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Why do Democrats want to tear America apart by reawakening Jim Crow? Too much Joy Reid and MSNOW maybe.

"Austin Metcalf’s family has been through hell."  Real Africans often see straight through the American version of racial grievance culture. They don’t buy into the victim Olympics or the idea that only certain lives matter. Phillip owned the room with simple facts and refused to play along with the script.

Indefensible: Jasmine Crockett Goes Off the Rails in Jaw-Dropping Defense of Karmelo Anthony

You'd almost think she actually wanted racial tensions to explode. What an absolutely vile and shameless, depraved person. Thank God this will be her last term in Congress. For now, anyway.  

Disgusting: Jasmine Crockett Admits She Might Have Sta[bb]ed Austin Metcalf — The Rest of Her Crass Comments Are Just as Bad (Videos) – Defiant America  . . . "Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) just showed the world exactly how low some Democrats are willing to go in defense of a convicted killer.

In the wake of Karmelo Anthony’s conviction for stabbing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf to death at a Texas track meet, Crockett decided to weigh in with a series of comments that are as cruel as they are tone-deaf.

"First, she claimed that Black women in America face more suffering than the Metcalf family ever could. Crockett said: “Black women live in agony every day that I promise the Metcalfs had never lived through.' ”

UPDATE: Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), one of the most morally despicable stooges in Congress, claimed murdered teen Austin Metcalf’s family have never suffered as she suffers for being black, and that killer Karmelo Anthony was justified in randomly stabbing Metcalf to death. . . "Crockett's most ridiculous statement was "And we're going to have some real conversations about race in this country." When was the last time any Democrat in Congress shut up about race? Also, they really don't want to have a conversation about race. They want to keep acting as if nothing in America has changed since 1955 and be able to scream "RAAAAACISM!" whenever they don't have a solid position on an issue or in an argument." . . .  

The Democratic Party Is the Most Racist Organization in America | Opinion - Newsweek . . . "The Democrats' long-term strategy is to stoke racial resentment to build their coalition and energize non-white voters. The rhetoric is designed to convince minorities that America is irredeemably, structurally racist, and only Democrats will look out for them. Social justice ideology, DEI, and wokeness are used in businesses, institutions, and schools to enforce Democratic rule and used internally to enforce party discipline. Note how Democrats united an entire coalition around Kamala Harris. No one wanted to look racist for suggesting there might be a better option." . . More of this fascinating confessional here.

Kneeling for Iriya Zarutskaya? Not a chance

This Classy Clapback From Alveda King to Jasmine Crockett Is a Must-Watch – . . ."Congresswoman, I am a bit emotional. I'm going to watch what I say, but it seems as though you have suggested that I am a bastard to the King family legacy," Alveda said. "I am legitimately the daughter of the Rev. Alfred Daniel Williams King and Dr. Naomi Ruth Barber King. We are a family who loves God. And I love you. God bless you." 

"Not that Crockett was around to see it. She got up and left — you can hear the door slam — in the midst of Alveda's words." . . . 

New ‘trend’ shows blacks attacking random whites and accusing them of being part of Karmelo Anthony’s jury selection - Olivia Murray

. . . "But then I logged onto the internet today, and learned that blacks randomly assaulting whites in Karmelo Anthony’s name is actually an emerging “trend” online, because it resonates with the blacks’ social media audiences. Here’s this cretin, also from Florida:" . . .

"DISGUSTING: Black woman in Tampa, Florida, has joined a disturbing trend of anti-white attacks, in which black individuals approach random white strangers, physically assault them, and falsely claim that they served on the jury that convicted Karmelo Anthony in his murder trial. face serious legal consequences. Without swift and visible enforcement of the law, this anti-white trend of random assaults and false accusations will continue to escalate. Authorities must stop it now before frustrated whites decide to take matters into their own hands."

Southern Poverty Law Center Leader Won’t Take Charlie Kirk Off ‘Hate Map’

. . . "Others mocked the Southern Poverty Law Center. The left-wing group “obviously doesn’t actually believe TPUSA is a KKK/Nazi hate group because SPLC hasn’t funded TPUSA & its leadership,” commentator Guy Benson quipped." . . .

 Courageous Stand: Black Man Brings “White Lives Matter” Sign to Karmelo Anthony Sentencing — Things Go Crazy Fast (Video)

. . . "He was there defending the victim and calling out the selective outrage. Instead of engaging, parts of the mob turned violent in their response — threatening to kill him over a sign and a few words." . . .

. . . "The fact that it triggered immediate death threats proves the point. Certain segments of American culture have become so consumed by anti-white hatred that even basic statements of equality are treated as fighting words.  Phillip didn’t back down. He exposed the double standard in real time." . . .  The tools facing this courageous man likely protested in favor of Hamas' massacre of Israeli villagers that October 7th.

Ben Shapiro UPDATE:  Why Nobody Is Rioting Over The Karmelo Anthony Verdict  "If the Karmelo Anthony trial happened under a Kamala Harris presidency, or back in 2020, American cities would likely be burning right now. Instead, there's near silence. How did the 'everything is racist' crowd lose its will to riot?" Video

Belfast Riots Follow Brutal Stabbing by Asylum Seeker

 The American Spectator  

"When governments minimize the social consequences of their policies and instead appear more eager to police public anger, they should not be surprised when trust collapses."

The Irish Times

"In Belfast, a video of a man brutally slashing and stabbing another man’s head andface went viral Monday night, sparking a wave of anti-immigration protests and riots Tuesday. 

"Authorities identified the suspect as Hadi Alodid, a Sudanese national granted asylum in Northern Ireland in 2023. His victim, Stephen Ogilvie, lost his left eye in what has been described as a “near-beheading” due to the severity of the cuts to his head. 

"The on-camera brutality of the attack spurred hundreds to take to the streets, first in protest but soon in violent rioting. Crowds of rioters hijacked vehicles, set fire to houses and cars, and targeted individuals in their community known or believed to be foreigners. In one area, hundreds of masked men walked the streets shouting “foreigners out” while kicking doors down, breaking windows, and burning cars. 

"The violence carried out by the rioters deserves utter condemnation. Burning out homes and terrorizing neighborhoods is not protest. People do not first put on masks to do these things unless they know their actions are reprehensible and criminal. Innocent families have lost their homes, cars, and livelihoods and entire neighborhoods are shell-shocked by the events of Tuesday. 

"Not all of the people who wished to protest did so violently. Two men in particular said they “were shocked [by the stabbing video]” and wanted only to show solidarity with the victim, not engage in rampant destruction.

"U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemned the violence and arson as “totally unjustified” and vowed to “ensure that justice is done” concerning those responsible. 

"But if the response from political leaders, however, is no deeper than rightly calling the riots “outright thuggery … nothing less than disgusting cowardice,” and “shameful and disgraceful,” they will miss the deeper systemic failure of European immigration policy that helped create the current situation.

"The sentiments that fuel these types of riots do not emerge in a vacuum. They have been building in Europe for years. Across Europe broadly, people feel that their leaders have lost control of immigration through their open-door policies. Polling done in 2025 found majorities in all seven countries, including the United Kingdom, France, and Germany, surveyed that immigration has been too high and that immigration had been bad for their country." .. More...

Rosie O'Donnell Flew Back From Ireland and Reminded Every American Why She Left -

 Deplorable Daily  

"She fled America because she was scared of an election result, and the bravest thing she could manage on her return was calling Trump names at a theater awards show before running back to Ireland."

"Rosie O'Donnell packed her bags and fled to Ireland the moment Donald Trump won in 2024

"Sunday night she snuck back into the country for the Tony Awards – and couldn't last two hours without attacking the president who made her run.

"She stood on the red carpet at Radio City Music Hall and called Trump a conman, a narcissist, and a psychopath – and every American watching knew exactly why she's been hiding in Dublin.

"The Woman Who Promised to Leave and Actually Did

"O'Donnell has hated Trump for 20 years.

"It started in 2006 when she used her platform on The View to mock him over the Miss USA pageant.

"Trump called her a "real loser" and a "woman out of control."

"She called him "Satan" at a GLAAD awards ceremony in 2017.

"He used her name at a 2015 presidential debate when asked about insulting women – his response was two words: "Only Rosie." . . . More...

The New York Times feeds anti-Jew hatred with a horrific lie' The reasons are several-fold

 Douglas Murray

"The findings include descriptions from footage, firsthand eyewitness accounts, and from mortuary photographs of the way in which Hamas members gang-raped women while killing them, and even raped their victims after killing them. It is impossible to think of crimes worse than those that Hamas committed that day."

IDF shares harrowing videos, photos of Hamas attack

"Nicholas Kristof raped my dog. At least that is what I have heard, from an anonymous source. A source who is intensely hostile to the New York Times columnist. And that’s good enough for me. Now I come to think of it, my pet pug has had a strange look on his face lately.

"As it happens, the rumor that I have just attempted to spread is far less lurid and fanciful than the one that the New York Times chose to spread around the world this week.

"In a piece that has already been widely debunked, Kristof claimed that Israeli prison guards routinely use rape as a method of torture on Palestinian prisoners. The piece portrayed Israeli prison guards and soldiers as rapists, sadists and akin to Nazi prison camp guards. Perhaps even worse.

"Kristof’s most grotesque claim is based on an anonymous source who is described as a “journalist” from Gaza. According to this source, while being held in an Israeli prison in 2024, the Gazan man was stripped naked, blindfolded and handcuffed. Then “a dog was summoned.” The dog’s handler — who we are helpfully told was speaking Hebrew — then encouraged the dog to “mount him.”

"The “source” goes on to claim that he “tried to dislodge the dog, but it penetrated him.” During this time, the Israeli guards were allegedly taking photos and filming the assault while laughing and “giggling.”

"Like a number of other journalists, I have spent far too much time this week reading up on the relevant literature about this claim. My computer’s search engine history is probably now as suspect as Kristof’s.

"Normal people would note that the story does not pass (sorry to use the phrase) the most basic smell test. It is the sort of claim that someone would only make if they wanted to portray their enemies as absolute monsters, enemies of humanity: Untermensch.

"As it happens, if you scan the relevant literature, you will find there is absolutely no evidence that dogs can be trained to rape and penetrate human beings. There is not a case — not one — of a dog trainer turning a canine into a rape machine.

"So here we get to the true question: Why would anyone make such a claim? And why would a purportedly serious newspaper publish it?" . . . More...

This Week in Hate Crimes:

Ann Coulter 

 "This is like Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) saying, the day after the Oct. 7 terrorist attack, that she grieved for both “the Palestinian and Israeli lives lost yesterday,” or Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) referring to the 9/11 terrorist attack as a day when “some people did something.”. . .

"On Tuesday this week, 19-year-old Karmelo Anthony was convicted of murder for fatally stabbing a competitor at track meet in Texas last year. The killing quickly became national news because Anthony is black, his victim was white and black people were rooting for the stabber.

"The events that led to Anthony’s plunging a knife into Austin Metcalf’s heart are these: Driven for some reason to sit in a rival team’s tent, Anthony was repeatedly asked to leave by Metcalf. He refused, and tauntingly dared, “Touch me and see what happens.” Metcalf pushed him, whereupon Anthony knifed him.

"For killing a white kid who had the affrontery to 1) ask him to leave a tent he was not supposed to be in, and 2) touch him, Anthony collected more than $600,000 in donations and gained a small group of protesters outside the courthouse, yelling racist abuse at white people.

"Anthony’s admirers claimed to be protesting “white supremacy.” Don’t these white people realize Anthony is black? You can’t ask a black person to move! A minister outside the courthouse denounced the entire justice system as the “final frontier of racism and it’s legalized here.” A potential juror admitted, “I don’t know if I feel right putting a brother in jail.”

"One thing you’ll never see is a group of white people rooting for whites who kill blacks — or anyone else for that matter — just because the accused is white. Nobody protested the arrests of Derek Chauvin, Kim Potter, George Zimmerman or Jake Gardner, and two of those were accidents, the other two self-defense.

"[Point of law: Lying on you[r] back, having your head smashed into a concrete sidewalk, or being locked in a chokehold so lethal that police are no longer allowed to use it, is not remotely similar to being pushed.]

"Gardner, for example, an Omaha bar owner, shot and killed a black career criminal who was choking him to death during a BLM riot. The district attorney, along with his entire homicide department, investigated and concluded the shooting was justified."

Major update in Nancy Guthrie case as arrests revealed - after chilling ransom note sparked fresh leads

Major update in Nancy Guthrie case as arrests revealed - after chilling ransom note sparked fresh leads   A Big Bupkis Burger

"Authorities in Arizona have broken their silence on the multiple arrests that have taken place around Nancy Guthrie’s home. This comes after a chilling new ransom note sparked intense concerns as to the well-being of the missing 84-year-old mother. Pic: Facebook

"It was revealed that Alexander Zabel Jr, who hosts the true-crime YouTube series CriminalNetwork, was reportedly taken into custody after one of his jaw-dropping stunts. Along with filming the local area, court documents have alleged the 54-year-old constructed a makeshift ‘pee tent’ outside the home. Pic: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

"True crime influencers and content creators for YouTube have flocked to the surrounding area of Nancy’s Arizona home. However, three of these social media creators have now been arrested as police crack down on allowing people to gather around the home. Now, court documents have revealed the shocking behavior that forced police to act." . . .

Democrats don’t vet

 Don Surber  

"Also not in the story is an allegation that he told his girlfriend that if anyone broke into his home, he would sodomize them. She is now his ex-girlfriend because she has higher standards than Schumer, Jeffries and the rest."

"As the Saga of Oystergruppenfuhrer Graham Platner continues in Maine, the focus turns to the vetting process used by the Democrat Central Committee included a panel of experts with white-tipped canes. The verdict is in: They would run a Nazi just to get a Senate seat.

"Democrats have given a pass to unfit candidates for decades.

"Consider Kathryn Ruemmler, who served as White House counsel for 3 years until she got her ticket punched and landed at firm Latham & Watkins, where as a partner, she co-chaired (and later became Global Chairwoman of) the white-collar defense and investigations practice.

"As White House counsel she vetted political appointments.

"She also handled such white-collar scandals as Solyndra in which Obama guaranteed a $535 million dollar loan. Officers at Solyndra spent the money and dissolved the company in bankruptcy court.

"The spending spree was wild. Bloomberg and others reported “whistling robots,” spa-like showers, a high-end conference room with switchable “smart glass” walls that turned opaque, and other signs of luxury amid rapid scaling.

"State-of-the-art machinery was reportedly bought hastily and later sold for pennies on the dollar (sometimes still in plastic wrap). Employees described “giddy” spending and inventory piling up as sales lagged.

"In the months before bankruptcy, more than a dozen senior executives received sizable quarterly bonuses of up to $60,000 while the company was bleeding cash.

More here: "No one vetted the company or its executives. But it is worse than that." . . . More..

What's Totenkopf you ask?-

"The skull and crossbones emblem continued to be worn by German stormtroopers on the Western Front in 1918, but perhaps the Totenkopf is best known for its chilling association with the SS and Nazi regimes."

. . . "The SS Division Totenkopf was formed in October 1939.^[3] The division had close ties to the camp service and its members. When it was first formed a total of 6,500 men from the SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV) were transferred into the Totenkopf Division.^[4] The Totenkopf was initially formed from concentration camp guards of the 1st ("Oberbayern"), 2nd ("Brandenburg") and 3rd ("Thüringen") Standarten (regiments) of the SS-Totenkopfverbände and men from the SS  Heimwehr . . .               More here: "Totenkopf" History

"Mr Talarico “wants to ‘reclaim Christianity for the left,'” That cowboy hat and beard should do it.

James Talarico: a representative of failing ‘progressive’ Christianity, and a hypocrite to boot   . . . "A Presbyterian seminarian, Mr Talarico pretends to be tells us that he is a devout Christian, but he supports prenatal infanticide, using the story of the Annunciation (Luke 1:26-38) as a supposedly Christian argument for it, supports “trans children”, and The Advocate, a ‘magazine’ which supports homosexuality and transgenderism, has said the candidate “has positioned himself as a fierce queer ally, even using the Bible to advocate in favor of LGBTQ+ rights.”

"Well, at least Mr Talarico hasn’t lied about his position on that!

"Colin Redemer wrote, in First Things, a conservative Catholic publication, that Mr Talarico “wants to ‘reclaim Christianity for the left,'” and:. .  More...

. . . "In the scheme of things, Mr Talarico switching from a ‘vegan’ campaign to chowing down on barbecue is a small matter, on par with Senator John Kerry (D-MA) ordering a cheesesteak, in Philadelphia, with Swiss cheese, though it symbolizes the difference in campaigning among the left in Austin to statewide in Texas. At least Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) made public and married his beard girlfriend. But it’s far more serious that Mr Talarico is lying through his . . .  teeth about what Christianity requires, or, even worse, actually believes what he says." . . .

This is California; we don't need no stinkin' IDs

 

Because, Who Needs Proof? California’s Brilliant Plan to Ban IDs for Voting

"Let’s face it: we live in a world where you need an ID for almost everything. Want to buy a bottle of wine? Better have that ID ready. Need a driver’s license? The ID comes first. Want to purchase a gun? Get ready to show who you are. But when it comes to voting for our politicians, the leaders who decide the future of our entire nation, California seems to think proving you exist is just too much to ask.

"Yes, you heard that right. While many states are ramping up voter ID laws to ensure integrity in elections, California is taking it a step further… backward. It has essentially made it illegal to show an ID when you vote. You know, because God forbid we make it even remotely challenging for someone to engage in voter fraud.

"This is peak “logic.” After all, it’s impossible to function in the United States without some form of ID. Want to fly? Need an ID. Want to open a bank account? ID required. But casting your vote, the sacred act of democracy? Well, why on earth would you need to prove who you are for that?

"You can’t even rent a library book without an ID, but sure, let’s just let anyone waltz into the polling station and scribble on a ballot with no verification whatsoever. Because, obviously, nothing could go wrong there. And don’t even start with the “voter suppression” argument. If you can get an ID for everything else in life, it’s hard to believe that showing one to vote is somehow oppressive.

"Surely, there’s no nefarious reason behind the ban on voter IDs, right? I mean, how could anyone possibly argue that making it harder to prove someone’s identity would lead to, oh I don’t know, voter fraud? What a totally wild, unfounded conspiracy theory. It’s not like proving who you are is a basic cornerstone of every other major transaction or interaction in life. Nope, when it comes to the critical act of choosing our government officials, why bother?

"Because in California, making it impossible to determine fraud is apparently the best way to ensure… transparency?

"Makes sense to those in the land of fruits and nuts, I guess. But to the rest of us, it’s just plain stupidity." More on California voting here.

While Critics Mocked the Cleanup, Trump Honored the Workers Who Did It

RedState

"President Trump invited the men who renovated the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to the Oval Office, and every one of them walked out with a signed hat and a presidential challenge coin.

"White House aide Margo Martin posted a video from the Oval Office: 

Months of work, condensed into seconds. Watch the transformation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool as crews drained, repainted, and refilled one of America's most iconic landmarks ahead of a busy summer season in Washington, D.C. pic.twitter.com/HBoJUx6n0t

— EarthCam (@EarthCam) June 9, 2026

. . . "The Reflecting Pool drew its share of attention along the way. In May, Trump visited the site, and a reporter asked him why he was bothering to clean it up. He said workers had hauled out 11 or 12 truckloads of garbage and that the nation's capital had no business looking like that. "That's not what our country is about," he said. "Our country is about beauty, cleanliness, safety, great people, not a filthy capital." Later, when Getty Images captioned the blue waterproofing coating being applied to the pool basin as "paint," the White House Rapid Response account responded: "It's not paint, morons.”   Full article here...

Which is the victim in this picture?

 Quora "The man in the photograph is Ber (Dov) Erlich, a Jew photographed during the Holocaust in the Łuków Ghetto in 1941.  . . .  Minutes after the photograph was taken, he was murdered. His grandson would one day be Meir Dagan, head of Israel’s Mossad. The story of Israel."

"German language 101: Machen frohlich which translates to ‘making merry’. Look at the happy faces of the cultured, genocidal Germans while torturing this rabbi before they murdered him.

"They call themselves ‘enlightened germans’. This is an example of ‘enlightened Europe’.

"Such enlightenment.

"Barbarian, genocidal filth. Arch-criminals, murdering maniacs. These are the nazis who are still among us today in the United Nations".

If we asked the keffiyeh-wearing product of today's colleges who in this photo is a Nazi, their implication would be the man in the shawl is a Nazi while the "Gazans" behind him are victims who must be freed freed! from the people of this Jew. TD