"I am sick and tired of hearing Democrats talk about “our democracy.” They mean their democracy."
"So, a late-night ballot drop in Los Angeles appears to have changed the dynamics of the midterm election.
"But, hey, the state might be counting for days or weeks yet, so let’s not jump to conclusions, right?
"Sure, Florida can count 10 million ballots in one day and evening, as can many other states and nations, and Florida has mail balloting, too, but California Democrats say that the reason it takes the erstwhile Golden State so long to tally its votes is because they want to make sure every vote is counted.
"It’s about “our democracy,” you see.
"Well, they want to make sure every illegal ballot is counted, that is for sure. It is much easier to steal elections when you know how many votes you need to do so, when you are unencumbered by silly time constraints. And when others let you do it." . . .
. . . "And if you are against that-- against them-- they will call you sexist, racist, Islamophobic, transphobic, a Nazi, and every other epithet that they can think of to hurl at you. All while claiming to be the open-minded and tolerant good guys who simply and only wish to save our beloved democracy. They relish pushing us around and rubbing our noses in their superiority. And they relish their ability to push us around and rub our noses in their superiority. At this point, a rational, moral person of even the mildest courage would not be cowed by their attacks. In fact, would consider them a badge of bleeping honor considering from whence they sprang." . . .
"In a slate of horrifyingly bad leftwing candidates, the others ought to be thanking the Maine Kampf guy for running cover for the rest of them.
"We’ve got Texas Talirico Larping as a Christian Minister while spouting off more like a creepy cult leader. We’ve got Adam Hamawy in New Jersy whose got connections to not only the Blind Sheik, more commonly known as the mastermind behind 9/11, but he also served in a Bosnian front group for Al Qaeda.
"The more you look at the Democrat bench, the worse it gets.
"It’s anybody’s guess whether this was a deliberate play or just a crazy happenstance, but Platner has a new scandal every week, and it’s all anyone wants to talk about these days. Even the New York Times is in on it. But… they’re not sharing the negative press in exactly the same way that hostile news sources (from both the right AND the left) are sharing.
"It’s being alleged by the Daily Caller that the New York Times is working hard to run cover for the would-be senator with the Nazi Tattoo." . .
Toon added by TD
The Times’s goal here was not to fairly give hearing to allegations against Platner; it was to play Fifield for a sucker, give her story just enough air that the Democrat Party’s cretin media and consultant class could zero in on it and crus
. . . "But Graham Platner isn’t a NAZI, some might argue. He’s said it himself — he’s a Communist.
Let’s play along with that line of argument a little. What has the track record of the Times been with actual communists?
The New York Times is looking to add to its list of 132 Pulitzer Prizes — by far the most of any news organization — when the 2022 recipients for journalism are announced on Monday.
Yet the war in Ukraine has renewed questions of whether the Times should return a Pulitzer awarded 90 years ago for work by Walter Duranty, its charismatic chief correspondent in the Soviet Union.
. . . "“He is the personification of evil in journalism,” says Oksana Piaseckyj, a Ukrainian-American activist who came to the U.S. as a child refugee in 1950. She is among the advocates for the return of the award. “We think he was like the originator of fake news.” —NPR, May 2022More...
Cry Jim Crow too often, and the public starts hearing static. Then when a real injustice appears, the language has already been spent. There’s nothing left to cash in.
"Every time Democrats want to shut down a policy debate, they reach for the same emergency brake: Jim Crow. Voter ID? Jim Crow. Eligibility checks? Jim Crow. The SAVE America Act — which does nothing more than require proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections — earned the “Jim Crow 2.0” label from Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer earlier this year. Asking whether taxpayers are financing fraud? Somehow, Jim Crow again.
"When a political party turns a genuine historical wound into a routine talking point, the public eventually stops listening. That’s the boy who cried wolf, except in modern Washington, the wolf is usually a pollster, and the villagers have smartphones.
"Jim Crow was real, brutal, and uniquely evil. It was the legal architecture of racial segregation and disenfranchisement enforced by Southern Democrats after Reconstruction — literacy tests, poll taxes, violence. Rep. Wesley Hunt, a Black Republican from Texas, laid out the distinction during a House Judiciary Committee hearing last week: “Jim Crow was a time when Black Americans could not sit in classrooms with white Americans. It was colored-only water fountains; it was beatings in the streets; it was lynchings.” His father had to enter a New Orleans restaurant through the back door because of the color of his skin. Comparing that to showing a photo ID at the polls is not just historically wrong — it’s an insult to everyone who endured the real thing.
"A Pew Research Center survey from August 2025 found that 83 percent of Americans support requiring photo ID to vote — including 71 percent of Democrats, 76 percent of black respondents, and 82 percent of Hispanic respondents. CNN’s Jake Tapper cited those numbers to Schumer on air. Schumer kept going. Even Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) broke ranks: “I would never refer to the SAVE Act as, like, Jim Crow 2.0 or some kind of mass conspiracy.” When your party’s most prominent dissenter won’t echo your line, the line has collapsed.
"The trouble with reflexive alarm-pulling is that credibility is a finite asset. The villagers in Aesop’s fable didn’t become cynics overnight. They just got tired of being fooled. Repetition killed the warning. That same dynamic plays out every time a serious civil-rights framework gets borrowed to describe a modest administrative requirement. Once the public senses the alarm is rung for effect — not because a real fire exists — trust starts to evaporate. And when trust goes, so does the capacity to mobilize people around anything that actually matters." . . .
"Los Angeles is at a tipping point. If there is a majority of such progressive voters, then Los Angeles will continue its descent into the abyss to which there is no bottom." Whitson G. Waldo, III
LA: Who’s Surprised? - American Thinker"The results of the Los Angeles mayoral primary are disappointing to the rest of America but unsurprising. It appears the voters of that great American city are satisfied with surpassing malgovernance as long as the mayor has a (D) behind his or her name.
"Karen Bass apparently won a plurality of the votes counted so far. Of course, this is a Blue City, so votes will continue to be counted until the correct result is achieved. Distress comes from realizing that if all the votes for the even more extreme progressive Nithya Raman were added to Bass’s then a majority results.
"The only good news is that Spencer Pratt looks likely to make it to the runoff with Bass. This despite voting irregularities already discovered. For example, almost 13,000 votes were counted containing nearly zero votes for Pratt. Considering that an early report had Pratt with a quarter of the vote, this is a statistically suspicious result. Don’t expect any further investigation by authorities suspecting criminal behavior.
"Karen Bass has presided over the decline of Los Angeles for almost four years. Fortunately, considering the apparent ignorance and stupidity of the voters, she can be re-elected only once. But, it would be best if she were single-termed." . . . More...
“The Dumocrats are at it again!” he posted Thursday on Truth Social. “They are trying to STEAL THE GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA PRIMARY, AND THE MAYOR OF LOS ANGELES, PRIMARY, AWAY FROM TWO GREAT REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES.”
"Which, of course, set off a frenzy of “Trump lies” responses from Democrats and the press.
"But even if Trump is wrong about fraud, he’s right to complain about this laughably inept process." . . .
From Pete Wilson’s California to One-Party Decline: Steve Hilton’s Poll Lead Gives Me Hope. . . "This decline did not happen by accident. It is the predictable result of expansive government, regulatory overload, and a refusal to hold individuals accountable. As someone with a career in financial services, I have seen firsthand how policies that punish success and reward dependency erode prosperity.
"Meanwhile, Governor Gavin Newsom has been jet-setting around the world like a rock star on a farewell tour, telling international audiences that President Trump is “temporary.” This is the same governor who lectured Californians on strict COVID lockdowns and masking rules while he attended a lavish, maskless dinner party at the exclusive French Laundry restaurant with lobbyists and donors during the height of the pandemic." . . .
"Carol Leonnig is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who spent 25 years at the Washington Post before joining MS Now – the network that spent four straight years telling you Trump was a Russian asset, that the Steele Dossier was credible, that collusion was real."
"MSNBC spent years running anonymous source stories that turned out to be lies.
Now they rebranded as MS Now – and apparently brought the playbook with them.
A federal judge in Nashville is about to find out exactly what Carol Leonnig and Ken Dilanian actually knew before they published this one.
The Story Had No Security Detail and No Drunk Friend Because Neither Existed
The December 5, 2025, MS Now article was titled "Kash Patel ordered FBI detail to give girlfriend's pal a lift home: sources."
Three anonymous sources told Leonnig and Dilanian that Patel – on multiple occasions – ordered agents from his girlfriend's security detail to drive her intoxicated friend home after nights of partying in Nashville.
There was one problem with this story.
Alexis Wilkins didn't have a security detail at the time." . .
None of it happened.
MS Now president Rebecca Kutler issued a statement saying she stands behind the reporting.
She stands behind a story whose reporters couldn't name a date, couldn't name a friend, and described a security detail that didn't exist yet." . . ".More...
A second victim, John Pena (also referred to as Jhon Rodriguez), 30, was shoved onto the tracks alongside Williams but heroically helped pull the veteran back onto the platform seconds before a train arrived. Chilling cellphone video captured Hernandez casually strolling along the platform afterward.
"In yet another preventable tragedy enabled by soft-on-crime policies in blue cities, a repeat offender walked out of a psychiatric ward and immediately murdered an innocent man in New York City.
"Ross Falzone, a 76-year-old retired teacher and social worker for children with special needs, is dead after being shoved down a flight of stairs in Manhattan by a career criminal who should never have been on the streets.
"According to the New York Post, the suspect had been detained earlier that afternoon as an “emotionally disturbed person” outside an NYPD station house.
The medical examiner ruled the death a homicide. Prosecutors had earlier described Williams as “brain-dead.” His daughter, Debbie Williams, told The Post days after the incident that her father “was not likely to pull through.”
"This is the deadly update to the story we first reported here, when Williams was left in critical condition with multiple fractures and brain bleeding." . . .
"Still, it’s a great deal of fun watching Scott Pelley preen and inveigh against the new bosses as though he’s the last good man in the news business. If he took the whole show down with him, we still wouldn’t care."
"Long-time readers of this space surely know of my delight in the demise of CBS News and 60 Minutes; I give them far too much attention based on the merits. Of late, though, the misfortunes of the elite communists being slowly turned out of the newsroom at the organ Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather built (talk about two of the most overrated personages in the history of media) have become utterly fascinating.
"Last week, Sharyn Alfonsi was fired. She was a correspondent on 60 Minutes who utterly stunk at her job. If you don’t know anything about her but read this column often, you might remember that Alfonsi was the reporter who, two days after Vice President JD Vance went to Munich and delivered a landmark speech about the clear disconnect between the stated values of Western Civilization NATO is supposed to protect and the execution of those values by increasingly authoritarian socialist governments in Europe, delivered a decidedly favorable report on German efforts to suppress online speech the government doesn’t like. (RELATED: Margaret Brennan and the Good Germans at CBS News)
"It was one of the most bizarre bits of Trump Derangement Syndrome we’ve ever seen. Alfonsi voiced it like there was nothing particularly untoward in breaking down people’s doors and pilfering their phones and computers as a consequence of trolling stupid Green Party communist politicians on Facebook.
"Well, now she’s off to Podcast Land, fat severance check in tow. And the old bulls in the 60 Minutes newsroom are quite ornery. CBS News head Bari Weiss hired a veteran investigative journalist, Nick Bilton, as the new executive producer of 60 Minutes. Bilton’s curriculum vitae is more interesting than anybody else at that show, if for no other reason than Martin Scorsese has, to my knowledge, not asked any of them to write the screenplay for a movie." . . .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 and, more recently, , available November 21. He’s also a writer of fiction — check out his four Tales of Ardenia novels , Perdition, Retribution and at Amazon.
NY Post "Two hundred ten years ago this summer, a 19-year-old woman named Mary Shelley, bored one stormy afternoon, decided to write the scariest story ever told.
"It was a tale of a brilliant and arrogant man who wanted to change the world but ended up creating a monster. She named him Barack Obama.
"All right, she named him Dr. Frankenstein. But had the great author been around to witness Adam Hamawy win the Democratic primary in New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District, she would’ve understood right away that she was looking at a familiar tale of hubris, malice and ghouls on the loose.
"Like Shelley’s mad physician, Obama, too, had an appetite for reordering the natural world. He took Bill Clinton’s party — one that allowed candidates in some parts of the country to be pro-gun and pro-life and still consider themselves Democrats in good standing — strapped it to the slab and shocked it with a lightning bolt of radicalism.
"The creature that emerged from the experiment no longer talked about fiscal responsibility and government reform. It howled instead about opening our borders, legalizing gay marriage and redefining politics as the pursuit of identity by other means.
Antisemitic alliance
"Under Obama, the Democrats became a gorgeous mosaic of victimized minorities, encouraged to seek retribution for wrongs real or perceived by grabbing a pitchfork and going out in search of a conservative to blame.
"For a while, it all went swimmingly. Obama built a forever campaign that encouraged everyone to give to the party — not only their money but also their loyalty. Endless chatter about “the right side of history” was designed to make it clear that unless you wholeheartedly supported whatever the president and his aides told you was proper, good and desired, you’d be transgressing against history itself.
"Tech companies, universities and other institutions soon fell in line, giving us execrable phenomena like cancel culture.
"We all saw the might of Obama’s creation during Donald Trump’s disastrous first term in office: At the push of a button, a democratically elected president was made to appear to be the second coming of Mussolini.
"And we saw it even more clearly during Obama’s third term, conducted via another Frankenstein-like creation, the brain-dead Joe Biden." . . . More...
"Democrats in New Jersey just handed a primary win to Adam Hamawy, a candidate with actual ties to the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda, which is credited with carrying out the attacks of 9/11."
"This is in a district where Todd Beamer is buried. You may remember Todd Beamer as the airline passenger on Flight 93 who famously said “Let’s roll” as his last known words, referring to other passengers as they prepared to retake control of the plane, which crashed into a field in rural Pennsylvania instead of somewhere in DC.
"This is what Democrats have come to. Utterly shameful." . . .
"Hamawy was a close associate and translator to Omar Abdel-Rahman, aka the ‘Blind Sheikh,’ an arch terrorist convicted of masterminding multiple plots against targets in NYC — including the World Trade Center. Hamawy testified at Adbel-Rahman’s trial, as a defense witness."
"His victory was bolstered by endorsements from prominent anti-Israel leftists like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), “Squad” members Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), as well as Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), whom he treated as a combat surgeon in Iraq."
"Not only could Nolan have made a fortune with this new movie, he could have created something beautiful and enduring. Instead, he and his team seem primed to make an epic flop that few people will remember."
"When Christopher Nolan’s new The Odyssey film was announced, many people were understandably excited. Although composed nearly three millennia ago, the epic was tailor-made for today’s big screen, featuring exotic locations, tons of spectacle, strong men and beautiful women, and dealing with the enduring themes of home, heroism, and survival.
"And yet, for all this, the only relatively recent, large-scale adaptation for the screen was a made-for-TV film in 1997 with cheap production (just a small step above a typical episode of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys with Kevin Sorbo). Despite its shortcomings, the movie at least stayed faithful to the source material and maintained a brisk pace as well as a spirit of fun.
"Nevertheless, in an era of reboots, it only made sense for Hollywood to give the Odyssey the epic treatment it deserved under the direction of a guy like Christopher Nolan. He could enlist the necessary talent and apply the necessary cinematic techniques to do to Odysseus what he did for Batman.
"But every piece of news, particularly the new lengthy (4000+ words) puff piece from Time magazine, has quickly eroded any hope this movie is worth seeing. With his horrible casting, drab cinematography, and intent to explore Odysseus’ inner demons, Nolan seems committed to ruining his most ambitious film yet. Rather than save American cinema from its current death spiral, he has somehow brought all of its worst qualities together in this new project.
DEI Casting
"The most obvious offense has been his choice of actors. Outside of Matt Damon playing Odysseus, nearly every other person in this movie has little reason to be there. Starting from the top, Anne Hathaway is a mediocre actress with too little depth, range, or charisma to play Odysseus’ wife Penelope. The same should be said for Tom Holland, playing Odysseus’ son Telemachus. Although both of them have risen to fame playing likable young adults, they will be difficult to believe as a grief-stricken queen desperately waiting for her husband and an adult son growing up in his father’s shadow.
"Of course, what has elicited more outcry has been Nolan’s brazenly woke casting for the other characters. To play Athena, he cast Zendaya, an actress who suffers from incurable “resting bitch face,” can’t act, and is too young and unserious for the part. For Helen of Troy, the princess whose superlative beauty “launched a thousand ships,” he cast Lupita Nyong’o, a mostly forgettable actress who is known more for appearing in the Black Panther movies than being a paragon of female perfection. If one had to guess why exactly Nolan picked these actresses, it seems that being a woman of color had something to do with it.
"As for men of color, Nolan has this covered by casting the rapper Travis Scott as a bard in order to communicate “the idea that this story has been handed down as oral poetry, which is analogous to rap.” Considering that the epic poem is an art form that celebrates the ideals of an ancient culture with larger-than-life characters in a larger-than-life setting while rap is a contemporary art form that glamorizes urban decay, vice, and criminality, this connection is a bit of a stretch."
"Nolan also made sure to represent the elderly" . . . More...
“Isn’t it so coincidental that now all these leftist activists are saying, ‘Maybe we got it wrong for the past 50 years,’ just as Politico reports that Democrats are actually backing off of the climate change narrative, because it’s so politically toxic and detrimental to their midterm chances. And it’s amazing that Americans were told: ‘You had to give up your gas powered car, your gas-powered leaf blower, your gas-powered boiler, in order to save the climate.’ And all we got in exchange for that were higher energy prices, like in New Jersey. You saw disinvestment in places like Pennsylvania,” The Federalist’s Brianna Lyman said on Hannity. “Meanwhile, you have China responsible for a third of the world’s global emissions — they’re not changing any of their patterns.”
"Staglianò actually stated, “Let’s abolish religion, let’s abolish God, let’s abolish heaven. Who says that? John Lennon, in the most beautiful song in the world, Imagine.'”
. . . "Staglianò actually stated, “Let’s abolish religion, let’s abolish God, let’s abolish heaven. Who says that? John Lennon, in the most beautiful song in the world, Imagine.”
"The bishop made his remarks in the context of asserting that no religion — and therefore no concept, idea, or principle — should be worth killing or dying for.
"Per lifesitenews.com, he concluded his remarks by stating his own interpretation of the Gospel:
“I too, like John Lennon,” Staglianò continued, “do not want a religion for which I must kill or die, I do not want a heaven for which I must kill or die, I do not want a God for whom I must kill or die. And don’t worry – this was said, before John Lennon, two thousand years ago by Jesus of Nazareth.”
Staglianò concluded by stating his interpretation of the Gospel: “Standing before the High Priest, Jesus said: Get it out of your head that my Abba, my God, my Father killed the firstborn sons of Egypt or the charioteers and horses of the Egyptian army, or that He ordered Saul to put prisoners to the sword… Get it out of your head, because my Abba is always and only love. With my Abba you can only make peace, reconciliation, and forgiveness.”
"A Catholic bishop, president of the Pontifical Academy of Theology, touting a song whose lyrics read “Imagine there’s no heaven” as the most beautiful in the world seems to me to be a tad heretical. I mean, Jesus dying on the cross and being resurrected so that our sins might be expunged and we might have a chance at eternal life probably infers the existence of a heaven, no?'" . . .
"The third verse of Lennon’s Opus begins, “Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can.”
Well, the citizens of New York City under Zohran Mamdani may soon find out. They will own nothing and like it! Yay, communism! Am I right?!
Imagine that there is no heaven, above us only sky. Imagine a Catholic bishop thinking that is a beautiful thing. Imagine that. Sadly, we don’t have to." . . .
"UK - Have you ever tried to imagine living in a perfect world ruled by communism, but previously only received the information from catchy folk songs which praise the system? Well, lucky for you, it is now easier than ever to understand what a full-blown communist utopia actually looks like.
That's because John Lennon's commie classic "Imagine" has been rereleased with more realistic lyrics to reflect the harsh realities of communism. Lennon, long dead---though not by way of communism, since he was blessed to live in a capitalist country---would be proud of the change, due to its artistic value in realism.
While the classic folk song does do a fantastic job of laying out the basics of communism---no religion, no possessions, no food---it never invites the listener to imagine all the people in their true form, which is dead---usually by firing squad, but often by way of starvation as well.
"John Lennon wrote this once-beautiful song way back in the seventies," a communist music snob told us. "However, in the years since, we have found out that what communism actually was, was basically a non-stop killing machine. It was beautiful, really. May have saved the planet. So that's why they changed the lyrics. To make it more realistic."
So now, with the updated lyrics, we can collectively "imagine all the people, sharing all the world," dead. And what better way to share the world than in a mass grave?
The full lyrics are reproduced below." . . . More...
"Decades ago, when buying a Christmas toy, I needed to look at the box carefully. If the box said “batteries not included,” I knew I would need to pick up some batteries so there would not be any tears on Christmas Day.
"These days, I often see new social media entries or opinion pieces that (should) contain labels saying, “Critical thinking not included.” Many of us spout off the most outrageous things without examining whether those thoughts are based in truth.
"Critical thinking is absent everywhere. We hear many unsubstantiated sayings:
“Men can get pregnant.”
“The world will end in ten years.”
“All whites are racist.”
"Many people accept them outright, simply because they are uttered by the “right people” (our friends, celebrities we admire, teachers). They never wonder whether they are true.
"In a recent podcast on Triggernometry, a young woman described how immersed she was in climate alarmism for several years without questioning any of its claims. Once she began her own investigation, she changed her mind, but it still took years to go public because she knew that her friends and coworkers would cancel her.
"The left does this whenever one of its members begins to question any woke concept. It has been reported that questioning any leftist heterodoxy on BlueSky or Slack will get you shut down almost immediately. Or you could get in trouble at work or school. Cancel culture has been felt by many who publicly air their disagreements, however minor. “The science is settled,” don’t you know?
"But it is also present on the right. Instead of referring to “the science,” many on the right depend on whatever Donald Trump says. Disagree with Trump in any way on conservative platforms, and some will call you “an infiltrator,” a “NeverTrump,” or a “traitor.” Trump himself does not easily tolerate dissension within his administration. (And for those who want to know, I really like Trump. I voted for him three times.)" . . .More...
John Long retired from a 33-year career in I.T. and now spends his time as a Christian activist. He occasionally writes satire at his blog Chicken Dentist.
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