning,” Young told anchor Wolf Blitzer on Tuesday morning from inside the major travel hub.

“People were waiting an hour in line, now that is not the case. If you look at the main checkpoint here, it seems like there’s less than a dozen people. I don’t think people thought they were going to see the numbers where they are right now.”. . .

. . . "While ICE agents at Atlanta’s airport have reportedly kept things calm and moving, footage from Monday showed hostile travelers at various hubs chasing officers, shoving cameras in their faces, or shouting at them as they worked.

"Other clips were far less aggressive, with appreciative passengers seen shaking officers’ hands and thanking them for their help."    More...

Plans For Massive Muslim Community In Texas Ends After Daily Caller Investigation, Rep. Lance Gooden Confirms |

 The Daily Caller   

"If we cannot have whites-only or blacks-only communities. THEN WE CANNOT ALLOW MUSLIM-ONLY COMMUNITIES!!"  Comment from reader IseeYou

One nation under Allah

"Developers and local officials canceled a proposal for a new Muslim-based city in rural Texas, according to Republican Rep. Lance Gooden, after a Daily Caller investigation reported on the plans and subsequent meetings.

Kaufman County, Texas, residents became aware in early February that a potential city was going to be built in their backyard and accused local officials of being very secretive about the deal. The Daily Caller report, and locals’ allegations that the project was an unlawful attempt to establish a “sharia city,” led Attorney General Ken Paxton to announce Feb. 9 that his office launched a formal investigation.

The proposed massive “sustainable city” development was set to accommodate up to 20,000 foreign nationals in an unincorporated area of Kaufman County, according to preliminary plans. The potential developer was SEE Holding, a UAE-based, privately held global holding group headquartered in Dubai, apparently focused on sustainability and spearheading a net-zero emissions future."   More...

I'm sure these people are every bit loyal Americans as Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Bernie Sanders, MSNOW commentators, and the ersatz patriots in the Democrat party. TD

More Stupid Media Tricks: Trump Kept In the Dark By Aides on War, NBC 'Reports'

  HotAir  

"Ahem. Did NBC News just do a reverse Rip Van Winkle and wake up in the Biden Regency?"

. . . "And that's what this story is all about. Trump made the Protection Racket Media look like a bunch of saps. Even worse, it exposed the US media industry as being invested in America's failure if it also carries an opportunity to damage Trump. Having been exposed as water-carriers for the IRGC, now NBC wants to deflect from that revelation by painting Trump as somehow disengaged, isolated, and uninformed, which might just be the biggest case of projection since Thomas Edison invented the motion-picture industry. 

"The most stunning part of this new narrative is its transplantation, root and branch, from the actual reality of Joe Biden's presidency and the media's role in covering it up. Biden's senility had become obvious to anyone who watched him in public long before the June 2024 presidential debate on CNN. The Easter Bunny ordered the president off a rope line in April 2022, bodily inserting herself between Biden and reporters to redirect him back to Jill Biden. Biden barely engaged with the media at all, and when he did, he took few questions and responded entirely from prepared notes. He wandered on and off stages, fell repeatedly, got lost while speaking, and all the while, NBC and the rest of the media regurgitated the White House talking points about Biden being "sharp as a tack" and "running rings around aides half his age." Only after the debate blew up the fraud did reporters begin to offer "now it can be told" stories and books about the supposedly secret decline that Americans could see for years. 

"Today's NBC News story isn't a report. It's narrative maintenance, and a poor attempt at revenge for being exposed as propagandists for defeatists and TDS sufferers."   More...

This Is A Surreal War, What Is Actually Happening In Iran Is Not Being Reported | Video|

 Victor Davis Hanson: RealClearPolitics

"Put it all together, this is a surreal war. What is actually happening is not being reported. And there’s an alternate reality that’s been constructed by the left that sees this war as politically advantageous to its agenda to recapture power in the United States."

. . . "We’re just completing the second week of the so-called Iran war — this effort of the United States to bomb the theocracy into submission so they will cancel their missile and nuclear programs and to champion the popular protests on the streets that have some potential to get rid of the regime itself.

"But it’s a very surreal war. I haven’t seen — I don’t think any of us have seen — anything like it. It’s only been two weeks and we’re told that it’s dragging on, that it’s a forever war, that we’re losing, that the Pentagon and the Trump administration had no plans. And yet when you look at Iran, this huge country — much, much bigger and with a much larger population than Iraq or Afghanistan — it has no military left.

"The Navy is dismantled. The Air Force is dismantled. The Republican Guard — all of these special contingents — are under enormous assault. The command and control is destroyed. The missile defense is destroyed. And yet people say that it’s unconquerable. It doesn’t make any sense. Its output of missiles and drones at the Gulf petrol states and Israel has dropped by 90%.

"So what’s going on?

"I think part of the problem is that there’s no media coverage. There are no embedded reporters there because we are not on the ground. When you don’t have a ground fight in enemy territory, you don’t have American embedded journalists traveling with the troops who can give diverse opinions and accurate accounts.

"All we have are the journalists who are allowed into Iran. And that happens to be — guess who — CNN. And they report the party line that comes out of the Iranian theocracy.

"Again, an air war is very hard to cover because planes and pilots can’t talk to anybody. They’re at bases that are secluded and secure. They get in the planes, they fly their mission, and they go home. And there’s no way a journalist can really get to them or talk to them." . . . More...