Democrats on the world stage

Democrats Make Fools of Themselves on the World Stage

"Gavin Newsom was running around Munich trying desperately to look like a leader…while avoiding discussions of how houses that burned down in wildfires more than a year ago thanks to his environmental incompetence have not yet even begun being rebuilt yet. Other states could have rebuilt those houses, had enough time for them to burn down again, then rebuild them again already. Everything may be bigger in Texas, but California holds the records for disasters and politicians that make those disasters worse."

See if You Can Tell the Exact MOMENT Hillary Knows She's Been Caught Lying About Her 'Epstein Links'

AOC Facing Ridicule After Series of Embarrassing Gaffes on World Stage › American Greatness

"Asked on Fox News about the congresswoman’s meltdown in Munich, former CIA Director Mike Pompeo replied: “To not have thought one second about Taiwan or the risk from China [is] evidence of unseriousness and ignorance that is deeply troubling.”

When asked a question about Ukraine during the same event, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) also struggled to answer and even suggested Ocasio-Cortez knew more about foreign policy than she did."

Nobody Trusts Elections -- That’s the Crisis

 Nobody Trusts Elections -- That’s the Crisis - Brian C. Joondeph  

"Trust must be earned through transparency, consistent rules, and procedures that make fraud difficult and detection easy."

. . . "Contrast this with other developed democracies, where elections happen in a single day and results are known the same night or by the next morning. Or think about something closer to home: when Americans vote for a TV talent show winner, results are tabulated almost instantly. Yet, our republic needs weeks and teams of lawyers.

"Yet we are told that selecting the leader of the free world must be a lengthy, secretive process that takes weeks of uncertainty. This unnecessarily delays or complicates the already massive transition. 

"It also defies common sense, which is why both parties should support election integrity reforms, including the SAVE America Act currently before Congress. It has already passed in the House, and has reportedly crossed the 50-vote threshold for passage in the Senate.

"At its core, the SAVE America Act affirms a principle that should be uncontroversial: only U.S. citizens should vote in U.S. elections, and states should take reasonable steps to verify eligibility. Secure elections are not voter suppression; they are the foundation of representative government.

"Other reforms also merit bipartisan backing:" . . .  More...

Schumer Vows to Fight SAVE Act Despite 83% Public Support   

Seventy-six percent of black respondents, 77% of Asian respondents, and 82% of Hispanic respondents supported requiring all voters to show photo ID to be able to cast a ballot, according to Pew Research Center’s August 2025 survey.

Schumer Gets Tripped Up Over Voter ID Question As Fetterman Remains Lone 'D' Voice of Reason  "Tapper: 83% of Americans including a majority of Democrats support voter ID.

Schumer: This is Jim Crow 2.0. MAGA doesn’t want poor people and people of color to vote. He’s going to just keep saying this no matter how buffoonish and absurd he looks, because he wants non-citizens to be able to vote.' " . . .

Chuck Schumer can't be happy with this.

More Schumer: Schumer Pushes Bill to Make the LGBTQ Pride Flag Equal to the American Flag – PJ Media    "In one of the most insulting moves ever, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is introducing legislation to make the LGBTQ pride flag a congressionally authorized symbol, giving it the same federal protections as the U.S. flag, military flags, and POW/MIA flags.

"Yes, you read that right.

"Chuck Schumer wants the pride flag to have the same status as Old Glory and the flags honoring those who served and sacrificed for this country." . . .

AOC: The Democrat leader in Congress and Choice for President

 AOC Crashes and Burns in Munich   "The script didn’t go as planned for AOC. On the upside, at least she finally knows what the real world is about and why it’s not as great as it might seem to have a magic mirror that always tells you who is the fairest of them all.

"It wasn’t just her long pause, her ums, and her uhs, as she tried to think of the right thing to say when asked about the US sending troops to protect Taiwan. That was bad enough." . . .

At Munich, Democrats demonstrate just how stupid they are - Monica Showalter    . . . "There were other idiots, and every one of them made a fool of himself or herself.

"What does anyone imagine the Europeans would think of this stupidity of these traveling Democrats following Rubio halfway around the world to Europe, only to fall on their faces, victims of their own ignorance and overweening ambition? I shudder to think what may come out in coming days." . . . 

This author then moves on to Hillary and Obama:

Broc Smith

"How easily she becomes angry and triggered, like anyone from the Left when confronted. She couldn’t address the idea that the Left had lost its mind and kept trying to put out the zingers. But all that did was make her seem even more out of touch.

"The legacy media does them no favors in protecting them from the truth. You wouldn’t want them flying overseas and making fools of themselves, right?" . . .

The Dysfunctional Media Nominations: Dangerous Footwear, Deadly Coats, and Trendy Teen Truants

Brad Slager

"It is time again for a new round of nominations for nefarious news nonsense! In recognizing the unprofessional press, journalistic sloth, and the deserved media mockery, we nominate these efforts in a variety of categories for end-of-the-year honors. To commemorate the legacy of muckraking reporting and shoe-leather investigation, we have created The Golden Remington Awards. 

"Our trophy honors the olden days when hard-scrabble hacks committed actual journalism and hammered out dispatches on those hefty word-smith devices. We compile some of the most fractured examples of journalism, nominating them for the un-coveted dishonor of our un-distinguished trophy, The Remmys.

"Here is the latest batch of nominees for consideration, gathered for the end of the calendar when we will be handing out trophies to the most un-impressive acts of journalism throughout the past year!" . . .   Full article...   Case in point below.

"Distinguished Explanatory Reporting"

• Rachel Traisman – National Public Radio

When Nick Shirley made national news by reporting on the fraud in Minnesota, the national media were upset. Not over the revelations, but because he was doing the work they refused to do, and that exposed their graft. So disproving him - rather than, you know, investigating the fraud - was the required reaction.

In one desperate attempt at NPR, they tried to show how he is not a reputable source by his allegedly making baseless claims. They say he suggested he was targeted by opponents without any proof. Only, Traisman provided the very proof, in her very next sentence.

•  "I'm attacked every time I do my job," he said, without citing specifics. "When I leave my house to go to work, I'm violently assaulted. I've been bear-sprayed and beaten down. I've been almost killed." 

Related in that this is one way the above become as is.  Columbia Journalism Review Smears Cowboy State Daily As ‘Dehumanizing’ For Accurate Pronoun Use

“Cowboy State Daily has been criticized by LGBTQ rights organization Wyoming Equality for deadnaming and using phrases like ‘biological males/females’ to refer to trans people,” CJR reported. “One Cowboy State Daily columnist wrote they ‘draw the line’ when someone “born with male genitalia and a masculine endocrine system tries to impose himself in a women’s [sic] world.”

If It's Tuesday This Must Be the Belgian Stabber

 Mark Steyn  

"It's all like this in the New England - members of the House of Lords, mayors of upscale boroughs adjacent to Windsor, the welfare department in Oldham, senior police officers in every English constabulary... But, according to Emily Maitlis, if you're obsessed about it it's only because you're racist:"

"JUST IN: Two Alabama women and their children were attacked on a train in Brussels, Belgium for being American

"The attacker reportedly approached them with a knife and asked if they were American, when they confirmed, he threatened to kiII them. pic.twitter.com/cD7Ybhxtsk

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 13, 2026

"The train is filled with both Flemings and Walloons, but, in a rare display of comity, both seem, objectively, to be on the side of the knifeperson. Perhaps the State Department could arrange for any American tourist in Europe to be issued with his own Vance-sized Milano motorcade. On current debt levels, the difference would be entirely marginal." . . .

"It is much worse. One aspect of the inquiry whose scale I was not previously aware of is that, while the gangs are local (to Rotherham, Rochdale, Oldham, Telford, Banbury, Oxford, etc), the network of cooperative Pakistani rape clans is national, like fraternal relations between geographically delineated underworld mobs in Chicago. So a girl who's gotten used to being raped in, say, Birmingham wakes up and realises she's been loaned to another gang in Blackpool." . . .

The shallow AOC lost in Munich

"She highlights the concerning fact that the entire Democrat party is no longer a serious political organization with serious people."

Rich Terrell

Silvio Canto, Jr. - American Thinker  . . . "Come forward 20 years and replace Bush with Trump, and you have AOC, a woman who can’t speak two sentences without bashing The Orange Man. Let’s check out AOC in Munich:

Read her words here... Then when she finished, we felt unburdened by what has been.

 . . . "The lady was lost in Munich. This is a member of the US House, and she couldn’t utter a thoughtful idea about Taiwan. She is one of the 435 votes in the US House who will vote on the military budget, and she is lost explaining what her position is. She is also talked about as a potential presidential candidate, and she is lost when she has to discuss a complicated foreign policy issue. My guess is that she’d do no better if the topic were Ukraine or anything else.

"And that’s the problem with the Democrats. It’s all about bashing Trump. They can’t handle an issue unless it’s to tell us how much they hate Trump. Whatever happened to serious Democrats? I guess that they are gone with the wind or too scared of a primary.

Sheriff leading Nancy Guthrie search 'understands' interest in son-in-law Tommaso Cioni

Argus Hamilton commented: "Fox News reported a glove was found on a road near the Guthrie home adding to the endless number of clues for pundits and armchair detectives to analyze on the air. Cable news coverage has been non-stop day and night for 12 days. I now know why Elvis shot his television sets from time to time."

 NY Post  

“People out there can get pretty ugly and mean and nasty and not have the facts,” the sheriff said. “I tell my journalists, you guys need to be a little more responsible … because that’s just really nasty stuff.”

. . . “I understand the pundits are out there. They’re gonna say, well, he’s the last one to see her alive. We understand that stuff,” Nanos continued. “But, my goodness, you’re putting a mark on somebody who could be completely innocent. And more important than that, he’s family.”

"Cioni was the subject of early speculation connected to the disappearance of Savannah Guthrie’s mom’s, largely because he was the last known person to see the 84-year-old before she was reported missing on Feb. 1.

"Nancy had met Annie and Cioni for dinner and games on the night of Jan. 31, and the latter reportedly dropped her off at her Tucson, Ariz., home around 9:48 p.m. that Saturday night." . . .

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More good reasons for being careful what you publicly pronounce:  Thomas Massie Accuses Four Random, Innocent Men of Being Pedophiles and Sex Traffickers, Because Their Names Appeared in Epstein Files

..."Khanna and Massie now claim it’s not their fault.  If the DOJ had just redacted the names of the innocent men, there never would have been a problem.  Except, that’s the problem… They were innocent and their names were redacted because they were innocent; but that wasn’t good enough for Massie and Khanna who used the redactions as evidence of a cover-up, and when the redactions were forcibly removed, Massie and Khanna now claim the names should have been redacted.

Inquisitor Massie: We should dunk her, if she floats, she is a witch, if she drowns, she is innocent!"... 

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I might add: DNA Recovered From Glove Could Break Open Nancy Guthrie Kidnapping Case – RedState

UPDATE: Guthrie Case Escalates, Multiple DTMZ receive yet ANOTHER note from ex-con claiming to know Nancy Guthrie is 'south of the border': Live updates

 Multiple Detained After SWAT Raid, Range Rover Covered in a Tarp

Trump's warning to Nancy Guthrie's abductors as cops hunt down DNA | Daily Mail Online   

Speaking to the New York Post on Monday, the president said the 84-year-old's captors would face 'the most severe' consequences if Today star Savannah's mother is found dead.

When asked if he meant the death penalty, Trump said: 'The most, yeah - that's true.' The state of Arizona has the death penalty. 

‘Wonder Years’ star Danica McKellar says one thing kept her from losing herself as a child in Hollywood

 NY Post  

“ 'We have the choice about what we put out there in the world, and there’s a lot of stuff out there in the real world that is pretty negative,” she said about her work with Great American Family and faith and family-based programming."

The actress earned a math degree from UCLA and
writes math books, which helped keep her grounded.

"Danica McKellar credits finding balance in her life for keeping her centered during her heyday as a child actress.

"When speaking with Fox News Digital at the 33rd Annual Movieguide Awards, the 51-year-old actress shared how she managed to avoid the devastating downfall experienced by many child stars when they get older.

McKellar Math - Math books for every age

“Focusing on education,” she said. “When I got done with ‘The Wonder Years,’ I graduated from high school within a couple months, went to UCLA, got a degree in mathematics, and that’s why I write math books in addition to continuing to be an actress.”

"The actress has written many math books, including “Math Doesn’t Suck,” which focuses on middle school level math, “Kiss My Math,” for those looking for help with pre-algebra, and more advanced books such as “Hot X: : Algebra Exposed” and “Girls Get Curves: Geometry Takes Shape.”

"McKellar was only 12 years old when she was cast as Winnie in “The Wonder Years,” and says her parents played a huge role in keeping her grounded through the course of the show.

“ 'I had no idea really the magnitude of the show,” she explained. “I was wandering back to school, going back and forth between school and set, and so it wasn’t like I was caught up in the Hollywood scene at all—it’s just the opposite.” . . .More...

More here: Danica McKellar Books

UPDATED: How Do They Come Up With So Many Stupid Democrats?

 Derek Hunter; Townhall  

"So, it’s not that the party produces idiots, although it certainly is a magnet for them, it’s that it attracts horrible people who are awful to the children, women, animals, plant life and everything else that is not them . . ."

You have to hand it to Democrats, no matter how many times you are certain they can’t do something – be more corrupt, act sleazier, hate the country more, be idiots – they find a way to exceed what anyone thought was possible. In a sick way, it’s an accomplishment – a perverse one, but an accomplishment nonetheless. It’s enough to make you wonder if there is some sort of performance enhancing drug that lowers the bar to the point that you’d need a shove not to clear it." . . .

. . . "In Munich, this intellectual leader of the left was asked a simple question about whether or not the United States would come to the aid of Taiwan if China invaded, as they are desperate to do. This not-ready-for-prime-time-person responded with what could easily be described as an attempt to make Joe Biden look like a genius and Kamala Harris come off like a great orator. 

"AOC answered, “Um...you know...I think that uh...this is...such a, ya know, I think that...this is a um...This is, of course, a, uh, a very longstanding, um, policy of the United States, uh, and, I think, what we are hoping for is that we want to make sure that we never get to that point, and we want to make sure that we are moving in all our economic research and our global positions to avoid any such confrontation and for that question to even arise.”

"Can you believe Jeopardy hasn’t called yet?

"How does a political party produce someone so, um…articulate and special? How does a political party, that same political party, produce a series of “victims” of a child sex predator – who was a proud member of that same political party – who became entangled with that predator not when they were children, but when they were adults? Can’t they even stage a photo-op properly?" . . . More...

Disapproval of Democrats in Congress Ticks Upward—New Poll - Newsweek

Dumbest Democrat Ever Delivers Cringe Worthy Performance In Front Of Congress

Trump didn’t declare defeat in Minneapolis; he switched to a smarter strategy

 Andrea Widburg - American Thinker  "What he did was take a pragmatic look at the current board and adjust the pieces so that he can win the midterm."

"The result of this new policy is that, with detentions now functioning smoothly in Minnesota, the media and other Democrats have lost their most important headlines and their potential for new martyrs." AW

. . . "Significantly, Trump understands that the most powerful force in America today isn’t the government; it’s the media. This is true even though several outlets are in financial trouble and the public despises them all.

"I’ve written before about ordinary Americans’ cognitive dissonance, so I won’t belabor the point. Suffice it to say that, even though Americans know the media is lying and even though the media is losing audience, the combined weight of search engines, AI, and news apps makes sure that only leftist headlines reach the average American.

"Trump doesn’t deny the obvious: The media have won the narrative in Minneapolis. While we know that ICE agents who were hit by cars and threatened by violent men with guns were fully within their rights to shoot to kill, most Americans know what the headlines blare: “Trump’s out-of-control Gestapo killing ordinary nurses and mommies.”

"A clear-eyed Trump recognizes that these headlines have turned the population against ICE’s efforts, even as the public still wants illegal aliens gone.

"Considering all these factors, what’s Trump to do? The one thing he can’t do is double down on ICE enforcement in Minneapolis, which will only dig more deeply the polling hole that he and the Republicans find themselves in on an issue the public actually supports. Moreover, it’s a given that, if Trump pushes harder with ICE, the left’s useful idiots will invariably do something to get killed, and Trump’s signature issue will become even less popular.

"So, instead of going in harder, Trump is going in smarter. He’s appointed Tom Homan, a steady, calm man, to handle the tinderbox, instead of the flashy Kristi Noem. (Even if Noem made the right decisions about how to approach Minneapolis—and I don’t know if she did—the media have so successfully painted her as a showboating, fascist Barbie doll, with too much makeup, too much hair, and clothes that are too tight, that Trump cannot save her.)" . . .

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Expelling Sharia-Adherent Muslims is Not Unconstitutional

"As the saying goes, the Constitution is not a suicide pact, and there are several Supreme Court decisions and statutes protecting America from Sharia law."

Ted Noel - American Thinker 

"Prohibition.—No court shall enforce a judgment, decree, or arbitration decision if it relies, in whole or in part, on Shari’a or any foreign law that violates the constitutional rights of any party. It’s not complicated."

"George Mason University Law Professor Ilya Somin has posted a missive declaring that the “Preserving a Sharia-free America Act” is “manifestly unconstitutional.” We all need a deep breath after that last sentence. It was a mouthful. And Professor Somin is dead wrong.

"As Justice Jackson noted in 1949, “The Constitution is not a suicide pact.” His key point in Terminiello v. Chicago was that the Supreme Court had gone too far in removing restraints on rioters who attacked policemen. It was essential to “temper [the Court’s] doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom.” “The choice is not between order and liberty. It is between liberty with order and anarchy without either.”

"Justice Jackson was prescient. And he wasn’t just a prophet of the current riots over law enforcement. The presence of doctrinaire Muslims in the US is a direct threat to our existence as a nation of laws. Sharia is the “legal” manifestation of that threat. Students of Islam will point out that “Sharia is not Sharia,” by which they mean there’s not a single, fixed monolithic code of laws—but that’s part of the problem, because it means that Sharia is a theocratic system of laws that depends on the interpretation of the Imam in a specific neighborhood. 

"We see this sort of divergence simply by looking at the news. The Kingdom of Jordan is Islamic, but it is restrained in enforcing religious laws. At the opposite end of the spectrum is Iran, where, at last count, nearly 40,000 people have been executed for the “crime” of protesting against the Islamic tribal barbarians that rule what could be a wealthy and free country. However, once we get past AI’s reticence to list key issues common to all core Sharia interpretations, a few stand out, and they are completely at odds with American law and values.

"The simplest and most direct is the subjugation of women. They are not allowed to choose their own clothes to wear in public. They are not allowed to have a public opinion. And this runs directly contrary to the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. Of course, should a wife dare to cross one of these lines, her husband is bound to physically correct (beat) her. But this is to be done in a “kindly” way. Right. Domestic violence laws be damned." . . .  More...

Ted Noel is a retired physician who posts on social media as Doctor Ted.

Epstein survivor breaks down in tears as she recounts thinking she was 'going to die' . . .

 . . . "while being assaulted on Lolita Express jet while women who recruited her 'laughed' | Daily Mail Online

New photos show former president Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein's
 long-time friend Ghislaine Maxwell on board the billionaire's private jet,
 dubbed the 'Lolita Express', in 2002

"A Jeffrey Epstein survivor broke down in tears as she recounted how she thought she was going to die while being assaulted on the paedophile's private jet. 

Juliette Bryant said the billionaire began 'forcibly touching me in between my legs' within seconds of his 'Lolita Express' taking off. 

Women working for the financier who had recruited the then 20-year-old aspiring model were on board the Boeing 727–100 and laughed as she was attacked, she said. 

In an emotional interview with Sky News, Juliette broke down as she told how she 'just freaked out and I suddenly realised... these people might kill me'. 

'I suddenly realised I had to be nice and friendly as I realised I was in great danger,' she said.

Juliette added: 'He [Epstein] patted the chair next to him... and then I went and sat there. It was such a confusing situation for a young person to be in,' she said, before adding: 'I was really petrified.'     

She first met and was recruited by Epstein in Cape Town in September 2002 when he was touring South Africa with Bill Clinton. 

Within three weeks, she was flown from South Africa's southern coast to New York and thought 'my dreams were all coming true' after he offered to launch her modelling career.